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Spencer
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June 20
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Chat
with Tracy Spencer from Hawker at 9am |
| Topic:
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Community
Builders |
| Jun
19, 09:35: |
Karen>
Hi there! |
| Jun
19, 09:36: |
Tracy>
Hi: I'm here awaiting interesting questions about life in Hawker.
Any takers? |
| Jun
19, 09:36: |
Tracy>
Hi Karen, where are you from? |
| Jun
19, 09:36: |
Karen>
The Community Builders projects you talk about on the website
are really interesting - how long have you been involved? |
| Jun
19, 09:37: |
Karen>
G'day there Pat! |
| Jun
19, 09:39: |
john has left the room |
| Jun
19, 09:39: |
Melanie>
What does the Community Builders Project involve? |
| Jun
19, 09:39: |
Tracy>
Hi Melanie: where are you from? |
| Jun
19, 09:39: |
Karen>
Tracy you can up your refresh rate by clicking on Options (usually
set to 30 seconds) |
| Jun
19, 09:40: |
Melanie>
I'm from Adelaide |
| Jun
19, 09:40: |
Karen>
I'm from Adelaide too! |
| Jun
19, 09:40: |
Tracy>
Community Builders is an idea that comes from rural WA, and
a similar thing in rural Victoria, which tries to encourage
local people to find ways to reinvigorate their communities,
socially and economically. |
| Jun
19, 09:41: |
Luke has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 09:41: |
Karen>
Do you work with the other State Community Builder Groups or
is it pretty much a town by town thing? |
| Jun
19, 09:41: |
Melanie>
Is the whole town involved? |
| Jun
19, 09:41: |
Belinda has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 09:41: |
Welcome Belinda,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 09:42: |
Karen>
Hi Belinda - where are you from? |
| Jun
19, 09:42: |
Tracy>
Hi Luke. Karen, yes there were 5 other regions doing it at the
same time, and my region had 10 small communities involved,
with their reps meeting together on amonthly basis, and
doing work in their own patch in between. |
| Jun
19, 09:43: |
Tracy>
Hi Belinda |
| Jun
19, 09:43: |
Belinda>
G'day Tracy- its your fellow playgrouper! |
| Jun
19, 09:44: |
Tracy>
All the community builder coordinators got together for their
training, and phone link conferences, to support each other
and act as colleagues too. |
| Jun
19, 09:44: |
Melanie>
What are some of the projects |
| Jun
19, 09:44: |
Tracy>
Where have you deserted your baby, Belinda? |
| Jun
19, 09:44: |
Gwyneth has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 09:44: |
Welcome Gwyneth,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 09:45: |
Karen>
You were talking about childcare needs in Hawker on the website
too - have you already done something about it? |
| Jun
19, 09:45: |
Belinda>
Hi you lot, I'm from sunny hawker. Thought I'd check us out
on line |
| Jun
19, 09:45: |
Melanie>
Is Hawker Sunny today?? |
| Jun
19, 09:46: |
pierre has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 09:46: |
Welcome pierre,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 09:46: |
Belinda>
I have the kid right here, abandoned for the computer again! |
| Jun
19, 09:46: |
Karen>
Looks sunny in the webcam! |
| Jun
19, 09:46: |
Tracy>
Some of the projects from community builders in the Flinders
region are a community cafe/internet etc center at Hawker,
Beltana is seeking to do up its historic well, and run a
craft and music festival in the year of the outback 2002,
Leigh Creek were trying to train young people to be life
guards at their pool, Lyndhurst was building an outback
icon at the pub (have to go there and ask Rick about the
details, Blinman are building a tourism cernter based on
their mining heritage, Copley is following up a youth arts
project painting the Stobie poles, Quorn raised money for
their football... |
| Jun
19, 09:46: |
pierre>
hi belinda its pierre |
| Jun
19, 09:47: |
Belinda>
soory i took so long to respond, I've only just worked out what
to do |
| Jun
19, 09:47: |
Karen>
How do you go about raising money for all these projects? |
| Jun
19, 09:47: |
Tracy>
Hi Pierre: is it sunny where you are too? |
| Jun
19, 09:48: |
Gwyneth has left the room |
| Jun
19, 09:48: |
Belinda>
pierre as in hilder or frog? |
| Jun
19, 09:48: |
pierre>
yes it is sunny in hawker |
| Jun
19, 09:49: |
pierre>
pierre hilder |
| Jun
19, 09:49: |
Melanie>
