Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Tea and Pendants at Pomodoras…

JOIN JODI OF POMODORAS on Obi and Frances of Jubeadilation for a delicious morning tea plus you will have a special opportunity to explore the wonders of swirling polymer clay to make a beautiful pedant. Frances is well known for her jewellery making workshops around the Sunshine Coast hinterland. She will introduce you to an [...]

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Sponsor Wendy’s walk for breast cancer research

I AM TYPICAL of the almost14,000 Australian women who found themselves being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, never thinking that it was ever going to happen to me. Apart from being a woman and over 60, I had no family history of cancer. Since hearing the words “you have cancer” (triple negative breast cancer) [...]

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Poets Café’s Animal A-fare!

FOR EIGHT YEARS the annual RSPCA gourmet food and wine evening, has been hosted by Ron and Helen Geyl’s Poets Café in Montville. This year Ron and Helen will once against host the function which has become highly valued by the RSPCA, and is a well established institution in Montville. The demands for the RSPCA’ [...]

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BUILDING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES “They’re wonderful people at the Blackall Range Care Group …”

The Blackall Range Care Group based in Flaxton is delighted at the response to its recent Healthy Lifestyles program which has seen many retired and elderly people join one of the Group’s nine activities from cooking to Tai Chi. HEALTHY LIFESTYLES organiser, Mary Russell says that the range of activities, from the intellectual to the [...]

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Musical Extravaganza in aid of Ebenezer Trust

THE 85 strong Sunshine Coast Youth Orchestra will headline the concert with outstanding performances from its four groups: string orchestra, wind ensemble, sinfonia strings, and concert orchestra. In a totally different musical direction, the Buderim Male Voice Choir, will be led by music director, Paul Coppens (above right). It is one of only two male [...]

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Rings … lost & found!

MALENY fund raising group, Friends of Ebenezer are raffling a gold diamond ring with a very intriguing background. It’s a composite of three rings, designed and made by local Maleny jeweller, Jim Goulton. The rings have been donated by a Maleny widow to benefit orphans in Livingstone, Zambia and each ring has an interesting past. [...]

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Help is needed for the care of Brett

ON 17th August 2008 Brett Dillon fell from a horse and suffered major brain injuries equivalent to having forty strokes. He was 29 at the time and has spent the last 3 years in intensive care, palliative care and now a slow rehab facility in Brisbane. Shortly this facility will be shutting its doors and [...]

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Clever way to fund-raise

WHILE THE Sunshine Coast Hinterland was spared the worst of the recent flood’s fury, two local girls imagined what it might be like to lose their homes to flooding. Soul Naylor (10) and Lily Lancaster (12) of Palmwoods spent 24 hours without using furniture or other comforts in order to gain a better understanding of [...]

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The Power of Morning Teas

THEIR NUMBERS may be small, but the twenty active members of the Maleny Hospital Auxiliary achieve huge benefits for the Hospital and its patients, and it’s all down to morning teas! For example, the Auxiliary recently contributed $15,000 towards the cost of a $26,000 ultrasound machine. Auxiliary President Eve Breiner told the Hinterland Times that [...]

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Hinterlanders help Bengali villagers

Later this month, six local hinterlanders will visit some of the poorest people in India. The Ten Days in India tour is being organised by a local organization set up to support a cluster of villages in the Purulia district of West Bengal. Shivanii Cameron, maleny resident and director of Prabhat alloi Foundation, works directly [...]

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