Air horns, cow bells and holeshots: Sights and sounds from a Spring Creek newcomer
Sports reporter Isaac Trotter details everything he experienced during his first-ever time at Spring Creek for the 2021 AMA Motocross Pro Nationals, including meeting Mr. Millville, watching Jeremy Martin wow his hometown crowd and so much more. 6:06 pm, Jul. 18, 2021 ×
Jo Shimoda races in a 250 moto during the 2021 AMA Motocross Pro Nationals on Saturday, July 17, 2021, at Spring Creek MX Park near Millville. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com)
MILLVILLE Sports editor Jason Feldman calls covering the 2021 AMA Motocross Pro Nationals at Spring Creek an ‘initiation’ of all sportswriters at the Post Bulletin. He wasn’t wrong. It’s organized mayhem and finding a story in the madness is easier said than done. Feldy makes it look easy but it’s not.
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Steer prices smashed records at the Central Queensland Livestock Exchange Prime and Store Cattle Sale on Wednesday.
A Droughtmaster cross pen fetched 710.2c/kg, breaking the facility’s cents per kilo record.
The record-breaking pen, offered by Dean Wyatt and Nicole Marsh from Mount Martin, weighed 137.5kg to return $976/head.
Ray White Rural Gracemere livestock agent Trevor Humble said competition was running strong among the buying panel, particularly for lighter lines of cattle which helped push the price past 700c/kg.
“Lighter cattle have been a little hard to find, and this week there were three active buyers all chasing stock within that weight range,” Mr Humble said.
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Telstra has revealed the cause of a widespread mobile outage in the Mackay region, which left some customers without service for more than three days. Areas affected last week included Mackay, the Northern Beaches, Habana, parts of Hay Point, parts of the Pioneer Valley, Mount Martin, Mount Jukes, Cape Hillsborough and St Bees Island. Telstra confirmed the outage to the
Daily Mercury on February 24, but services were not restored until 4am on February 28. The cause was a fault in some of the technology used to transmit mobile signals from our base stations, which was rectified, a Telstra spokesman said. We want to again thank our customers and residents for their patience while we deal with unplanned outages that affect their service.
A Telstra spokesman was unable to give a timeframe on when services were expected to be restored. Areas affected include Mackay, the Northern Beaches, parts of Hay Point, parts of the Pioneer Valley, Mount Martin, Mount Jukes, Cape Hillsborough and St Bees Island. We know how frustrating it can be when customers can t make or receive calls or use data services, so we appreciate their patience, the Telstra spokesman said. In the meantime, if they have a working Wi-Fi signal, they may be able to use Wi-Fi-calling on selected handsets
. A map showing Telstra customers affected by the mobile outage.