Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Strong Christmas spirit in Montville

MONTVILLE is really getting into the Christmas spirit with a variety of shopping opportunities and displays up and down the main street. Montville retailers have created their own Christmas Spirit this year, with 40 businesses donating more than $8,000 worth of prizes for three enormous hampers. Each of the hampers is worth from $2,200 to $3,300 dollars [...]

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River School Calendar supports turtles

CLASS SIX at the Ananda Marga River School, with the help of Karen Shaw (Brush Turkey Enterprises), have designed and produced a calendar to raise funds for the Bribie Island turtle volunteers. The class had earlier been to Bribie Island and helped with sand dune revegetation and turtle fencing projects, and the students wanted to do [...]

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A Narrows Win

BOUTIQUE MONTVILLE resort, Narrows Escape Rainforest Retreat has won the Hosted Accommodation category in the Queensland Tourism Awards 2011. The awards are organised by the Queensland Tourism Industry Council, the peak body for tourism and hospitality in this state, with Tourism Queensland an award partner and sponsored by Queensland Airports Limited. “We have been delighted to be [...]

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Hinterland Artists make Chinese Connections

NOELA MILLS REPORTS. BUREAUCRACY was streamlined for our entry into China through the Sunshine Coast Sister Cities Association and sister city friendships with Xiamen and Jingdezhen. Our time was spent in four major cities in the south east of the country, meeting some wonderful artists in each area. Traditional brush painting and calligraphy was the most common [...]

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10 years of Colin’s fine foods

THEY say every dark cloud has a silver lining, and for Colin and Jean Cunningham it was the dark days of dairy de-regulation ten years ago that spurred them into setting up one of the most successful fine food businesses in Queensland. What they had to build on was Colin’s expertise as a former cheese maker [...]

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$60,000 in grants awarded to three Hinterland environment groups

ALL THREE of the major environment groups in the Maleny region – Lake Baroon Catchment Care, Barung Landcare and Green Hills – received funding in the recent round of grants from the Federal Government’s Caring for Country program. The CFC program attracted fifteen hundred applications of which they were able to fund less than a quarter, [...]

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Digital Future for 21 year-old Maleny Film Society

LAST MONTH the Maleny Film Society celebrated its 21st birthday, and over those 21 years no industry has seen as many changes in technology than the film and TV industry. Way back in 1990 a small and dedicated group of local movie-buffs set-up the fledgling society with hired projection equipment and a second-hand 35mm projector. There [...]

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From the Editor – November 2011

A dog with a message … ONE OF THE most popular movies ever shown at the 21 year- old Maleny Film Society was on Saturday October 22. Two hundred people turned up to the afternoon matinee of Red Dog and then the Community Centre was filled again for the evening session. This highly emotional, very funny and fantastically uplifting film [...]

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Hinterland Times judged … Best Newspaper in Country Queensland

THE SUNSHINE Coast Hinterland Times has been awarded Best Newspaper in country Queensland in the 2011 Queensland Country Press Awards. At the recent Gold Coast awards ceremony the Hinterland Times (HT) was chosen out of more than 30 newspapers across country Queensland as presenting the best overall coverage of news, features, design and technical excellence. Michael Berry [...]

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Zeke is top Australian Pharmacy Student

MALENY RESIDENT, Ezekiel (Zeke) Steindl, has been named the Alphapharm Pharmacy Student of the Year during a ceremony at the Pharmacy Australia Congress in Melbourne. Zeke won the added honour of also picking up the audience choice award for the event. National President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Grant Kardachi, congratulated Zeke and said he stood [...]

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