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markson cloth An Art Quilt Retrospective by Glenys Mann 1990–2007
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 10 July to Saturday, 24 AugustThis exhibition runs simultaneously with a staff artist’s exhibition
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staff artist’sexhibition
Artists after work...Moreton Bay workmatesshow their true colours
Pine Rivers Regional Art
Gallery, at Unit 7/199 Gympie
Rd, Strathpine, offers a
diverse exhibition program,
displaying works from
renowned artists. The gallery
also hosts workshops and
creative activities for people
of all ages.
Throughout August, the
gallery will host “Marks on
Cloth,” a touring exhibition of
contemporary quilts created
by Tamworth textile artist
Glenys Mann. It will also
show “Artists After Work,
Moreton Bay workmates
show their true colours,” an
exhibition by more than 30
council staff, who spend their
leisure time being creative in
the visual arts.
Bribie Island Community
Arts Centre at Sunderland
Drive, Banksia Beach is
a purpose-built exhibition
space including the Matthew
Flinders Gallery, where large
exhibitions featuring works by
local and invited artists are
often displayed, and creative
workshops are regularly held.
From 5 to 14 August, Bribie
Island will host an exhibition
by Maro and Giovanni
Tozzetti, followed by “Quatro,”
an exhibition featuring
paintings, sculptures, pottery
and ceramics by a range of
artists from 16 to 31 August.
Redcliffe City Art Gallery is
the main hub for visual art
and creative activities on
the peninsula. It presents
a varied annual program of
local and touring exhibitions,
offering its visitors a unique
cultural perspective of the
seaside lifestyle and the
broader region.
During August, Redcliffe City
Art Gallery at 470 – 476
Oxley Ave, Redcliffe will host
“Accounting for the Collector,”
featuring the personal art
collection of renowned
businessman Brian Tucker
until 16 August, as well as
the Henzell Street Quilters
artworks and workshops.
For more information contact
your council district ofce;
Caboolture (07) 5433 3000,
Redcliffe (07) 3283 0233,
Pine Rivers (07) 3480 6666
or visit the website
www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au.
If you feel like indulging your creative side and getting the family out for some art appreciation,
Moreton Bay region is home to a number of community centres catering for visual arts.
explore
community art spaces
Take in the movies at a fraction
of the usual cost at the Redcliffe
Cultural Centre.
For $6 see movies like Before
the Devil Knows You’re Dead,
Then She Found Me, and
Spiderwick Chronicles and
be treated to coffee and cake
before or afterwards.
During any week, a variety of
Australian and international art
lms can be viewed.
The cultural centre in Downs
St, a low-cost community arts
centre, offers a range of exciting
activities for the young and
old, as well as poetry and
art displays.
A full list of the centre’s lms,
shows and activities are listed
in a monthly brochure available
from the venue or Visitor
Information Centres at Redcliffe
Parade and Pelican Park.
Phone the box ofce on
3283 0407.
Coffee, Cake and a Movie for $6?
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Townhouse trendThousands of dollars savedOlder & Bolder
what’s
insidewww.moretonbay.qld.gov.au
–
Thinking big for the future
Council is planning
for the future by
spending more than
$329 million on
key projects and
infrastructure in the
next 12 months.
Roads and transport,
wastewater management,
parks and recreation are key
areas of expenditure aimed atdelivering a solid foundation
for Moreton Bay region’s
growing communities.
Below are some project
highlights, outlined in this
year’s budget:
* $76 million allocated
towards the major upgrade
of the Murrumba Downs
Wastewater Treatment Plant
and $11 million for an
upgrade of the Burpengary
East Wastewater Treatment
Plant.
* More than $62 million
to be spent on transport
infrastructure including
the reconstruction of the
Old North Road, Youngs
Crossing and Samsonvale
Roads intersection in Warner.
Council will also spend
$4.2 million on roadpavement renewal and
$1.2 million on bikeways.
