26 million to resurface 15 roads

LET’S BEGIN

NOTICE TO SDPPA MEMBERS

Annual Membership fees now due. Please EFT $10 to:

SDPPA: BSB: 633 000. ACC: 163 272 503.

If you’re interested in membership or learning more about how the SDPPA supports this community, head to www. samfordprogress.org.au or email secretary@ samfordprogress.org.au.

The SDPPA meets on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at the SCHUB. The more local community members that get involved, the more great things we can do together. We’d love your input. Join today!

NEXT SDPPA MEETING Wednesday 20th July 2022

Samford Community Hub (SCHUB). 7pm start. All welcome. Further information: secretary@samfordprogress.org.au.

BUSHCARE AFTERNOON

Sunday 17 July, 2-4pm

Restoring our local waterways

DIVISION 11 COUNCIL REPORT

Budget 2022/23 - Staying Ahead of the Game and Protecting Our Environment.

This year’s record $259 million capital works program is dedicated to building new community hubs, investing in grassroots sports, focusing on upgrades to our road network, protecting our environment and improving local playgrounds.

I have heard the concerns of locals who want to ensure their lifestyle is protected as the region’s population grows and who want Council to change its priorities to better protect our environment. Whilst this year has seen a slight increase in our rates that equates to approximately $1.71 per week for the average owner occupier property, our rates are still the cheapest in Queensland, much lower than those for Brisbane City, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Logan and Ipswich.

This year our Council will spend $62.4 million on its sustainable waste management program, but we still charge the lowest waste charges in South East Queensland.

This year we are ramping-up our enormously successful land buyback program, so we can protect more natural areas from development. A large allocation of your rates will be placed in a Regional Infrastructure and Environment Fund, which gives us a green war chest for strategic land acquisitions and tree plantings.

Some of the key infrastructure projects for the Samford and surrounding area include: • A $1.3 million ‘village makeover’ for Samford to enhance the contemporary rural character of the village with new landscaping, paving and street installations along Main Street. • $800,000 to build a new carpark next to Alan Cash Park (behind the Farmers Hall) in Samford Village. • $550,000 to complete the brand new $1.96 million community hall at Camp Constable in Mount Glorious, which will include a play area for kids. • $2.26 million to resurface 15 roads across the division. • $137,500 for a new pathway along Cash Avenue.

You can find out more about this year’s budget by visiting: https://www.moretonbay. qld.gov.au/Services/Reports-Policies/ Budget/2022-23

Cr Darren Grimwade

This Edition:

Real Estate.................................... 26 - 31 Verseword .................................... 32 Trade & Business/Classifieds ...... 33 - 42 Community Contacts...........................43

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

COMMISSIONERS FOR DECLARATIONS

Justice of the Peace (Qualified)

Community Hub (SCHUB): Tuesday & Thursday ...............9am -12noon Maggie Scattini (Mt Nebo) .......... 3289 8175 Peter Gloor (Cedar Ck)...........0409 482 767 Peter Jackson (Camp Mtn)..........3289 6495 John Green.............................0400 373 726 Ben Sorensen.........................0407 302 544 Sue Flinders (Kobble Ck) ......0466 619 660 David Macdonald(S/Valley)...0452 406 050 Justin Desmond......................0438 380 767 Julie Lummis (Armstrong Ck) .0404 606 575 Merv Brown ............................0408 748 133 Elliott Baldwin .........................0448 056 110 Linda Smith ............................0409 637 203 Anna Burden...........................0423 594 900 Liz Gibbs .................................. 3289 1700

Commissioner for Declarations

Alison Murphy..............................3289 2835 Don Goebel ............................0412 932 288

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Australian Gymnastics Championships GOLD

Toby Armstrong kept his balance to place overall first as the All-Around National Champion Level 8 Open at the 2022 Australian Gymnastics Championships. If his name and achievement sounds familiar, it was only last year The Village Pump wrote about his winning the Level 7 Open, for which Toby received the Young Sports Person of the Year Award in the 2022 Australia Day Dickson Awards.

Toby also medalled gold on pommel, gold on parallel bars, gold on high bar, bronze on floor and bronze on vault. These achievements followed an unorthodox start to Toby’s year.

“I had a tough start to the year facing injuries, so when I was named National Champion for Level 8 Open it felt really amazing, plus a huge sense of relief knowing the challenges of overcoming my injury and all those training hours I put in were finally worth it,” he said.

To reach this level of achievement, Toby trained 16 hours a week for the past year to give himself the greatest chance at performing to the best of his ability. Despite rarely missing a training session, Toby knows it wasn’t just his dedication alone that netted him the title.

“A big thank you to my coach Mike for believing in my ability, as well as his assistance as I honestly wouldn’t have been able to achieve what I did without him,” Toby said. “I also want to thank my parents, especially mum for all the effort she makes to get me to every training session.”

Toby has reached this achievement while completing his final year of high school. While gymnastics will continue to play a big part in his future, he is also contemplating a career where the sky’s the limit.

“As well as continuing with my gymnastics and seeing how far I can go with that, I would like to study aerospace engineering, with maybe even a future in the Air Force,” he said.

We’re sure there’s more to come from this high achiever.

Tanya Hall

LOCAL NEWS

FOOD, CHAT, STORIES AND LOCAL VOCALS

The Sustainable Business Network “Suss Out Event” on Tuesday 19 July at the Long Yard Larder begins at 5.15pm with live and local Alice-style vocals, food, drinks and catch-ups, switching at 6pm to snapshot stories of what locals are doing to reduce their footprint on the earth.

As we’ve said in the last Village Pump - no it’s not a suspicious event, more an event to ‘suss out’ what local businesses are doing. If you’re simply curious about what others are doing to be sustainable, why don’t you come along?

We’re going AMA (Ask Me Anything), which is where some of our businesses give a 4 minute run down on what they are doing to have a go at being sustainable, while the rest of us ask them anything about their business or indeed anything at all about themselves. That’s when things may well get extra entertaining!

All the while the Larder is putting on some of the tastiest food you can buy, without breaking the budget. Green Street is buying first coffees for all!

It will be standing room only at the Larder from 5.15pm to 7.30pm. Please RSVP by 16 July to info@greenstreet.net.au or text 0407 190 162 so that the Larder folks can know the numbers.

Howard Nielsen Samford Sustainable Business Network www.greenstreet.net.au

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