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A DRIVING FORCE Nicole Hilton’s story continues…

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The best things in life…

feel like I spent most of June in a state of exhaustion – mental, physical and emotional. These past few months have been a strain on so many of us. But as we move into July I have seen a gradual shift in mood, with places and classes slowly opening up.

It is such a joy to walk down the street and see…people!

We had friends over for a barbecue last weekend for the first time in MONTHS. Sitting on the patio, with a crackling fire, good music and great conversation, it was yet another reminder that the simple things are all we need – friendship, food, laughter and love.

Speaking of love, if you turn to page 9 you will find something that filled me with joy when I was asked if we could include it in our pages! I won’t say any more here, but it’s a first for the HT as far as I know, and I feel very honoured we were asked to be involved.

As we say on our website, ‘Tell your story’ – and this month we have stories from possibly the busiest woman on the Range, Nicole Hilton; a group of local market stallholders from Nambour, and Colin James, the man behind the most delicious fine foods and ice-cream in Maleny, now renamed The Maleny Food Co. I am missing a few of the usual July events that COVID has denied us: Celebration of Books, the Obi Art Prize, the Queensland Garden Expo, NAIDOC Week, Knitfest….but I’m happy to see the beginnings of a resurgence for local arts. We have a Blues event in Maleny, live music in Mapleton and a show at Lind Lane Theatre in Nambour. Hopefully next month, we may be back with our Creative Cuts pages as they were pre-COVID.

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12 - 15 BACK TO NATURE

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16 - 17 CREATIVE CUTS

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Letters, poetry, crosswords and cartoons over a cuppa

20 - 21 HEALTH, BEAUTY & WELLNESS

Everything from mindfulness to massage to manicures!

22 - 24 TRAVELS WITH…

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Keeping with creativity, the deadline for the Hinterland Times Young Writer of the Year Award is July 31! The word limit is officially 600, but if you get carried away with your story it’s fine to go over that. Details are on page 19.

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And finally, on page 38, along with some local events and school holiday ideas, you will find Stand by Me – a new way we choose to say thanks each month to local businesses who support us.

Gratitude, friendship, creativity, nature and love - the best things in life are free - including the HT! Have a good July everyone and see you in August.

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COVER STORY Mapleton-based musicians Shaye and Lee Hardisty will be delighting listeners at the monthly Mapleton Hall Country Markets see page 18 PHOTOGRAPHY BY KETAKII JEWSON-BROWN

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Make a Date for the Drive-In It’s back to the days of drive-ins, but there’s no Back to the Future or Grease … this is about live Blues music!

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he Rotary Club of Maleny is very excited to support local musicians who haven't received any income for months now, as well as give a boost to the local community of Maleny, with the Winter Blues Drive-In Concert. All profits will go to the Community Grants scheme which provides support to many local organisations.

Maleny Showgrounds is the location, the date is Saturday July 18, from 5pm to approximately 9.15pm.

Not only is it a drive-in, but to keep our musicians warm on these typically cold Maleny winter nights, they will perform on the stage in the pavilion allowing people to be seated at tables indoors as well.

There will be a large screen out on the oval which will live stream the musicians playing, and people will be able to listen in on their car radios.

There is a fabulous and diverse line-up of local musical acts to enjoy: Accidentally on Purpose - Maleny and Beerwah High School uke band who have performed at Rick’s Garage in Palmwoods and at the Blues Mountains Uke Festival in February 2020.

Vix & the Slick Chix - well known in South East Queensland for their blues, funk, soul and rock, played at numerous festivals and regularly appear at Rick’s Garage, Palmwoods, and the Maleny Hotel.

Kevin Borich Express - this guy needs no introduction as he is a rock god and the band perform at many festivals!

Maleny Hotel will provide the delicious food which will be delivered to both tables and vehicles by a preordering method. The bar inside will only be for people seated indoors.

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This month is the second part of our feature on entrepreneur and community leader, Nicole Hilton, who still insists she is ‘not a very interesting person’!

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icole Hilton, the 2019 recipient of the Lions Club of Maleny Blackall Range District Governor’s Distinguished Service Award for ongoing excellent service to the community, takes us back to 1994 when the 70-year old family Conondale home and their lives were torn apart by a tornado-like storm. It was then at age 27, Nicole learnt the true value of community.

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“We settled in the Nagy house across the road furnished by generous locals, and community fundraisers supported those affected by the disaster. Mum and Dad chose not to accept any money as they decided there were young families who needed it more.

“We lived there for over a year when Granddad surveyed off a block of land for us on his property. We went from strength to strength ending up with a new house and swimming pool. It was the start of a good life for Mum and Dad down on the creek at Cookes Road.”

Nicole moved out and went back to work after 18 months with her parents, the Black Dog of depression never to cross her path again.

In the mid-90s romance appeared in an unexpected guise when Nicole met Ken Hilton.

She reminisces: “It was at a How to Host a Murder dinner party and, he was dressed as a woman! We married in 1998.

“Ken and I have travelled the world, but our favourite are our driving holidays. We love taking roads less travelled, visiting country towns and exploring their op shops.

“While my job is people focused, my down time is to be away from people and responsibility. Toogoom is my healing place where I can be creative with nature and landscape photography.”

Fifteen years ago, Nicole was employed by Maleny Credit Union (MCU). The position, Credit Controller, was to be for three months. It lasted eight years.

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“After the credit union, I worked at Easton Lawyers for two years doing conveyancing then back to MCU at the front counter, working part-time between the two.

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“One day the CEO said he’d created a job for me Business Development Officer and Credit Control Officer.

Later, I moved into my current role of Business and Community Development Officer.”

Five years ago, supported by the credit union’s CEO, Nicole melded her business acumen and creative skills into a book of another kind - financial literacy.

Nicole shares a situation that expresses itself through her passion for community: “I have such deep sorrow around not being able to have kids. It is raw but it defines who I am. However, I have three step-kids and three grandkids. I helped raise them, they are like my own.

“We observed people who came in for loans and the debt kids had gotten themselves into. I talked with the principal at Maleny High School. Perfect timing, as they had recognised the need for a financial literacy program. I teamed up with Nev Dance, a teacher at the high school, and together we penned the book.

“I host Chics in Biz in Maleny and that has now grown to Glasshouse, Palmwoods and Nambour. It’s like I want to be a mother to them all. I cry with them, laugh with them, and celebrate their achievements. Chics in Biz movement has also been invited to start in Buderim and Peregian.”

Nicole joined the Chamber of Commerce six years ago and has been President for three. It proved to be the springboard and support needed to launch her ideas, such as the concept of Live Love Shop Maleny and the Maleny Gift Card, aimed at keeping money local.

Apart from an astute business mind, Nicole Hilton exudes creativity. Currently, she creates art pieces from recycled ceramics. The assemblage of bowls, teapots, vases and the like, transform into pot plant stands, water features and garden ornaments.

That raw side of Nicole speaks: “I’ve also written a book. It’s about what it’s like to live your life as an obese person because since I had my accident, I’ve put on 70 kgs.”

I asked about the accident. “I used to teach aerobics and was a gym junkie. Then, I tore the cartilage off my hip in a gym rowing accident 15 years ago. I have to have my hip replaced, it’s bone on bone.”

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“Since that time, it has grown wings. A school in Nambour, Mt Tambourine High School, and recently, our Flexi-school use the book. Also, Sunshine Coast University have expressed interest.

“This was an interesting project for me because, in my younger years, I was one of those people the bank chased to pay my car loan. One story I’ll never live down is when I laybyed a dinner set for a friend’s wedding present and she ended up paying it off! Fortunately, I’ve done a 360 degree turn in the matter of finances,” says Nicole, who was recently appointed to the position of caretaker of Maleny Credit Union’s branch and staff during its transition period.

A recent update reveals, however, that Nicole the trailblazer has taken a leap of faith and resigned from her position at MCU. “I will continue with what I love – community, and the groups I’m involved with. I’m going to get my health sorted and then who knows what will come my way? I feel so light and happy!”

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“It gives people a chance to try something and to show their work. A friend of mine started with a market stall in Eumundi, she now has two shops, she goes to Europe every year and goes to fashion shows overseas and wholesales to suppliers all over Australia. And she started off with one little market stall.

“Unless you try you just don’t know.”

It has not always been easy for this market that brings joy to so many people, with many shops closed all around Nambour the foot traffic greatly decreased and the markets are not what they once were.

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“The café used to be there and there were a lot more people when it was there, because they would come and have breakfast or lunch and it created more atmosphere.

People also are not spending much or even going out much anymore.

The last few months especially have been challenging.”

“A couple of friends bought paintings off me and said, ‘instead of filling up your garage why don’t you sell them.’ I thought no one would buy them but then people started showing interest and I sold a few and then I thought I’ll give this a go and see what happens, so here I am.”

Market organiser, Helen Langlois, said the number of artists and small business owners she has seen over the years of running many different markets, who start out just doing a small market stall, is inspiring.

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n the centre of Nambour, a tiny market has sprung back to life after weeks of deserted streets and silence. With laughter and conversation ringing in the air, bursts of colour, fresh food and herbs; artistic endeavour has appeared again to entice locals to explore their town once more.

Here I met a young woman who has newly discovered her art, holding her first ever market stall, a stepping stone in what she hopes becomes a career.

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Helen said it becomes a passion to keep a market going and thriving, and this one has the real Nambour spirit about it, but it has not always been easy and support makes a huge difference.

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“Jenny McKay was always such a great supporter of our market, she always came down and bought gifts, if she had Christmas or a birthday or anything in her family coming up she would always come down and support the market.

She really helped me to keep the market going.”

make at markets you wouldn’t have in other circumstances.”

The Nambour Village Square Market is a charming spark of life and local shopping, one of many across the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, a market according to organiser Helen that has found a happy home at the square.

“This square was built, along with an upgrade to Lowe Street as part of the Revitalise Project in Nambour years ago, it is a great space. It has stage lighting, speakers, and everything.”

Markets, it turns out, are not just an opportunity to shop - if you talk to a few people, you start to see how it is an experience they love that connects everyone.

“A story about what markets mean to people that I will never forget is from when I ran the Nambour Moonlight Markets.

After they stopped, I had a lady come up to me in town and ask, ‘why did you stop the night markets because my daughter used to come up once a month from Caboolture with the grandchildren and we would come down here and we’d have a hotdog and there would be a street performer and kids activities and balloons; she doesn’t come up anymore, and that was my monthly regular outing.’ My heart really felt that,” Helen said.

But if people want markets to stay and thrive, they need to support them, stallholder Darryl Wessling said it is in everyone’s interest to do so.

“When the customer buys from the markets they are keeping the money local, all the profits are then definitely going

“Markets are so much more than just shopping, it is great for the kids - at some markets you can go and get your hair braided or your face painted, school groups can do dances and perform, it caters for a real cross-group of the community. It is a community interacting together.”

local and we then have more money around the local community. It is better for everyone.”

Maybe it’s time to discover treasures, food and fun or maybe it is time to bring your passion to life through a community market.

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We have been serving our members following the government’s rules on social distancing and personal hygiene. These rules will not change, and I wonder if we will see these as a more permanent part of all our businesses going forward and eventually it will seem “normal”. We will s ll however close at 4.30pm on Fridays.

Our staff have been working very hard to ensure there is no-to-minimal disrup on to our services during this me. We pride ourselves on knowing our members, and our teller staff like a chat just as much as our members do. We provide a friendly and familiar space for our members. We con nue to grow our membership over this me and appreciate the local support.

Our Loans team are s ll processing and approving loans. If you would like to have an informal chat with Sandra, our senior lending consultant, please call our office on 5499 8988.

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We also have a Members Loans Referral Program. If you are a member of MCU and refer a non-member to us for their lending needs and the loan is approved, drawn and se�led, we will reward you! We pay $100 cash, placed into your MCU savings account and a $50 IGA voucher.

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The story behind Colin James – Maleny icon For nearly 20 years, the ice-creamery and fromagerie in Maleny’s main street has been an icon with an international following. But for Colin Cunningham, the man of humble beginnings responsible for establishing the business, the road to success was paved with a lot of hard slog.

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s a 17-year old lad, Colin Cunningham began washing cheese hoops in Kraft’s Kenilworth cheese factory, not a very glamorous job for a man who would go on to become the factory manager before opening his own renowned business – Colin James.

“I started off as a 17-year old in the factory and I learnt practically every job there,” explains Colin. “My job in the ‘60s and ‘70s was relief man because the factory ran seven days a week. So I was the relief pasteuriser, cheese maker, separator operator, whatever jobs were going – the key jobs, I was the one who did them.

Then I worked my way up to foreman of the factory when I was about 21, then chief cheese maker and eventually became manager in the 1980s.”

Little did he know that when he started the job that romance was also on the horizon. Every day, Colin would notice a pretty blonde walking past the factory on her way to the school where she taught home economics. Her mini-skirts and long legs proved irresistible, as did her personality, and in 1973, Colin married Jean who has been by his side ever since.

Until deregulation of the industry in 2000, dairying was a mainstay in the Mary Valley and Maleny surrounds. So when Kraft closed its Kenilworth factory in the late 1980s, it was Colin who, with the help of a local investor, stirred some fellow workers into buying the factory.

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It is an attestation in vision and bravery to those who made that move; Kenilworth still has a cheese factory – one with plenty of tourist pulling power.

With the dairy industry facing its demise, Colin made another bold move in 2001, opening Colin James ice-creamery and fromagerie in Maple Street, Maleny.

“It was at the time when dairy deregulation was coming and people in the industry knew it was going to destroy the industry. Our idea was to try and support Queensland dairy farmers and when we set up the cheese room, we had 25 Australian cheeses in there.”

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“That went to air on a Sunday night and I kid you not, when we opened at 9am the next morning, there were people lined up outside – even on a Monday.”

By 10.30am, they had sold out of the Shadows of Blue (cheese) featured in the program.

WANT TO LOOK YOUR BEST? Colin believes it was this event that really kick-started

“I do see that we’ll probably follow the sort of things they’re doing at Noosa with the nitty gritty producers, hopefully producing really good stuff. I think the potential is definitely here for it.”

