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The 2015 Queensland Election has come and gone. It’s heartening to know that the spirit of democracy is alive and well, and that the passion of the volunteer supporters of the various political parties is seemingly unwavering.In the rain or in the heat there they were on the side of our major roads, dressed in their favourite party’s colours like the supporter of a sporting team, waving the candidate’s sign as fervently as teens holding signs spruiking cheap pizzas.It is their democratic right to do this, and now I will exercise my democratic right to have a whinge – although I’m not the only one who has the views to follow.Must these people dressed in red, green or blue persistently wave at the passing motorists? I fear that one day while electioneering someone may be hurt or killed by a car driven by a distracted or spooked motorist. Can common sense please prevail over being a nuisance?Don’t get me started on the copious amounts of political junk mail, automated text messages and answering machine voice mails from political leaders and interest groups I was bombarded with.

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By Lee Oliver

The statewide wave of support for the Labor Party from voters at last Saturday’s Queensland Election has

swept into The Westerner region, with two incumbent MPs battling to retain their seats.

Member for Pine Rivers Seath Holswich and his Liberal National Party (LNP) colleague, Ferny Grove MP Dale Shuttle-worth both trail their Labor rivals for votes.

Following a 21.2 per cent swing against

the LNP, Labor’s candidate for Pine Rivers Nikki Boyd has won 48.9 per cent of fi rst preference votes, while Mr Holswich has 39.1 per cent.

The 21.2 per cent swing against the LNP in Pine Rivers was the biggest negative swing experienced by the party across The Westerner region.

Buoyed by a 10.3 per cent swing in Labor’s favour, former Federal Senator Mark Furner has 50.8 per cent of the vote in the race for Ferny Grove, on a two-party-preferred basis, compared with Mr Shuttleworth’s 49.2 per cent.

Despite suffering double-digit swings against them, of 11 per cent and 18.8 per cent respectively, sitting LNP MPs Tim Mander (Everton) and Andrew Powell (Glass House) appear set to win.

Mr Mander has around 2500 more fi rst preference votes than Labor’s Jeff Frew, with Mr Powell enjoying a buffer of about 3750 primary votes over Labor’s Brent Hampstead.

Just over 80 per cent of votes for the Pine Rivers, Ferny Grove, Everton and Glass House electorates had been counted as The Westerner went to print on Tuesday.

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A child violin prodigy from Uzbekistan who studied music in Moscow, Attilla has upcoming shows at Samford and Mt Mee.

What inspired me to play violin… I was four years old at the time. My father, who was an accomplished musician and composer, infl uenced me to follow this path. I like performing and giving the audience pleasure. Highlights of my musical career… play-ing with different renowned symphonic and chamber orchestras. Some of my favourite venues have included the Great Hall in Salzburg, the Berlin Concert Hall and the Sydney Opera House.Some of the countries where I have performed… I have performed in over 40 countries including Germany, Spain, France, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Can-ada, Malaysia, Lebanon and Australia.How I came to own my 202-year-old violin… This violin was donated to me in 2005 by Dr David Johnston of the Wesley Institute in Sydney, after he watched me perform the Four Seasons at the Sydney Opera House.If I could travel back in time and meet any composer… I would like to meet and play with J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, J. Haydn, N. Paganini and W.A. Mozart. Away from music I enjoy… Going to the beach to enjoy the great fresh ocean views, and healthy cooking. What I like most about living n Australia… Meeting people and sharing with them my music. Particularly it is good to meet new people in small towns. If I could invite any three people to dinner… Queen Elizabeth II, Al Pacino and Itzhak Perlman.Something most people don’t know about me… Now I am Australian citizen. My advice to aspiring musicians… Keep practising! The reward for hard work is more hard work!

Attilla Sautov will perform with members of the Mueller International Chamber Orchestra at Samford Community Church, 44 Mt Glorious Road, Samford Village on 14 February and at Mt Mee Hall, 1352 Mt Mee Road, Mt Mee on 21 March. Buy tickets on 0417 619 915 or book online at www.attillasautov.com

DVD COMPETITIONMcCall (Denzel Washington) has put his myster-ious past behind him until he comes out of his self-imposed retirement to rescue a young girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalise the helpless, McCall’s desire for justice is reawakened. If someone has a problem, the odds are stacked against them, and they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.Thanks to Roadshow Entertainment, The Westerner has fi ve copies of The Equalizer on DVD (RRP $39.95) to give away. For your chance to win tell us who starred in the 1980s TV show of the same name on which The Equalizer is based – was it Rutger Hauer, Dolph Lundgren or Edward Woodward? Send your answer along with your name and contact details to: The Westerner DVD competition, PO Box 5189, Brendale BC, 4500 or email [email protected], Attn: DVD competition. Entries close 16 February.

