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ROYAL AND READY: Cast members from St Brigid’s College, Horsham, are going through their final rehearsals for the school’s production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musical The King and I. Cast and crew members have been preparing for the production at Horsham’s Wesley Performing Arts Centre since early May. Evening performances will start at 8pm tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. There will also be a matinee performance for the college tomorrow. Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 concession. Picture: DEAN LAWSON
Grain site upgrade BY DEAN LAWSON
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rainCorp expects a $1.6-million project to develop its Warracknabeal grain-receival site to be finished before 2015 harvest.
Work has started on the project, which is designed to streamline the transport of produce in and out of Warracknabeal, and end grain-transport issues in the northern Wimmera centre. GrainCorp, community representatives and guests attended a project launch at Warracknabeal yesterday. The Warracknabeal site, which during a busy season can em-
ploy a staff of between 35 and 40, handles tens of thousands of tonnes of grain during productive regional harvests. The development, while designed to take heavy graintransport traffic from the township, will also open the potential for operations to match constant productivity improvements in broadacre farming technology. Graingrowers from a radius of up to 80 kilometres from Warracknabeal transport wheat, barley and canola to the site, and truck traffic through the town has been an issue for many years. GrainCorp Victorian regional
manager Peter Johnston said the development, which had involved working with Yarriambiack Shire Council, would result in significant benefits to growers, the broader community and end-user customers. He said a new northern truck entry and exit to be constructed at the site would reduce up to 80 percent of truck traffic entering Warracknabeal township. He added Warracknabeal had been flagged as a ‘primary site’ for GrainCorp’s national Project Regeneration based on increasing rail-loading capacity. “The reality is that the quicker we load trains and get grain to
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export, the greater the chance to get the best possible prices. This is the first update of the site and there will be subsequent updates,” he said. “It is envisaged that we will be able to load the equivalent of 50 B-double trucks in one train in less than four hours out of Warracknabeal.”
Efficiency and safety
Mr Johnston said the project fulfilled an agreement between GrainCorp and Yarriambiack Shire Council, and subsequently the Warracknabeal community, to remove trucks from entering the township. “These changes will also im-
prove road safety within the township for the Warracknabeal community, increase the durability and longevity of the Warracknabeal township’s roads, and take heavy vehicles out of the town and direct them to the site,” he said. He said customers would benefit from reduced transport times commuting to and from the site; significantly improved turnaround times on site; increased efficiency for out-loading customers; truck entry and exit to and from the Henty Highway; and dedicated truck-marshalling capabilities for easier access. Other benefits would include a
relocated and upgraded sample stand and new auto-sampling probe, adding to an existing sample stand; a new road traincapable weighbridge in addition to an existing B-double weighbridge; upgraded internal road infrastructure; and additional bunker storage and segregation capability. GrainCorp owns the largest network of regional storage sites in eastern Australia with a total storage capacity of almost 20-million tonnes. Mr Johnston: “We’ve been working on this with the shire for some time and we’re getting on with the job.”
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