Sunny Coast Times October Issue

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FROM CALOUNDRA TO NOOSA ISSUE #15 October 20 – November 17, 2021

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Phil Jarratt looks back at an illustrious career

How USC is spearheading mental health initiatives

Honouring our best young writers

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his month we have the privilege of revealing the winners of the Sunny Coast Times and Hinterland Times Young Writer of the Year Awards.

I was lucky enough to be one of the judges and to say I was impressed by the standard of entries is an understatement.

Our young local writers showed an incredible amount of talent, skilfully using an array of literary devices to reflect on this year’s theme, which was ‘2020’.

I had the pleasure of meeting winner Diya Joy and two of the runners-up for our photo shoot in Palmwoods, and each of them came across as intelligent, gracious and polite. You can read more about the awards, and Diya’s winning entry, on pages 8 and 9.

On a darker note, another thing that struck me among the entries is the sense of anxiety our young people are facing because of the pandemic.

While none of us have ever experienced such global upheaval before, it’s worth remembering our young people in particular will be struggling to make sense of all the changes of the past 18 months.

If you have young people in your life, make sure you give them that little bit more attention so they know they’re not alone in these crazy times.

In this month’s Sunny Coast Times we feature the valuable work of USC’s Thompson Institute, check out the Coast’s growing distillery scene and profile surfing icon Phil Jarratt, plus we have all our usual columnists and features.

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Show your true colours for charity

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Sophie is thriving thanks to the support of Hear and Say

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“Connor is a great big brother to Sophie and is very caring and loving,” she says.

“He is also a big help in letting me know when her hearing aids aren’t in.”

Kate and Sophie are among those helping promote Loud Shirt Day this year. Sophie’s fundraising campaign has already reached the first goal of $1000 thanks to the support of family and friends, and now they hope to raise another $1000 before October 22.

“The daycare our children attend has jumped onboard and we’re running a week-long loud shirt event to help reach our fundraising target,” Kate says. “I’m really overwhelmed by the amazing response from our community and how people are supporting us and this event.”

Hear and Say acting CEO Bridget Murray is excited to be uniting the community for the cause.

“We are thrilled to celebrate the 15year anniversary of Loud Shirt Day and are encouraging businesses and individuals in our community to go big and bright so Hear and Say can continue to provide our world-leading services now and into the future,” she says. “As a not-for-profit, we rely on the generosity of Queenslanders to help us ensure children with hearing loss are afforded access to our world-class hearing technology and spoken language therapy.

“By ditching your daily wear for a loud shirt and raising funds, together we can open worlds and profoundly impact the lives of those living with hearing loss in our community.”

Kate says the support Sophie and her family have received has made a huge impact.

“We would like to recognise and thank our whole community for their support over the past three years,” she says. “It really does take a village to raise children.”

Queensland-based not-for-profit organisation that supports children with hearing loss is urging people to help give the gift of sound by donning their wackiest shirt.

Hear and Say’s 15th annual Loud Shirt Day will be held on Friday, October 22, to raise funds and awareness of the cause.

Buderim mum Kate Wilds, whose daughter Sophie was born with hearing loss in both ears, says the organisation has been a tremendous support for her family.

“Hear and Say have been great for us,” she says. “It is not only a speech therapy centre but also a community. They have been there to listen and help whenever needed. The family playgroup is a great opportunity to spend time with families all in similar new normals. We’ve formed great new friendships as parents with other families that understand our day-to-day. It’s also beneficial for the kids to play with and see other children just like them.”

Sophie’s hearing loss was detected during the newborn hearing screening test and at just two-and-a-half months she was fitted with purple and pink hearing aids.

Now aged three, she is learning to hear and speak just like any other child her age.

“Sophie was born with a genetic condition called Treacher Collins syndrome,” says Kate, 36. “We were unaware of any medical issues during pregnancy so it was a huge shock when she was born.

“In Sophie’s first year of life she had spent around six to seven months in and out of hospital. Long-term, she has a couple more surgeries coming up in the near future. She will always need hearing devices and will struggle when sick with a cold or respiratory illness.

“As a family, we’ve had to adjust to our new normal of communicating. Sophie tells us now if she can’t hear us speaking and notices the difference between having her hearing aids in or out.

“Sophie is thriving and has such a strong and determined personality – it won’t hold her back in the least.”

Kate says Sophie’s older brother, fiveyear-old Connor, is also a big help.

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Phil's epic journey to success

Award-winning writer Phil Jarratt on the Noosa River with his most recent release Place of Shadows and 2008 book Kelly Slater: For the Love

by CHRIS TAYLOR

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iding the waves of the surfing world for more than 50 years, Noosa local Phil Jarratt is regarded as one of the foremost global authorities on the sport. His journey from growing up in 1960s Wollongong then moving north to Noosaville several years later has been an epic globetrotting adventure for the keen surfer-come-

award-winning writer and filmmaker.

Well known for his ability to produce a best-selling page-turner, Phil recently celebrated his 70th birthday by launching Place of Shadows, his 42nd book. “But who’s counting!” he says. It’s a detailed delve into Noosa’s somewhat dark past.

Phil showed great writing promise from an early age, submitting an article on Australian ocean pollution

to California Surfer magazine in 1968. To his elation the story was published internationally and the $25 cheque he received convinced him that his future lay in journalism.

After all, he believed at the time that journalists pretty much got to go wherever they wanted, filing front-page stories from exotic places, making huge bucks and getting plenty of time off to surf.

Incredibly, those adolescent musings weren’t too far off the mark for most of the ensuing years of his adult working life. He did his cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald before having stints with the Newcastle and Canberra bureaus.

“It was exciting times,” he says. “I got a bit of a taste for the political world and made a lot of friends.”

But wanderlust lured a 22-year-old Phil on a grand surfing trip through the UK, France, Spain and Portugal with a newspaper mate before they ran out of cash en route to Morocco. The nomadic lifestyle was much more aligned with his gonzo journalistic aspirations, filing bits and pieces from wherever he was back to leading Sydney-based surfing magazine Tracks.

After returning broke to Australia, Phil found himself monotonously slogging it out at the Sunday Telegraph, until Tracks’ Albe Falzon came calling. He offered Phil an editor offsider job before he finally stepped up to the editorship from 1974-78. Around the same time, Phil’s first book, 1977’s The Wave Game, inadvertently became the first ever written on professional surfing.

“Although I have been associated with Tracks for just about all its 50-year history, I was only the editor for about four years but they were very eventful years,” Phil says. “I tried too hard to be funny at times, and some of the stuff I published was borderline offensive, but s--- we had fun!

“But what I'm probably remembered for most is moving Tracks away from the hippie country soul ethos a little and embracing a new thing called professional surfing.”

Phil worked as a consultant during Rip Curl’s expansion into the US market in the early 1980s and freelanced his way through the remaining decade. He also worked in the

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tawdry men’s magazine “skin trade” after losing money in a failed Sports Illustrated-style tabloid modelled on Tracks in his first business wipe-out.

“It failed miserably,” he says. “Lost all the money I threw at it, along with five grand from my father. Then I had to get a job.”

If Phil’s failed magazine had been a roaring success he may have never ended up in Noosa.

