Hinterland Times March 2013

HINTERLAND TIMES Sunshine Coast’s free independent news magazine

March 2013

Fruit Bats ... why such bad press? ... after all, they pollinate our eucalypt forests! story p8-9 THE SKINNERS

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From the Editor

MARCH 2013

Are we getting a fair share of the pie?

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WAS SURPRISED to discover recently that the average full time weekly wage in Australia is $1396 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. I’ll bet the average wage earner on the Sunshine Coast isn’t taking home $72,592 a year. My guess is that it’s closer to $40,000 than it is to $70,000.

Sunshine Coast job ads reveal $40,000 is offered for a sales manager and an IT support officer. You get $21 an hour to work in a holiday call centre, $23 an hour for a parks and gardens worker and $26 an hour for an accounts payable officer.

What is also worrying is the disparity between what we might consider a “comfortable” wage for the average, middle class man or woman and the money that’s being paid to our ‘public servants’.

For example, the debacle that was called the amalgamation of councils in 2008 in Queensland has clearly demonstrated that council staff numbers have gone up along with inflated salaries. The Sunshine Coast became the fourth largest Australian council and with it, came the second highest councillor salaries. Each councillor now gets about $120,000 a year, with the mayor getting almost $200,000. And don’t forget the expenses, and their ‘amalgamation payment bonus’.

Do we really assess the work that councillors do on the Sunshine Coast at three times the monetary value of what most other people earn?

If we consider this a value-for-money argument then how is it that the Sunshine Coast Council employs 401 more full-time equivalent staff than Moreton Bay Council, at an added cost of $39 million a year, despite having 80,000 fewer residents to service?

Apart from bloating the salaries of managers, directors and councillors in our new amalgamated council, we also saw the creation of Unitywater. As the Residents Association South Sunshine Coast has asked, “Ever wondered why your water and sewerage rates have increased so much since the establishment of Unitywater?

There can be little doubt that one of the causes is the huge costs incurred by Unitywater in the remuneration of its key management personnel.”

The CEO gets $438,730, Chief Operating Officer - $255,095. Executive Manager Retail - $244,165. Chief Financial Officer - $274,725. Executive Manager, Business Support $230,184. Chief Information Officer - $226,241. This isn’t the full crew but their salaries total is $1,847, 826. And don’t forget the board members’ fees.

Don’t forget too that before Unitywater, Council staff managed our water supply and sewerage services as part of their day job.

I can’t say whether or not an Executive Manager Business Support or a Chief Information Officer is fairly remunerated at well over $200,000 a year but I would remind you that these are public service positions. Without picking on Unitywater there is a whole slew of similar management and directorial positions within Council where continued employment is guaranteed and very well paid.

Former mayor of Noosa Shire, Noel Playford believes a more realistic remuneration for council representatives should take into account the community service component and be more in line with the average Australian worker’s salary.

Mr Playford labelled as “obscene” the recent pay increases recommended for Sunshine Coast Council by the Remuneration Tribunal.

He said the Tribunal thinking reflected a "disease" rampant in all levels of government where the pay scales for elected members was mimicking remuneration in the corporate sector.

Most of us have to work for a living, and we expect to be paid a fair wage for our efforts - a fair slice of the pie. Whoever is cutting up the pie needs to look again at what is a fair share.

Michael Berry

The views expressed in the Hinterland Times are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the magazine’s publishers.

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Making News ...

A food garden for children behind UpFront Club

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Flying Foxes find friends on the Range

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Ruth Redpath gets a helping hand

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Range arts get a boost from Skye

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NZ couple sponsored to live & work in Maleny

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Remote networking - IT works on the Range

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Walter and Willy make an air-filled business

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COVER STORY Flying foxes have a cute face and an unfair reputation for disease and death.

Editor, Michael Berry visited the Bat Rescue group on the Range to find out some facts.

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When Harry met Smiley...

LEFT: A first time meeting for a former film star, Colin Petersen and film fan, Harry Jayereux, from Melbourne.

ABOVE & BOTTOM: Colin as the nine year-old child star in the 1956 production of Smiley.

BELOW: A quick bonding at the Upfront Club.

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HE MEETING of these two men (above) in Maleny’s Upfront Club recently looked like a happy reunion. In fact they had never met before.

Harry Rayeroux (left) had looked forward to this meeting for more than 50 years. At last he could say hello to his hero, Colin Petersen, the child star of the 1956 movie, Smiley and a Maleny resident.

“I saw it at least eight times – every Saturday,” says Harry who was born and raised in Mauritius. “It was dubbed in French and took some time to get to Mauritius. But I was about 12 or 13, and there was something about Smiley that made me really think about Australia. I wasn’t interested in the koalas and the kangaroos. For me it was the lifestyle, the people and the Australian way of life that really attracted me.”

Harry finally emigrated to Perth in 1966 at age 18 and always harboured a wish to meet the boy who had inspired his desire to become an Australian.

Now a father and grandfather, and with a successful engineering career behind him, “It’s like a dream come true,” he adds. “I have been talking to my children about Smiley for years and they would say to me, who knows dad, one day you might get to meet him.

“Now it’s happened I am flabbergasted,” says Harry overcome and with a tear in his eye.

“You created a little paradise for me as a child”.

“I was nine years old when I made that film,” says Colin, “and as I look back I think Smiley captured an ethos at the time, an ethos that has, by and large, disappeared ... certain values and attitudes and an Australian sense of a fair go.

“Culturally it was a different country then,” continues Colin, “but Smiley didn’t whitewash society. The film was true to life. In the movie my father was a drunk and we were a poor family. So I can understand how the overall picture was so enticing.”

“I am very much a fanatic for Australia because this country has offered me everything,” says Harry. “Australians have always been so helpful to me and I have raised my children to be Australian.

“I didn’t know where you were in Australia,” says Harry beaming at Colin with a wide smile. “Then I saw the article in the Hinterland Times (2010). It’s been a long wait to meet you. You have made me the Australian I am...”

“No...” Colin responds. “ I inspired you to become the man you are.”

Both men parted with big smiles on their face, and one could only marvel at the power of the silver screen.

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A special garden space ... for children “However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.” (from: The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett)

by Natalie Brown

If you’ve taken a walk behind Maleny’s Upfront Club recently you will have noticed that the vacant land there is starting to look pretty special, and each week there’s something buzzing in the air around a new and exciting garden.

HE CHILDREN’S COMMUNITY GARDEN concept comes from Kate and Madhu Kazony whose vision it was to create a garden space in Maleny especially for children. It is a place where they come together to learn, dance, sing, create art, and of course grow stuff that they can eat.

The project, supported by the Maple St Co-Op, Barung Landcare and the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre, is one with a long term plan, and according to Kate is ‘just at the beginning’.

This food garden also has an artistic flavour. A terracotta and wire tree, the newest addition to the garden from artist Lindsay Muir stands tall and joyful, beckoning to the inner child of passers-by. Matthew George’s loveable wooden animals, crafted out of a tree stump by chainsaw, watch over the garden, as it comes to life.

The Kazonys’ enthusiasm is infectious as they potter around the garden, despite the rainclouds overhead that threaten to bring another downpour. Kate explains that if it looks like it is going to be really wet, she will usually let parents know and they will postpone it for that day.

However if it rains when they are already in the garden, they have a shed space at the Neighbourhood Centre available to them. They use this space for theoretical knowledge about how plants grow, and for doing the much loved African Azonto dancing that Madhu teaches the children.

Madhu and Kate met in Africa, and have both worked in children’s education for over 20 years. They have

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travelled widely with the Ananda Marga organisation, and it was during their travels that they recognised the importance of community.

“It’s how simple actions together build a family feeling,” says Kate, “ which children thrive inside of celebrations, eating together, singing, dancing, growing and preparing food together.”

After the birth of their daughter Rashmi, they realised that they needed to find a stable base for her and they moved to Maleny. On their return to Australia they began ‘Wellness Weekends’ focused on health education in fresh food, for parents, including graduated food fasting and natural treatments.

From their ‘Wellness’ work Kate says they learnt that parents wanted to improve their children’s every day eating, and they began to help parents with creating make-over garden beds, for edible food, that were easily accessible to children.

While volunteering for 6 months at Sunshine School in Vientiane, Laos, they first saw this concept of a children’s community garden come to fruition, and it planted the seed for what was possible back here in Australia.

At the school in Laos says Kate, “‘the children helped to design and create their own garden, considered to be an

'outdoor classroom' by the teachers and parents. Children created their own mosaic paths, built using bamboo bridges, cubby huts, and climbing towers, and each class came to own their particular garden bed, where they chose which crops to grow.”

At present the Children’s Community Garden is in its early stages of just getting the kids interested and involved, but next term Kate offers a 10 week educational course where “children learn all aspects of growing food, from seed to table, as well as participating in selling vegetables at local markets, “ she adds.

This course also includes food preparation, of garden edibles. The garden education course is on Wednesday

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Teenagers are also encouraged to come along and participate, especially those who have an interest in horticulture. As well as the 10 week course, and the garden, an internet tutorial is also in production, which will assist children with maintaining their own edible garden at home.

Kate and Madhu will provide feedback and the children can share information through social networking on the internet and utilising the website.

This term Kate invites all children to come along on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons to make a mosaic stepping stone, paint the garden wall, or plant seedlings

and watch the garden grow. She has a long-term vision.

“I want every child in Maleny to feel that they have made a part of the garden, so that in future years, they can still see their colourful contribution.”

So far the garden has been received well by the local community, and Kate and Madhu are grateful for support from local businesses including the Bank of Queensland, donations from local artists, donations of wood, seedlings, materials and volunteers to assist with the upkeep of the garden.

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IN RECENT TIMES the beleagured flying fox has received bad press. Members of the very active Bat Rescue group on the hinterland say it’s partly to do with the historical image of the bat ... the bloodsucking vampire bat of Dracula, and myths down the ages symbolising evil and witchcraft.

However, the recent tragic death of the eight-year-old boy from north Queensland from lyssavirus has further cast a shadow over the flying fox.

This is despite the fact that only three people have died from lyssavirus since 1996. During the same period more than 30 people have died from eastern brown snake bites. So is the fear of bats justified?

Hinterland Times editor, Michael Berry visited the Bat Rescue team on the Range to get another side of the story.

The Flying Fox needs Friends ...

HAVE TO SAY, when you get up close to a bunch of hanging bats it’s very hard not to be warmed by their cute faces and sad watery eyes.

Carmel Givens is one of the organisers of Bat Rescue.

She and Sammy Ringer took me inside a large netted cage in which up to 30 bats were hanging and seemingly chattering to each other. Apart from declaring these flying foxes “gorgeous” she had a more serious message to pass on.

“If we allowed the culling of flying foxes we would literally lose our hardwood forests.”

Carmel said that flying foxes eat the fruit, nectar or flowers of various forest species and these plants rely on the bats for seed dispersal and pollination. In fact, flying foxes are the predominant pollinators of Southern Queensland’s eucalypt timbers.

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When I raised the issue of the deadly Lyssavirus, the Bat Rescue ladies were quick to say there had been gross over reaction since the first person died of the virus in 1996.

There are two rare diseases associated with flying foxes that have recently gained a high profile and media attention, Lyssavirus and Hendra virus. There is no evidence that either can be caught from flying foxes flying overhead or feeding or roosting in a garden or property.

In 1996 and 1998, there were two human deaths in Australia from the newly discovered Australian bat Lyssavirus. In both cases, the victims were persons involved in the rehabilitation of flying foxes.

Lyssavirus is a form of rabies found in less than 1% of healthy bats that can only be contracted when infected bat saliva comes in contact with an open wound (eg. a scratch or bite) or with human mucous membrane

(eg. eyes, nose, mouth). Vaccines are currently available.

The fear of bats is not helped by those contributing to scare campaigns making people think that all flying foxes in particular are serious virus carriers.

The recent report that a young boy in north Queensland had contracted Lyssavirus from a flying fox gave Federal MP Bob Katter the opportunity to once again urge the Queensland government to allow the culling of bats.

“In 2011 we have dogs test positive. In 2012 we had horses test positive. We have continually pushed the Government for bat culling and it still hasn’t happened.

This is about as serious as it gets now.”

The response from the RSPCA was more measured: “This is the third case of Lyssavirus in Australia’s history and while this does not take away the threat to a young

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life, bats are not the enemy and we need to continue to provide good information.”

Sammy Ringer said that Hendra has become the flavour of the decade for researchers looking for government dollars. The flying fox has been categorically fingered as the culprit. Although the flying fox carries antibodies associated with Hendra virus, respected local academic and bat expert Dr Les Hall points out that: “Laboratory tests have not been able to replicate bat-to-horse transmission but they have been able to replicate cat-to- horse transmission of Hendra. Biosecurity Queensland do not carry out tests on rats and cats in a Hendra situation.”

There is no denying that flying foxes have decimated orchards from time to time, angering farmers who don’t understand why they are protected. Last year the Queensland Government reinstated a small number of permits so that farmers could shoot bats on their properties.

The members of Bat Rescue Inc are horrified that farmers can shoot flying foxes. They are lobbying for finer meshed netting of orchards

which will protect flying foxes from getting trapped.

Much of the work of the Hinterland’s Bat Rescue group is disentangling flying foxes from netting, and barbed wire fences. They even have Energex workers on side rescuing flying foxes from power lines and contacting Bat Rescue.

Once the bats are at the Bat Rescue rehabilitation centre in Maleny they are fed and cared for, before being released back into the wild.

“I care for birds and possums too,” says Sammy Ringer. “ I love them all but none of them have the bat’s ability to creep into the heart of the carer.

They’re intelligent and inquisitive. Their anatomy is beautifully honed for their role as forest pollinators – and they have a language that ranges from, ‘I’m full, thank you and I want to sleep now’ (a sort of purring sound) to ‘I want a cuddle and I WANT IT NOW!’ (a very high pitched squeal).”

If you come across a flying fox trapped in a fence or obviously in distress, please do not touch it; contact Bat Rescue: Ph: 5441 6200 (24 hours, 7 days) or 1300 264 625 (RSPCA Wildlife 24 hour hotline).

Previous page: Bat Rescue team from left: Sammy Ringer, Kathy Earsman, Carmel Givens and Zoe Jung Above left: Zoe Jung is in bat heaven.

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National award for MARK and JOANNE SKINNER ... and Narrows Escape

There’s no escaping the obvious ...

it’s personalised service HAVING WON the Queensland Tourism Award for hosted accommodation in 2011 and 2012, Mark and Joanne Skinner from Narrows Escape Rainforest Retreat at Montville recently edged out the competition to win the national award at the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards. Julie Shelton went to speak to them about their winning formula and why attention to detail is so important.

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MAGINE YOU and your partner are a guest of Narrows Escape: you’re driving toward Lake Baroon, looking forward to a romantic weekend punctuated by a rainforest walk, massage, meal at a local restaurant…

On arrival, you’re greeted at the car by name and with a warm handshake, perhaps an umbrella if it’s raining.

While checking in, your hosts prepare a sumptuous breakfast basket that includes huge Chevallum strawberries, a sweet Kiels Mountain baby pineapple and jams made on the property from local produce. You’re assured that fresh croissants will be baked the next morning and delivered to your cottage.

Your hosts then introduce you to your cottage home for the weekend – chocolates are on the bed together with a welcome card. A welcome platter is in the fridge, complimentary port from a local vineyard is on the table.

From the verandah you gaze out at the green rainforest and clear babbling creek. You reach for each other’s hand and take a deep breath and relax…

It’s for this experience that Mark and Joanne have been recognised by the National Tourism Alliance, which runs the Australian Tourism Awards, as achieving excellence in their category of hosted accommodation.

Judging of the Awards is rigorous, and centres on the application – an important process in itself, explains Mark.

“Doing the awards applications makes you seriously think about what you believe in, what your product is, what about it is better than another product and how you can improve it,” he says. “It helped us to identify that our unique selling proposition is the personalised service that we offer our guests – the generosity and the personal touches.”

Mark and Joanne offer a complete service, which includes organising flowers and massages, and making restaurant reservations. Not surprisingly, Narrows Escape is often chosen as the perfect venue for a marriage proposal.

“We’ve got a pretty good strike rate for proposals,” jokes Mark.

Joanne adds, “It’s really nice when the girl is so excited and she wants to tell someone – she comes down to see us, knocks on the door and says, “look, look, look!”

With an enviable repeat customer rate of around 60%, Narrows Escape accommodation is being booked further and further ahead, with bookings up to 15 months in advance.

A key to Mark & Joanne’s success is their foray into the international market.

“We do a lot of business with the German and Germanspeaking market,” explains Joanne. “That’s come about through working with Tourism Queensland and Sunshine Coast Destination – they identified that market as being attracted to the area. The German tourists don’t want to come for a beach experience but are more interested in the walks. Nature is a key driver for them.”

Having the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk on their doorstep is a big attraction and gives the property its uniqueness. However, chasing the international market has meant Mark and Joanne have to be more prepared and think further ahead than for the domestic market.

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‘international ready’ workshop to start with to make sure that our product was suitable for international marketing, which meant that experts came in looking at our property and elements like our cancellation policy, booking procedures, WH&S policy, etc.”

They regularly host familiarisation tours for journalists and travel agents from throughout the world, including a film crew from Chinese Golf TV. It’s the aspect of their business that they enjoy the most – sales and marketing. So much so that they took a big decision last year to step away from the day-to-day running of the property.

Back when they first bought Narrows Escape, knowing the repetitiveness of the

job and wanting to avoid burning out, the couple took it on with a five-year plan. Consequently, in early 2012 they put the property on the market and Joanne took a job in Brisbane as part of the transition into their new phase of life.

“It was good using my brain again!” she says enthusiastically. “I was going down Monday mornings and staying down during the week and coming back Friday afternoons. But after a while I realised that it wasn’t much fun being tied to an office desk from 9am to 5pm.”

“Then, when Narrows Escape hadn’t sold by the middle of the year, we looked at everything again and had a change of plan. We agreed that while we love the business, we wanted to be not so tied to the property and have more time to do the things we really love doing, like travelling.”

So they withdrew the property from the market and in December installed managers, Karen and Michael, who have embraced the Narrows Escape philosophy of attention to detail, leaving Mark and Joanne to focus on the sales and marketing.

Mark explains, “It means we can work ‘on’ the business as opposed to ‘in’ the business.”

Meanwhile, with applications for the Australian Tourism Awards closing in August last year, Mark and Joanne were in two minds as to whether to apply.

“We hadn’t yet sold but that was still our plan at the time – we thought how awful it would be to do all that work for the application and then win and it wasn’t yours any more,” reveals Mark.

The award, in part, recognises Mark and Joanne’s excellence in property management – over the years they have systematised and documented every procedure in a manual that includes how to take the initial phone call to make sure all the requisite information is obtained, and what to do if the power goes out and the generator is required.

It’s a great model that could be applied to another property.

“That’s where we’re heading,” agrees Joanne. “To help other businesses to adopt this approach and these systems.”

They’re also passionate about continuing to promote the Sunshine Coast – and in particular the Hinterland – as a destination, which, according to Mark, has a very low profile both nationally and internationally.“We found that the Hinterland didn’t exist on the international circuit.

Sunshine Coast hardly existed, with perhaps Noosa having a small profile.”

They’ll continue to work with Tourism Queensland and Sunshine Coast Destination Limited, with Mark now on the Board of Directors. He believes strongly in collaboration and enterprises working together to offer a better range of options to potential visitors. He’s also keen to explore other international markets.

