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COAST TOURISM SHINES AT QLD TOURISM AWARDS Sunshine Coast tourism operators have taken out seven accolades at the 2017 Queensland Tourism Awards. RACV Noosa Resort received the inaugural RACQ People’s Choice Award for its accommodation, as well as a gold award for its self-contained accommodation. Diddillibah holiday park Rivershore Resort was awarded a silver award for its New Tourism Business and bronze awards went to Australia Zoo and Narrows Escape Rainforest Retreat for their hosted accommodation and Tourism Noosa 2016-2017 for their Interstate Marketing Campaign. Bli Bli House received a highly commended award for its hosted accommodation.
NOOSA NOW A WORLD SURFING RESERVE Noosa has become the 10th point break on the planet to have won recognition as a World Surfing Reserve. The announcement comes after two earlier applications for the coveted status by the Noosa National Surfing Reserve committee in 2015 and 2016. The recognition was granted by the World Surfing Reserve, a division of the Save the Waves Coalition. The title serves as extra protection for the popular breaks, with the status a valuable tool to use in maintaining key environmental, cultural, economic and community attributes of the area. Other World Surfing Reserves include Malibu, California, Punta De Lobos in Chile and Guarda Do Embau in Brazil.
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$2.48 MILLION SOLAR FARM’S WIN The Sunshine Coast Solar Farm project has been recognised with a major award at Queensland’s 2017 Planning Institute of Australia Awards for Planning Excellence. The project began in July with the Sunshine Coast Council becoming the first local government in Australia to build a utility scale solar farm. It is the first in Southeast Queensland to be connected to the Energex grid. The project won the Wendy Chadwick Encouragement Award for being innovative and showing the greatest promise of achieving the vision of excellence in Queensland.
One of the milestone projects of the 50th Anniversary of the Naming of the Sunshine Coast has been completed, with the Sunshine Coast Council’s newly renovated Coolum Library unveiled. With hints of green, orange and yellow drawn from the surrounding bush, river banks and the area’s history of cane sugar farming, the Coolum Library theme concept reflects what makes this location special. Division 9 Councillor Stephen Robinson says $2.48 million in improvements include an inviting reconfigured entry and an expansion of the children’s zone allowing for dedicated areas for storytelling, reading nooks and tables for colouring in and other children’s activities.
ATHLETICS FAMILY INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME Australia’s ‘first family of athletics’ has been inducted into the Sunshine Coast Sports Hall of Fame at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Ray and Denise Boyd and their daughter Alana Quade, all from Alexandra Headland, were honoured for their many achievements representing Australia in track and field events. When Ms Quade competed in pole vault at Beijing in 2008, it was the first time that a child of two Olympians had represented Australia at the Olympics. Mr Boyd won 11 Australian championships in pole vault, winning a gold medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and his wife Denise (nee Robertson), was one of the greatest sprinters throughout the 1970s and ’80s. She represented Australia at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and three Commonwealth Games.
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