If the future fresh produce is as delicious as Colin’s gelatos, we have a lot to look forward to!

tourism in Maleny, though he says Maleny still has a No appointment necessary strong element of country town character.

“Maleny is still a pretty tourist and rural town. The tourists can come here and see a Toyota with two dogs in the back and a few bales of hay. It’s very authentic in my mind.”

 Colin and Jean Cunningham in their ‘going away’ outfits at their 1973 wedding, Kenilworth

Armed with good intentions, Colin and Jean set about establishing the business in what Colin describes as a vibrant town at the time with only three coffee shops. But it was a lot of hard work, he admits.

“The first two-to-three years were pretty tough, but the first six months were really hard because people in Maleny thought we had rocks in our head. They thought it was the coldest bloody joint on the range and you’re opening an ice-cream shop.

The business went on to win countless awards for its products, but in 2015, Colin and Jean decided to retire and sold the business to Maleny Food Co. Since then, the couple have enjoyed travelling, taking their first big overseas trip around the world to visit various family members in Asia, Europe and the USA. They’ve also traversed large tracts of Australia’s outback and are looking forward to more adventures under the big skies.

When asked about the future of the Maleny food trail, Colin sees it growing further because of all the boutique agricultural pursuits in the vicinity.

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Colin started to introduce a wider variety of cheeses, incorporating European brands and flavours.

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Behind the scenes, it was Jean who made sure the service quality matched the levels of the food, training young locals in the art of hospitality as they worked their way through high school and university.

Many of the kids have gone on to successful careers as chefs, while one has even managed what’s reputed to Exclamation be the greatest cheese shop in the world – Neal's Yard – giving. in London.

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WHAT IS PROBATE AND WHEN IS IT NEEDED? Being appointed as Executor of someone’s Will means that you are the person with the primary legal responsibility for the carrying out of the deceased’s wishes as noted in that person’s Will. This ‘administration’ of the deceased’s estate involves winding up the deceased’s affairs and distributing the assets to the entitled beneficiaries.

A source of great confusion to a lot of executors is the topic of Probate, what it means and when and why it is needed.

Probate means that the authenticity of the deceased person’s Will has been proven and confirms the Executor’s authority to administer the estate in accordance with the provisions of the Will. The process of obtaining Probate allows others to object to the Will, and if there are any objections, to determine if the Will is valid, because it is always possible that 1. there was a later Will (which, if valid, would replace the older Will), or 2. the Will was made at a time the deceased was not mentally competent to make a Will, or 3. the Will was the result of fraud, mistake or “undue influence” or 4. the Will was not properly “executed”, or 5. the so-called Will is actually a forgery, or 6. for some other reason the Will is not fully valid.

Obtaining a Grant of Probate means that the court has recognised that the Executor has the right to administer the deceased’s estate and also that the Executor has title to the assets of the deceased in his or her capacity as the legal representative of the estate.

Tove is Easton Lawyers’ full time principal lawyer and also the Hinterland’s longest serving principal lawyer serving since January 2004. She specializes in all commercial law matters as well as wills and estates, leases, partnership and company matters. She has always had a policy of providing the first consultation free of charge. That gives clients peace of mind that they are not up for legal fees before they have even had advice on their questions.

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This month our regular business Q&A is with John Kendall, owner of MALENY COUNTRY ANTIQUES AND COLLECTABLES (Ed note - my favourite place to potter in Maleny!)

John sells everything from pots and pans to antique jewellery to furniture in this treasure trove of a shop!

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Muttaburra in western Queensland. It was quite remote, and I did Distant Ed and School of The Air before boarding school. We talked on a party line which ran to an exchange 120kms from home (anyone down the line could listen in to your phone calls), it was a very different time!

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What made you move to the hinterland?

After a lifetime of droughts, I thought I would give green grass a go.

I had visited this part of the hinterland quite a bit through the years and thought it was a beautiful spot. The landscape and the weather, you can’t really beat it. It’s also close to Brisbane, where I enjoy going a lot, for live music and sport especially.

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How long have you been running Maleny Country Antiques? And what did you do before this?

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I bought the business eight months ago. I was already a dealer with the previous owners, and they asked me if I’d like to buy the business when they left. It’s what I love, so it was the perfect opportunity.

Most of my life I was running a cattle station north of Muttaburra which I owned. I also built and ran a motel in Morven. I also played bass guitar in a punk band, doing the pub circuit in Toowoomba in high school and as a result of being into music I enjoy collecting vinyl. There’s a good collection in the shop now, which is constantly growing!

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Do you have any funny/unusual stories from your work?

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Not specifically but I have sure met some funny characters both in the shop and buying from people.

From the mildly eccentric to the wildly unusual (some may have a similar story haha).

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What do you enjoy the most about your business?

I love antiques, and have been collecting since I could walk in one way or another. I enjoy talking to people, especially fellow collectors.

When I was a kid, you could often find me rummaging in rubbish dumps for old bottles, cast iron pots and various objects - it’s in the blood!

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What does a 'typical' day entail for you?

Googling, reading, drinking coffee, talking and in winter....freezing. Did I mention I was from Muttaburra.

When people come in with objects and antiques, it’s great to find out more about them, and you learn about history and habits from times gone by.

We have people of all ages coming in, and the turnover is fast. If someone is interested in a piece, it’s advisable they buy it sooner rather than later, as things go pretty quickly.

Retro objects are popular at the moment, but also decent furniture as it’s so well made.

I like sourcing unique or original pieces through my work.

Right now, I have some RAF wingflaps (from the ‘50s), which would look good in a bar or man cave. You never know what might appear in here!

This last weekend, now that COVID restrictions have eased a bit, we had one of the busiest weekends since the shop has opened, so I think the situation has made people look at different ways to shop perhaps – to buy local, support local, and not buy cheap mass-made goods.

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If you had to share any advice connected to your business, what would it be?

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Just in general - to the younger generations, if you need furniture...don’t buy new stuff that will last ten years, buy 100-year-old stuff and it will last another 100.

Maleny Country Antiques and Collectables can be found at 7/38 Maple St, Maleny, 4552. Phone: 0427 585 660

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Early Settlers

Full steam ahead!

Cate and Doug Patterson have just completed the Montville History Group's new book, Early Settlers of Hunchy, Razorback, Flaxton and Montville: 1885 to 1914, which they will launch at the July Montville Markets on Saturday July 11.

Mary Valley Rattler General Manager Mike Green is pleased to share that this popular tourist attraction is back on track!

This history captures the challenges 20 early settlers faced and overcame in moving from a more gentle European environment to a vine forest with pockets of sub-tropical jungle, where the lore and practices of northern hemisphere farming proved unhelpful.

It also identifies the tyranny of distance for these communities only six miles from the nearest railhead at Palmwoods. The lack of serviceable roads left these settlers isolated for long periods of time.

Early Settlers is more than a collection of 20 biographies. It acknowledges the connection of the First Nation People to the area and the careless erosion of their rights by the decisions of consecutive colonial governments.

The book also describes the process of gaining and keeping a selection, which was a challenge in itself, and recalls the social activities of a community that had to create its own entertainment. Including some of the stories that have survived the years, this is a fascinating historical read.

“We are excited to let you know that our first steam service will recommence on Saturday July 11 with a special ‘Superheroes’ event train where we will introduce Steam Man! Our volunteers can’t wait to get back to doing what they love, welcoming guests to the Rattler! This will be a great day out for the whole family to reconnect,” Mike said.

The Mary Valley Rattler has seen over 46,000 passengers get on board since commencement of operations in October 2018. At the time of shutdown, the Rattler had increased their schedule from three days a week to running services six days a week and the historic Gympie Station which houses a café, retail space and historic display open seven days a week.

Train schedules and advance bookings (currently required) are available on the website: maryvalleyrattler.com.au

Bumper Swap Meet The Sunshine Coast Antique Car Club (SCACC) is all about the history, restoration, care and preservation of motor vehicles, with a dedicated clubhouse within the Nambour Showgrounds.

All aboard the Mary Valley Rattler!

Maleny Country Antiques & Collectables We pride ourselves on diversity and customer service. With multiple dealers through the shop, we really do have something for every type of collector.

Unfortunately, the SCACC wishes to inform HT readers that the annual Nambour Swap Meet scheduled for July 25 has been cancelled due to current COVID-19 restrictions and the uncertainties associated with this pandemic.

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The Club, however, looks forward to holding a 'bumper' of a Swap Meet on Saturday, July 31, 2021!

The Swap Meet is held under the pavilions and across the ovals at the Nambour Showgrounds, Coronation Avenue, Nambour, with 600 sites available for advanced booking and 300 non-bookable casual sites. For information, please visit scacc.org.au

‘Pride of Workmanship’ Awards The Rotary Club of Maleny is recommencing their Pride of Workmanship Awards this year to provide Opening Hours: for Saturday businesses and organisations with an opportunity and a way to acknowledge and thank employees their 9 -2pm excellence. Given the COVID-19 times, some employees have gone to exceptional lengths to help their managers and businesses in this difficult period.

Nominees for the Pride of Workmanship program will be presented with a special plaque, which has their name engraved on it, in recognition of their achievements.

A dinner will be held at Tranquil Park on August 29 where the recipients will be presented with their plaques.

Nominators will explain the reasons and the achievement behind why each recipient was chosen. This is a great way to publicly recognise their employees for their efforts.

Nominations commence now and the closing date is August 1. Members of the Rotary Club of Maleny will be going around the community, businesses and organisations, giving out nomination forms. As it is impossible to get to everyone, please contact Paulette at paulette.steele@gmail.com if you want a nomination form or more information.

Always interested in buying quality items, drop in or you can call John Tel: 0427 585 660 7/38 MAPLE ST, MALENY QLD 4552 Email: peacewood@bigpond.com

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High Quality Furniture, Antiques & Vintage Collectables, Jewellery, Books, Home Decor, Fine China & Crystalware, Lighting, Gift Lines, Cafe and Art Gallery

OPEN TUE to SAT: 9:00am to 3:00pm Ph 5479 6603 • www.theshedsca.com.au 1/319 Mons Road, Forest Glen

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Address 6 Bunya St. MALENY Phone 07 5494 2013 Web malenyhotel.com.au OPEN Lunch: Mon - Thu 11.30am – 2.30pm Dinner: Mon - Thu from 5.30pm Fri, Sat & Sun: All day dining.

Address Cnr Maleny-Landsborough Rd & Mountain View Rd. MALENY Phone 07 5494 3700 Web www.terraceofmaleny.com OPEN Wed to Sun: Lunch from 11.30am and Dinner from 5:30pm An award winning restaurant with expansive coastal views, specialising in seafood platters using ocean fresh Mooloolaba seafood & locally sourced produce.

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Address 4/6 Little Main St. Palmwoods Phone 0458 270 368 Web FB: “HomeGrownPalmwoods” OPEN Tue - Sat: 7:00am - 11:00am CLOSED Sun and Mon

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Address 313-327 Flaxton Drive FLAXTON Phone 07 5445 7450 Web flaxtongardens.com.au OPEN Mon to Sat: 11am - 6pm for Flaxton@

Address 344 Flaxton Drive FLAXTON Phone 07 5445 7157 OPEN Restaurant: Wed to Sun for Lunch & Dinner Café: Thu to Sun from 8am

Address 1/174 Main St. MONTVILLE Phone 07 5478 5015 Web littlemayespresso.com.au OPEN Daily: 7.00am – 2.00pm CLOSED Wednesday & Thursday

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Celebrate your special occasion with a Flaxton Famous High Tea. Flaxton Gardens brings you a traditionally luxurious High Tea experience with a difference, and an exciting range of themes to suit everyone.

French Dinning at its best. A la carte lunch and dinner. House Special 3 course set menu for $35. NEW express lunch menu (dine in) available.

Situated on Montville’s Main St, Little May sources local and organic produce to give you flavourful food at its best. Enjoy tasty food and specialty coffee while soaking up the village atmosphere. Open for breakfast, lunch, coffee and cake, and Takeaway.

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207 Narrows Rd. MONTVILLE 07 5478 5888 diningonthedeck.com.au Tue to Sun: 8.30am – 4.00pm

Enjoy breakfast, lazy lunches, great coffee & homemade cakes on Secrets Deck with stunning views over Lake Baroon. Groups welcome, why not spoil yourself & book for a gorgeous High Tea. Gallery & accommodation on site. Takeaway Picnics Available.

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Light homemade meals, locally ground. Vincenza aim to provide simple, wholesome and flavoursome We could tell you lots about our delicious food like the coffee. Fri to Sat Nights-Traditional Italian cuisine, food, letting the amazing produce on the coast shine Vegan Soft Pretzel Buns, Free Range Chicken or the Homemade pastas and ravioli. Gluten free pasta and through. A fully stocked bulk room selling all your fact that we make it all in house right down to our aioli. lasagne now available. COME HUNGRY! pantry staples.

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Address Shop 6, 1 Maleny St. LANDSBOROUGH Phone 07 5439 9444 OPEN Mon to Fri: 7am - 3pm Saturday: 7am - 2pm Family Tree Cafe is our family owned & operated cafe born from our love of great coffee & wholesome fresh food. New Menu has All Day Breakfasts, and lots of yummy treats made daily in house from local & organic produce. GF & V options available. Where the food is made with love & customers are family.

Address Crystal Waters CONONDALE 65 Kilcoy Lane, off Aherns Rd. Phone 07 5494 4620 Web FB: “Flowerpot Coffee Shop” OPEN Fri, Sat, Sun & Tue: 9:00am - 2:30pm The Flowerpot Coffee Shop offers a full breakfast & lunch menu, homemade baked goods & good, hot coffee.

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henever we visit Majestic Cinema in Nambour, an advert for DownTown Burger Restaurant always appears, which has my family salivating. Needless to say, it often results in a visit afterwards!

If you’ve never been, then I highly recommend you take a look. The décor is inviting and funky, with wooden tables, exposed brick and decent lighting - such an important part of creating a welcoming atmosphere that I find quite a few restaurants seem to forget.

