Beaudesert RSL Sub Branch President, Carol Castles.
Community

Beaudesert Remembers

The community of Beaudesert paused to reflect on the service and sacrifices of war at the 2021 Remembrance Day service. Wreaths were laid and a minute’s silence observed at the Beaudesert RSL Sub-Branch service.  Among those who came to reflect were students from local schools, members of the Scenic Rim […]

Brian Radke and other old Gleneagle schoolhouse alumni.
Community

Old Gleneagle Schoolhouse Farewelled

If the tongue and groove walls of the old Gleneagle schoolhouse could talk, they’d tell stories of simpler times. Locals who went to school there remember piling into the single classroom with all their friends and riding horses or bikes to school. On 5 November, former students shared their memories […]

School captains Ryan Iselin and Sienna Eizenberg (far left and right) with Mununjali Elders Aunties Geraldine Page, Janis Page and Sue Blanco and Mununjali Housing General Manager Brad Currie (centre)
Community

Sign Signals Community Partnership

A sign bearing the handprints of students, staff and the Mununjali community stands at the entry to Beaudesert State School as a reminder of a strong local partnership. The red, black and yellow mural was unveiled in a ceremony on 9 November to celebrate the work being done collaboratively between […]

Ian and Margie Douglas from The Lime Caviar Company. Photo: Supplied.
Business

Superfood Growers Shine

An entrepreneurial couple who found a way to export their unique local citrus to the world despite the odds has won the 2021 Scenic Rim Business Excellence Awards. Ian and Margie Douglas of The Lime Caviar Company near Rathdowney won the Business of the Year, Regional Prosperity Award as well […]

Vicki McAteer and the Crochet Crew
Community

The More the Merrier!

Beaudesert’s Christmas Spirit Committee is rallying the troops to paint the town red, green and white for a festive season as merry as ever. The community-led initiative, which has been going for about five years, encourages everyone to help decorate the town for Christmas. Everyone is welcome to help with […]

When Phil Day isn’t tending the gardens around town, where he works as a Council horticulturalist, you’ll find him in his garden at home, tinkering with tractors, busy with the grandkids or making award-winning cartoons.
Personality Profile

Phil Day

Phil Day’s green thumb sprouted in the red soils of the Redlands, where he grew up on a small cropping farm with his mum and dad Frank and Judy and his sisters Tracey and Sue. But it really took root when his dad swapped their 24 acres at Wellington Point […]

Nicholas Andrew
Community

The secret to living past 100

Nicholas Andrew’s neighbours reckon if he planted a tree in his concrete driveway it would flourish. That is how much of a green thumb he is. Nicholas, who is 100 years old, has transformed just about every inch of soil on his town block in Beaudesert country suburbia into a […]

Innisplain State School alumni Barry Hanson, Catherine Drynan and Brenda Dennis.
Community

Innisplain Alumni to Share Memories

Tales of ice cream once a year at the break-up picnic, games of marbles in the schoolyard and riding ponies to school will be among memories shared at the Innisplain State School 100-year reunion. The school, which closed in 1962, will be remembered at a reunion on 7 November, 100 […]

Jaxon Hohl, Robert McClure and Clancy Hardy, who have been selected for the Under 14s QJC Southern Challenge Championships. Image supplied.
Sport

Young Cricketers Shine

Beaudesert’s next generation of cricketers has a busy few months ahead, with several young players gaining selection in representative teams competing into the New Year. Local selections for the SEQ Queensland Junior Cricket (QJC) Southern Challenge Championship were Luke Bostock (Under 15), Jaxon Hohl, Robert McClure and Clancy Hardy (Under […]

Charles, Poppy and Jen Boyle
People and their Pets

People and their Pets – Poppy

Here is Poppy the old Jack Russell cross foxie and her owners Charles and Jen Boyle of Beaudesert. The Boyles took Poppy in when she was eight years old. She’s still going strong at the ripe old age of 14, and they still love caring for her as much as […]