THE BANKSIA BULLETIN
Regular happenings and contacts
From the Editor
THE PASSION SHEET
Boyle Leonie
Leonie’s family wish to thank those who attended the Funeral, Cemetery & afterwards at the Club for our Mum.
Thank you to Thompsons Funeral Directors for their professionalism & kindness.
Please accept this as our personal thank you.
DIGGING DOCKER
COMBINED PEST CONTROL WA
Website: www.combinedpc.com.au
Contact: Ross or Bianca
Phone: 0438 375 146
Email: office@combinedpc.com.au
HOURS
MONDAY - THURSDAY
8:30am 12:30pm 1:30pm—5:00pm
FRIDAY
8:30am 12:00pm
VISITING
PROFESSIONALS
Female GP
Dr Irene Dolan
27th & 28th November
Dietitian & Diabetes Educator
Laura Nairn
N/A
Psychologist
Carol Deppe
2nd & 16th October
Podiatrist
Rachel Mitchell
11th & 25th October
Audiologist
Michael Segal
8th October
OTHER SERVICES
OFFERED
• Health Assessments
• Skin Checks
• Flu Clinics
• Immunisations/Vaccinations
• Diabetes Management
• Pathology
• Preventative Medicine
• Chronic Illness Care Plans
• Antenatal Care
• Health Checks/Medical Reports
• PATS Patient Assisted Travel Scheme Applications
• Iron infusions
• Skin cancer removal procedures
Quairading Medical Practice
19 Harris Street PO Box 125 Quairading WA 6383
PHONE: 9645 1210 FAX: 9645 1066
CHRISTMAS CLOSURE
In line with the Shire of Quairading’s Christmas break, Quairading Medical Practice will be CLOSED from 5pm on Tuesday 24th December and will reopen on 8:30am Thursday 2nd January 2025.For urgent medical attention during this period, please phone 000 or present to the Quairading Hospital.
Dr. Irene Dolan will not be available for appointments in October. Her next scheduled visit will be 27th and 28th November. To make an appointment, please telephone the practice on 9645 1210.
MyMedicare
Over the coming weeks, our Admin team will be asking patients to complete a registration form with MyMedicare.
This is a voluntary programme to assist Doctors to provide greater continuity of care at your registered Medical Practice.
DID YOU KNOW: Your mouth produces about one litre of saliva each day
League Premiership for the Quairading Bulls
Photos by Russell Stacey
2024 League Premiership Team. Standing: Brayden Andrews (runner), Lachlan Gelmi, Freddie Clutterbuck, William Hadlow, Jake Stacey, Connor Klemke, Josh Marshall, Max Vining, Ethan Brown, Ryan Powell, Lucas Pereira, Ryan Jarman, Andrew Walker, Scott Walker (runner). Front: Tom Lee, Rhys Holdman, Lachlan Davis, Ben Rushforth, Sean Hayes, Kane Mitchell, Connor Anderson, Chris Scafidi.
Above Left: Josh Marshall & Ben Rushforth celebrating. Above Right: Our legend trainers, Greg (Bounce) Richards and Lindsay (LJ) Johnston, both Life Members, getting amongst the premiership song in the changerooms.
Left: Kane Mitchell & Tom Lee. Above: Ken Baxter awarding Lucas Pereira the Ken Baxter Medal for Fairest & Best Player in the Grand Final.
Above Left: Kane Mitchell (Perth based Assistant Coach) with his Mum, Helen, wife Rachel and daughters Ruby & Quinn. Above Right: Leading goal kicker for the year, Freddie Clutterbuck embracing our volunteer League Goal Umpire, Greg (Colonel) Hayes.
Above Left: Our ever reliable volunteer Time Keeper, Richard (Rac) Walker, with son Andrew Walker. Andrew also played in our last league premiership, in 2008! Above Right: The proud Gelmi family. Claire, Lachlan, Matilda & Nigel.
Above Left: The “salmon gum” Josh Marshall, capturing victory in his second year with the bulls. Above Middle: Trevor Stacey and son, Jake Stacey. Above Right: Captain, Sean Hayes.
