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Emerald explained that she found out when her teacher Mrs Price came into the music class “looking serious”( no doubt trying to hide her excitement until the last moment) and then quickly said “ Emerald I have some news for you…you’ve won the Mobile Muster competition!”. “I felt surprised then excited, but this year we had 2 months to develop our films” said Emerald. She was able to work on story boarding her ideas, drawing and animating, with encouragement from her high achieving Mum and Uncle Alex who works in animation in Canada. Emerald added, “he helped me with including the sound and music and a couple of years ago gave me a Survival Kit for Animators which was really useful”. Uncle Alex when told of her win said that it was “really impressive” and Emerald now has a goal to make a five minute animation.
“Environmental Emerald” wins the 2021 National Mobile Muster Competition
Along with Dad who is an artist and Grandma Lynda being artistically talented, Emerald has obviously inherited strong creative genes. She took a lot of inspiration from watching You tube clips and finds animation “fun” and has a “passion for drawing whatever you can imagine, you can put down on paper or my i-pad”. Largely selftaught, Emerald started by “drawing eagles and flamingoes” and then discovered the possibilities of animation in 2017.
Huge congratulations to talented year 6 Springbrook State School student, Emerald Bloomfield who has won the 2021 nationwide Mobile Muster film competition in the upper Primary category. A runner up last year, Emerald who will turn 12 next February, has demonstrated a strong artistic ability from an early age. The theme this year was “Protect the Planet“. The winners were announced during Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week early in November. With her super hero animated character “Environmental Emerald”, she cleverly urges us to recycle our old mobile phones and do what is right by the environment. A panel of film, environmental and education experts selected the winners and finalists based on their creativity, technical skills, environmental message and relevance to the theme.
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Along with a trophy, she has received a $3000 voucher from JB Hi-fi hoping to buy a” laptop, phone and maybe a Virtual Reality headset”. Awarded a scholarship and invited to attend the Academic Excellence program at Highschool next year, Emerald has demonstrated strong ability in Maths and Creative Writing during the initial testing process.. Feeling “nervous but excited” at the thought of the transition to a 2000 student high school next year, Emerald is more than ready for the challenges to come! Pam Hall 1
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Enjoy the rain... the tanks are overflowing, the creeks and springs are bubbling, the waterfalls are tumbling and the forest is refreshed. Until next year, let’s hope our first issue finds us all revived and ready for another wonderful year in our mountain top paradise. All of us at Voices would like to wish the Springbrook community a very Merry Christmas with time to spend with family and friends followed by a Happy, healthy and positive New Year, 2022.
EDITORIAL by Pam Hall As we put together our final issue of Voices for 2021, it’s necessary to reflect on the year that was. It’s been an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge everyone who has contributed to our 30 years of publication along with our community’s survival of the ongoing pandemic. Let’s hope that we are almost through it and our lives will continue with fewer restrictions. Many thanks to our editorial committee for another year of involvement and of course a huge thankyou to our printers, deliverers, contributors and advertisers who make each issue possible.
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Another successful year has been evident through the achievements of our busy volunteer community groups, providing friendship, support, care and involvement in meaningful pursuits. The school with its varied and interesting curriculum has prepared our children not only to develop their academic and physical abilities but also their social and environmental awareness. Two of our year 6 students are ready to set off to high school next year. Staff and students have celebrated their achievements, especially that of Emerald Bloomfield who is featured on our front page.
Taking care of business
EDITOR: Pam Hall CONTENT CO-ORDINATOR : Kara Froggatt DELIVERIES: Clyde Dunlop : 0437 051 709 SUBSCRIPTION CO- ORDINATOR, ADVERTISING & TREASURER: Caryl Hamilton Please send all articles and correspondence to
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A heartfelt article by Judy Hardy-Holden who grew up on the mountain is very timely regarding the need for not only acknowledgment of the region’s long indigenous history and its continuing impact on individuals and families today. It also asks how that can be made more practical and meaningful in the future. The concept of the planned Peace Park will go some way to telling the story that has been hidden for so long and to look at ways to begin to consult with First Nations members in order to develop some positive rectification. Thanks to Adi Dunlop for her drive and her supporters along with Councillor Glenn Tozer for facilitating this opportunity, still in the early stages of discussion..
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SPRINGBROOK COMMUNITY HALL Available for hire 7 days a week from 7am to 11pm ALL BOOKINGS AT A RATE OF
$13.00 PER HOUR for locals. $25 for other bookings The Hall is used by community groups such as: SMCA, SWAG, Silat, AA, Yoga, Cuban Dance. Information on events is outlined on the Hall’s notice board.
The Hall facilities include a full kitchen and a stage for that special show. Ideal for a wedding or special occasion.
Springbrook Community Hall Its been so good to have our 74 year old hall reverberating with life again after so many quiet months in the last few years of Covid silence!
For all bookings and information please contact
Kara on 0413 979 271
We love to host local groups and events and encourage locals to use the hall at the bargain rate of $13 per hour! Whilst there are something we can’t do due to council regulations (21st birthday parties for example) there are a lot of things that we can do and look forward to helping you organise it! If you are from off the mountain, we’d love to invite you up to run course, workshops and events that enhance living in Springbrook. If you have a topic of interest, a skill or a point of view you would like to share, then contact us and lets see what we can help you get going on the mountain for love or for money! Have a think about what you would like to see happening in the hall in 2021 and lets have the hall busy and active in the coming year! We have a kitchen full of crockery and cutlery as well as urns and more coffee cups than you can pole a stick at. We also have plenty of table and chairs and a great little stage and a lectern.
Springbrook Community Library & Book Nooks
Please visit our website for more information and feel free to contact us if you need more info or to make a booking on: www.springbrookhall.blogspot.com
The Community Library at the Hall is open at various times as advertised on the SMCA social media. Book Nooks Open Dawn till Dusk
Purling Brook Book Nook - Kuralboo St Baleirei Book Nook - 2353 Springbrook Road Near the school New Book Nook OPEN NOW In front of Greenwood Farm at Goomoolahra
To book the hall or make enquiries: Please call us on 0413 979 271 Or email us on springbrookhall@gmail.com.au See you there! Kara Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
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Ladies Lunches Second Friday of the month, 12pm at various cafes on the mountain. All ladies, their friends and children welcome. Buy your own cuppa, lunch or snack and enjoy the company of other mountain ladies!
The owners of the H2O tank Doctor have been self employed since 1988 and have lived in the Gold Coast hinterland for nearly 30 years. The family run business includes Jennifer, Laura, Thomas and Lauchlan.
To get on the mailing list please contact Kay on 0407 137 880
Where The H2O Tank Doctor differs from others in the water storage business is their knowledge of water issues from the roof to the tap and their experience offering the very best value for money water quality services. These services include two types of water tank cleaning from minimal water loss vacuuming of the built up sludge from the floor & water sterilisation to full internal clean involving empty of the tank and getting inside the tank to carry out a full internal hand scrub and pressure clean of tank roof, walls, floor & interior pipe work with final rinse.
Community Cuppa takes place on the last Friday month. Members of SMCA receive a reminder email. If you would like to be on a reminder email list, please phone Francine on 0449 830 738
or email: franciegirl@hotmail.com
The H2O Tank Doctor also can help with water tank vermin proofing and permanent tank repairs. So if you need help with all or any aspects of water catchment, water storage, water filtration, water delivery, water quality and improvement,
Everyone is welcome! Meet old friends and make new ones.
The H2O Tank Doctor is a one stop shop company with a big difference. Family run business since 1988. Fully insured. Confined space certification. QBCC licensed. White card certification. Police checked. COVID health precautions include clean of our equipment to prevent cross contamination. Can offer minimum warranty on concrete water tank repairs and to date do not have a water tank we have repaired leaking.
SPRINGBROOK’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE Wayne Randall – JP 5533 5192 Denise Gilbert - JP Paul Chaplain - JP Qual There are often requests for a Justice of the Peace on the mountain. Try using a search engine to look up Justice of the Peace and enter your suburb for a comprehensive list. If you are a local JP and wish to be added to our easy to find local list, please email us here at Voices –
For more information visit our website,
www.theh2otankdoctor.com.au
voices.springbrook@gmail.com with your details to be included in future issues.
Are you interested in reading, lively discussion and a drink/tea/coffee? Then why not join the
Springbrook Book Club * Frequency: Once a month *Day & Time: 2nd Wednesday 1-3pm at the Hall *Format: Informal Email Lin on thomson.lin@gmail.com
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Springbrook Mountain Community Association Inc
The Springbrook Community Calendar
PO Box 677, Mudgeeraba, Q 4213
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SMCA’s membership has grown by 15 during the year, increasing our ranks to a total of fifty, including five life members. We welcome our new members and look forward to their future contributions – the most important of which is attending our monthly meetings to contribute ideas and opinions, as well as to ensure that we have a quorum to endorse decisions of Management.
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SMCA’s facebook page has perhaps, by its success, inadvertently contributed to low attendance at some meetings. Our anonymous administrator ensures that, together with an early morning daily post, incidents affecting residents are quickly posted and regularly updated. Currently 2784 people are following this page, which, as there is a population on Springbrook of only 659, shows there is a significant interest well beyond our boundaries.
Tennis Club meets at 8.30am at the Courts behind the Hall. Men's Shed open from 9am. All men welcome Springbrook Wildlife Appreciation Group Wildlife monthly talks 2pm at the Hall. Check the SWAG Facebook page for details Christina's Cuban Dance Lesson Nights. Check the SMCA's Facebook page for details. ❖
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The Covid shadow that hovered over us throughout 2020 lifted considerably this year but has still had some impact in respect of numbers allowed to gather inside the Hall, together with the need to prepare a Covid plan in respect of any planned activity. Despite this, there’s been a welcome return to something like the pre Covid normality with the resumption of meetings and social events.
