Mackay Regional Council Community Programs new home
You will now find us at the Jubilee Community Centre, 73 Gordon Street, Mackay
If you are looking for a team member from Community Development, Arts Development, Youth Development or Sport and Recreation please come to the Jubilee Community Centre.
All phone numbers and emails remain the same.
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Travel to Japan with Mackay Regional Council
Are you in years 10, 11 or 12 and studying Japanese? Would you love to travel and experience another culture? If you answered yes to both of these, apply today for the 2018 Sister City Scholarship Program.
A $1000 scholarship will be used towards the cost of travel to Japan, including a week's home stay in Matsuura. The itinerary is looking fantastic, don't miss a great opportunity!
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Sports Expo & Sign On Day is fast approaching!
The Sports Expo & Sign on Day is back in 2018, an annual half day event held on February 11, at the MECC will host over 100 sporting organisations, teams and active leisure groups under the one roof to provide a ‘one stop information shop’ about the wide range of active opportunities on offer in the region. It is free to attend with loads to do on the program!!
Local rugby league legend Renae Kunst, who co-captained the Australia Jillaroos to World Cup glory last year, will be a special guest and ambassador for this year's expo theme, "Women in Sport".
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North Queensland Games
The NQ Games are the largest, regularly run, multi-event sporting carnival in regional Australia, as well as Australia's largest regional Games.
This year the games will be held in the Mackay region May 5-7. It is anticipated that over 30 sports will be delivered in Mackay and the surrounding Isaac and Whitsunday regions. There will be a Games Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony and additional events to be confirmed
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Sarina Range Community Movie Night
Residents at Sarina Range enjoyed an evening of laughs at the outdoor Community Movie Night on Saturday, January 20. Adults and children alike were in stitches watching The Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Sarina Range residents continue to travel an extra two hours per day to get to work or school following the closure of the Sarina Range Road.
The event was proudly hosted by Mackay Regional Council and supported by a host of enthusiastic helpers and the Queensland Government’s We Are Queensland grants program as part of the community recovery work following severe tropical cyclone Debbie.
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Footy fever
Australian Rugby League Players and Indigenous All Stars Player Libby Cook Black visited the Sarina Youth Centre to share with the Youth people of Sarina her skills, her inspiration and knowledge of just what it takes to be a professional sports person.
Everyone joined in and finish off with a great game of footy. Libby will be visiting the Sarina Youth Centre every Wednesday for a sports session with the young people of Sarina. Come and join in.
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Platform – formerly known as Mackay’s Got Talent
This event has evolved into a development program with a showcase finale.
AUDITION CALL - Sunday, February 25 from 12pm to 4pm - registrations by 3pm at the Jubilee Community Centre. Video auditions also accepted.
If you will be aged 12 to 18 years on the 22 April 2018 we would love to have you audition! Jugglers, Comedians, Dancers, Acrobats, Performers, Singers, Kazoo Players, we encourage all young people 12 years to 18 years to apply. If being on the stage isn’t your thing, but photography, design work or other back stage craft is, please have a chat to us as there is other development work involved with Platform.
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Sarina School Assistance Program
The Sarina Neighbourhood Centre was successful with an application for funding from Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal to support families with back to school expenses.
This project involves the distribution of vouchers to assist identified families in being able to send their children to school. Vouchers are made available to families in need of financial assistance to purchase books/school supplies and uniforms from the local Sarina newsagency, local children’s dress shop and school P & C associations in the Sarina district.
Vouchers will be available all year round, in particular at the start of the school year. The project started prior to the start of school this year and already families in the Sarina district have benefited from this new scheme.
For more information please contact Margaret or Amanda on 4961 9283.
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International Women’s Day Luncheon
Zonta Club of Mackay, Mackay Regional Council and MECC are partnering to deliver the International Women’s Day luncheon for 2018 on Sunday March, 4.
The luncheon will include a live simulcast from the Sydney Opera House on the discussion topic ‘Women in the age of Trump’. Following, there will be a panel of local female community leaders responding to the topics raised in the simulcast.
Alongside the luncheon will be a host of free, open to public activities including a free viewing of the entire simulcast live from the Sydney Opera House and a community market place with local products and service information.
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30th Anniversary Celebration Bob Wood Cultural Hall
Sarina icon, Bob Wood Cultural Hall, turned 30 on Australia Day and all of the Sarina community was invited to help celebrate.
The celebrations were free and there was entertainment and activities for all of the Sarina district. The official part of the celebrations included recognition of local volunteers, unveiling of a new plaque and the cutting of the celebratory cake.
The hall was a bicentennial project in 1988 and named after the late Bob Wood who worked at Sarina Shire Council for 44 years, retiring in 1995. All of Bob Wood's children attended the event.
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