While Alexandra Park Zoo used to be better known as the Monkey Park, the two cotton top tamarins are the first primates to be exhibited in the zoo since the 1960s.
The community is being encouraged to give the Sleepbus fundraiser one last push at an upcoming movie event with the $100,000 target edging ever closer.
Early works have started on the $1.2 billion new Bundaberg Hospital, marking the start of one of the biggest health investments in the Wide Bay region.
This Friday local medical students will swap their scrubs for mortar boards as they graduate with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Queensland Rural Clinical School.