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RESIDENTS knew it all along –
Marburg is the region’s
friendliest town.
“It’s the friendliest little town
in south-east Queensland,”
Marburg District Residents
Association member Barry
Gratton said.
“It’s got a great lifestyle – we
love it – we love people to come
out and visit us, but we want
them go home at nine.”
Marburg won the Tourism
Queensland Friendliest Town
Award in the Ipswich and Inland
south-east Queensland’s Ergon
Energy Tidy Towns regional
awards announced this week.
The town also picked up the
Australia Post Bush Spirit Award
and OneSteel Recycling
Partnerships Award.
“As a small community in the
broader Ipswich area, we
thought we needed to have
control of our destiny, so we
started doing all these
community events which fitted
into the Tidy Towns awards,”
Marburg District Residents
Association member Greg Farr
said.
“We were surprised; we didn’t
think we’d do so well. We were
particularly surprised by the
bush spirit award as we thought
there would be other
communities with a bigger story
than we have.”
Mr Gratton and Mr Farr
thanked Ipswich City Council
and Division 10 Councillor David
Pahlke for supporting the My
Marburg Program and paying for
promotional material such as
T-shirts, bumper stickers, and
pens.
“Don’t tell the wife – I’ve worn
mine four days in a row without
washing it,” Mr Gratton said.
Marburg celebrates
marvellous titles
TOWN LOVERS: Marburg residents (from left) Karin Bye, Greg Farr, Hannah Ostini, 6, Audrey Kickbush,
Barry Gratton, Isabella Ostini, 9, Jenny Ostini and Tobias Ostini, 2. Photo: Michelle Smith JL1708MI
Friendly
residents’
surprise win
Elizabeth
SPRY
elizabeth.spry@qt.com.au
IPSWICH Street in Esk is subject
to only one supermarket
development application on the
Esk Small Engines building site.
Co-owner of the building and
Somerset Regional Council chief
executive officer Robert Bain
yesterday wrote letters to the QT,
quashing rumours another
commercial developer was moving
into town.
“Esk is rife with rumours,
including that Woolworths, Coles,
Aldi, Subway, Target and even
Bunnings are going to establish in
the town,” Ann Ross, wife of Esk
Small Engines Building co-owner
Eric Ross and spokeswoman for
Rosskov Pty Ltd said.
“As far as we know none of this
information is true.”
Yesterday in the QT, Esk-Kilcoy
Community Support Association
development co-ordinator Amy
Stockwell said another
supermarket application had been
approved in Ipswich Street, but Mr
Bain said this was not the case.
“This statement is non-factual,”
Mr Bain said.
“Council is not in receipt of a
development application for a
supermarket on the land in
question or other lands besides
the Esk Small Engines site. Miss
Stockwell confused a council
minute concerning realignment of
boundaries and previous
erroneous media reports that a
supermarket development was to
be applied for on the particular
site.
“In relation to the closing
sentence ‘Do we risk losing a
heritage building when there are
other sites more suitable?’, Miss
Stockwell states she may well
have used those words, but in
hindsight would have chosen the
word ‘if’ instead of ‘when’ as she
was not intending to make a
judgmental call as to whether any
particular site was more suitable
than another and was merely
trying to raise awareness of the
(local heritage register) process.”
CHAOS: Esk Small Engines shop is
the centre of confusion. Photo: File
Council
CEO says
rumours
rife in Esk
THE slogan “we’re bitter about
litter” reflects how serious
Withcott residents are about
their rubbish.
The Withcott Litter Patrol
Group helped the town and
Lockyer Valley Regional Council
(LVRC) win the RACQ Litter
Prevention Award in this year’s
Ipswich and Inland south-east
Queensland’s Ergon Energy Tidy
Towns regional awards.
“The Withcott Litter Patrol
Group organise regular litter
pickups along the highway every
Tuesday meeting at the Withcott
Hotel at 7am,” LVRC Senior
Environmental Health Officer
Nina Bertram said.
The LVRC received two other
achievement awards at a
ceremony in Ipswich this week,
the Do The Right Thing Resource
Management Award which
recognises the accomplishment
of Anuha Services and council in
recycling waste, and the Young
Legends Award which
commended council’s youth
initiatives such as the Gatton
Youth Fest.
The top three regional winners
in each category are shortlisted
as finalists for the State awards,
which are held later this
year.
NO RUBBISH: From left Terry Schwerin, Mato Odri, John Wilson, Ron
Smith, Nev Hampson and Jim Willmington clean up. Photo: Supplied
Local litter patrol pays off