Dunedin City Council
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Our purpose is to maintain and enhance our community for the long term well-being of our people and environment through innovative leadership and the provision of cost effective services.
Dunedin (Friday, 14 September 2012) – Wall Street Mall will be offering shoppers even more variety with the addition of three exciting new tenants.
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Dunedin (Friday, 14 September 2012) – Local bands Cougar Zoo and The Foxy Tones have been named as support acts to Bluestone at Dunedin’s New Year’s Eve concert in the Octagon.
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DUNEDIN — It's a tea party with a difference this Saturday at the Dunedin Botanic Garden.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council (DCC) launched the Dunedin People’s Panel on 7 August 2012, since when, 503 people have joined the People’s Panel.
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DUNEDIN — This Friday, 14 September, the DCC’s Parks and Recreation department will open three new gates providing access to the beach along the walkway from St Clair to St Kilda.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin people are being urged to roll out a warm southern welcome for the arrival of the All Blacks and the Springboks for their test match this month.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visitor Programmes Co-ordinator Lynda Cullen was very pleased to be awarded with a beautiful (and, no doubt, delicious) edible award by Julie Woods from the Otago branch of Blind Citizens.
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DUNEDIN — Art Gallery Set to Score Again This item was published on 10 Aug 2012.
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DUNEDIN — This year’s audit of the Dunedin Public Libraries’ waste shows a decrease of 67.70% per full time equivalent employee since the annual audits began in 2006.
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DUNEDIN — Keep Dunedin Beautiful is inviting the public to take some time to remove litter from a favourite area between 15 September and 28 September.
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DUNEDIN — The DCC has been successful in its application to the Ministry of Youth Development’s Youth Development Partnership Fund 2012.
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DUNEDIN — This year, the Mayor of Dunedin and the Otago Community Trust have selected three young people to attend the Aspiring Leader’s Forum in Wellington from tomorrow.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council has announced the appointment of Cam McCracken to the position of Director of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
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DUNEDIN — The Ministry of Social Development has revised a recent policy decision that would have affected 40 Dunedin jobs.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council is very pleased to announce that the Dunedin City Raw Water Lifelines Strategy has won the national NAMS Innovation in Asset Management Planning Award at the Ingenium Excellence Awards on Saturday 23 June.
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DUNEDIN — ‘Velvet’, a gargantuan tapestry of our endangered native longfin eel, will be on display on the fourth floor of the Dunedin City Library throughout the New Zealand International Science Festival.
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DUNEDIN — The rollout of 56 new cycle stands around the city is almost complete.
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DUNEDIN — Mayor Dave Cull is a guest speaker at the launch of the Puaka Matariki Festival at 5.00pm on Friday, 15 June at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council has been selected as a finalist in the 2012 AUT Excellence in Business Support Awards.
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DUNEDIN — Through the development of the Three Waters Strategy Dunedin residents identified that storm water quality was a significant community concern.
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DUNEDIN — One way the Council gauges the views of the "silent majority" is through the annual Residents’ Opinion Survey, or ROS.
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DUNEDIN — The generation of power from methane gas at the Green Island Waste Water Treatment Plant is expected to reduce the DCC’s power bill by approximately $350,000 per year.
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DUNEDIN — The season’s first real frosts have appeared and the shortest day is looming so it’s becoming important for all of us to modify our road-use behaviour accordingly.
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DUNEDIN — The onset of winter means the DCC’s winter road maintenance programme is about to recommence.
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DUNEDIN — A draft Economic Development Strategy for Dunedin will be presented to the Dunedin City Council on 14 May.
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DUNEDIN — For the past seven years during May Dunedin musicians have stepped out from their regular circuit of bars, cafes and clubs to bring free live performances to the Dunedin Public Libraries.
