Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Jill … my little sister

Jill was my little sister. We were born almost three years apart and had the usual sibling rivalry as kids. Our family emigrated to Australia in 1951 for a better climate as Jill suffered from chronic bronchitis. Jill went to an Anglican girls school and was a brilliant student, as well as being good at all [...]

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“I’ve got to go in around ten minutes!”

YOU HEARD her say it – I imagine everyone heard her say it at some time. “Come in for a cuppa, I’ve got to leave in around ten minutes.” That was Jill’s way of saying “I have time for you – but not too much time.” So you felt special and on a tight schedule at the [...]

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A great sense of community spirit

I WAS privileged to be able to call Jill Jordan my friend. Both my husband John and I had known Jill for many years and I watched with interest the various positions she occupied and her interesting and varied lifestyle. If one was to ask me what was so remarkable about Jill, I would have to [...]

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Hinterland foods on show

LOCAL food and beverage producers will showcase their finest and freshest regional produce as the stars of the inaugural Sunshine Coast Food Show to be held at Novotel Twin Waters Resort from 20-21 February. Local stallholders will offer tomatoes, cheeses, native foods, spring water, nuts, gelati, curry pastes and more for visitors to try, taste and [...]

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Lawley House joins Priscilla

BY DAVID PARMITER MORE THAN 60 members and invited guests attended the December launch of the Maleny Historical Society’s Q150 Grant restoration of the old building known as Lawley House, which was relocated to the Historical Village in Bryce Lane by volunteer members about 18 months ago and is now part of the Maleny Historical Museum. In [...]

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Mary Cairncross volunteers

THE MARY Cairncross Scenic Reserve volunteers celebrated recently (below) for taking out the 2009 Sunshine Coast Environment Awards “Eco Attraction Award”. Co-incidentally the award was sponsored by the Maleny Credit Union. The environment awards are affectionately known as “The Froggies” and the Mary Cairncross volunteers just beat Eco Tourism Noosa and Underwater World for their ‘eco’ award. The [...]

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Creative Cuts

Fundraiser for Utribe Festival Thanks to the generosity of many friends, the first fundraising gig for Utribe Festival is on at Crystal Waters on Saturday 5 December. With the line-up including Maleny’s Hayden Hack and band, Khan and band from the Sunshine Coast, Tim Loydell and the Deckchairs fresh from their recent east coast [...]

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Maleny’s Maple Street upgrade

Maleny’s Maple Street facelift has begun after 16 years of planning, several community consultation processes and budget bottlenecks inside Council. Sunshine Coast Regional Council has now started work on a beautification and road project that extends from Myrtle Street to the Obi Obi Creek Bridge. Stage one includes an upgrade to the Cooke Park frontage, a new [...]

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The Pipeline Cometh

Hinterland resident, Sammy Ringer describes himself as a “tree-changed ex-sap opera writer with an interest in wildlife and water” NEARLY TEN YEARS and many thousands of pages of wasted paper later, the Maleny Water Group is ready to lay down their fighting pens and keyboards and call it a day on the controversial [...]

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Bob Abbot taken by tanks

MALENY HAD an opportunity to show it could be sustainable in water but the pipeline was decided well before this Council was formed. The system that’s there now is a bulk water issue. It’s inefficient and unreliable and unfortunately, the state government has now taken bulk water out of our [...]

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