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Community news from Mt Nebo and Mt Gloriouswww.gloriousnebo.org.au/MTN/
November 2005
2 November 2005
MEPAAGMSaturday
12th November20052pm
Mt Nebo Hall
LEO BRUN-SMITS DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION
Leo Brun-Smits, new owner of the previously proposed Ogle develop-ment, attended our meeting on October 5 and spoke broadly of hisplans for development of the “Ogle” property. Issues discussed includ-ed the number of lots (150 plus, each approximately 1300 squaremetres) and access via Harland Road. The direct logging route toHighvale will be an emergency exit only. Mr Smits invited the commu-nity to visit the site.
We propose to meet at the Harland Road entrance on SundayNovember 20 at 9.30 am for a guided group tour. We have invited thedeveloper and/or his advisers (at the time of submitting this copy Ihave been unable to confirm the developers).
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MEETING
The visit will be followed by a meeting of the Association in CampConstable hall on Tuesday, November 22 at 7.30pm (date to be con-firmed by letterbox drop).
Bob MacLennan, Secretary.Tel 3289 0160
Singing Workshop
On Thursday night, 24th November Peace'n'Choirare hosting a Carl Panuzzo singing workshop. Carlwill`be know to those who have been to Woodford asa member of Totally Gourdgeous. Carl also per-forms solo.
He is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist (voice,piano, guitar, bass, drums, tuned percussion andharp).
Carl specialises in workshops that assist singers'understanding of harmony through songs, easyvoice and body techniques, expression and improv-isation. The workshop will run from 7.30 pm until9.30 pm.
Cost $10 Peace'nChoir members and $15 non-members. Supper will be provided. All Welcome.
Enquiries to Lyn Needham 32890157
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REMEMBER IN CASE OF FIRE:
Telephone 000 then
Terry Bradford: 3289 8181
or Bob Snowdon: 3289 0150
Bush TalesSome people seem to think that Humans are rather special - we plan
for our tomorrows and animals don’t. But I reckon that there area few Crows around the place with planning abilities that would putsome middle-managers to shame! Sure, they’re scavengers (the crows,I mean) but they know a thing or two about thinking ahead. Withhousing simply a matter of settling down in any available tree at sun-set, the real challenge for your average Crow is getting enough tuckerinto its belly and on this front they seem able to plan well ahead.
Their astounding cleverness was plain to see recently after anorphaned baby Crow made himself at home. At first we had resisted hisattempts to join the family. We thought nature should have its way. Buta few days of desperate squawking changed our minds. The little crit-ter could move in … just for now! He settled in quickly, happily adjust-ing to a diet of water and soggy Whiskettes and it wasn’t long before hiscleverness began to show. From the very beginning he would pick upsmall rocks and try to hide them under his blanket, stashing themaway. Cute, sure, but why anyone would want a hidden collection ofsmall rocks was beyond me. We soon discovered though that he wasjust training for the real game, hoarding food. As he grew we started tonotice that he wasn’t just hiding rocks, sometimes he would leavesome of his food at meal times and take bits away and hide them. Hewould run off to find a good spot to stash a beakful of food, place thefood in position and then carefully cover it with leaves before walkingaway.
Later when he was hungry again he would go back to his secret foodstore, uncover the stash and help himself, carefully hiding any leftagain after he was full. Not bad, we thought. Clever little Crow … Andso did the local baby Currawong. Not stupid itself, it didn’t take theCurrawong long to learn that if it simply sat and watched the Crow itcould find out where the hiding place was and when the Crow wasn’tlooking it could go and help itself to food. They may have had anarrangement, I don’t know. Maybe the Currawong had something tooffer or was just a brazen thief. I never got to the bottom of that one.
As is the way of things, the Crow grew up of course and thankfullydecided to leave home, entertaining though he was. Since then I havenoticed more than one Crow fly into a tree and, after looking around(wary of peeping Currawongs no doubt), reach into a tree-fork, pullout some lump of meat or other, have a bit of a chew, and return thestash to its hiding place before flying off again. I know a few humanswho could learn a thing or two from these Crows. As any life-coach willtell you (for a modest fee) it is wise to plan ahead against an uncer-tain future foraging for food in the forest.
