Island Living | Aug 17th 2010
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Vandhana with some of the younger contributors
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This Sunday, a very special book titled, “Magnetic Island - A Sense of Place” which combines a charming selection of prose and poems set against pages of superbly evocative sepia photography by an Island resident who goes by one name, Vanhana, will be launched at the Magnetic Island History and Craft Centre in Picnic Bay.
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Island Living | Aug 13th 2010
The nights are chilly right now but the atmosphere is real warm at Magnetic Island Musos' Club and the next gig will be tomorrow night at the RSL Hall in Arcadia with a hot Island line-up in store.
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Island Living | Aug 3rd 2010
Following is information from Townsville City Council regarding Seniors' Week in Townsville and on Magnetic Island.
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Island Living | Jun 22nd 2010
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Phil Murray talks gardening
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About 70 Magnetic Islanders attended a hugely informative talk last Sunday by ABC's Gardening Talkback guru, Phil Murray> The event was organised by Magnetic Island Nature Care (MINCA) and held in the garden of Des Lavery and Sue Birch in Lilac Street, Nelly Bay.
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Island Living | Jun 16th 2010
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Garden owner Des Lavery with a little assistant
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ABC local radio's gardening talkback guru, Mr Phil Murray will be visiting Magnetic Island this Sunday to give a free talk on backyard food production as part of Magnetic Island Nature Care's Low Carbon Diet Challenge program
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Island Living | Apr 13th 2010
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Baala Baajo in action
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Island percussionist extraordinare, Dr Andy Lewis, is helping to bring an exciting live African music outfit Baala Baajo to Magnetic Island later this month to perform and conduct workshops
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Island Living | Feb 10th 2010
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A waterfall near Cockle Bay
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This Sunday is Valentines Day and while February is a quiet month on Magnetic, with many businesses and eateries in particular taking a hard-earned break, there are things you can do that mark and make the day with your favourite significant/other/lover. Some cost money and others are just there for the taking. Here's are few steamy season options:
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Island Living | Dec 30th 2009
Magnetic Island is a lively place to be on New Years Eve and deciding where to go and what to do can be a difficult decision. To help make up your mind Magnetic Times has compiled a listing of NYE activities across the Island that (at the time of posting) are yet to be booked out.
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Island Living | Dec 17th 2009
The pressies are all opened and Christmas dinner has finally finished. You're as full as a phonebook and can barely stand since you just consumed enough killa-joules to power a jumbo jet and you may be heading for a similar girth as one too. Well, there are other ways to eat and enjoy yourself at Christmas without ending up feeling like the stuffed Christmas turkey.
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"Buying local" has never been so easy!
As well as all the extra goodies in our local shops, our Island craftspeople, artists, and local stall holders will be holding three markets under the trees on the Horseshoe Bay Foreshore from 9am to 2pm during December [ read more ] |
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Bay Days last weekend plus a bogan barbie
The final weekend of the Bays Days Festival 2009 finishes with a bang, not a whimper and for those who have been following their Bay Days calendar of events there is a major event on tonight and tomorrow, Tropic Sun's production of “3 Blokes and their barbies” [ read more ] |
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Cairns Chamber Ensemble to visit this weekend
This weekend will mark the fourth visit to Magnetic Island of what used to be called the Cairns Youth Chamber Orchestra but now, due to some of its 18 members being up to 30 years of age, are called the Cairns Chamber Ensemble [ read more ] |
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Bottled water: Let's vote
The debate has been raging for a couple of weeks since Island resident John Becker wrote to Magnetic Times calling for the banning of bottled water on Magnetic Island [ read more ] |
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What happened to the Presto
While Magnetic Islanders are currently considering the landscaping of the Nelly Bay Harbour breakwall it may come as a surprise that the mouth of the harbour and end of the breakwall is also the site where, almost a century ago, a 40 metre shipwreck once imposed its presence and protected a frail timber jetty which serviced Nelly Bay [ read more ] |
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E-type tours Magnetic
Remember that ever-so-sexy 1960s sports Jaguar, the E-type? Well there's a seriously smart Adelaide band playing tomorrow night at the Great Tropical Jazz Party (which starts tonight at the All Seasons Magnetic Island) bearing the same name and, we hear, they might well equal in sound the sleek charm of that beautifully designed roadster [ read more ] |
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Wanted! The goss on your geckoes
Stowaway Asian House Geckoes have been arriving by cargo ship to Australia from exotic locations and they’re settling in to our homes and the Queensland Museum are hoping Magnetic Times readers can help find out more about this cute little aliens [ read more ] |
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