Great news from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage this week reporting that a survey of rare turtles in the State’s Manning River discovered that 275 of the historically significant little reptiles had been sighted in the past two years, spread across 86 turtle-friendly locations.
Known as the Manning River Helmeted Turtle, the survey’s finding prompted the Office to declare its pleasure with great skill and imagination.
“This is very good news for the species,” the Office announced, “which have been around for over 55 million years and is the ancestor of virtually all Australian Turtles”
And it was the Office’s choice of very clever headline that caught PS-sssst!’s attention.
It heralded its exciting announcement thus: ‘More shellabrations for rare turtles’.
Well done!
Winners’ circle
And while on the subject of great news, PS News’s great news readers will be thrilled to learn that this week Rama Gaind’s Regular Reward for Refined, Rational and Resourceful Readers (i.e. her giveaway) has set a Record with not one, not two, but a Remarkable eight free DVDs to be won by Right-minded Readers Right on with the Right answer to her Relatively Reckonable quiz question.
So to be in the Running for one of Rama’s Riches – a DVD thriller about unsolved killings – simply Race over to her competition at this PS News link and try your luck.
It’s free, it’s easy and you have to be in it to win it!
Giveaway therapy!
To Rama’s actual giveaway now in which two readers from last week had the chance to win a DVD for nothing, courtesy of PS News.
This week, the much sought-after prize is a copy of the DVD collection of movies based on Nancy Grace’s best-selling Hailey Dean Mystery novels starring Kellie Martin and Chad Lowe.
To be among the winners all we needed to do was answer Rama’s quiz question by telling her the profession Hailey Dean followed before making her name as a therapist.
The answer is ‘prosecutor’ and the two entrants whose correct entries managed to be drawn from the PS News Barrel of Booty ahead of the rest came from Johnathon N from the WA Department of Justice, and Lorna K from the Australian Public Service Commission.
Congratulations to Johnathon and Lorna and thanks to everyone who had a go. The DVDs will be on their way to the new homes shortly.
For another chance to be a winner with PS News simply visit this week’s giveaway and give it your best shot. The competition can be accessed at this PS News link.
Good luck!
Numbers up!
And finally, congratulations and big thank yous to the wise and enlightened PS News readers in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory for jumping online and setting new subscription records for 2019 in the month of May. May the month be with you!
Queensland broke its record and skipped past the 15,000 milestone for the first time this year, recording a cool 15,093 subscribers; South Australia reached 9,363; WA 13,264 and NT 973.
Keep up the good work.
As PS-sssst! has said on many occasions, we are humbled and honoured by the support and interest that you, the reader, and so many of your colleagues, show for our weekly offerings.
And as we’ve also said before, if you keep reading it we’ll keep writing it.
‘Til next week….
