Last Saturday’s (8 January 2022) Working Bee at the Rainforest Walking Track has been hailed as a great success. Wilfred reports that nine volunteers attended on the day to carry out essential track upgrading works. The large mound of dirt near the Community Hall quickly disappeared as it was shovelled, barrowed and spread along various sections of the walking track needing repair and stabilisation. The new steps look great and Wilfred says they make the walk down the sloping terrain much easier and safer, especially for kids and short-legged people, as the steps are now of a more even height (we short people are glad to hear it!).
Wilfred says he was ‘blown away’ by the great response to the call-out for volunteers and he heartily thanks all those who attended and provided their free labour for a few hours. Another two working bees are planned to tackle the next stage of the walking track repair work. After that, the whole of the track should be in tip-top condition for both locals and visitors to enjoy. Les’s bar was raided for a well deserved drink after the Working Bee, courtesy of Wilfred’s shout.
Keep your eye out for notice of the next Working Bee, probably in about four weeks time. Everyone is welcome and the reward is all about COMMUNITY.
Text by Michele Bird & Wilfred Karnoll. Photos provided by Wilfred.
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.
This is a reminder that there will be a Working Bee at the Rainforest Walking Track to be held this coming Saturday 8th January at 2 pm.
All volunteers, please meet at the Community Hall at 2 pm and please bring along your wheelbarrow, shovels, lots of energy and enthusiasm.
What better way to work off those extra Christmas calories than a bit of sweat and toil in the rainforest. Many hands make light work, so please come along for an hour or two to lend a hand in maintaining this precious patch of Paluma paradise.
There will be a Working Bee at the Rainforest Walking track to be held on Saturday 8th January at 2 pm.
All volunteers, please meet at the Community Hall just before 2 pm on the day and please bring along your wheelbarrow, shovels, lots of energy and enthusiasm.
Refreshments will be provided after the work is done.
Remember that the maintenance and up-keep of the Rainforest Walking Track is up to us as the residents of Paluma Village. If we don’t look after it, we will lose it!
Please direct any questions to Wilfred who is organising this Working Bee.
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.
Barry Smith, our weekday rainfall recorder has kindly provided the Paluma rainfall figures for November 2021. The records show that rain fell on 24 days of the month and the total was just short of 240 mm. That’s a decent drop of rain in the build up to the pending wet season.
The community thanks Barry for his ongoing work in recording the daily rainfall at our new BOM recorder at the Village Green. Peter Cooke has recently stepped up as the regular weekend recorder and this is also greatly appreciated. We look forward to some big rainfall totals now that December has arrived!
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.
