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Short-term support for disengaged students By Steve Hutcheson FOR a small number of students, learning and maintaining interest in school is a challenge. How do I know this, in my day, I too might have been classified as a disengaged student? In later years however I moved on and eventually got that degree in engineering, albeit as a mature aged student. Continued on page 15 CELEBRATING $8.5M IN FEDERAL FUNDING....FRONT AND CENTRE... Federal Member for Nicholls, Damian Drum, surrounded by Mall retailers from left Craig Blizzard, Michael Desimone, Chamber CBD committee member, Wendy Crow, retailer, Shane Sali, Chamber president, John Anderson and Chamber CBD committee member, Geoff Adams, at the $8.5M Federal funding announcement of the Maude Street Mall redevelopment. Photo: Steve Hutcheson.
Drum secures $8.5m for Mall redevelopment Council and Chamber reach agreement By Steve Hutcheson For some months now, Greater Shepparton City Council and the Shepparton Chamber of Commerce and Industry have been negotiating the best format for the redevelopment of the Maude St Mall. In March, the Council presented a plan for the
Mall that conflicted with the point of view of traders and the Chamber. Following an onsite meeting with the Chamber a matter of two weeks ago, the Federal Member of Nicholls, Damian Drum successfully advocated for Federal funding of $8.5 million dollars from the Federal
Government’s Building Better Regions Fund to go towards the redevelopment, to be matched dollar for dollar by the Council. “This funding is a significant investment in the region’s future by the Federal Government,” said Mr Drum. Continued on page 15