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Raising money on the dunny A GROUP of Bendigonians will be sitting on a makeshift toilet in Bendigo for 48 hours next weekend, hoping to raise funds for water projects in Africa.

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By CHRISTINE McGINN

GREATER Bendigo’s rate increases are expected to be halved under a Labor State Government policy to cap rates at the Consumer Price Index.

Premier Daniel Andrews promised in Opposition to cap rates to CPI, forcing councils to ask for permission to raise rates.

Rises halved with CPI-linked plan

Under the policy, local governments are required to appeal to the Independent Essential Services Commission to justify rates rises increases.

Member for Bendigo East Jacinta Allan said it would be the role of the Local Government Minister to

put in the policy.

“It’s a clear policy we have had for some time and the implementation will be worked through. It’s hard at this early stage to make much more comment,” she said.

Greater Bendigo mayor Peter Cox, who pushed for a four per cent

rates rise, said the State Government’s policy would override local government decisions.

“I think a four per cent rates rise was reasonable but with a State Labor Government, that is probably superseded because they have a policy of restricting local govern-

ment rates rises to CPI,” he said.

“So at the moment I understand that to be about 2.5 per cent. That comes into the mix now.

“Council is not only hearing from local residents but the State Government. It becomes a statewide issue and rates can’t just go up six per cent, year in year out.

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THE Reserve Bank of Australia has once again left rates on hold, meaning the official cash rate has not changed once throughout the course of the year.

At its board meeting on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank said poor consumer sentiment, combined with sluggish business confidence, was enough to warrant leaving the cash rate on hold at 2.5 per cent.

This is the 16th consecutive month that the cash rate has been left on hold.

Mortgage Choice spokesperson Jessica Darnbrough said while the Reserve Bank indicated last week that it is in a position to cut interest rates again, the board has obviously decided to err on the side of caution and leave the cash rate untouched this month.

“According to National Australia Bank’s latest Monthly Business Survey, business conditions jumped in October, marking the largest monthly increase in the history of the survey.’’

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tors have since said they expect the next move in the official cash rate to be downwards, with talk of at least two cuts in the next 12 months. A Housing Industry Association spokesman said the organisation believed the official cash rate would remain on hold until well into 2015, and that this would help sustain the strength in national new home construction activity.

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STATE ELECTION 2014

Greg to stay

I think I have something to contribute

By CHRISTINE McGINN

LIBERAL candidate for Bendigo East Greg Bickley has vowed to fight again, with his political dreams still intact.

“Ultimately I think I have something to contribute in political life. Whatever shape that takes is anyone’s guess,” Mr Bickley said this week.

“Anything is possible and you just have to be open for the opportunities as they arise, take them and make the most of them.

“I am not going anywhere. I mean that politically, we are not moving anywhere, (he and wife Leisha) both love Bendigo.

“We both would not want to be anywhere else to work or live and raise a family.”

Mr Bickley said he feels lucky to have run two strong campaigns (federal and state) and was able to help close the margin between the major parties in Bendigo.

“We’ve made in-roads to put the Liberal brand back on the map in Bendigo,” he said.

Mr Bickley said Labor poured resources into Bendigo East to ensure that Jacinta Allan was reelected.

WISTFUL: Greg Bickley says his chase for a seat is not yet over. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN “I take great comfort in the fact that Labor spent more money than we ever did to ensure Jacinta Allan was re-elected,” he said.

“They were obviously worried because of the money they spent here and we defied the state swing.

“Bendigo deserves high level representation in both state and federal governments. For too long it was not represented at a high level. It certainly deserves a senior member of a government representing it.”

But Mr Bickley said he would

also love to devote more time to his roles in Rotary, the Marong SES and with his family.

“I am very blessed with a wife who is very understanding and we have known each other since we were kids. She has always known politics is a path I am on, I am very fortunate to have such an understanding and supportive family,” he said.

His colleague, candidate for Bendigo West Michael Langdon, said he was disappointed with the result but noted a “state-wide swing” towards Labor.

Mr Langdon had a shortened three-month campaign but said he was pleased with their efforts to listen to locals and give them an alternative option at the polls.

“We did as much as we could in that time and we certainly tried our best to have a go and let people know there was actually an alternative,” he said.

Although Mr Langdon did not want to discuss his future in politics, he said he would continue to work in the community, especially in his role at Bendigo Health.

Upper House unclear THE final make-up of the state’s Upper House remains unknown as counting continues to determine who will win the final seats in the Legislative Council.

In the Northern Region, which includes Bendigo, Liberal Wendy Lovell, Nationals Damian Drum and Labor’s Steve Herbert are assured of their positions in the next Victorian parliament, with a re-count under way to determine the remaining two positions.

The Greens, Australian Country Alliance and the Victorian Shooters and Fishers Party are the main contenders, with the Labor Party only a remote chance to secure one of the two undecided positions.

Shooters and Fishers Party – Victoria chairman, Jeff Bourman congratulated Daniel Andrews and his team on their election victory, and also acknowledged the service of Denis Napthine to the state of Victoria.

Mr Bourman said the Victorian Shooters and Fishers Party was encouraged by the support it had received from around the State, and while the party was very excited by the results it must now allow the vote counting to continue. ‘’This is going to be very close, and the outcome may not be determined for many days. ‘’I would like to acknowledge all of our candidates, their families and all of our volunteers for whom this result will mean so much.”

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STATE ELECTION 2014

Ministerial role for Allan Bendigo East MP takes on two portfolios

By CHRISTINE McGINN

BENDIGO East member Jacinta Allan became Minister for Public Transport and Employment yesterday.

Ms Allan was sworn into the dual portfolio as the 22-member Cabinet took their oath.

Premier Daniel Andrews announced his Cabinet, saying Bendigo would be given clear and experienced leadership.

“Jacinta will be a senior minister and that is a recognition of her outstanding abilities and her experience and work ethic,” Mr Andrews said.

Ms Allan said it was a tremendous privilege to serve as a

Cabinet Minister under a Daniel Andrews Government.

“I am very much looking forward to the next four years,” she said.

“I think it is important for Bendigo that we are represented at the Cabinet table along, with my other regional colleagues from Geelong and Ballarat, we will be a strong contingent from regional Victoria pushing forward the issues, speaking out on the policies that are important for regional communities.”

Ms Allan came to power in the Labor government in 1999,

holding ministerial portfolios in education services, employment and youth affairs, skills and women’s affairs minister in her

Jacinta will be a senior minister and that is a recognition of her outstanding abilities earlier career.

Since 2007, she has been responsible for the regional and rural development portfolio.

Ms Allan held the industry and trade portfolio in 2010 before also taking the shadow

had generously given their support and the party was humbled and proud to have the city’s backing.

“We will always make sure that Bendigo has an equally strong, clear and effective voice

Labor back in pole position

Time to spend the cash THE Australian Labor Party committed about $57.2 million to Bendigo this election, with more statewide plans to aid the city.

Labor will give $5m to help upgrade the Bendigo Stadium and $6m towards the Bendigo Senior Secondary College refurbishment.

Members for Bendigo East and West, Jacinta Allan and Maree Edwards, promised to duplicate Napier Street at a cost of $17.2m and upgrade Epsom Primary School at $5.7m.

Labor has also committed $2m to the Bendigo Metro Rail taskforce with another $150,000 for a pedestrian operated light crossing on Midland Highway in Huntly.

Labor promised $800,000 for a new roundabout at the intersection of Strathfieldsaye Road with Tannery Lane and Club Court.

Kalianna Special School has been promised $1m for a master-plan, while $7.8m is on the table for an agricultural hub

ministerial portfolio for bushfire response, roads, police and emergency services.

Mr Andrews said Bendigo

in the Cabinet,” he said.

“Jacinta’s senior role should be a recognition of the importance of Bendigo to regional Victoria and the importance of skilled, experienced, hard-working people just like (Jacinta).”

The mother of two remains a member for Emily’s List and has been a strong advocate for Bendigo since her involvement in the 1990s.

Member for Bendigo West Maree Edwards said Bendigo had a strong team and now, a stronger voice in the Victorian Government’s Cabinet.

“It is absolutely beneficial for Bendigo to have Jacinta Allan in Cabinet,” she said.

PROMISED: Jacinta Allan at Tannery Lane. Photo: STEVE KENDALL at Bendigo TAFE. Seven local kinders are expected to share in $400,000 worth of upgrades, and a new Huntly fire station will be built with $3.7m.

Labor also promised $1 towards the $2m Harcourt bike riders 34-kilometre track to aid local tourism.

The ASPIRE Foundation will also receive $5m towards their $15m multifaith precinct.

Labor promised $300,000 for Career Horizons and $150,000 for Passions and Pathways to aid youth into employment in the final week of their suc-

cesful campaign.

The wine industry will be given a $1m drop for a Victorian Wine Tourism Strategy and a Ministerial Wine Industry Advisory Group.

Bendigo will also be a beneficiary of one of 10 Tech schools to be built in the area.

With more state wide promises to be rolled out, Bendigo will be given funding to improve public transport including a 2am shuttle bus from Melbourne to Bendigo and roads with the $1 billion regional roads fund.

BENDIGO has become a Labor heartland again with locals putting their faith back into Jacinta Allan and Maree Edwards.

The Bendigo East and West respective members were re-elected at last Saturday’s State Government election.

Both members polled figures consistent with the state-wide swing towards the party.

Premier Daniel Andrews said Bendigonians could rest assured they were in good goods with two exceptional leaders.

“We have two fantastic, effective Labor voices. Both Jacinta Allan and Maree Edwards are in a position to be able to advocate strongly for Bendigo and that means all those good ideas, those clear opportunities for the future will be heard and understood by a stable majority Labor government,” he said.

“We are very humbled and pleased, and we won’t let Bendigo down.”

Mr Andrews has promised direct and immediate action towards positive change.

“We are not going to waste even one day in delivering our full on our positive and optimistic plan,” he said.

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people of the great city of Bendigo; we are going to provide an immediate injection of funds and ongoing support to TAFE to try to repair as much of that damage as possible.”

Member for Bendigo East Jacinta Allan won the Bendigo East count with a 47.75 per cent primary vote,

We are very humbled and pleased, and we won’t let Bendigo down picking up about seven per cent in preferences.

“It is a tremendous honour and privilege to once again be elected as the Member for Bendigo East,” Ms Allan said.

“It is the best job in the world and I love it. I really appreciate the community placing their confidence in me for another four years to be their representative.”

Member for Bendigo West Maree Edwards soared to victory with a 48.42 per cent primary vote against Liberal candidate Michael

Langdon’s 32.79 per cent.

Ms Edwards won the seat with a 62 per cent two candidate preferred vote, picking up 13.58 per cent in preferences.

“The result has been overwhelming with such a big swing to Labor in Bendigo. I will keep my head down, keep working for the people of Bendigo West. I am extremely grateful for the immense support,” Ms Edwards said.

“The reality is I have worked in the community for four years, very hard and have strived to make a better change. It is important to us to meet the community’s needs and take action.

“It is so important as a local member that you are prepared to listen, advocate and then act.”

Mr Andrews said Ms Edwards ran a successful and local campaign.

“She has been a very strong voice, very local and has always taken the time to listen and many of the different communities that make up the Bendigo West electorate have had an accessible local member who understands and who works very, very hard to deliver outcomes for her community,” he said.

Mr Andrews said he hoped to be in Bendigo as soon as he possibly could.

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Housing falls short

By CHRISTINE McGINN

GREATER Bendigo councillors praised a report identifying the housing needs in the community at this week’s council meeting.

Councillors said the report was critical to addressing future housing demands across the city and the need for more affordable housing options.

According to the report, Bendigo has one of the lowest amounts of affordable rental homes in regional Victoria, leaving the city struggling to cater for the demand.

Bendigo’s rental vacancy rate has risen to four per cent since 2011.

We are going through a transition period of housing,” Cr Barry Lyons said.

“I also think one of our greatest problems is the community housing stock has almost disappeared.

“I think we need to concentrate on that more than anything and we need to engage in consultation with

Cr Rod Fyffe said the report would help council understand the community’s needs and what drives the housing market.

“It was surprising to me that the rental vacancies have increased, and we do have to

It was surprising to me that the rental vacancies have increased the State and Federal Governments to get more money into our city on that needs basis.

“They are the ones missing out.”

Despite increasing demand for social housing, the number of flats and units available has dropped 66 per cent in the municipality.

get more affordable rentals in place. I think this might be a great way of solving a social problem as well as an economic problem,” Cr Fyffe said.

“This is great information for us, the industry and the community. We should spread this far and wide so that people understand that

we do have an idea of what is going on in housing affordability in our community.”

The report draws on statistical data regarding housing to understand the current and future demands in the city.

But Cr Helen Leach was disappointed the report lacked any community consultation.

“Although I can see the need for such a report I think without some community consultation you can’t say it provides a clear understanding of the city’s current and future housing situation and needs,” she said.

The Housing Needs Analysis research paper will be made available to all housing associations and interested parties for their use.

A boost for Bendigo BENDIGO Marketplace will be home to three new traders in the next few days, just in time for Christmas.

A Boost Juice Bar will be open from today, followed by a new bigger Stearns Showcase Jewellery store tomorrow and Platypus Shoes next Wednesday, December 10.

“With Boost Juice’s popularity we are expecting a busy weekend for the new store,” Bendigo Marketplace marketing manager Dannielle Downs said.

“You can even download a Boost Juice app and pre-order your juice, so it will be ready when you get here.”

The new Boost Juice Bar franchise has generated considerable excitement among store holders and shoppers and is a new business venture for well known Bendigo Spirit star and former four-time Olympic medalist, Kristi Harrower.

“There are plenty of them [Boost Juice bars] in Melbourne, and I felt it was time for one up here,” she said.

“Boost has been spreading in regional Victoria.”

She said the Boost name was a well known brand, and something different for Bendigo.

Stearns’ new store will focus on quality Belgium-sourced diamond rings plus a comprehensive range of jewellery and watches, while still

NEW TASTE: Kristi Harrower has branched out into business. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN providing a custom fitting service and repairs.

Platypus Shoes will be the first regional store for the retailer, stocking well known and quality brands Adidas, Reebok, Vans, Nike, Timberland, Stance and many more.

Platypus’s store opening next Wednesday will feature giveaways and their own in-store DJ. “The new store openings will be fantastic for the Bendigo Marketplace and all our customers,” Ms Downs said.

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What they said...

The speaker I found most inspiring was Scott Beattie, who talked about how he helped people in the Echuca footy community with drugs and alcohol.

Tarran Kilcullen Bendigo South East College

The Youth Summit was a great opportunity for students to discuss what we thought were the top issues for Bendigo’s youth. I look forward to hearing about the Youth Action Group’s action plan.

Bendigo’s First Youth Summit A young person’s overview of the event

By Jennipher, Weeroona College Schools from around Bendigo congregated on October 17 to mark the inaugural youth summit. This gave the opportunity for us to interact with our fellow youth. Our introduction began with a welcome from Mayor Cr Barry Lyons.

Scott Beattie was the first guest speaker. He discussed issues of drug abuse and discrimination in his community football club.

How he had made sure that it became a support group for

those struggling. Skye Kinder was an inspiration in the way that she persisted through her goals despite multiple rejections in her efforts to gain the highest in education. The motto that she lives by is “don’t let rejection get in your way, keep going”.

