Latrobe Valley Express Wednesday 7 December 2022

Fear for Opal jobs Living the dream

By MICHELLE SLATER

OPAL Australian Paper is winding down white copy paper production at Maryvale from December 20, due to insufficient pulp log supplies, leaving 220 workers facing stand-downs into Christmas.

An Opal spokesperson confirmedthat the mill’s white paper production “may be potentially impacted”asfrom the third week of December.

The decision could also lead to shortages in copy paper brands such as Reflex and in-house brands for Officeworks and Staples, affecting back-to-school and office supplies in January.

“This is achallenging situation with the potential to create financial and production difficulties for Opal Australian Paper,” the Opal spokesperson said “Opal is investigating anumberof alternative wood supply options however, unfortunately, to date, sufficient volumesare not available.”

The spokesperson saidthe company wouldcontinue to inform stakeholders and its workersasthe situation developed.

About two-thirds of Opal’s timber for

white paper productioncomes from hardwood plantations and about third from native forest residues. However, native forest supply has reduced in recent years.

The drop in native pulp logs is the result of action by the Supreme Court, which ruled that VicForests must carry out more effective surveys for endangeredgilders before loggingareas of native forestsinGippsland and the central highlands.

VicForests has stopped timber har vesting until it can develop asurvey method that complies with the court’s order, meaningalackofpulp supply is continuing to affect Maryvale.

“Asaconsequence, temporarystand downs or areduction in working arrangements affectingasmall number of work groups at the Maryvale Mill may become necessary,” the spokesperson said.

“We are continuing to consult on this issue with our team members. Opal is also continuingtowork through this situation with our customers.”

The CFMEU manufacturing division is holding amassmeetingwith its

Maryvale mill membersonTuesday evening, fearing workerswill be looking at ableak Christmas.

The union is calling on the state and federal government to immediately intervene by changing the forestry code of practice to allow logging to restart as soon as possible.

It is also calling on the government to facilitate ameeting between the union and Opaltoidentify long-term wood fibre access.

CFMEU pulp and paper workers district secretary, Denise Campbell-Burns, said the lack of production would mean that Australia would rely on imported copy and white paper.

“This is amassive backward step in terms of securing and rebuildingthe Australian manufacturing sector and continues to undermine our sovereign capability,” Ms Campbell-Burns said.

“Australiawill be 100per centreliant on imports to service the white papers market if we don’t work together to implement asolution.

“We need intervention now to secure thesejobs –our members and their families cannot wait.”

The state government has assured it is providingcompensationtosawmills and contractors impacted by the Supreme Court ruling.

It has a$200million package to help timber communities to transition out of native forestsby2030and hasinvested $120 million in anew plantation estate in Gippsland.

But the federal Member forGippsland, Darren Chester, calledonthe state Labor Party to “stand up and abandon their idiotic plans” to ban native timber harvesting in Victoria.

“I have always advocated for government departments to use Australian made paper and support our national manufacturing and sustainable timber industry,” Mr Chester said.

“As this is an evolving situation, I wouldexpectgovernment departments as well as Gippslanderstocontinue supporting the workers and using Australian-made paperwhere possible.”

AVictorian government spokesperson said the governmentwas “working with Opal to minimise any potential disruption to operations.”

Moe footballer BaileyHumphreyand fellow Gippsland drafteeJacob Konstanty have begun their AFL journey. MORE -VALLEY SPORT

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Shing for Com Games

By MICHELLE SLATER

THE Premier, Dan Andrews, has sworn in his new Cabinet, with Lily D’Ambrosio appointed as Minister for the new State Electricity Commission.

The new ministry will take effect from New Year’s Day and includes afew changes from the previous line-up.

The Morwell-basedMember for EasternVictoria, Harriet Shing, is picking up the Commonwealth GamesLegacy portfolio,ontop of Regional Development, Water and Equality.

But the votes are still being finalised in the upper house after last month’s state election, so Ms Shing will not be sworn in until the Victorian Electoral Commission declares the result.

Mr Andrews will take responsibility for her portfolios in the meantime.

Ms D’Ambrosioisretaining herportfoliosin climate, energy and resources and is also leading the transition from the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action.

Resources andagricultureare beingmoved into thisdepartmenttosupport the Labor Government’s ambitious climate targets.

Ingrid Stitt will become Minister for Environment, picking it up from Ms D’Ambrosio, while Planning is going to Sonya Kilkenny.

The Deputy Premier,Jacinta Allan, remains as Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop and Minister for Commonwealth Games Delivery.

Jaclyn Symes retains her position as AttorneyGeneral and Minister for Emergency Services, while Tim Pallas is staying on as the state’s Treasurer and Danny Pearson remains Assistant Treasurer.

“This strong, united teamwill not waste a moment as we getonwithbringing back the SEC, deliveringfree kinder for every child,50 government-owned childcarecentres, and building the hospitals, schools, road and rail Victorians need -all whilecreating thousands of jobs,” the government said in astatement.

Green tinge across Gippsland

By STEFAN BRADLEY

GIPPSLAND may seem alittle greener after this election,according to the leadVictorianGreens candidate for the state upper house, Mat Morgan.

Mr Morgan, who was on the ballot for the Eastern Victoria region, said the party achieved strong results throughout Gippsland.

“The Greens have achieved around atwo per cent swing in the Eastern Vic region whilst both major parties havehad swings away fromthem,” he said “All across Gippsland we saw The Greens vote hold strong in many seats where the Labor and Liberalvotes fell.

“This shows The Greens are areal force in our political landscape.”

Mr Morgan saidthe group votingsystem,which allowspolitical partiestodirect preferenceson “above theline” votes for the upper house, was a“blight on our democracy”. In avideo posted to TikTok, he said the group votingsystemwas away for other parties to keep the Greens out of the upper house in favour of others with amuch lower vote.

Mr Morgan was not elected to the upper house, despite the Greens receiving almosteightper cent of the vote at the time of writing for the Eastern Victoriaregion, whichwas the thirdhighest, after the Liberal/Nationals and Labor.

“This election we saw sham parties set up with the sole purpose of directing preferences,”Mr Morgan said.

“And we saw highly unethical preferencing which saw supposedly ‘leftwing’ partieshanding their preferences to conservativeparties.”

“We are looking at having Jeff Bourman of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party re-elected for athird term despite him only receiving three per cent of the vote, it’s simply disgraceful.”

The Coalition and some minor partiesalsocalled for abolishing group tickets.

AskedtoreflectonLabor’s re-election, Mr Morgansaidhewas pleased that the Coalition did not succeed.

In the LowerHouse, the Greens gained one seat, comprising to atotal of four.

All four seats are in Melbourne.

Calling forurgentsupport

LATROBE CityCounciliscalling for urgent support from state and federal governments to prioritise the region as Maryvale workers face stand-downs leading into Christmas.

Latrobe City is looking to partner with both levels of governmentswith situations escalatingatOpal Australian Paper coupled with early coal-fired power station closures.

Latrobe City mayor, Kellie O’Callaghan, said this has highlighted the need for new sectors and job opportunities in the region.

Cr O’Callaghan said Latrobe Citywas communicating with management at Maryvale to understand theimpacts of any changes to operations.

“Our community is continuing to feel the insecurity that surrounds the future of our largest industries, including power generationand now the uncertainty surrounding supply and operations of the Maryvale mill,” Cr O’Callghan said.

“The mill has been acornerstone of the region’s

economic landscape for over85years, and like the proud history the region has with power generation, the impacts through closures or reduced operating capacity will be felt far and wide.

“Studies undertaken in recent years found that for every job at the Maryvale mill, there is aflow on externally of another job in their supply chain. This extends to awider local economic impact in our business community.”

Cr O’Callaghan said Latrobe City was working to support diversification in the municipality with business supports and large projects.

However, Cr O’Callaghan acknowledged the uncertainty over Maryvale and early coal closures was creating the need for more support to inject economic growth in the region.

“We need support, as Latrobe City will be most directly impacted through the loss of direct and indirectjobsacrossour majorindustry sectors,” Cr O’Callaghan said.

Responsibilities: Labor Member forEasternVictoria Harriet Shing is picking up the Commonwealth Games Legacyportfolio in the newstate government ministry. file photograph

Google told to correct river name

Google has been incorrectlynaming Rainbow Creek as theThomson River when in fact they are two separate waterways.

WGCMA project officer David Storksaid“allwe want is our Rainbow back”.

“This is more thanapettyannoyance,rivers and other waterways are major landmarks in Gippslandsohavingthem labelledcorrectlyfor visitors and local is important.”

Rainbow Creek formed as abreakaway from the Thomson River in the 1950s and at the time caused major erosion, loss of productive farmland and a loss of flow into the Thomson River.

The floodthat formed RainbowCreekled to a secessionist movement for landholders to declare aseparate state within Victoria.

“If it was acase of clicking our heels three times and wishing it were so, that would be lovely. Unfortunately, this is Google we’re dealing with, so we need to try another tack,” Mr Stork said.

“Let’s hope that this campaign can work and that dreams thatwedare to dream, really do come true.”

To ask Google to change the name, visit Google Community Groups page at bit.ly/gippsrainbow and leave acomment.

ENERGY Australiahas submittedaplanning application to the state government to build a350 megawatt grid-scale battery at the Jeeralang gas power plant.

The Wooreen Energy Storage System will be Australia’s first four-hour utility scale battery to be located alongside agas-fired power station.

EnergyAustralia trading, transition and reputation executive, Ross Edwards, said the company

was excitedtobea step closertobuilding the battery.

Mr Edwardssaidthe project was due to be completed in 2026 and would power the equivalent of more than230,000 Victorian householdsfor four hours before being recharged.

He said Wooreen would be one of the largest battery storage systemsinthe worldand would be critical to help transition to cleanenergy as

coal-fired power stations retired.

“The project continues the Latrobe Valley’s proud history in electricity infrastructurethat spans over 100 years and beganwith Yallourn powerstation,” Mr Edwards said.

“Itsability to rapidly supply energy duringtimes of high energy demand will be vital in keeping the lights on and the costs down for our customers.”

To view the application, visit planning.vic.gov.au.

THE West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority is calling on tech giant Google to correct awrongly namedwaterway around Cowwarr and Heyfield.

Name change: RainbowCreek near Cowwarr is beingincorrectlycalled theThomson River on Google photograph supplied

takes stock

Danny O’Brien: That’svery hard to answer. The feeling on the boots and in the community and in other parts of regionalVictoriaI went (to) were very strong against Labor …clearly it wasn’t the messagethat people wantedtohear in the city Ireject some of the criticism that we didn’t have astory to tell,I think we campaigned heavily on healthinparticular,(and)oncostofliving.I think those messagesresonated,but it wasn’tenough to swingpeople over.

LVE: Do youbelieve you pushed Labor to focus on health?

O’Brien: No question. Some people say (of The Nationals) ‘all you do is whinge andcomplain’. When you whinge and complain, you get results from the government. The West Gippsland Hospital, classic example -Labor’s turned its back on it for threeelections, until this one …they werepushed into it, thankfully. That’s how the system should work, Iguess,they knew they had aproblem.Iwas gettingseveral calls or emails aweek on health, whether it was ambulances, surgerywaitinglists, or problems at hospitals We asked just about every question in parliament this year on health issues, and none of them were madeup. Every oneofthemwerereal stories that came in. It’s agenuine issue and the government still has work to do to get it under control.

LVE: Why didyou think the (Nationals) didwell, whereas the Liberals did not?

O’Brien: Ithink theLiberal Party has along road ahead to rebuildand reconnect; Ithink we (The Nationals) showed the way with our fantastic results. They weren’t achieved by magic, they were achieved by good local candidates, good local engagement -socommitments on localprojects and issues -and grassroots campaigning. Andit’s a little bit easier for The Nationals in some respects. Our story is, ‘we’re here for country Victoria’, and Ithink people get that. That’s why (voters) came to us. For the Libs, it’s abit harder as they’ve got

country and city,they’ve got (factions) and all those sorts of things.

LVE: Labor still has astranglehold on regional seats like Eureka, Wendouree, Macedon, Bendigo East and West, and they won Ripon, so how does the Coalition work towards those districts in the future?

