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Welcome New Member

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Welcome new member Dawn Arlene Davies. She writes: I have moved back to the area. Did community work in the area twenty odd years ago. Would like to find interests again. I’m 67 female.

Have a look at the Events calendar on the website. There is a huge amount happening locally.

The new Hills District Community Garden Group will be getting going at Patricks Rd State School – watch the Events calendar for the next meeting date which will be on a Saturday to look at the site and start planning. Transition The Grove is giving this group support to get started and steering our members who have indicated interest in gardens to it if they want to get involved in a community garden. The plan is to start there and expand to other sites and allottments with lots of opportunities for learning and fellowship.

The next big thing on the environment calendar is the Connecting With Forests Forum at the Brisbane Forest Park on Mt Nebo Rd in The Gap. It’s on the Events calendar. Should be an excellent day but you’ll need to register soon.

Are you following Transition The Grove’s program on local Radio YYY 87.6FM. It is on at a different time each day. You can find the program on the Events calendar. A new program starts each Monday.  If you have any suggestions for it do contribute. They’d be welcome.

Remember now you’re registered you can Add Events to the calendar – just keep them local to Upper Kedron Ferny Grove Arana Hills Ferny Hills or Keperra. And do contribute your thoughts to the Forums. We hope you find them valuable.

Warm regards

Anne Tennock

Subgroup coordinator
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Transition Gettogether & AGM – Reminder

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This e-newsletter is being sent to all Members.

 

Just a reminder folks that the AGM and a picnic lunch get-together are on for tomorrow (Sunday 30th September) at Lamandra Park.

Noon until about 2pm.

Lamandra Park is about opposite Wahminda Tennis Courts on Samford Rd Ferny Hills.

BBQ facilities available – BYO sausages etc to cook.

Bring something like nibbles a salad rolls or desert to share.

The AGM part will be short and sweet to cover the required formalities then we can just relax and catch up with each other.

We can swap ideas for the directions we want Transition to go in the coming year and local stories.

Looking forward to seeing those of you who can make it tomorrow

Anne Tennock
Secretary

 

 

  
     
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Welcome new member in the Energy Subgroup

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Welcome Sharon Crabbe to the Energy Subgroup.

By clicking on the Groups tab – Planning Forums – Energy you can start to get to know the other members in this Subgroup and communicate with them.

We look forward to meeting together and learning about the use of energy in this valley and planning on the theme of an energy descent action plan in the New Year.

John Tennock is prepared to be the contact for the Energy Subgroup.

Regards

Anne

Subgroup Coordinator
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Energy Group Meeting Thursday 9 June

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Next Transition The Grove – Energy Group Meeting
When: Thursday 9 June – 7:00 pm
Where: Ferny Grove State High School Library – McGinn Road
Bring: A friend
Cost – FREE! – Supper included. Gold coin donation appreciated.

Those who were able to attend the enjoyable and successful Hillbrook Sustainability Day on Saturday will obviously be highly energised!

I’m hoping that you will be able to attend this meeting and that we will able be able to:

  1. Review the Hillbrook Sustainability Day experience. What worked? What did we learn? What could we do better?
  2. Start planning for our mini-mini Energy Expo at Ferny Grove State High School in December.

At this stage it would be good if planning for our mini-mini Energy Expo could establish things like:

  1. Preferred day-of-week?
  2. Preferred date in December?
  3. Possible locations in the school suitable for indoor displays outdoor displays (solar) and guest speaker(s)?
  4. Promotion?
  5. Exhibitors guest speakers etc.?

I look forward to seeing you on Thursday and including your ideas suggestions and opinions. We will also have some wider discussion about other things happening in The Grove like community gardens men’s sheds and international visitors.

Cheers

John Tennock 
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Transition The Grove – Notice of AGM & Call for Nominations

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This e-newsletter is being sent to all members of Transition The Grove Inc.