“The top three issues were; drugs and alcohol, mental health and personal safety.”

We were led through a series of group building activities, to find what each individual found important personally. We

discussed the issues that faced the Bendigo community, listing various issues and put them to a preferential vote to discuss the most prominent issues facing The Bendigo Youth. The top three were; drugs and alcohol, mental health and personal safety.

We split up into groups, one for each top problem. I was in the ‘mental health’ group.

We discussed what it actually is, the possible causes of the

problem, how they are affecting us particularly as youth and what we can do to create a solution or manage the issue.

To finish off the day we ate lunch, did some group activities and talked to everyone. Overall I think it was a great day and I hope we can do it next year, and get more kids involved.

Getting more ideas from a youth perspective. The youth summit allows for our voices to be heard.

...what’s next?

The purpose of the Youth Summit was to understand what issues concern young people in Bendigo.

This year’s inaugural event saw over 80 young people come together over a fun morning of activities and inspiring presentations from local role models to discuss what matters to them.

The top 3 priorities for 2015 emerged from a facilitated

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discussion, and this is what the Youth Action Group will be addressing through initiatives, workshops and events over the next 12 months.

The City of Greater Bendigo will be supporting the Youth Action Group, and also use the Youth Summit outcomes to ensure its Youth Strategy remains aligned with the needs of young people.

We got to talk to other people who shared a passion in changing a problem in the community.

Mikaela Thomas Weeroona College Bendigo

Once we introduced each other we started to become friends and have some laughs together. Jokes aside we began talking about the problems in Bendigo.

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City on solar list

By CHRISTINE McGINN

ren Gladman said our municipality and city was choosing greener energy.

“Figures from the federal government show that both Bendigo and Greater Bendigo are in the top-20 regions for solar power in Victoria,” he said.

BENDIGO is one of Victoria’s shining lights when it comes to the installation of solar panels.

The city and its surrounding suburbs have been ranked in the state’s top-15 suburbs opting to use and install solar power panels.

Greater Bendigo’s surrounding suburbs (postcode 3551), were listed in 11th position for solar installation in the year to October, while Bendigo (postcode 3550) came in at 13th position with more than 2000 installations for the period.

The Clean Energy Regulator’s October data found Hoppers Crossing had taken the top prize for solar installation at 4766 installations, with Werribee second at 4271.

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welcomed solar with “open arms”.

Mr Reid agreed that locals were opting to install solar panels to reap the financial savings.

“Most people enjoy the financial reward they get and they save on CO2 emissions,” he said.

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Bendigo and Greater Bendigo are in the top 20 regions for solar power “Households in Bendigo and across the country have embraced solar power in record numbers over the last five years, due to the increasing affordability of solar power systems and the rising cost of electricity.”

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“Solar is going from strength to strength.

More people are getting on board.”

Mr Gladman said businesses were taking up solar to save costs.

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A group of Bendigonians will be sitting on a makeshift toilet at the Good Loaf in Bendigo for 48 hours next weekend, in the hope to raise funds for water projects in Africa.

Organiser Kim Fairbairn-Baker said this was a serious cause, especially around Christmas, and a toilet was something novel to promote the issue.

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Bendigo took up the first solar bulk buy program in regional Victoria with the creation of the solar rooftops program in 2007.

The Bendigo Sustainability Group is continuing the Goldfields Solar programs.

“These figures are great news for Bendigo and demonstrates the success of our program, which promotes the clean and sustainable aspects of using solar energy,” BSG president Keith Reynard said.

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All monies raised will be donated directly to the charity The Water Project, to build sanitation and water projects in Africa.

Organisers hope to raise $2000.

Legal eagle Peter Baker will sit on the throne for two hours, and said this was an opportunity to raise some money to assist people less fortunate.

“In our society, we are very privileged, we have a lot of resources, while there’s a lot of people in the world who don’t have those resources,” he said.

Mr Baker said because of this lack of resources, there are a lot of people who die unnecessarily.

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EVERY November, growing a moustache takes on a new meaning as the annual Movember prostate cancer fundraising and awareness initiative takes stock on the upper lip of thousands of Aussie blokes.

And for blokes in the bush, there’s never been more of a need for the hirsute pursuit.

Startling new statistics released by the Movember Foundation last week reveal the disparity that exists between country and city blokes, with 37 per cent more Victorian men from regional areas dying from prostate cancer than the state’s city dwellers.

With prostate cancer the most diagnosed cancer in Australia and the disease killing more men than breast cancer kills women, Movember encourages all Victorians to support the moustache this month to help save and improve the lives of all men impacted by prostate cancer.

On the back of this, a lot of Bendigo men, including these Bendigo and Adelaide Bank employees, and a couple of other local businessmen, cultivated a moustache for the past month, putting up with the good spirited commentary and stirring about how bad almost all of them look, but more important-

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One of these blokes is my mate Foss, himself a survivor of prostate cancer. We call him Foss because he’s the oldest of our group, but he’s also one of the most genuine and decent blokes getting around.

As time went on, Foss had robotic surgery and has thankfully, given the early diagnosis and treatment, since received positive news on his original cancer diagnosis, and he has returned to full health.

But his brush with a potentially serious condition is a reminder to all of us that we need to be proactive, look after ourselves, remain vigilant about our health and to have regular checkups so as to keep on top of our health.

But Movember is not just about prostate cancer, and the annual Movember campaign also raises awareness of other men’s health issues, such as testicular cancer and mental health – with Mo’s sparking conversations to get blokes talking about and taking their health more seriously.

This year, about 23,000 participants raised more than $1.9 million, as Movember continues to raise awareness and funds to impact the health and wellbeing of millions of men across the country.

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WITH beautiful weather, beaming sun, clear water and the smell of sausages, the Golden Square Community Pool opened at the weekend with hundreds of reasons to celebrate.

Now in its second year, swimmers flocked in their hundreds to the community-run facility for its summer season opening on Saturday, eager to once again support the pool.

More than 540 people went through the gates on the opening weekend, with a steady stream of swimmers during the

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“It’s been a fantastic start to the season... we have had a lot of people through, and a lot of new faces have been coming,” he said.

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BENDIGO BEAT Theft at post office POLICE were called to attend a theft from the Bendigo East post office on Monday afternoon.

Acting Sergeant Byron Hanson said police were called to the incident about 2.45pm.

Police want to speak to a 50-yearold man with a medium build regarding the alleged theft.

The man was wearing shorts and a hoodie at the time of the incident.

Despite a robbery at the site a month ago, Crime Investigation Unit Detective Michael Thompson said it was “way too early” to connect the incidents.

He added that an investigation into the matter was currently underway.

No weapon was believed to have been used.

DRUG and alcohol-affected drivers were the target of police efforts this weekend.

More than 1500 preliminary breath tests and 31 preliminary oral fluid tests were conducted on our roads this weekend.

A 28-year-old Bendigo man recorded a blood-alcohol reading of 0.085 and was fined $443.

Police caught the man at about 10pm on Bridge Street in Bendigo.

Another male driver, aged 23, blew more than double the legal alcohol limit in Strathfieldsaye at 10.15pm.

A 24-year-old female refused an oral fluid test in California Gully on Saturday morning about 3pm, while a 25-year-old Fosterville man tested positive for cannabis at 7.46pm.

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SUSPECT: Police are seeking a man in connection with the incident.

Police were kept busy on Sunday with a 24-year-old Kangaroo Flat man refusing a test for drugs just after midnight.

A 27-year-old man tested positive for methamphetamines at 1.10am on Symonds Street in Golden Square.

A Junortoun man, aged 28, blew more than double the legal alcoholblood limit at 1.25am in Bendigo.

The man was issued a $627 penalty notice.

Another man, aged 39, tested positive for methamphetamines just after 2am while a 53-year-old California Gully female tested positive for cannabis.

Police also caught a 21 year old Newport man driving under the influence of methampethamines in Pyalong.

Acting Senior Sergeant Peter Dyer it was disappointing that people were continuing to ignore the road safety messages.

He said police had ramped up their efforts to reduce road trauma and the safest option was not to drink and drive.

HAVILAH Road Preschool and Marong Primary School are the first early childhood service and primary school in Greater Bendigo to be recognised by the Healthy Together Victoria Achievement Program.

The preschool and primary school have been given signs promoting their commitment to health.

Greater Bendigo council’s Patrick Jess said it is important to create healthy environments for children, especially in places where they spend a majority of their time.

“Twenty-five per cent of Victorian children are overweight or obese, so a commitment by education providers to improve their overall health and wellbe-

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“This is a worthwhile program that gives us the tools to explore current health and wellbeing practices and guides the implementation of new initiatives,” Ms Wiratma said.

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Shirley Remembering home

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TO the surprise and delight of the many people involved in the inaugural Quality Living Options Short Story Prize 2014, the winner was local visual artist, Pauline Mathrick.

Her story, Room with a View was a stand out for the judges.

Names were not attached to the 47 entries stories which went through a rigorous judging process. Read by six readers, the stories were narrowed down to six finalists. These six finalists were then judged by journalists Peter Kenneally and the Bendigo Weekly’s Dianne Dempsey The second prize was won by Deborah Coulthard for her story, Remembering Home.

The announcement was made last Wednesday at the Bendigo library by Councillor Rod Campbell, to coincide with the International Day of People with a Disability. It was followed by a performance

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Quality Living Options was established two years ago by a group of local families who are faced with a confronting dilemma.

As the aging parents of children with disabilities they are now desperately looking for safe and caring accommodation for their own aging disabled children.

The short story competition, which had the theme, “A Place to Call Home,” is part of their campaign to raise awareness of the predicament facing these many families.

Each of the six shortlisted stories dealt effectively with the theme,

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The stories overall reflected quite strikingly not only the theme of the competition but also the aims and spirit of the organisation, as there was a strong sense in these stories of the importance of family and home, especially to children, and of maintaining these bonds throughout life.

Quality Living Options believes that there will be between 250 and 350 people with a disability in the Bendigo region needing accommodation in the next 10 years.

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Patients often report to psychoanalysts that they feel they have ‘come home’ once they feel truly listened to.

Being creatures of language, having our phrases, our attempts at expressing ourselves feel received must recall elements of being in that perfect womb.

We talk about feeling at home in our own skin and many know the agitation when it is otherwise; the visceral homelessness.

Shirley never felt at home in her skin.

She’d emerge late in the morning if she stayed at our house and without making eye contact talked as though to someone invisible full of complaint about the world and resenting being woken up by “that bloody cat next door”.

But when Dad went out with his .22 and shot the cat in our suburban Melbourne, she fled to her room in tears.

She was fascinating to me as my own flesh and blood and yet someone different to my mother.

She was my mother’s sister and yet was as fair as my mother was dark. She looked like their mother.

She had blue eyes like mine but bigger boned than my mother and me. She had broad shoulders, a good swimmer.

When my parents told me for the first time that my Auntie was coming to stay, I did the first and last cartwheel of my life.

I was so excited. She represented hope.

She might save us all, save us from this dreadful enervating unhappiness. She might bring us to life.

Shirley smoked and had tiny white scars on her smooth white forehead from the time she flew through the windscreen of her Volkswagen.

She would look into the distance with furrowed brow and relate the latest catastrophe with as much emotion as she could manufacture but through my child’s eyes I could see she didn’t feel much about anything. Her life was fuelled by hurts, thefts, bruises and shifting.

She would come to stay after being evicted or injured or abandoned. I would sit on her bed and watch her plucking her eyebrows, and I would smell the perfume and smoke and make up in the room.

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made her mark on family life and mascara. The fabric lining in the case had smears of colour on it and it gave off the same mix of smoke and perfume.

She had long black eye lashes and was all the more interesting because my father barely tolerated her.

Mum would start the phone calls on the third day of a visit from Shirley. Mum would soon have a new house or flat organised, new saucepans, dinner set and curtains all bought.

It felt good getting Auntie Shirley all set up with new things in a new area away from the offending “friends” who would inevitably steal all that she had.

I remember climbing the stairs to one of her new flats and dreaming of one day having a flat of my own just like it.

Imagine having a set of front door keys and being able to come and go as I please, make my own meals and decorate the place in lilac and yellow.

A feeling of unease then inertia overcame me and I realised I did not really want to leave home, ever.

Even at that young age, I had lost confidence that a home could be built without the ghosts of sadness.

Auntie Shirley’s fresh new start was always accompanied by a new job that Mum would also line up for her.

Jobs could be obtained for other people back then. Shirley would start work with new resolve talk-

ing of lessons learned but before long she had found a stash of new “friends” who looked and dressed differently to the others but always robbed her blind and ended up the same as all the others.

One time when I was sitting on her bed at our place and she was daubing foundation on a blue bruise on her cheek, she pulled out a photo of a house in Queensland.

“This is where your mother and I were born and raised Debbie Duck” (that’s what she always called me when it wasn’t liquorice legs) I looked at the sepia photo of the large Queenslander in Rockhampton with its massive verandah perched on large white posts.

In front of the house was Lyle their older brother who died under the knife of a drunken surgeon who tried to remove his appendix two days before Christmas.

Lyle had the same soft curly blonde hair as Shirley. He held the reins of the goat cart. My mother was sitting beside transfixed by the goat. Lyle wore a suit of blue shorts, bib and braces. My mother wore a pink frock. Both were bare foot, Queensland style.

The back of the photo had written in pencil, “1939, Lyle starting school. My little boy is growing up.”

It was the same year he was killed.

The couple had another baby as Mavis, was so bereft, no one could bring her back from the torpor of grief. Shirley was born to save her.

“You were not yet born in this photo Auntie Shirl,” I said. “No, love, they didn’t take any photos after Lyle died. I have Mum’s diary too and it stopped on the 23rd December as well.

“Here I think you are old enough to know about this now. I was sure my mother would not think I was old enough for whatever it was she was about to disclose.

“I had a baby and I named her Alison. Here she is.”

She pulled another photograph

She took the photo from me and seemed to be talking to her baby.

‘Those nine months were the only time I have felt full. I had a purpose and was needed. I gave birth in the home for single mothers in Brisbane.”

The next time Auntie Shirley came to stay she had lost her jewellery box containing her mother’s wedding ring.

She had to stay in a caravan at our back door. We had moved to a small rented brick house, or at least

chocolate and lollies after school.

When I didn’t have money, I slipped them into my pockets when the shopkeepers weren’t looking.

I heard the girls at school talking about my fat legs. I heard one girl say “she used to be so pretty”.

It was a hot Summer night when I went into Shirley’s caravan. Mum was never home anymore. Shirley turned off her television. I saw two empty bottles of beer on the bench.

“Hello Ducks” she said. “Do you know you are looking more like our mother every day? Here, look,” she turned a framed photo toward me.

I saw the face of the grandmother I had not met. “What age were you when she died? Auntie Shirl?”

I was nine and we’d just got home from camping. Mum hated camping but she also hated returning home. She just couldn’t bear to be alive any longer. She’d told us that often enough.

Your mother and I dragged her to her bed and phoned that idiot doctor who said “it was just another one of her migraines.”

We tried to get her to talk to us.

We needed to hear her.

Her eyes opened at one point and she said “look after Shirley, Del, make sure she always has a home.”

Shirley opened her bar fridge and got out another beer.

“Your mother doesn’t remember any of this.”

“Oh! I think she does remember Auntie. She does remember.”