Informal group of Mountain Mums meet at the Fudge Shop after school drop off for a catchup and a coffee 2nd Friday Ladies Lunch 11.30am at various Cafes. Check the SMCA face book page for details Last Friday Community Cuppa 10.30am at various cafes. Check the SMCA Facebook page for details ❖
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Men's Shed open from 9am. All men welcome Skate Park Day for school age kids 3pm-4pm 1st Tuesday bi-monthly Chamber of Commerce at Hall Perisai Diri Silat 6pm at the Hall SES training at the SES Shed behind the hall, 7pm. ❖
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Our recent Annual General Meeting resulted in the previous Management Committee being returned for 2022, with the exception of Laura Berman. She, together with the other Committee Members, Cath Young, Guy Livermore and Paul Chaplain, were thanked for their support and input throughout the year.
❖ Monday Playgroup at Springbrook State School, 9am – 11.30am. Contact the school for more details School library day
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Farm and Road side stall day. Check out the local produce for sale around the mountain 4th Sunday – Anglican Service 10.30am at the Observatory
The diary of upcoming events sent out weekly to members via email is another source of information that maybe influences members to feel less of a need to attend meetings. As previously stated, meetings give those present an opportunity to have a direct input into decisions as well, perhaps more importantly, to catch up socially with neighbours and friends.
The Springbrook Mountain Community Association’s general meetings are held on the second Wednesdays of the month, beginning at 7:15pm at the Hall on Carricks Rd Email reminders will be sent out well in advance to members.
Throughout the year we’ve continued to communicate with all three levels of Government , more so with those at State and Local level, with Ros Bates, MP and Cr Tozer being welcomed at our meetings on several occasions.
Like us on Facebook or Instagram for daily community updates! Meeting dates are notified via our Facebook & Instagram pages as well as public notice boards. Membership is $5 per year per person.
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The completion of the upgraded amenities block behind the Hall means that, with the Rural Fire Brigade and SES facilities, the Community Hall, and the big generator, we have a disaster management hub capable of providing initial support for community in any likely scenario. Nov ’21 – Feb ‘22
We’ve also seen the completion of the first stage of the
providing initial support in any likely future scenario. We’ve also seen the completion of the first stage of the long awaited footpath along Springbrook Road that will provide pedestrians with a safer passage between Lloyds and Carricks Road. How exactly the Purlingbrook Causeway will be crossed is a subject of much speculation, creative thinking and debate. Wheelie bins were the focus of discussion at our June meeting, with the cold outside the building being matched by the carbon neutral heat being produced inside. The simple outcome is that we have the bins together with the option to use them or not. Our ongoing concern is whether this is the first step in a strategy by Council to eventually close the “Tip”. The “Peace Park” is an example of how SMCA provides a platform for individual members to present and develop their own creative visions for projects that will benefit not only residents of Springbrook but of the wider community. Adi’s original concept for an area of bushland to be dedicated for the purpose of quiet reflection has been developed to include some form of dedication to the original inhabitants of the area as well as the early European settlers. This is an evolving project and its final form won’t be known until the planning and consultation process has run its full course. One of SMCA's roles has continued to be the Management and caretaking of the Community Hall, which serves as a social hub as well as a means of raising money that eventually finds its way back into both the local and wider community. Following the quiet period throughout lockdown, the reopening of the Hall was a significant challenge in ensuring that the various user groups were aware of and complied with the range of regulations and restrictions imposed by Council. Hall Manager, Kara Froggatt and Treasurer, Ian Powell, received honorable mentions at the AGM for their effective administration of the monthly invoices and liaising with the regular hirers of the Hall. At this time of the year it only remains to wish all members of the Springbrook Community a happy and safe Festive Season and to express the hope that we'll see you all again in 2022 which, with the reopening of the State and International borders will see a whole lot of new challenges and opportunities. Ian Bolton (Hon Secretary) -
Springbrook Community Library “Fiction is the weaving of a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” Khaled Hossein Since the last edition of Voices, the Springbrook Community Library has had a revamp and the Springbrook Book Club has been launched. The library is now open twice a month, on the second Wednesday and the last Thursday of each month from 1pm – 3pm. Sorted according to author we have a variety of genres – from the thriller, drama British author Jeffrey Archer; who is as controversial as he is popular. Interestingly, he has a number of Australian art works, in particular those of Arthur Boyd. Archer sees himself as a “story teller” rather than a writer. The late South African-Australian author Bryce Courtenay, best known for his historical fiction, used story telling as a mechanism to eventually distract the bullies at his school and at the same time hone his narrative skills. Do you detect a common theme? If you love a good story and you prefer sci-fi then we have a few Frank Herbert novels. ‘Dune’ 1965, is the best-selling sci-fi of all time, a true testament to its broad appeal. Made into a film in 1984 this has been remade, with ‘Dune: Part One’ recently released in cinemas. Other authors in our collection include; Ruth Rendell, Agatha Christie, Steg Larsson and Clive Cussler, John Grisham, James Paterson and Ken Follett, just to name a few. We have romance, murder mystery, dystopian worlds, fantasy, action adventure not to mention non-fiction. There are Australian biographies – ‘Reckoning: A Memoir’ by Magda Szubanski, winner of the Australian Book Industry Book of the Year 2016; also internationals, ‘What Happened’ a 2017 memoir by Hilary Clinton and ‘Born to Run’ from Bruce Springsteen. If you are interested in the classics then we can happily cater to you; ‘Lord of the Flies’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, ‘Jane Eye’ etc. If you unable to call in person you can always email thomson.ljm@gmail.com and I will see if we have your request and I’ll put it in the soon to be erected Springbrook Community Library Book Nook. For those of you who are still considering attending the monthly book club, could I encourage you to join the small but highly interesting group who meet on the second Wednesday of each month at the Community Hall from 1-3pm to discuss our latest reads. An informal discussion group that often strays onto other popular topics that have been triggered by what we have read. Happy reading. Lin Thomson Springbrook Community Librarian
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Springbrook Chamber of Commerce Inc. Supporting & Promoting Springbrook Businesses Meets bi-monthly, 1st Tuesday of the month, 7.30pm at the hall.
www.explorespringbrook.com info@explorespringbrook.com This year has been a whirlwind!
PO Box 179 Mudgeeraba Qld 4213
Springbrook A Visitor’s Guide Now only $10 from local outlets For bulk orders (5 or more copies) or copies to sell on consignment, contact Colin and Jane Crisp
Dealing with lockdowns and other crazy events has definitely made this year interesting, and it’s been as fun as usual at the Fudge Shop. The team would firstly like to say a warm thank you to the community for supporting us throughout the year. From expanding the fairy garden, to making the Springbrook Markets, the shop has been super busy trying to make the sweetest shop on the mountain the most fun one too. Thank you once again for your support! We look forward to another magical year next year! Love from, The Fudge Fairies
Useful Springbrook Websites and Pages
Phone or text 0419025877
SPRINGBROOK MOUNTAIN VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE If you can spare a few hours on a Saturday, Sunday or Wednesday to tell visitors about Springbrook, we would very much welcome your assistance. Many visitors have no idea how special Springbrook is, where to find facilities, where to park, where to go for a walk, or where to find somewhere to eat Stay. If you enjoy sharing your knowledge and meeting interesting people and would like to look after our environment, Please talk to us.
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Springbrook Mountain Community Association Instagram & Facebook pages for daily updates and community news. Explore Springbrook – Chamber of Commerce pages for visitors to the mountain. www.explorespringbrook.com My Springbrook – Information for locals, especially new residents. www.lovespringbrook.blogspot.com Flood Watch – Tells you if the Mudgeeraba Creek at Austinville is flooding or not. www.floodwatch.com Springbrook LDMC facebook page – our local disaster committee’s page for disseminating information during fires, floods and other natural disasters. Springbrook Hall – Information about hiring our local community hall. www.springbrookhall.blogspot.com Springbrook Mens Shed – Information about and for the men of the mountain who belong to the Springbrook Mens Shed. www.springbrookmensshed.blogspot.com Springbrook National Park – information about track 8 closures and bookings for the campsites. Nov ’21 – Feb ‘22 www.des.qld.gov.au/parks/springbrook/
The Christmas season has arrived and on behalf of my family and my office, we wish the Springbrook community a happy and restful holiday season. Over past months, there has been lots of opportunity to visit the mountain, with community meetings and AGMs, as well as concerts and consultations regarding waste services. It's been a pleasure to advocate for local residents and work with your local community to deliver some improvements to services. New facilities at the Waste & Recycling centre have been well received, and it is hoped the shed and exchange programs will continue to be a valued program for Springbrook. While there's been some concerns raised about kerb side bins and rubbish trucks, it has been pleasing to see across the new areas over 80% of homes have presented bins for collection on the relevant day. The plans in Springbrook for pathways, parks and playgrounds have also evolved over past months. The first stage of the Forestry to Carricks pathway has been delivered, and the designs for the next stage are progressing for delivery soon. The pathway connection to Centenary Park is planned and the design of the new playground at Centenary in the coming financial year is incorporating that new entry point. The Peace Park project is evolving and some community consultation has commenced to refine the scope of the project and engage important stakeholders from the community and beyond.
SPRINGBROOK TENNIS CLUB The Tennis Court near the Hall is available for play during the daytime. Right now, Saturday and Sunday mornings about 8.30am are a good time to come to the court and have a hit. If you would like information on the Club, email Geoff Dickie gdickie65@bigpond & under 5’s free.
Membership is for 12 months
The Festival of Small Halls sold out and it's been great to see other music events thrive at the hall this year. Thank you to all the volunteers who served this year, whether in the RFB, SES, SMCA, Landcare or at a community event. Your contribution makes our community richer and I'm glad to be cheering for you and assisting where possible to help the community achieve its goals.
Perisai Diri Martial Arts Self Defence Instructor – Mas Simon Barnes
As well as a joyful Christmas, I wish you all a wonderful 2022 and hope it will be our best year yet.
