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ISSUE 1017 FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017

A commitment to change Ambulance Victoria has made a commitment to change and adapt to meet community expectations. On Monday the organisation launched its consumer and community engagement plan in Bendigo. Cadet paramedic Jida Gulpilil, pictured, was on hand to perform the welcome to country.

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SAFETY FIRST Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

By SHARON KEMP

LOCAL junior football clubs are starting the season placing unprecedented checks on child safety.

This includes limiting off-field contact between adults and players aged younger than 18, appointing a child safety officer and asking new coaches why they want to be involved in junior sport.

As of January 1, the new standards applied to all non-government

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Sports clubs ramp up child protection

funded Victorian organisations that deal with children, and is a legacy of the 2013 Victorian Betrayal of Trust report that investigated child abuse.

AFL Central Victoria has been advising clubs about the changes and acknowledges their full imple-

mentation will take time.

Regional general manager Carol Cathcart said the new standards went a lot further than the extension of Working with Children checks to cover all volunteer helpers at sporting clubs, a measure the Victorian government introduced

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last year. Ms Cathcart said the association was asking clubs to have in place this year the appointment of a child safety officer responsible for hearing and reporting accusations of child abuse.

Ms Cathcart said clubs received a briefing on the new standards from

AFL Victoria community football operations manager Gerard Ryan at the annual club expo in Bendigo in February.

But she concedes full implementation will take time.

“It is about making sure we are providing a safe environment for children,” Ms Cathcart said.

“I think the clubs are doing the best they can and sometimes it takes a bit of time.” Continued Page 5

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THE Real Estate Institute of Victoria has welcomed significant road and rail infrastructure investment by the state government, which will drive growth in areas further from the city.

Chief executive officer Gil King said the $4 billion investment in regional Victoria – including $1.45 billion for regional rail services – would increase buyer demand for homes across the state.

“Greater road and rail infrastructure will not only improve the desirability of regional Victoria, but will also result in higher property prices in these areas in the long-term,” he said.

“We’re already seeing strong price growth in towns within commuting distance of Melbourne, especially in Geelong where the median house price is now $701,000.”

Mr King also called on the state government to consider reform of the land tax model, which contributed $2.5 billion in the last financial year alone.

“Land tax is a considerable issue in Victoria with investors across the property sector experiencing exorbitant increases. A percentage cap on annual increases is necessary to ensure the ongoing viability of property investment in this state,” Mr King said.

Significant budget measures announced include $2.9 billion for the state’s health care system and $685 million for Victorian

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schools. The state government also announced changes to land tax valuations, which will now be conducted on an annual basis.

The REIV also supported the state government’s $1.9 billion investment in roads, which includes $700 million over four years to upgrade the M80 Ring Road and $300 million to build the Mordialloc Bypass.

A further $879.5 million will be invested in public transport for metropolitan Melbourne with eight additional train services on the Werribee line and new bus services in a number of outer suburbs.

“Improved transport services in Melbourne’s outer suburbs will drive continued buyer interest in these suburbs, which have experienced strong price growth in the past two quarters,” Mr King said.

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growth of around 100,000 people each year, infrastructure investment in these new growth areas is essential.”

VICTORIANS now have a free service to help resolve building disputes quickly and without stress.

Domestic Building Dispute Resolution Victoria is an independent agency that will act as a mediator to deal with contested building projects on behalf of both builders and homeowners.

Minister for Consumer Affairs Marlene Kairouz this week declared DBDRV open for business.

Replacing Building and Advice Conciliation Victoria, the DBDRV will operate under a new legislative scheme, with expanded powers and a broader scope, including

the authority to issue binding orders.

That includes orders to compel builders to fix or finish work, or force owners to pay their bills.

Former director of the Dispute Settlement Centre of Victoria Gina Ralston will act as chief dispute resolution officer and will lead the new service.

It covers all disputes arising from domestic building works less than 10 years old and those not already – or have ever been – in VCAT proceedings.

Under the new service, accredited and trained officers will be paired with independent building experts to help parties reach an agreed resolution.

VCAT and Consumer Affairs Victoria deal with an average 3000 disputes a year relating to domestic buildings works.

As a mandatory dispute resolution service, DBDRV is likely to significantly decrease the number of claims that make it to other agencies.

Consumer Affairs minister Marlene Kairouz said the DBDRV agency would provide an immediate confidence boost for Victoria’s $28 billion building industry.

“The DBDRV will provide a fair, efficient and cost-effective service to resolve disputes, so people can get on with building the great Australian dream,” she said.

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EPA moves on Hopley

A BENDIGO company is facing 66 charges relating to alleged breaches of the Environment Protection Act between 2013 and 2015 at White Hills.

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has charged Hopley Recycling Pty Ltd (Hopley Recycling) and two of its directors.

In a statement released this week, EPA said that since 2013 it had issued several clean up notices on Hopley Recycling requiring it to stop accepting industrial

waste at the premises and for all industrial waste to be removed and taken to a site either licensed or permitted to receive it.

An ongoing EPA investigation has identified potential breaches of those clean up notices relating to permitting industrial waste to be deposited at the premises after receiving clean up notices requiring no further industrial waste to be deposited at the premises; and an EPA clean up notice not being fully complied with, namely the remaining industrial waste

had not been removed from the premises by the due date.

The 66 charges served on Hopley Recycling and two of its directors as a result of the above alleged breaches relate to: • The accused to whom a clean up notice was directed, contravened without reasonable cause, the requirements of the notice, in that the accused received industrial waste at the premises; • The accused to whom a

clean up notice was directed, contravened without reasonable cause, the requirements of the notice, in that the accused failed to immediately notify the EPA that industrial waste had been deposited at the premises; • The accused to whom a clean up notice was directed, contravened without reasonable cause, the requirements of the notice, in that the accused had not removed all remaining industrial waste from the premises;

• The accused failed to comply with requirement made by EPA Authorised Officer, namely the accused failed to produce to the Authorised Officer documents required under a Notice to Produce; and • Permitting industrial waste to be deposited at a premises not licensed to receive that particular kind of industrial waste.

The matter is listed for mention in the Bendigo Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

NDIS rolls out in Loddon VICTORIA’S disabilities minister Martin Foley has described the National Disability Insurance Scheme as bringing about the greatest social change since Medicare.

“If we get it right, we will change so many people’s lives for the better,” he said.

In Bendigo to launch the scheme’s rollout in Loddon, Mr Foley said the old system was broken and the new, which allowed people with a disability the right to choose their own form of support, would bring an additional 1500 people into the system providing disability services.

Addressing criticism that the pace of the roll out had led to poor quality plans, Mr Folely said scheme recipients should speak up if they were unhappy with their plan.

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More than 60,000 people are part of the scheme after rapid growth at the end of last year.

In Victoria, Loddon is the fourth area of NDIS transition.

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few months in the Loddon community,” Mr Foley said.

“People will be getting the opportunity to define their own plans, come up with what they think is important to live a quality life in the community.

“We work closely with the NDS group and of course with the commonwealth government, local government and local service providers.

“We think there is a balance to be struck between getting people into the scheme together with the quality of the scheme.

“We take the view that we can deliver lots of plans, and quality plans.”

An estimated 5300 people with Loddon are expected to transition to the scheme.

The NDIS is expected to be fully operational by 2019.

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SOCIAL CHANGE: Minister for disabilities Martin Foley in Bendigo yesterday.

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ALL Australians are being encouraged to wear orange in a united show of thanks for the work done and commitment shown by SES volunteers.

The Victorian State Emergency Service will be having its annual Wear Orange Wednesday on May 10.

SES media team leader Robin Neller said the idea behind wear orange Wednesday is just for people to show their support by wearing orange clothing for the day.

“Shops can dress up their windows or have an orange day in the office,” she said.

“This is not a fundraiser just a chance

for the community to say thank you.”

“The six Bendigo subway stores will be hosting a fundraiser for us on Saturday, May 13 where they will be donating $2 from every foot-long sub.”

Ms Neller said it’s a simple call to action.

“Wear orange. Orange is the official colour of State Emergency Services across the country so wearing orange on the day is a great way to show support for all SES volunteers.”

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Safety change hits volunteers

By Sharon kemp

THE biggest challenge for junior sporting clubs preparing to meet the new child safety standards was making all volunteers, parents and employees aware the requirements applied to them as well as the coach.

David Huxtable, the general manager of Basketball Victoria Country, said the standards applied to the volunteer managing the club website even if they had no actual contact with junior players.

“And it is a challenge for clubs when you struggle to fill all the volunteer positions,” Mr Huxtable said.

“They are having to work hard.”

Basketball Victoria Country, which is training staff to assist in implement the standards, has a deadline of March 1, 2018 to have standards met among all clubs.

Netball Victoria has provided its member clubs to with an eight-page code of conduct that outlines “expected behaviour for interactions within netball

in Victoria”.

Under its code, coaches and officials will have to gain permission from Netball Victoria to give players gifts, and to transport players other than their own child.

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It is a challenge for clubs ing players and guidance about physical contact with players.

The code is explicit about where players should not be touched and it bans all unnecessary contact and roughhousing.

AFL Victoria’s community football operations manager Gerard Ryan briefed central Victorian affiliates at the annual club expo in Bendigo in February.

A spokesperson from the association said it had been briefing leagues since late last year.

“AFL Victoria is comfortable the initial requirements of the new child safe standards have been provided to sporting clubs across the state,” the spokesperson said.

“AFL Victoria provided all community leagues with the framework of the new child safe standards at the end of 2016, for leagues to manage and communicate to their clubs for implementation in season 2017.

“AFL Victoria will contine to support leagues with the implementation process of the new child safe standards in their regions to ensure all community clubs are adhering to the rules.

“In addition, AFL Victoria is working closely with the AFL regarding the ongoing development of the child safe standards and will look to seek feedback from all Victorian community leagues on the implementation process at season’s end.”

Extra care for sport kids 3From Page 1 AFL Victoria has also asked affiliates including AFL Central Victoria to adopt social media guidelines that ban adults from “engaging in individual social friendships with children from the club... on personal social media sites”.

The new standards also call for a reporting procedure that directs the officer to pass on to police any report of abuse, and guidelines in recruiting “any role which will have people working with children”.

Those guidelines include asking volunteers to apply for roles in clubs, ensuring references are checked and asks officials to question why the applicant wants to work with junior grades, their history of working with children and why they left any previous positions.

The rule means clubs will comply with legislation introduced in 2014 that makes grooming and predatory behaviour illegal.

Strathfieldsaye Junior Football Club president Terry Welch said implementing the new standards had stretched the club’s

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volunteer manpower but it was necessary to comply.

The increase in female players in the junior grades had escalated the club’s attention on finding ways to protect junior members as well as coaches and officials.

Strathfieldsaye has 17 teams in junior grades this season, including three girls teams, making it the biggest under-18 club in the 149-team junior competition.

The club describes the protocols it has introduced as best practice.

They include restricting access to changerooms, banning any situation in which an adult and a junior player are alone together – under any circumstances – and introducing a training support officer to be a gobetween for players and coaches.

Coaches and officials have been advised to ask players for permission before touching them in the course of their coaching duties.

Mr Welch said the club had started rolling out the new measures to female teams and would introduce them to junior male teams in the coming weeks.

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Brighter look for Bath Lane Work started this week on a bold new public art work that will bring both colour and life to the Bath Lane shopping precinct.

The Bendigo Bank and City of Greater Bendigo council have engaged Daisylegs, a design team specialising in murals and custom wall graphics lead by Jamie Edward and Maddison Kitching to produce the new mural on a large wall space located in Laity Lane, off Bath Lane.

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BUDGET 2017

Mixed result for city

By SHARON KEMP

Schools including Kalianna Special School, Spring Gully Primary School and Big Hill Primary School will also get financial boosts to upgrade and upscale facilities.

People wanting to buy a house will benefit from a doubling to $20,000 of the first home owner’s grant and businesses should get a boost from a 25 per cent cut in payroll tax.

Funds will also flow into services that address family violence, community safety and drug recovery.

And Bendigo will also receive seed funding for the development of a city deal that is designed to provide a coordinated investment plan.

But a new $47.8m government hub, that it is said will cre-

BENDIGO will share in funding to improve community safety, rail infrastructure, schools, business incentive and housing affordability in the 2017-18 budget.

But the city has missed out on a big-ticket project designed to create jobs in regional centres losing out in the transitioning state economy.

The city was also promised it is in the running for a relocation of state public service jobs, but Ballarat got the honour this year.

Bendigo’s legal fraternity can look forward to plans to redevelop its ageing law courts, whether at its current site or elsewhere, for which $3.9 million was set aside in this year’s budget.

ate 600 jobs, has been earmarked for Ballarat as has a specialist family violence court.

Latrobe Valley, where the Hazelwood coal plant closed, has attracted a $110m timber plantation on top of a $266m assistance package.

Geelong’s economy is changing from a dominating mix of automotive manufacturing and it has been given $15m in transition funding and a further $15m in CBD revitalisation.

Economic data showed Victoria’s booming economy is almost wholly centred in Melbourne, with Bendigo the only other centre to contribute positive growth.

Bendigo prepares this year to open the new $630m hospital, a $31m aquatic centre, an upgraded airport and basketball

stadium and work has started on the Soldiers Memorial Institute military museum and a redevelopment of the Bendigo Tennis Centre.

Since coming to office, Labor claims it has created more than 22,500 jobs in regional Victoria.

Protecting the agriculture industry that underpins the regional economy, the budget also removes duties on insurance that cover agriculture products from fire, flood and other accidents.

For businesses in regional areas, the reduction in payroll tax from 4.85 per cent to 3.65 per cent, and accelerating the increase of the payroll tax-free threshold to $625,000 in 201718, is aimed at motivating more companies to establish in regional Victoria.

Schools in the money SPRING Gully Primary School and Kalianna Special School had their plans ready when they received confirmation in this week’s Victorian budget that they could move to spend what they had planned.

Bendigo East MP Jacinta Allan announced funding for planning at the Spring Gully school last year, and returned on Monday to report $5.2 million to complete works.

Principal Francis Tresize said commitment would allow the school to the build new classrooms and complete outdoor landscaping and play areas.

“Behind the scenes we are ready to go now, we have some shovels on hand but realistically there is a little way to

go and towards the end of this year or the start of next year, we will be ready,” Mr Tresize said.

“We had no guarantees but now it has been announced in the state budget, it is just great news for us.

“We can now proceed with confidence that we are going to have these wonderful facilities for current students and those in the future.”

Mr Tresize said the school was growing by about half a grade each year, requiring the school to adapt by devising flexible learning arrangements.

“The growth area around Spring Gully, around Sedgewick and Mandurang, it continues to develop and we are getting more students from those areas,” he said.

“(The school upgrade) will mean greater flexibility in the way (students) interact with each other, our staff and plan and oversee each other and have professional conversations.

“It is also a pleasing aspect for our school that we get the opportunity to do some outside of the school buildings to make the environment more engaging and inclusive and accessible for all students.”

At Kalianna, $10m will complete a refurbishment of the school, the need for which was first brought to state government’s attention in 2014 with a petition calling for funding.

Last April, Bendigo West MP Maree Edwards announced $4.3m from the 2016-17 budget.

PLUS: Jacinta Allan and Francis Tresize. Photo: SHARON KEMP Stage one including work on the admin building, a cafe and some classrooms, will begin soon.

Kalianna now has the funding to complete the project.

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“This is great news and testament to all the hard work of the parents, teachers and students.”

Payroll tax cut a win BUSINESS in Bendigo has welcomed state government investment in regional Victoria in the form of a pay roll tax cut but are disappointed the government hub earmarked for Ballarat was not instead announced for Bendigo.

Bendigo business council chairman David Richmond said the business sector had lobbied for more state government jobs to be based in the city.

Mr Richmond was pleased Bendigo had been singled out as a future destination for Victorian public servants.

He also praised the funding contribution to planning an upgrade of the Bendigo Law Courts which are ageing and lack space for case demand.

