May 9, 2024 • 14 mins
In this week's podcast, calls to restructure the region's mental health services ahead of the Federal Budget.
What changes are proposed in a new draft management plan for one of our favourite beach camping and four-wheel driving locations.
Tracking one of the world's most vulnerable reptiles to ensure its survival.
And challenging times for the Endeavour Foundation's annual Mother’s Day flower harvest with wet weather causing problems.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have White Burnette.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, I'm Taylor Larson and I'm Bruce Atkinson. Welcome to
Iheartwired bay Burnette. Your local news fix Ahead Today calls
to restructure the region's mental health services and the projects
saving one of our most endangered species.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
First, though, there could be some big changes coming for campers.
A possible cap on visitor and camping numbers is being
considered as part of a draft management plan for one
of our most popular beach destinations. The Kalula Recreation Area
between Rainbow Beach and the Noosa North Shore is being
loved to death. Literally last year, there were more than
one hundred and eighty two thousand camper nites than almost
(00:39):
one hundred thousand vehicle access permits issued. Kalula Principal Ranger
Danniel Mansfield says the draft plan aims to make sure
park use is sustainable into the future.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Range is are scene more and more close called negative
anti social behavior, a lot of honing and a lot
of speeding on the beach. We've tried a number of
methods to get the message out there about SEFF visitor
behavior in the park, and as numbers do increase, those
risks increase along with the amount of people we had
to study undertaken to give us some options about reflecting
(01:11):
on what we've done and what we can do in
the future to manage that visitor behavior and ensure that
everyone that comes to Colorla can have a good visitor
experience and a diverse one. We don't want every visitor
experience to be a past weekend crammed in up at
double Island points.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The plan includes fire and pest strategies as well as
research and monitoring. It's also considering regulating vehicle and visited
numbers on the twenty busiest days of the year at
peak periods. A new permit and booking system is also
an option, so.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
That will allow us to better regulate the types and
amounts of permits, maybe even just on those peak periods.
It's something that we're thinking about to make sure that
the number of people up there is sustainable into the future.
Some of the other recommendations that we've been considering are
the speed limits on.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
The beach ranges. Are concerned about people on the beach
being hit by four WORL drives. They're looking at introducing
pedestrians safe areas with a forty kilometers an hour speed limit.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
We have a lot of families visiting the recreation area,
and one of the things that was put on the
table was maybe we think about sections of beach where
it's just pedestrian access so families can enjoy the recreation
area safely. We're seeing a lot of near misses of
people getting hit by vehicles, so we would like to
maybe put out to the public to see what people
(02:33):
think about bringing in temporary or short term areas where
vehicles aren't flaving in certain sections of the beach so
people can enjoy those areas without the fear of vehicles.
In other recreation areas, we just set up temporary closures
for particular days or periods of time. You would still
be able to traverse around those closures, but the actual
(02:54):
access down to the water. It just gives a safe
edge for pedestrians and people wanting to enjoy the beach't
be a blanket closure to any access.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Ranger Danniel Mansfield says unless things change, the much loved
area won't survive as we know it.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Our primary focus is to make sure everyone has a
safe experience, but also that we're protecting the natural and
cultural values of the park. So we'll see a continued
degradation of those things which are the key things that
people are going there to enjoy. So in order to
manage the National Park and Recreation Theary into the future,
we need to make sure that those threats that we're
(03:30):
seeing now are being mitigated in some way so that
they're there for future generations to enjoy and to ensure
that access can remain.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Public feedback is now open and you can go to
the Environment Department's website for more info and complete a
survey and provide input.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
An estimated one in five people in the area between
Bunderberg and the Sunshine Coast is living with a mental
or behavioral condition that's above the state and national average,
as is our drug and alcohol consumption. CEO of not
for profit Your Best Life Disability in Health Services, Debbie Blummel,
says it's something many wouldn't expect.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
It's quite a surprise to think that the region is
experiencing that and that the figures are so different to
the prevalence rates and the rest of Queensland and across Australia.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The organization fears gaps in the mental health sector are
only growing. Ahead of next week's federal budget. There's hope
of more funding in the space, but money alone might
not cut it. Debbie says reforms are urgently needed to
streamline the process.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
There is more funding provided in our regions than there
ever has been before. However, the governance mechanisms for pulling
those services together in an integrated way so that people
can safely navigate the system is what's missing. It's how
the services are being put on the ground that has
been quite fragmented and it is in urgent need of reform.
