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Clean Up Australia Day 2013 – local cleanups

Environment, events No Responses » Tagged with: Camp Hill, Camp Hill Carindale Lions Club, Carindale, Clean Up Australia Day, Mount Gravatt Girl Guides, volunteering

Feb 252013

Clean Up Australia Day is a simple way you can take action to clean up, fix up and conserve our prized Australian environment. Get involved by volunteering at a site near you.

Local Clean Up Australia Day events on Sunday 3rd March 2013

Click through on the event links to join a cleanup site.

CleanUpAustralia event – Whites Hill Reserve
8am-10am | Whites Hill Reserve, Boundary Rd, Camp Hill
Representing: Whites Hill Pine Mountain Community Group. Whites Hill Reserve is comprised of bushland as well as sporting fields. The bushland is home to koalas and wallabies, as well as possums, bandicoots, birds and reptiles. Our Clean Up targets the tracks throughout the bush, as well as around the 3 sporting fields, reserviour track, off leash dog area and along Boundary Road. Over the past several years Wynola Guides, Camp Hill Masons and Mt Gravatt Boys Brigade have assisted.
Meeting Point: Car park near the Touch Football club house.
Contact: Site Coordinator – Heather Barns heather@bulimbacreek.org.au

CleanUpAustralia event – Meadowlands Rd Carindale
8am-10am | Meadowlands Rd, Carindale
Join Camp Hill-Carindale Lions Club on CleanUpAustralia Day. Register 8am carpark off Meadowlands Road. Bring hats, sunscreen, gloves and wear sturdy shoes.
Contact: camphillcarindale@lions.salles.net 0421 382 143. Lions will be indentified wearing yellow shirts. Continue reading »

Steve Minnikin speech: Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C)

Environment No Responses » Tagged with: B4C, Belmont Hills, Brisbane City Council, Bulimba Creek, Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee, koalas, minnippi, Queensland Parliament, Revegetation, Salvin Park, squirrel gliders, Steve Minnikin, Tingalpa Wetlands, trees, volunteering

Nov 152012

The following is a speech made by Steve Minnikin MP, State Member for Chatsworth in Queensland Parliament on 15 November 2012.

(2.57 pm): I rise today to share with the House the wonderful work of the Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee, known affectionately in our Chatsworth community as B4C. Since launching in 1997, B4C has been hard at work in the south-east suburbs of Brisbane. From their sustainability centre located in the heart of the Chatsworth electorate, they have coordinated ongoing projects to protect the surrounding bushland reserves at Whites Hill, Belmont Hills, Minnippi and Mount Gravatt. They have also worked tirelessly to rehabilitate the fragile ecosystems at Bulimba Creek, Tingalpa Wetlands and Salvin Park amongst others. These efforts have been rewarded by a number of prestigious awards, including the National River Prize in 2005, two Landcare Queensland awards in 2001 and 2009, and four healthy waterways community group awards awarded between 2003 and 2011. Continue reading »

Disability awareness & opportunity

Education & learning, events, local business No Responses » Tagged with: disability services, Fiona Anderson, Janice Ellson, Karni Liddell, Mt Gravatt, Mt Gravatt Showground, National Disability Insurance Scheme, NDIS, SpecialCare Central, volunteering, Yvonne Campbell

Aug 012012

Carindale local Yvonne Campbell is helping the community to better connect to and understand the services provided for people with a disability.

A previous disability awareness expo run by Yvonne Campbell.

Yvonne was invited to the Carindale and Eastern Suburbs Community Forum last week to tell locals more about her work and the upcoming disability awareness expo.

MSIT Mount Gravatt campus seeking volunteer tutors

Education & learning 2 Responses » Tagged with: adult literacy, English as a Second Language, Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE, Mt Gravatt, tutoring, volunteering

May 132011

If you have a passion for helping others and making a difference, Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE (MSIT) invites you to become a volunteer tutor and help change the lives of adult learners and trainees.

