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Community news from Mt Nebo and Mt Gloriouswww.gloriousnebo.org.au/MTN/

October2007

Inside this month:Mountain Idyll?

UNESCO,Bushfire ready?

First Aid

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2 October 2007

REMEMBER IN CASE OF FIRE:Telephone 000

then Terry Bradford: 3289 8181 orBob Snowdon: 3289 0150

MICHELE HOBARTB.A., Dip. RM

REMEDIAL & SPORTS MASSAGE CENTRE

RELAXATION - SEATED CHAIR MASSAGE

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To relieve:

STRESS, NECK & BACK PAIN,HEADACHES

SPORTS & JOB RELATED INJURIES

0407 662 044

1863 Mt Nebo Road, Mt Nebo 4520

(Next to Boombana Café)

Health Fund Rebates - ATMS Member

Guess who is 50!! Daryl Van Cooten will be celebrating his fiftieth

with a get together at John Scott Park, Station and Main StreetSamford. Sunday 21st October from 1pm.

Anyone who has had anything to do with Daryl is invited to attend this milestone celebration.

Please bring a plate to share, your drinks, chairs and a story to share.

Info: Daphne 3289 8319

Prep Information Eveningat

Mt Nebo State Schoolon

Wednesday, 24th October 07 at 6 pm

Children who turn 5 by 30th June next year

can attend Prep in 2008Phone 32898162

“Mountain Idol”Mt Nebo Community Hall Fundraiser

Saturday 13 October 6pm - midnight

Have fun - share a song, poem, comedy routine etc.

Help keep your community hall going

Lots of praises, (no nasty judges),

prizes, drink, food and frolic.

The fabulous ‘Rockin’ Rhythm Cats’ will end offthe night.

Register your interest to perform or help outon the night. Phone Rob Lachowicz 3289 8250

or Jessica Bradford (3289 8136). Mt NeboResidents’ Association.

First Aid on theMountain

Date: 2nd February 2008CPR update,

Senior First Aid refresher and New Senior First Aid

Please notify me of your intention to do thecourse, so that the

course can be confirmed. Daphne 3289 8319

Mt Glorious Roadside Revegetation Working Bee

Saturday, October 2010 – 12 midday

@ Bryce’s Rd gate, Mt Glorious(opposite Camp Constable)

Tea, coffee and biscuits to finish.

Nicole Hunter and Iain Anderson would like to announce the birthof a new addition to the mountain, Hazel, who was born 24/7/07.

Please join us in welcoming her to this lovely environment and thefantastic school she’ll be discovering in a few years.

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UNESCO visit toBrisbane Forest ParkOn September 2, UNESCO Secretary of the Man And Biosphere

Program, Natarajan Ishwaran (“Ish”), and the Program’s urbanecologist, Peter Dogse, visited the Brisbane Forest Park area to meet withmembers of the D’Aguilar Biosphere Committee, who are currently explor-ing a proposal to have the area listed with UNESCO as an internationalBiosphere Reserve. (For information on the project idea, aims, a map of thearea under consideration for listing, etc. go to:www.gloriousnebo.org.au/biosphere.

The day started early with a 9am meeting (on a Sunday!) at BFPHeadquarters with Committee members. The current proposal was laid outfor discussion, maps spread out over the table, and (with coffee flowing) theideas being developed by the Committee were run past Ish and Peter for feed-back and comment. Of particular interest to them and their Program wasthe idea of developing ways to better manage this area of enormous natural,social and economic value immediately adjacent to a large modern city.

This challenge to protect natural areas and communities on the urbanfringe is one that UNESCO is currently very interested in. With BrisbaneForest Park, the broader D’Aguilar Range area, and surrounding dams(Wivenhoe, Somerset and North Pine) under huge pressure from the second-fastest growing urban basin in the Western World (the Moreton Basin ofSouth-east Queensland), the project is a great example of this emergingUNESCO interest.

Ish and Peter were then taken for a helicopter flight over Brisbane ForestPark. Craig Doyle of Dayboro had generously offered to take our guests up tolook over the area from the air, thus providing an opportunity to view thearea against the urban backdrop of Brisbane. Project Officer Ros Leslie alsojoined the flight. They all returned with smiles on their faces and we thankCraig for his kind help. It was very useful to give an overview of the chal-lenges the area faces. ( And due to Craig’s skilful flying, no UN personnelwere lost over the D’Aguilar!

