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WELLINGTON Shire and the Heyfield community has lost one of its most tenacious advocates, after councillor Malcolm Hole succumbed to illness on Saturday morning at the age of 76.

Cr Hole’s family, the community of Heyfield and the timber industry were his passions.

Always been a country boy, Cr Hole worked with a stock and station company for 12 years.

He opened his own business in Heyfield in clothing, retiring after 32 years.

Before working in local government, Cr Hole was a Water and Sewerage Commissioner for almost 17 years and was chair when four authorities were amalgamated.

His foray into local politics began in 2000, when he stood for election to Wellington Shire Council.

What followed was 21 years of fierce championing of and work for Heyfield and the wider shire.

Cr Hole was first elected to council in 2000 and was re-elected in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2016.

He was mayor in 2002 and 2006.

After his most recent council re-election, his seventh consecutive, Cr Hole took some time to review his achievements.

The former Wellington Shire mayor and deputy mayor was especially proud of his election to the board of the Municipal Association of Victoria and in particular the work he achieved while on the steering committee for the MAV Act for the Future of the review of the Municipal Association Act 1907.

Knowing first-hand the importance of the

Cr Hole with three of with three of his grandchildren and lifeguard Tom McMillan at Heyfield Memorial Pool.

timber industry to the livelihood of the Heyfield community, Cr Hole worked hard to defend and work towards the sustainability of the industry, not just in Heyfield but other timber communities throughout Victoria.

He was a founding member and served on the Timber Towns Victoria executive, including the role of state president for nine years.

He was also the president of the National Timber Councils Association for 10 years.

Cr Hole performed various roles on the Gippsland

Local Government Network, Rural Councils Victoria and the Local Government Emergency Management Committee.

He was a life member of Apex and a former district governor, dedicating 17 years’ service to the community, and was involved with many boards and associations.

Wellington Shire Council mayor Cr Garry Stephens said the loss of Cr Hole would be keenly felt throughout the region.

“Cr Hole was a dedicated member of Wellington

Shire Council, working hard every day for his community,” he said.

“I had never seen Cr Hole as proud as the day that Heyfield won Australia’s Strongest and Most Resilient Community award in 2017.

“The only comparison you could make with Cr Hole’s beaming face that day, was when he spoke of his children and grandchildren.

“Cr Hole will be sadly missed by everyone who knew him and everyone who he advocated for during his considerable career in local government.”

National Timber Councils Association president Dale Harriman said Cr Hole’s advocacy for timber communities and industries led him to be involved with both Timber Towns Victoria and National Timber Councils Association, where he enjoyed several terms as president of both organisations.

“It was during his leadership at Timber Towns Victoria, Malcolm led the formation of National Timber Councils Association, after a request from the Howard Government to establish a national network of councils involved in forestry and plantation, and became the inaugural president of the association,” he said.

“Malcolm’s tireless work and knowledge has made [the association] the organisation that it is today.”

Cr Harriman extended the association’s sympathies to Cr Hole’s family.

Cr Hole and his wife Carmel, who died in 1997, had five adult children and 15 grandchildren.

Recount of votes to replace Cr Hole, page 3.

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Critics have also criticised Parks Victoria for claiming there was a “limited response” to earlier public calls to re-home trapped brumbies.

Parks Victoria will allow approved landholders to take feral horses it has trapped, but says a submissions-of-interest program only received a small number of applications.

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The Australian Brumby Association says the brumby re-homing process has failed in the past because Parks Victoria had not implemented a user-friendly application process or a manageable horse pick-up system.

PUBLIC comment on Parks Victoria’s draft of the next action plan to tackle the feral horse problem and better protect the Alpine National Park will close in 10 days, on April 23.

Parks Victoria says the latest draft action plan has been developed based on the scientific evidence, management experience and expert input from the previous 2018-2021 Feral Horse Strategic Action Plan, which received more than 1000 submissions through extensive public consultation in 2017.

It is driven by “continued feral horse impacts on native alpine wildlife and habitats, extensive

habitat loss from the Black Summer bushfires, and the limited progress to-date of the current management methods”.

But the issue of culling horses is proving difficult for the state government body, and is clouded by emotion and conflicting opinions.

The inclusion of aerial and ground shooting in the plan is undoubtedly the most contentious, with many animal welfare advocates calling on Parks Victoria to “lift its game” on re-homing horses.

While the “preferred” methods for managing feral horses under the draft Feral Horse Action Plan 2021 include trapping and re-homing,“tightly managed shooting” and the construction of exclusion fences, Parks Victoria wants to use aerial shooting where

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Council, uni and TAFE working to improve local tertiary education WELLINGTON Shire Council will enter into a memorandum of understanding with Federation University and TAFE Gippsland.

The three organisations will form a working relationship to improve the provision of tertiary education in the shire.

The parties intend to explore a range of opportunities between themselves as well as other key stakeholders, with a view to creating meaningful links between industry and education.

The aim is to increase local job opportunities and increase the level of tertiary education and skills across Wellington Shire.

It will also support a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, and promote research and skills development with a key focus on health, education, new energy, food and fibre, as well as exploring the shared use of assets and infrastructure.

Councillor Jill Wood said the organisations had a shared interest in advancing and supporting tertiary education and improving job outcomes in Wellington.

“While the memorandum of understanding is non-binding, it sets a strong statement of intent for council to partner with the region’s key vocational and tertiary education providers to improve tertiary and post-compulsory vocational training for Wellington Shire residents,” she said.

“The memorandum of understanding will facilitate a working relationship between the parties, leading to more collaborative activities through skills and education; research, innovation and entrepreneurship; and culture, liveability and wellbeing.”

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Sale lotto ticket wins a first division prize At the time the Gippsland Times went to print yesterday morning, the holder of a winning lotto ticket bought in Sale was yet to come forward to claim an $800,000 prize.

The mystery winner held one of the five division one winning entries nationally in Monday and Wednesday Lotto draw 4067, drawn Wednesday night.

The winning entry is unregistered, which means officials can’t inform the winner of the windfall, and must wait for him or her to come forward.

The winning entry was sold at Sale Centre Lotto, in Gippsland Centre.

Manager Sam Gilbert said it was the first winning division one ticket he had sold since buying the business a year and a half ago.

“We were definitely expecting someone to come forward by now — make sure you check your tickets,” he encouraged.

The win has been good for business.

“We’ve had a lot of people who wouldn’t usually buy their tickets from here come across,” he said.

“It’s been very exciting.”

Mr Gilbert said if the winner had bought the ticket but didn’t want to blow their anonymity by claiming it locally, then they could claim it elsewhere.

The Lott spokesperson Ally Ramsamy said she was eager to unite the division one winner with his or her prize.

“It’s likely our latest winner is going about their day as normal with no idea they’ve won division one,” she said.

“We’re urging all players who purchased a Monday and Wednesday Lotto ticket from Sale Centre Lotto to check their tickets today.

“Imagine how exciting it would be to realise you’ve won $800,000.

“Your plans for 2021 would certainly change with those extra digits in your bank account.

“Make sure you check your ticket, which could be in your wallet, handbag, fridge door or car glovebox, because the winner could be you, and you could be planning what to do with your prize too.

“If you discover you are holding the winning ticket, contact The Lott on 131 868 to begin the process of claiming your prize.”

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Sale Centre Lotto manager Sam Gilbert is encouraging locals to check their tickets, with the holder of a winning first division ticket yet to come forward to claim an $800,000 prize.

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Wednesday Lotto draw 4067 on Wednesday, April 7, were 16, 17, 20, 24, 11 and 10, while the supplementary numbers were 8 and 5.

Across Australia, there were five division one winning entries from the draw 4067 — two each from Victoria and Western Australia, and one from New South Wales.

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Drivers of two vehicles lucky to escape injury

BOTH drivers involved in an accident at the notorious Stratford-Maffra Rd intersection at 1pm on Thursday were lucky to escape unscathed.

The incident occurred when a 93-year-old male driver turning right into the Maffra-Stratford Rd collided with a car driven by a 54-year-old woman heading east on the Princes Highway.

The man has been fined for failing to give way.

The intersection is one of several being reviewed by the Department of Transport following a fatality on the nearby Airly Rd-Princes Highway intersection on Tuesday, March 30.

The department released a statement after the fatality and following a series of online complaints of road safety in the area, stating it would review road and traffic safety in the Wellington region, including the Airly Rd and Maffra-Stratford Rd intersections on the Princes Highway.

Gippsland Department of Transport director Sara Rhodes-Ward did not comment on whether roundabouts or stop signs would be considered for any particular roads or intersections, following community calls for upgrades at both intersections.

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Police mostly pleased with long weekend behaviour LOCAL police were generally pleased with the road behaviour of drivers in the Wellington area during the Easter long weekend, with no drink drivers detected out of more than 1517 preliminary breath tests.

However police did detect three drug driving offences during Operation Nexus, which ran from April 1 to 5, and 34 offences relating to speed and licence issues.

The annual operation is focused on fatigued driving, drink driving and drug driving at its core.

A police spokesman said there was only one collision, which resulted in minor injuries, during the period of the operation.

Maffra and Heyfield Police conducted a four-day operation in the Dargo area during the Easter Long weekend, with a minor traffic offence and a minor assault the only incidents recorded.

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The dangerous nature of the Maffra-Stratford and Airly Rd intersections with the Princes Highway have been highlighted following the death of a motorist on March 30, and a separate collision involving two motorists on Thursday. The Department of Transport is reviewing the intersections.

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Recount to fill vacancy created by the death of Cr Hole

Northern Ward, which takes in Maffra, Heyfield, Stratford, Rosedale, Licola and Dargo.

Mr Hole, along with John Tatterson, reached the quota required to secure a spot on council on primary votes.

Ms Ripper, who lost out for the ward’s third councillor position last year to Carolyn Crossley, was elected to council last term on a recount following the resignation of Keith Mills.

As of yesterday morning, the VEC hadn’t announced a date for the recount.

New chief executive is announced for CGH

MARK Dykgraaf has been appointed to be the next chief executive of Central Gippsland Health.

With the endorsement of the state Department of Health, the CGH board appointed Mr Dykgraaf to replace Frank Evans after June 30.

Chief executive for 13 years, Dr Evans last year announced he would not seek re-appointment beyond his current contract.

Mr Dykgraaf comes to CGH from Goulburn, New South Wales, with a 37-year career in both the public and private health care sector.

He is currently working as director of clinical services for Far West Local Health, Broken Hill.

CGH board chairman Tony Anderson said Mr Dykgraaf was looking forward to relocating to Sale with his family.

“Dr Evans tendered his resignation to the board in June last year, giving members ample time to find the most suitable candidate for the role during a thorough application process,” Mr Anderson said.

“We are confident, given Mr Dykgraaf’s reputable history in rural and regional health care, that he will further develop CGH’s vision, mission and values across the entire network.”

Mr Dykgraaf’s more recent appointments include general manager of Calvary Public Hospital, Canberra; chief of clinical operations and executive director critical care of Canberra Hospital and Health Services; Medibank Health Solutions NSW-ACT regional manager, and St John of God Health Care, Goulburn, chief executive.

Mr Dykgraaf will begin at CGH in mid-June to facilitate a handover from Dr Evans.

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“I love the connection to community that regional health service brings, and my family and I are very excited for the move.

“It will be my privilege to lead this committed team and dedicated network of health services.”

Have a say on climate change adaption

RESIDENTS are urged to have their say on the Gippsland Regional Climate Change Adaptation Strategy development, which is part of the statewide program being supported by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.

The state government wants to hear from Gippslanders on what’s important in climate change adaptation in Gippsland and how this strategy lays out adaptation action in the region for the next five years.

The Regional Adaptation Strategies will guide priority climate change adaptation actions at the regional scale for the next five years.

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Once finalised at the end of June, the strategy will provide support to the Gippsland community to further adapt to climate change.

The survey form us divided into two parts.

The first part is about providing feedback about the overall strategy.

The second part (which is optional) is divided into the 10 focus areas where people will be asked if they would like to provide feedback for each focus area. Participants can choose which ones they would like to provide comment on.

A summary report of feedback and input provided will be prepared and uploaded online in June 2021.

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THE Victorian Electoral Commission will conduct a recount of votes from last year’s Wellington Shire Council election to determine who succeeds the late Malcolm Hole.

Either Carmel Ripper or Christos Iliopoulos, the only two candidates who weren’t elected to represent the Northern Ward, will fill the vacancy based on a distribution of references from Mr Hole’s vote.

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RAAF airmen are now aviators

THE Royal Australian Air Force has replaced the term ‘airmen’ with ‘aviators’ as it enters its second century.

Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Mel Hupfeld, AO, DSC revealed the change during a recent air force centenary dinner which hosted past and present aviators.

Air Marshal Hupfeld said as the Air Force charted its path forward, he wanted to instil a stronger sense of identity.

“Of all the work that has been done in developing our Air Force culture, the most challenging dilemma has been fully explaining who we are,” he said.

“We understand well enough what we are and what we do — but have never quite managed to successfully articulate who we are.

“We are all aviators.

“As an Air Force, we are born of the air and space.

“It is our home, and the place from which we serve our nation.

“Our trade is aviation.

“In everything that we do, we are aviators first and foremost. All of us, by virtue of what we do and what we believe.

“It is what binds us together.”

Air Marshal Hupfeld cautioned against confusing the role of pilots with Air Force personnel’s common and collective purpose to the nation — “to think, act and imagine from the perspective of the skies and space above us”.

The change was timed with the announcement to revamp Air Force culture through the “Our Air Force, Our Culture” program.

The new program builds on the foundation of previous measures, and closely aligns with the update to the Air Force Strategy launched in 2020.

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SALE RSL has been working behind the scenes to plan a modified commemoration of Anzac Day in Sale, which will this year not include a dawn service.

Because of the need to meet state government COVID-safe requirements the Sale RSL and Community Sub-Branch will facilitate three of the usual four events on behalf of the local Sale community.

The events include the Sale War Cemetery service from 9am; the Sale march from about 10.30am; and the Sale main service at the Sale Cenotaph which will begin about 10.45am.

Sale RSL president Marty Tanzer said it had been a tough decision to not conduct a formal dawn service this year.

“We understand that some people will be disappointed at this decision, but we believe that in the current climate it is appropriate,” he said.

“Sale RSL encourages people to stand in their driveways, as they did last year at dawn, to remember all those who have served.”

Mr Tanzer said every event conducted by Sale RSL this year on Anzac Day would be limited by COVID restrictions requirements, and COVID safe plans have been submitted and approved for each event.

“At each event QR codes and sign-in sheets will be provided to enable people to register to meet contact tracing requirements,” he said.

“There will also be a requirement to establish access and egress points at the War Cemetery service and the main service.

“It is incumbent on the Sale RSL, as the organiser of the 2021 Anzac Day events in Sale, to provide the facilities for contact tracing.”

Mr Tanzer said hand sanitiser would be available at each event, and people attending would be encouraged to use it when they arrived.

“At each event, there will also be a requirement for people to adhere to COVID social distancing requirements,” he added.

Traditionally at the Sale Anzac Day main service many local organisations have laid wreaths to remember those who served.

This year, Mr Tanzer said, wreath laying would

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Sale RSL and Community Sub-Branch will facilitate three of the usual four Anzac Day events this year — the Sale War Cemetery service from 9am; the Sale march from about 10.30am; and the Sale main service at the Sale Cenotaph from 10.45am.

Photos: Sarah Luke need to be kept to a minimum at the main service and would be restricted to government representatives and ex-service organisations.

“However, the Sale RSL encourages other organisations and anyone else who wants to lay a wreath or floral tribute, to attend the Sale Cenotaph at sometime during the day, outside of the main service time, to lay a wreath or floral tribute,” he said.

“Alternatively, wreaths or floral tributes can be laid at the Memorial Wall and the Long Tan Cross at the Sale RSL and Community Club and at the Remembrance Cross at the Sale War Cemetery.”

The number of people able to attend the Sale RSL and Community Club this year will also be limited by COVID requirements to a maximum of 260 at any one time.

To help meet this requirement, Australian Defence Force members, veterans and RSL members and their family members will have priority to attend on the day.

People from those groups must pre-register attendance with the club by phoning 5144 2538.

Mr Tanzer said there would also be no gunfire breakfast at the Sale RSL this year.

However Sale RSL will open at 8am on Anzac Day. Bacon and egg rolls will be available from that time (cost will be $5) and other snack food such as chips, pies, sandwiches, and so on, will be available for buy during the day after the march and the main service.

“We have also sought approval to conduct two-up on the day as well,” Mr Tanzer added.

He appealed to the Sale community for their cooperation and assistance for this Anzac Day. “We will all need to improvise,adapt and overcome to ensure that we hold respectful and appropriate 2021 Anzac Day events to remember all those who served — particularly those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for Australia,” Mr Tanzer said.

“We are obligated to remember the 158 men and women listed on the Boer War Memorial and the Sale Cenotaph from the two world wars, plus all those who have given their lives in war, on operations and in peacetime since the end of World War 2.”

