$100 off Octane Darkest Legal Window Tint at Novus Auto Glass

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For the month of July you can get $100 off Octane Tint at Tint-a-Car. Octane is the darkest legal tint that keeps you cool in the driver’s seat and has maximum protection from heat, glare and UV. Octane is there most popular tint and it’s clear why – with a combination of great looks, privacy and protection, Octane is really fully loaded. Tint-a-Car are also offering 25% off home and office tinting for the month of July.

Do you have a broken windscreen? Novus Auto Glass is the place to go. They repair and replace windscreens, and side and rear windows, and are recommended by most insurance and fleet companies. With fast, friendly and reliable service that is available 24/7 for emergency repairs, why would you go anywhere else. 

Call them to book an appointment on 9965 5555 or go in and see them at 13-17 Sanford St.

 

Ian Blayney calls on the State Government for Coastal Erosion Assistance

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Geraldton MLA Ian Blayney has called on the State Government to offer financial assistance to protect Geraldton from the impacts of coastal erosion at Beresford Foreshore and Drummond Cove, two sites of immediate concern.

During a Grievance to the Minister for Transport, Mr Blayney outlined the damage to property that had occurred to date and the vulnerability of millions of dollars of both State and Local Government infrastructure.

“I have contacted 560 households at Drummond Cove to gauge local feeling on this issue,” said Mr Blayney.

“From the responses I’ve received so far, about 68 per cent of the residents are in favour of preserving the current coastline, while 22 per cent consider retreat a more sustainable option.

“In relation to Whitehill Road 89 per cent of the residents wish to retain a road in a similar position.

“Assets at risk along this stretch of coastline include a high voltage electrical cable, a telecommunications cable and sewerage infrastructure. If the coastal erosion extends further inland beyond the tree line, there is significant risk to residential housing,” said Mr Blayney.

The Minister responded that the Department of Transport had been closely involved in the development of a solution for Beresford Foreshore and the Government was in the final stages of considering a long term solution to an ongoing and permanent erosion problem that threatens critical infrastructure and liveability along the priority Beresford coast.

He also thanked the Member for Geraldton for raising the issues with him on behalf of the people of Geraldton, and he looks forward to working with Mr Blayney to find a long term solution for the community.

Regional Vision Revised

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The Northern Agricultural Catchment Council (NACC) is excited to announce the 2016 update of Northern Agricultural Region’s NRM Strategy is now delivered on the NARvis website. The update is the culmination of input gathered from a range of community workshops and stakeholder surveys carried out over the past four years.

NARvis aims to provide valuable information, resources and links to support and inspire positive action, along with showcasing the updated regional aspirations and goals – which will provide strategic direction for future projects and NRM funding in order to maximise the benefits from these investments.

NACC would like to say a massive “THANK YOU” to everyone who has contributed in one way or another towards helping to make the regional aspirations and goals a true reflection of the community’s vision for the region.

Project Coordinator and NACC Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator Emma Jackson said “While NACC has facilitated the update of the NRM strategy, we couldn’t have done this without the valuable input and direction of a vast range of stakeholders.

“NARvis has been developed by, and for the benefit of, the regional community. It has been awesome to have so many different people involved in the project,” she said.

What’s new on NARvis:

Revised regional aspirations and goals.

Updated regional climate change information and projected impacts, based on the most recent modelling by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) and CSIRO, along with mitigation and adaptation options, including inspiring case studies.

New Aboriginal History and Culture theme page, to further recognise and support the important contribution of our region’s Traditional Owners in managing natural resources.

These improvements are reflected in the recently released NARvis Summary Document Version 2

What’s next for NARvis:

Continuing to showcase more regional NRM projects and case studies on the NARvis website, and count the contribution of these projects towards achieving the regional goals – members of the community working on projects can contact NACC directly, or Share Your Project with NACC via the online form.

Developing strategies and working towards achieving the goals identified on NARvis. Find out how you can get involved, from recycling to applying for a grant, and everything in between!

Continuing to review and improve NARvis and the regional goals as community priorities change.

Please jump online and check-out the Northern Agricultural Region’s NRM Strategy – visit: www.narvis.com.au. There are videos to help navigate the site, and opportunities to leave a comments at the bottom of any of the webpages, to help in the further development of the strategy. 

Geraldton Universities Centre unveils Birndu Nyina Garden in honour of Aboriginal graduates and award winning students.