* $7.2 million towards the
construction of the Woody
Point jetty, $4.9 million
towards the rst stage of
works at Samford Parklands
and $3.7 million on the rst
stage of works at Caboolture’s
State Equestrian Centre.
* More than $1.4 million to
be spent on books and other
resources for the region’s
comprehensive library
system.
* Funding has also been set
aside for detailed design to
commence on an 82 hectare
Regional Sports Park at
Burpengary and an extensive
swimming pool upgrade
program to be rolled out
across Pine Rivers.
For more information, see
our four-page budget
liftout inside.
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The 5 August meeting will be held at 4pm
at Redcliffe, the 19 August meeting will be
at 4pm at Strathpine and the 29 August
meeting will be at 4pm at Caboolture.
Through its general and committee
meetings, council discusses and determines
strategies for its programs and services.
A full list of meeting times and locations can
Council Meeting ScheduleEkka holiday
The Moreton Bay region
will celebrate the Brisbane
Ekka show holiday on
Monday, 11 August.
Council ofces and many
other businesses in the
region will be closed for
the day.
Meanwhile Brisbane
celebrates its Ekka holiday
on Wednesday, 13 August.
General Meetings(rotational venues)
August 5 4pm Redcliffe
19 4pm Strathpine
29 4pm Caboolture
September 16 4pm Redcliffe
October 7 4pm Strathpine
21 4pm Caboolture
November 4 4pm Redcliffe
18 4pm Strathpine
December 2 4pm Caboolture
16 4pm Redclif fe
Co-ordination Committee(rotational venues)
August 5 9am Redcliffe
19 9am Strath pine
29 9am Caboolture
September 16 9am Redcliffe
October 7 9am Strathpine
21 9am Caboolture
November 4 9am Redcliffe
18 9am Strath pine
December 2 9am Caboolture
16 9am Redclif fe
Strategic and PlanningCommittee (Strathpine)
August 13 8.30am
September 10 8.30am
October 8 8.30am
November 12 8.30am
December 10 8.30am
What is Older & Bolder?
The rst regional program
will run from Monday, 8
September to Friday,
19 September.
The program offers a wide
range of low cost and
subsidised activities
and events.
New activities include jet
skiing, abseiling at Kangaroo
Point Cliffs, Cycle By The
Sea, Kum Nye relaxation and
meditation, an introduction to
four-wheel-driving and
many more.
Coach tours with Cross
Country Tours include trips to
Mount Tamborine, Kingscliff
and the Eumundi Markets, as
well as the Mary Valley Rattler
and Highelds Heaven.
Program booklets will be
available in council libraries
and customer service centres
and displayed on council’s
website
(www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au)
from early August.
Those who would like to
attend an activity should
register their interest between
15 and 22 August. A random,
lotto style system will be used
to allocate places.
The council co-ordinated program for the over 50s has been running successfully in Pine Rivers for three
years and is now expanding to take in Caboolture and Redcliffe districts.
Council will hold three general meetings this month.
be found at www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au.
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Water conservation bladderssave thousands of dollars
Stand out project helpsmulticultural communityIt can be tough when English isn’t your rst language, your extended family is
on the other side of the world and you don’t know the region.
Spectra Vision TheatreupgradedAs Redcliffe residents
watch the new bridge
being built alongside theHoughton Highway, visitors
to the Spectra Vision
Theatre at the Redcliffe
Museum will be intrigued
to see footage of the
Hornibrook Highway being
built in the early 1930s.
In the past, this theatre was
the core of the museum,
giving visitors a potted
history of Redcliffe using holograms and objects.
A recent $143,000 council
upgrade has resulted in
an entirely new theatre
production focusing on
the seaside lifestyle of
the peninsula.
Using images, objects and
some unique lm footage,
visitors will be transported
to the 1920s, sitting in
the Redcliffe Pier Theatre
surrounded by iconic
objects including a pair of
woollen 1930s bathers,
a steamer trunk, a set of
convict leg irons, and a
full working model of the
popular excursion boat, the
SS Koopa.
For more information phone
3883 1898.
