Hinterland Times February 2013

HINTERLAND TIMES Sunshine Coast’s free independent news magazine

February 2013

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Should I go or should I stay on the Hinterland?

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Oswald ... it couldn’t happen again..!

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S THE TWO state clean-up from Cyclone Oswald continues, we’ve a lot to learn from this latest natural disaster. For a start it has trashed that hoary old chestnut that …”it’s a one-in-a- hundred-years-occurrence.”

Surely all bets are now off about extreme weather occurrences around Australia. Whether flooding rains, high tides, cyclonic winds, or raging bushfires, Australia can now expect the worst, and at the worst possible moment.

While destructive flood waters filled homes in Bundaberg, raging bushfires continued out of control in Gippsland. My Dutch nephew and his partner were visiting us in Maleny at the moment that Oswald’s tail hit the Sunshine Coast hinterland. They were astonished at this contrast of natural disasters – fires from hell and Noah-like floods - all within the one continent - and at the same time. To them, the fact that it was minus 9 degrees back home in Holland was normal and predictable weather.

And that’s the point. Climatologists predict Australia is more susceptible to extreme weather incidents than the northern hemisphere.

The one-in-a-hundred-year flood of 2011 that devastated Brisbane came back two years later, stronger than ever in some parts. Not surprisingly, residents, governments and urban planners alike are asking, how do we deal with this? Do we move whole suburbs, holus bolus to higher ground? Do we create massive, Mississippi-like levees around our rural towns, requiring monumental earth works? Can we re-align rivers and should we build more dams?

For some residents, in places like Bundaberg and Grantham, seemingly plagued by constant floods, they are beyond questions like these. They say, I can’t deal with this any more. They have literally given up. Perhaps time will revive the Aussie spirit of survival and recovery, but there is undoubtedly a gathering despair and exhaustion in some besieged areas.

Another surprise from the Oswald backlash here on the Hinterland has been how quickly you can become disconnected from everyday life.

Like many hinterland homes, a power outage for us meant no lighting, and no pumps to provide water from our tanks. Luckily we had a gas stove.

The most alarming aspect of this cyclonic event was the total break-down in communications. I would suggest that Telstra needs to examine its emergency response strategies because when the power went off so did computers, radios and mobile phones. Like us you probably listened to your car radio, to be told frustratingly that we should log on to the internet for emergency information.

Hello! No power. No internet!

Trying to understand how some Telstra customers were finally connected to the internet around the corner while we were still disconnected after seven days, was like trying to unravel a Chinese puzzle ... that’s if you could actually get through to Telstra. I suggest that’s not good enough for Australia’s major telecommunications company.

Of course, we hinterlanders hardly suffered compared to places like Bundaberg. But we have learnt a lot from this sudden scary period of isolation ... buy in more candles, gas lights, a battery operated radio, a generator perhaps, and a water tank on a stand to at least flush the toilets!

PS. Thank you to IT guru, Darryl Ebenezer who provided us with a portable Wi-Fi solution and to Shane Peterson of Concept IT Computers who came out on a Saturday night with his box of tricks to keep the HT computers running.

Michael Berry The views expressed in the Hinterland Times are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the magazine’s publishers.

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Making News ...

Jeffers market family say it’s all about taste

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Should I go or should I stay asks 19 year-old Alex

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Noosa residents vote for freedom

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NW Tassie ... so much like the Coast

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Tai Chi gives balance to local architect

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Maleny schools celebrate 100 years

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Max Lindegger - still following his dream

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COVER STORY Stephen Jeffers comes from three generations of food croppers. Their secret to success - fruit & vegies that taste good sell well.

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Tracey writes to expose child sex slavery trade Local social activist and writer, Tracey Heers has been accepted as a volunteer copywriter with Destiny Rescue, an aid organisation that works to stop child sex slavery.

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HEY RESCUE children who have been sold or kidnapped and placed into brothels. They also work to help families create economic independence so they are not tempted to sell their children into the sex trade.

Destiny Rescue has a strong focus on education as well as training the young people they rescue into viable trades, including hairdressing, sewing and jewellery making.

Destiny Rescue began on the Sunshine Coast - the compassionate response of a young couple to the plight of children sold into the sex trade in Thailand. The organisation has grown rapidly and is now operating various programs in six nations: Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), India and Mozambique. They also have offices in two donor nations: Australia and the United States.

Destiny Rescue now wants to raise their profile at the international level. To do this they need help, and that’s where Tracey comes into the picture!

She is moving to Thailand in March for 12 months to experience directly the activities of Destiny Rescue and write about what she encounters there. Tracey will be involved with marketing and copywriting and writing content for their website, social media, newsletters, blogs and much more.

Tracey needs to raise $4,000 to get there (airfares, insurance, visa, furniture etc.) and is also seeking sponsorships of $10 a week to help her survive over there.

To raise the necessary cash Tracey is organising a giant auction at Maleny’s Upfront Club on February 21 at 7.30pm.

According to Robyn Ramsay, who is MC for the night, the auction will be, “an eclectic mix of wonderfully donated goods, sold on the night in a humorous and entertaining way.” ”The Maleny community has been bountifully generous with the auction prizes, as usual, “ says Tracey. “What a wonderful place we live in.”

Auction prizes so far include cosmetic packages, massage, handyman service, vouchers from Rather Bizr, Anthy’s Bagel & Coffee, Upfront Club and Maleny Co-op.

Tracey will send monthly updates of her adventures in Thailand.

Contact Tracey on 5494 1418 or 0424 620 334 .

You can read about the amazing work of Destiny Rescue at www.destinyrescue.org.au

Raising funds for Nick ...

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family who have established it are very close friends of mine.

On February 9, I am launching an Exhibition of Art Works by 35 local artists themed Music & Fashion. The artists will donate 20% of their sales to the fund.

This is a prelude to a concert on February 23 here within the Tree Frog Gallery space.

It features the donated time of Cadenza , a four piece acapella quartet singing classics and jazz. There’s also the well renowned opera singer, Louise Kennedy (below) and the beautiful Jane Magao, who sings like an angel. She is a year 12 student at Matthew Flinders Anglican College.

There will also be a Wearable Art Fashion Parade of ‘paper gowns’ by Robyn Woodrow. All funds raised will go to the Help Kids Like Nick Foundation. The tickets are $55 and selling now.

I have seating for 50 people in the gallery space.”

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EATHER GALL at Tree Frog Gallery in Maleny is organising a fund-raising event for a new foundation called Help Kids Like Nick.

Nick Blacket (left) is one of only 40 families in Australia who are born with Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome. Until he was 12 Nick’s life was almost constant seizure activity.

In 2010 Nick’s mum Alison got Nick into Brisbane’s Narbethong Special State School which offers specialised education to visually and intellectually impaired children who often have physical impairments as well.

Nick who is legally blind, cannot talk, is in a wheelchair, and needs help with everything he does, has ‘come alive’ since he started there. For Nick his new schools is making the world of difference.

Heather says, “I am close at heart to this fund as the

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Stephen Jeffers and his family are demonstrating that being adaptable to changes in the market, and the weather, is as essential to small-scale farming as being skilled at production.

Julie Shelton went to see how this local enterprise is faring in today’s climate.

The Jeffers family affair... with fruit and vegetables ESPITE BEING a resident for 19 years, I’m still delighted to discover pockets of the Hinterland I’ve not yet visited. Thus it was delightful to venture out to Rosemount to interview Stephen Jeffers on one of his family-managed farms. Rosemount, wedged between Nambour and Diddilibah, is bordered on the north by Petrie Creek and on the south by Paynters Creek. It is shaped like a piece of cake, the narrow end pointing the way to the ocean.

Small-holdings fringe the central ridge, and not far from Nambour I drive into the farm where Stephen is growing persimmons and avocados, as well as small crops of a number of other vegetables and fruits, such as eggplant and watermelon.

On the day of my visit, the farm is suffering through the tale end of one of this region’s longest dry spells. Dry dams and dusty sheds sit among orchard rows now heavily dependent on irrigation.

Stephen greets me with a smile and a firm handshake; a rabbit fur felt hat firmly planted on his head. He and his five siblings are the third generation of Jeffers to farm in Australia – the family has been farming on the Sunshine Coast since 1954 – and he’s been managing this property for 15 years.

“My ancestors all came out from Europe 150 years ago – a lot of them were farmers,” says Stephen proudly. “Dad’s side is Irish, Mum’s side is German. Ever since we arrived in Australia we’ve been involved in rural industry in some way or other, but mostly in cropping.”

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Stephen’s father, Ben, was born on a wheat farm near Toowoomba but the family moved around as sharefarmers, including an 18 month stint renting a 600-acre dairy farm in the valley at the base of Mapleton Falls, before moving on to other adventures.

“When Dad was around 20 the opportunity came up to buy a pineapple farm at Woombye and they jumped at the chance to get back to the region – this is the property where the family still lives and farms today,” explains Stephen.

“Back then it grew mainly pineapples with some citrus and bananas. That’s where our love affair with flavour started – as a family we just love stuff that tastes good and that’s what we like to grow.”

Over the years, the Jeffers families have had to change with the markets. As pineapples became less viable, Ben grew bananas then tried his hand at small cropping and later exotic and sub-tropical fruits. He planted a large pawpaw farm and would select his own seed, using his family as the ‘food scientists’.

“Every lunch we would have a pawpaw – if the flavour was good he would keep the seed, if not the seed had no chance,” Stephen says with a smile. “We did that with tomatoes as well.”

Back in the late-sixties, they grew a great tomato called Grosse Lisse, which is sadly no longer commercially viable.

Domination of the food supply chain by large supermarkets that require fruit to travel long distances (and look good at the end of the journey) led the industry

to choose varieties that met the market demand for hard tomatoes.

“It’s a shame because Grosse Lisse had a beautiful flavour but it is a soft tomato,” says Stephen sadly. “It’s taken us thirty years to get out of that tasteless tomato track.”

The Jeffers also began growing non-astringent persimmons and currently produce about 100 tonnes per year, most of which are sold outside the region and for export. They are, however, keen to sell more to local markets, including their own shops – yet another innovation in response to change.

Ten years ago Stephen was heavily involved in industry groups and visiting different regions, checking what was going on in the world and what pressures were affecting farmers.

“Back then the major supermarket chains were looking for consolidation of suppliers into fewer, larger growers, and they wanted growers to produce to their requirements,” he observed.

“We saw then and continue to see rising costs of marketing through the conventional supermarket system: freight, packaging, compliance, auditing, food safety. All of this has to happen because the food chain is so long and they (the retailers) want the liability to start and finish with the producer.”

Stephen decided that they had to either go with the system or start looking at a more local market-based enterprise, where they could get better returns. In 2004

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the Jeffers family took over a small retail shop in Yandina and in doing so were able to connect with the people who were buying their produce.

We found out what our customers like and what they don’t like – and we got a real buzz about that.”

In 2011, Stephen and his brother, Jon, moved their Yandina operation to a nearby location and around the same time started their Maroochydore operation, which is in the Sunshine Homemaker Centre. Both stores were rebranded as ‘Jeffers Market’ and pitched at a more discerning customer.

“People are looking for something different now – the market has matured a lot in the last decade,” Stephen says.

“We are going back to growing smaller lines of more varieties, heirloom varieties and unusual items. We want

to have local produce that you can’t get anywhere else on the Sunshine Coast.”

Jeffers Market is indeed a family affair: Stephen’s wife, Robyn, works with his sister, Rachel, at the Maroochydore store while another brother, Andrew, works on the family farm. Both stores stock a number of lines directly from the Jeffers’ farms.

On the day I visit Stephen, he proudly shows me a box of eggplants picked that morning, which are then taken back to the shop by marketing manager, Sharon Hollis.

Two hours later, when I visit the Maroochydore store, the eggplants are already on the shelf.

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MALENY’S JAN and GARRY MAGUIRE ...

Taking their volunteer skills into outback Queensland Jan Maguire and Garry Mayer are Maleny residents but their winters are spent helping students and their families on remote properties around Queensland.

Julie Shelton spoke to Jan and Garry about their adventures.

IGHT YEARS AGO, Jan and Garry started a new chapter in their lives. Having recently moved from Darwin to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland to lease a friend’s cottage, they were open-minded about the future. And so, in the spirit of true Aussie adventurers, they decided to rent a camper trailer and head out west.

No strangers to travel, Jan and Garry had spent most of the 1970s in Europe: between 1972 and 1980 Garry drove tour coaches and Jan worked as the tour guide on trips between London, Kathmandu, North Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and Scandinavia.

“We met a lot of Australian friends during that time – people we worked with and passengers that travelled with us – and a lot of them now live on the east coast,” says Garry. “We wanted to move from Darwin to be closer to them.”

Jan continues the story: “With our camper trailer in tow, we arrived in Charleville and decided to do a tour of the School of Distance Education, where you can watch a lesson being conducted with students from all around the region. While we were waiting in the foyer, we saw a sign: Volunteers Required: Tutors or Angels It was a plea from VISE: Volunteers for Isolated Students’ Education, a volunteer service established in 1989 to support the education of students in rural areas, especially isolated outback families.

VISE recruits tutors, principally retired teachers and others with relevant experience, who would like to spend time helping isolated students with their education.

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Their interest piqued, Jan and Garry registered and obtained their blue cards (a requirement for working with children in Queensland) and waited to choose their first placement.

In each area, a coordinator collates the requests for help from isolated families. These usually come from the mother, who nominates the preferred dates and lists the children, their ages, what years they are in, if any of them have learning difficulties, etc. The help requests are then sent through for registered tutors and angels to assess.

“There is a lot of assistance required – the requests come in almost on a daily basis!” exclaims Jan. In their case, Jan volunteers as a primary teachertrained ‘tutor’ and Garry as an ‘angel’ – he helps around the house and does jobs as required around the property.

While accommodation is offered in various forms, such as sleeping in the house with the family, Jan and Garry prefer to accept placements at properties where the family offers separate accommodation.

“We have our camper trailer but it’s not big enough to live in for a long time. And we find that living in the house with the family is too close. So we choose those places that offer a separate donga or equivalent, so we have our own space,” says Jan. The maximum period that a family can engage their tutor (with optional angel) is six weeks, and each family is entitled to only one six week block per year.

However, there is no limit to how many placements a tutor can take per year. In fact, according to Jan, there are some retired teachers who plan carefully so they work at consecutive placements throughout the academic year.

Jan sits with Ainslie Murphy at her Maiden Springs Station home north-west of Hughenden.

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Garry helping out on the Murphy’s Maiden Springs property with Campbell Murphy

“We heard about VISE in 2005, and our first placement was in 2006. We have since done one placement each in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 and then we will do one this year,” she lists.

While VISE encourages tutors to experience different placements, some choose to return to the same property.

“We have done repeat placements at a couple of properties and watched the kids grow over the years,” Garry says. “We’re about to go back to one property for the third time because the youngest child is starting school this year.”

As it turns out, all of Jan and Garry’s placements have been on cattle properties. While Jan is in the classroom working with the children, Garry is allocated work around the house or on the property.

“When we started I didn’t have any specific cattle skills but I’ve learnt how to work around cattle yards, dropping lick, turning on pumps etc,” he says proudly.

“At the first place I did a lot of truck driving. Most of my working life was around passenger transport so I’ve got all the licences. I think I came in pretty handy there,” he says, with classic outback understatement.

Most of the properties have been family properties with few, if any, paid staff and so jobs around the house tend to get neglected. So Garry has undertaken various projects such as painting, repairing broken furniture and decorating. He’s become a jack-of-all-trades!

Jan and Garry, like many VISE volunteers, combine each placement with a holiday in that area. Host properties are located throughout Queensland and offer a unique opportunity for volunteers to see diverse landscapes and lifestyles.

“The first property we went to was 2.5 hours drive from Rockhampton,” recalls Garry. “The next one we did was up near Georgetown in the Gulf country. Then we went to a property located 150kms southwest of Mitchell. The property we are going back to for the third time is Maiden Springs, 180kms northwest of Hughenden, off the Kennedy Development Road. It’s pretty isolated!”

“This year we will take 10 days to get to Hughenden and 10 days to get home,” he says. “Since being involved in VISE we’ve pretty much covered most centres in Queensland.”

Being involved in VISE is as personally rewarding as much as it offers opportunities for adventure. Often close friendships are formed between volunteers and families, and for Jan and Garry the end of the six-week placement can signal a tearful farewell.

“But we always feel appreciated,” Jan says. “And it’s wonderful knowing that we are helping.”

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GOODBYE GILLIE AND TONY ...

“Our loss is Yass’s gain…”

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SOLATED COMMUNITIES like those on the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast often have residents who we all know help keep those tight knit communities together.

Gillie and Tony Warren are two such people who immerse themselves so completely in their community that it’s almost as if they have always been there, and always will be. They have been a part of Montville life over the last 23 years, and it seems that anyone who has known them has a ready smile to impart, merely at the mention of their names.

The Warrens came to Montville in 1990, but to many it ‘always felt like they belonged’. Tony, who was born in Melbourne, was a geologist for most of his working life, until he left Papua New Guinea to seek a home amongst the trees in Queensland. Gillie came from a large extended family from Central Queensland, and no doubt felt at home amongst the extended family that is the community of Montville, and the Range.

The couple took over the Montville Post Office agency in 1991, which proved to be a ‘wonderful way to get to know the whole community’.

The couple spent the next eight years sorting and getting the mail to all its recipients, despite the bizarre numbering system that they encountered in the area.

‘Lot 2’ was a common address before the rural street numbering system was introduced. The Western Road alone had 27 ‘Lot 2s’! and ‘Tony was renowned for determinedly searching out vague or obscure addresses with the aid of legendary mail lady Mary Noller.’

As well as their tireless work at the local post office in Montville, the couple have been closely involved in a myriad of community activities, with Tony serving on the MVA committees for many years, and Gillie serving as a Montville historian, allowing her to share in the interesting stories of her fellow locals.

Upon retiring from the post office in 1998, they saw that the Blackall Range Care Group could benefit from some of their energy. Starting as meals on wheels drivers, they soon immersed themselves fully into the fabric of the organisation, with Gillie becoming an important member of the management committee for 12 years.

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experience of Gillie as a woman whose ‘reliability, dedication, sense of humour, and secretarial skills made an enormous contribution to the development of the BRCG. It grew from a very small but vital community service, into the substantial organisation it is today, providing services to over 800 consumers a year.’

While Gillie became a foundation member of the organisation, Tony took up the role of much loved ‘chauffeur’ to BRCG clients, renowned for his care, charm and humour.

They have both been recipients of the Montville Citizen of the Year award, with their untiring efforts to the welfare of the community, too numerous to name. The pair have also been keen fitness followers, and members of the Mapleton Gym. Tony is a masters cyclist, having competed in Masters games. He continues his love of cycling despite a few mishaps, one of which left him with a broken pelvis. It took Gillie to rescue him from a gutter outside the Mapleton pub one morning.

So, after 23 years of tirelessly serving the Montville community, the Warrens have decided that it’s time to move on to new pastures, relocating to Yass to be closer to their family in Canberra and Melbourne.

However, they will return to the area regularly to visit their son.

For all those who have been touched by their generous spirit, and open hearts, Tony and Gillie will be dearly missed, while their memory will live on in the thriving community that they called home for so many years. Their former neighbour, Nicole Bourke put it in the most poignant words when she said simply, “Our loss is Yass’s gain…”

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Should I go ... ? y a t s I d l u o h s r o I N AN EVER - COMPETITIVE WORLD, WHERE

The juxtaposition was incredible. She had successfully put two and two together and created a meaningful career that would let her continue to live in the Hinterland.

My career choice, journalism, was not going to be so well coupled with this rural wonderland.

One of the other three was less worried about his career path; it was what he could do after work that worried him most. On one hand, the few jobs that are here make it difficult to sustain a young person’s lifestyle. On the other hand, the lack of night life and the incredibly dull offerings make it difficult to have this lifestyle. He spoke of going to Mooloolaba, Maroochydore and even Brisbane just so he could “do something” on his nights off.

That night, on the walk home from work, I could feel the Hinterland’s appeal slowly fading, until the façade completely fell away.

Sure, it’s nice, and sure, it is a great place for children to grow up – but what about a career, what about fun? Where do I get a coffee after ten pm, where do I go dancing? I finally understood why countless numbers of young people have been leaving the Hinterland – it’s boring!

Boring? Please realise that when I say boring, I’m not trying to make out as though there is absolutely nothing to do here. There are events and festivals

THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE THAN THERE ARE JOBS ,

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HEN IT COMES to having a career on the Hinterland; it’s slim pickings. You can become a waiter, and maybe one day run a restaurant; a supermarket shelf packer, and maybe one day become a store manager; or you can leave the Hinterland, get the necessary skills and come back when you have the experience that makes your resume rise to the top of the ever growing pile.

I chose the waiter route, and while it’s not all doom and gloom, it is not the career path in which I want to grow old.

To try and answer this question, I spoke to some young people in Maleny and I found that in large measure, they came to a similar conclusion; it was soon time to ship out.

Out of the four people I spoke to, only one was cautiously optimistic about her job prospects. She is studying to be a nurse and identified that the ageing population here would eventually need care.

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constantly being held. It is just unfortunate that these events do not appeal to the average young person or are organised for them.

For example, while the Maleny Show puts in a solid effort to entice young people, it is also apparent that the majority of what happens at the Show is geared towards people who are either “adults� or “children�. The group in the middle, “youth� tend to miss out.

This is not necessarily the fault of the organisers of these events, because often there is an overall lack of motivation by young people to create something that they will enjoy.

Why bother to make your own fun, when a place like Mooloolaba is only half an hour away? All four of the young people I spoke to agreed with this, and several ex-Hinterland youth expressed the same disappointment.

