Funding boost: green light for Piangil multipurpose centre

THE Piangil Multipurpose Centre — worth more than $400,000 — has come to
fruition with the announcement of major funding from the State
Government.

Member for Swan Hill Peter Walsh announced the government would
contribute $300,000 towards the $407,905 project on Sunday morning at the
Piangil Memorial Park.

The multipurpose hall brings together the functions of
the towns’ town hall, bowling club hall, public toilet block and maternal child
and health centre.

Piangil Community Group representative Adam Gilbee said
the idea had sprung to life in the last few years in response to the decaying,
and in some cases, unsafe, facilities.

“They all were needing a sort of
revamp,” Mr Gilbee said.

“The old hall was falling down and the cost to
repair it would have been similar to building a new one. We came up with the
idea of demolishing the old bowling club and replacing it with a new
multipurpose building,” he said.

For more of this story, see Wednesday’s Guardian (June 5)