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Find a smarter way to travel
The smarter travel @ work program offered by the
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure’s (DPTI)
will be made available to businesses and workplaces in the
City of Port Adelaide Enfield throughout 2013.
The program helps businesses reduce the number of single
occupant car trips used for work and commuter travel by
providing safer, greener and more active travel options.
As part of the program, staff are surveyed about their
transport patterns and needs. Suitable actions are then
identified and offered by the business to support alternatives
to the daily commute or work-related journeys.
Participating in the program makes good business sense
as it can reduce demand on car parking, improve staff
wellbeing and help meet corporate social responsibility and
environmental goals.
Individual benefits to staff include reduced transport costs,
convenient travel alternatives and a healthy and cleaner way
to get to work. Interested business owners and staff should
contact Bernhard Sayer at DPTI on 8402 1925 or email
DPTI.TravelSmartSA@sa.gov.au
Community courses
Wandana Community Centre, a service of Centacare
Catholic Family Services, provides a range of low cost or
free courses and activities.
These include English language, cooking, computing,
community gardening, patchwork quilting and craft, some
of which are accredited at a Certificate I level.
Other activities include meditation, a walking group,
fitness for women, a social group for older men and a
community lunch once a week.
The centre is located at 14 Blacks Rd, Gilles Plains and
everyone is welcome to attend. Phone 8261 8124 or
email wandanacc@centacare.org.au for more details.
Making sure you’re in charge
A free eight-week course is being offered to parents in the
western region whose children are abusive towards them.
This course is for parents of children between eight and 18
who feel constantly challenged by their children’s behavior.
The course is based on the work of Eddie Gallagher and
aims to:
• Reduce parents feeling of isolation;
• Challenge parents feelings of guilt;
• Create belief in the possibility of change;
• Explore anger, both children’s and parent’s;
• Develop safety plans for families ;
• Help parents look after themselves;
• Clarify boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable
behavior; and
• Reinforce progress and provide emotional support
while you attempt to become more assertive parents.
The course will be held at The Cottage (behind GP Plus),
51 Bower Street, Woodville. Please contact
Centacare on 8210 8200 to enquire when the next
course is commencing.
Barry has more
gold in his sights
The good news is that at the age
of 58 Barry Charity can rightly say
his golden days are behind him.
The even better news is that there
are many more ahead.
Barry (front cover photo) who lost the lower
half of a leg due to osteomyelitis 11 years ago,
has won more gold playing lawn bowls than
most of his competitors could dream of.
He’s won nine State singles titles, in both
Bowls SA and Wheelchair Sports Australia
competitions, and twice come home with
gold medals in the national Wheelchair
Sports pairs titles, including last year’s
competition in Newcastle.
Now he’s been selected by Wheelchair
Sports Australia to be included in the Gold
Squad that will compete in next year’s
Commonwealth Games, a squad comprising
only four men and four women. Last year
he was a member of the Wheelchair Sports
Australia team that competed at the Lawn
Bowls World Championships held in Pretoria,
South Africa.
Probably it was only Barry, who is modest
to a fault about his achievements, who was
surprised when he was declared Wheelchair
Sports SA’s Most Outstanding Athlete of the
Year for 2012.
It didn’t come as a surprise to Barry’s
co-workers at Port Adelaide Enfield Council,
where Barry is employed as a signwriter in the
Kilburn depot signshop. In April he will clock
up 30 years’ council service, starting in the
days of the former Port Adelaide Council.
Initially Barry was a member of the Port
Adelaide Bowling Club, but after losing his
leg he joined the South Australian Wheelchair
Sports Association’s lawn bowls team the
Wombats, based at Clearview, and the rest, he
says “is history”. A resident of Ethelton, Barry
is now a member at Rosewater Bowling Club.
“For the first five years, until 2007, I used to
compete in a wheelchair,” Barry says. “Then
for the next three years I was in and out of
the wheelchair, and now I mostly compete
wearing a prosthetic leg, which gives me
more agility and a different perspective on the
game. The good thing is that if I have a bad
time with my leg I can always go back to the
wheelchair without having to learn it all again.”
Now Barry is lining up for the next national
championships in June, to be held in Brisbane
– and, hopefully, even more gold.