Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Please relieve the stress!

THE INEVITABLE HAPPENED during the past month – as I slowly worked my way up the Blackall Range in torrential rain, the i-MiEV was telling me I had run out of power. As you know, with your petrol car you can run to the nearest petrol station with an empty container and get enough fuel to [...]

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From the Editor May 2011

WE KNOW by now that population growth is one of the greatest challenges facing the Sunshine Coast. In some ways the debate has moved on from a simple numbers game. Even mayor Bob Abbot has accepted that his ideal number has almost been met. More telling though is the discussion over housing affordability. In this month’s edition Bob Abbot makes [...]

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Say G’day to the Shay! Say G’day to the Shay!

YOU CAN “Say G’day to the Shay” during Queensland Heritage Week, May 1-8. The Shay was one of the many cane locomotives that criss-crossed the Sunshine Coast lowlands until it was retired in 1960. Former mill employees Eric Butner, Ron Lait, Stewart Dean, Bob Lister, Merv Tucker, who was a driver of the Shay and Stan [...]

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Beverley becomes a senior fellow

KABI KABI INDIGENOUS elder, and environmental educator, Beverley Hand received an honorary senior fellowship from the University of the Sunshine Coast last month. Beverly, who lives in Maleny, has worked in conservation and land management on the Sunshine Coast for the past 22 years. Beverly’s Indigenous connection to the land on which the University sits gives this [...]

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Scholarship win for Jaslyn

JASLYN READER OF CHAVELLUM has been awarded the 2011 Sunshine Coast Events Centre Scholarship for the Performing Arts. Jaslyn who is 22 will receive a cheque for $2,500 to help her financially through her final year of study Jaslyn was selected to receive the scholarship by a panel of judges. Joan Benson OAM, cultural ambassador of The [...]

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A house with a HISTORY

FRAN DAVIES is so focussed on authenticity that she has had a special For Sale sign made to advertise her early 20th century home. Although Fran has decided to move on, she hopes that whoever buys the house will continue her restoration work and respect the history of this delightful Witta property. In 1901, aged 22, [...]

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PESTS BEWARE!

THIS NURSERY IS … Very Clean and Green AUSTRALIA’S AGRICULTURAL industries are beset by pests and disease which take constant vigil to control. But a fruit tree nursery in Woombye on the Sunshine Coast hinterland has just been awarded an international biosecure creditation – creditation based on the international Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) risk management [...]

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THE TWO LIVES OF Colin Petersen

The 1956 film character of Smiley, the young and loveable boy from the bush, has become an icon of the Australian personality. Colin Petersen was the nine year-old from Kingaroy who won the lead part and became an overnight film star. Within a few years he went from child screen sensation to international rock n’roll [...]

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Architect wins award for Maleny retirement homes

ARCHITECT DAVID GOLE says that living in Maleny helps get him into the right head space when it comes to designing homes for the Blackall Range. He must be right because his firm, Riddel Architecture has just been awarded House of the Year by the Sunshine Coast Regional Architecture Awards for David’s design of the [...]

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Remodel the jewellery you love…

WITH GOLD PRICES at an all time high (around US$1,500 an ounce), award-winning jewellers Jim Goulton and Ashley Naumann of Maleny Jewellers say now more than ever is the perfect time to refine and remodel family heirloom jewellery. “It makes sense to use the gold you already have” says Jim. “You may be pleasantly surprised to find [...]

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