History
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Honouring the forgotten soldier
SYDNEY Clemsford Currie was a forgotten soldier. Although the former Frazerview man died while working as a Japanese POW on Burma’s infamous Death Railway his…
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Boonah ambos open doors to celebrate a centenary
THE Boonah Ambulance Service celebrated its 100th anniversary on Saturday. After 10 decades of serving the community, the team opened the doors and allowed the…
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Reminiscences, entertainment and a service: “It’s all about family”
MUSIC and laughter, and conversation about the past and the future, will again fill the home at 14 Church Street in Boonah, on Saturday, October…
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Open day to mark the centenary of Boonah QAS
A CENTENARY of service will be celebrated at an open day at the Boonah Ambulance centre on Saturday (October 1). Retired Nursing Sister, Marilyn Yarrow,…
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Calling Past Pupils to anniversary celebrations at Templin Museum
ARE you a Zerner, Oertel, Krause, Domjohn, Bratz, Hohenhaus, Spletter, Stephan, McMullan or Venz or have you descended from these early Fassifern settlers? What’s so…
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As broadsheets flow the memories grow
WHEN Joyce Warren was a little girl, one of the things she treasured most was time spent trawling the pages of Fassifern Guardian’s latest edition…
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Early pastoral station building restored through heritage grant
Story WENDY CREIGHTON Photos LYLE RADFORD A BUILDING restumping and repairs to plantation shutters on the verandah have been completed as part of a Heritage…
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A Vietnam Veteran Investigates Grandad’s Wars
THE Irish Civil War of the 1920s is not the sort of thing you’d think would be remembered by a Vietnam veteran. Nor World War…
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The Beauty of Life – Genius Loci
The landscape is in me and I am in the landscape. —Australian painter John Olsen ALFRED, Lord Tennyson, in his dramatic monologue Ulysses has the…
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Letter to the Editor – Veresdale Scrub: Save our school house
The Queensland Department of Education has declared that Block A of the original Veresdale Scrub State School building, built by the local community in 1899…
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The Beauty of Life – Finlayson
HERBERT Hedley Finlayson (1895 – 1991) was an Australian scientist, chemist, mammalogist, ornithologist, museum curator, explorer, natural history collector, photographer and writer. Perhaps some also…
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Celebrate a century of sirens saving lives for Boonah committee
IT SOUNDS like something out of an action movie but it’s not, it happened regularly in modern Australia and was common practice until a few decades ago.…
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