wow! I'm pretty impressed with the projects that are happening...more
towns should be like Hawker |
| Jun
19, 09:49: |
Wayne has left the room |
| Jun
19, 09:49: |
Tracy>
Raising money...the community builders project was run at a
state level by the State Dept for regional affairs, so they
networked us well with various government offices and funding
possibilities, especially Stronger familes and Regional
Solutions. But that only meant we knew where to start asking...there
have been raffles, lucky squares, requests for sponsorship
from companies as well as submissions written. There's no
short cut, only hard work, and lots of pestering people! |
| Jun
19, 09:49: |
Belinda>
pierre, are you at school? |
| Jun
19, 09:50: |
Belinda>
is your whole class on line? |
| Jun
19, 09:51: |
Tracy>
Melanie: the whole town isn't involved initially, but those
who are work hard to get others 'on baord'. Its a process
that has to be at the right pace for each community. |
| Jun
19, 09:51: |
pierre>
yes Iam but I dont want to be |
| Jun
19, 09:51: |
Belinda>
Hawker looks really great on this web site- what a great job |
| Jun
19, 09:51: |
Kate has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 09:51: |
Welcome Kate,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 09:51: |
pierre>
no just me and Kate |
| Jun
19, 09:51: |
Kate>
Hi Belinda |
| Jun
19, 09:52: |
Belinda>
tracy- your typing speed would have to be good to keep chatting |
| Jun
19, 09:52: |
george has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 09:52: |
Welcome george,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 09:52: |
Luke has left the room |
| Jun
19, 09:52: |
Kate>
hi pierre |
| Jun
19, 09:52: |
Tracy>
The childcare proposal we're following - and that includes Belinda
too - is because we have no child care in Hawker and no
one wants to do Family Day care providing for various reasons,
so we had to think what would suit us. We've written to
the deptartment, put a motion through ICPA, and will hand
Mr Olsen a letter and proposal next Monday when he comes
to Port Augusta to give us certificates for being volunteers! |
| Jun
19, 09:52: |
pierre>
hi kate wazz uppp |
| Jun
19, 09:52: |
Belinda>
hi kate. what have you done with the rest of the class? |
| Jun
19, 09:53: |
Tracy>
Hi George |
| Jun
19, 09:53: |
pierre>
good bye everyone |
| Jun
19, 09:53: |
pierre has left the room |
| Jun
19, 09:53: |
Kate>
Hi Tracey |
| Jun
19, 09:53: |
Tracy>
Hi Kate |
| Jun
19, 09:53: |
Belinda>
i didn't know john was visiting! |
| Jun
19, 09:54: |
Kate>
How is it going Tracey? Much luck? |
| Jun
19, 09:55: |
Belinda>
why is mr Olsen visiting? Who is getting certificates ? What'sthe
goss? |
| Jun
19, 09:55: |
Tracy>
Hey Pierre: come back and tell them about the bike ramps too! |
| Jun
19, 09:55: |
Karen>
So what is the childcare proposal? How will it work? |
| Jun
19, 09:55: |
Tracy>
Kate: do I know you and have just vagued out? |
| Jun
19, 09:55: |
Kate>
The rest of the class is learning Indonisian, ha ha |
| Jun
19, 09:56: |
Yolanda has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 09:56: |
Welcome Yolanda,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 09:56: |
Belinda>
ha ha salamat pagi |
| Jun
19, 09:56: |
Tracy>
Mr Olsen is celebrating volunteers with an afternoon tea. Shirley
got an invite as Pres of the kindy, and I get to go as Pres
of the netball club! Do you want to come too, as a volunteer
of course, with kid, as we are, to make our point (loudly) |
| Jun
19, 09:56: |
Yolanda>
Hi everyone! What's up? |
| Jun
19, 09:56: |
Jack has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 09:56: |
Welcome Jack,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 09:57: |
Tracy>
Hi Yolanda |
| Jun
19, 09:57: |
Tracy>
Kate, do have Mady in your class? |
| Jun
19, 09:57: |
Tracy>
Hi Jack |
| Jun
19, 09:57: |
Kate>
Hi Belinda |
| Jun
19, 09:57: |
Belinda>
no volunteers from the social club know about it. how did you
get informed? |
| Jun
19, 09:58: |
Yolanda>
Hi Tracy. |
| Jun
19, 09:58: |
Kate>
Tracy:No I don't have Mady here |
| Jun
19, 09:58: |
Karen>
So Tracy, you are a Minister, a Community Builder leader, a
mum and president of the netball club? And what do you do
in your spare time?! |
| Jun
19, 09:58: |
Pat has left the room |
| Jun
19, 09:59: |
Kate>
goodbye every one |
| Jun
19, 09:59: |
Jack>
hi everybody |
| Jun
19, 09:59: |
Kate has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:00: |
