The Wingello Village News is here for January 2021.
This is the 143rd monthly newsletter.
Highlights:
- We remember the dramatic events on 4 January 2020 when out of control bush fires swept through Wingello.
We open at 7:30am and close at 4:00pm.
Over the last almost 12 years we have been helping young people obtain suitable qualifications for a great start to their working lives. Our staff have completed 13 certificate or diploma level qualifications in that time and now Sebastian and Rose are working on their Level III Certificates in Retail.
A Level III Certificate is a higher qualification than HSC and can be used as a pre-requisite to get into university as two of our staff have done.
The work based traineeships are part of the official apprentice/trainee programs supported by various levels of government support over the years. The employer and trainee sign agreements with the Apprenticeships organisation and an approved Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and the Certificate III normally takes about 12 to 24 months to complete. All the units are assessed and every couple of months the RTO visits and goes through the completed units and assigns the next ones.
The work we do at the store is quite broad - retail, post office, restaurant and cafe - and covers all the important areas of food and workplace health and safety, marketing, presentation, basic accounting and business skills, customer service and more. This makes the training very practical and both us and the employee benefit by combining the theory and practice.
As all our full time staff have previously completed their studies, they are able to assist the latest trainees with their turn.
On late Sunday night/Monday morning vandals struck Wingello and sprayed or painted Graffiti on most public buildings and signs. The train station, bus shelters, fire station, park signs, village hall and Wingello Village Store were hit. It appears as if the work was interrupted when they reached the store as we only had a few dots showing they started but then left.
This is the first time in memory Wingello has been hit with this type of vandalism and is is important to understand the impact this has.
One would have thought in this time of COVID-19 the vandals would have stayed home and "tagged" or sprayed graffiti on their own homes!We take justifiable pride in the visual beauty of our little village. In January we were hit with devastating fires which destroyed a dozen homes and many properties. The villagers have spent the last nine months clearing, rebuilding and regrowing getting a semblance of normality back in our lives as we prepare for the new upcoming bushfire season.
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We're still ready |
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Contact list right next to the hand sanitiser |
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Kenneth the Cockatoo |
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Christmas Beetle |
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Elizabeth the Lizard |
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Banksia |
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Gangang Cockatoo |
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Wallace the Wombat |
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Lyre Bird |
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Echidna |
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Ken posing with Wallace the Wombat at Christmas |