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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Category Archives: General
Feb2015_Live smart in 2015
Learn how to reduce your power bill, save money and help the environment with the free Living Smart program.
Moreton Bay Regional Council Lifestyle and Amenity Spokesperson Councillor Julie Greer said Living Smart was a website with handy advice, activities and calculators to help you take on the environmental challenge and save energy in the home.
Feb2015_FISHING – Are you keeping up with the changes
New freshwater fishing rules come into effect from 1 February
A number of changes to Queensland’s freshwater fishing rules will come into effect from 1 February 2015.
Feb2015_OUTSIDE in your garden
Using Mature Shade Trees
Many property owners are lucky to have large shade trees that can provide excellent cover for designing a tropical garden.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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!
