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Mitre10 helps locals out

WHEN Tin Can Bay Coast Guard was invited to participate in Mitre 10's garden bed construction competition, the opportunity to fundraise was snapped up.

 

Family flavour bursts with goodness

Farm Fresh Gympie

LITTLE Ava Chambers is starting out early in the fruit and veg business, just like her mum Mini Grosse.

 

Indentifying local opportunities

Gabrielle Keating

AUSTRALIA continues to recover well from the Global Financial Crisis however, while some areas are experiencing growth, others still need a helping hand.

 

Median strip saves life every week

Gympie motorists look like driving at 90km/h on single lanes for a long time yet.

A METRE-wide painted median strip has been saving lives on the Bruce Hwy.
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‘Death zone' encroaches north

Neglected to the north and the south.

THE Bruce Hwy's infamous death stretch has moved north.

 

Volunteers praised for Show role

All the exhibitors line up for the official opening of the Gympie Show.

IT SEEMED fitting that volunteers were thanked during volunteer week, at the Gympie Show Grand Parade.

 

Dedication runs deep

Clinton, Bob and Julie Hensel (in front of the Bob Hensel Dairy Pavilion) represent three generations of the Hensel family and more than 40 years volunteering at the Gympie Show. Fourth generation, Ebony and Dylan Anderton now help out in the nursery.

BOB Hensel is undoubtedly Gympie Show's adopted grandfather.

 

Safe drivers are cautious ones

RACQ president Geoff Leddy (centre) with two of Gympie’s longest standing members, Alison Ahern and Michael Rasmussen.

BETWEEN the pair of them, Alison Ahern and Michael Rasmussen have only called RACQ half a dozen times in 135 years of membership.

 

'Blacklisted dairy victim'

NO PRIZES: Shane Paulger's outspoken views come back to haunt him.

OUTSPOKEN dairy industry leader Shane Paulger will not be taking home any prizes from this year's Gympie Show, amid widespread claims he has been blacklisted.
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Rainbow steps into the future

Tourists on Rainbow Beach.

RAINBOW Beach businesses want big government out of the way so their town can grow naturally into its new role as a regional tourism leader.
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The Block on road to meet show fans

DAN and Dani from reality renovation show The Block stopped in Gympie on Friday on their way down the east coast of Australia for the Mitre10-sponsored tour.

 

USC head to lead hospital region

SUNSHINE Coast University's founding vice-chancellor Paul Thomas will head Gympie's new regional hospital board.

 

Mother turtle pops in

AN unusual visitor brightened the day of Don Smith and his son Mark recently.

 

At 93, Vic is still chopping

Vic Summers, 93, is back woodchopping after retiring at least five times.

NINETY-three-year-old wood chopping legend Vic Summers was blowing hard after finishing the under-hand chop but he was still making no plans for retirement.
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Shelley's our milking champion

GYMPIE Times reporter Shelley Strachan has come from underdog to milking champion after winning the celebrity milk off at the Gympie Show.
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