(05:00):
We needed more joined up help system from prevention and
early intervention through the various treatment options including Tullyhealth for
remote people, also linking into the hospital and healthcare systems
where people who fall through the cracks end up at
the emergency departments.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Debbie believes all organizations need to work collaboratively rather than
operating as separate entities.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The way it's been done in the past has not
only been fragmented, but the funding has been dead. So
that companies get a certain amount of funding, it's usually
for year or for two years, and quite frankly, part
way through that short period of time funding often drives up,
so the stop start nature of funding is not helping
(05:48):
the system to be better integrated and streamlined.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And while the intention of funding is always positive, the
not for profits sees how quickly the money gets used.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Your Best Life does receive funding from time to time
for specific target groups, but it's always small amounts of money,
and by the time as a company you build the
capacity and employ the psychologists and the mental health workers
and get the program running, you soon find that the
money runs out. So what's needed is a more long
(06:20):
term vision for what is needed, reducing duplication and avoiding
gaps and making it more sustainable across the longer term.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Coming up after the break, how picking Mother's Day blooms
could help people gain independence.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I Herb, I Herb.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You're listening to Iheartwhine Bay Bernette. I'm Taylor Larson, joined
by Bruce Atkinson.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Our research project is helping save one of the world's
most vulnerable reptiles. The Tyro and District Landcare Group has
started tracking the movements of juvenile Mary River turtles. The
project is jointly funded by the State and Commonwealth with
disaster recovery money for the twenty twenty one twenty two floods.
I spoke with Katelyn Houghton from the Threatened Species Operations
Unit to find out what's happening.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
So they're investigating what impacts the flood's event had on
the Merry River turtle and its habitat and its reproductive
ability in the ecosystem.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Can you tell me a little bit more about what's
involved with the Merry River turtle tracking project?
Speaker 7 (07:27):
So Tyro and District LANCA group are tracking the Merry
River turtles. This involves they've actually sawced some Merry River
turtle eggs from the wild. They have then incubated them
and raised them still they're about three months old, and
then released the turtles back into the Mary River. So
they're attached with the nano transmitter which means they can
(07:49):
track the movements of the turtles within the river ecosystem
to see what their movement patterns are, where their preferred
habitat is. And they've also tagged a couple of freshwater
caps which are a primary predator of the Mirror River
turtle juveniles. So they've tagged the juvenile turtles and they've
tagged a few of these predatory fish to see what
(08:10):
impact the fish are having on the turtles. Are they
getting eaten when they're young and in the ecosystem, so
they're looking at those predation rates and mortality.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
How important is that information.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
It's actually really important. They've been studies done before on
traps juvenile turtles to see what their movements are in
the ecosystem, but combining it with the tracking of the
predatory fish means we can identify where they're going, what
the predation levels are, and then how we might be
able to help protect and recover the turtles. So adult
turtles need different protection and recovery than juvenile turtles. So
(08:43):
if we know where they're moving, and we know when
they're getting eaten or where they're getting eaten and what
they're getting eaten by, we can target our management actions
to address that problem.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And this would be important because the mirror of a
turtle is an endangered species.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yes it is.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
It's endangered. It's been challenge by habitat change and pressures
such as the weird it's been put in place in
the Merry River, so there's a lot of cumulative impacts
on this species. So it's very important to understand what's
going on and how we can protect it into the future.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And the numbers have declined ninety five percent in nesting
populations at least since the nineteen seventy is that's huge,
isn't it?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
It is?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
It's massive.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
How long is this project going for?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
So Tyra and District Lancare have been working on this
project since July twenty twenty three and they'll be going
through till about September twenty twenty five. Primarily all their
work will be done now. It's their peak field eason now,
so they're getting all the data as we speak.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
How excited that that members the Tyra District land Care
and also yourself to be part of this.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
They're so excited.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
I went out with them on the fourth of April
and it was so good to meet these LANDCA members.
