Hello Summer and welcome to 2023!
Photo: Kezign Finally, after quite a few years being separated by COVID and a few wet years, summer has well and truly come back to the region, and it has been welcomed with glorious beach days where the sight of…
Time running out for e-scooter users to abide by road rules
THE MESSAGE is being delivered loud and clear – if you use an e-scooter or any other Personal Mobility Device (PMD) and don’t use it within the road rules set out then you will be fined and potentially could end…
Faces of North Shore: Owen Cavanagh
‘Wave’ mural artist Owen Cavanagh at his Coolum-based studio. Photo: Vanessa Bacon-Hall BY VANESSA BACON-HALL Each edition, the Advertiser will take you on a journey through the life of people in our community – the characters, the notable ones and…
Totally awesome volunteers needed for tiny turtle cleanup!
Sunshine Coast Council is hosting a clean-up for the turtles at various beach locations across the coast on February 4. The clean-up will ensure that the little hatchlings have the best possible start when they emerge from their nests. Photo:…
Community Update: Quota Coolum Beach
Ann Fox (left) with Quota President Cindy Arbuthnot and member Beryl Briggs. All three ladies had their birthday on the same day with Ann celebrating her 90th birthday surrounded by friends, family and past and present members from Quota Coolum…
Letters to the Editor 11/01/23
FARE EVASION Dear editor, “There’s no such thing as a free ride”, except on public transport on the Sunshine Coast! It is an epidemic that frustrates both paying passengers and bus drivers alike! Further south, Translink inspectors catch these fare…
Community Update: Development Watch Fundraiser
Movie night to raise funds ADVOCACY group Development Watch is inviting the community to come along to their annual fundraiser which this year is a special screening of the Australian movie ‘2040’. Development Watch (DW) is an Incorporated Association that…
Coolum hosts festive Christmas Carols with crowds singing the night away.
Is it really Christmas without a night of festive singing? On Sunday, December 18 a huge crowd gathered in Coolum’s Jack Morgan Park for the inaugural Coolum Christmas Carols which ran from 3 pm until the early evening. The evening…
COOLUM HIGH STUDENTS CONTINUE TO SHINE WITH STANDOUT ATAR RESULTS
THE WAIT is finally over with Queensland’s Year 12 class of 2022 jumping online last Friday morning December 16 to find out their ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) result and for three Coolum State High School students dreams became reality…
Letters to the editor 21/12/2022
Fuel Price Pain Dear editor, With world crude oil prices just over $70 a barrel, it is astounding to see the current unleaded fuel prices in Australia, at almost $2 a litre. Supposedly, every dollar of crude oil equates to…