Did you know that plants can be such a powerful and versatile design tool? If you are keen on updating your home decor with some greens then drop by The Home Collective Market in Wavell Heights on Sunday, the 13th of Oct 2019.
Over 50 stalls will be open at the Wavell Heights Community Hall from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to sell heaps of stuff you’ll need to spruce up your home. Houseplants and gardening needs will flow at The Home Collective Market but there will also be choices of ceramics, homeware, artwork, furniture, wall hangings, rugs, candles and so much more to check out.
As any garden lover will tell you, you can never have enough plants to update your home design. You’ll have a wonderful time rummaging through the items on sale as you find pieces that may bring some life and colour into the rooms of your house.
Photo Credit: The Home Collective/Facebook
If you don’t need to buy for yourself, there’s still another reason to visit The Home Collective Market. Start your Christmas shopping early and find unique gift items for family, co-workers and friends.
Photo Credit: The Home Collective/Facebook
Coffee and snacks from The Collective Kitchen will be available for guests who may need nourishment in between shopping. Dogs are allowed just outside the venue provided that they are leashed and well-behaved.
As with previous market events, the gold coin entry fee will be collected from visitors to help raise funds for the Animal Welfare League.
Twice a year, the Wholesale Bromeliads of Australia hosts a Wavell Heights Bromeliads Extravaganza where plant lovers can purchase directly from growers. If you’ve been anticipating the next event, you’d be pleased to know that it is coming up on Saturday and Sunday, the 28th and 29th of Sept 2019.
On the said dates, Wavell Heights Community Hall will be turned into an indoor garden with heaps of Bromeliads for sale. These plants, which belong to a family with over 3,000 species, can propagate outdoors as a stump or tree in areas with a warm climate. However, it’s also cool to put broms in pots indoors, where they can grow into a decorative plant with patterned foliage or flaming red blooms.
You’ll know more about growing and tending to Bromeliads when you visit the extravaganza. Expect to be in awe of the selection from growers, which includes mini Neoregelias, Alcantareas, Aechmea gracilis and Tillandsias, among others.
Photo Credit: Wholesale Bromeliads of Australia/Facebook
Happening from morning to early afternoon, you may also enjoy a bountiful breakfast, tea or lunch at the Wavell Heights Bromeliads Extravaganza as bacon, egg rolls, burgers and drinks will be available. In addition, 20 plants will also be raffled off to lucky guests.
Take note of these trading hours if you’re planning to drop by.
The Nudgee Recreation Reserve draft concept plan has been released for community feedback.
Brisbane City Council is asking members of the community to provide their thoughts regarding the proposed improvement works of the site, with the release of the draft concept plan.
Among other questions, the survey is asking if the residents have any comments about the draft concept plan or how they see themselves or their families using the recreation reserve in the future.
The council is planning to deliver shared-use sporting fields, outdoor gym equipment and walking path, sports field lighting, upgraded car park, clubhouse and amenities as well as dog off-leash area on site.
The local community can have their say by completing the online survey until 22 September 2019 or by joining an information session with the project team outside Banyo Train Station, at 268 St Vincents Road on 14 September 2019 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
BCC will use community feedback and information from the site investigations to inform the final concept plan for the Nudgee Recreation Reserve. Council will advise the community once the plan has been finalised.
The reserve, located at 290 Elliott Road in Nudgee, was first used as an informal site for cricket and football matches during the 1940s. In the 1970s, it was used as a landfill for two years. Sporting activities in the site resumed in the 1990s when the landfill was closed.
Council will be undertaking further investigations of the former landfill site from September 2019. This entails clearing of vegetation consisting mostly of invasive species. No significant trees will be removed and all works will be carried out in accordance with relevant environmental guidelines.
For more information about the Nudgee Recreation Reserve improvement project, you can email the project team or phone Council on 07 3403 8888.
Need a hand with an upcoming corporate event, birthday, or a bridal shower? Did you know that Wavell Heights has one of the top party planners in Brisbane?
Best in Australia has recently revealed the top three party planners in Brisbane based on their rating points list. The top three party planners according to Best in Australia are My Perfect Party in Wavell Heights, Wicked Bucks Parties, and Amazing Kids Parties in West End.
Photo credit: My Perfect Party – The Party Group Pty Ltd / myperfectparty.com.au
The list was based on 100 key considerations that were used in rating the Best in AU candidates, coming from businesses, people, or places in certain industry and/or geographic area.
The rating checklist considers the candidate’s business history, services, pictures/media, opening hours, social media, website quality, awards and acknowledgements, and feedback and reviews, among other factors.
The “Best in AU” list is updated every three to four months.
About My Perfect Party
Located at 16 Chesterfield St, Wavell Heights, My Perfect Party was established in 2010 and has since been catering to clients in and around Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, organising parties and events, from the simple to the more elaborate ones.
Photo credit: My Perfect Party – The Party Group Pty Ltd / myperfectparty.com.au
My Perfect Party specialises in planning and organizing for birthdays, anniversaries, christening, bridal shower, hens party, wedding proposal, engagement, small weddings, corporate events, charity events and more.
