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State of Origin contagion and election infection aren’t the only fevers that have been affl icting local residents over the past few weeks. We are also currently in the middle of show fever season.Dayboro and Samford host their annual shows one week apart from each other in early July. Then late this month it is the turn of the Pine Rivers Showground at Lawnton to host the Pine Rivers Show.These three local shows have histories dating back many, many decades – more than 100 years the case of Pine Rivers Show – and they are wonderful avenues through which the community can meet and celebrate what makes living in their area great.When local residents have all recovered from show fever be warned that there is another outbreak on the horizon: Olympic Games fever.Look in this edition and in future issues of The Westerner for stories on some local athletes who have gone on to represent Australia at the Olympics, as well as pro-fi les on some of the behind-the-scenes legends – the coaches – who have helped athletes reach the world’s pinnacle multi-sport event.
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n e w sIn 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.
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THIS WEEK IN 2006: After four years as the owner-editor of The Westerner, Carolyn Hammond sold the business to David Paterson. He became the fourth owner-editor of the community newspaper, after Carolyn, Tony Smith and founder Heather Holcroft, who started the paper as Samford Times in 1996. The fi rst The Westerner published under David’s ownership was released on 6 July, 2006. It featured stories on the Abbey Medieval Tournament, replacement of an asbestos roof at Samford State School, a breast cancer patient raising around $50,000 for cancer research, a local man winning Queensland chess titles 32 years apart, new anti-smoking laws, and Pine Rivers Shire Council’s $204 million budget. Pine Rivers was amalgamated with Redcliffe and Caboolture Councils to form Moreton Bay Regional Council in 2008. The 2016-17 Moreton Bay budget was $536 million.
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A Highvale business owner is selling up after plans to develop his prop-erty into a small-scale function
centre were opposed by neighbours and given the “run-around” by council.
Dave Gralton lodged a development application with Moreton Bay Regional Council last July, in the hope of expanding his Minims Rest home into a wedding venue for a maximum of 60 people.
He said selling his property on the Goat Track, valued at around $7 million, was “prompted by Council’s delay in giving me a response” to the development application.
“Since the encouragement given at the council pre-lodgement meeting more than a year ago I’ve been given the run-around,” Mr Gralton said.
“Council has met with me several times, taken my money, then continued to drag out its decision.”
Opposition to the development proposal from neighbours had also “played a major role” in Mr Gralton’s decision to sell.
“We’re gutted that people who don’t care to learn the truth have casually lodged
objections against us based on the fi ction concocted by a few,” Mr Gralton said.
“These people have been so consumed by puerile letterbox drops and secret meet-ings that their tunnel vision is closed to reason.
“It is clear that these neighbours had their own best interests at heart and not those of the community, which I believe has been duped.”
Mr Gralton and his wife have owned Minims Rest for 10 years and spent mill-ions renovating it over the past four years.
“Samford has so much to offer and there is a growing demand for elegant rural settings close to the city,” Mr Gralton said.
“We wanted to attract discerning guests who appreciate and expect exceptional ser-vice and quality. Minims Rest is that prem-ium product.”
Mr Gralton says there “appears to be a lack of communication and planning bet-ween various council departments” in developing tourism in the region.
“I have been told that attracting tourism to the Samford area is high on the agenda and yet businesses that attempt to cont-ribute to this goal are not supported.”
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Winners: Our Kind of Traitor tickets: E. Williames (Highvale), M. Snow (Samford Village), M. Meighan (Eatons Hill), J. Cooper (Strathpine), H. Roberts (Warner); Volcano Discoveries books: A. Hopkins (Brendale), M. Clark (Strathpine); The No Salt Cookbook: B. Halcrow (Cashmere); Best of ABC For Kids Volume 4 CDs: C. Mullins (Cashmere), S. Markwell (Upper Caboolture), H. Stewart (Wilsonton Heights); Hotels of North America book: I. Gray (Samford Valley); Bling It On packs: G. Helms (Cashmere), G. Meredith (Kallangur); Gobsmax packs: C. Breckenridge (Ferny Grove), N. Chapman (Warner).
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Linda is a member of the Samford Commons and the Kupidabin Cultural Association, which is hosting a family fun day in celebration of indigenous Australians during NAIDOC Week.
At the Kupidabin NAIDOC Family Fun Day I am most looking forward to… a day of celebration and to further learn, for greater understanding, more of Aust-ralia’s cultural history.
Cultural understanding is important because… it helps provide knowledge to avoid problems in day-to-day and business life in the diversity of dealing with other cultures. This understanding also helps provide clarity in communications and sensitivity towards other’s views.
Something some people may not know about indigenous cultures… Studies from around the world show there app-ears to be common elements in the anc-ient history content of many cultures. These elements are expressed through the both recording and the way each culture’s ancient history is related.
What I like most about the Kupidabin Wilderness and Four Winds Cultural Centre at Mt Samson… The beauty and peaceful atmosphere of the grounds and the way in which this centre is gaining recognition as a true multi-cultural centre. People of all cultures are welcomed and encouraged to use the facilities to spread the knowledge of their customs and practices for greater global understanding.