If anyone wants to train, please come along and have a look at the Springbrook Community Hall, 6.00pm.
Tuesday & Thursday, 6pm-7pm
Cr Glenn Tozer - Division 9 PO Box 5042 GCMC QLD 9726 P 07 5581 1883 | M 0419 558 685 E: division9@goldcoast.qld.gov.au W: cityofgoldcoast.com.au
All new members welcome
Mob: 0405252435
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Dear Springbrook resident,
Christmas is sneaking up on us this year and what an interesting year it has been. We have watched closely as the health of our state and our country has been in the news every day, wondering what the next day will bring. Some of us will be able to be reunited with loved ones this Christmas, which will be fantastic!
Thank you for your perseverance during what has been a trying year. I want to thank you for everything you have done, to support local businesses, our community, your family, and friends. It is what makes our community such a great place to live, work and raise a family. During the pandemic, the Morrison Government has been taking all possible steps to protect lives and livelihoods, including unprecedented support for health and mental health services.
I am very pleased to donate $500 and a gift basket to the Springbrook State School P&C this Christmas to help out during this time. It has been a trying year and it’s the least I can do to say thank you to our school communities.
Australia is now in a stronger position to recover than most countries and our plan to secure Australia’s economic recovery includes:
In Springbrook, we have seen roadworks aplenty over the past few months. Various sections of Springbrook Road have been improved and we are seeing the footpath for students gradually coming together. Coming into the new year, we can expect to see these roadworks continue, especially the footpath as it enters stage 2 of construction.
Further income tax relief for over 67,700 low and middle-income earners, which will boost economic activity and create jobs. Incentives for small business, to invest and create jobs. The tax-free Cashflow boost has helped around 4,900 small and medium businesses providing $191 million in payments to help businesses in Wright to stay afloat. More infrastructure - including roads, bridges, school buildings and community hubs, such as sporting fields. We are increasing funding for preschools and making childcare more affordable and accessible, directly benefit over 1,520 families living in Wright. Substantial new investments in aged care, health, mental health, and the NDIS. Reducing emissions in a responsible way that will also ensure more Australian jobs.
The community worked extremely hard to get the shared funding arrangement for the footpath, and it’s exciting to see it finally coming together. Very soon, students from Springbrook State School will be able to walk home safely, without car spotters in front and behind them! Locals are also writing to me about speeding vehicles in the area. Some of you may have noticed there has been an increased police presence in the area as well. Thanks to locals, we have been able to provide the latest information when illegal activities are occurring, and police have been able to respond.
If you would like more information on these initiatives, or need assistance, please contact my office. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy New year and the best for prosperity and health in 2022. If you are travelling, stay safe on our roads. If you’re staying home, please support local business as much as possible. I look forward to seeing you at some stage in the community in early 2022. In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact my office.
The local officers have asked the community to keep reporting this behaviour, either through the Hooning hotline or through the hoonwatch form available on my website. I am still fighting to have cameras installed in some of the hotspot areas, which I hope will help police catch those responsible. All in all, a difficult year that has both kept us apart and brought us closer together at times. Ros
Yours sincerely, Scott.
Federal Member for Wright, Scott Buchholz 21 William Street , Beaudesert QLD 4285 Postal Address: PO Box 628, Beaudesert QLD Phone: (07) 5541 0150 Email: scott.buchholz.mp@aph.gov.au
Ros Bates, State Member for Mudgeeraba Electorate Office:Unit C7, Mudgeeraba Professional Centre, Swan Lane, Mudgeeraba QLD 4213 Postal Address; PO Box 897 Mudgeeraba QLD 4213
Phone: (07) 5601 7100
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Springbrook Waste and Recycling Centre
LOCKSMITH CHRIS YOUNG
A Colourbond shed is being installed at Springbrook Waste and Recycling Centre to use as a collection point to swap and exchange goods. The community has named this “The Emporium” – it will be fitted with a shelf and roller door and will be positioned on the existing concrete pad opposite the bin bays.
Supply and installation of all key & lock products Mobile: 0438 123 534
A Furniture Pod has also been delivered to the facility with the intent of trialling campaigned collection days at the Centre. These are designed for collecting items such as furniture and items suitable for reuse. The Endeavour Foundation operating at Reedy Creek will initially be arranging collection and distribution.
Springbrook Christmas Present Ideas Looking for Christmas present Ideas right here in Springbrook? Well you have a plethora of gift ideas right here on your door step! Make a local food hamper for the food lovers in your family. We have macadamia nuts, honey, jams, kimchi, sauces, vinegars as well as teas, herbs and seasonal fruits all available from our local roadside stalls (listed on page 27)
This pod will be accepting collections at the Springbrook WRC on Monday 29 November between 9am and 12pm. A city officer will be on site during this time to assist with any enquiries. All furniture needs to be in a safe reusable condition and without defect.
Give a gift voucher to a Café, the Observatory or one of our accomodation venues. There are many to choose from!
Some examples of what is accepted; • Hardwood furniture, such as coffee tables, buffets, kitchen tables • Patio furniture • Solid TV cabinets • Chairs
Fudge! Make up a fudge tasting box with some of the 50+ flavors available from our very own Fudge Shop! What about the Gem Shop on Forestry Road? It’s an absolute Aladdins cave of shiny things, gems, jewellery and gift lines. You’ll love the service too!
What is not accepted; • Mattresses • Damaged or unsafe items • Chipboard type items • Items not suitable to be reused
What about plants? The Sanctuary and Sophie’s stall both have lots of locally grown plants to suit any garden.
Buy local and support our local businesses this Christmas where you can!
Officers are currently working on a steel bin option for the Centre, suitable for disposal of steel to be collected for recycling. -
From Cr Tozer’s November Newsletter
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Rain drops keep falling on our heads… It rains in Springbrook. You may have noticed this. And with the rain comes a range of attitude distinctions in our residents. We have made a comprehensive study and find residents fall into the following categories: Fascinated Froggers: Found with their phone out in the rain recording frog calls, photographing frogs and contributing heavily to the Frog ID website with countless images of our incredible and even more incredible frogs. Couch Potatoes: Remote in one hand and mobile phone in the other, these residents can be found in various positions on their couches during rain events. They stay put, leech free and can tell you which show is trending on Stan, Netflix and Disney! Leech Lovers: These residents are out in the garden, rain, shower or deluge. Armed with a trowel and a rake they continue to propagate and plant whatever the weather. Easily distinguished by either attached leeches or blood dripping down their legs, they build an immunity and soon grow webbed toes! Hot Water Honeys: found underneath the shower for an hour or more a day, these residents soak up the ability to revel in a long hot shower while the water flows into their tanks quicker than they can shower it out! Puddle Stompers: Usually aged 10 or under, these residents know where the deepest muddiest puddles on the mountain are and can be in them before a parent cries “DON’T…” Waterfall Watchers: Daily visits to check on the “girls” (Yes, Waterfalls are female) is the watermark of these residents. Rain or shine, they pilgrimage daily to their favourite spot, just to check on the flow. Rain Dancers: Loved by the rain and cloud forests, rain dancers are full of joy as they dance along the misty tracks and sodden roadways of the mountains. They are the ones with the big grin on their faces who tell you what a lovely day it is as you pass them! Which ones are you? Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
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Springbrook Volunteer Ambulance SOME REMINDERS
Always ring 000 in an emergency to ensure that fully qualified Paramedics are dispatched immediately from the Coast.
SPRINGBROOK NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
Even though there is a First Response Ambulance stationed on Springbrook, it can only be activated if members receive a page or phone-call from QAS Communications.
If you would like to be part of the local Neighbourhood Watch, please send an email to: alan.robertson@ausrocks.com.au The Queensland Police Service has a couple of very good Blog spots - http://nhwq.org/ and the Gold Coast Police District http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/goldcoast/
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR RURAL NUMBER IS CLEARLY DISPLAYED EITHER ON A POST OR YOUR LETTERBOX.
Don’t forget you can report crimes or suspicious activity to Crimestoppers. This can be done anonymously.
Vital time can be lost if the number either isn’t displayed or is obscured by bushes. If you don’t have a rural number for your residential property please contact the Division 9 Councilor’s office in Mudgeeraba.
We all do need to report the hooning activity on the Pine Creek Road corner when it is happening. Scams are very common and increasing in frequency. Please regularly change passwords for things like internet banking. Check out www.scamwatch.gov.au for lots of useful information. Make sure you have all your credit cards at all times. Report stolen ones to the bank immediately.
Springbrook SES
Trees on the Roads? For Springbrook Road Springbrook – Mudgeeraba Rd (Front Road) Pine Creek Road (Back Road) Nerang- Murwillumbah Road
Meet Tuesday night, 7pm at the SES shed behind the Hall on Carricks Road
Call the TMR emergency line on 131940
IMPORTANT NUMBERS TO PUT INTO YOUR PHONE:
Hands on practical training every session. New members always welcome. State Emergency Services 132500 Gold Coast Disaster Hotline 1800 606 000 Energex emergency 13 19 62
For all our smaller suburban streets call
City of Gold Coast Council Emergency line on 1800 637 000
Pop these numbers in your phone NOW! Springbrook Local Disaster Management Committee Facebook Page
For all life threatening situations ring 000
Looking for up to date information about local disasters as they occur? Then get on to Facebook and like or friend this page and keep an eye on it when you need information. Friends, family and others may get information on our Facebook page or other QLD government websites and Facebook and local radios.
24/7 Support 1300 727 247 Support and information for people bereaved by suicide. The StandBy Service stands by families, friends, associates and communities impacted by suicide, providing respect, understanding and support for their health and well-being. Our service is available to you regardless of when your loss occurred.
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SPRINGBROOK RURAL FIRE BRIGADE
SPRINGBROOK RURAL FIRE BRIGADE December 2021 Report.