The burger selection has something for everyone: the Tropical Paradise, with maple bacon, beetroot, fried pineapple and salad; the Clucky Coconut burger, with free-range grilled chicken breast encrusted in almonds and coconut; the Pulled Pork burger, or the Veggie Delight created with housemade falafel, tzatziki, grilled halloumi, tomato relish and salad.

During this difficult period with COVID-19, Downtown’s owner and Nambour local, Cameron Scott says, “There’s no doubt small and local businesses have

had some dark days and many are still struggling, but we have seen a resilient response from the community and local businesses. People have definitely been thinking out of the box in order to survive through COVID! “We took critical measures to ensure strict cleaning and hygiene practices and still adhere to them, as the health of our staff and customers is paramount; because of this we feel comfortable with the changes we are making, inviting customers back in for meals, as well as continuing our takeaway and delivery service.”

It has been met with great happiness by many burger aficionados that the restrictions are easing, as the restaurant is now able to offer dine-in once again from 8am-8pm for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

For those who haven’t sampled breakfast at DownTown yet, the menu is delicious, with savoury or sweet waffles, brekky burgers, smoothies and Shakshuka style eggs on offer - just jump on their Facebook page to see the menu and mouth-watering photos!

DownTown Burger Restaurant is at 99 Currie Street, Nambour, open 8am-8pm, order online and delivery from 4-8pm to Nambour, Burnside and Woombye. Phone: 5441 1587

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Eating out update We have a list here of the updates from the eateries you see in the HT’s Food Drink Dine pages - all are operating using the COVID Safe checklist. We recommend calling the cafes and restaurants you love to visit, to check what they are offering at this time.

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Secrets on the Lake, Montville – Beautiful takeaway picnic baskets, coffee, cakes, selected items off regular menu, more details on the website; restaurant now open, breakfast in three sessions starting from 8.30am, lunches three sessions starting from 11am, phone 5478 5888

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Montville Pizzeria, Montville – Delicious pizzas with fresh ingredients and great flavour combinations, open Tuesday – Sunday, takeaway only, dine-in (not taking bookings) phone 5442 9505

Hotel Maleny, Maleny – New signature winter dishes like beef cheeks or seafood chowder, lunch Monday-Friday 11.30am – 2.30pm, dinner 5.30-8.30pm, Saturday/Sunday all day dining 11.30am – 8.30pm, online ordering, takeaway with free delivery in the Maleny area Wednesday-Sunday, phone 5494 2013 Jen’s Woodfired Pizza, Maleny – Gourmet woodfired pizzas using local and seasonal ingredients, takeaway or eat in for up to 20 people, from July 8 open Wednesday-Sunday, 3.30pm-7.30pm, phone 0847 979535 The Terrace Seafood Restaurant, Maleny – Fresh selection including garlic prawns, Cajun spiced fish, seafood chowder and calamari, open Wednesday – Sunday, 11.30am for lunch and 5.30pm dinner, takeaway menu available, check FB page or to book phone 5494 3700 Purple Palate, Maleny - Free same-day local home deliveries for alcohol orders by credit card, phone 5494 2499 Bistro on Obi, Maleny – Two- or three-course dinner and takeaway, the tempting menu includes mushroom arancini, grass-fed beef eye fillet, roasted pumpkin gnocchi, and warm sticky date pudding, Friday and Saturday nights, from 5.15pm, phone 5429 6543

Mill Street Kitchen, Nambour – Local, organic and wholesome fare, takeaway or dine-in, Monday - Thursday 8am-3pm, Friday 8am – 8pm, Saturday 8am-12pm, phone 5352 3197

Eat @ The Shed, Forest Glen – BYO café serving freshly ground coffee, warm scones, salads, light lunches, cakes and slices, open Tuesday – Saturday, 9am – 3pm, booking recommended, phone 5479 6603

Little May Espresso, Montville – Great coffee, homemade baked sweets and nurturing winter meals, Friday – Tuesday, 7am-2pm, takeaway available and dine-in, phone 5478 5015

Maleny Pie Guy, Maleny – Fantastic fare, free local delivery for a minimum spend of $50, ready-to-bake, baked and ready to reheat or frozen, pies, sausage rolls and pasties, send message via Facebook or to mrjcreative@hotmail.com

DownTown Burger Restaurant, Nambour – Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, delicious and varied selection of burgers for meat, chicken, fish and veggie lovers, please book via Facebook/ website or call ahead, also offering takeaway and delivery service, phone 5441 1587

Family Tree Café, Landsborough – Great coffee, all-day breakfast and delicious fresh food, Monday - Friday 7am-3pm, Saturday 7am-2pm, phone 5439 9444

Homegrown Café, Palmwoods – Open for takeaway and limited dine-outside, 7am-2pm, Tuesday – Saturday for a top-notch breakfast, lunch, drinks and homemade baked goods, phone 0458 270368

Shali’s Cafe and Bakery, Montville - open seven days, 7am2.30pm, takeaway coffee, fresh bread, pies, yummy homemade curries, samosas, wraps and much more, phone 5442 9488

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Delicious gluten-free fare from Husk and Honey, Nambour, one of many hinterland cafes grateful for the slight easing of restrictions

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Flowerpot Coffee Shop, Crystal Waters – Takeaway and sitdown coffees, drinks, brekky, soup, pies, Danish pastries, and other scrumptious eats. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 9am - 2.30pm, phone 5494 4620 Le Relais Bressan, Flaxton – Pre-packed meals to takeaway, two portions to a pack – soup $8, pack of meals $25-$28, also coffee/ cake takeaway, lunch and dinner at the restaurant Wednesday – Sunday, and lunch at the coffee shop 8am-4pm ThursdaySunday, phone 5445 7157 RangeCare Meal Delivery Service – The Barn on Flaxton $10 menu, Le Relais Bressan $25 menu, Café Mapleton $12 per meal, Clouds on Montville $12 meal, The Cottage meals $10 each: for full menus visit rangecare.com.au and click on ‘free meal deals’ details, email Shae admin5@brcg.org.au or phone 07 5445 7044 Flaxton Gardens, Flaxton – Homestyle takeaway meals, such as Shepherd’s Pie, Spaghetti Bolognaise – heat and serve comfort food, freshly prepared, order and pick up Monday - Saturday, 11am- 6pm, High Tea Wednesday - Saturday, 10.30am and 1pm, bookings only, phone 5445 7450 Chadwick’s Kitchen, Nambour – Flavoursome authentic Italian food, with handmade pasta and ravioli, and delicious desserts, Tuesday - Friday 8.30am-3pm, dine-in or takeaway; Friday and Saturday night 5pm-7.30pm, Italian menu takeaway only, phone 0478 719051 Husk and Honey, Nambour – Gluten and grain free, takeaway or dine-in, serving potato pancakes, vegan brekkie, scrumptious muffins, excellent coffee and much more, phone 5441 3510

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Visit the website www.pomodoras.com.au for store locations on where you can buy your favorite flavour

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back to nature

In the Wild

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with Spencer Shaw

A chill in the air

ell, if this damp weather continues, it looks like we’re in for a cool winter on the Blackall Range and nothing quite beats a good wood fire to warm you up (and dry you out). This brings us to yet another great reason for planting trees - you can cut them down... (wait for it... I haven’t quite lost it yet!) and turn them into environmentally sustainable heating fuel!

Even a 10-year-old tree can provide lots and lots of firewood and if you’re on a few acres there is no reason why you can’t plan to supply all your own firewood within a decade or so. One great surprise for you all may be that Broad Leaf Privet (Ligustrum lucidum) makes good firewood - it’s one of my favourites, burns hot, clean and splits well.

There is a trick to making young wood such as Broad Leaf Privet into good firewood and that is, that the cut wood

generally quite separate from these days.

should be stacked and kept dry to season for 6-12 months. This allows the timber to dry thoroughly to make good clean burning fuel.

At Forest Farm we’re already harvesting our own firewood from just 10-year-old trees.

To ensure sustainability we continue to plant more trees for firewood such as River She Oak - Casuarina cunninghamiana, Black Wattle - Acacia melanoxylon, Flooded Gum – Eucalyptus grandis and many more trees to provide multiple uses including, cattle fodder, soil improvement, windbreak, firewood and of course habitat for wildlife!

One of the great aspects of growing, cutting and seasoning your own firewood is that it reconnects you directly to nature through physical activity. Our ability to harvest the resources we need to survive in a sustainable manner, is a direct connection with nature, a connection that we are

Firewood production can be an integral part of your acreage plan and as electricity costs increase we may see it become an increasingly attractive option. Purely financially growing your own firewood looks good, but then there are all the other benefits such as those listed above in our timber plantings. It’s a win-win, just a little bit of hard work involved, which is also a great way of warming up in the winter months.

Harvestable timber lots are also a great way of protecting the edge of remnant forest, as they extend the shade and canopy of the forest edge. Planting, harvesting, preparing and sharing your own timber fuel is a great healthy way of keeping warm, and restoring our native forests and habitat.

Come visit Forest Heart for the tubestock that you can grow your own firewood with, it’s a great time for planting.

Forest Heart Local Native Plant Nursery

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3. Switch it off! By reducing your electricity consumption (and your power bill) you are helping the planet. Also swap to LEDs, which use roughly 75% less energy than halogen light bulbs and last up to 10 times as long.

4. Repair items, if you can, to avoid landfill - and we have the Maleny Fix-It Cafe and Eric the Ready in Palmwoods to help you, for starters!

5. Pick up litter - it’s all of our responsibility to keep waste, plastic, wires and the rest from our waterways, oceans, trees and wildlife.

Charcoal coloured pebbles surrounded by baby mondo amongst stone pavers create the checkerboard effect.

6. Recycle everything you can and buy recycled - two great ways to help with sustainable living, along with choosing plastic-free whenever possible.

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Natural Regeneration

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hose of us who have been revegetating our properties for some years are seeing more seedling trees as part of the understorey. These have come from our own trees that are now old enough to flower and set seed or have been carried in by birds.

Occasionally we might dig up the young seedlings and pot them on for future use (free trees) or just let them grow and sort out the competition themselves as time passes. Either way, it’s very encouraging to know that our efforts are literally bearing fruit.

it’s not surprising that birds drop the nicely cleaned fruit, probably with some fertiliser, in the revegetation where it readily germinates.

Because of the generally fleshy nature of rainforest fruit and seeds, they don’t store readily for future use. Wattle seed on the other hand, with its hard, dry coat can last for a long time in storage so it won’t matter if we’re not ready to plant at the time we collect it. If you have fruit or seed to spare do contact Barung where the species can be verified, and rainforest seed planted straight away by the nursery volunteers.

A recent CSIRO publication ‘Australian Rainforest Seeds: A Guide to Collecting, Processing and Propagation’ will be an invaluable addition to our libraries and will help us all in our efforts to better understand the ecology and behaviour of our local trees.

It is of course a good idea to learn to recognise particular species as some can look very alike. Our locally native palm, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana is very similar to the Alexandra palm, Archontophoenix alexandrae from north east Queensland.

On another note, we’ve passed the shortest day and while July is usually a cold month, the early wattles are in flower, especially closer to the coast, and buds are opening on the blue flowers of Hovea acuminata. Spring is coming!

Early wattle

Barung Native Plant Nursery Phone 5494 3151 Porters Lane Nursery opening times: Wednesday - Friday - 9am -3pm, Saturday 9am - 12pm

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Here are ten top tips to help you on your way:

2. Choose locally made products and produce, and look at the labels - where was it made, what is it made from, how far did it travel to reach you, has the company been involved in exploitation of people, animals or the earth’s resources?

This beautiful extended living area features a raised garden bed with an ergonomically designed slatted seating area built into the planter box. Plantings of Japanese Maples, English box, Cassuarina cousin it, and Ficus pumila to adorn the walls.

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We know we need to avoid continually taking from nature, so as to maintain an ecological balance on our planet. So how can we be more sustainable, and is it easier than we think?

1. Think before you buy - make a checklist before you shop, so you only buy what you need.

Before and After

The distinguishing feature is a whitish bloom on the backs of the foliage of the latter. It is so widely grown in urban gardens,

Sustainable solutions

7. Fertilise your garden organically - chemicals you use on your land can end up in the water system eventually, so organic is the best choice. Check out Forest Heart Nursery or Maleny Hardware and Rural Supplies for options and advice.

8. Back away from balloons - sorry to be a party pooper, but those things are constantly killing animals who mistake them for food, whether on land or in the sea - just research sea turtles and balloons to see the damage they have caused.

There may be biodegradable options these days, but please research before you buy - the ecosystem needs your support!

9. Use compostable bags for clearing up dog poo wrapping it in plastic makes no sense, when what’s inside is organic and can break down into the earth naturally.

10. It’s clear that buying less stuff is more a sustainable choice, so find multi-purpose natural products for you and your home, which mean less packaging and less toxic chemicals. The Maple Street Co-op, Kunara in Forest Glen and The Source Bulk Foods are great places to look, and there are many more hinterland businesses who are thinking of the planet in their products and practices. Let’s support them.

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back to nature

Feathered friends... or foes?

by PAUL FRASER

numbers have been in significant decline, something that would have been rejoiced in the past.

Whilst some of the introduced birds have been accepted by many naturalists as having minimal environmental impact, there are still some that are of major concern.

Two species that fall into that category are the Common Starling, and the Common (Indian) Myna. Both of these compete aggressively with native birds and continue to increase their range.

In some parts of the country, native species, especially hollow nesting birds, have been almost totally displaced by these more dominant introduced species. Many local authorities recognise this and have trapping programs in place.

There is always the debate that it’s not the fault of the introduced species however, my view is that it’s not the fault of our precious native birds either, and they should be protected whenever possible.

All images by Paul Fraser

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ird species can be classified in terms of their presence at a particular place, at a particular time, as being migrant, vagrant or resident.

A migrant, or migratory species travels from some part of the world to spend time in another part of the world, usually on a regular seasonal basis. Examples in our area include the Spangled Drongo, and most of the Cuckoo species. Down on the coast it includes most of the wader/shore bird species, many of which migrate from places like Siberia for our summer.

