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Grab Amazing Deals at the Plant Empire Autumn Market

Plant Empire features a variety of plants and gardening stuff for sale any day of the week. For many gardeners and green thumbs in Yeerongpilly and nearby suburbs, this green paradise is a convenient place for plant shopping.

But on Sunday, the 1st of March 2020, Plant Empire will be setting up its Pop-Up Autumn Market, which will not just have plants and potteries on the shelves. From 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. heaps of stalls will open to offer handicrafts, jewellery, ceramics and even food.

Bring the whole family or tag your friends to enjoy the first Sunday of the month at this community market. This is a kid-friendly event — it’s never too early to spark your children’s interest in growing plants!

Thare are four Sunday markets every year. Here’s the rest of the schedule for 2020:

Winter Market	7th of June
Spring Market	6th of September
Summer Market	6th of December

The Sunday market takes place at the back of the store and if you plan on being a stallholder, you may apply for a slot online. Entertainers, artists and other creatives may also apply for any ideas to add to the community market experience.

Sue McKell runs Plant Empire and she has passion for both plants and creative enterprises. Sue has set up a “Garden for Good,” where volunteers help budding gardeners, including the next generation, to learn how to grow healthy plants.

For enquiries about Plant Empire, the seasonal markets or the volunteer program, phone on 0402 292 116 or email team@plantempire.com.au.

Tennyson Kerbside Collection: How to Promote Responsible Rummaging

Tennyson, Yeronga, Yeerongpilly are up for another round of kerbside collection on Monday, the 3rd of February 2020 and every time this comes around, rummaging and scavenging concerns crop up. It’s not illegal to go through the stuff of your neighbours if it’s for disposal, but some scavengers can really make a mess.

For years, the policy of the Brisbane City Council on scavengers has been simple: “Residents are welcome to recycle kerbside collection goods, however, they should ensure that leftover items are stacked tidily and not creating any obstructions to the footpath or roadway.”

Salvaging and taking items you can re-use and recycle from other people’s unwanted pile is encouraged to limit landfill buildup. However, if you’re bothered about the mess some scavengers make, below are some tips to encourage them to rummage responsibly:

1. Label your items.

If you have an old but working toaster, electric fan, or any small but still useful appliances on your kerbside collection pile, tape a note on it. For example, a sign that says, “Not Worth Selling But Still Works” makes scavenging easier. Your neighbours won’t need to dig through your stuff — and then leave a mess! — if they can read the note right away.

Some scavengers break items for disposal to get the parts they want. But TV sets with broken screens, for example, won’t likely be picked up by the collectors anymore as there are shards of glass around it. To discourage scavengers from breaking your old stuff, put a sign that says, “Don’t Break For Parts, Just Take The Whole TV.”

2. Take the wires or cables out.

Scavengers like to cut the power cords off small appliances as this is apparently the fastest way to collect copper for reselling or reusing. But the wreckage they leave on your kerb can be annoying.

Whilst you can put a sign to encourage them to take the whole item, it might help to cut or take out the wires yourself to set it neatly on your kerbside pile. This way, the scavengers won’t have to destroy anything else as they can easily take what they want and leave.

*Photo Credit: Brisbane City Council/Facebook*

3. Put your items out hours before pick up.

Kerbside collection is at 6:00 a.m. but scavengers may already be rummaging at midnight or dawn because some folks put their items earlier. Understandably, people prepare their kerbside pile at their most convenient time, which could be days ahead of collection day.

However, this raises the chances for scavengers to make a mess on your corner. Cleaning up after their mess is a lot more inconvenient and puts you at risk for illegal dumping fines.

Given that kerbside collection happens periodically, it will take less effort to wake up before 6:00 a.m. to set your pile and wait for the collectors to pick it up. If you can watch over your items before the collection, you can actually engage the scavengers personally and tell them, in a nice way, to leave the pile neat and orderly when they are done.

Yeerongpilly Warehouse to Stage a Spellbinding Theatre Production of ‘Invisible Cities’

If there’s one thing you must check out at this year’s Brisbane Festival, then it should be this theatre production of “Invisible Cities” inside a Yeerongpilly warehouse. Prepare to be mesmerized as this show is a fantastical travelogue that seems unimaginable to stage.. .and yet it’s finally here for Brisbanites to witness.

Dubbed as the most ambitious project to be ever presented by Brisbane Festival, “Invisible Cities” is a showcase of unique artistry featuring the dancers from Rambert, one of the best dance groups in the world, and the choreography of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Through their movements, they’ll interpret the story adapted by Lolita Chakrabart about the explorer Marco Polo, as he reports his explorations to his most powerful emperor Kublai Khan.

This production will be its debut in Australia after Rambert’s successful series at the Manchester International Festival.

“Invisible Cities” is not just a typical stage play or a dance production. It is a spellbinding theatre performance combining movements, music and technical elements. It is a riveting escape as the show will take the audience to three different unseen cities: “Zenobia, a city of joy, Beersheba, a celestial city of gold, and Isadora, a city of promise, seduction and desire.”

The show will run for five days, from Tuesday to Saturday, the 24th to the 28th of Sept 2019, at 7:30 p.m. There is an extra matinee performance on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and an Auslan interpreted performance for its Friday show.

“Invisible Cities” will run for 135 minutes with a 20-minute intermission. Tickets may be booked online for $59 to $75, depending on the seats.

Yeronga, Yeerongpilly, Rocklea Stations to Receive Upgrade in Preparation for Cross River Rail Project

Six existing QR stations including Yeronga, Yeerongpilly, and Rocklea will receive a makeover to meet accessibility standards in time for the completion of the Cross River Rail.

To coincide with the $5.4-billion Cross River Rail project, Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey and Member for Toohey Peter Russo announced the facelift and accessibility upgrade plans for Fairfield, Yeronga, Yeerongpilly, Moorooka, Rocklea and Salisbury stations.

The Cross River Rail will deliver a new 10.2-kilometre rail line extending from Dutton Park to Bowen Hills with four new high-capacity stations located on Boggo Road, Woolloongabba, Albert Street, and Roma Street.

The rail line includes 5.9 kilometres of tunnel under the Brisbane River and CBD. Along with the construction of new stations, upgrades will also be done on Dutton Park and Exhibition stations.

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“Queenslanders are backing public transport like never before with a record 182 million trips across the South East last financial year,” Mr Bailey said.

“Cross River Rail already includes plans to build an additional platform at these southside stations, so it makes sense that we also invest in accessibility upgrades to the existing station platforms at the same time, so they can be delivered by the Cross River Rail contractor.”

The station upgrades, Mr Bailey said, are designed to minimise network disruption with new platforms also to be prefabricated off-site. He added that the upgrades will make it easier for commuters with a disability, parents with prams, and travellers with luggage to use the public transport system.

“Station accessibility will be boosted with new overpasses, lifts, kiss’n’ride infrastructure and bike facilities included in Cross River Rail’s proposed package of works.

“Cross River Rail’s southside improvement plans will unlock extra rail capacity and deliver the essential infrastructure that can support high frequency services on the transport network.”

The proposed station upgrades would be assessed by the independent Coordinator-General. A community information forum on June 6, 2019 at Annerley Hall, 8 Waldheim Street, Annerley is also planned, according to Mr Russo.

“This is an important opportunity to find out what’s planned for the southside and to have your say on Cross River Rail’s once-in-a-generation transformation of high-frequency transport in our community,” Mr Russo said.

Feedback on the station upgrade plans can be uploaded to the website of the independent Coordinator-General until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 14, 2019.