The goals of Samford Commons… Through the use of existing buildings and new infrastructure, creating a place usingsustainable methodologies for people together to always grow, nurture, collab-orate.
Something most people don’t know about me… I also worked as a junior geologist.
To make the world a better place... People would truly know and understand the words that their dominate thoughts are governing the life they are living.
The Kupidabin NAIDOC Family Fun Day is on at Kupidabin Wilderness, 7 Lyell Court, Mt Samson on 10 July from 10am. Phone 0402 092 741.
Hystopia book: A Vietnam veteran returns home to
write an alternate version of American history.
Love & Friendship tickets: A costume drama based on Jane
Austen’s novella, starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny.
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Starring Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), The Frankenstein Chronicles is a thrilling and terrifying reimagining of Mary Shelley’s classic novel that follows a detective investigating a series of horrifi c experiments. London, 1827: when a mutilated corpse is discovered by the edge of the River Thames, Inspector John Marlott sets off on a hunt for the most deranged of killers, which takes him to the dark underworld of prostitution, drug smugg-ling, body snatching and murder for profi t. As his investigation deepens, one thing is for certain: an evil which defi es reason is at work, attempting to reanimate the dead. The Frankenstein Chronicles is available now on DVD and digital.
The Westerner has three The Frankenstein Chronicles DVDs (Entertainment One, RRP $34.95) to give away. For your chance to win tell us in which year was Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein fi rst published – 1818, 1848 or 1908? Send your answer, name and contact details to: The Westerner DVD competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale 4500 or email [email protected], Attn: DVD competition. Entries close 18 July.
Lynne Kelly has discovered that a powerful memory technique used by ancient indigenous people can unlock the secrets of the Neolithic stone circles of Britain and Europe, the ancient Pueblo buildings in New Mexico and other pre-historic stone monuments across the world. In her book The Memory Code she shows how we can use this ancient technique to train our memories. The most effective memory system invented by humans, it allowed people in non-literate cultures to memorise vast amounts of practical information they needed to survive – and is the secret behind great stone monuments like Stonehenge and the Easter Island statues, which have for so long puzzled archaeologists.
The Westerner has three copies of The Memory Code (Allen & Unwin, RRP $32.99), to give away. For your chance to win tell us what country is The Memory Code author Lynne Kelly from – Australia, Scotland or Canada? Send your answer, name and contact details to: The Westerner book competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale 4500 or email [email protected], Attn: Book competition. Entries close 18 July.
Little Evie Dyer passed away tragically this week, but not before she got to tick off an item on her ‘life wish list’.
The eight-month-old from Ferny Hills was diagnosed with Zellwegers Spectrum, a rare condition affecting one in 50,000 babies that impairs brain, central nervous system and organ function.
Sadly, Evie wasn’t expected to live beyond her fi rst birthday, so her parents Nicole Dyer and Lauren Bellew created a ‘bucket list’ for their daughter.
Amongst the items on the list was for Evie to pat a pony.Cue Yugar resident Nikki Bignell and her menagerie of
animals including Dumbledore, the popular miniature foal with 15,000 Facebook followers who was born nine weeks early with undeveloped legs.
Evie and her parents met Dumbledore and the other ponies, horses and dogs after a few planned visits were cancelled due to the baby being hospitalised.
“I think this was our third attempt to meet Nikki and Dumble-dore, but each time Evie had become unwell so we had to post-pone,” Ms Dyer told The Westerner last week.
“She seemed to like being around the ponies and horses – she had a few smiles and was a little more vocal than normal.”
Ms Dyer and Ms Bellew are now keen Dumbledore followers who “have not stopped talking about him”.
“We were blown away by the effort that Nikki had gone to in order to make the day special for us,” Ms Dyer said. “We have cert-ainly met some amazingly generous people on our heartbreaking journey. For that we know we are truly blessed.”
When Dumbledore met Evie
Nicole Dyer, Van Korako, Nicole Dyer, Van Korako, Evie Dyer and Lauren Bellew Evie Dyer and Lauren Bellew met Dumbledore the pony on met Dumbledore the pony on
26 June. Photo by Nadine 26 June. Photo by Nadine Andersen Photography.Andersen Photography.
Election result in balance
Incumbent Federal Member for Dickson and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton looks
set to retain his position but his LNP colleague Wyatt Roy will not.
While Mr Dutton had 50.88 per cent of two-candidate preferred
votes to 49.12 per cent for Labor’s Linda Lavarch when The Westerner went to print, Mr Roy’s time as Australia’s youngest ever Federal MP appears over.
Labor candidate Susan Lamb had 51.52 per cent of the vote
for the Longman electorate on Tuesday, compared to incumbent Mr Roy’s 48.48 per cent. Votes from 37 of Longman’s 41 polling booths had been counted.
Mr Dutton claimed 44.19 per cent of primary votes in Dickson.
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Million-dollar football amenities at the Samford Parklands sporting precinct will be a mix of the new
and the old.Moreton Bay Regional Council recently
awarded a $1.73 million tender for the construction of a new clubhouse for the Samford Rangers club at its Mt Samson Road home ground, with work expected to be complete by November.