O’Brien: We’ve always struggled to win the big regional city seats. Their historic base is gold mining and manufacturing, so they’ve been more Labor (leaning). To be frank, one of the problems the Liberals have is that since 1999 when Jeff Kennett lost, they haven’t won any of those seats back. They won one back in the Geelong region andthensubsequentlylost it again, and in fact have gone backwards in Geelong at this election. Ithink we collectively as aCoalition need to put more work into thoseregional cities, becauseat the moment Labor has them locked up.

LVE: Which issues and policies did voters bring up,and what will you advocate for post-election?

O’Brien: Roads is one. Idon’t think you’ll find anyone thatthinks the roads are okay …Roads and Daniel Andrews were the two things that people brought up to me at pollingbooths. Iwas surprised at thelevelofknowledge of our local commitments Ihad some peoplesay ‘Loch Sport foreclosure, (that’s) great, what about Lake Wellington?’ The additional train service in Sale was welcome the timberindustry got amention. It’s nice to hear those things come back to me at the booth.

LVE: Let’stalkthe Voice to Parliament. What’s your personal opiniononthe matter, and what is the Victorian Nationals’ position on it? Federal Nationals leader David Littleproud of course has recently expressed opposition to it.

O’Brien: We don’t have aposition, and to be frankIdon’t have apersonal position. Particularly in the last 12 months, I’ve been focusing on state issues …I’d like to see more detail on what impact it will (have) and what power, if any, it will have. Our position …whether it’s Treaty, whether it’s Voice to Parliament has been, ‘will it help close the gap?’ That’s the principle we abide by. If it helps improve Indigenoushealth, housing,employment, education, all those metrics, we’d support it. And Idon’t know enough about the Voice on whether it will do that.

EPAclears batterysite

By MICHELLE SLATER

SOIL-TESTING conducted near aused lead acid battery recycling plant being built in HazelwoodNorth has shownlittleorno signs of contamination, according to the Environment Protection Authority.

TheEPA carried out the soil sampling on behalf of Latrobe City Council in response to communityconcerns about any health impacts of the development.

Areport found all results were “below the relevant health investigation levels”.

The EPA collected surface soil in July from 90 sites around the proposed battery plant on Fourth Road, including from surrounding industrial areas and public spaces in residential areas in Morwell and Churchill.

It analysed 316 samples to determine baseline levels of trace elements,including of lead,aluminium and mercury.

“Given that the measured soil trace element concentrations are below health investigation levels, thereare no recom mendations for further follow-up in relation to the locations sampled,” the report stated.

The EPA testingwas focussing on lead due to community concerns overlegacy contamination frompotential industries such as leaded petrol emissions, industry andcoal-fired power stations.

The report said the proposedbatteryplant had raised concerns that it “may add contaminants to the soil around the site” that could be above health investigation levels.

It said soil assessment in theseshowed “no significant impact from previous anthropogenic activities”.

“This finding can be contrasted to the comparatively elevated concentrations of trace elements found in major cities across Australia, including Melbourne,” it said.

“Giventhe absenceofsignificant anthropogenic contamination, thereare no recommended actions based on the samples analysed for this study.”

ALatrobe City spokesperson said the councilwelcomedthe results, whichfollowed arequest for the EPA carry out the tests in the general area outside of the proposed facility.

“Council places apriority in continuing this engagement with ourcommunity on this matter, and will continue to work with the EPA to ensure the community remains informed,” the spokesperson said.

The Express contacted communityaction group ALiVe for aresponse.

FOLLOWING the state election, Latrobe Valley Express journalist Stefan Bradley had asit-down chat with the re-electedMember for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien.

LVE: Danny O’Brien, congratulations on retaining Gippsland South. First, let’s talk the election loss -putting aside The Nationals’ wins, what happened?

Discussion: Newly re elected Member for Gippsland South Danny O’Brien speak ing to Larobe Valley Express journalist Stefan Bradley photograph tomparry

Albobacking sustainability

By PHILIP HOPKINS

THE Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has backed Australia’s sustainably managed native and plantation timber industries role, in achieving Australia’s net zero emissions goal and ending global deforestation.

Speaking at the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA)Members DinnerinCanberra recently, Mr Albanese congratulated AFPA and the National FarmersFederation(NFF)for leading ajoint agriculture and forestry delegation to the climate talks just concluded in Egypt.

He was adamant that Australia’s signing of the Forest and Climate Leaders Partnership (FCLP) at COP27, initiatedbythe UK, was completely consistentwith supporting climate smart forestry such as is practiced in Australia:

“The Partnership is consistent with our sustain able native forestry practices, and it will see us focusonpromoting sustainable production and trade, along with scalingupregional carbon markets,” he said.

“We willworktogether to meetour commitments and provide new and yet-to-be-developed renewable forest materials to help move Australia to a net zero economy.”

Mr Albanese also backed the vital role of Australia’s timber plantationsector in meeting Australia’s net zero emission goals. He committed to working with thesector to maximise its opportunities in the carbon market by removing regulatory barriers in the EmissionsReduction Fund.

“I know the plantation industry wants to play itspartinachieving net zero emissions, andwe wanttowork with you in doing just that,”hesaid.

“One thing we’reparticularlykeen to do is to ensurethatyour sector can fullyparticipatein generating and benefiting from carbon credits.”

Mr Albanese said the governmentwas undertaking an independent review of its carbon credits system so Australia can benefit from astrong, credible marketplace.

“We’ll continue to work with you to remove barriers to investmentinplantations and farm forestry, including changes to the water interception rule.”

Under section 20AB of the CarbonFarming Initiative, plantation forestry and farm forestry in areas with average rainfall above 600 millimetres need to meet conditions, known as ‘the water rule’,

that don’t cramp the availability of water.

These conditions includehaving asuitable water accessentitlement, or being in aregion where tree planting is unlikely to have abad impact on water availability.

Permanent environmental plantings are exempt fromthe water rule. Whereas permanent plantings that are not environmental plantings are subject to the water rule.

The water rule was amended in 2020; plantation and farm forestry now meet the water rule if they are in region specified as one in which tree planting is unlikely to hit water availability.

Sincethen, regions havebeen specifiedin Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. Most of these regions align with the Regional Forestry Hubs, which are priority locations for forestry and timber manufacturing.

The federal government aimstoamend the CFI to removethe waterrule, which industry says would remove akey regulatory barrierfor plantation and farm forestry projects.

The chair of AFPA, Diana Gibbs, thanked Mr Albanese and the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Senator, Murray Watt, for their support of forestry and its role in delivering climate goals, timber for our homes, regional jobs and sovereign capability.

“I was very pleased to have the opportunity to thank them both for the more than $300 million in election commitments which have been delivered in the budget,” she said.

“These commitments will help us drive innovation to deliver more timber from the sustainably used forests we already have, as well as start the urgent business of adding more production trees to the estate.”

Ms Gibbs saidthe federal government had committedtoplantinganother billion productiontrees.

“Weare well behind on thisgoal.Aswellasstock ing the hardware shelves, abillion more trees will also be amajor downpayment on the government’s 43 per cent emissionsreduction target, so we really are in aposition to deliver awin-win if the policy settings are right,” she said.

“Importantly,wealsohave bipartisansupport for these policies, and we thank Shadow Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Jonno Duniam, for speaking in support of these policies.”

Partnership: Minsiter forAgriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Murray Watt,picturedrecently in Traralgon. file photograph

ALONG history of tertiary education, industry collaboration and community partnership is being celebrated at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Gippsland Campus, when predecessor institution -Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (GIAE) established itself in Churchill in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges.

“It is exciting to celebrate this milestone for the Gippsland campus, which has become agreat source of pride and fond memories for so many people, bringing access to higher education to this region over five decades,” Federation University vice-chancellor and president prof Duncan Bentley said.

“The Gippsland campus is embedded in this region, growing with it through trials and triumph over the past 50 years,” Federation University Gippsland head of campus Ms Leigh Kennedy said.

“We have akey role to play in the future prosperity of Gippsland and we are rising to the challenge of transition as we partner with industry to address skills shortages in growing and emerging sectors to help drive economic growth in the region.”

Today, the university supports more than 1500 Gippsland students and is working with industries, the government and the community to address skill shortages and drive economic growth and jobs in the region through anew co-operative education model.

The campus is training the next generation of critical allied

1928

Yallourn Technical School is launched in St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Hall, offering junior secondary education, trade certificates and diploma level courses in electrical and mechanical engineering.

1957

The school expands to include JohnField Drive in Newborough on a35-acre lot provided by the SEC. In 1958, the school’s name changed to Yallourn Technical College.

health workers, was occupational therapy launched in 2020 with physiotherapy and speech pathology programs in response to local workforce needs.

Anew engineering degree launched in 2022 aims to address the shortage of qualified electrical engineers.

As the region transitions away from traditional industries like coal-fired power, Federation is working with its partners to build askilled workforce for Gippsland’s emerging clean energy sector.

The University’s Campus Vision maps out abrightfuture in Gippsland, with aplan to bring classrooms to the Gippsland community.

Thus, concentrating more educational activities into key population areas, while the co-op model will see extended workplace learning embedded into all courses and

1968

The new Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (GIAE) takes over responsibility for the existing diploma courses at the Yallourn Technical College, including civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, applied chemistry and business studies.

1970

GIAE is officially opened, with 270 students temporarily accommodated in Newborough.

programs by 2025, giving students a head start on their career.

Students will benefit from courses that are co-designed, co-developed and co-delivered in apartnership with industries.

“As we commemorate the past, Federation is building abright future for the university in Gippsland, where the classroom is brought to the community and extended workplace learning is a part of all programs and courses,” a Federation University spokesperson said.

This approach builds on astrong heritage of industry collaboration, dating back to 1928 when the Yallourn Technical School was set up at the request of the State Electricity Commission to provide technical and engineering support to staff.

As the population grew and the Latrobe Valley developed as acoal

1972

The GIAE moves to Churchill. By the end of 1975, it has schools of engineering, applied science, visual arts, education and business and social sciences.

1976

The Churchill campus is officially opened.

mining region, the college expanded its course offerings, eventually becoming the GIAE.

In 1972, the GIAE moved to Churchill, laying the foundation for the Gippsland campus as we know it today.

It later became the Monash University Gippsland campus, then Federation University Australia in 2014, following amerger with the University of Ballarat.

Aseries of historic information boards along amain corridor will display the latest chapter in the university’s history as part of the celebration.

FEDERATION UNIVERSITY FULL 50-YEAR CELEBRATIONS IN NEXT WEEK’S EXPRESS

1979

In December, architect Dr Dante Bini creator of structures known as Binishells, which are concrete domes inflated into place -erects aBinishell at the Churchill campus. It housed exams and graduation ceremonies until it was demolished in 2009.

1990

The GIAE and Monash University amalgamate.

2014

The University of Ballarat and Monash Gippsland merge to create Federation University Australia.

2022

Federation University has campuses at Gippsland, Ballarat, Berwick, the Wimmera and Brisbane.

From thearchives: The opening of GippslandInstituteof Advanced Education in 1976

photographs supplied

Picturesque: Federation University, Churchill campus

Serving: FederationUniversityvice chancellor and president Professor, Duncan Bentley.

Looking back: The Gippsland InstituteofAdvanced Education,pictured in 1976

by Dr Meredith Fletcher.

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FEDERATION University has renamed its Gippsland librariesinGunai Kurnai as part of its commitmenttoembed Aboriginal languages in its campuses.

Threelibraryspaces have been renamed after consultation with local elders andthe Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation.

One study area was named Tanderra -meaning ‘resting place’ -and thesecond area was named Gallamdah -meaning ‘to think’.

The Gippsland RegionalStudies Collection reading room has been named in honour of respected Gunai Kurnai elder Uncle Albert Mullett.

Uncle Albert helpedlead the Gunai Kurnai people to gain full native title rights and responsibilities over their traditional lands in 2010 and was arespected craftsman of traditional wooden artefacts.

These renamed spaces now feature artworks by two renowned local Gunai Kurnai artists, Aunty JennyMullett –daughterofUncle Albert Mullett –and Ronald Edwards Pepper

The project was apart of the university’s reconciliation action plan to deepen the respect, understanding and cultural connection between theuniversity and First Nations Peoples.

