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Subscriber only Mackay council workers have mobilised to clean up the region s cemeteries after wet weather sprouted long grass over the summer months. Walkerston resident Joan Hamilton said she noticed the cemetery off the Peak Downs Highway was overgrown when she visited during the Christmas period, and questioned what was being done about it. Mrs Hamilton said the Walkerston grounds were overgrown, and was similar to Mackay Cemetery on Cemetery Rd. Mackay Regional Council development services director Aletta Nugent said staff regularly monitored and maintained the region s cemeteries.
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Subscriber only A Mackay man whose daughter and niece drowned in the Gooseponds says he will spend the rest of his life fighting to ensure their deaths will not be in vain. Cousins Annamarie Lange, 3, and Ashley Grech, 2, drowned in the freshwater stream 30 years ago on March 14, 1990 after Annamarie s dad Andreas Lange reported them missing from the nearby family home. Months after the tragedy, wooden cleats were placed around the Gooseponds in North Mackay at the recommendation of Mackay Coroner Tom Bradshaw. The Coroner s inquest was told the girls might not have been able to get out of the water because the concrete banks were too steep and too slippery.
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Subscriber only Residents of a Mackay tourism community say Mackay Regional Council has left them holding their breath on the promise of a new public playground. Ian Wright and Tess Ford said the first stage of upgrades for Eungella s North Street Park was finished years ago, with a plan in place for stages two and three to include a public playground and toilet upgrades. Stage one of the masterplan was completed with funding from the State Government s Works For Queensland Program. The $370,000 project included improvements ranging from a new shade structure, pathway and landscaping to a new car park off North St.
Every year baby turtles on Mackay beaches face being crushed to death inside the egg before they can hatch out of their nests.
Mackay and District Turtle Watch Association member Cass Hayward said cars, quad bikes and motorbikes rode over the beaches and foredunes risking hundreds of hatchlings each turtle nesting season between October and late-March. Driving tracks found at Harbour Beach during turtle nesting season, 2020. Picture: Cass Hayward.
“Four-wheel-driving over dune systems is bad at any time of year and can cause many problems including erosion but during these Spring and Summer months, there is the added risk of destroying turtle nests,” Ms Hayward said.