Margie Maccoll
It was congratulations all round when the Federal Memorial Hall and Community Centre committee announced their hall would remain with the community.
Last week the committee called a community meeting after Noosa Council proposed the hall be leased to the Mary Valley Steiner School allowing the community access only as a sub-lease when available on weekends outside school hours.
Council had told the committee the hall was the least used in the shire and the Steiner school wanted to hold the prime lease on the hall in order to have a base with which they could move ahead with a development application to get funding for a school.
The community voiced their support to retain the region’s only community asset, the hall, built as a memorial to commemorate local soldiers on land donated by the Otto family.
This week their voices were heard.
“The Federal Memorial Hall committee is happy to announce that council is no longer proceeding with the Steiner proposal due to the lack of committee and community support for the proposal,” the committee said in a Facebook post.
Comments of praise for the committee and relief were received from the community.
“It’s a credit to the current committee,” former committee president Bruce Cameron said.
“A rare win for common sense,” said Becky Draper.
“It should never have been an option,” Bron Hayes said.
“Great news. We love and need our hall,” Dawn Macguire said.
The committee thanked the community and their support and looking forward to future achievements together.
