Mary Valley Voice September 7 2011 - Vol.21 No.16

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7 September 2011 Vol.21 No. 16

connecting communities

Kenilworth Show & Rodeo p5 Kenilworth Celebrates!

Art workshops p4/5

KENILWORTH CELEBRATES

Don’t miss our Festival 24 September to 1st October 2011

KENILWORTH Kenilworth Pony Club news Front cover erratum Pool vacant position_ ___________3 Kenilworth Celebrates! W’shops_ 4/5 Kenilworth Rodeo 2011__________5 Historical article: Hugh Cochrane Kenilworth Caravan Rally_________ 6 COOROY Cooroy Project Dinner with the Mayor___________8

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KENILWORTH PONY CLUB NEWS

n 11 and 12 August four KPC members, Erin Lisett, Megan Lisett, Winona Emery and Kate Lisett, ventured up to Maryborough for the Fraser Coast Interschool Equestrian Challenge and competed on behalf of their local schools. The girls competed in dressage, hacking, show jumping, sporting, camp drafting and the stockman’s challenge and had a great time.

Sunday 14 August was the Cooroy Gymkhana, representing KPC was Jessie Falconer, who placed 2nd overall for her age group.

The Mary Valley Show was held at Imbil on 20 August. Ella Skoupy came 2nd and 3rd for her age group in Show Jumping.

POSITION VACANT

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he Kenilworth Swimming Pool Association is seeking a responsible, reliable, communityminded, enthusiastic and friendly person to fill the role of Kiosk Manager and Volunteer Coordinator. The position is paid award rate for up to10 hours per week during pool opening season and will be expected to undertake some additional hours on a volunteer basis. For information and applications contact Norm Taylor on 0428 712 883 or email kenilworthtkd@skymesh.net.au

KENILWORTH BOWLS CLUB 23 PHILLIP STREET ( PH 5446 0292

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How long have you been a member of KPC for? four years Favourite Pony Club event: Bounce Pony Best Pony Club memory: Going to the Zone 6 Camp.

commencing Wednesday night - 14 September Even if you have never played you are most welcome to come and ‘havago’!

Please have your names in by 5.45pm Bowls starts at 6pm followed by a BBQ tea.

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Laetitia Hoffmann Ph: 0424 132 929 maryvalleyvoice@aanet.com.au

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ERRATUM

he name of the bromeliad featured on the front cover of the 24 August 2011 Mary Valley Voice was incorrect. It was actually Bromeliad Billbergia pyramidalis.

Thank you to Brenda Parker from Kenilworth who pointed the error and sent a photo of Bromeliad Aechmea fasciata.

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KENILWORTH Something New from the four day Kenilworth Celebrates!

Art workshops

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or the fourth year the Kenilworth Arts Council will be holding 11 visual arts workshops from September 26 to September 30 as part of Kenilworth Celebrates! art festival.

Top tutors are brought from around Australia to teach and artists come from all over Australia to absorb the information they bring, improve their skills and enjoy the atmosphere.

This year there will be three local artists tutoring who are up with the best in Australia.

Our front cover story with my paintings still inside me... or to have any paint left over!”

Pauline is totally at home with the nude in sketches or paintings, and her rare talent for capturing true line breathes life into each beautifully executed nude study.

Over the years she has had and entered many exhibitions and has won numerous awards for her work, especially her evocative nudes. Pauline has the ability to portray the emotion of her models and her work captures the hearts and minds of her viewers .

Suitable for beginners and intermediate artists, there will be three models used over the course of four days.

Pauline Adair from Colum will teach life drawing in pastel with her course titled “Rhythm of Life”

Pam Black from Cambroon will teach minimalistic landscapes in acrylics.

A complete life drawing experience starting with quick pose sketches to gain confidence then working in a range of exciting techniques.

Convincingly portray your subjects, developing your own marks and individual style.

Accuracy becomes less important as you respond with hand and eye to what you see, drawing creatively and spontaneously. Give life to your drawings and find out what the term “how an artist sees” can mean to you.

Make the shift to right brain thinking and kick-start a more creative approach to life drawing.

If you are looking to loosen up and create personal contemporary images from your own ideas or local scenery, you will enjoy a fun four days.

Explore light and shadow, lost/found edges, line and wash effects then move beyond drawing to figure painting using soft pastels to create works of art.

With plenty of demos, find out how you can use various media and methods to portray the figure, even from quick 10 minute poses.

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Pauline finds people, their expressions, colour, light, s h a d o w fascinating, how they affect one another. She loves to capture all these elements in a painting. Pauline paints every day “I don’t want to go to my grave

Students will learn how to combine collage, photocopies, gold leaf, but mostly acrylic paint, into a composition on stretched canvas. The works will mostly represent the landscape beginning with a small canvas or two using collage, finishing with a large minimal landscape. This course is suitable for students who have some experience with acrylics and are looking to enhance their own individual style.

Since studying fine art and education, Pam has taught in both Catholic and Public Secondary schools, and whilst studying all the aspects of the arts, painting is her major.

She has had exhibitions in Townsville and Tasmania and has sold her work also in Townsville and Brisbane galleries.

Her paintings mostly relate to the landscape, not in the usual sense of copying nature, but minimalising the compositions and using a colour palette that is rich and iconic. She enjoys the act of painting and works loosely with large brushes. In her smaller works, she uses collage, gold leaf and collected objects, making the work a personal journey. Her large canvasses, although minimal in detail, are colourful and expressionistic.

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Our front cover story FUN TIME FOR ALL AGES at Kenilworth Show and Rodeo Saturday 17 September.

John Newman from Cooroy will teach Watercolour in his course “Make your Heart Sing” Suitable for beginners, intermediate and advanced students this great watercolour workshop begins with John explaining and demonstrating the principles of tonal drawing, linear and aerial perspective (this is not technical, he shows people how to see and draw in perspective easily) and some elements of composition to make their work more interesting.

Tonal drawing merges seamlessly into watercolour painting and the students will be painting competent small works of art on day one. These small works are designed to help the students to master the techniques in small steps and to avoid them being overwhelmed by too much too soon.

Beginners will be introduced to the most common watercolour materials, the basics of watercolour techniques and colour theory. Advanced students will be catered for with more demanding exercises and helpful criticism. John teaches by demonstration and he has years of experience to share with those that have questions about his technique.

Weather permitting students will collect reference information outside using drawing mediums and complete finished works of art back in the ‘studio’. The more adventurous will be able to complete paintings ‘en plein air’.

