Community
By the time most of you read this Easter will be over and we will have had our fill of Hot Cross Buns and Easter Eggs. The next meeting of the garden club is Tuesday April 2 and the guest speaker is Michael Byrnes who will be talking about Orchids. These are such beautiful plants…
Members from the Forest Lake Rotary Club attended the Seaworld Conference Centre during the Rotary District 9620 Conference 2024. There, we served as ushers to the guests from as far north as PNG and east to the Solomon islands and Nauru and west to Roma and St George. They enjoyed the stories about what Rotary…
A round of applause for Stan Chrenkoff, the December champion of the Heritage Bank Slideshow Award! Stan’s mesmerising macro shot of a flower has us all swooning over the intricate details of nature’s beauty. Stan unveils the star of his winning photo—a fast-growing plant known as the Cup of Gold or Hawaiian Lily, originally hailing…
The Club ventured out to Sandy Gallop Golf Club for its game held on March 10. We had another strong field of 26 members playing in a Stableford competition. With an early start to the day, and everyone teeing off from the first tee on a beautiful morning, we soon found out that this course…
One of the most common sources of stress I hear from families now is ‘cost of living pressures.’ Whenever I hear that phrase, it sounds so innocuous and sterile but these pressures are real. I was talking to a friend recently who said, “My wife and I are working just as hard as we always…
Many of you who live in our community will have seen the Lunar New Year festivities taking place across our suburbs over the past few weeks. I love living in a place where we have people from different countries and cultures who proudly celebrate their traditional customs. That’s why I always enjoy attending the Lunar…
What an exciting speaker we had at our February meeting. Bruce Bodsworth is the president of the Queensland Masters Athletics Association and what an illustrious and varied career he has had. In 2023 Bruce’s Oceania M70-74 rankings were – 1st in 60m hurdles, 2nd in 300m hurdles, 3rd in the pentathlon (long jump, javelin, 200m,…
New Equipment and Sporting Infrastructure being delivered across the Ward Nothing makes me happier than to let everyone know about new equipment being built for our local families in our parks and sporting fields. The Lake Parklands Precinct has a new outdoor meeting space, a new table tennis area complete with freshly painted pergola, and…
What an exciting month of community service and fellowship we’ve had. We have been privileged to donate four brand new iPads to the Forest Lake State High School for student use. President Linda, along with Heather and Caroline, presented the iPads to the school on behalf of the club. The school community was overwhelmed with…
Our girls had a fantastic weekend at our sleepover at Springwood. We went to Daisy Hill Koala Centre and learned a lot about Koalas and how to look after wildlife. We then went on a short hike and found some beautiful things in nature by doing a colour scavenger hunt. We finished off the day…