Your Neighbourhood Safer Place in case of a Fire Emergency is at
Springbrook State School. If you do not have a Bushfire Survival Plan, please contact Mary Hegarty. 0488 477701
The rain over the last few months has meant that there is only a small risk of any landscape fires this bushfire season.
Keep an eye out for this handy local emergency leaflet. Written by the local disaster management team, formatted by the Chamber of Commerce and paid for and delivered by the SMCA, it’s really a local effort filled with relevant local info to keep us all safe during an emergency. Read it. Memorise it and stick on the fridge or with your emergency papers. It could save a life!
Brigade members have concentrated on repairing and servicing equipment from last fire season, in preparation for the coming storm season. Among the community donations we have received this year was a chainsaw, which has allowed us to retire one that had reached the end of its useful life. There is a high possibility of a wet season with more cyclones than usual. This usually results in a higher than normal risk of high rainfall and storm events on Springbrook. Requests to the Department of Traffic and Main Roads to assist with clearing overhanging branches on Springbrook roads have fallen on deaf ears, so be aware of this problem, especially on Springbrook Road, between Carricks Road and Pine Creek Road. The lack of light can make fallen branches difficult to see, especially during rain, or at night. We have teamed up with the Mens Shed, planning to position a portable firefighting pump and hose set with them, to assist with community fire protection. We are also working with the local SES unit on operational matters.
To anonymously report any hooning incident
When the bureaucrats get their act together we will also be doing some training together on subjects of mutual interest. Finally a reminder to all Springbrook residents – storm season is coming, time to check your stock of food, water and medicines, plus fresh fuel for your generator. Ideally you should be able to survive for seven days cut off from the coast, without electricity or mobile phone, as a worst-case scenario.
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SPRINGBROOK LOCAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE We are now in Storm Season, and we can expect stormy weather between now until the end of April. There is always the chance of a cyclone crossing the coast and coming down as far as the South-East as a Low and causing damage. Debbie was the most recent Low to cause massive damage in this region. Clean your gutters, drainpipes, and trim overhanging branches, secure outdoor items to avoid damage from high winds. Move your vehicle undercover, do not use your landline, stay inside away from doors and windows, and do not go outside until the storm has passed. Be aware of the possibility of fallen power lines and call Energex and stay away if you see lines down.
The Springbrook Local Disaster Management Committee will activate in an emergency, and you will be notified by text if you are registered for the Emergency Texts. Signs will go up and the Springbrook Hall will be opened if there are Volunteers available. Any resident interested in volunteering to help in the Hall during Emergency Incidents please contact me by email at SpringbrookLDMC@bigpond.com Energex – Fallen powerlines- 13 19 62, Loss of power- 13 62 62 City of Gold Coast Disaster Hotline- 1800 606 000 State Emergency Service SES- 132 500 Life Threatening Emergencies- 000 (Triple Zero) The QFES, SES and Springbrook Ldmc Facebook usually stay up to date with warnings as do the ABC local radio 91.7FM and other local Radio Stations.
Bushfires can still occur so take all the usual precautions especially on hot and windy days. If you have not already registered for our local Emergency Texts email me at Whatever the weather, stay up to date with weather warnings, check your water systems, pumps and SpringbrookLDMC@bigpond.com generators and ensure you have sufficient fuel. You need to be a Springbrook resident and we will need your mobile number, your address and your name.
If It’s Flooded, Forget It Whatever Nature throws at us we need to be ready with an Emergency Kit for both your family and your pets. Fill in your City of Gold Coast Plan and keep it handy on your fridge door. • • • • • • • • • • •
Battery powered radio with extra batteries First Aid Kit and Manual Torch with spare batteries Tarpaulin and Tape for temporary repairs Insurance and other important documents Essential medications and toiletries Non-perishable food and water for your family and pets Mobile Phones with chargers Money and important cards Spare house and car keys Change of clothes, sturdy shoes, and hats
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Springbrook State Emergency Services Group
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Our Springbrook SES volunteer group, along with the two other South East Gold Coast groups from Carrara and Coolangatta, have been meeting up to practice search and rescue missions at night on some of our local trails and in the Nerang Forest. This involves using single or narrow wheel Mule Trolleys with stretchers, GWN radios, headlamps, and a couple of heavy dummies.
SPRINGBROOK OUTDOOR SERVICES
General & Yard Maintenance Rubbish Removal Small Tree Pruning & Felling Gutter Cleaning Painting Odd Jobs
The SES overall training for Search & Rescue, Storm Damage, Forensic Searches, Vertical Rescue and other necessary missions incorporate the use of Tams, GWN radios, Cartographic maps, stretcher handling, ladders, ropes and knots, tarpaulins, sandbags, generators, lighting and chainsaws, to name a few.
Call Pat: 0487 670 111
Our local SES group, which was formed in 2020, have been involved in Search and Rescue for lost or hurt hikers as well as assisting with border control by erecting and sandbagging tents. We will gradually acquire more skills such as First Aid and CPR, chainsaw operation, flood boat operation, vertical rescue – there are many courses available to the SES volunteers, they are able to advance at their own rate but operate as a team, with a team leader.
springbrookoutdoorservices@gmail.com
Generally, we meet at our Springbrook SES Depot every Tuesday evening at 7pm for training by our group leader. We have a small, but friendly, local team with four other highly experienced members. We invite you to join us for this worthy cause. You can make a difference.
RURAL NUMBERS Can the Emergency Crews see yours easily?
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Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service News Planned burn - Austinville section In early September, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) conducted a planned burn to reduce fuel hazards in the Austinville section of Springbrook National Park, Bonogin Valley. The burn was completed over three days, in conjunction with the City of Gold Coast Council and Rural Fire Service (RFS) within Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES). Around 150 hectares of predominantly open eucalypt forest was treated. This was mostly national park, but also included Council Conservation Areas and private property. A downslope lighting method was used to create a low intensity backing fire with a mosaic pattern.
Park maintenance QPWS rangers have been hard at work carrying out park maintenance activities, removing graffiti and clearing hazardous fallen trees from walking tracks. Rangers have also been undertaking asset maintenance including lookout pruning, re-oiling and painting. In preparation for bushfire season, fire trails are being maintained to assist with accessibility. Rangers are also restoring sections of the walking tracks impacted by the increasing number of visitors shortcutting at switchbacks (zig-zags). This involves the reconstruction of rock walls damaged by walkers and creating natural barriers. Shortcutting impacts the environmental, cultural and heritage values of the park and its walking tracks. All visitors to the park are encouraged to ‘walk softly and leave no trace’ to avoid irreversible damage to tracks.
Fire-adapted communities, such as open forests, are considered fire-prone areas, making fuel reduction burns an important part of managing the landscape. This helps to maintain ecosystem health and prevents the frequency and intensity of uncontrolled bushfires. Planned burns can assist with reducing weed species, encouraging growth in native vegetation, managing fuel loads and significantly reducing damage caused by bushfires.
QPWS rangers repairing damage to the walking track caused by shortcutting.
Storm season advisory
Austinville planned burn continuing downslope from the top of the ridgeline.
Landcare Bushfire Recovery Grant In response to the Landcare Bushfire Recovery Grant program, contractors are performing maintenance and upgrades on selected strategic fire management trails on the QPWS estate within Springbrook National Park. Fire trail upgrades assist with accessing and protecting areas of lowland, subtropical rainforest. Upgrade works include reprofiling to create a more trafficable surface and improving drainage to reduce damage caused by water runoff. The upgrade works will also assist with erosion control and trimming dead and hazardous trees overhanging the fire trails.
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Visitors are reminded not to attempt crossing flooded creeks during or after heavy rain. Due to Springbrook’s topography and the effects of recent storms, large volumes of water may cause creeks and gullies to swell suddenly, and wash down debris including large logs. Rangers monitor the weather daily and make every attempt to ensure hazardous areas of the park are closed prior to severe storms. After storms, rangers will inspect the park when it’s safe to do so and assess and repair damage caused to built infrastructure and walking tracks. Visit the Department of Environment and Science website www.des.qld.gov.au for current Park Alerts and closures before visiting national parks.
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Springbrook Weedbusters We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded with a Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery grant! This grant will allow Springbrook Weedbusters to help protect Springbrook National Park.
What is the Great Cane Toad Bust? The Great Cane Toad Bust is a national incentive to encourage community cane toad control activities!
This project aims to achieve a range of weed control and community activities having a direct positive impact on the National Park. The funds will pay for a purpose built trailer with a range of tools and equipment to allow us to tackle a variety of weed control issues on a site at the same time. We aim to educate and empower landholders to control their own weeds, in turn providing an enormous help to the National Park.
102 cane toads were brought to Queensland in 1935. Over the last 86 years cane toads have bred, and spread and now their numbers exceed 2 billion! Did you know that each female cane toad can produce up to 70,000 babies a year?! Through toad busting activities we can remove fertile adults from the environment before they have an opportunity to breed!
Sadly we have 82 threatened plants and 39 threatened animals. How many of those can you recognise? One of the key threats is invasive weeds.
Toad busting is a highly effective form of cane toad control and can have a big impact on local populations.
Come and join us on Sunday 16th Jan 9am -11am. Learn about all the amazing plant life we have here in Springbrook and help us protect it. Our progressive weed control is making a significant contribution to habitat integrity and the ability for natural recovery in our work areas, but we need your help to combat more weeds! Dawn Todd
We need Australians to step up and work together to impact cane toads on a national scale. The more people who get involved, the greater our impact will be! Let’s work together to impact cane toads!
If you hit a mammal and kill it, please check if there is any young in the pouch (if female). If not, please contact Ceris Ash by email: cerma@bigpond.net.au, or phone 0418454732 to report the death for statistical purposes. If there is pouch young or the animal is still alive, please call
WILDCARE on 5527 2444 or the RSPCA on 1300animal ie. 1300264625 Please remove any dead animals from the road. The carcass will attract our small mammals and raptors putting them at risk of being hit.
