Health wrapped up in the kitchen
A HEALTHY diet and lifestyle are so important with waistlines growing and illness resulting.
So it was great to see the Dandenong Market making a contribution to the cause and joining a world record attempt along the way.
Russell Bald is the resident chef at The Kitchen and showed visitors to the market how to create a ‘rainbow wrap’ last week.
It was part of the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution Day which had people around the world cooking the same healthy recipe at the same time on 16 May.
Beetroot, carrot, white cabbage, pear, mint, parsley, feta cheese, natural yogurt, English mustard, vinegar and olive oil were combined and put into wholemeal tortilla wraps.
I haven’t yet heard whether the event was successful in breaking the world record for the largest cooking lesson but it was a great way to show people an easy, healthy recipe.
This cooking lesson and other healthy cooking initiatives at The Kitchen are all about providing our community with the skills it needs to live a longer, healthier life.
Incredible power
Koala Gymnastics Club contacted me last week after hearing some wonderful news.
The not-for-profit community club in Noble Park was thrilled to find out it had won first prize in the Gymnastics Australia’s Incredible People Power Competition.
With this year’s Australian Gymnastics Championships on its way to Melbourne, the competition aims to spread the word throughout local communities.
The club had to display four posters sent to it in an event pack in the most creative way possible.
Koala coach Cathy Green proudly positioned the ‘blue super girl’ poster in the front window of the gymnastic club in the Noble Park Public Hall at the Paddy O’Donoghue Centre in Buckley Street for all to see.
I remember the wonderfully community-minded Mr and Mrs Paddy and Olive O’Donoghue started the gym club more than 35 years ago.
Although they’re no longer with us, the club is carrying on the vision of sporting participation and a sense of belonging and achievement that the founders wanted to create for children in the local area.
The club’s super girl was judged the most creative and it won a $500 first prize to spend on gymnastic equipment.
Cathy will be presented with the prize at the Australian Gymnastics Championships.
It has been a very busy time for the little club.
It set up and ran a free come and try gymnastics area at Dandenong Primary School recently to help celebrate its special 140th birthday event.
The club also recently turned pink for a week to raise money for a tremendous cause – the Breast Cancer Network.
