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HANG OUT WITH SHANNON NOLL

A STAR-studded lineup including Shannon Noll, Adam Harvey, Lee Kernaghan and Troy Cassar-Daley is set to light up the Urban Country Music Festival in Caboolture next week. Beccy Cole, Markus Meier and 2012 festival ambassador Doug Bruce are also lined-up for the main concerts at the Queensland State Equestrian Centre on Beerburrum Rd. To celebrate Quest Newspapers publisher of the Caboolture Shire Herald has two great prizes to give away. You and a friend

Push polling phone calls upset locals

SOME residents believe a campaign tactic known as push polling has been used in the Moreton Bay Regional Council elections. Push polling is a tactic which attempts to influence or change peoples view. A Rothwell resident, who did not want to be identified, said the call he received attacked two candidates. I dont think muck raking is warranted, he said. Faye Arnott-Hollick of Burpengary said she had also received a push polling phone call. The caller asked who she would be voting for. One candidate, who wished to remain anonymous, said several members of their family and some supporters had also received calls. Professor Stephen Stockwell from Griffith University said Australians generally found the use of phone calls for political purposes to be obtrusive. Prof Stockwell said this, and the negativity of the messages delivered, meant push polling had the potential to backfire on those it was designed to help.

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Farewell to Yabba
SHOCK DEATH: CLUB PAYS TRIBUTE TO LATE TEAM-MATE WITH AFTERNOON OF CELEBRATIONS
PETER MARSH
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Festival artists call

APPLICATIONS are now open for the 2012 Caboolture Multicultural Festival. For information on how to get involved in the event which will be held in September email macscaboolture@hot mail.com or visit the website at www.macscaboolture.info

THE Deception Bay Bombers are preparing to celebrate the life of Anthony Yabba Hopkins on Saturday with a huge afternoon at the Deception Bay Sports Ground. The Bombers and the Deception Bay community were left in shock at the weekend when Hopkins, a

masters rugby league player and devoted father, died on the field after suffering heart failure. Masters team-mate and good friend Steven Seagrott said Yabba was a popular figure not only at the Deception Bay Bombers but in Masters Rugby League. He never had a bad word about anyone and you never saw him without a smile on his face, he said.

Seagrott said Hopkins picked up his nickname of Y a b b a fo r r en o w n ed ability to talk on the field. You always knew he had your back because he was there yabbering in your ear, Seagrott said. All South-East Queensland Masters Rugby League Association fixtures will be rescheduled to the Deception Bay Sports Ground for Saturday, while the Bombers

Womens, Open 2 and Masters sides will also take to the field in tribute to Hopkins. The Bombers will hold a raffle on the day to raise money to help support Hopkins wife and children. Events will begin at the Deception Bay Sports Ground, 100 Maine Tce, Deception Bay, from 1.30pm.
For more information visit deceptionbaybombers .com.au

FAST FACTS
Hopkins was well known throughout the Moreton Bay rugby league community, playing for North Pine and Pine Central Holy Spirit before the Deception Bay Bombers. He will be eligible for posthumous life membership in Masters Rugby League.

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Helping homeless
THE Here to Home, Homelessness Community Action Plan for Caboolture, Morayfield and Deception Bay has been released by the Queensland Council of Social Service. More than 46 community agencies will use 18 targets to cut homelessness.

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CABOOLTURE SHIRE HERALD, Tuesday, April 24, 2012