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25.01.2022 The Beechmont Gigabit Fibre story has made it to the publication Comms Day of 23 October 2020. Dumped into the too hard basket by NBN Co the job is now open for other licenced carriers to come up with proposals. Looks like the Gold Coast Municipality’s data department is now mentioning bringing their fibre network to the Western side of the M1. https://broadband.beechmont.org.au

25.01.2022 https://sites.google.com//beechmo/newsletters/2020/2020-09

23.01.2022 *** We are hiring *** We are looking for another excellent barista to join our wonderful team! Requirements:... ~ Available for weekends + possible 1-2 weekdays. ~ Previous experience in a busy cafe environment as a barista/all rounder. ~ Ability to make 50+ coffees per hour If this sounds like you please email your interest and experience to: [email protected]

22.01.2022 There is something special about a country market. Everyone greets you with a smile and a cheery good morning. Then if you make a purchase you too can smile as you know you are supporting a small local business. Join us this Sunday!

21.01.2022 Beechmont Market - Sunday 17 January 2021 - 8am~1pm at the Beechmont Community Centre on the roundabout. 1835 Beechmont road, BEECHMONT,

21.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/events/s/summer-solstice-and-the-great-/787188335176279/?ti=icl

20.01.2022 OPSHOP CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE In view of the present situation with the COVID 19 pandemic in Queensland, the Op Shop will be closed until further notice. We thank all our customers for their support and look forward to the time when we can safely open again.

20.01.2022 https://streets.beechmont.org.au

19.01.2022 https://www.binnaburralodge.com.au/teahouse/

18.01.2022 The Beechmont Community website is getting a new jacket. And building a brand-new business directory for Beechmont and Lower Beechmont. Be part of it! https://www.beechmont.org.au

16.01.2022 1 WEEK until our markets are back on! My how time flies! Pencil it in your diary for 16th August from 8am-1pm.

14.01.2022 It’s our BIGGEST MARKETS yet and we are open later today due to Bapa’s Big Bash. Come down and say hi! Food trucks for lunch. Tea & scones for afternoon tea. Oh and did we mention we have a cheeky beer & wine tent. Cheers to that!

14.01.2022 Matilda Miller will be playing live again this Sunday, come and support a young local. Bring a blanket and enjoy the sun.

14.01.2022 Work from our place....

13.01.2022 Have you heard about BAPA's BIG BASH? Join us on Sunday 15th November. Our markets will be open from 8am that day but will stay open later than usual to support the community event. Hope to see you all there!

12.01.2022 Hi everyone we are looking for some unwanted clean land fill to go to lower Beechmont area please message me for further information thank you

11.01.2022 ONE SLEEP until our markets are on again. We have a few new stallholders and 1 new food trucks so come down from 8am. Don't forget this month's markets will be followed by the BIG BAPA BASH so stay until 6pm and enjoy the bands.

09.01.2022 Great to join National Farmers' Federation CEO Tony Maher to announce the NFF will deliver a Regional Digital Tech Hub. This hub will support people in regi...onal Australia to find the right telecommunications for their homes and businesses. People will be able to access support: over the phone # through social media and online to help solve issues with their phone and internet services, find the latest applications for their homes or businesses, and understand their rights as consumers and where to go to escalate faults. Thanks to Better Internet For Rural, Regional And Remote Australia (birrraus.com) volunteers who have, for more than six years, provided volunteer troubleshooting and connectivity support for rural, regional and remote Australians Paul Fletcher Dept. of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development & Communications #RegionsMatter #regionalcomms #KeepingConnected

08.01.2022 Pack a picnic rug and take in the views at our markets this Sunday from 8am.

06.01.2022 Fat Belly Smokers will be joining us this Sunday! Check out their menu below which offers both breakfast & lunch options. We can’t wait to try their mouth-watering smoked beef.