Mt Nebo Residents’Association Report
The wonderful rain didn’t dampen the spirits of locals for ourMarket Day at the Hall. There were lots of intriguing and useful
things for sale and the steady stream of bargain hunters went away wellsatisfied. It was great fun and thanks to all who participated. Specialthanks to Juanita Stout for doing the main organising.
The Art Show on the two days before the market was a great eventshowcasing the wonderful Mountain talents. It was a special thrill andlearning experience for many school children who exhibited their art.Many thanks to the main organisers - Brodie Krogh and KaraUrbanska-Bull - who created a beautiful exhibition and graciouslygave profits towards the Hall. Thanks also to the other helpers and theraffle donors - Maiala and Boombana cafes and Lex Bull.
From the various fundraisers recently we have gained well over $3000and will be able to meet our insurance costs and undertake some fur-ther renovations. Thanks to all the community for your great support.
Our meetings are the first Wednesday of the month.
All welcome!
Rob Lachowicz, President 3289 8250
Saving Lives
on the RoadAnyone interested in being part of a
community traffic consultation group with the Pine Rivers Shire Council
please contact Ann Bateson – 3289 3939.Help make the roads safer by reporting
road accidents and incidents to the Police(for Mt Nebo call the Gap Police
3511 0077 and Mt Glorious – Ferny Grove
Police 3872 1548) or through a community liaison
(Rob Lachowicz, Mt Nebo Residents’Association 3289 8250)
Remember Police will continue to targetspeeders.
4 November 2005
School News
Our school hosted a very successful Preschool Introductionevening last week. There are a possible 7-8 new enthusiastic,
fun-loving preschoolers enrolling next year. The school has also begunits planning to ensure Prep is a successful transition for our school.Our Prep will open in 2007. Prep is a full time, non-compulsory yearof a play-based curriculum. It aims to ensure a smoother transition forall children to Year 1 and set the foundation for lifelong learning.
Our Year 6&7 students had an exciting and exhausting time atTallebudgera Camp School. I am proud to report that all other staffmembers from other schools commented on our students’ exemplarybehaviour and friendly, supportive attitudes. Whilst the Year 6&7’s wereat camp the Year 4&5’s started the vegetable garden in our greenhouse.They are growing lettuce and herbs for fresh summer tuckshop salads.This project will continue and expand next year.
Last Friday morning the school was treated to The Queensland ArtsCouncil’s entertaining puppetry performance of ‘Pinocchio.’
Swimming began last week- a wonderful start to the season withalmost 100% attendance. Students participated with enthusiasm andare making improvements to their fitness as well as gaining more effi-cient swimming styles!
Teacher Excellence Week is being held 24-28th October with the focuson the contribution that teachers make to the lives of students andtheir local communities. The year 4-7 have decided to have a cakecompetition to celebrate World Teacher’s Day on Friday 28th October.
The Year 4-7 students have also shown their appreciation by gatheringtheir facts and writing news reports about two of our wonderful teach-ers. (See feature articles)
Many talented Mount Nebo students displayed their artistic talents inthe Mt Nebo Hall Fundraiser Exhibition. Quite a few happy studentssold their masterpieces with 20% of the sale supporting the Mt NeboHall Insurance Fund. The students are once again entering the PineRivers Shire Council Annual Art competition. They have worked hardon this artwork and should be proud of their results. The artwork’stheme for this year being ‘Our Most Precious Resource’.
Please keep November 4th free to come to Music on the Mountain.Michael Taylor has used his persuasive powers to entice Tim Freemanfrom ‘The Whitlams’ and also our own local group - ’The MountainEars.’ Should be a great night - don’t miss out. …
Hope to see you there.
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Mt Nebo State School
Art AttackBy Liam Wenck
This week Mount Nebo State School celebrates an inspirational artteacher – Venus Ganis. Each week Venus donates her time to do somewonderful art with the local school. Not only does Venus teach thewhole school but also the pupils at After School Care.
Venus’s teaching career expands over fifteen years. She is currentlystudying at Griffith University and teaching at the Gap State HighSchool. Venus is a very talented and creative artist.
Mt Nebo School is very lucky to have a great art teacher like Venusworking at the school.
