ISSUE 170 December 19, 2019 MEDIA 2 02 Summer Events Guide 13 Get Out and About This connect Festive Season 05 What’s on 06 Festival of Summer 07 Happy Holidays from Toolooa State High School 08 Catholic Education Christmas Message Recipe: Chocolate WANT TO ADVERTISE 09 14 Gladstone Area Waterboard: Peppermint Truffles IN GLADSTONE NEWS? Our Year in review Contact Jane Katsanevas [email protected] 15 Renovate 4680 16 PCYC Raising Awareness on Cyberbullying 17 Top 5 Books to read This Summer 18 Trauma Bears Gladstone State High School 10 A Message From Ken O’Dowd – A Year of Excellence 19 HAVE A FEEL-GOOD 11 Zonta Club of Gladstone COMMUNITY STORY TO Finishes Successful Campaign TELL? Contact Brittany Allen [email protected] 12 Season’s Greetings from Gladstone Ports Corporation BOOKLISTS MADE EASY... • Online • Delivery • Competitive • Stress Free Office National Hassle-free back to school 163 Auckland St | 4972 4255 booklist.officebrands.com.au/aucklandst 3 FROM 19 DECEMBER 19 DECEMBER 22 DECEMBER THURSDAY ARVIE BARBIE 20&27 DECEMBER & SENSITIVE SANTA PHOTO SESSION Come down to the PCYC for a 3 JANUARY Sensitive Santa is an opportunity for free sausage sizzle and pizza with MUSIC BINGO FRIDAYS AT THE children with sensory and disability PlayStation games, pool tables, big PRECINCT - Get ready to laugh, concerns to have their photo taken with screen TV, board games, arts and craft, sing and dance the night away! Santa. Lights are low, music is off to ping pong table and music. With great prizes to be won, make make this a comfortable and enjoyable Gladstone PCYC | 3:30pm – 6:30pm sure you’re there in time to grab a experience for families. Book your spot All ages | FREE bite to eat, then head over to the online @ www.eventbrite.com.au function room. Call The Precinct Stockland Gladstone | 7:30am – 9:30am Gladstone on 4972 6615 to book Pricing available online @ 19 DECEMBER your table. BENARABY BRIDGE www.stockland.com.au The Precinct Gladstone, 125 MONITORING CLEAN-UP - Goondoon St | 7:00pm | FREE GLADSTONE 31 DECEMBER Join ReefClean for a beach NYE PARTY monitoring and debris collection 21 DECEMBER Finish the year with a bang! Relax session at Benaraby Bridge! This CHRISTMAS LIGHT TOUR and enjoy the sounds and high is a single-use plastic free event. Come join in the Christmas lights ride! energy of the Hamilton Band & Bring a reusable water bottle, hat, Meeting at Lions Park and then taking support acts. With fireworks, silent sun-smart clothing, and closed-in off to view some of Gladstone’s most disco, exclusive picnics, food and shoes. beautiful Christmas Light displays, you drink available - you won’t want to Meeting at 11/120 Goondoon St at won’t want to miss this tour! Santa will mis out! 7:30am | 8:00am – 4:00pm RSVP on be coming along too! Memorial Park, Gladstone the Facebook event page Meeting at Lions Park Gladstone | From From 5.00pm - Midnight | Free 6:00pm | FREE The one stop shop for all your family entertainment gold room Laser tag coming soon Coming soon gladstonecinemas.com.au or call 07 4972 0015 HAPPY HOLIDAYSFrom Toolooa State High School TOOLOOA STATE HIGH 2019 has seen us achieve some of our Wishing all our staff, students, SCHOOL THANKS THE most impressive student outcomes families and broader community BROADER SCHOOL so far, and we have big plans in place members a safe and relaxing holiday. COMMUNITY FOR ANOTHER to make 2020 even better. We look forward to working with you all again in 2020. FANTASTIC SCHOOL YEAR. As 2019 draws to a close, some of our OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF beloved staff members are moving HAVE ACHIEVED SUCH GREAT on to retirement, or relocating out THINGS AGAIN THIS YEAR, of Gladstone. We wish them all AND WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR happiness and success in the next THE ONGOING SUPPORT THAT chapter of their lives. We must make OUR COMMUNITY PROVIDES special mention of Mr Slape, who is US. transitioning into retirement, after working at Toolooa SHS as a maths teacher since 1987! Thank you for your service, Mr Slape, and all the best in your retirement. Don’t be a stranger! Toolooa State High School 2 Philip Street, South Gladstone toolooashs.eq.edu.au (07) 4971 4333 BACK TO SCHOOL MADE EASY! A huge range of Skechers, Puma and Sfida shoes plus backpacks, pencil cases, Skullcandy headphones and school essentials from all your favourite brands. SOLE SEEKER Shop 3/1 Pacific Ave,Tannum Sands • 0406 969 122 • Find Us On Facebook OPEN MONDAY TO FRIDAY FROM 8AM TO 5PM, SATURDAY FROM 8AM TO 2PM & SUNDAY FROM 8AM - 12PM 7 E on the lf f recipe Check out what Gladstone’sShel cheeky elves have been up to! Thanks to all who contributed photos to the Facebook post, we had quite a variety of mischievous elves this CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT year! If you missed out, make sure you follow Gladstone News on Facebook and keep an eye out for next year! TRUFFLES Recipe from Butter with a Side of Bread INGREDIENTS • 2 ½ cups milk chocolate buttons (for melting) • 1 cup heavy whipping cream • 1/2 cup butter • 1/2 tsp peppermint extract • 2 cups melted dark chocolate and melted white chocolate for dipping • 2-3 crushed candy canes METHOD 1. