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No. 23 WinterNeighbourhood 2014 Watch Tasmania © NHWtasmania NUBEENA DOES IT AGAIN PAGE 13 WINTER FIRE SAFETY TIPS PAGE 16 ALAN PAGE MEMORIAL GARDEN PAGE 16 HEARD OR SEEN ANYTHING STRANGE OR SUSPICIOUS Tasmania Police - Urgent Matters: 000 - Other Police Matters: 131 444 - Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 1 Neighbourhood Watch Tasmania • Key Cutting • High Security Master Key Systems • Door & Window Deadlocks – • Safe Sales, Installation and Servicing – Supplied and Installed Domestic & Commercial • Locks Opened, Repaired and Rekeyed • Mobile Locksmithing Service – Statewide • Automotive Locks & Keys – • Electronic Security – Alarms, CCTV and Electronic Key Specialists Access Control 24 Hr - 7 Day 215 Harrington Street Hobart Tasmania 7000 Emergency Service Fourth generation family business operating in Hobart since 1955. Supplying quality products, backed by service and maintenance. 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However, the Publisher cannot guarantee and assumes no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, currency or completeness of the Vale: Graeme Raphael .............................18 information or that the information contained in the publication is suitable for each individual reader’s needs. Accordingly, the contents do not amount Upper Burnie NHW Celebrates 20 years ... 19 to a recommendation (either expressly or by implication) and are not intended to be used as professional, medical or other advice. The contents of this publication should not be relied upon in lieu of specific and Dr Frank Madill Awarded ........................21 independent professional advice. The Publisher takes no responsibility for information provided by third parties whose contact details or website address is provided to the public. The Publisher disclaims all responsibility for any loss, damage or injury of any type which may be incurred by any reader using or relying upon information contained in the publication, whether or not that loss, damage or injury is caused by any fault, negligence, misrepresentation, omission or breach of duty on the part of the Publisher, it’s directors, employees, representatives, agents or contractors. © Impress Print Puzzles & Teasers...............................................20 10-12 Wenvoe Street, Devonport TAS 7310 Answers ..............................................................23 Ph: (03) 6424 5900 Fax: (03) 6424 5258 Email: [email protected] 3 Neighbourhood Watch Tasmania FROM THE STATE PRESIDENT The question that has We need to do more to support Watches – reducing been raised around meeting formalities and the need for so many Neighbourhood Watch office bearers, perhaps even producing a generic Tasmania over the past newsletter that all Watches can use, making crime few years has been reports available electronically, etc. Implementing “where to from here?” such change might not sit comfortably with all groups, but we need to progress this organisation. The number of Watches has diminished, Malcolm MacDonald & Associates has been volunteers continue to age and we don’t seem to engaged to assist this process, but they can only have the right recipe to engage younger members act on what we tell them. So make sure you tell of the community. your State Committee representative how you see Neighbourhood Watch into the future. The conference that we held at Deloraine two years ago certainly provided many pro-active and Our Annual General Meeting held late last year exciting ideas on how individual Watches could provided yet another opportunity for us to consider work with their local community for progression. working in partnership on an issue of significant Sadly, many Watches have just sunk back into the importance. Peter Middleton from Tasmanian Fire old ways and don’t like to address the suggestions Service talked about using community partnerships that were put forward. Working with other like- to assist with spreading the message about fire minded organisations in your local community is preparedness and emergency evacuations. This is seen by some as a threat, yet it should be viewed very relevant information for our rural Watches, but as a positive to progress NHW in that area. can still apply in the more urban areas. Although the past summer was a warm one, we have managed Gone are the days when Watches had the to get through it without significant fire outbreaks. manpower to letterbox every house in every That was very good news and we want to keep it street on a regular basis. As the saying goes, that way. make Mohammed come to the mountain – make the newsletters available at the places people go Let’s keep the channels of communication open within that community. And we can’t be scared – between each other, between Watches and of electronic communication – email, Facebook, between community organisations in your area – Twitter and web pages are all very valuable tools there is much strength in being informed across all for communication. issues. As President of the State body, I am overseeing Jan Dunsby an extensive review of the way we operate, too. President COMMERC IAL STATIONERY A DVERTIS ING M ARKETING 4 Neighbourhood Watch Tasmania FROM THE EDITOR It is now some six the role of Neighbourhood Watch in this kind of months since the wider community context, c.f. the Nubeena and publication of the previous Natone stories. edition of NHWtasmania and three months since With one exception, all the stories in the Around the 2014 NHWT Calendar the State section of this issue: the Alan Page hit the streets. With fewer NHWT publications Memorial Garden, Nubeena Does it Again, annually, one could be excused for thinking that Legana’s Secret and West Moonah’s Neighbour the role of the Editor gets progressively easier. Day -- have a wider community context than crime prevention and community safety in the Not at all! As time goes by, there are fewer and traditional sense. fewer contributions from individual members of NHWT. A reflection, I hear you say, of the state of Now, well may you say, these stories are about health of our organisation. Watches in country areas (West Moonah would quite rightly disagree); and life was always So, what to do? A little informed navel-gazing different there. Point taken, but a Letter to the would not go amiss. Editor in the next issue, be it in defence of the status quo, or contesting it, would not go amiss Some 12 months ago at the two-day gathering either. of Watch members and friends in Deloraine, a number of speakers suggested there was scope It is, after all, your magazine!