After a recent PDCA exec meeting we decided to initiate regular Friday evening drinks and nibbles on the Friday before each Saturday working bee. If you feel the urge to relax and unwind, or play a friendly game of darts or table tennis over a beer or glass of wine then come over to the Hall around 6pm on March 1st. The bar will be open. Feel free to bring nibbles or finger food to share.
On December 9, we will have our last social evening for the year. Come and help us celebrate the beginning of the festive season in tropical style. Bring your own protein for the BBQ and nibbles or salad or dessert to share. The Bar will open at 6:30pm.
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.
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
Paluma’s annual garden competion will occur this Wednesday, October 11th. As ususal the Judges from Bunnings will be escorted around the gardens by a member of the PDCA. Any residents who do not want to participate this year, and who have not already notified us, please email or ring Jamie Oliver or Lynn Hyland.
The PDCA would like to thank everybody for their combined efforts to make Paluma’s final market day of the year and the NRL grand final viewing in the hall such a great success this past Sunday.
Locals and tourists alike were a strong and steady flow starting quite early in the day. The bbq didn’t shut down till quite a bit after 12pm and did great business with many coming back for seconds (and thirds) for “‘the lot’ please, that bbq-ed pineapple is amazing!”
The hall was filled with chatter and laughs with some shoppers making beelines to the baked goods stalls and others slowly meandering and enjoying the sport of browsing and selecting what they desired. Our community was on show and did itself proud at these markets. So many smiles.
The NRL grand final evening was also an opportunity to quietly socialise prior to the game for some of the locals as well as an opportunity for all – locals and visitors – to watch the footy showdown on the ‘big screen’.
Our PDCA treasurer, Wilfred Karnoll, is likely still grinning as this post ‘goes to air’ as the markets and grand final viewing made a net total of $1366 for our community. This success comes with effort from all the volunteers who:
…and smiled through it all.
A great big “Thank You” to our volunteers. Your service makes our community stronger. As Wilfred said, “…just goes to show what a small community like ours can do when we all pull together.”
Text and photos by J. Poletto unless noted otherwise
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:-
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.
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’.