Gus has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 10:00: |
Welcome Gus,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 10:00: |
george>
Now I think I'm not whispering! What question? Which body sculpture
would you like?I have a range of them but they're all difficult
to interpret as they're all Scottish!! |
| Jun
19, 10:00: |
pierre has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 10:00: |
Welcome pierre,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 10:00: |
Karen>
Hi Jack, hi George - where are you guys from? |
| Jun
19, 10:00: |
Tracy>
Hi Gus |
| Jun
19, 10:01: |
Jack>
im from adelaide |
| Jun
19, 10:01: |
Tracy>
Good to hear from you George. I hope life's well with you. The
plan for mobile outback counselling is still progressing
with RICE, and its just a matter of the dept clarifying
the money it will use. A slow but good process. |
| Jun
19, 10:02: |
Belinda>
Tracy- how were you informed about the afternnon tea with Mr
Olsen? |
| Jun
19, 10:02: |
Tracy>
Gus is not old enough to be allowed to play on my computer at
home! |
| Jun
19, 10:02: |
pierre>
in Hawker we have just got a bmx bike track .it is near the
sports centre |
| Jun
19, 10:03: |
Yolanda>
What do you want to talk about Tracy? |
| Jun
19, 10:03: |
Tracy>
Belinda, there was some magical list in the premiers office,
I imagine. The netball one went to Jan teague first, then
has updated to me. I got a phone call to confirm attendance
yesterday, so they are serious, but you're allowed to 'take
friends' too. Could the Social club get an invite? |
| Jun
19, 10:04: |
Tracy>
Pierre, do you know what had to happen to get money and action
happening for the BMX track? |
| Jun
19, 10:04: |
pierre>
we are also getting a skate board ramp that is getting built
by hildabuilt.we will have it soon |
| Jun
19, 10:04: |
Action: NIC - melanie is closed. |
| Jun
19, 10:05: |
Belinda>
No doubt we were overlooked as usual |
| Jun
19, 10:05: |
Belinda>
i didn't know that hildabuilt was building the skateboard ramp |
| Jun
19, 10:05: |
george>
Hello to all these hello's!! I'm logging in from Adelaide on
a day off from my work as a comm.ment.health nurse in the
Emerg.Dept at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. I'm interested
in all things rural and remote because I've just finished
three years doing similar work with the RFDS from Port Augusta
and have previously worked in Oodnadatta. Today being Hawker's
day I'm interested to know if they're drying out up there? |
| Jun
19, 10:05: |
Karen>
Skate board ramp, BMX track - you guys are really looking after
your kids, that's excellent! |
| Jun
19, 10:05: |
pierre>
to get the bmx track some kids from our school had to ask the
council for a grant |
| Jun
19, 10:06: |
Belinda>
good to hear that the skateboard ramp is actually happening
NOW and not another thing just being waited on |
| Jun
19, 10:06: |
Karen>
How many people live in Hawker? And how many are involved in
the Community Builders? |
| Jun
19, 10:07: |
Tracy>
Yolanda, I'm on this to talk about Hawker, and especially anything
that is happening for the development of our community.
One of the thjings I spoke about previosuly was community
builders. I could add that we get regular mental health
workshops open to the community from the visiting mental
health social worker, which are really useful. |
| Jun
19, 10:07: |
pierre>
jimmy matthews also helped some kids to build the track |
| Jun
19, 10:07: |
Gus has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:07: |
Yolanda>
Seya everyone! i don't really get this chat so i'm leaving. |
| Jun
19, 10:07: |
Yolanda has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:07: |
Jack>
how much does it end up costing to build ramps and BMX tracks |
| Jun
19, 10:07: |
Wayne has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 10:07: |
Welcome Wayne,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 10:08: |
Belinda>
yep, the kids really worked hard to get the skateboard ramp.
They had help from some great teachers, not to mention monetary
help from local clubs like The Social Club |
| Jun
19, 10:08: |
Tracy>
George, we're starting to dry out but the northern tracks are
still only 4WD. Murray's heading out todat but going to
Oodna via the Stuart H'way. |
| Jun
19, 10:08: |
Tracy>
Bye Yolanda |
| Jun
19, 10:09: |
Tracy>
Karen, we've got about 350 people in the town and district.
