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Zumba Gold members at the opening of the Quinns Mindarie Community Centre. FEATURED FACILITY: QUINNS MINDARIE COMMUNITY CENTRE LOCALS Coastal community hub opens its doors. Residents and community groups in the City’s northern coastal suburbs are celebrating the new Quinns Mindarie Community Centre. The facility was officially opened by Mayor Tracey Roberts on Saturday 7 October with a family fun day. User groups showed off what they learn in the centre, with Zumba Gold, Irish dancing, ukulele and karate demonstrations, and information stalls run by Quinns Mindarie Surf Life Saving Club, Quinns Rocks Fishing Club and local businesses. Face painting, an animal petting zoo, bouncy castle, sausage sizzle and icecream van were all part of the festivities. The $4 million upgrade included extending the existing ground floor and adding a second storey to the Surf Life Saving Club premises, delivering a large function hall, kitchen, meeting and training rooms and playgroup facilities, as well as an additional 50 parking bays. Quinns Mindarie Surf Life Saving Club vice president Neville Hogan said the club was thrilled with the new facility, which had already been well utilised. “It’s a pretty impressive building and it’s great to see it getting used by the community,” he said. “We have already held several big functions in the main hall, including our awards night and quiz night, as well as used the space for training sessions. “It has made storage of our equipment a lot easier and we’ve gained a lot of extra space for our growing number of club members.” The Quinns Mindarie Community Centre is available for hire to local community user-groups and the general public. The centre was delivered at a cost of $4.2 million. The City would like to thank Lotterywest for its $700,000 funding grant. Bookings and enquiries can be made by contacting 9405 5000. WASTE WE WISH YOU A WASTE-LESS CHRISTMAS Christmas will soon be upon us, and with the festive season comes time spent with family and friends. While the holiday period is a time for celebration, unfortunately it creates a huge amount of waste, such as wrapping paper, cardboard and empty beer and wine bottles. The City encourages residents to cut down on their waste with these simple ideas: • Make your own wrapping paper and gifts from recycled materials. • Buy artificial trees that can be re‐used each Christmas time. • Give experiences as Christmas gifts, such as sky diving or boating trips, rather than objects. • Avoid single use plastics such as straws, cups, plates and cutlery, and use items made of paper, wood or bamboo instead. • Plan Christmas meals to avoid food waste and then eat any leftovers on Boxing Day. • Recycle all glass, even broken, but remember to keep it out of the green top domestic waste bin, as it contaminates the compost product that is made from your organic waste. Please note, there will be no bin collection services on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day. The collection service for recycling and household waste will be provided on the following day instead. Remaining collection days for that week will also be delayed by one day. For more information, please visit wanneroo.wa.gov.au/ wasteandrecycling ( 8 ) CITY OF WANNEROO
LIBRARY IT’S ALL ABOUT PLAY CAPTIVATES THE CITY it’s Last year, the City of Wanneroo implemented the It’s All About Play program at its libraries, creating a unique play environment for children aged under four. “It has been wonderful to see the large number of parents and children attending the It’s All About Play sessions at our libraries each week, enjoying rhymes, songs and play,” Mayor Tracey Roberts said. It’s All About Play has been so successful that other councils are now following the City’s lead, implementing their own programs within their areas. The City of Fremantle has rolled out the program at three locations, and the City of Canning is looking at implementing it at four libraries next year. “We’ve been coming to It’s All About Play since it started and we love the play time with other kids - it’s a great way to meet other mums and be part of the community,” Rachel Sunderland, mother to Bailey Harvey (12 months). Currently, the sessions are run at Wanneroo, Clarkson, Girrawheen and Alkimos pop-up library, with up to 80 children attending each event. “I take my daughter here and we love it. I run a family day care, so I thought I’d bring along Reya who I’m looking after today,” Mansi Pajwani, family day care owner and carer of Reya Karira (2 years old). It’s All About Play was developed following the findings from the federally funded Australian Early Development Census, to target children in their early years of life. Through the use of equipment, toys and books, children coming along to the sessions are engaged in fun activities to assist with developmental growth. To complement the program, the City partnered with Edith Cowan University’s ‘Pregnancy to Parenthood (P2P) Clinic’, Department of Child and Adolescence Community Heath, Child Health Nurses (CHN), and speech pathologists. An intern from the P2P Clinic attends each session of It’s All About Play to offer support, and the CHNs run their drop-in clinics from rooms close by. “It’s All About Play is very hands on and rather than sit back and watch your kids play, as a parent you really get a chance to get involved in the sessions,” Elaine Sheriff, mother to Savannah (4) and Hunter (2). Off the back of the program’s popularity, the City of Wanneroo applied for funding from the Building Better Regions program and was awarded a $19,000 grant. The City will use the money to bring It’s All About Play to the Yanchep/ Two Rocks library in 2018, and to continue the sessions at the Alkimos pop-up library. SENIORS AGE FRIENDLY STRATEGY PUT IN PLACE The City of Wanneroo is implementing an Age Friendly Strategy over the next three years which will see the City further support seniors in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations. “This strategy will help the City become a more age-friendly place to live, work and visit. “It is important we begin to lay the foundations now to ensure we are well placed to meet the changing demands that will be placed on the City’s services, amenities, partners and community groups,” Mayor Tracey Roberts said. “It is vital we have an inclusive community and that our seniors are healthy, active and engaged.” The goals of the strategy are to further recognise the diversity among older people, while promoting the inclusion and contribution of the elderly in all areas of community life. The City has more than 18,000 residents aged 65 years and over, with this figure set to increase to more than 22,500 by 2020. ( 9 ) WANNEROO.WA.GOV.AU
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