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Congratulations to Chris Lewis from ABC Open Midwest for winning the Rural Media Award for best photograph for this pic of a pastoralist injecting meat with poison to make wild dog baits.
The City of Greater Geraldton will host a number of events in recognition of International Day of People with Disability 2014.
International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD) is an annual global event that aims to increase public awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability, and celebrate the achievements and contributions that people with disability have made to the community.
Starting next week, the City and community will hold three days of activities to celebrate the occasion.
Deputy Mayor, Neil McIlwaine, said the internationally celebrated event was something very significant for the City to recognise.
“The City is committed to facilitating the inclusion of people with disability and supports the celebration and recognition of the great work done within our community,” he said.
“We are proud to support International Day for People with Disability by hosting an art exhibition and special library activities.”
To kick off three days of events, there will be a story time session at the Geraldton Regional Library on Friday, November 28 from 9.30am to 10.30am. Join the friendly library staff for a morning of fun songs, stories, rhymes and crafts, no bookings are required.
On Tuesday, December 2, the Queens Park Theatre will be host the Creative Waves Art Exhibition 2014. The exhibition showcases art created by people with disability which was supported by local Disability service providers. This will be open for viewing until December 15.
The Foreshore will be packed with activities on Wednesday, December 3, from 5pm to 7pm. Enjoy activities including Spin Out wheelchair basketball, beach volleyball, a bouncy castle and face painting.
A sausage sizzle and the Sun City Cinema will conclude the evening. The Ride, an inspirational documentary about four men who ditch their wheelchairs for a quad bike adventure, will be showing from 7:30pm. There will also be a Q&A Session with Craig Parsons after the movie. Free popcorn will be provided. For more information on this event call Regional Home Care Services on 9920 7600.
For more information about IDPwD, visit www.cgg.wa.gov.au.
Don't forget, the BIG DIG welcomes members of the public to come along to the area in front of St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Geraldton, from 9am to 3pm today and during the week to participate in the excavation of a late 19th and early 20th century rubbish dump. Work commenced on site last week to prepare for this BIG EVENT. Please wear work clothes and enclosed footwear.
Emergency services were busy in Dongara today fighting a fire that was near homes in the Springfield area.
Thanks Bec for the images.
Geraldton resident David Prince has an ambitious idea for the future of music.
Not just music in Geraldton. Music everywhere.
Ever since Napster and the digital revolution, individuals and companies have been struggling to find ways to distribute music and monetise the creative efforts of the artists.
Nowadays, YouTube, surprisingly, is the number one place to get your music. It's easy to create playlists and free is a nice price for most people to pay.
For those of us who like a little more convenience, services like Spotify, Pandora and iTunes are the ways to get our tunes.
But some artists (*cough Taylor Swift cough*) feel that their current options for distributing music aren't as financially viable as they once were.
David Prince's idea is to build a platform that allows music lovers to not only purchase songs, but purchase a share in a song's success.
This means that those who buy the song early have the opportunity to profit if the song becomes popular.
David hopes to give music artists a creative way to raise money, allow music lovers to access the songs they want in a convenient manner, and let you profit from music you invest in.
As the backbone for it all David has built a new crypto currency called SONG COIN.
If you have heard of bitcoin, you'll have some understanding of what song coin is.
Essentially it's a digital currency that uses complicated and mind bending mathematical techniques behind the scenes to prevent forgery and authenticate payments.
Bitcoin is the internet's crypto currency of choice at the moment, but a large number of "alt coins" have emerged in recent years, usually with slightly different variables and characteristics.
Google "what is bitcoin" if you want an education on crypto currencies.
David Prince hopes that as usage of SongCoin grows, so will it's value, making it desirable for artists and giving him a way to fund the entire operation.
To learn a bit more about SongCoin click here.
(Note, the coin in the photo is not a coin, it's a clever looking USB storage device with Song Coins on it.)
Each year surf life savers and passing locals have to rescue swimmers who get themselves caught in rips along our coast, so take a few moments to get educated on what a rip is and how to avoid trouble.
Info from beachsafe.org.au/surf-ed/ripcurrents
When waves break on a beach, they push water towards the shoreline. Once that water reaches the shore, it has to find a way to get back out to sea, and it does this by flowing downwards into deeper channels in the surf zone. Once the water is in these deeper areas, it can flow back out to sea away from the shoreline. These deeper channels are called rip currents.
