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Wynyard Community Newsletter

April 2019

Bike Repair Café at Live Well – lots of engaged people! Photo- Kelly Milikins

Contents What’s Happening this Month? ................................................................................................................ 2

Other events .............................................................................................................................................. 3

Update from Live Well Tasmania .............................................................................................................. 4

News from Waratah-Wynyard Council ..................................................................................................... 5

Innovative ideas: Community Think-Tanks ............................................................................................... 6

U3A April Offerings .................................................................................................................................... 7

Innovative Idea: Every One Every Day ....................................................................................................... 7

Innovative Idea - A Neighbourhood Exchange Box ................................................................................... 8

Update Community Exchange Network Tasmania (CENTs) .................................................................... 10

Quote of the Month ................................................................................................................................ 10

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Welcome!

This month includes Youth Week, as well as Anzac Day. The Waratah-Wynyard Council is helping with

both those events as reported below. They are also, along with Rural Health, conducting an official

opening of 7Up, which is a youth drop in for Years 7 to 12 from 3pm to 5pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and

Thursday’s at the Community Centre in Little Goldie Street. Available activities include games, puzzles,

reading, growing food, art and more. Also on the 10th of April is the Youth and Jobs Expo at the C3

Church.

Live Well has been successful in getting three recent grants as partnerships with other organisations. The

first two are funded by the Healthy Tasmania grants, aimed at increasing healthy eating and physical

exercise. The first of these involves a collaboration between Reseed and Live Well, and involves a series

of ten workshops and building support networks for healthy eating and physical exercise promotion,

further information below.

The second is a collaboration between WynFitness and Live Well, involving mainly school holiday

activities focussing on mountain bike riding, kayaking, and healthy food, monthly training sessions, and

running a Duathlon and Aquathon. WynFitness has great plans for other similar initiatives as well.

We recently ran our second Repair Café (a Bike Repair Café) which again was very successful in terms of

great engagement and satisfied people from learning new skills and meeting new people. See below for

three more Cafes planned for April and May.

Note our produce stall is now on Thursdays, 1pm to 3.30pm – come along and get great fresh vegetables

such as potatoes, tomatoes, beetroot, swedes, herbs etc. Don’t forget you can also go to the New Life

Church, at 38 Frederick Street in Wynyard from Tuesday to Friday between 9.30am and 4.15pm to get

your organically grown vegetables, which are also available for CENTs instead of paying cash (see

www.cent.net.au).

What’s Happening this Month?

10th April 9am to 3.30pm

Youth Fest & Jobs Expo C3 Church, 30 Austin Street, Wynyard Service providers, find out about potential job opportunities, games and activities Contact Calita 0499 339 225

10th April 3pm to 5pm

7Up Official Opening, a free BBQ and cake plus entertainment – snake man, zorb balls, music Little Goldie St, Wynyard Contact Calita 0499 339 225

16th April 2pm – 5pm

Sewing Repair Café Live Well Tasmania, 28 Saunders St, Wynyard Learn how to turn old clothes into something news, create a work of Art with clothes scraps, make reusable shopping and produce bags, learn to mend and patch clothes, bring your own sewing project Free event, includes afternoon tea Contact Kelly 0429 186 532

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17th April 10am – noon

U3A workshop Coffins, caskets and shrouds- ever thought of making your own coffin or casket? Or you might prefer a simple shroud? Join us for a Compassionate Communities Death Literacy session on all things coffin related including the law. You may even get to decorate a casket on the day. A Care Beyond Cure Presentation. Presenter: Lynne Jarvis Jackson St, Wynyard Showgrounds

24th April 10am – 11am

Neighbourhood Watch Meeting Live Well Tasmania, 28 Saunders St, Wynyard All welcome

25th April Starts 5.30am

Anzac Day commemorations, including Dawn parade, Dawn service, Gunfire breakfast, Morning service and dedication of photographic wall panels, further details below.