Even at that young age, I had lost confidence that a home could be built without the ghosts of sadness from her handbag. There were those soft blonde curls again and blue eyes. She had the same chin and shy smile as her mother.

“Do you mean I actually have a cousin?” I felt that old hope again, some new family member might save us; make us happy.

“Well, yes, but I don’t know whether we’ll ever see her Ducky, I managed to get the agency to send me this photo but I can’t know where she is.

“Your Grandad made me give her up for adoption. She is just a few months younger than you. When your mother became pregnant with you, I just so badly wanted to have the same.”

Mum and I had, in which all our furniture was crammed.

The place looked like a second hand shop as Mum had made sure she left nothing. The three chairs that my brothers and I used to sit in to watch television, were out on the front porch at an angle to each other as there wasn’t room for them to be lined up as they were at home.

The other two chairs sat empty and it was years before I saw my father or brothers again. Shirley still came to us for refuge but I couldn’t understand how it was preferable to anything she’d left.

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Selectors missed out We have just seen the death of one of our best ever young cricketers, PhillipHughes. Tributes have come in from every cricket nation in the world.

It would seem that the only people not interested in this young champion were the Australian selectors.

They treated him very badly. They should all hang their heads in shame and resign from their position today.

Ivan Draffn, Kangaroo Flat

Leisure centre can stay to please both parties Most people are unaware council plans to demolish the serviceable $2million Kangaroo Flat Leisure Centre. A victim of the proposed $35million indoor pool.

Council received a petition to save that centre and hold a meeting to put the case. The previously ignored petitioners did not oppose the pool, but saw no need to knock down the centre; surely both could be accommodated.

It is clear the petitioners felt user-groups, the fabric of a local community, were being sacrificed for corporatised events. The responsible director presented a report on the petition for councillors.

“Withering” best describes Councillor Elise Chapman’s forensic demolition of that report. Bluntly, she ripped the guts out of what she described as a deliberate attempt to distort the petition.

Cr Chapman claimed the report misrepresented the petitioners, misused petitioner and financial data, brazenly displayed photos showing parts of the centre in disrepair when council was responsible for that poor condition, and that officers steered user groups to leave the centre to then claim underutilisation.

Cr Chapman’s points were not rebutted.

I take it truth was on her side.

The divisive, biased, report offered no compromise and failed council’s values. Over time, disguised manipulation leaves residents feeling betrayed, and costs council reputation.

CEO Craig Niemann, answering a question from respected local Don McKinnon, conceded poor advertising linked to the leisure centre should not have happened. Niemann took flak for the director; I respect him for that. Now council needs a positive outcome.

Council must sit down with petitioners and others so the leisure centre and pool share can the site.

Alternatively, face a reality; the $35M Aquatic Centre and its upkeep is too costly, and will draw swimmers away from local pools and undesirably increase traffic movement across Bendigo.

The council’s healthy living and local community activity centre objectives are better achieved in other ways – higher maintenance of existing pools, upgrading the present Kangaroo Flat pool, and progressively building smaller heated pools as part of recreational hubs in growth suburbs Huntly, Maiden Gully and Strathfieldsaye.

The Leisure Centre can be retained and other outcomes achieved.

Some pride may be lost, but all for the good and well-being of more Greater Bendigo residents.

Ted Coleman, Strathfieldsaye

Progressive politics Congratulations to Jacinta Allan in Bendigo East and Maree Edwards in Bendigo West on their respective resounding wins in last weekend’s Victorian State election.

The return of Jacinta and Maree, both with significant swings towards them, is an electoral endorsement of socially progressive politics and a clear repudiation of the Liberal/ National Coalition’s increasingly extremist conservative agenda at both a state and federal level.

The Bendigo Greens, too, are pleased to have increased our primary vote in both electorates – further evidence of voter disenchantment with the initial inertia and subsequent chaos followed by the socially divisive, short-sighted and environmentally disastrous agenda of the Baillieu/Napthine Coalition over the past four years.

The difficulty for a majority of Victorians and the new Andrews Labor Victorian government, however, will likely be the presence of religious right, climate-change denialist microparties, elected completely by virtue of ALP and Coalition preference flows, in the parliamentary Legislative Council.

As Victorian Greens Parliamentary Leader Greg Barber has said: “Under any of the possible arrangements... the government will need the Greens to pass bills in the upper house”.

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Thanks to the volunteers As the festive season approaches and as we reach the end of our centenary year, I am reminded of the wonderful work of our Red Cross volunteers.

Each year our volunteers give hundreds of hours of their time to help people in crisis, not only in our local community but right around the world.

I am also constantly humbled by the generous public support we receive for our everyday work.

Your regular donations to Red Cross help provide a healthy breakfast for kids who might otherwise go to school hungry, allow us to make a phone call every day to check that elderly or isolated people are OK, and help ensure remote communities in the Asia-Pacific have access to clean drinking water.

We also work in communities to help vulnerable families cope with the pressures of life, build pathways out of homelessness and work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Despite our best efforts however, there are always new families that need our help each year, new communities that find themselves in cri-

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At this time of the year, when the generosity of all Australians shines through I would like to urge everyone to put a little something aside for people and families in crisis.

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Your tax-deductible gift to the Red Cross Festive Appeal in our centenary year will make a real difference.

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Have the talk to save a life I write to you in my capacity as the CEO of Royal Life Saving Society – Australia, a charity dedicated to reducing drowning and turning everyday people into everyday community lifesavers.

We want to highlight to your readers that there is now a significant and growing issue in relation to drowning among older people in Australia.

Royal Life Saving has just released new research. It shows that in the past 10 years, 1072 people aged 50 years and over died as a result of drowning during the period 2002/03 to 2011/12.

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Alcohol was known to be involved in 37 per cent of all drowning deaths amongst people aged 50 plus.

Older men are three times more likely to drown than women.

Inland waterways – rivers, creeks, lakes and dams – actually account for the biggest proportion of drowning deaths among older people.

To lose a parent or grandparent to drowning is an absolute tragedy.

We ask all communities to help us with this issue.

Similar efforts that have been successful in reducing child drowning now have to be applied to stop drownings in people over the age of 55.

People need to act responsibly around water and avoid any behaviour that may increase the risk of drowning. Be aware of your limitations. Carefully consider the impact of any medical conditions you may have. Never mix alcohol with water.

Always wear a lifejacket and learn lifesaving skills.

On a practical basis we ask people to talk with their parents and grandparents and have “the talk” about these issues. This could literally save a life.

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In the digital drag The federal government’s best laid plans to deliver faster internet speeds to more Australians who were already missing out compared to the rest of us were based on an admirable sentiment, but the problem for Bendigo seems to be it’s come at our expense.

In early 2012, the then Labor government promised to deliver the much anticipated NBN to Greater Bendigo, and the relevant parties were close to signing off on such a plan, but contracts for Bendigo, and Geelong, were never signed.

Then, the newly elected coalition announced it would seek to deliver faster internet to localities that were already in a digital backwater with little to no capacity, a move designed to

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Communications Minister Malcom Turnbull’s own website says NBN Co would prioritise areas identified as poorly served by the Government’s Broadband Availability and Quality Report to the extent that it is commercially and operationally feasible.

The strategic review found that prioritising areas would mean

A year ago, locals and their loved ones were at risk. Entire days went by without a single ambulance covering an area stretching from Kangaroo Flat to Melbourne.

A few days ago, I was proud to stand with hardworking paramedics and announce that Labor’s plans to end the ambulance crisis are already underway.

Being elected Premier of Victoria is the greatest privilege of my professional life, but there’s no time for celebration. I’m getting straight to work.

The first law I’ll introduce to Parliament will be the Back To Work Act, to help create 100,000 jobs for retrenched workers and unemployed youth.

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In life and in business, somebody always has to be first, and someone else second. The problem for Bendigo at the moment is that in the absence of clarity, there are very real concerns we could be last.

A city with such a burgeoning health services sector and one whose education facilities are of the highest standard, cannot afford to be left behind. We cannot afford a digital drag whereby our services and delivery are at risk of being compromised by an inadequate internet service, or a lack of clarity as to when something Bendigo so desperately wants, will ultimately be delivered.

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IN CONTROL: Trainee pilot Beau Cruz with instructor Chris Gobel.

Beau cruzes to a career BUDDING pilot Beau Cruz spread his wings in Bendigo recently as part of his Year 10 work experience.

The student, from Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, spent a week with Bendigo Aviation.

Beau started his flying lessons with Bendigo Aviation when he was 14, he is now 16 and travels by train from Melbourne to have a lesson.

Captain Chris Gobel supervised Beau for the week at Bendigo Airport.

“He’s doing fine with about 20 hours’ flying at the moment,” he said.

“He’s pretty determined he’s going to be a commercial pilot.”

Mum Michele is all in favour of the career path.

“The time spent there is giving Beau an opportunity to see the everyday events that occur at the airport, gain experience and knowledge from all the pilots, and experience work in Bendigo,” she said.

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A Vital Signs Monitor is essential for monitoring a patient’s body temperature, blood pressure, pulse and breathing.

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Trouble brewing in store Shopping can be fraught at the best of times...

B

ACK in the distant past I worked in a hardware store in the Highlands of Scotland.

It was only for a summer, and it gave me an insight into the wonderful world of the general public.

I had lots of fun generally joking around, and the only bit I didn’t like was checking the till at the end of the day.

That, and my grumpy boss.

She was nice enough most times, but heaven forbid the day when she’d been on the vodka the night before.

I would know immediately of course, the bloodshot eyes were the first clue. That and a change in character.

I found it best to just start pricing things up on the shelves and keep out of her way.

Despite this, I had fun and enjoyed the interaction with all types of people.

I have been reminded of my old boss recently while shopping in Bendigo.

The days when she had

been drinking.

I have a favourite bottle shop, the long suffering Mrs Kendall mentions it every time it appears on the bank statement, and I like to fill up on the way home.

Over the past few months they have been running some spectacular specials, and I have been taking advantage.

Not just because it was cheap, but because it was my favourite, and cheap.

The trouble was, no matter how many times I went to the store, the wrong price came up on the special.

It got to the point where I had to tell them it was never

right so they could be ready.

Most of the staff were fine with this, except one.

She took exception to being told her job, and seemed grumpy to give me the price off.

I tried to jolly her along, but whatever I said made her worse.

I would present my store loyalty card only to be told I had not spent enough to make any difference.

Everything was too much trouble, and it got to the point where I used to wince if she was on duty as I went to buy my next special.

One day I went in and

Dear Dotty, Recently my partner Bev and I were driving through Bears Lagoon and she remarked that it was a perfect location for a Shopping Centre, Medical Clinic, Olympic sized swimming pool and ice skating rink.

I personally think it is a little too “remote” for such a grand vision, but I’ve learnt not to argue with my Missus. What are your thoughts in relation to this ?

Respectfully Yours, Robert Currie (Central City Caravan Park) Hi Robert, You know that’s the way a lot of great places started, by people who had vision.

That after all is how Melbourne was started when John Batman said categorically, “This will be the place for a village.”

In years to come your wife Bev Currie will be known as the person who said, “This is the perfect location for a Shopping Centre, Medical Clinic, Olympic sized swimming pool and ice skating rink.”

Dear Dotty, Not sure how to beat the heat. Fuel bills are going up, we have no air conditioning and can’t afford

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swimming pool fees.

My kids are going to drive me mad this summer and my husband, who says we can’t afford any more expenses, will be on the road in his air-conditioned truck.

Rachel Hi Rachel, Here’s what you do.

Lie down on the lino in the passageway or the kitchen and let the cool breeze flow through the house.

Keep a wet towel on your forehead, while sipping an iced gin and tonic, and say repeatedly, “Oh Lordy be, I just don’t think I can take this heat any longer. Honey when are you going to get us out of this dump! Maybe the little ‘ol kids and I can go along with you on the next interstate haul. What do you reckon Hon? The three kids and I in the cabin with you for 48 hours?”

Just see what happens.

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handed over a different brand six-pack from my usual and said it was on special, and I liked specials.

“I am a bit of a cheapskate,” I said, always in the mood to jolly her along.

“Yes, you are,” she said in reply, with not a hint of a smile.

It’s getting to the point where I may not shop there, Mrs K will be happy, but the store in question would notice a big dint in their income.

It’s all about customer service sweetie.

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Technology a riders choice bendigo

T

AKE a look at someone’s bike and in most cases it will be a reflection of the riders’ personality.

There is always a story behind how someone arrived at their bike.

Initial intent can vary: transport, exercise or environmental concerns.

From there, depending on individual needs, wants, experiences and motivation, cyclists can go in any direction.

On the technology front in cycling there has been a lot of advancement mostly in the past decade, the average rider can travel at a speed once only experienced at the elite level.

Geometrics have played a part, and frames once made of steel and alloy are now carbon in the interest of reduced bike weight, handling and rigidity.

This creates greater power translation, complemented by light weight components and carbon wheels, which all come at a financial cost.

The alternative is to train hard and get your body right.

Most choose the former.

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: Bike technology that was once the preserve of the elite riders is now available to everyone.

Like everything, technology in cycling is growing rapidly.

Mountain bikes have moved to a greater wheel circumference for handling and disc brakes and it appears that road bikes are set to follow, replacing the old brake pad systems with discs and increased tyre width, no longer using the theory of “skinny is faster”.

Radio communication is used – in the pro ranks, they say it’s for two-way communication.

An earplug for the rider is for safety reasons to advise of upcom-

ing road conditions.

But radio communications is mostly about tactics.

For the rider if it becomes all too much with that same voice telling you to go harder, the rider can “accidentally” remove the ear plug or blame the technology.

There is no such luxury for a road time trial event, where the team supporting a solo rider against the clock is unceremoniously barking instructions via the public address speaker perched on top of the tailgating team car.

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Electronic gear shifts are now in full flight with electronic sensors replacing the need for cable systems.

We can only hope that electronic gear shifts in the future don’t come with a remote control, tempting team managers or others to change gears to suit the terrain and force the rider to respond.

It makes you wonder what effect your garage remote might have on a passing cyclist.

- Martin Banfield

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Bushby wins again THE threat of rain and hail didn’t deter the 48 riders who fronted up for the latest race in the Central Victorian Veteran’s Cycling Club Dale Lowe Signs Summer Series on Wednesday night.

The race was sponsored by Pilcher Building Contractors and after missing the start last week due to a puncture sustained on the start line, Graeme Pilcher managed to make it around the course, despite nearly suffering the same fate again.

Fortunately a good samaritan had a spare wheel and Pilcher made it to the start.

It was a humid night, but not too windy, and the scratch bunch had plenty of targets to chase, with groups at between two and 15 minutes.

Once again the middle markers stayed away from both scratch and second scratch. The strong third scratch picked up the five minute bunch and steadily moved through the field, having the race covered not long after the start of Exchange Hill.

Nathan Bushby (four minutes) scored his second win in as many weeks, taking the sprint from Paul Dynon (five minutes), Bruce Baehnisch, Scott Robbins, Leon Yates (in his first race), then Michael Smythe, Doug Waterson, Cait Fraser-Jones, Graeme Pilcher and Ricky Lovell.

Tony Jones led the scratch bunch home about one minute later, and under threatening skies, to record fastest time.

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Quartz king connection

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R

ecently I have been focusing on Frederick Napoli Prescott, the optician and jeweller who became the toast of Bendigo in the 1890s.

Prescott himself needed good eyesight to do much of the intricate jewellery work for which he was well known in this, the Golden City.

