Volunteer honour roll

A.B.STEEL  SUPPLIES     from Caboolture, heavily discounted the steel for our plant-sale benches and delivered the materials free.  The benches are used in our nursery sales section so visitors can purchase butterfly attracting plants for their gardens.  Thank you very much Jake at A.B.Steel Supplies on 5498 9516.

ACE  ALARMS    We met Terry Cupitt over 30 years ago and he has helped us with security work ever since.  When we rang and explained about the butterfly chrity project, Terrt and Ann put their hands up to help.  They canvassed their suppliers and secured all the hardware at a vert low price and then their company, Ace Alarms, supplied all the cabling and installation at no cost whatsoever. Thank you Ace Alarms for your wonderful help.

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ADRIAN  CLARK    is a tiler on Bribie who has bored holes  in our ceramic toilet to drain water away from our 'magic taps'.  Adrian also cut the hole in the base of Roy and Joy Ross's beautiful multi tiered water feature.  When Adrian saw our chainsaw-engined motorbike with the pot-man on it he explained that his thirteen year old son had built the motorbike.  Adrian explained that it was a dangerous machine, a widow-maker, and he was so glad when it finally got pensioned off.  If you want to know about the magic taps and the  pot-man on the motorbike come and see for yourself.  Adrian's advice and practical help has been appreciated very much.  Thank you, Adrian.

ALAN  DOSSEL       (see Dossel's Engineering)

ALAN  McGAUGHEY   (see B.P. Plumbing Supplies)

ALDO LOI   Builder and gold sponsor.  Aldo has donated hundreds of hours of his time to advise, supervise, construct and even supply many materials and tools in his role as building supervisor.  Over the years, Aldo has mentored dozens of young people in the sport of football.  He has then gone the second mile and helped many of them to get started in trade work even in their own businesses.  He's been a great encourager to lots of young men.  Many times we have rung trades people to ask if they'd donate their time to construct the Butterfly House and Breeding Laboratory.  When they knew Aldo was involved, they've often said, "Look if it's anything to do with Aldo, I'll donate my time."  Thank you Aldo for the huge weight you have taken off our shoulders.

ALLAN  SANDILANDS    Allan has been a huge supporter in the journey forward to the opening of the new butterfly house and after the opening too.  Because Allan and his long-term partner, Lynda, have worked together as a team for the butterfly house, please go to 'Lynda Bathe' to read more about their input into the project.  Allan, thank you heaps for your help and friendship.

ALLAN  KING    Where do we start?  Allan has been an unbelievable helper of our interest in butterflies and butterfly plants for several years.  He has given us literally thousands of plants to plant, give away and now that the new butterfly house is open, to sell.  Allan has an unbelievable photographic memory and his plant knowledge is nothing less than amazing.  He has given us many thousands of seeds plus butterfly eggs, caterpillars ad chrysalises.  Allan has recommended and purchased on our behalf our automatic irrigation controllers, then set them up and delivered them.  He has taught us a huge amount about how to turn Bribie sand into nutrient rich soil and assisted with our fertilisation procedures.  By now you probably think we're talking about God.  Actually, no, but he's one of God's children who has been given the ability to use more of his brain in one year than many of us use in a whole lifetime.  Well, after all that, thank  you, Allan, for the huge assistance and great kindness you've given to us and continue to give to ensure that the Bribie Island Butterfly House is a success.  Thank you heaps, again!

ALAN  WILSON    took the responsibility of heading up the team to produce three great seats for the visitors to sit on in the butterfly house.  See 'Bribie and District Woodcrafters Association.'  Thank you so very, very much, Alan, for a great job well done.

AMANDA  DRYDEN    works with the Moreton Bay Regional Council and Amanda was responsible for cutting through the red tape to expedite the beginnings of our construction work.  Thank you so much, Amanda, for your wonderful help.

ANDREW  PRIESTLEY    from the Moreton Bay Regional Council has always been extremely helpful from the beginning to the end of this great project.  He has bent over backwards to assist in any way he could – and then gone even further.  Thank you hugely, Andrew.

ANGELA  BLINCO   is seriously a gold star sponsor who has worked tirelessly for this project ever since the initial ‘hobby’ started at a residential address at Banksia Beach. Where do we start? Angela is a serious ambassador for the Butterfly project, conducts children’s butterfly education talks and displays in schools and pre-schools, has spent a lot of hours changing food for hungry caterpillars, releasing butterflies, caring for the Facebook page, putting leaflets into letterboxes with the help of her children, marketing, photography, encouragement, you name it and Angela is doing it. I think we’ll just shorten her name to Angel. Thank you heaps.

