January Update

Montville Citizen Awards 2026

Kath Ashlin is our 2026 Montville Citizen of the Year. Kath has lived in Montville for more than 22 years and has been gardening, weeding and cleaning up Montville’s Main Street on a weekly basis, assisting business owners to manage gardens.

Kath has personally supplied plants and other gardening items, watered and maintained garden beds to improve the overall look of Main Street.

She has been instrumental in cutting back the walkway over the bridge to Altitude several times when it was neglected, ignored by council and becoming impassable or treacherous underfoot. Kath has organised a small group of Montville residents including her husband Brian, to help in her project to beautify Main Street. She has also instigated decorating the street poles with tinsel at Christmas over the last couple of years.

Mark Roderick, June 2025

Mark Roderick is the recipient this year of the Montville Lifetime Citizen Award. Mark has served the community of Montville volunteering with the rural Fire brigade since 1989 (36 years) and as First Officer for the Rural Fire Brigade since 2001. He has also provided training for rural fire brigades across the Sunshine Coast.