September 5, 2024 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ola coming up. The legless and blind have been making
their way across the Upper North Hi. I'm Jackie Limb
with iHeart Air Peninsula, your weekly local news wrap for
the Air Peninsula and surrounds. But first, as upgrades and
duplication works carry on along the Augusta Highway, there's plenty
of other road systems that sport some impressive potholes and
(00:22):
surface issues. Our reporter Chris Guskett spoke to RAA senior
traffic engineer Matt Virtuday's earlier this week. He says it
isn't a surprise that the condition of roads is high
on the list of issues raised by motorists.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
With over six hundred nominations to our Reporter Road program
in the last two years, more than four in every
ten relate to the road surface and sunken covers, potholes
and cracks and that type of thing. And it's more
than five and ten or half of our regional nominations
that for this road maintenance issue. As we know, road
maintenance across the state is in significant backlog that's both
(00:57):
regional and metro, with about a two billion dollar backlog
in more than two thousand kilometers of roads across the state.
So we are calling on government to commit in two
hundred and fifty million a year or a billion over
four years to start to address this backlog of maintenance.
And look, that intel that feeds in through our Reporter
Road program is really useful in helping us formulate these recommendations.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, I'm glad you brought that up, because that was
my next question. I was curious to know how much
power this holds from people being able to have their
say through this program, to then be in your perspective
to take what everybody is saying and then go to
the government. How much weight does this hold all of
these people being part of this.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Look, it really depends on what the issues are. But
it's really important that we get this feedback from our
members and the community. It's not just open to RIA members,
so anyone can go in and report a road, whether
it's maintenance or safety concern and intersection or even cycle
ways and footpaths. So what we do with the data
is we look at each individual location because there's not
(01:57):
always the same solution for different spots, So you know,
we look at that whether it's on desktop, looking at
crash data, looking at traffic volume data, an undertaker side
assessment if needed, and then from there we'll use that
to formulate our recommendations to government for some of the
bigger issues, major highway upgrades and the things that will
cost you know, multiple millions of dollars. We gather the feedback.
(02:17):
We know that it can't be an overnight solution, but
it's really important for us to be hearing about where
people's issues are across the state and that forms part
of our largest submissions, whether it's for state government planning
or even local government and our ongoing budget submissions which
we do every year to state government.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Within this as well, of course, there are a variety
of other issues that people brought up to, but they
in terms of the percentage significantly underneath where road maintenance is.
But there anything within that as well that you think
is certainly worth acting upon from the RAA's perspective to
talk to the government about, for example, some of the
road layouts or intersection designs or even marking. Is that
(02:56):
something that can be brought up throughout this as well.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, absolutely so. Into sections are the next biggest thing
that are raised and look, intersections can be far more complex.
There's a whole range of issues, looking at different turning movements,
looking at the different volumes on each leg of the intersection,
how many lanes, what type of layout, whether you put
around about traffic signals, et cetera, et cetera. So there's
a lot to take in with that, and you know,
(03:20):
so from our perspective, you know, we've got a team
of engineers. We look at that, look at make sure
what is their meat standards and guidelines and best practice
and if it doesn't, what can be done to improve that.
So look, that made up almost a quarter of our
nominations that we've received, and look, they're a bit more complex,
but once again, depending on the nature of the issue,
(03:41):
that can either eventually form part of our submissions for
major upgrades or for things like signs and faded line
marking and things like that. You know, we send those
sorts of reports off to state government and local government
quite regularly because they're fairly low cost interventions to make
a significant difference to safety as well.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So just because this has been release doesn't mean this
is closed. People can still go to the ARIA website
and report what they would like to report.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Absolutely, our Reporter Road program has been running for close
to ten years now and look over the last two
years we've received six hundred nominations and nope, it's open
all the time. So anytime you've got a bit of
an issue, of course you can log that with the
state government or through their traffic management sent or the
local council. But we're more than happy to take a
look at that on your behalf as well, and we
(04:27):
can look into some of the details, some of the
factors that might be contributing to the issue there and
advise either yourself whether there is anything in the works
that's being done and if not, and we can see
an issue in there, we can put our informed opinion
to government as to how the road or the intersection
or the path can be improved.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Two blokes have spent the week trying to make a
difference across our region. Starting in Gladstone on Monday, Mike
Rowles and Ben Pettigill have been going from town to
town promoting mental health and suicide prevention. The pair are
named leg Willis and Blind due to Mike losing his
leg at eighteen years old from a ninja cockle and
Ben losing ninety eight percent of his eyesight overnight when
(05:07):
he was just sixteen. Ali Hall caught up with speaker
and advocate Ben Pettingill, who says he hoped locals resonated
with a legless and blind guy having a laugh while
speaking up for a good cause.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The passion around rural and regional areas is massive, and
that's because the stats don't lie. We know that unfortunately,
the lives we lose the suicide are twice as high
in rural and regional areas compared to that in the city.
