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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: 07 3203-3121 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.
Mango Hill Progress Association -

35th Years of Community Service, 15th July 1986 >>

In the July of 1986, Mango Hill was a
relatively unknown bushland hamlet
Saturday 10th July 2021 in the north eastern corner of the
5.00pm: Skate Night (then) Shire of Pine Rivers on the
other side of the “Bruce” (highway). On
Friday 16th July 2021 the east side of Anzac Ave, motorists
6.30pm: 35th Anniversary Celebrations travelling through the avenue of
mango trees on Anzac Ave, would be
Wednesday 21st July 2021 forgiven for seeing Mango Hill as a
7.30pm: Progress Association meeting mix of rural farms and roadside trees
in memory to the fallen soldiers of the
Great War of 1914-1918 with many of the local residents also considering that even
their own Shire Council was oblivious to their needs.

The Mango Hill Village consisted of some 200 homes nestled between a pine forest to
the west (now North Lakes) and a potato farm to the East. (now Park Vista) some 2km
up Kinsellas Road West from Anzac Ave.

Known as the Mango Hill Village to this day, the village was the result of a forgotten
parcel of land (called Campbelltown) that was surveyed back in 1880 and was
“rediscovered” in the 1970’s, being sold off to young couples as undeveloped parcels,
mainly of 800 sqm (32 perch) lots.

For these originals, the lure of large affordable blocks in a semi-rural setting with
almost daily “visits” by the neighbouring Koalas through the tree tops and kangaroos
hopping along dirt roads was very attractive. This was despite the lack of such luxuries
as town water, sewerage, bitumen roads and local shops with no parkland amenities.
15 July 1986:
When on a cold Tuesday evening, 195 residents travelled “over the Bruce” (Highway) to the Amaroo Centre in Petrie to call the bluff
of the then Redcliffe City Council seeking to build a rubbish tip on land across the road from our current community centre, it was
the moment when this community recognized the need to “get off their butt” and help themselves. The outcome was the formation
of the Mango Hill Progress Association that continues to this day. Over time that proposed “tip” was “dumped” and Mango Hill began
to develop a community spirit that has seen great improvements to our community and organizing events for families.

With Sandy Sanders as the first President, that proposed “tip” was
“dumped” and but in those first 4 years, tremendous improvements
were initiated. With committed volunteers across the decades, the
Progress Association advocated for improvements, initially to the
Village and subsequently on behalf of the broader Mango Hill and
North Lakes communities to the Council of the day as well as State
and Federal Governments.

Village Streets were upgraded initially from dirt to a base seal
bitumen, with an ongoing commitment to further upgrading with
kerbing and drainage over the pasts decade. A tennis court was
“The Originals” who attended that meeting at Petrie on 15th July 1986. constructed in 1990, followed by a full size basketball court and
(Laurence Christie, David Mackenzie, Jean Cobb and Bob Dolley at the park lights in 1996.
25th Anniversary in 2011)
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