COLLIE RIVER VALLEY
BULLETIN Published by LOCALS for LOCALS
EDITION No. 73
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Thursday, March 10, 2022
Paddy wins second cup Box for museum
THE Coalfields Museum last week received a box full of historic maps, photos and videos linked to Collie’s mining history. Page 3.
PADDY’S Shadow, trained by local Raquel Williams, won her second Bunbury Cup in a dead heat with True Attraction on Saturday. Story on Page 19
Yes to retiree units Access still to be resolved Reporter: NOLA GREEN APPROVAL was granted for the development of a retirement village at Riverview at Collie Shire Council’s meeting on Tuesday night, but the matter of access points is still under discussion. Objections to allowing entry to
the village off Burt Street led to the exclusion of a clause detailing this, and the inclusion of a direction that shire staff continue to negotiate with the Department of Education to allow access off Pendleton Street.
The Riverview management committee had planned for access off Pendleton Street, but ran into a road-block when it was pointed out that the street does not exist, in spite of having been used to access Riverview Residence for 50 years.
Director of development services Matt Young told Tuesday night’s meeting: “There used to be a road there many years ago, but the road was closed. “The existing area is a high school site, not a gazetted road, and the Department of Education has not agreed to allow access to the proposed development from the reserve.” The status of the “road” was first discovered when Riverview was built in 1971. The Riverview committee had to negotiate per-
mission for entry to the new facility to be from department land. With the department standing firm this time round, the proposed entry to the retirement village was relocated to the southern end of Burt Street, causing strong reaction from residents who claimed in submissions that the road was not adequate to carry extra traffic; the T-junction was poorly designed; and their children, who play on the road, would be put in danger. Continued page 2
MLA’s first year
COLLIE-Preston MLA Jodie Hanns will mark 12 months in State Government this Sunday Page 7.
CARS at Amaroo
AMAROO Primary School students and staff celebrated their whole-school positive behaviour support last Friday. Page 17.
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