Moreton Bay councillor Darren Grimwade (Division 11) said the 500m2, state-of-the-art clubhouse marked the next step in the relocation of one of south east Queensland’s fastest growing football clubs from Wights Mountain to Samford Valley.
“Over the past two years, membership
at Samford Rangers FC has grown by 30 per cent with more than 600 club members now forming 50 teams across all age groups,” Cr Grimwade said.
“This new clubhouse will accommodate the increased demand for soccer in the area, providing a larger home base for the local club as it continues to grow.”
Once complete, the new clubhouse will include a 150m2 clubroom, fully serviced kitchen and bar, four change rooms, bath-rooms and storage facilities.
Since the fi rst stage of the new football precinct was completed in early 2012, historic Cash house has been used as the Rangers’ temporary clubhouse.
Built around 1905 and formerly a house set on a dairy and small crops farm, the
building was restored and relocated to Samford Parklands in 2011.
A Moreton Bay Regional Council spokes-person confi rmed that Cash House would remain on site after the new football club-house was built.
The century-old building will be used as the football club’s offi ce space and referee change room once the new clubhouse is complete, the spokesperson said.
Samford historian Eileen Kemp said Cash house was home to John and Bridg-ett Cash and their nine children, including four sons who fought in World War I.
Private Percy Cash Bridge and Private Frank Harold Cash Reserve in Samford are named in honour of the two Cash sons who did not return from the war.
Samford club to score new clubhouse
An artist’s impression of a An artist’s impression of a new clubhouse to be built new clubhouse to be built at the Samford Rangers at the Samford Rangers
Football Club home Football Club home ground.ground.
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Dangerous driving charge, Warner: A Warner man has faced court, one of two men charged following an incident in Bracken Ridge on 24 June. Police observed a stolen vehicle being driven in a dangerous manner and attempted to intercept the vehicle, but it failed to stop. The car later stopped and its occupants fl ed on foot. The two men were located and arrested with the assistance of Polair and the dog squad. A 24-year-old Warner man was charged with one count each of unlawful use of a motor vehicle, possessing dangerous drugs and unlawful possession of suspected stolen property.
Task Force Maxima arrests, Lawnton: Two men from Lawnton were amongst fi ve people arrested last month following the execution of search warrants targeting traffi cking and supply of dangerous drugs linked to the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. A 30-year-old Lawnton man will face Pine Rivers Magistrates Court on 11 July charged with possessing a shortened fi re-arm, ammunition, dangerous drugs and drug utensils, and obstructing police. A 23-year-old Lawnton man faced Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday charged with 20 drug offences relating to the unearthing of a cache of drugs in a large toolbox on a property near Dayboro.
Break and enters, Pine Rivers: Seven break and enters in The Westerner area were reported to police during the week ending 3 July, up from three off-
ences the previous week. Homes at James Court at Joyner and Marara Court at Albany Creek, and business premises at Leitchs Road and South Pine Road at Brendale were some of the locations targeted by thieves. Items stolen included computer, handbag, keys, vehicle, cash and jewellery. Entry was gained by methods such as smashing a front door, smashing a window and through an unlocked rear door. The previous week a laptop, games console, wristwatch, jewellery and tools were stolen from an insecure dwelling at Toomaroo Street at Warner, a home at Hillenvale Avenue at Arana Hills and a business at Kremzow Road at Brendale.
Unlawful use of motor vehicle, Pine Rivers: Over the two weeks ending 4 July, motor vehicles were stolen from Marara Court at Albany Creek, Doyen Court at Warner and Gympie Road and Samson-vale Road at Strathpine. Number plates were stolen from vehicles at Yanderra Avenue and Cuphea Street at Arana Hills and a camera was stolen from a car at Carroll Court, also at Arana Hills.
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Dayboro’s Patsy Cains is supporting the one in 200 Australians who will sleep rough at night this winter.
During July, her business George Hart-nett Funerals Albany Creek is collecting blankets, with donations to be distributed by The Salvation Army to Queenslanders feeling the cold.
George Hartnett Funerals will match all donations – blanket for blanket.
Ms Cains said the blanket appeal raises awareness of the plight of homelessness while supporting those less fortunate.
“As the nights get colder… it’s important to remember the many disadvantaged and homeless Australians living without winter essentials,” she said.
“Having a comfortable and cosy blanket to keep you warm at night can be a luxury
many people are unable to afford.” Major Neil Dickson from The Salvation
Army Queensland said every donation “goes a long way to warm up a cold night”.
“Whether it be new or old, donating a clean spare blanket can make the world of difference to someone in need,” he said.
“The initiative really puts homelessness on the agenda of local communities and highlights the value of people coming together to support a good cause.”
Last year almost 3900 blankets were collected nationally for some of approx-imately 105,200 homeless people in Aust-ralia, including almost 20,000 children under the age of ten.
Drop off blankets at George Hartnett Funerals, 717 Albany Creek Road, Albany Creek. Phone 3325 5055.
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Opinions sought on semi-rural issues
Dayboro’s Patsy Cains is organising the Dayboro’s Patsy Cains is organising the collection of blankets for homeless people.collection of blankets for homeless people.
Researchers are seeking the opinions of people living in Samford and Dayboro on issues such as wild dog management.
