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Katie Woolf spoke with Southport Progressive Association Barry Whalan on turning 150 plus 1 · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Katie Wolf and three point sixty online at Mix
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  Speaker 1: one O four nine dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It is just on a quarter past eleven eight nine
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  Speaker 2: one O four nine if you're keen to get in
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  Speaker 2: contact with us today. And joining me on the line
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  Speaker 2: right now is Barry Whalon from the Southport Progressive Association.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Barry.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Mate. One hundred and fifty is what you guys are turning?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Southport's turning one hundred and fifty plus one because
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  Speaker 3: of COVID last year.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I love that you've made it one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: plus one plus one.
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  Speaker 1: It's an awfully long time, isn't it. What have you
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  Speaker 1: got lined up?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we've got a very busy, busy day schedule. We're
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  Speaker 3: starting at eight o'clock until one o'clock in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: and we've got the Historical Society.
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  Speaker 4: Are coming, and we've.
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  Speaker 3: Got some other displays coming that are bringing artifacts and
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  Speaker 3: things from Southall and Southboard. We've got going to have
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  Speaker 3: a marquee there that's going to have books go on southward,
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  Speaker 3: and we've got some artifacts as well that locals are
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  Speaker 3: found and we've stored and had stored in boxes and
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  Speaker 3: are going to put them out for the dates, so
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  Speaker 3: people are going to have a look at them and
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a fun day with a barbecue
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  Speaker 3: start at at eight o'clock for a gold coin donation
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  Speaker 3: and soft drinks and then free prairie floss and popcorn
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  Speaker 3: for the kids and the jumping castle.
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  Speaker 1: Verry, how long have you lived out in Southport.
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  Speaker 4: I've lived out there seven years and I've seen it
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  Speaker 4: really really great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to ask you what kind of
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  Speaker 2: changes have you seen over that period of time and
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  Speaker 2: how has the place grown?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, the place has grown. We've got well when I
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  Speaker 5: first went there, we had one street there's Bitchman. Now
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  Speaker 5: we've got a full loop around that's got Bitchman on it.
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  Speaker 5: And we did have our struggles with water, but the
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  Speaker 5: government have stepped up to the plate of it and
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  Speaker 5: they've fixed up the water to a certain degree and
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  Speaker 5: they've would they're chlorinating it now so that the kid
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  Speaker 5: makes there's no bugs.
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  Speaker 4: Or anything in it.
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  Speaker 5: So you are.
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  Speaker 3: It is progressing slowly, but we are getting there, and
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  Speaker 3: plus end of last year were mirror square. The committee
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  Speaker 3: have been fighting for over seventeen years to try and
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  Speaker 3: get a community hall built.
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  Speaker 4: And in the last year it's come to a thing
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  Speaker 4: where the government and the council come to agreement and
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  Speaker 4: they've cleared partly cleared for what they call four lots
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  Speaker 4: of mirrors clear and we're getting a shed build on
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  Speaker 4: there eventually. But that's where we're going to hold the
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  Speaker 4: function on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff, and now anyone can come along, can't they.
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  Speaker 4: Anyone can come along.
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  Speaker 3: And I know we've been advertising that you need the
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  Speaker 3: sticky tickets, but as the rules of COVID change and things,
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  Speaker 3: you actually don't need a sticky ticket. Now you can
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  Speaker 3: just turn up at any time.
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  Speaker 4: No, come down past the wildlife Parks of the Darwin River,
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  Speaker 4: turn right and follow the signs and you'll find us there.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if anyone's after more info or they want to
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  Speaker 2: find out a little bit more about that, they can
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  Speaker 2: head to the Southport into Community Facebook page, can't they.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah they can do yeah, And there's info there and
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  Speaker 3: shows what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Ye.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got market storeholders coming and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good stuff a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon it's going to be a cracking weekend for it.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'll get a good turnout.
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  Speaker 3: I hope we do well. We've been told that there
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  Speaker 3: is a bus load of twenty five coming in one
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  Speaker 3: lot of bus, so hopefully we do get quite a few.
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  Speaker 3: We're hoping for four hundred, but we'll theeere we go.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good on you, Barry.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope it's a lovely weekend mate, and happy
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  Speaker 2: one one hundred and fifty plus one to south Port.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks a lot, candy, a big achievement and yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: We'll keep going and it'll be there for another more
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  Speaker 3: than another hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff, Good on you're Barry. Lovely to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you this morning, mate, Thank you, thank you. That
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  Speaker 2: is that's Barry Whalen there, who is the Southport Progress
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  Speaker 2: Association or he's from the Southport Progress Association and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty plus one. So they're having that
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  Speaker 2: celebration over the weekend. If you're after some more info,
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  Speaker 2: you can head to Southport into Community Facebook page and
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  Speaker 2: you'll be able to find it on there.