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Kate Bishop

Sarah Reader

Tanya Dupagne

Tom Bennier

Michelle O’Brien

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Editorial

Hello Kulin!

I have now started my first week at the brand new and very lovely Kulin Shire office as the new CRC manager, people have been very welcoming so thank you so much! I am starting to get the gist of how you do things in Kulin!

I am looking forward to meeting all of you and getting to know what makes Kulin tick!

Usually at this point I would give a quick synopsis of what’s been happening in the CRC and what’s coming up but as this is my second day I am still learning too!

Two things just quickly though;

If there is anyone in the community who is a spelling and grammar pro I would love for you to be involved in the fortnightly Kulin Update! Please let us know if you are interested and would like to be involved by calling or emailing the Shire. If you are unsure on how to write your news article I am happy for people to send photos, rough info and a contact and I will put stories together.

This fortnight we did this differently on how the Update is emailed out – instead of emailing the Update in a PDF format (which takes ages to send and download) we are now going to email you the link to the latest Kulin Update which will ‘live’ on our Shire website – so you can choose to download the Kulin Update when it’s convenient to you.

Until next time!

Kate Bishop

CRC Manager

Happy Birthday 6th Richard Tilbee, Emersyn Frantom

7th Taryn Scadding, Charlotte Reader, Lizzie Kerse

10th Fiona Jasper,

11th David Tholstrup, Phil Roads, Gary Ledwith,

Colby Lewis

12th Jenny Miller, Danielle Smoker, Charlotte Murdoch

13th Barry Paynter, Rebecca Culbertson

14th Tasmin Noble, Liz Pittard

15th Blaise Buttigig

16th Ambrose Poletti, Paul Buttigig, Shane Argent,

Michelle Stone

17th Sue Hobson, Gen Whisson, Declan Smeed

19th Betty Tyley, Olivia Turner

20th Daniel Philip, Ashlee West

21st Ron Argent, Roland Slater

22nd Will Cook

23rd Michael Robins, Craig Bradford, Camron Robertson

February

18th Peta West, Michelle Tyson

20th Donald Bradford, Nahi Lewis

22nd Sam Lewis

23rd Barbara Baldock, Kerry Riseborough, Scott

Thompson, Clayton Waters

24th James Ellis

25th Graham Cook

26th Stella Mullan

27th Tim Bradford, Shayley Rennie

March 1st Flynn Smoker

3rd Ben Tyley

4th Zari Duckworth

5th Carol Griffin, Jeremy Meikle, Sarah Reader

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About Kate

I am born and bred from just down the road in Lake Grace, grew up on the family farm Brockham Stud, yes my Dad is Bruce Bishop, yes we still breed Kelpie sheep dogs, yes we still breed Merino Rams and yes we breed Australian Quarter Horses. This pretty much sums up my childhood of being raised alongside numerous litters of pups, substituting as the sheepdog and endless days horse riding!

I went to a number of different schools growing up but I attended Narrogin Ag for year 11 and 12 in 2001 and 2002 and completed my work placements by working in horse racing stables strapping and riding. Then I attended Muresk (Curtin University) where I completed a Bachelor of Agribusiness Majoring in Marketing. During my time at Muresk I worked part-time for the WA Turf Club over the next five years in a number of different roles from Track Marshall at 4am in the morning, First Aid Officer at race meetings and even as a Clerk of the Course a few times!

After Muresk I worked for Meat and Livestock Australia as a Livestock Market Officer in Mt Barker, Katanning and Midland which eventually became Muchea and presented the weekly saleyard reports on the ABC Radio program The Country Hour. After three years of hanging around in sheep and cattle saleyards I decided it was time for a change and a job came up with the Kondinin Group in Perth. I started off as an Executive Officer and then a position came up as the Marketing and Communications Coordinator.

While I was with the Kondinin Group I coordinated the 2012 Australian Farmer of the Year Awards, a yearly nationwide competition aimed at highlighting the Agricultural Industries best farmers. It was an amazing experience culminating with a large awards ceremony in Melbourne and broadcast on Landline.

In January 2013 my grandmother passed away and Dad had been diagnosed with skin cancer and undergone two massive surgeries so I decided to move back to the farm in Lake Grace and this is when I met Luke Tyson, who was driving for McCubbings Transport at the time and he picked up a few loads of sheep from the farm and apparently a farmer’s daughter as well!

So I started working at the Lake Grace Visitors Centre and became hugely passionate about promoting Tourism in the Wheatbelt! This is when I first worked with Gen Whisson on the Pathways to Wave Rock promotional clip and I was lucky enough to be involved with the promotional launch of this great initiative a few years ago.

