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Editor/Journalist: Lee Oliver Sales Manager: Lorraine Bailey Designer: Sheryl Lucas Director: David Paterson Enquiries: 3205 9930; Fax: 3205 9935 PO Box 5189 Brendale BC Qld 4500 Web: www.thewesterner.com.au www.facebook.com/WesternerNews Published fortnightly by Skewiff Pty Ltd Proudly printed by APN Print, 3817 1830 Circulation: 12,750 The Westerner is distributed to the letterboxes of Armstrong Creek, Bunya, Camp Mountain, Cashmere, Cedar Creek, Clear Mountain, Closeburn, Dayboro, Draper, Highvale, King Scrub, Kobble Creek, Laceys Creek, Mt Glorious, Mt Mee, Mt Nebo, Mt Pleasant, Mt Samson, Ocean View, Rush Creek, Samford Valley, Samford Village, Samsonvale, Warner, Wights Mountain, Yugar and the acreage areas of Albany Creek, Eatons Hill, Joyner and Upper Kedron. Bulks drops are made at Albany Creek, Arana Hills, Brendale, Bunya, Cashmere, Eatons Hill and Strathpine. While every care is taken in the publication of The Westerner, we cannot be held responsible for omissions, errors or their subsequent effects.

Vote for the best team – and not for the richest player Politics, elections, voting and sport shouldn’t mix (how are those disgraced FIFA officials going anyway?), but with another Moreton Bay Regional Council election on this weekend, here is an analogy I couldn’t resist sharing with you. For years the English Premier League has been dominated by a small handful of clubs. Teams like Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal win titles time and again purely because in soccer, the team with the most money wins. Simple as that. But guess what? Something strange is happening this year. One of the league’s perennial strugglers with fewer digits in the bank account, Leicester City, leads the competition. The ‘big guns’ of the Premier League are off the pace. Election candidates with the most money and the most generous backing from election donors and supporters have a bigger budget that allows them to better publicise themselves with billboards, flyers, campaign helpers and election signs. It doesn’t necessarily make them the best candidate for being part of what voters hope will be a winning Council team. – Lee Oliver, Editor

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Voters list key issues By Lee Oliver

oney matters and traffic top the ‘wish list’ of local voters who will go to the polls at the Moreton Bay Regional Council elections on 19 March. A survey of more than 50 local residents by The Westerner found rates and water charges and a desire for council money to be distributed equally across Moreton Bay are amongst voters’ main concerns. Brian Condron laments “local rates being spent on Redcliffe”, while fellow Bunya local Andrew Statham wishes for “appropriate and equitable distribution of expenditure across the entire Council jurisdiction”. “My mother lives in Redcliffe. It is a standing joke between us as to how much ... Redcliffe residents benefit from council expenditure, seemingly at the expense of others across the region,” he said. Inequity of council spending in Division 11 is a concern of Dayboro’s Glenn Bell and Armstrong Creek’s Peter Draper, who bemoan a supposed “Samford-centric approach” by past councillors for their area. “(Samford has) kerbing and channelling in nearly every street, concrete pathways that stretch for miles, parks, and sporting facilities that the rest of Division 11 could only dream about,” Mr Bell said. Mr Draper would like council candidates to declare any political party affiliations. “Rumours are that some candidates have their campaign funded by some of the major political parties; if so what is the expectation of return for this investment?” Residents have concerns about council rates and water charges, with some calling for the control of water to be taken from Unitywater and returned to Council. Voters also believe traffic congestion is an issue that needs to be addressed. Joyner’s Kerry Hill wants traffic manage-

ment over Youngs Crossing addressed but “not the option that cuts through Old Petrie Town or koala habitats”. The environment is important to Lola Montgomery, with the Highvale local noting: “We have such a special place on earth, we should look after it”. Deborah Aldrick of Highvale is calling for tighter controls on housing developments “on land that has certain risks factors”, such as flooding and landslide. Albany Creek’s Kaye Fox hopes services such as garbage collection, street sweeping, parks and footpaths “continue to be maintained as well as they are at present”. Mary Mageau and Ken White of Samford Village would appreciate “an increase in the speed of information reaching the public in times of bushfire and flood”, and “more timely information on road closures”. Eatons Hill’s Shaun Reeves wants to see a “strong and diplomatic voice in lobbying State and Federal levels of government for regional development partnerships”. ‘Kathy’ of Camp Mountain says greater accountability and transparency of Moreton Bay Council dealings and better consultation with the community is needed. “The councillor-elect should listen to what the community wants and then act, not pretend to listen and then go ahead and ram through whatever decisions have already been made,” she said. Karen Kendall (Cedar Creek) and Carolyn Hohnke (Bunya) hope for capable replacements for retiring councillors Bob Millar (Division 11) and Brian Battersby (Division 10), while Leigh and Marg Phair of Wights Mountain hope their new councillor will “understand the needs of those living in rural and acreage areas”. Other voter concerns include safety of motorists on Mt Samson Road, poor telephone/internet services, retention of semirural/village lifestyles, and arts funding.