Gunai Kurnai Elder and Federation University council member,DorisPaton,said“embedding

Indigenous culture and knowledge across the university establishes acommitmenttothe aspirations of community, and the pursuit of excellence in education and success for the future”.

Federation University chancellor Terry Moran the nation had “ignored the Indigenous people of Australia and failedtotreat them with the respect and dignity they are owed”.

“We strive to enable cultural securityfor our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students,” Mr Moran said.

“And while there is still more to be done in this area, we are proud to be embedding Indigenous culture across our campuses throughlanguage and artistic knowledge that has been passed down for thousands of years.”

Local language: AuntyDoris Patonconducts asmoking ceremonyatFederation University. photograph supplied

ABBA Day at Morwell Central

ABBA Day was awonderful celebration of all that was discovered this year in music, about the band ‘ABBA’ at Morwell Central.

The day began with a parade in the gym. There was awide array of amazing dress-ups to be seen, including members of the band, people from Sweden, items mentioned in ABBA songs, and clothing from the 1970s.

After the parade, students completed four rotations of activities in multi-age groups. Some of these were

Waterloo: Jessica with the boot she designed.

Dancing Queen bee card, constructing asnowman, making a3Dmobile phone,

and creating amoney tree. The students also participated in acompetition where they had to embellish apicture of a large platform boot.

Next, students had a quiz about ABBA, learnt some dance steps to some of their music, and watched children perform ABBA songs on ‘The Voice Kids’.

Finally, students and staff met in the school’s performing arts centre for an ABBA singalong.

Everyone sang with gusto, and it was avery happy occasion.

Winner takes all: Logan (Swedish peoplelove Donald Duck)and Andrej (Napoleon as mentionedin t the song ‘Waterloo’)

Dancing Queen: Azarya with the snowman she made,becauseSweden is very cold formanymonths of the y year

Gimme gimme: Mila dressed up as Anni-Frid and Allie as Agnetha for ABBADay photographs supplied

Studentsmoveitfor musical

WITH the stage transformed into azoo, it was soon ‘show time’ for St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School Junior School students, during their musical production of Madagascar -A Musical Adventure JR

Students enthralled acaptive audience with their daring escape of penguins, zebras, lions, monkeys, lemurs and giraffes from New York’s Central Park Zoo to explore the vast world.

All students from Prep to Year 6 contributed, whether they were onstage or working behind the scenes, coming together as ateam to produce the final musical production while following the show’s motto of ‘Move it, Move it’.

The musical provided students with a fantastic opportunity to hone their acting, singing and speaking skills, as well as their teamwork and public speaking abilities.

Voice: Year 3studentssinging ‘Wildand Free’.

Reception: Welcoming KingJulianare ElijahasMarty thezebra, Cooper (hidden) as Lemur, Jake as Maurice second in charge lemur,IsabellaasLemur,Lachlan as King Julian and Stella and Aeva as lemurs.

At sea: On theboat to Madagascar are penguinsMia, Aailyah, Tokio and Anson, Araan as Mason themonke,Jackasthe ship captain; IsaaiahasAlexthe lion, Thomas as Melman the giraffe and Amelia as Gloriathe hippo

designing a

HOROSCOPES

by Joanne Madeline Moore

Aries The week starts with the Sun Mercury and Venus all visiting fellow fire sign Sagittarius, which revs up your Ram motor But remember Mars is retrograde so, if you are too hasty, you could find yourself in hot water Slow down and pace yourself! Thursday’s Full Moon is a good time for a brilliant light bulb moment You certainly have the ideas and passion to get an ambitious project off the ground Now all you need is the patience and persistence to finish it

Taurus The Full Moon urges you to shine a bright spotlight on financial matters and personal values Do you need to let go of certain people, possessions or attitudes that have passed their use by date? And be careful that your main form of entertainment isn’t shopping Mars is still retrograding through your money zone, so your bank balance (and budget) won’t appreciate a shop till you drop kind of week The weekend stars favour walking, hiking and biking in nature

Gemini This week’s stars emphasise t Ghe constant balancing act between individual needs and relationship responsibilities The Full Moon and retrograde Mars (both in Gemini) emphasise the need to conserve your energy and prioritise personal projects Whereas the Sun Mercury and Venus shine a bright light on your partner, relatives, friends and/ or colleagues Are you meeting their needs as well as your own? An achievable challenge for a multi tasking Twin!

Cancer You’re keen to daydream the hours away in your cosy Crab cave, as retro Mars and the Full Moon illuminate your solitude zone But as you retreat into your private world make sure you can differentiate between fact and fantasy, otherwise you’ll end up in a confusing mess A work project needs to pass the Practicality Test So try to balance being idealistic with being realistic And don’t make serious commitments unless you ’ re certain you can keep them

Leo When it comes to hopes, wishes, close relationships and your peer group, the more patient you are, the better the final outcome will be A realistic and disciplined daily routine will also help you to pursue your dreams and achieve your goals Do your best to show extra kindness and compassion towards a friend or family member who s going through a tough time The things they are dealing with are more serious and complex than you previously thought

Virgo Work and home life look rather chao g tic, as retrograde Mars and the Full Moon stir up your career and domestic zones Expect the week to be messy and disorganised (and you might get distracted and make some frustrating mistakes) but try to keep things in perspective Accept disruptions with good grace and adapt accordingly! So your motto is from fellow Virgo, entertainer Beyoncé: “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow ”

Libra This week your aspirations zone is activated by the Full Moon but retrograde Mars is there as well So you ’ re focused on your ambitious hopes, dreams and wishes for the future but they will take a while to manifest So your mantra for the moment is from this week’s birthday great film pioneer and entertainment entrepreneur Walt Disney: “All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them ” And the patience and the persistence!

Scorpio The Full Moon highlights the resources you share with others Whether it’s income, property, business or relationships, all joint endeavours must be closely examined And you also need to be circumspect with personal finances You won’t require much encouragement to shop up a storm as retro Mars slows down your financial smarts and speeds up your spontaneous spending gene So be careful you don t blow a big hole in your Christmas budget

Sagittarius With the Sun, Mercury and Vgenus visiting your sign retrograde Mars and a restless Full Moon, you ’ re in adventurous, freedom loving mode Limiting rules, regulations and restrictions will not be welcome! But slow down, Sagittarius, otherwise you could be involved in an argument or accident Inspiring quote is from Sagittarian music great Jim Morrison (who was born on December 8, 1943): “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are

Up closeand personal: Indianna. photographs supplied

WerribeeZoo experience

SENIOR students from Sacred Heart Primary School, Morwell visited Werribee Zoo last week.

The big idea for this term is ‘Connections’ and much of the learning comes from the geography key learning area in the Victorian Curriculum.

Students learnt about the connection between people, their countries, and the natural habitats in which they live around the world.

Capricorn

The Full Moon’s activating your wellbeing zone, so jump off the comfy couch and get moving! Nutritious meals are also on the celestial menu, as you take more interest in your health and more pride in your appearance If you have the confidence to listen to your wise inner voice, then it will point you in the right direction Mercury and Venus are also moving into your sign and this power packed duo will boost communication, creativity and concentration

Aquarius Take a good look at your close frien qds and current peer group Do they encourage you to be the quirky avant garde Aquarian you were born to be? Are they supporting your talents and championing your dreams? It’s also a good week to tackle a creative solo project, as the Full Moon energises your self expression zone Inspiring quote is from music icon (and birthday great) Jim Morrison: “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself ”

Pisces This week you could feel confused or discouraged, especially when it comes to a family matter or a professional issue But escaping into a fantasy world won’t make problems magically disappear As the week progresses do your best to banish procrastination and be a firm and focused Fish, as you find creative solutions to current challenges The gap between dreams and reality is wide but with plenty of patience and persistence you’ll eventually get there

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Grade 5and 6students participated in the Gorilla Geography Educational Program, and were able to participate in adiscussion about African wildlife, specifically focussing on gorillas and the challenges they face. They were able to discuss the gorillas’ fight for extinction, and how the zoo works with the African communities to protect wildlife and how students can help too.

Students in Grade 3and 4attended an African village education program.

The students learnt about the life of people in avillage in Africa and how villagers live side-by-side with wildlife. They went on to discuss and reflect on the similarities and differences between life in Australia and in avillage in Africa. It gave the students time to reflect on the daily life in an African village, the roles of different people in the village, how

Big smiles: Helanah and Aleksja.

people are connected to special places, and how it is possible to live in wildlife-friendly communities.

All students participated in aguided safari bus tour across the auniqueopen range savannah, where they were able to spot rhinos, giraffes and zebras.

The day concluded with the arrival at the school to enjoy apizza dinner.

Trip: Sacred Heart PrimarySchool, Morwell students Yien, Mason and Apenisa at Werribee Zoo

Nature: Ursula.

Well balanced: Shenuli.

New board elected d elecctted

JAN Fitzgerald has been elected chair of Destination Gippsland.

Ms Fitzgerald succeeds NickMurray,who retired from theboard after serving athree-year term as chair.

Despite achallengingenvironmentfor the visitor economy, 2021/22 was ayear of achievement for Destination Gippsland.

Duringthe past 12 months, it was awarded Goldinthe Victorian TourismAwards and the Australian Tourism Awards for Destination Marketing, and won the prestigious Australian MarketingInstitute National Award for Brand Revitalisation.

During 2022, Gippsland showed strongsigns of recovery by attracting the most visitors of any region in Victoria, and expenditure hitanall-time high with more than$1.5billion spent by visitors

Ms Fitzgerald,who was electedchair of Desitnation Gippsland at its recent annual meeting, has been the chair of the Destination Gippsland audit, risk, finance and governance committee, and is an experienced executive leader and non-executive director.

Shehas diverse experience across corporate, notfor-profit and government sectors, with particular skills in governance, strategy, sustainability, finance and retail.

Ms Fitzgerland is also agraduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and CPA Australia.

“I have along connection to Gippsland through family, work and holidays,and am afrequent visitor to beautiful Metung where Ihave asmall property,” she said.

“I am passionate about the opportunity to make a differenceinthe lives and livelihoods of the people of Gippsland.

“I want to thank the board for their support in electingme, and look forward to continuing the work we do to support the tourism industry.

“I especiallywant to acknowledge the tremendous contribution made by Nick Murray, who led the organisation through averychallenging period since 2019, and to board directorMichelle Dickson, who retired afterfiveyears of terrificservice on theboard.”

Josh Singh, General manager of Mansi on Raymond -apremium accommodationproperty in Sale, has alsojoined Destination Gippsland.

DestinationGippslandisthe regionaltourism board, owned by the six local governments in Gippsland.

Destination Gippsland is governed by aboard of directors including Jan Fitzgerald, Neil Travers, Nicola Pero, Andrew Clarke, Josh Singh, Anthony Basford, Kerryn Ellis,Steve Piasente,David Morcom, Ali Wastie and Mark Dupe.

Its role is to inspire, influence and lead positive tourism outcomes through partnerships across Gippsland.

Team: DestinationGippsland boardStuartMcConnell,MarkDupe, Andrew Clark, NickMurray, Kerryn Ellis,JoshSingh, StevePiasente, AliWastie,Jan Fitzgerald and TerryRobinson. photograph supplied

Traf High leads the way

TRAFALGAR High School students participated in the 2022 Walk Against Family Violence (WAFV) on Friday, November 25 in Melbourne’s CDB.

Studentswalked from Parliament House to the Carlton Gardens. The event was held on the United Nation’s Annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and marked the beginning of 16 DaysofActivism against Gender-Based Violence -an internationalcampaign galvanising action to end violenceagainst women and girls aroundthe world, that will run until Saturday,December 10 (International Human Rights Day).

This year was the 14th Annual Walk AgainstFamily Violence, and Trafalgar HighSchoolhas participated in three events beforeCOVID, proudly returning face-to-face in 2022 with students from Year 7, 8and 9supported by Wellbeing staff.

Victoria Police assistantcommissioner of the Family Violence Command, Lauren Callaway, attended the walk, and noted police attend afamily violence related incident every six minutes.

“At schoolour students learn respectful relationships as acore component of the Victorian Curriculum from Year 7to Year 12,” TrafalgarHigh Schoolwelfare manager David ‘Wombat’ Lyons said.

“It is all about embedding aculture of respect and equalityacross the entire school community, participating in eventslikethis allow our students to practicallydemonstrate theirlearning, as well as explore the topics in awider community environment.

