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Subscriber only The discovery of a thought-to-be extinct bee proved one of our most popular stories this week. And for good reason. Our Facebook page was abuzz with comments about the Eungella find, excited about the extraordinary discovery but also the community support. I suppose now is the time to say people swarmed to celebrate the find and were bee-witched by the apparent randomness of it, but it is a credit to PhD candidate James Dorey who had traversed the eastern coast of Australia from South Australia up to Cairns to research bee evolution. But hopefully the find can evolve the region s story too, that the wonders of what s up in the mountains will inspire more people to visit.
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The late John Joseph McNeill OAM was an old-fashioned romantic, dedicated grandfather and a champion of the Habana community. He passed away on November 14, aged 74, from jaundice and gall stones which had developed in his kidney and liver. His surviving wife Joyce McNeill said she met the Mackay local during his three-year posting to England in 1971 after he had served in the Vietnam War. He was an instructor with RAEME (Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), Mrs McNeill said. I worked as a customs officer at an airport and I did some spare work for a friend of mine who had a pub.