Information about arrangements for local Anzac Day services across Wellington Shire can be emailed to news@gippslandtimes.com.au

History walk and talk Sale RSL and Community Sub-Branch will host a military history walk and talk in Sale ahead of Anzac Day. The walk and talk, on Saturday, April 17, will begin at 3.30pm at the Boer War Memorial in Foster St (weather permitting) and finish about 5pm at the Sale RSL Sub-Branch at 143 York St. Local historian Ross Jackson will provide details of those who served from Sale and district in the Boer War and through both World Wars.

COVID-19 restrictions will apply.

While Sale’s main Anzac Day service will go ahead as planned, there will be no dawn service at the Sale Cenotaph this year.

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Complaint is lodged with information commissioner

WELLINGTON Shire Council’s Native Timber Taskforce has lodged complaints to the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner, about the state government’s refusal to provide information about the basis for its decision to phase out native timber harvesting by 2030.

The taskforce has lodged two Freedom of Information requests to the Minister of Agriculture, Resources and Regional Development and the Premier requesting information about the scientific basis for its decision — and has twice been refused.

A Wellington Shire Council spokesperson said the government had provided two reasons for information not releasing the information, with the office of the Premier advising that following “a thorough and diligent search for documents ... no documents relevant to your request were identified”.

The second reason cited Section 28(1) and Cabinet documents where a document is exempt document under the below subsection of this provision if it is: (a) the official record of any deliberation or decision of the Cabinet; (b) a document that has been prepared by a Minister or on his or her behalf or by an agency for the purpose of submission for consideration by the Cabinet; (ba) a document prepared for the purpose of briefing a Minister in relation to issues to be considered by the Cabinet; (c) a document that is a copy or draft of, or contains extracts from, a document referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (ba); or

Wellington Shire Council’s Native Timber has twice lodged Freedom of Information requests asking for details about the scientific basis for the state government’s decision to phase out native timber harvesting by 2030. Both requests for information have been denied. (d) a document the disclosure of which would involve the disclosure of any deliberation or decision of the Cabinet, other than a document by which a decision of the Cabinet was officially published.

Section 28(1)(b) applies to the documents requested in sections c, d, f, g, h and i.

Before lodging the Freedom of Information requests,Wellington and East Gippsland Shire councils had separately approached the state

government for the information that underpinned the decision to cease native timber harvesting.

In September last year, taskforce chairman, former Wellington Shire mayor Alan Hall, said the Native Timber Taskforce had continued to focus on the ongoing viability of the timber industry in Gippsland.

“Given how vital the native timber industry is to Gippsland and the Victorian economy, it is necessary for us to continue our pursuit of the critical information that underpinned the state government’s decision,” he said.

“Once we have that information, the Native Timber Taskforce will be better placed to assist the government and industry to develop a sustainable plan to balance both the need to deliver a supply of Victorian hardwood in an environmentally sustainable manner.”

Then-Cr Hall said he had also informed the Local Government Minister, Shaun Leane, of the importance of protecting the sustainable timber industry to protect jobs and create new opportunities for growth in regional Victoria.

“The COVID-19 crisis has also highlighted the need to not only identify new opportunities, but also look after what we already have,” he said.

“Never has it been more important for all of us to put local interests at the forefront.”

The Native Timber Taskforce membership also includes East Gippsland Shire Council, Timber Towns Victoria, Australian Sustainable Hardwoods, Radial Timbers and the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union.

Local MPs say long-time CFA staff vacancies are unacceptable

WITH Country Fire Authority staff vacancies going unfilled, volunteer firefighters and their communities are being let down by the state government, according to two local MPs. District 10, which covers Wellington Shire, has four commander vacancies that were not filled at all during the summer period, and is about to lose its assistant chief fire officer.

Gippsland South MLA Danny O’Brien and Gippsland East MLA Tim Bull said volunteers were angry these staff vacancies had been unfilled for so long, reducing support available to volunteers who keep communities safe.

“Since the Andrews Labor government bowed to the demands of the United Firefighters Union and created Fire Rescue Victoria, the CFA has become the poor cousin of our fire services, just as we predicted at the time,” Mr O’Brien said.

“All career staff in the CFA must now be provided on secondment by the UFU-dominated FRV, but the experience in District 10 shows the CFA and its volunteers are being treated as an afterthought

by Labor’s fire hierarchy.

“The commanders obviously do a lot of work in supporting our CFA stations and brigades, supporting the volunteers and assisting them to prepare for the defence of our communities and I am very concerned that that work is being compromised at the moment because of the lack of staff in those positions.

“I asked the Minister for Emergency Services in parliament back in November to fill these vacancies, but not only has she not done so, she hasn’t even provided the courtesy of an answer five months later.”

Minister Lisa Neville has been on leave since February to recover from auto-immune disorder Crohn’s disease, and will likely remain off work until June.

Mr Bull said inexperienced temporary staff was not a solution.

“I’ve been contacted by local brigades who are angry they are being left unsupported,” he said.

“They see this is a snub to the CFA — and rightly so,” he said.

“Labor promised the world with its fire reforms, but it seems all the warnings we made at the time are coming true.

“We have a fire service that is run by the UFU and where the CFA — and by extension, country Victoria — is treated as a second-class citizen.

“Labor needs to act now to fill these vacancies and ensure our communities are supported and protected.”

A government spokesperson said the government was aware the CFA and other emergency services agencies often had recruitment challenges in regional areas, particularly for higher skilled positions.

“FRV is working with CFA to develop a new

vacancy management plan that provides long term stability to CFA management roles and ongoing support for volunteers,” the spokesperson said.

“This includes establishing a team who will conduct targeted recruitment for regional areas and create a pool of relief staff to help manage backfill and secondment requirements.

“While we work to permanently fill the vacancies, the Wellington Shire community should be reassured they continue to be well protected — with 40 CFA volunteer fire brigades and more than 1400 volunteer firefighters protecting communities from fire and other emergencies 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

Victoria’s fire services have been working in partnership to fill vacancies, with FRV providing short-term relief to CFA districts via seconded staff when required.

Within Gippsland, there are currently five assistant chief fire officers and 17 catchment commanders, within these roles, there are two vacant positions in District 10, which Fire Rescue Victoria has filled with fixed term staff while recruitment is underway to fill the roles permanently.

There was also a vacancy in District 10 because of a commander filling an Assistant Chief Fire Officer position, which has now reverted and is no longer vacant.

New COVID-19 caps ENTERTAINMENT, cultural and sporting venues in Victoria with a maximum of 1000 patrons per space can now be filled to capacity.

The revised COVID-Safe settings, which began midnight on Friday, mean seated indoor and outdoor entertainment, cultural and sporting venues seeking attendance of more than 1000 people per space must apply for consideration.

Events designated as tier one or two will also remain at 75 per cent.

A density quotient of one person per two square metres will still apply at venues in non-seated spaces, such as lobbies, and all venues must continue to use QR codes or record keeping.

In other changes, no density quotient will be applied in office-based workplaces except in publicly accessible areas, such as lobbies.

No density quotients apply for courts and tribunal facilities or state parliament.

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The Wellington Climate Action Network is encouraging others to join the rally in Sale next Friday.

Climate rally in Sale next week

PEOPLE concerned about what they see as the federal government’s lack of action on climate policy will be taking part in rally in Sale on Friday,April 23.

The event is being organised by Wellington Climate Action Network, a local politicallyunaffiliated group working to demonstrate the existing strong local support for firm federal government action on climate change.

A network spokesperson said the group believed Australia’s commitment to and action on climate change was one of the worst in the developed world.

Internationally, there are already financial penalties placed on exports because of the country’s weak climate policies, as the world strives to cooperate in transitioning to carbonfree economies.

The spokesperson said it was not good enough that Australia had no transition plan for at-risk

exports, such as coal and gas.

“Our energy markets and investors are being hamstrung by a lack of government direction,” she said.

“We are missing massive future opportunities to use new forms of energy, allowing the jobs this will create to flourish.

“As we witness increasingly severe climatedriven events it is apparent that the earth’s systems are under stress and this reality must be faced with action.

“If our politicians won’t act in our best long-term interests, then it falls upon us ordinary citizens to tell them we will not accept this.

“Climate change is not a political issue but an environmental and humanitarian one.”

The rally will begin at the Sale clocktower at noon.

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New deadline for govt air pollution inquiry submissions THE Legislative Council’s Environment and Planning Committee has extended the deadline for submissions to its inquiry examining the health impacts of air pollution on Victorians.

The deadline is now April 23 — an extension of three weeks.

The committee is seeking to identify state-wide practical, real-time, cost-effective mitigation

strategies and determine to what extent these strategies are ensuring that Victorian air quality continues to track towards meeting or exceeding current international best practice standards and is enforced.

Details outlining how to make a submission are available from the committee’s website www. parliament.vic.gov.au

THE refusal of state Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio to release the promised changes to Victoria’s code of forestry practice is threatening the survival of several Gippsland timber businesses, according to opposition spokesman on forestry, Narracan MLA Gary Blackwood.

Mr Blackwood said Ms D’Ambrosio had commissioned the review into the Code of Practice for Timber Production last July because of a spate of legal challenges against VicForests in Victoria’s Supreme Court and High Court.

The challenges resulted in temporary bans on timber harvesting in many native forest coupes.

VicForests’ appeal against the High Court ban, which hinges on an interpretation of the code of forestry practice, is scheduled to be held this month.

Mr Blackwood said the review had been completed for many months, but Ms D’Ambrosio had refused to release it — despite being pressed in state parliament to do so.

A key aim of the review was to “minimise the risk to short-term supply obligations arising from third-party litigation”, Ms D’Ambrosio said last July.

Mr Blackwood said 70 per cent of the coupes in the Central Highlands were subject to court injunction awaiting the outcome of the appeal in the High Court.

“Already sawmills are running out of logs — three in east Gippsland I believe. Brown in Noojee is starting to panic, Powelltown and Reids at Yarra Junction are the same,” he said.

“Even Heyfield, which often carries a lot of stock, but will not get full allocation.

“It’s a matter of when they run out.”

Mr Blackwood alleged Minister D’Ambrosio was refusing to implement the recommendations of the review of the code of forest practice that she herself convened.

Speaking in parliament last December, he said the review had identified a number of issues with the code around clarity, accuracy, enforceability, inconsistencies and ambiguities around policy and ecological integrity.

“DELWP (the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning) has completed the review, identified the problems and provided solutions,”

“Already sawmills are running out of logs ... Even Heyfield, which often carries a lot of stock, but will not get full allocation. It’s a matter of when they run out.”

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he told parliament.

“Part of the review identified that the code did not give industry certainty.”

Mr Blackwood said the key recommendation was the need to tighten up the interpretation of the ‘precautionary principle’.

“This would then allow VicForests to continue harvesting as per the regulations. It would stop the litigation,” he said.

Because the minister had not acted, “all these coupes are locked up, the mills will not get their allocation this year and some will run out by September”, he added.

“Some have already run out.”

Mr Blackwood said the Coalition opposed the Labor policy to stop harvesting native forests by 2030.

“However, the government can fix this and honour their commitment to transition the industry from 2024-25 based on the premise that current levels of harvesting would continue until 2024-25,” he said.

“In effect, Minister D’Ambrosio is undermining her own government’s policy by not acting on the recommendations of her own review.”

In a letter to AG Brown sawmill in Noojee, Agriculture and Regional Development Minister Mary-Anne Thomas acknowledged the need for an accurate, consistent and enforceable code to give the forest industry certainty.

“The Victorian government is currently assessing possible changes to the code arising from the review to ensure delivery of the Victorian Forestry Plan,” she said.

“This will provide the investment and time needed to support communities and businesses transitioning to a plantation-based timber industry and secure a strong future for the sector.

“We will continue to stand by every timber business, community and worker during this transition — and deliver the certainty about their future they deserve.”

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An extra Wellington Shire Council budget allocation of $100,000, matching an amount pledged by the John Leslie Foundation, will go toward tendering for a specialist contractor to provide an alternative en-tout-cas court design for the club’s seven undeveloped courts.

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SALE Tennis Club will receive an additional $200,000 to complete the upgrade of its courts.

Wellington Shire Council approved an extra allocation of $100,000, matching an amount pledged by the John Leslie Foundation, to enable the club to tender for a specialist contractor to provide an alternative en-tout-cas court design for the seven undeveloped courts.

The upgrade of five courts is nearing completion, but the club is not satisfied with what has been produced.

Works at the club also included upgrades to the clubhouse and LED lighting for courts.

Council and club have been working through technical design issues with the resurfacing of courts.

The court design in the original project scope and budget was not acceptable to the club.

The preference for another design by a specialist contractor resulted in a change of scope of the project.

Councillor Ian Bye said the type of court at Sale made the project complex.

“Part of the problem with en-tout-cas courts is that it’s very specialised,” he said.

“The five courts that were upgraded are nearly finished. What we’re doing now is upgrading the remaining seven courts.

“What this has done is put Sale on the map.

“There are not many en-tout-cas court facilities in Victoria, let alone Australia, that will have this facility. It should mean a lot of people, hopefully, come here for events in the future.

“It will be great for our community.”

Works will be completed progressively to enable the club to host tournaments in July and August.

The state government had already provided $1 million, council $650,000,Tennis Victoria $150,000 and the club $550,000.

Apex Park’s new BMX pump track has become an instant hit with Stratford families.

New and improved Apex Park opens in Stratford THE recently-opened playground and pump track in Apex Park, Stratford, have been embraced by the local community.

As part of the project to build a new rail bridge over the Avon River, Regional Rail Revival invited Stratford residents to help co-design the new improvements to Apex Park to create a community facility.

The new facilities include a BMX pump track, nature-based playground and mural, all surrounded by a garden of native plants.

The flexible and smooth surface of the pump track means a safe and injury-resistant way for children to use their wheels, and there are enough turns and undulations to improve young cycling skills.

Construction fences around the bike track have just come down, and it didn’t take long for young people and parents to try it out.

Award-winning artist Ray Thomas was commissioned to paint the mural on the side of the new Avon River Bridge.

The new playground is surrounded by nature.

Photos: Liz Bell

The design incorporates images that represent the history of the local area and feature the Avon River as a theme, as selected by Stratford residents.

The mural, about 25 metres long and two metres high, overlooks Apex Park.

Port Welshpool’s Marginal Wharf to be upgraded A MAJOR upgrade of the loading and unloading section of Marginal Wharf at Port Welshpool is now underway, which will improve safety for users.

Works to improve the condition of the wharf include replacing a section of deck beams and planks, as well as piles that support the wharf.

On-site work is underway to replace a section of the wharf which has deteriorated with age,exposure to a marine environment and usage.

The loading and unloading section of the wharf will be closed during the works.

Alternative arrangements have been made with the commercial fisherman affected by the works.

The work is scheduled to be complete by September.

Eastern Victoria Jane Garrett MLC said the rebuild works to improve the deck would make the loading dock safer at the commercial fishing and tour operator location, adding Port Welshpool was at the heart of South Gippsland’s foreshore.

“This critical rebuild will improve the marginal wharf and support the commercial fishing industry and tour operators in the region,” she said.

A bridge mural by Ray Thomas depicts some of the history from the local area.

A section of deck beams and planks at Marginal Wharf in Port Welshpool will be replaced as part of an upgrade.

File photo The pier rebuild will be delivered under a $3.2 million pier and jetty maintenance package.

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A Small Punch in a Little Town was filmed around the Loch Sport area.

Local film to screen at Regent Theatre THE historic Regent Theatre in Yarram will this Saturday screen a locally written and directed film to launch its new façade.

The film by Luke Robson — A Small Punch in a Little Town —- was filmed around the Loch Sport area, and follows a young man who punches an outsider visiting his small costal town.

This triggers a spiral of events, twists and turns, eventually revealing dark secrets within the small community.

With the local cop looking for him, Dan is land-locked by the only road in and out of town.

Escaping this community and leaving his past behind will be more difficult than he had envisioned.

Writer and director Luke Robson said being an ultra-low budget film financed by friends and family, he appreciated any support he could get.

“Despite the low budget, the film looks big budget through incredible support from both Melbourne artists and Loch Sport locals,” he said.

“The film has a great message, highlighted in the last 15 minutes of the film, and showcases some outstanding locations around the Loch Sport area.

“I really feel if I can get the community involved, and to get them behind the film, then it’ll help it to reach a wider audience.”

The feature film is hitting the Australian and international festivals, and premiered earlier in the year at the Sun Theatre in Yarraville as a part of the Setting Sun Film Festival.

The premiere just snuck in hours before the latest lockdown, with the following screening cancelled because of the five-day snap lockdown.

The film will also make its US premiere on April 16, at the Nova Fest and Capital Film Market.

It received eight nominations at Nova Fest including best foreign feature film, best actress feature film (Monica Vangeli), best supporting actress feature film (Susie Kazda), best acting ensemble, best drama feature film, best screenplay feature film, best score and best editing feature length film.

A Small Punch in a Little Town will be available to watch online during the week-long festival via www.novafilmfest.com/2020-screening-schedule-friday

A Small Punch in a Little Town will screen on Saturday from 7.30pm at the Regent Theatre, Yarram.

