By Margaret Maccoll
The Couran Community came together last Sunday to connect with locals to showcase their businesses, services, groups and talents.
Feather said the idea was born out of a Memorial Schools of Arts Inc meeting about five weeks before as a way to get more members to the hall and inform the many new residents to the area about the community.
“Couran already has a number of collectives, half of us are already mates,” she said.
“The newcomers coming in we have will feel the closeness of the town.”
Feather said the day aimed to encourage people to become more involved and increase membership of community groups.
John Esson told guests about conservation group Cooran Earth Rights and the success it had had fighting future mining applications in the region. Dean Marsh talked about the volunteer sewing group that produced Cooran’s own Boomerang bags that were sold at the general store as a replacement for plastic bags.
Alison Dillon informed visitors about the Cooran Food Collective that was established in 2018 to provide good organic produce for locals by bringing together flood from local producers and complementing it with organic produce sourced from Brisbane markets. The collective partnered with the Cooran General Store to sell it.
The hall was filled with residents showcasing their businesses from the local store, state school and emergency services to health services, environmental groups and art spaces and visitors who had come to learn more about the town and enjoy some good food and entertainment.
The event was funded with community resilience money from Red Cross with the assistance of Noosa Council.
