It was a slow start to the season for the Marian Ladies Bowls Club, with the club’s green undergoing maintenance for longer than expected. However the ladies were back rolling out last weekend and reported that the improved green is starting to run well.
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Well over fifty runners and supporters from Mackay Road Runners enjoyed the hospitality of the Zambreros Restaurant in the City Centre after their 5km or 10km run. After Easter festivities, runners relished the opportunity to fuel with food other than chocolate
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The new club uniforms have arrived and already many members are wearing them with pride. Ladies’ uniforms are now the same design as the men, with a new top and bottle green shorts and long pants. I have heard many comments that a change was due, and the green pants are generally much preferred to the white ones. Pennants games are commencing this weekend. Good luck to our three divisions.
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MACKAY’S Emma Widdup came within points of realizing a dream in the Mackay Open table tennis championships on the weekend.
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Friday 22 April Conversations with Art Third Friday of each month, 1:00pm to 2:30pm Join Artspace staff as they guide a casual conversation about traditional and contemporary artworks from the Gallery and Museum Collections. Artspace Mackay
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Holy Spirit College, a Catholic co-educational College for Years 7 to 12, welcomes you to their Year 7 in 2023 Information Evening next Thursday 28 April, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. As you learn about the College, there will be family fun activities and a free sausage sizzle.
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Walk a long way – or just a little – every step counts for Rotary Mackay Corporate’s Lift the Lid Walk on Sunday April 24 in Mackay.
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Let’s talk Aussie made and Aussie manufacturing. The iconic logo of the green and gold kangaroo is a choice we as consumers make time and time again; supporting locals, supporting jobs and supporting industry. Australians take pride in our work, and we recognise Australian Made as a quality product.
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Sarina couple Les and Del Smith started something big when they married 70 years ago.
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Mackay Regional Council has adopted a new Corporate Plan that provides an exciting blueprint for the region over the next five years.
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There’s been no retirement from politics for George Christensen.
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Council have completed major overhauls to one of the region’s main water recycling plants which services more than 63,000 residents.
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As we are now in the heat of an election campaign you are being hit with a lot of information on issues which are really important to us all.
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The Australian Labor Party, in partnership with Central Queensland University (CQU), has announced a funding commitment to establish an electric vehicle and sustainable energy training centre in Mackay.
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The Easter road toll took a devastating turn on Monday morning when a motorcycle collided with a car near Koumala, resulting in a 60-year-old man passing away at the scene.
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Mackay detectives have charged a 28-year-old South Mackay man in relation to allegations of a firearm being discharged in Rural View on Monday afternoon (April 11).
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Two cases of extremely significant vegetation vandalism will cost the community more than $7000 to remediate, the Mackay Regional Council reported at its ordinary meeting last week.
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Go fast, turn left”. Sounds like NASCAR, but this simple tactic is also used in a different form of fast and furious racing, track cycling.
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The transformation of the Sugar Research Institute into a new secondary school has earned a coveted gold award at Mackay Regional Council’s 2022 Heritage Awards.
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After leaving the Air Force, Nichole Hood didn’t consider herself a veteran. “For a very long time, I didn’t see myself as a veteran,” she said.
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Avid sailors from across the state competed in the Sail Airlie Regatta which was held from the Whitsunday Sailing Club over the Easter long weekend.
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Jill Maslin-Petersen organised bowls last Tuesday with Col Morris’s team winners in a very exciting afternoon where Eric Barnard won the sponsor Health Hub award.
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On Wednesday eight players enjoyed a game of Social bowls. John Anderson, John Lahney, Arthur Griffith and Garry Alexander defeated Alen Sanderson, Bruce Uhe, Barry Zillmann and Philip Brown 24 - 19.
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Tuesday 12April: D Wallace, K Daniels, M Drummond, D Beel, P Warren and M Wilson. The jackpot didn’t go off.
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Wednesday’s competition was a single stableford event sponsored by Bowen Golf Club. Men’s winner Harry Littleton 40 points, runner up Noel Schultz 39 points. Ladies’ winner Leanne Swan 39 points, runner up on a countback Jo Kukura 34 points.
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