Tickets can be bought via www.trybooking.com

Producers market this Saturday

SALE and District Agricultural Society will hold its annual meeting this month, beginning preparations for this year’s Sale Show.

The society welcomes new volunteers who can help with the show, to be held October 29 and 30, or maintenance and care of the showgrounds throughout the year.

There will be numerous categories, each having a chief steward, so organisers say there is something to interest everyone, at every age, from poultry and livestock to arts, crafts and cooking.

Now in its 162nd year, the society is Gippsland’s oldest continuing not-for-profit organisation.

It welcomes community-spirited people who can offer progressive concepts and workable suggestions to keep the show and showgrounds a local asset for future generations.

The annual meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 27, from 7.30pm at the committee room at the showgrounds.

Interested people can email the secretary at book ing@saleshow.com.au, or visit the office on Wednesdays between 10am to 3pm.

4WD TV filming in Dargo

A TELEVISION program is putting out the call to local four-wheel driving enthusiasts who’d like to see themselves on television, and help boost the profile of central Gippsland as a travel destination.

Central Gippsland is widely renowned as Victoria’s premier four-wheel driving region, and as such has been selected to feature on an episode of Channel 7’s Life Off Road, produced by the team behind 4WD TV. As part of the program, a convoy of four wheel drive vehicles will trek through Gippsland, with a focus on spending locally and boosting the economy.

The filming will centre around Dargo and the many four wheel drive trails surrounding the town.

With the help of Destination Gippsland and Wellington Shire Council, the crew will shoot two episodes this month for national broadcast on 7Mate in May. There will also be a number of special guests including Simon Christie, Will Connolly and Rick O’Brien (who is also filming in the area for a Channel 10 off-road program).

The episodes will highlight the devastation caused to rural Australia by drought, fires, floods and COVID-19, and promote travel to the region as one of the best ways to help communities get back on their feet.

The crew has put the call out to local four wheel drive enthusiasts who’d like to help and see themselves on television.

They hope to see anything from 20 to 100 avid four wheel drivers tag along for the event.

This is good timing for Dargo, as its general store is gearing up to celebrate its 100th year of operation in 2023.

The store has a rich history.

Its foundations were originally brought from

4WD TV’s Simon Christie is calling all local fourwheel drive enthusiasts to be part of filming his television program near Dargo.

Talbotville, and the store is on the old police lock-up site.

It is the ‘last man standing’ from a multitude of other shanties and stores that were scattered throughout the High Country, and provides an incredible insight into yesteryear.

Older locals speak about the old telephony system that was operated from within.

While the itinerary for the television episodes is still under wraps, there are plenty of trails to explore in and around Dargo.

To plan a four wheel drive adventure in Gippsland, visit www.visitgippsland.com.au/do-and-see/ outdoor-activities/four-wheel-driving

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SALE Producers Market will be held this Saturday from 8am at the Sale Showgrounds.

With social distancing guidelines in place, the market will be held under the elm trees on the Dawson St side of the showgrounds.

Items on offer will include handmade clothing, wooden toys and other wooden items, soap, candles and melts, photography, mushrooms, fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs, cupcakes, bread, honey, preserves and meat.

Freshly brewed coffee and pad Thai will also be available.

All goods are grown or made by sellers.

For more information, phone Karen on 0409 697 254.

MAFFRA CWA has thanked people who supported its recent scone challenge and raffle.

The raffle winners were D Kennedy, P Hunt and M Burnie.

MAFFRA RSL will hold a service on Anzac Day, and is looking for expressions of interest from community groups and clubs who wish to lay wreaths. Email the secretary at maffrarsl@gmail. com or phone 0431 229 412.

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Comment on brumby plan due in 10 days From page 1 it to work because it was quite difficult system — and when they first decided to do it there were no holding yards or infrastructure in place for people to get these horses they had trapped,” she said.

“I think in the end they did end up having to deliver some horses, but they would only go to east Gippsland.”

Bruthen brumby owner Jaquie Peachment is a staunch advocate of re-homing and believes another reason the re-homing opportunity wasn’t more widely taken up is because it was “poorly advertised”.

“You can’t say people didn’t want them if the message didn’t really get out,” she said.

“I certainly never saw any advertisements, or even heard of them.

“I definitely think that if more people knew they were being offered, they would have had a lot more applications.”

Parks Victoria has said it placed newspaper advertisements about the submissions-of-interest program, but with limited response.

Between December 2019 and September 2020, there were three rounds of public advertisements seeking expressions of interest to re-home feral horses.

There were more than 300 enquiries, but only

Gippsland South MLA Danny O’Brien chats with a constituent at Loch Sport.

MP goes on the road to meet constituents

ISSUES ranging from the quality of ambulance services to COVID restrictions, local roads and electricity supply were on the agenda when Gippsland South MLA Danny O’Brien conducted mobile electorate office visits recently.

In Wellington Shire, Mr O’Brien stopped into Loch Sport, Golden Beach, Seaspray and Stradbroke.

He also visited Leongatha, Ruby, Mirboo North, Hallston and Berrys Creek.

“It’s always great to get out of the office and meet with people in their home area, particularly now that most COVID restrictions have lifted,” he said.

“Sometimes, with such a big electorate, it’s difficult for people to come to my office — so I believe it’s important to take the office to them.”

Mr O’Brien said helping people with state government issues where he could was the main focus of these trips, but many people just came to chat or to vent about issues troubling them.

“It’s an important part of our democracy that people have direct access to their MP,” he said.

“Listening to people on the ground not only helps me represent my constituents better,but it also helps the Nationals as we develop policy to ensure that we are addressing the issues that are important to regional Victorians.

“I am following up a number of concerns with the state government as a result of these visits and I’ll be at a town near you soon.”

10 completed expressions of interest were followed through from suitable applicants.

The numbers of feral horses in the alpine areas has also been an issue of contention, with brumby advocates saying the numbers are inflated.

Parks Victoria estimates there are about 5000 feral horses in the Victorian Alps, making capture and re-homing not enough to significantly reduce feral horse populations in the eastern alps, with that figure doubling in the five year period from 2009 to 2019 from 2300 horses.

East Gippsland brumby horse breaker Ty Armstrong, a regular visitor to the alpine region, said he would estimate the numbers to be close to 2000 “at the top end”.

“I know there aren’t so many horses; I certainly dispute those numbers,” he said.

“Even on the plains they’re not so thick — maybe a third of what Parks Victoria says.”

Ms Peachment, previously a thoroughbred owner, said more effort should be focused on re-homing.

The former Melburnian took on two Alpine brumbies “straight from the mountain” several years ago, and said she was hooked from day one.

“I’d never have another type of horse now; these are just fantastic horses and so easy to manage,” she said.

“People hear the word ‘wild’ horse and think

they are difficult — they are definitely not in my experience.”

Despite community concerns about animal welfare, the RSPCA has given the draft plan its qualified support, as long as the terrain is flat and only highly experienced and skilled shooters and pilots were used.

Parks Victoria says the feral horses have to be managed, with the high numbers in the alpine area continuing to cause damage.

It says the removal of all feral horses from the Bogong High Plains, plus the “significant reduction” in the Eastern Alps population will “maximise animal welfare outcomes”, meet community demand in providing captured horses to suitable re-homers, and protect threatened and threatened native plants, animals and ecological communities.

The draft Feral Horse Action Plan 2021 is open for public comment until Friday, April 23.

The Australian Brumby Association and the Victorian Brumby Association are urging people interested in the issue to make submissions.

All submissions to the draft plan will be considered as part of developing the final Feral Horse Action Plan 2021, which will be submitted to the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Minister for review.

The draft plan is available at Engage Victoria.

A Sunday ride to the Briagolong pub THE Tambo Upper Trail Riding Club’s ride this Sunday will involve a first for the club — a ride to the Briagolong Hotel for lunch.

Local horsemen Ron Rees and Dave O’Neill will lead the group.

A compulsory horseless muster will be scheduled for 9.45am before departing from Dave’s horse paddock, meandering along bush tracks and undulating scrub before entering open flat farmland.

The group will use old stock routes and back roads, and the ride will take in stunning views of surrounding mountains and the Avon Valley.

Entering Briagolong from the east, they will ride into the outskirts of the township, leading to various back streets and the local watering hole (hotel).

Horses can be tied up behind the pub to secured tie up points which have been constructed under the surrounding peppercorn trees.

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A group of Tambo Upper Trail Riding Club riders, with Diana McCormack on Oakie leading, enjoy the sights and sounds of the bush. to ensure the safety of horses being securely tied at the pub.

Those missing out are welcome to phone the hotel and book a table to join the riders for lunch.

Water will be available for the horses before participants enjoy a social lunch, where horseless partners or friends can join in at the hotel.

Riders will then be herded off their cosy seats to remount and complete the day ride through quiet back streets and along bush-lined roads, returning to the floats by about 3.30pm.

The duration of ride will be about two hours in the morning before lunch, then about 1.5 hours in the afternoon.

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Interested participants must be Australian Trail Horse Riders Association members and must contact organisers to secure a position.

Tambo rides are held on the third Sunday of every month and are suitable for most standards.

Visitors are welcome and juniors are also encouraged, but must be accompanied by a guardian and able to ride independently.

For more information about the club or rides, phone Caz Driscoll on 0408 963 667 or Sue Cullinan on 0412 526 121.

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In accordance with Victorian Department of Health guidelines, all affected staff and residents have been tested for both influenza and COVID-19. Results to date have all been negative.

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Letters to the editor Sobering reading in species report From Trevor Tucker. Sale: FOR anyone concerned about the accelerating extinction of just the known species around the world, you might like to read the latest report presented by The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.

Here are two confronting conclusions which appear within that document.

“Mankind is behaving as if we are either unaware of the severity of the world’s extinction crisis, or, we have chosen to continue to disregard that the world’s burgeoning, out of control human population is the primary cause impacting biodiversity and driving species extinction.”

That may sound simplistic, even obvious, but how will mankind address this in the world’s future best interests?

In the meantime, what must be done to arrest the inevitable extinction of those species known to mankind, let alone those species not yet catalogued?

“The global economy is a device for turning nature into pollution, as quickly as possible.”

This too is a disturbing and disgusting realization.

Did you know for example, that worldwide, about one-third of all known species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction … “primarily the consequence of developed countries, slavishly driving their financial bottom lines”.

I wish there were universally agreeable solutions to these enormously challenging conclusions.

So, more than ever before, opinion on these issues really matter.

Perhaps the best we can each do to save the wonderful nature that keeps us alive, is to commit to influencing timely and meaningful protection for those species which struggle to remain viable in our own vast and beautiful backyard.

Lessons from the past in protecting forests From Neil Barraclough, Meerlieu: MOUNTAIN Cattlemen’s Association of Victoria president Bruce McCormack says the MCAV supports present timber harvesting, which is based on clear-felling (Gippsland Times 26/3).

Starting in the late 1970s, I sought out as many of the old local bushies I could find, and in particular the cattlemen who took their cattle into the mountains before the 1939 fires to learn what I could from them.

They told me of how they would use regular low intensity burns to keep an open and grassy understory in the High Country forests where they grazed.

Management varied in different areas, different forest types and different soil types.

They did it for a number of reasons, including making it safe for their cattle, safe for them when they were in there mustering or checking their cattle, and to protect the environment they loved.

Public land from Melbourne to the New South Wales border was largely divided into either state forest or Crown land, with the best timber reserves and Melbourne water catchment largely being state forest.

Graziers were first stopped from carrying out their traditional burning on land managed by state forest, and those with very isolated Crown leases between Mt Skene and Omeo mostly kept up their protective burning up till the 1939 fires that burnt through this country during the worst weather conditions of Black Friday, January 13, 1939.

www.gippslandtimes.com.au Government pressure largely stopped the burning on sections of the Dargo High Plains and Harry Lewis Treasure’s record before the 1939 Royal Commission gives us a good understanding of where it has all gone wrong.

Harry was the grandfather of Bruce, Christa and Rhonda Treasure, the three members of the Treasure family opposing the logging of what might be the last stand of millable Alpine Ash in the region.

I had an article published in Voice of the Mountains in 1988, the annual journal of the MCAV giving a history of the environmental value of the early cattlemen’s protective burning and among other things said: “The position of the Mountain Cattleman’s Association of Victoria Inc on the subject is interesting.

“While they advocate regular, controlled burning fire as a necessary and natural way of preventing destruction of the alpine environment, they support the present timber harvesting system of clear felling.

“The Forests Commission (now Conservation Forests and Lands) have justified clear felling with the belief that it represents the destruction of natural fire.”

Simply put, the basis that clear felling replicates the wildfire killing the Mountain and Alpine Ash with fires every 80-200 years or whatever is in total conflict with the cattlemen’s heritage of protecting the forests, including the ash, with regular low intensity burns — usually in the autumn.

I ask everyone to appreciate and value the inter-generational knowledge of the members of the Treasure family involved in opposing the clear felling of the Alpine Ash and understand that Bruce McCormack and the MCAV are not honouring their heritage in supporting it.

Cattlemen just want to protect Mountain Ash From Bruce Treasure, Stratford: THE article ‘Cattlemen support the timber industry’ (Gippsland Times 26/3) totally missed the point of why some other cattlemen want to protect the last remaining stand of the magnificent Alpine Ash trees, for future generations of Australians to see.

This beautiful stand of Alpine Ash is the last we have.

Once it is torn to shreds, it will be gone for generations.

Our comment, from this small group of caring cattlemen, is merely to say, “leave the last remaining vestiges of old growth Mountain Ash timber for all Australians to cherish and see.”

This area of Mountain Ash timber, that lies on the Long Spur, just above the Little Dargo River, is all we have left.

The rest has been ripped out.

For heaven’s sake, can’t we maintain some of our heritage for future Australians to embrace?

We have so precious little of it left.

Let it be made clear.

This small group of caring cattlemen does not want to stop logging in its entirety, it merely wants to save this unique and exquisite, last remaining stand of unburnt, old-growth, Mountain Ash trees, which will not regrow to this level of maturity for many generations to come.

Do you also care for your country?

capacity and winter less than two months away, wouldn’t it be common sense to wait and see what rains winter brings instead of creating potential flooding with the dams too full with late releasing of water, as is what’s happened in Gippsland in the past?

It’s a pity it’s come to this stage, as the decision to build the plant was the greatest knee-jerk reaction I’ve ever seen.

Now we have construction cost and ongoing maintenance costs, which will forever continue until it rusts.

Wouldn’t it have been simpler and a lot less expensive to build and maintain more water catchments (which I’m sure the birds, frogs and water life would love too)?

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From Bill Redmond, Sale, and Professor Gordon Lynch, University of Melbourne: THE impending arrival and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines has provided much-needed optimism for how we can protect our health in the current pandemic, but it’s important to realise that lifestyle factors can also play a key role in boosting immunity, especially against colds and flu.

Along with good nutrition, regular physical activity, a resilient and positive mindset, and restful and restorative sleep can help maintain immune function, whereas disrupted sleep patterns can depress immunity.

A 2019 report commissioned by the Sleep Health Foundation revealed that almost 60 per cent of Australians regularly experienced trouble falling or staying asleep, and 15 per cent had symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of clinical insomnia.

A chronic lack of sleep can contribute to symptoms of anxiety, anger, and depression, make thinking clearly more difficult, and can contribute to falls.

Sleep needs differ between individuals, but most adults require seven to nine hours of sleep each night.

A few small habit changes during the day can set you up for a good night’s sleep.

Regular physical activity can help establish daily patterns that help you fall asleep faster, and it’s conducive to deeper sleep.

Going to bed and rising at similar times, including on weekends, can reinforce a regular sleep pattern.

Sleeping a little longer on weekends can help

some people recoup lost sleep time, but can be disruptive for others.

Stress can be a major disruptor to restful sleep, and winding down the right way can make all the difference.

Try and switch off mentally before bedtime and write down any concerns in a ‘to-do’ list for the following day.

This might prevent waking during the night in a bothered state thinking about what may have been forgotten.

A warm bath or shower before bedtime can help relax body and mind, as can breathing exercises.

Limit any reading when preparing for sleep.

You should be so relaxed that you might not finish the first page or two before your eyelids become heavy and you are ready to drift off to sleep.

Drinks containing caffeine or alcohol close to bedtime can also disrupt sleep.

Keeping well hydrated throughout the day is best, rather than drinking a lot in the evening and needing middle-of-the-night trips to the bathroom.

Some may find a short nap during the day can help you recharge, but these should only be considered when feasible and kept short so as not to interfere with normal sleep patterns during the night.

If these tips don’t prove helpful and you’re still having trouble sleeping, you should consult with your doctor.

Not getting enough sleep can not only leave you feeling grumpy, but left unchecked it could compromise your health and increase the risk of illness.

Happy dreams!

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Dispatch of desal water ‘beggars belief’ From Tom Clark, Sale: THE decision by those at the top to dispatch water from the Wonthaggi Desalination Plant to the Melbourne and surrounding dams (Gippsland Times 6/4), beggars belief.

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A packed Mewburn Park Homestead listened to local cancer survivor Kylie Board, cancer biologist Renea Taylor and Defining Beauty — Through Breast Cancer Foundation founder Jo Francis at a recent fundraiser.