But a project, known as
Standing Out, Looking In
is helping women from
multicultural backgrounds
establish themselves
and their families in
our community.
Last month, 12 women with
diverse backgrounds surveyed
about 250 others about the
problems they faced in their
day-to-day lives.
That information is being
used to work on solutions
harnessing the resources
of existing organisations to
address issues including
language barriers,
education and employment
opportunities, transport and
childcare availability.
The project targets women
because women’s issues are
family and community issues.
Standing Out, Looking
In is a joint initiative
involving council, the State
Government’s Department of
Employment and Industrial
Relations and community
employment and training
group CADET. It has received
funding from the State
Government under the Skilling
Queenslanders for Work
Initiative.
For further information please
phone 5431 6516.
Eight giant mustard-
coloured bladders
will help council savewater and money
when carrying out
vital swimming pool
maintenance.
Each 12-metre square
by 1.5-metre tall custom-
made bladder, worth about
$11,000, is able to store
152,000 litres of drinking
water and will be used at
council’s 13 swimming pools.
The bladders are part of
council’s commitment to
the Queensland WaterCommission’s Level 6 water
restrictions, that state pools
can not be lled with town
water supplies from South-
East Queensland.
Under these restrictions,
the other option during pool
maintenance work is to
totally empty the pools and
rell them with fresh water
sourced from outside the
region and transported by
road tanker – which would
come at a huge cost.
Based on tankered water
prices, council will have
recouped the cost of the new
bladders by the time it has
used them to maintain two
50-metre pools, at Lawnton
and Albany Creek.
The next two pools to use the
bladders, so maintenance
and repairs can be carried
out, are at Ferny Hills and
North Lakes.
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events Variety of locations inMoreton Bay Region1 to 31 August
Outside & Alive offers a mixture
of active, adventurous activities
and relaxing getting-back to
nature elements.
Highlights of this annual event
will be the Lowlands Festival, an
environmental family fun day at
Osprey House, Dohles Rocks Rd,
Grifn on 31 August from 11am
to 3pm, the What’s Cooking in
the Gardens? at Redcliffe Botanic
Gardens on 3 August from 10am
to 3pm and the new Dog’s
Day Out, on Sunday 17 August
from 10am to 2pm, at Rob
Akers Reserve, Bells Pocket Rd,
Strathpine. Radio 4BC’s pet vet
Dr Cam Day, an animal behaviour
consultant will be a celebrity pet
competition judge at this event.
For more details of events
throughout August phone 3480
6666 or visit the website
Lawnton Showgrounds1, 2 & 3 August
9am to 9pm Friday and
Saturday, 9am to 4pm Sunday
Pine Rivers Show will feature a
rodeo with broncos and bulls,
pig racing, wood chopping,
a Ute muster, Miss Showgirl,
sheep shearing, Jack Field Stunt
Motorcycle Display, art and craft,
horticulture, cooking displays,sideshow alley and reworks
(on Friday and Saturday night at
8.30pm).
Enquiries to Pine Rivers Show
Society 3205 2597.
Centenary Lakes,Caboolture13 August
10am to 4pm
Centenary Lakes Family Fun Day
Have a wild adventure at this
year’s Family Fun Day. Council
is hosting an exciting day of
free activities to give families a
day out on the Brisbane EkkaShow Holiday. There will be
entertainment, craft activities, a
events calendar Day (PG) at Downs St, Redcliffe.
Cost $6. Phone 3283 0407.
5 August, 7.30pm
Live Show: Antal Szalai & his
Gypsy Orchestra
Don’t miss this traditional gypsy
band – it will be a sell out!
Cost: adults $49.50, concession
and groups 10+ $39.90. Downs
St, Redcliffe. Phone 3283 0407.
Redcliffe Art Gallery6 August, 10.30am
Floor talk at the gallery - Learn
about artworks in the current
Accounting for the Collector
exhibition at 470-476 Oxley Ave,
Redcliffe. Morning tea provided,
cost FREE, phone 3283 0415.
