Yarrabilba News YARRABILBA / SPRING 2019 Surrounded by loved ones Why Ketty is excited to join the community Secondary schools aplenty 2020 sees the opening of one and construction of another Community grants awarded Five recipients announced belong at Yarrabilba Community news & events WELCOME Welcome to the spring edition of your community Yarrabilba Police Station officially opening in late newsletter. We have an exciting few months ahead August, following an upgrade of the existing Logan with the return of the Yarrabilba Trail Fest, our next Village Police Beat. The upgraded facility has seen an Meet Your Neighbours event and the upcoming increase from two to nine officers dedicated to the opening of the new display village. Logan Village Yarrabilba area, including a sergeant officer in charge and eight general duties staff. Our recent community grant round has delivered five fantastic programs that will benefit our community. Calling budding photographers – we want you In this edition we introduce the recipients and look to capture the beauty of Yarrabilba and share the at how they will use their grant funds to deliver these images with us to be voted on for next newsletter programs in our community. We also launch a new front cover! Start capturing, we’ll have details on grant round opening in October that has a focus on Facebook soon on how you can be involved. new and emerging community groups and activities - we are offering 5x $3000 grants! Plenty more news inside. If you have any community news you’d like to share, or if you’re interested in We also chat with our two new secondary colleges. starting a group or club, please get in touch. Yarrabilba State Secondary College opens in 2020 and a yet-to-be-named Catholic secondary college Danielle Kollanyi will open in 2021. Community Coordinator [email protected] Great news for the community with the Logan Village Local organisations benefit from Community Grants Program Our recent community grants round will deliver some fantastic outcomes for our community. We’re excited to announce the five recipients. CREATIVE CULTURAL COLLECTIVE environment. Their COMMUNITY INC $10,395 grant will allow the program to include a Congratulations to Thursday afternoon session Creative Cultural Collective and potentially a Saturday Community Inc (CCCC) who morning session, making were awarded $2080. Their the program available to grant will enable Yarrabilba’s more Yarrabilba youth. Panable Steel Drum Band to travel to and perform at YARRABILBA Sandy Murdoch accepts the cheque PANZfest 2019, the only on behalf of TRACTION and Yarra- Alvin Rostant and the Panable Band COMMUNITY bilba’s Bike Club steel drum festival held in are heading to PANZfest! ASSOCIATION (YCA) Australia. The YCA were recently awarded a $6633.90 grant to BRAVEHEARTS purchase equipment for the new Yarrabilba Sports and Community Hub. This includes first aid equipment, office Bravehearts, a child furniture and grounds equipment which will help activate protection organisation, was the facility and maximise community use. awarded $15,417.60 to offer a school-based student safety FAIR GO AUSTRALIA program which is fun and non-threatening. It focuses Not-for-profit organisation, on interactively teaching Fair Go Australia, was awarded children how to identify a Megan Young from Bravehearts $5000 which will offer a wide-range of potentially accepts their cheque to deliver a mentorship program to at-risk safety program that will benefit young men in the community. unsafe situations with around 1168 children knowledge and skills on how The 4-week program will to respond appropriately. This program will be delivered provide one-on-one support locally to seven childcares and schools and is expected to and guidance to participants John Godwin from Fair Go Australia positively impact approximately 1168 children. to help develop a strong sense of self-worth and confidence, set goals and make positive TRACTION BIKE CLUB life choices. The program will be delivered at the Family and Community Place. If you know someone who would Launched in February 2019, TRACTION’s Bike Club be interested in participating contact at Yarrabilba provides an opportunity for local youth, [email protected] supported by positive role models, to connect and work on bikes (rebuilding, restoring, servicing) in a supportive We’re looking for new groups and ideas! Community groups shape our growing community. Our next grant round will open in October and we’re looking to fund new and emerging groups and activities through our Community Enterprise Foundation grants program. There will be 5 x $3000 grants up for grabs. Visit cia.communityenterprisefoundation.com.au click on ‘Grant Programs’ to apply online. If you’re interested in joining or forming a group, or have an idea that an existing group might Calling new and emerging groups be able to implement and you can be a part of, please get in touch with and activities, our