On October the 17th, killabakh RFS will hold a training day for our members. On the same Saturday morning from 8am you can turn up to our fire shed if you need help or more information on how to prepare your property for the upcoming fire season.
We have information about fire plans, also if you should stay and protect your property or whether to leave early before things get too hectic.
It would be helpful information if you are new to the community if or a seasoned resident on how to better prepare your property for the upcoming fire season.
So come along for a chat.
Regards
Grant Smith
Killabakh Rural Fire Brigade Captain
0459 968 157

Sustainable & biodiverse farms are vital in the MidCoast area, because they restore local soil health, mitigate climate impacts, and protect regional ecosystems. By integrating native vegetation and regenerative practices, these farms act as critical wildlife corridors connecting nearby reserves, such as Ganook, Killabakh and Coxcomb Nature Reserves. Biodiversity on farms also builds resilience on your property by improving drought tolerance in pastures, supporting soil microbiomes, supporting diverse insect populations and offering shelter to stock – all of which improves on-farm productivity.

This workshop will be a practical day of learning, led by restoration expert, Peter Dixon, and meteorologist, Graham Creed. We will touch on the basics of climate science and best practice ecological restoration before heading out into the field to observe the real-world effects of climate change on the local Killabakh environment– including post-fire & flood recovery; riverbank erosion; weed infestations and soil moisture management. We will discuss how we can safeguard the values of properties and build climate resilience within both our communities and our land.

You will be given practical restoration tips that support primary productivity and improve ecosystem functionality and resilience recovery, which you can then apply in your own projects.

Monthly meetings for the Killabakh Community Association are held on the Third Thursday of every month and are open for any community members to attend. Active participation in the meetings requires membership to the KCA, which incurs a $2 annual fee to be paid to the Treasurer.

AGM for the Killabakh Community Association
Thursday 15th October at 6pm in the Killabakh Hall. All welcome
The Killabakh Community Association’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a chance to hear about the past year, share your ideas and help shape the year ahead. We’ll also nominate and elect the committee members who keep the KCA running. The association depends on local volunteers stepping into these roles—without a committee, there is no KCA. Whether you’d like to join the committee, learn more about what’s involved or simply show your support, please come along to Killabakh Hall on Thursday 15 October at 6pm. Everyone is welcome, and your involvement makes a difference.
Contact killabakhca@gmail.com for details or questions.

Beginning Fri 15 Dec 23, the Killabakh Rural Fire Brigade UHF Base Station will be on air between 17:30 and 18:30 (5.30PM to 6.30PM) each Friday afternoon to enable members of KERN to test their radios and make calls to the station.

This is a wonderful start to what we hope will be a valuable component of our community resilience and emergency plan. We aim for it to be a mechanism that will enable us to help our own family and our fellow community members in the next emergency/disaster event in our community.

Please use the Friday afternoon sessions to practice your use of the radio and to become familiar with it. I recommend that you call in every Friday afternoon or as often as you can so that you get used to hearing different voices. Practice makes perfect.

Please do the following:
Commit to participating as often as possible on a weekly basis because this will give you confidence and trust in the system.

What this will achieve is:
You will get to know that you can speak confidently with Killabakh Base (the fire station) you will also get to know who else on the network that you can hear and talk to.

From here on in, I will invite KERN users to not only call Killabakh Base but to call each other and practice using your callsign and doing radio checks with each other. Just remember the procedures:
- KERN is a SIMPLEX network. This means we all talk and listen on the same channel, so only one station can talk at any one time.
- Listen out before you transmit
- Make sure no one else is speaking before you speak
- Press the button for a split second before you speak because you do not want to cut off your first words
- Start with the callsign of the station you are calling and then say your callsign; eg:
"Killabakh Base THIS IS wun too fife six Comboyne Road, radio check Over", or
"wun too fife six THIS IS wun sev-en too too Comboyne Road, radio check over"
- When responding to another station who has requested a radio check; eg:
"wun sev-en too too Comboyne Road THIS IS wun ait fow-er Yarnold Road, loud and clear OVER."

Please refer to the attached Phonetic Alphabet and keep a printout of it next to your radio.
For more information and to register your participation please contact Brian Willey

Come in and say hello to the team and ask questions about our Box Divvy. Box DIvvy supplies Killabakh with fresh produce, pantry items and groceries, meat and chilled food each week. It's just like a Coles order except it's local, the farmers get paid fairly and it supports our community. Come in and say hi!

A weekly community gathering for a cuppa and a piece of cake. Come and have a chat with the locals, buy and sell some locally grown fresh produce and handmade preserves, or just come to say hi. Bring the excess from your garden, and things you've made yourself, if you'd like to sell something.