NOMINATIONS are being sought by the Burdekin Shire Council for the 2024 Shire Australia Day Awards.
The awards are presented on Australia Day each year to acknowledge and celebrate the extraordinary contributions and accomplishments of individuals and groups within the Burdekin community.
The Burdekin Shire Council’s commitment to strategic investment in new assets, existing asset renewals and upgrades via its Capital Works Program is enhancing infrastructure.
Progress so far include the completion of a number of projects this year, such as the Kirknie Landfill production bore, pump and header tank and emergency generators at Home Hill and Brandon sewage pump stations as well as the new street seat, bin and planter combinations in the Home Hill CBD.
THE Home Hill community will once again remember the end of the Great War, World War I at 10.50 am on Saturday, November 11, 2023, as the RSL Sub-Branch hosts their annual service in front of the Burdekin Memorial Hall in Ninth Avenue.
IF YOU or someone you know has an issue that you need help with, please remember, my job is to represent you.
I may not always be able to fix the problem, but rest assured, I will always do my best.
For help, please call my office on 1800 817 594 or send an email to burdekin@parliament.qld.gov.au
The Gambling Community Benefit Fund (GCBF) is Queensland’s largest one-off community grants program and distributes approximately $60 million each year to not-for-profit community groups.
The GCBF funding helps these groups to provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.
The festival celebrates the rich agriculture of the region and involves many events, which started in October, with the final and biggest event, the Grand Parade (pictured in 2022) and the Street Party to be held on November 11, 2023.
Events like the Harvest Festival simply don’t happen without volunteers, who make a huge contribution to our community.
THE future of the Burdekin TAFE is being called into question”, according to the Member for Burdekin, Dale Last MP, after only two local businesses and neither of the district’s Chambers of Commerce were invited to attend a consultation workshop that the State Government said “will guide a 10-year infrastructure strategy”.
A POSITIVE response from the Health Minister is great news for Burdekin locals campaigning for a CT Scanner at the Ayr Hospital, but we won’t hear the sound of champagne corks popping . . . yet.
With up to 15 patients a week being transported to Townsville for CT scans outside business hours, Dale Last joined forces with local residents and the Community Advisory Network to advocate for the equipment; a campaign that is starting to bear fruit.
THERE was disappointment all round last week with a political to and fro over the Burdekin TAFE College based in Home Hill and a so-called “Consultation Workshop” that was to “guide a 10-year infrastructure strategy” for the college.
IT IS good to see that our town is returning to some semblance of order in the Central Business District with the opening of a new much-needed service station.
The loss of our only BP service station meant that motorists had to drive over the river for the closest refill.
Now the former BP has turned into a United facility and it has brightened the southern end of the CBD enormously.
