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FEATURE STATE OF ORIGIN HONOURS Mike in his heyday playing Second Row for Queensland. QHA REVIEW | 18 MIKE’S MEDIA STORM Channel Nine’s A Current Affair crossed live to Mike for regular updates on Cyclone Debbie.
FEATURE “WHAT THE CYCLONE SHOWED ME WAS THAT IN SUCH TIMES, EVERYBODY HAS A PART TO PLAY.” The Grand View Hotel has been family for four generations, some 98 years to be exact. First owned by BJ Magee, who also happened to have The Grand Theatre, The Grand Café and BJ Magee’s General Store, it was taken over by his daughter Mary Kathleen (May) and her husband John Norman McLean when BJ lost his sight at age 60. Since 1919 it has been in the McLean family and is presently run by Michael, John and Lachlan McLean. The brothers are constantly renovating the hotel with their focus fixed on delivering a pub with personality, superb cuisine, friendly service and entertainment for all ages. If the rave reviews online, in social media and in print are anything to go by, their endeavours are truly appreciated by locals and visitors to Bowen alike. Built in a classic old-Queenslander style, the hotel faces directly onto the picturesque Port Denison Harbour and from the moment you step inside you get a sense of the hotel’s history and the surrounding town of Bowen. Photos of the old township adorn the walls amidst modern artworks and a superb collection of memorabilia. One of the most notable pieces of nostalgia to any proud Queenslander is Michael’s State of Origin jersey. He humbly avoids virtually any questions in relation to his successful rugby league career that saw him play five years with the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) Roosters from 1985-1990, followed by a year at the Newcastle Knights and another at the Gold Coast Chargers, but quite possibly his proudest moment would be donning the Maroons jersey during our successful 1991 campaign. Queensland won the series 2-1 with the second game in particular remembered for the spiteful halftime clash between Wally Lewis and Mark Geyer. Anyhow we digress, at the time of going to print with this edition, North Queensland had suffered the wrath of Cyclone Debbie. We were keen to hear how The Grand View and the greater town of Bowen had faired. Mike filled us in. “It is funny in that walking around the streets a lot of people said, “All we could think about is that we hope The Grand View is not damaged after all the refurbishment, which is very flattering. “In particular what the cyclone showed me was that in such times, everybody has a part to play. We had the media contingent from down south come up along with hundreds and hundreds of emergency services personnel and volunteers. The police had their part to play and we had our part to play, which was essentially feeding all those people from around the country who weren’t from Bowen. “A lot of the town shut down and respectfully so but we somehow managed to keep trading through the use of generators supplying meals to all those people. “We were shut down the night before the cyclone with 200 people eating at the hotel. When we reopened we did 300 meals that night and we got hit by 560 millimetres of rain in one hour while we were doing it and that was worse than the cyclone. There was 2 foot of water coming down the main street. On the Saturday we did 550 meals and 200 is a big night for us.It was a proud moment to be able to do that. The staff were fantastic and we got a lot of wraps from the customers about them. Tthey were pushed hard and were tired and had problems at home of their own.” Bowen was fortunate with other North Queensland towns less so. It is welcome relief however this QHA REVIEW | 19
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