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Community Centre continues its success Elisa Seul
2021
WAS A VERY successful year for the Rainbow Beach Community
Current management committee: Secretary - Marnie Kropp, President - Elisa Seul, and Treasurer - Kelly Smith at the recent Christmas Lunch for our active volunteers
Centre. We started the year with only three volunteers rotating to keep the office open, and finished the year with seven rostered volunteers. The monthly markets are constantly growing and are very popular. We have launched the Rainbow Beach Spring Fest, hosted the Festival of Small Halls for the fifth year, Santa Comes to Rainbow third edition, hosted the Live & Local Music project and of course the Friday Catch Ups have been a wonderful resilient ongoing rendez-vous. The Committee has worked passionately to create and coordinate more events for people of all ages, this came after the collection of community feedback through the survey we did in early 2020. A few members have also undertaken training
on procedures on how to stand up in case of a declared natural disaster as the hall is classified as an Evacuation Centre for the area. The Rainbow Beach Community Centre has an enormous potential to be the hub for all residents and locals - the Association not only facilitates the access to the building, it also encourages community participation and inclusion through activities offered at the Centre and by linking community members to resources and support. We aim to grow, become stronger and more representative of the wider community needs to preserve wellbeing and belonging. Memberships are now open for 2022, the support of each of you means a lot to the Association, it still costs only $5. Let us know you care about the Community too. Community Information Resource Services Inc Association T/A Rainbow Beach Community Centre 07 5486 3355 rainbowcommunitycirs@gmail.com
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AST MONTH I thanked so many people that donated and made our big delivery of hampers and presents to Winton a huge success. A big thank you to Trevor Tramacchi and his co-pilot Ken Warne (I think) who delivered the three pallets and other items to Winton for us. With the floods the only way out was via Rockhampton
to Longreach for the night, where they delivered $1000 to the principal of the School of Distance Education. Next morning they unloaded in Winton coordinated by council family support and also left $3000 in Visa cards. They came back via Miles but had to detour a few times before arriving home at midnight. The country to Winton from Longreach is terrible and much of the district is still a dustbowl missing all the rain so far. This
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delivery coincided with the Winton street parade on 10 December making distribution of supplies easier. Our load was topped with further donations from Lexie Hanson and Gavin Freeman, Jim Snee, Tin Can Bay Bakery, and Mary of Rainbow so a big thanks to you all. Also I must thank Al at Ace Wholesalers for loading the pallets late in the evening and Wayne Kerle for sorting all of our can and bottle collections at Bay Auto Tin Can Bay.
A big thankyou to the Breeze Holiday Park who have made mesh baskets to make our bottle and can sorting much easier at Carlo Point. Thank you all for your continued help over the last six years. In that time we have helped a lot of farmers and businesses including Drought Angels, Fencing for Fires, Blaze-Aid, and feeding homeless in Gympie where we are supplying hams this year. Wishing you all a safe and happy new year.
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G E N E R A L P R A C T I C E Dr Andrew Spall Visiting once weekly on a Wednesday with Nurse Hayley
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5353 1000
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