Happy New Year to all. 2011 was a busy year. We saw the departure of our Shire Services Manager - Dave Heron who had been in Wadeye for 7 years and welcomed the arrival of our new Shire Services Manager—Liz Graham. New staff in the later part of 2011 include: Tahlia Cleary - Housing Administration Officer, Sandie Bell - Infrastructure Administra-tion Officer, Katrina Bushby - Sport and Recreation Team Leader, Maurice Dutton - Youth Engagement Officer, Alfie Puruntatameri - RIBS Officer, Yvonne Perdjert—Mentor, Jason Jimarin and Harold Anderson Jnr—Civil Services Labourers, Tony Breukers—Pool Atten-dant, Sharon Nummar—Sport & Recreation Officer.

The Wadeye staff held their Christmas lunch on Thursday 22nd De-cember 2011. A big thanks to Liz for making the effort to have a more traditional luncheon with cold meats and salads. Also thank you to Sandie, Katrina & Tanya for their help with the preparation. For every-one else who assisted on the day, we thank you! More details page 2.

Until next month...Mooey is watching!

Special points of interest:

Australia Day Celebration 26th

January 2012

Formal Local Board Meeting—

18th January.

Next Council Meeting 10th

February in Katherine

Australia Day Celebrations

On Thursday 26th January 2012, there will be Australia Day Celebrations held at the Recreation Hall commencing at 9:00am until 3:00pm.

Celebrating Aboriginal Heritage and Culture—Living and Working Together in the 21st Century. There will be cooking demonstrations of Bush Food Tucker, Traditional Aussie BBQ, Local Bands and Aboriginal Traditional Dance. Come along and join in the fun!

Out and About in Wadeye

Issue 1—January 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR Inside this issue: Page 1 Australia Day Page 2 Xmas Lunch Driving Lessons for Bea-

trice & Marita Page 3 Culture & Heritage

Award Damage to Barge Landing Page 4 Housing—who to see Emergency/

Communications/Radio Page 5 Civil Services Page 6 Sport & Recreation Pool Page 7 Swimming NT Visit Page 8 Upcoming Community

Events and Meetings Contributing to

Newsletter

On Thursday 22nd December 2011, the staff gathered for a Christmas Luncheon. Instead of the old BBQ lunch, Liz decided to do the more traditional Christmas lunch with cold meats and salads. About 30 staff gathered together whilst others had already started their Christmas leave. We had the room decorated as well as a Christmas tree and carols to set the scene. Everyone enjoyed themselves and with the left over food, we all wore Santa hats and delivered it to the Aged Care facility. The ladies enjoyed it as much as we did. Thanks again to everyone who helped out either beforehand or on the day.

VDSC Wadeye Staff Christmas Lunch

Page 2 Out and About in Wadeye

Driving Lessons for Beatrice and Marita

Beatrice Tcherna and Marita Chula are currently under-taking training with Job Futures to obtain their drivers licence. They get to train in the new Job Futures driver training car.

Congratulations to the Wadeye ‘Kanamkek Yile-Ngala’ Museum on receiving an award from Tidy Towns for Commu-nity History and Cultural Preservation.

Mark Crocombe travelled to Darwin to accept the award on Friday 14th October 2011.

The award is well deserved and shows recognition of the work that Mark and crew have put in to collecting, collating and preserving the history and culture of Wadeye.

Well done Mark.

Tidy Towns Award—Culture & Heritage Preservation

Issue 1—January 2012 Page 3

Damage to Barge Landing

Please take extra caution when using the barge landing, it was damaged when a barge service came in late December.

Department of Construction and Infrastructure are in the process of assessing the

damage and hopefully will be repaired soon.

Who to See

Tenancy Issues / Queries - Territory Housing (next door to VDSC Housing Office) See Andrew, Kristy or Carol. If you live in community housing, you must see Territory Housing for any MAJOR work you wish to have done.

Victoria Daly Shire Council—Housing Department

See Tahlia or Scott—We look after the following within the community:

For Minor repairs—eg. Door locks, blocked toilet etc—see VDSC housing to fill in a form.

Electrical, Plumbing, Welding and Carpentry for all internal and external companies. We also service Palumpa and Peppimenarti communities.

Housing require a purchase order from External companies prior to any works being done

Once a tenant reports damage or issues to Territory Housing, they authorize our housing department to provide the Maintenance.

Homelands Issues—Brocke Donald

Housing

Page 4 Out and About in Wadeye

VDSC Housing Territory Housing

Emergency/Communication/Radios

The clinic have advised that outstation visits to Nama, Wudapuli & Kuy will continue throughout the wet season as long as roads permit.