Winners: The Interview movie tickets: L. Balfour (Albany Creek), S. Piper (Ferny Hills), E. Valenta (Strathpine), J. Hudson (Bray Park), J. Lummis (Mt Samson), R. Watson (Warner), A. Statham (Bunya), L. Breckenridge (Ferny Grove), K. Tapp (Arana Hills), T. Wright (Warner); The Giver DVDs: R. Hockey (Eatons Hill), S. McCombe (Camp Mountain), J. Mayer (Dayboro), S. Pritchard (Wights Mountain), C. Williams (Eatons Hill); Into the Black book: D. Forrester (Mt Mee); Beaming with Health herbal tea pack: J. Herburg (Dayboro); Still Alice movie tickets: M. Cantrell (Everton Hills), R. Kilah (Armstrong Creek), K. Bell (Cashmere), R. Foley-Lewis (Highvale), F. Chapman (Cedar Creek); Podium book: N. Joiner (Eatons Hill); Diary of a Golf Pro book: C. Curtis (Brendale); Diary of a Basketball Hero book: T. Cox (Warner).

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“Grateful”, “shocked” and “excited” are some of the words Camp Mountain’s Juliette Wright used to describe being

named Australia’s Local Hero.Mrs Wright was recognised for founding

the Givit charity website, which matches the needs of 950 charities across Aust-ralia, including 650 in Queensland, with donations from the community.

Launched fi ve years ago, the service has helped more than 126,000 items to be donated to disadvantaged Australians, including people affected by natural disasters.

When Queensland was hit by devastat-ing fl oods in 2011, 1.8 million visits to the Givit website resulted in 33,500 goods matching donors and recipients.

Mrs Wright thought she “may have to

switch into disaster recovery mode” as near cyclonic winds threatened to blow down a marquee at a function for Australia Day award fi nalists held at the home of Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove.

Later that day the awards, amongst the country’s top civic honours and run by the National Australia Day Council, were presented by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

For the fi rst time women received all four major national Australia Day awards – Australian of the Year, Senior Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year and Australia’s Local Hero – in the same year.

For the winners a hectic schedule of media and community engagements in Canberra and Sydney followed.

“Every single hour I met someone who is incredibly powerful… and very proud of what we have all achieved,” Mrs Wright said.

“So many people have been involved in Givit and this (award) has very much been celebrated as a team effort.”

While the humble 41-year-old has been “inundated with congratulations” following her award win, she is more proud of Givit enhancing its national profi le.

On the day of the Australia Day awards announcement the Givit website received 20,000 hits, while offshoot service Givit Kids’ website had 10,000 visitors.

“Usually we get 500 to 1000 hits a day after a big media campaign,” Mrs Wright explains. “Not only do people know about Givit but now they understand what we’re trying to achieve.”

Next on Mrs Wright’s agenda is rolling out a drought relief program across region-al Queensland, noting “even though it’s been raining the farmers are recovering from a horrendous period and need help.”

Camp Mountain’s Juliette Wright, left, with fellow Australian of the Year award winners Rosie Batty, Drisana Levitzke-Gray and Jackie French in Canberra. Photo courtesy of National Australia Day Council.

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“Honoured and humbled” was the reaction of Florence Watson and Ian Wells as they were amongst 414

people awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) last week.

‘Aunty Flo’ Watson of Arana Hills was honoured for her service to the indigenous community of Queensland and champion-ing the reconciliation movement.

“It means a lot to me and I guess at the end of the day a lot of us are out there trying to make a difference,” she said of the Australia Day accolade.

A founding member of Reconciliation Queensland, she has also been heavily involved with the Australian Indigenous South Sea Association, Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts, Brisbane Indigenous Media Association, Teralba Park Stolen Generations support group, and the Link-Up and Murri Watch groups.

Born and raised in the Yarrabah Aborig-inal community near Cairns, she began dedicating herself to indigenous affairs after fi nishing high school in Brisbane.

“I spent 15 years not as a citizen of this country until the (1967 Federal) refer-endum… and seeing what my people were

going through in Yarrabah and seeing the trauma and poverty,” she said.

“Around about when I left school after Grade 12… I remember my mum saying to get out there and make a difference.

“It’s been a wonderful and challenging journey and I just love working with youth and with women and I try to make a

difference in everything I do.”Ian Wells’ OAM for service to the Mt

Mee community was “most unexpected”.Mr Wells has overseen the running of the

Mt Mee Public Hall for 15 years, organising social events and concerts at the venue, which attract hundreds of visitors.

