POP UP COMMUNITY NEWS
Mapleton and District, Queensland 10 June 2021 Issue 244
JUNE ART EXHIBITION BY FLAXTON
ARTIST JUDY BERLAK
This month Judy’s art works are on displaying the Mapleton Community Library. Judy says of her art, ‘I work with watercolour because I love how it floods the page of my life with light - transparent, mysterious and mercurial.
I hold the brush lightly so that it floats over the paper revealing the shape of the landscape or flower to me. My heart leaps when dark fight the light.’
She has won several Kenilworth awards for landscape and still life and has exhibited widely with Arts Connect and at Open Studios.
Her Flaxton studio is open by appointment. Pop in for a peek at this this month’s winter exhibition.
MAPLETON COMMUNITY LIBRARY
UNTIL END OF June.
PROBUS CLUB OF NORTH BLACKALL RANGE INC
Are you new to the area? Want to meet other retirees? Looking for people with similar interests?
Why not consider joining your local Probus Club.
We provide FRIENDSHIP - FELLOWSHIP - FUN.
The Probus Club of North Blackall Range Inc meets on the second Friday of the month from February to November at the Mapleton Bowls Club, 5 Post Office Road, Mapleton. Our meeting commences at 10am. Our next meeting is Friday 11th June 2021. You are welcome to come to an initial meeting as our guest.
Due to COVID we must receive prior notice of all attendees and participants need to sign in with the Check In Qld' app. Please contact the Secretary on 0407 586309 or [email protected] for further information.
BIG GARAGE SALE
Saturday 12th June in St. Mary’s Hall on the Village Green, Montville.
Books, DVD’s, CD’s, household items, bric a brac, clothing, jewellery, plants and much more.
In aid of St. Mary’s Auxiliary.
From 7.30am – 1pm.
DINNER NIGHT AT THE BOWLS CLUB
Special meals on Friday night include: NEWS SHOPS IN MAPLETON
Meat loaf Dress shop—open Chicken cottage pie Florist Tapas bar and lounge Pear in butterscotch sauce Baked cheese cake Allied health: yoga and more STINGERS IN MAPLETON
The Australian Women’s Water Polo Team (the Stingers) have been in their pre- Olympics Training Camp at Peregian and last week came up to Mapleton to spend the afternoon at Triballink to grow their understanding of the Aboriginal Culture they will represent at the Olympics. Here’s a reflection on the experience from one of the players, Amy Ridge. “We have loved our time training on the Sunny Coast so I felt that it was important for us to pay respect to the Traditional Land Owners, the Kabi Kabi people. We were incredibly lucky to visit TribalLink to learn more about connection to country and our history from a First Nations’ perspective. We are representing Australia on the world stage in Japan and it’s important to us to be able to proudly represent all Australians. To know what this means, to be Australian, we wanted to connect with our culture and learn more about connection to country. I think we are the one of the first Olympic teams to do something like this ... as a squad we want to leave a legacy for the Australian Water Polo community and also absorb this on a personal level. I am so proud to be a part of this team, that has made a commitment to reconciliation, so that every time we put on the green and gold we can say with certainty that we know what it means to be Australian.
Thank you to Triballink, QCCC and the AIS for making this possible!!”
STORY TIME AT MAPLETON
Autumn colours in your garden.
The children on Saturday enjoyed stories, songs and sharing stories. Thank you Mieke and Hollie.
Mapleton is very special. LEWIN’S HONEYEATER Meliphaga lewinii the Lewin’s Honeyeater is renowned for its appetite for fruit. It has been considered a pest in some regions for its depredations in orchards, particularly in crops of bananas. Large, soft fruit is pecked at until its skin is pierced, and then pieces of flesh are broken off and eaten, while small fruits are swallowed whole. It may eat fruit from the plant or fallen fruit from the ground, and some are even attracted to fruit in compost heaps.
The Lewin's Honeyeater is small to medium in size. It is dark green grey in colour, with a creamy yellow gape (fleshy corners of the mouth). It has large, yellow crescent shaped ear patches. In flight, the pale yellow edges of the flight feathers can be seen. The bill is black and the eye is blue grey. Both sexes are similar in appearance. Young Lewin's Honeyeaters are similar to the adults, but have brown eyes.
Currently feeding across the Range.
TWO INTERESTING PLANT SPECIES
THEY CAN BE CONFUSED
Devil’s trumpet—flowers are upright
Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous, vespertine flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia). Other English common names include moonflower, devil's weed, and hell's bells.
All species of Datura are poisonous and potentially psychoactive, especially their seeds and flowers, which can cause respiratory depression, arrhythmias, fever, delirium, hallucinations, anticholinergic syndrome, psychosis, and even death if taken internally. Due to their effects and symptoms, they have occasionally been used not only as a poison, but also as hallucinogens by various groups throughout history.
Traditionally, psychoactive administration of Datura species has often been associated with witchcraft and sorcery or similar practices in many cultures, including the Western world. Certain common Datura species have also been used ritualistically as entheogens by some Native American groups.