“Chinese tourism is a massive market but we’re not embracing that in this region,” he laments. “It doesn’t help that we haven’t got a lot of attractions up here – it makes it hard for us to sell the region. People are not going to book a holiday from across the other side of the world just to go and sleep somewhere. That’s not why people come to an area; it’s to see whatever there is that’s spectacular in the region – that’s why we sell Fraser Island. We’d love to have more attractions in the Hinterland.”

While getting visitors to the Hinterland is a challenge, once they get here they love it.

“It’s an aspirational place to visit – this is evidenced by the number of real estate magazines left in the cottages.

Pretty much everyone that comes here would like to move here if they could find work.”

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Community comes to Ruth’s Rescue ...

When ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald struck the Hinterland, Ruth Redpath, a widow living in Mapleton, thought she was alone in the world. How wrong she was.

Communities on the Hinterland have a way of sensing when help is needed. For Ruth a band of willing helpers came to the rescue.

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by Leigh Robshaw

HEN RUTH’S HUSBAND of 45 years Jim, died in October 2011, she found herself faced with maintaining their two-storey timber home in Mapleton on her own.

Reluctant to ask for help, Ruth has watched in distress as the home Jim built in 1985 has gradually fallen into a state of disrepair.

With no family nearby, Ruth had been trying to get by on her own, until exTropical Cyclone Oswald became a catalyst for some new friends to enter her life.

On the Australia Day weekend, howling winds knocked a huge coral tree across Ruth’s property, narrowly missing her car. It completely blocked her driveway and took out her power and phone lines.

It was a traumatic experience for Ruth and she was still feeling bewildered and uncertain of how to deal with the storm damage about a week later as she did her shopping at Maleny IGA. Maleny local Donna Miller noticed Ruth struggling with her shopping and asked if she needed help.

“She was clutching an article about the Maleny Fixit Café and pointed to a picture of Paul Williamson (who

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runs the café) and asked if I knew him,” says Donna. “She asked if he would come and fix some things at her house.

She didn’t realise you have to go to the café; the café doesn’t come to you.”

Donna posted a notice on the Free Ads for Maleny and Surrounds Facebook page (which has more than 1100 members) and received a heartening response from dozens of locals offering help and information.

Paul Williamson took the reins and organised a working bee at Ruth’s home, setting up a dedicated Facebook page and finding a Sunday in mid-February when enough people could give up their time.

Mukti Organic Skincare donated a basket of skincare products, and on the spur of the moment on the Sunday,

councillor Jenny McKay organised for Mapleton tip to waive their fee for three trailer loads of rubbish after the volunteers were told they had to pay.

About 15 hinterland locals and their children spent the day guerneying the walls, cleaning the roof, gutters and chimney, chainsawing the fallen tree, brushcutting and taking trailer loads to the tip.

Ruth was overwhelmed with the support. A very private person and unaccustomed to visitors, she bought tea and biscuits for the volunteers.

While the volunteers worked, she sorted through some of her memorabilia, pointing out special treasures like the plans for the Mapleton house Jim drew (he was a commercial artist); pictures Jim had painted of their

Left: Lisa Pineapple gets stuck into weed clearing.

Top Right: Artist sketch of the Mapleton house that Jim drew.

Right: Model of the Irish cottage that Jim built just before he died.

Below right: Paul Williamson and Donna Miller, organisers of the working bee, in front of the fallen coral tree.

house in Avoca, Victoria — which burnt to the ground in 1985 — and a 1920s antique telephone; a gift from Jim. Incidentally, she still uses it.

“I’d like to live in a storybook cottage in Ireland, like that one,” she said on the day, pointing to a quaint black model house that takes pride of place high on a shelf. “I’m a hopeless romantic. He made that for me just before he died — he was too weak to finish the fence.”

“Jim always put me first. He said, ‘you’ll never go through the cracks while I’m here, Ruth. My husband was so afraid to leave me, but he stood by me to the very end.

“I think if Jim could see all these wonderful people who have come here today to help me, he would have been so happy,” she says. “I feel terrible I’ve had to rely on other people. I want the place restored to what it was, because Jim thought the world of me — we thought the world of each other.”

Ruth hopes to restore her home to its former glory so she can hopefully sell it this year.

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FTER MANY YEARS in the planning and what seems like a long time in the building, the Maleny community will finally be able to explore their new Community Centre on Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March.

A huge celebration is planned for local folk to see for themselves what a wonderful asset the revamped venue will be for Maleny and the Hinterland.

Following Friday’s official afternoon launch, the red cedar doors will swing open to the public for a weekend of free local culture and entertainment.

From Friday afternoon until late Sunday afternoon the new upstairs Deck will be transformed into a licensed tapas bar hosting non-stop entertainment that includes local bands Atlantic Crossing, the Hayden Hack Infusion and As The Crow Flies, musicians Andy Copeman, Tommy Leonard, Bernard O’Scanaill, Natalie Richy and Murray Wall, as well as the Sweet Chilli choir.

Joining them will be merimba band Mumbo Jumbo and Sunshine Brass – a 25 piece brass ensemble that has been performing jazz and classical favourites on the coast for more than 105 years.

Saturday’s all day Arts Market in the hall will showcase the talents and work of more than 30 local artists including potters, sculptors and painters. There will be children’s activities and the new catering facilities will be serving food and drinks.

Film buffs are invited to join the Maleny Film Society for an evening screening of the recent Oscars favourite, Les Miserables, with dinner catering by Spaghetti Junction.

Sunday’s activities kick off with Breakfast On The Deck to the sweet sounds of the Max Sportelli Trio, the Tapestry and Crystal Waters Choirs, Noel Gardiner, Pete and Cardie, and Pix and Kyla.

On Sunday afternoon the Maleny Players will take to the stage in the hall with “The Renovation Review”.

The weekend will finish with a high energy bang and final performance on the Deck by Unusual Suspects - a 20 piece Maleny Community street band led by Lindsay Pollack and playing crazy Balcan Gypsy grooves.

By then it is anticipated that Hinterland residents and visitors alike will have given a firm nod of approval to this great new community facility. Keep your eyes open for detailed programs and flyers.

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HE MALENY INFORMATION CENTRE volunteer group faced disintegration as there was no ready home for them in the newly refurbished Community Centre. But, it was a “3am in the morning” idea from Bryan Hughes that turned things around.

The 55 strong Information Centre group would offer to rent the new ground floor shop on a firm commercial basis! Bryan and his wife Val had had extensive retail experience and instinctively knew that the idea could be made to work.

Their vision was of a modern and attractively fitted out walk-in centre supported by brochure display fees where appropriate and income from selling quality merchandise that is Maleny branded and sourced where possible.

The Information Centre management committee courageously backed the idea and the Community Centre committee offered a commercial lease with a manageable annual rental.

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Apart from a broad range of information about events and services on the Range, the centre now offers a select range of Maleny-branded merchandise including postcards and greetings cards.

An important growth area is event ticket selling. As Bryan Hughes reports, “we are becoming the place to buy tickets for shows and events for venues throughout the town.”

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Hinterland’s Feng Shui Master M ALENY-BASED GEORGE BENNIS, Queensland’s only Chinese Certified Feng Shui Master has won an international award for his Feng Shui skills.

George received the Association of Feng Shui Consultants (international) award for “Best Residential Case Study” at the inaugural Feng Shui Excellence Awards.

George’s win was for his work on a home at Currumbin Waters on the Gold Coast - a residential building design for a young professional couple.

The inaugural awards were held in Melbourne last month to coincide with Chinese new Year and they were judged by an expert panel of five international judges including Interior designer Valerie Mack.

“It is really exciting to be able to work with clients from the very beginning of a home design,” says George.

“Starting with advice on which property would be suitable for them, then working with the architect on the design, placement and orientation of the home”.

George was fortunate in that the client was the architect of the home and her husband who is a natural therapies practitioner.

“They absolutely love their home as it was tailor-made

to match their occupations, hobbies and lifestyle, says George, who used his master level Feng Shui techniques.

“Since moving into the home”, added George with delight, “my client has had a four hundred per cent increase in her hourly rate and won best “Unit development in Queensland” award. Her husband has pioneered a new natural therapy and given a keynote speech to an international conference on natural therapies.”

“It’s an honour to win the award and being recognised for my expertise by my peers,” George said.

Many Maleny residents have benefited from George’s expertise including the design and layout of The River School’s new admin centre, library and classrooms.

“I love working with clients from the beginning, when I advise on what property to look for, how to orientate the home to match their birth details and how to layout the rooms,” says George. “I become part of the creative team, and we can really achieve great results. When a building is already built, the Feng Shui is already set in place, then I explain how to make the best of what is already there.”

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ROM THE OUTSIDE, it looked like Japan’s most complete defeat since 1945. The whaling fleet was leaving the Southern Ocean several weeks early, apparently in full retreat from the victorious forces of Sea Shepherd, which vowed to pursue them until the whaling season was over.

The whalers, said Paul Watson, captain of the Bob Barker, the Sea Shepherd’s flag bearer, had made only two confirmed kills – the first a minke taken provocatively, within sight of Australia’s Davis station on February 15. Environment Minister Tony Burke, said the choice of the site was deeply offensive and described the whole operation as “disgusting,” but remained reluctant to intervene into what quickly became a full scale confrontation involving, at its height, eleven ships – four from Sea Shepherd and the rest comprising the whalers and their support vessels.

In the end the Japanese undoubtedly made more kills, but almost certainly less than a tenth of the thousand odd they had planned, a clear win for the conservationists. Things got ugly when the factory ship Nisshin Maru attempted to refuel: Sea Shepherd craft got between it and the supply tanker, and there were a

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“So yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, me hearties - back to the bounding main.” number of collisions, for which both sides blamed each other.

Then the Japanese navy icebreaker Shirase arrived, inflaming tensions further. Ironically Shirase is sometimes employed in genuine Antarctic research projects, unlike the so called “scientific” whalers with the magic word “research” plastered all over their hulls. In this case it was content to stand off and observe, but its mere presence redoubled calls from the Greens and the Coalition for Australia to deploy a naval vessel of its own.

But it was hard to see what such action could achieve.

Was Australia to put a shot across the enemy’s bows, to board them and interdict their activities? And what if the Japanese, who do not recognise Australian jurisdiction in the area, resisted? What came next, a humiliating backdown or a declaration of war? Julia Gillard pointed out that her government did not have the capacity to police every ocean in the world, and Burke said firmly that the place to sort all this out was in the courts, not in the carpark.

Australia’s case in the International Court of Justice is apparently creeping up the lists, but there is still no starting date, let alone an estimate of when a judgement might be expected. And once again, there is little hope that the Japanese would accept a contrary verdict. The heart of Australia’s challenge is that the claim of scientific whaling is a fraud; even if the science is there, killing whales to secure it is totally unnecessary.

But it would appear that the Japanese now regard this as irrelevant.

In his public defence of Japan’s position on February 26 the new Fisheries Minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, did not mention the word science once. Instead, he insisted that it was all to do with Japan’s culture: as Koreans had a culture of eating dogs and Australians a culture of eating kangaroos, so Japan had a culture of eating whales. And of course, it was a basic part of their food supply. Well, I’m not sure how many Koreans actually eat dogs but I do know that not many Australians eat kangaroos and very few Japanese eat whales.

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The real reason for Japan’s whaling is neither scientific nor culinary, and it isn’t cultural either – except in the sense that Japanese have a culture that resents being told what to do by foreigners, and especially ones seen as former colonial powers. The Japanese whale, not from conviction but from cussedness. This is why Glen Inwood, of the so-called Institute of Cetacean Research says that the Japanese would like to resume the hugely uneconomic practice of commercial whaling – just to give countries like Australia the finger. It will be a hard argument to counter in the ICJ. And in another court Sea Shepherd didn’t do so well last week. US district court judge Alex Kozinski ruled that the group could fairly be described as pirates, even though they lacked accoutrements like peg legs and eye patches. “When you ram ships, hurl glass containers of acid, drag metal reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks and point high powered lasers at other ships you are, without doubt, a pirate,” the judge ruled.

He was upholding an appeal by the ICR that it should be allowed to pursue a case for damages against Sea Shepherd, which it will now do. As Watson points out, the judge’s writ does not run to the group’s Australian branch or the Southern Ocean, so will make no immediate difference. And in any case, even if all the charges were true (and he says they are not) well, so it goes. Sea Shepherd’s logo is clearly based on the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger, so the association cannot have escaped keen observers.

But in any case what’s wrong with piracy? The great Elizabethan seamen Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake were unashamed pirates, harassing the Spaniards in the Atlantic to the secret delight of their Queen although she had to disown them to the Spanish ambassador. The first Englishman to set foot in Australia in 1688, William Dampier, gloried in the name of pirate.

Watson and his fellow campaigners are following a great and honourable tradition – one could even call it a culture.

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She has now brought her energy and vision to the Range, working with the Neighbourhood Centre in Maleny, to inject some new life into the community arts scene.

Having been a visitor to the town for 12 years, when she arrived in Maleny a year ago, towing her vintage caravan to the showgrounds, Skye was unsure about what she would do with herself; only sure of the fact that she had to get out of the city.

Her daughter had been staying with family in Maleny so that she could attend the high school, and Skye felt drawn to join her. Having left a job in Brisbane that had left her in a depression, Skye had come to the right place, with the Maleny community quickly enveloping her.

Before long she had rented a house and began to look at how she could contribute her unique skill base to the Range arts scene.

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The majority of her friends are artists, and at that time, Skye surveyed the Brisbane arts scene and saw a need for community arts projects. She started her own business, Lapart, utilising her coffee business contacts and putting art works into cafes across Brisbane. It filled a gap in the arts scene by creating community arts events and getting emerging artists out into the public sphere.

Over a period of nine years Skye splashed colour into over 50 inner city locations, working with then Labor Councillor David Hinchcliffe to bring hundreds of artists out of their studios, and into the growing Brisbane arts environment.

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“Art brings people together across demographics, and creates social inclusion,” says Skye.” In artistic expression, there is no age, sex or race. We are all simply people co-creating and sharing through music, art, dance, whatever our passion is...

It’s about just expressing who we are and having the guts to put it out there and really show up in our lives.”

Now working with the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre is giving Skye the opportunity to put into practice this idea of bringing the community together in celebration of arts on the Range.

Currently Skye is working on developing workshops for youth, focussing on several different mediums, including design, aerosol, woodwork, sculpture and jewellery.

The project will bring together over 60 artists keen to be involved, as well as injecting fresh energy to the current youth program at the Neighbourhood Centre.

On the weekend of March 22-24, Maleny will host a celebration event for the opening of the main street’s newly reburbished Community Skye Leong Centre. It is coordinated by Steve Mcleish, with Skye organising the art event on Saturday March 23. It will feature more than 40 local artists, from across the Hinterland exhibiting on the walls of the Community Centre, in what Skye excitedly calls an ‘arts extravaganza’.

There will be stalls, workshops, jewellery making, bush art, kids craft, and a communal canvas. Local artists include Matthew George with his lovable mushroom sculptures, Annette Gleeson, Francis Harper and many more.

Submissions are open for artist/creators interested in having a stall at the event, and Skye can be contacted on 0438 486 666.

Not a woman to sit back and relax for too long, Skye sees herself powering on through the rest of the year with the re-launch of her artist management business, Lucid Arts. She hopes to take some of our talented hinterland artists on the road, to get their work out into other parts of the country utilising her extensive contacts in the Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne art scene.

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Sponsorship provided the solution. “The wedding side of our business has now stepped up a gear; we’ve got ten confirmed weddings coming up this year which for us is brilliant, “enthused Jodi. “I also want to get more involved with the Maleny Montville wedding professional group, where I am now a committee member this year. I’m also a member of Hinterland Tourism, so that’s where I need to be, working on the business rather than in the business, now that the hard work over the last few years is starting to pay off. We need a different focus as we get busier in the accommodation side of things,� adds Jodi. “We were looking for a local couple or full time staff to help Chris and I run the business� said Jodi, “and we just couldn’t find anyone prepared to make a commitment for more than six months. We got responses from people in Caboolture, on the coast and Brisbane, but after they realised where we were, they just didn’t want to travel that far, also some people did not understand hospitality and the requirement of split shifts. “That was never going to work so the solution had to be local. But we couldn’t find a suitable couple who wanted to stick around and do the work.�

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with Colin James

New management couple at Pomodoras, Ade and Jules with Jodi Bond. Ade and Jules will celebrate their wedding at Pomodoras during March.

Once the Pomodoras shortlist was organised, “we then organised a Skype interview with Jules and Ade,” says Jodi.

“This was on the same day and was very scary for me,” she adds with her well known infectious laugh.

However, from that Skype interview we knew that Ade and Jules had the industry skills that we were looking for.

We then had to sort out the sponsorship and the visa side of things.

“There were endless emails back and forth between us, and a mass of information required by the Department of immigration to obtain Visa 457. Now that we have that approval from the Department of Immigration, as a business, we can sponsor more people as needs be in the future.

“Jules and Ade had to do their part of the sponsorship separately as this is a guaranteed two year commitment.

But all-in all, it was quite painless,” said Jodi.

Oddly this experience for Chris and Jodi is not totally new. “Chris and I had been through the same thing before,

because I had sponsored Chris to get over here ... years ago. I knew how much paper work would be involved, but it has all been worth it”, she adds with a side-long grin at Chris.

There is no doubt that without sponsorship, Ade and Jules would not have been able to make this move.

Residency and employment rules are now quite strict between Australia and New Zealand. However, another couple of restaurants on the hinterland, also experiencing staff problems, are now following the Pomodoras experience and looking into sponsorship.

Jules and Ade have been here since January and are settling well into the local community. “Pomodoras is in such a beautiful location, and I’m enjoying getting to know the regulars,” says Ade. Now this creek-side restaurant with its five luxury cabins has extra significance for Jules and Ade. “It is going to be very special getting married here this month,” says Ade with a loving smile at Jules.

Traditional English Cheese

VISIT TO OUR FROMAGERIE allows our consumers to purchase not only Australian produced cheese but also their favourite cheese from many of the European countries. However, no matter how many different cheeses we stock we are invariably asked if we can source many of the famous cheeses produced in England.

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In response to our customers’ requests, we now have a wider selection of cheese produced in the UK. Choose from the traditional cheeses that England is so well known for such as Stilton, Matured Cheddar, Smoked Cheddar, Cheshire and Red Leicester, or enjoy one of the flavoured English cheddars containing chives and shallots, caramalised onion, horseradish and parsley, pickled onion and chives.

Our range can vary depending on availability from our distributor and the popularity of the cheeses. If your favourite one is not in stock when you call in then you’re sure to find another English cheese that you will enjoy just as much.

Colin James Fine Foods

37 Maple Street Maleny Phone 5494 2860

NOW OPEN FOR

Breakfast SPICERS PICERS CLOVELL LY EST TATE T INVITES YOU FOR BREAKF AKF FA AST Now open daily 8am to 10am A la carte menu, certified organic cof offffee and freshly squeezed juice included Bookings Preferred: 07 5452 1111 Email: clovelly@spicersgroup.com.au

68 Balmoral Road, Montville, Sunshine Coast Hinterland

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Where to

Eat

maleny Cappricios Pizzas Traditional Italian food. Licensed Restaurant.

Open Tue - Fri 4pm-10pm. Sat & Sun 11.30am-10pm Riverside Centre – 5499 9444

Colin James Fine Foods Try our famous freshly made sorbet, gelati and ice cream cakes. Light snacks and lunches including a wide selection of gluten free options. Great coffee.