One of them, now a resident of Brisbane, even went as far as to say that the lifestyle that he tried to maintain whilst living in Maleny and partying on the coast, was unsustainable. He finally decided to give up the unbalanced lifestyle and moved to Brisbane, where he could study, have a part time job and enjoy the nightlife that was close by.

In an effort to better understand why young people are so under stimulated by the entertainment available on the Hinterland, I looked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census results. I quickly realised that the Hinterland had a larger population of 60-64 year-olds than it did 15-24 yearolds.

So, where is the motivation for entertainment providers to bring acts that are youth orientated? The economy is still in the doldrums and throwing money at the future is not something that most struggling businesses are willing to do right now.

In a small town, there is no way a business can survive if its young demographic are leaving. The reality of the current situation in the Hinterland is a simple catch-22 – entertainment and work availability is limited because the population is limited; and vice versa.

While the departure of a generation is not something a town or a region should take lightly, perhaps it is inevitable.

The Hinterland region itself is not to blame for this mass exodus; instead, it is plain human nature.

For thousands of years, young people have always taken flight – whether it is to experience something different or to simply visit new places. It is unrealistic for anyone to expect a small region like the Sunshine Coast Hinterland to provide people with new careers or an exciting nightlife. Instead our

region should be developing “skill centres�; places to learn valuable information, to prepare young people for a career. “Australia’s Rural Towns are Dying!� may sound like a headline from The Daily Telegraph; yet maybe it is time to consider that the tabloid hype might not be as inaccurate as first thought.

The one person I spoke to who was optimistic about her career will work in retirement homes; the rest continue to wish for the town’s reincarnation – or a race car, to get out while they can!

So, should I stay or should I go? I feel as though I will be opting for the latter, simply because by choosing to pursue journalism, I am unfortunately choosing one of the many careers that are not viable in this region.

But putting my future aside, this question is not all pessimistic. The Hinterland is indeed a beautiful place and maybe, when this generation – my generation has children, there might be another tree-change for us, back to the mountains.

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UnityWater erects temporary homes for nesting birds

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F YOU GLANCE down to your right while driving out along North Maleny Road you’ll see major works taking place on the Community Precinct.

Don’t be alarmed: this is UnityWater undertaking the construction of a series of wetlands that will be used as natural filters for the outflow from the upgraded water treatment plant.

During the next twelve months they will be planting more than thirteen hectares of rainforest on the surrounding slopes.

What we’re seeing is the transformation of a section of old dairy farm into a remarkable piece of natural forest, a parkland which, when complete, will include all-accessible walking trails linked to the proposed Gardners Falls trail. It’s an extraordinary gift to our community and our region.

Green Hills have been working with UnityWater to arrange community plantings that will connect this new area of rainforest with the treeplants we’re doing along the edge of the Obi Obi. We couldn’t help but notice, however, that, for all the wonder of the nearly complete constructed wetlands, they weren’t going to provide any habitat for larger birdlife for at least ten, maybe even twenty, years. As a result we’ve used a significant portion of our gift fund to purchase a couple of wildlife poles and get bird boxes and perches fixed to them that will become safe homes for raptors, owls, parrots and bats, until the trees are big enough to provide homes.

While it’s true to say that the work UnityWater is doing is a gift to our community it’s also important to note that the people of Maleny also worked very hard to make this happen. Only five years ago Caloundra City Council proposed a plan for this specific site which had four fairways of an eighteen hole golf course exactly where the wetlands now are, and subdivided house sites where the forest will be planted. It was only the concerted efforts of this

Nesting box provides a home for a baby rosella.

Two poles will be fitted with nesting boxes for birds to use while the rainforest takes shape around the wetland.

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community that persuaded them to change their minds and, eventually, to assign this part of the Precinct to parkland.

The Maleny community has had several battles on its hands over the last decade or so, and there is often a sense that we rarely ever prevail; that government, or business, gets what it wants at our expense. What is happening in the Northern Wetlands gives the lie to that belief. Sometimes it’s important to stop and to celebrate our wins. The construction of these parklands and the planting of the northern bank of the Obi Obi are two of the most significant ‘wins’ we’ve ever had.

Over the next twenty years these two projects will transform our region both environmentally and socially. Environmentally through providing real and sustainable habitat for our wildlife, by improving water quality in the creek, and reducing carbon in the atmosphere. Socially, because, when the trails are open they will not simply be a remarkable amenity for our community but will also present a major attraction for visitors to the region, taking the pressure off Mary Cairncross Park and increasing employment in the town.

It’s time to recognise what it is we’ve achieved and to make sure we thank those who listened to our suggestions. To let those in UnityWater who make decisions like this (it was a close thing between building a wetland and pumping the outflow to Landsborough) know that communities appreciate what they’ve done by being good corporate citizens.

To encourage and thank those in Council who listen, and who are trying to do the right thing by our environment.

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Noosa residents...

... for freedom!

Next month Noosa residents get to vote on whether or not they want to stay within the Sunshine Coast local government, or go back to being Noosa Shire. Interestingly, residents of Caloundra and Maroochy never got to vote for amalgamation in 2008, now they don’t get to vote for the break-up of the Sunshine Coast Council.

HT editor, Michael Berry looks at the pros and cons of Noosa’s claims for independence.

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SHOULD STATE my position first. I was against the amalgamation of the three councils for two reasons.

I didn’t believe 12 councillors could look after the vast new area with sufficient attention to detail. I think history bears that out.

But I also felt that if there had to be an amalgamation then it ought to have been along geographic lines – that is a hinterland council and a coast council – where residents in each municipality clearly have different economic pursuits as well as lifestyle characteristics and values.

Noosa residents fought amalgamation from the start because their council had nurtured a culture of service and an attitude to its environment and lifestyle that was widely appreciated. Noosa residents saw their ethos as different from the more hard-driving councils of Caloundra and Maroochy. Just as the Sunshine Coast rejects the high-rise intensity of the Gold Coast, so Noosa avoided the bustling city growth that was evident in Caloundra and Maroochydore.

However, Premier Peter Beattie’s message was that amalgamation of the three Sunshine Coast councils would bring economies of scale, stimulate diversity and unlock opportunities by breaking down the artificial barriers of local government.

With the benefit of hindsight, ex Premier Beattie also claims the Queensland amalgamations were a way of giving more muscle to local governments against the stranglehold of the state – an unusual argument for a state premier to make. Of course, that didn’t happen, with the state for example, taking over the Coast’s excellent water supply system and taking over its planning control of the

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As Beattie denied us the opportunity to vote for or against amalgamation, the only indication of our feelings on the matter was an overwhelming vote for Noosa’s mayor, Bob Abbot to be our first amalgamated Coast mayor.

As Bill Hoffman wrote in the Sunshine Coast Daily, “The reason was simple. There was genuine hope that what had been created in Noosa would rub off on the rest of the region.

That hope faded fast.

Instead the dead hand of the old Maroochy regime quickly claimed ascendance and amalgamation became justification for new layers of bureaucracy, higher salaries for the elite and a sterilisation of service delivery that feels less like community by the day.”

New mayor, Mark Jamieson believes that big is best, but he has been careful not to stomp too hard on Noosa’s campaign to go it alone. He argues that breaking up the Coast dilutes its regional bargaining power, somehow forgetting the recent past when state Labor constantly overrode Council over issues like the Traveston Dam, control of water supply and various planning powers promoting urban development.

A report from the independent Queensland Treasury Corporation put a cost of $13.65 million to set up a new Noosa council. It predicts the two new councils would be weaker following the break-up and would share a $45 million deficit over the next five years instead of a $32 million surplus.

One estimate claims Noosa residents will pay an extra $828 in rates for the first five years. As Deputy Mayor, Chris Thompson was quick to point out, “At the moment, it’s tough enough for mums and dads to make ends meet – the last thing they need is to have to pay hundreds of dollars more in rates.”

The figures are sobering, but those like former Noosa mayor Noel Playford and high profile head of the Friends of Noosa lobby group, Bob Ansett see a different bottom line. Bob Ansett told the Hinterland Times that, “Noosa ratepayers have been subsidising the Regional Council from day one. With only 15% of the population Noosa ratepayers are paying 21% of the rates. This will become more onerous in the months and years ahead because of major developments underway, or planned for the southern end of the coast.

“Already some $40 million has been committed for the acquisition of the Horton Golf course and it’s estimated another $150 million will be needed for infrastructure of the Maroochydore CBD. Then there is the Caloundra South development which the Mayor has refused to either confirm of deny there is an estimated infrastructure shortfall of $500 million. Further into the future is a planned light rail transit system between Caloundra and Maroochydore and so it goes.

Without Noosa’s financial input some of these developments may never get off the ground. But that’s not our problem; we didn’t ask to join this council.”

“Noosa ratepayers have been subsidising the Regional Council from day one.

With only 15% of the population Noosa ratepayers are paying 21% of the rates. This will become more onerous in the months and years ahead because of major developments underway, or planned for the southern end of the coast.... ... Without Noosa’s financial input some of these developments may never get off the ground. But that’s not our problem; we didn’t ask to join this council.”

Bob Ansett Friends of Noosa

This internal dispute does not help a region struggling to achieve economic confidence, even though its origins must be laid at the door of the previous Labor government. Noosa has strong arguments to go it alone as stated by the independent Boundaries Commission report, but what is important is that whether the vote is yes or no on March 9, the Sunshine Coast continues to prosper.

As Bill Hoffman warns, “If Noosa is ultimately successful, the rest of us would be wiser to spend our energy demanding more of the organisation that remains, than sneering at those who understandably wanted more from local government than just another soul-less layer of government pretending to be a corporate entity.”

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M AT T H E W E V A N S

Tasmania’s far north-west

We need to talk about the northwest ...

Forget mediocrity ... taste the difference!

Well known food writer, broadcaster and farmer, Matthew Evans here confronts issues of regionalism and small scale food production in Tasmania’s north-west. Matthew’s essay surprisingly echoes many of the challenges facing the emerging food industry on the Sunshine Coast.

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T HAD BEEN RAINING the first time I visited far northwest Tasmania. Which isn’t unusual. Rain, that often-fickle decider of rural fate, falls regularly and in volume on this little corner of the world. It can be a challenge for all farmers, too much rain, especially the free-range pig farmers who, like me, try to paddock-rear their livestock from birth to the cutting shop.

But this rain is a gift. It’s clean rain. It falls through what has been recorded to be the cleanest air in the world. This rain falls mostly on loam, a fertile, free-draining type of soil that simply grows stuff better. And it falls even in dry times that bring drought elsewhere in the state and country.

In terms of potential, this pocket in the state’s far northwest could be seen as a mini version of Tasmania.

The possibility for regional produce, for food that tastes of the ground in which it grew, is enormous. The area is so bountiful that it will surely always have a surfeit. For a region of about fifty thousand people, a patch of earth that can produce vastly more than it can consume, some large industry, including a food processing industry, is probably a good thing.

But where is the other end of the spectrum? The artisan. The handcrafted, truly seasonal produce. Where this uniquely local food or drink exists, it usually exists in small, undervalued ways. Cape Grim on the far tip of the northwest coast provides exceptions. Prized Cape Grim beef is a touch of marketing genius from a local abattoir that realised some of the beasts passing through its doors were far better than others. They realised it deserved to be treated with more care and could be sold at a premium. Cape Grim water, marketed as coming from the cleanest place in the world, has been exported to fifteen countries in Europe, the US, Japan, the Middle East and Singapore.

For an insight into what is possible in so many other types of food and drink, it may help to look at milk. My personal fixation on the origins of all produce began with milk, because it’s an ingredient so ubiquitous, so fundamental, that we often take it for granted. And because of the potential products that milk can become, not least cheese.

But milk isn’t just milk any more. Most people have now heard about permeate, the more watery substance produced when milk is passed through filters. Permeate and another product from this filtration are used, in industry speak, to ‘standardise’ milk. This is meant to ensure milk tastes the same every day of every week of the year. If someone has decided milk has, let’s say, 3.2 per cent fat and 3 per cent protein (as prescribed by law), that is what you will get, regardless of what has come out of the cow. So it is often watered down (a term the industry despises, but is fairly accurate, flavour-wise) to make milk taste the same week in, week out. Most commercially available milk has also been homogenised.

This means the fat has been suspended so no cream rises to the top. Sadly, homogenisation also diminishes the colour, and more importantly, the aroma of milk. (It also affects the way milk is absorbed into the body, with some folk being concerned about the change, but that’s not for this tale.)

It just so happens that Tassie’s far northwest is brilliant dairy country. You can see the herds as you drive through, especially towards and past the turnoff to Stanley. Up here they have computerised dairies, where the cow decides when she’d like to be milked, her production is carefully monitored, and her feed at the milking trough personalised if need be.

We know regionalism has an effect. Look at those countries that have managed dairy herds for centuries, say France and Italy. Parmigiano cheese must be made

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Tasmanian farmers have begun to recognise this potential: King Island, though it is often included in the region despite its own identity, location and climate, Ashgrove which comes from further east towards Launceston, and Bruny Island south of Hobart.

But the best dairy country has not made its mark. What is the iconic dairy product that comes from Tasmania’s tremendous dairy country? The thing that tastes not just of the breed of cow, but also of the mix of grasses and the land on which it’s reared? What is the iconic dairy product of Tasmania’s far northwest?

Well, there’s Duck River butter, named after a river that flows through Smithton, a small but important centre tucked right up near the top left hand of the state. But Duck River butter is made in Spreyton (two hours’ drive east) these days from milk mixed from other regions. And there’s powdered milk, including a $75 million factory opened in Smithton recently. But name the cheese that captures the essence of the northwest. That epitomises the cleanliness of the air and uniqueness of the region.

The breed of cow. Go on, I dare you.

I spoke recently to a few farmers who run jersey and guernsey herds in the area. They all told me how great the milk is from these cows: how it has higher protein levels, a higher cream content, and both of these, plus their propensity to carry more beta carotene, add up to more golden, more flavoursome milk. You can read about it on Wikipedia if you don’t know a dairy farmer.

But where does all this guernsey and jersey milk end up? In the mix. Thrown in the vat with everybody else’s

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If you made cheese from this milk, you could concentrate the flavour roughly tenfold (most of the loss in volume is from the draining of the more watery whey).

If you capture the butterfat (cream) it carries so much of the aroma and flavour that it’s essentially the concentrated taste of the original milk. It is not easy; this kind of cheese and butter making is a craft and in many cases the process can still destroy the local character. But is there a jersey cream for sale in the state at the moment?

Not that I know of. Is there a dairy in the far northwest using a single herd to make a cheese that tastes of the breed, the region? Only one. Thank goodness for Red Cow Dairies, bottling their own milk and making simple cheese at Oldina.

But even industry giant Lactos, with a factory in the area at Burnie, a company known for brands such as South Cape and Mersey Valley, gets its milk from a mix of sources.

This is the current reality of the region. You can take the cleanest air in the world. Some of the finest growing country in the world. Some of the most reliable rainfall and a temperate climate for good pasture growth. In other words, some of the best dairy country in the world, and make a product completely lacking in regional expression.

Instead it becomes milk powder. Milk powder is a useful product. It’s an okay thing to be doing, and an industry to support. But the tragedy is that where I see a guernsey or jersey herd, reared on some of the most remarkable dairy country in all the world, and see that difference purposely stripped from the milk so it is the same as powdered milk from the US, or France. Or Canada, or India. When I see the miracle of regional food debased and negated, not just in an isolated case, but virtually without exception, I see missed opportunity.

No, it’s not easy to set up a dairy based on one or two or five individual herds. Yes, I know it’s really, really difficult to establish a cheese company or yoghurt factory or make butter on any scale thanks to expense and regulations, particularly for those who are already busy farming the land.

But what I wonder is how much goodness, how much greatness, we are squandering because we aim at mediocrity. We go out of our way to make this incredible milk taste like it has come from anywhere, be it Gippsland or Western Australia or the NSW north coast. That is the aim of mixing and ‘standardising’ milk. That is the aim of milk powder, to strip it of its individuality, the very thing that should be milk’s most saleable feature.

To achieve consistency (and this relates to all food), regardless of how good the milk is when it’s produced, it has to be the same as the worst week of the year. By definition, if a product is consistent, it has to be the same as the worst producers, or the worst of seasonal variation.

It has to be dumbed down. Greatness and uniqueness are inherently entwined.

A move towards some smaller scale production has many benefits. The money is more likely to stay in the region when the finished product is sold locally; a recycling of cash that isn’t a bad thing. But it also puts control back in the hands of the farmer, rather than being solely at the whim of inter- national markets. There’s nothing wrong with milk powder. There’s nothing wrong with UHT milk.

“Thank goodness for Red Cow Dairies, bottling their own milk and making simple cheese at Oldina”

SUSTAINABLE, ETHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL: Red Cow Dairy owners Matt and Andy Jackman, of Oldina (right) , with samples of their Persian fetta cheese.

But if you aim at the commodity market, you will always be at the whim of world pricing. The Chinese dairy industry, for instance, has grown at 20 per cent a year for most of the past fifteen years. Are they one day soon going to use their surplus for powdered milk sold in huge quantities on the inter- national market? And if they do, are their costs going to be similar to ours?

Milk is just one example, and one that is close to my heart. But expand this idea of a lush area, able to grow remarkable produce, to grow carrots, spuds, pigs, beef, turkeys…let your palate be the guide. What we have in Tasmania is truly remarkable. What those in the far northwest have been gifted by nature is wondrous and incredible. What gets done with it is up to us. We can continue to rely on single industries to provide the jobs, and wave them goodbye when conditions change overseas, or we can try to take more of our destiny in our own hands. Try to harness all this regional goodness and make it stand out from the rest. Brand the region on the basis of what makes it special, and make the special products that nature allows, if not demands.

Tasmania’s far northwest has suffered from quite a lot of industry shut-downs in recent times. But the reality is her natural assets are truly remarkable. It may not be quick or easy to become known for the quality of the produce rather than the quantity of the commodity.

Few places are better positioned. It will just take a lot of small changes, in the hands of a lot of committed locals, to make it happen. But happen it will, because history shows the area simply can’t rely on big industry to stick around forever. Even worse in terms of creating more sustainable industries, an incredible resource is being squandered in the meantime.

MATTHEW EVANS Matthew Evans is a fumbling farmer who fattens pigs and milks a house cow south of Hobart.

He was features editor at Vogue Entertaining and for a few years reviewed restaurants for the Sydney Morning Herald and co-edited the SMH Good Food Guide.

Matthew is the author of eight books on food, including Real Food Companion (Murdoch Books, 2010).

He presents Gourmet Farmer, on SBS TV. His most recent book, The Gourmet Farmer Deli Book (Murdoch Books, 2012) is co-written with charcuterie expert Ross O’Meara and cheesemaker Nick Haddow.

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ALENTINE’S DAY has a long and often disputed history. While the ancient Romans celebrated a pagan holiday in honour of the goddess of women and marriage on February 14, the celebration of romance and expressions of love on Valentine’s Day began in the fourteenth century. It is thought that a poem written for the anniversary of the engagement of the ruling monarchs is the origin of the modern day tradition of sending cards on Valentine’s Day. There is also a great deal of conjecture on the day’s namesake with a myriad of martyred Valentines in Christian history.

The most popular story relates to Valentine of Rome who became a saint when he was put to death for marrying young men and women. It was during a time when Rome was at war and the marriage of young men was banned as the Emperor believed it affected their ability to be soldiers.

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OR EIGHT YEARS the annual RSPCA gourmet food and wine evening, has been hosted by Ron and Helen Geyl’s Poets Café in Montville.

This year Ron and Helen will once against host the function which has become highly valued by the RSPCA, and is a well established institution in Montville.

The demands for the RSPCA’ s services rise by more than 10% every year. Its call centre answered over 200,000 calls last year and over 50,000 animals across Queensland were taken into its animal care centres. The organisation relies almost entirely on public donations to deliver its services.

“We rely more and more on activities like the Geyl’s gourmet food and wine evening, said RSPCA Queensland spokesman, Michael Beatty. “Without the generosity of the Geyl’s and communities like Montville we would be unable to meet the needs of animals who have been cruelly treated.”

The owners of Poets Café, Ron and Helen Geyl, donate all the food and beverages for the evening so that the RSPCA can raise as much as possible from the night.

“We’re delighted to do it,” said Mr Geyl. “We believe the RSPCA does an incredible job in very difficult circumstances. The staff and volunteers they have are simply amazing!”

The 2013 event has a new name -“Animal A-fare” which better reflects why the night is important. The event will be held on Friday 15th February, somewhat appropriately, the day after Valentine’s. It will be hosted

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Although Ahtee is committed to sustainability and the mind awareness of Tai Chi, his architectural practice means he has not cut himself off from the mainstream.

Amongst the wide range of architectural projects Ahtee has completed for Sunshine Coast clients are numerous homes, the car dealership complex on Sugar Road for Gary Crick, the award-winning BMW showroom at Currimundi, and in Maleny, the timber cabins for Fountainhead Health Retreat. He also supervised the Mary Cairncross Interpretive Centre, built for $30,000 in materials, with a team of unskilled work-for-the dole trainees.

Maybe it’s all about reaching late middle age but Ahtee recognises he is drawing together his diverse background in sustainable architecture and urban design with social ecology and permaculture. This is all wrapped up in a journey of personal development and spirituality guided by a deep commitment to Tai Chi. He is working on a book on Tai Chi detailing his experiential and results based learning system.

Having done Taekwondo at college and southern praying mantis at uni, both rather taxing on the body, he was looking for an exercise that he could do into his old age.

