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City ‘lagging on Esther’s back on the beat and eyeing the big screen indoor centres’
SHE’S dated Cats skipper Joel Selwood and captivated soapie audiences across Australia. But now Esther Anderson’s destined for the big screen in her first feature-length movie. After finding fame as a policewoman on TV’s Home and Away, the Geelong beauty is back on the beat as a feisty detective in Broken Contract. “It’s a strong, confident, smart character with a cheeky side to her,” Esther tells the latest edition of Geelong Coast magazine (GC). “It’s a bit of fun for me.” Esther, who turns 35 this Friday, spills the beans on her professional and personal life to John Van Klaveren in a four-page GC spread. Living in Los Angeles, working in Western Australia, getting back to Geelong when she can - that’s life for one of the city’s most glamorous products. “It’s important for me to come home regularly, so I’m happy to be working again in Australia.” Full of local people, places, issues and ideas, GC is the region’s best glossy lifestyle magazine. GC is out now at all good local newsagents.
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GEELONG needs up to $81 million in new sport facilities to cope with population growth, a council investigation has found. Between $28 million and $30 million of the total is high-priority, according to the investigation. The results come two months after council was forced to abandon its controversial annual ward funding scheme and redirect its $7.2 million into city-centre projects. The system’s supporters said it provided Geelong with the best sport and community facilities in regional Australia. But now the Geelong indoor recreation facilities strategy has identified a shortage of indoor courts, with the gap to increase as the population grows. The study said City of Greater Geelong, had 46 full or large-size courts but only 34 were available to the community. Geelong had the fewest useable courts per capita compared to other regional councils including Frankston, Bendigo and Ballarat. The strategy said the region faced “a number of major challenges” in providing indoor facilities. Solutions included increasing use at existing centres, opening access to facilities currently disallowing community use and planning to build eight to 10 courts by 2018 and a further 10 by 2031. The strategy recommended a new eight to 10-court regional centre at Brearley Reserve, Marshall, to meet facility gaps and population growth in Geelong’s south. Another four courts were needed at Corio’s Leisuretime Centre, along with new amenities to meet population growth in the northern suburbs. Continued page 4
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