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Bromelton’s future as a nationally significant rail freight hub has been further cemented with news the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) has acquired major land holdings in the area, Scenic Rim Mayor Greg Christensen believes.“When you have the entity responsible for much of the nation’s rail infrastructure buying up land at Bromelton it sends a very clear signal that this area is strategically important to the future of rail freight logistics in Australia,” Cr Christensen said.“This is yet another multi-million dollar vote of confidence in the future of the Bromelton State Development Area (SDA) as an inland port and engine room for our regional economy.” ARTC is a Federal Government-owned corporation responsible for managing and maintaining more than 8500 kilometres of rail infrastructure and is the lead agency for the development of the Inland

Rail Project between Melbourne and Brisbane. The corporation last week confirmed it had purchased nearly 850 hectares of land at Bromelton.“Thousands of new jobs will be created as new industries establish within the SDA, providing employment opportunities for both the current population and those who aspire to live, work and play in Scenic Rim,” Cr Christensen said.“It is full steam ahead for Bromelton with more than 100 jobs coming online in the New Year and many more not far down the track.“SCT Logistics is leading the way with the development of its intermodal facility at Bromelton, supported by Council through funding secured under the Federal Government’s Building Stronger Regions program, which is set to bring rail freight into Scenic Rim in January.”Cr Christensen said in addition to Bromelton’s direct connectivity

to the coastal interstate rail line, the Inland Rail Project being championed by ARTC was set to intersect at Kagaru, just to the north. “This will ultimately place Bromelton and Scenic Rim at the crossroads of rail on the eastern seaboard,” he said.In announcing the land acquisition, ARTC chief executive John Fullerton said the investment represented confidence in the growth of rail and associated industries in the region.“As a company we take a long-term view on decisions that will benefit and grow the rail freight industry – and we believe investing in Bromelton aligns with this goal,” Mr Fullerton said in a statement.

“Given the site’s strategic location and the intended scope for the area to see an intermodal logistics hub or ‘inland port’ to be developed over time – it was important we looked at the opportunity closely when the land became available.”

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There has been a buzz of excitement across Tamborine Mountain following the announcement of the Commonwealth Community project last week.

The Commonwealth Community project is an initiative by Tamborine Mountain Chamber of Commerce in which 70 businesses across the Mountain will be matched with a different competing country and become ambassadors for them, identifying with their chosen country and supporting their achievements during the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

The Commonwealth Community project will be launched in April, one year before the Games begin, and will continue on the Mountain for a whole year before the Games start.

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including Eagle Heights Shopping Centre and Gallery Walk have responded, with 32 businesses

choosing their country, while another 10 have indicated their support and are waiting to choose a country.

To qualify, businesses need to be open six to seven days a week, have a retail space that visitors can come to, and be prepared to join in the

Commonwealth Community spirit and make visitors feel welcome. Each chosen business will get a

country flag and flag mount to display outside their business and passports and tear off maps for visitors.

The Commonwealth Community Committee is working to establish media links to generate lots of good news stories, and once underway community groups will be asked for ideas that involve local groups in activities related to the Commonwealth spirit - from fun runs to trivia nights and more.

If you would like your business or community group to be part of this exciting plan, please email your details to cc@VisitTamborineMountain or contact Rose Siva at the VIC at Dougherty Park. There are only 70 countries to allocate, so don’t delay – You might miss out!

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The countdown is now on for the 2017 Tamborine Mountain Showtime Carnival.

This year’s show - which will be held on March 18 has a medieval flavour and features the fabulous Knights of Camelot demonstrating jousting and archery on horseback, as well as actual archery lessons.

Hancock Horsemanship will delight with demonstrations of fabulous skill. New this year is a poultry display, courtesy of the Beaudesert Poultry Club; a blacksmith and armour maker; and roving balloon artists. For lovers of Jazz, Galapagos Duck will be playing on the main stage from 4:30pm.

There will be animals galore, with the Medieval Pet Parade at 10:30am, sponsored by Subway Tamborine Mountain, The Pet Food Dude, Bargains ‘R’ Us, Tamborine Mountain Skywalk, Jo’s Ark Pony Rides, Mini Golf, Thunderegg Crystal Mine, Laser Skirmish, Tamborine Mountain Veterinary Surgery, Tamborine Mountain Glow Worm Caves, Rhonda’s DoGroom, Tamborine Pet Farmstay, and Tamborine Village Traders.

There will be a pet awareness session at 1.30 pm, with reptiles to touch, and baby animals for the little ones. The Gypsy Encampment is sure to fascinate, as will the stilt walkers. Free face painting will be available all day for everyone, thanks to Stroud Homes.

The entertainment will also include a vintage car display, as well as pavilion competitions and displays. There are more competition sections this year, including one for rich dark fruit cake that could take you all the way to the EKKA. Dress up in your medieval best for the chance to win fantastic prizes, sponsored by Switch Boutique and O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat.

Thanks to the generosity of Ray White Rural Real Estate and Backyard Chicken Coops, the kids have a chance to show off their feathery friends too. A highlight of the day will be the Best Dressed Chook Competition – and as the theme of the show is medieval, owners can let their imaginations run wild.

Don’t forget to check out the Beaudesert Poultry Club Inc.’s website http://www.beaudesertpoultry.

org/, and on the day, say g’day to the team from Ray White Rural and have a look at the fabulous chicken coops on display from Backyard Chicken Coops. Entry forms for the Best Dressed Chook Competition will be available on the day and registrations for entry will be taken from 11am, with the competition to be held at 11:30am. Please remember to keep your birds safe by bringing them in an appropriate carrier.

Show schedules can be found at the Library, the Visitor Information Centre and, of course, the showgrounds office on market days. For more information, check the website www.showtamborinemountain.com, Facebook Page www.facebook.com/TamborineMountainShow/, Twitter and Instagram or via email [email protected].

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An angry Jon Krause, State Member for Beaudesert, has slammed the State Government for being asleep at the wheel when it comes to looking after Tamborine Mountain’s national parks, in particular the Cedar Creek Falls section.

“We’ve had another weekend and a public holiday in which cars have been parked illegally up and down Cedar Creek Falls Road, plastic guideposts torn from the kerbside to enable cars to park illegally, rubbish left strewn over the road and park and visitors who were walking on the road dodging traffic,” said Mr Krause.

“It’s a shambles and the Government and Minister for National Parks, Steven Miles, have to act.

“The Government has known about these issues for over 18 months - and since then the number of visitors to Cedar Creek Falls has only continued to grow. Yet this Labor Government has done nothing.”

Mr Krause said that, for residents living on Cedar Creek Falls Road adjacent to the National Park, every weekend and public holiday in summer

was a nightmare.

“Residents are often parked in, rubbish is left on the road, cars are everywhere and with so many people parking up on Tamborine Mountain Road and running the gauntlet down to the National Park it’s a very serious situation.

“People are constantly on edge, and while the Council has tried to alleviate the issue with parking restrictions and the police do their part in enforcement, where is the Government which is responsible for managing national parks? Nowhere to be seen. ”

Mr Krause said that the community at Cedar Creek Falls Road and other locals had come up with a number of proposals to fix the problem, but so far the Government had chosen to do nothing in the face of a growing problem.

“How would Steven Miles like it if all of these things were happening in his backyard at Mt Coot-tha? I’m sure he’d be very quick to get the department into action then. I’m calling on the Minister to listen to locals’ concerns, the Council’s concerns, and the concerns of the police and his own department and act on this growing problem.”

KRAUSE SLAMS GOVERNMENT OVER CEDAR CREEK ‘SHAMBLES’

Police officer issues a ticket for a parking infringement at Cedar Creek Falls carpark on Sunday.


Free Trees Program Free trees will be available to residents of Scenic Rim as part of Council’s Free Tree Program on Saturday 4 February 2017. Residents must present their Free Tree Voucher (delivered with their July 2016 rates notice) in order to collect their free trees. Trees will be distributed at Harrisville Memorial Park from 8am to noon.Rates notices have been issuedCouncil rates notices were mailed to residents on 16 January and are payable by Thursday 16 February 2017. If You have not yet received your rates notice, please contact Council.Applications open: Eat Local Week & Winter Harvest FestivalApplications are invited to host an official event as part of Scenic Rim Eat Local Week (24 June - 2 July) and for Winter Harvest Festival stallholders (1 July). For application forms and more information, head to www.eatlocalweek.com.auSale of Motor VehiclesOffers are called for the sale of Council vehicles. Vehicles will be available for viewing at Council’s Beaudesert Depot, Helen Street, Beaudesert, on Tuesday, 14 February, 2017 between 9am and 11am. Please note appropriate enclosed

footwear is required to be worn. Offers close on Tuesday, 21 February, 2017 at 10am. The vehicles for sale are:Rego Descripion570 SEU .......... Ford PX Ranger Single Cab

Utility 453 SRO .......... Nissan Navara 4x4 Crewcab

Utility770 TPK ........... Ford PX Ranger Single Cab

Utility 769 TPK ........... Ford PX Ranger Single Cab

Utility170 TJL ............ Ford PX Ranger

Crewcab Utility 695 TGX .......... Hyundai i-30 Station Wagon 311 VAP .......... Ford PX Ranger

Crewcab Utility 460 VGB .......... Isuzu D-Max 4x4

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LIBRARIESMobile Library The Mobile Library will reopen from Tuesday 14 February 2017. Rhyme Time Recommencing Friday 3 February at 9.30am. Rhyme Time is a fun and interactive session of songs, rhymes and books for families with children under 3.

Come along and join the fun with Carolyn and her guitar.The Million Stars to End Violence projectLearn how to make a star and find out how you can get involved in our Star Weave Community. Tuesday 14 February, 1-3pm. Please RSVP for catering purposes.

LIVE @ THE CENTRECINEMA Friday Flicks @ Boonah Cultural Centre 1st & 3rd Fridays each month 10am & 7pmCaptain Fantastic (M) Friday 3 February 10am & 7pmThe Light Between The Oceans (M) Friday 17 February 10am & 7pm Adults $10; Conc. $7.50 Tickets at doorClassic FlickOklahoma (G) Thursday 9 February 10am $5 (incl. morning tea) @ Boonah Cultural CentreARTS DINNER Tuesday 28 February at 6pm Launch of 2017 Program, Studios and 10th Birthday Celebrations @ The Centre Beaudesert RSVP 5540 5050

MATINEE CONCERT SERIES 2017Bella Fontes Calypso music and dance at its best! Friday 3 March 11am $16; Groups 10+ $12.50 @ The Centre BeaudesertSCENIC RIM WRITERS Tuesday 7 February 10am RSVP 5540 5050 or [email protected] @ The Centre BeaudesertEXHIBITIONS (free entry)Metaphors of Light Natasha Hodgson – Watercolour Continues until Sunday 12 February @ Boonah Regional Art GalleryPeople in Place - Photographs By Trevor Worden Continues until 22 March @ the Centre BeaudesertLooking for a venue for your next function? Scenic Rim Cultural Centres at Boonah and Beaudesert are available for weddings, birthday celebrations, meetings, team-building days, concerts and much more! For bookings and more information, visit www.liveatthecentre.com.au or phone 5540 5050

Council Notices

Council correspondence should be addressed to: c/- Craig Barke, Chief Executive Officer, PO Box 25, Beaudesert, QLD, 4285For more information, visit www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au or phone 5540 5111 or 1300 360 555

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TRAVELLING PLACESwith Gina

If January is the month to make New Year’s resolutions to travel widely and experience new destinations, surely February is the month to travel with that someone special in your life.

With Valentine’s Day coming up soon why not escape with the one you love to the land of glistening white beaches, lush rainforests and countless hideaway spots. In Fiji, it’s hard to be anything but in love.

There is a reason Fiji is becoming more and more popular for both weddings and honeymoons. Here, not four hours from Brisbane, you will find a place famous for capturing the essence of the South Pacific and the hearts of couples wanting an idyllic beach holiday. The 23 islands of the Mamanuca Group are a mix of tiny flat atolls and mostly small, hilly islands covered by grassy ridges and indented with gorgeous powder-white beaches that edge turquoise lagoons.