“It is true that Tai chi is an excellent exercise for the aged,” says Ahtee, “but it is not true that it only suitable for the elderly. There are different forms of Tai Chi to suit all ages and fitness capabilities. As I discovered later,

Tai chi is a deadly martial art as well as an expression of the essence of Taoism, one of the three pillars of Chinese culture- the other two being Confucianism and Buddhism.”

Ahtee was fortunate to have studied with some of the best masters of Tai Chi in China and Japan, and he has found it has fulfilled everything he wanted as a form of exercise, and a lot more besides.

It has given him health and fitness, peace and tranquillity, and provided a balanced and positive outlook on life.

Later, as a teacher himself, Ahtee developed a sequential set of Tai Chi skills that made learning the art, so much more logical for beginners.

“There is a paradox at the heart of Taoist philosophy”, says Ahtee. “To be more effective you have to use less strength and effort. Once you can keep your mind within the centre of your being and move in harmony with the flow of inner and outer energy, time stands still and you stay within the eternity of the moment.”

Ahtee is very passionate about encouraging more people to do Tai Chi for the wide range of health benefits as confirmed by numerous clinical studies including at the prestigious Mayo Clinic.

After 5 years of development, Ahtee is now ready to take this new experiential based system of learning Tai Chi to the world- starting with the Blackall Range in 2013.

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Where to maleny Cappricios Pizzas Traditional Italian food. Licensed Restaurant.

Open Tue - Fri 4pm-10pm. Sat & Sun 11.30am-10pm Riverside Centre – 5499 9444

Colin James Fine Foods Try our famous freshly made sorbet, gelati and ice cream cakes. Light snacks and lunches including a wide selection of gluten free options. Great coffee.

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Tues–Thurs 10:00–9:00pm Fri 10:00–10:00pm Sat 9:00–10:00pm; Sun 9:00–3:00pm 18 Lawyer Street, Maleny – 5429 6543

Reserve Restaurant Cellar A la carte lunches and dinners. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week from 11.30am.

840 Landsborough-Maleny Road – 5435 2288

Spicers Tamarind Key Restaurant Maleny African & Mediterranean cuisine. Licensed restaurant, weddings, functions. Great views, verandah lunches.

Fri Night 3 course Buffet $35pp inc. $15 for kids.

Live music Sunday lunch.

Wed – Sun Lunch & dinner.

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King Ludwig’s German Restaurant & Klaushouse Mountain Bar Authentic home style cuisine. 25 German beers.

Lunch 10.00am Wed- Sun, Dinner 6.00pm Fri & Sat Bookings recommended. Great mountain views.

Private functions & special events.

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Innovative Thai & Asian Cuisine. Dinner Tues - Sun Lunch Fri - Sun. Reservations essential.

88 Obi Lane South (above Gardners Falls) – 1300 311 429

The Terrace Award-winning Seafood Restaurant. Open for lunch and dinner 6 days a week. Closed Wednesday.

Cnr. Maleny-Landsborough Road and Mountain View Road – 5494 3700

The Upfront Club Licensed restaurant. Daily blackboard specials & takeaway. Live music. Preview performers www.upfrontclub.org. Breakfast & lunch 7 days.

Open dinner from 5.30pm Mon, Thurs, Fri & Sat. 31 Maple Street – 5494 2592

Real food. Real Service. Venue available for functions.

Fabulous meals in a cafe setting in the heart of town.

3 Maple Street – 5499 9177

Maudy’s Extensive breakfast, lunch and dinner menu with finest steaks on the Hinterland. Vegetarians catered for.

Dinner Wed - Sat. Lunch Fri - Sun. Breakfast w/ends.

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montville Ametharius Coffees and Craft Hinterlands Best Coffee. Come in for a cuppa, or something to eat, browse our gift shop, paint some ceramics or just relax in our quiet courtyard.

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Elements at Montville Fabulous teahouse, interiors and gift store overlooking the Kondalilla falls. Open Wed - Mon 8am - 4.00ish.

Delish breakfast. Light lunches. Home baked goodies.

Limited seating. Small functions welcome.

Bridal and Baby Showers a must.

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Flaxton Gardens Tranquil elegance in an area of natural beauty.

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Le Relais Bressan Sensational French Cuisine. Great 3 Course set menu $27.50 except Fri & Sat night. Open lunch and dinner.

Closed Tuesday & Wednesday.

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Restaurants • Cafés • Take-aways this month: The Woombye Pub In the heart of Woombye on Blackall St, The Woombye Pub has been the cornerstone of village life for over 100 years. Today it continues to deliver the friendly and welcoming atmosphere along with a delectable food menu that showcases the best of local Sunshine Coast ingredients.

The Pub is well known for its freshly handprepared dishes and its range of weekday food offers such as the $13 weekday lunches.

From a light lemon pepper cuttlefish and Spanish chorizo salad to a mouth-watering crispy pork belly, or some classics such as smoky beef ribs or the stone-baked pizzas, the menu is full of dishes bursting with flavour.

Why not book a table for Valentine’s Day with a 3-course menu for two people for just $70. The Woombye Pub is open for lunch and dinner daily.

To book your table please call: 5442 1155.

Montville Gourmet Pizza & Cafe Gourmet Pizza, Pasta & Salads. Open for lunch and dinner, 7 days noon till 8.00pm 202 Main Street (next to bottle shop) – 5442 9505

Poets Cafe Superb food in a rainforest setting. Open for breakfast & lunch. Dinner Friday & Saturday nights.

167 Main Street – 5478 5479

Secrets on the Lake Cafe & Gallery Enjoy Devonshire Teas, homemade cakes, or lunch on the deck overlooking the lake then browse through the gallery. Open 9am-4pm. Group bookings welcome.

Sunday breakfast 8.30am-11.30am. Licensed. bookings essential. www.secretsonthelake.com.au 207 Narrows Road – 5478 5888

The Edge Restaurant Savour our delicious modern cuisine on the deck overlooking stunning views. The perfect location to enjoy a champagne breakfast, leisurely lunch, or coffee & cake. Open daily 8.30am -4.00 pm. Licensed Mayfield Centre 127-133 Main Street – 5442 9344

The Long Apron’ Restaurant Winner Best Prestige Restaurant in Qld 2011.

Our modern European menu offers a ‘Table d Hote’ & 5 or 10 course degustation.

Open daily for breakfast 8-10.a.m. Lunch Fri-Sun. Dinner Wed-Mon Spicers Clovelly Estate 68 Balmoral Rd – 1300 272 897

The Montville Coffee Pot Relaxed dining friendly service. Home style cooking using fresh ingredients. Hearty breakfasts, gourmet sandwiches & burgers, fresh salads, open grills, vegetarian treats, yummy cakes, Poffertjes. Locally roasted coffee prepared by qualified baristas.Wi-Fi Hotspot 8.15am - 5.00pm - 7 days Village Square, 168 Main Street – 5478 5522

Wild Rocket @ Misty’s Delicious seasonal, local, organic, homemade cuisine.

Warm friendly service, professional baristas. Unique historic venue. Cosy dining. Intimate functions.

Lunch & dinner. Closed Mons exc public holidays.

Bookings appreciated.

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Husk and Honey Grain free and gluten free. Monday to Friday 8am – 3.30pm. All day breakfast & seasonal lunch menu.

Sat mornings – live music, seasonal lunch platters, all day breakfast – 8am – 2pm.

16 Queen Street – 5441 3510

palmwoods / eudlo Palmwoods Hotel Best steaks on the coast. Fresh local seafood.

Bistro menu to suit everyone. Open 7 days.

28-34 Main Street – 1300 PALMWOODS

Sweethearts Cafe Organic Coffee & Home Cooking. Organic Salads & Gluten Free House Baked Cakes.

All Day "BIG" Brekky and "BIG” Veggie Brekky.

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woombye The Woombye Pub Open daily for lunch and dinner with a range of fresh hand prepared dishes using the best local produce. $13 weekday lunches plus a host of weekly dinner offers.

See the full menu at thewoombyepub.com.au.

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Empire Organics & Cafe - now at two locations French provincial-inspired food specialising in gluten-free and vegetarian products using a large range of gf flours.

We use Black Sheep coffee and Eden Hope organic milk to get the best flavours. Catering available.Open 7 days 7am to 4.30 pm. Parking at rear.

Shop 6, 2-4 Mitchell Street – 5441 5554 also now at 94 Blackall Tce Nambour

Beerwah Hotel A taste of the Country. Fabulous steaks & other dishes to please everyone. Eat inside in our new Bistro or outside in our new Bistro Garden.

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School life is born on the

Blackall Range This coming Easter, the Maleny State School will celebrate a Century of Education on the Blackall Range with a gathering at the Primary School in Bunya Street.

PART FROM Maleny township schools the celebration will include the Blackall Range Provisional, Witta, North Maleny, Bald Knob, Curramore, and Booroobin schools, as well as the Maleny State High School and the Ananda Marga River School.

A weekend of activities has been planned including a Wine & Cheese Meet & Greet, a parade of past students and staff starting from the original school site in Cedar Street and finishing at the High School in Bunya Street. There will also be a mini fair, displays, memorabilia, stalls, the opening of two time capsules, a formal centenary dinner and a Sunday morning ecumenical service.

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The need for education As settlers moved up to the Blackall Range in the late 1800s they tended to gather in small separate communities, and the many children of these families soon needed their own schools. For at least three decades there was a flurry of building activity as one room schools served communities across the Range.

The first school to open on the Range was in 1886 in the Wootha area when William Verrant became the teacher of the Blackall Range Provisional School. The school had 12 students and it was built on Joseph McCarthy’s property, not far from the McCarthy home. It was only one long room with a smaller annex at the end. This served as a bed-sitting room for an early teacher, Mrs O’Sullivan, a widow with two children.

In 1892 the Witta School opened, followed by the Bald Knob School in 1902. A small school in a slab hut was constructed near the junction of Burgum and North Maleny roads, but insufficient pupils gave it a short life.

Emma Jane Milligan was the teacher of the new Peachester Provisional School in 1901. There were at least

ABOVE: The opening of Maleny’s state school in April 1913 in Cedar Street.

30 families in the district but Emma Jane could never be sure of the number of pupils each day due to distance, terrain, flooded creek crossings, and the ongoing need for children to help around the house and farm.

Bald Knob Provisional School opened in January 1902 on land donated by Captain John Palmer, and two of his six children were amongst the original students. The first teacher was Miss Margaret O’Mahony who boarded with the Palmers and later married an older son.

After the Maleny butter factory was opened in 1904, it became obvious that Maleny would become a substantial service town and a more central school was needed. In 1912, land was acquired in Cedar Street, where the Guide Hut stands today, and the school was built and opened in April 1913 with 52 pupils enrolled by the end of the first week.

The same year that Maleny State School opened, the Curramore School opened and in 1919 the school at Booroobin opened also.

Over the years, the smaller schools struggled to keep their numbers and the Maleny State School became the central school for the district. In the early 1940s, parents were urging the Education Department for a high school and in 1954 the Maleny High School opened with 23 students, also on the same grounds.

But the site in Cedar Street became very overcrowded, and land was purchased in Bunya Street. A new building was built and the High School moved to this site in 1957.

Some of the old schools from around the district and buildings from the Cedar St site were moved to the new Bunya Street site and they were joined to form the primary school. The new school was officially opened in 1959.

In 1986, construction began on the new high school at the top of Bunya Street and a year later, the Maleny High School was opened.

It celebrated 50 years of education in 2004.

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Needless to say, with various schools established in rainforest areas, snakes and other creatures figure strongly in stories of the old school yard. Beryl Newton, a wellknown Maleny resident who is now 99 years old and a former Curramore teacher from 1936 recalls one day when one of the kids came racing up to her saying “Miss Roberts, there’s a snake in the girl’s lavatory.”

“I was expected to be this big brave teacher who could deal with anything. So, followed by the fourteen kids I poked my head around the doorway and above the toilet seat rose a seven foot carpet snake. There were 14 kids behind me but I was first out.

“So I told Murray, one of the older boys, to get a couple of sticks and take the snake way down the steep hill to the horse paddock. Murray bravely got the snake and we all

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followed him past a heap of stones and wild raspberries.

A second snake came out to greet us. It was too much 14 feet of carpet snake so I said Murray kill them both!”

Bert Brooker was an assertive young lad to say the least.

He reports that probably aged five, in 1916 he got ”the cuts” on his first day at Witta school because he pushed another kid off the verandah. Afterwards he went out and pushed the same kid off the verandah again for dobbing him in.

Bert recalled that during WW1, the school had slit trenches dug out the back, but because of the wildlife in the vicinity, they had to clean them out every couple of days. The boys would usually be called upon to get rid of any unfortunate animal and/or snakes that had fallen in between clean-outs.

At around the same time Pearl Burgess recalls a teamster’s dog chasing a koala outside the Bald Knob school grounds. The koala took refuge in a small cedar tree growing outside the school. The teamster started beating the koala with his whip, says Ms Burgess. The teacher came out and remonstrated with the man who finally desisted, not before the koala was hurt and badly frightened. It was an incident never forgotten by Ms Burgess later to become Mrs Pearl Oxenham.

In later years, Bert had the cream run from Curramore to Maleny and also the school run in the same truck from Curramore to Witta school and Maleny.

To save time and travelling, he used to put the kids and the cream in the back of the truck. The kids would then help him to unload all the cream and put it under a bush, load up the planks for seats, put the mesh across the back, and carry on to school. Bert would come back later to finish the cream run. Bert said the kids didn’t mind, the parents didn’t mind and of course the cream didn’t mind.

Despite simple, one-room schools in those early years, parents were eager to see their children educated. Some children showed a devotion to their schoolwork despite having commitments to work on their parents’ farms and rural businesses.

The Hapgoods arrived in Maleny in 1910 from Ulladulla in NSW. They were a typical family, pitting their wits and strength against a vibrant but unforgiving environment.

Mum and Dad Joe, Ben, Molly Emily, Dora, Anne, Edna, Dave and Harry lived and worked on various Range properties including Thynne’s farm (incorporating present day Mary Cairncross Park) and Porter’s Farm at Witta.

The Hapgood girls in particular were keen students – Emily’s copy book is a model for copperplate script and polite letters to fictitious bank managers and potential employers. One of her siblings at Maleny school attempted an ambitious history composition sitting in this one room school in the bush.

ABOVE LEFT & RIGHT: The Department of Public Works contracted Mr McKinnon of Nambour to shift 8 classrooms including furniture and fittings from the existing site in Cedar Street, across the bridge to the new site in Bunya Street in 1957.

RIGHT: Many isolated families sent their children to school on horseback. Here Allan and Evelyn Lawley set out for Maleny.

The Queensland Copy Book was for years the way to learn how to fill in official forms, how to write business letters and fill in Customs forms. Emily and Molly Hapgood (pictured right) wrote in perfect copperplate script.

She wrote at the top of her page … Monday August 10, 1914 … The Causes of the Present European War, and then went on to explain the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand.

Since Maleny’s first school opened in 1913, the Blackall Range has flourished, and so has the education of its children. Both Maleny state and high schools have continued to provide a high standard of education for thousands of Range families whose children go on to higher education or continue to run the family farm. The centenary of the birth of Maleny schools is well worth celebrating and recording for posterity.

RIGHT: Beryl Newton in 1937 - a teacher at Maleny school is one of many who regularly “rescued” students from local fauna… in this case two 2m carpet pythons.

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Leigh Robshaw

A Simple Life MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE IT’S SUMMER but I want to talk about being nude - in the water in front of other people. Alrighty?

There are two places in the world where I’ve had the memorable experience of swimming naked with a group of men and women: Japan and Maleny.

In Japan, it’s a cultural tradition to be starkers in front of complete strangers when you visit onsens (hot thermal baths). It’s totally fine to get your bits out in the name of having a nice relaxing soak in a hot pool with 20 other people in the buff, but god help you if you stand your chopsticks up in your rice or blow your nose on the train. Barbarian!

I lived in Japan for a year and it intrigued me how comfortable Japanese men and women — who struck me as incredibly uptight about the strangest things — were, about being naked in front of each other. As a gaijin (foreign alien) I knew they weren’t all that comfortable when I got in the pool with them.

Although they did a good job of looking nonchalant, you could feel the tension rising in the steaming hot air. It was as if they were partly repulsed at having to share the same water with me, as well as curious to see what a gaijin looked like naked. They perved at me out of the corner of their eyes on more than one occasion, I know they did. And vice versa.

I felt a bit uncomfortable because I knew I was about as inconspicuous as the Incredible Hulk, but bathing in the buff in public was one of those authentic Japanese experiences you just had to have, like singing karaoke in front of a large crowd (infinitely more terrifying).

Like the Japanese, hippies also love to get their gear off in front of other people, and if you find yourself at a party where everyone is going skinny dipping and you’re the only one who doesn’t, you feel like a bit of a prude if you don’t get with the program and swim in the nude.

I’ve been to a few parties around the Range where I thought all we would be doing was eating, drinking and playing music. Silly me.

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Swimming in the Nude ...

Eventually, when the last Fleetwood Mac singalong had ended, we all ended up swimming naked in a waterhole, pretending we weren’t perving at each other. It was nothing sexual, mind you. It was just a refreshing afternoon swim where we all behaved as if it was a totally normal thing to do. Because there’s nothing more natural in the world than the human body, right?

“Bathing in the buff in public was one of those authentic Japanese experiences you just had to have ...”

A local friend, Shannon, recently brought the “nude swimming phenomenon” (as she called it), to my attention.

Shannon is one of the few people I know who actually grew up in Maleny, and she says people have been getting their gear off at parties around here since she was 15.

She said it was considered a cool thing to do, but one day she asked herself if she really felt OK with it, and the answer was a resounding NO. She did not. And I get where she’s coming from. Unless you do it all the time so it becomes as normal as brushing your teeth, then it feels weird.

The thing is, most of us are used to wearing clothes in front of other people. So stripping off in front of them, no matter how close the group of friends, can be quite confronting. You soon find out if you’re an exhibitionist or a prude, or somewhere in between.

There are many cultures where nudity is considered completely normal, and I applaud that. Hooray for answering the door with no clothes on! Of all the cultural traditions that exist in this great world, nudity would have to be the most entertaining.

What people in those cultures know, is that being nude around other people can be very equalising.

Contrary to what you would expect, it can help you feel more comfortable about your body if you have any hang-ups about your hang-downs.

But sadly, Australia is not one of those places. Our cultural norms revolve more around beer guts than naked butts.

So it’s kind of surreal when you’re at a barbecue, eating a sausage while you chat to some guy about the pathetic state of Australian politics, and the next minute his sausage is on display as he swings off the Tarzan rope.

It’s probably not cool of me to say this, and I probably won’t be invited to any more parties where there’s a possibility of a swim in the nuddy, but I reckon it goes against human nature not to have a look.

And what has been seen, cannot be unseen.

Remember that.

Leigh’s Blog: http://www.lifeinahippietown.com

MARK CLAYTON and MICHAEL RECK...

Two young locals aiming to take Range real estate to its Max! Mark Clayton and Michael Reck are long time locals in the Maleny community having grown up and gone to school in the area. They pride themselves on their extensive local knowledge so it’s not surprising that they have come together to combine their knowledge as a real estate team.

After comparing different options, they decided on RE/MAX as they were confident it allowed them to offer their clients the very best of real estate services.

INCE SEPTEMBER 2012 Mark and Mike have been working as RE/MAX agents. “We have hit the ground running with some great sales results already and we are implementing additional services for our clients all the time,” says Mark. These services range from our ‘Live Update’ System for sellers, keeping them informed at all times, to the inclusion of professional photography, aerial photography and property videos at no cost.”

Going back to 1991, Mike and Mark became friends as students at Maleny State High School and have remained good mates ever since. Mark had a successful career in the Army for 8 years after school and Mike worked in various IT roles including his own business, before joining forces to work as a team in real estate sales. Their varied backgrounds have proven to be a winning combination for success in the industry with outstanding sales results and many happy clients.

Mike and Mark are confident the market will gain pace in 2013 following a steady rate of enquiry and sales during the late stages of 2012 and into this year. They have a proactive approach to the sale and marketing of property and above all, value their communication skills.

“The Sunshine Coast property market has been through tough times since late 2010,” says Mark. “Now two years later after several interest rate cuts and affordability coming

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back into the market, a turn for the better seems to be on the way.

We are now starting to see properties up to $500,000 moving quickly and some confidence also returning to the higher price brackets.”

“We have an affinity with the Range,” says Mike, “and the lifestyle it offers to its residents. We know the hinterland is a sought after location to live and we believe there are only good things to come for property owners on the Range.

With our passion for great results driven by service and communication along with the global brand of RE/MAX, we offer a broad suite of services for the properties we represent.”

If you are thinking of selling now or in the future, or you are simply after some general advice, Mark and Mike would be glad to hear from you.

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Tove Easton PRINCIPAL LAWYER

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Beating the heat ...

Tips for Landlords of Retail Premises S A LANDLORD of commercial premises it is important to identify what business your tenant will be carrying out from your premises so that you can prepare a lease that will comply with the requirements of the relevant act involved.

In Queensland commercial leases generally speaking come under two distinct areas; the first being retail shops which are governed by the Retail Shop Leases Act and the second being non retail shops governed by provisions of the Property Law Act. I shall concentrate my discussion on leases that come under the Retail Shop Leases Act. When negotiating with your prospective tenant these are some important tips to keep in mind: • Disclosure – both you and your tenant must provide disclosure in the particular format provided by the Retail Shop Leases Regulations. As a landlord your disclosure must be in the form of a Lessor Disclosure Statement annexing a copy of the lease. The Lessor Disclosure Statement gives information about the lease such as the term of the lease, the option periods available, the rental payable, whether bond is payable etc. Importantly note that this information must be given to the tenant at least seven days before the parties enter into the Lease otherwise the tenant will be at liberty to terminate the lease at any time within the next six month period.

