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Love it or loathe it, the Federal Election campaign has begun ahead of Australia’s adults heading to the polls in July. This election will see two local political stalwarts squaring off against each other. The Liberal National Party’s sitting Member for Dickson, Peter Dutton, has overseen Federal Government affairs relating to The Westerner area since 2001. Since December 2014, Mr Dutton has also served as the Australian Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, a portfolio covering some of the most divisive issues in current political and social debates, including the welfare and rights of asylum seekers. The recently endorsed Labor Party candidate for Dickson is Linda Lavarch, who represented the electorate of Kurwongbah in the Queensland Parliament from 1997 to 2009. She was the state’s first female Attorney-General, embroiled in the case of notorious former Bundaberg surgeon Jayant Patel. Both Mr Dutton and Ms Lavarch have been under intense public scrutiny during their careers, and ultimately the scrutiny of local voters will decide their political futures. – Lee Oliver, Editor

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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 2007: After 11 years as an A4-sized publication, an exciting new style of The Westerner was unveiled with its 24 May edition. After many years as a black and white paper, and later with a small number of colour pages, The Westerner was revamped as an eye-catching full May, 2007 Thursday, 24 colour publication, setting it apart from other local The community newspapers. Along with a larger page size was the introduction of new sections including the ‘In the Community’ profile as well as colour Trades and Services advertisements. The first ‘cover girl’ of the new The Westerner was 5 Kaye Minnaar, who sold her stunning paintings to fund overseas trips to undertake 13 humanitarian projects. Stories in this edition included the forced amalgamation of Pine 35 Rivers Shire with neighbouring councils, and a feature on the page 11 60th anniversary of the Camp Mountain railway disaster, in which 15 people died.

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he first skirmish in the battle for the seat of Dickson at the Federal Election was waged last week, with Deputy Leader of the Opposition Tanya Plibersek and a local Labor Party stalwart visiting voters at Albany Creek and Strathpine. Linda Lavarch will run as Labor’s candidate for Dickson against sitting Liberal National Party (LNP) member Peter Dutton at the election on 2 July. Queensland’s first female AttorneyGeneral who served as State Member for Kurwongbah from 1997 to 2009 before stepping down from politics to tackle depression, Ms Lavarch said it “wasn’t a hard decision” to nominate to be Labor’s local election candidate. “I’ve been politically engaged for 40 years and the same things I was fighting for (then), for high quality education and... a universal health system, we’re back fighting for them again,” she said. “I want to leave a legacy for my children and potential grandchildren so I put my name forward and received the Labor Party endorsement. “I think my experience in state (politics)

will certainly go a long way to providing strength of representation at a federal level.” Mr Dutton, the Member for Dickson for 15 years, said he was not deterred by running against an experienced and “formidable” political opponent. “My opponent has been around a long time and is a formidable opponent, but (Labor Dickson election candidate) Cheryl Kernot was a formidable opponent back in 2001,” he said. “I’ve always run a positive campaign and I’ve never spoken ill of my opponents but I think the Labor Party would be bad for our local community and bad for our country if they were to win Dickson and win the election.” The LNP won Dickson with a margin of 6.7 per cent last election, and Mr Dutton believes it will be a key marginal seat. “There’s no way Malcolm Turnbull can be Prime Minister if the seat of Dickson goes to Labor,” Mr Dutton said. Ms Lavarch believes the biggest election issues “both nationally and locally” are education and health, adding, “There’s a clear contrast between the proposals of the LNP... and the Labor Party.”

