RCQ CARES FOR THE GARDENS AT HOME IN QUEANBEYAN
Starting this year, our club will be maintaining the gardens at HOME in Queanbeyan, starting from January. Our first job was to dismantle and store the Christmas Nativity set, which was interesting, and took more time than expected. The grass was nearly knee-high, took about 2 hours to mow, and a few of the trees needed some significant pruning. Of course, we had come prepared with the right tools and seven of us to do the work, so we filled the green bins to capacity and then scheduled our return visits. We all were very pleased to see the difference in the grounds when we'd finished!
Projects and Programs
U Turn The Wheel - May 2024
U Turn The Wheel (UTTW) is a Driver education awareness program for Year 11 students. The goal of the Program is to change the attitudes and behaviours of young drivers through a one-day event by stimulating their understanding of road safety and and the consequences of their actions when driving.
We held our very first UTTW day at The Anglican School Googong on 1st May, and it was a very successful day! Five different sessions were presented to years 10, 11 and 12 students (around 80 students in total), covering: Keeping your L's & P's (Police); Road safety - a Paramedics perspective (NSWA); Safe driving strategies (LTrent driving school); Impact of Alcohol & Other Drugs on your body and driving ability (DirectionsHealth); and Safer Cars (RCQ).
We are now booked in to Karabar High School on 22nd May (around 100 year 11 students), and Queanbeyan High School on 29th May (around 60 year 11 students).
Click here for more information on the Program.
From left to right, bottom row:
Peter Mortimer (Police), Wendy Pope (RCQ), Steve Pasfield (RCQ), Eddie Lucas (LTrent), Jake Dimond (Police)
From left to right, top row:
Rikki Lloyd & Tim Ireson (DirectionsHealth), Fiona Gwyther & Lisa Laugher (NSWA), Lauren Wright (Police), Graham Wiggins (RCQ)
PARTNERSHIP WITH NSW POLICE AGAINST GENDER-BASED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
On December 1st, 2023, Rotary Club of Queanbeyan, along with Jerrabomberra and Bungendore Clubs, gathered with the NSW Police, the Mayor of Queanbeyan, and other interested citizens, at Queanbeyan Park to launch the partnership of NSW Police and NSW Rotary Clubs against domestic violence in our local community.
The goal of the partnership is to raise further community awareness of domestic and family violence across NSW. The launch of the partnership comes as part of the internationally recognized ’16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence’ campaign, which began on 25 November 2023, and concludes on 10th December 2023, World Human Rights Day.
This partnership will encourage and build on the already strong relationship between Rotary and the NSW Police. The formal relationship will see the two organisations working together at a community level across the state to significantly increase awareness of domestic and family violence. Under the initiative, every police area command and district will team up with their local Rotary club/s to develop campaigns and activities around local domestic and family violence issues.
See this link to NSW Police for more information.
Presidents of Queanbeyan, Jerrabomberra and Bungendore Rotary Clubs: Rod See, John Askew and Christine Allard.
TEEN CLINIC
Our Club has made a commitment to cover the monthly costs of the pharmacy bill for this Clinic, which provides a very necessary service to the youth of our area. The Clinic provides a confidential counselling service, and where they can’t assist, they refer the teens to appropriate service providers. The Teen Clinic web site provides more information, click here.
FLORIADE GNOMES September to October 2024
Every year at Floriade, Rotary Club of Murrumbidgee Canberra runs the Gnomes workshop project at Floriade. Our Club takes on “ownership” of a weekend.
So, we are usually there from 9:30am to 4pm on the second weekend selling gnomes and helping people of all ages to get their wonderful creations ready to take home.
A link to the Floriade website will be provided when the 2024 website is up and running.
QUEANBEYAN SHOW NOVEMBER 2024
Queanbeyan Rotary Clubs have been manning the gates at the Queanbeyan Show, for the Queanbeyan Show Society, for nearly 10 years now.
This is one of our biggest jobs, as it requires four gates to be manned for two days, close to 250 hours of effort!
Last year's Show was bigger and better than any in the past, so make sure you come along and have lots of fun! For more information, check out this link.
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