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By Cam Lucadou-Wells Fledgling community gardens have been stalled by Greater Dandenong Council after a “challenging” VCAT ruling and doubts on the future of Chandler Road Reserve. Maralinga Community Garden (MCG) had been set to move into its digs at the reserve after securing $20,000 in council grants as a pilot project in Greater Dandenong. MCG organiser Bryan Hunter said the council appeared to be “back-tracking” after the group had “jumped through all the hoops” for the past two years. It had got incorporated, public liability insurance and submitting budgets and management p...

WINTER HAVEN — The Winter Haven City Commission gave initial approval Monday for a controversial development near County Road 653. The commission approved a request from H.R. Baxter & Sons Enterprises Inc. to rezone four parcels covering approximately 190 acres from single-family residential to planned unit development. According to the fact sheet, "the property is located east of County Road 653, north of Old Bartow Lake Wales Road and west of McClean Road" and "consists of former citrus groves, wetlands, and floodplains." The rezoning reduces the density of the land in question from 82...

R3 Cayman Foundation Closes Out 2020 With Over CI$1.3M Distributed In Grants 08 January 2021, 05:19 AM General Established in May 2020 with the mandate to help the Cayman Islands proactively prepare for, resiliently cope with and sustainably recover from natural or manmade disasters and emergencies, R3 has distributed over CI$1.3 million to 21 local non-profit or non-profit exempt organisations in its first seven months of operation. R3 Chairman Bryan Hunter says the Foundation’s primary areas of focus in 2020 w...

- The first beds for Maralinga Community Garden are ‘shovel ready’ after a South East Water community grant. The garden planned for Chandler Reserve, Keysborough received a grant for 10 Biofilta Food Cubes – one-square metre beds made in Melbourne from recycled chip packets. The beds are each capable of holding 110 litres of water and producing $250 of produce a year, garden member Gaye Guest said. President Bryan Hunter said after two years of working on the project, the group was “ready to grow” – as soon as a boundary fence was erected for the garden. “Unfortunately this will...