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Greenway Park Community Centre
In March 2018, we met our Federal Local Member (Julian Leeser) plus various Federal Ministers (Mathias Cormann and Bridgett McKenzie) and our fellow Sporting Groups (AFL, Baseball, Little A’s and Rugby League) to start the process to get $1.9m in funding to build the new Community Centre.
On 30th March 2021 the dream became reality when Julian Leeser officially opened the new Community Centre. This is an amazing Community facility that offers:
• Seating for 350 people
• Viewingbalcony
• Apart from a main meeting area, there is a bar and fully equipped professional kitchen
• The main wall has 2 giant HD TV screens with the best being a roof mounted super HD video
projection unit (worth $55k) that projects onto the wall. There will also be Trophy cabinets where each
Sporting Group will be able to display major awards
• In the Meeting Room there is a large wall where each Club will be able to display Special
achievements – Life Members, Highest run scorers and wicket takers and so on.
A photographic history of the initiative follows:
With Mathias Cormann 15 March 2018 Construction starts – 13 September 2020
Julian Leeser cutting the ribbon 30 March 2021 Official Opening 30 March 2021
Next season
This time last season we had no idea when the 2020/21 season would start, if at all, and what form it would take. Twelve months on and we completed a highly successful shortened season and we look forward to a full season in 2021/22 with a vaccine now available.
The experience has made us all more resilient and we have learnt smarter and better ways of doing
things that will be carried into 2021/22. For most is the importance of high quality communication and a willingness to take risks to remain relevant in a world where conventional ways of doing things expose us to risk of inertia.
We look forward to 2021/22 and the opportunities that will be presented to us.
Ross Anderson Director Operations May 2021
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