Community Notices

Tewantin Noosa RSL Women’s Auxiliary
The next meeting of the Tewantin Noosa RSL Women’s Auxiliary will be held on Thursday 9 April at 10am in the Tewantin Noosa RSL.
Members and friends are welcome.
Phone Kay on 5447 5042.
Rotary Club of Noosa Heads
After nearly 32 years, the Rotary Club of Noosa Heads will be changing to a noon meeting time at the Villa Noosa at 12.30pm on Tuesdays.
The new time will be more user friendly for all concerned in the Noosa area. Currently there is a breakfast and an evening club in the area and now members will have a lunch time club.
Rotary is about being user friendly for all.
For information just call Gerald on 0418 719 591.
Noosaville Library book sale
Friends of the Noosaville Library are seeking donations of books and magazines in good condition for their bumper book sale on Saturday 18 April from 9.30am to noon.
The sale is a major fundraising event by the Friends and will include a comprehensive selection of good-quality hardbacks, paperbacks and magazines across all genres including books that are surplus to the needs of the library.
Funds raised will go to supporting the library in a wide range of volunteer activities including adult literacy, the home library service and books for readers’ groups.
Perhaps the biggest bargain on the Sunshine Coast, the books are priced at $2 for hardbacks; $1 for paperbacks and 20 cents for magazines.
Among the donations already received is an impressive collection of vintage National Geographic magazines, some dating back to the 1960s – offering a wander through modern history that has been recorded meticulously and illustrated with breathtaking photography.
Donations of books may be made to Library staff at the main desk.
Attention railway enthusiasts
Rail enthusiast Robert Ketton will be visiting Noosa to share his wide-ranging knowledge of the social and historical impact of railways at a lecture to be given on Saturday 11 April at the monthly meeting of ADFAS Noosa.
A popular speaker, Robert will take the audience on an express journey through rail’s cultural influence on fine art, architecture, film, theatre and literature to its social impact.
Nations have gone to war by and because of railways and they have been the source of national unity as well as national disgrace.
From the introduction of standard time to the influence on the national diet and the redistribution of population, railways continue to have a huge effect on everyday life everywhere, except perhaps, in regional Australia.
The lecture will be held on Saturday 11 April at 3.45pm for a 4pm start at St Mary’s Church Hall, 17 William Street, Tewantin.
Member and non-members are welcome – bookings essential (cost $25).
Phone Ruth on 5448 3189 to book.
Christian Fellowship of Noosa
Chris Lancaster will be the speaker at Christian Fellowship of Noosa on Sunday 12 April and his message title is Are the Days of Noah Here Again?
As always, you will find us in the CWA Hall, next to the Tewantin Post Office, at 9.30am.
Please feel free to call 5474 0620 at any time and chat with Tony about the fellowship.
Local history group
Cooroy-Noosa Family and Local History Group will meet at Cooroy Library in Maple Street on Saturday 11 April from 1pm.
Some of our members will tell their stories of when their family went to war.
Afternoon tea and the monthly meeting will follow the talks.
As part of Heritage Week, the group will hold two workshops at Cooroy Library; Research your WWI soldier on Thursday 16 April from 9.30am to 12.30pm and Newspaper Research on Wednesday 22 April from 10am to 1pm.
To find out more on our Irish and German interest groups, visit www.genealoogy-noosa.org.au or the research room, 41 Miva Street, Cooroy.
Phone 5442 5570 for more information.
VIEW Club
The Noosaville VIEW Club monthly meeting is on Thursday 23 April at 11am for an 11.30am start.
The speaker this month is David Toulton of Promotions in Motion.
Those who would like to join or would like further information regarding this fun and friendship club that supports the Smith Family can phone Nanette McLay on 5455 6157.
Tewantin-Noosa RSL Women’s Auxiliary
The next meeting of the Tewantin-Noosa RSL Women’s Auxiliary will be held on Thursday 9 April at the RSL Tewantin at 10am.
Members and friends are welcome.
For more information, phone Kay on 5447 5042.
Permaculture Noosa
The next Permaculture Noosa meeting is on 16 April from 7pm, with supper served at 9pm.
Permaculture Noosa meetings are free and open to the public.
They start at 7pm with a Marketplace where members share their surplus home grown produce by giving, exchanging or selling it.
The meeting starts at 7.30pm and supper for a gold coin donation will be served at 9pm. Cooroy Memorial Hall, Cooroy (next to the RSL).
Road closures
Cooroy RSL wishes to notify residents and road users of the following road closures:
Maple Street, Cooroy, will be closed to all traffic on Friday 24 April, from 11.30am to noon and parking is restricted in front of the Cooroy RSL.
Diamond Street and Tewantin Road are closed to traffic on Saturday 25 April from 4.30am to 6am.
All vehicles will be diverted by police and SES through Sapphire Street and Olivine Street.
People attending the dawn service can enter the restricted area for parking until 4.50am.
People coming from Tewantin or Tinbeerwah for the service along Tewantin Road should arrive early before the road is closed at the top of the hill at Olivine Street.
Maple Street will be closed to all traffic and parking on Saturday 25 April from 10am to 11am for the Anzac Day street parade.
Appeal for helpers
The annual Rotary Club of Noosa Daybreak Bookfest is back for another year and it needs helpers.
The set-up day is Thursday 30 April with sales from Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May and pack-up day on Monday at the new venue of Noosa Leisure Centre, Wallace Drive, Noosaville.
Please advise preferred times and days and organisers will be happy to add names to the roster.
The major beneficiaries this year are Smart Pups Australia, Rotary projects throughout the community and to help supply sanitation and water to schools in the Solomon Islands.
Please phone Roslyn Simmonds on 5471 0507 or 0432 327 349 or email Roslyn@rsimmonds.com.au to register.
Real magic
At the Theosophical Society Sunshine Coast Lodge Noosa public meeting on Friday 17 April Olga Carolan is visiting from the Hinterland to give her annual theosophical talk.
On Friday 10 April the topic is What is Real – What is Magic? continuing on from Where Does the Sophia Reside?
Gold coin donation. The CWA Hall, 123 Poinciana Drive, Tewantin. Phone Ailsa on 5470 2656 or Janet on 0416 442 962.