Moved to remember
By KATIE DE VERTEUIL
With the early wake up call thousands of people donned their winter woollies and headed down to Noosa Main Beach to...
Troop Train turns it on
By JOLENE OGLE
MORE than 230 passengers on board the Troop Train were welcomed to the township of Cooroy on Friday in true rock star...
Freedom fighters saluted
AT 9AM on Friday 24 April, students and staff of Noosa Christian College, Cooroy, came together to hold a special Anzac Memorial Service on...
Silence falls for our Anzacs
WITH medals pinned to their chests, a sprig of rosemary to remember home and silence to honour the fallen, our Anzacs were remembered with...
Anzac for young adults
LOCAL author and teacher-librarian Allison Paterson has recently launched an Anzac book for children and young adults to help start discussion about Australians on...
It was just so Anzac
Benny's Beat, By BENNY PIKE
PROUD to be an Australian is an understatement, after the wonderful involvement in the Anzac Day celebrations.
Whether it was Noosa...
Those who fought and those who fell
NOOSA Today sets out to add a character, and sometimes a face, to those men on marble from the Cooroy and Pomona district, so...
Anzac events
A LIST of Anzac Day commemorations start today with the New Zealand Defence Force Veteran Band performing at the Cooroy RSL tonight from 6pm.
Tomorrow,...
Little Digger’s flight of fancy
ON CHRISTMAS night 1918, an orphaned boy wandered into the No 4 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps at Biggendorf in Germany, begging for...
Why?
COOROY'S Jim Dunstan penned this poem while visiting the Australian War Cemetery in Lae, Papua New Guinea.
Jim served as a Warrant Officer in...
Leaves fall as the fallen
By RON LANE
THROUGHOUT many countries of the world there stand monuments dedicated to those men and women who made the supreme sacrifice. Some large,...
Joy remembers them all
By KATIE DE VERTEUIL
TEWANTIN resident Joy Anderson is the proud daughter of an original Anzac.
Her father John Gilbert (Jack) Ashton was a First Field...
Bold paintings on show in Pomona
The Lord of the Rings and the Glasshouse Mountains are Stephen Hartley's two favourite subjects among his diverse range of paintings.
Stephen’s oil and...
