Canungra

Over 10,000 Women Helped by Mountain Breast Project

FOR 11 years local women have dedicated their time to making breast cushions for others who have had mastectomies and lumpectomies due to breast cancer. The Breast Cushion Project for the Tamborine Mountain Lions Club have made over 10,000 cushions which they’ve donated to hospitals around the south-east. They recently […]

Canungra

A Passion for a Gaggle

PEOPLE have a strong reaction when they come to my house and meet my five geese – generally it’s one of terror. But my geese are my babies, and I adore them. I had to wait quite some time and search hard to find them. Both Toulouse and Sebastopol geese […]

Canungra

Escape to the hills

IT SEEMS there is no stopping the expansion of O’Reilly’s as one of the Scenic Rim’s most progressive and innovative tourism and accommodation operators. Adding to their vineyard, camping grounds and mountain villas they have now opened a eco-luxury retreat featuring six exclusive chalets they have named Pat’s Farm. Their […]

Canungra

A celebration of half a century of creativity on the mountain

For fifty years the incredible and diverse talent of Tamborine Mountain residents has been fostered and promoted by the Tamborine Mountain Creative Arts Inc.  From a humble beginning in a slab hut in Doris Aagaard’s garden in February 1975, 16 people established the organisation which today has grown to around […]

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Local dancers shine in Brisbane ballet

TWO Tamborine Mountain Dance Academy (TMDA) students shone at the Brisbane City Youth Ballet’s performance of The Wizard of Oz. Jennifer Smith, 12, and Daisy Reid, eight, were chosen from students around Australia after a competitive selection process. Jennifer was selected to dance in the ‘Main Company’ while Daisy was selected […]