posted Dec 17, 2010 4:57 AM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Jan 2, 2011 6:05 PM
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody
Please drive safely this holiday season and don't become another road statistic; there are too many already.
My best wishes to you all. |
posted Nov 20, 2010 7:16 PM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Apr 27, 2011 7:41 PM
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Chief Fire Control Officer Steve Sutton announced at last night's Christmas do that the Volunteer Games would start up again in 2011.
I was told that a major reason for them lapsing after 2002 was because volunteer Brigades had lost interest and weren't sending teams. I guess then that it's up to the Brigades whether or not this will be successful.
Events like this involve the whole family and bring Brigades together in a bit of friendly rivalry.
More information will be posted as it becomes available. |
posted Nov 5, 2010 10:41 PM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Apr 27, 2011 7:40 PM
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Rural land owners in the Top End should now be undertaking weed control measures on their properties.
Weeds of concern to volunteer bushfire brigades are mostly introduced pasture grasses gone feral, such as Gamba, Mission and Tully (humidicola).
Spraying with glyphosate is a very effective control measure, however you should be able to positively identify these pests so as to target them while leaving native grasses to recolonise the area. Just spraying everything because you don't know one grass from another does far more harm than good.
Native sorghum, or spear grass can be easily controlled by slashing, wet season burning or other measures to prevent it from seeding.
Bushfires NT and NRETAS Weeds Branch encourage members of the community to tackle noxious weeds, gamba grass in particular on their own properties and in crown lands and will provide assistance to anyone who undertakes this work.
Go to the Weeds Branch web page for details of assistance available to land owners in the Darwin rural and Coomalie areas.
People in these areas who wish to control weeds in crown lands should contact Bushfires NT Batchelor, or NTFRS if under their jurisdiction.
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posted Oct 19, 2010 3:47 AM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Apr 27, 2011 7:39 PM
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Residents in the Darwin rural area are advised that volunteer bushfire brigades and private land owners may be carrying out controlled burning operations over the next few weeks.
The main advantages of burning now are: - burning new green grass with the old reduces fuel loads for next year's bushfire season
- it opens up the bush, making it easier for volunteers who undertake wet season spraying of mission and gamba grasses
- the bush quickly recovers
- conditions are now reasonably safe for burning
Motorists are asked to take care, slow down and turn your lights on where there is smoke over the road. |
posted Sep 24, 2010 6:01 AM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Oct 23, 2010 6:40 PM
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2011 is the 10th Anniversary of the United Nation's International Year of Volunteers in 2001. To celebrate the momentous event, Volunteering SA&NT is searching for photographs that best recognise the valuable contribution of volunteers in the community under the theme Volunteers are Vital. Winning photographs will feature in a 2011 Commemorative Calendar to be produced by Volunteering SA&NT and a selection of pictures will be exhibited in the Volunteering SA&NT foyer during National Volunteer Week 2011. Photographs submitted to the Volunteer Photographic Competition should celebrate the wonderful things volunteers do - to show the diversity of volunteers' roles in our community and how their actions and service supports those in need. The aim is to give people an idea of the diversity of volunteering, in the hope of encouraging more people to volunteer. COMPETITION CLOSES Friday 22 October 2010. Winners will be announced 28 October Click here for full details. |
posted Sep 22, 2010 5:27 AM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Oct 23, 2010 6:39 PM
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Volunteer Management and Developing
Leadership skills
Thursday 30 September 2010 17.30 -20.30
The Holiday Inn 122 Esplanade Darwin City
Volunteer Management and Developing
Leadership skills
Friday 1st October 2010 09.30 -12-30
Melaleuca Refugee Centre, Rapid Creek Business
Centre
Introduction to Mentoring + Golden
Guru’s
Monday 4th October 17.30 -20.30
The Holiday Inn 122 Esplanade Darwin City
For more information see the attached training
opportunities PDF and to register email Darwin@volunteeringsa.org.au
or call me.
It will be a first in best served for
registrations.
Dominic Nicholls
Regional
Development Officer
Volunteering
SA&NT Inc
Shop
8/41 Cavenagh Street
Darwin NT 0800
Ph: 08 8981
0027 Fax: 08 8981
0067
Mob: 0459 032 406
E: Darwin@volunteeringsa.org.au
ý www.volunteeringsa.org.au |
posted Aug 18, 2010 4:46 PM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Oct 23, 2010 6:38 PM
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The Community Photo Bank is open to any community group that
needs to illustrate some aspect of the life of the community. You can plug these
photos freely into your own projects, making it simpler to show how we work
together and care for each other.
Our Community wants you all to contribute to documenting
Australian community life in all its infinite variety, and to encourage you to participate
we're throwing in $5,000 in prizes.
There are two prizes:
1. The most popular picture
2. The picture that best exemplifies the work of Australian
community groups
Each prize will be worth $2,500 — $1,000 for the photographer,
and another $1,500 for the community group that nominates them.
For more information or to enter photos visit www.ourcommunity.com.au/marketing/photobank
The 2010 awards will be open until 5pm on 15 October 2010 This is an opportunity for some of our photographic volunteers to raise funds for their Brigades. |
posted Aug 16, 2010 5:33 PM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Apr 27, 2011 7:44 PM
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Bushfires NT need volunteers interested in joining the AIIMS Incident Management team, and others to help with Aerial Operations ground support. Free nationally accredited training will be provided to successful applicants. Open the attached PDF file for more details, contact info, etc. |
posted Aug 15, 2010 11:41 PM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Oct 23, 2010 6:37 PM
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Do you have a community event that you would like promoted
through the Litchfield Council website- community noticeboard?
Please feel free to send me any events or notices that you
would like promoted and I will happily place on the Council website - community
noticeboard.
View the noticeboard here http://www.litchfield.nt.gov.au/index.php?page=community-noticeboard TRUDY
LEE
PUBLIC
RELATIONS &
COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICER
Litchfield
Council
PO
Box 446,
Humpty
Doo, NT 0836
Phone
08 8983 0600
Fax
08 8983 1165
Community
Effort is Essential /
http://www.litchfield.nt.gov.au
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posted Aug 9, 2010 11:05 PM by Frank Dunstan
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updated Oct 23, 2010 6:36 PM
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Sent in by CFCO Steve Sutton We need ushers for the upcoming
AFAC/Bushfires CRC conference from 8 – 10 September 2010 (go to http://afac2010.org.au/ to check out the
conference)
The ushers at AFAC are commonly
called “red shirts” as, sensibly, they are all dressed in bright red shirts to
make identification easy. The duties of the red shirts are outlined in the
attached flyer. Depending on how many we get we might also request red shirts
to assist with marshalling of people onto buses for the conference dinner
etc.
The benefits of being a red shirt
are three:
a)
You get to help the smooth running
of your local conference (create good and/or lasting impression on
delegates)
b)
You get into the conference (you can
sit in on sessions you are rostered off and visit the
exhibition)
c)
You get a red
shirt.
We need a number of red shirts for
each of the three days of the conference as follows
Day 1 :
16
Day 2 :
24
Day 3 :
20
We intend to spread these numbers
between Bushfires NT, NTES and the NTFRS; so we need 5 – 7
“bushfires” red shirts per day.
If you are interested in being a red
shirt, or know someone who is, please contact Lorna on 8922
0844.
This offer extends to all BFNT
personnel and their families. Open the PDF attachment below for a list of Red Shirt duties. Volunteers are advised to have their flu shots - there will be a lot of delegates coming up from a southern winter. |
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