Rip currents are the number 1 hazard on Australian beaches being responsible for at least 21 drownings on average per year, as well as being the cause of many rescues. Rip currents often lead to drowning when swimmers attempt to fight the current trying to swim directly back to the shoreline, become exhausted and begin to panic.
Rip currents can also be deadly for non-swimmers as a person standing in waist deep water can be dragged into the deeper waters of the rip current, where they can drown if they are unable to swim and are not wearing or holding a flotation device.
The key signs to look for are:
If you get caught in a rip current, you need to know your options:
These may sound like simple options, but rip currents are complex, dynamic processes and all responses also have their pitfalls. You could float on an unpatrolled beach and not be returned to a sandbank with no-one there to help. You can also swim parallel and end up swimming against a longshore current which can flow along a beach; this will see you get tired quickly.Therefore, the best thing you can do is avoid them!
The best ways to do this are:
Dr Rob Brander of the University of New South Wales explains how to identify a rip current. For more beach safety information visit www.sls.com.au
Police are reminding the public that vehicle registration plates must be clearly visible.
The Road Traffic Regulations enforce how numbers plates are to be fitted to vehicles and section 25AA creates the offence for anything that prevents effective identification of a number plate in varying conditions.
The penalty of which is a fine of $1000.
"Get off that now and come." Kid doesn't move.
"Get off it now or you'll be in trouble." Kid doesn't move.
"You'll be in trouble if you don't come now." Kid doesn't move.
"I'll leave you here if you don't come now." Kid doesn't move.
"I mean it. You'll be left behind."
You get the idea.
We make threats we don't or can't carry out and essentially teach our kids not to believe what we say. We eventually snap and punish the child when we're finally fed up, but really we know it's our own fault for teaching our kids to ignore our instructions.
Yet when it comes to our state's judicial system, we make the exact same mistake. We catch people for committing a crime, give no punishment; catch them again, give no punishment; catch them again, give them a suspended sentence; catch them again, give them a really really strong warning that this is the last time; catch them again, tell them they have exhausted all their chances and they're now off to jail.
But it's too late to think jail will do much. They have become rather good at stealing and perhaps even dependent on the income it provides. And they genuinely don't know if they'll be in trouble or not each time they're caught.
Mum found out.
She didn't treat me as though I had stolen a packet of gum. She treated me like I'd stolen a car. I was in SOOOO much trouble.
Part of my punishment was the shame of returning to the store and apologising to the staff. I was deeply embarrassed, and had stirred the wrath of my mother like I'd never seen before.
Guess what; I didn't steal any more.
At the time I obviously didn't want to be punished. It was painful and it could have been argued no real harm was done in taking a small packet of gum. But my mum was wise enough to know that if she didn't stamp that behaviour out right at the start, I might try stealing other things.
Now I am grown, I'm extraordinarily grateful that I was punished as a young child and put on a better path.
At 16 I realised I had reached the pinnacle of all wisdom and left home to live with a friend.
This "friend" unfortunately enjoyed chronic amounts of marijuana.
We also happened to reside a few doors down from some folk who enjoyed drugs and living differently.
Due to the presence of weed at our place, these delightful neighbours decided to befriend us. There wasn't really much choice on our part as to the depth of the relationship.
I got to know these individuals and tried and find out what made them tick. Here's a few interesting things that etched themselves into my memory.
That's what they called it. They would actually decide "today we're going to go and do a bunch of break and enters." They called them B and E's because that sounded cool. They would put on the nicest clothes they had, do their hair, and venture out into the suburbs to see what loot they could find. And they called it going to work.
Each morning I would get up, get dressed and walk to my job at a pet shop where I would clean up animal feces, serve impatient customers, and be on my feet for around 9 hours before walking home, all for about $400 a week.
I distinctly remember my conversation with one of these neighbours who was laughing at my decision to go to work each day.
Me: "Don't you want a job?"
Him: "Why would I want a job? I get money for free!" he said half laughing. "And if I need any more we can do some B & E's."
Me: "Don't you have to look for work in order to get the dole?"
Him: "All you have to do is get the yellow pages and pick some business names and write down their phone numbers."
These guys didn't just rob the odd house on occasion. They had all robbed HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of homes. Another of the neighbours shared some tips with me about how to avoid jail.
