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Council helps students
to attend university
For several years Port Adelaide Enfield Council has provided
support for Aboriginal people to participate in employment,
education and training by offering school-based new
apprenticeships and Aboriginal traineeships.
As many of the employment opportunities currently
being generated in the local area require individuals to have
higher level skills and qualifications, Council has expanded
the program to offer two scholarships for students at tertiary
level study.
Council received nine applications for the scholarships, all of
an extremely high standard. The selection committee decided
that this year’s scholarships would be awarded to Tennessee
Coulthard, who is undertaking a Bachelor of Education
(Primary) through the University of South Australia, Magill,
and to Haidarr Jones, who is studying a Bachelor of Media at
Flinders University.
Whilst the participation rates for Aboriginal students in
tertiary education are improving, they remain lower than for
the wider population and these two scholarships will assist
students as they study towards Bachelor degrees.
Get a Peel. Pour. Pop.
start to your day
Council’s OPAL program has launched a new, fun and
exciting healthy lifestyle message for 2013: ‘A healthy
brekky is easy as… Peel. Pour. Pop’
So what’s that all about? Well, you can:
Peel
a banana, orange or mandarin
Peel
the lid off yoghurt
Peel
the shell off a boiled egg
Pour
milk onto cereal
Pour
milk into a glass
Pour
yoghurt onto your fruit
Pop
grainy bread into the toaster
Pop
fruit on top of your cereal
Pop
fruit bread onto a plate
There are many benefits to starting each day with a healthy
breakfast and this is a formula for making it easy.
It has been shown that a healthy breakfast improves
children’s learning and concentration during the day and the
right sort of breakfast provides plenty of the vitamins and
minerals kids need for a healthy body.
A healthy brekky includes at least two to three food groups,
preferably from wholegrain breads/cereals, dairy and fruit
and is low in sugar, salt and fat. So to ensure you and your
family are getting a healthy brekky just think Peel. Pour. Pop.
For more healthy brekky tips or other great ways for your
family to eat well and be active visit the OPAL page on the
Council website at
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Family village for patients
Construction is underway of a $9.5 million
purpose-built leukaemia patient village at
Northfield designed to support regional blood
cancer patients. Due for completion later this year,
the complex is located on Folland Avenue and will
include 15 two and three bedroom apartments, as
well as recreational and patient support facilities.
Patients and their families from across regional
Australia who must relocate to Adelaide for vital
treatment will be able to stay free of charge at this
‘home-away-from-home’ for as long as they need.
To help make it a place of hope, the Leukaemia
Foundation is allowing supporters to purchase
a personal paver that will be laid in the village
as a reminder to families staying there that
they have the support of people from around
South Australia.
Blood cancers such leukaemia, lymphoma,
myeloma and related blood disorders can develop
in anyone, at any age and at any time. The impact
of a diagnosis is immense and usually immediate
for both the patient and their family. With blood
cancer now the second biggest cancer killer in
Australia and more than 31 people diagnosed
each day, the need for accommodation support
has never been more important.
Creative solutions to assist
It isn’t always easy for people with disabilities
and their carers to find the equipment they need
to help with day to day activities. That’s where a
unique organisation Technical Aid to the Disabled
SA (TADSA) may be able to help. TADSA, now in
its 35th year, is a state-wide charity based at Gilles
Plains that aims to help people with disabilities by
designing, building or modifying devices where
there is no other solution readily available.
The devices built by TADSA’s inventive volunteers
improve the quality of life for clients whether
they are in care or live independently, and often
enable clients to enter or return to work, study,
recreation or sport. TADSA provides one-off
solutions to individual problems. People with
exactly the same disability or condition might
have very different needs in terms of equipment
or devices and that’s where TADSA volunteers can
help – they will basically invent a unique device to
solve a unique problem.
No referral is necessary to use TADSA services.
Clients, carers, disability support workers/
organisations and allied health professionals can
all contact TADSA direct. Once the needs of the
client have been determined, the project will be
completed. It is then the responsibility of the
client or the funding body to pay for the cost of
materials, the volunteers out of pocket expenses,
petrol and a small service charge.
Contact TADSA on 08 8261 2922, by email to
or visit
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