St Faith’s says THANK YOU !!!!
St Faith’s Anglican Church held a street stall on Saturday September 7, 2024. We’d like to express our appreciation to everyone that supported our efforts.
Congratulations to the raffle winners:
$100 Sheree Wishart
$100 Cully Simpson
$50 Jeff Pearce (donated back)
Thank you to everyone that baked, provided home grown produce, donated time to sell raffle tickets, helped get ready for the day, purchased our goods and made financial contributions.
A special thanks to the QDHS Secondary Home Economics Students for baking and donating your beautiful cakes to our cause!
Thank you to the Coop for allowing us to sell raffle tickets during the week and for setting the street stall table up for our use.
We had great success and banked $1436.55.
$500 of that has been sent to Anglicare, and the rest will go towards St Faith’s youth ministry.
If you are interested in your children attending St Faith’s Kids Club. We meet after school, once a month, on a day that suits the children’s schedules. Contact Mary Stacey 0428 455 226 or Rev Philip Raymont 0419 177 178 for more information or come by on October 31, 2024 between 4-6:30pm.
St Faith’s will be participating in Quairading’s Halloween event, All Hallows Eve. We will have treats, a cold drink and rest stop available. Last year we had about EIGHTY children come through. So we are expecting you!!! The church will be open and candles will be available for anyone, big or little, that would like to light a candle in memory of those people that you remember with love.
Thanks again for your support in all that we do.
Courteny Dawson (nee Bartlett) is riding from Optus to Mandurah on her pushbike in October, then the next day ride back to Optus. She has raised an incredible $4576 so far and would love it if you could spare a few dollars for this great fundraising event. When
This month at REED Quairading, the children have been focused on one of their interests which is dinosaurs! One activity they did was make some salt dough and use the plastic dinosaurs to make footprints in the dough.
We had a parent, Kate come in and do some yoga and dancing with the children, which she’s done a few times now and the children really enjoy it. The children read a book with her called “We’re going on a bear hunt” and acted out the story as it was read to them.
We have recently got in a lot of new cultural resources and one of the children’s favourites are the capes with the Australian animals on them. They enjoyed taking turns wearing all the different animals.
This month was “Talk like a pirate day” and the children were able to come in and have a range of things to dress up in and play with including pirate hats, eye patches, and jewellery. The children then made a huge pirate ship out of cardboard which they enjoyed sitting in and playing. They took all their pirate goodies into the ship, and they even named it “Shiver the timbers”. The children then got to paint their ship, so it was nice and colourful.
Quairading Sub Centre Update
We would like to thank the generous local community groups who have given the Sub Centre donations over the last few months! These donations have helped us purchase new training equipment to continue to better our skills!
• Quairading Rotary Club
• Quairading Speedway
Annual Review Meeting (ARM)
The St John WA – Quairading Sub Centre Annual Review Meeting (ARM) was held on Thursday 15th August. It was a great night and our committee is as follows:
Chairperson: Janet Hall
Vice Chairperson: Peter West
Secretary: Michaela Stone
Treasurer: TBA
Committee Members: Trevor Sandercock, Von Emmanuel, John Hards, Kay Fraser & Clive Stone.
We are still looking for a Treasurer! You must be a current Volunteer with St John Ambulance Quairading and be willing to join the Committee. If this is something you may be interested in, please contact Chairperson Janet or Vice Chairperson Peter.
St John First Responder App
The St John First Responder App is a free app full of resources to help life go on for you, your workmates, or your loved ones. The St John First Responder App has a range of features, one being its unique first responder capability. The app allows qualified first aiders to sign up as a first responder and be notified when someone has called 000 for an ambulance within 500m of their current location and in a public place.
If you’re not looking to sign up as a first responder yet, then that’s okay! The app also contains a number of other resources, including a directory of defibrillator locations, comprehensive first aid guides and a “call 000” feature that automatically sends your exact GPS coordinates to the St John Ambulance State Operations Centre when calling from within the state of Western Australia.