In Fijian, ‘lomani’ means love and set against an idyllic ocean backdrop, Lomani Island Resort is stunning. To escape here is to completely disappear from the hustle and bustle of the ‘real world’ for a time. It’s also the perfect setting for some action, island style! The resort prides

itself on being in the top echelon of Fijian resorts for couples and goes the extra mile to offer guests plenty of variety, including free outer reef snorkelling, handline fishing, dolphin safaris, a guided village tour, cooking lessons and Fijian cultural lessons. Lomani promises a dream and makes it a reality.

Tokoriki Island Resort is another luxury child-free boutique resort where you’ll enjoy a truly romantic beach vacation with warm Fijian hospitality and caring attention to detail; the staff will captivate you and are universally praised for delivering warm and attentive, unobtrusive service with endless charm. The resort’s motto ‘Arrive as a visitor ... leave as a friend’ rings true when you chat with past guests. It has become the revered favourite of many honeymooners or couples returning to celebrate an anniversary for its understated luxury and intimate, relaxed vibe.

Both island resorts can only be accessed by boat or seaplane, making these secluded adults-only resorts an exclusive drop of peaceful paradise in the ocean.

And these are far from the only child-free resorts in Fiji; there are quite a few to choose from.

Turtle Island Resort is an all-inclusive, private island, home to only 14 couples at a time. Likuliku Lagoon Resort is a unique luxury escape offering the only over-water bures in Fiji. Royal Davui offers barefoot Fijian luxury at its finest. Stay in a tree-house villa at Matangi Private Island Resort or explore underwater treasures snorkelling the untouched coral reefs at Matamanoa Island Resort.

So if cupid’s arrow has you thinking romance, let us help match-make you with the right resort. Drop by for a chat; pick up a brochure or ask for more details on the two great offers we have this week.


ACUPUNCTUREDr Joe Gambin has joined our practice as a Medical Acupuncturist. Dr Gambin has more than 30 years’ experience as a GP, primarily in rural practice, including more than 20 years as a GP Medical Acupuncturist with Medicare recognition. Acupuncture is useful for acute pain, chronic pain, migraines, menopausal symptoms, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, side effects of other treatments and age-related problems. Acupuncture is safe for children as well, and can be used to boost immunity. For those with a needle phobia there is also laser acupuncture available. Dr Gambin will be working in collaboration with your usual GP to provide holistic (western plus eastern) treatment. He will be using standard western medical treatments when indicated and acupuncture only when safe and appropriate. Dr Gambin’s fees are in line with the practices policy of bulk billing pensioners, health care card holders and children under 16; other patients will be charged similar to what their usual GP charges. COSMETIC INJECTIONSTamborine Mountain Medical Practice is pleased to present a range of cosmetic injectable treatments to address your aesthetic concerns. We strive to achieve natural-looking results with subtle enhancements that refresh and rejuvenate. Muscle Relaxant Injections:Anti-wrinkle or muscle relaxant injections are a simple, non-surgical procedure that soothes the deep, persistent facial lines that develop over time. The injection relaxes the muscles that cause those lines to form and keeps them relaxed for period of time – usually 3 to 6 months. The results are often quite dramatic creating a rejuvenated and more youthful appearance, usually apparent within days of treatment.The typical areas treated by cosmetic injections include:

• Crow’s feet at the corners of the eyes• Frown lines between the eyebrows• Worry lines which run horizontally across the forehead• Deep smile lines which run from the sides of the nose to the corners of the mouth• Smoker’s lines or lipstick bleed lines which run vertically around the mouth• Marionette lines at the corners of the mouth.

Hydration, Dermal fillers and PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma):Dermal fillers are made up of hyaluronic acid, a substance that is naturally found in the skin and decreases with age. Hyaluronic acid attracts water and creates plumpness. There are lots of options to erase lines and create smoother contours to the face – the type and quantity of the filler will determine the cost. We stock a range of different fillers to meet everyone’s budgets. Results generally last around four to 12 months, depending on the filler, the technique and the area that is being injected. PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) is also a popular treatment option for tightening and smoothing difficult-to-treat areas. PRP is a natural product created from your own body that stimulates your own collagen to grow, regenerates tissue, and thus acts to naturally smooth and tighten the skin. Common treatment areas include:

• Cheek enhancement• Lip enhancement• Nasolabial folds • Tear troughs• Chin augmentation• Nose augmentation• Mouth corners, and wrinkles.

Arrange a consultation with Dr Deanne Hummelstad to determine a package that suits your needs and your budget.

NEW SERVICES ARE NOW AVAILABLE FROM TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN

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14 Main Western Road, North Tamborine Qld 4272 07 5545 1222

Nationally Accredited

Tamborine Mountain practicewelcomes new physiotherapist

Tamborine Mountain Physiotherapy recently welcomed Lauren Morgan to the practice where she will work alongside Gary Brooks.Lauren graduated from Griffith University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Exercise Science, Post Graduate Diploma of Exercise Science and a Master in Physiotherapy. She is a generalist and likes to have a hand in all areas of physiotherapy including musculo-skeletal sports injuries, chronic pain, exercise prescription, pediatrics, women’s health and gerontology.Her interest in sports physiotherapy extends beyond the clinical, with involvement as a physio to elite sportspersons in state and local AFL, athletics, basketball and rugby union. In her free time Lauren enjoys the gym and mixed martial arts. She holds a silver level coaching accreditation by the Australian Sports Commission and has been involved in programs for talented athletes, focusing on psychological motivation.Lauren enjoys seeing a large variety of patients and is passionate about the role a physiotherapist can play to improve the client’s quality of life and achieving a full recovery.She continues the theme at Tamborine Mountain Physiotherapy by being very hands-on. She uses manual therapy, massage, stretching, exercises and advanced strapping techniques. She also utilises Flame Induction cups (cupping), Kinesio Tape and electrotherapy when required as an adjunct to treatment.Lauren will be full time at the practice which means that patients can see the same therapist each time they visit, ensuring continuity of care.Lauren said she was looking forward to helping the people of the Mountain achieve their health and fitness goals. To se either Lauren or Gary Brooks at Tamborine Mountain Physiotherapy, phone 5545 0500.

Lauren Morgan has joined Tamborine Mountain Physiotherapy.


BULKBILLINGFor ALL EPC (Medicare)eligible patientsuntil JANUARY 31ST 2017

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Wildlife Emergency Hotline 1300ANIMAL (1300 264 625) Council website: www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au My contact details: Email: [email protected] Phone: 5540 5402 Mobile: 0418 221 453

Councillor’s CommentNADIA O’CARROLL - DIVISION 2

Councillor’s CommentNIGEL WAISTELL - DIVISION 1

Council website: www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au• Home: 07 5545 0223;• Mobile: 0423 931 075; and• Email: [email protected].• Email: [email protected]

TAMBORINE MEMORIAL HALL PROJECTThe long awaited project to improve and beautify the precinct of the hall, including work on car parking, landscaping, drainage, paths, seating, shade trees, signage and preparation for a cenotaph, will start in the first week of February. The funding for this project is provided jointly through Council funding and the Queensland State Government Grants and Subsidies program. In addition, Tamborine Village Lions Club and the Tamborine Memorial Hall Committee are contributing funding and resources. The work is expected to be completed in 12 weeks, weather permitting. During the construction phase there will be some disruption to users of the precinct in regards to parking arrangements and alternative access to the hall and public toilets. Apologies for any inconvenience during this period.

RESEALING WORKSMotorists and pedestrians are being requested to take extra care as Council begins resealing sections of a number of roads on Tamborine Mountain, Canungra and Beaudesert in the coming weeks.

AUSTRALIA DAY AWARDSThe winners of the nine categories were announced at the 2017 Australia Day Awards and Citizenship Ceremony held at The Centre Beaudesert on 25 January. Congratulations to all winners and nominees, all of whom have made an outstanding contribution to the community, and also a warm welcome to the residents of the Scenic Rim who became new Australian citizens at the ceremony.

FIRST 5 FOREVERNinety per cent of a child’s brain development happens in the first five years. The First 5 Forever is a project funded by the Queensland Government and the State Library of Queensland. It aims to provide strong emergent literacy foundations and life-long learning capabilities through storytelling, songs and rhymes to help children from birth to five build confidence and basic literacy skills. For further information and to sign up for monthly content, refer to the website first5forever.org.au

TRAFFIC INFORMATION: For QLD State roads 13 19 40; for SRRC roads update www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/roads-update

RATES NOTICESRate notices were issued on 16 January for payment by Thursday 16 February. If you have any queries, please contact Council on 5540 5111 and ask for the Rates Section. I am also willing to take questions but normally I will have to refer most queries to the Rates Section for an official response.HOW ARE YOUR RATES SPENT?As residents peruse their rates notice, they will be asking the questions: why so high and what do I get for them? The piece below is aimed at providing some explanation.Council has two streams of revenue; capital and recurrent. Capital revenue is received mainly from government grants, whilst recurrent revenue is received mainly from general rates. Recurrent revenue is used to pay for recurrent expenses and this is made up of:

• net employee expenses• depreciation• finance costs and• material and services.

Employee expenses and material and services represent the day to day costs of running Council and the main public services that Council provides which include:

• animal control and regulation• building and plumbing inspection services• cultural centres• customer service centres• disaster management functions• economic development and tourism• healthy and active programs• maintenance of parks, reserves, sporting areas and cemeteries• planning and development services• public libraries, mobile library and public pools• regulatory control enforcement• street cleaning and waste management.

There are also the costs of running the sections of Council including finance, information technology and human resources. The finance part of recurrent revenue pays for our loans. The depreciation part of recurrent revenue is transferred to capital revenue to assist with the funding of the capital works programme.Council is required to have an operating surplus i.e. we spend less than we receive. That operating surplus is also transferred to capital revenue. Capital revenue is used to fund public infrastructure maintenance and construction including roads, bridges, footpaths and drainage.I am happy to answer individual questions and my contact details are below. VIBRANT AND ACTIVE TOWNS AND VILLAGES (VATV) PROJECTI promised some feedback on the progress of the VATV project for Main Street. The community consultation concluded in October and survey forms for the three projects were collated and reviewed. A summary report was produced. Councillors were then given access to the survey forms and the summary report. As was expected, there were a variety of views. Council will now have a discussion on the summary report and I will be providing my views on the messages that I received from the reading of the survey forms. Council will then have to make some recommendations on the way forward. I wish to repeat my previous comment that, at this stage, nothing is set in concrete and there will be an opportunity for residents to have their say on broader aspects of the project as plans progress. No quick decisions are going to be made and we will work with the community.CONSULTATION: The next consultation in the library will be on Monday 16 January, 4pm-5pm. I am also available for consultations at your convenience. My contact details are:

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BEING A COUNCILLOR AND A GOOD NEIGHBOUR ARE NOT POLES APARTOn 17January when I was cycling past the site of the Polish Place restaurant which was devastated by fire on New Year’s Eve, I observed, in the rubble, a lone masked man cleaning up. I returned to the site because, even from behind his mask, I recognised the lone worker to be our local Councillor, Nigel Waistell.

It had been 17 days since fire tragically robbed Tamborine Mountain of its iconic guest house and with the spate of hot-weather conditions that followed the disaster, the fire-damaged kitchen and restaurant foodstuffs would have ‘mellowed’ nicely; read ‘gone off’. On approaching Nigel, I rejected his ‘kind’ offer of a friendly man hug. Nothing against Nigel, but he was carrying a bucket of rotting foodstuff, which was a bit on the nose. I asked Nigel if he was on site in his capacity as a councillor. Or was he being civic minded? It didn’t really matter which, but he responded that he was assisting one of ‘our (Mountain) neighbours’. I guess that falls under being civic minded. Nigel recounted how in the previous week he, and the Polish Place guest-house owner, Phil Softer, had cleaned up 20 bags of rotting meat and placed them in an industrial bin in readiness for removal from the site. Councillor Waistell commented that the industrial bin had not been emptied as scheduled, but I’m confident that our Deputy Mayor would have known the right person to call, at the Council offices, in order to remedy this oversight.

Councillor Waistell demonstrated that being one of the Mountains’s elected government official representatives, goes hand-in-hand with being a civic-minded, good neighbour. Nigel, you are to be congratulated.

