Friday, September 30, 2022
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
20TH October 2022, Service NSW Is At The Basin - Email supplied by Sanctuary Point Community Pride Inc.
From: MobileServiceCentres <mobileservicecentres@service.
Subject: Service NSW is returning to Sanctuary Point
To:
Service NSW is returning to your community, and we need your help.
Service NSW is returning to Sanctuary Point on Thursday, 20th of October 2022 in our Mobile Service Centre.*
A friendly reminder that our dedicated Service NSW team on board can provide support across a broad range of services:
- Roads & Maritime Services (including licence and registration renewals and applications).
- Processing of NSW Fitness to Drive Medical Assessments and Mobility Parking Applications.
- Processing of RSA and RCG cards.
- Undertaking Driver Knowledge Tests.
- Births, Deaths and Marriages (including birth, marriage, death and change of name certificates).
- Application and Renewal of Working with Children Checks on behalf of Office of Children’s Guardian
Our Mobile Service Centre is a cashless facility and will accept payment by credit/debit cards or cheques.
If you require any further information on our service locations or opening hours, visit service.nsw.gov.au/msc, contact us on 13 77 88 or reply all to this email.
Thank you for your assistance with advertising our visit.
Many Thanks
Sloane
Mobile Service Delivery
T 13 77 88 |
E mobileservicecentres@ |
*Between 10 am to 3pm, Country Club, 11 Sanctuary Point Road, Sanctuary Point |
Nowra Bridge Update - NSW Government
October long weekend site shutdown
The Nowra Bridge project site will shut down over the October long weekend from 6pm Friday 30 September until 7am Tuesday 4 October 2022.
There will be no construction work during this time.
Reduced work zone speed limits will continue to be enforced.
Upcoming night work in October
Night work will continue on the Princes Highway, Scenic Drive, and Bolong, Illaroo and Bridge roads.
Work will take place across the project from Tuesday 4 October to Monday 31 October 2022, between 6pm and 7am, weather permitting.
A summary of night work activities and a map of the work areas can be viewed on the latest resident notification.
Traffic and pedestrian changes
There will be temporary traffic changes to ensure the work zone is safe. Lane closures, stop/slow traffic conditions and a 40km/h speed limit will be in place in both directions on the Princes Highway and Bolong, Illaroo and Bridge roads during the night work.
Please keep to speed limits and follow the direction of traffic controllers and signs.
The footpath on the northbound bridge will be closed during some of these work activities with a detour via the footpath on the southbound bridge.
Project photo gallery
Did you know we upload photos monthly that show construction progress across the Nowra Bridge project?
Jump online to see photos from August to back when the project began in 2020.
Contact us
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact the project team:
1800 331 713
nowrabridgeproject@
nswroads.work/nowrabridge
PO Box 477, Wollongong, NSW, 2500
If you need help understanding this information, please contact the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450 and ask them to call us on 1800 331 713.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Warm Invitation to SSPAN Memorial Day - 9th October 2022
The Shoalhaven Suicide Prevention Awareness Network are warmly inviting our community to a Memorial Service to join them for those that have lost to suicide and unexpected death and show support to another.
Sunday, 5.45 pm - 6 pm,9th October 2022 at Moona Moona Creek, Huskisson Parking in the Reserve off Beach Street.
RSVP: info@sspan.org.au
& updates on SSPAN Facebook Page:
Click here for further details
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Friday, September 16, 2022
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
St Georges Basin Man Walk To Launch on 22nd October 2022
Most of you may know me as a community advocate person, from Mount Druitt, and around The Bay & Basin area. I feel I have lived a life already within the Bay & Basin and it's really been over 3 years.
During this time, the people I have met are all great people, whether I have met them just walking down streets, in shopping hubs, doing voluntary work, or attending meetings within the Sanctuary Point community.
Awareness and prevention of suicide have been something that has made me have a keen interest in for the last 5 years.
In 2019 I organised a 'Hope Walk' around the Nepean River, had a short walk and a long walk of 6.4 km long and we would have had over 120 people participate. This was done with the support of the Western Sydney Suicide and Awareness Network. Also, I had also participated in a Hawkesbury Hope Walk earlier that year, which had at least 250 people.
In the Nepean Hope Walk, I pretty much knocked on the door of all chemists, doctor's surgeries, and funeral parlors between Penrith and Mount Druitt. I can tell you of an experience that happened, where I was touched here. A young lady who was a Chemist in the areas mentioned was handed the poster for the event and confirmed that she will ensure that the poster will be placed in a proper area of display for the public and that her colleagues will know about the event.
