Please see below a presentation to club members by Rtn Cindy Shanahan
It’s been a very busy year so far for our group.
We have created our own Facebook page, ‘Neighbourhood Watch Latrobe City’. Currently we have 373 likes, 382 follows with +18 new likes just this week, with a post reach of 3,532 persons. We have also created a Twitter page and are looking into instagram and snapchat to help us interact with younger age groups.
feedback about our group from Crime forums held in Melbourne and Neighbourhood Watch Victoria as well as Neighbourhood Watch Australasia who are requesting articles and photos of our activities for their publication NHWA Journal. Gerard Traynor does a fantastic job using his creative skills to produce interesting articles for print.
We sponsor two sporting groups: ‘Yallourn North Bombers Netball U13 and Morwell Cricket Club U13’.
NHWLC have cooked and served sausages at a total of 28 Sausage Sizzles this past year! Sales have brought in a total profit of $8208.20 which have allowed us to purchase a small trailer for transportation of our supplies to different events and to help us fund our Annual Morwell Family Fun Day at the Morwell Town Common. The event for 2018 is scheduled on November 25th from 11am to 3 pm where new murals from local primary schools who participate in our Morwell Primary Schools Art Project will be revealed.
We assisted at several events hosted by other community groups in different ways. Cooking sausages at many events and carried out Traffic Management and Control at others. We have assisted Morwell Lions with the annual Australia Day Breakfast at Kernot Hall; Club Astoria with traffic control at their annual Oktoberfest and Traralgon Harriers Fun Run that raised funds for Gippsland Rotary Centenary House. Other events included the Queens Baton Relay for the Commonwealth Games; the Gippsland Multicultural Soccer Finals in Traralgon; GECC Festival at Kernot Hall and several GAMCI events in Churchill, Moe and other neighbouring towns.
We have greeted people at the official opening of the Firmins Lane Wetlands. We are in the process of purchasing a park bench seat to be located at an appropriate location within the Firmins Lane Wetlands.
We assist Latrobe City Council and Victoria Police by conducting letterbox drops. One letterbox drop done for Victoria Police helped to result in the arrest of several persons in relation to a shooting in Morwell.
We have two members who sit on the Latrobe Community Safety Committee that meets monthly at Morwell Police Station to discuss issues of safety within our community and to plan events within the community such as a Bowls Challenge at Morwell Bowling Club and an upcoming ESV and Community Groups Day Celebration at Latrobe Regional Airport in November.
We continue with Community Safety Audits at several different locations in different towns within Latrobe City.
In the near future, the basic structure of Neighbourhood Watch in Victoria will be changing and we look forward to the challenge.
Again, thank you all for your understanding and support!
We are a team of individuals with different ideas that work well with each other. We do have our hiccups and clashes but do our best to work together to help “Create Safer Communities” by ‘Looking out for each other’.
Latrobe City Council honoured us with a ‘Community Services Award’ this past Australia Day here in Morwell
Sincerely
Cindy Shanahan
Chairperson, Neighbourhood Watch Latrobe City
27th August, 2018