Faye Collins and Lalawah
People and their Pets

Lalawah the Mastiff cross

Lalawah the 17-month-old Mastiff cross is like a 44kg lap dog. Kooralbyn couple Faye Collins (pictured with Lalawah) and Fred Sailor have had Lalawah since she was an 8-week-old pup. Lalawah means ‘beautiful big girl’ in islander language (Fred is from the Torres Strait Islands). Here’s what Faye has to […]

If you’ve been around town long enough, you’ve most likely seen Roy Veltheim and his trusty sidekick, Alanna, pounding the footpaths of Beaudesert.
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Roy Veltheim

Beaudesert’s Roy Veltheim is a creature of habit. He has two Weet-Bix for breakfast in the morning and, for a treat, he might have a XXXX Gold at night. When he walks into town to buy the newspaper for his wife, Marg, he always goes the same way, and he […]

Unique Wharerau, Dylan Biggs and Jack Biggs
People and their Pets

People and their Pets – Jack Biggs

Beaudesert couple Unique Wharerau and Dylan Biggs love their feathered friends. Jack Biggs the three-year-old eclectus parrot is one of the cheekiest birds in their flock. Here’s what Unique has to say about Jack: “Jack is crazy. He’ll go on top of his cage and hang upside down like a […]

Jan Llewellyn, Jilly and Mia.
People and their Pets

People and their Pets – Jilly and Mia

Beaudesert’s Jan Llewellyn, Jilly the 16-year-old Koolie border collie cross and Mia the 14-year-old Maltese cross are wonderful companions for each other. Jan has never been without a dog and treats her four-legged friends like family. She has had Jilly and Mia, both rescue dogs, since they were puppies, and […]

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.
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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
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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 […]

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 […]

Dot Hyland
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Dot Hyland

Dot Hyland’s kind, alert and efficient manner tells the tale of a woman who has never been short of things to do but has always had time for the people around her. The lifelong local, who was born at Beaudesert Hospital in 1943, spent the first 77 years of her […]

Kat Finlay is one of those quiet but strong types. She dedicates much of her time to helping her three daughters chase their dreams, while showing them a life lived for others.
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Kat Finlay

Kat Finlay is cut from the same ilk as her small but mighty grandmother, Patricia Power, who was her main influence growing up. […]