8 August, 10.30am to 12noon
Children’s Dugongs and Magic
Painting Workshop
at 470-476 Oxley Ave, Redcliffe.
Cost FREE, bookings essential,
phone 3283 0415.
Redcliffe Cultural Centre8 August, 10am and 12noon
Live Show: Dorothy the Dinosaur
at Downs St, Redcliffe. Cost $17,
bookings essential.
Phone 3283 0407.
8 August, 7.30pm
Cue Film in Style: The Painted
Veil (M) at Downs St, Redcliffe.
Cost: two tickets and a goodies
basket, $32. Bookings essential.
Phone 3283 0407.
9 August, 7pm
Live Show: Flavours of theMiddle East at Downs St,
Redcliffe.
Cost: adults $12, conc $10,
family (2 adults, 2 children) $39,
ticket plus Middle Eastern nger
food $25. Phone 3283 0407.
10 August, 2pm
Film: The Painted Veil (M) at
Downs St, Redcliffe.
Cost $6, phone 3283 0407.
11 August, 7.30pm
17 August, 2pm
Film: Un Secret (M) at Downs St,
Redcliffe.
Cost $6, subtitled, phone3283 0407.
Bribie Island CommunityArts Centre11 August, 9am to 12noon
25 August, 9am to 12 noon
Fabric and Textiles Working
Together Group
The Fabric and Textiles group
meet in Studio 3 on the second
and fourth Monday of each
month. Cost is $2 for members
and $3 for non-members. Bribie
Island Community Arts Centre,
191 Sunderland Drive,
Bribie Island.
pet show, and more rides than
ever before. Bring a blanket or a
chair and enjoy this free annual
event. Centenary Lakes can be
accessed via Elliott and Riverview
Sts on the day.
Strathpine CommunityCentre18-19 August 9am to 3pm
Dickson Seniors Expo attracts
about 800 visitors each year.
Free entry and complimentary
sample bags, as well as
lucky door prizes, a fashion
parade, cooking and gardening
presentations.
active for lifePine Rivers CommunityHealth CentreAugust - three mornings
each week
The New Mums and Bubs of
Pine Rivers Walking Group meet
on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays at 8am at the Pine
Rivers Community Health Centre,
at 568 Gympie Rd, Strathpine.
For more information phone
3480 6666.
Older & BolderAugust 15 to 22
Booking requests open, see page
2 for full details.
Redcliffe Visitor InformationCentre22 August
Discover Redcliffe Factory Tour
Departing Clontarf Visitor
Information Centre at 9.30am.
Cost is $5 and bookings
essential. 1800 659 500.
arts and culture
Redcliffe Cultural Centre1 August, 7pm and
2 August, 7pm
Live Show: Suessical
the Musical
A Redcliffe State High School
production at Downs St,
Redcliffe.
Cost: adults $15, concession
$12 & children $8.
Phone 3283 0407.
Pine Rivers RegionalArt Gallery1 to 24 August,
Gallery open Wednesday to
Saturday, 11am to 4pm
‘Marks on Cloth’ – Retrospective
by Glenys Mann 1990 – 2007
and ‘Staff Artists’ exhibition
at 199 Gympie Rd, Strathpine
(Parking off Mecklem Street).Free admission.
Phone 3480 6941.
Pine Rivers HeritageMuseum1 to 31 August
“Science on the Move” is a
portable exhibition created
by Questacon – The National
Science and Technology Centre
in Canberra. This innovative
collection of 33 bright and
colourful portable displays brings
the excitement of interactive
science to the Pine Rivers
Heritage Museum, at DayboroRd, Kurwongbah. It is open
Wednesday to Friday from 10am
to 3pm, Saturday and Sunday
from 10am to 2pm.
Phone 3285 7213.
Redcliffe Museum1 to 31 August
More Shelley China - An
encore performance
Enjoy the beauty and diversity of
Shelley China at 75 Anzac Ave,
Redcliffe. Free entry.