A job opportunity came up down in Pingrup as the CRC Manager 18 months later and as community development was something I had always been interested in I started commuting 50km to and from work every day from the farm in Lake Grace. Pingrup is a tiny wheat growing town in the Great Southern of only 70 people, the community like many others had been slowly dwindling. The school only has 14 children in it from Kindy to Yr 6.

The change in funding structure for CRCs from the Department of Regional Development in 2014 gave the Pingrup CRC the incentive it needed to start running more interactive social and economic events. A few months ago a new business started up in town for the first time in five years, the Bird in the Bush Café is a cool retro café, gift shop and office space.

The town is excited about the future now and I’m sure some of this can be attributed to the hard work everyone who is involved with the CRC has put in. If you are heading down to Albany make sure you call in to the Bird in the Bush café to check it out!

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The highlight for me was designing an Early Childhood Development Program and successfully acquiring funding from Amity Health to implement the program in the Shire of Kent.

However the 100km round trip every day for work was beginning to get taxing which brings me to now! Luke and I had both decided to move up here for work in the New Year and the position came up at the Kulin CRC just at the right time!

In my spare time I am usually doing something with either horses or dogs! Between us we have two Jack Russell's Bosi and Ruski, two red and tan kelpies Tiffany and Sandy and eight horses! They are all mostly Australian Quarter Horses; Brodie, Dauphine, Liberty, Princess, Annie, Blue, Baby Doll and Honey!

Luke and I compete on most of them in the horse sport Campdrafting so be prepared to learn LOTS more about

Campdrafting through the Kulin Update!! This weekend we have the Mt Barker Campdraft and there are several others coming up over the next two months. We travel all over the state for campdrafting as far up as the Pilbara and it’s basically just like caravanning with horses!

I am looking forward to living and working up here and getting to know everyone. I am hoping to play Netball this season after campdrafting has finished so I hope to meet all of you at some point.

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Shire of Kulin

Extraordinary LG Election

East Ward

2 April 2016 Nominations are called for an extraordinary Local Government Election to be held on Saturday, 2 April 2016

to fill a vacancy for the East Ward of the Council.

Nomination Time and Place

Nominations open on Thursday, 18 February 2016

Nominations must be lodged by 4.00pm, Thursday, 25 February 2016

Nominations must be lodged with the Returning Officer at any time during the above period at the Shire of Kulin office.

Nomination Requirements

Candidates are required to lodge with the RETURNING OFFICER:

a completed nomination in the prescribed form, signed and witnessed. This form is available from the Shire Office.

a single A4 page profile containing not more than 150 words of biographical information about the proposed candidate and statements of the candidate’s policies or beliefs. The profile may include a recent passport-sized photograph (optional).

a nomination deposit of $80 (cash, or postal order, or bank cheque subject to Returning Officer approval).

Where an agent lodges a nomination on a candidate’s behalf, it must be in the prescribed form with a written authorisation signed by the candidate.

The documents may be hand delivered, posted or faxed to the Returning Officer and must be received by the close of nominations.

Full details about eligibility and nomination procedures for prospective candidates in this election can be obtained by contacting the Kulin Shire Office.

SHIRE OF KULIN

24 Johnston Street, Kulin 6365

RETURNING OFFICER: Greg Hadlow

TEL: 9880 1204 FAX: 9880 1221

EMAIL: ceo@kulin.wa.gov.au

NOMINATION PLACE: 24 Johnston Street, Kulin 6365

OFFICE VACANT AND TERM OF OFFICE:

East Ward One Vacancy term expires October 2019

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Kulin Volunteer Fire and Rescue

are seeking new members.

Please contact Deirdre 0429 801151 or

Rocket 0427 037705 for further information

Camp Kulin Counsellor Feedback

Contributed by Michelle O’Brien

I decided to come on camp after I had done a few hours helping on a camp before. I have always wanted to help out those less fortunate than myself and I thought that Camp Kulin would be the perfect way to do it!

I had heard from so many people in town how good it was and how much of a difference they were making so I decided I wanted to be involved! My experience as a camp counsellor was amazing and I'm so glad I did it! In the beginning I was a bit overwhelmed and didn't believe I was making a difference, so didn't want to be there, but after a few days, I could see the kids grow and change in the space of a few days, and the impact the camp had started to be obvious.

Seeing the kids enjoy every activity and experience a real Christmas was so good and made me realise that we were making a difference! It was so rewarding and opening! The kids become better behaved, more confident and grateful for everything camp gave them, which was so good to see!

