Lovely to see local Ingrid Svendsen receive an OA for her work establishing the East Timor Hearts Fund this week.

Mark (her partner) who volunteers for the AAA Bowls program shared the news with us on Wednesday at our volunteer morning tea to wrap up another successful term of the program.

And also pointed us in the direction of this article published on LinkdIn, written by Ingrid about accepting the award, that you may also be interested in reading.

The impacts of COVID haven’t just been on people’s health. In our latest episode of Covid Roulette we talk to Simon Greenland who runs a high end international tourism business … and also to Terry who similarly has a tourism business, and find out about how they managed through the pandemic … they were both particularly impacted by the international border closures of course. And they both have interesting stories!

You can listen along here or on your favourite podcast streaming service.

Thanks Lee. Our very chatty table is now out on the corner. Next time you’re meeting up with someone and are not sure what to talk about or where to go … pop past ACC … our table might be the perfect place!

We were a bit sad to see that someone had damaged our seed library a few weeks ago … but super pleased to have Corrado and Max on the job on Friday to cut some new Perspex and repair the door for us.

Thanks!

Look at this gorgeous knitting that came from St Michael’s in North Carlton for the ASRC this week.

Did you know we are a collection location for the ASRC? We’re very pleased to be able to help out by providing a local point for dropping off food and material relief … and to witness firsthand the kindness and generosity of our community.

Interested in donating? Find out more here - including what we accept!