A vagrant is one that may turn up at a location where it would not normally be seen in any season.

Unfortunately, it often means that it is a migratory species (heading somewhere else) that has become lost or blown off-course in a storm.

A recent example of a vagrant is a Kentish Plover that has been seen (by numerous birders now) on a sandbar in the Noosa River. It is my understanding that this is only the second ever confirmed sighting of a Kentish Plover in Australia.

A resident species is one that is present in an area all year round. These will be the native birds that we see frequently, and often take for granted, regardless of the fact that they are often unique and beautiful. In our area resident species include Rosellas, Lorikeets, Cockatoos, Butcherbirds, Fairywrens, Bowerbirds, and many more.

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Another group of birds are the non-native or introduced species. These species don’t occur here naturally, but were introduced, either intentionally or accidentally, and have become established as resident breeding populations.

Some of the introduced species that we see on the range include Spotted Dove, House Sparrow, Common Starling, Nutmeg Mannikin and Common (aka Indian) Myna (not to be confused with the native Noisy Miner).

Introduced species that have become established in other parts of Australia include the Common Blackbird, European Goldfinch and European Greenfinch.

There are also examples of Australian native species (including, but not restricted to birds) being introduced to areas outside of their natural range, and becoming an environmental pest.

Some of the introduced species have now been established here for more than a century. Some species appear to have an almost insignificant environmental impact, and have become so familiar over time, that they are now endeared by some people.

with Tony Wootton tree surgeon TONY WOOTTON Tree Surgeon is our local arborist and author, meeting the Hinterland's tree needs since 1996

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SOMETIMES feel like one of the luckiest people alive!

I am in a unique position where people have been asking me to help them with their trees for the last 24 years. This means that I now get to drive around the Maleny Plateau, one of the most picturesque places on the planet, and continually observe how these giant, gentle beings have responded to my tender ministrations, over a period spanning decades.

There is something about the passage of time, and how that relates to the life cycle of trees that lends gravity the simple pleasure of observing these magnificent organisms as I drive around. It is amazing to watch them evolve and flourish and to see how my sometimes remarkably simple remedial actions, like removing dead and diseased wood, affects their continuing development.

A good example is the House Sparrow. Introduced to Australia in the 1860s, it has become established in cities and towns across the eastern half of Australia. In the 1960s, some local authorities became so concerned about the House Sparrow that a bounty was paid for both the bird, and its eggs.

However, in more recent years, major concerns have been raised in some places because House Sparrow

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It feels incredible to know that my actions have affected, and sometimes saved, the lives of these woody mammoths, and that those actions have been stored in the tree’s branches and tissues as an indelible record of that days often quite exhilarating events.

What’s really exciting is that I now have a team of wonderful young people who assist me in this work, and we all learn and grow together through our work in nature, as we continue to work with and manage the treescape of the Plateau.

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NEW BOOK, NEW CONNECTION Marg Gibbs with her new children’s story, Jasper’s Jumbled Up Words

Author Marg Gibbs has watched her latest story unfold and come to life through the pandemic. The 32-page picture book is based on the author’s twin grandchildren, who at two love to babble and speak in their own language.

A gentle and sensitive book it’s about persistence, self-confidence, language development and family relationships.

Jasper’s Jumbled up Words, written

by M J Gibbs and illustrated by Emma Stuart shows that a young boy longs to be understood.

In the story, Jasper, who is a toddler, gets frustrated with communicating to his family. As Mum says in the story, “your words will come soon.”

When an incident with the chooks causes Jasper some stress, he runs into his mum’s arms, endeavouring to speak out his emotions. Throughout the story, the use of sound effects, onomatopoeia help to enliven Jasper’s communication.

Marg says, “I hope this book encourages positive experiences in communication from birth to school age. Gestures, sounds, new words and fluency can develop at a child’s own level.”

Jasper’s Jumbled up Words sensitively deals with the difficulties surrounding language development and offers children, parents and caregivers hope.

This book is coming out soon ($19.95) and you can contact Marg via her website: mjgibbs.com.au. You can buy a signed copy at the Mapleton Country Markets, Saturday July 25.

Don’t forget to write!

A reminder to all who love to write between the ages of 10 and 17, send in your short story to the HT by July 31 for the chance to win $250, an HT front cover shoot, your story published, a framed certificate, a Little Book Nook voucher, and a chance to learn some barista skills with Montville Coffee (or gift the experience to someone you know who LOVES a good coffee).

MUSIC-FILLED MARKET

 Shaye and Lee Hardisty by Ketakii Jewson-Brown

The historic Mapleton Hall and grounds has served and supported the community and surrounds for over a century, having been established in 1916, and one of the many ways it does this is through the popular and characterful monthly market.

The Mapleton Hall Country Markets feature fresh local produce, olives, honey, speciality teas, sourdoughs

and croissants, bunya nut pesto, macadamias, jams and chutneys, jewellery, plants, timber kitchenware and furniture, crafts, art, clothing and bric-a brac. At the RSL Cottage, hot off the barbeque, they have their monthly sausage sizzle.

You can also enjoy mouth watering waffles with seasonal fruit, maple syrup, cream or ice cream, while savouring

a barista-made coffee or tea under the trees while listening to live entertainment this month from Lee and Shaye Hardisty.

Shaye and Lee are Mapleton locals, birthing and raising their kids on the ridge. Both are avid banjo lovers and can often be heard serenading the neighbours or their chickens from their porch.

During lockdown, aside from rearranging everything in their house and their garden, they have both been working on new musical projects. They are bringing to life a roving musical duo of banjo, sax, and vocal harmonies.

Shaye is designing new costumes for them to wear and Lee has been hatching new plans of making the duo portable enough to rove at festivals, markets and events.

Lee is also working on a new solo album with a whole stack of musical instruments and new songs. Watch this space for news on its eventual release!

Come and enjoy the atmosphere on Saturday July 25, from 8am - 12 noon.

Contact Paula: 0419 726 603 or email countrymarket. mapleton@gmail.com

BACK ON THE BOARDS AT LIND LANE 

Volunteer Bonnie Schultz demonstrates the special Gold Class service to director Joy Hinckley

The Lind Theatre Nambour will stage a special limited capacity season of the much-loved play Love Letters, commencing July 17-26.

President Glenda Campi said the response to the announcement has been met with delight by Lind regulars. With only 20 seats per show, the Gold Class Pass will offer complimentary wine and cheese to your very own personalised viewing area for $25.

Front of House Manager Bonnie Schultz said the theatre volunteer team was confident that patrons could enjoy a safe and enjoyable night out. Family, and households may sit together, while we continue to observe the COVID Safety Guidelines, including regular sanitising.

Love Letters begins when Andrew Makepeace Ladd III accepts an invitation to Melissa Gardner's birthday party. Melissa writes a thank-you note and a romantic friendship and correspondence destined to last for almost half a century is born.

Staged uniquely with a change of actors for every performance, and by different directors who will present their own interpretation.

For more information, check lindlane.com.au or phone 1300 732 764.

Do you feel like writing about how these last few months have been? Or perhaps an adventure you’ve imagined (or had), or a strange dream you can turn into a story. We’d love to read your words, just send up to 600 words (it’s okay if it runs over) and share your writing with us!

Email: editor@hinterlandtimes.com.au

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FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Crystal Waters Market community-run, upcycled items, jewellery, organic veges, cakes, plants, honey, seedlings, hearty food, sourdough bakery, great coffee, live music and a warm welcome. 5494 4620

SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Witta Growers Markets - 7:30am-12:00pm 50+ stalls, this vibrant market has everything from fresh local produce to gourmet food, quality art and craft, live music, hot food and coffee. Ph: 0408 034 570

FOURTH SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

Nambour Village Square Market Thursdays 9am -2pm

Montville Growers and Makers Market - 7:30am to 12:00pm

Mapleton Country Markets - 8am-12:00pm

Nambour Village Square Market is a small, local community market supporting local vendors selling fruit & veg, plants, seedlings, handmade kids wear, jewellery, candles and homewares.

Perfect gifts for everyone. Stalls 0402 326 858

Piping hot pancakes, buskers, genuine locally grown food, handmade craft, barista made coffee, under historic fig trees, profits maintain our Village Hall. Charlotte: 0412 521 109

Local Produce, Handmade Gifts, Bric-a brac, Fashions, Plants, Wood, Jewellery, Olives, Food Stalls, Coffee Van, Live Music, inside & outside Mapleton Hall. Free Onsite parking.

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Arts Connect Inc. (ACI) is a not-for-profit organisation based in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, who organise annual events such as Sculpture on the Edge, open studios and artist workshops.

New members are always welcome – visit artsconnectinc.com.au.

The HT regularly shares a profile from an ACI member, and this month it’s Joanne Bingham.

The thread running through each new medium is one of quality and consistency, each one lending itself to new and innovative techniques.

“Coloured pencils and graphite can be layered, blended and used with other media to produce a wide range of textures – particularly suited to fur and eyes. Pen and ink allows for spontaneity and definition, bringing a contemporary and illustrative finish to pictures.”

Joanne lives in Maleny with her family which includes two beautiful English Springer Spaniels called Rosie and Missy, and two Burmese cats called Jeffers and Ellie. She finds that the peace of the hinterland hills is very conducive to creativity and the arts, and the arts community is supportive and inclusive to artists at all levels and genres.

More information and a gallery of her work can be seen on her website joannebingham.com

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aving enjoyed a successful career in the United Kingdom as an artist and illustrator, Joanne has been building her reputation within Australia as an accomplished and experienced artist. Although she specialises in animals, her paintings have included such diverse subject matter as aircraft, food, landscapes and portraits.

“I began my art career in watercolour – learning through mistakes and successes, honing my skills, and trying different brands of paint and papers to achieve the most lifelike and realistic portraits that I could,” shared Joanne.

“The discovery of the versatility of coloured pencils was exciting, and I am still pushing their boundaries with every new picture to find out what they can do!”

 A familiar sight across the Range, captured by Jo

 Missy by Jo Bingham

The Hinterland Times newspaper is very excited to announce the second year of our award,

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YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR OVER $1000 WORTH OF PRIZES For 2020, entrants can choose any subject!

The choices are limitless. Fact or fiction, humorous or serious, any genre of prose is acceptable.

Age limit: 10 – 17 years. Word limit: 600 words.

Please send submissions to editor@hinterlandtimes.com.au with your name, contact details, age and story title on page 1, and the submission on page 2 onwards.

Closing date for entries July 31, winners announced in the September edition of HT. (The HT judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.)

Winner $250, piece published in the announcing edition of the HT along with front cover, framed certificate, Little Book Nook voucher and barista coaching session with Montville Coffee

Two Runners Up $100 each, front cover with the winner, pieces published in subsequent editions of the HT, Little Book Nook voucher, framed certificate, and barista coaching session with Montville Coffee

Three Highly Commended

Pieces published in subsequent editions of the HT Montville Coffee is offering one-on-one coaching for the winner and two runners up with an experienced barista trainer, valued at $235! Learn the key elements of producing a consistently great tasting coffee, which includes using the espresso machine and proper milk texturing - valuable training for a future job, or just for home.

A big thank you to our sponsors this year: Western Avenue Floral Design for their generous donation to the prize money, The Little Book Nook for their vouchers and Montville Coffee for the valuable training experience!

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Letters

LETTERS, LEUNIG AND LIGHT RELIEF Relax, read a few letters, enjoy a crossword and cartoon, and maybe put pen to paper (finger to keyboard) yourself!

We would love you to share your thoughts and experiences with us and HT readers. Email: editor@hinterlandtimes.com.au or write to PO Box 818, Maleny, Qld, 4552. Please include your name, email/address and location. Letters may be edited a little if space is tight. As we are a monthly, please be aware we are unable to print date-sensitive letters.

Losing bush means losing birds

Veterans deserve Smart Pups

Two brief stories of Queensland endemic birds. The first starts 400 million years ago in Gondwanaland where trees that we in Australia call Southern Beeches first developed. These trees live and belong in rain forests. Forests that were never meant to burn.

Things have been rough for Smart Pups during COVID-19 but we are still there, breeding, training (and feeding) our smart pups for our children in need, but now we are also providing assistance dogs for our deserving Veterans. So, whether you host a collection box at the checkout in your store, or as a consumer you fill it with your change, donate online or just spread the awareness… I say THANK YOU… it is sincerely appreciated.

The devastating bushfire late last year on the Queensland/ N.S.W. border burnt Southern Beeches, but also destroyed the habitat of the already endangered Rufous Scrub Bird, whose existence on this earth now hangs by the proverbial toenail.

400 million years and it now comes to this!

Not only are rain forests burning, but bushfires are now so intense that the small pockets of bird refuges are also being destroyed. In this last season of bushfires 50% (or more) of the habitat of 60 species of endangered birds was destroyed.

The second story is about the small, beautiful Blackthroated Finches, which I used to call Black-hearted Finches and kept a pair in my aviary when I was 11 years old growing up in Melbourne.

It is estimated that there are 800 of these magnificent birds left in the wild. Their numbers are falling because they are losing their habitat in central North Queensland, mainly to coal mining. We have Australia’s National Environment Act to protect them. Now 775 development proposals have requested permission to clear parts of the Black-throated Finch habitat. How many have been successful? 774… Only one was knocked back.

Now the Adani Mine wants an additional 9,500 hectares of this bird’s key habitat and of course the Queensland and Federal Governments have approved this disastrous proposal.

Thanks for the laugh!

What a great poem from Kath Fisher in the June edition! It led me to think that perhaps she could design the last two lines to fit almost any age group.

I am now ancient and inclined to dunk my Milk Arrowroot biscuits in warm milk, wear tartan slippers and forget where I left my teeth! For me the age of 40 was way back when the earth was young! To make this great piece of verse relevant to those who are still vertical of my generation perhaps the last two lines could change from:

“You ought to thinking of writing your will Cos forty is here and you’re over the hill!”

To:

“When you turn seventy then’s time to worry Not just over the hill but stuck in the gully!”

I loved it Kath, please keep them coming. It truly made me laugh and brightened my day!

