Friday 24th Feb • The Pub: Acoustic Sessions, Andy Mammers (7-10pm) • Paradiso: Nick DeGregario (7-10pm) • Grandview Hotel, Bowen: Rebelquin (from 8pm) • KC’s: Aaron Saxon (8pm-late) • Hotel Metropole: Live Entertainment (8pm-late)
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“You win, it’s your show now. So what’s it gonna be?” – The Airlie Beach Hotel has handed over the reins, they’ve turned it ‘Upside Down’ and given their patrons what they’ve been asking for: A day of beachy, Hawaiian rock in a Jack Johnson-themed double event.
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Gimme, gimme, gimme that synth and soprano coming to The Airlie Beach Hotel in mid-March – I can hear the distant drums and bugle sounds closing in on the Bar-Top Stage. SOS - A Tribute to the Songs of ABBA arrives in the Whitsundays, bringing Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha, and Freda back to town and ‘As Good As New’ in a perfect recreation of the iconic ‘70s band.
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Last Friday was a celebration of many roles and accolades within the St Catherine's Catholic College community. Year 12s were inducted into their leadership roles and the school also celebrated their Year 11 and 12 QATSIF (The Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Foundation) scholarship recipients.
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Flora was the daughter of Danish migrant, James Christian Nielson, who settled in Proserpine in 1896 after working and travelling far and wide in Australia for seventeen years. He took up Springsure Farm, seventy-nine acres of light forest land in Glen Isla, becoming one of the most successful farmers in the district growing sugar cane and tobacco. (In 1921, James sold the farm to H M Clarke).
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The lovingly curated garden of retired local PJ Tell is a hive of activity with chickens strutting in the pens, a veggie patch boasting passion fruit and turmeric, and at its heart, a thriving bee house where gallons of delicious honey is produced each year.
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Whitsunday local and self-professed ‘Covid-story’, Mary Ann Santin, represents just one of the many cultural additions to the community which has seen our local arts industry continue to flourish in recent years.
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On Wednesday, February 15, the Proserpine Whitsunday Raiders Rugby Union held its annual general meeting at the Whitsunday Sportspark clubhouse. The 2023 committee was formed and discussions around this year’s plans were held, with Steve Ward taking the reigns as president, Leanne Hoffman and Maddy Spruce as Senior and Junior Secretary, and Hanny Spence as Treasurer.
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The Bowen Cricket Pink Stumps Ladies’ Day event hosted over 350 women at the Bowen Sporting Complex last Saturday in its annual fundraiser for the McGrath Foundation Breast Cancer Awareness campaign.
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This week Airlie Beach parkrun celebrated inclusivity with a Pride themed event with 78 motivated people running, jogging, and walking the five-kilometre waterfront course, of whom five were visitors.
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The Ladies were in fine form at Whitsunday Social Golf’s Four-Ball-Best-Ball stableford held on Sunday, February 19. Multiple Birdies were scored by Pauline Redpath and Tiina Randmae alongside the field of 28 players.
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This week’s 9-hole weekly stableford competition at Whitsunday Green Golf Club was won by Chris Bartlett on 22 points countback, and second place was Andrew Gomez with a 22 point win, third to Elise Hodgson, 19.
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There was another great rollup for the Proserpine Veteran Golf’s Monthly Medal last weekend with some new faces on the course. The Valentine’s Day event ended in perfect fashion: Men's and Ladies winners were the couple of Gary and Elspeth Scotford.
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The Tuesday Competition at Proserpine Golf Club was won by Mason Kuchel, who lost a stroke because of his nice round of 41 points in the Club’s Tuesday Stableford, edging out Trish McNeill on 37, and Karl Kirkwood close behind on 36.
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The Wednesday competition at Bowen Golf Club was a single stroke event for the February midweek monthly medals. Ladies’ winner was Kim Bennion, 69 nett, followed by countback runner-up Grace Nott, 70 nett. Men’s winner was Brett Carlyon, 62 nett, and runner-up Bruce Moriarty, 66 nett.
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On Tuesday at Wangaratta Bowls Club, two triples were played with results heading Merle Elphinstone, Teresa Willshire, and Mark Drummond’s way. They defeated Lindy Suann, Deb Retchless, and Kevin Jewel, while the game between Stumpy Adams, Isobel Wheeler, and Penny Warren ended with a win against Roger Mumby, Bron Tolcher, and Irene Laird.
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Proserpine Bowls Club’s Wednesday games featured five brave souls: Warren Wilson at double second with Bruce Uhe and Philip Brown against the team of Alen Sanderson, Warren, and Heather Brown, which ended 23-14.
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Results of competition games played this week at Bowen Bowls Club: In singles, Steve Roome defeated Peter Thomson, while Ian Best beat Brett Lampard, and Daryl Tuttle won against Lloyd White.
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The ladies played round one of the fours championships on Tuesday at Airlie Beach Bowls Club this week. Winning teams were Carol Crosbie, Elaine Hadlow, Margo Stanley substituting for Ladda Purdie and Betty Nicolle, and Karen Jensen, Lu Rogan, Betty Whitehorn and Lyn Skeen. Bev Taylor defeated Juanita Matterson in a B singles game.
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Seven Whitsunday Touch Football Association (WTA) members attended a Level One (Foundation) Referee Course last Saturday morning, facilitated by Jason Miller from Mackay Touch. Mr Miller was an “engaging presenter and ensured that the course was enjoyed by all participants,” according to Whitsunday Touch’s Alita DeBrincat.
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The Cannonvale Cannons took up the challenge of swimming longer distances and swam extremely well on the club’s Wednesday Distance Club Night. Congratulations to Holly Perrin for setting a new 200-metre Backstroke record and to Ehsan Helou for setting a new 50-metre Breaststroke record.
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Twilight Race: Whitsunday Sailing Club hosted a fleet of 15 yachts with 62 crew on board for a Wednesday featuring a light south easterly breeze with flat seas -- idyllic sailing conditions. First away was Division Two, with Wide Load (Shannan Hart) timing their run to the starting line to perfection to take the Doyle Sails sponsored best start prize.
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The Whitsunday Sportspark’s ‘Festival of Football’ was a decisive success for the local venue, which hosted three games of high-tier football last Saturday in front of crowds of over 1500.
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With the onset of flooding, large tides and huge swells, Mackay’s Harbour Beach has had a rough start to the year. Mackay Surf Life Saving Club (MSLSC) is hoping the Mackay Regional Council or the Port Authority can come to the lifesavers’ rescue.
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Mackay man Jack was enjoying a Sunday with his grandkids at Belmunda Beach, near Cape Hillsborough, when he spotted something in the sand around 3:00pm. “We were just driving down the beach and I saw what I thought might’ve been a dead shark,” he said. “We realised it was a dolphin … we got out with the kids, and it made a couple of noises and we realised it was alive.
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