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ee the piglet races, you may win one of the sweeps run on each five races. Listen to the country music singer. See the animal nursery, side shows, spectacular displays of show jumping and show horse. Start time 8am.

In the Rodeo arena a full “all round” National Rodeo Association event with bull and bronc rides, steer wrestling, breakaway roping, barrel races. Rodeo start time is 9.30am to finish around 5pm.

The wood chop has 10 class events with an 18inch handicap sawing event hopefully attracting the female gender of the sport.

Pavilion exhibits with cookery, flora, photography, textile arts and a junior section. A fashion parade will be held at 11am.

BBQ and food stalls, ice cream and stalls selling equestrian, western gear and much more. Line up at the licenced bar from 10am to 6pm to discuss the day’s events.

For more info ring Lolie 5446 0222 or president Bill 5446 0338 or visit www.kenilworthhall.org.au/Rodeo.htm

Watercolour is the most delightful and convenient painting medium.

Photo shows a fun time at the 1994 rodeo, our Secretary Lolie, the late Cheryl Pierce and Flo Ferriday.

You will love this!

For more information on these and the other eight tutors visit the website www.kenilworthcelebrates.org.au or phone the Kenilworth Arts Council on 07 5472 3223.

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KENILWORTH Who was Hugh Cochrane?

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ugh Cochrane was born in Brisbane on July 5, 1899. His address was John St, Valley, Brisbane. His parents David and Mary Cochrane later moved to Kent Street, New Farm. Hugh’s siblings were Harold, Henry, Eric, David and Jean. Hugh was educated at the Valley School in Brisbane. He left home at the tender age of 13 years. His first job was with the Railways and later with Main Roads Department at Wondai. He later took a position as farm hand at Granny Duggan’s Conondale property. Granny was a friend of William and Louisa Hilder and Hugh also worked on their property at Yahoo Creek (now known as Gheerulla Creek). Note: The Hilder property stretched from Moy Pocket Rd to the junction of Mary River and Gheerulla Creek.

Hugh always lent a hand in the district. He was a member of the School Committee which constructed the fern house and a saddle shed, which still stands in the grounds.

Many children rode their horses to school so the shed was used to store saddles.

Hugh was active in the Bowls Club and enjoyed the game.

He passed away playing bowls on August 15, 1973. Olive died on August 20, 1991 after which the property was sold.

The family gave a donation towards the Hugh Cochrane Lookout in his memory.

Hugh courted William and Louisa’s daughter Olive and in 1924 he selected a property at Obi Obi Road, Kenilworth which was part of Mt Ubi Estate to make a home for Olive and himself.

Thanks to Lorna Cochrane Freeman for her contribution to this article - another Gift from the Past. Stories of the pioneering families may be heard at the Kenilworth Museum each Sunday between 10am and 2pm.

On 15 October, 1927 Hugh and Olive were married at the bride’s parent’s home. The wedding was reported on page 10 of The Brisbane Courier, Friday, 28 October, 1927:The bride wore an ivory crepe de Chine gown, the bodice of which was finished with panels of French pleating set into a scalloped yoke. The skirt also had panels of French pleats. The train was made of ivory satin grenadine lined with shell pink cashmere de soie and finished at the corners with orange blossoms and pearls. The hand embroidered veil of Brussels net which was worn in the cap fashion was lined with silver tissue and embroidered with pearls and sprays of orange blossom.

Lenore Meldrum President Kenilworth and District Historical Assn. Inc.

Hugh and Olive had two children Lorna and Cliff (known as Digger Cochrane to many). Sadly Cliff passed away on 28 November 1980.

Lorna and Cliff rode horses to school at Kenilworth along with many others from Kidaman, Coolabine, Walli and surrounds. Mr Harry Welch was Head Teacher and Mrs Welch taught the girls sewing.

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n Wednesday 7 September Mr Paul Tatton will officially open the rally between 4-4.30pm.

On Sunday 11 September, Mr Peter Wellington and his wife will be the special judges for the Morning Tea Bake Off Competition from 10-10.30am.

The Australasian Caravan, Motorhome and Camping Club Inc. has been established since 1999 and now has over 1000 members nationally and is growing fast with new members over the last year. The ATCMCC encourages all members at each rally to spend their money within the area. To give our members an incentive to do so we have organised with the local business houses to offer a special discount on purchases during the rally period.

The following participating businesses have come on board and we thank them for their kind offers. The Kenilworth Bakery the Butcher, Cheese Factory, Bowls Club, Hotel and the Bellbird Creek Tea House.

A number of activities will be held for the rally with a game of bowls, golf, barefoot bowls, disc bowls and scenic trips around the area.

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KENILWORTH Movement at the station… poets gearing up for another Breakfast

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pring is in the air and the Conondale Range Committee is ready to host another of its popular Kenilworth Poets’ Breakfasts. With the sounds of the woodchop arena still echoing through the hills, the poets are poised to bring a new rhythm on the morning of Saturday 24 September.

It’s all part of the Kenilworth Celebrates! festival and has continued to grow since its tentative beginnings out the back of the scout hall more than a decade ago, to the point where it is now an annual favourite with poets and audience alike.

Saturday 10 September. The wet conditions took its toll on both teams making ball handling and kicking extremely difficult and sparing a thought for the jersey washers. The Stags played with determination shutting down the play makers from Yandina giving them absolutely no room to move, more often than not the Stags going in with three men in a tackle.

The Raiders were the first to score under the post and that being the only conversion of the day, the Stags answered with a try from Brad Carlson out wide but conditions making the conversion difficult, Yandina scored next with no conversion and the score going into half time was 10-4. The Stags answered early in the second half with a try from Josh Ryan which brought the score to 10-8, the score remained as such til three minutes to go before full time and with quick hands through the back line, and Stewart Walters scored in the corner. The Stags supporters erupted.

Hosted by popular local poet Ian Mackay, this year’s breakfast promises to be better than ever with a good line-up of poets and yarn spinners, some familiar faces and some fresh ones too.

The opposition was kept scoreless in the second half giving the full time score of 12-10 to the Stags by a narrow margin of two points. The Stags earnt respect from Yandina and everybody came away saying it was a great game. The Raiders even shared a couple of ales with the Stags at the Yandina Hotel before the bus trip home.

