Pittwater Life June 2018 Issue

Health & Wellbeing
Health & Wellbeing
Mermaids’ Variety Club magic
Keep your eyes peeled over
the next few months for
community events supporting
the Mermaids of Palm Beach
led by Beryl Driver who are
taking their Holden for another
bash to raise funds for Variety
– the Children’s Charity.
This will be amazing 85-yearold
Beryl’s 20th Australian
Variety bash.
In August she and great
friends Elyse Cole and Viktorija
MacDonnell will leave Bonnyrigg
for Braitling, covering 4,400km
over 10 days supporting rural
towns and schools and seeing
the efforts of their fundraising
with a range of much-needed
equipment provided to organisations
along the way.
The three local women have
notched 10 bashes together
and their long-standing commitment
to helping children
through the Variety Club and
participating in its annual bash
is unparalleled.
Trailblazer Beryl holds the
dual distinction of being the
first woman and the oldest person
to participate in a Variety
bash. She got involved at age
65 because “I love cars and it
was something I always wanted
to do”.
Each year the Palm Beach
Mermaids hold their major
fundraisers at Currawong and
Palm Beach RSL.
And this year Federal MPs
Jason Falinski and Tony Abbott
are hosting a community BBQ
on Sunday June 10 at Winnererremy
Bay Playground in
Mona Vale from 12.30-2pm.
with proceeds from a $5 sausage
sizzle benefiting Variety
Club and The Mermaids team.
RSVP essential via Eventbrite
or by calling Mr Falinski’s
office on 8484 0300.
A Night with the blokes
The youth-led charity One
Eighty is hosting a ‘Night
With The Blokes’ exploring
what it means to be a man
today and tackling the question
what do we want tomorrow’s
man to look like?
Triple M Grill Team /
Gotcha4Life Co-Founder Gus
Worland and Tomorrow Man
Founder Tom Harkin will
facilitate a casual and honest
conversation exploring where
the current ‘man code’ has
taken us, and the hopes for
the future.
Here’s the blurb… ‘The tide
is changing for men young
and old and the out-dated
stereotype is leaving some of
our mates, dads, sons, uncles,
teammates, workmates and
brothers stranded without
the tools for a healthy life. It’s
time we got in a room to have
a no-holds-barred conversation
about the state of man,
face the stats and create room
to flex the stereotype.’
The free event will be
held on Monday June 4 from
7-9pm at Avalon Beach SLSC.
Places are limited; RSVP via
Eventbrite Tomorrow Man
Avalon or contact info@oneeighty.org.au.
Caring
for carers
CCNB and Carers NSW
are working together
to provide a free Carer
Wellbeing group for
carers of people living
with a disability, mental
illness, drug and alcohol
dependency, chronic
condition or frail aged.
The Carer Wellbeing group
is a five-week program for
adult carers in NSW.
The group will allow
carers to:
n Strengthen resilience with
coping strategies;
n Learn about assertive
communication;
n Identify how to set healthy
boundaries;
n Explore loss & grief in the
caring role;
n Hear from other carers in a
similar caring role;
The program will be held
from Wednesday July 25,
weekly, for five consecutive
weeks from 10am-12pm at
the Brookvale Community
Centre, 2 Alfred Road,
Brookvale.
Call Carers NSW
Carerline 1800242636 for
further information or to
register.
About CCNB
CCNB is a not-for-profit,
community-based
organisation providing
impartial information, advice
and guidance to support
people to access health and
community services.
Its focus is to support
people, their families and
carers to navigate the health
and social care systems to
access the services they
require, when they require
them.
Clarification: Experts from
CCNB were quoted in a story
last month on what to do
when a loved one refuses
care. In that story CCNB was
referred to as “Community
Connect Northern Beaches”
– CCNB is Community Care
Northern Beaches.
You can learn more
about CCNB community
care + wellbeing via the
website ccnb.com.au.
52 JUNE 2018
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