Researchers want to hear the views of people living around Samford and Dayboro on issues such as lifestyle and wild dogs.
A research team from Griffi th University is studying how communities respond to changes and challenges in peri-urban areas – former rural areas on the urban fringe between the city and the country that are becoming increasingly urbanised.
“These communities lie just beyond the edges of built-up urban areas of Brisbane and are highly dynamic areas facing rapid change,” Pazit Taygfeld from Griffi th University Urban Research Program said.
“In addition to longstanding residents, these previous rural areas are now home to former urban dwellers that have moved for a range of lifestyle.
“As a result, these peri-urban areas are seeing increasing urbanisation, although... far from ‘urban’ in the traditional sense.”
Ms Taygfeld said peri-urban areas have changing economic activities, particularly a “reduction in traditional rural activities” and growth in new “peri-urban businesses” such as tourism, equestrian activities, landscaping and innovative farming.
“This dynamic peri-urban landscape and its changing population faces a range of challenges that may threaten lifestyles, such as increasing urban development, natural hazards and invasive animals,” Ms Taygfeld explains.
“Nonetheless, peri-urban areas are
often neglected by traditional planning and policy, falling in between rural policies and urban planning.
“Importantly, the changing population means that a range of different values are present, including more ‘urban’ values in addition to traditional rural values, and so people are likely to respond in different ways to different threats or challenges.”
Ms Taygfeld said the Griffi th University researchers are seeking insights from the community about attitudes to issues such as the management of wild dogs.
“We are using wild dogs as a key issue in peri-urban areas that can potentially impact upon the lifestyle of residents in a range of ways… and facilitating action and providing our expertise to any community group if there is interest in creating a community-led response,” she said.
The fi rst stage of the research project will see local residents interviewed about what they think about their lifestyle, their community and its role, and their attitudes and responses to wild dogs.
The interviews will be followed by one-day community workshops to investigate the possibility of community-led response to wild dogs in the area.
For more information on the study or to take part phone Pazit Taygfeld on 3735 5424 or email p.taygfeld@griffi th.edu.au.
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Keeping things fresh whilst retain-ing patrons’ favourite attractions is key to running a successful local
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ford Show committee member Frank Lippett, who is excited about the entert-ainment line-up for this weekend’s event.
“As usual, we’ve changed a few things to keep the show fresh while keeping the favourites which are so loved by the patrons,” Mr Lippett said.
The Samford Show Vice-President said the highlights of the two-day event would include a spectacular aerial circus and The Rooftop Express show, which com-bines awe-inspiring horsemanship and exciting stunts with Aussie humour.
“(It is) an absolutely spectacular horse-manship presentation, which ends with
Brahman cattle being herded up on top of a semi-trailer,” Mr Lippett said.
“It’s performed at the Ekka and will be back there this year, as well as appearing at major events all over Australia.
“And there’s a free aerial circus (at the Samford Show) which is new to our region and which promises to be a real hit.”
Returning Samford Show favourites include pig racing, showjumping and the famous Great Samford Dog Jump on Sat-urday.
“There will also be a record number of cattle exhibited (and) a full equestrian pro-gram, which includes the return of show-
jumping, which is a magnifi cent spectator event,” Mr Lippett said.
Other show attractions include the pop-ular sideshow alley with show bags, pet parade, reptile display, gold panning, pipe bands, vintage cars, a rock climbing wall and sheep shearing demonstrations, with colourful fi reworks and Beefa’s Bush Band for the Saturday night fi nale.
“The show will be on the last weekend of the school holidays, so parents can keep their offspring busy… trying their hands at cooking something, or fi nding some fl owers to arrange, or making some craft to enter in the many competitions
– just for a bit of fun,” Mr Lippett said.Competitions include cooking, art and
craft, poultry, dogs, horticulture, home brew beer and photography, as well as ute vehicle showcase and woodchop races.
The show will promote breast cancer awareness and Whiskey’s Wish, which trains dogs to help armed force veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress.
The Samford Show is on at the Samford Showgrounds, at Showgrounds Drive at Highvale, on 9-10 July.
Tickets range from $5 for children to $35 for families, with under-fi ves free. Visit www.samfordshowsociety.com.au.
Fresh is best for annual Samford Show
Pipe bands are one of the attractions of this weekend’s Samford Show. Photo by Dianne Hodge.
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Two Samford women are set to lead a choir for performances in France this month.
Highvale’s Julie Christiansen OAM and Samford Valley’s Rochelle Manderson will be with Voices of Birralee choir when it sings at services commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battles of Fro-melles and Pozières.
Ms Christiansen, who founded the choir in 1995, will conduct the performances on 19 and 23 July.
She said the choristers, aged from 18 to 34 years, were honoured and “very much looking forward to the opportunity”
to represent Australia at the World War I centenary services.
“Australia played an integral role in the Battles of Fromelles and Pozières, with Fromelles recognised as the fi rst major battle Australia was involved in on the Western Front,” Ms Christiansen said.
“A number of our members... feel conn-ected to this time in Australia’s history through ancestors who fought.”
Mrs Manderson will manage the tour and choristers in Europe, part of Voices of Birralee’s fi ve-year commitment to pro-vide choristers to sing at Western Front centenary commemoration events.