Mention was made last week how this area’s local government councils went to see Prescott to buy a special presentation, gift or memento.

These gifts could take many different forms and were frequently accompanied with a presentation artist’s lettered certificate which the councillors or committee members would sign.

Bendigo’s Quartz King, George Lansell while living in London decided to make his way back to his native Margate

in Kent to look over his birth place.

While there Lansell decided to donate gold from one of his private mines to that council, for the purpose of creating a suitable mayoral chain linked on to a medallion featuring Margate’s coat of arms.

A shield formed the Margate coat of arms, showing a symbol of the cinque ports in the form of a lion ship.

In the lower part of the shield below a chevron is the rampant white horse of Kent, on top of the crest, was a sea horse and beacon, symbolising the city’s harbour.

Margate’s motto’s meaning is “a gate of the sea and a haven of health”.

Years later, Lansell also donated gold from his 180 mine, on Victoria Hill, to be crafted into a medallion and chain for the city of Bendigo.

This medallion

would have the coat of arms of the city and its motto “Progress”, connected on both sides was the mayoral chain.

The chain being so designed that each link could hold a wrought gold monogram using the initials of each of the mayors.

One of the citizens who inspired Lansell to make a similar gesture of a mayoral chain towards Bendigo, as he had done for Margate, was Joseph Henry Abbott in 1892.

Mr Abbott was a successful businessman, a parliamentary member, investor in the mines as well as a supplier – he was a worthy person to approach Lansell on an equal footing.

Frederick Prescott’s skilled handiwork in designing and manufacturing the mayoral chain and the medallion went on public display for the first time on Saturday, June

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fine work: The mayoral chain and medallion.

24, 1893.

The gleaming symbol of the City of Bendigo was on view in the window of Frederick Prescott’s shop on the corner of Mitchell and Hargeaves streets, for the day and evening in question.

From then on it was to be hidden from view until Mayor of the day J H Abbott wore this artifact of civic symbolism to the Mayoral Ball on July 5, 1893.

Frederick Prescott’s “piece de resistance” was much admired as it hung

over the fur-trimmed mayoral robes on the slightly portly body of Councillor J H Abbott.

Only two years, later Frederick Prescott, keen to promote local artists, presented a shield made of solid silver to the Bendigo Art Gallery, “for the best original painting by any amateur residing within a radius of 60 miles of Bendigo”.

Does this Prescott designed and manufactured shield still exist?

That question still needs to be investigated.

ur local library has suggested some great reads for the summer. But we’ve also done a quick survey around the Weekly office and come up with some of our own selections.

Goldfields Libraries CEO, Chris Kelly says The Summer Read gives Victorians the chance to discover local authors and new books.

“Summer is the perfect time to put your feet up and dive into a great book. You don’t even have to stress about which books to pick, we’ve done the hard work so you can just read and relax.

“Every book on the Summer Read list is a winner and available to borrow for free from each of our libraries” Ms Kelly said.

Readers also have the chance to win a personal library of up to 50 Victorian books by filling out an entry form at a participating public library or online at slv.vic.gov.au/ summer-read.

The Weekly journalists actually read books sometimes instead of newspapers, the Women’s Weekly and Freshwater Fishing etc. Below is a list of what they read (followed by their personal comments).

• H ockey: Not Your Average Joe

by King Madonna (Now I know why some people despise the Liberal party).

The 2015 Summer Read books are:

• P rivate Bill by Barrie Cas-

•D riving Under the Influence by Jenna Martin.

• Tree Palace by Craig Sherborne.

• Demons by Wayne Macauley.

•W arning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy by Sophie Cunningham.

• An American in Oz by Sara James.

• Cairo by Chris Womersley.

• The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir by Liam Pieper.

• S t Kilda Blues by Geoffrey McGeachin.

•W hat Came Before by Anna George.

• Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett.

• G one Girl - Gillian Flynn (Overrated).

• T he Rosie Project - (Just what was all the fuss about?)

• N ora Webster by Colm Toibin

(Nobody writes as sad like the Irish write sad.)

• U S by David Nicholls (American who intellectualises romance, great read).

• G irls in our Town by Dianne

Dempsey (Yes it really is very sad and very funny and just a wee bit spooky). sidy (great war biography about journalist Barrie Cassidy’s father.

Straightforward, moving).

• G eoffrey Wellum’s First Light is an autobiographical account of his time as a fighter pilot in Britain’s Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. Wellum’s indignation at the “bloody cheek” of the German raids on England are told with such force and recall it puts you in the seat of a Spitfire at 20,000 feet with a Hun on your tail.

• G oodbye to All That by Robert

Graves. An autobiographical account of Graves’ early life culminating as a line officer on the Western Front. No honour, no glory, just death and discomfort, and some bloody silly orders.

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HERE is not a sound or a beat 18-yearold producer Throttle (aka Robbie Bergin) won’t try.

Considered one of the Electronic Dance Movement’s most promising producers, the Melburnian is making waves in the industry.

Set to take to the stage at Future Music Festival at Flemington Racecourse on March 8, Throttle blends live and electronic elements in his music.

“It’s a combination of the computer and the old (music) world,” he said.

The young gun said the secret to his success was his beloved guitar, giving his music a unique sound.

“My music is about 90 per cent of

making mistakes along the way and then having the best parts pop out. Playing an instrument, seems to me, the best way to make a lot of that happen quicker,” he said.

“I like more melodic sounding things and that seems to show in my work, even if I am not trying to do these things.”

Throttle said modern technology had enabled his success, giving listeners a medium to stream his music live.

“My support has grown really quickly and much faster than I expected. It is all really surreal as I am just a kid at home making music in my home studio and putting it out online,” he said.

“The rise in EDM gives artists like

me more confidence to take risks, do something new and know it can catch on to a broader market.”

With more than 67,000 facebook followers managed by the same team behind Avicii, Throttle is in good hands.

Throttle said he had shied away from performing his music live but was thrilled and ready to embark on the Australiawide tour.

Throttle will play alongside industry superstars Drake, Avicii and The Prodigy.

“I have always loved the opportunity to perform for an audience,” Throttle said.

Locals can snap up Future Music Festival tickets at www.futuremusicfestival. com.au - Christine McGinn

Bendigo EP launch for Hailey B

LUES Festival favourite, and allround nice girl Hailey Calvert has chosen Bendigo as the launch site for her new EP. The blonde haired girl with a booming blues voice often causes the audience to double take, but there is no mistaking the candour and sincerity in her lyrics.

Blues Festival director Colin Thompson said Calvert creates a connection between performer and audience he’s rarely witnessed.

“Hailey’s honest song-writing and emotive, yet flawless, delivery draws the listener in like few others can achieve,” he said.

Calvert lives in Brisbane, and is returning to Bendigo with her third EP; a collection of cleverly crafted folk songs delivered with a powerful, expressive blue eyed soul voice.

She is a Queensland Music Awards nominee and has performed

all over Australia and internationally, touring to New York, London and Ireland.

Performances at Woodford Folk Festival, Bendigo Blues and Roots Music Festival and Blues on Broadbeach have also garnered new fans for the WAHAILEY CALVERT born musician.

The EP includes some striking vocal arrangements and velvety cello lines and and relevant to the listener, but laced all contribute to the warm sound on with a unique songwriters point of After Your Heart’s Gone Home. view. The launch show is on Saturday, The six-track EP ranges from full December 13 at The Old Church on blown blues to intricate acoustic folk the Hill on the corner of Russell and songs with a few stops in between.

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On each track Calvert writes The launch starts at 6.30pm, compelling lyrics, easily relatable tickets $10 at the door.

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Saturday, December 6 Christmas Market: Bendigo Club, Park Street, Strathdale 11am-4pm by The Zonta Club of Bendigo. Tickets $6 at the door, includes free glass of sparkling wine, juice or soft drink.

Come and Try Croquet: Eaglehawk Croquet Club invites you every Saturday at 9.45am to come and try the game of croquet. It’s a fun game, played in fresh air with other members, who will coach you. Details: 5447 2610.

The Bendigo Motorcycle Toy Run: Motorcyclists will be collecting gifts for children and will travel to Castlemaine, leaving at 8.30am from Lansell Plaza, returning to Lake Weeroona about noon where you can join them for a barbecue lunch, raffles and an auction. Any donations of kids sports equipment and toys can be left at St Vincents in Bendigo or at Bendigo Community Telco at 23 McLaren Street. Details: 0419 553 477 Tuesday, December 9 Kangaroo Flat Carols by Candlelight:

Kangaroo Flat Uniting Church grounds, High Street. 6.30pm free sausage sizzle, followed at 7.30pm by Carols by Candlelight. Santa will also be making an appearance. BYO chairs and rugs. Tea and coffee will be provided and soft drinks and candles will be for sale. Details: 5447 8430.

Thursday, December 11 Old Time Dance: Eaglehawk Senior Citizens Rooms, Darling Street. 8pm until 11pm. $5.

5442 1815.

Twilight Market: Rotary Club of Eaglehawk, indoor and outdoor stalls. 4pm to 8pm California Gully Mechanics Hall, 8 School Street.

Details: 0409 266 836.

Information session for Summer Camp staff: Jeff Lewis will be holding an information night for those interested in finding out more about Camp Counselors USA – where Australians can go and work in Summer Camps in the USA. Thursday December 11, 6.30pm, The Exchange, Shop 11 Bendigo Bank complex.

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ICHEL’S Fine Biscuits have released their Christmas shortbread All Stars and award winning fruit mince pies. Available from Favourite Flavours, Mitchell St, Bendigo or head to www.michelsfinebiscuits.com.au

• Indulge Chocolates have a variety of delicious hand

crafted gifts, made using the finest Callabaut Belgian chocolate.

Boxed selections for gifts and essential treats for the Christmas table are both available. Fountain Court Bendigo, www.indulgechocolates.com.au

• Planning a barbecue? Take the trip to Inglewood’s Meats on Brooke to source locally farmed meats, dryaged steaks and homemade kabana and kransky. 65 Brooke St, Inglewood.

• Tickets to any of the region’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Events to be held in March 2015 will bring a smile to any food lover’s face.

World’s Longest Lunch - Rosalind Park, March 13, 2015 A Fish out of Water seafood festival - Rocks on Rosalind, March 14, 2015 Game of Clones wine and food dinner - Public INN, March 14, 2015 How to Drink (the insider’s guide) - The Dispensary, March 15, 2015 Picnic with the Mad Hatter - Bendigo Botanic Gardens, March 15, 2015 Prices and booking details are available at www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au

Christmas recipe: Marmalade and mustard glazed ham Recipe courtesy of www.mcivorfarmfoods.com.au • 510g orange marmalade • 70g Dijon mustard • 125ml water • ½ teaspoon sea salt flakes • McIvor Farm leg ham on the bone, skin removed and trimmed (use your fingers to gently remove the skin from the ham) • cloves, to decorate Preheat oven to 200°C. Place the marmalade, mustard, water and salt in a saucepan over high heat and whisk to combine.

Bring to the boil, reduce heat

to low and cook for 5–7 minutes or until thickened slightly, set aside.

Use a small, sharp knife to score the ham in a diamond pattern and cover the hock with aluminium foil (this will prevent it from burning).

Place the ham on a lightly greased wire rack in a baking dish lined with non-stick baking paper.

Push a clove into each diamond and brush ham with the glaze (for a half leg brush onto the front face of the ham too).

Add ½ cup of water to the roasting pan. Roast for 35–40 minutes for a full leg or 20-30 minutes for a half leg, brushing with the glaze every 10 minutes, or until the ham is golden and caramelised.

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Dine-in & Takeaway Wine Victoria chair Damien Sheehan said the Lunch: 12pm-3pm Mon-Fri. Evening: Mon-Sat. 5pm to late region had been fighting to secure its position on the international stage.

“This funding is critical for our industry.

56 Williamson St &there 281 For the last decade, hasLyttleton been a declineTerrace Thu 30.10: Thai Packfor Victorian Thuwineries 13.11: due Malay in profi tability to Pack Entree: Prawn Chicken rate, Satay Skewers severalSpring factorsRolls includingEntree: high exchange Main Course: Main Course: oversupply, retail, ” he said.

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Thai Green Curry Chicken Thu 20.11: Malay Pack Rice and Roti Bread - Christine McGinn Entree: Fried Prawn Wontons

IVE Bendigo wineries have taken home awards from the prestigious Concours des Vins de Victoria event held in Melbourne at Etihad Stadium.

The award-winning wineries were BlackJack Vineyards, Glenwillow Wines, Harcourt Valley Winery, Sandhurst Ridge Winery and Turners Crossing Wines.

Concours des Vins de Victoria is a unique wine competition in Australia that involves a panel of French wine experts and commentators judging Victorian wines. The event is organised by the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Since its inception in 1990 the annual Concours des Vins de Victoria has brought together two proud wine-producing cultures, French and Australian, in a place where Victorian terroirs and aromas meet the French palate.

For head judge, Bernard Burtschy, the event is a “wonderful window into changing wine trends” and represents “promising perspectives” for the future of Victorian wines.

The event featured a line up 478 different Victorian wines from more than 100 wineries, and was enjoyed by an enthusiastic crowd of close to 1,000 guests including winemakers, judges, sponsors and French-

GOLD AND BRONZE: For Glenwillow.

Australian Chamber of Commerce members.

In the highly competitive field, Glenwillow Wines won a prestigous trophy for Best Shiraz 2012.

BlackJack Vineyards received two Bronze medals; Glenwillow received a Gold and Bronze medal; Harcourt Valley Winery received eight Gold medals, four Silver and four Bronze; Sandhurst Ridge Winery won a Bronze medal and Turners Crossing won a Silver medal.

“This is a strong result for the Bendigo Wine region, being recognised like this for quality wines is always a boost for the region,” Bendigo Winegrowers Association president Bill Blamires said.

To find out more about these Bendigo wineries visit www. bendigowine.org.au

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Pavecoat H2O has been designed to provide a concrete treatment, which has excellent waterproofing and hard wearing characteristics to equivalent organic solvent solution acrylic sealers without the associated environmental problems.

Two coats is all that’s needed for sealing all interior and exterior concrete surfaces in a wide range of colours that display excellent adhesion to all concrete and masonry surfaces when applied correctly.

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“With the extra space we have been able to expand our range of stock as well as provide a long overdue increase to the size of the model railway store,” business owner Gary said.

“And with Christmas just around the corner we have a massive range of gift ideas – something for everyone.”

Bendigo Electronics offers a wide range of radio controlled cars and helicopters as well as pre-wrapped Christmas presents priced from only $9.95.

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“We have a huge range of colours and patterns to choose from, and have completed a mountain of concrete restoration jobs around Bendigo AFTER “We put our name to our quality and that’s why we offer a seven year guarantee.”

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HEALTH & SPIRITUALITY

LOST DOG Kelpie X Black with Red Collar, Male, "Gus" from Golden Square area, Reward for safe return. Phone 0408 273 125

FRIENDSHIP MAN in 50's seeks female 40+, not necessarily romantic, but for companionship, and social outings. Phone Phill 5446 1422 SINGLE man in 50's non smoker, social drinker, seeks female 40+ for friendship, outings, dinners etc. Phone or Text : 0488 168 555

PERSONALS

CHEEKY CHAT Hot Gals Live 24hrs $3.96/min pay/mobextra 1902 215 347 or C/Cards 03 9600-0123

MASSAGE SIMPLY RELAXED DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE Stiff & sore back Experienced masseur Phone 0421 029 009

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BEAUTY SERVICES

BEAUTY ESSENTIALS

by Melinda

Call Debra 0417 679 720

OPEN OP DURING XMAS/NEW YEAR PERIOD XMAS/N 7 DAYS, BY B APPOINTMENT

Are there any questions regarding your love life, health, career or an issue that you are unclear about? I can assist you with all these questions and more.