The breakfast mouths off at 8am, in the woodchop area beside the Kenilworth Hall in the town’s showgrounds with the entry price a mere $5. Coffee and cake can be purchased from the Conondale Range Committee stall or a more substantial breakfast from the kitchen capably commandeered by the Kenilworth Community College.

The players player was Josh Heck who just didn’t stop the whole game. At the time of publication Beachmere and Yandina would have battled it out for a place in the final at Cooran with times to be confirmed. This would have been an interesting game for the Stags to sit back and watch while enjoying a weekend off.

Following the breakfast, there’s ample time to visit the impressive art display, the centrepiece of the Kenilworth Celebrates! Festival, in the nearby hall.

Increasingly attractive is the option of camping in the showgrounds and simply strolling over to the breakfast in the morning. Phone 5446 0131 for details.

For more information about the breakfast phone either Ian on 5446 0124 or Cheryl on 5446 0350.

James Cochrane takes on the Yandina line with Josh Ryan keeping a close eye on the play.

MARY VALLEY STAGS ARE INTO THE SEMI FINAL, 12 NOON KAWANA SPORTS, 10 SEPTember

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The Stags had their eyes firmly set on going straight to the Grand Final scheduled to be held at Stockland Park on

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he Stags are roaring in the Valley after a hard fought and well played game against the Yandina Raiders with the Stags coming up victorious with a 12-10 win. Both teams had winning on their mind when they ran onto the field on Saturday 27 August at Yandina, who hosted the major semi-final. Coming into the majors Yandina still retained top position and the Stags running a close second.

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COOROY Local communities involved in consultation for Cooroy project

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ouncil is committed to open and transparent communication and consultation and has carried a significant body of consultation on the Cooroy Link Road project with the local community over a number of years.

The Cooroy project is a six-year consultation and information program that was undertaken to understand and then address the concerns of a range of community stakeholders impacted by the Jarrah Street extension. The extension, once completed, will both cater for a growing industrial and residential area, while also helping ensure the safety of motorists and pedestrians in Cooroy’s busy CBD by diverting commercial vehicles.

Division 12 Councillor Lew Brennan said the end result would ensure an improved pedestrian-friendly town centre.

“While we cannot make everybody happy, council is well aware that if it does not go ahead with this project, the traffic hazards occurring within the Cooroy CBD will only intensify,” Cr Brennan said.

“I understand that some residents have real concerns about the project itself - as with any major change somebody will be impacted. However, to say that council has not consulted adequately is incorrect.

“This is a great project. Consultation started in 2005, it was approved by the former Noosa Council in 2008, and is a project that the community has been waiting for, for many years. It would be a shame for it to be overshadowed by a lack of understanding about the consultation process.

“This project has been on council’s Capital Works program since amalgamation, and I was pleased when council endorsed the funding for this project during this year’s budget deliberations.

“Council is committed to strong community engagement and regularly undertakes a wide variety of community engagement activities on many of its projects. Council strongly encourages residents to take every opportunity to get involved in these opportunities and to ensure that they have their say on issues affecting their community.”

A report to council’s Ordinary Meeting next week will address a petition received from residents objecting to the project.

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The Cooroy town centre and the safety of pedestrians and

other users is suffering due to the significant intrusion of commercial vehicles. The location of the mixed industrial land uses (light manufacturing and service area) to the west of the town centre has added to the traffic movements. Combine this with the large number of car movements in and out of the on street parking and the expansion of the industrial area at the end of Jarrah St, and the hazards are compounded.

To address the matter Noosa Council commissioned a Transport Plan to be developed in 2005. The aim of the plan was to make improvements which would facilitate the vision for a pedestrian-friendly town centre. The plan was to also address the need for pedestrian-vehicle shared zones as part of the development of the Cooroy Lower Mill site.

After examining a number of options Noosa Council resolved, in 2008, to support the development of the Jarrah Street extension option.

When the former councils amalgamated, the approved Noosa capital works program became part of the Sunshine Coast Council capital works program.

Each year, at budget time the program is reviewed, prioritised and endorsed by council. This approach allows individual councillors to question individual capital works through the budget development process.

This process has respected, and will continue to respect, the decisions made by the former councils for many projects.

These approved works will continue to be rolled out.

Mayor Bob Abbot’s Final Cooroy Dinner with the Mayor

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he Cooroy Chamber of Commerce annual “Dinner with the Mayor” event is being held on Tuesday 13 September 2011 at the Cooroy Hotel. For many years now, Mayor Bob Abbot has provided an update to Chamber members and visitors on the state of play in the region. The event has become a highlight of the Cooroy Chamber’s calendar with tickets to the event selling out over the last few years. And with Mayor Abbot recently announcing he would not be running for re-election next year, you can be a part of history by attending his last Cooroy Dinner with the Mayor.

“Dinner with the Mayor” commences at 5.45pm for a 6.00pm start and is held in a private dining room. During the evening Mayor Abbot addresses the attendees. At only $30 for members of the Cooroy Chamber and $35 for nonmembers this is an event not to miss! Everyone is welcome to attend but prior bookings are essential. Tickets include a two course meal and lucky door prize ticket.

Bookings and payments can be made with Tania Stewart at Cooroy Central Guardian Pharmacy in Maple Street, Cooroy ph. 5447 6028, by emailing bookings@cooroy. com.au or book securely online at www.cooroy.com.au But be quick as there are only limited spaces available!

POMONA WE NEED YOUR HELP TO STAY ALIVE

on Reserve St, diagonally across from the ANZ bank. We operate three days a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, cooking 6500 to 7000 meals yearly. Our customers, either aged or with a disability, want to remain in their hinterland homes for as long as possible – we help them do that. We cook our meals from scratch using fresh meat, vegetables, fruit and dairy products, taking great pride in doing so. We have a team of about 70 volunteers who help in the kitchen, office or do deliveries.

If you can help, please give us a call on 5485 1777, 5485 2209 or 5485 0527 and ask for David (there are two of us with that name). Our email is mowp@bigpond.com Our Annual General Meeting is being held in the Memorial Hall on Wednesday 21 September at 12.30pm if you would like to attend and check us out; yummy refreshments will be served afterwards. Thank you.

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ave I got your attention? I’m writing this for Pomona and District Meals on Wheels, a community non-profit organisation that has been cooking for and delivering meals to mostly elderly people for 22 years. An apt saying is: “What goes around, comes around”, and this is certainly true in that our meal service was on the brink of disbanding six years ago when the then president had headed the committee for a decade; she had put in some hard yards and justifiably wanted to move on in her life.

