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It won’t go away!
Council’s latest Port Wakefield CWMS decision still angers some residents A decision by Wakefield Regional Council (WRC) relating to Port Wakefield’s Community Wastewater Management Scheme (CWMS) again has angered some local residents. Councillors passed a motion at last week’s council meeting to accept an engineer’s report on the CWMS, upsetting a group of residents who claimed the report was “incomplete.” It was one of council’s last decisions in its
LAUREN HERMON reports: present form. A new group of elected members will meet later this month after local government elections, with voting closing on Friday, November 12. A full public gallery of Port Wakefield residents again packed the council chamber at Wakefield Regional Council last Wednesday
night as they listened to council pass the recommendation to accept a report from project engineers, Wallbridge and Gilbert, which contained a detailed account of the town’s property inspections made from September 6 to September 17. Mayoral candidate in the upcoming local government election, Richard Pain, was granted permission by council to make a
presentation on behalf of residents to council regarding the much-criticised town CWMS. Mr Pain, who has represented residents in negotiations for many months, claimed the report (included in council’s recent agenda) was not the whole account. He said some properties were not mentioned in the report.
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HE’S just two – and already a big winner
Windsor two-year-old Christopher Leak is one in a thousand – or nine! Christopher, pictured right with brother Sam and parents Kathy and Stephen, represented Long Plains Red Cross Branch and won two top prizes at the recent Red Cross baby awards. The branch raised nearly $9000 and won a coveted plaque for raising the most money per head of population in towns with a population of 200 people or less. The branch also took out first place for the category of raising the highest amount of money per capita, averaging more than $43 per person in Long Plains. Long Plains president, Gwen Secomb, collected the coveted plaque at the recent SA Red Cross annual general meeting. The Leak family said they were proud of Christopher for representing the branch and giving them so much success. Miriam Lockwood, grand-daughter of Long Plains branch member Helen Lockwood, will represent Long Plains for the next 12 months. Long Plains branch members are hoping with Miriam as their baby and the support of the community, they will be able to hang on to their plaques for another year Red Cross Branches across South Australia have raised more than $12 million since the Red Cross baby competition officially began in 1955.
More Success!
PICTURE: Lisa Redpath INSET: Long Plains Red Cross branch president, Gwen Secomb, receives the winners plaque from Red Cross Advisory Board chair, Paul Shinkfield.
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