"Just don't say anything. Deny it. It doesn't matter if the cops catch you, just deny it. They have to prove it and they usually can't. I've got mates who have gone to jail but it's because they talked to the cops."
I was shocked, still am to be honest, that these people were so calculated in their decision to avoid legitimate employment, collect taxpayer funded welfare, and commit as many burglaries as they felt like.
But it eventually dawned on me. They're not stupid.
Economist David D. Friedman has an interesting essay published on the Library of Economics and Liberty.
He asserts that "A mugger is a mugger for the same reason I am an economist—because it is the most attractive alternative available to him. The decision to commit a crime, like any other economic decision, can be analyzed as a choice among alternative combinations of costs and benefits."
In other words, people commit a crime after weighing up the risk vs reward, or the cost vs the benefit.
They may not open a spreadsheet and run a calculation.
But, when deciding whether to rob a house or not, the criminal is generally aware of two factors:
A: Roughly how likely it is they will be caught.
B: Roughly what the punishment might be if they are in fact caught.
Earlier in the year she was interviewed by well known economist and communicator Russ Roberts, research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Here's a fascinating extract from their conversation:
Roberts: Part of what we are talking about here is responsibility, second chances, moral hazard. All these things tie in to these decisions that we make at the policy level. And it's interesting to me that you profile a parole system that is relentlessly unforgiving, remarkably successful, and actually reduces the problem in an interesting way. So, talk about that briefly. We're low on time, but it's such a great story.
McArdle: It is a great story. So, it's a judge in Hawaii who looked at the normal parole system. Basically, you've got sort of a suspended prison sentence. And you have to show up for your probation appointments, take regular drug tests, and so forth.
And what happens in a lot of cases is that people violated their parole a bunch of times. And then eventually after 10 or 20 times the probation officer gets fed up and says, Okay, that's it; you are going to prison; you are not complying and we are going to send you.
The judge looked at this, Judge Alm. He said, this is crazy. He said, what we should do is what you do with your kids: every time you violate, we punish you. Instead of nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, Bam!--5 years in prison.
And so that's what he did: he said, every single time you violate, you are going to jail. But only for a few days. And it has cut the rate of people who end up with prison terms in half.
They save the taxpayer money. And the probationers love it. It's one of the rare kind of win-win.
And I think this actually goes to why bankruptcy is great, and why this works better than traditional probation. Which is, you think about punishment--failure should not, as I say--it should hurt. Which is how you say, Don't do that. But you want it to hurt in a very specific way. And how do you think about that?
First thing, the pain should not be crippling. Right? Second, it should always happen. It should follow from things that don't work. Or in the case of probation often are things that are morally wrong. It happens every time. And then the third thing is that it should enable you to move on. Right?
And that is actually what this is focused on, is keeping you out of jail, keeping you connected to the labor market, to your family, not prisoners where you can learn more about being a criminal.
And it's phenomenally successful at focusing people on the future instead of focusing on their past. Because they are still in the community and they are still learning to be functioning members of the community. So, it's a phenomenally powerful. Because it does hurt. And it hurts immediately.
Over the past 50 years we've been struggling with this crime problem. The answer, though, has been harsher. Three-strikes and you are out laws. Harsher prison sentences. And what Judge Alm said--and what Mark Kleiman, from him I learned about this and who has written a great book on this called When Brute Force Fails--is that this is exactly the wrong way to think about it. (Click here for link to book.)
The thing is not to make the punishment more terrible. It's to make it more consistent.
And it's just remarkably effective.
And I wanted to put this in the book, because I end by talking about forgiveness and how important forgiveness is, and how much cheaper it is than we usually think. We usually spend too much time worrying about abuse and too little time worrying about the people whose lives are affected when we punish them. But that in this case, you do need to punish people.
But then how do you do it so that you maximize the chances of rehabilitation and minimize the damage to both society and the person? And this is why it's such a great story. Because you don't report on a lot of policy stories where there genuinely seem to be very few tradeoffs. But this is one of them.
I found the above conversation fascinating as it asserts that the knee jerk reaction to a crime problem doesn't need to simply be "tougher sentences".
That may be the way to win votes as it appeals to anyone who is a victim of crime, and seems to make sense. But someone has to pay for the prison guards. The taxpayer ends up getting robbed twice, once when his home gets broken into, and again when he has to pay the costs of incarcerating the criminal.
