About the Centre

Celebrating seven years of serving the Southern Yorke Peninsula. Hip, Hip Hooray!

On Wednesday 31st May 2000 The SYP Community Telecentre opened its doors to the community for the first time. The Telecentre was the culmination of hard work by the Yorketown Progress Association aided by the invaluable help of numerous volunteers, with ongoing support of the Regional Development Board.

Since its beginning some seven years ago the centre has grown strongly in the amount of services and facilities it offers.

It provides community access to the internet and online learning, acts as a youth and community centre, business resource centre, training facility and centre for IT in the SYP region. It offers a comprehensive range of services from faxing and photocopying, colour copying and photo inkjet printing, scanning and photo retouching to document binding and folding. We also loan out a range of equipment from Projectors to computers all at minimal cost.

We have a range of printed material to offer visitors as well as having a wealth of knowledge about the local area.

As a regional Agency for Centrelink, Service SA and the ATO we offer a number of convenient services that help the community in many ways. The centre can undertake both Driver Theory Tests and Boat Licence Theory tests as well as offering TAX HELP with the help trained volunteers. We have numerous Government forms and information available as well as being able to verify and fax Centrelink documents to wherever they are required to be sent.

Another important role of the Centre was the establishment and ongoing development and updating of the "Yorke Region Portal". The portal is an extermely popular site that highlights business and service on the Yorke Peninsula. The site is maintained by a qualified graphic designer that can also professionally design your website or redisign your existing site. He also offers the experitise in designing any sort of marketing material from brochures and flyers to logos and business cards.

The Centre is run by the Yorketown Progress Association as a non-profit organisation that depends on the community using its services so it can afford to keep up with the latest technology advances and pass them on to the community.

If you have not visited the Centre before, please call in and say Hi and see just what the centre can offer you. To those that have visted and use the facilities we Thankyou for your continued Support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History in the Making

The Yorketown Progress Association Renovation of the Old Yorketown School & Establishment of the S.Y.P. Community Telecentre

June 1999 - 31st May 2000

Re-Roofing



6 days of voluntary work undertaken by Trevor Franke, Mark Stanton, Colin Franke, Bronte Frahm, Graham May, Anthony Spratt, Rex South, Weston Wilkinson, Ritchie Thompson, Peter Quick, Roy Bullock, Jim MacFarlane, Michael Haylock, Dave Love, Richie Gutsche & Bob Haylock.

Funds raised by "Sporting Memorabilia" Auction organized by Constable Peter Muir, & grant from BankSA.

Painting



The painting of the exterior of the 'Old School' was undertaken by a small but dedicated group of volunteers. Work began in late spring, 1999, & continued through a very hot summer until completed in February 2000.

Painting "Gang"
Ken Crosby, Graham Thomas, Pat Thomson, Graham May, Roy Bullock, Rex South, John Bryson.

Paint supplied & Donated By
Harris Stores, Wattyl Paints, K.Crosby, Lions Club of Yorketown & District Inc. K. Crosby also supplied painting aids & Scaffolding.

Numerous Repairs & Improvements were carried out.



Many thanks to the "handypersons" who gave their time
Rodney Franke, Graham May, Graham Thomas, Vaughan McWaters, Bill May, Alan Ford (Tiling)

Electrical Work
Special Thanks to Graham Gutsche for donating many hours to the restoration project. He was assisted by Graham May, Rex South & Brian Marshall.

Furnishings
Furniture has been generously donated by Jan Justice, Anne May & Trevor & Kaylene Taylor. Telecentre furniture has been given by Adelaide University, TAFE, David & Vicki Love.

Loan of Refrigerators CAFHS, & C.F.S.

Carpet
Donated by - Moonta Area School
Acquisition - Graham May, Bob Haylock & Colin Harvey.

Laying
Chris Launer, Graham May & Rex South.
Cleaning - Graham May, Rex South, Trevor Taylor with equipment loaned by Chris Launer.

Linoleum
Donated by Chris Launer.

Curtains
TAFE & Margaret Cheel.

Cabling for Telecentre
Brian Marshall, Adelaide University Technicians & Andrew Cheel.

Garden



Vegetation cleared by Graham May with help from the District Council of Yorke Peninsula.

Refreshments & food provided at Working Bees



Food and Refreshments provided by: Willy's Meat Store, Yorketown Bakery, Braunds Yorketown Store, Melville Hotel Hungry Macks, Yorke Hotel, Cooney's Deli, Thorpy's Pizza

Loan of Barbecue B.J. & Teresa Haywood.

Afternoon Teas Supplied By Maureen South & Lesley May.



Signs



Erected by Graham May, Rex South & Graham Thomas.

Transport of Goods from Adelaide Mel Dodd, Andrew & Margaret Cheel.

Cleaning & Washing Windows
Shirley Lienert, Bob Dunbar, Rex South, Chris. Franke & Lesley May

Website Production Crew
Pastor William Heidrich, Colin Mason (mags), Dwayne Grundy, Chris Camp, with thanks to King Island Internet Service.



Acknowledgement
The Yorketown Progress Association wishes to acknowledge great support from The Lions Club of Yorketown & District Inc. The Lions Club raised $1505.00 from a special "battery drive" to help fund a reverse cycle air conditioner for the Telecentre.

 

 

  

 

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