Voices heard in France Samford Valley’s Rochelle Manderson and Highvale’s Julie Christiansen will travel to France with the Voices of Birralee choir.
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Musical theatre lovers can soon embrace Little Women in an inti-mate little venue.
The new Pine Rivers Musical Association (PRIMA) production Little Women: The Musical, an adaptation of the Broadway show, will be staged at Act 1 Theatre at Strathpine this month.
Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, Little Women follows the lives and loves of four sisters – Jo (Lara Boyle), Meg (Eliza King), Beth (Rachael Macnaught) and Amy March (Sarah Chappell) – growing up during the American Civil War.
Little Women director Mel Evans said it is just the third PRIMA show to be staged at Act 1 Theatre in 11 years.
Having previously helmed big ensemble PRIMA productions Hairspray and Oliver!, the Dayboro woman is enjoying directing a 12-member cast in a smaller venue.
“It’s a very intimate theatre and it’s a very intimate show,” Evans said.
“The relationships between the sisters is beautiful and the actors have worked hard to establish a wonderful rapport with each other.
“It’s a bucket list show for lots of people; the music’s wonderful and the characters
are well developed and well rounded.”Many of Little Women’s cast, which
includes Bunya’s Eliza King and Warner’s Liam J. O’Bryne, are graduates of Harvest Rain Theatre, Queensland Conservatory and Ballarat University drama programs.
“Working with such a high calibre of performers allows lots more play and free-
dom and exploration,” Evans explained.She said the show’s “stunning” music,
arranged by Cashmere’s Andrew Wadley, befi tted the setting of the story, now two years shy of its 150th birthday.
“The music is delightful and really quite stunning. Even though it’s a contemporary show – less than ten years old – the music has a very classical sound,” Evans said.
While most people “outside the musical theatre circle” are unaware there is a Little Women musical and it “didn’t do really great on Broadway”, Evans said it now has a big following “thanks to pro-am and amateur theatre around the world”.
Little Women: The Musical is on at Act 1 Theatre, corner of Gympie Road and Hall Street, Strathpine for eight shows from 15-24 July.
Visit prima.org.au for show times and ticket information.
Big show for Little Women
Liam J. O’Bryne, Rachael Macnaught, Lara Boyle, Eliza King and Sarah Chappell in a scene from Little Women. Photo by David Harrison, Turn It Up Photography.
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Six students who are spending their school holidays in England hope to return home as world champions.
Grayson Lamprecht, Marcus Solman, Taj Gieskens, Kienan Wagner, Lily Eiseman and Lucas Stephens of Pine Rivers State High School are representing Australia at the Land Rover 4×4 in Schools Technology Challenge World Final this week.
The competition sees teams design and build a small-scale radio controlled four-wheel drive vehicle to negotiate a specially designed track that emulates real terrain and driving conditions.
Lily Eiseman, Taj Gieskens and Kienan Wagner were members of the Wombat Warriors team that fi nished third in last year’s world fi nals.
Ms Eiseman, the team’s manager, was hopeful of more success on the world stage despite expecting a “very tough competition” in Coventry.
“With the amount of effort put in, we feel as if we might just make it to the top of the podium this year,” she said.
Ms Eiseman said time management was the most important lesson she learnt from competing at the world fi nals last year.
“So much can fall through your fi ngers if you aren’t careful with your time. Because it (time) goes by so fast you really don’t feel like the competition is that close and then there it is, right around the corner,” she said.
Ms Eiseman, who won the Women in Engineering Award at the 2015 world fi nal, said while travelling overseas was “a huge experience for a group of teenagers still in high school”, there have been “many sleep-less nights worrying” about the Wombat Warriors project.
“Basically, we haven’t had a proper holi-day since Christmas. We have been hard at work on weekends, during school hours and after school hours,” she said.
“Although the Wombat Warriors have been part of the 4x4 in Schools Technology Challenge for the better part of two years, we are still learning, and that is the beauty of this program.”
Wombats of Pine Rivers to waddle up world rankings
Three Samford businesses are getting together to fi ght cancer.
Radiance Clinic, Glamour Pets of Samford and online gift shop The Little Distinctions are all taking part in the #capcancer campaign by selling high-quality microfi ber shower caps.
Five dollars from the purchase of each Dilly’s Collection shower cap, priced bet-ween $10.95 and $24.95, will go to Cancer Council Queensland.
Little Distinctions owner Carolyn Grant said the new fundraising venture, dubbed #capcancer, was a fun way to raise aware-ness of cancer and support patients.
“One day when I was talking to (the) owners of Dilly’s Collections… we realised we had all been affected by cancer in some way and wanted to make a difference,” she said.
“We started to think of ways we could work together to fi nd a community of like-minded businesses who wanted to supp-ort cancer in a fun way.”
Katie Clift from Cancer Council Queens-land said the Samford businesses were “making a tangible difference in the fi ght against cancer” through their fundraising.
Purchase a shower cap from Radiance Clinic at 7 Main Street, Samford Village, Glamour Pets at 225 Mt Glorious Road, Samford Valley or online at www.thelittle distinctions.com/causes/cap-cancer.html.
