Springbrook Community Notices!
Check out the Notice board at the Springbrook Emporium (the tip) for local services and tradies. A great place to find out what's on, what's happening and who's selling what. Put your own notice up. It's a fantastic community resource! Notice boards also at Dancing Wayers Cafe, the Springbrook cafe and Bar, the school and the Lost Fawn Cafe.
Don't forget its Speed trap Sunday out there! Did you know that Queensland does double demerit point all year and not just in the holidays? If you commit the same offence with a year of the previous one, you get hit with a double whammy of points and fines. Our back roads are notorious for coppers with speed cameras, both mobile and stationary so stay under the 80km, even on those lovely long straights when you can finally get past the tourist doing 40km... that's where the coppers and their cameras like to hang out!
Keep an eye out for kids on bikes and mums with prams this week before and after school as we get back into the school year. Its particularly tough as we dont have footpaths on many of our streets and the ones we do have a pretty rough. Also watch for that 40km zone in front of the school. You dont want to get booked there by a speed camera!
Tuck shop at the school operates on a term or weekly basis. Pop into Dancing Waters Cafe and pay for a term of Friday lunches and get a discount or just order and pay weekly when you need it. $5 per lunch, discount on the full term. GF, DF nut free etc all available.
Parents and visitors, please dont park inside the school during drop off and pick up times. It creates an extra hazard for the children to negotiate. Please park next to the school or across the road.
Food Scrap Friday is a community composting initiative run by the school and its P&C. Just bring your bucket of vege food scraps to the gate between 8am and 8.30am and the gardening project kids will weigh it, empty it into their compost heap and rinse the bucket before returning it to you at the gate. A great way to be involved even if you dont have kids at the school.
So, so good to see some waterfall recharging rain!! A good reminder to make sure you are storm ready and have fresh batteries in your torches! Storms and tons of rain often lead to loss of power up here so make sure you are on the disaster managements text list and that you "like" them on facebook to get up to date, real time local info about any kind of disaster we maybe experiancing.
If you see any trees down across the roads, please call the TMR emergency line 131940 for Springbrook Road and the City of Gold Coast emergency line 1800637000 for the smaller Roads. They will send someone up fairly quickly to deal with it. Technically, our local guys cant deal with trees on the road until directed to by decorative epilet wearing persons!
Check out the Notice board at the Springbrook Emporium (the tip) for local services and tradies. A great place to find out what's on, what's happening and who's selling what. Put your own notice up. It's a fantastic community resource!
Dont forget its Speed trap Sunday out there! Did you know that Queensland does double demerit point all year and not just in the holidays? If you commit the same offence with a year of the previous one, you get hit with a double whammy of points and fines. Our back roads are notorious for coppers with speed cameras, both mobile and stationary so stay under the 80km, even on those lovely long straights when you can finally get past the tourist doing 40km... that's where the coppers and their cameras like to hang out!!
The tennis courts have been finished and boy, do they look good!! Pop down for a hit and let us know what you think!
Are the Hoons bothering you? The best way to help the Police deal with this menace is to get a dash cam that can take high quality night time footage as you go through them. Dont think Santa will bring you a dash cam for Christmas? Then pop the hoon reporting number or website into your phone and report each and every incident. The more reports they receive the more resources that will be allocated to this problem. Even if you can only hear them from your place, call or use the website. It all helps and Halfwit Hoon Hollow down on Pine Creek Road is now the next
target for Police. Help them help us!!
Hoon hotline: 134666
Hoon Watch Form - Ros Bates MP
https://www.rosbates.com.au/hoon-watch-form
The 2020 hall bookings are open now with the current bookings getting priority to keep their current slots. If you are thinking of using the hall in 2020 for any groups, classes or other fun activities, email the hall manager on springbrookhall@gmail.com for a booking form. Locals are charged only $13 an hour and all the payment goes to the SMCA and is cycled back into community activities!
Storm season is just around the corner which for us here on Springbrook means cut off roads and lots of power cuts. Now that you've got your fire plan sorted, it's a good time to look at your storm plan. Check you have enough medication, water, food, communications and lighting to get you through a couple of unexpected days with out power. Remember last years 3 day outage after a 30 minute storm just three days out from Chritmas?
Don't forget to take the SES tags that the Police put off your letter boxes and rural numbers. Would be very confusing if the Police come to door knock again!
See you there!
💚Springbrook
