PNG Trek to Rediscover WW2 Plane Crash Site
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Wednesday, Date, 2019 svgazette - 1 Sunshine Valley Gazettewww. FREE.com.au Chevallum • Eudlo • Forest Glen • Hunchy • Kunda Park • Palmwoods • Woombye • Mooloolah • Montville • Mapleton • Maleny • Flaxton • Nambour • Yandina • Kenilworth • Witta • Buderim • Sippy Downs “Connecting Hinterland Communities” 0408 459 624 www.svgazette.com.au Locally owned and operated Wednesday, 26th February, 2020 • Edition 197 PNG trek to rediscover WW2 plane crash site Mapleton’s Peter Gamgee will lead a trek through dense forest in Papua New Guinea in June to find a World War Two plane crash site which has not been visited for 30 years. He hopes finding it will help disadvantaged and isolated villages. Photo: Supplied. 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In tough times, I 0408 459 624 Office hours: Mon. to Fri. 9am - 4pm have seen them dig deep to make every effort to help constituents. They are both remarkable humans. Kerry Brown No matter what battle they Long-time resident recognised Publisher endure, both Jenny and Greg turn up to the next gig ready BE in absolutely no doubt, to face the any challenge. for making Montville great I am not running for any They mingle, laugh, cry and councillor position in this share cups of tea with people election. You can safely from all walks of life. In all ignore the rumours. the years I have worked with Congratulations to all them I have seen them give candidates who are running 150 percent to the job. They in division five or 10. I wish will be tough acts to follow. you all the very best in your So, I will miss these two campaigns. councillors. In a few weeks Working long hours and they will cross the finish line, having to make tough and as they prepare for the decisions that can potentially next chapter in life I, too, will polarise a community is not be moving on. for the faint-hearted. When I started this As a publisher and journo, newspaper some years ago, I have first- hand insight into many said it was “against all how hard our own councillors odds” but I promised to “just work. It is not unusual for do it” and I did it. me to see councillors Jenny In the next edition, you will McKay and Greg Rogerson meet the new owners, local several times in the one people with the same passion day. Be it an early morning for this region as me. I can’t breakfast, a late-night wait for you to meet them. meeting or a weekend event, I know our readers will be they are always there. as excited as I am for the Gazette to be going into great And like many others, I Jocelyn Bannister has won the ultimate Montville accolade, being named a Lifetime Citizen. have not always agreed with hands. everything they say and do, So, look out for the next NO matter where Jocelyn community groups. with Jocelyn’s brother and volunteers one afternoon a but I admire, respect and edition. Just do it. Bannister goes in future, she his wife, and quickly got week at the Range Care Op acknowledge their energy However, some of her most will always be a Montville to know the area and its and solid commitment to important work has been in Shop. citizen. representing this region. steering the renovation of St residents. The Bannisters have moved Mrs Bannister was Mary’s Hall, the former RSL After some time working several times since they presented with the 2020 hall. long hours in the store, they came to Montville but have Montville Lifetime Mrs Bannister originally sold and Mrs Bannister had always remained in the area. Citizen Award last Expand Your Business hailed from a cattle property a year off before purchasing In Mrs Bannister’s eyes, month in recognition of the post office, where her Speak directly with about 90 minutes from Montville has the perfect her contribution to the old school friend, Gillie Eidsvold, and worked in a combination of small town, community. Warren came to work for her, over 10,000 stock and station agency, natural beauty, green trees, eventually taking it over. customers fortnightly The local resident of a governess in western and temperate climate. The Sunshine Valley Gazette is a locally owned independent 36 years was a little Queensland, and a nanny in In semi-retirement, Mrs “It’s a nice community. We newspaper circulated in the Hinterland Communities of Woombye, embarrassed by the accolade. Tasmania. Bannister relieved at other like the small, village type of Palmwoods, Nambour, Chevallum, Diddillibah, Eudlo, Yandina, “I haven’t done anything on After meeting and marrying post offices and businesses area,” Mrs Bannister said. Forest Glen, Kunda Park, Buderim, Sippy Downs, Montville, my own – it’s always been Allan, the couple moved to a and worked at a clothing Mapleton, Mooloolah Valley, Maleny, Kenilworth and Conondale. with other people,” she said. property near Biloela where store, at The Bowerbird, and “We have thought about moving but if you look Mrs Bannister’s they farmed for 16 years, at a gallery. ADVERTISING DEADLINES: connections with the initially dairying but then She began volunteering around, there’s nowhere else Montville community moving into lucerne, wheat, in the 1980s with Meals on that has everything we have have been through owning cotton and beef cattle. Wheels, but also got involved here on the Range.” 5pm, 4th March for and working in various After briefly dabbling in with Neighbourhood Watch, This is a lifetime citizen businesses in the town and a motel, they bought the St Mary’s Church and St whose heart will always be 11th March 2020 Issue involvement in different Montville Village Store Mary’s Hall. These days, she in Montville. Wednesday, 26th February, 2020 www.svgazette.com.au - 3 Woombye rail stable operations start without promised train services Sunshine Coast Caloundra I Maleny I Woombye Woombye’s rail stable yards have become fully operational this week but without the extra nine train services that were promised to the community to sweeten the deal. THE contentious rail operational. and 5am, and three driver- stabling yard at Woombye “We’ve lived here for and-guard train crews would have become operational but over 30 years. We bought a come and go to operate the BEFORE AFTER without the nine extra train property next to the railway trains. services that were promised line. We knew what we were The spokesperson said to the community. buying into but we didn’t trains would sound a klaxon The yard had met with expect that they’d built a – horn – for one second once Comprehensive Denture Services strong opposition from facility like that,” he said. upon entering and leaving as residents when it was a safety measure. Mr Melzer said it was “wait direct to the public announced in 2015 but and see” what the noise and The spokesperson said light despite their concerns about light would be like during would be on at 100% while noise and light issues, it was • Denture Repairs and Relines • Health Fund and DVA Rebates the night. there was activity in an area still built. of the yards but would then James Kasmer said he was • Full and Partial Dentures • 10% Senior Discounts Until now, the yard has dim, and that QR had done been used for the testing aware of the glow from what it could to minimise • Comfortable Flexible Dentures • Mouthguards and more and commissioning of New lights at the yard in his house the impact of the yards on Generation Rollingstock – at night, even though they residents. • Free Consultations • No Referral Necessary had only been running at Indian-made electric trains As for the nine extra – but as of Monday, has been only 40% capacity until this week. rail services which were housing up to four NGR promised, the spokesperson trains as they are deployed He said there were also said two extra off—peak P 07 5442 1721 on the Sunshine Coast noise issues when train air- services had been running HINTERLAND VIEW DENTAL 6 Hill Street, Woombye network. conditioning had mistakenly since 2016 and an extra The trains will pull into the been left on all night morning peak service [email protected] stabling yard for cleaning although Queensland Rail between Nambour and and maintenance at night had rectified the problem. Elimbah would begin on Aaron Pryor and residents are concerned A Queensland Rail March 2. Caloundra Only about noise and light issues. spokesperson said three The spokesperson said Mike Melzer, who has lived trains would arrive at the priorities were now on adjacent to the train line for yard morning and night, the restoring service levels 30 years, said he felt a “level latest at 8pm, four cleaning following “significant of apprehension” about and maintenance staff would change” and commissioning the yard becoming fully work there between 10pm the NGR fleet.