Southern Gold Coast News

June 2011

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What’s On | Business News | Jim’s Update | Environmental News |Coming Soon

Time to get the Winter woolies out, but don’t put away your swimsuit just yet! Clear skies, sunshine and average water temperatures of 22-24 degrees celcius, means that the Southern Gold Coast beaches are still a great place to enjoy! And for those of you that live in the southern states, it’s a great time of year to escape the harsh winter blues and share the sunshine and good times.

With the SGC’s Great Winter Escape, you could pick up $4000 worth of holiday bliss to enjoy all that amazing winter weather we are so lucky to have here! Stay in Komune R e s o r t & Beach CIub PENTHOUSE for 5 nights, go skydiving, whale watching or snorkelling, have a dinner, lunch AND breakfast on us and much much more! Check out our Facebook page for details on how to enter!

What’s On

1. COOLY R O C K S ON! – It’s finally here! Time to find the bobby socks, slide on your coolest shades, don a leather jacket, slick your hair back and get ready to r o c k the streets of Coolangatta and Tugun!

2. The P a t c h | Exclusive Winter Preview - Fashion Designers Tara Fletcher (Love St) and Emma Milikins are Gold Coast’s own leading edge designers. Be at The P a t c h on Thursday 2nd June from 6.30pm for a preview of their winter range and silent auction of very speciaI one-off designs!
3. Raw Talent Quest – 12th June 2011 Currumbin RSL in conjuction with other sponsors will be hosting a Raw Talent Quest in the months of June and July. This event is designed to give live performance artists of all ages and styles the c h a n c e to showcase their talents in the community.
4. Alleygators “Old Boys” – 9th & 10th July For past and current members of the Palm        B e a c h Currumbin R u g b y Union CIub, a day to catch up with old mates and enjoy some footy!
5. Emerge Kirra – Queensland M u s i c FestivaI (QMF) is coming to Kirra this July for the first time ever. They are looking for local bands to play at the event. So if you have a b a n d, then this is for you! Click here for the application form today, as applications close 3/6/11 at 5pm.

Click here to read Jim’s latest update about the bustling office of Connecting Southern Gold Coast!.

Environmental News

World Environment Day - 4th June 9am-11am Join Friends of Currumbin and BeachCare for f r e e, fun, family-friendly dune care activities along the dunes at Currumbin Alley this coming Saturday.

Coming Soon

Watch out for the following events coming up in the next few months!

July	August	September
Tugun Bowlathon 30th-31st July Raw Talent Quest 2nd July	Coolangatta Markets 14th August Currumbin Valley Markets 28th August	Swell Sculpture FestivaI 9th-19th September

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It’s here!!! The very first Cooly Rocks On is about to blow you away with an amazing line up over 10 days that will definitely keep you busy to say the least!

From the Tweed Daily Street Parade, to Car Cruises, Miss Pin-Up Australia competition heats, dancing workshops, outdoor stages with over 60 free performances, to the Ain’t Nothin’ but a Hound Dog Poodle Parade, this is going to be a blast!

There are over 950 classic cars and hot rods confirmed and numbers are set to exceed 1000 by Friday so there will be plenty of amazingly restored and lovingly displayed cars to drool over.

Cooly Rocks Tugun will begin at 1.30pm Saturday 4th June with classic cars and hot rods on display in the streets, a BBQ and free performances with some speciaI furry friends joining in the fun. Then it’s over to Tugun Bowls CIub Rock n Roll Party from 7pm!

Check the website for the full program and get your tickets now!

Cooly Rocks On Festival Management Committee are seeking support from businesses in the SGC region that would like to contribute to the Festival by way of in kind services (Eg If you have a rubbish removal business and would be willing to remove rubbish from the festival site at no charge) or discounted costs.

Some of the ways you may be able to support the festival are:

• Providing discounted or free Accommodation for Entertainers and their families/partners
• Supplying services at cost price or free of charge
• Supplying materials at cost price or free of charge

As a result of Wintersun moving to Port Macquarie, the business community have indicated to the committee that it is paramount to replace the festival hence the birth of Cooly Rocks On. The Festival Management Committee are extremely grateful to all who have assisted so far in the process of creating the new event. Organising the festival has required a lot of hard work from people in the business community, that have freely given their time, know-how and efforts all for the cause of ensuring our beautiful region does not miss out on vital economic benefits, as a result of losing Wintersun to NSW.

