Three Peaks 25th Anniversary

Residents Newsletter - West Tamar Council
Three Peaks 25th Anniversary
The year is 1988. Petrol was $0.50 a litre, the
median mortgage is $85,000, the Hubble
Space Telescope is put into operation, Debbie
Flintoff-King and Duncan Armstrong win
gold at the Olympics, Bob Hawke is Prime
Minister, the first major computer virus infects
computers connected to the Internet, Home
and Away airs for the first time, tall ships sail
into Sydney Harbour and… Three Peaks
holds its Inaugural Race! A lot changes in
25 years and yet this race grows in popularity
every year.
Beauty Point was once again a hive of activity
on Good Friday. Thousands of spectators
enjoyed the lively atmosphere on the wharf,
relishing in the warm rays and gentle breeze.
Circus performers entertained and inspired
participants to try their hand at juggling or
mastering the unicycle. Eclectic food vendors
offered cuisine from around the globe while
various musical acts contributed to the
festive air.
“After a quarter of a century the H&R Block
Three Peaks race has shown it is unique,
throwing up challenges to both runners and
sailors,’’ race direct Raoul Stow said. 2013
saw the fastest start on record, a skipper
go overboard, retirement of the front-runner
Peccadillo (due to loss of steering) and the
eventual victory of Euphoria Furniture at
Constitution Dock with their runners returning
from the Mt Wellington run clocking 3 hours,
4 minutes and 37 seconds at 3:57am - such
a lovely time to be out for a run!
JUNE 2013
www.wtc.tas.gov.au
In this issue...
Three Peaks 25th Anniversary ................1
Major Writers Festival
For West Tamar .......................................2
Impressions of an Artist...........................2
From The Mayor...........................................3
Beaconsfield District Health Service........4
Empowering Local Schools.....................4
Johnson Family Reunion..........................4
What Is “Still Gardening?”.......................4
National Youth Week 2013.......................5
Waddamana – Noisy Water......................5
Beaconsfield Early Learning
and Child Care Service ...........................5
Beaconsfield Child
and Family Centre....................................5
Cyber Safety Tips....................................6
Senior Computer Hub..............................6
Festival Of Golden Words Cont’d............6
Mind Moves Chess Club..........................7
Buring Off.................................................7
Windsor Café...........................................7
Community Car........................................7
Community Car Cont'd............................8
Council Meeting Dates.............................8
Beacon Articles........................................8
Council Chambers
West Street Beaconsfield TAS 7270
Phone 6383 6350 (8am-5pm Mon-Fri)
Council Offices
Eden Street Riverside TAS 7250
Phone 6323 9300 (8am-5pm Mon-Fri)
Windsor Community Precinct
1 Windsor Drive, Riverside
6323 9200 (8am – 5pm Mon-Fri)
Postal Address
PO Box 59
Beaconsfield TAS 7270

Major Writers Festival For West Tamar
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In a media conference on May 2, West
Tamar’s Mayor, Barry Easther, OAM,
announced that with council support, the
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West Tamar will play host to a major annual
writers festival, beginning next March. The
Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words will
bring some forty leading Australian authors
to the Tamar and most of the program will be
free to the public.
The festival was officially unveiled by the Mayor
and the internationally successful Beaconsfield
author Stephen Dando-Collins, who is
president of the organising body, Festival of
Golden Words Inc.
BEACONSFIELD
F E S T I VA L O F
GOLDEN WORDS
Impressions of an Artist
On a clear autumn day, I park outside an
imposing grey building, tucked away in a
side street in Riverside. Large windows
reflect back wavy versions of the sky. I make
my way to the entrance where I’m greeted
by the owner and enter the vast space that
was once Hydro Tasmania’s single men’s
quarters. Welcomed with a bowl of lemon
and myrtle tea and accompanied by his wiry
haired canine I spend an afternoon learning
about Jonathon Bowden.
The festival’s board of management includes
a cross-section of community representatives
and writers including West Tamar’s Deputy
Mayor, Christina Holmdahl, former Mercury and
Sunday Tasmanian editor Garry Bailey, leading
West Tamar community and cultural organiser
John Farrar, Mr Dando-Collins’ wife Louise,
a former Logie-winning TV presenter and
producer, Beaconsfield historian and author
Nigel Burch, retired academic and writer Lesley
Harrison, and Rowella agriculturalist Michael
Bentall.
