2019 March 14th RFSN

COMMUNITY NEWS

High range drink driver, Common Loop: Police intercepted a 40-year-old Innisfail woman around 1.30am on Thursday morning.

It will be alleged she was driving her vehicle well under the speed limit and was swerving across the road when she was intercepted for a roadside breath test.

As a result of the test, she was transported to Innisfail police station for further testing, where it will be alleged she returned a reading of 0.228 per cent BAC. She was charged with high range drink driving and her licence was suspended until she appears at the Innisfail Magistrates Court on March 11.

Found Bicycle, Innisfail Estate: The pictured bike was located at a Bergin Road address around 9pm Wednesday evening.

Police are urging anyone who owns a bike similar to the one located to ensure they have their bike.

Proof of ownership will be required to claim the bike.

Innisfail property section can be contacted between 8am and 4pm Monday to Friday on 4061 5777 and quote reference number QP1900461067 Wilful damage, Midgenoo: Police are investigating a break and enter to a vacant house on Crossan Road.

Between February 11 and March 3, entry has been gained to the property and damage has been caused to wall in the house.

Anyone with any information is encouraged to contact police and quote reference number QP1900458441 Stolen Quad bike, Munro Plains: Between March 2 and March 4 a red and black Suzuki King Quad 500 bike (similar to the one pictured) was stolen from a shed on a North Davidson Road.

Anyone with any information is encouraged to contact police and quote reference number QP1900454202.

Serious traffic crash, Sandy Pocket: A 55-year-old Riordanvale man sustained serious injuries after the motor cycle he was riding collided with a utility, on the Bruce Highway, around 8am Thursday morning.

The rider was flown to Cairns Hospital, the driver of the utility was taken to Innisfail Hospital.

Investigations are continuing.

Motor cyclist charged after traffic crash: A 47-year-old Upper Daradgee man was charged with one count each of driver to have proper control of a vehicle and failing to provide a specimen blood for test on requirement.

Around 5pm Thursday afternoon the man was allegedly travelling too fast as he has attempted to turn onto the Palmerston Highway from the Bruce Highway, when he lost control of his bike.

He has driven onto the wrong side of the road and on to a grass verge and colliding with a tree.

He sustained non life threatening injuries and was transported to Innisfail Hospital.

It will be further alleged he has failed to provide a specimen of blood for analysis.

He is scheduled to appear at the Innisfail Magistrates Court on April 8.

Drugs located, South Innisfail: Police executed a search warrant at an address on Mourilyan Road at about 4.30pm on March 3 and it will be alleged they located cannabis and utensils.

A 37-year-old woman was also charged and given drug diversion in relation to possessing dangerous drugs, possess property suspected of having been used in connection with the commission of a drug offence and drug utensils.

Drug charges, Innisfail: Police have charged a Cowley man after a warrant was executed in Innisfail on Wednesday.

It will be alleged that a 30-year-old man was present at the Bruce Highway address at about 11am when Police executed a search warrant.

It will be alleged that a quantity of cannabis was located along with drug utensils, scales and a quantity of money.

The man is expected to appear in the Innisfail Magistrates Court on April 1 charged with one count each of trafficking in dangerous drugs, receiving or possessing property obtained from trafficking or supplying, possessing dangerous drugs Schedule 2 drug quantity of or exceeding Schedule 3, possessing anything used in the commission of crime defined in Part 2, possess drug utensils.

Youths Charged, Innisfail: Two girls aged 15 and 13 from Goondi Bend where charged with trespassing on Thursday evening.

It will be alleged the girls have entered and failed to leave a Clair Street business where they have previously been banned from entering.

The girls were transported to Innisfail station and charged.

Drug Driver, Innisfail: A 53-year-old Silky Oak man was charged with drug driving on March 9.

At around 3.20pm, police from the Innisfail Road Policing Unit intercepted a vehicle on Lily Street, Innisfail for a random drug and breath test. Police will allege the man returned a positive drug result.

The relevant samples from the drug test have been forwarded to a laboratory testing facility for scientific analysis.

His licence was suspended for an initial period of 24 hours and is scheduled to appear at the Innisfail Magistrates Court on May 7.

Drink Driver, Vasa Views: On Saturday March 9, a 37-yearold Innisfail man was intercepted by police driving a vehicle on the Bruce Highway, Vasa Views.

The man was required to provide a breath test which returned a positive result. The man subsequently recorded an alleged reading of 0.093 per cent BAC. The mans drivers’ licence was immediately suspended for a period of 24 hours and he is scheduled to appear at the Innisfail Magistrates Court on April 8.

