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March 2016

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Never-ending surfing joy Seventy-one-year-old Glenn Martin carves it up for Noosa Festival. P3.

Glenn Martin will compete in the over-70s division. Photo: Ian Borland

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community news Silver surfers ride the wave of Noosa festival’s success AS THIS edition hits the streets, silver surfers are hitting the waves at Noosa Festival of Surfing.

Talk about inspirational, I couldn’t resist putting the picture of Glenn Martin on the front.

As many a t-shirt now shouts out the slogan , ‘Old Guys Rule’, the point is certainly made at this annual event.

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THIS is a story of survival and mutual love. It’s the story of Zac, a little Maltese terrier who came into the life of Patricia Adams 17 years ago when he was just three – scared, filthy and about to be put down.

He was so tiny, staff at the council pound called him Zac because he reminded them of a sixpence (a tiny, pre-decimal currency, silver coin). Fast forward to today and it is clear Zac is worth his weight in gold to 75-year-old Patricia, of Peregian Springs.

So what’s so special about survivor Zac? Well, he’s 20 years of age which makes him probably the oldest Maltese terrier (the oldest dog?) on the Coast.

Maltese terriers have a life span of 12–15 years and with Zac still being around at 20, it’s quite an achievement. His age in human terms is nudging 100.

He’s lost most of his teeth, is blind in his right eye and a bit arthritic but he loves a walk, especially in the cooler weather.

He also has a special diet of

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boiled chicken and mashed pumpkin – two bowls a day.

“He’s a good eater,” Patricia told Seniors when we called to hear Zac’s story.

“I was living in Sydney in 1999, when I saw his photo in the Daily Telegraph.

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lies and they had rejected him. I was told I was his last chance.

“He was filthy and a funny caramel colour. It took me a month of washing him every week to find out he was absolutely white.

“He also had a completely mad look in his eyes. He

was terrified of my father and brother. It was obvious he had been terribly badly treated.”

Patricia said it took her 18 months of love and spoiling and lots of medical attention to get his condition to be “near reasonable”.

“He’s still a bit nervous around men but he’s a good watchdog, barking when someone comes to the door.”

Zac’s vet, Dr Alice O’Hare, of Peregian Springs Vet Surgery, describes him as “a walking miracle, so tough and so stoic”.

“His story is one of resilience and of the commitment Patricia has to him, with her attention to his diet and persistence to ensure he gets the care and medication he needs.

“I think the Sunshine Coast and being surrounded by family has been the perfect remedy for him,” Dr O’Hare said.

■ Is there another much loved pet on the Sunshine Coast that competes with Zac’s age?

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Mates chasing waves 60 years on

By JIM FAGAN

IT’S a safe bet their close mateship will go by the (long) board when Glenn Martin (71) and Mick Reale (74) compete in the over-70s division at the Noosa Festival of Surfing, which starts this weekend (March 5-12).

As youngsters and close mates in 1954, Glenn and Mick used to wait for the school bell at the end of the day at Sydney’s Dee Why Primary and then rush to the beach for a few waves.

Life just couldn’t get any better.

And then, as often happens, they went to different high schools and lost track

of each other until – fast forward 60 something years – they met four years ago at the funeral of a surfing mate in Noosa.

Glenn takes up the story.

“I asked Mick where he came from and he said, ‘Dee Why. I went to primary school there’.

“I said, ‘So did I, but I can’t place you’.”

Glenn then described how a friend had come up from Sydney for the funeral.

“He was moaning about how his marriage had broken up and his wife had got all nasty and burnt all his photographs.

“I said, ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got some old school photos

and I’ll send you some’. I showed them later to Mick and I couldn’t believe it when he looked at one and said, ‘That’s me sitting two seats away from you’.”

Mick, who lives at Tewantin, came to Noosa seven years ago, and Glenn, of Peregian Springs, has been here 14 years.

Nowadays, they surf every day of the week together, chasing waves from Cooloola to Double Island Point, Mick with his 9’2” Laguna Bay longboard and his mate with a 9’ 8”.

“After surfing, we go and have a coffee and tell each other how good we are,” Glenn said.

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Margaret stitches Stage costuming is a seven-day-a-week job

By JIM FAGAN

TAPE measure around her neck, Margaret Courtney is wedged between racks of stage costumes and shelves of hatboxes and wigs on dummy heads, everything, in fact, that goes into creating the magic and the fantasy of Noosa Arts Theatre.

“Tilt your head a little this way, Ebony,” she says as she adjusts Mary Poppins’ hat.

Eighteen-year-old Ebony Hamacek, of Sunshine Beach, who has acted with the theatre since she was 11, obligingly moves her head.

Ebony’s excited and happy. This is her first leading role and the first time she has seen her costume for next month’s production of the musical Julie Andrews made famous.

Wardrobe mistress and performer Margaret, however, is a bit more contained.

After all, she’s been transforming fabric into colourful creations for the stage for the last 53 years, the last

Margaret Courtney adjusts Ebony’s Mary Poppins costume.

25 with Noosa Arts.

She estimates she has been involved in providing 1670 costumes.

Margaret (70) was 17 when she joined the Victorian Light Opera Company.

“My girlfriend and I had minor leads as sopranos in La Belle Helene.

We said we could do our own costumes and the next

She has been involved in providing 1670 costumes! thing we were making costumes for the whole chorus.

“Although I had lessons at school, I hadn’t trained as a dressmaker. I remember saying to my girlfriend, ‘We’ve got more front than Myers’.”

After some years in NSW, where she sang and made costumes with the Hurstville Light Opera Company, she came to Noosa in

1991 with husband George, a set designer and volunteer like Margaret, as is everyone at the theatre.

The following year she auditioned for the lead role of Mrs Barnum in the musical Barnum.

She got the nod – and the job of making her own costume.

She took no time to declare her biggest challenge: “In 2008 we did Gigi. There were, I think, 35 in the cast and everyone had three costume changes. I did a count at the time and, including the gloves, ties and scarves, my team designed and made more than 300 items.

“I had a fabulous role. I played the extremely wealthy aunt and she had the best costumes which, of course, I made myself. I had five costumes changes of sophisticated fabulous clothes, all satin and lace.

“It was great fun.”

Margaret says costuming for a big show is a sevenday-a-week job but she loves it.

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1. David Woithe

“I moved up to Sunrise Beach in 2001, joined the club and got my bronze medallion in 2002.

“At the time I was the oldest person they’d ever put through their bronze medallion. My nickname here is OC for Old Chap - or however you’d like to interpret that.”

“I’ve been patrolling non-stop

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since then, involved in the club in a whole heap of different ways.

“I’ve been a patrol captain here for about six years. I’m 66-yearsold and we have great mixture of young folk and older people.”

2. Tony Frost

Tony already had 30 years of Sydney lifesaving under his belt when he joined up Sunshine beach SLSC in 1989.

There was a general thought among members that Sunshine

Beach surf could be too rough for Nippers.

But by 1993, Tony’s desire and work to create a junior group culminated with the creation of the first group of Sunshine Beach Nippers.

“We started with 45 kids and five years later there were 180.”

pram racks and high chairs and they were important discussions.

“And we were the first club to introduce the no smoking ban – nine months before it was due. For three weeks we copped it, but our restaurant takings doubled in a month.”

clubhouse was built, there was downturn in the building trade and builders and members all chipped in to build it. Gordon Simpson was the State member at the time and he really helped us get it through.”

3. Patrick Roach

4. Ross Bartlett

Ross was the club’s second president.

“Before there was the club, there was just a tin shed here – a lawn locker – for holding the gear. When the

“I wouldn’t go near the surf, but for a few years I helped with other things – the radio, resuscitation. We had a business that needed my time. But Ross stayed on with the club.”

Patrick recalled early conversations surrounding the shaping of a family friendly club.

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There will be live music featuring well-known Coast entertainers Barry Charles, Bob Abbot’s Band and Uncle Bob’s Jug Band, singer Michelle Clifford and various disabled artists plus a kids’ field situated around the Pirate Park.

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“We now have clients from Wesley Care, The Endeavour Foundation, House with No Steps, Sunshine Butterflies and Spiral Inc at Nambour.

We also have private carers who bring their own clients.

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Yacht Club sailing manager Paul Blundell told Seniors the program usually has 38 sailors. “It started in 2005 with a small group of about six from House with No Steps.

“They would come with their carers and we would take them out on the water. Until then, the only activities they seemed to have done were the Aquatic Centre for swimming, tenpin bowling and visit the local shopping centres.

“We were a bit left of field. They’d come here, we’d strap them in life jackets and get them out on the water and get some salt air into their lungs.

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THE Sunshine Beach Surf Club is considered one of Coast’s “young” clubs.

Formed in 1981, the first beach patrol was held in October of that year.

In 1983, the club was granted leasehold rights over land adjacent to the existing carpark for the purpose of commencing building of a clubhouse.

The official opening of the clubhouse by then Premier Joh BjelkePetersen took place March 3, 1984.

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Age no barrier to Andrea despite late start in surf

By JIM FAGAN

AUSTRALIA’S only film festival programmed for film lovers aged 60 and up, Young at Heart, has revealed a stellar program that will roll out in April to Palace Cinemas across Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and for the first time in 2016, Brisbane.

For its 11th incarnation, the Young at Heart program will include 10 new feature films, a selection of new Australian short films starring seniors, special

events, filmmaker Q&As, a digital print of the 1951 classic A Streetcar Named Desire and the Foxtel Movies Audience Award where filmgoers vote for Best Film.