The FMC now ask for your support to enable this event to be an astounding success!

If you are able to assist as above or have any other suggestions as to how you might contribute to the Festival, please email secretary@coolyrockson.com!

Cooly Rocks On | The Official new logo!

It’s official… the name of the Festival is…. (drum roll!)

Cooly Rocks On Gold Coast-Tweed

The Winners of the naming contest were Barb from Asquith taking the Showcase $1000 shopping spree an the Kommune Accommodation Package goes to Bev & Ben from Loganholme!

A big congratulations to the winners! We sincerely hope you enjoy your prizes!

We are now moving on with budgeting , appointment of Festival Operations Manager, sponsorship and planning. One good thing we can announce is that amid a raft of behind-the-scenes negotiations with Councils on both sides of the border and potential sponsors, discussions are underway to build a strategic partnership with a Sydney-based business that presents the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Competitions under their agreement with Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. If successful, this will add a new and exciting dimension to the Festival in 2011.. More announcements will follow in late August and early September.

CoolyRocksOn is the interim name given to the replacement Festival for Wintersun in 2011. See www.coolyrockson.com

Planning for the 2011 Festival is now in full swing, with the Festival Management Committee working on the following:

1. Advertisement for an employed  Festival Operations Manager (closing date 7 July 2010);
2. Discussions with Gold Coast City Council and Tweed Shire Councils concerning the footprint for the Festival;
3. Incorporation of the community Association which will be responsible for conducting the Festival;
4. Appointment of Hello Marketing of Tugun to handle PR and Marketing and Social Media strategies for the Festival including answering the many communiqués of support from exhibitors, entertainers and members of the public throughout Queensland and New South Wales;
5. Preparation of a Business Case and Program for the Festival, including discussions with potential sponsors from local traders to other businesses of all sizes; and
6. Funding Support for these current activities from Connecting Southern Gold Coast Ltd, which is proudly supported by the Gold Coast City Council.

We encourage all interested parties to communicate with the Festival Managemetn Committee by gpoing to the website and having their say or registering their interest.

June 2010

To read the General Manager’s Budget presentation speech to GCCC, click here!

Coming Soon

Watch out for the following events coming up in the next 3 months!

July	August	September
Beach Soccer Championships 7-10th July	The Cat Empire at the Coolangatta HoteI 27th Aug	Swell Sculpture FestivaI 10th-19th Sept

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The Southern Gold Coast Tourism Working Group (TWG) resolved at its meeting last Thursday night (27/5/10) to appoint the persons listed below to the FestivaI Management Committee (“FMC”). This was the next step arising from nominations taken at the meeting on Monday night 24th May at the Coolangatta HoteI. The FMC will operate as follows:

• As a sub-committee of the Tourism Working Group; and
• Have, as its brief, the creation of a new Winter nostalgia Festival for the SGC-Tweed Heads regions, commencing in Winter 2011.

This outcome is in line with community expectations as set in a public meeting of nearly 200 persons who met at the Coolangatta Hotel last Monday evening the 24th May.

There are 11 members of the Festival Management Committee (FMC), as follows:

Chair: Steve Archdeacon, Café d’ bar, Coolangatta;

Deputy Chair: Phil Villiers, Tweed Tourism; former Vice Chairman of Wintersun Festival;

Honorary Accountant: James Sullivan, Sullivan Rees Accountants, Coolangatta;

Secretary: Secretarial services will be provided by Connecting Southern Gold Coast Ltd, pending an appointment to this position;

General Committee Members:

Steve Bowman: former Board member of Wintersun Festival; RACQ, Currumbin;

Professor Kerry Brown: Southern Cross University, Bilinga;

Tony Cannon: Komune Resort, Coolangatta;

Lloyd Collingwood: Kirra Surf Apartments, Kirra;

