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Friday, 12 February, 2021 LET OUR FAMILY BUILD YOUR FAMILY HOME • Gympie 12455449-DL31-20 • Homes • Maryborough • Sheds 1300 795 625 oakvalehomes.com.au $3.00 Inc. GST PUZZLES SUDOKU No. 015 QUICK CROSSWORD No. 015 To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every number from 24-page 1 to 9 must appear in: each of the nine vertical ACROSS 3 Keyboard key (9) columns, each of the nine horizontal rows and 1 Lawless crowd (3) 4 Tells tales (7) each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes. Remember, no 3 Large winged insects (11) 5 Makes certain (7) number can occur more than once in any row, 6 column or box. 9 Shortens (9) Soft creamy candy (5) 10 7 Baghdad citizen (5) easy Empty; use up (5) 11 Heavenly bodies (5) 8 Cleans (9) PROPERTY 583 12 Thief (9) 13 Building designer (9) 13 Creatures (7) 15 Treadmill user, e.g. (9) 374 14 Playground items (7) 16 Succeeders (9) 17 Gnawers (7) 18 Hair soap (7) 4861 9219 Boils (7) 19 Fizzy candy (7) Phone: 5321 3050 Trades and Classifieds: 1300 666 808 20 Display (9) 21 Eighth letter of the Greek Five pages 28 23 alphabet (5) Inexpensive (5) 25 Makes level (5) 22 Coarse files (5) liftout 37 24 26 At puberty (9) 24 Meat cake (5) 48 27 Carrier (11) 753691 28 Dairy alternative (3) 91 3 DOWN 1 Gloves (5) 367 2 Commit severe violence (9) medium No. 015 No. 015 Caitlyn 58 1 DECODER WORDFIT of puzzles 694 3 LETTERS ACT Property 1428 ADO ADS 598 4 ALL 614 ATE AVO 1 259 BRA 63 57 CAR CHI 24 3 CIA Great FIG 569 musters GEE and HES hard ILL Guide 79 MES MOO 1 642 NOR 4375 ODD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ONE 94 3 OVA 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 OWE A N 31 PIN K M X P D W E S N A C J G GRAND 697 RIG TASK MOTOR TONES 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Horse 14 15 SAC TEAK I T Q H R Z Y O L V F B 2836 U a Covid quizzes 9 10 11 12 13 453 2 Ride comeback INSIDE going ahead INSIDE PAGE 10 PAGE 2 Island fire investigators tell how Gympie‘We region was overlooked... don’t exist’ They told the meeting, at the Rainbow Beach Sports Club, that the inquiry had got “a By Arthur Gorrie bad steer” from tourism bodies which had not mentioned the island’s important economic Rainbow Beach businesses, providing for the- bulk of Fraser Island visitation, did not exist and community links with Gympie region and Jack is 101 not out - and scores a kiss. in the minds of state tourism bureaucrats, ac Rainbow Beach. - cording to apologetic Fraser Island bushfires This had resulted in all the originally sched investigators last week. - - - uled public hearings (on the mainland and the Inspector-General Emergency Manage - island) being all held in the Fraser Coast re ment Alistair Dawson could not attend a hast Scoring a kiss His101 birthday was celebrated by the gion, despite most of the island’s visitors com ily arranged public hearing at Rainbow Beach Gympie RSL sub branch on Sunday with ing via Gympie and Rainbow. on Thursday of last week, because of a prior “If you touch the bottom you have to kiss a generous slab of chocolate cake, tea and engagement in Mackay. It was only after strong representations the closest girl.” coffee - and kiss from the closest girl as it But staff members Corrine Mulholland and from Rainbow Beach Commerce and Tourism Gympie’s own World War II Veteran Jack turns out. - Veronica Sosa said the inquiry had not been Association president Nigel Worthington that Waldock celebrated another year older on See full story page 4. made aware of Gympie region’s vital links with inquiry staff realised the island’s vital impor Monday, 8 February, turning the ripe old Fraser Island, or Rainbow Beach’s role as the tance to the Rainbow Beach community and age of 101. - island’s major visitor gateway. its economy, Ms Mulholland said. This was because they had consulted rel Continued page 6 evant Fraser Coast tourism agencies, whose advice had not been good enough. 4.99% P.A. FINANCE T.A.P. 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INSIDE NEWS GympieToday.com.au HISTORY ...............................pages 18-19 TV GUIDE .............................pages 23-26 PUZZLES .............................pages 27-29 Back in the black RURAL .................................pages 34-37 By Donna Jones investment revenue which is “significantly be- to rectifying those problems as part of the in- SOCIAL SCENE .....................pages 38-39 low budget“ due in part to historically low in- frastructure asset revaluations which are cur- The six monthly report on the Gympie Region- terest rates and also to an account adjustment. rently underway. SPORTS QUIZZES .................pages 44-45 al Council budget is in and while technically in Mr Lewis also identified an issue with Capi- Mr Lewis attributed the higher than expect- the black, Acting Chief Financial Officer David tal Expenditure. He said at 31 December 2020, ed revenue to several factors including a sig- SPORT .................................pages 42-48 Lewis said there are “some slight concerning the council had an unbudgeted loss of $4.8m trends” on the council’s books. nificant increase in building and development on the disposal of Property, Plant and Equip- applications, increase in water consumption The overall actual year to date result to 31 ment and Intangibles with this figure mainly due to the unseasonably dry weather and WEATHER December 2020 was a surplus of $6.3m, which attributable to the difference between the higher than forecast contract works undertak- when compared to the forecasted position of a council’s asset construction costs and asso- en for Transport and Main Roads. surplus of $4.7m, seems like an A+. Council’s ciated unit rates. Mr Lewis said the council’s operating result was also a good one with an existing asset practices “pose a significant risk “These variances will be subject to further TODAY actual surplus of $2.2m compared to a year to to the council’s end of financial year process- analysis as part of Council’s next budget review Sunny date budget deficit of $1.8m. es”. As a result council officers are now in the to determine if the current trends will continue 18-31°C However, there is concern over interest and process of reviewing these losses with a view for the balance of the financial year,” he said. SATURDAY TUESDAY Partly cloudy Chance 20-34°C of showers 19-27°C SUNDAY WEDNESDAY The editor’s desk Chance Showers of showers likely The conservation movement has some 20-30°C 20-28°C serious thinking to do, in its calls for Australia to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. MONDAY THURSDAY Dishonest comparisons with other Showers Storm industrialised nations conveniently likely possible leave out the extreme unfairness of ex- 19-27°C 19-26°C pecting Australia to meet these laudable standards without nuclear power, the big advantage exercised without shame by all the major developed countries which criticise Australia over carbon CONTACT US Great ride going ahead emissions. No-one wants nuclear disaster in By Arthur Gorrie Australia, but countries which have had nuclear disasters still embrace nuclear Another Covid survivor, the Kilkivan Great power, because they are not prepared to Horse Ride, will go ahead under Covid-19 face the dire economic consequences of safe rules on 9, 10 and 11 April, organisers cutting carbon emissions without it. GympieToday.com.au said this week. So it is about time nations like Telephone: 07 5321 3050 And everyone is invited to the event, France, Canada, Sweden, Japan and the which will be the 35th horse ride open to UK stopped lecturing Australia and it is Editorial: public participation. about time Australian conservationists Email: [email protected] The event includes a Main Street Festival gave their own nation and its people a with a street parade, Light Horse Brigade fair go.