Alli Reinke
News

Alli sets her sights on ‘32 Olympics.

FOR most 13-year-olds dedicating themselves to a future project is no great concern, that is of course if it’s in the foreseeable future and will involve minimal work. When the journey will involve training every week for eight years no matter the weather few young teens will bother to take […]

Young local junior Levi Bannan is headed towards an NRL career with Manly.
Sport

Levi signs with Manly

KINGFISHER junior rugby league player, Levi Bannan, has been earmarked by Manly as a potential NRL player of the future. The talented half-back came under their notice last year playing in the Under 16 Cyril Connell Cup for Souths Logan Magpies. The team lost just one match in the competition […]

WINNERS: The Kingfishers celebrate their championship win in 2022.
News

Champs aim to go back-to-back

WHEN co-coaches Keith Gee and Rob Brown took on the Kingfishers Women’s league team in 2022 they bravely aimed to win a premiership within three years. They achieved their goal 12 months early as the women stormed home last season to not only take the Southern Division, but also the […]

Brian Surawski of Highchester Meats
News

End of an era

BEAUDESERT is without an abattoir and Scenic Rim farmers will have to travel for hours outside the region to access one after the closure of Highchester Meats at Gleneagle. Local owners the Surawski and Herron families put Highchester on the market in 2019 and tried for five years to sell […]

Dylan Biggs and daughter Zylah
Sport

Road to recovery

BEAUDESERT boxer Dylan Biggs is humbly chipping away at his return to the sport after being sidelined for six weeks with a hand injury. He broke the second and third metacarpal in his left hand in a training injury five weeks before he lost his Super Welterweight title to Nikita […]

Tom Sharp, Leanne Bartrim and Ray Edwards at the Beaudesert Pig and Calf Saleyards.
News

Can the Pig and Calf Saleyards be saved?

Mayoral candidate Tom Sharp has requested a moratorium on any work on the Beaudesert Pig and Calf Saleyards until after the local government elections in March this year. In an email to Scenic Rim Regional Council Chief Executive officer, David Keenan, Sharp described the handling of the Saleyards issue as […]

Deb Love with Jon Krause
News

Court revamp gets Beaudesert on the ball

Beaudesert and District Netball Association President Deb Love has welcomed $95,782 in funding from the Gambling Community Benefit fund. The grant will allow the Club to put grass courts on three bitumen courts that have been unusable for approximately ten years due to the deterioration of the current surface.  “To […]

Beaudesert Kingfishers is one of the local sporting club that accepts the Fair Play vouchers
Sport

FairPlay vouchers getting kids into sport

FairPlay vouchers are all about getting kids into sport and the next round of this funding opens on 24 January 2024 at 9am. While most sporting organisations try to keep their fees affordable for families, the Fair Play vouchers, valued at $150 each, make a big difference, especially at the […]

Michael Enright
Council News

Council Comment

Happy New Year I wish you all a very happy, healthy and safe New Year.   For many in the region, the start of 2024 has been very difficult with the impacts from the severe storm on Christmas night.   Thank you to those who have worked so hard to assist during […]

Joseph Pascoe
History

Joseph Henry Pascoe, Part 2

Thank you to our readers who responded to our call for information regarding Trooper Joseph Pascoe who drowned at Illbogan Lagoon at a picnic which we now know took place on New Year’s Day 1919.  In a strange coincidence, a recent visitor to the Museum requested information regarding the Pascoe […]