Although born in Australia, Jonathon Bowden
spent his formative years in England. He
studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge as well
as attending various art schools. He returned
to Australia in the early 1980’s and has resided
in his current abode for the past 19 years,
remodeling and renovating the 32 room hydro
building to create a livable and workable space
for himself, his family and the students he
mentors.
“Louise and I are lucky enough to frequently
attend literary events around Australia and
overseas,” Mr Dando-Collins says, “and we
realised that the West Tamar, where we’ve lived
for the past eight years, has everything it takes
to make a really successful writers festival
and to attract thousands of booklovers to the
region.”
Mayor Easther agrees. “When the organisers
came to us seeking seed funding for the
festival,” he says, “Council was blown away by
the amount of groundwork they had put in, and
by the volume of community support they had
already attracted.”
At its April meeting, West Tamar Council
voted in favour of a special grant to provide
the Festival of Golden Words its foundation
funding.
“Council is confident that this Festival is going
to be an annual event which will put the West
Tamar and Northern Tasmania on the cultural
map,” says the Mayor.
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His great passion for the European masters
is evident in his own impressionist work, and
I marvel at the movement of water over rock
and the hues and colours of the distinctive
Tasmanian seasons in the landscapes. His
work hangs in major galleries around Australia
but one immediately gets the sense that it is
in teaching others that he finds true fulfillment.
Jonathon speaks quietly but passionately
about his students, past and present.
Councillors
Cr Barry Easther OAM, Mayor Cr Christina Holmdahl, Deputy Mayor Cr Rick Shegog Cr Joy Allen
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From the
Mayor
This year the Valuer-General will be sending
new Valuation Notices to all property owners
that set out the new value for each property.
The new valuations will be used by council
for the calculation of property rates for
the 2013-2014 year. There is a common
misunderstanding that an increase in property
valuations will result in a large windfall from
rate revenue for council. This is not the case
because council calculates the amount of
income required to provide for the services
detailed in our annual budget. Each property
has an AAV (assessed annual value) and
the total of these for the total area of the
municipality is divided into the required
income from rates to obtain a “rate in the
dollar”. Experience has shown that if property
valuations increase, the “rate in the dollar” is
lower.
The new property valuations may result in
properties in some areas having a larger
increase than in other areas compared to
last year, and in some cases there could be a
decrease in rates. At the time of revaluations
this always seems to be the case. The formula
for the calculation of rates is: The property
$AAV multiplied by the rate in the dollar with a
minimum amount applicable.
The council rates office will be happy to
answer any questions you may have.
Telephone 6383 6370.
Council is extremely pleased with the progress
of the reconstruction of the West Tamar
Highway over Brady’s Lookout. The scheduling
of work by the contractor, Andrew Walter
Constructions, has resulted in practically no
hold-ups with the movement of traffic and
there is no doubt that the fine weather during
summer has enabled work to continue at
quite a brisk pace. This is going to be a much
improved and safer section of highway for the
large number of traffic movements this area
receives daily.
For some time council has been in discussion
with Metro requesting their Riverside service
detour to the Windsor Community Precinct.
Metro originally advised that it was not possible
to make this diversion as the road network
was inadequate. After further representations
council convinced Metro that it was possible
for a bus service to provide a service to the
Windsor Centre and they finally came back with
a proposition that council would need to pay
for the service to be diverted. Of course we
did not agree with their position. More recently
questions have been raised as to the number
of people who would use the service should
it be provided and therefore, to assist council
in their further deliberations on this matter, I
would like to hear from residents who would
use such a service and how regularly that
Barry Easther OAM, MAYOR
would be. Please telephone Dianne Sheppard
at Riverside office on 6323 9344 to pass on this
information.
In closing I must make some comment on the
recent media reports that Ben Lomond Water
are requiring a $5.8 million annual contribution
from the Launceston City Council to cover the
cost to the corporation of handling storm water
from the combined sewer/storm water system
that services parts of the city. I believe this to
be a very reasonable and conservative charge,
a cost to the corporation that has been shared
by all of the councils in the region for the past
four years. From a West Tamar perspective, the
continuation of this subsidy is a situation that
cannot be allowed to continue.
