The episode will go to air in the wake of Deputy State Coroner Jane Bentley’s determination in June that Kirra’s de facto partner Paul McDonald caused the injuries that killed her – finding he beat and choked her and then waited hours to call an ambulance.
Health authorities this week announced it expects 20,000 more doses to be administered between the temporary hub at the Gympie Civic Centre and the Gympie Hospital before the former’s closure, but there remained “plenty of appointments available”.
After losing his father at just 40 years of age, Gympie principal James Watt used to joke uncomfortably with his wife that she would only have him until he was the same age. When he turned 39 in hospital after going through life-saving surgery, Mr Watt was reeling from his own cancer battle.
With so many talented florists scattered throughout the Gympie region, The Gympie Times this week put a call out asking online readers to name and nominate their first choice florist for the unofficial title of best local in the business.
Cindy Hartwig of Heartbeat Training, the Cooloola Coast Bowls Club, Beverley Goodall of Gympie Medical Transport and Gympie Medical Transport itself have been nominated in their respective categories, with winners to be announced in November.
Sources confirm there was a structure fire on Laminex Rd in the Toolara Forest area at about 10pm on Monday night, with officers taking almost two hours to get the situation under control.
In this day and age, when we’ve seen the devastation and heartbreak caused by alcohol-fuelled violence a million times over, it’s past time we held people properly accountable for their sh—y behaviour on nights out. Tell us what you think by voting in our poll:
The past two months have brought unprecedented loss to the Gympie region through a series of tragic mishaps and accidents that have rocked the entire area.
From alcohol readings more than six times the legal limit to causing a crash and blowing .185, these locals have paid the price in court for drink or drug driving offences.
“You’re going out to get cigarettes for your friend? Really? It’s beyond stupid,” Magistrate Chris Callaghan told Steevie Lee O’Toole, 35, after asking her why he shouldn’t send her to jail.
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