Eumundi Rotar y shar ing the voices of Eumundi and sur round s Issue 38, Thursday 17 February 2022
Australia Day honours for Eumundi local, Dr Sue Davis OAM
Congratulations to Eumundi local Dr Sue Davis who was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) on Australia Day for her services to education and performing and regional arts. In her own words, Dr Davis “loves a good project” and she’s certainly been involved in and led many. She taught at Noosa High School, then in Brisbane and has created and directed many youth theatre performances. Until recently Dr
Davis was the Director of Publications at Drama Australia. After moving to Eumundi in 2005 Dr Davis completed a Masters degree and began work at Central Qld University’s (CQU) Noosa campus. When she left in 2020 she was Deputy Dean for Education and the Arts across the CQU network of campuses and remains an Adjunct Associate Cont. p3 Professor.
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Cont. from p1 Not one to sit still for long, she was a founding member and later President of the Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance from 20072019. She advised the Sunshine Coast Council on its 20-year Arts Plan launched in 2018 and her model was adopted and expanded by the Bundaberg and Fraser Coast Councils. Dr Davis has an interest in activating history through drama and loves a good story. After learning that Australian playwright George Landen Dann died in Eumundi in 1977, she discovered that Dann had gone to collect his dog from friends in Eumundi, was ill, and his friends suggested he stay overnight. He died that night. Dr Davis helped resurrect several plays written by Dann during the 1930s. They had fallen from public view, although one had been well known following a scandal when Dann wrote about the plight of Indigenous people and featured such characters in the play. Dr Davis is now focused on her latest project Wild/Flower Women. She has curated a series of exhibitions of women artists centred on contemporary responses to the environment, heritage and wildflowers. She hosts guided walks and workshops at the best wild flowering locations around the Sunshine Coast and was inspired by a set of dusty books she found at Berkelouw’s in Eumundi by wildflower artist Kathleen McArthur and her friend, poet Judith Wright. Dr Davis is motivated by creating something with others and by seeing others succeed, whether students or artists. Her teaching background, research and project management skills and love of a good story underpin her strong contribution to education, arts and drama. Rhonda Piggott
What’s on?
Park Sounds Pack the picnic rug and head to Dick Caplick Park from 2-5pm on Sunday 27 February for another delightful Park Sounds with Cora & Lochie, Yeah The Girls, Little Mountain Duo and August River Band brought to the community by The Imperial Hotel Eumundi.
Symphony season The Sunshine Coast Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2022 season. Favourites from their first 50 years will be held at Venue 114, Bokarina on 26 March. See Symphony by the Sea in May at Coolum and a collaboration with Sunshine Coast Youth Orchestra in July at Bokarina. Later in the year there will be a Symphony Under the Stars open-air event at Montville and Rhapsody and Carmina at Bokarina and Peregian Springs. The final event for the year will be A Night at the Proms on 3 December. For details and to subscribe to e-newsletters visit: www.sunshinecoastsymphonyorchestra.com.
Harvest Swap Eumundi Harvest Swap’s next monthly meet and swap is from 10am on Thursday 24 February at 79 Memorial Dr Eumundi. Look for the driveway that runs next to the Smart Pups Rewind & Relove boutique. The swap is held in the area at the top of the driveway used for The Pavilion market and parking is available. Wendy Birrell 3
New in town
Pilates at Kula Farm
Dancing in Doonan
Pilates is a type of mind-body exercise developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. It is practised worldwide and concentrates on strengthening the body, especially ‘core strength’.
Margaret Shepherd has started Magz Jazz dance and exercise classes in Doonan for adults on Tuesday mornings. The focus is to develop strength, flexibility, balance and memory. Margaret explained, “It is a most enjoyable way to achieve improved fitness and energy, to lift the spirit and for movement to benefit wellbeing.”
Kula Farm on the Eumundi-Noosa Rd is the location of John Cawley’s Pilates classes. John is an experienced Pilates instructor, personal trainer and food coach and has worked at Pilates studios in Sydney and on the Sunshine Coast. John is passionate about helping clients improve their movement and become stronger and his classes suit all levels of fitness. He also plans to offer kids’ exercise classes. “The key focus of the Pilates classes is the correct technique to assist clients to improve posture and muscle imbalances, as well as providing a full-body workout,” he said. “The fitness classes are a combination of strength and cardio with a major focus on functional movement. You can take it at your own pace and exercises can be adapted for injuries.” Contact: john@plantbasedlife.com.au.
