June 3, 2013
Kingaroy Chamber of Commerce members “hit the dance floor” for their latest six-weekly Meet’n’Greet this evening.
The venue was the Commercial Hotel’s nightclub in Haly Street, which opened its doors to the public on New Year’s Eve.
Guest speaker, licencee Tim Harris, said he’d been progressively updating and expanding the hotel since he took the business over several years ago. The 200-person nightclub was the most recent expansion but it was unlikely to be the last, he said.
Upgrades carried out over the past few years have also included refurbishing the hotel’s interior and accommodation; upgrading the outdoor beer garden to turn it into a dining area and expanding the hotel’s bottle shop and bottle shop operations.
Mr Harris said the Commercial Hotel had decided to support the South Burnett’s wine industry by stocking and exclusively promoting a local brand.
The brand they chose was Clovely Estate’s wine range, and the arrangement was working out “very well”, he said.
He said the official opening of South Burnett Directions on June 11 would be accompanied by the launch of five “Buy Local” messages.
One questioner noted that Toowoomba Regional Council had recently introduced a kerbside recycling service in Yarraman and asked if there were any plans to introduce a similar service in the South Burnett?
The Mayor said the SBRC had recently called for tenders to introducing a kerbside recycling collection system in the region in order to find out what the likely costs would be.
“I think if you ask most people if they’re in favour of having a recycling service, they’d say yes,” the Mayor said.
But once tenders had been received and the cost of introducing such a service was fully known, the Council’s next step would be to undertake community consultation.
He said at the moment the Council thought such a service would be likely to add “about $90 a year” to refuse collection charges.
But the acid test for the idea would be whether the majority of the community were prepared to pay for the service or not.
The program also looks at ways to turn waste into new products; at organising collective buying schemes; and providing information to students on “green jobs” and the growing a “green collar economy”.
“Clean and Clever” offers free one-hour consultations to South Burnett businesses and groups, he said, and urged anyone interested to find out more on BIEDO’s website.
- Rooms Motels in Youngman Street
- Carney Line Marking (a new line-marking business run by Kieran Carney), and
- Crane Wines
KCCI President Rod Steele also put in a plug for the upcoming “Red Boot Ride” motorcycle tour from Slacks Creek to O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards on Sunday, August 4, which will raise money for Ronald McDonald House.
“Ronald McDonald House in Brisbane has helped many South Burnett families with sick children over the years,” he said. “This is a very worthwhile cause and I urge anyone who can to get involved with the Red Boot Ride if at all possible.”
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