It was then time for lunch in Samford, with further pleasant talk about theProject and much else besides. Peter and Ish left with a very good idea as towhat we are trying to achieve and having provided very valuable advice as tohow we might, if people in the area are willing, develop it and present itfinally to UNESCO for consideration. It was quite a day for all.To hear more about the project so far, ask questions and provideinput, locals are invited to a discussion to be held at the NovemberMt Nebo Residents Association Meeting, Mt Nebo Hall, November7th, 7:30pm. (A similar meeting is being arranged for Mt GloriousResidents in November or December. Stay tuned.)

Dominic Hyde - Chair, D’Aguilar Biosphere Committee

Bushfire PreparedCommunities

Street meetings to help you prepare for the Bushfireseason will be held on:

9am, 20th October

Forestry Road, Mt Nebo

and

9am, 27th October

Harland Road, Mt Glorious

At these meetings you will be advised

on how to prepare your residence

and yourself for the fire season.

All members of the community

are invited to attend.

For further information please contact DaphneElsley 3289 8319

Community Storytelling Evening Please come to Mt Nebo Hall for an evening ofstorytelling on Sunday 4 November at 7 o’clock.

Years ago I went to an acting class called ‘Acting for Camera’.The tutorasked us all to bring a story to tell “...but not a story which aims solelyto show off how great you are...!” She encouraged us to think aboutthings that would interest and inspire everyone else in some way.Thenext week we sat and lay around in the studio for hours and becameengrossed, laughed, cried and were fascinated. It has stayed in my mindas one of the most memorable evenings of my life.

I have since asked overseas language students to tell stories in class.One Korean woman said:“I was born on the 1st of April, and that is ‘AllFools’ Day’, and when my mother told my grandmother of my birth, shedidn’t believe it!” A Korean man told this story: “When I was a child Iloved my dog, and played with him a lot. One day it was missing. I didn’tknow what had happened to him.Then I found out that my grandmotherhad eaten my dog”.

Obviously, in my acting class, we all had the motivation that we’ddecided to stand under the stage lights a little and learn acting. Buthopefully this could be a wonderful event on the mountain too...tellinglocal stories instead of watching others’ stories on television!

Bring a photo and an object, both of which are somehow important toyou. We’ll use these for a brief ‘show and tell’ warm-up. Then, withcoffee/tea and cakes, and by candlelight, tell and listen to the stories thatmake up our local community.

Any collaboration, comments, input, or information wouldbe very welcome. Please call Sarah Lowe 0415-812-565Peter Dogse, Ros Leslie, Ish and Craig Doyle

Come to the November

Mt Nebo Residents’ Association Meetingto listen and comment on a proposal for a

UNESCOD’Aguilar Biosphere Reserve

7:30pm Wednesday, November 7th@ Mt Nebo Hall, Mt Nebo

(For background info, see:www.gloriousnebo.org.au/biosphere)

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4 October 2007

School News

‘I’m late, I’m late for a very important date,’ panted the White Rabbitat our school’s Book Character parade. All the crew from ‘Alice inWonderland’ was there (thank-you staff!) as well as many othercolourful characters, (our students)! This event culminated our BookWeek celebrations which included a Bookfair, The Premier’s ReadingChallenge and a writing competition involving Mrs Manwaring’sintriguing elf-like characters. The winners were Phoebe, Jaia and Alice.Maybe we have the next J.K. Rowling in our midst!

The love of reading is one of the greatest gifts. So for all those who loveto read you will find fabulous book bargains at our second hand book-stall at school on Market Day on 3rd November.

We have many talented young artists at Mount Nebo who have createdsome rather effective works which were recently on exhibition at thecommunity Art Show. Congratulations on a truly fabulous show by ourmany fabulous local artists! This is an annual event in which our stu-dents love to be involved.

New additions to our facilities at school include our new Sports andGrounds shed, made possible by the successful application of theFederal Government- Investing in Our School’s Grant. Also thank youto Education Queensland for the removal of our old, unusable concretetank and the replacement with a new tank.

