Cooroy Rag 12 April 2023 edition

BY ALEX PURCELL

IT was a beautiful and moving day.

More than 50 people attended the official unveiling of a memorial to remember four people killed in one of Cooroy’s biggest tragedies.

Derek Lange, 11; his mother June, 30; Shayne Parker, 9; and Ricky Von Blanckensee, 18, all died in a tragic accident in

Cooroy Creek on Saturday 5 December 1981.

Four decades later, the families of Derek, June, Shayne and Ricky came together on Saturday 1 April for the unveiling of a timber bench seat and plaque dedicated to their loved ones.

They were joined by Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart, councillors Amelia Lorentson and Karen Finzel,

Noosa Council’s Heritage Coordinator Jane Harding, Robert Skelton MP, members of the Cooroora Woodworkers Club, Cooroy Rag staff and the community.

This editor was honoured to start the ceremony and read a poem and statement on behalf of the families. Cr Stewart then officially opened the memorial and the families

cut the ribbon.

Shayne Parker’s father, George, said the memorial is greatly appreciated by the families deeply affected by this tragic accident.

“We would like to thank Alex from the Cooroy Rag along with staff members, local business owners and my old work colleague Max Arbuthnot for all their strong support in making this day possible.

“This seat and plaque will serve as a loving reminder to those lives lost and for the families and the public to remember them by.”

The memorial was a community effort made possible by the generosity and hard work of Max Arbuthnot, Steve and Ian and the Cooroora Woodworkers Club, Jane Harding and Noosa Council, Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart,

Andrew Porter, Cordwells Concrete, Matt Purcell and Cooroy Rag staff Alex, Judy, Jodi, Kristina and Peta.

It is located behind the Cooroora Woodworkers Club on Lower Mill Road, Cooroy, where it will remain as a legacy to Derek, June, Shayne and Ricky now and into the future.

See more photos on page 22.

Photo credit: Travis Macfarlane

Above: The families of Derek, June, Shayne and Ricky with Steve and Alan from the Cooroora Woodworkers Club, Noosa

Mayor Clare Stewart, Noosa Council’s Jane Harding, Max Arbuthnot and Cooroy Rag staff Alex, Judy, Jodi and Kristina.

Right: The engraved plaque on the memorial bench seat.

From the desk of your roaming editor

Alex Purcell, Cooroy Rag Roaming Editor

MY family and I recently played tourists in the Mary Valley.

We booked tickets to experience a historic rail journey on the restored vintage steam engine, the Mary Valley Rattler.

Even though I grew up in Cooroy and live in Pomona, I am ashamed to admit I hadn’t been on the Rattler before.

And I wish I had gone sooner.

It was fabulous.

From the moment we arrived, all the volunteers were helpful and friendly and oh-so-knowledgeable.

We loved rocking along with the windows wide open, waving to cars at the level crossings and getting a new perspective of the Mary Valley.

I used to ride my motorbike out that way regularly but being on the Rattler gave me a different view of the beautiful valley, villages and farms.

We found watching the steam engine being turned around at Amamoor fascinating and enjoyed a delicious lunch (pre-ordered from the train) on our return to Gympie at the Rattler’s Rusty Rails Cafe.

If you haven’t ridden the Rattler yet, I highly recommend it.

Alex

Bouquets and Brickbats

BOUQUETS to Mayor Clare and councillors for their attendance at the Cooroy Creek memorial. It was deeply appreciated by the family and friends who attended.

BOUQUETS to Pomona. Recently in Pomona stopping for a toilet break and my friend left her backpack hanging on the hook therein. I just wanted to acknowledge the friendly, kind and helpful people of

Pomona who helped us in our search. Thank you to Warwick at the council depot, the lovely people at the newsagent, SpillDEBeans cafe, an unknown I met at the toilets that had been serviced who gave me the name of the likely keeper of the backpack to start the search, and finally Jason who drove back to town to deliver our lost luggage. Together we solved the mystery and we are grateful

to have experienced the wonderful community spirit of Pomona.

BRICKBATS to the driver of a 4WD that deliberately ran over a small red-bellied black snake as it slithered across the road towards the creek on Reserve Street, Pomona (near the IGA). What a low act, especially as the car in front of you stopped and then went wide around the snake. Karma will get you.

A PHOTO of Harry

Pomona’s pedestrian problem

A GROUP of concerned residents is calling for pedestrian crossings on Pomona’s main thoroughfare.

Save Noosa Hinterland is advocating for two pedestrian crossings in Pomona: one on Factory Street and one on Hill Street.

Save Noosa Hinterland committee member Nick Cooke said as a representative of the group, he has been requesting pedestrian crossings on several roads in Pomona since 2020.

“Pomona is busier than ever and is facing high volumes of traffic and quarry trucks. The safety risks are immense and they are made worse by the severe

lack of safe crossings and paths.

“As a Save Noosa Hinterland representative, I have been requesting safe crossings and paths across several roads in Pomona since 2020, particularly on roads the trucks travel, but unfortunately am still requesting them years later. I have also been requesting temporary crossings for immediate safety.

“I have sent emails, submitted to the budget consultation and raised in person with councillors, the mayor and MP Sandy Bolton, including in public forums and at the quarry roundtables.”

State MP Sandy Bolton said she has advocated, and will continue to advocate, on behalf of residents withTransport and Main Roads (TMR) for pedestrian crossings on state-managed roads in Pomona. "There is no doubt that there is a necessity for pedestrian crossings on Factory Street and Hill Street for seniors, children and others who rely on being able to cross to access essential services.”

A TMR spokesperson said they are liaising with Noosa Council in regard to any potential future crossings on the town’s state-controlled roads.

LiveLife Helping Our Community

As part of LiveLife Pharmacies goal of giving back to the Community, we are opening submissions to local Charity, Community and Support Groups to participate in our “LiveLife Community Support Program”.

Each group chosen to participate will be allocated a specific month and will receive funds donated by the local LiveLife Pharmacies.

To be a part of this exciting community initiative, please visit the LiveLife website www.livelifepharmacy.com to complete an online submission form or visit your local LiveLife Pharmacy

“We understand Noosa Council is considering the best location and type of pedestrian facilities for Pomona through its placemaking initiative.”

Noosa Council's Environment and Sustainable Development Director Kim Rawlings said pedestrian crossings, where state roads are concerned, are the responsibility of the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR).

“However, council recently endorsed a placemaking program for Pomona which, among many other things, will look at movement and access through the town. “This process will help to

inform future planning for roads and footpaths within Pomona, as well as consider the need for infrastructure such as pedestrian crossings.

“As a key stakeholder, council looks forward to working closely with TMR as the placemaking project progresses.”

Pomona and District Chamber of Commerce (PDCC) president Phil Moran said the placemaking study is an opportunity to step back and plan the future of the town.

“PDCC has been lobbying for this because Pomona is perfect for it.

“All these matters will be discussed during the placemaking initiative.”

Ms Bolton said they welcome Noosa Council's Pomona placemaking initiative to help determine the best locations for connectivity and types of crossings.

"Our ongoing advocacy includes whether there are any possible temporary measures that can be utilised safely and TMR have responded over the years with the need to work with council's precinct planning,

therefore the placemaking initiative is great news," she said.

But Mr Cooke said they cannot wait for the completion of the council's placemaking study to get these crossings.

“The safety risks are too great. Parents are worried for their kids and just want them to be able to get off the bus and cross the road safely.

“Every day, pedestrians are being put at risk on these roads.

“Factory Street connects one side of Pomona to the other and is also a quarry truck route.

"There are children as young as five years old crossing Hill Street to the dog park after school, on a dangerous bend with cars and trucks flying past, pulling out of the servo and out of Subway Ave. Then there are the elderly and disabled.

“We need crossings on these roads immediately, even temporary crossings until permanent ones can be installed,” Mr Cooke said.

School students cross Factory Street; and members of Save Noosa Hinterland met on the corner of Factory and Reserve Street to have their calls for pedestrian crossings broadcast on a Channel 7 News report about the speed reduction on Factory Street. Photos: Save Noosa Hinterland.

Cooroy's Maple Street Surgery director Bill Brown said the Cooroy and the hinterland community is growing rapidly but important health services like doctors are simply not keeping up with this growth.

“One Cooroy practice has closed its books and another only has one doctor.

“And we all know the closing of doctors’ surgeries in Imbil and Pomona recently has only added to this shortage.

“It has effectively been up to Maple Street Surgery to try to fill this shortfall in healthcare.

“We are fortunate to have 13 doctors (three on maternity leave), but people need to have some patience and understanding that we are doing the very best we can given the pressure both staff and doctors are now under.

“We have had staff need mental health breaks as a result of patients displaying abusive and aggressive behaviour."

Mr Brown said every practice's costs have gone up “massively” since COVID but Medicare benefits have not and this is why most

practices on the Coast are no longer bulk billing to stay in business.

"The current state government has also recently redefined the definition of a consulting doctor and will soon impose a 4.75 per cent of 'gross income' payroll tax which, when implemented, will either add $15 to the cost of a standard appointment or incur a $5 surcharge as this is a tax the business is expected to pay.

"I would encourage people to look into this and speak to their local member.”

Mr Brown said Maple Street Surgery is a mixed billing practice where bulk billing is always at the discretion of the doctor.

"Unfortunately, the way things are going, bulk billing will soon be a thing of the past given ongoing wage pressures and other costs rapidly developing in the space.

“This is not what we want either but like most other practices, we have had to adapt to a changing environment.

"We now have to ask for a deposit for new patients as many simply don't turn up when they know they won't get bulk billed.

"We also have six pages of people who hung up

or refused to pay after a telehealth appointment, hence why we need to get a deposit."