27th April 9.30am – 10.30am

World QiGong and Tai Chi Day Gutteridge Gardens Free event Contact Catherine Fernon 6445 1484

27th April 9am to noon

Gardening Repair Café All things gardening repair- plants, tools, mosaic skills to be learnt Free event, includes morning tea Contact Kelly 0429 186 532

30th April 4.30pm

Live Well Tasmania Management Meeting – All Welcome! Come and have your say on what projects would be good for our community 28 Saunders Street, opposite Council Afternoon tea provided!

Other events 13th April, 10m to 4pm, EcoFest, Ulverstone Wharf. A range of stalls and workshops/talks – from energy saving to ethical investing; reducing waste and earth friendly cleaning products; wild food, bush burials to electric transport. Wonderful local food, music and the good company of like-minded people. Electric vehicles. Children’s activities and toy swap. Clothes mending and swap. Opportunities to engage with some of our wonderful local community groups who are willing to share their expertise in the areas of sustainability, wellbeing and the environment. 14th May, Repair Café at Wynyard Mens Shed. Learn to use power tools at the men’s shed, 8 places only.

Contact Kelly 0429 186 532.

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Update from Live Well Tasmania A great time was had by all at the Bike Repair Cafe on the 30th of March, fixing bikes for locals!!! How

rewarding is it to see people with massive satisfied smiles on their faces. A big thanks to our bike

mentors, Richard and Glenn, and thanks to our volunteers Maureen, Pam and Stephen. We changed and

fixed seats, cogs, gears, peddles, tyres, wheels, and brakes, Ten local boys brought their bikes and

scooters in and learnt how to service them. Another two boys helped fix their tyre puncture’s. Three

people rode the E-Bike around town and they loved it! One fellow Bevan could not get the smile off his

face, he even went home with a bike to fix up with his carers. Healthy platters of fruit, veggies, dips,

cheese, fruit cake, juice and hot drinks where provided.

We hope to have another one in the school holidays. Keep an eye out on Live Well and the Wynyard

Notice Board Face Book pages. If anyone has any bikes to donate for us to do up and give out to

disadvantaged people, we would be more than happy to take them, feel free to join us in this enterprise.

Other Repair Café’s:

16th Sewing Repair Café, 2pm to 5pm, bring clothes so you can learn how to repair them. Learn skills see flyer below

27th April - 9am to 12 -Wynyard Community garden - Tool sharpening, repairing garden tools, gardening advice, learn how to do mosaics.

14th May – Wynyard Mens Shed – 3.15 to 5pm –Learn how to use power tools, eg cordless drills, use tools to fix things. Eight places only so get in quick!

Happy people at our Bike Repair Café! Photo’s: Kelly Milikins We are calling for people interested in helping organise one or more of the following workshops from our Healthy Tasmania grant, this is a preliminary list only so may be modified. Roughly half will be held in Penguin and half in Wynyard.

The possible workshops may include:

1. Growing (including tastings) Tasmanian native edible plants, wild food garden walk

2. Cooking demonstration using local organic food

3. Making sauerkraut/ fermented vegetables and sourdough bread workshop

4. Healthy sustainable transport - bike set-up and maintenance, led by a qualified physiotherapist

5. Growing vegetables in pots workshop (take home a pot)- 2 workshops

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6. Local Long Table Lunch – involving volunteers in preparing, and cooking

7. Produce Innovation workshop – innovative ways of preserving local food, value adding

8. Open Garden Tour- showcasing local gardens for all year round production

9. Get Active event- aimed at students during school holidays

Throughout the project we will actively encourage workshop participants to become part of

“Sustainability Learning Journey” groups – people getting together to encourage and support each other

as they learn about growing food, sourcing and cooking local food, bike riding for pleasure and transport.

This will include encouraging forming a buddy system, which can include using smart phones to provide

support to each other (such as send each reminders to exercise or engage in healthy eating). Each

workshop will include promotion of group and/or buddy participation, in particular by providing

resources such as an information sheet to facilitate this. The information sheet would include

information on existing groups that people can join, such as walking and cycling groups.