“Seeing the community united and engaged in events like these will help our future leaders drive meaningful change later in life.”

“It wasgreat to seesomanypeople come together to Walk Against Family Violence, and see the police drums

leading the march. Together we can all makeadifference,”was feedback from student participantRyan O’Hare.

If you, or anyone you know is experiencing domestic or family violence,

please consider phoning 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or visit www.1800respect. org.au.

Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre can be reached on 1800 015 188.

Boost for Traf Holden Museum

THE Trafalgar Holden Museum was on of 57 recipientstoreceive aNational Library of Australia Community Heritage Grant to help preserve significant local collections.

The Holden museum is receiving more than $13,000 to help preserve importantartefactsfrom Aussie motoring history.

The Trafalgar Holden Museum president, NeilJoyner,saidthe grant would be used to store artefacts according to official museum requirements.

Mr Joynersaidthis included important documents,paintings and leather work dating back to the 1800s, as well as Holden’s first-ever apprentice indenture papers.

He said museum volunteers were completing national accreditations to learn how to store items.

“We have alot of artefacts that are not on display and we want to make sure we will still have them for another 100 years,” Mr Joyner said.

“Weare thrilled to bits as this will bring us in line with the museum industryand make sure our heritage is here for along time to come.”

The Expert Panel chair, Fiona Clarke, selected the grant recipients, who in totalreceived more than $420,000, and noted the increasing diversity of the applicants.

“We are delighted such adiverse range of organisations fromall around Australia have applied this year,” Ms Clarke said.

United: Trafalgar High School students during the Walk Against Family Violence photographs supplied

Great work: Trafalgar High School students and staffMatilda McKinnon, Belinda Pugliese (School Chaplain), Rubyann Kuffer,KaseyO’Reilly, Taylor Riley, SummahCalyk, Ryan O’Hare,JanceyCrilly(School mental health prac titioner)(front) TamikaAuger,HayleySuttonand Charlee Barnes-Stephens

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Delta Goodrem has reason to celebrate this Christmas –nextyear will mark the20thanniversaryof herrecord-breaking debut album InnocentEyes;she’s lovedupwith her long-time boyfriend Matthew Copley;and she’s set to perform at a special event in the Maldives in May. But before sheturns her focus to 2023,the BorntoTrysinger gets into thefestivespirit with this cheerful special. Among the starsjoining Goodrem to sing some Christmas classicsare Hanson, Thelma Plum, TheLumineers,Conrad Sewell, Sam Fischerand Gwen Stefani.Goodrem alsopays aheartfelt tribute to her mentorand friend,the late, great OliviaNewton-John.

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FROM THEHEARTOFOUR NATION:A CELEBRATION SBS and NITV,Monday, 7.30pm

It has been 10 years since NITVburstontofree-to-air TV with content exclusively from and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Thedecade of celebrating Blak drama, food,entertainment,news and documentarieshas flown and SBS is marking the milestone with this musical extravaganza. Getset to bopand hum alongonthe couch on an otherwise humdrum Monday evening.The special livebroadcastfromthe Northern Territory’sUluru-Kata Tjuta National Park will featureCasey Donovan (pictured), ChristineAnu and Troy and Jem Cassar Daley, among others, with Luke Carroll (PlaySchool)and NareldaJacobs (Studio10)onhosting duties.

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6.00 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Round of 16.Group HWinner vGroup GRunner-Up Continued. 8.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Round of 16.Morocco vSpain. Replay 11.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Round of 16.Group HWinner vGroup GRunner-Up Replay 2.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup Round of 16.Japan vCroatia. Replay.From Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah, Qatar 5.30 FIFA WorldCup 2022 DailyWorld CupShow

6.00 FIFAWorld Cup 2022 Preview Show. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 TheToysThat Built TheWorld: Clash Of TheToy Titans. (PG) 8.25 TheAirport: Back In TheSkies. (M) Part 1of3 9.20 TokyoVice (Premiere) An American journalist movestoJapan 10.25 SBS WorldNews Late. 10.55 Dignity (Premiere, Ma) 11.50 The Night Manager.(Mas,R) 12.40 Romulus. (MA15+av,R) 3.30 NSW Seniors’ Christmas Concert 2021. (R) 4.50 Destination Flavour: Singapore Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC PhilippinesThe World Tonight.

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TEN (10, 5) NINE (9,8) 6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 The Great Acceleration. (R) 11.00 Australia Remastered. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Media Watch. (PG, R) 1.15 Call TheMidwife. (PG, R) 2.15 TheBig Blue (R) 3.10 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.10 Long Lost Family (PG,R) 4.55 Back Roads. (R) 5.25 Hard Quiz (PG, R)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The MorningShow.(PG) 11.30 SevenMorning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Mr Christmas. (2017,PGa,R)Sam Page, Tara Holt,Sam Guinan-Nyhart. 2.00 Border Security:International. (PG,R) 2.30 Travel And Eat With Dan &Steph. (Return, PG) 3.00 TheChase. (R) 4.00 SevenNewsAt4 5.00 TheChaseAustralia. (R)

6.00 SevenNews. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens Summer Joh meets some volunteers. 8.30 MOVIE: Groundhog Day (1993,PGal, R) Acynical TV weatherman finds himself living the same day overand overagain. Bill Murray Andie MacDowell,Chris Elliott. 10.40 TheAmazing Race (PGl) Hosted by Phil Keoghan. 11.40 World’sDeadliest: Holidays. (Ml, R) 12.40 MOVIE: Deranged. (2002, Msv, R) JoBeth Williams. 1.00[VIC]HomeShopping 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 SevenEarly News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Today 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News 12.00 MOVIE: AGift Wrapped Christmas. (2015,G,R)Meredith Hagner,Travis Milne, Anna VanHooft. 1.45 Garden Gurus Moments. (R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG,R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 AfternoonNews.

4.30[VIC]MillionaireHotSeat 5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (R) 5.30[VIC]WINNews.

6.00 The Talk.(PGa) 7.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, R) 8.00 10 News First: Breakfast. 8.30 Studio 10.(PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (Ma) 1.00 FBI: Most Wanted. (Mdv,R) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.(R) 3.00 JudgeJudy. (PG,R) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 4.00 Farm To Fork.

TheBoldAnd TheBeautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.30 TheProject Alook at the day’snews and events. 7.30 2022 AACTAAwards (Mal) Coverage of the 12th annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. 9.30 My Life Is Murder (Final,Mas) Alexa ends up in acat-and-mouse game with thewife of aguru who died under suspicious circumstances. 10.30 Bull (Mv,R)BullassistsChunk. 11.30 TheProject (R) Alook at the day’snews and events. 12.30 TheLate ShowWith Stephen Colbert. (PG) Late-night talk show 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS Mornings.

6am The LateShow

With Stephen Colbert 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Becker 9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 The Middle. 11.30 Frasier 12.30pm Friends. 1.00 Becker 2.00 NBL Slam. 2.30 The Big BangTheory 3.00 TheKingOf Queens. 4.00 Becker 5.00 Frasier 6.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.20 TwoAnd AHalf Men. 10.10 TheBig Bang Theory. 11.00 Frasier Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 TheLate Show

2.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 JoyceMeyer 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

6am The RedTurtle. Continued. (2016,PG, No dialogue) 7.20 The Grey Fox. (1982) 9.00 Sissi: The Fateful Years. (1957,PG, German) 11.00 Curse Of The Golden Flower.(2006,M,Mandarin) 1.05pm Raid.(2018 PG, Hindi) 3.20 The Way. (2010,PG) 5.40 AMonth Of Sundays. (2015,PG) 7.40 Bellbird. (2019,M) 9.30 BreakingSurface. (2020,M,Norwegian) 11.00 Take Shelter. (2011,M) 1.15am Adoration. (2008,M) 3.10 Black Sea. (2014,M) 5.15 The MovieShow. 5.45 The Way. (2010, PG)

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With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 The Late LateShow With JamesCorden. 3.30 The King Of Queens. 4.30 Home Shopping. 7MATE (73, 63) SBS WORLD MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 10.50 Treaty 11.00 Off Country. 11.30 GoingPlaces Noon The Last Land:Gespe’gewa’gi. 12.30 Hunting Aotearoa. 1.00 TheBeach. 1.30 Jupurrurla: Man Of Media. 2.00 ShortlandSt. 2.30 The Cook Up 3.00 Bushwhacked! 3.25 TheMagicCanoe. 3.50 Wolf Joe. 4.00 Raven’s Quest. 4.10 Grace Beside Me. 4.35 Spartakus And TheSun Beneath TheSea. 5.00 Our Stories 5.30 Te Ao With Moana. 6.00 Bamay. 6.30 News. 6.40 Meeting Place 7.10 Peckham’s Finest. 8.30 I, Sniper 9.30 Kutcha’s Koorioke 9.40 MOVIE: Bitchin: TheSoundAnd Fury Of Rick James. (2021, MA15+) 11.40 Late Programs.

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Mornings. 10.00 Australian Story.(R) 10.35

That PacificSports Show.(R) 11.05 Christmas

In Australia With Christine Anu. (R) 12.00

ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 2.00 Call TheMidwife. (PG,R) 3.00 GardeningAustralia.(R) 4.10 Long Lost Family.(PG,R) 5.00 Back Roads. (R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 TheDrum.

7.00 ABCNews.

7.30 7.30 PresentedbySarah Ferguson.

8.00 YouCan’t Ask That:

Olympic And Paralympic Gold Medallists. (PG, R) Seven gold medallists speak candidly.

8.30 StillWeRise. Alook at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy,the oldest continuing protest occupationsiteinthe world.

9.30 TheWimbledon Kidnapping. (PG, R) Part 1of2

10.20 Stuff TheBritish Stole: TheReturn. (Final, PG, R)

10.50 ABC Late News.

11.05 TheBusiness (Final, R)

11.20 Love On TheSpectrum. (R)

12.20 The Cult Of TheFamily.(Ma, R) 1.15 Parkinson In Australia. (PG, R) 2.05 AskThe Doctor.(PG, R) 3.05 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

4.25 The Drum. (R) 5.25 7.30.(R)

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6.00 WorldWatch. 7.00 BBC News At Six 7.30 WorldWatch. 9.00 Peer To Peer 10.00 Paul O’Grady’sLittle Heroes. (Premiere) 11.00 The Shape Of History.(PG) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Saving Lives At Sea. (R) 3.00 Railway Vietnam. (R) 3.30 The CookUp. (PG,R) 4.00 World’sMostScenic Railway Journeys. (PGal, R) 4.50 Grand Tours Of Scotland’sRivers. (PG) 5.30 FIFAWorld Cup Extra2022.

SBS WorldNews

6.30

7.35 World’sMostScenic Railway Journeys: Colorado To Utah, USA (PG) Narrated by Bill Nighy

8.30 Costco: Is It ReallyWorth It? (PG)Explores the membership-only retailer Costco,revealinghow it manages to keep prices so low

9.30 WarOfThe Worlds. (Return, MA15+av) Despitesavingthe world, Bill finds himself further estranged from his family

10.25 SBS WorldNewsLate

10.55 L’Opera. (Premiere, Mdls)Follows the dramas of the Paris Opera.

11.50 TheEagle. (MA15+av,R)

4.05 Going Places With ErnieDingo. (R) 4.35 Bamay. (R)

5.00 NHK World EnglishNewsMorning 5.30 ANC PhilippinesThe World Tonight.

6am WorldWatch. 9.30 Shortland

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6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The MorningShow.(PG) 11.30 SevenMorning News. 12.00 Gold Coast Medical. (Ma,R) 1.00 Border Security: International. (R) 1.30 The Spin. (PG) 2.00 Test Cricket: Pre-Game Show. 3.00 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWestIndies.Day 1. Afternoon session 5.00 Test Cricket: Tea Break. 5.40 Cricket. Second Test. Australia v West Indies. Day 1. Late afternoon session

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWest Indies. Day 1. Late afternoon session.

7.40 Test Cricket:Dinner Break. Takes alookatthe day of playsofar in theSecond Test between Australia andthe West Indies.

8.00 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWestIndies. Day 1. Evening session. From Adelaide Oval.

