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Mango Hill News

Mango Hill News Edition No. 300 - since 1986

Diary Notes

Since 1986, the Mango Hill Progress Association has sought Wednesday 18th May 2022
to work with local community organizations and act as a 7.30pm: Progress Association Meeting (venue TBA)
constructive advocacy group to all levels of Government and
Business. In short, our Association can only be as effective as
the range of committed volunteers who provide time, effort
and ideas to continue our work of the past 3 decades.

Membership Contact Meetings

www.mangohillprogress.org/membership Website: www.mangohillprogress.org All local residents are welcome
Family Membership is just $10/year. Email: admin@mangohillprogress.org to attend the monthly meeting
Your membership supports our Tennis Court Bookings: 0402 435 450 of the Association on the 3rd
ability to advocate on behalf of the Hall Bookings and all other Enquiries: Wednesday of the month at the
Community! Laurence Christie 07 3204 2020 Mango Hill Village Community
or 0415 342007 Centre at 7.30pm, Danzy
Buchanan Park, Chermside Rd,
Mango Hill.

WELCOME! to the 300th Edition

of the Mango Hill News!

How far have we come and how much has been achieved since
that first edition of the Mango Hill News was written in August
1986?

Pine Rivers Shire Council was our Local Authority and barely
150 houses existed in what was literally a “Village in the Bush”, Mango Hill Hall Out Of Action For
between the pine forest that is now North Lakes and Danzy
Buchanan’s potato farm that today is the Park Vista estate in Federal Election - 21st May
Mango Hill.
Kinsellas Rd West had just received a minimum seal of bitumen,
with the remaining village streets being dusty tracks, residents
travelled to Kippa-Ring and Kallangur/Strathpine for weekly
groceries or voting at elections and the closest Schools were
Kallangur Primary and Dakabin High.

That meeting on Tuesday, 12th August 1986 referred to in the
1st Edition above, established the formation of the Mango Hill From that initial circulation of 150 homes back in 1986, the
Progress Association with the key aims (amongst others) of Village has outgrown many “skins” as the 800sqm and the
“fostering goodwill and harmony within the community and to acreage blocks that attracted the “Originals” to this semi-rural
strive to obtain improved facilities”. community are developed and expanded. In 2022, there are
more than 1200 letterboxes in the wider Village community.
Printed “in-house” and circulated by hand by volunteers over The Mango Hill Progress Association is grateful to “Best of Local
the decades, for over 35 years, the Mango Hill News was first the Moreton Bay” for the inclusion of the Mango Hill News in their
primary channel of communication and today links with modern magazine which now reaches thousands of homes in the Mango
technology in encouraging that community spirit which has Hill, North Lakes and broader communities providing local issues
been the backbone of the local community for over 3 decades. with local relevance for the interest and enjoyment of Local Folk.