A steady flow of enquiries from volunteers has been received by the coordinator of the Barcaldine Grey Nomad Volunteer Project in the current tourist season. Volunteers have nearly completed building a raised garden for the aged care patients at the Barcaldine Hospital, are currently working at the Radio Theatre repairing the old canvas seats and a couple of ladies have volunteered to enhance the lives of patients attending the Diversional Therapy group at the Hospital.

 Cedric Radford, Jack Kennedy, Geza Elek, Walter Frank and Raymond Ardler who are staying at Lloyd Jones Weir have volunteered to build the garden at the Hospital.

John & Narelle Foote have volunteered and are currently working at the Radio Theatre repairing the seats and giving them a splash of paint to brighten things up.  John Stapleton has recently volunteered and repaired the sound system at the theatre and his wife Cheryl kindly donated a DVD she developed with photographs of wild flowers they have seen on their travels to the Diversional Therapy group at the hospital. The DVD was shown to the group last week with many positive comments made by the patients and others in attendance. Roberta Boni has also made activities very interesting and enjoyable at the Diversional Therapy group gathering by volunteering to do a Belly Dancing display for those in attendance. Roberta also took the time to give some impromptu lessons to some not so keen attendees to the group’s gathering.

 If you are interested in finding out about what volunteers have done in Barcaldine this tourist season, go to the following web site. http://greynomadproject.jimdo.com/

Jill Weeks
Author 21 Ways To Retire, Co-author Where To Retire In Australia, Retire Bizzi
www.where2now.net