Connect You Too News

An Afternoon at the Pops - Saraton Theatre

It was great to go to this wonderful musical matinee show at the fantastic Saraton Theatre. Our bus driver Grahame got us there safely and assisted us to get our tickets and find our seats.

The music presented by the Clarence Valley Conservatorium of Music Orchestra led by conductor Greg Butcher was amazing. The guest singer Marusia, who has sung with Andre Rieu, was equally spectacular.

Of course, our group had to have a Choc Top at intermission and I do think they are getting bigger.

Thank you to Connect You Too for having these weekend trips. They are so enjoyable and you get to go in comfort on the bus and have lovely company on the way.

Connect You Too’s mission is connecting people. so they achieve quality of life and choice of community support services. An example of how we do this, is through our many shopping and socialising bus trips.

Did you know, Connect You Too offers a monthly shopping bus to various locations including Lismore, Coffs Harbour, Tweed City and Robina? They depart Yamba, Maclean and Iluka once a month.

Did you know, Connect You Too offers a fortnightly shopping bus to Yamba Fair for customers in the Maclean and Yamba areas?

Did you know, Connect You Too offers fortnightly shopping buses to Grafton Shoppingworld? They travel to Grafton from Glenreagh on Mondays; from Iluka on Wednesdays; from Brooms Head and Wooli on Thursdays and from Maclean and Yamba on Fridays.

During the past financial year, Connect You Too transported 4,715 customers on social trips and 7,873 customers on shopping trips.

We help connect the community to their banking, groceries, bill payments, Centrelink, private appointments and even the coffee shop.

If you need help with transport or meals, call Connect You Too at Townsend on 6645 3200 and see how we can help you.

Connect You Too, the Clarence Valley’s community transport and meal service welcomed customers, visitors and their family and friends to our offices at 134 Jubilee Street, Townsend on Wednesday 17th September for our ‘Around the World’ Safari open day expo.

The sun was shining, and our Safari day was a great success. Many travelled around our displays and collected passport stamps from The Men’s and Women’s Sheds, Services Australia, Clarence Valley Library, Clarence Valley Seniors Computer Club, CWA Maclean, Carers NSW, Lifestyle Comforts, Simplicity Funerals, whilst HART Services had a stand explaining their local home care packages and Advantage Pharmacy Maclean/Iluka gave away sample products and webster packs with treats.

Many enjoyed giveaways and entertainment from the Tempomentals, the Iluka Dance Group and some African drumming, while meeting our team, and delighting in our free morning tea treats and BBQ.

Visitors got to taste our selected locations of Australia; China; Africa and the Middle East, as well as meal samples from Clarence Meal’s suppliers – Gourmet Meals, Lite n’ Easy and Meals On Wheels Grafton, with many going home with their bellies full.

We would like to acknowledge the following local businesses for their support, discounts and donations towards our Safari open day: Maclean Hot Bread; The Fair Butcher; Locke’s Butcher; Iluka Quality Meats; Holiday Coast Meats; South Services Butcher; GDSC Butcher; Dolphin Office Choice; Sunshine Sugar; Maclean Landcare; BWS Maclean; The Argyle Hotel; Harvey Norman; Riverside Barber Shop; Australia Post Maclean; Maclean Medical; Ace Variety Discounts; Maclean Variety Meats; Grafton Hire; Stanfords Pharmacy; Heart of Space; Pure Hair Yamba; Maclean Newsagency; C'est La Vie Francaise; Maclean Flower Box; Maclean Hotel; Hooked on Seafood; Margot & Co; Ammo Hair & Beauty; Amie Rose Beauty; Bowens Yamba; McDonald’s Yamba; Penny’s Sweet Tooth; Ta’Chele Australis; NewsXpress Yamba; Flourish Educational Toys; Shoes @ Carney’s Arcade; K Hub Yamba; T’s Hair; The Greenhouse Collective; Nicole’s Hair & Co.; Blueberries Smoothie & Health Bar; Dune’s Café and Clovelly Fashions.

We had an overwhelming amount of raffle prizes donated. Connect You Too appreciates everyone’s support. We look forward to holding another great open day next year.

We had 92 colouring competition entries in five categories. The colourful artworks helped decorate our displays. Thank you to all the children and over 65 year olds that entered. Congratulations to the winning entrants – Cecelia B; Chloe Anderson; Lennox; Eden Micallef and Stewart Minnis.

If you need help with transport or meals, call Connect You Too at Townsend on 6645 3200 to see if you qualify for any subsidies or assistance.