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Drive-in returns After last year’s debut sold out in a flash, the Greendale Drive-In will be back by popular demand next month for a night of fun and movies under the stars. Co-organisers Kristin Sargent and Sarah Duncanson didn’t know what to expect from last November’s inaugural event, but were blown away by the community response. The Greendale Family Friendly Drive-In Movie Night will return on March 26, with support from Moorabool council and The Greendale Social Club and Assets Committee. Ms Sargent said the gates at Egans Reserve will open at 5pm with pre-movie entertainment featuring local musicians, along with an Easter twilight market and local food trucks. “We’ll be raising money for BADGAR Wildlife Rescue, the local CFA and The Blackwood Community Emergency Response Team,” she said. Starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken and Jane Seymour, The War with Grandpa will be the feature film following cartoon screenings for the little ones. Details and tickets: facebook.com/ greendaledrivein Benjamin Millar
Kristin Sargent with Percy, 4 weeks, and Sarah Duncanson with Oliver, 3, and Isaac, 1. (Damjan Janevski). 228729_01
Vaccine snub anger By Benjamin Millar The federal government has been slammed for the Melton area being “forgotten” in the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out despite being one of the areas hardest hit by the pandemic. The first vaccine to be administered in Australia was delivered on Sunday with Prime Minister Scott Morrison among the earliest to receive the jab. Only limited doses of COVID-19 vaccines are available in the first phase and the groups deemed at highest risk of infection are
receiving the initial doses. The Victorian government began delivering doses to hotel quarantine and health hotel workers on Monday, as well as airport and port workers, high-risk frontline health staff and public sector residential aged care staff and residents. The federal government is responsible for providing the vaccine to residents and workers in private sector aged care and disability care and has revealed a list of locations where the first phase will roll out. Melton has recorded 1159 COVID-19 cases
since the pandemic broke out, behind only Wyndham, Brimbank, Hume and Whittlesea. McKenzie Aged Care Sutton Park in Melton South was the worst affected local aged care home, recording seven deaths and a total of 87 cases, including 46 residents. Gorton MP Brendan O’Connor said the federal government needs to answer why the electorate of Gorton, which had some of the highest coronavirus infections numbers in the country, has been forgotten when it comes to the first locations of the vaccine roll-out. “There are a lot of unanswered questions
regarding supply and delivery,” he said. “The residents of Melton and Brimbank need to be assured they’ll have access to the vaccine. We know that Scott Morrison is always about the announcement, not about the delivery.” Mr Morrison described the beginning of Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination program on Sunday as a “game changer”. “And its successful roll-out will only further reduce the risk. And when you reduce the risk then obviously you do not need more blunt and extreme measures.”
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