next [email protected] to discuss ideas. community grant round is for you! Secondary schools aplenty Yarrabilba will soon be home to two of Queensland’s Secondary Catholic College newest secondary colleges. Construction is well advanced on Yarrabilba State Secondary College Planning is well underway for Yarrabilba’s Catholic (YSSC) due to open in January 2020, as well as a yet- secondary college, on a 5.8 hectare site on the corner to-be-named Catholic secondary college which will of Yarrabilba Drive and Woodward Avenue. commence construction next year to open in 2021. The yet-to-be-named secondary college will eventually cater to 1000 students from Year 7 to 12, with the first Yarrabilba State Secondary College Year 7 intake in 2021. Year levels will be progressively YSSC foundation principal Belinda Tregea said close to added until the first Year 12 students graduate in 2026! 150 enrolment applications have been received, with Brisbane Catholic Education executive director Pam more families registering their interest in the college Betts said it was exciting to be planning the opening of every day. a new college. “I am overwhelmed with the positive response from the “St Clare’s Primary School has been very warmly community so far, and I look forward to meeting the welcomed by the community, and we are really looking families who have expressed interest in attending our forward to creating a pathway for students to complete college,” she said. their whole primary and secondary education in local At the recent information evening they showcased their Catholic schools,” she said. school’s excellence programs and launched the school “Yarrabilba is quickly becoming a vibrant, thriving uniform. place, and we want our new Catholic secondary Camino di “Our ever-growing, dynamic team is working towards college to make a real Francesco our vision of creating a learning community where contribution to this Court The Drive Nature YARRABILBA DRIVE Play every student is understood, engaged and successful, community.” Court going on to live a life of choice, not chance,” Ms Tregea Expressions of The said. interest are now open Stadium Yarrabilba WOODWARD AVENUE Green North and applications for Learning Sacro The school has a transition Common Bosco Camino di Francesco enrolment will open Court day planned for Year 6 The Lantern Forum The later this year. Visit Academy students on Thursday 24 Piazza di Francesco www.bne.catholic. The October 2019 where they Source The Hub The Avenue A l b e r a t a The The Sanctuary edu.au/schools- The Heart D r o p O f f will be encouraged to Factory The Corsia T h e M e t r o meet new people, visit the curriculum/new- WOODWARD AVENUE South Via Fossato Learning Common schools to register B u s S t o p College site and discuss WOODWARD AVENUE your interest. The Lane expectations. There will be The Boulevard a short parent information The Corsia session from 2pm on the The uniform of Yarrabilba State The masterplan of the new Catholic secondary college at Yarrabilba shows a Secondary College was revealed at a central piazza, nature play area, a pond, sports halls and sporting field master plan same day. 25/02/2019 1:1500 1:1500 CONCEPT MASTER PLAN YARRABILBA SECONDARY CATHOLIC COLLEGE |stage 1 community information session YARRABILBA SECONDARY CATHOLIC COLLEGE |MASTER PLAN concept Community celebrates Indigenous culture with fun workshop In July, to celebrate NAIDOC Week, cultural educator and Bigambul and Wadjalang descendent, Rick Roser, came along to share his culture and stories with around 50 enthusiastic attendees on the lawn of the Sales and Information Centre. NAIDOC Week, celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and this year’s theme was ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’. Did you know that NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’? This committee was once responsible for organising national activities during NAIDOC Week and its acronym has since become the name of the week itself. At our community event, an Acknowledgment of Country recognising the Traditional Owners of the area, the Yugambeh People, kicked things off and then the fun began. Participants enjoyed boomerang throwing, ochre body painting and emu feather adornment as well as traditional fire making with just two sticks, dry grass and their hands. Rick offered up $50 if anyone managed to start a fire. Despite best efforts the $50 remains unclaimed after 34 years of him presenting these workshops. Thank you to everyone who came along for a fun morning. The community cultural workshop offered participants the opportunity to try their hand at Aborig- inal traditions including boomerang throwing, ochre body painting, fire starting and emu feather adornment Meet Ketty! As the fourth member of her family to purchase at Yarrabilba, Ketty and her family are excited to be joining the Yarrabilba community early next year when their new home is complete.