Congratulations to TAFE
Congratulations to Eurobodalla TAFE for hosting a wonderful night celebrating the efforts of so many students at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club.
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The Moruya TAFE campus is a very important local provider of vocational education.
Students come from across the region to study at this regional campus and it was a privilege to be a part of the graduation ceremony.
It was clear from the words by Kelly Gadsden, a Certificate III graduate in Health Services, just what a supportive and encouraging learning environment TAFE provides to the students.
Vocational education is such an important pathway to local employment and to further education.
It was an honour to represent the Eurobodalla Shire Council on the night in helping celebrate graduates from Business Administration, Tourism and Hospitality, Early Childhood, Hairdressing, Health Services, Building, Horticulture, Agriculture and Maritime studies.
It was clear while handing out some of the certificates, the high regards that the students had for their teachers.
Staff, teachers and students can all be pleased with such a wonderful outcome.
Cr Anthony Mayne
Eurobodalla Deputy Mayor
In praise of harmony
Last week Australia celebrated Harmony Day, a day in which we celebrate the diversity and inclusive culture our country has sewn.
Australia is built on multiculturalism, different people of different walks of life coming together to make our country what it is today.
When I think of multiculturalism, I look to my kids.
Some of them come from the most disadvantaged backgrounds imaginable, but despite their race, religion, beliefs and upbringing they manage to find common ground.
My kids treat each other with the utmost respect and are the shining example of discrimination having no place in Australia.
Sure, it is our differences that that helped shape this country, but I argue that it is our commonalities that hold us together, and it is these commonalities we should be celebrating.
We celebrate our differences and it is important to do so, but we shouldn’t let these differences define us.
Father Chris Riley AM
CEO and Founder, Youth Off The Streets
Clear Coast skies perfect for astronomy
We know about waste pollution here on Earth but skyglow from city buildings and street lights prevents large fractions of our population from properly viewing the night sky.
It’s killing astronomy.
So, if you’ve got a telescope, get away from city lights.
In New York, years ago, there was a major blackout lasting 20 minutes.
Kids the next morning were telling their teachers they saw stars in the night sky for the first time in their lives.
Incredible!
There’s a generation of city kids today who will never, ever appreciate the Milky Way.
A night sky favourite for March is the Orion constellation, or the Saucepan. Rising in the east after sunset it’s perhaps the most recognizable constellation in the sky.
Check out the middle ‘star’ of the handle.
It’s not a star at all.
It is a beautiful steel grey nebula where millions of stars are being born.
Below the base you’ll see a red star: Betelgeuse, or Beetlejuice as some call it.