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inema Pomona Film Society continues meeting every fortnight on Tuesdays at 7pm at the Lions’ Den (old Scout hall), Cnr. Mountain and Hospital Streets, Pomona (turn left into Mountain St. from Reserve St., and it is up in front of your left).

Screening Tuesday 20 September 2011 at 7pm is AMAL (India 2007 – 87min - Rated G).

Amal is the name of a poor auto-rickshaw driver in Delhi whose passenger is a millionaire who ends up leaving Amal his entire estate. However, things do not go so smoothly. This is a film which manifests warmth but avoids sentimentality. It affirms that there is more to life than the desire for, and possession of wealth.

We can’t run our business without a committee, so we need some motivated/talented people to come on board to keep this important service operational. Is there anyone out there, possibly now retired and looking for something worthwhile to do (and wanting to keep their brain active), with the necessary skills to take on this business and move on into the next era?

The current committee has made some improvements over the years, adding a second Convotherm stove and more up-to-date computers/copiers. Our big fundraiser is the Pomona Antiques and Collectables Fair that runs on the weekend of the King of the Mountain Festival in late July; each fair has contributed a substantial profit, making the time and effort worthwhile.

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SHOW JUMPING 8am ‘Official’ Australian Equestrian Events (4 & 5) THREE RINGS of SHOW HORSE EVENTS 8.30am WOODCHOP 10am: 10 events incl 16 inch Standing Block Relay FULL PAVILION EXHIBITS Photography • Cookery • Textiles Local Produce • Flora & Horticulture • School & Junior Competitors PLUS Show Bags & Side Shows FIRST TIME! PIGLET RACES QLD UTE MUSTER SERIES SHOW LOCAL TRADE DISPLAYS ADMIT: ADULTS $12 CHILDREN 5-15YRS $3 President: Bill Morris 5446 0338 • Sec: Lolie Murtagh 5446 0222 more info www.kenilworthhall.org.au/Rodeo.htm

N.R.A. All Round RODEO 9:30am

OPEN BULL RIDE $1,000 prize money plus added entry SADDLE BRONC RIDE ´ $500 plus added entry BAREBACK BRONC RIDE ´ $500 plus added entry BREAKAWAY ROPING ´ $500 plus added entry STEER WRESTLING ´ $500 plus added entry STEER UNDECORATING ´ $300 plus added entry TEAM ROPING ´ $500 plus added entry ROPE & TIE ´ $500 plus added entry BARREL RACE ´ $500 plus added entry JUNIOR BULL RIDE ´ $100 plus added entry JUNIOR PODDY RIDE ´ $50 plus added entry JUNIOR BREAKAWAY ROPING ´ $50 + added entry JUNIOR BARREL RACE ´ $50 plus added entry Each event will have a first round commencing 9.30 am and after lunch, a second round

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ary Valley Cheese Company’s award winning cheesemaker Erin Jones has used a “traditional influence, modern style” to produce a range of fresh soft cheeses. Get along to Dagun Growers Market on Saturday 24 September at 2pm for the chance to sample some of these wonderful local cheeses.

Gildora Triple Cream Brie is a mild rich and creamy texture with subtle hints of mushroom. Carlton Camembert promises a smooth texture with stronger mushroom flavours developing with age. While the Crème Fraiche is a lush cultured cream, with a distinctive Jersey taste.

Small entry fees apply for all sections and you can sell your artworks in some sections but please note the requirements on the entry form for acquisitive sections.

So get those entry forms in and you never know who the judge will choose. To download an entry form go to the council website on www.gympie.qld.gov.au/gallery or simply call in to the gallery or the library to pick one up.

Entries close Friday 9 September. For more information ring the Gympie Regional Gallery on 5481 0733.

A selection of the cheeses is already available at Dagun Station if you can’t wait to try! Pick up some chemical free veges, wine and wursts while you are there to complete your weekly shop, every Saturday from 2pm.

September will feature the Brassica’s and their anti-cancer properties. Our naturopath will also be on hand to discuss herbs and their nutritional benefits. Spring is definitely on its way. See advertisement page9.

Gold Rush Art Competition entries due very soon

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he Gympie Regional Gallery has secured more money for prizes in this year’s Gold Rush Art competition, happening in October. Again this year the Friends of the Gympie Regional Gallery have joined forces with the Gympie Regional Council to provide the Open Award prize of $3,000 for an artwork of any subject in any medium. Several of the other sections have also been increased, which shows that local businesses are willing to support their community by sponsoring this competition which has been going for over 36 years.

There are 11 sections which artists can enter, with most mediums covered. Wide Bay Australia sponsor Section 2 the sculpture award of $890, and Rainbow Shores Resort sponsor $500 for Section 3 of an abstract work in any medium with the winning artwork adorning the resort walls. Chroma Australia, Heritage Building Society and PDR Nationwide are sponsoring the Acrylic/Oil Award for which includes Chroma products to the value $175, and John Buckley Electrical, Wendy and Brian Hanson and Cooloola Rocks and Minerals sponsor Section 5 the pastel award of $400. Section 6 is a watercolour award for the prize of $400, sponsored by the Friends of the Gallery.

Budget Steel sponsors the miniature section where artworks have to be no larger than 10cm X 10cm which is a fun challenge for most artists. Prize money for this section is $500. This year Suncoast Macadamias and Cooloola Community Arts Council will sponsor Section 7 Works on Paper. The Cooloola Art Society and Brett Green will be sponsoring the Novice/encouragement Award for $200.

There are sections for young artists and juniors as well.

Kym Barrett’s recent work is on view in Hugo du Rietz Gallery, Gympie Regional Gallery from 6 September to 1 October.

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elli Hall’s next Old-Time Dance will be held on Saturday 10 September starting at 7.30 pm. Mark this in your diary and bring the family for a night of fun and good old-time dancing. Beginners welcome. Our regular live band, Sunshine Swing, will again entertain with a great ‘live’ sound featuring popular vocalist, Rex Eggmolesse.

Crystal Waters Village is set in an idyllic rural location at the gateway to the Mary Valley on the head waters of the Mary River. To fully appreciate Crystal Waters stay the weekend and take a tour. Camping and bunkhouse accommodation is available and tours will be running over the weekend.