If you have downloaded the St John WA First Responder App please make sure it is regularly updated & that you sign in occasionally.
Charred spring onion, chilli & feta flatbreads
Make vibrant spring onions the star of the show, scattered over creamy, tangy feta and soft flatbreads for a simple yet stunning lunch
Ingredients
2 bunches of spring onions (about 250g), trimmed
3½ tbsp olive oil
4 garlic cloves, sliced
1 red chilli (deseeded if you prefer less heat), sliced
½ tbsp nigella seeds
100g Greek-style yogurt
200g feta, crumbled
For the dough
7g sachet fast-action dried yeast
400g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
1 tsp caster sugar
2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for rising
Method
STEP 1
For the dough, combine the yeast, flour, sugar, 1 tsp salt, the olive oil and 250ml warm water. Do this in a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment for 8-10 mins, or lightly dust a surface with flour and knead until smooth and elastic. Lightly oil a clean bowl and tip in the dough. Cover and leave to rise for 1-2 hrs until doubled in size. (This may take slightly longer depending on how warm your kitchen is.)
STEP 2
Meanwhile, finely slice one bunch of spring onions, then cut the other bunch in half to roughly separate the white parts from the green. Heat 3 tbsp oil in a small frying pan over a medium heat and cook the finely sliced spring onions, the garlic, chilli and nigella seeds until the garlic is fragrant and sizzling, about 2-3 mins. Strain the mixture in a fine sieve set over a bowl, reserving the oil. Tip the yogurt and 150g feta into a food processor and blitz until smooth, or do this using a hand blender. Stir in half the spring onion and garlic mixture, along with some seasoning, and chill until needed. Will keep chilled for a day.
STEP 3
Lightly dust a clean work surface with flour and tip out the risen dough. Split into four pieces and shape into balls. Cover and leave to rest for 5 mins. Roll each one out as thinly as possible, then lift and stretch the dough using your hands. Heat a heavy-based or cast-iron frying pan over a medium-high heat. Brush each side of the flatbreads with the reserved garlic oil, then cook for 2-3 mins each side until puffed up and charred. Remove and wrap in a clean tea towel to keep warm and soft, then repeat with the remaining flatbreads. Toss the halved spring onions with the remaining 1/2 tbsp olive oil, and set the pan over a high heat. Cook the spring onions for 3 mins undisturbed, then shake the pan to shuffle them, doing this until charred all over. Set aside.
STEP 4
To assemble, brush a little more garlic oil over the flatbreads, then top with the yogurt mixture and charred spring onions. Scatter over the remaining spring onion mixture, and the feta, then drizzle over a little more of the garlic oil, if you like
We will remember them
Submitted by Heather Wheeler.
Over 1000 Aboriginal Australians fought in the 1st World War. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have served in every conflict and commitment involving Australian Defence contingents since Federation. It is estimated that more than 50 Western Australian Indigenous men fought at Gallipoli. There were five Aboriginal men in the Royal Australian Navy during World War 1. One was 2nd Lieutenant Alfred John Heeps from Tasmania who was killed in action in 1916. It is also known that there were two Aboriginal nurses stationed overseas. Western Australia contributed 32,231 men in total. This number (on a per population basis) was proportionally greater than any other Australian State. There were 13 Indigenous soldiers who were no different to others that served. These men were James Dickerson, Larry and Lewius Farmer, Charles Hutchins, William John Jackson, Fred Lockyer, Randall and William Mason, Arthur McCallum, James Melbourne, Gordon Charles Naley, Frederich Leslie Sayers and claude Shaw. They all embarked with the bravado of boys on an adventure, many never to return or they returned as broken men. Aboriginal Servicemen won 4 Distinguished Conduct Medals and 26 Military Medals.
