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Viva l’Italia By Margie Maccoll Noosa’s inaugural Italian Food & Vino Festival was such an overwhelming success that dates for festivals for the next two years have already been booked. The tour de force behind the festival, Noosa Waterfront Restaurant executive chef Andrea Ravezzani said the festival opening and closing parties were sold out as was the Ferrari Long Lunch, while the main event, the Festival Day in Noosa Woods Parkland had reached capacity by 2pm and they had to shut the gate. “The feedback we’ve had was very positive,“ Andrea said. “A lot of people were interested to see what we were doing. A lot of people enjoyed it.“ Andrea said the aim was give people a taste of Italian culture in terms of food and drink as well as entertainment and games for the kids. “It’s all about family in Italy. We had to find out how to put in games the kids can enjoy, then the parents can enjoy the drinking situation,“ he said. The band was outstanding and the Pavorotti impersonator was fantastic, he said. In addition, guests were able to play the ancient Roman game of bocce, led by Queensland Bocce Federation president Dino Marrone, try their luck at a game of checkers or listen to demonstrations in Nonna’s Kitchen by a variety of Italian chefs. The opening party was held last Friday at Noosa Waterfront Restaurant and the closing party on Sunday at Lucio’s Marina. Continued pages 4-5
Beck Carson, Mary Hubbard, Karla Harris and Nina Bombina go Italian.
Waste hits rates PHIL JARRATT looks at our landfill problem in the first of a two-part examination of the upgrading of Noosa Council’s waste management strategy, ahead of community consultation coming this spring. The proverb wilful waste, woeful want above was penned by an unknown author in 1576, revealing that we’ve known that waste was not
a good thing for at least 450 years. Two centuries later it had been corrupted into the better known “waste not, want not”, which most of us would be familiar with, even while we live with the modern mantra of “buy it, use it, chuck it”. The problem today is that rampant consumerism is promoted in so many ways in the developed world that we buy too much, use it
too little (if at all) and chuck it too soon when it might have been repurposed or recycled. The end result of this is that we fill our tips almost as fast as we can dig them, while at the same time our potentially productive organic waste creates methane which releases frightening levels of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Put simply, if you’re part of the buy-use-
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chuck mob – and who among us can escape that label from time to time – you’re at least partly responsible for continued rate hikes while councils try to work out where to put our waste, and more importantly, for contributing to climate change by making our emissions targets virtually impossible to attain. Continued pages 6-7
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