37 Maple Street – 5494 2860

King Ludwig’s German Restaurant & Klaushouse Mountain Bar Authentic home style cuisine. 25 German beers.

Lunch 10.00am Wed- Sun, Dinner 6.00pm Fri & Sat Bookings recommended. Great mountain views.

Private functions & special events.

401 Mountain View Road – 5499 9377

Maple 3 Cafe Real food. Real Service. Venue available for functions.

Fabulous meals in a cafe setting in the heart of town.

3 Maple Street – 5499 9177

Maudy’s Extensive breakfast, lunch and dinner menu with finest steaks on the Hinterland. Vegetarians catered for.

Dinner Wed - Sat. Lunch Fri - Sun. Breakfast w/ends.

466 Maleny Kenilworth Road – 5494 4411

Pomodoras on Obi Obi Obi creek & treetop views. “Slowfood” philosophy.

Restaurant, Cabins, Functions. Montville organic coffee.

Tues–Thurs 10:00–9:00pm Fri 10:00–10:00pm Sat 9:00–10:00pm; Sun 9:00–3:00pm 18 Lawyer Street, Maleny – 5429 6543

Reserve Restaurant Cellar A la carte lunches and dinners. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week from 11.30am.

840 Landsborough-Maleny Road – 5435 2288

The Edge RESTAURANT

mapleton Spicers Tamarind

Bellavista Pizza & Pasta

Innovative Thai & Asian Cuisine. Dinner Tues - Sun Lunch Fri - Sun. Reservations essential.

88 Obi Lane South (above Gardners Falls) – 1300 311 429

The Terrace Award-winning Seafood Restaurant. Open for lunch and dinner 6 days a week. Closed Wednesday.

Cnr. Maleny-Landsborough Road and Mountain View Road – 5494 3700

Licensed restaurant, take away & bar. Great views.

Pizza, pasta, a la carte, gelato, coffee, dine-in or takeaway.

Open 5 days 2.00 - 9.00pm Wed - Sun. Lunch Sat & Sun from 12 noon.

Shop 8, 1 Post Office Road – 5445 7722

montville Ametharius Coffees and Craft

The Upfront Club Licensed restaurant. Daily blackboard specials & takeaway. Live music. Preview performers www.upfrontclub.org. Breakfast & lunch 7 days.

Open dinner from 5.30pm Mon, Thurs, Fri & Sat. 31 Maple Street – 5494 2592

Hinterlands Best Coffee. Come in for a cuppa, or something to eat, browse our gift shop, paint some ceramics or just relax in our quiet courtyard.

All day brekkie served daily. Open 7 days 9am-5pm.

Shop 2/144 Main Street 5478 5120 – 0421 214 211 (behind Almari Leather) ametharius@hotmail.com

Elements at Montville

flaxton Flaxton Gardens Tranquil elegance in an area of natural beauty.

Restaurant, Bar, Events. Sunday and Wednesday 9.00am-4.00pm. Thursday - Saturday 9.00am - 9.00pm 313 Flaxton Drive – 5445 7450

Le Relais Bressan Sensational French Cuisine. Great 3 Course set menu $27.50 except Fri & Sat night. Open lunch and dinner.

Closed Tuesday & Wednesday.

344 Flaxton Drive – 5445 7157

Le Jardin Garden Centre & Cafe Fabulous French Cafe in a garden setting. Superb coffee, pastries & light lunches at great prices.

Open 9am to 4.30pm. Closed Mondays & Tuesdays.

Look for the red umbrellas!

342 Flaxton Drive - 5445 7077

WE ARE PROUD OF ALL OUR AWARDS, BUT YOU JUDGE FOR YOURSELF Licensed cafe open 7 days. Enjoy a delicious lunch on our verandah.

Fabulous teahouse, interiors and gift store overlooking the Kondalilla falls. Open Wed - Mon 8am - 4.00ish.

Delish breakfast. Light lunches. Home baked goodies.

Limited seating. Small functions welcome.

Bridal and Baby Showers a must.

38 Kondalilla Falls Road – 5478 6212

Flame Hill Vineyard & Restaurant Visit this 100 acre property for wine tasting, wine sales, a la carte lunch & magnificent views. The perfect function venue. Thurs – Mon 10.30 – 5.30pm. Gourmet Sun Brunch 9.30 -11.30am Book ahead. Closed Tues & Wed. 249 Western Avenue – 5478 5920

Montville Cafe Bar Grill Great food at pub prices. Fully licenced. Blend of modern Aust. cuisine & home-style cooking.

Courtesy Bus 7 days from 5.30pm. Live music Fri night, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Club 90 jackpot $1000 Fri night.

10.00am-10.00pm daily.

126 Main Street – 5478 5535

Montville Gourmet Pizza & Cafe Gourmet Pizza, Pasta & Salads. Open for lunch and dinner, 7 days noon till 8.00pm 202 Main Street (next to bottle shop) – 5442 9505

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Closed Tuesday and Wednesday

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Open 7 days for Breakfasts, Lunches, Coffee & Cakes Outstanding Modern Cuisine

Ph 5442 9344 MAYFIELD CENTRE MAIN STREET, MONTVILLE Superb mountain & ocean views 22

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Wine and cheese tastings Watch our cheese and yoghurt being made.

Buy your supplies of cheese and yoghurt to take home.

Open 9am- 5pm - 7 days a week 1 Clifford Street, Maleny :

Phone 5494 2207

email:enquiry@malenycheese.com.au

344 Flaxton Drive, Flaxton Ph 5445 7157

Restaurants • Cafés • Take-aways This month:

Indian Palace Palmwoods

palmwoods / eudlo Indian Palace Authentic curries and Tandoori cuisine. Curry Club nights every second Wednesday of each month. Eat as much as you can for $25 with a bottle of complementary Indian beer. Dinner- 7 days 5pm til late. Dine in or takeaway. Fully licensed & BYO (wine only) Air--conditioned.

1 Koorawatha Lane, Palmwoods - 5445 9882

Authentic Curries and Tandoori Cuisine.

Curry Club nights every second Wednesday of each month. Eat as much as you can for $25 with a bottle of complementary Indian beer.

Dinner- 7 days 5pm til late.

Dine in or take-away.

Fully licensed & BYO (wine only) Air-conditioned.

Palmwoods Hotel

1 Koorawatha Lane, Palmwoods

Sweethearts Cafe

Best steaks on the coast. Fresh local seafood.

Bistro menu to suit everyone. Open 7 days.

28-34 Main Street – 1300 PALMWOODS

To book your table please call: 5445 9882

Poets Cafe Superb food in a rainforest setting. Open for breakfast & lunch. Dinner Friday & Saturday nights.

167 Main Street – 5478 5479

Secrets on the Lake Cafe & Gallery Enjoy Devonshire Teas, homemade cakes, or lunch on the deck overlooking the lake then browse through the gallery. Open 9am-4pm. Group bookings welcome.

Sunday breakfast 8.30am-11.30am. Licensed. bookings essential. www.secretsonthelake.com.au 207 Narrows Road – 5478 5888

The Edge Restaurant Savour our delicious modern cuisine on the deck overlooking stunning views. The perfect location to enjoy a champagne breakfast, leisurely lunch, or coffee & cake.

Open daily 8.30am -4.00 pm. Licensed Mayfield Centre 127-133 Main Street – 5442 9344

The Montville Coffee Pot Relaxed dining friendly service. Home style cooking using fresh ingredients. Hearty breakfasts, gourmet sandwiches & burgers, fresh salads, open grills, vegetarian & vegan meals, yummy cakes, Poffertjes. Locally roasted coffee prepared by qualified baristas.Wi-Fi Hotspot 8.15am - 5.00pm - 7 days Village Square, 168 Main Street – 5478 5522

Organic Coffee & Home Cooking. Organic Salads & Gluten Free House Baked Cakes. All Day "BIG" Brekky and "BIG” Veggie Brekky. Open every day except Mondays.

10% Discount for Seniors WEEKDAYS...Tues. to Fri...

Follow us on Facebook or www.sweetheartscafe.com.au 2 Anzac Road, EUDLO – 5445 9665

woombye The Woombye Pub

Wild Rocket @ Misty’s Delicious seasonal, local, organic, homemade cuisine.

Warm friendly service, professional baristas. Unique historic venue. Cosy dining. Intimate functions.

Lunch & dinner. Closed Mons exc public holidays.

Bookings appreciated.

142 Main Street – 5478 5560

Open daily for lunch and dinner with a range of fresh hand prepared dishes using the best local produce. $13 weekday lunches plus a host of weekly dinner offers.

See the full menu at thewoombyepub.com.au

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Beerwah Hotel The Long Apron’ Restaurant Winner Best Prestige Restaurant in Qld 2011.

Our modern European menu offers a ‘Table d Hote’ & 5 or 10 course degustation. Open daily for breakfast 8-10.a.m. Lunch Fri-Sun. Dinner Wed-Mon Spicers Clovelly Estate, 68 Balmoral Rd – 1300 272 897

Husk and Honey Grain free and gluten free. Mon - Fri 8am – 3.30pm.

All day breakfast & seasonal lunch menu.

Sat mornings – live music, seasonal lunch platters, all day breakfast – 8am – 2pm.

16 Queen Street – 5441 3510

A taste of the Country. Fabulous steaks & other dishes to please everyone. Eat inside in our new Bistro or outside in our new Bistro Garden. Open lunch & dinner 7 days.

Cnr Mawhinney Street & Beerwah Parade 1300 BEERWAH

Montville Mist Springwater Naturally Rising Pure Springwater DID YOU KNOW ... We do bulk deliveries of pure spring water for your tank 10,000 litres from 2.5 cents per litre.

No fluoride or chlorine You’ll taste the difference!

600ml, 1.5 ltr, 11 ltr & 15 ltr bottles, coolers, dispensers and accessories

Call 07 5478 5690

Email: peter@montvillemist.com.au www.montvillemist.com.au

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Rural Hinterland is a thriving base for

IT business There’s an old timber office building in Maleny that attracts a lot of IT professionals. You’d never guess it looking at the rickety staircase from the outside, but what goes on inside is about as hi-tech as it gets. Leigh Robshaw reports.

by Leigh Robshaw

HE LATEST ADDITION to the IT crew that occupies the building is Laurence Henderson, who moved to Montville from Brisbane with his wife Fabienne in 2011.

Laurence has developed a cloud-based software system for allied health professionals called Gensolve Practice Manager, which is now going global.

Laurence is the technical director of the company, which has offices in Maroochydore, Brisbane, New Zealand and London, but it’s his unpretentious little office in Maleny with its windows overlooking Maple Street, where he gets a lot of his work done.

“I come to my office up here to escape. This is my little reclusive office for myself and my wife.”

Fabienne is also a computer programmer and works in the Maleny office with Laurence, doing training videos and administering the website.

They both love the hinterland and are now looking to buy a home in Maleny, where they will settle with their son, Lachlan, who is almost three.

“We’ve known the area for a long time and we love the atmosphere,” he says. “You can’t really compare it to any other community centre. It’s such a friendly, welcoming place and it’s great for children.”

Originally from Edinburgh, Laurence has a degree in computer science and evolutionary biology, and was

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working for a dotcom company based in London when the company relocated to Brisbane. He formed his own company in 2002 and began developing the Gensolve software.

“We met people who had deficiencies in their businesses that alerted us to the fact there were huge holes in the marketplace,” he says. “One was a physiotherapist friend who told us the software available didn’t match their needs. We developed our software in conjunction with physiotherapists in New Zealand and Australia who gave us a lot of input and continue to do so.

“So New Zealand was our first market for the product and we currently have over 1000 physiotherapists using it daily. Auckland University of Technology are using it to manage all their student training rooms.”

While Gensolve is used by large businesses in New Zealand and thousands of physiotherapists, it was only launched in Australia at the end of last year.

“There are seven times more physiotherapists in Australia than there are in New Zealand so that’s exciting,” he says.

Laurence says Gensolve will move into the UK market in the next 12 months, and that the success of the product is due to its ability to integrate all aspects of running a health care business, from scheduling appointments, keeping patient records updated, billing and financials— all based in the cloud, so an accountant can simply log on and have access to all the figures.

“It’s enterprise class software which has so far only been available to large organisations, but our principle is to make this available to small businesses.

“Every few weeks we release a new update. At the moment we’re looking into a telephony plugin to bring up clients’ details when they call the receptionist.

“Going forward, as well as selling the software we’re going to be selling accountancy services to manage your books. So someone will manage the books and do your BAS behind the scenes for a monthly fee.”

Laurence says his product enables health care professionals to spend more time on what they’re good at — healing people — and less time on the administrative aspects of running their business. It’s a philosophy he likes to apply to the running of his own business.

“We’re trying to do that as a company too. The technical aspect is the easy part — the hard part is the sales, marketing, and support so we outsource that. For me, the technology behind it is the simplest part.”

Email: laurence@gensolve.com www.gensolve.com

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Community News Community News Community News New Life for Nut Factory...

The Old Nut Factory at the The Big Pineapple was going nowhere until recently when it was rejuvenated as the Centre for Growing Sustainability (CGS).

The CGS will provide community growing space, education at all levels, research and development and many other organic growing related activities.

Locals wanting to get involved ‘from the ground up’ have already swarmed over the site. Centre Director, Cath Manuel (seen above with Big Pineapple GM Brendan Weatherill), said, “It shows us what we can achieve when we all believe in positive outcomes for ourselves and our environment. I’m sure many more people will join us over the coming months”.

Bali Hai dream comes true When they first saw a weed-infested block of land at Bli Bli over ten years ago, Michael and Robyn Miley fell in love with it.

They had a dream for ‘Bali Hai’.

Sections of land were cleared, ‘the shed’ became a temporary home and – amid much excitement – plans were drawn up and construction began on the house and garden. The dream was underway!

But the development of the house and garden slowed and faltered with the untimely and sudden passing of Michael’s wife, Robyn.

“After a time, and with increased passion to realise our dream, I continued to develop our beautiful garden with more determination than ever,” says Michael.

Today the house stands within a kaleidoscope of colour, a tribute to Michael and Robyn’s vision.

The beautifully terraced garden has a restful, tropical rainforest feel. Balinese statues, spirit houses and shingled Bali pavilions nestle among established trees, lush foliage and ponds.

Teas and light lunches will be available and plants will be for sale. Bali Hai is open on March 16-17 10am-4.30pm. Admission: $7. Address: 32 Stoney Wharf Road, Bli Bli.

The CGS is already attracting world attention due to its focus on sustainable growing practices. India and China having already indicated that they will be visiting the Centre for training and to experience a Sunshine Coast that has a policty of sustainability.

There’s art in coffee..

Peachester’s welcome mosaic The beautiful mosaic welcome sign at Peachester State School was designed and created by the Year 7 class of 2012, with the help of two very creative parents Mrs Priori Smith and Mrs Lewis.

I guess someone had to do it eventually - demonstrate that there’s pure art in a cup of coffee.

Maleny’s Upfront Club, long challenged as the place where you’ll find the greatest caffeine hit this side of the Bruce Hwy, is launching an annual art competition in homage to the humble coffee been.

The Club is calling for expressions of interest from painters and sculptors to take part in the Essence of Coffee Art Competition.

There are two categories - Paintings on canvas (12in x 12in) and 2D or 3D sculptures, freestanding or wall pieces (250mm x 250mm).

First prize is $500 from Easton Lawyers.

Second prize is $400 from Schibello Coffee, and there are two $100 Encouragement Awards donated by Paul and Fern Veit. Judging is in April through people’s choice ballot voting. (This is the Upfront Club after all...)

Info: www.upfrontclub.org

Now high school students in Beerwah and Maleny, the class came back to Peachester School recently for a photo with the completed sign and Mrs Priori-Smith, a mosaic expert who helped create the art work.

Below, left to right: Lleyton McMurtrie, Margarita Priori-Smith, Nicholas Jennings, Jayden Kerr, Tayla Hunn, Erin Hatcher, Billie Sandes, Ben Finlay and Jade Cameron-Geerse.

Maleny Matrix ...

IT professionals talk philosophy & metaphysics ALENY MATRIX is a group of IT professionals who meet at Maleny’s UpFront Club for lunch on Thursdays to network, swap ideas and information, and chat about anything from philosophy to metaphysics.

It’s a loose collective of around 15 people organised by software and systems developer, Andrew Martin, who moved from Brisbane to Maleny in 1987 to work on the original Maleny Credit Union accounting software.

The Maleny Matrix began in early 2011, and its members have local, interstate and international clients. Some are long-time tenants of the office building at 48 Maple Street (above Piece of Me), such as software developer, Michael Strong, who’s had the same office there for 13 years.

“One of the reasons why we meet is the group covers a wide range of technology and it’s really good to share the different tools we’re using — there are a lot of options for frameworks and tool sets and you can’t cover them all,” says Michael.

Self-described “internet all-rounder” Nathan Arrowsmith says, “I think Maleny is a perfect area for the IT industry. It is a clean industry. It’s something that could be another part of the economy in Maleny if it grew. We could use some more diversity in Maleny. You can come here, enjoy the lifestyle and do your work.”

App developer Kris Randall says “I really want to encourage young people who are interested in computers, because there really is an opportunity here in Maleny for that kind of career.”

“The thing about IT is it’s an export industry,” says Michael. “You have to get your work from outside and the good thing about it is you can do it anywhere.”

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A special Matrix lunch at Pomodoras in Maleny. From left: Ryan Johnson, Adrian Anderson, Kris Randall, Nathan Arrowsmith, Tommyk Atanasow, Garry Claridge, Michael Strong, Peter Vowels, Barry Earsman, Lee Thal and Darcy Clark. ( Photo curtesy of Andrew Martin ).

“So why wouldn’t you do it here?” asks Andrew.

Most of the Maleny Matrix members work from home, which can be isolating, so they also take part in the Maleny Jelly, held at Maleny Neighbourhood Centre on Fridays from 10 to 4pm for people to share a work space, give talks and socialise.

Maleny Jelly is hosted by Kudos Knowledge. Visit: kudosknowledge.com For more information on Maleny Matrix visit facebook.com/MalenyMatrix HINTERLAND TIMES - MARCH 2013

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Tove Easton PRINCIPAL LAWYER

eastonlawyers Business Names, Company Names & Domain names HE DIFFERENCE between trade marks, business, company and domain names sometimes causes confusion. It is important to note that the registration of a business, company or domain name does not in itself give you any proprietary rights. Only a trade mark can give you that kind of protection.

The same word or words may be registered by different people as business names and trade marks.

However, the registered trade mark owner can sue the business owner for infringing the trade mark if the business name owner uses it on goods or services similar to those covered by the trade mark registration.

It is also important to note that when you register your business name you must make sure that it does not infringe on someone else's trade mark. It is always wise to search the trade mark databases first.

A company name must be registered under the national Corporations Law administered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. If a company wishes to trade using a name other than the registered company name, it will be necessary for the company to register that name as a business name.

A business name is a name under which a business operates and registration serves as a means of identifying the owners of the business. The Office of Fair Trading is the entity were business names in Queensland are registered. If you are in more than one state or territory, the business name must be registered under the laws of each state. Note that registration of a business name is compulsory and must be completed before the business starts trading.

A domain name is a textual address for a location on the Internet which corresponds to the actual alpha numeric address which the Internet computers can read. Be aware that domain names allocation rules have changed so that you may now be eligible to obtain a domain name that matches your registered trade mark or registered trade mark application even if it is not your registered business name (If this name has not already been allocated). For more information on the new domain names eligibility and allocation rules, see the .au Domain Administration (auDA) Ltd website.

