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8 | City of Swan successfully implemented, Mayor Zannino says. The City’s submission also outlined some of its many tourism efforts and initiatives, such as the Swan Valley heritage cycle trail and Food and Wine Trail, the award-win- ning Swan Valley Visitor Centre, and the new all-ages and all-abilities play area at Swan Regional Riverside Park. According to MayorZannino, those efforts all contributed to the City’s victory. In the future, Mayor Zannino says the Swan Valley will only growmore attractive as a tourismdestination.Currently,MainRoads WA is in the process of planning the Perth- Darwin National Highway (also known as NorthLink WA) – a project Mayor Zanni- no says the City hasbeen lobbying for more than a decade. The current highway that ser- vices the north of Western Australia, called Great Northern Highway, runs through the middle of the Swan Valley tourism precinct, past a number of schools and through small town sites. With the development of the mining and agricultural sectors up north, Great North- GROWING STRONGER