06.01.2022 SCENIC RIM RESIDENTS ENCOURAGED TO CONTINUE COVID-19 SAFE PRACTICES DURING GREATER BRISBANE LOCKDOWN 8 January 2021 Today's COVID-19 Directive from the Queensland Premier and Chief Health Officer of the 3-day lockdown for the Greater Brisbane area is a reminder for the Scenic Rim community to continue with COVID-safe practices and to stay close to home during the current lockdown period.... Scenic Rim Mayor Greg Christensen said that, although today's COVID-19 Directive for the three-day lockdown does not include our region, it is important that members of the Scenic Rim community not travel to these areas unless for valid reasons in line with the Greater Brisbane area restrictions. "In line with the Queensland Government's Greater Brisbane three-day lockdown restrictions, please be aware that if you leave the Scenic Rim to travel into an affected region in the Greater Brisbane area you must abide by all restrictions and stay for the period of the lockdown. There is also a mandatory mask wearing requirement for those regions, he said. "Our community needs to understand that lockdown zones are for our neighbours to the north of the region and include Brisbane City Council, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Ipswich City Council, Logan City Council and Redland City Council. "Information on the Greater Brisbane three-day lockdown can be found on the Queensland Health website and includes helpful FAQs on how to interpret the restrictions. "Even though the Scenic Rim is not subject to the lockdown, everyone should be exercising really thoughtful and diligent hygiene practices for the benefit of all. "I encourage you to shop local, plan your weekend within the Scenic Rim, and people working in the affected Greater Brisbane regions might want to plan for alternative work arrangements during this time. "We need to all be aware that events can move quickly, so it's important that we all stay vigilant with our COVID-safe practices here in the Scenic Rim as we go about our daily lives." Council services including Customer Service Centres and libraries are continuing to operate as per their current arrangements. The Scenic Rim Local Disaster Management Group is closely monitoring the situation and has moved to ALERT status. Queensland Health COVID-19 information: Greater Brisbane three-day lockdown https://www.qld.gov.au//current-/greater-brisbane-lockdown Coronavirus (COVID-19) webpage and alerts https://www.qld.gov.au//conditions/he/coronavirus-covid-19

06.01.2022 If you are wondering where the Beechmont Markets are located we are at the roundabout just before Binna Burra. We occupy the old school and have the most magical view. Join us this Sunday 8am-1pm!

06.01.2022 EIGHT BEST SCENIC RIM HIKES REVEALED After a horror year that saw devastating bushfires rip through the region, the Scenic Rim is opening up to tourists looking to explore the rainforest this summer. SEE THE TOP EIGHT HIKES in the Courier Mail this weekend.

06.01.2022 National recognition for Scenic Rim Farm Box The Scenic Rim has picked up a major national award for strengthening the region's disaster resilience through popular 'farm to you' home delivery service, Scenic Rim Farm Box. The Scenic Rim Regional Council won Highly Commended in the hotly contested 'National Local Government Award' category at the Resilient Australia Awards 2020 in Canberra on Friday, 4 December for its support of Scenic Rim Farm Box....Continue reading

05.01.2022 Be sure to pop into our Community Garden this weekend at the markets. All ripe produce will be picked and available for purchase.

05.01.2022 We're so excited to announce that the Binna Burra Tea House is now open and the first stage of its renovations have been completed. You can visit the Binna Burr...a Tea House and enjoy breakfast, lunch or early dinner 7 days a week, Sunday to Thursday 6:30am to 6:30pm, and Friday- Saturday 6:30am to 8:30pm ok Read the full story: https://www.binnaburralodge.com.au//new-tea-house-dinner-/ ____________________ Visit Brisbane Destination Gold Coast Visit Scenic Rim Destination Scenic Rim Scenic Rim Guide #visitbrisbane #wearegoldcoast #playgoldcoast #visitscenicrim

