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Wintalyka August 2011 - Meals on Wheels
Wintalyka August 2011 - Meals on Wheels
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Talking Points<br />
Short Snippets<br />
<strong>Issue</strong> 01 / 2011<br />
Wintalyka<br />
Wintalyka<br />
Wintalyka is an<br />
Aboriginal word for Mulga<br />
seeds.<br />
Mulga seeds drop from Acacia<br />
trees, which grow amongst the<br />
harsh spinifex on the desert.<br />
The seeds of the bush are an<br />
important traditional food<br />
source for Aboriginal people.<br />
Mulga seeds can be collected<br />
off the tree or on the ground,<br />
where they are cleaned,<br />
roasted, ground to a paste<br />
or made into flour. They are<br />
commonly made into seed<br />
cakes.<br />
Recommended reading: An<br />
introduction to Aboriginal<br />
societies by William Howell<br />
Edwards<br />
Iluka<br />
The community of Iluka can be particularly proud as<br />
the new Meals on Wheels kitchen in Spenser street is<br />
almost completed.<br />
Under the guidance of local builder Mr. Tony Smith, the new<br />
kitchen is looking amazing and is a state of the art facility. The<br />
new kitchen will feature a chiller, dishwasher, cool room, steam<br />
oven, stainless steel fixtures and air-conditioning along with<br />
some of the latest in cooking technology.<br />
All the Meals on Wheels staff and volunteers are very excited<br />
and relieved to have reached this achievement after four years<br />
of fundraising and applying for grants and donations. This goal<br />
would not have been reached without the incredible support from<br />
the businesses, clubs, associations and individuals of Iluka and<br />
Woombah and from the Clarence Valley Council.<br />
All the money raised by the local community was used to outfit<br />
the kitchen with equipment and floor coverings as well as cover<br />
various fees and levies involved in the construction process. Of<br />
course we were fortunate to receive a federal government grant<br />
of $240,000 delivered through the Department of Families,<br />
Housing , Community Services and Indigenous Affairs to cover<br />
the actual construction of the building. We owe our extreme<br />
gratitude to our local member for Page, Janelle Saffin. It was<br />
due to her efforts that the grant became a reality and she will be<br />
officially opening the building on Saturday, 27 August.<br />
Our volunteers now look forward to working in a modern safe<br />
environment that satisfies all Food Safety standards. The new<br />
equipment will help Meals on Wheels Iluka to better serve the<br />
vulnerable in our community.<br />
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www.nswmealsonwheels.org.au
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