A trade mark is used to distinguish the goods or services of one trader from those of other traders.

Registration of a trade mark gives the registered owner exclusive use of the trade mark throughout Australia.

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62 Maple Street, Maleny Ph: 5494 3511 6b/3 Obi Obi Road, Mapleton Ph: 5478 6500 tove@eastonlawyers.com.au

Growing Fruit Trees

Landscapes

with Loors Landscaping FRANZ LOORS ...

... landscaping the Range for the past 24 years

Fruits like mango, apples, banana, guava, citrus fruits, are often the first to be thought of due to their distinct flavor and taste. These fruits also constantly enjoy the attention of scientists and horticulturists and are further improved in their quality. However fruits lovers should also remember that there are other fruits that are sometimes labelled as "underutilised fruits" that are a hundred times more nutritious than the popular fruits in terms of their vitamin C, cartenoids, and antioxidants.

Trees such as Malay Roseapple, Grumicharma, Acerola cherry, Jaboticaba, Tamarillo, Ceylon hill cherry to name just a few can make attractive ornamentals as well as being part of you edible garden.

Loors Landscaping

Grumichama Grumichama is a slow-growing compact small tree. A mature height of four to five metres can be expected.

Crimson to purple-black fruits appear four weeks after the pretty white flowers. About the diameter of a dollar coin, the fruits have a thin skin and white melting flesh. The pleasant flavour makes grumichama worth eating fresh off the tree.

Malay Roseapple The bell shaped fruit may reach the size of a small apple. It has a waxy surface and a faint aroma of a rose. The flesh is also rose-scented, whitish, crisp, and juicy with a delicate flavour? It is best mixed with other fruits or used in salads.

Phone: 07 5445 7615

In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

Mobile: 0412 680 801

Ph 0428 130 769 spencer.shaw@brushturkey.com.au

www.brushturkey.com.au

Myrtles bounce back ...

BOUT TWO YEARS ago I wrote an article about the arrival of Myrtle Rust Uredo rangelii on the Blackall Range. Myrtle rust had spread rapidly northwards from central New South Wales and had only been in the country for a few years. It arrived on the Blackall Range in early 2011 in a great wave that infected the leaves of many of members of the Myrtaceae (Myrtle) family such as Silky Myrtle Decaspermum humille, the Mallet wood’s Rhodamnia spp and the Threadybark Myrtle Gossia inophloia, luckily our Eucalypt forests (also in the Myrtaceae family) didn’t appear to be affected.

The arrival of this exotic disease was traumatic for the horticulture industry, upsetting for gardeners and perhaps most significantly a threat to the very survival of many of our rare or uncommon rainforest myrtles. At the time nurseries were perceived to be the major agent for spread of the disease and if located in your nursery, you could be quarantined by Biosecurity Queensland for upto several months as they speculated how to handle this new exotic invader, an exotic invader whose fungal spores could be carried on the wind and which was already spreading like wildfire. Many nurseries went as far as destroying all of their Myrtle stock, eg Lillypilly’s and Myrtles, many ignored the problem, some notified Biosecurity.

When Myrtle Rust arrived on our property, the Brush

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Turkey Enterprises Nursery was fortunate in that quarantine and lock down had just ended (Biosecurity had given up on containment ...too many nurseries to lock down) and we were one of the first nurseries on the coast to take the proactive approach of informing our whole network and encouraging everyone else to come out of the closet, so to speak, in the belief that we all needed to get this out in the open if we had any chance of addressing the real issue at stake - preserving our native Myrtaceae flora!

We had to, for the first time ever, use synthetic fungicides in our nursery as a Biosecurity requirement (thank you again to the introducers of this disease...).

However as the focus of our nursery is the preservation of the floristic diversity of our local ecological communities, we wanted to move away from masking the problem with synthetic fungicides asap and have subsequently been able to adopt organic treatments and disposal of infected individuals.

However, two years down the track ecological balance appears to be taking place, for the first time in the last two years, the presence of Myrtle rust is minimal. A disease that is so rampant that is threatens to wipe out its own hosts, is after all its own worst enemy.

Something for us all to think about there.

Leaves are not always green...

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HETHER removing fallen trees or where necessary cleaning up the litter of broken branches and shredded leaves, the majority of Range residents have been pretty busy lately.

The trees have also been busy replacing the leaves they lost due to prolonged dry weather followed by strong winds and heavy rain. The new leaves are creating fabulous splashes of colour both in our gardens and in the forest. It’s a great time to check out the trees which will provide a colour accent at various times of the year.

This year the current colour splash is largely a result of weather conditions. Many of the Syzygium species, Lillypillies, would routinely provide spring colour but that bright pink or magenta new growth will also be triggered by the right growing conditions, not always the season. Most members of the Myrtaceae family, which includes the gums, paperbarks and bottlebrushes, are sporting new foliage.

Other species with colour in the new leaves are Davidson Plum, White Booyong, Argyrodendron trifoliatum,

Three-Veined Laurel, Cryptocarya triplinervis, and Foambark, Jagera pseudorhus, which has rusty coloured hairy buds and flowers in autumn. A very attractive tree with pendulous new pink growth right to the ground is Lancewood, Dissiliaria baloghioides (illustrated). Look for the Rough Maidenhair Fern, Adiantum hispidulum, with its fresh pink fronds. It is a very attractive ground cover or edging plant for dry, shaded areas.

There are of course many shades of green and many leaf shapes. Treeferns which suffered badly during the hot dry months are putting out fresh fronds. A quick look around has revealed masses of large pale green leaves on the Tulipwood, Harpullia pendula, delicate creamy green growth on Fine-Leaved Tuckeroo, Lepiderema pulchella and an explosion of fresh green on the Whalebone Tree, Streblus brunonianus. Our forests, unlike certain pine forests, are definitely not a uniform green. Take a closer look.

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Cathy fulfills a dream to teach pottery and sculpture in Tuscany Cathy Lawley is a Hinterland artist who creates earthy and whimsical works of art in clay. Her sculptures of farm animals and natural creatures have found a place in homes and gardens around Australia.

Next year this highly motivated artist will fulfill a personal dream – to travel to Italy, immerse herself in the beauty and romance of the Tuscan countryside and share her passion for clay and raku pottery for 14 days with a group of workshop participants.

Cathy’s group will join her in a beautifully restored 15th century farmhouse in the rolling hills of Tuscany. For two weeks they will emerse themselves in pottery, sculpture, museums, mediaeval villages, galleries, shopping, and of course fine Italian food and wine.

All details will be looked after including shipping participants’ finished sculptures home.

Cathy says partners and non-participants are also welcome, with many attractions and opportunities to be discovered in the nearby countryside.

“Although it’s not until next year, I think the timing gives people a great chance to plan and save for a fabulous holiday experience and to think about where else they might like to visit after the workshop is over,” Cathy says.

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HE ITALIAN WORKSHOP program includes throwing on the wheel, creating sculptures, understanding portraiture, glazing and a rakufiring, all culminating in an exhibition of participants’ pieces. The physical activity in the workshop will be balanced by visits to nearby towns and villages, pottery studios, museums, markets, food and winetastings and an authentic Italian cooking lesson.

Cathy holds a Diploma in Ceramics and is an awardwinning artist who has attended workshops with highly regarded potters and Raku masters both in Australia and internationally. Her artworks have featured on television shows “Better Homes and Gardens” and “The Queensland Weekender” as well as in numerous publications and articles.

In Italy Cathy will be joined by another local artist, Jacqui Seckold. Jacqui is also self-taught and is best known for her children, dancers and animal sculptures.

She has recently been experimenting with acrylics

on canvas and has discovered that working with clay and paint are not dissimilar - both are wonderfully tactile and malleable.

For example, the warmth of the Tuscan countryside is a delight to paint, and a small amphora makes the perfect accompaniment. Jacqui and Cathy will work together teaching sculpture and colour in Italy.

You can visit Cathy in her Maleny studio by attending a workshop. Also, during the month of March, Cathy will be displaying sculptures and information about the Italy tour in the front window of Peace of Green Gallery Maleny.

To book a place in the workshop tour (September 16-30, 2014), contact Cathy who needs your deposit

by April 2013. The deposit will secure a place with full payment due later in 2013. Total cost is $4,500 pp twin share.

For more details about Cathy and her Tuscany tour, phone: 0402 333 576, see: www.friedmudd.com or Email: cathy@friedmudd.com.

Above: Cathy Lawley at work in her Maleny studio with a workshop group Above right: Jacqui Seckold who will assist Cathy run her Tuscan workshop

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HOW TO SELL AIR...

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Walter & Willy Van Alphen have brought years of international business and travel experience to their manufacturing sales enterprise based at Mapleton.

Julie Shelton spoke with the dynamic Dutch duo about their journeys that eventually brought them to this corner of the world.

by Julie Shelton

WANDER through Walter and Willy’s home is a journey around the globe: masks, animals, carvings, paintings and other collectibles are beautifully displayed on every level surface and hanging space. Each symbolises an adventure from decades of travelling and exploring.

After years in the Netherlands’ Marine Corps Special Forces, Walter worked with a British adventure tour company that ran expeditions all over the world, including trips through India and rafting tours in Nepal. The longest was a nine-month trip from London, through southern Europe, to northern Africa, down to South Africa, to Egypt, through the Middle East, and ending up in Kathmandu.

“And not one flat tyre all that way,” he says in amazement.

Designed for serious adventure seekers in the 18-35 year age bracket, each tour involved off-road travel and sometimes travelling through war zones. As expedition leader – and most of the time the only staff member – Walter not only drove the vehicle but looked after everyone: administered first aid, solved mechanical challenges, negotiated safe passage etc.

“We travelled through the Middle East, including Iran, during the time of Ayatollah Khomeini – it could be quite tense and dangerous,” he says, almost casually.

Although Walter finished his tour guiding adventures in the early 1990s, travelling was not yet out of his system.

After moving back to the UK, he worked for a few years in industry (“that was challenging!”) in quality assurance and was subsequently appointed international business director for a company engaged in industrial air handling and air conditioning.

“I was responsible for every country apart from UK, Holland and parts of Germany so I travelled weekly to every corner of the world,” he explains.

Eventually, though, it was time to drop anchor. Having fallen in love with Africa during his adventuring, Walter initially wanted to settle in Botswana but couldn’t get a visa. After finding similar problems in Swaziland, he

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Top right: Ad Air Promotions organises manufacture of helium spheres, blimps and custom shapes.

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decided to go to an English-speaking country and Australia ticked all the boxes.

“When I arrived in Australia in 2005 I rented a cottage in Flaxton and set myself 6 months to find somewhere in Australia that I wanted to be,” reflects Walter. “But every time I travelled to various places, I would come back to the Sunshine Coast and realise that actually this is the best place!”

Willy agrees: “I’ve travelled around Australia from Adelaide to Darwin, to Cape York, to Western Australia and pretty much the Sunshine Coast for me is it.”

“There are a lot of nice places in Australia but the climate is great here – it’s always green and (most of the time) blue skies. Our winters here are nicer than summers in the Netherlands!”

Having met in the UK in 1986, Walter and Willy reconnected via the Internet in 2006 and after chatting at length, Willy flew out to Australia for a cup of coffee.

“I make a really good cup of coffee,” says Walter…

Several visits between Australia and the Netherlands later, they were married on the 7th of July 2007. Now operating Ad Air Promotions together, their passion is working with clients to develop products that support their advertising and promotion campaigns. Ad Air Promotions specialises in inflatables, from small sealed units to giant corporate advertising.

“We organise manufacture of media from units as small as 10cm to up to 30 metres,” explains Walter.

“For small ones, we can organise for manufacture of tens of thousands – these are often used for giveaways at major events. They are usually made of PVC and are airtight, so are filled with air or helium. The large ones are made of UV-stable RipStop coated nylon and are not airtight so they require continual inflation with a blower to maintain the pressure inside.”

Ad Air Promotions also organises manufacture of helium spheres, blimps and custom shapes to be used in parades or displayed at trade fairs.

While they work with key multi-national clients including Subaru, McDonalds and Skoda, most of their work is for sporting events, such as the Tour Down Under cycling race and the triathlons.

A major part of the sporting event work is developing arches, which are used at the start and finish lines to promote sponsors and carry advertising. Weighing between 20 and 80 kg the arches can go in the back of most cars and only require a power point and anchor point, making them easy to set up. Importantly, they can be re-used many times over.

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Eudlo ... all set to become animated What's in the Spotlight Discover the CommunityHub Do you want to know what’s happening around the Sunshine Coast? Council’s online CommunityHub connects you to local community groups, events and activities. It’s like a ‘yellow pages directory’ for local groups and the arts community that you can search by name, category or location. Visit www.community. sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au to connect with community groups and events across the region.

Apply to run a business on public land Local businesses are invited to apply for a three year permit to operate on public land on the Sunshine Coast. Approved activities include surf schools, coffee vans and beach equipment hire at specific locations around the region. Information sessions to help you understand the process are being held in early March and applications must be received by Tuesday 2 April.

Visit council’s website for details.

Recycle your e-Waste for free Recycle your unwanted TVs and computers for free at the Mapleton Transfer Station from 16-17 March.

Council and Drop Zone are offering free e-Waste recycling days at various Coast waste facilities on selected dates. Limits apply, visit council’s website for details. The initiative is part of the National TV and Computer Recycling Scheme.

Business mission to China Council invites export and investment ready businesses to join Mayor Mark Jamieson in a business mission to China in April 2013. Register your interest to explore the China market, meet key influencers and potential customers. EOI forms are available from council’s website and customer contact centres.

Art prize entries close soon Entries for the nationally acclaimed Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2013 close on 28 March. With over $45,000 to be awarded in two-dimensional, three-dimensional and tertiary student categories the art prize attracts some of the best contemporary and emerging artists our nation has to offer. Visit the Sunshine Coast Art Prize website for more details and to apply online.

Eudlo is set to receive funding and support from Artslink Queensland for three community-led creative projects as part of Animating Spaces 2013.

Animating Spaces is a state-wide multi-arts initiative, which will revitalise and celebrate significant or unusual spaces within regional communities through locally-driven arts activities and events.

Animating Spaces will bring people together to celebrate the unique places in their community using the arts in any form...be it music, digital animation, comedy, dance" said Letitia Norton, Creative Communities Director at Artslink Queensland.

“Each Animating Spaces weekend will be a chance for locals to re-imagine their home town and to share new experiences with visitors, too. All the projects will be coordinated locally, employing local artists and creative people to build capacity and strengthen communities.”

Eudlo’s Animating Spaces is being curated by Eudlo Cultural Collective in partnership with the Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance.

Named ‘Eudlo Dreaming’, the project will consist of interwoven community performances exploring local indigenous culture, community identity, cultural heritage, natural and man-made spaces in Eudlo village.

“Animating Spaces is a beautiful platform to showcase some of the artistic talents of Eudlo; the performance will bring together local schools, emerging and established artists, local community groups and businesses. This is a chance for Eudlo to show off, while raising awareness of our little town,” said the projects coordinator Amy Martin.

For more information about Animating Spaces in Eudlo, to register your interest or to get involved please contact Amy Martin on 0439 764 799 or at eudlocc@live.com.au

New Round of stimulating workshops at Martin Duncan’s Hinterland Freestyle Escape AUTUMN BRINGS A NEW round of creative workshops at Martin Duncan’s Freestyle Escape House and Art school always a delicious mixture of food, art and luxurious accommodation.

Martin’s commitment to food and art has been a lifelong passion, and each year his school offers a stellar lineup of local and celebrity chefs.

During March Duncan is offering a stimulating mix of food and art experiences: Freestyle Cooking & Art School March 16 – Valli Little: Food editor-delicious magazine March 17 – Peter Wolfe: Native Food specialist March 17 – Lizzie Connor: Play with Acrylics March 17 – Kate French: 1 Day Clay workshop March 18 – Queensland Food & Beverage Industry Networking Event Freestyle Escape Luxury Accommodation For availability and rates phone: 3262 3077.

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New Focus at Lasting Impressions LASTING IMPRESSIONS, the renowned fine art gallery in Kenilworth is focussing on seven of its artist stable in an exhibition this month called, ‘New Focus’.

“Each artist sees the world through different eyes and each represents it in a different style,” says gallery director, Kaye Cathro.

These works reveal a diverse and vibrant show demonstrating each painter’s approach and technique.

New Focus opens at 11am on Sunday, 10 March and will continue until 24 March. It is a superb selection of paintings at this highly regarded gallery.

The show ranges from intricate botanicals by Marilyn Rose, to the internationally recognised works of Lyn Diefenbach, and Sue Gilmour’s landscapes.

There are Bruce Buchanan’s evocative watercolours, and Greg Postle is back again with his fabulous bird paintings.

Wynne and Sulman finalists, Helene Grove and Damien Kamholtz (pictured left), round out the exhibition with their keenly sought after contemporary works.

All paintings may be viewed on the Gallery website, visit: www.lastingimpressionsgallery.net.

Save with Living Smart Homes Make significant household savings by joining Living Smart Homes, council’s free online sustainable living tool with tips to cut costs, live well and help the environment. Register in March to receive a free copy of Junkies, the Coast’s new eco-inspirational recycling magazine, for creative ideas on re-using unwanted materials. Register at www.livingsmartqld.com.au

Reduce mosquito breeding sites After wet weather the risk of mosquito breeding sites developing around residences increases, particularly during warmer periods. Mosquitoes can transmit diseases such as Ross River and Barmah Forest viruses, so regular simple household actions to reduce or eliminate their breeding sites should be taken seriously. Visit council’s website for easy to follow hints and tips.

Council meetings Ordinary Meeting 9am 28 March, Tewantin.

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BUSINESS FOR SALE

Prosperity alert! A rare opportunity to buy a well-established business of 23 years good standing in Maleny, Queensland — Rather Bizr. This beautiful, charismatic boutique caters for people of all shapes and sizes, including those with a fuller figure, and is hugely popular amongst the local and wider community. Rather Bizr also sells a variety of sustainable natural fibre clothing for men and women.

This is a rapidly growing niche market with great potential for expansion via an untapped online market.

Rather Bizr has a loyal customer base, situated in a prime position in the centre of regionally renowned Maple Street, Maleny in Queensland. Support your lifestyle, and be inspired by joining this wonderfully diverse, ethical business hub. Highly motivated parties need only apply.

The owner has a genuine reason for selling. Enquire in person at 2/38 Maple Street Maleny Or contact Dianne via email at di@ratherbizr.com or phone on (07) 5494 3122.

Leigh Robshaw

A Simple Life A red-blooded single woman cannot live in a small country town without giving internet dating a go, at least once. Internet dating is a viable option for meeting people in the city too, but it’s not the dating lifeblood it is in a country town, where most of the single people are still in primary school or live in retirement villages.

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HE SHEER POPULATION SIZE in the city means, statistically, you’re much more likely to meet someone in your age bracket when you’re at the corner shop buying milk. And failing that, there are multitudes of bars, clubs, community groups and classes. If you work for a large organisation, chances are you’ll meet somewhere there. Failing that, there are certain activities that attract the types of men you think you might fancy, like aikido, bush regeneration groups and sailing clubs.

