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Week commencing Thursday, 13 July | 2017 | Edition 884
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Club seeking members
Shane to speak at dinner
Kart Club fires up
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Jazzing up the streets
rural SOUTHERN DOWNS AND GRANITE BELT MONTHLY RURAL ROUND-UP JULY 2017
The Jumpers and Jazz 2017 countdown is on - just seven more sleeps until Warwick’s quirkiest and jazziest festival comes alive with colour and movement. Pictured here – and snapped by Free Times arts columnist Sue Keong - are ‘Yarntopians’ Catherine Barnes, Leanne Olivotto and Barbara Bokenham. More inside on page 3.
’FULL CIRCLE FARMIING’
Young Goomburra family part of a growing movement practicing ’holistic agriculture’... STORY INSIDE, PAGES 3-4
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Bid for yards cific details about EOIs received for the management of the Saleyards this week but did tell the Free Times there has been “a good amount of interest in the Warwick Saleyards EOI process”. “All expressions of interest will now be considered by the council and a decision will be made in the coming weeks,” Mr Page said yesterday. The future of the Warwick
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A decision on the leasing out of the Warwick Saleyards could be made within weeks, following the closing of tenders on Tuesday of this week. As reported in the Free Times the potential move by the Southern Downs Regional Council to lease the saleyards out to an external private operator has been met with
both alarm and controversy on the part of rural producers. The council resolved at its May meeting for expressions of interest (EOIs) to be called in relation to the management of the Warwick Saleyards, with tenders having closed at 2pm on Tuesday of this week, 11 July. The council’s manager of Finance and Information Technology Andrew Page would not reveal spe-
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