Entry fee of $12 per adult, $5 students, includes a hearty supper and door prizes. Children are free. Belli Hall is located in beautiful Belli Park at 1170 Kenilworth Road. For more information ring Margaret on 5447 0175 or visit our website at www.bellihall.com

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This year we will be holding the festival all day and into the evening culminating with a Gypsy Carnivale to close the fest. We have some wonderful speakers coming to inform us on many topics regarding our overall wellbeing.

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MARY VALLEY Living scarecrows needed to run annual festival

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he annual Mary Valley Scarecrow Festival needs people on the ground to make it happen.

Organiser Carol Miller is in desperate need of “living crows” to help the stuffed ones make their comeback in the valley.

Scarecrow season kicks off on September 24 and it is time to get the registration forms out to the local residents to encourage entries.

“But we can’t do that without a person in each town to handle inquiries,” Mrs Miller said. She said towns without a local contact would miss out on being included in the festival judging.

Entry is free and there are three categories – children aged five to 15 years, artistic and traditional – but scarecrows cannot be judged unless they are registered and given a catalogue number.

The Mary Valley Scarecrow Festival runs from September 24 to October 30. Check out the website www.scarecrows. org.au and contact Mrs Miller on 5446 0100 if you can help out.

She said the job requires a small amount of time and a little organisation. “But mostly it is a lot of fun!” she said.

BUSHFIRE RISK EXTREME FOR PROPOSED MOTOR SPORTS PARK

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pponents of a major motor sports park proposed for Bella Creek in the Mary Valley have called on the Gympie Regional Council to prioritise the safety of human lives when considering the development application.

If approved, the motor sports park would be built in a bushfire hazard zone, increasing the risk of fire and endangering the safety of residents, properties and the lives and resources of volunteer rural bush fire brigades.

Spokesperson for the Bella Residents Action Group, Michelle Jeppesen said recommendations of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission were clear that greater consideration be given to the management of bushfire risk in high fire hazard zones.

“The Commission was unequivocal that planning decisions about development should give priority to the protection of human life, and it adopts a clear objective of substantially restricting development in the areas of highest bushfire risk,” Ms Jeppesen said.

The proposal currently before Gympie Regional Council outlines the establishment of a major motor sports facility

involving six motocross tracks, cabins and camping for hundreds of patrons and a licensed bar to operate 10am to midnight seven days per week in the picturesque Bella Creek Valley near Imbil.

Included in the motor sport park’s plans are areas for fourwheel drive challenges and trail bike tracks though 600 hectares of “mountainous terrain along one directional tracks, almost entirely within bushfire-prone areas”, as stated in the bushfire assessment accompanying the development application.

Ms Jeppesen said that the Bushfire Management Plan prepared for the developer clearly acknowledged the dangers associated with the proposal, not only for adjoining residents and their properties, but for patrons of the proposed facility.

“It identifies increased risk of ignitions resulting from these activities as well as the consequences to people, property, and to the environmental values of adjacent Forestry and National Park areas,” she said.

“Our rural bush fire brigade comprises volunteer residents from the nearby properties, and their resources are extremely limited.”

The lack of fire support in the valley is highlighted by a desperate plea from the captain of the Imbil Fire Brigade who called for additional crew members for the Imbil Fire Station.

He said fire crews from Gympie and Cooran were often called on to respond to assist the Imbil fireys to manage emergencies, and that response times for the Mary Valley would lengthen if Imbil could not maintain a local auxiliary brigade.

Ms Jeppesen said the most obvious factor increasing the risk to patrons and residents is the lack of swift, safe access to and from the site.

“This site is located 55 minutes drive out of Gympie, the nearest major urban QFRS station.”

Access roads from Imbil feature single lane bridges, gravel surfaces and one-lane cattle grids, making it difficult for both evacuation and incoming fire fighting services.

In 2004 a large fire, fuelled by strong SW winds, burnt out 2000 hectares across the Bella Creek/Kingham area.

Containment required back burning for several days and nights by a number of fire brigades from across the region.

“Whilst it was a difficult task, it did not involve the complication of a motorsports park situated in the midst of the fire zone. What will happen if it does?”

The full development application and all related maps and reports at the website can be viewed at: http:// www.paulsummersplanning.com.au/ClientPage_files/ BellaMultisportParkInformationPage.htm Submissions to the council close on September 8.

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n extra 300 vehicles, five days a week, could be on the roads around Imbil, Kandanga and the Mary Valley Highway if a proposed motorsports complex gets the go ahead from Gympie Regional Council.

Bella Creek Residents Action Group (BRAG) was formed last year to oppose the application. The group represents residents of Bella, Yabba and Kandanga Creek valleys and is well supported by other concerned Mary Valley residents and visitors. Two schools who own land in the area (used for student outdoor activities) are key supporters of BRAG. BRAG encourages all Mary Valley residents to have their say on the proposal which is now before council. Submissions close on September 8. BRAG says the increased traffic load would create major safety issues on both Yabba Creek and Bella Creek roads. Yabba Creek Rd already has a poor accident record due to its four one-lane bridges and lack of overtaking stretches between Imbil and Borumba Dam. The site for the proposed development is on a dusty bend of the unsealed, unfenced Bella Creek Rd; a road consisting of narrow blind corners and hill crests, one lane cattle grids and flood prone creek crossings.

“The proposal involves 1000 hectares straddling both sides of Bella Creek Road, and both sides of Bella Creek itself,” spokesman Marcel Deleon said.

“It is such a major development that the potential exists for Imbil and surrounds to become an epicentre for motorsports in the South-East Queensland region.”

BRAG questions the compatibility of the proposed motorsports park with current land uses, lifestyle values and envisioned futures of the Mary Valley.

“The very reasons people choose to live in and visit the Mary Valley are under direct threat,” Mr Deleon said.

“How can this area, recently identified as ‘the most untouched natural playground for outdoor recreation in South-East Queensland’, hope to maintain those values, if it becomes a motorsport mecca?”

Another matter is the obvious opportunity for trail bike riders on the site to follow existing trails out of the northern end of the property, into forestry reserves and through into the Kandanga Valley.

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fear the situation will worsen with more recreational drivers and riders in the area.

BRAG members say the development application also ignores the council-mapped wildlife corridor that crosses the site, as well as the DERM-documented koala colony and prime koala habitat.

Read about the proposal and get help to prepare submissions by visiting BRAG’s planning website at http:// www.paulsummersplanning.com.au/ClientPage_files/ BellaMultisportParkInformationPage.htm or email BRAG at brag@bordernet.com.au The development application is also available for viewing at the Imbil Library.

