Forest Lake State High School year 11 student Zack will be representing Australia at the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) championships held in America in 2024. The annual event involves more than 760,000 students from 116 countries who compete to be the World Number 1 in Powerpoint, Word or Excel, successfully performing a number of tasks […]
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Meet LNP’s Business and Community Development Manager, Nayda Hernandez The Local News Publications (LNP) team is excited to welcome our newest team member Nayda Hernandez, who has been appointed the new role of Business and Community Development Manager. Nayda immigrated to Australia due to a civil war in El Salvador in 1986. She first settled […]
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Grand Avenue Chess Team 1 students – Jethro, Vonal, Winston and Blake – placed second at the Brisbane West Interschool Chess Tournament held in September 2023. Their star player Jethro won seven out of seven games, scoring him the 1st place award in the Chair 1 Premier Division. Grand Avenue teacher and chess coordinator Danielle […]
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The Australian Celtic Women will make a special guest performance at the Live Music at the Lake event this Sunday December 3, which starts at 3pm. The show will feature crowd-favourite songs and tunes from various Celtic nations, followed by Christmas carols for the whole audience to enjoy, as well as songs by the […]
Read MoreInala Christian Playgroup is celebrating their second year of running a bright and successful playgroup for guardians and children of Inala and surrounds. Inala Christian Playgroup was started by former school teacher Rachel Cooke, with the support of the Inala Christian Reformation Church. Rachel said the group was created to be a place of support […]
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Global cubing sensation Charlie Eggins from Forest Lake has beaten the world record for solving a single 3×3 rubik’s cube while blindfolded, with a time of 12.10 seconds. 14-year-old landed his recent world number 1 ranking at the Australian Nationals 2023 speed cubing event in Moreton Bay held from September 28 – October 1. Charlie’s […]
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Forest Lake student Lola Bryant placed 2nd in the 400 metre sprint and 4th in the 800 metre sprint at the School Sport Athletics Championships State Competition held in October. The 15-year-old, who was representing Forest Lake State High School, has only been sprint training since 2022 and was competing at States for the first […]
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By Jamie Furness and Compare the Market It’s “double, double, toil and trouble” for pets this Halloween, with the latest research from pet insurance comparison site Compare the Market revealing that many people are not aware of foods that can be a nightmare for their pets. The survey, which gave respondents to choose from 16 […]
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Forest Lake voters narrowly rejected the proposed Constitutional change to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Voice to Parliament, with the Oxley wider electorate returning a resounding “No” vote on the issue. The proposed amendment required both 51% of the popular vote and the majority of votes in all States to pass, and failed […]
Read MoreOn October 14 all Australians are required to vote against or in support of changing the constitution to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander “Voice to Parliament.” Voters will select ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in response to the following question: “A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by […]
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