Mr Richmond said larger business which surpassed the payroll tax threshold would benefit from the 25 per cent cuts.

The state government will also bring forward the timeline of last year’s tax cuts.

“As a result, about 38,000 Victorian businesses will benefit by up to $1200 in each year that the threshold increases are fast-tracked,” said state treasurer Tim Pallas.

Bendigo also receives seed funding for a city deal it is proposing to the federal government.

Anglicare Victoria lauded the state government’s allocations to initiatives to end family violence and increase housing security for tenants.

“The funding for family violence victims is a crucial step in the right direction to ensuring parents and children leaving family violence have access to dedicated, safe and affordable housing,” chief executive Paul McDonald said.

Bendigo will not be among the first location for support and safety hubs that will support victims but the city is touted to be in line for one.

Local renters may benefit from a new optional standard long term lease.

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Stoush over rail cash VICTORIA could be in line for huge upgrades to the V/ Line rail network, but a fight is looming between state and federal governments as to how it will be funded.

Public transport minister Jacinta Allan announced $1.45 billion in funding on Sunday for all regional rail lines in the state.

The money is to be funded through the Asset Recycling Intiative – via proceeds from the sale of the Port of Melbourne – and a stoush looms between levels of government whether the funds will be passed on.

The funding includes $91 million for the Bendigo and Echuca lines, with extensive signalling and track upgrades on the Echuca line in order to allow trains to operate at their full speed.

Stage two of Bendigo Metro Rail will also be rolled out under the plan, with more services to Epsom.

Ms Allan and premier Daniel Andrews have vehemently stated this week that the money is owed to Victorians, while federal infrastructure minister said that is not the case.

Federal minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester called it a “santa wish list” that the premier had come up with, but Ms Allan hit back this week.

“Let’s be really clear, the Asset Recycling Initiative money, $1.45 billion Victoria is entitled to, is Victoria’s

promise: Jacinta Allan and Maree Edwards at the announcement. money. This was part of a national partnership agreement that was signed between the federal and state and territory governments,” she said.

“We’re simply indicating to the federal government a list of priority projects that we want this funding allocated to.”

Gippsland would see the most funding allocated, with more than $400m listed in the budget for extensive works along the south-east rail corridor.

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ning bodies continue to call for the return of duplication along the Bendigo line, but Ms Allan said it was not a priority at this point in time.

“There is a whole bunch of priorities across our rail system and what has been released by the Labor government is the immediate needs and the immediate priorities,” she said.

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DESPITE the early disclosure of federal government budget announcements in education and housing affordability, next Tuesday’s official lodgment could still hold some news for central Victoria.

Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie said she was not sure if funding was included for the new rural medical school proposed

by La Trobe University and Charles Sturt University with a campus assigned to Bendigo.

But she said she supported its proposed model of teaching undergraduate medical studies in regional areas, and had lobbied on its behalf.

On higher education funding that was the topic of pre-budget news this week, Senator McKenzie said the new package will include funding for more than eight communityowned university campuses that would allow regional students to study online with other students in their own community.

She said an inquiry into regional and rural student participation in higher edu-

cation would report at the end of the year, as would the Gonski 2.0 model that will restructure school funding.

“I imagine and I am confident that any model developed by us that is focused on a needs-based funding model will actually see regional and rural students achieve a loading that takes care of some of those additional barriers that country kids experience,” Senator McKenzie said about the direction of future school funding.

Labor has described the Liberal federal government’s scrapping of the original Gonski model as a $22 billion cut.

Bendigo MP Lisa Chesters also opposed the higher education cuts this week, claiming it will disproportionately disadvantage regional universities.

Ms Chesters this week also raised concerns about the future of the early childhood learning in this year’s budget.

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Bendigo metro was listed as a priority for the $91 million in state budget rail funding on the Bendigo and Echuca lines announced this week.

The money would go toward stage two of the project, which will see more services to and from Epsom station.

The station, the newest in the region, was basically empty after being opened before service numbers were dramatically increased last year.

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“It was really important when we established the metro taskforce that we viewed this as a staged project,” she said.

“This will increase the frequency and reliability of services to Epsom and to Eaglehawk. The metro rail taskforce included a lot of community input, and this is what they were telling us that they wanted to see more services and more reliability.”

Upgrades to Bendigo and Eaglehawk stations are also in the works, with more car parking at Eaglehawk and disability access works to be undertaken at Bendigo station.

Ms Edwards said that patronage increases justified the funding.

“You may recall Epsom was an empty train station carpark for many years after it was built,” she said.

“It’s not just increasing there, but also to Castlemaine line and Eaglehawk. People are using the services and I think this is a point proven in relation to the initial announcement when we put this in place.

“I look forward to future funding announcements to expand the Bendigo metro rail, it was always a very visionary project and I think that we are starting to see that vision fulfilled.”

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Denny Day is not a well-known name in Australian frontier history.

Bushrangers, dodgy governors and villainous politicians are remembered grandly, even fondly, but a determined, unassuming man with an uncompromising sense of justice, who brought to trial the perpetrators of an infamous massacre of Indigenous people, is almost forgotten.

For writer Terry Smyth, Denny Day is “Australia’s greatest

lawman”, who deserves our gratitude and praise for his part in changing history.

Scorned, shunned and slandered by the landowners and their powerful allies, Denny Day was the first official to challenge the shocking leniency towards those who abused and murdered Aborigines.

Smyth set out to tell the story of Denny Day and how he brought to trial the men who killed 28 people at Myall Creek in 1838, in a book that is both

It is shot through with the writer’s controlled anger, and sadness, and gratitude for a man who could not turn away from injustice, despite the cost.

What started him on his research, and the surprises he discovered along the way is a great story in itself, and one Terry Smyth will share when he comes to Dunolly, the now sleepy little goldrush town, where the grandest buildings were courthouses.

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more change at college AS well as missing principal Erning Fleming since the start of the year, Bendigo South East college parents were notified at the weekend of the resignation of the head of the school’s influential Athlete Development Program.

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Nankervis in the frame MOUNTAIN bike ace Tasman Nankervis’ national title triumph was good enough to see him crowned the Cloud Copy Click Bendigo Sports Star of the Year nominee for March.

The 21-year-old took out the national under-23 title just weeks after dominating the Otway Classic event.

His title came off the back of a strong performance in the Oceania Championships in Toowoomba, which saw him finish top-10 in what proved to be a strong lead-up to the national championships.

He made it hard work, bursting out of the blocks and eventually holding on to win by seven seconds and don the green and gold jersey.

It wasn’t the first national championships event he raced in this year, he also competed on the road in Ballarat in January but did not finish.

This time he finished exactly where he wanted to and stamped his authority as a star of the future in the sport.

It was a little bit of redemption for Nankervis, after he finished second last year in the same event.

march winner: Tasman Nankervis.

“There’s no easy laps, I’m happy to be mixing it up with the elites in lap times and finally feel as if I’m producing what I can do,” he said.

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Nankervis was also one of the inaugural recipients of the Sports Star Scholarship programs.

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Aspire moves into new phase

WORK has already started collecting and filming the stories that will feature in the Aspire precinct, that could fill the role of a long-called-for museum in Bendigo.

The planning application for the first stage of the Aspire multi-faith project, worth $10 million, was lodged with the City of Greater Bendigo council last week.

Aspire Foundation chairman Gordon McKern OAM told the Bendigo Weekly a different film would be shown every 15 minutes in the new interpretive centre to be built in the former Haymes paint shop at the base of the Sacred Heart Cathedral on High Street.

“There will be stories of people like (Reverend) Henry Backhaus, (retailer) Sidney Myer, the stories of those sorts of pioneers, through to people in the present day including our eminent politicians,” Mr McKern said, referring to Bendigo East MP Jacinta Allan.

The Victorian government has contributed $5m to the project and private donors have added to the sum.

The foundation hopes the project will garner more interest once work has started on site.

“The difference now is we are ready to go, that is why we are doing it in stages, because we know we can afford stage one,” Mr McKern said.

“We want to get some-

grand plan: Gordon McKern and Jacinta Allan. thing started on site because the people of Bendigo want to see some work.”

He thanked Ms Allan for the government contribution.

She said there had long been the need for a museum in Bendigo.

“It redevelops this wonderful space around the Sacred Heart Cathedral and transforms it into a great public space and a space that will attract many visitors and will tell that very Bendigo story to both our local community and visitors alike,” Ms Allan said.

The plans submitted to

council show the first stage will include fitting the interpretive centre with a dome that will house a 4D cinema.

The building will also include exhibition space for Bendigo historical and multifaith themes, a library and learning centre.

The parish hall on Short Street will also upgraded to be a function centre. Stage one plans also include a forecourt and stairway that leads to the cathedral.

The council has agreed to carry out landscaping work on the land at corner of High Street and Wattle Street.

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committed to change: Ambulance Victoria chair Ken Lay. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

A new response Ambulance Victoria has made a commitment to change and adapt to meet community expectations.

On Monday the organisation launched the Ambulance Victoria Consumer and Community Engagement Plan: Working Together with our Community 2017-2019.

Ambulance Victoria chair Ken Lay, AO, said consumer and community engagement was essential in delivering highquality pre-hospital emergency care.

“We are uniquely placed as the statewide emergency

health responder, in engaging and partnering with people and communities, to respond to the emergency health needs of Victoria’s diverse population,” Mr Lay said.

“We have more than 4100 highly-skilled frontline health professionals who together with 1000 community volunteers and our key health and emergency service partners are playing a critical role in providing emergency health care for Victorians in need.

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Over the past month, Kindergarten students at Jenny’s Early Learning Centre have been learning about art.

They have visited the Schaller Studio to learn more about the paintings of namesake Mark Schaller, as well as visits to the Bendigo Pottery and the Bendigo Art Gallery.

The 40 children were then given the opportunity to create their own works of art, on either canvas or formed from clay.

The artworks were displayed as part of an Exemplar Health art auction event held this week, which involved exhibiting the children’s artwork and included each work in a silent auction, with the proceeds going to help raise funds for the Bendigo Health Foundation.

Exemplar Health chief executive Michele Morrison praised the quality of the artworks and enthusiasm of the children at each of their visits and at the exhibition.

“To see the colourful and expressive works created by the Jen-

ny’s Early Learning Centre children shows how engaged they have been in creating their artworks and how comfortable to explore, discover, and learn new things they are,” she said.

This year’s event gave the children the opportunity to have their works selected for prizes by a panel of judges including Bendigo Art Gallery senior curator, Leanne Fitzgibbon and Bendigo Health Foundation director, Jane Anderson.

Prizes were awarded for use of colour or form, choice of subject and popular judges choice.

Ms Anderson praised the contribution of the businesses involved in the event and money raised for the Bendigo Health Foundation in the previous auctions.

“The 2016 art exhibition raised approximately $2000 for the Bendigo Health Foundation, made possible through the generous support of Jenny’s Early Learning Centre and the pantry at the Schaller Studio,” she said.

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Power up for cars THE Bendigo Sustainability Group is gearing up to spread the word on electric vehicles.

An event on Wednesday, May 10 is set to advise and inform on how the technology is progressing.

Ian Belmont of Strathdale owns a hybrid Mitsubishi Outlander which he bought three years ago.

“I would have hoped there would have been a bigger rollout by now,” he said.

“I think the nearest public charging point is in Daylesford. There seems to be no government support for the technology.”

Mr Belmont said there needs to be an electric highway to encourage take up of the electric car.

“They are better to drive, and even when you weigh in the coalfired production of electricity it’s cleaner than using solely petrol,” Mr Belmont said.

The session, at the Capital in View Street, kicks off at 11am and

finding their way: Nicole Collins, Lucy Simkin and Ilona Patient. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

High flyers unite In the spirit of founder Nancy Bird, AO, OBE, 160 female pilots gathered last week for education, inspiration, networking and interaction.

The Australian Women Pilots’ Association’s aim is to foster closer relationships and unity among women pilots.

The national conference is held in a different state each year.

“We chose Bendigo because it is such a great city,” Vic Branch

president Peta Denham Harvey, said.

The association hosted an education session at the Capital Theatre and the navigation trial at the airport.

Secretary of the Vic Branch of AWPA Linda Beilharz said the participants ranged from military, airline, commercial to private pilots and students.

“Our visitors came from all across Australia to enjoy the

company of other females in this male dominated profession for the week,” she said.

The navigation trial was held at the airport on Friday morning.

Pilot, navigator and observer crews flew a one hour route in central Victoria, doing their best to answer questions based on observation and aviation knowledge.

Information about AWPA can be found on www.awap.org.au

awards for lions The Huntly Epsom Lions Club had a special dinner at The Borough Club to witness the presentation of three Melvin Jones Awards to three very special long serving Lions in our Huntly Epsom Club.

Lions celebrates 100 years this year and was founded in America

by Melvin Jones. The award is given to Lions who have given and performed outstanding service to their Lions Club

charge: New driver Natasha Gorrie connects Ian Belmont’s car to the outlet. will discuss what is available now and will include what lies ahead.

It will cover home and public charging stations and how we can be ready for the continued roll out.

Electric vehicles will be on display.

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and communities.

The presentations were made to John Gregory, 48 years’ service, Geoff Lawry, 30 years’ service, Doug Stewart, 27 years’ service.

They have held numerous portfolios within the club and are still serving today.

trains to groove V/Line is again gearing up to run additional trains to and from this year’s Groovin the Moo

in Bendigo on Saturday.

More than 2700 festival goers travelled on V/ Line’s special trains last year, with these services proving to be hugely popular each year.

V/Line regional manager Jonathan McKeown said six additional special trains would run between Melbourne and Bendigo to meet the increasing demand.

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La Trobe on a rainbow It’s Pride Week and La Trobe University Bendigo hopped on board to celebrate.

There was a LGBTIQ flag-raising ceremony on campus on Tuesday followed by market stalls and a panel discussion on LGBTIQ rights beyond marriage equality.

The inaugural Dennis Altman Lecture, at the La Trobe Arts Institute on Tuesday evening addressed the topic: Did gay liberation succeed?

Transgender student Alex Collins has been working behind the scenes to prepare for these and other events as secretary of LGBTIQ student group Rainbow Eagles.

Alex is a first-year Bachelor of Law/Bachelor of Science student who was happy to add to her uni commitments by signing up for the Rainbow Eagles executive role.

“It’s important to me because it’s an avenue that will allow me to make a bigger difference,” Alex said.

“Instead of working as one person, I can work with the backing, resources and support of the Rainbow Eagles and Bendigo Student Association.”

Alex, 19, came out as transgender around 12 months ago. She said she wanted to use her experience to help other young people in the same situation.

“I want to be there for people who may be going through tough times in Bendigo – to show solidarity,” she said.

“I’m openly out as transgender and I’ve started to transition, socially and physically, so I feel I’m able to use my knowledge to help others who may not know where to go.

“For me it’s about education and spreading awareness. Not just having a presence but promoting

speaking out: Alex Collins aims to help others following her experience. resilience so people who come out can walk down the street without feeling like they have a target on their back.

“Stuff like that doesn’t happen overnight, but I’m just trying to make a difference in any way I can.

I’ve always been like that, not just with gender-related issues, if I see any social injustice I want to fix it.”

Alex is also involved in the Headspace diversity group, and through that group and Rainbow Eagles, is in talks with Bendigo Community Health to implement LGBTIQ health initiatives in Bendigo, including educating health professionals on what to consider when working with LGBTIQ people.

As part of La Trobe’s events there will be LGBTIQ inclusive practice training for staff and students.

Highlighting a disease A BENDIGO therapist is taking special steps to highlight disease awareness.

May 12 marks the international day of awareness for chronic immunological and neurological diseases and Karin Herrmann intends to promote the day by inviting people who suffer, or know of someone suffering from an invisible illness, to donate a pair of their shoes to be placed on her property.

“A note can be added to the shoes, about them or a name,” she said.

“Shoes will be donated to charity at the end of the day.”

