Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Stacey Bentley… our Rhinestone Cowgirl

BELIEVE IT or not, here on the Hinterland we have Australia’s top rootin’ tootin’ shootin’ cowgirl. Well, they’re not the words that 15 year-old Stacey Bentley would use, nevertheless, she is the best young Paint Horse rider in the country, and this striking young woman will soon leave for Fort Worth, Texas to prove her own [...]

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Pattemore House: a window into Maleny’s past

ROB PATTEMORE has fond memories of his first five years in Maleny around the house built for his great grand-father, John Robert in 1908. Pattemore House is now owned by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council and forms part of the 126 hectare Maleny Precinct. John Robert Pattemore was a butcher by trade and arrived in Australia [...]

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Tree Changers…David and Helen Crewe

…about people who change their lives to settle on the Range and why they choose to stay Helen and David Crewe moved to the Hinterland only ten months ago. Their treechange was seeingly huge – from the small Mediterranean island of Gozo to the Blackall Range. However, this English pair are used to [...]

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New owners for Montville Country Cabins

THE NEW owners of Montville Country Cabins, Christine and Anton Kardash (pictured), were very excited to find such a beautiful property in an area thatt hey have loved for years. Regular visitors to the Sunshine Coast area, they are already familiar with Montville and are looking forward to playing an active part in the community. “We [...]

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Youth Orchestra to play for Zambian orphans

THE FIFTY members of the Sunshine Coast Youth Orchestra will devote a Sunday afternoon concert to supporting the Friends of Ebenezer Trust and its work with Zambian orphans. In Zambia, Africa, there are over 1 million vulnerable children affected by Aids and poverty. Friends of Ebenezer child care is a world-wide, tax-deductable trust, and its Maleny chapter, [...]

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New look for Mapleton Cabins

IF YOU HAVEN’T yet met the new owners of Mapleton Cabins and Caravan Park, Sherryl and Peter Walton, you may well have seen their eye-catching advertisement on wheels around the Range. Sherryl and Peter are well known to many Coast residents and they have made their tree change to Mapleton with the aim of making their [...]

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Explaining acts of God

Book Reviews: Michael Berry ON A RECENT television news bulletin a distraught resident of Port au Prince in Haiti faced the camera to declare that, “I have lost my wife and my children. I only have God now”. The horrific earthquake in Haiti and the 2004 tsunami that devastated coastlines to our north, are only two natural [...]

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The Rebel Priest Father: Peter Kennedy

BRISBANE CATHOLIC Priest Peter Kennedy was sacked by his Archbishop for contravening aspects of Catholic doctrine in February 2009. This was a crisis that had been brewing for several years and was as much about Peter’s shedding of Church formalities as it was about his personal struggles with the relevance of a heavily doctrinal church. Kennedy was [...]

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Cathy Lawley joins all-women house building project

LOCAL CLAY ARTIST, Cathy Lawley has been busily working on a water feature in clay for the past few months, exclusively designed for a house that has been entirely built by women. Instigated by Sam Sheppard, owner of The Buildmore Group, The Women Into Building Housing Showcase project aims to elevate awareness and acceptance of women [...]

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An officer and a gentleman…

RETIRED NAVAL Lieutenant Commander Grant Hammer has been honored at the Maleny RSL with a commemorative service before family, friends and naval colleagues. Grant passed away recently at the age of 69. Speakers at the service spoke of Grant’s compassion, loyalty, and mischievous sense of humour. He had joined the navy at 14 and served on [...]

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