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South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann chats with Tim Harris from the Commercial Hotel\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 3, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kingaroy Chamber of Commerce members “hit the dance floor” for their latest six-weekly Meet’n’Greet this evening.<\/p>\n

The venue was the Commercial Hotel’s nightclub in Haly Street, which opened its doors to the public on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mr Harris said the Commercial Hotel had decided to support the South Burnett’s wine industry by stocking and exclusively promoting a local brand.<\/p>\n

The brand they chose was Clovely Estate’s wine range, and the arrangement was working out “very well”, he said.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/center>The second guest speaker was South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann, who talked about the weekend’s inaugural Mayoral Charity Ball, the outcome of the recent Red Earth Flood Appeal and the upcoming official launch of the South Burnett Directions economic development group.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said the official opening of South Burnett Directions on June 11 would be accompanied by the launch of five “Buy Local” messages.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/center>Mayor Kratzmann then threw open the floor for questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“I think if you ask most people if they’re in favour of having a recycling service, they’d say yes,” the Mayor said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He said \u00a0at the moment the Council thought such a service would be likely to add “about $90 a year” to refuse collection charges.<\/p>\n

But the acid test for the idea would be whether the majority of the community were prepared to pay for the service or not.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/center>Ross Anderson, from BIEDO, explained the “Clean and Clever” program that BIEDO is currently running to help local businesses, industries, communities, councils and households save money by reducing energy costs, water and waste.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

“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<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/center>The Meet’n’Greet concluded with three two-minute presentations from local businesses:
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