St Saviour’s Patchwork Group recently received a welcome funding grant from Essential Energy to help make quilts for Anglicare’s Specialist Homelessness Services in Southern NSW. The $500 boost was used to purchase materials used in the quilts.
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President Julie Perryman said the group was very grateful for the grant and other public support.
“We enjoy the fact we are able to give back to the community," she said.
“Each quilt is made by several members and each person might try a different pattern meaning each one is unique.”
Anglicare Community Services Regional Director, Simon Bennett said the quilts are distributed to people in emergency accommodation programs and benefit people in Goulburn, Yass and the surrounding regions.
"It gives people in need so much joy when they receive a special handmade quilt,” he said.
The St Saviour’s Patchwork Group has been operating for 15 years and its 18 members handcrafted 110 quilts for the project in 2014.
If you would like to join the group please contact Julie on 0421 900 015
Alice (Chapple) Kingsley, mother of a young baby, has volunteered to take over the organisation of the Gunning Senior Residents Christmas Luncheon. Now it is up to the rest of us to make sure that Alice gets our support in running this much-loved and appreciated community event. Good on you Alice!
Congratulations to Annie and Andrew Basnett of “Nerragundah” on winning the Rural Gardens section of the Upper Lachlan Shire Gardening competition. The Town Gardens section was won by Anne and Ray Jackson of Crookwell. There had been a record number of entries this year.
The NSW state election is set for March 28. We will be in the re-drawn Goulburn electorate and Gunning has been visited recently by Angus Taylor, Pru Groward and Ursula Stephens.
Matters raised included phone and internet reception; aged care packages; independent living units project; wind farms and power lines; proposed motocross project and funding for public libraries.
If you can help cover the Gunning/Fish River RFB shifts for Driver Reviver over the Christmas/New Year period at the Mundoonen rest area, please contact Mike on 0417 663 045 after December 12.
A re-enactment of the famed Kangaroo March will travel through Jerrawa, Gunning, Dalton and Cullerin in September next year.
If you would like to be involved or have information to help piece together our place on the March 100 years ago please contact Rhondda Vanzella on 4883 4650.
Local volunteers can also contact Lucy Knight on 0407 284 590.
That migratory bird with the irritating call that lays its eggs in other birds’ nests, now confirmed as a Common Koel, continues to drive locals demented. About the size of a magpie, the male is a glossy black with red eyes while the female is of more subdued hues. The red eyes are also a feature of a few residents in thrall to insomnia, kept awake with the koel’s feverish mating call.
Sunday: Lions Christmas Markets at Gunning from 8–2pm. For stall information call 4845 1288.
Sunday: Greendale Church Lunch then worship at 12pm. Call 6226 2266.
Sunday: B/albane Carols at the Community Hall from 5pm. Call 48442211 or 48442285.
Thursday December 18: Shire Council Meeting at Crookwell from 9am. Call 4830 1000.
Friday December 19: The Fishing Club Prize Night is on after the christmas raffle at the Telegraph Hotel.
Saturday December 20: Dalton Community Christmas Barbecue at the Royal Hotel from 5.30pm.
Sunday December 21: Gunning/Fish River RFB Santa Run and Barbecue at 4pm. Call 0418 664 496.