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Geraldton Universities Centre will this week unveil the Birndu Nyina Garden with a NAIDOC Week morning tea on Friday 8 July, from 10.30am-12noon. 

Birndu Nyina means to sit quietly in Wajarri language, with the extended title; Birndu nyinamanha, nganggun-nganggunmanha meaning to sit quietly thinking, to ponder. 

Overlooking Geraldton CBD, the secluded native garden is a commemorative and meeting space celebrating the achievements and contributions of Aboriginal students who have graduated in Geraldton and those that have been awarded scholarships through organisations supporting the Hollomby Foundation. 

Featuring a central sitting place where a native tree will grow - shading the area - will be plaques of the names of alumni Aboriginal students, supporting organisations and the scholarship recipients. 

“Building aspiration and increasing the numbers of Aboriginal students at GUC to reflect the percentage of Aboriginal people in our wider population is a key aim at GUC. This garden will be a special place for students to come and relax and take in the beautiful surrounds, but also a place to recognise the wonderful achievements of Aboriginal students who have graduated out of programs here” GUC Chair Steve Douglas said. 

To date there have been 14 Aboriginal graduates in programs such as Nursing, Social Science, Indigenous Sector Management, Business Accounting, Early Childhood and Primary Education. Over the last 4 years 9 Aboriginal students have been awarded scholarship through the Hollomby Foundation, including recent recipient, Dainira Papertalk, who was awarded the inaugural Ku’Arlu Nursing scholarship and industry placement at the St John of God Hospital Geraldton, as well as the Yanburi scholarship through Sinosteel Midwest Corporation. 

Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation is an integral long-term donor through the Hollomby Foundation and has supported scholarships for Aboriginal students, with the current recipient in 2016 being Rianna Pension. 

Currently, 18 Aboriginal students are enrolled in programs at GUC across all the programs currently offered; Bridging, Accounting, Business, Education, Engineering Nursing, Psychological Science and Social Work. 

GUC acknowledges the financial support from Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation to host this event during NAIDOC Week 2016, and the language support from Irra Wangga Language Centre. 

Opinion - The Skippy Paradox: On eating kangaroos.

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I have been thinking about kangaroos – eating them, to be precise. The whole industry is tanking across WA and Macro Meats from South Australia are the company selling us human grade roo meat in the supermarkets. 

Recently Macro Meats upped the marketing from their Gourmet Game site to include a very sexy I Love Roo campaign; so while was I going on and on like a drain about the nutritionally dense qualities of this fabulous meat and its value as food-is-medicine, my argument was trumped instantly by a picture of a muscled chick wearing a sports-bra plastered with the legend ‘lean meat, lean body’.

I concede that Macro Meats have the marketing chops - but not the whole story. CLAs, or Conjugated Linoleic Acids, are the good fats that are found in the meat of a ruminant when omega 3, the green in all growing things, undertakes its complex transformative journey through the digestive processes of a rangeland grazed animal. Lamb from station country is high in CLAs and considered good tucker, but kangaroo meat registers 5 times richer in these good fats and makes excellent health sense as an anti-inflammatory food. It is anti-diabetic, anti-carcinogenic and brought to you only by ruminants grazed on biodiverse pasture – stock that are grain-fed or grazed on paddocks with limited plant variety register way lower on the CLA count. 

Kangaroos, naturally, also score highly on all measurements made to register environmental sustainability. They live here, they are adapted to the arid lands and they have been a favourite protein choice of Australians for over 40,000 years. 

It is only in the last 150 years or so that people have chosen to take kangaroos off the menu to both revere them as a National Symbol or shoot them for dog food or as Rangelands vermin. This is the Skippy Paradox; it makes no sense from a bio-security food or environmental sustainability angle and for anti-meat crusaders this muddled sentimentality doesn’t help kangaroos because wherever you stand in this thinking kangaroos carry on dying in enormous numbers. They die as a result of poor seasons and at the hands of farmers, pastoralists and Government conservation agencies as they safeguard their core business; growing (introduced) stock whilst attempting to minimise the total grazing pressure that leads to eroded land.

The raw pet food industry is diminishing with the only signs of growth being in the wild dog bait business; South Australia has an effective monopoly on selling us their roo meat; the roo leather industry is severely reduced despite its incredible qualities as leather and kangaroos are being shot and left to rot across agricultural and pastoral zones. 

