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Issue 170 | Thursday, 6 August, 2015
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6 August, 2015
The Tewantin Community Kindergarten kids will help celebrate 50 years.
Golden kinder’s tender care THE Tewantin Community Kindergarten is turning 50 and will hold a golden anniversary party on Saturday 29 August to celebrate the milestone. The first children attended the local kindy in October 1965 in the building that was originally the Tinbeerwah State School building bought for 146 pounds when the original site was reclaimed as a rubbish tip by council. The new kindy was officially opened on 10 April in 1965 and has since had many extensions to create a nurturing environment for the children. In July 1969, the kindy became affiliated with the Creche and Kindergarten Association (C and K) to which it remains today. Co-director and educator Helen Walsh said everyone was welcome to come along and celebrate the centre’s birthday including current and past families, and was
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calling for anyone with historical information on the kindy to get in touch. “If anyone has information, photos or past attendance details to add to our collection, we would really appreciate them contacting us prior to our celebration,” she said. The Tewantin Community Kindergarten is a community based, not-for-profit organisation, so raffles will be held on the day to help raise much-needed funds and local businesses are encouraged to donate prizes to help the centre. The celebrations will be held at the Tewantin Community Kindergarten, 1 Doonella Street, Tewantin, on Saturday 29 August from 10am to 1pm. For more information on the anniversary or to help out, email tewantinc_kkindy@bigpond.com or phone 5447 1385 after 3pm on weekdays.
One costly call By JOLENE OGLE A LOCAL cyclist is outraged after he was fined $470 for riding a bike while on the phone and not wearing a helmet. Tom Sendro of Noosaville was riding along Noosa Parade on Friday (31 July) about 9.45am when he took a phone call while riding his bike. Mr Sendro said he was deep in
conversation on the phone and “barely cycling” when he heard a beep from behind. “As I was in the car parking area I kept going as I was riding my bike and could not look around and don’t have mirrors,” he said. “Then I heard a siren and simultaneously thought I would go to (Ravenwood Park) as something is going on.” Mr Sendro said he pulled into the park to get out of the way of the po-
lice car because he thought there was a commotion behind him, but the police were trying to get Mr Sendro’s attention. “I got off my bike and the police officers had pulled up (to the park) and were yelling out for me to come over and screamed at me as to why I hadn’t stopped,” he said. “They were terrorising me for not stopping, and told me I was running away from them.”
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Noosa Heads Officer in Charge Senior Sergeant Steve McReight said he couldn’t comment on specific cases but said Mr Sendro failed to stop for the police three times. Mr Sendro was then arrested and taken to the Noosa Heads police station where he was processed and fined $117 for not wearing a helmet and $353 for using a mobile phone while riding a bike.
Mr Sendro said he didn’t know it was against the law to be on the phone while riding a bike and he also believed helmets weren’t compulsory in tourist areas referring to a 2013 report that suggested a twoyear trial exempting cyclists over 16 from wearing a helmet in low-risk areas such as parks, footpaths and shared cycle paths. Continued on page 10
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