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Issue 201 | Thursday, 10 March, 2016
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Burpees for Butterflies By MEGAN OGLE BURPEES are usually an exercise best avoided due to the physical exertion required to execute just one, but members at Flitefit Peregian Beach love a challenge and are attempting to complete over 10,000 burpees in just one month. Flitefit owners Nicki White and David Fletcher have challenged members of their gym to push their limits for a good cause this month in a bid to raise funds for local charity Sunshine Butterflies. “If our members reach 10,000 burpees collectively we will donate $200 to Sunshine Butterflies,” David said. “And when individual members reach 500 we will donate
a further $10.” Over 55 members have signed up for the challenge, donating upwards of $5 to join in, with the oldest member being 78 years old and smashing out 150 burpees in one go. Another member is already up to 940 burpees bringing the collective number of burpees to 7538 in just seven days, promising to smash the 10,000 goal in no time. Gym member Narin Harrison said the challenge, while raising much-needed funds for a great cause, has also created a fun atmosphere amongst the members. “There’s a great sense of comradery, there’s a lot of fun teasing and friendly competition,” Narin said.
Butterfly burpees: Narin Harrison is egged on by Flitefit owners Nicki White and David Fletcher.
Lashing out at biosphere By MEGAN OGLE COUNCIL candidate and Noosa Parks Association (NPA) honorary secretary Ingrid Jackson has slammed the Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation (NBRF) for a lack of transparency. “The Foundation’s governance seems muddled, and there is no transparency. It gives every appearance of being a closed shop,” Ms Jackson said. “One of the first acts of the new Noosa Council should be to review the operations and financing of the Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation.”
Ms Jackson’s comments come as the NPA and NBRF currently discuss a joint project which would see the two environmental groups purchase privately owned land to be subdivided and resold with part of the land being held for a “conservation connectivity corridor”. The project, titled Biodiversity Connectivity, was submitted by NPA vice-president Michael Gloster to the NBRF last year who has since confirmed discussions between NPA and NBRF commenced “a fortnight ago” but declined to provide further details of the project. The Expression of Interest sub-
mitted to the NBRF states that part of the subdivided land would be turned into a wildlife corridor while the other part or parts would be resold with possible voluntary covenanted agreements including land management plans. Ms Jackson said more than a year after its establishment, the Foundation was “struggling” to meet the high expectations held for it and said it appeared to be “failing” at its “primary task” of raising funds. “At present most of its funds come from Noosa Council, and this was never intended to be the case,” Ms Jackson said.
Ms Jackson said there was a “compelling requirement” to take action to “remedy this situation” and said she believed a review on the foundation’s governance and operations were a high priority for the new council. “The Noosa Biosphere is an international declaration of our shire’s commitment to environment, economy and community, and the Foundation should be impeccably governed and managed to these ends,” she said. “Noosa must get its Biosphere project right at this second attempt.” NBRF president Campbell Corfe declined to comment.
Council candidate and NPA secretary Ingrid Jackson has slammed the NBRF for their lack of transparency.
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