Costa Georgiadis with the 7 Weekender team. Costa will be returning this year as a guest speaker. FOR 40 years the Queensland Garden Expo has been inspiring gardeners, green thumbs and lovers of all things green, and this year the…
CARING PETS Dear editor, We regard pets as members of our family with personalities. Charles Darwin was “pooh poohed” when he said there was no difference between humans and animals in feeling pleasure, pain, happiness, or misery – now science…
Event Showcase THE BIG WEEKEND FESTIVAL BILLED as a “cornucopia of punk rock, cold beer and delightful mayhem” The Big Weekend festival will take over Blackflag Brewing’s Coolum Compound on Saturday, July 13 and the Advertiser has a double pass…
THE DEPARTMENT of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) has officially started works to address traffic queues at the Coolum roundabout at the junction of Yandina-Coolum Road, South Coolum Road and School Road. The project aims to ease congestion and traffic…
BY PAT CAVANAGH Kawana were no match for Coolum at home on Saturday, June 29. COOLUM Colts A Grade team consolidated their second place on the table with a 32 to 4 win over Kawana last Saturday night at home…
The Orange Sky Laundry parks up in Coolum each Tuesday from 9am to 12 noon. Pictured are Orange Sky volunteers Di and Kathy with Coolum Team Leader Jay and SOS Food Mart volunteers Shaun (back), Rosa and Stevie. Vanessa Hall …
The Kitty-Kats featuring Coolum’s very own Michelle Brown will be singing up a storm in Maleny. Photo: Contributed When was the last time you went for a venture up to our gorgeous Sunshine Coast Hinterland? Why not make the Rangebow…
Ninderry MP Dan Purdie welcomes the arrival of machinery to mark the start of the $ 5 million project to replace the roundabout at School Road, Yandina Coolum Road and South Coolum Road with a signalised intersection. Photo: Contributed AFTER…
STATE ALP Dear editor, Premier Steven Miles is hoping to buy loyalty and votes in the upcoming state election, spending the kids’ inheritance out of desperation. Knowing full well Labor is predicted to lose the state election in October, he…
BY LINESE NORRISH A LOCAL COAST CARE VOLUNTEER KNOWLEDGEABLE ON LOCAL FLORA AND FAUNA. The pesky fire ant up close. Photo: Contributed FIRE ants were first detected in Brisbane in February 2001, though it seems likely they arrived on a…