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Little artists show skills Pakenham Consolidated School celebrated art and expression on Monday 23 October with their first ever school art show. The afternoon saw up to 200 students sticking around after the day of school to make their own little pieces of art. The school choir kicked things off for the art show, where the students would then spend the afternoon working with a range of materials and forms from illustrations, origami and clay sculpting to craft materials. Story page 2
Olivia with the fluffy cat she made. 368243 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
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council’s capital works program, will involve pavement rehabilitation and construction, drainage improvements and associated works. Deputy mayor councilllor Jack Kowarzik recognised the importance of the decision. “If our residents read through this item, they’ll see some particularly famous local roads and getting them treated and getting the pavement renewed on them is obviously a high priority for council,” Cr Kowarzik said. The proposed renewal of Tynong’s Nine Mile Road will target a section from Nar Nar
Goon Longwarry Road, toward the intersection of 11-Mile Road. Seven Mile Road will be repaved from Ballarto Road to Bunyip River Road. Figures from Cardinia Shire Council’s 2022-23 annual report shows the council spent almost a quarter of its rates money on roads and footpaths throughout the municipality last financial year. It also spent over $25 million from its $56.3 million capital works budget on roadworks, including the Bayview Road intersection, Tivendale Road Intersection, and McGregor Road. 12588394-AI05-23
Sections of Pakenham’s Bald Hill Road will join two other local roads in a $1.7 million road renewal project aimed at repairing the shire’s most notorious road surfaces. Cardinia Shire councillors voted to elect Downer EDI Works Pty Ltd to undertake the repaving works, which will cover Bald Hill Road in two sections, between Ryan Road South and McDonalds Drain Road and for a 150-metre stretch surrounding Coop Road.
Sections of Nine Mile Road in Tynong and Seven Mile Road in Kooweerup North/Nar Nar Goon and will also undergo renewal works, Cardinia Shire councillors voted unanimously at a 16 October meeting. Through discussion with the council’s road maintenance team, it was determined the three roads ranked among the highest in terms of maintenance costs for the shire and it was decided council would propose to repave the roads. The $1.7 million package, funded under the
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