Top 8 stories you may have missed this week
A Burnett couple taking on the world championships, the story behind 100-year-old medals and a pub sold for $1.
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WITH a pub being sold off for $1, wonderful community support being our kindy teachers and a couple taking on the world championships it has been a big week in the South Burnett.
Here’s our pick of the best stories from the week:
1. Man buys country pub for just $1
There aren’t many things you can buy with $1 these days.
Maybe an icy pole, a scratchie or a song on iTunes. But certainly not a 116-year-old country pub. Or so you would think.
2. Burnett couple has ‘hell of a ride’ on world stage
A Maidenwell couple have taken ‘one hell of a ride’ on the world stage for Barrel Racing.
Karli and Michael Sanford pulled on the green and gold for Australia at the World Championships for Barrel Racing
3. Winner: Best kindy teacher as voted by our readers
The winner of our South Burnett’s Best Kindy Teacher competition has credited her win to being passionate about childcare, and said it was a team effort across the entire South Burnett.
4. Man, 63, fronts court after refusing to go to hospital
When Murgon police were called to a home to check on the welfare of a 63-year-old man they called for an ambulance to take him to hospital because he was upset and crying.
5. LOOK UP: Skyline change on horizon for Kingaroy hospital
The Kingaroy Hospital upgrade development project is well underway with Broad Construction having already started, and an upcoming change in the Kingaroy skyline on the horizon.
6. A war story, 100 years in the making
It is not certain how former Private MacAllister S. Bichard came to lose his WWI medals.
But after 100 years, they have been found - well, one of them at least.
7. Failed Murgon businessman blames ‘cliquey groups’
Up until recently, Paul Halse was a business owner in Murgon.
8. TIMBER TOWN HERO: Meet the world’s best wood chopper
Blackbutt’s Mitchell Argent will return to his timber town as Stihl Timbersports world champion for the third time.
Gold fever strikes as old mines indicate ‘significant’ quantities of precious metal
It has been long thought there is plenty of gold in the old workings that tunnel beneath the old mining city of Gympie, but it turns out there are also significant riches well beyond the city limits.
Qld Hydro helps restore GP services in Imbil
Gympie doctors Jeffery Lee, Randal Davis, Georg Pienaar and Karl Berge-Venter will share duties at the new Imbil clinic, while Queensland Hydro pays the rent and utilities.
Mum desperate for answers five months after son disappeared
Kelly Moody has devoted her every waking moment searching for her son after he disappeared five months ago. She is hoping a vigil planned for this weekend could yield fresh information.
78 phone calls: Abuser tries to pervert the course of justice from jail
A former deckhand’s multiple ‘angry and threatening’ calls to his victim almost succeeded in pressuring her to drop her complaint against him.
These are the Qld towns you don’t want to give birth in
Confronting staffing figures show eight Queensland maternity facilities have experienced a desperate shortage of obstetricians, anaesthetists and midwives.
‘Bloody idiots’: Bridge jumpers warned of extreme danger
An insane video of young men somersaulting and flipping from the top of Qld’s oldest bridge at least 30m above the water has had almost 100,000 views and plenty of criticism. VIDEO, PHOTOS