And I think there's a number of reasons for that,
but one of them is access to support and access
(05:40):
to sessions that start conversations to normalize mental health and
smash the stigma that still exists.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Why this destination in particular.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
We are really proud to have a partnership with Ski
for Life. Ski for Life is an incredible sout Australian
charity water ski four hundred and fifty six kilometers each
year from Urraybridge to Renmark to promote mental health, well
being and suicide prevention and part of the Ski for
Life charity and what it does why it does what
(06:09):
it does is they roll out what they call a
Mates Mission program, which myself and my partner in crime,
Mike Roles aka Legless and Blind, we're known as together,
were going deliver up the mates on a mission program
in different rural and regional areas that Ski for Life
teams are from. So there's a number of Ski for
(06:30):
Life participants and teams that have participated in that water
skiing relay event each March long weekend from the Upper North.
So it's sort of a focus points from Ski for
Life to be able to give back to the communities
and the people that have been involved in the event
that are fundraised and support the mental health of their
community in their area.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Were you and Mike brought together through Ski for Life.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
We weren't brought together through Ski for Life. We met
a number of years ago through speeding individually and I thought,
you know what, I think we'd have more fun. We
put some smiles on faces with the Legless and Blind name.
But not only that, hopefully have a bigger impact for
joining forces, create something a little bit more unique, a
little bit more dynamic, And not only that, I think
(07:16):
it makes people feel comfortable around an uncomfortable topic. When
you've got a legless bloke and a blind bloke together,
having a laugh, taking the mickey out of each other
and just approaching the topic of mental health in a
really down to earth way. It's a jam pack program
across the Upper North. Each event is open to absolutely
everyone from the community, so we'd love who we bring
(07:39):
their family, their mates, their neighbors, their dogs, their colleagues.
We don't really care who comes along to the events.
The main thing is to get as many people coming
together and connected as possible, and also to get people
to sort of understand and be comfortable in knowing that
it's not your typical mental health information session. You're not
going to come along to a Schipe Life Mates on
a Mission event and walk away again going far out.
(08:00):
That was heavy, that was hard to handle. We want
to give people some really positive, practical tools in order
to look after themselves and look after their mates in
their community. So that's the real purpose of the events
and the program and the roadsho itself is to splash
the stigma that still exists normalize mental health, but most
importantly give people some practical stuff they can do to
(08:22):
look after themselves and look after each other.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
You're going to be absolutely nacked though. That's a gem
packed five days for you is this peak season.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Seems to be at the moment it very much lines
up with footy season as well as school terms. So
when you combine those two things together, it's definitely busy
on you and getting it in before harvest and things
like that when people off the land and farmers have
a little bit more time to come along to events.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The trek wraps up today in Peterborough and Kradock I
hard Peninsula I had peninsula. Last Friday, the long awaited
Midlitan Family Center celebrated it's grand opening. The ribbon was
cut by Member for Gray Rowan Ramsay, and while he
(09:04):
said it was a great occasion, it did highlight the
lack of childcare for other regions as well. I caught
up with him earlier this week.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I've got a fantastic facility now on Southern York Peninsula
in Middleton. In fact, this move has also seen the
reopening of the daycare center in Maitland by the same operators.
It came about as a result of the Morrison government's
Black Summer bush fire grants, and there were some pretty
strong fires down on the York Pincher. I think there
were seven homes lost in November twenty nineteen, they met
(09:34):
council managed to secure two point two five million dollars
and then they matched that roughly fifty to fifteenth. We
came up with a four and a half million dollar facility.
It is stay there. It's fantastic and Kay Hugh Esana
Fasy and Amy Honor driven the project. If you like
it was their vision, you wouldn't say we got lucky
to by having a fire there. But as I said
(09:55):
on the day, it's a ill wind that blows no good.