ARDEX As a result of a request by Dean Adams to Ardex for the donation of hundreds of dollars worth of waterproofing sealer, they kindly supplied it free of charge.  The sealer was needed in the construction of our breeding lab.  Thank you very much Ardex for your very kind help given to the Bribie Island Butterfly House.

AUSTRALIAN  BUTTERFLY  SANCTUARY    is based at Kuranda on the Atherton Tableland near Cairns in North Queensland.  These wonderful people have been extremely supportive of our involvement in the Butterfly House journey.  They have donated many thousands of butterfly eggs and lots of excellent advice.  They have an excellent rainforest-themed butterfly house and we highly recommend that you visit while in North Queensland.  Thank you heaps for your wonderful help.

AUSTRALIAN  COUNTRY  LIVING     is Shop 86 at the Morayfield Shopping Centre.  It stocks a huge array of useful and unusual items to grace young home.  When you visit the shop, it would be most unusual for you to leave empty handed.  Ian and Linda kindly gave us a huge blue and white caterpillar for half price to help the butterfly house.  You'll see it above one of the viewing tunnel windows at the start of the caterpillar section.  Thank you heaps, Ian and Linda.

AUSTRALIAN  GRAPHIC  SUPPLIES  (AGS)    donated the vinyl backing for the 100 positive signs inside the butterfly house as well as vinyl for the 10 metre long sign above the breeding lab.  Thank you AGS for your great help.  www.AGS.com.au

BILL  ADAMS  TILING    Dean Adams is the son of the original Bills Adams and Dean has many many tilers working on  his team.  Amongst all of his busyness he made the time to approach Ardex to donate hundreds of dollars worth of waterproofing product for sealing around our laboratory windows, doors, toilet floors and many other areas.  He drove many kilometres to deliver the goods to us and we are very indebted to Dean for his kind help.  Thank you, Bills Adams Tiling www.billadamstiling.com

BOB  MILLER    lives in North Queensland, doesn't enjoy the best of health but has a very good and positive attitude.  Bob has shared with us lots of very good information to help us along our butterfly raising journey.  He showed us where to find seeds for Adenia vines and helped us with caterpillars and chrysalises.  Thank you heaps, Bob.  We wish you all the best on your somewhat tempestuous journey in life and your great attitude you share with us.

BOB  STUTTER    is a builder who donated his time to put up the frame for our pump shed and also completed other tasks to help us on the journey.  Thank you very much, Bob, for your very helpful input.

BOB NEWELL   is a gold sponsor and retired chemical engineer.  He has joined our team of volunteers, and apart from his official title of Secretary/Treasurer, Bob wears many other hats.  Along with his wife Joyce, he has constructed STICK INSECT ISLAND, calculated, marked out and installed shade cloth, irrigation lines, garden shed, ticket office, payment system, mapping of plants, irrigation and electric cable positions in and around the butterfly house and laboratory.  Also, Bob has donated several items out of his own pocket.  We are so grateful Bob and Joyce for your very valuable help.  Thank you again and again.

BRETT  JONES    Brett turned up one day and said, 'Do you remember me?'  Forty years earlier as a high school student Brett had  helped clean rocks off a little property we had in the bush.  Now he's back!  Well, what do you know – he's now a boilermaker and builder.  They're the exact skills we needed at the time.  Brett supplied and welded the steel frame for our big butterfly 'photo opportunity' and did an excellent job.  He also helped with many other odd jobs around the place.  Thank you very much, Brett, for your wonderful help.

BOB  SHIPMAN    Because we had three Bobs working on the project, it became a bit confusing.  To lessen the confusion, this Bob became 'Barbed Wire Bob'.  Why?  Because he has barbed wire tattooed right around his head!  Then to top it off, he's got a huge redback spider dome on top of his head and so that you can't sneak up behind him, he's got two eyes in the back of his head – interesting to say the least!  Well, after all that, Bob is an absolutely lovely man – a real champion.  His mark is on a huge amount of the new butterfly house.  He dug, built, painted, assembled, advised, lent, drove, dumped, picked up, foster-cared butterfly plants and did too  many other things to fit on this page.  Bob has been an absolute champion and truly deserves the gold star in front of his name.  Thank you, Bob.

B.P. PLUMBING SUPPLIES   (Caboolture)    Alan very kindly supplied a lot of PVC pipe and fittings for the unseen drainage systems for our water features in the Butterfly House.  Thank you very, very much Alan for your kindness in helping the Butterfly House open its  doors debt-free.  Their phone number for plumbing supplies is 54991666.

BUTTERFLY HILL BUTTERFLY HOUSE    Brett and Teena operate a butterfly house at Nambour.  They have very kindly helped us over recent years by supplying us with plants, eggs, caterpillars, and friendship.  www.facebook.com/butterflyhillnambour  is their facebook site.    

