Woden Community Service (WCS) has been operating since 1969. Originally focussed on supporting the Woden community, WCS now provides services throughout the ACT.
WCS provides services across all age groups and throughout the community, from early learning to aged care services, supporting mental health and wellbeing, responding to homelessness, assisting those living with disability, working with families and young people, engaging communities while supporting those who are vulnerable.
I lived in Jindabyne 1950 to 1956 we came from Germany as displaced persons, my mum was from Ukraine captured by the Germans 1942 sent to Germany as slave labour my dad from Poland I was born in Koblenz 1945 good to see this upload I can relate to this very well. all so sad when I think about the hardship these migrants had to endure including my family. Ukraine is under attack once more I am glad my mum did not witness this current terror she passed away in 2018 dad 1995 would like to hear from anyone who lived in Jindabyne and attended the public school or knows someone who was there at the time
My dad & his brothers also worked on the Snowy Scheme . My brother was born in Cooma hospital in 1962 . There last name is Currey . Keith , David & Bobby Currey . All concreters. So much history.
What a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing Aunty Lun. I was friends with your daughter, Christine, in the early 80s. I remember visiting your home and it always smelt AMAZING with the "exotic" foods that you cooked. Thanks for the lovely video.
I was born in Cooma 1957 and I believe my dad worked about 2 years there. He never spoke of what he did there, I just knew it was construction. Thanks to google, I found info about the Snowy project, I’m sure this is what he worked on. He passed 2011. His last name was Houston, does anyone remember that name, from North Carolina, USA?
I was born in Cooma Hospital in 1958. My father, Alexander Robert Martin, known as Bob, worked on The Snowy Mountain Scheme as an Electrical Engineer, as a supervisor. He passed away from a heart attack in 1959, I was only 9 months old. We moved to my mother's home town in Western Australia, not long after his passing. The workers organized a collection to give to my mother upon us leaving.
@@darrelletownsend9602, so very sorry to hear! My mom spoke of the kind neighbors she had met. She also said she stayed in the hospital for 7 days while she had me…that was the norm. 😄
Thanks, it was great to watch these stories. The footage brought back many memories for me since I was a Snowy kid, born in Cooma and living initially at Adaminaby and then Cabramurra. Dad and Mum were Aussies and we enjoyed meeting people from different nations. We moved to Sydney in 1966, but the Snowy is still a special place for me and I go back to bushwalk and ski.
Lumduan Hill talks about defending Cabramurra from the 2003 bushfire. Sadly the 2020 bushfire was too big and two thirds of the town was destroyed, including Lum and Bill’s home.
My late ex husband worked on this scheme. He as originally from Romania and came to Australia through the resettlement scheme. He had run away from Romania at age 12 and ended up in Germany. His war time experience was pretty horrific, and not unusual for a lot of people caught up in the war in those days. He used to ride on horseback to assist the surveyors when the Snowy Mountains scheme was in its early days. He became a tunneler and worked at that for almost all of his life afterwards.
We need to have far sighted project in this day and age. It is amazing what the peole have accomplished . Al have looked back in pride and happiness and finally have made Australia their home. Despite the harsh condition, especially in winter, there seem to live in harmony, trust and long lasting friendsip.
Dear sir, May 2020. I'm an 84 yo Australian man. It does NOT need music. The young generation persist in having back ground music which is usually too loud. We do not need music. Juan. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==
Was the Snowy Mountains Scheme worth the cost? History will give only one answer: Yes, it was. Winston Churchill sums it up succinctly: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" Millions of Australians benefited so much from this scheme, yet there are a few left wing minorities who complain about the 'damage' that was done, that the cost of this scheme far outweighed any benefits. Millions of Australians do not agree with these earlier versions of 'greenies'. If they did, they would have switched their electrical power switches to the OFF position. None did. Not even one. And what is so ironic is that NEITHER did these 'greenies'.
This reminds me about Winston Churchill during a speech in parliament, a lady heckler screamed out to him and said " if you were my husband I would give you poison to drink" Winston replied instantly and said " if I were your husband I would drink it !!
This sounds like an exciting project. As it happens, I’ve just finished the first draft of a fictional book set partly in Cooma during the first Snowy scheme. I based some of the book on research collected from the National Library, National Archives and personal family stories. I also live a few kilometres from the WCS (small world!). I’ve posted a few videos about progress on the novel so far. Love to collaborate if there are any opportunities to do so. Good luck with the film! ru-vid.com/show-UCGKBoQXRdaRu7X9EU2NdShQ
What an inspiring video! Love the Values that everyone at Woden Community Service live and believe in and deliver every day to their community through their wide reaching services. And also how proud they are of each other. Well done WCS.
