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SC50 time capsule unveiled today for future

A COPY of The Sunshine Coast Daily, a letter to the future Mayor of the Sunshine Coast and other memorabilia were placed in...

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22nd Feb. 2018 4:02 PM

Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson shows a letter he wrote to go into a time capsule that he and 50th Anniversary Celebration Community Committee member Jak Hardy unveiled in Nambour.

Hinterland Poetry Trail set to open

THE final event of the Sunshine Coast 50th anniversary celebrations will be the opening of the new Hinterland Poetry...

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08th Dec. 2017 5:12 AM

WORK COMPLETED: The Hinterland Poetry Trail site at Russell Family Park, Montville.

How to make your mark in Sunshine Coast's world record

MAKING a mark on history is as easy as signing your name.

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05th Dec. 2017 9:12 AM

Sunshine Coast residents and visitors have the chance to leave their message and name on a massive greeting card as part of a world record attempt.

Celebrate 50 years of cycling on Coast

CELEBRATE 50 years of cycling on the Sunshine Coast with an interactive community event.

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19th Oct. 2017 5:10 AM

NEW EVENT: The inaugural Caloundra Mountain Bike Expo 2017 will be held this Sunday, October 22.

Sixties nostalgia on offer at Palmwoods

RELIVE memories or create some new ones when Palmwoods Memorial Hall Association hosts Snapshot of the Sixties.

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16th Oct. 2017 5:10 AM

IN THE SWING OF THINGS: Elaine Reardon and Trish Griffin find their costumes for the Snapshot of the Sixties.

Club gets in early with National Garden Week festivities

NAMBOUR Garden Club held the first function in Australia to celebrate the inaugural National Garden Week, with the theme...

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09th Oct. 2017 5:10 AM

Fay Thorogood and George Hoad with the teapot competition entries.

Melbourne's funky Vaudeville Smash joins Eumundi's party

MELBOURNE'S disco/pop dynamos Vaudeville Smash will be on hand to help Eumundi celebrate the 50th anniversary of the naming...

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29th Sept. 2017 5:09 AM

PARTY TIME: Vaudeville Smash is coming to Eumundi.

Respect the River campaign aims to prevent drownings

THE Respect the River Campaign is aimed at increasing focus on drowning prevention in regional areas.

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29th Sept. 2017 5:09 AM

BEAUTY AND DANGER: The Mary River at Moy Pocket, Kenilworth. The Respect the River campaign aims to prevent drownings in waterways.

Eumundi celebrates its history with weekend of events

EUMUNDI will celebrate its story as a town with a weekend of family fun and community events.

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21st Sept. 2017 5:09 AM

HERE'S CHEERS: Chuck Hahn at the Imperial Hotel in Eumundi, which is set to celebrate the town's history.

Buderim Lions roar for 50 great years

IN SEPTEMBER 1967, a group of locals saw an opportunity to give something back to the community and signed off on a new...

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18th Sept. 2017 5:09 AM

ALL FOR ONE: A rare photo of all attending past and current members of the Buderim Lions Club 1967-2017.

Little Pattie to rock Eumundi's School of Arts hall

Eumundi Historical Association is bringing Sixties singing sensation Little Pattie to town, celebrating the 50th...

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04th Sept. 2017 5:09 AM

Little Pattie is set to take guests back to the Sixties with Eumundi Rocks Around the Clock.

Sing along to great Sixties hits at concert

BABY boomers will be in their element when Sunshine Coast Concert Band presents Songs We Were Singing In The '60s.

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28th Aug. 2017 10:08 AM

READY TO ROCK: The Sunshine Coast Concert Band.

Exciting region speaks travel writers' language

THE Sunshine Coast has bid farewell to 150 of Australia's best travel writers, photographers, bloggers and social media...

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24th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

SPRUIKING OUR DESTINATION: Australian Society of Travel Writers president Danielle Lancaster and Visit Sunshine Coast CEO Simon Latchford.

5 ways to mark the Sunshine Coast's 50 year milestone this weekend

IT'S 50 years since the Sunshine Coast got its name and this weekend the celebrations marking the milestone continue.

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18th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

STREET FAIR: The Yandina Street Fair is celebrating its 40th year in 2017.

