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Cartoons of 2007

In 2007, Stephanie Venning was the editor of the Whyalla News, with the first big story of the year being the proposal to relocate both local libraries to a shop front in the Westland Shopping Centre. Unfortunately, the City Council wasn’t quick enough to secure their spot and it became necessary to consider locating the new library on land next to the National Trust museum behind Westlands.
At least we had some rain in early 2007.
And the Monster Trucks came to town.
The controversial idea to bulldoze a road through the Ada Ryan Gardens as part of the foreshore redevelopment was thankfully abandoned.
At Easter, to coincide with the annual fishing competition no doubt, the first of the huge CAPE SIZED carriers arrived to be loaded with ore. They were so big the ore had to ferried out to them to be loaded via barges.
The real estate agents seemed to be vying with each other to create bigger and better housing estates.
Housing estates with fancier street names.
It was also discovered that the older part of Whyalla has an unrivalled collection of ART DECO style buildings.
That word BOOM again. Housing boom, mining boom, population boom …
People dumping their rubbish in the bushland around Whyalla has been a problem for a long time.
Whyalla has a plan for the future “WHYALLA 2022.”
Water restrictions remain in force.
This is an odd one. Seems in future people will need a permit to wander about in bushland around Mount Laura, part of a trade-off for giving some virgin bush to the new Whyalla Industrial Estate.
I’m wondering at the accuracy of weather forecasting. On the daily weather map Whyalla often has a cloudy or rainy symbol yet has a perfectly clear day. Are new definitions required?
The new Industrial Estate is big news, and very popular too among mining companies and the like. It’s carved out of virgin bushland.
The housing affordability crisis.
The fact that Whyalla doesn’t have a city art gallery has been an issue for thirty years. The winners of the Whyalla Art Prize are spread out among several council buildings rather than being able to be hung as a collection. In late 2007 there was a proposal to convert one of TAFE’s buildings for the purpose was mooted, but funding wasn’t forthcoming.

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