Therapeutic Massage Therap from $25 Faci Facials from $35 Waxing & Tinting from $8

Call 0417 679 720

HEALTH SERVICES BOWEN THERAPIST • Benefit from improved health and wellbeing • Effective pain relief for acute and chronic health conditions Ph Jane 0402 946 130

FOR LEASE OFFICE SPACE Modern consulting rooms in CBD. $140 p.w, or $36 daily. Ph 0408 525 526

Classifieds 1300 558 385

For our full pricelist, visit facebook.com/BeautyEssentialsbyMelinda.au

GIFT VOUC VOUCHERS AVAILABLE Ph 5443 42 4227 or 0408 512 926

minnajean@hotmail.com m mi n ajean@hotma nn 4 Bonnie Brae Crt S/Gully

PUBLIC NOTICES Linking people, places and events Bendigo Newcomers hosts regular social activities as a way to meet new people & discover what the Bendigo Region has on offer.

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

MASSAGE

1 Hour Relaxation Massage $50 Get your Gift Vouchers for Xmas Foot Pamper Day - Saturday 6th December World Challenge Fundraiser $20 - All Welcome

Qualified Remedial Massage Therapist Sports Remedial Deep Tissue Therapeutic Massage Treatments Health Fund rebates available for eligible Clients Bendigo 3550

Phone Ann 0407 237 123

TIME FOR YOURSELF! If... you are stressed out...you have stiff and sore muscles ....old injuries are troubling you

Ring Wendy 5447 1943 A qualified, experienced and caring masseur with 18 years experience.

9am - 7.30pm ~ Weekend appointments available

An Affordable Rate of $40 per hour

THERAPIES

Personalised Health alth Care Jo is now available for

Massage Treatmentss Only at 54 Torrens St, Marong ong Deep tissue and relaxation massage age to relieve muscle tension and stress! ess!

Health fund rebates apply

Ph: 0427 352 593

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

ELVIS IMPERSONATOR

MASTER OF CEREMONIES

WANTED male vocal/rhythm guitarist for band, all inquiries Ph Lorraine 0417 911 254

Singer for Parties & Functions, 30 - 40min show! 0427 303 269 www.bendigosingergram .com

PUBLIC NOTICES GIVE YOUR KINDER CHILD A HEAD START FOR SCHOOL Classroomconnectt Cl PRE-PREP Program for 4YO Kinder Children is now enrolling for Term 1, 2015.

Structured Literacy and Numeracy program developing letter and number sense.

New 1hr, 3YO program available.

Contact Elizabeth Stewart

www.classroomconnect.com.au / facebook.com/classroomconnect

0402 554 808

For Weddings or Corporate, Phone Peter: 0427 303 269

White Witch Mobile Tarot Readings Ph 0407 057 254 ARK - FM

BENDIGO - 87.6 MHZ EAGLEHAWK 87.8 MHZ

One religion keeps on pronouncing "God has no Son", thus, in also saying they "believe in Jesus", they have invented a false God or Christ unable to save them from eternal damnation "Keep yourselves from idols" (1 John 5:21)

FROM THE BIBLE

LUKE 1:26,31

God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man Joseph.

The angel said to her, “Greetings, you are highly sorrowed.... you will be with child and give birth to a son and give him the name Jesus.”

TROUBLES? Desperate for help?

Ask St Jude for help.

He answers.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BUSINESS FOR SALE Cleaning Business Bendigo Area Established clientelle

6 figure sales $40,000 Ph 0429 856 882

A HOME BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Earn $500 - $6,000 plus per month Part/Full Time.

Full training and ongoing support provided. www.workhome4you.com

EMPLOYMENT CASUAL position in Takeaway Shop. Looking for someone with an honest positive attitude.

Phone 0488 375 535

New Childcare Centre Opening Soon!

TRAVEL

2014 TOURS HUNTER VALLEY XMAS LIGHTS DEC 6th - 13th CHRISTMAS IN THE RIVERLAND DECEMBER 22nd - 27th

2015 TOURS AUST TENNIS OPEN 19 - 21st JANUARY LAKES ENTRANCE 10 - 15th MARCH NARRANDERA REGION 11 - 18th MAY OUTBACK NSW 14 - 21st JUNE TOURS START & END AT YOUR FRONT DOOR

PH 1800 814 320

chris@kingstonstours.com.au www.kingstonstours.com.au

EMPLOYMENT PHONE PEOPLE REQUIRED

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

EMPLOYMENT

Optus Mobile Pty Ltd (Optus) plan to upgrade an existing telecommunications facility at each of the following locations:

Call Maxine on 0418 369-685

BENDIGO

PROPOSAL TO UPGRADE MOBILE PHONE BASE STATIONS IN THE LOCAL AREA

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1811

One Tree Hill Regional Park, 173 Edwards Road Strathfieldsaye VIC 3550 Optus Ref: M1635; RFNSA Ref: 3550002 43 Kinross Street, Long Gully VIC 3550 Optus Ref: M8338; RFNSA Ref: 3550016 75 Beischer Street, East Bendigo VIC 3550 Optus Ref: M8370; RFNSA Ref: 3550017 26 Homer Beacon Drive, Maiden Gully VIC 3551 Optus Ref: M8119; RFNSA Ref: 3551013 998 Bendigo-Redesdale Road, Strathfieldsaye VIC 3551 Optus Ref: M8238; RFNSA Ref: 3551015 1.The works at each location listed above include: Internal works within the existing equipment shelter. The works are associated with the introduction of new technologies transmitting from the facility.

2.Based on the descriptions above Optus regards each activity in its own right to be either: the installation of a Low-impact Facility under the Telecommunications (Lowimpact Facilities) Determination 1997 (“The Determination”); or a maintenance activity in accordance with Schedule 3 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

3.Further information can be obtained from Catalyst O.N.E. Pty Ltd (Optus’ representative) by contacting James McIver on +61 2 9439 1999, at jmciver@ catalystone.com.au and at www.rfnsa. com.au by entering the relevant RFNSA reference.

4.Written submissions should be sent to: Optus c/- James McIver, Catalyst O.N.E. Pty Ltd, PO Box 1119 Crows Nest NSW 1585 by 19 December 2014.

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Childcare up to 5 years Before & After School Care available 84 Olympic Parade, Kangaroo Flat

w w w. E a r l y L e a r n i n g K i d s .c o m . a u

Bendigo Community Sister Cities Committee Inc “Report to the Community”

Hear primary, secondary and tertiary students share their Sister City experiences Hear about our Bendigo - Haimen Friendship City relationship 10.15am, Thursday 11th December, Activity Room 1 Bendigo Library RSVP: 5439 5776 to assist with catering appreciated

WANTED WEEKLY WALKERS Earn extra cash and keep fit!

You won’t have to stand around folding advertising material for hours beforehand – just pick up and go!

We offer a top payment rate paid weekly into your nominated bank account. CALL NOW!!

Ph 5440 2529

Open every Sunday until Christmas

Open Mon-Fri 9.30 - 5.30 Sat 9.30 - 1.30 • 51 Williamson Street, Bendigo • Ph: 5443 8745

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TRAINING & EDUCATION

Services Offered GRASS SLASHING

Shape Your Future at On Track Enrol now for 2015!

Courses available in:

Childcare Aged Care Youth Work Mental Health Computers Hospitality Retail Engineering Welding Outdoor Equipment Mainentance Plus much more...

ALL AREAS Call Graham Ph 0427 508 124

HANDYMAN SERVICE Lawns, odd jobs, Tip runs. Walk behind slashing. If I can do it, I will. Phone Ash

0427 096 404 Worksafe Prov #HO7451

HOME HELP/HANDYMAN Needing some help around the House & Garden? No job too small. Give me a call for anything you are needing help with Phone 0428 353 293

LANDSCAPING

by Jordan Ramage For all Outdoor Improvements Ph 0434 933 277

Landscaping Garden Makeovers Great Rates!

Ph 0427 853 665

Michael 0417 736 232

SPLIT SYSTEMS WINDOW CLEANING Will beat any written quote Ph 0419 367 071

TILING

Wall and Floor Tiler Waterproofing Complete Bathroom Renovations Plaster repairs Painting

0475 690 123

ABN 45791848516

Bendigo & Surrounds Prompt Service Ph 0439 635 623

Local Classifieds To advertise in this section please call 1300 558 385

AIR CONDITIONING

LAWN Mowing - Edges trimmed, grass removed Handyman Repairs, Rubbish Removal, Ride on Mowing also available. $30 p/hour Ph Tony 0412 824 690

Golden City AIR CONDITIONING SERVICES

Spraying (Roundup)

• Evaporative cooler services • Split system installations • Service to all makes and models • Domestic and Commercial

Rubbish Removal $70 per

Phone Mark 0418 507 302

Lawn Mowing, Whipper Snipping

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

Delivery of Garden Products $35 per hr/ $30 pen

load/$65 pen (incl tip fee $33) for 7x4 square box trailer.

Ph Mick 5448 5402 or 0407 448 249

LAWN MOWING Whipper snippering, rubbish removal. $30 per hour.

Ph 0413 814 406

TV Tuning from $40

• Digital TV’s, Set Top Boxes & Aerials • Satellite & Computer Setups • Home Theatre, wall mount • DVD, Recorders & Foxtel • Installed & explained

Phone Ron on 5447 7823 or 0431 609 423

PAINTING, DECORATING & TEXTURING Qualified Painter - any size job!

Interior, Exterior, Domestic, Commercial.

FREE 'Friendly' quote, Ph ROD: 0400 493 491

ANTENNAS

Bendigo & Surrounds Any period, short or long, Reliable mature couple, responsible, professional & trustworthy Good References Call John anytime:

0428 140 745

Negatives, Film, Slides & Photos Scanned to CD 1-20: $3ea 21-50: $2ea 100+ 50c ea

Protect originals, Share with Family.

0420 278 951

www.scan2disk.weebly.com y

ARNOLD'S Digger & Trenching Service •Post Holes •Trenching •Ripping •Rotary Hoeing •Levelling •4 in 1 Bucket Phone: 0419 471 541 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 1800 630 922

BOBCAT TIP TRUCK HIRE Call Darren 0419 941 458 BRICKLAYERS

CTM TRANSFORMATIONS Local & Surrounds Specialising in Professional Handyman services including: Landscaping, Concreting, Paving, Fencing, Tiling, Retaining Walls, Rendering, Painting

All jobs large or small Phone Chris 0412 755 991 or Jo 0475 428 206

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

Ph 5446 7057 or 0418 370 917.

CAR REMOVALS. Ph 0402 775 329

TAYLORS CLEANING Specialising in domestic & exit cleans.

Ph 0417 911 254

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

COMPUTER SUPPORT In Home Reasonable Rates 7 days Extended hours Ph Shaun 0400 811 880

CONCRETER

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Paths, driveways, cross overs, sheds, small & big jobs, Reasonable rates.

Seniors Discount Free quotes.

Ph. 0422 424 348.

CONCRETER Driveways Paths etc Free Quotes

Ph. 0428 381 925 CONCRETER Driveways, paths, shed floors, spray on patterns, free quotes, no job too small. Ph 0408 204 114

CONCRETING

Cameron Concrete Domestic & Commercial.

For all your concrete requirements..

Call Rod 0400 611 016 Free Quotes & advice.

30 years experience

EPSOM PAVING Pathways, Patios Garden Edging etc.

Ken Tresize Ph 0419 374 062

FLOORING

Interiors, exteriors, free quotes, no job too small, 40 yrs exp. Ph. 0407 412 977 Colin Wright

PANEL BEATING Spray painting, rust repairs.

25 yrs experience, cheap rates. Ph 5443 1710 or 0401 915 906.

..for all Creatures, Great & Small

PET SITTING

ASSEMBLY / INSTALLATION

Suzanne Wakeling

Skilled Handyman • Holes Patched • Renovations • Painting

PLASTER

Classifieds 1300 558 385

POST HOLES

Millers Holes Mobile 0418 510 217.

• Competitive rates • Loading available • Locally owned & operated

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

1300 558 385 classifieds@ bendigopublishing .com

BLINDS & CURTAINS

Southern Cross Blinds & Awnings

• Canvas Awnings • Roman Blinds • Vertical Drapes • Holland Blinds • Cedar Venetians • Venetian Blinds • Roller Shutters • Security Doors

PHONE/FAX 5447 9011 141 High Street, Kangaroo Flat www.southerncrossblinds.com

BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING

EARTH MOVING • Drainage • Footings • House Sites • Dam Cleaning • Clean Ups • Driveways • Soil & Rubbish Removal

Call Matt 0418 392 559 matthewsefton33@gmail.com

Call Fred red 0 0429 429 4 434 34 405

Phil Pollard Ph 0403 134 581 iassembleit.com.au

BATHROOMS & KITCHENS

5446 1422 & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE All types of plastering.

• Home Maintenance • Tiling • Painting • Carpentry. Free quotes.

Ph. Brian 0407 679 618

$7.25 per cm/col

• Commercial

Beds, Bunks, Cots, Furniture, Flat Packs, BBQ’s Trampolines, Play Equipment, Picture Hanging

PJ TAYLOR KITCHEN, BATHROOMS

Carpet & Vinyl installation, Residential & Commercial. Guaranteed to beat all written quotes Call Matt 0431 796 999

DISPLAY ADS

Installation & Assembly Service

Will travel within a 50km radius of Bendigo

0448 713 499

Skip Bin Hire • Domestic

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PLASTERER

Local Classifieds

Site Cleaning aning Driveways ys Excavation on Laser Levelling vellin ng Rubbish Removall Backhoe e

Ultimate Pet Care Mail Collection Bin collection Dog Walking Overnight Stays Security Checked

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Bobcat & Tipper pp Hire e

• New Kitchens • Bathroom Renovations • Warehouse direct Bathroom products

ABN: 62 094 744 216

NEED SOMEONE TO HOUSE-SIT & TAKE CARE OF YOUR PETS?

7,*(5

BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING

PAINTING & DECORATING

Services Offered

Bendigo Weekly

BIN HIRE

RTA: AU 00296

NO tyres or rock/clean fill. Cash only

12 Hall St, Eaglehawk Ph: 03 5446 3477 Email: ontrack@feo.net.au www.ontrack.vic.edu.au

WEEDING/GARDENING

RENOVATOR Over 30Yrs Exerience • Interior Design • Building Design

PH 0417 511 159

Shed 3/37 Collins St Kangaroo Flat mccabeskitchenandbathrooms@gmail.com

1.5 TONNE MINI EXCAVATOR FOR HIRE

• On trailer • With or without operator • Short or long term • Delivery can be arranged

GARDAM E X C AVA T I O N

0418 508 993

Licenced drainer 31741

Friday, December 5, 2014 — Bendigo Weekly

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AIR CONDITIONING

INSTALL, SERVICE & REPAIR SPECIAL FEATURE 2014

Stay cool this summer with MCG Airconditioning M CG Airconditioning and Refrigeration, has extensive knowledge of the latest energy efficient refrigeration, cooling and heating appliances.

