LOGAN ROAD SAFETY EXPO 2014

 A BIG THANK YOU to

Michael Pucci and Desley Scott MLA

Mayor Pam Parker

 Councillors Phil Pidgeon and Cherie Dalley

for their generous donations towards

the road safety expo. 

We would also like to acknowledge

 the financial assistance given by

Toll Group and Bendigo Bank

as very much appreciated.

Many thanks to all those behind the scenes who are making the event possible - committee members and the stall holders who are giving up their precious time on a Sunday to make the expo an interesting and enjoyable way to spend a few hours.

Come along and be informed and entertained plenty for the children to take part in and lots for adults to see and do. 

Food and drink available and entry is FREE!!!!

2014 October NEWSLETTER

Message from The Area Coordinator
A look over your shoulder and it seems like the beginning of 2014 & this year we have had a very packed year of events. Our Road Safety Expo will be held on October 19th 10am - 4pm at Waller Park Browns Plains & is set to entertain & inform with a range of organisations to help us with safety on our roads. No matter how long you have been driving you can still gain valuable information to remain safe on our roads & our younger population will be quite surprised with the range of guidance available. Even our youngest are catered for with face painting, jumping castle, Little Squirt supervised rides & the Safety Truck from the Australian Truck Association has a cart track, activity tables and colouring books to occupy them. Look out for the posters & banners which are appearing in the Logan district and for those who need to have Safe PL8 screws affixed to their vehicles there will be Volunteers in Policing providing this service. Even those who use 2 wheels will be helped with Cycling Qld & their Jayco Trailer plus the Australian Skateboarding Community Initiative will be supported by Drawing Boards who will give plenty of info to up & coming skateboarders & scooter riders.
The best news of all is the event is free so I hope you will be able to come along to enjoy the day with food & drink available.
Don’t forget the last Grey Light disco of the year with a rock & roll theme October 24th 6pm to 9pm, cost $10 which includes BBQ dinner with tea/coffee & lucky door prize. Also a prize for best dressed rock & roller.
The sold out fundraising for cancer charities High Tea is being held the following day so a big month ahead - the Halloween theme Blue Light Disco is on October 10th 6pm-8pm prep to grade 7 - cost $5 non members $4 members. More info for all - 3805 4100.
Our last meeting of the year will be in November and combines the end of year social with our AGM so please come along to our new venue - the café area of the Community Centre which will soon be getting a facelift. Also we congratulate the PCYC in their recent successful grant application to get more equipment
to provide facilities for our ever growing suburb. Our annual state NHW conference is being held at Caloundra this year & I have been fortunate to be nominated for the district award - it will be an informative time with the future direction of NHW being foremost but we need to hear from our local residents as to what they would like from the group.
Please email me or comment on the facebook page if you would like to make a suggestion & we hope to have plenty of events next year to inform you of safety measures we can all take to feel more secure in our lives.
The continuing theft of motor vehicles from homes is a big worry but one that can be curtailed if only people make sure they lock their vehicles BUT IMPORTANTLY do not leave keys in plain sight for thieves to steal if they break into your home - we must all do our bit to put the criminal out of business. Two engine immobilisers will be given away at the expo thanks to the Logan City Council.
Take care Geoff

ROAD SAFETY EXPO - A BIG THANK YOU!
Toll Group for their huge donation to bring the Safety Truck to the expo. Bendigo Bank for a successful grant & local state members of parliament Michael Pucci & Desley Scott.
Logan City Mayor Pam Parker, Councillors Phil Pidgeon & Cherie Dalley for their kind donations and to Logan City Council.
Also to all the stakeholders who will be attending the event & for the support they have given this very important subject - do not only think of fatalities when crashes occur - there are always the ruined lives afterwards who never recover & for the families & friends who will have to spend their lives looking after those with preventable injuries.
Also all the emergency services who have the task of rescuing, attending to & clearing up after any of these incidents - they have to go home to their families and act as if it were just another day - except for some it isn’t.
Finally a very big pat on the back to all those who have worked hard to get the expo to this stage - the committee members, the QPS & others who are giving up valuable time to help our community - YOU ARE SO VERY MUCH APPRECIATED - thank you!

