TWEED SCENE Volume 2 #32 N Thursday, April 22, 2010 E Advertising and News Enquiries: E
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THE TWEED SCENE Volume 2 #32 N Thursday, April 22, 2010 E Advertising and news enquiries: E Phone: (02) 6672 2280 R Fax: (02) 6672 4933 [email protected] G [email protected] pages 8 & 9 www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Latest rate rise on the way Richard Johns facilities at Arkinstall Park, Tweed Heads, one of the biggest losers is the Tweed ratepayers will pay an extra environment. 8.5 per cent on their ordinary rate Only $668,000 has been allocated from July 1. to environmental projects, such as But this will only apply to around $100,000 for a review of the Tweed 18,300 residential properties that fall Coast estuary management plan and within the minimum rate band. An- $498,000 for a Tweed/Byron bush fu- other 47 per cent of residents will pay tures program. extra depending on the land value of In contrast, the big winner from their property. the draft budget is an upgrade of the The business rate goes up by a min- Banora Point sewage treatment plant, Recycling imum of 40.7 cents in the dollar, and where the cost has soared from $2.6 for farmland by 23.4 cents in the dol- million to $28 million, with an addi- lar. However, the latter only applies to tional $14.9 million already pencilled surfboards 268 properties out of a total of 1,575. in for 2011/2012. Tweed Shire Council already has Charges for the shire’s recently in- approval from the state government troduced ‘two-bin’ refuse collection to increase rates by another 7.5 per service are also revealed in the fine a swell idea cent in 2011/12 and again in 2012/13, as print. While there are small falls in do- a result of a seven-year rate plan ap- Surfriders Foundation Gold Coast-Tweed branch president Adam Feichtmann, front, and Chris Payne, president of mestic waste service and waste man- proved by the state government three Kirra Boardriders, background, at Currumbin Alley where the board swap will take place. Photo Jeff ‘Bored’ Dawson years ago. agement, the ‘waste minimisation and recycling’ charge soars 46 per cent to Tania Phillips protection and enjoyment of the (where old boards may have ended Minimum rise 7.7 per cent $60.30 per annum. Council explains world’s oceans, waves, and beaches up). Taking sewerage and water charges this by noting the money will help They say one man’s trash is another for all people, through Conservation, The board swap isn’t restricted to into the equation the minimum rate towards a new recycling facility, with- man’s treasure and the Gold Coast- Activism, Research and Education one type of board, with surfers being rises by 7.7 per cent to $1,716.45, with out specifying when this will come on Tweed Branch of the Surfriders Foun- (CARE) encouraged to bring along short and the shire’s 8,280 pensioners eligible stream. Overall, getting rid of your dation believe that extends to surf Adam said the event, from 9am long-boards of all types and ages. for a $425 rebate. waste will cost an extra 7.3 per cent boards too. to midday, aims to ‘highlight the Surfers just need to come along and The draft budget was put to council- or $14 a year, or more if you have a Branch president Adam Feicht- beauty of reducing, re-using, and register on the day and they will then lors at their meeting on Tuesday night 240-litre bin. mann has come up with the concept recycling surfboards in a city ob- be talked through the process and at and will go out for public consultation There is a consolation for those liv- of ‘boardswapping’ based on an idea sessed with the consumption of new the end they will have a new board tomorrow (Friday). Residents have 28 ing alone, with an 80-litre bin due to from his native country. surfboards’. without spending hundreds of dol- days to submit their comments before be introduced from July 1. The southern Californian-born ‘I heard of a similar event in the lars or adding to pollution, waste or the draft comes back to councillors at If you have a green bin look to pay surf activist is encouraging all surfers US six months ago and thought it landfill. their meeting on June 15. $50 a year, up from $30. across the Tweed-Gold Coast region was a great idea. The idea is simple, if Adam, who ironically sold all his While there are some highlights in During Tuesday night’s debate on to come along to Currumbin Alley on someone has an old board sitting in old boards at a garage sale before he the budget, including $1 million for the draft plan council officers encour- Saturday, May 1 with any old boards the house that they are not using they moved back out to Australia several redevelopment of the Murwillumbah aged the public to contact them if they they don’t want and swap them with can bring it along and swap it with months ago, said there had already Community Centre, nearly $4 mil- wanted to discuss in detail any part of their mates. someone else!’ been a lot of interest in the event from lion for the Jack Evans Boat Harbour the proposals. 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Chippie off the old block wins award Tania Phillips an apprentice already, arranged )&+&)(&' 1 6 " 71" 7 for him to be apprenticed to a !"##$#%&' Cabarita carpenter Kelvin Wil- mate in the joinery trade. son is no fool, but the joke was ‘There were no joinery cours- 9/ : ; < on him when he was named es at that stage so I had to do ()*+,- ./0 NSW Carpenter of the Year last a carpentry apprenticeship, it ,.1(23*-.1/45*66+ week. made it hard at TAFE, I was ()*+3./0 Kelvin, 53 (pictured right), working on aluminium window ,.1(2--.1/45*,66+ received the award as part of frames, I never saw wood.’ ()*+77./0 National Carpenters Day, beat- All that changed when he ,.1(2--.1/4 5*6+ ing ‘chippies’ from all over the finished his apprenticeship and state to the coveted title and decided, with the help of his has vowed his new ‘too good to father, to build his own house. 8 !! /" 7-" 7 9 #9 $: use’ Titanium hammer would The family moved to Grafton /;".< =" 7-" 7/ /> be going ‘straight to the pool- and built a house on a farm room’. there before moving to Cabar- ()3 However, he admitted he ita 20-odd years ago where he *+,- ./0% 8* 8! was a ‘bit bamboozled’ when has been building a house ever ,.1(2*-.1/45,66+ he was rung up on April 1 and since. ()3 told about his win. Kelvin, who dedicated the *+77./0% 8* 8! The National Carpenters award to his late father, has ,.1(2--.1/45666+ Day recognises the work of two sons in the trade now, carpenters in building Aus- ‘So when I got a phone call ‘It was hilarious, I was a bit with youngest Nathan and 8 !! /"?7 9@"#9? @ tralian houses and is promoted on April Fools Day I thought it stunned,’ he said. oldest Daniel both joining the /;".< ="?7/ /> by Forest and Wood Products was a bit bizarre.’ Kelvin, originally from Cro- industry. Ironically middle son Australia. State winners were Thinking that he had been nulla in Sydney, said he be- Christopher ‘Chippa’ Wilson awarded across the country, set up he got a mate to Google came a carpenter at 16 when is the only non-chippie, be- /! with the national award win- National Carpenters Day and his builder father, who had coming a successful sponsored /!+ ner this year being Tasmanian there it was! taken his older brother on as surfer instead. A&! / Ty Turner. //'/+/ The judges were impressed that Kelvin was nominated by No further LEP extension allowed a customer who later became a Consultation on the contro- you’. He said the consultation tion on the draft. friend through continued great versial draft LEP will close at process had already been ex- ‘Our officers are willing to work . the end of the month, despite tended by a month and ‘people discuss this with the com- The humble but laconic fa- a last-minute effort to have it have had plenty of time’. munity, it is an offer we have !"##$ ther of three said he had been extended. Mayor Warren Polglase ad- made to all 90,000 people in %&'()*%&&+,)'& told that a client-turned friend Crs Katie Milne and Barry vised the public to contact the the shire,’ he said.