GOLDEN DAYS 2012 HERE WE COME!!!!After a hugely successful 2011 festival - Golden Days is ready to rock the boat again with another amazing

lineup and even more suprises in store.

‘’TO US IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT PUTTING ON A GREAT SHOW..... IT’S ABOUT HIGHLIGHTING THE AMAZING TALENT ON THE SUNSHINE COAST AS WELL AS THE BEAUTIFUL REGION WE LIVE IN..’’

GOLDEN DAYS 2

A TIME TO CELEBRATE.It’s not often you see an

event that spans such a

broad demographic yet still

manages to completely

stoke everyone out....

With a strong intention to

bring prolonged business

and tourism activity into the

local community from

outside the region- Golden

Days has set about creating

an all ages family friendly

event which incapsulates

everything the beautiful area

of Coolum has to offer .

The formula seems to be

working BIG TIME with

ticket sales coming from all

regions of Australia as well

as countries such as

Canada, USA , Austria and

NZ.

GDF’S intense 2011

marketing campaign which

created huge interest from

outside the Sunshine Coast

region will be stepped up

even more this year to

really focus on pulling the

outside tourism dollar into

the Sunny Coast.

By turning GDF’S into a two

day event and making the

second day completely free

to the public - GDF has

encouraged festival goers

to make a weekend of it

thus driving up record

profits for local shop

owners on the Sunday.

GDF made a conscious

decision not to sell any food

or alcohol on the Sunday

so as to boost profits for the

local businesses.

GOOD TIMES

GOLDEN DAYS 3

WHAT MAKES COOLUM COOL ?

COMPETITION....

This worked a treat and had hundreds of entries from

all over the country. The idea behind the comp

was to encourage people to research Coolum and

perhaps fall in love with it along the way, preferably

when the festival was on.

On top of an amazing Music lineup....

GDF 2012 will be running several competitions this

year as well as incorporating SURFING, BMX,

LOCAL ARTISTS, STAND UP PADDLE BOARD

RACING, SKATE BOARDING ECO VILLAGE and a

GOLF CHIPPING COMPETITION on the beach to tie

in and promote the PGA.

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THE quiet beachside village of Coo-lum will be transformed into Cool-Town for twodaysnextmonthwhenthousands of music fans from nearand far arrive for theannualGoldenDays Festival.The event is a celebrationof roots

and groove music and the surfingculture.Last year’s inaugural festivalwassuch a huge success the event hasbeen extended to two days.Headlining the festival, which

starts on Saturday, November 19 atthe Coolum soccer fields will be Xa-vier Rudd, The Cruel Sea and TheBeautiful Girls.

Also appearing will be blues androots legend Jeff Lang, The WinnieCoopers, Dialectrix, Ashleigh Man-nix, Oka, Cheap Fakes, Cabins,Floating Bridges, Stryder, and Cle-veland Blues and The Red EyeJunction.On the following day the festivalwill becomemore family orientatedandmove to beachside Tickle Park.This free day of festivities will in-clude a stand-up paddle board race,the Red Bull skate team, giant kitesand, of course, top-class music allday.Sunday will also see the world’sfirst totally green surf jam, surfedon wooden surfboards shaped bymaster craftsman Tom Wegener.

The jam is open to anyone.In keepingwith the family friend-

ly feel of the day, kids will be ca-tered for with sand sculpting les-sons and treasure hunts.The two-day festival will finish

with a film on a massive moviescreen.The festival looks set to provide a

major economic boost for Coolumwith 55% of bookings coming fromoutside the Sunshine Coast.Bookings for the music and surf

event have been received from asfar away as Adelaide and Rock-hampton, even from Christchurchand Ohio in the US.Promoter Mark Pico said the fes-

tival would provide a weekend of

greatmusic and entertainment anda boost to the local tourist industry.“We have tried to create one of

the hottest coastal, family friendlyfestivals in Australia by combiningmusic that is hugely popular, suchas Xavier Rudd and The Cruel Sea,andmixing thiswithCoolum’smag-ical location and vibe,” he said.“By adding paddleboard racing,

skate and BMX demos, giant kitesand surfing comps we feel that thiswe will attract a broad spectrum ofmusic and ocean lovers to Coolumover this weekend.”Golden Days tickets are available

at Sierra Cafe on the Coolum espla-nade or atwww.goldendaysfestival-.com.