Festival director Mathieu Ravier says, “This year’s program takes a particular look at the modern family, celebrating the unconventional, complex and everchanging relationships that bind us together.”

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Andrea Bohm loves surfing.

water that I’ve met most of my friends.

“There’s not too many girls my age out there, but I try to be encouraging to those I do meet. A lot of them are a lot younger than me, but it’s amazing the number of women in their 40s and 50s who are now starting the sport.

“I suppose my husband is my favourite person to surf

with. He’s fun and is very supportive of my surfing – even allows me to occasionally steal a wave!”

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SURFING for Andrea Bohm is like dancing with the wave as your partner.

“You’ve got the movement, the water, the environment. You don’t need anything else. That’s why I love surfing.”

Andrea, 58, from Freshwater Surf Club in Sydney, is the oldest female competitor at the Noosa Festival of Surfing this month.

She’s a late starter to surfing.

“I was 40 when I picked up my first board.

“I belonged to the generation when girls were discouraged from board riding.

“When I was young, we used to go for our Christmas holidays to Torquay, but not many of our friends rode surfboards. The boys put us off. Real puberty blues stuff.

“The boys would go to Bells Beach and we’d go south and body surf.

“I wanted my two daughters to be able to surf, so my husband, Graham, a roofing contractor, and I, had boards specially made for them.

“There wasn’t much doing for me when they were surfing, so I decided to have a go myself.”

Andrea has a 9’ 2” Steve O’Donnell board and rides the waves usually at Freshwater Beach.

“The thing about the water is that it builds relationships. If I look back at my life, I can see it’s been in the

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Referendum on length of term of State Parliament THE Electoral Commission of Queensland will conduct a State Referendum on Saturday, March 19, in conjunction with the Local Government Quadrennial Elections.

The referendum seeks approval from Queenslanders to change the term of Qld State Parliament.

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The referendum calls for electors to either vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to approve the Constitution (Fixed Term Parliament) Amendment Bill 2015 which seeks to change parliament’s term to a fixed four years.

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strations, and a classic antique car display are planned and an Antiques Roadshow valuer will be on hand to give advice on family collections.

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Peter is the council’s senior cultural heritage officer and he sees the showcase on Sunday, March 20, as a celebration of the Coast’s rich history, as well as being a great family fun day.

He told Seniors that 16 different historical groups from Buderim to Caloundra would come together and “present the places and stories that make our region special to the community”.

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PALMWOODS resident Elizabeth Druitt is the new music director of the Noosa District Concert Band and, already, she has some busy travel plans for her musicians this year.

“We’re going on the road,” she told Seniors. “We have lots of gigs, including a concert in Gayndah and I want them to play at country shows like Maleny, Nambour, Cooroy, and Pomona.

“We’ll also look at appearing, as we did last year, at the Noosa and Maleny Jazz Festivals.”

An instrumental music teacher at high schools in the Beerwah and Kenilworth districts, Elizabeth has just taken over from Bruce Barnett, who had been conductor since 2011.

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The concert band is a family affair for Bob, as his partner Margaret Henson plays clarinet beside him.

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“I hadn’t thought of learning the clarinet until Bob joined another band and started playing again after

a long time,” said Margaret. “He came home and said, ‘You’ve got to learn to play so you can come along’.”

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An early start finds old questions

Fairfax LNP candidate Ted O’Brien talks to local seniors and discovers the issues

By JIM FAGAN

TED O’Brien was delighted by the enthusiasm of more than 80 seniors who ttook him up on his offer to talk over issues facing the elderly in Australia.

After the meeting, held at Buderim Garden Retiremnt Village, Mr O’Brien, a Buderim resident and LNP candidate for the Federal seat of Fairfax, said he was impressed the comments weren’t just related to seniors.

“A lot of people would probably underestimate how well-informed and interested the elderly are about other generations.

It’s not all about their own interests.”

The date for the next national election hasn’t been announced but Mr O’Brien has already started campaigning.

It’s not hard to understand why, last time he was pipped by just 53 votes by incumbent MP Clive Paltant.

Mr O’Brien was supported

by Nambour’s Senator James McGrath, who is

Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister and Assistant Minister for Immigration.

“Once we find out what the problems are, we can make a contribution to solving them,” Mr O’Brien said.

He offered 12 issues, ranging from safety and security, to pensions, aged care

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Those present decided the pressing issues were health, cost of living and the economy, bracketed with the national debt.

and disability support.

The meeting was asked to select three and, after voting, the most pressing issues proved to be health, cost of living, and the economy bracketed with the national debt.

Each was tackled separately and included:

■ Uncertainty about the services of the new hospital at Kawana and the role of Nambour Hospital ■ Out of pocket costs for visits to specialists ■ Pharmacies taking over the role of GPs ■ Government funding for palliative care providers ■ Lack of subsidies for natural medicine; ■ Rising cost of private health cover Following close behind were: ■ Price gouging at the petrol bowser ■ Increasingly high price of meat and groceries and who was profiting ■ Costs of electricity and posting a letter.

But the surprise of the morning came with the inclusion of economy and national debt.

Senator McGrath’s statement that Australia’s national debt would be $565 billion in two years and right now was costing Australians $30,000 a minute in foreign interest was clearly one of concern for seniors.

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cluded: “Why hasn’t this been in the papers? We’re not selling the message correctly.”

“We’ve got to tell the bloke in the street that for every $9 you get in your pocket, we’re spending $10.”

“We’re going to run out of money and end up like

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“We’ve got to pull in our belts and get back on track.”

Other concerns included: ■ Foreign investment, particularly the purchase of agricultural land; ■ the need to ensure big corporates are paying their

fair share of tax; ■ Need to reduce bureaucracy, especially with health and education; ■ GST; also came under scrutiny.

Senator McGrath reported the GST was “done, finished, dead.”

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Taskforce looks at new housing options

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The Palaszczuk Government is committed to working with the experts to ensure all options are explored, and that older Queenslanders can have access to the best and most appropriate housing options.

The Taskforce will provide a report with advice and recommendations to the Palaszczuk Government in the second half of 2016.

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The taskforce will consider the needs of older people and will aim to improve choice, affordability, fairness and independence, while reducing complexity as they move into the next phase of their lives.

The taskforce will consider and advise the State Government on options for the supply of housing, supports and other initiatives that will improve choices

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Help for our seniors to stay local ELDERLY residents could avoid a heartbreaking move away from their home towns and be able to retire locally under a new Palaszczuk Labor Government initiative to build adaptable housing in regional communities.

The Deputy Premier and Minister for Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning Jackie Trad said a pilot scheme would target up to four towns in Central West and North West Queensland.

“The Ageing in Place Project is about caring for people as they enter their senior years,” Ms Trad said.

IF YOU have ever thought about moving into a retirement community but are not really sure where to start, make sure you attend one of the Park and Village Information Link’s free community legal information events about retirement living options in Queensland.

The Park and Village Information Link (PAVIL), operated by Caxton Legal Centre in Brisbane, is gear-

Deputy Premier of Queensland Jackie Trad

“It provides suitable housing so that people can stay in their towns, close to friends and family.

“Too often, residents in our more remote or regional towns are confronted with

the difficult decision to move to a bigger centre because of a lack of appropriate accommodation.

“Economic Development Queensland will shortly engage with local governments, the development sector and community organisations to identify candidate towns to pilot the initiative.

“Already, early discussions with Barcaldine, Winton, Longreach and Cloncurry for example have confirmed strong interest in this exciting project”.

The strategy includes building one and two bedroom lowset duplex and

villa homes featuring wider hallways and doorways to accommodate wheelchairs.

The design includes kitchen benches set at different heights, reinforced bathrooms for the inclusion of handrails and accessibility equipment, and personal safety switches.

The safety switches will provide immediate assistance and allow care and support services to be provided in the home, delaying the need for aged care.

“It is important we support regional Queensland to have appropriate size and accessible dwellings,” Ms Trad said.

“In many centres there is a lack of diversity in home types, so downsizing is sometimes not an option and can lead to people moving from the town where they have lived their lives.

“Compared to metropolitan areas, these remote areas often lack a highly competitive property development sector.”

These projects will also bring an economic boost to the towns, employing local trades and services where possible and providing apprentice training opportunities.

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Free talks about retirement living options ing up for their annual community education roadshow.

Libraries across South East Queensland will host these free legal information events from March to July 2016.

Coming soon is Noosaville Library on April 18, 2016 at 10 am, where PAVIL lawyers will talk about key

features of retirement villages and manufactured home parks.

Specific topics that attendees can expect to learn about include: documents and contracts, fees and charges, maintenance responsibilities and what specific questions to ask before signing on the dotted line.

Alternative retirement living options are also canvassed within the presentation.

The talks aim to give prospective residents a better understanding of the difference between a retirement village and manufactured home park as well as knowledge about what questions to ask to find out what will

suit their needs.

‘We recognise that making the decision to downsize or relocate to retirement accommodation can be an emotionally charged time’ says Catherine Stallard, lawyer with PAVIL, ‘and it is important that all options are considered ahead of time to ensure that the decision is well informed and

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This includes community solar panels, storage batteries and essential circuits which could enable them to operate off the grid during blackouts.

“As well as being energy efficient, they will also be water efficient, providing a comfortable home with reduced energy bills,” Ms Trad said.

Economic Development Queensland will build the homes and will consult with councils, businesses and community associations on preliminary concept designs. suited to each person’s individual circumstances.’.