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A Teresa Pyne, Highvale Teresa is an Assistant Minister of the Church of United Spiritualism of Australia, host of the eighth Mind Body Spirit Fair at Samford Village. The fair will feature psychic and tarot card readings, astrology, numerology, healers, massage, stalls and food. The best things about the Mind Body Spirit Fair... The community gets to see, and sample, a wide variety of readers and healers and sustainable products. The community interest has grown every year we’ve held the fair. Why spirituality is important to me... When my youngest sister passed away I needed to know she was alright – I believed it, but I wanted to see/hear it for myself. Now I regularly have conversations with her and my other siblings and relatives. It brings me much happiness knowing they are ok. My passion for spirit and body healing began... I was eight years old when my first experience occurred. I had spirit visions throughout high school. When my sister passed in 1988 I decided it was time to share my gifts with family and friends, and now I have the courage to share them with the wider community. These gifts bring comfort and happiness to those who have lost loved ones, and that makes me happy. The main misconceptions about tarot readers and psychics... That life ends when our mortal body passes away, and all psychic work is part of the occult. The best things about living where I do... Green space, clean fresh air, awesome energy from Mother Earth and nature, peace and quiet to think, meditate and do the work I love doing. The energy around Samford is terrific for healing and spiritual work. If a biography were written about my life it would be called... The Daughter of a Vietnam Veteran. That is what I am, that is where all my interest in healing started from – living with an ex-veteran with then undiagnosed PTSD.

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fter operating out of a club member’s shed for five years, Dayboro Mens Shed will have its own permanent home by the end of the year. The Federal Member for Dickson Peter Dutton last week turned the first sod on the construction site for the new Dayboro Mens Shed facility. The building will be located between the Dayboro Rugby League Club and Dayboro Scouts sites in the Dayboro Showgrounds precinct. “The benefits of Mens Sheds is well known... and it’s of a great benefit to the community,” Mr Dutton said. “(Dayboro Mens Shed) is just part of growing this whole precinct; it’s such a beautiful setting and a lot can be done here to give back to the Dayboro community and surrounds.” Mr Dutton also announced a $15,000 Federal Government grant for the group, to help with construction costs of its shed. Federal, state and local government grants have contributed to funding of the Dayboro Mens Shed project, as has sales of items such as wooden toys and furniture made by members and sold at markets.

Since it was founded in 2011 with the backing of the Dayboro Lions, Dayboro Mens Shed’s activities have taken place in the Armstrong Creek shed of its president, Ben Stafford. “About ten people in a shed that size, that’s about enough otherwise you start to trip over each as people are moving round,” Mr Stafford said. “With our own shed here we can open additional days a week… and down the track after we get settled we envisage having a unisex day for girlfriends and wives. “A huge amount of community money is going into it (the shed) so we’d like as many of the community to be able to use it as they can.” Mr Stafford expects membership of the group to more than double once the facility opens some time between winter and December, dependent on further funding contributions. Retired Moreton Bay Councillor and Dayboro Mens Shed advocate Bob Millar also expects the group to take a “quantum leap forward” once the shed opens. The Dayboro Mens Shed is part of the

Federal Member for Dickson Peter Dutton, watched by Dayboro Mens Shed Funding Officer Terry Heinemann and President Ben Stafford, turns the first sod at the group’s new home at Dayboro last week.

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Competitions The mind-bending adventure Now You See Me 2 sees the Four Horsemen elevate the limits of stage illusion to new heights. After outwitting the FBI and winning public adulation with their Robin Hoodstyle magic spectacles, the illusionists resurface in the hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech prodigy, who threatens the Four Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet. Starring Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan, Mark Ruffalo, Daniel Radcliffe, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Caine, Dave Franco and Morgan Freeman, Now You See Me 2 opens in cinemas on 2 June. Thanks to Entertainment One, The Westerner has 10 double passes to Now You See Me 2 to give away. For your chance to win tell us in which year the first Now You See Me movie was released – 2005, 2010 or 2013? Send your answer, name and contact details to: The Westerner movie competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale 4500 or email lee@thewesterner.com.au, Attn: Movie competition. Entries close 2 June.

The owner of a literary café in Paris, Diane has a charmed life. But when she suddenly loses her husband and daughter in a car accident her perfect world is shattered. She moves to a small Irish village where she meets a brooding photographer and a surprising romance blossoms. An international bestseller soon to be made into a Hollywood film, Happy People Read and Drink Coffee is Agnes Martin-Lugand’s at once heartbreaking and uplifting literary phenomenon that outsold 50 Shades of Grey in France. The Westerner has one copy of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee (Allen & Unwin, RRP $27.99) to give away. For your chance to win to us which country Happy People Read and Drink Coffee author Agnes Martin-Lugand is from – France, Belgium or Ireland? Send your answer, name and contact details to: The Westerner book competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale 4500 or email lee@thewesterner.com.au, Attn: Book competition. Entries close 6 June.

