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This week, 66 people ran, jogged, and walked the five-kilometre waterfront course, with 12 first timers and seven new Personal Bests from: Sebastian, Robert, Michael, Daisy, Jess, Kelly, Nicole.
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Over 40 swimmers participated at the Cannons’ Club Night on Wednesday. The Cannons commended Max Smith and Eloise Chegwidden for winning the Chocolate Awards and Piper Walker for winning the Swim Star Award.
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Airlie Beach Bowls Club was awarded the Fields Pty Ltd Club Premiership Cup for 2022 last week.Each year, points are awarded to bowling clubs in the region to determine the overall winner, with the honour governed by the Mackay District Bowls Association.Congratulations to all players who contributed.
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Sunday’s Scroungers winners at Bowen Bowls Club were Lloyd White, and Paula and Lee Welsted, who followed up the stellar round of the club’s Wednesday Social Bowls.
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On Tuesday, Irene Laird, Lyn Danvers, and Margaret Wilson defeated Bron Tolcher, Sue Shearing, and Penny Warren. In the other game, Greg Colquhoun and Robyn Stitt defeated Geoff Danvers and Deb Retchless.
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Wednesday’s competition was a single stableford sponsored by Bowen Golf Club incorporating the ladies’ Medal of Medals. Single stableford Ladies’ winner was Carol O’Connell, 37 points, who also won the midweek Medal of Medals, while runner up on a countback was Ruth Dunn, 36.
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The men’s winner of the Allenbuild stableford on Saturday was Ben Bullock with 43 points, from John Wallace 42 and Dean Kercher 39.The ladies’ winner was Penny Wardroper with 36, on a count back from Renae Maxwell.
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A stroke event was held by Whitsunday Golf Clubalong with the Medal of Medals challenge for 2022, with a total of 27 players competing from the Whitsunday Club.Men’s A Grade winner was Jason Bourke with runner up Danny York, with Wayne Temby best gross. Men’s B Grade winner was Paul Nicol, runner up Gerald Lovell, and Scott Wardroper best gross.
Read moreProserpine Veteran Golf had 29 players for Tuesday with a few good scores posted.
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Jacob Nightingale was a convincing winner of this week’s 9-hole stableford at Whitsunday Green Golf Club, with an impressing 25 points.
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The Hamilton Island luxury yacht fire in late October is still being dealt with by insurance companies.A stunning Sunseeker 82 motor yacht known as Time Out caught alight on the morning of October 24 this year, before emergency services attended the scene at Hamilton Island Marina which lasted approximately 10 to 12 hours before sinking.
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Em Pianeda is out to prove that it’s never too late for women to achieve their goals. Recently completing her second bodybuilding season, Em has achieved three pro cards, or professional athlete awards, and her journey has only just begun. She entered her first bodybuilding season last year, after much consideration and a lifelong passion for sport, fitness and muscle.
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Three people were injured in a truck rollover on the Gregory Development Road earlier this week on Monday, 7 November.
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A trip to a tip store inspired a series of events, which led to a decorated piano being donated to the city for the love of music. Whitsunday Anglican Year-11 student Clancy Morgan found a disused piano at the IncredableTip Shop at Paget. She started to play the instrument and noticed people gathering to have a listen, and thought it was wonderful to see people come together over a tune.
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When the worst happens, you can only hope that Good Samaritans will run to your aid and make a traumatic experience better in some small way. This was the case for Gail Swanerton when tragedy struck her family at the Aquatic Recreation Complex (ARC) earlier this month.
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I couldn’t tell you when I heard my first Ben Lee song. His music has been omnipresent in my life, and I feel like this is how most Australians experience Ben Lee. ‘Cigarettes Will Kill You’, ‘Catch My Disease’ and ‘We’re All In This Together’ were heard regularly on Rage, TV ads and in movies and shows; he was a part of growing up in Australia in the ‘90s and ‘00s.
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Sarina Sugar Shed has officially produced one of the best rums in the country. The signature Sugar Shed Rum was awarded silver in the two-to-four-year rum category at the inaugural Australian Rum Awards last Friday, November 4, in Brisbane. An esteemed panel of rum and spirit experts rated the Sugar Shed Rum highly, with a score of 86 points, ranking it among the finest rums in Australia.
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While Sebastian Padget might be focussing on his year 12 exams, his role as the Youth Member for Whitsunday has other things on his mind, including the Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro Project proposed by the Queensland Government in September.
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Tom Barry has a remarkable story and the RSL Mackay Sub Branch thinks it should be heard by all. The RSL Mackay Sub Branch has thrown its support behind Tom, a local author and fellow veteran, by assisting in the distribution of his book throughout the community. Tom celebrated his 100th birthday in August with the launch of his memoir ‘A Prodigious Leap’. “The book, in one word, is about me,” Tom said.
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A multi-million infrastructure project to provide better access to Mackay’s north has now been completed. The $144.55 million Mackay Northern Access Upgrade project was delivered to improve safety, reduce congestion and boost traffic flow at critical locations on the Bruce Highway and major intersections north of Mackay.
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Two men have been charged with 16 offences, following the alleged theft of 7,500 litres of fuel at Moranbah. On November 7, a Moranbah mine site reported thousands of litres of diesel fuel had been stolen. Investigations led detectives to attend a Moranbah paddock, where it is alleged police located two men pumping fuel from a vehicle into a shed.
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A Mackay-born Civil Engineer recently returned to North Queensland to revisit some of his handiwork. Dan Higgins was born in Mackay in 1932. Now living in Brisbane, Dan returned to his birth town in October to visit the Holy Cross Church at Eton which he designed in 1962.
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Half a century of servicing the community was celebrated by JT & PA Croyden Pty Ltd with a gala dinner for 150 attendees in Sarina recently. Owners John and Patricia Croyden established the “Croydens” business in 1972 with the purchase of their first truck from a local business formerly Crokers Truck Centre, to service the Sarina community with landscaping and quarry supplies.
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In my previous life working as a journalist, the days that had an impact and resonated most were those when there had been a tragedy when emotions were raw and real. I covered Melbourne’s Queen Street massacre, when a deranged Frank Vitkovic entered the post office and shot and killed nine people.
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Trudy Crowley had a vision. That vision was “no woman walking the journey of ovarian cancer would walk alone”. Hence, the Trudy Crowley Foundation was established in 2016 to support and alleviate the suffering of those both directly and indirectly impacted by ovarian cancer. By connecting people with the right information, support services and resources available during this difficult time, the Foundation ensures that no woman, child, partner, parent or friend feels alone.
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