Forest Lake
Forest Lake State High School year 12 student Zack will be representing Australia at the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship held in California, America from July 28 to July 31. 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,…
Inala Wangarra is gearing up for the NAIDOC Week celebrations, starting with the Inala NAIDOC Launch on Friday, June 28 at the Inala Plaza. The NAIDOC Launch event will start with a Welcome to Country, an opening prayer from Aunty Evelyn Warrior and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional dances. This free event will pave…
ANZAC Day holds a very special place in the hearts and minds of Forest Lake’s community, and no less so in the hearts and minds of the Forest Lake Lions. For over 30 years the Forest Lake Lions have been attending ANZAC Day commemorations and this year was no different. Eight of our Lions participated…
The Brisbane South Toy Library based in Richlands is staging a display of older toys for the community to view in Brisbane City Council libraries. The month of May was chosen as the first month to start the display, in celebration of World Play Day on May 28. The items, ranging from 1955 until the…
The much-loved Forest Lake Market event, held on the second Friday of every month, helped more than 50 local children play rugby for free last year. Forest Lake markets president Veronica Stickley said the event supported local businesses while also helping to support the Forest Lake Junior Rugby Club. “Volunteers from the Forest Lake Junior…
We are still restoring garden benches, so if anyone has any to donate let us know. We are also making street libraries for the local area, and soon making book stands for the Kiwanis group, so we are keeping busy. Along with sharpening scissors, secateurs and knives, our members are still doing art on Mondays…
The Rotary Club of Forest Lake joined the local RSL Club to commemorate the ANZAC day remembrance service at the Lake Amphitheatre Memorial and provided a sausage sizzle for the veterans at the Forest Lake RSL Hall afterwards on April 25. We are also looking forward to the Annual Multicultural Dragon Boat Festival at Forest…
What a fabulous group of girls we have now – up to 14 this term! We started the term by paying our respects to our defence force personnel on ANZAC Day with some of our girls participating in the local march. We are very proud to be involved in ANZAC Day and see it as…
We start by expressing our gratitude to Blue Fin Fishing Club, Paws for Hope and Understanding, Rev. Emma Nicholls, Service Men and Woman, Lions Club of Inala members, the Lake News Publications, and especially, all the residents that attended our annual ANZAC Day March and Ceremony at I.S.A memorial park this year. The dedication and…
A recent speaker at one of our monthly meetings was Paul Brown from the Wacol Military Museum. He spoke passionately of the seven days he spent on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, researching the conflict from World War One. It was a poignant presentation and brought back memories of when my wife and I visited…