“The illnesses include chronic fatigue, myalgic encephalomyelitis, fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities. In other words, invisible illnesses.”

Ms Herrmann said millions of people are missing from their families/careers, jobs, school, sports and communities.

“Many are too sick to raise awareness, let alone participate in life,” she said.

Shoes can be dropped off at 26 Homebush Drive, Junortoun on or before May 12.

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Welsh choir a plus for funds One of Australia’s most versatile entertainers, Silvie Paladino will feature with the Victoria Welsh Choir later this year.

The Rotary Club of Bendigo South and the City of Greater Bendigo council will join to raise funds for technical equipment for Ulumbarra Theatre.

The partnership, supported by the Victoria Welsh Choir, sees biennial concerts staged at

Ulumbarra with profits used to fund the purchase of important production and technical equipment, as well as prizemoney to support the Bendigo Senior Secondary College’s Musician of the Year Award.

The first concert featuring the Victoria Welsh Choir and Marina Prior in 2015 raised $20,000 with funds used to buy a mobile audio visual kit to be used for business

conferences, private functions and community events in the foyer spaces at Ulumbarra Theatre.

The second concert is scheduled for September 10 at Ulumbarra Theatre featuring Paladino.

Ulumbarra Theatre and the Rotary Club of Bendigo South present the Victoria Welsh Choir and Silvie Paladino on Sunday September 10 at Ulumbarra Theatre.

App trial to ease parking pain A new online parking payment system is being trialled to allow residents to more easily pay for their parking.

The trial, which began on Monday, will apply to two specific all-day carparks, the Market Street and Myers Street car parks.

The system is called PayStay and will allow users to pay for their parking online or via a smartphone app.

City of Greater Bendigo council’s Caroline Grylls said they were responding to community demand for a more flexible and convenient parking payment system.

“PayStay allows for you to park without having to buy a physical ticket or put coins into a ticket machine,” Ms Grylls said.

new app: parking may be easier.

“We know that it can be hard to always have coins in your wal-

Official launch a success Royal Freemasons Bendigo latest aged care facility was officially launched on Sunday 30th April by the Mayor of Bendigo, Margaret O’Rourke . The festive Open Day Event was attended by Bendigo City Councillors, local guests and other dignitaries as well as hundreds of individuals & families from the local Bendigo community who were keen to see this outstanding latest offering in Aged care.. With the Official opening May 1st, the two days at Alder Street , Kangaroo Flat provided the opportunity for local health networks and the community to tour the facility and learn how it will support residents and their families.

Chief Executive of Royal Freemasons Felix Pintado highlighted that the new facility will provide enormous employment opportunities.

Royal Freemasons Bendigo will employ approximately 165 people in full and permanent part time roles. There will also be a further 25

people employed on a casual basis to cover personal leave provisions. We anticipate a total of 190 staff will be required to deliver care and service to residents, most of whom will be local to Bendigo and the surrounding district.

Royal Freemasons Bendigo will provide private rooms for 144 residents that cater for couples and single people, and those needing specialised care from the Memory Support team.

Royal Freemasons is also excited to learn about the new Aquatic and Wellbeing Centre being built in Kangaroo Flat. We intend to incorporate hydro-therapy classes into our Lifestyle - Health and Wellbeing support program.

The Royal Freemasons Bendigo home has a 10-seater bus on site with wheelchair access to assist residents to travel between key places of interest in the local and surrounding areas, which we consider to be an integral part of our Lifestyle Program.

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let or in your car and that more and more people now prefer the convenience of paying online.

“You can register multiple vehicles to one account and for a small reminder service fee you can opt to have SMS reminders when your parking session is due to expire.”

A number of councils across Victoria already use the technology, as well more than 250,000 motorists across the country.

“There is a small transaction fee associated with using PayStay,” Ms Grylls said.

“We will monitor the trial closely to see whether people find it beneficial and simple to use, before rolling this out across the municipality.”

The trial will run for six months.

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A classic event ON the last weekend in January, Audax Australia hosts its most popular event – the Alpine Classic – a series of rides ranging from 70 to 250 kilometres in the high country.

It was a challenge each year to get enough volunteers to assist, so I decided that I would be a volunteer for the 2017 edition.

It was only at the volunteers dinner the Friday before the even that I appreciated its scale: more than 100 volunteers, not counting the service clubs and Ambulance Victoria paramedics.

Event day began for me and many others at 4.30am.

I walked to the Bright Community Centre to have breakfast before teaming up with co-worker Sue. Among the volunteers already eating were the marshals from the 250km ride that had started at 4am.

“The Devil” and the “French Maid”, two wickedly entertaining ladies, had already dispatched the first wave of riders, dressed in their flamboyant burlesque costumes complete with corsets and feather boas.

Sue and I hitched the cool room filled with food and drinks for riders to the Hilux and headed to our checkpoint at Mt Beauty.

We were expecting more than 900 riders in the 130 and 200km events.

The first appeared at around 7:30 am, having already conquered Mt Buffalo and Tawonga and now on his way to Falls Creek before retracing the route.

Even though the event is not a race, his first question to me was: “Am I first?”

He certainly was but I couldn’t resist a bit of fun.

“Nah second. There’s a bloke about 10 minutes in front of you.”

He was off like a shot.

Mid-morning the heat was beginning to be an issue.

As midday passed, we were getting riders from the 250km course desperate for water in the very hot conditions.

Standing on the roadside directing riders continued till 2pm, the scheduled closing time for our checkpoint.

Two ladies rode in as we packed up after making it back from Falls Creek.

A friend was coming to take them back to Bright as they were exhausted.

But they were elated at having ridden 100km and were planning some serious time in the Bright Brewery to celebrate their achievement.

We headed back over Tawonga Gap at 3pm past a conga line up of weary riders battling heat and fatigue.

With windows down, we urged them to keep going.

Back at Bright, we had unpacked and returned

equipment by 5pm.

It had been a huge day, much harder than actually doing the ride.

But among the crew that day was Kat who helped at the 4am start and was still serving food to cyclists at 9pm.

She explained she had been doing the same thing for the past seven years.

I headed home on Sunday, weary but delighted after my first stint as an Alpine Classic volunteer.

Apart from meeting some amazingly generous volunteers, I was humbled by the number of grateful cyclists who thanked us as they departed the checkpoint.

The smallest gesture – filling a bidon, putting a chain back on – can mean the world to a hot and weary cyclist.

Most satisfying, was the feeling of being part of someone else’s success as they completed their event and became part of the grinning sea of revellers back at the event village.

– Peter Carr

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Challenge to aid research BENDIGO riders have set off to ride an epic 900 kilometres this week in support of the inaugural Type 1 Challenge.

The challenge is led by three cyclists living with Type 1 Diabetes, the group includes representatives from Telstra, Bendigo Bank, Byte, Channel Nine, Delta Group, HERE and Media Partners, they have raised more than $110,000 to aid T1D research.

Riders Gavin O’Rielly and Anton Marrone from Bendigo Bank are part of the team and will be riding from

Melbourne to the Barossa Valley in South Australia.

The ride culminates in participation in the annual Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation OneRide tomorrow.

Mr O’Rielly has a personal motivation for his participation in the ride.

“My link to diabetes is a very personal one. My daughter was diagnosed three years ago and our family has ridden the T1D rollercoaster with its highs and lows ever since,” he said.

“I witness firsthand the

testing, regular injections and nightly waking that are all part of life with T1.

“The challenge of riding my bike for a few days pales in significance and is a small sacrifice I can make.”

The epic ride began on Monday at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and Bendigo, and finishes today in the Barossa Valley. The team saw exactly where their fundraising efforts are going, meeting with local T1D communities at events during the week, as well as three T1D cyclists participating in the ride.

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Hopeless journey In her article on packed, late trains in The Age on Tuesday, April 25, Elizabeth Lakey highlights the neglect and abandonment by the Andrews government with regional rail commuters.

In her article she states that “2015 and 2016 were horror years, where it seemed that half the peak hour services did not run at all.

Some were replaced with coaches, others disappeared without trace.

The remaining carriages strained to accommodate the thousands of travellers who were frustrated, then furious and eventually too tired and disappointed to be angry anymore.”

This is what the Minister for Public Transport, Jacinta Allan and the CEO of V/line rely on, worn out commuters who are too tired of the constancy of the situation of the regional rail network, to voice their discontent with commuting by rail from regional Victoria.

Elizabeth Lakey concedes that “V/line is adding one extra carriage a month, demand remains much higher than its ability to supply. This translates to hours of pain for hapless commuters as we cram aboard carriages full to bursting knowing there are more stops ahead.”

Elizabeth Lakey travels on the Ballarat line and the scenario she presents also applies to the Bendigo and Geelong network lines.

She also raises the contentious issue of regional trains no longer stopping at North Melbourne and having to change at Footscray and having to attempt to board metropolitan trains that are also overcrowded and she endeavours to do this with a pram.

Elizabeth concludes in her article, “It is sometimes difficult not to feel a nihilistic sense of hopelessness at the sheer inadequacy of the service we are offered, in the face of significantly increasing travel times, more late arrivals, overcrowding and irregular services.”

It certainly does not appear that commuting in 2017 has improved with Jacinta Allan in the driver’s cab.

Scott Ramsay, Strathdale

Smoke and mirrors I read with disbelief the minister’s recent letter in local media concerning her statement that the government will act to improve services for people with disabilities.

Her comment: “I can assure people who rely on wheelchair taxis that we will do all we can to ensure they continue to have access to a quality

and reliable service” is smoke and mirrors.

It‘s a pity the minister wouldn’t answer the complaint that I have raised with her office, the premier, the Minister for Health and Local Government and our councillors concerning access to the Kangaroo Flat Railway Station for residents of the Community House in Station Street, Kangaroo Flat. Residents with wheel-chairs and disabilities have no footpath or pedestrian crossing.

There are laws, legislation and regulations including OH&S laws for staff, which these authorities are ignoring.

Access and equity describes being able to enter and use community buildings, services and places with the same level of dignity and ease as others in our community.

To ignore the plight of people with disabilities breeds a social model of disability as a second class citizen.

I can only hope this letter gets action and some sense of responsibility from our elected representatives.

Bill Collier, Golden Square

Time for memorial Here we are, some months since a motion I put to the council was passed unanimously to honour Mr Daryl McClure OAM for his tireless work for this community with a memorial in Rosalind Park.

Where is it? Is this new council against the idea? Who is responsible for the progress of this project? I call on the new mayor, Cr O’Rourke, to tell us.

Helen Leach, Bendigo

Gaining the fruits The recent opening of the Marist Community Centre was much more than the opening of a building and facilities … much more.

To have taken a wander on this less than fertile paddock during 2008 and then to witness its newfound fertility in 2017 is enlightening and sobering.

Enlightening because the partnerships among the Marists the Council and the Diocese (through its Catholic Education Office) have been demanding and changing but fruitful and positive.

Bureaucracy and territorial attitudes have played no part in the transformation of these fields. The officers of these organisations have responded to myriad problems by doing the work necessary to make it

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Sobering because the real work continues and the real focus of that real work, our young people and their families, must take centre stage at every stage.

Mr Denis Higgins, Marist College Advisory Council

Lack of appreciation After hearing from friends who were most upset and distraught by renting their house out for 12 months while on holidays and thinking that they could trust tenants, however to come back and find their house very badly damaged, it makes one wonder where the trust and respect has gone from our society.

Working endlessly to get the house made comfortable so that another family can have the privilege of renting in comfort while they were away, yet to come back and find their dream house with broken doors, bathroom rails off, kitchen badly damaged, gates half off.

Why offer to give other people a chance in renting your private property or even public property for that matter?

What has happened to our respect and trust? Yes they are paying for it, however they are paying for what they receive when they first take hold and should have the decency to leave other people’s prop-

erty or any property the way it was left to them?

It makes it so hard for others who are badly in need of accommodation and would give anything to rent a house from such loving and trustworthy people.

Lyn Hartland, Bendigo

Pokies cause harm Poker machines are designed to be addictive and to maximise losses.

The increasing ubiquity of pokies pubs and clubs in Victorian suburbia is normalising gambling for the sole purpose of extracting as much money from punters as quickly as possible.

There is an abundance of evidence that gambling – and pokies in particular – causes enormous harm.

Pokies bleed communities of hundreds of millions of dollars every year, while generating spiralling levels of problem gambling, relationship breakdown, debt and poverty.

Euphemistically calling a business or “community club” which depends upon addicts for at least 40 per cent of its profits a “hospitality venue”, merely adds insult to communal injury.

In 2010 the Productivity Commission argued that although clubs made community contributions: “The claimed benefits of gambling revenue on sporting activities and volunteering do not appear

strong. Indeed, the presence of gambling may adversely affect volunteering rates. The gross value of social contributions by clubs is likely to be significantly less than the support governments provide to clubs through tax and other concessions”.

Numerous studies of the Victorian pokies industry have found that contributions to what most people would regard as genuine community benefits (as opposed to business and venue operating costs) are very low. As a proportion of total pokies losses (to the community) donations and sponsorships amount to approximately 2.2 per cent.

The pokies industry, as represented by Bendigo Stadium at The Wellington in White Hills, knows that people under financial stress in first home-buyer areas (Epsom and Huntly) are vulnerable to addiction, and that opening up a venue metres from a primary school normalises gambling in the eyes of children.

Governments and the venues whose business models depend upon pokies revenue must adjust their moral compass and overcome their mutual addiction to this social scourge.

Likewise local government councillors who genuinely seek to represent the interests of their most disadvantaged and vulnerable constituents cannot do so by promoting the myth that pokies are good for communities.

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Setting the scene THIS week’s state budget sets the scene for next year’s Victorian election.

It’s the first stage in a two-step process where in 2018 we should expect more of the bricks and mortar project funding announcements politicians love, rather than the service delivery and programs that were the focus of this week’s announcements.

Healthy surpluses guarantee a spending spree by both the government and the coalition in the lead up to the last Saturday in November 2018, and if the funding is well directed, Victorians will all prove to be winners.

This week’s budget sees much needed funding for domestic violence programs as the government looks too implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission, and try and reduce, if not eliminate, the scourge of violence in the household.

Funding to allow for ongoing planning of improved court facili-

Editorial Comment ties in Bendigo is long overdue, and will hopefully lead to a future funding announcement of the new purpose-built court facilities Bendigo so desperately needs.

Buried deep in the budget is a $15 million package to help revitalise the Geelong central business district. The City of Greater Bendigo council could do a lot worse than to look much closer at this initiative, and to seek the same for the heart of our own city.

Broadly, first home buyers in regional communities have been offered a lot more assistance with stamp duty concessions and the doubling of grants that were announced prior to the budget.

Cuts to payroll tax for regional businesses will be much appreciated, so too funding for local schools

including Kalianna and Spring Gully.

The state budget is also big on law and order, with funding for more than 2700 extra police officers.

Sadly, they are much needed, as spiralling crime rates dog a government that’s been accused of being too soft thus far on crime.

The ongoing bun fight with the federal government over infrastructure funding tied to the privatisation of the Port of Melbourne, which Victoria wants directed towards rail upgrades mostly in regional areas, is a blight upon both the state and commonwealth governments.

Frankly, the rest of us are sick and tired of the squabbling, which does nothing to improve our standards of living or the facilities Victorians both need and deserve.

We should not be held hostage to the point scoring, and past experience shows that investment in better rail transport is an absolute winner for regional communities.

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posedly the smartest creatures on the planet, but I haven’t seen too many overweight and unfit looking dolphins, cockatoos, kangaroos, koalas etc lately.

We consume so much salt in half the food we ingest that it needs a corresponding amount of sugar

But it needs an education campaign to ensure we all know how much of a good thing is too much.

About two thirds of Victorian adults are overweight or obese – and those rates continue to rise each year. The government points out obesity is a major risk factor for heart dis-

“ Encourage your friends and family to join you” to balance the flavours.

And too many of us don’t even realise what we are doing. Problem is, we’re out of balance.