• Term and Options – keep in mind what you want to do with your premises when you negotiate the term and any options (further terms). An example is a lease that has an initial term of three years with two options each of three year duration. It is important that you note that legally, as long as your tenant is not in breach, you have to honour the lease for the whole period of time until the end of the second option period – in this case a period of nine years.

• Early notice of the new Market Rent – prior to exercising the next option in the lease your tenant is entitled to request and be provided with the new market rental amount.

• Notice about exercising Option Periods – there is an obligation on you as the Landlord to give the tenant notice that the time to take up the option period is coming up. This notice must be given at least two months’ prior to the option notice period detailed in the lease.

• Notice about No Option – if the lease does not contain any option period you must also give your tenant notice that the lease is coming to an end. Failure to give such notice would result in the lease term automatically being extended by another six months from the time such notice is given by you!

• Bond – you are entitled to request that a bond be paid by the tenant. The amount of bond payable is often around one month’s rental.

• Legal Costs – you have to pay for your own legal costs for preparing the lease.

• Tenant is a Company – you should require that the directors of the tenant company be noted in the lease as guarantors.

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In the Wild

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with Spencer Shaw

Newly planted stock is especially vulnerable because they have just been taken from an environment where they were watered at least twice if not three times per day.

Don’t plant stock that has just come out of a shadehouse in the sun, because in this heat it will be crisp and brown in no time at all. At the Brush Turkey Wholesale Nursery all our revegetation stock is grown in full sun to provide tough and resilient stock for planting.

Hot Weather Reveg Tips: • If you can’t water your stock at least once per week (1-2 litres per plant) when its raining or consistent rain (ideally at least 25mm per week) is predicted.

• Pre-soak your tubestock in a bucket of water to make sure all air bubbles are expelled from potting mix.

• Dig a shallow swale on the lower slope of your planting, to help catch and hold water, make sure the top of the tubestock is covered with 10-20mm of soil.

• Use water crystals, as per manufactures recommendations, these are great.

• Mulch, mulch, mulch!

• Tree guards to provide shade an protection.

Finally hats off to everyone in this amazing community who pull together in times of calamity and share and help their friends and neighbours, you are a fantastic bunch!

S I’M WRITING this another searing hot and humid day rolls by and we cower in our air conditioned houses (for those of you that way inclined), shady verandas and pools. The thought of planting trees is perhaps as far from your mind - as jogging up a volcano!

When I first wrote this piece, the hot dry weather was certainly having a major effect on the undertaking of revegetation work, but with the return of the wet season (minor understatement!) it’s time to start planning for planting revegetation works!

One of the benefits of the long dry spell was that it kept the weeds in control, so preparation for planting is a just that much easier. But when it comes to the actual planting what can you do to help your plants survive the heat?

Water is crucial to the survival of plants (sorry for such an obvious statement - bit of a no brainer really!) The trick is making sure your planted stock has access to moisture. You may notice that many of the plants in your revegetation projects (planted a few years ago) were still thriving in spite of the previous dry weather and that’s because their roots were deep in the soil and still had access to moisture.

It’s mainly plants that still have very shallow roots or are newly planted that are in danger of drying out and succumbing to heat stress.

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A Time for Learning ...

OW THAT we are getting soaking rain the long hot dry spell has been as hard on our forests as it has been on all the animals including ourselves. It is an important time to record which plants have been largely unaffected, which have just survived and which have died. Parts of the sub-tropical lowland rainforest, which comprises much of the vegetation of our area, are looking decidedly thin and stressed. Trees have shed their leaves in order to survive, the canopy has opened up, younger trees have died, and the native grass is brown. Not a healthy picture.

However, as the climate continues to warm, we can learn something about which species are likely to be the best ones to use in our own revegetation programs on our soils and in our local environment. It’s a very diverse area with much local variation. Gullies will demonstrate a different picture to more exposed sites. In addition, soil

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types differ in their capacity to hold water and in the speed at which they lose water.

Close planting usually results in faster closing of the canopy but some trees will eventually be lost due to lack of soil moisture in dry times. This is not a bad thing and the young trees didn’t cost much in the first place. However, after this season, the species to avoid can be identified but, importantly, don’t lose diversity. Shade is critical so pioneer species which rapidly produce that canopy are a must when planning further planting programs. Since most of us depend on tank water or dams, rain will need to replenish the soil moisture first.

On a more positive note, with all that litter on the ground, it should be a good season for colourful fungi once conditions are wet enough. In the meantime, observe and record. Those records will be extremely useful in the future.

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Rowan House built on stories

Food is our common ground

“There is something of the air and dignity of the rambling timber house of the Colonial American backwoods about the new home under construction at Bald Knob, near Landsborough,” so wrote a Courier Mail journalist in 1940 about Rowan House, now for sale after only six owners. Its first was Iris Rudd, apparently a vivacious, free spirit who defied her father and married a jackaroo.

Dad Rudd refused to attend the wedding and gave his daughter a pistol as a wedding present.

The hinterland town of Maleny will host South East Queensland’s richest woodworking competition, the Wootha Prize, for the sixth time at the 2013 Maleny Wood Expo May 4-5.

Wootha Prize entrants will be vying for over $4,000 in prize money: $2,500 First Prize sponsored by HQPlantations, $750 Second Prize sponsored by Queensland Water and Land Carers, $500 Third Prize is sponsored by Geochempet Services, and the $500 People’s Choice Award, is also sponsored by HQPlantations.

‘This year’s theme ‘on 4 legs’ is very broad and limited only by wood artisans imaginations,’ says coordinator, Mim Coulstock. “It can be applied to everything from furniture to sculpture,” Mim added.

The application deadline is February 15th and Application Forms are available at www.malenywoodexpo.org.au or by phoning: 0428 674 335.

After European travel Iris found family contentment in her new home which unusually she called ‘Kunda’ the aboriginal name for mountain ridge. Nev Anning now over 80, remembers oiling the timber walls and strapping himself with ropes to the outer railings to do the jobs.

More stories from Rowan House agent, Roger Loughnan Real Estate Ph: 5478 5288

The monthly Blackall Range Growers Market market has joined forces with the not-for-profit organisation, Finding Common Ground.

This fledgling organisation whose slogan is “cultivating local food networks” is working with new and existing growers and processors. It is hoped that this new partnership will encourage more people to set up small farming operations, so that the market at Witta will be a place where these new growers can test their produce with local consumers.

As an increasing supply of fresh produce becomes available, it is envisaged the marketplace could also provide a small distribution point for local retailers and even restaurants.

Finding Common Ground’s initiative to promote and assist the setting up of small farming operations lies at the heart of this partnership.

For all enquiries regarding information about Finding Common Ground, please phone Alexina Johnson on 54469176

Randy’s among the best...

Local furniture maker and artist, Randy McGraw has been selected to be part of an international book that fetes 101 top furniture makers around the world.

One of Randy’s clients recently told him he thought he was a, modern day furniture maker with an artisan’s approach.

With a life-long love of timber, Randy’s first series of furniture emerged from salvaging beautifully weathered grey boards from old barns in Michigan.

Randy moved to Australia in 1982 and it was the discovery of a stack of Fraser Island Satinay beams that stimulated his first business.

Copies of Bespoke can be found at The Tree Frog Gallery and Piece of Green Gallery in Maleny, or call Randy: 5494 4222

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• Elevated flood free & pasture improved • Peace, Privacy with Substantial Views • 14 flat to undulating Post and Rail Paddocks + 3 general use paddocks • 15 all weather stables including 3 foal down stables & 8 fitted with stable comfort flooring • Olympic Sized ELD Fully Fenced Dressage Arena & Round Yard • Multiple tack up areas plus under lights hot & cold washbay • Large rubber floored farm shed (approx 20m x 11.8m) • Underground 3 phase power and auto water throughout farm • Post and Rail fitted with Gallagher Equifence offsets • 30,000 gallons of stored inground rain water tanks • Air-conditioned 2 Bedroom Caretaker unit with outdoor entertainment area (approx 130m2) • Build your dream home with multiple house pads cut offering sandstone wall surrounds, design plans, engineering and soil tests • All just minutes to the heart of Nambour, the coastline & quality private schools Genuine Buyers in high $1 million Price Bracket Lynne Cornish 0412 610 642 Lynnecornishrealty@bigpond.com www.lynnecornishrealty.com.au

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Secrets on the Lake creates another work of art

Owners of Secrets on the Lake romantic get-away in Montville, George and Aldy Johnston, have created a mixed paradise of natural environment and man-made art through their themed tree houses, art gallery and whimsical boardwalk carvings.

When they opened their new cafe / gallery last year staff members coaxed George into letting them create a new artwork ... a vegetable and herb garden to give fresh input to the kitchen.

Debbie Blackley has the story from Secrets.

S THE "VOLCANO" (George’s description) was being erected, it was hard at first to see the vision of head gardener, Wayne Colbran. But as Wayne, live-in manager John Morris and carpenter Tim Russ completed the decking and benching, the shape came to life and made good sense.

The 'volcano' - shaped herb garden is an excellent prototype for keen gardeners who are either short of room to plant, or find it difficult to stoop low to tend garden beds.

Wayne mapped out the garden beds in petal-like extensions from the decking, enabling walking access between the beds and up onto the boardwalk. Wayne is an experienced bespoke gardener whose main aim is to marry a garden perfectly to its location, taking in climate and native flora. John's enthusiasm is for researching and learning about companion planting with vegetables, herbs and flowers, as well as how to use and cook with each herb.

So, the result is a colourful, diverse and practical garden.

Once the range of herbs was planted, the Montville climate took over to produce a lush, gorgeous garden providing the freshest herbs and vegetables to use in our kitchen and cafe. Lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, beans, cabbage, beans, silverbeet, beetroot, leeks and snow peas, are surrounded by a colourful range of flowers and herbs.

Many of our regular cafe customers are so excited to walk down to our new garden that they hardly notice the lake at all!

The birds-eye view of the garden, especially from the decks of Possums or Dragonfly treehouses showcase the full floral-like emblem of the garden's design.

Wayne Colbran has always maintained an enviable rainforest/sub-tropical garden on our grounds.When the new wedding decking area was built three years ago, he took the opportunity to create his own flower gardens to frame the unique structures of the pergolas, decking, rock pools, and waterfall.

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Even our reception is framed by exquisite rockery gardens- all hand built with orchids and other ornamental plants. Even the wildlife love our rockeries... just last week, we were witness to a white cockatoo who flew down and landed on the rock at the top of the 'man-made' waterfall and drank from the flow of water...

When the treehouses and boardwalks were being built, great care was always taken to remove only what was necessary of the native flora. True to this policy today, the view from each treehouse is framed by trees to create privacy and the feeling of being nestled amongst natural beauty.

The grounds also provide a home and shelter to many very healthy possums who visit every night on your treehouse deck eyeing off your tasty dinner treats. An abundance of birdlife also make the Secrets on the Lake property their home.

What adds a unique and complementary theme to Secrets are the many wood carvings by Range sculptor, Jack Wilms that decorate the railings and many timber surfaces throughout the resort. Our reception area, cafe and gallery are all testament to Jack’s quirky, carved animals that have been created over the past 20 years.

The newest venture in the early planning stages is a propagation greenhouse so our green thumbs can produce

TOP RIGHT: The herb garden takes shape TOP LEFT: The fully planted garden now attracts visitors to Secrets on the Lake CENTRE RIGHT: A flourishing herb garden provides fresh ingredients for the Secrets kitchen CENTRE LEFT: Wayne Colbran, Tim Russ and John Morris, the “architects” of the Secrets herb and vegetable garden BELOW LEFT: View of Lake Baroon with the herb garden in foreground

our own seedlings for the herbs and vegies, and even propagate native plants and ornamentals that we currently have in our gardens. This will help replenish and restock our grounds.

Why don't you pop down to Secrets on the Lake to have a look for yourself, grab a coffee and browse our Art Gallery, then pop into reception and we can guide you to the gardens. Best times to view the garden is between 10am and 3pm. Secrets on the Lake, 207 Narrows Road, Montville (off Western Avenue) ph 5478 5888.

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MAX L I N D E G G E R :

... a self-sustaining man

by Natalie Brown

There’s an old Chinese proverb that says: ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’

AX LINDEGGER’S life’s work seems to be about teaching men and women to fish. His vision is for every house to have its own garden. Almost apologetically he says that he ‘just sows the seeds’, and then often doesn’t get to see them grow. In fact, he often doesn’t remember saying half the things that stick so poignantly in his student’s heads.

Max recently became a co-recipient of the Gaia Trust Award for his pioneering work in permaculture, and in part, ‘using incredible imagination and courage by creating ecovillages and networks… and collecting their experiences in new education programs’. When asked about the award, Max says ‘oh that’s already in the past’, and laughs. He says he thinks he was awarded it because he was one of the ‘last men standing’ from the original group that started the whole movement, and that it could be an ‘award for persistence’. The money from the award came at a serendipitous time as a project he is involved in, in Cambodia had hit a few hurdles in November, and they were having a terrible time, and had asked him to come back. He said that he would see what he could do, and on arriving home that day, checked his emails and found that he had been awarded the $1500 award, which meant that he could make that next trip to Cambodia. ‘Things are meant to happen…’, he says whimsically.

Max recently returned to Crystal Waters from Cambodia, to meet with students from the U.S. who are currently doing his education program at the Eco Village. Arriving home from his tenth trip to the war ravaged country, Max is passionate about the work he is doing, in what he calls a

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minor, volunteer role, assisting his friend Jahn. While visiting Max at Crystal Waters for 6 weeks, Jahn (former refugee of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge) who has a background in agricultural science, learnt how to plant gardens and saw that this is what he needed to do in Cambodia. So he asked Max to come there and help him. Max jumped on board, to assist in small garden projects, with very small amounts of money, establishing drip irrigation (which he takes there 400 metres at a time), establishing gardens, a pig project (a small pig breeding set up) and building small ponds.

Last year it was very dry and the rice harvest was quite poor, in the area where Max is working, it seems that half the people only have food for half the year. “I am interested in making sure that they all have a meal.”

In some ways, Max sees his role in Cambodia is about filling in the blanks left by the war. The Cambodian people are farmers, but with generations of their men missing due to the war, a lot of that knowledge has been lost. Max can assist them using the information available to him, to show them ways of working sustainably with what they have, to provide food, shelter and to make a living and become self sufficient. Gradually, with the help of the Kadoorie Trust, the projects are growing to encompass wider areas and to assist more people. One project which involved the rebuilding of a large 3 kilometre dam wall, meant that where there was nothing before, families are now self sufficient, have homes and are able to run their own business growing melons and selling fish.

“I come back with lots of ideas and I learn a lot when I’m there too. Doing a lot with very little, they are so good at it; and they are such a happy, friendly people. They say a smile covers up tears, so that’s probably true too, but they don’t dwell on the past, they look forward.” You come back thankful for what you’ve got, and a little bit frustrated for how we miss opportunities here quite often. I try not to think about the consumer treadmill.”

N IMPRESSIVE AMOUNT of recent scientific research indicates that learning mindfulness is effective in alleviating a wide range of psychological and physical issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, irritability and chronic pain.

It also enhances wellbeing, performance and a deeper engagement with work, relationships and daily life.

The practice of mindfulness cultivates our natural ability to be present to what is going on in the moment with an attitude of openness, non-judgement and curiosity. This in contrast to our mind’s more usual habits of ruminating about the past, worrying about the future, or running on autopilot in the here and now. Mindfulness enables us to enjoy more fully what is pleasant and satisfying in life, and to face life’s inevitable difficulties with more ease and confidence. Mindfulness helps us to make much better use of the power of our own mind.

Astrid de Ruiter has been teaching mindfulness to groups and individuals since 2006, and will run a course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction in Mooloolah Valley, starting on Wednesday 27 February.

The course consists of eight 2.5 hr interactive group sessions, daily practice at home and a one day retreat. Participants receive a course book and CDs at the beginning of the course to help with the practice of mindfulness at home and in daily life.

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FAR LEFT: Max Lindegger has spent more than 30 years helping create a model of sustainability at Crystal Waters Eco Village.

LEFT: Max continues to involve himself in training courses that reveal how we can all live and work in harmony with the land.

BELOW LEFT: In the 80s and 90s along with rammed earth builder, John Oliver, Max helped design and create a number of landmark structures for Crystal Waters BELOW: Max Lindegger has taken his skills to Cambodia where he helps communities work sustainably with the little they have, to provide food, shelter and make a modest living

Sunshine Coast Destination Ltd

Travel Notes Are you tough enough?

Does testing your strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie on the world’s toughest obstacle course sound like your idea of fun?

Then the naturally refreshing Sunshine Coast is the place to be in August 2013 for the fun and fitness challenge when Tough Mudder and the 7 Sunshine Coast Marathon & Community Run Festival will be backto-back events.

Tough Mudder Sunshine Coast will be held on 17-18 August 2013. The hard-core obstacle course is one of the fastest growing sports, attracting almost half a million participants worldwide in 2012. Originally designed by British Special Forces, Tough Mudder is considered one of the toughest events on the planet.

To register visit: toughmudder.com.au

Sunshine Coast Trails Sunshine Coast Destination Ltd (SCDL) has developed a series of trails to showcase the array of exciting experiences visitors can enjoy across the Sunshine Coast.

Nature and Attractions have been the first trails to go live as part of a year-round campaign with future trails to include Arts and Culture, Food and Wine, Markets and Coastal Fun. The online trails are linked to accommodation specials and a Facebook competition to ‘spread the word’ about the trails. For more information visit: trails.visitsunshinecoast.com.au

First Members event at Secrets “We’re not hungry enough. We need to rethink the economic paradigm.” Max looks around Australia and sees so many areas where we could grow things, but often living sustainably with our environment does not appear to be economically viable to people. We can earn more going to work on somebody else’s farm than working our own land and sustaining ourselves, and so in a way our economy is tailored towards staying on that consumer treadmill.

After 33 years, the Crystal Waters Eco Village goes some way towards this self sustaining community, with its bakery, monthly markets and shared occupancy of the land. In its early stages, the government was reticent about allowing it to go ahead because it worried about waste management, roads and water. But its success is evident in its ability to

achieve a working solution to these issues and to provide a beautiful home to many people to live and work in harmony with the land.

So what’s next for Max? “Well, I won’t be playing golf…”

He’s 65 this year, and it looks like there is no slowing down for this enigmatic man anytime in the near future.

He’ll be focussing on his beekeeping project, and is excited about breeding hygienic Queen bees. Cambodia is definitely a project that he will be keeping his eye on, and he’ll be working with the Colomban Fathers in Manila to establish a garden there. The sky’s the limit, and where there’s Max Lindegger, there’s bound to be a garden bursting into life.

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Venerable Tenzin Namdag Based on Love and Compassion and the feminine energies in Buddhism - with an emphasis on the Taras

Ven. Tenzin Namdag, has been a Buddhist for 30 years and was ordained in 1997.

For many years she taught overseas and within Australia where she is now the Spiritual Director and coordinator of the Queensland Regional Buddhist Groups.

This sees her regularly teaching in Airlie Beach, Bundaberg, Cairns, Fernvale, Noosa, Mackay, Maleny, Rockhamp-ton and Toowoomba as well as teaching to groups in WA, NT and Victoria.

She is also a chaplain in the prison system.

Queensland Regional Venerable Namdag has had many teachings from high Lamas including His Holiness Buddhist Groups the Dalai Lama.

MALENY

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BUDDHISM FOR ALL Changing Challenges to Opportunities

The first event for members of Hinterland Tourism for 2013 will be held on Wednesday February 27 starting at 6pm. Please put this in your diaries now for Secrets on the Lake. (See feature story on Secrets in this edition.)

This will be hosted by HTSC in conjunction with SCDL. Two course dinner @$35 per head. The first two drinks will be complimentary. Please RSVP to info@montvillecabins.com.au before 21 February.

Payment to be made to HTSC before 25 February 2013.

Bank deposit details:Suncorp BSB 484-799 Account 450272310

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Sessions are 9.30am - 11.30am on the following dates: Friday 15 February Friday 22 February Friday 1 March Friday 15 March Neighbourhood Centre Bicentenary Lane, Maleny

New signs on the Hinterland Hinterland Tourism Sunshine Coast (HTSC) and SCDL worked closely to secure funding to design and install two new signs, which are important to the drive market. Congratulations to Peter Rogers and Angus Richard for their work on this! The signs showcase maps of the region, on Blackall Range Tourist Drives 22 and 23. They are at Bald Knob and Little Yabba Creek.

There are still two more signs to be completed, one at Kenilworth and one at Dulong Road.

$120.00 for the four sessions For more information and to book contact: Pam on 5499 9346

To find out more about Sunshine Coast Destination call 07 5458 8800, email: info@scdl.com.au or visit us at: www.scdl.com.au | www.visitsunshinecoast.com.au or www.facebook.com/sunshinecoastQLD

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Maleny Film Society February 2013 screenings Saturday February 9 Evening - 7.15pm

Screening at the Pavilion, Maleny Showgrounds.

A group of French septuagenarian retirees, radicals, and lovers, decide to live together as one happy squabbling family rather than be shipped off separately to “old folks’ homes”. They are joined by Dirk, a young German anthropology student, researching France's aging population. He also becomes their fix-it man, for all manner of things.

This being a French film, there are deeper currents than just the ever-flowing wine. The cast includes Geraldine Chaplin & Jane Fonda, and several wellknown French comic actors.

