The FREE BreastScreen Queensland mobile screening service is visiting Bunnings Maroochydore from 10th to 16th January 2023. BreastScreen Queensland provides FREE high quality breast cancer screening to women aged 40 and over. Women aged 50 -74 are strongly encouraged to participate in regular breast cancer screening as the evidence of the benefits of regular participation…
In September this year the ChaplaincyWatch world-class Rest and Recovery Centre was officially opened at 9 Ocean Street, Maroochydore. This space has been previously serving the Coast in a temporary capacity since New Year’s Eve 2019. Many have already been cared for, supported, given a safe space to rest and assisted to get home in…
The YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament (QYP) is an opportunity for those ages 15-25 years of age to nominate to become a Youth Member. The six-month program will teach the Youth Member all they need to know about parliamentary debate, Bill writing, working with the media and more! QYP also provides a fantastic opportunity for personal…
Feedback for the two design concepts referred to as Concept Blue and Concept Yellow has closed. The council will now consider all community feedback along with engineering reports, authority approvals and funding requirements to assist in determining the final design and timeline for the Stage Two Central Meeting Place. Council have advised that they anticipate…
The State Government has confirmed that funding for the M2M (stage 6) project to deliver a safer cycle and pedestrian pathway for the 1.2 kilometre stretch between Alexandra Headland and Maroochydore has been removed from the four-year funding program. This is a broken promise from the Government and until they restore it to four-year QTRIP…
For those that haven’t already heard, late November we had win for the community with the Transport Department finally listening to what we have been asking for with an expanded dredging trial off Mooloolaba. Unlike previous programs which involved dredging the entrance to the channel, the trial will involve dredging sand banks to the west…
There’s a lot of money being spent on business cases for Sunshine Coast Mass Transit and Heavy Rail to Maroochydore, but the big question is how much of this money is about kicking the can down the road and deliberate delaying tactics? $15 million is being spent on the Sunshine Coast Mass Transit business case…
Translink and Council have agreed to re-route a bus route into the new Maroochydore CBD via Dalby St without any public consultation and the community is fighting back. Residents of Dalby Street are worried about loss of on-street parking and the narrowness of the road with the large buses. State MP Fiona Simpson said the…
On 9 October I completed the seventh annual Lift the Lid Walk for Mental Health. This walk was started by local mental health advocate, Vicki Stewart, with a vision to lift the lid on mental health, to make it ‘okay, not to be ok’ and be able to talk about that. The walk started here…
A PROJECT for a safer cycle and pedestrian pathway between Alexandra Headland and Maroochydore has been put under a cloud, after the State Government secretly removed funds committed for construction from official government documents. The M2M Stage 6 project had been the subject of controversy due to poor design, but the community won the promise…