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Kids to march with vets in Biloela

KEEPING THE ANZAC SPIRIT ALIVE: Chloe Gomersal wore her great grandfather Harold Gomersal’s
medals in a march last year, and families can still march with veterans in Biloela Anzac Day parades this year,

THE Biloela RSL sub-branch is not following the lead of Brisbane, and will allow families and children to march with veterans in Anzac Day parades.
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Outrage at corpse mix up

CORONER KERFUFFLE: Rodney Rideout was shocked at a mix up between the Rockhampton Hospital and Coroner that led to the body being released early and then called back for an autopsyand caused the funeral to be postponed.

A MIX-UP between the Coroner and Rockhampton Hospital delayed the release of the body of a Dawes caravan fire victim and caused his funeral to be re-scheduled.
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Lance recalls Bilo factory years

BACK AT WORK: Joan Davidson with husband Lance, who worked at the butter factory for 15 years, with Ted Schunemann, whose family used to own a dairy farm at Thangool that supplied milk to the factory.

FROM taking lids off cream cans to running the cream processor, Lance Davidson pretty much did every job while he worked at the Biloela Butter Factory.
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Banana Council wage war grass

VAUGHN Becker was standing in the middle of Taroom, where the grass on the footpath was waist-high, not quite believing what he had just been told.
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Biloela day changed Catons' lives

EMOTIONAL RETURN: Biloela Rotary CLub president and owner of the butter factory Greg Lee (left) with special guest Michael Caton with his sister Robyn and wife Helen at the Last Chance Ball.

ONE sad day in Biloela changed Michael Caton's life and his sister's forever.
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Woman distraught at cemetery wreck

DISGUSTED: Mulgildie woman was appalled at the state of a Rockhampton cementry and will bury her dead father on the Gold Coast.

MULGILDIE woman Julie South will cremate her dead father rather than see him buried at a Rockhampton cemetery she says looks like a “war zone”.
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Redeemer school revolution starts

NOT DIGGING IT: Redeemer School P & C president Sandy Baumgart, Member for Flynn Chris Trevor and Redeemer Principal Jenny Krenske at the construction site of the school's new multipurpose building, funded under Kevin Rudd's Education Revolution. CT was meant to turn the first sod but the wet wheather meant he had to settle for posing outside.

IT was wet and the worksite was closed but, like any good politician, Member for Flynn Chris Trevor couldn't resist a photo opportunity.
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Banana Shire's $6M office plan

A PROPOSED new $6 million Banana Shire Council chambers will be built in Biloela by April 2011.
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Taroom emerges from flood

WATER LOGGED: The copeland bridge at Taroom was expected to be under even more water last night, with the Dawson River to peak late last night.

TAROOM woman Chris Green wasn't surprised when the town was cut off and the Dawson River swamped the bridge on the northern outskirts of the town.
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Lass ready to lose locks for gran

FROM BLONDE TO BALD: Gaylene Becker will shave her head at a Taroom World's Greatest Shave Event to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation.

WHEN her beautiful blonde strands of hair fall to the floor, Gaylene Becker's mind will not be on her bald head, but on her dying grandmother.
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