He had visited its shores since his childhood on camping and surf trips, and had dreamed of one day moving to the seaside town. He finally did that in 1990 as a Queensland correspondent for Bulletin Magazine – the nation’s leading weekly current affairs magazine of the time.

Known locally as a founder of the Noosa Festival of Surfing in 1992, the long-running event was a major career and family highlight.

“More than anything else, for me it was a gathering of like-minded souls, people who shared a passion I'd had all my life and continue to have,” he says. “Some of the surfers who came every year were people I'd surfed with and against in competition as a kid, and some of them went on to become champions, unlike me. But also, it brought

together surfers from around the world that I would otherwise never have met, and they became friends that I still visit – when Covid allows.”

Later, Phil would run Quiksilver’s special projects division. His brief: to launch a series of books, coming up with the idea to a write a title with the greatest surfer of all time, Kelly Slater. So for most of 2007 Phil chased Slater around the world thanks to an open cheque book. The successful end product was Kelly Slater: For the Love.

“While I didn't always agree with Kelly's line of thinking – he's a bit of a conspiracy theorist, for example – I was always impressed by his intelligence and presentation of an argument,” Phil says. “Whether he was the best surfer in history or just another bloke on the beach, once you got to know him a bit, he was always a guy you could talk to all night about any subject.”

Phil also met with the surfer’s former girlfriend and Baywatch star Pamela Anderson.

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“She cooked me a superb breakfast at her Malibu beach house while we talked about Kelly Slater,” he says. “A much under-rated woman.”

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Phil says although he left his filmmaking run a little late in life, he has so far produced half a dozen films with his Tewantin-based filming partner Shaun Cairns. He regards Men of Wood and Foam, about the pioneers of surfing, as his proudest screen accomplishment. Produced for Foxtel’s History Channel, the film features legendary surfboard manufacturers Bill Wallace and Gordon Woods.

“Their real stories hadn’t been told and they were such colourful characters,” Phil says.

Phil says he didn’t intentionally set out to "live life to the fullest" but has always had a very positive outlook.

“I've seen opportunities rather than obstacles most places I've looked. But I've also stumbled along the way,” he says.

He says drugs became a problem in his 30s, and he lost a lot of money on the stockmarket in the GFC and his failed magazine venture. But he has never let the falls define him.

“I just got up, dusted myself down and moved on to the next thing,” he says.

And although Phil doesn’t have any immediate plans to publish another book, he says “what else am I going to do?”.

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Institute urges proactive response R U OK? It’s an important question to ask every day for mental health

by MICHELE STERNBERG

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rom the creation of apps to help people cope with stress through to hosting free community training days, the USC’s Thompson Institute has been recognised for its world-leading research into suicide prevention.

And at the recent 2021 Sunshine Coast Business Women’s Network Awards, the institute’s general manager Elise Jione was honoured to be named Young Business Woman of the Year.

“Since winning the award, I’ve really seen it as a privileged position to be able to use this as a bit of a platform as a community call to action,” says Ms Jione, who was born and bred on the Sunny Coast.

Statistics show one person a week is lost to suicide on the Sunshine Coast, and for every loss 100 people are impacted.

“Everyone has a role to play in mental health and mental health doesn’t discriminate – it really affects a lot of people, especially in our region,” she says.

Three years ago, Ms Jione launched the Alliance for Suicide Prevention – Sunshine Coast, which now has 125 member organisations and more than 2000 people trained in suicide prevention.

As part of this year’s R U OK? Day activities, the alliance ran a free four-hour safeTALK suicide alertness workshop offering practical knowledge of how to identify someone at risk of suicide and link them to life-saving services.

It also included hands-on skills practice and development, as well as an introduction to the TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe.

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USC’s Thompson Institute director Professor Jim Lagopoulos at the launch of the Alliance for Suicide Prevention – Sunshine Coast

The institute has also this month partnered with the Caloundra Chamber of Commerce to provide local business owners with mental well-being support, an initiative Ms Jione hopes will spread to businesses across the region.

“Mental health is a very complex issue so being on that proactive side of taking action is so important,” she says.

“The Caloundra Chamber of Commerce collaboration is a real example of that, so Brady (Sullivan, CEO) has been really proactive in being responsive to the mental health of his community.

“Through collaborative actions with us, the Sunshine Coast Council, the Queensland Mental Health Commission, all of these key players coming together is now resulting in that action.

“That’s being able to provide much-needed training for our community, for people to be able to safely deal with these mental health issues both at work and at home as well.”

The Thompson Institute has three areas of focus – research, education and community training and engagement. Ms Jione says the coronavirus pandemic has

affected so many people, particularly on the Sunny Coast, that they are seeing more people facing mental health issues.

She says the Emerald Program is “really tackling this new cohort of people who may have emerging signs of anxiety or stress that could be linked to the pandemic”.

“These are people that may not have had a mental illness before but due to financial issues, relationship breakdowns or employment concerns, they’re really experiencing more anxiety and stress in their lives than they ever have before,” she says.

“We’ve been really trying to provide supports and programs to support this new cohort of people who may be experiencing these issues which, if those emerging signs and symptoms that they have go on to develop a mental illness, they’re then entering a mental health system that’s already at capacity.

“We’re trying to lessen the pressure on that to help the larger mental health system at play at the moment – that’s hospitals, GPs, psychologists.”

Ms Jione says training one person has a domino effect and is an effective way of spreading awareness through the community.

“We provide training to just one person but that one person then goes back home, or to their sports team or they might be part of other groups and committees or church groups, and friends,” she says.

In terms of research projects this year, the Thompson Institute has launched the Healthy Brain Ageing Clinic; performed clinical trials into low-dose ketamine for chronic suicidality, with 69 per cent of participants reporting improvement after six weeks; began the chronic fatigue study; and the longitudinal adolescent brain study reached a milestone with 100 participants at the halfway point, looking at teenage sleep and anxiety.

In the pipeline is a clinical trial for post-traumatic stress disorder.

“What makes us different is that we are an integrated centre so we’ve got our research activities which look at suicide prevention, youth mental health, ageing and dementia, PTSD and eating disorders – Australia’s most pressing mental health concerns,” Ms Jione says.

“But we also have our clinicians in house and on site as well as our professional team.

"So really that combination of finding those new treatments and then being able to translate that into clinical practice rather than research just for research’s sake is our point of difference.

“It’s that practical application. The research that universities are conducting really have to have meaning and purpose and an impact in the regions that they operate in.”

Those wanting help can download the free My Coping Plan app or tap into one of the free community well-being programs.

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Hinterland Times editor Victoria McGuin and Sunny Coast Times editor Chris Gilmore with winner Diya Joy (centre) and two of the three runners-up, Jenna Walker (second from left) and Bo Wulf Scott. (Runner-up Imogen Piercy was on school camp.) Images by Warren Lynam

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he entries are in and the winners decided in our Young Writer of the Year Award for 2021.

Judges had an incredibly difficult task deciding on the winners because of the high standard of all the entries, with so many young writers sharing their imaginative work.

The annual award has run for the past two years in the Hinterland Times, with the Sunny Coast Times this year partnering with its sister paper to present the competition.

We received entries from students aged 10 to 17 all across the coast and hinterland, including Nambour State College, Mountain Creek State High School, Caloundra State School, Pacific Lutheran College, Nambour Christian College, Maleny State School, The River School and Montville State School. Thank you to the schools for encouraging your students to fire up their imaginations and take part – it’s heartwarming to have your support.

