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Zonta offers $2000 to help you study

The Zonta Club of Blackall Range is once again offering two Scholarships of $200 each to local women who are studying at tertiary level. Zonta is assisting women who have a close connection to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland and who have at least a year of tertiary study (University or TAFE) behind them. In past years we have had students

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from the Education Faculty at UniSC and other institutions, from Arts, Fine Arts, Nursing and Midwifery, from Science and from Environment. Please look for our application through the UniSC website if relevant or contact Linda McElrea at scholarship@zontablackallrange. org.au for further information.

Jodie Nolan

Having spent the past 25 years in the financial industry as a financial adviser and geopolitical commentator, when the opportunity arose for me to head up the merger from Maleny Credit Union to Queensland Country Bank in the town I live and love, I jumped at the chance.

I am passionate about financial literacy and member-owned banking and to be able to use this expertise to help local members find their feet and grow and thrive is a truly satisfying outcome.

Queensland Country Bank is unique because it is member-owned. The profits go back our members by way of more affordable loans, low (or no fee) accounts and better savings rates. It gives members a local place to bank with genuinely friendly staff. We are actually ‘opening’ branches in South East Queensland - not closing them.

We love being involved in the community and take pride in our sponsorship of events like the Maleny Show as well as our ‘Good for Good Community Grant’ that has delivered thousands of dollars back into the community.

Queensland Country Bank has some of the most competitive rates in the country in relation to home and car loans (we even have ‘green’ loans) and our customers have access to special member rates for insurances and fixed term deposits. We would love an opportunity to assist you, and aim to be the bank of choice for locals.

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Matthea Uhlig

Matthea (Matty) started her insurance career as Client Claims Manager with AAMI Insurance in 2010. She quickly developed a passion and understanding of the industry and later progressed into Insurance Broking.

Prior to moving to Queensland in 2014 and joining a local broker based in Maroochydore, Matty worked in various insurance brokerage offices in Darwin and developed a passion for assisting business owners with their insurance needs. After 8 years with the brokerage on the coast, Matty decided to create Platina Insurance Solutions Pty Ltd.

“At Platina we guarantee transparency, choices, value and platinum advice that you can trust. We offer confidence with the unexpected,” says Matty.

Platina Insurance Solutions specializes in SME Business Insurance for various occupations including but not limited to retail, cafes, professional services to earthmoving (ie equipment hire) and agriculture industries such as farms and wineries

Matty is passionate about providing her clients with a high level of service and ensuring that their insurance requirements are met.

Platina Insurance Solutions has an office in Maroochydore but Matty lives here in the beautiful Glasshouse Mountains. In her downtime she spends time playing golf, mountain hiking and painting.

Call or email today to see how Matty can help you make the right insurance decisions for your business.

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Mary Kelly

Mary’s business, Good Mood Food started when her family went on a journey of healing, for her son, who was critically ill and getting worse under mainstream medicine. She found a way forward with a diet of traditional, healing food, and through detoxing her home so that he could heal and thrive. Part of that journey was learning how to help her son during the daily family emergencies that can occur, like scrapes, rashes, growing pains, insect repellent, colds and flu, because he was so dangerously intolerant to chemical medicines.

“I learnt how to keep his airways open and asthma at bay, using recipes that developed into natural balms, frequently applied to the soles of the feet for rapid resultsso Sole Balms. I then started to hand these out to friends and family with amazing testimonials and results,” says Mary.

After some encouragement, she started to make them available to those following her journey on Facebook, Good Mood Food with Mary Kelly. The balms sold very well from the beginning, and she has been honoured to have so many loyal return customers enjoying a natural product that brings real value into the home.

Mary employs local Peachester mums to make, package and ship the balms, all by hand, using local quality ingredients.

“We rejected the idea of having the balms made in factories by corporations very early on.” Sold worldwide, almost all the ingredients are sourced locally within SE QLD. Mary is very focussed on their local footprint, and is delighted to be a part of the Glasshouse and Hinterland community.