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f you missed the Surrealism exhibition at GOMA in Brisbane you have another chance to see it closer to home.

Surrealism for Kids on Tour is an interactive, free and fun exhibition for children and families presented by Sunshine Coast Council’s, Noosa Regional Gallery and Caloundra Regional Gallery on Saturday 24 September.

The tour features seven different activities based on games played by the surrealist artists.

The games involve chance, word play and picture-making that was used by the surrealist artists as a creative way of stimulating their imaginations.

The projects have been developed to offer children and families insight into how some of the most powerful and imaginative art of the twentieth century was created.

Surrealism for Kids on Tour includes an activity inspired by the strange and mysterious collages of Max Ernst, a tornpaper activity inspired by the work of Jean Arp and a sculpture-making activity inspired by Marcel Duchamp.

The tour is part of the Gallery of Modern Art’s major exhibition Surrealism: the Poetry of Dreams.

52 regional galleries, art centres, hospitals, libraries and schools host the activities simultaneously as part of the Children Art Centre’s exhibition Surrealism for Kids.

Surrealism for Kids on Tour is on at the Noosa Regional Gallery from 11am to 2pm and the Caloundra Regional Gallery from 10.30am to 12.30pm on Saturday 24 September 2011.

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Fireys needed in Imbil area

mbil’s urban fire brigade sometimes has difficulties in recruiting enough staff to respond to emergency incidents in the local area.

Captain Iain Blain is desperate to sign up more people for the paid retained service. He said fire crews from Gympie and Cooran were often called on to respond to assist the Imbil fireys to manage emergencies.

He said if this brigade is not supported, its future may fall into question.

You are paid for your attendance - uniforms, training and equipment are supplied.

If you can assist, contact Capt Blain on 0438 845 304.

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Capt Blain said response times for the Mary Valley area would lengthen if Imbil could not maintain a local auxiliary brigade.

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he 2012 RIRDC (Rural Industries, Research and Development Corporation) Rural Women’s Award is now open and the Department of Employment and Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) is seeking your assistance to promote this award through any industry networks.

The station’s allocation of staff is 10 and the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service at all times tries to maintain at least eight members to cover a broad area from the Dagun turn-off east to Federal, south to the Kenilworth range and west to the back of Borumba Dam. The station is called upon to attending chemical emergencies, road accidents, structure and grass fires.

The volunteer rural fire brigades in the area support the urban brigade.

However, Capt Blain said the urban fire crews received more advanced training than their rural buddies; in areas such as breathing apparatus, Hazmat management and road accident rescue, to name a few.

“We look after a huge area and the few of us left are just exhausted from being on call,” Capt Blain said.

The urban brigade began in Imbil in 1969 and has recently dwindled to just four members.

Capt Blain joined in 1991 and has worked his way up to the captain’s position.

He said membership required attendance at a two-hour training session once a week, plus any call-outs and public relation roles and community education.

This prestigious national award, now in its twelfth year is designed to recognise and support the contribution women make to rural and regional Australia. The Queensland winner receives a $10,000 bursary aimed at assisting them to develop skills and contribute to profitable and sustainable primary industries in Queensland. The winner then has an opportunity to represent her industry and state at the national award process in Canberra.

Since the creation of the national award in 2006, Queensland has been highly successful with two Australian winners and a runner-up.

The Award applications close 15 October, World Rural Women’s Day. Visit www.ruralwomensaward.gov.au to apply to be in the 2012 – 2013 RIRDC rural women’s award.

“We are relying heavily on the local rural brigades and back up from Gympie and Cooran at the moment, and I have tried very hard to get people involved, with no luck.”

If you can pass a medical assessment and you have, or are able to obtain a HR licence, contact Capt Blain for more information about being an active member of your community.

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here have been a number of recent amendments to the Traffic Laws and it appears as though most people are not aware of the changes.

It is illegal to drive a vehicle with fog lights on in clear weather conditions ($40 fine), to smoke in a motor vehicle if a child under the age of 16 is in the vehicle ($200 fine) and drive with a person or animal in your lap ($233).

A reminder that is unlawful to use a hand held mobile phone whilst driving (which includes sitting at traffic lights) and the fine is $300 with three demerit points.

Traffic safety is still the major focus of the hierarchy of the Queensland Police Service and we are encouraged to take enforcement action when we see offences occurring. This includes speeding (fine between $133 and $933), failing to stop at stop signs ($300 fine), failing to wear seat belt ($300 fine), having an unrestrained child in the vehicle ($300 fine) and cross double lines (300 fine).

P1 and P2 drivers have to have P plates attached front and rear, learner drivers have to have L plates attached front and rear and both classes need to carry their licences and produce them on demand. Learners also have to have a person seated beside them who have held an open licence for one year.

insured and is not defective. It is not an excuse that they are driving someone else’s vehicle.

Offenders who have previous offences of unlicensed driving or unregistered and uninsured can have the vehicles they are driving impounded for 48 hours, whether they own the vehicle or not. For repeat offences, application will be made to the Court for a three month impoundment or forfeiture.

Please ensure that you obey the traffic laws and it will make the roads safer for all concerned.

We are having problems with straying stock again.

Cattle and horses are getting out of paddocks and onto roadways. It is the responsibility of the owners of stock to ensure they remain in paddocks. If you see stock wandering on the roadways, ring the Gympie Regional Council as they are the responsible authority for straying stock. They have an after hours service on their telephone number in the phone book.

Straying dogs or dog attacks are also the responsibility of council. If you have straying dogs, barking dogs or dogs that attack people or animals, report the matter to council.

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Drivers are also reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure that the vehicle they are driving is registered and

I Managing roadsides across the Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast Council will soon begin applying local laws across all roads in the region to improve the attractiveness and safety of transport corridors.

The change to the way our roadsides are managed is the result of a new agreement between the Department of Transport and Main Roads and Sunshine Coast Council which will allow local laws to be applied on state-controlled roads.

If you currently have property, including advertising material, or business being conducted along the roadside these changes may affect you and you are encouraged to remove your property.

From Monday, 12 September, council will investigate breaches and attach warning notices to items that are not permitted in the road corridor. If the items are not removed within the timeline identified by council, fines may be issued or the items removed and impounded.