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What prompted me to sing in a Queen tribute band... It was an experiment at first to see if I could do it. As I became infatuated by performing these masterpieces as Freddie Mercury it was a test and a challenge to move out of my comfort zone.

former Pine Rivers MP is leading a campaign for voters to say ‘no’ to fixed four-year terms for the Queensland Government, while pushing for the reinstatement of State Parliament’s Upper House. Seath Holswich, who served as the Liberal National Party (LNP) Member for Pine Rivers from 2012 to 2015, is urging Queenslanders to vote to retain three-year terms for Queensland Parliament. As well as electing a new local council, on 19 March voters in the Moreton Bay Region and elsewhere in Queensland will also have to vote in a referendum, on whether non-fixed three-year terms should be changed to fixed four-year terms. No fewer than ten political parties, including Family First, Katter’s Australian Party, Christian Democratic Party, Rise Up Australia, Liberal Democratic Party, Australian Liberty Alliance and Australian Motoring Enthusiasts, support the retention of non-fixed periods of government. Now aligned with Family First Queensland, Mr Holswich said extra power should not be granted to governments without extra accountability. “Queenslanders should retain their right to hold politicians accountable every three years, unless Queensland’s Upper House

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John has been performing as singer Freddie Mercury in the Queen tribute show the Killer Queen Experience since 2003. The band has performed in countries such as Norway, France, New Zealand and Singapore. My first Queen experience… happened in my teens after hearing ‘Another One Bites the Dust’. After I found out who sang that I was hooked. A Queen song lyric I wish I had written… “What people do to other souls. They take their lives, destroy their souls. Their basic pride and dignity, is stripped and torn and shown no pity” – from the song ‘Heaven For Everyone’.

The first concert I attended… Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet Tour at Boondall in 1987. If I was only allowed to keep only one Queen album from my music collection… Greatest Hits II. When I was young the job I wanted to do when I grew up… Stuntman – for years and years. The best piece of advice I have been given… “You can always judge a man by the friends he keeps.” If I could invite any three people to dinner… Freddie Mercury, Connor McGregor, Ricky Gervais. Something most people don’t know about me… I have a lung disease called sarcoidosis. My lung specialist has said it is my singing that is keeping my lungs healthy.

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(abolished in 1917) is restored,” he said. Mr Hoswich said giving governments an additional year in office meant it would not be held to account for “unpopular and at times poor policies and decisions”. “As long as Queensland retains its status as the only state without an Upper House, three-year terms are the only serious accountability measure for a State Government in Queensland,” he said. Both the LNP and Labor Parties, and their local State MPs, support a transition to fixed four-year terms. LNP Member for Everton Tim Mander said with the average term of government currently two years and seven months, four-year terms would allow governments time to properly plan and implement their policies. Mr Mander said four-year fixed terms, which he says is supported by unions and business, also “stops politicians playing politics with the date of the election”. Labor’s Ferny Grove MP Mark Furner agreed that fixed four-year terms would mean Queenslanders would no longer be caught by surprise or inconvenienced when a State Premier calls a snap election. “As we saw in the 2015 election, the LNP Government called it when people were on annual leave, and I know that we (Labor)

In Rectify, Daniel Holden (Aden Young: Mao’s Last Dancer) must put his life back together after serving 19 years on Death Row before DNA evidence calls his conviction into question. In season three of Rectify, the convicted murderer must cope with probation officer meetings, while Janet (J. Smith Cameron: True Blood) prepares for his looming banishment and Amantha (Abigail Spencer: True Detective) tries to build a life around something other than her brother’s innocence. Thanks to Entertainment One, The Westerner has five copies of Rectify: Season Three on DVD (RRP $44.95) to give away. For your chance to win tell us in which movie did Rectify star Aden Young make his feature film debut – Black Robe, Metal Skin or Cosi? Send your answer, name and contact details to: The Westerner DVD competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale 4500 or email lee@thewesterner.com.au, Attn: DVD competition. Entries close 28 March.