French comedy - M - 120min subtitles

Saturday February 23 Evening - 7.15pm

Quartet Screening at the Maleny Community Centre.

Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reggie (Tom Courtenay) and Wilfred (Billy Connolly) are retired opera singers, living along with others - at Beecham House, a home for retired musicians. Every year, on October 10, the residents organise a fund raising concert for the home and to celebrate Verdi's birthday. The once celebrated Jean (Maggie Smith), who was briefly married to Reggie years ago, arrives unexpectedly at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing in the gala. Still, the show must go on... and it does.

UK -comedy / drama - M - 98min

All welcome !

Doors open 6pm for tickets + bar + dinner Screening commences 7.15pm

Catering by Pomodoras on Obi & Spaghetti Junction

Enquiries – 5494 2882 www.malenyfilmsociety.info

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Crime certainly does pay ...

RIME certainly pays if you’re an author who’s created a popular criminal investigator. Joe Nesbo’s Harry Hole for example, may be a deeply troubled police officer but he has an uncanny instinct for tracking down serial killers.

In fact, your popular criminal investigator doesn’t have to be a good-looking, clean-cut, pillar of society - the most popular are anything but. The best definitely have attitude. One of my personal favourites is Nero Wolfe the obese investigator, lover of exotic home-grown orchids who solves crimes but refuses to leave his home office.

Author Ian Rankin has created one of the most engaging investigators in Scottish inspector John Rebus, a man fighting his employer as often as criminals. Rebus takes short cuts in a 21st century police force that demands, diplomacy, people’s rights and paperwork.

Standing in Another Man’s Grave is Rankin’s latest Rebus adventure, taking our man into retirement and civilian attachment on a series of disappearances stretching back to the millenium.

Rebus is up against everyone it seems, including old colleagues, and he doesn’t help himself by being stubborn and anarchic. But like all smart investigators you stay with him to the end.

Our home grown Peter Temple has the same ability as Ian McEwan to write crime scene dialogue in a spare but fluid style. Inspector Villani is from a bucolic Victorian country background who has slowly become infected by the blackness of the crimes he must investigate and solve. In Truth, his need to match the viciousness of the underworld depresses this otherwise cool and calculating officer, and he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling.

Jack Irish is another or Temple’s private investigators this time with a penchant for dubious gambling mates and a skill for furniture-making. Not surprisingly, this attractive but vulnerable investigator now has his own TV series.

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Another of my close favourites of troubled investigators is Inspector Harry Bosch, the 20 year creation of US crime writer, Michael Connelly.

Harry is again a flawed hero - smart, driven, and an honest cop. But he is also impatient, a loner in an LAPD team environment, often rude and dismissive of seniority.

The spectre of the Vietnam War hangs heavy over Connelly’s new edition of the Bosch crime novel, The Black Echo. Harry had been a tunnel rat in Vietnam and the nightmares of that work still visits him 20 years later. The finding of an old Vietnam colleague in a Hollywood water pipe looks like drug taking gone wrong. Bosch senses otherwise, but the first fear to overcome is pulling the dead man out of the water pipe.

What adds perspective to the Bosch novels is our growing familiarity with LA and Hollywood. More importantly is the relationship he develops over time with his 15 year-old daughter, Maddie. She now lives with Harry since her mother was killed in Hong Kong.

Harry’s love for Maddie is well handled by Connelly. It adds a warmth to a character who is otherwise obsessed with the minutae of solving crimes.

Harry’s struggle within a plodding police culture makes for tense drama alongside his accelerating race to find the criminals.

At the same time we have Harry’s personal struggle to work out a future for himself and his daughter.

Contemporary crime writing has a gritty, real-life edginess about it that’s far removed from the predictable plot lines of yesteryear e.g. Miss Marple, Poirot, Maigret or Perry Mason.

So, go look on your local bookshop shelves. You’ll be surprised at the choice of criminal investigators ... with attitude.

Hallucintions

A Very Unusual Pursuit

The Taste of Apple Seeds

by Oliver Sacks

by Catherine Jinks

by Katharina Hagena

Oliver Sacks, ‘Hallucinations’ provides us with a colourful and intriguing collection of human stories that shed light on the world of visions and the tricks of the mind. Sacks has to be one of our most eloquent living neurologists and in his latest book he again delivers thoroughly interesting material to promote our understanding. Sacks gives us a glimpse into one of the most complex and misunderstood functions of the brain hallucinations. Readers familiar with Sacks will not be disappointed and those new to him will enjoy a fresh adventure into the uncharted territories of the brain.

What do you do when a monster, or bogle, is bothering you? Why, call in an expert, of course! Birdie McAdam is the tenyear-old apprentice to master bogler (monster) catcher, Alfred Bunce, and draws bogles out from their lairs with her beautiful singing.

When some of the local children disappear, the pair are called in to trap the bogle but Birdie finds herself caught up in a far more dangerous plot by the treacherous Doctor Morton. Great book for confident readers and the first in a trilogy.

This is both a dizzying story of first love and a heart breaking meditation on the inevitability of loss and the power of memory.

The story unfolds around the character of Iris Berger who is returning to her family home.

The house is full of memories, both Iris' own and those of Berthe, her grandmother. The memories cause Iris to reflect on her forebears and her own past.The novel has no big scenes just a marvellous progression of past and present weaving together into the texture of her life.

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Tree Changers...

...about people who change their lives to settle on the Range and why they choose to stay. This month ...

Adam & Slava Wozniak Born in Poland, Adam and Slava Wozniak discovered Montville last year, knowing instantly this is where they wanted to settle. They came to Australia 20 years ago, and after time in the Snowy Mountains and then Sydney, it is finally the Blackall Range that their desire for a heart-based community has been realised.

Why did you come here?

Slava: We met at Warsaw University where we both were doing degrees in physical education and health. When we first came to Australia from Poland 20 years ago, Sydney became our first home.

Towards the end of our first year in Australia we got jobs at the Sport & Recreation Centre in Jindabyne working in outdoor education in the Snowy Mountains. But because of our son’s education we decided we had to go to the ‘big smoke.’ So after four and a half years we moved back to Sydney.

Adam: In Sydney I returned to high school teaching, but I didn’t enjoy it. After having worked with school and corporate groups through the outdoor activities of the Jindabyne centre, I found school teaching very limiting.

So I changed direction and went into the pharmaceutical industry as a sales person at first, selling drugs to GPs and specific drugs to specialists. I did that for about five years enjoying interactions with customers and in the meantime the company also put me on personal development courses. That triggered my imagination because I observed corporate trainers and I thought I could do that in the future when I gained more experience.

Then an opportunity came up as a corporate trainer with another company. As time went by, I eventually became its national training manager ... it was a massive job and I was a one-man show ... responsible for the entire company’s professional training and development.

Four and half years of that and I was ready to say goodbye to the corporate world.

Slava: I had continued teaching PE and I had some great colleagues where I worked at Riverstone High School out towards Windsor. After four years I also left teaching, moving to residential property development while creating a small portfolio of properties for myself.

When Adam left the pharmaceutical industry towards the end of 2009 we started our own business together, which we operated from home.

Adam: We started out working mainly for pharmaceutical companies because that was where I had experience. We also did holistic life coaching with private clients and group meditation retreats.

Slava: One major reason for starting our own business was that we noticed within companies their employees are seen as disposable – they are not really seen as an asset.

Adam: Working in the corporate sector we saw that some areas were completely neglected in terms

of human development, and this is where we saw an opportunity to offer something more holistic, more complete... training that is not just technical in terms of a person’s job, but training that develops an individual as a whole person. Hence our holistic training... BodyMind and Heart Training, an important part of which is breath meditation and mind refocusing.

We thought from the beginning of moving here and that we would extend what we were doing in Sydney and offer courses to the public ... with more focus on the community rather than corporate groups... to offer specific classes in breath meditation, inner transformation and self mastery for local communities and tourists as well.

What did you have to change in coming here?

Slava: In Sydney it felt like there was an invisible vice across the chest, squashing you, and you are just anxious all the time. You wake up anxious. And when we came here it was like the chest just opened up and expanded.

Adam: We both love bush-walking and we love nature, so that didn’t need a huge adjustment, because as soon as we got here we felt being part of this place.

Slava: We work hard and we would also like to have this garden spotless!

Adam: For our own business we have already booked some local community halls, and at the beginning we are offering day and evening breath meditations for groups in Mapleton, Montville and Maleny.

Slava: I think my gift in the business is as a writer although I have to work on improving my English vocabulary which is still rather stiff ... I went, I did, I saw, I conquered!

Slava: It is important to know that the whole idea of holistic being and living was actually a result of our severe illnesses between 2003 and 2005.Then Adam went through a most unorthodox emotional healing process. To him it was a spiritual awakening, which stimulated a whole new way of thinking about spirituality in our lives.

So we explored that area further and in time we started to do meditations ... at first with our friends, who then brought other friends. We learnt different techniques like how to breathe properly, and how to clear our minds from all the clutter. We started to get a balance into our lives and we became connected to the importance of spiritual intelligence in our lives. In 2012, we eventually wrote an e- book – Awakening to Spiritual Intelligence: Re-birthing in the Way of the Heart.

Adam: Last year we realised we needed to move out of Sydney, and fortunately Slava had been Googling various alternatives. She found Montville in one of her searches which immediately seemed to resonate in the heart for both of us. We came here around September last year and intuitively we knew this was the place for us. We soon discovered that it was full of creative, artistic and light-hearted people.

Adam: You ask about change in coming here, well it’s about changing the mindset and the heart frame so that we focus more on the public and less on the corporate clients.

Underlying what we have done in recent years – it’s about restoring the heart in the corporate, business, communities and families, because it has really been missing. There is also social learning in what we do ... money and profit is not everything. Bringing balance to life, whether it’s big corporations, small business or family.

What would keep you here?

Slava: We are hoping that our meditations will be part of something larger because we know there are some very interesting people around with interesting ideas.

Adam: It may be something bigger than what we have started right now... something that will eventually unite many people and communities.

That something may make the whole area known, not only in Australia but across the rest of the world.

It can be something where people can come and find inspiration, find their true heart, bring a spirit of acceptance, of kindness and of love. That’s partly my vision which is not crystallised yet.

Community is also very important to us. It is something we couldn’t find in Poland, in Jindabyne, or in Sydney. We know already that the communities here are true communities and we want to be part of them.

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Art Gallery Trail - Sunshine Coast Hinterland

Explore the breathtaking scenery of our Hinterland 1

... and discover the remarkable variety of galleries and talented local artists.

Stay longer at any one of the region’s welcoming guest houses.

Lasting Impressions Gallery 6 Elizabeth Street, Kenilworth Ph: 5446 0422 lastingimpressions7@bigpond.com www.lastingimpressionsgallery.net Artist: Ian Mastin “Cherries in Chinese Bowl” (acrylic on board)

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Secrets on the Lake Art Gallery

Obi Valley Woodworks

207 Narrows Road, Montville Ph: 5478 5888 Gallery open seven days: 9am - 5pm www.secretsonthelake.com.au

430 Hunsley Road Coolabine Ph: 5472 3996 www.cedarcreations.com.au Artist: Jack Wilms Sculpture, furniture, doors Open: weekends & most public holidays 10am-4pm Closed for October

Artist: Lindsay Muir

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Shop 4, ‘Mayfield’ Main Street Montville Ph: 5478 5440 www.illumecreations.com.au

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“Soul Essence Series” Artist - Tina Cooper

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Artist: Kym Barrett Title: “Light Touch” (Mixed media)

Manfred’s Wood & Antique Shop

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Cnr Corks Pocket & Reesville Rds, Reesville Ph: 5494 3595 E: contact@antique.net.au

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Montville Art Gallery 138 Main St, Montville Ph: 5442 9211 www.montvilleartgallery.com.au Artist: Ron Cameron

Tree Frog Gallery

Maleny Jewellers

926 Montville Road, Maleny Enquiries Ph: 5435 2303 www.treefroggallery.com Gallery Hours: Thursday- Monday 10am-4pm Works by local artists & art classes.

Shop 4, Riverside Centre, Maleny Ph: 5494 3477 - 9ct rose and white gold set with a rhodilite garnet Designer: Jim Goulton

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Art On Cairncross

167 Main Street (below Poets Cafe) Montville Ph: 5478 5050 www.mainstreetgallery.com.au

Cairncross Corner, Maleny Ph: 5429 6404 www.artoncairncross.com.au Artist: Dawn Lewis “Hydrangeas” (watercolour)

Artist: Ken Bonner “A Perfect Winter’s Day” (oil on canvas)

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Holden’s Gallery 38b Coral St, Maleny (cnr Coral & Myrtle Sts) Gallery & Picture Framing Ph: 5494 2100 www.holdensgallery.com.au “Home on the Range” Artist: Gary Myers

ART ON CAIRNCROSS

Water Course ATERCOLOUR is an exacting medium because it rarely affords the artist a second chance, but the true skill required to achieve a fine work of art with it, is equally rarely acknowledged.

In the Art on Cairncross feature â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watercourseâ&#x20AC;?, professional watercolour artists show the extraordinary range of results to be achieved, all starting with essentially the same materials. It has a varied range of appeal for viewers, from the art-lover to the amateur practitioner, as there really is something for everyone to enjoy from traditional watercolour washes carefully laid down to portray regional beaches to gouache-enhanced colours conveying the richness of the bush landscape Several of the artists including James Fearnley, John McVeigh-Brown, Dawn and Tony Lewis started life in a different country, but mostly hit their straps after settling in Australia and between them have since amassed awards and accolades. They have all been heavily influenced by the powerful light to be found on this continent and how it contrasts to their original homes. Add into this mix the techniques of Rex Backhaus-Smith who grew up in the Outback and the potentials of the medium become even more evident. Their shared passion for watercolour binds them, but their individual talents and forms of expression take them in different directions. There are landscapes from near and far, still life studies and contemporary visions, but all expertly crafted in the challenging medium of watercolour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watercourseâ&#x20AC;? will be displayed throughout February at Art on Cairncross. Gallery hours are 10 am to 5 pm, Tuesday through Sunday and all details can be found at www.artoncairncross.com.au

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ainsie Va La Vieâ&#x20AC;?

Lucette Da Lozzo ORN and educated in Belgium, Lucette graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Mons in 1967.

A short time later, she married her Italian husband, Louis, now also a well respected artist. Together they embarked on a journey that changed their lives for ever.

Their travels took them to many exotic places finally settling in Noumea in New Caledonia where they spent several years painting volcanic landscapes. Their urge to travel soon returned and they headed for Australia. It was love at first sight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We both knew immediately that we had found our paradise and would spend the rest of our days living and painting in Australia.â&#x20AC;? Lucette told us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the 1970s when our children were small we led a Bohemian life throughout Australia before settling in Noosa and then later on moving to the Gold Coast.â&#x20AC;?

Lucette exhibited her paintings throughout Australia and in French Polynesia, Belgium and the United States throughout the 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. She was well known for her delightful, romantic impressionistic paintings depicting young children frolicking in beautiful garden settings.

Today, Lucetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings reflect her subconscious mind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mind is now my studio and the canvas is my mirror,â&#x20AC;?

Lucette explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feast on what the world has to offer and then, I sleep and let my dreams cast their magic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On awakening, I use my hands as the vehicle of expression. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My choice of medium has become more elaborate in recent years. I like to combine oils, acrylics and inks to create a symphony of multimedia. I lose myself in the hypnotic melodies of classic composers such as Chopin and Mozart and paint to the music.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;From dreams to music, Lucette manages to capture on canvas emotions and sensations which leaves collectors waiting in anticipation for what she will produce next,â&#x20AC;?

Gallery owner, Tony Page, told us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are delighted to have Lucette as out feature artist for the whole month of February under â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exhibitionsâ&#x20AC;? on the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website: www.montvilleartgallery.com.au

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C R E AT I V E C U T S Karneydoll ... teases in Maleny

8 Ball ... back to Beerwah Beerwah’s Got Country welcomes 8 Ball Aitken on Saturday February 9.

8 Ball Aitken is authentic - a real deal - character who rattles the roof, stomps the planks, and gets his audiences whooping and hollering along in a frenzy of pure exuberance. He plays a sizzling hot blend of original blues, roots & country music.

Coming from a farming community in Far North Queensland, 8 Ball Aitken is the oldest son of an impoverished family of twelve children. 8 Ball spent his adolescence on a banana plantation, living in a rough tobacco shed with resident rats, bats, snakes, and spiders as his sleeping companions.

8 Ball has taken his unique blues & roots sound to festivals and clubs across the world, including Australia, Europe, Japan and Canada.

Beerwah’s Got Country. Free entry from 8pm.

Karneydoll has returned home to Maleny, bringing her “Carousel of High Teaze!” Kicking off a night of decadent burlesque & boylesque, which will feature award-winning international, national and local performers, from across the globe and Maleny.

Regularly seen in Glasgow and the Edinburgh Fringe festivals, Karneydoll has performed alongside members of Cirque Du Soleil, The Puppini Sisters, to mention a couple.

Karneydoll’s routines are character-based, ranging from neo to classic burlesque, which invariably include over the top costumes from the ‘Thai Lady Boys,’ with skills in trapeze, angel grinding, fire fans, tassel twirling, feather fans, and routines of half man, half woman to traditional Chinese dance.

Emphasis is around a fun elemental theme of fancy dress corsets, top hats, tuxedos & tails, with prizes for most outlandishly best dressed.

Catering is supplied by the Up Front Club. Bookings available through Karneydoll@hotmail.co.uk Karney’s Carousel of High Teaze Burlesque,15th Feb. at the Maleny Community Centre will be stripped bare with a whole lot of flamboyant titillation!

Doors open6:30, Show 7:30, Tickets $25 Conc. $20, 18+ available at the door or Maleny Newsagency.

photos focus on the wretched...

Yandina’s The Shared exhibition space has a stunning photographic display from the Thai Burma border by Brisbane-based photo reporter, Jacques Maudy.

A world away from the idyllic Thai islands that most visit, this is the story of the 250 Burmese refugees who survive in the dump of Mae Sot on the Thai Burma border.

Mae Sot is home to 87,000 Burmese refugees documented by the UN who are confined in camps.

This photo exhibition is about the 250 who are at the very bottom of the ladder.

The exhibition runs until February 28.

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Brodie Graham at the Palmy Exciting young Sunshine Coast guitarist Brodie Graham is one of the hottest emerging talents in the Australian Blues scene. At 20 years of age he has already served an impressive apprenticeship having shared the stage and held his own alongside players like Ray Beadle, Mojo Webb, JB Lewis, Doc Spann, Lil Fi, and Phil Emmanuel.

An amazing dexterity on the guitar is combined with a sensibility and taste that shows incredible maturity for such a young player. He was the recent winner of the prestigious Anaconda Fest where he competed against some of South East Qld’s more seasoned blues professionals. Last year also saw a churning out of two CDs; - his debut album “Sheepless in the Apple” and a selftitled Ep. The rich history of the blues is reflected yet modernised in his live performances with toe-tapping swings, infectious shuffles, clever funk, awe-inspiring jazz, and heart wrenching soul tunes, all illustrated with Brodie’s unbelievable feel for the guitar. Catch up with Brodie who is appearing at the Palmwoods Hotel on Saturday February 16 for a free show from 8pm.

The Majesty Band is also at the Palmwoods Hotel in February. The MAJESTY Album "Thunder Rider" recently entered the German album charts!

Every single track on the album is a heavy metal hymn par excellence and designed to go down in metal history.

The production of the album is mighty and powerful like an army on the way to the battle, quaking the earth.

Don’t miss them.

Big Band Star entertains Coast

British-born singer Craig Martin, who honed his talents playing starring roles in British theatre musicals before turning his talents to contemporary swing will delight Sunshine Coast jazz fans on Sunday, February 17.

Craig and his ten piece swing band will perform his first show for 2013 and wow audiences at the Sunshine Coast Jazz Club show at the Currimundi Hotel function room from 1.30pm.

Originally from Liverpool Craig got his big break in music when he was offered a role in the London West End production of “Ferry Across The Mersey” alongside Merseybeat legend Gerry Marsden of “Gerry and the Pacemakers”.

His interpretation of big band swing is a treat for everyone who loves the crooners and the sound of a big band: “The music of Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, And Williams and Michael Buble is in safe hands,” Craig said.

Early bookings are advisable. Call Alan 5478 3137 for credit card or Ted 5491 6017 for more information.

Dylan’s in auto heaven!

Dylan Higgins has good cause for the wide smile – as a trained auto mechanic he has his dream job – curating and maintaining vintage and veteran cars for mining billionaire, Clive Palmer.

Dylan recently set up a fascinating display of 40 cars at the Palmer Coolum Resort – only part of Clive Palmer’s extensive collection which reaches back to a 1904 Renault and forward to a Gullwing Mercedes.

Dylan is seen here standing next to the 1929 Rolls Royce Phantom once owned by England’s Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Louis Mountbatten. The car was bought at an auction in Denmark and it is in the colour honouring Mountbatten ...black and battleship grey to match the British fleet.

Dylan Higgins has travelled the world to bring back cars sourced by Clive Palmer. He ensures they are restored and in a driving condition.

A permanent museum is being built at the Coolum resort for the full auto collection which is still growing.

visual ar ts enter tainment per formance Tree Frog helps ‘kids like Nick’

Brett’s tour starts at Upfront

‘Earth-connected’ Andy Copeman

Up and coming folk singer / songwriter Brett Winterford has completed his first solo project, The Greenthumb EP and is heading into 2013 with a national - Hey Make Believer Tour. The tour starts at Maleny’s Upfront Club on Friday February 9 at 7pm.

