St Joseph’s Fete Ditches Tradition
The traditional Friday night St Joseph’s fete in Murgon shifted to Saturday afternoon this year in a bid to help the working families in town.
The traditional Friday night St Joseph’s fete in Murgon shifted to Saturday afternoon this year in a bid to help the working families in town.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Footy hero Petero Civoniceva and local police are issuing a challenge to Murgon and Cherbourg children … catch us if you can!
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.
St John’s Lutheran Primary School student Hughie Wyvill achieved the impossible on Tuesday.
Students from Saint Mary’s Catholic College have continued their run of success at the annual Fraser Coast Equestrian Competition in Maryborough.
Glamorgan Vale State School will be celebrating its 140th anniversary on Saturday, September 5.
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.
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.
Singers from across SEQ – including a group from Kingaroy – gathered in Brisbane at the weekend
Kingaroy’s Apex Club doesn’t meet any more but that hasn’t stopped a revival of its school debating competition
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.
Nanango State School has been named a State finalist in the 2015 Showcase Awards for Excellence in Schools.
A Year 12 mooting team from Kingaroy State High School will be competing in the finals of the Bond University competition on Saturday.
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.
The 2015 South Burnett Careers Market had something for just about everyone on Thursday.
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.