Mapleton News with Valerie Zwart ph: 5445 7212
The Range News for 13 May 2010
CELTIC TRIBUTE
Our autumn days are shortening and the evenings are rapidly cooling on the "highlands" of the Blackall Range, with many thoughts turning to the 'old' country.
So, the Mapleton Choir keeping in tune with the season, has put together a charming concert entitled 'A Tribute to the Celts'.
The concert features timeless Celtic classics including Danny Boy, Men of Harlech and My Wild Irish Rose, to name a few. Audiences will also hear some exciting new works, including the Australian premiere of The Cloud, based on a poem by Shelley, and round out with some rollicking tunes from the evergreen Brigadoon.
As usual there will also be soloists, duos and trios drawn from the ranks of the choir, and all members look forward to welcoming family, old friends and new to the Mapleton Hall.
Demand has meant they must now present two concerts, the first at 7.30pm on the Friday evening of May 21, with a light supper served after the concert. The second one is Sunday the 23rd at 2.30pm, with afternoon tea to follow the performance.
Tickets ($15, or $12 concession) can be pre-purchased from choir members, and as the last concert in October sold out on the Sunday, a pre-purchased ticket is advisable. For more details please call Roger on 5478 6339 or Christine on 5441 4211.
So make a note in your diary now, 'A Tribute to the Celts' is on in the Mapleton Hall on Friday May 21 at 7.30pm and Sunday 23rd at 2.30pm.
Director of the Mapleton Choir Ailsa Morehen ready to entertain us.
TAVERN ENTERTAINMENT
The Mapleton Tavern has a couple of good events coming shortly, that are bound to find favour with many residents.
The first will be a very tempting 'Wine and Cheese' tasting on the deck, on Saturday 22nd May between 2-4pm. This would be a great opportunity to get together with friends and/or neighbours, to go along to the Tavern and enjoy the tastings as well as the great views.
The second is the screening of the 'Origin' game, which will be provided via the big screen, on the deck on Wednesday May 26th. As an added incentive, they will have a courtesy bus available for pick-ups from 6.30pm, and drop offs until 10.30pm.
For further details, please phone the Tavern.
GET A QUOTE
Just thought I'd like to run this by readers who have perhaps been left with feeling they have been overcharged for repairs or maintenance jobs they've had carried out in recent times.
As I mentioned a while back, we're very happy with our local tradesmen, who have been both good workers, and have certainly not overcharged us, but a couple of folk have made remarks that make me think perhaps we all need a reminder now and again.
If you need a repairman, request a quote of their hourly fees or perhaps how much they estimate your bill will be, and if you're unsure of their location, ask if they charge extra for travelling time.
I'm reliably informed that anyone requiring serious help with anything of this nature, should ring the Queensland Ombudsman on 1800 068 908, but following this simple procedure should keep everyone happy.
In by far the majority of cases, I know we are well served.
RANGE INVASION
Having been involved in horticulture almost all of my life, I'm taking this opportunity to bring to all readers' attention, the proliferation of invasive plants on the Range in recent months - due to summer rains and warm weather, as well as neglect.
Please readers, none of us can do everything, but if you would just remove obvious weeds from your own surroundings, that would be a help. Even more, if you could spare just half an hour a week to run a hoe through garden beds, to destroy new weed growth as it appears would make life easier. Once weeds run to seed, next year will be ten times worse!
Right now, some of the most obvious are Morning Glory (large purple blue flowering climber) over-running anything in its path, Easter Cassia (yellow shrub), very pretty, but running to seed and spreading rapidly, Lantana - enough said, and yellow flowering Singapore Daisy (ground cover) are very obvious. Perhaps not as outstanding but becoming a real menace, is the Japanese Sunflower (Tithonia), which has spread from a patch at Dulong twenty years ago, to filling areas all the way from outer Nambour, up through Mapleton, Flaxton and Montville, almost to the Landsborough/Maleny road. Help!
CHARITY CONCERT
This is a reminder of the Charity Concert to aid the Ebenezer Children in Livingstone, Zambia, being held in the Maleny High School Activity Centre on Sunday May 23rd, from 2-4.30pm.
The Friends of Ebenezer Australia and the Sunshine Coast Youth Orchestra with compere Tegan George of WIN News, will provide an afternoon of music, with admission just $20 adults, $15 concession and high school, and $10 primary school children, under 5 years are free. Afternoon tea is $5, and a 3 draw raffle is $5 a ticket. Tickets are available from the Bower Bird in Maleny, or phone Lenore 5429 6194 or Dawn 5494 3410.
This will be too good to miss, and is for such a good cause.
ART AUCTION
This is an invitation that should interest everyone, particularly those wishing to assist fund raising for the Cancer Council who receive no Government funding, and have to rely totally on donations to carry out their much-need work.
On Thursday May 27th from 10am-12noon, ceramic artist Kim Schoenberger has organized an Australia's Biggest Morning Tea/Charity Auction in the Main Gallery, 167 Main Street, Montville - the venue generously donated for the event. Kim's exhibition 'expressions of love' is in the Gallery which is running until May 30th, and donations of sales of her mixed media works will also support the Cancer Council.
Guest Speaker and opening will be by Cr. Jenny McKay, and Real Estate auctioneer Roger Loughnan has invited Mapleton's Peter Maidens, who was a professional in this field in Canberra and other areas prior to his retirement, to assist in the auction.
The very long list of artworks that will be auctioned includes ceramics by Johanna Demaine and Kim Schoenberger, paintings by Ken Farrow and Michelle O'Farrell, pottery by Ian Reid and Kari, puppets by Daniel Du Kismet, woodcraft by John Seebeck . . . and hosts more. Other artworks include textiles, mixed media work, fibre art, photography and calligraphy - all donated by generous local professional artists, so there will certainly be something for everyone.