10.30 Heroes &Legends: Sport Hall Of Fame. (PG)The Sport Australia Hall of Fame special 12.00 FantasyIsland. (Ma, R) Agroup of old friends visits the Island.

1.00 MedicalEmergency. (PG, R) [VIC]HomeShopping. 1.30 MedicalEmergency (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBCToday 5.00 SevenEarly News. 5.30 Sunrise

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6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 BondiVet.(PGm, R) 1.00 Dream ListingsByron Bay. (R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 Afternoon News.

4.30[VIC]MillionaireHotSeat 5.00 Millionaire HotSeat. (R) 5.30[VIC]WINNews.

6.00 Nine News

7.00 ACurrent Affair

7.30 Great Getaways (Return, PG) Ajourney to Antarctica and SouthGeorgia.

8.30 Paramedics. (Mam)A suburban shooting has paramedics battling to savea youngman’s life

9.30 Police After Dark. (Mlv) After officers are called to afight at a takeaway,four people are arrested.

10.30 Nine News Late. Alook at the latest news andevents.

11.00 Emergency Call. (Ma)

11.50 Pure Genius. (Mm)

12.40 Tipping Point. (PG, R)

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R)

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’sVoice Of Victory. (PGa)

4.30 ACurrent Affair.(R) 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today

6.00 The Talk.(PGa) 7.00 JudgeJudy.(PG, R) 7.30 Bold. (PG, R) 8.00 10 News First: Breakfast. 8.30 Studio 10.(PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (Ma) 1.00 Jamie’sQuick &EasyFood. (R) 1.30 Jamie’sEasyMealsFor EveryDay.(R) 2.00 Ent. Tonight 2.30 GCBC. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy.(PG, R) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold AndThe Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.30 TheProject Thehosts and guestpanellists takealook at the day’snews, events and hot topics.

7.30 Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders. Jamie Oliver preparesalemongrass chicken, sweet potato chilli and achocolateparty tray cake

8.30 Law&Order: SVU. (Mav,R)The unit comes to the aid of an activist who suspects her sister has been kidnapped by ahate group.Garland and Benson push forchange with NYPD brass. Kat gets some good news.

10.30 Blue Bloods. (Mv, R) Follows afamily of cops in New York City as they tackle crime and the challenges of their personal lives.

11.30 TheProject. (R) Alook at the day’snews and events.

12.30 TheLate ShowWith Stephen Colbert. (PG) Late-night talk show 1.30 Home Shopping. (R)

6am Morning

6am The Way. Continued. (2010,PG) 8.05 AMonth Of Sundays. (2015, PG) 10.05 Take Shelter.(2011, M) 12.20pm Black Sea. (2014, M) 2.25 The Grey Fox. (1982) 4.05 Howard Lovecraft. (2016,PG) 5.40 DeanSpanley.(2008) 7.35 FreshmanYear.(2020) 9.30 White Squall. (1996,M) 11.50 Mulholland Falls. (1996,MA15+) 1.50am Lina From Lima. (2019, MA15+, Quechua) 3.20 Late Programs.

6am Morning Programs. 11.00 American Restoration. 11.30 Pawn Stars. Noon Hellfire Heroes. 1.00 Scrap Kings. 3.00 Billy The Exterminator 3.30 No Man’s Land. 4.30 Aussie Lobster Men 5.30 American Restoration. 6.00 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWestIndies. Day 1. Late afternoon session. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 8.30 MOVIE: Resident Evil: Apocalypse. (2004,M) 10.25 Hardcore Pawn. 10.55 Late Programs.

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6am TV Shop 7.00 Creflo 7.30 TV Shop 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Days Of OurLives. 12.55 TheYoung And The Restless. 1.50 Explore. 2.00 As Time Goes By 3.20 AntiquesRoadshow 3.50 MOVIE: Silent Dust. (1949, PG) 5.30 Murder,She Wrote. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 Grantchester 8.40 MOVIE: LiveAnd LetDie.(1973,PG) 11.10 Late Programs.

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6am Children’s Programs.

Noon The Carrie Diaries. 2.00 Full House. 3.00 TheNanny 3.30 3rd Rock. 4.00 That ’70s Show 4.30 Raymond. 5.30 TheNanny 6.00 3rd Rock 6.30 That ’70s Show 7.00 YoungSheldon 7.30 Survivor 8.30 LoveIsland Australia. 9.30 Naked Attraction 10.30 DatingNoFilter. 11.30 Young Sheldon. Midnight Dash Dolls. 1.00 BelowDeck Mediterranean. 2.00 Late Programs.

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6am The LateShow

With Stephen Colbert 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Becker 9.00 The KingOfQueens 10.00 Friends. 10.30 TheMiddle. Noon TheBig Bang Theory 1.00 Frasier 2.00 Becker 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker 5.00 Frasier 6.00 Friends. 8.00 TheBig BangTheory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 Frasier Midnight Shopping. 1.30 Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Late Programs.

6am Home Shopping 8.00 Pooches At Play 8.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. 9.00 iFish. 9.30 Reel Action. 10.00 MacGyver. Noon NCIS: LosAngeles. 1.00 NCIS 2.00 Bull 3.00 Bondi Rescue 3.30 TheLove Boat 4.30 Star Trek:The Next Generation. 5.30 MacGyver 7.30 NCIS 8.30 Bull 10 30 TheCode. 11.30 48 Hours. 12.30am Home Shopping. 2.00 Tommy 3.00 ST:NextGen 4.00 MacGyver.

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ABCNews. Takesalook at today’stop stories.

Troppo (Malv,R)The investigation headsdown adark path.

ABC LateNews Detailed coverage of the day’sevents.

11.20 Adam Hills: TheLastLeg. (R) UK-based panelshow 12.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 TheMorning Show. (PG) 11.30 SevenMorning News. 12.00 House Of Wellness. (PG) 1.00 Gold Coast Medical. (R) 2.00 Test Cricket: Pre-Game Show 3.00 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWestIndies. Day 2. Afternoon session. From Adelaide Oval. 5.00 Test Cricket: TeaBreak. 5.40 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWest Indies. Day 2. Late afternoon session.

6.00 SevenNews. 7.00 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWest Indies. Day 2. Late afternoon session. 7.40 Test Cricket:Dinner Break Takes alook at the dayofplay so farinthe Second Test between Australia and the West Indies. 8.00 Cricket. Second Test.Australia vWestIndies. Day 2. Evening session. From Adelaide Oval. 10.30 MOVIE: Hitch (2005,Mls, R) A“date doctor”falls for asassy journalist. Will Smith, EvaMendes. 1.00 Black-ish. (PGl, R) Dre realises he may be outoftouch. [VIC]HomeShopping. 1.30 Black-ish. (PGa, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R)

4.00 Million Dollar Minute (R) 5.00 NBCToday.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Long Story Short. (2021, Ml) Rafe Spall, ZahraNewman, Noni Hazlehurst. 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30[VIC]MillionaireHotSeat.(R) 5.00 Millionaire HotSeat. (R) 5.30[VIC]WINNews.

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12.30 TheLate ShowWith StephenColbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 5.30[VIC]Infomercials.(PG,R)

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FIFAWorld Cup.Quarter final. Match 53

Winner vMatch 54 Winner.Replay 11.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Quarter final. Match 49 Winner vMatch 50 Winner.Replay 2.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Quarter final. Match 53 Winner vMatch 54 Winner Replay 5.30 FIFAWorld Cup2022Daily World Cup Show.

6.00

6.25 TheABC Of:Wil Anderson. (PG, R) Hosted by DavidWenham.

7.00 ABCNews. Takesalook at today’stop stories.

7.30 Doc Martin. (PG) Martin and Louisa head to London so that Martin can present hisresearch paper

8.20 Shetland. (Malv) After the shocking events of the previous night, Perez must piecetogether what happened before arampaging and vengeful Creggan finds histarget.

9.20 Midsomer Murders (Mv, R) Arealestate agentismurdered in front of acrowd at theunveilingof anew doll’shouse collection.

10.50 MOVIE: Judy (2019, Ml, R)

Judy Garland heads to London Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley 12.45 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

FIFA World Cup 2022

Preview Show

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Michael Palin: TravelsOfA

Lifetime:Himalaya Pt 2. (PGal, R) Michael Palin revisits his travel series.

8.30 Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors (PG, R) Part 1of2

9.25 Thatcher &Reagan. (PGav,R)Part1 of 2

10 25 Celebrity Letters

And Numbers. (M, R)

11.25 HowFootball Saved

My Life: Abraham. (R)

11.30 FIFAWorld CupClassic Matches. (R)

1.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Quarter final. Match 55 Winner vMatch 56 Winner

4.30 FIFAWorld CupClassic Matches. (R) 5.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup. Quarter

final. Match 51 Winner vMatch 52 Winner

6am MorningPrograms. 12.00 Christmas

With The Salvos. (PG) 12.30 Border Security: Int. (PG, R) 1.00 Dog Patrol. (PG, R) 1.30

Surveillance Oz Dashcam. (PG, R) 2.00 Test Cricket: Pre-GameShow 3.00 Cricket. Second Test.Australia vWestIndies. Day 3. Afternoon session 5.00 Test Cricket: Tea Break. 5.40 Cricket. SecondTest. Australia v West Indies. Day 3. Late afternoon session.

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWest Indies. Day 3. Late afternoon session.

7.40 Test Cricket: Dinner Break Takes alook at the day of play so farinthe Second Test between Australia and the West Indies.

8.00 Cricket. Second Test. Australia vWestIndies. Day 3. Evening session. From Adelaide Oval.

10.30 MOVIE: There’s Something About Mary. (1998,MA15+ls, R)

Aman looks for hishigh-school crush. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller 1.00 Black-ish. (PG, R) Thefamily has game night. [VIC]HomeShopping. 1.30 Black-ish. (PGa, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 It’sAcademic (R) 4.30 Get Clever. (R) 5.00 Million Dollar Minute. (R)

6.00 DriveTV. (R) 6.30 ACA. (R) 7.00

Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra:Saturday (PG) 12.00 Cybershack.(PG) 12.30 Our

State On APlate. (PG) 1.00 Cross Court 1.30

Country Home Rescue With Shaynna Blaze. (PG,R) 2.30 My Way. (PG, R) 3.00 Christmas

With Emma Dean: Eatwell Presents. 4.00

Garden Gurus. 4.30 Explore TV 5.00 News.

5.30 Country House Hunters Australia.

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 ACurrentAffair

7.30 Christmas With Delta. AChristmas concertwith Delta Goodrem, as well as atributetoOlivia Newton-John.

9.00 MOVIE: Love Actually (2003, Mlns,R)Explores aseries of interlocking vignettes about love and romance in Britain in the weeks before Christmas Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, KeiraKnightley 11.45 MOVIE: TheLove Guru. (2008,Mdls, R) Aman tries to break into the self-help business. MikeMyers 1.20 Cross Court. (R) 1.45 Talking Honey. (PG) 2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 SkippyThe Bush Kangaroo (R)

6.00 Reel Action.(R) 6.30 Leading The Way.

7.00 Tough Tested.(PG, R) 8.00 Escape Fishing. (R) 8.30 What’sUpDownUnder.(R)

9.00 Australia By Design: Architecture. (PG, R) 9.30 St10.(PG) 12.00 PlanetShapers. (R) 12.30 Well Traveller.(PGa, R) 1.00 Offroad Adv.(R) 2.00 All 4Adventure. (PGl, R) 3.00

4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 Christmas With AustralianWomen’s Weekly.(R) 5.00 News.

6.00 Bondi Rescue. (PGd, R) Follows the workofelite lifeguards.

6.30 Hungry. PresentedbyGeorge Calombaris and SarahTodd.

7.00 Jamie’sOne-Pan Wonders. Jamie Oliver cooks up his smoked salmon pasta.

7.30 Blue Bloods. (Mv) Frank and MayorChase butt heads

8.30 CSI: Vegas (Mv) Catherine’s frustration intensifies when aleadsuspect in Grace’s disappearance is foundmurdered.

9.30 NCIS. (Mav, R) After an unknown shooter causeschaos at an annual Thanksgiving 5K run,the NCIS team searchesfor the culprit.

