1 Locals Supporting Locals - Pomona Community House Funded by Department of Communities

An Initiative of Pomona & District Community House Inc. August/September 2012

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Saturday - 15 September

@ 9.30am

Plus Yummy Morning Tea….. Brought to you by….Pomona Community House,

Red Cross, Lifeline, Options 4 U

Seminars to save bus route &

increase patronage

The Route 632 bus connecting Cooran and Noosa

Junction via Pomona and Cooroy remains a

‘temporary’ service partly funded by the Sunshine

Coast Regional Council’s transport levy, but needs

more community support to become a permanent link

in the Noosa public transport network.

Its performance came under renewed scrutiny last

month when the Queensland Transport Minister,

Scott Emerson, announced that under-utilised bus

routes across South-East Queensland would be

targeted in a six-month review. Translink, the state

government’s public transport coordination and

funding body, subsidises 16 regional bus companies,

including Sunbus on the Coast, to provide a network

of buses to get people about. The government wants

to redirect its money to buses going to where people

want to travel.

Pomona and District Community House has secured a

Sunshine Coast Regional Council TravelSmart grant

to conduct two free seminars in August and

September to inform people of the convenience of

public transport, including the 632, 631 and 630

services and the passenger trains between Gympie

and Brisbane.

The first will be held at the Lawson Shed, Pomona,

at 10am on Thursday, 30 August 2012, with

another meeting at the Cooroy Library at 10am on

Thursday 6 September. Those attending will be

handed a cash-charged go-card for travel on buses

and trains across South-East Queensland.

We want our Noosa Hinterland towns to be connected

socially, practicality and physically, so that means we

need effective public transport for people to get about

in their community other than by car.

To book a seat at one of the seminars, phone

Pomona & Community House on 5485 2427

Broadband Update

Recently Telstra posted

pamphlets to residents

advising that ADSL2+ was

now available in Pomona.

ADSL2+ delivers speeds of up to 20megabits per

second compared to 1.5megabits per second on

ADSL1.

A number of people have now been connected in areas

where ADSL2 was previously unavailable.

If you would like to take advantage of this upgrade

get in touch with Telstra or Bigpond and apply.

Please Help!!!

Seeking Justice of the Peace & / or Commissioner of Declarations to Volunteer for 2 hours each fortnight to fill the Vacancy at the Pomona Community House.

Training or mentoring available. We invite you to join our friendly, helpful team."

Please contact Dawn Gwynne on 5485 1385 Tuesday, Wed & Thurs Or 0414 890 361 after hours.

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St Patrick’s Church gets a makeover

Pomona’s Catholic community is celebrating the 90th birthday

of the historic St Patrick’s church with a complete restoration

of the building. And the race is on to finish the makeover by

21 October 2012, when it will be rededicated by the Most

Reverend Mark Coleridge, the new Archbishop of Brisbane.

Three weddings have been scheduled for late October, so

Noosa Parish Priest, Fr Mark Franklin, is praying that the rain

that has disrupted the building work slightly won’t affect the

deadline.

Heritage and ecclesiastical consultants were used to redesign

the church while keeping its exterior shape and appearance

essentially the same. Whereas the entrance to the church

faced Church Street, this has been enclosed and incorporated

into a new sanctuary and altar. Eventually, stained glass

windows will be fitted at the altar end. The small entrance

sometimes made it difficult to fit coffins through the door and

accommodate large bridal parties, Fr Franklin explained.

The old vestry has been remodelled into three rooms – a

vestry, a room for hearing confessions and a storeroom.

Toilets have been added at the rear. A new foyer is accessed

by two new entrances, one from the church car park, where

disabled access is provided, and the other off Mountain

Street. The galvanised iron roof has been replaced and the

building restumped. Pages furniture factory at Pomona has

been given the task of shortening the pews. At the same time,

they are being sanded and varnished a honey colour.

Fr Franklin said the church would be painted in heritage

colours of dark red for the roof, a yellow exterior and emerald

green trim. “We have tried to redesign and restore St

Patrick’s in a way that respects its heritage value and allows

for it to service the congregation for another 90 years,” Fr

Franklin said. “It is good for the Pomona community

generally to see one of the town’s significant buildings

restored.”

The St Patrick’s catholic parish has about 130 active members

and is growing, according to Fr Franklin. “The old church

accommodated about 145 people, making for a tight squeeze

whenever large funerals or weddings were held. The

redesigned St Patrick’s will allow for 160 people to be seated,

with extra seating capacity available in the foyer.

Construction work is being supervised by Mr Tony Harmer of

Sunrise Builders. Wherever possible, local tradespersons are

being used.

