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FROM bicycles to shoppingtrolleys, wooden pallets to chippackets – it’s all out thereblocking our waterways andlittering our footpaths.After hearing about the

large amounts of unsightly lit-ter in and around the Edge Hillarea of Saltwater Creek, Ro-tary Club of Cairns MulgraveInc president Roger Cummingdecided to adopt the creek as aclub project.It was Mr Cumming’s wife

Sybil and some of her friends –all Friends of the Botanic Gar-dens members – who hadmentioned all the rubbish theysaw during their morningwalks. “This led to the idea ofour club organising an Adopt aCreek clean-up project,” MrCumming said.“The Friends also provided

encouragement in undertak-ing this project, as did CairnsRegional Council’s Parks andLeisure officer Louisa Gran-dy.”

Mr Cumming approachedLouisa about combining theirresources to help clean uptheir adopted creek and shewas keen to get involved.“I walk through these areas

regularly with my dog and was

concerned with the litter thatcollects in there,” Ms Grandysaid. “I actually thought a yearago ‘I wonder if I could organ-ise a volunteer group to assistwith a clean-up’, however Ihaven’t had much of a chanceto look into it further. “Then a few weeks ago

Roger approached me with anidea for Rotary to assist theGardens community in someway. This is our creation.”The “adoption” involves the

Saltwater Creek area fromCollins Ave through to theEdge Hill State School onPease St.

Mr Cumming said the firstclean-up attracted 25 volun-teers from Rotary and Friendswho collected “masses of rub-bish” – tyres, bottles, bicycles,shopping trolleys, soft drinkcans, chip packets, woodenpallets and more. Zoé Sournia was just one of

the volunteers who recently“adopted” Saltwater Creek.The Rotary Club of Cairns

Mulgrave is also actively en-gaged in overseas Youth Ex-change Programs and iscurrently hosting Ms Sournia,who is attending TAS and hailsfrom Nantes in France.

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Rotary cleans it upClub, volunteers commit to decluttering Saltwater Creek

NO RUBBISH: Rotary Cairns Mulgrave president Roger Cumming with French Rotary Youth Exchange student Zoé Sournia at Saltwater

Creek Bridge, Greenslopes St, collecting litter as part of the Adopt A Creek program.

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WArNiNg oN thiS firE SEASoN[page 2]Monday, June 1, 2015

ALL ABOARDANTHONY GALLOWAY

REGULAR cruises to the Great Barrier Reef-

could be running out of Townsville within two

years.Ferry operator SeaLink is in discussions with

Jupiters Hotel and Casino owner Chris Morris

and James Cook University to run a regular reef

cruise service out of the city.

It follows the World Heritage Committee’s

decision not to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in

danger” and comes as the local tourism indus-

try’s key performance indicators continue to

steadily improve, with an influx of backpackers

visiting Magnetic Island.

SeaLink general manager Paul Victory said

the company expected the $30 million redevel-

opment of Jupiters Hotel and Casino, which was

announced last month and which is expected to

be completed by the end of 2017, would be the

catalyst to creating enough demand for a dedi-

cated reef service to be launched.

“For getting something fixed on the reef it

would be a partnership between the casino, Sea-

Link and James Cook University,” he said.

“We hope that with the casino redevelop-

ment, along with the other developments taking

place on the waterfront with that whole Ross

Creek priority development area, it’s going to

bring new opportunities for Townsville.”

Tourism operators have previously cited a

lack of demand for reef cruises from locals and

visitors as a reason against launching a regular

service.

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