Margaret’s love of dance started with classical ballet classes at age six. This early training led to the exciting world of jazz including classes with Ronnie Arnold of Alvin Ailey Dance New York, and for many years, classes with the Sydney Dance Company. She has also taught Ballroom and Latin American dance with Arthur Murray’s Dance Studio, winning first place in Tango and second in Waltz in worldwide competitions held in the USA. Recent participation in the Qld Ballet Teachers for Seniors Workshop certifies her to teach the foundations of classical ballet. Contact Margaret on 0425 269 988 or email: magzshep@gmail. com.
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Indigenous songs, late Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces and brand new works. “Yes, we are dreaming big by starting a new arts organisation in the middle of a global pandemic but as Uncle Kev Carmody so eloquently said, ‘from little things, big things grow’ and we have big and bold dreams. Tickets online at Eventbrite. Visit: www.australianvocalensemble.com.
Tumbling Like Stars concert World-class cappella vocal quartet the Australian Vocal Ensemble (AVÉ) will perform their Tumbling Like Stars concert at Eumundi School of Arts Hall for one special night from 7pm on Friday 4 March. AVÉ sees Eumundi’s ARIA award winning artist Katie Noonan joined by three extraordinary, internationally renowned artists – mezzosoprano Fiona Campbell (Perth), tenor Andrew Goodwin (Sydney) and bass-baritone Andrew O’Connor (Sydney). “I want to illustrate Queensland’s integrous creative leadership by establishing Australia’s only professional classical vocal quartet. I believe it is vital to use the human voice to tell the stories of our time and place and encourage our audiences to use their voice,” said Katie. “We aim to create an unparalleled music experience for audience members – a chance to explore new Australian composers, hear
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Offbeat Music Festival Eumundi will host the Offbeat Music Festival from 12 noon to late on Saturday 26 March with two stages. Festival Organiser Alice Jones outlined a fantastic line-up including: Holy Holy, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Emma Donovan & The Putbacks, Hayley Mary, Kallidad, Dear Doonan, Kurilpa Reach, Karl S. Williams, Fragile Animals, Palomino III, The Rumbrellas and local favourites The Gubbi Gubbi Dance. Just one of these top acts is Dallas Frasca. Dallas is the frontwoman of the award-winning rock outfit alongside Eumundi’s long-time collaborator Jeff Curran. Dallas has toured the world supporting the likes of Ugly Kid Joe, Patti Smith and Aerosmith, clocking over 1,000 shows with her band including nine international tours. She has a Top 30 Australian ARIA charting album under her belt and a #10 Australian album. Dallas won the Artist of the Year at the Independent Music Awards and was a finalist at the inaugural Women in Music Awards in 2018 in the Artistic Excellence category. She also showed her guitar skills to 1.5 billion viewers at the closing ceremony of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
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Featuring World Premiere performances from their David Malouf song cycle showcasing Australia’s finest composers, alongside new arrangements of Bach, Handel and Tomás Luis de Victoria
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Andrew Goodwin Tenor Andrew O'Connor Bass Baritone
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mix of the old and the new, highlighting Australian culture in all its forms.” - Limelight
Fri 4 March | Eumundi School of Arts, Eumundi / Gubbi Gubbi Country QLD www.australianvo calensemble.com
AVÉ is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
What’s on
during the International Year of Women the Whitlam Government supported events and a Women in Politics Conference to examine how women were represented in Australian politics. In 1977 the UN General Assembly invited member states to proclaim 8 March as the UN Day for women’s rights and world peace. Today International Women’s Day celebrates womanhood and women’s achievements. Janet Millington President QCWA Eumundi branch
International Women’s Day On 8 March annually the world celebrates the contribution and achievements of women and imagines a world without bias, stereotypes and discrimination. Qld’s Country Women’s Assoc (QCWA) Eumundi Branch will celebrate International Women’s Day in the CWA Hall from 10am on Tuesday 8 March for morning tea with presentations at 10.30am. Of course there will be cake and scones. Guest speakers include women from different countries and cultures who will share how they deal with the issues of relocation. There will also be open discussion about how we can support each other to reach our full potential in all aspects of our lives. The day has been celebrated in Australia since the early 1920s around the time the Country Women’s Association was established. The first rally was held in 1928 at the Sydney Domain with another in Melbourne in 1931. The Women’s Movement gained momentum after WWII when women, doing the same work as men, received 54% of a man’s wage. In 1975
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Women awakening consciousness Three local women are running a new course called The Starseed Sisterhood from 20 February, a 10-month journey of innovative online material and regular in-person gatherings for connection and experiential learning. It is a community of like-minded, like-hearted women for support and compassionate accountability. The course covers dimensions of the body – womb, heart, mind and spirit – while nurturing the sisterhood community. There are weekly exercise routines to strengthen, stretch and balance body, mind and spirit and monthly guided walks. Samantha Starshine explained the program reminds us, “We are all made of stardust” and is for women of all ages and stages on their journey. Visit: www.samanthastarshine. com or phone 0425 620 719.
