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CITY GRAPEVINE
October to December 2020
Daylight Savings Reminder
Are you looking forward to balmy evenings
outside? You won’t have to wait too much longer:
The weather is warming up and daylight-saving
time starts on Sunday 4 October 2020 at
2:00am. Please remember to set your clocks
forward 1 hour.
Welcome to our Spring City Grapevine
Newsletter. It feels so good that the days are
getting longer again, and the weather is warming
up. The trees are coming into bloom. This time of
year brings a sense of optimism with more
opportunities to get outside and enjoy sunshine.
We have a few suggestions for you to experience
our Park Lands and enjoy the warmer weather
this spring. Perhaps go along to a Trees for Life
activity with Bushcare or experience outdoor
meditation with our Forest Bathing activity, it is
always invigorating to try something new.
Easy Moves Exercise Class City connector bus feedback
Consultation is open until 8 October about the
Easy Moves at the North Adelaide Community City Connector Bus Service. The City of
Centre has a new morning timeslot on Tuesdays Adelaide and the State Government want to
at 10.30 am where we hope to avoid the summer better understand why people use or do not use
heat. the service. We also want to find out more about
how the community and stakeholders think the
There was a great turn out for the first week back service could be improved as well as their level
on 7 July. All participants were keen to get back of support for alternative transport methods for
and see their exercise class friends. We also getting around the city.
welcomed several new class members; let us
know if you would like to get involved. The information gathered through the
engagement will assist Council decision making
about the future provision and design of a city
Forest Bathing transport service. The Connector bus service
runs on two loops around the City every 30
minutes seven days a week all day – an inner-
city loop and an extended loop around North
Adelaide providing a link to popular city
attractions and shopping, dining, and services
destinations.
To get involved in the Consultation go online:
yoursay.cityofadelaide.com.au or pick up a form
from the Customer Centre, Libraries or
Community Centres.
Celebrate Wellbeing month in October by Recharge Points - Your Feedback
experiencing Forest Bathing in the Botanic We have included a feedback insert with this
Gardens. These relaxing sessions have been newsletter on Mobility scooters. If you know
very popular in the past and book out quickly. someone who uses a scooter and doesn’t receive
So, if you would like to slow down, awaken your the Grapevine let us know and we will send it to
senses and connect with nature then come and them.
join this wellbeing practice.
Friday 16 October 2020 10:00am
Please ring Healthy Ageing Team 82037283 to
book.
Nutrition Week Café Conversations
The City of Adelaide resident survey (2019) found Enjoying coffee and conversation is a joyful part of
that only 11.4% of respondents consumed the life and an ideal prompt to get us out of the house.
recommended serves of vegetables per day. This Two community style cafés will host a café
is higher than the overall South Australian figure conversation group with a volunteer conversation
of 9.1%, however still means that almost 90% of leader in November.
residents are not eating the recommended serves
of vegetables per day. Our recent social program review highlighted that
community members would like to get together
Over 50% of respondents eat 2 serves or less of regularly for a chat over coffee.
vegetables per day, well below the recommended
amount of 5 serves per day. City of Adelaide The first two of these locations will be:
residents fared somewhat better with fruit - E for Ethel in Melbourne Street (Tuesdays in
consumption with 47.3% eating two of more November)
serves per day, slightly higher than the South - My Kingdom for a Horse in Sturt Street
Australian figure at 42.3%. However, this (Wednesdays in November)
indicates that over 50% of residents are not -
eating the recommended serves of fruit per day, Council will subsidise a coffee and cake for
with 9.3% of respondents indicating they did not participants ($2 coffee or $5 coffee and cake).
usually eat any fruit. Come along and have a chat with people who live
in your neighbourhood. Please contact the Healthy
To celebrate Wellbeing Month and National Ageing Team on 8203 7283 for more information
Nutrition Week we have accredited dietitian, with an anticipated start date of mid-November.