I would definitely recommend it for someone else as I loved it and learnt so much! I became more confident in myself, and started to realise that I was so lucky for what I had compared to other people! The camp was managed really well and everything was done to a great standard! The food was also really good considering we were on camp!

If anyone is considering sending their child to camp I would definitely recommend it as it is so beneficial to anyone! The experience is so rewarding and definitely worth going! I'm so grateful and glad to have taken part in something as good as Camp Kulin! Thank you for the opportunity!

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Kulin Childcare Centre Happenings

Contributed by Sarah Reader

We have been very busy at day care in the last couple of weeks learning how to take care of our bodies and learning all about the animals in the Ocean.

We have had a hair dressers set up in the centre and there have been some fantastic hair do’s happening

On Tuesday 16th Feb. we made pancakes for Pancake

Day, the children are great cooks and the pancakes turned out great and tasted fantastic.

We have been using lots of different things to paint with and having a blast seeing what patterns they make

Also huge CONGRATULATIONS TO Sue and Ashley who have recently completed their diplomas of childcare well done girls.

If you have not already can you please bring in your updated enrolment forms and immunisations

If anyone has any old terracotta or large pot plants, we are looking for about 10 of them so your help would be greatly appreciated. We are also looking for tin cans, any size as long as there are no sharp edges

Can everyone who wasn't brought a box of tissues in for their child please do so

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Camp Kulin Counsellor Feedback

Contributed by Tom Bennier

I decided to do Camp Kulin to get a new experience and really see what Camp Kulin has been all about over the years it has been in Kulin. My family has helped out at Camp Kulin and it wasn’t until we cooked dinner for the campers that I wanted to get involved and be a camp counsellor.

I really enjoyed my time at camp and loved meeting all the great kids that came to the camp, it was a great experience for not only the campers but me as well. Over the course of the week the kids learnt a whole range of different things, from leadership skills, to teamwork skills and how to work in a team. Towards the end of the week I was able to see change in many of the campers, some who were shy at the beginning, starting to throw in some good ideas in group discussions or just started to interact a bit more with other campers. Other campers felt more confident in themselves and their own abillities.

I would highly recommend other people that are interested to give this experience a go, it is amazing. The camp was organised and ran by Tanya fantastically, all the campers and camp counsellors really enjoyed the camp, which she has put a mammoth amount of time

into.

If someone was considering sending their child to Camp Kulin or wanting to sponsor a child on camp, I would tell them not to hesitate and send them to camp, they will have an amazing time and really enjoy themselves and benefit from it.

Congratulations to Kulin student, Dylan Rader

Kulin resident, Dylan Rader, is a Year 12 prefect at the WA College of Agriculture – Narrogin in 2016.

Deputy Principal, Mark Pascoe, said, “Dylan is an enthusiastic participant of activities run at the Col-lege. His enthusiasm is infectious to other students.”

Dylan is looking forward to, “getting the ideas of fel-low students out to other people.” As a prefect, he hopes to make a difference to the social life of stu-dents by helping to organise the College Ball, Coun-try Week and socials.

Dylan started at the College in 2015 as a Year 11 student. He has been completing the Agriculture and Building and Construction pathway.

2016 Kulin Phone

Directory

now available at the CRC

A5 Black & White (Stapled)

$3.50

A4 Colour (Binded) $10

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Camp Kulin Summer 2016

Contributed by Tanya Dupagne

Our Summer 2016 camp season running over December and January was the biggest 2 months in the history of the Camp Kulin program. We ran six camps, comprising of a mix of general and scholarship camps for both Perth Metro and Regional campers. This included our very first Christmas camp for 31 children who have experienced some form of childhood trauma – for the majority of the kids attending this camp, it was the first time they’d ever had a Christmas dinner or taken part in Christmas carols.

49 camp counsellors volunteered 6132 hours of their time (equivalent to $153,300 of time) to run over 18,000 minutes of activities for our campers this summer. The youngest camp counsellor was 16 years old, and the oldest camp counsellor was 73 years old. Camp counsellors came from right across the state, with 32 Perth metro camp counsellors, 16 regional camp counsellors and 1 interstate camp counsellor who travelled from Melbourne. The Camp Kulin leadership team travelled over 5,000 kilometres over the 6 camps to pick up camp counsellors and campers from the Perth Metro area to bring them to camp.

179 campers travelled from over 70 suburbs to attend Camp Kulin. This included a number of towns in the Perth Metropolitan Area, as well as campers from Kulin and surrounding towns such as Kondinin, Narrogin, Corrigin, Jitarning and Pingelly and those from regional towns further afield such as Newman, Kalgoorlie, Merredin, Northam, Collie, Williams, Wyalkatchem, Norseman, Kukerin and Merriwa.

