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Preschool celebrates milestone By NATHAN THOMPSON OPEN: The extended Cooma Lambie Street Preschool is officially unveiled by LouAnne Lind from the NSW Department of Education and Lambie Street Preschool director, Cathy Toohey. PHOTO: Nathan Thompson
THE Cooma community has celebrated the official opening of Lambie Street Preschool’s building extensions with the new space allowing the preschool to increase its operating capacity from 40 to 60 children. The official opening capped off a busy weekend for Lambie Street Preschool, following another successful art auction and sale on Friday night. Preschool families, staff and community members gathered at the Lambie Street facility on Saturday for official unveiling of the renovations (funded through a NSW Department of Education grant of $500,000) constructed by local builder Mick Redden of Reddens Constructions. Lambie Street Preschool director, Cathy Toohey, said the major building extension is a significant milestone in the 65-year history of the community preschool. “The expansion will give more children the chance to experience our high quality early childhood education,” Ms Toohey said. “The space allows us to expand our services to provide a warm, welcoming environment.” ■ Continued page 5
Count progresses as voters await result Official declaration not until October: Commission By NATHAN THOMPSON
COUNTING is continuing in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council elections with postal votes still coming in and preferences to be distributed. The NSW Electoral Commission said an official result will not be declared until the first week of October following the completion of the initial count,
check count and distribution of preferences. The initial count has been finalised and the check count (first preference votes by group and candidate at each venue/type of vote) is almost finished with just Cooma pre-poll remaining at the time this masthead went to print on Monday. Labor still leads the count
with incumbent deputy mayor Tanya Higgins atop of its group. Labor has 1,655 first preference votes, 18.46 percent of the formal first preference votes. Incumbent mayor Chris Hanna, atop of Group C, sits in second spot with 1,435 votes, a 16 percent share of the formal votes. Candidates above the 748 quota include Luke Williamson of Group A, Chris Hanna Group C, Tanya Higgins Group E, Reuben Rose Group F, and Bob Stewart Group H. Still leading the ungrouped
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candidates is Narelle Davis with 308 votes, ahead of Lynley Miners 291 and Craig Mitchell 219. The informal/ other vote count still sits quite high at 24 percent. Acting NSW Electoral Commissioner, Dr Matthew Phillips, said in the initial count process several types of votes are allocated to the informal/other category in the NSW Electoral Commission’s virtual tally room. “The informal/other’ category does not just include
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informal votes. It also includes other types of votes that undergo further sorting and counting,” Dr Phillips said. “For example, some candidates’ formal, below the line votes are included in the informal/other category votes figure category. In the Virtual tally room these candidates are marked with an asterix.” “During the Check count, these votes will be reviewed and, if formal, moved out of the informal/other group and included in the formal count numbers.”
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