Good as gold line-upfor Coolum festival

BOOKED IN: Xavier Rudd (above), The Cruel Sea and The Beautiful Girls are the headline acts for the Golden Days Festival. PHOTO: DEAN LEWINS/AAP

ByMIKE GARRY

ADVANCED Aquarium Technolo-gies has defied a surging $A andglobal economic slowdown to takeout a major export award.The Kunda Park-based companylast nightwon the regional exporteraward at the Premier of Queens-land Export Awards held in Bris-bane.The company has an extraordin-ary list of projects to its name, in-cluding recreating Sea World’sShark Bay at the Mardan PalaceHotel in the Turkish coastal resorttown of Antalya.It has also built aquariums, com-plete with artificial reefs and coralit manufactures on the SunshineCoast, in Denmark, Lithuania, Chi-na, Hong Kong, Macau and NewZealand.The company’s projects includethe Tivola TheatreAquarium inCo-penhagen, the Ocean World Aqua-rium at Guangzhou Zoo in Chinaand the Grand Aquarium OceanPark in Hong Kong.In announcing the award, actingPremier Andrew Fraser said Ad-vanced Aquarium Technologies,which employs 23 staff, had shownincredible perserverence throughtough economic times.“The Sunshine Coast has beendoing it tough, and to see a local bu-siness continue growing throughthese times is nothing short of in-spiring,” Mr Fraser said.“Advanced Aquariums’ ability toprovide the entire spectrum ofaquarium services, from conceptdesign to turnkey development, iswhat sets them apart.”Mr Fraser said the Premier’s ex-port awards were presented eachyear to recognise the outstandingachievements of the state’s leadingexport businesses and industries.“Last year merchandise exportscontributedmore than $48 billion tothe Queensland economy,” he said.

– GORDON CLARK

Inspiringresult forCoastcompany

HUNGRYandwith littlemoney left,Shane Gary Jones tried to smuggletwo trays of sausages out of Wool-worths at Sunshine Plaza by hidingthem down the front of his jeans.Unluckily for him a security offic-

erwaswatching andJoneswas con-fronted when he left the store with-out paying.He later admitted to police hehadtried to take the sausages for ameal, before handing them back.Yesterday that $10 feed of sausag-

es cost Jones $350 when he wasfined by Magistrate Cliff Taylor.Jones, 39, pleaded guilty inMaroochydore Magistrates Courtto one count of unauthorised deal-ing with shop goods.Defence lawyer Andrew Berne-ville-Claye said Jones had been suf-fering “some financial stress” andhad narrowlymissed a chance for ameal through the Salvation Army’sassistance program before he tar-geted Woolworths.

“My client understands he can-not simply take food items out ofthe shops in those circumstances,”Mr Berneville-Claye said.Restitutionof $10wasalso sought

for the unsellable sausages.“The sausages couldn’t be resold

because of the way they had beensecreted,” Senior Constable RickPallister said.MrTaylor finedJones $350 for the

offence and ordered he pay thecompensation to Woolworths.

Is that a sausage in your pocket?A UNITYWATER employee waslucky to escape uninjured after hiscar fell 10 metres off a cliff in asingle-vehicle crash at Perwillowenyesterday.Emergency services were called

to the crash on Dulong Rd about7.24am.Nambour police officer-in-charge

Gary Brayley said the driver in hislate 30s took evasive action to avoida collision with a vehicle comingout of a private property.

Senior Sergeant Brayley saidthat the Unitywater utillity fellabout 10 metres off the cliff butthe driver was able to freehimself.A spokesman from Unitywaterconfirmed one of its employees wasinvolved in a vehicle accident andsaid he was undergoing observa-tion at Nambour General Hospital.Snr Sgt Brayley said the dam-aged vehicle had to be retrieved bytowtruck operators.

Driver OK after cliff fall

THERE could not have been abetter name for the GoldenDays Festival held this week-end.Mother Nature turned onher charm showering musiclovers with glorious sunshineand a refreshing cool oceanbreeze.

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GOOD TIMES | Revellers rock on

Jeff Langperforms.

PHOTOS: JIMMOSEDALE

the coming years.“We are mindful of making

this a win-win situation forboth the festival andCoolum,” Mr Pico said.“That’s why we added the

second day to the event thisyear and made it free to thepublic.”

On Saturday night XavierRudd, The Cruel Sea and TheBeautifulGirls had thealmostsold out crowd hyped up.Promoter Mark Pico said

the festival would ultimatelyhave a great impact on thelocal business and tourismsector as the festival grew in

The two-day festivalwrapped yesterday with freeentertainment for the family.Activities included a stand-up paddleboard race, demon-strations by the DrawingBoards skate team, giant kiteflying and of course top-classmusic all day.

GLORY DAYS: An appreciative crowd turned out for the fun and entertainment at the Golden Days festival.

Festival pure gold

BOOGIE NIGHTS: The Beautiful Girls rock. ON STAGE: Didgeri-Stu of Oka. HEADLINER: Xavier Rudd.

Golden Days patrons showeredwith sunshine and entertainment