But there are real world examples of policy makers and enforcers replacing randomised severity with swiftness and certainty of punishment by clearly specifying the rules and then delivering the promised sanctions every time the rules are broken.
NewsHour Weekend profiles an innovative probation program in Hawaii that has been so successful in reforming offenders and keeping them out of prison, it's now being copied in courtrooms across the nation.
Learn more about Judge Steven Alm and Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program at the below links.
Video presentation from Judge Alm
Young people from the City of Greater Geraldton are being encouraged to sign up to the Changemakers program and help make positive choices and create changes in their community with funding available from the City.
Available to all youth aged 12 to 18 years, Changemakers provides youth the opportunity to access funding and guidance to develop projects and improve personal skills.
City of Greater Geraldton Director Creative Communities, Andrea Selvey, said Changemakers is a wonderful program aimed at encouraging young people to become more confident and active community members.
“A young person or a team of young people can create a community project with support from a youth worker and apply for seed funding up to $2000 through the Changemakers program,” said Ms Selvey.
This year Sam Walton and Viktor Harrison were received grant funding to develop a youth-based project.
Future Leaders participant, Sam Walton, said Future Leaders is a program run through the Mid West Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Geraldton Regional Community Education Centre to mentor young people in Geraldton on how to become better leaders within their community.
“As part of this program we had to create a community event and my main focus was to provide something safe, friendly and fun for our youth,” she said.
“With the help of friends I was able to organise an Under 18’s Big Night Out with in-kind support and great deals thanks to our local businesses, but the event was unfortunately cancelled last minute due to the youth bands pulling out.
“I was fully aware of what could happen and it was just a chance I had to take, although it didn’t go ahead it was a fantastic learning process,” said Samantha.
“If it weren’t for all the help and support from friends, work colleagues and local businesses, I wouldn’t have been able to achieve much at all.”
Viktor Harrison, who was mentored by PCYC, successfully applied for Changemakers funding to produce performances for under 12 year olds to show case their circus skills to parents and friends.
Viktor said working alongside PCYC Circus instructor, Simone Mahoney, he was able to help youth aged 4 to 12 years develop skills in both floor and aerial performances.
“Seeing youth develop their confidence as they master their floor rolls, balancing on the beams and progressing on aerial work on the rings and silks is so rewarding,” said Viktor.
“Engaging with youth on their routines and hosting two family concerts at PCYC has advanced my skills in event management and I look forward to working on similar projects in the future,” he said.
Changemakers funding for 2014/2015 is $2,000. Applications will be assessed in order of lodgement until the pools of funds are exhausted.
Youth are encouraged to develop their ideas by obtaining lists of costs, people and resources needed to make their project happen.
Applicants are advised to be creative in their applications which involve a presentation to a panel similar to a job interview.
Applications are available on the City of Greater Geraldton website www.cgg.wa.gov.au.
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"It didn't last long, but I got a few snaps of a tornado (correct me if I'm wrong). Picture was taken from Mt Tarcoola looking East towards Narngulu.
"It shifted and moved like you would imagine a twister does."
Fire on Marine Terrace.
Thanks Brooke for sending the pics.
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The Food Safety Awards and Conference are on again to recognise the hard efforts and award local food businesses who have maintained a high standard of food hygiene.
The awards will take place on Monday, November 17 at the Queen Elizabeth II Seniors and Community Centre at 1.45pm for registrations and a 2pm start with light refreshments.
Durack Institute of Technology, Department of Health Tobacco Unit and the City of Greater Geraldton will all provide small presentations on food safety.
City of Greater Geraldton Manager Environmental Health and Sustainability, Mark Chadwick, said the City implemented the Star Rating Awards system to recognise food handlers that make commitment towards demonstrating high standards and compliance with the Food Act 2008.
“The awards not only recognise and reward local businesses, it also educates and motivates consumers to seek out establishments that identify a particular star rating,” he said.
“Routine inspections and star rating evaluations are performed throughout the year. Premises can then receive a three or four star rating, or the highest at five stars which the City encourages businesses to strive towards.”
The main objective if the Star Rating Awards is to provide relevant food industry information and reward food businesses that have made an extra effort to gain a higher star rating.
All registered food businesses are invited to attend the event.
