Category Archives: General

HERBS USED DIFFERENTLY May 2009

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outside_garden_design.pngPeople tend to grow herbs in with their vegie patch or make a separate herb garden. Well, a way of getting an added bonus from your herbs, besides the fact you can eat them, is to use them in and particularly bordering your garden. This way you can utilise the forms, colours and textures of your herbs as well as still having them close at hand for picking.
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MT MEE NEWS May 2009

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By Ian Wells

There are mutterings of “El Nino” in the air, but so far our season remains brilliant.  Pastures have recovered well from the beating they took in the long hard drought times, although the common ratstail grasses did enjoy a lift from the difficult conditions.  Let’s hope that they begin to disappear again – and that their big brother just down the road doesn’t spread his wings too quickly.
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LOCAL GIGS FOR SHARRYN BELL May 2009

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Yes, she’s back! 

After the birth of her 2nd child in late January (a boy, Jackson Peter, born on 22 January, little brother to 2 yr old Jasmine), Sharryn is getting back into the live music scene with some local gigs.
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ANZAC Day Commemorations at Samford Museum

Saturday 25th April 2009

Samford Museum members will feature local servicemen and women who served in all conflicts in their ANZAC Day commemoration displays at Samford Museum on ANZAC Day, Saturday 25 April 2009 when admission will be free.
Visiting displays of militaria representing all wars and services, provided by local private collectors will also be set up throughout the museum complex.
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ANZAC Day 2009

Saturday 25th April
DAWN PARADE       PARADE and SERVICE     LUNCHEON        WREATH LAYING CEREMONY
Dawn Parade
The Dawn Service will be held at the Memorial in the War Memorial Grounds [Showgrounds] and will commence at 0520.  We will have service sheets this year so bring a light and participate in the service.
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NEWS FROM P R CAN April09

Pine Rivers Goes Solar

Reduce your power bill, increase the value of your property and do the right thing by the environment.
Householders in the Pine Rivers area had another opportunity to be a part of the Samford Solar Neighbourhood when Round 2 (which closed on February 28) and Round 3 (which closed of March 28) were launched.
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Your Part For Emission Reduction

I have heard a lot of talk in the media lately about emission trading proposals. It seems to me, that to some degree at least, as long as companies are prepared to pay the cost they can continue to produce unadjusted levels of pollution. Planting a tree should not  make it OK.
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MT MEE NEWS April09

By Ian Wells

Hamish treated the Mountain in kindly fashion, dropping about 40mm of almost overdue rain in our parts, along with no more than what Andrew Jeays would term “a good working breeze”.
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AMBULANCE MATTERS April09

logo_qas_ambulance.gifSlippery Season

Recent rains have seen an increase in road accidents with some being due to the roads being more slippery than usual. During prolonged dry periods oil and grease tend to build up on the road surface and when wet becomes a hazard.
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AFS puts the world at your feet

Going, going…gone

One of the world’s largest not-for-profit organisations wants young people in Australia to go live life- at our expense!
AFS Intercultural Programs Australia is offering 20 partial scholarships to schools and local AFS volunteer groups across the nation.  Deadlines for some of these have already closed.
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