Fortunately, I met someone from Maleny, of all places, and dropped everything to move here. When that didn’t work out I joined the online crapshoot known as RSVP for a while. Then when I found out it was way cheaper, I joined Plenty of Fish. Before I go any further — dudes! What is it with the photos of yourselves either standing next to your car or holding a fish? Or holding a fish while you stand next to your car? Or the photos with the jagged edges where you’ve cut your ex-girlfriend out, but we can still see her earring and a lock of hair falling seductively around her shoulders?

I have a theory about this. Guys are not generally in the habit of taking photos of themselves. They tell me it makes them feel a bit gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that). They need a reason to have a photo taken of themselves. New cars and the catch of the day are both good reasons.

But it goes further. If the car is hot or the fish is big, they’re hoping we will see them with their hot car and their big fish and equate it with power, virility and the ability to provide.

We don’t. We’re not looking at the car or the fish, we’re looking at your smile, the warmth in your eyes and trying

Internet dating in a small town: so long and thanks for all the fish ... to ascertain some sort of clue about what kind of person you are.

Before I tell you about my internet dating disasters, I want to preface my story with a disclaimer. Lots of people I know are in happy relationships with people they met on the internet. Some have even married. It can and does happen, it just didn’t for me. And here’s why: Guy number 1: A human rights lawyer. Whoa! I thought I’d hit the jackpot with this one. He sounded totally awesome as I read his impassioned emails about his work protecting children in Africa. Wow, I thought. Someone who does good work in the world AND makes good money

“What is it with the photos of yourselves either standing next to your car or holding a fish?” doing it. Very rare. We were all set to have our first coffee and I was practically hearing wedding bells, when he wrote to me with a warning something along the lines of: “Before we meet I must tell you one thing. One night when I was working in Africa, our camp was attacked by local tribesmen and my testicles were savagely hacked off. As a result, I speak with a rather high-pitched tone and people often mistake me for a woman on the phone. I also lost my left leg below the knee, but it has since been replaced by a rather attractive prosthetic that still allows me to do my 10kilometre run each day.” Holy crap! Poor guy, I thought.

No balls and a woman’s voice could take some getting used

to, but I was still keen. Then I read this: “I’m so happy to have met you because now I no longer need to continue my onanistic lifestyle.” Huh? I had to look that word up. To save you doing it, onanism is a Biblical term for masturbation. I can’t believe I actually had to ask a friend if they thought he was full of shit before I deleted him.

Guy number 2: A mortgage broker. We had a few nice email chats and I scrutinised his profile closely before I agreed to meet him for a coffee. It looked like everything was in order. The only thing was, his photo was one of him surfing, far off in the distance. I couldn’t see his face, or much of him at all. It didn’t matter, he sounded OK in his profile: six feet tall, brown hair, blue eyes, loves surfing. In his preferences he had asked for a ‘petite woman’. Before we agreed to meet, I told him I wouldn’t exactly put myself in the ‘petite’ category.

“That doesn’t matter, he said, I’m just looking forward to meeting you.” Great. So I drove to the beach to meet up with him and he was sitting on a bench in a leather jacket, waiting nervously. I got out of the car and when he stood up, he didn’t go very far; he was all of four feet tall. His eyes were roughly in line with my nipples. Good for him, not so good for me. We had a coffee and a chat and that night, I called him to say it wasn’t going to work for me.

Why? Not because he was shorter than me, but because he lied. If you begin a relationship by lying about something as obvious as your height, it’s going to be all downhill from there.

I won’t bore you with my story about guy number 3, who was Mr Perfect, but neglected to tell me before we met that he was leaving the country in five days to take a job overseas.

One guess what he was after.

But I will offer a word of advice for men and women venturing into the rather artificial world of internet dating. It’s tempting to talk yourself up, tell a little fib, use a photo from ten years ago when you were thinner or had more hair. But when you meet in the flesh, then what? Are you hoping you will dazzle them with your captivating personality, or that the pheromones will kick in and they won’t realise you look nothing like you do in your photo?

Not going to happen. If you’re not happy with the real you, why should anyone else be? That goes for offline dating too, obviously.

Leigh’s Blog: http://www.lifeinahippietown.com

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Maleny Film Society March 2013 screenings Screening at the Maleny Community Centre.

The Life of Pi

USA - Adventure / drama - PG - 127 min

Saturday March 23 Evening - 7.15pm

Les Miserables Les Miserables is based on the tremendously successful stage musical set in 19th-century postrevolutionary France. Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert (Russell Crowe), after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's (Anne Hathaway) daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever. As the story continues, the poor and starving people of France are in the midst of the June uprising and Valjean’s story crosses paths with the young revolutionaries.

UK - musical / drama - PG - 157 min

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What about the slaves ...?

Saturday March 9 Matinee: 3pm Evening - 7.15pm

Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, this film is a story within a story centring on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. His family decide to move from India, to Canada by hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orang-utan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival. This is grand adventure on an epic scale.

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Above: Daniel Day Lewis shows how to win votes and influence people in Lincoln

I didn’t know much about slavery and the American Civil War and, having just seen two movies, Lincoln and Django Unchained, I don’t know very much more. These two films are so very different and yet they are linked because of their backdrop to slavery and the tensions that eventually led to civil war.

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RECOMMEND seeing both films, and in no particular order, because they do reveal how two American film makers treat the issue of slavery.

Steven Spielberg’s Abraham Lincoln is a wonderfully diverse character - wise, serious, a comic story teller and a man not really sure where his 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, will take the United States. Oscar winner, Daniel Day Lewis does a great job of revealing the politicking of the day – and looking at Washington today, it doesn’t seem to have changed much.

What is perhaps surprising about Lincoln is that despite the intriguing insider view of politics in and around Washington, there is very little sense of who are the enslaved people and the appalling treatment they endured in the 19th century South.

OK the Lincoln Blacks are all servants or soldiers but they are well spoken, well fed, clearly emancipated and in the North. This film may be a fascinating thumb nail of American political history, but a glimpse of painful social history it ain’t.

Mind you, neither is Django Unchained, but Quentin Tarantino’s film does expose the Southern mindset to their slaves ie. They are mere property to

be treated like beasts of burden.

Django... is the story of an escaped slave (played by Jamie Foxx) and a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) going on a killing spree in the name of love and retribution. Waltz who has freed Django the slave, has some wonderful script lines and is matched in performance later in the film by the scary Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the slave owner.

Time and time again Tarantino hammers home the chilling reality that America’s Blacks were property plain and simple. The fact that they were routinely bought, sold, raped, maimed and murdered is the gruesome mix of this film.

However, Django Unchained is relieved by smart scripting, a sound track that cleverly echoes the 50s ‘spaghetti’ westerns, and some wonderfully humorous incidents. Like the bunch of first time Ku Klux Klan riders who squabble about their silly masks not working because the eye holes are in the wrong place.

If you can withstand the scenes of a man being torn apart by dogs, another being castrated and the climactic shooting mayhem — then you may agree with the view that Django Unchained communicates more pointed truths about the inhumanity of slavery than the serious Lincoln is able to do.

Michael Berry Below: The scary Candie played by Leonardo DiCaprio is a convincing Southern states slavery owner with psychopathic overtones

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The Universe Versus Alex Woods

Matt Preston’s 100 Best Recipes

When we Wake

by Gavin Extence

by Matt Preston

Alex Woods loses nearly a month of his life when a freak meteorite strikes him in the head, knocking him into a coma and leaving him with frequent epileptic fits. On his return to school he becomes a target for school bullies.

As a result of a stressful escape from these bullies, Alex meets Mr Peterson, an elderly widower, and these two form an unlikely and important friendship that takes the both of them on a journey about the importance of freedom of choice and the strength of human spirit.

A fabulous, beautifully crafted debut novel.

Well known TV personality Matt Preston shows in this new cookbook that he can create marvellously simple recipes as well as judging other people's creations.

Each page comes with new twists to old standards, such as the addition of maple syrup to pumpkin soup or soft brown sugar to bolognese sauce .The book is well planned with sections that detail different ways to use everyday ingredients, including chicken, prawns and bacon. He also has several pages with interesting historical facts such as where the first wine was made.

What would you do if you woke up one hundred years into the future?

It has happened to sixteen-year-old Tegan and the world she finds herself in is not the utopian future everyone said it would be.

She has been cryonically frozen and successfully reanimated, making her the reluctant poster child for the government and its "New Beginnings" project.

Set in a Melbourne of the future, author Karen Healey has created a haunting, cautionary tale of an inspiring protagonist living in a future that could easily be our own.

by Karen Healey

Tree Changers...

...about people who change their lives to settle on the Range and why they choose to stay. This month ...

Harmony Parkes & Grant Rutledge Harmony Parkes and Grant Rutledge are both Sunshine Coast born and bred, but it wasn’t until they bought their dream house in November last year – a 1930s Queenslander in Flaxton with sweeping views across the coast – that they left the coastal plains and headed for the hills. Here they talk to Leigh Robshaw

Why did you come here?

Grant: We were living in a unit at Cotton Tree and we were originally looking for acreage. This is not acreage, but it gives you a lot of what acreage does, because there’s only one house down the back and you don’t hear from them. We have the benefits of what acreage has to offer without the price tag.

Harmony: We had been traveling overseas before living in Cotton Tree. We bought a campervan and travelled around Europe. We lived in our van for four months and in the Swiss Alps for two months.

When we got back we wanted to buy a place of our own. We wanted things you couldn’t get down the coast - an old Queenslander that had character. We wanted a property large enough to have our own fruit trees and veggie gardens.

This is perfect for us - we love it.

We only looked at this place once before we put in an offer. It’s very cute, it was built in the 1930s and a lot of it is still original. The owners did a great job of restoring it and keeping the right touch.

Grant: We liked the location; it’s quieter and more peaceful and we like the lifestyle offered on the Range. When we saw the view, it was a bit of a clincher.

Harmony: At night time when all the lights come on, it’s quite stunning. It almost feels like you’re on vacation up here. It feels like you’re far away, there’s an escapism about it. Energetically, it’s definitely different to the coast. The pace is different; it’s a lot nicer. Down there it’s manic.

Grant: The quietness of the Range is what makes it appealing to us.

There are no traffic lights or fourlane roads. It’s colder and fresher, and more rural. There are a lot more trees and cows and pastures. When we used to drive up here, we were taken aback by how nice it was and how the road follows the side of the mountain range and has such great views.

What did you have to change in coming here?

Grant: In Cotton Tree we used to walk to the beach. I spent most of my time at the beach because I surf. Now I have to make the journey down. It’s not as if I don’t go surfing; if I know the surf’s going to be good, I’ll still go. But I definitely don’t surf as much.

Harmony: We could be on the sand in 20 seconds, now we have to drive to the beach, but it’s only 30 minutes.

Grant: I have to get up earlier to go to work, too. I’m a builder and being a contractor, I have to go where the contracts are.

I have a few friends down the coast who come and visit, but a lot of

my close friends are living around the country. It was a novelty for friends to come up here to see us at first. People who have lived on the Sunshine Coast their whole lives didn’t know where Flaxton was.

I had to say, “You know Montville? You know Mapleton? It’s in between there”.

Harmony: We haven’t really had to change much at all. I work for my family’s company, an organic, natural, fair trade product distribution company called Unique Health Products, which is based in Kunda Park. I’ve grown up with this lifestyle - fully vegetarian, and all organic. It has been my way of life.

Driving time to Kunda Park from Flaxton is only 20 minutes, which was about the same as Cotton Tree to Kunda Park. In terms of our social life, people love coming up here – they see it as a treat. Our social life hasn’t dropped off at all.

When we were living in Cotton Tree we did go out for meals more often, but we both love going to the organic markets and cooking at home. We love buying local.

Grant: You can source a lot of good food from local farmers at roadside stalls up here.

What would keep you here?

Harmony: We’re getting married in May at a private property in Montville – a 20-acre botanical garden and we’re having the reception here at the house.

Grant proposed to me while we were overseas at Cinque Terre in Italy. He knew it was my favourite place in the world; it had been on my vision board.

He went and asked dad three months before we left. We had been living in the van and Grant had hidden the rings in his backpack underneath our bed.

It was very romantic; it was sunset, my favourite time of day. He had it all planned to a T. We’ll have a family at some point in the next couple of years, so I don’t see us leaving any time soon.

Grant: Being an older house there’s a lot of maintenance work to do. During the [Australia Day weekend] storms, the fence got snapped off and the sheets on the roof were lifting; we thought the roof was going to lift off. It was intense.

Harmony: We lost power for six nights. We had about 25 buckets around the house and we had to move all the furniture. The only place that wasn’t leaking was above the bed.

I do remember Grant saying something like, “I don’t love this house anymore”. I said, “You don’t mean that”, and I got tears in my eyes.

“It was pretty stressful there for a bit, but we still love it. After the wedding we want to do a lot with the garden and build underneath.

At the moment it’s a blank canvas. A lot of people would be put off by that, but for us it’s a positive.

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Art Gallery Trail - Sunshine Coast Hinterland

Explore the breathtaking scenery of our Hinterland 1

... and discover the remarkable variety of galleries and talented local artists.

Stay longer at any one of the region’s welcoming guest houses.

Lasting Impressions Gallery 6 Elizabeth Street, Kenilworth Ph: 5446 0422 lastingimpressions7@bigpond.com www.lastingimpressionsgallery.net

Artist: Ian Mastin “Cherries in Chinese Bowl” (acrylic on board)

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Secrets on the Lake Art Gallery

Obi Valley Woodworks

207 Narrows Road, Montville Ph: 5478 5888 Gallery open seven days: 9am - 5pm www.secretsonthelake.com.au

430 Hunsley Road Coolabine Ph: 5472 3996 www.cedarcreations.com.au

Artist: Jack Wilms Sculpture, furniture, doors Open: weekends & most public holidays 10am-4pm Closed for October

Artist: Cathy Lawley

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Shop 4, ‘Mayfield’ Main Street Montville Ph: 5478 5440 www.illumecreations.com.au “Surreal Sunrise Bowl” Artist - Tina Cooper

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Artist: Matt Jee Title: “The Green Fish”

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Cnr Corks Pocket & Reesville Rds, Reesville Ph: 5494 3595 E: contact@antique.net.au

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Montville Art Gallery 138 Main St, Montville Ph: 5442 9211 www.montvilleartgallery.com.au Artist: Natalie Dyer

Tree Frog Gallery

Maleny Showcase Jewellers

926 Montville Road, Maleny Enquiries Ph: 5435 2303 www.treefroggallery.com Gallery Hours: Wednesday- Monday 10am-4pm Works by local artists & art classes.

Shop 4, Riverside Centre, Maleny Ph: 5494 3477 “The Prodigy” Sterling silver pendant set with Trilliant Peridot & yellow citrine Designer: Jim Goulton

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5 Main Street Gallery 167 Main Street (below Poets Cafe) Montville Ph: 5478 5050 www.mainstreetgallery.com.au

Artist: Ken Bonner “A Perfect Winter’s Day” (oil on canvas)

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Holden’s Gallery Art On Cairncross Cairncross Corner, Maleny Ph: 5429 6404 www.artoncairncross.com.au Artist: Rowley Drysdale “Lidded Pot” (wood-fired Shino glaze)

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38b Coral St, Maleny (cnr Coral & Myrtle Sts) Gallery & Picture Framing Ph: 5494 2100 www.holdensgallery.com.au “Nude” Artist: Joanne Duckworth (watercolour)

ART ON CAIRNCROSS

ARTIST: ROWLEY DRYSDALE

Earth, Wood & Fire ...

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E LIVE IN A TIME-POOR WORLD of shortcuts and immediacy, but this is thankfully often impossible within the world of art.

Many mediums require the respect of time and this is most apparent with ceramics. The processes to produce a simple pot can be involved and need the maker to have a depth of Polar Rift knowledge (Feldspar & ceramic) including firing temperatures, the chemical elements in glazes and how to pack a kiln, as well as an artistic flair.

Rowley Drysdale has always enjoyed the challenge of making a concept into a tangible item and in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Earth, Wood and Fireâ&#x20AC;? these results are clear.

He throws some wonderful forms, such as blossom jars, which are accentuated by an Albany slip glaze.

Also in this collection is an intriguing wall work called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Man Behind the Shellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. In a 4 day wood firing, one of his platters rested on a shell to separate it from the other pieces in the kiln. When the remnant of shell was removed afterwards, an image appeared in the glaze, seeming to be a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. This section was then photographed and printed onto canvas, which is now displayed adjacent to the platter as one separate artwork.

Rowley describes this as â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ścelebrating a combination of one of the oldest and one of the most contemporary of technologies. It is about the controlled and the planned and the chance reaction of elemental materials.â&#x20AC;?

The various works within â&#x20AC;&#x153;Earth, Wood and Fireâ&#x20AC;? will be displayed until March 30 at Art on Cairncross showing how an ancient art is still relevant in the modern age.

For those unable to visit the gallery, please visit the website at www.artoncairncross.com.au

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Montville Art Gallery MARCH 2013 Blossom Jar (Albany slip glaze)

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ON CAMERON is passionate about Australia and is in his element when capturing the beauty of the landscape on canvas.

Born in Korumburra in the rolling foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges in the South Gippsland district of Victoria, Ron, the eldest of six children, showed artistic talent from a very early age. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was extremely lucky to have excellent art teachers who were happy to let me experiment and develop my own style. They encouraged me to paint in oils and even sent a note home to my mother listing the paints and materials I should have. My mother helped nurture my talent by giving me for every birthday and Christmas, a gift voucher for paints. This continued long after I left home and had children of my own so I have never had to feel that indulging my passion was depriving my family.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are some of the highlights of your career?â&#x20AC;?

I asked Ron. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first major boost to my confidence was winning the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice Awardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at the Moomba Art Festival in Melbourne when I was still in my twenties. Then, in the year I became a full time professional artist, I won the prize for the most popular painting in the Redcliffe Art Show,â&#x20AC;? Ron told us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand one of your paintings was stolen from an exhibition at the Brisbane Club.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s correct. What really astounded me was that my painting was stolen along with four much more valuable paintings by famous artists such as Lloyd Rees, Ray Crooke and George Lambert.â&#x20AC;?

Open daily from 10sm to 5pm, the Montville Art Gallery is located at 138 Main Street, Montville, opposite the Village Green.

From March1, Ronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings will also be featured under â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exhibitionsâ&#x20AC;? on the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. www.montvilleartgallery.com.au

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C R E AT I V E C U T S Chris Smither at Woombye

Beerwah welcomes Georgia

A profound songwriter, US artist Chris Smither draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets, and philosophers.

Reviewers continue to praise his dazzling guitar work, gravelly voice and songwriting.

"Smither is an American original - a product of the musical melting pot and one of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world."—Associated Press. As Acoustic Guitar magazine wrote, Smither sings about “the big things - life, love, loss - in a penetrating and poetic yet unpretentious way.”

And with Hundred Dollar Valentine, his most recent recording, he’s at it again.

Chris Smithers is at the Woombye Pub on Friday 22 March. $27.50 inc GST & booking fees or $30 at the door if not sold out. Doors open 8pm. Show at 8.30pm.

Phone Pub for credit card sales: 5442 1155.

With Hollywood good looks, a sexy swagger and rock star fashion sensibilities the red hot three piece which is Georgia Fall is re-defining the look of a modern day Country star.

Georgia Fall is the fresh sound of Australian Country Music. With a mutual love for great country music, nationally endorsed drummer/songwriter Paul Bain and CMAA Academy of Country Music graduates Mellissa Baker and Michael Cole collectively formed the new country poprock trio Georgia Fall. Having been described as “a fresh band with stand-out vocals and killer songs” by Australia’s ARIA chart topping sweetheart Lyn Bowtell, the sky seems to be the limit for this new group!

