By Jane Flett, Awards Office, Queensland Regional Achievers Awardsr Eve-lyn Rogers of Mount Morgan is one of ten finalists selected in the 2002 Queensland Regional Achievers Awards.
Eve-lyn has spent the past eight years striving to ensure her local community recovers from its post-mining town blues by volunteering her services to a range of community organisations.
In March 2000, Eve-lyn was elected to the Council and has continually provided Mount Morgan with excellent representation at State Local Government’s Women’s Conferences, the Wowan-Dululu Landcare Group, the Mount Morgan Employment Taskforce, Equity Access Committee, Tourism Highway Committees and helped establish the Regional Arts Development Fund Committee as Chairperson.
Eve-lyn is also actively involved in the Community Service Club, the local Ambulance Committee and is Treasurer of the Mount Morgan Show Society. She is the part-time Steering Committee Coordinator for the Mount Morgan Heritage Trails Network Project and Secretary of the Golden Mount Festival Association.
The Golden Mount Festival Festival is an annual four-day event incorporating Mount Morgan traditions and a variety of events for the family. Eve-lyn was instrumental in ensuring the Association produced a range of souvenirs promoting the local area and aims of the Festival. These included two souvenir booklets and a range of coffee mugs. She was successful in gaining grant funding from Festivals Australia to stage a puppet show highlighting youth choices in relation to drugs and alcohol.
Eve-lyn is constantly seeking new ways to highlight Mount Morgan and in 2000 was successful in receiving the Centenary of Federation funding to stage an event showcasing Australia’s and Mount Morgan’s heritage through dance, music, poetry and military pageantry.
In 1996, Eve-lyn began and still operates a fortnightly community newspaper known as The Mountain Echo. In that same year she was awarded the Mount Morgan Shire’s Cultural Award for her efforts. |