{"id":91970,"date":"2014-12-11T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=91970"},"modified":"2020-11-20T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:12:07","slug":"cherbourg-gets-ready-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/12\/11\/cherbourg-gets-ready-for-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherbourg Gets Ready For Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91972\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91972\" title=\"20141210 Get Ready Cherbourg Day\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get Ready! &#8230; Julie Bruynius, from Queensland Fire and Emergency Services with Robert Nixon and Zala Chatur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91975\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91975\" title=\"20141210 Get Ready Cherbourg Day\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready4.jpg 290w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready4-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Blair and Ned Bond were checking out the stalls in the hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>December 11, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fires, floods, storms &#8230; it&#8217;s that time of the year again and Cherbourg residents are taking no chances.<\/p>\n<p>The third annual &#8220;Get Ready Cherbourg Day&#8221; was held at the town&#8217;s Sports Centre on Wednesday to help remind residents how to stay safe should another natural disaster strike the town.<\/p>\n<p>The day was designed to offer family fun &#8211; with rides and giveaways for the kids, a barbecue and a fire engine display &#8211; but there was also a serious side with a number of agencies offering information that might just save a life.<\/p>\n<p>Cherbourg Council Community Services Manager Edwina Stewart said Get Ready Cherbourg Day was a joint effort by council and local agencies.<\/p>\n<p>It began after the tragic 2011 and 2013 floods.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91974\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91974\" title=\"20141210 Get Ready Cherbourg Day\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready3-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Bond and Gene Barrett were hard at work manning the barbecue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91976\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91976\" title=\"20141210 Get Ready Cherbourg Day\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready5.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready5-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking a break after a big morning setting everything up were Wawida Collins, Edwina Stewart, Cherbourg Mayor Ken Bone and Zala Chatur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91971\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91971\" title=\"20141210 Get Ready Cherbourg Day\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready6.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready6-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrissy Bond and Harold &#8220;Big Chance&#8221; Chapman were doing a live broadcast for Radio Us Mob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91973\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91973\" title=\"20141210 Get Ready Cherbourg Day\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141210ready2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miranda Bond picked up a copy of the QFES Bushfire Survival Plan (Photo: Marcus Priaulx)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fires, floods, storms &#8230; it&#8217;s that time of the year again and Cherbourg residents are taking no chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":91972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1135],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cherbourg Gets Ready For Summer - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/12\/11\/cherbourg-gets-ready-for-summer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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