“However due to alcohol licensing complications we are unfortunately having to close the shop.”
The business initially offered a 20 per cent discount to shoppers but last night announced it would offer a 50 per cent discount on anything left in store on Friday.
“Once again, thank you all for popping down to our store,” a post on Facebook said.
“Hope we have given you all good customer service over our time of operations and hope we can get support from our customers in the closing of the store.”
Coral Sea Cellars opened at Coral Sea Marina in May 2019 next to Bohemian Raw Cafe.
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The Fair Work Commission has found a couple formerly employed by the owner of Coral Sea Marina was unfairly sacked from their roles on-board a luxury yacht.
On February 6 last year, Benjamin Robinson and Lucy Rockell filed an application alleging an unfair dismissal from their employment with Emprja Pty Ltd.
The husband and wife and had been working together on-board a 27-metre MV Norseman owned by Paul Darrouzet, who also owns Coral Sea Marina.
Mr Robinson began working as the vessel captain in January 2017 and Ms Rockell worked as a stewardess from April that same year.
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Rain, hail or shine, Whitsunday Volunteer Marine Rescue crews are on call to lend a hand to boaties in need around the clock.
And 2020 was no exception with a record-breaking year for the 35-member strong squadron.
In the year to December 28, VMR Whitsunday was called to 162 marine incidents and helped more than 500 people.
This was an increase in activations of almost 30 per cent from 2019.
VMR Whitsunday president Mal Priday said the record-breaking year could have been a result of COVID travel restrictions.
“I think people are checking out their own backyard now because they can’t go overseas,” he said.
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Subscriber only Friends and family paid tribute to those they lost in tragic circumstances in what was already a difficult year. From valiant battles with cancer lost to a mining death and shocking traffic crashes, these are some of the people the community mourned whose lives were cut short in 2020. Donald Rabbitt, 33, died while working at Blackwater s Curragh coal mine. He was reportedly working on a float, which transports machinery, when it crushed him.
Donald Rabbitt Mine contractor Donald Rabbitt was reportedly just minutes from the end of his shift at Curragh Coal Mine when he was found trapped under a piece of heavy machinery on January 12.
The final
Daily Mercury print newspaper landed on people s doorsteps and its pages turned for the last time. How do you send off a publication that has been around for 154 years with less than a month s notice? Well, we did our best. We had one to two pages in every paper of the Daily Mercury for the final fortnight as well as an eight-page wraparound for the final issue on Saturday June 27, 2020. It was a team effort but special thanks goes to Loris Wall, Lucy Martin, Tony Martin, Heidi Petith and Kate Rasmussen for pitching in to ensure we gave a nod to the paper s history during that final month.