“I’ve been very much involved in all of that and I can look back on it with some sense of satisfaction,” he said.

“We get a lot of outsiders into these concerts… and we’d probably be lucky to get a score of locals.”

He ranks establishing a war memorial at Mt Mee–Dahmongah Lookout and re-searching names of local soldiers as the highlight of his work on the mountain.

“That’s what I’m most proud of. We created this memorial out of nothing and it’s a matter of some pride,” Mr Wells said.

Mr Wells, who worked in the meat and livestock and veterinary industries, has also led campaigns to control wild dog populations in the Mt Mee area and writes columns for local community newspapers.

Warner resident Ian Reeves received a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to cricket and Australian Rules football.

Florence Watson OAM, of Arana Hills.

Ian Wells OAM, of Mt Mee.

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Break and enters, Pine Rivers district: Thieves targeted properties at suburbs such as Closeburn, Warner, Bray Park, Lawnton, Brendale and Strathpine during the two-week period ending 30 January. Items such as brick laying tools, tablet computers, mobile phones, vehicle keys, alcohol and cash were reported as stolen. The thieves’ entry into the homes was made through unlocked front and rear doors and open side windows, by jemmying a rear door, using a house key kept outside which was stolen by an offender, cutting a mesh screen, and by smashing a toilet window.

Vehicle thefts, Pine Rivers district: No fewer than 16 motor vehicles and motorcycles were reported stolen across

the Pine Rivers district during the 14-day period ending 30 January. In one case thieves broke into a home at Retreat Street, Bridgeman Downs via an unlocked rear door, removed car keys from a kitchen table and stole a vehicle which was later involved in a hit and run incident. Cars were also stolen during a break and enter of a home at Glen Street, Bray Park and from an unlocked and open garage at Kalamunda Street at North Lakes. Three motorbikes were stolen from a house in Mistral Crescent at Griffi n.

Queensland road toll down: Queensland recorded a record road toll of 223 in 2014 – the lowest total since road fatality records began. “A record low is encouraging news, and we hope to repeat and improve on the reductions seen in 2014,” Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said. So far in 2015, 17 people have died on Queensland roads, compared to 20 fatalities for the same period in 2014.

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Unsung heroes in our community have been honoured at Australia Day awards ceremonies at Redcliffe

and Samford. D’Aguilar’s Tony “Top Hat” Moroney was

named the Moreton Bay region’s Citizen of the Year, at the Australia Day Awards held at the Redcliffe Cultural Centre on 24 January.

The award was in recognition of his fundraising efforts for the Heart Kids Foundation and for collecting food and household items for the needy.

The Dayboro Mens Shed received the Moeton Community Award, in recognition of its ongoing support of men’s health.

Dayboro Mens Shed’s President Ben Stafford said the award gives recognition “to the important role that Mens Sheds play in any community but especially the smaller ones such as Dayboro”.

Beachmere’s Hannah Granger, who has helped raise $1 million to help support Leukaemia and blood cancers patients, was named the Young Citizen of the Year.

Kobble Creek’s Damien O’Flaherty was named the Sportsperson of the Year. Awards also honoured environmental, cultural and youth sport achievements.

The Dickson Community Awards, hosted by Federal Member for Dickson

Peter Dutton, were held at the Samford Community Centre on 26 January.

Warner’s Maddy Houston was named the Dickson Youth of the Year for her work with school students promoting the No Second Chance youth safety and Matthew Stanley Foundation ‘One Punch Can Kill’ campaign.

“I speak about the impact of youth violence and alcohol fuelled violence and how there is no second chance… otherwise things can end badly for you,” she said.

Andrew Butwell from Everton Hills, a single parent and mental health nurse and junior rugby league team manager who became paraplegic after an assault nine years ago, was named Dickson Citizen of the Year.

Community Group of the Year is the Samford Avenue of Honour Committee, for establishing a memorial to local World War I troops near the Samford Parklands.

Dickson awards also went to community volunteers Max Ruthof of Kallangur and Bray Park couple Brian and Raelene Fittkau), depression awareness advocate Kate Tomsett fropm Petrie, and Warner’s Thomas Tucker, a two-time junior BMX world champion.

Read about more of our local Australia Day sports award winners on page 23.

Woodford identity Tony “Top Hat” Moroney was named Moreton Bay’s Citizen of the Year at an Australia Day awards ceremony hosted by Moreton Bay Regional Council.

