$1 FROM EACH SALE DONATED TO COMMUNITY AND CHARITY THE FRASER COAST ISSUE 1 THEBEACON.COM.AU Your community, your voice $2 3 DRAWS A CROWD DRAWS 3 TAKE INSIDE THIS ISSUE INTRODUCING: THE BEACON Maryborough Art Society Exhibition 3 DRAWS A CROWD ...TAKE 3 COMMUNITY STORIES LOCAL HEROES & MORE! IMAGES COURTESY OF VE HAMMOND, TANYA GILBY AND PAM PRICE GILBY AND PAM OF VE HAMMOND, TANYA IMAGES COURTESY EDITOR’S NOTE ast year I had the privilege to be on K’gari (Fraser Island) Land took the photo of the historic lighthouse shown on the facing page. I had no idea that one year later almost to the day I would be helping a hardworking small team of locals to produce your new community publication - The Fraser Coast Beacon. A lot of time and effort (we didn’t have funding) has gone into producing this magazine from square one. We had a vision of We need your help! what we wanted to create - an authentic, independent, local, The Beacon is looking for your stories and community publication that shines a light on and for local community causes, small local business, disadvantaged youth, other interesting facts about the region that social issues - hopefully our first step is in the right direction. you would like to share with your local We deeply thank the people, organisations and businesses community. who have supported us to make our vision a reality. Please contact us either by phone on I hope you enjoy the journey with us! 07 4036 0930 or via email at [email protected] to either send Lief Jorgensen Editor your story through or make an appointment with one of our journalists. INDEX Introducing The Fraser Coast Beacon .....................................................................................3 Alternatively you can go to our website Community3 & Wandering Teapot Grand Opening ..............................................4-5 www.thebeacon.com.au/submit-story to Maryborough Art Society Art Exhibition: 3 Draws a Crowd - take 3 ....... 8-9 submit your story and photos directly. Billy Bean customers dig deep for farmers ........................................................................11 We will contact you if your story is accepted Rock Off - More than just a skate park ..........................................................................12-13 to be printed in our next edition. Zumba and Mia ....................................................................................................................................16-17 Green is the new black ........................................................................................................................18 Life’s a plastic beach .............................................................................................................................19 Sustainable Living Choices on the Fraser Coast .........................................................20 Wildlife friendly gardens ......................................................................................................................21 Maryborough street party ...............................................................................................................22 Benefits of essential oils ....................................................................................................................23 No internet needed - phone apps ...........................................................................................24 Serial novel: The Witch & Waverly ...........................................................................................25 The online advertising & web experts Pet Corner ..............................................................................................................................................26-27 Just for kids (or kids at heart) .................................................................................................30-31 The best places on the Fraser Coast for a picnic ................................................32-33 Markets on the Fraser Coast .........................................................................................................34 The Bridge - Community Connections ................................................................................ 35 Get Your CONTACT US General Manager: Sebastian Gibbs [email protected] Editor: Lief Jorgensen [email protected] Business Stories: Kelsey Corcoran [email protected] Accounts: Marianne Kresse [email protected] Online Phone our office: 07 4306 0930 We respectfully acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of Australia and pay our respects to elders past and present. Our office is located on the country of the Butchulla (Badtjala) people, in the Great TODAY… Sandy Strait region on the South East Coast of Queensland. The Fraser Coast Beacon magazine is published monthly and distributed across the Fraser Coast region. Published by The Beacon (Qld) (ABN 92 665 042 287), 80 Main Street, Pialba QLD 4655. The information in this magazine is intended as a guide only and does not represent the opinion or view of the publisher. Advertising placed in this publication 07 4306 0900 is assumed to not breach any copyright, trademark, breach of confidence, and/or does not infringe the Trade Practices Act or other laws, regulations or statutes. www.queenslandtech.com.au While reasonable care is undertaken in producing content for this publication, the Publisher and staff do not accept liability for any errors or omissions. 2 | thebeacon.com.au INTRODUCING... he Beacon is the brainchild of a small group of skilled Tindividuals who formed a new business partnership. We felt there was a need for a local magazine that focused attention on the achievements and issues that are affecting people within our community. We want to be a ‘Beacon’ of information, a full colour magazine that is ‘a good read’, covering local events and issues through both our editorials and community input, giving a voice and support to local people, local businesses and highlight the latest relevant government support programs. Our magazine will be informative, relevant and entertaining. Conversations focus on social issues that affect our community, tell unknown tales, from uncovering local culture to finding that little local coffee shop that no one knows about. We will be talking about initiatives with youth unemployed, the homeless, indigenous affairs, aged care, health and safety, education, and local government objectives and developments. We want to be creating a forum to help develop solutions to these issues. Distribution is wide throughout the Fraser Coast community, at markets, shopping centres, community centres, lots of local businesses and in the local newsagents. We will also be building a large online presence through our website and on social networking platforms. We will discover our local heroes, unearth our local talent and help to bring a brighter, more secure and prosperous future for everyone within our region. thebeacon.com.au | 3 Community Cubed and Wandering Teapot Grand Opening! STORY & PHOTOS BY MARIANNE KRESSE raser Coast Mayor George Seymour, Steve Baxter from hit employment opportunities for small start-up businesses, local Ftelevision show Shark Tank, Fraser Coast new small business entrepreneurs and not-for-profits’. entrepreneurs and media gathered together to celebrate the The new Community cubed retail store is made up of 80 grand opening of the Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre’s various sized retail sales spaces ‘cubes’. These are rented at (HBNC) new sponsored project Community cubed and the $25 per week to small business and inspiring entrepreneurs Wandering Teapot. giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and products The event was opened by Auntie Shirley Blake an elder from in an affordable retail forum. The busy shopping centre has the local Butchulla people, who performed the welcome to more than 3.4 million visitors each year. country. Guest speaker at the opening was Steve Baxter from the Shark Thanks to Stockland Shopping Centre who have supported the Tank who wholly supported the project and gave valuable Community cubed project which was successfully launched on advice to all those small business and entrepreneurs attending. September 13 2018. The Community cubed and Wandering Teapot shop is a delight Community cubed has been the hard work of Tanya to visit with the quality products available beautifully displayed Stevenson and her staff and volunteers from HBNC and is and affordably priced. The variety of goods available ensure part of their Social Enterprise strategic plan that ‘focuses on that the shop will attract everyone’s attention. inspiring innovation, supporting independence and improving Be sure to visit the Community cubed shop on your next visit to Stockland Shopping Centre. 4 | thebeacon.com.au ABOVE: Guest speaker at the opening was Steve Baxter from the Shark Tank thebeacon.com.au | 5 ADVERTISEMENT Don’t be square – rent a cube today If you have a brilliant business idea, product or service but don’t have the funding to start your own business – then the solution is HERE. Community cubed has opened a shop front in Stockland Hervey Bay oering communal space for rent to showcase your products or services as a catalyst to starting your own business. The concept store, named Community cubed, will generate prot for its “cubers” while raising income to support a range of community services such as transport for the frail and aged, intensive family support,