Kooweerup community strengthening action group members Geoff Pledge and Peter Lynch.PEOPLE with ideas, enthusiasm and energy are being urged to help decide the future directions and community focus for Kooweerup.
The town’s community strengthening action group is recruiting participants to attend a forum to help guide Kooweerup’s direction.
Kooweerup Township Committee vicechairman and action group member Peter Lynch said the ideas, priorities and projects emerging from this forum would be used to give the town a boost.
“The traders association and township committee helped initiate this project earlier in the year, to kick start some drastic action to improve our town,” he said.
“But we can’t work properly to improve things until we know what the people of the district want, and what they are prepared to work on. Hence the forum.
“We want good people to help us make those important decisions about our priorities for Kooweerup and surrounds, and about how we can go about achieving those priorities.”
The forum will be held on 7 and 8 October and is part of a strengthening project supported by Cardinia Shire and the State Government.
Supper on Friday evening, and lunch and snacks on Saturday will be provided free to participants, with the activities run at the Kooweerup Community Centre by experienced facilitator John Moore.
Mr Lynch said Cardinia Shire had supported similar community strengthening projects in other rural townships.
“The coming Pakenham bypass, the newly approved South East Industrial Park on the PakenhamKooweerup Road, the planned return of the train in an era of high petrol prices, the growth of primary care services at Kooweerup hospital and growing school and kindergarten populations in the town are all marking the huge changes which are at the town’s feet and which the people are being asked to respond to,” he said.
Residents interested in receiving an invitation should ring Peter Lynch on 0418 971 899.
