Bowls Afternoon Raises $2000
Making $2000 for just a few hours work (and having a lot of fun) on a Saturday afternoon isn’t a bad effort.
Making $2000 for just a few hours work (and having a lot of fun) on a Saturday afternoon isn’t a bad effort.
The weather gods smiled on Kingaroy on Friday … the rain held off and the sun shone brightly, meaning the huge Evolution Solar South Burnett Football Sevens Carnival is all set to kick off this weekend.
Former Kingaroy student Shannon Nitschke has been awarded a $6000 scholarship.
The famous Iona Passion Play will be coming to Kingaroy this month
Fitzroy Street in Nanango will soon have two ATM machines after the South Burnett Regional Council refused Bendigo Bank permission to locate an ATM in Drayton Street.
A Booie man who was the subject of a large police search near Kingaroy in January has been granted bail with strict conditions, including that he not return to the South Burnett Regional Council area.
Kingaroy will get another child care centre and some more shops after the South Burnett Regional Council gave the go-head this week for the construction of a new complex on three lots on the corner of Kingaroy Street and Mirage Avenue, opposite Taabinga State School.
Murgon war hero Patrick Tiernan will be remembered in 2014 at a 70th anniverary ceremony in the Netherlands, and the South Burnett will be represented at the event.
Memorial Park in Kingaroy could boast a new statue in 2015 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing.
St Mary’s Catholic College held its annual Swimming Carnival at the Kingaroy Aquatic Centre last Thursday
Tomorrow is the last day women can book tickets to attend the first Savvy & Social women’s networking night, which will be held in Kingaroy on Monday, February 25.
South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann paused today’s monthly South Burnett Regional Council meeting to pay special tribute to local cricketer Holly Ferling.
Riders from Bundaberg to Blackbutt converged on Kingaroy Showgrounds at the weekend for the annual Zone 8 Jumping Equitation Championships.
The Kingaroy Writers Association held a workshop today with 10 members and two visitors present.
Parents, friends and students packed the KSHS Sports Building for the investiture of student office bearers
Artworks created by a 12-year-old girl and a 70-year-old woman are part of an unusual student exhibition
The RSPCA hosted a pyjama party with a difference this evening in Kingaroy … many of the guests wore their best fur coats.
A group of local women are breathing new life into a country tradition, experimenting with Twilight meetings to help attract new members to the Queensland Country Women’s Association
This year’s Evolution Solar South Burnett Football Sevens Carnival could draw as many as 600 players, managers, referees and fans to the South Burnett.
Students at St John’s Lutheran school in Kingaroy recently held a Free Dress Day to raise funds for a sister school in Bundaberg badly affected by the recent floods