Brett had a massive 2012 that encompassed the release of his EP, a 55 show tour around Europe, UK and the US, launch events across Australia and the making of his first music video (http://youtu.be/FYr8ScXukdk), Brett’s imaginative and poetic songwriting style has been chosen to become the soundtrack for Tourism Australia’s National Landscape series, a set of short films showcasing the natural beauty of the Australian environment.

Andrew Khedoori of Sydney’s 2SER said of Brett’s debut album ...” a magical state of mind propelling his pop into a free-flowing delight.

Andy Copeman is a musician, shamanic practitioner, sound and video artist based at the Awakening Centre in North Maleny. He and his partner Laurel Hefferon recently presented three packed shows at the Woodford Folk Festival.

Andy’s promo blurb describes him as, "Earth connected, heart-centred, presenting uplifting songs and multiinstrumental virtuosity, augmented with a laptop full of surprises.”

Check out Andy's music on iTunes, and have a look at www.awakeningcentre.com.au Andy Copeman is appearing at Maleny’s Upfront Club on Friday February 22 at 7pm. Donation entry and don’t forget the great meals.

35 local artists have flocked to contribute a piece of art work on the theme “Music & Fashion” for a special exhibition at the Tree Frog Gallery in Maleny.

From all sales of art work from this exhibition, 20% will be donated to the charity, Help Kids Like Nick Foundation. www.helpkidslikenick.com.au Nick has Wolf Hirschorn Syndrome, and the foundation supports the 40 Australian families affected by the disorder.

It will be launched on Saturday, 9 February at 2 pm and will run for the month following.

Two weeks later on February 23 Heather Gall of Tree Frog will host a concert at the gallery. A four piece acapella quartet (Cadenza), and opera singer Louise Kennedy will perform.

Cadenza (pictured below) are a group who compete in various barbershop competitions. Louise Kennedy currently runs a singing class during term time at the gallery.

UpFront Club 31 Maple St Maleny. Bookings: 5494 2592 upfrontclub.org.au

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An evening with Rick Price

Multi-talented Rod Christensen After an impressive performance at the recent Maleny Street Carnival, the Rod Christensen Band are taking to the stage once again at the Maleny UpFront Club on Friday March 8.

Rod is one of those multi-talented individuals who sings and plays several instruments including piano, saxophones (alto, tenor & soprano), flute, trumpet and trombone.

Complimenting Rod’s skills in the band is Mark Finter who is a whiz on the guitar fretboard and also a great singer.

The rhythm section comprises Keryn Christensen on bass guitar (and backing vocals), and John Arthur with his amazing abilities on the ‘drum box’.

The band plays a captivating mix of swing jazz from different eras, various styles of latin, funky groove and popular blues and jazz rock standards. Rod Christensen is a frequent performer at venues and events throughout the Sunshine Coast and South East Queensland with his own line-ups and in other popular bands.

His band’s performance at the UpFront Club will be from 7pm to 10pm.

See: www.rodchristensen.com.au/jazz-duo-band

Australian singer/songwriter Rick Price has walked the journey many musicians’ dreams are made of.

From the very beginning, as a nine year old and the youngest member of his family’s band, music was Price’s passion. Since those humble yet defining days, set amongst the backdrop of country Queensland, the self-taught artist has forged an internationally praised and respected career spanning more than three decades. After rising to fame in the 1980s Rick Price has continued to produce hit after hit. They include, Not a Day Goes By, Heaven Knows, and Walk Away Renee and many more. The Australian singer/songwriter has received numerous industry awards, and is a household name across the country.

You can see Rick Price perform a unique acoustic gig at The Woombye Pub, on Sunday February 10. The event is a sit- down show and will be sure to please.

Tickets are $22.50 inc GST & booking fees or $25 at the door if not sold out, available from the pub. 3 Blackall St, Woombye. Credit card sales: Woombye Pub Ph: 5442 1155

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APRIL MAZE ((London/Melbourne) Alt-folk indie, guitar, cello, banjo, stomp + support Rob Moss (Wagga) FIRST SATURDAY FOLK ($5) Blackboard, guests - The Wishful Thinkers BARRY CHARLES & ANDY MacDONELL (S.E.Qld). Extreme vocalist teams with cabaret rock balladeer BRETT WINTERFORD (Sydney) Imaginative irresistible songwriter, toured Europe, U.S MONET DUO (Brisbane) Experienced pair’s originals project, album ‘Humble Beginnings’ CLARE QUINN (Brisbane) Quasi-folk songwriter, k’board, guitar, uke. JOHN ARTHUR, accomp.

ART OPENING - SALLY FISHER. Various media, small African oils, larger nudes. 6.30PM ANDY COPEMAN (Maleny) Multi-instrumental virtuosity, new albums ‘Dreamtimes’ & ‘Circle Songs’ GUERILLA ZINGARI (Hobart) Gypsy, Folk, Ska, Jazz, Blues, Reggae

View events, links and videos at www.upfrontclub.org.au

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Wedding Connections

New Year’s Resolutions ... how are your’s going?

Your guide to local wedding services on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

Given up already?

Need some HELP? • Quit Smoking • Get Motivated!

• Lose Weight • Remove Phobias • Improve Academic & Sport Performance etc.

Photography

Is NOW a good time?

If not, when???

Penny Riddoch Photography AIPP For unmatched quality, choose well known local professional wedding and portrait photographer.

Services include wedding album design, DVD slide shows, personal online viewing gallery.

Ph (07) 5494 2808 or visit the website: www.digitalphotodesigns.com.

CHANGE YOUR LIFE hypnosis that works Phone Judith on 0488 782 827 for an appointment.

Celebrants & Ceremonies Find out about Chrissie Ray A marriage celebrant who lives in Mapleton and is available for you anywhere you choose. www.chrissieray.com.au Ask me about my low fees.

Ph: 5478 6610 Mob: 042 794 5833

Beauty Services A Little Beauty, Body & Wellness @ Elements of Montville Feel naturally glamorous on your wedding day with A Little Beauty. Our professional beauty team gives you and your wedding party special treatment to ensure your experience is memorable in vintage style.

Ph: 5478 6212 - In house or mobile service.

Wedding Venues Flaxton Gardens Tranquil elegance with panoramic views across the Coast. Ideal for superb bridal photographs to treasure.

Excellent food, discreet & caring service. Husband and wife team, Alan and Georgina Thompson welcome your ideas to help them create this special day with you.

Phone: 5445 7450.

Pomodoras on Obi A complete package of “real” food, boutique beverages, unspoilt water and treetop views, award winning local bridal services & luxury onsite cabin accommodation.

“Escape to the mountains and discover the magic.”

One stop wedding destination in the heart of Maleny.

Ph: (07) 5429 6543 www.pomodoras.com.au email: info@pomodoras.com.au

Ayurvedic Health Advice to Suit You Going beyond the surface ...

HEN YOU picture someone meditating, do you picture a slim, attractive female, sitting in Wendy Rosenfeldt lotus, back up right, hands firmly set in a mudra pose, generally with tank top and perfect belly visible?

While this may be the popularised image of a meditator it is a far cry from how most people actually appear when meditating. People practising TM are instructed to sit comfortably and as the body deeply relaxes they sink into themselves sometimes completely losing awareness of the physical body. Any effort in maintaining a particular posture counteracts the naturalness and effortlessness which is central to the ability to allow the mind to transcend the surroundings, body and even one’s own thoughts.

This tendency to picture people meditating in highly posed positions, while partly due to the difficulty to visually portray an inner feeling, is also a reflection of society’s preoccupation with the surface value of life and the accumulation of things.

People often associate meditation with prayer flags, going to a temple or having statues of Buddha around. When in reality when you close your eyes what you have or don’t have is irrelevant.

Even the current trend of reciting affirmations and positive thinking is limited to dealing with what appears in the conscious mind rather than addressing the wounds beneath.

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feels something quite different can cause strain and frustration. Sure it’s good advice to focus on the positive in your life and not act out your negative thoughts but instead of trying to convince yourself that all is well, it’s important to clear the stresses and impressions from past experiences that have caused the negativity .

This does not mean discussing it, analysing it, reliving it over and over again either in your mind or in conversations with friends, it means dissolving it, releasing it from both the mind and body. This is accomplished by deep rest. Given the chance, when resting the body will normalise itself. You may notice muscle twitches as you go to sleep, as the body relaxes it is able to let go of tension. Likewise in Transcendental Meditation the experience of deep rest, which can be up to twice as deep as deep sleep, facilitates rejuvenation, repair and eliminates fatigue.

It doesn’t matter if at the end of meditation you realise that your head has slumped forward, your hands are resting on your belly, and it is not the flat tummy of the stylised images of meditation. As your awareness regularly expands to experience the transcendental reality of life, the appearance of the individual self and even its day to day experiences is not of such great concern.

Wendy Rosenfeldt is a Maharishi Ayurveda practitioner and Transcendental Meditation teacher. Free introductory talks on TM 13th of Feb at 7.30 & 17th of Feb at 2pm. Call 5499 9580.

Make an investment in your skin for the future Remember, the way you treat your skin today has effects in the years to come

Dr Chi-Hong Wong

Celebrant

Consulting Cosmetic Practitioner

Jan Woolley

Commissioner of Declarations

0429 673 794 Ph: (07) 5495 5886 Fax:(07) 5494 5887 Em: janwoolleycmc@hotmail.com Web: janwoolleycelebrant.com Weddings, Commitments, Namings, Renewals, Funerals/Eulogies

When you advertise in the Hinterland Times... your message travels all across the Blackall Range & beyond

Phone: 54 999 049

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Anti-wrinkle injections Dermal fillers Skin checks Mole removal Sclerotherapy removes surface veins • Skin Cancer removal Consults for: • Breast Augmentation • Vasectomy for men • Liposuction & lipolysis • Blepharoplasty (eyelid rejuvenation)

• Skin needling/collagen induction therapy • Medical strength peels • Para-Medical Microdermabrasion (Crystal free & Crystal) • Full Range of Skin Treatments • Medical Skin Care • Electrolysis • Waxing • Manicures & Pedicures • Paraffin Wax Treatments Celeste is a qualified medical aesthetician • Ear-piercing • Tinting

We recommend Ultraceuticals ... ... the next generation in medical grade skin care.

To find out more about these products and to book a complimentary one hour skin diagnosis with Celeste, phone the clinic on 5494 3630

Advanced Skin Treatments & CosMedix Shop 2/13 Bunya St, Maleny Phone: 5494 3630

MOOLOOLAH RIVER WATERWATCH & LANDCARE

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S IF THE RECENT cyclonic conditions on the Sunshine Coast were not bad enough, landslips have also been causing havoc at the headwaters of Hell Hole Creek and Mooloolah River. The Healthy Waterways Eco-system Health Monitoring report (EHMP) registered a decline in waterway health from a B+ to C in the fresh water reaches and stayed at a stable B- for the estuary.

The main reason for the decline is the movement of overland silt and nutrients, particularly from the slip areas moving into the waterways. The EHMP report gives a good indication of how our rivers can bounce back from rain events but does not monitor for weekly activity or silt build up in the river bed.

One of the major concerns is the build up of silt in the river bed from the landslips that affects the whole Mooloolah River system. This can eventually cause increased flooding due to the river not being able to hold as much water in rain events and also causes shallowing of the river causing warmer water, a concentration of nutrients and does not provide a healthy eco-system for aquatic species.

Mooloolah River Waterwatch & Landcare (MRWL0, in partnership with landowners, Sunshine Coast Council, SEQ Catchments and the Farmflo project have come together to discuss and assess the landslip issues. We have projects in the pipeline to extend MRWL’s previous tree plants and to also de-water dams and re-direct water away from the slip areas. This will help to dry out the area to give the trees a good chance to get their roots down. Rain events certainly don’t help and we have to work around these to try to secure the soil to the land so it does not pollute our waterways.

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It’s a complicated project that needs money and many people’s expertise to make sure whatever is done has a positive effect. MRWL have been working on the landslips for over 8 years and through grants and Green Army Farmflo we have planted thousands of trees on the landslip sites.

Be assured that we are doing everything we can with the small amount of money we have. If there was money to buy the property at the top of the slip for re-vegetation purposes then we would certainly have a better chance of securing the slips for the future. Until then we will continue to do what we can with the resources we have.

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Needing an Eye Examination?

Within Maleny sits an optometry practice which manages to combine a professional service with a warm friendly manner. The practice principal optometrist Rachel Leigh operates the practice with her husband Rick, an experienced optical mechanic.

We are celebrating five years of being in the hinterland and our practice holds optometric records going back 22 years.

We are assured that you will feel very welcome and taken care of. Please call one of our friendly knowledgeable staff for your appointment on 5494 2666

Our frame range is current, fashionable and comfortable. You will find frames unique for you. Our lenses are only premium quality with clear coatings and priced affordably. We bulk bill eye tests to Medicare and Veteran Affairs and can process health funds in the practice.

All hinterland residents receive discounted frames.

Having an in house optical mechanic available for repairs and frame servicing means we can provide a full service to our customers.

•Have you undergone blood tests for thyroid functions that are within normal range, but still have symptoms?

Many women are affected by undiagnosed thyroid conditions, tiredness, fatigue, low libido, weight gain.... and Thyroflex is helping to find the answers.

• Thyroflex can show us if your thyroid functions are normal, with a 98% accuracy.

• Finding the thyroid treatment that is right for you greatly lowers your health risk and helps you regulate your hormones, neurotransmitters, and immune functions.

• See the Thyroflex test demonstated and explained on the 'Dr Phil show '. www.thyroflex.com/drphil Make an appointment to clarify your concerns: Phone She Oak 19 Coral St Maleny 5499 9476

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR

Eye Examinations Tuesday to Friday NEW Extended hours Saturday Morning Screening for Glaucoma, Diabetes, Macular Degeneration

Reliable, non-invasive thyroid testing and treatment - available at She Oak Health Clinic

The New Year of the Water Snake begins on the New Moon of 10th February.

The energies of home and business shift each year to favour different parts of your place.

Contact Richard Giles, local Feng Shui practitioner, for an assessment for this Year (all previous clients get a discount).

Buy Richard's book, "Personal Guide to Feng Shui", at $19.00 (pp).

Ph: 5435.0158 Email: ricgiles@powerup.com.au Web: www.richardgiles.info

Advertising Bookings Ph: 54 999 049 Rachel Leigh Optometrist Riverside Centre, Shop 2/4 Maple St, Maleny Ph: 5494 2666

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In Fitness ...and in Health

Feeling sore and achy? ... here’s why Musculo-skeletal discomfort can present in a lot of different ways, so ask yourself, do you have any of the following symptoms?

• ongoing low back pain • soreness in any extremity joints eg knee, hip, elbow • ongoing neck ache • muscles feel tight – lack of flexibility • general body ache upon arising which improves with a warm shower and movement • not as energised as you would like to be • any signs of early arthritis.

All of the above physical symptoms including the lethargy, are signs that indicate that not only do you have some ongoing structural imbalances but also, these symptoms are very much indicative that your system has become too acidic. When this happens the body tries to counter the acidity by mobilising calcium which it gets from your bones. The calcium in solution (the blood) gets into joints, the spine and muscles. The build up of these calcium crystals is the beginning of osteo-arthritis. This is NOT what you want happening in your body.

My chiropractic/applied kinesiology approach allows me to not only diagnose and fix the structural imbalances but also to correct the systemic acidity.

Don’t let your body go down the acidic pathway.

I’m here to help, so if you have any questions, please give ma a call and we can talk.

A Problem Shared ... with Marisa How we use our minds influences every area of our experience 2013 BRINGS WITH IT a sense of change and the opportunity to somehow approach our lives and ourselves from a different perspective. This is a year of understanding what no longer serves us or works for us.

It is also a year for understanding the strength that lies in ordinary people who are waking up.

We can best honour ourselves and contribute to the world, by becoming interested in what is going on in and around us.

Learn to become conscious of your internal dialogue, it is influencing everything from your chemistry to your next experience. Notice that it is possible to influence how you feel by changing how you talk to yourself.

Examine what you put into and on your body, it is influencing your health and your thinking.

You are designed to be wonderfully healthy and exuberantly alive. Many of the illnesses that drain your body, your time and your finances are the result of putting chemicals into your body without realising.

Drink pure water, research the negative influence of fluoride in your drinking water and if moved by what you learn, write to your local politician and ask them to take action to remove this poison from our water.

Move your body, exercise in ways that suit your personality. When you move your body you move

chemistry and your mind opens up.When your mind opens up so does your world.

Read, become aware of whats going on in the world, the news broadcasts and TV are dumbing you down.

A good place to start is "Rich Land, Waste Land" by Sharyn Munro and "Dying to be me" by Anita Moorjani Simplify your life, think before you incur debt, it enslaves you and robs you of your freedom. There is a great difference between constructive debt (paying off your home, car etc) and destructive debt (keeping pace with fashion, etc) Communicate, talk with your loved ones, find out whats important to them, what their dreams are. Open up and share from your heart, it builds love and closeness.

Practice gratitude, look around, there's lots of inspiration for gratitude.

Reach out and touch those you love, schedule time for peaceful, joyful playful interaction.

Today is what matters,and when you live that well, your future happiness is assured.

Marisa Kliese is a Clinical Member Aust. Counselling Assoc.

Fellow Holistic Life Coach. Reiki Master. Fellow Aust.

Natural Therapists Assoc. Marisa can be contacted on 5494 2627.

John Pirie

www.siaholistichealth.com.au Dr John Pirie Chiropractor & Applied Kinesiologist 19 Coral Street, Maleny Phone: 5435 2155

HU A Gift to the World eckankar.org.au

07 5496 5054

Community HU Chant Spiritual Discussion.

Refreshments & Fellowship.

Maleny Library Cnr Maple & Coral Sts:

3rd Tuesday of the month:6pm -7.30 pm Admission free.

Also Buderim see web.

To take a giant step towards your health and wellbeing, contact Ray Shapcott, Atlasprof (servicing Brisbane Nth, Sunshine Coast and Hinterland). Certified Atlasprofilax Acadamy, Valais, Switzerland.

Phone (07) 5429 5520 Mobile 0412 490 374. www.atlasprofilaxaustralia.com.au

Sunshine Coast Hinterland ANY BEACHES were closed during the first week of the M month as ex-cyclone Oswald in the Coral Sea brought big swells along the coastline. The monsoonal trough line remained in the Torres Straits and showed no sign of drifting down toward Australia The heatwave in Western Australia reached us in the second week of the month sending our physical well-being very much at the mercy of the bizarre weather conditions.

Temperatures soared eight degrees above the norm.

Although Wednesday 9th recorded the highest temperature of 34.8°C it was not the hottest day of the month for a person outdoors in the shade, when the Stress Factor

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Temperature reached 44.2°C On Tuesday 15 the Monsoonal Trough finally decided to visit Australia moving quickly across Northern Territories and Cape York.

One of the lows in the trough line became, for a short while, Tropical Cyclone Oswald.

As an ex-cyclone rain depression it travelled down the east coast creating a path of severe destruction of property. This has been well documented by the media.

At Maleny the rains started at 7pm on Thursday 24 bringing torrential rain and very strong winds. The centre of the low at 994hPa passed overhead on Sunday January27. Total four-day rainfall was 675.2mm.

January Climate Summary 2009-2013

The weather report for the Hinterland Times is compiled by Patrick Stacey, Maleny Weather Station.

Log on to www.malenyweather.com for daily data and weather news.

Moving Forward with Maleny Physiotherapy

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NEE problems are very common and debilitating.

They can often severely restrict people’s ability to walk without pain.

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The good news is that physiotherapists Tim and Mary Bagshaw of Maleny Physiotherapy recently went through a training program with world renowned physiotherapist Jenny McConnell, who is an expert in this field.

Tim and Mary are now implementing Jenny’s treatment strategies in dealing with knee pain and they’re already seeing remarkable and sustained improvement in their patients.

Ph: 07 5494 3911

Some of the symptoms that can be relieved with these new treatment strategies include: Pain when walking Pain going up and downstairs Pain walking on slopes & uneven ground Pain bending, squatting and kneeing.

If you suffer from any of these symptoms then call Maleny Physiotherapy and make an appointment to develop a treatment plan with either Mary or Tim. Treatment for immediate relief of muscle pain may include taping, retraining and lots of strategies to improve your mobility and general quality-of-life.

Don’t suffer in silence.

Call Maleny Physiotherapy now on 5494 3911 for an appointment that will bring immediate relief.

1/70 Maple Street, Maleny

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Tim and Mary Bagshaw

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Physiotherapy for all ages Specific exercise prescription Postural assessment and correction Sporting injuries Post operative rehabilitation Workplace rehabilitation Injury preventions strategies More services available

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Maleny Holistic Health Centre The Dispensary Naturopathic, Homoeopathic, Herbal and Nutritional Medicines About the Centre ... ...for a holistic approach to your general health & wellbeing, call today to make an appointment with one of our friendly health professionals.

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Mon - Fri 8am - 5.30pm / Saturday 8am - 1.30pm "The Dispensary" at the Maleny Holistic Health Centre, has been quietly operating for over 5 years, assisting and educating the community with health issues.

We have recently expanded our range of holistic medicines, opened the Dispensary on Fridays and Saturdays with the help of our new Homoeopath/Naturopath Angela Megahey, who

has come to us from Sydney, packed with some great experience!

Natural medicine is very effective if prescribed by experienced practitioners. If you are experiencing symptoms or issues of short or long term duration that are not being relieved by what you generally do or know, then why not come in and have a chat with us to see what we can do for you.

Come in and meet the team at 19 Coral Street, Maleny or phone 07 5499 9476.

Rebecca Hopkins

Sanctuary Shiatsu

Hawaiian Healing Massage is a flowing form of massage, relaxing and therapuetic, helping to relieve muscular tension, stress and pain.