To secure your seat please contact Noosaville Library on (07) 5329 6555.

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Big Bob retires from the job

By JIM FAGAN

BOB Abbot was sitting on the veranda enjoying the view of Noosa River from the Noosa Council office at Tewantin, something he has done since 1982, except for a break for four years when he was mayor of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council.

“I’ll miss it. For me, Noosa is not the beaches. My Noosa is the river,” he told Seniors when we called to ask him how he felt about his decision to retire after the council elections on March 19.

Bob is 65 and for more than half his life he has been in public office. He is currently deputy mayor of Noosa Council (a position he has held twice before). He was also mayor for one 11-year period (1997–2008).

He’s also had his share of local turbulence, opposing developers, at one time being sued for $20 million by

one of them in the ‘80s and ‘90s and, of course, in 2007 leading Noosa’s losing battle to stop the forced amalgamation with other Sunshine Coast Councils.

Certainly, the highlight of his career was when, with the catchcry “Big Bob for the Job” he was elected

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It was an enjoyable four years and probably the hardest of my political career...” mayor of the new regional council in March 2008, with a whopping 73% of the vote.

“Winning the election and to be mayor of a local authority with a population the fourth largest in the country could, I suppose, probably be seen as a highlight

to many.

“It was an enjoyable four years and probably the hardest of my political career.

“I can look back at what we started, which the current council continues to deliver and improve on, and certainly, feel proud.

“Among the legacies we left was a fairly significant move forward on the airport. If the airport could get international status it would be fabulous.

“Refining and changing the Maroochydore town centre and the purchase of Horton Park Golf Club, developing Kawana Hospital, all these things we started have just as much Noosa deputy mayor Bob Abbot will retire from council after the elections on March 19. benefit to Noosa as they are to the Coast.” services. I have a lot of ex- Bob will also have more relief. Without that my So what’s ahead for him af- perience there.” time for his two bands, health would have been ter March 19?

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He plays harmonica and this environment, play ople in local government “That takes a bit of my fo- resonates with the blues, a music with friends and for asking for advice. I want to cus. I see volunteer boards bit of country and anything friends, and the enjoyment get involved with future like this as giving back to with a 12-bar pattern. of others is a fabulous feelplanning for emergency the community.”

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Noosa, Cooroy launch Tech Savvy Program for Seniors Help to boost your skills

By GAIL FORRER

NOOSA Council is first off the mark with the Palaszczuk Government, Telstra and the State Library’s Tech Savvy Program for Seniors.

Funding of $780,000 has been provided to 38 local councils across Queensland and Noosa Library, with its grant of $16,980, has already started its program of 88 events, all geared to boosting seniors’ tech skills in today’s digital age of iPads, Androids, Apps, eBay, eBooks, Facebook, online shopping and more.

Ross Duncan is director of Queensland’s regional access and public libraries and he was in Noosa to launch the program.

He told Seniors he expected 15,000 Queenslanders would this year boost their tech skills.

“There’s a massive, insatiable demand for this from elderly people. Computers for too long have been a barrier for them to participate in society, to connect with friends and their families if their families move away.

“I think what we will find as we go through the training that new needs will emerge. We’ll then go back to Telstra and discuss future opportunities.

“The aim with this present one is to help seniors to become a lot more confident with technology.”

Ross said any library service or any community organisation was free to access the training online and download and run their own training sessions.

“I encourage any seniors who have ever wanted to improve their technology skills to sign up for this free

From left: Noosa Library’s Tracey King, Julie Terry, Cr Frank Wilkie, Heather Innes-Irons and Qld Regional Libraries Director Ross Duncan.

course and give it a go.”

Group and-one-one sessions on improving your technology skills are also available at Sunshine Coast Council’s libraries.

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There is a range of free tech tutorials suitable for beginners through to advanced.

Events will be held at Noosa and Cooroy Libraries.

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For SCC libraries visit www.library.sunshine coast.qld.gov.au or phone 5475 8989.

Step back in time and visit two historic houses DISCOVER some of our region’s heritage by visiting two of Sunshine Coast Council’s heritage-listed places on the last weekend of the month.

Every last Saturday of the month, from 2-4pm, visitors can enjoy The House of Stories and explore the lives of the dairy farming families who built, lived and worked at Fairview, also known as Pattemore House, from 1907 to 1995.

Then, from 10am-3pm every last Sunday of the month, learn how pioneering families lived and worked in the 1860s and beyond by visiting historic Bankfoot House.

Bankfoot House: 1998 Old Gympie Road, Glass House Mountains, open 10am-3pm the last Sunday of each month, except public holidays. Group tours email friendsofbankfoot@ gmail.com.

Fairview: 15 Porters Lane, Maleny, open from 2-4pm the last Saturday of each month. Group tours email gail@mavmuse.com.

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community news HELLO readers. To enable us to respond to your request for publication of more Community Notices, we ask that you keep your notices short and to the point (100 word maximum). Club Notices deadline for the next issue is March 23. Enquiries to Robyn, Nicky or Chris via email communitynotes@seniorsnewspaper.com.au Jim’s Book Competition – Our lucky winners are: A. Martin, M. Kuhnemann, G. Ayre, J. Byrne and J. Cooper. Congratulations and enjoy. Look out for your copy in the post soon.

VIEW CLUBS ■ Maroochydore The club’s next luncheon will be held on Thursday, March 24 at 11am at the Maroochydore Surf Life Saving Club. Due to unforeseen circumstances, some lunches this year will be held on a Thursday. Cost is $28 for a two-course meal.

Newcomers are welcome.

For more info contact Terri on 5390 9783.

■ Caloundra Evening The Club meets on the second Tuesday evening of each month at the Caloundra Power Boat Club, Golden Beach and provides a great opportunity for ladies, including those still involved in the workforce, to meet new friends, connect with others who share their interests and help children in need.

To find out more contact the secretary on 5492 6884 or by email at caloundraview@hotmail.com

■ Buderim Our meetings and lunches are held on the first Wednesday of the month, at 246 Petrie Creek Road Rosemount (Bli Bli) at 11am.

There are always interesting guest speakers and also a social activity on the third Wednesday of the month.

If you have not been to any of our meetings, please consider coming along.

Have lunch with a friendly group of ladies and make new and lasting friendships. Please call Leonie at 5452 6068 to make a reservation. For luncheon bookings or cancellations, please call by 6pm on the Sunday before the luncheon.

ner to Kokoda. In a direct line the distance is 97 kilometres but the actual walk was about 130 kilometres.

A group of eighteen commenced the journey but only seven finished. John is the oldest man at seventy six years to have completed the walk. During the walk this area was experiencing what would be considered a drought. Even so the track was very slippery on the steep climbs and they had to wade through waist deep streams. This brought home to him the difficulty our troops experienced during the campaign which was fought during a very wet period. A visit to one of the war cemeteries where there are two and a half

needed break from the rains as they basked in the brilliant sun-soaked surrounds!

■ Currimundi Combined Probus Club of Currimundi Combined love their food; be it queuing up to be served by chefs Peter, John and Kev at the BBQ breakfast by the sea at Kings Beach or an evening or a scrumptious Thai banquet at Bangkok by Night.

■ Kawana Waters Toastmasters Big celebrations at our first meeting as two of our members, president Ivy Dempsey and vice-president of education Vicki Johnson, both attained their Compe-

you feel you could do a good job as president but don’t have the confidence to put up your hand? Well Toastmasters can help you.

Kawana Waters Toastmasters meet on the first, third and fifth Thursday of every month at 9am for 9.15 start, at the Guide Hut, Iluka St. Buddina. Why not come along a check us out.

There is definitely no obligation, the only thing you have to lose is your fear.....

We are a morning tea meeting and meetings finish at approx. 11.30. There is no cost to visit – and you will find us to be a friendly, supportive group of various age groups from 20s to 80s and from all walks of life. If you would like to know

PROBUS CLUBS ■ Sunshine Coast Ladies Our club meets on the first Friday of each month from February to November at the Headland Bowls Club.

The Probians’ club is small in numbers, but that does not inhibit the members as there are many functions organised to Brisbane theatres, luncheons, bus tours, etc.

The first meeting for 2016 was very well attended with about forty members present. The guest speaker, Robbie from Smart Pups presented a very well informed presentation and the overall result was most gratifying. Smart Pups is an organisation of skilled volunteers selected to train dogs for children suffering from various disabilities such as autism, epilepsy and similar brain dysfunctional problems triggering anti-social behaviour.

■ Nambour The guest speaker for January was John Stocker who spoke on his recent hike of the Kokoda Track from Owens Cor-

Currimundi Combined Probus members awaiting their Thai banquet.

thousand graves was a very sobering experience. He says there are many who still do not have a known resting place due to the nature of the terrain.

■ Kawana Waters With club activities regaining their former momentum after the Christmas break, it was the Dining Out group who converged on the Quarter Deck at the Caloundra Power Boat Club recently for a fun packed luncheon event. As always, a fun time was enjoyed as members enjoyed a much

tent Communicator awards, and were presented with their new badges. The Competent Communicator (CC) is the first of many awards that are achievable when you join a Toastmasters club. Do you ever go to a meeting and have something vital to say, but are afraid to get to your feet in case you make a fool of yourself? Is it a special occasion – birthday, anniversary, wedding – and you would love to make a speech but don’t feel able to? Are you in a club where

more about us phone Lorraine 5493 7470.