International Women’s Day Workshop

Women were invited to relax, stretch, connect, and learn for a full day in Penguin on Saturday 2 March 2019. The day included sessions on yoga, sleep, meditation, foot massage, using herbs for health and Earthing. Practitioners were available for ‘optional extras’ of massage, tarot, reiki and theta healing. Lunch and snacks were healthy and delicious. The presenters included inspiring local women (and a man) with health and wellbeing skills to share. Participants walked away relaxed and empowered with new knowledge and skills. The grant allowed us to offer free places to women who might otherwise be unable to afford to come.

We were able to find 4 women who were suitable and available. The event attracted a variety of ages, from a single mum in her 20s to women in their 70s. Participants came from across the NW of Tasmania, from Oldina in the west to Sheffield in the east. Feedback from one of the participants:

News from Waratah-Wynyard Council

Some outcomes from the March Council meeting on Monday 18 March

• Successful notice of motion for Council officers prepare a report on the establishment of an enclosed dog exercise area within Wynyard. • The draft Central Area Development Strategy was approved for public consultation to receive public comments prior to final review and adoption of the plans. • The Age-Friendly Communities Plan 2019-2024 and the Youth Plan 2019-2024 (YPLAN) were both adopted. • Council identified a location for a possible Community Centre in Somerset and authorised negotiations to be undertaken • Council determined to explore relocation of the existing Recreational Vehicle Dump Point from inside the Waste Transfer Station to outside the front entrance. That location will now go out for public consultation.

I was so grateful to be able to come to a retreat like this. It gave me so many useful, simple ideas to

relax and rejuvenate that I can take back into my home environment and share with others. This

opportunity to glean from wise souls to improve one's health and longevity is priceless! Thank you.

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Youth Week Job Expo

Waratah-Wynyard Council, Youth, Family and Community Connections and Rural Health are excited to be celebrating Youth Week in April and sharing the achievements and contributions of our local young people. Youth Week is also a great week to engage with young people in our community and share with them the services and supports available to them. A Youth festival and Job expo is being held on the 10th of April. This is being held at the C3 Church; there will be stalls, music as well as the Jobs Expo, highlighting potential job opportunities.

Wynyard Youth Leaders

The opening of Seven Up is on the first day of Youth Week, the official opening is from 3pm – 5pm there will be a free BBQ and cake plus entertainment – snake man, zorb balls, music. So far Seven up has around 10-18 kids each night, we have done cooking and had Judy from Family Planning do a Talk. Waratah-Wynyard Youth Leaders have started the year off with lots of events such as clean up Australia Day, attended Council meetings and helped at the KYO SK8 competition, and attended the Panel with the Pollies. Coming up there is a leadership camp and another Panel with the Pollies but with independent candidates. They are also looking at doing a few courses such as First Aid and barista training, and the winter bonfire again in August. Anzac day services in Wynyard, Somerset and Waratah

Town Wynyard Somerset Waratah

Dawn Parade Wynyard RSL Club – assemble at 5:30am

Dawn Service Wynyard Cenotaph 6:00 am Waratah Cenotaph 6:00am

Gunfire Breakfast Wynyard RSL Club (following the Dawn Service)

Morning Parade RSL Club – assemble at 10:20am

Assemble at 8:45am corner of Falmouth Street & the Esplanade

Assemble at the old Post Office at 10:50am

Morning Service Wynyard Cenotaph 11:00am ANZAC Park Cenotaph 9:00am

Waratah Cenotaph, 11:00am

Town Wynyard Somerset Waratah

1/06/2019, Dedication of photographic wall panels

Goldie Street between Hogg & Jackson Street, 3:30pm – 4:30pm

Innovative ideas: Community Think-Tanks As reported in The Advocate (22nd March 2019) the Burnie City

Council is starting a new initiative whereby residents can pitch their

ideas directly to their elected council representatives. “Community

Think Tank” meetings will be held every quarter where community

members can discuss ideas for community improvement with

councillor. Councillor David Pease from the Burnie City Council

proposed the idea, due to many community members developing

plans for improvement on their own. The Think-Tanks meetings will

be facilitated by the Burnie Chamber of Commerce. All councillors

without exception voted in favour of the meetings.