Successful breast cancer charity fundraiser in Maffra

Cancer survivor and Defining Beauty — Through Breast Cancer Foundation member Kylie Board addresses the crowd, while charity founder Jo Francis watches on.

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MORE than 145 guests attended Mewburn Park Homestead recently to support and raise money for local charity, Defining Beauty — Through Breast Cancer Foundation.

Postponed for a year because of the pandemic, the event was hosted by former Gippslander and foundation member Louisa Smith.

Guests heard from Renea Taylor (also from Gippsland), who is a cancer biologist at Monash Univeristy and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the charity’s founder, Jo Francis, and cancer survivor and foundation member, Kylie Board.

Jo Francis said the support the foundation had received from the Gippsland community was overwhelming.

“With over 145 guests in the room, we laughed, cried and celebrated together, all while raising much-needed funds to continue to support our brave beauties,” she said.

“Thank you all again and we look forward to seeing you all again next year at what will be an annual event.”

Ms Francis thanked the local sponsors which

supported the event.

“If it wasn’t for such incredible generosity from the Gippsland community it would not have been the successful day it was,” she said.

The Defining Beauty — Through Breast Cancer Foundation helps young women face their cancer journey with confidence, and helps them take back some control at one of the most vulnerable times of their lives.

The foundation provides care packs to young women diagnosed with breast cancer, filled with natural skin care products, make-up, helpful goodies and tips and tricks.

It credits the Gippsland community for funding retreats for young women after they have completed their treatments, for some much-needed rest and recovery.

Since the foundation was launched in 2019, it has sent out more than 77 care packs throughout Australia and overseas.

Defining Beauty’s ethos considers mental health and support during cancer treatment just as important as the work oncologists and health care workers do.

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Disco take on the Bard’s Julius Caesar While Nicholls’ bizarre take on JC is set to startle, Darren McCubbin has taken the same play and adapted it for the Grade 6 students from the two Stratford schools.

With stabbing, conspiracy and Beyoncé, this is a production of Julius Caesar that will have audiences dancing in the aisles.

There will be three shows — May 4, 5 and 7 May — in the Stratford Mechanics Hall.

For tickets and all things Shakespeare, visit stratfordshakespeare.com.au Pictured, Tony Capurso as Lucius in the re-imagined Julius Caesar.

Photo: Contributed Cheeky dance cabaret Wanderlust is loaded with comicality, debauchery, killer vocals, mesmerising acts, dashes of nudity, exhilarating dance and much more.

Vegas comes to Sale WITH sold-out shows throughout Australia and overseas, including London’s West End, Masters of Choreography’s Wanderlust comes to The Wedge with a creatively over-the-top, mega-talented and outrageous host and delivers a dazzling array of exciting and naughty dance cabaret entertainment.

Set to an uplifting commercial soundtrack and with the desire to encapsulate everyone in a load of fun, this show is complete with frolicsome performers indulging in mesmerizing dance, acro, contortion, fire, pole and aerial acts plus shameless comedic sketches, fostering oodles of audience interaction with hilarious and cheeky moments.

Local war history explored

THE latest in the Silver Series at The Wedge will be Wellington At War this Sunday from 2pm.

Wellington At War draws from stories of valour on the Sale Cenotaph by local historian Ross Jackson, with musical interludes by folk

legend Bill Jackson.

Tickets cost $27 for adults, $25 seniors, $20 concession and $15 children under 15, and are available by phoning 5143 3200 or visiting www. thewedge.com.au or the box office at 100 Foster St, Sale.

Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Still Only the Piano Player A RUNAWAY success in London’s West End, at successive Edinburgh Festivals, at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and right across the United States, this is an hilarious send-up of classical music, which has established Australian pianist, David Scheel, as the successor to the legendary Victor Borge.

With beautiful music, and musical fun performed in so many accents and voices, Scheel has also been compared to the late Robin Williams and Peter Ustinov.

Hear a familiar tune played in the styles of the old masters plus an iPod; two famous pieces played simultaneously, one with the right hand, one with the left; plus his “translation” of the lyrics of Waltzing Matilda.

David Scheel will perform in Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Still Only the Piano Player at The Wedge tomorrow from 11am.

Tickets cost $27 for adults,$25 seniors,$20 concession and $15 children under 18, and are available by phoning 5143 3200 or visiting www.thewedge.com. au or the box office at 100 Foster St, Sale.

David Scheel will perform a musical comedy show at The Wedge tomorrow.

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It’s mischievous, it’s naughty and utterly wild.

Loaded with comicality, debauchery, killer vocals, mesmerising acts, dashes of nudity, exhilarating dance and much more, this cheeky dance cabaret will leave audiences breathless and howling with laughter.

The show is for mature audiences, as it contains coarse language, partial nudity, and adult themes, and is suitable for ages 15 and over.

Wanderlust will be performed at The Wedge, Sale, this Friday,April 16, from 7.30pm.

Tickets cost between $64.35 and $69.35, and are available from the box office by phoning 5143 3200 or visiting thewedge.com.au

Jackson, Tolhurst on Stratford’s stage

THE Stratford Courthouse Theatre will present the music of Bill Jackson this Saturday.

After six solo albums, locally-raised singersongwriter Bill Jackson has firmly established himself as a ‘songwriters’ songwriter’.

The content is eclectic but never obvious — from love to war and everything in between.

Jackson will be accompanied by legend of the Australian music industry, Kerryn Tolhurst, who sprang to national attention in the 1970s as a defining member of Country Radio and The Dingoes.

Doors open from 7pm for an 8pm start.

The Wits End Bar will be open.

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Caesar has arrived at the palace (or rather the nightclub) to take the throne, but the conspirators have ideas of their own.

The local community players are in full swing with rehearsals to perform a unique disco glam take on this not-so-tragic tale.

In a world where disco balls and daggers collide, director Rachael Nicholls has re-crafted the famous tragedy of Julius Caesar to be fun for the masses.

The audience can join in the craziness by coming along in their best disco fever glad rags.

The play will open Friday, April 30, with six performances across the second week of the festival.

AN event in Wurruk will showcase some of the area’s DJ talent, as well as bringing in a headline act from Melbourne.

In a bid to increase the area’s presence in the music and nightlife scene, Gippsland-based New Generation Agency has announced NGA Presents: Beth Grace, to be held in the Kooka Bar, Wurruk, this Saturday, April 17, from 8.30pm.

The headline act will be Melbourne DJ Beth Grace, who has featured at festivals such as Beyond The Valley, The Petting Zoo and Babylon.

Local support acts include Addi Flett, Damien Hanratty, Pier Pirona, Sam Larsen and Samuel Nicholson.

Tickets are on sale now via eventbrite.com.au

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Property: Three bedroom, one bathroom cottage on 11.3 hectare lifestyle property.

Address: 29 Freshwaters Rd, Kilmany.

Open day: Saturday, April 17, from 10am.

Auction: Saturday, April 24, from 10.30am, on site.

Agent: Graham Chalmer Real Estate.

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The home has three bedrooms, a new galley-style kitchen with farmhouse sink, a family and meals area, and a new bathroom with modern decor and a fixed panel shower screen.

With a large verandah at the front of the home, overlooking the surrounding established trees and fabulous rural landscape, there is plenty of room for outdoor entertainment.

The property is currently set up (and licensed) to house 12 greyhounds with a

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The property could also suit a tradesman, or someone running a business from home (subject to council approval).

There is a six by six metre double garage; a 30,000 litre rainwater tank; a shed with a concrete floor, power, a kitchenette; and multiple animal pens.

Agents say with so many possibilities, this overall package should get a tick of approval.

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Wa-de-lock Cellar Door is steeped in history. The business is named after the parish that surrounds the Maffra area, given by the original surveyors.

The building has seen many a story, after being built in 1870 and serving as the original Stratford fire station — the interior artwork paying homage to this.

Wa-De-Lock Cellar Door was first opened in 1999, and taken over by the current owners in 2004.

The cellar door focuses on promoting local Gippsland produce, including local cheeses, smoked meats, preserves, condiments and local beers and wines.

After enjoying a meal either inside or alfresco in the wine garden, patrons can buy local goods from the delicatessen and

Brief details: Property: Freehold and-or leasehold of the historic Wa-de-lock Cellar Door.

Address: 76 Tyers St, Stratford.

Price: $590,000.

Agent: Wellington Real Estate. Phone Tony Kiss on 0419 526 637. choose from a wide variety of beers, wines and spirits to take home.

The venue is fully licensed, and has a well-established local clientele, as well as a vast number of travellers afforded by the Princes Highway frontage.

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The home offers a sizeable lounge with high ceilings, feature cornice and ceiling rose, a ceiling fan, gas heating and a timber fireplace mantle.

The kitchen has adequate storage, a gas upright cooker and heater, and plenty of space for a dining table.

The two bedrooms are generously-sized and have ceiling fans, and the main has a built-in-robe, feature cornice and a ceiling rose. The bathroom has a vanity, toilet and shower.

The home also features an evaporative

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Property: Two bedroom, one bathroom weatherboard home ideal for a first home buyer.

Address: 94 Palmerston St, Sale.

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Biosecurity risks detected

AFRICAN swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease virus fragments have recently been detected in pork products seized at the border.

Foot-and-mouth disease is Australia’s biggest agricultural biosecurity threat, affecting all cloven-hoofed animals.

African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease of pigs which can lead to mortality rates of up to 100 per cent in affected herds.

An outbreak could have serious economic and animal health impacts, including the loss of important export markets.

Acting chief veterinary officer for Victoria, Dr Sally Salmon, asked people to consider where any food or other goods were coming from online, and whether they would meet biosecurity requirements.

Dr Salmon added the detection was also a timely reminder to all pig owners not to feed waste foods (swill) to pigs.

For more information about emergency animal diseases, visit agriculture.vic.gov.au

Macalister irrigators to receive full allocation

AS the irrigation season nears its end, Macalister irrigators will receive 100 per cent allocation on their low reliability shares this season, in addition to 100 per cent of their high reliability water.

Southern Rural Water last week announced the additional 80 per cent allocation increase after reviewing the current volume in Lake Glenmaggie.

SRW acting east water supply manager Matt Cook said with Lake Glenmaggie at 43 per cent full, there was plenty of capacity for Macalister Irrigation District farmers to complete their final irrigations before the close of the season on May 15.

Mr Cook said Lake Glenmaggie was a highly reliable storage, with a catchment four times the size of the Thomson Dam, despite being only one-fifth its size.

Irrigation demand had been slower this season, largely because of early good rainfalls.

“We had the confidence in the storage volumes to open the season with 100 per cent allocation, and good inflows subsequently meant that MID customers received spill entitlement up until November 19, using 25,000 megalitres during this period,” Mr Cook said.

“This effectively allowed them to then ‘reset’ their allocation for 100 per cent from November 20 onwards.”

SRW reviews water allocation fortnightly during the season from August 15 to May 15, and allocation may be increased as storage volumes are assessed against delivery.

Mr Cook reminded the district’s stock and domestic customers the pipeline outlets, along with channel water, were not available when the irrigation system was shutdown for winter.

“Those relying on it will need to make alternative arrangements for the shutdown period to August 15,” he said.

Irrigators with questions about their allocation or access can phone 1300 139 510.

Good inflows to Lake Glenmaggie and the wet outlook led to controlled releases to manage capacity in the storage late last year.

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The East Gippsland Field Days is an iconic event on the east Gippsland rural event calendar, proudly run by the Lindenow Lions Club since its inception in 1986.

East Gippsland Shire Council partnered with local water authorities and the field days’ committee to reduce the usual adult entry price to $10 as a stimulator for the rural sector and encouragement for the broader community to enjoy a day out after more than 12 months of limited opportunity for large social gatherings.

Entry for children 16 and under will be free.

The ticket price reduction will be subsidised by council ($30,000, from Regional Development Victoria Drought Communities Priorities Funding), and $10,000 from each of East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority, East Gippsland Water and Southern Rural Water.

This follows an initiative for the 2019 event that set the ticket price at $5 to support the drought-affected community.

The field days were not held in 2020 because of COVID-19.

East Gippsland Field Days chairman Ron Alexander said the event was an important community milestone each year.

“The field days have good social value. They mark the end of a season, and people come along and catch up with each other every year,” he said.

“It’s good to have a major event in the area — to be able to offer half price tickets, and if weather

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“After we had to cancel last year’s event, the support from everyone has been absolutely fantastic.”

Southern Rural Water managing director Cameron FitzGerald said his organisation was delighted to support the farming families of east Gippsland in attending what would be the first community event many have been able to attend in more than a year.

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MORE than 100 Pacific Islands workers arrived in Victoria at the beginning of the month, to provide farms with seasonal workforce support during harvesting.

Additional workers will continue to arrive from Tasmania as part of a planned, rolling schedule that will result in up to 1500 Pacific Islands workers joining the local workforce.

The workers are an integral part of the seasonal workforce, supporting the state’s $15.9 billion agriculture industry.

The workers completed their 14 days of quarantine in Tasmania as part of the agreement between the Tasmanian and Victorian governments.

In return, Victoria will take on board Tasmania’s 330-person commitment towards getting overseas Australians home, quarantining them in Melbourne hotels.

The first group of Pacific Islands workers will bolster the seasonal workforce across the state.

A group of additional workers will also begin work on Tasmanian farms.

State Agriculture Minister Mary-Anne Thomas said the arrival of workers was a fantastic step to bolster the local workforce for harvest.

“We have worked hard to secure these workers in partnership with other jurisdictions following the challenges faced by the coronavirus pandemic,” she said.

“This is a great example of what can be achieved when governments, industry and employers work together for the greater good of agriculture.

“Our Pacific neighbours will be warmly welcomed on our farms from next week, and will join local workers across the state as the harvest continues.”

State Nationals leader Peter Walsh was not full of praise for the program however, describing it as “a slap in the face to growers and industry” for Ms Thomas to be “patting herself on the back for

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delivering a handful of seasonal workers months after they were needed on Victorian farms”.

“The long overdue arrival of seasonal workers on Victorian farms is too late for many in Victorian horticulture, including table grape, stone fruit and summer vegetable growers,” he said.

“It’s six months since the Andrews Labor government refused to adopt industry’s ready-made solution to urgently deliver seasonal workers into a purpose-built quarantine facility at Mildura.

“A lack of workers left too many farmers forced to plough this season’s hard work into the ground or leave fruit to rot on the trees.”

Victoria was the last state in Australia to put in place arrangements for seasonal workers, despite the seasonal worker program beginning last August.

In January, vegetable growers in Lindenow were forced to dump $150,000 in celery crops because of a drastic shortage of seasonal workers caused by COVID-19 travel bans.

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MILKER numbers are slightly above this time last year at the Macalister Demonstration Farm, as are total milk solids — although milk per cow is slightly below.

The laser grading has taken some time and has only just been sown, so with that area still out of action, the farm has a solid stocking rate (4.6) and is feeding more supplements.

The milk price has lifted (because of the step-up and time of year) and supplements are affordable.

The farm’s litre price (not milk solid price) has lifted significantly from the previous period (57 to 59 cents per litre), because of a jump in the fat and protein test of the milk.

Given the circumstances, the farm is achieving good results so far.

The next challenge at this time of year is grazing rotation length.

It is time to gradually extend the rotation so that maximum grass growth (three leaf stage) can be achieved in July.

Up to 1500 Pacific Islands workers are expected to join the Victorian agricultural workforce to provide support during harvest.

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For the past 20 years at least, the grazing rest time to get three leaves in July has been at least 60 days (given good moisture and adequate nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium).

The lengthening must begin now. It’s difficult enough to do it now when there is quite a bit of grass available, but even more difficult later when less grass is growing.

The rotation extension means more feeds must be produced from each paddock now, so to maintain milk production, more supplements will need to be fed.

The justification can only be “pain now, for gain later” — more cost now, but bigger pay-off later.

The farm will feed 25 tonnes of supplement now, to get 50 tonne more grass later.

Grazing management is always about “later” — setting up the paddock now, for later.

Of course, the time delay of getting the payoff must always be considered (“are interest rates so high now?”) but the big payout swamps the delay.

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Wanted to buy any old batteries. 30c kilo. Copper Make it, bake it, grow it. and brass from $1.50 per Saturday, April 17, Sale kilo up to $5 kilo. Phone Showgrounds under the 0429 992 869. elm trees, Dawson Street side, 8am - 12.30pm. Enq. 0409 697 254. $$$ Cash Paid $$$ Gippsland Ph. Dave 0418 202 202 Sale Charity Sunday Variety Market, Canal Meetings Reserve, April 18. Egg and bacon rolls for breakfast, BBQ, hot dogs, hot and cold drinks, stalls from $15, raffles must be accompanied by a stall. Sale Theatre Company Proceeds to charity. Busk- will be holding our annual ers welcome. Phone 0409 general meeting at 7pm 574 253 or 0437 985 283. on Wednesday, April 28 at the Gwen Webb Centre, 116 Market St, Sale.

