Green Avondale: Encouraged either by one hour’s paid leave or by student club COSMOS, staff members and students planted 400 trees in four hours over two days during Avondale College of Higher Education’s Green Week (September 5-10). The trees are all natives donated by not-for-profit community organisation Trees In Newcastle. They are now growing along Girls Walk and near the dam between the Cooranbong Community Services Centre and Avondale Springs, both on Avondale’s Lake Macquarie campus. The planting should promote an increase in flora and fauna on campus and perhaps the return of kangaroos.—Brenton Stacey Credit: Krissie Hopkins.