Keith Fraser, Eagle Heights

COMMUNITY GENEROSITY HAS HELPED BRING SIX REFUGEES TO AUSTRALIADear Mountain Community, on 17 December last year the Tamborine Mountain Gospel Choir, with several guest artists, presented a Christmas Concert for the public.

It was advertised that an offering would be received for Operation Safe Havens (OSH) which is an arm of the Barnabas Fund which is committed to providing ‘hope and aid for the persecuted church’.

Persecuted Christians from Iraq and Syria have lost loved ones, homes, jobs, finances, and country. They cannot go back. Even after some of these families are issued humanitarian visas they may not have any means to leave the refugee camps.

OSH helps by flying stranded refugees to countries that are safe. To date more than 400 refugees have been flown to Australia. The average cost of an airfare is $1200.

The Christmas Concert raised $5994 through the generous offering of many in our community. Two other offerings were added to it: $1325 from a day of prayer for the persecuted church and $102 from a Ladies Bible Study. All this totals $7421 which enables OSH to fly about six refugees here to Australia.

I have gone into a little detail to let the community know what they have been able to do with their generosity. I sincerely thank you on behalf of all those who contributed to this fund. More info on OSH can be found at: https://barnabasfund.org/osh

Kim Dale, Minister

Tamborine Mountain Presbyterian Church

COAL IS FAR FROM DEAD, BUT AUSTRAIA IS LAGGING BEHINDEach time I write a letter about Australia’s power supply, I hope it will be up to date for a while. Incredibly, this time it is to report a glimmer of sanity finally appearing in a very depressing picture. In high places there is actually some acceptance that our strategies may have been fundamentally wrong and damaging to our country’s future. In particular, the penalties of incorporating large percentages of wind and solar can no longer be overlooked.

The Prime Minister has made general observations about Australia needing to be at the leading edge of clean coal technology. However, Josh Frydenburg, the Federal Minister for Environment and Energy, has recently been making some strong statements, unfortunately not without some static from within his own party. He has highlighted the threat to energy security, and radically increased power prices that would follow enforcing high levels of wind and solar in our national grid. He identifies the disastrous effect this would inevitably have on Australia’s competitiveness. One idea he has floated is to extend the Renewable Energy Target (RET) subsidies to clean coal and gas in addition to the present wind and solar.

The world situation re clean coal is becoming clearer and we are lagging badly. Traditional coal fired generation plants have an efficiency of about 27 per cent. High efficiency, low emission (HELE) plants operate at much higher temperatures and pressures above the critical point of water at which there are no separate liquid and gaseous phases. These supercritical plants have an efficiency of about 45 per cent. The reduction of fuel consumption and emissions for the same electricity output is obvious. Ultra supercritical are under development but the

metallurgy is very tricky.

The technology of the supercritical HELE plants is well established. Now prepare for a shock. At last count, China had 579 plants in operation and 575 under construction or planned. India is a later starter and it has only 49 in operation but 395 planned or under construction. Other Asian countries appear to be following suit. Coal is far from dead.

You may have heard that China is closing and cancelling coal fired plants. That is not quite the whole story. The proportion of coal fired power generation in China’s mix is going down but the actual coal fired capacity is increasing due to increased total generating capacity. They have been closing down and cancelling coal fired stations but this is mainly to get rid of low efficiency generators and to reduce smog in high population areas.

Australia with all its good quality coal and dependence on cheap, reliable energy does not have even one HELE plant even in the planning stage. Not only do we have no HELE plants but, under present circumstances, we have no prospect of getting any. No business would build one since they would have no chance of profitable operation in competition with the highly subsidised wind and solar.

Germany has also committed a great foolishness. It is often held up as a marvellous example of low emission power generation. They were doing well with nuclear for base load complemented by renewables. But then emotional politics caused the reactors to be shut down. Now they import their base load power from France (nuclear) and Poland (coal) while they build their own high efficiency coal stations. Their power is among the most expensive in Europe and manufacturers are leaving!

Phil Giffard, Tamborine Mountain

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TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN WEDDING EXPO26th FebruaryVonda Youngman Community Centre------------------------------------------- HOG RALLY16th-18th MarchTamborine Mountain Sports Complex------------------------------------------- TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN SHOWTIME CARNIVAL 18th March 2017------------------------------------------- CANUNGRA RODEO8th July------------------------------------------- CANUNGRA SHOW27th August------------------------------------------- CRAFT EXTRAVAGANZA 6th to 8th October 2017 -------------------------------------------BEECHMONT MARKET Third Sunday of each month -------------------------------------------MOUNTAIN MARKETSTamborine Mountain Markets, Showground Second Sunday of each month -------------------------------------------Tamborine Mountain State School Last Sunday of each month ------------------------------------------- The Green Shed Every Sunday from 7am to noon. Showground. Fresh fruit and vegetables, flowers, honey, nuts, herbs and plants.

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The Magic Millions race carnival at the Gold Coast Turf Club resulted in what will remain a memorable link to Tamborine Mountain.

The Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic was won by the brilliant, uncatchable local filly Houtzen, having just her third race start.

Houtzen is owned by a number of owners, but two are local residents on Tamborine Mountain, Chris Casey and Steve Hargreaves.

To say they were excited, and a little worse for wear the next day is an understatement. The celebrations were long and strong at George’s Paragon Seafood Restaurant on the Saturday and St Bernard’s Hotel Sunday.

Chris Casey has had a long involvement with thoroughbreds, having been involved in breeding and racing for nearly 25 years and has strong ties with leading trainer Toby Edmonds. He is a firm believer in keeping involvement in racing affordable and fun.

With that in mind the local lads kicked off a new horse racing syndicate, aptly named Lucky Clover Thoroughbreds with two other

near local lads, former Mountain footballer Paul Lederhose and successful Sunshine Coast businessman Stephen Shirley.

“The business is built on the motto of ‘affordable racing fun’ and you can have a share in a horse for as little as 5 per cent and have a wonderful time,” said Steve.

“You too can have a winner at Beaudesert, Murwillumbah, Gold Coast or in the City - the thrill of a horse you part-own winning a race anywhere can bring tremendous excitement. But it is also about the people you meet, the places you can go and the social fun of being involved in a racehorse that makes it so appealing.”

Another Mountain resident, Blake Pendlebury, is part owner of the aptly named Irish Constabulary which won race two on the day. Blake, who owns Gaslight Café on Southport Avenue, can further attest to the excitement of having a share in a racehorse, and the euphoria of such a win on a big occasion as the Magic Millions race day, Australia’s richest race day of the year.

MAGIC MILLIONS WINNERHAD LINK TO MOUNTAIN

Happy lads (from Left) Chris Casey, Steve Hargreaves, Paul Lederhose, and Stephen Shirley


When Property Matters…. There is a new property sales and management team to talk to!

Two local agencies - Harcourts Scenic and Mountain House Real Estate with a combined real estate experience over 40 years, have joined forces

and are now at Shop 3, Flame Tree Plaza, 16-20 Main Western Road.Employing the power of a respected global brand with extensive local property knowledge we offer a fresh new face and level of service to property sellers,

buyers, landlords and tenants. When property matters … choose a team that understands what you need and works with you to achieve it.

Phone 5543 8525 or 5545 1800 to arrange a time for us to help.

TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN U3A has had a social card playing group every second Friday afternoon for many months. We wish to enlarge our group and consider adding further card games, we currently play 500, Double pack rummy, Cribbage, and Hand and Foot a version of Canasta. We are including Back Gammon if there are some members interested in playing this game. We will teach members new games or refresh their memory of games that they have played previously maybe a long time ago. We are considering welcoming non-members initially at least for a set time. Our aim is to happily enjoy an afternoon of social card playing and mixing with a happy group of residents. There will be a maximum $3 charge per session to cover the cost of hiring a place to play and the cost of providing afternoon tea.

Frank Rotherham 5545 3116 or email [email protected]

High tech laser measurement and video imaging is being used in a survey of the Scenic Rim’s 1730-kilometre network of roads now underway across the region. Two distinctive white vehicles, both with high-definition video cameras to record images of the pavement and road reserve, and one with a laser profiler to assess the condition of sealed roads, were rolled out last week and will continue their surveys for the next fortnight, weather permitting. Mayor Greg Christensen said the surveys would help Council to improve its planning and the maintenance of the Scenic Rim’s network of sealed and unsealed roads for increased safety and connectivity across the region, in line with the shared vision of the Community Plan. “This is an excellent example of Council using innovative technologies to achieve the best value for ratepayers as the survey will help us to

better manage and prioritise our capital works programming and maintenance activities,” he said. “The imagery and profiling data will be used to

assess the condition of our region’s roads by identifying the type and severity of any structural defects and also the condition of the kerb and channel, line marking, signage and guardrails.”

The assessment vehicles are being driven by experienced operators travelling at normal traffic speeds with hazard lighting and other warning devices operating during the laser measurement and video recording of the road network. “The vehicles are easily identifiable and will operate seamlessly as part of the normal traffic flow,” Cr Christensen said. “However, we ask drivers who may find themselves behind one of the survey vehicles to keep at least a full car length’s distance to provide the rear cameras with a clear view of the road surface. “We thank drivers for their patience during the survey and we look forward to the results which will have wide-ranging benefits for all road users.”

IT’S LIGHTS, CAMERA AND ROLL-EM FOR SCENIC RIM ROADS SURVEY

One of the vehicles being used in the road survey.


TEENAGERS AND ALCOHOL – AN UNHEALTHY COMBINATIONMany teenagers spent much of the school-holiday period celebrating and spending time with their friends. Many of these functions involved alcohol.An Australian survey in 2013 found that the average age at which young people aged 14 to 24 first tried alcohol was 15.7. Approximately 86 per cent of Australians 14 and over have drunk alcohol at least once in their lives.Alcohol acts as a central nervous system (CNS) depressant. The effect of alcohol comes from a combination of factors, including the amount of alcohol consumed, age, gender, body size, nutrition and drinking experience. Alcohol consumption affects not only the person drinking, but everyone in the community. It is estimated that alcohol costs the Australian community more than $15 billion a year. These costs relate to health problems, accidents, crime, violence, social issues and loss of productivity.The Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol state ‘for children and young people under 18, not drinking alcohol is the safest option’ and that ‘children under 15 are at the greatest risk of harm from drinking.’ For adolescents, drinking alcohol contributes to the three leading causes of death for this age group – unintentional injuries, homicide and suicide. In addition, more than 50 per cent of alcohol-related serious road injuries occur in the 15 to 24 bracket. According to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), alcohol consumption in teenagers also contributes to physical injuries, risky sexual behaviour, antisocial behaviour and poor academic performance. Studies show the earlier alcohol consumption starts, the greater the chance of developing problems with alcohol later in life, and the greater the likelihood of adverse physical and mental health conditions/consequences.Parents, and other significant adults, can positively influence teenagers to make wise choices regarding alcohol, and help them to reduce the risk of harm from alcohol. These adults can help even if the teenager has already started drinking.Some useful tips include:

• setting a good example through their own alcohol behaviours• rewarding responsible behaviour and attitudes towards alcohol• talking about strategies to deal with peer pressure regarding alcohol• discussing alcohol-related health issues as well as alcohol laws and

the potential consequences for breaking them.Febfast is a month-long health challenge and fundraiser, and an opportunity for you to get your health and body back on track after the excesses of the silly season. Febfast is a community of Australians who have committed to taking a pause from alcohol, sugar, or something else of your own choice for the month of February, to feel healthier and raise vital funds for young people facing disadvantage. Consider Febfast’ – a pause for the better – as February approaches. Find more information at febfast.org.au.Your local pharmacist can give you more information about the effects of alcohol, including interactions with medicines, and where to seek counselling about alcohol-related problems.

In conjunction with Eagle Heights Pharmacy

SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND REGIONAL PLAN

The State Government has released the draft South East Queensland Regional Plan for consultation. The hard copy of the plan is available from my office by phoning 1800 813 960 or available online at the ShapingSEQ website www.shapingseq.com.au.

