Eumundi Voice - Issue 73, 20 July 2023

Cont. from p1 an impressive rock-climbing wall, face painting and a lantern-making workshop kindly hosted by Multicultural Australia, bringing smiles to the faces of young and old alike.

OEM leaders expressed gratitude to the community for their overwhelming support of the event. The big turnout suggests potential for future A Night at the Original events, prompting plans to continuously evolve the initiative. To accommodate an even larger number of visitors OEM is pleased to advise there are plans to open the market carpark, ensuring extra spaces and convenient parking for visitors.

Alori said that events such as these are a powerful force in bringing communities together and bolstering the spirit of Eumundi. She shared her appreciation of the stallholders and dedicated OEM team whose efforts made it happen.

In addition to the success of A Night at the Original, on the following Wednesday market day OEM was thrilled to welcome the Sunrise weather crew and charismatic TV host Sam Mac. Their visit was a golden opportunity to showcase Eumundi and all its appeal.

WHAT’S ON?

Viva la Vintage

Viva la Vintage is back from 9am-1pm on 23 July at The Green Room and The Brewery at Eumundi’s Imperial Hotel. It is a vintage lover’s delight with something for all ages whether it is fashion, vinyl, kitchen kitsch or homemade items. Visit: facebook.com/vivalavintagemarket.

See the world’s biggest dinosaur!

Discover the Dinosaurs of Patagonia at the Qld Museum display featuring 16 life-sized skeletons from South America's Age of Dinosaurs until 2 October. “The Titanosaur (Patagotitan) is one of the most extraordinary finds in the history of palaeontology,” said Sir David Attenborough. Tickets: tinyurl.com/5n84krts.

WHAT’S ON?

A Night of Burlesque

Join a celebration of the female form through song, dance, costumes and striptease when the Kitty Kats present A Night of Burlesque at the Eumundi School of Arts on Saturday 12 August. The theme is burlesque boudoir so dress to suit with your feather boa and dancing shoes.

The 18+ adults-only cabaret features some of Qld's favourite performers including Scarlet Tinkabelle, special guests the MPAC Showgirls and MC Carlie Wacker. Doors open at 6pm for a 7pm start. Table seating and licensed bar. Visit: trybooking.com/events/landing/1070187.

Re-Play Toy Trade

Looking for some great value toys? If so join us from 8-11am on 5 August at the Noosa Thrift Market, Action St, Noosaville to buy, swap or recycle pre-loved toys. The event is free and supports the Smith Family and Connect Kids. Get the kids involved and teach them about the value of re-playing quality pre-loved items while supporting a family-focused event with purpose, promoting kindness and having respect for things. The Toy Replay is a community initiative to keep plastic toys out of landfill by buying pre-loved, swapping or dropping off toys for recycling and is brought to you by Choose the ‘Tude, Spark Pop and Barely Worn. Visit: bit.ly/ ToyReplay.

Yandina Street Fair

The Yandina Street Fair will be held from 11am7pm on 20 August after a three-year hiatus, mostly due to Covid restrictions. It will be great to see the main street bubbling again with a lively fair. If you would like to hold a stall or be part of the event the organising committee is inviting applications. Details can be found at Yandina Street Fair 2023 on Facebook.

Arts Alive Maleny

Put 4 August in your diary to attend Arts Alive Maleny, the first of its kind in the town. Owner of Maleny Art Direct Gallery Joanne Howard said, “It’s about showing off what’s here and what has been born here”.

Maple St will be closed from 5pm and come alive with lanterns, light shows, live music, street theatre, art exhibitions and installations, puppetry, comedy and pop-up workshops. Tickets: artsalivemaleny.com.au.

LOCAL ISSUES

effects of policies and social expectations that evolved at the end of the last century.

The causes have been identified and are being examined. They are not as newsworthy as homelessness but the underlying causes must be addressed at all levels so that Gen Y and Millennials don't find themselves in the same position.

To join the QCWA Eumundi Advocacy Team email: eumundiqcwa@gmail.com. Janet Millington

Homelessness is one symptom

There are many ways to become homeless. Very few are lifestyle choices and now we can add the working homeless.

A wage used to ensure a roof over our heads but the cost of living means this is no longer the case.

The long tail of the pandemic with its effects on health, changes to employment, small business closures and loss of employment has contributed to this level of homelessness. There is also the physical loss of homes from flood and fire and increased building costs and unavailability of materials all set in an unstable global political and financial situation.

We hear a lot about these issues as governments and not-for-profit organisations try to support those worst affected – who are living in cars and caravans, with extended family, couch surfing or in tiny homes. There is a hidden problem however and one that is largely confined to women over 45yo – a generation ageing into poverty.