They're so passionate. They've been working with this species for
years and they're all locals in the community, so it's
such an iconic species and for them to have it
there in their backyard. They are very passionate and very
excited to be doing such good research and this extra
funding supports them so much more than they would have
(10:05):
usually been able to do the work. So it's a
massive boost for them and really exciting and for me.
It's a bit different to what I usually do, to
be honest, So it's so cool to see recovery actions
and science happening on the ground and being put forward
towards such a meaningful project. They're really interested to see
what the tracking results come out.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
With this week, we don't just have one local legend,
but a whole bunch of them. It's been a busy
couple of weeks at Bunderberg's Endeavor Foundation. For the past
thirty three years, the team has planted, grown, harvested, then
packed thousands of bouquets for Mother's Day. Science manager Ettie
(10:46):
and Tea Heart says this season has been pretty challenging.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
We planted about thirty six different colors. Initially we ordered
seven thousand seedlings. For some damage in transport, we lost
about two thousand, five hundred plants and transport a cool
temperature knocked around the plants as well, but we persevere.
We groin them, and for the first time this year,
we're also doing some sunflowers. It's a big learning curve
(11:09):
for us. Unfortunately, with the rains we had about two
weeks ago, all the flowers opened before we could actually
harvest them.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
The wet weather has put the team about five days
behind where they should be on the week of Mother's Day,
and while it's affected the crops, it's done little to
dampen their spirits. Picking will continue beyond Sunday raising money
for the organization. They're aiming for eighty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
All the money that we generate goes to walk. Our
guys provide them an opportunity with a work, a paid opportunity.
It's for anybody with a disability. They don't have a
good chance to get a work outside and we provide
an opportunity for them.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
One of those employees is Rob. He's been a farm
hand at Endeavor for three months now.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
A lot of.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Weating on our hands and knees for a little bit.
We also do the lawns and we sort out all
the good produce from the bad produce, so when it
gets to you at the shopping center and the supermarkets,
you've got fresh produce that's healthy, and that's rewarding in itself.
If you are on the DSP and you're looking to
get back into the workforce, Endeavor as a place to go.
(12:17):
If you work hard, you get noticed and aside from that,
everyone's mates, staff and employees.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Really great.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
This is Olga Beat's eighth you volunteering for the Mother's
Day harvest.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
What we do is we make the posies, then we
cellophane them and put the ribbons the names on them,
who has bought them and yeah, then they go out
to the nursing homes. So I know a lot of
the ladies here. You see them here every year, and
so it's like a family reunion when you come. So
everybody's here and they all have got their own jobs
(12:48):
to do, and they all do their own little bit.
So we, you know, we work as a team.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Olga's aiming to put together one thousand posies herself this year,
but she says it's worth it.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I think the employees here love it. They like working
with the flowers. And everybody comes here on a Sunday
of Mother's Day. It's just wonderful to see everybody coming
and getting flowers for their mothers. The look on the ladies'
faces when they get the poses is just wonderful. You know,
they they love it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Eddian says Endeavor couldn't take on the massive task year
after year without the community support.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The shoutout went out about three weeks ago. For our volunteers,
we heavily rely on them to get the flowers harvested.
Some of the volunteers have been doing fifteen years and
twenty years. There's a couple of new faces this year,
and we hope towards the end of the week that
we're going to get some more and also going into
next week, we still need volunteers next week to get
the flowers off.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
A great initiative and it seems like a real community
feel about it as well.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, definitely is. I can still remember helping out with
the harvest when I was in high school and the
students at my former school are still keeping that tradition going.