Australian Medical Association president Professor Robson said, over successive governments before this one, there was a Medicare freeze that lasted almost a decade.

"Like all businesses, the costs of providing medical care go up each year, with increases in wages for staff, rent, medical equipment, cleaning, electricity, technology and insurance, and these increases must all be covered by the fees a doctor charges.

"Years of frozen indexation means that a patient's Medicare rebate is permanently lower than what it would have otherwise been had the freeze not been put in place. This is one of the key reasons why patients are facing larger out-of-pocket costs when they visit their GP.

"We estimate since the beginning of the freeze, close to $4 billion of funding has been lost from general practice around the country, and that's funding that goes to Australian patients who are seeing doctors."

The AMA said critical problems of access and affordability in general practice can't be addressed without better indexation of Medicare.

In the meantime, Mr Brown said Maple Street Surgery has been fortunate to have two new female doctors start recently; both are currently taking new patients.

"We have six to 10 doctors on the floor most days, except Saturdays when we generally have three.

"We do have appointments available every day but please make sure you call at 8 am to ensure an appointment.

"We also have online bookings available and would encourage you to use that option."

A COOROY practice wants to update the community on the current state of healthcare in the hinterland area.

Maple Street Surgery director Bill Brown outside the Cooroy practice.

Stolen sign returned decades later

A SIGN stolen from Cooroy over 20 years ago has been mysteriously returned.

Cooroy Barbers owner Graham Causon came into work one day to find a barbershop sign (pictured) along with a note.

“A lady came in when I wasn’t here and left it with a note,” Graham said.

According to the note, the woman lived in Cooroy 26 years ago when her “silly boyfriend at the time” stole the sign.

“I have always felt bad about it, and at Hebrews

13:18 it says we should be honest in all things.

“So I [sic] return it to its home and hope it can be hung at the barbershop where it belongs.

“I’m sorry it took so long.”

It is signed: love “a good conscience”.

At the time, the barbershop sign used to hang out the front of Toby Brown’s real estate agency on Maple Street when barber Peter Robinson had a chair at the back.

The real estate agency, beside Springs Pharmacy, is now part of LiveLife

Pharmacy on Maple Street.

Peter ’s son, Danny Robinson said his dad had the barbershop there for many years.

“He was at the back of Toby Brown’s real estate then moved to a shop in Tewantin.”

Peter sadly passed away over a decade ago.

Long-time local Thelma Ludwig said he was a character.

“We all called him Peter Robbie and he was a character in his own right, always ready for a chat.”

Council addresses Pomona tree

ment Director Kim Rawlings said council issued an approval two years ago for the removal of the tree.

“The tree, which was located on private property, was causing damage to infrastructure both on the property where it was growing and on neighbouring properties.”

Cooroy Barbers owner Graham Causon with the returned sign now hanging in his Maple Street barbershop.

MP in Imbil for pumped hydro project

THE Queensland Minister for Energy, Renewables and Hydrogen, and for Public Works and Procurement, was in Imbil last month.

MP Mick De Brenni visited Borumba Dam to talk to the local community and give an update on the pumped hydro project.

The Borumba Dam Pumped Hydro is a 2-gigawatt energy storage facility that will be connected to the existing electricity transmission network by line corridors.

Mr De Brenni said he felt the visit was a positive one. “We had the opportunity to talk with locals and receive feedback on the project. Overall, the feedback I received was positive.

“The Borumba Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Project (Borumba PHES Project) will make the region home to one of the most important renewable energy projects in the nation.”

Mr De Brenni said the Borumba PHES Project is the cornerstone of the Queensland SuperGrid, which will deliver 64,000

jobs across the Queensland region and 36,000 jobs in the green economy.

“Already we have teamed up with local businesses, the Lake Borumba Fish Stocking Association has been providing water transport, and we have secured helicopter transportation with McDermott Aviation in Cooroy and earthmoving works with a company in Kilcoy.

“And there will be a significant announcement for local businesses coming up.”

Mr De Brenni said during his visit he had the opportunity to meet with landowners about the connection to the SuperGrid.

“Some have concerns around transition line options and we are listening closely to work through those issues.

“Queensland Hydro and Powerlink are delivering the project and will be continuing their public consultation and providing further updates on transmission corridors and the project.

“And I will be back to the

region many times.”

Mr De Brenni said they have been working for over a year on a report for the government before moving onto the next stage.

“The government will be receiving it soon, which means we will be able to proceed to major geotechnical works, which is the next phase of the project and will commence next year.

“The final construction phase will be completed by the end of the decade.”

Mr De Brenni said once complete, the Borumba PHES Project will play a big part in cutting energy emissions for Queensland by 96 per cent.

“By 2032, our plan is to see Queensland's energy supply be 70 per cent renewable energy.

“This project is critical to enable that renewable energy source to be soaked up and returned to the grid when needed.

“Australia cannot meet its emission targets without this project.”

MP Mick De Brenni on a visit to Imbil in 2022 and inset, with Lake Borumba Fish Stocking Association last month.

A COOROY legend has helped first-hand to preserve Cooroy’s butter factory history.

Former Wide Bay Co-Op Butter Factory worker Alan Kenzler spent six hours with Noosa Council and a film crew at the Cooroy Butter Factory to document what it was like working there during its heyday of production.

Alan worked at the Maple Street factory for 16 years from 1950 to 1966, first as a general hand, then a cream tester, a cream grader, and in the main position as a cream pasteuriser.

Noosa Council Heritage Coordinator Jane Harding said that as a former employee, Alan has been able to provide them with a detailed, firsthand account of the daily process of butter making, the functions of each room in the building, and some of the other staff

worked at the site.

“The Cooroy Butter Factory, formerly a hub of industry in the community, has evolved into a thriving arts centre. It's important that heritage buildings find new life and continue to be used but the original use remains at the heart of a building's story.

“Visitors to the butter factory are always interested to learn more about how the building operated originally.

“Alan’s account is both fascinating and a valuable contribution to the historic record.”

Filmmaker Chris Peckham from Source Media said to capture a story from a first-person perspective is vital.

“Alan lived and breathed the butter factory as a full-time employee. His story is unique and will tell others about day-to-day life in a bustling local workplace from an era that is now lost to the large-scale farming and production of today.”

When completed, the film, funded by the Noosa Council Heritage Levy, will play in the Butter Factory Arts Centre and will also be viewable via the Heritage Noosa platform (heritage. noosa.qld.gov.au).

If anyone has photos or memorabilia of the Cooroy Butter Factory that could be included in the film, please contact the project team at heritage@noosa.qld.gov.au or phone 5329 6534.

Above: Cooroy’s Alan Kenzler during filming at the Cooroy Butter Factory. Top photo: Source Media. Right photo: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

Family farewells former Cooroy vet

Multi Award Winning

A FORMER Cooroy vet has passed away at the age of 88.

Evan Singleton was the owner and veterinary surgeon of what is now Cooroora Veterinary Clinic.

Daughter Debbie Jeppesen said Evan ran two successful practices in Cooroy and Noosa throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

“Upon moving to Cooroy, Dad set up his own practice at his home in Black Mountain.

“His practice was very busy. The phone rang constantly and that buzzer on the door of the old surgery would be pressed at all hours of the night.

“Dad would attend to all no matter what time of day, through pouring rain and floods. He earned the trust and loyalty of many owners of both small and large animals.

“It was common for him to return home after attending such calls as an overnight calving case bearing a box

of tomatoes or a dozen eggs – an indication that the farmer couldn't afford to pay.”

Debbie said many a morning Evan would arrive at his Lanyana Way vet surgery to be greeted by a box of kittens or puppies left on the doorstep overnight.

“Every single one of those animals was always taken home to Black Mountain to find a home. At one count we had 14 dogs; only two of them were ours.”

Evan volunteered as a judge for the beef and dairy cattle sections at local shows and vetted at endurance ride events whenever he could.

“He also assisted the Cooroy Pony Club many times by giving lectures to help the riders achieve their various certificates.”

Evan began his veterinary career after winning a scholarship to study veterinary science at the University of Queensland.

“It was at UQ that Dad joined the Armed Forces and completed his national service.”

Then in 1968, Evan was sent around the world by the Department of Primary

Industries to investigate AI [artificial insemination] techniques.

“Dad completed his PhD on The Effect of Heat on the Bovine Testes of the Bull and conducted many artificial insemination schools to teach local Cooroy farmers the technique to assist in their breeding endeavours.”

Debbie said Evan sold his Black Mountain practice and the Noosa Junction surgery to take a position with Australian Quarantine Inspection Services in Brisbane.

“But he never forgot his years servicing the Cooroy area and its locals as their vet and spoke fondly of his practice days.”

Evan continued to work for AQIS until 1999 when he offered private consultancy until the age of 82.

He passed away in Brisbane on 13 March 2023, at the age of 88.

Evan will be remembered as a lover of all creatures great and small, as well as his dedication to his family and profession. He is survived by his wife Nerida, seven children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Above: Evan conducted many AI [artificial insemination] schools to teach farmers the technique and inset, Evan later life.

Student learns the tricks of the trade

FOR the past five years, Cooroy Landscape Supplies has had a Year 10 work experience student from Noosa District SHS come and learn the tricks of the trade.

Owner Siona Howard said this year they had Darcy

come and help for a week. “He was a lovely young man who was willing to jump in and give everything a go.

“Darcy helped out with deliveries, customer orders, bagging the products and driving the forklift.

“There was a lot to learn about the products and mechanical training.”

Siona said it was a pleasure to have Darcy on board.

“Thanks for all your help, Darcy.”

Pomona Distillery to expand

POPULAR business, Pomona Distilling Co., is expanding.

The restaurant on Reserve Street has approval for a smokehouse and charcoal grill beside its current premises.