After purchasing a shower cap, buyers are encouraged to take a photo, upload it online with the hash tag #capcancer and tag a friend who is yet to participate.
Retailers and businesses wishing to participate in the #capcancer campaign can email [email protected].
Caps off to cancer initiativeThe sale of shower caps by Samford businesses is supporting the Cancer Council.
Wombat Warriors members Lucas Stephens, Lily Eiseman, Grayson Lamprecht, Kienan Wagner, Marcus Solman and Taj Gieskens the day before departing for the Land Rover 4×4 in Schools Technology Challenge World Finals in England.
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New owner managers
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Queensland.
Farm Fantastic Expo is
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of the state’s largest outdoor
rural, retail, home and lifestyle
expos, and the 2016 event at
Caboolture on 22-24 July will
be no exception.
Everything from farm
machinery and vehicles
through to sheds, tools and
mowers will be on display, plus
products and services for our
homes and backyards, gourmet
foods, wines and more.
Alpacas take centre
stage with more than 140
Queensland Alpaca Association
contenders showing off their
best colours to catch the
judges’ eyes on the Saturday
and Sunday of the expo.
The more adventurous
visitors can sample the meat
as Illawarra Prime Alpaca
co-director Ian Frith spruiks up
his delights at the Destination
Food pavilion.
Five lucky visitors can win
a fruit salad tree from the Fruit
Salad Tree Company.
More than 200 exhibitors are
booked including The Mower
Supastore, David Evans Group,
Four Seasons Gutter Protection,
JPM Machinery, Scenic
Rim 4Real Milk, Caravan
World, Harrison F-Trucks,
EZ Machinery, RACQ, Farr
Environmental Services, Alcom
Security, The Big Mower, 21
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Australia/Glasshouse Tractors,
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Submersible Pumps Australia
and Extreme Marquees.
Farm Fantastic will be held
at Caboolture Showgrounds,
Old Gympie Road, Caboolture
on 22-24 July, open Friday and
Saturday from 9am to 5pm and
Sunday from 9am to 4pm.
Entry is $10 for adults and
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A Sunshine Coast couple’s
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own dam has led to a sizeable
investment to embark on an aquatic
weed removal business.
In a Queensland first, Adam and
Michelle Farr will have their Truxor
5045 amphibious weed-busting
machine on public display for the
first time at Farm Fantastic.
The couple, based at Palmwoods,
has operated a roof plumbing
business for the past 25 years and
saw the need to diversify from
personal experience.
The time-consuming use of pool
nets in their dam has been replaced
by the Truxor amphibian.
And their sister-in-law and her
husband Laurie and Adam Sale
bought an excavator – completing
the essential equipment package for
Farr Environmental Services to start
work.
The Truxor cuts and collects
aquatic weed and reed growth,
dredges and excavates in dams,
lakes, canals, wetlands and sensitive
areas normally inaccessible to
conventional machines.
Farr Environmental Services is
declaring war on weeds including
water hyacinth and salvinia.
It’s been on the job working
from Gympie to the New South
Wales border.
A smaller version of the Truxor
machine was bought by Fraser
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Mr Farr aired his frustrations
with the roofing business saying
people could spend up to $40,000
without flinching on all the mod
cons to show off in a new kitchen.
“Rarely does anyone voluntarily
spend that on their roof until it
fails,” Mr Farr said.
“People are certainly more
conscious about their dams.”
And that is what the family is
banking on.
Adam Farr of Farr Environmental Services takes to the water with his Truxor amphibious aquatic weed muncher.
Declare war on Declare war on aquatic weeds at aquatic weeds at Farm FantasticFarm Fantastic
Amid the hundreds of
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Fantastic Expo is the opportunity
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from the paddock to the plate.
Destination Food will be
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40 market-style sites featuring
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Illawarra Prime Alpaca.
Highlights of Destination
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Long Yard Beef Company, a
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Josh’s parents Alex and
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Black Angus/Limousin-cross
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The Longs have masterminded
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The wholesome “hormone
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“We use all the beef cuts,”
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kransky, cheese kabana, beer
sticks and salami.”
In their drive to get more
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Annette Long and her sister
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They will prove just how
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chicken.
Also on stage Mr Long will
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made “from scratch”.
Josh and Kristie Long, Josh and Kristie Long, from Long Yard Beef from Long Yard Beef
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Twenty years after the original Independence Day the aliens have returned in Independence Day: Resurgence.
Featuring many of the original fi lm’s stars – excluding Will Smith, who is too expensive – this action-packed sequel offers moviegoers a fun ride down nostalgia lane.
Roland Emmerich, who directed the original Independence Day fi lm, returns to the helm here, knowing what viewers want. His other credits include not so much fi lms, but destruction pieces, such as Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012.
It’s hard to properly review these fi lms because there is no character development or drama; it’s pure fi ller until the action kicks in.
Here there is one big difference to the original. Whereas the 1996 Independence Day fi lm had a good 45 minutes of suspense before the fi reworks kicked off, here it’s relentless from almost the fi rst frame. This is not necessarily a good thing.
However, fans of the original such as myself will fi nd much to like in Independence Day: Resurgence. Even while building a new story, the screenwriting team include dozens of refer-ences to the original.