James Dickerson (No 392) of the 10th Light Horse, Machine Gun Sections ‘C’ Squadron was the only Western Australian Indigenous serviceman to die during the Gallipoli Campaign. Notice in the Eastern District Chronicle (York W.A.) 1st October 1915:-
The death is reported from the Dardanelles of Private James Dickerson who enlisted from this district. He was wounded and while being conveyed to hospital for treatment died and was buried at sea. Trooper Dickerson was born in Gin Gin and enlisted on the 19th October 1914 in Guildford when he was 31 years old. Trooper Dickerson sailed for Gallipoli on the 16th May 1915 from Fremantle on the A52 “Surada:. On the 29th August he received a gunshot would and a fractured leg. He was being transported to Malta on the H.M.H.S. Devenaha when he died from his injuries on the 30th August 1915. James was buried at sea 50 miles west of Cape Matapan.
Rural Aid Article
One of the many great things about my job is that I get to travel throughout the beautiful Wheatbelt, Great Southern and Southwest region of WA. Some days I spend 6 hours driving to see someone who has reached out. No complaints the scenery is always great and always changing. We are lucky to live where we do.
There is another great and heart warming happening that I also get to see firsthand in our great communities. That is how in every town the majority of community support and look out for each other. In the last few weeks, I have sat with those I’m working with listening to that person describe how their town has wrapped around them adding extra support without any prompting or second thought. Some examples of this are dropping off cooked meals, regularly visiting or phoning, gardening and maintaining lawns, listening and really caring. Where the person doesn’t feel they need that help being offered they are still left with a feeling of thankfulness and belonging. Both individuals and groups appear to have no hesitation to help they just do. One person said to me ‘at the end of day we are neighbours, so we have to look out for each other’. In one town the people being helped had recently moved there and their statement was “ If I had any doubts about why I moved here it has definitely gone, this town and the people are just amazing’.
I have often been phoned, approached in person, with someone asking me to get in contact with a person they are concerned about. More proof the person of concerns community cares. Counselling has boundaries that include not what is called ‘cold calling’ someone when asked. Another agency, your GP can give me referral to call but this also has to be with the permission of the person being called themselves. The initial call will be ‘I have been asked by … to call you’. The only time cold calling is acceptable is when I’m doing post disaster recovery and will call in to do what is known as a ‘welfare check’. These welfare checks are with the recovery’s lead agency’s knowledge and are not counselling, sometimes they may become counselling.
When someone is struggling mentally or otherwise an offer of help even if not needed is appreciated by the majority. A person may due to their high emotions appear to be annoyed you have offered help. But this person mostly has also appreciated your thought and the care. I know this because when I work with these people they say, ‘Its nice to know people actually care all the same’.
The sense of belonging and being valued from being supported by those who care cannot be underestimated. Being valued results in being given hope, hope is very powerful. When I meet with those who have been supported the positivity and hope the person has of getting through their struggle is realised as achievable. The idea of a holistic approach in counselling is that the whole person is assisted. The ability to recover and get through is harder if the person is also struggling to get the practical things done such as cooking, is struggling financially, feels isolated and alone. Never underestimate how dropping off a meal, taking time to call in or phone, offer help with chores positively adds to this person’s road to recovery. Even though its ‘just what we do in the bush’.
Some even when they know people are trying to help still struggle. If you are struggling or know someone who is not themselves reach out. Be strong and ask for help, be strong and be that help. Call me at Rural Aid I’m here to help. Call one of the other agencies you know. Tell your GP. Tell a friend. Ask ‘are you OK”. Also, a reminder that when talking to me your confidentiality is guaranteed and respected. Your trust in me is valued and respected. You do matter.
Roger Hitchcock
Counsellor & Community Representative West Australia based in Narrogin Rural Aid Australia M: 0460 310 661 |P: 07 3153 4656 |E: roger.hitchcock@ruralaid.org.au Head Office : 1300 327 624 / Mental Health and Counselling Line 1300 175 594
Gardening in the Wheatbelt
Unfortunately, September did not bring spring rain as it was predicted it would. The weather experts are saying that despite all the climatic conditions being exactly as they a supposed to be for rainy weather it is just not happening. I know the soil is drying out very very quickly and if we don’t get rain in early October, it certainly does not bode well for the summer ahead. A reminder here then that all newly planted plants need extra water until they are well established; keep up a weekly deep watering regime until the first regular rain next autumn.