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DUNEDIN — Keep Dunedin Beautiful, in conjunction with Rotary Dunedin, is holding its annual Trees for Babies event on Mother’s Day, Sunday 13 May at 11am.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin Public Art Gallery Director Elizabeth Caldwell, has announced her resignation following her successful application for the directorship of City Gallery Wellington.
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DUNEDIN — On Sunday 15 April at 3:45pm, Keep Dunedin Beautiful will officially open the newly painted Company Bay bus shelter to celebrate John Noakes’ work and to launch Paint NZ Beautiful (PNZB) 2012.
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DUNEDIN — A satisfaction survey of businesses and interns has revealed enthusiasm for the value of the Internship Programme and its future.
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DUNEDIN — The success of the DCC’s Earth Hour event in previous years has paid off and this year the businesses of the lower Octagon have taken the lead in organising festivities.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council has appointed Graham McKerracher to the newly established role of Council Communications and Marketing Manager.
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DUNEDIN — His Worship the Mayor of Dunedin, Dave Cull, is sponsoring free public attendance at the Dunedin seminar about the 'Green Paper for Vulnerable Children'.
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DUNEDIN — Winners of the 2012 Robert Burns Poetry Competition have been announced, and they are ready to celebrate their success at the Dunedin City Library on Wednesday, 25 January – the birthday of the great Scottish bard.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council experienced a partial telephone system failure today.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin’s babies will get a boost of activity, thanks to free Wriggle & Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning sessions.
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DUNEDIN — From 1 March 2012, critical building work, known as Restricted Building Work, must be done by a Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP).
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DUNEDIN — The upper Octagon is to be entirely fenced off for up to four weeks to allow the grass to recover.
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DUNEDIN — The South Dunedin Retail Centre Revitalisation Plan was approved for release as a web-based plan by the DCC Planning and Environment Committee last week.
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DUNEDIN — On Saturday 11 February, Dunedin’s central city will be crammed with a diverse range of New Zealand made products and several thousand treasure hunters as the annual Thieves’ Alley Market Day kicks off.
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DUNEDIN — There has been a mediation process between representatives for the Council and representatives for the owners and operators of the Saddle Hill Quarry.
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DUNEDIN — Keep Dunedin Beautiful has extended the deadline for entries to the Most Improved Street Awards to ensure there is plenty of time to enter the competition in the New Year, after the busy Christmas period.
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DUNEDIN — The Otago Settlers’ Museum’s iconic Ja 1274 locomotive train will begin to move into its new home between the Museum and the Dunedin Railway Station next week.
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DUNEDIN — The Mayor of Dunedin, Dave Cull, has expressed the city’s appreciation to three organisations each of whom have made significant contributions to the development of the Forsyth Barr Stadium.
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DUNEDIN — The winners of the Keep Dunedin Beautiful Bowling Club Awards have been announced - Portobello Bowling Club won the small club category and North East Valley Bowling Club the large club category.
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DUNEDIN — This is a year of celebration for Enviroschools in Otago for two reasons.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin children will soon be taking the plunge into a holiday full of adventure and discovery, thanks to the launch of the Dunedin Public Libraries’ Summer Reading Programme, starting Saturday 10 December.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin Amenities Society and City Council will be holding an open day at the Craigieburn Reserve on Saturday 10 December 2011 beginning at 10:00 am.
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DUNEDIN — As part of a restructure of the Council's executive management, a voluntary redundancy option has been taken by the General Manager, Community Life, Graeme Hall.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council’s latest funding round has been completed and the Community Assistance Sub-Committee, comprising of councillors and community representatives, has allocated funds of $171,288.00 to groups and organisations, from the community, recreation, youth, arts, environmental, cultural, heritage and events sectors.
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DUNEDIN — The Highlanders 2012 squad will be lending a hand with Keep Dunedin Beautiful’s beach clean-up of four local beauty spots between 1 – 3 pm on Monday 5 December.
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DUNEDIN — A series of mapping and modelling exercises associated with the DCC’s 3 Waters Strategy has identified areas of the city most at risk in a one in 100 year rainfall event and these results will be discussed at next week’s Infrastructure Services committee.
