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*AT LEFT: Enjoying a day at the beach are from left, Vivienne McLouth, Sera Bergman and Nicolle Gregory. Vivienne and Nicolle are Youth for Understanding exchange students from the United States of America.
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REPORTED QUOTES OF THE WEEK THE following are extracts taken from the Capricorn Coast Mirror, Morning Bulletin, and other named sources relating to Livingstone Shire Council matters mainly during the past three years. The writer considers the extracts to be in the public interest and no comments have been added to them.
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Two US students on Coast from Youth For Understanding group TWO Youth for Understanding international exchange students started Year 12 at Yeppoon High School on Wednesday. For Vicki McLouth of Shelby, Michigan, and Nicolle Gregory of Salt Lake City, Utah, it's the start of a full year and a half year of learning about Australia and Australians. Vicki, who's staying for a year with the Bergman family of Emu Park, has already decided she wants to stay ... "I'm going to chain myself to the Singing Ship." Sera Bergman is particularly interested in Vicki's stay because she leaves Emu Park in June to spend a year in the United States, also as a YFU exchangee. Fifteen-year-old Sera ("I'm 16 this year") is also obviously happy at the prospect of having an "older sister" for six months. Vicki's home town, Shelby, has a population of 1500 so, in many ways, life at Emu Park and on the Coast will not come as a shock. There are farms around Shelby and it has one of two artificial diamond manufacturing plants in the US. She lives in the town and her father is a foreman with a construction company. Shelby has about 15 shops, which includes two grocery stores, and the nearest town is Meskegon, about 50km away. Meskegon has the nearest movie theatre and a major mall. When Vicki returns to the US next year she will have one semester of high school (four months) to complete then she will take a course at college. She did not know what courses she would be taking at Yeppoon High School this year but said they would count toward her final year at home. Last year, she studied English, Trigonometry, Chemistry, US History, Computer Programming and Band. Band is a subject she would like to follow up in Yeppoon. She started playing the trumpet but switched to the French Horn ... and is looking for one to play while in Australia. Band is definitely a popular subject ... her school had 400 students; and 72 of them played in the school band. American school life is different. The days starts at 8.35am and the first subject, each day, is English. There is no morning break. Classes are con-
tinuous until lunch ... and that lasts 35 minutes. Then it's back to classes until 2.55pm. American schools start their year in September. There's a four-day (two school days plus the weekend) break for Thanksgiving late in November (the last Thursday of the month); two weeks off for Christmas then a threemonth summer vacation from the end of May. There are also two or three "snow days" when weather conditions close the school. For Vicki, the idea of wearing a school uniform is strange. But she's looking on the bright side ... "Now I won't have to worry about what outfit to wear each day." But uniforms are nothing new to Nicolle she has come to Australia from Judge Memorial, a private Catholic school where uniforms are compulsory. After living in Salt Lake City, a city of more than 1 million people, Nicolle finds Yeppoon "very small". Still, it was 12 hours of continuous driving from her home to the California beaches ... and the Coast's beaches are a lot closer. She is only staying for six months because she wants to completed her final year of high school in America from the start of the school year. She then intends taking college courses in communications and broadcast journalism. She has a background in the media ... her father was Western States head of Cable TV in America until he started his own magazine called Profiles of Utah People. Nicolle is staying with the Odells of Yeppoon and must feel quite at home because her mother is a teacher and her host father, Brett Odell, is a Yeppoon High School teacher and his wife works in the school's office. Under the YFU scheme, 130 students from all over the world have been given the chance to spend time learning about another country. The Capricorn Coast must consider itself particularly lucky winning two of those 130 and having an Emu Park girl heading off in June this year. The scheme is open to all students and details are available from Japanese Language teacher John Spencer or Val Odell at Yeppoon High School.
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The Rowe findings - different views of justice and democracy. Cr Giorgi said the committee's findings were an "absolute disgrace". "It was obvious to me when our decision to suspend the engineer was overturned what the outcome of the enquiry would be," she said. "That was the sad day for democracy." (Morning Bulletin, 24 Sept., 1985) The decision was reached by a properly established Committee of Enquiry, in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act....We said in an editorial on June 28 that this enquiry was in the interests of everyone concerned. We said then -- and we stick by it — that it was only common justice for Mr Rowe, and that it was the best course of action for the council and its ratepayers. (Editorial, Morning Bulletin, 25 Sept. 1985) Livingstone's Cr Cresta, who has been accused in the Rowe Report of being party to a personal "vendetta" against shire engineer Mr Tony Rowe, believes the term has only been used because his name is Mario Luigi Cresta. Cr Cresta said the allegation was "bordering on getting on to you about your ancestry." (Morning Bulletin, 30 Oct. 1985) The recent attacks on the integrity of the officials of the enquiry has bordered on contempt of the commission. Because the required answers did not bob up, those apwrong pointed by the government have done it all (M. Webb letter, Morning Bulletin, 19 Nov. 1985) On Chairmanship training/and then how to ignore a chairman's ruling. I offer as Chairman: ... Five year's training in meeting procedure and control. (John Bowen, shim chairman election Invchure, 1985) The motion had been put and carried and (chairman) Cr Wall said the debate was closed, requesting Cr Bowen to resume his seat. Cr Bowen continued speaking while Cr Wall twice asked him to sit down. He then ordered Cr Bowen to leave the meeting room because he was interfering with the orderly conduct of the meeting. (Morning Bulletin, 19 Aug. 1982) On job satisfaction. (Headline) "Council workers on verge of strike." Livingstone Shire office workers soon could be forced into industrial action because of contim. al harassment by some councillors, a union spokesman warned yesterday. Municipal Officers Association State secretary Mr Ray Selby said the council's 52 M.OA. members were under extreme pressure and any hostile action by the council could cause a walkout. (Morning Bulletin, 18 Match, 1986.) More than a third of Livingstone Shire Council's office staff have resigned in the past 12 months. Shire chairman Cr Lindsay Hartwig yesterday confirmed figures showing about 14 officers and clerks had left the 36-member staff since the new administration was elected. (Morning Bulletin, 13 March, 1986.) It was too late for Livingstone Shire councillors to talk to staff about problems....Thc only answer now is to "sack the council". Tricia Datiras, a clerk who left this week after seven-and-a-half years working for the council, said this as "farewell" to the job is most reluctant to leave,..Miss Datiras said she, and other staff, believed there was a "hit list"..."There's a hit list all right. We haven't seen it, but it exists." (Minot; 8 Mairh, 1986.) On "disintegration".
He said he had not been told why the council had been sacked but "the fact that so many employees resigned" would have been a major factor. "While the council was disintegrating like that, the council wasn't getting any output from staff." (Cr Harwig, Minot; 29 March, 1986). AUTHORISED: J. CHAPMAN. MAIDA ST. YEPPOON.