Steve McGurk and his staff specialise in service and installation for refrigeration systems, split system air conditioning, refrigerated air conditioning, cool rooms, evaporative cooling and ducted-heating systems, making them the ideal choice when it comes to your cooling and heating needs.

At MCG their mission is to ensure the efficient and economical operation of all your commercial and domestic heating, cooling and refrigeration requirements.

“We have extensive residential and commercial HVAC and refrigeration experience and we insist that the products we sell and install in our customers’ homes and businesses offer the same performance and value we expect ourselves,” Steve said.

For years MCG have excelled in comfort control, providing customers with highly efficient, reliable and affordable, refrigeration, heating and cooling products.

“We stock an extensive range of products from a large range of manufacturers so we can almost guarantee that we can help

with almost any solution to your heating or cooling and refrigeration requirements.”

MCG also have purpose-built cool-rooms for hire, ideal for functions or for an unexpected emergency.

Phone 5441 4551 or Steve direct on 0400 502 619, alternatively visit their showroom at 82 Nolan Street, Bendigo, open Monday to Friday between 9.30am and 12.30pm.

Services Offered BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING

Digger Service

Ph: Glenn or Donna

5446 7163 or 0418 510 074

SWITCHED ON: Caroline from MCG Air-Conditioning.

10% OFF

Evaporative coolers should be serviced at least ONCE PER YEAR in order to work efficiently. ..Make sure you stay COOL this summer.

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www.hollowayair.com.au 158-160 Murphy st Bendigo East info@hollowayair.com.au

Bendigo Weekly Services Offered DISPLAY ADS from

$5.80 per cm/col For a current display specials flyer, Email: classifieds@ bendigopublishing .com

1300 558 385

Evaporative cooling Inverter split systems Evaporative cleaning Installation & Service

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5441 3158

Over 38,200 copies circulating Central Victoria each week.

BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING

Sherlock Soil Works Excavator Bobcat Tipper • Post Holes • Trenches • Site Cleans • Pools • Driveways • Site Cuts • 5 ton Excavator with Post Hole Attachment and Rock Breaker

Servicing all of Central Victoria Pensioner discounts available Registered Licence No. 47315

MCG

AIRCONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION PTY LTD

COMMERICAL/DOMESTIC SALES, SERVICE AND INTALLATION SPLIT SYSTEM COOLING REFRIGERATED DUCTED AIR CONDITIONING EVAPORATIVE COOLING MAINTENANCE

PH: 5441 4551 FAX: 5443 1707

M:0400 502 619 mcgair@bigpond.com.au

SERVICING BENDIGO, CASTLEMAINE, CHARLTON ECHUCA AND MARYBOROUGH

LEON BEATTY 0415 503 875 BUILDERS

thebeattles@bigpond.com

Specialising in alterations & additions Commercial C i l Domestic New Houses Insurance Labour Hire Fences Free Quotes

Ti Timber b Fl Floors Decks Pergolas Stairs Registered Builder

DB-U38390

CARPENTERS

CARPENTER

Renos Extensions Verandahs Decking

PH PAUL 0402 299 819

COMPUTERS

sherlocksoilworks@hotmail.com

• Laser Levelled Site cuts • Landscaping • Driveways • Backyard clean-ups • Postholes • Trenching

Using our 5 ton excavator 4.5 ton skid steer & ten metre tipper After Hours Ph. 5448 8814 cjchandler65@bigpond.com

Call Clint 0427 349 549

BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING BOBCAT AND TIPPER SERVICES • Post & Stump Holes - 150mm, 250mm, 350mm • Chain Trenching • Site Preparation & Clean Ups • Ground Levelling • Concrete & Rubbish Removal • General Earthmoving, Driveways and Garden Landscaping • Sand, Soil & Stone - Carting & Spreading • 10m2 Tipper Hire

NO OBLIGATION QUOTES PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Repairs completed within 24 hours • Systems built • Repairs and upgrades • Network and internet connections • Virus and Spyware removal

Jeoff Milne 5447 2476 Mob 0425 728 336

Computer & IT Problems?

Onsite Computer Services for Home and Business • Repairs • Upgrades • Virus removal • Networking & WiFi • Screen replacementt • Web design • Same day support

CALL STEVE 0408 928 763

www.techeadit.com.au | steve@techeadit.com.au

CLEANING SERVICES

Solar Panel & Window Cleaning www.expresssolarpanelandwindowcleaning.com.au

Increase the efficiency of your Solar Panels

Ph: 0438 246 065

E: jd.bobcat.services@gmail.com

BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING

Nathan Maber 0407 972 717 bendigotemptech@hotmail.com

BUILDERS

All Types Of Work 30 Years Experience

COM PET RATE ITIVE S

AIR CONDITIONING

• Split Systems • Evaporative Coolers • Ducted Cooling • Servicing

FREE

BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING

SERVICING SPECIAL

Present this ad at time of booking

...get the market you’re missing...

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

James Sherlock Ph: 0407 472 775

TempTech

One voucher per customer, Expires 31/01/2015

Bendigo Weekly Local Classifieds

LITTLE RIPPER

BENDIGO

ONE EVAPORATIVE COOLER SERVICE

CLASSIFIEDS • 33

Bobcat & Tipper Hire Backhoe Trenching Post Hole Borer

Quality Cleaning Services Serving Bendigo for 20 Years

• CARPET CLEANING • OFFICE CLEANING • BUILDERS CLEANS • DOMESTIC CLEANING

0418 506 188

200 - 600mm diameter

cleanjet@iinet.net.au

Site Clearing Driveways Excavation Laser Levelling Rubbish Removal

Call Ron 0438 569 385

BUILDERS

NEED A CARPENTER?

DECKS / PERGOLAS

Sanders Carpentry Qualified Carpenter with over 10 years experience. Specialising in Decks, Pergolas, and Renovations.

Phone: 0450 588 403

scottsanderscarpentry@live.com ABN 70 706 340 686

CALL DISTINCTIVE CARPENTRY

Renovations inc bathrooms Pergolas Carports Deckings

matthewsefton33@gmail.com

DBL 1130

www.distinctivecarpentry.com.au

Matt Sefton 0418 392 559

www.thelocalphonebook.com.au

1300 850 342

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Services Offered CONCRETING

GARDEN SERVICES

BENDIGO SPRAY PAVING

Pete’s

Specialising in:

• SPRAY PAVING • CONCRETE RESURFACING • HIGH PRESSURE CLEANING

Mowing and Maintenance Big or small we fix it all!

• Push/Ride On Mowing • Flyscreens • Concreting small jobs • Tap Washers • Doors, Handles, Locks • Gutter Cleaning • Whipper snipping • Irrigation repairs • Rubbish removal • Weeding • General yard tidy • Welding For a free quote call Pete:

Patios • Pathways • Driveways

PH: 0499 847 304

Cave’s Concreting

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

Formally “Spider Sprayers”

PH: 0418 822 911

0422 660 912 Pensioner discounts available.

Driveways, Footpaths, Patios, Sheds Colours, Paving, Retaining Walls Liability Insured - Council Approved

Time to tidy for Christmas!

• Qualified tradesmen • Landscaping • Commercial and residential property maintenance

Free quotes - we look after you

Specialising in Landscape construction

HANDYMAN SERVICES

Stuart Erwin 0407 667 900 Cameron Rogister 0411 956 937

• Mowing • Edging • Pebble Paths • Yard tidy and removal • Landscaping & Garden maintenance

CONCRETE PIPING

Gary 0422 854 620

LAWN MOWING

Geoff Williams Electrical Installations

Over 40 Years Service

REC 4085

ELECTRICIANS

I promise you a reliable & professional service at an affordable price

Phone: 0417 329 802

• Handymen • Cleaning • Builder • Floors • • Carpenters • Glazier • Fencing • Plastering • • Painters • Bathroom & Kitchen Reno’s • • Granite Benchtops • Paving • Concreting • • Plumbers • Decking • Electricians • • Pruning • Tiling • Tree Lopping • • Sheds & Pergolas • Lawns & Gardens •

Central Victoria 13 11 98

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

HOME MAINTENANCE

PETE’S INSIDE AND OUT

LBD Electrical Domestic and commercial installation and maintenance Quality, reliable, honesty and hard working

Home Maintenance & Renovations

15% Seniors Discount REC 22120

Phone: 0419 759 354 Email: pattiandpete@bigpond.com

Tired of Waiting for a Tradesman

COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL DOMESTIC COMMERC Mains, Switchboards, Lighting, Renovations, New Installations, Shopfitting, Maintenance, Powerpoints PROMPT & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FREE QUOTES No job too big or too small

NO JOB TOO SMALL • Carpentry • Tiling • Painting • Plastering • Pergolas • Decks CALL PETER 0409 422 271

Darren Liersch: 0409 077 600

FREE QUOTES • Ph Travis: 0477 910 720 E: tstrybs@gmail.com

GARDEN SERVICES

4 Seaso Seasons Garden Care

Hedges Trimmed & Shaped • Lawn Mowing • Clippings Caught & Removed • Edges Trimmed • Pruning of Roses & Fruit Trees • Ride on Mowing • Weeding & Weed Spraying • Yard Clean Ups • Planting & Mulching

FREE QUOTES, 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE Ph 0429 002 678

Contact us on 5439 3660 Specialising in all general plumbing, kitchen & bathroom renovations.

Mobile: 0401 337 083

MOBILE BATHROOMS

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

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

0438 083 139 www.bettabathroomhire.com.au

For a free quote, call Luke on

Quality Work at a fair E: Ldellis23@hotmail.com price.

0430 712 108

PLUMBERS UN

STO

• Fast Response to urgent repairs • All General Plumbing & Maintenance • Drains Cleared & Repaired & Roofing High Pressure jetting Quality in all • Hot Water Repairs and areas of Plumbing Replacements • Roofing & Gutter Specialists FREE • Gas Fitting QUOTES • Gas appliance servicing

Ph 5446 1535

35 years experience Quotation gladly given

Southern Cross Home Maintenance Sewer Jetter, Cable Locations, Renovations & more

Steve Fuller

0418 354 782

TRIPPA’S T RIPPA’S P PAINTING AINTING SERVICE S ERVICE No O No Obligation blligat b ig ga attio tion io on Fr F Free ree ee Quote Quo uote te 10% DISCOUNT 10 DISC DI IS SC COUNT OUNT OU NT F OR S OR ENIO EN ORS RS 10% FOR SENIORS

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Peter Carr Plumbing & Gasfitting

Painter & Decorator YOUR FRIENDLY, PROFESSIONAL AND QUALITY PAINTING TEAM FOR ALL TYPES OF PAINTING

PHONE STUART 0429 181 691

Pty. Ltd.

License No. 32710

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

544 33 999 4 Nolan Street, Bendigo

Greg Hicks st same day Plumbing Fajosebrvtoicoesmall Master Plumber

No

0448 701 138

LANDSCAPING

•For all your Landscaping needs and bobcat work.

• Trade Qualified

PO Box 54, Eaglehawk

PLUMBERS

Prompt efficient service at reasonable rates

0417 057 010

FENCING / GATES

• Rural • Handrails • Retainer Walls

We service and install: • Air Conditioners • Burst Pipes • Gas Cooktops • Renovations • Taps • Gas Ovens • Toilets • Gas Heaters • Basins • Laundry Troughs

Call Phill Hutchings on

darelly@netspace.net.au/www.darellyelectrical.com

OZ PRO FENCING

Blocked drains? We have the latest technology in drain clearing equipment, including camera and locator.

Inspection, identification including recorded footage of drain blockages, repairs or replacement of drains - call us today.

for a free quote call Malcolm at: Phone: (03) 54393799

Sandhurst Painting and Decorating

DARELLY ELECTRICAL D

We specialise in all hot water service repairs and replacements.

Rubbish Removal Pruning

PAINTERS / DECORATORS

0418 507 709 A/H 5448 SERVICING BENDIGO & DISTRICT SE REC 14361

Lawn Mowing Weed Control Fertilising

THE PLUMBING MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS

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Repairs, Carpentry, Tiling, Painting

Edge Gardening and Mowing

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CRUSCOE College Green Tops 3/sz10 5/sz14 $12ea VGC 5447 3731

13 pce screwdriver set with case, brand new, $12 Ph 5447 0965

CRUSCOE College Shorts 1/sz12 1/sz14 2/sz16 $15ea EC p.5447 3731

1960'S style set of 6 drawers, 117 x 87 cm $60 PH 0467 561 664

CRUSOE College summer dress. Fit 12-14 year old. $40 Ph 0408 538 726

OVER 38,200

53 pce ratchet screwdriver bit set, new, $70 ono Ph 5447 0965

DEEP fryer, electric, as new $35 Ph 5447 7050

HOMES EACH WEEK

ANTIQUE sliding door, 2 glass panels $45 Phone 5446 1310

STORAGE

APOLLO Road bike with ights & carry rack, VGC $100 Ph 5443 3324

Services Offered PLUMBERS

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Phone 0408 506 159 Lic#23529

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• Lawn & Garden Maintenance • General Home Maintenance • Including: Internal & External Repairs • Welding & Fabrications, Fence Repairs • Painting & Spray Painting • Rubbish Removal & Clean Ups

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

ARMCHAIR 1970's style, vinyl brown, EC $60 Phone 5442 5552

10 SIZES FROM $20 PER WEEK Free Use of Courtesy Trailer 7 Days Access & On-Site Electronic Surveillance Security NEW AND USED BOXES AND PACKING MATERIALS AVAILABLE

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• FULLY INSURED • GUARANTEED • STUMP REMOVAL • FREE QUOTES • BOBCAT • WOOD CHIPPER • HEDGE PRUNING • CHERRY PICKER

JUDD’S TREE LOPPING Phone Brian on

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

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TREE LOPPING

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To advertise in this section please call 1300 558 385

BABY Cot, stained timber, GC $70 Ph 0410 788 570 BARBEQUE Gas Rinnai Dome top, + Rotisserie + Side Burner, little use, Excellent Condition $300 Ph 5443 1017

BARK CHIPS

Buy direct at special price.Beautify your garden, enrich your soil - make into compost, control weeds, get those worms working.

All good for plant life. $140 per 5mtr Del Bendigo.

Ph 0417 545 193

BARLEY STRAW 5x4 Rolls, $27.50 p/roll Delivery Available Phone 0438 352 389 BAR stools x 3, wood, colonial, $30 lot. Ph 5447 7050 BBQ 4 Burner, very little use, w/bottle & cover $80 Phone 5447 3707 BBQ set, Hugheys Kitch, s /steel, in box, 5yr wrty $60 ONO 0422 967 804

DINING Table, colonial style, 1.8m L x 1M W, with 6 matching chairs, Excellent condition $300 Phone 0425 766 878 DINING Table, Tas Oak, California Gully, Colonial Style, 150 x 900cm, Ex Cond $200 Ph 0429 430 059 or 5447 4582 DINING table, timber, oval, extending, 6 chairs $100 Ph 0448 424 015

New Queen Spring Mattresses from $149.

All sizes, Huge range, This Sat and Sun only.

