Author: RobT

Clean Up Australia Day 2022

Our Volunteers with some of the cleanup effort.

Thank You “Clean Up Australia” Volunteers!
Despite the heat and high humidity about twenty-five volunteers turned out for the Emu Park Lions clean up on Sunday. Hot and sweaty volunteers persevered for a couple of hours removing rubbish from roadsides and beaches around Emu Park. Even a couple of youngsters turned out with their parents to give a hand.


Lions Clean Up Co-ordinator, Denis Ratcliffe, thanked volunteers for coming out on such a hot day, but gave a thumbs down for the amount of rubbish still being disposed of along our roadsides, with rubbish comprising a bicycle, cardboard, Styrofoam, food containers/bags, buckets, rags, timber, iron, laminated benches, general rubbish, and tyres still being an issue. On a positive note, the clean up recovered some personal cards discarded from a local resident’s stolen wallet that have since been returned to their thankful owner.


The hot and thirsty clean up crew returned for a cold drink and sausage sizzle provided by the Lions Club in appreciation of their efforts.
The rubbish from the clean up will now be collected by Livingstone Shire Council personnel for delivery to the tip, a waste of Council resources that can be avoided if those responsible do the right thing and dispose of their rubbish In the proper manner.

Our busy Coordinator
Are you girls planning on reTYREment?
A great job by ALL our great volunteers.
I hope we were sponsored by the BIG green Shed!

Clean Up Australia Day

‘Clean Up Australia’ Day
Sunday 7 March 2021
7:00 am 9:00 am

Register at Lions Park (near Bowls Club)
Pattison Street, Emu Park

Please bring hats, gloves & water bottle.
Closed shoes are required.

Free sausage sizzle for helpers

Organiser: Lions Club of Emu Park
Queries, or to advise of sites in need of clean up, please contact
Denis on 0458183483

The volunteers in the 2019 Cleanup.
Bottles and cans were separated for recycling via the newly introduced cash for cans scheme.

COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

As the world Covid-19 virus pandemic continues to run its course, we still have to take the advice of government health officials, even though we have avoided the very worst of it.

For up to the date information on this matter we suggest you head to this website.
https://www.health.gov.au/

As much as possible we urge our members to be careful in our community regardless of the likelihood of infection. We are all in the higher risk category and as such are likely to get quite sick if we get infected. The arrival of a vaccine should be a most welcome event.

The decision has been made to hold Festival of the Wind in 2021 on Sunday 11th April subject to approval from the Qld Health Dept.

Oktoberfest will go ahead, again if approved, on Saturday 23rd Oktober 2021. We will keep you posted as we have updates on what crowd limits are expected to be in place by October this year. .

If you wish to review the suggested measures then follow the link above to the official Australian Government Health website.

Gift-Cycling.

In the days when acronyms and catchy social media phrases take off at light speed, I heard of one recently termed wish-cycling. This is when one places an item in the recycle bin in the secret hope that the people who deal with recyclable material will get it to right place.

Empty plastic drinking bottles ready for recycling.

Sadly this may not be the case, but the news is not always bad. We now have the opportunity together to make a new term. Gift-cycling can become the new way for community organizations to raise money to do good in their community. If we tackle the containers return as well as South Australia we can reap some serious cash, 10 cents at a time.

All you need to do is keep every eligible drink container, bag it up and drop it off. Put the name of you participating group (we hope it will be Emu Park Lions),     Please use the Reference C100 40139 on each bag when you take it to a recycle center and you know your gift will benefit a lot of people.

Emu Park Lions club has now registered and you can now simply write out the Club name and Reference Number on your returns and that’s it. As usual every cent raised by Lions is directed to the many projects around the world that the Lions are involved with. We thank everyone in advance for their donation of eligible drink containers.

In Emu Park you can drop to the recycling point behind the Pattison St Servo Tuesday and Wednesday 11am to 4pm.

OOM PA PA!

The happy crowd at Oktoberfest 2019

Oktoberfest 2019 was one of the best ever. Hundreds of visitors descended on Emu Park to forget about the everyday and celebrate in the German way. Music was the order of the day with some great local talents in the early afternoon. Later though the Kalendar band blasted out the fun music.

Chicken Dances were frequent during the after as were the German toasts. Novelty acts and yodeling competitions entertained everyone including the participants.

The Kalendar band have now been visiting Emu park for around 34 years and have never been more popular. As the day wears on into night they ease into many very popular rock classics. The dancing energy is relentless. Even when the band takes a break the dancers continue.

2020 date has already been set and the Lions club are already planning the day. If you enjoyed this year you are sure to enjot next year. If all goes well there might be a few surprises.

Tommy Trombone

The Singing Ship – Emu Park

It’s been a hot day. Some people would probably say very hot.

I headed off to the Emu Park singing ship for a bit of a sea change. When I arrived there was a very welcome breeze. It was quite a bit cooler and very refreshing. Almost like walking into an air conditioned shopping centre.

Intentional mistake right here. Today the singing ship is alive. Singing it’s song of so many years, and loud for all to enjoy. Although meant to remind us of the wind in the rigging of an old sailing ship, I today it is more a church organ recital. The chords progress up and down a windy scale from high to low and back again. Every now and then there are some nice pleasing low notes.

This monument nearly did not make it to our little park on the hill. The original vision was at another scene. Eventually with a lot of very hard work by many people it has become an icon for all who visit the capricorn coast.

More info.http:// http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/landscape/exploration/display/91361-the-singing-ship