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A frightful sight! Cire Services’ annual Halloween Street Party took over Yarra Junction again on Thursday 31 October, with frights and sweet delights the theme of the night. Trick-or-treaters started their adventure at the Cire Community Hub in Yarra Junction from 4pm, decked out in costumes, where they checked in to receive their scavenger hunt card and for some, a special show bag if they booked online early. 2000 show bags were available. Once the scavenger hunt card was collected, trick-or-treaters set out into the town centre of Yarra Junction, visiting local businesses to collect stamps on their card and bundles of lollies to fill their bags and buckets. The Yarra Centre transformed into a haunted house, Black Snake Productions’ Reptile Experience brought creepy, crawly critters to the day and since cream and food trucks made sure no one went hungry. Turn to page 14 for more
Rick from Ben’s Shed Yarra Junction with their crafty coffin. (Stewart Chambers: 440395)
Businesses fed up with council as they urge them to...
Clean the streets By Dongyun Kwon Business owners on Healesville Main Street are disappointed at Yarra Ranges Council (YRC), claiming there is much room to improve in its management of street cleaning. The owners have suffered from the uncleaned street, especially when it’s filled with dust, fallen leaves and dirt despite their efforts to tidy it up.
The owner of Fluid Lounge Bar, Garry Christie, has tried to fix this recurring issue and contacted YRC numerous times, asking to manage the relevant contractors in the better way over the last few years.According to the business owner’s claim, there are three main issues repeatedly happening on the Main Street of Healesville, especially from the intersection of Church Street and Maroondah Highway to his business, located next to the
Healesville Post Office; a messy footpath which gets slippery, clogged drains which cause flooding during rain events and unclean litter bins. Mr Christie used to work for the council of Healesville/Yarra Ranges for 15 years and said his expectation has never been unrealistic. “I’m a little more informed than most and I’ve got reasonable expectations,” he said. “It’s the inconsistency with the council on how
they control the contracts that they give out for the cleaning, whether that be the bins or the footpath cleaning or the gutter kerb channel cleaning. “It’s a recurring theme, they wait till things get so bad. This time around, I probably made three off-the-cuff phone calls to them to let them know that it was an issue, and every time, it escalates to more phone calls, emails, backwards and forth.” Continued page 3
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