Thanks also to all the home-schoolers and those who decided to write from home independently of their schools.

The subject was ‘2020’ and the judging panel was made up of writers and editors from the HT and SCT. Entries were judged with no names or ages attached, to avoid any bias, and they chose their favourites in order of preference.

Our winner, Year 6 student Diya Joy, hails from Maleny, and we had to choose three runners-up, rather than two, as it was too close to call. (Unfortunately, one of our runnersup was away during our photo shoot.)

Diya, who reveals she’s been “getting into Jane Austen”, says her story was inspired by her interest in history.

“It came to me because I’ve always been studying the Black Plague, and coronavirus and the Black Plague seemed similar to me,” she said.

She says she has no plans to make writing into a career, but she still loves creating stories.

“Because it’s fun, because I can improve on it, because I can sharpen the skill,” she said.

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by Jessica Skye Fitzgerald said: “I was impressed at the high standard of creative concepts, imagery and writing skills. Entering competitions encourages us to meet deadlines and be the best we can be at that time.

“Those who enter show courage, belief in themselves and a willingness to learn and grow their craft.”

More than $1000 of prizes were awarded. A big thank you to Western Avenue Floral Design for its generous donation to the prizemoney and the beautiful flowers for our winner; to The Little Book Nook in Palmwoods for the four book vouchers, and to Montville Coffee for the barista experience our winner and runners-up will receive.

The Sunny Coast Times will feature the work of the runners-up in coming months.

Roll on the next one – and keep writing!

How History Repeats Itself

by DIYA JOY SCT/HT Young Writer of the Year 2021 winner

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ily’s mind drifted aimlessly, as she lay on the soft, scratched, red couch resting against the plaster wall, crisp and white as snow. A sprinkle of yellow-stained sunlight tiptoed gently on her face like a ballerina. The open window welcomed a calm breeze which brushed across her face as light as a feather.

The quarantine had left her bored to the core. The busy and large city had become as small as her own home. Her mother had said constantly that laying on the couch was the perfect way to get bored.

Abruptly, the irritating sound of her mother’s voice leaped into her ears from the kitchen. This was followed by the creek of the door which echoed through the room, stinging Lily’s ears.

“Come,” her mother demanded with eagerness edged in her voice, “help me clean out the attic.” Lily, with a sigh, drowsily lifted herself from the couch and obediently followed her mother to the rustic attic ladder.

She clumsily clawed along each unstable step, with no enthusiasm in her voice or movements like usual.

Arriving at the top she laid her eyes on a dimmed room littered with cobwebs and tiny spiders in every dingy corner.

A mess of old toys, letters, and parcels lay crowded on the wooden floor, nearly knocking her over as she tried to move. The only source of light was a small wood-framed window that only invited in small beams of light.

Suddenly, a faint alarm went off. “My cake,” Lily’s mum muttered to herself. She climbed down the rustic ladder clumsily, leaving Lily by herself.

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Lily found a broken cardboard box laying in front of her, with old dust-coated toys leaking out, and an envelope laying on top. She snatched it up with her small chubby hands, only to find it had been ripped off, with its seal hanging flimsily.

She carefully opened the note, noticing its bold creases and rough edges. Shining it towards a trail of sunlight seeping through the window, it read…

Dear Ophelia, my only sister, I write this in tears, Time has passed rather slowly and dreadfully the past few days. Suddenly baking has become a bore and my nerves for Mother have been increasingly poor. I believe she shall die very soon. I have sadly quoted that from her letters she has sent to me and now, my worries for you are growing.

You have not written back to me yet and there is only a sliver of hope that you are still alive and well.

Brother has said the black plague can be cured if only people pray more and more. He says, God has seen all the sins mankind has committed and is punishing us. I have been praying half of the time and the other half is baking for a living, I do truly wish that more people would concentrate more on praying. Mother had said that her own home is a prison, and the chains, which is her illness, has rendered her miserable, and since this may be the last days of her life she wishes she could live happier and …

“Lily, tea!” a familiar voice spoke; her mother was calling, the voice attacked so abruptly that it forced her to raise her head, that was initially dug into the quillwritten letter. She could smell the sweet scent of the strawberry cheesecake from the attic.

Lily smiled down at the brown tinted letter; she creased the paper in the middle making the folds deeper.

She shoved it into her pink and yellow jumper pockets, crinkling it, and stepped down the wooden ladder for tea. How different her life was when quarantine hit, but, how lucky she felt that she was not born back then.

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Take a trip down our distillery trail

by SEANNA CRONIN

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f you’ve noticed more of your friends ordering a gin rather than a lager lately, you’re not imagining things.

Craft beers have had their moment in the spotlight. Now it’s time for spirits to shine.

The number of distillers on the Sunshine Coast has more than doubled in the past two years (going from three to seven in 202021) and there’s no doubt gin is leading the charge.

Sales of the juniper-based spirit are booming both domestically and around the world. From the classic dry to pink, pineapple, barrel-aged and even quandong varieties, there are more than a dozen local craft gins to tantalise the tastebuds.

But that’s just the tip of the ice block when it comes to what’s being produced on the Coast. Cane spirits, also known as unaged agricole, are gaining popularity thanks to an abundance of local sugar cane. This crystal clear spirit, similar to a rum but made from freshly pressed sugarcane juice, is best enjoyed on ice with lime or in cocktails like mojitos, daiquiris or a Brazilian caipirinha.

If that doesn’t tickle your fancy, there’s also a range of vodkas, rums, whisky, liqueurs and a white malt being produced right here in our own backyard.

For Buderim’s Chris and Cathryn Clyne, starting up their own distillery has been a

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passion project several years in the making.

The couple ran Australia’s secondlargest sultana company until flash flooding in regional Victoria decimated the local industry in the summer of 2011.

They were forced to close the business and moved to the Coast seven years ago when Chris was offered a job as the general manager for a macadamia producer in Gympie. Now, they’re putting their production experience to use as the founders of Warana’s Paradise Rum. “What appealed to us about distilling was potentially building a brand again like we had in the past,” Chris tells the Sunny Coast Times.

“We got tired of the old 9 to 5 job and decided to take the plunge again in October of last year.

“We’ve done a lot of research on it, talked to a lot of people and got some great advice along the way… When you buy one of our products and you’re drinking it by the pool, we want you feel like you’re in paradise.”

When Paradise Rum’s bar and restaurant officially opens its doors on November 4, there will be seven distilleries open to the public across our region.

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Located half an hour’s drive from ‘trendy’ Noosa, this boutique hinterland distillery produces gin and whisky the old-fashioned way including hand bottling and labelling. The awardwinning East London Dry gin pays homage to founder Brian Bedding’s birthplace. If you want to enjoy a cocktail and charcuterie board at the tasting bar, make sure to book ahead.

Fortune Distillery, Noosa

Located in the same complex as Land & Sea Brewing company, Fortune produces gin, white malt and white cane spirit in its impressive 2000-litre copper pot reflux still. Last year the distillery teamed up with popular local restaurant Sum Yung Guys to create a pho-inspired gin cocktail – grab the recipe from their website.

