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4 Great Reasons to Check Out the 2nd Yeronga Beer & Food Festival

Missed the inaugural Yeronga Beer & Food Festival last November? No need to wait too long as it’s coming back this Sunday, the 23rd of February 2020. The good times will roll from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Yeronga Services & Community Club in Fairfield Road.

Here are four great reasons why you shouldn’t miss this event this time around:

1. You’ll get to sample a wide variety of food and beer choices.

Like last year, a variety of food vendors will be featured at the second Yeronga Beer & Food Festival. Craft beer options confirmed, so far, are Ballistic Beer, Helios, Yenda, and Brick Lane. For a list of eateries, follow the community club’s events page for the updates and confirmations.

2. Your family will enjoy the activities and entertainment.

Did you know that this beer festival is a family-friendly event? Bring your children along so that they can have an unforgettable fun experience, too! Service dogs can join as well but unfortunately, you’re not allowed to bring family dogs.

A roving magician and balloon artist will be impressing the guests with their tricks and gimmicks. A jumping castle will be set up so the kids can play whilst the adults relax with their food and drinks. Families may also get colourful face painting.

Ukelele music artist Vic Kena will be performing at the event. In between the fun activities is the raffle draw with exciting prizes for the lucky guests!

3. You could avail of the club membership.

If you’ve been considering a membership (or membership renewal) at the Yeronga Services & Community Club Inc., you can sign up at this event. There are plenty of perks as club members, including regular membership draws where you can instantly win cash. To know more about the perks, visit the club’s official site.

4. You can take part in a worthy cause.

Part of the reason this second Yeronga Beer & Food Festival is returning so soon is to raise some funds. Voluntary gold coin entry donations will be given to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. Proceeds will also go to the Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation.

Additionally, a dollar will be donated to the RFBAQ – Rural Fire Brigades Association Queensland Inc. for every new or renewal membership for February 2020.

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.

A Family-Friendly Beer and Food Festival is Happening at Yeronga

Children and beer don’t go together but a family-friendly Beer and Food Festival, where you don’t have to leave the children at home, is happening in Yeronga this November.

On Sunday, the 10th of Nov 2019, the Yeronga Services & Community Club at 391 Fairfield Road is hosting a Beer and Food Festival for the whole family.

Set from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., this event would be a great time to catch up with the rest of the community as you enjoy the warm weekend together with good food, wonderful drinks and heaps of activities.

*Photo Credit: Yeronga Services & Community Club Inc./Facebook*

The Yeronga Beer and Food Festival will feature a selection of food trucks from The World Food Markets. The beer and other drinks, on the other hand, will be provided by Helios, Ballistic, Yenda and Brick Lane, whilst Tuffy performs live covers of your favourite hits.

It’s going to be a packed event with this schedule of activities:

WHEN	WHAT
3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.	Face painting Jumping castle Roving magician
3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.	Craft beer and food truck trading Raffle draw
4:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.	Tuffy Live Performance

This is a free-entry event to support the local club so tell your friends and neighbours about it too! If you’ve got nothing to do for this particular Sunday, then drive down, bike or walk to the venue for an afternoon of fun.

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.