■ Genealogy Sunshine Coast Monday, March 14 – Free Workshop, 2.30 to 4pm Most useful resources for family research are at GSC Library. 12000 items maps, journals, digital files which are a great introduction to the library showing different ways to use resources to extend and confirm your research.

Librarian Jan Bedwell will be explaining the layout of

the library and detailing information that we hold.The Irish Interest Group will celebrate St Patrick’s day on Thursday, March 17. There will be a special presentation and Irish morning tea. The program will commence 9.3010.30am - plantation settlements in Ireland with Maureen Irvine. Morning tea will follow. The second topic, 11-noon - famine in Ireland with Lee Goleby.

The interest group with Bob May continues to attract a large number of members on the third Monday of the month. Claiming the Date – Saturday, August 27 at 9.30am Shauna Hicks workshop.

■ Noosa U3A Have you ever wanted to try African drumming, acrylic painting or properly understand if Global Warming is really happening? Did Elizabeth 1 actually have children? These are just a sample of the wonderful classes on offer at U3A Noosa.

The program for 2016 is so extensive that deciding which courses to do is the main problem. With membership only $45 a year ($40 for Pensioners) and each class just $2 many are already full even before some begin.

Call into U3A House 64 Poinciana Ave, Tewantin, Monday-Friday 9am-2pm or phone 5440 5500 for the extensive list of courses and talks.

Alan Roberts is back with more wonderful Armchair Travel this time with exceptional videos on Paris and the rest of France. March 11 and April 8 should be in diaries.

Then that intrepid traveller, diver and photographer Jan Brown returns on April 15 with Catalina Flying Boats. Lest We Forget. Arnold Kopff follows on April 22 with his film: Days and Nights in Africa and on August 5 with A Journey North by North West.

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■ Glasshouse Country Our guest speaker at our next monthly lunch meeting at the Glass House Sports Club on Wednesday, March 16 will be Maz Schirman from the Institute for Women. Arrive at 11am for 11.30am start.

We welcome new members, just turn up to one of our meetings or outings. We

are only a small club but we already provide financial support to four under privileged children to assist in their education from primary through to tertiary schooling.

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■ Cooroy Noosa Genealogical Group Writing up family history research for everyone to read and enjoy can be a daunting task but Cecily Fearnley writes delightful stories about her research and experiences, Cecily will be guest speaker at the monthly meeting of Cooroy-Noosa Family and Local History Group, her topic will be Writing Family History for my Grandchildren. The talk is at 1pm followed by afternoon tea and the meeting on Saturday March 12 in the Cooroy Library on Maple Street. To find out more about the group and the regular events visit www.genealogy-noosa.org.au or phone 5442 5570.

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■ Indoor Bowls For a fun filled couple of hours twice a week why not try indoor bowls. Never played before? Not a problem, we have friendly players who can teach the finer points of bowling. At Palmwoods Indoor Bowls at the Community Hall, Palmwoods, Tuesday 8.30am-noon and Thursday 12-3.30pm. For more info phone Liz 0427 546 679 or simply turn up. First game is free.

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■ Kawana Senior Citizens We are in full swing and the musical entertainments are a specialty at the club starting at 9.30am each Thursday morning at the Kawana Community Hall, behind the Kawana Shopping World. So come along and join in, as there are lots of interesting things for everyone to enjoy. Special days coming such as St Patrick’s Day, Easter, Melbourne Cup Day etc.

Something different for the seniors will be a Cent Sale, coming up soon.

There are plenty of bus trips coming up. If you are lonely and need some companionship over 50, please just come along. Or phone president, Selima Taylor on 5452 5979 for any enquires, about this very active Club of Kawana Waters.

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■ Lifeline Bookfest The Bi-Annual Bookfest will be held at Lake Kawana Community Centre, 114 Sportsmans Parade, Bokarina, from April 7–10.

Doors will be open from 8.30am until 4pm daily.

It will be easy to lose yourself over trestle tables covered with every variety of books including mystery, fantasy, humour, crime, romance, non-fiction and fiction, sports, novels and children’s books. Help support Lifeline services such as the 24 hour 13 11 14 Crisis Support Line.

For more information call Melissa Keary on (07) 5409 1400 or 0448 125 828 by email melissa.keary@uccommunity.org.au

on Thursday, March 10 from 9.45 for 10am at the South Pacific Resort, 179 Weyba Road, Noosaville.

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I’VE never been a fan of self-help books. You? Don’t answer. You either love these books for the boost of motivation they give you, or you scoff at them as a bit mumbo jumbo.

Or maybe you swing from one way to another. Whatever works for you.

There are a zillion self-help books for the ageing person, myriad pages of information to make us seniors feel good about ageing, endless advice to keep us active/involved/relevant/ happy.

I’m dipping in and out of a book called Ageing Disgracefully – it’s an old book I found in our garage covered in dust, obviously ready to be put out in a garage sale that never happened.

I resurrected it, dusted it off

and it’s good again.

Written very tongue-incheek, it’s full of wry and pithy little snippets.

It cheers me up every time I open it.

Let me quote you a few of the gems in the hope it will cheer you too.

“Don’t lie about your age.

Be proud that you’ve made it this far without losing your sanity or a major organ.”

I have never felt inclined to lie about my age – until three weeks ago, when I celebrated a birthday with a whopping big O on the end of it.

Now I have declared myself 49, staying that way forever.

Let’s dip again into the little book: “Get on a motorbike and take off down the coast.”

Nup, not doing that one.

Ever.

Another gem: “Candlelight – use it everywhere. Carry a lit candle in front of you to restaurants if you can manage it.”

This one I like very much.

Candlelight is the mature person’s best friend. It softens wrinkles, lifts jowls, removes furrows between the brows. Try getting all that

from Botox.

Let’s dip again. “Have a garage sale. Over several decades, it’s amazing what useless crap you acquire that other people will pay good money for.”

How true, how much crap is in your garage/cupboards/wardrobe? Sell it.

(Or resurrect it like I did with the little book.)

This one I like very much.

“Don’t murder your husband/wife. You’re the first person they’ll suspect.”

A good one to remember when the spouse gets so under your skin you want to hit him/her over the head with the crock pot.

Here’s another. “Every once in a while give in to the urge to be appalling and tasteless.” Eh? But then.

“Only twice a day.”

This next one is my favourite: “Drink champagne.”

It needs no further comment from me.

And finally this one: “Always remember what Oscar Wilde said: ‘Youth is wasted on the young’. ” So you see, some self-help books do make you feel better. Now go and clear out your garage. ann.rickard@scnews.com. au www.seniorsnews.com.au

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■ Sunshine 60 & Better Sunshine 60 is a community development healthy ageing program focusing on increasing the awareness of healthy lifestyle options.

The group offers a number of activities including Brainasize, mah-jong, cards, belly dancing, tai chi, art and craft groups etc.

One of our popular activities is an exercise program called Brainasize. The program, developed by Kerrie Marshall, is good for mind and body as well as being

lots of fun and relaxing.

Brainasize classes are being held twice monthly, the second and fourth Fridays of the month, at two Sunshine Coast locations: Kawana Family Meeting Place, 60 Woodlands Blvd, Meridan Plains from 11am-noon.

Kawana Family Centre, 50 Iluka Ave, Buddina from 2-3pm. Cost is $6.

Call 0428 776 043 for more information and to make a booking.

A new weekly Monday morning coffee meet up from 10am-noon, for lively

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over-50s, will commence on March 7. It is the perfect way to start your week.

■ Yandina QCWA The ladies of Yandina QCWA invite new members and look forward to meeting on the fourth Friday of each month at 9.30am in the newly renovated Post Office, Stevens St. Yandina.

If you are wishing to make new friends, have fun and learn new skills while helping less fortunate in the local community please join our happy and productive

group.

This is a newly formed branch with fresh ideas, sharing their creative skills and compassion to make a difference. Contact Lynda Tomkins 5446 8939 or 0409 909 057 ■ Your Life – Your Choice!

On Wednesday, March 16from 9.30-11am at Lawson Shed, Memorial Ave, Pomona, Community Connect will address an important issue for all seniors and their carers – Consumer Directed Care.

Aged Care reform has

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Come and find out what this means for you. Gold coin donation.

For bookings phone 5485 2427.

■ Sunshine Coast Computer Club Do not feel left out when friends talk about using the internet to read the paper or pay bills. Come as a visitor to a meeting at Buderim or Caloundra and have an introductory chat to our welcoming member and see a meeting in progress. Have a cuppa with the club’s friendly members as a start to getting to know your computer and technology devices. Telephone - Club Information Line 5492 1005, visit CONTINUED PAGE 20

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community news Simple philosophy behind yoga eases social suffering

Taraji journey: Therese Maguire

IF you think this sounds highly unlikely let me assure you, you are not alone...don’t you have to be able to put your foot behind your head and sing Jingle Bells at the same time to do Yoga? This concept of only needing a body and a breath to do Yoga was first thought up many moons ago by an Indian guy called Patanjali. He decided to describe and record the process of yoga. Many Indian sages believe that in the Golden Age (the first period of humanity as we know it) people meditated naturally and lived in a natural state of bliss. However, by the time the great sage Patanjali was born people were becoming very confused. They were comparing themselves with each other and losing sight

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of the true purpose of Yoga. Yoga’s purpose is to enable our journey to physical and metaphysical freedom.

Most of us believe that physical suffering is an inevitable stage of life. We also seem to buy in to the notion that stress is unavoidable if we wish to sustain our lifestyle.