BRIAN  COX    Retired plant-nursery owner who has kindly supplied shade cloth, piping, weed mat, timber, secateurs, a nursery trolley, as well as two humidifiers and digital temperature and humidity measuring instruments for the Breeding Lab, and many other items.  Brian is also a very good propagator and Butterfly Plant Foster Carer.  We deeply appreciate your ongoing help Brian.     

BRIBIE ISLAND SAND AND GRAVEL have kindly discounted sand, gravel, cement and mulch to help craft some unusual water features.  We are very thankful for your kind help Anne and Mandie.

 BRIBIE ISLAND SIGNS   Lovely Nicole Jones has been a huge help to the Butterfly House, supplying lots of design work and many signs, mostly free and some at cost.  Nicole and retired sign-writer Errol Fender have worked together to supply our wonderful signs of various descriptions.  Thanks you heaps Nicole.   www.bribieislandsigns.com.au 

BRIBIE  AND  DISTRICT  WOODCRAFTERS  ASSOCIATION  INC    This great community group on Bribie has done a wonderful job supplying the raw materials and the craftsmanship to produce the three seats in the butterfly house.  The seats were crafted from the very durable local timber, Bribie Island pine.  The club members who kindly donated their time to complete this project were Alan Wilson, Jim Daley, John Westerhuis, Ian Bulger and Keema, all of whom contributed their various skills.  Alan's email read, 'We are pleased to contribute our work on behalf of the Bribie Woodies towards your ambitious project which will enhance the tourism and environment in our local region.'  Alan also supplied and stained the big doorknobs on the unusual stained glass door in the butterfly house.  If you are a visitor, take your photo between the two 'potheads' on the butterfly backed seat. 

BRENDAN  HARVEY    Brendan is a builder who very kindly donated his time and talents to help us with the construction of the breeding laboratory.  When he knew that Aldo Loi had volunteered his time to be the building supervisor, Brendan said, 'If Aldo's helping, I'll help.'  He's done an excellent job fitting the roof trusses and several other jobs.  Thank you, Brendan for helping.  For first-class building work, Brendan's number is 0438786095.

BRIBIE  MAGAZINE  is published by the Chamber of Commerce.  It comes out annually and is a highly valued resource for many thousands of visitors and locals alike.  Even when our butterfly house was simply operating as a hobby at a residential address, Bribie Magazine has very kindly included our story.  Thank you very much to the Bribie Island Chamber of Commerce and your great team.  Their website is www.bribie.com.au 

BRIBIE ISLAND MOWER  and  CYCLE CENTRE     Our hole borer broke down.  We were using it mix clay and mineral laden blue-metal crusher dust into the Bribie sand at the new butterfly house.  This turns the hungry sand into nutrient-rich soil to grow thousands of flowers in the butterfly house. 

Todd and Debbie very kindly came to our rescue and repaired our hole borer and lent us a rotary hoe for as long as we needed it – all for free, and all with a smile and the good old fashioned service that this pair are famous for on Bribie Island.  www.bribieislandmowers@bigpond.com   

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BRIBIE  PONTOONS    under the ownership of Grant Allen, manufactures and supplies pontoons up and down the coast.  Grant has donated two heavy duty polystyrene boards for our chrysalis frames in the viewing windows.  Thank you heaps Grant.   www.bribiepontoons.com.au    Phone  3408 3822   

BRIBIE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER  and their great staff have been very very generous with their inclusion of editorial material.  Thank you hugely for including so many informative articles about the butterfly house and many other wonderful happenings on our great Bribie Island.  Their newspaper sits on top of an unusual letterbox in the butterfly house.    

BUD    We needed a skip bin for our construction rubbish while building our breeding lab.  Then we needed another one and another one and another one and another one and another one.  Bud very kindly supplied them free of charge because it was for a genuine humanitarian cause.  We rang him for his business name so we could give credit to this wonderful man on our Honour Roll.  He said, 'I don't want any credit.  I don't do things to receive “brownie points”.  You people are doing a great job for helping less fortunate people. You're doing it for all the right reasons and your heart is in the right place. '  So after all that we can't give you his details for when you need a skip bin.  Bud has a heart for helping people and is a wonderful humble man.  Thank you so much for your very kind help.

BUSY  FINGERS    is the largest Op Shop on Bribie.   This group works very hard and donates a huge amount of money and goods to worthy causes on and around Bribie Island.  When we needed a garden/tool shed, put their hand up.  When we needed over $1,000 for our drip irrigation equipment to accurately water our butterfly food plants, they put their hand up.  We are so very very thankful to this wonderful organization, Busy Fingers.