Completely.

So this week’s confirmation by the state government that it is following through on mandating that all major Victorian food outlets and supermarket chains must display kilojoule contents on their menus, is a good thing.

ease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer, costing us more than $14 billion each year.

Recently released Australian Health Policy Collaboration data shows that 69.6 per cent of Bendigo adults are either overweight or obese.

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It needn’t cost any of us a lot to get motivated and do something.

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Go for a walk, kick the footy or play basketball with the kids, stop drinking sugary drinks, eat more fruit, vegies, drink more water.

Stop smoking, save money, and cut back on alcohol.

Encourage your friends and family to join you, and you might just surprise yourself at the difference a healthier lifestyle will make to the way you feel.

I’m no health expert, but none of us need to be.

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Toppled trees lead to a day by the bonfire clearing up

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ITH all of this recent rain and wind, a couple of magnificent red gums came to grief on the roadside near my property.

They fell across the road and such was the upheaval of the root system part of my boundary fence was folded over and damaged.

It’s was a very sad sight, 200-year-old trees dead on the road.

The local farmers pitched in and the road was cleared within hours, and then began the collecting of the wood.

I don’t know the actual rules of collecting wood, but I think it is not allowed, maybe with a permit, but as I say I am not sure.

Throughout the weekend there was the staccato burst of chainsaws as the mighty reds were cut into pieces to feed the fires of the district.

It seems like a good idea to me, it clears the roadside and makes it safer for all.

We had to fix the fence, and after I had decided the way to get it done, the long-suffering Mrs Kendall came and explained how to

do it properly. After some wrestling with hacksaws and wires and wire cutters and those magnificent strainer tools we had something resembling a fence again.

The gentle collection of wood continued until Sunday, when in came some serious collecting involving chains and a tractor.

It was all but gone on

one side of the road as we settled to tidy up our side of the fence.

Sunday afternoon was perfect timing, and it never ceases to amaze me how in summer the last thing you want to see is flame but in autumn and winter it is so comforting.

We cut and collected all of the wood of this and

previous falls, filled up the beaut ute and set a bonfire with all of the leftovers.

There were plenty of bits of rotten and sodden wood, but after a few minutes of fire anything was ready to burn It was a busy afternoon, but as it was getting darker I decided to put on a large piece to burn through overnight.

I misjudged the heat and heard and felt the unmistakable sound of hair burning.

Then the smell.

Once Mrs K saw I was uninjured she had a laugh and I got back to the job in hand.

I thought I had got away with it, but when I looked in the mirror I had a blackened face and my unshaven face had lost the beard on one side.

My hair was frizzed, and my left eyelashes were sticking together.

A gentle reminder to take more care when out and about in the paddocks and the dangers, even in autumn, of radiant heat.

- Steve Kendall Twitter@stevekendall1

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HE’S played Craig T Nelson’s daughter, Alexis Bledel’s mother, David Sutcliffe’s wife, Ray Romano’s fiancée and her real-life boyfriend’s sister in a Hollywood career that has rarely allowed more than a moment’s downtime.

Fans of her two incredibly successful and long-running television dramas, Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, have been aware for years of Lauren Graham’s ability to regurgitate rapid-fire dialogue at a pace that would leave the average actor completely tongue-tied.

What they might not have realised is that Graham – an accomplished writer and producer – has spent a disproportionately generous share of her precious off-screen hours jotting down equally hilarious and irreverent prose of her own.

In her latest book, a collection of vignettes revisiting some of her favourite showbusiness memories, the woman known by millions of viewers as Lorelai Gilmore and/or Sarah Braverman delivers a sassily witty commentary on her experiences both in front of and behind the studio

camera. Graham recalls her excruciatingly awkward first meeting with Peter Krause, the man who would much later become her off-screen partner as well as her brother on Parenthood.

She shares details of her unconventional upbringing in Japan and the Caribbean, her deep and genuine friendships with castmates and her disregard for the celebrity lifestyle, mocking the so-called benefits of fame.

She confesses her distaste of the outdoors and her constant struggle to meet writing deadlines.

Graham weaves into her commentary a walk through the popular culture of the 1990s and early 2000s (Filofax organisers, videotapes, BlackBerry PDAs) and pokes fun at her nationally televised failing as a fashion judge.

And as a highlight for Gilmore Girls aficionados, she includes diary excerpts from the period in which – a decade after Lorelai was officially retired – she returns to the set of fictitious Stars Hollow to reprise the character for the series’ exclusive Netflix reboot.

– Rosalea Ryan

Stars head for Bendigo

Jeanine Kolasa – Glitch

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HE monster Gods of comedy are back, that’s what they say anyway.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Doug Anthony Allstars took the Australian comedy world by storm with their live shows and TV appearances.

Tim Ferguson said they were wilfully provocative, psychologically manipulative and gleefully tasteless.

“We kicked political correctness out the door and gave it a damned good thrashing outside,” he said.

In an atmosphere of mob-rule chaos, three men became the rockstars of comedy.

Then in 1994 the Doug Anthony All Stars broke up and the world was safe again.

Fast forward to 2013. Paul McDermott and Ferguson teamed up with their mentor Paul “Flacco” Livingston.

But these are not the men they

Glitch with Jeanine “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see” – Edgar Degas

DAAS

once were; Livingston is on the spectrum, Ferguson is wheelchairbound with MS, and McDermott is his primary carer.

“We are older, we are sicker, we are angrier and better than ever,” Ferguson said.

“We are coming to the goldfields.

Be unnerved, Bendigo, be mildly unnerved.”

“The show features sex, violence, music and sex. And our new gimmick – death.”

DAAS play Ulumbarra Theatre on Saturday June 24, 8pm. www.gotix. com.au

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RNOLD Street Gallery’s current exhibition, Glitch from artist Jeanine Kolasa raises questions around what we see and what feelings do the works evoke.

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Car boot sale: Anglican Parish of Kangaroo Flat, 8am-1pm. Stalls full of pre-loved goods, direct sellers and all the church’s regular stalls such as plants, cakes, books and a barbecue.

Monday, May 8 Morning Coffee: The Rising Sun Hotel.

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Thursday, May 11 Mother’s Day Trading Table: 10am3pm in the atrium area of the hospital in Lily Street. Delicious cakes, slices, preserves and handicraft will be on sale. The St John of God Hospital Auxiliary. Details: 5439 7401.

Old Time Dance: Eaglehawk Senior Citizens Hall, Darling Street. Eaglehawk.

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Moovin in the groove A

N outdoor touring regional festival at the end of autumn?

On paper, it doesn’t immediately sound like a potentially successful commercial venture.

Now in its 13th year though (ninth year in Bendigo), Groovin The Moo is a raging success. The Bendigo leg is a sell-out; punters snapped-up around 15,000 tickets in an instant.

Hip-hop, indie, glam rock and metal all features among more than 30 diverse acts gracing four stages at the Prince of Wales Showground, tomorrow, Saturday, May 6.

It kicks off early with Melbournebased rapper Birdz on the triple j stage at 11am. He’s not the earliest bird though – Lanks (Wil Cuming), a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, hits the Moolin Rouge stage five minutes earlier.

Veteran US punk outfit Against Me! is an early afternoon highlight.

The four-piece from Gainesville, Florida is fronted by Laura Jane Grace – the only constant in a band that has undergone numerous lineup changes over the years.

Expect them to draw heavily from their two most recent albums, Shape Shift With Me (2016), and Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014).

Also from the US, alternative artist K.Flay (Kristine Meredith Flaherty) will play a half-hour set just before Against Me! Her influences are

broad, reflected in a fusion of sounds encompassing hip-hop, indie and pop.

The 31-year-old from San Francisco describes her sound as “genre-defying”. From 1.20pm on the Cattleyard Stage, Bendigonians will be able to assess that claim.

Mid-afternoon offers two very different Melbourne acts on my day’s must-see list – Tash Sultana, and The Smith Street Band.

Australian hip-hop act Thundamentals have toured with the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Drapht and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony during their near 10 year career.

The Blue Mountains foursome’s fourth album, Everyone We Know, reached number two earlier this year. They’re an early evening highlight on the Moolin Rouge stage.

Either side of a four-year hiatus, The Darkness has been doing their Spinal Tap-like metal glam rock thing for a very long time. The seasoned festival performers offer more than a nod to the genre’s 1970s heyday with albums like One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back.

They sign-posted their direction early on with singles like Get Your Hands off My Woman, and Love is Only a Feeling. The Darkness are a fun live outfit.

Dillon Francis headlines the Moolin Rouge stage at 9.35pm. The

THE SMITH STREET BAND enigmatic Los Angeles-based DJ is also a record producer, comedian, musician and composer.

He claims not to have known any swear words until he was 15, and has a curious interest in the TV series Sesame Street. His recorded output is nothing short of prolific. triple j stage headliners, indierock trio The Wombats are currently putting final touches to their fourth album. Their last two long players,

This Modern Glitch and 2015’s Glitterbug both hit number two in the Australian charts. The Liverpudlian outfit have a big Australian following.

Brisbane’s Violent Soho – another must-see – conclude proceedings on the Cattleyard Stage.

It’ll be a big day out.

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F Groovin the Moo isn’t quite your thing, there’s a very special evening in store tonight, Friday, May, 5, at

The Goldmines Hotel. The Davidson Brothers will be showcasing their new album, All You Need Is Music.

Recorded in Nashville and featuring 12 new original bluegrass and country tracks, the brothers will be performing with a full band in the hotel’s picturesque courtyard.

Doors at 8pm, admission $20.

– Simon Wooldridge twitter: @spwooldridge

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White Hills wonders D

AWSON and Gill’s Cactus Gardens and nursery was and still is situated in Napier Street, White Hills not far from the Botanical Gardens.

Thomas Henry Dawson was born at Wodonga in 1902 and passed away at White Hills on September 7, 1986.

Dawson had lived in Roh’s Road, East Bendigo, prior to moving to White Hills. At Rohs Road he ran a small dairy, delivering the milk that was produced from his own cows.

In 1925 Dawson married Myrtle Elizabeth Loy, her father was James Loy (Ah Loy) and her mother Mary Hem or Ah Hem, there was Chinese ancestry on both sides of Myrtle’s family.

Some believe that it was Myrtle who was the first of the Dawson couple to have acquired several cacti.

Dawson became fascinated with the plants and began to see them in people’s gardens or as pot plants as he made his milk deliveries. Through asking for cuttings Dawson’s cacti collection grew on both fronts.

Amateur gardeners had taken to cacti, which had become quite popular in the early 1920s. Men such as William Guilfoyle had much earlier established a more significant collection of cacti at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.

When Dawson and Myrtle purchased their property at White Hills the land had an equivalent area of four good sized house blocks.

The existing house on the land was constructed in 1867 and a

DESERT-LIKE: Myrtle Dawson with cacti.

unique feature were its octagonal shaped chimneys. The house and garden are now heritage listed.

By 1933 Dawson had already planted out many of his cacti at in the garden, the plants grew splendidly in the well drained soil.

During the alluvial gold mining period the ground in the surrounding area had been turned well and truly upside down by those looking for gold.

Justin Gill joined with Dawson, he not only helped at times at the nursery but was the financial backer for this new venture.

Importation of cactus seed and plants began as part of the develop-

ment of the collection.

Many ribbed column growing cereus plants were allowed to establish themselves. The multiple ribs of these plants are covered with spine pads sometimes in combination with a hair-like growth.

The plants flourished under the men’s care and soon rarer plants and seeds from them were being shipped back to their countries of origin.

Cacti were being cultivated in large numbers in order to supply individual gardeners and collectors as well as a number of plant nurseries.

Gill had many irons in the fire apart from his interest in the cactus nursery, he as previously mentioned, was an artist.

He was also a property developer, having a large number of houses built, particularly in the 1950s, in various areas including North Bendigo.

Who were some of the earliest to grow cacti in Bendigo? As far as I can determine Holdsworth the chemist of Pall Mall and living at Ascot, publicly exhibited a number of cacti plants in 1864.

Holdsworth was a grower of many different herbaceous plants some of which were used in his medicinal preparations.

Back to Myrtle E Dawson, although she is shown in the photograph, circa 1973, among a stand of pilocereus cacti she herself did not continue to be a collector.

Dawson continued with unabated passion, assembling more than 2000 different species.

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Melbourne comedian Chris Wainhouse is one of Australia’s premier comedians, in 2016 he won the piece of Wood Award – best comedian as voted by comedians – at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Wainhouse has performed around the world and has been described by the Brisbane News as “rapid fire wit and….has audiences

begging for mercy”.

MC David Tulk is a 10-year comedy veteran and is coming off a highly-acclaimed run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Feature act Tait Middleton is a rising star of the Melbourne comedy scene and is widely tipped as the next big thing.

The night is being held on Thursday, May 11 from 8pm at the Goldmines Hotel, 49-57, Marong Road, Bendigo.

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At any one time, AAG has more than 60 volunteers working across its sites including PepperGreen Farm, Our Shed and Lancewood.

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AAG operates a suite of services to achieve its mission, including training, employment, social enterprises, support services and social activities.

“We acknowledge the generous contribution of our volunteers and will hold two events during National Volunteer Week at Our Shed in Eaglehawk and PepperGreen Farm in North Bendigo,” CEO Michael Langdon said.

“We will mark the occasion with a morning tea.

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ENDIGO Heritage Attractions is a not-for-profit organisation that manages Bendigo’s iconic Central Deborah Gold Mine, Bendigo Tramways and the Bendigo Joss House Temple.

“Our organisation’s vision is to be the most inspiring heritage story in Australia and for that we need friendly and passionate people,” CEO Peter Abbott said.

“Each of our sites have their own story and appeal to different interests, but the same sense of enthusiasm pervades at all of them and this is

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BHA are now recruiting for a number of positions, and are particularly wanting to hear from those interested in sharing the story about Bendigo’s iconic trams by becoming a depot guide and “Trambassador”.

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Call Rod 0439 132 021

Email: denfieldblinds@gmail.com

www.denfieldcurtaincleaning.com.au

RE FI E! BESAF Clean. Safe...Easy

Don’t risk your safety or your property, let the experts vacuum clean your gutters, quickly, safely and professionally.

Gutter-Vac will professionally vacuum clean gutters, roofs, downpipes, ceiling cavities.

Free Design, Measure & Quote www.romacshades.com.au Phone 5441 8419 romacshades@bigpond.com

bUTE

Gutters Overflowing? saves time and effort reduces the possibility of fire damage eliminates water damage lengthens gutters life reduces breeding areas for insects cheaper than installing gutter protection products reduces dust mites eliminates the risk of falls

TRAYS &

ACCESSORIES

Is your house HOT in summer?

COLD in winter?

Don’t settle for a good tray… demand a bUTE tray!

• Qualified Tradesman • Manufacturers of quality Steel ute trays • Service bodies made to order • Toolboxes made to order • Roof Racks and Ladder Racks • Powdercoating and sandblasting • General fabrication, welding and repairs.

P: (03) 5448 8285 M: 0421 547 907 www.butetraysandaccessories.com.au

NOW OPEN TILES DIRECT

CLEARANCE OUTLET

WALL TILES FROM $12m2 FLOOR TILES FROM $8m2 Adjacent to Bendigo Tile & Carpet Court

32 Humme Place, Bendigo

PH 5443 1011

We will remove that old and non-compliant insulation and re-install with new high performance insulation

K

ANGAROO Flat Storage is a small family business that opened July last year.

“It’s a daunting prospect having invested money, time and heart into a venture that will hopefully give financial security to our family, while providing a state-of-the-art storage facility for Bendigo,” owner Cate Keane said.

Records indicate 75 per cent of their business has come directly from the Bendigo area.

“Even I was surprised to see the number was so high. Support like this helps money go around locally supporting local families.”

Kangaroo Flat Storage use local builders and contractors where possible.

“We use the local shops to purchase from for both our business and family and support the local sports teams.

