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Giant Turtle!

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12:30–2:30pm on Sunday 4th December 2022 on Woorim Beach by Edwin Schrag Lookout Bribie Island

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BIEPA invites you to be part of Bribie’s biggest turtle sculpture to celebrate nesting season for our most precious visitors

Bribie Island Environmental Protection Association Inc.

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Be part of Bribie's biggest turtle sculpture!

Join local artist Geoff Ginn on Woorim Beach to create a giant turtle to raise awareness of nesting season and encourage everyone to do their best to protect our most precious visitors. When and where 04 Dec, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Edwin Schrag Lookout, Boyd Street, Woorim QLD 4507, Australia About the event We need a big crowd of people to fill our local artist Geoff Ginn's creation of a giant turtle on the beach. There will be an outline drawn in the sand filled with people, and drone pilots taking lots of photos to celebrate the start of this year's nesting season. If all goes well, we may make this an annual event. To take part, make sure you arrive well before 1pm as we need to do this at low tide, which will be around 1:08pm. Please wear a turtle-coloured shirt/top (greens, browns, earthy tones) if you have one. Important: please register to get reminders nearer the time, and updates if anything changes. The BIEPA market stall will be there with T-shirts and turtlerelated goodies to buy. If you are a BIEPA member, please consider volunteering to come early to help set things up, and to stay to help clear up afterwards; contact Geoff Ginn on 0421 724 441 if you can help. We'll publish photos from the event in papers and social media to raise awareness of the vulnerability of the mother turtles, their nests in the dunes, and their little hatchlings as they quietly go about their annual summer breeding ritual along Woorim Beach from November through to April. We can all help to save these ancient mariners from extinction by protecting them during this critical time, and by supporting our dedicated Bribie Island Turtle Trackers who diligently monitor nest sites and hatchings at all hours and in all weather. Register here: https://www.biepa. online/event-details/bribie-turtlenesting-season-celebration

TIDE TIDE TIMES TIMES

Bribie Bribie Island Island & & Moreton Moreton Bay Bay

FRI 18 Nov 6:02 am 1.26m 11:26 am 0.7m 5:45 pm 1.58m

FRI 25 Nov 4:12 am 0.16m 11:03 am 2.14m 5:32 pm 0.37m 11:06 pm 1.43m SAT 19 Nov 12:32 am 0.48m 6:53 am 1.39m 12:26 pm 0.64m 6:37 pm 1.62m

SAT 26 Nov 4:51 am 0.21m 11:47 am 2.13m 6:24 pm 0.41m 11:55 pm 1.34m SUN 20 Nov 1:11 am 0.38m 7:37 am 1.55m 1:22 pm 0.56m 7:24 pm 1.66m

SUN 27 Nov 5:33 am 0.28m 12:34 pm 2.09m 7:20 pm 0.45m MON 21 Nov 1:49 am 0.28m 8:18 am 1.72m 2:12 pm 0.47m 8:08 pm 1.69m

MON 28 Nov 12:47 am 1.27m 6:21 am 0.35m 1:23 pm 2.01m 8:17 pm 0.48m TUE 22 Nov 2:24 am 0.2m 8:58 am 1.88m 3:02 pm 0.4m 8:52 pm 1.67m

TUE 29 Nov 1:44 am 1.25m 7:15 am 0.43m 2:16 pm 1.92m 9:16 pm 0.49m WED 23 Nov 3:00 am 0.14m 9:38 am 2.01m 3:52 pm 0.35m 9:36 pm 1.62m

WED 30 Nov 2:49 am 1.26m 8:19 am 0.52m 3:14 pm 1.81m 10:13 pm 0.48m THU 24 Nov 3:36 am 0.13m 10:20 am 2.1m 4:41 pm 0.35m 10:21 pm 1.53m

THU 1 Dec 4:02 am 1.32m 9:35 am 0.59m 4:18 pm 1.72m 11:08 pm 0.45m

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Do you know what GCBF stands for?

Dear Pumicestone,

If you haven’t already heard, the Queensland Government’s GCBF or Gambling Community Benefit Fund distributes around $60 million in grants to community groups each year, providing necessary and valuable funding for our not-for-profit community organisations.

Often it means they can improve or extend their services, grow and further benefit our local community.

We are so lucky to have so many wonderful community groups and organisations on and around Bribie. I am so proud of them all.

Over the past two years, over 40 of our organisations and groups here in Pumicestone have received GCBF grants.

A recent and very deserving recipient was our much loved Bribie Island Volunteer Marine Rescue.

Comprised entirely of volunteers, the VMR provides rescue, marine assistance and even flood operations 24 hours a day, 365 days a year out on our beautiful Pumicestone Passage and beyond.

The team at VMR received a $35,000 grant to purchase new motors for their rescue boats.

We asked VMR’s new Commodore Ces Luscombe what the Gambling Community Benefit Fund will mean for our community.

Ces said, “This grant will help us to put newer engines on the boats to provide a more reliable and cost-effective rescue service.” As well as giving organisations the chance to improve their facilities and services, the Gambling Community Benefit Fund tailors grants to clubs impacted by natural disasters. This Disaster Recovery round was one of the largest so far, with grants of up to $100,000 up for grabs. I recently had the pleasure of letting the Bribie Island Golf Club know that they will receive the $100,000 grant. I know local and visiting golfers have been frustrated by the aftermath of the February floods on the golf course, and this grant will help improve the drainage. It’s great to see GCBF grants being used to build resilience against future extreme weather events. The next GCBF round will open mid-January, 2023. I’ll remind everyone when the grant reopens on my social media accounts @AliKingMP on Facebook and Instagram.

You can find more information about grants at https://www.justice.qld.gov.au/initiatives/ community-grants. If you’ve got any questions please get in touch with my office on 3474 2100 or at pumicestone@ parliament.qld.gov.au

Warmly, Ali

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