Yoga & Massage Nominations for committee roles must be received Weekly Hatha yoga by 5pm on Friday, April classes resume next week. Build strength and 23. Role descriptions and nomination forms flexibility in a non can be requested via competitive and melady@westnet.com.au welcoming environment. You do not have to have Create space for to be interested in being yourself. on stage. You might have Therapeutic massage skills to share, want to available by meet new people and be appointment. a part of a great communFor more details ity group. If you require contact Michelle on further information please 0435 812 024 or visit don't hesitate in contactwww.staycentered.com.au ing Melesa Eldred on 0400 197 705.

HORSES WANTED

SUNDAY MARKET

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AGM

To Let

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In Sale. Vacant now, clean and tidy CBD, discounted rent $250pw. The Footprints Foundation Fair Go Policy applies. annual general meeting be held on Ph. Johann 0435 751 588. w i l l Wednesday, April 21 at 7:30pm at Sale Football Business Club clubrooms, Palmerston Street, Sale.

Opportunities For more information contact Kain Jackson on 0400 315 839. Come along and show your support for the Foundation.

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Join us to meet up with friends and other community members to support each other and to find out more about relevant local services.

Da lm or eR d

12-2pm Wednesday 21 April - Gregg Hall, St Columba's church,

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Lost and found

made to your requirements. Raw $25/metre.

Painted with colour of choice $30/metre. Can come to your property and fit it with stakes every 1.5m for an additional cost. Call Gavin 0427 599 098 or Jack 0428 722 414

2BR APARTMENT

Proposed naming of a road under the provisions of the Geographic Place Names Act 1998 Wellington Shire Council proposes that the government road off Dalmore Road, Dargo, be named Phelan Road, in recognition of the Phelan family which has a long association with the area.

Personal notices All engagement and marriage notices must carry the signatures of BOTH parties. If under 18 the parents’ signatures as well.

We have opened initial Flu clinic sessions to be held in the next days/weeks.

To book your appointment please call Clocktower Medical Centre on 5144 4788.

Appointments are essential.

More options for placing classifieds in person

CLASSIFIED GUIDELINES

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Flu Vaccinations

Proposed section to be renamed Blue Wren Way

Tuesday’s paper Friday’s paper

Public Notices

Proposed renaming of a road under the provisions of the Geographic Place Names Act 1998 Council’s Place Names Committee proposes that the trafficable section of Earl Street, Woodside, to the west of High Street be named Blue Wren Way. The blue wren is a native Australian bird common to the area and is depicted in the emblem of the Woodside Primary School.

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PLANTS FOR SALE

Saturday, April 24, at 10am

(03) 5144 7308

For Sale

MISC. ITEMS Welded GARDENsteelEDGING BRIAGOLONG lengths 20 Avon St, Sat., April 17,

220 litre 2-door fridge/ freezer, $80. Clothes dryer $80. Small beer fridge $40. All good order.

Phone 0417 497 531.

A/c R. Pakulsky, Glenmaggie

FAX

Maffra Newsagency Newry Store

HAY

For Sale

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cnr Raymond and Macalister Streets, Sale Anglicare Financial Counselling, and the Energy Assistance Program will discuss their role in the community and how they can assist you through the impact of drought and other disasters.

Find out more about the $250 Power Saving Bous, No interest Loan Scheme, Financial Counselling and other Emergency Relief Assistance.

Get in touch: Gippsland.EmergencyRelief@vt.uniting.org Telephone: 03 5144 7777 These events are provided with support from the Primary Health Network (PHN)

AGM

The Sale and District Agricultural Society will hold its annual general meeting on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7.30pm in the Committee Room at the Sale Showgrounds. For further information please email: booking@saleshow.com.au

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Livestock Manager

rtunities nds of Oppo reer... Thousa driven

and results pac kage ging, rewarding employment you a cha llen by a generous Defence offe rs d rte po sup un ity career opport

Employment Opportunity at Wellington Primary Care Partnership (WPCP) A Primary Care Partnership is an alliance of health and community care agencies, working together to improve the health and wellbeing of their communities. The following position is available at the WPCP:

Base Manager

Health Promotion Coordinator

Executive Level 1 $103,994 - $117,305 (plus super) East Sale – VIC

Team Leader Paynesville Boatyard Full time, Ongoing Gippsland Ports is a provider of waterway management, dredging, marine infrastructure and asset management services along the Gippsland coast from Anderson Inlet to Mallacoota.

We are currently seeking a suitably experienced and qualified person to assist the Boatyard Manager to manage all aspects of day to day operations of the boatyard, including client contact, administration and reporting, supervision of staff, adherence to OHS policies and procedures and take a lead role in the construction, repair and maintenance of vessels.

The ideal candidate should have strong customer service and marine construction experience, supervisory skills and knowledge and be able to work independently and in a team environment.

Enquiries about this position should be directed to the Boatyards Manager, Rob McGrath on 0409 124 551.

To be considered for this position, candidates must address the key selection criteria found within the position description.

For a full position description and application details, please visit our website www.gippslandports.vic.gov.au/employment.php or phone Jaine Watt, Human Resources Coordinator on (03) 5150 0500.

Applications close at 12 noon on Friday, April 23, 2021.

AOD INTAKE WORKER ACSO 0158SB_1698

The Role Within the Base Support function an EL1 Base Manager is accountable under broad direction to undertake complex to very complex base support activities.

They will work within a framework of legislation, established principles, work practices and procedures in accordance with Defence’s mission and business objectives. They are accountable under relevant Defence policy to maintain the control and management of support activities at Defence bases and are responsible for the implementation, compliance and review of service delivery standards for their base.

An EL1 Base Manager is accountable to plan, lead and manage a range of human and physical resources and exercise the associated people and financial responsibilities to achieve business outcomes. They’ll take the initiative for achieving outcomes, progressing work, reviewing team and business performance and focusing on identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. They will work with independence and set work tasks that align with the strategic objectives of the Defence Support & Reform business model and communicate expected outcomes widely.

An EL1 Base Manager will have considerable stakeholder engagement and a high representational role. They will identify relevant stakeholders’ expectations and concerns to develop a clear understanding of the methodology and practices to achieve service delivery or other base support outcomes consistently and in alignment with agreed outcomes. They will exercise the associated people and financial responsibilities to achieve business outcomes.

They will be accountable to contribute towards ongoing self-improvement and professional development.

This role forms part of a broader executive team and will work closely with six other EL1s to provide a consistent service across Defence Establishments. You will support the Director and Assistant Secretary Regional Services Melbourne by ensuring that services are provided effectively across your portfolio, that staff are engaged, productive, trained, supported and providing a high standard of customer service. The successful applicant will manage a team of approximately six staff and will work closely with the Senior ADF Officer in managing and operating Defence bases, sites, and establishments.

As this position has people management responsibility, you will be required to exercise your people management skills and knowledge to lead a high performing and cohesive team.

Our Ideal Candidate • Experience and comprehensive knowledge of base operations and Defence Support & Reforms products and service delivery and business model.

• A leader with experience building teams and developing individuals, you are comfortable providing coaching and mentoring your team.

• You thrive in a fast paced environment where you’re given latitude to manage multiple tasks which also require prioritisation. You are able to make high level strategic decisions whilst juggling competing demands and under pressure.

• You enjoy making things happen and learning as part of what you do. You are not daunted by the unknown, and welcome feedback for your own development.

• Strong leadership skills, the ability to plan, lead, and manage resources and achieve strategic outcomes. Effective people management skills are essential.

• Experience with stakeholder management and a high level of emotional intelligence.

• A positive and inclusive approach to working as part of a geographically dispersed team in a large and complex organisation.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• A Degree qualification is advantageous, however we do acknowledge equivalent skills demonstrated in a Leadership role.

Application Closing Date: Thursday 15 March, 2021 For further information please review the job information pack, reference EIG/01364/21 on www.defence.gov.au/apscareers.

38 Hours per week, Full-time - fixed term contract until 31 March 2022.

This is an exciting full-time role with Health Promotion experience essential. The successful applicant will work with a range of service providers, community organisations, groups and individuals across the Wellington Shire.

The key responsibilities will be to support the implementation of projects, evaluation and reporting of the Wellington Integrated Health Promotion Plan and the Healthy Wellington Plan 2017 - 2021.

This role is based in Sale.

Further details: To successfully undertake this role you will require qualifications or experience in the health and/or community sector, excellent project/change management and communication skills and a passion for improving community wellbeing.

The Position Description and application submission details are available on our website www.wellingtonpcp.com.au For more information please contact Leanne Wishart on 03 5143 8843 or leanne.wishart@cghs.com.au Applications will be accepted up until 9am Monday 26th April, 2021

Defending Australia and its National Interests

www.defence.gov.au/apscareers

Tuesday’s newspaper is now available in newspaper format online at http://www.gippslandtimes.com.au/digital-editions/

The Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO) is a dynamic, values driven NFP with a bold vision for a community where everyone has the opportunity to thrive, and prison truly is the last resort. It's our goal to reduce re-offending, and our purpose to strengthen the wellbeing of communities by advocating for and delivering services which divert people away from the justice system. We also deliver Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) and Mental Health programs to support any individual within the community.

We have a part time (0.9FTE) fixed term AOD Intake Worker position available in a new program called Short Term Intervention. This new program aims to provide individuals with person centered treatment that meets the unique needs of each client, utilising a range of interventions, including brief interventions, short term counselling and care and coordination.

To learn more or apply, please visit our careers website at www.acso.org.au/work-with-us/

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One APS Ca

We have an exciting new opportunity for a skilled, passionate Livestock Manager to join our large beef and dairy enterprise near Heyfield, VIC. Variety of duties, including managing of all livestock, calving, breeding, pregnancy testing, drenching and all animal welfare responsibilities, fencing and general farm maintenance. Proven livestock management experience essential.

Oversee calf rearing facility and x3 dairies, milking approximately 1500 cows. ● Supportive, collaborative employers ● Salary Package minimum $75,000p.a ● Approx. average weekly hours 50 ● Accommodation available, if required ● Work Vehicle and tools supplied Please email your resume and two current references to: rachael.hrdairy@outlook.com

Head Grounds person • • •

Ongoing full-time position Monday to Friday with monthly RDO Commencing as soon as possible

Maintain our grounds, lawns and sporting fields to the highest standard and assist with general maintenance and set ups for school events and activities. Leading a small team, you will be highly motivated, collaborative, reliable, hold trade related skills along with the ability to manage multiple demands and prioritise accordingly.

Early Learning Centre Co-Educator • • •

Ongoing part-time position Wednesdays 9am-3pm and Fridays 11am-1pm during term time Additional relief work may be offered as needed

We are seeking an energetic and reliable ELC Co-Educator to support the high quality educational program delivered in our ELC at St Anne’s Campus.

You will be suitably experienced and hold a Diploma in Children’s Services.

A working knowledge of early years learning frameworks and a passion for excellence is mandatory.

Previous applicants are welcome to reapply.

For more detail on the requirements, duties and responsibilities of this role, visit the employment page of the Gippsland Grammar website at http://careers.gippslandgs.vic.edu.au Applications for both positions close 5pm Sunday 18 April 2021

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Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation

Opportunities To Join Our Team Diploma / Certificate 3 - Childcare Educators - Morwell VIC 3840 Community Connector - Sale VIC 3850 Practice Nurse - Sale VIC 3850 Applicants must apply through SEEK, to obtain a Position Description and further details visit our Ramahyuck website.

You must address the Key Selection Criteria in the Position Description-as part of your application and send it in along with a current resume.

Applications not addressing key selection criteria will not be considered.

Closing date: please see SEEK website.

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IMPOUNDED

Wellington Shire Council has impounded one (1) black Angus heifer and one (1) black Angus calf from Smyths Road, Valencia Creek on March 30, 2021. NLIS tag 3BWFF116LEJ00122. If not claimed within 7 days, the cattle will be offered for sale at the Gippsland Regional Livestock Exchange in Sale. For enquiries, please contact impounding Officer Kane Oliver on 1300 366 244.

BULLS

For hire or sale. Angus, Limousin, Hereford, Jersey and Friesian. Very quiet. Ph. 0447 331 762.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Situations Vacant

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• INTEGRITY • RESPECT • ACCOUNTABLE • AGILE • INNOVATIVE •

CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS

Do you want to make a difference to someone’s life and contribute to a safer community?

Do you have resilience, empathy and a willingness to help others make better choices?

A career in Corrections may be for you!

Fulham Correctional Centre are recruiting for our next pre-service training program commencing Monday 26 July 2021.

Today’s Correctional Officer plays a significant role in the rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners, as well as maintaining the good order and security and ensuring that all staff, prisoners and visitors are safe.

To excel as a Correctional Officer, you will use your life experience and excellent communication skills to demonstrate empathy and resilience in conjunction with using the skills taught at the pre-service course to model exemplary behaviours, attitudes and values to the people in your care. If you are looking for a challenge, in a unique work environment where no two days are the same, then a career in corrections may be for you.

GEO is the country’s leading provider of outsourced correctional services, operating in New South Wales and Victoria. Our goal is to deliver better corrections and in doing so, create safer communities.

Fulham Correctional Centre is located near Sale in Victoria, approximately 200km east of Melbourne and has been successfully managed by GEO Group Australia since opening in 1997 and is Victoria’s largest regional correctional centre, safely and securely housing up to 947 adult male prisoners.

Successful applicants will participate in a paid full-time, eight-week Pre-Service Course, commencing on Monday 26 July 2021 and graduating on Friday 17 September 2021. After graduation, all Correctional Officers will commence employment on a casual basis where progression to fulltime is opportunity based. In 2020, Fulham’s expansion work were completed and this helped to create additional full-time jobs to support the growth in prisoner population, so now is an excellent time to commence your career with us.

For further information, please contact Human Resources Officer Mrs Haylee Tyquin on (03) 5142 3830 or email us at htyquin@geogroup.com.au or to apply, visit http://applynow.net.au/jobs/ni/GEO1803 Applications close Thursday May 6, 2021 at 11pm

Livestock

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Livestock

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LAYING HENS HORSES WANTED $$$ Cash Paid $$$

Old Port Poultry Farm delivering 18 week old Isa Browns to your area Saturday, April 17, $28ea.

Phone 0438 832 535.

Gippsland Ph. Dave 0418 202 202

Lardner Park Bi-Monthly DAIRY SALE An established regular market for all classes of dairy cattle held on the 1st and 3rd Friday in every month

OPENING DAIRY SALE FRIDAY April 16, at 11am

at the Lardner Park Selling Facility A/c R & V Patullo – Dispersing herd 25 March April calved, top quality large frame Holsteins. Sired by Armour, Deceiver, Epic, Mayfield, Meteor, Puzzle. High yield cows to 523 kg F, 5 x 10,000 L + Superb udders 40 + years breeding.

Will be spot tested prior to sale.

A/c T & A Bradley – Majestic Jerseys 10 Freshly calved, large frame Registered A.I. bred Jerseys Comprising 3 x 4 yrs, 7 heifers dams to 6478 L, 541 solids.

Sired by Alta Galaxies, Ferrari, Lemonhead, Algernon, Melvara A/c Grandale Cattle Co 3 Freshly calved Red & White Holsteins by Adonis, Jordy & Mega-watt 2 Freshly calved Jerseys by Valentino & Tahbilk A/c Dutchwood Dairies 12 March calved Holstein & Holstein Jersey cross 1st-3rd calvers A/c Various vendors Approx 30 Milkers & Springers Further entries invited Following Dairy Sale May 7

5623 4744

Terry Ahearn Mob. 0438 562 816 Neil Darby Mob. 0418 595 265

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In accordance with a local law introduced by the State Government on January 1, 2012, it is an offence to advertise a dog or cat for sale unless a microchip identification number of the animal is included in the advertisement.

A registered domestic animal business may use its council business registration number as an alternative.

As of July 1, 2019 a Pet Exchange Reg. No. is also required.

Please go to https://per. animalwelfare. viic.gov.au//

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FRIENDSHIP

Lonely, 74 year old, widowed male, non smoker, non drinker, would like to meet genuine lady of similar age for friendship and outings. I have a car, can travel to meet. Phone or text 0477 080 255.

Business Opportunities

Caravans

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Jayco Swift Camper

trailer, v.g.c. seldom used, garaged, 2017 model, solar power, 3-way fridge, 2 burner stove, sleeps 3, bed-ends and side awnings, TV aerial, 9 kilo gas bottle, tyres as new, reg till 20/9/21 $14,500 o.n.o.

Ph 0458 977 096.

ONSITE VAN

Location Heyfield, Blores Hill Camping Grounds.

Five minutes Glenmaggie Weir, site 16. 30ft Viscount van. Sleeps six.

Plus shower. 30ft insulated aluminium annexe with sliding door to concrete veranda with colorbond roof. Concrete veranda extends out a further 20ft app. to camp fire area. Lockup wood and tool box. Phone 0403 015 229.

Trucks & Tractors

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TRACTOR

Ford 2000, 3 cyl. diesel, had some work, good working condition $3900 neg. Ph 0448 516 704.

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JIM'S ANTENNAS

5941 0299

Franchise for sale. Phone Chris 0466 156 312.