This problem has been brought about by many decades of unequal pay, little financial recognition of the caring roles women play in looking after their children and now ageing parents, together with society's changing views around long-term commitment and marriage. These underlying issues need to be addressed as our next generation begins to feel the long-term

Golf course planned for Eumundi

Plans for a new 'pitch and putt' 10-hole golf course and driving range in Eumundi have been submitted to Sunshine Coast Council. The 7.7-hectare site is located on Don Napier Rd, directly to the east of Eumundi train station and less than 250m from the markets and commercial centre.

The development application planning report was submitted by Pivotal Perspective on behalf of applicant James Douris, a Noosa-based golf professional.

The proposed development would be completed in two stages with the first stage to include the 10-hole pitch and putt course, a driving range with raised greens, a golf simulator within an existing shed, a clubhouse and bar, a caretakers’ residence, maintenance sheds, a wastewater treatment irrigation area, revegetation and a new driveway entry.

Stage two would include short-term accommodation units, associated carparks and the potential conversion of a shed to a dwelling house. There would be 40 carpark spaces for the golf course and four for the short-term accommodation. Visit: tinyurl.com/4dj47xtz.

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DOONAN david berns

Burning memory

It began to get dark and looking out the window I saw smoke spiralling on the ridge bordering our property and Crown land. My husband commented it wasn’t much so we retired for the night.

I couldn’t sleep and at 2am I looked out to see a red glow along the ridge. Again, he said it would die down on reaching our flat back paddock. Off he went to work in our only car, dropping the kids at school.

Worried, I walked towards the paddocks with the horses and goats passing me in the opposite direction. I realised then that the fire hadn’t stopped and the mountain slope was well alight. I raced home and called 000. The Eumundi Police were informed I was told – strange as when I called our one policeman earlier no one answered.

Smoke began filling the house. Fences were alight. I called the dogs, begged the cats to run and choking with fear and smoke I raced

across to the pig styes to let them out so they could escape to the dam. My poor goats were screaming in fear of the fire and the dam. Hysterically I screamed as a shape appeared – it was our 'cop'.

Bundling me and the dogs into his car he explained he was at the Gympie cattle sales when traced. As we reached the highway the heavens suddenly burst. The deluge put out the fire.

Next day we learnt a local boy camping had not extinguished his fire. Our neighbours had been evacuated but we were forgotten. Sightseers drove to our property to gawp at the damage. We lost two cows, a horse and my temper because no-one thought to check on us.

Eileen Walder

Bushfire season preparation

The past three years have seen higher-thanaverage rainfall on the Sunshine Coast but a drier-than-average summer followed by a dry autumn/winter has weather forecasters suggesting a possible El Nino style weather pattern coming into summer. Although the

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Bureau of Meteorology is yet to officially declare an El Nino event it confirmed earlier this month there is a 70% chance the weather phenomenon could develop.

The previous three years of high rainfall have brought prolific vegetation growth, creating perfect conditions for a hazardous fire season. The deluge meant hazard reduction burns were unable to be conducted in recent years so it is a timely reminder to prepare for the potential bushfire season ahead.

What can property owners do to prepare?

• Ensure gutters and roofs are clear of leaves, twigs, bark and other debris.

• Consider installing gutter guards.

• Enclose open areas under decks and floors.

• Install steel wire mesh screens on windows, doors, vents and weep holes.

• Point LPG cylinder relief valves away from your house.

• Check and maintain firefighting pumps, generators and water systems.

• Seal gaps in external roofing and cladding.

• Move flammable items away from your home such as woodpiles, mulch, boxes, hanging baskets and outdoor furniture.

• Reduce vegetation along access paths.

• Mow your lawn regularly.

• Remove excess flammable materials such as long dry grass, dead leaves and branches.

• Trim low-lying branches around your home to a height of two metres from the ground.

It is important to review and update your bushfire survival plan as a family. Visit: qfes.qld. gov.au/prepare/bushfire/prepare-for-bushfireseason.

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Budget for Verrierdale, Weyba Downs and Yandina Creek Council adopted the 2023-24 budget on 22 June. In Verrierdale the restoration of the Doonan Creek Environment Reserve will continue with $300,000 to progress the walking trails and other items. In Yandina Creek the staged upgrade to seal North Arm Yandina Creek Rd will continue and when constructed will make the trip a lot more pleasant for regular road users. A new seat for Laguna Grove Park is planned for Doonan and in Weyba Downs, the Lake Weyba Foreshore Trail upgrade will continue to complement the recently completed northern boat ramp access.

Waste strategy input To give council your

thoughts on the way we deal with waste in the future read the draft waste strategy document, complete the survey by 9 August or attend a community workshop at Venue 114 on 31 July. Visit: haveyoursay. sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au.

Grants for rural property owners open Rural landowners can apply for financial help to complete on-ground environment projects on their private property with SCC’s Landholder Environment Grants now open. Read the guidelines at: sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/grants and submit your expression of interest before 14 August.