Sarah Davis: Showcase on the Beach, Coolangatta;

Brian Foster:  retired events and festival organizer, Coolangatta;

Ross Mercer: Licensee of Dolphins Hotel, Tweed Heads;

Gail O’Neill: President of Southern Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce, Coolangatta; Beachhouse Seaside Resort, Coolangatta;

Steve Archdeacon, the Chair of the FMC said, “I wish to publically thank all those persons who put themselves forward for FMC positions. On behalf of the FMC, I assure everyone that the FMC will continue to liaise with the unsuccessful candidates and the general community for ongoing input into the plans for the new Festival. As the new Festival must be a community-based, the FMC will consult as widely as possible to ensure this.”

Mr Archdeacon went on to say, “The first meeting of the FMC will be held on Monday and key items on the agenda will be: a community-based programme for ideas for a name for the new Festival; communication to visitors, exhibitors and performers to the Wintersun Festival 2010, that there will be are replacement Festival in 2011; and the preparation of a Business Plan for the Festival.”

“I wish to thank Connecting Southern Gold Coast Ltd, The Southern Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce, Tweed Tourism and the Councils of Gold Coast and the Tweed for their support for this new initiative,” Mr Archdeacon said.

Keep your eye’s peeled very soon for www.coolyrockson.com to go live and we’ll keep you up to date with plans for 2011’s event!

Wintersun has been an integral part of our cultural fabric in the Southern Gold Coast  for over 21yrs. And while this will be the last Wintersun Festival to be held here for the indefinite future, we at CSGC highly recommend you get your dancing shoes on and get to Coolangatta between the 4th-14th of June this year to boogie with the best rockers and swing dancers in Australia! Check out the hot rods and classic cars and revel in an era of days gone by, as the 50’s & 60’s are relived for 10 short days in our amazing winter sunshine!

Now don’t think that this will be the last time that Coolangatta will come alive with an event like this though, a new event for 2011 is under construction, so stay tuned and watch this space in the coming months for word of what the SGC and Tweed Communities come up with for 2011. In the meantime, let your hair down, get loose and make Wintersun 2010 the best yet!

The Southern Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce has released details of the next meeting being held on the 11th May 2010 at Oculous Financial Services Meeting Room, Level 2 Showcase on the Beach Marine Pde Coolangatta at 5.30pm.

Agenda items include updates from GCCC Division 14 Councillor Chris Robbins, Honourable Jann Stuckey MP, Wintersun President Barry McNamara and Jim Wilson of Connecting Southern Gold Coast! Also on the agenda is the hot topic of Daylight Savings!

See the invite here!

On Tuesday 17 November Connecting Southern Gold Coast and Tweed Tourism jointly hosted a workshop at Le Monde Café at Kirra Surf for traders. It was called “Getting the Most from the Wintersun Festival “. Barry McNamara of Wintersun Inc was the guest speaker and was well received.

Whilst the Workshop was attended by only 20 traders from both the Southern Gold Coast and Tweed, it did not blunt the collective enthusiasm of those present to hold another Workshop with Barry in February 2010.

A number of concerns were raised by traders and ensuing discussion with Barry McNamara revealed that some of them could probably be rectified in the programming of the 2010 Festival. This was a good result.

Also, Barry pointed out the following which was well noted and discussed by those present:

1.       There are many opportunities for traders to convert additional visitor spend into ‘dollars in the till’ during Wintersun and creativity and cooperation with the Festival should see this occur, for those traders willing to get active;

2.       The Festival is in need of volunteers, starting now;

3.       The Festival organizers have produced a booklet for traders which lists how traders can become a ‘financial friend’ of Wintersun and gives ideas as to how they can participate in quality promotions relating to the Festival;

4.      Barry encouraged traders to suggest to their suppliers of goods and services should also become a ‘financial friend’ of Wintersun for appropriate recognition and as a show of support.

5.       Wintersun Inc is an incorporated association under the laws of Queensland and a copy of its audited accounts are on its website under the “Students’ tab.

Any traders interested talking with Barry about the above or finding out more about how they can help or be involved with Wintersun are encouraged to call him on 07 5536 9509.