Mr John F. Burt Jr. This is Me

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1. 1. www.thecourier.com.au

   www.thecourier.com.au/news/loc - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/7/2008   Last Visited: 7/9/2008

   Principal John Burt said the school plans to open a farm on 11-hectare grounds by January next year, after last month getting approval for the project from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
   
   Mr Burt said the school had been investigating the possibility of purchasing land for a farm for some time, but began negotiations with the department about the Norman St site in October last year.
   
   "It's a very ideal site for what we are going to use it for and we're very lucky to say it's now a Ballarat Specialist School site," Mr Burt said.
   
   Midlands Secondary College was closed in the 1990s when the school was absorbed into Ballarat Secondary College.
   
   Since then, the site has been subject to periodic vandalism, with most of the former classrooms now removed.
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   Mr Burt said a former library building will be converted to a young adult centre, while an older structure will be demolished to make way for a new facility in coming years.
   
   The new FARM standing for flexibility, adaptability, responsibility and management will include a market garden, poddy calf rearing section and a winter lucerne crop.
   
   Mr Burt said the school aimed to develop a cottage industry from the market garden and sell the calves to local dairy farms.
   
   "So it's going to be very simple but it will actually be a working farm," he said.
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   Well done John Burt.
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   NEW CAMPUS: Ballarat Specialist School principal John Burt inspects the former Midlands Secondary College site.NEW CAMPUS: Ballarat Specialist School principal John Burt inspects the former Midlands Secondary College site.

2. 2. Anger over exclusion of Ballarat from Commonwealth Games baton relay :: ABC South West Vic

   www.abc.net.au/southwestvic/st - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/3/2005   Last Visited: 4/3/2005

   How we could be bypassed when we're doing so much - particularly basketball - for the Games, and we're just being left out, I think is very disappointing," says John Burt, president of the Ballarat Sportsmen's Club.
   
   Was he expecting the baton to pass through town?
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   John Burt is joined in his frustration by Joy Benbow, a councillor resident in the town of Heywood, 30 kilometres north of Portland.
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   I just don't know what's going wrong," says John Burt.
   
   If organisers say they can't be everywhere for everyone, would he accept that?
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   John Burt; president, Ballareat Sportsman's Club

3. 3. Ballarat Directory - City of Ballarat

   www.lakewendoureeprecinct.com. - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/24/2007   Last Visited: 1/24/2007

   John Burt