Category: Events

Easter Market Preparations

To All Our Quiet Achievers aka Volunteers

Our Paluma Community Easter Market is on Sunday March 31st from 9am to 1pm. There are a range of tasks that need some ‘quiet achievers’ to help with to ensure a successful market. You will be working alongside some of our more well known ‘quiet achievers’ (ok, maybe they’re not always quiet, but there’s the fun in it) who will be more than happy to guide you in whatever’s required… in case you’re new and want to help. All are welcome to come and be part of this community event and give a hand, even if it’s for a 1/2 hour (which would be brilliant!).

If you are interested in doing some volunteering, below are a list of jobs that need support. If there is a name beside them, that means they are managing that task and absolutely still need some help.

Easter Market Job List

This list will be on a signup sheet displayed at the hall on Saturday evening at the St Paddy’s day gathering. It will also be available for signup on Saturday 23rd at the hall at 10am or see/email Wilfred or Juanita and let them know what you can do to help.

Day before:

  • Slice onions for BBQ: This is a good one for those with food processors (and goggles!). Onions, Large plastic bags and/or plastic containers will be provided. Juanita only has a small processor but has a big fridge to store the sliced onions. More helpers welcome.

On the day:

  • Hall set up: (from 8-9am) organise tables for stall holders; coffee/tea set up – Wilfred and 4 others … as many as is free
  • PDCA stall holders for: (roster from 9am – 1pm) bake stall and produce stall – Wilfred, Juanita and 2 others.
  • Sausage sizzle set up and run: (set up 8:30am) tables, bbq, utensils, serviettes, oil, sauces, etc., Eski. Cook- ‘The Don’ (tbc); Money Man – Les; need people to serve the customers and to make up our deluxe sausage sizzle hot dogs. 3 volunteers to allow a roster to give everyone a break.
  • Pack up and clean up: (starting at 1pm) bbq pagoda and hall – as many volunteers as possible.

St. Patricks Social this Saturday Night

The Paluma Community will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this Saturday evening 16th March at the Community Hall. Everyone is welcome to attend and if you feel inclined, please wear your best ’emerald outfit’ to mark the occasion.

Please bring a plate of food to share with your friends and neighbours. Drinks will be available at the Bar on the night including that most Irish of beverages, Guinness. Start time is 6.30 pm.

As everyone knows, the Hylands have hosted this event over many years and have always produced a challenging Irish Quiz to test our knowledge of all things Irish. This year the quiz master will be Michele Bird – who certainly has some big shoes to fill in replacing Leslie Hyland in this role! Start doing your research in preparation for what promises to be a mind numbing, brain twisting, cranium crushing test of Irish Intellect. The winner will score a free beverage of their choice from the Bar, in addition to the admiration, respect and envy of their fellow quiz persons.

Don’t spend your Saturday night “on ya tod”, join in the fun and come along for a good old Irish chin wag and perhaps even an Irish jig with your Paluma pals. See you at the Hall.

Call-Out to Paluma Bakers for the Easter Market

The Paluma Community Easter Market is fast approaching on Sunday March 31st.  This is a call-out for Paluma’s Kitchen Rockstars to make, shake and bake home made goodies to sell for our community’s (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:-

  1. 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.
  2. 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. “Paluma Produce” stickers will be available for this purpose if you wish to use them. Pick up from Anneshka Brown at your and her convenience or from the hall on Saturday 23rd between 10 and 11am. See image at end of this post.
  3. 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).
  4. Please add a price sticker to your goods, with what you think is a fair and reasonable price for your baked delights. We can provide price stickers as well.
  5. Please deliver your goods to the Community Hall on Sunday morning 31st March at 8.30 AM (for a 9 am market start).
  6. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done!😊

If you have any questions or need any further information, please contact Juanita Poletto by email: jpoletto@gmail.com or phone 0410202968. Some of our other lovely PDCA executive members Anneshka Brown, Jill Meads, Wilfred Karnoll and Jamie Oliver (he just might bust out his famous chocolate brownie recipe) should also be able to answer any questions you may have.

Previous cake stalls have been a roaring success, so please contribute if you can for the upcoming Easter Market. All donations are much appreciated

Image of the “Paluma Produce” sticker you can label your goods with if you wish. Designed by Anneshka

Friday Night Drinks at the Hall, March 1st

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.

Learn about Sharman’s Rock Wallaby..

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 

Reminder: Monsters & Mayhem evening this Saturday

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.

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