COFFEE TIME? Dear editor, I was thinking about how much coffee consumption has changed in Australia, so I did a bit of googling. Australia is the second highest coffee drinking country in the world behind Russia (Germany is not far…
Shelters and playground at Power Memorial Park Mudjimba. TWO LOCAL parks in the region will be getting a makeover of sorts with capital works set to be pumped into Power Memorial Park in Mudjimba and the Peregian Skate Park at…
The Coolum Civic Centre will be a Parisian Jazz Bar on Saturday, June 22 with Pauline Maudy taking the audience to Paris for one night only. Photo: Clea Thorne THE WEATHER may be cooling down, but the musical temperature is…
It’s BEEN a long, costly and hard-fought battle and last week the local community groups who were fighting the Sekisui House Development at Yaroomba were informed that the approved development application had officially been cancelled. The approval to construct a…
Photo: Surfing QLD Well done to local surfing identity Bruce Dunne who literally got the job done last week placing in three events at the Queensland Surf Championships. Bruce who lives by the slogan, “You don’t give up surfing when…
The perfect backdrop of Coolum Main Beach was all the inspiration needed by those who turned up to take part in the third annual Coolum Beach clean-up run by Coolum Surf Club, Coolum and North Shore Coast Care, Dan Purdie…
A majestic humpback whale was pictured just off Mount Coolum in 2019 while migrating along the ‘humpback highway’. File photo: Mike Drinkwater IT HAS been nicknamed the ‘humpback highway’ but there is more going on beneath the surface during the…
IN RECOGNITION of National Volunteers Week which runs from May 20-26 the Coolum Beach Meals on Wheels said a collective thank you to their volunteers on Tuesday, May 21 with a gourmet lunch, Coordinator Gerard Rollo said that it was…
Don Benfell with his wife and his lane which came about from his community activism. Photo: Contributed MOUNT COOLUM resident Don Benfell passed away surrounded by family on Tuesday, May 7 and this much-loved local of 24 years was known…
OP SHOPS FOR THE WIN Dear editor, It‘s a winning trifecta the way opportunity shops reduce the cost of good clothing while reducing the waste stream and raising money for good causes. But wait there’s more. I was at a…