Students arrive at the BSHS Formal
Community

Students Finish In Style

Beaudesert State High School students stepped out in style at their formal. Held at The Links Golf Club on the Gold Coast this year, students looked spectacular as they arrived in a range of vehicles from limousines through to farm utes.

Emmy Heit.
Sport

Running on Determination

Fourteen year old Emmy Heit has set her sights on her first international competition in January 2022. Emmy is one of 41 athletes selected for the Little Athletics New Zealand Development Tour which takes place from 7 to 17 January 2022.  The development tour includes two competitions conducted under full […]

McAuley’s Year 7 Esports players: Charlotte Boyle, Riley Mitchell, Nicholas Hack and Oscar Martens.
Community

McAuley Hosts Fuse Esports Cup

The atmosphere was electric and from the cheers you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the stands of a sports stadium as McAuley College hosted the FUSE Esports Cup, Scenic Rim. What started as a special interest club for gaming enthusiasts to connect with other students in a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Beaudesert State High School Principal Grant Stephensen with Principal’s Award recipients.
Community

Be Brave Enough to Take Opportunities

The achievements of Beaudesert State High School students were celebrated in a ceremony recognising outstanding results in the face of adversity. The graduating Year 12 students completed their schooling during the two years of a world wide pandemic, adding lockdowns and COVID restrictions to the already stressful final years of […]

Kylie Moss (centre) with some of the GTM Music Studios team.
Community

Love of Music Celebrated

When Kylie Moss, Tony Griffin and Jim and Tracee Trammell opened GTM Music Studios in 2020, amid a global pandemic, they held their breath and hoped for the best. Fast forward one year, and their studio in the heart of Beaudesert has become a local success story about the power […]

Detective Acting Inspector Nicola Brown, Detective Sgt Darren Ward, Senior Sergeant Peter Waugh, Senior Sergeant Ken Murray and Detective Senior Constable Teresa Osbourne outside Beaudesert Police Station.
Community

Swift Action Against Drugs

A ten month drug operation by police resulted in 30 people being charged with 125 offences, including drug, property and serious organised crime charges. Police executed 28 search warrants in the Scenic Rim, Logan and Gold Coast on 25 and 26 October. Logan CIB Detective Acting Inspector Nicola Brown said […]