have been guilty of that in the past as well,” he said. “People were infuriated… with having to cut their annual leave or having their annual leave disrupted by the fact that the previous Government decided to call an election in the period just after Christmas.” Labor MP for Pine Rivers Nikki Boyd said if the referendum is passed, Queensland Government elections would be set down for the last Saturday of October, every four years. “Certainty around the date when an election is to be held has benefits that reach well beyond voters knowing when they are next off to the polls,” Ms Boyd said. “It will also provide the certainty that is vital to Queensland’s economic performance, with the longer fixed term of government allowing for better planning by both government and the private sector, boosting business confidence and economic activity.” Mr Furner argued that with elections costing around $20 million to run, it makes economic sense to hold elections less frequently, adding that Queensland is the only Australian state that doesn’t have four-year terms. – Lee Oliver

Hold on to your hats! The annual Hills Rodeo returns to the Eatons Hill Hotel for its fifth year on 2 April – a massive afternoon and evening of rodeo action, music and fun for the whole family. Bull and horse rides, whip cracking, kids’ entertainment, cattleman’s bar, live entertainment and a food court will turn rodeo patrons into true blue cowboys and cowgirls! The Westerner has three family passes to the Hills Rodeo, each valued at $45, to give away. For your chance to win send your name and contact details to: The Westerner Rodeo Competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale 4500 or email lee@thewesterner.com.au, Attn: Rodeo Competition. Entries close 28 March.

Winners: Eye in the Sky movie tickets: A. Baldwin (Bunya), A. Elliott (Ocean View), S. Vanden Berg (Carseldine), C. Chapman (King Scrub), J. Rostron (Mt Samson), B. Downey (Samford Valley), A. Fernandes (Camp Mountain), J. Button (Joyner), M. Meighan (Eatons Hill), J. Hunter (Camp Mountain); Numbered books: T. O’Brien (Strathpine), K. Williams (Samford Valley), B. Randle (Holland Park); At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen book: H. Adam (Wights Mountain); Wild By Nature books: A. Swiryt (Warner), J. Chant (Mooloolaba), C. Douglas (Banyo).

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Paul SMITH Paul knows what it takes to represent a community like ours. As the only candidate from the district and the only candidate who lives on acreage, Paul is uniquely equipped to represent the rural and semi-rural communities of Moreton Bay Regional Council â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Division 11. The response from the community has been very encouraging. It is only with support of our varied communities that we can ensure a rural voice is elected into council. Paul is an auditor and Chartered Accountant who runs a not-for-profit focused audit practice. He lives on 15ha in Samsonvale with his wife and four kids. Paul grew up and worked on his family poultry and almond farm. When making your choice at the council election on 19 March, remember what only Paul Smith can bring to the table:

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LOCAL & RURAL KNOWLEDGE â&#x20AC;˘ The local knowledge of a local resident, and a passion for the local community. â&#x20AC;˘ The only candidate who comes from rural acreage â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn our lifestyle without living it. â&#x20AC;˘ An understanding of land management, livestock and horticulture â&#x20AC;&#x201C; unique concerns for rural and semi-rural residents. FINANCE & GOVERNANCE EXPERIENCE â&#x20AC;˘ A practicing auditor and Chartered Accountant with the skills and knowledge needed on our $500m per year council. â&#x20AC;˘ Direct professional experience in the finance, audit and governance of regional councils and large government entities. â&#x20AC;˘ The integrity and professionalism demanded from a professional auditor and accountant. COMMUNITY â&#x20AC;˘ In depth knowledge of community groups, from being an auditor, volunteer and committee member. â&#x20AC;˘ A passion for not-for-profits and the role they play in communities.

What will Paul Smith do as Councillor? â&#x20AC;˘ Look for innovative solutions to local issues, eg. catering for landholders looking to wind-back their responsibilities while remaining in the community. â&#x20AC;˘ Engage with the many Progress and Residents Associations of the division, as conduits to council. â&#x20AC;˘ Increase support for local groups and community events. This includes pushing for longer leases on council owned property and increased administration support. â&#x20AC;˘ Your councillor will come to you. Regular community engagement sessions will be held in each town of the division at least once per month. â&#x20AC;˘ Disclosure of all votes cast in council will be published on his website. â&#x20AC;˘ Real time disclosure of all donations received. â&#x20AC;˘ Paul will bring the local back into local council! You get a picture of the kind of person Paul Smith really is by looking at his campaign. Family are the main volunteers, the campaign is wholly self-funded and he has avoided much of the flash and fireworks normal in politics. It is an honest campaign. No embellishment and no over-statement. Moreton Bay Regional Council needs a councillor like that.