Pomona & District Community House Inc

Annual General

Meeting

Friday - 21 September 2012

4pm START

Followed by Pizza & Drinks

Please RSVP for catering purposes

PH: 5485 2427

Membership subscriptions are Due

Only current financial members

Are able to vote at the agm

Men’s Shed Pomona News

The Group has been busy over the past month having visited Buderim Men’s Shed to see how they are set up and were very impressed with their operation. The Men have also just completed their first Community project building a patio roof. The next project will be building a wood fired Pizza Oven next to the new patio so look forward to seeing and smelling the beautiful Pizzas we will be cooking. Negotiations are still under way with Council to secure the use of half an acre of their 165 acre block on Yurol Forest Road to build our 18x15x5m shed. The photo also shows the new solar panels which will supply power to the Lawson Shed and the Community House in turn cutting power bills significantly with the savings being used for Community Programs. Please contact Pomona Community House if you are interested in becoming a member of the Pomona Men’s Shed.

Contact John or Brian on 5485 2427.

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Kin Kin Creations Market

in the Noosa Hinterland

1st Sunday of each month

10am to 2pm

If you would like a stall please email

kinkinmarket@hotmail.com or

phone 5485 4248 or 5485 4402

Only $10 or $15 for shared or food stall

Find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/kinkinmarket

Over 40 stalls - homemade, home grown produce

and second hand treasures. Food, entertainment

and workshops for adults and children. Great

Outdoor market - this happens rain or shine!

Pomona Pacers

What beautiful weather we are having at the moment! It makes a lovely change from the rain we have had for most of the year. Although we start off our walks at 7.00 am feeling the cold, we soon warm up. We meet every week day in front of the Pomona Community House. The most popular day is Wednesday, as we go for coffee after our walk.

Things are starting to dry out and we have walked the path to the base of Mt Cooroora which is now in good condition. It is hard to imagine that athletes can run to the top of the mountain and back in a little over 20 minutes. We take at least that long to walk to the base.

We have had two Moon Walks in July, both with reduced numbers but both of which were excellent with clear skies and beautiful moons to look at. The next Moon Walk is on Tuesday 28 August. We do not have any in September as the one after that is on 2 October. Our Moon Walk at Noosaville begins with a meal at Tewantin Noosa Golf Club (optional) followed by a walk along the Noosa River in the moonlight. Partners, family and friends are most welcome.

We wish our sick and injured members a speedy recovery.

For more information, phone Assunta on 5485 2935.

Using the FAST test involves asking three simple questions:

Face - Check their face. Has their mouth drooped?

Arms - Can they lift both arms?

Speech - Is their speech slurred? Do they understand you?

Time - Is critical.

If you see any of these signs call 000 straight away.

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FREE LEGAL ADVICE & REFERRAL

NORTHERN HINTERLAND OUTREACH

@ Pomona & District Community House

1 Memorial Ave, Pomona

Tuesday evenings Monthly

4 September 2012

6.pm – 7.30pm

(please arrive early for your appointment)

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Ph: 5443 7827

Suncoast Community Legal Service

provides Family & General Law

ADVICE & REFERRAL SERVICES

** A $5 donation is appreciated to help this service continue **

Are you eligible for Tax Help? You are eligible for Tax Help if your income is around $50,000 or less for the income year and none of the following situations applied to you in the income year 2010-11:

you were employed as a contractor - for example, a contract cleaner or taxi driver

have an ABN Number

were in business, including being a sole trader

sold shares

sold an investment property

owned a rental property

received royalties

received distributions from a trust other than a managed fund

received foreign income other than a foreign pension or annuity.

With Tax Volunteer Brenda White

At Pomona Community House

On Thursdays

Our next gardening group

dates:

Friday 17 August & 31 August

Come along, make new

friends, learn about food.

Improve your health, grow and

eat the rewards.

Enquires PH: 5485 2427

Entertainment:-

* Horse Events

* Dog Show

* Showjumping

* Sheep Sheering

* Wood Chopping

* Rider on Mower Racing Display

* Veteran Car Display

* Craft Display

* Art Displays

* Honky Tonk Rodeo

* KC Fireworks

* Phil Butterworth

* Adrenaline Dance

* Australian Institute

of Country Music

including Aiming High

& Disbanded

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Tom and Zaia Kendall head the

Permaculture Research Institute

Sunshine Coast

Life is simple when you live simply

My husband Tom and I live with my 11 year old son

in a small Queenlander on the Sunshine Coast. Our property is 34 acres, which we

have converted to a Permaculture Demonstration site. We now run Permaculture and

Self Reliance courses on the property.

Tom comes from a farming background. When he grew up there was no money or

time (or a phone) to call someone when something broke down. So he learned from a very early age to fix things himself with

whatever was available. He also learned that everything can become a resource, and knows what to look out for. A lot of people

we know call us and ask us whether we would like something they are about to throw away. We hardly ever say no. Everything

may have a use sometime.

