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Subscriber only Mackay council workers have mobilised to clean up the region s cemeteries after wet weather sprouted long grass over the summer months. Walkerston resident Joan Hamilton said she noticed the cemetery off the Peak Downs Highway was overgrown when she visited during the Christmas period, and questioned what was being done about it. Mrs Hamilton said the Walkerston grounds were overgrown, and was similar to Mackay Cemetery on Cemetery Rd. Mackay Regional Council development services director Aletta Nugent said staff regularly monitored and maintained the region s cemeteries.
It s an unwritten rule that the longer you live in a town, the more you become an authority on the unofficial things such as nicknames. Universally accepted and rarely challenged, those nicknames are generally passed down through generations or are changed as the population does. For Walkerston, the nickname Scrubby has been around for - well, long-term resident Ray Hamilton says forever . A recent caller to the
Daily Mercury took exception to referring to Walkerston by the moniker so when My Town headed to the Wests Mackay Leagues Club this week, we asked a handful of residents what they thought.
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A Walkerston business owner has been left hamstrung by a technical fault on her Telstra phone line that means clients cannot book appointments.
Walkerston Natural Therapies Centre owner Julie Williams said the glitch in the network meant her clients, many of whom were built up over 23 years of operation, were unable to get in touch.
Mrs Williams said the problem started on Tuesday, February 9, when the Telstra message bank voice switched from a woman to a man, and some recordings were delayed by hours.
When she tried to change the overnight voicemail, which she had done every day for years, she was unable to record the message and instead it defaulted to the previous one telling clients the business was closed.
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The real estate market in one Mackay seaside town has become so âextraordinarily tightâ it is impossible to find a rental.
Real Estate Institute of Queensland corporate manager Olivier Björksäter-Bleylock said Seaforth was experiencing a zero per cent vacancy rate.
âWhat weâre finding is rentals are extraordinarily tight and theyâre tight everywhere,â Mr Björksäter-Bleylock said.
âWhatâs happening in these small little seaside hamlets is really being reflective of what weâre seeing happening all up and down the regional coast of Queensland.â Redcliffe Island near Seaforth. Picture: Tania Battson
You hear the name Walkerston and instantly think of sport, and with good reason.
But thereâs plenty more to the town, the people who call it home and community stalwarts that give it its character.
Walkerston is also a town of great heart that rallies for each other when needed, most recently when Wests was given an almighty kick to the ground.
It is that community heart the
Daily Mercury wants to uncover, celebrate and find more of when My Town heads to Walkerston on Tuesday.
My Town is an initiative with the Mackay Regional Council that puts a different regional area in the spotlight each fortnight.