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Funds flow The State Government has announced it would contribute $250,000 to Cardinia Council for an upgrade to Jim Parkes Reserve in Beaconsfield as part of its Growing Suburbs Fund. The project was one of 14 projects set to receive funding, including $287,100 to Casey Council for the renewal of Brentwood Park Neighbourhood House and Community Centre in Berwick South. The proposed concept plan for Jim Parkes Reserve included a senior play area, a junior play area, an outdoor exercise station, a bocce court, timber arbour seating, a composite shade sail pavilion, a dry creek bed, a deciduous urban forest, a picnic shelter and Australian native planting. STORY PAGE 2
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Rodeo’s 80 years After last year’s Lang Lang Rodeo was sadly cancelled, this year triumphantly celebrated 80 years with a sold out crowd on Easter Monday. Approximately three and a half thousand people gathered at the Lang Lang Showground for the annual event, which was highly successful despite a worrying weather forecast. STORY PAGE 40 The rodeo saw a sold-out crowd.
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Police officers impounded a Nissan Patrol for 30 days after discovering the driver was more than three times over the blood alcohol limit and four out of the five children in the car were unrestrained. Police pulled over the seven-seater 4WD on Bridge Road just before 9am on Saturday 30 March, the last car of the booze bus site. Police observed one child restrained in a booster seat, two children occupying a single seat unrestrained, another unrestrained in a booster seat and another lying flat on the floor behind the driver’s seat. The 35-year-old Officer man returned an evidentiary breath test of .171. STORY PAGE 4
Years long delay By Corey Everitt An almost three year delay is set for the construction of one of council’s new state-of-theart facilities. The building site of Cardinia Youth Hub on James Street has been sitting idle for months
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community. The original completion date at the time was December 2022, yet in a recent council report the date now stands at mid-2025. In October 2023, the council’s contracted builder collapsed, halting the project. The ex-
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after its contracted builder collapsed, leaving stakeholders with an uncertain future as a new contractor has yet to be acquired. The building will be the new residency of My Place Youth Centre once complete, it began construction in January 2022 to the excitement of Cardinia Shire Council and the wider