The Paluma Push is on again this year on the 18th of July. It will be back to the full course, commencing in Paluma & finishing at Hidden Valley.
The event provides one of the main sources of revenue for the Paluma/Hidden Valley district SES & Fire Brigades with substantial donations to each determined by the number of competitors. It also allows the Paluma District Community Association to raise funds through sales at the Hidden Valley end event.
In return we need community volunteers to staff the numerous check points around the course, providing directions to competitors and feed back to race managers.
At this time we are still short on a few volunteers. If you are interested in helping please ring or text Charlie Allen
on behalf of Paluma/Hidden Valley volunteers
0487 840197
I don’t often bother to comment but I’m writing out of sheer frustration and disappointment.
I have been a part of the Paluma community for over a decade. In that time I have established and grown a business, and done my best to support the community. I’m wise enough to know that even in a community as small as ours, we have people with very polarised views and opinions, and we all have different reasons for living and working here, and sometimes these reasons are in direct conflict.
I’ve noticed continuing negative messaging about the Paluma Push and quite frankly, I’m sick of it. No one bothers to pick up the phone and talk to me directly about it. Some people are being very disrespectful and it needs to stop.
The only reason the Paluma Push still exists is because I put my hand up to run it when Rockwheelers weren’t able to keep it running. This event has a long, rich history in the community and will continue to be a part of our community for many more years. It is one weekend out of the whole year. I appreciate it may be an inconvenience on that one weekend, but please, just plan around it. For one weekend in the year. Every single event that happens in the world – from school fetes to the Olympics – inconveniences the immediate community to some degree, but as a society, we act for the greater good so people can have fun experiences, create memories, get off screens and in our case – enjoy our world class environment and support local businesses.
Yes, we bring up a coffee cart, but we support the Ivy Cottage and any other venue that wants to open. Imagine the line up at the Ivy cottage with 500 plus people and 1 coffee machine!
The event supports the SES, both Rural Fire Brigade, the PDCA and the Rockwheelers’s MTB club.
If you don’t want to support the event, that’s fine. If you don’t want to volunteer, that’s fine. But what is not fine is the constant bad mouthing and negativity. I find it particularly galling when I do my best to support the community whenever I can – it wasn’t all that long ago I went out of my way to bring up supplies and had 20 + scripts filled at the chemist when the village was isolated. I will continue to do what I can to support this community.
No one seems to complain when I clean up the dump… nor does anyone call and say Thankyou.
If anyone has any pressing concerns about this event or anything else related to Outer Limits, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me directly.
Sam, Im not being disrespectful, Im entitled to my opinion and nothing you can say will change that. As i said I keep to myself and moved here for peace and quiet and your event disrupts me getting to work and my private life. I do not have the capacity to change my working roster and extra shifts i get called in for at the spare of the moment, just to work around this event. So having said that, I do not appreciate people pulling up in front of my house very early in the morning and making heaps of noise and I do not appreciate the mess they make to my front lawn or the urinating in my garden. My opinion won’t change.
Sorry we can’t make it, we’ll definitely miss all the action & fun we have volunteering. Hope it all goes well.
Well said Lynda. We are also residrnts that oppose the Paluma Push. Its nothing but a pain in the you know what for us all weekend. I also am not happy with the traffic controllers potentially holding back the traffic from the top to allow all the participants to drive up 😡. I am a shift worker that needs to sleep during the day and this event every year makes it impossible. We came to paluma for the peace and quiet and are really sick of this event and what it doesnt do for Paluma. Here’s a thought, why don’t they go annoy some other community. Glad to see the back of this event.
Thank you so much Cheryl, for not being a fence sitter.
Why should we volunteer when Outer Limits can afford to pay staff. Us locals do our own volunteering afterwards. Cleaning up rubbish, filling all the ruts in our gardens that get ripped up with unsustainable traffic and parking. Put up with the noise from loud speakers early in the morning, over allowable desibles for that hour. AND!! cleaning up all the dog poo from inconsiderate visitors. Sure, rural fire brigades get a donation. Add up all the hours all the volunteers put in, long hours, way more. Even the bar the PDCA has at the cricket grounds doesn’t make enough for the efforts.
. Sorry but I do enough purposeful volunteering in the village. I would say hey! Great for Ivy Cottage. But NO! You brought your own coffee van in the last time the start was at Paluma.