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.
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Paluma Trail Run & Ultra
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
Product Safety Recall
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.
Many hands make light work
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.
October Working Bee
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
Call for un-needed books for RFS book stall at Community Markets
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.
Watch the NRL Grand Final at the Hall
The NRL Grand final with the Brisbane Broncos vs the Penrith Panthers is on next Sunday (Oct 1st). If you will be up in Paluma and want to watch the game live on the big TV in the Paluma Community Hall then come along.
The Bar will be open from 5:30 pm til 8:30 pm. The game starts at 6:30 pm.
Reminder: Paluma Community Markets, Sunday Oct. 1st 9am-1pm
Our next Community Market is just over a week away. There will be a range of locally produced ornamental and edible items available for purchase as well as our sausage sizzle and cold drinks. If you forget to bring cash Wilfred of one of the PDCA executive will be able to take your credit card and provide small amounts of cash uisng our eftpos machine.
This is also a call-out for Paluma’s amazing cooks to donate some baked goods to sell for community (PDCA) fund raising.
If you are interested in doing some baking and donating your goods for sale at the Easter Market then please read on…..
Here’s what to do:-
- Please divide your baked goods into small batches for sale. We suggest batches of 2, 4 or 6 individual pieces as this has worked well at previous markets.
- Please plate the goods (in batches) and secure with glad wrap or suitable packaging. (We have previously used paper plates and glad wrap and this works well).
- Please add a sticker or other suitable label outlining the contents of your baked goods. You will need to add this label to EVERY individual batch of goods. This is required for health & safety reasons.
- Please add a price sticker to your goods, with what you think is a fair and reasonable price for your baked delights.
- Please deliver your goods to the Community Hall on Sunday morning at 8.30 AM (for a 9 am market start).
If you have any questions or need any further information, please contact Lynn Hyland by phone or email:- leshyland@icloud.com
Previous cake stalls have been a great success.
Notice to all Residents
Waterfall Creek Rural Fire Brigade wish to advise that they will be conducting hazard reduction burns in the Blackfriars area, this Saturday September 16th September 2023 (weather and conditions dependent).
Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Sonya Bryce on (0474) 324 153 or 1st Officer Josh McAllister on (0437) 694691.
Notice of Annual Paluma Garden Competition
The annual Paluma Garden Competition will be held in the month of October. Competition judges from Bunnings will be escorted by a member of the PDCA executive committee around gardens of Paluma residents and businesses including the blocks along and adjacent to Hussey Road.
If you do not wish to be included in this competition please let Jamie Oliver, Lynn Hyland or any other member of the PDCA committee know as soon as possible.
All contact details of the PDCA committee are accessible on this website under ‘contact’.