The services offered include décor and styling, party planning, table styling, venue sourcing, and photobooth hire. The company is led by owner and founder Allison Barret, who is one of Australia’s leading party specialists with 30 years experience as an event professional.
This year’s kerbside collection in Wavell Heights will be on 19 August 2019. It’s the perfect time to get organised or if you’re following the trend, declutter the KonMari way.
The KonMari Method, “is a system of simplifying and organizing your home by getting rid of physical items that do not bring joy into your life.” But how are you going to do that with furniture or big-ticket items? It’s not so easy to get rid of them especially if you have sentimental attachments to lots of stuff. Here are our tips to finally let go of large household items minus the guilt:
Focus on things that spark joy.
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.”
Marie Kondo
Is your couch broken and unfixable? Then there’s no point in keeping it. It’s also not a good idea to donate it to charity because they will only be spending dollars just to send those rubbish to landfill.
If your large household items can no longer be donated or recycled, dispose of them during the kerbside collection. Make sure to place them on the kerbside in front of your property by 6:00 am on the first day of the collection period.
Find a good home for items in good condition.
You might have stuff that are in still in good condition but you’re no longer using them. Perhaps you have a bike or sport equipment just sitting in the corner of your garage. Instead of throwing them away, make an effort to find a good home for them. Organisations like GIVIT and NACRO welcome large household items in usable condition.
Aside from dropping them off to charities, you can also sell them to second-hand furniture shops, antique stores, or to marketplaces like Gumtree, Cash Converters, and eBay.
Invest in high-quality items next time.
Are you planning to get rid of certain items because they no longer serve their purpose? Broken appliances can be repaired but if the costs of repair are more than half the price of buying a new one than it’s better to replace them.
Brisbane City Council’s kerbside collection accepts electronic waste like televisions and computers as well as small household appliances like fans and toasters.
If you’re participating in this year’s kerbside collection for Wavell Heights, don’t forget to download Brisbane bin and recycling app to be informed about bin collections and to receive notifications when your bins will be collected.
Brisbane City Council finally completed its landfill remediation and lighting replacement project for Shaw Road rugby fields. This is expected to provide safer and improved facilities for the sporting and local community in Wavell Heights.
Works involved compacting and capping the existing closed landfill, regrading the rugby field, reinstating the existing public address system, and constructing a ramp to the car park that is in line with the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.
In February 2019, Council replaced the field lighting to meet the basic standard required for night practice, with capacity for further improvements in the future.
Upgrades also included installing irrigation, drainage, topsoil and sports field grade turf and collapsible goal posts.
This upgrade was part of the Council’s ongoing Landfill Remediation and Maintenance Program under the Restoration for Recreation program.
The completed project is on par with Council’s projected completion date which is mid-2019. Construction began in September 2018, with works taken place from Monday to Saturday.
Another round of kerbside collection will take place in North Brisbane in the coming days. Following Virginia and Boondall’s schedule (29 July), the next ones in line are Banyo and Geebung (5 August) and Wavell Heights (19 August).
In line with this annual service, it pays to observe some kerbside collection etiquette. While most residents dispose of unwanted old items for kerbside collection, others take the opportunity to scavenge their neighbours’ pile to find stuff to recycle and reuse.
Technically, it is not illegal to take items from people’s kerbside junk.
“Residents are welcome to recycle kerbside collection goods, however, they should ensure that leftover items are stacked tidily and not creating any obstructions to the footpath or roadway,” a spokesperson from the Brisbane City Council said.
As a matter of courtesy, however, it would be a good idea to ask your neighbours first before digging on to their pile. Let them know that you are interested in some of the items and get their permission to check the items closely.
While checking the items, be respectful and careful that you don’t break anything. These might be trash for your neighbours but they still own these things.
Besides, if you break their mirror, for example, the collectors won’t pick up the item. As part of the policy, anything broken or with loose materials will be left by the kerbside. If you do find a broken item, inform your neighbour so that they can dispose of this properly and avoid being cited for illegal dumping.
Wavell State High School teacher Rachel Schnitzerling was one of the three teachers chosen to attend the International High School Teacher Program at CERN.
Held at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, the program brought together teachers from across the globe to discuss and explore various ways to bring physics into the classroom.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! – to Wavell SHS Science teacher- Ms Schnitzerling who is headed to CERN in July. An amazing…
Along with the two teachers, Ms Schnitzerling immersed in a two-week program to participate in lectures and see the works of scientists and engineers at CERN.
CERN is a world-class facility leading nuclear physics research. It also happens to be the home of the popular particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Travelling to such a remarkable place and meeting brilliant minds in science surely is a trip to remember for the chosen teachers.
Ms Schnitzerling has been a Maths, Physics, and Engineering teacher for over 12 years. Before being a teacher, she worked as an engineer for almost seven years.
In her application for the CERN program, she mentioned how she intended to share her learnings and experiences. She will be sharing her knowledge not only to students but to her fellow teachers as well.
Her passion for physics, maths, and engineering reflect on her work. In fact, she was able to inspire one of her former students to pursue studies in maths education.