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Aurelie Schaan reckons swapping the French metropolis of Lyon for the rural surroundings of Dayboro

was one of the best decisions she’s made.“I love the bush and countryside, being

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One of around 16,000 people from almost 150 countries who became new Australian citizens on Australia Day, she believes Australians’ national pride is “stronger here than in any other country”.

“People here are very proud of their country. They’re very special, unlike any-one else in the world I think,” she said.

A Portuguese expatriate who became a naturalised Aussie at the Samford Community Centre last week was Carlos Domingues Carrasqueira from Mt Glorious.

“Once I decided to be here I really want-ed to be part of the community. The peop-le, the weather, the opportunities; once you’re here you don’t go back,” he said.

Presiding over his fi rst citizenship cere-mony as the new Federal Immigration

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The Mower Supastore was Australia’s best-performed Toro dealership for 2012 and Queensland’s Stihl dealer of the year for 2008.

The Mower Supastore has diversifi ed and increased its product range, with goods varying in price from $3 to $150,000, and continues to offer expert after-sales service and on-site repair work.

“We cater from the small mum and dad type products to the full commercial products, and everything in between,” Mr Horan said.

The Mower Supastore is also one of Australia’s market leaders for the sale of all-terrain vehicles, enjoying a 40 per cent market share for sales of Polaris ATV machines on Brisbane’s northside.

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A local horse lover is helping people with a disability to get in the saddle.

Alycia Kuhnert was the top fund-raiser for the 2014 Pony Club Association of Queensland (PCAQ) Personality Quest, with her efforts recognised at an awards function in Bundaberg in December.

The Mt Mee Pony Club member raised one-third of the $24,910 generated by quest entrants in support of the Riding For Disabled (RDA) organisation.

Half of the $8136 she raised will go to RDA Queensland with the other half for the Currumbin Valley RDA centre.

“The amount of people that come up to me and say, ‘I know somebody who’s in RDA’, and you didn’t think it was that big of an association,” Ms Kuhnert said.

“You’re doing it (fundraising) for some-one who can’t just get on a horse and go for a ride. It’s a form of therapy for them.

“A horse is a good friend but for them it’s even more.”

Last year was the second time that the 26-year-old has participated in the PCAQ

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“The fi rst time I did it was back in 2010 after a friend of mine had a riding accident while he was campdrafting,” Ms Kuhnert recalls.

“I thought it would be a great idea to get out there and raise money for Riding For Disabled and hopefully get him back on a horse somehow. Unfortunately, he passed away before we got to see that.”

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I await the release of a new Clint Eastwood fi lm with the same anticipation as anything by Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg or Paul Thomas Anderson.

With a resume including Unforgiven, Bridges of Madison County, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, Invictus, Jersey Boys and J. Edgar I couldn’t have been more pumped up for American Sniper. I really felt like this was going to be the standout fi lm in an otherwise mediocre year for movies.

The fi lm chronicles the life of Chris Kyle, a Navy Seal sniper who did four tours in Iraq and ended up with a kill count of over 150 people.

Young Chris gets nightly lectures at the dinner table from his father about the importance of taking care of family and protecting the weak. “There are three kinds of people in this world, weak sheep, violent wolves and brave sheep dogs”. Chris absorbs this lesson to such a degree that it explains much of his motivation in joining the Seals, substituting protection of family for one’s country.

Eastwood has made many fi lms dealing with violence and how men try to internalise it and separate themselves from what they’ve done. I would have assumed this subject would be ripe for opportunities but it never really goes anywhere. It’s like a plane on a perpetual runway, always moving but never taking off.

Screenwriter Jason Dean Hall employs the time-honoured bio-pic method of establishing a few shorthand themes and repeating them again and again in lieu of anything authentic.

Bradley Cooper is good in the role, he’s beefed up and thoroughly Texan, but it’s all superfi cial. He looks and sounds good, but you don’t know anything about Chris. He’s not defi ned by any-thing he does, just by how upset his wife is or how much his comrades look up to him.

There are some standout moments that by themselves are great, but as a whole the movie is empty. It’s an incomplete jigsaw of a fi lm that doesn’t have any love in it from the fi lmmakers.

Also the fi lm borders on propaganda with its depiction of the Iraq war. I don’t like to mix my political or religious views with fi lm critiques because they generally don’t overlap, but there comes a point where you just get sick of seeing Iraqi families cowering in fear and being screamed at by soldiers.

American Sniper is such a disappointment, one of Clint Eastwood’s rare misfi res (no pun intended). I can imagine a lot of people loving this movie, but when you compare it to some of the greats like The Deer Hunter, The Hurt Locker, Saving Private Ryan and even Black Hawk Down, it’s just a big pile of nothing.