Rebecca Greco from Nourish Adelaide
(@nourishadl) providing her tasty recipes and
simple resources for good health and wellbeing at New contactless pedestrian button
the three City library locations in October. Drop The City of Adelaide is the first Council in South
by and chat to Rebecca about healthy eating, Australia to trial iTouch – a new contactless
wholesome foods and nutrition facts. There are pedestrian push button control at the pedestrian
also 3 nourishing raffles up for grabs filled with crossing on Melbourne Street, North Adelaide.
local SA food worth over $50 and it is free to
enter! The new Aldridge
iTouch touch-less
We also have a Nourishing supermarket shopping push button has
workshop at the North Adelaide Community an in-built sensor
Centre on October 20. Do you find yourself in addition to the
scratching your head down the supermarket traditional push
aisles trying to make the healthiest purchases? button, with the
With over 30,000 packaged foods to choose from sensor being
you are not alone! Join accredited Dietitian, activated within a range of 40-150mm, which
Rebecca Greco in this interactive workshop as avoids the need for pedestrians to touch the
she shares her simple method to tackle the surface of the button to activate the crossing.
nutrition labels for quick and health food Stickers have been installed to instruct on usage.
shopping. The units are manufactured by Australian
company Aldridge Traffic Systems Pty Ltd, and
are being supplied and installed at no cost.
www.aldridgetraffic.com.au
Paint by Numbers Community Mural You are invited to join one of our Community
Resilience Volunteers for a coffee and a chat
about the practical steps of preparing in three
simple actions:
Connect: Talk with the people you know and trust
about helping each other in an emergency.
Plan: Develop an emergency plan for your
household.
Make a kit: Having an emergency kit for your
household can help you be self-sufficient until
services (e.g. power) are restored.
To speak to one of the Community Resilience
Responding to an idea submitted to the Volunteers about preparedness, contact the City’s
Rediscover and Reconnect Adelaide project on Community Resilience Officer Emina Allegretti on
the City of Adelaide website, the City Wellbeing 08 8203 7049.
team coordinated a temporary paint by numbers
mural on the window of the Adelaide South Dog Walking
West Community Centre and did a call out to
locals to be involved.
On Tuesday 27 July, 27 people booked in and
were provided with an allocated timeslot to add
to the mural painting section by section using
paint by numbers format. It was a fabulous day
with families, friends (old and newly created in
that moment), couples and individuals from 2yrs
old, primary school age, Uni students and
teachers participating.
Community Resilience Volunteers –
helping you prepare for emergencies Do you have a dog that you can no longer take for
a good walk? If you live in the North Adelaide
area, we know of a lady who recently lost her dog.
She would love to continue to go out with a dog
walking. If you would like to know more then
please contact Kellie at North Adelaide
Community Centre on 8203 7811.
Social Programs - Seniors Craft Day
You are invited you to join a craft workshop at
the Good Social Café at 307 Wright Street (near
West Terrace) at 10.30am on Wednesday 18
November.
Cassy, Community Resilience Leader and Volunteer,
discusses emergency preparedness with Libby, Adelaide
resident.
The city of Adelaide is a relatively safe place to
live, but we are not immune to emergencies which
can take many forms and impact people in a Come and learn crafts to keep or share. These
range of ways. Community Resilience Leaders decorated jam jars would make a lovely gift or
are fellow community members who volunteer you might like to create these 3D butterflies. It is
across the city and North Adelaide to assist free and includes a free tea or coffee. Limited
residents to become better prepared for spots are available so please contact us on 8203
emergencies. 7283 to book in.
Automatic External Defibrillators - The Adelaide Community Shed will foster a
positive and encouraging environment where
Keep an eye out people of all ages and abilities can tinker, talk
and take on a DIY project.
The City of Adelaide have committed $30,000
towards the construction of the Community Shed
in 2020/21 and the project is in the planning
stage with draft concept designs being drawn up.
