Are You And Your Mates Strong Enough?
Are you – or your team of mates – fit enough, strong enough and fast enough to pull a semi-trailer 20 metres? Well, here’s your chance to find out …
Wooroolin Was The Place To Be …
About 80 women – and a couple of men – gathered at Wooroolin on Wednesday for a special joint forum hosted by the Barambah branch of the Queensland Rural, Regional and Remote Women’s Network (QRRRWN).
A Lifetime Of Memories For Sale
More than 10,000 collectibles – everything from model cars and hundreds of dolls to full-size wagons, farming machinery, petrified wood and a dinosaur footprint (collected somewhere in the South Burnett) – will be going under the hammer on Saturday in Kingaroy.
PCA Swaps $32m Debt With NAB
The financial woes that have hit the Peanut Company of Australia in recent years appear to have eased with the announcement today by Board Chairman Ian Langdon that the company has negotiated a $32 million debt-for-equity swap with the National Australia Bank.
Legacy Of Vietnam Lives On
Victoria Cross winner Keith Payne addressed Sunday’s Vietnam Veterans Day service in Kingaroy
Naturally From Paddock To Plate
Crownthorpe grazier Brett Greer believes that to make money out of his small cattle herd he has to take charge of the whole process … right up to the dinner plate.
School Of Hard Knocks Rocks
There’s a high school with a difference running at Ficks Crossing, near Murgon, a school that teaches maths and English and other necessary lifeskills, but also teaches its students how to survive in the rough and tumble world of rodeo.
Farming Is A Special Caper
Kingaroy is the peanut capital of Australia. And navy beans still get mentioned on local signs … but capers?
South Burnett On Show At Ekka
South Burnett cattlemen and women have done the region proud again with a strong showing at this year’s Brisbane Exhibition.
Highway To Motorcycle Heaven
Hundreds of motorbikes “headed out on the highway” – the Bunya Highway, that is – on Sunday morning for a special Motorbike Festival.
Medieval Mayhem In Nanango
It’s not every day that you’ll see knights, damsels (not in distress), vikings, samurai and the odd dragon wandering around outside an art gallery.
Jemima’s Award-Winning Style
Kingaroy’s Jemima Larkin is “a wonderful, natural, warm and cheerful early childhood educator”, and now she has an award from the Rotary Club of Kingaroy to prove it.
Meeting Calls For Stanwell Changes
Anger at Tarong Power Station job cuts and the cancellation of Stanwell Corporation’s 2014 apprenticeship intake boiled over at a public meeting held at Nanango RSL tonight.
Recognise, React and Report
St John’s Lutheran School students learned the importance of three simple words this week: “Recognise, React and Report”, words that could just one day save their lives.
What A Way To Celebrate!
Stags fans had a lot to cheer about at the weekend … not only was the rugby league club celebrating its centenary, but the in-form Premier League team notched up a spectacular win in the local derby against Blackbutt-Yarraman.
$35,000 Plus Raised At Dinner
Kingaroy Town Hall was packed with 440 people and more than $35,000 was raised … so by any measure, Saturday night’s Relay For Life “Dinner With The Captains” was a great success.
A Big Day In Black And White
Nanango Race Club’s annual “Cup” day is always big … but Saturday’s meeting was huge with crowd numbers boosted by visitors in town for the evening centenary celebrations of the Nanango rugby league team.
Students Say Sayonara To Kingaroy
Kingaroy State High School officially bade farewell to its visitors from Fudooka High School at a dinner for teachers, host families and students in Kingaroy on Friday night.
Imports? Does Anyone Really Care?
Who cares if Goulburn Valley fruitgrowers are being forced to rip out and burn their orchards because of foreign imports? Well, not many people in Kingaroy, it seems, after a rally to support the plight of the Victorian town of Shepparton fell flat on Thursday morning.
New Look Apex Park (Yes, Apex)
South Burnett Regional Council workers have spent the past few months giving Kingaroy’s Apex Park a major makeover and the former “rocket park” is almost ready to be relaunched … but a suggestion it should also be renamed has provoked anger in the local community.