Patanjali describes the way out of this physical and metaphysical stress. He takes us on a journey to settle the mind and attain freedom from suffering.

This journey to freedom is set out in eight steps: Honouring the natural laws of life (including authenticity to oneself); observing the rules for living (belief in something greater than self); very simple daily postures to prepare our body for meditation; specific breathing techniques; withdrawal of the senses; using specific effort to relax the mind: meditation and eventually the Settled Mind.

Next month we will look at the specifics of the natural laws of life and how this relates to the Rejuvenation Revolution.

Namaste, Tara.

www.sccc.org.au watch the introductory video, or email the Club at sccc@internode.on.net ■ Hibiscus Society The Sunshine Coast Branch will be holding their monthly meeting and blooms competition at Woombye School of Arts Hall, Blackall Street Woombye at 10.30 am, Sunday, March 13. Visitors are welcome and membership available. For further information call Audrey on 5476 2771 or Ted on 0407 440 999, or just turn up.

■ Caloundra Stamp Club The Stamp Club meets at 1pm on the fourth Thursday of each month. Meetings are held in the Catholic Church Parish Hall, 61 Edmund Street, Caloundra.

Circuit books, stamp displays, accessories and bargain table. New members and visitors are always welcome. Details 5494 7233.

■ Caloundra Arts Assoc Caloundra Arts Centre Association is holding a combined exhibition at 5 North Street, Caloundra. The exhibition will be held from Friday, March 25 to Monday March 28 from 10am until 4pm.

Caloundra potters, silk painters and spinners and weavers are combining to present this amazing display and sale of local handmade and handcrafted works of art, showcasing some of the finest pieces currently being made by individual makers.

During the day there will be displays and demonstrations. Entry to the exhibition is free. More information can be found at: www.caloundraartsandcrafts.org.au ■ Solutions 4 Learning We are running a free Volunteer Tutor Training course that will start on March 9 for people who would like to help adult learners to improve their skills in reading, writing, spelling, maths or basic computers. Wednesday’s 9.30am-12.30pm for 12 weeks. Please call Solutions 4 learning on 5476 2511 for more info.

■ Time to De-stress Are you still feeling stressed with daily life, even though you are now retired? Does finding something to wear each day, seem like a big effort?

Taking the stress out of daily living and taking the stress out of dressing are the central topics to be covered at a wonderful work-

shop event for women, to be held on Saturday, April 2 from 10am-3.15pm, in the Sunset Lounge at Noosa Springs Resort, Noosa Heads.

This enjoyable and informative day promises to be supportive and non-judgmental, and also offers the opportunity for you to meet other like-minded women eager to embrace life in a positive way. A lovely lunch is also included. For bookings and enquiries, phone 0439 708 142 / 0431 105 879. Email insideoutsidegreat@gmail.com ■ Melanoma Patients Aust MPA is a support group for anyone who has been diagnosed with melanoma, their family and their friends. The Sunshine Coast Branch meets at 10am on the third Friday of each month at the Cancer Council Office, Big Top, Duporth Avenue, Maroochydore. The next meeting will be held on Friday, March 18 at 10am.

For more info about our meetings or to talk to someone from our group please phone Christine on 0412 689 546.

■ Scleroderma Support Group The aim of our group is to offer support, knowledge

and understanding to each other while also making the community more aware of this barely known but debilitating disease. Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease which affects the skin, blood vessels and connective tissue throughout the body and may attack many body systems or just a few and is difficult to diagnose because no two sufferers have the exact same set of symptoms while the disease progresses at a different rates for each person. Our meetings are held at Chancellor Tavern, Chancellor Blvde, Sippy Downs at 11am. Dates for the year are: April 7, June 2, August 4, October 6, December 1. Looking forward to seeing members, families and supporters to help support and gain knowledge while promoting the disease within the community.

Any more information phone 0417 615 733.

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"Everyday matters” with Carolyn Devries, CEO, New Way Lawyers

WILLS are like most other legal documents, people have a general idea of what they are about but they may feel daunted by the details and do not fully understand who should make a Will, when one should be made and what should be included.

In our eight-part series, we hope to shed light on commonly unknown issues relating to Wills.

More than 50% of adult Australians do not have a valid Will.

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the Western Australian Public Trustee, more than half of Australians either do not have a Will or do not have a Will which is effective on death.

If you pass away without a Will, the law in the state where you live will determine who is responsible for distributing assets you own and who will receive these assets.

This means that you will have had no control over who is in charge of distributing your assets and your assets may not be received by the people that you would have chosen.

Even if you have a Will, your Will may be invalid if it has not been properly completed.

A Will may be invalid due to common mistakes such as not having a proper witness or deeper issues such as someone having undue influence on the content.

We encourage everyone to document their wishes in a valid Will.

This information is intended as general legal information only for people living in Queensland and is not a substitute for individual legal advice.

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duce the 4000 deaths that occur each year as a result of Bowel Cancer. Studies have shown that this number can be reduced by 30% simply as a result of people doing a Bowelscan test regularly. Bowel Cancer is difficult to detect in its early stages but is 90% curable if detected early enough. Rotary offers relatively inexpensive test kits which are available at many pharmacies on the Sunshine Coast from Gympie to Caboolture and inland to Maleny, Cooroy, the Glasshouse Mountains and Nambour. The price of the kit includes testing at a Pathology Laboratory and participants will receive written advice of their test result. For more information contact 1300 779 694.

■ Volunteers Needed The Sunshine Hospice Ltd, is seeking volunteers to help in their Maroochydore Op shop on Aerodrome Road. Jobs include sorting clothing and goods in the store, restocking shelves and racks and retail work.

A spokesperson said the shop has two shifts per day (am and pm) five days a week and Saturday morning, open from 9am to 4 pm Monday to Friday and

9am to noon Saturday.

Any time people could afford, would be most welcome. If you can help please phone 5479 0881 during business hours.

■ Aglow International Sunshine Coast Branch will meet on Friday, March 11commencing at 9.30am at Flame Tree Baptist Church hall, Coes Creek Road, Burnside. Entry is $8. Aglow is an International, Interdenominational Christian organisation.

Men and women are welcome. Come along and enjoy an inspirational message and worship. Sharing with us will be our president, Melva Kajewski. For further information contact Melva 5443 5752, mobile 0421 900 770; or Dorothy: 5476 4190, mobile 0487 425 657.

■ Living Littoral exhibition Pomona Railway Station presents an exhibition by three well known Boreen Point artists, Telena Rodgers, Michele Knightley and Rosalind Edgar. Living Littoral will run to March 16. This exhibition will include works in mixed media, eco dying, mosaic and ceramic.

Lake Cootharaba and its surrounding shoreline is the subject for this group of

Boreen Point artists to express their sense of place through their chosen mediums.

Living Littoral is inspired by the natural environment of Lake Cootharaba.

Pomona Railway Station Gallery is housed in historic railway buildings and surrounded by beautiful gardens.

More info: www.pomonartgallery.com / pomonagaller@gmail.com/ Ph 5485 2950, 10 Station Street, Pomona. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday, 10am-2pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.

■ Stamp Fair The Sunshine Coast Stamp Club is holding its Annual Stamp Fair on Sunday, March 20 at the Square Dance Centre, 260 Dixon Road, Buderim, from 9am to 4pm.

The Club has invited five professional stamp dealers and a specialist coin dealer.

Dealers cater for both the specialist collector providing good quality, rare and high value stamps, and for the ordinary collector who may or may not be a stamp club member.

The public are invited to bring along their own stamp and coin collections and allow one of the Club’s

experienced members give a free appraisal on the worth of the stamps.

Entry is free. Further information can be obtained by contacting John Foster, Club Secretary on 0400 114 355 or Peter Rule, Club Public Relations Officer on 0417 720 581 or by email above.

■ Noosa Bridge Club Learn to play Bridge. Eight lessons over eight weeks, Monday 9 to 11.15am.

Starting Monday, March 14. $70 per person for eight lessons, bridge book and morning teas. 3 Wallace Drive, Wallace Park, Noosaville. To register or for more information email the Club at noosabridge@bigpond.com or phone 5447 1341.

■ Sunrise Easter Service The annual Ecumenical Sunrise Service will be again held on Easter Sunday at Shelly Beach. This was started by the Caloundra Uniting Church 30 odd years ago, and now has grown to a “must do” event for many Christians on the Sunshine Coast. Starting at 6am it is a half hour of praise and fellowship. Seeing the sun rise over the ocean as we celebrate the First Easter morning is an CONTINUED PAGE 22

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Kawana Waters Probus members Elaine Davidson, Dorothy Taylor, Sue Goodman and Jenny Nelson.

awe inspiring sight. Everyone is welcome – we welcome surfers, walkers – bring along a folding chair or a rug.For information caloundrauniting@bigpond.com or 5491 5353.

■ St Peter’s Easter Service Easter Service will be held in our church on the Cnr Church St and Beach Rd, Maroochydore.

The Theme for Easter is Oh What a Gift.

Palm Sunday, March 20, 7am and 9am, Holy Communion, Wednesday, March 25, 9.30am a shorter Holy Communion service.

Good Friday, March 25 at 9am Special Good Friday Service.

Easter Saturday, Saturday March 26, 4pm to 4.30pm Hot Cross Buns Children’s Service; Easter Sunday, March 27 7am and 9am Holy Communion.

