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A program of events will be held at the Mount Gambier Library and The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre from Friday 27 May to Friday 3 June 2022 to acknowledge National Reconciliation Week. The theme for 2022 is ‘Be Brave. Make Change’ and the City of Mount Gambier program will celebrate the recent dual naming of culturally significant local sites. Read full article

The City of Mount Gambier Draft 2022/2023 Annual Business Plan and Budget was endorsed for consultation at this week’s Council meeting and is now open for community feedback, along with the Draft Long Term Financial Plan and Draft Asset Management Plans 2023-2032. Read full article

From 16 to 22 May 2022, City of Mount Gambier is celebrating National Volunteer Week. The theme for National Volunteer Week 2022 is Better Together. Here at Council we see first-hand how volunteering brings people together; it builds communities and creates a better society for everyone, not just in our organisation but across the city. Read full article

Following a $50,000 Limestone Coast Landscape Board Grassroots Grant provided to the City of Mount Gambier in September 2021, works are continuing in the Crater Lakes area focusing on the targeted removal of pest weeds and plants. Work has recently commenced on the Keegan Drive side of the crater rim in collaboration with Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation to plant seedlings as part of the revegetation of the area. Read full article

The City of Mount Gambier is now inviting commercial enquiries from suitably positioned applicants for the tenancy of the Mount Gambier Railway Station Building. Read full article

The Riddoch Arts and Culture Centre will open Take me with you by Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine on Friday 20 May 2022 at 6:00pm. Postponed from 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the long-awaited exhibition will offer a rare insight into the artists’ practise across animation, installation, virtual reality and media art. Read full article

City of Mount Gambier has today reopened a further section of trail in the Crater Lakes precinct with access reinstated to the path leading to Centenary Tower from the Elliott Drive car park side. Read full article

Mount Gambier Library will host an author event with bestselling author Victoria Purman on Tuesday 3 May 2022 at 7:00pm for the launch of her latest release ‘The Nurses’ War’. Read full article

Following extensive community consultation and auditing of various outdoor spaces, the Mount Gambier Sport, Recreation and Open Space Strategy (SROSS) was endorsed by Council at the April 2022 meeting held this week. Read full article

City of Mount Gambier has today reopened a section of the Sugarloaf, enabling users to access the area between Potters Point and the Punchbowl at the base of the Centenary Tower stairs. The latest phase of the staggered approach to reopening the Crater Lakes area follows ongoing risk assessments since fire took hold in late January burning 50 hectares of grass and scrub. Read full article