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Located at the former site of Pomona’s historic bakery, this family-run distillery boasts a beautiful bistro and art gallery to enjoy while sipping on their signature pink or blue gins.

Pomona Distilling Co will also soon offer a gin masterclass where you can create a blend of botanicals for your own bespoke spirit. Pictured is the salted caramel espresso martini.

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As the name suggests, this new distillery will specialise in five-year aged rum but they will also produce a gin and two vodkas. The flavours of their coconut vodka and spiced rum will transport you straight to the Caribbean. The bar and restaurant will offer up a range of cocktails and tapas-style food.

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Famous for its spicy alcoholic ginger beer, Diablo Co expanded its range last year to include three vodkas, three rums, a Mediterranean gin and seven liqueurs. Diablo’s pop-up bar is the perfect spot for afternoon drinks in the shadow of the Big Pineapple.

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Founded by four best mates, Sunshine & Sons produce gin and vodka in two Tasmanian artisan pot stills nicknamed Maria and Sarah. The distillery door overlooks rolling green hills just a few hundred metres from the Big Pineapple, which inspired their popular pineapple parfait gin. Their range also includes small-batch barrel-aged gin, charity gins and a macadamia and coffeeinfused organic molasses spirit. sunshineandsons.com.au

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This newly opened small-batch distillery specialises in organic, sugar cane-based gin and vodka made with native botanicals, which are reflected in the nature-inspired label.

Founded by locals Steve Grace and Kirra Daley, Caloundra’s first distillery has an ethical and sustainable focus including a ‘one bottle, one tree’ program.

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As a founding member of the band, 25-year-old Corey is promoting disability awareness through music to create an “inclusive place” where people can enjoy the sounds and feel that they belong.

Corey hopes the band can help people understand that “disability doesn’t have to hold you back”.

“You get to take off all of your disability hats and just be you,” he says of being on stage. “You’re not ‘autistic’ any more, you’re just a musician, like everyone else.”

Corey is particularly passionate about sharing information about the everyday reality of disabilities and dispelling myths through his songs.

“Something needs to be done to educate people because otherwise you could sit there and in 10 years’ time, there would be no change for people with an intellectual disability,” he says.

“I wanted to help change that.”

“We (the band) have a lot of knowledge to contribute, we just need people to give us the space to share.”

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The band have written a range of songs across their time together, with their shared experiences with disability being a common source of inspiration.

The band’s first ever song was Outsider Blues, which was inspired by the perceived outsider status the group felt.

Corey credits his bravery and confidence to STEPS Pathways College, where he has been going for two years.

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Corey says he is excited to graduate and begin his “exciting plans for the future”, including moving out and living independently with his girlfriend, fellow college graduate Kate-Lyn MacKenzie.

As for his what’s next, Corey sees himself becoming a motivational speaker.

“I’m confident when I’m doing my music so I would love to do something different with that and speak,” he says.

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es, I’m talking about beer. Well, breweries actually.

And, more specifically, if the size of the brewery makes any difference to the beer.

With the big boys in beer dominating the headlines of late, with the recent sale of Stone & Wood to Lion, and local news that Joe’s Waterhole in Eumundi has been sold to Gage Roads, I really wanted to shine a light on some of the smaller breweries operating here on the Sunshine Coast.

Locally, we have seen continued growth and success with several breweries opening, or about to open, a second production facility to allow them to keep up with the growing demand for their beer. Moffat Beach Brewing Co scaled up from its tiny beachside origins to its much larger facility at Caloundra, and both Brouhaha Brewery and Your Mates Brewing have bigger floorplans and venues in the works.

But what about the little guys? These are the smaller operations that are often run by the husband and wife teams, or a passionate brewer who brews, manages the social media, balances the books and also serves up your beer. We have some amazing smaller venues on the Sunshine Coast that have become lively local meeting places and have just as much character, heart and soul as any old Queensland pub.

Brewing 200 or 2000 litres takes roughly the same amount of time and effort, with the obvious difference being

the final output being significantly less. Smaller breweries, however, have the flexibility of regularly making different styles of beer, some that are a little more experimental, feature seasonal ingredients or are made purely for the love of a certain beer style. It doesn’t need to sell commercially into bottle shops, it just needs to be embraced by its locals.

So here are my tips if you want to taste some great beers from some of our smaller breweries.

For the perfect country drive, you should make the trip to Cooran and visit Noosa Hinterland Brewing Co. Situated in an old sawmill, this rustic venue has been embraced by locals mainly due to the friendly welcome from owners John and Cara, but also for the amazing beers John is producing in his tiny brewery.

Just down the road in Cooroy, Copperhead Brewery has been producing a quality range of beers for more than five years from the small brewery inside its restaurant.

You can regularly see the brewer Davy hard at work in the middle of a brew while you sit just a few metres away enjoying lunch.

If you haven’t found this little hidden gem already, then make a point of heading to Nambour to visit Morts Brewing and you will more than likely be served by ownerbrewer Jamie. The smallest brewery on the coast is located in a cool little venue hidden down a back lane and is producing some very good beers in a very small space.

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iving in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland not far from Cooroy Mountain, acceptance of the presence of snakes, abundant in variety as well as number, is an absolute requirement of life. During the almost-never-ending snake season, which seems to run from early August though to June, hardly a day passes without a sighting of one snake species or another. Even in the hibernating season – for snakes called brumation – sometimes, on warmer days, one of these fascinating reptiles can be seen out enjoying the sunshine.

Our visitors range from the timid and non-venomous green tree snake to the deadly and aggressive eastern brown.

For all the obvious reasons, therefore, letting the dogs out for after-dark ablutions means ‘lights on’ followed by an inspection of the little ‘doggy lawn’ to ensure that all is safe.

One particular evening, I noticed a strange glint from the corner of the lawn where, sticking up from the grass, a glossy hoop-like shape was reflecting the beams of the overhead floodlight. As I approached to check what it was, I realised I was being treated to a fascinating but rare sighting of an eastern bandy-bandy (Vermicella annulata), also known as a hoop snake. These striking black-and-white banded snakes with a most noticeable short, narrow tail can grow to about 75cm but I judged this one to be nearer to 60cm.

While they are venomous to a degree, the egg-laying bandy-bandy’s natural reaction to any perceived threat is to contort its body into rigid, vertically oriented hoops, displaying black and white bands, believed to be unique to each individual snake like human fingerprints. Wider white bands are seen on the shiny underside, while black is more prominent from above. The snake then proceeds to gently wave the raised hoop backwards and forwards to confuse, or

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even mesmerise, any would-be attacker. This action may also help to protect the snake’s small head, which always remains on the ground.

There are six known species of this highly distinctive snake, which are found in wet and dry forests as well as spinifex desert sand hills throughout a large area of eastern Australia. This includes parts of the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, with a restricted presence also in South Australia. Although it is not

uncommon it is, in fact, very rarely seen as it spends most of its time underground and normally only emerges after dark to feed, almost exclusively, on blind snakes (Typhlopidae). So rare are bandy-bandy sightings that my nature-loving neighbour, living here for more than 35 years, has never seen one.

If you are fortunate enough to encounter one of these delightful, unaggressive snakes, watch quietly and enjoy the almost seductive dance as it sways to and fro. You will not be disappointed!