Angel trumpet
Angel’s trumpets were once native to South America, but all species are now listed as extinct in the wild by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The species Brugmansia arborea, golden angel’s trumpet (B. aurea), B. insignis, red angel’s trumpet (B. sanguinea), B. versicolor, and B. vulcanicola were variously distributed in the Andes region of South America, ranging from Colombia to northern Chile. Several species have become naturalised in various temperate and tropical locations around the world.
Angel’s trumpets are evergreen plants with many branching trunks and are typically less than 8 metres (26 feet) in height. The simple leaves can be toothed or entire and are alternately arranged along the stems. The large pendulous flowers have a fused trumpet-shaped corolla and can be white, cream, yellow, orange, red, pink, or greenish in colour. The flowers of some species can reach up to 50 cm (20 inches) in length. Most species are fragrant at night and attract moths for pollination, though the red angel’s trumpet lacks scent and is pollinated by hummingbirds.
Thank you Jenny Anderson for this amazing specimen in your garden.
A beautiful image of the pink water lily
Nymphaea formosa
Community Service
RECYCLING IN MAPLETON SPECTACLES ARE COLLECTED AT THE MAPLETON COMMUNITY LIBRARY. The Mapleton Bowls Club is collecting bottles and cans with the refunds going to sponsor an event at the Club. There is a convenient collection point which is a wheelie bin placed at the foot of the entry stairs. This bin can be distinguished from others as it has a round hole in its roof where you can pop-in the recycle items.
QLD container refund scheme in the school car park. All proceeds go to the Mapleton State School P&C. All your donations would be gratefully received and will go towards resources for our school and students.
Mapleton Men’s Shed is also a receiving depot for recycling cans and bottles. These may be left in the sulo bins in front of the storage shed in Mapleton Forest Drive.
Please do not crush the cans you deposit for recycling.
JP SERVICES
Telephone 5445 7182 for a booking in Mapleton or Monday morning from 8:30am to 12 Noon without an appointment at the Mapleton Community Library.
Kureelpa and Dulong Hall 2 Jewett Road Kureelpa each Wednesday from 1 pm until 3 pm without appointment until further notice.
ST. MARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCH
On the green, Montville
Sunday Eucharist at 7:15am Wednesday Morning Prayer 8.30am Wednesday Meditation with Maureen 9am For general enquiries contact Carole Phillips at 5445 7839 Baptisms and weddings enquiries welcome!
Contact Rev’d Deb Bird 0457 519899 MalenyAnglicanParish.com.au or [email protected]
Montville Uniting Church
Services are held each Sunday at 8.15 am, except on the 5th Sunday of a month when a combined service is held at Maleny Uniting Church at 9.45pm. All welcome.
On a 5th Sunday a combined service is held at Maleny Uniting Church at 9.45. Contact: Rev. Liena Hoffman 0490421874. The church is open as a Reflection Gallery every day from at least 10 am till 3 pm.
MAPLETON RURAL FIRE BRIGADE
Mapleton Rural Fire Brigade Monthly Training: 5:30pm on the 2nd Tuesday of Month Monthly Meeting: 5:30pm on the 3rd Tuesday of Month First Officer (all operational matters): 0499 778 06 Fire Warden (fire permits, safety checks): 0499 778806 Secretary (new members, administration): 0499 883019 Website: https://www.facebook.com/mapletonruralfirebrigade/ E-Mail: [email protected] Address: 37 Obi Obi Road, Mapleton 4560 Postal: PO Box 366, Mapleton 4560 Date Claims
11 June Probus meeting Mapleton Bowls Club. 12 June 8-10.00 am working bee at The Old School House (TOSH) garden, 17 Obi Obi Rd, Mapleton. Ring 5445 7813 for details. 16 June Big morning tea—Mapleton Craft Group. 19 June Kim Kirkman in Concert, St George’s Anglican Church. 19 June Dance, Belli Community Hall. 20 June Triples bowls, Mapleton Bowls Club. 25 June—11 July Art exhibition, St Mary’s Hall. 26 June Mapleton Country Markets Saturday from 8am - 12noon. 11 July Twilight Bowls, Mapleton Bowls Club—everyone welcome. 24 July Mapleton Country Markets Saturday from 8am - 12noon. 25 September Mapleton Community Library—bars this date. More details will be forth coming soon. 16 October Community Day – celebrating 35years, Kindy.
The opinions expressed within articles in this publication are not necessary those of the editor.
MAPLETON DOG
OFF-LEASH AREA
Thank you
Cr David Law THE MAPLETON CRAFT GROUP will be hosting a Biggest Morning Tea in support of the Queensland Cancer Council on June 16, 2021 at 9am until 12noon at the Mapleton Bowls Club.
The entry fee will be $5. Bingo and raffle tickets will be extra. All profits will go the Cancer Council.
There will be fun and games all morning including raffles, bingo and trivia. There will be prizes for the winners of most games. Everyone is welcome to join us and we can promise all a really good morning.
If you’d like to join us please reply to Sue Rogers on 0405 403810 We need an idea of numbers for catering purposes.
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