A volunteer tutor course will commence at the MSIT Mt Gravatt campus (1030 Cavendish Road, Mt Gravatt) on Monday 1 August 2011. Tutors will attend eight three-hour classes on a Monday from 9am to 12pm. They work with adult literacy and English as a Second Language (ESL) students from MSIT to support them with reading, writing, speaking, language and numeracy. Continue reading »

Alison Dower – YMCA QLD Youth Parliament Representative for Greenslopes

Uncategorized No Responses » Tagged with: Alison Dower, Coorparoo, disability, Greenslopes, Lifestream Foundation, mental health, volunteering, YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament, youth

Mar 302011

Note from the editor: The YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament is a Queensland Studies Authority accredited education program for young Queenslanders. The members of the 2011 YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament will officially be sworn in on Saturday 16th April during the weekend-long Forum in Brisbane. We’ve been asking the local representatives to tell you a bit about themselves via a guest post here.

Guest Post by Alison Dower

Who am I?

My name is Alison Dower, I am 23 years old and I live in the Greenslopes Electorate in the awesome suburb of Coorparoo. I have been selected as the Youth Member for Greenslopes for the YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament this year. In my role I hope to take the issues that affect young people and the community to the Youth Parliament and spend time discussing all the opportunities that we can think of to improve upon everyones experience of life in our community. The opportunity that I have been given in attending Queensland Youth Parliament is one that I am incredibly grateful for and will be utilising to its fullest capacity.

What do I do for fun?

I like being busy and packing as much into my week as I possibly can, presently I work full time as a Program Officer with Lifestream Foundation in East Brisbane supporting adults with intellectual disabilities. I am also learning AUSLAN (Australian Sign Language) at TAFE and completing my Bachelor of Social Work at QUT. I am also currently volunteering with YANQ (Youth Affair Network of Queensland). In my spare time I do rockclimbing, boxing and fitness and I practice my fire twirling skills. Studying, reading and sleeping do fit in there somewhere too. Over the years I have volunteered with the State Emergency Service and Lifestream Foundation and participated in tennis, touch footy, swimming and indoor and outdoor rockclimbing and hiking. Continue reading »

Introducing Vanja Stace – new guest blogger

Shopping No Responses » Tagged with: donations, Queensland floods, Vanja Stace, volunteering

Mar 112011

We’re very happy to introduce a new guest blogger who will be gracing the pages of Carindale Connect throughout this year. Vanja Stace is a local and a friend with a very strong sense of community.

Above: Vanja Stace and Emma Stevenson at Kennards Storage. January 2011.
Image source: facebook.com/QLDfloods2011

Clean Up Australia Day – local pics, tweets and notes

Environment No Responses » Tagged with: Adrian Schrinner, Cameron Dick, Clean Up Australia Day, Heather Barns, Ian Kiernan, Lions Club, minnippi, Ross Vasta, Ryan Murphy, Steve Kilburn, Steve Minnikin, volunteering, Whites Hill

Mar 062011

We’ve listed some of the tweets and pics from Clean Up Australia Day today.

Email your pics to info@carindaleconnect.com.au for publishing here (we’ll continue to update this page).

Open Day: Southside Sustainability Centre

Environment, events No Responses » Tagged with: Bulimba Creek, Bulimba Creek Coordinating Committee, bushcare, Heather Barns, Southside Sustainability Centre, sustainability, volunteering

Feb 012011

Image source: Bulimba Creek Catchment Committee

Our region has some beautiful green areas, but how much time do we spend in them and how much do we understand about them? There’s a great opportunity for us to learn about and participate in our local natural environment through the Southside Sustainability Centre.

The Sustainability Centre is a project of the not-for-profit Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C). There’s a nursery, community gardens, native revegetation areas and plenty more. And this weekend they are inviting you to their first open-day of 2011.

When: Feb 5, 2011 9:00am – midday.
Where: Southside Sustainability Centre, Cnr Old Cleveland Rd & Wright St, Carindale
Contact: Ph 3420 4800 / email b4c@bulimbacreek.org.au.

People of all ages and experience levels are welcome to come and see how the centre has survived the summer and recent conditions. You can also purchase seedlings and join in the volunteering activities.

I caught up with the Secretary of the Bulimba Creek Catchment Committee, Heather Barns. Continue reading »