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Local Doctor Spotlight: Welcoming new patients

Dr Carl Faldt

MBBS

Dr Faldt completed his medical training and internship in Sweden and started his GP training before moving to Australia in 2013. For the next two and a half years, he held postgraduate house officer positions throughout Toowoomba, Noosa and Nambour Hospitals. He enjoys all aspects of GP practice and when he isn’t working a surf never goes amiss if he isn’t already away camping.

Dr Paul Baker

BMBS, PhD, BSc (Hons), DipAppSci

Dr Baker completed his medical degree in 2012 at Flinders University in South Australia, before completing his intern year and the early phases of his emergency medicine training at Flinders Medical Centre in southern Adelaide. He moved to the Sunshine Coast with his family in 2017 to continue his training in emergency medicine at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

Div 9 Cr Maria Suarez, 07 5475 9810

OUT AND ABOUT

PTSD Dogs graduation

Hon David Littleproud MP and Llew O’Brien MP were welcome guests at the PTSD Dogs graduation on Tuesday 4 July at Cooroy RSL where a $3,000 grant for the organisation was announced.

Qld Garden Expo

The Qld Garden Expo at Nambour Showgrounds was abuzz over the weekend of 7-9 July with native and non-native bees. Thousands of eager gardeners attended looking for expertise, information and plants to take home.

National Lamington Day is on 21 July. No one knows exactly how the lamington came about but all stories involve Lord Lamington who was Governor of Qld from April 1896 until December 1901.

One story suggests that his chef was called on at short notice to feed unexpected guests. The chef made the cake with the limited number of ingredients he had on hand. The cake so impressed the guests that they asked for the recipe. Another story is that a maidservant accidentally dropped Lord Lamington’s favourite sponge cake into melted chocolate. Not wanting to waste the food Lord Lamington suggested

covering the chocolate-covered sponge cake with coconut to make the cake less messy to eat.

There have been several variations to lamingtons over the years. One is to have a layer of cream or strawberry jam in between two halves of a lamington. Another is rolling the cake squares in red jelly instead of chocolate icing and then adding the coconut.

In 2009 as part of Qld’s 150th birthday celebrations the lamington was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Qld for its role as an iconic innovation and invention. Celebrate National Lamington Day by inviting your friends over for a cuppa and a fresh batch of lamingtons!

THE ARTS

The pirates are coming!

With a rollicking cast of 20, directed by awardwinning director Diana Thomson and actor Jane Rivers, the Pirates of Penzance will run from 20 July to 6 August at the Noosa Arts Theatre.

Written by Gilbert and Sullivan when Victoria reigned, the Pirates of Penzance is fun for all the family. Poor Frederic was born on 29 February which leads to problems. He becomes mixed up by mistake with pirates just when he finds Mabel whose father, the Major-General, is determined to rid the town of buccaneers.

Gary Morris plays the pirate king with all the panache of a rock star. He toured nationally and internationally with the Australian band U2 as lead singer Bono. With appearances on stage and TV he has also entertained the Dalai Lama. Talented in multimedia, Gary also made his own costumes.

Another new face to Noosa but not to the world of music is Rebecca Hincksman who plays Mabel. A singing teacher, owner of Bella Voce Studios, chorale director and with degrees in music and languages Rebecca has longed to play Mabel since performing her song Poor Wandering One aged 16.

Harry Cure is no stranger to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and has performed with the Tasmanian G&S Society. Classically trained in singing, movement and acting he relishes the role of Frederick.

Another devotee of G&S, Knox Cameron is well known to Sunshine Coast theatre-goers. He has performed in many productions and now proves he is “the very model of a modern MajorGeneral”.

The war on soft plastics

Each day I empty and divide my small house bins into my green landfill bin, my yellow recycle bin and my Containers for Change bin. This is my choice to recycle with care for my planet.

Each day I feel sad and bitterly disappointed that I face the dilemma of which bin to put my soft plastics in now?

As an avid recycler I used to deliver my old dog food bags stuffed with all my soft plastics every few weeks to Woolworths with great pride and glee … But no more!

I feel guilty as I put my soft plastics into the green landfill bin and often feel like shoving them into the yellow recycle bin as THIS is where they should be going but I have been told soft plastics clog and jam the council's sorting equipment.

I feel like a total recycling vandal every day. It hurts and it is sad.

What has happened? Why wasn’t the soft plastics recycling better organised? Obviously the soft plastics stockpile has log jammed the brilliant efforts by so many of us to recycle our soft plastics.

Hopefully Craig Reucassel‘s next upcoming program War on Waste will raise public awareness and ire on this issue.

I will march with placards …

I will sign petitions ...

I will write letters to editors ...

