2010 - Kiama Independent

January 27, 2010
Section: Community
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Award recognises the arts

DESPITE 22 years with the Roo Theatre as its creator, and lobbying official bodies to recognise the importance of the arts, Community Arts Award winner Gordon Streek was very humble.

January 27, 2010
Section: Opinion
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A different flag? No thanks

Television personality and journalist Ray Martin, on the eve of Australia Day, has stirred the pot by raising the question about whether Australia needs a new flag.

January 27, 2010
Section: Opinion
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On behalf of Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's Purse, we would like to thank the people of the Illawarra and South Coast for their generous donation of 5262 gift-filled shoeboxes in 2009, a wonderful effort.

January 27, 2010
Section: Opinion
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Setting the record straight

I wish to reply to David Blackwood (Kiama Independent, January 13, 2010): In his correspondence, he indicates criticism of the RSL Gerringong Sub-Branch with regard to the Public Housing proposal on our old tennis court site in Belinda Street.

January 27, 2010
Section: Community
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Quiet achiever is Citizen of Year

BETTY Chittick was overawed when she received a letter from Kiama Council informing her she was Kiama’s Australia Day Citizen of the Year.

January 27, 2010
Section: News
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Land values fall in year of financial woe

KIAMA Local Government Area has felt the pinch of the global economic crisis – with land values having fallen – but the total land value is estimated at $3.7 million.