New car for L2P

Funding from the Trafalgar and District Community Bendigo Bank has helped provide the Baw Baw L2P driver mentoring program with a new car.

The volunteer group that assists young people aged between 16 and 23 that are geographically isolated or experiencing hardship to gain their probationary licences can now do it in a new manual transmission Nissan Micra.

L2P co-ordinator Beth Carr said that without the support of the community bank the program would not have been able to provide training and experience in a roadworthy manual drive vehicle.

She said the program has achieved a success rate of 89 per cent of the learner drivers gaining their probationary licences at the attempt.

Bank manager Phil Drummond said the bank was delighted to be able to support the program.

The new vehicle will give disadvantaged young people on-the-road driving experience of a manual car, he said.

Ms Carr said the program mentored local youth through their learner driving in a roadworthy vehicle.

The Baw Baw L2P program has recently been able to slowly increase its operations as COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have eased first

A photograph of Warragul looking down Victoria St from the Methodist Church c.1918.

Not the residences on both sides of road. The plane trees that were planted in the 1920s were removed when the road was divided in the early 1960s. Instead of concrete kerb and channelling, the gutters were made of blue stone pitchers with red gum sides.

The building in the centre of the photograph is currently where Wolf–Telstra shop is.

In the background is Mt Worth and the Strzelecki Ranges that were cleared of all trees for farming except for the pines still on the top of Mt Worth.

Photograph and information courtesy of the Warragul and District Historical Society.

The society’s museum at the Old Shire Hall in Warragul has reopened to the public. The museum features a range of historical photographs.

It is open every Thursday between 10am and 2pm and the second and fourth Sunday of each month between 2pm and 4pm.

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