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Subscriber only The Mackay community is backing plans to better support its veteran community with an RSL social club and wellness retreat at Kinchant Dam.
Hub for our Heroes is raising the profile on the ambitious plans to find a place for returned service men and women to call their own while supporting them in civilian life. The campaign, through the Daily Mercury and Courier-Mail, is asking the Mackay region to get behind two projects, one of which is a social and welfare centre in town on the waterfront. The other is a wellness hub at Kinchant Dam that requires state and federal government support, and a feasibility study into the viability of the proposed model.