Eumundi Dental is delighted to welcome Dr Ian Crump to our surgery. He brings with him over 20 years of experience. Eumundi Dental and Dr Crump look forward to welcoming his new and existing patients to Eumundi. Eumundi Dental’s goal has always been to provide a clinic where patients feel they are coming to see a friend who just happens to be a dentist. This way they will always feel calm. Who doesn’t like catching up with a friend? All our patients are important to us. So, whether you come every six months or just a one off with toothache, we want to know about you, not just about your teeth. We offer a range of dental services from preventative to surgical care at affordable prices. If you wish to make an appointment or just ask about what dental care we can offer, don’t hesitate to call us.
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Community Chinese lunar new year Artist Zhong Chen’s Year of the Tiger painting on rice paper is courtesy of The Gallery Eumundi: www.thegalleryeumundi.com.au. The traditional greeting for the lunar new year, Cantonese Gong Hei Fat Choy is a congratulatory message and a wish for prosperity and strength. The Year of the Tiger was celebrated for the first fortnight in February 2022 by over a billion people worldwide and included visits to family and friends, parades, feasting and cleaning out homes to sweep away any ill fortune and make way for incoming good luck.
George Best Snr & family C1919 when his three sons returned from WW1
Browne/Best family reunion Are you among the many descendants in the Browne/Best family tree? Either from George and Sarah Browne (managed Yandina Station for 20 years), or George and Emily Best (butcher and Maroochy Shire Councillor). Or from William Browne and Grace Elizabeth Best, whose marriage united both families. These families were early settlers in the Yandina and Eumundi Districts. You are welcome to attend a family reunion 10am-2.30pm on Sunday 20 March at Yandina Arts Hall. BYO morning tea and lunch or support local cafes. Please confirm attendance with Trevor and Norma Browne. Email: tnbrowne@bigpond.com, or phone 0498 964 112 or 02 6672 5365. 10
Bowed but not broken Humdrum staff are welcoming regulars to their temporary service from their Padre coffee van at the back of the burnt-out premises on Memorial Dr, currently open 6.30-11.30am Monday to Friday. Manager Katrina Chapman said the business owners have done “their very best” to continue to provide service and retain core staff. With school starting, more regulars are requesting their coffee favourites and learning about plans for temporary café premises. One owner, Steve Arthy, said the community spirit is helping them regain their strength. The Store premises, part of The Imperial Hotel, has been made available as a pop-up site with Humdrum preparing to move there in coming weeks. Chef Tom will prepare as many favourites as possible all in a takeaway format including salads, gourmet sandwiches and toasties, Humdrum bowls and sweet treats, together with a few special surprises.
Happy 80th A large group of Eumundi aquarobics friends celebrated Anne Kiellerup’s 80th birthday at the Rotunda in Dick Caplick Park recently. Anne, an original member of the group, was thrilled by all the good wishes she received.
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feel good about ourselves for giving the frogs a chance. Visit: www.watergum.org/greatcanetoadbust for information, an identification guide and how to treat toads humanely.