The Annual General Meeting of Transition The Grove Inc will be held on Sunday 30th September 2012 at Lomandra Picnic Area Ferny Hills (off Samford Rd) at 12 noon.

AGM to be followed by a picnic lunch together.

RSVP to John at administrator@transitionthegrove.org.au by 20th September if you want to be included for catering purposes in the picnic lunch. Nibbles salads rolls and drinks provided.

BYO meat to BBQ.

Nominations are hereby called for positions on the Management Committee – which consists of President Secretary Treasurer Subgroup Organiser Website Coordinator and other Committee members up to a total Management Committee of ten.

Any 2 members (one of whom can be the candidate) of the association may nominate a member to serve on the Management Committee. Nominations must be received by the Secretary at least 14 days before the AGM.

Nomination for Committee

Name of person nominated:………………………………….

Position nominated for:……………………………………….

Signature of person nominated:……………………………..

Proposer: ………………………………………………………..

Signature of proposer:………………………………………..

Seconder: ……………………………………………………….

Signature of seconder:………………………………………..

Date:………………………………………

Email back to administrator@transitionthegrove.org.au

or post to Transition The Grove Inc PO Box 471 Ferny Hills DC 4055 to be received no later than 16th September 2012.

Regards


Anne Tennock

Secretary
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Follow-up from last weekend (9 10 October)

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Arana Ausfest

Arana Ausfest was wisely postponed due to extreme weather. It will now be held on Saturday 30 October.  The deal is exactly the same (hopefully the weather will be different). We are all set to go with the necessary equipment and a couple of weeks extra for planning and preparation. I have used the graphics from our new banner as the header for this email (you may need to view it on-line).

We have set up our marquee to be solar powered. From previous experience this provides a couple of benefits.

  1. In enables is to use a lap-top computer to show some engaging and informative videos about Transition Towns.
  2. The solar panel is quite conspicuous and makes good conversation starter about renewable energy.

We have also purchased a couple of insulated pump-pots so that we can serve hot drinks to volunteers and visitors.

As before the Ausfest program is:

  • Setup is from 9:00am to 12:00 noon
  • Entertainment goes from 12:30pm to 6:50pm
  • Bump-out is from 6:30pm
  • Fireworks will go from 6:50pm to 7:00pm

We would appreciate your participation and hope to see you there.

Planning Meeting

Our planning meeting on Sunday 10 October was an opportunity for a focused discussion on how we can improve the effectiveness of our web-site in engaging new members. This quickly became a wider discussion about reaching out to the community generally. The main outcome was recognition of the fact that many people prefer to engage in hands-on activities rather than on-line discussion. The Community Garden initiative is now active. Hopefully Arana Ausfest and other promotional activities will add new members to that group.

Another initiative that can promote activities of interest to local residents in The Grove is the Energy Group. For example:

  • A Solar Panel ‘bulk-buy’ project.
  • A solar ‘mini expo’.
  • Educational seminars on renewable energy.
  • …other ideas not yet suggested?

Out of this discussion the suggestion arose to focus our next planning meeting (Arana Library on Sunday 14 November) on the Energy Group with a view to involving prospective new contacts from Ausfest and firming up plans along the lines suggested above.

So the key dates are:

  • Arana Ausfest – Saturday 30 October 12:30pm to 7:00pm
  • Energy Group Planning Meeting – Sunday 14 November 4:00pm to 6:00pm

If you have any suggestions comments or questions please add them to the discussion forum or give me a call on 3851 1016.

Regards

John Tennock



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Thanks and invitation – Leah Hutchinson

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Dear {usertag:name}

I’ve just been up to the studio at Radio YYY this morning ‘putting the program to bed’ for next week. The interview with you and your two songs are the main feature. I’ve broken it up into four sections.

Within the next few weeks the interview (with songs) will be available to download off the Radio YYY website for a few weeks then it will be removed. The interview will be available to download (and not removed) on the Transition The Grove website (Radio YYY link is on the Home page).