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POLICE BEAT Fatal traffic crash, Mt Nebo: Police are investigating after a man died in a single vehicle traffic crash at Mt Nebo. Initial investigations indicate the crash occurred on Mt Nebo Road at Mt Nebo on 11 March around 11.40pm when the vehicle the man was driving left the road and then crashed into a tree down a steep embankment. The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle, a 21-year-old man from Underwood, died at the scene. Traffic blitz, Pine Rivers District: An inter-regional traffic operation which included the Pine Rivers Police area was performed by police over the weekend of 11-13 March. Nearly 5000 random breath tests were performed between the city and Dakabin. This resulted in 15 drink-driving charges, eight under the influence of drug charges, and 22 other related offences. Two vehicles were also impounded. With the Easter holidays approaching police are reminding all motorists of the “Fatal 5” – speeding, drink and drug driving, seatbelts, fatigue and distraction/inattention – and to always take care whilst driving.

to change lanes and side-swiped a utility vehicle. The utility then crossed into the south-bound lanes where it then collided with a motorcycle that was travelling south. The rider of the motorcycle, a 42-year-old man, was transported to the Royal Brisbane Hospital but died on 14 March from injuries received in the crash. Break and enters: Reported break and enter offences into homes and businesses around the district over the past fortnight occurred in locations such as Mason Court at Samsonvale, Latona Street and Bison Court at Warner, Francis Road at Bray Park, Dayboro Road at Kurwongbah, Breen Drive at Bunya, Eatons Crossing Road at Draper, South Pine Road, Bult Drive and Leonard Crescent at Brendale, Brennan Parade at Strathpine, and Ellis Street at Lawnton. A laptop, TV, iPad, computer, and Holden Commodore vehicle were stolen from the Draper residence. Items reported stolen from the other sites included a dog, handbag and chemicals.

Fatal traffic crash, Griffin: A 42-yearold man has died following a serious crash on the Bruce Highway at Griffin earlier this month. Initial investigations indicate just after 5.30am on 4 March, a sedan was driving north on the Bruce Highway, between Dohles Rocks Road and the Pine River Bridge. The sedan attempted

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Couple oppose council bush bashing Peter and Denise Ravenscroft have concerns about the effects of chemicals on them and the wildlife that calls their Closeburn property home.

Closeburn couple believes they are being targeted with “vile and vindictive letters” from their local council as retribution for raising concerns about poisonous chemicals being used in the area. Last month Moreton Bay Regional Council issued a compliance notice to Peter and Denise Ravenscroft for an alleged breach of a local Environmental Management law, relating to overgrown vegetation on their Aberfeldy Road property. The letter cites public health and safety risks and concerns about “potential vermin harbourage” and the “visual amenity” of the property, after Council “compared its appearance to surrounding properties”. Council is demanding the Ravenscrofts slash overgrown vegetation to a length of 110m from the property’s front boundary or face a $5000 fine and incur costs to council to carry out vegetation removal. “In response to community concerns, council inspected the property and subsequently issued the owners of the property with a Compliance Notice requesting the boundary line be cleared of long grass and an infestation of Class 3 weeds including Lantana,” a Council spokesperson said. “There is no requirement for the owner to clear all vegetation from the property.” The Ravenscrofts, who have lived at the property for 30 years and planted much of the flora there, argue that removing the undergrowth vegetation will displace wildlife, including 140 types of birds and rare and protected fauna species. They say Moreton Bay Council has previously acknowledged the environmental merits of their property, which features riparian rainforest. In mid-2012, they faced a $500 fine due to overgrown vegetation but the Vermin Compliance Notice was withdrawn on appeal, with Council noting the property’s biodiversity values.

Mrs Ravenscroft believes she is being vilified, part of “30 years of serial vitaceous harassment from council,” for questioning the use of herbicide chemicals by council contractors. As The Westerner reported last month, Mrs Ravenscroft was hospitalised in January with severe respiratory difficulties and cardiac reaction, claiming she inhaled a herbicide chemical being sprayed on her neighbour’s property. “This (compliance notice) is clearly a vicious and calculating attack of retribution and retaliation from your council and the neighbour, or the (spray) contractor, after an investigation regarding the poisoning event,” she wrote in a letter to Council. The Ravenscrofts were also concerned about toxic weedkiller used by a council contractor to kill vegetation beside a 5.2km stretch of Mt Samson Road, near Lake Samsonvale. Attempts to attain more information on the use of chemicals in the Moreton Bay Region have been unsuccessful, with Mrs Ravenscroft receiving “not a stretch of help from the council”. “Their damned (environment) unit ought to be shut down, because they do not tend to really critical matters of serious public health,” she argues. “If they can’t protect the public from really serious issues what are they doing messing around, wasting our money with this petty vindictiveness? “People should have a right to live their lives and not be harassed.” She is calling for a ‘hazards restriction register’, detailing what Council spends on herbicides and pesticides and where and when they are used, to be made public. “(There is) a lot of unease in the community about the use of poisons and how it might be affecting people, given the skyrocketing rates of cancers and other illnesses,” Mrs Ravenscroft said. www.thewesterner.com.au

