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Feb2015_MT MEE RAMBLINGS

by Ian Wells
The festive season has come and gone and we are all licking our financial wounds as we face up to another year of stress and toil.  Your writer experienced his first Christmas at sea – of which more later, perhaps.
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Feb2015_A New Zealand VC Story

At “Anzac:, the Australians were greatly praised and rewarded for their actions at Lone Pine and other places however, those other Anzacs, the New Zealanders, felt unnoticed.
 
Captain Aubrey Herbert, an Englishman and Intelligence Officer with the New Zealand and Australian Division, wrote of this New Zealand sense of invisibility at Gallipoli as he spoke with the survivors of a NZ infantry battalion after the great battles of the ‘August Offensive’:
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Feb2015_DAYBORO POLICE NEWS

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Property crime
There have only been a small minor property offences since the last Grapevine edition including the theft of dog fencing wire at Armstrong Creek and graffiti offences at Dayboro and Ocean View. 
If you have information in relation to these or any other offences please contact Dayboro Police Station 3425 1200 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. 
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Feb 2015_U3A Pine Rivers News

U3A Pine Rivers Inc will be holding their monthly Social and Information meeting on Friday 20th February 2015 gathering from 9.30am for 10.00am start. The meeting will be held at Bray Hall, Cnr Cooke and O’Loane Sts, Petrie.  Our Guest Speaker this time will be James Lergessner , author of many publications about South East Queensland. 
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Feb2015_ZONTA – Project Now

Our Vice President, Glynnis Gartside was honoured to represent the Zonta Club of Pine Rivers on November 29th 2014, at the opening of the Project Now facility at the Salvation Army Moonyah premises.  The creation from scratch of this 20 bed facility for rehabilitating women with addictions is a wonderful achievement. 
 
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Feb2015_A.I.R. MEETINGS

We at the AIR meet monthly at the Wavell Heights Community Hall each Third Friday at 9.30am until about 11.30am.  We normally have a guest speaker – February’s will be discussing Australian Hearing.
 
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Dec2014_TIME TO GET SHADY

It’s shocking, but it’s true – Queensland has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world – around 370 skin cancers are diagnosed every day in our Sunshine State!
 
In Brisbane alone, around 1180 people are diagnosed with melanoma each year and about 110 people will die from the disease.
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Dec2014_ALBERT JACKA VC

Being the first can bring rewards. For being the first soldier in the Australian Imperial Force to receive a Victoria Cross Lance-Corporal Albert Jacka, 14th Battalion, also received a gold medal and a purse of £500 from Melbourne business identity John Wren. Jacka gained the award for a brave and determined bit of soldiering at Anzac during the night of 18-19 May 1915.
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Dec2014_Pine Rivers VIEW Club News

NEXT MEETING:
The next meeting will be on January 21st 2015 (i.e. on the 3rd Wednesday of the month).  Arrive from 10.30am for an 11am start.  Please contact Sandra on 3425 2738 for details.  It will be at the usual place, the Griffin Room of the Murrumba Downs Tavern.
 
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Dec2014_MT MEE NEWS

By Ian Wells
Our local season is shaping up as a real disaster.  As I write, there is no rain on the horizon.  Brisbane’s 100 mm storm delivered a shade under 9mm to us.
Many cattle owners who didn’t lighten off for disappointing money when they might have are now either caught in an unaffordable feeding cycle or just hoping that something might turn up.  Sadly, both routes could lead to ruin.  The cattle business is a hard one!
 
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