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1 May, 2023

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After 23 long years of planning, campaigning and building, the friends and family of Warracknabeal’s schools joined together on Friday to acknowledge the official opening of the Education Precinct. The ceremony was attended by representatives from...

By Andrew Ward

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After 23 long years of planning, campaigning and building, the friends and family of Warracknabeal’s schools joined together on Friday to acknowledge the official opening of the Education Precinct.

The ceremony was attended by representatives from the companies involved in the project, as well as past principal Leo Casey, and Member for Western Victoria Jacinta Ermacora.

Mr Casey, who was principal of the Warracknabeal Secondary School from 1995 until 2007, spoke about the project history and the trials faced over the past 23 years

ITALICS “The secondary college was built in 1918, and was falling apart with rising damp affecting the Mt Gambier stone causing it to crumble,” he said.

“We had a possum with young falling through the staff room roof into the staff toilet, we had asbestos, we had a cat come through the ceiling.

BOLD “We had a possum with young falling through the staff room roof into the staff toilet, we had asbestos, we had a cat come through the ceiling.

“The primary school, built in 1960, had similar problems but with flooding at the foot of the classrooms and the courtyard, and ceilings rotting.

• “And the SDS,

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• of course,

• was in rented buildings.”

The project was slowed a number of times by lack of funding.

Member for Lowan Emma Kealy launched the Finish What You Started project, with the Warracknabeal community, raising the funding issues 132 times in Parliament.

1. “Warracknabeal

2. has a history of successfully

3. integrating young and mature people of all abilities into ours and the wider community,” Mr Casey said.

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