Thank you for doing the interview. It all went very well I thought and editing it last night it is very interesting to listen to. I hope you enjoy it!

I encourage you to join Transition The Grove and any of your staff who are locals too. In fact it would be great if your clients would like to join too if they are local around here but of course not in a way that we knew they were your clients.

It is a way for you and SIENA to increase your local contacts and visibility and also to network locally pretty easily. I’ve added a SIENA link on two Forums: Our Community – People with a disability; and Local Learning – Adults. By joining and having some SIENA threads reasonably active on the Forums you keep locals aware of the sorts of things you are doing.

I also encourage you to include the two themes of ‘local’ and ‘resilience’ in some of your SIENA activities. We’d always be happy to help. The community garden group might be a group you’d like to be aware of. I ran a course for U3A called Living Sustainably in the Suburbs which was great fun and you might like a mini-version of that sometime.

Joining is a straight-forward matter. You need to be adult (18 or over). The work you do for SIENA qualifies you to belong as it is making a significant contibution locally. The interest groups are if you want to get more involved and keep aware of what is happening locally on particular issues and meet other locals who are also interested in these issues.

Our membership privacy is carefully observed. If you nominate interest groups your name will be given to other members of those groups and they will be able to contact you directly but your phone and email are not given out. If you decide to join we regard it as an individual membership not a professional membership.

We hope to get down to the Open Day tomorrow but I’ve just been reminded we are babysitting our grandson most of the day so I’m not too optimistic…

Best wishes and thanks again

Anne

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Tree planting – Bob Cassimaty Park

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This e-newsletter is being sent to members of the Environment Subgroup.

Passing this on from Jacinta  our Creek Ranger so you know it is happening and can come along and join in and help if you want to.

Regards

Anne

 

Hi Everyone

Just so you are all aware there will be 2 locations for planting this Saturday.

We are probably best to all meet at the location where we planted on the 5th May (heading along Samford Road towards the Great Western Shopping Centre pass Cassimaty Park’s carpark cross the little bridge that goes over Cedar Creek/Kedron Brook and turn left into the driveway just before the rail crossing see attached map and refer to the red arrow – you will see 2 Council vehicles already down the end of the driveway.

We can than split people up with some of us planting 300 plants in Stage 3 – see attached Site Plan (where we couldn’t get our trucks in due to the wet grass) and the rest can stay and continue on with Stage 4 where we have around 300-400 plants to put in this Saturday.  Base camp will be set up at Stage 4 – so another busy day ahead for us.

Please let me know if this is confusing for anyone but otherwise so far it’s only looking like 1.8mm max of rain on Saturday so PLEASE no one do a rain dance this time.

The next planting after this will be on Saturday 23rd June in the same location.

Thanks again everyone and look forward to seeing you on Saturday.

Kind Regards

Jacinta Hamilton

Acting Kedron Brook Creek Ranger

Brisbane Infrastructure

Asset Services North District  BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL

Phone: 340 70925  Fax:  3407 0856

Email: jacinta.hamilton@brisbane.qld.gov.au

 

 

 

  
     
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Welcome new member to Health Subgroup

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Dear {usertag:name}

Welcome new member Frances Wellington to Transition The Grove’s Health Subgroup.

Frances is a kinesiologist and operates a kinesiology clinic from her home in Corrofin St Ferny Grove.

We have the potential as a well-defined group of people all with an interest in healthcare to think through and really make a difference to building a healthy community in the Kedron Brook Valley.

You can find out who you are by looking on the Groups tab at the Health Subgroup and send a bulletin to group members here. You can also use the Members Forum (or any of the other Forums). There are a lot of health discussion threads and you are encouraged to start some yourself or contribute.

We should meet sometime soon. One possible venue would be the North West Community Health Centre – they have good seminar rooms. I’ll contact them to see if I can arrange it.

Looking forward to working and planning with you all

Anne Tennock

Sub-group Administrator
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