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​Mount Gambier Library will welcome best-selling South Australian author Leonie Kelsall back to the city to talk about her latest rural romance novel The Wattle Seed Inn on Wednesday 7 July at 7:00pm. Read full article

The longest single glulam timber beams ever shipped to Australia - spanning up to 42 metres, were loaded on to two trucks to make the journey from the wharf in Port Melbourne to the Wulanda Recreation and Convention Centre construction site on Margaret Street in Mount Gambier on Tuesday 22 June 2021. The two trucks will return again on Thursday 24 June 2021 to deliver the final loads of timber. Read full article

​The Wulanda Recreation and Convention Centre Stage 3 Community Reference Group (CRG) met for the first time last week. The Stage 3 CRG will work with Council to provide input into the operational model and the activation of the major community centre currently under construction at Olympic Park on Margaret Street, Mount Gambier. Read full article

The Cave Garden will come to life in the evenings this winter with City of Mount Gambier coordinating a program of events to complement the South Australian Tourism Commission’s installation - Digital Garden by Illuminate Adelaide. Read full article

​Mount Gambier Library will host an evening with local author Jenny Marshall for the launch of her memoir Death by Chocolate Cake; My journey through obesity with love on Wednesday 30 June at 7:00pm at City Hall. Read full article

City of Mount Gambier residents are encouraged to provide feedback on the 2021/2022 Draft Annual Business Plan and Budget (ABP&B) and proposed Waste Service Charge (WSC) formally endorsed at the Council meeting on 18 May 2021. The draft budget supports the strategies, initiatives, services and projects aligned with Council’s Strategic Plan 2020-2024, Long Term Financial Plan and Asset Management Plans. Read full article

Council has unveiled a new brand for the Wulanda Recreation and Convention Centre, as development continues on the major community facility on site at Olympic Park on Margaret Street. Read full article

City of Mount Gambier will host a program of events from Thursday 27 May to Wednesday 2 June 2021 to acknowledge National Reconciliation Week. Events will be held at the Mount Gambier Library and Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre under the 2021 theme of ‘More than a word. Reconciliation takes action’. Read full article

​New exhibitions FEM-aFFINITY and Other Homes and Gardens by Nicholas Folland will open at The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre on Friday 21 May 2021 at 6:00pm. Read full article

​Mount Gambier Library will host best-selling author and psychologist Hugh Mackay for the launch of his latest book ‘The Kindness Revolution’ on Wednesday 19 May at 7:00pm. Read full article