Two baby frogs (Photo by Finn)
Local cane toad bust A recent Australia-wide promotion to reduce the cane toad population inspired Finn, who lives in Doonan and is aged 12, to act. Thanks Finn for sending Eumundi Voice your wonderful article! We were inspired by the National Great Cane Toad Bust and collected 10 toads from our garden’s pool area along with three or four strings of eggs. We then double bagged them and put them in the fridge for a day, then the freezer for 24 hours to humanely kill them. We discovered that toads that are frozen straight away experience great pain as ice crystals form in their veins. A few days later we woke up and found a kookaburra near the pool. We went to check it out and found dozens and dozens of green tree frogs and an abundance of frog eggs flourishing in the pool area. We have lived here for six years and never removed any cane toads and never saw any frogs. It really made a difference removing the cane toads. We thought we would have no impact on the toad population but clearly we did! We
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enforcement to reduce speed and drink and drug drivers. In January Eumundi Police responded to 37 calls for service or emergency incidents including the Humdrum Espresso fire and a house fire at North Arm. Police were also called to attend an assault on Caplick Way in Eumundi, six Contravene Domestic Violence orders and 13 other investigations relating to domestic violence which resulted in four applications for domestic violence orders required. This is the largest increase in domestic violence investigations in a month since I started at Eumundi three years ago. Three offenders were also charged with drug possession and two drivers charged with drug driving.
Eumundi Police charged six offenders in January for a break-and-enter, unlawful possession of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, identity fraud and other fraud-related offences. Highway Patrol issued 66 tickets in response to the increase in traffic crashes. On behalf of the Eumundi Police (Blair, Gary and Warwick) and our administration officer Deb we would like to thank the community for their ongoing support and assistance during our investigations. Sgt Ryan Hanlon – Officer in Charge Eumundi Police Hanlon.Ryanp@police.qld.gov.au ,131444 – Policelink
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Nature
Cooroy Flame Tree (Courtesy Phillip Moran Noosa Landcare)
Poinciana
Red flowers
Cassia Rainbow Showers
For many of us a ‘magnificent red’ comes in a wine glass but two other reds brought some glorious colour to summer.
A spectacular flower at the Noosa Botanic Gardens is Cassia Rainbow Showers. This large tree is a sterile hybrid cross between C. javanica and C. fistula with flowering in many shades of pale pink through to yellow and orange combining the colours of both its parents. Alan Lander
The flame tree Brachychiton acerifolius is relatively common along the east coast of Australia from NSW to Cape York. There is a huge specimen at Cooroy but the ones in Eumundi at the top and bottom of Memorial Dr are teenagers. The inner bark of flame trees was used by Indigenous people for making string, fishing nets and traps as well as being a food resource according to Russell Barrett, a botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. “The large seeds are rich in protein and taste rather like raw peanuts. They were commonly cooked before they were eaten to ensure that all the irritating hairs were burnt off.” The other magnificent red is the poinciana Delonix regia. Eumundi has a row near the railway station which are kept busy wiping the tops of passing trucks. The poinciana is native to Madagascar and can grow up to 10 metres, but is mostly 3-5 metres and can take 10 years to flower if grown from seed. Old leaves are shed in spring but new leaves grow immediately. Due to its spreading habit is it not a tree suitable for a small yard or near a pool. The large brown pods are distinctive, like a giant bean. Both worth the wait… like a fine wine. Ruth Hickey 16
Bunya cooking Glenda Thomas had plenty of Bunya nut cones crashing onto the ground at her Ridgewood property and decided to make Bunya flour. Bunya Pines are native to Australia and are revered bush food by Aborigines. Getting the nuts out of the pinecone is the hardest part – I used gloves and a lot of effort. If you time it right the parts loosen and are easy to pull apart. Once
the nuts are free of the cone, boil for 30 minutes. Then, another tricky part: use a knife and strong secateurs to get the nuts out of the thin, hard shell. Next step was to dehydrate the nuts. I used my dehydrator but you can use the oven. Put them on a tray at 150 degrees for at least one hour. Once dry the nuts are dry, grind them into flour using a food processor. Keep the processed nuts and flour in the fridge. You can also try using the boiled nuts in a curry, equivalent to potato. I decided to add some Bunya nut flour as well as plain flour to this recipe for Macadamia Shortbread. They turned out with a bit of a crunch to them from the bunya nut – sort of like rice flour.
This year is already moving so fast and there are many exciting projects in the works for Experience Eumundi and our town! We’ve just turned the corner on our first public holiday of the year falling on a lively market day Australia Day! EDCA with support from Experience Eumundi put on a show with live music, food and kids activities with an incredible turn out. We recently released our new hospitality video featuring many of our local businesses and a couple of new faces in town including Bask, Popina and a hint of The Bungalow with the fireplace in the background. Be sure to check out your new local restaurants and share the Experience Eumundi videos with your friends from out of town!