On the day of the event. Debbie, my wife advised me that a young lady who walked at the event needed the walk to make her feel better and she wanted to thank me for outreaching to her. The Hon. Federal Member for Lindsay, Melissa McIntosh, her husband and children attended the walk as well as a representative from the Nepean Police Inspector and Wayne Willmington from Vintage Radio. I also had 2 singers/buskers from Mount Druitt that also kept us entertained and my Godfather Phillipe that turned up with a mate of his and provided the sausage sizzle and coffee.
I have walked at a Nepean Man's walk which had over 200 men on a Thursday night. Coffee was supplied by the Coffee Club. What was frightening for me, was suddenly talking to men that have considered taking their lives in several past attempts. I was speechless and felt lost as I was wondering how do I deal with this? The answer was simple. Just listen to the men that have these issues and let them have it off their chest. I felt whatever my reply or response was, was not working. When we finished the walk, the men that had these issues found me and said, 'Thank you' for just listening to them - they enjoyed that conversation. Then, I knew that the frightening thoughts I had previously had changed into a warm feeling of achievement. A sense that it might have brightened up their lives. We had councilors assisting during the walk.
Now I believe the Nepean Men's Walk also includes women in their walk!
Recently, I attended a Nowra Man walk in which we started walking at 6 am on a Saturday. It was a great walk that started from Kinghorn Bakery, Kinghorne Street, Nowra walked across the Shoalhaven River Bridge North turned around, and headed back to Kinghorne Bakery, where we all had a chat, coffee, and laughed.
Click here for Nowra Man Walk Facebook details
This is what has inspired me to help start a St Georges Basin Man Walk but I needed inspiration from a few other people. I got the inspiration from my wife, Peter 'Smokey' Dawson (Australian Singer), and other men who I had been speaking to around the area. Then, I was told the owners from Plough and Harrow Bakery, 1/20 Paradise Beach road, Sanctuary Point, are looking to support a Basin Man walk. Then I heard men were walking the 45 minutes, to measure what distance we would have to walk. And I had been speaking to Suzanne Freund a true advocate of awareness and prevention of suicide. She runs Mental Health First Aid courses around the Bay & Basin and is a member of SSPAN* and Allen Kruse from the Sanctuary Point Community Pride Inc.
Finally, I wrote to Kate Darby, Secretary of SSPAN, asking if there is any funding available to provide free coffee. I was surprised when SSPAN agreed to provide funds of $250 per event (Monthly at this stage), when I only asked for $200.
I have since approached 2 members of the St Georges Basin Country Club and they think the Board would also financially support community events like this. I also have an understanding from Allen Kruse, President of Sanctuary Point Community Pride Inc. that they will auspice the funds provided from SSPAN (yet to be confirmed at the next meetings of both organisations).
On Sunday I met Gary Simms, Ambassador of RU OK Day, and he will provide support at our walks when he is available.
The reason why I want this to happen is I do want all money transactions to be dealt with in an official manner so that the walk is self-managed. That is to say, if I couldn't make it for one event, everyone knows what to do: turn up at the Coffee shop (whichever one it is), take your coffee, and meet up with other men. Safely walk down to the Basin, stay together and take up to 45 minutes to walk and end back at the coffee shop, where men can decide to leave the event, stay and talk more at the back of the shops, and later on leave. Any coffees and/or beverages required at the end of the walk are at your own cost. During the St Georges Basin Man Walk, a photo or two will be taken, so we can post on our official Facebook Page (which will be set up soon). If you do not want your photo taken, please advise on the day.
The idea of the walk is to make men open more to other men, to meet men never met before, and create a sense of importance for and of each other. Men can help other men and it is important for men to do that.
For The Man Walk Facebook Page Click here
What's important in the man walk is that we walk, talk and support ones that are in need. This gives us the ability to connect with other men, strengthen communities, and may combat social isolation.
This week I have had the acceptance by Joe from Joe's Brekky and Brunch Cafe, 2/16 Paradise Beach Road, Sanctuary Point, to assist in this event by providing coffees, on alternate months.
Friday, September 9, 2022
Upbeat Songs With John - Songs To Enjoy With Your Friends on Monday 12th September 2022
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Rermembering lives lost to suicide - Wesley LifeForce Suicide Memorial Service
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