Its aim is to plan growth in SEQ while balancing interests such as housing, agriculture, industry and the environment. Dozens of local residents have contacted me concerned that the plan does not allow new rural lots smaller than 100 hectares, essentially “locking up” any parcel of land smaller than 200 hectares. I know of a number of local farmers who had intended to build a home to retire in on part of their property, while selling the remainder to their children for farming; unfortunately (depending on the property’s size) this is not possible under the current plan. While nobody wants to see wholesale carving up of agricultural land, this blanket prohibition on rural subdivision is depriving rural landholders of an opportunity to stay on their property while passing on the farm to the next generation and is extremely unfair.

Make your opinion know on the plan by making a submission by midnight on 3 March 2017. Submissions can be made via email to [email protected] or by post to Draft South East Queensland Regional Plan Review Feedback, Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, PO Box 15009, City East QLD 4000.

MY OFFICE

In addition to providing assistance with Queensland Government matters, my office is able to help in procuring Queensland flags and letters of congratulations for significant birthdays and anniversaries. We also can provide letters of support for community groups seeking grant funding. Anybody considering becoming a Justice of the Peace/Commissioner for Declarations can contact my office to complete the nomination form. Please contact me if I can help with any matter on 1800 813 960.

EXCITING TIMES AHEAD The first haul of freight has arrived at the $30 million SCT Logistics hub at Bromelton.

The train from Melbourne reached Bromelton about 3am on January 23 and about 3000 tonnes of freight passed through the terminal that day.

The official opening of the terminal is expected about mid-year but the arrival of the first train was a landmark occasion for the people who have been working hard behind the scenes.

I recognise the vision of SCT Logistics, the work of local company Trade Alliance, which secured the contract for construction, and the hard work put in by the workers on the ground - those who’ve been fortunate enough to get a job on the project so far.

BUILDING BETTER REGIONS FUND The new $297 million Building Better Regions Fund is open for applications.

Inner regional communities like Tamborine Mountain have the opportunity to be the big winners out of this new federal government fund, which opened on January 18.

Applications for the Infrastructure Projects Stream will close February 28 and the Community Investments Stream will close March 31.

The fund is open to community groups and also to councils. It is about strengthening regional and rural communities. To access fund guidelines and lodge an application, visit www.business.gov.au/bbrf

CONGRATULATIONS TO AIDAN HILL I want to highlight the achievements of a bright young man in the electorate.

Beaudesert High Year 9 student Aidan Hill has just returned from an advanced technology summer school at Macquarie University in Sydney as part of the Federal Government-backed digIT program. He was one of only 60 students from across the nation to have been selected for the program. Aidan is a credit to this region and I congratulate him on his success and wish him all the best for the future.


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Veterinary Hospital to open at YarrabilbaPet owners of Yarrabilba and surrounding areas will have a new architecturally designed veterinary hospital right on their door-step when it opens in mid-2017.

Located on the corner of Wongawallan Drive and Adler Circuit, the hospital will form part of the Tamborine Mountain, Canungra and Yarrabilba Veterinary Services group, providing the same professional, personal and friendly service that current clients have enjoyed since Andrew Paxton-Hall started the first practice at Tamborine Mountain 25 years ago.

Mr Paxton-Hall said he and fellow veterinarian Chris Corcoran had been working on the concept of the purpose built facility for several years.

“The veterinary hospital will be well equipped to cater for pets and animals providing expert care in a modern, air conditioned veterinary hospital.

“Experienced staff will be supported by the latest equipment to provide the best care and comfort for all pets, there will even be a cat boarding facility in air conditioned comfort.

“The hospital will be very accessible and designated parking will make it easy for owners and animals to visit,” he said.

General Manager for Communities in Queensland, Guy Gibson, said the opening of a veterinary hospital in the Adler Circuit commercial precinct was a major part of creating communities with the best facilities.

“The district centre offers great flexibility and is ideal for an array of showroom, commercial, and the service industry uses. It’s a great opportunity for business operators to position themselves in what will be the vibrant hub of Yarrabilba.”

Priced from $270,000, sites range from 819 square metres to 1243 square metres forming part of Yarrabilba’s first district centre, which already includes 3300 square metre full line Coles supermarket (expected to open late-2017), IGA anchored convenience centre, Caltex service station incorporating a Star Mart convenience store, medical and convenience centre and tavern.

Sunday launch for new Latin-jazz trioSunday February 5 will see the launch of Tamborine Mountain’s newest music ensemble Trio Con Brio who will be playing their first gig at newly licensed Tea & Niceties, Eagle Heights.

Highly regarded musician, Michael Knopf, a versatile and proficient guitarist in many styles, will lead a trio of experienced musicians.

Percussionist Timo Sutinen is no stranger to local, Queensland and international audiences, having performed with tribute bands and for major functions, as well as recording with international artist Louie Shelton from the U.S. On bass is Nathan Terry from the Gold Coast who brings a tangible energy to the band with his astute fingerboard fireworks.

The trio formed to feature Michael’s jazz and Latin music on his seven string classical guitar, so diners on Sunday can expect to hear titles by Jobim, Bonfa, Santana, Duke Ellington and George Benson.

The gig is for lunch only from 12 noon to 2pm in the café/pavilion section of the venue.


HOPEDear Geoff,

I recently had the privilege to listen to a close friend who spoke openly about the lack of hope in their life.

At times it was rather difficult to see my friend sliding further away from any positive thing in their life as the conversation progressed. The promises their country had made to thousands of young men who had joined to fight in World War Two were now, some 50 years later, being withdrawn. The promise of post World War Two peace and understanding being promoted and established by the UN had long faded into the distance with the regular occurrence of lost opportunities resulting in unnecessary genocide and starvation in different parts of the world.

Their mother country seemed divided and confused. My friend was personally feeling the weight of these and other foundation stones crumbling down around them. I clearly saw that they still did want to care about these things even though they seemed at a loss as to how to regain this lost ground. It made me reflect on an aspect of the Christian faith that many of us take for granted or take so personally we miss the big picture, that is, hope.

Some Christians have succeeded in reducing hope to a private promise of escape from the difficulties of their lives and this is at least partially true. In so far as the Christian life is lived in a fallen world we have difficulties in our lives as does anybody else. But the Christian hope exceeds my private anticipation of difficulties removed. When the Bible speaks of our being received into the new heavens and earth: ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” (Rev 21:4), it speaks of a change in the order of the world as it currently is. It is not just a change that happens in and for me. God is the Creator of this world (universe) and he is its Redeemer. He is also more concerned about true justice and righteousness than any human institution.

His promises do not fail even though we live during an age when we do not experience their complete fulfillment. (This is part of what it means to live by faith). Biblical hope is embedded in the very nature of the creation because the creation, even though disfigured by the rebellion of humankind, is dependent on and reflects the goodness of its creator. If there is no God then we should raise our glass to the atheist and the consistent naturalistic evolutionist who foresee the extinction of the human race as the inevitable outcome of life on this planet.

But if this is the case then the word ‘hope’ is like the word ‘love’ as found in the old song…’love (hope) is just a four letter word’. Life without God is, when you cut through all the trappings, hopeless. But the biblical message is that life itself is from God. It is ‘proof’ itself of God’s reality. And even though that life has been deeply interrupted by death we can have life abundantly in Jesus Christ who has himself overcome death. ‘Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above…’ (Colossians 3:1)

Your Brother,

KimAdvertisement

Kim Dale, Minister TM Presbyterian Church. [email protected]

We all know the beautiful and bubbly Jodi Ridgway-O’Brien from Heavenly Beauty, but what most of us wouldn’t know, as Jodi is a very private and proud lady, is that she has been silently suffering from breast cancer since 2010.

After five years of battling this cancer she finally thought she was cancer free. But has recently been told her worst nightmare is back and with a vengeance - this time stage four breast cancer.

She has endured a double mastectomy, lymph nodes removed, then four more painful surgeries, and six months of chemotherapy. This after losing her mum, also to breast cancer a few years earlier than her own initial diagnosis.

This has been incredibly tough. Jodi has no family in her life except for a sister interstate and her own two wonderful children, as well as a dear friend Kelly who was an angel driving her to specialist appointments and being so supportive.

This time the diagnosis is cancer throughout her bones with parts of her spine completely crumbled, along with being thrown into early menopause, depression, anxiety, insomnia and severe exhaustion.

Community, we are asking for your help. We know how wonderful you have been fundraising for others. Right now there is no other way to raise the much needed funds for Jodi without community funding. She is still continuing to go to work whilst going through the gruelling chemotherapy treatment, putting on a brave face and

continuing to give us our heavenly beauty treatments.

She has no partner for support and is the only income earner for the family. She has no super payout but has numerous expensive medical bills and rents that she has to cover. She needs powerful slow release painkillers just to get out the door when really she should be resting and taking care of herself.

People, any amount you can donate would be absolutely amazing, as you have already witnessed with previous fundraising that collectively every little donation adds up quickly. Please continue to support Jodi with your beauty treatments and skincare product purchases; she needs you! Please share to your Facebook pages.

Caroline Maguire-Gemmola

Appeal to communityto help support Jodi

Hi everyone. Just a little reminder that we are running a raffle for the lovely local Jodi from Heavenly Beauty who is currently battling cancer. There are some really cool prizes from local businesses. Tickets can be purchased at Illahie on Main Street, North Tamborine, Jodie’s Closet, also on Main Street, and Eagle Heights Pharmacy. Prizes include:

• illahie $150 voucher• hair pack from local hair dresser Caroline Maguire-Gemmola• funky cushion from Jodie at The Closet• a beautiful hamper from Eagle Heights Pharmacy• local artists’ paintings • a wine table from local Kelly Johnson-Hatezic at 4272 Creative• and many more

Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5. The raffle will be drawn in a few weeks. Amber Walker

Fund-raising raffle with great prizes


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Great range of Avene products now in store. Lots of testers to try – come in and ask the girls for the product that would suit

your skin type the best.

Women and girls aged 15 and over are invited to come along and join the football skills and fitness program with the Tamborine Mountain Eagles.

The program will run for eight weeks under the guidance of Eagles Director of Coaching, Dean Critchlow, on Tuesday nights at Long Road sports complex.

Sessions will include drills, activities and game play to teach and develop the core soccer skills of trapping passing, dribbling and shooting. This is a fantastic opportunity for beginners to play football.

Dean will guide players through the fundamentals. For those who do have skills in these areas, there will be sessions for advanced stamina and refining skills. For everyone, the aim is to have fun while improving general fitness.

The program starts on Tuesday 7 February. Cost for the eight week program is $40 plus a $15 registration fee, as part of the Scenic Rim’s Healthy and Active initiative. Go to www.tamborinemountaineagles.com.au for more information and to register.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALLFITNESS KICKS OFF IN FEBRUARY

Coach Dean Critchlow


A sprightly Meals on Wheels volunteer, a woman whose tinsel touch helped light up Beaudesert during the festive season and a teenager who has beaten the odds to fulfil her dreams are among recipients of Council’s 2017 Australia Day Awards.

Mayor Greg Christensen said the awards, announced at The Centre Beaudesert on the eve of Australia Day, are a shout-out for the quiet achievers whose year-round contribution to their communities makes the Scenic Rim such a great place to live.

“This year’s nominees are of an extremely high calibre and those whose names were put forward should be proud of the outstanding contribution they have made to their communities,” he said.

“It’s always a tough task to choose just one recipient for an award but this year’s high standard of nominees made the judging so much more difficult.

“The awards highlight the value of volunteers and, with nominees ranging in age from eight to eighty, it’s clear that you’re never too young or too old to make a difference in your local community.”

In each of the following categories the award winners are:

Junior Sports Award: Caitlyn Hester of Allenview. For Caitlin, 2016 was a record-breaker. She broke a 33-year record for discus at Beaudesert State High School, and numerous other records at athletics competitions in Townsville, Emerald, Brisbane and the South Coast. Caitlin represented Australia at the Oceania Melanesian Games Regional Championships in Fiji where she was awarded a silver medal in the Under 18s group for hammer throwing. She is a member of the Beaudesert Little Athletics committee and a member of Queensland Athletics.

Senior Sports Award: Jessica Lavers-McBain of Beaudesert. A martial arts instructor, Jessica has been a Queensland, Australian, New Zealand, South Pacific, Oceania and International champion across a range of martial arts disciplines. She is accomplished in judo, kudo, Brazilian jiu jitsu, Muay Thai, full contact karate and submission wrestling and has represented Australia in New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria and Singapore.