OCTOBER IS:

• Buy Nothing New Month

• Walktober

• Dogtober (assistance dogs month)

• Mental health week –5th—12th

• Anti Poverty week 12th—18th

• Carer’s week 12th –18th

• Eat Local—feed Global 12th –20th

• World Food Day 16th

SEPTEMBER MEETING 2014

Crestmead Community Centre
Café area right side of building
NEXT NHW MEETING

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29TH 6.30pm

PCYC—CRESTMEAD ANNUAL OUTDOOR SPECTACULAR (CAOS)
Crestmead Park 13th Sept 10am - 2pm

HANDMADE MARKETS

September 20th 9am to 1pm

PCYC BLUE LIGHT DISCO

12TH SEPT 6pm - 8pm

2014 September NEWSLETTER

Message from The Area Coordinator
Busy month just gone and lots more for the rest of the year. We had a great day at Bunnings Browns Plains for our fundrais-ing sausage sizzle and thanks to all who helped and bought on the day. The week of action was busy and we have a lot more people wishing to receive the newsletter by email - it is sent bcc so that you don’t get lots of junk mail from other people’s address lists. The police, VIP’s, Logan City Council and the Alcohol and Mental Health team (who were kept very busy with their alcohol and drugs advisory service) all gave a lot of assistance to our community and we were happy to give out free key rings, fridge magnets and lots of information ranging from how to keep safe on the internet, to being safe during the upcoming storm season. Talking of which NOW IS THE TIME to get the gutters & yard tidy & also plan your evacuation de-tails for all the family (including pets) in case we have a bad time during the next few months. If you want any information please contact Emergency Management Qld for assistance or check the Get Ready website - www.getready.qld.gov.au
PCYC have their annual CAOS event on 13th September so we may see you there, then the next event will be the Road Safety Expo on 19th October. Also helping to prepare the Crestmead Community Carols which will take place on Saturday December 6th at Pinnington Park. Hope to see you at an event coming up, take care Geoff


The Crestmead week of action was a great success with over 100 vehicles being fitted with SAFE PL8 screws to stop rego plates being stolen for drive offs or used in the com-mission of a crime. This service is continued at the police station by the wonderful VIP’s (Volunteers in Policing) & can be done Wednesdays and Fridays - ring the station to make arrangements if you are unable to attend on the above dates. This of course means that you are not inconvenienced which would happen if the plates were stolen never mind the added expense. We are happy to be able to provide these screws to the VIP’s through our fundraising efforts. Many thanks to all those who supported us by purchasing a raffle ticket & this was drawn after the family fun day at Pinnington Park on Saturday 30th August. We were blessed with great weather & plenty of people attended to take part in the activities. Many thanks to Logan City Council for arranging the event & for all the hard work undertaken by the Logan City Safe team - lots of children were happy with their craft projects & the kites they made were fly-ing well. The races were fun & there was even time for a couple of tug of war sessions.
The Aikido display given by Craig & the team showed how to use moves as self defence & you can get more information from the com-munity centre - 3805 4100 for classes. A great initiative for people of all ages. We were very pleased to see so many of our local coun-cil, state & federal representatives at the fun day & we look forward to their continued sup-port at our events.

STORAGE KING - A VERY BIG THANK YOU!
We have been extremely fortunate to have received the generosity of a donated storage unit at Storage King at Kingston for a year. This is most welcome since we have such a large supply of equipment and leaflets etc that storage was becoming a problem, but now our wishes have been granted.
Storage King has grown to be the largest self storage organisation in Australasia. Storage King’s primary objective is to maintain its position as the number one self storage brand in Australia.
Therefore we would recommend using this company should you need some space for those items that just don’t fit around the place & are stored outside (a great invitation to a passing thief!) or whilst you are renovating/decorating your homes. We are truly grateful for their generosity & again a big thank you!
Despite the recent comments in the media re the crime rate in Crestmead, please note that they were only taken from the source of one insur-ance company & in fact the CRIME RATE HAS GONE DOWN. So although some people may have other comments on the matter we were pleased that the Albert and Logan News gave coverage to this matter and the editor Andrew Dawson also made mention of it (and our group) in his weekly session on the Spencer Howson program on Friday 29th August just before 6am. It is good when both sides of a story are shown, however that does not mean that everything is rosy. We all need to do our bit to reduce the rate of crime and if you see something suspicious let the police know - 131 444 through Police Link or Crimestoppers 1800 333 000
We all need to help our community grow and it would be great to welcome you to our group if you can attend an upcoming meeting.

