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COVID information – Restrictions

To all Baseball Qld members,

You are well aware of the COVID 19 restrictions placed on the State of Qld – a 3 day lockdown for South East Queensland, Townsville (including Magnetic Island) and Palm Island has been announced, effective 6pm AEST Tuesday 29 June.

As such, Baseball Qld confirms the cancellation of all baseball related activities over this period for the above named regions and LGA’s as listed below.

As announced this morning, from 6pm Tuesday 29 June 2021, a 3 day lockdown will be in place for the following Local Government Areas (LGAs):

Noosa
Sunshine Coast
Ipswich
Logan
Redlands
Moreton Bay
Brisbane
Gold Coast
Scenic Rim
Lockyer Valley
Somerset
Townsville City
Palm Island Aboriginal Shire

The lockdown restrictions will be reviewed on Friday 2 July.

Anyone in the affected LGAs will be required to stay at home except for essential reasons. Anyone who was in South East Queensland, Townsville (including Magnetic Island) or Palm Island on or since 6pm Tuesday 29 June 2021 is required to follow the same lockdown rules even if they are no longer in those areas.

You can only leave your residence (which includes temporary accommodation such as a holiday rental) for limited permitted purposes such as:

obtaining essential goods or services, including healthcare (including vaccinations)
exercise
attending essential work or childcare
assisting vulnerable persons

You should stay in your local area wherever possible.

You can only have two visitors to your residence (excluding volunteers and workers).

You can exercise away from your home with your household group and/or one other person not from your household.

You must carry a face mask at all times when you leave home, unless you have a lawful reason not to. You must wear a mask in indoor spaces, such as:

shopping centres and supermarkets
hospitals and aged care facilities, if permitted to visit
indoor workplaces (where safe to wear a mask and you can’t physically distance)
public transport, taxis and rideshare, and waiting places or queues for this transport
airports and travelling on planes.

Masks do not need to be worn in some circumstances, including children under 12 years, where people have certain medical conditions, and in workplaces where it is not safe to do so.

Masks may be removed when sitting down to eat and drink, undertaking strenuous exercise and for employment purposes.

Non-essential businesses are not allowed to operate. Cinemas, entertainment and recreation venues, hairdressers, beauty and personal care services, gyms and places of worship will all close.

Childcare centres will remain open.

Restaurants and cafes can provide take away or home delivery services only.

Funerals will be limited to 20 people, and weddings will be limited to 10 people, including the celebrant and the couple.

Restrictions on aged care, hospitals, disability care and correctional facilities apply with no personal visitors allowed. Anyone attending these facilities in South East Queensland, Townsville or Palm Island, including staff, must wear a mask. People will still be able to visit their loved ones who are at end of life.

You can return to your home outside of South East Queensland, Townsville or Palm Island, but you must follow the same lockdown rules when you return home, regardless of where your destination is.

Those leaving South East Queensland, Townsville or Palm Island during this time may do so for essential reasons or to return home, but must also remain at their residence and limit their movements until the lockdown period has ended.

If you live outside South East Queensland, Townsville or Palm Island, you can transit through those areas without stopping.

For the latest COVID related Queensland Government updates please visit this link>>>https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/urgent-covid-19-update

Baseball Qld strongly recommends all of our Members follow the above and stay safe and healthy.

Baseball Queensland appoints Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – Mr Gareth Jones

The Board of Management of Baseball Queensland is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Gareth Jones to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Baseball Queensland.

Gareth is a well-known, highly respected individual within the Queensland and Australian baseball community and will bring to the role decades of experience in sports development and operations management. Commencing his career with Baseball Queensland in 2001, Gareth has successfully delivered operational plans and accreditation programs, driven membership recruitment as well as increasing opportunities for players to participate in pathway programs.

The board is confident that Gareth is the right person to drive the Organisation forward to support the strategic direction of Baseball Queensland.

Please join us in congratulating Gareth on this new challenge.

Factors for families to consider about programs offered by independent organisations.

BQ Pathway programs stand alone as the only Baseball Australia endorsed and supported pathway programs available in Queensland. We also understand that having a wider choice of programs provides you with more opportunity, and we see that as a good thing. We would like to provide you, as our members, with some advice and things to consider when selecting programs in which you will participate.

Download the document here.

BQ Renews apparel partnership with Blackchrome

For over a decade Blackchrome has been forging a reputation as Australia’s more reliable sportswear supplier, through a passion for sport and delivering certainty to every team.

“Blackchrome is very excited to renew our partnership with Baseball Queensland. Over the past four years we have worked together to foster positive and innovative outcomes and we are committed to supporting Baseball Queensland in their long term vision of growing and strengthening the sport across the state.” – Travis Eddie, General Manager at Blackchrome

“Baseball Queensland are pleased to continue our relationship with Blackchrome for the provision of apparel to all Baseball Queensland teams. The team at Blackchrome are responsive to our needs and continue to deliver on time, to specification.” – Gareth Jones Interim BQ CEO

You can view the full range of Blackchrome custom baseball apparel online: https://www.blackchrome.com.au/our-range/baseball/

GBL Off Season Meetings Commence

The Greater Brisbane League (GBL) Committee met with representatives from the constituent Clubs and Regions on Saturday 29 May at Redlands Rays Baseball Club to discuss a review of the competitions and number of proposals that might be implemented within the competitions moving forward.

Presentations were delivered to the assembled representatives across three key areas; Senior Competitions, Junior Competitions and Rule Updates.

The GBL Committee identified some of their goals for the next two seasons as:
• To provide more game time for junior players – improve the value proposition.
• To facilitate improvements to the competitions for all that play.
• To encourage more coaches to develop more players in various positions.
• To align junior competition grades with Baseball Australia.
• To create more uniformity in rules between all levels of baseball.
• To provide more equitable competitions.
• To grow participation in all competitions.

BQ Game Development Director, David Badke was pleased with the level of engagement at the meeting stating “It’s great to be part of this consultation process, to hear all the views of the people involved working to improve the competitions. I look forward to the next GBL season”.

The GBL Committee will take some time now to digest and work through the feedback collected during the meeting and start to formulate resolutions on how to proceed for the coming season.