Visit council’s website at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au for more information. www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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Relay for Life team wanted

mbil personal trainer Christie Pisani is taking expressions of interest from anyone interested in participating in the relay for life. The event is held in Gympie on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 October, and involves a 18-hour relay style walk to commemorate the achievements of cancer survivors, and raise money for cancer research.

Ms Pisani said it is also a great way to put your new fit bodies into action for a worthy cause, and to have something to train toward. And it is a great way to represent the Mary Valley!

The relay is held at Gympie One Mile Oval. It costs $15 includes breakfast after event and event t-shirt.

It commences at 3pm Saturday, continues through the night, concluding with a breakfast on Sunday morning.

Please contact Christie ASAP if you would like to be a part of this great event by email riverlearning@live.com or phone 0402 719 498.

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etirement Village discussion paper I urge Retirement Village residents to read and make comment on a newlyreleased Queensland Retirement Villages discussion paper which seeks public comment on issues relating to the closure of retirement villages.

The discussion paper seeks input on the process required to bring about the closure of a retirement village to ensure fairness to both residents and operators if a village faces closure.

With our retiree numbers and retirement living accommodation predicted to rise significantly in coming years, it is important for village residents to consider village closure possibilities with a view to ensure a secure future.

Some of the issues for consideration include: If the operator chooses to sell the land for a big profit is it fair that residents be forced to move against their will; compensation to residents; what happens if economic circumstances or demographics in the area change and it is no longer viable to operate a retirement village?

Meet me in Cooroy I will be holding my next Cooroy meeting in the Cooroy RSL boardroom on Thursday 6 October. Anyone who would like to meet with me can organise an appointment by contacting my Nambour office on 5441 6933.

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DISCOUNT for Mary Valley participants at upcoming Sirolli seminar

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rganisers of the Sirolli seminar at USC Innovation Centre on Monday 12 September have slashed the registration cost from $250 to $150 to encourage attandance from the Mary Valley. The discount only applies to Mary Valley residents.

Ernesto Sirolli is a world authority on successful community economic development - especially good at encouraging hidden entrepreneurs and business people - to set up successful and sustainable businesses. There is also a seminar on the Tuesday – at Hervey Bay (supported by GRC and FCRC and DEEDI) – for details www.niser.org.au Department of Environment and Resource Management

I have copies available in my office, or visit www. getinvolved.qld.gov.au for further information.

Sunbus strike deadlock In Parliament I spoke about the need for urgent solutions to the Sunbus deadlock which is leaving Sunshine Coast commuters stranded and frustrated. I have raised Sunbus issue with the Premier and Transport Minister, and called on them to take up this disgraceful debacle with their Federal counterparts.

I have made it clear to the Translink’s Acting CEO that Translink (which is a state government entity) also needs to push for speedy resolutions to this dispute. It is clear that the Federal Government’s Fair Work Act is not able to resolve the ongoing industrial relations dispute between Sunbus and Sunbus drivers who are TWU members.

In have called on Queensland’s Federal politicians to take the failure of the Fair Work legislation to the Federal Minister Chris Evans (Workplace Relations Minister) for urgent review.

In a Transport Committee meeting during Parliament, I strongly urged the Acting CEO of Translink to take a stand with the Federal Government on this issue as a matter of urgency. He has agreed to take my concerns back to his board, and hopefully will show the Federal Minister how his Fair Work Act is not working.

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Public Notice PLACE NAME DECISION Naming of Cambroon Creek and Fritz Gully Sunshine Coast Regional Council Notice is given that the Minister for Finance, Natural Resources and The Arts has decided to name Cambroon Creek and Fritz Gully in the Regional Council of Sunshine Coast in accordance with the Place Names Act 1994.

Queensland Place Name plan QPN1182 illustrating the location of Cambroon Creek and Fritz Gully, is available from the Department of Environment and Resource Management Business Centre located at Nambour Centenary Square, 52-64 Currie Street, Nambour.

Copies of the plan can also be downloaded from Queensland Place Names at www.derm.qld.gov.au.

Further enquiries concerning the naming of Cambroon Creek and Fritz Gully should be directed to Mr Ross Norman, Senior Spatial Information Officer of the department by telephone on (07) 5451 2252 or by email at ross.norman@derm.qld.gov.au.

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The group included Stan, then aged 25 and George Gray, an accountant who would go on to become the Labor member for Rockhampton.

Despite calls for the jailing of the audacious group, the jury found them all not guilty and Stan went, with his brothers to enlist in World War Two, being involved in New Guinea.

(Steve Burgess of Dagun has written a great song about the Pineapple Rebellion, a little piece of Queensland history scarcely referred to.)

After the war Stan undertook courses in creative writing and began to work in the Forestry Department at Beerburrum, his family having moved from the Gheerulla/ Moy pocket area to Landsborough just after the start of the war.

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hen Sunshine Coast icon, Stan Tutt passed away recently at the age of 97, he left behind a treasure-trove trail of historical research and writing.

He later became Noxious Plants Inspector for the then Landsborough Shire Council, a position he held for 17 years until his retirement in 1978.

Stan’s connection to the Kenilworth area goes way back.

Though born in Murgon, Stan and his family lived first near Mt Cooroy before moving here in 1923 to live in a “pioneer slab hut with a roof of hardwood shingles” and an “open cooking galley at the back” at Gheerulla, not far from Pickering Bridge on the Mary River.

Stan became involved in 1966 in the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Caloundra branch, and was instrumental in setting up the Sunshine Coast Environment Council, being its first secretary (keeping the growing files of this burgeoning group in his battered, but exceedingly portable old suitcase).

His family grew bananas in a patch on the southern slopes of the Kenilworth Bluff on a property then owned by Harry Gordon and later owned by the Wilcox family.

He became heavily involved with both the Landsborough and Caboolture Historical Societies and, in 1981, began to write a weekly historical column in the Sunshine Coast Daily. These continued for 16 years and many have now been condensed into a book “Sunshine Coast Heritage”.

Stan told this story in his autobiography, “In Company of Ghosts” (2000), and provided a wonderful insight into a none too easy bush life between the wars and through the great depression. Stan was always a keen observer and recorder. I’ve always been fascinated by his reference to “a small animal like a wombat, without a tail. That strange animal, the size of a bandicoot, has never been identified.” He noted he had “never seen it anywhere else, so it seemed to belong to that mountain.”

Stan was the eldest of four children and his formal schooling only took place between age nine and 14 at the Lower Kenilworth State School at Gheerulla; his mother, a trained school teacher was heavily involved in his early education.