CAPRAL  ALUMINIUM    donated the square aluminium tubing that Errol Fender and others used to produce the frames for our signs in the butterfly house as well as the stakes for the 100 positive sayings that are dotted around the garden.  Thank you also Josephine at Capral for helping to organise your very kind gift.  www.capral.com.au    

CAROL …..    (Carol, we are so sorry we have forgotten your last name – I think it's called  'old-timers' disease.'  We do hope you read this.  It's the Carol whose mobile number ends with 1500.  Carol has helped in the old breeding lab during 2015 and did an excellent job.  She was very fastidious and kind to the caterpillars and we wish we could have her back again at the new butterfly house.  Thank you so very much, Carol, for helping us on the journey towards the new butterfly house that gives so much joy and peace to so many visitors.    

CAROL  POBAR     Carol organised for us to explain the butterfly house project to the VIEW Club on Bribie.  This group addresses issues of concern to women.  Carol then went on to organise bright clothes, paint and boots for the  potheads on the butterfly seat (you can take your photo sitting between the potheads.)  Carol and her husband have also helped with window and path cleaning, fertilising  pots and other helpful tasks.  Thank you both very much for  your great work.

CHERYL  SCARLETT    was a great help to the project where she assisted Leila and the team in our first breeding lab on the island.  Thank you so much, Cheryl, for being a great part of our journey to where we are today.

CHRISTINE  HORG  very kindly donated the artwork for our butterfly logo. If you look at the logo, you’ll see that the wings consist of two capital ‘B’ letters and the antennae are in the shape of the letter ‘V’. Together they are the initials for Bribie Butterfly Volunteers – a wonderful team of helpers who we need more of. Thank you very much Christine for the logo we are very proud to have.     

CHRIS  TREWIN    When we came to live on Bribie a few years ago, we listed a few things we could do to be helpful in the community.  We constructed a small butterfly house, a hydroponics system to grow lettuce, celery etc that we gave away by the thousands and a little nursery to produce and give away butterfly-attracting plants.  The hobby attracted like-minded people and we produced and gave away free of charge over 6,000 plants, shrubs and trees on and around Bribie.  We also raised butterflies and hundreds of people visited free of charge to take photos and sit and enjoy the therapy of having butterflies flying around them.  Finally a neighbour complained about the project, the noise and the happy people and so the local Council had to act.  It was unfortunate but it wasn't all that bad.  The local councillor, Gary Parsons, brought out Chris Trewin from the Moreton Bay Regional Council and he liked what we were doing with the volunteers.  The Council was more lenient than the neighbour and provided our group with a plot of land to construct a community butterfly house which has now happened.  In life, when someone hands you a lemon, you've got to work out how to turn it into lemonade.  With the help of people like Chris Trewin and others on the Council and our wonderful volunteers, we're now all drinking lemonade, and sharing with many extra volunteers and thousands of visitors to Bribie.  Thank you all.   

CHRIS  AND  DARYLE  POULTON    have helped to set up the pot-man on the motorbike.  They've fitted his gloves, beard, boots, belt and scarf.  Plus they have kindly delivered hundreds of letterbox leaflets above the  project and done other jobs as well. Thank you heaps, Chris and Daryle.

BROOKE  SAVIGE    After Gary Parsons retired, Brooke became the Councillor for Bribie and nearby areas.  Gary did a fantastic job in helping the butterfly house to become a reality and now Brooke is our helper.  At this stage we haven't needed much of Brooke's help but we're well aware that she is seriously supportive of the new butterfly house project.  Thank you, Brooke, for your support and we wish you all the very best your responsible position in the community.

COLLEEN  FINN     Colleen is a potter from our Bribie Island and has very kindly put a lot of skill, love and care into crafting our 'circle of friends' with fog rising between them.  The five friends each have a character of their own and they represent the many wonderful volunteers who have made and continue to make the butterfly house a success.  If you are a visitor from not far away, we hope you'll consider filling out our volunteer application form.  The statistics in favour of becoming a volunteer are (1) Volunteers make friends (2) Volunteers live longer (3) live happier, and (4) live healthier.  Thank you again to all our wonderful people who have volunteered their time, talents and even dollars to make this project a great success.  And again to Colleen, thank you for our ' Circle of Friends' as well as your volunteer work in the Breeding Laboratory before you moved south to be closer to your family.  We miss you and Kerry. 