For more info about these services or any other events at St Peters please phone our church office at 5443 2133 mornings or visit our web page at www.anglicanmaroochydore.org.au ■ RAAF Kawana The Kawana Branch currently has vacancies for membership both male and female. The aim is to promote and maintain welfare and benefit of serving members, ex members of the RAAF and of Her Maj-

esty’s Air Forces, Allied Air Forces and their dependants. The Branch also conducts monthly subsidized lunches, bus tours of an interesting nature and many other types of social activities. Branch meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Kawana Waters Surf Life Saving Club at Pacific Blvd, Buddina at 10am. For more info phone 5443 2775.

■ Maroochy Historical Society Bli Bli on Maroochy Historical Society has a sublease with the Bli Bli Public Hall and Community Association who have a threeyear lease with Council. After years of negotiations with Council and community, we will have a historic house in our care. There we can work on our collections and plan community education events. After initial setup there will be a weekly roster, members and volunteers. Meetings are still at the Old Church, Willis Road, Bli Bli, on first Monday of the month, at 9.30am.

Phone Anne 0400 913 443.

■ Anxiety No More This workshop from Anji www.anji.com.au is designed to reduce vata and build stability, steadiness and resilience. Begin with a mudra for grounding, a simple flow to reduce tension in the upper back, neck

and shoulders and then some standing twist to wring out anxiety. End with meditation to flush out excess energy in the mind, reducing anxiety and enabling courage and trustring 0411 572 896 for more info and to book. Sunday March 13, 10am to 11.15am $15 ■ Wheel Of Life Anji introduces the Wheel Of Life, the chakra system with a thorough overview and detailing the base chakra. There are six additional workshops to follow - each a yoga practice based on one of the seven chakras. Chakras are major energy centres in the body and mind. Learn to open and balance each one through a series of talks, discussion and exploration Sunday March 6, 11am to 12.15am $15 - ring 0411 572 896 for more info and to book.

■ Planning Your Future Positively Planning Your Future sessions are being held in two locations: Caloundra Community Centre, Thursday March 17, 9-10:30am and Glasshouse Mountains Neighbourhood Centre, Thursday April 7, 10-11.30am.

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ENTERTAINMENT ■ Mad Hatters Cabaret March has arrived and the Sunshine Coast Concert Band is preparing for their first dance. This month’s theme is a March Mad Hatters Cabaret. Seen at rehearsals recently were Ernie, Elliot and Geoff, the band’s trombone section getting “in the mood”. The concert band celebrate their 20th birthday this year and over that period have raised almost half a million dollars for local charities and not for profit groups. The dance enables the band to finance its operation for the year. Insurance costs, instruments, copying, hall hire etc all add up and the band needs to cover significant expenses so that it can continue to provide this service to other groups on the Sunny Coast.

Come along and wear a “Mad Hat”. You may win a prize!

March Mad Hatters Cabaret on Saturday, March 12 at 7.30pm at the Kawana

Community Hall, Nanyima St, Buddina. Cost is $15 includes coffee, tea. BYO drinks, glasses and nibbles.

Bookings contact Aileen Presser 0410 405 334 or email aileen.ernie@y7mail.com ■ Baroque to Berstein Sunshine Coast Symphony Orchestra will present their Baroque to Bernstein Orchestral Concert at St Mark’s Anglican Church on Saturday, March 19 at 2pm. You will hear this beautiful building reverberate with music of the Baroque era – Albinoni and Vivaldi to Bernstein and Berlin.

All tickets $20. Children under 16 are free. Tickets are available at our website sunshinecoastsymphonyorchestra.com or prebook tickets by phoning 5442 3445.

■ Cellist to perform with Pacific Chamber Robert Truman, principal cellist with the London Philharmonic orchestra, will join violinist Julie Anne O’Reilly and pianist Janet Brewer for the performance of four beautiful piano trios at the first Pacific Chamber Players concert for 2016.

The concerts will be performed on March 12 at St Peter’s Catholic Church, Coolum; March 13 at Uniting Church, Caloundra and March 19 at Cooran

Memorial Hall. All concerts commence at 2pm.

Tickets will be available at the door - $27 for adults $22 concessions, $7 school students. This year a proportion of ticket sales will go to Bloomhill Cancer Care Sunshine Coast.

■ Sing Australia The harmonies are ringing now that the Sing Australia Sunshine Coast group has started the new year. Local leader Karen Froelich said there are over 140 Sing Australia groups in communities throughout Australia. Once a week men and women gather for the joy of singing in a group, without needing to confine themselves to the privacy of the shower or the car, or worrying about perfection. There are no auditions, and members don’t need to be able to read music.

But it’s not just a sing-along. ‘We are fortunate that our conductor and accompanist are both accomplished musicians, who help bring out the best blend of voices, and encourage us to challenge ourselves, whether it’s a modern pop song, a traditional air, a show tune or a classical piece,’ said Karen.

‘New members are always welcome.’

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9pm at St Lukes Lutheran Church Hall, Sydney Street, Nambour. For further information contact Karen on 0401 184 132, or Di on 5441 1032, or Barrie on 5445 2258.

■ Brass & Woodwind at the Beach Sunshine Brass in conjunction with the Noosa Concert Band are proud to present a musical feast on Sunday, March 20 commencing at 1.30pm at the Coolum Civic Centre, Park Cres, Coolum Beach.

Admission is $15 adult or $13 concession and includes afternoon tea. For further info contact Arch Robertson on 0409 851 546 or email sunshinebrassband@gmail.com ■ West End to Broadway From West End to Broadway...is the title of the musical ride along the highways of the truly great shows.

The big songs and the big talents of A Chap, Three Divas and a Piano, will be on parade on Sunday, March 13 at 2pm at the Indee Theatre, 1 Main Street, Palmwoods.

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Saturday, March 12 at 7.30pm at the Coolum Civic Centre, Park Street, Coolum. Prizes include $200 cash prize for the winning team and raffle prizes.

Tickets for the Trivia Night are on sale for just $15 each. Teams of up to eight on tables of eight. BYO drinks and nibbles.

Book your tickets now on www.coolumtheatre.com.au or 5446 2500.

■ SingSpire Chorus Our Community Choir rehearse in the Function Room at New Life Centre adjacent to NCC, Woombye. We are a mixed choir with some vacancies in all sections. No audition, or knowledge of music is required, but help is available for voice placement if you are not sure. We are a very friendly bunch of people, who enjoy singing together to create a wonderful sound. For more information go to our website www.singspirechorus.weebly.com email singspirechorous@gmail.com or phone Helen on 0401 270 476.

■ Trivia Night Coolum Theatre Players will hold a Trivia Night on

■ Spiritsong Choir Calling all singers who would like to sing anthems etc usually heard in cathedrals. Spiritsong A Cappella Choir is having an open evening on Wednesday, March 9 at 7pm in Tewantin. If you are a singer, come and have a sing, no cost, and no obligation.

Please email andrewjemmet@gmail.com for details of location, and some music.

■ Pugsley in Concert Sunshine Coast Jazz Club will present a one-off solo performance from Pugsley Buzzard. On upright piano and keyboard, he is a top entertainer. At the Currimundi Hotel Motel Function Room on Sunday, April 3 from 2-4.30pm. Doors open at 12.30pm. Meals available. Bookings phone Caitlyn 5444 7502. Members $20, non-members $25, seniors or U3A $22.50.

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HERNIAS are surprisingly common in men, with around 27% of males developing a groin hernia at some time in their lives.

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So what is a hernia? A hernia occurs when the inside layers of the abdominal wall have weakened, resulting in a bulge or tear in the groin or stomach. The wall of the abdomen has natural areas of weakness and hernias can develop at these sites as a result of heavy strain on the abdominal

part of the bowel is blocked. This leads to death of the tissue and presents as severe pain and tenderness of the area. As the wall of the bowel then breaks down and leaks bowel contents into the abdominal cavity, peritonitis (infection of the lining of the abdomen) and even death can ensue.

Hernias are usually treated with keyhole surgery although for very large hernias, traditional open surgery may be required. There is usually some pain for around seven days after surgery and further discomfort for another week, but most office workers are back at work after two weeks. Those with more physical occupations, such as labourers, will need around six weeks before they can resume work.

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There are a number of potential triggers for a hernia to develop. Chronic coughing or anything that causes increased pressure inside the abdomen, weakening of the tissues from obesity or medications such as cortisone type drugs, can all precipitate a hernia.

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“We have undertaken a lot of work on roads but that doesn’t mean we can rest on our laurels. There is still a way to go, we have to upgrade and rehabilitate the roads throughout Noosa as many are not up to standard in my books.

“It goes further though, we also need to pedestrianise the streets. We have to improve our footpaths so that they all join up to enable people to get from one place to another, particularly for people who rely on motorised scooters.

“Another key area is public transport. I’d like to see free electric buses all year.

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A heartfelt thank-you.

Thanks Caloundra Hospital Auxiliary for your support!

SINCE its establishment in 1981, the Caloundra Hospital Auxiliary has raised almost $2 million for the Caloundra Health Service, with most of this accomplished in the last eight years.

Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS) Chief Executive, Kevin Hegarty thanked the auxiliary members for their tireless efforts in achieving this significant fundraising milestone.

More than 250 dedicated volunteers of the Caloundra Hospital Auxiliary have raised funds over the past 35 years to support the patients and staff of the Caloundra Hospital.

“Each and every volunteer should feel rightly proud of the difference they have made and continue to make in support of the delivery of healthcare to our community,” Mr Hegarty said.