Owner Robin Yates said the additional kitchen, cold room, bar and toilets will be built behind the existing

bar.

“Entrance to the smokehouse will be through from the bar.

“It will have the same look as the Distillery, with recycled and upcycled timbers, but will offer an alternative with specialty meats such as tomahawks and ribs.”

Robin said he hopes the

expansion, which will create an extra 25 jobs, will be complete by Christmas.

“Now that we have approval I hope to start construction in May/June and have it completed by Christmas.”

The smokehouse will be open the same hours as the Distillery: Wednesday to Sunday.

Cosmetic Nurse Specialist Pauline has 20 years experience as an advanced skin specialist having started in this industry working for one of the top Plastic Surgeons in Melbourne. She has seen many changes in products, procedures and safety over the years. She has travelled to conferences nationally and internationally to ensure she knows the cutting edge procedures, using the best quality products, to help clients achieve their aesthetic goals.

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Darcy with Cooroy Landscape Supplies staff.

I HAVE been on a long journey to understanding our local farming. Last year I worked with the Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation (NBRF) on the Agri-Hub project, where we held numerous public consultations and a symposium to identify the big issues and the next steps. It climaxed with the NBRF Grow for Noosa Gala where Matt Golinski created a three-course meal from a smorgasbord of local ingredients, all from within 60 km. He spoke of the importance of supporting local farmers, learning to grow and prepare these foods, and getting them into our diets.

There is a cornucopia of foods that prosper in our subtropical environment which are foreign to most of us and full of potential cooking bliss. Permaculture Noosa is at the centre of this evolution. The pavilion will be the first, key step to taking up Matt’s challenge by growing subtropical foods like arrowroot and sumbung and getting them into our daily diets.

Tom Wegener Councillor for Noosa Shire

This is a place where you will be able to grow crops, pick and prepare them in the kitchen, and leave with seedlings so you can join in the journey.

However, the pavilion is still under construction and needs you to join in the cob or mud wall-building workshops. Please see permaculturenoosa.com.au for more information.

Back to the vision of a food-producing, climatechange-resilient, healthy, foodie, Noosa economy, distribution and facilitating farmers back onto the land are two big issues. We need a tool for measuring the value change from degraded land to highly fertile, regenerated land and can we turn the value of the transition to highly fertile land into a monetary measurement and sell this to those who support the project?

The cost of regenerating the land is great and the value gained from agriculture produced does not actually support the change in land

use (in our free market economy).

One idea is to create a currency, like coupons or carbon credits, that can be traded in Noosa and is based on verified emission savings. For example, they can be linked to carbon sequestration from biochar from our own tip which is mixed with mulch and used for agriculture. Also, they can be tied to emissions savings from solar and batteries. The money raised would facilitate these community-building projects.

The big picture is to connect the dots from Matt Golinski’s words and the family garden to the wider community health and Noosa food resiliency. This includes facilitating local agri-business through many measures and groups. From my experience, we all have a shared vision. We are just working on the map to get there.

Please note this is my personal opinion and does not represent the position of council. Tom

NOOSA Council has called for a meeting with the state’s resources minister seeking a review of Queensland’s rating system to lessen the financial impact that dramatic land value increases are having on ratepayers.

Many Noosa land values have doubled in 12 months and if we simply feed the Valuer-General’s new valuations into our rating structure, our ratepayers face average increases of around 44 per cent at a time when many in our community can ill afford it.

In Queensland, under the Local Government Act, councils calculate rates as a percentage of land values, as assessed by the state’s valuer, the Valuer-General. It’s disappointing the state government opted to conduct land valuations in Noosa for the second consecutive year rather than every three years, which is the usual process. After such significant increases last year, Council requested the state not to put our shire’s property owners through this process again so soon, given

the floods we experienced in 2022. Similarly, there seems to be little understanding as to why land valuations were conducted two years in a row for some councils and not for others. For example, Sunshine Coast Council did not incur a second consecutive valuation, whereas Gympie and Noosa Shire did.

Councillors are committed to keeping rate rises to a minimum, through the budget process, with staff working on a range of scenarios to lessen the impact of the sharp property valuation increases come budget time.

Gympie Mayor Glen Hartwig will join me to meet the minister in the coming weeks and we both look forward to putting our two councils’ cases forward to ensure stability and certainty for our community and our ratepayers going forward. Council has reviewed the short-stay local law 12 months since it was introduced in an effort by Council to regulate the use of Noosa properties for short-stay letting. We are adding two new temporary

compliance officers who will help work through the backlog of short-stay applications, given the significant volume that we received early on. They will also help to increase enforcement and identify unapproved short-stay properties and speed up the approvals process which the industry has asked for. With the Local Law, approval process and complaints hotline, we’ve been able to implement a code of conduct for short-stay guests, compile a healthy database of short-stay properties, and begin to identify owners not playing by the rules. About 2,500 property owners have applied for approval under the local law in the first 12 months, which is a good result.

Finally, there’s still time to make use of the free holiday buses, back for the Easter break. Park and ride the free electric 065 Loop Bus into Hastings Street from the AFL grounds on Weyba Road. You can choose to park your car anywhere along the loop bus route and simply jump on. The Go Noosa Free Holiday Bus program is delivered in partnership with Translink.

Until next month, stay safe, Clare

Llew O’Brien

Federal Member for Wide Bay

WITH the threat of natural disasters in Wide Bay – like bushfires and floods and our many dangerous roads – it’s important that people can get the call out for help when they need to contact emergency services. We also need to make sure that families and businesses can connect and communicate, so it’s important for the government to keep working with telecommunication companies to extend and improve the mobile phone and broadband networks throughout Wide Bay.

The former Liberal and Nationals Coalition Government understood this and extended the mobile phone network into black spot areas by providing subsidies for telecommunication companies to boost coverage in locations where it wasn’t economically viable for them to do so alone. Across Australia, the Coalition Government’s Mobile Phone Black Spot Program leveraged $875 million to invest in 1,270 new mobile stations.

In Wide Bay, the Coalition Government worked with

telcos to extend the mobile phone network to 19 locations, including Wolvi Mountain Road, Kin Kin, Boreen Point and Cootharaba, and there are still many locations across the 14,227 square kilometre Wide Bay electorate that need coverage.The new Regional Connectivity and Mobile Black Spots grants support network operators to extend communications coverage to rural and regional locations. Licensed telecommunications carriers, or a consortium made up of a carrier, state or local governments, regional development bodies, or industry, business, or community groups can apply for funding to deliver new place-based or improved broadband and mobile services in regional areas.

A project noticeboard

has been established to assist communities to form partnerships with the telecommunications sector to develop applications for funding, and project proposals can be uploaded to the noticeboard by 31 May 2023. Further information is available at www.infrastructure.gov.au/rcp

Just as we need to continue to invest in new and upgraded roads, we also need to make new investments to continually improve and extend communications networks, just as the former coalition government did. I am continuing to make representations to the Minister for Communications to encourage the Australian Government to address black spots in Wide Bay so people in all communities can stay in touch. Llew

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Sandy Bolton

Independent State Member for Noosa

THE Teewah Cooloola

Working Group met last month to view proposed changes to address the issues impacting this area. After four years of advocacy to get to the ‘pointy end’, we look forward to sharing what will be implemented immediately, and those that will take longer through legislative change. With Easter coming up and secured extra resources, spread the word that there is a zero-tolerance approach to anyone doing wrong by our community whether speeding, driving on dunes, hooning or any other unacceptable behaviour.

New land valuations for the Noosa Electorate have been released, and it may cause concern for those already having financial difficulties. These valuations do not determine how much local governments across Queensland have to charge in rates, as it is councils who decide how much is required for their next budgets and use valuations to calculate. We have posted to SandyBolton.

com/Land-Valuations-Local-Government-Rate-Calculations-March-2023 an explanation of this, as well as details if you require a review of your property valuation and land tax exemptions.

As I write, after a busy week in Parliament, a reminder that you can view Parliament live anytime via Parliament.qld.gov.au/ Work-of-the-Assembly/ Live-and-Archived-Broadcasts, and my speeches are shared to SandyBolton. com/Parliament/Speeches, outlining the rationale on how Noosa’s vote is utilised! This includes the Strengthening Community Safety Bill in endeavours to reduce youth crime, and my speech outlined the failures and the expectation of residents for longer-term solutions.

In an Adjournment speech, I spoke of recent concerns regarding some conflict between First Nations people in relation to the Cooloola Great Walk, requesting that any final approvals not be issued until there is some clarity and resolution.

Bringing Kabi Kabi back to their country should not be negatively accompanied by what seems to be questioned on Native Title and other processes, and as part of ‘truth telling’ at the start of Path to Treaty, this is a good place to start open communications.

With so much time between columns and so much to share, please stay ’in the loop’ via Noosa 360 with updates on a range of important issues we are working on. In addition, follow ‘Sandy Bolton MP’ on Facebook to receive information as soon as available including the Friday ‘Wrap’ with news and grant information, and don’t forget to subscribe to our e-newsletter at SandyBolton.com/ Newsletters. Always, if you have any questions or require assistance regarding state-related matters, please do not hesitate to contact my office at 5319 3100 or email noosa@ parliament.qld.gov.au.

As always it is wonderful to see everyone, and I send a big thank you for making the latest Cooroy Mobile Office ‘Moby’ so special. Many new and old challenges were discussed, stories shared, as well as laughter in among the memories. Until next month, Sandy

Cooroy Rag Community Newspaper team Alex, Peta, Kristina, Jodi, Lorraine and Judy

Happy birthday to the beautiful Jodi!