And the fact that we've now got a fabulous center there,
I thinkighlights the issue that we probably need another dozen
of them across Gray for Middleton. They will now be
there'll be skilled people able to get back to work,
there'll be businesses, they will be able to attract new
workers there, and this is a real handbrake on all
these other communities. I continue to work to try and
(10:17):
bring a boat outcome. But due it was a good
day for Middleton.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, you're financially Council Mayor Darren Brawn saying
that it was actually one of the proudest moments of
his six years in office. It has been a long
time coming. I mean, I've been working in the region
for gosh, coming up on four years, and it's been
something that's been talked about for pretty much that entire time.
So how special was it for you cutting that ribbon
on the day?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Oh well, I get to cut the ribbon, But there
are there so many other people that have done so
much work, which is why I made sure that three
ladies were up there with me. Of course, it's a
thrill to see this service delivered, but as I said,
it only highlights how many places haven't got the same
kind of facility exactly as we need. Now, something's going
to have to be done about that. I keep suggesting
that there needs to be expansion of the rural network.
(11:00):
There are a number of places. Crystal Brook has been
trying to get an expansion, Tumbi Bay's trying to get
an expansion. Cadeena desperate to turning away droves of people
that are just simply not big enough. All these things
need are capital, growth, pregnant, and I'm hoping that either
this government or the next one will see the need
for that and come a bit of money that direction.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, And what about in the meantime, with the introduction
of three year olds being allowed to go to early
learning and Kindy's and all of that sort of stuff.
Do you think that that will help in the meantime,
I know it's kind of kicking off in port period.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Well, it certainly takes the pressure off, but school doesn't
run for that many years a day, but work does.
He's the answer. So once you've got them in, if
they're going to start going to school at three years old,
well then you can have after school less care or
get them into normal childcare or something. There's got to
be something else that goes with it. So it's not like, oh,
(11:57):
we can take those off our books. We don't have
to worry about those now. And actually, but we've got
to be up to addressing them a secondarlogue. So yeah,
there's changes coming, but once again they will have to
be addressed. But the Education department of the state government are
not of mind to expand that, and it's limited in
the size of the service when it's there. But we
(12:18):
need to sit down between the two governments, bang their
heads together, and so we need we must find a
way forward on this, because they seem to be clearly
the most appropriate body in these communities to deliver with
the service, and the fact that they can now educate
three year olds would indicate that they're quite capable of
going down in that age group.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And finally today, Cleve will be covered in activewear. Later
this month, as the town hosts its inaugural running festival,
the ab town is filling a gap in the market
with a half marathon, ten k and five k all scheduled.
Cleve Running Festival Committee President Tina Schraeger explains how it
all came about.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
It's a group of locals that started to get into
running through Park Run and to do any major timed
events more than part run, so anything over five ks
you have to travel off the air peninsula. So we
thought that we could bring one to Cleave and yeah,
(13:16):
that's what we're doing. So Cleave spectacular scenery, so that's
just a bonus.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
And it's relatively flat ground.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
No, so we're running in from the Mangalow Hills, so
the twenty one point one, so the half marathon has
got a bit of an incline to start with and
then it's mostly downhill into town. So the ten and
the five k events they're pretty much all downhill except
for a little slight incline here and there, but yeah,
(13:44):
gradually overall everything's downhill.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
What are the numbers looking like? Do you have a
lot of people ready to go?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
We do, so. Our registration numbers have blown our expectations.
We've had to cat all three events and we're getting
close to it's been reached. The CAP's been reached or
very few spots left. So the caps are in total
high three hundreds. So yeah, we were hoping to get
one fifty. We've been pretty happy with that, but yeah,
(14:12):
registrations have totally blown us out of the water, which
is awesome.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
This will be great for local business though as well,
won't it.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yeah, it will. So we've worked really closely with local
businesses trying to get them involved. So not only do
we have a stack of them sponsoring us, but been
on a Sunday normally the main street is pretty quiet,
but yeah, we've spoken with a couple of businesses and
they are going to extend their opening hours to include
(14:40):
Sunday and longer hours on Saturday as well as people
coming into town. So it should be really good for
local businesses. So we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
And if it's successful this year, because this is the
first one.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, so if it is successful, you'll look at doing
it again.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
So we've already talked about penciling in a date next year,
so we are hoping to have a yearly event. So yeah,
if you missed out this year, there's still hope for
your next year.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And that's your weekly news wrap across the Air Peninsula
and surrounds.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You can hear iHeart Air Peninsula on the iHeart app
or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jackie Lim. Join
us again next week for more local, trusted and free news.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
iHeart Air Peninsula.