Today, I got a message from a former maths student. She told me she is studying mathematics education. I have taught students who go on to be engineers, physicists, mathematicians, many other amazing things. But never a teacher of the subject I taught them- today is a special day
— Rachel Schnitzerling (@rachel_schnitz) June 6, 2018
According to ANSTO CEO, Dr Adi Paterson, the three teachers should be very proud to get into the program. Participation in the said high school teacher program will benefit Australia’s science classrooms given the knowledge and experience that the teachers will gain during their trip to CERN.
Right, so a tweet a day, at least for a while… CERN high school teacher program, you are the most rewarding professional development I have ever done. Thank you #hst2019#particlephysicspic.twitter.com/6mDdUu2w4p
— Rachel Schnitzerling (@rachel_schnitz) July 23, 2019
Given her undeniable drive in teaching physics and sharing the science of how the universe works to other people, Wavell State High School is certainly lucky to have Ms Schnitzerling around.
The State Government will be investing billions of dollars for rail and passenger transport infrastructure, including train station upgrades at Boondall, Geebung, and Virginia.
More than $6 million has been allocated towards train station upgrade projects at Boondall, Geebung, and Virginia. A total of $5,626,000 in funding will go towards the design and construction of station accessibility upgrades at Boondall train station.
On the other hand, Park “n” Ride facilities will be constructed at Geebung train station (additional 70 car parking spaces) and at Virginia train station (additional 47 car parking space) with budget values of $427,000 and $370,000, respectively.
The State Government has allocated billions of dollars for rail and passenger transport infrastructure projects, Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey said, including $160.8 million from the Queensland Government for the North Coast Line as well as train station upgrades and other network improvements.
“A centrepiece of that work will be the $250 million high-capacity underground interchange for the Inner Northern Busway to the Cross River Rail Project, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape the Roma Street Station precinct,” he said.
The government will also invest in bus stops and train stations to make stations more accessible and upgrade key commuter roads to create priority bus lanes.
A total of $21 million has been set aside to deliver 600 new car parking spaces at Greenbank bus park ‘n’ ride and $4.5 million to expand the Eight Mile Plains bus station park ‘n’ ride, adding 340 extra car spaces.
Photo Credit: The State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads) 2010–2019 / tmr.qld.gov.au
New Generation Rollingstock
Minister Mark Bailey said that the government will continue to deliver the New Generation Rollingstock project. The largest single investment by Queensland, the $4.15-billion project aims to increase SEQ’s fleet of passenger trains to meet growing demand.
The project involves the design, construction, and maintenance of 75 new trains for SEQ. The purpose-built Wulkuraka Maintenance Centre was already completed in 2016 whilst accessibility upgrade works on the first NGR train will commence late 2019.
“All 75 six car sets are expected to be available for service in the 2019-20 financial year, and Maryborough rail workers will start work in the coming months to ensure the new trains comply with national disability standards.”
Job-creating projects
The State Government will continue its focus on job-creating infrastructure project investments, Mr Bailey said. Queensland government will spend a record $23 billion investment in roads and transport projects, supporting 21,500 jobs.
“More than $14.5 billion of this record QTRIP will be spent outside the Brisbane City, Ipswich City and Redland City local government areas.”
“Our investment will make the Bruce Highway safer and more flood-resilient between Brisbane and Cairns,” he said.
The Queensland Budget for Brisbane and Redlands region alone include infrastructure spending of $3.9 billion, which is estimated to generate around 11,500 jobs.
Two Virginia-based small to medium enterprises received a prestigious honor from the Queensland Community Foundation (QFC) last June. Versace Timbers and Elliott Australia were named as Philanthropists of the Year for its social consciousness and positive impact on the community.
A long-established family-owned business, Versace Timbers was nominated by the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. The charity organization has benefited from Versace Timbers’ various fund-raising activities. The timber company has specifically chosen to support this cause because it belongs to an industry dominated by men.
“We are humbled to have played a small part in raising vital funds into the research of Prostate Cancer and raise awareness that this terrible disease is curable if detected early and the importance of being proactive rather than reactive, particularly if there is a family history,” Versace Timbers managing director Graham Leddy said.
Composed of less than 200 employees, Versace Timbers was established in Queensland in 1956 as a supplier of flooring, fences, doors, hardwood, roof trusses, decking material, and other construction needs. The company also specializes in home building, renovation and extensions.
Photo Credit: Versace Timbers/Facebook
Elliot Australia, on the other hand, was nominated by the S J Hill Foundation and Bryan Foundation. Founder and managing director Anthony Elliot devised a Modified Rugby Program (MRP) to help children with disabilities experience the sport through their GingerCloud Foundation.
Photo Credit: GingerCloud Foundation/Facebook
“Fourteen per cent of school-age kids can’t participate in sport (because of disabilities) and that is very very sad – for us to see some of those kids now grow and progress through our programs is just such a highlight – it is one of the most rewarding things of my life,” Mr Elliot told the press.
When Mr Elliot started devoting his time to the GingerCloud Foundation in 2014, there were only 16 beneficiaries playing rugby. To date, there are 24 teams within the MRP across Queensland and ACT.