COFFS  HARBOUR  BUTTERFLY  HOUSE    has helped us with the supply of leaf insects, butterfly life cycle DVDs as well as butterfly eggs.  This great butterfly house is well worth a visit as you pass though the Coffs Harbour area.  Thank you heaps for your generous support on our journey.  www.butterflyhouse.com.au

COMBINED  SAW  AND  KNIFE   (Sharpest in the Business)   We needed a safe top on our bright red corrugated iron garden-edge that surrounds the base of the tea-cup feature.  The CSK team very kindly donated many metres of plastic protection edging for this job as well as another 60 metres to line the top edge of the snake mesh that stops cats and rats from chewing through the shadecloth walls of the Butterfly House.  Thank you so much Liz and team for your very kind help at CSK.   www.combinedsaw.com.au

COFFS  HARBOUR  BUTTERFLY  HOUSE    has helped us with the supply of leaf insects, butterfly life cycle DVDs as well as butterfly eggs.  This great butterfly house is well worth a visit as you pass though the Coffs Harbour area.  Thank you heaps for your generous support on our journey.  www.butterflyhouse.com.au

CRYSTAL KINCAID  did an exceptional volunteering job for quite some time until her studies and work increased.  Crystal always gave away a nice smile and would take on any task, even changing the caterpillars nappies.  Nappy changing (cleaning caterpillar castles) is a big job until they grow up and become chrysalises.  Thank you again Crystal.

CLAIR  AND  DAMIAN    at nearby Ningi put their hands up to grow and care for some of the vines at their place.  The vines are needed for leaf production to feed some of the hungry caterpillars in the breeding lab  They also gave us a piece of large diameter PVC pipe that is in the pedestal that supports our circle of friends.  Thank you so much for giving your support to the new butterfly house.

DAPHNE  BOWDEN   has propagated many many Birdwing Butterfly Vines for us to sell, as well as supplying lots of good advice over the years.  As the editor of Metamorphosis Australia, Daphne has kindly include articles about the butterfly house projects in the magazine.  It is well worth subscribing to the Butterfly and Other Invertebrates Club magazine  www.boic.org.au    Thank you heaps Daphne.

DARLING DOWNS TARPAULINS  Over the years, Michael Ryan from Darling Downs Tarpaulins has very kindly helped with various projects we’ve been involved in.  Michael has discounted our special butterfly house shade cover by hundreds of dollars for which we are extremely grateful.  Thank you very much Michael for your kindness to a great environmental and humanitarian cause.

DAVID  AND  CAROLINE    are caring for several of the vines needed to feed our hungry caterpillars.  David has prepared the soil, planted and watered the vines and is continuing to care for them so we can harvest the leaves for our feeding programme.  If anyone else has trellis space for vines and is a good gardener then please let us know as we need more 'butterfly plant foster carers'.  Thank you again, David and Caroline.

DARRYL OVENDEN    has helped with welding work, fitting the big arbor in the centre of the butterfly house, finishing the pump shed door and trims and several other jobs.  Thank you very much, Darryl, for your very valuable input.

DAVE and DI GILLET   have given much appreciated ongoing help with the setting up of our S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedures) for the new butterfly house.  Our volunteers, working committee and management committee members present ideas to improve the efficiency, economic and hygiene areas of our operation.  Dave and Di put together into our S.O.P. so each volunteer can understand how to do things in the best possible way.

DAVID KIKIHA   has been very helpful as a volunteer.  When he is not back in his native PNG he helps with many tasks including the delivery of leaflets for the butterfly house into many thousands of letterboxes on Bribie Island and nearby Australia.

DELPHINE  ARCHER     Maybe the writer of these Honour Roll entries is a bit biased towards this very special lady but after all, some years ago she was awarded 'The World's Best Wife' trophy (by me) and she's still the same.  Delphine has been an unbelievable companion in this Butterfly House journey.  She is very compassionate towards the extreme poor in the world and so has accepted the position of charity manager with the Bribie Island Butterfly House.  Go to 'Why We Exist' on our website and see how your entry fees are used.  Delphine also wears many other hats as she 'picks up the slack' in so many areas of the operation of this wonderful humanitarian and environmental project.  Delphine, you are a champion.

DON  SANDILANDS    is Allan's Dad.  He has often come over with Allan to volunteer during the construction stages.  He's helped Allan with the water features and drip irrigation.  Don is about 80 years of age and sometimes wondered if he was a helper or a hinderer – he was always a helper!  Don also kindly donated money to help the project move forwards toward completion.  Sometimes he'd thoughtfully purchase a new watering nozzle or some other helpful item to replace some of our antiquated fittings.  Thank you so much, Don, for your help and encouragement.

DOSSEL'S  ENGINEERING    Alan Dossel is a gold sponsor and has very kindly provided the big archway in the centre of the Butterfly House.  It is seriously solid, strong-as, hot-dip galvanised and has saved us about $1,200 off the normal price.  It has a couple of 'ponder rails' (when you visit you'll see what that means) and nectar producing pink coral vines cover the archway.  Thank you very much Alan for your very kind help.

ERIC  TABOR    Eric is a great young man and a very helpful volunteer.  Eric started with us a few months before the new butterfly house opened.  He's done just about every task from smoothing a blockwork wall prior to painting, collecting thousands of eggs, releasing butterflies, watering plants, opening up, sweeping, cleaning and possibly a hundred other jobs.  Thank you so much, Eric, for your very valuable contribution.

