Upper Kiewa Valley Community Association

A last minute reminder……

The 2015 Upper Kiewa Valley Community Association ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING is tonight, Thursday, 3rd September.  UKVCA hopes to see all members and community members attend.

Venue:  AUDITORIUM@informationcentre

Time:     7.30pm

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN IMPROVING OUR

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS AND

CONDITIONS?

Then come to the AGM and find out how

YOU can help with these improvements.

THURSDAY, 3RD SEPTEMBER.

7.30 PM

AUDITORIUM@informationcentre

Kiewa Valley Highway, Mt. Beauty

Three members of the Upper Kiewa Valley Communication Association attended the graduation on 2nd July of the participants who have successfully completed 6 months of work on conservation projects in and around Mt. Beauty and Falls Creek.

The Team  have worked on a number of reserves enjoyed by our community including the Kiewa River walking trail to Pebble Beach, clearing and replanting large areas around the Pondage and indentifying and controlling grey sallow willow in priority Alpine bogs and wetlands around Falls Creek Resort.

The group has worked with the Upper Kiewa Landcare Group, Alpine Shire Council, Falls Creek Resort Management, Parks Victoria, AGL and UKVCA.  All of these community groups thanked the participants and  praised the work undertaken and hoped that another 6 month project will occur in the near future.

Landcare in the North East regularly send UKVCA information on future events that may be of interest to you.  If you are interested in turtles and/or carp you may like to attend the following events.  Click on the link below for more information:

Turtle flyer (pdf)

Carp conference (pdf)

The Kiewa Valley has long suffered with inadequate telecommunication services.  Currently there is a review of these issues in regional, rural and remote parts of Australia.  For full details on this review go to     www.rtirc.gov.au

The Terms of Reference for the Committee include:

– to consider the adequacy of telecommunications in regional, rural and remote parts of Australia

– whether people in those areas have equitable access to telecommunication services that are significant to them and are currently available in one or more parts of urban Australia.

SUBMISSIONS are due by 15th July, 2015

Submissions can be made on-line  or in writing to:

2015 Regional Review Secretariat, Dept. of Communications,

GPO Box 2154, Canberra, ACT.  260

Do you or your family use the Mt. Beauty pondage foreshore playground?

This THURSDAY, 18th JUNE 4 – 5PM at AUDITORIUM@informationcentre there will be a community consultation with the Alpine Shire.  Your input is needed. 

Come and see what ideas have been put forward and share your own insights and suggestions.  For further details contact Francine Stacey at Alpine Shire (5755 0555) or Jenny Kusz, UKVCA Committee Member, on 0424 505 059

Please advise Jenny if you require supervision for your children during this session before noon on Thursday, as this can be arranged.

If you attended the UKVCA April Q&A session with Federal member for Indi, Cathy McGowan, one of the issues impacting Kiewa Valley residents was telecommunications.  There has been a request for submissions from impacted residents to make submissions to the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee.  Please send your submission to the Federal member for Indi, Cathy McGowan, either by mail (117 Murphy Street, Wangaratta, 3677) or email to simon.crase@aph.gov.au

Additionally, if you were at the Q&A and took a Kitchen Table Conversation Host Kit, the Indi office has requested that all completed kits be returned to the Indi office by June 30.  The Kitchen Table Conversation Report will be launched on Sunday, August 2nd.  Send completed kits to:  Office of Cathy McGowan, AO MP, Federal member for Indi, 117 Murphy Street, Wangaratta.  3677.

The Alpine Shire has launched a Directory of Activities within the Alpine Shire titled Positive Ageing…..way to go!  It is a diverse listing of recreational activities and community organisations for older people in the Alpine Shire.  There are over 170 listings and  80 have detailed information. 

In the last census, over 30% of Alpine Shire residents were over 60 years of age.  It is predicted that within in the next 10 years, 41% of residents will be in that age group.  The aim of the Directory is to enable residents in this age group to connect with people and groups, achieve goals and enhance health and well-being.

Mayor, Jan Vonax launched the Directory on the 29th May, 2015.  The launch was attended by representives of many of the groups who contributed  to the Directory.

Mary Pike, Mary Hardman, Laraine Zejbrlik, Don Pollock and Trish Cross represented the Kiewa Valley at the launch.

A monthly Meeting Report will now appear on the UKVCA website.  To view this report, which is a summary of the discussions at the monthly committee meeting, click on the title ‘MEETING REPORTS’ above to read the report.

A representative of the Upper Kiewa Valley Community Association has been invited to attend the up-coming Alpine Health Forum / Planning Day.

As members of the UKVCA we are inviting you to provide any concerns or comments about the role of Alpine Health in our community.  Please send any questions or feedback to the UKVCA on info@ukvcommunity.org.au by Friday, 24th April and they will be shared at the Forum.