On Wednesday for Social Bowls, we welcomed Russell Jackson, Alan Pershouse, and Andrew Butler from Airlie Beach who were taking the opportunity to have a game in preparation for this weekend's pennants.
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WTA’s Footy for Fun Program for Juniors finished last Monday and a new season will kick-off in August. Some fifteen Juniors participated in the program having fun learning and practicing some of the important skills of Touch Football.The Juniors showed they made real progress over the course of the six weeks with running in heaps of tries in their final game.
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Wednesday’s competition was a single stableford event sponsored by Bowen Golf Club. Ladies’ winner was Janice Bates 32 points, runner up on a countback Grace Nott 31 points. Men’s winner on a countback Brendan Nott 36 points, runner up Hayden Williams 36 points.
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Junior golfer, Jack Hayes-Williams has been selected in the North Queensland 10-12 year school team and will compete at the Sunshine Coast this week. Jack is heading to the competition in good form after winning the Club's Sunday Stableford with an impressive 42 points, great round and best of luck in the School State Titles! Karen Rix was the runner up with 35 points.
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The Sunday Stableford saw only 13 players in the running. The weather again looked dubious on the drive in to the course, but players were lucky with only a couple of very light drops of rain. However, the wind kicked in again, as the scores indicate, and the more exposed greens caused a few wayward putts.
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This week’s 9-hole stableford competition was won by Glenn Rees with a 23 point win, second place on 21 points was Tyson Flavel and third Peter Henderson with 18 points.
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Volleyball runs in the veins of Proserpine State High School sport star, Lillian Kelly. Lillian has recently qualified for the Under 16s Australian Women’s team, competing at the Asian Championships, and will head to China in the next school holidays, while also qualifying for the Queensland School Sport (QSS) team and will be travelling to Canberra in June.
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It has been a mammoth start to the season for Whitsunday Athletics Club, as they come off the back of a successful Mackay Track and Field Carnival. Whitsunday Athletics Club took seven athletes to the carnival on the May long weekend, with amazing results.
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This week 85 people ran, jogged and walked the 5km waterfront course, of whom 16 were first timers and 18 recorded new Personal Bests. The event was made possible thanks to RD Dan and his wonderful team of 15 volunteers: Nick, Kara, Megan, Wade, Susanne, Ashley, Ken, Jarrod, Lynne, Dennis, Joanne, Anne, Justin and Chris R.
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Even though the offshore winds were high, the 15 knot south easterly breeze on Pioneer Bay was perfect for the Whitsunday Sailing Club twilight race on Wednesday. A fleet of 16 boats and a combined crew list of over 100 participants made a spectacular sight from the Airlie Beach shoreline.
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Based in Brisbane, Circa, is a visionary contemporary acrobatic and circus show, that tests the limits of human movement and powerful performance. On by Circa is the newest performance to the company’s repertoire, illuminating the haunting tale of a chance encounter, a single touch, an impossible connection, with eight strangers.
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After weeks of campaigning and four days of voting, 21 young candidates became 12 young councillors as the first democratically elected Mackay region Youth Council was announced last Sunday.
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Hi readers. This week’s issue is absolutely packed with sport, although some stories are, unfortunately, more triumphant than others.
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Emersen Lamb said winning Miss Junior Teen Diamond International last year changed her life. The year 10 student’s pageantry success left her inspired and hungry to chase her dreams of becoming a model.
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When four local businessmen attended the Trudy Crowley Foundation Ball last year, they made the decision to pool their resources and make a vital donation.“We all thought what better way to help the guys out than by buying the car they were raising money for, then all the money they raise could go to something else,” said Brendan Camilleri of Comiskey Mining Services.
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The Australian Government has handed down a budget that, for the first time in 15 years, is in surplus.In their second budget, the Labor government announced a $4.2 billion surplus which has largely been credited to corporate tax gained from the resources industry.
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Members of the Mackay community, including the Mackay Police department and other government departments, has remembered victims of family and domestic violence at a candlelight vigil at the Blue Water Quay in Mackay last week.
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Since the release of damning reports in 2022, the Mackay Base Hospital has hired two new senior obstetrics and gynaecological specialists. Dr Leigh Grant and Dr Barton Matshe have joined the Women’s Health Unit of Mackay Base Hospital.
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After growing up on a sugar cane farm in Sarina and nearly 30 years after beginning his medical career in Mackay, Dr Adrian Wescott has welcomed a new role of Clinical Director of Surgery with Mackay Base Hospital.
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James Cook University’s Mackay campuses have been gifted an Indigenous name in a fitting acknowledgment of the role played by Indigenous people in advancing the University.
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Staff at Mackay Base Hospital celebrated International Midwives Day last Friday, May 5 with the presentation of awards, celebrating the hospital’s midwives and their dedication and contributions to maternal and newborn health.
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A GENUINE passion for hoops and strong will to succeed have helped transform schoolboy Zac Uhr into a prolific scoring whiz kid in the fast paced sport of wheelchair basketball.
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Mission organisation, Anglican Mothers’ Union group is now looking to expand and welcome new members to its group which is dedicated to the empowerment of women and the improvement of youth’s lives.
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Mackay & District Senior Citizens congratulate all on attaining such a milestone in their lives.Elinor Leppien and Alf Pagden recently turned 90 years old.
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A brewer of many years, Scott Linden of Star’s breakfast show Scotty and Kaley started like many amateur brewers with a Coopers homebrew set.After years of experimenting, Scotty launched his very own beer, the Bald Eagle Brew, at Red Dog Brewery last week, with lucky listeners and special guests there to get the first taste.
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