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ISSUE 1114 FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019
All set for a messy play day
CHILDREN with grubby, dirty, sticky, wet or generally messy hands and faces will be celebrated at the Bendigo Community Toy Library’s Messy Play Day on Saturday from 9.30am until noon. The toy library is on the corner of Spring Gully Road and Kendall Street, Spring Gully, visit www.bendigotoylibrary.org.au
HANDS ON: Angus Bourke and Lincoln Henderson.
TAKE OFF Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
THE finishing touches have been applied to the upgraded Bendigo Airport terminal building in readiness for Sunday’s historic inaugural Qantas Sydney to Bendigo flight arrival. QF1407 is due to land in Bendigo at 7.25pm on Sunday evening, the fulfilment of a key commitment from the council to deliver an air passenger service for the region. The A300 turbo prop aircraft will ply the Bendigo to Sydney route six days a week, with flights from Bendigo departing between
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First Qantas flight arrives on Sunday
6.30am – 9.10am, Monday – Saturday. Services from Sydney will depart at 5.25pm and land in Bendigo at 7.25pm on weekdays and Sundays. Extensive renovations have taken place at the Bendigo Airport in the past two months and 46 local businesses were employed to provide materials or deliver works,
including construction, electrical, floor coverings and painting. The works follow a major $15 million upgrade of the main runway to 1600 metres in anticipation of a passenger service being secured. A new 76-space car park has been sealed, the building has been extended to accommodate the baggage collection area, new carpet has been laid throughout, new seating
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has been installed, toilet facilities have been updated and NBN fibre has been connected to the building to allow passengers to connect to the internet. Kitchen facilities have been added to support the new Bendigo Airport café, which will open for 90 minutes before every departing flight. City of Greater Bendigo busi-
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ness services manager Ben Devanny said the terminal building was ready for this next chapter in the history of the airport. “The works have run to schedule and we are very pleased with the result and to have been able to engage local tradesmen. The building is now fit-for-purpose and will be comfortable for passengers as they wait to board flights, collect their baggage or be picked up from the airport,” Mr Devanny said.
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