Paluma - our village in the mist

PDCA Social Drinks in the Hall
2025-04-04 18:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Brisbane)
Once a month (on the Friday night before the Village Working Bee) we open the Community Hall and the bar between 6-8 pm for residents and visitors to come and socialise and play a friendly game of table tennis or darts. Bring along some nibbles or some finger food to share if you feel inclined.

Working Bee at the Community Hall
2025-04-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-03 14:00 - 16:00
On the first Saturday of every month, we invite volunteers to come along to the Community Centre where Wilfred Karnol will coordinate one or more activities aimed at maintaining and improving the Hall and surrounding gardens, the local walking track, or other community activity. We meet at 2 pm at the Community Hall and finish at about 4 pm with a free beer or soft drink.

PDCA BBQ Lunch
2025-04-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Paluma Community Hall, 55 Mt Spec Road, Paluma, Australia
In addition to the Community Meeting to review experiences and lessons learned from the recent rains (Saturday, April 12 at 1pm) the PDCA will be hosting a BBQ lunch at the Community Hall at 12 pm before the meeting.

Community Meeting to review experiences and lessons learned from recent rain event
2025-04-12 13:00 - 14:30 | Paluma Community Hall, 55 Mt Spec Road, Paluma, Australia
A community meeting to review our experiences during & after the February extreme weather event will be held on Saturday the 12th April commencing at 1 pm in the Paluma Community Hall. The objective is to record lessons learnt for the future, discuss known problems & see what we can do to improve how we manage such events. All members of the community are encouraged to attend.
The meeting is being organised by the Paluma SES. PDCA and Paluma RFS officers will also be attending.
Paluma Community Review – Agenda (12th April)

Intro – meeting objectives
Community Resilience
Problems encountered

Medical – Scripts/Telehealth
Communications – Telstra/Star link/UHF comms/Resident comms/chopper comms
Power Outage – generators/fuel/efficiency/ergon generator/solar
Access – roads/cloud cover
Food
Water
Waste disposal
Mail

Pre-wet season engagement/preparation
Community Coordinator
LDCC feedback?

PDCA Meeting
2025-04-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Paluma Community Hall, 55 Mt Spec Road, Paluma, Australia
There will be a regular meeting of the PDCA Council at 3pm, after the community meeting. This PDCA meeting will cover various ongoing items (see agenda below). While these meetings have traditionally been considered as business meetings attended only by the elected members of the Council/Executive, we welcome any residents to attend and to raise any items that they would like the PDCA to consider in addition to what is already on the agenda. Here is the proposed agenda.

AGENDA

Apologies

Suggested PDCA actions arising from previous Community Review Meeting on lessons learned during February’s extreme rain event
Action Arising

History project – mining and timber history; “What to see and do in Paluma” flyers and linked QR code.

Monitoring of Telstra generator and back-up battery

Updating Paluma online presence: PDCA activities; Paluma.org update; Facebook page;

Access to PRFB funds to share costs in hall upgrades eg: Solar panels and battery storage

Paluma Community Information and News network options – for urgent and non-urgent items

Future events and Hall bookings

Treasurer’s Report

Any Other Business

Confirm next meeting date – Annual General Meeting (election of officers) to be followed by exec meeting

SES Group Meeting
2025-04-18 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-16 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-06-20 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-07-18 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-08-15 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-09-19 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-17 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-11-21 18:30 - 20:30

PDCA Social Drinks in Hall
2025-05-02 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-06 18:00 - 21:00
Once a month (on the Friday night before the Village Working Bee) we open the Community Hall and the bar between 6-8 pm for residents and visitors to come and socialise and play a friendly game of table tennis or darts. Bring along some nibbles or some finger food to share if you feel inclined.n

Working Bee at Community Centre
2025-06-07 14:00 - 16:00

PDCA Social Drinks in Hall
2025-07-04 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-08-01 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-05 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-03 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-31 18:00 - 21:00

Working Bee at Community Hall
2025-07-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-02 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-01 14:00 - 16:00

Yoga workshop
2025-10-03 - 2025-10-06 | Paluma Community Hall, 55 Mt Spec Road, Paluma, Australia

Paluma Games Night
2025-10-25 17:00 - 23:00 | Paluma Community Hall, 55 Mt Spec Road, Paluma, Australia
Peter and Dorothy Klump have announced that this year’s Paluma Games Night will be held on Saturday, October 25th, at the Community Hall starting at 5:30 pm.

The evening will start with a sausage sizzle dinner ($3.00) at 5:30 pm, with the bar open for the purchase of drinks, including Lynda Radbone’s famous Mulled Wine.

By 7:oo pm, the teams of two will have been announced and the various games will commence. These will include darts, indoor bowls, ping pong, and soccer pinball to name a few.

Previous years have proved a great success with lots of friendly participation mixed with bouts of enthusiastic competition. There are probably a few residents looking to topple the previous winners in some categories, so the spirits will be high.
This year will include a special “Children Competition” (12years and under). Prizes included.
Hope to see you there!

Cassowary Project Update and Community Social event
2025-10-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Paluma Community Hall, 55 Mt Spec Road, Paluma, Australia
What: Social drinks and delicious Thai curries (by donation), presentations on Paluma Range Cassowary Project and high altitude Wet Tropics birds.
Why: To update the community and citizen science volunteers on findings from Superb Wren Ecological’s cassowary project, BirdLife Townsville’s Wet Tropics Birds with Altitude and Key Biodiversity Area program. Weekend bird survey planning and logistics
For catering purposes please rsvp to
superbwrenecological@gmail.com
