Changed Start Time – 10AM

Neighbour Day Sunday – 31st of March at Beryl Roberts Park

Apologies for the late notice, but our stall at the Neighbour Day tomorrow will begin at 10 am with Easter celebrations. It will go until 11am or longer, depending on numbers.

There will be a free sausage sizzle, Easter Egg bags for the kids and a prize for the best Bunny Ears on the day (a template was letterbox-dropped last week you can use if you want).

Coopers Plains History Group will have an exciting display and Fruitful Suburb will be there with produce to share. Please feel free to bring along your won and share it with the community.

The late notice is a result of the rain disrupting our plans. We look forward to see you tomorrow.

Neighbour Day Stall

We will meet at the usual time and place this month.

March 23^rd Saturday at 4pm
Coopers Plains Library Meeting Room (at the back)

All welcome. Please RSVP by commenting below (if the field isn’t there, click on this post’s heading and try again). Thanks to the friendly and helpful staff of the Coopers Plains Library for printing out these newsletters and offering them to anyone who wants to keep in touch without going online. The Coopers Plains Library Meeting Room is booked every 3^rd Saturday at 4pm for us to meet.

Neighbour Day Stall – Sunday March 31st from 11am Beryl Roberts Park

Relationships Australia‘s big annual event is Neighbour Day which I have been hosting annually in Coopers Plains for about 6 years.  This year, local realtor Smith & Li is supporting the event to make it bigger than ever in Beryl Roberts Park.  They are very kindly providing our history group with marketing material – a poster and flyers – for us to promote our group at our own stall.  We need volunteers to mind the stall and answer inquiries.  Very simple really and a fun way to meet locals.  If you can help please either comment below, come to our meeting this Saturday.  Smith & Li are providing advertising, equipment and refreshments on the day.  There will be an Easter Egg Hunt for the kiddies, sausage sizzle, drinks and a Fruitful Suburbs sharing market where you can bring your excess garden produce or crafts to give away and take a morsel of what might suit your needs, for free. Bring a generous spirit (:>).

Our DL flyer:

Our Poster:

Letter to the Premier & Opposition Leader

The following letter was sent yesterday and 27 Brisbane history and cultural groups were included:

While a positive response is anticipated, a state government ePetition and paper petition will be launched, coordinated and promoted to give added impetus to the campaign. The petitions will close in November, after the state election in October.

Cooper Plains Origins Project
Dutch History Cafe Projects
More Local Support

We skipped last month’s meeting and this newsletter comes 2 weeks late due to personal reasons the Chair has had to endure. Project business stalled. Nonetheless, there have been some minor developments regarding external support, the Dutch Houses and the Convict Camp.

Parliament House and Lucinda Bar Tour

The small contingent of members and fans who joined the tour of Parliament were impressed and pleased with it. We learnt a lot and were proud to find our very own former President Beryl Roberts’ book He Made His Mark – Joshua Jeays enshrined in the foyer display cabinet. Thus so because he designed the building.

Coopers Plains Origin Project

No progress to report on this but I was giving my neighbour a little history tour down Musgrave Road when we noticed a carefully maintained pile of rocks next to the WaterEquip factory on Stable Swamp Creek.  This is uncannily close to the legendary Convict Camp ‘Hut’.  It’s surrounded by fencing but open to the public.  It could be just flood-mitigation.  If anyone can put us out of our mistery, please do.

Dutch House History Cafe Project

A small group of my neighbours are interested in supporting the history cafe project, so I took them for a tour and viewing of 9 Macdevitt Street and 4 McKoy Street. Their skills include carpentry, glazing, building, pizza-oven chef, barista, manicurist, accounting and computing. Between us, we can do this.

We collectively agreed that 4 McKoy Street is the superior candidate because of its prime location front, centre and overlooking the Cornerstone Living McKoy Park where there is some street parking. It is also in better condition and very original.

Local MP Peter Russo responded to our inquiry into the current ownership of the properties saying they did not belong to the Department of Housing. This isn’t particularly helpful because we know 9 Macdevitt Street is being sold by the developer back to the housing department; it probably hasn’t finalized. I made inquiries about 4 McKoy Street and it appears to be privately owned and rented.

Local support from Smith & Li

Real estate agent Jon Smith has kindly offered to provide us with some marketing materials. We will have a stall, banner and flyers ready to display at Neighbour Day in Beryl Roberts Park on Sunday 31^st around midday. Do come along.

Events

Cooper Plains History Group Monthly Meeting

March 23^rd Saturday at 4pm
Coopers Plains Library Meeting Room (at the back)

All welcome. Please RSVP by commenting below (if the field isn’t there, click on this post’s heading and try again). Thanks to the friendly and helpful staff of the Coopers Plains Library for printing out these newsletters and offering them to anyone who wants to keep in touch without going online. The Coopers Plains Library Meeting Room is booked every 3^rd Saturday at 4pm for us to meet.