A very busy few days with some fantastic events happening in and around The Alice. Attended the monthly Chamber of Commerce ‘Business At Sunset’ event last night at Desert Knowledge and caught up with much admired Ifor Ffowcs-Williams from Cluster Navigators Limited who has taught me so much over the years about making the ‘net – work’. Attended an Outback Business Network breakfast with him as presenter in the Chamber offices this morning. From there to the Desert Park for the launching of the Red Centre Way campaign with a $500K boost from the Federal government. Launched by the federal tourism Minister, Martin Ferguson, it was a another great(orex) addition to the thriving tourism industry in and through Central Australia. I was introduced to the Minister and we engaged in some good discussion around tourism.
My Phil Phooty’s arrived today – cute little blue and orange (of course) ‘breath balls’ for people to use and for kids to come up with rules for. I’ll start a competition in the primary and secondary schools for students to come up with some ‘rules of play’ which have to NOT include pain!!
Helped launch an Alzheimer’s Australia and NT AIDS & Hepatitis Council (NTAHC) project on Lesbians, Gay Men and Dementia on Tuesday by facilitating the hypotheticals session where ‘care studies’ were discussed in an open forum of around 30 people who attended. Our very own former Alice-ite, Dr. Jo Harrison – gerontologist extraordinaire – gave a great(orex) presentation highlighting the work of Heather Birch.
Also attended part of a workshop today presented by the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities Inc. (qahc – pronounced ‘kwack’) outreach training workers on promoting the positive health of the LGBT communities. Auspiced by our local NTAHC, the workers presented some great(orex) information to a variety of workers around Alice Springs. Great job Daniel, Merryn and Natalie in putting it all together.
So……..it’s all happening in The Alice – as usual!!
A reminder that this Sunday is Clean Up Australia day – so if you want to come and help me clean up Frances Smith Memorial Park on Kurrajong Drive from 7am – 9am followed by breakfast at our place, please do so.