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or some Mt Mee residents their mobile phone service is so bad that they sometimes receive text messages weeks after they have been sent. Now a long-held wish of mountain residents and people in surrounding areas in the northern Moreton Bay Region – to have reliable mobile phone coverage – should soon be a reality. Tens of thousands of residents from Mt Mee to Bribie Island are set to benefit from the installation of a new mobile base station at Mt Mee midyear. Federal Member for Longman Wyatt Roy said the new service, to be switched on by 30 June, would enhance the area’s notoriously poor mobile phone reception. The antenna equipment is due to be mounted on the existing Broadcast Australia tower at Mt Mee Road. It is one of around 500 new or upgraded mobile phone service sites across regional and remote Australia.

Mr Roy said the new Mt Mee station would be one of first projects under the Australian Government’s threeyear, $385 million Mobile Blackspot Program. The Mt Mee area was one of more than 6000 localities with poor or no mobile coverage identified by the Federal Government’s Department of Communications. “The fact that we’ve been included in the first six months of this government’s mobile blackspot rollout is a huge win for our region,” Mr Roy said. Mr Roy called winning better mobile phone coverage in the district a “testament to great community consultation”. “By working together, our community has delivered upgraded mobile phone coverage through our vast local region,” he said. Mr Roy said locals in more than 20 blackspot locations nominated by the community would benefit from better mobile phone coverage.

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In 2016, The Westerner community newspaper celebrates its 20th birthday: two decades of informing and entertaining the residents of Pine Rivers, and later the Moreton Bay Region. To celebrate the milestone, this year we are going back through the archives to revisit some of the biggest and most entertaining stories printed over the past 20 years.

THIS WEEK IN 1997: Pine Rivers Shire Council election candidates were bidding to win votes from residents in the lead-up to the polls. Amongst them was Rosemary Kyburz, a former Queensland Government MP aiming to re-enter politics after 14 years by ousting incumbent Mayor Yvonne Chapman. At the previous Shire elections in 1994, Ms Kyburz’s husband Rob Akers lost his position as Pine Rivers Shire Chairman – later known as Mayor – to Mrs Chapman. It was the second time Mrs Chapman had beaten Mr Akers at an election, having previously taken his position as MP for Pine Rivers in the Queensland Government in 1983. Mrs Chapman beat Ms Kyburz in the 1997 local government election and remained as Pine Rivers Mayor until 2008, when Pine Rivers amalgamated with Caboolture Shire and Redcliffe City to become Moreton Bay Regional Council.

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Epic forest walk natural for Gordon

Gordon Forrest from Eatons Hill has just started walking the famous Appalachian Trail in the USA.

“I found on the Camino that I was reflecting a lot on my past. This reflection and hangups of the past was preventing me from living in the moment and enjoying the future.” In preparation for the Appalachian Trail hike, the retiree walked four to five hours each day carrying a 15kg backpack. “I’ve always enjoyed nature and wildlife and the outdoors and I’m just fortunate that now I can get back to doing that while I’m young enough to enjoy it, and do it on foot,” he said. Perils abound on the trail through mountainous North American wilderness – wet and cold weather, physical and mental strain, long periods of solitude, possibly wild bears. “I’m hoping to challenge myself personally, mentally and physically, to learn more about myself and to sensitise myself,” Mr Forrest said. “This journey I’m hoping

will really re-sensitise me and make me more empathetic, more aware, more compassionate, more considerate, kinder, more in tune and in touch with society and humanity… which we tend to lose on the treadmill of life, chasing all those material objectives.” Having just walked 1600km of the Appalachian Trail, Stephanie Jones learnt she is “stronger than I ever thought possible” and “in wonder of the kindness of others”. “I expected the trail to be hard, I anticipated the rain, I knew my bag would be heavy and that my body would ache. I couldn’t of dreamed of how much I would love the people I met,” the Eatons Hill local said. Only one-quarter of northbound ‘thru-hikers’ complete the entire Appalachian Trail, but Mr Forrest will be “happy every kilometre I travel.” “As each kilometre is behind

me I’ll have a big smile on my face,” he said. “If I can get to the end and I’m in good health and in one piece and having enjoyed the experience, that will be fantastic.” During the walk, the 55-yearold plans to sleep in some of the 262 small, three-wall shelters scattered along the trail and will resupply with food and supplies in nearby towns.