Happy birthday Melanie

Happy birthday Amos

A Baroque celebration

What’s On

What: Arioso Chamber

Ensemble Baroque

concert

When: Sunday 30 April at 2:30 pm

Where: Cooroy

Memorial Hall, 23 Maple St, Cooroy Info: ariosochamberensemble.com

ARIOSO Chamber Ensemble brings together the talents and experience of leading specialists in Baroque performance.

This year Arioso welcomes viola da gamba player Shannon Scheltema. Arioso artists Judit Molnar (soprano), Margaret Caley (baroque violin), and Janet Brewer (harpsichord) are looking forward to the unique viola da gamba sound Shannon will bring to the ensemble.

Arioso’s first programme for 2023 includes a selection of joyous celebratory Baroque music including Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, Vivaldi’s solo motet Nulla in mundo pax sincera, a selection of arias by Handel and Purcell and sonatas by Rebel and Rameau. The concert will be presented at Cooroy Memorial Hall on Sunday 30 April. Tickets are available online or cash at the door: $35 full, $30 concessions; $12 school students.

Blues soul legend Andy Cowan and Big Mama’s Door

What’s On

What: Andy Cowan and Big Mama’s Door

When: Saturday 15 April from 7 to 9 pm

Where: Majestic Theatre, 3 Factory Street, Pomona

Tickets: themajestictheatre.com.au

ONE of Australia’s foremost performing songwriters is playing at the Majestic Theatre, Pomona on 15 April.

Andy Cowan played keyboards for Renee Geyer, Ian Moss, Kevin Borich, Madder Lake and Ayers Rock. His piano and keyboard playing contain

both energy and melodic beauty and his voice invites comparison with the likes of Tom Waites or Leonard Cohen, with the soul of Ray Charles.

Joining Andy on stage will be Duncan Macqueen (drums) who has worked professionally in the music

scene for many years, Christian Dunham (electric bass/double bass), and special guest Doc Span, a US expat from the Chicago blues scene. Majestic Theatre doors and bar open at 6 pm and the show starts at 7 pm. Tickets $30.

SELECT MUSIC & THRILLHILL MUSIC PRESENT

Viola da gamba player Shannon Scheltema.

Andy Cowan.

Springtime in Paris 1925

What’s On

What: Springtime In Paris

1925

When: Thursday 27 April from 1:30 to 4:30 pm

Where: Majestic Theatre, 3 Factory Street, Pomona Tickets: noosajazzclub. com

THE Noosa Heads Jazz Club proudly presents ‘Springtime in Paris 1925’ at the Pomona Majestic Theatre on Thursday 27 April.

This is a very special concert inspired by tunes like ‘Petite Fleur’, ‘Promenade

aux Champs Elysees’, and ‘Si Tu Vois Ma Mere’ made famous in France by Sidney Bechet. With fascinating rhythms, beautiful harmonics and entertaining repartee, it will be an afternoon of sublime music with two

of Australia’s leading reeds players, Paul Furniss and Paul Williams, accompanied by Dave Burrows (guitar), Peter Freeman (string bass), John Reeves (piano and accordion), and Rod Andrew (drums).

Local art exhibitions

Thursday,

Paul Furniss and Paul Williams.

Backyards for biodiversity

Raising funds for Noosa’s own

LOCAL not-for-profit

WomenKind Australia Inc. is raising funds to build a sanctuary for women and families in Noosa affected by domestic abuse or homelessness.

WomenKind Australia Inc. founder Josanne Falla said the sanctuary will provide a space to rest and recoup after domestic abuse, or offer some respite from homelessness.

“As we all know, there is a massive housing crisis in our region with so many women couchsurfing with friends or family, or living in their cars.

“This is extremely dangerous for a woman with or without kids and we, the community, must come up with our own answers.

“Our aim is to buy, build or lease land to accommodate a cottage or tiny home and gradually increase the available space in the future.”

Josanne said their goal is to raise $500,000 to start with, through their ‘Buy a Brick’ campaign.

“There is the opportunity for businesses, corporates and philanthropists to buy a brick at $5,000 each and help us start from the

ground up with the creation of this property.

“This will be a tax-deductible expense and they will also have their name inscribed on the property for perpetuity – their name will live on forever and be gratefully remembered.”

Josanne said only 90 of these bricks remain to be secured.

“Help us, help our women and families that no one is either seeing or acknowledging or not moving quickly enough.”

Visit womenkind.com.au for details.

ENVIRONMENTAL group, Backyards for Biodiversity, promotes the importance and potential of urban areas for native biodiversity in South East Queensland, with the aim to educate residents as to the beauty and environmental value of plants and wildlife and the ways that nature can enrich our lives.

Backyards for Biodiversity committee member Robyn Combes is the guest speaker at the Noosa Parks Association’s Friday Environment Forum on 14 April.

Robyn has lived on the Sunshine Coast since the

early 1980s and has learnt an enormous amount about ecology, geology, flora and fauna on their small property on the Blackall Ranges, east of Montville.

At the forum, she will detail the aims of Backyards for Biodiversity and the benefits to biodiversity that result from replacing some lawn or exotic species with local native plants.

Robyn will also outline how to create such an environment with reference to the support and resources offered by Backyards for Biodiversity. By creating a backyard for biodiversity in

an urban area, we can help support our wildlife.

Everyone is welcome at the NPA Environment Centre, 5 Wallace Drive, Noosaville. The forum starts at 10:30 am and morning tea is available from 10 to 10:25 am. Entry is $5 by ‘tap & go’ at the door and includes morning tea/coffee.

Join the bird observers at 8:30 am in the car park for interpretive birding.

And on 28 April, Geoff Acton from Zero Emissions Noosa will speak about community batteries. For more information visit noosaparks.org.au.

Celebrating our young people

QUEENSLAND Youth

Week (11–17 April) is the annual celebration of young people aged 12 to 25 years and the positive contributions they make to Queensland. Pomona & District Community House (PCH) is kicking off celebrations by providing a rare opportunity for our hinterland youth to let us know how they see the world through the art of zine (pronounced zeen).

Cultural Seed Mapper and Artist Jeremy Staples

is facilitating two zine workshops on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 April for young people (12–25 years) at PCH from 10 am to 4 pm.

A free pick-up and dropoff bus will be provided by PCH, going from Kin Kin, Cooran, Cooroy, Pomona. For more info visit events. humanitix.com/youth-zinesters-unit-tell-us.

PCH has also partnered with Natalie Stokell, founder and educator of Tell Your Daughters, to deliver free one-hour sessions on

empowering sex education for parents and caregivers of tweens and teens.

The sessions will cover When to Tell and What to Say, Keeping Kids Safe in a Tech World and What is Positive Sex Education?

Parents and caregivers are welcome to drop by for one session or come to all.

Starting Thursday 27 April from 6 to 7 pm in The Lawson Shed at PCH.

See the PCH website for more details: pomonacommunityhouse.com.au.

c ollaborative space

Creators of Beauty

We have brought together Creatives to provide a boutique style approach to all Hair and Beauty Services. We also incorporate sustainable fashion and stockists of local products.

The Skin Coaches - Skin, facials, microneedling, brows, lash lifts, peels, LED

FACEBYR Mineral Make-up Brand

Bombshell Hair - Specialise & promote lived in colours, blondes & balayage

Matilda Cove - Australian made Lux Sustainable Swimwear

Bookfest Noosa to support the homeless

surrounds.”

Previously, funds raised from Bookfest have supported new treatments for suicidality, facilities for Noosa Coastguard, support for the local programs for the Salvation Army, and research into treatments for prostate cancer.

“Support for flood relief has been a priority in recent years and significant contributions have been made to individuals and organisations affected by the floods in the Noosa Shire.

“Funds raised by the strong local support for Bookfest have, through these partnerships, encouraged many of the partners to contribute additional funds to support the local community.

Community Diary

Social dance class

EVERY Sunday from 12:30 pm at the Tewantin Masonic Hall, Moorindil Street. I start by teaching basic dance steps, waltz, then old-time dances like gypsy tap, new vogue, ballroom dances and a little latin. We run through to 4 pm. Lots of fun and dancing including a 20-minute tea/coffee break to socialise. Singles or couples are welcome. Just rock up or phone Andrew on 0429 829 328. For more info: andrewsclassdance.com.

fees from such classes help sustain the club. For more info contact Stephen on 0409 457 295 or stephen. locke5@bigpond.com.

Join a cappella choir GOOD Vibrations, an a cappella choir, sings on Monday evenings in Cooroy at 7 pm.

If you are a singer and would like to sing in this choir, please email andrewjemmet@gmail.com. You would probably have had some experience singing in a choir.

muso jam every second Wednesday from 12 noon, and every second Friday from 5:30 pm. PA, drum kit and base amp supplied, all other instruments are BYO. For more info call Trev on 0411 834 713.

Social ballroom dancing at Pomona

TENS of thousands of books will be on sale at Bookfest

Noosa from 28 to 30 April.

The event, run by Rotary Noosa Daybreak, will be held at the Leisure Centre, Wallace Drive, Noosaville.

Noosa Daybreak president

Ken Kipping said Bookfest Noosa is an annual event to raise funds to support projects in the local region.

“This year we will focus on continuing our work with the homeless in the Noosa Shire and nearby

“I encourage all keen local readers and those who love their books to come along to Bookfest to buy from the huge range of books available on every conceivable topic.

“All books have been thoroughly sorted and only the best quality books will be offered for sale at $3 each. Children’s books will be sold at $1,” Ken said

Fabulous 60s Plus WE are a fun, friendly, seniors’ social group (pictured). We welcome couples and singles to join us for morning coffee every Monday at the Tewantin RSL from 10 am and every Thursday at the Boathouse on the Noosa River from 10 am. We also have a monthly program of lunches, dinners, picnics, live music and other fun activities. Contact Joan on 0419 517 869 for more details.