Public Nuisance, Innisfail: Police have issued a local man an infringement notice after an incident on Edith Street.

It will be alleged the 18-year-old man was involved in a disturbance on Edith Street at about 11pm on Saturday March 9.

He was issued with an infringement notice for $391 for commit public nuisance.

Exceed speed, Tully: On Sunday March 10 at 4.47pm, Police from Innisfail Road Policing Unit detected a 34-year-old Martyville man exceeding the speed limit on Bruce Highway Tully.

Police allege the man was detected with a speed of 72km/h in a 60km/h speed zone.

The man was issued with a $174 infringement notice and one demerit point.

Disqualified Driving, Innisfail: A 45-year-old Innisfail man was charged with driving of a motor vehicle whilst disqualified.

At about 4.40pm on March 10, Innisfail Police intercepted a vehicle on Rankin Street. Checks revealed that the driver’s licence was disqualified by court.

The vehicle he was driving has been

immobilised for a period of 90 days and he is scheduled to appear at the Innisfail Magistrates Court on April 8.

Drug offence, Innisfail: At about 6pm on Monday March 11, Innisfail Police located several youths on Edith Street.

Police will allege that whilst speaking to a 17-year-old Belvedere boy they have located a drug utensil. The boy will be dealt with by way of drug diversion for possession of a drug utensil.

Shop stealing, Innisfail: Innisfail Police are investigating a stealing complaint from a business on Edith Street.

At about 5pm on Monday March 11, two youths were observed entering the front entrance of the business.

The two boys were observed removing items from the shelf and then shortly leaving the rear of the business without paying for the items.

Truck roll over, Mourilyan: A 46-year-old Cranbrook man received a $304 infringement notice for not having proper control of the vehicle.

At about 1.30am on Tuesday March 12, the Prime mover and semi-trailer was travelling on Boogan Road, Mourilyan.

The Prime mover has veered off the road and the driver was unable to stop it from sliding.

This resulted in the Prime mover and trailer rolling onto its side.

At the time of the incident the truck was carrying chilled products and the driver was taken to hospital for observations.

Single vehicle traffic crash, Mourilyan: Police are investigating a single vehicle traffic crash on Mourilyan Harbour Road.

On Sunday evening March 10, a White Holden Colorado Duel Cab has left the road, dropped down an embankment and collided with a retaining wall.

The vehicle has continued into a nearby cane-field where it has rolled and caught alight.

If you have information for police, contact Policelink on 131 444 or provide information using the online form 24hrs per day.

You can report information about crime anonymously to Crime Stoppers, a registered charity and community volunteer organisation, by calling 1800 333 000 or via crimestoppersqld.com.au 24hrs per day.

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COMMUNITY NEWS Innisfail Multi Service Hub set to celebrate 10th anniversary of its opening

THE Innisfail Multi Service Hub will celebrate 10 years since its official opening on March 18, 2009, however the development of the purpose built facility goes back a lot longer.

The building was opened

by Honourable Warren Pitt MP (Member for Mulgrave, Minister for Main Roads and Local Government) on behalf of Honourable Lindy Nelson-Carr (Minister for Communities, Disability Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Multicultural Affairs, Seniors and Youth).

In 2004, following lobbying in the local community, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie made an announcement at 2004 Community Cabinet meeting held in Innisfail, the State government would move to ensure ‘district residents would have access to the best, most coordinated services possible and a feasibility study would be undertaken on creating a multi community service hub.’

The Department of Communities established a Human Services working group with local stakeholders including other government agencies, Johnstone Shire Council, non-government organisations and a range of community groups to undertake community consultations.

This working group made recommendations to the Department of Communities in relation to property selection and management arrangements with ‘the objective of a Hub to support and accommodate funded and voluntary human services.’ However, it took five years before this objective would be achieved.

Despite the impact of Cyclone Larry on the local region in 2006, the momentum for a Multi Service Hub continued and later in the same year, the Department of Communities explored the purchase of land in Donald Street.

Community Support Centre Innisfail (CSCI) was engaged

as administrators and lead tenant of the proposed Hub and included having input to the design concept and proposed management frameworks.

The end result was ‘the big orange building at the end of Donald Street’ which opened its doors to the public on January 5, 2009.

At the time, letters to the editor published in local newspapers made comments on the new Innisfail landmark with one writer saying they were disappointed the design didn’t include Art Deco features while another suggested the colour was apt and described the Hub as a beacon for the community.