The next GLGG meeting will be on the 30th October at the CRC in Quairading at 9:30. Do join this very active group who help each other enjoy their gardens and use the produce from their gardens so as to make their lives fuller and richer.
Plant of the month – This month the chosen plant is Hardenbergia. Hardenbergia is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a very forgiving plant and although the literature about it says it needs moist well drained soils, it certainly does have that at Eaglewood Farm because the soil in summer is certainly not moist and as there isn’t abundant water it does not get any water other than what falls from the sky. By the end of the dry season, it’s looking decidedly worse for wear but as soon as it receives the first rain up it springs again. It is a climber but as long as it doesn’t find something to climb it will happily scramble along as a ground cover. However, if it finds something to climb it can reach up to three metres in height. Hardenbergia comes in two main colours purple, often called H. violacea or Happy Wanderer, a white form, H. alba or White Out and a pink/purple one, H. violacea rosea, Pink Coral Pea. There is also a shrubby version which only grows to about one metre tall. It grows well from tube stock planted in late autumn and takes about three years to really make a good display. If it were to receive water during summer it would undoubtedly grow much quicker and carry more flowers, so it is definitely a worthy garden plant.
October in the Garden
It’s time to – top up mulch in all garden beds taking care to use mulch that will allow water to penetrate rather than repel or soak up any water meant for the plant it is protecting; take cuttings of Kalanchoes, most succulents, coleus and other soft plants; rosemary hedges can be clipped back before it becomes too hot; spring bloomers like wisteria, flowering plums, Indian hawthorn, spring only flowering roses, camellia japonica and viburnum can be pruned after flowering has finished; prune back the spent flowers from aeoniums and tidy the plant up at the same time; prune citrus lightly after fruiting has finished; dahlia tubers can be planted in a sunny spot that is easily watered in summer; move any pots that have overwintered in a sunny spot into the shade before temperatures reach thirty degrees; watch out for signs of aphids and scale on garden and orchard plants small infestations can be dealt with by spraying water to get them off so the beneficial insects can take care of the problem, but scale can be treated with eco oil while the day temperatures are still cool; look out for ants they are sure sign that scale is about; thin out the newly set
fruit on citrus and stone fruit trees when the fruit is at large marble stage, this will encourage larger ripe fruit without overly stressing the tree; grevilleas spot flower all year round but they have now finished their main flush of flowers so now is a good time to prune them a little for shape and to encourage healthy new growth; visit open gardens and rose shows to choose plants while they are in full bloom and finally on a cool day trim lavender bushes and if you think they are not thriving sprinkle the lower foliage with lime and blood and bone fertiliser to raise the PH level to above 7.
Sow – direct sow summer veggies into prepared beds. If you haven’t sown them yet all the smaller seeded veggies like tomatoes, capsicum and eggplant can be sown into small pots to be planted out later.
Plant – beds and pots of colour for your Christmas garden display, plant seedlings of summer veggies as soon as you bring them home because they can dry out very quickly as the weather warms up.
Harvest – continue to harvest asparagus, artichokes, peas, broad beans, snow peas and in late October loquats. At Eaglewood we are continuing to harvest citrus, kale, broccoli, lettuce, carrots, turnips, parsnips, swede, leeks, spring onions, fennel, cauliflower, English spinach, radicchio, beetroot and armfuls of parsley, sage, coriander and rocket.
The last word –“Gardening simply does not let me be mentally old because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realised.” Allan Armitage
REGIONAL COLUMN
With Senior Regional Officer Kevin Collard
How can something so tiny, kill in a matter of hours
These days, stimulating toys are all about interactivity, lights, and movement. To activate, a button sized battery generally needs to be inserted, but if swallowed by a child has the power to cause severe injury in less than two hours and can even kill.
Button batteries are a small power source used not just for toys but for an increasing number of common household items such as remote controls, watches, clocks, and hearing aids.
