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News

Volunteers’ noteworthy discoveries

HITTING THE BOOKS: CVA Heritagecare volunteers Karryn Hebbard and Ian Wright catalogue items in the banking chamber at Warracknabeal.
Posted by Weekly Advertiser in News on 11 Aug 2010 at 11:49 am

A variety of money boxes, including one which takes bank notes, ink jars, ledgers and envelopes were among items Heritagecare volunteers discovered as they catalogued a Warracknabeal and District Historical Society Banking Chamber collection. Volunteers Ian Wright, Donnella Zanker, Maree Bell, Jenny Taylor and Karryn Hebbard contributed up to two days per week over four months to record items held in the historic State Bank of Victoria building. The group described, labelled, digitally photographed, appropriately stored or placed back on display each artefact and entered the information into the society’s register and database. As volunteers developed a picture of banking when everything was hand written, they also discovered a library borrowings register from 1914 to 1916, plans for early subdivisions in Warracknabeal and the 1914 creek development proposal accompanied by detailed drawings. Valuable Heritage Society secretary Lesley Stephan said the State Bank building and the banking chamber collection provided an authentic and valuable record of the operations of an important past business and service in Warracknabeal, which closed in 1969. She said the building was listed on the Local Government Heritage Overlay. “They were excellent volunteers and as a result of their...
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Last chance for awards

Posted by Weekly Advertiser from Horsham
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on 11/08/2010 at 11:44 AM

State Agriculture Minister Joe Helper has called on Victorian scientists to nominate for a Department of Primary Industries 2010 Science Award.

Mr Helper said the awards celebrated and acknowledged excellence in science and innovation from...

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Council to review hall objections

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Posted by Weekly Advertiser from Horsham
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on 11/08/2010 at 10:59 AM

Horsham Rural City Council will meet objectors to Horsham Town Hall’s $15-million redvelopment in an effort to reach a compromise.

The council received more than 200 objections to a planning-permit application for the redevelopment and wil...

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Working dogs are exempt

Posted by Weekly Advertiser from Horsham
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on 04/08/2010 at 03:52 PM

Horsham councillors hope changes to dog-ownership rules in the municipality will lead to more working dogs being registered.

Horsham Rural City Council decided at its latest meeting that dogs people used and trained primarily for droving, ...

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Tidy finalists

Posted by Weekly Advertiser from Horsham
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on 04/08/2010 at 03:10 PM

Wimmera centres and events feature prominently as finalists in 2010 Keep Australia Beautiful Victoria Tidy Towns – Sustainable Communities Awards.

Horsham is among six finalists for an overall category. Other finalists are Beechworth, Dart...

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Police call for community effort

Posted by Weekly Advertiser from Horsham
in News
on 04/08/2010 at 02:37 PM

By DEAN LAWSON

Police are urging parents and the broader community to become greater allies in an effort to curb youth-based crime in the Wimmera.

Acting Senior Sergeant Brendan Broadbent of Horsham police said the family home remained th...

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Governor’s visit sets pulses racing

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on 28/07/2010 at 05:09 PM

Pulses were the theme as Grains Innovation Park in Horsham hosted a visit from Governor of Victoria David de Kretser and Mrs de Kretser.

Professor de Kretser was in the Wimmera as part of a two-day tour last week.

GIP centre leader Susan ...

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Hayden called a hero

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Posted by Weekly Advertiser from Horsham
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on 28/07/2010 at 04:58 PM

Five-year-old Hayden Bone from McKenzie Creek is now a ‘Junior Triple Zero Hero’ after receiving an award from the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority. He won his award for calling triple zero when bales of hay caught fire on hi...

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Security checks urged

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Posted by Weekly Advertiser from Horsham
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on 28/07/2010 at 04:24 PM

Police are offering free security checks to Horsham businesses after a crime spree that has doubled the number of burglaries in the city.

Horsham Inspector Colin Renton said burglars had broken into 14 commercial properties and 14 sporting...

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Top care report for Ararat

Posted by Weekly Advertiser from Horsham
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on 14/07/2010 at 04:59 PM

The Department of Human Services has given Ararat Rural City Council’s Home and Community Care department a glowing report.

The report, the result of a 2009 survey of Grampians Pyrenees Primary Care Partnership agencies, show the council w...

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New president set for challenge

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on 14/07/2010 at 04:29 PM

Construction of a new medical centre and development of a sub-regional health care plan are key objectives in the coming year for Wimmera Health Care Group president Mark Williams.

The group’s board of management elected Mr Williams to the...

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