Murtoa Angling Club will soon be able to enjoy a new clubhouse, converted from an old pump house, thanks to State Government injecting $24,394 towards the redevelopment. The club is one of three across Yarriambiack Shire which has benefited recently through the latest round of the 2012-13 Community Facility Funding Program, Minor Facilities Grants component. [...]
WARRACKNABEAL Secondary College has been named among 50 schools in Victoria with the worst facilities and infrastructure, after an audit in August 2011. As a result, the school will receive funds from an Assisted Supplementary Maintenance Program which aims to support schools with the greatest maintenance needs. Warracknabeal Secondary College will be consulted throughout the [...]
WARRACKNABEAL Golf Club, Beulah Football and Cricket Clubs and Murtoa Angling Club will soon be able to enjoy better sporting venues thanks to State Government injecting new funding worth more than $142,000. Minister for Sport and Recreation Hugh Delahunty announced the funding yesterday at Warracknabeal Golf Club and said the club’s venue was one of [...]
WARRACKNABEAL Neighbourhood House and Learning Centre has recently had the official opening of its second hand clothing shop, “Second Time Round”. Yarriambiack Shire Councillor Geoff Lovel was there on the day of the opening to officiate the event in the place of Mayor Kylie Zanker, and present certificates to volunteers committed to the neighbourhood house. [...]
WARRACKNABEAL and district residents have been saddened by the news that Doctors Martin Monk and Vaun Kimber are retiring from their dental practice in Warracknabeal after 33 years of service to the community. Dr Monk graduated from the University of London, United Kingdom in 1972 and Dr Kimber graduated from the University of Melbourne in [...]
WEIR pools at Warracknabeal, Brim and Beulah, along with Lake Lascelles at Hopetoun, have proven to be highly popular spots during the, so far, mild summer which has been interspersed with weeks of hot weather. With, 50 millimetres of water being released from Warracknabeal Weir Pool before Christmas, in expectation of a flood event which [...]
FLOOD repair works have been underway since mid December on Birchip-Rainbow-rd between Lascelles-st and Warracknabeal-Rainbow-rd at Beulah. VicRoads regional director western region Ewen Nevett said: “The repairs involve replacing an old pipe structure with a new, larger culvert structure to increase the capacity of water flow beneath the road.” “A 40-metre section of the road [...]
YARRIAMBIACK Shire Council recently commenced $700,000 worth of in situ stabilisation works on roads across the district. The stabilisation works, which involve mixing a cement type product with gravel and then recompacting and resealing the section of road, started in November. The majority of the works have been completed against kerbs and channel sections of [...]
ABOUT 150 people attended Australia Day celebrations at Anzac Memorial Park, hosted by Warracknabeal Rotary Club members, on Thursday morning with a barbecue breakfast preceding the official celebrations. In opening proceedings, chairman for the celebrations Rotarian Leo Casey asked everyone to stand for the flag ceremony, where the Australian and Victorian flags were carried by [...]
Warracknabeal and district families are being called on to help find long term ways to help teenagers better cope with physical and mental stresses. Researchers based at Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne along with a partnership of organisations including Wimmera Southern Mallee LLEN, Warracknabeal, Murtoa and Hopetoun Colleges, Yarriambiack Shire Council, Rural [...]