Angus Richard, Montville

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I write in response to the letter from Julian Sutton in the recent Hinterland Times (June 2020). I spent all my working life in telecommunications and related fields. I have experienced radio frequency burns, the warmth of radio energy in a hand, holding a 40-watt fluorescent tube alight while it was powered by radio energy, etc.

So, I know what electromagnetic radiation can do. Let me make some observations.

1. 5G, mobile telephones, etc., produce electromagnetic Terry Clark radiation (i.e. EMR), not nuclear radiation.

Smart Pups Volunteer, Woombye 2. We are all bathed in EMR from the sun. EMR is just light on

Peter Cockram, Maleny

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a different frequency (as are X-rays and radiant heat).

3. Radiant energy drops as a function of the square of the distance from the radiator. So, if there’s a certain energy at one distance, it will be only a quarter at double the distance, a sixteenth at four times, and so on. This means it drops very quickly as you get away from the transmitter.

4. People who ask for absolute proof of its harmlessness (a negative) are asking the impossible and are being disingenuous or mischievous.

So, as noted above, it can “cook” you if there’s enough power and at the “right” frequency (which is why microwave ovens work at 2450MHz to target water molecules).

All the research I have seen (not that much) seems focused on heat effects (Try the EMF Forum on the net as well as material put out by ARPANSA). Basically, this looks to see at what power density level there is observable damage to tissue.

Standards have been set (and revised as evidence suggests) to ensure our safety and mostly the levels we are exposed to are an order of magnitude lower than these or less. Engineers therefore design radio systems to work within these parameters and usually there’s only just enough power radiated in the direction of the receiver to ensure reliable communication. This level will be determined by how weak a signal the receiver can handle along with the gain of the receiver’s aerial (think of it as the size of the receiver’s dish).

So systems between two fixed points can use less power than mobile systems because they direct the energy mostly at the receiver. 5G systems may try to do this to some degree by detecting the direction of the mobile handset whereas older mobile systems simply direct their radiation slightly downward in all or general directions (horizontally). (This also means you may be exposed to less energy near a tower than, say, a couple of hundred metres away depending on terrain, and more energy from your mobile phone or home WiFi network near your head or face.)

I think it would be fair to say that our safety from heating effects is assured as far as towers are concerned. I’m less certain about the phones we put up against our heads or our home WiFi systems.

Having said all that (and I could explain more), there may be other, probably rare, situations which might affect us.

For example, the energy may be reflected from a number of surfaces to focus on us (imagine a shaving mirror in the sun); or the electric field between two adjacent points in space (between your ears, say) may experience a very short peak as all the radiation we are exposed to conspires to come into synchronisation there for an instant. That will be virtually impossible to prove or replicate.

Similarly, there may be structures within our biology that could resonate at certain frequencies which 5G may produce briefly. Again, impossible to prove. And there may be aspects of particular people which might make them susceptible to some effect - say a resonant cavity in a tooth (working like an organ pipe). I can think of a few other possibilities in this vein.

Would you forego the benefits of 5G, etc., for such rare downsides? I doubt it unless you happened to be the one affected.

I hope that clears things up.

Karl Tietze, Maleny Please note, the $15,000 donation mentioned in last month's Golf Programs Australia Inc. feature story was a federal grant from Ted O'Brien MP and Stronger Communities - gratefully accepted by the GPAI team.

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SPIDERY OBSERVATIONS The stars glimmered like diamonds; the moon was a ball of light, Like a ballad the sound of the insects echoed their songs in the night; My work for the day now was over, as I on my veranda reclined, It was time to relax in Maleny with a cheese and a glass of red wine.

When suddenly down swung a big spider, truly an incredible sight, His eight hairy legs so close to my nose it made me jump up with a fright, My cheese went flying upwards; my red did splash and spill, As the spider – I named him Harry – began to show me his skill.

Four strands he spun horizontal, swinging by just one thread, These were to be the foundation upon which he would build his web; With speed, he then moved in circles, clockwise he moved to the right, Each circle becoming much smaller, the centre now well in his sight.

Harry was a hard worker, who did not stop for a break, Kept going until he had finished, two hours and a half it did take, His web was well positioned, and covered a large track of space, It was a beautiful work of perfection that hung like a silken lace.

It was obvious that Harry was clever, because he had a plan, He showed me his skill as the factory, the architect, and artisan; His body produced the substance that his legs weaved into a thread The design of his finished product an artistic spider’s web.

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Like man; poor Harry also labours, just for his snack or a bite, His might be a fly, a moth or an ant, or some other trapped in its flight.

As I relaxed with my red in Maleny, I wished Harry, ‘Bon appétit!’

Spiders are such hard workers and deserve every morsel they eat.

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ommunity care has always been at the core of RangeCare’s services.

When COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing practices hit the hinterland, their ability to deliver that high standard of care was tested.

Newly appointed CEO Greg Manion saw the immediate financial implications that the pandemic had on local businesses, as well as isolated and vulnerable members of the community, and took action by expanding on RangeCare’s traditional meals service.

“We were able to adapt our meal service to incorporate meals from local businesses - The Barn on Flaxton, Le Relais Bressan, Café Mapleton and The Glasshouse Clouds Montville - and expand our delivery capabilities thanks to the kindness of our dedicated volunteers,” said Jess Garey, Marketing Officer at RangeCare.

RangeCare have now taken a further positive step by creating a ‘pay it forward’ service. For a limited time, if you purchase three meals or more both you and the community benefit. You will receive one complimentary meal from The Cottage Range, and RangeCare will also donate one meal to a vulnerable community member.

The impact of this simple act of kindness cannot be overstated.

Tracie O’Grady, client and recipient of donated meals said, “The meals took me back to home and when I could cook my family meals”.

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Ayurvedic Health Advice To Suit You

Staying Strong

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e have just experienced an unprecedented time of staying at home and keeping a distance from our normal social interactions to stave off the spread of Covid 19. While this has in part kept the spread of the virus at bay, there is still talk of the second wave of infection and fears of what will happen in the future when other viruses emerge. Will we go scurrying into our homes and have to shut down our businesses every time a new epidemic appears?

Ayurveda takes a holistic approach to the disease process.

Instead of isolating the strain of disease and attempting to come up with vaccines to control the spread, Ayurveda looks at strengthening the physiology so that the disease does not take hold.

Wendy Rosenfeldt is a teacher of Transcendental Meditation and an Ayurveda practitioner

There is a theory of immunity in Ayurveda called "seed and land" theory.

The body is analogous to the land and infection or "bugs" are like seeds. If the body is filled with toxins and lacking in vitality then the infection will find fertile ground for spreading, just as land that is fertile will sprout many seeds. If digestion and immunity are strong, then the seeds of infection will just not be able to take hold.

I am not suggesting that we should blindly put our faith in just boosting our immunity and then taking no other precautions, but it is worth putting some attention on the role of prevention.

If our digestion is weak, we have a poor diet or we are exposed to toxins in the environment, we develop ama.

Ama means anything that has not been properly digested. Ama creates blockages in the physiology and disrupts the body’s natural intelligence.

The physiology is remarkably good at repairing itself and maintaining balance but if it is overloaded by impurities it will struggle and eventually fall ill.

Some simple tips for reducing ama are: Optimising the digestive system.

This can be done by eating your main meal of the day, or heavier foods such as animal products and sweet food, at lunchtime. Eating a big meal in the evening puts a strain on the digestive and metabolic processes. If you have a lighter meal in the evening you will notice that you feel more refreshed and lighter when you wake up.

Eat freshly prepared food especially vegetables and avoid leftovers.

Vegetables are bursting with vitamins

and eaten in their whole form contain many balancing properties. A poor diet can never be rectified with a handful of supplements.

Modern science tends to isolate the active ingredient in a plant. This approach compromises the synergies that exist among organic components.

Bioflavanoids, found in fresh fruit and vegetables, were originally dismissed in favour of artificial vitamins. They have since been found to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumor and antiallergic properties.

Food can lose its intrinsic intelligence the longer it sits around in the fridge. It is not as if that bag of carrots will remain perfectly nutritional until the magical use by date. Cooked food declines in goodness even more quickly. Food that has been cooked, refrigerated and reheated can create ama no matter how organic and fresh it was to begin with.

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Sip boiled, hot water throughout the day. Just as washing the dishes with warm water will help to dissolve the greasy deposits of food, drinking warm water will assist in dissolving the sticky, blockages lodged in the physiology.

Email wendy.rosenfeldt@tm.org.au or call 0438 507 188.

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COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING continued

Anthony Brown Acupuncture Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner.

Member (fellow) AACMA. Anthony has 35 years clinical experience, 30 of them here on the Sunshine Coast and Hinterland.

26 Coral St, Maleny Ph: 5435 2555

Louisa D Pearce – Peer Specialist & Social Worker Compassionate, holistic help for people with complex mental health challenges, including suicidality, depression, schizophrenia, BPD and DID. NDIS rebates available. Ph: 0490 165 654 www.louisadpearce.com.au

ASTROLOGY Chirone Shakti – Stargazer Astrology Insight into your relationships, family issues, spiritual purpose, life transitions, and your year ahead. Counselling astrologer with spiritual focus. Astrology courses and workshops. Ph: 0421 814459, www. chironeshakti.com.au

HAIRDRESSERS AND BARBERS Nellies Creative Hair Design Cut and Colour specialists.

Nellie, Annette and Jenny offer you the opportunity to have exceptional hair using great product at fantastic prices.

21 Coral St Maleny – Ph: 0438 785 443

BEAUTY THERAPISTS Emmanuelle’s Beauty For all your beauty needs, facials, lash extensions, lash lift, waxing and more contact Em on 0410 670 519. Monday-Friday, evening appointments also available.

3/66 Maple St Maleny.

BOWEN THERAPISTS 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 Christian Dunham Gentle yet powerful and suitable for all ages, Bowen Therapy stimulates the body to rebalance, promoting healing, pain relief and the recovery of energy. Ph: 0448 303 013 www.christiandunham.net Kathy Blackburn Dip. 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: 5429 6180

CHIROPRACTORS Maple Chiropractic Maleny Dr. Stephen Lowe, Dr. Samuel Lowe, Dr. Catherine Metcalf, Dr. Rebel Hungerford Concession, family rates & HICAPS available.

Gentle, effective care for the whole family.

45 Maple Street, Maleny. Ph. 5494 3322 www.maplechiropractic.com.au 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 Dr John Pirie Chiropractor & Applied Kinesiologist Gentle hands on chiropractic using applied kinesiology. Over 30 years in private practice. Families welcome. Mon, Tues, Thur 2:00 – 5.30pm; Fri 9:00am -12noon 19 Coral Street Maleny, Ph: 5435 2155 www.siaholistichealth.com.au

COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING 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. Ph: 0409 564 276, ruth@ruthdonnelly.com.au, www.heartmindconnections.org Astrid de Ruiter – Psychotherapist & Certified Mindfulness Teacher Offering quality mindfulness training, groups or individuals and mindfulness and body based counselling and psychotherapy. Caring, down to earth, effective with more than 12 yrs experience. Ph: 0401 624 757 www.sunshinecoastmindfulness.com.au

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NATUROPATHS Laurel Hefferon Naturopath & Herbalist BHSc Colonic Hydrotherapist & RN. Specialising in detoxification & healthy weight-loss, gut & digestive restoration, stress reduction, fatigue and post-viral syndromes. Comprehensive, individual and indepth approach to addressing the cause of illness and restoring optimal health, wellness & vitality.

Ph: 0401 750 255 www.awakeningcentre.com.au Pascale Richy Naturopath BHSc Herbal and Nutritional Medicine, Dietary and Life style Coaching. Optimise health and wellness with an evidence based, holistic and inclusive approach. Hormones, gut, weight, immune and mental health issues.

Ph: 0423 615 413 E: info@pascalerichynaturopath.com

NDIS REGISTERED PROVIDER RangeCare Offering in-home and respite care services to support independent living. Our tailor-made services are available to everyone in the community. We can deliver your home care package. Ph: 5445 7044 Visit: www.rangecare.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 4101 E: malenyhomeopathy@gmail.com

HYPNOTHERAPY Mary (McGrory) CrawfordPowerful Transformations Member of AHA/NRHA – Specialising in grief, depression and anxieties, quit smoking, weight loss, now introducing Past Life Regression (Michael Newton Institute). Ph Mary 0457 230 952 www.powerfultransformations.com.au E: mary@powerfultransformations8.com Christian Dunham Specialising in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, a combination of clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety, PTSD, phobias and other chronic conditions.

Free initial consultation. Ph: 0448 303 013 www.christiandunham.net

MASSAGE THERAPISTS The Stillpoint - Katie White I am delighted to announce that The Stillpoint is open again – observing all recommended Health & Safety guidelines. Please phone me on 0400 722 786 to make an appointment.

26 Coral St Maleny.

Health Ascension Massage - S’raya Professional therapist specialising in Remedial Massage with Hot Stones. General postural aches and pains, sporting injuries. Online bookings and HF Rebates available. 0413 158 555 Reviews on www.tripadvisor/healthascension www.healthascension.com.au The Wellness Haven Restoring health and wellness physically, emotionally, mentally & spiritually.

Remedial massage & deep relaxation massage, kinesiology, reiki & sound therapy, naturopathy.

Appointments & walk-ins welcome. Bookings via 0466 018 137 or www.wellnesshaven.com.au

MEDICAL CENTRE Ochre Health Medical Centre Offering onsite Doctors, experienced nursing staff and Allied health services.

Appointments available Mon- Fri 8.30am- 5 pm and in Maleny Sat 9am-12pm.

Ph Maleny: 5494 2388; Ph Montville: 5442 9144 Book online at www.ochrehealth.com.au

SUPPORT2U-local community business providing disability supports NDIS Reg No. 4050054299 Providing high quality care for disability support, community participation and customised outings for your needs.