Georgia is back at the Beerwah Hotel having sung her debut single there, I Wonder in September last year.

Georgia Fall are forging a new sound for Australian country music fans with the collective talent of 3 individual musical minds. Don’t miss your change to see this exciting new band at the Beerwah Hotel on Saturday night March 9 as part of Beerwah’s got Country. Phone 1300beerwah for more details or find them on Facebook.

A Bridge on the Hinterland The internationally-renowned Bridge Project is coming to the Hinterland.

The Bridge Project's theme is to prove that music unifies and that different backgrounds of faith and nationality can merge together in beautiful musical compositions.

The Bridge Project is the musical child of Ittai Shaked, a Jew by birth living in Israel, Umit Ceyhan, A Moslem Turk by birth living in Toulouse, France and Andy Busuttil a Maltese Catholic by birth who has been an Australian citizen for nearly 50 years. Their music is a wonderful blend of styles which draws on influences from the Jewish, Balkan, Mediterranean, Middle and Near-Eastern musical traditions.

The Australian tour follows the release of their debut album - a CD that was recorded and produced by three musicians, at three different studios, in three different countries. The sublime CD "Three Waves Under the Bridge" is being presented in Australia for the first time.

This concert will feature internationally renowned artists Ittai Shaked, Andy Busutil, Nawres Al Freh, Tunji Beier, John Robinson, Bertie McMahon & Bilge Ozgun accompanied by dancer Tamara Taylor.

Instruments including Turkish, Arabic, Irish and Balkan lutes, a variety of wind instruments, vocals, exotic percussion, upright and conventional bowed instruments, South Indian percussion and upright bass all provide a voice for the music.

Maleny Community Centre. Tuesday March 19 at 7pm.

Tickets can be bought at the Maleny Information Centre or Reserved through Tunji on 0468 544 077.

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Orchestra supports Coast Guard

A Community Concert of light classical music to support Caloundra’s Australian Volunteer Coast Guard is being held in April. Money raised will help fund a much needed dedicated pontoon for the Coast Guard.

The Orchestra, conducted by Adrian King, will perform works of Dvorak, Coates, Wagner, Webber, Strauss and more. The concert will be staged at Caloundra Events Centre, Sunday April 21, at 2 pm.

Ticket prices are $33 at the door, $28 pre-booked/prepurchased, $25 each for groups of 10 or more.

Tickets can be purchased in person from the Caloundra Community Bank which is helping to sponsor the event in collaboration with the Orchestra.

Tickets also from the Events Centre at Caloundra, and the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Caloundra. Tickets may also be pre-booked by phoning 07 54455123. For more information please visit www.scso.org.au

New group comes out in print

Originating from the Gold Coast in Queensland, Mason Rack Band is not afraid to break all the musical genre rules.

The band’s new album Limits of Grip does just that, flaunting expectation by combining a classic mix of heavy rock, blues, jazz and roots .

Known for a swampy blues / rock sound the band influences include flashes of Tom Waits, and Muddy Waters with roots extending to Ben Harper. Throw in a slide guitar, raspy vocals, a rocking bluesy bass, massive drum percussion and the result is a spectacular kaleidoscope of musical genres.

Mason Rack Band are currently on tour throughout Australian and will be at the Beerwah Hotel on Sunday March 17. Phone 1300beerwah for more details.

Maleny Printmakers are a recently formed group of ten Hinterland artists, who all share a passion for printmaking and are addicted to The Reveal– the point at which the paper is peeled from the printing plate.

Controlled outcomes require skill, although printmaking can be highly experimental and yield wonderful surprises.

Maleny Printmakers will hold their first exhibition over the Easter Weekend and plan to make it an annual event on the arts calendar.

Come along to the exhibition and talk to the printmakers.

Visitors to the exhibition will learn how the prints have been individually made by hand.

All works on display are fine art original prints and are not to be confused with reproductions. The techniques used are linocut, reductive linocut, etching, monoprint, collagraph,digital, drypoint and aquatint.

To be held at Sonja Georgeson’s Studio, 37 Coral Street, Maleny. Contact: Sonja on 0407 238 026.

Easter Weekend – Fri 29, Sat 30, Sun 31 March and Mon April 1. Hours: 10am – 4pm daily.

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Harvest Moon Festival

Jazz star comes home ...

Crystal Waters Permaculture Village celebrates the bringing in of the harvest with a Harvest Moon Festival on Saturday 23 March from 4pm til late on the Village Green.

Free entry and hours of family entertainment will be provided by Sweet Chilli, Tapestry, bDifferent Dance, fire twirlers, marimbas and many more groups.

The afternoon will feature the world premiere performance of ‘Singing Moon’ by renowned composer Beth Allen.

The work, written especially for the Crystal Waters Community Choir and percussion-maker extraordinaire Steve Langton, celebrates the end of summer and provides an opportunity to reflect on the bringing in our own ‘harvest’ from ‘work’, such as having a job, going to school and/or family life.

Children’s activities will include face painting, harvest hunt, circle dancing, story-telling and much more. Food and drink is on sale.

Harvest Moon Festivals are celebrated in many cultures around the world. They observe the end of summer and the bringing in of the harvest. A ‘harvest moon’ is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox.

Saturday 23 March, 4.00pm – late, Crystal Waters Permaculture Village, 65 Kilcoy Lane, Conondale.

For more information contact Kim on 0431 560 929.

One of Australia’s finest jazz instrumentalists, Adrian Cunningham, will perform on the Coast in March. Based in New York since 2008, he busked in Central Park and the subways before making his serious break into the New York jazz scene.

Now he is seen and heard in all the right Manhattan clubs, bars and hotels.

Adrian will be at the Currimundi Hotel Friday March 15 from 7.30-10.30pm and he will be supported by three of Australia’s finest musicians.

Tickets - credit card bookings, phone Alan 5478 3137.

Enquiries Ted 5491 6017.

UpFront Club 31 Maple St Maleny. Bookings: 5494 2592 upfrontclub.org.au

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Free Like Me is a band led by singer-songwriters, multiinstrumentalists, producers, Lucy Gallant & Daniel Urbina.

Lucy, also a professional fire-dancer, is from Byron Bay, Australia. Daniel is from Mérida, Venezuela. Due to their extensive travels and exposure to different cultures, their music is a blend of different world genres intermingled with powerful conscious lyrics.

Throughout their world travels, Free Like Me has been able to establish an International following by using their music to represent the essence of the people, and beauty of the places they’ve encountered along their way. Through their music and lyrics they also show a strong sensitivity to the socio-political circumstances of the world we live in.

Lucy Gallant uses their voices, including a mix of ukalele, the violin and of course the kazoo!, the Venezuelan cuatro, the Turkish doumbek drum, the Peruvian cajon, Melodica, as well as acoustic/electric guitars, and acoustic bass Upfront Club Friday March 29. 7pm-10pm.

The Spirit & The Maiden Eudlo will host a special world-class concert dipped in elegance, sophistication and quirky vintage, country charm on Saturday 23 March at 7pm.

The fiery and edgy Muses Piano Trio, invited to the Sunshine Coast by Louise King, an internationally trained and Eudlo-based classical musician, are excited to bring their newest concert The Spirit & The Maiden to Eudlo’s intimate and acoustically vibrant hinterland hall.

Tickets: $30 adult music lover, $25 concession. $15 student. Family tickets available. Contact: Louise King 0415128799 or info@cellodreaming.com.au http://www.trybooking.com/CLGC

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There’s Afterglow at Palmwoods Afterglow are a four piece Indie Rock band from the Sunshine Coast. This refreshing, energetic up and coming group formed in early August 2011 during their music studies.

Since then they have performed at numerous venues across the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and have had some great supporting spots such as the Phil Emmanuel Band at the Moonlight markets. At the end of 2012 they played at the CMF again before The Living End. Afterglow recorded their debut 5 track EP which was recently launched at the Solbar.

Afterglow are at Palmwoods Hotel on Sunday March 31.

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Wedding Connections Your guide to local wedding services on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

Photography Penny Riddoch Photography AIPP For unmatched quality, choose well known local professional wedding and portrait photographer.

Services include wedding album design, DVD slide shows, personal online viewing gallery.

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Celebrants & Ceremonies Find out about Chrissie Ray A marriage celebrant who lives in Mapleton and is available for you anywhere you choose. www.chrissieray.com.au Ask me about my low fees.

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HE ANNUAL Maleny Wood Expo From Chainsaw to Fine Furniture returns to Maleny Showgrounds on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th May. The beautiful rural setting and friendly volunteers ensure a safe and family-friendly day out in the Hinterland hills.

With thousands of visitors set to converge on the Hinterland for the event, the region’s woodworkers are slabbing, cutting, joining, polishing and burnishing timber for the myriad of pieces that will go on show.

From fine furniture to bbq settings, they produce an extraordinary range of furniture, sculptural pieces, artworks, and everything else that can be fashioned from timber.

Firmly set in the woodworking calendar the Maleny Wood Expo provides a real alternative to the big city wood shows for craftspeople and lovers of all things wood in SEQ. The first Maleny Wood Expo in 1996 was born from Barung Landcare’s recognition of the need to raise awareness about sustainable use of native rainforest timbers. If our beautiful native timbers are to be available in the future, we must protect our resources now.

This strong focus on ecological sustainability is the main point of difference between the Maleny Wood Expo and other wood shows with all wood artisans required to work in sustainably harvested native, weed or recycled timbers.

The 2013 feature exhibition, the Wootha Prize themed “On Four Legs”, adheres to this ethic. With entrants vying for over $4,000 in prize money it is the richest woodworking competition in Queensland.

Also on offer will be the popular WoodShed Workshops including: hand-carving with award-winning sculptor Donald Powell; the art of stool construction with Windsor chair-maker Curt Svenson; and the age-old techniques involved in mortise and tenon joints, using

Wedding Venues Flaxton Gardens Tranquil elegance with panoramic views across the Coast. Ideal for superb bridal photographs to treasure.

Excellent food, discreet & caring service. Husband and wife team, Alan and Georgina Thompson welcome your ideas to help them create this special day with you.

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Pomodoras on Obi A complete package of “real” food, boutique beverages, unspoilt water and treetop views, award winning local bridal services & luxury onsite cabin accommodation.

“Escape to the mountains and discover the magic.”

One stop wedding destination in the heart of Maleny.

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Above: Richard Knight’s woodshed workshop is suitable for all ages. (Photo: Juanita Anderson)

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But it’s not only the woodworkers who are gearing up for the Expo. There are mobile millers, chainsaw carvers, toolmakers and more.

Local producers will have gourmet goodies for sale in the Taste Maleny Produce Store, while other businesses will promote sustainable choices for home and garden.

The Barung Nursery will encourage visitors with even the smallest of backyards to create habitat for our native fauna with local native plants, and environmental displays will showcase environmental achievements across the region.

And last but definitely not least, the foodies and entertainers are gearing up to keep the visitors fed and happy, making sure that everyone from children to grandparents has a day to remember at the 2013 Maleny Wood Expo.

The Maleny Wood Expo is supported by Tourism and Events Queensland’s Regional Development Program as part of a growing calendar of events throughout the state.

For more information on the Wood Expo over the coming weeks visit www.malenywoodexpo.org.au Right: Curt Svenson will be running a Windsor stool making workshop in the WoodShed Workshop (Photo: Steve Swayne)

Opposite page, top: Maleny’s Donald Powell will be hosting a hand-carving workshop at the Wood Expo (Photo: Penny Smith)

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Ayurvedic Health Advice to Suit You

In Fitness ...and in Health

Female, Fat and Forty...

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re female and in that late 30s, early 40s age group, this information should appeal to you and hopefully motivate you to do what is necessary to re-establish a lean body mass (LBM) that will improve your health and vitality immensely and in fact as recent research shows, allow you to live longer.

Women in this age group whose bodies are storing fat and gaining weight, always show signs of Carbohydrate Intolerance. What you are trying to do, and it will never work, is run your body on too much sugar, and I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean refined sugar. As a result, the body gets tired, bloated, and the clothes keep getting tighter and tighter. Hormones come into play as well here as many women, by the time they reach 40, are already oestrogen dominant. This situation suppresses your thyroid and the body starts to get not only sluggish but toxic. And the fat keeps getting stored and the weight piles on.

There are some excellent natural holistic ways to fix this problem forever. The best approach I find involves a gentle detox of the liver and gut along with reprogramming your hormones to actually burn fat instead of storing it. This is accomplished by a detailed analysis of your nutritional lifestyle and diet to enable you to actually control your own fat burning and hence weight loss.

The goal - to create a healthier you with a leaner body mass ratio. This means the fat goes because you are burning it as your primary energy source. Without exception, people who learn how to do this experience higher energy, less fatigue, improved digestion, less depression and clearer thinking.

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HE tendency in education is to focus on the curriculum or the material that needs to be learnt. The recent Wendy Rosenfeldt introduction of NAPLAN testing into schools has seen this becoming more prevalent, to the point that learning what will be tested on the test is becoming more of the focus than actually learning about the subject. Children and teachers are becoming more stressed by the whole process.

We accept that the purpose of education is to learn skills to get a job as well as the practical skills needed to live in society such as reading, writing and mathematics. This is good and necessary about what about the development of the individual?

In most schools there are not programs to develop the personality. Merit is not awarded based on how balanced an individual is or how well they cope with life yet these are also vital to success and happiness.

A recent article about the damaging effects of stress on the brain, caused by intensive studying, implied that for medical students losing a few brain cells is part of what was expected in the pursuit of a medical degree. Medical students are not expected to finish their degree in better health, mentally or physically. Yet they spend 6 years or more studying health.

In Vedic civilisation this would seem absurd. If you have not gained greater wellbeing in the course of studying about health, what did you really achieve? The role of a Vedic doctor

was to bring health to their patients. Vedic physicians were only paid if the society was in good health otherwise they were seen to be failing in their job.

The Vedic way of gaining knowledge develops the three aspects of learning. Consciousness-Based Education applies this to the field of education, focusing on who is learning and the process of learning as well as the knowledge to be learnt.

Most western based education puts most attention on what is to be learnt. With increasing technology the process of learning is expanding to cater to differing ways that people learn best. However development in the area of improving the learning ability of the student is largely ignored.

Consciousness-Based Education addresses this by developing the total brain. The theoretical aspect of Consciousness-Based Education is that each individual subject is taught with reference to the whole body of knowledge.

While the practical component of transcending gives the students the technique to expand their conscious mind while at the same time dissolving stress.

Students who have experienced CBE achieve in the top percentages but more importantly they finish their schooling as happy, balanced, motivated, healthy individuals ready to embark on the next stage in their lives.

Dr Bevan Morris, president of Maharishi University of Management, will speak about Consciousness-Based Education on the 29th March 3pm Maleny Community Centre. Call 5499 9580. Wendy Rosenfeldt is a Transcendental Meditation teacher.

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ERSISTENCE is a wonderful thing. It will help you create P breakthroughs and success where others might not achieve the same results. How many resolutions have you made? How many self help books have you read? How many diets have you followed?

For how long?

In our search for that magic something that will transform our health, our finances, our relationships etc, we try so many things. We try but often we don't persevere. Persistent focus and application of inspired or learned ideas or techniques often produce the rewards we seek. More often than not though we are like the person on the ground, gazing up at the rooftop that we want to climb up to who places a ladder against the house and begins to climb up, then thinks that another ladder might be better, takes a few steps up that one and remembers that someone else had success with a different ladder, so it goes on and on. A few steps this way, then a few that way and all the time we are busy and getting nowhere fast.

The person who climbs one ladder gets there easily and from that vantage point can decide what they want to do next.

Success in any area is often the result of intelligent application of effort and focus. Look at the simple things that will work for you, perfect them, then add something else, perfect that and add it to your routine. Scattered focus and scattered energy produces scattered results and exhausts our spirits.

What will your one ladder be that helps you move towards the health that you seek, towards improving your relationships, your finances, your inner connection to all that you are Divinely destined to be? Let wisdom guide you and invest your energy wisely.

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Physiotherapy can help Shoulder disorders are commonly seen by the physiotherapists at Maleny Physiotherapy.

The shoulder complex is a complicated area where there is minimal bony support, enabling a large range of movement to occur through the upper limb. This leads to problems, as the shoulder complex is controlled by soft tissue.

New patients welcome

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The rotator cuff is an important group of muscles for the stability of the shoulder complex. The rotator cuff muscles need to work in good synchronisation, with supportive ligaments for effective shoulder function.

A good assessment of the shoulder and surrounding areas is essential for good treatment and clinical outcomes.

There are three main subdivisions into which shoulder disorders nearly always fall including impingement/rotator cuff injuries, instability (dislocations) and capsular problems (frozen shoulder).

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Zen Shiatsu is a Japanese acupuncture meridian therapy that facilitates the movement of energy (Qi) in the body using acu-point pressure with meridian massage to assist the normal healthy function of our body’s systems.

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Everyday problems such as relationship breakdown or personal trauma can dramatically affect our health, wellbeing and positive relationships.

As an experienced Psychologist I: • Actively listen to gain an understanding of your needs • Prepare you with necessary coping skills to manage stress, anger, emotional problems • Assist in improving your self-esteem & interpersonal skills For a confidential appointment, call Rob on 0488 129 302

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Sallyann Stewart Naturopath/ Herbalist / Remedial Massage Therapist • Sallyann specialises in children's health, stress management & preventative/ maintaining wellness healthcare • Utilising naturopathic assessment and live blood analysis • Nutrition and dietary support • Herbal medicine and homeopathic treatments • Remedial, deep tissue & lymphatic drainage massage Appointments: contact Sallyann Stewart on 5435 2599 or 0421 410 558

THE DISPENSARY Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5pm We provide a comprehensive array of natural medicines to achieve our therapeutic treatment goals. They include nutritional supplements, homeopathics, herbal medicines, flower essences, organic skincare, and other health related items.

Increasing scientific evidence demonstrates the safety and efficacy of prescription only natural medicines in wellness treatment and prevention of chronic disease.

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BOWEN THERAPISTS

Anthony Brown Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine.

26 Coral Street, Maleny. Ph: 5435 2555

Mapleton Natural Therapies Clinic Jackie Hansel: Bach H.S (Acu), Adv. Dip H.S (Hom), Dip Bowen Therapy Acupuncture.

Holistic & Intergrated health care with Acupuncture, Bowen Therapy, Homeopathy, Lymphatic Drainage, Remedial & Relaxation Massage. Ph: 5445 7749 Dolina Somerville: BHSc (Acupuncture) China Trained: Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine. Qualified & Experienced in Chinese Remedial Massage & Cosmetic Acupuncture.

38a Coral St Maleny (HBC). H F Rebates.

Mob: 0408 693 029 www.ntpages.com.au/dolinasomervilleacupuncture Damien Moses BHSc Acu 3 years training in Kyoto, Japan Concessions & rebates available Topology Acupuncture Clinic 21 Maple Street, Maleny Ph: 0422 546 077 http://damienmoses.wix.com/t-a-c

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BOWEN THERAPY Bronwyn Huckle Specialising in Bowtech, the original Bowen Therapy technique. Treating health issues in babies, childen & adults. Montville therapy rooms. Monday to Friday by appointment.

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Ruth Donnelly - Holistic Counsellor Heart-centred approach to healing trauma, building emotional wellbeing.