ERROL  FENDER    We met Errol at 'Shed Happens' which is a very popular monthly meeting for men.  Before retiring, Errol operated the well-known company, Fender Signs.  Errol said that when we need signs for the new butterfly house, he'd do them at no cost.  True to his word, Errol has supplied dozens of signs, the largest being 10 metres long.  He also approached companies to donate well over $1,000 worth of aluminium, vinyl for lettering, special prints, welding work, and, of course, all of the wonderful help from lovely Nicole Jones at Bribie Island Signs.  Errol, as they say at 'Shed Happens', 'You're a champion!'  Thank you so very, very much for all your kindness by seriously helping the Butterfly House to look great.  Errol, we wish you the very best in every way.

ERROL FLYNN   (see R & M Flynn)

EZEE DESIGN & DRAFTING     Essie operates her business here on Bribie Island and is very seriously a Gold Star Sponsor.  Essie has prepared the Butterfly House and laboratory plans completely free of cost.  Our visits to her office have been many and she has been very very patient with us.  It seems that nothing is too much trouble for Essie.  We absolutely recommend her business to anyone needing building and design work.  Essie's contact number is 0401 077 787.  Thank you again Essie - hugely.

FRED  CLARK   Fred is a gold sponsor. At the time of writing this, Fred is also our oldest volunteer at 79 years. He is our team leader for Monday and Tuesday mornings and does an excellent job of managing the volunteers under his care. Fred has put hundreds of hours into potting, cleaning, hydroponics care, and organising his team. As well as giving his time, he donated a lot of money to the project, and searched out and purchased many of our colour themed items for the breeding lab (visitors are impressed). Fred has put his hand up to be the Rosters Clerk as well as the Cleaning Manager. Fred knows that volunteers make friends, are healthier, happier, and live longer. Other older folk are joining Fred – retired, rejuvenated, recycled, and enjoying life. You are all champions! Thank you.

GAMBLING  COMMUNITY BENEFIT  COMMITTEE    This group very, very kindly saw fit to give us a huge donation for the butterfly house project - $35,000.  The Committee Chairman, Ashley Robinson, gave some very encouraging words to us all at the Completion Celebration on 23/4/17.   Our very sincere thanks goes to you for the amazing donation that helped us to make a serious leap forward towards the completion of this project.

GARY PARSONS has served as the Councillor for Bribie and nearby districts for six years. He was the representative of the Island’s residents to the Council and did it extremely well. Gary has been, and still is, a wonderful ambassador for the Bribie Island Butterfly House. He has cut through a lot of red tape and encouraged us all the way. Incidentally, Gary has broken ten World Records in long-distance running, the longest race he won was a 1,000 mile (1,600km) race. He also ran 76 kilometres every day to cover 19,000 kilometres around Australia. You can read the book, ‘The Legacy Run’, written by his very supportive wife Sharon. We thank an incredible man for his incredible help with the Butterfly project. 

GARRY  SANKOWSKY    Garry and Nada operated a butterfly house at Mt Tamborine before moving to the Atherton Tableland.  They grow hundreds of different trees, shrubs and vines mostly to attract butterflies.  Garry's knowledge about butterflies and their host plants is immense.  Garry has kindly supplied us with huge numbers of seeds, plants and butterfly eggs for help with the establishment and ongoing operation of the butterfly house.

GERALDINE  AND  KEITH  NEWBEGIN    We first met Geraldine about three years ago at the old 'hobby' butterfly house  in residential Banksia Beach.  Geraldine watered our plants early in the morning almost every day of the week.  She said it was good therapy for her.  Then Geraldine and Keith put their hands up to become 'Butterfly Plant Foster Carers' and they cared for over 200 potted  plants at their home.  Geraldine has been extremely reliable, always texting when the watering and other jobs were completed at the old butterfly house.  The texts would often include some lovely words of encouragement too.  Thank you both very much for your wonderful input that has made the project a success.

GLENNS CUSTOM STUFF     Glenn Bailey has cut and welded aluminium frames for our signs  Butterfly House.  He's also supplied the space needed for our retired sign writer Errol Fender to paint our big 'photo-opportunity' butterfly.  Thank you so very much Glenn for your great help.   Glenn's phone number for custom fabrication work is  34101672.

GEOFF  BUSTEED is a retired builder who has done a lot of work on our stormwater drains, sign fixing, lots of trimwork in the dark tunnel and many other jobs.  Geoff has also lent us trestles, planks and ladders to help in the construction of this wonderful facility.  Thank you heaps, Geoff, for your kindness in helping the Bribie Island Butterfly House become a reality.

