Community

25 April 2024

Young vs O’Brien

Mr Young taunted Ted O’Brien (Federal Member for Fairfax) in a recent gym session, that the challenge is more about exercise than sipping lattes overlooking the beach break. It wasn’t just Mr O’Brien that Mr Young has in his sights for putting forth ...

25 April 2024

80 years for women

In November 1944 the War Cabinet gave approval for up to 500 members of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) to be deployed to what was Dutch and Australian New Guinea, during World War II. A total of 385 women went, undertaking a wide range of...

25 April 2024

Veteran shares struggle

Zac served ten years in the army, including seven months in Afghanistan in 2012, having joined just before his 18th birthday in April 2008, following his mother’s passing. “I honestly wasn’t really going anywhere in life and got in some trouble runni...

24 April 2024

Cemetery clean-up

The ‘working bees’ volunteers, consisting of 22 adults and two children, gathered their tools and got to work. These graves were extremely old, requiring a delicate hand as they worked to make the area shine. While some graves only needed some sweepi...

24 April 2024

Playing tribute tradition

Starting in 2020 during the COVID lockdowns and when everything was cancelled, Shane was talking to his wife, thinking of ways to still celebrate ANZAC Day. They came up with the idea of Shane, an avid musician, playing his guitar at 5am, creating a ...

24 April 2024

Bendigo Bank in discussion for Kilcoy

Somerset councillors Michael Bishop, Kylee Isidro and Tiara Hurley attended this meeting, along with Bendigo Senior Branch Manager Kerrie Shirley and Branch Manager Angela Goossens. Secretary of Somerset Business Chamber, Bronwyn Davies, and Kilcoy r...

24 April 2024

New Police Commissioner

The new Commissioner is well known to Queenslanders for his role leading the police response to the COVID pandemic. Mr Gollschewski led the police operations that included police overseeing hotel quarantine, airport security and border security on ou...

23 April 2024

A way out of abuse

A local resident, who for legal reasons cannot share their story publicly yet, reached out to The Sentinel to tell of their experience of domestic violence and raise awareness about an issue that isn’t often discussed when talking about domestic viol...

23 April 2024

Bracing for a blaze

Safety and staff will be the focus as a community engagement event takes place at the Kilcoy Visitor Information Centre from 6.30pm next Wednesday (May 1). Villeneuve RFB secretary, Jacob Murphy, who is also a Volunteer Community Educator, said parts...