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• Group says Sunshine Coast ready to welcome Syrian refugees | Sunshine Coast Daily

  THE Sunshine Coast will send a strong signal to the state and federal government that we want to welcome Syrian refugees into the community and have the support networks to do so.A meeting next week in Caloundra will draw together the Uniting, Catholic and Anglican churches, the refugee support group Buddies and residents interested in helping some of the 3500 refugees allocated to Queensland, to settle on the Coast.The State Government has launched a Work and Welcome 500 campaign to generate 50..

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• Caloundra shooting mystery remains as police investigate

  

  UPDATE 12.25pm:Police continue to search for information into a shooting at Caloundra, as a 24-year-old Nambour man recovers in hospital after being shot in the arm.Arthur St residents this morning recalled seeing police cars parked in the street at about lunchtime Saturday, while officers began early investigations into the shooting, which took place at about 1am on Saturday.After being alerted to the incident by a number of witnesses on Saturday who reported hearing gunshots in the vicinity of..

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• Australia set to sizzle with temperatures up to 44 degrees

  

  AUSTRALIA is set for some scorching weather on Friday with temperatures of up to 44 degrees.Weatherzone reports that South Australia is on track for its hottest spell since last summer and its hottest November in six years.Queensland and New South Wales won't escape the heat.Regional centres are expected to face temperatures in their low to mid 30s.But others will be much warmer.Birdsville, which is no stranger to November hot weather, can expect a maximums of between 42 and 44 degrees on Friday..

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• YOUR SAY: No winners in Sunshine Coast taxi incident | Sunshine Coast Daily

  

  AFTER reading the Sunshine Coast Daily (Friday, November 13), I would like to share some points of interest with your readers.Firstly, there are no winners in this incident and I hope Ms Candy makes a speedy recovery.However, I feel for the driver as he was placed in a really difficult position simply by performing his job.To have the presence of mind to correctly assess the dangers behind in his vehicle whilst he was also needing to focus ahead and safely drive is no easy feat.Eleven seconds se..

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• Rain gets in way of rampant Rangers on Sunshine Coast | Sunshine Coast Daily

  

  CRICKET:The opening one-day games of the Sunshine Coast division one season brought rain but no joy to cricketers as all games were washed out, with play reaching different stages of frustration at the grounds.Closest to a resolution was the Glasshouse versus Tewantin-Noosa clash at the latter's Read Park, where the Rangers went within a dozen balls of victory under the Duckworth/Lewis system.The home side had been dismissed for 84, of which captain Jarrod Officer contributed 47, and were bustli..

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• Sunshine Coast woman avoids Paris attacks by one day | Sunshine Coast Daily

  

  JENNY Munro had just finished a memorable week in Paris when she heard of the Islamic State attacks on the city in which 129 people were killed and 352 injured.Yesterday, Ms Munro and her partner were still trying to comprehend how the city she had fallen in love with had transformed overnight.The 32-year-old Sunshine Coast resident, who has been living overseas for almost two years, had been staying with friends in the 10th Arrondissement, just one kilometre from where two restaurants were atta..

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• 1000 in exercise to envision future of theCoast

  

  FORMER chairman of IBM Thomas Watson declared in 1943, "we think there is a world market for maybe five computers". Fast forward to 1981 and Microsoft's Bill Gates is rumoured to have projected that "640 kB ought to be enough for anybody".These predictions weren't false prophecies from self-proclaimed priests of divinity, but rather market forecasts on products about which Watson and Gates were the experts of their respective generation.Yet, as we know, history proved them wrong.Over the last mo..

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• Awards recognise Salvation Army program participants

  

  THE Salvation Army Sunshine Coast Individualised Learning and Support program marked the second year of operation with the awards ceremony on Thursday, November 12.The Salvation Army SCILS program has been running for a year and a half, SCILS runs from our Caloundra and Maroochydore Salvos, and works in conjunction with several High Schools across the Coast to help kids that for one reason or another, finds main stream schooling difficult.The program offers support through education and case man..

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• OPEN HOME: Lifestyle acreage hideaway

  

  WAKING up early to feed the kookaburras, often having a friendly visit from a koala or some green tree frogs, collecting the eggs ... these are childhood memories Emily Morrison has of visiting her grandparents at this hinterland hideaway."Putting on our gumboots to head down to the bees to watch Poppy collect the honey," Emily remembers, "my aunty's wedding under the gazebo, going on bush walks."In touch with the environs and elevated with peace and privacy, this is the first time on the market..

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• Coastwoman feared for her Poppi in Paris terror attacks

  

  PANIC was something Kate Lindquist tried not to do when she heard her Poppi was in Paris on the night of the Islamic State terror attacks.Ms Lindquist thought her 83-year-old Poppi, Ken Brown, was in Florence during the attacks.But a phone call to her brother Dean, who lives with Mr Brown in Melbourne and had a copy of his travel itinerary, revealed her Poppi was in fact in Paris that night."That instant shock of finding out he was in Paris was definitely worrying," Ms Lindquist said."But then w..

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