Junior Cultural Award: Taylor Murphy of North Tamborine. Taylor has achieved international success, received offers from overseas dance schools and has been admitted to the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet in 2017. In 10 levels of

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ballet examinations over 11 years, she achieved the highest grade attainable. Through her discipline and love of dance, Taylor has been an inspiration and mentor to many young girls. During 2016, she successfully balanced her own dancing with her senior studies and teaching and mentoring younger dancers.

Senior Cultural Award: Finella Loch of Beaudesert. In 2014, Finella composed a song for A-Choired Taste to perform at ANZAC Day ceremonies and, with a grant, the song was

recorded and published as sheet music which will be available for the wider community for use, free of charge, in future ANZAC commemorations. Finella’s involvement in local theatre and music and her support for local events, such as Eat Local Week and Arts in the Olives, has helped to enrich the Scenic Rim community.

Community Event of the Year: Scenic Rim Clydesdale Spectacular. Inaugurated in 2013 by a small but dedicated group to promote a breed of horse which played a key role in the development of south east Queensland, the Scenic Rim Clydesdale Spectacular has evolved from an equine event into a highland gathering celebrating the Scenic Rim’s Scottish heritage. Not only has it become a signature local event, attracting more Clydesdale entries than the RNA and regional shows, it offers an insight into the region’s history through demonstrations of skills and trades of a bygone era.

Young Citizen of the Year: Kaitlin Bell of Gleneagle. A member of the Queensland Youth Parliament, Kaitlin won the prestigious Country to Canberra leadership competition and, despite her extensive involvement in a range of community activities, achieved an exemplary school record with high achievements in dance, drama and film and television. As Vice-Captain of Beaudesert State High School last year, Kaitlin was an inspiration to her peers. Kaitlin, who celebrates her 18th birthday the day after Australia Day, was born with a rare

bone and kidney disease and has overcome adversity to achieve awards and recognition.

Senior Citizen of the Year: Elsie Wood of Beaudesert. Elsie may be older than many of her Meals on Wheels clients and residents at Wongaburra where she works as a volunteer, but she is young-at-heart. For more than 12 years Elsie has been a volunteer driver - using her own vehicle with no assistance - as a deliverer for Meals on Wheels. She is so dedicated that once, when she experienced car problems on her delivery route, she abandoned her vehicle and was found taking meals to her clients on foot. Elsie is also a volunteer at the Beaudesert Golf Club and an active member of the Anglican Church’s Old Friends fellowship.

Mayor’s Award: Betty Pugh of Tamborine Mountain. Betty Pugh has worked tirelessly for 30 years as a full-time volunteer, refusing to allow bouts of

ill health to slow her down. She has provided much-needed support to drought-stricken Queensland farmers and flood victims, running garage sales and operating fortnightly market stalls to raise funds to pay for the postage of her packages of clothing and essentials for needy families. Betty’s dedication over many decades has spread the charity of Scenic Rim residents throughout Queensland.

Citizen of the Year: Finella Loch of Beaudesert. Finella has walked the streets, doorknocking local businesses, and worked with schools, community groups and service clubs to encourage participation in the celebration of Christmas. She has a long history of involvement in local community theatre and music and arts and cultural events but since late 2015 has channelled her energies into the Beaudesert Community Christmas Committee to boost the town’s festive spirit. Finella’s tinsel touch could be seen throughout Beaudesert in the lead-up to Christmas and she played a leading role in lighting up the town during the festive season.

From left: Caitlyn Hester, Elsie Wood, Kaitlin Bell, Taylor Murphy, Member for Beaudesert Jon Krause, Betty Pugh, Scenic Rim Mayor Greg Christensen,Scenic Rim Clydesdale Spectacular representative, Jessica Lavers-McBain, and Finella Loch.


Australia Day 2017 will have special significance for 22 Scenic Rim residents celebrating the country’s national day as fair dinkum Aussies.

Twenty two migrants pledged their loyalty to Australia and its people in a citizenship ceremony following the 2017 Australia Day Awards presentation at The Centre, Beaudesert on the eve of Australia Day.

Scenic Rim Mayor Greg Christensen said that since Australia Day 1949, when legislation brought the concept of Australian citizenship into being, more than 4.5 million people from around the globe had taken the pledge to become Australian citizens.

“The history and culture of Australia has been forged over thousands of years, from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to people from the four corners of the earth,” he said.

“I thank everyone here this evening who is taking the important step of becoming an Australian citizen and I hope you enjoy a very special Australia Day tomorrow as a fair dinkum Aussie.

“You are not only becoming an Australian but also a part of a great community here in the Scenic Rim.”

The Scenic Rim’s newest Australians who come from Zimbabwe, Germany, South Africa, Korea, the United States, India, New Zealand, France, the United Kingdom, Kenya, Zambia and the Republic of Ireland, are:

Mark Ewing of Tamborine, Antoinette Ihlenfeldt of North Tamborine, Christian Ihlenfeldt of North Tamborine, Alexander Ihenfeldt of North Tamborine, Taeyoung Lee of Canungra, Walter Nielsen, of Mount Tamborine, Vanda of Kalbar, Madhavi Sharma of Kalbar, Robert Brooks of Boonah, Gabrielle Collet of Beaudesert, Camille Dalencon of Tamborine Mountain, Jonathan Dodd of Kalbar, Brett Germon of Veresdale, Nuala Hayes of Tamborine, Jeffrey Hunt of Tamborine, Ariel Hunt of Tamborine, Amanda McPhee of Glenorie, Oliver Straton-McDonald of Eagle Heights, Cassandra Van Vuuren of Veresdale Scrub, Deon Van Vuuren of Veresdale Scrub, Emma Reese Van Vuuren of Veresdale Scrub and Steven Whatley of North Tamborine.

NEW CITIZENS CELEBRATED OUR NATIONAL DAY AS AUSTRALIANS

Dual award recipient, Finella Loch, Scenic Rim’s Citizen of the Year and Senior Cultural Award winner.

Jaymee Tully of Paddington Brisbane, celebrated Australia Day at the Bearded Dragon’s celebrations in Tamborine.

Mayor’s Award winner Betty Pugh with Junior Cultural Award winner Taylor Murphy.


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A full whisky bottle has a height of 27cm and a diameter of 7cm, and contains 750 cubic centimetres of whisky. It has a dome-like indentation at the bottom like many bottles do.

Whisky was drunk. Now the bottle only has 14cm of whisky left in it. When you turn the bottle over, it has 19cm of whisky. How much whisky is still in the bottle, in cubic centimetres?

(This week’s puzzles by Alex Bellos of The Guardian) – solution on page 24)

PUZZLE 2 ... from a Christmas quiz set by the German Mathematical Society. About 80 per cent of German 12 to 14-year-olds gave the correct answer.

Below are the first four prototypes of a machine designed by elves designed to sort presents by weight. Each machine sorts four presents at a time. The four presents are placed in the top, and then fall through the slides. Where two presents meet at a crossing, the lighter present goes to the left, and the heavier one goes to the right. This is repeated until all four presents are at the bottom.

Four elves, Fredi (39kg), Oswald (34kg), Iphis (28kg), and Esmeralda (21kg) are selected to simulate the presents in test runs. Which one of the four machines sorts the elves correctly for every possible order in which the elves can step into the four slides?

(answers at www.tmnews.com.au)

I’ll Drink to That!


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Yearly, thousands of Nepalese children are trafficked into India for sexual slavery, but there’s hope... Transform the Nations is a NGO engaged in the rescue, housing, education & restoration of children from one of the lowest caste systems in the world.Join us for an elegant two-course dinner, entertainment & charity auction at Heritage Winery Estate in support of this work. Be informed, inspired & prepared to bid on a selection of fine auction items including art, jewellery, wine, beauty packages, holidays and more.

Tuesday February 21st at Heritage Winery Estate Tamborine Mountain, 6pm (RSVP February 13th)Tickets $45.00 pp available www.eventbrite.com (search Transform the Nations) or Suncorp

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Featuring performanceby Aliki

TM Tennis Club will start a new Fast4 tennis session at its Beacon Road courts at 6.30pm on February 10.

Fast4 tennis is tailor-made to provide players with a social and time-friendly tennis experience.

Fun, great atmosphere and social interaction are the keys to this new team tennis, letting everybody pick up their racquet again, no matter how long it is since they last played.

Every Friday night between 6.30 and 8.00, everyone will be able to play in as few or as many games as they like, using the innovative Fast4 format. Matches of doubles with short sets to four games mean each set lasts no longer than about 20 minutes.

Fast4 tennis has been developed specifically to attract lapsed players back into the sport. Everybody who has played tennis before, whether in school, college or with family and friends can play in this new format.

NEW FUN AND SOCIAL GAMES AT TM TENNIS “A lot of people stopped playing tennis because it was too time- consuming and they felt they were a different standard to their friends. Fast4 makes it easy and fun for them to get back on the court again. It’s a great way to be active with your partner or friends and to benefit your health at the same time,” said club president Henry Rich.

Every night will be accompanied by music. There will also be an end-of-season barbecue for all the players.

Deputy Mayor Nigel Waistell was the guest of honour at the TM Tennis Club Christmas party. He presented the 2016 awards to Jackson Wilbow (junior champion), Neil Fisher (Monday night competition winner), Brett Day (singles champion), Josh Jack and Brett Day (doubles champions), Jonathan Bent (B grade singles champion) and Neil Fisher and Rod Hearps (B grade doubles champions).

No one went away empty handed, with Nigel handing out bags of presents to all the boys and girls.

Thank you also to the Scenic Rim Regional Council for providing the funds for the purchase of tennis balls in its latest round of community grants.

Councillor Nigel Waistell presenting the 2016 awards

Tolerant

When it comes to personality, some people seem to have been put on the planet to make life easier for everyone else:

cooperar (Spanish, Central America) to go along willingly with someone else to one’s own disadvantage

abbozzare (Italian) to accept meekly a far from satisfactory situation

ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo) someone who is ready to forgive any abuse the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

FlatteringOthers take things too far:

vaseliner (French) to flatter (literally, to apply vaseline)

happobijin (Japanese) a beauty to all eight directions (a sycophant)

Radfahrer (German) one who flatters superiors and browbeats subordinates (literally, a cyclist)

FawningThe Japanese have the most vivid description for hangers-on: kingyo no funi. It literally means ‘goldfish crap’ – a reference to the way that a fish that has defecated often trails excrement behind it for some time.

EgotistsSweet-talking others is one thing; massaging your own ego can be another altogether:

echarse flores (Spanish) to blow your own trumpet (literally, to throw flowers to yourself)

il ne se mouche pas du pied (French) he has airs above his station (literally, he doesn’t wipe his nose with his foot)

yi luan tou shi (Chinese) courting disaster by immoderately overestimating one’s own strength (literally, to throw an egg against a rock)

tirer la couverture à soi (French) to take the lion’s share, all the credit (literally, to pull the blanket towards oneself)

A little more linguistic flavour from Adam Jacot de Boinod’s acutely collated world lexicon – The Meaning of Tingo ©Penguin 2005


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WHAT IS A CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?

It’s actually quite simple – a Chamber of Commerce is a not-for-profit, voluntary group

that’s dedicated to protecting and promoting the local business community.

The primary goals are:

• To be a strong advocate for all businesses, small and large, new and existing.

• To actively help business owners network and grow.

• To actively promote the area for businesses and tourism

From a marketing perspective, the Chamber works alongside the tourism, Visitor Information Centre (VIC), website, map-brochure,

map-boards, telephone-book, marketing, social-media sub-committees to develop strategies and actions which support our members, visitors

and residents alike.

SO HOW CAN I BENEFIT BY JOINING?

The Chamber of Commerce has a good reputation, and many consumers have a positive perception of members and their businesses.