The facility complete with meeting rooms, interview and office spaces has provided CSCI and other community agencies with a home for opportunity for growth and expansion, as well as a venue where community members can access numerous services and a structure that enhances collaboration and exchange between those services.

In the first year, 14 permanent co-located services and groups were operating out of the Hub while a further 15 organisations had utilised the venue on a once-off or short term basis.

Since it opened, the Hub has seen a number of co-located users and short term hirers with thousands of people walking through its doors each year.

A number of co-located users who utilise the building (separate from Community Support Centre) include: North Qld Woman’s Legal Service, Cairns Community Legal, Inner Wheel of Innisfail, Innisfail Toastmasters Club, Greenway Stitches, Cassowary Coast Domestic and Family Support Service, True Relationships and Reproductive Health, Tai Chi, Pilates, The Video Conferencing Centre and HeadSpace.

Members of the public and stakeholders are invited to share in 10th birthday celebrations which will be held on Thursday, March 21 from 10:00am

to 11:30am and will feature displays of current co-located users Innisfail Inner Wheel Club and Cassowary Coast Camera Club, with official proceedings followed by morning tea.

Anyone wishing to attend should RSVP to Community Support Centre reception on 4043 8400 or via email: reception@csci.org.au by Friday, March 15.

Community Support Centre staff outside the Innisfail Multi Service Hub on the first day the facility was opened to the public in January 2009.

EYE CARE

Rodenstock DNeye pro, The next chapter AS part of our commitment to ensuring that people on the Cassowary Coast have access to the very best optical care, we are very excited to announce we have successfully integrated our Rodenstock DNEye scanner into our practice. This is truly cutting-edge technology, this is only the 5th scanner to be installed in Australia, and Rodenstock is the only company in the world with this technology. We were fortunately selected

by Rodenstock to be among the first practices to have access to this industry leading technology.

It takes 7000 extremely precise measurements, including corneal aberrations, the size and shape of each patient’s eye (accurate to fractions of a millimetre) and records each pupil’s individual response to light and dark. It then feeds that information back to the laboratory where they integrate it into the calculations for your lens.

But what does this all mean? It means we no longer use averages to make our lenses, they are tailor made for each individual eye. Giving you

sharper vision, less distortions and better clarity and contrast in low light. We have explained some of the advantages in this editorial.

Every lens manufacturer assumes that eyes are a certain size, interestingly enough each lab has a different assumption, that can differ by several millimetres. Much like a projector the role of the front surface of your eye is to focus the image on the back surface of the eye. Now if your eye is not exactly the same length as the chosen average of whichever laboratory is making your glasses, the result will be a less than perfect image. The Rodenstock DNEeye Pro accurately measures the curvature of all of the surfaces of the eye and the thickness and size of your cornea (front surface of your eye). From these measurements it is possible to calculate the length of the eye.

Next is the surface of the eye, again laboratories assume the surface of each patient’s eye is a perfectly smooth surface with each cornea having a uniform curve. Again, this is not the

case, while some surfaces are relatively uniform, others can vary greatly. These variations to the surface create aberrations, or distortions, and they cause many complications to our vision. The most noticeable is a scattering of light, most easily described in a light point spread (see report), or what a point of light looks like to the patient in a dark room. These aberrations can cause problems for people driving at night or watching a movie in the cinema.

The DNEye scanner also tracks your pupil’s response to light and dark. Not every pupil is the same size, nor does it dilate or contract as much as the next persons. Many people have different aberrations in their eye when it is in a dark room when compared to outside, in fact even your own eyes will be differ from each other. We can now quantify this information and include it in the calculations for your chosen lens giving you much better contrast and clarity in low light.

There are more measurements and calcula-

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Katter party lobby to reduce fatalities SARI HYYTINEN JUST last year there were two fatalities on the Bruce Highway at the Feluga intersection. Unfortunately, there have been lots of near misses for drivers at the Feluga intersection.

“We have an intersection, and a railway line, and a cane train line, and a bridge and the main national highway,” said Bob Katter the Federal Member for Kennedy in Queensland when discussing the concerns for motorist that want to turn into Feluga.

The community deserves to have their voices heard and deserves for this intersection to be fixed. There have been petitions from the community to the state government for changes to

be made that will improve the road. Main roads recently upgraded the road by placing an overtaking lane on the highway.

But sadly, the overtaking lane hasn’t reduced the risk to drivers wanting to turn into Feluga.

It has increased the risk, as the turn off is just after the overtaking lane finishes. Cars and trucks will have limited space to reduce their speed for vehicles that are turning into Feluga.

