The September 2023 Home Hill News is now available on the website.
Tag: Newsletter 93 September 2023
Patrols proposed to Defeat Local Crime
THE growing crime wave spreading throughout our nation has not missed the Home Hill region. However, the local community is not sitting back and taking what is being dished out by the young criminals, as a meeting held in the town was moved to combat Home Hill’s youth crime.
Hope for more Home Hill Grants
HOME HILL seems to be missing out badly when it comes to grants to locally based organisations.
Dedication Ceremony
THE Home Hill RSL Sub-Branch, led by its Secretary, Allan Petersen, has undertaken excellent work in marking the graves of First World War and Boer War Veterans, who have passed away in the town since their war service and were left to be forgotten in unmarked graves.
New Upgrades underway!
We noticed that work was under way on upgrading the former BP Service Station into a United Service Station & saw work moving forward on upgrading the top floor of the Commercial Hotel!
Call out to join the Local Ambulance Committee
THE call went out last week for the people of the Home Hill community to show an interest in the Local Ambulance Committee by putting their hands up to reform the group in the town.
Later Installation for 2023 Ephemera Entries
FANS of the annual Home Hill Harvest Festival Canefields Ephemera will have to wait until October to see the ideas put forward by entrants in this year’s event, with the installation date for entries put back a month.
Busy October ahead for Festival Program of Events
THE Home Hill Harvest Festival Committee is finalising its planning for the forthcoming 2023 festivities, as its program comes together with a meeting to be held at the beginning of September. Find out what’s in store…
Dedication Ceremony for unmarked Graves
: THE Home Hill Sub-Branch of the RSL has completed a major project of its own making, with a World War I Dedication Ceremony held on Saturday, August 26 to mark 41 grave sites in the Home Hill Cemetery with commemorative headstones and bronze service plaques.
Race Club Officers give Notice ahead of AGM
THE President of the Burdekin Race Club, Ricky Gudge (pictured below) has given notice that he will be standing down from the position at the Annual General Meeting in September so that he and his wife, Leanne can undertake a long-held plan to travel throughout Australia for two years.