Barry Easther OAM
Mayor
He teaches a children’s class each week and
he is adamant that everyone is an artist, the
sense of line, colour and rhythm is innate in
everyone all that is needed is the confidence
to express oneself. He has worked for many
years as an educator, mentoring groups of
artists with acquired brain injuries, organising
exhibitions on their behalf and publishing
a booklet entitled “A Brush with My Brain.”
Carefully he selects some of their work to
show me, still life pastels, clay figurines,
watercolours.
I sip my tea and continue to explore the panels
that hang or stand throughout the gallery, while
Jonathon busies himself preparing a new panel
for painting.
When it is time to leave, Jonathon presses a
bound edition of his landscape work “A Letter
from Tasmania” into my hands, which I eagerly
anticipate reading in a quiet moment. As the
car pulls away from the curb, I wonder how
I have driven past this striking building with
its artistic trove without being aware of its
existence, until now.
Cr Peter Kearney Cr John Watson Cr Peter Kaye Cr Carol Bracken Cr Tim Woinarski
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Beaconsfield District Health Service (BDHS)-
Encouraging Community Participation
One of the principles of working in
health promoting ways is to encourage
our community to have a voice in their
health service delivery.
Some of the questions service providers
ask themselves are:
• What health issues are important for
this community?
• How can we assist our community to
determine their own health needs and
services?
What does the service need to do to
engage community members in a
meaningful way?
Some community members were involved
in a health mapping project that occurred
in 2010. From this report, BDHS and the
Beaconsfield Community Health and
Wellbeing Association have been working
on key areas to address these community
concerns. In April the Association has
committed to feeding back this good
work to the community. One of the ways
is for BDHS managers and Association
members to be available to chat with
community members at our next Family
Community Meeting on 13 June at
3.30pm in the Day Centre at BDHS. Come
along and hear what we have to say, and
more importantly, tell us what YOU think.
Another way we engage with the
community is through a monthly gig
at Tamar FM. Here are Karyn Parker
(Georgetown Hospital and Health Service)
and myself chatting on the airwaves in
April.
Later this year, we will be actively seeking
community input as we develop our next
strategic plan for the next 3 years.
Rhonda McCoy
Director of Nursing / Manager
Johnson Family Reunion
23 November 2013, Beaconsfield Tasmania
The convict George Moore (Moores Hill) arrived in Van
Diemens Land on the ‘John’ in 1831.
His sister Selina and husband David Johnson arrived
on the ‘Whirlwind’ in 1855 with their eight children.
The reunion is for all descendants of George and his
sister Selina - Kerrison, Scott, Tunks, Johnson, Brown,
Cornelius, Macrostie, Hinds, Hedington, Thompson,
Allan, Jones, Larter, Hodgson, O’Brien, Barrett, Walsh
If you have any questions please contact one of the
following:
Linda Seaborn (Johnson): lindaseaborn@gmail.com
Greg and Marg Barnett (Moore):
03 6394 7656 or 0448 733 966 or
barnett12@optusnet.com.au
Helen McLean (Johnson):03 6383 1605
or 0400 960 044 or helenandrobert@hotkey.net.au
If you are a descendant and would like to attend the
reunion, please let one of us know. RSVP as soon as
possible to the above people, the latest by the end of
June.
See: http://moore-johnsonfamily.wikispaces.com
for more information
Empowering Local Schools
A partnership between Riverside
Primary and Riverside High has seen the
schools, among twenty two in Tasmania
that have been selected to participate
in the Federal and State Government
initiative, Empowering Local Schools.
This partnership involves teachers
from both schools working together
on collaborative inquiries to identify
and implement formative assessment
strategies in their classrooms which will
support students to achieve excellence.
Formative assessment involves collecting
the best possible evidence about what
students have learned and then using
this information to support students in
understanding what they need to do next.
The schools chose to focus on formative
assessment as research tells us that
regular use of minute-by-minute and dayto-day
classroom formative assessment
can substantially improve student
achievement.
Work on the project began in earnest
early in term 1 and is being led by
teacher leaders Wendy Wilson and
Shenoa Anglesey from Riverside Primary
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and AST Gill Phair from Riverside High.
