“I think she did it over a number of years, she’d keep finding different photos,” he said.
Mr Wright said what he liked most about his time there was the freedom the sleepy town offered and despite needing to live in Mackay, he could not quite let go of Bucasia.
“I live in town, but I have a little unit in here now,” he said. Ian Wright brought along his sister Trish s photo album of more than a century of Bucasia memories to the My Town Bucasia meeting. Picture: Lillian Watkins
“For the amount of people that are in this area, its not actually that crowded.
It is easy to define a CWA lady by their well-deserved reputation for whipping up a delicious spread but take a closer look and the real binding thread is friendship.
10th May 2021 1:48 PM | Updated: 14th May 2021 10:19 AM Few things can make a vanilla slice better than the offer of a candle to celebrate a friend s birthday. But that s Zarby s Cafe for you. Â Zarby s Cafe on the Bruce Highway at Mt Ossa. Picture: Rae Wilson It s an unassuming but must-stop eatery along the Bruce Highway at Mt Ossa, between Kuttabul and Calen. Delicious burgers, great sweets, cool retro decor and it s dog-friendly. Â Zarby s Cafe on the Bruce Highway at Mt Ossa. Picture: Rae Wilson Nearby Calen has a butcher with prime cuts and the Cantankerous Cow coffee cart that is anything but cantankerous.
Fifteen minutes later, her entire Kuttabul home was razed - clothing, precious photographs, heirlooms all gone. Mrs Brown, who is partially deaf, said her dog saved her life by coming into the bedroom to wake her, as she tearfully reflected on that horrific night two years ago that claimed the family home of 15 years. I raced out to the back of the house as my eldest son had just moved up from Melbourne, she said. Kuttabul resident and North Eton CWA member Sandralee Brown, said her Kuttabul home was razed in a house fire two years ago. Picture: Heidi Petith
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Two Mackay-Whitsunday schools will benefit from almost $1.5m worth of new contracts, helping tradies also get back on the tools.
In the next two months, local tradies will work on upgrades at Mackay schools, including a new hall roof at Mackay North State High School worth almost $1m and a $550,000 extension and refurbishment of Bucasia State School’s tuckshop.
Education Minister Grace Grace said the contracts awarded in March and April were part of the Palaszczuk government’s multimillion-dollar budget action plan for the Mackay-Whitsunday region.
Mackay MP Julieanne Gilbert welcomed the local investment in the region’s schools and local jobs.