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Springbrook Rainfall Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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“Green city” development is becoming more and more prevalent. This is where developers take into consideration the enrichment of biodiversity and environmental quality in urban corridors. These environmental objectives provide residents with better access to nature and open space, the provision of attractive walking, jogging, and cycling infrastructure, as well as other designs for tranquility.
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In the 21st century, “Ecocinema”, or films that revolve around conveying environmental messages to the public, such as The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 2012 (2009) and Chasing Ice (2012), are gaining popularity for raising environmental awareness across the globe! Moreover, relatively new and creative ideas could also be taken from live surf cams that connect potential beach-goers to a variety of live tidal reports.
Connecting people to nature – A challenge of the modern world
New environmental strategies such as the setup of cameras to capture live feeds of remote nature surrounding residential communities have emerged as a viable way to connect people with nature on the same temporal plane. By bringing remote real environments into virtual proximity, live-feed broadcasts can be easily accessed via computers or smart devices. And this new way of getting a closer look at nature in real time may become a practical means of prompting spectators, especially from residential communities, to take interest in caring for their natural environments.
Humans have co-existed with other beings in the natural world for ages, but how would you define your connection with nature? Humans are born as a part of nature and it explains why many of us tend to both crave and seek out ways of connecting with it. However, chances are that for most of us, we probably find ourselves more frequently surrounded by manmade / built environments rather than the natural world.
From golden beaches to rainforests and waterfalls, Australia is renowned throughout the world for its amazingly biodiverse ecosystems, but how important are our natural environments exactly? Well we are now coming to the realization that proactive biodiversity conservation is significant to all of us. This is because, in reality, our physical, social and economic well-being ultimately relies on what our ecosystems provide. In other words, humans and natural environments have an intrinsic relationship, even in many urban settings where our ecosystems face habitat degradation due to unsustainable interferences. Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
However, the good news is that environmental awareness
Famous broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough says that the live-feeds serve as a means of “lifeline and communication” between us, and the natural world. All in all, these techniques, whether old or new; physical infrastructure or technological devices; hold pivotal importance to fostering neighborhood character and a sense of pride within a healthy community. Natura-Pacific Team. A Springbrook Business 19
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Halloween Springbrook Style
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Springbrook state school book parade!!! Everyone in Springbrook State School dressed up as a book character, including the teachers. That day was cool because there were a lot of costumes and everyone looked amazing. We all did an activity in groups: like making our own maps, reading a book and drawing a picture on a piece of paper that was the shape of a phone. The unusual characters were Captain Cook, a Nun, Madeline and Paddington the Bear. We had a parade that everyone walked around so the parents could see all of our different types of costumes. People brought their books in with their dress up characters. Everyone all loved the costumes and it was so much fun. By Eli
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Remembrance Day 2021
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‘Like’ us on Facebook: Springbrook-wildlife-appreciation-group A great way for us all to share photographs and comments and record the unique wildlife spotted on Springbrook Mountain. Website:http://www.springbrookwildlife.org.au
Some Handy Tips for Old and New Residents These World Heritage values are not just in the National Park. They are all around us. With this in mind we all have a responsibility to protect those values. So many times new residents arrive and immediately set out to “tidy up” their properties. In that process of tidying up, habitat is destroyed. Biodiversity is lost and threats to rare and endangered species increases. Some of those rare and threatened species are tiny frogs, tiny marsupials, tiny reptiles, tiny insects, and tiny plants. Getting to know what is on your property before any work is undertaken is so important.
A big welcome to all the new residents to Springbrook. You have chosen one of top biodiverse areas in the whole of Australia to live. Top botanists list Springbrook as the jewel in the crown of all the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage areas. Aren’t we so lucky to be able to live here?
Find out what is a weed and what is native. Understand the importance of vines. The beautiful Richmond Birdwing butterfly (left) only lays eggs on the commonly called Birdwing vines. Learn about the fauna of the mountain. It will astonish you in its diversity, from tiny Pygmy possums to large Glider species, from tiny thornbills to huge wedge tailed eagles. You may even find a totally new undescribed species of insect or snail in your own back yard. Yep. It happens. Regularly.
The information below is from State Government Springbrook National Park Website.
“Springbrook National Park is recognised as part of one of the world's most outstanding and valuable places. In December 1994, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee officially declared the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area over the Scenic Rim (including nearly all of Lamington and Springbrook national parks and most of Main Range and Mount Barney national parks) with the listed rainforests of northern and central New South Wales. Please, please keep your cats indoors at all times. They will live longer and happier lives if you do. Dogs should not roam. If possible keep them indoors at night. Chooks and other nonnative fowl should be penned. They eat native snails, frogs and small native skinks. Not all small furry things are introduced rats or mice. We have a critically endangered species of Antechinus on Springbrook. Plus we have really cute Melomys and native bush rats. Never ever use rat baits. Not only do they kill native species they also kill whatever eats the dead animal including owls.
World Heritage listing is a prestigious international recognition of the important conservation values of this area, especially its unique geology, subtropical and cool temperate rainforests and rare fauna. Although the total area of Australia's remnant rainforest is small on a global scale, its value to the world is immense. In the past 200 years, threequarters of Australia's rainforests have been destroyed or degraded. However, Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area conserves a rich diversity of wildlife, including more than 1,700 species of flowering plants and 500 vertebrate animals. Protecting these areas in national parks or other reserves ensures this biological diversity is secure. It also allows natural processes such as evolution to continue, undisturbed by human influence.” Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
Encourage a natural native garden rather than planting exotic species that are already weeds or could become weeds. Set up a frog hotel, a native bee home, bird baths for birds and sit back and enjoy everything the natural environment has to offer. Ceris Ash 23
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Springbrook Community Holistic Health https://lovespringbrook.blogspot.com/p/springbro ok-community-holistic-health.html We are here for help you improve your health. 1) Anastasia Theodore- Nutritionist 0427728278 2) Kay Laing- Naturopathy/medical herbalism 0407137880 3) Gus Macanally- Acupuncturist/ Qi Gong 0403578375 4) Gina Winter- Herbalist (07) 5533 5061 5) Kathleen A. Tysoe- Kinesiology 0412848396 6) Christina Monneron- Movement Facilitator 0432509519 7) Susie Sharman0499856283
Mind/Body
Healing
Therapy
8) Samantha Ashley-Bowen Therapist 0475840541 9) Mrs. Jing (Rebecca)- Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine 0423423887 10) Kim Simone McFarlane- Nutritional Cannabis as Medicine 0415207887 11) Jennifer & Peter-Spiritual Numerology & Theta Healing 0412770110
To join or to find out more about Springbrook Community Holistic Health please contact Sophie Piper 0438468886 or sophiehung0416@gmail.com
DIAMOND LIGHT ASTROLOGY MICHELLE BARSBY Healing Astrology Readings Physiotherapy Diamond Light Healing michelle.barsby@bigpond.com 0405 170 174 www.diamondlightastrology.com
Springbrook Massage & Beauty Cuban Dance classes in Springbrook in 2022? Yes! I really hope to continue to make these nights happen for you if there is enough interest. There was certainly an increase in numbers at our September Cuban night where we had a wonderful shake & shimmy night getting our Cuban on. Our Cuban Divas trio will also be playing at the Italo-Australian Club on Friday 21st January 7-10pm if anyone is interested (Free entry).
Local therapist *Available by appointment *Natural Australian products used *Services from eyelash tint to full body massage *Reasonable rates for residents and visitors.
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WILDCARE AUSTRALIA – FROG HELP
Latest Cuban Dance News from Christina
This is little Bob, a Litoria caerula, commonly known as a Green Tree Frog. Unfortunately poor Bob was attacked by a dog in Springbrook in the Gold Coast Hinterland where he sustained a fracture to his urostyle, the lower back bone that connects to a frog’s pelvic girdle. To prevent any jumping so that his fracture can heal, Bob is spending his days in a very small frog ICU enclosure with pain medication and receives assistance from Brigitte to feed, an activity she describes as quite a mission as he weighs only 47g. Little Bob is due for a check-up next week, hopefully meaning he will be able to be returned home soon. Please remember to keep your pets indoors or secured at night and be mindful of the wildlife we share our homes with. If you do find an injured frog, please phone our 24/7 Wildcare Hotline on 07 5527 2444. Brigitte Wildcare Australia Inc Facebook page
I am excited to announce that Afrekete AfroCuban Festival will be celebrating its 10th anniversary festival in January 2022 in Tugun. From its humble beginnings as a cultural Cuban dance camp in Coffs Harbour, it has evolved into a festival of art, music, dance, spirituality and connection to our natural environment. Past Afrekete events have coincided with the Australia Day long-weekend, taking the opportunity to celebrate the significance of the Cuban community in Australia during each event. It feels only natural to continue this “tradition” and they have extended the festival from a 3 to 5 day event, incorporating Australia Day again. This 10th year event will host a first of its kind collaboration called ‘Roots of Rhythm’ featuring Afrekete and Southern Beaches Community Gardens together with a Torres Strait Island cultural group. Local Indigenous artists and other multicultural community groups, as well as local emerging Gold Coast based visual artists like our own mountain-based artist Andreas will also be involved ☺ Afrekete 2022 will be a feast of culture starting on Australia Day 26th January, followed by a prefestival party on Thursday 27th January, an official Opening Night Friday 28th January and continuing to a whole weekend of performances, live music, dance and drum workshops. The festival weekend culminates on Sunday 30th January at the Feria Cubana – Market Day at the community gardens with the mural artwork revealed to live drum rhythms from different cultures all celebrating our commonality. The gardens are a natural meeting ground for the local community, and our collaboration celebrates this connection with colour, rhythm, spirit, and hope.