Phone 3883 1898
Redcliffe Cultural Centre
3 August, 2pm7 August, 7.30pm
Film: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a
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Redcliffe Art Gallery13 August, 10.30am
Bus Trip to Logan Art Gallery to
view works from Brian Tucker’s
collection. Rendezvous at 470-
476 Oxley Ave, Redcliffe. Cost
FREE, bookings essential.
Phone 3283 0415.
Redcliffe Cultural Centre16 August, 2pm
Live Show: Surprise
Musical Party
Presented by the Redcliffe City
Orchestra and the Redcliffe City
Choir, at Downs St, Redcliffe.
Cost: adults $12, concession
$10, high school students $7,
primary and pre school children.
FREE.
*Allocated seating.
Phone 3283 0407.
Redcliffe Museum16 August, 11am to 3pm
Shelley Roadshow
Members of the Collector’s
Club will be on hand to assist in
researching your personal Shelley
china pieces. They will present
short talks throughout the day
on their own collections and
research undertaken by the club
at 75 Anzac Ave, Redcliffe. Free
entry. Phone 3883 1898
Redcliffe Art Gallery21 August, 6pm
Exhibition opening of Henzell
Street Quilters Annual Exhibition
2008, at 470-476 Oxley Ave,
Redcliffe. RSVP Monday 18
August, phone 3283 0415.
21, 23, 28 & 31 August, 9.30am
to 2.30pm
Redcliffe Quilter’s stall at 470-
476 Oxley Ave, Redcliffe.
Redcliffe Cultural Centre22 August, 6pm
Chill out at the Cue Bar at Downs
St, Redcliffe.
Meals available, free entry,
phone 3283 0407.
22 August, 7.30pm
23 August, 7.30pm
Film: Counterfeiters (MA) at
Downs St, Redcliffe.Cost $6, subtitle.
Phone 3283 0407.
Bribie Island CommunityArts Centre24 August, 8.30am to 12.30pm
Arts & Crafts Fair
Plenty of great gift ideas, hand-
made, home-grown, home-baked
fare and paintings. Bribie Island
Community Arts Centre, 191
Sunderland Drive, Bribie Island.
Pine Rivers RegionalArt Gallery27 August to 4 October
Gallery open Wednesday toSaturday, 11am to 4pm
‘Document Moment’ –
photography by Walter Stahl
who was the winner of the
2005 Annual Art Awards and
‘Digital Spectre’ – digital artwork
by Debra Livingstone, at 199
Gympie Rd, Strathpine (Parking
off Mecklem Street).
Free admission. Opening Friday,
29 August at 6pm.
Phone 3480 6941.
Redcliffe Cultural Centre28 August, 10am
Live Show: It’s a Party! at Downs
St, Redcliffe.
Help us celebrate U3A’s 20th
birthday with two hours of fun.
Cost $7.50, bookings essential,
phone 3283 0407.
Pine Rivers RegionalArt GalleryThursday evenings 6.45pm to
8.45pm
Gallery open Wednesday to
Saturday, 11am to 4pm
Life drawing sessions (untutored)
Cost $11.
Thursday evenings at 199
Gympie Rd, Strathpine (Parking
off Mecklem Street). Beginners
and experienced artists welcome.
‘The Gallery Shop’ featuring work
by local artists and guests.
Unusual gifts under $200 +
Creative Play gifts for kids
Entries close on October 10
for the upcoming Moreton Bay
Regional Youth Art Awards.
Phone 3480 6941.
librariesKallangur Library
August
Pioneering the Pine IV
Pine Rivers founding families -
Heritage Museum display
Kallangur LibraryAugust - every Monday &
Wednesday
PlayOn@Kallangur
Free indoor and outdoor games
for young people. Board games,
Giant Chess and Connect 4, dart
board, quoits, hooky or skittles in
the courtyard. 3pm to 4.30pm
Redcliffe City Library
AugustChildren’s Book Week Art
Competition
The competition is for primary
aged children and prep groups.
Entries close on August 8. Forms
are available from the library.