Winners: Queen of the Desert tickets: M. Atkinson (Bunya), S. Withers (Samford Valley), T. Shanahan (Closeburn), C. Price (Dayboro), K. Waddell (Warner); Second Chance Town books: K. Williams (Cedar Creek), S. Vanden Berg (Carseldine), J. Parker (Ocean View); Autistic to Artistic book: L. Holyoak (Dayboro); Angel Killer book: R. Roberts (Warner); Hunt For the Wilderpeople tickets: A. Van der Maat (Mt Pleasant), J. Hodge (Chermside West), J. Connor (Meadowbrook), L. Conroy (Oxley), A. Petersen (Northgate), P. Funnell (Holland Park), J. Cooper (Strathpine), T. Foster (Daisy Hill), J. Topping (Bracken Ridge), C. Roberts (Chermside West); The Man on the Twenty Dollar Bills book: J. Mayer (Dayboro).

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n iconic fundraising event that attracts more than 10,000 spectators in Melbourne each year is coming to Pine Rivers. The Reclink Community Cup, a charity Australian Rules football match that pits musicians against music media workers, started in Victoria in 1993. It raises money for Reclink Australia, which supports at risk youth, people experiencing mental illness, the homeless, people with a disability, and those tackling alcohol and drug issues and social and economic hardship. The first Sydney Reclink Community Cup was held in 2012, with Adelaide and Perth games introduced in 2015. This year the event is nationwide, with Hobart and Brisbane to host footy fundraisers for the first time to create a sixdate series. The Brisbane event, a family friendly fun day with live music, will be held at Pine Rivers Showground at Lawnton in September. The multi-gender football game between the Rockinghorses team (musicians) and Brisbane Lines (media) will feature some of the country’s most notable musicians,

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both performing and kicking a ball. In past years, Australian music luminaries such as Paul Kelly, Courtney Barnett, Tim Rogers and Tex Perkins have participated as players, coaches or water runners. Reclink CEO John Ballis said the Community Cup is “a time when the media – particularly the community radio sector – and local musicians band together to help raise much needed funds”. “(Money raised) enables us to deliver sport, recreation and arts programs that make a huge difference to lives of the neediest in our community; programs that foster self-confidence, fight isolation, develop skills, and establish connections and lasting friendships,” he said. Last year’s events in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide raised more than $215,000 to better the lives of people experiencing disadvantage around Australia. Reclink Australia aims to raise more than $250,000 from this year’s six events, which run from June to September. For more information on the inaugural Brisbane Reclink Community Cup go to www.communitycup.com.au/brisbane.

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POLICE BEAT Wheelchair scam, Warner: Pine Rivers Police have received reports from the Warner area regarding a man in an electric wheelchair pretending to be broken down. He requests money from members of the public in order to catch a taxi home, saying that his wheelchair has a flat battery. The man then pockets the cash and drives off. While police are heartened by the generosity of some members of the public, they request that people take care when handing over money to unknown persons. If anyone has any information about the man in the wheelchair contact Petrie Police on 3897 7222. Fatality Free Week: Running until 29 May, Fatality Free Week is a Queensland Police initiative that encourages motorists to remember to drive safely on our roads and for pedestrians and cyclists to act safely and responsibly around vehicles. The aim of Fatality Free Week is to have zero fatalities on Australian roads – and for safe driving habits to continue during the other 51 weeks of the year. Senior Constable Kerrianne Edwards from Pine Rivers Police said: “It’s not just during Fatality Free Week that we expect motorists to drive with care and courtesy, but we expect it every day of the week, every week of the year.” Last year, 243 people were killed on Queensland roads. There have been 25 fatal vehicle crashes in the Pine Rivers area in the past five years. One fatality is too many.