Ola coming up. The legless and blind have been making
their way across the Upper North Hi. I'm Jackie Limb
with iHeart Air Peninsula, your weekly local news wrap for
the Air Peninsula and surrounds. But first, as upgrades and
duplication works carry on along the Augusta Highway, there's plenty
of other road systems that sport some impressive potholes and
(00:22):
surface issues. Our reporter Chris Guskett spoke to RAA senior
traffic engineer Matt Virtuday's earlier this week. He says it
isn't a surprise that the condition of roads is high
on the list of issues raised by motorists.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
With over six hundred nominations to our Reporter Road program
in the last two years, more than four in every
ten relate to the road surface and sunken covers, potholes
and cracks and that type of thing. And it's more
than five and ten or half of our regional nominations
that for this road maintenance issue. As we know, road
maintenance across the state is in significant backlog that's both
(00:57):
regional and metro, with about a two billion dollar backlog
in more than two thousand kilometers of roads across the state.
So we are calling on government to commit in two
hundred and fifty million a year or a billion over
four years to start to address this backlog of maintenance.
And look, that intel that feeds in through our Reporter
Road program is really useful in helping us formulate these recommendations.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, I'm glad you brought that up, because that was
my next question. I was curious to know how much
power this holds from people being able to have their
say through this program, to then be in your perspective
to take what everybody is saying and then go to
the government. How much weight does this hold all of
these people being part of this.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Look, it really depends on what the issues are. But
it's really important that we get this feedback from our
members and the community. It's not just open to RIA members,
so anyone can go in and report a road, whether
it's maintenance or safety concern and intersection or even cycle
ways and footpaths. So what we do with the data
is we look at each individual location because there's not
(01:57):
always the same solution for different spots, So you know,
we look at that whether it's on desktop, looking at
crash data, looking at traffic volume data, an undertaker side
assessment if needed, and then from there we'll use that
to formulate our recommendations to government for some of the
bigger issues, major highway upgrades and the things that will
cost you know, multiple millions of dollars. We gather the feedback.
(02:17):
We know that it can't be an overnight solution, but
it's really important for us to be hearing about where
people's issues are across the state and that forms part
of our largest submissions, whether it's for state government planning
or even local government and our ongoing budget submissions which
we do every year to state government.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Within this as well, of course, there are a variety
of other issues that people brought up to, but they
in terms of the percentage significantly underneath where road maintenance is.
But there anything within that as well that you think
is certainly worth acting upon from the RAA's perspective to
talk to the government about, for example, some of the
road layouts or intersection designs or even marking. Is that
(02:56):
something that can be brought up throughout this as well.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, absolutely so. Into sections are the next biggest thing
that are raised and look, intersections can be far more complex.
There's a whole range of issues, looking at different turning movements,
looking at the different volumes on each leg of the intersection,
how many lanes, what type of layout, whether you put
around about traffic signals, et cetera, et cetera. So there's
a lot to take in with that, and you know,
(03:20):
so from our perspective, you know, we've got a team
of engineers. We look at that, look at make sure
what is their meat standards and guidelines and best practice
and if it doesn't, what can be done to improve that.
So look, that made up almost a quarter of our
nominations that we've received, and look, they're a bit more complex,
but once again, depending on the nature of the issue,
(03:41):
that can either eventually form part of our submissions for
major upgrades or for things like signs and faded line
marking and things like that. You know, we send those
sorts of reports off to state government and local government
quite regularly because they're fairly low cost interventions to make
a significant difference to safety as well.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So just because this has been release doesn't mean this
is closed. People can still go to the ARIA website
and report what they would like to report.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Absolutely, our Reporter Road program has been running for close
to ten years now and look over the last two
years we've received six hundred nominations and nope, it's open
all the time. So anytime you've got a bit of
an issue, of course you can log that with the
state government or through their traffic management sent or the
local council. But we're more than happy to take a
look at that on your behalf as well, and we
(04:27):
can look into some of the details, some of the
factors that might be contributing to the issue there and
advise either yourself whether there is anything in the works
that's being done and if not, and we can see
an issue in there, we can put our informed opinion
to government as to how the road or the intersection
or the path can be improved.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Two blokes have spent the week trying to make a
difference across our region. Starting in Gladstone on Monday, Mike
Rowles and Ben Pettigill have been going from town to
town promoting mental health and suicide prevention. The pair are
named leg Willis and Blind due to Mike losing his
leg at eighteen years old from a ninja cockle and
Ben losing ninety eight percent of his eyesight overnight when
(05:07):
he was just sixteen. Ali Hall caught up with speaker
and advocate Ben Pettingill, who says he hoped locals resonated
with a legless and blind guy having a laugh while
speaking up for a good cause.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The passion around rural and regional areas is massive, and
that's because the stats don't lie. We know that unfortunately,
the lives we lose the suicide are twice as high
in rural and regional areas compared to that in the city.