Our Feature Articles for Teacher Excellence Week
Amazing Mrs MoffatBy Rhylee, Elkie and Torin
Mrs Moffat has been teaching for eighteen wonderful years. She hastaught at Stafford Heights Preschool for fifteen years and at Mt NeoState School for three years. She has lived in Melbourne, Maleny andBrisbane, but now lives in Mt Nebo.
She is a dedicated wife, mother, daughter and sister. She enjoys gar-dening and teaching. Her husband, Frank Moffat, is a famous artistand has written children’s books.
Mrs Moffat puts a great effort into teaching and classroom work. Shehas wonderful organisational skills and brings magic to learning. Weare very lucky to have her at Mt Nebo State School.
6 November 2005
Often on Monday mornings, the Tip face can looklike a Harvey Norman Superstore after a bombattack (see photo). As you can see in the picturethere are at least five double mattresses plus anassortment of mainly rubbish. Is this locals? It'shard to say for sure as many 'locals' who now live
in the city still exercise their right to bring their rubbish back here,either to save the cost of taking it all to a landfill site or because theyimagine somebody can actually use it, or maybe it's someone whoworks in town doing house clearing. I need the community's help inkeeping an eye out for any large trucks delivering rubbish for dump-ing. All you have to do is get a rego and let me know (ph: 3289 0249).It would be greatly appreciated. Shifting these 'piles' nearly everyMonday takes a lot of time and energy and I don't need any more bodybuilding exercise.
I feel I must explain why some of the bins are overloaded and seem tobe so for several days. I am aware of the situation, but recently my callsto the contractors are ignored and often an empty bin will arrive up toten days after the first phone call. To remedy this, I now ring the PRSC,but even their calls are not promptly acted upon even though the con-tract states "the collection is to be carried out within twenty-four hoursof the request". Since then, both companies have received letters fromPine Rivers Waste to seriously look at their service and obligations. Thetwo contractors have been Simsmetal and Wanless (cardboard). Ithink that the amounts collected by us versus the distance to cart awayand cost of fuel, puts us at the bottom of their 'must do' list. But recy-cling is not about that.
On the other hand the plastic container load is the best. The loads arewell sorted and contain the least amount of rubbish. If residents wouldonly crush their containers, twice the load would be recycled instead ofair! Some residents still place bagsfull of containers into the wheeliebins - these will not be opened, just dumped!
As we are experiencing a long dry spell the green waste pile seems toget bigger. I must remind residents that when there is a fire ban on thisalso includes the Tip area. So try to trim your yards before the dry timesor learn to mulch and compost your trimmings. The PRSC are nowrunning workshops on composting and worm farms (ph: 3480 6556).
The firewood pile has some useful pieces of timber available but it isdifficult to access as the load is just dumped off. How about stackingthe useful pieces to one side? It was intended to be a site for useful tim-ber and firewood, not just a bleedin' huge bonfire!
I did mention last month how somebody dumped a whole rainwatertank into the Simsmetal bin. I forgot to mention that somebody alsoretrieved it from the bin and placed it back onto open ground. Manythanks to that unknown person from a grateful senior citizen!
Until then ... keep sortin' yer piles.
Vic xxxTuesday night by appointment
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Community Traffic meetingA large group attended the community traffic meeting on 28 September 2005 at the Mt Nebo Hall organised by the Mt Nebo Residents’ Association.We heard from Inspector Joe Joyce and Senior Sergeant Andy Graham from Queensland Police Service (QPS), and Cr Bob Millar and Jason Dellerfrom Pine Rivers Shire Council (PRSC). Local State MP Geoff Wilson sent apologies and a strong _expression of support. Here is a summary ofthe dialogue:
1. On average 417 cars/day use Mt Nebo Road and 180/day Mt Glorious.
2. The Police approach is to support training and education and to have sustained enforcement. They will continue to target speeders.
3. Planning and prevention can be greatly assisted by community providing data to QPS and PRSC about accidents (reported and unreported)and their location. Names, rego numbers etc is not important – just the data about the accident location and apparent causes. Contacts for theseare: for Mt Nebo – phone The Gap Police 3511 0077 and for Mt Glorious phone Ferny Grove Police 3872 1548)
4. QPS is facilitating a traffic group involving key agencies. Our communities can feed into this. Any information useful for police can be fedthrough the Residents’ Association (Rob Lachowicz – 3289 8250).
