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REMEMBERING MYRA JEAN SLEE PAGE 12
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
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It’s the final countdown
Council election ballot packs in post next week THIS time next week, Greater Shepparton residents will have the chance to elect a new Council. 16 candidates have nominated their candidacy to be elected to the nine-seat Greater Shepparton City Council. Four sitting councillors, including Bruce Giovanetti, Chris Hazelman, Les Oroszvary and Dennis Patterson are not seeking re-election, meaning the Council will likely see a significant turnover. Continued on page 11 HUNDREDS OF SEEDLINGS TO PLANT.. President of the Friends of the Australian Botanical Gardens Shepparton, Jillian Grant, stands before the racks of new endangered plants at Kialla’s Australian Botanic Gardens Shepparton. Photo: Steve Hutcheson
Shepparton’s botanic gardens a rare find By Steve Hutcheson PERCHED high up on a mound that was at one time the municipal waste station, the Australian Botanic Gardens Shepparton have taken hold and are developing as a garden should. In keeping with its importance to the community, the gardens have been chosen to participate in a program ‘Care for the Rare’ that includes planting out a number of rare and endangered plants
that are endemic to the region. Having identified the appropriate location, the rare plants have been propagated by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Cranbourne Gardens nursery. With more than one third of Victoria’s 3,600 plant species registered as ‘threatened’, the program aims to increase populations of rare and threatened plants in environments they are best suited to and where they will thrive. Continued on page 11