M: 0438 256 098 E: admin@support2u.biz www.support2u.biz

OPTOMETRIST Hammond Optometry Deborah & Stephen Hammond are proud to be local, independent eye healthcare providers servicing the Hinterland since 1999. Focused on quality eyecare and eyewear for you and your family, giving your eye health and vision the best personalised attention it requires and deserves. 44 Lowe St Nambour Ph: 5476 2333

PERSONAL TRAINER, FITNESS, DANCE Get Active!!!

Group Fitness & Personal Training Join me for a fun affordable and social way to achieve a fit and healthy body. All fitness levels welcome, fully qualified trainer. ‘Your Goals Are My Goals’. Rachel Ph: 0423 618 945 Email: rachel.lockman@yahoo.com.au

PSYCHOLOGY Sheenah Turnbull – Clinical Psychologist Counselling for depression, anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, relationships, adjustment to life changes, children, youth, adults.

Medicare rebates Sunshine Coast Hinterland and Surrounds – 0417 075 172 E: sheenahturnbull@gmail.com Hinterland Hypnotherapy - Psychologist Quantum Consciousness - Expand your Personal Universe. Mindfulness. Increase Good Habits, Remove Bad Habits, Anxiety, Stress.

Medicare / Healthfund rebates may apply.

Contact Matt Vance 0415 463 976 www.hinterlandhypnotherapy.com.au

PHYSIOTHERAPY/OSTEOPATHY Range of Motion Physiotherapy Mapleton - Montville - Maleny - Imbil Russ, Lauren, Kathryn and Andrew. Providing the highest quality care to restore & maintain optimal physical function & mobility.

Ph: 5478 6600 www.rangeofmotion.com.au Maleny Osteopathy Assessing and solving your muscular, joint and spinal pain problems using ‘hands on’ manual therapy. Effective in treating postural strain, neck and back pain, aches, strains, stiffness, and sports injuries. Ph: 5494 2388 www.malenyosteopathy.com.au

YOGA PILATES AND MEDITATION Maleny Yoga Centre Shop 3 Rainforest Plaza Maple St Maleny.

Fully equipped studio. Certified & Experienced Teachers. Beginners & senior classes available, casuals welcome. Ph: 0448 518 734 www.malenyyogacentre.com

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367 & 407 Brandenburg Road, Bald Knob

Great Opportunity, Views forever!

Qualified Buyers Waiting to Purchase

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rant and Bernhardt Property are getting daily phone calls from buyers wanting to escape the city and head to our gorgeous part of the world. If you are thinking of selling, we have qualified buyers waiting in line for properties in all price brackets right across the hinterland.

Our beautiful character homes are in high demand and we currently have quite a few for buyers to choose from. Pictured above, 446 MalenyKenilworth Road, Witta, was recently featured on the realestate.com.au Facebook page and was the most viewed property in Australia for that week, 2nd most viewed in the 2nd week and 3rd most viewed property in Australia for the 3rd week. A great promotion for this gorgeous property and our stunning hinterland area.

3D tours remain popular, increasing by 466% last month in Queensland. We are so grateful we had purchased a 3D camera for our office in late 2019, this equipment has certainly been a huge asset during Covid-19.

Search activity for sale properties in Queensland has increased by 34% from this time last year.

Buyers are certainly on the move so remember to contact Susan and Dee at Brant and Bernhardt Property if you are considering selling your home.

Agency: Brant and Bernhardt Contact: Susan Brant 0428 573 190 / Dee Bernhardt 0423 259 931

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great opportunity to purchase two properties next door to each other, both showcasing spectacular coastal views, lifestyle and elevation. The property that boasts the multi-level home on a 25-acre block is complete with three bedrooms plus a sunroom/ study, two bathrooms, two living areas, modern kitchen with glorious ocean views, wraparound decks on two levels to soak up vista and breezes, double carport, and masses of storage under.

Infrastructure on the property includes fencing around the house, 6m x 9m powered shed, 18m x 9m powered shed with 18m x 6m lean-to, three water tanks and boundary fencing. There are also two dams, one being spring-fed. The parcel of land is fully usable and could suit a variety of purposes from hobby farming, through to running horses.

2/20 Maple St Maleny Qld 4552

There is also an opportunity to purchase the 23acre vacant block next door which is also going to auction on the same day. This vacant block already has a house pad in place and infrastructure on the property includes massive 30m x 10m x 6m (height) powered shed with a large living area, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms as well as 2 x 20,000-litre water tanks and boundary fencing.

Agency: Ray White Maleny Contact: Chris Smith

0408 005 991 Both properties to be auctioned on-site Saturday the 18th July at 3pm

1/5 Maple St Maleny Qld 4552

MALENY HARDWARE & RURAL SUPPLIES Come and see our new PURETEC range for all your water filtration needs.

Huge range of HORSE FEEDS including Prydes, Barrastoc, Mitavite, Riverina & Hyfeed.

FIREWOOD, kindling, electric heaters now in stock to keep you warm this winter.

“Great, friendly service, they even help load cement into your trailer.” Chris 5494 2302 | 31 Coral Street MALENY www.malenyhardwareandrural .com.au 26 JULY 2020 HINTERLAND TIMES

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355 Curramore Road, Curramore

GOBSMACKINGLY GREAT VALUE NOT TO BE MISSED!

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ffered for the first time in 40 years, this property is now an amazing opportunity for one lucky purchaser! Just 10 minutes from town, this 45-acre lifestyle property is set back from the road and enjoys fantastic panoramic rural views over the valley and beyond!

The home is airy and light-filled, with raked ceilings and an open galley kitchen looking out over the views to the valleys and hills in Reesville. The floor plan separates the main bedroom and guest bedrooms, with multiple living areas to enjoy with family, friends and guests.

Ideal for most rural pursuits, this property is all-encompassing when it comes to the perfect Hinterland lifestyle property.

The ultimate weekender - Here today - SOLD TOMORROW!!!

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Price has just been reduced for a very quick sale! Do not miss this!!!

ucked away on a quiet country lane, this quaint cottage sits proudly on almost 10 acres of rural land, overlooking distant ranges and valleys!

There is 1 level acre around the cottage and the huge 3 bay shed, providing enough room to build your dream home, or just play a game of cricket!

Sit back, and soak up the awe-inspiring views from the deck, and take a step back in time while you boil the billy on the old wood stove in the characterfilled cottage.

Priced to sell at $630,000 - It will most likely be sold by the time you call.

Land Size: 45 acres Price: $835,000 Agency: RE/MAX Hinterland Contact: 0447 737 737 Email: sales@remaxhinterland.com.au

Land Size: 9.24 acres (1 acre useable) Price: $630,000 Agency: RE/MAX Hinterland Contact: 0447 737 737 Email: sales@remaxhinterland.com.au

2/10 Maple Street, Maleny Qld 4552

2/10 Maple Street, Maleny Qld 4552

35 Water Gum Crescent, Maleny

55 Obi Vale, North Maleny

Retire to Maleny - Convenience and Low Maintenance Guaranteed!

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45 Policeman Spur Road, Booroobin

ocated a short walk to town, this low set and low maintenance home has everything you could ask for in a modern home!

Offering a practical floor plan, the living is easy in this fantastic home.

The north-facing alfresco covered and enclosed area is perfect for entertaining and the large, yet cosy media room, is a great place to enjoy a movie on a rainy day! The ensuited main bedroom is separate to the guest wing, with a lovely garden vista.

The terraced yard provides a large level area around the home, with established trees and gardens - there is nothing to do here but relax!

For the buyer or investor that wants a PROJECT!!!

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ituated on Obi Vale, a sought after address in North Maleny just minutes from town, this property presents a very unique opportunity for the savvy buyers in the market!

The incomplete project (slab level) is the perfect canvas to complete what is planned as a modern masterpiece!

Land Size: 1200m2 Price: Mid 700's Agency: RE/MAX Hinterland Contact: 0447 737 737 Email: sales@remaxhinterland.com.au

2/10 Maple Street, Maleny Qld 4552

There is a completed studio cottage and large shed, for you to live on-site whilst the build is completed.

Situated on over 1 acre of rural residential land, the views from this site are picturesque across the distant valley.

Bed: 1 Bath: 1 Car: 2 Land Size: 5000m2 Price: Offers Over $695,000 Agency: RE/MAX Hinterland Contact: 0447 737 737 Email: sales@remaxhinterland.com.au

2/10 Maple Street, Maleny Qld 4552

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FOR SALE

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25 Gardners Lane North Maleny Secluded Hinterland Contemporary Masterpiece

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Innovative architectural design incorporating premium finishes, bespoke materials, and meticulous attention to detail set this Nathan Quail contemporary masterpiece well and truly in a league of its own.

Price: Price By Negotiation

• Elevated 5690m2 allotment - Rural Residential Zone - Over 1.25 acres!

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• Situated down a private driveway, and off the street

Land Size: 5690m2

• Built in 2011 by award-winning Nathan Quail Constructions • Integrated Air Con to the living, dining rooms and master suite • Cosy timber burning fireplace to the formal lounge with peaceful gardens views • Terraced grounds with mature gardens and open, easy-care lawns • Solar power via a 3kw system and solar hot water - Ample rainwater tanks!

• Large epoxy lined garage (6.2m x 6.5m) with additional 7m x 6m work shed • Sealed driveway with guest parking and vehicle access to the property • Large all-weather storage areas, covered verandahs, and decks on all levels.

remaxhinterland.com.au

ADDRESS 2/10 Maple Street, Maleny, QLD 4552

Each office independently owned and operated

OFFICE

07 5408 4220

EMAIL

sales@remaxhinterland.com.au

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SOLD

521 Reesville Road, Reesville 45 of the finest Hinterland acres on offer!

Meandering down a private tree-lined driveway, you’ll discover this private estate boasting not one but two homes, large sheds, an abundance of water and ample farm infrastructure. All of this on a quiet knoll overlooking 45 acres of Reesville’s finest country, with stunning country views and a desirable North Easterly outlook.

FOR SALE

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6 Witham Road, Maleny Just when you thought you couldn’t have it all!

Located in a quiet area, walking distance to town, this 1.5 acre property offers a spacious single level home with supreme privacy, established grounds, and A HUGE SHED!!!

1095 Landsborough Maleny Road, Maleny Bespoke Maleny home has the WOW factor!

On the desirable East side of town, just minutes from the centre of Maleny, the owners of this property have built an amazing home on a perfectly level block with comfortable living and generous entertaining spaces at the forefront of their thinking. The result - a spacious four bedroom home with the WOW factor positioned well on an easy care half acre level block that flows effortlessly from start to finish.

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27 Lorikeet Lane, Maleny This executive home has it all!

This stunning executive home is a real show stopper!

Located in a quiet, sought after area close to town, this home has a great floor plan with aspect firmly in mind, showcasing the elevation and the beautiful valley views to the North East.

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remaxhinterland.com.au

ADDRESS 2/10 Maple Street, Maleny, QLD 4552

Each office independently owned and operated

OFFICE

07 5408 4220

EMAIL

sales@remaxhinterland.com.au

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FOR SALE

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63 Bytheway Lane, Curramore A scarce commodity indeed – Big Acres - MUST BE SOLD! Located just off the high plateau of the burgeoning Maleny real estate market, this large acreage property has to be seen to truly appreciate its splendour!

getaways/camping, retreats - you name it, this property can cater for it!

The diversity of this 108-acre landholding is so unique and may well be of significant and strategic importance to one’s portfolio for the future.

Situated in a private and pristine valley, the Flora and Fauna are prolific and diverse here! With rainforest pockets, eucalyptus forests, open grazing paddocks and secluded ravines, there is so much more than meets the eye at this unique property.

Abundant groundwater with babbling rocky creeks and streams, spring-fed dams, all provide for a drought-proof property that is perfect for a multitude of uses. Lifestyle, grazing, horses, ranch

The superbly appointed homestead takes in panoramic elevated vistas across the farm and beyond, perfectly positioned to make the most of the eastern aspect.

FOR SALE

45 Policeman Spur Road, Booroobin Hinterland Chalet boasts incredible views!

• 9.2 Acre allotment with approx. 1.5 acres on top of knoll • Land suitable for building a main home if desired • 2 bedroom cottage brimming with character • Large entertaining deck captures the scene perfectly • Expansive views over valleys to the range beyond

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6 Mary Cairncross Avenue, Maleny Leafy east side pocket with loads of Character!

Price: $630,000 Land Size: 9.24 Ac.

Features of this quintessential Maleny home include:

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• Open plan living areas, timber floors, cosy fire

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• Bespoke Queenslander character home!

• Private leafy outlooks from all rooms, with the lot adjoining old-world rainforest

• Situated on a quiet no-through road • Established trees including fruit and nut trees complete this idyllic scene.

• Steam room and Sauna + huge workshop/shed.

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• Large studio and gym on the lower level + 3 car garage

ADDRESS 2/10 Maple Street, Maleny, QLD 4552

Each office independently owned and operated

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Ask your agent today about advertising your property in the Hinterland Times.

FIGTREE, 257-261 WESTERN AVE, MONTVILLE An Iconic Property in an Iconic Area • • • • • • • •

4 ample bedrooms 3 bathrooms 2 garage spaces Large open-plan kitchen, dining and living area Sizeable walk-in pantry Spacious covered deck Workshop or 2 extra garage spaces Large studio or 5th bedroom

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Wrap-around verandas In-ground pool Woodheater stove Barn 50,000l water storage Underground water access Established orchard Ample storage Various outbuildings

This landmark property offers the ultimate Sunshine Coast Hinterland lifestyle.

Stroll next door to the award-winning winery. From the large north-facing deck overlooking the in-ground pool, enjoy the district and coastal views. There is ample scope to place your own stamp on the estate. With 2.1 manageable and usable acres and easy-care gardens, this leafy, quiet, well-maintained property offers the privacy and space to live the kind of life that, until now, you have only dreamed of. Fully fenced, with a one-acre paddock and a barn, there is room for your own livestock. It is only minutes to Montville village with its cafes, restaurants and shops; Lake Baroon; Great Walks; panoramic views; National Parks and waterfalls. You will become the guardian of a 400-year old fig tree, after which the property is named.

Distributing from Beerburrum to Eumundi!