So it's something a lot of us in the community
look forward to.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Every that's it for this week. To hear this podcast
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Bay Burnett on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get
your podcasts. We're back again next week with more local,
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Speaker 1 (14:14):
Wide Bay Bernett
I have White Burnette.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, I'm Taylor Larson and I'm Bruce Atkinson. Welcome to
Iheartwired bay Burnette. Your local news fix Ahead Today calls
to restructure the region's mental health services and the projects
saving one of our most endangered species.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
First, though, there could be some big changes coming for campers.
A possible cap on visitor and camping numbers is being
considered as part of a draft management plan for one
of our most popular beach destinations. The Kalula Recreation Area
between Rainbow Beach and the Noosa North Shore is being
loved to death. Literally last year, there were more than
one hundred and eighty two thousand camper nites than almost
(00:39):
one hundred thousand vehicle access permits issued. Kalula Principal Ranger
Danniel Mansfield says the draft plan aims to make sure
park use is sustainable into the future.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Range is are scene more and more close called negative
anti social behavior, a lot of honing and a lot
of speeding on the beach. We've tried a number of
methods to get the message out there about SEFF visitor
behavior in the park, and as numbers do increase, those
risks increase along with the amount of people we had
to study undertaken to give us some options about reflecting
(01:11):
on what we've done and what we can do in
the future to manage that visitor behavior and ensure that
everyone that comes to Colorla can have a good visitor
experience and a diverse one. We don't want every visitor
experience to be a past weekend crammed in up at
double Island points.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The plan includes fire and pest strategies as well as
research and monitoring. It's also considering regulating vehicle and visited
numbers on the twenty busiest days of the year at
peak periods. A new permit and booking system is also
an option, so.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
That will allow us to better regulate the types and
amounts of permits, maybe even just on those peak periods.
It's something that we're thinking about to make sure that
the number of people up there is sustainable into the future.
Some of the other recommendations that we've been considering are
the speed limits on.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
The beach ranges. Are concerned about people on the beach
being hit by four WORL drives. They're looking at introducing
pedestrians safe areas with a forty kilometers an hour speed limit.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
We have a lot of families visiting the recreation area,
and one of the things that was put on the
table was maybe we think about sections of beach where
it's just pedestrian access so families can enjoy the recreation
area safely. We're seeing a lot of near misses of
people getting hit by vehicles, so we would like to
maybe put out to the public to see what people
(02:33):
think about bringing in temporary or short term areas where
vehicles aren't flaving in certain sections of the beach so
people can enjoy those areas without the fear of vehicles.
In other recreation areas, we just set up temporary closures
for particular days or periods of time. You would still
be able to traverse around those closures, but the actual
(02:54):
access down to the water. It just gives a safe
edge for pedestrians and people wanting to enjoy the beach't
be a blanket closure to any access.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Ranger Danniel Mansfield says unless things change, the much loved
area won't survive as we know it.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Our primary focus is to make sure everyone has a
safe experience, but also that we're protecting the natural and
cultural values of the park. So we'll see a continued
degradation of those things which are the key things that
people are going there to enjoy. So in order to
manage the National Park and Recreation Theary into the future,
we need to make sure that those threats that we're
(03:30):
seeing now are being mitigated in some way so that
they're there for future generations to enjoy and to ensure
that access can remain.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Public feedback is now open and you can go to
the Environment Department's website for more info and complete a
survey and provide input.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
An estimated one in five people in the area between
Bunderberg and the Sunshine Coast is living with a mental
or behavioral condition that's above the state and national average,
as is our drug and alcohol consumption. CEO of not
for profit Your Best Life Disability in Health Services, Debbie Blummel,
says it's something many wouldn't expect.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
It's quite a surprise to think that the region is
experiencing that and that the figures are so different to
the prevalence rates and the rest of Queensland and across Australia.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The organization fears gaps in the mental health sector are
only growing. Ahead of next week's federal budget. There's hope
of more funding in the space, but money alone might
not cut it. Debbie says reforms are urgently needed to
streamline the process.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
There is more funding provided in our regions than there
ever has been before. However, the governance mechanisms for pulling
those services together in an integrated way so that people
can safely navigate the system is what's missing. It's how
the services are being put on the ground that has
been quite fragmented and it is in urgent need of reform.
