What Susie Saw vibrant sky
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What Susie Saw – vibrant sky

Sometimes the sky just stops you in your tracks, doesn’t it?  I wish you all the best for the year ahead, whatever it looks like for you.  It’s good to know that no matter what’s going on, we can always pause for a moment and appreciate whatever the sky is […]

Chris Grimmett from BADCAP with a bronze statue by artist Catherine Anderson
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Revitalised park full of hidden gems

DAVIDSON Park has quietly risen like an oasis in the middle of Beaudesert as the CBD continues to be a noisy, dusty hive of major ongoing drainage improvements. You cannot miss the army of contractors working around the clock to fix the flood-prone CBD, or the shop local signs in […]

Peter Bryant
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Rising from the ashes

Hope after heartbreaking fire A LOCAL fireman still in pyjamas leaps from his car, donning his firefighting gear as he and army of helpers race towards Pete and Sam Bryant’s burning garlic shed. It is Christmas morning at Christmas Creek Garlic and the scene is anything but joyous as Pete, […]

Beaudesert Lions President Steve Roberts
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Lions have got it covered

HUNDREDS of local children are covered in sun safe style more than ever before thanks to the Lions Club of Beaudesert. This club, which has been providing short sleeved swim shirts to prep and grade 1 students for 18 years, this year managed to up the ante to provide long […]

Lilly Devine, Tayla Knickle, Maree Blow, Sarah Langley, Poppy Hodge and Holly Geiger
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Champion women’s team desperate for coach

AFTER three very successful rugby league seasons, Rob Brown and Keith Gee have passed on the baton of co-coaching the Kingfisher senior women’s team. However, someone is yet to formally step in as coach. Formed in 2018, the women’s team have made it to seven semi-finals and won two division […]

Gavin McLeod
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Gavin shares fountain of youth

GAVIN McLeod has written more than 2000 poems inspired by his life experience. The quietly confident Beaudesert local is well-connected around town and people know him everywhere he goes, but what he really loves is expressing himself through poetry. Mr McLeod, who will turn 61 in August, was hit by […]

Baby Tyler with mum Tamara Jarrett and midwives Nicole, Anna and Niki.
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Tyler makes Christmas special

WHILE many of us welcomed some special presents on Christmas Day Tamara Jarrett can claim to have received the best. Tamara was expecting to welcome her first child into the world on Christmas Eve at Beaudesert Hospital, but her son decided he wanted to make December 25 her extra special […]

Work continues outside the Woolworths complex
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Roadworks still set for March completion

THE eastern side of Brisbane Street is the new focus of Beaudesert’s roadworks. Business owners are battling dust and noise but they are grateful to the local people who continue to support them. A Council spokesperson said these works will continue for the next four weeks while 11 gully pits […]

Mallora Bowie
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Family says thanks

THE family of a local young man tragically killed in a car accident have expressed their gratitude to other locals for helping maintain his roadside memorial site. Beaudesert local Jimmy Bowie died age 17 on May 28, 2023, in a crash on Beaudesert Beenleigh Road when he was driving home […]

Nevaeh Barry
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Beaudesert cadets’ talent recognised

COMMUNITY minded Nevaeh Barry has been awarded the inaugural Cadet of the Year 2024 perpetual trophy. Nevaeh, a cadet at Beaudesert Emergency Services Cadets, received the trophy for her outstanding dedication and commitment to excellence. “Nevaeh was very community minded, she showed up to all our trainings, she was very […]