Macadamia Shortbread Ingredients 90g pure icing sugar (has no cornflour) 165g butter 1 cup chopped macadamias 240g plain flour or substitute 100g bunya flour Pinch of salt Method Preheat oven to 150 C. Cream butter and sugar well. Add salt, macadamias and then flours. Stir until combined. Turn mixture onto floured surface using your hand. Push out to 1 cm thickness. Dip your cutter into flour and cut out as many as you can. Arrange on lined tray. Bake until lightly golden usually about 10-15min depending on size of shortbreads. Cool on trays. Store in an airtight container.
On that note, we now have a beautiful addition to our accommodation selection to welcome your out of town guests - House of Local Art (HOLA). If you haven’t seen the quality of design and workmanship in our very own local boutique accommodation, you must check them out, just behind the Imperial. With borders now opening and as we welcome our visitors, we’ve secured some additional funding from Visit Sunshine Coast to assist us in promoting our town further. Stay tuned for some fun Eumundi events we’re working on, coming soon. If you own a business in town and have a new product, menu or news you’d like to share, be sure to reach out, bamik@experienceeumundi.com.au. To see new Experience Eumundi videos and features, visit: experienceeumundi.com.au/blog.
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Valentine’s Day Best and worst Valentine
One Valentine’s Day I will always remember... My then fiancé was taking me to the cinema and dinner. I waited outside the cinema for an hour and a half in the damp cold of an English February. He finally arrived with a huge box containing a giant card with the most gaudy, padded blood-red heart and sickly words. He hadn’t even written any of his own, just his name. We obviously had missed the film and it was too late to go and eat anywhere. His excuse? He said that he forgot. That relationship didn’t last much longer! My worst… That’s an easy one. We were sailing on our boat in Thailand, miles away from a town and anchored in a remote bay, when my beloved presented me with a Valentine’s gift. How sweet, I thought. He’s bought it before and saved it for
today. Wrapped in brown paper – okay, wrapping is not his forte. My romantic gift? Two aluminium anodes which we use to reduce corrosion on the hull. Round, shiny and heavy but not the silver necklace they could have been. Stored in the bilge and brought out for this special occasion. “I thought you’d want something useful,” he said. I didn’t throw them overboard – they might lack an iota of romance but they were useful. Our best... My now husband and I left the UK to begin a new life in Australia on Valentine’s Day. We started the day in London and ended the day in Raffles Long Bar drinking Singapore Slings before carrying on down to Australia a while later. My fave Valentine’s Day by far! It’ll be 18 years ago this year!
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Q7. Are chocolates or flowers a better gift on St Valentine’s Day? Q8. How many St Valentine’s Day cards did you receive?
A8 Only you know. Q1. Was St Valentine a real person?
A6 St Valentine’s Day, with over 1 billion cards world-wide.
Now that St Valentine’s Day has come and gone, how much do you know about what all the fuss was about?
A7 The US National Confectioners’ Association says chocolates over flowers for both men and women.
St Valentine’s Day quiz
A5 The Hall brothers with their Hallmark cards.
Q6. How many Valentine’s Day cards are sent?
A1 Yes, he was executed by Roman Emperor Claudius II around 270 AD.
Q5. Who was responsible for mass marketing St Valentine’s Day cards?
A2 Lovers, bees, epileptics and the mentally ill.
Q4. When was St Valentine’s Day commercialised?
A3 It contained verses and sentiments to inspire those unable to write their own verses.
Q3. What was the purpose of the 1797 Book for Lovers?
A4 In the early 20th century.
Q2. St Valentine is the patron of …?