Call for details

1300 791 919 BIKE Carrier (for car) for 3 bikes $40 Ph 5447 7050

DOG kennel, timber cost $155 sell $100 EC Phone 0487 895 363

DRESSING Table, Blackwood, 2 glove drawers, 2 reg drawers, mirror, Good Cond, $300 Phone 5443 1017 DRUMMING book, rhythm section by Frank Corniola $15 GC 0407 112 178

EXERCISE trampoline (Rebounder) w/brown removable ottoman top 100cm W x 22cm H $100 Ph 5446 9882

CHEAP REDGUM SPLIT FIREWOOD

SUMMERTIME SPECIALS

TILL THE END OF FEB 12M TRUCK LOAD $1100 OR HALF TRUCK LOAD $600

For further details Phone Clint

Summer Sale

BOY'S Clothing sz8-10, 21 Items (will sep)$18 Ph 0498 936 147

BRICKS - new, full pallet, brown house bricks $100 Pick up only Ph 0413 962321 CCB school bag, hardly used, $30 Phone 0407 694 252 CHANGE Table, drk timber inc matt, xtras, VGC $45 ono Ph 5443 6219 CHILDS booster seat x 2 $10 and $15 Ph 0410 788 570

FIREWOOD Murray River Red Gum Ph 0429 822 816 FOOT spa, vib/massage, wet or dry, used once, EC $40 ONO 0422 967 804 FREE bag of womens leather boots, brand new Sz 9 - 9.5 Ph 0412 476 939

KATMANDU travel backpack, EC, $50 Ph 5444 5836 KING size 1970's woolen blanket + K/S bedspread $50ea Ph 0408 339 557

POOL fence, 12M including 2 gates $70 Ph 5446 1310

QUEEN pillowtop bed $500 Brand new mattress with base.

Chiropractic.

15 yr warranty. Can Deliver.

0412 388 485

Classifieds 1300 558 385

FOR SALE A fun, safe way for your cat to enjoy the outdoors.

Free quotes to suit your budget.

Call Jim 0429 866 630 www.byers.net.au

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

KING mattress. Brand new 5 zone pocketspring. 15 yr warranty not $1350 sell $500 ono Can deliver ph 0412388485

QUEEN latex pillowtop mattress $450 Brand new chiropractic. Damask fabric. 15 yr warranty.

Can deliver. 0412388 85

RIDE On Mower, Kioti, 15.5Hp, top condition, full reco, solid machine, $950 Ph 5442 3974 KING pillowtop bed $600 Brand new king pillowtop mattress with base. 15 yr warranty. Worth $1495 sell $600. Can Deliver.

0412 388 485 LOWLINE Cabinet approx 2M long, needs TLC $15 ono Ph 5443 6219

ROUND bale fork loader $100 Ph 0438 196 283

ROUND Pine Dining table, VGC $15 Ph 0407 503 693

SADDLE, (stock) fully mounted $90 Ph 5439 3607

MAHOGANY Q/Anne desk, 5 drwrs, VGC $80 Ph 5444 5836 MATTRESS, 2 x SB, Exc Cond, $80 for both Phone 5444 4336 MICROWAVE, LG, GC $50 Ph 5447 7525

MUSHROOM COMPOST OR SOIL $50 per metre. Minimum 4 metres. Free delivery to Bendigo area.

Phone 0400 855 626.

ORTHOPAEDIC chair, beige colour, Very Good Condtion $200 Phone 5443 4996 OUTDOOR set, glass top, chairs need new cushions $100 Ph 5444 0508

PEA STRAW $7.50

CUSTOM Made salmon velvet lounge suite Phone 0438 528

small 3pce $360 037

SIDEBOARD/Display Cabinet, Dark timber, $80 ono Ph 5443 6219

SIEVED TOP SOIL

$35 per/m delivered local 3m minimum. 6m & 10m avail. Bobcat & Excavator to hire. Ph 5446 7105 or 0428 507 846

SINGER Sewing machine with table top $130 Phone 5447 7880

SOFA bed, 3 seater, Excellent Condition, blue corduroy fabric, $200 Phone 0407 694 252

FRIDGES

Straw $6 Min 12 bales Free delivery or pick up Bendigo Ph 0427 304 600

Compost with manures and straw mix.

Can deliver Bgo or pick up. Ph 0427 304 600

GAS Heater, Rinnai, Slimfire 25, Excellent Condition New fan, suit renovator $800 ONO Phone 0428 850 875

PLANTER Box, 4ft x 4ft x 1.5ft Green $35 Phone 5446 1310

STEEL laminated dining table, VGC, $40 Phone 0407 503 693

and Freezers. Top brands from $195. Fully recond, 6 mths wty. 283 High St, G/Sq. Ph. 5441 1955

GIRL'S Clothing sz10-12, 28 items, (will sep) $25 Ph 0498 936 147 GOLF clubs set w/carry bag and buggy VGC $50 Ph 5443 3324

HAY Good horse feed, $6 this seasons, Mandurang Sedgwick Area Phone 5439 6472

SOIL

Store Well with Stilwell

Containers to suit all your needs!

✹ Buyight, r t Outr Ren y o o bu t

GOLF clubs, ladies/senior, "PowerBuilt" inc bag $100 Ph 5441 4990 HAND painted Christmas Decorations from $5 Phone 5447 2113

CHIRO double mattress $150 Brand new double chiropractic mattress.

Full warranty.

Can deliver. 0412 388 485

INSULATION, 3.5 yellow batts, 9 sq mtrs, half price, $25 each. Ph 0439 371 301 or 0438 416 924

ELECTRIC recliner lounge chair, EC $40 Phone 0407 503 693

BLOCK & TACKLE

BOY'S Clothing sz12-14, 24 items (will sep) $30 Ph 0498 936 147

HIGH Pressure Water Pumps, Brand New, both with computer set up $120 each Phone: 0426 205 933

100's of varieties, 15cm pots $2.50-$5.00 148 Peg Leg Rd Eaglehawk Sat- Sun

DREAM Master deluxe Q/S Ensemble VGC $65 ono Phone 0478 747 720

0427 349 549

BLOWUP Q/S Mattress EC $10 Ph 5444 5836

PLANTS

HAY

Oaten rolls, net wrapped. Good Quality from $66 Axedale.

Phone: 0428 590 023

9 PIECE dining setting in good cond, 2 yrs old.

Legs can be removed to transport. $700 ono Phone: 0418 325 467

BILLIARD TABLE $400 ONO, not slate. 8ft long Phone 5447 9609

ABC1 ton worm gear, Block - Melbourne $250 Phone 0417 526 590

FOR SALE

Cat Enclosures

FILING Cabinet 4 drawers $80 Ph 5442 5552

BED TRUCK SALE

FOR SALE

Containers can be custom fitted with shelves, benches, windows, side doors, electricity, insulation & air-conditioning.

View containers at:

51 Ryalls Lane, Strathfieldsaye.

• Ph 5439 5512 • Mob 0409 957 014

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FOR SALE

FOR SALE

STEELCRAFT Portacot, VGC $40 Ph 0410 788 570

VCE Maths gen A 1/2 text book, VGC $30 onoPh 0455 378 113

YAMAHA Alto Recorder, white, in case $40 Phone 0407 694 252

STRAW Bales & Aged Manure Bags $5.00 ea Free clean fill available.

Ph 0409 383 226

VCE Ess std gen maths 2nd ed. EnhTin-cp $30 Ph 5442 9148

YR 11 essential Maths book $30 Ph 0409 189 440

VCE Hein Biology 1 workbook $5 5442 9148

YR 11 Novels, Minimum of two, & I'm not scared $20 both 0409 189 440

STUDENT Desk, Black, Good condition $10 Phone 5447 7407 SUNBEAM Ellise S/steel skillet/frypan $75 Phone 5443 2993 SWAG single, hardly used, Exc Cond $90 Phone 5449 6683

VCE Nature of Biology Book 1 4th Ed. text 7 E book+ $30 5442 9148 VCE sociology units 1 & 2 book $20 Ph 0409 189 440 WARDROBLE, baclk, 2 doors, Good Cond $40 Phone 5447 7407 WCB Girls polo top, sz18 $10 Ph 5443 0667

SOLID timber dressing table, Bevilled mirror $80 Ph 0438 528 037

TOP SOIL Sieved $35 per metre, 4 metre min. delivery 8m & 10m also avail.

Garden Mix $50 a metre.

Garden Rocks also avail.

Phone 0418 306 548 or 0428 100 770

TREADMILL

"Pacer 3501" Excellent condition - As new, all assembled $250 Phone 0411 783 679

TRICYCLE electric, suitable for road or footpath, large waterproof basket at rear EC new $3000 Sell $1000 Phone 0423 128 398 TV Panasonic 51cm requires set top box, EC $40 Ph 5441 4756 VALCO/Safe'n'Sound travel sys adaptor Tri mode, $15 0407 112 178

VCE Calculator TI-NSPIRE CAS, EC $50 ono Ph 0403 021 828

WCB Girls sports polo top, Sz12 $10 Phone 5443 0667 WCB girls asst uniforms, Sz10-12 GC from $10 Phone 0407 484 113 WHEEL lock, Premier Club, 2 keys EC $8 Phone 0487 895 363

including White Goods, Batteries, Mags, etc Ph 5446 1191 or 0447 744 043

of Nuggets & bars, Get paid what you deserve!

Call us today Geoff 0408 565 057

MOBILITY scooter wanted, 4 wheels. Please phone 0410 341 690

DISINFECTANT INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH 5 lt - $10 25 lt - $30 Delivery $5

VCE Biology 1/2 textbook, $25 ono Ph 0455 378 113

Bendigo only Details please call 0466 155 239 or 5442 4954 after 2pm

VCE English conflict books, COSI, Rugmaker, EC $10 0455 378 113

VARIOUS FRAGRANCES AVAILABLE

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WANTED to buy caravans.

Cash up to $2000. Ph 0434 040 687

12V Battery Charger for MINELAB DETECTOR Ph 5446 1191 043

or

0447

VISITED

95 Carpenter St, Quarry Hill (Opposite Bendigo Cemetery) Saturday from 8am, Moving house, Everything to go!

GARAGE SALES

GARAGE SALES

VISIT

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Saturday 6th Dec from 8am-12noon 30 Sites Maps $2 from 33 Brooke Street Inglewood Neighbourhood House

VISITED

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VISIT VISITED 61 Little Breen St Bendigo, Saturday from 8am -1pm Building materials, Pine lining boards, Metal work, and general building items

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FREE Over 37,500 copies circulating Central Victoria each week.

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7 Kennewell St White Hills Saturday 8am-2pm Garden shed, Swing set with slide, Trampoline, Cupboards, Tools, toys, Books, Games, Household items and more. Scrapbooking, cardmaking and cross stitch books

GARAGE SALES VISIT

Barnett Drive Kflat Saturday from 8am Furniture, toys, and lots more

80 Aspinall Street Golden Square Saturday 6th from 9am Artists Christmas Sale, all hand painted, Canvases, Christmas decorations, ens, gourds, etc Cheap, unique, original paintings

GARAGE SALES

$19.95

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ADS SILKIES Young & healthy from $20 each Point of Lay $30 each Ph 5436 1373

VISIT

VISITED

Neangar Park Golf Club Car Boot Sale Sunday 7th Dec 8am – 1pm 7 Averys Rd, Eaglehawk Ph 5446 3670

BABY Rabbits, lopped ear, variety of colours $20 each 0427 509 255

YOUNG Budgies, nice colours, $15 each Phone 0407 856 989

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Petcarers • Domestic pets and horses • Play/TLC LC C • Dog Walks/Cat Cuddles • Feeding/Medication Staff: Caring, Insured, & Police checked.

Ph: 5443 4536 E: sharon@petcarers.com.au

www.petcarers.com.au

Boarding Kennel & Cattery

Muckleford School Road Muckleford 3451 Open 8:30am-12:00pm & 4:00pm - 6:00pm Phone (03) 5472 4698 Mobile 0428 882 411 E: Jeralee@iinet.net.au www.jeralee.com.au

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Demi is a beautiful looking girl who oozes with enthusiasm. It is a well known trait with this breed that they can be a tireless breed who need endless amounts of stimulation and exercise. At this stage Demi has had no real training and bounces off you for attention. But as with all Kelpies she is extremely intelligent and will learn quickly with the right owner and sufficient leadership.

Desexed Male, 4 years old Humphrey is my name and I have a wonderful personality. I am very social with other cats and love to play. I love a nice cuddle and need my fur brushed at least once a week. I would make an awesome family pet.

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LOST YOUR DOG OR C CAT? AT?

THE RSPCA IS THE POUND FOR THE BENDIGO CITY COUNCIL.

5441 2209 Piper Lane, East Bendigo

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VISIT VISITED DONT PAY RETAIL Christmas giftware at wholesale prices Sat 6th & Sat 13th from 9am til 1pm, Holly st, G/Square

1/5 Weddell Street, Golden Square Sunday 11 am Furniture, electrical & other bits & pieces

VISITED

66 Collins St Kangaroo Flat Saturday 6th Dec 8am – 12pm Shop fittings, Hundreds of books, Office Furniture and other bits and pieces Coffee Van onsite

GARAGE SALES

655 Hargreaves St Saturday Only 10am - 4pm No Early Callers Mobility scooter & walker, Desks, Office accessories, Exercise bike, Misc exercise equipment, Coffee Machine, Misc Household Goods, Baby clothes, bows and accessories

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CASH

WINERACK for 12 bottles, $5 Ph 5447 7525

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GARAGE SALES

VISIT

GOLD BUYER

WILD Country Tent 100% proofed cotton canvas.

Sleeps 5, $330 Ph 5439 5805

GARAGE SALES

VISIT VISITED Carola Court Kennington, Saturday 6th Dec, 8am - 12pm Whitegoods, new sofa bed, and other household items

WANTED TO BUY

TRACTORS & farm machinery wanted. Going or not, cash paid, Ph 0429 393 221

FOR SALE

VISIT

SCRAP WANTED

WII Band Hero including Guitar, as new, $60 Phone 5441 4990

XH Tonneau Cover $75 Ph 0438 196 283

GARAGE SALES

WANTED

For Fridges & Freezers, in GWO up to 25yrs.

Washing Machines up to 7yrs old.

Ph. 5441 1955

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CARAVANS & TRAILERS

CARAVANS & TRAILERS

CARAVANS & TRAILERS

14FT 6" Viscount Poptop early 90's Excellent Condition, $7750 ONO Ph 0427 493 752

2001 17'6" Coromal SEKA 535 Poptop, Registered, EC, Dbl Bed, Gas Oven/C/top Reverse Cycle A/C, 3 way Fridge, dual wheels, battery pack. $19,000 ONO Ph 0417 521 446

2001 18ft Jayco Poptop, single beds, toilet, shower, front kitchen, dual wheels, Exc cond. many extras. $27,000 Ph 0427 797 375

Classifieds 1300 558 385

MOTOR BIKES

A.M. Hyett Motorcycles

Bikes sold, traded & recycled. Spares and accessories.