Darryl Adams Mob. 0408 385 872 Michael Robertson Mob. 0429 104 467

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Cars

(Requires midwifery qualification) 0.73 EFT Permanent Part Time

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SUBARU Forester 2015 I, limited edition, 88,000km, one owner, leather seats (seat warmers), alloys, tow bar, many extras, 1EE9VN, $21,000. Phone 0429 167 502.

We are looking for vibrant, creative, hard working and professional people to fill exciting new roles.

Are you someone that people often turn to for guidance and support?

Do you want to play a key role in shaping and supporting our safety culture?

If so, we want to hear from you!

Applications close at 5 pm on Sunday 25 April 2021.

Shortlisted applicants may be required to undertake a preemployment medical and a National Police Check.

Gippsland Water is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applications from experienced women and men, people with disabilities, LGBTI, ATSI, culturally and ethnically diverse candidates to best represent and engage with communities we live and work in.

Further information: A position description and instructions on how to apply can be obtained from our website www.gippswater.com.au/careers or by contacting Recruitment on 03 5177 4709.

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APPRENTICE FLORIST

Advertise in The Gippsland Times and Latrobe Valley Express

Working across our retail store and wedding studio, this training position represents a unique opportunity for someone looking to launch their floristry career. Both Junior and Career Change applicants considered.

$66.90** line ad dvert rtt wiith a collour piicture ctt

Full Time or Part Time

STORE ASSISTANT Part Time

Working across our homewares store and floral studio. Applicants with an interest and flair for design, styling and visual merchandising encouraged to apply.

Opportunities for a workplace interior design certification available for the right person.

Please email sarah@victoria-hall.com.au to receive a copy of the application package.

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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS for only $52.20*

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Much adored and treasured mother to Johnno.

A gorgeous, generous mother-in-law and friend to Alison, her children and grandchildren.

"If I had a flower for each time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."

In our hearts you'll always stay.

Forever young.

R.I.P. Mum

Casual Bank For more information, visit our website at: southgippslandhospital.com.au

Are you known for building great working relationships within the business?

Birthdays

BRADY (nee Burton), Phyllis Alma.

"Phyl" 18/4/1935 - 30/3/2021 Loved wife of Don (dec.).

Loved mother of John, Annie (dec.), and Janey.

Mother-in-law of Alison and Rodney.

Adored grandmother and great grandmother.

COMMODORE Calais Tourer wagon '18, leather interior, 70,000km, serv. books, s/roof, reg. till 1/22, selling due to health, exc. cond., 1ON-2GY $30,000 o.n.o. Ph 0492 586 760.

District Nurse Registered Nurse Grade 2

Safety Advisor

All engagement and marriage notices must carry the signatures of BOTH parties.

If under 18, the parents signatures as well.

Birth notices: where both parents are named, signatures of both are required and telephone numbers to enable verification.

One of Nature's True Gentlemen.

0.53 EFT Permanent Part Time

Equal Opportunity Employer

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

BAIRD, Charles "Stuart" 8/5/1932 - 8/4/2021 Aged 88.

Passed away peacefully surrounded by family.

Dearly loved husband to Sally and father to Susan, Jillian and Kirsty.

Adored Grandpa to Hugh, Alice and Annie, Charlotte, Grace, Faith, Alexander and Felicity.

Friend to Will, Peter and Greg.

CAR REMOVALS

Associate Nurse Unit Manager/After Hours Coordinator Acute Ward

Engagements

Deaths

Free service.

Phone Sam 0488 471 163

Associate Nurse Unit Manager Perioperative Unit

To apply, visit us via our careers website http://geogroup.applynow.net.au/

Livestock

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Situations Vacant

Motoring Deal $53.00* without a picture, or A total of 16 issues!

Twice a week for 4 weeks in both papers *Price includes Headline plus 4 lines of type ty y Additional lines $7.50 per line

Cash or credit card, through our Sale off ffifice i only

Loved mother and mother-in-law of Janey and Rodney.

Grandmother of Brad and Christie, Mathew and Kirsty, Jess and Ben. Great grandmother of Cooper, Posy, Olivia, Amelia, and Mack.

Those we love don't go away, They walk beside us every day.

Unseen, unheard, but always near.

So loved, so missed, so very dear.

Deaths

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BRADY, Phyl.

Nelly, We will miss your perfumed hugs and lipstick kiss left on our cheeks. We have so many happy and funny memories that will not be forgotten.

Love you so much.

Rest in peace Nelly.

- Kate, Adam, Scarlette, Chaise and Izabella.

BRADY, Phyl.

I was shocked and saddened to hear of your passing. I will always remember the good chats and laughs we had at your home and mine. Thanks for your kindness and friendship.

Now at peace in the arms of your angels.

Your friend, Kathy Saunders.

BRADY, Phyllis.

In Phyl we have lost a beautiful person. Deepest sympathy to her adoring family. To know Phyl was to love her.

- Lois and Charles Shepherd.

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HOLE, Malcolm Gerard.

The Mayor, Councillors, CEO and Staff of Wellington Shire Council extend their sincere condolences on the passing of Councillor Malcolm Hole, who served as Councillor for Wellington Shire Council from 2000-2021. He served as Mayor in 2002 and 2006, and Deputy Mayor in 2019.

Malcolm was deeply respected across Victorian local government for his energy and passion for Wellington, the town of Heyfield and the timber industry. He was a EASTGATE, David Albert. tenacious advocate for his Passed away peacefully community. at Latrobe Regional Hospital, Traralgon on We extend our deepest April 7, 2021, surrounded sympathy to his five children, his 15 grandby his loving family. children and to their wider Aged 78 years.

Dearly loved and loving family and friends. husband of Dawn, together for 62 years.

Much loved father and father-in-law of Paul and Jenny, Julie and Paul, Andrew and Wendy.

Adored grandad to Lawry and Kym, Kati and Danny, Brad and Veronica, Jamie, Taylah and Nate, and Darcy.

Great grandad of Oliver.

HOLE, Malcolm.

The Heyfield War In our hearts you will stay, Memorial Hall Committee Loved and remembered of Management, are every day. saddened by the passing of our dearly loved, long HENRY, Elaine Jean. committee 09/10/1928 - 01/04/2021 s e r v i n g Loved wife of Max (dec.). colleague and friend for well over 40 years.

Much loved mother of Jan, Maxine, David and We thank him for his wisdom, knowledge and Mark.

Mother-in-law of Brian, enthusiasm in sharing his expertise in Local and Bruce, Maggie and Lisa.

Respected friend of Carol State government processes and policies. and Geoff.

His timeless encourageGrandmother of nine. ment to guide us all to Great grandmother of 10 achieve good outcomes with our endeavours will Will be sadly missed. be greatly missed.

In accordance with We are forever grateful.

RIP Malcolm Elaine's wishes, a private family service WAS HELD. HENRY, Elaine.

9/10/1928 - 1/4/2021 Dearly loved Nanna of Claire and James Henry.

Good friend of Carol.

Treasured memories are ours forever.

HOLE, Malcolm.

30/9/1944 - 10/4/2021 A tireless worker for his church and the Heyfield community. He was a proud father and grandfather who led a full and active life.

Loved brother of Margaret, brother-in-law of Michael and uncle of Anthony and Lily, Craig and Grant Hickey.

Rest in Peace

Deaths

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Deaths

TUCKER, Valerie May. Nan, You were always welcoming. You were always positive and always had a bright smile on your face.

You will be dearly missed.

I will always treasure the footy talks and I will be thinking of you when I play.

Love Troy, Kirralee, TUCKER, Valerie May. Declan, Tyson, Cooper At Royal Freemasons, and Bonnie.

Sale on April 9, 2021.

Aged 82 years.

Loving wife of Frank Funerals (dec.).

Loving mother and mother-in-law of Margaret, Tom and Karen (dec.), Bill and Angie, Joyce and BAIRD Peter (dec.).

Beloved grandmother and The funeral service for Mr great grandmother to Charles "Stuart" Baird will be held at St. Columba's many.

Uniting Church, cnr Special nanny to Cindy.

Raymond and Macalister Loved by all.

Streets, Sale at 11am Will be sadly missed.

FRIDAY (April 16, 2021), TUCKER, Valerie. followed by a private A mother's love is cremation. something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may, For nothing can destroy it BOND or take that love away.

It is patient and forgiving A funeral service for Mrs when all others forsaking, Julianne Inez Bond WAS And it never fails or falters HELD on WEDNESDAY even though the heart is (April 7, 2021). breaking.

Rest easy Mum. I will forever love and miss you so very much.

- Joyce.

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My wonderful Nan. You have been the most kind, caring, generous and loving person I have ever met. Always putting others before yourself.

Thank you for all the love and support you have shown me throughout my life.

Rest easy now gorgeous girl.

Love Jodie and Aaron xx You will be forever remembered and sadly missed.

A loving grandmother to Belinda and Michael (dec.) and great grandmother to Dylan, Jessica (dec.), Joshua and Dustin.

R.I.P.

EASTGATE The funeral service and committal for cremation for Mr David Albert Eastgate will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 260 Princes Highway Traralgon TOMORROW (Wednesday April 14, 2021) at 11am.

This service will be live streamed, to view the live stream, please visit latrobevalleyfunerals.com.au And click on live streaming.

SELLINGS, Alan.

Loving partner to Dianne Pedder.

We will miss you but forever hold onto the wonderful memories we shared.

Love Deb and Darran, Jodie and James, Corina and Jy, Sarah and Anthony, Jax, Oscar, Parker, Madelyn and Nova.

Funerals

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BRADY (nee Burton) The funeral service for Mrs Phyllis Alma 'Phyl' Brady will be held at St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral, Cunninghame Street, Sale at 1:30pm on FRIDAY (April 16, 2021), followed by a private cremation.

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McINTOSH A memorial service to celebrate the life of Mr William McKay "Bill" McIntosh will be held at Our Chapel, 5 Queen St, Maffra on FRIDAY (April 16, 2021) commencing at 3pm.

A private cremation will precede this service.

Please visit our website for the livestream of Bill's service.

McLEOD A funeral service for Mrs Elizabeth Marie McLeod WAS HELD on FRIDAY (April 9, 2021).

TUCKER. The funeral of Mrs Valerie May Tucker will leave our Geoff Rossetti Memorial Chapel, 1390 Maffra Road, Sale after a service commencing at 11am on THURSDAY (April 15, 2021) for the adjoining Sale Lawn Cemetery.

For those unable to attend, a "Facebook Live" broadcast of the service will take place: https://www.facebook.com /gippslandfuneralservices

SHE Wiggles won the feature race of Sunday night’s Sale greyhound meeting.

The dog, trained by Dawn Johnston at Boisdale, won the 650 metre special event, claiming the $3585 winner’s cheque.

Following a win at Sale last start, She Wiggles was mid-field early, but produced a strong second half to pip Party Lights, trained by Robin Moore at Devon Meadows, at the post.

Byron Bale, trained by Mark Delbridge at Balliang, won the 520m grade five final, and the $2185 prize that came with it.

The first heat of Sale to Sandown series over 520m was won by Stuart Lee Rose, trained by Sharon-Lee Chignell at Rosedale, with Turbulence, trained by Chris Tilley at Sale, also progressing to Thursday night’s final at Sandown Park after finishing third.

The second heat was taken out

by Aston Fraiche, trained by Tanya Sincock at Catani, ahead of Even Keats, trained by John Boreland at Giffard West, and Hustle Hard, trained by Brian Alford at Yarram, who also qualified for the final.

Sweet Demi, trained by Bill McMahon at Darriman, won the 440m free for all by a nose.

William Rose, trained by Chignell, charged home to finish second ahead of Why Not Colby, trained by Greg Carter at Devon Meadows.

After the race, Sweet Demi was suspended for 28 days at Sale for failing to pursue the lure with due commitment.

State The Facts won a 440m mixed grade six and seven for Cheryle Ragen at Kilmany, claiming a third win from five starts. Finishing six lengths behind in second place was

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Gordon Knight from Heyfield won the masters 1600 metre event at Stawell during the Easter weekend. The race is part of the famed Stawell Gift carnival. A self-trained runner, Knight, 52, is a regular at Parkrun events in Sale and Traralgon.

Sixty-six-year-old Les Williams from Paradise Beach finished seventh out of 50 competitors in the 1600m race.

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GLESON, Margaret.

April 9, 2014.

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Mum, years pass but memories never fade.

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HAMMILL, Patricia Roslyn.

We would like to thank most sincerely our extended families, friends and neighbours for their kind messages of sympathy, cards of condolences and flowers received on the passing of Pat. Special thanks and gratitude extended to Dr John Bergin for his devotion, compassion and support. It was very much appreciated and of great comfort to all of our families.

CGHS palliative team for being available in our time of need.

Lett's Funeral Services for their efficient arrangements to guide us through this difficult time.

Julie Duffy for her memorable celebration eulogy of Pat's life.

Forever in our hearts.

- Warren, Leslie, Kim, Michelle and Glenn, Peter and Joanne, and Tracey; grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Madalia Pixie for Kathleen Fogarty at Heyfield.

Heats of the 440m maiden series were won by Luca’s Jebynah, trained by Bryan Sykes at Upper Beaconsfield, and Get On Beers, trained by Elaine Johannsen at Devon Meadows.A third placing was enough to give a spot in next Sunday’s final to Kiwi Billy, trained Kilmany by Steve Spoljaric.

Greyhound racing resumes in Sale tomorrow, with the first of 12 races at 2.38pm.

BILL McMahon had two winners during the metro meeting at The Meadows on Saturday night.

Dr Madison and Dr Carmel won 525 metre grade five races.

At Warragul on Thursday, Pine Gem, trained by Lesley Russell at Sale, won a 460m grade five, just ahead of Piccolo Fratello, trained by Robert Whitford at Yarram.

Despite being $35.70 at the tote, Captain Goldie won a 400m grade seven for Margaret Read at Woodside.

Earn The Fizz, trained by Lyn Smith at Nambrok, won a 400m grade six, while Battlers Three, trained by Kaylah Thorburn at Gormandale, won a 460m maiden.

A week after winning the Launching Pad Consolation Series Final at Sandown Park, Blue Tiger, trained in Alberton West by Gavin Burke, won a 450m mixed grade four and five at Warrnambool on Thursday night.

Darriman trainers Judy and Kimberley McMahon won races at Warragul on Friday night. Dr Archer won a 400m maiden, while Dr Xander took out a 460m grade five.

Dogs trained in Rosedale by Jeff and Sharon-Lee Chignell filled two of the three placings in a 450m mixed grade four and five. Kingfisher Rose won the race, with Annie Rose third.

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Nan, always in our hearts.

McDIARMID, Barry.

Love Matt, Kristen, Max Passed away April 2, and Jack.

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Aged 83.

Funeral Directors Formerly of Heyfield.

Son of Garney and Cassie.

Brother of Danny (dec.) and Joyce, twin of Bernice and Angus Jennings, Heather Beechey (dec.), June and Brian Woodland and Jock.

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McINTOSH, William McKay "Bill".

Passed away peacefully at Maffra Hospital on April 10, 2021.

Aged 89 years.

Dearly loved husband of Margaret.

Loved father and fatherin-law of Carol and Mark, Andrew and Tanya, James and Lilian, Michelle and Duncan.

Loved Pa of Ben and Erin, Katrina and Matt, Rhys and Erika, Terri and Tom, Vanessa, Tom and Meagan, Meg, Jack, Lexie, Spike and Blaize.

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Sports briefs Hillclimb series

MAFFRA And District Car Club will host the second round of the Boisdale Hillclimb Series this Sunday.

Following a successful opening round of the 2021 season in February, a large field of competitors and a range of cars is expected to race at the gravel Boisdale Hillclimb Track.

Racing will begin at 10am, with free entry to all spectators, and a kiosk will be open throughout the event.

The track is located at 239 Boisdale-Newry Rd, Boisdale.

For more information visit www. madcc.com.au or phone Adrian Britton on 0418 561 053.

Ride to Blue Pool

THE Sale and District Sunday Afternoon Cyclists will this Sunday ride from the Port of Maffra to the Blue Pool for lunch.

The ride, beginning at 10am, will be fully-supported with back-up and refreshments. Riders will need to bring their own lunch.

Every week, Tuesday mountain bike rides and Thursday road rides leave from the Port of Sale at 9.30am.

For more information phone Ron on 0490 087 178 or George on 0429 949 322.

Try tennis in Maffra

MAFFRA Lawn Tennis Club will host a free come and try tennis session this Friday, as part of its school holiday program.

The day will be an opportunity to introduce the club’s new coach, Tristan Salerno, and give anyone interested in tennis lessons a taste, even if they’ve never tried tennis before.

The free session will be held from 10am until 11am.

Anyone interested should phone Tristan on 0432 052 125 or email tmsalerno@hotmail.com

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Maffra A grade goal shooter Abbie Ross lines up for goals, while Sale goal defence Kasey Dessent looks on and hopes the wind intercepts the ball for her.

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The steady rain doesn’t deter Maffra under 15s centre Tayli Dimarco from a shoulder pass.