A University of Sydney-led research study showed batteries 20mm or more in diameter are the most dangerous. They are small enough to be easily swallowed but not small enough to reliably pass through a child’s throat.
What happens next will shock you, literally!
An electrical current is immediately triggered by saliva, causing a chemical reaction to cause severe burns to the child’s throat and major internal organs within as little as two hours and the results can be fatal.
The study, which examined over 400 cases of button battery injuries and fatalities worldwide, shows while Australia has introduced the world’s first mandatory safety standards with child-resistant packaging, the industry still needs to do more.
Once the packaging is open there is a vital need for safe storage, safe use, and safe disposal of batteries.
When buying button battery operated products, parents should look for products where the battery compartment can’t be opened without the use of a tool.
If the compartment is not securely fastened with a screw or similar fastener, the product may not comply and could be added to the product recall list.
Even when old or used, button batteries can still be a threat, so safely dispose of them by wrapping them in sticky tape and putting them in a child resistant container, out of reach of children until you can recycle them safely. Recycle collection points can be found at www.bcycle.com.au.
If you suspect a child has swallowed a button battery do not let the child eat or drink and do not induce vomiting. Immediately call the Poisons Information Centre on 13 11 26 for additional treatment information.
Parents can check the product recall list for items with button batteries on the Product Safety Australia website: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recalls.
If parents spot non-compliant button batteries or devices containing them on shop shelves, report them to Consumer Protection at consumer@demirs.wa.gov.au or call 1300 30 40 54.
For more information about button battery safety, guides and disposal see Consumerprotection.wa.gov.au
Warrior Wellbeing Article
The Three Things a Man Needs
A wise man said to me recently the three things a man needs is to love someone; to do something meaningful and to have something to look forward to. These three things are a constant through the different stages of a man’s life whether it be adolescence, mid-life, transition and/or retirement.
We need to remember these three needs and actively stay engaged as they are a strong conduit to maintaining a healthy disposition and aid in building something else into our lives, other than just our work to identify ourselves by.
We often talk about our random capacity to deal with stuff in our lives (this varies from person to person). Most of us operate within the bounds of a rubber band (non-stretched and stretched). This innate capacity often boils down to how we are individually hardwired, and it may also reflect our upbringing and/or events experienced through our life journey. What we do know is that we all need to unplug the dam to let some stuff out every now and then so that the dam doesn’t burst its banks and cause us to crash.
When we link the three things a man needs (that is to love someone; do something meaningful and to have something to look forward to) to our capacity to deal with stuff in our lives (i.e. stopping the dam wall from bursting), it helps life run more smoothly, and helps to:
• maintain balance;
• make sense of some of the fundamentals in our DNA (our warrior attitude); and
• improve our individual capacity to both survive and thrive.
We need to be mindful of living in the present and connecting with others. For a bloke, this connectedness is important and can be maintained simply by attending a local men’s shed, playing sport (i.e. football, bowls, golf, tennis or participating/watching our preferred sport with a friend), having a cuppa with a neighbour or spontaneously dropping in on a mate. So, remember to take time to laugh with others and enjoy what we do, Talk to a Mate® about our health and wellbeing and/or ask him how he is going, and make sure we block out some time at the end of our busy periods to have a break.
As our priorities change in life, we need to reflect on our own values. Three of these are; healthy living, having purpose and being connected to community. These are important values to us at every age and stage of our lives and when we line these up with the three things a man needs, that is:
• to love someone – i.e. healthy living;
• to do something meaningful – i.e. purpose, sense of achievement;
• to have something to look forward to – i.e. connectedness to community.
Then life starts to make some sense.
Us blokes need to recognise and talk about these significant aspects of our lives, so we can fulfil our potential and ultimately enjoy the journey. Don’t take anything for granted, we don’t know what will happen tomorrow.