Feel Blissfully Relaxed! *Therapuetic/Relaxation Massage *Hot Stone Massage *Pregnancy Massage *Chiron Healing*Aromatherapy - Raindrop, Emotional Clearing and Vitaflex Techniques.

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Shiatsu Practitioner - Acupressure Zen Shiatsu is a Japanese acupuncture meridian therapy that facilitates the movement of energy (Qi) in the body using acu-point pressure with meridian massage.

It’s true strength is improving energy and wellbeing, assisting and maintaining health and help prevent illness.

It can assist with: • Pain, and muscular tightness • Digestive disorders • Emotional & mental stress • Headaches and more ! • Futon mat or seated chair Appointments 0438 972 880 Gary Broadhurst

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Rob McMurray

Sallyann Stewart

Naturopath, Herbalist, Natural Fertility Teacher, Homotoxicologist & Kinesiologist

Why consult a Psychologist?

Everyday problems such as relationship breakdown or personal trauma can dramatically affect our health, wellbeing and positive relationships.

As an experienced Psychologist I: • Actively listen to gain an understanding of your needs • Prepare you with necessary coping skills to manage stress, anger, emotional problems • Assist in improving your self-esteem & interpersonal skills For a confidential appointment, call Rob on 0488 129 302

Naturopath/ Herbalist / Remedial Massage Therapist • Sallyann specialises in children's health, stress management & preventative/ maintaining wellness healthcare • Utilising naturopathic assessment and live blood analysis • Nutrition and dietary support • Herbal medicine and homeopathic treatments • Remedial, deep tissue & lymphatic drainage massage Appointments: contact Sallyann Stewart on 5435 2599 or 0421 410 558

Shaun Watson

Naturopath, kinesiologist, Live blood analyist • Balancing the multifaceted layers of you • Blending macroscopic, micro scopic and psycho-spiritual domains to suit your individual preference renewing, vitalising, & instilling a healthful awareness • Specialising in analytics and remediation of chronic health concerns • Naturopathy, Education, Kinesiology & Dark Field Blood Microscopy resolving the causes that generate ill-health.

Appointments: 5499 9476

Rochelle specialises in hormonal health and fertility management • Balance your hormones • Detoxification • Fantastic weight loss program • Contraception the natural way • Assisting women during pregnancy and IVF • Birth plans • Tailored programs for preconception & pregnancy • Naturopathic Clinic tests • Thyroid testing Appointments: 5499 9476

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Hinterland Health and Beauty ACUPUNCTURE

BOWEN THERAPISTS

Anthony Brown Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine.

26 Coral Street, Maleny. Ph: 5435 2555

BOWEN THERAPY Bronwyn Huckle Specialising in Bowtech, the original Bowen Therapy technique. Treating health issues in babies, childen & adults. Montville therapy rooms. Monday to Friday by appointment.

Ph: 5442 9371

Mapleton Natural Therapies Clinic Jackie Hansel: Bach H.S (Acu), Adv. Dip H.S (Hom), Dip Bowen Therapy Acupuncture.

Holistic & Intergrated health care with Acupuncture, Bowen Therapy, Homeopathy, Lymphatic Drainage, Remedial & Relaxation Massage. Ph: 5445 7749

Mapleton Natural Therapies Clinic Jackie Hansel. Bach H.S. (Acu), Adv. Dip. H.S (Hom), Dip. Bowen. Holistic and integrated health care with Bowen Therapy, Classical Homeopathy, Acupuncture and Massage Therapy. Ph: 5445 7749

Dolina Somerville: BHSc (Acupuncture) China Trained: Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine. Qualified & Experienced in Chinese Remedial Massage & Cosmetic Acupuncture.

38a Coral St Maleny (HBC). H F Rebates.

Mob: 0408 693 029 www.ntpages.com.au/dolinasomervilleacupuncture

Kathy Blackburn - Diploma Bowen Therapy (Bowtech). Gentle effective treatment of Back Pain; Migraine; RSI ; Tennis Elbow; Knee, Ankle & Foot Conditions; Menstrual/Hormonal irregularities; Chronic Fatigue; Respiratory Conditions and MORE. Health fund rebates.

Ph: 54296180

Damien Moses BHSc Acu 3 years training in Kyoto, Japan Concessions & rebates available Topology Acupuncture Clinic 21 Maple Street, Maleny Ph: 0422 546 077 http://damienmoses.wix.com/t-a-c

COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING continued Ruth Donnelly - Holistic Counsellor Heart-centred approach to healing trauma, building emotional wellbeing.

Integrating body psychotherapy, mindfulness, artistic therapies, Reiki, Acutonics, Bush Flower Essences, Dru yoga 0409 564 276, ruth@ruthdonnelly.com.au, www.heartmindconnections.org Counselling - Margaret Davoren B.Nurs.,Mas. Counselling. Think change, think balance & live a rich, full, life. Learn strategies to manage stress, depression, anxiety & relationships. Maleny Physiotherapy, 1/70 Maple St Maleny Ph: 0403 571 572 www.icpaustralia.com

Chirone Shakti – Relationships & Sexuality Professional counsellor specialising in relationships, sexuality, grief and loss.

Discover deeper and more satisfying levels of relating and intimacy. Ph: 0421 814459 E: info@chironeshakti.com.au www.chironeshakti.com.au

CHIROPRACTORS Maleny Chiropractic Clinic The Allied Health Centre, The Boxsell's Building, 15 Maple St, Maleny.

Wed 2pm- 6pm Frid. 2pm-6pm Fiona Perl BSc MSc DC Appointments Ph: 0447 250 191

Cigarettes, Quit Counselling, Hypnotherapy and Soft Laser therapy are utilised in assisting even the most committed smoker. Butt Out For Good in Maleny. Gift vouchers available for Christmas and New Year’s resolutions W3 www.ciggybusters .com, Ph. 0410 000 880

AROMATHERAPY CLINIC AROMA by Nida IAAMA accredited presents Clinical Holistic Aromatherapy to therapeutically support your health conditions & simply providing quality of life.

Mobile service for ladies/ At Buderim clinic

By Appt. HF available. MOB: 0434423305 www.clinicaroma.com.au

ASTROLOGY Stargazer Astrology - Chirone Shakti Relationships, career, family issues, spiritual purpose, life crisis, transitions, your year ahead. Counselling astrologer. Astrology courses and workshops Ph: 0421 814459 E: astro@chironeshakti.com.au www.chironeshakti.com.au

BEAUTY THERAPISTS & HAIRDRESSERS A little Beauty, Body and Wellness Elements at Montville Customised beauty treatments.

Pamper packages. Special occasion & bridal make-up. Massage. Manicures.

Pedicures. Devine body treatments.

Natural therapies. Ph: 54786212 www.elementsmontville.com.au Michelle Jarden - Beauty Therapist.

Electrolysis, facials, massage, make-up, nails, sauna, tanning, tinting, waxing, earpiercing, Body Shop Consultant.

66 Curramore Rd, Witta.

Ph: 5494 4012 or Mob: 0402 531 500

Maple Chiropractic Maleny Dr Stephen Lowe & Dr Samuel Lowe 57 years comb exp. Effective low-force techniques for all ages. Helping to restore, balance & maintain spine & nervous system function. Relaxed & friendly atmosphere.

HICAPS available. 45 Maple. Ph: 5494 3322 Dr. Ralph Stockmann- Dr of Chiropractic USA, Palmer Graduate Medicare & DVA Provider Special interest in difficult & chronic conditions of lower back,neck,knee, shoulder,, ankle, elbow, wrist & headaches 13 Thynne Ct. Maleny Ph: 0410 793 513 Hinterland Chiropractic Dr Josephine Sexton. Using gentle, safe and effective techniques to maintain spinal health and wellbeing. Concession rates, Family discounts and HICAPS available.

21 Bunya Street, Maleny Ph 5435 2987

Tundi Udvary

5/12 Hill Street, Palmwoods

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Margarete Koenning Counselling BA Social Work, Gelstalt Therapist, Psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and, families. Training professionals in family constellation 20 yrs practicing in Maleny, Clinal member of Pacfa. Ph: 5494 2778, 0408 416 041

ENERGY HEALING / SOUND THERAPY Josie Coco – Certified BodyTalk Practitioner www.bodytalk.josiecoco.com BodyTalk uses start-of-the-art energy medicine to help the body respond more efficiently to injury & illness. Completely safe, non-invasive & easily integrated into other health-care regimes.Ph: 0498 065 306

John Pirie Chiropractor & Applied Kinesiologist Gentle hands-on chiropractic using applied kinesiology. Individual programs available.

19 Coral Street Maleny. Ph: 5435 2155 www.siaholistichealth.com.au

Sound Spa Release, retune, refresh.

Therapeutic music with Kim Kirkman (BMus, Grad Dip Mus, MLM), harp and voice. 202 Main Street, Montville, below Pizzeria.

Ph: 0431 560 929

COSMETIC TATTOOING Qualified Cosmetic Tattoo Practitioner – Rebecca Rea Dip. Beauty Therapy Professional Make-up Artist. Procedures include: Eyebrows, top & bottom eyeliner, lips & beauty spots. Mon – Fri 9am – 3pm Shop 9/43 Maple St, Maleny. Ph: 5494 3355

COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING Friendly caring, hands on practice committed to making a positive change to your total health and wellbeing.

5/12 Hill Street, Palmwoods

Dare to Shine Counselling ♥ Clinical Supervision: Esther Pockrandt MCouns.

Confidential, supportive processes to help you in your relationships, parenting, life transitions, losses, existential crises.

Medibank Private Rebates.Ph:0409 065 062

Kris Hines - Counselling Therapy & Voice Dialogue Dip.Couns.,M.A. Ed. Practical & compassionate approach for individuals & couples. Anxiety, internal & relationship conflict, separation and loss, self esteem, Jungian dreamwork. M.A.C.A. Ph: 5442 3676/0408 226 353 www.krishines.com

FENG SHUI FENG SHUI & Astrology. Richard Giles, qualified Feng Shui practitioner.

Feng Shui Home/business assessments.

EM Radiation & 'dirty electricity' checks.

Trained astrologer of 22 years. Shed The Light, Maple Street, Maleny (5499 9003) Thurs or 5435 0158. E: ricgiles@powerup.com.au

HOMEOPATHY Pauline Ashford - B. H. Sc, Complementary Med & Homeopathy Classical homeopathy; Lymphatic drainage; Dorn spinal, joint and headache therapy; EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques; Reiki 130 Ansell Rd Witta Ph: 5494 4101e: paulineashford@dodo.com.au

Hinterland Health and Beauty HYPNOTHERAPY Judith Richards Hypnotherapist Sensitive, effective hypnotherapy: lose weight, move past trauma, anxiety & depression, cure phobias, stop smoking, become self confident, sports and study enhancement, public speaking and much more. Maleny. Ph: 0488 782827

MASSAGE THERAPISTS & RAINDROP TECHNIQUE Hawaiian Healing Massage Rebecca Hopkins Remedial Massage *Hot Stone *Therapeutic *Pregnancy *Chiron Healing *Aromatherapy: Raindrop, Emotional Clearing & Vitaflex Tech Gift Certificates & H F Rebates. Maleny Holistic Health Centre. App Ph: 0415 518 415 bec@hawaiianhealingmassage.com.au The Stillpoint - Katie White Offering Emmett Technique – simple, effective help for neck, shoulder, back pain and imbalance. Special Emmett Offer: $30 for 30 minutes Dec / Jan. Appts Mon-Sat. HF Rebates. Ph 0400 722 786

PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHOTHERAPY Marisa...Naturally Marisa T Kliese offers a complete Natural Therapy Clinic. Services include, Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine, Professional Counselling, Life Coaching, Spiritual Healing.

Ph: 5494 2627 Laurel Hefferon - Naturopath & Colon Hydrotherapist. Sick & tired of feeling sick & tired? Wellness starts with optimal digestion & elimination of toxins & wastes. Winter Special: 3 Colonic Treatments for $240.

Ph: 5494 2101 www.awakeningcentre.com.au Email: laurel@awakeningcentre.com.au

Rob McMurray Experienced psychologist. Active listening, learn coping skills for stress management.

Improve self esteem. Assist with relationship breakdown and personal trauma. For a confidential appointment ph 0488 129 302

PSYCHIC READINGS / TAROT Kerry Laizans Psychic/Tarot Readings, Massage chair- head, shoulders, back and feet, Sound Healing.

Mobile service for groups of 10 or more. In Maleny by appointment, phone readings available, call Kerry 0411 488 291, Come fly with me at- http://throughthevortex.org

OPTOMETRIST Rachel Leigh Optometrist comprehensive eye care, quality spectacles, contact lenses and retinal photography. Bulk Billing, HF rebates.

Locally and Independently owned.

Riverside Centre Maleny Ph: 5494 2666

www.thestillpoint.com.au/emmett-technique

READINGS Life Purpose Readings Discover your higher calling and uncover your karmic lessons to enable you to live a happier and more fulfilling life.

Contact Jule 0425 242 698

PHYSIOTHERAPY/OSTEOPATHY Kathy Blackburn, Adv Dip Applied Science (Remedial Massage). Remedial/Sports Massage; Traditional Chinese Massage; Lymphatic Drainage; Emtech; Trigger Point & Myofacial Release.

“Integrated Bodywork” tailored to your special needs. H F rebates. Ph: 5429 6180 CLINIC AROMA by Nida MAA accredited presents Therapeutic Massage,Relaxation & Pregnancy with Aromatherapy care.

Mobile service for ladies/ At Buderim clinic

By Appt. HF available. MOB: 0434423305 www.clinicaroma.com.au Massage - Peaceful setting near Mapleton Intuitive, Tailored, Experienced, Diploma I value the Nurturing and Therapeutic - $70 hour. Pension discount $10. READINGS Intuitive, Psychic, Clairvoyant since young.

Ph: BRENDA 54469225 0438358189

REMEDIAL MASSAGE, SHIATSU Gary Broadhurst : Sanctuary Shiatsu Zen Shiatsu , Acupressure , Balancing Futon mat or seated chair at Holistic Health Centre , room 5/19 Coral St, Maleny Monday & Tuesday – Appts: 0438 972 880

Japanese Therapies Japanese Therapies: Shiatsu, MeridianTherapy, Moxibustion, Reiki.Craniosacral, Oneness. Enhance wellbeing. Address chronic conditions, stress.Skillful touchneedle techniques engage healing process & remove blocks. Jayanti 0418 888 366 www.sunshinehealing.net

NATUROPATHS Shaun Watson & Rochelle McKay-Masterton Hormonal & digestive conditions. Live blood & cellular health analyses, healthy ageing, weight management, natural fertility management, chronic & advanced disease states naturopathic tests kinesiology. 19 Coral St Maleny. Ph: 5499 9476

Sallyann Stewart - Children's health, stress management. Naturopathic assessment & Live Blood Analysis. Utilising nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, remedial massage, lymphatic drainage. 19 Coral Street,Maleny.

Ph: 5435 2599 / 0421 410 558

Maleny Physiotherapist Tim & Mary Bagshaw. For all of your Physiotherapy requirements.

1/70 Maple Street, Maleny. Ph: 5494 3911 www.malenyphysiotherapy.com.au

Thomas Whitton D.O., Grad.Dip.Ost.Paed Gentle manipulative therapy for body dysfunction and pain in all age groups. Registered Osteopaths Services covered by private health funds; Veterans Affairs; Workcover, Medicare EPC 74 Blackall Terrace, Nambour.

Ph: 5441 4166 www.ntpages.com.au/therapist/18935 Range of Motion Physiotherapy MAPLETON - MONTVILLE - MALENY - IMBIL Russell McDonald & Rae Duffield-Jones.

Providing the highest quality care to restore & maintain optimal physical function & mobility.

Ph: 5478 6600 www.rangeofmotion.com.au Physiotherapy-Rehabilitation-Excercise Tundi Udvary Palmwoods Physiotherapy Friendly caring, hands on practice committed to making a positive change to your total health and wellbeing.

5/12 Hill Street Palmwoods ph; 54788500

Maleny Active Physio – caring professionals offering physiotherapy, exercise physiology, massage and Medicare-funded Type 2 Diabetes Education Programs. Covered by health funds & referrals from DVA & Medicare (bulk-billed). 5/15 Maple Street, Maleny Ph: 5494 0060

PERSONAL TRAINER, FITNESS, DANCE Jon Presswell Personal Trainer Weight Loss, Tailored Fitness Programs, Strength & Muscle Growth.

Older Adults - Balance, Strength & Mobility. Registered trainer with broad experience. Mob: 0439 673 768 Email: jonandtess@ozemail.com.au Rhee TaeKwon-Do - Fitness and Self Defence for Adults and Children. 5pm every Tuesday & Thursday at Maleny Community Centre. Free Trial Available.

Call Nathan on 0419 496 160 or visit www.rhee.com.au.

SCENAR THERAPY Pain Relief Specialist Scenar is a non-invasive therapy using electrical impulses to stimulate your nervous system, reducing pain, inflammation and restoring normal function. Ph: Sonia 0488 922 441 or Kerri 0431 938 393 www.malenypainrelief.com

YOGA AND MEDITATION Radiant Light Yoga with Melissa Fri 9.30 -11.15 Maleny RSL -All levels welcome

Mindfulness Meditation class Fri 12.15 - 1.15 Anjali Yoga Space Maleny.

Suitable all levels.

Ph: Melissa 0417 200 192

Traditional Yoga with Lottie Mon 10.30am,Tues 5.30pm and Thurs 9.30 am. No bookings required. Classes suit all levels of experience. Maleny Showgrounds Pavilion “Not too gentle ... not too strong” Phone: Lottie 5313 7756 Hatha Yoga Classes with Linda Jenkin Mon: (General) 6.00-7.30am Palmwoods CWA; (Gentle) 9.30-11.00am Montville (General) 6.00-7.30pm Montville Wed: (General) 6.00-7.30pm Palmwoods CWA. Fri:(Gentle) 9.30-11.00am Montville 0410 296 831 - lindajenkinyoga@hotmail.com

Yoga on the Range Traditional Yoga Classes to suit all levels. Build strength & flexibility; find inner peace and calm.

Day and evening times in Mapleton and Kureelpa with Lynley who has been teaching on the range for 15 years. Ph: 5445 7641.

The Way of Meditation Weekly guided meditations (by donation). Mapleton Thurs 6.30pm & Currimundi Mon 6.30 pm Ph: Chad 0404 136 077 www.thewayofmeditation.com.au Radiant Light Yoga with Rukmini Wed 6.30-8pm Peachester Hall Thurs 9.30-11am Landsborough Hall Private Classes and Yoga Therapy PH. 0437 914 029 www.shantipathyogaspace.com.au HINTERLAND TIMES - FEBRUARY 2013

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Trades

Professional Services ACCOUNTANTS /BOOKKEEPING Front Line Tax Frederick A Forbes. Specialising in individual & small business tax returns.

15 Maple St, Maleny. Ph: 5494 2622 Local and Reliable Bookkeeping Registered BAS Agent. Full bookkeeping services: Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly.

BAS/IAS, Payroll & Super. MYOB/Excel (PC & MAC). On/Off-site services.

Nicky Dierens Ph: 54296931 Email: nicky@dierens.com.au

ARCHITECT Brad Drew - Architect New and existing residential design projects. 30 years experience.

Ph: 5478 6843

COMPUTER / WEB SERVICES

GOVERNMENT SERVICES QGAP Maleny - Maleny Police Station, 49 Maple St Maleny Manager -Judy Phipps Mon, Tue, Fri:9am–2pm Ph 5429 6293 New Vehicle Registrations & Housing close 1pm. Dept of Transport & Main Roads, Business Registrations, CTP Insurance, Seniors/Carers Cards, Birth, Death & Marriage Certificates & more. EFTPOS & credit cards.

LEGAL SERVICES Easton Lawyers Tove Easton Principal Lawyer 62 Maple St, Maleny Ph: 5494 3511 Email: tove@eastonlawyers.com.au

PHOTOGRAPHY

AIR CONDITIONING Kelly Air Pty Ltd Supply, installation & maintenance of domestic & commercial airconditioning. Call Greg (BSA 1113295) Ph: 5478 5255 or 0400 123 231 Email: info@kellyair.com.au

Range Airconditioning Lic. No L016305 Supply and installation of high quality, energy efficient, ducted and wall mounted reverse cycle, split air conditioning systems for cooling, heating and de-humidification.

Ph Yelma on 5494 3459 or 0421 488 048 Em: rangeaircon@gmail.com

ANTENNAS Jim's Antennas Digital & problem reception specialists.

Locally owned, servicing the hinterland.

Call Craig Titheradge today for a free quote.

Ph: 131 546 www.jimsantennas.com.au

Penny Riddoch Photography & Design AIPP Concept IT Systems - reliability & service New computers & repairs. Internet setup & websites. Printers, scanners ,Ink refills, cameras.

Authorised Apple reseller. Onsite service.

Drop in to discuss you computer needs.

Shop 6 Riverside Centre Maleny 5429 6750 or sales@conceptsystems.com.au

Ecocyber - Computer Services Repairs, troubleshoot computer problems, tuition, web design & hosting services.

On site or at Maleny workshop.

Contact Hans. Ph: 5499 9599 Email: hans@ecocyber.com.au

Weddings, portraits - families, children, business, pets. Commercial - product photography, properties, advertising. Graphic Design - web site images, DVDs digital albums, brochures, posters, business cards.

