Mayor is recovering
SOUTHERN Downs Mayor Peter Blundell will return to work later this month after an operation for a heart condition.
Cr Blundell was hospitalised in Stanthorpe...
The year that was – 2013
By STEVE GRAY
January
FOR the third time in four years widespread flooding occurred across the district and beyond as ex-tropical cyclone dumped huge amounts of...
Eye-spy assault
Police briefs
STANTHORPE police have reported a relatively trouble-free New Year, with just one serious incident reported.
Police said that while reviewing CCTV footage from Victoria...
Safer drivers merit reward
By STEVE GRAY
QUEENSLAND is researching licence discounts but has no immediate plans to offer rewards to safer drivers, as happens in New South Wales.
The...
Heatwave takes its toll
By STEVE GRAY
RECENT storm activity and a heatwave across the Darling Downs has forced a large number of birds and animals into care, said...
Meatworks reunion
THEY’ll be telling porkies in Wallangarra on the Australia Day weekend, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be lying.
They’ll be remembering when the border town...
Liston garden opens
THIRTY years ago Michelle Burton raided neighbours’ and friends’ gardens for cuttings, garden clubs were prevailed upon, tube stock found and clumps divided.
These days...
All hail our volunteers
LOOK around the Southern Downs and Tenterfield Shire and you’ll find that much of the population volunteers in some capacity. There’s the SES, the...
Help for the helper
By STEVE GRAY
IF you want proof that volunteering is good for you, just ask Christine Stammers.
For Christine, a stint volunteering after the floods of...
Making a difference
BETTE Bonney says Warwick would not be the same without volunteers.
“Volunteers are the backbone of how Australia survives,” she said.
“If all that work was...
Arts hub seeks helpers
STARTED in 2011 as an arts hub for those with a disability or health problems, Stanthorpe’s Artworks on Davadi has matured into a community...
We can rely on Roslyn
By STEVE GRAY
QUEENSLAND'S Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services Jack Dempsey recently described Roslyn Newley as the “backbone of the Warwick SES Unit”.
Roslyn...
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Supplying various countries
Allora and District Days for Girls provides reusable feminine hygiene products through a worldwide organisation which supplies the kits (as they are known) to...