The film crew, our Year 7 students, have made some very informativedocumentaries about Antarctica and filmed a series of Weather reports.All students from Prep-Year 7 were involved in researching, scripting,storyboarding and practicing their parts. The enormous effort that wasput into this by our students, showed how much they enjoyed this richlearning experience. Perhaps we have a budding David Attenboroughor Stephen Spielberg in our midst too.

Congratulations to the Henderson family for the birth of their daugh-ter, Ella as sister for Ben and Angus. We are looking forward to herjoining us for Prep in 2012.

Our Market Day on the 3rd of November is an event organized by ourstudents to commemorate the grand opening of our new learning area,the Multimedia and Arts room. Our students are very excited and havebeen working hard to ensure the day is a big success. There will be foodstalls, cake stalls, craft stalls, second hand book stall, a jumping castleand great entertainment. It promises to be a fun community day, sodon’t miss out. I hope you will be able to come and support our school.

Looking forward to seeing you at our Market Day and Grand OpeningSue Biffin, A/Principal

Ps. Please watch over our school during the September school holidaysand report anything suspicious to the Gap Police Station.

Electric and acoustic pianos, pianotuning, repairs,

sheet music and all things piano

123 Lodge RdWooloowin Qld 4030

Ph/Fax (07) 3357 8885

www.thepianoshop.com.au

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Councillor’s ColumnBUSHFIRE PREPARED COMMUNITIESA good turn out of local residents attended the Councilsponsored Bushfire Prepared Communities forum held

on Wednesday 19th September at the Hall. With a potentially bad fireseason ahead, it was timely for residents to hear from experienced localand visiting fire service officers, police and our own expert, DaveKington, who more than anyone understands and can explain the risksof living close to nature on the mountain. Whilst for some the forumprovided a good opportunity to refresh their knowledge of what needsto be done to prepare their properties and families for the fire season,for others who are new to the mountain, it gave them an insight intoall the issues about preparation, the Stay or Go principles and what todo in the event of a bushfire. If you weren’t able to attend the meetingand would like to know more, please give your local volunteer brigadea call.

MT NEBO EARLY WARNING SYSTEMThe Bushfire forum was an ideal opportunity for residents to receive aprogress report on the major project that has been underway for the lastyear or so of providing an early warning system and associated alertsiren for the Mt Nebo Area. Significant funding was provided jointly bythe Federal government, the Qld Department of Emergency Servicesand Council to deliver this project for the benefit of the Mt Nebo com-munity. Dave Kington who has been serving on the working group forthis project provided a briefing on how the system will work and theimportance of all affected community members participating by com-pleting their own Individual Property Plans. Your local Brigade hasbeen active in developing many of the elements of the communicationsystem such as the local social network, street co-ordinators etc. Youwill hear much more about this Early Warning CommunicationSystem over the next month or so and I would encourage you to par-ticipate in any meetings held on the topic.

BUSHFIRE WARNING SIRENWhilst at the Bushfire forum in September, I had the pleasure of pre-senting to the Mt Nebo Brigade first Officer, Terry Bradford, a mega-phone and radios which will be integral parts of the early warningprocess. In his presentation, Dave Kington provided details about the

siren being installed, how it will provide different sounds for the Alert,Stay or Go and Batten Down phases of communication process. Onceinstallation is complete, residents will participate in a number of trialsand regular practice sessions to ensure the effectiveness of the siren andprocess.

COUNCIL AMALGAMATIONS - NEW BOUNDARIESThe dust is starting to settle on what has for Pine Rivers residents beenan absolutely illogical process in rolling three of Queensland’sstrongest local governments together to create Australia’s third largestCouncil. Amalgamating the three councils, their systems and staff willcost ratepayers millions of dollars and there has still been no validargument presented on what real benefits may result from this process.One further step in the process was announced in late September withthe release by the Queensland Electoral Commission of the divisionalboundaries for the new Moreton Regional Council which will takeeffect on 16th March 2008 following the local government elections.Details can be found on www. ecq.qld.gov.au but for our part of theworld we will become part of Division 11 of the new council.

