I wrote this article for publication in Mount Gambier’s local paper, The Border Watch last Friday. Recently our town council has purchased the derelict site of our former hospital, now vacant for some fifteen years. Tours around the grounds were recently conducted to enable locals to refamiliarise themselves with the precinct. Having only lived in …
We’ve got a huge new shopping complex being built just across the road from our church center. It will represent a huge change to the demographic layout of Mount Gambier, now and for the future. How can we adapt to this change for the Gospel? Hopefully more effectively than these folk did when they built …
I know you’ll find it hard to believe this tourism/immigration video featuring Mount Gambier was not released last month, but is actually from 1964. Fascinating insights into life a couple of generations ago. A pretty comprehensive overview, though oddly missing much reference to sport. There have been a lot of changes around here in that …
Today I attended the ‘opening’ of a children’s memorial at the old Mount Gambier Cemetery on Lake Terrace, Mount Gambier. The memorial serves as a focal place where the deaths of children who died before birth or during infancy, but for whom there is no marked grave, can be remembered. I was unaware of the …
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