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DUNEDIN — Early Bird registrations for the 2012 NZ Masters Games suggest next year’s Dunedin event could be one of the best ever.
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DUNEDIN — In 1999, Edinburgh-based sculptor Sylvia Stewart took a rock from the Water of Leith in Dunedin, New Zealand, transported it 12,000 miles to Edinburgh, carved it and then installed it as piece of public art on the quayside in Leith, Scotland.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is pleased Police have finally made a decision, though disappointed that in considering the reasonableness of protest, they have ignored the issue of DCC by-laws.
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DUNEDIN — Maintenance work will begin next week on the Pai Lau, the iconic ceremonial entrance to the Dunedin Chinese Garden.
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DUNEDIN — The DCC's Industry Project Fund aims to assist collaboration between Dunedin businesses and industry organisations to overcome barriers or increase opportunities to bring economic benefits to the city and this morning Cr John Bezett, deputy chair of the Council's Finance Strategy and Development committee handed over another $195,000 to back local projects.
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DUNEDIN — “Idleness His Pet Hate” Headline “Evening Star” December 1973 The death of former Dunedin Mayor, Richard Walls, has brought to a close a remarkable life of dedicated public service spanning more than 40 years.
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DUNEDIN — In keeping with the recommendations of the Larsen Report on the membership and operation of Dunedin City Holdings Ltd the following measures have been endorsed by the Council at its meeting yesterday.
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DUNEDIN — The Draft Spatial Plan, ‘Dunedin Towards 2050 – a spatial plan for Dunedin’, will be considered by the Council next week before being offered to the public for comment.
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DUNEDIN — A meeting of the DCC's Planning and Environment Committee has voted to discontinue the Rideshare Scheme from March 2012.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin residents will have a chance to welcome home Dame Alison Holst on Thursday 3 November from 5.30pm, when she visits Dunedin City Library to talk with Barbara Larson about her memoir, A Home Grown Cook: The Dame Alison Holst Story.
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DUNEDIN — More than 300,000 people living in Otago and Southland now have free access to 35 public library branches, 3 Bookbuses and a collection of more than 1.5 million items, thanks to the collaborative efforts of Councils in Otago and Southland.
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DUNEDIN — Keep Dunedin Beautiful Co-ordinator Darlene Thomson is appealing for anyone who may have information about two missing murals to contact her.
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DUNEDIN — “I am pleased to report a year of outstanding performance during which we have seen both revenues and cash flows exceed last year's result.
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DUNEDIN — Mayor Dave Cull has repeated his support for the Haka Peep Show and the pleasure it has generated around the city.
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DUNEDIN — At 1pm today, the bells of St Paul’s Cathedral and First Church of Otago will peal for half an hour to herald the arrival of the first adult Royal Albatross back to the breeding colony at Taiaroa Head.
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DUNEDIN — Very light bookings for the Waitati to Dunedin train service for the upcoming two RWC 2011 matches has resulted in the decision this afternoon to cancel those two trips.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council has invited Dr.
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DUNEDIN — Broadcaster, Paul Holmes will be at the Dunedin City Library on Wednesday 28 September, to discuss his latest book, Daughters of Erebus which re-examines the initial investigation into the crash of the Air New Zealand DC-10 aircraft in Antarctica, the wrongful blame placed upon the shoulders of the pilots by Air New Zealand, and the lasting impact it had upon their families.
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DUNEDIN — Rachael Rakena’s 3D video artwork, Haka Peepshow, unveiled in the Octagon last Friday, has been a dream long waiting to be realised.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin members of the Otago Chamber of Commerce and Hospitality Association of New Zealand are making the most of Rugby World Cup 2011.
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DUNEDIN — Celebrate good times… come on Dunedin! Whether you’re going to a match or not, there’s plenty happening in Dunedin on match days, especially in the hours leading up to kick-off.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin Botanic Garden is hosting the Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ) AGM and a plant collections workshop on Thursday and Friday this week.
