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Subscriber only A Central Queensland childcare centre has been awarded a grant for a project that will improve education about sustainability and let the centre put more money towards its own resources. The C&K Middlemount Community Childcare Centre will receive $9,626 through the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal s Tackling Tough Times Together scheme. Director Jackie Bulst said the centre s Solar-wise Childcare Project would teach children and families about renewable energy and encourage community members to make sustainable choices. With the funds from the FRRR Tackling Tough Times Together we will be supplying and installing 28 solar photovoltaic and one inverter, she said.
Auburn is home to around 660 people, many of whom are both wine and art lovers alike.
Its residents included the late Alan Farwell, a popular local identity whose generous involvement in the community has now extended beyond his own life through a substantial bequest for the sole purpose of establishing a southern gateway statement for the town he loved.
So in 2017, a group of local volunteers was tasked with creating the kind of entrance statement piece of which Alan, former chair of the Independent Arts Foundation, would be proud.
Award winning Adelaide artist Craige Andrae was engaged, the local community consulted and fittingly, the result is an artistic sculptural piece that is large in scale, curiously unconventional and unmistakably Auburnesque, just like Alan.
Federal Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien announced the Show Society would be given $23,848 to buy two shaded grandstands to improve the showgrounds during hot or inclement weather.
“While we’ve seen good rainfall in some parts of Wide Bay, many communities like Tansey will still be feeling the effects of the prolonged drought, and has been further compounded by the additional challenges of COVID-19, making our ongoing support all the more vital,” Mr O’Brien said. Federal Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien.
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“This funding for Tansey Show Society is part of a $1.1 million investment under the Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal’s Tackling Tough Times Together program to help build social connections in the community, encourage greater participation in events at the Showgrounds, and stimulate the local economy.”