I have a passion for cooking and food processing. I love living simply because it makes my life simple. This lifestyle wasn't

something I consciously set out to live, but it has become very satisfying.

The first thing was not having a television. Television, the drug of a nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation (to quote

some wise words from a song from the eighties...) We watch a movie on occasion, but we do not watch commercial television at

all. This frees up all this time to follow your passions, read, spend time together or learn something.

We hardly buy any food. I may buy some organic tomato sauce if we do not have enough tomatoes and some coconut cream, but

our meat, most of our fruit and vegetables are all home grown.

At the moment we cook on natural gas, but there are plans to make a biodigester for the manure created on the property, so that

we can cook with methane gas in the future. In winter we mainly cook on the wood stove, which heats the house as well.

Our water is heated by a solar hot water service which we were able to buy cheap second hand because it had a crack in it. Tom

fixed the crack and it works beautifully. If we do not have any sun for a few days, we light the booster, which is a wood fired

system made up by Tom.

We live a fair way out of town, so unfortunately still need the car to get us places. We try and only use the car when we have a

number of things we need to do, lists are made over time and taken when we need to go into town.

We try and re-use / recycle everything on the property. We make our own compost, fertiliser and mulch and try to have as

minimal outside input as possible at this stage. We are aiming for less all the time, it is a process that may take a little time

though. We catch most of our own waste and compost it or keep it for later use.

We have found that life becomes simple when you live simply. There is so much joy to be found in life, and that only becomes

evident when all the other outside stuff is not there. Hands in the soil, making and eating your own food is so rewarding, both

mentally and physically.

We cannot be self sufficient without a community, so we would never claim to be self sufficient. Fossil fuels are still used, so we

are a fair way off yet. But we try to be as self reliant as possible. Tom services the cars himself, and if anything

breaks he fixes it. We grow our own food and deal with most of our own waste. We are responsible for our own water (water

tanks), including drainage and retaining of water. If money runs out tomorrow we will still be able to feed ourselves. That is a

comforting thought.

We are so passionate about our lifestyle and how it empowers us, we now run

courses on the property, including a Permaculture Design Certificate, Self

Reliance Skills, Earthworks and Sustainable Building. We also run a 10 week

Permaculture Lifeskills Internship for people who are keen to live it. We aim

to provide education for truly sustainable living to affect world change. It is

wonderful to see people empowered after doing a course with us, realising that

they can do things themselves.

I am a firm believer in being the change I want to see in the world. Life needs

to become simpler if we want to be able to live on this planet for a few more

generations. We can only start with ourselves.

Tom and Zaia Kendall head the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine

Coast in Queensland, Australia and run regular permaculture and self reliance courses and internships. Visit their website to find

out more about them, what they do and the courses they run at permaculturesunshinecoast.org.

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Cooroora

Woodworkers

Club

We are a group of woodworking devotees ranging from beginners to master craftsmen and

craftswomen. Our members number over 100 and have varied interests including carving, turning,

pyrography, scrollsaw work, the making of boxes, cabinets and musical instruments – to name a few.

Interested in Woodworking? Members of Cooroora Woodworkers Club enjoy many benefits:- Full access to the club's facilities including workshop &

machinery - after safety & competence induction. Demonstrations of techniques such as turning. Classes in furniture making

and turning. Access to over thirty varieties of Australian timbers. A congenial atmosphere where help and advice is only an ask

away.

Visit Our Club Our club welcomes visitors and anyone interested in timber whether it is the woodworking techniques or to see fine items made

from different species of Australian timber. There are many items for sale.

Opening hours are 8.30am to 12noon every day except Sundays and public holidays.

Club Facilities Our clubhouse, a heritage building is located in the Cooroy Lower Mill complex. Our workshops are sited just next door in

what used to be the drying kilns of the old timber mill. A wide range of machinery including lathes, drop saws, table saws,

planers, jointers and routers plus a myriad of hand-tools are available to our members. In addition our milling team collects

suitable logs from around the district and cuts these into slabs, turning blanks and lumber for use by our members.

We welcome new members - please contact PH: 5442 6995

Bookings Ph: 54471766

26 August & 26 September

Bus available for

Hinterland Residents

**conditions apply**

Time: 11am - 1pm

Pomona Pixel People

Pomona Community House - Lawson Shed.

Monday **Fortnightly**

13 & 27 August 2012

at 7pm

Cost $2 per person

**Helpful hints on how to use your camera**

Cooran Acoustic Night

Entry is only $4.00!

Come early if you want to be part of the show for a

7pm start.