Food wise, we’ve made our way through over 19kg cereal; 100 litres milk; 3,300 pieces of bread; 1290 bread rolls; 14kg margarine; 38 large jars jam/vegemite; 26kg cold lunch meats; 80kg salad ingredients; 1,600 pieces of fruit; 134.2 kg lasagne; 110kg meat; 50kg cheese plus many other ingredients and food. Our cleaning team washed over 1000 pieces of linen and cleaned over 420 toilets and showers over the course of the summer.

Campers took part in numerous activities, including gaga dodgeball, skunk, giant human foosball, teambuilding and communication activities, human hungry hippos, excursions, theme days, My Kitchen Rules, Talent show and the biggest waterslide in regional Australia. All the activities were designed to teach leadership, respect, self confidence, self esteem, communication skills, perseverance, problem solving and goal setting.

The Camp Kulin team would like to say a big thank you to everyone who sponsored a scholarship child to attend our summer season. These children would not have been able to come otherwise, and they and their families were greatly appreciative of your

support. Special thanks to the WA CWA ladies who selected Camp Kulin as their beneficiary at their state conference and sponsored our entire session 6 camp for children who have been affected by trauma, as well as the CBH HMMS scheme who donated $10,000 to enable regional children to attend camp over the past 12 months. Had it not been for your support many children would have missed out on the opportunity to attend.

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Kulin notices

Shire of Kulin Council Meeting Dates 2016 February Wednesday 17 February 1.00pm

March Wednesday 16 March 1.00pm

April Wednesday 20 April 1.00pm

May Wednesday 18 May 3.00pm

June Wednesday 15 June 1.00pm

Butlers Garage Museum located on Johnston Street. Open Every

Saturday 10am to 2pm

Kulin Arts would like to invite you to join them at Friday Arts. Every Friday at the Kulin

CWA. Bring along an arts project you are working on or would like to share OR there

will be friendly people there with a huge amount of knowledge in all sorts of Arts skills

that they would love to share with you. The kettle will be on! Cost $2

Kulin DHS is 100 years old in 2016! We are celebrating with a massive reunion on 12th

March 2016, please see the poster in this Kulin Update edition for more information. If you have

accommodation available that you would like us to promote then please call Wendy Gangell on 0429 805

224. If you would like to contribute to the exhibition of memorabilia please let me know. Thank you Sharyn

McAdam 0429 801 055.

The Kulin CWA meets every third Thursday of the

month. Come along for a cuppa and a chat to find

out what is happening at your local CWA. Women

of all ages welcome:-)

Kulin Masonic Lodge Meeting February Monday 15th 7:15pm

March Monday 21st 7:15pm

April Monday 18th 7:15pm

May Monday 16th 7:15pm

June Monday 20th 7:15pm

July Monday 18th 7:15pm

August Monday 15th 7:15pm

September Monday 19th 7:15pm

October Saturday 15th 7:15pm

November Monday 21st 7:15pm

December Monday 19th 7:15pm

An invitation is extended to the community to attend a series of Christian Gospel Services.

Kulin CWA Hall - each Sunday 4.00pm - 5.00pm

Lake Grace - Lakes Village Hall - each Friday 7.30pm - 8.30pm

The purpose of these services is to present Christ as the Saviour and Redeemer who is able to bring joy, peace and salvation to all who come to Him.

Are You Curious?

Do you want to know more? We do! Come and join us on each Wednesday at

10am in CWA Rooms. 10am Morning Tea. 10.30am read, share,

discuss and debate the Bible. Don’t be chicken.

Surprise surprise—we are all learners and all pretty normal. See you there?

Bible Study Group

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Staff Contacts:

Greg Hadlow Chief Executive Officer

Cassi-Dee Vandenberg Deputy CEO

Len Hobson Manager of Works

Mike Robins Tech Officer

Melanie Edwards Administration Officer/

CRC Trainee

Nicole Thompson Executive Support Officer

Gen Whisson Senior Project Officer

Taryn Scadding Community Development

Officer and Manager Kulin

Childcare Centre

TBA CRC Manager

Annette Lewis Finance Officer

Tanya Dupagne Camp Kulin Manager

Simone Lockyer Recreation Centre and

Janna Lockyer Pool Manager

Sarah Reader/Melina McBow KCCC Coordinators

Office: 8.30am - 4.30pm (Monday-Friday)