When Hawker has had meetings for its community Cafe, we've
got over 20 people coming who are vocal and coming up with
good ideas and decisions. |
| Jun
19, 10:09: |
pierre>
the social club was a great help to get these things |
| Jun
19, 10:09: |
Belinda>
The BMX track was basically some dirt being dumped on a block
of land near the school by Council, I think. The kids and
some great helpers in the community sculpted it from there.
Such an easy thing to give the kids a "healthy" activity. |
| Jun
19, 10:10: |
george>
DRats!! I could have gone with him for half a day!! Who's gonna
do your mental health visits now that Helen has left AND
have you had any Drama input from the Comm.Development M.H.Officer? |
| Jun
19, 10:11: |
pierre>
it costs around $4000 I think |
| Jun
19, 10:11: |
Belinda>
The skateboard ramp, on the other hand, was campaigned for by
some middle school students for about two years, I think.
|
| Jun
19, 10:11: |
Whitney has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 10:11: |
Welcome Whitney,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 10:12: |
Tracy>
The Hawker Social club is an amazing story in itself...fill
in the gaps for me Belinda, but the thing that impressed
me most, apart from the great fun functions and Xmas gifts
for the kids, was that they instituted a fund for giving
grants to other community activities after only their first
year of operation! Now that is a community social club! |
| Jun
19, 10:12: |
Gus has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 10:12: |
Welcome Gus,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 10:12: |
pierre>
its great that us kids will have something to do now |
| Jun
19, 10:12: |
Belinda>
Pierre, I think it cost more than that- i think the variety
club gave a donation that was about $14000- but I'm only
going by goss around town |
| Jun
19, 10:12: |
Tracy>
Hi Whitney |
| Jun
19, 10:12: |
Roger has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 10:12: |
Welcome Roger,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 10:13: |
Whitney>
Hi everyone |
| Jun
19, 10:13: |
Karen>
Sounds like Hawker is a really friendly community, working together
to make things happen - is it a great place to live? |
| Jun
19, 10:13: |
Jack>
how much money did the council give you to build the skate ramp |
| Jun
19, 10:13: |
Whitney>
Hi Tracy |
| Jun
19, 10:13: |
Belinda>
It's so great that you kids have worked hard and got something
for future generations. You can feel really proud of ya
selves I reckon! |
| Jun
19, 10:14: |
Tracy>
George, Helen came off Hawker a year ago and the name of our
person now has just slipped my mind. No, we haven't had
any contact from the CD MH worker as far as I know, but
maybe they've gone through other channels. I don't attend
the MHAG any more since I've finihsed up and am studying...and
doing a few other things. |
| Jun
19, 10:14: |
Whitney>
How are you Tracy |
| Jun
19, 10:14: |
pierre>
it is a good place to live |
| Jun
19, 10:14: |
Belinda>
Yes, we love socialising, but one bonus is that not only do
you get to meet, have fun and party on a regular basis,
you arre helping to distribute money around town for local
projects. |
| Jun
19, 10:15: |
Tracy>
Karen, Hawker is a great place to live. When my family came
this way for work, we were offered a few towns to live in
(cos our work was mobile across the area) and we chose Hawker
and have never regretted it. Its a small community and has
those kind of dynamics, which are good and hard at times,
but overall it is a supportive place. |
| Jun
19, 10:16: |
Tracy>
I'm cold Whitney! We might have sunny skies but it was still
frosty this morning! |
| Jun
19, 10:16: |
Whitney>
Hi Belinda! |
| Jun
19, 10:16: |
george>
I have to leave and tend to sick day-off-from-school kids.Many
thanks for the interesting intro to this 'chatroom' thingy.
What a wonderful use of Centenary money! Hope I can catch
up with some other familiar places and, Hawker! Keep on
hawking and hope to see you when the wildflowers come thru!!
