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The voting period for the Paluma & District photo exhibition will close at midnight on Sunday 15^th October, so just under one week to go!

If you haven’t yet lodged a vote for your favourite photos or want to provide feedback on them, you can do so here.

Ranging from spectacular wildlife photos, local characters of our community and to tranquil forest settings, there is a wide spread of votes to date across the photo entries providing an indication I think of the quality of our entrants. There are certainly not many votes between the most popular front runners.  

So what’s next after voting closes?  Come and enjoy the company and stories behind the many beautiful photo entries of the exhibition at the Community Hall on Friday evening the 20th November at 6pm over a few drinks.

The bar will be open and nibblies provided. The most popular photo entries will be announced with the ‘winning’ exhibitors presented with a mount of their photo, which for the first 12 months, will hang proudly in the Community Hall.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

Son

Our next working bee will be held on Saturday, November 7th at 2pm at the Community Hall. This week activities will be focused on cleaning up the old tennis court in preparation for a pickleball court.

Drinks afterwards at 4pm at the Hall.

Our next Friday night social drinks will be held on November 6th at 6pm. The bar will be open. Bring nibbles, catch up with your neighbours, play darts or just chill out..

Thank you to the wonderful people who participated in the inaugural Trivia Night, there were a few ahhs and groans of disappointment from some of the teams when they missed the answers, but generally everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.  Thank you also to everyone for being generous in supplying food and snacks. Marion was most generous in supplying the prize for 1^st place, a gift box of relishes and salts. There were also 2^nd and 3^rd prizes. The next Trivia Night is in March, so get your teams together and be prepared for a great night.

Helen Gode

Have you checked out the wonderful selection of photos that have been uploaded to Paluma.org as part of the Paluma Photo Exhibition? Uploading is now closed and we have a total of 70 entries from 8 different photographers. Anyone can click here to view the images but if you would like to comment on any photos or vote for your favourites, you will need to register on the exhibition home page.

Voting rules are:

• You can vote on as many images as you like (but not your own images)
• Each image can be given between 1 and 4 stars
• You can edit your vote if you made a mistake
• You can optionally add a comment to your vote
• You can still comment on any image without voting
• Voting will close on November 15

If you have any problems with voting of commenting on the website please contact Jamie (jamieo53@hotmail.com; ph 0408710030)

Paluma and District Photo Exhibition 2026 is well underway

It’s just under 3 weeks to go before the photo upload period is closed at midnight on October 25th. We have some truly amazing photos being exhibited that you must see if you haven’t already had a squiz. The photo gallery site can be accessed here for viewing but more importantly for offering support to our budding photographers with such hidden talents!

For those of you contemplating an entry or two, I encourage you to seize the moment as the deadline will be here before you know it!  If you’ve forgotten the ‘loose’ rules around photo entry they can be found here.

If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on sonyab360@gmail.com or Jamie on jamieo53@hotmail.com (0408 710 030) for technical issues on the website functionality.

Happy snapping!

Son

Another successful market day was held last Sunday at Paluma. The weather
was perfect and it appears that people are getting used to the escort
travel system as we had good numbers of people coming through the door.
We had a full house of stall holders and our very own Hidden Valley
Honky Tonker, aka Stefan, who provided live music from under our gazebo
on the lawn in the courtyard. The BBQ was busy all morning, cooking,
selling and serving 200 sausages, plus BBQ’d pineapple, onions, choice
of sauces and soft drinks. A special thanks to Jamie Oliver, who handled,
without glitch, EFT transactions totalling $365 for the day. The pantry
hamper raffle was won by Christine Martin from Bluewater, second prize,
donated by Helen Hulme,  going to Charlie Allen.

As well as being a great fund-raiser for the Paluma & District Community
Association, raising over $1000 it was great to see the markets as a
great community event, bringing large numbers of residents together, all
doing their bit to make this event the success it is, from volunteering
to man the BBQ, man the PDCA run stalls, donate lots of wonderful cakes
and other baked items, donating sales profits to the association, run
their own stalls and just coming along on the morning and spending some
money at the various stalls, truly a great effort by everybody
contributing in their own way to make it all worthwhile.

Wilfred Karnoll

The last market day for 2026 will be on October 4th. Come along, bring a friend, tell your friends. There will be lots of yummie things to eat and a variety of other goods on sale. See you there between 9am and 1pm at the Hall.