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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 design of the new facility accounts for the local marine habitat, large tidal range and wave conditions...

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 rest and recuperation. This is a two 2 min video is of the Whitsundays Laguna Quays respite. Aldinga B...

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." All those people who have been told 'their cheque' is in the mail and never get it - might now know ...

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: Morning Service, 8am, Gargett War Memorial, opposite the Gargett Pub, Gargett Septimus Rd and Jim Moule St...

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 away from the large crowded caravan parks,” Mr Cronan stated in his application. “We intend to o...