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Premium Content Subscriber only Construction on a long-awaited new boat ramp at Midge Point will begin in June and be complete in October, weather permitting. Mackay MP Julieanne Gilbert said Queensland company Australian Marine and Civil was awarded the $1.55m contract to complete the works for the new boat ramp at Jimmy’s Rocks Road. “The contract includes construction of a new two-lane boat ramp and 120-metre-long access causeway at Jimmy’s Rocks Road,” Mrs Gilbert said. “The des...

Photo -  Midge Point Bible Study group celebrates Delma Tronson’s 68th birthday at the Point Tavern Three respite facilities for missionaries, home mission, chaplains, pastors, church professional personnel fall within the mission orbit of Well-Being Australia. The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite Aldinga Beach Retreat – 1 hour south of Adelaide Greens Beach, Bass Straight, TAS These mission respite facilities has provided many mission families / couples and chaplains - a much deserved re...

Photo  -  Wild Animals, Midge Point – the Postie will get through How is this for a story  -  40 years late. A recent News.com article told the story of how the Viewbank Tennis Club were astonished to find a box delivered by Australia Post of sew-on patches, believed to have been ordered in the mid-1970s. The reason given by Australia Post: "The box apparently fell behind some machinery at an Australia Post sorting centre, only to be discovered decades later as staff prepared to move." ...

Bloomsbury:  Dawn Service, 5.30am, Bloomsbury Soldier‘s Hall, Doughertys Road, Bloomsbury Calen/St Helens: Dawn Service, 5.20am and another service at 11am, Calen Memorial Hall, McIntyre Street Eton: Dawn Service, 5am, Langford Park, Telegraph Street, Eton Farleigh: Dawn Service, 5.30am Cenotaph, Farleigh Sugar Mill Grounds, Armstrong Street, Farleigh Finch Hatton: Dawn Service, 4.28am and another evening service at 6.15pm, Finch Hatton Cenotaph, Anzac Parade, Finch Hatton Gargett: Mornin...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Bloomsbury farmer is applying to allow caravanners to stay-over on his land to enjoy a nature-based experience among hundreds of fruit and nut trees. Nicholas Cronan, whose property is about an hour’s drive north of Mackay and 50 minutes south of Airlie Beach, lodged plans to Mackay Regional Council to create a space for five recreational vehicles up to 5.5m long. “We feel that there is a growing need for small facilities offering a quiet secluded break a...

Photo  -    Midge Point Beach through the trees Since 2011 the Laguna Quays Respite facility on the Whitsundays mainland has been available to missionaries and ministers (pastors) for respite and this year, eight years later a second facility was established at Aldinga Beach a little south of Adelaide. Mr Basil Sellers AM has sponsored this second facility opened in 2016 which is designated for triage missionary respite. August 2013 Basil Sellers visited Laguna Quays Respite and from that ...

Premium Content Subscriber only Workers in mining towns such as German Creek, May Downs, Peak Downs Mine and Moranbah are raking in the most dough in the Isaac region, while those in Hamilton Island and Hayman Island are earning the least. New Australian Bureau of Statistics data has revealed the average full-time salaries for workers across Mackay Isaac Whitsunday and Queensland by postcode. German Creek and May Downs were the richest workers in the Mackay Isaac Whitsunday region, taking hom...

Photo - Laguna Quays Respite – Whitsundays Within the orbit of Well-Being Australia are three respite facilities for missionaries, home mission, chaplains, pastors, church professional personnel… The Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite Aldinga Beach Retreat – 1 hour south of Adelaide Greens Beach, Bass Straight, TAS These mission respite facilities has provided many mission families / couples and chaplains - a much deserved rest and recuperation. This is a two 2 min video is of the Whitsun...

Premium Content Kylee Peta Jenkin A Cannonvale woman fronted court after police found her with marijuana and a glass bottle bong. Kylee Peta Jenkin faced Proserpine Magistrates Court this week and pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs and a bong. Police prosecutor Sergeant Emma Myors told the court police went to a property for a different matter in January and found 0.6g of marijuana and the bong. Jenkin, 48, was fined $200 and convictions were recorded. Raymond Forrest A recoverin...

Gartside pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs and a pipe. Lawyer Peta Vernon, acting for Gartside, said his client was a father of seven and the small quantities of drugs he had were for personal use. Gartside was fined $600 and a conviction was recorded. Tarni Maree Hinschen A Proserpine teen has been told to be careful who she hangs out with after being caught with methylamphetamine. Tarni Maree Hinschen faced Proserpine Magistrates Court this week and pleaded guilty to possessin...