Community

29 February 2024

Kilcoy Cancer Support Group (Breast and the Rest)

We can arrange free transportation for appointments and/or treatments, house cleaning and garden maintenance. In 2023 we were supported by donations from various local groups: Kilcoy Craft Market, Kilcoy Lions Club, C & K Kilcoy Community Kindergarte...

28 February 2024

Divisions are locked in

Electoral Commissioner Pat Vidgen said the situation has created a number of flow-on effects for the City of Moreton Bay, which is Queensland’s third largest council. “Firstly, we won’t need to open polling booths in those five divisional areas, so h...

28 February 2024

Goodbye to Somerset’s Mayor Graeme Lehmann

Thinking back to his 30-year long local government career, Mr Lehmann has recognised some key challenges he has faced, naming cost pressures as one of the most current ones. “One of the most disappointing things, I have found, is the cost shifting fr...

28 February 2024

Blacks Betta acknowledged

The only cost to the Woodford Lions Club was fees for installing and fitting the 9.1kW air-conditioner – valued at $2,500 – which has been in place since late December (2023). Woodford Lions Club president David Kearns thanked Blacks Betta Home Livin...

27 February 2024

$41 million grant to cut energy bills

These grants are part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to ease pressures on Australian businesses, by putting downward pressure on energy bills through the $62 million Energy Efficiency Grants for SMEs program. The first round of the program l...

27 February 2024

Final parting words

I read with great interest the number of Mayors and Councillors who are farewelling their public role and catching up with long held dreams, unreached goals or just to have more time to spend with family and friends, or even to undertake more serious...

24 February 2024

Grants to help prevent elderly becoming socially isolated

The grant funding is in addition to the Queensland Government’s existing $4.1m annual investment in 42 Seniors Social Isolation Prevention Services, which connect older people to each other and to their community. Older Queenslanders can be more vuln...

24 February 2024

Moreton park space in focus

Morris Park in Elimbah is set to start construction of its new ninja course in March. The course will resemble the ninja course in Burpengary, with some minor variations. Wamuran’s Rangeview Park is also scheduled for an upgrade, with construction se...

24 February 2024

25-year milestone for ride

The ride is an initiative of the Brisbane West Lions Club, in association with the Ipswich Hospital Foundation. This year marks the 25th year of the ride in Ipswich and the Scenic Rim region, with cyclists coming from far and wide to take part in thi...