June $2 2017 Designed & Printed by Local Monthly Newsletter: Find out what’s happening in Shark Bay, local business, activities & contacts Nutrition Workshops Mums & Bubs Sessions p34 Session includes: - Healthy eating for kids - Have your nutrition Presented by: Meredith Irving, Dietitian (APD) questions Durlacher Dietetics & Geraldton Diabetes Clinic answered Where: Kindy Gym - Morning tea provided Executive Shark BaOfficer’sy Recreation Centre, Report Francis ..................................... Street 3 CommunityWhen: Tuesday 13Noticesth & 27th June ........................................ 2017 from 4 St Time:John 10 amAmbulance News ...................................... 5 ShireCost: PresidentFREE Report .......................................... 7 RAD ROCK SBDVC Tourism Updates ........................................ 9 Conservation Matters ..................................... 10-11 Art Exhibition ........................................................ 12 CLIMBING School Based Traineeship .................................. 13 Birthday’s & Anniversaries .................................. 15 10AM SB Bowling Club ................................................... 16 SATURDAY Congratulations SB Fishing Club ........................ 17 TO SB Fishing Fiesta ............................................. 18-21 St Andrews by the Sea ........................................... 21 JUNE 17TH 2PM Quiz Night Report .................................................. 22 SB School news .................................................... 23 Tides ....................................................................... 22 VMR ....................................................................... 25 p28 Boat Servicing ..................................................... 25 SB School P&C .................................................... 27 Fervor North tour ................................................ 28 Denham Community Church ............................... 29 Denham Seniors & Crafters ............................... 31 SES Shark Bay ...................................................... 32 Soccer Report ....................................................... 35 Seth’s Fishing Report ..................................... 36-37 Westlink TV Program guide ................................ 38 Shark Bay Arts Council ...................................... 39 Denham Community Groups .......................... 40-41 Tradies Corner .............................................. From 42 Editorial Policy & Advertising .............................. 51 Community Calendar ............................................ 52 If you call the Shark Bay Health Centre after hours you will be transferred through to Health Direct where a Silver Chain Shark Bay Registered Nurse will ask you a number Normal business hours of questions to determine whether you need further emergency assessment Monday to Friday by the Shark Bay nurse. If you require (excluding public holidays) further assessment, your call will be put through to the local nurse. 9.00am to 12.30pm & 1.30pm to 4.00pm Examples of an EMERGENCY include: • Breathing difficulties Telephone: 9948 1400 • Chest pain • Severe abdominal pain • Bleeding that can’t be controlled Silver Chain provides with first aid AFTER HOURS health services • Convulsions and fits for EMERGENCIES ONLY • Deep lacerations • Eye or ear injuries • Uncontrolled high fever After Hours Emergencies • Loss of consciousness • Pregnancy – bleeding or onset of labour After Hours Emergencies • A very sick child In our region AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS (AED) are located at • SHARK BAY DISCOVERY CENTRE • SHARK BAY RECREATION CENTRE • PARKS & WILDLIFE, KNIGHT TCE OFFICE • MONKEY MIA BOUGHSHED RESTAURANT • HAMELIN OUTBACK STATION STAY • OVERLANDER ROADHOUSE • BILLABONG ROADHOUSE • NERREN NERREN 24HR STOP Recreation Centre Francis Street DENHAM WA 6537 Ph: 9948 3507 during Opening Hours as shown below Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 2.00pm - 4.30pm 9.30am - 11.30pm 6.30pm (Adults Sports) 6.30pm - FEES APPLY CLOSED 10am - 1pm (Open Courts) (Kindy Gym) (Kids Dodgeball) (Open Courts) 2.00am - 4.30pm (Open Courts) Adults Sports) 6.30pm ( Shark Bay Inscription Post . Page 2 . June 2017 Contact the Shark Bay CRC for more information on: 08 9948 1787 Community Notices Executive Officer’s Report As the end of the financial year approaches, our staff many others and committee will begin the task of brainstorming and identifying our targets, activities and opportunitites Our CRC would be more then happy for the coming financial year and including these in to assist other community groups or our 2017/2018 Shark Bay CRC Business Plan. Many businesses to create your own plan for a fee if you are might struggle to find the time to put a Business struggling to find the time, so please contact myself to plan together as it may seem like more unnecessary schedule an appointment. paperwork to any business or community group, but the time invested in your business plan will pay off Million Paws Walk many times over. To link in with current town festivities, the CRC organised our local Million Paws walk on Mother’s The Shark Bay CRC Business Plan is a living Day during the Fishing Fiesta. 