Tag: Community News
60th Dinner planned for Gympie Lions
The Board of the Lions Club of Gympie are well on the way with their planning of the Club’s 60th Anniversary Dinner.
Club President, Glenn...
The next best thing to treatment at home
For Gympie woman Belinda Hansen, being told leukaemia had returned after eight blissful years in remission, was heart-breaking and gut wrenching.
The 68-year-old’s health...
Brother ultimately killed by his own brother
If you are lover of language, you will enjoy the content of early newspapers now freely available using Trove.
The story recounted here indicates...
Life saving training
Three new RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Critical Care Doctors are jumping on board the Sunshine Coast’s rescue chopper, ready to bring advanced medical care to...
Gympie’s first epidemic
The Spanish flu is considered second only to the ‘Black Death’ plague pandemic in overall mortality rates.
In January 1919 ’Spanish’ influenza which had killed...
Guides want your rubbish
The Gympie Girl Guides want your trash.
But not just any trash, specific, recyclable waste items which, like aluminium cans and glass and plastic bottles...
More than comfort offered by quilts
Gympie charity crafting group Robin’s Roses, and a sister group from Gayndah, helped out the Supporting Chemotherapy in Cooloola facilities at Everson Lodge with...
Gympie girls take on Burnett QCWA
On Friday 6 August, the QCWA Gympie and South Burnett Division, held a handcraft display in the Murgon QCWA rooms, which were opened to...
Work progresses on historic fire tower
The Jimna Fire Tower Action Group (JFTAG) is thrilled to report that the redevelopment works on the iconic Jimna Fire Tower is well under...
Bus concert success
After a couple of false starts, the Gympie Community Bus Concert went ahead last Friday with a small but generous crowd helping to raise...
Shovel bandit caught in cupboard
A man who is alleged to committed armed robbery against a 90-year-old Woolooga man, and threatened police with a shovel, has been arrested, after...
Vandals strike Lions shed
Vandals have struck the shed of the Lions Club of Gympie, breaking pipes and denting and pitting the walls and doors.
Lions members recently discovered...
Big wheel turns again at Show
The big wheels keep turning, but there are only so many of them in Australia.
And after years without a ferris wheel at the Gympie...
