Kondinin CRC 3-5 Gordon St

Kondinin WA 6367

Phone: 9889 1117 Email:

kondinin@crc.net.au Website:

www.kondinin.crc.net.au

Coordinator: Toni Smeed

Finances/Accounts: Sue Pegrum

Trainee: Carla Waters

MONDAY: CLOSED

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY: 8.30am - 12.30pm

1.00pm - 5.00pm

THURSDAY & FRIDAY: 9.00am -12.30pm

1.00pm - 4.30pm

Coming Events:

11th -16th October:

Kondinin Through

the Lens

12th October:

Kokedama workshop

15th October:

Kondinin Gaming

Day & Virtual Picnic

20th October

Cabernet & Canvas

27th October:

Children’s Week

Bush Fairy Picnic

30th October:

AGM

12th November:

Seniors Week -

Dame Edna

October 2019

We were very pleased to receive a letter from Hon Alannah MacTiernan

MLC on Wednesday letting us know that the CRC’s are to be offered an

extension to the current contract from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2022,

subject to confirmation that the CRC has met its contractual

requirements under the current arrangement. This ensures our services

to you will continue for at least 2 more years. What the contracts will

look like will depend on a review which will be conducted by DPIRD.

Congratulations to our trainee Carla who married Beau Repacholi in

what was a well-kept secret, on 14th September at Esperance. We

wish you all the happiness for your future together.

Our AGM will be held on 30th October. Please consider joining our

committee. More details will be advertised soon.

We have been very fortunate to receive a number of grants since our

last newsletter, so look out for advertisements in this newsletter for

activities for Mental Health Week, Get Online Week and Children’s

Week. Unfortunately we were not successful in receiving the Seniors

Week grant, but we are still planning to go to Bruce Rock for this event -

see separate advertisement in this newsletter.

I will be away for three days attending the Linkwest conference, which is

a great chance to catch up with other CRC coordinators and learn from

the various speakers and workshops on offer.

Don’t forget the annual Kondinin Through the Lens photo competition -

entries have been extended to Friday4th October. Let us showcase

what we have to offer in Kondinin. Cash prizes will be on offer with

generous donations from Bankwest and the Shire of Kondinin.

Where/What in Kondinin…?

Where can this picture be found?

Drop into the CRC or email your answer to kondinin@crc.net.au

Congratulations to Karl Keller who

correctly guessed the crane at the goods shed.

Purple Bench Project Update

From this green

bench

To this purple

bench

Work is well underway on this project. The bench needs one more coat of paint

and will then be taken off the bricks and the plaque that reads “In honour of all vic-

tims of domestic homicide in WA. If you need advice and support please phone:

Womens DV helpline: 9223 1188 or 1800 007339,” will be attached. From 25th No-

vember to 10th December is 16 Days of activism to end violence against women -

therefore during that time we will have a launch event.

We have recently received a Shire community grant in which we used to purchase

an Epson Photo Printer. This printer is able to print different sizes with matte or

glossy finish. The widest paper is A4 size and you can print up to 1 metre long

photos. Carla and I are getting a training

session on Wednesday, but in the meantime

we are able to use the printer to print off photos

for the upcoming photo competition. Photos

need to be on a thumbdrive or emailed to

kondinin@crc.net.au and we can put them onto

a thumbdrive for printing.

Thank you to everyone that helped to

complete the latest puzzle which was a

scene in Adelaide.

Our next puzzle is one of those in

which the completed picture is not the

same as on the box.

R U Ok Day?

This was held on September 12th.

A lot of information about how to

check in with someone was posted

on our Facebook page. We offered

free coffee for customers on

Thursday and Friday. I had invited

the children for free milo on Thurs-

day but unfortunately the

message didn’t get to them, but we

nearly had the whole school drop in

on Friday for their free drink and it

was a good chance to see how they

were all going.

Recent Publications

We have recently received:

The WA Seniors Card Discount Directory 2019-

2020. If you have a Seniors Card pick up your

copy and see what discounts you can receive.

NDIS - National Disability Insurance Scheme

publications:

Booklet 1 - Understanding the NDIS

Booklet 2 - Planning

Booklet 3 - Using your NDIS Plan

Drop in to browse the many brochures we have

on offer at the CRC.

Recent Event Wrap-Up

We have had a few events recently which have had varied participation.

On the 6th October seven ladies attended Adult Learner’s Week pop-up learning

event. Carla had been busy creating different brain challenging puzzles which she

used on our Facebook page and this generated a lot of interest. I started of the

event by going through a basic guide on how to solve cryptic crosswords. It was

then time for the ladies to test what they had learnt and once realising that you

can’t look at the clue as a whole, they started to work out the clues. A quiz

followed where participants had to move to a corner of the room that had A, B, C, D

labelled. A multiple choice question was given and you had to choose which

answer you thought was correct and move to that letter. These ladies were pretty

clever and it took a few questions before we got down to the winner. Well done

Linda. Colouring-in bookmarks were available for when they had strained their

brain enough. A lovely morning tea was made available through an Early bird grant

of $250 which we were lucky enough to receive and participants each got to take a

gift home.

On Friday 27th September we held our Be Connected Community Engagement

Event - Cuppas, Cakes and Computers. Over thirty invitations were sent out, so it

was disappointing to only have five people turn up. Nevertheless we spent time

investigating the Be Connected learning topics and then finished off with some fun

activities such as finding our childhood home on Google Earth and finding out

what day our birthday will be on in 2025. As we had received a grant for this event

we had a beautifully catered morning tea available for participants.

The Be Connected website works through topics from the very basic parts of the

computer to more specialised topics such as using a tablet. If you would like more

information regarding this training drop

into the CRC and we will be happy to set

you up with your learning.

11th - 16th October: Kondinin Through the Lens - photography competition 12th October: Mental Health Week Kokedama workshop - 2.00 -4.00 15th October: Kondinin Gaming Day & Virtual Picnic 20th October: Cabernet & Canvas - more details to follow. Need 20 participants 27th October: Children’s Week Bush Fairy Picnic 30th October: AGM 12th November: Seniors Week - Dame Edna in Bruce Rock

Soft Plastics

Drop-Off Point The Kondinin Community Resource Centre will be a drop-off point for soft plastics.

These plastics will then be transported to a REDcycle drop off bin.

WHAT IS SOFT PLASTIC?

*Soft plastic CAN be scrunched into a ball. Examples of what are soft plastics

*Plastic needs to be dry and as

empty as possible.

The CRC has a comprehensive list

of what can and can’t be recycled

through the REDcycle program.

Any questions please contact the

CRC on 9889 1117.

If anyone is regularly heading to Narrogin or anywhere there is a

Coles or Woolworths and wouldn’t mind taking our collection of

soft plastics there, please contact the CRC.

Glitter Bar We are looking for someone to

volunteer to run a Glitter Bar at our

Children’s Week Bush Fairy

Picnic. This would involve doing

children’s hair either braiding or

adding colour and sparkles.

Equipment would be provided. If

you are interested please contact

the CRC.

Toni will be taking these items to

Conference where staff from Linkwest will

be putting together the bags and

delivering to the appropriate places.