It’s a new year and time to kick off the Paluma Village social calendar for 2022!
This Saturday evening 19 February, the first Social of the year will be held at the Paluma Community Hall. It’s the Chinese New Year celebration and the ‘Year of the Tiger’.
Everyone is welcome to join in the celebration commencing at 6.30 pm at the Hall. As always, please bring a dish to share – hot or cold, sweet or savoury. The theme of the night is all things Chinese, so perhaps test your culinary skills with a Chinese inspired dish? Last years banquet of Chinese dishes was remarkable, so let’s see if we can go one better this year? Ever reliable Barman Les will be on hand to serve low-cost beverages on the night.
Local artist Jennie Robinson was so inspired by the ‘Year of the Tiger’ she has created an amazing tiger portrait. Jennie has kindly donated her masterpiece to the Paluma community (PDCA) and so we will be holding a raffle for the painting on the night. Tickets are $1.00 each or 5 for $5.00 – absolute bargain. Please see Michele or Les next weekend for tickets – anytime on Saturday or on the night. The winner will be drawn at the Social.
Please come along to what will surely be another fun night at Paluma Village.
The ‘Year of the Tiger’ painting to be raffled at the Chinese New Year Social.Special thanks to Jennie for donating her work to the Paluma community for fund raising.
A reminder that the Paluma social calendar kicks off 2022 in style and sophistication with a Birthday Party for Paluma’s very own version of Audrey Hepburn – Colwyn Campbell.
Everyone is invited to attend this auspicious occasion to mark the 80 years young birthday party of one of our most beloved and admired residents.
The party will be held at the Rainforest Inn, Saturday 15 January commencing at 5.30 pm.
Please bring a plate/dish of food to share – finger food, savoury or sweet, hot or cold.
The Bar will be open so you can purchase drinks. Free tea & coffee will be available.
Don’t forgot to bring along 2022’s essential fashion accessory – your face mask (as per Queensland Government regulations for cafes, restaurants, etc).
We look forward to seeing everyone at this event to celebrate with Colwyn.
On Saturday 15th January 2022 Colwyn Campbell will celebrate her 80 years young birthday. To mark this important occasion, Colwyn’s Paluma friends and family will host a birthday party to be held at the Rainforest Inn, commencing at 5.30 pm on the day.
Please come along and join your friends and neighbours in wishing Colwyn a Happy Birthday.
Last Saturday night (11 December) the residents of Paluma celebrated the last Social Event for 2021 with the annual Tropical BBQ held at the Community Hall. The event was well attended with locals catching up for a yarn and a beverage before the Christmas period. Everyone bought along their own meat for the BBQ which was expertly cooked by the King of the BBQ – Don Battersby. Paluma’s cooks put on a splendid buffet with an impressive array of fine salads and other delicious foods. A special treat was a platter of fresh prawns compliments of ‘yours truly’ who happened to win a $50.00 voucher from Cleveland Bay Seafoods, courtesy of a Lions Club raffle ticket sold by the one and only Les Hyland. The dessert bar was astounding with cheesecake, pavlovas, chocolate tart, mangoes and ice-cream. I think everyone ate way too much, but who’s counting calories. It’s Christmas time!!
The attire for the night was definitely ‘tropical flair’. It was great to see everyone embracing the theme with their loud tropical and Hawaiian shirts, sarongs, thongs and Santa shirts. Tropical flowers adorned the tables and one attendee decided to wear her tropical garden on her head!
Speaking of flowers, the other important theme for the evening was all things gardening. Lynn announced the winners of the Paluma Annual Garden Competition which was held in late November and judged by two members of Bunnings staff. Congratulations go to Nick and Glenda for again taking out the Championship Trophy Prize of Best Residential Garden. The competition winners are outlined below, courtesy of Lynn Hyland.
1. Best Residential Garden in the Village – Glenda and Nick Van Rynswoud. Perpetual Trophy winner. The Judges enjoyed immensely the guided tour of such an impressive garden.
2. Best Non-Residential Garden in the Village – Gumburu. A well planned environment with some rare species to be found in the garden.
3. Best Acreage Garden – Bobbie and Glen Parker. Such a serene ambience and they loved the collection of miniature potted gardens.
4. Highly Recommended Village Garden – Michele Bird. The atmosphere created by the hanging baskets looking out onto the garden was wonderful.
5. Most Unusual Plant Specimen – Anne Bruyere’s “ Rainbow Gum“. Such a wonderful specimen of such a rare tree. The bark was highly coloured on the day of the judging.
