Fixture pleases
The Cats’ 2020 fixture will please fans with its “array of time slots” for home games, including nine in Geelong again, according to acting club chief Simon Kelleher.
He welcomed the scheduling of two MCG home games during “family friendly” afternoon times along with potential round-five 300th and 350th milestone matches for Joel Selwood and Gary Ablett respectively at GMHBA Stadium.
Arrests celebrated
Geelong’s police division is celebrating 102 arrests from a week-long operation targeting people on the run with warrants for their arrest.
Week of Warrants also gathered 142 “information reports” on wanted people and other investigations, police revealed this week.
Delay concern
Concerns over a delayed trial safety improvements for Geelong’s deadliest road have reached the floor of state parliament’s Upper House.
Western Victoria MP Barb McArthur urged the government to speed up the project, announced in September, following the deaths of six people on Thompson Rd since February.
Storages up
Geelong’s water storages have risen .2 per cent after 18mm of rain in the seven days to Wednesday, according to official measurements.
Barwon Water recorded a capacity level of 70.2 per cent this week despite consumption of 709 million litres over the seven days.
Three injured
A crash at Fyansford has injured a man in his 40s and two girls, according to Ambulance Victoria.
The man in his 40s suffered a neck injury while the girls had separate abdominal and leg injuries before the trio was taken to hospital in a stable condition on Tuesday night, Ambulance Victoria said.
Surfer bones
Surfing could be strengthening the bones of ageing local men, according to new research.
PhD graduate Vini Simas’s results indicated that surfing’s pressures on the body appeared to improve bone density and strength in men aged 50 to 75, Bond University said this week.
Oberon return
Belmont’s former Oberon High School is on track to reopen with new “state-of-the-art” facilities at Armstrong Creek in 2021, State Government has announced.
The new school with the old name would help meet demand from families moving to the Armstrong Creek growth area after construction recently commenced in its education precinct, the government said.
‘Bright’ mind
A Geelong robotics expert is among 25 of Australia’s “brightest minds” on their way to one of the country’s leading science and engineering think tanks, Deakin University has announced.
Waurn Ponds-based Professor Saied Nahavandi said he was “delighted” to be named a fellow of The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, where he will work on robots that “seamlessly” connect with humans.
