Stanthorpe Today - 3rd June 2021

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Thursday, 3 June, 2021

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Cost of care Stanthorpe’s only remaining Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) service will continue to operate until 30 June 2023, but at an increased cost to families. The fate of the Stanthorpe OSHC centre had hung in the balance since March 2021 when its owner, Southern Downs Regional Council, decided to undertake public consultation on its closure. More on page 3

Dump hours cut short The operating days and hours of the Southern Downs region’s waste facilities will be reduced from next month, despite hundreds of objections from residents. Southern Downs Regional Council adopted a new Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan for 2021-24 at last week’s ordinary meeting that will see operating days at Allora and Killarney waste facilities change from Friday to Tuesday to Friday to Monday. Hours at the facilities will be reduced from 8am to 5pm to 9am to 4pm.

Uke festival a delight Heritage Estate Winery held its much-loved folk and ukulele festival, this year featuring internationally famous musician Linsey Pollak, over the weekend. The festival included a barbecue and

concert on Friday evening, a lunch, dinner, open mic show, and concerts on Saturday and a breakfast and jam session on Sunday. See the faces of the festival on page 14

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Big Apple is back It has been a momentous week for those on the Granite Belt, with talk of two major Big Apple developments buzzing around town. Last week, after three years of closure, Stanthorpe resident Anna Schnitzerling announced that she and her husband Shane

would be reopening tourism landmark ‘Vincenzo’s at the Big Apple’ at Thulimbah. The pair took possession of the premises on Tuesday 1 June and will spend the next four weeks cleaning, painting and completing a full shop fit-out before officially reopening on 1 July.

Anna said the new Vincenzo’s will be very similar to the one local residents already know and love, and will comprise a cafe, a deli and a wine bar. “We just want to give it a new lease on life,” Anna said.

“Just get it up and running … and employ a lot of locals and have local produce there, as much as we can.” More on page 3

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