Bunnings donated $200 in Vouchers and the ‘Alison Evans Trophy’ was engraved with the winners name for 2021 which was the 25th year since the Garden Competition first started in Paluma.
Here are some selected photos from the evening, with apologies from this author for not getting around to everyone on the night.
Text by Michele Bird & Lynn Hyland. Photos by Michele Bird.
A reminder that the final PDCA Social Event for 2021 will be the annual Tropical BBQ to be held at the Community Hall on Saturday 11 December at 6.30 pm.
Please bring your own meat for the BBQ and the PDCA will supply the salad.
The Bar will be open with the usual low cost beverages on sale.
Tropical attire is a must so please wear your most colourful tropical shirt, shorts, skirts, frocks or jocks. There will be a free drink for the most colourful and suitably dressed patron.
Come join your friends and neighbours to toast the silly season and the end of the year in our tropical paradise. See you there!
The judging for the Paluma Garden Competition will take place this coming Wednesday 1st December 2021.
Two staff members from Bunnings will be escorted by members of the PDCA and will be visiting the gardens of Paluma to decide on the winners in the Annual Garden Competition.
Should you not wish to have your property entered, please contact Lynn Hyland before Wednesday (Phone: 4770 8681).
The winners of the Competition will be announced at the PDCA ‘Tropical BBQ’ to be held on Saturday 11 December at the Community Hall.
A reminder to all members of the Paluma Rural Fire Brigade (PRFB) that a meeting will be held at the Community Hall this Saturday 13th November, commencing at 9 am.
If you are not a member of the PRFB but you are interested in joining, please come along to learn more about this volunteer service and what is involved. New members are always welcome and it’s a great way to get involved in the community and support this important service in our village.
For more information on this week’s meeting or the PRFB in general, please contact Ross and Sonya on email: sonyab360@gmail.com
The ‘Mayhem and Monsters on the Mountain’ Social was held at the Community Hall on Saturday (6/11). This year it was great to see so many kids attend the function and all embraced the theme of the night. The kids costumes were impressive. We had a little green dragon, a karate kid, a rather woolly version of ‘Cousin It’ and an alien.
The ‘big kids’ also embraced the theme with gusto. There were witches, zombies, the ‘purple people eater’, Hannibal Lectors and just plain scary people. There really are a lot of creepy people at Paluma.
With five desserts to choose from on the night, all the kids had plenty of sugar and they were hyped up until late in the evening. A good time was had by all and we look forward to doing it all again this time next year!
Halloween might be over, but there are still plenty of gremlins, ghouls and monsters hiding out at Paluma. All are set to come out of the mist this Saturday night 6th November as the village celebrates the Monsters on the Mountain Social.
This Social will be the second last community social for 2021, so make the most of the opportunity to join your friends and neighbours for a yarn, a good meal and a beverage (or two).
Please come along to the Community Hall around 6.30 pm and bring a dish/plate/meal to share. You don’t have to dress up to attend the Social, you just have to bring along your good humour and community spirit. Anyway, some of us don’t even have to dress up to look scary!
See you Saturday night. Be afraid (at least a little bit!).
Outer Limits ran their annual Trail Races on Sunday 31st October 2021. It was preceded by a ‘Pizza Dinner Under The Stars’ on Saturday night. This was not as well patronised as previous years and there were very few locals present which was a pity as the pizzas provided by the pizza van were excellent.
It would happen…..Ergon decided to have extended power outages on both Saturday and Sunday. SES to the rescue, thanks to Charlie Allen who fired up their generator on Sunday so we had hall lights and power for Public Address all morning.
On Sunday morning the village green was humming with people from an early hour. It was a clear sunny day tending to being quite hot as the day wore on although mitigated by a pleasant breeze mid morning.
There were three courses as usual 6 km 10 km & 20 km and the shorter courses were run in what appeared to be extremely fast times. There were perhaps rather fewer competitors than expected, but there was a great enthusiasm among all and it really was a superb event. Congratulations to Sam and his team for excellent organisation.
The PDCA ran the sausage sizzle with a skeleton staff. Bruno excelled as chief cook and he was kept busy producing sausages and onions for the competitors who returned after their races in batches. This is only the second time Bruno has done this job and he excelled in keeping sausages available at all times. He is an offical BBQ cook from now on. Lynn dispensed the fare while Les did the soft drink and cash. Despite being rushed at times we managed to cope and our efforts were appreciated by the customers.
Among the announcements was that the 2022 Paluma Push will adopt the same format as this year with the race on Saturday 16th July 2022, the party at Hidden Valley that night and a recovery ride on Sunday 17th. Put the date in your diary.
