By Jen Gourley Imagine feeling about 5 or 6 years old and wanting to play with the little kids at the park. Now, imagine feeling about 5 or 6 years old and wanting to play with the little kids at the park, but you are 16 years old. The little kids’ mums and dads don’t […]
CS Energy has announced Round 8 of its Community Sponsorship Program is now open for applications. To be eligible for a CS Energy sponsorship, your community project or event must align with one or more of these investment areas of focus: Safety and environment Social and community development Education Culture and art Active and healthy communities […]
By Jen Gourley “AUSSIE, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, oi, oi! Our sausage sizzle will bring you joy!” If you were driving past or dropping by Home Timber and Hardware in Biloela this morning you would have heard the enthusiastic sales pitch of a group of happy children dressed in blue and red uniforms. Holding signs and […]
Colin Boyce, Member for Callide, met with community health leaders in Biloela yesterday.Dr Richard Tan, long time GP with over 50 years serving the Biloela community was happy to discuss the health needs for the region. The need for routine CT scans to be carried out in Biloela was one of the issues raised.‘With the […]
By Jen Gourley IF YOU are looking for something special to do this summer, then why not check out the amazing new exhibition at Banana Shire Regional Art Gallery? Australian landscapes, exotic scenes from Spain, brilliant birds, even a portrait of Australian icon Henry Lawson – all created by one gifted artist, Sir Lionel Lindsay, […]
By Len Neale CALLIDE and Dawson Valleys have had a long history of producing a series of rock bands, going right back to the sixties with Lexie Flemming and the Road Runners, to the seventies with Lindsay Williams and Cobra, and up to more recent times in the noughties with Hibernation Sickness and Epidemic Over. […]
By Jen Gourley Did you know you can travel back in time in Biloela? You can! You just need to walk through the doors of the Biloela Library. Within the yellowing pages of our district’s former newspaper, The Central Telegraph, there’s decades and decades of information that can give you a glimpse into the past. […]
By Jen Gourley LAST September the unimaginable happened… local fruit and veg sellers Michael and Christina Tanzer lost their massive shed and almost everything in it in a terrible fire, devastating their business. They were underinsured and struggled for 10 weeks without an income. Then, just before Christmas, the Tanzers were back in their familiar […]
Immediate Past President Gail Rodda shares the highlights of 2021 for the Rotary Club of Biloela Well, 2021 was definitely a good year for the Rotary Club of Biloela and we enjoyed being back in the swing of having fun whilst making a difference to the lives of others. We welcomed new member Adam Campbell […]