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Art treasure hunt
With a passion for the arts and their local community a group of professional artists and curators living in Kyneton have come together to form the arts collective Kyneton Contemporary Inc. The collective is keen to share knowledge and expertise to bring excellent art and ideas to the region to facilitate opportunities for artists and…
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Bringing the quartets to life
Regarded by many critics as the great last work of acclaimed 20th century poet T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets is about to be brought to life in Castlemaine in a very literal sense this Sunday. Four Quartets is a set of four poems which Eliot published over a six-year period and this Sunday the work will…
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Callum a real champion
For the last three Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday appeals, young Callum Judd has been watching progress from his hospital bed. This year the brave seven-year-old joined his family to actually be involved in the collection with the volunteers from the Woodend CFA. Callum suffers from neuroblastoma, which is the most common solid tumour of…
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Local efforts impress
Young people today can come under a lot of criticism, but the youth of the region made an invaluable and fantastic contribution to this year’s record-breaking Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal collection. More than $18M was raised this year across the state, with local contributions impressive across the region. In the Kyneton district more…
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Barrier placement questioned
The placement of wire rope safety barriers along the Calder Freeway has once again been questioned following a spectacular crash at Taradale on Saturday afternoon. A driver and passenger – two men from Bendigo – miraculously escaped injury when their twin-cab ute and trailer glanced the centre wire rope barriers before bouncing sideways across the…
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Unique partnership – Students launch youth mental health initiative
Chain Reaction – Your Choices Matter is the theme chosen for the award-winning Live4Life program in the Macedon Ranges for the next 12 months. The unique youth mental health promotion strategy, a partnership between the shire council, local secondary schools and key community agencies, has been operating locally since 2010. In that time more than…