NEWS
Wednesday June 22, 2016
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Great opportunities for Snowy Hydro trainees The 2016 Snowy Hydro trainees have made it halfway through their year and aren’t slowing down. All seven of the trainees say that they are thoroughly enjoying the experience. Chelsea Case is in Asset Management and Engineering, Lachlan Sturgeon is in Information Resources, Jozeph Nassar is at the IT Service Desk, Riah Swain is in Project Delivery, Grace Towning is in Corporate Affairs and Community Relations, Nakiya Nuridin is in Safety, People and Services and Emma Fogarty is in Information Control Systems (ICS) Administration. All the trainees are from Cooma, except for Nakiya who is from Jindabyne. Community Relations Manager Heath Woolley says that the trainee program is one of the ways that Snowy Hydro connects with the community. “The program involves the students going
to TAFE every Tuesday to obtain a certificate three and four in Business Administration,” he says, “Besides this qualification, it also provides them with the opportunity to experience work life before going to university, making it a good stepping stone.” Looking to broaden their horizons, the trainees say that they applied for the opportunity to get some valuable work experience to open doors for their future. “The business admin qualification is a good back up to have going into university,” says Nakiya. Grace spends most of her time in the Snowy Hydro Discovery Centre and says she is enjoying learning a wide range of skills. “Being in the Discovery
Centre, I have been able to learn some customer service skills and have also learnt barista skills at the café,” she says, “These will be very handy for getting jobs to put me through university in Sydney next year.” Jozeph says in his role on the IT Service Desk, he is enjoying the challenge of facing a range of problems on a daily basis. “Every call we receive involves a different problem and we need to be able to deal with
it on the spot,” he says, “I did a certificate two in IT at school and I am enjoying being able to use that in a work environment.” All the trainees agreed that they would recommend the program to all school leavers.
Pictured: Chelsea Case, Nakiya Nuridin, Grace Towning, Riah Swain, Jozeph Nassar and Lachlan Sturgeon.
Celebrate Naidoc week across the Snowy Monaro NAIDOC Week celebrations will kick off early this year, with a Welcome to Country performed by a Ngarigo elder, and the opening of an Aboriginal art exhibition at the Snowy Region Visitor Centre in Jindabyne. A variety of Ngarigo, Yuin, and other Aboriginal artists will display their works. Children from across the region will also contribute contemporary Aboriginal artwork, and have completed colouring sheets designed by Ngarigo woman Sally Lavallee for this event. “The Welcome to Country is scheduled for 11m on Friday June 24 at the gallery in the Snowy Region Visitor Information Centre. Members of the public are encouraged to attend”, encouraged Snowy Monaro Regional Cwouncil Administrator, Dean Lynch. Celebrations of our nation’s Indigenous peoples will continue from 11am to 2pm on Wednesday July 6 with a family day at The Hub Youth Centre in Cooma. There will be lots of healthy food, crafts and activities, face painting, and service provider information. The annual event celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Please contact the Hub on 6452 5534 for more information. Additional opportunities to
celebrate Indigenous Australians include an ongoing exhibition at the Bundian Way Gallery in Delegate, and annual Indigenous arts exhibition at the Raglan Gallery in Cooma (dates TBD). The Bundian Way Gallery is opened Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10am – 3:30pm, and Saturdays from 9am – 2pm. Mr Lynch went on to explain, “NAIDOC Week is an opportunity to honour the culture, history, and contributions of Australia’s many Indigenous peoples, and to celebrate the oldest continuous culture on earth. Residents are encouraged to learn more about local Indigenous history and culture during this time by attending events or visiting a chapter of the Monaro Regional Library. The National Museum of Australia is also an excellent resource and a fun day out for the whole family”. 2016 NAIDOC activities in the Snowy Monaro Region are brought to you by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, South East Arts, the YMCA, Grand Pacific Health, Southern Cross Community Housing, Raglan Gallery, the Bundian Way Gallery Arts and Community Centre, the Delegate Progress Association, Aboriginal Affairs and your Snowy Monaro Regional Council.
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