The Mountain communities will obviously remain in the deep southwestern corner of the new authority but Division 11 will contain all ofthe existing Pine Rivers Division 1 ( ie Ocean View to the North, CampMountain to the South, the mountains to the west and Clear Mountainand parts of Kurwongbah to the east). The new division 11 will alsoinclude parts of Bunya, Draper, Cashmere (to Lilley Rd), Kurwongbah(to the North Pine Country Park) and extend into the existingCaboolture Shire by including the Narangba village area. As you wouldgather very quickly, all of this will change the face of local governmentand the ability of its representatives to engage as closely with their com-munities as we currently do and likely impact on the levels of serviceand facilities provided.

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6 October 2007

Tuesday night by appointment

The Wilson ReportOur New Premier

History was made recently with the appointment of Queensland’s firstfemale Premier following the retirement of Peter Beattie. I wish Peterand his wife Heather a happy retirement and while I will miss workingalongside Mr Beattie, I look forward to working with Ms Bligh in mycontinuing role as Minister for Mines and Energy.Meeting with Department of Main Roads & MountGlorious Community Association

A number of mountain residents have contacted me regarding theimplications of a road safety audit recently undertaken by theDepartment of Main Roads. In light of concerns expressed to me aboutthe possible impact of any work undertaken by the Department, Iorganised a meeting at my office with representatives from theDepartment of Main and Roads and the Mount Glorious CommunityAssociation. This meeting provided a forum for the association toexpress its environmental concerns to the Department. It was agreedthat this kind of dialogue is in the best interests of the community andwill continue.Go Bush Activity Program

The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service has released its Spring ‘GoBush’ program. Activities at Brisbane Forest Park include a native stin-gless bee workshop; a family revegetation and barbeque day; and a birdwalk through the sub-tropical rainforest of Maiala. This is a greatopportunity for all of us to have a day out with the family, enjoyingnature. More information and the full ‘Go Bush’ program can befound at: http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/parks_and_forests/go_bush_pro-gram/Safehome initiative

Safehome is a free service from the Queensland Fire and Rescue Servicewhich offers a complete fire safety check of your home. TheQueensland Government introduced compulsory smoke alarm laws onJuly 1 this year.I encourage as many people as possible to make use of the service. It’sfree and will help you protect your family and your property. ASafehome visit can help families form their own escape plans, fire-proof gutters and other areas around the home, and provide expertadvice on where to install smoke alarms. Government concession cardholders are eligible for a free smoke alarm after a Safehome visit. Toorganise a Safehome visit, please ring 1300 369 003 or visitwww.fire.qld.gov.auElectoral Enrolment

Under new laws, voters are required to be registered with the AustralianElectoral Commission prior to an election being called. I encourageeveryone who is not already on the electoral roll to fill out an enrol-ment form as soon as possible. Forms are available at www.aec.gov.auor from my office.

In closing, I welcome people contacting me with their views, as well asseeking information or help with any State Government matter.Telephone me on 3851 1570, fax me on 3851 1261, email me [email protected], or check out my website,www.geoffwilsonmp.com. My Electorate Office is at 3/6 NepeanAvenue, Arana Hills - next to the Caltex Service Station (office hours9:00 am to 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm to 5:00 pm week days). Pleasephone for an appointment.

Deep Yellow-woodGo for a walk along the track beside the Rose Farm. On the right handside just before the spot being prepared for the new Fire Warning Sirenyou will see a tree covered in masses of small red flowers. It's calledDeep Yellow-wood and is a very desirable native for anyone wanting toto do revegetation.It belongs to the same family as the Mango and when the stems arebroken they have a very strong sappy smell. You will see bunches ofbrown fruit hanging from the branches soon. These will germinateeasily if their edges are scarified slightly.Maggie Scattini

John & MargoStamatiou Proprietors

Quality Fruit andVegetables

Open 7 Days

Main Street Samford Q 4520Ph/fax 3289 3655 Mobile: 0409 481 863

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Weed removal continues at Jolly’s

