Upper Kiewa Valley Community Association

Kiewa Valley Community members may be eligible for this service.

This is a free service available to any eligible person travelling to, from,  or within Melbourne, Seymour and surrounding areas.  Trained volunteers provide assistance along the way, whether it is for an essential appointment (i.e. medical), a social activity or to attend an important family event.  For more information about this service, click on the link.

https://www.travellersaid.org.au/our-services/companion-service/

This Australia Post program offers grants of up to $10,000 for eligible projects that help people connect with each other to address local needs.

The community initiatives that may be awarded to eligible recipients include:

* helping people connect with each other through group activities (e.g. volunteering programs, civic engagement and environmental activities);                                                           *  reduce barriers to participation in community life (e.g. transport, ability to pay, or access to community spaces):  and/or                                                                                                 *  develop skills and leadership capability to strengthen social and community networks.

Click on the link below to learn more and  to check eligibility criteria:

auspost.com.au/grants

Applications close on 4th August, 2019

 This Survey is forwarded to subscribers of the                                                                of the UKVCA Webpage  as requested by the Alpine Shire

Here is your chance to have your say in identifying litter and illegal dumping priorities for the region.  Click on the link to complete the survey.

www.engage.vic.gov.au/regional-litter-and-illegal-dumping-plans/north-east

Remember to put this date in your diary…..

The Community and Health Advisory Group (CHAG) have been working with local Aboriginal artists to develop a piece of art for the 3 hospitals in the Alpine Shire.

The first one to be installed is at Bright Hospital and you are invited to the unveiling.  Details below:

From 1st July, 2019, the Mt. Beauty Transfer Station is now able to accept the following E-waste items at no cost for disposal .  You must take them to the Mt. Beauty Waste Facility , Maddisons Lane, Mt. Beauty for disposal.  Do not put any of these items in your large Recyclable bin.

An item with a plug, power cord or battery is classified as E-waste.

Other items that are now accepted at NO CHARGE include batteries, compact Fluorescent lamps, Fluorescent Tubes, other globes and printer cartridges.  There are individual drop off boxes for these items at the Mt. Beauty facility.

Large Whitegoods (fridges, air conditioners, stoves, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines and dryers) will still incur a cost.

The Champagne Club Kiewa Valley Inc. have requested the Upper Kiewa Valley Community Association to notify our subscribers about this upcoming event.  The Champagne Club is a local not for profit community association which aims to hold events to raise funds to support people and groups in our area.  The Midwinter Snowball is their major 2019 event.

Upper Kiewa Valley Community  Association congratulate Dr. Mark Zagorski for being recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours for receiving an Order of Australia Medal for his services to the Mt. Beauty and Upper Kiewa Valley community as a General Practitioner.

Dr Zagorski is a gen­eral practitioner at Mount Beauty Medical Centre and the Trauma Centre at Falls Creek Medical Centre, as well as a visiting medical officer at Alpine Health and a current member of the medical consultative committee.

He is also a Foundation Fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Re­mote Medicine, a medical trainer with Falls Creek Ski Patrol, treasurer of the Rural Doctors Association Victoria, coordinator of ‘Pit Stop’ Men’s Health Night at Mount Beauty & District Men’s Shed, past Hume General Practitioner representative with Medical Displan Victoria (now Emergency Management Victoria) and is cur­rently field emergency medical officer for the NE Hume.

Dr Zagorski was awarded the Rural Doctor of the Year Award by Rural Doctors Association of Australia in 2008 and received a long service award from Rural Workforce Agency Victoria in 2017.

Dr Zagorski said the nomination came as a surprise.

“I didn’t expect anything like this. I don’t consider myself any more special that anybody else who does a full-time job in the community,” he said.

Beyond getting three new letters to put at the end of his name, Dr Zagorski said the award simply meant I,000 Facebook messages from well-wishers.

”There will be a medal presentation ceremony later in September or October, and maybe a nod from the Victorian Governor General but I’m not sure what else,” he said.

If you are considering Solar Energy, local suppliers will be manning displays to talk through renewable energy options for homes and business in Bright this coming weekend, Friday June 14 and Saturday June 15 .  Check out the Expo Schedule on the link below….

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