My desire is that we start to treat kangaroos with more respect. Rather than push roo corpses into holes in the ground, let us do the research to see if it is possible to manage numbers and benefit economically, socially and culturally from the situation in our severely depleted rangeland communities. 

There are many anomalies surrounding the kangaroo industry and a lot of unexamined emotional issues that need to be dealt with before the kangaroo can take its rightful place as one of the most abundant and profound gifts the WA Rangelands has to offer to its own people and the world.

Perth truck driver jailed over crash that killed young mother near Geraldton

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A DISTRACTED truck driver has been sentenced to two years in jail for a fatal crash near Geraldton that killed a young mother.

 

While 23-year-old Chloe Rumble died instantly from horrific head trauma, miraculously her infant son Kobi, then 11-months-old, who was in a baby capsule in the back seat, survived with only minor injuries.

 

Click here to read more.

Funds for Beresford Foreshore erosion works

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Geraldton MLA Ian Blayney has welcomed works to address the erosion of Beresford Foreshore in Geraldton as part of a $23.1 million project announced today.  

“This is the first section of Geraldton’s vulnerable foreshore to be addressed,” said Mr Blayney. 

“The project, which is supported by $17.28 million from the Liberal National Government’s Royalties for Regions program, will address an ongoing and expensive erosion problem at Beresford Foreshore. 

“The Beresford Foreshore, located north of the Geraldton marina, is an important part of the Geraldton waterfront and has been severely impacted by coastal erosion in recent years,” said Mr Blayney. 

“Works will soon begin to address the threat to the sensitive coastal environment and critical public and private infrastructure including a protective breakwater extension and an extension to the existing groyne.” 

Mr Blayney said the project will involve off-shore works to mitigate erosion including a protective 100m breakwater extension to the detached breakwater, an extension to the existing groyne and three retaining structures.  

“This project is the outcome of multiple coastal engineering investigations based on extensive wave, current and sediment flow data gathered over a decade,” Mr Blayney said. 

“The detailed sand nourishment and protection structure designs have been heavily scrutinised and peer reviewed by national and international experts.” 

Mr Blayney said the project will reactivate and revitalise the Beresford shoreline making it a more attractive and versatile public space for locals and visitors alike 

The project will be managed by the City of Greater Geraldton and is expected to be completed in 2018.

“I have also surveyed residents of the Drummond Cove area, to better understand their expectations regarding the stabilisation of the coastline, and the consequences of this action.  

“I look forward to working with the Council, state government agencies and the residentsof the affected areas, to find ways to address the coastal erosion issue as a matter of priority,” said Mr Blayney.

Emergency sand nourishment to slow Drummond Cove coastal erosion

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In an effort to slow down the rate of coastal erosion, save trees and protect at risk state government infrastructure sand nourishment works will begin today along Whitehill Road in Drummond Cove.

The works expected to take five days to complete will see approximately 5,000m3 of sand placed along the shoreline.

City of Greater Geraldton Mayor Shane Van Styn said that although Council recognises sand nourishment is only a temporary solution, it aligns with the community’s preferred option to combat the erosion of Whitehill Road.

“Council understands sand nourishment is only a stop gap measure but we are faced with an imminent threat and understand the sand could wash away quickly,” he said.

“However, it is better than no action at all and has the support of the Drummond Cove Progress Association and was also identified by the local community as the preferred temporary solution during the Whitehill Road Community Workshop held in May.

“At this point, $50,000 in emergency funds for sand nourishment will hopefully buy us some time to continue discussions with Western Power, Telstra and Watercorp regarding at risk infrastructure and medium term solutions such as sand bags, rock revetments or concrete squares on matting can be investigated.

“Permanent solutions to coastal erosion at Drummond Cove cannot be considered by Council until data collection and modelling of the ocean currents in the area are undertaken and Coastal Adaptation Planning for the entire Geraldton coast has been completed,” Mayor Van Styn said.

Maintenance works on flood damaged Rose Road

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The City of Greater Geraldton wishes to advise it will be undertaking road maintenance works on Rose Road with works programmed to commence on Saturday 9 July and lasting for approximately nine days.

As access to driveways may be limited during maintenance, the City encourages residents to park their vehicles outside the work area where possible.

Traffic management will be in place during this time. Motorists and pedestrians are advised to exercise caution and obey all warning signs and directions from authorised City personnel and contractors.