Tai chi in Cooroy CLASSES are held on Sunday mornings 8:30 to 9:30 am at the Cooroy Memorial Hall, presented by Stephen LockeI, a student of tai chi under Grand Master Henry Sue for over 40 years. The Chinese Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy is a not-forprofit association and the

Weekly writers’ group SHAPE your story: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, YA (young adult), or any genre, and meet with other writers to share your written words to talk through them. Each Wednesday at 10:30 am at the Yandina School of Arts, 11 Farrell Street. There is magic in creative writing. For more info contact Carol: caracarol@hotmail.com.

Cardmaking classes at Cooroy RSL

LAST Saturday of each month at 10:30 am, come and create four sweet cards for $20. Please bring a basic tool kit and adhesives. Bookings essential. Phone Jill 0437 339 961.

Muso jams at the Apollonian Hotel

JOIN Trev at the Apollonian Hotel, Boreen Point for a

EVERY Tuesday evening from 7 to 9:30 pm Pat and Norm Young organise a social evening at the Pomona Memorial School of Arts hall. The cost is $4 and it is very enjoyable with New Vogue as well as Old Time dancing. Come and be a spectator and see if you will enjoy it. Everyone is welcome. Phone 0407 456 939 for more information.

Tewantin Noosa Probus Club

ARE you a retiree seeking new interests? New challenges? New friends? We offer all three and more at the Tewantin Noosa Probus Club. We meet at the Tewantin RSL on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 10 am for morning tea ($6). Meetings start at 10:30 with an interesting guest speaker, followed by a game of trivia and most members stay on for lunch. During the month, we have walks by the river, BBQs, lunches, outings to places of interest, movie mornings and book club. We play mah-jong and Rummikub; lessons are free. We invite you to join us. Phone Christine 5442 7397 or visit probustewantinnoosa.au

ANZAC, we will remember

“My personal recollection is one of my father who sometimes spoke tearfully of his older brother whose body is buried somewhere in Damascus. He was only 11 when he lost a brother.

“There was a maternal aunt who would respond to an unexpected knock at the door: ‘This might be Albert now’, meaning this could be her son coming home.

“He was a crew member on a plane that was shot down just off Milne Bay. It was never recovered.”

John said there remains a vacant spot in that family that will never be filled.

“Of course, there are organisations such as RSL Legacy and others who do great work caring for these families but as I’ve already said, that vacancy will never be completely filled.”

THE term ANZAC was formed over 100 years ago during the First World War.

An acronym, ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps.

A National Serviceman from 1958 and Cooroy-Pomona RSL Sub Branch life member,

Gallipoli, “a lost cause during the First World War”.

“It was termed ‘the war to end all wars’ but then many were killed and injured during the Second World War, the Malayan skirmish, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq and many other bloody

men and women lost their lives and tens of thousands were injured and lives were shattered as a result of war. Cities, villages and indeed whole countries had to be rebuilt.”

John said everyone knows of families who lost a father, brother, sister or a close family member, whose bodies remain in a foreign land and some who have never been

John said this Anzac Day, Tuesday 25 April, think of the families who had members torn from them as a result of war and the devastation that resulted.

“This year as you attend a dawn service, witness a march and remember those who served and those who paid the supreme sacrifice, remember too, the families of the Veterans and pay tribute to them.”

Anzac Day 2023 services

COOROY

March and parade at 10:30 am (form up at 10 am at lower Maple Street) up Cooroy’s main street ending with a short memorial outside the Cooroy Memorial Hall, Maple Street, Cooroy.

Lunch at 12 noon at Cooroy RSL Club. Bookings essential. Phone 5447 6131. Two-up from 1:30 to 5 pm at the Cooroy Memorial Hall.

POMONA

Playing of the Last Post at 5.30 am at Pomona Fire and Rescue Station, 11/9 Reserve St, Pomona.

KIN KIN

Memorial service at 10 am at Butter Factory Park (opposite School of Arts Hall, Main Street, Kin Kin) will include a march, roll call and wreath laying followed by refreshments. All welcome. Hosted by Kin Kin Community Group in collaboration with Kin Kin State School P&C.

Last year’s Anzac Day parade in Cooroy.

Memorial Bench Seat Unveiling

Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart and Cooroora Woodworkers Club

Secure electronic sign in and sign out system

Access to Xplor – your child’s online learning portfolio

Healthy, nutritious meals, nappies and wipes

Hat, shirt and sleeping bag on enrolment

Bush Kinder and Nature Play inspired spaces

Cocurricular activities including music, yoga and Auslan

Government approved kindergarten program

Family owned and operated

Children handed out easter treats, cards and gifts to members of the community and businesses.

Pomona business owners and residents met with Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart at Pomona Distilling co.

Noisy cuckoo flies the nest

A COOROY resident thought she had a very noisy, hungry magpie in her yard.

Gillian Bradley said the bird was making such a racket, it sounded like it was dying.

“It turns out it wasn’t a magpie but a rather large, hungry, baby channel-billed cuckoo demanding breakfast from its hardworking surrogate crow parents.”

The channel-billed cuckoo is known as the largest brood parasite in the world because it sneaks its eggs into other birds’ nests and tricks them into raising its young.

Straight from the horse’s mouth

on condition but not needing a high-energy diet. Hygain has a large range that is suited to these horses –Showtorque, Grotorque, Trucare, Release, Trugain, and Honey B; Stance Copra; Johnson’s Weight Gain.

Performer, workhorse mix … just to name a few.

HAY there. Do you find it completely confusing when you go into a produce store looking for the right diet for your horse/ponies? You are not the only one.

Let’s start with the good doer/paddock ornament. You cannot beat the good old pony pellet. They still have the minerals and vitamins added and are the most cost-effective within their range: Hygain – Allrounder, Zero; Barastoc Calm Performer; Mitavite – Economix, Cool Cusada, Xtra Cool; Coprice Cool Conditioner; Prydes EasiFeed Essentials; Johnson’s Horse and Pony.

Now the horse that is underweight and needs to put

The metabolic horse/ founder pony: Hygain –Balanced, Zero ICE and Munga; Barastoc – Meta Safe, Low-Cal Cruiser; Prydes – Easisport grainfree low-sugar horse pellet; Johnson’s – Fibre Balancer, Alfalfa Plus. Micrbeet, Speedi-Beet, Maxisoy, Founder Guard and Khonkes Trim can also be added to help get the essential vitamins and minerals into your metabolic horse.

The pleasure pony: pony club, trail riding, weekend hobby riding needing something low energy. Hygain –Balanced, Zero, ICE Honey B, Tru Gain, Allrounder; Mitavit – Munga, Xtra Cool, Cool Crusada. Johnson’s –Horse and Pony; Barastoc – Sport and Leisure, barley flakes and molasses.

Performance/show horse: Hygain – Show Torque, Balanced, ICE, Tru gain; Johnson’s – Horse and Pony, Platinum Low GI; Stance

Copra; Barastoc – Complete

Older horses: Hygain –Tru Care, Tru Gain, Equine Senior, Honey B, Fibre Essentials; Mitavite – Gumnuts; Johnson’s – Old Timer, Speedi-Beet, Microbeet, Maxisoy and Fibre Balancer, Alfalfa Plus are very good to add to the grain mixes as they add moisture and are an easy way to get fibre into the older horse who most likely have some teeth issues as well. Brood mares, foals, young horses and stallions: Hygain –Grotorque, Balanced, Tru Gain; Mitavite – Breeda, Studgrow: Prydes – BioMare Cubes, Easifeed Dry stud balancer for dry pasture; Johnson’s- Mare and Foal; Barastoc – Breed and Grow.

There are many more brands out there but these are some of the more commonly available in your local produce stores. Please remember that this is a basic guide to feeding your horses and it is most important that your horses have a minimum of one per cent of their body weight in roughage per day.

It is also important to remember that the amount prescribed on the bag of feed you choose to purchase is also only a guide to feeding your horse. Overfeeding your horse causes all sorts of problems, from health problems to behaviour problems.

The large baby channel bill cuckoo. Photo: Gillian Bradley.

AVAILABLE

Meet your Noosa JP and Cdec colleagues in 2023. If you are a Justice of the Peace or Commissioner for Declarations and would like to volunteer your services a few hours a month at our JP signing centres, or to just learn about the JPs in the Community program, branch forums, workshops and social activities, please email Deb Davis at deborah.davis007@gmail. com for more information.

Cooroy Pomona Lions Club Bookshop, cnr School and Mountain Streets, Pomona. Open every Friday and Saturday, 8 am to 12 noon. All books $2.00 or 10 for $15 (children’s books 50 cents). Newbooks each week. Donations of books welcome.

Cooroy Horse and Pony Club hold musters on 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month at the grounds on Mary River Road. Contact us on Facebook or email cooroypc@outlook.com

CLASSES & ACTIVITIES

Fabulous 60s Plus: We are a fun, friendly, seniors’ social group. We welcome couples and singles to join us for morning coffee every Monday at the Tewantin RSL from 10 am and every Thursday at the Boathouse on the Noosa River from 10 am. Contact Joan 0419 517 869 for more details.