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ordon Forrest had just completed a 1000km walk through Spain and France when he began preparing for his next adventure. The Eatons Hill resident last week departed from Springer Mountain, USA to embark on a solo walk of the world famous Appalachian Trail. The hiking trail runs through 14 states on America’s east coast, from Georgia to Maine. Mr Forrest anticipates the journey of more than 3500km, one of his “bucket list challenges”, will take up to six months to complete. He started intricately planning his “new adventure” soon after walking the Camino de Santiago trail in western Europe – “one of the best experiences I’ve had” – last year. “You find out a lot about yourself (hiking solo). It’s a lot of time to think and reflect,” Mr Forrest recalls.

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Jan Cooper (Eatons Hill), Lyn McArthur (Burpengary) and Norma Butler (Dayboro) about to enjoy their first roll on the new green at Dayboro Bowls Club.

Green light for bowls club

aving played on a “cow paddock” for the past few years, Dayboro Bowls Club members are relishing rolling bowls down a brand new green. Badly damaged by the worst floods in Dayboro in more than a century back in 2011, the club’s deteriorating and scarred playing surface had since been an eyesore for visiting players. But a timely injection of funds from the Queensland Government’s Gambling Community Benefit Fund has seen the green resurfaced for the first time in more than a decade. “The last few years it’s been pretty rough. It was a shocking green to play on,” said Dayboro Bowls Club Assistant Secretary Rosemary Bierge, who travels from Strathpine to play. “The last couple of years we have been playing Ladies Pennants (competition), which is a district event where other clubs come to us, and our green has been referred to as a ‘cow paddock’. Now it’s on par with some of the other clubs’ (greens) in the district.” Two weeks ago Dayboro’s new green, installed over the summer thanks to a $19,422 grant, hosted its first social games in six months. State Member for Pine Rivers Nikki Boyd will officially open the new green this Sunday when the Dayboro men’s competition commences. Ms Boyd sponsored the first games on the new green. “Sport and recreation clubs like the Dayboro Bowls Club are the lifeblood of small rural towns and this grant helps improve this community facility,” Ms Boyd said. Funding for the new green follows a $32,000 grant that allowed Dayboro Bowls Club to upgrade its kitchen in 2012, as well as grants for solar panels and water tanks. “We know that money is hard to come by these days. We try to raise the money but we do go for grants… which is a very big help, especially to the clubs like this where our membership is getting older,” Ms Bierge said. “Because we’re a smaller club everybody gets involved and works together and it’s a really good, harmonious team. “We’ve bounced back (from the floods), we’ve raised a bit of money and received a few grants, fortunately, and we’ve been able to get the club back to even better than it was before.”

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All the things to love about Easter! Enjoy a delicious breaky and lunch on our rear deck surrounded by a beautiful rainforest.

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Urban Country Music Festival 29 April - 2 May Australia’s best country and rock acts over three days at Caboolture www.urbancountry.com.au Dayboro Rodeo 1 May Bucking bulls and other rodeo action at the Dayboro Showgrounds www.daybororodeo.org Hills Carnivale 14 May Annual multicultural fiesta at George Willmore Park at Ferny Hills www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au Dayboro Day Festival 31 May Dayboro, the town of yesteryear, comes alive with community spirit www.dayborodistrict.com.au

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Get on your bike to make social links

new bicycle and walking path that links Camp Mountain with Ferny Grove has opened. The 5.6km bitumen track, which runs along a former railway line corridor, passes through bushland between the end of Lanita Road, near the Ferny Grove train station, and Petersen Road at Camp Mountain. Social cyclists including Ferny Grove’s Kylie and Charlie Speirs, pictured top, and Samford Village’s Carmel McGrath and Wights Mountain’s Judy Connolly, pictured left, were amongst the first to wheel down the bicycle path after it was officially opened last Saturday morning. Ferny Grove MP Mark Furner said the cycle link, a State Government project seven years in the planning, would “encourage active transport while ensuring cyclist safety”.

