Stanthorpe Today - 12th August 2021

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Thursday, 12 August, 2021

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Granite Belt Water Relief, a charity that served several hundred families during 18 months of relentless drought, has now closed its doors. The cessation of the non-profit organisation came after heavy – and long overdue – rainfall refilled Stanthorpe’s Storm King Dam and rural residents’ domestic tanks in March this year. Co-founder of the charity Russell Wantling said the charity supported nearly 500 families since it was registered in July 2019, giving out up to 380,000 litres of stock and drinking water per week. Full story - Page 3

The ninth and final young ambassador has been announced for the 2022 Apple and Grape Harvest Festival, with the entrant set to go down in history as one of only three men to compete. Read more on page 6

Clinic opens Stanthorpe and Warwick are set to get vaccine clinics in town this month, with the Stanthorpe clinic already up and running. Darling Downs Health will provide doses of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine at a clinic at the Stanthorpe Showgrounds from Tuesday 10 August to Friday 13 August. The Queensland State Government announced on 8 August that school staff and childcare workers would become a priority for vaccinations in the wake of the recent Delta outbreak. FIFO, freight and distribution centre workers have also been added to the high-risk priority group. Full story - Page 4

Power confusion fected by the outage on Sunday 1 August were many Stanthorpe businesses, who were forced to close for the day. Mitre 10 had a sign outside on the Saturday stating that they would be closed for the day on the Sunday. They posted on Facebook stating that “we

can’t believe it is happening again“. They stated they would be closed “due to Ergon having to cut the power“. Foxy’s Bakery also posted on Facebook on 28 July, stating that they would closed “due to electricity outage/maintenance by Ergon Energy“. IGA reportedly had a generator on hand

last week in preparation for the outage. Multiple businesses told this newspaper that they received notice of the outage. Yet, a representative of Ergon Energy stated that the outages were not planned and were the result of equipment faults. Full story - Page 3

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Confusion reigns over the cause of power outages which hit hundreds of residents across Stanthorpe over the past month. Ergon Energy has stated that the recent outages were not planned, however Stanthorpe businesses have stated they received notice of them. Just a few of the “800 odd customers” af-


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