Jingle bells, a gum that swells, could ruin your Christmas break! Ensure your holiday plans don’t get sidelined by sickness this Christmas.
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Are you willing to have your mind changed? If only we listened with the intent to just listen. Unfortunately, we have been hard-wired with the intent to reply – which doesn’t make us that effective at listening at all.
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Four Year 12 graduates from the Whitsundays were announced as the recipients of a series of local Zonta Club scholarships which will help them pursue tertiary schooling across the country.
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What does it mean to own a pool?To some it can mean a place to cool off; somewhere to relax throughout the day. It can be a place for exercise. For family.
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One of Bowen’s biggest employers has launched a new community support program, providing funding to not-for-profit organisations and community groups through purchases of small assets to “make a big difference.”
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A local Whitsunday professional dance school is taking its students to the stage for a classic Christmas performance next weekend.
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If there’s one Australian Christmas tradition that grew out of Australia’s climate, it’s the food. We once slaved in the kitchen cooking thick, European meals a generation or two back, turning our kitchens into saunas.
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As temperatures in the Whitsundays rise, reaching their often uncomfortably high levels, pets are likely to struggle with the heat as much as people do – if not more, according to local experts.
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The stories of the wildlife and the incredible diversity of species and habitats are just some of the reasons that the Great Barrier Reef is so inspirational to visitors. At approximately 350,000 km2 in size and stretching 2,300 km along the Queensland coast, the Great Barrier Reef is the only living ecosystem on Earth that can be seen from Outer Space.
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Students from across the region took to Bowen in early November to learn about the latest technology in one of the Whitsundays’ major industries.
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Recycling is not just about the environment, it is also about repurposing a valuable resource, selling it onto markets and then circulating back into the economy.Every year we make roughly $500,000 from recycling in our region, but general waste that goes directly into landfill costs us around $8 million.
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A garden of trees commemorating Queen Elizabeth the Second’s Platinum Jubilee were unveiled in an intimate ceremony at Cannonvale State School last week.
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A Proserpine World War II veteran, Private Edward ‘Eddie’ Charles Lade, returned home to the sugarcane farming town after two years’ service in the Pacific Theatre of War, bringing with him something incredibly special.
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Images: Declan Durrant
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On Thursday last week St Catherine’s Catholic College students were recognised for their academic, sporting, cultural and community achievements at their annual Awards Ceremony.
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The school community gathered at Whitsunday Christian College for the school’s end of year celebration on Wednesday, November 16.
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Are you ready for Good Vibrations flowing from the speakers at ‘The Pub’? Because audiences are getting “the excitations” as Australia’s biggest and best Beach Boys experience is set to surf into Airlie Beach in a weeks’ time.
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Qui Nguyen coats his animated feature with world-building, transforming what is ostensibly a standard narrative into an exceptionally poignant, visually gorgeous, and thoroughly jubilant tale in a vibrant world. The writer-director has crafted a heartfelt and humorous ode to classic, pulp action-adventure comics of old with his 2022 animated film Strange World.
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The final four in this year’s Airlie Beach Darts’ Xmas Open earned their places on Sunday morning at Mika Airlie Beach, with the draw for the semi-final pairings to be carried out later in the week.
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Families who attend Airlie Swim School by Danielle went along to the third annual Swim Carnival last Sunday with over 60 children between the ages of four and 10 competing in a range of categories.
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First up was the Under 11 Proserpine Pitbulls vs South’s Sharks: It was set to be a tough match against the unbeaten South’s Sharks team on a balmy Saturday morning.Captain Zahra lost the toss and the Sharks opted to field first, knowing the day was only going to get hotter. The Proserpine side posted a 9/62 total at the end of 20 overs.
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The Cannonvale Cannons had a fantastic weekend of swimming with over 30 young swimmers competing at the Whitsunday Swim Carnival in Proserpine last Saturday.Also, six Cannons participated at the Hamilton Island Ocean Swim on Sunday and a couple of Cannons attended the swim clinic facilitated by Graeme Carroll.
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Tuesday afternoon at Airlie Beach Bowls Club saw Betty Whitehorn as skipper with Robin Brown at lead and Rhonda Lloyd take home the winners prizes to start the week.
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At Bowen Bowls Club’s Wednesday Social meet, Mary Ellen Pratten, Keith Kirk, and Lou Fordham defeated Paula Welsted, Tracy Roach, and Allen Williams to get the ball rolling.
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Twelve players enjoyed a game of Social Bowls on Wednesday at Proserpine Bowls Club, the last opportunity for the year before the greens were taken out for the annual renovations.
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