Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Ralph’s 100 year legacy in Montville

RALPH DART was an early Montville pioneer whose generous donation of land to the Methodist Church sees that donation celebrate 100 years in 2012. Ralph Dart acquired 58 acres on Negus Lane in 1898. He named his farm Coulridge, and grew oranges with pineapples planted between the rows to be marketed, with a wide variety [...]

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Montville Memories: Children in Church

Several contributors to the new Montville Methodist/ Uniting Church commemorative book, “100 Years of Blessing” recall their childhood association with that church and the community stories surrounding it. ONE VERY dexterous young girl somehow managed to tie a piece of cotton around a March fly. She recalled then letting it go to fly around the church [...]

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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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$hock windfall for Maleny Community Centre

The recent $1.65m commonwealth grant to complete the Maleny Community Centre refurbishment was a shock windfall according to the building’s management committee. According to committee member Bryan Hughes, the grant from RDF Australia, “will make us totally self-reliant, with no need to go cap in hand to Council for large funds”. The committee realised that in current [...]

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River School’s Spring Festival

COME enjoy a day of fun, music and arts, delicious food and wholesome entertainment for the whole family at the River School Spring Festival, on Sunday 16 October, 10am-4pm. Organised by the parent committee, the River School will open its doors with a variety of interesting stalls, live music featuring Purusha, Laurie Elshaug, Hayden Hack Infusion, [...]

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MALENY High student Ruby Scott, 15, is having the adventure of a lifetime as an exchange student in Costa Rica for six months. She’s living in Puntarenas, on the Pacific coast, and attends the local high school. We asked her to write us a ‘postcard’ and tell us about life in Costa Rica and what [...]

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A small Hunchy farm is changing lives

IT’S EARLY August and the afternoon sun is beating down on the young farm workers. Jesse Price, Matt McMahon and Jenna Best are busy digging a new garden bed and are more than happy to take a break while they pose for the camera. They are part of a team of 17 school leavers with intellectual [...]

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The Joining Gathering

The Joining gathering, held each year at Ewan Maddock Dam, brings men and women together to explore the masculine and feminine and to connect with others in a sacred and ritualistic way. It’s a gathering that is not only festive and fun, but deeply transformational. The ninth annual Joining is being held on September 22 to [...]

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Little school makes a BIG Difference

“It is an amazing community of families here who all care about and are involved in the school’, says Lavina. “I have always believed that small schools hold a magical formula for being able to make students feel like they are part of a big family and that all ages have to work together to [...]

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Renovations to start on Maleny Precinct’s Pattemore House

CONSERVATION works have started on Pattemore House, the historic centrepiece of Maleny’s Community Precinct. Architect Roger Todd says there are key structural upgrades that need to be done to bring the heritage house up to public building standards. The biggest job is making the house cyclone-proof. “It will also involve landscaping works, making toilets accessible, installing [...]

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