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By DANIELLA WHITE
May 4, 2015, 8:57 a.m.
At the
Miro Street building site were Sally Hofman, John Prest, Nathan Miller and
Rhonda Gilbert. Photo: Jeffery Watt
A Lambing Flat Enterprises (LFE) building project that will help address a shortage of housing for the disabled is about to get underway after more than six years in the pipeline.
LFE CEO Sally Hofman they were thrilled they were finally about to start building on the Miro Street site.
The project, which kicks off in the next couple of weeks, will eventually see 12 units built for LFE clients and include a garden and labyrinth.
It’s been a hard slog for the group to make it this far, having to come up with all the cash itself.
“The government didn’t come up with the funds,” Sally said.
“We saved up enough ourselves and got a loan.”
She said it was disappointing the government hadn’t come through with funding, especially considering the drastic shortage of housing for the disabled nationally.
The project will take place in stages with four units slated to be built and housing residents by the end of the year.
“We’re incredibly excited, it’s been a long process,” Sally said.
The project will add to LFE units already on Miro Street which have been part of the community for 30 years.
The new units will be part of the “ageing in place” program, providing permanent accommodation for tenants.
Sally said the units will fill a gap for clients who are ready to leave the transition housing already on Miro Street but still want that extra bit of support.
“[Some of our clients’] parents are ageing and often concerned about what will happen to their children,” she said.
Sally said they collaborated with the community to decide on the final design - which was created with assistance of University of NSW.
“We started planning back in 2007… there was a big lapse in between when we were trying to raise funds,” she said.
“There were 16 designs and all the current residents came to have a look at the designs and chose the right one.
“It was a very collaborative process.”
Sally said she was in the process of finding more avenues for funding which will help complete the rest of the project.
http://www.youngwitness.com.au/story/3053887/work-to-begin/?cs=1288
By DANIELLA WHITE
May 6, 2015, 6:40 a.m.
DISAPPOINTED: Marty Waite holds a salvaged part of the missing vending machine which looks just like the one he is pictured with.
Lambing Flat Enterprises (LFE) are appealing for the public’s help after a vending machine used to fund their transition-to-work program was broken into and stolen.
They say the act has taken funds away from a valuable community-based project and left them without a machine that would cost $1300 to replace.
LFE employee Marty Waite was the first to realise the vending machine had gone missing when he visited a site recently taken over by new owners.
“I went down and told them I was from LFE and they had a drink machine I needed to service,” Marty said.
“The guy just said it was ‘gone’.”
Marty went back with transition-to-work LFE employee Nathan Miller, and the owners this time said they had thrown it in the bin.
They asked to look in the bin but were told it had “gone”.
The next day when they went to the site, they found evidence that the vending machine had been broken into before being dumped.
Nathan and Marty said they saw a part of the machine laying on the ground as well as punctured soft drink cans.
They said the owners again changed their story, saying they left the vending machine out the front of the shop when they were moving in.
They believe whomever took the machine forced their way into it with an angle grinder, taking the money and cans of coke in it.
“We’re devastated someone could do this to us,” he said.
“All the money we get goes back into the transition-to-work program.
“Really they’re taking away from these guys (transition-to-work clients).
“That’s one less machine we get to make money off.”
Marty and Nathan asked if anyone had seen the machine - even if it was missing parts - to let them know, as they would still find a use for it.
Police have been contacted but said it was most likely a civil matter.
http://www.youngwitness.com.au/story/3058167/lfe-vending-machine-goes-missing/?cs=1540