Together teachers from both schools
have participated in two professional
learning sessions designed to enhance
their understanding of what research tells
us constitutes effective feedback and of
feedback strategies they can use in their
classrooms.
Apart from the focus on innovation
on student learning, the project also
increases collaboration between the
two schools to support transition,
leadership opportunities and community
connections.
L-R Wendy Wilson, Shenoa Anglesey,
Gill Phair
What Is
“Still Gardening?”
Are there older West Tamar residents and people with
disabilities who would benefit from a program that assists
people to keep on gardening? Still Gardening is a
non-profit community garden buddy scheme which has
been running very successfully in Hobart and Glenorchy
for several years. A number of community groups are
planning to establish Garden Mates Still Gardening
“Hubs” in the north, one being in the West Tamar area.
To assess the need, the West Tamar Still Gardening
steering committee is seeking enquiries from residents
who need advice and support to make their gardens
easier to manage. We are also interested to hear from
keen gardeners who can spare some volunteer time to
help make this happen.
Contact June Hazzlewood, West Tamar Seniors
Advisory Group, phone 6327 2562
(leave a message as probably in the garden)
or mobile 0414 770 864.
Email address is: ahazzlew@bigpond.net.au and
further information about the scheme may be found
online at: http://stillgardening.com.au

National Youth Week 2013
National Youth Week (NYW) 2013 was held
from the 5th – 13th April (yes, you are correct
this is longer than a week). National Youth
Week provides an opportunity to celebrate
our young people and acknowledge the
contribution they make to our community.
The slogan for this year was Be Active! Be
Happy! Be You! Around 200 young West Tamar
residents did just this at our annual NYW event
Epic Rave Time, held on Saturday 13th April
at the Tailrace Centre, Riverside. The event
was coordinated by the West Tamar Youth
Advisory Council and featured: local musical
acts (Lawrence & the Wolf, Ryan Williams, and
Travis Parkinson & Claire Farrell), DJ Norm
(Simon Widdowson), The Lagoon of Doom,
CircusCool, youth service provider stalls,
games and giveaways. A fundraiser was held
for Timeout House, raising $440 to support this
valuable youth service.
STEWART BELL,
Youth Development Officer
Waddamana – Noisy Water
During the month of March, all Grade 5
and 6 students from Riverside Primary
School participated in a three-day camp
at Waddamana, an old Hydro town in the
central highlands.
For some, the bus trip was long and arduous,
for others, it was an opportunity to discuss
the exciting times ahead. The children
enthusiastically engaged in a range of activities
such as a bush hike, shelter building from
natural materials, barbecuing sausages on
a stick (the bush way!), making damper,
orienteering, photo scavenger hunt, exploring
the Hydro Museum and cooking marshmallows
around a bonfire.
The children learnt various bush skills, gained
more knowledge of local wildlife, explored what
life was like for the early pioneers in a small
isolated settlement and challenged themselves
through various problem-solving activities.
For many, it was their first experience away
from home. By the end of camp, they made
some new friends and created great memories.
Beaconsfield Early Learning and Child Care Service
Open from 7.30am - 6.00pm providing
education and learning programs for the
West Tamar district and surrounding areas.
We operate before and after school care
and vacation care at the childcare centre.
The centre prides itself on a large natural
playground where children have endless
opportunities to learn through natural play
and exploration.
The centre has a natural designed waterway
with fountains set amongst a rockery, a bike
area, vegetable gardens, climbing rocks
and hills for rumble and tumble play. Our
centre educators plan and implement quality
educational programs ensuring we are
“helping to create confident children “
Currently we have availability in our 2 year and
3 year old rooms and a few spots in our baby
room.
The centre works corroboratively with the Child
and Family Centre, CHAPS,
St Giles, ECIS (Early Childhood Intervention
Service) Beaconsfield Neighbourhood
House and Beaconsfield Primary School to
ensure a holistic learning approach to
children's development and wellbeing.
Beaconsfield Early Learning and Child Care
service is part of NCN (Northern Children’s
Network) a not-for-profit organisation with Long
Day Care centres in rural areas and a Family
Day Care scheme in the North and South of
the state. NCN management board manages
the services.
