Barb Ware, Dallas Davidson, Susie Cunningham, Eden Platell, Elisha Davis
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Rural women celebrate

WOMEN from Beaudesert and surrounds have raised more than $7,800 to help victims of domestic and family violence through the Scenic Rim Rural Women’s Celebration. Nearly 100 women filled Kerry Memorial Hall on October 13 for the second annual event, led by Branded Design Studio’s Eden Platell from Beaudesert Zonta. […]

Beaudesert RSL Sub Branch Senior Vice President John Leatherbarrow
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Paying our respects

THE Memorial Gardens in Jubilee Park will be the location for Beaudesert’s 2024 Remembrance Day service on November 11. The service, which is usually at the cenotaph, is being relocated under police advice due to the current lane closure on Brisbane Street as part of the Beaudesert Town Centre Revitalisation. […]

An aerial view of the Scenic Rim Agricultural Industrial Precinct site
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Council approval for manufacturing and green energy hub

THE Scenic Rim Regional Council has approved a land rezoning application to enable work to start on a new green energy and manufacturing hub in the region. In late September Council endorsed Kalfresh’s Scenic Rim Agricultural Industrial Precinct (SRAIP) plan to build Australia’s first closed loop bioenergy ecosystem. The $291-million project, […]

Locals win Queensland Pharmacy of the Year
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Locals win Queensland Pharmacy of the Year

GOING above and beyond for the community has earned a local pharmacy team statewide recognition for their work. The Scenic Rim Discount Drug Store (DDS) won Queensland Discount Drugstore Pharmacy of the Year at a gala awards dinner as part of the DDS conference on the Gold Coast. It was […]

David Kenny, Bob Fraser, Rick Gillow, Paul Casbolt and Stuart Billing
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All aboard the rail trail

RAIL trail advocates are forming an incorporated Bethania-Beaudesert Rail Trail group to strengthen their voice to state and local government. Local runners, walkers, cyclists and representatives from Rotary and the Scenic Rim Regional Council were among 23 people at the October 11 meeting in Beaudesert. Inaugural committee volunteers are President […]

Probus Beaudesert new member Penny Sherrin, Life Member Lyn Dickman, Probus Queensland President Carwyn Arnold and new members Karen Lane and Gae Slater
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40 years of Probus

A LOT has changed in the 40 years since local men met to launch the Probus Club of Beaudesert, but what has remained is the fun, friendship and fellowship members share. The social club for retirees celebrated 40 years with a lively lunch at The Club on October 2. They […]

Mount Barney
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What Susie Saw

I WISH we could print the symphony of pre-dawn birdsong that accompanied this moment.  Mount Barney was impressive as ever, rising from misty and slightly smoky paddocks as we drove out for a bushwalk around her foothills recently.  The sight of that magnificent mountain always stops me in my tracks.

Local Senior Remote Pilot Chris Thompson (right) with Jason Daniels, (SES South Eastern Region), Peter Georgeson (Narangba Rural Fire Brigade), Igor Jansen (Gold Coast Fire adn Rescue
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Wyaralong hosts Exercise Wedgetail

LOCAL emergency services have helped pioneer a Queensland first major drone exercise for pilots to train in bushfire mapping, search and rescue and night operations. Beaudesert based Senior Remote Pilot Chris Thompson, who manages the response of South East Region drone pilots, helped facilitate Exercise Wedgetail at Wyaralong Dam on […]

What Susie Saw
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What Susie Saw – A different route

OUR early morning walk has looked different lately. We have been staying with friends while our tiny house gets gutted, to remove its cracked asbestos walls. I stopped to admire these glorious pink bushes at sunrise before we rushed back for another big day. 

Democracy sausage
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Scenic Rim heading to the polls

VOTERS in Scenic Rim will have at least five candidates to choose from at the state election on October 26. Before official nominations opened, known candidates were incumbent Jon Krause (Liberal National), Louise Austin (Family First), Shireen Casey (Labour), Nicole Thompson (Greens) and Wayne Ziebarth (One Nation). Candidate nominations were […]