GREEN VALLEY BOWEN THERAPY Back & Neck Pain, Headaches, Shoulder Pain, Sciatica, Stress Bowen Therapy is a safe, holistic, non-invasive form of physical therapy that targets specific muscle groups and connective tissue. Gentle moves are performed over the muscles, with a series of short waits in between moves to allow the body to respond and engage its own self-healing processes. It can assist in recovery from many conditions and is suitable for injury rehabilitation. Currently offering mobile services for Springbrook residents or in clinic services in Miami.
I hope you will consider driving down our magic mountain to join me in another part of our incredible landscape for some if not all parts of the festival and participate in Australia’s unique Cuban roots festival by the sea – special 10th birthday edition.
www.greenvalleybowentherapy.com.au greenvalleybowen@yahoo.com.au Ph: 0475 840 541
More info and tickets available on afrekete.com or please call Christina on 0432 509 519. Keep on dancing! Christina
Samantha Ashley Bowen Therapist Mobile Service – Springbrook Clinic Service - Miami
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Springbrook Community Seed Bank Back Story for new residents and Garden Club members…. Without local seed banks, exchanges and networks we would have lost most of the varieties of our cultivated vegies, herbs and flowers, and other rare and endangered plant species. Multinational corporations have gained control of our food plants via patenting, hybridisation and genetic modification (GMO’s) meaning that seed saved from these plants are sterile or mutant and unsuitable for growing on. So whatever traditional and heritage open-pollinated seed and perennial varieties we save for ourselves is what WE have control of.... and this means selfsufficiency and resilience for us as a community. Food security is a major issue now. The impacts of climate change on our massive monocultural agricultural systems means food supplies for large population centres are extremely vulnerable. Locating and exchanging heritage seed varieties which perform “true to type” without being dependent on expensive biocides and chemical fertilisers is one aim of our seed bank. The other aim is to generate seed stocks of varieties that are locally adapted to our specific climatic conditions. Our saved seed from each grow-out up here will be the best suited, hardiest, and most vigorous performers for our elevation, rainfall patterns, light, soil types etc. Where we are now? ...Since Covid the Pipers’ and I have been busy imagineering and creating a working "model" of an holistic lifestyle orientation that can also be managed as an ethical social and environmental business or livelihood for small or large land holdings. I am moving to the Pipers’ as I write !!! Finally, the fruition of much planning and activity.
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The Pipers’ provided me with space on their property for gardens 9 months ago for my trialling, teaching, training and demonstration of organic food production and seed saving practices. In the New Year these events will be promoted through our local Garden Club email-out list. We are aiming for sustainable Food Security and Sovereignty at the grass roots level. The farm aims to reflect a deep action plan for Carbon Capture, as in, “a collection of technologies employed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions" via Permacultural practices and infrastructure, Paddock to Plate etc. By the way we view Consciousness as a technology also. To get onto our email list contact me via dee.kempson@gmail.com or phone Gina on 0755 335 061. Any level of interest or involvement is welcome !!! This Xmas and Holiday season keep your sense of Humous. Bee Happy. Keep Growing and Many Blessings Upon You. Dee Kempson
Spend local ,Buy local, Support Local Springbrook Businesses .
Herb Plants Straight from our nursery, get hard-to-find, healthy herb plants & Salvias delivered to your door, ready to replant. We package your plants with care so they reach you on time, in excellent condition.
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Springbrook’s Farm Gates, Stalls and Locally Produced Products. The Vege Vault: 2311 Springbrook Road. Freshly picked seasonal vegetables. Cash Sophie’s Stall: Springbrook Rd opposite Carricks Road. Seasonal veges and produce. Cash. Self Service. Also weekly greens services. Echo Valley Farm Stall: 42 Lyrebird Ridge Rd. Kiwi fruit based jams and sauces. Macadamia Nuts & Kiwi fruit (in season) Kindling, Fire wood. Cash. Self Service Greenwood Farm & Co: End of Springbrook Road at Goomoolahra. Bath and beauty products, honey, jams, sauces, pickles, chutneys. Card or cash. Face to face service. Self Help Retreat: Gwongorella Parade. Herbs, teas, tinctures, turmeric. See website for details. www.selfhelpretreat.com.au Sanctuary Stall: Seasonal veges, gifts, produce. Cash or ring the bell for service. Sharon’s Stall & Shop : Springbrook Rd just after Lloyds road. Season vegetables, fruits, gifts & art. Cash or call for service. Lalita’s locally made Kim Chi and Sauerkraut
Available at the Fudge Shop. Cash or card.
Historical Photos of Springbrook
Springbrook Community Food Growers I suspect that as more and more people understand the value and reward of growing some of their own food, home gardens on the mountain will flourish. If we become well-coordinated we can even plan our planting so that we are not all growing the same foods at the same time and provide more diversity of produce. We can also grow enough for those who can’t or don’t wish to garden but still would like to enjoy fresh produce. We have the wonderful opportunity to arrange to meet regularly and create community through gardening and the sharing with each other of seeds, produce, plants and food. It’s fantastic to see the roadside stalls appearing around the place as well. A good opportunity to support growers and access truly fresh produce. Our last meet at Santo’s home had to be postponed but will be rescheduled ASAP, so keep an eye on our Facebook page or join our email list for gardening tips and meeting updates for our next meeting. Email Dee at dee.kempson@gmail.com to be included on our mailing list for Springbrook Food Growers and Springbrook Seed Bank. I am now preparing my garden beds and looking forward to Springtime and some serious seed raising and planting as the weather becomes warmer. I am also looking forward to seeing some familiar faces at our next meeting as well as any new members who wish to join an informal group of people who love to garden despite its challenges and precisely for the nourishing Gina Winter Springbrook Voices: Issue 137reward.
From the City of Gold Coast Council Archives… “First Settlers and Pioneers to arrive in Springbrook, Queensland” "L-R: Back: Arthur Rankin, Lionel Cork, Jim Hardy, Tom Tarlinton, Tom Keir, Herb (Herrick) Cork, ?. Front: Jack Boyd, Ned Barnes, George Trapp, George Keir, Bert Eltherington."— (Information provided with photograph.) How many of these names to recognise for places names around Springbrook? 27
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Garlic is ready to pick shortly and then will be dried before appearing back on the farm stall hopefully before Christmas.
We managed to beat many of the cockatoos to the macadamias so we have plenty available for sale on the farm stall at the moment. Some other creature is thinking our fresh farm eggs are pretty tasty so it’s a bit of a game at the moment to see who gets to the chook nests first …….. we are fairly sure it’s not our carpet pythons or monitor lizards but we’re thinking it’s a very smart crow or currawong …… but we have not caught anything in the act yet ……. but it means we have less eggs for sale, so sorry about that …… this will improve again soon we hope!!
Echo Valley News Farm life has been busy and challenging keeping up with the different impacts of the weather at the moment - cool and drizzling one day, hot and windy the next ……. However one can’t really complain as the good rain that we have had with the warm sunny days means the grass is growing well and we have plenty of feed for all our animals; and the kiwi fruit is looking exceptional with excellent flowering at the right time and great fruit set ….. so fingers crossed it will be a good harvest in 2022!
The Farm Cottage has been busy every week with lovely guests from SE Qld mostly …….. who are grateful there is a beautiful place like Springbrook that they can visit that is not too far from their homes! Enjoy a few snapshots of our farm life …….. and thank you to all our Farm Stall supporters, Farm Cottage guests, neighbours, friends, family and our terrific farm team who have helped us keep it all together! There will be lots of other fresh and home-made goodies on the farm stall if you need some simple gourmet ideas for Christmas gifts that support locally produced, 100% Australian, chemical free, small farmers and sustainable philosophies! Merry Christmas and best wishes for a wonderful 2022! Rozie Cairns Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
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Self Help By Gina Winter Gina Winter is a practicing herbalist and masseuse who is available for consultations. Phone: 5533 5061. (Dip. Herbal Medicine ANTA )www.selfhelpretreat.com.au www.facebook.com/selfhelpretreat
If you are looking for an annual plant to include in your garden that will supply you with a nourishing food source, a plant that is robust and prolific and selfseeds with ease, then choose Amaranth.
Being responsible for producing some of your own food is what people used to do before we became so dependent on supermarkets and fast foods. It is also prudent during uncertain times to have some measure of self-sufficiency whether you live in the urban or rural setting. There are many varieties of amaranth but the one I have growing produces a magnificent red flowering head with green and reddish leaves and stems. At the end of summer when the flowers are left to go to seed, the seeds can be harvested and will provide another valuable source of food and a supply of easily digested protein that is higher than what is found in more commonly used cereals like wheat or rice.
Amaranth leaves have good amounts of associated health benefits. This includes, soluble and insoluble fibre. A cup of cooked Amaranth leaves supplies a whopping 29% of daily recommended intake of iron. Iron is required for the production of red blood cells and is also required for cellular metabolism. The leaves also have a high content of Vitamin C which aids the absorption of iron. A serving of 100 grams offers 70% of our daily requirement of Vitamin C… A match made in heaven! Amaranth leaves also generously supply Vitamin A. A cup of cooked amaranth leaves provides around 97% of our daily requirement of this important anti-oxidative vitamin. Amaranth leaves are rich in Vitamin K and supply good amounts of B group vitamins like riboflavin, folates, thiamine, niacin and Vitamin B6, which prevents birth defects in newborn babies and are required for optimal physical and mental health. Looking for a natural source of potassium in perfect balance with other minerals? Amaranth leaves are loaded with potassium. Amaranth leaves also contain lysine, an amino acid required for the production of energy and the absorption of the calcium which is also found in the cooked leaves. The protein found in the leaves and stems gives a feeling of satiety so is both satisfying and nourishing at the same time. As well as the nourishing leaves of Amaranth, the seeds of this wonderful plant contain a high-quality oil, which contains tocotrienols — a relatively rare and very beneficial form of vitamin E, as well as squalene, another rare compound reported to have anti-cancer properties. Amaranth seeds can be cooked and made into a porridge, added to soups and stews or popped like popcorn for a tasty snack. Some varieties have bigger seeds than others so I haven’t popped my seeds so far….