It will be located on Franklin Street at a site
leased to the Conservation Council of South
Australia (at the former Adelaide Bus Station
called The Joinery) and it is hoped construction
will be completed by the end of this calendar
year. Council are working with a group of
volunteers to form an incorporated Community
Shed Committee to help shape what the shed
will look like, opening times and services that
can be offered to the community.
If you would like to find out more information or
volunteer to be part of the Community Shed
The heart-shaped artwork showing an AED' s location Committee, contact Tom Beales, Co-ordinator,
Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading Rec Planning & Capacity Building on 8203 7791
causes of death in Australia. AEDs can or email t.beales@cityofadelaide.com.au
dramatically increase the chance of survival.
The City of Adelaide, supported by SA SALA exhibition August 2020
Ambulance and the Heart Foundation, has 11
AEDs for public use in 24/7 locations installed
throughout the city and North Adelaide. These
locations include the six Squares, Rundle Mall,
the Riverbank, Melbourne Street, Tynte Street,
Hutt Street and Sturt Street.
Recently, a few have needed replacing due to
theft and vandalism. There has been a request
from Council to share this information in an
effort to establish a more effective community-
driven approach to minimising theft or vandalism
of the AEDs.
COVID-19 meant that the regular SALA
To achieve this, we are asking community exhibitions took on a whole new way of operating
members to keep an eye out for the AEDs while this year. Last year the Healthy Ageing team
out walking in the neighbourhood and report any supported a group of artists who were all over the
instances of theft or vandalism to help ensure age of 65 with an exhibition at the Adelaide South
we keep these important health and safety West Community Centre but due to restrictions
devices readily available for anyone in the were unable to extend the offer again this year.
community to use. Your assistance would be That didn’t stop one of our artists, Sue Webb, who
greatly appreciated. successfully hosted her own exhibition.
If you observe theft or vandalism in progress,
please call 131444 for police attendance, if the
theft or vandalism has already occurred call
Council on 82037203 to report that the device is
missing or damaged.
Adelaide Community Shed - Coming
soon to the CBD
A Community Shed will provide opportunities for
people of all ages and abilities to gather
informally in the city, in a space and way that
supports them to connect and be purposeful.
Pushing FOR Performance Adelaide Mosque – Talk & Tour
If you would like to try a more intensive workout
you are welcome to join a new resistance
From 23 – 31 October 2020 we celebrate
focused group training session with elements of
National Unity Week. As part of the celebration
cardiovascular work at the Minor Works
we invite you to join historian Pamela Rajkowski
Building.
OAM and the Imam of Adelaide Mosque for a
fascinating journey through history. Learn about
Each week the session will be planned to allow
the Afghan cameleers’ contribution to South
you to select the workout intensity you are
Australia and the first permanent mosque. You
comfortable with. All ages are welcome as
are invited to enjoy a talk at the North Adelaide
everyone will be able to work at their own pace,
Community Centre 8203 7811 or a talk and tour
either on your own or with other participants.
starting at the South West Community Centre
Classes start on Tuesday 22 September 2020
8203 7801.
(for 8 weeks) 11:30 – 12:30pm
Minor Works Building - 22 Stamford Ct Adelaide. Monday 26 October 2-4pm @ NACC
Please register each week by calling the South
Tuesday 27 October 1:15 – 3:30pm starting at
West Community Centre on 8203 7801. Adelaide South West Community Centre walking
Free – please bring your water and a towel.
to the Adelaide Mosque
Try Bushcare with Trees for Life Community Led Connections
An exciting partnership between the Halifax Café
Being outside in nature is great for wellbeing. and ECH commenced in September. If you are
Join Trees for Life volunteers in the southern 65 years or over and enjoy making meaningful
Adelaide Park Lands to try Bushcare and take a
connections with people from your local
guided walk in nature. This is an opportunity to community then come and join an IT workshop,
meet like-minded people and immerse yourself in
book club, knitting or walking group. Bring your
beautiful bushland. skills, passions, ideas and sense of fun and share
your ideas!
