Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

$hock windfall for Maleny Community Centre

The recent $1.65m commonwealth grant to complete the Maleny Community Centre refurbishment was a shock windfall according to the building’s management committee. According to committee member Bryan Hughes, the grant from RDF Australia, “will make us totally self-reliant, with no need to go cap in hand to Council for large funds”. The committee realised that in current [...]

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HINTERLAND CONNECTS A night of organised business networking

HINTERLAND CONNECTS is back! On Tuesday October 11 there’s a night of organised networking with coastal and hinterland businesses and a mini trade show. Maleny Commerce is also delighted to have secured one of Australia’s most dynamic speakers – Carren Smith – to host a free seminar. Through dramatic and violent, life-changing incidents, Carren Smith has [...]

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Conondale School wins Gary Crew Readers Cup

Conondale were the proud winners of the 2011 Gary Crew Hinterland Readers’ Cup. Left to right: June Hammond from Friends of the library, displaying their individual medals and the cup Nayana, Agnes, Ethan with founder Gary Crew. Maisy, Danae, Neve and Conondale teacher Phil Gaffney & Library Coordinator Patricia Stahl. STUDENTs from Conondale State School have won [...]

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Sarah Peters is our top cattle judge

MALENY HIGH student Sarah Peters won first place at this year’s EKKA in both the Junior Cattle Judging and Junior Cattle Handling competitions, beating a field of more than 300 youth from agricultural high schools across Queensland and NSW. It was a nerve-wracking experience for the 13 year-old, who says it was the largest crowd she’s [...]

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Restaurants race to raise money for Cambodia

WHEN ten hospitality teams compete in the Food and Beverage Cup at the Real Food Festival on Sunday September 11, it won’t be merely to entertain festival goers. Proceeds from the event will go to Plant It Forward, a grassroots aid project initiated 18 months ago by Chris Wright of the Terrace of Maleny Restaurant, [...]

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Bill Hauritz wins Lifetime Achievement Award

ON AUGUST 16, Woodford Folk Festival veteran Bill Hauritz was honoured with the G.W. McLennan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Queensland Music Awards for his contribution to Queensland music. We spoke to him about the significance of the win and how the festival was affected by the Queensland floods. What does winning this award mean to [...]

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Bellthorpe sprinter on track for Olympics

AUSTRALIA’S next Olympic sprinting sensation may well be 17 year-old Hugh Donovan, a quietly spoken teenager from Bellthorpe. Hugh recently returned home from the World Youth Athletics Championships in France, where he was the first Australian male athlete in ten years to represent Australia in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He posted the fastest time in [...]

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Local buffalo breeders return from world tour

BUFFALO breeding is still in its infancy in Australia but with Margaret and Mal Thompson (pictured) having won a Churchill Fellowship to study buffalo breeding overseas, that looks set to change. The innovative Maleny buffalo breeders recently returned from a whirlwind six-week tour of South America, Canada, England, Scotland, Bulgaria, Italy and Switzerland, and say the [...]

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Norm Richards wins state’s Best New Home Awards

Maleny-based building designer, Norm Richards has won further awards for his Range home designs. In the recent Queensland Building Design Awards Norm won Best New Home (351-450 sq m) for the Inside Out House and Best New Home ($1100-$1400 per sq m) for the Maleny Vista Home. Both homes were previous winners in the 2011Sunshine [...]

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Council supports arts incubator

Mainly through the lobbying efforts of glass artist, Tina Cooper and councillor Vivien Griffin, Sunshine Coast Council is conducting a feasibility study into the viability of a regional arts incubator. The broad study will explore location, function, arts stakeholders and commercial viability of the incubator. It was initiated mainly through the loss of a glass blowing [...]

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