2015 A YEAR JANUARY HAVING been elected as the Independent Member for Shepparton District at the end of 2014, Suzanna Sheed settled into her first week in parliament. COMING to a cost of $5.5M Stage One of the new Numurkah Hospital was completed and opened to the public, after floods devastated the original hospital in the 2012 floods. AFTER holding the role of SPC Managing Director for two years, Peter Kelly announced he would be stepping down from the role. WITH the story circulating through newsrooms across the country of the disappearance of Diamond Creek man, Dane Kowalski local police issued plea for information on three missing locals, whose cases were still ongoing.
JULY LOCAL members of parliament expressed their disappointment with the new country-of-origin labelling, which didn’t specify which country certain portions of product came from. FORMER Greater Shepparton City Council councillor, Chris Hazelman was sworn in as the seventh councillor, following Michael Polan’s resignation from the position. A CALL out was made to local residents to put their hand up to be extras in Tim Ferguson’s romantic comedy movie, Spin Out, which was planned to begin being filmed in Shepparton in August.
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GREATER Shepparton City Council released its $42M draft business case for the new Shepparton Art Museum, which suggested the foreshore of Victoria Park Lake be the new, state-of-the-art museum’s home.
LOCAL Entrepreneur, Brad Corken of Corton Audio was announced as the local to feature on the front cover of the White and Yellow Pages.
A MULTI-MILLION dollar upgrade to the Shepparton Showgrounds began, to accommodate for the ground’s growing needs. HAVING finished 11th during his inaugural V8 Supercars Dunlop Series in 2014, local driver, Garry Jacobson took to the track with Eggleston Motorsport for the 2015 season.
IT WAS revealed that more than $500M had been invested in the region through the building of new residential premises, property and land upgrades and proposals put forward for new constructions in a 20 month time span. WITH cattle grazing being banned in alpine and river redgum forest, including the Barmah Forest, local residents expressed their concerns over fire danger.
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WITH a $7.5M roundabout project on the corner of Doyles Road and the Midland Highway planned, Shepparton East landowners expressed their concern that they were not to be included in the upgrades to the area’s drainage.
TONY Abbott was replaced by Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister, after a leadership spill saw the Liberal party votes swing Turnbull’s way.
AN Australian, privately owned food industry company purchased the old United Dairy Power factory on Vaughan Street in Shepparton for approximately $1.5M, with a promise to create a number of local jobs once the plant opens. THE Spin Out movie kicked off with filming at Emerald Bank in Kialla, where 20 locals had joined the star studded cast on set as extras in the film.
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THE state-of-the-art design for Shepparton’s new $73M court precinct was released, with preliminary demolition works planned to begin in October. TALLIS Wines’ 2014 Viognier was awarded Wine of the Show at the 2015 Dookie Wine Show. LOCAL Artist, Nicky Kriss had four of her pieces purchased by The Block contestants, Luke and Ebony, which they used to brighten their apartment in the popular television show.