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Youth
No school for two weeks! The kids are back at school now but the twoweek delay for some brought cheers or tears. Eumundi Voice readers share their experiences of the Covid delay. From a grandparent. I was very excited when I heard school start was delayed. I had the pool toys, lost enough Christmas weight to fit back into my cossie, and then the grandkids were accepted as children of essential workers and wanted to go to school! Just starting high school. I’m 12 and have recently moved from Brisbane. Starting high school can be intimidating, especially when you
move to a new area. Considering I have spent the last eight weeks with my friends, moving into a new house and preparing to start school, I was disappointed when school was pushed back. It just meant an extra two weeks off and more time to prepare. Mother of two. For me the kids going back to school means getting back into school routines and managing this while running my business. It’s an exciting time for them both after the long wait to start the school year. My daughter said, “Going back to school means starting an exciting journey at a new school, reuniting with my old friends and making new ones!” For my son it was, “Going back to school means new challenges – being my last year of primary school and taking on the role of school captain – which I am excited and honoured to be a part of. “ Year 12 student. Online learning made it very difficult for me to achieve the same level of productivity as I achieve in the classroom. The value of a committed teacher and an engaged classroom are, in my opinion, imperative to learning success and development. After effectively losing two weeks of in-class learning with the same deadlines my start to my final year has been quite stressful. At the National Youth Science Forum
Youth experiences Eumundi Rotary is hosting a youth evening 6-7pm on Thursday 3 March in the CWA Hall and the public is invited to attend. Eumundi Rotary has sponsored several young people over recent months to attend a range of Rotary programs which involve “getting to know yourself”, networking, teamwork, communication and leadership. At this evening young people will share their experiences. To attend please advise the Eumundi Rotary Youth Coordinator Greg Molyneux, phone 0431 222 597. 20
the general day- to-day of what is happening on school grounds. Concerned parents or parents of vulnerable students have been supported by teachers and school staff to come on-site when needed, with an ongoing focus on student and staff health and wellbeing. Current restrictions and the State Government’s ‘Back to School’ plan are due to end on Friday 4 March.
Prep teacher Madison Dohle with A/Principal Sarah McDonagh
Eumundi State School Eumundi State School students were welcomed back after the state-wide two-week delay to the start of the school year. Welcomed also were new teachers Madison Dohle for Prep and Ruki Innis for Year 4. Masks removed briefly for photographs. Acting Principal Sarah McDonagh said that, “Kids have sailed eagerly back to their classes and although they enjoyed their extended holiday, they were keen to be back.”
A/Principal Sarah McDonagh with Yr 4 teacher Ruki Innis
“Student attendance is high and teachers are impressed with the smooth, calm and positive way they have returned to school – ready to reconnect with friends, meet new classmates and start learning. “We were particularly impressed with the confidence and preparedness of the Prep students who have settled easily into their new classroom and playground environments. “Parents and families have been highly supportive of the school and staff throughout the process of implementing the changing Covid restrictions and Dept of Education guidelines.” Across the State, schools have been asked to limit the number of visitors on site, however parents of Prep and Year 1 students may come onto school grounds and to their children’s classrooms to help settle children. Teachers and school leaders are maintaining email bulletins to help keep parents informed about changes to school procedures, health and safety processes, classroom learning and
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Careers
owners. Their advice and journeys to success are woven between the author’s advice. The book began as an idea years before its creation, when Coby wished there was a guide to help her understand what she was doing when starting her own business. At the time she could not find any books in Australia written for young kids about a business – only American success stories. It is written to help other young budding entrepreneurs on their unique journey.
Coby’s book launched at Berkelouw Books Eumundi
Start your own business Eumundi Voice interviewed Coby Lee whose book Thrive: A Young Entrepreneurs Guide to Starting a Business was recently published and is available at Berkelouw Books Eumundi. Thrive: A Young Entrepreneurs Guide to Starting a Business is an interactive guide to assist young entrepreneurs in their journey to starting their own business, side hustle, or gain independence. Coby’s book comprises a dozen interviews with young Australian entrepreneurs and business
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“Having the freedom of deciding when I work and the ability to make my own income through what I do is fantastic. Alongside meeting amazing people and interviewing and networking nights, it’s incredible how many possibilities there regardless of where you are at in life, both in age and experience,” she said. There were also some roadblocks on the way: “Having to deal with the negative association with experience and age, the negative and societal standards of how things have been done in the past and how they should be done today.”
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Coby Lee was born in Coffs Harbour NSW and moved to Cooroy at the age of eight, living there until 2021. By age 12 she was selling succulents and her two fiction novels at popup car boot sales and small markets along the coast and hinterland including Yandina Markets and school-based markets. In senior school she started supplying succulents to local Cooroy businesses.
A key to success of course is support. “The main emotional support in my endeavours came from my family and friends. The support of creating the book came from my mentor Michelle Tzar, the owner of Sumavi Beach Accessories, and my interviewees who I had the most amazing and inspiring conversations with. Regarding financial support, I spent a couple of years saving up and using my other income hobbies.” Coby studies full-time and does some entrepreneurial teaching. She is working under a personal brand, inspiring, and building materials that will better help and guide other young entrepreneurs through her book, video content and occasional speaking gigs. Contact Coby at: www.misscobylee.com.