“We use local mediums to advertise. We

Secure, Safe & Modern Self Storage Solutions Over 100 individual units Wide variety of sizes 1x2 metres to 6x3 metres CCTV & back to base monitoring Individually alarmed units Locally owned and operated

33 Collins St, Kangaroo Flat Ph: Cate on 03 5447 7788

eat from local cafes and restaurants and purchase our groceries from local stores.

“That way every dollar is spent many times in Bendigo and surrounding suburbs, multiplying every dollar each time it moves within the community.”

Kangaroo Flat Storage provide a premier storage facility utilising state-of-the-arttechnology enclosed by a modern and secure security system.

“Yet we feature country service and a friendly atmosphere,” Cate said.

Whether you are an outdoor enthusiast, sporting organisation, down-sizing empty nester, bargain hunter, or just on the move and between homes, Kangaroo Flat Storage has a storage solution for you.

Kangaroo Flat Storage, 33 Collins Street Kangaroo Flat, phone 5447 7788. www.kangarooflatstorage.com.au

Epsom Complete Garden Care

Get ready for the fire season

Ph 0419 097 779 www.guttervac.com.au

Locally owned & operated

BENDIGO MOBILITY SERVICES • Mobility Equipment Repairs & Maintenance • Technical Service for all brands of Scooters and Recliner/Lift Chairs • Spare Parts & Accessories • Batteries & Tyres • Agents for Ibosa Electric Bikes • We buy and sell Pre Loved Scooters and Mobility Equipment • E-Bike sales and Service

Lawn Mowing and Gardening Tree Stump Removal

Call Paul 0418 355 898

Phone: 5446 2012 0417 321 569

or

3/ 89 Victoria Street, Eaglehawk

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BendigoWeekly

LocalClassifieds BOOK YOUR SPACE NOW! • Phone Jacinta on 5440 2514 or 1300 558 385

CAPSULE HIRE

Who’s

from

new

$50 for 4 months

B Bendigo Child Restraint Fitting Centre offers a complete installation service of all types of car restraints from new born to 8 years. Costa is a certified and registered member with ACRI, being also the owner guarantees personalised service and the highest quality installation possible with over 20 years experience in fitting child restraints in vehicles.

Bendigo Child Restraint Fitting Centre 8 Caradon Way, Eaglehawk • Ph: 0419 371 586 Mo Monday to Friday 10am-5pm. • Bookings Essential

MCKENNA ROSE WALKER

GEOFFERY JOHN SIMPSON

MATILDA GRACE BRENNAN

was born at

of Ascot.

was born at Bendigo Health March 10, 2017 3590 grams Son of Rachael Henderson and Aaron Simpson of Golden Square.

Brother for Shayla.

was born at Bendigo Health March 23, 2017 3689 grams Daughter of Danni and James Brennan of Lockwood South.

Sister for Nathan and Lily.

of Kangaroo Flat.

CHAISE CHRISTOPHER HOLLIDAY

TYLER PATRICK ALLEN-GALLAGHER

ZIGGY JO FILBIN

AZALEAH RAINE YOUNG

was born at

of Golden Square.

was born at Bendigo Health May 1, 2017 3592 grams Son of Melissa Allen and Brendan Gallagher of California Gully.

Brother for Jayce, Riley and Baily.

IVY JEAN DECKER

REED ROBERT THATCHER

Bendigo Health April 19, 2017 3843 grams Daughter of Hayley Witcombe and Matthew Walker

Bendigo Health April 30, 2017 3613 grams Son of Emma Dobbie and Kory Holliday

was born at Bendigo Health May 1, 2017 3624 grams Daughter of Nicole and Corey Decker of Golden Square.

Sister for Jaiden and Mason.

was born at Bendigo Health April 25, 2017 4596 grams Daughter of Rayleen Brennan

was born at Bendigo Health April 30, 2017

April 29, 2017

3379 grams

3523 grams

Daughter Suzanne Dertilis and Matthew

Son of Vicki and Mat

Young of Bendigo.

Filbin of Kennington.

Sister for Jakayla.

HAZEL ANNE TODESCHINI

EVIE ADELINE MARTIN

was born at

was born at

was born at

Bendigo Health

Bendigo Health

Bendigo Health

May 1, 2017

April 20, 2017

3957 grams

2769 grams

Son of Stacey and Travis

Daughter of Sophie

Thatcher of Leichardt.

JACK MASON VENVILLE

was born at Bendigo Health

IVY MAY LYN BRENNAN

and Ben Todeschini

April 24, 2017 3326 grams Daughter of Alison

Brother for

of Spring Gully.

and Daniel Martin

Jackson and Lily.

Sister for Eleanor.

of Kyneton.

HUDSON JAMES VENVILLE

WILL PATRICK HOCKING

MATILDA HOLLIE YORK

was born at

was born at

was born at

was born at

St John of God

St John of God

St John of God

St John of God

April 27, 2017

April 27, 2017

May 2, 2017

April 27, 2017

2448 grams

2186 grams

4002 grams

3198 grams

Son of Brittany

Son of Brittany

Son of Bree and Paul

Daughter of Lynsey

and Damien Venville

and Damien Venville

Hocking of Tandarra.

and Jeremy York

of Quarry Hill.

of Quarry Hill.

Brother for

of Eaglehawk.

Brother for Hudson.

Brother for Jack.

Jake and Ned.

Sister for Adele.

HAGEN ROBERT HOOKE

ATLAS FRASER RYAN

RILEY HARRY MCARTHUR

MILLICENT SIGRID NAISH was born at

was born at

was born at

was born at

St John of God

St John of God

St John of God

St John of God

May 1, 2017

April 12, 2017

April 28, 2017

April 29, 2017

3316 grams

4068 grams

Son of Kia and Will

Daughter of Lauren

Hooke of Serpentine.

4230 grams

3290 grams

Son of Amy Cathcart

Son of Michelle

and Ben Naish

Brother for

and Josh Ryan

and Chris McArthur

of Jackass Flat.

Piper and Jonty.

of Strathfieldsaye.

of Maiden Gully.

Happy Birthday Sale Month of May

minimum 20% 20 of off ff

up tto

50% off all stock

Open Mon-Fri 9.30 - 5.30 Sat 9.30 - 2.00 O 5511 Williamson Street, Bendigo • Ph: 5443 8745

20% off all shoes

Baby & childrens wear sizes 00000 to t 16 16

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PUBLIC NOTICES

FROM THE BIBLE JOHN 21:26,27 Jesus came and stood

The organisers of the 2017 Bendigo Mother’s Day Classic wish to advise the following road will be closed to all traffic on Sunday May 14, 2017.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and hope you take the opportunity to participate in the Mother’s Day Classic charity fun run and walk.

No entry will be available into Cousins Street between Crook Street and Reservoir Road For further enquiries please contact: Gaye Harrington - Event Organiser Phone: 0406 973 877

www.mothersdayclassic.com.au

DRAWING LESSONS Spring Gully Children: Tues 4-5.30pm Phone Cheryle Ludbey: 0429 430 819

Bendigo 50+ Dinner Group

THE MASSAGE SHOP

The Massage Paradise

only

$50 per hour 5442 7068

SINGLE AGAIN ???

Open 7 Days 9am-6pm

Join other friendly singles in a relaxed atmosphere for a meal and a chat each Tuesday night.

Our Website is: bendigosingles.com

Ray 5446 1817

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Mother’s Day Classic

PUBLIC NOTICES

MASSAGE

Shop 21, 90 Edwards Road, Strathdale (near Aldi) /TheMassageShop • www.massageshop.com.au

PUBLIC NOTICES

Southern Gateway Christian Church CHURCH SERVICE 10am Sunday, Y Community Hall

Bendigo Newcomers

Community Houses: Humboldt Dve. 5442 1165.

21 Woolcock Ave, Kangaroo Flat. 5447 9687. Wed mornings (bread only).

Bendigo Baptist Community Care: Life Essentials, 214 Hargreaves St, Bendigo. Tues and Thurs. 5441 4747.

St Vincent de Paul: 16 Hopetoun St, Bendigo.

5443 5688. Mon/Tues/Thurs and Fri, 10am – 2pm.

Kangaroo Flat – 117 High St. 5447 9800. Mon – Fri, 10am –1pm.

Uniting Care Emergency Relief Centres: Bendigo – 25 Forest St. 5443 4972. Mon/Tue/ Thur/Fri 10am-12.15pm and 1.30pm-3.45pm.

Kangaroo Flat – Cnr. Church and Camp sts. 5443 5458. Tues and Fri 10am – 1pm.

Victory Foodbank: 116 Garsed St. Bendigo. 0423 285 480. Tues 10am – 12pm.

Giving and Living Op Shop: Shed 3, 75 Beischer St, East Bendigo. Tues (bread only) and Thurs 10am 4pm. Ph: 0418 303 489.

Donations for the homeless: Coles car park, Myer St. Bendigo. Wed and Sun, 6.30pm – 8.30pm.

Clothing, blankets etc.

Foodcare3556: Eaglehawk Uniting Church, corner Peg Leg Road and Kirkwood Street, from 1.30pm to 4pm Tuesdays and Wednesdays, free groceries. Ph 0403 698 715. A gold coin donation appreciated.

Community Meals and Soup Kitchens: Bendigo Community Health Soup Kitchen: 171 Hargreaves St, Bendigo. 5448 1600. Thurs 4pm4.45pm. (In the arcade near Café De Mille) Bendigo Baptist Community Care: Life Essentials, 214 Hargreaves St, Bendigo. 5441 4747. Tues 7.45am.

Biker Charity Support Group: Sidney Myer Pl, Bendigo. 0497 862 777. Every second Sun, 5.30p -9.30pm.

Eaglehawk Community House: 19 Bright St, Eaglehawk. 5446 8322. Tues 12 noon and 6pm.

Food Not Bombs: Civic Gardens, Lyttleton Tce, Bendigo. Mon 6pm.

Kangaroo Flat Uniting Church: Cnr Church and Camp sts. K Flat. 5447 9998. Fourth Wed of every month, 12 noon.

Our Shed: 14 Sailors Gully Rd, Eaglehawk - 5446 8813. Every Fri (November – April) 7.30am.

Uniting Church Hall, Peg Leg Rd Eaglehawk. 5446 8813. Fri 7.30am, (May – October ).

Kangaroo Flat Community Meals: Rotary Gateway Park. Wed 5.30pm-6.00pm.

Saltworks Community Meal: Eaglehawk Anglican Church , 63 High St, Eaglehawk. 0458 018 083. Fri 5.45pm (except January or public holidays).

St Liborius Parish Centre: 50 Panton St, Eaglehawk. 5446 8235. Tues 11.30am (during school terms).

Supplied by City of Greater Bendigo.

Right in the City, Plenty of Free Parking Text or call for bookings 0437 211 614 or 0437 725 990.

LIKE us on Facebook to win discount vouchers or a free massage

58 Mundy Street, Bendigo 0437 725 990 or 0437 211 614 www.massageparadise.com.au

OPEN 7 DAYS

10am-10pm

TRAVEL

(opposite Aldi Kangaroo Flat)

Linking people, places and events

Preacher:

Ps Peter Pritchard

Bendigo Newcomers hosts regular social activities as a way to meet new people & discover what the Bendigo Region has on offer.

E: bendigonewcomers@hotmail.com Ph 0498 000 767 www.bendigonewcomers.com

0413 682 999

HEALTH SERVICES

HEALTH SERVICES

Did you know each cigarette has half a teaspoon of sugar - adding to the addiction?

HYPNOSIS

ght for thou Grocery distribution:

PE

Sunday May 14, 2017 8am - 11am

Specializing in Seniors call Jinie 0409 951 510.

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MOBILE HAIRDRESSER

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among them and said “Peace be with you.”

Then He said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

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Quit smoking and enjoy your smoke free lifestyle.

Call Barnard Mind Solution on (03) 5447 7306. barnardmindsolution.com.au Book Now.

Quit smoking, Drinking, Gambling, Nail biting, Lose weight. Dip. of Clin.

Hyp. Phone Trevor now on: 0417 156 313

To advertise in this section please call 1300 558 385

TRAINING & EDUCATION

Coach & International Travel FREE Pickup/Return Service from:

Bendigo Railway Station, Eaglehawk, Golden Square, Kangaroo Flat & White Hills VISIT OUR NEW LOOK WEBSITE

www.cardwells.com.au EXTENDED TOURS 6d Hahndorf: May 8 .........................$1575 7d Cornish Festival: May 17.............$1540 6d Spirit of the Murray Cruise: May23...$2450 7d Outback S.A.: Jul 10....................$2480 15d Northern Territory: Jul 26..........$5790

LOOKING FOR A CAREER AS A CARER OR NURSE?

18d NT & The Ghan: Jul 26...............$9640 5d Murray River Princess: Jul 27 .....$1890 16d Across The Top: Aug 8 ...............$5900

Partners in Training Australia, a nationally registered training organisation, are pleased to offer the following courses: CHC33015 CERTIFICATE III IN INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT Delivered one day per week (Wednesdays) at Havilah Hostel in Maryborough starting in May 2017.

CHC43015 CERTIFICATE IV IN AGEING SUPPORT Delivered one day per week (Mondays) in Bendigo starting in May 2017.

CHC43415 CERTIFICATE IV IN LEISURE AND HEALTH Delivered one day per week (Wednesdays) in Bendigo at Estia Health starting in May 2017.

CHC43115 CERTIFICATE IV IN DISABILITY

Vet Student Loans available for eligible students.

Nursing is delivered at our Shepparton campus.

Duration: 24 months, at 5 days per month Courses include face-to-face classes and organised practical placement experience

ENROLMENTS ARE NOW OPEN AND EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED. An Information/Enrolment session will be held in Bendigo on Wednesday 3rd May 2017

Delivered one evening per week (Tuesdays) in Bendigo at AMICUS starting in May 2017.

Please book your place or contact us to organise an alternate time.

HLT51612 DIPLOMA OF NURSING

For further information contact: Libby at Partners in Training 1300 664601 or info@ptaust.com.au

(Enrolled - Division 2 nursing) Transition to HLT54115 Diploma of Nursing starts Tuesday 2nd of May 2017.

14d Queensland: Aug 23...................$4675 10d Cape York: Aug 27......................$6650 8d Carnavon Gorge: Sep 7................$2050 4d Canberra Floriade: Sep 18.............$995 7d Vic.Harbour/King Isl: Oct 4...........$2150 3d Griffith Garden Festival: Oct 13.....$750 6d Sydney Spectacular: Oct 14........$1580 7d Lord Howe Island: Oct 21 (Must book early)................................................$4250

** MORE GREAT TOURS AVAILABLE FOR 2018** 2018 3d Jamala Lodge Safari May 30 (contact office)

www.partnersintraining.edu.au

INTERNATIONAL TOURS

Please call us to find out more or to book into the information session.

We welcome you to discuss your training needs with us.

Includes flights & most meals

All course subject to change pending student class sizes and operational requirements.

Partners in Training reserve the right to reschedule courses. RTO Code 21837

16d Vietnam: Oct 28, 2017...............$6600

TRAVEL

FORDS

Treasures of South Africa: Jul 2,......$6995

2017 TOURS ADELAIDE - SA Explorer

COACH TRAVEL

6 Days 16th May .......................................... $1,250 t/s

TOURS & CHARTER

MERIMBULA - Sapphire Coast

For a full list of available tours, or to find out more information, please visit our website: www.fordscoachtravel.com.au

19 Wheeler St, Shepparton BENDIGO PICK UPS PROVIDED

CALL 03 5821 3777

17d New Zealand: Mar 9, 2018 ........$5745

BROKEN HILL - Whitecliffs 6 Days 31st May ........................................... $1,250 t/s 6 Days 9th July ............................................. $1,050 t/s

CAPRICORN EXPLORER Longreach - Great Barrier Reef 14 Days 19th July ......................................... $3,950 t/s KANGAROO ISLAND – Victor Harbor 7 Days 4th September..................................$1,950 t/s EYRE PENINSULA – Head of the Bight 9 Days 21st September.................................$2,195 t/s SA RIVERLANDS – Murray River Cruise – Berri 5 Days 21st September.................................$1,295 t/s CANBERRA FLORIADE 5 Days 7th October.......................................$1,095 t/s

COMING

6d Sydney & Norfolk Island: Feb 21 SOON! *Prices based on Twin Share (other Options available)

35 McDonald Street, Numurkah 3636

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VOLUNTEERS

EMPLOYMENT

St Vincent De Paul Society

PHONE PEOPLE REQUIRED

Compeer Program Become a Volunteer

Paid volunteer Telemarketers wanted for Charity. Monday Friday. Ph 5444 1353

Friendship offered by a Compeer Volunteer can have a profound and lasting effect on the life of a person who may become isolated by their mental health illness. Compeer supports their volunteers every step of the way.

