Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
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New centre ready to go By Callum Ludwig Cire Services has excitedly announced the official opening of its new Early Years Learning Hub in Yarra Junction. Situated alongside the Cire Community School campus, the new hub includes the early learning facility upstairs as well as conference rooms to be utilised by Cire and other businesses or services looking to have a presence in Yarra Junction. $2 million for the project came from the Victorian Government’s Building Blocks Grants program, with Cire fronting the rest of the costs. Cire’s Executive Manager of Early Learning Diletta Lanciana said she was excited to be there to celebrate the opening of the amazing facility and an important asset to the Upper Yarra community. “Our grant was based on a vision to provide a holistic, one-stop shop ensuring that the community had access to a range of support services, including early learning, healthcare, allied health, counselling, all in one building,” she said. TURN TO PAGE 13 FOR MORE
Cire Services’ new Early Years Learning Hub. (Callum Ludwig: 424532)
Pothole nightmare A local has raised questions about the Victorian Government’s road maintenance policy as potholes plague the Outer East. The recent data has revealed the government spent $37 million on road resurfacing works in the 2023-24 financial year, which is a huge drop
from the previous year’s $201.4 million. Quality Fabrication and Engineering is a manufacturer of road maintenance equipment located in Woori Yallock, and the general manager, Glenn Hardiman, claimed that the pothole issue facing drivers would have been greatly reduced if the government had not slashed funding on preventative road maintenance, in particular, road
resurfacing and waterproofing. “Contractors spray bitumen onto the existing road surface, then aggregate crushed rock is spread over the bitumen, this creates a non-slip uniform surface and creates a waterproof seal preventing water penetrating the road and creating potholes,” he said. “In the last three years, the Department of
Transport and Planning has slashed the funding for spray sealing regional roads significantly, and this has exposed a significant proportion of the road network to the winter wet season, which has resulted in an exponential growth in the number of potholes and emergency temporary repair works. CONTINUED PAGE 3
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