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add in the cream and increase heat slightly, while continuously stirring. Heat until the mixture just reaches boiling point. Remove the pan from the heat and add in the milk chocolate buttons. Stir gently, combining the chocolate with the butter-cream mixture until it’s smooth. Add in the peppermint extract and stir through. Place the pan in the fridge until the mixture is solid. 2. Using an ice-cream scoop or melon baller, scoop out small balls of chocolate from the chilled pan. Working quickly (to avoid melting the chocolate), use your hands to shape and smooth the balls, then place them on a pan lined with baking paper. Repeat until all chocolate is used. Place the pan of truffles in the freezer for 1 hour. 3. Melt the dark and white chocolate. Dip the truffles into the melted chocolate using a fork. Alternate between dark and white coats to keep the numbers even. Place the coated truffles on baking paper and sprinkle with the crushed peppermint sticks. 9 sporting pursuits placing school community who have ‘Sic Itur Ad Astra – them in high regard across worked with us in providing Reach For The Stars’ our wider school community. opportunities for students The rewards for our dedicated to reach for their stars. We 2019 has been a year of team of teachers and support wish you a safe, relaxing and excellence at Gladstone State staff is evident in each enjoyable summer break and High School. Our students individual child’s growth over look forward to welcoming have shone bright through the past 12 months. We thank you back in 2020. academic, cultural and our parents, carers and wider Successful implementation of the first year of the new Senior Curriculum Supporting 1578 Greatest relative students accessing a gain in literacy and world class education numeracy in NAPLAN since testing began 27% reduction in School Disciplinary Absences 3% reduction in the gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous attendance 10 ZONTA CLUB OF GLADSTONE Finishes successful campaign! means an end to education and “Zonta will continue working our local campaign has focused towards a society where every girl on the need for girls to finish their has the same opportunities as every education. We want girls to walk to boy and no woman lives in fear of school, not down the aisle.” violence. We don’t know when this ZONTA CLUB OF GLADSTONE world will be a reality. But precisely With the colour orange being RECENTLY COMPLETED because we don’t know, there is a associated with the elimination of THEIR CAMPAIGN TO RAISE lot for us all to do. Let’s work on this violence against women, Zonta Club AWARENESS AND FIGHT together,” said Governor of Zonta of Gladstone took to local businesses AGAINST CHILD MARRIAGE. International district 22, Sandy with orange cut-outs of women Venn-Brown. The campaign took place from dressed in school uniforms to raise the 25th of November, which also awareness. You can check out all the photos marked International Day for the and posts from the campaign on the “This year our orange women were Elimination of Violence against Zonta Club of Gladstone Facebook dressed in generic school uniforms Women, and ended on the 10th of page. December, which was Human Rights made by one of our Zontians, Heidi Day. Zontians across the globe joined Moller. The campaign was led by the campaign for 16 days of activism Karen Marsh, Chair of Advocacy. against gender-based violence. We started the campaign with our orange breakfast, and many Zontians Robyn Liddell, President of Zonta helped to take the orange women on Club of Gladstone said: their visits to approximately 40 local “We say NO to violence against agencies and businesses during the women and work to end child campaign. We greatly appreciated marriage. Early marriage often the support,” Robyn said. Gladstone Flooring Xtra has a new location 36 GLADSTONE BENARABY RD, GLADSTONE 250M UP THE ROAD FROM THE LAST BUILDING New TILE RANGE! Opening 6 January (07) 4972 0808 | [email protected] 12 GET OUT ANDThis ABOUT festive season! IF YOU’RE FEELING STIR CRAZY IF YOU NEED TO ESCAPE TO IF YOU’RE AFTER FOOD… OR NEED SOME IDEAS FOR NATURE… Enjoy a picnic down at Spinnaker FUN ACTIVITIES THIS SEASON Retreat to the Park and pick up some fresh seafood – WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED wonderous and from Gladstone Fish Market WITH PLENTY OF THINGS beautiful Toondoon on the way home or make TO DO IN THE BEAUTIFUL Botanic Gardens for a recharge in a splash at East Shores and GLADSTONE REGION! nature.