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Geoff Egan is a digital news reporter covering northern Brisbane. He has covered crime, courts, politics and was the lead data journalist on the award-winning Ultimate Schools Hub program.

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Walking trails damaged by bushfire reopened to public

BUSHFIRE damaged walking trails south of Boonah have today been re-opened.

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NEW FRIENDS: Annette Yates of Roadvale and friend Lee Ward and her newly adopted cats, Skid and Possum. . Picture: David Nielsen

We can’t stray away

NEARLY 300 more pets have been adopted from the RSPCA since its Wacol centre started operations.

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Flood debris clean-up. From left, Somerset Regional Council Mayor Graeme Lehmann, Natural Resource Manager Trevor Page and Councillor Robin Caddy at Ferny Gully. . Picture: Contributed

Somerset’s on the rise

ACCORDING to the Somerset Regional Council, there were nearly 40% more plumbing and draining approvals in September 2012 than in the same month last year.

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Jail ‘idiots’ for dumping used syringes: Mayor Pisasale

LEAVE a used needle in public and be sent to prison – that’s what Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale wants.

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Chris Petherick of Boonah has a starring role in a documentary at the Boondocs festival. . Picture: David Nielsen

Chris’s incredible tale to star at film festival

THE Boondocs movie festival will have a local flavour for its second year with a documentary about Boonah’s Chris Petherick who suffers from Parkinson’s.

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Raylene Drew (front) co-ordinates the job as workers from Bunnings Warehouse paint the new Lowood SES building.

Bunnings lends welcome hand

FOUR volunteers, eight Bunnings workers and more than 100L of paint are transforming the new Lowood SES headquarters.

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Naomi and Damien Levao will take part in the Light the Night lantern walk for their late father Mike. . Picture: Rob Williams

Lanterns light way of blood cancer walkers

AFTER losing their father to a blood cancer four years ago one Ipswich family will be remembering him through the Light the Night walk.

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A day for our blessed pets

ANIMALS great and small made their way to Cameron Park in Booval to be blessed on Sunday.

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Enjoying the new River Heart parkland Stage 2 water park (from left) are Madison Fenech, 12, of One Mile, and Jade Gilbert, 11, of Woodend. . Picture: David Nielsen

Boy, what a scorcher

SUMMER arrived early on Sunday as Ipswich’s temperature hit a high of 37.5 degrees.

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Eight-year-old Mason Grunsell is already preparing for the QT Christmas Lights competition by setting up the lights in the front room.

Family early to put up lights

IPSWICH will again be sparkling this Christmas thanks to the Queensland Times City of Ipswich Christmas Lights Competition.

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