Discover the hidden wonders of your local natural
Thursdays 10:00am – 12:00noon Halifax Café
bushland so close to home. A light lunch, water, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide 5000
tools, and personal protective equipment will be
provided on the day. See the Social Program The session is free but please support the café by
insert for dates and times. purchasing a tea or coffee
Beyond Blue - Coronavirus Mental SA Plan for Ageing Well 2020-2025
Wellbeing Support (article From SA Health)
This year has certainly been one of the most
challenging for all of us. If you are struggling to
cope and don’t have a trusted friend or family
member you can talk to or feel more comfortable
reaching out to a professional. You can speak to
trained counsellors 24/7 on Beyond Blue’s
dedicated coronavirus support line at 1800 512 The South Australian Government has released
348. There is also a dedicated website which a new Plan, outlining its commitment to
offers a range of self-help tools and access to supporting all South Australians to age well and
peer-to-peer support through online forums. including older people in the decisions that affect
them.
Beyond Blue continues to provide regular updates South Australia’s Plan for Ageing Well 2020 –
and supportive content to the dedicated 2025 recognises the aspirations, challenges and
Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service. incredible diversity in the way we age; sets a
forward-looking vision to challenge the status
The free service, funded by the Australian quo; and enables the contribution of many
Government, is available 24/7 with clear, partners.
evidence-based information, advice and support
tailored to the mental health and wellbeing Our state has the highest proportion of older
challenges the pandemic has raised. people on mainland Australia, so we are
To find out more visit: uniquely positioned to lead the way on future
www.coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au directions that enable all of us to live, age and
die well.
Age Well Adelaide (Seniors Expo)
The Plan has been produced through extensive
consultation, including the Statewide
Conversations with Older South Australians and
Statewide Conversations with Stakeholders, and
we thank everyone who has participated in this
process.
The Plan identifies three priorities:
• Home and community (there is no place
like home);
• Meaningful connections (the key to a
This FREE online expo provides useful good life); and
information and resources on how to live a • Navigating change (building resilience).
healthy life as we age. Topics include:-
cognitive wellbeing; pet therapy; physical For more information and resources on South
activity for people with Arthritis and Navigating Australia’s Plan for Ageing Well 2020-2025, see
the Aged Care System. www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/planforageingwell
Tuesday 20 October
Register by calling 1800 852 772
Optimists live two years longer than COTA SA Aged Care Navigator Trial
pessimists
New research suggests there are some real
health benefits to looking on the brighter side of
life. QIMR Berghofer’s Genetic Epidemiology
group in Queensland, Australia, has found
pessimistic people typically die two years earlier
than their more optimistic counterparts.
The study is based on a pessimism
questionnaire of almost 3,000 participants aged Are you overwhelmed or struggling to understand
over 50 between 1993 and 1995. My Aged Care or other aged care services?
COTA SA can offer free assistance to you and
your family to help you to access the aged care
Researchers cross referenced these details with
services you need. Make a call to chat or meet up
the Australian National Death Index in October
with Julie Lawrie, specialist aged care navigator
2017, to find out how many people had died –
on 8232 0444 / 0484 143772 or email
and the results were remarkable.
acs@cotasa.org.au
Not only did pessimists typically die two years
The Aged Care Navigator trial is delivered by
earlier, they also had a greater disposition
COTA SA as part of a consortium led by COTA
towards life-threatening diseases than their
Australia and is funded by the Australian
more optimistic counterparts.
Government. It provides older people and their
supporters an expert ear from someone who can
“Understanding that our long term health can be
help them connect with and plan the services they
influenced by whether we’re a cup-half-full or
receive. More information can be found at
cup-half-empty kind of person might be the
www.AgedCareNavigators.org.au
prompt we need to try to change the way we
face the world, and try to reduce negativity,
even in really difficult circumstances,”
said Dr John Whitfield, the lead researcher on
the study. So next time you see a glass look at it
as half full, rather than half empty. At the end of
the day, you can always refill it!
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