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Community Transition - adapting to the emerging future

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Welcome New Member – Daniel McIntosh

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This e-newsletter is being sent to the Food & Gardens Health Environment Energy Water Towards Zero Waste The Head The Heart and The Hands Subgroups.

Welcome new member Daniel McIntosh of Ferny Hills. Daniel joined at the recent Healthy Lifestyles Expo.

Warm regards

Anne Tennock

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Welcome New Member – Ann Armstrong

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This e-Newsletter is being sent to the Health Education and The Heart Subgroups.

Welcome new member Ann Armstrong to Transition The Grove. Ann is interested in local Health Education and The Heart.

Ann has been a Weight Watchers Leader now for 71/2 years and enjoys what she does. She is married with 2 sons and has lived near here for 20 years.

What is the purpose of The Heart Subgroup? Probably the nicest name of all the subgroups but what is it about?

Transition Towns are about building local resilience and sustainability and they have a strong focus on the future. We are preparing now to build a secure local future here in the face of a rapidly and dramatically changing world.

The Heart is about activities that support us emotionally and in spirit to adapt through change and to put our hearts and souls into creating the very best futures for all that we can imagine.

So The Heart is about celebration song festivals dance visioning exercises dreaming imagining designing thanksgiving blessing costume artwork theatre hugs joy ….It is the comfort and inclusion that we give each other in the tough times. It is the attitudes of goodwill and respect we all need to live in harmony with each other.

So the mission of The Heart Subgroup is to take on responsibility for planning ‘Heart’ activities for Transition The Grove members and for our whole local community. The Heart Subgroup may contirubte the touch of fun and joy and laughter to otherwise quite serious meetings or topics.

If you have put your name down for The Heart Subgroup you will bless us all by opening the door and starting Heart activities for us. There are no limits except in imagination.

The local Health vision that is growing into imagined becoming for our community here is to become visibly well and thriving a blip on the national health statistics. One way we could do thisis  if as a whole community we lost 10% of the excess weight we carry. We can do this by encouraging each other and by working with local health and fitness providers such as Ann and by changing our lives to grasp health locally.

Enjoy today and prepare to enjoy the future

Anne Tennock
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Hills Community Carols

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Proposal to Participate in Hills Community Carols –

We have been given the opportunity to have a presence with our Transition The Grove information booth at the Hills Community Carols at George Willmore Park in Ferny Hills

Saturday 4th December 4.30pm – 8.30pm.

We have received the application from from Golden Valley Keperra Lions Club. Unfortunately this could not be processed immediately as it came in an unreadable format and needed to be ‘decoded’ before we could print it.

We have confirmed with the organisers that we are just in time but the application form needs to be returned immediately with the entry fee .

The entry fee is $50.00 which urgently needs management committee approval.

Apologies for the last-minute rush but this seems too good an opportunity to miss and the delays were outside our control. To vote please log-on to the web-site then click {joomlacontent:436|type:title|link}. Select Voting Hills Community Carols.

Alternatively you can just log-on the the web-site and click on ‘Voting’

Cheers

John Tennock
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Transition The Grove – T-shirt Designs

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We would love to know your opinion.
Transition The Grove is planning to have a significant presence at Hillbrook Sustainability Day on Saturday 4 June. The Energy Group has had some discussion about ways to increase our visibility at these events and decided on having some T-Shirts with an attractively designed logo.

Clare Locke generously offered to come up with some designs and we now need to choose just one of these for our first order. We would really appreciate your opinion. Time is short so we will have to finalise the decision at 6:00pm on Wednesday night.

It only takes a minute! Just click here {joomlacontent:488|type:title|link}. Alternatively you can go to the website and select Surveys | T-shirts on the main menu.

Thanks for your input.
Cheers
John Tennock
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Old brickworks kiln and bricks

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Four of us went down to the Ferny Grove Station this morning at 6am and spoke with the site foreman about salvaging some of the historic kiln bricks that had been uncovered.

Nowadays with all the rules and regulations this needed quite a few more layers of approval.

We emailed Geoff Wilson’s office and Bruce Kimble was most helpful and rang the Queensland Rail PR person who needed to give approval.

Anyway it was all eventually approved and the four of us were able to go back down at 4pm and salvage some of the bricks.

Probably the most exciting part was finding that there is a kiln actually under the footpath of Conavalla St. It’s arch is intact with the hollow inside visible. This is a part of our local history that will have to be recovered up but it was like being on an archaeological site seeing this stuff. Have taken a photo.

Press releases need a lot of approvals through government channels but Rebecca the PR person is going to try to organise it as it is a real good news story.

John Booth is a local who is very experienced with making pottery from local clay and has a kiln and knows about making kilns and he is available to advise of using the bricks to make a kiln that can be used as both a pizza oven and for baking pottery.

Anyway it was a great adventure and also good to work together at short notice and get help and get it all done.

