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Premium Content Subscriber only AN Ipswich woman is pushing for commemorative services to return to the site of the burial of more than 1000 US soldiers who helped defend Australia and the Pacific during WWII. Manson Park at Raceview is still home to a memorial to the American soldiers, but was once also the site where more than 1400 men were buried. Two years after the war ended, 140 Ipswich people helped exhume the bodies of the American soldiers so they could be taken home. Charlotte Harding said she was heartbroken when she went to the memorial on Anzac Day and realised there were no wreaths left behind to commemorate the soldiers. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only TREASURER Josh Frydenberg will hand down the federal budget next week and we will learn how much money will flow for infrastructure, upgrades and other programs in Ipswich. Ahead of the budget, the QT asked all of the cityâs elected representatives what they believed to be the priority projects in their patches. As the fastest growing city in Queensland, Ipswich desperately needs the infrastructure to keep up the expected population growth with the total number of residents set to more than double to 558,000 in the next 20 years. Hereâs what they said: FEDERAL MEMBER FOR BLAIR SHAYNE NEUMANN (LABOR) ....
RESIDENTS have hit out at plans to run a series of micro-festivals and glamping weekends on fields adjoining their homes in Pool in Wharfedale. Glorious Glamping weekends are being advertised throughout the summer months on land at Fairmead Farm on Pool Bank New Road. The site will include a licensed bar and special alcohol and food packages. But people living near the four fields which have been earmarked for the events say they have never been consulted upon the plans and only found out about them on Facebook . They say the repeated mini-festivals will create noise and disturbance and pose a serious threat to local wildlife. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only DEDICATED firefighters will soon have a state-of-the-art station to call their own to service Ipswich s growing western corridor, with more demand than before for their assistance in times of emergency and disaster. Construction on a new $2 million auxiliary fire and rescue station in Rosewood is expected to be finished in the next four months. Fireys have been sharing a building on the town s main street with personnel from the Queensland Ambulance Service but the building is too small to house both services. A new auxiliary fire station for Rosewood is under construction. The new 500 sqm station is being built on Albert Street to house 14 Queensland Fire and Emergency Services officers with an expected opening date of late August. ....
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services The Honourable Yvette D Ath Construction will begin next week on the new $91 million, 50-bed Acute Mental Health Unit (AMHU) at the heart of the West Moreton Health’s current expansion. Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Yvette D’Ath said construction company BESIX Watpac had been appointed as the main works contractor to build the three-storey mental health unit. “The Palaszczuk Government has invested more than $146.3 million over 5 years for Stage 1 of the master-planned expansion of Ipswich Hospital and related health services to meet the needs of the fast-growing region,” Minister D’Ath said. ....