Ph: 5494 2808 - www.digitalphotodesigns.com

MCU Sustainable Banking 28 Maple St, Maleny www.mcusb.com.au See Loans Manager Scott Howie for savings a/c, online cash management, E Saver, term deposits, Visa card, Green Loans: appliance /solar/car/ home, standard personal, home & business loans P: 5499 8988 Email: info@mcusb.com.au

Locally owned and operated photography business specialising in portraiture, corporate and event photography covering the entire Sunshine Coast. Currently offering massive 50% discounts. Ph: Farley 0410 229 600 or visit www.shutterstorm.com.au

Holden’s Gallery Custom framing by professionals. Items including art, needlecraft, memorabilia, etc.

Monday – Saturday10am to 4pm Cnr. Coral & Myrtle St. Maleny Ph: 5494 2100 www.holdensgallery.com.au

WATCHES & CLOCKS Jacques Fayolle – Local ANZ Mobile Lender My motto is “Customer for Life”. I will visit you, wherever, to secure the home loan best suited to you, and develop an on-going banker/customer relationship to care for your future needs.

Ph:0408 734 152 or 5437 7311 Email fayollej@anzmortgagesolutions.com

Luke Wilkinson Appliance Service Washing machines, dryers, fridges, etc.

Lic. No 68598

Ph: 0419 684 324 or 5429 6565

Shutterstorm Photography

PICTURE FRAMING

FINANCE

APPLIANCE SERVICE

Ron Hoddinott - Watch and clockmaker 50 years experience. Specialist on-site repairs & restorations. Battery replacement and pressure testing. By appointment.

Phone: 0413 278 403

AUTO SERVICES D & K Motors - Auto mechanics Mechanical repairs, RWC inspections.

Wheel alignments & tyres.

All mechanical requirements.

4 Lawyer Street, Maleny. Ph: 5499 9169 TRANCE4MATION DETAILING All aspects of car detailing, 20 years exp. Full details, wash and vac, shampooing and dog hair removal. Seniors and trade discount available Call now for opening specials.

Caroline: 0458 520 489.

CABINETMAKER Paul Randall Cabinetmaker of Maleny New & renovated kitchens & vanities benchtops a speciality - stone, timber & laminated finishes. Home Offices, Wall Units, Wardrobes. Ph: 0432 953 186 Lic QBSA 1162819. Member Master Builders.

CARPET & UPHOLSTERY • TV & DVD Tuning • Telephone Data • Digital Specialists • Home Theatre Specialists • Five Year Warranties • Satellite Systems

There’s a Jim’s Technician on the Range.

CALL FOR A FREE QUOTE TODAY

131 546

www.jimsantennas.com.au

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Range Carpet Care Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning & Protection Ph: 5445 7611 or 0418 776 578

CHAINSAW & TREE WORK All Trees to Chip Tree felling, pruning, lopping, mulching, stump grinding, landscaping & retaining walls, fences etc. Two chippers - 6 inch & 12 inch. Qualified and insured.

Phone Rob Milner: 5445 7805

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL CLEANING External Cleaning - tile & Colorbond roofs, house washing ,mould removal & all surfaces. Obligation FREE quotes – fully insured. For a high quality professional service Call Jay 0404 707693 www.waterwisepressurecleaning.com.au

Hinterland House and Garden Amber Leaf Landscaping Looking for a landscaper who can deliver?

Tohm Hajncl heads the team that offers you guaranteed quality. Choose from landscaping consultations, designs, construction and planting, pre-sale makeovers and specialised maintenance services. Ph: 5445 9801 www.amberleaf.com.au

ELECTRICAL & SOLAR Green Energy Electrical

Lic No. 71210

Reliable prompt domestic electrician.

Extensions, renovations, maintenance, new homes, safety switches, switchboard upgrades, test & tag, smoke alarms. Solar Grid Connect.

Ph: Steven Pilcher for an obligation free quote 0421 162 007 E: stevenpilcher@bigpond.com

Plan-it Fencing servicing locals in the supply of Automatic Gates. Glass & aluminium pool fencing, balustrade & aluminium privacy screens. Prompt reliable service. Ph: Paul for a free quote 0412 698 595 or www.planitfencing.com.au

Farm Design and Landscapes Beautiful Farms design and construct acreages and farms to ensure an attractively landscaped, well thought out and manageable property. Mark: 0438 644 476, e: mark@beautifulfarms.com.au or check out: www.beautifulfarms.com.au

FURNITURE MAKING

MUSHROOM COMPOST

Wyhoon Garden Services Edge to edge mowing. Servicing all your garden needs incl. ride-on,push mowing, whipper snipping, garden clean ups, hedging, fencing, rubbish removal & general property maintenance. Ph. Casey: 0459 444 310

Graeme Lyon Lawn Mowing Ride-on, push mower, whipper snipping, guerney, hedge trimming, rubbish removal, chain saw & pruning. Servicing all of the Range incl. Conondale.

Ph: Graeme 5494 2720 or 0404 471 859

HANDYMAN & HOME MAINTENANCE A Very Handy Man Fix anything in & around the home: Paint * Plaster * Tiles * Carpentry * Odd Jobs * Flatpack * Move Furniture * Pressure Wash * Gutters/Windows * Chainsaw * Garden makeovers & Clean up. John 0439 942 077 Montville Handy Man 20 years building experience.

All concreting, carpentry, home maintenance and repairs. Prompt and reliable service. Garden Clean -up.

Competitive rates. Ph: Wayne 0434 724 030 Hatch's Home Maintenance Qualified Cabinet Maker, 35 years experience. Update* Renew *Repair*Plastering*Cabinets*Tiling* Call John today Ph 0404 056 147 hatchshomemaintenance@hotmail.com QBA Lic. No 1242008

Guttering, Water Tanks, Filters and Pump Installation. Septic Trenches, Holding Tanks, Blocked Drains. Heat Pumps & Gas Installation.

Landlord water reports. Water Hammer solutions Ph: 042 11 66 882 BSA 1078655

Anderson Plumbing & Roofing Plumbing, drainage & roofing. New work, renos, maintenance specialists. Septic systems, blocked drains, high pressure ‘sewer jett’ drain cleaner, drain camera, cable locations, tank installations, roof & guttering.

Ph: 5494 3340 or 0409 541 475 QBSA1066328 DVP Plumbing Services BSA 1172423 Plumbing. drainage, roofing and gasfitting.

Camera and drain cleaning equipment, maintenance, new work and renovations.

24/7 Service, No call out fees, 10% pensioner discounts. Phone Damian 0410 855 778 or 0434 582 570 BRUCE MORRIS PLUMBING QBSA lic 456322 24hr emergency service, all plumbing, building,maintenance installation domestic and commercial. Gas installations, septic/ drainage ,hot water, solar, bathroom renovations, leaking roofs. Ph 0410 457 606

Direct from the grower to you The perfect environmentally-friendly garden mulch and soil conditioner. Full ute tipper load. $80 delivered. $50 half ute load. Phone Gerard: 0407 588 824 E: gerard.rutten@bigpond.com

GARDEN MAINTENANCE & MOWING

TANK CLEANING

PAINTING City to Surf Painting & Decorating Re-paints & new work, industrial coatings, decorative finishes, Anti mould coatings.

Quality & value for money guaranteed.

Servicing the Range & beyond. Ph: Richard Daveson 0418 708 620 BSA 1117847 Maleny Paint Place 6/ 14 Lawyer Street, Maleny. For Wattyl and Taubmans Paints and all paint accessories. Taubmans Trade Paint Centre "We can quote & do it for you" www.hinterlandgrapevine.com Ph: 5494 2002

Pristine Water Systems Full water tanks cleaned, water testing and correction, filtration - Free appraisals Ph: Trevor 0404 302 723

Independent Power & Water PLAN AHEAD Power your own lights & water supply.

For BLACKOUTS & EVERDAY USE. Reliable 12 Volt Pump & L.E.D lights.

PEST CONTROL Top of the Range Pest Management Termite specialists House treatment for general pests.

Termite inspections and treatments.

Phone: 1300 663 808 or 0411 105 005

PLANT NURSERIES Brush Turkey Enterprises Wholesale native nursery qlty tubestock. Rainforest, wetland, grasses, sclerophyll, coastal & understorey species. Min. order 100 plants. Open to public by appt. Ph: 5494 3642 or email: nursery@brushturkey.com.au

PLASTERER

Quality Work by Local Installers.

Phone Graham Cranney: 0427 75 4587 Phone Keith Patullo: 0429 416 041

www.independentpower.com.au

D&K

Motors - Mechanical Repairs

Great rates!!

Great service!!

Open Saturday from 8.00am -12.30pm

Castle Plaster No job too small. Fibrous plaster & plasterboard, framing, fixing, setting, cornice, suspension, patching. Licensed & insured. Established 1980.

Call John Ph: 0417 275 241 or 5442 1723

All mechanical repairs & services, tyres, wheel alignment & Roadworthy Certificates

LANDSCAPING & DESIGN PLUMBING & WASTEWATER Loors Landscaping (est: 1987) From concept to creation all aspects of structural and soft landscaping.

Ph: 5445 7615 Mob: 0412 680 801

305 Landscapes Garden design, construction and cleanups. All landscape aspects. Dingo Hire. View works on gallery page at www.gardenartistry305.com.

Operating out of Montville for over 10 years and servicing all areas. Ph: Jamie 0408 722 025.

CONT’D

Sky Plumbing & Gas Fitting

Step n Stone Landscapes All aspects of stonework and landscaping design and construction. Outdoor pizza ovens, fire-pits & fireplaces. Sculpture commissions. No job too big or too small.

Ph. John: 5478 6754 or Mob: 0411 426 099 www.stepnstonelandscapes.com.au

FENCING & AUTOMATIC GATES

Randy DeGraw - designer & maker of fine functional furniture & woodwork to suit your decor.

Ph: 5494 4222 for an appointment. www.viewwoodwork.com.au

PLUMBING & WASTEWATER

AWS Advanced Wastewater Solutions All plumbing & drainage work. Supply & installation of advanced wastewater treatment systems. Septic conversions. 1 ton excavator for hire. Ph: 0412 858 020 www.advancedwastewatersolutions.com.au Gavins Plumbing Service All maintenance plumbing, draining, gasfitting, roof & guttering, domestic pump repairs & replacements.

Complete wet area renovations. BSA Licence 48654 Ph: 5445 7230 - Mobile: 0402 791 058 All Hinterland areas - 35 years experience

Tammy and Mike

10% pensioner discount.

4 Lawyer St, Maleny

Trades and Services

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Thursday February 7 Free parenting forum by Dr Bob Jacobs. Maleny Neighbourhood Centre. 9.30-11.30am. Topic: Understanding Teenagers. Dr Jacobs is a director and founder of The Parenting Centre which exists to help families increase harmony and reduce conflict. Ph: 07 5435 2504 www.theparentingcentre.com.au Thursday February 7 Opera Diva, Louise Kennedy, has been facilitating a weekly singing group at the Tree Frog Gallery. The group focuses on light hearted fun includes music from all genres: world music, celtic, jazz, pop, classical. New 8 week term 4-6pm $160. Enquiries PhoneHeather 5435 2303 or 0417 784 520 or email info@treefroggallery.com.

Friday February 8, Saturday February 9 St Margaret’s Anglican Church Op Shop, Blackall St Woombye, is open Wed- Fri 9am-4pm,Sat 9am-12. This is Centrelink approved. Sausage sizzle and craft market held third Friday of each month. Ph: Sue Beiers on 5476 1073.

Friday February 8 Aglow International meeting at CWA Hall, Kaling Street, Caloundra. 9.30am. Speaker is Rosalie Furler. Entry: $7 includes morning tea. Come along, bring a friend, enjoy an inspirational message and worship. Ph: Isabella 5476 8463.

Friday February 8 The Spinal Injuries Association Sunshine Coast Post Polio Network meets at 10am at the CWA Hall, Memorial Avenue, Maroochydore. New members welcome. Contact facilitators for further information on 5447 6608 or 5494 3272 Friday March 8 “A Big Night Out” is set to rock your pants with local artist Paul McKenna entertaining at the Maleny Show Pavilion.

Dress code for the ball is formal. Tickets $20, include appetizers. This is an 18+ event only. Information or tickets call Felicity Grigor on 0437 966 589.

Saturday February 9 Montville Growers and Makers Market at the Montvillle Village Hall 7:30am to midday. Local Fruit and Vegies, Stanthorpe new season apples and stone fruit, organic

breads, fresh seafood, flowers, honey, locally made smallgoods and much more. Organic pancake breakfasts and espresso coffee, festive music. all welcome, 5499 9114.

Sunday February 10,17,24 Maleny Market held at RSL Hall, opposite Maleny Hotel.

Open rain hail or shine. Over 35 interesting stalls, including antiques and collectables; Art & craft; fruit & veg & famous local sausages. Little Fair Trade Café. Enq: 0448 423 919.

Sunday February 10,17, 24 Afternoon music session 2-5pm at The Maleny Marketplace, 55 Maple St., Maleny. A family friendly event celebrating the diverse talent of local musicians. . Acts include ‘Gypsy Loco’ ‘Cardie & Pete. Program updates and details visit www.malenymarketplace.com.au or contact Pascale on 0423 615 413. No cover charge and no need to book.

Monday February 11 SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING ‘Come and Try’ night with well known accredited teacher Deanne Corps. Presbyterian Church Hall Maleny. 7-9pm. Free night with supper.

Contact 5445 7845 or 04209 77 170 Monday February 11 JP Services are available to the public at Maleny library.

Mondays. 9am to 1pm. Fridays. 1pm to 4pm. The service is free to all. Photo ID (driving licence etc) must be shown.

Wednesday February 13, Saturday February 16 Big Pineapple’s markets ... Wed locals market (2-7pm), Sat growers market with train ride and retail cafe. New season growers. Ph: 54423102 www.bigpineapple.com.au Friday February 15 Rosetta Books and Hinterland Times present a special authors evening Aussie Diggers at War...chaired by HT editor Michael Berry. A discussion between award-winning journalist and author Chris Masters whose book Uncommon Soldier highlights the experience of being embedded with Aussie Diggers in Uruzgan Province, and former MajorGeneral John Cantwell whose book Exit Wounds gives a rare profile of a modern soldier. Maleny State School Hall 6pm for 6.30pm. Tickets $12. Bookings and payment prior to event essential from Rosetta Books Ph: 5435 2134

Saturday February 16 Blackall Range Growers market, Old Witta School 316 Witta Road. 7-30am – 12 midday. Great variety local produce.

Come for breakfast and good coffee. Music. Bring your green bag. All enquiries phone Pat on 5499 9924.

Saturday February 16 Amnesty On the Range meeting - Maleny library meeting room 10.30am - 12pm Contact: Helen Ryan-Sykes helenryansykes@gmail.com Wednesday February 20 Dying with Dignity Queensland 2pm CWA Room, Memorial Ave, Maroochydore. Guest speaker from School of Biomedical Sciences at UQ to discuss their work. Free + afternoon tea. Parking at the door. Ph Joan on 5443 5576.

Thursday February 21 Guest speaker Caloundra Family History Research group is Qld Family History Society Educator Ms Desley Schafer.

Presentation will be “Pioneers and the Hardships”. 1.30pm the Guide Hut in Arthur St, Caloundra. Ph: Valerie: 5437 3879, E: caloundrafamilyres@y7mail.com Monday February 25 Deadline for Council’s Landholder Environment Grant expressions of interest. Priority given to projects with high ecological value. Ph: grants officer on 54418616 or grants@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/grants.

Saturday March 2 Scott Alexander King from Animal Dreaming has donated a One Day Workshop with all the profits going to Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital! 9am-4pm. Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital Conference Centre, $150 pp. Book: Tegan or Kathy Lather 0407 033 315 Em: info@askanimalsanything.com.au Web: www.askanimalsanything.com.au Thursday March 28 Entries close for the Sunshine Coast Art Prize (SCAP). Prizes are valued at over $46,000 in 2D,3D and T3 Tertiary categories. A selection of 40 finalists are chosen. To apply online for the 2013 SCAP or more details: visit the Council’s website: www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

Tuition and Workshops Hawaiian Healing Massage Courses Enhance Your Well Being & Learn New Skills! Unique & Flowing with Profound Healing Effects. Beginners to Advanced.

For information pack contact: Rebecca Hopkins Ph: 0415 518 415 bec@hawaiianhealingmassage.com.au

Singing and Chanting Workshop Sat Feb16, 10am-3pm. Do you love to sing?...have you ever chanted? The benefits are well documented and easy to learn. Maxine Chisholm is a singer & musician who motivates others to the ‘profound joy of singing.’ $25 incl song sheets & morning tea.

Ph: Maxine 0412623439 TAI CHI CLASSES Start Wed 13 Feb at Uniting Church Hall, Maleny 5.30pm - 6.30pm.

Tai Chi is excellent for balance, leg strength, falls prevention and coordination as well as mental focus and concentration.

Cost is $100 for 10 weeks.

Call Lorri 5499 9212 or 0428 393 212

Make your workshop a success Ph 54 999 049 or ads@hinterlandtimes.com.au

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EXERCISE CLASS Incorporates elements of Tai Chi, balance training, cardiovascular fitness, leg, abdominal and upper body strength, flexibility. Maleny Showgrounds Pavilion each Tuesday 7.30am - 9am. $12 - per class or $40 for 4 weeks.

Enquiries - call Lorri 5499 9212 or 0428 393 212

BEAT-IT PROGRAM An innovative, tailored physical activity & lifestyle program created by Australian Diabetes Council. Designed to improve the health of those at risk of, or living with, diabetes and other chronic conditions, through awareness and physical activity-in a safe and supportive environment.

Ph: Lorri Sheldon 54999212 or 0428393212 (Reg Nurse, Fitness & Tai Chi Instructor, registered BEAT IT Trainer)

WEEKLY PAINTING/DRAWING CLASSES All media, styles, subjects and levels.

Developing the creativity of the individual. Wed, Thu, Sat. 10am – 1pm Contact Sonja on 0407 238 026 Email: sonja@rebix.com Studio: rear of 37 Coral St., Maleny.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Eight-week experiential group course.

Learn scientifically proven methods for reducing stress and improving wellbeing.

Starts Wed 27 Feb, Mooloolah Valley.

Visit www.openground.com.au or contact Astrid: 0401 904 995.

Art Classes at Tree Frog Gallery Mindful Art Workshops for Adults/Mindful Art Program for Schools & Special Interest Groups/Acrylic, Oil, Watercolour,Pastel holiday workshops/term classes. Enquiries re classes, workshops and tutors.

Closed Tuesdays only. Ph: 5435 2303, 0417 784 520 or info@treefroggallery.com www.treefroggallery.com Fermentation Gatherings Learn to produce fabulous, cultured foods, full of natural probiotics and enhanced vitamins. Kefir, gluten-free sourdough, beet kvass, sauerkraut etc. Join our gatherings- fourth Thurs of each month.

Ph: Anni 0417 798 314 or Ros 5499 9914.

E: rosanni@fabulousfoodferments.com.au DRAWING – THE FUNDAMENTALS Learn to “see” in order to draw 9 classes covering: line, space & shape, 3 dimensions, light & shade, composition.

Sat 2-5pm commencing Feb 16 Ph: Sonja on 0407 238 026 Email: sonja@rebix.com Studio: rear of 37 Coral St., Maleny.

Richard Knight furniture workshop One-day workshops making funky functional furniture. Identify suitable materials & create your own unique piece using simple wood-working tools.

Materials & lunch included $150.

Ph: Richard: 5422 9291. Gift vouchers. www.richardknightwoodworks.com.au

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Outlander project development manager Mitsuyoshi Hattari claims that the company has worked to future-proof its electric vehicle technologies and keep ahead of rival manufacturers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are one of the manufacturers who can produce the electric vehicle at minimum costs,â&#x20AC;? said Hattari-san, hinting at the development of nextgeneration EVs beyond the current micro-hatch i-MiEV. Asked whether Hattari-san would like to see electric power offered in some form across all Mitsubishi models, he simply replied, â&#x20AC;&#x153;yes, I think so.â&#x20AC;?

The development chief confirmed a form of nextgeneration Lancer EV, while there are strong rumours the Lancer Evolution could replace its turbocharger with an electric motor(s) to boost its performance.

Hattari-san argues that a business case for pure electric vehicles in the light, and small car classes, is weak, despite the company currently selling the i-MiEV. He believes models such as the Mirage light car and Lancer small car would better work as series hybrid, plug-in electric vehicles, similar in style to the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV which will be launched later this year.

Having a vehicle with an internal combustion engine powering the batteries that run the electric motor means that a smaller number of lithium-ion cells â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the current charging benchmark â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are required.

Batteries are currently the single biggest additional cost for an electric vehicle compared with a similarly sized petrol or diesel offering. The costs are so high they make selling pure-electric vehicles prohibitively expensive overall â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the i-MiEV will cost around the same money as the much larger Outlander PHEV that supports its two electric motors with an internal combustion engine.

However Hattari-san argues that the price of battery technology will eventually fall, likening the current pricing to that of LCD televisions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; when they first came out, a large LCD could cost up to $20,000, where nowadays the units are available for a fraction of that cost.

As the price of battery technology, and by extension electric vehicles, drops significantly, Mitsubishi expects increased volumes to boost the economies of scale, breaking down the pricing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; further. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How long we need to wait to see which level of price [batteries] will be, not only Mitsubishi but all of the industry â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is one of the key factors to be one of the solutions,â&#x20AC;? says Hattari-san. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In terms of the LCD [television], it started really high cost, but once it really breaks the market, the wall will collapse. Customer demand and all the manufacturers need to push. [We] want to break down the wall.â&#x20AC;?

The question now is how long until volume is on the side of the electric vehicle to help really drive down the price.

Michael Berry - Email: editor@hinterlandtimes.com.au

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