Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Take a walk with Evangeline …

HIGH PROFILE hinterland artist, Evangeline Cachinero will take a group of artists on a stimulating Kondalilla Falls walk. You’ve still got time if you want to join this small group. “I do the Kondallila Falls walk frequently,” says Evangeline“ and it’s one of my favourite spots. It will be nice to share the walk with other [...]

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Christopher Kremmer is Outspoken

CHRISTOPHER KREMMER is the Outspoken guest author in August in discussion with Steven Lang. Christopher first became known as a foreign correspondent for the ABC and then the Sydney Morning Herald. He went on to write the best-selling non-fiction titles, Carpet Wars, Inhaling the Mahatma and Bamboo Palace. His writing has been compared to that [...]

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IGA stores on the Sunshine Coast help to fund Real Food Festival

FOURTEEN IGA stores around the Sunshine Coast are getting behind the inaugural Real Food Festival in July. The Hinterland’s great supporter of community groups, Maleny Supa IGA owner, Rob Outridge, has received solid backing from other IGA stores in the region to provide financial support to the Festival. IGA will provide several thousand dollars to the organisers [...]

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Coffee with your Canine?

MALENY seems to be a town of dog-lovers and one can’t walk far on the main street before spotting a dog out for a meander with its owner. But try having a coffee with your dog in tow and you will soon run into difficulties. That’s because under existing Queensland laws, dogs (other than guide dogs) are [...]

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Sick Koala Creates Concert

A SICK KOALA in the driveway of Lucas Parklands – the iconic Montville concert hall in the rainforest – has been the spur for a major fundraising concert. Ian and Lee Lucas contacted the wildlife retrieval crew at Australia Zoo. Sadly, the koala had leukaemia and could not be saved. International concert pianist Pascal Roge is passionate [...]

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Did Cinderella live happily ever after?

IT’S GOING to be fun for the whole family at Christmas in Maleny this year, when the Maleny Players stage a traditional pantomime with a difference. It’s called ‘Cinderella: The Sequel’ and we find out what happened to her after she married Prince Charming. It may not be the story that innocent children are familiar with. However, [...]

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Walk this Way

Twenty off-the-beaten track adventures are in store for visitors to this year’s Sunshine Coast Hinterland Festival of the Walks THE SECOND Sunshine Coast Hinterland Festival of theWalks will feature over 20 guided walks from August 21-29. The guided walks, which range from 20 minute strolls to parts of the ‘GreatWalk’ of over five hours, will showcase the unique beauty and charm of [...]

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New Great Walk … a window into the Conondales – Ian Mackay

The recently-opened Great Walk Conondale Range is a trip back in time in more ways than one. The 56-kilometre circuit walk which begins and ends at the popular Booloumba Creek campgrounds provides much more than a glimpse of the spectacular forests, creeks and gorges for which the Conondale Ranges have become noted. WHILE the walk includes three new walkers’ [...]

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Maleny Film Society – August screenings

Saurday August 14 – MICMACS (France) M – Comic Fable – 105mins From the quirky, crazy mind of French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, Amélie) comes Micmacs, the story of a man named Bazil who sets out with his newly found misfit friends to destroy two big weapons manufacturers. This film is reminiscent of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin [...]

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A Cordial Get-Together

A HUNDRED years ago there wasn’t the choice of the dozens of brands of soft drink now available. Residents before 1910 would buy Pitman’s drinks and from 1910, softdrinks, including the renowned sarsaparilla, from Wimmers factory in Bury St, Nambour. The factory was situated on the site now occupied by the back portion of the [...]

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