The second book in an inspiring series about resilience and overcoming adversity has just been released by local author, Natalie Stockdale.Campfire For A Woman’s Heart includes personal recounts of challenges overcome and an inner spirit rising from within, as Natalie interviews dozens of women who have that one attribute in common.
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As passionate about music as he is about life, multi-instrumentalist Simon Briley, has been busy writing and producing a swath of new music and is now ready to show the world.
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The Proserpine State High School’s performance of ‘Sweet Charity’, a celebrated Broadway show with a cast of 100 students, will launch next week on May 3.Following Charity Hope Valentine, the long-running musical’s namesake and a taxi dancer living in New York in the swinging sixties, Sweet Charity is an ambitious production for the school.
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“Right, right, turn off the lights,” because - in a weeks’ time - the Airlie Beach Hotel will see “all of the people start to rush” and gather round its Bar-Top Stage when P!nk takes on Lady Gaga in one of the country’s ultimate tribute shows.
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‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ deploys the tactful horror foreword of “inspired by.” Julius Avery’s film is “inspired by” actual files. It is “inspired by” a centuries-old conspiracy that the Vatican is trying to keep hidden. And that “inspired” gives it wiggle room, and, probably, is why it works.
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The soundtrack of the Sunshine State will be laid out at the Proserpine Entertainment Centre as part of the Opera Queensland ‘Lady Sings the Maroons’ tour in May.On May 11, the Whitsundays’ music fans will be treated to a unique program inspired by artists including The Saints, Powderfinger, Gladys Moncrieff, Savage Garden, Joe Geia, Kate Miller-Heidke, and Harold Blair.
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Everyone in the community is invited to sing along to some Disney classics at this year’s St Catherine’s Catholic College musical performance of Beauty and the Beast.The 1999 Disney movie was one of the fairy tale’s most loved renditions with a host of memorable characters that are all re-created in this high-quality school performance.
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The Bowen Rugby Union Club have brand-new grandstands for their spectators, courtesy of Queensland Country Bank’s Good for Good Community Grants program. The new $25,000 grandstands, which were installed last week, have been a welcome addition for the club, which previously struggled to provide enough seating for those attending games.
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Whitsunday United’s Division Two Men had a frustrating result going down 4-2 away to Lions on Friday night, despite having most of the possession.Player of the match for Whitsundays was Caleb Vanderdrift, who was tireless on the right-hand side in both attack and defense, and Cynan Hughes scored his first senior goal.
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The Whitsunday Sports Park and Proserpine Whitsunday Raiders hosted four games of rugby union last Saturday for the ANZAC round of the Mackay Rugby Union competition.
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The wet weather disrupted Whitsunday Touch Football on Monday, with only a handful of completed games before the conditions became unmanageable.Meanwhile, Touch for Fun has kept several youngsters busy as they learn some of the skills of Touch Football.
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Airlie Beach Bowls Club has had one of the biggest days in its nearly 40-year history with a series of Men’s Pennants wins last weekend.The Mens Pennants team led by Warren Mills in Division One were in spectacular form and the Club’s other Men’s Pennant sides – skippered by Peter Barrett and Shane Spann, respectively – won all their games.
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This week’s results from the Bowen Bowls Club Competition Games in the mixed pairs saw Lou Fordham and Wayne Crowhurst defeat Bev Smith and Mitch Wright.
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Eight players enjoyed social bowls at Proserpine Bowls Club on Wednesday, with Bruce Uhe, Heather Brown, Sandy Daffara, and Carol Crosbie defeating Alen Sanderson, Mike Harrison, Philip Brown, and Warren Wilson, 18-14.
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The Club Competition at Wangaratta Bowls Club was fierce this week, with first winner in Men’s A Singles Steve Roome, who defeated Graeme Read. The Ladies’ B Singles game was won by Teresa Willshire, who defeated Jocelyn Defranciscis. The final of the B Singles between Pat Tracey and Teresa Willshire will be held this Saturday afternoon.
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Wednesday’s competition at Bowen Golf Club was a single stableford event sponsored by the Club.Ladies’ winner on a countback was Grace Nott, with 37 points, followed by runner up Leanne Swan, 37 points. Men's winner Vince Hargraves, 39 points, runner up on a countback was Colin Pett, 38.
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Proserpine Veteran Golfers cancelled their trip to Home Hill this week after last minute heavy rainfall left the course unplayable – but not to be deterred, 25 players entered a Proserpine Comp.
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This week’s Nine-hole stableford at Whitsunday Green Golf Club was won by Josh Tripcony on 24 points, with second place on 20 Jimmy Millar, and third place to Cameron Mutch, 19.
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The format of this week’s Whitsunday Golf Club's Sunday Stableford competition was changed from a 4BBB to single Stableford Blustery conditions complicated the game particularly on the more exposed greens.
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After a week of hot weather and northernly winds ahead of Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Twilight Race, relief was in sight and the fleet headed out for last week’s Wednesday twilight race.
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A massive sea rescue search mission involving multiple aircraft and on-water vessels was conducted to find survivors of a boating tragedy which occurred last Thursday evening. Three men, two of whom were brothers, were left clinging to their seven-metre Goodwin Longboard 150 kilometres out to sea after a large wave hit and overturned their boat.
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A local, independent, community driven not-for-profit charity received some charity of its own to help continue it’s work supporting public hospitals in the region. Mackay Hospital Foundation was the benefactor of a few choice gifts last Friday when two local girls dropped off donations to the organisation’s Children’s and Adolescent Unit.
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Hi readers. This week, I’m going to share my thoughts on a movie. It’s been an age since I last wrote a movie review. I had a shitty high school blog with a mate on which we would write little reviews of movies and music, so I’ve had plenty of practise, but I’d like to think my tastes have evolved since giving Transformers 7/10.
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Federal Member for Dawson, Andrew Willcox, is frustrated with what he’s calling the Federal Government’s “brand-new attack on ten million low and middle-income earners in Australia”. The Member said the Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ decision to cut the former government’s 2019 Low- and Middle-Income Tax Offset (LMITO) from the 2023 May Budget, is a “tax on ‘Aussie Battlers’.” The LMITO was originally designed as a one-off payment but was extended through the pandemic by the former Coalition Go
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A statewide wanding blitz saw police search over 450 people for weapons over the weekend in a nation-leading strategy to detect weapons and combat knife crime across Queensland. Here in Mackay police conducted 14 wandings, with no weapons detected. Police Inspector Godbold said that he was pleased with the results. “It was a great result for Mackay,” he said. “We didn’t detect any knives or other weapons.”
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