Anglican Church (St Faith’s)
October in the Parish of St Faith’s, Quairading
Aerial Photograph of St Faith’s Church, Quairading
St Faith’s Church, Quairading
Sunday, 6th October
Sunday, 13th October
9.00 a.m. Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – Morning Prayer
9.00 a.m. Feast of St Faith – Eucharist
Saturday, 19th October 5.30 p.m. Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost – Eucharist Sunday, 27th October 9.00 a.m. Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost – Morning Prayer
Diocesan Synod: Synod will take place in Perth over the weekend of the 4th, 5th and 6th October.
Feast of St Faith: The Commemoration of St Faith, to whom the Church in Quairading is dedicated, will be celebrated with a Eucharist on Sunday, 13th October at 9.00 a.m. Following the service there will be a “bring and share” morning tea. Please note the service on Sunday, 6th October will be a Service of Morning Prayer.
Services of Thanksgiving & Remembrance: On the first two Sundays of November services of Thanksgiving & Remembrance will be conducted, giving thanks for the lives of the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day) and those killed in war (Remembrance Day) as we look forward with anticipation and thankfulness for the fruits of the forthcoming harvest (Lammastide).
St Hilda’s Day: will be celebrated throughout the Avon Valley at two services: 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 13th November at St Mark’s Church, Brookton and at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday, 14th November at Holy Trinity Church, York. Those families and individuals with associations with St Hilda’s Anglican School For Girls are most welcome to attend.
St Andrew’s Day – The Patronal Festival of St Andrew’s Church, Greenhills, will take place at 5 p.m. on Sunday, 24th November.
Catholic Church (St Francis Xavier)
October 2024
Confession: Contact Father Matthew at any time. Father Matthew Hodgson. Phone: 9061 1094 Email: brucerockparish@gmail.com
Uniting Church
For the month of October the readings come from chapter 10 of Mark’s Gospel. (A Gospel is a short biography telling the good news about Jesus.) The reading for the first Sunday has that famous verse where Jesus says “Let the little children come to me”. Jesus also talks about why divorce is allowed. The second Sunday’s reading is about how money will not get us into God’s kingdom. The third is about who is the greatest and Jesus makes the point that the right sort of leader is one who serves others. The fourth tells the story of blind Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus was begging beside the road when he heard that Jesus was walking past so he started calling for Jesus to show some compassion. Jesus stopped and, after a short conversation, Jesus healed him.
Throughout October the readings about Jesus are linked to the story of Job. Job was a good man but God allowed him to suffer. It can be hard to understand why we suffer and why a loving God doesn’t take all of our suffering away. The story of Job doesn’t give any neat answers. It tells us that God is good and loving and that he is amazingly powerful but in the end we just need to trust him, even when things go wrong.
Sunday 6th October 10:30 am led by Mark Beadle
Sunday 13th October 10:30 am Café Church led by Arthur West
Sunday 20th October 10:30 am led by Peter West
Sunday 27nd October 10:30 am To be advised.
Enquiries: Mark Beadle 0435 698 655 or Arthur West 9645 0081 If you would like a visit please contact Mark Beadle. Check out our FaceBook page: Quairading Church
1st Ross Poultney, Clive Stone
3rd Sean Powell, Gwen Powell
4th Emelia Coakley
5th Shane Dalton, Mary Strickland
6th
Bernadette Dall, Chloe Anderson
7th Grant Collard, Bradley Johnson, Cheryle Simpson
8th Samuel Haythornthwaite
9th Mark Wells, Andrew Walker
10th Bruce Johnson
12th Ashley Cowcill
13th George Anderson, Lorraine Taylor, Ann Stone
14th Brandon Clemens
15th
Shondelle Stone, Jorja Squiers
16th Wayne (Speary) George, Kylie Jones, Kingsley Simpson, Sarah Van Elden
17th Julie Bavin, Ken Swithenbank, Allen Cowcill
18th Laura McRae, Ellie Hinkley
20th Macey Dall
22nd Brooke Hayes
24th Shirley Cowcill, Olive Caporn, Greg Logan, Fred Ruck
25th Shaun Simpson, Andrew Green
26th Terry Stacey
29th Val Robinson, Chett Barr
30th
Andrea Allsop, Megan-Jayne Amiss
31st Jesse Kevill, Jordan Van Elden