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“Bend and snap!” If reading those three words just

made you smile then you’ll know what to expect from the fi rst PRIMA (Pine Rivers Musical Association) production for 2015.

Director Maureen Bowra said roles in Legally Blonde: The Musical, a show about a seemingly ditsy woman who enrols in Harvard Law School in a bid to win back her ex-boyfriend, were in such high demand that more than 200 performers – including dogs – from Moreton Bay, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast auditioned. It was a record for a PRIMA production.

Danika Saal, who plays the lead role of the perennially perky Elle Woods, has dreamed of performing in Legally Blonde: The Musical “from the moment that the show came out on Broadway” almost a decade ago.

“I spent many a day listening to the soundtrack,” Saal said. “Right from the opening number there’s so much fun and frivolity that happens straight away.”

Saal said there was more depth to the character of Elle, portrayed by Reese Witherpsoon in the hit 2001 fi lm Legally Blonde, than she initially realised.

“She’s got a lot of layers to her which makes her really interesting and fascinat-ing to play, because she has to be a bit of

everything,” Saal said.“She has to be a bit

ditsy but also quite intelligent, sexy but still cute, she has to be vivacious but serious at the same time.

“I like the way she has a lot more depth to her than most people recognise.”

Despite having the lead role in the show, Saal expects to be upstaged by her two canine co-stars, one of which plays Elle’s pet chihuahua, Bruiser.

“It’s been really interesting, fun and challenging in a lot of

ways because you have to focus on the dogs while also focusing on your acting,” she said of performing with animals.

“The two dogs are absolutely going to steal the show, without a doubt.”

Legally Blonde: The Musical runs from 19–22 February at the Redcliffe Cultural Centre. Tickets available on 3283 0400 or at www.prima.org.au

– Lee Oliver

Fancy decorating your home with a painting by an iconic Australian artist such as Norman Lindsay,

Arthur Boyd or Pro Hart?Confi rming its reputation as one of the

premier art displays in the region, the Signatures Fine Art Exhibition returns to Samford for its third successive year.

More than 90 high profi le national and local artists, including Cedar Creek’s Michael Nicholas, Kobble Creek’s Pete Smit, Highvale’s Jennifer Redmond Cashmere’s Dianne Minnaar, Clear Mountain’s Di Hodge and Bruce Ellem and Samford trio Tracey Wallace, Marie-Ann Coyle and Shan Wood will exhibit works for sale.

The prodigious Mt Glorious art scene will be represented by potters Ann and Gerry O’Connor, woodworker Garry Rogers, painters Yvonne Mills-Stanley and Pat Boddington and glass workers Peter and

Carol Williams, Wendy Tait and Jim and Deidre Taylor.

Their pieces will be in the company of works by other internationally renowned artists such as Arthur Boyd, Pro Hart, Hugh Sawrey, Norman Lindsay and Robert Dickerson.

“For those with an interest in acquiring quality art, this exhibition provides a

perfect opportunity right here in our general neighbourhood,” the exhibition’s convenor Warren Hampton said.

Two previous Signatures shows raised around $30,000 for charity with the pro-ceeds from next week’s exhibition, hosted by the Rotary Club of Samford Valley and featuring 98 artists, to support Australian Rotary Health’s research into depression.

“This (depression) is at last receiving the elevated public and research attention which is so urgently needed and which is so long overdue,” Mr Hampton said.

The Signatures Fine Art Exhibition will be held at Topiaries at Beaumont House, 961 Eatons Crossing Road, Draper from 12–15 February, open from 10am to 4pm.

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Signature artists help depression causeSignature artists help depression cause

Samford Valley artist Shan Wood will display paintings at the Signatures charity art exhibition, which will raise

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The Dayboro community has helped a mother of two travel overseas for a potentially life saving medical

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will travel to Russia on 14 February to undergo treatment she hopes will stop Multiple Sclerosis (MS) from further destroying her body.

The revolutionary stem cell transplant has an 80 per cent success rate for stopping MS from attacking the body’s nervous system.

“I am a bit excited but anxious at the same time because I know what’s coming,” said the Delaney’s Creek local, whose health has deteriorat-ed steadily since diagnosis fi ve years ago.

“I’ve never been through a procedure like it before. I’m a little bit scared but I think of the end result to keep my mind off it.”

Sarah, 35, who expects to be in Moscow for fi ve weeks, is disappointed that stem cell treatments for MS patients are not readily available in Australia.