Integrating body psychotherapy, mindfulness, artistic therapies, Reiki, Acutonics, Bush Flower Essences, Dru yoga 0409 564 276, ruth@ruthdonnelly.com.au, www.heartmindconnections.org

Mapleton Natural Therapies Clinic Jackie Hansel. Bach H.S. (Acu), Adv. Dip. H.S (Hom), Dip. Bowen. Holistic and integrated health care with Bowen Therapy, Classical Homeopathy, Acupuncture and Massage Therapy. Ph: 5445 7749

Counselling - Margaret Davoren B.Nurs.,Mas. Counselling. Think change, think balance & live a rich, full, life. Learn strategies to manage stress, depression, anxiety & relationships. Maleny Physiotherapy, 1/70 Maple St Maleny Ph: 0403 571 572 www.icpaustralia.com

Kathy Blackburn Diploma Bowen Therapy (Bowtech).

Gentle effective treatment of Back Pain; Migraine; RSI ; Tennis Elbow; Knee, Ankle & Foot Conditions; Menstrual/Hormonal irregularities; Chronic Fatigue; Respiratory Conditions and MORE. Health fund rebates.

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Chirone Shakti – Relationships & Sexuality Professional counsellor specialising in relationships, sexuality, grief and loss.

Discover deeper and more satisfying levels of relating and intimacy. Thurs at Awakening Centre, Nth Maleny Ph: 0421 814459 E: info@chironeshakti.com.au www.chironeshakti.com.au

CHIROPRACTORS Maleny Chiropractic Clinic The Allied Health Centre, The Boxsell's Building, 15 Maple St, Maleny.

Wed 2pm- 6pm Frid. 2pm-6pm Fiona Perl BSc MSc DC Appointments Ph: 0447 250 191

Cigarettes, Quit Counselling, Hypnotherapy and Soft Laser therapy are utilised in assisting even the most committed smoker. Butt Out For Good in Maleny. Gift vouchers available for Christmas and New Year’s resolutions W3 www.ciggybusters .com, Ph. 0410 000 880

AROMATHERAPY CLINIC AROMA by Nida IAAMA accredited presents Clinical Holistic Aromatherapy to therapeutically support your health conditions & simply providing quality of life.

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ASTROLOGY Stargazer Astrology - Chirone Shakti Relationships, career, family issues, spiritual purpose, life crisis, transitions, your year ahead. Counselling astrologer. Astrology courses and workshops Thurs at Awakening Centre, Nth Maleny. Ph: 0421 814459 E: astro@chironeshakti.com.au

BEAUTY THERAPISTS & HAIRDRESSERS A little Beauty, Body and Wellness Elements at Montville Customised beauty treatments.

Pamper packages. Special occasion & bridal make-up. Massage. Manicures.

Pedicures. Devine body treatments.

Natural therapies. Ph: 54786212 www.elementsmontville.com.au Michelle Jarden - Beauty Therapist.

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Maple Chiropractic Maleny Dr Stephen Lowe & Dr Samuel Lowe 57 years comb exp. Effective low-force techniques for all ages. Helping to restore, balance & maintain spine & nervous system function. Relaxed & friendly atmosphere.

HICAPS available. 45 Maple. Ph: 5494 3322 Dr. Ralph Stockmann- Dr of Chiropractic USA, Palmer Graduate Medicare & DVA Provider Special interest in difficult & chronic conditions of lower back,neck,knee, shoulder, ankle, elbow, wrist & headaches 13 Thynne Ct. Maleny Ph: 0410 793 513 Hinterland Chiropractic Dr Josephine Sexton. Using gentle, safe and effective techniques to maintain spinal health and wellbeing. Concession rates, Family discounts and HICAPS available.

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ENERGY HEALING / SOUND THERAPY Josie Coco – Certified BodyTalk Practitioner BodyTalk is mind-body medicine - effective for people who have lost their quality of life: any condition that inhibits natural abilities.

19 Coral St, Maleny. Appts: 0498065306 Sound Spa Release, retune, refresh. Therapeutic music with Kim Kirkman (BMus, Grad Dip Mus, MLM), harp and voice.

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COSMETIC TATTOOING Qualified Cosmetic Tattoo Practitioner – Rebecca Rea Dip. Beauty Therapy Professional Make-up Artist. Procedures include: Eyebrows, top & bottom eyeliner, lips & beauty spots. Mon – Fri 9am – 3pm Shop 9/43 Maple St, Maleny. Ph: 5494 3355

Kris Hines - Counselling Therapy & Voice Dialogue Dip.Couns.,M.A. Ed. Practical & compassionate approach for individuals & couples. Anxiety, internal & relationship conflict, separation and loss, self esteem, Jungian dreamwork. M.A.C.A. Ph: 5442 3676/0408 226 353 www.krishines.com

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Margarete Koenning Counselling BA Social Work, Gelstalt Therapist, Psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and, families. Training professionals in family constellation 20 yrs practicing in Maleny, Clinal member of Pacfa. Ph: 5494 2778, 0408 416 041

John Pirie Chiropractor & Applied Kinesiologist Gentle hands-on chiropractic using applied kinesiology. Individual programs available.

19 Coral Street Maleny. Ph: 5435 2155 www.siaholistichealth.com.au

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FENG SHUI FENG SHUI & Astrology. Richard Giles, qualified Feng Shui practitioner.

Feng Shui Home/business assessments.

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HOMEOPATHY Pauline Ashford - B. H. Sc, Complementary Med & Homeopathy Classical homeopathy; Lymphatic drainage; Dorn spinal, joint and headache therapy; EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques; Reiki 130 Ansell Rd Witta Ph: 5494 4101e: paulineashford@dodo.com.au

Hinterland Health and Beauty HYPNOTHERAPY Judith Richards Hypnotherapist Sensitive, effective hypnotherapy: lose weight, move past trauma, anxiety & depression, cure phobias, stop smoking, become self confident, sports and study enhancement, public speaking and much more. Maleny. Ph: 0488 782827

MASSAGE THERAPISTS & RAINDROP TECHNIQUE Hawaiian Healing Massage Rebecca Hopkins Remedial Massage *Hot Stone *Therapeutic *Pregnancy *Chiron Healing *Aromatherapy: Raindrop, Emotional Clearing & Vitaflex Tech Gift Certificates & H F Rebates. Maleny Holistic Health Centre. App Ph: 0415 518 415 bec@hawaiianhealingmassage.com.au The Stillpoint - Katie White Remedial, Relaxation, Reiki Massage & now Emmett Technique. Reiki Treatments & Workshops. Appts Mon- Sat. HF Rebates.

Gift Vouchers. Ph: 0400 722 786 www.thestillpoint.com.au Kathy Blackburn, Adv Dip Applied Science (Remedial Massage). Remedial/Sports Massage; Traditional Chinese Massage; Lymphatic Drainage; Emtech; Trigger Point & Myofacial Release.

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By Appt. HF available. MOB: 0434423305 www.clinicaroma.com.au Massage in Mapleton Intuitive, Tailored, Experienced Diploma I value the Nurturing AND Therapeutic. $70 / hr.

Pension discount $10. READINGS $50 /hr Intuitive, Psychic, Clairvoyant since young.

PH: Brenda Tahili 0438358189 Montville Massage Indian head massage - great for anxiety, early greying and hair loss * full body massage * hot stones* body scrubs*mud wraps... 12 yrs experience Ph: Andrea 0417523193..

REMEDIAL MASSAGE, SHIATSU Gary Broadhurst : Sanctuary Shiatsu Zen Shiatsu , Acupressure , Balancing Futon mat or seated chair at Holistic Health Centre , room 5/19 Coral St, Maleny Monday & Tuesday – Appts: 0438 972 880

NATUROPATHS Rochelle McKay-Masterton Naturopathy, Homotoxicology, Herbal Medicine, Kinesiology, Nutritional therapy Women’s hormonal health, Infertility & preconception care, fertility education.

Digestive disorders & weight management.

Referrals to holistic doctors. Ph: 5499 9476 rochelle@sheoaknaturalfertility.com.au Sallyann Stewart - Children's health, stress management. Naturopathic assessment & Live Blood Analysis. Utilising nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, remedial massage, lymphatic drainage. 19 Coral Street,Maleny.

Ph: 5435 2599 / 0421 410 558 Marisa...Naturally Marisa T Kliese offers a complete Natural Therapy Clinic. Services include, Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine, Professional Counselling, Life Coaching, Spiritual Healing.

Ph: 5494 2627

PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHOTHERAPY Rob McMurray Experienced psychologist. Active listening, learn coping skills for stress management.

Improve self esteem. Assist with relationship breakdown and personal trauma. For a confidential appointment ph 0488 129 302

Laurel Hefferon - Naturopath & Colon Hydrotherapist. Sick & tired of feeling sick & tired? Wellness starts with optimal digestion & elimination of toxins & wastes. Winter Special: 3 Colonic Treatments for $240.

Ph: 5494 2101 www.awakeningcentre.com.au Email: laurel@awakeningcentre.com.au

OPTOMETRIST

PSYCHIC READINGS / TAROT

Rachel Leigh Optometrist comprehensive eye care, quality spectacles, contact lenses and retinal photography. Bulk Billing, HF rebates.

Locally and Independently owned.

Riverside Centre Maleny Ph: 5494 2666

Kerry Laizans Psychic/Tarot Readings, Massage chair- head, shoulders, back and feet, Sound Healing.

Mobile service for groups of 10 or more. In Maleny by appointment, phone readings available, call Kerry 0411 488 291, Come fly with me at- http://throughthevortex.org

ORTHODONTIST Dr Jamie Galbraith, specialist Orthodontist at Symmetry Orthodontics, will now be visiting Coral Dental each month and

providing a range of the most sophisticated treatment options.

Enquire on 07 5352 3500.

READINGS Life Purpose Readings Discover your higher calling and uncover your karmic lessons to enable you to live a happier and more fulfilling life.

Contact Jule 0425 242 698

PHYSIOTHERAPY/OSTEOPATHY Maleny Physiotherapist Tim & Mary Bagshaw. For all of your Physiotherapy requirements.

1/70 Maple Street, Maleny. Ph: 5494 3911 www.malenyphysiotherapy.com.au Thomas Whitton D.O., Grad.Dip.Ost.Paed Gentle manipulative therapy for body dysfunction and pain in all age groups. Registered Osteopaths Services covered by private health funds; Veterans Affairs; Workcover, Medicare EPC 74 Blackall Terrace, Nambour.

Ph: 5441 4166 www.ntpages.com.au/therapist/18935 Range of Motion Physiotherapy MAPLETON - MONTVILLE - MALENY - IMBIL Russell McDonald & Rae Duffield-Jones.

Providing the highest quality care to restore & maintain optimal physical function & mobility.

Ph: 5478 6600 www.rangeofmotion.com.au Physiotherapy-Rehabilitation-Excercise Tundi Udvary Palmwoods Physiotherapy Friendly caring, hands on practice committed to making a positive change to your total health and wellbeing.

5/12 Hill Street Palmwoods ph; 54788500

Maleny Active Physio – caring professionals offering physiotherapy, exercise physiology, massage and Medicare-funded Type 2 Diabetes Education Programs. Covered by health funds & referrals from DVA & Medicare (bulk-billed). 5/15 Maple Street, Maleny Ph: 5494 0060

PERSONAL TRAINER, FITNESS, DANCE

SCENAR THERAPY Pain Relief Specialist Scenar is a non-invasive therapy using electrical impulses to stimulate your nervous system, reducing pain, inflammation and restoring normal function. Ph: Sonia 0488 922 441 or Kerri 0431 938 393 www.malenypainrelief.com

YOGA AND MEDITATION Radiant Light Yoga with Melissa Fri 9.30 -11.15 Maleny RSL -All levels welcome Friday Mindfulness Meditation Class 12.15 - 1.15 @ Curramore pl/call or email Melissa for further details p. 0417 200 192 e. millieb2@bigpond.com

Traditional Yoga with Lottie Mon 10.30am,Tues 5.30pm and Thurs 9.30 am. No bookings required. Classes suit all levels of experience. Maleny Showgrounds Pavilion “Not too gentle ... not too strong” Phone: Lottie 5313 7756 Yoga on the Range Traditional Yoga Classes to suit all levels. Build strength & flexibility; find inner peace and calm.

Day and evening times in Mapleton and Kureelpa with Lynley who has been teaching on the range for 15 years. Ph: 5445 7641.

The Way of Meditation Weekly guided meditations (by donation). Mapleton Thurs 6.30pm & Currimundi Mon 6.30 pm Ph: Chad 0404 136 077 www.thewayofmeditation.com.au

Jon Presswell Personal Trainer Weight Loss, Tailored Fitness Programs, Strength & Muscle Growth.

Older Adults - Balance, Strength & Mobility. Registered trainer with broad experience. Mob: 0439 673 768 Email: jonandtess@ozemail.com.au

Radiant Light Yoga with Rukmini Wed 6.30-8pm Peachester Hall Thurs 9.30-11am Landsborough Hall Private Classes and Yoga Therapy PH. 0437 914 029 www.shantipathyogaspace.com.au

Rhee TaeKwon-Do - Fitness and Self Defence for Adults and Children. 5pm every Tuesday & Thursday at Maleny Community Centre. Free Trial Available.

Call Nathan on 0419 496 160 or visit www.rhee.com.au.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Rose Being Yoga Trained Montville – 4 Hillfoot Lane Tues: 6-7:30pm. Wed: 9:30-11am, 6-7:30pm Thurs: 9:30-11am. For other times refer: www.rosehawkinsyoga.com.au or Ph: 5478 5426 / 0417 937 653 HINTERLAND TIMES - MARCH 2013

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Trades

Professional Services ACCOUNTANTS /BOOKKEEPING

GOVERNMENT SERVICES

Front Line Tax Frederick A Forbes. Specialising in individual & small business tax returns.

15 Maple St, Maleny. Ph: 5494 2622 Local and Reliable Bookkeeping Registered BAS Agent. Full bookkeeping services: Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly.

BAS/IAS, Payroll & Super. MYOB/Excel (PC & MAC). On/Off-site services. Covering the entire S.C. Nicky Dierens Ph: 54296931 Em: nicky@dierens.com.au

ARCHITECT Brad Drew - Architect New and existing residential design projects. 30 years experience.

Ph: 5478 6843

QGAP Maleny - Maleny Police Station, 49 Maple St Maleny Manager -Judy Phipps Mon, Tue, Fri:9am–2pm Ph 5429 6293 New Vehicle Registrations & Housing close 1pm. Dept of Transport & Main Roads, Business Registrations, CTP Insurance, Seniors/Carers Cards, Birth, Death & Marriage Certificates & more. EFTPOS & credit cards.

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

COMPUTER / WEB SERVICES

AIR CONDITIONING Kelly Air Pty Ltd Supply, installation & maintenance of domestic & commercial airconditioning. Call Greg (BSA 1113295) Ph: 5478 5255 or 0400 123 231 Email: info@kellyair.com.au

Range Airconditioning Lic. No L016305 Supply and installation of high quality, energy efficient, ducted and wall mounted reverse cycle, split air conditioning systems for cooling, heating and de-humidification.

Ph Yelma on 5494 3459 or 0421 488 048 Em: rangeaircon@gmail.com

ANTENNAS Jim's Antennas Digital & problem reception specialists.

Locally owned, servicing the hinterland.

Call Craig Titheradge today for a free quote.

Ph: 131 546 www.jimsantennas.com.au

Penny Riddoch Photography & Design AIPP Concept IT Systems - reliability & service New computers & repairs. Internet setup & websites. Printers, scanners ,Ink refills, cameras.

Authorised Apple reseller. Onsite service.

Drop in to discuss you computer needs.

Shop 6 Riverside Centre Maleny 5429 6750 or sales@conceptsystems.com.au

Ecocyber - Computer Services Repairs, troubleshoot computer problems, tuition, web design & hosting services.

On site or at Maleny workshop.

Contact Hans. Ph: 5499 9599 Email: hans@ecocyber.com.au

Weddings, portraits - families, children, business, pets. Commercial - product photography, properties, advertising. Graphic Design - web site images, DVDs, digital albums, brochures, posters, business cards.

Ph: 5494 2808 - www.pennyriddoch.com.au

MCU Sustainable Banking 28 Maple St, Maleny www.mcusb.com.au See Loans Manager Scott Howie for savings a/c, online cash management, E Saver, term deposits, Visa card, Green Loans: appliance /solar/car/ home, standard personal, home & business loans P: 5499 8988 Email: info@mcusb.com.au

Locally owned and operated photography business specialising in portraiture, corporate and event photography covering the entire Sunshine Coast. Currently offering massive 50% discounts. Ph: Farley 0410 229 600 or visit www.shutterstorm.com.au

WATCHES & CLOCKS

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coast low deepened off Fraser Island.

This brought strong winds and big surf to our beaches. Erosion of beaches was widespread. Rain associated with the east coast low fell on the Ranges, but not as much as expected.

At the end of the month the inland intense upper level system rapidly approached the Queensland eastern seaboard.

Severe weather conditions and extensive flooding warnings were issued for our region on Sunday evening by the Bureau of Meteorology.

In four days Maleny recorded 353mm, bringing the month’s total to 694mm.

CABINETMAKER Paul Randall Cabinetmaker of Maleny New & renovated kitchens & vanities benchtops a speciality - stone, timber & laminated finishes. Home Offices, Wall Units, Wardrobes. Ph: 0432 953 186

CARPET & UPHOLSTERY Range Carpet Care Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning & Protection Ph: 5445 7611 or 0418 776 578

CHAINSAW & TREE WORK

Ron Hoddinott - Watch and clockmaker 50 years experience. Specialist on-site repairs & restorations. Battery replacement and pressure testing. By appointment.

Phone: 0413 278 403

Sunshine Coast Hinterland CROSS THE HINTERLAND February is normally the wettest month of the year, with an average rainfall of 335mm.

This is the month when the monsoonal trough line drifts south into Australia. The month of February 2013 started with a week of sunshine and showers.

By the middle of the month the weather deteriorated when a small east coast low developed offshore near Bundaberg bringing extensive rain and flooding.

Inland, an upper level system with a belt of rain over western Queensland started to move slowly east toward the Ranges.

Over the next few days the east

Lic. No 68598

Ph: 0419 684 324 or 5429 6565

Lic QBSA 1162819. Member Master Builders.

Holden’s Gallery Custom framing by professionals. Items including art, needlecraft, memorabilia, etc.

Monday – Saturday10am to 4pm-but, due to staff holidays 4/3/13 – 5/4/13 10am to 3pm Tue, Thur, Fri & Sat . Coral & Myrtle St. Maleny Ph: 5494 2100 www.holdensgallery.com.au

Jacques Fayolle – Local ANZ Mobile Lender My motto is “Customer for Life”. I will visit you, wherever, to secure the home loan best suited to you, and develop an on-going banker/customer relationship to care for your future needs.

Ph:0408 734 152 or 5437 7311 Email fayollej@anzmortgagesolutions.com

Luke Wilkinson Appliance Service Washing machines, dryers, fridges, etc.

Shutterstorm Photography

PICTURE FRAMING

FINANCE

APPLIANCE SERVICE

All Trees to Chip Tree felling, pruning, lopping, mulching, stump grinding, landscaping & retaining walls, fences etc. Two chippers - 6 inch & 12 inch. Qualified and insured.

Phone Rob Milner: 5445 7805

February Climate Summary 2009-2013

The weather report for the Hinterland Times is compiled by Patrick Stacey, Maleny Weather Station.

Log on to www.malenyweather.com for daily data and weather news.