Career change in a time of Covid Australians may “still call Australia home” but many have found other amazing places to live and work. Andrea Hinwood explains her dramatic decision to move to a foreign country to follow her passion. It’s now been a couple of months since I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya coming from Perth WA after a stint in Melbourne as the Chief Environmental Scientist of the Environmental Protection Authority for nearly four years. It has been a very soft landing for this 60-yearold who decided to apply for and then actually get her dream job as the Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). I nearly didn’t apply but the job application date was delayed and my oldest friend said to me, “What are you doing? You have worked towards this forever!” So how did I get here? I must confess in some ways it is a mystery. I oscillate between wondering whether lockdown in Melbourne affected my decision making or if I am just a
very lucky person with enough energy left to throw myself into doing the best I can to improve the environment for the future. It’s been an experience landing Andrea Hinwood in Nairobi during the Covid pandemic. After Melbourne and then the relative freedom of Perth, Kenya is different again. Masks are worn nearly all the time and you need to check your temperature and use disinfectant at pretty much every shop and the UN campus. I will continue to work for action to resolve environmental issues which are already impacting communities. We don’t seem to address these issues as seriously as Covid. If we treated the environmental change we are experiencing in the same way as we have responded to Covid, we would see more action to alter the path we are on.
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is rapid, generally taking only a small number of sessions to eradicate the fear for good.
Fears and phobias
As adults we tend to conceal our fear or phobia from others because we may be embarrassed, feel ‘silly’ or believe we are ‘too old’ to still be scared of something. Phobias are actually very common. Precise figures on the prevalence of phobias are difficult to ascertain because it’s an issue that generally goes unreported. Some estimates however are as high as 15% of Australian adults.
Have you ever suffered from a fear or a phobia? They can significantly disrupt our lives and cause us severe distress and anxiety. I know – I have experienced this myself with an intense fear of dogs. In the past if I did encounter a dog I automatically became fearful and anxious – irrespective of the dog’s behaviour. I used to avoid dogs at all costs, even cute tiny puppies. Some commonly experienced fears and phobias include fear of dogs, birds, flying, water, needles, confined spaces, heights and the dark. Hypnotherapy as a treatment for a fear or phobia
There can be various causes of fears and phobias, such as learned responses or trauma. My fear of dogs stemmed from a traumatic incident as a young child. As an adult this fear became a hindrance – so I decided to do something about it. Given that hypnotherapy is proven to be effective in helping people overcome fears and phobias, I hypnotised myself! I can now happily be around dogs and even pat them. Hypnosis works by changing our mindset. If we change the way we think about an issue, we change how we feel and therefore how we
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behave and respond. Hypnosis uses the power of positive suggestion to help facilitate this process, as re-framing a negative or unwanted response into a positive enables us to take back control.
wholegrains and less meat. In 1894 he and William first produced corn flakes for patients and subsequently for the wider public. The original product was not very tasty as it had no sugar.
It is extremely liberating to finally be free of a fear or phobia which we often live with for years before seeking help. Bianca Anderson, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Harmony through Hypnotherapy
John took out a patent in 1896 but rival companies sprang up and he was forced to focus on reforming people’s diets – meanwhile William wanted to go commercial. On 19 February 1906 William established the Battle Creek Corn Flake Company which later became the Kellogg Cereal Company. He and John fell out over this development as William had added sugar to the corn flakes, something John abhorred.
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Here’s one for your next trivia quiz: Who invented Kellogg’s Corn Flakes? The answer is William Keith Kellogg. William worked at the Battle Creek sanitarium in Michigan USA where his brother, Dr John Kellogg, was the superintendent. John believed in a healthy diet, exercise and eating
William Kellogg heavily promoted his corn flakes. In 1907 he ran a promotion that offered a free box of corn flakes to any woman who winked at her grocer. His company was one of the first to put nutrition labels on foods. During the Great Depression Kellogg directed his cereal plant to work four shifts, each lasting six hours. This gave more people in Battle Creek the opportunity to work during that time.
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and go back to their hometown to see their family. There’s a funny tradition called xông đất. It is the action of the first person to enter someone’s house in the new year. We believe the first visitor in the year determines the fortune for the entire year for the family, based on that visitor’s Chinese zodiac and the year itself.
