Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Getting the tills ringing in Montville

MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, author and inspirational story-teller Peter Kenyon captivated Montville business people recently with his countless stories of ordinary rural people who succeed by daring to be different. Peter was invited by Councillor Jenny McKay to present his powerful business tools for getting the most out of small business operations. Peter’s popular book, Good Enough Never Is [...]

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Fiddles, flutes and fun at Celtic Festival

The Blackall Range will ring with the sound of pipes, flutes, fiddles and drums this June with the return of the Maleny Celtic Winter School. The first Winter School, held in Maleny last year attracted over 100 budding musicians to attend classes run by some of Australia’s finest performers and teachers of Celtic music and [...]

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Next stage for Centre Renovation

FOLLOWING the successful fundraising ‘Bowl, Feast and Frolic’ event last month, the Maleny Community Centre is eager to move to the next stage of its $1 million target for the total renovation of the town’s well-loved meeting centre. Centre President Heather Spring said that it is almost the end of the financial year, and now is [...]

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MCU backs Zonta WIA competition

GREG STEVENS, CEO of MCU Ltd recently announced a major three year sponsorship of Women in Art in conjunction with the Zonta Club of the Blackall Range. MCU Ltd are sponsoring the major overall first prize of $1500 on an annual basis. This will be the major prize for the overall winner of WIA for [...]

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Zonta Changeover Cheques

AT THE RECENT Zonta Club of the Blackall Range changeover dinner at Poet’s Café in Montville, the club presented cheques to different local recipients. A wonderful dinner preceded the presentation of cheques for $500 each to Anita Kerr who accepted the cheque on behalf of the Sunshine Sanctuary, and Janet Forder on behalf of Lions Emergency [...]

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Mining the confusion with Mungo MacCallum

“Ministers couldn’t sell a cold beer in the Simpson Desert” FROM ANY RATIONAL standpoint, the government should have well and truly won the argument about its great big new tax on mining. Just about every respectable economist in the country has endorsed it, and the only real opposition has come from the financially self-interested miners themselves [...]

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The Feds step into Coast planning debate

Maxine McKew, the former journalist turned Labor politician, is the parliamentary secretary for infrastructure and regional development in the Rudd government. Maxine, made a quick trip to the Sunshine Coast recently to launch Regional Development Australia, and to scan her eyes over the Coolum beach on which she frolicked as a young girl. While Maxine is [...]

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Colin James scoops the pool!

COLIN CUNNINGHAM is used to winning awards for his ice-creams and gelati, and many trek to his Colin James store in the main street of Maleny, not only to try his quality desserts, but sample his extraordinary range of cheeses, relax with a light meal or a perfect espresso coffee. Now Colin and his team have [...]

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Green Army on the Move

THE QUEENSLAND Green Army under the Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative, is providing jobs that benefit both the environment and local people. In the Sunshine Coast Hinterland area, eight jobs have been created in a partnership between the Queensland Government and the Hinterland Business Centre in Maleny, putting workers into jobs in the local area. Co-operation [...]

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Caloundra Orchidfest

THE WHOLE of the Lake Kawana Community Centre will be ablaze with colour this month, as fourteen orchid societies, a bromeliad society and twenty-five nurseries show the best of their orchids, bromeliads, anthuriums and foliage plants at “Caloundra’s Golden Orchidfest”. This is a special opportunity to see a wonderful spectacle and delight in the array of fragrances. Admission [...]

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