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Christmas in July – A Piece of Cake! It’s time to celebrate Christmas in July, when the colder weather invites warm winter foods and desserts to our tables. The Lions Club of Forest Lake supplies our popular Christmas puddings throughout the year and can make your Christmas in July dinner very special. Covered in cream,…
July 2022 is the first issue of The Lake News to be published under new owner, Paul Jackson, and his team. Paul would love your feedback on what you would like us to improve in future issues of The Lake News – send your thoughts to paul@lnp.net.au Our Forest Lake reporter is Jamie Furness. She…
The community-favourite Early Birds Ekka event is returning to Forest Lake this year on Saturday July 30, 2022 for the whole family to enjoy. The carnival celebration will include all the Ekka favourites, including show bags, sideshow alley games, face painting, market stalls, food trucks and much more. The locally famous Dagwood Dog Guy will…
Congratulations to all of our community volunteers and community heroes who were recognised at the South West Progress Association Queensland Day Awards. Every year we gather to recognise the outstanding contributions of our local community members. These individuals go above and beyond to make our community a better place. Thank you to all our wonderful…
SHORT STORIES by the Forest Lake and Inala Writers Group. Getting Published By Tom Jones I was awoken from my reverie by the secretary. ‘He can see you now Mr. Jones.’ She held her arm out like a signpost to the only other door in the room apart from the one from which I…
Hello Forest Lake. What a pleasure it has been the last few weeks meeting so many of you and hearing your stories. My name is Paul Jackson and as of July 1, 2022, I have been entrusted with the future of The Lake News (Read more of how this happened in the story here. As…
In a ‘circle of life’ type scenario, four-year-old Logan West News has bought the Local News Publications that inspired its inception. Four years ago, Logan West retiree Chris Wren challenged me to start a newspaper for the Logan West community. Chris told me the story of how he had started The Lake News in 1993…
The National NAIDOC Committee has announced NAIDOC Week celebrations will be held from July 3 – July 10, 2022. On July 4, 2022 the Inala Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community will be hosting the Inala NAIDOC Week Launch at the Inala Civic Centre, at 4 Kittyhawk Avenue in Inala from 11:00am to 12:00pm. On…
11-year-old Benjamin Waalder from Forest Lake has been selected for the Queensland Under 12 Futsal Team to participate in the National Championships in Sydney in January 2023. The year 6 student from St John’s Anglican College participated in a regional try-out competition over the Easter school holidays and was selected for the position after an…
Local schools achieved fantastic results at the Brisbane Performing Arts Challenge (BPAC) Eisteddfod school competition between June 16 and June 19, 2022. See the results from each school below. Forest Lake State High School 1st place was awarded to FLSHS in the Varsity Hip-Hop and Junior Hip-Hop categories, as well as a student-choreographed routine…