With presenter Chris Lofven’s daughter Zoe back in town for the weekend from Sydney, it seemed an opportunity not to be missed to get both his son Jake and daughter Zoe back in the studio to present Saturday Breakfast with co-host Sherry Corcoran. Jake & Zoe chose the playlist from current chart [...]
Entries from January 30th, 2010
Rising sea level, pipeline bullying, sprucing Noosa Junction and calls for Noosa Biosphere nominations
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Community, Interviews
The Sunshine Coast Council worries that Queensland government planning is not paying enough attention to the hazards of rising sea levels. A Yandina woman feels bullied by that government over its use of her land for a pipeline experts say is not needed. Plans are in train to spruce up Noosa Junction and Noosa Biosphere [...]
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From nothing to a pretty exciting day
January 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Celebrations, Community, Interviews
Lyndon Davis, Gubbi Gubbi Dancers leader
For the third year running Sunshine Coast people had an opportunity to build positive relationships and share in local Aboriginal culture, and Aboriginal people could inform themselves about support services available to them, at the Booin Gari festival in Tewantin on 19 January.
Booin Gari means “come this way” in the [...]
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Where are we going with Coast water?
January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Community, Interviews
We’ve killed the Traveston dam – at great personal cost and trauma to many people – now the Coast’s residents are having to fight desalination of sea water at Marcoola. Another unneeded mega project to cause our people unnecessary grief. When will this lobby-driven mob in George Street Brisbane, who’re totally out of touch with [...]
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Bendigo Bank puts it’s money where it’s mouth is.
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Celebrations, Community
$1000 from Bendigo Bank (Noosa News 15.01.2010)
On behalf of all of us here at Noosa Community Radio, 101.3fm,
I would like to thank Bendigo Bank for its valuable support.
Mal Favager. President.
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Concern over Noosa’s award-winning tourism promotion
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Community, Interviews
The Noosa area gets 1.75 million visitors a year, who spend more than 900 million dollars per year in the wider Noosa footprint, which includes such parts as Doonan, Verrierdale and Eumundi. Noosa funds and does its own tourism promotion, separate from other parts of the Sunshine Coast. That’s now under threat with moves afoot [...]
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“It’s been fantastic for my development, for my soul”
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Community, Interviews
What can it be like to manage an Aboriginal radio station in the West Kimberley as a white woman? Miki Venn-Brown, who was with us for more than ten years, has been doing that for two years up in Derby. She told us about it on What’s Going On?
Diet and Mark also heard about [...]
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Jay Bishoff: “Peregian Originals has always had full public liability insurance”
January 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Community
The organiser of the Peregian Originals, Jay Bishoff, has contradicted Mayor Bob Abbott’s assertion that the free fortnightly music concerts don’t have adequate public liability insurance cover.
“Peregian Originals has always had full public liability insurance and we have always provided the required security for Peregian Originals concerts,” Mr Bishoff responded to our coverage of the [...]
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One-off Family Show
January 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Celebrations, Community
To celebrate the end of 2009, Chris Lofven involved the community closest to him to contribute to an interactive family show. Zoe (24) and Jake (12) chose their own favourite pop songs to make up the playlist, and read news items and events, helping their Dad take his show, Sideshow Alley, to a totally different [...]
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