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HISTORY

Early teacher forced out

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ittle is known of Margaret Catherine Hare. Records show she was teaching at Rolleston Provisional School from 1892-95 and was appointed to Rosemount Provisional School at Sylvania in 1896 to replace Henry Miller, who had been transferred to Nambour State School. By 1900 she was teaching 19 children and boarding with a local family. In 1903, her address was “The School Teacher, Sylvania”.

At Rosemount Provisional School she encouraged the children to be neat and clean, behave morally, truthfully and politely, and taught them the principles of patriotism, citizenship and government. In 1904, Margaret was also given charge of the Sylvania Receiving Post Office.

On August 26, 1907, Margaret Hare married Luke Theodore Love, a local cane farmer, and because of the government restriction on married women teaching, she worked at home and on the farm for six years.

In 1913 Margaret Love applied to teach again and the Department of Public Instruction assigned her to Blackall Range School near Maleny. To be closer to home, she applied to the department for a position at Bli Bli Provisional School and was appointed in September 1913.

Living on a farm on the Nambour-Bli Bli Road, each day Mrs Love dressed in a divided skirt and rode sidesaddle on her horse the two miles to school, where she let the horse loose to graze in the school grounds. The older children often caught and saddled the horse for her in the afternoons.

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in the paddock and proved an irresistible target for stones thrown by the boys. When Mrs Love discovered holes in the sides of the bucket she taught the class a lesson on actions and consequences, telling each boy responsible he was to contribute a sixpence to replace the bucket or be caned. One of the boys was too frightened to ask his father for sixpence so the other boys paid the money for him.

According to the inspector’s reports, Margaret Love’s government of the school in 1914 was mild, kind and effective. But after 1915, when many male schoolteachers had been called to fight in the Great War, she struggled to teach large numbers of pupils on her own. By the beginning of 1918, she was still single-handedly teaching 51 pupils spread over six grades. The school committee requested that an assistant teacher be appointed to help, but with a second teacher the school was classified at a higher level and Mrs Love’s qualifications did not allow her to retain the position

of head teacher. In August 1919 she handed the school over to the “fully qualified” Edward Wheeley and took up the appointment of assistant teacher.

In 1922 the school committee called for Mrs Love to be replaced by a “young, vigorous, classified assistant teacher”.

She resigned and Miss Annie Carroll was appointed in her place.

Margaret Love died in Brisbane at the age of 59 on January 23, 1932. Her husband died in Brisbane on December 1, 1947, aged 75.

Story from the book People of Maroochy published by Genealogy Sunshine Coast; research by Berenice Alcorn.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Award recognition

QUICK CATCH-UP Annual grants

Two members of Buderim VIEW Club have been nominated for the organisation’s Making a Difference Award.

Leonie Palmer has been a member of the club for 10 years, holding positions of secretary, co-secretary, vicepresident and assistant treasurer. She provides members with trivia questions at club meetings and, despite her Parkinson’s disease, remains a positive member.

Lyn McGannon joined Merimbula VIEW Club in 1980 and transferred to Buderim in 1999. She has served on committees for 12 years. She attends most functions and has participated in Walk With VIEW on several occasions to help raise funds for The Smith Family.

“Forty-one years in VIEW has certainly enriched my life,” Lyn says.

Buderim VIEW Club’s next lunch and meeting is on Wednesday, November 3, at 11am for an 11.30am start at Buderim Tavern. Cost is $30. RSVP to gai3@optusnet.com. au by October 28.

Pictured are president Janette Horton and Leonie Palmer.

The Buderim Foundation has awarded $70,391 to be shared by 14 community-based organisations as part of its annual Community Grants Celebration.

This year’s grants include $10,000 for Wishlist, $8309 for Buderim Playgroup and $6972 for the LifeFlight Foundation. Since 2008, $671,947 has been distributed to organisations supporting the 4556 postcode area.

Festive fair

The Sunshine Coast Arts and Crafts group is holding its Christmas Fair on November 6-7 at the Montville Village Hall. The group has been supporting local craftspeople for 38 years.

Visitors welcome

Tewantin Noosa Probus Club is a not-for-profit group providing friendship, fellowship and fun for retirees and semi-retirees. Meetings are on the fourth Tuesday of each month, excluding December, at Tewantin RSL at 10am for a 10.30am start. Phone 0419 447 266.

Caloundra

Caloundra

Milestone meeting

Homes complete

President steps down

Caloundra Evening VIEW Club has marked its 26th birthday, celebrating with a dinner and meeting with a black and white theme. The club has 117 enthusiastic members and sponsors 10 children in the Learning for Life program.

Members recently raised funds with a Bunnings sausage sizzle and volunteered to register athletes for the Sunshine Coast Marathon (pictured).

The club has interesting guest speakers at its monthly evening dinner meetings, which are held on the second Tuesday each month at 6.15pm at Caloundra Power Boat Club. Guests and new members are always welcome.

Six people with disability will soon have the opportunity to live more independently thanks to two new homes built by the Endeavour Foundation at a cost of $1.8 million.

As part of the My Home, My Life initiative, Endeavour is building 70 new accessible homes throughout the state. Two have already been completed at Tewantin, with more on the way.

Three NDIS participants have registered to try living in one of the homes, with three more people needed for a trial in the other.

Pictured is David Blower from the Endeavour Foundation.

The new committee of Caloundra Family History Research has been named. They are (pictured from left) Sue Schott, Pattie Wilson, Roz Kuss, Loris Gray, June Blackburn, Sue Brownjohn, Jennifer Strike, Judy Matulick and Richard Slatter.

Absent are Robyn Delaney and Colleen Jones.

Valerie Thornton stepped down as president after nine years. She was acknowledged with a life membership award.

The group’s guest speaker on October 21 is author and historian Duncan Richardson, and on November 18 it is Sunshine Coast Young Veterans president Peter Kennedy.

Visit caloundrafamilyhistory.org.au or phone 0409 932 229.

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Kawana

Orchids on show

Naming honour

Birthday bash

The Nambour Orchid Society is staging an orchid show on Saturday, October 23, at the Buderim Uniting Church Hall from 8am-4pm.

Members of various Queensland orchid societies will be exhibiting many award-winning plants, and plants will be for sale. There will also be craft displays and sales by the Palmwoods Arts and Crafts Group.

Admission is $4 and raffles cost $1.

The Nambour Orchid Society welcomes all new members to its monthly meetings. Email nambourorchids@ gmail.com.

Late, great muso and former Buderim resident Phil Emmanuel has been honoured with the unveiling of the newly named Phil Emmanuel Stage at Buderim Village Park.

His wife Amanda said she was proud to see the stage dedicated to Phil, who sadly passed away in 2018 at age 66.

“He was the happiest when he was on stage,” she said.

“I think this stage naming is really the start of something special for Phil, for his legacy to carry on. We really hope future concerts can be held here with up-and-coming musicians.”

The Probus Club of Kawana Waters recently marked its 32nd birthday at the Kawana Surf Club.

Celebrations included special recognition of the club’s five life members – Leigh and Jenny Baker, Phyllis Gerhardt and Beth and Gordon Lattimer (pictured) – who cut the birthday cake, which was sponsored by MP Jarrod Bleijie.

Eight members were presented with 10-year membership certificates, and four new members were welcomed in an induction ceremony performed by president Maureen Dunne.