For more information on the Food Safety Awards and Conference contact Viraj Ballanthudaachchige or Emily Mace on (08) 9956 6600.
Eddie Vause, Andrew Hunter, Daniel and Tina Pendlebury
Georgia Raven & Di Gilleland
Painting and Decorating Apprentice Andrew Hunter is this year’s Master Builders Regional Apprentice of the Year.
This prestigious award was announced at the Master Builders Apprentice of the Year Awards in Perth on Friday 7 November.
The 23 year old who is now fully qualified started his apprenticeship in 2010 with Associated Painting Enterprises.
Mr. Hunter tried a number of different trades in high school, eventually choosing painting because of the art and decorating aspect.
According to Master Builders Training Director, Neil Du Rand, Andrew was a stand-out nominee who ticked all the selection criteria such as work and trade skills, personal attributes, ability to work unsupervised, a good relationship with other workers and competency in decision-making.
“Andrew’s keenness to learn and strong work ethic made him a cut above the other nominees” Mr. Du Rand said.
“Some of Andrew’s greatest strengths are his positive attitude and natural ability to perform under pressure.”
“With activity levels in the building industry being buoyant at the moment, Andrew is assured of a very bright future in pursuing his career as a painter”.
Mr. Hunter has already won a number of Master Builders Mid West Awards, including the 2014 Kevin Giudice Apprentice of the Year, the 2013 Master Builders Apprentice Encouragement Award and the 2012 Best First Year Apprentice for the Mid West region.
The Master Builders Regional Apprentice of the Year is determined from each of the best apprentices in regional WA. Andrew competed against Anthony Brien, carpenter from the South West; Jayde Ralph, electrician from the North-West and Bradley Mostert, Carpenter from the Great Southern.
Andrew won $350 and a framed certificate for his efforts, sponsored by the Construction Training Fund.
The highly anticipated cookbook from Midwest Charity Begins at Home is now available to pre-order.
The 200 page cookbook features recipes from the local community, and includes images contributed by local photographers.
The book will make a great gift for staff, friends or family this Christmas. They're $30 each, or $25 each for orders of 4 or more.
You can click here to download the order form, or email info@charitybeginsathome.org.au
Order now to get your cookbook gift wrapped and delivered in time for Christmas.
Geraldton MLA Ian Blayney has urged all parents and community members with an interest in the future of public education in Geraldton to attend a community meeting next week.
Mr Blayney said the meeting will focus on the major issues facing secondary education today and to hear the community’s views on what they believe makes a good secondary school.
Mr Blayney said Education Minister Peter Collier will be in Geraldton to host the meeting which will be held from 6pm-7.30pm, next Thursday (Nov 13) at the Geraldton Surf Lifesaving Club.
Mr Collier will share the results of a recent online survey about local public secondary schooling which had more than 300 respondents.
“I want to have a close look at education in Geraldton - a major regional centre of our State,” Mr Collier said.
“This process is about looking at the way we deliver secondary education and whether it is most effective, or if we can do better for students in this area.”
The Minister said all students needed the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects, and have access to pastoral care programs and support services that parents would expect of a good secondary school.
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The Batavia Coast Maritime Institute (BCMI) will be opening its doors to the public for the first time on Saturday 15 November. All training and research areas will be on display with free entry for visitors between 10am and 4pm.
The focus of the event will be on giving the community including school leavers, parents and jobseekers information about training pathways and career options, in addition to meeting the team of internationally industry experienced staff.
The iconic building located at Separation Point in Geraldton, is a state of the art training, research and development facility which opened in 2006 after ten years of planning and development. Since then it has positioned itself as a world class best practice aquaculture, marine research and training facility.
BCMI conducts research and carries out environmental projects of national relevance with training links to all of these projects for students. Visitors will be able to see the research work carried out on one of the more important projects which has gained national recognition lately, the control of Tilapia - a noxious fish invasive species in the rivers of the mid-west.
Training is offered in qualifications for aquaculture, aquaponics, conservation and land management, maritime industry, environmental science, laboratory sciences and sustainability with ongoing research projects at the Abrolhos Islands.
The highlight of the event will be guided tours through the aquaculture hatchery looking for Nemo and other ornamental fish which are bred by staff and students as part of their training course for commercial sale around Australia.
Visitors will also be able to take part in the “big fish feeding frenzy” with 20 kilogram Cobia grown up to one meter in length and Yellow-Tail Kingfish as well as other species of commercial interest in the undercover grow-out facility not normally on display to visitors.
