A message from the Community Council...

Despite the challenges presented by COVID yet again in 2022, the Community Council were able to adapt to the changing circumstances and run several successful fundraising events. Some of these events included a raffle for Mother’s Day, various successful fundraising activities at the Peter Pan Musical and the recent Christmas Raffle, drawn at the K-5 awards night. We also successfully introduced the new navy school jackets and donated several surplus fundraising supplies gifted to St Mary’s during the bushfires to the Lismore School Community to assist during the devastating floods.

These successes wouldn’t have been possible without the generosity of the school community in supporting our events. Thank you for the incredible support from various local businesses who donated goods and vouchers. These businesses included Surf the Bay, Moruya Pharmacy, Gundary Bakers, Wildrose Florist, Curtis and Cloud, Moruya Bookshop, Resting Ridge Leather Goods, Southlands Fruit and Vegetables, Moruya Health Café, Alfresco’s, Raw Beauty, Tomakin Social Club, Moruya Gold Club, Mullenderree Farm Sales, Silly Willy’s, Sports First and Cameron’s Hardware. A big thanks also to our generosity of Lindsay Pepper from Milc Designs, who designs all our raffle tickets, certificates, and logos, and to Renee at South Coast Beverages who donated 1000 cups for our refreshments at the Peter Pan musical. And importantly, thanks to the amazing school community for donating jars and refreshments for the Peter Pan events.

As a result of all the hard work over the year we are in the fortuitous position of being able to support both the St Mary’s swimming program, which will subsidise swimming lessons for students in Term 1 2023, and we hope to also be able to contribute up to $2,500 towards either some play equipment or landscaping for the proposed renovation of the play area, due to be undertaken in 2023.

As the year draws to a close, we would like to extend a big thank you to our outgoing Community Council Members who have contributed significant time and energy over the years;  Hayley Van Weerdenburg, Melissa Van Weerdenburg and Louise Thornton. We are also very happy to welcome our new members for 2023; Lynelle Hamer, Ali Hulse, Anna Baran-Tangata and Carrie Weston. We are also able to confirm that at our recent AGM we elected various members into roles for 2023; Mary Dullard as president, Mel Price as vice-president, Ali Hulse as Secretary and Maree Turnbull as Treasurer.

Again, we thank the St Mary’s community for your continued support, and we wish you all a happy and safe break.

Merry Christmas 
Community Council