Yandina-based business, The Mattress Company, has become a major donor of The House The Coast Built for the second time, signing onto the project to provide more than $10,000 worth of mattresses for families doing it tough. The mattresses will be used to furnish the six-bedroom facility in Birtinya which is currently being built by…
It’s a community effort like no other. The House The Coast Built is relying solely on the generosity of local businesses and families to construct the 6-bedroom accommodation facility for families with loved-ones undergoing life-saving treatment at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. More than 30 local businesses, big and small, have answered the call for…
Students of Chevallum State School generously assembled and donated gift packs to their local hospital foundation to be given to children staying in the Sunshine Coast University Hospital over the Christmas holidays. These gift packs were filled with hand-made teddy bears, colouring-in books and other goodies. The hinterland school’s ‘butterfly effect’ project, encouraged students to become…
A donation of 280 teddy bears to Sunshine Coast Health Foundation, Wishlist, has brought smiles to the faces of the Sunshine Coast University Hospital’s smallest patients. Donated by home styling company, Lorraine Lea, the bears will be handed out to children in the Hospital’s Paediatric wards, who will bravely undergo treatment for a range of…
Once a common sight within many lounge rooms and known about town for his odd and wacky television commercials, Ian McDowell can be called nothing short of crazy, weird, silly. However, the ex-Sunshine Toyota owner who regularly brought smiles to many household faces has just added some more names to his ongoing list….compassionate, generous, caring.…
