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Tree Changers…John & Rosemary Turnbull

8. April 2010

John and Rosemary Turnbull came from a 60,000 acre sheep and cattle property near Tambo in south-west Queensland to settle on three acres in Maleny. Too many droughts persuaded this couple to finally leave their 120 year-old heritage selection. Now they marvel at a landscape that is various shades of green and at a view [...]

Paul Randall … creative cabinet maker

8. April 2010

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INSTALLING a new kitchen into an old house can be daunting even to the most determined renovators. The disruption to normal life is enormous and the cost seems to spiral out of control. Fortunately for Jane Todd, who lives in a quaint Queenslander in Maleny, she found local cabinetmaker Paul Randall whose calming demeanour took [...]

Incredible storytelling

8. April 2010

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SOME LIFE stories are big. For example – the story of the northern Indian prince who swapped a hedonistic life for two saffron robes, a beggar’s bowl, and a life on the road. Last month, I spent three weeks in the footsteps of this lapsed prince, the Buddha – admittedly being transported by tourist bus and [...]

Stacey Bentley… our Rhinestone Cowgirl

9. March 2010

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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 [...]

Pattemore House: a window into Maleny’s past

9. March 2010

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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 [...]

Tree Changers…David and Helen Crewe

6. March 2010

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…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 [...]

New owners for Montville Country Cabins

6. March 2010

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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 [...]

Youth Orchestra to play for Zambian orphans

6. March 2010

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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, [...]

New look for Mapleton Cabins

6. March 2010

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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 [...]

Explaining acts of God

6. March 2010

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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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