“There’s research papers coming out all the time… saying it’s best to have the stem cell transplant rather than going on to another drug,” she said.

“It’s been proven that the treatment works. I don’t see why they wouldn’t have it here.

“I’m not sure if they (the Australian medical authorities)

really listen to results that come out of Russia but I’m hoping they’ll listen to the results coming out of the United States.”

Of almost $24,000 raised to help Sarah get to Russia, more than $14,000 came from proceeds of a fundraising concert held in Dayboro last September.

Sarah McGuiness, pictured with her sons Harrison and Hayden, will travel overseas to receive cutting edge treatment for Multiple Sclerosis.

Relief from water tortureRelief from water torture

RRatepayers in the Moreton Bay region could be in for a slight reprieve from the rising cost of water.

The Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) has released a draft report recommending bulk water prices for south east Queensland for 2015-2018.

According to the QCA, bulk water accounts for about 30 per cent of an average household’s water and sewerage bill.

By 2018, all councils will pay a common price for their bulk water. Until then, each council is on a varying price plan.

QCA Chairman Malcolm Roberts said this common price was originally forecast to be $3.22 per 1000 litres but has since been revised down to $2.77 due to effi ciency savings at Seqwater.

“In 2015-16 six of the 11 councils will see their bulk water charges decrease,” Mr Roberts said.

“The recommended 2015–16 price decreases are: Somerset (12 per cent), Logan (8 per cent), Scenic Rim (7 per cent), Lockyer Valley (4 per cent), Gold Coast (3 per cent), and Moreton Bay (2 per cent).

“A major factor in these lower price increases is the cost savings following the merger of bulk water entities in 2013.”

Bulk water assets in south east Queensland, such as dams, treatment, desalin-ation and recycling plants, are now owned and operated by one organisation, Seqwater.

“Seqwater deserves credit for quickly achieving substantial cost savings,” Mr Roberts said. “The QCA identifi es other possible savings in capital and operating costs in the draft report.”

The QCA’s fi nal report is due to be released on 31 March. For more information visit www.qca.org.au/Water

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PINE RIVERS MEN’S SHED: meets every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at our shed, Old Petrie Town. If you like activities such as woodwork, metalwork, computing, card and other games, or if you just enjoy a cuppa and a chat - come along. All men of any age welcome. Phone Sal 3261 2323 or Kevin 0407 052 833.

PINE RIVERS CATCHMENT ASSOCIATION: Activities relating to integrated catchment management. Meets 2nd Tuesday of month at Kumbartcho Sanctuary, 15 Bunya Pine Ct, Eatons Hill. Phone Graham 3264 5485.

PINE RIVERS VIEW CLUB: meets 3rd Wed of month for lunch at Murrumba Downs Tavern, 10.30 for 11am. Interesting speaker. Outing 1st Wed of month. Ladies come and meet new friends. Ph Sandra 3425 2738 or Joy 3285 5989.PROBUS CLUB SAMFORD VALLEY: meets 3rd Thursday of each month, 10am at Samford Bowls Club. Guest speakers, monthly outings. Contact Val 3289 6443.QUEENSLAND STEAM & VINTAGE MACHINERY SOCIETY: located at Old Petrie Town, open 9am - 1pm Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays. ‘Live Steam’ day first Sunday of month, when we fire up the boilers and run big engines as they were meant to operate. Experience the sights and sounds of steam power Ph Chris 3353 2349.SAMFORD AND DISTRICT CARRIAGE DRIVERS: meets third Thurs of month. Driving rallies & events held monthly. Come & see what a great, fun, friendly sport carriage driving is. Ph Marilyn 3289 2509.SAMFORD AREA MENS’ SHED: meet every Tuesday at 9.30am for coffee and a chat, with guest speaker last Tuesday of the month, at Samford Showgrounds pavilion. Activities include woodworking, steelworking, gardening, photography, computers. Phone 0450 712 127.SAMFORD ART & CRAFT ASSOC: at the Slab Hut, John Scott Park, Main St, Samford. Wide selection of locally produced art and craft items. 10am-4pm, 7 days a week. New members welcome. Ph 3289 3113. www.theslabhutsamfordartandcraft.com.auSAMFORD DISTRICT HISTORICAL & MUSEUM SOCIETY: Museum open Wed and Sun 10am-3pm, Station St, Samford Village. Local & family history, research & displays. Group visits & tours by appointment. Ph: 3289 2743, web: www.samfordmuseum.com.au. New members welcome.SAMFORD HASH: meets every Sunday at 5pm (summer) or 4pm (winter). One hour social walk or run followed by drinks & meal. All levels of fitness welcome. www.samfordhash.blogspot.comSAMFORD RSL: A pension officer attends every Tuesday and Thursday 9am - 12pm at 6 Progress St, Samford Village. A JP is usually in attendance during those hours. Please call 3289 6928 for an appointment. Email to [email protected] re: our meetings and functions.SAMFORD VALLEY MARKETS: Return Saturday February 14, 7am-12pm, cnr Mt Samson Rd & Serendipity Drive, Samford. Fresh produce, arts & crafts, cakes inc. gluten free, plants, BBQ, morning teas, coffee. 40-50 stalls - new ones welcome. Ph Kate 3289 4922.SAMFORD WRITERS GROUP: meets the 1st Thursday of month. First-time or experienced writers, all genres. New members welcome. Email essential. Phone Barbara Cook on 3289 3046 or email [email protected] or [email protected]. www.samfordwriters.orgWOODFORD & DISTRICT POULTRY CLUB: welcomes new members. Enquiries to Di Neale 5498 9788.WOODFORD MUSEUM AND ART CENTRE: Open 10am-3pm each holiday Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and 3rd Sunday (Market Day) of each month. Group visits & tours by appointment. Ph Shirley Wallis 5496 1389 or Ron Trim 5496 1092.ZONTA CLUB OF PINE RIVERS: improving the lives of women & children locally & globally. Dinner meetings 2nd Wed of each month (except January), 6.30pm at Eatons Hill Hotel. Dinner $25pp. Phone 0413 451 764 or 0417 615 405 or email [email protected]