As a Chamber member, you will benefit in many ways, including:

Youwillmeetlike-mindedbusinessownersatmonthlynetworkingmeetings

Youwillincreaseyourvisibilityandcreatenewbusinesscontacts

Youwillgainaccesstoavarietyofresources,insightsintobusinessbestpracticesandcurrenttrendsfrompeersandvisitingspeakers

Communityinvolvementwillstrengthenyourtiesandlocalreputation

Yourmembershipwillincreaseawarenessofyourbusinesswithinthebusinesscommunityandwiththewiderpublic

TheChamberdoestheleg-workinbringingmemberstogetheronceamonthsothatyoucangrowyournetwork

YouwillbeabletoaccesstheChamber’sdatabasetoeffectivelypromoteyourbusinessonline

HavingyourlinkontheChamber’swebsiteisanauthoritativereferencepointforsearchenginerelevance

Chamberwebsitesarepowerful,robustandhigh-traffic,soadirectlinktellsGoogle(byassociation)thatyoursiteisalsoimportant

CreatingrelationshipswithotherChambermembersgeneratesword-of-mouthreferrals,whichinturngeneratehigherinternetvisibility

PositionyourbusinessasalocalleaderbyaddingyourvoicetoyourlocalChamberofCommerce

YouwillreceiveregularIndustryalerts

Akeybenefitiseffectiverepresentationtogovernment

Ready to join? Keep in mind, that just being a member of the chamber to reap the benefits of chamber membership, and paying your

annualduesjustisn’tenough.Youneedtomakeaninvestmentoftimeandeffortinattendingmeetings,chamberactivities,networkingand

becoming involved. Simply put, what you get out of your chamber membership is directly relative to what you put in.

If a business is to gain maximum value from membership, it should be an active participant in chamber-sponsored websites, meetings, events

and assets. Only by participation, can a business get maximum benefit.

Buy local, sell local, support local and shop with Chamber Members. It is a great way in which business and professional people can work together for the common good of the business community.

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YOGIC NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONSFor many of us the New Year often inspires a renewed sense of purpose, determination, and

hope. It’s a time to put the past behind and begin new adventures.

To mark this transition, most of us come up with New Year resolutions. Goal driven and specific, New Year resolutions are meant to result in a better version of ourselves. Then, life gets in the way! Your workload increases, someone gets sick, life gets complicated and your resolutions are discarded as you struggle to cope. We feel like failures. How about trying the Yogic New Year resolutions approach. Try this:

Schedule a Quarterly Retreat

Every three months, take some time out either formally or informally to focus on YOU. It can be as simple as packing the family off so you have the house to yourself to journal, stay in silence and read some inspirational literature. Or you could attend a creative workshop, a yoga retreat or a meditation retreat to inspire you with fresh insight and energy.

Identify Your People

Instead of committing to new things to do, commit to the people you want to spend time with this year. Surround yourself with those who uplift you, challenge you, and support you in becoming who you want to be.

Reflect

Reflect on the past year - the good, the bad, and everything in between. Don’t judge yourself or events. Step back and look for synchronicities and identify how events have unfolded for your greater good.

Express Gratitude

To start the New Year, make a list of things in your life for which you are thankful. Why are you are thankful for those things?

Stay Present

Imagine a life where you can just sit with yourself in acceptance. List why you’re worthy of love and meditate with the mantra, “I am enough.”

Margot Wagner Yoga Under the Bodhi Tree

MOUNTAINMEDICAL CENTRE

FULLY BULK BILLINGDr Raham Behrouz Monday to Friday

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• Chronic Disease Management with Referrals to Allied Health Services

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THERE ARE NO RATS IN MY RATATOUILLEI always go to the cinema when there is a food movie showing.

I enjoyed Chocolat, Julie and Julia, Eat Drink Man Woman, Hundred Foot Journey, and many others. Ratatouille, an animated movie about a rat in the kitchen, was probably the most

popular of them all but I could not bring myself to watch it. I blame my father and our bad experience with rats in my childhood.

The rats at our farm used to sleep in a line between pieces of wood on top of our shed. My dad got the idea that if he fired a bullet straight down the line of rats he could take out about 20 at a time. One night he decided to go rat hunting and as I was the eldest (or tallest or

silliest) I was chosen to help. It was my job to hold a torch at the end of the shed while he was standing behind me with his .22 rifle ready to fire. He gave the signal to turn on the torch so he could see their eyes and fire. BUT ….. all of the rats ran towards the light ... over the torch ... over my hands, and down my arms, shoulders and body. It was raining rats all over me. I honestly have the shivers now just thinking about it. So there is no way I am going to see a movie about a rat!

Ratatouille is a stewed dish that comes from Provence in the south of France and this simple recipe sings with summer vegetables – eggplant, zucchini, capsicum and tomato. These veggies are at their peak right now and I can’t think of a better way to get my five a day. Ratatouille is a delicious stew of Mediterranean veg sautéed separately, and then doused with a rich tomato sauce fragrant with thyme and basil.

Making ratatouille is definitely a project for a weekend afternoon. It’s simple but fairly time-consuming.

Firstly there’s getting all the vegetables washed, chopped, and ready. Then you need to cook them in batches, partly so they can brown instead of steam and also because they all cook at different rates and they won’t all fit into a pot until they have started to break down.

The ratatouille can be eaten once it is all warmed through but the magic happens after an hour of simmering when the vegetables have developed a silky smooth sweetness and the bay leaf and thyme have perfumed every corner of the saucepan. The basil gets stirred through just before serving and at this point I dream of being in Italy as the Italian summer aromas are released. I usually make enough to feed a crowd, pack for a lunch, and freeze

for later.

A modern way to prepare this dish as a centrepiece is to choose the eggplant, zucchini, tomato, onion and capsicum all of similar widths, slice them finely and line them up in a casserole dish, then scatter with the thyme, drizzle with olive oil and bake until tender.

A good recipe can be found at www.taste.com.au/recipes/6876/ratatouille. I also add a couple of zucchinis, sauté them the same way as the eggplant, and then add a couple of fresh bay leaves if you have them.

So look for shiny, plump eggplant, zucchinis, tomatoes and capsicums in the shops and markets on the Mountain while they are at their best.

Terri Taylor, Tamborine Cooking School

TAMBORINE CREATIVE ARTS Crafty people: need to increase your supplies?

Come and join TMCA on their first Bus Trip of the year.

Places we are visiting:

• Golden Circle Warehouse Capalaba.

• Bayside Stitch & Craft Cleveland

• East Coast Fabrics Springwood

Departing 8.00am Wednesday 15th February from TMCA,

Wongawallan Road, Eagle Heights

Members: $35 Non-Members: $40

For bookings please phone TMCA Wednesday morning

5545 3221 or Jeni 5545 3134

This is a beautiful puzzle. It’s nicest solution is brief and elegant, relying on a single insight. If you used simultaneous equations, like many who commented or shared the puzzle on social media, you were overcomplicating the matter.Bernardo Recamán, the Colombian maths educator who suggested it to me, says that his students always find the solution a surprise.

“When they ask for a hint, I tell them to drink some of it, though not so much to blur their minds.”How much should they drink?Exactly 3cm. And here’s why.When the upright bottle has 14cm of whisky, there is 13cm above it with no whisky.If I drink 3cm of the whisky, leaving 11cm, there would now be 16cm above it with no whisky.And if we upturned the bottle, it would now have 19 –3 = 16cm of whisky. In other words, the volume of whisky in the bottle is equal to the volume with no whisky, meaning the bottle is half full.So, the whisky in the bottle is equal to half the bottle’s volume plus 3cm of whisky.The full bottle is 750cc, so half the bottle is 375cc.The volume of 3cm of whisky is πr2 x 3cm, where r is the radius of the bottle. Since the diameter is 7cm, the radius is 3.5, so the volume of 3cm is:3.14 x (3.5)2 x 3 = 115 cc (approximately).The whisky left in the bottle = 375 +115 = 490 cc approx.Lovely. No equations ... Cin cin!

Solution to whiskey puzzle on page 20


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In much of Europe tumbled rocks on a slope would denote the effects of glaciation caused by the last Ice Age which ended some 12,000 years ago. But here on the Mountain they reveal the effects of volcanic activity associated with Mt Warning about 23 million years ago. The rocks are on the slope above the School Path. On the opposite side of Tamborine Mountain, the rocks on shelf land in The Knoll National Park are generally larger than those in Palm Grove, as are the ones on the slope above the shelf land in Witches Falls National Park.

Peter Kuttner Frames from video footage celebrating

Tamborine Mountain’s biodiversity

Volcanic rocks – Palm Grove National Park

Volcanic Rocks

one small place on earth

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MAKING ROADS SAFERWith the Queensland road toll for 2016 of about 250 (up slightly) and the national road toll near 1300 (up about 100), it is clear that new strategies will need to be developed in coming years to meet state and national targets for a reduction in road trauma.

Trends evident in the last few years include increased pedestrian and motorcycle deaths and injuries. Another disturbing trend is the increased prevalence of driving under the influence of drugs. In Victoria, for instance, it is the third consecutive year that drug driving has been the cause of more deaths than alcohol.

In relation to roads, governments have often focused, quite rightly, on specific locations (black spots) where accident rates are high. Another risk management technique is to focus on accident rates in relation to road types. Again looking at the case of Victoria, part of their road safety plan for 2017 is to increase the roll-out of flexible roadside barriers and other crash prevention infrastructure to high volume, 100km/h roads across the state. These barriers are designed to reduce run-off-road and head-on collisions, and have the potential to reduce these types of accidents by up to 85 per cent. These barriers are also starting to appear on new or upgraded roads in south east Queensland.

Several Gold Coast hinterland roads have high accident rates involving run-off-road and head-on crashes (some of these roads have particularly high accident rates involving motorcyclists). Close to home we have the lower 1km section of Tamborine-Oxenford Road running down to the Fox and Hounds which, following several years of heavy traffic use is now in poor condition.

Heavy vehicles (for example the high frequency of off-mountain water tankers) have accelerated the degradation of the road. This road would be an ideal candidate for a centreline barrier as several of the recent accidents have involved downhill vehicles losing control and crossing to the wrong side of the road. However, a centreline barrier could only be incorporated as part of a significant (and no doubt expensive) upgrade to the road which would require widening of the lanes and road shoulders. While we wait for repair or upgrade to this road, all drivers should exercise caution on this section, particularly when the road is wet.

ON THE ROADSt George’s Anglican Church will hold a fund-raising cake stall for emergency relief on Saturday, February 11.

The stall, which will also include jams and plants, will begin at 8am in front of the church, in Dapsang Drive, Eagle Heights.

All products sold will be of the usual high quality the community has grown to expect from St George’s.

There will also be an opportunity to buy raffle tickets to win a quilt (pictured).

All funds raised will be used to help members of our Mountain community who are struggling with utility bills and other basic necessities. The emergency relief fund relies completely on donations from the community.

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Our World of Fun school holiday activity program was a great success. We played in sand, water and goo, coded robots, crafted superhero costumes and patted furry, scaly and cute creatures. Thank you to all for supporting our events.

Baby Rhyme Time

Baby Rhyme Time, is a fun, interactive half hour program for babies aged 0-24 months and their parents and primary caregivers.

It facilitates adult-baby interaction, pre-literacy support and communication development through simple songs and action rhymes.

Starts - February 3rd Friday mornings 9:30am

Program guides are now available at the libraryThere’s something for everyone.

Affordable and healthy lifestyle programs suitable for all ages and abilities.

Our Book ChoicePeggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons.

When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly begins to unravel the series of events that brought her to the woods and, in doing so, discovers the strength she needs to go back to the home and mother she thought she’d lost.

After Peggy’s return to civilization, her mother learns the truth of her escape, of what happened to James on the last night out in the woods, and of the secret that Peggy has carried with her ever since. A gripping family drama. This book is almost impossible to put down.

Library Familiarisation SessionAll branches will be having ‘Library familiarisation sessions’ on Saturday’s at 10.00am.

This a short tour (10-15 mins) where staff will walk through the library, pointing out the different collections and providing information about the services we provide. It is also an opportunity to ask questions and will probably have something new even for long-time members. These will be held at the same time every Saturday in each branch and so no bookings are required.

Library opening times - Monday to Friday 9am - 5.30pm

Saturday 9am -12 noon.

Membership is free to all permanent residents of the Scenic Rim Region. New members need to show proof of identity and residence. Join us today.

