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Scooter Sensation Arrives In Airlie Beach

You might have spotted a new tourism experience coasting around Airlie Beach, the sun glittering off their vibrant chrome finish.

Local business ‘Scoot In Style’ launched this week, renting out its vespas armada of 30 chrome scooters from various Airlie Beach locations, their stylish colouring hoping to capitalise on the town’s party and paradise atmospheres. Owner of Scoot In Style Mohammad ‘Mosey’ Nahas said the business plan was born when Whitsunday locals would ask him where he got his own chrome, turquoise scooter. The answer: The professional car wrapper had fixed it up himself. And that was when the idea hatched in the owner of ProPaintworks Airlie Beach’s mind.

“Everywhere I went on my scooter, there would be a person asking. I’d be driving down the middle of Airlie Beach and someone would shout out: Where’d you get that scooter from!” Mosey said. “And I thought about it. When you go to Thailand or Bali, you have to get a scooter. In Airlie Beach, I thought, there’s all boat tours, everything on the water, but nothing here on the mainland. That’s where the idea came from.”

The custom, unique scooters were soon coined Scoot In Style, and Mosey fitted them with a chrome finish, white, crocodile skin seats, and whitewall tires. The target audience: anyone on a party of any variety, whether it be bucks, wedding, or birthday. But Mosey said the major demographic Scoot In Style’s appealed to was tourists. “Driving down Airlie Beach esplanade on coloured bikes, each with unique names like our Arabian Copper wrapped scooter nicknamed Chewbacca, or a silver bad boy with the title of Silver Surfer, there’s nothing like it,” Mosey said. “We wanted something funny, fun, cool, and that makes you smile. “There’s nothing like it in Airlie Beach. These 50cc, 60-kilometre-per-hour scooters that you can take around to Shute Harbour, get photos with, and just enjoy yourself. Anyone can drive them. “You ride these scooters, people look at you; they point at you. And when you’re in a gang with others on their pink, green, white, silver, you’re having an absolute blast. You can’t help but smile and people are smiling at you when you ride past them.”

Mosey, who moved to the region alongside his partner, has lived and worked in Airlie Beach for eight years. And the car-wrapper by trade is celebrating the anniversary in his own style. “We’re going to be everywhere in Airlie Beach – people have been calling me up like crazy already, asking where they can get them,” he said. “We’re already thinking about where they can go next. Maybe Yeppoon or the Gold Coast; places that are a bit like Airlie Beach where you don’t need to be anywhere else. “The bikes are perfect for that. Everything you need is at your fingertips and that’s it, you’re set once you’ve put that helmet on.” Scoot In Style vespas are rentable from various locations across Airlie beach.

Mohammad ‘Mosey’ Nahas has launched his new tourism business this week, sending his fleet of rentable chrome scooters out on Airlie Beach

Get A Pre-Christmas Dental Check Now

Don’t let your holiday plans be ruined by tooth ache, be proactive and ensure your teeth are good to go this Christmas!

Jingle bells, a gum that swells, could ruin your Christmas break! Ensure your holiday plans don’t get bleed, P. Gingivalis, has also been found to leave the mouth open to virus attack. Bleeding gums are a sign that the balance sidelined by sickness this Christmas. The human immune system is the thing that keeps us free from infection. Scientists, Doctors and Dentists are always trying to get a better understanding of it. What do we find? It is a very, very complicated place. Often, they find the links behind the most unlikely of events. Did you know that effective brushing can reduce pneumonia, a leading cause of death in hospitals, by up to 50 per cent! New studies show that the more furry your teeth feel, the more likely you are to be susceptible to viruses like Covid. One common bacteria causing gums to swell and of health is failing. A check-up and clean can get you back on track. Get your dentist and hygienist to fix holes and check your cleaning technique is keeping the bugs to a minimum. Make use of your benefits from health funds, before they run out, to get your mouth fighting fit. Giving yourself the best chance of being healthy this Christmas starts now and we at Airlie Smile Care wish all the community a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Contributed by Dr Cormac Farrell and the Team at Airlie Smile Care.

AS A HAIRDRESSER, DO YOU SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE A COUNSELLOR?

If so, join us for a free info event!

Whitsunday Counselling & Support is inviting all hairdressing and beauty staff in the Whitsunday region to an information night to assist you and your staff with:

Responding to disclosures of domestic & family violence and sexual assault;

Recognising signs of domestic & family violence;

Knowing where to get help;

Debriefing staff if a client has disclosed distressing information.

Light refreshments will be served at each event.

Cannonvale: Date:. . . . . . .

Mantra Club Croc

Mon 28 Nov, 10am - 12pm Bowen: Bowen QCWA Hall 52 Herbert St, Bowen Thu 1 Dec, 12:30 - 2:30pmDates: . . Thu 1 Dec, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Zonta Annual Scholarship Awards “More Than Worthy” Recipients

Zonta members, Award Winners Annabel Danvers, Ella Crossley, Bridget Patullo, Maddison Scott Fitzgerald, Sienna Sobott, and Year 12 Teacher at St Catherine’s College Shantae Ryle

Four Year 12 graduates from the Whitsundays were announced as the recipients of a series of local Zonta Club scholarships which will help them pursue tertiary schooling across the country. St Catherine’s College Proserpine graduates Ella Crossley, Sienna Sobott, and Annabel Danvers were awarded with $1,000 Zonta scholarships each, while Maddison Fitzgerald was awarded the Laura Morrison Scholarship. The Laura Morrison Memorial Bequest Scholarship of $2,000 commemorates the gift's late namesake, Laura Morrison, a previous treasurer of the Zonta Club of the Whitsundays who passed away suddenly in 2020.

Remembered for her generosity, love of the Zonta Club, and desire to support the education of women, Mrs Morrison’s legacy lives on as part of the scholarship package, which has been awarded annually since her death. President of the Zonta Club of the Whitsundays, Dianne Truman said this year’s process to determine what is normally a singular scholarship expanded into four separate grants. “Maddison was a class above the rest in representing the values of the Zonta Club and what we were looking for in a Laura Morrison scholarship recipient,” Ms Truman said.

“But each was so worthy on their own right that we simply could not overlook them. We had the funding, and so now we have four very talented, beautiful young women receiving our support.” Each graduate will be utilising their funds to study tertiary education in either Sydney or Melbourne. Maddison Fitzgerald, who is also a founding member of the St Cath’s Z Club, said the feeling of receiving the Laura Morrison Scholarship was a “massive relief.” “It’s such a weight off my shoulders. Two grand is a lot of money and this will cover a large amount the expenses for my study,” she said.

Maddison will be studying Forensic Psychology with the funds.