Melodie Croucher

Hansard ID: HANSARD-1323879322-119305

Hansard session: Fifty-Seventh Parliament, First Session (57-1)

Melodie Croucher

Mr MARK COURE (Oatley)

—Today I recognise Melodie Croucher who is an outstanding member of our local community. After retiring from teaching in the early 1990s, Melodie recognised the need to help newcomers to Australia overcome their social and language difficulties. She put a proposal forward to the Mortdale-Oatley Baptist Church and they agreed to provide a new service to the community, named "English for Living." The program began in 1997 and it is still going strong with 10 tutors involved in six classes covering several levels of competency. It is for these reasons that Melodie was awarded with an Individual Achievement Award as part of the 2020 St George Community Awards. This is the 10th Anniversary of these awards and they honour some of the many individuals, businesses and organisations who go above and beyond to make our community even stronger. I wish Melodie all the best in retirement and I thank her for all of her service to our community.