With more than 440m2 under cover, there is space for the family. A large open, well-lit dining/lounge gives on to the deck, ideal for entertaining. The house has been sympathetically renovated, to maintain the original character of the 1930s Queenslander home.

For information contact 0414 432 423 or email: advertising@hinterlandtimes.com.au

LAND SIZE 2.1 acres | PRICE $1,750,000 | PRIVATE SALE MORE PHOTOS www.tinyurl.com/257westernave CONTACT 0492 815 707

FINAL STAGE NOW SELLING CALL DONNA 0417 357 167

20 CRUMPTON PLACE, BEERWAH PERFECT FOR DOWNSIZERS AND FIRST HOME BUYERS

Last Stage Selling Fast DISPLAY HOME OPEN

Monday to Friday 11am – 2pm | Saturday 10 -11am HOUSE AND LAND PRICED FROM $410,000

3 BED | 2 BATH | 2 CAR

Country Feel. Town Convenience.

Brand New, Freehold and Turnkey.

Millbrook is an exciting new residential community in Beerwah consisting of 48 individual brand new freehold homes with pool & outdoor dining facilities.

Choice of floor plans & facades all built by award winning Ausmar Homes.

We Provide the land, The Home and the Lifestyle!

• 600m easy walk to shops and rail • Pedestrian shortcut to town via secure gate • Open plan living, air-con, high ceilings • Kitchen with dishwasher, stone bench tops and induction cooktop • Pool and BBQ area

DONNA GIRDLER 0417 357 167 donnag@gcfn.com.au | www.millbrookbeerwah.com 68 Simpson Street, Beerwah

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• 4 New house plans to inspect • Low body corporate fees $1380 per annum (approx. $26.50p/w) • Choice of floor plans and facades available • Some single garage available • Pet friendly

Build yourself a lifestyle at Millbrook minutes from the best of the Sunshine Coast and a beautiful place to call home.

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When listing your biggest asset YOU NEE D A LO T M OR E F R O M AN A G E N T

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Days of crossing fingers & waiting for the right buyer to come are gone.

An agent that has motivation to be proactive, courage to stand out, willingness to evolve, passion to achieve, understands & abides by ethical practices - is an agent that helps get more sellers to SOLD! REIQ encourages the highest level of ethics in real estate, & we as agents are responsible for supporting the sellers & buyers we work with by providing honest, ethical, white glove service in every dealing.

Brant & Bernhardt Property are proud to be an REIQ accredited agency, after all - Ethics should be the heart of every Agents basic belief system that in turn make up their agencies morals & standards.

When considering selling - choose the Principals with Principles!

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31 Lorikeet Lane Maleny Executive style home, 4 Bed, Sneak 2 Bath, 5 Living areas Peek Grand entry, High ceilings Large master suite, Spacious guest wing Views of the valley from the terraced gardens Reesville Character home, 2 Bed, 1 Bath Sneak Lovely renovated kitchen Peek Large living area opening to wrap around verandahs Stunning views from all sides of the home, large acreage Homes are selling fast with 5 more under contract so book your pre market inspection today to view, fall in love & move in before someone else does!

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professional services

ACCOUNTING

GOVERNMENT SERVICES

Chartered Accountant with Masters of Business Administration Many years’ experience in the commercial world.

Strategic planning, management accounting and business systems advice and expertise.

Contact Mike 0417 713 160 or mike@shinebc.com.au shinebusinessconsultancy.com.au Intersect Bookkeeping Services Intersect are specialists in the implementation of cloud accounts and integrated services.

Your accounts: more accurate, less stressful, and less time consuming than you ever thought possible. 0481 065 908 intersect@intersectbookkeeping.com.au

QGAP Maleny - Maleny Police Station Mon, Tue, Thurs 9am – 12noon & 12:30pm – 2pm New Registrations & Housing close 11am & 1pm Transport & Main Roads (NOT Driver Licensing) / Births, Deaths & Marriages, Seniors Card Applications / & more. EFTPOS & Credit cards preferred. Manager Judy Phipps 10 Macadamia Drive Maleny – Ph: 07 5420 5320

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

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Lember and Williams (the LAW team) Carolyn Williams – City Expertise, small town service. Stirling on Bunya, 13 Bunya Street, Maleny. Ph: 5495 1499 Email: carolyn@landw.com.au www.landw.com.au

Hinterland Times Karen is your advertising contact for the Hinterland Times.

Mobile: 0414 432 423 Email: karen@hinterlandtimes.com.au

Baker Robinson Lawyers Steve Robinson, 20 years experience.

Professional and friendly Legal Team.

Suite 7, 43 Maple St Maleny. Ph: 5494 2665 E: maleny@brlawyers.com.au www.brlawyers.com.au

FINANCE Maleny Credit Union We have the experience to provide financial solutions for your everyday life. All loan approvals and other key decisions are made locally by people you can talk to.

Contact Sandra Today 5499 8988

TRAVEL AGENTS MTA Travel - Petrina Frankham Mobile Travel Agent Whether you’re a first time traveller, curious traveller, thrill seeker or the escapist, I look forward to bringing your travel dreams to fruition. Ph: 1300 365 688 (ext 258) pfrankham@mtatravel.com.au www.mtatravel.com.au/pfrankham

Doug Tognolini – iQ Money Management “Growing & Protecting your Wealth” We provide a full range of financial services including; Superannuation (including SMSF’s), Retirement Planning, Wealth Creation & Life Insurance. Ph: 5442 2764 / 0409 594 044

GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGN

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Flowering Design Working at home? Your online presence is crucial now! We are ready to refresh your site, create a new one, or add an online shop.

Leanne 0438 179 748 www.floweringdesign.com.au

RE/MAX Hinterland Local Knowledge - Global Reach Ph: 07 5408 4220 - remaxhinterland.com.au Maleny - 2/10 Maple St - 0447 737 737

REAL ESTATE continued Ray White Maleny One of the leading real estate agency’s for the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

Unit 1, 5 Maple Street, Maleny Ph: 5499 9966 http://raywhitemaleny.com.au/ We dare to be different!

Our results speak for themselves, so if you are looking to sell your property DON’T SIGN ANYTHING .. .Call us.

Ph: 07 5478 5288 or check out www.rogerloughnanrealestate.com.au Brant & Bernhardt Property At Brant & Bernhardt Property we understand that it's all in the attention to detail, even the little things matter. Learn how ‘We Can Sell Yours Too!’ Dee 0423 259 931 Susan 0428 573 170

VETERINARY CARE District Vets Maleny Veterinarian Susan Portas and her team provide professional, compassionate care for your pets.

Hours Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri 8am-6pm; Wed 9am-5pm and Sat 9am-12noon 7 Myrtle St Maleny Ph: 5499 9077 Montville Veterinary Clinic Est. in 2004 and operating as a branch of our Sunshine Hinterland Veterinary Clinic in Nambour. We take pride in personalised pet care. 26 Kondalilla Falls Rd Montville Consultation by appointment: 0401 012 884

Book your classified listing today!

Contact Karen Muir

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trade and services AIR CONDITIONING 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 E: 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

ASPHALT DRIVEWAYS Roll Formed Driveways Roll Formed Driveways provides a range of asphalt, bitumen and road base to residential, commercial and civil customers. Trust us to complete your project. Call us for a free measure and quote. PHONE (07) 5446 7104

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CARPENTRY

CARPET CLEANING

Patios, decks, renovations, new work All aspects of carpentry from planning to the finished product. All work guaranteed Qld BSA No 103-1105 Ph Steve: 0402 167 355

Window Wizard - Timber Window Specialist Restoration, glazing, repairs, modifications, sash cords, spirals, Queenslander homes and more.

Call Rommy 0404 757 552 www.window-wizard.com.au

Blackwood Built Carpentry -QBCC15099402 Premium carpenter with over 20 yrs experience, specialising in all forms of high-end carpentry including decks, outdoor living areas, custom stairs, timber floors, small extensions, renovations and finish carpentry. 0400 523 914 rick@blackwoodbuilt.com.au

Hale Carpet Cleaning Brad Hale, your carpet cleaning professional.

Owner Operator since 2005. Carpets, rugs, tile and grout, mattresses, car upholstery, lounge suites.

Contact Brad 0457 999 926 clean@halecarpetcleaning.com.au

CLOCK REPAIR Montville Clockshop Repairs for Cuckoo, Grandfather, Mantle, Wall Clocks. Antique clock restoration. We can supply quartz movement and parts, and repair quartz clocks. P: 07 5442 9409. www.clockshop.com.au enquiries@clockshop.com.au Master Craftsman clock and watch maker Repairs to clocks or watches from old to new, over 45 yrs experience. Free quotes in your presence when bringing your timepiece, house calls and small repairs on the spot.

Peter 0488 423 724.

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ELECTRICIAN

LANDSCAPING & DESIGN continued

Top Of The Range Electrical Your local licensed electrical contractor.

Range based, on time, leaves no mess.

Servicing all your electrical requirements.

Quality workmanship. Fully insured. Lic: 83000 Call Chris 0416 220 232

GATEWORK

Daniel Joyce - Mowing and Gardening Professional lawn and gardening services with pride. Hedge trimming, ride-on & push-mowing, whipper-snipping, pruning, organic weed control.

Ph: 0429 999 613 E: dan@joycemowing.com.au Follow us on facebook.

Richardson Gateworks Specialising in new Aluminium gate systems, drive motors and automation of existing gates including servicing of most popular makes, design and quotes of property entrances. Contact Paul 0412 698 595.

Tina Cooper International Glass Blower, Interior Design, Corporate Gifts.Sculptures in Wood , Glass and Iron. Indigenous Collaboration.

Exclusive Gallery and Exhibition Room, Montville Hinterland. Appointment only 0431 982 393 www.tinacooper.com Wolfgang Engel Red Door Glass Gallery, Studio & Glass repair.

Creating original glass art, jewellery, tea light candle holder. Handmade glass pen and sets that write beautifully. By Appointment. Ph 0417 194 329 www.wolfgangengelartglass.com.au

GUTTER CLEANING Gutter Sucker Gutter Sucker specialises in cleaning your guttering. a unique portable vacuum system for the efficient and effective removal of leaves and rubbish from all types of gutters and roofs.

Ph: 1800 558 745 or 0402 456 391

HOME MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS Tony & Di's Home Maintenance Offering carpentry, painting, tiling, doors, windows, screens, plastering, gurneying and cleaning, roofing and guttering, window cleaning.

General repairs and maintenance, kitchen and bathroom renovation. Contact 0487 770 653

LANDSCAPING & DESIGN 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 Handbuilt Stone QBSA1235589 Licensed, range-based professional. Traditional rock walls, pillars, steps, paving, entrance walls and all garden features. Visit our website to see previous work for inspiration. Phone Chris on 0438 811 975 – www.handbuiltstone.com Stone on the Range Stuck for ideas? Speak to Jim, he’s an effective communicator. All stonework including raised vegie gardens, creek beds, waterfalls, sculptural features, driveway entrances, walls, steps, fire pits, steep site specialist. Ph: 0401 308 824 E: jimrstoneart@gmail.com Loors Landscaping (est: 1987) From concept to creation all aspects of structural and soft landscaping.

Ph: 5445 7615 Mob: 0412 680 801

Wrapped in Render Specialising in all types of render, texture, plaster and paint finishes. 25 yrs local experience.

Professional attitude and quality workmanship.

New homes and renovations, no job too big or small. Contact Steve 0417 706 840

Green Cicada Landscapes and Garden Design Need a completely new garden or update of your existing garden? Green Cicada delivers thoughtfully designed, nature-inspired solutions to match your budget. Call Jason 0473 524 428 www.greencicada.com.au

MOWING AND GARDENING

GLASS BLOWER & REPAIR

RENDERING

PAINTING City to Surf Painting & Decorating Richard Daveson Owner/Operator QBCC 1117847 range local for over 25 years. All aspects of painting include re-paints, inside and out, reno's, new work, metal roof and anti-mould coatings.

From Kureelpa to Maleny. Call 0418 708 620

PLANT NURSERIES Forest Heart Your Local Native Plant Nursery. Specialising is the native plants of SE QLD for Revegetation, Gardens, Habitat. 20 Coral Street, Maleny Ph: 07 5435 2193 – www.forestheart.com.au Barung Landcare Native Plant Nursery Your local community nursery stocks an extensive range of species indigenous to the Blackall Range and surrounds. Open to the public Wed–Fri 9am–3pm, Sat 9am–12pm Ph: 0429 943 152 E: nursery@barunglandcare.org.au

PLASTERING Castle Plaster P/L Fibrous Plaster and Plasterboard-fixing, setting, cornices, steel frames and suspended ceilings.

New homes and renovations. No job too big or small. Est 1980 Contact John: 0417 275 241

PLUMBING & WASTEWATER Anderson Plumbing & Roofing QBSA1066328 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 Suncoast Liquid Waste Removal Local owner/operator specialising in commercial / domestic waste water pump outs- septics, treatment plants, grey water, holding tanks, pond/ pool sludge, drains etc. Avoid costly blockages & system failure with prompt, reliable & expert service. Tank assessments available. EPA licensed and fully insured. Call 0439 646 707

ROCK WALLS Phil Watts Quality Rock Walls Retaining, free standing design and construction.

Hand crafted feature stonework specialist. Built by local qualified stonemason, 40 years experience with 23 years here on the range. Ph: 5445 7218 or mobile: 0401 535 476 E: philsrocks@hotmail.com

ROOFING Roof & Gutter Maintenance Clean gutters, Blocked downpipes, New & repair downpipes, Roof repairs & leaks, Fix leaking gutters, New gutters & fascias, Install & service whirly birds, Skylights & Water Tanks.

Free quotes, local bloke, over 20 yrs experience Phone Brad 0419 712 081

SOLAR Megawatts Solar CEC License A5100260 Megawatts Solar Engineering - Consulting, Design & Service. We design a system to suit your needs, on-grid, off-grid & battery storage.

Service on your existing system. Gary Phillips Ph: 0407 760 838 info@Megawatts.com.au Home and Energy Solar "Money doesn't grow on trees, it grows on your roof!" Installations, Upgrades, Service and Repairs In partnership with the sun since 2011.