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6am Morning Programs. 12.10pm Extreme Africa. 1.00 From The Heart Of Our Nation: The SunsetConcert. 3.00 GoingPlaces. 4.00 The Case Of The ThreeSided Dream. 5.30 Power To The People. 6.00 PacificIslandFood Revolution. 6.50 News. 7.00 On CountryKitchen. 7.30 Call Of TheBaby Beluga. 8.30 MOVIE: Arizona Dream. (1992, M) 10.55 Late Programs.

6amWorldWatch.

7.40DWGlobal3000 8.10WorldWatch 9.30

6am

TheMovie Show 6.35 Creation.(2009) 8.30 Tenderness.(2013,PG, French) 10.00 White Squall (1996,M) 12.20pm Freshman Year.(2020) 2.15 DeanSpanley.(2008) 4.10 Coming Home. (2014, PG, Mandarin) 6.10 The Fifth Element. (1997, PG) 8.30 TrainToBusan Presents: The Peninsula. (2020,Korean) 10.40 End Of TheCentury.(2019 Catalan) 12.15am Late Programs.

Sunday, December 11

6.30 TheABC Of:Garry McDonald. (PG, R) HostedbyDavidWenham. 7.00 ABC News. Takesalook at today’stop stories. 7.30 Death In Paradise. (PG, R) Ayoungwoman is murdered. 8.30 MOVIE: ThePost. (2017,Ml) Thepublisher of TheWashington Postand its driven editor race to expose agovernment cover-up.Meryl Streep,Tom Hanks, SarahPaulson. 10.25 Miniseries:Ridley Road. (Mav,R)Part 3of4 11.25 MysteryRoad: Origin. (Ml, R) Jay unmasks the“KellyGang. 12.20 TheHeights. (PG, R) 2.40 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.00 Classic Countdown. (PG, R)

5.00 Think Tank. (R)

6.00 Soccer.Continued. 8.30 Soccer.2022 FIFAWorld Cup.Quarter final. Match 55 Winner vMatch 56 Winner.Replay 11.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Quarter final. Match 51 Winner vMatch 52 Winner.Replay 2.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Quarter final. Match 55 Winner vMatch 56 Winner Replay 5.30 FIFAWorld Cup2022Daily World Cup Show.

6.00 FIFAWorld Cup 2022 Preview Show. Apreview of FIFAWorld Cupmatches

6.30 SBSWorld News.

7.30 PeterO’Toole: Along Sky Roads To Aqaba. Alook at the lifeofactor Peter O’Toole.

9.10 Franklin. Recounts theepic seven-year campaigntosaveTasmania’s World Heritage-listed Franklin River.

10.50 TheRealPeaky Blinders: TheRacecourse Wars (PGav,R) 11.50 IAmJFK Jr (Ml, R) 1.30 Michael Mosley: Trust Me, I’mA Doctor (PGa,R) 3.30 The Restaurant That Burns Off Calories. (PG,R) 4.40 Bamay.(R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 France 24 Feature. 5.30 Al JazeeraNews.

6am WorldWatch. 9.30 Shortland St. 11.00 The Movie Show 11.30 Bamay 11.50 Party Of Five 1pm Speedweek. (Return) 3.00 The Rising 4.00 WorldWatch 4.30 Insight 5.30 TheBee Whisperer 6.30 FIFAWorld Cup 2022 Daily World Cup Show 7.00 FIFAWorld Cup 2022 PreviewShow 7.30 RocKwiz Salutes. 9.30 QAnon: The Search ForQ 10.30 Cryptoland. 11.30 Late Programs. 6am Children’s Programs. 6.40pm Andy’sAquatic Adventures. 7.00 Andy And The Band 7.20 Bluey. 7.30 Australia Remastered. (Final) 8.25 Pilgrimage: TheRoad To The Scottish Isles. 9.30 ALeague Of Her Own. 10.45 A-ha:The Movie 11.45 MOVIE: TwoHands. (1999,MA15+) 1.15am Long Lost Family. 2.00 ABC News Update. 2.05 Close. 5.00 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.10 Dot 5.25 Baby Jake. 5.35 Late Programs. ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Coming Home. Continued. (2014, PG,

Mandarin) 6.30 The Fifth Element. (1997, PG) 8.50 Sun Children. (2020, PG, Farsi) 10.35 Dead Ringers (1988,M) 12.45pm TheImpossible.(2012, M) 2.50 Creation.(2009) 4.50 The Perfect Candidate. (2019,PG, Arabic) 6.50 Late Bloomers. (2011, PG) 8.30 The Big Short. (2015,M) 10.50 Whiplash. (2014,MA15+) 12.50am Late Programs. 6am Morning Programs. 1pm RugbyUnion.Ella 7s.Replay. 1.25 Away From Country. 2.25 TheSouth Sydney Story 2.55 Feeding The Scrum. 3.20 Football. NTFL.Women’s Under-18s. 4.35 Football. NTFL.Men’s.Under-18s. 5.50 Spirit Talker 6.20 News. 6.30 Wild West. 7.30 Greatest HitsOfThe 70s. 8.30 Kutcha’s Koorioke. 8.40 Charley Pride: I’mJustMe. 10.00 Westwind:

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6am Home Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 Travel And EatWithDan &Steph. 10.30 Weekender 11.00 Australia’s Big Backyards. Noon Horse Racing. TheInghamDay,Gateway Raceday and Ladbrokes Park Race Day 6.00 Border Security:International. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.30 Escape To The Perfect Town. 10.30 Penelope Keith’sHidden Villages. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6am Morning Programs. 1pm Blokesworld. 1.30 Australia ReDiscovered. 2.00 Motor Racing. AMRS. H’lights. 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars 4.00 Carnage. 5.00 Leepu And Pitbull. 6.00 Cricket. Second Test. AustraliavWestIndies. Day3.Lateafternoon session. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Ultimate Rides. 8.30 Counting Cars. 9.30 Full Custom Garage. 10.30 Barrett-Jackson: Revved Up 11.30 Late Programs.

6am MorningPrograms. 7.30 TV Shop 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 TV Shop 10.00 Gideon’s Way. 11.10 Explore. 11.15 MOVIE: Twice Round The Daffodils. (1962, PG) 1.10pm MOVIE: Please Turn Over.(1959,PG) 3.00 MOVIE: My Brother Jonathan. (1948) 5.15 MOVIE: Curse Of The Pink Panther. (1983,PG) 7.30 MOVIE: The SpyWho LovedMe. (1977,M) 10.05 MOVIE: The Bourne Ultimatum. (2007, M) 12.15am Late Programs.

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Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 The KingOfQueens. 8.00 Frasier 9.00 Becker 10.00 Friends. Noon The King Of Queens 1.00 TheChallengeAustralia. 3.00 Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory 10.15 Friends. 12.15am Home Shopping. 1.45 Mom. 2.15 NBL Slam. 2.45 Broke 4.30 Home Shopping.

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6am Children’s Programs. 1.40pm The Coolangatta Gold 2022. 2.40 Inside Phuket Airport 4.40 About ABoy 5.10 MOVIE: TheBoss Baby.(2017) 7.00 MOVIE: Shrek 2. (2004 PG) 9.00 MOVIE: The Mummy Returns.(2001, M) 11.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 12.30am Manifest. 2.20 MikeTyson Mysteries. 2.30 TransformersBumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures. 3.00 Late Programs.

6am Shopping. 9.00 Healthy Homes Aust. 9.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. 10.00 4x4 Adventures. 11.00 All 4 Adventure. Noon The Love Boat 1.00 ST:Next Gen. 2.00 A-League All Access. 2.30 RoadsLess Travelled 3.00 MacGyver 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 IFish 6.00 Scorpion 7.00 Soccer.A-League Men. Matchweek 7. Sydney FC vMelbourne City 10.00 MacGyver 11.00 Late Programs.

ABC TV (2) SBS (3) SEVEN (7,6) TEN (10, 5) NINE (9,8) 6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 WeekendBreakfast. 10.30 World This Week.(R) 11.00 Compass. (PG,R) 11.30 Praise. 12.00 News. 12.30 Landline: Summer Series. (R) 1.00 Gardening Aust.(R) 2.00 Wil Anderson: Wilogical. (Mls, R) 3.00 Fake Or Fortune?(R) 4.00 The Pacific: In TheWakeOfCaptain Cook With Sam Neill.(Final, PG, R) 4.55 Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat. (R) 5.30 AntiquesRoadshow.(R)

6am MorningPrograms. 1.00 Border Security:Int. (PGad, R) 1.30 SurveillanceOz Dashcam. (PG, R) 2.00 Test Cricket: Pre-Game Show 3.00 Cricket. SecondTest. Aust v West Indies. Afternoon session. (Please note: alternativeschedule may be shown due to changestocricketcoverage). 5.00 Test Cricket: TeaBreak. 5.40 Cricket. Second Test. Aust vWestIndies. Late afternoonsession.

6.00 Nine News Sunday. 7.00 Snackmasters. (PG) Hosted by Scott Pickettand Poh Ling Yeow 8.40 60 Minutes Current affairs program, investigating,analysingand uncovering the issuesaffectingall Australians. 9.40 NineNews Late. Alook at the latest news and events. 10.10 TheFirst48: AMan’s Game (Mal) Aman is shot and left to die in somebushes. 11.10 Manhunt: TheRailway Murders. (MA15+av) 12.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R)

Great Australian Detour (R)

4Adventure. (PGl) 5.00

(PGa)

9.30 FBI. (Mv,R)Whenfive prominent men are killed playing poker, theinvestigation leads to amember of adrug cartel.

11.30 TheSundayProject. (R) Alook at the day’snews.

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RECENTLY, Icontacted Hancock Plantation’s regarding their staff having claimed to have seen aTasmanian Tiger in the Strezlecki Ranges.

Ireceived areply which was welcome, and informedthat they hadnoinformation on the matter.

What Iwas not told, and Irecently uncovered, was the fact they contract out the on ground work to Hazelwood Forestry.

Amonth ago Icontactedthe owner of this company via email and asked if any of their staff claimed to of seenaTasmanian Tiger in the StrezleckiRanges.

Ihave sadly not received areply,somaybe Hazelwood Forestry can reply to this email publicly via here.

Allegedsightings go back in that catchment to at least the 1950s, and in 1998 Ihave no doubt Ivideotaped one from adistance on the South Gippsland edge of the Strzelecki Ranges.

If you would like to report an alleged sighting of aTasmanian Tiger, please call 0434 904 944.

Scientifically it’s possible, as there has not been mammal surveyscompleted for this creature in the Strezelecki’s etc.

Michael Moss, Morley WA

Valid points

IT was interesting to read (LV Express 30/11/22)a letter from Viv Forbes in Queensland, raising many valid matters under the title ‘Not Green at all’.

Of course there are other factors that must sensibly be recognised too by realists before deciding such massive changes to our societies.

Few know what it takes to produce the lithium batteries for one average electric vehicle, so ‘ll list them as follows:

•52kg graphite;

•35kg aluminium;

•29kg nickel;

•20kg copper;

•10kg manganese;

•8kg cobalt;

•6kg lithium, and;

•5kg iron.

(These are overseas figures, where such vehicles aremade,that’s why their cost willneed big subsidies to meet Green and political targets).

Then let’s look at what it will take (inregards to Nickel alone):

Nickel in EV’s deployed globally in 2020: 53,400 tonnes.Forecast annual nickel EV usage by 2030: 1,700,000 tonnes.

Then look at the fire risk -ifcatching fire in an accident, the complications of all these and other vehicle materials (US figures) show about 40,000 litres of water neededtoquench the fire (how manyfireunits )and disposal/insurance costs and health implications?

Then to process/create these metals graphite requires temperatures at near 3000C and currently, all is produced in China.Aluminium production requires at least 1400C.

Wind and solar are absolutely unable to sustain those temperatures. Oour coal will be essential! Perhaps the power linescan be built through Green through Melbourne city and Bayside?

So people, although EV’s sound attractive, as Viv Forbes in Queensland has also told us regarding other impacts justlastweek, GreenPolicies are ‘Not Green at all’.

Graham Starkey, Traralgon

Makea move that counts

STROKE Foundation’sannual physicalfundraiser Stride4Stroke has raised more than $320,000 this year.

Iwould like to take this opportunity to thank the 1619 participants from acrossAustralia for contributing to this incredible achievement.