For more information, please contact Centre
Director Liz Kiel on 63831731 or
email: beaconsfield@ncn.org.au
Beaconsfield
Child and Family
Centre
located on Beaconsfield Primary School
campus is currently running free cooking
sessions on Wednesday mornings from
9.30 – 11.30, adjunct childcare available
at the cost of $2.00 per child. Our popular
Beacy Children’s Market is on again at the
Centre (indoors) on 17 August, hold your
own stall for only $5.00 or come along and
grab a bargain. Help us celebrate Children’s
Week on 23 October 1.30 – 2.45 with free fun
activities for young children 0 – 5 years.
For more details or information on other
programs and courses running at the
Centre please contact Heather on
6383 1742, txt: 0457 861 687 or email:
heather.green@education.tas.gov.au
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Cyber
Safety
Tips
For Parents:
• Place PC’s in a common area of the
house where there is regular traffic -
NOT IN THE BEDROOM.
• Ensure social networking profiles (e.g.
Facebook) are set to private.
• Set up your own social networking
account (e.g. Facebook, MSN, MySpace)
and engage with your child/children
online. This also helps develop your
understanding of how these and similar
applications work.
• Establish some house rules about what
information you can put onto websites or
share with others.
• Limit the amount of time spent on the
internet daily.
• Teach children that information on the
internet is not always reliable.
For Young People:
• Never give out any private information
over the internet or through mobile
phones.
• Know what cyber bullying is
and tell someone if you think it’s
happening to you. Cyber bullying
is when someone picks on you,
annoys, embarrasses, or threatens you
repeatedly using technology, such as the
internet or a mobile phone.
• Don’t hide behind a computer screen
- if you wouldn’t say it to their face,
don’t say it at all. Misuse of the internet
and associated technology (bullying/
harassing someone) is a crime - don’t
break the law and risk getting a criminal
record.
• Think before you send! You have to think
about what you are saying and how the
recipient/s may feel.
• If you are receiving harassing messages
have the sender blocked or report them.
• An ‘online friend’ that you don’t know in
real life is a STRANGER.
• Remember that the internet is
PERMANENT - be mindful of what you
post and how you portray yourself.
• Let your parents know when and where
you go online - just as you would in real
life.
• Make sure your social networking profile
is set to private (check your security
settings).
• Only accept friend requests from people
you actually know – even if it is a friend of
a friend it’s not a good idea to add them
unless you actually know them.
• Immediately exit any site that makes you
feel uncomfortable or worried.
Stewart Bell
Youth Development Officer
Festival Of Golden Words Cont’d
Senior
Computer Hub
West Tamar Senior Advisory Group was successful
in applying for a small grant from the Australian
Government for a seniors computer kiosk for the
Windsor Community Health and Wellbeing Centre.
The government initiative allows older Australians to
stay connected to family and friends. Broadband
for Seniors supports older Australians in gaining the
confidence and skills needed to use new technology,
so they can participate in, and share the benefits of the
growing digital economy.
The Senior Computer Hub will be manned by
volunteers and has a unique cross-generational
component that involves partnerships with local
schools and the Youth Advisory Committee. Seniors
will be matched with young buddies who will be
specially trained in adult learning strategies. Seniors
decide what they wish to learn, whether it’s Skype,
email, Facebook, internet or more general computer
skills and they then follow a self-paced weekly program
together with their buddy. In this mutually beneficial
relationship, young people can make the most of being
mentored by an older person whilst also developing
their interpersonal skills.
If this project sounds like something you may be
interested in we are looking for:
• Volunteers to man the kiosk for a minimum of 2
hours a week/fortnight
• Tutors - young people and adults with various
computer skills
• Senior students wanting to learn new skills at a
pace that suits them
Please call Ixa de Haan 6323 9204 or
email: ixa.dehaan@wtc.tas.gov.au
Department of Broadband
Communications and the Digital Economy
Cont’d from page 2...... The Beaconsfield
Festival of Golden Words will run between
March 14 and 16 next year, with free events
in a 200-seat marquee at Beaconsfield, free
children’s and young adult sessions with
some of Australia’s best children’s authors,
plus writers workshops, book launches, poets
breakfasts, several literary lunches, a literary
dinner featuring a major national address, and
food and wine literary events in several West
Tamar vineyards.
