MY open letter in today’s edition includes all the details for community consultation sessions we have planned for Our Place – the new tourism and cultural building being planned for Monash Drive in Swan Hill.
There will be five sessions from tomorrow until February 25.
If you have a view – either for or against Our Place – we would love to hear directly from you.
We’d also love to talk to people who might want to get the facts before forming their view.
Councillors will be at these sessions and will consider all your feedback, along with the investigation of another proposed site, before formally responding to the petitions we received about the building, and its proposed location in the Pioneer Settlement.
See page seven of today’s edition for details, or go to council’s website or social media.
Clearing sale a community success
THERE was a great turnout at the recent clearing sale at the Swan Hill Regional Livestock Exchange.
Cattle and sheep yard fencing and gates, ramps and other surplus items were sold following the recent redevelopment of the saleyards.
Thanks must go to the Swan Hill Livestock Agents Association who organised and ran the sale, and then generously donated all their proceeds to the Swan Hill Hospice – a total of $12,000.
Well done and thank you.
Robinvale library gets a start
CONSTRUCTION started this week on the new Robinvale Community Hub Library.
The library will be built inside an existing building at the front of the Robinvale College grounds and will be a permanent community library, replacing weekly mobile library visits to Robinvale, as well as a new school library.
It is a great community partnership too, a joint project of Council, Robinvale College, Regional Development Victoria and the Victorian Education Department.
I look forward to seeing it progress throughout the year.