Every step, every minute of activity, and every dollar raised will make an enormous difference to survivors of stroke and their families.

By getting involved in Stride4Stroke, participants playthe vitalrole of raising awareness aboutstroke in their local communities, all while taking steps to reduce their own stroke risk. Together, they clocked 903,000 moving minutes.

While our month-long Stride4Stroke campaign has wrapped up for another year, our fundraising efforts

Around 75 per cent of Stroke Foundation’s income came from donations and bequests, mostly from survivors, theirfamiliesand network of friends and supporters. These incredibleindividuals understandthe impactofstroke and the value of finding the information, supportand careyou need to recovery.

Their generosity and commitment to Stroke Foundation’s work is humbling.

Preventing and treating stroke should not be

the sole responsibility of thefamily members who have already had to endure so much. But currently,without their donations, 1335 phone calls to Stroke Foundation’s dedicated phonesupport service StrokeLine, would have gone unanswered. Hospitals wouldnot receive vital resources critical to asurvivor’s recovery, and our Enableme online support service would not exist.

We know that without our amazing supporters, evenmorepeople would fall through the gaps once they have been discharged from hospital.

Put simply, no one elseprovides thesevital services.

Without the generosity of stroke survivors and theirfamilies, the Stroke Foundation’ resources, services, and educational programs would just not exist.

Over 445,000 Australians are living with the impact of stroke.

Together, we can make lifebetter for stroke survivors, their families, and carers.

If you can donate regularly to our work, even a small amount, you will help ease the burden on survivors and their families.

Together, we can change the state of stroke in Australia, and we would very much appreciate your support.

Sharon McGowan, Stroke Foundation

From the Salvos

CHRISTMAS is one of the busiest times of the year for The Salvos.

I’ve beenaSalvation Army officer for over 30 years -meaning over 30 Christmases of collecting, communityoutreach and lunches, carols, hamper packing, donation pickups and drop offs.

It’s easy to get swept up in the busyness, but in amongst it all, it’simportant to comebackto what matters most, why we do what we do at TheSalvos over the Christmas season.

One of our Christmas stories is fromFiona’s family, who would have spent Christmas homeless if it were not for the help of The Salvos.

Whatdid TheSalvos do thatmeant the most to her?

“They showedusunconditional love,” shesaid, “and our lives changed forever.”

‘Leave no one in need this Christmas’ is our message -not just physical need, but in terms of practical support, personal connection, kindness and love.

Christmasisvery hard for those unable to make ends meet, for those suffering from the crippling financial impacts of the last few years.

It’s extremely hard for people that are without family or a support network, many of whom feel completely disconnected from society at atime

Tigerwalkamong us?

The first step will be to select anew and, hopefully, credible leader as the first step towards rebuilding the fortunes of the party.

Matthew Guy hadtwo chancesto‘deliver the goods’ and failed lamentably on both occasions.

Michael JGamble, Belmont

Need to look holistic

OUR native forest industry has seen many changes throughout the decades in the mid-20th century, harvesting contractors and sawmillers in consulta tion with the Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) raised concerns that it seemed possible that they wereoverharvestingthe forest resource, and maybe some changes were needed.

After in-depthsurveys, it wasfoundtobethe case, and regulations were introduced to lower the harvest rates in the forest. This was welcomed by the contractors and sawmillers of the time.

Iamabsolutely astounded that aFederal Court judge took it upon themselvestosidewith our friends from the woods, to shut down such avaluable industry, the Victorian native timber industry, acting on non-scientific informationfromafew extremist radical fringe dwellers and sympathetic dodgy scientists.

May Iremindthese individualsofthe woods, the only reason they can still reside where they do is due to countless firefighting efforts by the timber industry to save their shanty towns from wildfire. Think about that.

Leadbeaters possum is long gone from the debate because there are simply too many of them to support an argument to stop harvesting. Ifully expect this to be the case with these two new contenders that are being used to fill the void in the landscape left by failed botchy science.

Ihave not met atimber worker yet that goes to work in the morning and says ‘let’s see how many species we can kill today’, just as we don’t hop in our cars and think ‘let’s see if we can get involved in afatal car crash today’.

raped and pillaged for ill-gotten gain doing untold damage to thefloraand fauna and landscape of those countries.

Timber which we in Australia will now have to import making us complicit in such destruction. Our forest industry in Australia and particularly Victoria is the most regulated, monitored and over-restricted in the world today, these forests belong to the crown not afew radical questionably educated individuals.

My heart and thoughts go out the 21,000 workers in Victoria whowill be affected by thisill-informed decision.

Iamathird-generation forest manager, and have observed with pride the development of this most sustainable industry.Our forests are veryforgiving and when managedcorrectlyasthey have been, will give us prosperity into the future.

God help our forests, and thosewho seek to close them down.

You will never be forgotten or forgiven for your reckless pursuits.

Darren Speirs, Eagle Point

Long way to go beforetrue reconciliation

MR Littleproud and his team, including both federaland state members Tim Bill, Danny O’Brien and Darren Chester, have nothing to be proud of with the announcement regarding the Ulu u Statementand The Voice to Parliament for First Nations people.

They represent avery small demographic of regional and rural Australia.

This very sector of Australiahave profited, benefited, and exploited the land that historically was taken under force and deceit from the original inhabitants of the land.

The recent public declaration demonstrates the lack of understanding and vision The Ulu u Statementgives to wider Australia.

The National’s lack of vision is asad and tragic

reflection of abygone era, and aconstitution that was formulated when massacresand aWhite Australia Policy was acceptable practice.

This ‘political stunt’ risks undoing the progress of the reconciliation movement.

Might Isuggest those who think The Nationals stance is acceptable undertake some cultural awareness training, research primarypre and post colonial-historical records, find out how your ancestors got the land you are blessed to live on, investigate the notion of generational trauma, research the impact of the outrageous number of Indigenous deathsincustody, and question why jailingchildrenasyoung as 10 is acceptable and practiced.

Onlyafterthatcan the people who condemn aVoice to Parliament, Treaty, Constitutional Recognition, Reformand Reconciliation legitimately enter aconversation about closing gaps and really mean it.

Leanne Flaherty, Sale

Have your say

THE Latrobe Valley Express welcomes letters to the editor.

Preference will be given to brief, concise letters which address local issues.

The editor Liam Durkin, reserves the right to edit letters for reasons of space and clarity, and may refuse to publish any letter without explanation.

The Express does not publish letters from anonymous contributors.

Letters mustinclude aphone number, email address and the author’s hometown for purposes of substantiating authenticity.

The views expressed in letters to the editor are those of the writers, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Latrobe Valley Express management or staff.

Emailletters to news@lvexpress.com.au and include ‘letter to the editor’ in the subject line. Deadline for letters is Thursday 3pm.

when connection with loved ones increases for most.

What is meant to be atimeofcelebration, sadly isn’t for lots of Aussies -and that’s why The Salvos do what we do.

By ensuringpeople have access to food, hampers, vouchers and toys for their children, we hope to spread love, peace, joy and asense of belonging. Not just so their Christmas is ajoyous one, but so that they know their community is behind them, support is there -thatthey’re loved.

Our goal is to make Christmas asafeand happy time for everyone, which is why we ask you to please give what you can to ensure no one is left in need of awarm meal, agift, asafeplace to sleep or a little bit of love this Christmas.

If you would like to donate to TheSalvation Army’s Christmas Appeal, or if you need support, please visit salvationarmy.org.au, or call 13 SALVOS (13 72 58).

Major Bruce Harmer, The Salvation Army

Libs need newdirection

THE Victorian branch of the Liberal Party needs to reinvent itself if it is to remain relevant, politically. Its performance in the recent state election was downright embarrassingwheneverythingwas in its favour.

One of the main reasons we have such healthy forests is due to continualwork throughout the years by dedicatedstaff and contractorsofthe ForestsCommissionofVictoria, now long aban doned by governments.

The FCV inheritedextremely poor-quality forests in many areas due to the exploitationofthese forestsbyminers, land settlers and very early timber getters.

The FCV worked methodically and tirelessly to repair past damage caused by the historical open slather approach by many early pioneers, leaving us the legacy of the wonderful healthy forests we see today.

As we knowfrom acentury or more of proper scientific studies and trials conducted by highly educated scientists, foresters and doctors of forestry, we know it is impossible to create one rule for harvesting and regenerative sylvicultural practises for all forest types as equal, as it appears to be the case from the supreme court ruling.

It appears that no knowledgeableorrespected experts in this field have been consulted, because if they had seen these rulings, they could not have beenmade, and the challengetothe industry would have been thrown out of court as it should have been.

These individuals are obviously indifferent to the plight of forests in foreign countries that are being indiscriminately and illegally harvested or

Newera

MOE Art Society is relocating to the Latrobe City Library, Moe.

We have had along and happy relationship with the managementof Heritage Park since Moe City Council relocated theart group from theFrank Bartlett Library.

The group has been at the Narracan Hall in Old Gippstown Heritage Park for some 50 years.

We arefortunate to have the Latrobe City Library, Moe available to us, and we will meet at the libraryfrom Monday, December12.

Members are very excited, the group will have more scope and better lighting being in the East End of the Library, better known as the Glass Room.

We will also be in town, which is a greatasset as we willbemore accessible to anyone wanting to pop in for achat to theartists.

To wind up the year, the group will be having Christmas Dinner tomorrow (Thursday, December 8) at 12 noon in the café at Old Gippstown.

Members will start regular Thursday meetings at the library from Thursday, January 12 from 9am until 3.30pm.

Thesetimes will allow members to set their own time to attend our regular meetings during these hours.

They willbeabletostay all day,or come for the morning or the afternoon.

Our first general committee meeting will be at the library on Thursday, February 9at2pm, and we are hosting amultimedia workshop with Libby Witchell on Thursday, February 23.

We welcome all new committee members and new office bearers.

Karen Rosato will continue to be our treasurer.

After two busy years, being both the treasurer and secretary, Karen deserves agood rest and deserves abig thank you for all she has done for the club.

Ken Downshas retired as vice president and Halina Taig now holds that position.

Keniswelcoming arest after many years of holding aposition on the committee.

Peter McLaren is now our secretary, and will be supportedbyassistant secretary Christina Wilkie.

We look forward to afruitful 2023 in our new accommodation.

The publicare always welcome to come in and chat to the artistsand new members are welcome.

Any queries should be directed to president Beryl Galloway on 0407 271 686, or secretary Peter McLaren on 0400 933 609.

Members of the Moe Art Society wish our supporters and membersof the Morwell Art Group, the Traralgon Art Society, the Baw Baw Arts Alliance and all those individual artists in our community avery happy Christmas and abright and fruitful New Year.

Chess results

PETER Bakker controlled each battle and was most successful for the round. Next best was Bob Cooper with just one loss.

Afterhelping newcomers, Matteo Bonnafacci enjoyed the rewarding victories.

Mistakes by Ian Hamilton were too

frequent, and likewise for Steve Ahern. Matt Bolding found the victories early and accepted defeats later on.

PhoneCliffThornton on 0413 330 458 or Ian Hamilton on 5134 1971 for more information on local chess.

Joeysdrive

FOR the pastcoupleofmonths,1st Newborough JoeyScouts have been runninga food drivefor their SDG Badgework(Sustainable Development Goals) with the goal being ‘No Hunger’.

Many Joeys collected donations from the local community, while others put their pocket money towards the cause.

Theysuccessfullycollectedtwo massivetables of essential foodsto be donatedtoTCB Moe, to support the communityduring the Christmas period.

‘Help other people’ is what being a joeyisall about, and this year theywent above and beyond with their effort.

All have earnt their SDG badge, and can stand proud that others will not be hungry this Christmas.

Students show compassion with carebags

ON Friday, November 25, someof the Grade 5/6 studentsatMoe South Street Primary School, who have been involved in Chaplaincy Programs, had the privilege to hand over 30 CareBags at school assembly.

Thebags were given to localagencies whosupport thosefamilies, who have experienced violentsituations at home or are homeless.

Practitioners who attended were from Anglicare/Orange Door/Gippland Centre against Sexual Assault and TBC Living to Thrive.

It was also an opportunity to show our appreciation to thosevolunteers by presenting them with acertificate.