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dine Hagan said their volunteers were dedicated to working toward the funding of Dove Palliative Care Unit, Centre for Living (providing palliative care in the home), and purchasing additional equipment for the comfort and support of patients.

The auxiliary has just raised more than $100,000 to purchase four state-ofthe-art patient beds (Versacare beds), and 15 specialty pressure reducing wheelchair cushions, largely through the sale of second hand goods at its opportunity shop, Bardo’s Bazaar.

“This donation is really all thanks to the dedication of auxiliary members and the generosity of our community,” Ms Hagan said.

“It’s a terrific example of how, through the donation of items, we’re able to give back to our community via the opportunity shop. In

turn, all the money raised from Bardo’s is donated back to the hospital.”

Director of Nursing Dave Johnson said the Versacare beds provided increased comfort for patients.

“They really are the best of the best. They adjust automatically to relieve pressure for patients; and have easy-to-use controls so people can also easily adjust position,” Mr Johnson said.

“We’re extremely grateful to the auxiliary for this generous donation and their continued support.”

Mr Johnson said that over the years the auxiliary had supported the hospital with substantial contributions, including the fit out of the palliative care unit, equipment for the physio and rehabilitation unit, state of the art laser technology for the ophthalmology unit, and new modern special needs beds.

“It’s amazing how through fundraisers, the operation of Bardo’s Bazaar op shop, and donations from Halcyon Parks Caloundra, the auxiliary has contributed to the hospital,” he said.

AS A daughter and a nurse, Kerri Howell was lucky enough to have the knowledge to be able to explain the options and processes to both of her parents, as they progressed through their journey into aged care.

Sadly, these options and choices then became their decisions into ‘end of life care’.

Now Kerri is the director of a company specialising in home care and feels compelled to help anyone out there struggling to navigate through the system.

“It astounds me every day that so many seniors have no idea how to access help when they need it most.

“It also saddens me that as children of seniors, there are so many sons and daughters that also are left confused and alone when trying to make choices to help their parents.”

How do we go about accessing aged care services? What may happen to my pets if I cannot care for them anymore?

How do I try and repay the love and sacrifice that my parent, partner or loved family member has shown me over the years of their unconditional love?

Can I choose to stay at home over being placed into a nursing home?

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Ultimately we all, as human beings, would like to empower ourselves with transparent knowledge and facts, so that we can prepare ourselves or our loved one with the informed choices of care.

There is about to be one of the biggest changes to happen in the care industry, in 2017, with a full Consumer Directed Care approach to in-home care.

To help navigate the changes, Kerri will be featuring a different forum in every edition of Seniors newspaper, commencing in April.

Meanwhile an advisory board of doctors, nurses, palliative care physicians, social workers, pharmacists and many others have teamed together to create a live forum on the website www.bestincareaustralia.com.au.

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Managing investments in volatile times “I will tell you how to become rich…Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful”.

Warren Buffet THE malaise affecting equity markets and risk assets generally has shown no let up with Australian shares now joining Europe, Japan and emerging markets in a bear market. (Defined as a 20% or greater decline from the most recent high).

Global growth worries could drive more shortterm weakness. But in the absence of a US/global recession historical trends inform us it is unlikely to be a deep and long bear market.

When the winter comes you have the option to be like the bear and wait it out as long as you have a sound cave (good strategy) to rest in.

You can keep in mind.

Sharp falls are part of the course of share markets.

Shares literally climb a wall of worry over many years with numerous events dragging them down periodically, but with the general trend ultimately rising and providing higher returns than other more stable assets.

Selling after a major fall simply locks in the loss.

When shares and growth assets fall they are “cheaper” and offer higher longterm return potential. The key is to look for opportunities that the current fall offers – shares are getting cheaper, investment yields on shares and corporate debt are rising. You can’t predict the bottom but one way to manage it is to average in over time.

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By GREG OSBORN

TO CRUISE, or not to cruise?

That was the question my wife and I faced when trying to decide what to do over the holidays.

We’ve both done a fair bit of exploring, but never on the high seas, and tales of norovirus and sea sickness meant we had given it a wide berth. But as more and more of our family and friends returned from their own voyages with happy tales, we decided to take the plunge.

We decided to push the boat out on a 12-day cruise around New Zealand.

We chose the Kiwi route because we wanted something close and familiar and it offered lots of stops along the way, including the Bay of Islands, Tauranga, Wellington, Akaroa, Dunedin, Dusky, Doubtful and Milford Sounds, Hobart and Sydney.

We flew in to Auckland three days before setting sail. This gave us a chance to explore the capital, which we thoroughly enjoyed, especially the impressive redevelopment around the docks.

Bay of Islands: As this was our first port of call we chose to go with the travel agent’s tip and booked one of the pre-advertised excursions. Our day out included a visit to the kauri tree forest and scrambling through the nooks and crannies of a glow worm cave.

Tauranga: Here we elected to do one of the ship’s specialty excursions. You’ll only hear about these once you’re onboard. It included the chance to explore Rotorua’s active volcanic craters, bubbling mud pools,

Cruising the Kiwi route From specialty tours to lounging on the deck as the sights go by

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spouting geysers and the people who choose to live, work and play among it all.

One of the highlights of the trip.

Wellington: Here you can walk off the ship and be in the city centre in half an hour. We chose to do our own thing. We made our way to the closest information centre and in a short time were on our way to Zealandia, a protected natural area in the city where the area’s original fauna and flora is being restored.

We returned to the city via Wellington’s cable car and spent a few hours exploring the city’s restaurants and shops.

Akaroa: This is a small, picturesque French village nestled in an extinct volca-

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Milford Sound, world famous for its natural beauty.

no and here we also chose to follow our noses.

Dunedin: A short bus trip from the docks and you are in the centre of Dunedin.

Again we chose to do our own thing and in this instance we had to retrace the steps of long-dead relatives. That done, we returned to the city to catch a

short steam train ride along the coast. The return leg goes right past the harbour and we hopped off, stopped in a few of the village’s knick-knack shops before returning to the ship.

When cruising Milford Sound find a comfortable spot on the deck and enjoy the vistas.

Dusky, Doubtful and Milford Sounds: There’s not the option to get off the ship here. But there’s no need to. You find a comfortable spot on the open deck and take in the vistas as the ship noses its way through New Zealand’s spectacular world heritage site.

Hobart: Hobart was the one destination that lived up to its reputation. It was raining. But we didn’t mind this as we’d had spectacular weather on the rest of our trip. This wasn’t our first visit to the Tasmanian capital so it was an easy choice to do our own thing. Breakfast came first. No shortage of great eating spots here.

Then a visit to Salamanca markets before going to the always brilliant Museum of

Old and New Art. Sydney: The highlight of the Sydney leg came before we’d even arrived in port.

The Sydney to Hobart journey meant a day at sea and we chose to tour the inside of the ship. This included the bridge, the engine and anchor room, the staff quarters and the kitchen.

Food, glorious food Cruises are notorious for the amount of food available. Buffet, restaurants and cafes. We tried out all options. From the buffet to the posh French number with a $50 cover charge for just walking through the door. The food was great, plenty of variety in formal or non-formal settings.

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(8) 25 Which lake in Ghana is one of the largest artificially created lakes in the world? (5) 26 At almost 5,000 years, which language has a longer recorded history than any other? (8) 27 What gather in a gaggle? (5)

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(5) 3 Royal Cork __ Club in Ireland, the oldest of its type in the world (5) 4 In TV’s The Waltons, what nickname had James Robert Walton? (3-3) 6 What impressive Roman construction can be seen at Nîmes in France? (8) 7 What vegetable is found in the Greek dish tzatziki? (8) 12 Which mountain in South Dakota is carved with the busts of four US presidents? (8) 13 Three-quarters of the world’s what is mined in Quebec? (8) 14 Luminous discharge between two electrodes (3) 15 Women’s clothing size (1,1,1) 19 At a wedding, what blossom traditionally indicates the hope of fruitfulness? (6) 21 What flower is associated with Flanders? (5) 22 What strong, coarse fabric is used for lining or upholstery? (5) 23 The world’s longest cable-stayed bridge when it opened in 1995 crossed which river? (5)

5x5

ALPHAGRAMS

Insert the missing letters to make ten words — five reading across the grid and five reading down.

Solve the anagrams. Each solution is a one-word anagram of the letters beside it, and the five solutions are sequential.

For example, if the fiveletter solution starts with J, the six-letter solution starts with K, and so on.

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Down 1. Crimes (8) 2. Underneath (5) 4. Enemy (3) 5. Relating to (12) 6. Throw aside (7) 7. Requirement (4) 8. Cheerful and carefree (5-2-5) 12. Public square (5) 13. Unabridged (8) 15. Consecrates (7) 19. Keepsake (5) 20. Ski tow (1-3) 22. Regret (3)

Across: 1. Orbs, 3. Off and on, 9. Foliage, 10. Paste, 11. Newspaperman, 14. Ebb, 16. Ghana, 17. Don, 18. Well-mannered, 21. Basic, 22. Ringlet, 23. Restyled, 24. Iced.

Down: 1. Offences, 2. Below, 4. Foe, 5. Appertaining, 6. Discard, 7. Need, 8. Happy-go-lucky, 12. Plaza, 13. Unedited, 15. Blesses, 19. Relic, 20.

T-bar, 22. Rue.

How many words of four letters or more can you make? Each letter must be used only once and all words must contain the centre letter. There is at least one nine-letter word.

No words starting with a capital are allowed, no plurals ending in s unless the word is also a verb.

