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Special points of interest:

Christmas Tree Party

Australia Day Nominations & Events

Church Services & Christmas Carols

School Holiday Program

RGRC information

Birthdays

Borella Ride

Notes from the CSM

I s s u e 6 : 2 0 1 4 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r

Mataranka Interdenominational

Fellowship

Church Service & Christmas Carols

WHEN: Sunday 14th December TIME: at 6pm WHERE: In the Community Hall/Chapel. For more info please call Barb on 89754330.

Better Half Club Inc

CHRISTMAS TREE PARTY

MATARANKA COMMUNITY HALL

SATURDAY DECEMBER 13TH

Hall open at 5.30pm

Santa arrives 6.00pm

Local performance of “Frozen”

Gifts for Children 12 and under Gifts and food provided free

Children must be present to receive their gift from Santa. BYO License for Drinks Merran 89774 068 or Clair 89754 460

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November / December Birthday's

CSM’s Corner

Rubbish Dump Works are near competition at the rub-bish dump. New signage with directions for

disposal of rubbish will be erected shortly. Rubbish Collection Over the Christmas period rubbish will still be collected as per normal during the week of closure. That being Monday the 29th December for Jilkminggan residents and Tuesday 30th Decem-ber for Mataranka Residents. Rusty Bugles Mataranka Local Authority has won a $5000 grant from the NT Government to produce the play. This will be performed for the 100th anniversary of ANZAC day in 2015. Homestead Road The homestead road has recently been slashed by RGRC staff and cleared as approved by Department of Infrastructure.

Wishing everyone a safe & happy Christmas. Please take care on the Roads whilst driving over the Festive season.

AMY & HELEN HARDING

Shayne, Cheyenne & Tommy Chandler

Ashley &

Maddison

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Kash & Kane Angel

Stuey

Margie. W

Bailey Mick Mac Danielle

Program

8.30 am Free Australian Breakfast

9.30am Australia Day Address by Deputy Mayor

9.45am Presentation of Australia Day Awards

10.00am Official Flag Raising Ceremony and singing of the

National Anthem

10.15am Official Opening of the Oval

10.30am Judging and Announcement of Winners in

Photo Comp, Coloring-In-Competition, Best Dressed

Adult & Child

Followed by games for Adults and Kids:

Leaky Bucket Race

Tug of War

Water Slide

Quiz

Cricket match if numbers permit

Roper Gulf Regional Council Mataranka

invites everyone to join us from 8.30 AM on

Australia Day (Monday 26th January)

at the Catering Complex in the Sport

& Recreation Grounds to celebrate our National Day.

PO Box 4099

Mataranka NT 0852

Phone: 0889 754 576

For more details on colouring and photo competitions please call into the Mataranka Service

Delivery Centre or contact us

Mataranka Fishing, Sporting & Recreation

Club Inc

Entries for Colouring

Competition and Photo Competition will close on Friday 9th January 2015 to allow for two weeks of

displaying for the viewers

Do you know of someone who has

worked hard for the community or who has helped people individual-ly?

Do you know of a group of people who have worked for the benefit of the community?

If you do and you think they deserve some recognition then why not nomi-nate them in next years Australia day awards

Nominations close 9th January 2015

Nomination forms available at the Mataranka Service Delivery Centre

The Borella Ride will be visiting towns and communities along the Stuart Highway, setting off from Ten-nant Creek on Friday 20th February 2015. The Borella Ride will arrive in Mataranka a week later on the 27th February. The Mataranka Community will be invited to participate in a range of activities including a travelling exhi-bition, historical activities, community BBQ, performances, school and educational activities. To find out what is happening and how you can get involved when The Borella Ride travels through Mataranka, check out The Borella Ride website www.theborellaride.com.au or facebook page www.facebook.com/TheBorellaRide More information to come out in t January February 2015 Edition of the Never Never Newsletter.

Mataranka School Council Information

Just a reminder for anyone buying goods at Katherine Camping on Fishing to mention Mataranka School when they do as a 10% value on all money spent goes to the school council to use for fundrais-ing. This year it will be going towards a Christmas Raffle. Stay tuned for some great prizes.

The Mataranka Bushmans Carnival contacted the School Council recently to notify that they were wind-ing up the organization and would like to donate any outstanding funds in their account to the school. The Mataranka School principal then offered these funds to the Never Never Festival, which was greatly appreciated. It is a great start for Leah to get the Festival on a good financial footing.

