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Wednesday June 2, 2010
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Town v council battle keeps lingering on:
It’s two on and one off at Wakey
Rain is the name of their game! THEY had the brollies out at the footy and netball last weekend – and there were plenty of smiles too! Hamley Bridge youngsters Jack Merrit, Zane Golding and Tom Dubsky just managed to keep out of the rain beneath their battered umbrella as soaking rains continued throughout the district. Farmers, anxious to get seeding started, were out in paddocks – but as you can see, not everything goes to plan. Nathan Parker managed to sink the air seeder past the axle into soft soil on his Pinery farm. He was forced to remove the seed box and find a second tractor to help haul it out, fortunately without damage. Seeding then continued before halting a second time when a truck loaded with fertiliser became briefly bogged. “It’s all part of farming,”said Nathan. This year the rain will hopefully serve more than one purpose with farmers hoping to get a break from
hunting mice as the recent rain makes an impact in breeding. According to Shayne Faerhmann of Landmark Balaklava, the timing of the rain has been the perfect start to the growing season.
“After the last week, things are looking excellent,” he said. “We’ve probably had enough rain for short term.” Shayne said dry conditions around the Port Wakefield area had until
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with Wallbridge and Gilbert” over alleged inconsistencies in reports to council and residents. Residents were given a further boost when two Port Wakefield community members were added to a working party to tackle the town’s CWMS problems. The working party, devised at last week’s council meeting, also consists of representatives from Wallbridge and Gilbert, contractors Diverse Civil and Commercial Projects and WRC, repesented by Ms McCarthy. An earlier recommendation by council to leave connection points as provided was revoked at last week’s meeting when council voted to conduct further investigations by contractors and council to address concerns raised by residents. Council staff and elected members had toured the area by bus on Monday, May 17. At the jam-packed meeting, residents again voiced concerns about the scheme and Richard Pain was given the opportunity to summarise problems. n Continued page 3
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last week delayed sowing, with farmers now just getting started. He expected Hoyleton, Halbury and Owen farmers to be close to finished, with earlier falls giving them a head start. n Continued Page 2
Disgruntled Port Wakefield residents packed into Wakefield Regional Council chamber in a fiery meeting played out before television cameras. The confrontation with council was orchestrated by residents to bring outside attention to alleged problems with Port Wakefield’s Community Wastewater Management Scheme (CWMS). Residents were accompanied into the chamber by some of Channel Seven’s Today Tonight crew at last Wednesday’s council meeting, as residents reiterated their disapproval of the project, where many connections points have been placed in impractical locations and pegs moved without consultation. And in recent developments, it has been revealed an employee of engineers Wallbridge and Gilbert was removed from the project by the company following a number of issues. Wakefield Regional Council (WRC), environmental services manager, Elca McCarthy, told the Plains Producer council had “raised concerns
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