Palate at the Gallery Dish of the Day

As Mayor of Lismore Jenny Dowell’s life is all about community – she’s always on the lookout for new schemes, and she passed us this great idea from the Lismore Art Gallery restaurant – Palate at the Gallery.

Palate at the Gallery has launched a Westpac Life Saver Helicopter Dish of the Day. Palate will label a dish each week on their menu, this will change weekly to keep things interesting and they will donate a $1 from each meal sold to The Westpac Life Saver Helicopter Service.

“Palate just wanted to do its bit this Christmas for the community, none us know what is around the corner or if we might ever need to call on this amazing service – although touch wood we won’t have to – but it is a genuinely important service for our community” award winning chef and owner Perry Hill said. “We will kick off the Dish of the Week with the ever popular breakfast/ brunch dish Honey roast sweet potato & quinoa fritters with bacon, poached eggs, avocado salsa & goji berry relish.”

Yum.

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Lismore rallies: Photograph Alex Moffatt Clarke

The sight of so many thousands of people walking through Lismore streets filled me with pride. It also sent a message to politicians and gas mining companies – don’t mess with us! We, the people of the NR, will be here for however long it takes to get rid of this industry from our region.

Cr Jenny Dowell, Mayor of Lismore.

They came in their thousands from near and far last weekend to protest against Coal Seam Gas – it was a day of protest, but also a day of community pride, laughter and music as the parade wound its way through the centre of town.

An angel, Mayor of Lismore Jenny Dowell, and a ‘Greedozer’ at the November 1 rally.

Nan and Hugh Nicholson: leaders in the protection of Terania Creek in the 1970s and still protecting the environment

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Cr Jenny Dowell, Mayor of Lismore City Council – proud of the Move2Change program.

Lismore City Council has just won a national award at the 2014 Heart Foundation Local Government Awards, beating six other finalists with its Move2Change initiave.

Lismore Mayor Jenny Dowell thought the Lismore City Council was in the running to pick up an award when the Council were invited to sit on the head table with the Heart Foundation attendees. “It made me think, yes, we’re in with a chance, and I was thrilled when we won because it really acknowledged the work that we’ve done creating that Move2Change program.”

The program, targeted at people who normally don’t exercise, or eat as healthily as they might, allowed various sections of the community to attend classes for a subsidised amount of $2. “We offered the program to Aboriginal people, people with disabilities, the aged and the unemployed, and it gave them a chance to do classes such as water aerobics, or gym, or nutrition classes for a small amount of money,” says Dowell.

The program was a massive success. “It was very well subscribed,” says Dowell. “Lots of people undertook the program, and a lot of people have continued with the classes at a slightly higher rate. We’ve got community gardens planting and growing fresh food, then harvesting and sharing it at the gardens for people to take home, and I think it’s really proved once more what you can do when a community pulls together.”

Even starting excercise over 60 has a beneficial effect.

The Council has also put its money where its mouth is, quite literally. “We now have a Council Healthy Food Policy which is part of our sporting facilities, and of our own canteens,” Dowell says. “Also we’ve putting a lot more emphasis on the recreational side of family life such as walking paths in the area and bike tracks. Everything that gets people out there and being healthy. A lot of these things have come out of our debate around the design of public spaces, and what we are finding as these programs are self-sustaining. We’ve now trained our own fitness survivors of these course, and the program is reaching out to other areas like Clunes, Dunoon and Nimbin.”

Dowell feels it won’t be long before other councils will approach Lismore. “I believe that this program has the ability create long-lasting change,” she say. “We’ve got to be proud of that.”

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