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noosatoday .com.au
Friday, 14 April,
2023
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NOOSA TODAY
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Belting it out and right on song “I have to sing. I cannot sing” Noosa U3A Happy Singers leader Jonathan Anstock told Noosa Today this week as he belted out the words to a repertoire of songs played on the ageing piano at Zabe Espresso Bar, Tewantin, by Vicki Baird. A high school music teacher of 36 years and a singer in her own right Vicki moved to Noosa in 2016 from inner western Sydney while recovering from lymphoma, which left her too exhausted to play. Continued page 8
Vicki Baird at the piano with Helen McFadzen who tap dances along to her tunes.
Picture: ROB MACCOLL
‘Keep the carpark’ 12497020-DL22-21
Tewantin Noosa Lions Club has organised a petition to lobby Noosa Council to continue paid car parking in Lions Park, Hastings Street, during all school holidays and long weekends. Noosa Chamber of Commerce is supporting this use.Lions said their volunteers have been operating the car park at Easter and Christmas holidays for the past 20 years in exchange for half the revenue which is provided to local charities including beach mats for the disabled, bladder scanners for Noosa Care, Salvos homeless appeal, Classy Ladies Christmas Appeal, SES, Katie Rose Hospicee and Lions
Childhood Cancer fund. In 2022 $60,000 was raised through car parking for Lions and in 2023 it is expected to be $80,000. Last month Noosa councillors voted to seek State Government approval to provide paid parking in Noosa Heads Lions Park only during the 2023 Easter and Christmas holidays, then to put its future use to the community for feedback. Use of the Noosa Heads Lions Park for carparking is contrary to the Department of Resources park designation, the Noosa planning
scheme, the Noosa Transport Strategy and the Noosa Design Principles. “With 14,000 vehicles accessing the Hastings Street precinct during peak periods, the 150-200 spaces offered in Lions Park don’t significantly improve supply or demand but do provide an incentive for motorists to enter the precinct, which increases congestion,” Deputy Mayor Frank Wilkie said. But Lions say more than 15,500 cars used the car park for the 12 months to last Christmas demonstrating its need was “vital“ and without it support for charities would
be greatly reduced. Noosa Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Ralph Rogers said the chamber strongly supported the continuation of the temporary paid car parking at Noosa Heads Lions Park during holiday periods, with parking managed by the Tewantin Noosa Lions Club. He said council’s decision flew in the face of staff recommendations that paid parking be approved for a further 12 months during Queensland school holidays, public holidays and long weekends through to May 2024. Continued page 8