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Council to seek feedback on Munarra Centre lease agreement GR EAT ER Shepparton City Council intends to seek community feedback regarding its intention to enter into a lease agreement in relation to the new Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence (MCRE). T he MCR E will be a nationally significant local cultural hub that brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people around Australia. Continued Page 8
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CREATING CURIOUSITY… Teacher, Clare Canty has always encouraged students to be curious about learning, whatever their interests. She is pictured above writing with Mooropna Park P.S. student, Violet. Photo: Supplied.
Seaford to Shepparton: igniting a spark for almost 50 years By Deanne Jeffers CLARE Canty has retired from teaching after 47 years. She taught her last day in the classroom at Mooroopna Park Primary School in December, before taking long service. For Mrs Canty, becoming a teacher was
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her chance to break out of the family home and to emerge into the world. Having grown up in Seaford, Clare completed her initial training at Frankston State College and would go on to apply for teaching positions anywhere between “Cohuna and Mildura, somewhere
along the Murray.” She and a friend who Clare studied with both had strict fathers and had spent some time in Swan Hill, convincing the girls that exciting new lives called for them in regional Victoria. Continued Page 5