Hyperbowl Chermside

Hyperbowl is a wholly owned Australian bowling centre located in the Northern Suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. Located on Level 2, Westfield Shoppingtown, conveniently beside BCC Cinemas, Chermside.

Hyperbowl is:

• fully airconditioned with 26 lanes,
• automated electronic bumper bowling
• a fully licensed Cafe & Bar open till late

Hyperbowl caters for special events, birthday parties, functions (meeting/presentation room available), group bookings, league and team bowling.

Whenever you want to get the Sport of Bowling rolling, roll into Hyperbowl. Kids love to bowl, and Hyperbowl gets an A+ in fun. That makes Hyperbowl the perfect place for school sport and events. At the end of the year, after the years finish, for club meetings or awards banquets – whatever the occasion, we’ll help you plan an event with something exciting for everyone.

For further information, contact Hyperbowl today on (07) 3350 3299, or fax (07) 3350 3799, or email hyperbowl@bigpond.com

Chermside Hills Reserves

In Chermside West and McDowall, three areas form the Chermside Hills Reserves:

1. Raven Street Reserve (33 hectares) – home to the Downfall Creek Bushland Centre
2. Milne Hill Reserve (11 hectares)
3. Chermside Hills Reserve (72 hectares) – you can get there from Trouts Road, Chermside

Milne Hill and Chermside Hills are linked to Raven Street Reserve by walking tracks.

Chermside Hills Reserves provide nature-based recreational activities for everyone. There are:

• over 115 bird species including scarlet honeyeaters, lorikeets, treecreepers, kingfishers and fairy wrens

• other animals include water dragons, goannas, turtles, frogs, brush turkeys, possums and squirrel gliders

• a variety of mammals including swamp wallabies

Raven Street Reserve a green heart in concrete jungle

Few people realise that swamp wallabies live within a few kilometres of the city at Stafford Heights, says Brisbane City Council environmental education officer Julie Meles,

The relics of scrub around Brisbane, which are today’s urban bushland treasures, are really only there by default.

“This area around Chermside was considered rubbish country,” Meles explained. “It was stony, hilly and no good for farming, so it was left alone.”

When suburbia expanded, these areas became places to dump junk and topsoil.

But then the residents realised the benefits of living close to open woodland and in 1972, they petitioned the Brisbane City Council to protect the Raven Street Reserve.

Across Hamilton Rd, another patch of bush was soon afterwards declared the Milne Hill Reserve, with the bigger Chermside Hills Reserve also added to the council’s green space assets.

The result of all that is now a great family recreation area as well as an important section in the wildlife migratory corridor known as the Mountains to Mangroves link.

Raven Street Reserve is home to one of the city council’s major environmental education centres: the Downfall Creek Bushland Centre.

The reserve abutts Rode Rd east of McDowall, and the Downfall Creek Centre’s car park is an obvious portal to a network of tracks catering for bushwalkers and cyclists. From the hill walk of the kilometre long Banksia track to the 400m long, flat and easy, senses trail, there’s something here for everyone.

The senses trail is designed for people who may need a walking stick or wheelchair to get around, and there’s braille on the signage to help visually impaired people.

There’s an hour long, 2km circuit walk, rated difficult, in the Chermside Hills Reserve. It’s called the Giwadhe Track, and it passes through thick vegetation near Little Cabbage Tree Creek and up to the highest point in the reserve on top of Spider Hill, where there are views of the surrounding suburbs.

Near the bushland centre, the free electric barbecues and shaded picnic tables, and the nearby adventure playground are all very popular.

As Meles explained, the three reserves are accessed from a variety of points off the network of streets through the area.

117ha to explore

All up there’s 117ha of bushland to explore, with the Chermside Hills reserve connecting the vegetation along Cabbage Tree Creek with that of Little Cabbage Tree Creek.

It is possible to walk from Rode Rd northwards through the 33ha of Raven Street Reserve, across Hamilton Rd, which incidentally has a special wildlife crossing, into the Milne Hill Reserve. Walkers then take the Pomax Track to Little Cabbage Tree Creek. From there, venture west on Trouts Rd to more walking tracks in the Chermside Hills Reserve.

Further multi-use and walkers only paths extend right through this bushland tract, emerging on Cabbage Tree Creek.

Dogs can be walked in this area, provided they remain on their leads, because this is still home to a surprising range of wildlife.

115 species of birds

Meles said 115 species of birds have been recorded here, including winter visitor, the scarlet honeyeater.

The pretty swamp wallabies stick to the secluded gullies and may be seen early in the mornings in the southeastern corner of the Raven Street Reserve, where there is water most of the year.

There are also koalas in these woodlands.

If you visit, spare time to look at the displays in the Downfall Creek Bushland Centre.

As well as learning more about the area, you can see some interesting displays on loan from the Queensland Museum and changed every fortnight.

Education focus

For Meles and her colleagues, getting the message out about understanding and protecting the native bushland areas involves many visits to the surrounding schools. More presentations are tailored to children in primary and secondary schools.

“Our primary focus is increasing understanding at a local level and explaining how the things we do locally lead to a regional impact,” she said.

Between Downfall Creek and the Brisbane City Council’s Boondall Wetlands Environment Centre, the environmental education officers get their message to 10,000 school students every year.

Downfall Creek also offers regular guided walks, including popular spotlighting outings to see the nocturnal wildlife, which includes gliders and various bats.

SOURCE: Courier Mail

Chermside Motor Inn

A family owned and operated establishment, offering 3 & 1/2 Star quality accommodation at very competitive rates. We pride ourselves on our cleanliness, comfortable rooms and our friendly welcoming atmosphere.

Located on Brisbanes’ North Side, approximately 8km from Brisbane City Centre, both International & Domestic airports & 900m from Prince Charles Hospital & Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital. Perfect for those with business at the Australian Taxation Office. Public transport to your door.