Junior Badminton Sessions at Cooroy

Badminton Club:Wednesdays 3:45 pm Chris Wise – $2 per child.Fridays 4 to 5:30 pm with ex-Olympic coach Andi Dako – $15 per child. Please SMS Andi 0431 909 712

Cooroy Hookers meet Thursdays 9 am to 12 noon, CWA Hall Cooroy. No experience necessary, just a sense of humor! $6 includes tea and knitting and crochet. Jan 0408 477 242

we can teach you. Alan 0409 895 476 Noosa Bridge Club is starting an eight-week course of bridge lessons on Monday 20 March. The costis $80 and the lessons will cover all the basic concepts of the game and you will play in each session as you learn. To register, or for more information, call 54471341 or visit www. noosabridge.com

Dance Ballroom and Latin, Jazz Ballet and Stretch: Masonic Hall, 30 Moorindil Street, Tewantin. Call or message Helen 0418 398 541 Social Dance Class Sunday 12.30 – 4pm, Tewantin Masonic Hall, Moorindil St. Learn basic dance steps then have fun with waltz, old time, new vogue, ballroom and latin. Singles or couples welcome. For more info phone, Andrew 0429 829 328 or visit www.andrewsclassdance.com

Noosa 2010 Combined PROBUS is a great club for retired men and women who love going on bus trips, having coffee, lunches, dinner outings, weekly walks, yoga, theatre, garden outings and an interesting monthly speaker. Meetings held at Tewantin Noosa Bowls Club, 65 Hilton Tce., Tewantin on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 9am. Ph Barbara 0491 354 054.

DEATH NOTICES

Evan Singleton of Black Mountain: Evan passed away peacefully after a long battle with dementia. Evan was a much-loved and respected Veterinary Surgeon in Cooroy during the 1970’s and 1980’s and was the original owner of the Cooroora Veterinary Clinic.

FOR RENT

2 spaces for rent (approx. 20sqm - 30sqm) inside popular antique store, Pomona. Contact: 0411244580

Raine & Horne Noosa Hinterland - Contact Jessica 5444 6002328

• Upper Pinbarren Creek Rd, Pinbarren: 1 Bed, 1 Bath, partially furnished available, $450/week

1/5/2023 - Break Lease

• 21 Memorial Ave, Pomona: 4 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 Car, $650/wk, Avail 9/05/2023 - Break Lease

• 75 Williams Rd, Kin Kin: 4 Bed, 2 Bath, 3 Car, $1075/week, Available Now

• Commercial, 7 Reserve St, Large dwelling, EOI invited, Available Now

• Coming Soon - Boreen Point, 3 Bed, 2 Bath Available Mid April

FOR SALE

CuisineArt Food Processor: Works perfectly. Comes with 2 blade attachments. $20. Call Sarah 0439224273

have a good work ethic and are willing to learn. Own transport required. Call Jason 0419 764 504

Apprentice Waterproofer: Local Cooroy waterproofing business seeks honest, reliable, committed and hardworking person for apprentice position. No experience necessary – training provided. Driverslicense essential Contact Warren 0478 604 778 Cooroy RSL: Qualified chef/cook – calm temperament and ability to work at speed. Good hours over a 7-day roster. All penalties and award rate paid. Email chef@cooroyrsl. com.au or drop in to the RSL.

Jamaica Blue Cooroy: If you are looking for a great environment, fun place to work with a committed team of professionals and great hours and training, drop your resume into Jamaica Blue Cooroy.

APPLICATIONS WANTED

Trade stall applications are OPEN for the 2023 show on September 8th and 9th. If you wish to apply, please contact the Noosa Show Society Office via email – AdministrationOfficer@noosashowsociety.org.au

WANTED

Crane magnetic wheel rowing machine. Good condition. Contact Sue 5485 4505

Old video games in any condition. Nintendo, Sega, Playstation, Xbox Systems and/or Games. Contact Luke: 0428247854

NOTICES

Attention Shareholders If you, or some-

one you know, has held shares in Sunshine Coast Community Financial Services Limited, the company holding the Cooroy, Tewantin and Marcoola Bendigo Bank franchises, and have NOT received a dividend payment please contact the share registry shares@rsdregistry.com.au with your details. Unclaimed funds will be transferred to the Public Trustee. Authorised by Trish Radge, Chair SCCFSL.

THE NOOSA HINTERLAND REAL ESTATE MARKET IS THRIVING. FROM ACREAGE PROPERTIES THROUGH TO HOMES IN THE HEART OF THE VILLAGES, ALL IN HIGH DEMAND.

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Mural

or gardens.

“I have had multiple conversations, during and after the project completion, including with parents about how the mural project has inspired their children to paint and draw more and their interest in jobs as an artist. This is such a buzz for me as that wasn’t a possibility I had as a kid.

“It’s certainly clear to me the ongoing connections that have been created between myself and future generations of our town, with my walks down the streets of Pomona now including so many more interactions and questions from inquisitive young people and their families.

CLASSROOM walls at Pomona State School are all the brighter and more beautiful thanks to a colourful mural of local fauna and flora by artist Tia Carrigan. Owner of This Bird Florist & Creative Studio in Pomona, Tia said through the art project The Bees, The Birds

and the Garden They Live In, she had the opportunity to chat with students.

“The project allowed me to have all manner of conversations ranging from art and painting to jobs in artistic industries, to the science around our local wildlife, to their own joy of art, animals

“I feel very privileged to have had this experience in this project.”

The project was made possible thanks to a Regional Arts Development Fund grant – a partnership between the Queensland State Government and Noosa Shire Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

THE annual Cooroy State School Easter Bonnet Parade was egg-cellent again this year.

Students from Prep, Year One and Year Two showed

off their creative bonnet creations to the applause of fellow students as they made their way through the school to the hall for a parade with parents.

Even the Easter Bunny made an appearance.

See more Easter Bonnet Parade photos on page 14-15.

Artist, Tia and PSS student leaders in front of the mural.

CSS Prep M class with their Easter bonnets.

School lops locks for cancer charity

STUDENTS and staff at Good Shepherd Lutheran College have said goodbye to their locks for charity.

Fourteen Good Shepherd students and two staff members pledged to cut or shave their hair to raise funds for this year’s World’s Greatest Shave campaign.

Year 5 student Nina Hughes shaved her head for the cause – and for her mum who is battling cancer.

“It is hard that my mum has cancer and I really wanted to help her but there is nothing that I could do, and then The World’s

Greatest Shave came along and I wanted to do it with all of my heart,” Nina said. Nina was supported by her friend Phoebe Sayer (Year 5) who also shaved her head on stage with Nina in front of their peers.

Nina has raised over $10,000 alone.

In its eleventh year of supporting the campaign, the entire college supported the campaign through a variety of fundraising activities including bake sales, sausage sizzles, friendship bracelets, busking stations, Crazy Hair Day and

carwash.

Good Shepherd Pastoral Care Coordinator Damien Johns said it was amazing to see the community come together and go well past their initial target of $25,000.

“This year’s result of close to $35,000 is a record for the college, and as we love to break records, I’m sure we will aim even higher next year.

“Good Shepherd has raised well over $200,000 in its 11-year history of raising money for blood cancer research,” Damien said.

Services

Nina Hughes, supported by her friend Phoebe Sayer, shaved her head for The World’s Greatest Shave raising over $10,000.

Seven decades of bowls

With six weeks remaining in Wednesday night’s business bowls, Cops and Robbers and Page Furnishers are fighting over the top spot on the ladder but are being pursued relentlessly by Britten Built closely following in second place.

Thursday night’s Hi Rollers also have six weeks remaining. Currently, the Yandina team is on top just eight ahead of Hot Shots, with Grasshoppers a further six behind. The leading teams are all yet to have a bye though, so things may all change in the coming weeks.

BY PETER HOLT

FOLLOWING WWII, lawn bowling clubs began to spring up around the country. Perhaps it was seen as a more sociable and less vigorous activity than tennis, football and cricket which were the major sporting activities at the time. Lawn bowls also enabled a broader cross-section of the community to participate, including women.

The Cooroy Bowls Club

has seen many changes in the 77 years since three Cooroy neighbours – Bob Kerr, Jack Bennett and Bill Holzapfel – decided, over a cup of tea one Sunday morning, that starting a bowls club sounded like a good idea. The current green that the club plays on today is named after Bob Kerr.

The 2023 Hinterland competition has just concluded. Although they didn’t feature in the finals, both the men’s and women’s teams gener-

ally acquitted themselves well. The ladies in particular finished on a high, winning their last three matches. Two of the matches were against the competition’s ladder leaders. A wonderful effort. It was great to see that every member of the club who expressed an interest in participating in the competition was given the opportunity to do so, irrespective of their ability. Congratulations to the team managers Rolley and Maureen.

One lucky reader of the Cooroy Rag can win a free game of bowls for four people (bowls supplied) including free tips from members of the bowls club, plus a schooner of beer or soft drink each. Simply text to 0428 549 003 the year the three gentlemen mentioned in the article above got together over a cup of tea and the Cooroy Bowls Club was born. The winner will be drawn from all the correct entries received by 26 April. The prize has been generously donated by Your Mates BowlsPub and members of the Cooroy Bowls Club.

If you are interested in finding out more about the Cooroy Bowls Club, please email the secretary at breece@bigpond.net.au.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Pomona Demons players who represented age groups for Noosa District. 10-12 year boys: Chance Magin, Edward Buch, Tyson Schmidt, Paisley Pocock, Baeden Billing and Fin Rollins. 10-12 year girls: Nellie Pocock, Mason Gilbert and Macy Hulcombe.13-15 boys and girls: Jett Orpwood, Xanthe Millington, Preston Pocock and Tennyson Conquest.

Opening day of the new green and clubhouse in Cooroy on 22 May 1948 and the old and new clubhouses on Australia Day in 1999.

Cooroy senior gymnasts leap into action

girls relaxed into the event and finished strong to achieve their level 7 qualification.”

Jamie said Polly Boyd had a strong event, finishing third on uneven bars and fifth in the AA in level 7 under 13.

“Neve Bayldon and Saskia Cook had an up-and-down day but finished strong, finishing ninth on floor and sixth on vault respectively.

