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BEAUDESERT Café

If you’ve been looking for the unexpected in Cafe culture on your way through the Scenic Rim, then this is the place to stop.

PHOTOS BY CARIN GARLAND

Locals will tell you it’s not your average country café, and they are right. You need to have an appreciation for adventurous flavours, as owner Grace and her team are challenging the idea that different doesn’t work in a country town.

Not sure what we are talking about then here’s a sample of the menu, starting with the Truffle Oil Mushroom Scrambled eggs, roasted mixed mushrooms with truffle oil, parmesan cream on sourdough with creamy fluffy scrambled eggs. The avo on toast is no ordinary smashed avo, featuring pickled fennel, sundried tomatoes, whipped goat’s cheese and fresh home-made basil pesto all topped with pistachio dukkha. Don’t worry, this team are very intuitive, they have catered for the all-day favourites such as the traditional Big Breaky, they’ve even gone as far as to include the good old savoury mince (our fav).

The menu on a whole is exciting and happy, just the like Grace and her team. With a hint of traditional Japanese inspired dishes such as Poke bowls and pork belly okonomiyaki, even the tropical pancaked have been made the Japanese way. The fit out is supremely simple, tidy and features geometric artwork. The vibe and the food are incredibly fun and playful and then of course there’s the coffee. It’s Italian so it goes without saying – it’s bellisimo!

Beaudesert Café is opposite the cultural Centre in Beaudesert - it’s the perfect place to view art and eat well.

99 Brisbane St, Beaudesert QLD 4285 (07) 5541 2504 Open 7.00am - 2.00pm Tues - Fri Sat 7.30am - 1.00pm, Sun 7.30am - 12.00pm @Beaudesert-Cafe @beaudesert_cafe

TRACTION Builds Positive Futures

It’s a school day, but the students at the Beaudesert TRACTION workshop aren’t sitting at desks. They are engaged in learning of a different kind, happily engrossed in repairing motorbike engines, supported by mentors, Simon Wadwell and Kylie Lowe.

These local students from Beaudesert State High School are participating in one of the hands-on, action-based programs run by local Queensland charity, TRACTION, which include building bicycles, fixing engines and creating boom boxes from e-waste. Program Founder, Sandy Murdoch, recognised that not all young people learn best in the classroom. With about twenty percent of Australians aged 15-24 disengaged from full time education or work, he saw an opportunity for intervening early at ages 12-15 years, to prevent young people from falling through the cracks.

Kylie Lowe, TRACTION’s Scenic Rim Coordinator, is passionate about providing a positive learning environment, where students are supported to discover and build their own unique strengths, that might go unrecognised in the classroom. “The young people experience success in our programs, build new connections with others and begin to consider a future of widened opportunities,” Kylie said.

“They are reporting positive outcomes for themselves, including increases in confidence, skills, positive connections with others and hopefulness about their career options for the future.”

TRACTION partners with a range of local schools and community organisations, as well as youth justice and child safety agencies, to empower and serve those most in need.

The not-for-profit organisation has been working with youth in the Scenic Rim area since 2016, opening their first local workshop in Beaudesert in 2018. Since this time, TRACTION has provided 99 students in the Scenic Rim access to their workshops.

With limited government funding at this stage, TRACTION relies on the ongoing support of the local community to deliver programs. Local supporters include The Bryan Foundation, Gelita, ACS Engineers and Huebner Motors, and TRACTION welcomes new supporters, to keep up with program demand. TRACTION hopes to support at least 72 local students each year.

For more information or to register your interest, join TRACTION’s Scenic Rim Community Facebook page facebook.com/groups/TRACTIONScenicRimCommunity or contact Kylie Lowe at kylie@traction.community.