COME May 30, Brandt employee, John Deere salesman, Colin Stubbs will be retiring after working in the one job for over 50 years. “I’ve principally only ever had one job,” he said. “I left school (in 1974) and took that job and basically been in the role ever since. “I actually started at the original […]
FOLLOWING Southern Grampians Shire Council’s (SGSC) decision to close the Glenthompson War Memorial Swimming Pool, concerned Glenthompson community members have banded together to form a new group called the Glenthompson Pool Committee Inc. Vowed to fight Council’s decision they have lodged a complaint with the Victorian Ombudsman. In their submission they said, “Council decided to […]
CONSTRUCTION Industry Training Services (CITS) invited local L2P learners and mentors to a truck safety course at the CITS Hamilton site on Saturday, April 20. L2P coordinator, Marisa Fazzi said, “I was thrilled to hear that the CITS training school had invited us to their site in Hamilton! “It’s great to see that Steve Oliver, […]
FARMERS in Hamilton and the surrounding district are facing drier conditions and having to adapt to the exceptionally tough environment in the region lately. Area-averaged rainfall for Victoria in March was 9.2 millimeters, which was 78 per cent below the 1961–1990 average, making it the seventh driest March on record and the driest since 1986. […]
