Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Treasures of a hundred year-old Antarctic Expedition

Kev Franzi admits to being a squirrel. For most of his 80 years Kev has rarely thrown anything away. Which is a good thing because he has just unearthed some treasured items that have an important place in this octogenarian’s life-long interest in motion pictures. EV’S INTEREST in photography started when he was 13 and his [...]

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Anthony’s Guitar … …named Maleny

HINTERLAND LUTHIER, Anthony Pizzica has designed the 4552 Series guitar and put Maleny on the guitar players’ map. Anthony Pizzica has a simple philosophy of life but a practical one. After all, he’s a married man with a child, who spends most of his time crafting and repairing musical instruments. Anthony is an artist and he [...]

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A snapshot of Penny Riddoch

“THE WEDDING PARTY is running behind on a very tight schedule. The bride is fretting that her dress won’t fit. The groom, meanwhile, has forgotten to pack black socks and is worried his white socks will be seen. Time is ticking on…” IN BETWEEN SNAPS, the photographer offers reassurance. It’s OK, she says calmly. You look beautiful. No-one [...]

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Chef to the stars settles on the Hinterland

After years of travelling the globe as personal chef to celebrity actors and rock stars, Brent Cressey has established a café in Maleny. Julie Shelton had a chat with him to find out just why he’s picked this region. IT SOUNDS like a dream job: cooking for A-list performers, flying in private jets to exotic locations [...]

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This Act of Treachery …

“Slipper … is neither good-humoured nor personable, and even before becoming a serial rat, he was carrying a lot of political baggage. THERE is an old political saying: A man who will rat once will rat twice. Obviously it has escaped Tony Abbott, or if he has heard it he assumed it only applied to Labor [...]

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The woman who would be Sunshine Coast mayor

Sunshine Coast Councillor Debbie Blumel wants to be mayor of the next Sunshine Coast Council. At the time of going to press, she was the only councillor standing for the position, and the only woman. Debbie is known for her enormous hard work, both within council and on a variety of outside organisations. She agreed [...]

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Mark creates Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards

So, it is not surprising that the Sunshine Coast Council should ask Mark to design and cast in glass their Australia Day awards for 2012. For Mark’s awards design, he returns for inspiration to the Glasshouse Mountains, which have become the ubiquitous image of our Sunshine Coast environment and lifestyle. Over the years Mark has devised his [...]

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15 year-old Hinterlander’s passion for photography

PHOTOGRAPHY – Jye Hardin JYE HARDING is an extremely motivated 15 year-old photographer who is eager to show his talent and particularly reveal the beauty of our local environment. At 15 Jye is getting work experience at professional Studio Republic on the Coast, as well as soaking up as much as possible online from such photographers s [...]

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We need one more bell say … Flaxton’s Cottage Bell Ringers

ONE OF THE most vibrant groups at the Blackall Range Care Group in Flaxton is the Cottage Bell Ringers. For just over three years, this musical group of ‘hard knocks’ has been meeting at Flaxton to ring a set of Whitechapel Foundry-forged handbells made in the 1880s. The group consists of a mixture of local residents who [...]

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How can we put the Buzz back into Bees?

STEPHEN STILLMAN greets me at the door of his Eudlo shed in bare feet: bear-sized feet covered in honey and wax, offered hand just rinsed and dripping with water but still sticky. Here is a man obviously immersed in his work. With the sound of bees buzzing at the windows providing a gentle white-noise background to [...]

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