{"id":92597,"date":"2014-12-18T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T11:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=92597"},"modified":"2020-11-20T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T06:44:53","slug":"new-gateway-to-great-punters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/12\/18\/new-gateway-to-great-punters\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gateway To Greet Punters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92606\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141218concept.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-92606\" title=\"20141218 Nanango Race Club entrance concept design\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141218concept.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141218concept.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141218concept-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concept design for how the new Racecourse Road gateway to the Nanango Race Club, Joe Anderson Airfield and the South Burnett Western Performance Club grounds might look (Source: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27538\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/barry-green-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27538\" title=\"Cr Barry Green\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/barry-green-200.jpg\" alt=\"Division 1 Cr Barry Green\" width=\"200\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/barry-green-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/barry-green-200-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cr Barry Green (Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>December 18, 2014 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nanango&#8217;s Racecourse Road will take on a new appearance next year thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Heritage Nanango Community Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The road, which is the entrance for the Nanango Race Club, Joe Anderson Airfield and the South Burnett Western Performance Club&#8217;sgrounds, will be fenced off and lined with an avenue of evergreen trees.<\/p>\n<p>Notice boards at the entrance gates fronting the D&#8217;Aguilar Highway will advertise both the Nanango Race Club and the South Burnett Western Performance Club, as well as the date of the race club&#8217;s next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Design work for the new entrance has been undertaken by the South Burnett Regional Council&#8217;s Natural Resources Department, who are also responsible for the current redesign of Nanango&#8217;s CBD.<\/p>\n<p>According to Natural Resources Department Manager Greg Griffiths, the Racecourse Road upgrade is intended to complement the long-term concept for the town.<\/p>\n<p>Work on constructing the entrance will be undertaken by the South Burnett Regional Council but will be paid for by the Nanango Race Club using grant funds.<\/p>\n<p>Division 1 Cr Barry Green, who is also a member of the Nanango Race Club&#8217;s committee, today expressed thanks to Heritage Nanango Community Bank for their assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Nanango Race Club always believed that Heritage&#8217;s Community Bank concept would be a very worthwhile addition to Nanango and we were early investors in the fund-raising drive to get the branch established,&#8221; Cr Green said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since then Heritage have ploughed back several million dollars into the Nanango community for many projects like this. We&#8217;re very lucky to have them here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cr Green said the first draft of the upgrade design had contemplated using white and purple jacarandas, but it was now likely that Australian native evergreens would be used instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanango&#8217;s Racecourse Road will take on a new appearance next year, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Heritage Nanango Community Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3,58,6],"tags":[1131,30,1136],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Gateway To Greet Punters - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/12\/18\/new-gateway-to-great-punters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Gateway To Greet Punters - 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