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Transcript of BSC Magazine 2012 3rd quarter issue Part 2
Kids Corner
Internet Facilities
Samantha RobertsLibrary ManagerBarkly Shire CouncilTennant Creek
Tennant Creek Public Library is a free service provided by the Barkly Shire Council.
Residents and visitors to Tennant Creek are welcome to make use of the library’s services which include:
• Access to a range of books, DVDs, magazines and Music CDs
• Inter-library loan services. If we haven’t got it we will try and get it in.
• Internet & Word Processing facilities Printing/Photocopying
Opening Hours
Monday: 9am-5pmTuesday-Friday: 10am-5pmSaturday: 10am-12pm
Contact Us
41 Peko Road, Tennant Creek 0860Mailing Address: PO Box 821, Tennant Creek 0861Telephone: (08)8962 0094/8962 0092Fax: (08)8962 3965Email: [email protected]
Items can be returned out of hours to the library’s external chute, located beside the main entrance.
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Sue KennedyLibrary AssistantBarkly Shire CouncilTennant Creek
PublicLIBRARY
Thanks to the Barkly Shire Council streetparade helping hands;-Veronica Barnham-Orawan Sullivan-Sonia Williams-Pamela Hodges-Natoia Plummer-Lloyd Remedio
Marita Cheng is the Young Australian of the Year Award 2012 recepient. She visited Tennant Creek on 30 August 2012 with the efforts of Barkly Shire Council to help her inencouraging young girls to take up Engineeringin uni. Marita's life story is inspiring. She is the founder and director of Robogals, an international organisation that aims to get more girls in science, engineering, and technology. She is a full-time stu- dent of Mechatronics Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Melbourne.
Festival Harmony Dese
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Kathy BurnsFestival ManagerBarkly Regional Arts
The 23rd Desert Harmony Festival- Anyinginyi Manu presented by Barkly Regional Arts. The Desert Harmony Festival is a multi-arts and cultural festival that showcases and celebrates the distinctive arts and culture of the Barkly Region.
This year it ran from Saturday August 18th until Thursday September 6th. Events included participants that are Indigenous and non-indigenous, who showcased traditional and contemporary works in; music, visual arts, youth arts, exhibitions, food, dance, literature, photography, digital media and film.
Our Street Parade was one of the best yet, with a record number of groups involved (over 36!). It was also the safest street parade thanks to the wonderful collaboration between Barkly Regional Arts, Barkly Shire Council, TC police, Dept Construction and Infrastructure, NT Fire and Rescue and community volunteers. “Touted the best festival in years”, we celebrated with sold out shows and the highest amount of community participation yet. The majority of events are completely free of charge and alcohol free, and all events drug free. Photo captures of events and video links can be viewed online at www.barklyarts.com.au .
If you or your organisation would like to be involved in the 24th Desert Harmony festival please contact E: [email protected] or phone (08) 8962 2799 by March 8th 2013. Get Festive!
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Night Patrol Services (NPS) are funded by the A3orney Generals Department to deliver culturally appropriate services to assist people at risk of causing harm or becoming vic@ms of harm in order to break the cycle of violence and crime within the communi@es.
NPS divert intoxicated people away from the criminal jus@ce system.NPS assist vulnerable young people by providing transport home or referring them on to support services.NPS work closely with sobering up shelters, safe houses and women’s refuges.NPS assist any vulnerable persons within [email protected] work closely with Sport & Rec and other youth services.
Night Patrol in Ali Curung operates seven nights per week, and five n ight s per week in Ta ra , Mungkarta, Arlparra, Ampilatwatja, Imangarra, Wutunugurra, Canteen Creek, Arlpurrurulam and Ellio3.
CONTACT NUMBERS:
Ali Curung Night Patrol Ph: 89641652
Ampilatwatja Night PatrolPh: 89569070
Canteen Creek Night Patrol Ph: 89641684
Tara Night PatrolPh: 86569305
Alpurrurulam Night PatrolPh: 07047484801
Wutunugurra Night PatrolPh: 89641533
Ellio9 Night PatrolPh: 0457470811
MungkartaPh: 8962002
ArlparraPh: 89569850
T h e D e p o t
Patrollingthe
Nights
Rubbish Collection
Sweeping the Streets
Dumpsite Servicing
For more details on our services,please call us at (08) 8 9 6 2 3 4 7 6
Our office hours are; Monday to Thursday 6:30 am - 12:00 nn 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Friday 6:30 am - 1:00 pm
Information by: Allan Hawke, Regional Night Patrol Manager
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I was born in Katherine in November 1988 and was given the name -‐-‐Natoia Plummer. My father’s side is Warumungu and my mother’s side is Mudburra Jingili. I have lived in Tennant Creek most of my life with my parents and four siblings. I a3ended school in Tennant Creek Primary and High School where I most enjoyed art and crab, home economics and sports. Because of my enthusiasm in sports like basketball, netball, and sobball, I was able to go to Darwin and Alice Springs. Among the games were Imparja Cup in Alice Springs for three years in a row and Northern Territory sobball championships in Darwin. I have also experienced working aber school hours at the Tennant Creek Foodbarn’s Deli sec@on. Aber a while, I felt I wanted to serve the young genera@on in Tennant Creek so I decided to work at Youthlinx. I loved interac@ng with the children and giving them great nutri@onist meal.
