Forest Lake
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…
In a proactive move towards supporting victims of domestic and family violence (DFV), designated ‘safe spaces’ have been established in Queensland Police stations statewide. These safe spaces serve as confidential areas within police stations where community members, particularly DFV victim-survivors, can safely and comfortably discuss their experiences with authorities. Assistant commissioner of the Domestic, Family…
In marriage counselling, I often share with couples that consistently one of the most significant causes of stress in relationships is money. And that stress doesn’t just arise out of debt stress. We can disagree over how money should be managed; what should be spent and when; should we have a family budget and what…
Police are seeking urgent public assistance to locate a 13-year-old and 15-year-old boy missing from Forest Lake since Sunday, May 19. The pair were last seen at approximately 2pm on Hyde Place in Forest Lake and have not been seen or heard from since. The 13-year-old boy is described as Caucasian in appearance, approximately 150cm…
Many Australians are struggling to work out which bin to put their household rubbish in, getting stumped more than 40% of the time, with Queensland and NSW getting it wrong the most. According to a new survey of mainland states commissioned by Veolia in April, 77% of people still don’t know how to dispose of…
This month we returned to our regular venue, the Centenary Tavern, for our May meeting where we enjoyed an interesting talk from our guest speaker Dr Kelly Stewart who is an accredited sports dietician and a senior lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology. As we tucked into our supper Kelly and two of her…
The Inala Pensioners will be hosting their Biggest Morning Tea event on June 5 at the New Inala Hall. The morning tea, which begins at 9:30 am, is sure to be a hit amongst locals with the club’s secretary Tina Jimenez promising a morning filled with joy. “We will have a little entertainment alongside the…