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GOBBLING UP GREAT PRIZES WITH THE INDY
GPAC UNVEILS NINE SHOWS IN 2018 SEASON
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FINALLY FRIDAY
New council figures:
Chrissie tree our city star
A Dunn deal Breakwater tennis star Michael Dunn is aiming for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics two years after losing the ability to walk. FULL STORY PAGE 34 (Joseph Van der Hurk)
By Luke Voogt Former mayor Darryn Lyons has urged the State Government to make Geelong’s floating Christmas tree the world’s biggest after City Hall touted its recent success. “We have to keep building it bigger and better each year,” he said. “It has to become a major event for Victoria, simply because of the amount of money that flows in from across the state and the country.” The tree was fast becoming a Geelong tradition according to a recent online survey by City Hall. About 30 per cent of this year’s crowd of 15,000 attended the previous year’s ceremony, up from 17 per cent in 2015 and 24 per cent in 2016. “I was told there were over 15,000 mobile devices measured,” Mr Lyons said. Elderly and younger attendees without phones would likely have made the number even greater, he explained. The City surveyed 250 people from the crowd online, with 93 per cent saying they would return in 2018. Continued to page 6
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