Licence: 84040 • Ph: 07 5403 7969 homeandenergy.com.au

TANK CLEANING Pristine Water Systems Full tanks cleaned, minimal water loss. Potable water treatment and correction, bacteria control, filtration, supply and service. Free appraisals.

Phone Allen: 0404 302 723

TREE SERVICES Tony Wootton Tree Surgeon. Dip Hort(Arb) Operating locally since 1996. Tree assessments and advice. Trees and shrubs pruned and detailed. Hazardous trees removed.

M: 0403 467 664 Ph: 54 944 917 www.twtreesurgeon.com BRM Tree Services Locally owned and operated, qualified and insured. Tree to stump, we do it all. Tree removal and pruning, mulching, stump grinding.

Free quotes call Tim 0401 441 945 Skilled Tree Surgeon – Kevin Pampling Born and raised in Maleny, offering reasonable rates for tree work. Insured,with years of wisdom and local knowledge.

I climb, you clear = good value. Ph 0407 450 262

WATER CARRIER DE Griffiths Plumbing and Gasfitting QBCC 1066038 All domestic and commercial Plumbing, Gasfitting, Pump maintenance, Gas / Solar / Electric Hot Water, Drain Clearing, Backflow and Pool maintenance.

Call David on 0408 076 403. No callout fees.

POOL MAINTENANCE SwimSafe Mobile pool maintenance & repairs. Swimming pool safety inspections. FREE QUOTES Proudly servicing the Sunshine Coast Ph: 0448 793 148 – www.swimsafeqld.com.au QBCC #101629

Flow N Go Sunshine coast Family owned and operated domestic water delivering business located in the Glass House Mountains. ONLINE ORDERING at www.sunshinecoastflowngo.com.au Ph- 1300 FLOW N GO (1300 356 9 646) Email- george@sunshinecoastflowngo.com.au

WATER SYSTEMS Xavier Maleny Water (Fb) Specialist in tailer-made water filtration systems.

Supply, installation & maintenance of: filtration systems, pumps, tanks & irrigation. Domestic and Rural. Contact Xavier on 0402 528 560

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Jump online and check out Sunshine Coast Libraries’ eLibrary. Binge on the best eBooks and audiobooks, stream movies and music, download and flick your favourite magazines all for FREE. Read, watch, listen and learn on the road or on the go – anytime, anywhere. Join for free at library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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Major grants

The cluster of hot spots that emerged from Victoria does not yet constitute the dreaded second wave, but it is worrying and defies explanation.

Can your not-for-profit group make our community more active, vibrant, inclusive or resilient?

Do it with support from Council’s Major Community Grants Program which is open from 13 July to 24 August. To help with your planning, why not attend a free grant writing webinar being held late July to early August. Visit www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Livingand-Community/Grants-and-Funding to book and for more information.

ustralia awoke last week to the strains of Spike Milligan’s poignant refrain, “I’m walking backwards to Christmas.”

It may not be all the way to Christmas, but it could be even further – well into next year and perhaps beyond that. We don’t know and we can’t tell,

Containing state borders has been hard enough. Policing municipal boundaries would be all but impossible – unless, of course, vast numbers of troops are to be redeployed.

But it is sadly clear that our dream run over the Coronavirus pandemic has come to a sticky end. And it has happened on both fronts, the medical and the economic.

And that would entail considerable political risk. There is already talk of ignorant ethnic populations – by which, of course, we mean Muslims - breaking the rules, holding illegal gatherings for their Eid celebrations. To turn them into closed ghettos would not be a good look, especially in these sensitive times.

For readers of The Australian, of course, it is all too simple: Daniel Andrews unleashed the beast by not clamping down on the Black Lives Matter protests.

But hang on – there were protests in other states as well, without clusters emerging. And in any case, not one of the cases in Victoria can be traced to the demonstrations.

So perhaps the problem was Andrews mismanaged the Cedar Bay abattoir outbreak. Or ignored the ethnic communities. One way or another, we have to blame the socialist totalitarian for something.

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But apart from the partisan bullshit, the fact that there are clusters at all must serve as a warning, because across in other parts around the world COVID-19 is still raging.

The Lift Project Sunshine Coast

It is out of control in Brazil, spreading dangerously in India; working its way through the southern United States, and most disturbingly making huge inroads in parts of China, where it was thought to have been tamed.

sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Council/Contact-Council

Council has partnered with Lift Lifestyle Medicine to offer The Lift Project Sunshine Coast at no cost to all residents.

It’s an evidence-based online wellbeing program that draws the latest research from Neuroscience, Lifestyle Medicine and Positive Psychology – aiming to lift your mood and your life.

Visit Council’s website to register for the next course starting 27 July.

Date for the diary Come along on August 2 and 3 to the Doonan Creek Environmental Reserve in Verrierdale to plant a tree for National Tree Day and learn about how technology is helping us to connect with nature, at the Doonan Open Data Expo. Bookings are essential.

Head to Council’s What's on calendar for more.

Win $1000 off your rates bill

Rates are now due and if you pay by Friday August 21 you’ll receive the on-time payment discount in addition to Council’s $35 COVID rebate.

Register through MyCouncil to receive future rates notices by email and you’ll go in the running to win $1000 off your next rates bill!

spots, and if they can be confirmed and isolated, they will become mini-gulags, no-go areas. Good luck with that.

The global infections now number close to ten million with nearly half a million deaths, and despite the predictions of the optimists, we are not yet in reach of a vaccine. This is not good news.

And for the government, the worse news is that the easing of restrictions has not just stalled, but has been reversed in some areas, notably the urgency of opening state boundaries.

It appears that we are reverting to the old maxim: think globally, act locally. The national cabinet was never much more national than our mish-mash federation or the constitution that birthed it; it was a useful conceit, and helped us muddle through the early emergency, but it was always gesture politics rather than reality.

And it appears that the other premiers are less than sympathetic. In NSW, Gladys Berejiklian has made it clear that Victorian holiday makers will not be welcome in her pristine domain - in fact she has bluntly told them to bugger off.

Australia is still doing fairly well by world standards. Moody’s rating agency and the International Monetary Fund have both offered commendation, ticking us off as one of the best in a fairly miserable bunch.

But the IMF have warned that shutting down the stimulus measures designed to dampen unemployment too abruptly could lead to awful consequences – it has urged caution, a gradual easing rather than a sudden shut off.

Morrison and Josh Frydenberg seem, reluctantly, to be getting the message. The strictly temporary JobSeeker program, scheduled to end in September, may have to be extended, at least for the most vulnerable sectors of the economy.

And some extra spending is being rolled out; the beleaguered Arts are finally getting a boost, although a very minor one, and in the wake of the Qantas stand down, assistance for the airline industry is on the table.

But it is still all about industry, business. Individuals – casual workers in particular – are not considered essential. And of course enemies are still to be punished. The universities, and most of all the ABC, have been singled out for clobbering. Some of us are in this together more than others.

And Morrison is hell-bent on ramping up the nation up for business whatever the consequences. “We can’t go ‘stop, go, stop, go’, we can’t flick the light on and off,” he insisted, blithely ignoring the fact that this is precisely what he is planning to do with JobSeeker.

And now the premiers have declared that it is every state for itself. Some are derestricting like mad, others are more cautious, playing for time. And of course Victoria has gone backwards – even toilet paper is back on the rationing list. This is serious, folks.

“We’ve got to just keep the focus on keeping the economy open and getting people back into jobs.” And there is absolutely no need for anxiety about the Victorian outbreak, because ”we were expecting it.”

Perhaps he was – the rest of us were somewhat taken aback.

And at that stage Andrews called in the army – not to guard the state’s vital supplies of dunny wipe. but mainly as prison wardens, preventing desperate returned travellers immured in five star hotels from making a bid for freedom. However, after a brief contemplation, Andrews apparently decided that this was a mission not in the finest traditions of ANZAC.

But it’s time to forget about the health crisis – so 2019-2020, We need a new narrative to turn the page into the new financial year. It’s the economy, stupid – and we do mean stupid. Back to Spike Milligan. As the Great Goon warbled:

So the troops were sent back, and the long-suffering cops sent off on the job. A few were retained to assist emergency testing statins, presumably to look intimidating, to warn of the dire consequences if victims refuse to co-operate.

I’ve tried walking sideways And walking to the front But people just look at me and say It’s a publicity stunt.

Yes, quite so. Moving right along….

It seems that the lock downs may not just return, but be micromanaged. Crash testing has begun immediately in trouble

The views expressed in Mungo's column are his and not necessarily the views of the HT team.

You can register at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov. au/Site-Help/MyCouncil-FAQs/Rates

Kids' bird art comp

Does your child like to draw birds? Unleash their creativity and enter the Holmes Prize for Realistic Australian Bird Art exhibition. By submitting their feathered friend art work they’ll have the chance to win a share of $1000 dollars. Entries close 15 August.

Head to the ‘what’s on guide’ on Council’s website for competition details.

Plastic free July Make a small change for a big impact this Plastic Free July and join Council’s #BYOSunshineCoast challenge.

Commit to swapping out one or more single-use plastic items and go in the draw for some great local prizes.

For all the details and to make your pledge head to livingsmartqld.com.au

07 5475 7272 mail@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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Travels with… Rensina van den Heuvel Local women in the villages sell their excess produce

The women stare at me hearing the foreign accent; I point to myself and say “Afstrali” and they immediately begin to chatter amongst themselves. Warm smiles break out and working women’s, calloused hands are outstretched to me in welcome.

Holding my hand out with rubles, one woman takes a few coins from my palm. It really is a pittance. I take the whole bucket full and drop them into my bag. “Oh so many, Spaseeba,” I say as I hold my hands out wide.

The women laugh goodheartedly making their generous bodies wobble; still chatting to each other in their beautiful language.

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“Da Svidanya” I say in my limited Russian with an Australian accent, a smile and a wave and they all respond, “Da Svidanya”. We ate those beautiful Russian potatoes for a month and created a lifetime memory. n Russia they grow potatoes. I mean everyone in every rural village, in every backyard is a garden filled with flowers and potatoes.

Oh, and some green cabbages. The outer leaves of the cabbages have been removed, so they look like big green shiny, bald heads as they sit up on their stalks. They are still growing and alive. So instead of harvesting them all, they just cut one off as they need it and the others keep on; in the ground just doing what cabbages do and waiting for their turn to be picked. How brilliant is that?

The potato plants still have their white flowers atop the glorious lush green stems of the plants and they dominate all the gardens. If you’ve ever been privileged enough to eat Russian dumplings with homemade mayonnaise you’ll understand why they grow the finest potatoes in the world.

Against the bright blue cottages, the garden colours are vivid and show a romantic rural picture. We are driving from Zarabino, a tiny port town on the far Eastern coast of Russia to Mongolia on one leg of our Australia to Switzerland journey.

We stay off the extremely rough dirt ‘Trans Siberian Highway’ and drive on smaller (but just as rough) tracks to see more villages and have some interaction with the local folks.

Rensina buying bread

Travelling in a certain style! 

On the sides of the roads as we drive slowly through the potholed tracks in the villages, buxom breasted, voluptuously moulded women sit together on tiny stools in rows. They often sit outside their homes. Adorned with bright headscarves the women create a bobbing rainbow as they interact with each other.

In front of them in well worn, pewter coloured metal buckets is the excess produce from their gardens. Most of the buckets are filled to the brim with golden potatoes.

Solemn faces gaze curiously as our dark green Land Rover stops. I emerge and walk purposely towards the women.

The small potatoes look delicious, piled high with the deep brown earth still clinging to them. I point to the bucket and ask one of the women in Russian, how much the potatoes are. “Skolka?”

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JULY 1

Nominations commence for Rotary Club of

Maleny Pride of Workmanship Awards,

email for nomination form: paulette.steele@gmail.com

Agent of Discovery Frank Findlay

Hinterland Events January: Australia Day celebrations; Maleny Film Festival; Yandina Ginger Flower and Food Festival February: Montville: Flame Hill Grape Stomp April: ANZAC Day Services, Sunshine Coast Ukulele Festival May: Maleny Wood Expo; Cross Country: Maleny Community Precinct; Maleny Hospital Auxiliary Fashion and Flowers; Maleny Agricultaral Show; The Planting Festival, Woodford June: Gardening on the Edge; Kenilworth Quilt & Craft Show; Sunshine Coast Agricultural Show; Kenilworth Food Fest July: Muscle on the Mountain Day; QLD MX Nationals Motorcross: Conondale; Queensland Garden Expo; Maleny Wedding Festival and the Mary Valley Art Festival; Celebration of Books Maleny August: Maleny Music Festival; Village Wedding Expo Montville September: Mitchell Creek Rock n Blues Fest; Kenilworth ArtFest; Kenilworth Show and Rodeo; Lions Welcome Dinner: Maleny October: Runfest; Heart of Gold Film Fest: Gympie; Blackall 100, Mapleton

Holmes Prize for Realistic Australian Bird Art, children’s art exhibition/competition, with three age categories, entries close August 15, email interest via cclp@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

Agents of Discovery - turn your kids into nature agents at the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden or the Maroochy Wetlands Sanctuary, download the free Agents of Discovery app, choose a mission and go on a self-guided tour to unlock nature’s secrets, great for ages five to 10 years

Over 150 free, self-guided walking, cycling,

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activities for the holidays, visit: adventure. sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

A Forest in my Pocket, by illustrator

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Winter reading challenge, register and create an account in Sunshine Coast Libraries official Beanstack site, win great prizes like a $50 local book store gift voucher

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Crystal Waters Market, 8am - 1pm, Kilcoy Lane, Conondale

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Petrie Park Craft Group, Nambour, cottage crafts, contact Marlaine: 54416852

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Witta Market, 7.30am - 12 noon, Old Witta School, 316 Old Witta Road

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Ad bookings due for August issue of the Hinterland Times

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Mapleton Hall Country Markets, 8am – 12 noon, with Shaye and Lee Hardisty performing

Ad copy and editorial due for the August issue of the Hinterland Times

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Email: editor@hinterlandtimes.com.au

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