“The marquee program will feature
conversations with authors, panel discussions,
debates, readings and addresses,” says
Mr. Dando-Collins. “Subjects covered will
range from literary fiction to thrillers, comedy,
sport, wine and food, biography, current
affairs, history, poetry, self-publishing and
screenwriting and readers will be able to meet
famous authors.”
“The council grant gives us a solid foundation
for the festival,” says Mr Dando-Collins. “We
are building on that with large-scale support
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from lead sponsors Aspect Tamar Valley Resort
at Grindelwald, Rowella’s Chartley Estate
Wines, Tamar Valley Foods, 3P Consulting and
Weedings Hire and festival partners including
Fullers Bookshop of Launceston. We will be
announcing other major sponsors and partners
in coming months.”
While the festival is centred on Beaconsfield,
with the Club, Exchange and Ophir Hotels, the
Red Ruby Restaurant and Two Door Cafe and
the Beaconsfield Mine and Heritage Centre all
involved in the festival in various ways, venues
for aspects of the program range from Beauty
Point to Rosevears.
In addition to the council grant, to help fund the
festival, organisers are offering sponsorship
packages ranging from festival marquee
naming rights to small business supporter
packages of just $100 – a number of those had
already been snapped up before the festival
was officially unveiled. Individual booklovers
can become Friends of the Festival for $30,
and have first choice of premier festival events.
“This festival initiative,” says Mayor Easther,
“shows that the West Tamar community is
coming together to celebrate this beautiful
part of the world in a unique and vibrant way,
exploiting our natural and cultural assets for
the benefit and enjoyment of both locals and
visitors of all ages.”
With more than 5,000 seats on offer, and with
a national publicity campaign, the festival is
expected to attract large numbers of visitors
to the West Tamar during the March 14-16
weekend.
A comprehensive list of the festival’s
participating authors will be announced at the
2014 Festival Launch in October, with the full
program revealed next February and Stephen
Dando-Collins promises some real crowdpleasers
among the author list.
For more information, visit
www.festivalofgoldenwords.com.au

Mind
Moves
Chess Club
A CHESS CLUB FOR KIDS (5-18yrs) with
a special invitation to GIFTED, AUTISM
SPECTRUM and ADHD kids
Venue: Windsor Community Precinct Health
and Wellbeing Centre,
Community Hall, 1 Windsor drive,
Riverside
When: Every Monday during school terms
(except public holidays)
Time: 6pm – 7pm
Chess is an art, science and
sport combined
Benefits of Chess:
• Improves analytical thinking and challenges
the intellect
• Develops concentration and focusing skills
• Cultivates strategic thinking
• Emotionally challenging and great for selfawareness
• Easy to learn and fun
• Encourages interaction with others
To find out more, come along and join us.
Don’t miss out, limited spaces available!
For more information or to register, please
visit our website: www.mindmoves.info or
contact Dawida Rose-Nel on 0417 981
770. Email: dawidarose-nel@hotmail.com
Chess coaching is available -
Phone Kerry Beeton on 0417 473 574 or
Dallas Fry on 0417 057990
Burning Off
It is now coming to the time of year when
people may choose to clean up and maintain
their property. Much of this activity will
produce green waste such as cuttings,
lawn clippings, etc. The most appropriate
options for the removal of such waste include
composting, mulching or disposal at a refuse
disposal site. Free tip tickets are issued with
the rates notice to assist with this disposal.
Please ensure that loads are covered.
Please note that State legislation has banned
backyard burning on all properties less than
2,000 square metres in area. Most residential
blocks are less than 2,000 m2 and therefore
burning off is not an option. One of the main
reasons for this is due to the sensitivity of the
Tamar Valley airshed to impacts on air quality.
There is already considerable smoke being
emitted into the airshed from sources such as
woodheaters and bush fires. Any additional
contribution to this has significant adverse
effect on the air shed, air quality and other
people’s enjoyment of the environment.
For blocks larger than 2,000m2 with NO
OTHER option than burning the waste, there
are important factors that must be taken into
account, such as the type of materials and the
weather conditions. It is essential to ensure
all wood & vegetation is clean and dry prior to
burning. Please note it is prohibited to burn
waste such as household rubbish, plastics,
tyres, painted or treated wood, etc.
