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OBI OBI AND KIDAMAN CREEK DISTRICT COMMUNITY HALL INC

  2016 Annual General Meeting

All members of the Obi Obi And Kidaman Creek District Community Hall Inc, friends of  the hall and other interested people are invited to attend our AGM at the Obi Obi Hall  856 Obi Obi Rd Obi Obi

Thursday, 8th June 2017 at 7.30pm.

For applications for new membership, contact the Secretary.

AGENDA

Election of the Management Committee.

Nominations for management committee positions can be made in writing, signed by        the candidate, their nominee and seconder and lodged with the Secretary. Nominations can be taken at the AGM.

For further information, please contact the Association Secretary,

Dennis Woodford on 54469154, or P O Box 276 Mapleton Qld 4560.

Email   denwood@skymesh.com.au

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Wedding 06.05.2017

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Obi Obi School – 1959

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Obi Obi crossing number four – 1936

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Palmwoods Memorial hall – History Gathering Day 28.05.2017

Palmwoods Living History Society

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Taken from the Sunshine Coast Daily – 28.04.2017

SUNSHINE Coast police have issued a warning over an elaborate phone scam that has hit Australia shores after doing the rounds worldwide.

The “can you hear me?” phone scam has been prolific in the United States and UK since early this year.

A call is made to a business or home number and once the person answers the scammer simply asks “can you hear me?” several times, to which most people answer with “yes”.

The scammer then records the “yes” response and ends the call.

The recording is then used to authorize payments or charges in the victim’s name, a difficult task to dispute at a later date.

Sunshine Coast Police said anyone who had received calls of this nature had “serious and legitimate reasons to be concerned”.

“We’re now sharing this post statewide as we believe it to be hitting many areas,” police warn.

Police advice to combat this phone scam :

• Spread the word – Share this information
• If you receive a “can you hear me?” phone call – hang up – don’t respond!
• If you did respond with a “yes” … alert your financial institution, begin to monitor your accounts closely .. and contact ID CARE

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Obi Obi hall wedding photo taken at Obi Obi Falls lookout

Photo by – All the Love in the World Photography

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Tilapia has been found in Obi Obi creek

Tiaro & District Landcare Group Queensland and the University of New England Armidale N S W carry out research into the population of Mary River turtles in the Mary river catchment. While trapping turtles in Obi Obi creek as part of this research a tilapia was found.

Tilapia were first introduced into Australia in the 1970s as ornamental fish and are now regarded as one of the greatest threats to Australia’s native biodiversity.

Photo by Mary River Catchment Coordination Association

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 Eudlo Hall 10th of May

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A meeting of  hall management committee members at Eudlo Hall

At this meeting planning for the community hall’s contribution to the 50th anniversary of the naming of the Sunshine Coast was discussed.

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Obi Obi hall before restoration

photo by R Heading

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A microbat resting at the hall

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A storage rack has been fitted into the hall’s storage room

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A meeting of local Community Hall Management Committee members at Cooloolabin Hall

At this meeting the travails and tribulations suffered by Management Committees were aired and sympathised over tea and cake.

The involvement of this Hall Group in the  50th Anniversary of the naming of the Sunshine Coast was discussed.

Attending were Mapleton, Obi Obi, Belli, Valdora, Peachester, Mooloolah, Cooloolabin, Kureelpa, Eudlo and Gheerulla Hall management committee members and Jane Goodwin (Project Officer) from Community Planning, Sunshine Coast Council

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Cooloolabin Hall

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Cooloolabin Hall has an interesting roof support design

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Landholder Environment Grants

The Sunshine Coast Council Landholder Environment Grants  are open. Expressions of Interest for the Sunshine Coast Council Landholder Environment Grants  are open until the 20th of February 2017

The funding is available for:

• Private rural landholders (must have completed any current SCC funded project by the 10^th April application deadline)
• Fencing to restrict stock access to significant areas of native vegetation, wetlands or waterways
• Installing off-stream stock watering points and stock crossings
• Revegetation of degraded areas, and to establish vegetation corridors and buffers
• Reducing sediment loss on farms
• Controlling environmental weeds to rehabilitate native vegetation
• Modifying fencing so it is more wildlife-friendly

More information at

https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/en/Living-and-Community/Grants-and-Funding/Environment-Levy-Funded-Grants/Environment-Levy-Landholder-Grant

and from

Eva Ford at the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee

eva.ford@mrccc.org.au

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Our Association is part of a group of businesses in the Mary Vally who advertise their services in a booklet  called Celebrate with Mary, which is distributed through Visitor Information Centres, retail outlets, accommodation providers and through a link on the Mary Valley Country website.

See Page 21  of the – Celebrate with Mary booklet –  below

https://issuu.com/celebratewithmary/docs/2015_cwm-48pg-12aug-proof

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The 50th Anniversary of the Naming of the Sunshine Coast

The Sunshine Coast Council is organizing a commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the naming of the Sunshine Coast starting on the first of August 2017 .

The name ‘Sunshine Coast’ was officially endorsed by the then Landsborough, Maroochy and Noosa councils in November, 1966 when it was agreed to utilize the name to cover the three Shires. The name was then endorsed by the Queensland Minister for Lands, Alan Fletcher, who advised that the decision would take effect from 1 August 1967.

Prior to this, the term “Near North Coast” was used.

Louise Bauer from the Sunshine Coast Council’s Heritage Team  is very interested in sourcing any old footage and or photographs that dates back around 50 years to be included in a showing at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

If you have anything that dates back 50 years or so and are interested in contributing, please contact Louise by email at – louise.bauer@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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From further back in the past

Obi Obi A & B grade soccer teams 1925

Photo courtesy of Phillip Moon

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Signs have been placed at Obi Obi Hall to help with the management of the hall’s visitors

 

Placed at the rear of the hall’s property.

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Along the northern boundary

At the front in the low section

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A bit dry at the hall

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The ground around this stump has dropped by about 50mm

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