UHF Radio Networks- UHF Ch 1 Repeater Located in the BRACS room, Wadeye area, UHF Ch 4 Repeater Located on Karrangu Hill, Wadeye, Palumpa, Nardirri, Perrederr, Merrepen, Nama, Wudapuli and Peppimenarti. UHF Ch 5 Emergency Services Only no private calls. UHF Ch 9 PK Store, UHF Ch 10 Aged Care & Rangers mobile vehicle to vehicle on field work short range, UHF Ch 11 Safe House, UHF Ch 12 Night Patrol, UHF Ch 13 OLSH School, UHF TBA Clinic (in the process of installing a new radio system).

High Frequency Radio Network HF 5070 - Wadeye, Darwin, Daly River, Fitzmaurice River, Fossil Head, Murin Travel Darwin, Murin Travel Wadeye, Victoria Daly Shire Office, Fossil Head, Christian Brothers Wadeye home and vehicle, OLSH Church Fr Leo vehicle, Thamarrurr Rangers Base (coming soon), Thamarrurr Rangers Boat, Mark Crocombe home and vehicle.

Garbage Collection Community - Every Monday

Businesses - Daily

Wheelie bins must be OUTSIDE your yard if want them emptied. Our workers

will not enter your yard to empty the bins.

Civil Services

Issue 1—January 2012 Page 5

Felix, Jules, Basil, Raymond, Simon and Jason enjoying some rainy weather

Simon, Basil and Dick

Nathaniel, Terrence and Michael

Civil Roads crew hard at work

Sport & Rec Come along and have some fun at the Rec Hall...

Netball—every Tuesday Night

Table Tennis—every Wednesday Night

Women’s Football—Wednesday Afternoons—(Coordinated by AFLNT, Police and Sport & Rec)

Disco nights—every 2nd Thursday night (Coordinated by Police and Sport & Rec)

Disco Nights Every 2nd Thursday

Night

Pool Reopening & New Shade Sails

The pool has now had the new Shade Sails installed and looks great!

The pool is now reopened with the appointment of Tony Breukers—our new Pool Attendant. Tony has the pool back up to standard and the kids (and adults) are loving it.

Pool operating hours over the school holidays are:

Monday - Friday

12 noon—4pm (all ages)

5pm—6pm - Adults only (or under Adult supervision)

Page 6 Out and About in Wadeye

Swimming NT Visit—Swimming Pathways Program

Issue 1—January 2012 Page 7

Jon Burns is currently in the community delivering a program called “Swimming Pathways”. The programs aims are to:

To increase active participation of able and disabled Indigenous Australians in sport and recreation activities; and

To encourage and increase community ownership and management of sport and physical recreation activities, including through skill development.

During Jon’s six week stay in Wadeye, he will be delivering swimming and physical recreation activities in conjunction with Katrina Bushby, Sport and Recreation Team Leader. He will also be endeavoring to deliver Swim Teacher accreditation training to staff involved in Youth Programs at the Shire Council.

Jon recently delivered the program at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thamarrurr Catholic School in December 2011. The program concluded with a swimming carnival as depicted in the picture below.

Swimming lessons for all ages and abilities will be held from Monday to Friday during the next three weeks. Programs are also available for older residents of Wadeye and can include aqua aerobic activities, fitness programs for football and pre-natal classes for the ladies.

The program will also be delivered to the School at the conclusion of the School Holidays similar to the one recently held. A carnival will be held at the end of the program.

Please feel free to go down to the pool and talk to Jon and let’s see these programs continue on in Wadeye!

Photo by L Hayes and J Burns

WADEYE SERVICE DELIVERY CENTRE Lot 463 Perdjert Street

C/- Post Office Wadeye NT 0822

Meetings

17/1/12—TRAAC Meeting

18/1/12—Formal Local Board Meeting

18/1/12—Counter Disaster Planning Committee

19/1/12—Interagency Meeting

26/1/12—Australia Day Celebrations & Public Holiday

10/2/12—Victoria Daly Shire Council Meeting— Katherine

Clinic Specialist Visits

Adult Dentist - Last week in January

Dr Annie Whybourne (Pediatric Doctor) 6-7 February

Howard Springs Vet Visit

Early February at this stage

Phone: 08 8978 2355 Fax: 08 8978 2357

E-mail: Tanya.Clarke@vicdaly.nt.gov.au

Victoria Daly Shire Council

Upcoming Community Meetings/Events/Visits

Contributing to this newsletter Distributed each month

Next Deadline—6th February

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