13 big, little, fluffy document in our CRC here, constantly updated and and sleek dogs came along and in the majority of reviewed by myself to ensure our staff and committee cases took their owners for a walk (haha) along the understand what needs to be done to move forward. foreshore. We were able to raise and donate $65 to the RSPCA. Who would have thought we had a such Some of the most obvious benefits we have been a variety of dog breeds here in the Bay, Beagles, Blue able to identify from having our own CRC Business Heelers, Border Collies, Kelpies, Maltese, Staffy’s Plan include; and so on. A big thanks to the owners and the well behave pooches for particpating in our walk. • An opportunity to test out a new ideas to see if it holds real promise of success • A clear statement of our organisations mission Biggest Morning Tea and vision Everyone knows someone affected by cancer. Today, • A set of values that can help us steer your there are more than 1.1 million Australians who are business through times of trouble either living with cancer or who have survived a • A blueprint we can use to focus your energy and diagnosis. The Cancer Council is the nation’s leading keep your organisation on track cancer charity, uniting the community, creating hope, • Benchmarks we can use to track your performance providing support and saving lives. and make midcourse corrections • A clear-eyed analysis of our industry, including A big thankyou to the 60 people and organisers who opportunities and threats came along to our Biggest morning Tea fundraiser • A portrait of our potential customers and their and donated and brought along a plate of food to buying behaviors share. We were able to raise $400 exactly, which will • A rundown of our major competitors and your be forwarded onto the Cancer Council to assist with strategies for facing them their vital research. • An honest assessment of our organisations strengths and weaknesses Thankyou and travel safe on the roads. • A roadmap and timetable for achieving our goals Jamie Burton and objectives • A description of the products and services we offer • An explanation of our marketing strategies • An analysis of our revenues, costs, and projected profits • A description of our business model, and how we plan to make money and stay in business • An action plan that anticipates potential detours or hurdles we may encounter • A handbook for new employees describing who we are and what your company is all about • A résumé we can use to introduce our organisation to suppliers, vendors, lenders, grant funders and Shark Bay Inscription Post . Page 3 . June 2017 Community Notices AvAilAble At the CRC Shark Bay Inscription Post . Page 4 . June 2017 Community Notices St JOhN AMbUlANCE WEStERN AUStRAliA LTD SHARK BAY SUB CENTRE, PO Box 82 Cnr Durlacher St & Dampier Rd Denham 6537 [email protected] WHY PAY AMBULANCE MEMBERSHIP FEES? In May St John Ambulance your local Ambo Shark Bay Sub Centre VOLUNTEERS Because it can save you a lot of money! responded to...: Do you know that a basic ambulance call out from the Shark Bay Hotel to Silver Chain will cost you $484? emergency calls For Membership fees of just $69 per single and $113 per family you would be covered for all of these costs. for an Ambulance! This amounts to a little more than$1.30 per week for a single or 18 cents per day. 12 Most pensioners over 65 are covered (please check your eligibility). It makes sense to pay St John Ambulance fee, doesn’t it? [email protected] The Chain of Survival • Early Access: Recognise an emergency and call 000 immediately. • Early CPR: Begin Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) immediately • Early Defibrillation:Use the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) ASAP • Early Advanced Care: Transfer to professional care. Media Release Wednesday 5 April 2017 1800-call-a-doc GP trial to continue The 1800-call-a-doc telehealth GP trial has continued beyond its original 31 March finish date due to its popularity. The after-hours general practitioner (GP) service has been running since April last year in rural and remote areas in southern WA and will be extended until 30 June 2017. 1800-call-a-doc allows country residents and carers to use their phones and the internet to contact GPs for non-serious acute medical problems