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Subscriber only A new mini-pharmacy will serve more than 1300 Mackay region residents and contribute about $7000 annually to the council s coffers. More than six months after the Mackay Regional Council signed off on the deal, the Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning has approved a plan to convert 25sq m of the Seaforth Community Hall into a pharmacy. Calen-based Vivid Horizons, which also owns Calen District Pharmacy, secured the tender for the operation that will pay about $7000 annually to Mackay Regional Council. Seaforth hall hire bookings have declined in recent years with the annual income being approximately $1700 and the annual maintenance costs being approximately $30,000, the MRC s September 2020 ordinary meeting agenda stated.
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Subscriber only At just 21 years old, Damien van dan Merwe has taken a leap of faith by opening the unorthodox Renegade Barber on the outskirts of Paget. Mr van dan Merwe said he was passionate about providing on point cuts, a complete opposite from his early experiments in the profession. Five or six years ago, my mate wanted a haircut back home in South Africa, Mr van dan Merwe said. He went to a boarding school and they were pretty strict with their hair ⦠but he desperately needed this haircut. I went, All right ; I sat him down on a little chair outside and I cut his hair.
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Subscriber only Lana Ross once wore corporate attire to work in finance but she could not ignore the gravitational pull drawing her back towards creative roots. And so she moved back home to the Pioneer Valley and opened the Bush Florist in Mirani. The Bush Florist, Mirani. Picture: Heidi Petith There she sells craft arrangements from fresh and dried natives as well as gifts such as crystals, decor and handmade jewellery. The Bush Florist, Mirani. Picture: Heidi Petith I forage for all of it and I create, Ms Ross said. I spend at least one day a week out walking around and just being in nature.
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Red Dog Brewery was born out of a desire to turn a hobby into a commercial venture and to fill what Mr Woods said was a void in the local dining market.
“I wanted a craft brewery in town and no-one had bothered to do it so I thought I’d better do it myself; I thought it was long overdue,” he said.
“So I hooked in and got it through.”
Mr Woods, a Mackay local “born and bred”, said a signature brew would be an amber ale in a nod to the beer’s branding that taps into the theme of hardworking and Aussie.