Update - 17 July 2009

BAG NEWS ….

The BAG Annual Meeting will be held on Friday 14 August 2009, 6.00 pm, at the Berkeley Restaurant, Cambridge Street, Mitchell. Following the members’ meeting, a Business & Community Networking Dinner will be held, commencing at 6.45 pm. All community members are invited to attend the networking dinner to help us celebrate our achievements for the past year and to encourage ideas and networking so that BAG may continue to develop projects identified by the community as providing benefits and increasing the Booringa lifestyle.

Adam McEvoy met this week with Senator John Hogg, current President of the Senate. This provided an opportunity to raise some of our local issues with the Senator. Adam discussed the desperate need for a child care centre, the sand issues at the weir, rubbish recycling and Qld Rail’s decision to discontinue rail freight from Roma to Mitchell amongst other things. We will need to wait and see if there are any tangible outcomes from this meeting, but the more profile we can give our town, our organisation and our issues, the better our chances of ensuring we don’t miss any opportunity!

The next Aussie Host workshop has been scheduled for Wednesday 5 August 2009 at the Agforce Building in Roma. Please contact me for a registration form.

Along with the steady stream of membership renewals, we also welcome another new member who has joined BAG this week. This continued increase in membership is most encouraging!


BAG PROJECT UPDATES ………

Dentist
It has been a huge effort to coordinate the support of all stakeholders, but we are now at the stage where a dental company who offer fly-in, fly-out services has been sourced and an enormous amount of progress has been made. These guys could be operating as early as the end of August!

Noticeboards
As you may have seen, we have now put something in our new noticeboards! Keep in mind that this is an interim ‘display’ as we are still developing the permanent photos and posters that will be going in. We are happy to include any and all local events, please contact me if you would like details of your event included. I believe that the line dancers had 5 tourists attend their session this week, following the calendar of events going up last Friday!

Sewerage Treatment Farm
Adam McEvoy and Kent Morris met with representatives from Santos and Noela Ward and Ed Simms from the Maranoa Regional Council. We gained a greater understanding of what Santos is doing in rejuvenating work site landscapes and discussed the potential for using the sewerage treatment plant and accompanying land for growing and supplying seed stock. There are a number of parties involved and the next step is to meet again with a view to building a project feasibility.


COMMUNITY NEWS …….

Fun Bowls Day this Saturday! Names in by 1.30 pm, play starts 2 pm at the Mitchell Bowls Club. Select your own team, 4 players to a team. Multi-draw raffle and BBQ. For more information phone Kerry at the Hospital – 4623 1277.


Until next time! :-)

Cheers,
Sharyn.