For further information contact Sandra on 5443 0240 or compeer.bendigo@svdp-vic.org.au

Find the right person for your Business. Advertise your employment opportunities in the

Bendigo Weekly

CALL IAN ON 4433 1344 BENDIGO

An opportunity exists to join one of Australia’s renowned family businesses.

Hazeldene’s is an integrated poultry processor across parent rearing, breeder, hatchery, broiler farms and processing.

The Breeder Complex Manager is responsible for two of Hazeldene’s breeder farms, including: producing fertile eggs for the Hatchery that are of good quality and produced at the lowest cost and management of all facets of the breeder farms daily operation, inclusive of people-related matters.

The person applying for this position must have: • A minimum of 5 years Management Breeder/Broilers • Good Leadership, organisation and management skills

MODELS WANTED

• Be flexible with hours of work

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EMPLOYMENT

JOIN THE WEEKLY WALKERS TEAM Earn extra cash and keep fit!

You won’t have to stand around folding advertising material for hours beforehand – just pick up and go! You’ll have the full support of our distribution team, and receive a top payment rate.

Register your interest now – for an application form

Phone 5440 2529 EMPLOYMENT

Services Offered Lawn Mowing, Whipper Snipping

Breeder Complex Manager - Bendigo Location

EMPLOYMENT

P O R T R A I T, B O U D O I R & GLAMOUR

EMPLOYMENT

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• The role has a Manager/Supervisors as direct reports and a work force of 30 staff • Previous applicants need not apply • Australian work rights In return we offer the lifestyle and a remuneration package based on skills and

$35 per hr / $30 pen (inc. take away clippings).

Delivery of Garden Products Spraying (Roundup) $35 per hr/ $30 pen Rubbish Removal $80 per load/$70 pen (incl tip fee $35) for 7x4 square box trailer.

NO tyres or rock/clean fill.

Cash only Ph Mick 0407 448 249 BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Complete bathroom makeovers & alterations.

34 yrs exp by qual tradesman.

Servicing Bendigo - Castlemaine & surrounding districts.

FREE Quote phone Rod Cox 0419 267 672 or 4406 6019.

BLOCKED DRAINS Same day service Ph 5448 4324

BRICKLAYERS all types of brick and block work, chimneys and fireplaces.

Ph 5446 7057 or 0418 370 917 or 0458 438 930

BRICKLAYING No job too big No job too small Ph 0417 127 131

experience.

Interested? Please forward applications to: jobs@hazeldenes.com.au or post to Human Resources, Hazeldene’s Chicken Farm, PO Box 1147, Kangaroo Flat 3555.

Applications close: Friday, 26 May 2017.

Hazeldene’s are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

DOMESTIC CLEANER Thorough & reliable 20 yrs exp, police check, own equipment.

Ph Jen 0405 499 322

CLEANING & CARPET

EMPLOYMENT

Cleaning, Steam clean or Dry clean $50 first room, $10 per room after that Ph 0439 374 389 Receipt & ABN supplied .

DD Handyman & Maintenance Service All types of household jobs inc garden maint.

Phone 0409 949 111

FUNERAL PRESENTATION

Video to DVD a Speciality Price $100 Ph 54437425

GARDEN MAINTENANCE

Weeding, planting, pruning, composting. $20 per hour. Phone Neville 5447 2113 or 0418 346 307

CLARE'S IRONING

from smoke free homes only please $40 standard flat basket. Local delivery $5. Ph 0407 987 024

PLASTERER EXPERIENCED LOCAL PLASTERER Rates from $40p/h Pensioner 10% Disc.

• Holes Patched • Renovations • Painting

PJ TAYLOR

5446 1422 0448 713 499

RENOVATION WORK

EXPERIENCED carpenter /builder. No job too small to quote. Ph Norm 0410 471 794.

RUBBISH REMOVAL

Green waste or just general clean up. Tip fees apply. Current police check. Ph Paul 0401 418 108.

ABN 88484579761.

Classifieds 1300 558 385

PHOTO/FILM COPIES

COMPUTER SUPPORT Negatives, Film, Slides, Reasonable Rates 7 days Extended hours Ph Shaun 0400 811 880

Photos restored & copied to disc. Re-print, Protect Originals, Share with Family. Ph 0420 278 951 or online:

CONCRETER

www.scan2disk.weebly.com

In Home

Paths, Driveways, Cross overs, Sheds, Small & big jobs, Reasonable rates.

Seniors Discount Free quotes.

Ph. 0422 424 348.

CONCRETING

Cameron Concrete Domestic & Commercial.

For all your concrete requirements..

Call Rod 0400 611 016 Free Quotes & advice.

30 years experience

THE MAINTENANCE MAN Prompt & reliable service, done with honesty & pride. Small jobs a specialty, free quotes Phone Ian 0417 337 424

WEEDING

Will hand weed gardens, $25.00 p/hour Mowing $35 p/hour. Ph Jim 0431 304 727

WEED SPRAYING

LARGE or small. Phone Neil 0473 486 130.

Services Offered

DAIRY FARM WORKER - FULL-TIME Are you highly motivated, dedicated, flexible, energetic and work well in a team?

We are Eden Pastoral Services and we are well known for our high-quality milk, sheep and beef cattle. We’re located in picturesque Scotsburn and we are seeking a full-time employee to join our award-winning team.

Duties include milking, calf rearing and various farm work as directed. Dairy experience together with an AI certificate will be viewed very favourably. Our ideal candidate will work some weekends and split shifts.

The salary package will be commensurate with experience and a house and vehicle are negotiable.

Enquiries: 0419 583 083 Applications to: CEO.secretary@ccg.vic.edu.au Applications close: Friday 12th May, 2017

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Services Offered AIR CONDITIONING Gas heaters should be serviced yearly to keep them running SAFELY & EFFICIENTLY So, for peace of mind this winter call

BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING

GARDAM E X C AVA T I O N

Nathan: 0407 972 717

SEPTIC TANK SEWER TREATMENT PLANTS

Servicing all of Central Victoria • Pensioner discounts avail.

Registered Licence No. 47315

PIC LICENCED

TempTech

AIR CONDITIONING

bendigotemptech@hotmail.com

ANTENNAS

Supplied and installed

Digger Service

Ph: Glenn

0418 510 074

Local Classifieds

20+ years exp.

DISPLAY ADS

Q I P O F ;!

$7.40 per cm/col

0475 086 721

Price includes colour, scanning of images and clip art etc.

1300 558 385 classifieds@ bendigopublishing .com • 1.7 Tonne Mini Digger on Trailer • 900, 450, 300mm Buckets Plus Ripper • Post Hole Auger 300 & 450mm available • 5 Tonne Excavator Available for Hire with Rock Breaker • Dry & Wet Hire Available • 7 Days - Mon-Sun

Phone Ron on

5447 7823 or 0431 609 423

Ph 0429 171 697

718 Strathfieldsaye Road, Strathfieldsaye

BUILDERS

DBM-1122 DB-U-28169

Site Clearing Driveways Excavation Laser Levelling Rubbish Removal

SOUTHERN CROSS RESTUMPING

Building Permits Arranged + 20 Years Experience

Ph: 0400 319 094 A: PO Box 304, Eaglehawk 3556 E: townsmith@bigpond.com

Call Ron 0438 569 385

Bobcat & Tipper Hire Site Cleaning aning Driveways ys Excavation on Laser Levelling vellin ng Rubbish Removall Backhoe e

Call Rhys 0429 434 405 SKILLED OPERATOR

ALL CLEANING SERVICES • Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning from….. $65 • Windows From …………….............…$50 • Bond Cleaning Incl Carpets from…….$350 • Office Cleans from………...............…..$60 Call Emmanuel in Bendigo

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All work guaranteed, and fully insured

COMPUTERS

Big Area Lawn Mowing Domestic/Industrial Large/Small Blocks Fence Lines/Fire Breaks Weed Spraying (Large/Small)

HANDYMAN SERVICES

• Handymen • Cleaning • Builder • Floors • • Carpenters • Glazier • Fencing • Plastering • • Painters • Bathroom & Kitchen Reno’s • • Granite Benchtops • Paving • Plumbers • • Decking • Electricians • Ramps • Tiling • Pruning • Tree Lopping • Sheds & Pergolas • • Lawns & Gardens • Small concreting jobs • • Dingo machinery work •

Central Victoria 13 11 98

Suite B 175 Lyttleton Tce, Bendigo greyarmybendigo@bigpond.com

STEVE CLEGG HANDYMAN SERVICES Trade qualified Home and garden maintenance Any odd jobs inside and outt

0418 754 952

stephen.clegg@bigpond.com m Prompt, friendly and reliable

HOME MAINTENANCE HOME & GARDEN MAINTENANCE _________________________ FIREWOOD SUPPLIES Quality Split Redgum Firewood • Lawn Mowing & Edging Trimming & Pruning • Weeding • Gutter Cleaning • Window Cleaning

Call Phil 5436 1260 • 0419 924 632 philiprackham@hotmail.com

• Systems built • Repairs and upgrades • Network and internet connections • Virus and Spyware removal Hours: Mon to Fri: 9 - 5.30 Sat: 9 - 12 Jeoff Milne 5447 2476 Mob 0425 728 336

Salty bore water?

Bobcat & Tipper Hire 200 - 600mm diameter

CLEANING SERVICES

GARDEN SERVICES

DESALINATION

BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING

Backhoe Trenching Post Hole Borer

DIJNOFZ SWEEPS

0418 508 993

1.6 Tonne Excavator, Trenching, Rotary Hoeing, Post Holes, Levelling 4 in one bucket,Tipper Hire.

TV Tuning from $40

Webby’s

Licenced drainer 31741

LITTLE RIPPER

• Servicing Bendigo & Surrounds • Aerials & additional aerial points • Satellite & Computer Setups ps • Digital/Smart TV’s • Home Theatre, Wall Mount • DVD, Recorders & Foxtel • Installed & explained

CHIMNEY SWEEPS

CARPENTERS

C CARPENTRY & M MAINTENANCE TRADE QUALIFIED CARPENTER

Jack Hando 0467 642 504

Turn it into pure water with our award winning desalination machine.

• 5,000 - 30,000L pure water per day • Salt levels from 3,000ppm down to 28ppm • Running costs $0.35/hr, day rate • Made in Bendigo, easy to install, low maintenance, comes in kit form Ph: 0400 181 889 or email puredropdesalination@gmail.com

ELECTRICIANS

GREG SMITH ELECTRICIAN

Tired of Waiting for a Tradesman Carports Concreting Renovations Decks & Verandahs

Tiling Retaining Walls General Handyman Fix Ups

CARPET CLEANING

0418 507 709RECA/H 5448 3333 7821

GARDEN SERVICES

DON'S CARPET, TILE AND GROUT CLEANING MOVING OUT? WE HAVE A SPECIAL PRICE ON VACANT HOMES & UNITS NO POWER NEEDED

Phone 0428 443 808

• Removal of hard rubbish and garden waste • Rental clean ups/clean outs • Weeding and weed spraying • Trimming and pruning • Fallen timber and chainsaw work • Delivery and spreading of mulch, stone etc.

• Little Tipper/Drive - Hire

NO JOB TOO SMALL • Carpentry • Tiling • Painting • Plastering • Pergolas • Decks

CALL PETER 0409 422 271 Email: bhmpeter@hotmail.com

LANDSCAPING

• Qualified tradesmen • Landscaping • Commercial and residential property maintenance

Specialising in Landscape construction Stuart Erwin 0407 667 900 Cameron Rogister 0411 956 937

LANDSCAPING PAVING & LANDSCAPING

by Phil Carman Paving & concreting Pool landscaping Retaining walls & fencing Decking and Outdoor living areas Lawn installation & watering systems Kanga light digging

PH: 0418 822 911 37-39 View Street, Bendigo classifieds@bendigopublishing.com 1300 558 385

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For Sale

Services Offered LAWN MOWING

PLUMBERS

TRADIES

BIG KEV’S LAWN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

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• Gutter cleaning • Gutter guard installation • Small maintenance jobs

PHONE KEV 0411 540 069 NO JOB TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL FROM SMALL YARDS TO LARGE COMMERCIAL AREAS

MOBILE BATHROOMS

ARE YOU RENOVATING? MOBILE BATHROOM FOR HIRE (Shower, hand basin, toilet etc)

Suitable for • Renovations • Parties/Weddings • Sporting events and many more

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• Maintenance • New Homes • Renovations • Free Quotes

Your local on-time plumber Gas fitting + appliance repairs • Heater services from $126.50 • Carbon monoxide testing • Hot water - elec, gas & solar • Taps, toilets, showers, sinks & more Don’t put up with drips! Modern & Care-Assist taps & toilets Use a licensed plumber • Drains installed/cleared/repaired • Roof, gutter, d.p. & gutter guard FREE • Quality professional workmanship QUOTES guaranteed

PLUMBERS

PAINTERS / DECORATORS

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DOMESTIC/COMMERCIAL MAINTENANCE Brett Park - Licensed Plumber 40 years experience Bendigo & surrounding area

LIC # 31026

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544 33 999 4 Nolan Street, Bendigo

PLUMBERS SPECIALISING IN: JLC PLUMBING & PLUMBING GAS GENERAL

HEATER SERVICES

& MAINTENANCE RENTAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE GAS FITTING AND SERVICING GENERAL PLUMBING HOT WATER SERVICE REPAIR & & MAINTENANCE REPLACEMENT GAS FITTING AND BLOCKED DRAINS SERVICING RENOVATIONS AND HOT WATER SERVICE INSTALLATIONS BLOCKED DRAINS 24 HOUR SERVICE RENOVATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS 24 HOUR SERVICE

CARBON MONOXIDE TESTING

Lic No: 50975

PH GARRY 0466 858 112 SPOUT CLEANING

SPOUT CLEANING

CV Industrial Vacuum Services Reduce Fire Risk Spouts Vacuumed Spotlessly Pensioner Discounts Water Tanks Cleaned

Ph Paul 5439 3835 or 0428 395 429 * Fully Insured

Unbeatable metal roof prices Licensed & insured Call for a FREE QUOTE today

0417 599 249

$7.40 per cm/col Price includes colour, scanning of images and clip art etc.

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• Licensed Backflow Tester • Blocked Drains • Burst Pipes • Septics • Gas Leaks & Gas Fitting • Hot Water Services • Roof Leaks • Renovations • Gen Plumbing • Latest Drain Cleaning Equipment QUALITY WORK AT THE RIGHT PRICE!

CEMENT Mixer, Solid cast iron/steel, reconditioned motor $550 Ph 5439 5408 CHANDELEIR metalic silver, black shades w crystals $60 5444 5695 CHILD'S Electric riding car, new battery $80 Ph 5449 7128 COMPOST Bin $40 Ph 5448 3113

DINING table w extension + 4 pad. matching chairs EC $100 0429 954 308

or email: roofhunter16@gmail.com

ESKY colemans, Blue, (Approx 30L) $12 Ph 5444 5695

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Approx 10 cubic metres of Ironbark, Sell $1400 Ph 0419 302 000

ROOF RESTORATION SPECIALISTS Call now and receive a FREE GUTTER CLEAN • Save thousands and avoid replacing your entire roof • All work guaranteed up to 10 years F REE quote with a master painters guarantee done with s in • All roof surfaces 48 hours • Fully qualified and insured

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Quality tree and Stump Removal

Tree Maintenance • Stump Mulching Hire Travel Tower • Tree Pruning and Stump Grinding • Tip Truck & Woodchipper Hire • Free Quotes (no job too BIG or SMALL for the Smith Family team)

FIREWOOD

$100 per cubic metre, minimum 5m. Pick up.