We were just passing through on a holiday

WHEN Margaret and I arrived on the Sunshine Coast in 1987, it was meant to be the first stop on a long journey.

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Harry Reed and his wife Margaret were only passing through the Sunshine Coast in 1987 but they never left and have had a significant impact on its development.

'Mr Kawana' turned mud flats into housing estates

PRIOR to the 1960s, Kawana was undeveloped wallum country consisting of tea-tree, banksia, swamp grasses and mangroves with...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Noel Burns (second from left) shows off work on Kawana's first canal development in August 1968 to Jim O'Kearney (chairman of Kawana Estates Pty Ltd), Maroochy Shire Council chairman Eddie De Vere, Richard Laws (Cardno and Davies Civil Engineers) and Noel Hillhouse (Hillhouse and Hillhouse).

Built on a foundation of strong family values

SHADFORTHS has grown to be one of the country's largest residential civil contractors, employing around 700 people...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

The early days - founding director Peter Shadforth undertaking one of his first contracts on the Coast.

Family has a proud role in the region's growth

IT'S hard to imagine the area wasn't even called the Sunshine Coast when Les Hall first opened the doors of Hall...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Hall Contracting founder Les Hall in the company's first truck.

Coast's forefathers would barely recognise the place now

The lastest push is the next phase in the revitalisation of the Mooloolaba foreshore and esplanade precinct.

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An artist's impression of plans for the Mooloolaba foreshore.

New community 'unlike anything before it'

A key component of the $5 billion Oceanside community, the beachfront Bokarina Beach precinct will eventually comprise...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An artist's impression of Stockland's Bokarina Beach community development.

Buderim was full of characters

GROWING up on Buderim in the 1960s and '70s was a wonderful time. It's amazing how much the town has changed and yet...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

The original Buderim Wanders Soccer Club foundation year break-up in 1972. In the background of that photo the original Buderim Middletons town store can be seen (now redeveloped as Middies).

Coastal strip developed over time

PREMIER Sir Frank Nicklin spread out a plan showing the proposed route of a new coastal highway starting at Bribie Island...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

The stretch of coast between Maroochydore and Noosa slowly developed over the years.

Simon's been working with timber since he was a youngster

I GREW up around timber from the time I was eight years old.

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Simon Brady of Ironbark Timber has been in the timber game his entire life.

Planning is the key to our future

THERE is a sense of awesome responsibility and opportunity as every decision made, great or small, contributes toward...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

A 1972 aerial shot of Maroochydore shows the developing Horton Park Golf Course which is now destined to be the new Maroochydore CBD. Aerodrome Rd runs across the bottom of the photo.

Palmwoods is a time capsule of the Coast's past

PALMWOODS has been pioneering, resilient, instrumental and elegant in the making of the Sunshine Coast. It is the time...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An undated photo of the heart of Palmwoods, including Collins Store, the Palmwoods Hotel, ES&A bank manager's house and the CWA Hall which all remain today.

It was a golden era for the Coast

NAMBOUR was the capital where locals could buy most things at businesses that have since faded into the sunset, but once...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Kawana was the place where suburban dreams came true. You could buy a block of land for $3500 and a house and land for around $17,000.

Athol rose from new boy to the big boss

FIFTY years later, Athol was still working for the same business, by then known as NCP Bathroom Centres and NCP Plumbing...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An undated photo of Athol Osborne (left) with fellow NCP staff members Ted Williams (centre) and George Vyner.

Living close to work saves valuable time

THE Sunshine Coast has grown dramatically over the past 50 years and in 2017 the inner-city lifestyle makes sense.

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Sunshine Cove, in the heart of Maroochydore, is an example of how people are choosing to live and work in the same area.

New city centre rising from golf course site

HOW often do you have an opportunity to build a new city centre from scratch? And in a location that simply can't be...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An artist's impression of how the Maroochydore CBD will look in years to come.

My, how the Coast has grown!

The development of the Sunshine Coast has happened courtesy of many players: some big and others not-so big.

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

The sweeping coastline at Mooloolaba before its development boom.

We were on the wrong path in the '70s

BY the early 1970s, our local governments took the lead from the Gold Coast and put into action development which was based...

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12th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Jim Cash ponders the fate of the Maroochy River in 2004.

