Nambour
Nambour was again Chartered on chartered, June 28 2005 with the Charter Dinner Meeting, Oct 1 2005. The Club is already very active with members involved in Hearing Dogs, Glasses and Stamp collections, LEAC, Mint and Cake selling Look out for the friendly member faces dressed in red polo tops working hard in the community for the betterment of our community.----------------
Nambour is looking at losing its 'Namboring' label. The hinterland is becoming slowly more attractive as the whole Sunshine Coast enjoys growth. A major service town for the Sunshine Coast, Nambour is where the sugar railway line still runs across the Bruce Highway down the middle of the main street. At crushing time it was common place to see a cane train winding its way down the street.
Located 30 m above sea-level and 101 km north of Brisbane, Nambour was probably named after the local Aboriginal word for a red flowering tea-tree.
The district was settled by Europeans in the 1860s but it wasn't until the arrival of the railway in 1890 that the local economy became focused on sugar production. A sugar mill was built in 1896 and only closed into the new millenium. Nambour was the most southerly of Queensland's major sugar towns and, interestingly, the cane was still cut by hand in the area as recently as the 1970s. This was only because of the hilly terrain which was not suitable for cane-cutting machines.
In recent times the agricultural base of the area has expanded to include a variety of tropical crops - particularly macadamia nuts, bananas, citrus fruits and pineapples.
IN APPRECIATION
In
recognition of the contribution of the Lions Clubs of Turkey, especially Lion
Dr. Enzar Tore, in providing free web page hosting for Lions Clubs everywhere,
the Lions Club of NAMBOUR, MD201 Q3 proudly displays the flag of
Turkey on our site.
Click on the flag to go to the web site of Lion Dr. Enzar's home club - the
Lions Club of Canakkale.
As an extension to the
Turkish Lions' contribution, the Brisbane Ekibin Lions Club of MD 201 Q1
(Australia) offer assistance to Lions Clubs who want to take advantage of the
Turkish Lions offer, but are not familiar with web publishing. They've already
set up many sites for Lions Clubs world-wide, using Lionwap.
If your club wants to be on the internet, and would like some help, leave a
message in the Ekibin Guest Book by clicking on the image above. This is a FREE
SERVICE, so you don't spend a cent for their work. As Lionwap is also FREE, this
means you get a web site that