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U3A April Offerings

Innovative Idea: Every One Every Day This is a fantastic idea that it would be good to do in Wynyard! Every One Every Day is a network in the UK (Barking and Dagenham) who are working together on different neighbourhood projects to make everyday life better for everyone. If you think you might like to do practical things with your family, friends and neighbours, including cooking, making, learning, growing, fixing, trading, singing, playing, eating and sharing ... come and join us over the spring! Every One Every Day is a really ambitious idea, with local residents at its heart. We know that Barking and Dagenham is a vibrant place to live and work, to grow up and older in. This project will make it easier to spend time with neighbours doing practical and useful everyday things together that we all enjoy. We work with 100s of amazing residents to build networks of friendship through the every one every day initiative. Together we aim to co-create the first large scale, fully inclusive, practical participatory ecosystem. It’s the first one of it’s kind in the world. Practical ‘hands on’ ideas – not lots of meetings.- Every One Every Day builds on the ‘hands on’ projects that people have been creating over the last few years in their own neighbourhoods. These types of projects welcome people from all walks of life. These projects include: • Sharing skills, spaces and resources. • Families working and playing more together. • Batch cooking and community meals. • Food growing and tree planting. • Trading, making and repairing. See https://www.weareeveryone.org/every-one-every-day

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Innovative Idea - A Neighbourhood Exchange Box We have talked before about the Street Library, the Neighbourhood Exchange Box takes that a step further. The article below details the four easy steps needed is sourced from https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-set-up-a-neighborhood-exchange-box-in-4-easy-steps 1. Locate it

The most important aspect of the box is location. It is recommended to locate it is a quiet residential area, make the box itself a destination. Visitors may want time and space to look through the box. A shady corner on a quiet side street helps create a more intimate experience. Over time, locals may re-route their traffic to pass by "their" box, creating a new place to interact in their neighborhood — making a "non-place" into a social hub and giving the box a life of its own. But as with any social experiment, it can be changed to best fit people's needs. If a spot doesn’t work very well, you can simply move the box to another spot in the neighborhood. Simple as that."

2. Build it The ideal size for an exchange box is about the dimensions of a pay phone booth: 30 by 43 by 44 centimetres. Many of the boxes sit on three legs fashioned like a tripod. Because they have a uniform size, they encourage people to exchange small objects, rather than dump large items at the exchange site. Every box should be secured to a sturdy public fixture, like a light pole or street sign — the kinds of places that would be good for locking up a bike. Chain the leg of the box to the fixture so it's out of the way but also securely fastened. Also, it should be placed downwind and underneath an awning if possible. Many of the Swiss outdoor boxes have a clear plastic door or window covering the opening, to protect its contents from harsh weather. It is beneficial if each box is sponsored (especially in its initial stages) and okayed by the local community, so if there is a problem with the box, they know who to contact. 3.Decorate it- Enlist local groups like a neighborhood association or library to help host a design contest. The community input will help the box become a part of the neighborhood's fabric much more easily and gives locals ownership of it and its contents. Designs can be centered around the themes of the project: creativity, exchange, community, teamwork, recycling, reuse, or city pride. Once a design is chosen, it can be printed on durable UV-resistant stickers so the design will stay vibrant in all kinds of weather. 4. Visit it

To stock the box for its debut, solicit items from neighbors and watch them stop by to see if their objects have been taken. At first, it may empty out quickly. Each has a large sign announcing its arrival with the invitation to "Take Something. Leave Something." Post a photo of it on Twitter with the hashtag #hclbox so they can add yours to the growing network of exchange boxes.

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Update Community Exchange Network Tasmania (CENTs) Trading continues to be strong throughout Tasmania. Below are the trading figures since the start of this

year, showing there was a total of 215 trades. In equivalent dollar terms, the total value of the trades

was $16,470. Produce trades are always popular at this time of year. Our Produce Stall at our Centre is

one way you can source fresh fruit and vegetables using your CENTs ‘money’. We have one trader from

Somerset who offers Bodyshop products at the stall, she then uses the CENTs she earns from her

products to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables.

Month No of Trades Total CENTs

January 80 7168.75

February 63 3655.00

March 72 5647.01

Quote of the Month Conflict cannot survive without your participation

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