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Talkabout June / July 2 Edition Number 122 June / July 2015 INNISFAIL & DISTRICT Community Information Newsletter Produced by the COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTRE WEB PAGE 13-17 Donald Street, P O Box 886, Innisfail 4860 www.csci.org.au Phone: 40438400 Fax: 4061 7312 Freecall: 1800 616 001 The Community Support Centre is funded primarily by the Department of Communities This edition kindly sponsored by Inner Wheel Club of Innisfail Inc DISCLAIMER Page 2 Editorial, June & July Recreation Mornings, Salvos ALL ARTICLES IN THIS MAGAZINE ARE Page 3 Inner Wheel Australia PRINTED IN GOOD FAITH FOR THE Page 4 & 5 Connie Riera’s Story COMMUNITY AND DO NOT Page 6 & 7 Jeff’s Anzac Pilgrimage , Show puzzle NECESSARILY REPRESENT Page 8 Overcoming adversity THE VIEWS OF THE INNISFAIL Page 9 Introducing Norman, Coping with Stress COMMUNITY Page 10 Recipes SUPPORT CENTRE INC Talkabout June / July 2 Editorial We certainly live in a vibrant, interesting community full of diverse and extraordinary people with remarkable stories to tell. We are privileged in this edition of Talkabout to be able to share a number of those stories. Thank you to all our contributors. Happy reading! JUNE RECREATION MORNING Tai Chi With Brooke and Lynn We invite you to join us for a taste of TAI CHI. Tai Chi is wonderful for health and wellbeing. It is a gentle form of movement , which is suitable for all ages. Where : Community Support Centre Innisfail Inc 13-17 Donald St Innisfail When: Monday 15th June 2015 Time : 9.30AM to 12.00 PM Cost: FREE RSVP Contact Reception on 40438400 by Wednesday 10th June Wear comfortable loose clothing We invite you to July Recreation Morning Crochet for Beginners With Maria and Lyn Crochet is fun, relaxing and easy to learn Come along and get hooked on crocheting During the morning we will cover the basics of crochet . We will cover how to hold the hook and yarn, make a slip knot, learn chain stitch and other basic stitches to get you going on your own project. Where: Innisfail Community Support Centre Inc 13-17 Donald St Innisfail When: Monday 20th July 2015 Time: 9.30 AM to 12.00PM Cost : FREE Hook and Yarn Supplied RSVP : Reception on 40438400 by Wednesday 15th July Toilet paper and tissues – Salvos supplying the basic necessities In April, Gwen Hammerton and 5 other members of the Salvation Army delivered some much needed “pamper packs” to the embattled farming communities in the drought stricken region around Longreach. The packs had been put together thanks to the generosity of the people of the Cassowary Coast. Some of the Salvation Army officers will be going south in July and will meet up with the Rural Chaplains from Longreach so it has been decided to support the farmers again with a Toilet Roll and Tissue drive. Anyone able to contribute to this very worthy cause is asked to please drop the goods off, with Gwen’s name on them, to the Salvo Store in Rankin St, Innisfail. Talkabout June / July 3 Inner Wheel began in 1924 in Manchester, England with the emblem being a small wheel contained within the Rotary Wheel. Members were the wives of Rotarians. Now members can be: Women related to Rotarians/former Rotarians. Women related to Inner Wheel members/former Inner Wheel members. Women who have been invited to join – provided that a majority of the club members agree. The first club to be chartered outside the United Kingdom was formed in Ballarat, Victoria in 1931. National membership is now almost 4000 with 14 districts and 2 non-districted clubs throughout Australia. The first International President from the Southern Hemisphere was Gwen Davis from Parramatta, NSW, in 1975-76 followed by Gwen Belmont, NSW, in 1992-93, Louise Richardson from Sutherland, NSW, 1998-99 and Carole Buchanan from Berwick, Victoria, in 2001-02. International Inner Wheel is the largest women’s voluntary organisation in the world. Two International Conventions have been held in Australia - the first in 1976 in Willoughby, NSW, and the second in 1993 in Darling Harbour, NSW. The next 17th Triennial International Convention will be held in Melbourne in 2018. The National Conference is held every year in October, in different areas hosted by the local clubs or district. The OBJECTS of Inner Wheel are: To promote true friendship To encourage the ideals of personal service To foster international understanding The Inner Wheel organisation supports projects within the local, national and global communities. On January 10 every year members worldwide perform acts of service and friendship in memory of the founder of