7 Residents urged to ‘favourite’ the Emergency Alert number to stay informed Queenslanders are being urged to update their phone settings to ‘favourite’ the Emergency Alert (EA) phone number, to stay informed during an emergency or disaster. Emergency Alert is the national telephone-based warning system used to send voice messages to landlines and text messages to mobile phones to warn people of emergencies. This includes dangerous weather with potentially severe impacts. An Emergency Alert is just one way for authorities to warn communities of a dangerous situation in the area and only issued when necessary. They are not issued for every circumstance but the message will include important, potentially life-saving directions which require you to take action to stay safe. You do not need to register to receive an Emergency Alert from the system which is sent from caller ID number: +61 444 444 444. Messages from +61 444 444 444 are not a scam, they are official phone warnings as part of a national geo-targeting emergency alert system. Residents are being asked to check the number is not blocked on their device and to add it to their ‘favourites’, so they don’t miss the alerts. If you follow these steps, even if your phone is set to ‘do not disturb’ you will still receive the alert, no matter what time of the day or night it is issued. Visit the Disaster Management website for the latest Emergency Alert details and for local area information on Local Government disaster dashboards. • For assistance with a life-threatening situation phone Triple Zero (000) immediately. • For assistance with non-life-threatening situations — such as help with a damaged roof or storm damage — phone SES on 132 500. • Keep up to date with the latest weather advice at Queensland Warnings Summary (bom.gov.au) BOOK GIVEAWAY TO ENTER write your name, address & phone on the back of an envelope and post to: Winners book prize will be couriered so please provide a phone number. You may put phone number inside envelope if you are worried about scams... thankyou! Enter To Win FAR FROM HOME by Danielle Steel Germany, 1944. Hitler’s forces are wreaking unspeakable damage across Europe. In public, Gregor and Arielle von Auspeck are an aristocratic couple who play an important role in Berlin’s high society. In private, they disagree with everything Hitler stands for. What Arielle doesn’t realise is that life as she knows it is about to change for ever. Midway through a trip to occupied Paris, Arielle is forced to flee to the countryside under a new identity. She escapes to a remote town, masquerading as a Parisian widow. Only her daughter Marianna, stuck in Berlin, knows that her mother is hiding somewhere in France. While Arielle waits to be reunited with her family, her new friend Sebastien introduces her to the Resistance movement, who fight for good over evil. When the war finally ends in 1945, everyone has lost someone, the von Auspecks included. Their possessions have long been seized and Berlin lies in rubble. What happened to Marianna during the bombing? And can mother and daughter finally be reunited? Arielle has lost almost everything she loves, but her will to survive only grows stronger . . . ISBN: 9781529085877 | Format: Trade Paperback | Pub Date: 11/03/2025 | Imprint: Macmillan | Price: $32.99 | Pages: 304 LOVE UNEDITED by Caro Llewellyn It was the impossibility of him that kept her coming back. Edna gave up everything when she fell in love with an acclaimed writer, leaving Australia and moving to New York, where the publishing and literary scene was the backdrop to their secret story. When Molly, an Australian editor working in New York, discovers a novel by an anonymous author, she is drawn intimately into the story. She becomes determined to find the author and know how the story ends - not imagining that she will uncover shocking truths about her own life along the way. A compelling literary mystery about desire, creativity, food, longing and the ever-shifting power dynamics of love. ISBN: 9781761561740 | Format: Trade Paperback | Pub Date: 25/02/2025 Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Women, FICTION / General | Imprint: Picador Australia | Price: $34.99 | Pages: 272 1: FAR FROM HOME or 2: LOVE UNEDITED PO Box 3302, Burleigh Town 4220 • Entries close 11.03.2025 Congrats December Winners! $50 GIFT CARD SUDOKU: H. Bridge, Arundel CROSSWORD: M. Kulaga, Coomera TOTAL CONTROL BOOK COMPETITION S. Jeffrey, Paradise Point | W. Adams, Guanaba S. Carruthers, Pacfic Pines | N. Bishop, Ormeau N. Burnett, Helensvale BEAUTIFUL UGLY BOOK COMPETITION K. Andrews, Oxenford | V. Black, Maudsland N. Hall, Southport | J. Briscoe, Ormeau J. Landers, Coombabah Congratulations to our winners! We receive hundreds of entries for our competitions each month so keep on entering, you might be the next lucky winner!
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