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ANGLICAN CHURCH: St George’s, corner Eagle Heights Rd and Dapsang Dr, Eagle Heights. Contact: Rev. Valerie Hoare Ph: 5545 2919. Email: [email protected] Web site: www.apotm.org.au Services: Holy Communion Sunday 9:30am, (2nd Sunday, All Age Worship), Saturday 5:30pm. Christian Meditation Tuesday 8:00am (Ecumenical). St Luke’s Kidston St, Canungra. Holy Communion Sunday 7.45am. Activities: Emergency Relief, Bible Study, Children’s Ministry, Mainly Music. All Welcome.

BAHA’I FAITH For information and details of meetings and children’s classes in state school please phone 5545 3890 or 5545 3674.

ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH, 90-94 Beacon Rd, North Tamborine: Mass is celebrated each Sunday at 8am. A weekday Mass will be celebrated each Wednesday at 9am, recommencing from February 2017. Further details available from the Parish Office: Ph: 5541 1068 or email: [email protected]

CATHOLIC CHURCH MARIAN VALLEY: Beechmont Rd, Canungra. (National Shrine of our Lady Help of Christians). Sunday Masses 11am & 4pm. Weekdays 9am. Sat 11am. Every Friday, after Mass, Eucharistic Adoration concluding 3pm with Divine Mercy Chaplet & Benediction. Shrine open daily Ph 5533 3617.

JEHOVAH’S WITNESS: Public Meeting, Kingdom Hall, Holt Rd, Sat. 4pm. 5545 4680.

COOMERA CHRISTIAN SPIRITUAL CHURCH Sunday 6.30pm. Helensvale Community Centre, 31 Discovery Drive Helensvale. Guest Speaker – Clairvoyant. Healing – Meditation. Enq: Lynette 5545 0484.

LIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH: QCCC Meeting Centre 48 Keswick Rd North Tamborine Sunday morning service 9.30am. Youth meet Thursday 3.45pm and Friday 6pm. ALL WELCOME. Enq: 0419 642 062.

MEDITATION - World Community of Christian Meditation, non-denominational, free. Tuesdays 8am -9am. St George’s Anglican Church, Dapsang Dr. Enquiries 5545 2919.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: 34 Main St, North Tamborine www.tambopc.org.au Sunday Service 9am Rev Kim Dale, 9.15am Kids Fellowship Church for Prep -Year 6, Youth Group. If you are in grade 7-12 please join us Sunday Nights 5.30pm -7.30pm in the Church Hall. Cost $2 - dinner provided. Weekly Bible studies also run. Phone Alex Mott on 0477 437 415. Mondays 3pm: Arts Club during terms 1, 2 and 4 for 5-15 years, Tuesdays 9.30am: Playtime for 0-5 years, Weekly Growth Groups. Bargain Centre 8am-12 noon open Tuesday to Saturday. ALL WELCOME. Enquiries: 5545 1877.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. At St Bernard Sate School. Services at 9.30am and 11.00am. We meet in the learning hub at the school each and every Saturday. Please ring Chris 5545 3237 or Norelle 5545 1190 for further information.

THE SALVATION ARMY RECOVERY CHAPEL 168 MacDonnell Road Eagle Heights. All welcome Tuesday 6.30pm. Enquiries 5630 7939.

TAMBORINE LIFE CHURCH: Meet every Sunday morning @ 10am (Zamia Theatre) 22 Main Street North Tamborine www.tamborinelifechurch.org.au. Pastor Chris Maynard 0416 453 864.

UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA: 31 Appel St, Canungra. Services each Sunday 10.30am. All welcome.

WORD OF LIFE CHURCH UPPER COOMERA: Making disciples of Jesus through God’s grace, mercy and His faithful promises. Sunday 9:30am. 136 Brygon Creek Drive (off Reserve Rd). Ph: 5580 3594 “FaceBook - Word of Life Church Gold Coast”. You are welcome.

WORSHIP AT THE CENTRE: Live Christian Gospel Music; 6pm start Vonda Youngman Community Centre Main St, next door to Police Station. All people are welcome, free and non judgemental space. A space created with worship music for you and your relationship with God. For More Information, Ph Mark Cantlon 0403 878 840 or Greg Joyce 0418 799 955

CHURCHESREGULAR MOUNTAIN ACTIVITIESAQUA AEROBICS Mon Wed Fri 7am, Tues and Thurs 6.00pm-7.00pm at the pool Phone 0417 775 203.BADMINTON Social players, all levels. Mon 6.30pm to 8.30pm at the Vonda Youngman Community Centre (except Public Holidays).BOOK READERS GROUP meets once a month, new members welcome. Enquiries at TM library. BOTANIC GARDENS Forsythia Dr, Eagle Hts - Volunteers’ working bee every Thurs morning 8-12. Enq: Roger Lenehan 0488 033 239.CHRONIC FATIGUE FIBROMYALGIA Support Group meets monthly Ph 5545 3134.CREATIVE ARTS SOCIAL BRIDGE Wed at 12.30pm. For info contact John Noble, 5545 4022.CROQUET/GATEBALL CLUB Bowls Club, Beacon Road, North Tamborine. All Welcome. Tuition given. Mon & Thurs 9am, Sun pm.DANCING: Classes in Rock ’n’ Roll and Jive Wednesdays from 7pm at Anglican Church hall, Dapsang Drive, Eagle Heights. Ph: Linda or Barry 07 5545 4001 or 0429 088 898.FILM CLUB AT THE ZAMIA. Meets every third Sunday at 5.30pm for 6pm screening. Only $10 annual fee to join which gives automatic membership to the Tamborine Mt Little Theatre group. All movies are free with membership. Films shown range from the classics to foreign and Australian made. Cabaret seating and the old sling back chairs make it a great evening of entertainment where you can bring along your own refreshments or a take away to enjoy during the film.FRIENDS OF TM LIBRARY Quarterly booksales held, other volunteering opportunities available. Contact the library for further information 5540 5473.JOHN DICKSON CONSERVATION PARK: working bees 1st Monday & 3rd Monday of each month. 8am. Ph: Elizabeth Russell 5545 3601.MARTIAL ARTS: Kyokushin Karate and Brazilian Jujitsu - Bully Busters, Self Defence, Discipline. Tamborine Mountain Showgrounds Tuesday and Friday from 4pm Saturday from 9.30am Contact Shane on 5545 4535 MEDITATION: Tuesdays 7pm – New Thought, New Life Centre 5545 3700.MOUNTAIN KIDS PLAYGROUP: Thursdays 9 to11am, St George’s Anglican Church, Phone: 0400 939 190.MOVIES ON THE MOUNTAIN: Regular screenings of latest releases at the Zamia Theatre. Ph 5545 3517.RELAXED MIND TAI CHI: Mindfulness in motion, Mondays & Fridays 9.30am, Botanic Gardens. Bookings essential. Phone 0420 349 744.TAI CHI Tues mornings, Thurs evenings 110 Eagle Hts Rd, Eagle Hts. Phone Gai Wanless 5545 2409.TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN GOSPEL CHOIR rehearses weekly at the Presbyterian Church, 34 Main Street, North Tamborine. Enquiries please contact Julie Eotvos on 0458 005 989. New members welcome.TM BOWLS CLUB – Friday social 1pm winter & 2pm summer; Sunday Scroungers 10.00am-12.00 noon; barefoot bowls & otherwise by arrangement. Competitions for members as notified. Free coaching, new members always welcome. Enquiries: 5545 1308.TM BRIDGE CLUB meets each Monday at 5.45pm, Wednesday at 1.15pm, and Thursday at 12.45pm at the Tamborine Mountain Sports Complex, 400 Long Road. Duplicate sessions conducted under supervision of qualified directors. Regular Red Point events. New Members and visitors welcome. Inquiries to Carole Bowman on 5533 2080.TM BUSH VOLUNTEERS: meet on the first Saturday of the month (except Jan.) To find out where we will be working contact Len on 3355 7288 or 0428 335 572.TM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 2nd Wed. of month. Phone 5545 0944 Email: [email protected] COMMUNITY KINDERGARTEN ASSOC meets 2nd Wednesday of the month at the kindergarten 23 Coleman Square, North Tamborine at 7.15pm.TM CREATIVE ARTS: Mon 9am-12noon: Patchwork and Quilting; 9.15am-12noon, 12noon-2.30pm, 4th week: Weaving; 1-4pm: Painting (tutor fee); 1.15-4.15pm, 1st, 3rd and 5th weeks: Creative Writing; 6.30-9.30pm: Men’s Group; 7-10pm: Pottery. Tues 9am-12noon: Craft and Sewing; 10am-1pm: Life Drawing (model fee); 9am-12noon: Pottery, 12noon-3pm: Pottery. Wed 9am-12noon: General Craft and Spinning, Pottery, First week of the month: Embroidery, Last week of month: Dressmaking and Sewing; 12noon-3pm: Pottery; 12.30-4.30pm: Social Bridge; 7-9.30pm: General Craft Night Group. Thurs 9am-12noon, 2nd and 4th weeks: Folk Art and Botanical Drawing; 1-4 pm: Wearable Art. Fri 9am-12noon: Wood Artisans, Pottery; 12noon-3pm: Pottery. Sat 1-4pm: Yarners.TM FAMILY HISTORY GROUP Meetings held 1st Sunday each month (excl. January) at TM Historical Soc, Wongawallan Rd, Eagle Heights, 3–5 pm approx. Please contact Robina on 0417 749 156.

TM GARDEN CLUB: Vonda Youngman Community Centre, Main Street, North Tamborine. Feb - Nov, 2nd Tuesday 9.30 for 10am meeting. Bring a mug for morning tea. Enjoy: Guest speaker, plant sales, borrowing library books, raffle, plant problem solving and meeting fellow gardeners. New members and visitors most welcome. Full details www.tmbotanicgardens.org.auTM HISTORICAL SOCIETY – Member working bee & morning tea every Tuesday mornings. New members always welcome. Please contact Phil Paley 5545 4962 or Muriel Shephard 5545 0481 for further details.TM LANDCARE: Volunteering Opportunities: Forest Regeneration Work - 5545 2052 for details, or helping at the Picabeen Bookshop - 5545 1847 during office hours for details.TMLETS: Join at Community Exchange System http://www.ces.org.za . Enq. 5545 3776.TM LIONS CLUB Admin meeting held on the 2nd Monday and dinner meeting on the 4th Monday of the month. For more information please phone 5545 2120 or visit website tamborinemountain.qld. lions.org.au/TM LITTLE THEATRE: Meetings held 1st Tuesday of month at 7.30pm at the Zamia Theatre. Regular plays, play readings & social events, movie club events. New members welcome. Cath Buckley President 5545 2236.TM LOCAL PRODUCERS ASSOC. sell local produce every Sunday at the TM Showgrounds from 7am - 12noon Phone 5545 1527.TM MASONIC LODGE: Meets first Thursday each month, except December. Masonic Centre, 10 Knoll Road, North Tamborine. Contact 3273 3313.TM MEN’S SHED: Our workshop at 88 Beacon Rd (behind the tennis courts) is open each Tuesday and Thursday from 8.30am to 1.00pm. New members are welcome. To find out more, drop in for morning tea and a chat or call Allan Meyers, President, on 5545 2625. TM NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: Birdwatchers meet 1st Wednesday of month at 4pm at the Historical Society, 53 Wongawallen Rd, Eagle Heights; the monthly walk is on 2nd Wednesday of month. For further information call 5545 0995. Bushwalkers walk on 2nd & 4th Saturday of month. For further information call 5545 0140 or 0419 314 442. www.naturalhistory.org.au.TM NETBALL CLUB. Contact Sondra 0499 432 745.TM ORCHESTRA Wednesdays 7-8.30pm at St George’s Anglican Church, Dapsang Dr, North Tamborine.TM PROBUS CLUB meets 3rd Wednesday of the month at the Vonda Youngman Community Centre, 10am. Enquiries to Secretary 07 5545 0737.TM PROGRESS ASSOCIATION: 1st Tuesday in month. 7.30pm Heritage Centre Wongawallan Road.TM RSL Sub Branch meets at the RSL rooms underneath the Bowls Club; details are available by phoning 5545 2030.TM RUGBY CLUB WEEKLY TRAINING: Wednesdays & Fridays 3.45pm-5pm at Sports Centre, Long Road. For details call Garrick on 0468 847 668 or Dan 0416 118 333; www.tmrugby.com.au TM SENIORS ONTHENET meets 9.30am 2nd Friday of month, Creative Arts Centre, Eagle Heights. Entry $2. Ph: 5545 2247.TAMBORINE SUSTAINABLE GARDENERS SOC (TSGS), a group of enthusiastic gardeners, meets on the last Saturday of each month. Mrs Sue Morris 5545 0102.TM TENNIS CLUB: 88 Beacon Rd North Tamborine. Contact Henry Rich on 5545 3547. TOASTMASTERS: Meetings aimed at enhancing your communication skills are held on 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at the Creative Arts Centre, Wongawallan Road from 7:00 to 9:30pm. Contact Marty Haynes 0407 452 725 or Katy Ramminger 0459 915 119. TRIATHLON CLUB, usually meets 3rd Wednesday of each month at the Club gym at 16 Beacon Rd, North Tamborine. Further information at www.TMTC.com.auTM WRITERS GROUP: Meets every 1st & 3rd Mon of month, 1.30–3.30pm at Creative Arts Centre, Eagle Heights. Call Patricia on 5545 3923 for details.UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A). An association for retirees and those preparing for retirement. Learn, teach, socialise. For more info go to www.tinyurl.com/u3atmi or call Grahame on 5545 0043.YOUTH GROUP: If you are in grade 8-12 please join us Sunday Nights 5:30 – 7:30pm in the Church Hall. Cost $2 – Dinner provided. Weekly Bible Studies also run. Phone Mark 0434 434 461 for details.ZUMBA GOLD: Zumba Gold: dance fitness classes for deconditioned participants and active older adults. Mondays and Thursdays 9.30am at the Zamia. Petra Hunter 0414 505 014/ [email protected]


