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CWA of Brunswick Heads, Poems

April 2024 The Byron Wave


CWA Brunswick Heads Branch by Beverly Masters

Pictured: Quilts made by Brunswick Heads CWA. Source: Supplied.

During World War I, the Country Women’s Association (CWA) extended assistance to soldiers and their families by supplying clothing, care packages, and raising funds for medical provisions. Additionally, they advocated for food preservation and cultivation to alleviate shortages, coordinating communal kitchens and promoting homegrown crops.

These initiatives underscored the CWA’s dedication to community welfare and its capacity to mobilise women in times of adversity, cementing its role as a crucial support system in Australia. Annually, we pay our respects on ANZAC Day and lay a wreath at the Brunswick Heads Memorial Park on 25 April.

CWA Brunswick Heads Crafty Women meet each Friday between 10am
– 2pm, corner of Park and Booyun Street, Brunswick Heads. Join us for a chat, a cuppa and bring along your craft projects including sewing, knitting, crocheting, memory books or quilting. Women are always welcome, please bring a gold coin donation.

If you would like to be a member please email: brunscwa@gmail.com For more information visit: facebook. com/CWAofBrunswickHeads

Presidents Poem by Beverly Masters

In the heart of a thriving community’s glow, Lies a

tapestry of stories that ebb and flow In shared laughter

and moment of tears a bond forms stronger throughout

the years a web of support, a safety net found

In our CWA community, we are uniquely bound

From diverse backgrounds, culture, and creed

In unity, may we find what we need

A mosaic of lives, each unique and bright

Listening to each other and not always having to be right

On the corner of Park and Booyun streets


Is where our CWA members and friends meet.

byronwave | April 2024

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family life, life's tips

Byronshire


I live in a very beautiful part of the world, in between the Australian Rain Forrest and the most Easterly Point of Australia.  The birds in this area are amazing to watch, so clever how they work together to gather food, you see them in our back yard calling each other when they find a good feed. I love waking up… or trying to wake up before the laughing kookaburra begins in the morning at about 6am.  It’s truly the quietest time of the day and it somehow gives me pleasure to know that I woke before they woke me.

Birdlife Australia said that their 2015 Australian birds report shows dwindling numbers of some common birds, like the willy wagtail, kookaburra and magpie-lark and this should be a wake-up call.  There are many reasons why our bird number are “dwindling” it’s a jungle out there for them, kind of like our local Byronites that have been trying to survive the Jungle of a popular seaside town must endure.  We have so much talent here and I shalll endeavour to write about some of the most interesting things I love about the Byronshire…birds, dogs, and spiders and snakes included.