Cooran Acoustic Night Dates: 1st Sept

For further information please contact: Malcolm on 5485 1003

Email: cooranacousticnight@hotmail.com

All proceeds go to Cooran Memorial School of Arts

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COLOUR & BLACK/WHITE

PRINTING & PHOTOCOPYING ,

INTERNET, COMPUTER

LESSONS, ROOM HIRE,

LAMINATING, FAXING,

LIBRARY FOR MEMBERS,

RESUME SERVICE,

REFFERAL & INFORMATION

CHILD HEALTH CLINIC

MONDAY

9.30AM - 12.30PM

FOR APPOINTMENT

CALL 5449 5944

CREATIVE WRITING

TUESDAY

9.30AM - 11.30 AM

FREE LEGAL ADVICE

TUESDAY

6PM - 7.30PM

FORTNIGHTLY

54437827

MAHJONG

WEDNESDAY

1PM - 3.30PM

MUSIC LESSONS

Piano/Guitar....

Cost Donation

THURSDAY

9AM - 4PM

COMPUTER LESSONS

Mon/Wed

Donation $2 per visit

Lawson Shed Hire

Contact Heather

5485 2427

POMONA & DISTRICT

COMMUNITY HOUSE

GROUPS &

SERVICES

PH: 54852427

Find us on Facebook

We play Mah-jong

On Wednesday

1pm to 3.30pm

At Pomona

Community House

Cost $2.00 donation

NEWS FLASH........

Pomona Community House

has a NEW

Colour Copier......

Colour printing & scanning

available through reception....

Printing/Copying

Prices

Black/White 20cents per page

Colour $1.00 per page A4

Colour $2.00 per A3

Pricing available for bulk copies.

Newsletters, booklets

price on application.

ADVERTISE IN COLOUR

in Cooroora Connect

Colour Business Card 5.5cm x 9cm $25.00 x 4 editions = $100

Colour Banner 5.5cm x 18cm $50 x 4 editions = $200

Colour 1/2 Page $100 x 4 editions = $400

Advertising with Pomona Community House - Cooroora Connect helps fund our community newspaper......

Copy Deadline the last day

of the month.....

31 August 2012

Cooroora Connect is also

published on Facebook.....

check out

Pomona & District Community

House Facebook Page.

Computer Lessons

One on one tuition

Cost $2 donation

Monday & Wednesday

Pomona Community House

Contact 5485 2427

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A Touch of the Past

Antiques

Coffee Shop

5 Reserve Street, Pomona

Ph: 5485 1883

POMONA & DISTRICT COMMUNITY HOUSE INC 1 Memorial Ave, Pomona 4568

PHONE: 5485 2427 | FAX: 5485 1702 | ABN: 86 583 189 320

President - Dawn Gwynne Vice President - Joy Cross Treasurer - Ben Stoffl Secretary - Debbie Schouten

Manager - Brian Lawson Coordinator - Heather Manders Coordinator - Kathryn Shewring

Cooroora Connect is published by Pomona & District Community House Inc.

The material published in Cooroora Connect may be reproduced only with appropriate authorisation & acknowledgment.

The views expressed in Cooroora Connect are not necessarily the views of the editor, publisher or Pomona & District Community House.

EMAIL: heather@pomonacommunityhouse.com.au WEBSITE: WWW.pomonacommunityhouse.com

*Antiques*

*Gifts*

*Flowers*

*Jewellery*

*Teddy Heaven*

Homemade Cakes

Lunches

Open 7 Days -

7am to 5pm

Group Bookings

Available

BABY HEALTH

CLINIC

Child Health

Nurse Deb Daley

This is a free Qld Health Service provided by highly trained health professionals offering contemporary information and relevant support to families.

Our Child, Youth and Family Health Team consists of child health nurses, early intervention specialists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists and dieticians.

Monday Mornings 9.30 - 12.30pm

@ Pomona Community House

Ring Noosa Community Health

Phone 5449 5944 for appointments

Pomona Astronomy Club

Date: Wednesday 29 August

Time 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Cost $2 donation

Goes to Pomona Community House

Venue: Lawson Shed

Come along & join local enthusiasts

Contact Cliff PH 5485 1767

after 7pm

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POMONA

True Value Hardware

PH: 5485 1351

10 Reserve St Pomona

FOR ALL YOUR HARDWARE,

TIMBER, GARDEN, PAINT, GAS,

RURAL & PRODUCE NEEDS

The Boutique Room 18 Reserve Street, Pomona

Ph: 0409 948 630

Size 8 to plus sizes

Desiger Labels Fashion & Accessories

Giftware

PH: 07 5485 2211

Your Local Florist Now Located @

23 Factory St, Pomona

Bigger Than Ever!!

Deliveries Local & Worldwide

Helium Balloons & Gifts

Weddings & Events - Accessories For Hire

Floral Bouquets For All Occasions

Floral Workshops

PH: 5485 1333