5. A community traffic consultation group will be established and liaise with PRSC regarding changes needed. Any people interested to contactAnn Bateson – 3289 3939.
6. There is general support in the community and by PRSC to drop the village speed limit to 50 kph. Main Roads Department had some con-cerns and these are being confronted. State MP Geoff Wilson is supportive. Details of location of 50k zone to be discussed with traffic consultationgroup.
7. Along with this, the boundaries of the village entrance should be pushed out past the Boombana entrance and Cosmos, and there should beappropriate entrance statements created in consultation with the community.
8. There is general agreement that the 80kph speed limit coming out of the village on the city side should be lowered significantly
9. Some road corner foliage could be cleared to give better views when driving.
10. There were a number of significant accidents at the Les Austin bend and appropriate precautionary signage should be installed.
11. Pull over places are supported along with some signage indicating they are coming up.
12. Some signage around Gadgarrin is in the wrong place.
13. Peewee bend residents face grave danger turning into their driveways.
14. Traffic calming by changing attitudes through intrigue and innovation may have some success, but ongoing innovation is required to sus-tain this.
15. Education for bicyclists would be helpful.
16. A Rider Survivor Group is in operation and the next education day for this group is in March at Mt Glorious.
17. Ian Mathers, vice President of the Motorcycle Riders Association of Queensland said that their view was that residents have a right to live with-out noise and the accidents and injury. Their policy is safe and responsible riding and they claim to represent a majority of bike riders. To stopthose that race requires a behavioural change. They support initiatives started in other States of getting stakeholders together and working towardssolutions and that insurance companies should also be involved. Local riders need to be represented on the group.
18. There was support for motorbike riders having a venue such as Lakeside opened for racing. PRSC had some opposition to reopening Lakesidebut that appears to have been overcome and Council is now supporting using the venue for driver training, car clubs and other events. Insurancecompanies.
19. Pressure should be placed on motorbike dealers not to sell bikes to unlicensed drivers.
20. Several community members after the meeting raised the issue that the recent Tourism Queensland signage seemed to be overkill, ineffectiveand in some cases too close to the road and could be dangerous.
Robert Lachowicz, Mt Nebo Residents’ Association
8 November 2005
1st.Wednesday of the month - Mt Nebo Residents’Association meeting at the Hall. 7:30pm
Every Wednesday - Playgroup every Wednesday, 10am-noon at Mt Nebo Hall, $2 per family, babies,toddlers, preschoolers welcome, please bringa plate to share.
BOSS TREMELO TR-2 guitar pedal, rate wave,depth, performs the same function as vibrato. In boxwith manual, rarely used, half price at $150. 3289 8011or 0407 121 634 or leave a message at 3377 7743STEREO LG mini-stereo, model FFH-886, tape totape, CD, in-built microphone, boost bass, synchronisedrecording, auxiliary for stereo sound with TV, perfectcondition, in box, manual included, half price at $180.3289 8011 or 0407 121 634 or leave a message at3377 7743FOR SALE BY TENDER - Ex Fire Brigade VehicleToyota landcruiser 1984; petrol; 4wd; 91581km. For saleas is, where is. For inspection contact: Terry Bradford3289 8181. Tender documents to be received by 16September 2005. Address to: “Tender” Mt Nebo MtGlorious Rural Fire Brigade C/- P O Box 21 Mt NEBOQLD 4520
YOGA - Mondays 7.00pm, Fridays 10.00am at Mt.Nebo Hall. All welcome. Phone Jeanne 3289 0235WANTED - Someone to assist with house cleaningand or ironing for about 4 hrs a fortnight in Mt Nebo.Times can be negotiable. Contact Cathy 3289 8282or 0438172161FOR SALE - PORTACOT - Travel Express2 Babyco.VGC. Sheets, Mossie cover. $50 Phone Meg 3289 8381
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POSITIONSVACANTMt Nebo Combined School Care
is seeking energetic persons to
fill the position of casual assistant
and relief co-ordinator.
School days only 3- 6pm
Experience in caring for children desirable.
Relevant qualifications required
for coordinator position
or willingness to undertake study.
Please send resume along with 2 references to
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