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wo new lifestyle programs from Moreton Bay Regional Council are encouraging people to get out and about in the great outdoors. Get adventurous and reclaim your weekends from March to May with the help of Council’s Adventure program. The program features more than 120 activities aimed at getting friends and family outdoors on weekends. There’s more than 30 water-based activities alone to help participants beat the heat, including canoeing, kayaking, dragon boating, kayak fishing, rowing, surfing, sailing, outrigger canoeing, stand up paddle boarding and windsurfing. Other activities include abseiling, guided bushwalks and a mountain bike adventure in Samford Valley. Running from 30 March to 10 April, the Local Women, Local Sporting Clubs initiative gives women and girls living in or attending school in the Moreton Bay Region the chance to try new sports activities in a female-friendly and social environment. Sports you can try include sailing, netball, hockey, cricket, judo, lawn bowls, rowing, tennis, soccer, croquet, triathlon, gridiron, golf, water polo, basketball, archery, dog agility, clay target shooting, outrigger canoeing, AFL, gateball, dragon boating and rugby union. For more information and to make a booking go to www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/lwlsc and www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/adventure or phone 5433 2052.

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leam O’ Dawn Rural Store at Samford Valley, in association with five other CRT outlets and four major equine suppliers, is conducting a massive promotion – with the ultimate prize being a brand new $10,000 double horse float. The supporting manufacturers – Virbac, Mitavite, Gallagher and Zoetis – are significant players in the equine industry and also leaders in their respective fields of expertise. Purchases of $25 or more in store, on any equine product supplied by these manufacturers, will see customers receive a stamp towards entering the draw.

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school talk

The new Dayboro State School student leaders are Amy Robinson, Ruby Gettens, Charlie Henzell and Tom Laur.

Wombat Warriors – Kienan Wagner, Marcus Solman, Lily Eiseman, Grayson Lamprecht and Taj Gieskens – has won the Australian final of the Land Rover 4x4 Technology Challenge for the second straight year.

Wombats head back to England

Bradley Howes, Molly Harris, Natasha Traves and Daniel Brown are Senior School Captains at Genesis Christian College. Natasha’s sister Jessica Traves was School Captain in 2015.

ine Rivers State High School will represent Australia in an international technology competition for the fourth time in seven years. For the second year in a row Wombat Warriors will compete at the world finals of the Land Rover 4x4 Technology Challenge, after defending its national title at Penrith earlier this month. Lily Eiseman, Taj Gieskens and Kienan Wagner were members of the Wombat Warriors team that finished third at last year’s world finals held in Coventry. New team members Marcus Solman and Grayson Lamprecht will also travel to

Mount Samson State School Learning for living

England in July for the 2016 world finals. The competition sees teams of students design and build a radio-controlled offroad vehicle, which they race against the clock while negotiating an obstacle circuit. Supervising teacher Corey Gieskens said teams from Pine Rivers High School have qualified to represent Australia in the world finals of two global technology contests – the 4x4 Technology Challenge and the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge – four times since 2010. “It’s a bit of a legacy to follow,” Ms Eiseman said. “We really hope to come first this year and win it for Australia.”

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REELTIME with Casey Logan

Berlin’s wall of classic pop songs coming soon By Lee Oliver

erri Nunn can’t explain why her group’s biggest hit song was a “phenomenon”, but she’s eternally grateful for it. Her band Berlin had scored some minor hits with songs such as ‘Metro’, ‘Dancing in Berlin’, ‘No More Words’ and ‘Sex (I’m a)’. But in 1986 the new-wave act took the world’s music charts by storm after releasing ‘Take My Breath Away’, the love song from the hit Tom Cruise movie Top Gun. The single topped the UK and US charts and reached number two in Australia and won an Academy Award. “I think it’s a gorgeous song but I don’t really understand why some songs hold on to people like they do, and others don’t,” Nunn said. “I’m grateful for it and I love hearing people’s stories about what it means to them because it’s a soundtrack to so many people’s lives – important moments like when they had their first kiss, or their first f***, or their first wedding, or their kid or their Prom at school. “Something (record label owner) David Geffen said to me when I first signed with him, he said, ‘You’re going to write some

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Berlin singer Terri Nunn will return to Australia for the first time in 32 years as part of the Totally 80s tour coming to the Eatons Hill Hotel.

