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The Lockyer Valley’s newest school opened its doors to foundation students on Wednesday, a momentous step in a journey more than eight years in the making.
Nervous parents lined the path to welcome the cohort of Year Sevens and their teachers as they walked into the hall for the first time.
Father Noyichan M Antony of Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Parish, Gatton and Laidley, led the formal celebrations and said it was wonderful for the school to come together for such a momentous day, following a year of lockdowns and gathering restrictions. Foundation students, parents and staff of Sophia College Plainland celebrate the first day of school at the brand new campus. Photo: Hugh Suffell.
Emergency services say they have been âquite concernedâ by driver behaviour of the Christmas holiday period.
At a press conference at Withcott on Friday, Acting Inspector Regan Draheim said more than 800 traffic infringement notices were issued since Christmas Eve, of which more than half were for speeding.
Acting Inspector Draheim said police also conducted over 6500 RBTs, which detected 60 drink drivers.
Another 60 drivers were also detected under the influence of drugs, which Acting Inspector Draheim said was âalso quite concerningâ.
Acting Inspector Draheim told the
Gatton Star that a particular hotspot for poor driving behaviour in the Lockyer Valley continued to be the stretch of the Warrego Highway between Hatton Vale and Plainland.