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Magic comes to Melton Get ready for a whole new world of entertainment, when Melton Christian College stages its production of Aladdin Jnr this month. Following in the footsteps of the iconic 1992 film, and the hugely successful Broadway musical, Aladdin Jnr has been adapted for high school-aged performers, and features all the classics that fans will remember. The college’s musical will feature a cast of 30 students, telling the story of lovable rogue Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, and the fast-talking, wisecracking Genie as they discover mystical caves, take magic carpet rides, and outwit the evil sorcerer, Jafar. Director Derek Bendall said: “It is amazing how far we have come in the last decade, with the quality of performance and stage crafts,” Mr Bendall said. “From our humble beginnings with a set piece that was a piece of canvas, to digital projected scenes. Similarly the quality of the singing, acting and dancing is incomparable to the early years. “I love finding the diamonds in the rough. Helping them to reach their full potential is exactly what I love doing.” The show will be at the college from July 26-28, with tickets available at ticketebo.com.au/meltonchristiancollege Ewen McRae Jorda as Aladdin, Faith as Jasmine and Matthew as Genie.(Marco De Luca)
Carparking rise rejected By Ewen McRae Melton and Caroline Springs town centres will not receive additional carparking after a Melton council report declared current provisions adequate. The officers’ report, which followed a notice of motion from Cr Sophie Ramsey in March, explored the possible need for multi-storey carparks in the two town centres because of increased usage and demand. It found Melton town centre had 2134 public carparks and Caroline Springs town square had 1114.
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- Sophie Ramsey
A council survey of parking in Melton found that the peak occupancy rate of spaces was 66 per cent, while there was a higher demand for spaces with three to four-hour limits. Rather than multi-story carparking, the study instead recommended changes to time limits on existing spaces.
“The study concluded that there is sufficient parking within the Melton township as a whole to meet the current peak parking demands and that a multi-storey carpark is not necessarily the solution towards addressing the existing demand versus parking spaces for the medium-term parking gaps,” the officers’ report stated. “There is no evidence to suggest that a multi-storey carpark in the Melton township is required.” While there has been no carparking study done in Caroline Springs, the report stated that undertaking one would be premature due to $120
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the state of flux in the area with several new developments ongoing. Cr Ramsey moved a motion at last week’s meeting that the council undertake a review of carparking requirements in Melton and Caroline Springs town centres as part of the High Street Structure Plan project, which is anticipated to start in mid-2020. “As we plan our wonderful city, with an additional 300,000 people coming in the not too distant future … we need to look strategically at multi-storey carparking in both areas,” she said. “Because it’s only going to get worse, not better.”
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