This Sunday 9.30 for 10am: AGM TM Landcare. The meeting promises to be as pleasant and informative as always, with a morning tea and coffee, and with beautiful views to the ocean. Please attend this meeting and learn about the activities of TM Landcare. An overview will be presented of the 20 on ground projects and 6 special committees run by local volunteers of TM Landcare. Landcare’s management committee will present feedback on the past twelve months in a powerpoint presentation; Landcare volunteers managed to get 17,000 hours of work done for the local environment, the equivalent of about 9 full time jobs! 86% of that labor was voluntary.

The education committee will present its plans for the coming 12 months, including a substantial upgrade of our local Rainforest Park. Members and non-members are invited to attend the meeting and give input and feedback.

Of course the meeting will receive the audited financial report, and a new management board will be elected. Landcare is very pleased that several members have been nominated.
The president, vice-president and secretary have re-nominated, the other nominees are ‘new’. Names and bio’s of the candidates with valid nominations:

Tony Smallwood
When Citigroup was granted a banking licence Tony was appointed General Manager for Queensland and a Vice President of the Australian operation.
At the same time a chain of five rural produce stores and a metropolitan wholesale warehouse at Sumner Park (Citifarm Supplies) were privately established. A beef cattle farm and lot feed operation was also commenced. In 1988 he left Citibank to concentrate on developing these enterprises full time. Citifarm Supplies and holding company Cardas Nominees were ranked number 36 in the BRW-Price Waterhouse survey of the top 100 fastest growing private companies in Australia. They have all since been sold.
Currently Tony is an equities and options trader also Initial Public Offering (IPO) sub underwriter to broker ABN Amro Morgans.
He has served on numerous charitable and commercial committees and is very interested in this lovely mountain and want to be in a position to help maintain it by doing something rather than just talking about it. Tony watched Landcare and has been very impressed by its business and innovative methods of dealing with the environment.

Hugh Wackwitz
is a teacher and psychologist, and currently has the pleasure of working as the Guidance Officer at Tamborine Mountain State High School.  He has served on the State Executive of the Guidance and Counselling Association for 8 years.
Hugh's family has owned land on the Mountain since the 1930s and Hugh spent weekends as a youth watching lyrebirds, wallabies and other wildlife in the national parks.   After having worked in Roma and Dalby, Hugh and his partner moved to Eagle Heights in 1992.   Since then Hugh has been a member of the Bush Volunteers doing revegetation work in the National Parks.  (He and his boys are great tree planters.)
In collaboration with friends, Hugh recently purchased land which they have had gazetted as a Nature Refuge.
Hugh is very impressed with the range of activities Landcare has initiated, and looks forward to contributing to its ongoing successes.

Brian Davison
was a teacher in Adelaide for 34 years and during that time he developed a strong interest in environmental issues.  He has been involved in policy writing for science and technology curriculum documents and in-serviced primary teachers on science and environmental issues.  He has a Certificate in Horticulture.  
Brian designed and helped create four Environmental Trails in various schools and was co-creator of an Educational Aboriginal Trail.  He produced teaching notes and student activity sheets to accompany the trail.
Brian wrote the interpretive signs and developed an Educational Resource Book for Esme Street Environmental Park.
Brian has recently been appointed as Curator of the Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens where he has been a strong advocate of maintaining and regenerating the rainforest in the Gardens.
Having a high awareness of the uniqueness and fragility of the Mountain, Brian has a passion for preserving and enhancing the remnant rainforest and its biodiversity.  He is a strong advocate of Landcare’s part in this venture. He believes education has a major role in gaining positive, long-term outcomes.

Tony Lambert
has been self employed, running his own real estate office "Tony Lambert Realty & Management" for the past twenty years. He has specialised in commercial sales and management and development projects.
For the last thirty years he have been heavily involved with various community groups and has been president, vice president or Committee member of School P&Cs, Crèche Kindergarten, Swimming Clubs and a Fund Raising Charity Group. During this time Tony was responsible for organising the building of  a large school community hall under the Community Employment Program and a clubhouse for a swimming club.
Since coming to Tamborine Mountain and buying the Tamborine Mountain Bed & Breakfast with his wife Pam approximately five years ago, Tony have been involved with the TMCC&I ('The Chamber') and is currently in his forth year as President.
Pam and her husband chose Tamborine Mountain to be their home because of the Community spirit and the Environment and want to see the area preserved for future generations. Tony believes Business must be proactive in working with groups like Landcare to encourage a better understanding of the needs of the Environment and Community.
In his spare time Tony enjoys walking, reading and a good glass of wine.

Dorean Erhart
is a qualified landscape architect with 15 years experience, who turned her focus to landscape ecology more than ten years ago. Her career experience spans across master planning satellite cities to hanging out of aeroplanes doing visual quality assessments for the Whitsunday coastline.
Dorean was an original steering group member responsible for the introduction of Land for Wildlife to Qld and wrote the project plan and NHT funding application for the Fire and Biodiversity Consortium. She is currently the project manager of the industry best practice Wipe Out Weeds program, coordinating a $3m invasive species budget for Brisbane city and managing partnership & research programs with a range of stakeholders.
Dorean fell in love with the mountain ten years ago while undertaking a project for Beaudesert Shire Council. She has a deep appreciation of the quality and character of the local environment and would be honoured to work with the management committee to help protect and enhance it.

Alan O'Neill
is secretary of TM Landcare since two years and has nominated for a third term. Alan also acted as treasurer over the past six months, developed the Landcare website, runs the Kalmia Court revegetation project and all that in addition to a more than full time job in his own business LivebyDesign.

Cornelia Meesters
is without doubt one of the most experienced member of the nominees with regards to knowledge of and experience with the local rainforest environment as volunteer, member of the workforce and as consultant. Her involvement with all things green and environmental started with the Tamborine Mountain Bush Volunteers in 1987; she was also involved in the managment board of the NHA (Committee member, Vice president and President). Among many other positions Cornelia was on the Logan and Albert Catchment Management Consultative Committee, Beaudesert Shire Pest Control Group, Steering Committee of the Tamborine Mountain Escarpment Management Strategy Project and of course on the management committee of TM Landcare as Vice-president and caretaking President.
Her workforce experience includes positions as Green Corps Team Leader and Trainer, and a few consultancy jobs. She also completed a number of modules in Certs. IV and V Horticulture, and basic units in Conservation and Land Management.

Jaap Vogel
ran his own business in the past 22 years, focused on medical and pharmaceutical communication. Apart from running a graphic design studio and and internet development business Jaap worked as free lance medical journalist and copy writer, and the last 8 years before moving to Australia (in 2003) as interim manager of departments of communication and marketing of medical organisations and pharmaceutical companies.
Since living in Australia with his wife Jedda he continues his business in medical and pharmaceutical copywriting and journalism but now entirely over the internet (and thus still working in Europe). That work takes place in the evenings, leaving a lot of time for his really passions during the sunny Queensland days: arts and environment. Since September 2004 Jaap is President of TM Landcare and since March 2007 he represents Landcare as (proud) member of the Management Board of the Chamber of Commerce.