Grievance Debate

Wright Electorate

Mr BOYER (Wright) (15:13): I rise this afternoon to speak about some great local events that have been taking place in the electorate of Wright over the past couple of weeks. Saturday 13 October saw the Wynn Vale Community Garden hold their annual open day, which attracted hundreds of people to inspect the fantastic gardens and produce that members have grown on the grounds. A wide array of plants, fruit and vegetables are grown at the community gardens in Wynn Vale and the beautiful spring weather on that day showed it in all its glory. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Rita and Uwe and all the volunteers at the garden, who give their time to bake cakes, make jams and preserves, staff the barbecue and show members of the public around the gardens.

Saturday 20 October was a very busy day in the north-east. A number of great events were held at sporting clubs, schools and community groups. First of all, I popped into the Golden Grove Homestead Community Children's Centre annual quiz night, which was held at Redwood Park Primary School. The centre's director, Kate, and her team are very well known to me and my family. The centre and its hardworking educators are much loved by parents across the north-east.

I then joined hundreds of Modbury Vista soccer players, members, supporters and sponsors at their gala end-of-year presentation evening, held at Sfera's at Modbury. I would like to make particular mention of new club chair, Stuart Carlisle, former chair Detlef Georg and Modbury Vista secretary, Mel Gilchrist. Mel is one of the most dedicated and passionate volunteers at any club that I have seen, and I was pleased to see this acknowledged when Mel was presented with the Club Person of the Year Award on Saturday night.

The club also used this occasion to draw their community raffle. The first prize was a brand-new Suzuki Swift, which was very kindly donated by local business Newspot Suzuki. The lucky winner was another tireless club volunteer, Alison Warner, who was instrumental in putting together the fantastic gala presentation night. I offer my congratulations to Alison. She is a very worthy winner of that prize.

Later that evening, I attended the Para Hills West Soccer Club senior presentation night, where I was pleased to see that Chris King, the canteen manager at the club for many years now, was rewarded for her years of service to the club with a life membership. I would like to place on the record my heartfelt congratulations to Chris. Without selfless volunteers like her, great sporting clubs like Para Hills West Soccer Club quite simply could not function.

Gleeson College celebrated their 30^th birthday with a cocktail event on Saturday evening. I would like to thank the principal of Gleeson College, Andrew Baker, for the kind invitation and Amanda Price for all the work that she did to organise the lovely evening. It was wonderful to see the college take time out to celebrate its longstanding success and the work it does in our local community. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all past and present teachers and staff, and I wish Gleeson College all the best for another successful 30 years.

Finally, Wynn Vale Primary School, which is a very popular and loved primary school right in the heart of the seat of Wright, also held a quiz night on Saturday night. Due to other commitments, which I have already explained, I was not able to stay there for long, but I did pop in just long enough to help the younger members of our quiz team with the names of some very famous bands that were identified on a sheet only by the first names of the band members. I will finish my contribution by saying that it is indeed a sad day when people under 30 years of age do not know which band Mick, Keith, Bill, Ronnie and Charlie are members of.