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Learning Support Unit relocated from Mount Neighbour to Urambi Primary School at the end of 2006 and the Tuggeranong Primary Introductory English Centre relocated from Village Creek Primary School to Urambi Primary School at the end of 2007. The preschools associated with Mount Neighbour Primary and Village Creek Primary will develop relationships with Urambi Primary and Taylor Primary respectively; Village Creek Preschool closed at the end of 2010. Urambi Primary School closed at the end of 2010.
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Village Shopping Centre. It has a supermarket, service station, hotel, club, pub and many small shops and businesses. Located in the south of the suburb is the Kambah Centre, a medium-sized community centre with a health centre, a storage facility, a service station, an indoor sports facility,
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as its main intake area. At the end of 2007, the school educated around 140 students and employed around 20 staff. Kambah High was also closed at the conclusion of the 2007 school year as part of the ACT's
Towards 2020 education reforms, having operated for 31 years. Kambah High and Urambi Primary
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Anglican Church amalgamated with All Soul's Anglican Church, Chapman and became Arawang Anglican, named for the mountain in-between the two. Arawang Anglican continues to meet in the St. Stephen's building on the corner of Marconi Crescent and Kett Street in Kambah.
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Anglican Church, St. Thomas Catholic Church, the Southside Bible Church, formerly the Christian City Church, formerly the Tuggeranong Baptist Church, and Parkway, renamed to Eternity Church, and then renamed to Awaken.
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