I will harass my wonderful local member Dan Purdie … (Sorry Dan).

I sincerely hope millions of others feel and do the same.

Bronwyn Innes

Soft Plastics Taskforce

In March 2023 the Soft Plastics Taskforce –comprising ALDI, Coles and Woolworths –outlined the steps required to launch a new supermarket soft plastics collection scheme. They aim to launch this in select stores in late 2023 provided that the REDcycle’s existing soft plastic stockpiles can be cleared prior. The new program would then be gradually rolledout nationally next year. Visit: tinyurl.com/ mum9am2u.

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22 Coastal Country Music Fest, Bokarina, �� venue114.com.au

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AUGUST 2023

FARMING

Egg shortages

I think I’ve cracked (sorry, how can you resist) why it has become increasingly difficult to source my breakfast eggs at local supermarkets, let alone pay for them with prices soaring.

Our old mate Covid brought a steep decline in the requirement for eggs at cafes and restaurants and therefore producers reduced their flocks. There was also some suspicion that the hens themselves may have been associated with the spread of Covid – à la avian flu – along with many other notions.

Of course there is the expensive process of converting flocks from battery hen egg production to free-range or barn-laid due to consumer demand and legislation. Changes in the rules by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that define what constitutes either free-range or barn-laid eggs have also had an impact.

Our long-suffering growers point out that producing free-range eggs is more expensive and less efficient than the erstwhile battery hen production. All of a sudden you need more land to produce what you once did in a compact format.

Hens in batteries are more reliable egg producers due to the constancy of temperature and light exposure, making them a better financial proposition. Autumn and Winter naturally bring

less favourable conditions with less light and lower outside temperatures for free-range egg production.

Fuel prices have gone up and up over the past couple of years and the long-term impact has affected prices. The price of one of the staple food of hens, grain, has also steadily risen. Sadly, the conditions that have made eggs more expensive and less available look likely to continue and in some cases worsen with rising electricity prices.

Gerard Duckworth

CREATIVE WRITING

Cannibal Chooks

Cannibal chooks live at our house.

They steal the dog’s bone and eat the cat’s mouse.

They climb up the stairs as bold as you please. They wake before dawn and sleep in the trees.

We didn’t want them dumped at our door. They came from the mother of our ex son-in-law!

She donated the hens who laid lots of eggs. Which grew into chickens with bantam-sized legs.

Neighbours’ dogs killed all but these five. Little orphaned chooks who fought to survive.

They crow all day and screech for food. No plain bread or corn for this greedy brood.

It’s meat that they relish – bacon, steak or ham. Anything goes – like a half leg of lamb.

But most of all would you ever suppose?

What they most cherish

Is a fat Parson’s Nose!

Eileen Walder

Get away from it all on this working farm yet only 10 mins to Eumundi! This fabulous Garth Chapman Queenslander built in 2004 is set high on the property with views to Mt Eerwah and surrounds. Fully fenced into 7 paddocks with 8 dams and stock troughs, 2 stables, tack room, 6m x 9m shed. Currently running cattle but ideal for horses too with plenty of trails nearby. Bonus original 1970’s 3 bed cottage + studio needing renovation has lots of potential.

BOTANICAL SANCTUARY ON 6,604M2

This spacious uniquely designed 3 bed 2 bath home is encased in an array of beautiful mature established gardens, planned and conceived with low maintenance in mind. Customised to make the most of the natural heating and cooling with high ceilings and stacker doors, timber floors, large open entertainers’ kitchen with quality fixtures, floor to ceiling cupboards and bench space for the most fastidious of cooks. Multiple living areas and a separate dining area spill out onto the resort like gardens. Backing onto a nature reserve in a quiet street just 5 mins to Eumundi and 15 mins to beaches.

Adam Kuczynski 0407 596 547 DOONAN

This much loved 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2 living area lowset brick home is situated in a premium private location that cannot be built out on 1121 sq mts. There is a nature reserve and parkland on 2 boundaries creating an abundant wildlife corridor fully maintained by the Council absorbing the uninterrupted sweeping views from the house. The seller has planted to attract birds, bees, frogs and rain forest trees creating a micro climate.

ULTIMATE ENTERTAINER + PADDOCK PERFECTION + UNINTERRUPTED VIEWS

Dream lifestyle property set on just over 40 acres this property has it all, a stunning 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom family home, pasture improved undulating paddocks, breathtaking views to Mt Cooroy, Mt Tinbeerwah and Mt Eerwah, an infinity edge pool, 5 dams, irrigation and the massive shed. All the while being nestled privately aside a glorious mountainside. The heart of this lovingly maintained home is the large entertainer’s kitchen and open servery on to the most hospitable of decks capturing uninterrupted Noosa hinterland vistas.

Adam Kuczynski 0407 596 547