In addition to monthly meetings, members enjoy a wide range of interest groups. For more information visit probuskawanawaters.com.

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Toastmasters celebrate

QUICK CATCH-UP Dementia support

Community-based Toastmasters club Coolum Communicators is celebrating its 15th year in 2021.

The club was first sponsored by Nambour Toastmasters, where Coral McVean was a member. She did the groundwork for the fledgling Coolum club in 2005.

“We spent two hours a day for weeks at the local library, preparing for a speech-craft course, and we held demonstration meetings at the Lions Hall,” she says.

“Coolum Communicators’ charter function was held at the Hyatt Coolum on February 9, 2006.”

Toastmasters International has 300,000 members worldwide across more than 15,800 clubs in 149 countries.

“Coolum Communicators just keeps on proving to be innovative, energetic and supportive to all its members, and it’s a huge amount of fun besides,” says longserving member Marilyn Freeman (pictured with past international president Mike Storkey).

The club meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the North Shore Community Centre, Mudjimba. Email coolumtoastmasters@gmail.com.

Noosa

The Sunshine Coast Dementia Alliance will welcome guest speaker Marie-Louise Bone to its Vitality Cafe on October 27. She is the Dementia Australia community development officer for dementia-friendly communities. To register for the free event visit sunshinecoastdementiaalliance.com.au/events.

Swim safety

The Migrant Learn to Swim and Beach Safe program, run by Sunshine Coast Council and Royal Life Saving Society of Queensland, is returning. It runs for seven weeks at Buderim’s Goodlife Community Centre, Nambour Aquatic Centre and Bulcock Beach from October 23. Register at tiny.cc/learntoswim.

Saving koalas

The Noosa Biosphere Wild Koala Gala at Peppers Noosa Resort and Villas on November 2 will raise awareness and funds to save Noosa’s koala population. For tickets go to noosabiosphere.org.au/gala.

Maroochydore

Bokarina

Cockatoo research

Fiesta time

Men’s well-being

The Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation is conducting new research in an effort to identify glossy black-cockatoo nesting sites in the Noosa Shire.

The project will use bioacoustics to record and analyse calls of the bird across the region.

Foundation director Jady Smith says the research, done in partnership with Bushland Conservation Management, is critical to conserving the bird, which is listed as vulnerable.

“The Noosa Biosphere Reserve is considered a significant habitat with up to one third of the entire known population located in the region,” he said.

Pictured is Joel Morris. Image by Bushland Conservation Management.

The ladies of Maroochydore VIEW Club visited the Bribie Island club recently for the VIEW Zone Fiesta, which involved clubs from across the Sunshine Coast.

Attendees were treated to lunch, entertainment, raffles and the chance to catch up with the members of other local clubs.

VIEW clubs are a valued partner of The Smith Family, supporting 298 disadvantaged children in Queensland with their education. All clubs welcome guests and new members.

Phone Maggie on 0418 793 906 for more information on the Maroochydore club, or visit view.org.au/find-a-club to find your nearest club.

An event designed to change the face of local men’s mental health and well-being is being held on November 19, which is International Men’s Day. In Conversation: Show Us Your Mo aims to build awareness around mental health and suicide prevention while addressing some of the biggest health issues faced by men, and local mental health advocates Leon Stensholm (Body By Leon) and Sam Parker (Grab Life By The Balls) will share their own experiences.

The event, for men and women, is at Venue114 from 4-7pm. Visit www.venue114.com.au.

Pictured is Sam Parker.

Peregian

Maroochydore

Kawana

Surf club boost

Generous grant

Stunning mural

A sell-out community event in Peregian has raised more than $55,000 for the future rebuilding of Peregian Surf Club.

The club has lacked its own income stream since 2014, when the restaurant and bar were closed, but plans are in place for it to become independent again in 2022.

The gala event was attended by 160 community members. The guest speaker was Rob Frey, who led the defence against the 2019 Peregian fires, while chefs Peter Kuruvita and Adriano Zumbo, and poet Rupert McCall (pictured) thrilled guests.

Image by Wavell Bush Photography.

The philanthropic Eastern Star Foundation has awarded $45,000 to Maroochydore-based Suncare Community Services for a new car to help volunteers reach more people, especially those in remote areas.

Suncare Community Services chairman Mario Pennisi said its Community Visitors Scheme, which helps more than 40 participants across Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, required the new car to support the aged community who are susceptible to isolation and loneliness.

Foundation chairman Jonathan Nantes said the initiative aligned with its mission to support initiatives that help the aged remain independent, have a support network and experience healthy ageing.

Collaborating with urban artist Sarah Sculley and Aboriginal portrait artist Jandamarra Cadd, a group of young men have created a visual story to show their support for mental health and well-being.

The mural is full of symbolism on connection and community, blending First Nations and contemporary styles.

Headspace Maroochydore, Youturn Youth Support and Kawana Shoppingworld organised the activity for the group, who were aged 12 to 25.

“We would like to acknowledge and thank Kawana Shoppingworld for supporting this initiative, as well as paint sponsors Haymes, Montana and PaintRight Maroochydore,” project co-ordinator Susan Beaton says.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Support the arts An open letter to the Federal Government of Australia.

This letter calls for reform in the way that the arts and creative industries are represented in the Federal Parliament of Australia, while also highlighting the need for ‘industry specific’ federally funded financial assistance for the arts and creative sectors during the Covid pandemic.

The arts and creative industries have for a long time not been afforded the support from government it deserves. This is evident by the simple fact we do not have our own government representative, instead being joined with communications, urban infrastructure and cities. Our industry is viable and valuable, and, in most cases, we have spent our lives dedicated to its success.

We call upon the Federal Government of Australia to establish a standalone minister for the arts and creative industries.

Another issue that continues to frustrate the live events and entertainment sectors in particular is the apparent government prioritisation of sporting events in lieu of meaningful support of the creative industries. Time and time again the NRL and AFL codes have received the full support of various governments across the country. Sports teams are allowed 'bubbles', whereas only recently in Melbourne, theatre productions requested a 'rehearsal bubble' to which they were denied.

Live events and entertainment cannot be managed like any other industry. We are very much a standalone entity and are unique in the way that our work isn't guaranteed

because we operate in a gig-to-gig economy. If these gigs are cancelled, then that means we make no money.

The current policy of ‘disaster payments’ being paid to workers living in lockdown areas who are unable to work doesn’t even come close to being inclusive of the thousands of workers employed across the country in the live events and entertainment industries. Because of the diversity of our industry’s employment structures, many entertainers and production crew fell through the gaps regarding government payments like JobKeeper. While government recovery grants awarded to the arts sector were gratefully accepted, the unfortunate reality is that rarely did any of this money filter down to a large majority of the artists that work within the sector.

Income protection for the live events and entertainment industries needs to be brought in.

We go into the arts and creative industries because it's our love and our passion. However, in the current situation our identity is being eroded and it feels as though no one is fighting for us or at the very least understands our current plight.

Mark McConville, James Bustar and Lindsay Webb savethearts.com.au

Crying out for commission Before the last election, the Liberal-National government promised that we would have a Commonwealth Integrity Commission established as oversight of those who govern us and the public service.

