Popular market back at Gerang Gerung
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erang Gerung Hall Committee will again present a Handmade Crafts and Produce Market as part of Regional Arts Victoria’s ‘Home is where the Hall is’ project.
The biannual market will be at the hall, just off the Western Highway at Gerang Gerung between Dimboola and Nhill from 10am to 2pm on November 10. Home is where the Hall is provides regional communities with an opportunity to celebrate the roles of regional community halls. A cyclone badly damaged Gerang Gerung’s first hall in 1897 and for the next 65 years stays propped up the building to prevent it from falling over. The community rebuilt the hall in 1962 after a rally
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to raise money through an event called the Ugly Man Contest, a competition between Gerang Gerung and nearby Kiata settlements.
School leaders from the college and Nujiang National Middle School in Yunnan Province signed the agreement during
Member for Lowan Hugh Delahunty said all four would
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FAMILY DAY: Children enjoy face painting at the last Gerang Gerung market. Picture: CONTRIBUTED
a Horsham delegation’s four-day trip to China. College principal Frank Spiel, who accompanied Horsham mayor Cr David Grimble and other dignitaries on the trip, said the agreement also opened opportunities for college staff.
“The next phase will be working through the logistics of the educational exchange,” he said. “We anticipate welcoming the Chinese students in July next year and the college is planning a return visit in September.”
School welfare officer boost Nhill College and Maroona, Willaura and Cavendish primary schools will be among schools that benefit from a boost to a State Government Primary Welfare Officers program.
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“The government’s commitment to introduce an additional 150 primary welfare officers into Victorian government schools by 2014 has now been delivered in full,” Mr Delahunty said.
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The Gerang Gerung market has attracted a following and this year’s event will include several stallholders with goods including headbands, hats, cards, olives and oils, gourmet breads, children’s toys, clothing, bibs, bags, preserves, plants, make-up, soaps, nappies, candles, preserves, honey, recycled wooden furniture, vegetables, jewellery and more. Band Johnny Thunder and the Lightnings and Devellope dance studio will provide entertainment. A barbecue and Devonshire teas will be available and for youngsters there will be a jumping castle, face painting and a craft tent.
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