THE Cooroy Gymnastics

Club senior members have kick-started their year attending the Premier Gymnastics Invitational which showcases some of the strongest senior gymnasts in Queensland.Cooroy Gymnastics Club coaching coordinator Jamie Cannon

Social tennis

KEEN to play tennis, meet new people and have some fun? Social tennis at Cooroy Tennis Club is all about having a good time on the court (and off) and meeting like-minded tennis

said nerves were evident as the event was their first competition in the senior levels.

“Unfortunately, Isabella Dean sustained an injury after a fall on uneven bars, the first apparatus for the day, and was unable to continue.

“After a shaky start, the

players.

Social tennis is held Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 7:30 to 9:00 am and Sunday evenings 6 to 8 pm.

Members $4, non-members $7, balls provided.

For more information, contact Ian Garvey 0409

“Seven of our senior members are now looking forward to the culmination of their season being the Senior State Championships which commence on 31 March at the Sleeman Sports Complex where the best gymnasts in Queensland will compete for the right to represent Queensland at the Australian Championships,” Jamie said.

581 870, Dorelle Goldsworthy 0403 737 183 or Lyn Barker 0439 648 407. Coaching lessons are available from the club’s professional coach. Contact James Webber 0473 569 501 or admin@allplaytennis.com.au.

Agency finalist in national awards

George Real Estate agents celebrate school leaders

A COOROY real estate agency has been nominated as a finalist in two categories of the nationally recognised Real Estate Business Awards.

Countryside Noosa Realty has been nominated for the Small Boutique Independent Agency of the Year, and agents Kimberlea and Eliot Krause have been nominated for the Sales Campaign of the Year.

Countryside Noosa Realty principal Robyn Kildey said she is so proud of her team for being finalists in these nationally recognised

awards.

“To be a boutique agency and be receiving this recognition is a testament to the honest and ethical business we have strived to provide our clients for the past 20 years,” Robyn said.

Senior sales consultant Kimberlea Krause said she and Eliot are beyond thrilled to be nominated as a finalist.

“This is a national recognition and it means the world to us to know the hard work and determination we put into the customised approach of our sales cam-

paigns have been selected among some of Australia’s finest.

“We are also so proud of our entire team for being nominated as a finalist in the Small Boutique Independent Agency of the Year category. We feel so privileged to be working among such wonderful people. We can’t thank them all enough; we would not be where we are without all of them,” Kimberlea said.

The entire Countryside Noosa Realty team will be heading to Sydney in May for the awards ceremony.

POMONA real estate agency, George Real Estate was surprised by Pomona State School recently when they were asked to present the Year 6 Leadership Awards.

Agent Brian George said it was an honour to present the awards.

“As usual it was another fantastic way to recognise some of the superstars coming through one of our beautiful local state schools.

“Congratulations boys and girls, excellent work.”

Pomona State School said as student leaders, they will have the opportunity to

make a positive impact on the school community by setting an example for their peers, representing their class in school meetings, organising and leading school events, and contributing to the well-being of their school community.

“We are confident that you will take your responsibilities seriously and carry out your duties with integrity, enthusiasm, and respect for others. Your willingness to take on this leadership role shows that you are capable of making a positive difference in the lives of those around

you.

“Thank you to Brian and Carlene George from George Real Estate who presented our school leaders with their badges. We appreciate your contribution and continued support of our school.

“We look forward to seeing all the great things our school leaders will achieve in their new role as school captains and sports captains, and we wish you all the best in your endeavours. Congratulations once again on this well-deserved achievement.”

George Real Estate agents Brian and Carlene George with Pomona State School’s 2023 school leaders (back row from L to R) Emily, Tyson, Billie and Edward and (front row from L to R) Anna, Finn, Lola and Will.

The Countryside Noosa Realty team.

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For Sale

Address: Units 23 & 24/13-17 James Street, Noosaville

Price: Contact agent

Details: 2 x 2 bedroom units

Agent: Kate Mayne 0408 604 802, Sandy Roulston 0438 506 970

Agency: Noosa

Hinterland Real Estate

WHAT a great opportunity these units provide for the new owner. Live in one, rent out the other for shortterm, long-term, or Airbnb. Perhaps just enjoy the resort-style living with your family and have your own space to do so. This unique

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allows for the

pier to purchase both these co-joined apartments within the popular Pelican Beach Resort in James Street, Noosaville, with the units offered at $820,000 and $830,000.

The units present as an ideal arrangement of four

bedrooms plus lofts, two kitchens, and with both units having open living and dining areas, modern appliances, and plenty of under-bench cupboard storage.

Light and bright, the units have been tastefully renovated and offer the savvy

purchaser resort-style living within a 150-metre walk of Gympie Terrace’s fabulous bars, restaurants, and lovely Noosa River walks and water entertainment.

The apartments would be ideal for the combined or extended family, allowing room for everyone to enjoy

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a piece of Noosa’s paradise.

The Pelican Beach Resort complex has a recently refurbished inground pool & spa, sauna, half tennis court, gym, and a large undercover entertainment area with BBQ facilities to share with your family and

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friends.

This property has so much on offer and we welcome the opportunity to show you through. For private inspections, please call Sandy on 0438 506 970 or Kate on 0408 604 802.

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Want to escape the rat race?

Five bedroom family oasis on acreage For Sale

Address: 156 Blanckensee Rd, Black Mountain

Price: $1,395,000

Details: 4 bed, 2 bath, 4 car

Agent: Glenn Millard 0437 221 723

Agency: Raine & Horne Noosa Hinterland

For Sale

Address: 86

Racehorse Lane, Lake Macdonald

Price: Contact agent

Details: 5 bed, 2 bath, 8 car

Agent: Shannon Astill 0405 729 513

LOOKING for a peaceful rural property with stunning hinterland views? Look no further than 156 Blanckensee Road in Black Mountain. This property features seven useable acres of land, perfect for all your rural living needs. You’ll love the privacy of the renovated lowset brick home, freshly painted, new timber floating floors throughout. The main bedroom features an ensuite plus bay window and there are three additional good size bedrooms all with built-in wardrobes, providing space for you and your family. The interior is modern and well-appointed,

including two separate living areas with air-conditioning plus cozy wood heater ensuring a comfortable living experience.

But the real highlight of this property is the breathtaking hinterland views that surround it. Enjoy the beauty of the landscape from the comfort of your own home or take a stroll through the rolling hills and take in the natural beauty of the area.

This property also features an in-ground pool, Colorbond four-bay shed, stable and garden shed providing plenty of space for outdoor activities and storage, 10,000 gallons of rainwa-

ter tanks plus a dam and windmill and 1.5 kW approx. solar power.

The land is currently fenced into four paddocks and set back from the road – great for horses, small crops, hobby farm or just the peaceful lifestyle. Offering the best of both worlds, Cooroy is under 10 minutes’ drive and under 30 minutes to Noosa.

Don’t miss your chance to own this idyllic rural property in one of the most beautiful areas of Black Mountain. Contact us today to schedule a viewing and start living your dream of peaceful rural living with stunning views.

STOP looking and start living in your own private sanctuary with this amazing 3.1-acre property. This five-bedroom home features a generous inground saltwater pool and privacy at the end of a culde-sac.

The spacious home office offers a prime workspace for those who work remotely.

The kitchen is fully equipped with an electric oven and cooktop and a dishwasher. The carpeted bedrooms offer built-in robes and ceiling fans, while the master has

a walk-in robe and ensuite. The home has multiple air-conditioning systems for your comfort.

Hosting guests is effortless, with a fire pit, outdoor pergola and multiple entertaining spaces.

There is a near new 22 x 9.2 m industrial shed with 3-phase power, perfect for boats, caravans and all the toys, plus a 9 x 7 m shed for more storage. The 5 kW solar system reduces energy expenses, and rainwater tanks and septic system add

Agency: Raine & Horne Noosa Hinterland

to the property’s eco-friendliness, reducing utility costs and establishing a more sustainable lifestyle.

The circular concrete driveway and flat, clear backyard with tastefully landscaped gardens enhance the property’s aesthetic.

Conveniently located near shops, schools and beaches, this property offers a rare opportunity to own your piece of paradise while remaining connected to the community. Don’t miss this once-in-alifetime opportunity.

Paradise found Dual occupancy on 3.4 magnificent acres For

WELCOME home to your piece of paradise. This large prestige home is set on a wonderful seven acres of lush gardens and greenery yet is only 12 minutes to Tewantin and 20 minutes to Noosa.

58 Eucalypt Way is a home of generous proportions with modern conveniences for comfortable living all year round.

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Address:

For Sale

Address: 139 Wust Road, Doonan

Price: Serious offers considered

Agency: George Real Estate

The kitchen is masterfully designed to include a walk-in pantry, a multi-oven Falcon stove that also offers gas cooking, engineered black stone bench tops, and plenty of storage cupboards and drawers.

Designed as a family residence, the master retreat and bedrooms are placed to ensure minimal disruption from the main living areas

for entertaining.

Just a few of the landscaping features include a fire pit with seating, BBQ pavilion, pizza oven, aboveground pool, lake with jetty, bushwalks throughout the native area and a variety of sitting areas surrounding the home.

Fully fenced for dogs or animals, the property also offers a double carport,

THIS magnificent 3.4-acre parcel with glorious leafy gardens including rainforest with a running creek and timber boardwalk, offers private, gentle, self-sustainable living with an elegant family residence and a self-contained apartment offering versatile options, including dual occupancy, in a prestigious blue-chip acreage belt in the Noosa

separate entry and electricity meter, and all together under the roof, the home comprises four bedrooms, three bathrooms, two kitchens, separate living areas, office, gym/MPR, study, two laundries, extensive decking, double lock up garage (for main home) and under-house double carport (apartment).

