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Childers Ambulance Station celebrates 100 years

From using wooden splints to transfer patients to the introduction of two-way radios, the Childers Ambulance Station service has experienced plenty of change in its 100 year history.

Bundaberg blood donors needed now to boost supplies

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood is calling on Bundaberg Region residents to roll up their sleeves, with 100 blood donations needed in the next two weeks to help boost supplies.

Lilly captures emotion in artwork and wins national prize

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.

Message stick shares Indigenous culture and history

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.

Locals band together to grow a mo for men’s health

A number of local community members are growing a mo or supporting those growing mo for Movember this year to help change the face of men’s health.

Shade screen project protects turtles from vehicle light

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.

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