Former Attorney-General Christian Porter released a draft CIC for comment, which was roundly criticised by legal experts as inadequate, even farcical, due to limited or no public hearings, lack of retrospectivity, lack of protection for whistleblowers and the inability to instigate investigations – in other words, a Clayton’s watchdog.

Many questionable actions during this current parliamentary term, such as MP Angus Taylor’s water dealings and dodgy letter criticising the Sydney mayor, the so-called sports rorts and the car park rorts sagas, deserve closer examination.

If politicians adhere to the rules, which they largely set for themselves, then they have nothing to fear from the scrutiny of an integrity commission.

Time is running out for the Morrison-Joyce government to table its Commonwealth Integrity Commission legislation to ensure honesty, transparency and accountability.

Bring it on.

Robyn Deane Bli Bli

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Crossword

Trivia with Allan Blackburn

1. Harry S. Truman, 2. One, 3. Red, 4. Aircraft, 5. Tasmania, 6. Tom Clancy, 7. Bird, 8. Knowledgeable, 9. Wallaman, 10. One, 11. The Three Stooges, 12. Elton John, 13. Gas, 14. Fair, 15. One (97), 16. Champagne, 17. Contempt, 18.

Hyperactivity, 19. John Curtin, 20. Eddie McGuire.

Across: 1 Schnapps, 9 Overload, 10 Arrogant, 11 Suitcase, 12 Abstain, 13 Liar dice, 14 Vendetta, 18 Performs, 21 Hairless, 23 Sorcery, 24 Yarmouth, 26 Olive oil, 27 Farewell, 28 Magnetic.

Trivia answers:

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1. Which US president had a middle initial that did not stand for anything?

2. How many toes does a horse have on each foot?

3. The colours of the Newcastle Knights NRL team are blue and what other colour?

4. The Russian Igor Sikorsky was a pioneer in what form of transport?

5. Bruny Island is closest to which Australian state?

6. Which author wrote The Cardinal of the Kremlin and Patriot Games?

7. What kind of living thing is a heron?

8. Erudite is closet in meaning to: suave, knowledgeable, extravagant?

9. Which waterfalls are the highest in Queensland?

10. How many of the five major lines of latitude cross Australia?

11. The comedy trio Mo, Larry and Shemp were better known by what name?

12. Who had a 1972 hit called Crocodile Rock?

13. At room temperature is methane a solid, liquid or gas?

14. What is the last word of Australia’s national anthem?

15. How many prime numbers are there between 90 and 100?

16. What kind of substance is Veuve Clicquot?

17. According to the proverb, what does familiarity breed?

18. In the medical condition called ADHD, what does the “H” stand for?

19. Who was Australian Prime Minister for the majority of World War II? 20. Who was the original host of Millionaire Hot Seat?

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POETS' CORNER

SPRING BRINGS US HOPE We have seen the winter season come and go.

Cool nights, though not too low.

Covid has taken a big toll and people are sinking so very low.

Messages are confusing and the community wants to move on.

No more masks to don, Friends and family to embrace, It’s been too long a painful race.

Month after month, Lockdown after lockdown.

Making us all frown.

Information all mixed up.

One day this, the next day that.

Which brand, draw a line in the sand.

We are all part of the not so merry band.

Some get through, The borders to cross, Some might say “who gives a toss?”

But others wonder how politicians can go so low.

Many ordinary folk, like you and me, feel ripped off.

They see no logic, nor rhyme, nor reason.

Actors, superstars and other favourites, Welcomed, feted and even more elevated.

New strains challenge traditional thinking, As too many feel we are just sinking.

Mental health has shown its sad and troubled face, As too many come forward losing the vaccine race.

Fortunately, hope is being embraced, As the new strains cannot always be contact traced.

Let a new season bring great hope, With colours, rich green growth and golden wattle, For us all, to help settle.

Enjoy the array of many a colour.

And take on every challenge.

Face a new beginning, And come out swinging. © Tom Stodulka

DEAR FRIEND

TODAY

We have talked and laughed together, Many summers and winters have passed, Treasured moments held like jewels.

Hospitals can be a scary place With what you are about to face Your will and strength will see you through With only minor issues so very few

Your thoughts scatter like clouds, Your butterfly mind skips away, as you prepare to do the same.

My heart breaks.

How you will be missed, Elvis is leaving the building.

When you go, a friendship and caring will follow.

Our halcyon days are complete.

The wine bottle is empty, Leaves are falling into two empty glasses, Our last conversation. © Wendy K

Today is the start of a new you Action and vitality coming so true Love and kindness are your way Your smiling face to make our day You do not face it alone come what may Family and friends together this day Wishing you good cheer and recovery The new you a wonderful discovery You have been down this road before Taking little steps to be sure Your love can overcome any ill Your strength is your driving will Your operation will be a success Our love is with you we do confess Live for today with all your heart One today at a time is the start © Ray Troyahn

NIGHT FISHING (NOOSA EVERGLADES) I saw a tinny chugging up the river, Two fishermen, two dogs, a load of gear.

As the wash smoothed A star came out, A fish jumped, safe from that predator at least.

Kookaburras chuckled.

Cicadas bowed out to frogs and quieter insects.

I stayed there until constellations Reflected in the tea-warm, tea-black water, And bats were chasing the mosquitoes that had found me, And still I heard – or thought I heard – The motor chugging up the river. © Alison Myors

Send us your poems – we love receiving your creative work!

To submit your work for possible publication email editor@sunnycoastmedia.com.au.

Word limit per poem (due to space) is 300 words.

HAPPINESS What is happiness?

Do we ever Really know.

Do we realise when we have it, Or, is it only when it goes?

Must we always look To the future, Hoping for what is to come, Or else, Turn back the pages, And talk fondly of the past.

Yet, ahead, Things can seem So much brighter, And looking back.

All things seemed Right.

But, Here in the present, In this time That comes so slowly, And yet goes Oh so fast.

Do we really know What we are doing?

Are we sure of ourselves?

That, this is happiness Or, How long it will last. © Gillian Gosney

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Lockdown album project comes to fruition

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oing an album with songs born out of slavery was, in hindsight, an appropriate project to start during 2020. Songs written by people who endured incredible hardships and had to develop resilience were perfect for a project that was delayed by lockdowns, social restrictions, personal challenges and more lockdowns. Sunshine Coast-based singer Robyn Brown’s new album Bound for Glory: The Gospel Project has been a labour of love and perseverance, started in March 2020 and finally reaching completion in June this year.

“This has been the longest project ever,” Robyn says.

“At times I thought it was never going to get finished but it’s here at last.”

The project was born from Robyn’s personal interest in the history of early blues and jazz, specifically gospel. She brought together traditional tunes, spirituals and songs from Blind Willie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sam Cooke and many others in a popular show, which grew into a recording project to produce an album to complement the live act.

Bound for Glory features new versions of gospel classics and more obscure gems, but it also shares the stories behind the songs. The enclosed booklet gives insight into how the spirituals came to be, how they were used and how they evolved.

“In the live shows, I share a bit of the history of how this music came about and the stories behind the songs,” Robyn says.

“There are so many great stories to tell that the hard part is deciding which ones to include. For example, some of the spirituals that were sung by the slaves were actually coded messages on how to escape.”

Some of Queensland’s finest jazz musicians including David Spicer (piano), Peter Walters (double bass), Max Sportelli (drums) and Rob McWilliams (trumpet/flugelhorn) worked with Robyn on the project, bringing a modern jazz approach to songs from the 1800s to the early 1900s.

