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Pirates Drop Anchor For Book Week

Pirates Drop Anchor For Book Week

St Mary’s Catholic College celebrated Book Week – “Books Light Up Our World” – with two big events: a dress-up parade and mass reading event, and the popular Campfire Stories night.

Enjoying Lessons For A Good Life

Enjoying Lessons For A Good Life

A bunch of Nanango State High School Year 9 students glammed up and enjoyed a posh five-course dinner recently … all part of their high school curriculum.

RACQ Brings Safety Message

RACQ Brings Safety Message

A team from the RACQ will be visiting Cherbourg on Friday (September 4) to give local children lessons in how to be safe in and around cars.

Free Training Day For
Committee Members

Free Training Day For<br> Committee Members

Red Earth Community Foundation is running a free training day next week for committee members of South Burnett not-for-profit community groups – but you must register today! (September 3).

Goomeri Wins Trophy … Again

Goomeri Wins Trophy … Again

The annual South Burnett Interschool Equestrian Competition was held at the Kingaroy Showgrounds during Catholic Education Week in July and attracted 75 riders from schools across the region.

Ergon Grant Powers Plant Nursery

Ergon Grant Powers Plant Nursery

The Barambah Environmental Education Centre near Gallangowan will install a solar-powered water pump to recycle rainwater used in its native plant nursery thanks to a $5000 grant from Ergon Energy’s Community Fund.

Trio Wins Prestigious Competition

Trio Wins Prestigious Competition

Three Kingaroy State High School students have earned a 40 per cent scholarship to Bond University to study law after winning the 2015 grand final of the prestigious Bond University High Schools Mooting Competition.

Former School Principal Dies

Former School Principal Dies

Sister Dolores Carroll  – a Good Samaritan nun and the first secondary principal at St Mary’s Catholic College in Kingaroy – has died in Brisbane aged 101.

Mooting Teams Prove A Point

Mooting Teams Prove A Point

A Year 12 mooting team from Kingaroy State High School will be competing in the finals of the Bond University competition on Saturday.

Downer Mining Subsidises Biloela Trip

Downer Mining Subsidises Biloela Trip

Downer EDI’s Mining division will provide $3,000 to enable six female South Burnett students to attend the Queensland Rural, Regional and Remote Women’s Network (QRRRWN) State Conference in Biloela in September.

Local Schools Join Federal Program

Local Schools Join Federal Program

Deputy Prime Minister and Member for Wide Bay Warren Truss says four South Burnett schools in his electorate have signed up to be a part of the Federal Government’s new “Sporting Schools” initiative.