Our Decmber Working Bee, the last for 2023 will be held on December 2nd.
We will be doing some more work on the rainforest track.
We’ll meet at 2 pm at the hall or the start/finish of the track at the western end of the village. As usual, there will be free drinks and the Hall at 4 pm for all volunteers.
If anyone is interested in learning more about Sharman’s Rock-wallabies – a small and incredibly agile wallaby species found in and around complex rocky outcrops across our region – come along to the community information session being held at 10am at the Paluma Community Hall on Weds 29th Nov.
We’ll be chatting about Sharman’s Rock-wallaby conservation and our fire management program at Mount Zero-Taravale Wildlife Sanctuary, and how we can target fire management to help protect this threatened species.
Morning tea and lunch supplied. Please RSVP by Friday 24th, including any dietary requirements.
 | Felicity L’Hotellier Senior Field Ecologist Mobile. 0408 084 617 Phone. 07 4770 8025 Email. felicity.lhotellier@australianwildlife.org Taravale, Ewan Road Paluma QLD 4816 www.australianwildlife.org |
Don’t forget that this coming Saturday, November 4 at 6:30 is the annual Monsters and Mayhem evening at the Community Centre. Judging from the pictures that have been published from previous years, this event has provided a great outlet for those with flair and imagination to create an impressive range of gory and macabre costumes and I am sure this year will be no different. Bring a plate and dress up imaginatively – or just come to see what others have done.
UNIT SUPPORT OFFICER
Paluma Environmental Education Centre
The Paluma Environmental Education Centre has an employment opportunity for a Permanent, Full-time Unit Support Officer to commence on 15 January 2024.
If you are interested in applying, please obtain an application package at https://smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-NQR520563-23P
Closing date:
Monday, 6th November 2023
This month’s working be will be on November 4th. Meet up at 2 pm at the Community Centre, where we will start preparing the hall for a big paint job by washing down the walls and ceilings in the toilets and training room. If we have spare manpower we will do some vegetation clearing along the main street near the Rainforest Inn.
On Saturday 28th Outer Limits is hosting the very first Paluma Ultra, 52km trail run. Runners will tackle a challenge course from Paluma, past the DCK, over Mt Spec, down Benham’s track, past Forgotten Falls and back to Paluma.
They will quietly run out of Gumburu at 6am and finish at the village green between 12pm and 5pm. Everyone is welcome to come down to the village green to see them finish.
Sunday is the 11th Annual Paluma trail run. 6km, 10km and 20km course. We have 300 runners entered. This course takes in all the trails around the village as well as Blue Gum and Ethal Creek.
The PDCA is hosting the BBQ at the Village Green.
If anyone would like to volunteer we still need a few course marshals to direct runners at a few tricky junctions around the village.
Please email info@outerlimitsadventure.com.au or call Sam on 0421484211
If you own a QFES Dynamo torch please read the notice below. These torches have been distributed by both the Rural Fire Service and SES in Paluma in the past.
Around ten Paluma residents showed up last Saturday armed with shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows and enthusiasm to shift the large pile of mulch provdied by the Townsville City Council (facilitated by our local Councilor Margie Ryder). Despite the daunting size of the mulch pile it was all shifted onto the garden beds around the Community Hall, and under the “Trees in Memory” grove in just over an hour. Unfortunately we were all to focussed on our work to take any picures.
It is amazing how much work has been accomplished this year during our working bees and how positive the response for volunteers has been. This initiative, and its results are something we should all be proud of. Many thanks to Wilfred, who has been the driving force behind the working bees.
With no other activities planned, we convened on the village green with beers in hand and discussed an idea establish and disc golf. Ian and Julia Anderson brought out some discs and a possible short course was sketched out that they hope to take to Council in the near future.
This Saturday on the 7th, we will be shifting the truck load of mulch, that our council supplied free of charge, into the gardens and under the trees in our Paluma Pioneers Memory park. It’s quite a lovely grove these days.
The working bee will start at 2pm with everyone meeting up at the hall first. Bring a wheel barrow, shovels and a hardy rake if you have them. The best tool in the shed however is you… so do please bring yourself to the fray (even if you haven’t any of the gear) and enjoy burning up a few calories with fellow enthusiasts.
Drinks are on afterwards!!!
Thanks
Wilfred
The Paluma RFS brigade will have their second-hand book stall at the market this coming Sunday. We need to refresh our stock of second-hand books, especially good novels, fiction and non-fiction. We should be home all week so feel free to drop them at our place opposite the hall.
Give me ring if you want to discuss further.
Peter and Jan Cooke #56 mt spec road, 0428744874.