Break and enters, Pine Rivers: Amongst the break and enter offences reported to police during the past fortnight were incidents at dwellings at Laceys Creek Road in Mt Pleasant, Winlock Circuit, Avoca Place and Moor Circuit in Warner, Chickowee Street and Boronia Crescent in Albany Creek, and Moylan Court and Dee Court in Bray Park. Items stolen included cash, sneakers, jewellery, iPads, tools, and garage door keys. A business at Gympie Road at Strathpine was also broken into, with cash stolen. Inner West Police were alerted to wilful damage incidents at homes at Stavewood Court, Highvale and Yathong Court, Arana Hills. Motor vehicle offences, Pine Rivers: Vehicles were stolen from Lena Court, Albany Creek and Harvey Street, Strath -pine last week. Neither vehicle has been recovered. A laptop, briefcase, handbag, rollerblades, purse and cash were stolen from vehicles at Alan Court, Leatherwood Drive, View Crescent and Bringelly Street in Arana Hills, and Woodtop Court and Wandearah Crescent at Ferny Hills.

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Petrie. Council has launched a new community engagement platform to capture feedback about the Moreton Bay Region University Precinct. It is envisaged that the proposed University of the Sunshine Coast campus, set on the former Petrie paper mill site, will cater for up to 10,000 university students within the first 10 years of opening. It is expected that the campus will offer more than 30 major Bachelor degrees including law, business, science and engineering, as well as opportunities for economic, cultural and community facilities on the Petrie site. Moreton Bay Mayor Allan Sutherland said residents and businesses have the

opportunity to help create the new university precinct from the ground up. They can have their say on the project via an interactive online engagement platform called ‘Your Say, Moreton Bay’. “Council is seeking your feedback about the employment, housing, sport and recreation, health and community outcomes you think could be realised on site to help complement the planned university campus,” Mr Sutherland said. “Community feedback will be at the heart of how we develop this bustling new destination to generate thousands of local study opportunities and jobs for our region. “For our region to continue its strong economic growth, we must carefully shape the future of this vibrant new regional

An artist’s impression of the proposed university campus at Petrie.

precinct, and community feedback is at the heart of that plan.” To have your say register your details and fill out the survey at www.moretonbay. qld.gov.au/uniprecinct before 31 May. The feedback received online will help develop a concept plan for the site, for further community consultation later in the year. Residents can also visit information kiosks at one of council’s three customer service centres, at Strathpine, Caboolture and Redcliffe. A community open day will be held at Petrie State School hall, 42 Dayboro Road, Petrie on 28 May from 10am to 2pm.

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ubs in Australia turns 100 this year and Samford’s own group of junior Scouts is ready to join the celebrations. Samford Cub Group Leader Tony Scott said the local group, consisting of boys and girls aged between seven and 11 years, is marking the major milestone with some special events. “Upcoming activities for Samford Cubs in the centenary year include an abseil camp, canoe camp and a centenary year celebration campfire camp,” Mr Scott said. After Lord Robert Baden-Powell established Scouting in 1907, followed by the formation of Sea Scouts and Girl Guides three years later, a junior section of Scouts – Cub Scouts – was created in 1916. Cub Scouts was originally called Wolf Cubs, with its framework based partly on the Rudyard Kipling novel Jungle Book. Queensland’s first Wolf Cubs groups commenced at Warwick and Methyr in 1918, with girls first admitted to Queensland Cub Scouts and Scouts in 1988. Mr Scott said Samford’s Cub Scouts is a “professionally operated and wellresourced” group that provides adventurous activities for children.

Alex Given from Samford Cubs descends down the abseiling tower at Baden Powell Park at Samford Valley.