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02.01.2022 Beechmont and Skymuster Plus As you most likely already know by now, Beechmont won’t get any Gigabit fibre to the home from our National Broadband Network Corpo...ration (NBNCo). We were already thrown into the Fixed Wireless basket a few years ago, but even that turned out to be a bridge too far for NBNCo by the time their network had to be declared as completed at the end of FY20. So, instead we won’t get any terrestrial broadband service but can now order a satellite service from NBNCo just like the farmers in the outback, most of which live too far away from anything and simply cannot get anything else. In Beechmont there are some options. If your landline to one of the Beechmont Telstra Exchanges or the Telstra extension box in Akoonah drive is not too long then you can still get a reasonably reliable ADSL2 service. And because NBN doesn’t offer a landline service, your existing phone/ADSL line is not going away anytime soon. It will probably be with us forever and a day, or until some other technology provider shows up on the mountain with a good solution. Don’t hold your breath for that. Your ADSL line is usually fast enough to provide you with Netflix or Disney and the likes. Only needs about 5 Mbps for standard high definition television. 4K television won’t work. That needs 25 Mbps. A big plus point is that you can get ‘Unlimited’ data plans on ADSL so the speed won’t be cut down if you watched a few too many movies within the month. Besides that you would have an Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) phone service which will still work when the mains power is down in Beechmont and your mobile phone batteries have ran out. Not that this happens every second day to us, but if you have lived in Beechmont for a while you know that we live at the end of a single high voltage power line. Storms, cyclones, fires and other dramas do take out the line every now and then and it can take a while to get fixed. The last big outage took a week or so. The Telstra exchanges have batteries and diesel generators to keep them going. The latest satellite offering from NBN is called SkyMuster Plus. A great improvement over the previous standard SkyMuster because it is a layer 3 service which does no longer depend on the backhaul capacity and CVC of the retail ISP. Sort of cuts out the middleman if it comes to traffic capacity. NBN throws the traffic direct from their satellite ground station into the nearest Internet Exchange. In addition, certain traffic types including email and social networks are unmetered. That means all you can eat. However, streaming audio and video (like Disney, YouTube and Netflix), and VPN traffic is metered. When you reach your quota before the month is up then your speed will be severely slowed down. Soo much that watching movies is out. The non-metered services like social networks and email are not slowed down so you could still see some shorter Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok movies but hour long feature films are out. Until the next months quota kiks in or you open your purse to buy more GigaBytes from your ISP. Retail subscription fees and contract conditions vary widely by retail ISP. Do your homework before picking one. Keep in mind that service provision in Beechmont is like most Gold Coast plumbers, electricians and other trades tell you: Ohhh, you live out there? We need to bring a packed lunch then. Today we are blessed with technology which can use multiple data feeds. And if you run a business from home or just don’t want to be without Internet then look at so-called multi-WAN routers which can combine ADSL, satellite and multiple 4G connections (from Telstra and Optus) into one unbreakable feed. In many places 4G can be picked up with a roof antenna for a steady and reliable feed. Do some testing and figure out what is best for you. And after all, buy yourself a little computer UPS to power the modems, routers and wifi boxes so when we have a mains power failure you are not immediately disconnected and out of business. These small UPS boxes are designed to power a desktop computer for 15 minutes or so to do a controled shutdown, but if used for a modem or a router/wifi box they last for many hours longer because modems and routers don’t use a lot of power. The going rates for retail SkyMuster Plus 25/5 Mbps connections are (incl GST): 50 GigaByte/month - $ 50/month 100 GigaByte/month - $ 70/month 150 GigaByte/month - $ 90/month 200 GigaByte/month - $ 120/month 300 GigaByte/month - $ 180/month The going rate for Zone 2 POTS/ADSL fixed line services are (incl GST): Unlimited data on ADSL with phone line hire Phone calls pay as you go - bundle $ 93/month Unlimited data on ADSL on an existing working phone line by Telstra - ADSL subscription only $ 60/month The going rate for Optus 4G data only connections (incl GST): - 200 GigaByte/month - byo modem/wifi - no contract $ 50/month - 200 GigaByte/month - free modem/wifi with 12 month contract - $ 50/month - 500 GigaByte/month - free modem with 12 months contract - $ 80/month Goto https://www.vantagebroadband.com.au/satellite for more details Or ring 07 5551 0117 during Gold Coast business hours to book a free of charge consultation at your home or by phone.

01.01.2022 The mountain is dry, very dry! Please take extra care over the next few days. No outside fires and report all fires/smoke to 000.

01.01.2022 Cordless Wi-Fi phone. Works on any Internet connection. https://www.vantagebroadband.com.au/wp810