Tracy Mellors

Tracy Mellors from Your Wellness Matters, offers therapeutic support across all abilities. Services may be funded through NDIS, various private health and/or selffunded. Tracy also provides clinical supervision to social workers and counsellors. Services are available in Maleny, Caloundra and via phone/ online. Tracy holds a Masters in Social Work(PQ), Bachelor Social Science (Counselling), Diploma Hypnotherapy and Certificate in Initiatic Art Therapy.

Tracy’s heartfelt believe is that we are all so much more than any diagnosis, so much more than any particular problem, issue or life transition we may be facing. Tracy looks forward to working together with you in ways that are not only evidencebased, but in ways that are also personally meaningful and helpful to you, inviting more vitality and purpose to your life. Focused psychological strategies incorporating compassion and mindfulnessbased approaches such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Narrative therapy are a few examples of evidence-based modalities Tracy utilizes. A broad range of modalities are considered and offered to best fit each person. Expressive art therapy requires no art skills and nature-based Walk & Talk therapy are relaxed, yet powerfully helpful ways to communicate and move through issues. Hypnotherapy is also sought after by clients, as a modality to assist achieving desired behaviour change and goals.

Your Wellness Matters and Tracy looks forward to exploring ways that you may work together.

Krystle Kirk

Krystle is a secondgeneration real estate agent with The McGill Group and a local resident of Landsborough for the better part of the last decade. She brings more than 10 years of experience within the residential building industry, a lifetime in customer service and a professional background in insurance and marketing prior to that. A country girl at heart, Krystle moved to the Sunshine Coast in 2004 from North Queensland and now calls Landsborough home where she lives with her husband and their two children on their acreage property at the base of Mount Mellum support@goodmoodfood.net.au

As a long-term resident of the Sunshine Coast, Krystle has seen the change and the evolution of the Coast and Hinterland and has a broad range of experiences that she can bring to her clients.

Wildly passionate about providing exceptional customer service and bucking the typical ‘real estate agent’ stereotype, Krystle who is married to a builder (and after spending a decade in the construction industry herself) has been inspired to be hands on in numerous renovations, recycling, repurposing and restoration projects. Not only can she give you plenty of tips to help prepare your home for sale, but she can also help buyers with ideas to sell them on a vision for the properties she markets.

Krystle’s intention in the industry is not to sell the most homes, but to sell each home for the most and establishing lifelong relationships with her clients.

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Tamara Hazelden

Tamara is your local Real Estate Specialist servicing Beerwah and surrounding

With over 17 years of experience in the Real Estate industry, Tamara can help you with your own home or investment property needs. It is her goal to help people achieve their property goals and loves to make the process as seamless as possible.

As a born and bred local resident, you will often see Tamara at local community events around the area.

As an Agent it is Tamara’s specialty to help you find the perfect home that suits you now and in the years to come.

To ensure this, she makes sure to take the extra time to understand everyone’s situation, as no two circumstances are the same.

She will be by your side every step of the way, whether you are buying or selling, she will be there.

Tamara has recently taken on the role as Vice President for The Glass House Country Chamber of Commerce and will always take a stand and support local businesses.

Over the last 12 months, Tamara has opened her own agency in Beerwah and has created an amazing team to support her and take her service to the next level.

She is a loving mother of two children and is dedicated to her community, so no doubt you will see her in and around the community.

Come on down and meet Tamara and her team at their office in Swan Street, Beerwah. 0423 766 763 tamara.hazelden@freedomproperty.com.au

Bernette Ledger

Bernette is a Chinese Medicine Practitioner at her business, Acupuncture @ Beerwah in Turner Street. Bernette has embraced the study and practice of Chinese medicine and has been in practice since 1999 and in Beerwah since 2013.

Bernette uses Chinese medicine to help people feel well and energetic and to maintain general wellbeing.

Bernette explains, “Acupuncture eases pain, tension and stress, and by doing this helps alleviate and or prevent many issues before they happen.”

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine is not a miracle cure, it usually takes several treatments to achieve results and then periodic treatments for maintenance. Bernette likes people to decide for themselves when they could best benefit from treatments and their ongoing maintenance.

“If you can’t abide needles there are alternative treatments available that still use Chinese Medical protocols some of these are cupping, herbs and moxibustion.”