Where burning off is absolutely necessary on
permitted block sizes, it is important to note
that this activity should only be undertaken
when it will not interfere unreasonably
with another person’s enjoyment of the
environment. This can be achieved by only
burning dry material when desirable weather
conditions are present. This ensures that
smoke or ash will be less likely to spread to
neighbouring properties, therefore avoiding
any unreasonable interference.
For further information, please access
council’s website: www.wtc.tas.gov.au,
where an information brochure on the
regulations for backyard burning is available
to view and download.
Community Car
What is the West Tamar Community Car?
Windsor Café
Opening Hours
8.30am till 3.00pm
Monday to Friday
A community service supported by West
Tamar Council, Beaconsfield District Health
Service community organisations, local
businesses and individuals.
Transport is provided by volunteers and is
directed towards assisting people living within
the northern part of the West Tamar.
This transport is a non-profit service providing
door-to-door assistance, however, vehicle
operating costs must be recovered through
a user pays system. Costs are subsidised by
fundraising and donations.
Call 6383 6200 Mon-Fri 9am- 5pm to
register for assessment.
Enquiries & bookings can be made by
calling the Community Car Coordinator on
0400 625 704 or 6383 6369
Have a spare day a month?
The community car urgently needs more
volunteer drivers. If you enjoy meeting new
people, have a full driver’s license and don’t
fancy yourself as a Targa Rally driver then
maybe this is for you! You’ll be joining a
wonderful team of dedicated drivers and be
providing an essential service to hundreds of
West Tamar residents. Drivers are frequently
singled out in customer satisfaction surveys
and focus groups as one of the key factors in
a successful community transport program.
Please call 6383 6200 for all the details.
West Tamar Community Car volunteer work
can count as a Mutual Obligation activity for
Centrelink.
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Business Challenge!
The West Tamar community is calling
on local businesses to partner with
them to ensure that the community
car remains operational. Although
users of the car are charged a fee for
the service this goes only part way to
covering the running costs.
The Community Car provides an
essential service that has multiple
benefits to its users and the community
such as:
• Individuals are less likely to be
socially isolated, and are in a
independence
better position to continue living
in their own homes because of
being able to access resources in
the community such as the shops,
markets and health services.
• Many older people value and
prefer transport options that allow
them to commute independently
without relying on family and
friends for transportation.
• Community car programs are
client-oriented, with the ability to
meet the specialised needs of its
clientele and offer a personable
face not generally found in other
forms of transport.
Council
meeting dates
Council meetings for the next quarter are:
11 JUNE
Beaconsfield Council Chambers
16 JULY
Windsor Community Precinct
20 AUGUST
Beaconsfield Council Chambers
Those in the community wishing to speak at a council
meeting may do so at the commencement of the meeting
during the community input and public question time.
30 minutes is allocated with a maximum of 15 minutes for
community ideas input and 15 minutes for questions from the
public.
Community input time limits any one speaker to a maximum
of 5 minutes and public question time a maximum of 3
questions on any specific subject.
A question will be answered if the information is known
otherwise it will be taken on notice and followed up with a
response in writing. Where there are several persons wishing
to ask questions, a rotational basis will be used.
If you wish an issue to be raised at a council meeting, you
should first contact your local councillors and discuss your
issue with them. The function of councillors is to facilitate
communications between the council and the community.
$30 $50 $80 $100 Other: $
I wish to pay by: Credit Card Bank Deposit Cheque
Name on card:
Address:
Town:
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confidence
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Beacon Articles
The Beacon newsletter comprises a range of community
interest articles. One area of focus is council related
information, however, contributions from community groups
are welcome.
Articles can be submitted to Ixa de Haan Community
Development Officer
Email: ixa.dehaan@ wtc.tas.gov.au
Mail: PO Box 59, Beaconsfield 7270
Fax: 6327 4826
Edition:
Yes, I wish to support the community car!
Articles close
Sept 2013 17 July 2013
Dec 2013 16 October 2013
Deadlines: Closing dates MUST be strictly adhered to.
Publication of articles is subject to editing, availability of space
and editor’s discretion.
Bank Deposit:
Bank: MyState
BSB: 807-009
Account: 6029921
Reference: Community Car Donation
Please email remittance advice to: wtc@wtc.tas.gov.au
Cheque & Credit Card details please send to:
West Tamar Council
Community Car Donation
PO Box 59
Beaconsfield TAS 7270
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