Building of the Courthouse and an attached Post Office began in 1873 and was completed in 1875. On January 24th,1908 the Post Office was destroyed by fire and the Courthouse was badly damaged. The building were rebuilt as stand alone buildings. In 1915 additions were completed to the now separate Courthouse. The Courthouse was in active use until its closure in 1983. The building remained empty for the next four years. In April 1987 a community group was formed to secure funding to open a Community House in the disused building. The Old Courthouse Community Centre was Officially opened on March 4th 1989.

The Old Courthouse Community Centre is proudly supported by volunteer staff whose services are invaluable to the day-to-day running of the Centre." We supply variety of services for the community of Casterton and District.

• Social Support Services
• Telelink
• Talking Casterton News
• PAG Disability Group
• Volunteers
• Advocacy
• Visiting Employment Agencies
• Employment Access
• WestVic Employment
• Justice Department
• School Holiday Programs
• Transport Assistance
• Administrative Assistance
• Photocopying
• Scanning
• Word processing
• Work for the Dole Projects
• Community Service Referrals
• Financial Counselling
• Adult Community Education
• Centrelink Agency

The Community Centre as a focal point for the provision of appropriate or relevant information, referral and support, to individuals and organizations.

Information and Assistance.

The Casterton Community Centre provides Adult Community and Further Education Courses.

• CGEA Reading and Writing & Numeracy
• Photoshop & Web Pages
• Computer skills( disability)
• English and Maths made easy
• Study Support Group
• Oral Communication
• Introduction to the Internet
• Basic Computer Skills
• Introduction to Computers
• School Holiday programs

Become A Smart Energy Star Competion
Participating schools, Sacred Heart, Casterton Primaryand Merino primary.

Brief for teachers
Aim
The aim of this competition is to stimulate and create awareness of smart energy tips that enable behavioural change to habits that reduce household energy practices in a wide variety of applications.

Students will learn to

• Investigate a range of eco sustainability tips
• Understand that small changes in behaviour can make a collectively big saving to households
• Appreciate how important reducing our carbon footprint is to the sustainability of Victoria
• Compare energy habits
• Understand how to change their daily routine to make energy savings

Essential Learning Linkages

• Futures
• Interdependences
• Thinking
• Communication

Target Audience
This is open to classes prep to grade 6

Format
By keeping the brief open we are hoping to attract submissions across aspects of the visual arts.
Contributions to an energy tip score board, a class poster, a class jingle.

Advertisements
Radio, each jingle will be aired within 30second radio ads on 3HA.

Phone: (03) 55812139 Fax: (03) 55812296
Email: och.admin@hotkey.net.au

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