Pink fundraiser goes punk

Dayboro’s Lonneke Bevan and Lawnton’s Jessica Coogan are ready to rock at a World’s Greatest Shave fundraising concert on 13 March, featuring bands such as Burn Down Hollywood.

A Dayboro teenager’s urge to dye her hair has morphed into a fully fledged concert to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.Having shaved her head to raise money for the World’s ... More »

News

Shooters Len Maroske and Rod Thomas and property owner Peter Goodman believe Moreton Bay Regional Council should be doing more to help curb problems with wild dogs at Mt Mee.

Mt Mee residents are calling on Moreton Bay Regional Council to introduce a bounty scheme to help curb a wild dog problem in the area they believe is escalating.Len Maroske, 68, who has been shooting wild dogs at Mt Mee for more than 40 years, said feral dog numbers in the region were increasing."There’s more and more coming all the time and a lot ... More »

Koala activists are in support of a program encouraging property owners to offer their land to the threatened species, but are wary of the scheme’s implementation.

Koala activists want more for endangered species

Koala activists have welcomed the Queensland Government's new koala refuge plan as a step in the right direction, but say more needs to be done to protect the endangered species.Under the State Government's Koala Nature Refuge Program, landholders can apply for funding to rehabilitate their land to provide a haven for koalas.The $4 million program, ... More »

Community

Strathpine’s Renee Hyde is trying to raise money to send her blind daughter Tasha to China so she can have specialist treatment to give her the gift of sight.

Sights set on blindness cure

For nine-year-old Tasha Hyde, the miracle of sight is $38,000 and 10,000km away.The family of the youngster from Strathpine, who was born blind and has cerebral palsy, plans to fly to China in September for a unique treatment that could give Tasha the gift of sight.Tasha’s mother Renee Hyde said the groundbreaking procedure, developed with the ... More »

Erin Gold will head to Canberra to lobby federal politicians to fund research into a cure for diabetes.

Erin campaigning for diabetes cure

Albany Creek’s Erin Gold is on a mission; to educate the politicians in Canberra about the importance of funding of juvenile diabetes and what it means to have this chronic disease.While she looks like any other healthy 13- year-old it can be easy to forget that she even has type 1 diabetes.But with ten finger pricks per day and her insulin pump ... More »

Sport

Pine Rivers cricket product Harvey Aspin will line up for his country against the West Indies later this year.

Harvey ready for Windies

After the Australian cricket team tormented their West Indian rivals this summer, a local teenager will get his chance to do the same later this year.Pine Rivers High School student Harvey Aspin will take on his Caribbean counterparts in November with the Australian Under-15 Schoolboys team.The all-rounder earned his call-up to the Aussie team ... More »

The rugby career of Thomas Skinner could be cut short by a lack of adequete football boots.

If the boot fits…

Thomas Skinner loves his footy – it’s fitting into footy boots that is the problem.For Thomas who turned 14 this week and plays rugby union for Albany Creek GPS, finding a pair of boots to wear has been a recurring drama.A recent growth spurt has seen the teenager, who already stands more than six feet tall, grow out of the size 14 football boots ... More »