Island News | Aug 31st 2010
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Clayton and Julie with the offending coconuts
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Arcadia Store's Julie Carmody and Clayton Scott were rudely awoken in the wee small hours of Saturday morning to learn that their shop's windows had been smashed and about $500 worth of goods stolen. But in a very tropical, Magnetic Island, twist the couple were soon to learn that the three youths, who allegedly broke in, smashed the windows by hurling coconuts at them.
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Island News | Aug 30th 2010
In the year 2000 Magnetic Island was fortunate to welcome a truly remarkable man. It was a time following much division in the community and the, then, “Community and Commerce Association” had a small amount of funding and secured the services of Peter Kenyon, a community renewal and community development expert. A man described by MICDA President, Lorna Hempstead AM, as, "a fantastic personality". Now, ten years after that initial visit, Peter Kenyon is returning to Magnetic Island to speak at the AGM of Magnetic Island Community Development Association.
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Island News | Aug 25th 2010
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Cr Trevor Roberts
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Townsville City Council has dropped the rates for Nelly Bay Harbour land owners by nearly 37% to reflect the revenue required to fund a $3million, ten year maintenance plan, following lengthy discussions with local residents.
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Island News | Aug 25th 2010
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Smiddy Challenger Rob Jarvis
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Three years ago a cyclist was tearing down the big hill into Horseshoe Bay around 60kph when the dreaded death wobbles set in. It was just before the final turn to the left where the rider, 61 year old Rob Jarvis from Nelly Bay, knew he couldn’t pull out. He doesn’t remember much else until the emergency crews found him in the scrub with a broken back, punctured lung, broken ribs, and a collar bone fracture. But as a testament to human fortitude and the fine work of the Magnetic Island Clinic, Rob Jarvis is about to set out on the most gruelling ride of his life - 1600kms from Brisbane to Townsville at 200kms per day but in support of a very good cause.
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Island News | Aug 23rd 2010
Ergon Energy is warning its customers to check carefully claims made by a company selling a “power saving” device that could substantially reduce power bills.
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Island News | Aug 20th 2010
In a passionate letter to Magnetic Times, long time Townsville Greens and Bill of Rights' activist, Pat Coleman, writes that he will preference the Liberals over Labor's Tony Mooney. The letter may reflect a trend among local Greens' voters who might normally have preferenced Labor but for the Mooney candidacy.
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Island News | Aug 20th 2010
Magnetic Island has three Election Day polling places. They are in Arcadia, Nelly Bay and Picnic Bay.
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Island News | Aug 19th 2010
ALP candidate Tony Mooney, "would be happy to support an application ... to bring Radical Bay back into the Island’s national park network," and says he is, like all the other candidates, committed to complete the walkway from Nelly Bay to Arcadia. Lib/Nat candidate Ewen Jones asks, why alcoholics and drug addicts should expect others to pay for something that could have been avoided in the first place? Family First's Michael Punshon claims that the science for the carbon theory (re climate change) is flawed and corrupted while The Greens, Dr Mike Rubenach thinks a tax on junk food is a great idea. These are just some of the fascinating responses to questions you, our readers (and one from your Editor), have received from the field of candidates for our seat of Herbert after we invited questions for the candidates in our August 6 article "Let's ask them".
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Island News | Aug 13th 2010
Magnetic Island may be the ‘jewel on the crown’ for tourists visiting the region, but many visitors miss out on the natural resources that the island has to offer, according to the chair of the local tourism group.
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Coalition says yes to walkway funding
Magnetic Island will receive a $4 million funding boost under a Coalition Government to provide a walkway from Nelly Bay to Arcadia, LNP candidate for Herbert Ewen Jones said on the weekend [ read more ] |
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Show you care about mental health tomorrow
Magnetic Island Community Development Association in conjunction with GetUp, an Australia-wide, non-partisan grass roots movement, is planning a candlelight vigil at the Nelly Bay Ferry Terminal tomorrow evening (Tuesday Aug 10) at 5 [ read more ] |
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Julian Assange’s mother recalls Magnetic
Following a fascinating article in the New Yorker magazine, no less, that a former resident of Magnetic Island has grown up to become the now very-much-talked about founder of Wiki-leaks, Mr Julian Assange, Island gossip has run hot with little success with all and sundry trying to recall anything they could about the elusive ‘nonconformist’ Assanges [ read more ] |
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Let's ask them
Before each election Magnetic Times puts a list of questions to the aspiring candidates to see how they line up on issues related (mostly) to Magnetic Island and our surrounds [ read more ] |
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Help shape Council's community plan
Townsville City Council wants to hear what Island residents want for their community for the next decade and two public consultation sessions are planned this Saturday in conjunction with the Community Development Association [ read more ] |
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Will we get the walkway this time?
Jill Edwards-Davis from Nelly Bay has five stress fractures in her back and, as a disabled person, wants to get out of Nelly Bay but, even with her very capable powered wheel chair, there is only so far she can go when headed for Arcadia [ read more ] |
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Trouble at Telstra tower
For weeks now Magnetic Islanders who have travelled past the Telstra communications tower near Cockle Bay have been witnessing a very public battle for domination of the site [ read more ] |
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