Ph 0439 685 823

FIREWOOD Quality Dry Grey, Red Gum & Yellow Box Del local $130/m Ph 0448 186 691

FIREWOOD

Redgum firewood $130p/m. Pick Up or Delivery $150 open 7 days Ph 0427 353 939

FISHING Rods, Assorted Rods, Surf & boat - Reels to match. Sinkers, Lures, Etc. $250 the lot Ph 0403 670 622

FRIDGE/Freezer Westinghouse 2yo EC $90 Ph 0437 286 356

FURNITURE Tallboy 5 draw $40 Sofa 2 seater GC $30 Bed Qu Frame & matt GC $50 Ph 0437 286 356

FUTON, as is never used, $70 Ph 5444 2339

GPS, Tom Tom, 7inch screen, EC $80 Ph 5449 7128

GRADUATION Gown & hat, black/red satin $100 Ph 0466 269 948

HAY

NET wrapped round bales - $30 per bale; $35 delivered for 4 + bales Bendigo 0438 088 429.

LUCERNE HAY

Rolls @ $110 small squares @ $10 Delivery can be arranged Ph 0419 382 273

HAY & STRAW

Rolls & Little Squares.

Delivery available Maiden Gully Ph 0438 373 291

HAY

Oaten, Small squares, Small rounds. Can deliver to Bendigo. Ph 0418 353 344

FOR SALE

Cat Enclosures A fun, safe way for your cat to enjoy the outdoors.

Free quotes to suit your budget.

www.juddstreesolutions.com.au

ROOF RESTORATION

David Smith 0427 506 160 e: dsmith.trees@gmail.com

DVD/CD Player Sony with remote control GC $20 Ph 5447 7275 ENGEL fridge, 60L with cover, EC $1200 firm Ph 0418 546 547

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FOR SALE

FRIDGE/Freezer Crosley, solid good condition $65 Ph 0439 116 585

AAA TREE LOPPING

Greg Hicks st same day Plumbing Fajosebrvtoicoesmall

0448 701 138

CAT scratch stand,$10 Ph 0409 175 052

PRAKTIC A MTL 5B Camera, carry bag & man $98 Ph 0437 633 322

TREE LOPPING

No

CARPET Room sz approx 9ft x 10ft Ec $100 Ph 0466 269 948

TREE LOPPING

PLUMBERS

Master Plumber

BIKE helmets new + car bike carrier $10 Ph 5447 8847

Local Classifieds

TREE LOPPING

License No. 32710

A friendly, reliable, local plumbing team fully qualified in all aspects of plumbing

Jason Charles 0448 324 126

• Industrial Sheds + much more

0409 289 700 5428 9312

Peter Carr Plumbing & Gasfitting

Jason Charles 0448 324 126

• Carports • Lofties • American Barns

For Best Price Phone Jack Direct

PLUMBERS

Pty. Ltd.

• Patios • Pergolas • Verandas • Sheds

• Pensioners (Disc) • Full Insurance • (Prompt) Same Day Service

0427 241 958

ART SALE

AUDIO video input selector, New, $10 Ph 5447 8573

0437 846 971 ROOFING

AMPLIFIER, Cobolt, for computer TV ipods, etc VGC $15 Ph 5447 8573

Original oil paintings Reduced prices, Open weekends until Sunday May 14. 10am-4pm 47 Beischer St Strathdale Ph 0437 918 722

PHONE: 5444 4681

Ph 5446 1535 www.dunstoneplumbing.com.au office@dunstonebros.com.au

Call David/Bronwyn

SHEDS

FOR SALE

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FOR SALE Open 7 Days

• Antiques and Collectibles • Quirky Crafts and Unique Art • Handmade Clothing and Jewellery • Handmade Furniture and Décor • Organic products and Locally made.

108 Lowndes st, Strathdale (next to Living Quarters) Check out of Facebook page for upcoming workshops and demos: www.facebook.com.au/lqmarketbendigo

FREE FOR SALE AD Items valued $100 and under advertise FREE* for two weeks - maximum three lines Deadline: 5pm Wednesday for publication Friday *

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Friday, Bendigo Weekly Friday, May May 5, 5, 2017 2017 –— Bendigo Weekly Friday, May 5, 2017 — Bendigo Weekly

FOR SALE FOR SALE

FOR SALE FOR SALE

HAY O a t e n HAY rolls, net wrapped.

Excellent

Oaten rolls, net Quality $55 wrapped. from Excellent Axedale.

Phone: 0428 Quality from $55 590 023 Phone: 0428 Axedale.

590 023

HAY TRANSPORT

CAN fit TRANSPORT 42 big sq, 720 HAY little square, long/ CAN fit 42 big sq, short 720 distance 32 ftlong/ tray 24 ft little square, short trailer, paddock to shed, distance 32 ft tray 24 ft paddock to fence line. trailer, paddock to shed, Phone: 0438 500 665 paddock to fence line.

Phone: 0438 500 665

KINDLING Recycled Timber KINDLING 7kg bags $10 each

Recycled Timber Free delivery 7kg bags $10 eachto Bendigo Area. Orders Free delivery to taken to Orders Friday BendigoupArea.

4 p m .

D e l i v e r e d taken up to Friday Saturday.

4pm.

DPh e l i v Steve ered 0418 122 Saturday.

Ph759 Steve 0418 122 759 KNITTING wool, 8 ply acrylic, fluffy8500g KNITTINGwhite wool, ply $12 Ph white 5447 fluffy 7275 500g acrylic, $12 Ph 5447 7275 LOUNGE room Suite, Excellent Ph LOUNGE Cond. room $100 Suite, 0429 954Cond.

308 $100 Ph Excellent 0429 954 308

PORT Decanters, 4 in total lot Ph 5447 PORT $10 Decanters, 4 in 8847 total $10 lot Ph 5447 8847 PORTABLE food cooler /warmer never cooler used PORTABLE12Vfood $30 Ph 0437 /warmer 12V 852 never649 used $30 Ph 0437 852 649 PORTABLE food cooler /warmer never cooler used PORTABLE12Vfood $50 Ph 5447 /warmer 12V 7050 never used $50 Ph Potty, 5447 7050 PORTA 15L, not used, $40 not Ph PORTA FIAMMA Potty, 15L, 5449 used, 7128 FIAMMA $40 Ph 5449 7128Military coat SCOTTISH $40 Ph 5439 3054 coat SCOTTISH Military $40 Ph 5439 3054 SEWING machine, Singer, metal Ph Singer, 5444 SEWING $55 machine, 5695 metal $55 Ph 5444 5695

SIEVED TOP SOIL With Manure SIEVED TOP SOIL $35 per/m delivered local

With Manure 3m 6m & local 10m $35minimum. per/m delivered avail.

Bobcat &6m Excavator 3m minimum. & 10m to hire.

Ph 5446 7105 or avail. Bobcat & Excavator 0428 507 846 to hire.

Ph 5446 7105 or 507 846 STIHL0428 FS38 Wipper snipper $90 ONO Ph STIHL FS38 Wipper 0409 175$90 052 ONO Ph snipper 0409 175 052 SUNAIR Electric Heater $35 Ph 5448 3113Heater SUNAIR Electric $35 Ph 5448 3113

FOR SALE FOR SALE

V.C.C UNIFORMS

ALLV.C.C LOGO UNIFORMS STOCK 1/2 PRICE ALL LOGO STOCK 1/2 PRICE 56 Williamson Street Bendigo, Vic, 3550 56 Williamson Street Ph: 03 5441 Bendigo, Vic, 8094 3550 Ph: 03 5441 8094

FOR SALE FOR SALE

FOR SALE FOR SALE

LOUNGES Beautiful Blue leather x 3 LOUNGESlounges, Beautiful1 Blue Seater, 1 x 2 1 Seater, leather lounges, x 3 $775 798 Seater,Neg. 1 Ph x 0488 2 Seater, 890 $775 Neg. Ph 0488 798 890 MANUAL wash macine, for caravan. $20 macine, Ph 5439 MANUAL wash for 3054 caravan. $20 Ph 5439 3054 MENS Valet Chair, Bone & Brass, $20 Ph 0466 MENS Valet Chair, Bone 269 948 $20 Ph 0466 & Brass, 269 948 METAL shelf, heavy duty, old butshelf, solidheavy $50duty, Ph METAL 5447 7275 old but solid $50 Ph 5447 7275 NEW electric Trike, key start, steel Trike, frame, NEW electric key rechargeable start, steel battery, frame, basket, helmet, and cord rechargeable battery, lock. basket,$1500 helmet,Heathcote and cord 0422 603 Heathcote lock. 442 $1500 0422 442 603 OLD tin collection X 20 $50 3054 X 20 OLD Ph tin 5439 collection $50 Ph 5439 3054

SUNBEAM 17L pizza bake grill oven,17L as pizza new bake $60 SUNBEAM ono 0409as175 052 grill Ph oven, new $60 ono Ph 0409 175 052

WATER TANKS WATER TANKS AND DRUMS 3300 lt $690.

5500 lt AND DRUMS $890. 2000 lt $495

3300 lt $690. 5500 lt 2500 Slimline $890. lt 2000 lt $790. $495 Drums 200lt $25.

2500 lt Slimline $790. www.ebsary.com.au Drums 200lt $25.

161 McIvor Hwy www.ebsary.com.au Ph 5443 6740 161 McIvor Hwy Ph 5443 6740

TOP SOIL

Lawn TOP soil SOIL $35 p/m Gardensoil Soil $45 Lawn $35 p/m, p/m includes local delivery Garden Soil $45 p/m, 4, 6 and 10m avail. includes local delivery Garden rocks alsoavail. avail.

4, 6 and 10m Phone 306 avail.

548 Garden 0418 rocks also or 0428 100 770548 Phone 0418 306 or 0428 100 770 TV entertainment unit, smoked glass doors unit, $70 TV entertainment Ph 0417glass 389 715 smoked doors $70 Ph 0417 389 715

LIVESTOCK LIVESTOCK

Boarding Kennel & Cattery Boarding Kennel & Cattery Muckleford School Road, Muckleford 3451

FOR SALE FOR SALE

TV lowline corner unit, timber, on corner castors, unit, GC TV lowline $30 0455138873 timber, on castors, GC $30 0455138873 VACCUM Hoover bagless standing 2yo $40 Ph VACCUM Hoover bagless 0437 286 2yo 356 $40 Ph standing 0437 286 356 SUITCASES with wheels and handleswith$25 Ph SUITCASES wheels 0437 649 $25 Ph and 852 handles 0437 852 649 Volta, 8 VACUUM Cleaner, spare bags $50 Ph 0437 VACUUM Cleaner, Volta, 8 852 spare649 bags $50 Ph 0437 852 649 VIDEO converter, photos, slides, changed to VIDEO movies converter, photos, DVD $55 5447changed 8573 to slides, movies DVD $55 5447 8573with WARDROBE veneer drawers andveneer full length WARDROBE with mirror $75and 0429 954length 308 drawers full mirror $75 0429 954 308 WASHING Machine GC fully operational $40 GC Ph WASHING Machine 0437 286 356 $40 Ph fully operational 0437 286 356

GARAGE GARAGE SALES SALES

15 HOLDSWORTH RD LONG GULLY RD 15 HOLDSWORTH Saturday LONG 8am-4pm GULLY OldSaturday tools & H/hold goods 8am-4pm Old tools & H/hold goods

598 KIMBOLTON/AXEDALE RD, EPPALOCK 598 KIMBOLTON/AXEDALE FRI-SUN 9am-4pm.

RD, from EPPALOCK Furniture, round bale FRI-SUN from 9am-4pm. holder, guardround rails, corrug Furniture, bale iron, tools, + lots more holder, guard rails, corrug iron, tools, + lots more

2 ROSEMONT CRES KENNINGTON 2 ROSEMONT CRES Saturday & Sunday 9am KENNINGTON 3pm, household Saturday & Sunday items, 9am furniture and other items, 3pm, household furniture and other

To advertise To advertise in this in this section section please call please call 1300 558 385 1300 558 385 LIVESTOCK LIVESTOCK BUDGIES FOR SALE Split colours, Yellows, BUDGIES FOR SALE Greens, etc. Yellows, Various Split colours, prices.

113 Greens,Phone etc.0419 Various 120 prices. Phone 0419 113 120 CATTLE prodder Magrath 70cm GoodMagrath Cond.

CATTLEprod. prodder $95 0427Good 397 558 70cmPhprod.

Cond. $95 Ph 0427 397 558

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FOR 4 WEEKS FOR 4 WEEKS

ADOPT-A-PET ADOPT-A-PET Neutered Male, 3 Years Meet our Yogi Male, boy, he is3 aYears handsome Neutered

LOST YOUR DOG OR CAT? LOST YOUR DOG OR CAT?

THE RSPCA IS THE POUND FOR THE BENDIGO CITY COUNCIL.

5441 2209 PIPER LANE, EAST BENDIGO 5441 2209

THE RSPCA IS THE POUND FOR THE BENDIGO CITY COUNCIL.

Please make sure ALL of your contactmake details areALL keptofup to Please sure your date on details your pet’s contact aremicrochip. kept up to date on your pet’s microchip.

PIPER LANE, EAST BENDIGO MON-SAT 10AM-4PM, SUN & PUB HOLS 10AM-12PM MON-SAT 10AM-4PM, WWW.RSPCAVIC.ORG.AU SUN & PUB HOLS 10AM-12PM

GARAGE SALES GARAGE SALES

Bendigo Bendigo Thrift Shop Thrift Shop

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Conditions apply.

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New Location New Location

2B Thistle Street, Golden Square (Corner of Deborah Street).

Call 5441 7608 2B Thistle Street, Golden Square Monday - Friday:Street).

9.00am - 4.30pm (Corner of Deborah Call 5441 7608 Saturday: 9.00am - 1.00pm Monday - Friday: 9.00am - 4.30pm 9.00am - 1.00pm• Books ClothingSaturday: • Furniture • Bric-a-Brac

The Salvation Army•would like to thank•allBric-a-Brac of its wonderful volunteers for all of Clothing Furniture • Books absolutely efforts in moving to this new shop.

Thank for you.

Thetheir Salvation Armyamazing would like to thank all of its wonderful volunteers all of their absolutely amazing efforts in moving to this new shop. Thank you.

WANTED TO WANTED BUY TO BUY

OLD bottles with town names or with company OLD bottles town names, Syphons, names Soda or company Ginger beers, Marble, names, Soda Syphons, Milk Etc. Marble, Single Gingerbottles beers, items or boxedEtc. lots.Single Cash Milk bottles Paid. items Ph or 0452 boxed 264 lots. 661 Cash Paid. woodworking Ph 0452 264 tools, 661 OLD planes and books etc for OLD woodworking tools, collector/user Ph etc 0418 planes and books for 510 727. collector/user Ph 0418 510 727.

TRACTORS & farm machinery TRACTORSwanted. & Going farm or not, cash paid,Going Ph machinery wanted.

0429 393cash 221 paid, Ph or not, 0429 393 to 221 buy old WANTED batteries, & brass, WANTED copper to buy old shed cleancopper ups done.

No batteries, & brass, texts.

Ph 5446 1191 No or shed clean ups done.