QPWS rangers and volunteers were hard at work on Saturday 18 Augustremoving weeds at Jolly’s Lookout. A crew of eight volunteers and rangerscarried out extensive removal of fishbone fern from the Thylogale walk-ing track and easter cassia from the adjoining firebreaks. Eleven volun-teers from National Parks Association of Queensland (NPAQ) also tackledsections of lantana and mist flower along the Egernia circuit. By the endof the day 30 rubbish bags full of weeds were piled into the back of theland cruiser. Well done to all groups involved, it was a massive effort! Ifyou are interested in volunteering to assist QPWS with weed removal,please phone Matthew Wiseman on 3289 2644.D’Aguilar day use area renovations continued

Over the last few months rangers have continued the restoration of day useareas across the entire D’Aguilar Range. Renovations to Bellbird Groveand Lomandra day use areas throughout August and September includedthe repair and replacement of picnic facilities and the installation of anew footbridge. Keep an eye out for similar work happening in other pop-ular day use areas over the coming months.

Housekeeping for Greene’s Falls track

Bushwalkers visiting the groves of piccabeen palms and subtropical rain-forest gullies of Maiala may notice a tidier track. To improve visitor safe-ty and access to the Greene’s Falls walking track, rangers have recentlyremoved trees which had encroached onto parts of the boardwalk.

Preparing for bushfire season

With bushfire season upon us, QPWS rangers are continuing their effortsto prevent the risk of fires across the park, with a focus on protecting thecommunities of Mount Nebo and Mount Glorious. Intensive fire breakmaintenance took place in September on Double Break, adjacent to theMount Nebo Township. It is important for all mountain residents to makenecessary preparations to protect their property (and selves!) from thethreats of wildfire. A great source of information to help get ready for fireseason is the Queensland Rural Fire Service. website. Visit www.rural-fire.qld.gov.au and follow the “Prepare, Stay and Defend or Go Early” linkunder “What’s New.” Copies of Queensland Rural Fire Service brochurespromoting “Bushfire Prepared Communities” are available from theBrisbane Forest Park Information Centre.

Recycled plastic products in the park

From replacing wood barbeques with gas to using natural products suchas lanolin (from sheep wool) to treat timber decking, sustainable alter-natives are being used to build visitor facilities in parks across the state.Revolutionary timber alternatives such as fibre composite, polymer con-crete, recycled timber and recycled plastic are exciting examples of newproducts that are currently being used and trialled.One of the most promising of these products is recycled plastic used ascarpark barriers and wheelstops, tap stands, totem sign mounts and parkbenches. Made from post-consumer plastic waste, recycled plastic prod-ucts are estimated to last twice as long as hardwood and require no followup maintenance.Using these products saves on labour and materials and also reduces theenvironmental threat of toxic residue associated with paint and oil.

With less time and money required for infrastructure maintenance, it thengives rangers time to tackle other pressing issues like weed and fire man-agement. Unlike many other timber alternatives, recycled plastic is com-parable to the price of hardwood. Keep an eye out for these new featuresin recreation areas across the park. Recycled plastic products such as bol-lards for vehicle barriers and wheel stops for car parks have been recentlyinstalled at Ironbark Gully day use area and Brisbane Forest Park (BFP)Information Centre.Go Bush activities for kids and families

The spring Go Bush program promises exciting activities with somethingfor everyone. Come along and join in the fun! Bring the family and learnabout some amazing Australian animals on the Creature feature activityat BFP Information Centre on 22 October, help revegetate critical wildlifehabitat on the Family ‘reveg’ and free BBQ in the park at Bellbird Groveon 28 October, or spot some nocturnal animals on the Family dusk dis-covery walk at Boombana on 27 November. Adults can also join ornithol-ogist Ian Venables as he leads the walk spotting and identifying birds atMaiala on 3 November. For more information on these and the rest of our spring Go Bush activi-ty program, pick up a copy of the Bush Telegraph at the BFP InformationCentre or download it online at www.epa.qld.gov.au. Make a booking orjoin our Bush Telegraph email list by phoning 1300 723 684.

See you in the park!

Michael Siebuhr,Senior Ranger,QPWS.

For more information about anyof the topics in this column,please contact the QPWSBrisbane Forest Park office on1300 723 684.

Samford MeatsJustin Todd John & Terry

3289 6599SHOP 1 MAIN STREET SAMFORD QLD. 4520

Someone has “borrowed” our cordless drill, and the battery chargerto go with it, from our veranda.