Byeee |
| Jun
19, 10:16: |
Belinda>
Lat year, the social club donated $1000 to local projects- from
the kindy, junior basketball, student's skateboard ramp
and community builders project |
| Jun
19, 10:16: |
Karen>
Sport is pretty important to kids in Hawker, isn't it? |
| Jun
19, 10:16: |
pierre>
catch ya everyone |
| Jun
19, 10:16: |
george has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:16: |
pierre has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:17: |
Tracy>
Bye George: drop in when you're up this way! |
| Jun
19, 10:17: |
Whitney>
I have to go now Tracy SEYA! |
| Jun
19, 10:17: |
Tracy>
Hi Roger |
| Jun
19, 10:17: |
Belinda>
G'day Whitney. Good to see your working hard - ha ha |
| Jun
19, 10:17: |
robert has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 10:17: |
Welcome robert,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 10:17: |
Whitney has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:17: |
Karen>
G'day Robert |
| Jun
19, 10:18: |
Pat has entered the room |
| Jun
19, 10:18: |
Welcome Pat,
Welcome to the CTC chat room! |
| Jun
19, 10:18: |
Tracy>
Sports a hard one, Karen. Yes its really important, but we're
at the stage of having a harder time finding full teams
of our own kids. For netball we try to go to a few tournaments,
and often other towns are happy to donate any extra players
to make \up a team with us if needed. We also have netball
training with the juniors every Saturday, and often they
get to fill in senior games too. |
| Jun
19, 10:19: |
Tracy>
Hi Pat |
| Jun
19, 10:19: |
Belinda>
Sport is very big in Hawker and why not? It gives a social outlet
and a purpose fro which to meet over. But, if competitive
sport is not your thing, organised social outings are rare,
that's why the social club was formed- to give social opportunities
that weren't sport focussed and for all ages |
| Jun
19, 10:19: |
Karen>
What are the sports facilities like there? |
| Jun
19, 10:20: |
Belinda>
G'day Pat, got a break between classes eh? |
| Jun
19, 10:21: |
robert has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:21: |
Tracy>
The sports facilities are excellent. We had a new sporting complex
built a few years back, with tennis, netabll, basketball,
golf (blacks not greens, bowls, cricket pitch and a licensed
clubhouse that gets used for lots of community meetings
too. |
| Jun
19, 10:21: |
Belinda>
There is a wonderful sporting club, that is another facility
that the community raised half the funds for and worked
very hard for. The bowling green there is excellent, good
tennis courts etc. Its a great asset to the town |
| Jun
19, 10:22: |
Belinda>
Sorry to be giving a nswers in tandem with you Tracy |
| Jun
19, 10:23: |
Gus has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:23: |
Tracy>
I think its fair to say that in outback towns, nothing comes
too easy and nothing without a fair bit of v\often voluntary
work by residents to make it happen. Sometimes that's tiring,
but it also generates great community spirit. |
| Jun
19, 10:24: |
Pat>
Hi All!, I think from the Town Crier Article, the Variety Club
donated over $4000 and the total Skateboard ramp project
(I have heard) is $14000 |
| Jun
19, 10:24: |
Tracy>
Keep going Belinda: then they know I'm not just making it up! |
| Jun
19, 10:24: |
Belinda>
Great to be involved in this chat. The web site is great and
I congratulate all involved. A great promo for Hawker and
district |
| Jun
19, 10:24: |
Belinda has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:24: |
Wayne has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:26: |
Karen>
Thanks heaps for your time today Tracy - I've learnt lots about
Hawker and what happens there! |
| Jun
19, 10:27: |
Roger has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:28: |
Tracy>
Hi to anyone left: I've just got a letter about our childcare:
even though we have 30 kids needing care in 20 familes,
DETE will only offer us creche guidelines instead of rural
care options because other communities have more demonstrable
needs! We have no other options here, even if our 30 kids
are less than a l;arger centers numbers! Need should be
measured according to options, not just numbers. |
| Jun
19, 10:28: |
Pat>
Hi Belinda, This is my Indonesian study time now. I have just
had the 6/7 class and have given Pierre, Kate, Whitney and
Yolanda a chance to use the chat room. The class will be
back again at 1:30, when they will be showing the Hawker
Community group what theis Connecting the Continent page
is all about. I hope you like the videos and the other pictures
and audio about a day in the life of Hawker. |
| Jun
19, 10:28: |
Tracy>
Thanks everyone for your time and interest. Come visit us sometime! |
| Jun
19, 10:29: |
Pat>
Keep up the good work Tracy. Bye for now. |
| Jun
19, 10:29: |
Tracy has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:30: |
Pat has left the room |
| Jun
19, 10:30: |
Jack>
seeya everyone |
| Jun
19, 10:30: |
Jack has left the room |
Created by Kate Dibben, Open
Access College, South Australia, Australia
email:
kdibben@oac.sa.edu.au
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