love songs, right?’ “I said, ‘Oh no, we’re going to be more interesting than that, we’re not just going to write love songs… because there’s a lot more to life than love’, and he said, ‘No, there isn’t.’ “He said that (love) is what makes the world go round and that is what people want to hear in songs more than anything, and he was right. “That’s why the love songs and the ballads, they hit more people in the heart and connect more than other songs.” Following the huge success of ‘Take My Breath Away’, Berlin blew up – both figuratively and literally – splitting at the peak of their popularity a year after the hit song’s release. “In the beginning I was scared and I didn’t enjoy it (the success) as much as I should have,” said Nunn, who reformed Berlin in 1997. “I just kept trying to climb the next mountain and make the next success happen. That’s all fine and good but there were so many wonderful moments that

passed because I was running from one thing to another. “Now I’m able to slow down – I have to slow down because I’m not 20 anymore – and I’m enjoying it. Money doesn’t hug you at night but even that said, I make more money now than I ever did when we were on the top of the charts.” Berlin is heading to Australia for the first time in 32 years in July as part of the Totally 80s tour, also featuring the likes of Martika, Limahl, Paul Lekakis, Wa Wa Nee, Stacey Q and Katrina Leskanich, of Katrina and The Waves fame. Nunn’s memories of last touring Australia with Berlin in 1984 were of a beautiful countryside, “hot” men and “confident and strong” women. The singer, whose vegan lifestyle and “being happy” has helped her look half her 55 years, released her last studio album with Berlin, entitled Animal, in 2013. The Totally 80s tour hits the Eatons Hill Hotel on 12 July. Tickets are on sale from www.metropolistouring.com/totally80s.

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hree Moreton Bay theatre talents will take to the stage next week for a reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s classic story of Alice in Wonderland. Gary Farmer of Albany Creek, Elodie Boal of Everton Hills and Reagan Warner of Murrumba Downs are performing in awardwinning one-act play Wondered. Boal, who is also Wondered’s writer and director, said while it is inspired by Carroll a lot of its elements have been reinvented. “Everything in the production is reimagined, from the Mad Hatter to Alice,” Boal said. “I like to think it’s Wonderland grown up. Older audiences have

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really responded well to this.” Farmer calls Wondered a “dark, twisted” take on the fairy tale that speaks to audiences from Hatter’s perspective.

“It has all the elements in it, including the comedic characterisations of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, to the tempting Cheshire cat, to the innocence of Alice and the madness of Hatter,” Farmer said. Tickets to Wondered, on at Brisbane Arts Theatre on 2526 March, are $20 and can be purchased from www.arts theatre.com.au/wondered. Wondered, a reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, stars Reagan Warner, Lindi Milbourne, Elodie Boal, Jonty Martin and Gary Farmer. Photo by Alison Telfer McDonald.

According to The Witch, the haunting debut film from writer-director Robert Eggars, the foundations of regional witchcraft that led to the Salem trials of the late-1600s were laid almost a century earlier. After settling in New England, USA in 1630, recent British immigrants and devout Puritan Christians William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie) are exiled from their village. They lead their children overland and establish a homestead on the edge of a dark wilderness, which all are forbidden from entering. When their newborn baby mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. We soon discover evil has infiltrated the splintering household as the family is torn apart by guilt, grief and accusations of witchcraft. With The Witch, Eggars has crafted one of the scariest, most unsettling and original horror films of the past 20 years. The gore is minimal and the cheap ‘jump’ scares limited. As with the classic The Exorcist, The Witch builds and builds suspense – and keeps it there. Rarely have I wished away slow tracking shots, fearing there was something unpleasant and shocking that the camera would eventually find in the distance. The work of composer Mark Korven deserves special mention. Music is vital in helping to create the chills of a scary movie, and Korven (quite similar to coven) has produced the most unsettling movie score I can recall. The Witch offers an authentic re-creation of 1600s New England and Eggers’ decision to use period dialect is a masterstroke on two fronts. Firstly, demanding full concentration from the audience makes viewers fully immersed in the story and its growing, almost veiled terror. It also provides a platform for some stunning performances. Anya Taylor-Joy is brilliant as the teenage daughter Thomasin and Ineson shines as a man whose beliefs mask the family turmoil. Dickie is also superb as the mentally fracturing grieving mother, and in one harrowing scene Harvey Scrimshaw as eldest son Caleb trumps Linda Blair in The Exorcist. A nightmare of the immigrant experience and religious oppression, The Witch is a special, creepy film that favours intelligence, style, substance and metaphoric imagery over gore. It could make you feel scared or guilty at having watched a film that feels like the devil himself may have had a hand in creating. And you may never look at a rabbit, goat or crow the same way again. 8/10 The Witch is screening exclusively at Dendy Portside cinema from 17 March.

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