Gifted students (from left) Jo Doolan, Josh Hindson, Cassie James, Rachel Kelly and Belinda Gillie are exploring the problems that face the world today in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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1975
The mayor of the town of Kyabram, Cr Kevin Andrews, has announced that preliminary agreement has been reached with John Brown Industries Ltd, of Melbourne, to establish a new clothing factory at Kyabram.
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The new industry, which will manufacture leisure wear, will initially employ a minimum of 50 persons rising to 100 persons when in full production.
Negotiations are still proceeding with the company, and subject to necessary approvals of several government agencies, council will be providing necessary finance to convert a council-owned building in the saleyards area into factory premises of approximately 11,000 square feet in area.
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A meeting to form a new co-operative housing society in Kyabram will be held next week.
An allocation of $200,000 has been made from the Home Builders’ Account for the formation of a new co-operative housing society to serve prospective home owners in the Kyabram and District.
This amount of $200,000 will be available for use by the society during the current financial year.
The money will be provided by the state at an interest rate of five per cent per annum, and the society will charge interest on advances at the same rate.
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Playing 200 senior games of GVL football has earned further recognition for the Bombers’ dashing centre half-back, Ian ‘Mick’ McDonald.
McDonald’s feat has won him the August Sportstar of the Month Award in the prestigious award for the Sportstar of the Year quest.
The award is conducted by the Kyabram Apex Club.
2000
While most Australians will be glued to their television sets watching the Olympics during the school holidays, five adventurous Kyabram Secondary College students will be where it all began.
Thessaloniki, Greece, is the destination for the five students, Rachel Kelly, Josh Hindson, Jo Doolan, Cassie James. The students will be accompanied by teachers Eillen McNeilly and Andrew Pleydell.
The students will attend the 2000 International Student Project designed for young, gifted students to create awareness of situations and problems that face the world.
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Residents may have been wondering about the new building at the front of the Tatura Medical Centre.
It can be revealed that Gribbles Pathology has set up this building and now operates five days a week between the hours of 8.30am and 4pm.
Although a referral is required by a medical practitioner, this new service to Tatura residents is a big plus.
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Kyabram and district is in party mode — Olympics style.
District residents are feeding off the excitement and energy of the Olympics and using welcome warm weather to celebrate.
And their spending habits are being influenced considerably by the Games currently being staged in Sydney.
They are buying more ‘party’-type food, fast food, soft drink and alcohol to tide them over during the Olympic frenzy.
2015
Campaspe Shire Council does not support the inclusion of an ‘‘efficiency factor’’ when rates capping is introduced next year.
The council last week lodged its submission to the Victorian Government’s rates capping review.
The forecasts are for a cap of a 3.05 per cent rate increase for all Victoria’s councils for the 2016-17 financial year, with ‘‘efficiencies’’ leading to even lower rate increases in following years.
The draft proposal is for an increase in line with the consumer price index, plus a wage price index increase, less the ‘‘efficiency factor’’.
The ‘‘efficiency factor’’ is cost-cutting in service provision by councils.
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Patients are benefiting from scores more frontline ambulance staff boosting the district’s service.
Kyabram Ambulance Service boasts 17 paramedics since an Ambulance Victoria recruitment drive stepped up in 2011.
Kyabram team manager Amelia Kohn said having more frontline staff on board and a record number of shifts were a big boost for the ambulance service and the communities it serves.
Kyabram Ambulance Service team manager Amelia Kohn and paramedics Holly Childs and Locky Spencer are part of a 17-strong force in town. It is the largest paramedic contingent Kyabram has known.
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The service averages 160 callouts per month, and as well as covering its own territory from Whroo Forest to Nathalia, it provides a support role to Shepparton and Echuca.
