Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Great new events and old favourites at … Maleny Agricultural Show

   There is new entertainment, live music, specialty children’s entertainers,new competitions plus all your old favourites on offer at the 76th Maleny Agricultural Show – at the Maleny Showgrounds Friday May 31 and Saturday June 1. A highlight of the Show on Friday, are a group of skydivers who will jump into the Showgrounds. NEW [...]

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Hands-on Tuition from the experts at the Expo WoodShed Workshops

THREE VERY DIFFERENT master woodworkers will run WoodShed Workshops at this year’s Maleny wood Expo. Maleny’s Donald Powell, an award-winning wood sculptor, will give a Wood-carving Workshop each day. Don teaches extensively, contributes regularly to national wood magazines and received a Churchill Fellowship to study wood-carving teaching methods in 1996. A virtuoso carver, his work [...]

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MALENY WOOD EXPO 2013 … expect much more than wood!

Promoting sustainable use of timber resources and concern for the ongoing availability of native timbers, dictates that wood exhibitors utilise only sustainably harvested native timbers, or weed or recycled timbers. Although small by comparison to its big city woodshow cousins, the Expo continues to attract both exhibitors and visitors who appreciate the ethic, the space [...]

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A weekend to cuddle Alpacas!

SEVERAL FARMS on the Sunshine Coast and hinterland are celebrating National Alpaca Week by opening their gates and inviting you to come along and join in the fun. Jeff Willis, (seen below with his wife, Jill), owner of Sunline Alpacas at Palmwoods, said: “Alpacas are really interesting animals and not many people have had the [...]

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Maleny Wood Expo 2012 … bigger, better, busier

ALL ROADS will be leading to the Hinterland on May 5-6 as thousands of visitors converge on the Maleny Showgrounds for the 16th annual Maleny Wood Expo From Chainsaw to Fine Furniture. These lovers of timber and woodwork come from everywhere to soak up the wonderful world of wood. They come from Bundaberg and Byron, [...]

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Wood Workshops back in 2012

THE 2012 MALENY WOOD EXPO welcomes the return of the popular workshop series run several years ago. Two of Maleny’s leading furniture-makers, Richard Knight and Randy DeGraw, will hold workshops for Expo visitors over the weekend. In Richard’s workshops, to be run serveral times over the weekend, participants will learn the age-old technique of making [...]

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Strong cash sponsorship for Wootha Art Prize

THANKS to the support of committed sponsors for the 2012 Wootha Prize, significant cash prize awards will be made to this year’s winners. Forestry Plantations Queensland, Landcare Queensland and Wasabi Marketing, Maleny, have all committed increased prize monies for the Wootha Prize during this year’s Maleny Wood Expo. A first prize of $2,500 is generously [...]

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Freestyle Escape captures celebrity chefs

MARTIN DUNCAN’S stunning Freestyle Escape outdoor cooking school, near to Dulong on the Sunshine Coast hinterland, has attracted a swag of celebrity chefs for 2012. Freestyle’s class sizes ensure that each participant’s experience includes valuable one-on- one time with some of Australia’s most talented chefs. Those chefs attracted by Martin (below right) to this wonderful [...]

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Bush & Beach Walkers -

Walking schedule for January & February 2012 Tues 10 Jan: 7am Bush Walk – Baroon Pocket to Kondalilla Falls. Medium/Hard walk. 3.5 hrs/11 klms Tues 17 Jan: 7am Bush Walk – Mapleton National Park – T3 track. Easy walk. 2.5 hrs/7 klms Tues 24 Jan: 7am Bush Walk – Booloumba Falls to Booloumba Creek Day [...]

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Keneally is Outspoken

Outspoken, the literary arts initiative of the Maleny Community Centre will host renowned author Tom Keneally at the end of November. Tom has been declared one of Australia’s Living Treasures by the National Trust. His novels have attracted extraordinary acclaim around the world, and have won prizes that include the Man Booker Prize (for Schindler’s [...]

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