by Marian Mudra

QCWA members have been kept busy with disaster relief work since Australia Day.

Proston Branch catered for 174 stranded travellers and Kilkivan Branch also helped feed travellers cut off by floods.

A group of members led by Lois Thurecht has made a number of quilts to be sent to people who lost everything in the Tasmanian bushfires.

Many of the Division’s branches have sent monetary donations to either the Bundaberg QCWA to help with their feeding of the many flood victims in that area or to QCWA’s Public Rural Crisis Fund which distributes aid in the form of food or fuel store cards to those in need.

No costs are deducted from donations to this fund and 100 pre cent of monies received is distributed.

Donations are tax deductible and would be very welcome as the Fund has had huge demands made on it because of the series of natural disasters experienced over the past few years.

Donations can be made online and applications for assistance made through a form which can be downloaded.

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Representatives of most branches of the Division met in Murgon on Thursday, February 14.

Delegates voted to write to State Office asking for the Association’s action to try to correct the injustices which have occurred in the recent floods crisis where disaster aid is often denied to those genuinely affected and in need but freely given to others who are not.

Guidelines need to be put in place to prevent this happening in the future.

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A visitor to the meeting was Mrs Joy Coulson, Central Region State Vice President, who had met with the Organising Committee the previous day to discuss plans for – and to view the venues to be used – when Kingaroy hosts delegates from central areas of Queensland in June for the Central Region Meeting.

It is expected that more than 100 delegates plus observers will come to Kingaroy for this event.

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A Craft School will be held in Murgon QCWA Rooms on April 27–28.

Five crafts will be taught.

For further information, phone Mrs Jeanette Westlake on (07) 5486-6161.

Judging of dressmaking, photography, public speaking and interpretive reading will take place in the Murgon Rooms on April 11.
 

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