The home is fully

combustion heater in the formal lounge, gas hot water, 9 kW solar power, and a sundrenched lagoon-style inground pool.

Framed by stunning colourful established gardens attracting a multitude of birdlife, butterflies, and bees, this is truly a resplendent setting, so picturesque and pretty, so verdant and calming. An assortment of

New look Hinternoosa super team

SINCE 1989, Hinternoosa has been synonymous with real estate in the Noosa hinterland and has served as trusted advisors to the prestige and large acreage hinterland market.

Since 2010, Wythes Real Estate has been bringing fresh energy and approach to the entry-level-to-million-dol-

lar-plus hinterland market. Both agencies are known and respected for their local team of hinterland experts and for achieving exceptional results.

With proven track records independently, it is exciting to announce the top two leading agencies in the hinterland are going from strength to

strength by coming together to form a super team that is a new-look Hinternoosa.

The combined talent of both teams forms a group of the best-of-the-best real estate professionals in our region.

They have a unified vision, aiming to continue to raise the bar in real estate with a high-performance team

culture that offers a client experience like no other.

They recognise they are stronger together and their goal is your success.

By achieving superior results in sales and property management, and providing an exceptional client experience, the new-look Hinternoosa is positioned as

the agency of choice when buying, selling and renting in the Noosa hinterland.

Individuals who make up this super team have thrived under the leadership of business owners and directors Sirah and John Robb.

For a real estate experience like no other that will achieve a superior result, contact the

Retire in absolute style and quality

THIS is not just an amazing home on offer; this is an exceptional lifestyle.

Palm Lake Resort in the thriving country township of Cooroy in the Noosa hinterland is a luxury resort for a vibrant generation of over-50s who refuse to settle for outdated retirement lifestyles. The world-class

facilities will provide you with as much entertainment and activities as you desire or simply enjoy relaxing in your luxurious home … the choice is yours.

The home includes high ceilings, spacious openplan living and dining, stone benches throughout, ducted air-conditioning and fans.

The home is light and bright and boasts two large bedrooms with built-in wardrobes. The master suite features a lovely ensuite and walk-in robe. There is an additional office or hobby room and a two-car garage with an epoxy floor and an electric garage door. Entertaining will be easy

with the designer kitchen with two-pac cupboards, a dishwasher and a lovely outlook to the low-maintenance landscaped gardens. Outside there are two alfresco areas and established gardens. There is ample space outside and the corner position set on a wide street gives

new-look Hinternoosa team today.

Cooroy Office: 30 Maple St, Cooroy Q 4563, Phone: 07 5447 7000

Eumundi Office: 777 Eumundi Noosa Rd, Doonan Q 4562, Phone: 07 5449 1186

Website: hinternoosa.com. au

For Sale

Address: Site 41/19 Trading Post Road, Cooroy

Price: Offers over $879,000

Details: 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car

Agent: Alisa Wythes 0415 111 370

Agency: Hinternoosa

you the feeling of ample space. The 324 m2 block is fully fenced.

The position within the resort is ideal as you are within a stone’s throw of the amazing country club with a restaurant and bar.

The facilities in this gated resort are exceptional with an 8-rink undercover bowl-

Wonderful location in town

WHAT a cracking location in Cooroy’s hub. This three-bedroom, one-bathroom, two-level home is set on a 546 m2 allotment of land. It is within easy walking distance to all amenities in the country township of Cooroy.

Here is an opportunity to own this original home that features open-plan living with a

front-enclosed verandah. The kitchen has cooking appliances and loads of cupboards for storage. The property also boasts 5.2 kW of solar power. There are three good-sized bedrooms with built-in wardrobes. Downstairs hides the laundry, workshop and second toilet plus loads of storage areas including room for the car.

There is a double carport with room for the boat or caravan.

All this is set on a manageable 546 m2 block with all town amenities, across the road from doctors and a bus stop, and with schools, shops, clubs and the new kids’ playground an easy walk from the gate. The train station is also at your fingertips so you can be in

ing green, ten-pin bowling, two swimming pools, gym, movie cinema, nine-hole putt-putt, tennis precinct, village bus and caravan wash. Some financial key features are no exit fees, no stamp duty and no council rates. Start living a great lifestyle right now.

For Sale

Address: 47 Maple Street, Cooroy

Price: Offers over $750,000

Details: 3 bed, 1 bath, 3 car

Agent: Warren Berry 0407 730 987

Agency: Hinternoosa

Brisbane in a couple of hours or it’s a 20-minute drive to Noosa.

This property presents all sorts of opportunities as it is zoned Community Facilities. All decked up ready to be a home for now, but check with the local council about the endless possibilities available.

Escape to the Noosa countryside

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For Sale

Address: 33 Toomey Street, Traveston

Price: Offers over $1,050,000 considered Details: 3 bed, 2 bath, 6 car

Agent: Damon Gore 0401 115 816

Agency: Countryside Realty Noosa

WELL-PRESENTED three-bedroom, two-bathroom home plus office, sheds and more on a beautiful useable 11.3-acre

property located in the charming country town of Traveston.

Enjoy relaxing at the end of the day on the front verandah and watch the sun go down, or unwind near the wood fireplace on those colder days.

The pool area and verandah are perfect for parties or just a great spot to sit back and relax while the kids play in the pool.

The property boasts a huge 12 x 7 m shed that was originally used to live in while the main house was being built, with rooms still in place; alternatively the rooms could be easily removed to increase the already spacious building.

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MEET DAMON GORE, YOUR ACREAGE SPECIALIST

Damon is known for his excellent communication and negotiation skills, making him a friendly and approachable agent for all your real estate needs. With a focus on acreage properties, he has the expertise to guide you through the process and help you achieve the best possible outcome.

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At the front of the shed is a 6 x 6 m carport and there is a convenient under-cover area on the side of the shed perfect for keeping a mower and other equipment. There is potential to do a variety of things as most of the property has been selectively cleared, with a section of land left natural offering extra privacy and an opportunity to make your own bushwalking tracks so you can enjoy the abundant wildlife right at your doorstep.

This really is a great opportunity for the savvy buyer with development potential subject to council approval.

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We are an established agency with a 20-year local history. As leaders and experts in Noosa Hinterland real estate, we pride ourselves on going that extra country mile for our clients. Community focused and collaborative by nature our service speaks for itself. Naturally, we have become the first choice for buyers, sellers, renters and landlords.

Auction

Address: 187 Ocean View Road, Cooroy

Date: 28 Apr 2023 10.00am

Details: 3 bed, 2

Agent: Robert Farley, 0408 478 304

Agency: Ray White

WALKING into this grand colonial Queenslander is like stepping into a bit of Australian history. The high ceilings, original VJ walls, French doors, ornate fretwork, glass detailing, and of course the polished timber floors make it a special home to be in.

The air-conditioned, open-plan living areas are substantial in size. The

well-placed windows allow an abundance of natural light and airflow as well as magnificent views over the hinterland towards the backdrop of Mt Cooroy. The well-appointed kitchen is both functional and spacious with ample cupboards, a large gas oven and cooktop, a dishwasher, and a double stainless sink. A wood-burning fireplace is set next to the kitchen, offering warmth throughout the home during the cooler months.

The three generous-sized bedrooms, with ceiling fans, are accessed through French doors. There is a modern ensuite, and the large walk-in robe offers great storage. The main bathroom is more traditional in style and features a

clawfoot bath and classic finishes.

Relax on the verandah on three sides and soak up the peaceful and quiet ambience overlooking nothing but acreage properties with livestock and views for miles. Stairs from the verandah lead under the house to where car parking space is available. Storage is plentiful and the laundry is easily accessible. Water to the home is provided from approximately 5,000 gallons of rainwater. A 5 kW solar system offsets your power usage and a large electric hot water system ensures long hot showers.

An impressive inground saltwater pool creates a stunning feature in front of the Queenslander, shaded by large trees and bordered by a well-manicured lawn. There is an established mango orchard, picturesque poincianas, jacarandas and a 400-year-old majestic fig tree.

There is a designated chook run, a 9 x 7 m shed which has power, and approximately 5,000 gallons of rainwater.

All this set on 1.84 acres only minutes from Cooroy with uninterrupted views to Cooroy Mountain.

Auction

Address: 43 James Street, Cooran

Date: 14 April at 10:30

Details: 4 bed, 1 bath,

Agent: Robert Farley, 0408 478 304

Agency: Ray White

WHEN stepping foot on this peaceful 87-acre property, it’s hard to determine what you sense the most: the gentle cooling breezes, the harmonic chorus of native birdsong, or the realisation of the immense opportunity in front of you.

Nestled privately at the end of your meandering tree-lined driveway is the solid four-bedroom family

home. Built in 1990, it offers the warmth and character of a brick exterior and a hardy Colorbond roof.

The same brickwork features on one internal wall and the wood-burning fireplace located at the heart of the open-plan living areas. The living space is complemented by air-conditioning and fans, ensuring ideal temperature comfort all year around.

The kitchen is a generous size with ample cupboard space and a large pantry. The large windows give natural light and views overlooking your vast property.

There are four bedrooms containing solid and functional built-in wardrobes and ceiling fans. The main bedroom contains an

air-conditioner and a glass sliding door which leads out to the verandah. The home is serviced by an electric hot water system and Biolytix septic system. Three-phase power is also available on the property. There are roughly seven acres of cleared, gently sloping land surrounding the home. There is a 6 x 9 m shed which has power and water connected. The property is connected to the town supply and there is also a large dam and underwater springs. A seasonal creek that fills from Jampot Creek wanders through the property. The location is within walking distance of the township of Cooran and the local school is literally over the fence; it is perfect for your young family.

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