(05:00):
We needed more joined up help system from prevention and
early intervention through the various treatment options including Tullyhealth for
remote people, also linking into the hospital and healthcare systems
where people who fall through the cracks end up at
the emergency departments.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Debbie believes all organizations need to work collaboratively rather than
operating as separate entities.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The way it's been done in the past has not
only been fragmented, but the funding has been dead. So
that companies get a certain amount of funding, it's usually
for year or for two years, and quite frankly, part
way through that short period of time funding often drives up,
so the stop start nature of funding is not helping
(05:48):
the system to be better integrated and streamlined.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And while the intention of funding is always positive, the
not for profits sees how quickly the money gets used.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Your Best Life does receive funding from time to time
for specific target groups, but it's always small amounts of money,
and by the time as a company you build the
capacity and employ the psychologists and the mental health workers
and get the program running, you soon find that the
money runs out. So what's needed is a more long
(06:20):
term vision for what is needed, reducing duplication and avoiding
gaps and making it more sustainable across the longer term.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Coming up after the break, how picking Mother's Day blooms
could help people gain independence.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I Herb, I Herb.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You're listening to Iheartwhine Bay Bernette. I'm Taylor Larson, joined
by Bruce Atkinson.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Our research project is helping save one of the world's
most vulnerable reptiles. The Tyro and District Landcare Group has
started tracking the movements of juvenile Mary River turtles. The
project is jointly funded by the State and Commonwealth with
disaster recovery money for the twenty twenty one twenty two floods.
I spoke with Katelyn Houghton from the Threatened Species Operations
Unit to find out what's happening.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
So they're investigating what impacts the flood's event had on
the Merry River turtle and its habitat and its reproductive
ability in the ecosystem.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Can you tell me a little bit more about what's
involved with the Merry River turtle tracking project?
Speaker 7 (07:27):
So Tyro and District LANCA group are tracking the Merry
River turtles. This involves they've actually sawced some Merry River
turtle eggs from the wild. They have then incubated them
and raised them still they're about three months old, and
then released the turtles back into the Mary River. So
they're attached with the nano transmitter which means they can
(07:49):
track the movements of the turtles within the river ecosystem
to see what their movement patterns are, where their preferred
habitat is. And they've also tagged a couple of freshwater
caps which are a primary predator of the Mirror River
turtle juveniles. So they've tagged the juvenile turtles and they've
tagged a few of these predatory fish to see what
(08:10):
impact the fish are having on the turtles. Are they
getting eaten when they're young and in the ecosystem, so
they're looking at those predation rates and mortality.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
How important is that information.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
It's actually really important. They've been studies done before on
traps juvenile turtles to see what their movements are in
the ecosystem, but combining it with the tracking of the
predatory fish means we can identify where they're going, what
the predation levels are, and then how we might be
able to help protect and recover the turtles. So adult
turtles need different protection and recovery than juvenile turtles. So
(08:43):
if we know where they're moving, and we know when
they're getting eaten or where they're getting eaten and what
they're getting eaten by, we can target our management actions
to address that problem.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And this would be important because the mirror of a
turtle is an endangered species.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yes it is.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
It's endangered. It's been challenge by habitat change and pressures
such as the weird it's been put in place in
the Merry River, so there's a lot of cumulative impacts
on this species. So it's very important to understand what's
going on and how we can protect it into the future.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And the numbers have declined ninety five percent in nesting
populations at least since the nineteen seventy is that's huge,
isn't it?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
It is?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
It's massive.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
How long is this project going for?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
So Tyra and District Lancare have been working on this
project since July twenty twenty three and they'll be going
through till about September twenty twenty five. Primarily all their
work will be done now. It's their peak field eason now,
so they're getting all the data as we speak.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
How excited that that members the Tyra District land Care
and also yourself to be part of this.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
They're so excited.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
I went out with them on the fourth of April
and it was so good to meet these LANDCA members.