Chermside Green Motel

Chermside Green Motel is a family owned motel that has become a well known and recognized land mark in the Chermside district. Originally, the motel was named “The Caravilla” until becoming the “Country Comfort Motel” in 1986. Paul and Heather Green became the owners of the property in 1995 and with extensive hospitality and accommodation industry experience, Paul, Heather and their daughters have continued the motel’s successful operations. The Green’s also operate a popular beach side resort in Hervey Bay , Playa Concha Resort. Chermside Green Motel has become the accommodation of choice for many regular patrons and guests who are travelling through Brisbane , all of whom have enjoyed their Chermside Green experience. Chermside Green Motel aims to provide a comfortable and relaxed away from home experience through friendly and efficient service, a range of modern facilities and pleasant accommodation, whilst being conveniently situated close to:-

* Westfield Chermside Shopping Centre (the largest shopping centre in Queensland)

* The Prince Charles Hospital

* The Holy Spirit Northside Hospital

* The Australian Taxation Office, Chermside branch

* Wheller Gardens Retirement Village (Wesley Mission)

* Kedron Wavell RSL Club

* The Brisbane Entertainment Centre

plus a host of other government department offices etc.

Chermside goes Worldwide

The doors have just opened on Chermside’s newest design and print Centre, Worldwide Online Printing Chermside – and they’re ready to help local businesses.

Officially opened on 10th November, the Centre is just down Gympie Road from Westfield Chermside, directly opposite WOW Sight and Sound.

This is the third Worldwide printing and copying franchise store owned by Wayne and his wife Jenny, who began franchising with Worldwide in 2001. Their other two successful digital printing franchise businesses are Worldwide Charlotte Street and Worldwide Market Street in the Brisbane CBD.

When asked why the new store, Wayne replied that “I guess I’m a glutton for punishment!”

“Chermside has one of the largest shopping centres in QLD, and is the fastest growing area in the northside of Brisbane,” added Wayne. “Also, it’s next to a big industrial area in Geebung.”

“We just felt it’s a location that’s growing in size and importance and that there is a real need for great value design and print services in the area.”

The centre will be run by experienced ‘Worldwiders’ Kimberlee Langley (Manager) and Jason Readman (Business Development Manager).

Chermside is also a supplier of Worldwide Green, the 100% post-consumer recycled paper option that Worldwide released nationally in July. Not only does it save trees, but every customer who purchases any products on green paper at Worldwide will have a native tree planted on their behalf.

Boxing Day bargains still linger on the shelves

IF YOU thought you’d missed the best of the sales, think again.

For those of us who weren’t among the hordes diving under department store roller doors on Boxing Day, there’s still time to grab your piece of the sales action if you know where to look.

Whether you’re hunting for that trend piece you couldn’t afford last year, or a basic staple to last through seasons to come, there are plenty of great deals still hanging on the sale racks.

Westfield Chermside stylist Kim Ring says that it’s okay to throw out the rule book occasionally when it comes to shopping.

“Buy that flashy dress you’ve had your eye on. It may not become one of your wardrobe classics, but who cares when it’s half price?”

More tips from Kim
• Look for classic pieces you can wear for years, including tailored skirts and trousers and shirts in neutral colours.
• Stock up on shoes: they instantly update any wardrobe.

• Keep the key trends for 2009 in mind: look for jackets, dresses and skirts that emphasise the waist and enhance your curves. Minimalism and androgyny will also be big.

Stockists: Kookai at the Wintergarden, 3210 2188; Wayne Cooper at the Wintergarden, 3229 0294; La La Latrobe, 21 Latrobe Tce, Paddington, 3876 3132; Kisses, 50 James St, New Farm, 3358 5155.

SOURCE: Courier Mail

Axe falls at the Tax Office

The federal government has slashed more than 100 jobs at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), at a time when it is urging unions to show wage restraint to protect jobs.

The ATO has cut 133 regionally-based jobs as managers scramble to meet the government’s productivity cut of 3.25 per cent, the union representing public servants said on Friday.

The community and public sector union (CPSU) says the sacked workers, from Newcastle, Penrith, Chermside, Moonee Ponds and Melbourne, were meant to finish their employment on June 30.

Made up of casuals and contract staff, it’s understood they were all employed under “non-ongoing” conditions.

The job cuts would make it even harder for regional job prospects that already are traditionally tight, CPSU Acting National Secretary Mark Gepp said.

“The Federal government’s productivity budget cuts come at the expense of the jobs that regional workers and their communities rely on,” he said in a statement.

This week, acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan had repeatedly spoken about protecting jobs and investing in Australian workplaces, he said.

“So you would think the Federal government, of all employers, would (be) trying to create jobs not cut them among its own workforce.”

Public sector workers would continue to be threatened by job cuts until the government removed its arbitrary productivity cuts, he said.

SOURCE: Canberra Times

Upgrade to Power Network

Northern Brisbane’s power supply recently received a boost after Energex flicked the switch on a $1.7 million upgrade to the local electricity network.

About 6500 homes and businesses in parts of Stafford, Stafford Heights, Everton Park, McDowall, Aspley and Chermside West will benefit from the upgrade.

The key component of the work involved the installation of about 2.7km of 11,000 volt underground cable in the area around Downfall Creek, including works in Farrant, Coleridge, Detling Remick and Parton streets, Costello Place and Trouts Rd.

Energex’s Central West asset manager Russ Howard said the project was required to meet the growing electricity needs of residential and commercial developments in the area.

“Electricity use in the area is predicted to increase by above national averages for the coming few years,” Mr Howard said.

“This project will ensure Energex can continue to meet the growing needs of industrial and residential customers in the area.”

SOURCE: Northside Chronicle