As they grew up Stan and his brothers worked as “scrubfellers” in the Imbil district while their father was employed cutting either railway sleepers or bridge girders.

“In Company of Ghosts” also recounts the little known tale of what has become known as the Pineapple Rebellion, on August 4, 1939, when a group of farmers, labourers and others raided Parliament House after their request for a deputation to meet the Premier (Labor Premier ForganSmith) was refused.

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In 1994 he was awarded an OAM for services to local history and conservation, and, in 2000, an honorary Senior fellowship from the University of the Sunshine Coast.

What shone through from those who spoke at a special memorial service for Stan at Ben Bennett Park in Caloundra recently were not so much his achievements as his personal attributes, a sincere, articulate inspiring mentor, a visionary and a true gentleman.

Stan had lived through the fall of the great British Empire and the rise and fall of both the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall. He had lived through two world wars and a great depression and had seen massive changes in the world around him. He had become “intensely political” in the 1930’s and never strayed from seeking a better and a fairer world.

There is no doubt that this place is all the richer for Stan Tutt having walked it but his legacy has been enhanced enormously by his diligent researching and passionate writing.

Photo top left: several of Stan Tutt’s books on display at his memorial service.

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Phone Brian 5472 3100

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Imbil – Stunning VIEWS over the Mary River Valley.

90 ACRES – Terrific fertile Block. Well appointed four bedroom fully renovated home. Large four-bay shed with good timber cattle yards.

Good water with several dams and a bore. Very private property with excellent access and outstanding panoramic views.

√ Cambroon – EXCEPTIONAL VALUE at $295,000 Small acreage with renovated Home.

PRICE REDUCTION $765,000 TO $710,000

New to the market this three bedroom highset home on 8001m2 (just under TWO ACRES) is situated 10 minutes south of Kenilworth township.

Clean, modern kitchen and bathroom.

Partially built-in downstairs with extra toilet and shower.

Polished timber flooring.

Reverse cycle air conditioning (split system).

Relax on the covered deck verandah with perfect northeast aspect. A cool, shady block with open areas.

Established gardens and chookpen.

Storage shed. Fully fenced.

Price - Bargain at $295,000!

Gheerulla – Almost FIVE ACRES of peace and quiet – only $510,000

Bordered by State Forest and a Koala Reserve this rare 4.95 ACRE property has the privacy that you’re looking for and only 20 minutes from Eumundi.

The three bedroom western red cedar home is well back off the road. The home has been fully renovated inside and out. Relax on the front verandah or unwind on the fantastic back deck for entertaining or just take in the surrounding views of the gardens and natural bush. The three-bay lockup garage is adjacent to the house and a ‘man’ shed with a bar, separate from the house. The house and sheds are set within well established native gardens and there is also room for a pony in the front paddock.

RENTAL Imbil – Acreage Rental 30 ARCE property situated five minutes from Imbil township.

Modest three bedroom highset timber home set well back off the road offering complete privacy.

Large dam, fully fenced.

Suitable for three horses.

Dogs X two allowed (outside only).

Contact Tonia to inspect the property.

Rent $265 per week.

Auctioneers • Livestock Agents • Livestock Transport

Livestock 0428 136 893 Terry & Lolie Murtagh • Stock Transport 0428 711 102 Clinton Murtagh Eumundi: Calf sales every Monday • Cattle sales every 2nd Tuesday

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Kenilworth Realty 7 Elizabeth St 5446 0164 Mobile 0417 603 451 Fax 5446 0742 kenilworthrealty@bigpond.com or visit www.kenilworthrealty.com.au RENTALS AVAILABLE FROM $210 p/wk

Small cottage in Kenilworth Township $266,000 It’s an oldie but a goodie. This older style cottage is located in a quiet street only walking distance to the Kenilworth township and situated on an easy to maintain 761m2. This two bedroom home has built-in wardrobes to both bedrooms and hardwood floors. There is an eat-in kitchen and dining room with air conditioning to the living area. Relax on the side-covered deck overlooking the established gardens. With a carport and enclosed workshop, it is great buying for either the investor, first home buyers or those wishing to downsize and move to a country village. The home has full town services, within walking distance to local shops and in a quiet street. The property has been a rental home for the past six years, which has increased in rent over that period of time with good reliable tenants and returning $200.00 per week.

Inspections are by appointment.

Private bushy location – Moy Pocket

This 4.94 acre bush retreat is approximately six klms from the Kenilworth township. There is an abundance of birdlife on this property as well as a few local lizards. There are two bedrooms with the main living areas open plan with tiled floors and Zincalume walls creating a modern look. The home is tucked away at the rear of the property and cannot be seen from the road.

Power and phone connected. All inspections are by appointment as the property is rented out and returning $265.00 per week.

36 flat acres in Tinbeerwah – Beautiful spacious five bedroom home on the edge of Lake McDonald

Here at Kenilworth Realty we pride ourselves on providing the best possible property management service around. We are an REIQ accredited agency and as such all staff follow a strict code of conduct.

We not only manage your investment but Katie 5446 0164 we also aim to enhance it by conducting rent reviews at each lease renewal and providing advice as to the best maintenance strategies for your property. We specialise in rural properties and can as also provide advice on agistment of vacant land and large acreage properties. * Thorough tenancy application process with strict screening – TICA database searches and past rental history investigations conducted to find you quality tenants. * Quarterly routine inspections – immediate follow-up with detailed inspection reports for all landlords – extensive photos taken at all inspections. * Protecting your investment! – We pride ourselves on our thorough entry paperwork system including detailed entry condition reports, photos and all compliance documents.

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The owners have packed and moved out! As you enter the driveway to this magnificent property, you know there is something special about this home.

Manicured gardens, fruit trees, fernery and large Poincianas... With sprawling views from your living areas, you have the beauty of living on large flat acreage.

Very handy location – only 15 minutes to Noosa or five minutes to Cooroy and designed for the family who are after space; five bedrooms all with built-ins and ensuite to master, plus sep. dining room. Spend time entertaining in the family room or from the outdoor covered deck overlooking the inground saltwater swimming pool. Easy to maintain brick and tile, with carpet to all bedrooms.

Air cond and screens t’out, plus one bore and u/ground rainwater tank. Open plan style, 392m2 of total floor area and high ceilings. For the man on the land there is a large 13m x 13m machinery shed (workshop) and plenty of parking with a DLUG and covered carport. This special home could be yours!