Bundaberg artist 11-year-old Lilly Reents has won first prize in a national art competition for her emotive painting of an endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle.
A message stick, which travelled to the Milbi Festival along the song-lines of the region’s First Nations People, helped to launch the event and share Indigenous culture.
Shade screens are currently being installed at the top of sand dunes in Burnett Heads to protect turtles from light pollution from parked cars as they move up from the ocean to nest.
This year’s Remembrance Day commemorations were particularly special for local veteran Neil Nunn because he had his new mate and military assistance dog Kessie by his side.
The Bolton Clarke Fairways community in Bundaberg held a celebration to honour veterans recently, presenting resident Greg Johannesen with a moving tribute to his late father.