There was such a large patch this Spring, that I left a few plants in the ground to go to seed and harvested the others when they were about a foot high and more tender to eat. The plants are easy to harvest when small and the leaves make a delicious and nutritious cooked green. After washing the leaves and stems and removing the roots, I cooked them quickly in boiling water which removes most of the oxalic acid in the plant and then discarded the water. The cooked leaves can then be frozen and kept as a good source of greens during the winter months when I will defrost, chop to desired consistency and add to soups, stews, curries, or simply as a cooked green sautéed with butter, garlic and ginger as a side dish.
Who needs supplements made in a factory? Supplements that your body hardly recognises as they pass through you like a stranger, compared to mother nature’s offering of nourishment, in a package remembered by your cells from generations past. When your body meets Amaranth again it welcomes home an old friend and warmly invites it in……deep into your cells……nourishing and supportive like all true friends A well-nourished body has what it needs to heal itself! ….
Finding plants that are as nutritionally generous as amaranth makes me realise that there is food that we can grow in our own backyards that will provide far more nutrition than store bought or conventional vegetables with minimum effort. Talking about nutrition, Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
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Springbrook School Playgroup, term time Mondays 9am to 11:30am. Come along for play, art, craft and meet friends! Contact Sue for more details 5548 3333
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Mountain Mums meet Fridays 9am at the Fudge shop and at the Skate Park on Tuesdays 3-4 pm Contact Hazel for more detail 0408 383 974
Springbrook State School P&C Association As we reflect on 2021 we are very thankful for our little community school. A special thankyou to our wonderful school staff who guided us through a complex year of at-home learning, and everchanging school activities. The P&C had a busy end of year fundraising with the Pie Drive, Mother’s and Father’s Day stalls, and bottle collection, and Coastal High. Thanks to all the volunteers who gave their time and energy to help with these events. A special thanks to Sandra Karzai and the Craft group for your Mother’s Day contributions. Back at school our Wipe Out Waste project continues to be successful with the new self-service system at the school gates working well. The school gardening project continues to grow, with students sharing in the abundant produce (especially strawberries) during their lunch break. Not to forget the Playgroup littlies who have enjoyed helping with watering on Mondays. As always, we appreciate our close collaboration with the SMCA – The barn dance was great fun– we hope we can all get together for more dancing next year.
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School Rock Band - By Indi At Springbrook State School there is a new rock band that Mr. Dunlop (our student teacher from last term) started. It’s grade 5 and 6 students only. Their band name is 56 STONES, so they all have a stone stage- name each, like Emerald, Amethyst, Ruby, and Moonstone. Two are singing, one is playing drums and one is playing bass guitar. Here is an interview with the band. Indi: What’s your favourite thing about rock band? Rob: My favourite things is playing the Bass guitar Indi: What instrument would you like to play most? Rob: I still would want to keep playing bass guitar if I had another choice. Indi: Did you have a choice on the instrument you wanted to play? Rob: Yes, I did I had a choice between drums, bass, and guitar.
Thanks to our amazing community who always contribute so generously to our beautiful little school. A special mention to Mark Donaldson for the mulch donation, our Bush Tucker garden will be looking great for graduation. We look forward to celebrating with you at our end of year event on 4th December. Anastasia Theodore, President, P&C Committee Springbrook State School Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
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Leaving Springbrook State School
SPRINGBROOK STATE SCHOOL Enrolments are always available at any time of year at Springbrook State School. We welcome enquiries, so if you or someone you know is interested in finding out more about Springbrook State School or our Playgroup, please email admin@springbrookss.eq.edu.au or phone 5548 3333.
This year is sadly my last year at this school and at primary school. I had so much fun here with friends and teachers past and present. I’ve been here since Playgroup and Prep, and my greatest memory here is all the times when I tried my hardest at sports carnivals like athletics, cross country and swimming carnival.
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Our school always gets compliments about sportsmanship and how hard we try. No matter what, I will never forget the time I had here. I’m looking forward to going to high school for the experiences and the learning. By Rob.B 👨🎓
Springbrook State School is great, if you want to know more read on… First Springbrook State School lets you take things home to practice. There is a monkey named Elvis and one lucky student a week gets to take him home over the weekend. He has a rain coat and a homemade umbrella. The teachers send home art, DIY gifts, photos, and newsletters to tell the parents what is happening in their kid’s class. The second reason Springbrook State School is great is because they have passion projects every second week. The projects are band, art, sewing and journalism. People from the community come in and teach them. The school gives each student great opportunities. At Springbrook State School they have specialised teachers come in for some subjects. Some fun facts are there are 7 acres of ground, it was built in 1984 and there are many Richmond birdwing butterfly vines on the grounds. Please enrol your kid today because they all have their own unique personality. Springbrook State School is a small school so there is individualised learning which means that your students learn based on their individual needs. Students can learn above their year level. In a big school it is very crowded. By Zaine
Springbrook School Journalists This edition has enjoyed the addition of five new young journalists who will be reporting on happenings in Springbrook State School and their community. They have been interviewing people, taking their own photos and creating articles for this edition as part of their Passion Project hour at Springbrook State School. Our student journalists are in Grades Three to Six. It’s been a great experience and we are hoping to see contributions like this from them for the rest of the year. Check out their articles inside this edition and enjoy seeing the world from a younger perspective.
Miss Tracey and Mrs Chalmers – two of our favorite teachers! Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
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Our Hardy family enjoys the stories of early days: of our father, Greg, as a youngster, walking down to Pine Creek on the Nerang River with his brother to carry the mail back up the track for the settlers; later they used horse and buckboard; the cream cans that fell into the river during a flood, and were retrieved later to be sent on to the Norco factory; of the bush rat that fell into a cream can only to have the can returned to the owner who carefully removed the animal, closed the lid and sent the can of cream off again; of the carpet snake that crawled over the bedroom ceiling when my mother, Eileen, was a new bride. Her gallant husband said, sleepily, it was only a carpet snake and not to worry.
Facing up to our pioneer history and aboriginal displacement. I am the granddaughter of pioneers. Over recent years I have come to realise that the families who worked hard to build a farming future in a fragile environment are also the people who traduced the cultural heritage of the Aboriginal community who treasured the environment that was trashed in this grand endeavour. I am left in an ambivalent position. There is pride in the effort, enterprise, and energy expended by my grandparents and those who chose to follow them. There is a growing awareness and disquiet that their enterprise deprived others of their cultural rights, desecrated their sacred places, and ignored their prior commitment and respect for the beautiful place I am now privileged to lay claim to.
My memories are of the moonlight shining on the ocean; of the searchlights sweeping through the night sky over Southport during blackout in the War; of the soldier who gave me a whole penny all for myself when he accompanied several Filipino soldiers who bought a pig from Dad. The pig screamed piercingly all the way down the road because they had slung it by its bound feet over a bamboo pole; of the night my father suffered a little from the ‘night air’ when the war ended and people came together in the hall on the Canyon Lookout to light a huge bonfire seen clearly on the Coast; of floods; cyclones; of starting school up the hill from our place, landslides on the front road that the local men slowly cleared from the top while the council worked from the bottom.
I cannot undo history. Perhaps I can make some reparation through acknowledgement and support for efforts to reopen our district to the Original Owners so that they feel they have a legitimate place in the present community. In 1905 a small group of people from Tilba in Southern New South Wales, with great effort, moved to a rain-forested mountain behind Southport in Southern Queensland. They named the mountain Springbrook. Family lore tells me they worked for eighteen months to clear enough land to feed a cow, that consequently hung itself on a lawyer vine. Gradually the families worked collectively to clear enough rainforest to begin dairy farming; a difficult enterprise at any time let alone in this pioneering situation.
All these stories belong to one group of people, but how many stories of millennia have been glossed over by these later stories. I am proud of my heritage. I admire the hard work and future planning my grandparents did to get me where I am today…but…I am aware that my good fortune came at a cost to someone else: the original custodians of this mountain. For instance, there was a fundamental mistake made in clearing the scrub. Rainforest degrades quickly if there isn’t a constant fall of vegetation to rot down and provide fertilization. Our farm went from running about 120 dairy cows to being closed down in the 1960s. Another unseen problem was the significance of this place to others: the beauty we have carelessly appropriated, the sacred places we may have desecrated. The consolation I draw from this is that my grandparents and their cohorts did not know the ramifications of what they did. They did what they did in good faith. However, today, we do not have this consolation. We do know; we have science, experience, research, history, rapid communication if we will listen, learn and appreciate.
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I am torn between pride and sadness. But I see a ray of hope for the future because attitudes are changing. Many people want to embrace a community coming together to reconcile differences, hurt and lack of acknowledgement. Many people are becoming conscious of how things were and how they might be made better. Could this be the time when I can accept that the mountain is precious to other people who are missing out? Is there the possibility that we could come together and admire the dedication, knowledge, understanding, commitment of those with a millennial-long connection to the mountain? Not just 120 years, but thousands of years. Could there be a dialogue with those traumatised by past actions and those who benefitted by the actions of people, many of whom acted in good faith, that actually caused hurt and harm? I am thinking of a Landline story on the ABC, The Star of Taroom, about a group that trolleyed a heavy rock taken in the 1970s, back to Taroom. The son of the man who took the rock is so much at peace with himself and with so many other people over his fine gesture. He is amazed at the love, forgiveness, the joy, and the coming together of so many different people, his gesture has brought a community together. Could it be that Springbrook might also embark on such a journey to understanding and appreciating what we so often see, but do not really understand?
MOBILE WELDING
That we could see the mountain as a sacred place, sacred to those of us who have a religion, those who find their solace in the environment, those whose memory goes back thousands of years to the Time of the Old People.
