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With the price of fuel on a seemingly unending uptick, there’s not been a better time to put on a helmet and re-kindle a favourite pastime than now. Scott Raisbeck at Bowen Small Motors and Cycles said his store on Williams Street, Bowen – a mechanical-haven for all things garden equipment – is seeing a corresponding uptick in bike sales.
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The Bowen Seagulls Rugby League Club will host its second ever Ladies’ Day event this weekend, inviting over 200 women to enjoy a day of champagne and rugby. The Bowen Seagulls Women in League night was first held in 2019, the year before covid hit, and is finally returning.
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Bowen State High School Year 8 and 9 students travelled to Mackay as part of their F1 Academy Classes, a program which sees them design and race their own miniaturised Formula 1 Race Cars.
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Bowen’s Bubble N Sudds Car and Dog Wash owner Shane Clohesy said you’d be surprised how many people don’t know how to use the self-serve bays at car washes – nor how convenient they are.
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When Taylor Trewartha was two years old, her family relocated from Adelaide to Airlie Beach chasing the sunshine and blue waters. She’s fundamentally Airlie Beach through and through and is the newest member of the Mackay and Whitsunday Life team, joining as our specialist Graphic Designer.
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Did you know current research suggests 70% of all staff would consider leaving for better work conditions? And that includes your long-term, loyal team-members. Global engagement entities are now teaching us not only how to attract staff but how to REATTRACT your current long-term staff. If you haven’t changed how you engage your workforce by now, they may already have one foot out the door.
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In a three-hour mission, RACQ CQ Rescue winched a person with a serious medical condition off a remote beach on Whitsunday Island last Thursday. The 31-year-old was travelling on a 13-metre catamaran in Hook Passage just after lunch when they began suffering seizures and required immediate medical evacuation.
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Over the years since the first lease taken out by D C Gorton in 1883, South Molle Island has witnessed many owners come and go. But the Bauer’s tenure was by far the longest and one of the most successful.
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This is a question we get asked all the time. Statistic – ‘For a couple aged 65 today there is a 50% chance that one person will still be alive at age 95. Source ABS.
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Clinicians across the region enhanced their emergency trauma skills with the latest round of Rural Emergency and Trauma Simulation Training last week.
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Advanced Practice Enrolled Nurse Debbie Phillipson first walked through the front doors of Proserpine Hospital 40 years ago and she hasn’t looked back. She was only 21 and on a trip around Queensland with a friend, having just finished training at St Vincent’s Hospital in Toowoomba. That friend stayed on in Mackay at the Base hospital, while Debbie travelled north to Proserpine.
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A by-election to vote in a new Mayor for Whitsunday Regional Council will be held on 13 August 2022 according to Electoral Commission Queensland (ECQ).
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Campbell Irvine’s face underneath his iconic, well-worn hat, framed by thick grey beard and hair, is of “Never-give-in, of bright heat and of help-your-mate,” as Henry Lawson would have said.
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The Whitsunday housing crisis is set to be tackled by local council who have come up with sweeping reforms to ease the issue crippling the region.
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A group of Proserpine State High School Students didn’t think twice about letting Lochie Tucker join in on their pick-up basketball game at the Cannonvale courts.
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Hi, Constant Readers. We can all feel a bit stressed sometimes. But, within those times, there’s an opportunity for great personal growth. I’ve certainly felt a bit under the pump lately – as is to be expected running a newspaper – but I already know I’ve learnt so much.
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The Airlie Beach Festival of Music’s tenth anniversary just got noisier with the announcement that Jon Stevens, Masters of Pop, Loonaloop, and more are joining the line-up.
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The more than 41,500 people visiting the Big Mango Visitor Information Centre and the information booth at Bowen’s front Beach in the past financial year can pick up a copy of the new Bowen and Collinsville Visitor Guide.
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A special council meeting was held on Wednesday this week to appoint a deputy mayor of the Whitsundays, with previous deputy, Mike Brunker, stepping down. Councillor Brunker is one of six candidates campaigning for the role of mayor, and as such saw it fit to step down so there was no conflict of interest, perceived or real.
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Cody Gibbs passed away in early July after 11-months of treatment for a cancer which had manifested as three tumours on his brain and spine. The 15-year-old Airlie Beach boy had originally been diagnosed with Pineoblastoma in 2018 – an aggressive, rare form of the disease in the pineal gland in the brain’s centre.
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The Tassal Group Airlie Beach Marathon Festival drew several members of the Mackay Road Runners to beautiful Airlie Beach last weekend with some very successful results.
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Local basketball star Monique Bobongie shone as she took to the court representing Australia at the FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup in Europe.
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Monday winners were Pat Elgey and Tony Willesy. Losers draw winners, Narelle Schmidtke and Laura Howland. Lucky draws, Barry Lee and Rob Milburn.
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The Cutters hosted the Ipswich Jets at BB Print Stadium on Saturday night in a battle that pitted 10th on the Hosplus Cup ladder against 13th. Both teams felt their way through the start of the first half with the Cutters the first to strike with Brendan Finnegan setting up Jake Riley in the 14th minute.
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A chance meeting with rugby league Test great Steve Rogers nearly three decades ago proved a pivotal moment in the sporting career of Mercy College Mackay staff member Matthew Paul.
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