Hinterland House and Garden 305 Landscapes Garden design, construction and cleanups. All landscape aspects. Dingo Hire. View works on gallery page at www.gardenartistry305.com.

Operating out of Montville for over 10 years and servicing all areas. Ph: Jamie 0408 722 025.

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL CLEANING External Cleaning - tile & Colorbond roofs, house washing ,mould removal & all surfaces. Obligation FREE quotes – fully insured. For a high quality professional service. Call Jay 0404 707 693 www.waterwisepressurecleaning.com.au

Amber Leaf Landscaping Looking for a landscaper who can deliver?

Tohm Hajncl heads the team that offers you guaranteed quality. Choose from landscaping consultations, designs, construction and planting, pre-sale makeovers and specialised maintenance services. Ph: 5445 9801 www.amberleaf.com.au

ELECTRICAL & SOLAR Green Energy Electrical

Lic No. 71210

Reliable prompt domestic electrician.

Extensions, renovations, maintenance, new homes, safety switches, switchboard upgrades, test & tag, smoke alarms. Solar Grid Connect.

Ph: Steven Pilcher for an obligation free quote 0421 162 007 E: stevenpilcher@bigpond.com

Plan-it Fencing servicing locals in the supply of Automatic Gates. Glass & aluminium pool fencing, balustrade & aluminium privacy screens. Prompt reliable service. Ph: Paul for a free quote 0412 698 595 or www.planitfencing.com.au

Direct from the grower to you The perfect environmentally-friendly garden mulch and soil conditioner. Full ute tipper load. $80 delivered. $50 half ute load.

Phone Gerard: 0407 588 824 E: gerard.rutten@bigpond.com

Wyhoon Garden Services

Graeme Lyon Lawn Mowing Ride-on, push mower, whipper snipping, guerney, hedge trimming, rubbish removal, chain saw & pruning. Servicing all of the Range incl. Conondale.

Ph: Graeme 5494 2720 or 0404 471 859

PAINTING City to Surf Painting & Decorating Re-paints & new work, industrial coatings, decorative finishes, Anti mould coatings.

Quality & value for money guaranteed.

Servicing the Range & beyond. Ph: Richard Daveson 0418 708 620 BSA 1117847

PEST CONTROL

Montville Handy Man 20 years building experience.

All concreting, carpentry, home maintenance and repairs. Prompt and reliable service. Garden Clean -up.

Competitive rates. Ph: Wayne 0434 724 030 Hatch's Home Maintenance Qualified Cabinet Maker, 35 years experience. Update* Renew *Repair*Plastering*Cabinets*Tiling* Call John today Ph 0404 056 147 hatchshomemaintenance@hotmail.com QBA Lic. No 1242008

LANDSCAPING & DESIGN Loors Landscaping (est: 1987) From concept to creation all aspects of structural and soft landscaping.

Ph: 5445 7615 Mob: 0412 680 801

Anderson Plumbing & Roofing Plumbing, drainage & roofing. New work, renos, maintenance specialists. Septic systems, blocked drains, high pressure ‘sewer jett’ drain cleaner, drain camera, cable locations, tank installations, roof & guttering.

Ph: 5494 3340 or 0409 541 475 QBSA1066328 DVP Plumbing Services BSA 1172423 Plumbing. drainage, roofing and gasfitting.

Camera and drain cleaning equipment, maintenance, new work and renovations.

24/7 Service, No call out fees, 10% pensioner discounts. Phone Damian 0410 855 778 or 0434 582 570 BRUCE MORRIS PLUMBING QBSA lic 456322 24hr emergency service, all plumbing, building,maintenance installation domestic and commercial. Gas installations, septic/ drainage ,hot water, solar, bathroom renovations, leaking roofs. Ph 0410 457 606

TANK CLEANING Pristine Water Systems Full water tanks cleaned, water testing and correction, filtration - Free appraisals Ph: Trevor 0404 302 723

Independent Power & Water PLAN AHEAD Power your own lights & water supply.

For BLACKOUTS & EVERDAY USE. Reliable 12 Volt Pump & L.E.D lights.

Maleny Paint Place 6/ 14 Lawyer Street, Maleny. For Wattyl and Taubmans Paints and all paint accessories. Taubmans Trade Paint Centre "We can quote & do it for you" www.hinterlandgrapevine.com Ph: 5494 2002

HANDYMAN & HOME MAINTENANCE A Very Handy Man Fix anything in & around the home: Paint * Plaster * Tiles * Carpentry * Odd Jobs * Flatpack * Move Furniture * Pressure Wash * Gutters/Windows * Chainsaw * Garden makeovers & Clean up. John 0439 942 077

Guttering, Water Tanks, Filters and Pump Installation. Septic Trenches, Holding Tanks, Blocked Drains. Heat Pumps & Gas Installation. Landlord water reports. Water Hammer solutions Ph: 042 11 66 882 BSA 1078655

MUSHROOM COMPOST

GARDEN MAINTENANCE & MOWING Edge to edge mowing. Servicing all your garden needs incl. ride-on,push mowing, whipper snipping, garden clean ups, hedging, fencing, rubbish removal & general property maintenance. Ph. Casey: 0459 444 310

Sky Plumbing & Gas Fitting

Farm Design and Landscapes Beautiful Farms design and construct acreages and farms to ensure an attractively landscaped, well thought out and manageable property. Mark: 0438 644 476, e: mark@beautifulfarms.com.au or check out: www.beautifulfarms.com.au

FURNITURE MAKING

Top of the Range Pest Management Termite specialists House treatment for general pests.

Termite inspections and treatments.

Phone: 1300 663 808 or 0411 105 005

CONT’D

Gavins Plumbing Service All maintenance plumbing, draining, gasfitting, roof & guttering, domestic pump repairs & replacements.

Complete wet area renovations. BSA Licence 48654 Ph: 5445 7230 - Mobile: 0402 791 058 All Hinterland areas - 35 years experience

Step n Stone Landscapes All aspects of stonework and landscaping design and construction. Outdoor pizza ovens, fire-pits & fireplaces. Sculpture commissions. No job too big or too small.

Ph. John: 5478 6754 or Mob: 0411 426 099 www.stepnstonelandscapes.com.au

FENCING & AUTOMATIC GATES

Randy DeGraw - designer & maker of fine functional furniture & woodwork to suit your decor.

Ph: 5494 4222 for an appointment. www.viewwoodwork.com.au

PLUMBING & WASTEWATER

Quality Work by Local Installers.

Phone Graham Cranney: 0427 75 4587 Phone Keith Patullo: 0429 416 041

www.independentpower.com.au

PLANT NURSERIES Brush Turkey Enterprises Wholesale native nursery qlty tubestock. Rainforest, wetland, grasses, sclerophyll, coastal & understorey species. Min. order 100 plants. Open to public by appt. Ph: 5494 3642 or email: nursery@brushturkey.com.au

PLASTERER Castle Plaster No job too small. Fibrous plaster & plasterboard, framing, fixing, setting, cornice, suspension, patching. Licensed & insured. Established 1980.

Call John Ph: 0417 275 241 or 5442 1723

PLUMBING & WASTEWATER AWS Advanced Wastewater Solutions All plumbing & drainage work. Supply & installation of advanced wastewater treatment systems. Septic conversions. 1 ton excavator for hire. Ph: 0412 858 020 www.advancedwastewatersolutions.com.au

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There’s a Jim’s Technician on the Range.

CALL FOR A FREE QUOTE TODAY

131 546

www.jimsantennas.com.au $$$ WANTED $$$

Old Enamel, Metal Petrol/Automotive Signs, Cans, Oil Bottles, Memrobillia, Bowsers.

Best Price Given. Jonathan: 0407 761 685.

FREE - 4 x 5 litre cans of Wattyl Decking Oil.

Just settled a bit. Needs a good stir. Suit owner builder. Collect in Namour. Graeme - 0450 155 542.

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Sunday March 10,17, 24, 31 Maleny Market held at RSL Hall, opposite Maleny Hotel.

Open rain hail or shine. Over 35 interesting stalls, including antiques and collectables; Art & craft; fruit & veg.

Little Fair Trade Café. Enq: 0448 423 919.

Sunday March 10 Sunshine Brass - 28 piece youth orchestra -”Around the World in 80 Minutes (Mozart to Broadway). Mt Mee Public Hall, 2pm. tickets: $12, $25 families. Refreshments.

Info: 5479 0910 Em: kevinbrown987@hotmail.com

Thursday March 7 “Walk the Talk- Food for Thought ” Upfront Club. "Can Small Farms be Viable?" by Imbil’s Elaine Bradley. This was the focus of her Churchill Fellowship tour US research trip.

UpFront Club. Dinner at 6pm. Presentation - 7pm. Bookings: 5494 2592. Thurs, April 4 will feature Jon Woodlands and Rare herbs owner at Mapleton discussing growing and use of herbs. Ph: John 0499 556 505. johnsmuir@hotmail.com

Saturday March 16 Maleny Apex Trivia Night. Maleny High School Hall. 6.30pm Licensed bar. BYO nibbles. $10 p p, 10 per table max.

1st prize: $500 cash. 2nd prize: $300 Pomodoras voucher.

3rd prize $150 Purple Palate Voucher.

Col Eastmure: 0408 282 667

Friday March 8 “A Big Night Out” with local artist Paul McKenna at the Maleny Show Pavilion. Dress code for the ball is formal.

Tickets $20, include appetizers. This is an 18+ event only.

Information or tickets call Felicity Grigor on 0437 966 589.

Friday March 8 Zonta Club of Blackall Range Inc. International Woman’s Day Celebration Dinner. Flaxton Gardens, 313 Flaxton Drive.

Guest Speaker - Jenifer Simpson - adventurer, donkey breeder, activist, educator. Tickets: $60. 2 course dinner, welcome drink and canapes. Call: 5499 9985 or 5306 4305.

Saturday March 9 Sunshine Coast Literary Association workshop - Flights of Fancy: Unleash your imagination. 9.30am - 1.30pm Kawana Library Meeting Room, Nanyima St, Buddina. Presented by writer, Paula Weston, author of “Haze”. $25 members, $35 non members. Tickets: info@scliterary.org Sunday March 10, 17, 24, 31 Afternoon music session at the Maleny Marketplace, 55 Maple St. For details www.malenymarketplace.com.au or contact Pascale on 0423 615 413.

No charge and no booking.

Sunday March 10 Society for Growing Australian Plants meets at 213 Candle Mountain Drive, Peachester.

Enquiries ph: 5494 9187. All welcome.

Saturday March 16 Old Time Country Dance at Kandanga Hall 7.30pm start.

Doors open 7pm. Sunshine Swing Band. Delicious supper provided. Prizes, raffle, Monte Carlo. Adults: $12 High School students $6. Enquiries: 5484 3493 or 5484 3465.

Saturday March 16 Join Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson and the Montville Community at a Russell Family Park tree plant in Montville. 9-11 am. Free sausage sizzle to follow.

This is part of the rainforest revegetation project to develop an educational walk in Russell Family Park. Register to assist catering (www.barunglandcare.org.au) or phone 5494 3151 Saturday March 16 Blackall Range Growers market, Old Witta School, 316 Witta Road. 7-30am – 12 midday. Great variety local produce.

Come for breakfast and good coffee. Music. Bring your green bag. All enquiries phone Pat on 5499 9924.

Sunday March 17 Sound heals in unexpected ways - HU Chant and Spiritual discussion. Sippy Downs 9:30 – 11:30am.

Love and blessings in the garden at the Arts and Ecology Centre, Maroochy Bush Botanical Gardens.

(Take the Tanawha Forest Glen Tourist Drive and follow the Botanic Gardens signs. (Ref:UBD Ref Map 77 N17)

Saturday March 21 Vintage Easter Village Market at Palmwoods Memorial Hall, Main Street Palmwoods 7am-12.30pm, in time to get some unique Easter goodies. If you are interested in booking a site or hosting a community group information table (sports/music etc). Phone: 0409 765 357

Sunday March 10 Eudlo Village Hall Market (Rosebed Street) 7am-noon.

Stalls for craft,vintage and upcycled items, treasure and locally-made goods. Tea, coffee, cakes.

This market is only held four times a year.

Thursday March 21 Caloundra Family History Research Group- Guest speakers.

Mr William Kitson, Hinterland resident and founder of the Queensland Museum of Lands, Mapping & Surveying will speak on “Borders”. Ms Kaye Nardella, the current curator of the museum, will speak on “Cadastral Maps”.

Members of the public welcome. Guide Hut at Arthur Street Caloundra for a 1.30pm start.

Thursday March 28 Entries close for the Sunshine Coast Art Prize (SCAP). Prizes are valued at over $46,000 in 2D,3D and T3 Tertiary categories. A selection of 40 finalists are chosen.

To apply online for the 2013 SCAP or more details: visit the Council’s website: www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au Friday March 29 Dr Bevan Morris, president of Maharishi University of Management, will speak about developing the full potential of the individual in education. Consciousness-Based Education: developing total brain potential, recent scientific research and applications by governments and educational institutions worldwide. 3pm at the Maleny Community Centre, 23 Maple St, Maleny. The 1hr presentation will be followed by refreshments. Gold Coin Donation. Bookings: Call Wendy 5499 9580 or email wendy.rosenfeldt@tm.org.au Thursday April 4 Sunshine Coast Council Rural Futures Strategy ... Food for Thought / Walk the Talk series. Jon Woodlands on growing herbs. Upfront Club. 6pm dinner. Presentation - 7pm.

Friday April 5 Arts Connect Inc. Wine & Cheese Evening to discuss group events for 2013. 5-7pm. Tree Frog Gallery, Maleny-Montville Road. Non members invited with new category of associate member created. Small $5 charge at door.

RSVP for the function: jacky.lowry@internode.on.net or phone: Judy Berlak on 5478 6271 .

Monday April 15 Innovative Program for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse – ‘Self Rescue’ - starts 10am at Woombye.

Dianne Spencer from Breaking Free is launching her innovative new 8-week recovery program. Limited to 8.

Breaking Free Office: 3/9 Blackall St Woombye. $30 per session, $20 con/pens. Call 07 5476 0296 or 0403 142 326 www.breakingfree.net.au

Tuition and Workshops Mindfulness- Based Stillness Meditation Course An in-depth 6wk course, March 21-April 25. From: 6pm - 7.30pm (Thursday evenings) Maleny Neighbourhood Centre This course offers 4 easy steps on how to build a satisfying meditation practice.

Bookings essential. Pls call Melissa Borich: 0417 200 309 Em: millieb2@bigpond.com

Hawaiian Healing Massage Courses Enhance Your Well Being & Learn New Skills! Unique & Flowing with Profound Healing Effects. Beginners to Advanced.

For information pack contact: Rebecca Hopkins Ph: 0415 518 415 bec@hawaiianhealingmassage.com.au

Singing and Chanting Workshop Do you love to sing? Have you ever chanted? Saturday workshop March 16 - 10am to 3pm. $25. includes song sheets & refreshments.

Details: Phone Maxine 0412 623 439 ‘let your singing allow you to experience profound joy’

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Introduction to Gold & Silver leafing

Learn to produce fabulous art works using gold/silver(imitation)leaf.

Saturday April 6 & 13 - 9.30am- 4pm TreeFrog Gallery $55 p/day Contact Marianne 54429266 Water Colour Veil Painting Meet the essential being of colour and learn how to use this knowledge in water colour veil painting. Foundation week of 4 yr. Therapeutic Art Training. www.siennaacademy.com.au April 2- 6; 32 Nimbus Dve, Flaxton. Sally 5478 6260 WEEKLY PAINTING/DRAWING CLASSES For those who don’t know where to begin.

All media, styles, subjects and levels.

Wed, Thu, Sat. 10am – 1pm Contact: Sonja on 0407 238 026 Email: sonja@rebix.com Studio: 37 Coral St, Maleny DRAWING & PAINTING FOR TRAVELLERS Learn to record your journey in an individual way using various techniques of “sight-seeing”, a range of versatile media and more. Four Tuesday afternoons starts March 12. Ph: Sonja on 0407 238 026 or sonja@rebix.com Studio: 37 Coral St, Maleny.

Art Classes at Tree Frog Gallery Mindful Art Workshops for Adults/Mindful Art Program for Schools & Special Interest Groups/Acrylic, Oil, Watercolour,Pastel holiday workshops/term classes.

Enquiries re classes, workshops & tutors.

Closed Tuesdays only. Ph: 5435 2303 or 0417 784 520 or info@treefroggallery.com www.treefroggallery.com

Fermentation Gatherings Learn to produce fabulous, cultured foods, full of natural probiotics and enhanced vitamins. Kefir, gluten-free sourdough, beet kvass, sauerkraut etc. Join our gatherings- fourth Thurs of each month.

Ph: Anni 0417 798 314 or Ros 5499 9914.

E: rosanni@fabulousfoodferments.com.au

Richard Knight furniture workshop One-day workshops making funky functional furniture. Identify suitable materials & create your own unique piece using simple wood-working tools.

Materials & lunch included $150.

Ph: Richard: 5422 9291. Gift vouchers. www.richardknightwoodworks.com.au

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EADERS will recall that when my wife and I bought the first all-electric i-MiEV in Queensland two years ago, we decided to go the whole hog and power the car using solar panels on our office roof.

We had our electrician install a 15amp socket in our car port and then connect it up to our off-peak night tariff. We simply plug in the car at 6.00pm and remove the plug in the morning.

History has shown that it costs us absolutely nothing to power the i-MiEV. OK we have to consider the capital cost of the solar panel installation over time but our last quarterly power bill for our home, office and EV was $56.

We believed then, and more so now, that EV motoring is the way of the future. It ought to be a revolution but we all know that high battery and car costs, as well low driving range are keeping this revolution in check. Now there is an official Australian report that is making the same point - EV motoring and solar is the way of the future.

The first thing to note is that solar power has hit a tipping point in Australia where it is economic without government subsidies.

The Melbourne Energy Institute's Professor Mike Sandiford says solar PV (photovoltaic) is close to ''grid parity''. ''PV [pricing] has been trending down with a 20-25 per cent cost reduction for every doubling of capacity globally.''

Mind you, that will not guarantee relief from painful power bills.

The electricity industry needs to get a return on its massive capital spending over recent years spending which has generated our shocking power bills.

Nevertheless there is a prediction that electric cars may seriously take up surplus capacity on the grid in the off-peak hours, (something we have been doing for two years).

A recent paper from the Australian Energy Markets Commission estimates that electric cars will make up 20 per cent of all new vehicle sales in Australia by the end of this decade and 45 per cent by 2030.

If consumers charge their cars overnight, the AEMC says that electricity demand will rise only 4 per cent by 2030.

The cost of charging an electric car during the night is about 1¢ per kilometre versus 10¢ a kilometre to fuel a petrol car.

The bottom line is, lower costs for consumers and higher demand for the networks at times of when they have most un-utilised capacity.

A win-win all round? Well it should be unless the networks decide not to meddle with off-peak revenues.

The Australian Energy Markets Commission advises the federal Standing Council on Energy and Resources regarding EVs. This Council has the immediate ear of the relevant ministers and means EV take-up is being taken very seriously.

The Commission concluded recently, â&#x20AC;&#x153; We found that while the energy market arrangements are generally robust to cater for the efficient uptake of EVs, it is important to put measures in place now to facilitate efficient investment for both consumers and service providers in the long term.â&#x20AC;?

Now thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s positive news.

Michael Berry - Email: editor@hinterlandtimes.com.au

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