0409 598 001 MARK DONALDSON
It took courage to face the implacable environment of the mountain as a pioneer, but it takes a different courage to face the irrefutable fact that our engagement with the mountain has had unintended consequences. We have been wrong. Perhaps we can make a future where we bring healing by engaging with the mountain and those people, both ancient and recent, who have a deep and special relationship with the mountain. We can sit with those who can read the heart of the mountain. For those who have it, we could accept their right to commune with their special heritage. Give them the right to belong to the mountain just as the mountain belongs to them.
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I am old and afraid to take such a step on my own. Would you come with me on this journey of reconciliation? Judy Hardy-Holden Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
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BLOOD BIRD
Lyre Birds
Returning on the summer air the Blood Bird shelters in the fragrant shadow of the Rondeletia, hooded by its flowers, dreaming life’s few febrile hours.
Over the west side of the mountain, that’s lyrebird country. I could go down there, they say, in the early morning, and I’d see them, I’d hear them.
Aflame with his toy image they nod and bow, heavy with the languor of spring honey. Look, you can see him: a drop of blood, a tear! not knowing what strange passion draws him there
Ten years, and I have never gone. I’ll never go. I’ll never see the lyrebirds the few, the shy, the fabulous, the dying poets.
through miles of loveless country, so that now no ritual remains undone his tiny eye studs its jewel joy in the band of seasons, swept to this little garden to drink and die.
I should see them, if I lay there in the dew: first a single movement like a waterdrop falling, then stillness, then a brown head, brown eyes, a splendid bird, bearing like a crest the symbol of his art, the high symmetrical shape of the perfect lyre. I should hear that master practising his art.
I think of all the passing years that lie within the garden’s shadow, time that moves inevitably on from birth to death, a blazing cone, a bough of blossom in the sky, a world that turns away from light courting death, day into night, the wing of time now silent, free
No, I have never gone. Some things ought to be left secret, alone; some things – birds like walking fables – ought to inhabit nowhere but the reverence of the heart. Judith Wright
the heart’s wild choice that flies away to find its garden, live and die, returning on the summer air, the falling petals of the sky. DAVID WOOD Springbrook Poet
SPRINGBROOK CRAFT GROUP Annette Robbins on 0427 143 214 Everyone is welcome. Ask to be added to our email list. We welcome new members so if you like to do craft please come along and join us each
Wednesdays between 10.00am and 12.00pm
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Quirky Quotes Bill Anders, Apollo8 astronaut (photographer of the famous ‘earth-rise’ image taken while orbiting the Moon on Christmas Eve. To take the photo was his own, spontaneous decision as the earth came into view, although he had conflicting tasks at the time, at a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the mission. “To me it was strange that we had worked and had come all the way to the moon to study the moon, and what we really discovered was the Earth.” “Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle.” - Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (from Julia Christie). “Enjoyment of the world is immeasurably enhanced not just by meeting people who think, look, talk and dress differently from yourself, but by having to depend on them. The trio of Bangladeshi fishermen who learnt the arcane art of television filming in a little less than half an hour are only the last in a long list of those who had every reason to think that we were completely mad, but who decided, against all the odds, to be our friends instead.” - Michael Palin, Himalaya.
Shed Talk! The Springbrook Mens Shed is open and functioning well! We're open 9am - 12pm Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; all men welcome to our 'social club with power tools'; bring along a project, help with one of ours, get out of the house or simply just drop in to put the world to rights. We have a good workshop and some clever fellas who know how to use the gear (more importantly, show it off!) and a coffee table for cuppas at half past ten. All blokes welcome; drop in sometime and say hello!
“One hundred per cent of the shots you don’t take, don’t go in.” - Wayne Gretzky (for non-Canadians, one of the all-time great ice hockey players). “Absolutely Fabulous did go out in France, but was never as popular there as it became elsewhere. … I once saw an episode of Ab Fab dubbed into French, in which Eddie and Patsy just seemed like normal French women going about their daily business. Patsy was particularly French; she didn’t eat, she smoked and drank and was rude to people.” - Jennifer Saunders (creator and co-star of the Ab Fab BBC TV series). “In 1947, the world’s first transistor was built. Today, every year the world manufactures over 10,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is one hundred times more than the sum total of all the grains of rice consumed each year by the world’s seven billion residents. The world’s first transistor computer was built in Manchester in 1953 and had ninety-two of them. Today you can buy over a hundred thousand transistors for the cost of a single grain of rice and there are around a billion of them in your mobile phone. “William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 ‘for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.’ There has probably never been a Nobel Prize awarded for work that directly touches so many people’s lives.” - Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe: Everything that can Happen does Happen. “I make mistakes – I’ll be the second to admit it.” - Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines. Springbrook Voices: Issue 137
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Old Cars and Trucks of Springbrook Velocette Motor Cycles in Springbrook Velocette is a line of motorcycles made by Veloce Ltd (1905-1971), in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. One of several motorcycle manufacturers in Birmingham, Velocette was a small, family-owned firm, selling almost as many hand-built motorcycles during its lifetime as the mass-produced machines of the giant BSA and Norton concerns. Renowned for the quality of its products, the company was "always in the picture" in international motorcycle racing, from the mid-1920s through the 1950s, culminating in two World Championship titles (1949–1950 350 cc) and its legendary and still-unbeaten (for single-cylinder, 500 cc machines) 24 hours at over 100 mph (161 km/h) record. Veloce, while small, was a great technical innovator and many of its patented designs are commonplace on motorcycles today, including the positive-stop foot shift and swinging arm rear suspension with hydraulic dampers.
Simon’s Velocette is a 1962 MSS touring version in fantastic original condition. There were also scrambler and enduro versions of this motorcycle. Reference for this article: Wikipedia
If you know of an old car worth featuring in Springbrook Voices, please contact Alan Robertson Ph 04 02 445 418 or Email: alan.robertson@ausrocks.com.au
The business suffered a gradual commercial decline during the late 1960s, eventually closing in February 1971. The workforce was sacked in February 1971, with C C Cooper, a local metals-recovery dealer, buying most of the machinery and continuing to produce limited spare parts by a small team of engineers. The rights to use the Velocette name and manufacture parts were then sold-on to the Holder family, and the buildings at Hall Green were demolished.
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Open Tuesdays, Thursday & Saturday Mornings from 9am. Morning Tea about 10.30am.
Chris Young’s Velocette is a 1961 Venom Thruxton model which was introduced in 1956. The bike is sports tuned and identified by the fishtail muffler. The engine is a four-stroke 499cc single with chain drive.
All local men welcome to come and have a look around or to join us for a cuppa. 2390 Springbrook Road Follow the signs. For more info please call Chris on 0427 771 976
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SPRINGBROOK COMMUNITY DIRECTORY BALEIREI BOOK NOOK – 2353 Springbrook Rd near Kuralboo Ck Bridge. Daylight hours BLUE CARE – Customer Service Centre 1300258322. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE – The Chamber meets 1st Tuesday bi-monthly. Please email info@explorespringbrook.com for details about meetings and information about membership.
www.explorespringbrook.com CITY OF GOLD COAST COUNCIL - 1300 GOLDCOAST (1300 465 326) or 07 5582 8211 CHURCH SERVICES - Anglican: Family service on 4th Sunday of the month at 10.30am. Enquiries: Parish Office 5525 1018. COMMUNITY CUPPA – Meets on the last Friday of the month at different local cafés on a rotating basis. Call Francine on 0449 830 738 or email franciegirl@hotmail.com CRAFT GROUP – Wednesdays, 10-12pm Call Annette 5533 5656. CUBAN DANCE – Movement Facilitator. Christina Moneron 0432 509 519 DIVISION 9 OFFICE – Cr Glenn Tozer 5581 1883 FIRE BRIGADE – Meeting 1st Thursday of every month at 7pm. Training 3rd Thursday of every month at 7pm. Call 5533 5518 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE - Wayne Randall 5533 5192. See page 4 for more local JP’s LADIES LUNCH – 2nd Friday of the month. Kay 0407 137 880 MOUNTAIN MOTHERS GROUP – Hazel 0408 383 974 NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH - Geoff Dickie - gdickie65@bigpond.com PERISAI DIRI SILAT – Tuesday and Thursday at 6pm at the Hall. Simon 0405 252 435. PLAYGROUP – Mondays 9am to 11am at Springbrook School. Contact Sue 5548 3333. PURLING BROOK BOOK NOOK – Kuralboo St. Community books, open dawn till dusk SPRINGBROOK COMMUNITY FOOD GARDENERS – Meets quarterly. Call Gina on 5533 5061 SPRINGBROOK COMMUNITY SEED BANK – Dee dee.kempson@bigpond.com SRINGBROOK SCHOOL P&C - Second Tues or Thurs of the month at the school, 8.30am. SPRINGBROOK COMMUNITY LIBRARY – at the Hall. See SMCA Social media for times SPRINGBROOK MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION – General meeting every 2nd Wednesday of the month, 7.15pm at the Hall. All welcome to attend. SPRINGBROOK MENS SHED – Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings from 9am. Contact Graeme 0411 721 712 Web site-www.springbrookmensshed.wordpress.com SPRINGBROOK HALL – For bookings contact Kara on 0413 979 271 SPRINGBROOK NATIONAL PARK - phone 55335147 during office hours 7am – 4pm (if phone unattended leave a message; calls will be returned) SPRINGBROOK COMMUNITY SEED BANK – Dee 0438 566 080 SPRINGBROOK WILDLIFE APPRECIATION GROUP (SWAG) - Ceris Ash 0418 454 732 or cerma@bigpond.net.au TENNIS CLUB - Geoff Dickie - gdickie65@bigpond.com . UPPER SPRINGBROOK BOOK NOOK – Outside Greenwood Farm & Co, Goomoolahra WILDCARE - For all queries regarding sick or injured wildlife: 5527 2444 – 24 hours wildlife.
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