It was defi nitely good to see the return of ecc-entric scientist David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), who helped vanquish the fi rst alien invasion. This time he appears as a nominal sidekick to the much younger stars, including Australian Liam Hemsworth, in a role so forgettable I don’t even remember his character’s name.
Another big departure from the original is Inde-pendence Day: Resurgence’s blatant penchant for over-the-top fi lmmaking in both spectacle and the characters. While the fi rst fi lm had its odd plot developments like the previously abducted pilot who wanted to fi ght the aliens as revenge for their experimentation on him, this one embraces outrageousness.
Aliens now carry guns, African warlords join in on the fi ghting, and (spoiler) the climax features a huge alien queen chasing after a bus of children who were added to the plot seemingly out of nowhere.
While some of this year’s other big movies have been too familiar to be fun (The Huntsman) or too serious to be satisfying (Batman v Super-man: Dawn of Justice), this one is a welcome reminder that there’s a lot of fun to be had in over-the-top movies – provided the crew and cast are having fun.
Independence Day: Resurgence is not great fi lm by any means, but it’s a lot better than what most people are saying.
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Independence Day: ResurgenceIndependence Day: Resurgence The last time Martika was in Australia, she was promoting an album that contained a number one hit single.
A quarter of a century later the American pop singer returns Down Under to perform as part of the Totally 80s tour, which starts at the Eatons Hill Hotel on 12 July.
Martika admits it “almost feels surreal” to be touring Australia “such a long time since the heyday”.
“I haven’t been back in over 20 years so I’m very much looking forward to getting back to Australia. You have such a beautiful country and everybody was so nice when I was there before,” she said.
“What I’m trying to do is make sure that I sound as close to the records as possible and that my presentation is what people expect, based on videos and what appear-ances people may have seen of me.”
Having sold millions of records and with a résumé of hits including I Feel the Earth Move, Martika’s Kitchen and the chart-topping Toy Soldiers and Love, Thy Will Be Done, Martika stepped away from music.
“I worked very focused throughout my teenaged years and then into my 20s and I think I just really didn’t know what it felt
like to just relax and not have a focus or a goal or an agenda,” she recalls.
“I kind of think I lived the cycles of life a little bit out of order so while people were having normal childhoods… I was already a professional child working in the (enter-tainment) industry by the time I was 11.
“To do it (music) now and not every sin-gle day all the time on that level makes it even more special when I do get out there and do a performance. I’m just having my normal life and then I get to step out. It’s like living a fantasy.”
Martika is grateful that she had the opp-ortunity to work with the late Prince on tracks for her Martika’s Kitchen album.
“I’ve always been very proud of the fact
that I have this material that came from Paisley Park and that Prince actually wrote me a theme song with my name in it (Mart-ika’s Kitchen),” she said.
“Love, Thy Will Be Done, the spiritual con-tent of that song, the fact that he put music to a prayer that I wrote, has always meant so much to me. His passing has obviously really impacted the whole world.”
Martika will appear at Totally 80s with Berlin, Limahl, Katrina, Paul Lekakis, Men Without Hats, Stacey Q and more at the Eatons Hill Hotel on 12 July. Buy tickets at www.metropolistouring.com/totally80s.
Pop star soldiers on
Christmas time can be a killer, and it literally is that in a new play touring south-east Queensland.
Albany Creek’s Gary Farmer stars in a new murder-mystery from the interactive theatre company InsideOutside, developed just for Christmas in July.
He said Mistletoe Mystery is set in Santa’s grotto within a department store and features “seven characters all there to spread the Christmas cheer until disaster strikes and someone is murdered”.
“The show will keep all super sleuths on their toes as they try to crack the case,” Farmer said.
Farmer, who has appeared on stage for Brisbane Arts Theatre, Mira Ball Productions, The Hills Players and Act One Theatre Strathpine,
plays Santa Claude in Mistletoe Mystery.He says the character is “not your typical
lovable Santa” and would “certainly would not make it onto his ‘nice’ list to receive a
present on Christmas morning”.InsideOutside Artistic Director Angela
Witcher said Mistletoe Mystery, written by Carrie O’Rourke, is an interactive production “where the audience become detectives for the night”.
“It is a fun romp with some crazy characters and will be served up over Christmas dinner,” she said.
Mistletoe Mystery will be performed Café 389, Scar-borough on 8 July, Caboolt-ure Memorial Hall on 9 July, and The Corso, North Lakes on 15-16 July.
Shows at Tamborine Vill-age and Ipswich will follow.
Ticket prices range from $25 to $80 and includes a two or three-course dinner, dependent on venue, and live theatre show.
To buy tickets search for ‘Mistletoe Mystery’ at www.stickytickets.com.au.
Mistletoe and murder during Christmas in July
Albany Creek actor Gary Farmer, second from left, features in a Christmas-themed murder-mystery play.
Read the full interview with Martika at www.thewesterner.com.au.
Martika’s fi rst trip to
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Tony Stark is Iron Man; Eatons Hill’s Matthew Stark is an aqua man.
The teenager recently brought home two medals from his fi rst overseas swim meet, the German International Dis-ability Swimming Championship.