Inner Wheel, Margaret Golding, of the Manchester Club, in 1924. Australia’s national project since 2001 is to support Cord Blood Research and since then Research Grants have been presented with progress made over the years to improve the health of many patients. Total funds raised nationally to 31st March, 2015 are $2,134,716.70. Clubs meet once a month for Friendship, fun, guest speakers, outings, service and fundraising activities. INNISFAIL INNER WHEEL Meets 1st Tuesday each month The Hub Meeting Room – Donald Street Innisfail Friendship Fellowship Fun For more information please phone 07 4061 2219 Talkabout June / July 4 CONNIE RIERA Connie Riera was awarded the Australia Day Lifetime Contribution Award in 2015. We have asked her to tell her story in her own words. My grandfather, Sam Cardillo, came out from Italy in 1898. He bought 50 acres of rainforest on the banks of the Moresby River, felled the trees and planted sugar cane between the tree stumps. My grandmother, who remained in Italy with their three children, never came to Australia. In the early 1900’s their daughter Maria, my mother, was 14 years old and attending college in Italy. But my grandfather needed help on the farm and my mother reluctantly came out on her own to help him. He met her off a boat at Mourilyan Harbour and they travelled by horse and sulky for 10 miles through dense scrub to the farm. Within two years my grandfather had an arranged marriage for my mother to Giovanni Sorbello, a man 26 years her senior. They bought land in Sandy Pocket and began farming there. I was born when my mother was only 16. They were hard times. We relied on creek water carried home in kerosene tins for cooking and bathing. I began school in Moresby in 1929. I walked four miles to school along a horse track through the scrub and later I rode a horse. Sugar cane grew well in the virgin soil but our farm was surrounded by wattle trees which attracted beetles. They would drop in the soil, turn into grubs and would eat the roots of the cane. The cane would topple over and that would be the end of the crop. It got so bad we had to walk off the farm. This happened just at the beginning of World War 2. Men were being called for war duties and women were needed to take their place. I applied to work in the Post Office, took exams, got top marks and was accepted as Postmistress at Moresby. I was 17 years old. Working hours were from six am to six pm. Post Offices were very busy, with lots of duties that had to be dealt with, 24 hours a day if necessary. Besides this I packed parcels with families for their sons and husbands. I would receive phone calls in the middle of the night for telegrams I had to write out to families of men wounded and missing. When I think of it now it still gives me goose bumps. I had to deliver the telegrams and of course people hated to see me coming. It was very distressing. On my free nights I’d have dinner, then study. I had enrolled for a two-year drafting and dressmaking correspondence course and won a scholarship. I then studied another two years to become a tailoress. After the war we opened a grocery store at Wangan and we lived there. I taught drafting and dressmaking and, doing what I loved most, making bridal and debutante gowns. In 1948 I married Martin, the love of my life. He bought a farm on Henderson Drive when we got engaged Talkabout June / July 5 and I have lived there since. We had two beautiful daughters, Vivien and Robyn, and felt we had complete happiness. But I came to realise that perfect happiness does not last forever. Martin was killed on 14/9/1958 when a tractor tyre fell on him. We had been married for 10½ years. When I became a widow Vivien was four years old and Robyn four months. How can anyone pick up the pieces and start life again when the whole world has collapsed in front of you? But I had to, with two young children to raise, farms to manage and farm hands to employ. A female stepping into a man’s world did not happen in those days. Attending male dominated farm meetings was a challenge. I remember chairmen asking farmers to curb their language and comments such as “her place is in the kitchen, not here”. Martin used to discuss all aspects of the farm with me so I was able to carry on and farmed successfully for thirty-four years. I had seen contour planting in Europe and did it myself for three years before it was suggested by other farmers here. I think I paved the way in the community for recognition of women’s abilities on farms. I was determined to succeed and hope I inspired other women.
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