Ph: 9880 1204

Fax: 9880 1221

Email: admin@kulin.wa.gov.au

Website: www.kulin.wa.gov.au

Shire Councillors

Barry West—Shire President

Rodney Duckworth—Deputy President

Robbie Bowey

Mathew Ledwith

Haydn McInnes

Robert O’Brien

Grant Robins

Brad Taylor

Kulin Shire Council Information

Kulin/Kondinin Allied Health Services 2015

Kulin Police Station 9880 1205

Kulin Doctors Surgery 9880 1315

Kulin Health Centre/Child Health 9880 1056

Kulin Fire Brigade 000

Kondinin Doctors Surgery 9889 1753

Kondinin Hospital 98941222

Corrigin Hospital 9063 2300

Corrigin Doctors Surgery 9063 2300

Lake Grace Hospital 9890 2222

Lake Grace Doctors Surgery 9865 1208

Hyden Doctors Surgery 0456 875 495

Narrogin Hospital 9881 0333

Narrogin Police Station 9889 1100

Western Power 13 13 51 (Emergency)

Water Supply 13 13 75

Kulin Water Depot 9880 1356

Harvest Ban Info Line 9880 1511

Kulin Clinic Nurse 9am-11am

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 9880 1056

Pathology (blood tests) Mon and Wed 9880 1056

Kulin Medical Centre DR Shakur Tue and Fri 9880 1315

Asthma Educator Miranda O’Brien 9880 1056

Child Health Nurse Miranda O’Brien 9880 1056

Occupational Therapist Primary Health 9881 0385

Speech Therapist Primary Health 9881 0385

Dietician Bimin Lu Primary Health 9881 0385

Diabetes Educator Silver Chain 9242 0347

Continence (all ages) Valda Turner 9894 1222

Healthways Health Eating Margaret Scadding 9894 1222

Mental Well Being Valda Turner 9894 1222

Aboriginal Health Rachel Andrews 9894 1222

Enuresis/Infection Control Angela Fairhall 9894 1222

Podiatrist Craig Cheney 9881 3799

Physiotherapist Jenna Mouritz 0428 619 078

Family Counsellor Central Agcare 9063 2037

Drug and Alcohol Counselling HollyOake 9881 1999

Rural Community Support Service 9881 3939

Emergency contacts

February 18, 2016

February 18th CWA Meeting, Aged Friendly Community Bus Service,

Playgroup

19th Dr in Kulin

23rd Dr in Kulin, Boogie Roos

25th Playgroup

26th Dr in Kulin

March 1st Dr in Kulin, Boogie Roos

3rd Aged Friendly Community Bus Service, Playgroup

4th Dr in Kulin

5th Kulin Triathlon

8th Dr in Kulin, Boogie Roos

10th Playgroup

11th Dr in Kulin

12th KDHS CENTENARY

15th Dr in Kulin, Boogie Roos

17th Aged Friendly Community Bus Service, Playgroup

18th Dr in Kulin

21st Kulin Masonic Lodge Meeting

22nd Dr in Kulin, Boogie Roos

23rd Blazing Swan

24th Blazing Swan, Playgroup

25th Good Friday, Blazing Swan

26th Easter Saturday, Blazing Swan

27th Easter Sunday, Blazing Swan

28th Easter Monday, Blazing Swan

29th Dr in Kulin, Blazing Swan, Boogie Roos

31st Age Friendly Community Bus Service

Community Calendar

The WoolShed - Freshly prepared meals

available dine in or takeaway 7 days a week. Corporate and party catering small to large jobs Check The Chalk Board for Specials

The Kulin Hardware Café - Coffee, cakes,

sandwiches and more Mon-Fri 8am-4.30pm

The Kulin Hotel - Mon 4 til late, Tues & Wed 11

til late (dinner only), Thu, Fri, Sat 11 til late (lunch and dinner, pizza Friday night), Sun 11am to 10pm (lunch and dinner) Lunches12-2 & Dinners 6-8

IGA Opening Hours - Monday to Friday 6:30am

–5:30pm Saturday 8:00am-11:30am Sunday 8:00am-9:00am Public holidays CLOSED

Kulin Meats - Monday to Friday 8-5

Gourmet Meats, Range of Sauces, Japanese Bread Crumbs, Relishes and Good Quality Knives and Steels.

Church Services Anglican Church

8:30AM - 2nd and 4th Sundays each month

Uniting Church

10:30AM Morning Tea, 11:00AM Service

Starts - 1st and 3rd Sunday each month

Catholic Church

6:00PM 1st Saturday each month

10:30AM 2nd and 4th Sunday each month

8:00AM 3rd and 5th Sunday each month

Justices of the Peace

M Carmody 9880 4042

MT Lucchesi 9880 4050

JM McInnes 9880 1360

PJ Mullan 0427 831 041

R Noble 9880 1383

BW Sloggett 9880 9036