Bribie Island Library1 to 29 August
Artist of the Month
Enjoy an exciting selection of
Aboriginal artworks by Enid Kina-Morris. Free. Call for viewing
times on 3408 1388.
Deception Bay Library1 to 29 August
Artist of the Month
View mixed media artworks by
Darla Boyd. Free.
Narangba Library1 to 29 August
Artist of the Month
Displaying a selection of
paintings by Reagan Samoa.
Free.
Redcliffe City Library4 August, 10am to 12noon
Knitting for the needy
Join a group of ladies and knit
squares, hats and scarves for
people in need.
Pathways Library6 August
Computers for Nervous
Beginners
Would you like to use a computer
but are unsure as how to start?
Join Computers for Nervous
Beginners, a six week course that
will start you on your journey to
computers, creating documents,
internet basics and email.
Spaces limited so book now on
3480 9900.
Weekly sessions. 6 August – 10
September.
Redcliffe City Library6 to 7 August, 10.30am to
11am
Storytelling
Celebrate children’s book week
with favourite Australian authors.
Redcliffe City Library8 August, 1pm and 2pm
Andy Grifths visits
Meet, listen and talk to this
popular Australian author.
Bookings essential.
Phone 3283 0310.
Narangba Library9 August, 3pm to 4pm
Book launch of Too Many
Assassins by Chanter Read. Free.
Pathways Library12 August, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
For 18 years and over.
13 August, 2pm to 4pm
For 12 to 18 years.
Poetry Slam WorkshopGhostboy presents a free
workshop to help every budding
performance poet out there hit
the slam stage hard armed with
freshly sharpened words!
Places limited, book early on
3480 9900.
Bribie Island Library
12 August, 10am to 12noon
Vegetarian cooking
demonstration and nutrition talk.Free. Bookings essential.
Phone 3408 1388.
Redcliffe City Library
13 August, 4.30pm to 6pm
Introduction to the internet
Discover the World Wide Web.
Surf the net using Internet
Explorer. Bookings essential.
Phone 3283 0249.
Narangba Library
16 August, 11am to 12noon
Krumping workshop for ages
12 to 17 years. Free. Bookings
essential. Phone 3385 5555.Pathways Library
16 August at 6.30pm for 7pm
Australian Poetry Slam 08
Moreton Bay will be hosting one
of the heats in the Australian
Poetry Slam 08 - the search is on
for our best spoken word poet!
Participants will have a chance
to win the state or national title
for all forms of poetry from verse,
to comic, hip hop, spoken word
monologues, or beat.
For young people aged 12 to 18
years and adults 18 years andover. Book early on 3480 9900.
Moreton Bay Libraries
16-22 August
Children’s Book Week - Fuel
your mind!
Activities will include: Children’s
Book Week Quiz, a Book Week
Show with song, rhymes,
puppetry, and story gigs, story
times and displays.
Special events are author (Greg
Rogers) tour and talks at eight
libraries across the region, and
an art competition (entries close
8 August).
Deception Bay Library
20 August, 10am to 12noon
Scrapbooking with Tina.
Cost $10 to cover materials.
Bookings essential.
Phone 3203 1094.
Bribie Island Library
20 August, 3.30 to 5pm
After School Club. Celebrate
Science Week with kitchen
professor science experiments.
Free.
Other library events continuethroughout the month visit
library.moretonbay.qld.gov.au
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From Tai Chi to a teddy bears picnic, the Outside
and Alive recreational and environmental festival
this month offers something for everyone.
Council is hosting a range
of activities at the park from
10am to 4pm so residents
can treat their kids to a
day out on the Brisbane
Ekka Show Holiday without
breaking the bank.
Adventurers can burn
off some energy on rock
climbing, a giant slide and
a bungee trampoline, while
kids fascinated with lizards
and snakes will get a kick out
of the mobile reptile display.
All rides, activities and face
painting are free throughout
the day. Roving performers,
boat rides on the lake and
train rides will keep the
kids busy.