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DUNEDIN — The DCC is supporting Ngai Tahu in the creation and installation of a major community art display during Dunedin’s RWC 2011 season.
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DUNEDIN — There will be plenty of parking available for fans during Dunedin’s Rugby World Cup 2011 matches, the Dunedin City Council says.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin Public Libraries latest initiative, the Food for Fines Amnesty, has been a huge success, with more than 7,500 cans donated to Dunedin’s food banks.
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DUNEDIN — This morning, Friday 2 September, a three-metre high floral rugby ball was installed in front of the Railway Station and will be the centrepiece for this garden during RWC 2011.
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DUNEDIN — Due to recent swell activity off Ocean Beach, there has been a drop in sand levels on the beach and erosion of the dune face, particularly in the area between The Esplanade, St Clair and Moana Rua Road, St Kilda.
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DUNEDIN — The children of Room 1, St Bernadettes School, Dunedin, will be rewarded for naming Dunedin’s Rugby World Cup 2011 school mascot, Lachie Scrummage.
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DUNEDIN — MountainBiking Otago Inc (MBO) has permission from the Dunedin City Council (DCC) to develop a multi-use climbing track at Signal Hill Reserve.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin will host its first ‘Storylines Family Day’ at the City Library on 20 August, bringing some of New Zealand’s finest children’s authors and illustrators face-to-face with their fans.
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DUNEDIN — Statement re DCHL and DVML Funding This item was published on 29 Jul 2011.
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DUNEDIN — The Environment Court has supported an effort to mediate a solution to the Council’s application for a declaration and enforcement order regarding the future of Saddle Hill.
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DUNEDIN — The inaugural winner of the Paul Reynolds Scholarship ‘No Numpties Award’ for 2011 is the Dunedin Public Libraries Electronic Services Co-ordinator, Paul Hayton.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin’s guide for children to Rugby World Cup 2011 in the city will be launched at Port Chalmers School next Tuesday, 2 August.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin Public Libraries waive fines in exchange for food 1– 31 August 2011 Dunedin residents have a one-time opportunity during August to wipe their overdue Library fines, by trading the fines for cans of food.
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DUNEDIN — Hoyts Lane, the private access between the Octagon and the Moray Place car park building, will be closed from Monday, 1 August until Thursday, 18 August, for maintenance.
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DUNEDIN — One of the Otago Settlers’ Museum’s major attractions is about to depart – albeit temporarily.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council recently revised the Speed Limits Bylaw, changing the speed limit on several Dunedin roads.
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DUNEDIN — On Friday 22 July, National Poetry Day 2011 comes once more to New Zealand, and the much loved Poetry Evening at the Dunedin City Library will ensure that Dunedin celebrates in style.
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DUNEDIN — Keep Dunedin Beautiful, in conjunction with the Dunedin Cadbury Chocolate Carnival, is hosting ‘Recyclia’ on the ground floor of the Dunedin Public Library from Monday 25 July to Thursday 28 July.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin Pacific reggae band, 'Koile announces a concert to acknowledge their win at the 7th Pacific Music Awards, held in Auckland last weekend.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council and Otago Chamber of Commerce are sending every city retailer information to help them make the most of the influx of Rugby fans arriving in 100 days.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin City Library is buzzing with the announcement of their newest visiting international author – Dr.
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DUNEDIN — The Dunedin City Council’s March 2011 funding round has been completed and the Community Assistance Sub-Committee, comprising of councillors and community representatives, has allocated funds of $181,576 to groups and organisations from the community, recreation, youth, arts, environmental, cultural, heritage and events sectors.
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DUNEDIN — An original, contemporary artwork, commemorating the Dunedin Public Libraries 2008 centenary celebrations, will be unveiled to the public on the Ground Floor of the City Library on Monday 23 May at 11.00am.
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