TODAY: Good 25 Very Good 35 Excellent 42

Find a finished crossword by deleting one of the two letters in each divided square.

Solution opposite

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W C A P E R X L W T R O I R E C E K S P A E E C D E S A T E N D A T S I N Y C

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ALPHAGRAMS: KNEAD, LANCED, MOTHERS, NEPOTISM, OPERATORS. QUICK CROSSWORD

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DOWN: 1 Attar, 2 Freud, 3 Yacht, 4 Jim-Bob, 6 Aqueduct, 7 Cucumber, 12 Rushmore, 13 Asbestos, 14 Arc, 15 SSW, 19 Orange, 21 Poppy, 22 Scrim, 23 Seine.

Across 1. Spherical shapes (4) 3. Intermittent (3,3,2) 9. Leaves (7) 10. Glue (5) 11. Journalist (12) 14. Recede (3) 16. African country (5) 17. Put on (3) 18. Polite (4-8) 21. Simple (5) 22. Curl (7) 23. Given a new look (8) 24. Frozen (4)

NAKED CANDLE THERMOS PIMENTOS POOR RATES

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Work out which squares need to be deleted to reveal a completed crossword.

Solution opposite

DOUBLE CROSS

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Salt and pepper calamari with garlic aioli

Home cooking with Christine Perkins

THIS is one of my all-time favourites, very quick and easy to cook and tastes great.

Serves 4 4 Calamari hoods cleaned and cut into rings about 1cm wide 1 cup rice flour or corn flour 1 ½ teaspoons of salt 1 ½ teaspoons of pepper 1 cup good quality mayonnaise – (Kewpie Brand Soy Mayonnaise is the best for this recipe- you can find it

in your Asian section of the supermarket) 1 ½ - 2 tablespoons of finely chopped garlic (I use minced garlic from the jar it’s easier) Oil for frying – bran oil is good for this recipe Step 1: Cut calamari into 1 cm rings or strips if you prefer, just make sure not too thick. Combine flour and salt and pepper in a bowl. Add calamari. Toss to coat. Shake off excess.

Step 2: Heat oil in a large,

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deep frying pan over medium-high heat. Flash fry, in small batches, for 1 to 2 minutes or until light golden.

Drain on paper towel.

Serve with garlic Aioli (Mix mayo and garlic together) as an entrée for a main serve with a salad of rocket and shaved parmesan cheese and with drizzle of balsamic glaze.

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Festive food swaps to help you keep the kilos at bay this Easter

Try these tasty low-carb options

FOR many Easter often means too many eggs, hot cross buns and family feasts – which we unfortunately pay the price for well beyond the long weekend.

However, Easter is actually the ideal time to swap carb laden dishes for tasty lowcarb meals.

“Contrary to popular believe, Easter is an ideal time for low-carb eating, particularly with plenty of sumptuous seafood on top of the menu.

“With a little pre-planning and some savvy switchouts the whole family will love, you can finish the holiday without feeling heavy,” said Colette Heimowitz, vice-president of Nutrition and Education at Atkins Nutritionals.

Follow these simple swaps to get set for a scrumptious Easter which won’t wreak havoc on your waistline.

These easy low-carb Easter recipes might soon become family favourites: Atkins Easter Buns Makes 8 buns, 5.7g of carbs per bun Ingredients: ¾ cup (72 grams) almond flour ¼ cup (57 grams) coconut flour 3 eggs ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt 1/3 cup almond milk ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon mixed spice 2 teaspoons grated orange peel 1 Atkins Endulge Milk Chocolate bar Method: Pre-heat oven to 175°C and line a flat baking tray with grease proof paper. Sieve the almond flour

Hot cross buns.

and coconut flour into a mixing bowl. Add the baking soda, salt, spices and grated orange peel, and half the Atkins chocolate bar chopped into small pieces and combine. Add the eggs and almond milk and mix well. Divide the mixture into 8 even parts.

Using your hands, roll the mixture into balls. Place

the balls of mixture onto the lined baking tray and squash down gently to flatten the base of each ball.

Using a knife, carve a cross (about ½ centimetre deep) in the top of each bun.

Create slivers from the remainder of the Atkins bar, and place these into the carved lines to create chocolate crosses. Bake in oven for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of a bun comes out clean. Enjoy fresh out of the oven. Or, if the buns have cooled, cut in half and lightly toast on a sandwich press to warm. Store in an air-tight container in a cool place.

Atkins low-carb chocolate Mousse Serves 4, 3.5g of carbs per serve Ingredients: 120ml double cream 1 tsp stevia (or your choice

An extraordinary woman’s life At the Drop of a Veil/ Marianne Alireza IN THE 1940s a pretty, young, Californian university student fell in love and married a fellow student.

Nothing unusual here, except the fellow student was from a Saudi Arabian royal family and her marriage made her the first western woman to marry into a high-ranking Saudi Arabian family.

Ali Alireza was majoring in business and the young woman was studying romance languages when they met in a paleontology class at the University of California at Berkeley.

They married in 1943, the year Marianne Alireza graduated.

Alireza says she had no illusions of what it would be like to wear a veil and a long gown constantly.

“Ali was very honest about what my life would be like. On my engagement night he went all over it again and made sure I knew.”

In 1945 the couple moved back to Saudi Arabia and suddenly Marianne found herself veiled and cloaked, living in another culture and listening to a foreign language.

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tricity. We didn’t go out, and we didn’t do things.

We lived together,” she said, referring in particular to the women of the family.

For twelve years Marianne Alireza lived within a female group composed of her mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, and various children and servants.

During that time she experienced a range of emotions as she struggled within primitive housing conditions, tasting new food, adjusting to a desert environment and in particular the strict rules for female behaviour.

Love can lead you through unexplored territory and in this case Marianne Alireza’s personal commitment to her marriage gave her courage and strength to overcome the obstacles of life in a foreign civilisation A reading of this book in 2016, not only exemplifies the contrasts and similarities of different worlds, it takes into account the fluid role of women, social

changes in the last 50 years, and the effects of oil wealth on Saudi Arabia.

Marianne chronicles her early perceptions, her choking anger at female confinement, living conditions and her diplomat husband’s long work-enforced separations.

Equally, she describes her wonderful experiences as she and her family travel abroad on the Queen Mary and spend time in posh hotels in London and apartments in Paris.

All the time, her love grows as she gives birth to her five children and develops a firm, lasting and respectful friendship with her mother and sister-in-laws.

Her privileged position allows her to attend Europe’s great gatherings of royal weddings and funerals.

After 12 years of marriage, a friend’s phone call to her while she is staying in New York advises that her husband has taken a second wife. At this point

her life takes another unexpected turn as she successfully fights to stay with her children.

Today Marianne lives in the United States, she is the matriarch of five children, numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She calls her children global citizens, who move easily between the two worlds and she promotes international cultural understanding.

While she acknowledges the limitations on Saudi Arabian women.

She has said: “Women there have rights - of course they do.

They also have great power and they exercise it behind the scenes, many running the administration of very large families.”

In 1990 in a newspaper interview she added: “While many Western women look on the veiled Muslim women with pity.

“If you want the truth, Saudi women feel sorry for Western women.

They see beauty contests and girlie magazines in the West, and they say, ‘Women in your world are sex objects.’

To them it’s abhorrent.”

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blend until light and fluffy.

Spoon mixture evenly into four glasses or ramekins, and top with your choice of berries – just be sure to add them to the carb count!

Serve and enjoy.

Low-carb chocolate moose.

of sweetener) ½ tsp vanilla essence 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder Method: Place double cream in a blender, followed by stevia, vanilla essence and cocoa powder,

ABOUT ATKINS: the original low-carb eating approach, the Atkins program has been scientifically reformulated as the Atkins Nutritional Approach – an easy to follow, flexible four-phased program that helps followers build a diet around whole foods rich in vitamins and ‘good carbohydrates’ including low sugar fruits, leafy green vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes, dairy, good fats and protein (fish, poultry, red meat and tofu) – while at the same time eliminating highly processed carbs such as white flour (white bread, white pasta) and sugar.

Love affair with food shines through recipes Autumn Harvest – recipes by Maggie Beer Lantern, an imprint of Penguin Books MAGGIE Beer’s love of food is infectious. The passionate foodie first shared her joy in 2007 with the original Maggie’s Harvest edition.

It has since evolved into four seasonal paperbacks – Harvest Winter, Spring, Summer and now this edition Autumn.

In her signature detailed and descriptive style, you will find a collection of more than 90 of Maggie’s autumn recipes.

She writes evocatively of some her favourite ingredients including crabapples, guinea fowls, quinces, walnuts and partridge.

This goes beyond a retail outlet and often traces sources back to the farm, the growing, harvesting and finally the making of a beautiful recipe and the dinner party where it was enjoyed.

Former Coast restaurateur Christine Perkin followed the Fig and Walnut Tart recipe and delivered a memorable dessert.

Maggie said it is one her most requested desserts – “which is almost embar-

rassingly simple.”

Christine agreed it was a pleasantly easy creation.

“Firstly, I cooked small tarts which came out crispy and then I made the larger one which was beautifully moist.

“I thought it would be much sweeter, but it came out quite lovely with an unusual texture.”

The book takes you back to the roots of food. It is a simple, yet complex work from a committed lover of food.

Her own words best purvey the tantalising zeal that runs throughout the book: “My passion for food has given me so much in life – a sense of purpose, a delicious anticipation of each new day and gifts of much deeper kind than financial,” she said.

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