If you have any queries regarding this work please contact Moneer Fates, Project Manager on 9956 6600 or email council@cgg.wa.gov.au

Digital Photography & Microsoft Word & Excel Courses at Central Regional TAFE

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Central Regional Tafe is offering short evening classes at the Geraldton campus for Digital Photography and Microsoft Word and Excel. These are great courses if you want to learn something new or improve your skills.

Digital Photography

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph” – Matt Hardy

Sign up today for Central Regional TAFE – Midwest’s five (5) week Capture a Digital Image photography course, and learn how to get the most out of your camera and learn how to take better and more creative photos.

Running each consecutive Tuesday, from the 26th July to Saturday 20th September, 6.00pm – 8.30pm.

At $176.46 full rate and $103.96 Concession, this course is too good to miss.

Contact our enrolment team today to book your place.
1800 672 700
enrolments@crtafe.wa.edu.au

Microsoft Courses

Would you like to have a better understanding of how to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel?

Central Regional TAFE – Midwest is running an Introduction to Microsoft Word on Monday evenings, covering topics; creating and formatting documents, creating tables, adding images and much more. Then on Tuesday nights, there is an Introduction to Microsoft Excel, covering; how to work with a spreadsheet, how to format data, how to incorporate charts and objects, and more.

Running from 6.00pm – 8.30pm and costing only $169.20 full rate, and $96.70 concession rate, you should book in today, so not to miss out.

Contact our computer team for further information.
1800 672 700
enrolments@crtafe.wa.edu.au

 

All Decor has all your flooring and blinds covered

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All Decor specialises in floor coverings and windows treatments. Rick and the team at All Decor have been selling carpet and vinyl for over 20 years, and in that time they have expanded to offer everything from wooden flooring to blinds and curtains. They even supply shutters.

In the flooring department All Decor has carpet, vinyl sheeting, vinyl planks, timber flooring and commercial carpet and vinyl.

All Decor stocks some lines of carpet, vinyl sheeting and vinyl planks in the Geraldton store, and most of the other products are stored in Perth so they can have them here within a couple of days.

CARPET

VINYL SHEETING

VINYL PLANKS

TIMBER FLOORING

Over in the window treatments area All Decor has vertical blinds, venetian blinds, timber venetian blinds, roller blinds, panel glide blinds, shutters and curtains.

All of the window treatments available at All Decor are made to measure, so you are sure to get the blind that fits your window. Our friendly staff can come and do a free measure and quote (this applies to your flooring options as well) to get the correct sizing before you order. 

They also have Ready Made Curtains available, with 40% off selected Ready Made Curtains.

All Decor are located in the big blue building on the corner of Northwest Coastal Hwy and Jensen St, or you can call them on 9964 4233.

 

This vehicle was just impounded for the sixth time in seven months

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Vehicle Impounded For The Sixth Time In Seven Months

A 46 year old male from Geraldton has had his vehicle seized for the sixth time this year.

In the early hours of Monday morning, 4 July 2016 the male was driving his vehicle in Wonthella when he was stopped by police. Police allege the male driver was attempting to evade police moments before he was spoken to.

His vehicle was seized and impounded as the driver did not hold a current motor drivers licence. Previously, he has been charged for Reckless Driving (Hooning), and numerous charges for driving without a licence.

He will appear in the Geraldton Magistrates Court at a later date.

Local Fashion Blogger 'NutKaic' - "Being As In Love With You As I Am"

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Local fashion blogger Kaicee Eastough, who goes online by the moniker NutKaic, kindly shared her latest post with EG's readers.

Being As In Love With You As I Am

 

Blazer - Ally (sold out, similar here)

Bodysuit - Supre (sold out, similar here)

Skirt - Supre (sold out, similar here)

Tights - Target (sold out, similar here)

Jewellery - Lovisa

Sunglasses - Cotton On

Boots - Dr. Martens

Lipstick - Limecrime "Cashmere"

 

Hey guys,

Told you there would be another post in a day or two! ;)

Yes, there are a lot of pictures of me sitting down haha...

Today I'm wearing some old tights I bought a long time ago and barely ever wear... But I realized that they go so well with this nude body suit! And my rose gold accessories (glasses, necklaces & wrist wear) looked amazing with these colours.

I need to get back into wearing patterned tights; they really make a statement with an otherwise "plain jane" outfit.

Hope you guys have had a lovely Sunday Xx

 

 Click here to visit NutKaic's blog.