They're so passionate. They've been working with this species for
years and they're all locals in the community, so it's
such an iconic species and for them to have it
there in their backyard. They are very passionate and very
excited to be doing such good research and this extra
funding supports them so much more than they would have
(10:05):
usually been able to do the work. So it's a
massive boost for them and really exciting and for me.
It's a bit different to what I usually do, to
be honest, So it's so cool to see recovery actions
and science happening on the ground and being put forward
towards such a meaningful project. They're really interested to see
what the tracking results come out.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
With this week, we don't just have one local legend,
but a whole bunch of them. It's been a busy
couple of weeks at Bunderberg's Endeavor Foundation. For the past
thirty three years, the team has planted, grown, harvested, then
packed thousands of bouquets for Mother's Day. Science manager Ettie
(10:46):
and Tea Heart says this season has been pretty challenging.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
We planted about thirty six different colors. Initially we ordered
seven thousand seedlings. For some damage in transport, we lost
about two thousand, five hundred plants and transport a cool
temperature knocked around the plants as well, but we persevere.
We groin them, and for the first time this year,
we're also doing some sunflowers. It's a big learning curve
(11:09):
for us. Unfortunately, with the rains we had about two
weeks ago, all the flowers opened before we could actually
harvest them.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
The wet weather has put the team about five days
behind where they should be on the week of Mother's Day,
and while it's affected the crops, it's done little to
dampen their spirits. Picking will continue beyond Sunday raising money
for the organization. They're aiming for eighty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
All the money that we generate goes to walk. Our
guys provide them an opportunity with a work, a paid opportunity.
It's for anybody with a disability. They don't have a
good chance to get a work outside and we provide
an opportunity for them.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
One of those employees is Rob. He's been a farm
hand at Endeavor for three months now.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
A lot of.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Weating on our hands and knees for a little bit.
We also do the lawns and we sort out all
the good produce from the bad produce, so when it
gets to you at the shopping center and the supermarkets,
you've got fresh produce that's healthy, and that's rewarding in itself.
If you are on the DSP and you're looking to
get back into the workforce, Endeavor as a place to go.
(12:17):
If you work hard, you get noticed and aside from that,
everyone's mates, staff and employees.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Really great.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
This is Olga Beat's eighth you volunteering for the Mother's
Day harvest.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
What we do is we make the posies, then we
cellophane them and put the ribbons the names on them,
who has bought them and yeah, then they go out
to the nursing homes. So I know a lot of
the ladies here. You see them here every year, and
so it's like a family reunion when you come. So
everybody's here and they all have got their own jobs
(12:48):
to do, and they all do their own little bit.
So we, you know, we work as a team.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Olga's aiming to put together one thousand posies herself this year,
but she says it's worth it.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I think the employees here love it. They like working
with the flowers. And everybody comes here on a Sunday
of Mother's Day. It's just wonderful to see everybody coming
and getting flowers for their mothers. The look on the ladies'
faces when they get the poses is just wonderful. You know,
they they love it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Eddian says Endeavor couldn't take on the massive task year
after year without the community support.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The shoutout went out about three weeks ago. For our volunteers,
we heavily rely on them to get the flowers harvested.
Some of the volunteers have been doing fifteen years and
twenty years. There's a couple of new faces this year,
and we hope towards the end of the week that
we're going to get some more and also going into
next week, we still need volunteers next week to get
the flowers off.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
A great initiative and it seems like a real community
feel about it as well.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, definitely is. I can still remember helping out with
the harvest when I was in high school and the
students at my former school are still keeping that tradition going.
So it's something a lot of us in the community
look forward to.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Every that's it for this week. To hear this podcast
again or listen back to previous episodes, search iHeart White
Bay Burnett on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get
your podcasts. We're back again next week with more local,
trusted and free news IHAB
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