An Australia-wide telecommunications business officially opened its newest branch at Emerald on Monday, returning to the Central Highlands for the first time in more than six years.
The new Optus store at Central Highlands Marketplace has created four new jobs for locals and provides opportunities for and forms part of the company’s commitment to providing more choice to those in the area.
Garry Clarke, Optus Local Channel & Execution manager for Central Queensland, said he was thrilled to be opening the new store.
“There was a store here about six years ago, but we’ve got stores in Rockhampton and all across Central Queensland and now it’s a return to Emerald,” he said.
IT was 65 years ago that a 17-year-old schoolboy made his debut at senior level before going on to become Warrington’s most famous footballer, writes Garry Clarke. Destined to be a World Cup winner with England, Roger Hunt donned the colours of Stockton Heath FC (now Warrington Town) for the first time during their Mid Cheshire League encounter with Linotype on November 17, 1955. It was not the most auspices of starts to a career which would bring many honours, including the ultimate prize in 1966.
Roger Hunt, back in 2005 Fifth in the table, Stockton Heath crashed to a 4-1 home defeat against league leaders Linotype in what the Warrington Guardian described as “the worst display of the season” although the article did report “one of two debutants in the Heath team, left winger Hunt had a good game”.