For Tet we usually decorate the house with peach blossoms (in the North) and yellow apricot flowers (in the South).
New Year in Vietnam Eumundi local Eileen Walder’s grandson’s partner Tiffany shares with Eumundi Voice a description of New Year celebration traditions in Vietnam. We call our New Year Tết and start the countdown one week before Tết. On 23 December of the Lunar year we will prepare a feast to send our kitchen guardians back to God (King of Heaven). It is a belief that kitchen guardians know all the good and bad things that happened in your family in the year so at the end of the year they will go back to heaven and report that to God. I think it’s similar to Santa’s naughty or nice list. Between that date and New Year’s Eve everyone will finish work for the year, do some shopping
It used to be important not to enter anyone’s house uninvited too early on the first day. Usually to avoid this awkward situation, the owner of the house will check the Zodiac and ask the lucky one to come visit their family first. Or if you’re too lazy to check – like my family – we used to nominate one of us to step out of the house before midnight, walk around the neighbourhood for a couple of minutes and go back home after midnight so we technically xông đất our own home. As my mum said, “Not sure if it will bring good luck but it can’t be a bad one.” On the first day of New Year everyone visits their parents and/or grandparents. People wear new clothes with bright colours and avoid wearing black. At this big gathering, everyone exchanges New Year wishes and shares food and drinks. Kids receive red packets of lucky money from older relatives. We share greetings like: Sống lâu trăm tuổi: Live long for a hundred years! Which is used by children for elders. Also An khang thịnh vượng: security, good health, and prosperity and Tiền vô như nước: May money flow in like water! You have to be happy and positive over the next three days, as it is believed what you do on those days will affect the rest of the year.
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an automotive teacher at the Sunshine Coast Technical Trade Training Centre for TAFE Qld and Kylie is a business teacher also with TAFE Qld. Cancer has touched both their lives. Both have been active as community volunteers – John as a Peregian Beach Lifesaver and Kylie as a companion for Camp Quality. Now they wish to give back again by driving their $700 car through some of the roughest roads in NSW and Qld as part of the Sh#tbox Rally.
Musicians supporting cancer funding Musicians around the world lend their support to good causes and Sunshine Coast musicians are no different. Local group, The Gangsters, featuring John Blahuta and Kylie Camilleri is raising funds for cancer treatment and research. John and Kylie are Verrierdale locals. John is
Sh#tbox Rally is the largest community-led fundraiser for the Cancer Council in Australia and has raised over $28 million. Participating teams must raise a minimum of $5,000 which goes to the Cancer Council. Kylie and John’s fundraiser is 4pm–8pm on 26 February at Alfresco’s Garden Café, 1381 Eumundi-Noosa Road and will feature The Gangsters, Paul Camilleri, Barry Charles, Harvest, and Tony Camilleri. It promises to be a great afternoon’s entertainment all for a great cause. Visit: www. bit.ly/3HMzoMH.
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Going Solar – should I or shouldn’t I? Part 1 Australia has the highest uptake of solar globally. More than 21% of homes have a rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system and over 2.66 million rooftop solar power systems are installed. Using solar power systems reduces your greenhouse gas emissions and significantly
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reduces your electricity bill. However, many do not want to make the commitment until they understand the technology and advantages/ disadvantages. The first step in deciding whether to ‘go solar’ is to understand how solar works and what benefits, if any, would apply to your situation. A solar system is a long-term investment. Numerous advisory groups can advise you on whether to invest and, if so, costs involved. A cost benefit analysis will help to determine whether you should go solar. Compare the setup cost – with estimates of how much your system will feed into the grid – and determine how many years it will take to cover the cost. What components make up a home solar power system? A solar panel is a collection of 60 or more solar cells. Panels can use different cell types and configurations. There are two main types of solar inverters: string inverters and microinverters. For home use the string inverter is generally recommended and is about the size of a briefcase. All the panels are all connected to it.
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The third component of the system is the racking/mounting which connects your panels securely to your roof. Finally, the consumption monitor is an option which will tell you how much power you are using and how much is being ‘fed back into the grid’. Do as much research as you can! This site is useful for an explanation of key terms: www.bit. ly/3HQGKyF. Part 2 will focus on how each component works and the optimum size of the system. Greg Ison
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