2017/2018 Annual Report
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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 />
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<strong>2017</strong> SA Tourism Awards BRONZE – Awarded to<br />
Campbelltown Moonlight Markets, Category 4 Festivals<br />
and Events.<br />
Campbelltown City Council<br />
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