“Each school term we have an overnight camp in tents, which the Cubs and their leaders enjoy enormously,” he said. Samford Cubs currently has openings for new members and new group leaders. Email emu@thescotts.id.au for details. www.thewesterner.com.au

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eeping children in the water after they learn how to swim has led to a local aquatics centre winning a national award. Genesis Aquatic Centre at Bray Park won the SwimSPORT Award at the Swim Australia Awards held on the Gold Coast on 10 May. The award is presented to the swim school or aquatic centre that leads the way in reducing the gap between children learning to swim and kids’ participation in swimming as a sport. Genesis Aquatic Centre has been involved in the creation of a Junior Dolphins program, and also in a pilot Sporting Schools program. The centre’s swim school co-ordinator Sally McKitrick said the SwimSPORT Award recognises “the centre that converts children from the Learn To Swim program across to the squad program the most successfully”. However, Ms McKitrick admits that can be a “really hard task”. “It’s very difficult to get kids to go (on) from Learn To Swim to because parents think once they (children) have learned to swim, that’s all they need to do,” she said.

“We encourage kids to stay in the sport of swimming… and (recognise) the health benefits of swimming and the opportunities that swimming creates later on. “We want the kids to be safe in water. Once they are competent in water then what we want them to do is to develop their flexibilities, the health benefits, the fitness – and swimming can do all of that. “If we keep kids in swimming we’ll have fitter, healthier kids.” Genesis Aquatic Centre head coach Brendan Keogh, who is also the head coach of Australia’s Paralympics swim team, said the SwimSPORT award is something “everyone at the aquatic centre is very proud of”. “This award highlights the amount of teamwork that exists between the Genesis Aquatics swim teachers and coaches,” he said. Ms McKitrick said key to the success of the swim school was having its swimming instructors “co-operate together and blend together to bring the kids through”, by each teaching a number of age and skill levels. Located at Genesis Christian College, the aquatic centre is also home to a triathlon club.

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he sporting talent of a Mt Samson State School student has been recognised with the awarding of a Future State Greats grant. The grant helps young triathete Ethan Close and his family cover the cost of competing in events around Queensland. “For me to be awarded a grant from Future State Greats... was a huge privilege,” Ethan said. “It helped Mum and Dad out with the huge costs of all my sports.” Ethan was introduced to triathlon at school as “there were quite a few kids from Mt Samson doing them”. “The thing I enjoy most about triathlons is being able to do three sports in one,” he said. “I love the bike (leg) but my favourite part of a triathlon is the run because a lot of people are tired by then, so I use that to keep going to the finish.” In February, Ethan represented Metropolitan North Region at the Queensland State Schools Championships for aquathon – a two-stage race with swimming and running – at Hervey Bay.

Ethan Close runs during a Queensland Triathlon Series event at the Gold Coast. Photo by Leanne Handreck Photography.

He finished sixth out of 92 competitors from 11 regions throughout Queensland, with 19 seconds splitting the first six placegetters. Ethan, a Cashmere local who has also competed at state titles for swimming, cross-country and athletics, has some big ambitions for his future sporting career. “I would love to be a professional triathlete and one day do an Iron Man triathlon, which is a 3.8km swim, a 180km bike and a 42.2km run, like my Dad,” he said.

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople New Zealand has produced some fantastic films over the past decade. Movies such as The World’s Fastest Indian, Black Sheep, The Dark Horse, What We Do in the Shadows and Boy are testament to that claim. Now from director Taika Waititi, the maker of coming-of-age comedy Boy and hilarious vampire satire What We Do in the Shadows comes Hunt for the Wilderpeople, the highest grossing local film at the New Zealand box office. It’s also one of the funniest. Based on the book Wild Pork And Watercress by Barry Crump, the adventure-comedy movie sees troubled city kid Ricky (Julian Dennison) move to rural New Zealand to start a new life, while living with a foster aunt Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and the cantankerous Hector (Sam Neill). Things go awry and Ricky and Hector soon find themselves on the run in the wild bush, after a national manhunt is ordered to find the kid and Hector, who is suspected of kidnapping the rebellious boy. Also tracking the pair, who have to put their differences aside to survive the perils of the wilderness, are an overzealous social worker (Rachel House), her dim-witted police offsider Andy (Oscar Kightley), malicious hunters and the media. Hunt for the Wilderpeople has everything one would want from a comedy movie – funny and loveable characters, great comic set pieces and quotable lines of dialogue. Then there’s the great cinematography of the seemingly otherworldly bush locations. It also boasts a stack of memorable performances, from screen veteran Neill eliciting a range of emotions, to hilarious cameos from the likes of Rhys Darby, Troy Kingi and writer-director Waititi, who appears as an analogy-challenged church Minister. Dennison, who popped up in the Australian family favourite Paper Planes, is a big nugget of comedy gold, stealing the show as the ‘bad egg’ who is endearing despite rarely cracking through his angry shell. It would have been great if the likeable character of Aunty Bella, played by Te Wiata of Sons and Daughters and the Full Frontal comedy show fame, had more screen time. Hunt for the Wilderpeople gradually becomes more ridiculous but like the Pixar animated film Up, it’s also a touching tale of love gained and lost and the gap between generations becoming smaller through an unlikely alliance. Mixing a down-to-earth spirit with dashes of the fantastical, Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a funny and odd buddy film that fans of movies like Boy, Son of Rambow and Belle and Sebastian should love.

