Editor's Note

Hi Everyone,

For the past few days, I have had my seven-year-old son on ‘work experience’ with me.

To make him feel special, I ordered him a fully branded work shirt and it was a moment of great pride when he first put the shirt over his head and stood in front of the mirror smiling.

Over the next two days we took the long drive up to the Hinchinbrook region where we inducted a new staff member, visited local businesses, took photos, attended a Chamber of Commerce meeting and even distributed the newspaper!

It was an action-packed and very hot few days that culminated in a purple sky thunderstorm as we drive back down the coast on Tuesday afternoon.

I was impressed with how well my son behaved, especially with the extra-long days, and I think he now has a new respect for the big busy schedule we all have at the newspaper.

This is the last issue of the newspaper for 2024 and on behalf of the entire team I would like to say a big thank you to all our readers for picking up the paper and connecting through the pages each week.

A special thank you also goes to our incredible advertisers, without all of you the community would not have a local printed paper so thank you all so much for choosing to spend your advertising dollars with us.

This has been an incredible year for our little publishing house.

Not only have we launched another new newspaper and hosted the Premier at our recent newspaper launch – we have also loved every minute of being the Best Free Newspaper in Queensland 2024.

Every paper we produced is packed with love, from the journos writing the stories to the sales team working closely with local businesses and the production team creating beautiful designs.

Each person in this team gives 100% all year and they deeply care about bringing the community an amazing paper each week, thanks for being a part of that.

Merry Christmas to you all and best wishes for a wonderful New Year ahead.

Rach

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