And I think there's a number of reasons for that,
but one of them is access to support and access
(05:40):
to sessions that start conversations to normalize mental health and
smash the stigma that still exists.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Why this destination in particular.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
We are really proud to have a partnership with Ski
for Life. Ski for Life is an incredible sout Australian
charity water ski four hundred and fifty six kilometers each
year from Urraybridge to Renmark to promote mental health, well
being and suicide prevention and part of the Ski for
Life charity and what it does why it does what
(06:09):
it does is they roll out what they call a
Mates Mission program, which myself and my partner in crime,
Mike Roles aka Legless and Blind, we're known as together,
were going deliver up the mates on a mission program
in different rural and regional areas that Ski for Life
teams are from. So there's a number of Ski for
(06:30):
Life participants and teams that have participated in that water
skiing relay event each March long weekend from the Upper North.
So it's sort of a focus points from Ski for
Life to be able to give back to the communities
and the people that have been involved in the event
that are fundraised and support the mental health of their
community in their area.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Were you and Mike brought together through Ski for Life.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
We weren't brought together through Ski for Life. We met
a number of years ago through speeding individually and I thought,
you know what, I think we'd have more fun. We
put some smiles on faces with the Legless and Blind name.
But not only that, hopefully have a bigger impact for
joining forces, create something a little bit more unique, a
little bit more dynamic, And not only that, I think
(07:16):
it makes people feel comfortable around an uncomfortable topic. When
you've got a legless bloke and a blind bloke together,
having a laugh, taking the mickey out of each other
and just approaching the topic of mental health in a
really down to earth way. It's a jam pack program
across the Upper North. Each event is open to absolutely
everyone from the community, so we'd love who we bring
(07:39):
their family, their mates, their neighbors, their dogs, their colleagues.
We don't really care who comes along to the events.
The main thing is to get as many people coming
together and connected as possible, and also to get people
to sort of understand and be comfortable in knowing that
it's not your typical mental health information session. You're not
going to come along to a Schipe Life Mates on
a Mission event and walk away again going far out.
(08:00):
That was heavy, that was hard to handle. We want
to give people some really positive, practical tools in order
to look after themselves and look after their mates in
their community. So that's the real purpose of the events
and the program and the roadsho itself is to splash
the stigma that still exists normalize mental health, but most
importantly give people some practical stuff they can do to
(08:22):
look after themselves and look after each other.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
You're going to be absolutely nacked though. That's a gem
packed five days for you is this peak season.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Seems to be at the moment it very much lines
up with footy season as well as school terms. So
when you combine those two things together, it's definitely busy
on you and getting it in before harvest and things
like that when people off the land and farmers have
a little bit more time to come along to events.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The trek wraps up today in Peterborough and Kradock I
hard Peninsula I had peninsula. Last Friday, the long awaited
Midlitan Family Center celebrated it's grand opening. The ribbon was
cut by Member for Gray Rowan Ramsay, and while he
(09:04):
said it was a great occasion, it did highlight the
lack of childcare for other regions as well. I caught
up with him earlier this week.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I've got a fantastic facility now on Southern York Peninsula
in Middleton. In fact, this move has also seen the
reopening of the daycare center in Maitland by the same operators.
It came about as a result of the Morrison government's
Black Summer bush fire grants, and there were some pretty
strong fires down on the York Pincher. I think there
were seven homes lost in November twenty nineteen, they met
(09:34):
council managed to secure two point two five million dollars
and then they matched that roughly fifty to fifteenth. We
came up with a four and a half million dollar facility.
It is stay there. It's fantastic and Kay Hugh Esana
Fasy and Amy Honor driven the project. If you like
it was their vision, you wouldn't say we got lucky
to by having a fire there. But as I said
(09:55):
on the day, it's a ill wind that blows no good.
