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Cash helps project grow | Rainfall best in 26 years | Little bird Kasey flies in ahead of tour | Taxi row continues as McCrae Street in doubt - fare goes | IPTv names the day | Opposition swarms to attack over pests | Bank hits milestone | Back to school | Dental wait list row starts to bite | Delays continue | Ned Kelly and the Green Sash | Final insult as ratepayers left in the dark | Cox speaks out | Battle for the state | Stage Two looms | Kaitlyn loses to gain | Gibbons heads for record term in Bendigo | Fundraiser ride on the money | Camels at Camp 6 | Cancer in spotlight | Stage set for change | Look out for the right kind of girl | All set for fashion | Tax protest stirs up the miners | STAGE TWO ON OCTOBER 1 | GIBBONS HOLDS BENDIGO | 14 INJURED IN BUS CRASH | LEFT OUT - Political parties snub Bendigo | Pin pulled on golf plan | Looking good for Christmas treat

Stage Two looms

Posted by Admin in BENDIGO NEWS on 27 Aug 2010 at 12:00 am

By ANTHONY RADFORD

BENDIGO is likely to move to Stage Two water restrictions on October 1.
Coliban Water yesterday announced it was “probable” the restrictions would be eased, and stay that way for most of summer.

The board will make its final decision on September 15, as revealed by the Bendigo Weekly last month.

Stage Two allows hand-held hoses to be used on gardens at any time.
It also allows manual sprinklers on gardens using the odds and evens schedule between 7am and 9am, and 5pm and 7pm.

Automatic sprinklers are allowed between midnight and 4am.

Cars can be washed and rinsed using a bucket.

Bendigo has enough water to go to Stage One, but chairman John Brooke said the board was being conservative.

“One wet winter doesn’t mean we can forget the need to focus on long-term water security,” he said.

Castlemaine will also move to Stage Two restrictions, as will Heathcote.
Kyneton will remain on Stage Three.

Other towns in other systems will have their water restrictions eased.

In the past eight weeks, Coliban Water’s three catchment storages near Malmsbury have more than doubled to 50 per cent of capacity, and winter rain has boosted water availability in most of its other supply systems.

“Eight weeks ago we were still plannin...
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GAME ON: The council does not back the McCrae St site.

OPEN DAY: Bendigo IPTv managing director Denis English spreads the word.

ON TOUR: Kasey Chambers was in town to promote her tour. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN. More photos at www.bendigophotos.com

STUNNING: Trentham Falls flow. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

pictured: Do Htoo, Kerry Oviedo, Ae Doo, Tabitha Abbott and Kle Paw in the Salvation Army Community Garden. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

ON SHOW: Blues Choir The Suitts of Bendigo South East Secondary College will perform at the showcase. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

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TROUBLE AHEAD: Farmers are being urged to spay.

Stage Two looms

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IN THE DARK: The final cost will not be revelaed.

GEARING UP: Neil Macdonald, Damian Nolan, Steven Oliver and Gavin Carter. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

PALS: Kaitlyn Meggs with Charlie the cat. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

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STAGE TWO ON OCTOBER 1

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Cash helps project grow

Posted by Admin
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on 02/09/2010 at 02:50 PM

BENDIGO TAFE has received a grant from Bendigo Community Health to assist in buying materials for a gardening project run for migrant students.

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Rainfall best in 26 years

Posted by Admin
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on 02/09/2010 at 03:33 PM

By BEN CAMERON

Bendigo has experienced its wettest August for 26 years, according to a local amateur forecaster.

Kevin Long said Bendigo received 139mm, the wettest since 1984.

The record for August is 169mm in 1909.

But, it smas...

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Little bird Kasey flies in ahead of tour

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in BENDIGO NEWS
on 02/09/2010 at 04:55 PM

Multi-award winning country singer Kasey Chambers called into Bendigo on Wednesday, on a promotional tour for her new album, Little Bird.

The album, her first in five years, will be released on September 17 while Kasey will play The Capi...

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Taxi row continues as McCrae Street in doubt - fare goes

Posted by Admin
in BENDIGO NEWS
on 02/09/2010 at 05:13 PM

By ANTHONY RADFORD

PLANS for a taxi rank on McCrae Street have been dealt another blow, with revelations the City of Greater Bendigo council does not support the idea.

The Safe Community Forum proposed to build a taxi shelter and toil...

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Back to school

Posted by Admin
in BENDIGO NEWS
on 02/09/2010 at 02:27 PM

HAVE you ever wondered what it would be like to go back to school?

How your experience in the classroom would compare to that of today’s children?

You can find out at the Town Hall next Tuesday at the State Secondary Schools Showcase.

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