AUGUST MEETING 2014

Crestmead Community Centre
NEXT NHW MEETING

MONDAY
AUGUST 25TH 6.30pm

CRESTMEAD WEEK OF ACTION
See below for details of locations
 

BUNNINGS BBQ FUNDRAISER
SUNDAY AUGUST 24TH 9am - 4pm
 

COMMUNITY PICNIC AND FUN DAY
Saturday August 30th
Pinnington Park 11am - 2pm
 

CRESTMEAD 40+ CLUB (all welcome)

GAMES DAY FRIDAY 29TH AUGUST 10am - 1pm

2014 August NEWSLETTER

Message from The Area Coordinator
A very busy month ahead for August and we hope to see some of you at our upcom-ing events. Please note that we are run-ning a raffle at the week of action stalls - prizes include a family pass to Kingston Park Raceway (value over $400), a gift voucher kindly donated by Logan City Council & an Entertainment Book which has over $20000 worth of savings - so please support our group - tickets $1 each or 3 for $2.
A big thanks to Councillor Phil Pidgeon for his very kind donation to enable us to purchase a Tablet computer which we can use at outdoor events. Also for funds to-wards our printing costs which bring the monthly newsletter to you. Thanks too for Browns Plains Good Guys for giving us such a good deal & supporting Crestmead NHW - please in turn support them when thinking of purchasing electrical goods.
Following on from our speaker from the Office of Fair Trading in June, please be advised that the ACCC will be sending out 400 letters per fortnight to consumers warning them that they may be the target of a relationship scammer. This is in a bid to protect the thousands of people who are affected & lose over $25 million a year. There is also the problem that some scammers are sending out advice that they can get your money back for you in these relationship scams - DO NOT BE FOOLED THIS IS ALSO A SCAM!! For up to date information see www.scamwatch.gov.au
Take care Geoff



CRESTMEAD WEEK OF ACTION
August 25th - 30th
Crestmead NHW is pleased to be joining with Queensland Police Service & Logan City Council in a new initiative to be held at the end of the month. There will be a range of free & exciting activities for residents with something to interest everyone.
During the week there will be stalls at the Crestmead Central (Waratah Drive) & Julie Street shops manned by representatives from various organisations including Crimestop-pers, PCYC, QPS & Logan City Council to en-able you to make yourself & your property safe and secure.

Volunteers in Policing will be available to fit Safe PL8 screws to your cars & give out very handy hints regarding security at home. We hope also to have some door guards to fix to security screens which will make your homes safer.

On Saturday 30th August there will be a free picnic in Pinnington Park which will be an opportunity for families to come together & enjoy a range of free entertainment & activities.

Our next Bunnings BBQ is on Sunday August 24th - hope to see you there!

Our next NHW meeting will have Logan City Safe representative to give updates on safety initiatives for our area and a few giveaways.
Come and say g’day and meet Councillor Phil Pidgeon & QPS at Kensington Fair Bakery Julie St 10am to 2pm Friday 29th August.


CRESTMEAD FACTS
How well do you know your suburb? The area was first settled in 1885 by a group of Swedish settlers. In December 1885 the area which is now Crestmead Industrial Estate was first used growing potatoes, turnips, oats & maize, also used for grazing cattle horses. Mans Trulson had a slab house with a shingle roof in the area now used by St Francis College. John and George Hubner started agricultural farm selections around 1893, so you can see where a couple of the road names come from! Crestmead School was opened in 1984 (happy birthday) and Crestmead was gazetted in 1987 although part of the suburb was under the area of Marsden until a few years later.
It is populated by one of the most varied ethnic mixes & over 30% of the population was born overseas. There are almost 12000 residents (sorry we cannot get this newsletter to all homes!) out of a population of over 300,000 in Logan City. With 60% of residents aged 34 & under it is also one of the “youngest” suburbs - hence a lot of schools & activities aimed at younger people - PCYC is a good place to start if you are looking for things to do.
A very interesting fact is that almost 12% of the population volunteers for a group or organisation & another 11% undertake unpaid care, help or assistance to family members or others. With a further almost 37% caring for children (their own or others) in an unpaid capacity. Just goes to show what a caring suburb we are and a little help goes a long way.
This information was provided on the Logan City Council website and ABS website.

2014 Crestmead Action Week

Games Day on Friday 29^th August. 

9am to 12pm.

The cost is $5.00 pp and includes morning tea.

 This event is planned as a fun day with games and activities for people of all levels of fitness, including some that can be played in a seated position. 

We welcome participation by members of your group and also the wider community.

Please RSVP interest and numbers by the 22^nd.

For more information please contact Robin Gallen. 3388 4442