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on the jobTRADES & SERVICES

Name: Gerrard StirlingBusiness: Stirling Building Creations Established: 2009Based at: Eatons Hill

What services does your business offer? We are a building company which special-ises in new homes, renovating, extending, build in under, decks, bathrooms – the list goes on. There is not much we cannot do.

What areas do your clients come from? We are based in Eatons Hill but we service all of south east Queensland.

What was your company’s fi rst job? The fi rst job the company had done was a new deck extension and renovation to a kitchen and bathroom, and from there we grew.

How did you make your fi rst dollar? Packing shelves at the local supermarket.

How did you get into your current line of work? I always loved to build and loved working with my dad to renovate our own houses when I was a kid. I decided to become an apprentice carpenter and then became a contract carpenter, then a builder.

Why is a business like yours important? Everyone needs to have confi dence in

a builder to be able to do the work and get it done on time and not have to worry about if they’re not going to turn up. We make a commitment and we stick with it to provide the best job the homeowner can get.

What sort of clients does your business provide services to? Anyone that requires our services to have a house built or renovation that needs to be done.

What is the most unique job your business has done? We have built a jetty and a mansion of a kids’ cubby house.

Before your current job, what were your previous occupations? I had my own carpenter’s business, which grew then progressed to having my own building company.

What do your customers most appreciate about your services? Not only do they get a great job but all our employees are trust-worthy and well mannered. We turn up on

time and get the job done. All work is done on a contract and insurances are paid. And I am on the tools to make sure the quality is of high standard.

What is the best part of your job? Being my own boss.

What advice would you give to anyone considering entering your line of work? Go for it and keep pushing yourself to do better in every area. It is hard work but it pays off.

If you didn’t work in your current job, what job would you like to do? I have always been a green thumb so maybe a landscaper.

How do you spend your spare time? With the family.

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His club will fi eld one of its youngest senior sides in recent memory but new Dayboro Cowboys coach Adam

Heathwood insists his players won’t be overawed this season.

The team will have an average age in the early 20s following the retirement of Heathwood and fellow Cowboys stalwarts Justin Tyson and John Hutchinson at the end of last season.

After playing for Dayboro’s senior team for more than a decade, winning three Brisbane Second Division Rugby League premierships, a knee reconstruction forced Heathwood to retire at the age of 29.

“The best way for me to stay involved (with the Cowboys) was to take over the coaching,” Heathwood said.

“We’ve been training for two months and the players have been training so hard. They’re treating me as a coach and not as a mate, which is good.”

Heathwood has surrounded himself with experienced former Cowboys, with Tyson serving as assistant coach and fellow premiership winner Russell Mundy, who retired at the end of 2013, also helping to run the team.

The head coach believes if any rival teams underestimate his young Cowboys outfi t “that will work in our favour”.

“They won’t take a backward step for no one, these young fellas,” said Heath-wood, a Cowboys junior who had brief stints with Redcliffe and Wests and played representative football for Brisbane.

