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Hub for our heroes: Plans to find veterans a home in Mackay
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Mackay Regional Council is exploring plans to ensure Anzac services can be held in some form this year. The Anzac Day march and dawn service will be cancelled, while the 9.30am service at Jubilee Park will be livestreamed with a cap on numbers under the current plan the council is exploring. A joint organising committee of the council and RSL behind this year s service is awaiting further advice from the State Government on whether other options can be considered. Mackay Mayor Greg Williamson said any plans for Anzac commemorations would be in accordance with the Chief Health Officer s directives. Cr Williamson said while he understood comments comparing Anzac services to football games and protest rallies in terms of crowd sizes, the council was bound by the CHO directives in terms of planning events.
 Mabel Quakawoot at has been named 2021 Citizen of the Year. Mackay Australia Day Awards Gala Dinner. Picture: Tara Miko  If he s the measure of our next generation of adults, Mackay is in safe hands.  Young Citizen of the Year Emmett Withers started his charity Emmett 4 Animals when he was five years old and has gone on to help thousands of stray animals across the region. The other heartwarming moment of the night was hearing from last year s Lori Burgess Community Volunteer Award Kathryn Andrews. Speaking eloquently and passionately, she talked about how the disability sector, like many of us, had to find a way to explain the lockdown to their clients and find ways to maintain contact while we were in isolation.
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Vietnam veteran Ken Higgins works tirelessly to help his fellow servicemen â not just here in Mackay but all around Australia and in the country they first bonded.
Itâs a two-way street â the 72 year old says he gets just as much benefit from the relationships he holds dear as they do.
The Mackay RSL sub-branch president is being recognised for his service to veterans and their families with an Order of Australia medal on the Australia Day Honours list.
âItâs something Iâm very proud of,â he said.
âMost of my credits have come through having been a member of the RSL for 50 years.
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