COMMUNITY NEWS

COMMUNITY SERVICES DAY

Community Services Day will be held on 17 February 2012 at Beattie Road Community House, 65 Beattie Road, Coomera.
The aim is to provide the local community easy access to services in varying locations across the Northern Gold Coast area.  Sausage sizzle and refreshments on sale provided by Lions Club of Coomera.

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LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION

A fundraiser for the Leukaemia Foundation Fundraiser including an Easter Parade and High Tea will be held at Gainsborough Greens Tuesday 27 March 2012 from 2 pm.
It will include a raffle and fashion parade with clothes from "Fashion Is" in Beenleigh. Prize for the "Best Easter Bonnet". For further information please contact Lyn Young on 0414 871 110.

OLD TIME DANCE

The Ormeau Lions first Old Time Dance for 2012 will be on Saturday 4th February at the Pimpama School of Arts Hall, Clark Way, Pimpama.
Music by The Goldtones commences at 7pm for 7.30pm - Admission $10 includes supper and prizes. All funds raised by Lions go back to support the community, so put on your dancing shoes and join in the fun. Contact Lyn Young on 0414871110 for further information

WORLD'S GREATEST SHAVE

Ormeau Lions are again hosting a World's Greatest Shave event at the Shearers Arms Tavern, Peachey Road, Ormeau
On Saturday 17th March from 2pm to 6pm. You can register online to join the Lions Team - http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/ormeaulions
or if you wish to go it alone, you can come along and join in the fun of fundraising for the Leukaemia Foundation. $20 for an adult shave or
Colour, $10 for children, $5 facepainting. Contact Lyn Young on 0414871110 if you require any further information.

COOMERA TOWN CENTRE

The State Government and Gold Coast City Council have been in discussions with Westfield and Queensland Investment Corporation to decide the responsibility for road upgrades and infrastructure charges applicable to development of the Coomera Town Centre. In an attempt to encourage development, Council has imposed a 12 months currency period for the agreed charges which are significantly lower than previously published suggestions. Operational works are underway for the first residential dwellings east of the Town Centre and approvals are in place for the industrial sector at the northern point of the Town Centre. We hope that the necessary master plans will now be lodged and that development will proceed because the area has waited long enough. Council is still pursuing appropriate parcels of land for the Council facilities and civic presence that we need within the Town Centre. The Coomera Town Centre will be an integrated transit oriented development, with a true heart, shops, restaurants, entertainment precinct, medical and other services with an expected retail catchment of about 160,000 people by 2026. .

2018 GOLD COAST COMMONWEALTH GAMES

The Premier, Hon Anna Bligh MP was the guest speaker at the Christmas 2011 Beenleigh Yatala Chamber of Commerce Breakfast. I was fortunate to be able to put a question to the Premier about the prospect of developing additional Games venues in northern Gold Coast. Unfortunately, the Premier's response indicated that the Bid Book was the "guiding document" and the basis of our successful bid and that a change to the venues already outlined was therefore unlikely. It makes sense that the buildings and sporting venues are developed where there is an identified need and where they will provide the greatest legacy for residents at the conclusion of the Games. More than 50% of the city's population will live in the Northern Growth Corridor by 2021 and it's interesting that several elected representatives and mayoral candidates have since contacted me - to offer their support to work with me in continuing to lobby to attract new faciltiies in this region.

LIGHT RAIL

The commencement of works on the first stage of our light rail system also prompted me to write to the Transport Minister, Hon Rachel Nolan, with regard to further extensions to the light rail network. Coomera will be our third Key Regional Centre along with Robina and Southport and I hope to one day see connection provided to serve the needs of northern residents.