Other interactive activities include using the maritime simulator to steer a tanker into the port of Geraldton or testing your own water or soil samples from your pool, bore, dam or farm paddock in the only NATA accredited environmental testing laboratory north of Perth.
Firefighting, aquaponics and hydroponics demonstrations will run throughout the day and visitors can also wander freely through the horticulture and CALM greenhouses to consult with the BCMI team about tips to grow the best fruit and vegetable in the region.
The public will be able to enjoy the maritime theme of the event with free fish burgers and relax in the landscaped gardens while a variety of activities unfold around them including a family play area, ice-creams, coffee and special guests at the official welcoming ceremony to be held at noon.
The Batavia Coast Maritime Institute has team members with international experience and backgrounds in a variety of environmental, aquaculture, maritime and sustainability industry areas.
Melissa Price, Member for Durack, today encouraged the community to pause for one minute’s silence at 11am, to wear a red poppy or to attend their local Remembrance Day service and pay tribute to the men and women who have served, and those who continue to serve our nation in times of war, conflict and on peacekeeping operations.
“Most Australians have a personal story about a family member or friend, who has served in the Australian Defence Force. Whether it be a mother who bid farewell to her son bound for Afghanistan, or the children who hear tales of their great grandfather’s service during the First or Second World War, all of us have been touched by those who have served their nation at their nation’s request,” Ms Price said.
“This Remembrance Day, Tuesday 11 November, we remember all of them, Australians who gave so much for their country.”
An Anzac Centenary Program has been developed, and aims to encourage all Australians to reflect upon, and learn more about Australia’s wartime history, the costs and the impact of war on those who participated, on our communities and on the entire nation.
Further information about the Anzac Centenary Program, including planned international and domestic events, can be found at:http://www.anzaccentenary.gov.au/
Each year, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs produces a Remembrance Day commemorative poster that you can freely download and display. This year the poster focuses on the departure of the first convoy from Albany, carrying Australian and New Zealand soldiers to the war in 1914.
“It is here in local communities that the legacy is carried on, ensuring we never forget those who have served, particularly the more than 102,000 Australians who have lost their lives wearing our country’s uniform” Ms Price said.
For more information on Remembrance Day, to access the service resources, or to download the commemorative poster, visit www.dva.gov.au/remembranceday.htm
GERALDTON’S BIG DIG
In 2015, major multi-million dollar conservation work is expected to commence on Geraldton’s most iconic building, St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral.
It is also planned to build a Monsignor Hawes Heritage Centre, Café and Plaza in the grounds in front of the Cathedral.
This area contains an early 20th century Geraldton rubbish dump which as part of the conservation and development work is to be archaeologically excavated under the supervision of Fr Robert Cross (Catholic priest & Archaeologist) from 24 – 28 November, from 8am to 5pm daily.
It is anticipated that artefacts recovered from the dig will provide valuable historical information about early Geraldton and the early phases of the Cathedral’s construction.
A feature of this archaeological dig is that it will be a Public Archaeology Event, that is, the public will be welcome to come to the dig and help with the sieving, collection, cleaning and sorting of artefacts.
Ocean & Earth Training Specialists is one of the major contributors to this project, supplying various machinery and labour to the value of approximately $40,000.
Other contributors to this archaeological project in kind or financially are: Security Co, Cross Archaeology and Ecclesiastical Heritage, Monsignor Hawes Heritage Inc, St Vincent de Paul, Nagle College and several individuals.
An application has also been submitted for the latest round of the City of Greater Geraldton’s Community Grants Programme.
Fr Robert Cross deeply appreciates the commitment of all the above to this project but is still looking for contributions (money or in-kind) to help meet the costs of the dig, estimated to be in excess of $60,000.
All contributions will be acknowledged on the website and in any publicity material.
Please visit the website that has been set up to publicise and inform about this unique Geraldton event: https://sites.google.com/site/archaeologyofsfx.
If you would like to can help with any of these or would like to make a donation of money, please contact Fr Cross on 99213221 or email him at heritage@diocese-geraldton.org
(Note: Fr Robert Cross will be out of his office from 10 -14 November but messages, donations or offers of assistance can be left with Genny at the Diocesan Office Ph: 99213221).
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