environment, everyone is welcome. It doesn’t rely on brute strength so it’s perfect for children and those looking for an alternative to the usual physicality of martial arts. 25 Yuulong Street North Tamborine. Classes on Thursday. Adults Class 5.30pm—6.30pm. Kidz Kung Fu 5 to 7 years 3.45 - 4.30pm 8 and up 4.45 – 5.30pm. First class is FREE! Call Steven Langley for details 0416 262 349.

ZUMBA CLASSES – exercise in disguise! Come and join the exhilarating dance-fitness party at the Zamia (air-conditioned!) on Tues 6pm & Fri 9.30am ($12) or the more gentle Zumba Gold classes on Mon & Thurs 9.30am ($10). Instructor: Petra Hunter. Mobile 0414 505 014. Email: [email protected]

YOGA UNDER THE BODHI TREE Tues 9am and Sat 9am, St Georges Anglican Church, Dapsang Drive. Wed 6.15pm Vonda Youngman CC, Knoll Rd. Hatha Yoga, Brain Yoga, Tantra Yoga. Contact: Margot Y.A (Australia) 0428 137 391. Transform your Life with Yoga.

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TAI CHI & QIGONG CLASSES: Eagle Heights (Tues mornings & Thurs evenings) & Oxenford (8.30am Thurs). Improve your body, breath & mind. Fully accredited instructor, over 30 years’ experience. See www.ttcak.com or ph Gai Wanless 0409 066 501.

LANGUAGE TUITION

FRENCH- LE PETIT ATELIER (The Little Workshop) at Mt. Tamborine, provides a conducive environment and experienced guidance for you to develop the art of speaking French. Learn French from scratch, enhance your existing French, or simply enjoy conversing in French over ‘un café’. Create your own French scrapbook(optional). Most materials provided. PRIVATE FRENCH TUTORIALS for University, High and Primary School students. FRENCH LANGUAGE PACKAGES for travel purposes.TRANSLATIONS (French-English-French) available. Contact: Patricia Arora (B. A. - French (Hon) University of Bombay, India & Bilingual Commercial Translators’ Degree, Alliance Française, Paris, France. Mobile: 0405 617 074. Email: [email protected]

HEALTH & FITNESSDANCE MUSIC THERAPY: Dance in the Dark ~ No Teacher ~No Steps to Learn ~ Suitable For ALL Age Groups ~ Any Fitness Level ~ Dance to the Live Rhythms of African Drums. Wednesday 7:30 ~ 9 pm @ The Zamia $5. Contact: Judy 5545 4152.

KUNG FU FOR ALL AGESWednesday juniors Kung Fu 4-5 pm ages 7-15yrs Wednesday Adults & teens Self-defence

5-6 pm Thursday Juniors Kung Fu 4-5pm ages 7-15yrs @ Vonda Youngman Community Centre Contact: Sikung Phill on 0403 701 904 after 4pm E-mail: [email protected], Like @ facebook www.facebook.com/SiKungpihllbarbaro

MUAY THAI & MODERN MARTIAL ARTS (SELF DEFENCE) SELF DEFENCE. Black Dragon Kai Mt Tamborine is a modern martial arts

club focused on teaching members of various ages the most up to date self defence and combat sports. Tamborine Mountain State School Hall Monday and Wednesday evenings. Self defence 6.30-7.30pm; Muay Thai 7.30-8.30pm Call Jack Spark for details on 0468 352 257 .

KINETIX KUNG FU ACADEMY: Improve your posture relax your body and mind. Everyone can benefit from this unique martial art. A family fun

EMPLOYMENTPART-TIME WORK AVAILABLE: Suit secondary school or university student. Phone Phil on 5545 4011.

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ZUMBA WITH ANNIE AT TAMBORINE MEMORIAL HALL Tues & Wed at 9.30am YARRABILBA (Old Sales Office) Mon. at 6pm TAMBORINE SHOWGROUNDS Thurs, 6.30pm – Join the body toning/sculpting dance movements with Latin & International Music.The innovative and exhilarating workout is designed for everyone. $10/class.Call Annie on 0434 593 676 Email: [email protected]

ANTE-NATAL CLASSESEasy techniques and life-changing birth-wisdom learnt in 4 sessions to help you feel calm and confident. Giving birth isn’t something to be feared! There is a way you can approach your birth with excitement and awe. I want to share it with you! Lynette Lee (Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner, BA Psych) ph: 0408 452 410, FB: Moonglow Hypnobirthing, www.hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au

LOSTl lost a pair of sunglasses, prescription, Gucci tortoise shell design on a recent visit to Tamborine Mountain. If anyone has found them could they please phone 0407 584 885.WANTED TO BUY:

Tractor, dozer, drott, backhoe, any model, any condition. Cash paid. Phone 0407 378 561 PET MINDING CREATURE COMFORTS HOME PET MINDING ON THE MOUNTAIN: Have an experienced Vet Nurse look after your pets while you are on holidays. Phone 0417 007 300.

WOODCHIPSFREE! Woodchips – any quantity. Call 5543 4325 - Sarabah area

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FOR ADOPTIONRESCUE KITTENS FOR ADOPTION: 12-14 wks old. 1 x female tabby, 2 x male black & white. Desexed, microchipped, had first vaccination, worming and flea control. Super affectionate, social and love kids!! Looking for loving, forever homes. Adoption fee $150. Phone 0417 007 300


Where good food and good wine awaitAt Songbirds, we believe dining should be a sensual experience. Aromas whet the appetite, presentation captivates and flavours delight.Lot 10, Tamborine Mountain Road

Pethers Rainforest Retreat A private and secluded retreatPethers is the ideal setting for a romantic wedding, anniversary, or special birthday celebration, boutique conference or idyllic escape of pampering and relaxation. 28B Geissmann Street

1Tamborine Mountain DistilleryOver 300 international awardsAustralia’s most internationally-awarded distillery and liquor brand in the New Millenium. Manufacturers of vodkas, liqueurs. schnapps, eaux-de-vie.87-91 Beacon Road

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Tamborine Mountain PizzasDine-in, Takeaway, DeliveryEstablished in 1994, enjoy our signature dough prepared daily on site topped with a variety of fresh ingredients, many locally sourced. 07 5545 38884/11 Main Street

3Tamborine Pet FarmstayBoutique Luxury Dog AccommodationOffers a variety of services for dogs, horses and their owners. This includes B&B, especially for travellers with horses.1897 Beaudesert-Beenleigh Rd,Tamborine

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Fox and Hounds Country InnGold Coast’s only Authentic English PubShare a hearty dining experience with friends and family, while soaking up the spectacular surrounds. Open for lunch and dinner 7 days.7 Elevation Drive, Wongawallan

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DriftCafé – Lounge Bar – RestaurantA relaxed environment where you can take a break for a beautiful Merlo coffee made with love and care by one of our trained Baristas

12 Main Western Road

7Pinnacle PizzasFreddy’s Place since 1990Pinnacle Pizzas: making delicious pizza on Tamborine Mountain for over 25 years! Come in today and be greeted with a smile and a pizza made just the way you like it!

Cnr Main Street & Kidd Street

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Tamborine Mountain Bowls ClubA local favourite for allMt Tamborine Bowls Club is a locals’ favourite. Bar, gaming, restaurant, lawn bowls and mallet sports for the whole family.

6–12 Beacon Road

9The Local CodfatherA true taste sensationBest little fish and chip shop on the Mountain. Visit for freshly cooked fish, chips, calamari and burgers. 07 5545 0177

5/9 Main Western Road

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Australian Outback OpalsWholesale opals direct to youWe specialise in the finest gem quality opal, and supply direct through our wholesale outlet on Tamborine Mountain. Shop 1, 1-5 Eagle Heights Road

11Spare Part SolutionsParts plus expert, personalised advice We can supply parts for Automotive, 4x4, trucks & earthmoving, motorbikes, bicycles, general engineering, mowers, small machinery and more. 24 Main Street

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EMERGENCY NUMBERSAA Help Line ............................................. 5591 2062Alcoholics Anonymous .............................. 5545 3331 ......................................................... or 0416 I55 456Energex ...................................................... 13 62 62Fire (ask for Southport Control) ............................ 000Fire (T.M.Rural F.B.) .............................. 0407 747 999Fire Permits ......................................... 0408 199 271Police ....................................................... 5545 3473Ambulance .......................................................... 000Ambulance (non-urgent) .............................. 13 12 33Domestic Violence (24 hrs) .................... 1800 811811Chlld Protection (24 hrs)......................... l800 177 l35Lifeline ......................................................... 13 111413 HEALTH .............................................. 13 43 25 84SES............................................................... 132 500Emergency Physiotherapy Neil Bell .................................................. 5545 1133TM Community Care: Home Care & Transport needs ................... 5545 4968Blue Nursing Service.......................... (07) 3287 2041Roslyn Lodge ............................................ 5545 7822TM. Medical Practice ................................ 5545 1222Eagle Hts. Medical Centre ........................ 5545 2416QML Pathology Nth Tamb .......................... 5545 3873Pharmacies: Nth Tamborine ...................... 5545 1450Eagle Heights ............................................ 5545 1441Tamborine Mtn Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic .............................. 5545 0500Tamborine Mountain Optometrist Nicky Carr ............................................... 5545 0277Dentists: Dr Don Harvey ........................................ 5545 2788 Dr Claudia Rodriguez .............................. 5545 2522Podiatrist ....................... 5545 3311 or 0418 963 969Veterinary Surgery .................................... 5545 2422Beenleigh Comm. Health .................... (07) 3827 9811Beaudesert HospitaL ................................. 5541 9111

TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN RURAL FIRE BRIGADEFor burnoff notifications, membershipand general enquiries .......................... 0407 747 999For Fires and Emergencies ................................... 000

Training Meetings are held7pm Tuesdays at the Rural Fire Station,

126 Main Western Road

Contact details:

1. Pethers - (07) 5545 45772. Tamborine Mtn Distillery - 5545 34523. Tamborine Mtn Pizzas– (07) 5545 38884. Tamborine Pet Farmstay - 07 5543 88005. Songbirds Retreat – (07) 5545 25636. Fox and Hounds – (07) 5665 75827. Drift Restaurant - 07 5545 04068. Pinnacle Pizzas – (07) 5545 10569. Tamborine Mtn Bowls Club - 5545 1308

10. The Local Codfather - 5545 017711. Australian Outback Opals - 5545 088812. Spare Part Solutions - 5545 1988

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