Cupping is also a great treatment for muscular tightness, stress and for activating acupoints that Bernette offers. Cupping works well for bursitis of the hips, corked muscles, and general muscle tightness from sport and work.

Herbs are for treating issues that are more difficult to treat and aid in the effects of acupuncture.

Moxibustion is an herb (usually Artemisia Vulgaris or Artemisia Montana) that is burnt over acupoints to stimulate the acupoint areas.

Bernette looks forward to assisting people to understand and manage their health issues.

Call to book or you can also book online.

Dr. Mignonette Tamayo

Dr Mignonette Tamayo believes that doing what you enjoy is very important when choosing a career path, and as the owner of Lifestyle Skin Health Clinic, she does that every day. After working over ten years as a GP in Darwin, Mignonette’s interests ultimately led her to developing her career in skin cancer diagnosis and management.

“I realised how common it is to see cases of skin cancers in this country and how few GP’s are adequately equipped and trained,” she said.

“I saw the enormous and urgent need for more doctors to look after numerous patients with skin cancers.”

After practising skin cancer medicine and surgery exclusively for over seven years, in 2020 Mignonette opened her clinic based in Landsborough at Landsborough Shopping Village near Australia Post. Mignonette’s specialist skills include skin checks, dermoscopy, chemical chemotherapy and immunotherapy (field treatment), biopsy, curettage, electrocautery, skin excisions, primary closure, skin flaps and skin grafts; she also offers removal of moles, cysts, skin tags and other superficial skin lesions for cosmetic reasons. Recently, she’s added cosmetic injections and dermal fillers to her list of services she offers her clients.

“I believe nobody should die of skin cancer as long as they are diagnosed early and treated adequately,” she said. No need to wait to get checked. Call or book online now.

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Tove Easton

Tove Easton continues to provide legal expertise that locals have come to depend on at Easton Lawyers in the little white building at the top of Maple Street, Maleny. Joined by her dedicated team, Michelle Kleinig, Sharon Schofield, Jenny Buzaki, Valli Benoit and Simone Svenson, Easton Lawyers this year celebrated 16 years in business.

Tove, originally from Norway, turned away from a professional music career for a life in Australia. Tove completed a Bachelor of Business degree followed by a Law degree from Macquarie University in Sydney before setting up her own practice in 2007.

Tove is a full time solicitor in this successful legal practice which has become part of the fabric of Maleny. In 2022 Tove was sworn in by the Archbishop as a Notary Public. This is an incredible honour and the team is thrilled to be able to provide this service to the community.

Easton Lawyers regularly offer support to many local events and clubs and are the honorary solicitors for many organisations. For Tove and her team at Easton Lawyers it is a privilege to help people through tough and stressful times.

Easton Lawyers specialise in; Wills; Enduring Powers of Attorney and Advanced Health Directives; Estate Administration and Planning; Testamentary Family Maintenance Claims; Conveyancing and Property Law; Commercial, Business and Lease matters.

Home visits, or hospital visits are all a part of their amazing service and remember initial consultations are free.

Heidi Langley

Heidi and her family immigrated to Australia in 2008 to experience living in a safe, beautiful country.

Having experienced trauma through her childhood and again, though on a different level, in adulthood, Heidi needed to find her own way to healing.

During her healing journey, she was inspired to help others. She wanted to provide a compassionate service to women, children and their families and has now been in practice for 25 years doing just that.

Having navigated that healing journey herself, Heidi has created a calm, safe and nurturing environment where people feel heard, understood and find healing through the process Heidi offers in her practice, Refocus Child & Family Therapy.

“I have a unique way of working,” says Heidi, “we do have a waitlist because I believe we provide a much needed and valuable service, though we are in the process of expanding our services with a new therapist to reduce these waiting times.”

Heidi is the only mental health service in the Hinterland that provides playbased therapy to children from the age of three.

She is also an EMDR therapist, offering this specific method of dealing with trauma.

Shop 1 / 2 Turner Street, Beerwah

13 Turner Street, Beerwah

Heidi is involved with some of the local schools, churches and the Chamber of Commerce where she loves supporting and networking with other local businesses and has loved being a part of this community for the last 7 years. 042 333 7748 langleyheidi@gmail.com