0447 043 1191 or texts. 744 Ph 5446 0447 744 043

MOTOR CAR TRADER REG 1998 MOTOR CAR TRADER Regulations requireREG that from1998 June,

Open 8:30am 12pm Muckleford & 4pm - 6pm3451 Muckleford School- Road, • Mob: Ph: (03) 8:30am 5472 4698 411 Open - 12pm & 0428 4pm 882 - 6pm E: Ph: info@jeralee.com.au www.jeralee.com.au (03) 5472 4698 •• Mob: 0428 882 411 E: info@jeralee.com.au • www.jeralee.com.au

Catahoula Leopard Dogis who is super Meet our Yogi boy, he a handsome affectionate and gives best cuddles.

Catahoula Leopard Dogthe who is super Yogi will needand plenty exercise, affectionate givesofthe best cuddles. stimulation andplenty company.

He will be best Yogi will need of exercise, suited to a family with olderHekids is stimulation and company. willas behe best not too sure about young ones, anyone suited to a family with older kidsoras he is who can give him loads of love and Yogi not too sure about young ones, or anyone build up his confiand dence who can givetohim loads of love CatahoulaYogi Leopard Dog socialization as he can be to a bit shyupathis first. socialization build confidence Catahoula Leopard Dog Spayed Female, 2 Years as he can be a bit shy at first.

My name isFemale, Aimee. I am2aYears girl with Spayed many different personalities.

My name is Aimee.

I am a girlI enjoy with the company other cats andI enjoy running many differentofpersonalities. around havingofa other play. I’m the company catsnot andvery running smootchy and can come as nasty around having a play.

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I’m looking for aa Domestic Short Hair Aimee lot of toys to play with & keep me busy. place where I have a feline friend and a Domestic Short Hair lot of toys to play with & keep me busy.

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1998 both licensed car June, traders Regulations require motor that from and other than licensed motor 1998persons both licensed motor car traders car the following and traders, personsmust otherinclude than licensed motor info when advertising a motor car sale. car traders, must include the following 1.)

The cash price of the info when advertising a motor car sale. car price of the 1.) motor The cash 2.) Whichever motor car of the following is 2.) applicable: Whichever of the following is a.) if the motor car is applicable: registered, the reg a.) if the motor carno. is b.) if the cartheis reg unregistered, registered, no. the engine the vehicle; orthe b.) if the no. car isofunregistered, the chassis or vehicle; the vehicle engine no. no; of the or ID or theno; regorno.the(if vehicle any) last the no; chassis assigned thereg vehicle; if none ID no; ortothe no. (iforany) last of those numbers are reasonably assigned to the vehicle; or if none ascertainable, any other number of those numbers are reasonably by which the vehicle maynumber be ascertainable, any other identified. a licensed by which the vehicle motor may becar trader musta licensed also statemotor in their identified. car advertisements no. trader must alsotheir stateLMCT in their and the details of any periodical advertisements their LMCT no. payments applicable. and the details of any periodical Penaltypayments for failureapplicable. to comply with these regulations is a $1,000 fine.

Penalty for failure to comply with these regulations is a $1,000 fine.

AUTO AUTO

BMW 318i 01, Fully optioned auto,01, silv/black BMW 318i Fully int, sunroof, tyres, optioned auto,new silv/black 168,000ks, Reg, int, sunroof,12mths new tyres, RWC $650012mths Ph 0418 168,000ks, Reg, 146 (IJX6FQ) RWC864 $6500 Ph 0418 146 864 (IJX6FQ) BUS Comair Bedford circa 1960's with Bedford annex, toilet, BUS Comair circa shower, fridge, oven, 1960's with annex, toilet, ashower, i r c o n , fridge, c u p b o aoven, rds, $4250. a i r c o n , Not c u pregistered boards, Phone 273 $4250.0419 Not382 registered Phone 0419 382 273

FORD Eco Sport Trend, Auto, air, Sport sync Trend, techFORD Eco nology, silver/black, new Auto, air, sync techtyres, EC. nology, 32,000kms, silver/black, new R W C . 32,000kms, Long R eEC. g, tyres, $18,500 RWC. L(1DR3EN) ong R ePh g, 0418 146 (1DR3EN) 864 $18,500 Ph 0418 146 864 HONDA Accord, 2006, Reg & RWC, Serviced, 1 HONDA Accord, 2006, lady Excellent Reg & driver, RWC, Serviced, 1 condition, ono lady driver,$8200 Excellent Phone 0427$8200 910 547 condition, ono (UOE040) Phone 0427 910 547 (UOE040) MERC BE200 1994 (XCT344), VGC $1500 MERC BE200 1994 Ph 5441 1837 (XCT344), VGC $1500 Ph 5441 1837

MINI Cooper "S" 73,000 kms, books, nice in Red MINI Cooper "S" 73,000 Chilli, Non smoker, No kms, books, nice in Red pets, A Chilli, No Non accidents, smoker, No /con, 6sp, pets, NoManual, accidents, A Garaged 24/7, Retired /con, Manual, 6sp, owner.

RWC $12950 Garaged 24/7, Retired (RSF704) Ph 0424 789 owner. RWC $12950 066 Junortoun (RSF704) Ph 0424 789 066 Junortoun

VACC PRE PURCHASE VACCINSPECTIONS PRE PURCHASE R O AINSPECTIONS DWORTHY R O CERTIFICATES ADWORTHY Jamie Hackett Motors 2016 Jayco Journey. New CERTIFICATES

CARAVANS CARAVANS & TRAILERS & TRAILERS

popular outback model, 2016 Jayco Journey.

New Strong independant popular outback model, suspension, Air con, Dbl Strong independant bed, Brand Air new suspension, con,never Dbl used all. Full bed, atBrand newensuite, never awning, + more.

Factory used at all. Full ensuite, extras.

Retired owner, awning, + more. Factory reluctant sale, New van extras. Retired owner, warranty remains.

Ph reluctant sale, New van 0 424 7remains.

89 0 6Ph 6 warranty Junortoun 0424 789 066 Junortoun CARAVAN 15ft Franklin Arrow circa15ft 1970, good CARAVAN Franklin condition age,good 4 Arrow circafor 1970, scondition ingle bfor e d s ,age,N o4t registered. single b e$1850 ds, NPh ot 0419 382 273 registered. $1850 Ph 0419 382 273

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Black’s big Braves boost

By JOEL PETERSON

THE return of Chante Black is an ominous sign for rival SEABL sides, with the Bendigo Lady Braves adding a key piece of the puzzle into an already inform side.

The Lady Braves disposed of the Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence and Ballarat Rush last weekend to move to 5-1 and sit atop the east conference.

This weekend they face one of the toughest tests in the competition, heading to Tasmania to face Launceston and Hobart in the space of 18 hours in a brutal double-header.

Launceston, led by Lauren Mansfield and Tayla Roberts, are 5-1, while Hobart have opened the season 3-3.

The Lady Braves have the league’s best point differential, and add Black into the middle of an already formidable defence ahead of the difficult road trip.

Though she won’t get much of a chance to explore Tasmania’s surrounds, Black is looking forward to donning a Braves jersey once more.

“I’m excited to be back, coming into a team that’s already been successful makes it a lot easier for me,” she said.

“Bendigo is a great club and a great organisation and we have a good team here that is playing well so I’m happy to be a part of that.”

For coach Jonathan Goodman, Black‘s addition represents a dramatic shift from the rosters of previous seasons to one that will cause issues for opposition because of its size.

“We already have Ash Rininger as a big so this means that Carlie Smith and Chloe Bibby, who are both sixfoot-one, will move to the perimeter,” he said.

“I think that will cause other sides some matchup problems.”

Bendigo has also been stronger defensively this season than last, which Goodman said is more a result in the personnel at his disposal as opposed to a change in approach or scheme.

Finding minutes for the lineup may be the most difficult task.

“It’s great because we have so many options but it does make it hard to give them all court time,” Goodman said.

For the Bendigo Braves, the weekend double against Hobart and North West Tasmania is again another opportunity to build some momentum after another mixed weekend.

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WELCOME RETURN: Chante Black is back while Chris Adkins plays game 150 this weekend.

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The weekend will see Chris Adkins play his 150th game in Braves colours as the team looks to right the ship after an unsettled start to the season.

“Without Chris Hogan and Taylor Bell and then with Dyami Starks going down, it’s been pretty hard to all get on the same page,” he said.

“It’s a tough weekend, but we cer-

tainly think we are a good chance to go 2-0 and build from that.”

Adkins has, for most of his time as a Brave, come off the bench. But in recent weeks he has had to start in spots, an opportunity he’s enjoyed.

“I feel as though I work hard enough that when I go in I should be pretty comfortable,” he said.

“It’s always good to have that ex-

tra opportunity and I’ve enjoyed playing that role.”

The Braves face North West Tasmania in Ulverstone on Saturday night before playing in Hobart on Sunday.

The Lady Braves face Launceston on Saturday night before also travelling to the capital on Sunday to face the Chargers.

VALUABLE: Lisa Chesters handed out the grants.

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GIVING BACK: Chris Goulding runs a clinic.

YOUNG Bendigo basketballers had a chance to learn form one of the country’s best on Sunday when Australian Boomer and Melbourne United star Chris Goulding came to town to run clinics at Bendigo Stadium.

He was in town as part of the Macca’s On Your Team program, which delivers local associations sporting goods.

Under-12 players participated in the skills and drills clinics and got tips from Goulding as part of the McBiddyBall Program, as well as collecting their own new basketballs to hone their skills with.

“It’s great being able to share the skills I’ve learned over my career with eager young kids, and playing with brand new basketballs always helps,” Goulding said.

Grants go to good sports A HOST of talented young locals have been given a helping hand in the form of sporting grants from federal Bendigo MP Lisa Chesters.

The grants were presented to athletes from across sports and codes on Wednesday at the Bendigo Badminton and Table Tennis Complex.

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A captaincy conundrum

By JOEL PETERSON

BATTLE: Pioneer Tom Campbell contests the ruck in the loss to Northern.

Pios aim high against Dragons From Page 36 Despite the three losses at the QEO, the Pioneers are confident in their ability to play the ground evidenced by the fact they have been ahead late in two of the three games there this year.

Coburn hopes that trend continues this week, but is mindful that there is no tough-

er test in the competition than Sandringham.

“They have been the benchmark for the past few years really, regardless of their loss at the weekend,” he said.

“One of the things about the TAC Cup is that you never quite know who you are going to play just because there are so many ins and outs for a lot of the sides.

“They have great depth so it will be a really good test for our boys. We should only have one or two changes though so we think that if we bring that effort and tidy up our inside-50 ball movement we will put in a good performance.”

Sunday’s game between the Pioneers and Sandringham starts at 2pm at the Queen Elizabeth Oval.

Round of applause for umps UMPIRES will be at the center of celebrations in football across the state this weekend as the annual Umpires Appreciation Round is held.

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Umpires will also be recognised locally, with the Bendigo Umpires Association, Loddon Valley Umpires Group, Rochester Umpires Group and North Central Umpires Group all in operation around the Bendigo region.

The BUA has excelled in recent seasons and is a twotime winner of the Victorian

made easier this week, with Kyneton dynamo Ben Weightman ruled unavailable.

Luckily for Bendigo, small forwards Kaiden Antonowicz and Lachlan Sharp are in red-hot form.

Antonowicz booted 11 goals for South Bendigo in a stellar display, after kicking seven against Gisborne a fortnight ago.

Four of Sharp’s 10 goals against Eaglehawk came on the league’s best small defender in Tyler Miles before he was deployed elsewhere, showing the rare form he is in.

Bendigo’s numbers at training on Wednesday night were strong, with Harry Conway and Clinton Young in attendance but unable to train.

Both are expected to be available for the clash with Ballarat.

Ballarat, meanwhile, has named its side for the May 13 clash.

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That day saw Bendigo beaten from pillar to post at Eastern Oval.

Coach Shane O’Loughlin changed tack with his side this season, naming only the side he wanted to run out on game day.

Former Essendon utility Nick Kommer has been named, as has former Bendigo Gold midfielder Jackson Bolton.

Ballarat’s interleague team: Scott Sherlock, Jarrah Maksymow, Dean Heta, Jackson Bolton (Bacchus Marsh), Shane Page, Dan Roy, Brian Graham, Chris Graham (Darley), Daniel Tung (East Point), Nathan Pring, Nick Peters (Lake Wendouree), Braedan Kight, Jack Walker (Melton), Ben Sortino, Nick Kommer (Melton South), Ryan Hobbs, Will Young, Ryan Luke (North Ballarat City), Liam Hoy, Nathan Horbury, Chris Giampaolo, Callum Currie (Redan), Adam Short (Sunbury).

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This weekend in Bendigo football, Sandhurst hosts Kyneton, Golden Square travels to Eaglehawk, Strathfieldsaye faces Gisborne at Gardiner Reserve, Castlemaine hosts South Bendigo under lights and on Sunday Kangaroo Flat travels to Princes Park to play Maryborough.

BEFORE last Saturday, Brett Fitzpatrick’s decision as to who would captain Bendigo in interleague was as simple as this: Is Jack Geary playing?

Unfortunately, the answer to that question after last weekend is no, and leaves the Bendigo coach with a conundrum as to who will lead the side.

Geary has been the obvious choice to captain the blue and gold since his first year in the top job in 2014, leading Bendigo to two wins over Gippsland.

Both his immense talent and leadership will be missed, and the search for his replacement will be intriguing.

Injury and all, the two-time captain was at training in Castlemaine on Wednesday night.

Of the 59 players named in the squad, four are current club captains and Josh Bowe and Corey Greer coach their clubs.

Injured Golden Square co-captain Brayden Dorrington, and Eaglehawk skipper Tim Hill and Kangaroo Flat’s Nick Lang were named in the initial squad, with Sandhurst captain Blair Holmes added after a fivegoal haul in a thrashing of Castlemaine.

Tim Martin, a previous interleague vice-captain, would also be firmly in discussions, as would Adam Baird.

Dorrington did not feature for Square last week and is no certainty to be available, while Martin and Hill are walkup starts if fit.

The captaincy is expected to be finalised at next week’s final training session.

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Pios face huge test

By JOEL PETERSON

BENDIGO Pioneers coach Rick Coburn is confident a first home win is not far away as his side readies to host reigning premier Sandringham on Sunday.

Since a victory against Greater Western Victoria Rebels a month ago, Bendigo has dropped its past three games, all at the Queen Elizabeth Oval.

Losses to Gippsland and Oakleigh were disappointing, but Coburn said there were far more positives to take out of last Sunday’s threepoint loss to Northern Knights.

“We thought against Oakleigh our effort was pretty poor after half time but at the weekend it certainly wasn’t our effort that let us down,” he said.

“It was a pretty good game from the boys, but we just lacked that ball movement inside forward 50 and making the right decision in that area.”

The Pioneers have had no shortage of unavailabilities, with Paddy

Dow, Lochie O’Brien, Jye Caldwell, Laine Fitzgerald – each of whom would be comfortably within the Pios’ top bracket of talent – playing a combined five games this year.

Fitzgerald has starred for the GWS Academy side in recent weeks,

It certainly wasn’t our effort that let us down while O’Brien and Caldwell have been managed by the AFL Academy program.

Potential top-five draft pick Jarrod Brander has not pulled on a Pioneers jumper due to a knee injury while Dow has been involved in Geelong Grammar’s school program.

“We haven’t really had a lot of those guys, but that’s the nature of the beast really and plenty of clubs are in

a similar position,” he said.

Coburn shuffled the magnets last week, handing a number of players a change in role.

Bailey Henderson was lively on a wing and leading goalkicker Brent Daniels played across half back and through the middle, both impressing the coach.

Coburn said the club was encouraged to throw the players into different roles, given the TAC Cup is primarily a development competition.

“They were both really good, Bailey played really well on the wing and Brent still had 25 disposals through the middle and down back so we’ll look to keep developing the boys as we go,” he said.

Last year, Bendigo was one of the few sides to have success against the Dragons as they went on to premiership glory.

Sandringham’s form has carried on from its 2016 campaign, the Dragons suffering their first defeat last week at the hands of Gippsland.

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