The Mataranka Bushmans Carnival Committee would like to thank all the volunteers over the years that put in so much hard work into making the carnival such a great event. The MBCI started in the late ‘60s in conjunction with the annual bush races. The event was famous for its bull chariots race, greasy pig chase and rooster chase. Up to 3 rodeos were held per year in good times, and good prize money and facilities were available thanks to sponsorship from Darwin, Katherine and Mataranka, and stock dona-tions from local stations. Founding families included the Martin’s, Fishlock’s, Garland’s and McFarlane’s.

Written By Anthony Heaslip, Mataranka Primary School Council Chairpersons.

Mataranka School would like to thank everyone who helped to provide the new shade for our playground. A special thank you goes to

the School Council who fundraised tire-lessly for two years. Another special thank you goes to the Better Half Club for their generous donation of $5,000. And thank you to everyone who buys raffle tickets, drops coins in the collection boxes or supports the school in various ways.

A Note from the Police Mataranka Police along with the Mataranka Fire and Rescue Group would like to thank Roper Gulf Regional Council, Roper River Transport and the Mataranka Homestead for their assistance in the search that took place in and around Mataranka towards the end of November 2014. The organisations mentioned provided Police and oth-er volunteers with equipment and refreshments during the two day search. Mataranka Police would also like to remind residents that motor vehicle registry duties are carried out on each Wednesday morning, unless an urgent matter arises. Alternatively if Police are not available all motor vehicle reg-istry enquiries can be carried out by logging onto www.mvr.nt.gov.au Most people will be aware by now a new Police Officer, Vanessa WALLIS, is stationed in Mataranka. Vanessa was previously stationed in Katherine however is now part of the Mataranka Community so if you see her in and around town, introduce yourself to her and say hello. With the Christmas holiday period fast approaching Police would like to take this opportunity to remind all resi-dents of Mataranka to drive with care, stay safe, take regular breaks and don’t drink and drive. Police will be en-forcing traffic laws during the festive season. Also over the festive holiday season, people travel to be with family and loved ones. While people are away, it is a good idea to make arrangements for friends to look after your prop-erty and ensure it stays safe. Please also remember to lock your houses prior to departing for holidays. It is great to see that a number of local residents have started decorating their houses and yards with Christmas decorations. Mataranka Police have also commenced decorating with more decorations to be put up soon. Mataranka Police wishes all residents of Mataranka and the surrounding area, a very Merry Christmas and a Hap-py and Prosperous New Year. Written by Thomas Chalk, Remote Sergeant, Mataranka Police Station.

A message from the school principal I would like to publicly thank the quiet achievers of the Mataranka School Coun-cil for their work throughout the year. Anthony Heaslip (Chairperson), Tracey-Anne Wilson (Secretary), Leah Niehus, Virginia Boon, Cassie Younghusband, Veronica Russo, Beki Bull (School Representative), Jayne Rachor, Di Bowman – you make our school a worthwhile facility for our children so they can be safe, happy, confident and reach far beyond their potential. Thank you. I look forward to working with you in 2015. The end of year School concert will be held Wednesday 10th December 6:00pm. School starts back on Tuesday 27th Janu-ary. Written by Darren Pittaway, Teaching Principal, Mataranka Primary School.

If you would like to look up current positions vacant , local authority minutes/agendas you can visit the website at www.ropergulf.nt.gov.au . This homepage has ‘Quick links’ section , you can click on any of these links and get the information that you are looking for, it’s very easy to navigate through these links. Alternatively if you would like to see the minutes you are more than welcome to come into the SDC office and read through the copy we have at the front desk.

Mataranka Service Delivery Centre - Christmas Hours

Monday 22nd Dec 9am – 4.30pm Tuesday 23rd Dec 9am – 4.30pm

Wednesday 24th 9am – 12pm Thursday 25th Dec CLOSED – Public Holiday

Friday 26th Dec CLOSED - Public Holiday Monday 29th Dec CLOSED Tuesday 30th Dec CLOSED

Wednesday 31st Dec CLOSED Thursday 1st January CLOSED – Public Holiday

Friday 2nd Jan CLOSED Monday 5th Jan 9am – 4.30pm

Mataranka office of RGRC wishes everyone a safe and happy

holiday season! In case of an emergency please phone 0427 754 576 

Jilkminggan Local Authority Meeting 02/12/2014 AT 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

JILKMINGGAN SERVICE DELIVERY CENTRE THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

********************** Mataranka Local Authority Meeting

02/12/2014 AT 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM MATARANKA COMMUNITY HALL

THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Deputy Mayor, Judy MacFarlane, of Roper Gulf Regional

Council would like to wish everyone a very

Merry Christmas, also a Safe and

Prosperous New Year.