And the fact that we've now got a fabulous center there,
I thinkighlights the issue that we probably need another dozen
of them across Gray for Middleton. They will now be
there'll be skilled people able to get back to work,
there'll be businesses, they will be able to attract new
workers there, and this is a real handbrake on all
these other communities. I continue to work to try and
(10:17):
bring a boat outcome. But due it was a good
day for Middleton.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, you're financially Council Mayor Darren Brawn saying
that it was actually one of the proudest moments of
his six years in office. It has been a long
time coming. I mean, I've been working in the region
for gosh, coming up on four years, and it's been
something that's been talked about for pretty much that entire time.
So how special was it for you cutting that ribbon
on the day?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Oh well, I get to cut the ribbon, But there
are there so many other people that have done so
much work, which is why I made sure that three
ladies were up there with me. Of course, it's a
thrill to see this service delivered, but as I said,
it only highlights how many places haven't got the same
kind of facility exactly as we need. Now, something's going
to have to be done about that. I keep suggesting
that there needs to be expansion of the rural network.
(11:00):
There are a number of places. Crystal Brook has been
trying to get an expansion, Tumbi Bay's trying to get
an expansion. Cadeena desperate to turning away droves of people
that are just simply not big enough. All these things
need are capital, growth, pregnant, and I'm hoping that either
this government or the next one will see the need
for that and come a bit of money that direction.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, And what about in the meantime, with the introduction
of three year olds being allowed to go to early
learning and Kindy's and all of that sort of stuff.
Do you think that that will help in the meantime,
I know it's kind of kicking off in port period.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Well, it certainly takes the pressure off, but school doesn't
run for that many years a day, but work does.
He's the answer. So once you've got them in, if
they're going to start going to school at three years old,
well then you can have after school less care or
get them into normal childcare or something. There's got to
be something else that goes with it. So it's not like, oh,
(11:57):
we can take those off our books. We don't have
to worry about those now. And actually, but we've got
to be up to addressing them a secondarlogue. So yeah,
there's changes coming, but once again they will have to
be addressed. But the Education department of the state government are
not of mind to expand that, and it's limited in
the size of the service when it's there. But we
(12:18):
need to sit down between the two governments, bang their
heads together, and so we need we must find a
way forward on this, because they seem to be clearly
the most appropriate body in these communities to deliver with
the service, and the fact that they can now educate
three year olds would indicate that they're quite capable of
going down in that age group.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And finally today, Cleve will be covered in activewear. Later
this month, as the town hosts its inaugural running festival,
the ab town is filling a gap in the market
with a half marathon, ten k and five k all scheduled.
Cleve Running Festival Committee President Tina Schraeger explains how it
all came about.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
It's a group of locals that started to get into
running through Park Run and to do any major timed
events more than part run, so anything over five ks
you have to travel off the air peninsula. So we
thought that we could bring one to Cleave and yeah,
(13:16):
that's what we're doing. So Cleave spectacular scenery, so that's
just a bonus.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
And it's relatively flat ground.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
No, so we're running in from the Mangalow Hills, so
the twenty one point one, so the half marathon has
got a bit of an incline to start with and
then it's mostly downhill into town. So the ten and
the five k events they're pretty much all downhill except
for a little slight incline here and there, but yeah,
(13:44):
gradually overall everything's downhill.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
What are the numbers looking like? Do you have a
lot of people ready to go?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
We do, so. Our registration numbers have blown our expectations.
We've had to cat all three events and we're getting
close to it's been reached. The CAP's been reached or
very few spots left. So the caps are in total
high three hundreds. So yeah, we were hoping to get
one fifty. We've been pretty happy with that, but yeah,
(14:12):
registrations have totally blown us out of the water, which
is awesome.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
This will be great for local business though as well,
won't it.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yeah, it will. So we've worked really closely with local
businesses trying to get them involved. So not only do
we have a stack of them sponsoring us, but been
on a Sunday normally the main street is pretty quiet,
but yeah, we've spoken with a couple of businesses and
they are going to extend their opening hours to include
(14:40):
Sunday and longer hours on Saturday as well as people
coming into town. So it should be really good for
local businesses. So we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
And if it's successful this year, because this is the
first one.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, so if it is successful, you'll look at doing
it again.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
So we've already talked about penciling in a date next year,
so we are hoping to have a yearly event. So yeah,
if you missed out this year, there's still hope for
your next year.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And that's your weekly news wrap across the Air Peninsula
and surrounds.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You can hear iHeart Air Peninsula on the iHeart app
or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jackie Lim. Join
us again next week for more local, trusted and free news.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
iHeart Air Peninsula.
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