“It has been an ongoing issue where we have received powerful lobbying from the local community,” said Shane Knuth the State Member for Hill in Queensland.

Mr Knuth again raised the issue in Parliament last month and said that residents have been fighting to have the Bruce

Highway East Feluga intersection (10 minutes from Tully) fixed since 2014 – they even erected a sign to alert drivers to the danger after numerous accidents and near misses and launched a 600 strong petition.

“I don’t want her life to be a loss,” said Tammy Spyve mother of Maddison Spyve as she discussed her desire to see the Feluga intersection improved.

“You never, never, never have an intersection on a highway,” said Bob, “It should be two T-junctions, always.”

The Katter party will continue to lobby the state government to make the improvements that are required at the Feluga intersection.

Bob Katter and Shane Knuth at Feluga intersection. The flowers commemorating the fatality that recently occurred of an eighteen-year-old Maddison Spyve.

Cassowary Festival Mission Beach

means no single use plastic.”

It is important to educate people in the community on how to cohabitate with our natural environment. Particularly when cassowaries have started to come to the primary school and busy built up areas in the community.

The main reasons cassowaries come to areas is to look for food, so if you see a cassowary make sure you don’t feed it.

To try and reduce cassowary deaths the Cassowary Festival is raising money for the cassowary corridor to be completed and to finish the corridor the $6500 is required. The corridor will help ensure that when development is started in the community consideration is given to the cassowary corridor.

The Cassowary Festival would like to showcase Mission Beach in partnership with local community members and businesses for the event in September 2019. The Cassowary festival is a community driven event which will be held on the first weekend of the school holidays in September.

Mission beach has become a place where a lot of cafes and bars are using the bamboo straws now and cardboard cups.

Members of the community are being encouraged not use plastic cups, plastic lids for their coffees and to try and BYO their own cups.

“We would like to see Mission Beach become the kind of town that people visit and leave it feeling like their ecologically fulfilled,” said Mel, “We want to promote biodiversity and that

THE committee members of the Cassowary Festival for Mission beach have started getting organised. Twelve committee members came to the information centre at Mission beach last Thursday afternoon March 7 to discuss this year’s plans for the festival and create strategies that catered to the goals of the festival.

The Cassowary festival in Mission Beach is a satellite event of world cassowary day with the goal being to encourage the community to live naturally, promote biodiversity and sustainability. “We are going to use art science and music in order to promote cassowary’s sustainability,” said Mel Bowman-Finn a committee member of the Mission Beach Cassowary Festival who is currently their acting MC

Members of the Cassowary Coast festival getting organised for 2019 at Mission Beaches information centre last Thursday March 7.

RURAL REPORT

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Instead of sampling every fallow block, we can now sample by soil type so if there are three fallow paddocks, all of the same soil type, we don’t necessarily need to sample all three. If, however, the management of one of these fallow paddocks has been changed, for example by adding mill mud, a separate sample needs to be taken.

The soil maps which feature soil types with different colours have been modified over the years. In recent months Sugar Research Australia have developed modified soil maps that are just brilliant to use for soil sampling. These streamlined versions of soil maps are available for every farm in the Tully Mill area and the production of these new soil maps is yet another example of just how our local sugar industry works together so well.

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TULLY SOIL MAPPING ha, a trace element like Zinc may only be required at 10kg/ ha. They are just as important at the major nutrients, but required in smaller doses.

Incidentally the research for Zinc in the Australian sugar industry was largely done right here in Tully by a very hard working and intelligent scientist called John Reghenzani.

The process of taking a soil sample has been developed over many years and has always relied on trying to get a representative sample from a particular paddock, with soil samples taken down to a depth of 20 or 25cm.

Up until a few years ago the tried and proven method was to sample fallow blocks and to crisscross the paddock taking many samples. However, in the past few years this had been modified by the use of soil maps.

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WITH the weather drying out a little, many growers will now start to soil sample, in preparation for the planting season.

Soil sampling is a very old and well established process for agriculture and sugar cane is no exception. Since the 1940’s and maybe even before that soil tests have existed to test the major nutrients in the soil for crop growth. Initially the major crop nutrients tested were what we call major nutrients, like Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorous, and Calcium.

Since the 1980’s more and more nutrients have been added to soil tests, especially ones we call Trace Elements, which are only required in small doses. It is the same for the home garden; plants require a mixture of major and trace elements.

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An example of the new soil maps available for use in the Tully industry, thanks to SRA.

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