Maleny Visitor Information Centre

The Maleny Visitor Information Centre is a not for profit, long-standing, independent community service, run by volunteers. The Centre is a ticket selling agency for Maleny Film Society movie screenings along with a range of quality souvenirs and postcards, with a distinctively Maleny flavour along with information about places and events around the area.

The Centre is situated at 2/23 Maple Street, Maleny. It is open 7 days a week between 9.30am-4.00pm. Closed only on Good Friday and Christmas Day.

If you have lost something on your visit to Maleny check with the centre as often items are handed in there. Phone: 07 5499 9033

To find out more about the Maleny Visitors Information Centre and talk to the volunteers or visit the web site: https://malenyinfocentre.edublogs.org/

More information can be found here: https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/whats-on/safer-internet-day-2023

Brisbane Firefighter looses life

Our thoughts and prayers are with our Fire & Rescue colleagues after the tragic loss of Firefighter Izabella Nash whilst on duty on May 2nd.. She was one of many firefighters attending a fire at Slacks Creek.

Our deepest condolences go out to Izzy’s family. Our thoughts are also with Lia Drew who was seriously injured whilst battling the same fire.

Her death is a reminder of the danger that frontline emergency service personnel can face each time they are called to an incident.

Bomb scare at Maleny State High School

Queensland Police Service received a call about 8.30am on Tuesday May 9th , 2023 that a bomb had been planted at the Maleny State High School.

As a safety measure, staff and students were evacuated. A thorough search was conducted with nothing suspicious found and as a result police gave the allclear. The school was then cleared and reopened around 1:18pm.

Queensland Police are investigating the bomb threat.

Maleny SES Volunteer group Be Prepared for severe weather events

What to do if you need assistance

For life threatening emergencies, call Triple Zero (000).For storm and flood related property damage.

Call the State Emergency Service: 132 500. To keep up to date with Emergency Warnings

Tune into warnings and updates from your local ABC radio and TV stations https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Livingand-Community/Community-Safety/Disasters/ emergencies

Important Phone numbers for assistance during or after a major emergency service. When disaster strikes you need to follow the advice of authorities on staying put or evacuating and follow your emergency plan.

To find out where to find assistance during or after a major emergency service.

The Maleny Society this year marks the historic hundred year anniversary of the first Maleny Agricultural Show which runs on Friday, June 2nd and Saturday, June 3rd at the Maleny Show-grounds.

The Blackall Range and the Maleny district have often been called the "Garden of Eden" because of the ideal climate, scenery, productivity and generous rainfall.

From humble beginnings in 1923, the first Maleny Show was held on the same show-grounds site on Maleny-Stanley River Rd.

In 2020 the 83rd Maleny Show did not proceed due to the 2020 Covid-19 situation.

During the Great Depression and unfortunately during some of years of the Depression the show was abandoned – in 1932, 1934 and 1935. A drought which caused great hardship in 1950 also caused the show to be cancelled in that year.

Agricultural shows have been a part of Australian culture since 1822 and are strongly connected to local communities through educational, competitive, social and cultural experiences.

Maleny would have so many stories to tell about those early pioneer days. There is no doubt agricultural shows are still important events where local communities gather and celebrate their farming achievements showcasing livestock and produce.

Agricultural Shows such as Maleny’s would not be successful without the tireless work of local volunteers who provide so much of their time to make the show a success for all who visit and compete.

It has always been so, and the story of the Maleny show volunteers began in 1923, when Maleny’s first show opened, on the June 26 and 27, 1923, in pouring rain.

Although the economy was still recovering after the First World War, there was enough pride in the region's agricultural production to generate interest in a show.

Facilities were sparse so the ladies of the district provided meals and refreshments from a tent on the hill. The area was a very different place then and things were done differently. A wood stove was how the cooking was done and if mother was lucky she might have an ice chest or later a kerosene refrigerator to keep food cool! This was an Australian invention in 1923 with electricity arriving in the region in late 1939.

Delicious foods are still served at the show and many types of foods are on offer these days. Many of the recipes and cakes on display are perhaps from those early Maleny and district pioneering family recipes, handwritten into exercise books handed down over many years.

The Maleny Show Society used plans supplied by the Caboolture Show Society to construct an industrial pavilion measuring 24 metres by 11 metres which was near enough to completion to be used for the second annual show on April 23 and 24, 1924.

On July 30 1926, the Nambour Chronicle described the Maleny Show, in its fourth year, enthusiastically. "Wonderful! It seemed that this expressive adjective was upon everybody's lips during the two Maleny show days, and whether the fourth

Origionally the original show committee purchased 18 acres of uncleared scrub for a permanent show-ground. Now the show-ground is two-and-a-half times its original size and some 16 community sport and recreation groups now enjoy the excellent facilities. There is also an increasing numbers of caravaners and other campers enjoying the facilities.

"The picturesque little show-ground has again been vastly improved during the past 12 months. Now we can notice a neat grandstand which will seat approximately 300 people and a spacious pig pavilion which were not on the ground 12 months ago. The committee and general public must have worked like Trojans to transform a patch of thick virgin scrub into the improved ground they have at present, and all in years.”

In summing up the 1926 show, the paper gave high praise to the region's cattle. "To write of the exhibits, one must be excused for the frequent use of adjectives, but there are but few that will really give the reader a true idea of the excellence of some of the exhibition,” the story read.

"Of course, it can only be expected in a rich dairying district such as Maleny, the dairy cattle were an outstanding feature of the show.