When you’ve finished with it, could you please return it?Thanks, Renée

YOGA CLASSES

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Mornings 7.00-Mon 9.30-Tues

Evenings 6.30 Mon/Wed/Thurs

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Call Helen: 3289 8018

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8 October 2007

Classifieds1st. Wednesday of the month - Mt Nebo Residents’

Association meeting at the Hall. 7:30pm

2nd. Wednesday of the month - Mt Nebo P&C Assocmeeting at 7pm ASC Bldg. (No meetings in SchoolHolidays)

Every Wednesday - Playgroup every Wednesday, 10amnoon at Mt Nebo Hall, $2 per family, babies,toddlers, preschoolers welcome, please bringa plate to share.

2nd Saturday of the month – Working Bee at theCommunity Hall 10 am – 12 midday. Pleasecome along and help maintain the hall & gar-dens - jobs for everyone to help with.

Submission details

This is a community newspaper, supported by you at fundraising events.We use advertising as aservice to the community and as a way to cover costs.We have two levels of advertising—classified and display. Classifieds are by donation. Display adver-tising is charged at the following rates:

1/8 page: $15.00 per issue $135 per year1/6 page $20.00 per issue $180 per year1/4 page $30.00 per issue $270 per year1/2 page $60.00 per issue $540 per year

Classified ads by donation.Mailing list subscriptions to the News are $12.00 per year

Please submit all articles by the 15th of the month to the Mt News Box located at the PostOffice at Mt Nebo or e-mail, by the 20th of the month to [email protected] supply your e-mail article with MTN in the Subject . Put articles in the body of the e-mail, asattachments can be messy. Pictures should be in JPEG or TIFF format, resolution 300dpi, copy in TEXT.Please don’t send us MSWord “.doc” attachments or even worse, fancy schmancy things done inMSPublisher. How did that software ever get allowed out?? We really mean this bit.We hate MicrosoftWord because it should be hated, we want to hate it, and we can, but you are probably going to totallyignore that request anyway aren’t you? You aren’t actually even reading this are you? We’re just mutteringto ourselves...and Janette....well, maybe she looked once.Changed her life didn’t it? and what about Sarahand Sarah and Sarah? Who knows for sure eh? Probably on holidays...The articles in the Mt News reflectthe views of the contributing authors and not necessarily those of the Mt News Committee (exceptthe bit about hating MS Word). If you are actually reading this, you’re actually the second person to everdo so, but hey, what’s up? Either you need to get a library card or you really do care.Thank you.

Di Clark - 3289 8309

Steve Reinthal - [email protected]

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BOOKS WANTED - Mt Nebo State School is hav-ing a Market Day on Saturday November 3 and will behaving a second hand book stall. If you have any unwant-ed saleable books, please drop them off to the school.CHILDMINDING - Reliable, responsible 15yr oldlocal girl available for babysitting. $8.50p/h. Phoebe3289 8281REMEDIAL MASSAGE & release for chronic pain,and associated stress. 25 years experience, last sevenyears in Samford Valley, and now here in Mt. Glorious.Available weekdays, and evenings. Mobile massage alsoavailable, on request. Ph.Anne 0412 099 091GIVEAWAY - BBQ.We still have it. 4 burner plusa side wok burner. Homemade with silky oak & steel,very large cooking plate. 1900L x 900H x 700W. PhJohn or Kate 3289 8228PUPPETS WANT SHED SPACE. Upatree Artsis looking for a space to store our friendly and quietpuppets.They’re no trouble, big, don’t need food ortoilets and prefer hanging from the roof. Please con-tact Ingrid 3289 8250 or Rhonda on 3289 8020

Hoon Line

If you see hoons or other dangerous road users call the police (HQ 33646464, Ferny Grove 3851 4499 or The Gap 3511 0077)

If it’s possible and safe, get a description of the vehicle and registration number. Agood contact is Snr Sgt Andy Graham, OIC Ferny Grove (phone 3872 1520, email

[email protected])

PlumbingSolutions

For quality work at competitive rates.

Phone Trevor 3289 2980 or0408 884 345

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