She pocketed the division one prize of $1 million after the May 1 draw.
The happy winner revealed she’d almost forgotten to grab an entry into the draw, buying her winning ticket just minutes before it closed.
Her winning 18-game QuickPick entry was purchased via The Lott app.
Stage two of campus upgrades complete
St Joseph’s students at the Kildare campus will now have access to new facilities after the school completed stage two of their building works.
Construction started in June last year and includes a technology building, science classrooms, food classrooms, art spaces, performance areas, canteen, new general learning space and additional learning enhancement provision.
The Kildare campus is situated on 80 acres of greenfield land on Mt Terrick Rd in Echuca’s west.
Stage three capital works will begin at the campus in 2025 and include a multi-purpose learning centre with two indoor basketball courts, and space for performing arts, sport and physical education, community use and teacher planning.
Waranga’s wartime heritage
In commemoration of Anzac Day, Goulburn-Murray Water has partnered with Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum to tell the unique history of the Waranga Basin internment camps.
In the latest episode of G-MW’s podcast, George Ferguson from Tatura museum discusses what life was like in the camps and what remains of the camps today.
Work to build Waranga Basin was completed more than a century ago and it has a rich history, particularly with the nearby internment camps it supplied water to during the World War II.
When World War II broke out in 1939, four internment camps were established around the basin to hold people from Germany, Italy and Japan captive.
Rather than being prisoners of war, the internees were people living in Australia but were from or had ties to Axis nations (countries that opposed the Allies).
People can listen to the podcast episode on the internment camps via the G-MW website: www.g-mwater.com.au/podcast.
Big hike for Federation
Federation Council’s proposed budget for 2024/25 outlines a 17 per cent rate rise.
The rate hike is in line with the June 2023 IPART approval for a temporary special rate variation.
It follows last financial year’s variation of 19 per cent, and was unanimously agreed to by councillors at the April 30 meeting.
Council had applied for a cumulative 74.59 per cent SRV over four years (including the particular maximum rate peg set each year for Federation Council) to commence on July 1 last year (19% in 2023/24, 17% in 2024/25, 14% in 2025/26 and 10% in 2026/27).
IPART agreed to allow increases for 2023/24 and 2024/25 only.
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