Eagles overcome Magpies in derby WINTRY weather made for a less than ideal start to the 2021 Gippsland League netball season.

The breeze created a challenge for shooters on both sides across the day’s play, but certainly helped defenders pluck off any stray lobs.

Maffra defeated rival Sale 35-30 in a keenlycontested match played at Sale Oval on Sunday.

Defender Brodie Brunt was named best-on-court, and received Pam Birss Medal following the match, while Jas Schellen and Alex Gallatly were also among the Eagles’ best players.

Kasey Dessent, Mel Johnston and Cleo Fox led

Sale under 15s goal attack Sienna Wynd looks into goals.

the way for the Magpies.

Eliza Obsorn shot 16 goals and Abbie Ross 12 for the Eagles, while Jenny Wrigglesworth scored 20 for the Magpies.

On Saturday, Leongatha took home a six-goal win, 50-44, over Traralgon.

A strong second half by Moe saw the Lions defeat reigning premier Morwell 48-40.

Warragul was rarely challenged by Bairnsdale at home, winning 52-24.

The season began on Easter Saturday, with Drouin winning at Wonthaggi, 48-38.

Netball scoreboard Gippsland League

Split round, part two: A grade: Sale 30-35 Maffra, Moe 48-40 Morwell, Traralgon 44-50 Leongatha, Warragul 52-24 Bairnsdale; ladder: Warragul 4 (216.67 per cent), Drouin 4 (123.08), Moe 4 (120), Maffra 4 (116.67), Leongatha 4 (113.64), Traralgon 0 (88), Sale 0 (85.71), Morwell 0 (83.33), Wonthaggi 0 (81.25), Bairnsdale 0 (46.15).

B grade: Sale 42-53 Maffra, Moe 38-39 Morwell, Traralgon 56-40 Leongatha, Warragul 37-24 Bairnsdale; ladder: Warragul 4 (154.17), Wonthaggi 4 (151.43), Traralgon 4 (140), Maffra 4 (126.19), Morwell 4 (102.63), Moe 0 (97.44), Sale 0 (79.25), Leongatha 0 (71.43), Drouin 0 (66.04), Bairnsdale 0 (64.86).

C grade: Sale 19-47 Maffra, Moe 8-32 Morwell, Traralgon 34-25 Leongatha, Warragul 42-23 Bairnsdale; ladder: Morwell 4 (400), Maffra 4 (247.37), Warragul 4 (182.61), Wonthaggi 4 (152.38), Traralgon 4 (136), Leongatha 0 (73.53), Drouin 0 (65.63), Bairnsdale 0 (54.76), Sale 0 (40.43), Moe 0 (25).

Under 17s: Sale 29-38 Maffra, Moe 25-25 Morwell, Traralgon 30-15 Leongatha, Warragul 23-18 Bairnsdale; ladder: Wonthaggi 4 (280), Traralgon 4 (200), Maffra 4 (131.03), Warragul 4 (127.78), Moe 2 (100), Morwell 2 (100), Bairnsdale 0 (78.26), Sale 0 (76.32), Leongatha 0 (50), Drouin 0 (35.71).

Under 15s: Sale 28-22 Maffra, Moe 11-40 Morwell, Traralgon 57-6 Leongatha, Warragul 19-26 Bairnsdale; ladder: Traralgon 4 (950), Morwell 4 (363.64), Wonthaggi 4 (361.54), Bairnsdale 4 (136.84), Sale 4 (127.27), Maffra 0 (78.57), Warragul 0 (73.08), Drouin 0 (27.66), Moe 0 (27.5), Leongatha 0 (10.53).

Under 13s: Sale26-21 Maffra, Moe 11-50 Morwell, Traralgon 65-21 Leongatha, Warragul 4-54 Bairnsdale; ladder: Bairnsdale 4 (1350), Wonthaggi 4 (1166.67), Morwell 4 (454.55), Traralgon 4 (309.52), Sale 4 (123.81), Maffra 0 (80.77), Leongatha 0 (32.31), Moe 0 (22), Drouin 0 (8.57), Warragul 0 (7.41).

NGFNL

Split round, part one: A grade: Woodside 58-45 Glengarry, Heyfield 48-29 Cowwarr, Rosedale 44-20 Traralgon-Tyers United, Gormandale 28-46 Sale City; ladder: Rosedale 4 (220 per cent), Heyfield 4 (165.52), Sale City 4 (164.29), Woodside 4 (128.89), Yarram 4 (111.11), Yallourn-Yallourn North 0 (90), Glengarry 0 (77.59), Gormandale 0 (60.87), Cowwarr 0 (60.42), TraralgonTyers United 0 (45.45), Churchill 0 (0), B grade: Woodside 28-40 Glengarry, Heyfield 44-59 Cowwarr, Rosedale 50-36 TTU, Gormandale 30-50 Sale City; ladder: Yarram 4 (168), Sale City 4 (166.67), Glengarry 4 (142.86), Rosedale 4 (138.89), Cowwarr 4 (134.09), Heyfield 0 (74.58), TTU 0 (72), Woodside 0 (70), Gormandale

0 (60), YYN 0 (59.52), Churchill 0 (0).

C grade: Woodside 24-29 Glengarry, Heyfield 31-25 Cowwarr, Rosedale 32-13 TTU. Gormandale 24-40 Sale City; ladder: Rosedale 4 (246.15), YYN 4 (237.5), Sale City 4 (166.67), Heyfield 4 (124), Glengarry 4 (120.83), Woodside 0 (82.76), Cowwarr 0 (80.65), Gormandale 0 (60), Yarram 0 (42.11), TTU 0 (40.63), Churchill 0 (0).

D grade: Woodside 24-29 Glengarry, Heyfield 18-20 Cowwarr, Rosedale 33-25 TTU, Gormandale 7-59 Sale City; ladder: Sale City 4 (842.86), Glengarry 4 (422.22), Rosedale 4 (132), YYN 4 (121.43), Cowwarr 4 (111.11), Heyfield 0 (90), Yarram 0 (82.35), TTU 0 (75.76), Woodside 0 (23.68), Gormandale 0 (11.86), Churchill 0 (0).

Under 17s: Woodside 9-38 Glengarry, Heyfield 57-8 Cowwarr, Rosedale 29-14 TTU, Gormandale 19-68 Sale City; ladder: Heyfield 4 (712.5), Sale City 4 (357.89), Rosedale 4 (207.14), Glengarry 4 (160.87), Yarram 4 (138.46), YYN 0 (72.22), Woodside 0 (62.16), TTU 0 (48.28), Gormandale 0 (27.94), Cowwarr 0 (14.04), Churchill 0 (0).

Under 15s: Woodside 18-25 Glengarry, Heyfield 50-18 Cowwarr, Rosedale 25-28 TTU, Gormandale 15-51 Sale City; ladder: Sale City 4 (340), Heyfield 4 (277.78), Yarram 4 (157.14), Glengarry 4 (138.89), TTU 4 (112), Rosedale 0 (89.29), Woodside 0 (72), YYN 0 (63.64), Cowwarr 0 (36), Gormandale 0 (29.41), Churchill 0 (0).

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Heyfield was too strong for Cowwarr in the opening round of North Gippsland netball.

Protect your teeth thllis footba ! season

Winning start to Blues’ title defence

ROSEDALE opened the defence of North Gippsland netball premiership with a convincing 44-20 win over Traralgon-Tyers United.

The Blues controlled proceedings from the get-go and rarely gave the Bombers a look-in. The win puts the Blues at the top of the ladder following round one.

Woodside won a high-scoring and entertaining contest against Glengarry. More than 100 goals

were scored during the match with the Wildcats prevailing 58-45.

Sale City was the only side to score an away win in round one.The Bulldogs withstood a lion-hearted challenge from Gormandale to score a 46-28 victory.

Heyfield scored a 48-29 win against Cowwarr in the other A grade game.

On Good Friday, Yarram defeated YallournYallourn North 44-20, while Churchill had the bye.

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SENIORS

GORMANDALE 0.0 1.3 1.4 2.7 19 SALE CITY TY Y 7.5 7.9 9.16 13.18 96 Gormandale, goals: J Burgess, J Pearce Best: M Harris, J Burgess, L Mackay, M Jones, S Burgess, M Coutts Sale City, goals: L Carman 4, J McLay 2, B Jackson, R Thatcher, B Safstrom, J Nelson, B Walker, T Shembrey, J Whitehill Best: J Whitehill, K Macgregor-Davies, M Evans B Chivers, B Walker, S Fyfe HEYFIELD 4.2 5.4 8.6 12.9 81 COWWARR 1.2 5.2 7.2 7.3 45 Heyfield, goals: J Stubbe 2, D Burton 2, L Heasley 2, J Beha 2, B King, K Woodland, J Woodland, J Bedggood Best: B Woodland, T Marchesi, M Bedggood, L Heasley, K Woodland, J Stubbe Cowwarr, goals: S Morgan 3, B McBride 3, P Tainsh Best: J Casson, B Grieve, C Distefano, M Bloss, L Jenkinson, E Kincaid-Shingles ROSEDALE 2.3 5.5 7.11 8.13 61 TTU 4.0 7.5 9.5 10.8 68 Rosedale, goals: F Brouns 2, D Fleming 2, B Marshall, B Williams, C Beaver, B McDonald Best: S Bristow, J Suter, J Bristow, L Stuckey, N Twomey, C Beaver Traralgon-Tyers United, goals: J Neilson 2, J Cutts 2, H Willaton 2, M Mustoe, K Jones, L Albanese, J Albanese Best: M Mustoe, K Jones, J Barnes, J Savige, J Cashmore, J Whiteman WOODSIDE 4.7 7.10 14.13 17.17 119 GLENGARRY 1.0 2.2 4.3 4.3 27 Woodside, goals: K Kantilla 5, C Witchell 3, J Fythe 2, D Missen 2, J Cameron, J Kennedy, J Morgan, R Missen, E Stephens Best: T Jessup, K Kantilla, J Kennedy, B Johnson, W Broadbent, J Fythe Glengarry goals: T Patten, L Hetherton, N Quenault, C Schmidt Best: M Ryan, B Britten, H Busk, T Davidson, J Symons, S Poulton

RESERVES

GORMANDALE 9.5 (59) d SALE CITY 7.9 (51) Gormandale, goals: L Prince 4, J Rust 2, N DeMaria, A Raven, B Wass Best: L Prince, J Northey, K Owen, M Griffiths, N Teale, H Taala Sale City, goals: T Mowat-Lindrea 2, B Macgregor-Davies, A Heatherington, Z Robertson, T Griffioen, D Bird Best: J Main, B Nottle, B Cunningham, B Macgregor-Davies, C Green, T MowatLindrea HEYFIELD 7.3 (45) d COWWARR 2.5 (17) Heyfield, goals: L Fasoli 3, J Burton, B Hewish, R Smith, D Coridas Best: R Stevenson, A Ross, J Cox, D Coridas, J Conway Cowwarr, goals: M McNulty Best: J Anderson, S Cooper, D Veale, N Farley, D Cooper TRARALGON-TYERS UNITED 20.10 (130) d ROSEDALE 2.3 (15) Rosedale, goals: M Ellman, A Mitchell Best: A Mitchell, O Johnstone, J Groves, S Johnstone, T Bonnor Traralgon-Tyers United, goals: B White 10, B Hamilton 3, J Williams 2, T Busch, M Taplin, C Marriott, B Catlin, Z Kangelaris Best: B White, T Busch, L Marriott, Z Kangelaris, J Williams, A Brady GLENGARRY 7.4 (46) d WOODSIDE 5.6 (36) Woodside, goals: N Tourtoulas 2, D Madden, J Sinclair, M Burney Best: C Whiteoak, C Whiteoak, J Chisholm, W Kilgower, D Madden, G O’Shanassy Glengarry, goals: B Cody, T May, L Little, L Bormann, J Read, L Noble, S Kosterman Best: A Russell, C Ross, J Read, L Little, B Ludbey, S Kosterman

THIRDS

GORMANDALE 12.19 (91) d SALE CITY 9.5 (59) Gormandale, goals: H Richards 4, T Baldwin 2, C Isherwood 2, C Gardiner, F Roscoe, W Alkemade, B Rust Best: T Baldwin, F Roscoe, H Richards, O Bradford, C Bonnor, K Petersen Sale City, goals: T Wilms 3, T O’Reilly 2, J Mayne, N Jordan, L Mooney, B Towers Best: N Jordan, M Musgrove, T O’Reilly, C Lay, H Tollner, T Wilms HEYFIELD 23.23 (161) d COWWARR 1.0 (6) Heyfield, goals: J Kuhnell 4, P Unmack 4, H Blake 2, E PhelanPenson 2, L Hewish 2, I Wheeler 2, R Watts, M Eastham, X Brooks, V Culbert, M Hague, A Eastham, T Boyle Best: I Wheeler, J Kuhnell, H Blake, P Unmack, K Anderson, Z Francis Cowwarr, goals: C Farley Best: B Felmingham, J Davison, A Norris, N Esler, W Rowley TRARALGON-TYERS UNITED 8.11 (59) d ROSEDALE 1.6 (12) Rosedale, goals: J Moulton Best: O Smith, R Shaw, S Fox, W Murray, C Moulton Traralgon-Tyers United, goals: A Rooney 2, E Blair 2, D Morrison, C Palmer, J Williams, B Poel Best: A Rooney, D Wells, J Williams, C Palmer, D Morrison WOODSIDE 16.14 (110) d GLENGARRY 5.3 (33) Woodside, goals: T Askew 4, J Apiata 3, A Walpole 2, D Boyd, M Abernethy, A Janssen, H McLeod, C Dawson, Z Murphy, C Hanning Best: T Askew, J Apiata, C Dillow, A Walpole, J Mattern, C Dawson Glengarry, goals: L Ruach 2, C Hood 2, D Balfour Best: not provided SENIORS Sale City Woodside Heyfield Yallourn-Yallourn North Traralgon-Tyers United Rosedale Yarram Cowwarr Glengarry Gormandale Churchill RESERVES Traralgon-Tyers United Heyfield Yarram Glengarry Gormandale Sale City Woodside Yallourn-Yallourn North Cowwarr Rosedale Churchill THIRDS Heyfield Traralgon-Tyers United Woodside Gormandale Yallourn-Yallourn North Yarram Sale City Glengarry Rosedale Cowwarr Churchill

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LADDERS L D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 L D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 L D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0

F 96 119 81 122 68 61 84 45 27 19 0 F 130 45 55 46 59 51 36 35 17 15 0 F 161 59 110 91 101 78 59 33 12 6 0

A % Pts 19 505.26 4 27 440.74 4 45 180.00 4 84 145.24 4 61 111.48 4 68 89.71 0 122 68.85 0 81 55.56 0 119 22.69 0 96 19.79 0 0 0.00 0 A % Pts 15 866.67 4 17 264.71 4 35 157.14 4 36 127.78 4 51 115.69 4 59 86.44 0 46 78.26 0 55 63.64 0 45 37.78 0 130 11.54 0 0 0.00 0 A % Pts 6 2683.33 4 12 491.67 4 33 333.33 4 59 154.24 4 78 129.49 4 101 77.23 0 91 64.84 0 110 30.00 0 59 20.34 0 161 3.73 0 0 0.00 0

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Heyfield’s Josh Neille gets a handpass away.

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Roos out-run Saints Gregor Mactaggart

HEYFIELD produced a scintillating final quarter to shake off a determined Cowwarr by 36 points to begin its North Gippsland football season on Saturday.

Applying pressure on the Saints when they had the ball, the home side kicked three goals to one to lead by 18 points at quarter-time.

The Saints lifted in the second term, forcing turnovers and booting four goals to one, reducing the deficit to two points by the main break.

The contest remained up for grabs at threequarter time with the Kangaroos holding a 10-point lead.

Despite a brave challenge from the Saints, Heyfield found the extra gear when it mattered most and booted four unanswered goals in the last term for a 12.9 (81) to 7.3 (45) victory.

Brayden Woodland and Tom Marchesi featured prominently for Heyfield, while teammates Jordan Stubbe, Liam Heasley, Daniel Burton and James Beha kicked two goals each.

Brad McBride and Shane Morgan each booted three majors for the Saints, whose best players were Jack Casson, Brett Grieve, Chris Di Stefano and Michael Bloss.

TRARALGON-TYERS United survived a late rally from Rosedale to record a thrilling seven-point win.

The Bombers led at every change on the way to the thrilling 10.8 (68) to 8.13 (61) triumph.

TTU set the tone in the first half, skipping out to a handy two-goal advantage at half-time thanks in good part to the work of prime movers Mitch Mustoe and Kieran Jones.

Rosedale worked its way back in the contest during the third term and will rue not getting enough reward for its dominance of the quarter.

The Blues booted 2.6 to TTU’s 2.0 and instead of going into the final change with a lead, still trailed by a goal.

It would prove decisive following a tense, tough last quarter where the sides traded one goal apiece.

Hayden Willaton, Jayden Cutts and Jye Neilson each snagged two goals for the victorious Bombers, who were best-served by Mustoe, Jones, the reliable Justin Barnes and Justin Savige.

