Enjoying The Christmas Hoopla
Yarraman’s turn to celebrate Christmas saw the Yarraman Christmas Markets in the morning followed by the Christmas Carnival going late into the night
Yarraman’s turn to celebrate Christmas saw the Yarraman Christmas Markets in the morning followed by the Christmas Carnival going late into the night
There were quite a few anxious eyes on the weather all round the South Burnett last week.
A member of the Queensland Local Government Reform Alliance – an alliance of various groups pushing for de-amalgamation of local councils – visited Yarraman recently to touch base with local residents.
Wild Horse FM at Yarraman is preparing a special treat for listeners on Christmas Day, a program of music built around Greg and Laura Doolan’s latest album “Christmas Miracle”.
Blackbutt/Benarkin residents have enjoyed the lowest average rate rise of any South Burnett town in the past six years while Kingaroy residents have suffered the steepest.
What’s been happening on the bowling greens around our part of South East Queensland over the last week?
Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington presented certificates to 28 enthusiastic Kingaroy State School students this week who successfully completed the eighth annual Premier’s Reading Challenge.
Lyn Lawrence, from the Timbertown Art & Craft Cafe at Yarraman, is angry … her business has suffered four break-ins in the past five weeks.
Wild Horse FM presenters have been going back to school. Six students are completing a 12-module course
Yarraman’s Heritage House has a new “old” exhibit which will interest visitors, a massive timber wagon used to haul timber to local sawmills.
Melanie Doheny, from Yarraman-based business HorseTraxOz, will be hosting a grant-writing information workshop next month at Heritage House in Millar Street, Yarraman.
Yarraman police are investigating a break-in at the town’s Community Hall.
It almost seemed there was nothing Yarraman could not beat at the Toowoomba Business Awards
St Philip’s Anglican Church at Yarraman will be marking its Centenary with a special celebration next Sunday (October 20).
The 2013 Colours of Yarraman Festival was supposed to be celebrating Spring, but on Saturday morning it turned into a celebration for much-needed rain when the skies darkened and the clouds broke.
Yarraman’s annual town festival, the “Colours of Yarraman”, will be in full swing this weekend. The first of the main public events of the festival, which celebrates spring and “new beginnings”, was held on Friday night at the Yarraman Community and Memorial Hall.
South Burnett police officers, emergency services personnel and community members gathered at Our Lady of Dolours Catholic Church in Yarraman on Friday afternoon to mark National Police Remembrance Day.
A candlelight vigil was held at Yarraman Cemetery at dusk this evening to remember Senior Sergeant Perry Irwin, who was killed while on duty near Caboolture 10 years ago.
The annual Colours Of Yarraman Festival will kick off on Wednesday and Thursday this week, but the main action will happen Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
National Police Remembrance Day – which remembers the 140 Queensland police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty – will be marked in the South Burnett this year with two special commemorations in Yarraman.