P.L. Nott MLA officially opened the show and the new purpose-built grandstand in 1926. He described the grand parade of prizewinning stock during the afternoon as "a most interesting event displaying fully Maleny's wealth of stud stock”.

In 1927 the entertainment committee of the Maleny Show Society held a Pioneers Ball at the Maleny School of Arts in honour of the hardworking pioneers of the district. Mr. A Bryce welcomed the guests by saying it was to honour the men and women who with strong hearts had laid the foundations of what was to become a prosperous community.

Maleny Community Groups & When they meet!

Community Groups that form the back bone of the Maleny Community

Maleny Rotary Club

Meeting. Times

1st and 3rd Wednesdays.

6-30pm for 7pm

Maleny Hotel, Bunya St. Maleny

Email: secretary.maleny@rotary9600.org president.maleny@rotary9600.org

Maleny Probus Club

Meeting. Times

Maleny Uniting Church, Landsborough Road, Maleny

Meet 10 am on the 4th Wednesday of each month.

Feb to November 1300 856 859

Queensland Country Women's Association - Maleny Branch

Meetings at The Verandah Room

23 Maple Street, Maleny

8:00 am - 11:30 am.

4th Monday of Month.

Email: qcwa.maleny@gmail.com

The Zonta Club of Blackall Range

Meetings at Various between Montville and Maleny. Dinner meeting 3rd Tuesday of month 6pm.

Email: membership@zontablackrange.org.au president@zontablackallrange.org.au https://issuu.com/Maleny-Grapevine-Community-News

Apex Club of Maleny

Meeting. Times

MALENY HOTEL/MALENY BOWL'S CLUB

1ST & 3RD MONDAYS, 7.00PM. Email maleny@apex.org.au.

Postal PO BOX 39. MALENY, QLD 4552 0487770653

Maleny Senior Citizens

Meetings at

The Verandah Room 23 Maple Street, Maleny

8:00 am - 11:30 am. 4th Monday of Month. Activities include card games, meetings and regular bus trips

Email: margarry1@bigpond.com

0409 266 507

The LIONS CLUB OF MALENY-BLACKALL RANGE Inc.

Meetings at Maleny Uniting Church Hall

On the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6.30pm

Monthly Dinner Meeting held at The Orangery, 10 Mountain View Rd, at 6.30pm on 4th Tuesday of month

Email: maleny-blackall-range@lionsq3.org.au

Maleny Commerce

Meetings at Monthly breakfast networking meetings.

2nd Tuesday of the month. Venues to be advised.

Email: info@malenycommerce.org.au

An Old Codger’s Thoughts & Opinions

The State Government has announced that it will build a new youth detention centre adjacent to the Woodford Correctional Centre offering “home-like accommodation” and purpose-built units. It will also build another similar centre in Cairns, N.Q. These will supplement the already existing centres, the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre and West Moreton Youth Detention Centre, both in Wacol west of Brisbane, and the Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville. These new centres are in response to the spiralling “out of control” youth crime waves that Queensland is suffering.

The states own figures on recidivism consistently show that youth who are released from correctional confinement experience high rates of rearrest.

Incarceration of youth is a very expensive exercise, so the time spent must contain positive outcomes.

Incarcerating youth alone undermines public safety, damages young people’s physical and mental health, impedes their educational and career success, and often exposes them to abuse.

Any incarceration must include an employmentfocused program which engages young people in a combination of high school completion, construction skills training, and personal development activities.

At the same time the youth program should provide counselling, support, skill-building and recreational programs so that they have some tools to help them navigate through pressures that they will encounter in their lives going forward.

Parents of young people have a very large part to play in shaping a young person’s character. Parents have to learn the differences between tempering natural affection with a little tough love. Too much and the child’s spirit can be broken for keeps. Too little and the child learns quickly that it can get away with anything. We have to get this right - it is too important not to.

Truthful says that one day last week he was in Maleny at Maple Street Meats Butchery shop when a dog walks in and the butcher shoos him away.

About 5 minutes later he comes back with $10 and a note saying “2kgs of steak” surprised the butcher reluctantly takes the money and hands him a bag with the meat.

As the dog left the butcher shop, the butcher, Blair closed down the shop and decided to follow the dog. The dog gets to the bus stop in Maple Street and waits. Soon the bus arrives and the dog pulls a ticket out of its collar, gives it to the driver and hops on.

Blair follows him to see what was going to happen. The dog got off of the bus on Balmoral Road and began to walk still not have eaten the meat. Finally the dog walks up to a house over the road from Maleny Cheese factory and sets the meat down.

The dog backs up and charges and slams into the door. He does this about twice. Finally a man opens the door and starts yelling at the dog calling him stupid and retard- ed.

Blair finds this horrible so he talks to the man and says “STUPID?! This dog went to my shop, paid for meat and took it on the bus finding his way back home per fectly. HOW IS HE STUPID??!”

The man then replied saying, “ Yes, that’s all great but he forgot the key for the 3rd time this week!”

Morale: Sometimes you just cannot please some people.

BiCentenary Lane Upgrade

BiCentenary Lane, Maleny is about to undergo an upgrade to improve safety and parking in that area. Part of the work will include the provision of fifty new parking spots on the southern side of the street extending the existing parking area.

Work will also include about 200 m of concrete pathway about 1.8m wide on the northern side of the street.

Work is expected to be completed by the end of June 2023 depending on weather. Access to this area for parking during construction will be unavailable.