Sam Bristow was a stand-out in a losing cause for Rosedale, who’s best also included Jake Suter, Joel Bristow and Luke Stuckey.

Dale Fleming and Frazer Brouns were the multiple goalkickers for the Blues with two apiece.

NORTHERN Territory talent Kim Kantilla played a starring role as Woodside scored a commanding 92-point win against Glengarry.

Kantilla,who played for Waratahs in the Northern Territory Football League, finished with five goals as the Wildcats prevailed 17.17 (119) to 4.3 (27).

The skilful forward proved a constant thorn to the Magpies’ back line.

Woodside had the game in its keeping by quartertime, skipping out to a 25-point lead and would extend that advantage at every change.

Kantilla was named as the second best player for the Wildcats behind the impressive Tom Jessup, while Josh Kennedy and Ben Johnson also featured among the multitude of fine performers.

Woodside had nine different individual goalkickers, headlined by Kantilla’s five and three from Chris Witchell.

Glengarry played well in patches, but failed to maintain that consistency for long enough.

The Magpies were best-served by Michael Ryan, Ben Britten and Hayden Busk.

SALE City flew to top spot after round one thanks to a 77-point win at Gormandale.

The Bulldogs made sure the new-look Tigers had no time to settle, racing to a 47-point lead at the first change.

From there, much of the sting went out of the

contest as Sale City sealed a comfortable 13.18 (96) to 2.7 (19) success.

Lachlan Carman led all comers with four majors and Justin McLay bobbed up with two.

Jaxsyn Whitehill was in the thick of the action for the Bulldogs, with Kerrod Macgregor-Davies and Mitch Evans also prominent.

The result was the ideal start for new Sale City coach Shane Fyfe, who won plenty of the footy himself.

For Gormandale, the opening term proved costly, but they battled hard until the final siren.

Mitchell Harris, Jack Burgess, Luke Mackay and Mitchell Jones worked hard in a losing cause.

CHURCHILL had the bye, while Yallourn-Yallourn North opened the season with a 38-point win against Yarram on Good Friday.

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Sydney Swans 4 Richmond X Western Bulldogs 4 St Kilda 4 Gold Coast Suns X Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Melbourne 4 Hawthorn X

5

TOTAL

23

TIM

Sydney 4 Richmond X Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Gold Coast X Collingwood X Adelaide 4 Geelong 4 Fremantle 4

5

Sydney 4 Richmond X Brisbane X West Coast X Collingwood X Carlton 4 Adelaide 4 Geelong X Fremantle 4

4

TOTAL

20

Sydney Swans 4 Richmond X Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Gold Coast Suns X Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Melbourne 4 Fremantle 4

5

TOTAL

20

4

6

Sydney Swans 4 Richmond X Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Carlton 4 Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Geelong Cats X Hawthorn X

Sydney 4 Richmond X Bulldogs 4 St Kilda 4 Collingwood X Carlton 4 Adelaide 4 Melbourne 4 Hawthorn X

4

TOTAL

TOTAL

17 13

21

JAYDE

7

Sydney Swans 4 Port Adelaide 4 Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Carlton 4 Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Melbourne 4 Fremantle 4

Sydney 4 Richmond X Bulldogs 4 West Coast X Collingwood X Carlton 4 Adelaide 4 Melbourne 4 Fremantle 4

Ph: 5143 0861

TOTAL

22

6 Sydney Swans 4 Port Adelaide 4 Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Gold Coast Suns X Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Melbourne 4 Fremantle 4

TOTAL

Ph P h: 5143 3 0861

THIS ROUND

6

TOTAL

22

6 Sydney 4 Port Adelaide 4 Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Gold Coast X Collingwood X Adelaide 4 Melbourne 4 Freemantle 4

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5 Sydney Swans 4 Richmond X Western Bulldogs 4 St Kilda 4 Carlton 4 Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Geelong X Hawthorn X

Sydney Swans 4 Port Adelaide 4 Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Gold Coast SUNS X Collingwood X North Melbourne X Melbourne 4 Fremantle 4

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22

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23

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20

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24

Sydney Swans 4 Port Adelaide 4 Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Carlton 4 Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Geelong Cats X Freemantle 4

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24

Sydney Swans 4 Port Adelaide 4 Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Gold Coast Suns X Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Geelong Cats X Fremantle 4

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21

7

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18

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21

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6 Sydney Swans 4 Richmond X Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Carlton 4 Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Melbourne 4 Fremantle 4

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21

Sydney Swans 4 Port Adelaide 4 Western Bulldogs 4 West Coast Eagles X Carlton 4 Collingwood X Adelaide Crows 4 Melbourne 4 Fremantle 4

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25

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4

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23 13

2 Essendon X Richmond X Brisbane X West Coast X GWS 4 Gold Coast X North Melbourne X Melbourne 4 Hawthorn X

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18

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20

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SALE claimed a 36-point win over Maffra in the first senior football Battle of the Birds since 2019 on Sunday.

Sale kicked away in the final quarter to run out a 10.8 (68) to 3.12 (30) victor, and sits in third place on the Gippsland League ladder after the opening round of the season.

The morning’s rain cleared in time for the senior match, with a large crowd at Sale Oval treated to a high quality and physical game.

There was a separate narrative to the match, as former Maffra player and now Sale playing coach Jack Johnstone came up against his old team for the first time.

Honours were shared in the first half, with the Eagles taking a five-point lead into the main break.

The ball spent most of the third quarter between the arcs, but Sale was able to capitalise on its opportunities going forward.

Returning Magpie Shannen Lange brought out the trick bag in this quarter, gathering a ground ball before pirouetting through traffic to set up one of the Magpies’ three goals for the term.

Both teams displayed confidence to pull the trigger on corridor kicks and seemed to have identical game plans, which revolved around moving the ball quickly when they were forward of centre and limiting handball post stoppage.

With Johnstone now coaching Sale, it was evident he had brought across a number of trademark Maffra qualities to the Magpies, such as being hard in the contest and strong overhead.

At three-quarter-time, Sale held a nine-point lead, but come the final term everything the Magpies touched turned to gold, and they slammed on four goals to no score.

Sale took control of the match and had its hands on the ball more often than not, while conversely, the Eagles barely had one inside 50 for the quarter.

Once the Magpies got out to a three-goal lead, any plans Maffra may have had of staging a late comeback were extinguished.

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the ball like a basketball around congestion to regain control.

Johnstone kicked his first goal in the black and white late in the piece, and duly celebrated by holding both arms aloft.The first person to congratulate him was the man he succeeded as coach — Chris Laverty.

Johnstone headed the list of best players for Sale, as well as Dessent, Jack Leslie, Jordan Dowsett, Lange and Daine McGuiness.

Best for Maffra were Kade Renooy, Daniel Bedggood, Ed Carr, Ben Brunt and James Read.

The match ended on a terrible note, after a sickening incident saw Read taken from the ground by ambulance.

Read appeared unconscious after a contest in the goal square at the social room end, and was immediately given attention from the goal umpire.

As the result of the match was beyond doubt during the delay in play, the umpires declared the game over.

LEONGATHA broke away after half-time to defeat Traralgon 15.14 (104) to 5.6 (36) on Saturday.

The Maroons were only 15 points down at the

main change, but failed to score in the third quarter, while the Parrots piled on seven goals.

A 59-point margin at three-quarter-time turned into 68 when the final siren sounded.

Corey Stockdale kicked two goals for Traralgon and was among the best players, along with Matt Northe,Tye Hourigan,Adam Jaensch, Peter Strong and Dylan Loprese.

Tom Marriott picked up where he left off in 2019, with another best on ground performance for Leongatha. Others to play well were Jake Van Der Plight, Nick Nagel, Jake Mackie, Luther Juric and Kim Drew, who has crossed to the Parrots this season from Warragul.

MOE defeated Morwell by 26 points at home.

While leading by five points at the three-quartertime, back-to-back goals from Tom Caile had the Tigers going into the final change with momentum.

Moe responded well in the final quarter, and kicked four goals to one to run out a 26-point winner, 11.10 (76) to 7.8 (50).

The Tigers employed an empty out style from the midfield to help their defence, which stifled Moe’s ball movement at times, as on numerous occasions the Lions looked to move the ball down field, only to see a host of players wearing yellow and black in their path.

For Moe, the type of win they had was one in which would normally be seen in round 12 or 13, with the team just needing to grind its way to victory to bank the four points and move onto the next challenge.

Ben Maslen, Cameron Manuel, Tyson Biffin, Scott Van Dyk, Jordan Ceppi and Tom Long, who booted four goals, stood out for the Lions, while Isaac Abas, Boyd Bailey and Anthony Rosato were best for the Tigers.

BAIRNSDALE went home from Warragul with a gutsy 8.13 (61) to 8.9 (57) win.

Momentum ebbed and flowed throughout the match, with the Redlegs having their noses in front when it mattered most.

Brayden McCarrey booted three goals for the victors, and received good support from Simon Deery who made a welcome return from injury.

Nick Mulqueen, Mitch Nobelius and Mason McGarrity were adjudged best for Warragul.

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M Maning Best: J McGuiness, J Wegener, D Barnett, B Huxtable, T Warragul Glenn, S Dessent Maffra, goals: C Nettleton 3, W Brunt 2, J Scott, H Morwell Holmes, M Huts Best: M Gravener, J Scott, J Davis, J McIntosh, M Huts Maffra Traralgon MORWELL 14.5 (89) d MOE 2.4 (16) Drouin TRARALGON 10.7 (67) d LEONGATHA 4.4 (28) RESERVES Bairnsdale BAIRNSDALE 10.13 (73) d WARRAGUL 1.3 (9) Morwell Wonthaggi UNDER 16s Traralgon SALE 6.8 (44) d MAFFRA 5.9 (39) Sale, goals: F Stephenson 4, H Pearce, M Nico Best: C Waixel, F Maffra Stephenson, M Welsh, Z Russell, L Panwar, F Grubb Maffra, goals: S Sale Pendergast, Z Perkins, J Stewart, S Wain, O Gallagher Best: H Gravener, Leongatha Drouin T Daly, S Wain, L Allman, Z Perkins, B Johnson Moe MOE 6.2 (38) d MORWELL 5.6 (36) Warragul UNDER 18s TRARALGON 10.9 (69) d LEONGATHA 2.7 (19) Traralgon BAIRNSDALE 8.7 (55) d WARRAGUL 5.8 (38) Wonthaggi Bairnsdale UNDER 18s Sale MAFFRA 7.6 (48) d SALE 0.4 (4) Moe Sale, goals: nil Best: L Sketcher, M Annear, C Barnett, B Pearce, Morwell Z Waixel, C Wilson Maffra, goals: J Allman 2, W Ross, M Stobie, N Maffra Christy, N Szabatura, B Tohara Best: J Killoran, M Stobie, A Wright, J Warragul Boyd, J Diamond, Z Felsbourg Drouin Leongatha MOE 11.8 (74) d MORWELL 2.6 (18) UNDER 16s TRARALGON 24.13 (157) d LEONGATHA 1.2 (8) Traralgon Maffra WARRAGUL 12.13 (85) d BAIRNSDALE 1.2 (8) Warragul LADDERS Moe SENIORS W L D F A % Pts Drouin Wonthaggi 1 0 0 103 26 396.15 4 Wonthaggi Leongatha 1 0 0 104 36 288.89 4 Morwell Sale 1 0 0 68 30 266.66 4 Bairnsdale Moe 1 0 0 76 50 152.00 4 Sale Bairnsdale 1 0 0 61 57 107.02 4 Leongatha

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The Bushfire Recovery Run was joined by members of the Victorian Mini Club and some members hit the gravel on the way back from Buchan to Nowa Nowa.

Some of the Mustangs which were on display in the GVC grounds while their owners checked out the exhibitions on show in the museum.

IT was scheduled for mid-2020, but like so many events planned for last year, COVID-19 had something to say about that.

But finally, members and friends of Maffra’s Gippsland Vehicle Collection set out on their long-planned Bushfire Recovery Run. Led by Leigh and Cheryl Sheilds in their World War 2 jeep, participants travelled through Boisdale and Briagolong, onto the Stockdale Rd and across to Fernbank before following the railway line to Lindenow South and Lindenow.

In Bairnsdale, the convoy was joined by four vehicles from the Victorian Mini Club, and continued on to Bruthen where another stop was made for refreshments.

snacks and other needs.

On the way back to Maffra, some of the participants detoured via the “dusty but fun” gravel Buchan-Nowa Nowa Rd to Nowa Nowa, with plenty of seriously fire damaged bushland on either side of the track highlighting the scale of the event in that region.

A visit to Lakes Entrance and an icecream stop in Bairnsdale completed the day.

“We had a good day and hopefully, in a small way, gave a bit of a lift to the communities we sought to help,” Mr Malcolm said.

In addition to community rallies, the GVC has been receiving visits from a number of motor clubs, and recently hosted 25 vehicles from the Mustang

Bushfire run and Mustangs at GVC The Mini cohort scooted off to Buchan ahead of the pack to claim tables at the Buchan Hotel.

Rally participant Duncan Malcolm said it was great to see the pub busy on a beautiful day.

“The bushfire damage from Sarsfield through to Buchan was very evident, even though the unusually wet year in 2020 helped understorey regrowth and most of the larger badly burned trees are sprouting epicormic growth,” he said.

“Some homes have been rebuilt, some are in progress, but there are still blocks with no rebuild activity.”

Donations were made to the Bushfire Relief Fund and rally participants contributed to small businesses along the way, spending on drinks, lunch,

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There were some impressive Mustangs on show in the GVC grounds while their drivers and passengers enjoyed a look around at the current display, ‘First and Last’, and Model World Maffra, and enjoyed refreshments at the Pitt Stop.

The Gippsland Vehicle Collection and Model World Maffra are open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays from 10am to 4pm, and every day during school holidays.Admission is $15 per adult, $10 concession and free for children 15 and under.

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Public fast electric charge point launched at the Port of Sale WELLINGTON Shire’s first public fast electric charger has been installed at the Port of Sale, and will be offering free charging for a honeymoon period until June.

The new super-fast electric vehicle charger was officially opened by Wellington Shire mayor Garry Stephens last week, at a launch that included a display of more than a dozen electric vehicles, free half-hour tours on the Rubeena, which became

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Part of Victoria’s Charging the Region’s Project, the 50 kilowatt DC charger will form part of a network of more than 20 chargers being rolled out across central and western Victoria.

It was bought by Wellington Shire Council with help from the Central Victoria Greenhouse Alliance, a network of 13 local governments working together across central and northern Victoria.

Cr Stephens said the council was helping to support the uptake of electric vehicles and attracting visitors with electric vehicles who wanted to come to the region.

He said there were also plans to install an electric charging facility in Yarram.

“Council is trying to lead the way in renewable power, along with other things we’ve done of course, which includes introducing green power for The Wedge and our Desailly St corporate offices,” Cr Stephens said.

“There is still some distance to travel, but we are making a positive move toward renewable energy right across the shire.”

Cr Stephens said the charging station was ideally sited in the Port of Sale carpark, near the visitor centre.

“While their car is charging for an hour or so, electric vehicle owners are coming into the centre and discovering places to see and things to do right across our region,” he said.

“Bringing electric vehicle drivers to our shire means more jobs in the hospitality, accommodation and tourism sectors.

“We power their cars — they help power our economy.”

Gippsland Climate Change Network chairman and former Wellington Shire councillor Darren McCubbin praised the council’s sustainability strategy, saying it was “wonderful” to see it embrace sustainability and move ahead with it.

The fast electric vehicle charger will charge most cars in just over an hour, however a “glitch”in the system allows anyone to unplug the charger from a vehicle.

The problem was highlighted by a visitor from Traralgon who complained to the Gippsland Times and to the Central Victoria Greenhouse Alliance that somebody had unexpectedly unplugged his vehicle when charging it at the

Wellington Shire mayor Garry Stephens says the electric vehicle charger will bring visitors to the area.

Port of Sale — despite it not being fully charged.

Mike Moulton said he had connected his car to the charge point and had gone to a nearby restaurant to enjoy a meal when he received a phone message which alerted him his Nissan Leaf had been disconnected.

He said he was “appalled” this could happen, and said it was not possible to disconnect someone else’s vehicle at other charge stations he had used.

Mr Moulton confronted a man who had unplugged his vehicle. He told him he had disconnected it because it was at 98 per cent charge and he wanted to connect his own car.

“If he’d waited another 15 minutes the car would have been finished,” he said.

“Two percent charge might not seem much, but that could give you another 10 or 20 kilometres.

“It’s a design fault that should not be allowed — a kid could disconnect it,” he said.

But a Central Victoria Greenhouse Alliance spokesman said the inability of the charger to ‘lock’ cars in was not a design fault, as not all chargers had that feature.

But, he said all account holders could use their account card when charging, which was then required to remove the charger.

Launch participant Kevin Yank, who had his Tesla Model 3 on display, bought his first electric car three weeks ago because he wanted to “take the step forward”.

“It made sense — it’s the green choice of the future,” he said.

After June, it will cost 40 cents per kilowatt to charge at the Port of Sale.

Sale’s first electric vehicle charging station was installed at the Criterion Hotel in 2017.

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