Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
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St Gregs comes to LHI
LHI welcomed St Gregory’s College to the island last week to celebrate our annual Discovery Day. Assistant Principal, Mr. Joel Weekes, and Director of Boarding, Mr. Luke Morrissey travelled to the island to represent the College. LHI currently has 6 young men boarding at St Gregory’s in grades 8 through to 11, and a long history of young men attending the College from the island.
Tsunami warnings issued for Lord Howe Island as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupts
At 3:10pm AEDT on Saturday 15 January 2022 the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano (near Tonga) erupted with a blast so powerful that it caused a shock wave that was heard on Lord Howe Island that evening and reached the other side of the planet.
Lord Howe Island Museum news
The Museum has had a number of donations recently ... The most recently donated item, in January 2022, is an original 1795 lithograph of Admiral, Lord Howe – from whom, of course, the island gets its name.
Michael Tomaszewski visit
The architect who designed the Lord Howe Island Museum, Michael Tomaszewski (and his two daughters) recently paid a visit the Island museum he designed in the late 1990s. Mike has been a fairly regular visitor to the Island over the past 20 years, often crewing in the now discontinued Gosford-Lord Howe yacht race.
Lord Howe Island Board Report
The Lord Howe Island Board Report covers a wide range of key matters relating to the island, including management, Covid-19, projects, infrastructure, engineering, environment and biosecurity.
A series of dangerous ideas
Ray Robinson, Christ Church. After the last couple of years we’ve all experienced, one might be tempted to crawl under a blanket as the new year begins and hope the world and all its problems will go away and leave us alone. The disruptions we’ve all faced have been exhausting, worrying, and disturbing in many ways. We all hope for a better year this year but how might that come about? Covid is certainly not going away. Is it possible to rise about the day-to-day frustrations and find a better year and life beyond our immediate circumstances?
SCU Community Impact Award
When Hank and Sue Bower first arrived on Lord Howe Island 14 years ago, the island was overgrown with weeds and feral animals were threatening the survival of some of the island’s unique endemic species.
