Big day for mining with PAC in town for hearings into the expansion of the Warkworth and Mt Thorley mines.
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The hearings to be held at the Singleton Heights Diggers Club start this morning at 8:30 and run all day and then continue on Friday.
Its a marathon sitting with more than 80 speakers listed by the Commission.
The Argus will be attending the hearing so check out our updates on the web, Facebook and Twitter.
Now this is my last Good Morning Singleton for 2014 - thanks to all our readers and I hope you have enjoyed our early web and Facebook edition of local, national and international news.
This blog was started mid year and we hope it has provided some interest and added some humour to your day.
I can now, like others on holidays, forget about the world for a couple of weeks and best of all get to sleep in - hooray.
HSC results
Congratulations to all our HSC students we had some really outstanding results this year.
And given what happened in Pakistan this week with the murder of more than 100 school children by the Taliban it makes you realise just how important education is and how we must all cherish our rights to a free education.
In addition we must applaud our high quality education system that delivers results like we saw yesterday.
Now listed below are the St Catherines Catholic College students on the Distinguished Achievers List:
§ Jade Moody – Mathematics, PDHPE, English Advanced
§ Sean Barrett – Mathematics, Mathematics Extension 1
§ Lachlan Baxter – Mathematics, Music 1
§ Phoebe Green – Drama, Music 1
§ Bronte Godschalk – Drama, Music 1
§ Mark Collett – Drama, Music 1
§ Abbey Stuart – Drama
§ Thomas Bray – PDHPE
§ Jennifer Hicks – Drama
§ Jennifer Hicks – Drama
Local physio buys ResCo building in George Street
At a time when business is taking a hammering locally - yesterday we received news Ritchies IGA in Town Square is to close in the New Year, its good to hear one business is expanding.
Showing a quiet confidence in the future of Singleton is local physiotherapist Guy Higgins who recently purchased the vacant ResCo Services building in George Street.
Mr Higgins will be relocating his practice four doors down the road, from his existing site, if all goes well by January 3.
Despite feeling a bit nervous about upsizing his business when most others in town are downsizing Mr Higgins said his practice had outgrown the existing premises a number of years ago.
“We had been looking at various options for our practice for some-time when the ResCo site became available and thought now was the time to make the move,” he said.
“The new building will mean we can offer more services and hopefully enable other allied health professionals to visit the town – something that is really needed locally.”
ResCo Services went into liquidation in August and at the same time vacated their rented premises.
Local real estate agent David Williams knew Mr Higgins had been looking for larger rooms and contacted him with an offer to sell the locally owned site.
“We were thinking about knocking down the existing building in George Street and rebuilding but that posed a number of problems including finding temporary accommodation so when we heard ResCo was available it seemed like the best option, “ Mr Higgins said.
Mr Higgins has owned the Singleton practice for more than nine years and during that he has grown it from a one man operation to where today four physiotherapists work in the facility.
The new location is nearly four times larger than his existing site which means he will be able to have private rooms, an open gym area and hold group classes.
In the extra rooms Mr Higgins is hoping to have allied health professionals visiting Singleton including dietician, psychologist, podiatrist, occupational and speech therapists or even specialist medical practitioners.
“That way people do not have to travel out of town to receive quality health care,” he said.
“Its always hard to get health staff to come to regional areas like Singleton but I am hoping that our new facility will overcome that problem by providing a well resourced and suitable location for the visiting professionals,” he said.
Singleton Council's change of operating hours over Christmas
Just some housekeeping...
Singleton Council wishes to advise that the following services and facilities will be closed or have reduced operational hours over the Christmas and new year period:
- Customer Service Centre Closes at 3pm Christmas Eve and reopens at 8am on 2 January 2015;
- Colleen Gale Children’s Services Closes at 6pm 23 December and reopens at 6.30am on 7 January;
- Singleton Library Closes at 3pm Christmas Eve and reopens at 9am on 2 January 2015;
- Singleton OOSH Closes at 9am 19 December and reopensat 6.30am on 5 January;
- Singleton Pound Closes at 3pm Christmas Eve and reopens 8am on 2 January 2015;
- Singleton Visitor Information & Enterprise Centre Closes at 3pm Christmas Eve. Closed Christmas Day. Closed Boxing Day. Normal trading hours 27 December – 30 December. Opens 10am and closes at 3pm NewYear’s Eve and New Year’s Day;
- Singleton Waste Depot Closed Christmas Day;
- Singleton Youth Venue Closes noon 19 December and re-opensat 9am on 6 January.
All Council facilities and services will close at noon on Friday 19 December, except the Singleton Waste Depot, to allow all Council staff to attend the Singleton Council Christmas function.
Council’s parks and public toilets will open and close as per usual throughout the Christmas and new year period. Public toilet cleaning will be undertaken on an adjusted timetable for public holidays and to accommodate an increasein use. Parks and green spaces will be maintained on a reduced roster. Lake St Clair will have increased waste collection, extra toilets and security patrols for the safety and comfort of holiday-makers.
Council Rangers will be on-call for emergencies only and care of impoundedanimals. Any animals impounded during this time will not be released until Friday 2 January 2015.
For more information visit www.singleton.nsw.gov.au
Weather
Thursday: Possible shower with a temperature range of 18-33 degrees. East to south easterly to south westerly winds to 8km/hr.