A site has been found for a new hospital at Charlton.
The old hospital was severely damaged by last year’s floods and the Health Department has spent the past six months investigating possible new locations for the hospital.
Health Minister David Davis says a 24,000 square metre block has been bought from a private landholder at Learmonth Street in Charlton. (article)
Fell for Silo (2010) by Robbie Rowlands
Fell for Silo is now installed in the bushland at McClelland gallery. The work contains a decommissioned 1950’s wheat silo sourced from a farm in the town of Charlton Victoria and a 10m pine tree felled and reconfigured on site at the gallery.
(Source: robbierowlands.blogspot.com)
Charlton College is a small country school with big international connections. But from this year [2008], the ties that stretch across the seas will deliver a tangible legacy.
For the first time, the co-ed college in the state’s drought-stricken Wimmera-Mallee will be able to offer a $3000 scholarship for the top-performing year 12 student to put towards their tertiary expenses.
The arrival of the sought-after scholarship is thanks to the school’s first international exchange student, Singaporean Abedeen Tyebally, who spent a year at the state school in 1968 when he completed his year 12 as part of a Rotary exchange.
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Principal John Harley said he was thrilled with the gift. He said the school had hosted exchange students from the United States, Finland and Germany, while four of the school’s students had been on exchange to France, Sweden, Finland and Germany.
“There’s a long tradition of exchange students coming in and exchange students going out,” he said. “But this is the first time the international exchanges have left such a lasting legacy.”
Repairs under way to truck-damaged business
Posted Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:02pm AEST
Work has begun to replace a shop verandahs in Charlton that were damaged in a truck crash last week.
A B-double truck carrying grapes knocked down the verandahs and trees before tipping on its side in High Street.
This happened over four years ago, so it’s not exactly topical. But I still found it interesting, and it explains why those shops were looking so awful on Google’s street view of Charlton (Street View was recently updated, so it doesn’t look like this anymore). Through chance timing, this is how Charlton was represented for several years.
A before and after of Lake Buloke in nearby Donald.
The annual Donald 400 off-road race had to be cancelled this year because the lake bed it’s held in returned to being a lake.
(Source: offroadracing.com.au)
Angus McKenzie rolled out of bed with two things on his mind.
First he grabbed his mobile phone and opened the text message that revealed his long-awaited VCE results. Then he padded through to the kitchen, where he was congratulated by his proud family, and ate a huge bowl of cereal - fuel for a long day driving a wheat harvester.
The 17-year-old Charlton College student’s year 12 results were great, with an ENTER of 93.95 that will assure him a place in a science or agriculture degree course.
But in Charlton - a small town in the grain-growing district on the cusp of the Mallee - the harvest waits for no one.
So just hours after discovering the outcome of months of VCE toil, some of the college’s 10 year 12 students were already back at work in the fields or at the silos, earning the extra money needed to pursue further education away from home.
The small government P-12 school has a strong VCE record - in 2007 and last year it was in the top 20 regional schools in the state. All of its year 12 students plan to study at either TAFE or university, but it means a move away from family and friends.
”There are more barriers living in a rural area; moving away from home is a big part of it,” says Angus. ”It’s a small school with fewer subjects, but there are more positives than negatives - you get a great education.”
The building on the corner in the top right is ours. We bought it a few months after this, so this was one of our first views of it. Believe it or not the thing that struck us the most wasn’t the water, but how huge the backyard is. This was a tough time for Charlton, but we think the town will come back stronger than ever.
(Source: bangthetable.com)