Aber gradua@ng year 12, I sought for full-‐@me employment and was successful with a job from ITEC Employment as an Administra@on Officer. Aber awhile, I was determined for knowledge and experience. I had the urge to support families during their hard @mes and so I decided to apply and was hired at Centrecare Northern Territory as Men and Families Support Worker for six months. I also went to Charles Darwin University to study Midwifery. As a full-‐@me student living miles and miles away from home was a big move. I didn’t have my family with me and I haven’t had the experience of the big city life. I had to get used to the morning and abernoon rush hours. The University @metables weren’t easy but I managed to cope with it.
When I got back in Tennant Creek in June 2009, I applied and was hired as an Administra@on Officer. By this @me, my partner and I were expec@ng a baby so I worked throughout my pregnancy. While being in this posi@on I wanted to get more experience and the Shire signed me up for Cer@ficate III in Administra@on through Australian Appren@ceships Northern Territory.
Working at the Shire, aside from doing admin du@es, I also got to help out in rates and finance. Because I was earning enough money, I was able to provide for my pregnancy needs and was able
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to save some amounts for my baby’s delivery. I took a year off from the shire and then decided to come back to work. I wanted to experience working in communi@es and so I applied for the Community Services Officer posi@on and was successful.
I am now 23 years old and have been working at the Barkly Shire Council for about a year now. I am suppor@ng a number of programs under Community Services, such as the Playgroups, Crèches and Safe Houses at Ali Curung and Ellio3 – my posi@on requires me to support staff and make sure they have everything they need to do a good job. I am also responsible for gejng the message out there about Domes@c/Family Violence and Early Childhood Learning. These are my core roles but I also do other projects like organising Children’s Day Events, Family Events, NAIDOC Events, Australia Day events and NAPCAN Ac@vi@es etc with the rest of my team. I really enjoy working with communi@es and in the office; we have a great team with a mix of young and older employees.
I reckon the key to enjoying day to day work is happiness. If you are happy doing your job, it radiates to the people you are doing the service with and doing the service for. Happy service means happy outcomes.
My mother had been a huge support to on taken care of Deon while I am working. Deon is two years old and a3ends the Tennant Creek Childcare while Daryl and I both work full-‐@me and some@mes go out bush for work and yet we take turns on raising our son. I s@ll want more experience on community service area and am working really hard on achieving my goals. I have completed the Community Patrol at Charles Darwin and now obtaining my Cer@ficate III in Community Services. I have a3ended a lot of workshops and learnt a lot.
It doesn’t ma>er where you come from or what race you are. You can s@ll achieve your goals as long as you don’t stop believing.
S T A F F P R O F I L E :
C o m m u n i t y S e r v i c e O f fi c e r
kicks offTennant Creek
inTour
On the 25th of July 2012, the Victorian Racing Club or VRC commenced their annual Emirates Melbourne Cup Tour (EMCT) in the Golden Heart of Northern Territory. The tour runs for approximately three months throughout Australia and New Zealand.
The Emirates Melbourne Cup is well known world wide and it still lives up to it's calling as the
" race thatstops a nat ion"
The tour celebrates the hereos and stories intrinsically linked to the Victorian Racing Club's 151 y e a r o l d Melbourne Cup and its contribution to the nation's social, sporting and racing culture.When the VRC, headed by Judith Fitzmaurice-CEO together
with Joe Hutson -Sponsorship Development
Manager, Lauren Zammit -Wrights' Senior
Account Manager, Judy Chung -Wrights'
Account Co-ordinator and John Letts -
Champion Jockey and Australian Racing Hall
of Fame Inductee, brought the cup to Tennant Creek, it was welcomed with various events coordinated by Barkly Shire Council (BSC).
Escorted by mounted policemen, John Letts, held the 18-carat gold trophy for public viewing as they paraded along Paterson Street from the Primary School down to Scott Street before visiting the hospital. Among the other places visited was the Memorial Club where a festive lunch and welcome party was held. Waiters were dressed up like jockeys and the venue was filled with themed balloons. John Letts had a chance to tell some of his Melbourne Cup experiences.
The visits continued after the luncheon to Pulka Pulka Kari Nursing Home where the seniors had their chance to hold the golden cup while their carers happily took photos of them. The last visit took place at Battery Hill Mining Centre. The EMCT party was excitingly greeted by Roddy Calvert, Site Manager and
a big fan of the races. A tour and photo shoot w a s d o n e a t t h e f a m o u s 1 8 - m e t r e underground mining site. Meanwhile, a couple travelling from Alice Springs were lucky to to see and hold the world renowned cup. It was later known that when the couple heard the news about the EMCT party kicking off in Tennant Creek , they drove straight up
without any hesitations just to see it.Later that night, the most anticipated
event happened -- the Charity Dinner. The event aimed to raise funds for the Tennant Creek Local Girl Guides and Tennant Creek Little Athletics Club. The event was jammed packed with horse racing fanatics. John Stocks, local poet and singer, entertained the guests by singing during the dinner. John Letts amused everyone of his inspiring and funny stories. Judith caught everyone's attention by reciting a poem of all the horses that won the Melbourne Cup. Everyone had the chance of capturing their moments with the cup.
There was no better way to end the very success fu l tour and show the a p p r e c i a t i o n i n Te n n a n t C r e e k b y acknowledging the organiser behind it -Barkly Shire Council. Judith being the CEO of the VRC, presented Barbara Shaw, President of Barkly Shire Council, a symbolic miniature of the Emirates Melbourne Cup.
The EMCT party flew to Darwin the following day. Tennant Creek will never forget the tour. It definitely made history. Written by: Lloyd Remedio & Hollie Abra
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