Heathwood is looking to the likes of Aaron King, Josh Hawkins, Steven Harris and Danny Prentice-McLeod, who has

played in France, to guide the team.While the Cowboys are in the rebuilding

process Heathwood is anticipating another winning season.

“The expectation is we want to make the fi nals this year. Once you’re there you never know what could happen,” he said.

Before the season proper Dayboro will aim to retain the Pine Cup pre-season tournament trophy it won last year.

The annual competition, which features the Cowboys, Pine Rivers Bears, Samford Stags and Pine Central Holy Spirit Hornets, kicks off at Matheson Oval at Petrie this Saturday night.

“It is pre-season footy and I don’t want to put much pressure on the young fellas,” Heathwood said. “The goal is to get to the fi nal of the Pine Cup but we’ll just take it game by game.”

Dayboro will face Samford in its Pine Cup opener with the winner to claim the Jack Lawson–Earl McDonald Shield, contested by the local rivals since 1989.

“There’s a lot of passion in the Samford–Dayboro game. It’s like playing in semi-fi nals. It’s a tough game of football,” Heath-wood said.

“I think Samford are going to be the benchmark this year in the Pine Cup. They’ll be the hardest team to play.

“They’ve got a really good coach down there this year (former Manly player Steve Hegarty) and will be able to attract some players.”

Round 2 of the Pine Cup will be held at Samford’s Allan Cash Oval on 14 February, with Dayboro to host the fi nals on 28 February.

Adam Heathwood, pictured running Adam Heathwood, pictured running with the ball for the Dayboro with the ball for the Dayboro

Cowboys in his playing days, is now Cowboys in his playing days, is now coaching his hometown team.coaching his hometown team.

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Their ages span 63 years but Thomas Tucker, Damien O’Flaherty and Ian Reeves have one thing in common: an undying passion and commitment to their chosen sports.

The trio have each been offi cially recognised with Australia Day honours.O’Flaherty was named the Moreton Bay Sportsperson of the Year for his continued

mentorship of young people in martial arts.“It’s just such a great honour that people recognise the work that you’ve done over

the years,” said the 52-year-old, who began instructing in martial arts in 1989 and has represented Australia in taekwondo.

“You run a business and a martial arts school because you have a passion and it’s your job but there’s a lot we do in the background that people don’t know about.”

As well as overseeing 160 junior students at Factor 10 martial arts at Strathpine, the taekwondo coach from Kobble Creek also gives free self-defence classes to help reduce bullying and provides tutelage to youth from disadvantaged backgrounds.

“You see what it (martial arts) does for their lives and for their fi tness and they become great, confi dent people,” O’Flaherty said.

“I’m particularly interested in the community side too, where we have a couple of students we give scholarships to… to give people an opportunity to do something they otherwise might not be able to do.”

Warner resident Ian Reeves received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Australia Day honours list, for service to junior cricket and Australian Rules football.

The 72-year-old has coached junior cricket teams since 1983 and also coaches Australian Rules football club teams as well as AFL Queensland’s Northern Raiders development side.

Secretary of Queensland Junior Cricket for the past 13 years, he is also a Life Member of the Brisbane North Junior Cricket Association and Valley District Cricket Club.

BMX whiz kid Thomas Tucker was named the Youth Sports Achiever of the Year at the Dickson Community Awards at Samford last week. The nine-year-old from Warner won his second straight world title in the Netherlands in July last year.

“I’m very grateful to win. Not many kids get to win an award like that,” he said.This year the Pine Rivers BMX Club rider will be aiming for a hat-trick of world titles

when the World Championships are held in Belgium.

The Bradman Museum’s World of Cricket is a stunning visual celebration of cricket featuring photographs from three of the world’s greatest sports photographers as well as Don Bradman’s personal collection, along with his typed commentary. It is all woven together by the commentary of Mike Coward, one of Australian cricket’s most acclaimed experts.

Thanks to Allen & Unwin book publishers, The Westerner has one copy of The Bradman Museum’s World of Cricket (RRP $49.99) to give away. Enter at the ‘Competitions’ page at www.thewesterner.com.au. Entries close 19 February.

Awards for good sports

Kobble Creek martial arts coach Damien Kobble Creek martial arts coach Damien O’Flaherty has been named Moreton O’Flaherty has been named Moreton

Bay’s Sportsperson of the Year.Bay’s Sportsperson of the Year.

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BOOK NOW FOR VALENTINE’S DAY LUNCH OR DINNER. Saturday 14th February.Samford Valley Hotel Ph: 3289 1212 Woodford Village Hotel Ph: 5496 1044

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