The 16-year-old won a bronze medal in the fi nal of the junior men’s 200m indi-vidual medley (IM) and a silver medal in the 400m individual medley in Berlin.
That was despite Stark having never previously entered a 400m IM race.
“Even though I have never competed in that event before, my coach (Brendan Ke-ogh) thought I had a really good chance
of swimming a fast time. “Our preparation leading up to the
race was brilliant and I felt in really good shape. My coach and I were both stoked with my time, as it was quite a lot better than he had hoped for.”
In fact, Stark’s time of 5:05.33 beat the previous Australian S10 class record for the event, set by Rick Pendleton in 2001, by more than 26 seconds.
“I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the time I had swum up on the board. I was unbelievably happy, and so was my coach,” Stark said.
The Genesis Aquatics swimmer “ser-iously could not have been happier” with his Berlin trip, after recording personal best times in seven of his eight events.
“Considering this was my fi rst inter-national meet… the overall experience was truly phenomenal,” he said.
Keogh said Stark swam “extremely well” in Berlin and praised his work ethic.
“Matt is a committed, hard trainer and a tough racer. He doesn’t shy away from a challenge and this is a big part of why he has improved so much,” Keogh said.
While Stark has his sights on comp-eting at the 2020 Paralympic Games, his immediate goal is to improve his stroke.
“My goals will remain the same... aim-ing for fast times and great technique,” he said.
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Matthew’s big swim sparks celebration
Matthew Stark poolside during his fi rst international swim meet in Berlin.
Travis Venema admits that Alex Hartmann didn’t look too much like an Olympic sprinting prospect the
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ralia’s fastest 200m sprinter in a decade, is set to compete at his fi rst Olympic Games.
Venema, from Bunya, has been coaching sprinters for around 10 years and Hart-mann is his most outstanding athletics product to date.
“I’ve got a few athletes from Masters and Little Athletics who have reached nationals and some have medalled too but... not at Alex’s standard,” said Venema, who prev-iously ran for Queensland at open level.
“Alex’s mum brought him to training one (day) and asked if I could coach him. I didn’t (think he was a potential Olympian), well not at the start anyway.
“But once he started training I noticed he was unbelievably quick over the fi rst 40m for a guy that was then 16 (years old and) about 6’2” (188cm).”
“Happiness and relief” were Venema’s emotions when Hartmann was named in
the 35-member Australian track and fi eld team for Rio, after winning the national 200m title in a time of 20.46 seconds – 0.01 second off his personal best.
“As an athlete, I understand how my athletes feel, from the highs and lows of competing to the hard training sessions,” Venema said.
Hartmann, who trains on grass tracks at a Little Athletics venue at Bracken Ridge, said his coach “has an eye for athletics that could rival the world’s best” and “is pretty good at thinking outside the box”.
“He fi rmly believes that everyone is diff-erent and what works for one athlete may not work for another, so he will slightly modify the (training) session to suit their needs,” Hartmann said.
“Over the years Travis and I have become good mates and I think it’s that bond that helps us progress the way we do. I think it’s that mutual respect for one another that makes taking and giving feedback a quick, easy and painless process.”
Venema is “expecting and hoping” his 198cm tall protégé will make the semi-
fi nals of the 200m sprint event in Rio, and on the way break Peter Norman’s national record of 20.06 seconds, which has stood for 48 years.
Hartmann, 23, who has “had the dream of becoming an Olympic champion since I was about six”, expects his maiden Olym-
pics experience to be “overwhelming” and a stepping-stone to realistic medal aspir-ations at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
“I have to enjoy the moment but not get caught up in the hype that is the Olympic Games,” he said. “If I can do that, I’m confi -dent that I can at least make semi-fi nals.”
Guiding sprinter’s Olympic path
Bunya’s Travis Venema, Bunya’s Travis Venema, leftleft, has coached , has coached Alex Hartmann to a place on the Australian Alex Hartmann to a place on the Australian
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Cowboys are three-quarters of the way through sweeping all six troph-
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Defeating the Pine Central Holy Spirit Hornets 31-18 to claim the mid-season Ted Beaumont Cup last month took the Cowboys’ trophy haul for 2016 to four.
Dayboro won three pre-season trophies, including the Pine Cup and the Steve Small Memorial Trophy, contested by the Cow-boys and Hornets in honour of the late coach of both clubs.
Also in February, Dayboro won the Jack Lawson–Earl McDonald Shield, contested annually by Dayboro and Samford Stags.
Dayboro is now on track to challenge for the two biggest prizes of the season: the Northside 1 minor premiership and grand fi nal trophies.
The Cowboys lead the eight-team comp-etition by four points ahead of second-placed Moreton Bay Pride on the ladder.
Dayboro offi cials were searching for the record books after the Cowboys thrashed Banyo 74-0 in its last home game.
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Samford beat Norths Juniors 16-14 in the mid-season Ted Beaumont Trophy fi nal at Coorparoo in May.
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Dayboro is at home the next two weeks, facing Pine Central Holy Spirit at Pete Alb-row Oval on 9 July and Wests Mitchelton on 16 July. Kick-off for both games is 4pm.
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