July
Arts alive in Noosa
Noosa Alive this year celebrated 20 years of delivering arts and culture to the region.
Across 10 days, the festival showcased the best in music, theatre, art, film books and food and return of the Long Lunch.
Doonella on track
The campaign to restore a community access track around the northern shore of Lake Doonella was back on track, following the release of a Noosa Council survey confirming property boundaries.
Buskers shine by the river
First time performers to seasoned veterans shared the spotlight along Gympie Terrace on a spectacular sunny day for the Sounds on Noosa Foreshore, the fifth Noosa Busking Championship.
Repair blowouts
The landslide on Black Mountain Road was the biggest experienced on the Sunshine Coast in 30 years with initial reconstruction cost estimates between $25 and $30 million.
Geotechnical assessments revealed the damage to be quite extensive with no easy fix.
Council expects the repairs to take about two years, flagging a possible completion date of mid-2024.
English college reopens
Lexis English Noosa Campus re-opened after a two-year Covid hiatus, with students arriving this week from Europe, Latin America and Asia.
“It has been a very challenging couple of years, but we always planned on having our Noosa campus up and running again,” Lexis English managing director Ian Pratt said.
Empty houses of Noosa
On the night of Tuesday 10 August 2021, one in three properties at Noosa Heads and Sunshine Beach were empty. In Noosaville, one in five properties also had no inhabitants. It was just another weeknight in Noosa Shire. But it was the night of the national census of population and housing.
That there were so many homes empty in a region where housing is scarce and land avail- able for housing is limited was more than a contradiction. It indicates that Noosa Coun- cil’s policy makers – the majority of council- lors – got something wrong in the Shire’s ac- commodation policy. On the same Tuesday night across all of Queensland, only one in ten homes were empty.
Mountain race records fall
About 80 adults and 50 children took on the King of the Mountain challenge and with a new start line and new course 1km longer, new records were set.
Recent rains had made it a challenging and slippery slope in parts, but several runners said the new, longer path, altered due to erosion concerns by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, provided a more gradual and welcome ascent.
August
Building masters
In what has been a challenging year for the industry, Noosa builders came up trumps at this year’s Master Builders Sunshine Coast 2022 Housing & Construction Awards.
More than 40 builders, projects, and in- dividuals from Noosa to Pelican Waters were recognised at the glamorous event held at the Novotel Sunshine Coast Resort on Saturday 6 August.
Sound turns 50
It was 50 years ago this month that work on the original $3 million, 300-homesite canal development, that changed Hay’s Island into Noosa Sound, began with the building of a concrete retaining wall around the mangrove swamp island.
Sea scouts mark 70 years
It was two days of adventure and activities for Noosa Sea Scouts as long term members praised the movement for its benefits in teach- ing youth practical life skills, leadership and team work when the Noosa branch of the or- ganisation celebrated 70 years of Scouting at its Badger’s Wood headquarters.
September
17 hours of heroic efforts
It was a night four paramedics won’t forget, working 17 hours straight on a cargo ship out to sea where they managed to bring a man back from the dead multiple times.
It was a crisis scenario beyond a worst nightmare when a patient went into cardiac arrest multiple times out on an international vessel.
Tiger women make history
The Noosa Tigers Senior women made it three from three in blustery conditions on Father’s Day and put their name in the history books as the only ever Senior Noosa Tiger team to go back to back to back.
Monique is top Aussie
Noosa’s own Monique Riley Schroeder was crowned Miss Universe Australia 2022.
The 27-year-old actress, model and ex- ecutive assistant competed for the national title with 28 beauties from across the coun- try, and will now prepare to represent Aus- tralia at the 71st Miss Universe pageant.
The world says goodbye …
Queen Elizabeth was laid to rest along- side her beloved husband after Britain and the world paid a final farewell to the nation’s longest-reigning monarch in a dazzling show of pomp and ceremony. Noosa locals remembered their experiences over the decades of the monarch’s reign.
