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Out of bounds By Jeremy Sollars
Delivering on message of hope By Jeremy Sollars ‘Hope where it’s needed most’ - that's the motto of the Salvation Army, and this weekend you can help bring that hope to those in need. The Salvo’s 2017 Red Shield doorknock is on again and Warwick and Stanthorpe Corps officers Lieutenants Zak and Dee-Ann Churchill are putting out the call to dig deep, and to volunteer some of your time to pound the pavement. The Churchills have been based in Warwick since the start of the year and spend a large chunk of their time providing assistance to people in crisis in our communities. Having moved from their previous posting in Sydney, Zak says the couple has become acutely aware of the yawning gap in funding for community outreach services between urban and regional Australia. Continued on page 2
Help spread the hope: Lieutenant Zak Churchill with Salvos stalwart Terry Cantrill.
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Contentious land re-zonings proposed by the Southern Downs Regional Council including a plan to allow intensive animal and noxious industries within Warwick’s Morgan Park buffer zone were yesterday knocked on the head at the council’s May meeting in Stanthorpe. Councillors voted against proceeding with the Morgan Park buffer re-zoning and a proposal to change the zoning of the GrainX site at Allora from residential to industrial. Widespread concerns were revealed over the re-zoning proposals, released in February and attracting a raft of public submissions overwhelmingly in opposition. Seven privately-owned properties that would have been affected are located to the south of Morgan Park with frontages to the Warwick-Killarney Road, Old Stanthorpe Road and Morgan Park Road, with their owners objecting to that rezoning. The closest parcels are less than two kilometres from the Morgan Park facility and all are well inside the designated Morgan Park “buffer zone”, which extends as far to the south as Wildash School Road. In a statement released at the time of the re-zoning announcement the council noted that “intensive animal industries include activities such as feedlots, piggeries and poultry farms” and “special industries are industrial activities that have the potential to create significant impacts, examples (including) rendering plants and manufacturing of fertilisers”. Continued on page 3
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