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Awards<br />

<strong>2018</strong> YOUNG CITIZEN OF THE YEAR<br />

Ms Stephany Martin<br />

Stephany has shown significant<br />

determination and dedication to Community<br />

service and pushing through adversity. Born<br />

in Mildura, Stephany grew up one and a<br />

half hours out of Mildura, on a settlement<br />

with few children. She graduated High<br />

School, earning money from cleaning her school and through<br />

her art, exhibited in Broken Hill, Mildura and Sydney. She<br />

moved to Adelaide in 2012, with the ambition to study law,<br />

joining the Rotary Club of Campbelltown at the same time (the<br />

youngest Member in the District at the time) and has since<br />

completed the Rotary Youth Leadership Award, and the Rotary<br />

Youth Program of Enrichment. Since then, she has been the<br />

International Director of the Rotary Club of Campbelltown,<br />

co-ordinating the highly successful International Women’s Day<br />

dinners, and a project in Fiji.<br />

Stephany coordinated the Club’s involvement with the Movies in<br />

the Park event, temporarily joining the Council’s YAC. Stephany<br />

also chartered the Rotaract Club of Sturt, and has been Chair<br />

of the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards/Rotary Youth Program<br />

of Enrichment District Committee, being awarded the Rotary<br />

District 9520 New Generations Best Project Award in <strong>2017</strong> for her<br />

successful programs. Stephany is also a member of the District<br />

Youth Protection Committee and the District Training Committee.<br />

She is currently in her last year of her Law Degree and has not<br />

reduced her contribution to Rotary and its ideals.<br />

NAIDOC Award<br />

NAIDOC Youth Awards recognise the<br />

sporting, educational, musical, artistic,<br />

cultural or Community service achievements<br />

of a young Aboriginal person who lives in the<br />

City of Campbelltown.<br />

Ms Leilani Adams<br />

Ms Leilani Adams is part of BOLT, an alternative learning<br />

program. Leilani has overcome considerable education and<br />

personal challenges, but now embraces the PERMA+ &<br />

Positive Psychology framework. She is a peer mentor in the<br />

classroom assisting new students to smoothly and positively<br />

transition from mainstream school to the program. She<br />

actively volunteers for projects or to help others and shines<br />

when she is being helpful and needed. Leilani is passionate<br />

about cooking and food having completed short courses and<br />

studying a Certificate 2 in Hospitality. She has a long term<br />

goal of studying law at university.<br />

Council Awards<br />

During the year, Council was successful in achieving the<br />

following awards:<br />

»»<br />

<strong>2017</strong> SA Tourism Awards BRONZE – Awarded to<br />

Campbelltown Moonlight Markets, Category 4 Festivals<br />

and Events.<br />

Campbelltown City Council<br />

<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2017</strong> / <strong>2018</strong> 43

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