Our Lady Star of the Sea Terrigal Parish has received $20,000 through the Federal Labor Government’s Stronger Communities Program to buy a lockable bus shelter for its community bus.
Member for Robertson Gordon Reid said the wider parish community would benefit from the shelter, which will help mitigate the effects of environmental elements and void vandalism.
“The community bus is used for a range of purposes including transporting elderly parishioners to and from mass on the weekend, as well as students from the adjacent Catholic school to nursing homes,” Reid said.
Parish Pastoral Associate at Our Lady Star of the Sea Terrigal Parish, Janette Merrotsy, said for the past few years the parish bus had been exposed to the elements and vandalised while on church property.
“The bus is, to some of our elderly, the only way to come to mass on Sunday,” she said.
“It is also used to take our school students on excursions to visit our local nursing homes to cheer-up the elderly with a song and some happy smiles.”
The Stronger Communities Program provides not-for-profit organisations with grant funding of between $2,500 to $25,000.
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Member for Robertson Gordon Reid