{"id":2367,"date":"2016-09-11T23:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T13:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2016\/09\/11\/chester-lobbies-for-sports-centre-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2017-10-02T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T03:48:55","slug":"chester-lobbies-for-sports-centre-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/chester-lobbies-for-sports-centre-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"CHESTER LOBBIES FOR SPORTS CENTRE UPGRADE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>September 12, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Plans for a new synthetic hockey field in Sale have the attention of Federal Minister for Regional Development Fiona Nash.<\/p>\n<p>Local Member Darren Chester took Minister Nash to Gippsland Regional Sports Complex to brief her on plans for Stage 2A, which includes a new synthetic playing field and pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said Maffra, Sale and Wellington Hockey Clubs could be based at the new site and improved facilities would encourage more people into the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nearest synthetic hockey fields are Churchill and Drouin, and many players are currently travelling an hour or more each way to play hockey,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetter facilities and the reduction in travel will clearly encourage more people to take up the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, high-quality sports facilities allow local clubs to host regional and state level events, which bring people into our towns to spend money at local businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said Wellington Shire Council had lodged an application for $600,000 from the Federal Government through the National Stronger Regions Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is ready to go and I took the opportunity to make the Minister aware of the regional benefits it could deliver,\u2019\u2019 Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>Caption: Federal Minister for Regional Development Fiona Nash visited the Gippsland Regional Sports Complex in Sale where Local Member Darren Chester spruiked the benefits of building a synthetic hockey field for the region.\u00a0 Wellington Shire Council has applied for $600,000 in Federal funding to commence Stage 2A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>September 12, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Plans for a new synthetic hockey field in Sale have the attention of Federal Minister for Regional Development Fiona Nash.<\/p>\n<p>Local Member Darren Chester took Minister Nash to Gippsland Regional Sports Complex to brief her on plans for Stage 2A, which includes a new synthetic playing field and pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said Maffra, Sale and Wellington Hockey Clubs could be based at the new site and improved facilities would encourage more people into the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[209,589],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}