s a teenager playing in bands in London in the 1960s, John Waters “found a lot of inspiration in John Lennon’s gutsy songs” during his time in The Beatles. Flash-forward 25 years and Waters, by then an established Australian film and television actor in titles such as Breaker Morant, All the Rivers Run and Grievous Bodily Harm, devised Lennon: Through a Glass Onion with singer/pianist Stewart D’Arrietta. Waters said the theatrical concept show about “John Lennon, the man and his music” really “hit the spot – more by luck than by good management perhaps” when it premiered in 1992. “(The first show) was at the Tilbury Hotel in Sydney in a room which sat 85 people at round tables, and I had to crawl over the tables to get on to a tiny stage,” he recalls. “We had such a reaction there that it went on and on”, to include sold-out shows at the Sydney Opera House and a threemonth engagement in London’s West End. Waters revived Lennon: Through a

Following a 16-week season in New York, Stewart D’Arrietta and John Waters are bringing their John Lennon-themed show to the Eatons Hill Hotel on 4 June.

Glass Onion in 2001 and again in 2011, in between acting roles in popular TV shows such as All Saints and Offspring. Part concert and part biography, Lennon: Through a Glass Onion reveals the essence of the life and talent of the iconic musician, and features songs such as ‘Imagine’, ‘Revolution’, ‘All You Need is Love’, ‘Come Together’, ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’, ‘Working Class Hero’, ‘Jealous Guy’, ‘Help’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’. “It’s a dream-like trip inside John Lennon’s head with all the songs swirling around and mixed up with spoken monologue,” Waters said. “I’m just inhabiting Lennon. I don’t do a direct impersonation, but get inside his head for a while.” Waters and D’Arrietta are bringing Lennon: Through a Glass Onion back to

Australia, including a show at the Eatons Hill Hotel on 4 June, following a 16-week season in New York City. “I have the advantage in Australia that people know me and they’re predisposed maybe to be interested in what I’m doing, whereas being unheard of in New York City, for example, it was the show itself that our success depended on,” Waters explains. “It was a great challenge, we got great reviews and we got nominated for a Dramafest Award, which is one of the big off-Broadway theatre awards over there, and the fact that we got picked from hundreds of shows... was fantastic. “The way we started as a two-man show is the way we do the show now, it’s the way we took it to New York City and it’s by far the best way to tell this story.”

