<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e2c2352d-1473-4a1a-a08d-9e762ca53092/E0462382-0F7C-4983-8275-FD5A0E807194/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory03.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory03.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory03.htm"><P>JOHN Howard’s Federal Government has been asked to contribute to Wangaratta’s new $7.6 million performing arts centre.</p> <P>The Rural City of Wangaratta has applied for $500,000 through the government’s regional partnerships program for the new facility in Ford Street.</p> <P>The Federal Government bid comes after the State Government pledged $4.5 million to the project this week.</p> <P>It was also announced that works on the centre would begin by the middle of this year before its commissioning in early 2009.</p> <P>But council said yesterday construction was more likely to begin in early 2008 after an extensive planning, design and tender process.</p> <P>The Wangaratta Town Hall, which will be demolished to make way for the new performing arts centre, will therefore still remain as the main venue for the next Wangaratta Festival of Jazz in November this year.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E0462382-0F7C-4983-8275-FD5A0E807194/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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