See Michael and John 67-69 Bridge Street, Bendigo 3550 Open 9.00am-5.30pm Mon-Sat / 10.00am-5.30pm Sun

COROMAL 2005 Excel 511 Poptop, Island Bed, 4 Burner Grill, Gas hot water, ext shower, 3HP Air con, micro, full annexe, Exc COnd, $21,500 NG Phone 5447 4466 or mobile 0408 361 001

MECHANICS

AUTO

FRIDGE, Fisher & Paykel, 335L $50 Phone 0414 068 932

1997 Mazda 121, 142,800ks, VGC, 6mths Reg, RWC $2300 Or best offer (OJG-084) Ph 5446 8245

VOLVO MERCEDES BENZ BMW VOLKSWAGON PEUGOT Service & Repair Specialists Jamie Hackett Motors Ph 5446 8635

THOMPSON AUTOMOTIVE Repairing manual gearbox, transfer case & diffs. Phone Phill 0434 145 485

LMCT 4761. Licenced second hand dealer.

Ph: 5442 2523 SMS: 0411 627 348 Email mhyett1952@yahoo.com.au

BOATS

Sleekline Contarge Mark II 2007

100 hours, 350 Chev, soft clutch, white in colour, Stereo, Travel Cover, high pole, Bimini, matching white tandem Easytow Trailer, excellent condition.

Very reliable boat- like new

$28,990 Ono. Ph: 0417 054 350

Savage 475 Jabiru Pro 2006 Mercury 50 HP Fourstroke

OUTBACK Camper, Nepean, set up & used once, As new condition, $4700 Ph 0429 352 449 Maiden Gully

REGENT cruiser SE 18ft poptop, feb 08, shower /toilet, q/s, a/c, diesel heater, many extras, $34,990 neg. Phone 0417 590 589

TRAILERS

6 x 4 $590.

8 x 5 tandem $2,190.

161 McIvor Hwy

4sp Auto 3.8l V6 engine.

Single female owner, purchased new in 1993 Exterior and interior are in close to perfect condition, owned by a non smoker. Car is mechanically perfect, regularly serviced starts everytime.

Features central locking, engine immobiliser, power steering along with many other fantastic features.

Reg FBN688 until January, 237xxx km $2,500

CARRYBOY Canopy suit BA Falcon $400 ONO Phone 0419 595 426

AUTO

CASH FOR CARS

LMCT 10862W

DRAGON CITY MOTOR WRECKERS

Fast Pick Up Any Model, Year, Damaged, Broken, Written off, Rego or No Rego Drivable or not

LMCT 11067

CASH PAID ON THE SPOT PH: 0469 955 725 We operate in all VICTORIA 24/7

WRECKING

$16,500.00

2008 Bluef in 4.5m Barracuda 2008 60hp 4 stroke Mercury with a low 214 hours. Dunbier Trailer

Wrecking all Makes & Models We buy any car or ute Come see your local strippers LMCT 10769

WRECKING

VEHICLES & SMALL TRUCKS WANTED TO BUY

Registration until October 2015 • Plate Alloy Construction • SE Sport 300 Hydrofoil • Forward Casting Deck • Live Bait Tank • Internal Led Lighting (under gunnel) • Hummingbird 777c Sounder Gps Combo (Colour Map)

• Factory Plate Alloy Baitboard with Four Rod Holders • Electric Bow Mount Bracket • Stainless Steel Grab Rail • Bilge Pump • 2 x Scotty Rod Holders • 3 x Removable Pedestal Seats • 4 x Drink Holders

Great all round boat in very good condition, perfect for fishing the rivers, lakes, bays and light offshore waters Go on …. You know you want it !

Ph: 0488 098 870

$19,500

Top Prices Loans Paid Call anytime Ph 0418 360 194 lmct 9270

DAIMLER XJ40, Jaguar by VANDEN PLAS, Modern collectible classic, log books/history, Garnet over buckskin leather, reg EOT 476 til Feb 15, any test, RWC, $8,900. View at 87 Goynes Rd, Epsom.

CARS WANTED

Panel Beating.

No insurance or restoration work.

Pensioner Discount Ph 5447 4441 A/H 0487 000 145 Kangaroo Flat

CASH FOR CARS

Mobile Automotive Paint and Dent Repairs

WE PAY TOP $$CASH$$ FOR: Toyota van utes 4WD, Toyota HILUX, HIACE, LAND CRUISER & all types of trucks

Cash offered.

Phone 0417 334 009.

ASTRA T.T. convertible 2007, reg WUK-065, auto, immac cond., low kms, non smoker, elderly owner, garaged, RWC, first to see will buy. $13,995, Phone 0407 313 428

Ph 0447 570 411

CAR PARTS

WRECKING

0418 380 461

1993 VP Executive Commodore

www.ebsary.com.au

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Spirit hoping to rebound

By JOEL PETERSON

STRATEGY: Basketball executives met in Bendigo recently.

Development the key BASKETBALL Victoria Country’s Bendigo office held a meeting of the state’s basketball heavyweights last week, designed to further the sport’s growth in regional areas.

BVC manager David Huxtable hosted the Basketball Victoria senior executive group, including CEO Nick Honey, who also met with Bendigo Stadium boss Jason Wallace.

“Basketball Victoria Country and our member associations are an important part of the Victorian Basketball landscape,” Huxtable said.

“It is imperative for our senior executive group to understand some of the issues facing Regional associations.”

One of the big changes in regional basketball in recent times has been the introduction of Basketball Development Officers into regional areas.

“The introduction of Basketball Development Officers based in regional areas in 2011 has worked very well and has placed basketball in a great position,” Huxtable said.

“The officers work closely with local basketball associations and develop important partnerships with key organisations in each region.”

“Local domestic basketball is the highest priority for Basketball Victoria Country and having a vibrant local association is a must if a child or adult

chooses our sport.”

Along with discussing facilities management issues, Huxtable said the ever-growing level of technology surrounding sport was a hot topic.

BVC has recently implemented an online registration tool for associations, which has been well received.

“Generally we are ahead of the game in this area and at the same time developing or improving the technology for associations,” he said.

“Bendigo Basketball has been operating the system for a number of seasons and we are looking to Bendigo to assist us with the training of smaller associations in this region.”

BOUNCING back from a home loss is not something Bernie Harrower and the Bendigo Spirit have had to do often in the last two seasons.

In fact, Bendigo has only lost twice within the confines of the Bendigo Stadium through its two championship seasons, but has won its next game on both occasions.

When the Spirit takes on Adelaide on Saturday, they will have to try and do it for a third time, after a nailbiting loss to Melbourne last Saturday.

“The match wasn’t great, it was pretty disappointing actually,” Harrower said after the game.

“Kelsey Griffin was on great form, but the rest of the group struggled.

“Gabrielle Richards playing injured, and not being on at the start, hurt us. But I’m not making excuses – we were just outplayed.”

Griffin led the team

in scoring for the second straight game with 22 points and 13 rebounds, while Richards dropped in 15 coming off the bench.

The Spirit won most of the main statistical catego-

Griffin was on great form, but the rest of the group struggled ries, but shooting 41.8 per cent form the floor and a dismal 21.4 per cent from beyond the arc on only three makes.

The team takes on Sydney Uni Flames on Friday night in Sydney, before the return leg of its weekend double-header against Ad-

elaide on Saturday in Bendigo.

The Flames have been one of the season’s early surprise packets, whereas the Lightning have been a disappointment and are anchored to last on the WNBL table.

The last time the Spirit met Adelaide, it resulted in the team’s second biggest win as they drubbed the Lightning to the tune of 43 points.

Bendigo has not had to face up to Sydney Uni yet this season, who have cooled off after a hot start to the year, losing two of their last three contests.

Stopping the Flames’ standout duo of Leilani Mitchell and Katie-Rae Ebzery will be key for Harrower’s Spirit on the defensive end, while the size of Richards and Griffin looks as if it will be Bendigo’s trump card in the matchup.

Bendigo takes on Adelaide from 7.30pm at the Bendigo Stadium on Saturday night.

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Wickets tumble as run rate slows IT was a day for the bowlers to remember, and one for the batsmen to forget when Spring Gully and Marong met on day one of round five of the EVCA season.

In what was a remarkable day’s play for the wrong reasons, 20 wickets fell with just 140 runs scored between the two teams.

Marong won the toss and batted first before being skittled for just 72, as Alex Sutton ripped through the Panthers’ top order on his way to figures of 5/28 from 14 overs.

Dean Cosgriff top scored with 15 for Marong, which proved to be the high total of the day.

The Crows innings got off to a better start than that of their counterpart, but where Marong were able to make runs in the tail, the hosts fell apart.

The Crows lost their last seven wickets for just 23 runs to be bowled out

for just 54 from 26 overs, Jeremy Ross cleaning up with six scalps for Marong, who will resume at 0/14 on day two.

Axe Creek will be chasing outright victory against Maiden Gully on day two, when Gully resumes its second innings with a 50 run lead at 2/72.

Batting first after winning the toss, the visitors could only muster 103 from 30 overs, led by opener Anthony Gorrie (22) and Brett Haw (23).

Standout Axe Creek recruit Greg Le Poidevin took 5/23 with the ball and then went on to make 55 as he and Brannon Stanford led the Cowboys to 4/125 from 24 overs before declaring.

At Ken Wust Oval, Joel Purdy fell agonisingly close of a century as he led West Bendigo to a first innings total of 249 from just 52.3 overs against Sedgwick.

Purdy’s knock of 95 was the mainstay of the

innings for the Redbacks, along with that of Dion Prange (58).

Zac Poole and Jordan Ilsley both took three wickets for the Rams, who will resume their innings at 3/114 after facing 20 overs.

A quickfire 97 not out from Michael Healy saw Mandurang set United a target of 249 for victory in their clash at Ewing Park.

Healy’s 97 came from just 104 balls and included 17 fours and a six, with Cain Ladiges (35) and Paul Martin (30) also getting among the runs.

Luke O’Sullivan, Cameron Davie, Andrew Duguid and Michael Frilay all claimed two wickets for the Tigers, who will resume at 0/12 with Andy Collins and Josh White at the crease.

A slow start with the bat saw Golden Gully concede first innings points to Emu Creek at Cal Gully Oval after the hosts were

rolled for just 120.

Emus paceman Simon Marwood took the first three scalps of the Cobras’ innings on his way to four wickets, as Golden Gully relied on number seven Josh Hutchinson (22) and number eight Arj Perera (23) to make some lower order runs.

Emu Creek also got off to a shaky start with the bat, but bounced back from 7/57 due to half centuries from Michael Checkley and Justin Hancock to go to stumps at 9/182 from 36 overs.

The association’s Cathcart Smash Repairs backed Bash for Cash competition continued on Tuesday night, with Mandurang, Golden Gully, United, Maiden Gully and West Bendigo all recording wins.

The Weekly would also like to correct an erroneous reference to Emu Creek as last year’s EVCA Premiers.

United were the 2013/14 premiers.

DAY OUT: Alex Sutton finished with 5/28 from 14 overs.

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Local rookies join Lions’ den

By JOEL PETERSON

THE Brisbane Lions’ list has been bolstered by a pair of Bendigo Pioneers rookies, with Jaden McGrath and Billy Evans both picked by the club during the AFL Draft process.

McGrath was taken with pick number 73 in last week’s AFL National Draft, while Evans was snagged with pick four in Wednesday’s AFL rookie draft.

The 179cm McGrath will likely start his career as a small forward, but showed his dash and elusiveness during two years in the Pioneers’ system at TAC Cup level.

The 18-year-old has struggled with injuries after moving to Bendigo from his hometown of Kerang to complete his VCE at Bendigo Senior Secondary College.

Unlike McGrath, who

missed the Vic Country under-18 campaign due to injury, Evans played all six games for the Mark Ellis coached squad as an inside midfielder.

Not only that, but Evans also featured late in the season with Sandhurst during their run to the Bendigo Football

sound decision making and skill to go with his prototypical 187cm frame.

Lions’ list manager Stephen Conole told the club’s website Evans was an exciting prospect for the club.

“Today was all about adding depth to our play-

Today was all about adding depth to our playing list have been successful in doing League grand final, and also played in the decider against Strathfieldsaye.

Evans faced off against fellow draftee Pat McKenna, who lined up for Gisborne in 2014, during the BFNL finals, looking increasingly comfortable with more game time during the latter stages of the year.

A big-bodied midfielder with the ability to go forward, Evans brings

ing list and we feel we have been successful in doing that in all areas of the ground,” Conole said after the draft.

“Billy’s a developing inside midfielder... and we’re confident that he can continue this development and fulfil a role through our midfield.”

McGrath will don the number 29 for the Lions next season, while Evans was assigned number 46.

PROMISING: Billy Evans showing the form that lead to a number four AFL rookie draft pick.

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BREAKTHROUGH: Tyrone Downie has a new club.

New recruit a steal REIGNING Bendigo Football Netball League premier Strathfieldsaye kicked off its preseason this week, with a big signing in tow.

The Storm this week secured the signature of Matt Ferguson from Gippsland League club Sale.

Ferguson was the coach of the Magpies, and brings a wealth of experience to Strathfieldsaye, including being on St Kilda’s AFL list between 2003-08 alongside Storm players Stephen Milne and Steven Baker.

The Storm commenced pre-season training on Tuesday night at Flight Centre Park ahead of its 2015 campaign.

Sun shining for former coach From Page 40 Downie flew to the Gold Coast to join the club on Thursday, and has modest goals to start his Suns stint alongside the likes of Gary Ablett and up and coming stars David Swallow and Dion Prestia.

“With Gold Coast having a young list still and some really good talented players coming through, with a rookie list you obviously start in the North East Australian Football League and try to work your way up from there,” he said.

“I am really aiming just to play good footy in the NEAFL, and if I can go on from there, who knows.

“In their eyes they see me as someone who can held them on-field as well as helping some of the younger guys.

“If I didn’t have that coaching background maybe things would have been different.”

No matter what happens, Downie says he will relish the opportunity at Metricon Stadium.

“I know I have got a lot of

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“From then on, if I can play good footy I will take it from there. I have no expectations of anything, but I can’t wait to get up there and get started with it all.

“It really is a bit of a dream come true really, and I’m grateful for everyone that has helped along the way.”

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Downie goes up

By JOEL PETERSON

THEY say that persistence pays off. For Tyrone Downie, that statement could not be more true.

The 26-year-old former Bendigo Gold forward and Kangaroo Flat coach was this week drafted to the Gold Coast Suns, taken with pick 59 in the AFL’s rookie draft.

The immensely talented but oft-injured half forward had a stellar year with Bendigo in the VFL, playing 17 games and booting 31 goals in his first season in the competition.

It was enough for the Suns to take a flyer on Downie, who works as a Greater Bendigo council groundskeeper, and is keen to prove that the grass is in fact greener on the other side of the fence.

“If you had asked me a month ago whether this was going to happen I would have told you I was absolutely no chance,” he said.

“After the last few weeks doing a bit of work with Gold Coast and talking to them I realised I was a bit of a chance.

“It was always going to be tough with so many good players and so few spots available, but obviously I got lucky and it is a great feeling.”

Downie moved to Bendigo as an 18-year-old from his home town of Barooga to try his luck with the Bendigo Bombers, before playing five years with Kangaroo Flat, including two as senior coach.

During that time he suffered a litany of injuries, but his talent was undeniable, booting well over 200 goals and often playing a lone hand in the Roos’ forward line.

His trademark skill has always been his overhead mark and clean hands, despite his smaller stature in the realm of big marking forwards.

“He’s 182cm, but Tyrone plays forward and is a brilliant mark for his size,” Gold Coast list manager Scott Clayton said this week.

“He’s also done some coaching in his time and at 26, we think he can bring some real on-field leadership. He’s the perfect mix for us.” Continued Page 39

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