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show the process of how we start off with public throughout June. ollowing a successful debut in two pieces of glass and then it progresses The couple has been making glass 2015, a showcase of local artists to how we do our patterns,” she said. artwork, jewellery and bowls for the past will return in June. “Most people spend half an hour or 26 years and has been invited to exhibit The second Samford and Surrounds more, sometimes an hour, Arts Trail and Open just talking about it before Studios will see 31 artthey look at anything else.” ists exhibit work in 22 The other participating venues in 12 suburbs. art studios are at Dayboro, The month-long event Mt Glorious, Highvale, Clear will see celebrated local Mountain, Samford Valley, painters, sculptors, wood Ocean View, Camp Mountain, turners, textile artists, Mt Samson, Samford Village, jewellers, glassmakers Cedar Creek, Cashmere and and ceramicists invite King Scrub. the community into All art studios will be open their work spaces and every Saturday and Sunday exhibiting areas. Visitors will have the Peter Williams, Jennifer Redmond, Shan Wood, Carol Williams and in June from 10am to 4pm. For more details includopportunity to meet the Helen Evans are participating in a regional art trail throughout June. ing maps visit www.creative artists and view and samford.com/arts-trail-and-open-studios. their work in London and New York. discuss their work. Some studios will host Trail booklets featuring artists and their Mrs Williams said it was exciting to demonstrations by the artists. locations are available from libraries and show and explain the process of creating Glass artists Peter and Carol Williams the Samford Visitor Information Centre at her art pieces to visiting art lovers. will open up their art studio, Gum Blossom John Scott Park in Samford Village. “We set up our studio… and we actually Cottage Creations at Mt Glorious, to the

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BIRD WATCHING: along the South Pine River. Meet second Wednesday of month at 7.30am at Kumbartcho Sanctuary, 15 Bunya Court Drive, Eatons HiIl. To register phone 3325 1577 or email catchmentcoordinator@prca.org.au BRENDALE EVENING VIEW CLUB: meets for dinner with a guest speaker on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Wantima Country Club, 530 South Pine Road, Brendale. Fun and friendship for women of all ages as well as supporting The Smith Family. Phone Anna on 3425 2937 or 0400 557 082. BRISBANE BOOK AUTHORS: Non-profit, social networking/information sharing for published authors. Group meets at 6.30pm on 3rd Wednesday of each month at varying Brisbane venues. Upcoming guest speaker topics include: public speaking, book launches, grammar? For more information or to register your interest email Carolyn Martinez at editor@ hawkeye publishing.com.au or find Brisbane Book Authors on Facebook. BUNYA TOASTMASTERS CLUB: meet 1st & 3rd Wed of month, 7pm at Aspley AFL Club, Graham Rd, Carseldine. Develop leadership & communications skills in a supportive, friendly environment. Ph 3889 6335 or 0409 053 455.

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UNTIL 29 MAY Moreton Bay Region Art Awards Exhibition of art awards entries at Pine Rivers Art Gallery and the Strathpine Community Centre. www.moretonbay.qld. gov.au/artawards.

Dayboro’s biggest day of the year – celebrating the ‘town of yesteryear’ for the 25th time. Six hours of fun from 8.30am. www.dayborodistrict.com.au.

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SAMFORD DISTRICT HISTORICAL & MUSEUM SOCIETY: Museum open Wed and Sun 10am-3pm, Station St, Samford Village. Local & family history, research & displays. Group visits & tours by appointment. Ph: 3289 2743, email info@samfordmuseum.com.au; web:. www.samfordmuseum.com.au. New members welcome.

5 JUNE Pine Rivers Charity Fun Run Fun run at Les Hughes Sports Complex at Bray Park, with proceeds assisting Rotary Club of Pine Rivers Daybreak’s local and community projects and Rotary International’s work worldwide. www.pineriverscharityfunrun.org.au.

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he Junior World Cup dreams of local hockey player Jacob Anderson are closer to becoming reality. The Pine Rivers St Andrews Hockey Club member was selected to attend a Hockey Australia training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport this week. The five-day camp in Canberra is the next step in selection to the Australian under-21 squad to prepare for the Junior World Cup to be held in India in December. The players are also in line to play for Australia at the Sultan of Johor Cup

tournament in Malaysia in October. Anderson, who plays as a forward or midfielder, was selected for the training camp after winning a bronze medal for Queensland at the Australian under-21 national championships in Sydney in April. The Mackay product plays alongside Australian Olympic gold medallist Liam de Young and ex-Queensland Blades players

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Jacob Anderson in action for Queensland at the Australian Under-21 Hockey Championships in Sydney in April. Photo by Click InFocus Photography.

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