Sunshine Statesmen host concert for Coast milestone

SUNSHINE Statesmen will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the naming of the Sunshine Coast with an original song to be...

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11th Aug. 2017 11:08 AM

Take a rail trip to the future

LONG-time residents have experienced many changes over the past 50 years, but one aspect of life that has changed little is...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An artist's impression of how a light rail system would fit into the picture at Alexandra Headland.

Remember when our eyes were always turned to the sky

THE Sunshine Coast has a great history of transportation but it hasn't always been the conventional means which have caught...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An East-West Airlines plane on the tarmac at Maroochydore in the early 1980s.

Airport ran on a wing and a prayer

MY role as manager of Maroochy Airport in 1977-78 was a bit of gee-up as it was basically a shed about the size of a small...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

The terminal has been updated since Ashley Robinson's days as manager but Maroochy Airport was still fairly basic in this undated photo, probably taken in the early 1980s.

Rick paid $4500 for one of Coast's first mobiles

RICK Stinton had a swimming pool installation business on the Coast and was one of the first to own a mobile phone. It cost...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

The Sunshine Coast Daily's report on Rick Stinton's new mobile phone.

Toyota's been a Mills family passion

"THE Mills family has been involved with Toyota almost since the brand first came to Australia,” says Brett Mills, of...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Highway upgrade is only part of the traffic solution

I was driving 40,000km a year taking photos and doing stories. I felt like I knew every bump in every road on the Sunshine...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Easter holiday traffic heads home southbound on the Bruce Highway.

German migrant laid foundation for family business success

In 1985, Karl bought the BMW dealership and, together with his sons Rob and Dean, built it into Australia's most...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Tristan Kurz and his father Rob with the trophy awarded to family patriach Karl Kurz when he was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Sunshine Coast Multicultural Excellence Awards.

Computers changing the world as we knew it

THE change in communication technology on the Sunshine Coast over the past 50 years has been like living in a...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An 80 megabyte portable hard drive canister from the 1970s dwarfs a modern-day thumb drive.

The future in communications was just a call away

In 1967, manual telephone exchanges reigned supreme, party lines were prevalent and most calls began through an operator...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Manual assistance operators at work in the Nambour Telephone Exchange in 1966.

Bruce Hwy upgrade was lauded as game-changer for region

In December 1985, as a young journalist, I was one of the first members of the public to (legally) take a "test...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

The old Bruce Hwy was a dangerous, two-lane stretch of road. This 1978 photo was taken at Tanawha.

From an apprentice mechanic to the king of cars

Propensity to get the job done has elevated Garry Crick to one of the nation's leading automotive figures.

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

It's 2002 and Garry Crick's motoring business is starting to gain momentum.

Tollbusters campaign a victory for drivers

FEW community-driven campaigns of the past 50 years have had anywhere near the profile and impact of the Tollbusters.

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Tollbusters members protest beside the Sunshine Motorway in October 1990.

Fast track to the future

Welcome to the past 50 years in motoring, transport and communications on the Coast: five decades that have seen more...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

The latest vehicles cruise along the David Low Way near Marcus Beach in the 1960s.

We cruised the Coast in style

CRUISING roads across the Sunshine Coast in 1967 would have been a very different experience to today.

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

An array of the latest vehicles in Noosa during the late 1960s.

Ray Grace: the 'founding father' of Coast motoring

Ask any born-and-bred Coast resident over 50 who they bought their first vehicle from and a large percentage would say "Ray...

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11th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Local legend Ray Grace, enjoying breakfast with Kirthi Demeijer.

Coast has a long list of sporting champions

THE Sunshine Coast has produced some amazing athletes on the world stage and I will endeavour to celebrate their efforts...

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10th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Ironman Grant Kenny wins Australian Senior and Junior ironman titles at Maroochydore Beach, 1980 and is congratulated by his dad Hayden Kenny.

I found surfing Nirvana on the Sunshine Coast

IT was still called the North Coast when I rumbled up the narrow coast road for the first time in 1967, a small grom in the...

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10th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

Hayden Kenny was king of the Noosa waves when the surf was really up.

Pa and Ma Bendall were legends of Coast surfing

NO sport is more synonymous with the Sunshine Coast than surfing and few names are better known in the sport than Pa and Ma...

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10th Aug. 2017 5:08 AM

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