Quick Guide To Flood Grants, Loans
A range of grants and loans are now available to support primary producers, businesses and not-for-profit associations affected by the recent floods.
RACQ Offers Special Flood Grants
RACQ Foundation is offering community organisations affected by the recent floods grants worth up to $100,000.
Mobile Clinic In Goomeri, Kilkivan
Darling Downs Health Service mobile women’s health nurse Marcia Hunt will be visiting Goomeri and Kilkivan next month.
Waste Levy Exemptions Announced
The State Government is providing some of the worst-hit flood-affected communities with waste levy exemptions to help with the clean-up.
LAC Gives Ambos A Lift
The Kingaroy Local Ambulance Committee has handed over more equipment to local ambos in a bid to make their jobs that little bit easier.
SBRC To Develop Container Policy
South Burnett Regional Council will begin work on developing a new policy to regulate shipping containers being placed on residential and rural residential properties.
Bouncing Boxes Finally Arrive
Retired Kingaroy journalist Heather McCallum reckons she probably has some of the most travelled parcels in Australia Post’s history.
COVID Toll Rises To 18
Thirteen more deaths were added to Queensland’s COVID-19 tally during the latest reporting period, including one in the Darling Downs Health Region.
Grants Help COVID Recovery
The Foundation For Regional and Rural Renewal (FRRR) is inviting applications for the next round of its Rebuilding Regional Communities Program.
Proston Show Packs A Punch
Floods … what floods? Despite all the drama that has been in the local area over the past couple of weeks, the Proston Show was a big hit with locals on Saturday.
Free Course Teaches Vital Skills
LifeFlight medical specialists are offering a free training course to South Burnett residents to provide them with the skills they need to potentially save a life in an emergency.
Cherbourg Unveils Two New Homes
Two new homes have been officially unveiled in Cherbourg, the last of a group of six promised by Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council to help lower the long waiting list for housing.
Travel Business Takes Off
Everyone knows the past few years have been terrible for the travel industry – the pandemic stopped cruising, grounded airlines and closed both international and State borders.
Woman Charged Over Theft
A 57-year-old Durong woman has been charged after an allegedly stolen Hitachi tracked loader was found by a police in a paddock on Mundubbera-Durong Road at Durong.
Electric Scooter Stolen From Yard
Kingaroy police are investigating the theft of an electric scooter from a Kingaroy house on Sunday night.
Platform Opens For Community
Flooded roads may have limited the number of people attending the opening of Proston’s new sound shell, but the wet weather didn’t dampen their enthusiasm.
Firies Join Gympie ‘Mud Army’
Rural firies from the South Burnett have answered the call to pitch in to help clean up Gympie after the recent flood disaster.
MPs Urged To Improve Phone Links
Residents from areas around Booubyjan, Tansey, Goomeri, Kilkivan and Woolooga turned up in force at a special meeting on Saturday to spell out the communications hurdles they had to overcome during the recent flood emergency.
Vaccine Rollout Targets JEV
The Federal Government is rolling out supplies of a human vaccine against the deadly Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) which has now been detected in 42 piggeries across Australia.
Changes At Show Society
A special meeting of the Murgon Show Society was held last Thursday night to fill several vacancies on the committee.
