Category: Community Noticeboard

The Do’s and Don’t’s of Recycling in Paluma

for recycle bins located at the GUMBURU driveway

1. All recyclables are to be placed into bins loose, not bagged or in cartons.

2. Fill bins completely in order from left to right, that way we don’t end up with 8 bins half full.

3. Do not overfill bins, lids have to sit flat to keep rain out, any moisture in the bins causes soggy paper/cardboard, as well as mould, smell and rust.

4. All food containers must be washed out and drained of any liquid.

5. All lids must be removed from all bottles, jars and plastic containers and discarded, as they are considered a contaminant.

6. Place glass bottles into bins gently, if dropped from height they may break any glass containers already in the bins.

7. Paper should be a minimum size of A5, (half the size of a standard A4) and should be flat, not scrunched up. No small arts and crafts remnants, please.

8. All cartons must be flattened by undoing the glued flaps at top and bottom or by removing the sticky tape, don’t try to flatten them by crushing them, as it doesn’t work and only creates a bulky mess. Large heavy duty cartons should be cut along

the four corners into flat panels, if just folded they spring back open and become very bulky in the bins.

9. Paper shopping bags should be flattened along their creases, the way they are stored in the supermarket, if scrunched up they are very bulky and messy.

10. Any items smaller than a credit card or fist should not be recycled as they have very little recycling value but create a lot of extra work.

HAPPY RECYCLING!

PLEASE NOTE: This Paluma recycling system is NOT run by Townsville City Council, your rates do NOT pay for it. Council used to charge PEEC $400 to send a truck up to empty 8 bins. It is now run by a small group of volunteers who give their time and labour to take full bins to town, empty them manually and take materials to the recycle depot at the council dump. Please do your bit to make the system run as efficiently as possible.

Wilfred Karnnoll

Call for Volunteers – Paluma Spring Market

Volunteers are needed for the Paluma Spring Market on Sunday, 4th
October, from 9am to 1pm. There are many ways anybody and everybody can
get involved, help out and make the event a success

We need people to:

  • cook, serve and collect money for sausages and soft drinks.
  • Make and sell tea, coffee and cakes and biscuits.
  • Man a PDCA stall or run their own stall.
  • Make sure we have enough supplies for the BBQ.
  • Sell raffle tickets.
  • Bake some biscuits, cakes or pastries to donate for sale at the PDCA stall.
  • Donate some surplus books for sale at the book stall, run by the Paluma
    Rural Fire Brigade.

Come along on the day and support the event and the stall holders that
come a long way to support our small village.

Tell and invite your friends and family to come up the mountain for the
day or the whole long weekend.

If you are able to help in any way please contact Wilfred, the event
organizer, on 0447 822 626, for the finer details and job description or
any suggestions you may have.

Photo exhibition is now live

It’s time to upload those photos for the Paluma & District Photo Exhibition 2026 ………don’t be shy!

The online gallery page can be found here:  https://paluma.org/contest-gallery-2026 and is available for everyone to view.

The 1st of September 2026 is the official start of the Paluma & District Photo Exhibition 2026. Time to start uploading those photos you’ve been taking or digging up.

Image courtesy of Nano Banana

Just a reiteration of the photo exhibition ‘boundaries’ for participation.

  • Photos are to be taken in / or be from roughly, the area covering Bluewater to Jourama, and Mutarnee to Zig Zag (ie. Paluma & District).
  • Photos submitted can be of any age.
  • Entry of photos and voting is open to residents and their family and friends as well as former residents only.
  • The photo entrant must be either the copyright holder or be entering on behalf of the copyright holder whose name is entered for exhibition purposes.
  • Photos submitted should be of interest to the community.
  • All uploaded photos should conform to social norms as they are applied to most social media platforms.  If an image would be banned from Facebook or Instagram it will be removed from the upload site.

We’d love to read some commentary about your photo as well if you’re keen to share, which can be done at the same time as uploading a photo. Note the photo upload period will close at midnight on 25th October 2026.

To upload a photo, comment on a photo, or vote for a photo, you will need to register once using your name and email address. Voting on the uploaded photos will commence on the 26th October 2026 and finish at midnight on 15th November 2026. When voting, you can assign 1-4 stars for each photo uploaded. The photo gallery is now open for commenting on any photo.

Should you have any questions about the photo exhibition, you can email Sonya Bryce on sonyab360@gmail.com.

For technical issues on the website functionality you can email or message Jamie on jamieo53@hotmail.com (0408 710 030)

Look forward to seeing your pics!

Son

Announcing the Paluma & District Photo Exhibition 2026

Got a burning desire to show your mates an amazing photo that you took? Like an excuse to run off and take a bunch more photos? Do you simply enjoy a good social outing sharing a story with others over a photo or two? Then this event is for you!

I’m sure you’ll agree that we regularly travel in and out of our misty mountain climes, tall majestic forests, stunning woodlands and pristine coastal lowlands, not always having or making as much time as we’d like to truly stop and appreciate the amazing diversity, beauty and unique people of the region that we live in.

In the name of celebrating ourselves and where we live…………and to have some fun, a photo exhibition is to be held in September and October of this year with prizes awarded to the most popular photos voted by you, the community!

With no particular photo categories that need to be addressed as part of this exhibition, the subject matter of the photos to be submitted by you is…………completely up to you, but should be of interest to the community.

Whilst we aren’t particularly big on a lot of rules in this part of the world, a few loose ‘boundaries’ regarding entry and participation in the exhibition are as follows.

  • Photos are to be taken in / or be from roughly the area covering Bluewater to Jourama, and Mutarnee to Zig Zag (i.e. Paluma & District)
  • Photos submitted can be of any age.
  • Entry of photos and voting is open to residents and their family and friends, as well as former residents only.
  • The photo entrant must be either the copyright holder or be entering on behalf of the copyright holder whose name is entered for exhibition purposes.
  • No AI-generated images please.
  • All uploaded photos should conform to social norms as they are applied to most social media platforms.  If an image would be banned from Facebook or Instagram it will be removed from the upload site.”

Photos are to be uploaded by you to a specific gallery page on paluma.org where they will be available for viewing, voting on and for making comments. A free scanning service will be available for those who are unable to digitise a hard copy photo for submission.

The most popular voted photos will have their entry printed, framed and hung in the Paluma & District community hall for a 12month period, where the winners will gain the people’s ovation and fame, before the print is given to the owner.

And last but not least, we have a couple of gripping socials lined up to celebrate the skill of our participants and to announce the winners of the exhibition.

Stay tuned for more details about the photo exhibition, which will start on 1st September 2026 and see you all snapping out there…………..

Sonya Brice