We’ll all have to get together for a pizza when the bricks eventually reemerge in their new functioning down the track.

We came home and jumped into the pool to cool down after lugging bricks on such a hot day.

Thoughts and feedback welcomed.

Cheers

Anne
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Reminder – Carbon Nation movie 22 September

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carbon nation movie and discussion night

Just a reminder! Looking forward to seeing you there.

Transition The Grove – Movie and discussion night
When: Thursday 22 September – 7:00 pm
Where: Ferny Grove State High School Library – McGinn Road
Bring: A friend
Cost – FREE! – Supper included. Gold coin donation appreciated.

We will also be launching our {joomlacontent:525|type:title|link} group at this event.

Regards

John Tennock 
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Newsflash: Local History site uncovered

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Local John Booth has alerted us to the uncovering of the old brickworks kiln under the carpark at Ferny Grove Station. Bricks were uncovered on Saturday.

This is a pretty key historical site for Ferny Grove. At present as far as we know the workers on the project are just planning to ditch the bricks to the tip.

They have been covered up with more soil from the excavation.

First thing Monday morning is probably the only chance to get down to the Ferny Grove Station site and seek to try to salvage at least some of the bricks if there is to be any chance of this happening. I imagine the earlier the better.

We’ll also email Geoff Wilson’s office about this find.

If you can come along or offer your support in principal for trying to save some of the bricks please give John a ring on 3851 1016.

Regards

Anne Tennock

Subgroup Organiser
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Welcome New Member

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Welcome new member Claire Harrison to the Food & Gardening Health Education and Towards Zero Waste Subgroups. Claire makes a key local contribution through nutrition work. Claire came over for a garden tour and a long discussion on health matters. I very much look forward to having Claire with us to work on some health and food projects together.

The Food & Gardening Subgroup now has 38 members registered with it. The Health Subgroup has 32; the Education Subgroup 29 and the Towards Zero Waste Subgroup 16.  There is some overlap in membership between the subgroups.

There are several ways to start contacting and working with people in subgroups:

  • Go to the Groups tab on the Transition The Grove website and under Planning Groups find the subgroups you are registered with. It lists all the members of those groups. You can send the whole group a Group Bulletin or you can send an email to an individual group member (you won’t see their email address).
  • If you create a New Thread on any of the Forums you will automatically get any responses that anyone makes to the thread.
  • Why not use the Group Bulletin and the Add Event to the Community Calendar to arrange a gettogether of one of the subgroups you are in to meet the others in the group? We’re still at the ‘getting it all going stage’ – why not be part of the process and take an active role in making it happen?
  • If you want to organise something for a subgroup and would like one of these Transition The Grove Newsletters to go out about it drop us a line to administrator@transitionthegrove.org.au.

Once you start meeting people make some friends and work on some projects together.

Warm regards

Anne
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Taking the Pulse Forum

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This e-newsletter is being sent to the Health Subgroup.

 

The attached brochure provides details of a forum for this health region to give our community a say in what their health concerns are. Worth speaking up if we want our community to be the way we want it!

 

 

  
     
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Transition The Grove Update – Get Together 12 September

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I have been looking at suggestions and giving some thought to topics for our meeting on Sunday. When they are all boiled down the most obvious common thread is ‘engaging the community’. The aims of Transition The Grove may be summarised as ‘achieving community resilience’ so I propose a broad topic for Sunday’s meeting as:

Promoting Community Resilience

The idea of community resilience is well defined by the Federal Department of Families Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs as “the capacity of groups to withstand recover from and respond positively to crisis or adversity”.

Across the Transition Towns movement internationally in SE Queensland and in our own neighbourhood there is wealth of accumulated experience of many approaches to promoting our aims. Some of these are:

  • Public meetings usually with a movie discussion guest speakers etc. These need suitable facilities and effective local advertising.
  • Community projects related to local food water conservation health alternative energy transport (i.e.car pooling) environmental conservation.
  • Addressing and supporting community groups (i.e. service clubs sports clubs P&Cs) and projects (i.e. school fetes local festivities)
  • Market Stalls at local markets school fetes local festivals (e.g. Arana Ausfest 9 October)

Advertising these activities might include letterbox drops local newspapers local radio email and social media word-of-mouth and community newsletters from local councillors schools etc.

I’m sure there are many more ideas along these lines so please come along on Sunday to put your ideas on the table and discuss the resources and facilities needed to implement them. Hopefully our Food & Gardening group will return from their travels in time to share in at least part of this meeting.

When: Sunday 12 September 2010 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where: Arana Hills Library Nerellan Park Cobbity Crescent Arana Hills
Tea and coffee will be provided.

If you plan to attend please login to the web-site and register by checking the box at the bottom of this page so that we have some idea of numbers. We look  forward to seeing you there.

Regards

John Tennock




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