Have you got your Friday night sorted this evening. Don’t feel like cooking? Come and listen and watch the presentation on the Paluma Cassowary Project by Wren McLean and enjoy some delicious complimentary Thai Curry as well.
The bar will also be open for refreshments.
The evening kicks off at 5pm.
See you there!
Our first working bee for spring is on this Saturday, September 6th. Hall clean and vegetation control are on the program.
Meet at the hall at 2pm. Bring along some good cheer and energy and a mate.
Drinks on the verandah afterwards at 4pm.
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Our first Friday Night Social for spring is on September 5th, this Friday at 6pm. There will be a table tennis competition for those wishing to begin their training for the upcoming Paluma Games night in October. Perhaps a few rounds of darts even for those wishing to hone their skills. Winners to be awarded a complimentary drink of their choice.
The bar will be open from 6pm. If you wish, bring some light nibbles and yarns to share.
The PDCA will be having its executive meeting on Saturday August 23rd at 5pm at the hall. All residents are welcome to attend and engage with the agenda though voting rights are for executive members only.
The meeting will start promptly at 5pm with drinks available for purchase at the bar after closure of the meeting.
Bring along some bar snacks to share if you wish.
The Mike Carney Toyota Paluma Push will be held on July 12 this year. Hidden Valley Cricket Grounds will be the HQ Central as well as the start and finishing points. This event has been supported by our community and the SES and RFS in the past with manning of checkpoints as well as the very important job of manning the PDCA bar at the campgrounds.
Having done both, I can highly recommend donating your time and effort to such a positive and very social event. It is worth all the laughs, joy and fun this kind of event pulls in, not to mention the dollars for our community.
If you would like to help at a checkpoint please contact Charlie Allen on 4777 5112.
If you’d like to help out at the PDCA bar, please contact Wilfred on 0447 822 626
The PDCA will be having its executive meeting on Saturday 28th at 5pm at the hall. All residents are welcome to attend and engage with the agenda though voting rights are for executive members only.
The meeting will start promptly at 5pm with drinks available for purchase at the bar after closure of the meeting.
Bring along some bar snacks to share if you wish.
This is a very informative comment posted on June 5th from one of our Paluma homeowners, Tony Bligh, which was a ‘comment’ on the post ‘2nd letter to the minister regarding range road permits’. It is very bad news indeed for our business owners in particular as well as ALL residents.
| Folks the following is long because it encompasses a conversation of over an hour I had yesterday with a TMR engineer and one of the department’s communications people. They were endeavouring to explain TMR’s perspective and approach to me, and I spent my time pointing out their inconsistencies, illogicality and failings. It was polite but brutally frank. Jamie’s post brilliantly describes the failures in TMR’s thinking, so I need not go over that again.It will not surprise you to learn that TMR did not want to open the road, and had no intention of doing so. Apparently an edict from the Director-General compelled them to open it now. I was advised that that direction caused a hasty implementation and “limited consultation”. Self-evidently the implementation has been hasty and inept, so I accept that part of the advice. Long experience with TMR causes me to be very, very dubious about the claim that more time would have led to better (any!!) consultation…They appeared genuinely surprised when I told them that many Paluma home owners view our Paluma home as our “real” residence, and a Townsville house as just a place to sleep while we wait to get back up the mountain. It seems that they viewed all “weekenders” as little more than casual tourists, and could not understand the depth of outrage many of us felt at the inequitable permit arrangements.They made it clear that very large portions of the slopes above the road are unstable, and the experts believe that more slips will occur, potentially rendering the road entirely unfixable (my words, but they did not disagree).The good news – and I reiterate that this is entirely based on what they told me – is: 1. The traffic count of users of existing permits has been well within TMR’s (self-) adopted limits. 2. Consequentially, they anticipate issuing more permits “very soon”, but gave no detail about when, or how the recipients will be identified. 3. They have adopted a new process in an attempt to engage contractors to have to full rectification of the road carried out more quickly.The (very) bad news: 4. Permit arrangements are expected to remain in place until full rectification is completed. (They might allow some progressive relaxation as work is completed, but that discussion was unclear). 5. The heritage-listing of the road, coupled with the requirements of the Wet Tropics management Authority, greatly increases the cost of and time required for future works. It also (in TMR’s view) prevents TMR from improving the road and making it more resilient. (I believe that the Paluma community should discuss asap what we want to propose about at least the QLD Heritage listing). 6. TMR would not actually comment on the time required for a full re-opening, but they did not disagree with me when I said that, given the scale of the work and the impediments just described, it would be at least 12 months and probably longer. 7. They were very clear about expecting to close the road to all users during heavy rain periods, and on any other occasion they thought a slip was more likely. While they did not state the following explicitly, it seemed to me that they expect to close the road for (at least) some time during the next wet season, and during any earlier periods of serious rain. (Stock up on your provisions!). 8. The day-time travel restriction is the result of geo-technical advice that states that travel should occur only when drivers can see any slippage of the slopes above the road. That is, the restriction is not really focussing on the visibility of the actual road way. You can form your own views about any driver’s likelihood of driving the range road while also trying to look through the roof of their vehicle and around a blind corner to see the start of a landslide on a slope above the road. For myself, I reckon that if I ever see one, that will give me just enough time to kiss my butt goodbye…Good luck, Tony |
Our first working bee for winter is on this Saturday June 7th.
Meet at the hall at 2pm. Bring along some good cheer and energy and a mate.
Drinks on the verandah afterwards at 4pm.