Wardell Red Cross
"Mrs Harris goes to Paris"
Join the Wardell Red Cross for a feature film night
WARDELL HALL - MAY 14
DOORS OPEN AT 6.30PM, MOVIE 7.15PM
WINE & SAVOURIES ALL INCLUDED - TICKETS $15
Bring a cushion, dress like you are off to Paris.
This is a family friendly event, fun for everyone.
PRIZES & LUCKY DOORS ON NIGHT
Enjoyable, charming and essentially, old-fashioned cinema. The 1950s lovingly restored - enjoy the London and Paris streets in all their glory. A sterling cast, Lesley Manville (as Mrs Harris), Isabelle Huppert (as a rather stuck-up head at Christian Dior) and Lambert Wilson (best supporting actor of the year surely as sympathetic French Comte) does well with a finely written script and fabulous costume.
Our recent impact
Wardell Red Cross have fund-raised and sent over $32,000 to Red Cross Australia for national and international relief efforts.
$6500 has been sent for drought appeals including “Lets talk for farmers”
$4000 for local flood and fire appeals
$4600 to overseas appeals for Earthquakes, Cyclones and Tsunami recovery support for our neighbours in Nepal, Indonesia and Fiji.
$15,000 into general revenue which helps with disasters like the recent floods and bushfires which affected communities throughout Australia.
Locally we have contributed to Wardell Hall, the Wardell CORE, Women’s refuge Ballina, Wardell Primary School breakfast programs, Alstonville Youth Program, purchased the defibrillator at The Wardell Hall and the memorial plaque at the War Memorial on Bath Street.
Get involved and join us
Wardell Red Cross branch meet a the Wardell and District Memorial Hall
on the first Wednesday of the month at 10am.
Please contact Jane (Mob : 0422 011 492) for more information
Red Cross marks a century of crossing borders with care :
The Wardell Branch of The Australian Red Cross was formed on 4 September 1914 just 5 weeks after Britain declared war on Germany.
The Wardell Branch of the Red Cross is one of the oldest continuous branches in Australia. From a peak of one hundred members, the branch has declined in numbers but not in enthusiasm. It has always had enough dedicated members to remain active and is ready to expand to meet any major emergency.
On 4 August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. A week later, the Australian Red Cross was founded and three weeks later, on 4 September 1914, the ladies of Wardell formed the Wardell Branch of the Red Cross.
During the war, clothing was made for the troops and extensive fund-raising was undertaken to provide some comfort to our soldiers bogged down in a bitter conflict. Clothing included scarves, balaclavas and socks, with pyjamas for the wounded in hospital. Money was raised by catering for weddings and sales at farms. The Red Cross held dances, sports days and euchre parties
Items were collected from outlying farms by pony and sulky. Parcels were made up, then boxed and shipped from the Wardell jetty to Sydney for transport to the war zone. Money was raised towards the cost of providing a travelling kitchen and a motor ambulance to the war front
After the war, assistance was given to returned wounded veterans by the Red Cross. Then it was on to the home front with the branch helping out in the 1919 influenza epidemic and with the provision of mosquito nets and linen for the Ballina Hospital.
In 1925 the branch assisted with the planting of the memorial grove adjacent to the Sports and Recreation Club. The club still maintains the grove as a quiet place to honour those who put their lives on the line. In 1938 the branch cooperated in the planting along Richmond Street of an avenue of weeping figs that stand to this day in memory of those who went to the first world war. No sooner had these projects been completed than World War II broke out in 1939 and it was on again just like before. By September they were back into the war effort with Mrs Lumley’s house, Mayley, used as a Red Cross receiving depot.
Cabbage Tree Island held monthly fund-raising events and donated the proceeds to the Prisoner of War fund to which the Cane Growers’ Association also contributed.