GOODSTART EARLY LEARNING CHILDCARE CENTRE    has planted butterfly attracting plants and also conducted a fundraiser that will help us buy some workbenches for in the breeding laboratory.  Thank you very much teachers, staff, parents and children for helping the Bribie Island Butterfly House to become a reality.  www.goodstart.org.au/centres/bongaree

 GORDON  TONG    has constructed the columns for our three pot-heads and put in many, many hours into the various painting jobs around he butterfly house.  He's researched the correct products and advised us on methods for other tasks as well.  A big thank you goes to Gordon for his ongoing help.

HANSON CONCRETE      Through Greg Malpass and Julian Potten, the pre-mixed concrete company HANSON has supplied many many loads of concrete at bare cost for the Bribie Island Butterfly House project.  It's a great environmental and humanitarian project and Hanson has very generously supported us from start to finish.  As Gold Star sponsors you have helped this project enormously.  We thank you Hanson and your entire team for your huge kindness to us.   www.hanson.com.au

HARDY CONCRETING     Sean Hardy has very kindly supplied all the tie-down bolts we needed to fix the roofing to the concrete walls of the butterfly breeding laboratory and the dark entry tunnel.  Thank you very much Sean for your kind donation.

HELENA BROWN   We first met at the Banksia Beach Garden Club to talk about the possibilities of a butterfly house on Bribie.  Helena put her hand up and was able to help for many months.  She potted plants, released butterflies, cleaned out caterpillar castles, and every other job.  Thank you very much Helena for your part in pushing the project forward to where it is now.

HONGMING  KAN    is a fantastic Japanese photographer who lives in Brisbane.  He has visited the Bribie Island Butterfly House and very kindly supplied us with some of the wonderfully sharp and detailed photos on our website.  His close-up photos are excellent.  When I first saw his photos I decided I'd buy the same camera so that I could take the same shots.  Then I thought more about it and changed my mind for two reasons:  (1) I don't have the patience and (2) it's not just the camera – it's the amazing learned and practiced skills of the photographer.  Thank you Hongming Kan for your fantastic images.

INSPIRATION PAINTS & COLOUR   (Dulux Trade Centre)   has kindly donated our primer and paint for protecting the steel framework of the butterfly house.  Under the kind care of Leonie and Dulux, we have been able to save hundreds of dollars on the epoxy floor paint and the steriguard paint for the lab walls.  Thank you so very much Leonie and team and Dulux for being partners in the Bribie Island Butterfly House project.  Phone 54323805    www.inspirationspaint.com.au  

JAMIE  CLUFF    has been with the Moreton Bay Regional Council for two or three years now and one of his assignments has been to work with the new butterfly house project.  Jamie has been fantastic.  Right from the start he has absolutely bent over backwards to assist us in dozens and dozens of different ways.  Sometimes Jamie has had to smack our fingers for running ahead on some aspects of our project where we were unaware that Council permission was needed first.  We are so very, very happy to have Jamie's help in so many ways.  Thank you, Jamie.

JAN LAIRD  works in the caterpillar care section of the lab and her valuable help is very much appreciated by us all. Thank you Jan for your kind help over the last couple of years and on into the future. 

JASPA  ENGINEERING  PTY LTD   We approached Richard Shilling at Jaspa Engineering to cut out seven mirror-finished stainless steel butterflies to construct a large mobile in the butterfly house.  Richard did the job well and then discounted the cost by several hundreds of dollars.  In the whole process, Richard was always very friendly, helpful, explained the process well and delivered the goods.  Thank you very much, Richard, for your assistance on our journey.  Go to: www.jaspaengineering.com.au to see their work in steel sales, fabrication, cutting, folding and welding.

JENNIFER  SEARY    helped us with potting up and various jobs at the old butterfly house and so has helped us on the journey towards the opening of the new butterfly house.  Thank you very much, Jennifer, for all you have done to help get us there.

JILL  OTTER     see  Tony and Jill Otter

JOHN  HARVEY    John is a carpenter and Brendan's dad.  He helped make short work of the roof truss installation and so helped us on the journey towards completion.  It is unbelievable how so many people like John have put their hands up to help.  John, thank you heaps.

JOHN & KAL TRAZONA   Chartered Accountants.  We approached John and Kal to help us with our accountancy and auditing.   They not only said 'yes!' but have very kindly audited our books for no cost whatsoever.  Thank you so much for being a part of the Bribie Island Butterfly House.  Their number for accountancy work on and around Bribie is 34083300 or 0418845538.

JOHN MCNAUGHTON  has donated many hours of his time putting together design concepts for the butterfly house.  I trust we’ve done justice to his vision, even though I’m sure we’ve wandered off the track a bit.    When you visit the butterfly house, we hope you’ll enjoy our ‘unusualities’.  John’s business is www.palazzodesign.com  and he does some amazing stuff.  Thank you John.