“It was so much fun recording with these guys,” says Robyn, who is also the organiser of the Jazz Sessions, Nambour Winter Jazz Fest and the Sunshine Coast Jazz and Brews Fest. “Most of them are teachers at the Conservatorium in Brisbane and their playing was absolutely brilliant.”

Bound for Glory is available to purchase on Bandcamp and iTunes, and is on all streaming platforms.

An album launch concert will be held on Sunday, October 31, from 3pm at the New Life auditorium, McKenzie Rd, Woombye. CDs and download cards can be purchased at the concert. Tickets are $10-$15 from stickytickets.com.au/thejazzsessions. Singer Robyn Brown has launched a new gospel album

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Caloundra

Maleny

Buderim

Winner revealed

Musical masterpiece

War-time throwback

Marian Tubbs has won this year’s Sunshine Coast Art Prize with her piece The farm (pictured).

“Her use of a constructed image that has been manipulated challenges perceptions of value and truth, as well as raises ecological issues,” judge Renai Grace said.

Coast artist Amanda Shadforth was the People’s Choice Prize winner.

“The oil on canvas work drew the majority of visitor votes throughout the exhibition,” Caloundra Regional Gallery curator and manager Jo Duke said.

Image by Cooper Brady Photography.

Maleny’s Inspiration Project Choir has overcome Covid restrictions and lockdowns, and is ready to present Handel’s Messiah on October 31.

Music director Kim Kirkman says it hasn’t been easy.

“We had about seven weeks of being unable to meet in person, so I used Zoom to teach the parts,” he says.

The choir will be presenting Handel’s masterpiece with orchestra and professional soloists.

The performance is at the Maleny Primary School Hall on Sunday, October 31, from 2pm. Tickets are $20 at the door or can be bought through trybooking.com/BTYHX.

Dinkum Assorted, by Linda Aronson and directed by Anne Grant, is an amalgamation of stories passed down by women who lived through the Second World War. With costumes for 15 women, and crew, who each require multiple costume changes, 3bCreative’s latest offering is a real labour of love.

It opens at the Buderim War Memorial Hall on October 22 and runs until November 6. Tickets from trybooking.com/ BSWLQ. Pictured are (from left) Kathy Hickson, Kathryn Barnes and Lea-Anne Grevett. Image by Chris Grealy.

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Maleny

Rock royalty Australian music legend Glenn Shorrock (pictured) will be the special guest performer at the inaugural Maleny Long Lunch on Sunday, October 31.

With a career that spans five decades, Shorrock’s catalogue of hits includes lead vocals for Twilights, Axiom and the Little River Band.

The Maleny Long Lunch is the brainchild of Almost The Greatest Events’ Ian ‘Dicko’ Dickson, Dave Wilkins and Tony Aitken, and will support Wishlist.

It will be held at The Pavillion at Maleny Showgrounds.

Tickets are $130 plus booking fee from malenylonglunch. com.

Image by Occhio Photography.

Coolum

Celebrated author and journalist Trent Dalton will talk about his latest release Love Stories at The Events Centre, Caloundra, from 6pm on November 11. Tickets are $20 from library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au.

Music legend

The Sunshine Coast Jazz Club will present Australian jazz legend Wilma Reading at the Caloundra Power Boat Club on November 7. To book phone Richard on 0427 782 960.

Board positions

Nambour’s Old Ambulance Station is seeking expressions of interest for voluntary board positions. Email Michael Doneman at chair@theoldambulancestation.com.

Jazz afternoon

Slips and the FWs will perform for the Jazz and Blues Collective at Maroochydore’s Millwell Road Community Centre on November 11. Adam James and the Leading Edge will also perform on October 24 in a rescheduled show. Visit ticketebo.com.au/jazz-blues-collective.

Shelly Beach

Buderim

Composer’s triumph A Year 11 student from Matthew Flinders Anglican College has won the 2021 Australian Society for Music Education Queensland Young Composers’ Competition (Senior Division).

Kairyo Searle’s composition Supernova was chosen as the winning piece by the adjudicators, professional composers Lisa Cheney, Dan Pratt and Martin Emo. He will conduct the premiere of his composition, performed by the school’s wind symphony, at the college on Saturday, October 23.

“I consider Kairyo to be one of the best musicians I have worked with in my 28 years at the college,” Flinders music teacher John Thomas says.

Eudlo/Cooroy

Age-old problem

Fundraising drive

Baroque concert

Ladies in Black, presented by Coolum Theatre Players, is a story about Lisa, a 1950s girl who wants to advance her education, but her father has determined university is out of the question.

This is a wonderful musical by Carolyn Burns with music and lyrics by Tim Finn, directed by Linda Gefken.

It will be performed at Coolum Civic Centre from November 26 until December 5. Tickets from coolumtheatre. com.au.

Pictured are Sienna McRitchie (centre), Christine Mai (left) and Greg McMahon as Lisa and her mother and father respectively. Image by John Dumble.

Local author Dacre Danes is aiming to raise $10,000 over the next 10 months for anti-bullying organisation Bully Zero as he prepares for a spot on a reality TV show.

Adventure All Stars, airing on Channel Seven, combines entertainment with philanthropy as socially conscious cast members embark on an ultimate six-day road trip.

Dacre, from Shelly Beach, who released his debut novel Danyon last year, is looking for sponsors that want their logo on his shirt during the filming of the show.

To donate visit bullyzerofundraiser.raisely.com/dacredanes.

The Pacific Chamber Players’ annual Baroque Brilliance concert will be performed at Eudlo Hall and Cooroy Memorial Hall from 2.30pm on November 13 and 14 respectively.

The program will feature talented Coast players Donna McMahon, Cathy Roberts, Anna Moores, Andrew Paszkowski, Anne Bowyer, Sharelle Guest, Warren Brewer, Nick Davey and multi-instrumentalist Janet Brewer.

They will perform pieces from Albinoni, Telemann, Vivaldi, Torelli, Bach and Handel.

Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 concession and $10 for students from pacificchamberplayers.com or at the door. For more information phone 5446 8128.

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id you know clutter and disorganisation can be linked to things as serious and debilitating as depression and anxiety? Our mood and motivation are affected by our surroundings, so keeping an organised space not only looks good, it’s good for us. Your home is a reflection of your emotional well-being and keeping it clean and organised impacts every area of your life. Our relationships, health, stress levels, financial well-being and enthusiasm for life are all influenced by keeping our mess at bay. One of the few benefits of these past couple of crazy years of a global pandemic has been that a lot of people have had the time to declutter and rid themselves of mess. And they’ve been able to make more room for the things they truly want in their lives and found more happiness because of it.

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Some patients get confused, especially when we are in Knowledge is power and this practice begins to our matching surgical gown outfits and mistake us as twin manifest and elevate success in all areas of your life. Before sisters! you know it you’ll be moving through it with more ease and efficiency than ever before. Clear the clutter and clean Sal, the deal offered that has now been Pacific Biological Dentistry is at 2/28-30 Karome St, Pacific Paradise. up the mess and see your life improve and flourish. removed needs to be included in 7023 advert Phone 5412 or visit pacificbiologicaldentistry.com.au.

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