Apr2011_MT MEE NEWS
by Ian Wells
Well, things have dried out a bit. But we still have warm showery weather as I write, and the autumn grass growth is just unprecedented! Lawn-mowing, like washing-up, seems never ending and many of us have just not been able to manage our pastures – the feed is too long and too rank.
Not really a bad fault though all the same – it is easy to forget that it was hopelessly dry here for almost 20 years.
The Mt Mee Sunday Concert season will begin next month, with the St Lucia Orchestra performing a show entitled “From Broadway to Pavarotti” in our Hall on Sunday 29th May.
Kay (5498 2104) and Joyce (5498 2270) are already taking bookings.
There will, for instance, be tunes from “Oklahoma” and the beautiful music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, while our two wonderful guest singers will flex their vocal muscle with excerpts from the famous opera “Nessum Dorma”, bringing back memories of the great Pavarotti.
Don’t leave your booking too long – this concert will be a sell-out!
The two big community construction projects have made good progress since our last report. In the Mt Mee Hall. the new kitchen arrangements are done and the deck has been completed to the point co-sponsored by Council. The deck is a superb addition to the amenity and will have constant use. The Hall Committee is now getting quotes to have it enclosed with roller shutters and doors, to make it fully lock-up and protected from weather. This promises to “break the bank”, but Committee realises that it will be well worth it.
For some reason, Council overlooked sealing the new decking in the budget arrangements. Fortunately for us the contractor – the genial Aziz, has kindly donated a big pot of decking oil. So look out – there is a working bee coming up!
Thanks are due to Aziz, not only for that donation, but for doing such a great job and for showing flexibility and patience as various issues arose during construction.
The new kitchen arrangements had their first serious run at the March markets, and they worked exactly as planned. Whew! Congestion in the kitchen and around the servery hatch was much reduced.
The ANZAC Memorial at Mt Mee’s Dahmongah Look-Out is now completed too. Ian Chapman placed the log prepared by James Hewitt on the slab laid by Keith Lindeman – very sincere thanks chaps, from the whole community. The overall effect is very good and the addition is attracting warm comment. Thanks are due here to Council too, which not only permitted the creation of the memorial on parkland and restored and replanted the plots after the vandalisation of the trees, but helped with the planning and contributed significantly to the overall costs of the project. ‘On yer, Adrian – and staff’!
Preparations are already well in hand for the Dawn Service here at 6am on ANZAC Day. It will follow the usual format and once again, breakfast will be provided afterwards by members of the Mountain Top Community Church – supplemented with the traditional tot from the resources of the Woodford RSL.
The completion of a third big project will be celebrated from 8.45am on Sunday 10th April at the brand new chapel built in Settlement Road by the Mountain-Top Church. This has been a huge effort from a very small band of people. The Church has extended an open invitation to our community to come and pay our respects.
Motorists may have wondered why a silver Honda Accord was stopped for some time in the middle of Mt Mee Road in the Ocean View area last month – holding up quite a line of traffic. Yes, your writer was the pilot – and he wasn’t wearing a grey fedora hat or towing a caravan with Victorian number plates! The reason was a koala, which in broad daylight had elected to just ignore all traffic and cross the road in a very leisurely fashion. He/she eventually scrambled up the bank with difficulty, tried a roadside tree, didn’t like it, climbed down again, had a good look around and then wandered off – fortunately away from the road.
It was a very relaxed performance, reminding me very much of some of the Queensland Reds forwards in recent Super 15 games.
Finally for this month, a reminder that on Monday 11th April, and again on Monday 9th May, 1080 baits will be laid under the supervision of Council in various places on the Mountain for the control of wild dogs, and they will remain in place for up to one week. Domestic dogs and cats that wander may be at grave risk at these times.
The Mt Mee Sunday Concert season will begin next month, with the St Lucia Orchestra performing a show entitled “From Broadway to Pavarotti” in our Hall on Sunday 29th May.
Kay (5498 2104) and Joyce (5498 2270) are already taking bookings.
There will, for instance, be tunes from “Oklahoma” and the beautiful music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, while our two wonderful guest singers will flex their vocal muscle with excerpts from the famous opera “Nessum Dorma”, bringing back memories of the great Pavarotti.
Don’t leave your booking too long – this concert will be a sell-out!
The two big community construction projects have made good progress since our last report. In the Mt Mee Hall. the new kitchen arrangements are done and the deck has been completed to the point co-sponsored by Council. The deck is a superb addition to the amenity and will have constant use. The Hall Committee is now getting quotes to have it enclosed with roller shutters and doors, to make it fully lock-up and protected from weather. This promises to “break the bank”, but Committee realises that it will be well worth it.
For some reason, Council overlooked sealing the new decking in the budget arrangements. Fortunately for us the contractor – the genial Aziz, has kindly donated a big pot of decking oil. So look out – there is a working bee coming up!
Thanks are due to Aziz, not only for that donation, but for doing such a great job and for showing flexibility and patience as various issues arose during construction.
The new kitchen arrangements had their first serious run at the March markets, and they worked exactly as planned. Whew! Congestion in the kitchen and around the servery hatch was much reduced.
The ANZAC Memorial at Mt Mee’s Dahmongah Look-Out is now completed too. Ian Chapman placed the log prepared by James Hewitt on the slab laid by Keith Lindeman – very sincere thanks chaps, from the whole community. The overall effect is very good and the addition is attracting warm comment. Thanks are due here to Council too, which not only permitted the creation of the memorial on parkland and restored and replanted the plots after the vandalisation of the trees, but helped with the planning and contributed significantly to the overall costs of the project. ‘On yer, Adrian – and staff’!
Preparations are already well in hand for the Dawn Service here at 6am on ANZAC Day. It will follow the usual format and once again, breakfast will be provided afterwards by members of the Mountain Top Community Church – supplemented with the traditional tot from the resources of the Woodford RSL.
The completion of a third big project will be celebrated from 8.45am on Sunday 10th April at the brand new chapel built in Settlement Road by the Mountain-Top Church. This has been a huge effort from a very small band of people. The Church has extended an open invitation to our community to come and pay our respects.
Motorists may have wondered why a silver Honda Accord was stopped for some time in the middle of Mt Mee Road in the Ocean View area last month – holding up quite a line of traffic. Yes, your writer was the pilot – and he wasn’t wearing a grey fedora hat or towing a caravan with Victorian number plates! The reason was a koala, which in broad daylight had elected to just ignore all traffic and cross the road in a very leisurely fashion. He/she eventually scrambled up the bank with difficulty, tried a roadside tree, didn’t like it, climbed down again, had a good look around and then wandered off – fortunately away from the road.
It was a very relaxed performance, reminding me very much of some of the Queensland Reds forwards in recent Super 15 games.
Finally for this month, a reminder that on Monday 11th April, and again on Monday 9th May, 1080 baits will be laid under the supervision of Council in various places on the Mountain for the control of wild dogs, and they will remain in place for up to one week. Domestic dogs and cats that wander may be at grave risk at these times.