KEITH and  SUE BELLETTE   volunteered for some time until Keith gained employment away from the Island and they moved house. Thank you very much for your help in moving forward the butterfly project. 

KEITH WILTON-JONES   Keith has joined our volunteer team to help obtain discounts and donations for many items and trade work we require to finish the butterfly house.  We wish to open debt-free so 100% of profits from entry ticket sales will immediately go to charities.  Thank you very much Keith for your untiring work and dedication to a great cause.

KERRY  FINN    Kerry is Colleen's other half.  Kerry has constructed a chrysalis mounting frame to carry hundreds of chrysalises in the lab.  He has supplied lots of nuts, bolts, washers etc and along with Colleen has changed hundred of caterpillar nappies in the breeding lab.  Thank you heaps, Kerry.  We wish you both a trouble free move south and a great future.

LILLIAN  ARCHER    is nine years of age and is a wonderful granddaughter of Ray and Delphine.  At the old butterfly house Lilly helped in the pruning of plants, showing visitors around and caring for the butterflies and stick insects.  She was good at making morning tea for our volunteers and often shared food with the visiting kids out of Grandpa's esky.  This meant that when Grandpa sat down to eat, sometimes there wasn't much food left for him.  Lilly helped to paint frames for the 'positive thinking' signs.  She chose the ones she felt were positive and easy for our visitors to understand.  She culled out negative signs like, 'Don't lie, cheat or steal – the Government hates competition.'  Even though Lilly has a generous dose of ADD (like Grandpa grew up with) she almost always puts her hand up to help with so many 'jobs' around the butterfly house.  Thank you, Lilly.  We hope that along with your regular visits to the butterfly house, you and many other children will be helped on your life's journey to become wonderful adults in this turbulent world of ours.

LEILA FORBES  is a gold sponsor who has invested hundreds of hours of her time into the butterfly house project.  Leila’s main input has been into the egg collection, caterpillar and chrysalis care and the release of butterflies into the safety of the butterfly house.  Leila and her husband Norm have also successfully raised hundreds of butterflies at their own home to assist in populating the butterfly house.   You are an inspiration to many of our volunteers.  Thank you Leila for your ongoing dedication to this great cause.

LOVELL CONCRETING   Phil Lovell is seriously a gold star sponsor.  When we were looking for suitable clay to add to our Bribie sand in the butterfly house, we came across Phil from Lovell Concreting on Bribie.  He offered to help with our concreting work - no charge!  Out of the kindness of his heart, Phil firstly set up the formwork for seventy metres of concrete pathways in the butterfly house and organised the pouring and finishing of the concrete.  Others of us volunteered our help as 'apprentices'.  Then Phil poured the footings for the dark entry tunnel, arranged for block-layers, and core-filled the tunnel masonry block wall.  As if that wasn't enough, Phil then went on to box up and pour and finish the floor slab of the breeding laboratory and core-fill the block walls.  Next came the concrete areas outside the lab for the viewing corridor and other walking areas.  Every person we spoke to who'd had concreting work done by Phil praised him greatly.  Likewise, we found that Phil has  very big heart, is very generous, and is an absolute gentleman.  Phil's phone number is 0408095033.  Phil has a lifetime pass to the Bribie Island Butterfly House.

LYNDA  BATHE    Lynda had been volunteering at our old Banksia Beach butterfly house and somehow we got to talking about toilet seats for the new butterfly house.  I explained that there were some seats and lids that had black and white butterflies on them but they cost $100 each.  The conversation ended and Lynda left.  An hour later a text came through that read, 'Hello Ray, Lynda here.  You can tick toilet seats off your list for new building.  Will bring them in on Monday.  Cheers Lynda.'  I got a bit teary eyed to think that someone would donate $300 worth of toilet seats to the new project and I've never deleted that text from my phone.  Little were we to know that since that day on 19/2/2016, way past 200 more people would kindly donate goods, dollars, advice, trade work, time, encouragement and whatever else to make this wonderful project happen.  Many of the people are listed in this Honour Roll.  It has been an unbelievable journey.  Now back to Lynda.  Lynda has since helped in so many more ways along with her long-time partner Allan Sandilands.  They have supplied the materials and constructed most of the water features, purchased and fitted mist-makers to the 'Circle of Friends' and the 'Teacup' feature, set up drip, irrigation of 1,000 caterpillar food plants, provided ironbark railway sleepers for framing  up the leadlight 'door' and wall shelves in the butterfly house and so many more things I don't even remember because of the onset of my old-timers' disease.  Allan and Lynda, thank you both hugely for your fantastic  help.  If you need to buy hose and fittings, their website is www.australianhoseandfittings.com.au