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Lions Club Australia – 75 years and counting

By The Lake News / December 9, 2024 / Comments Off on Lions Club Australia – 75 years and counting

For 75 years, we’ve served with uncommon kindness, putting the needs of our neighbours, our communities and our world first. Since the first Lions club was formed in Lismore, NSW in September 1947, we have grown to be Australia’s largest service club organisation. We look back at our storied past with pride, but we know […]

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The Gift and the Wrapping

By The Lake News / December 2, 2024 / Comments Off on The Gift and the Wrapping

By Rich Priebbenow, Pastor at Nations Church Forest Lake Christmas season is upon us once again! ‘The most wonderful time of the year’, as the song reminds us. Family, food, presents, summer holidays, Boxing Day test… what else beats that?  True as all this may be, Christmas can be a lot of other things too. […]

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                 Your Faerie

By The Lake News / November 4, 2024 / Comments Off on                  Your Faerie

When autumn came, she was a fallen leaf Driven carelessly before the wind Till trapped within a spiders web, her body neatly pinned Powerless to move a muscle, paralysed by the spider’s sting She couldn’t seem to cry for help, and so the spider sinned. Photo by GraceHues Photography, Unsplash. When winter came she was […]

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Lions Club of Inala

By The Lake News / September 7, 2024 / Comments Off on Lions Club of Inala

By Nayda Hernandez The Lions Club of Inala would like to welcome the new Lions Club of Inala Executives for 2024/2025.   President: Bob Richards MID, CG Secretary: Kylie Gates  Treasurer/Club Administrator: John Moynihan  1st Vice President: Lean Metzroth  2nd Vice President: Nayda Hernandez  Service Activities: Chair Les Josiah  Media/Marketing: Nayda Hernandez  Membership: John Moynihan JP […]

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Forest Lake Photography Club

By The Lake News / September 6, 2024 / Comments Off on Forest Lake Photography Club

By Steven Roberts Let’s give a warm round of applause to Debasish Sarma, the winner of the Heritage Bank Slideshow Award for April! Debasish’s stunning dreamy landscape photo has captured the hearts of our club members and earned him this prestigious recognition. Well done, Debasish! Debasish, a proud Forest Lake resident for the past four […]

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Forest Lake Probus Club

By The Lake News / September 6, 2024 / Comments Off on Forest Lake Probus Club

By Stephen Hislop The Forest Lake Probus Club continues to attract new members and three joined recently while others are considering the option. Probus is not for everyone and, as you would expect, all people are different. Some things attract, others do not. Probus is all about Fellowship, Friendship and Fun. The recent visit to […]

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Forest Lake Lions Club

By The Lake News / September 6, 2024 / Comments Off on Forest Lake Lions Club

By Lion April Lindel Leo Advisor, St John’s Anglican College Leo Club Forest Lake Lions Club – Leos St John’s Anglican College Leo’s and school teacher Mrs Gimeno, with Leo advisor Lion April, visited Inala Salvation Army delivering sweet treats on Sunday May 26. This event recognised the importance of caring for others and supporting […]

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Are we ready to ban smacking?

By The Lake News / August 30, 2024 / Comments Off on Are we ready to ban smacking?

By University of Southern Queensland (USQ) The push for a complete ban on smacking children has never been stronger.  However, a legislative change in Australia might be further away than previously thought if new research revealing parents’ acceptance of corporal punishment in different countries around the world is any indication. Australia has been ranked the […]

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Your Faerie

By The Lake News / August 30, 2024 / Comments Off on Your Faerie

When autumn came, she was a fallen leaf Driven carelessly before the wind Till trapped within a spiders web, her body neatly pinned Powerless to move a muscle, paralysed by the spider’s sting She couldn’t seem to cry for help, and so the spider sinned. Photo by GraceHues Photography, Unsplash. When winter came she was […]

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 Centenary Evening VIEW Club 

By The Lake News / August 30, 2024 / Comments Off on  Centenary Evening VIEW Club 

By Sue Pither It has been a busy month for our members including our June meeting, held at our regular venue Centenary Tavern, where we enjoyed an interesting talk from our guest speaker Graeme Moulton about the difference between genealogy and family history. Graeme recently appeared on “Who Do You Think You Are” on SBS […]

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