A pet show with competitions
and prizes will be a highlight.
There will be food stalls
operated by community
groups and service clubs, but
families are also welcome
to bring their own
picnic lunches.
Wild adventures atFamily Fun DayRock climbing, rides and reptile shows are just
some of the wild adventures to be had at this year’s
Family Fun Day at Caboolture’s Centenary Lakes onWednesday, 13 August.
Outdoor fun for all ages
Council will run fun and
educational activities and
events every Wednesday,
Saturday and Sunday in
August as part of the festival.
For youngsters there will be
the Teddy Bears’ Picnic at
Pine Rivers Park from 10amon 20 August, the Active
after School Program every
Wednesday and the Junior
Ranger event on 2 August.
Residents looking for a fresh
hobby can take advantage of
activities conducted by local
clubs aimed at encouraging
people to try something new.
Those needing to relax theirmind, body and soul can try
out the ancient martial art
of Tai Chi at free sessions at
North Lakes on 30 August.
There are some very special
events planned for Sundays.
Food lovers and garden
enthusiasts will be in their
element at What’s Cooking in
the Gardens? at Redcliffe’s
Botanic Gardens on 3 August.
Bring your own canoe or
kayak to be part of Paddle
the Pine on 17 August, take
your pet pooch to Dogs Day
Out at Rob Akers Reserve
Strathpine on 17 August and
learn about the environment
at the Lowlands Festival at
Osprey House EnvironmentCentre on 31 August.
For further information and
a full program guide, please
phone 3480 6666 or visitwww.moretonbay.qld.gov.au.
Outside & Alive is presented
by Moreton Bay Regional
Council in conjunction withENERGEX.
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The fund, a joint council and
Queensland Government
project, aims to support local
arts and culture and its latest
funding round applications
will be for projects
commencing after
November 2008.
Individual professional
development, arts projects,
heritage projects, workshops
and concept development, or
creative industry and cultural
tourism development are all
areas that are eligible for
funding.
To discuss your project,
obtain guidelines, application
forms or to book your place
in an information session,
contact your relevant RADF
Liaison Ofcer:
Contact Caboolture district
(07) 5433 2240, Redcliffe
district (07) 3283 0233 or
Pine Rivers district
(07) 3480 6666.
Further information,
application forms and
guidelines can also be
downloaded from council’s
website at
www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au
Fuel forthought
Moreton Bay Regional libraries
are celebrating Children’s
Book Week from 16 to 22
August with the theme ‘Fuel
Your Mind.’
The range of fun activities will
include an art competition for
primary school aged children,
awards ceremonies, special
story time sessions, displays,
a Children’s Book Week
Quiz, and a Book Week Show
with song/rhymes, books,
puppetry, and story gigs.
Well-known illustrator Greg
Rogers will speak at eight
libraries across the region.
Individuals and organisations with great arts and cultural ideas have until 12
September to put their hands up for Regional Arts Development Fund grants.
Got a great arts idea?
RADF
Increasing numbers
of people living aloneor as couples without
children have fueled
a trend towards building
townhouses in the
region.
Council’s town planners
have noticed a signicant
shift towards building
townhouse complexes in
the past couple of years,
following nearly 15 years
where little interest was
shown in their construction.
The region has a number
of recently completed
townhouse complexes,
complexes under
construction and several
development applications
for more townhouses in
the pipeline.
Townhouses particularly
suit the northern growth
corridor of Mango Hill,Grifn and Dakabin, where
council plans are aimed at
encouraging higher density
developments.
For more than a century,
the average Queensland
household has been a
couple with two children
living in a detached three or
four-bedroom home with a
large back yard.
However, the State
Government’s household
projections show one-personand two-person households
are rapidly becoming
the norm.
An ageing population,
changing social attitudes
and lifestyles, net migration
and declining fertility are all
driving the changes.
The household projection
report says the number
of “lone person” and
“couple without children”
households is expected to
increase by about 70 per
cent by 2026.
Townhouses are trendy