Expressingour appreciation for supplyingormakingitemstogointo the bags, supplementing emergency items the students had placed in the bags.

It has been aworthwhile and fulfilling team effort.

The students are to be commended for taking on board this project. They learnt something about themselves, while showing in apractical way compassion to help those who are in vulnerable situations.

The students were presented with a thankyou certificate,and were spoken of with high regard for their efforts by a representative from Orange Door.

Free copying

TRARALGONand District Historical Society Inc. is offering to makeadigital copy of documents held by those in the community or organisations thatare relevant to the history of our district.

This TDHS Community History Snap and Share Project received agrant from the federal government’s‘Stronger Community Grant’ and the Latrobe City Council.

If you areinterested,please phone us on 03 5174 8399 or email secretar@ traralgonhistory.asn.au -weaim to respond within two weeks.

If we reach agreement to proceed, TDHSwillmakeadigital copy of the documents foruse by our society and the original documentswill be returned to you along with adigital copy (on a memory stick supplied by you).

Calling all umpires

LATROBE Valley Umpires are celebrating 70 years of umpiring local football on the weekend of May 6and 72023, and are seeking contact details and interest fromretired panel members, and would be pleased to exhibit any memorabilia that may be lent for the weekend. For more details and umpire contact details, please get in touch with the panel by emailing lvumpires@gmail. com or Barry Lawrence on jblaw@ speedweb.com.au

Moe Probus

MOE Probusmembers enjoyed a talk by Tony Flynn about Gippsland

Community Radio at the November meeting.

Tonyhas along association with community radio,somembers learnt agreat deal about how community radio operates.

Along with the print media, community radio plays an important part in keeping the community informed of local news.

Anyone interestedinjoining Moe Probus Club can do so by phoning the secretary on 5127 1651.

Keith Chenhall Charitable Trust

FOR 20 years, the Keith Chenhall Charitable Trusthas distributed money to support the cultural, social, educational, environmental and community welfare of the local community.

The Trust invites community groups and organisations that have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status to register interest for 2023 funding.

For further information, please phone Ian on 0419 313 831.

Lego Day

SATURDAY,December10, from, 11am to 1pm.

Hosted by ‘The Sixth Child’ at NanJo’s Bazaar, 31 Holmes Rd, Morwell.

Registration is required via Lahki’s Facebook Page. For more information, phone Joanna on 0437 981 388.

Lumen Christi Christmas mass times

CHRISTMAS Eve: Saturday, December 24. To be held at Our Lady of Good CounselChurch,MainSt, Yinnar at 6pm (outside depending on weather).

Christmas Day: Sunday, December 25. To be held at Lumen Christi Church, Williams Ave, Churchill at 9am.

Social tennis in Morwell

COME and have ahit with us.

Mondayand Friday mornings from 9am to 12pm at Morwell Tennis Club (Ronald Reserve off Vary St).

All inclusive, fun, social, no sheepstations, many laughs.

First timers to old timers, everyone can begin to learn to playorbring their memories to start again.

Modified games suitingall levels of fitness and ability, or lack thereof. Just turn up, or if you’d like to speak to someone first, please call Naomi on 0405 739 819.

Cost is $2

Orana Seniors

THE Orana Seniors is located at 5 Ollerton Ave Newborough.

Just go past the two letter boxes on the leftand into the LVVgrounds. Drive straight ahead and there is Orana. We are avery friendly group of over 65s.

We haveageneral meeting on the first Thursday of the month following our lunch at noon.

You don’t have to come for lunch, just drop in for the meeting if you like. We usually have aguest speaker. Our menu changesfrom monthto month and is $20for amain and a choice of desserts.

On Tuesdays we play 500 andanother group play Rumicub.

We start shortly before 1pm and finish at 4pm as arule.

On Thursday afternoons from 1pm till 3pm(but not on meeting days), we meet for craft and ageneral sorting out of the troubles of the World. We have afull-sizedpool table and indoor bowls mats.

You would be made very welcome.

For enquiries,ringpresident Heather 0487 111 792.

Time to tango

NEED to exercise but unmotivated, and going for awalk is uninteresting?

Try Argentine Tango-the walking dance.

Have fun with us on Wednesday nights from 7pm to 8.30pm at St David’s Uniting Church Hall, 9CampbellSt, Yarragon (Hall behind Church). Learn the dance with us to then

CommunityCorner with Liam Durkin

Great man: Moe identity Tony ‘Flynny’ Flynn speakingabout hisworkwith local radiotoMoe Probus

enjoy our social practice dance on first Saturday night of each month.

Easy movement for the body even for those with two left feet.

Research showing that dancing is beneficial for all types of medical conditions and for prevention of older lifestyleconditions

No partner or experiencerequired Fantastic group of people for social interaction which is great for your mental health.

For more information, phone Naomi on 0405 739 819.

Travelling Carollers’ Minibus Mission

SATURDAY, December 17 from 5pm.

We are taking carols mainly to local seniors in and around Trafalgar, driving from house to house.

Prospective carollers can enquire with Dean on 0493 088 370.

Christmas dinner

TRARALGON and District Uniting Church is hosting aChristmas dinner on Christmas Day for people in our community who may otherwise be alone.

It is acold meat and salad meal plus dessert.

The Christmas Day lunch is at the Traralgon UnitingChurch, Park Lane, 11.45am to 2pm.

Please call the Church office on (03) 5176 1029 and leave your name and number if you would like to attend. Someone from the office will confirm your place.

Santa family papercraftworkshop

NOW is the perfect time to introduce the SantaFamily to your Christmas décor. Join this fun and creative workshop and make Santa, Mrs Claus, Christmas Elf and Christmas Mouse wall hangings. No experience is necessary, and all materials will be supplied.

This three-hour workshop is scheduledfor 9.30am-12.30pm on Monday, December 5, butothertimes will be made available depending upon expressions of interest.

For further information, phone the Traralgon Neighbourhood Learning House on 5174 6199oremail enquiries@ tnlh.org.au.

Christmas spectacular

MOE Lions Clubwillstage alarge Community Christmas Spectacular at Apex Park Moe on December 17.

It consists of atwilight market, food trucks, carols by candlelight, rides large and small, and finishes with fireworks from 9pm to 9.30pm. Free entry.

Sponsored by Latrobe City, Santa will also be around most of the day. Times are 2pm to 10pm.

Nominations open

LIONS Club of Moeis once again seeking nominations for the Moe/Newborough Citizensofthe Year Award, which is presented on Australia Day.

There are two categories, one for Australia Day Young Citizen of the

Year for ages between 12 and 25, and Australia Day Citizen of the Year.

Both of these awards will be presented on Australia Day at Gippsland Heritage Park, Moe.

All nominations musteither be a resident of the Moe/Newborough area, or have contributed and demonstrated outstanding service to the Moe/ Newborough communityinavoluntary capacity.

Closing date for the nominations is December 10.

Please phoneLionCelia Haberlon 0409 257 567 or email ahab1@bigpond com,orLion Lois Tipple on 0432 333 123 (email daabt5@bigpond.com) for any further informationorfor acopy of the nomination form.

Marketfor artlovers

IF you love buying unique, locally made giftsfor Christmas,then do not miss the December ArtsMarket run by the Baw Baw Arts Alliance.

The Summer Arts Markets take place on the third Saturdayofeach month up to March, so on Saturday, December 17 from 8.30am to 1pm at Civic Place in Warragul, you will be able to choose artworks from over 50 individual stalls Also nottobemissedare the constantly changing exhibitions at ‘The StationGallery’ in Yarragon.

During December, an exhibition promoting both the expectedand unexpected in Gippsland will be displayed in themain gallery and ‘On the Wall’.

Artworks from printing, mosaics, painting, ceramics, textiles to drawing and writing will seek to place aperspectiveonGippsland youmay not have seen before.

This is an exhibition organised by the Baw Baw Arts Alliance, designed to draw on the wide range of artistic skills present in Gippsland.

‘TheStation Gallery’ is also aspace where manyartists selltheir creative work in the gallery shop, which sits along the regularly changing exhibitions.

Amore limited range of artwork can be seen in the ‘Artspaces’ at theTrafalgar Railway Station.

This is also the venue for the many regulardrop in groups that cover awide range of art genres.

Planning is also underway for the 2023Easter Art Sale, that is acollaboration with Warragul RotaryCluband the Baw Baw Arts Alliance.

Informationwill be on the arts alliance website as it becomes available.

VRI Learning Garden Plant Sales

COME on down to the VRI Learning Garden at 18-20 Queens Pde, Traralgon, and grab yourself abargain.

Plantsales will be takingplacethis Saturday (November 26), Saturday, December 10 and Saturday, December 17 between8.30amand 12noon

Lots of assortedplantsincluding seedlings,flowers,herbs,and veggies ready for planting and at cheap prices.

Greatgardeningutility aprons are alsofor sale, perfect for the garden and holding your gardeningtools. Phone 5174 6199 Traralgon Neighbourhood Learning House for further information.

Morwell Christmas FamilyFun Day

THE Rotary Clubs’ of Hazelwood and Morwell wish to announce the inaugural Morwell Christmas Family Fun Day, to be held at the Morwell Recreation Reserve on Sunday, December 11 between 10am and 3pm.The event willoffer food vans, market stalls, local community service providers, activities for kids, and avisit from Santa.

If any foodvendors, market stall holders or community service providers would like to participate, please email mffdmorwell@gmail.com for further information.

Twilight Croquet

TRARALGON CroquetClubwould liketoinvite you to ‘Twilight Croquet’, whichrunsduring daylight savings

It starts at 6:30pm on Wednesdays. The green fee is $10 for non members.

It is ideal for those with work and family commitments.

The club is on McNairn Rd, Traralgon, next to the Greyhound track.

Any enquires, ring Alison on 0423 659 663.

Meditation evening

THE Planetary Meditation for Peace (also known as Twin Hearts Meditation) is ameditation designedtobless the Earth, and is an instrument of world service for peace, loving kindness, joy, goodwill and abundance.

In addition, this meditation cleanses and energises the energeticbody, while also promoting ahigher level of awareness and consciousness.

After the meditation, you can experienceafreepranic energyhealing, which can address physicaland emotional issues.

Note that this is aguidedmeditation and no prior experience is required.

When: Every Tuesday 7pm-8.30 pm, every Thursday 10am-11.30am.

Where: 2Avondale Rd, Morwell. Cost: $5 (donation).

Contact: Garry 0476 162 646 Amanda 0411 051 044.

Boolarra Park

CHRISTMAS is fast approaching.

Save the date: Friday, December 16. Boolarra Community Christmas Carols in the park.

Free barbecue from 5.30pm. Carols and visit from Santa.

Tinamba/Newry Christmas

ST Matthews Soldiers Memorial Church will hold the annual community Christmas carols on Sunday, December 18 from 7pm.

All are warmly invited to come along and bring family and friends.

Supper will be provided.

Macalister Valley -Newry Lions Club, cordially invites everyone to the annual Christmas concert on Sunday, December4,commencing 1pm at the Newry Hall.

Entertainment includesGary Rose, Maffra Brass Band, Sonny Lambourn, Dane Nichols, Don Dwyer, and The Longford Ukulele Band.

Afternoon tea will be provided. This is afreeevent.

If transport is required please phone Nell Hewat on 5145 1465. Everyone is most welcome.

Youcan be apartof Community Corner

IF you are acommunity group andhave any news items you need publicised, feel free to email us at news@lvexpress. com.au. You can address the correspondence to Editor, Liam Durkin.

Please write ‘Community Corner’ in the subject line and nothing else. Can we please email items through and not submit hard copies.

Deadline is Friday 9am to appear in the following Wednesday issue.

ALLISON MyersisThe TapSpecialist. As an expertinsmall domestic plumbing maintenance work,Allisonprovides awiderange of plumbing services for homes

She hasmorethan three decades experience,and cansolve your plumbing headaches

“I startedmyapprenticeship with the Gas and Fuel in 1989,”Allison explained.

“I wasone of asmallhandfulofwomen takenintotradesthat year as equal opportunitywas high on the govern ment’sagenda.

“I have enjoyedmost of my plumbing life-now moresothan ever.I enjoy the interaction with my customers andbuilding agoodcustomer-client relationship.”

If

Allison

BULLS for Hire/Sale

Angus, Limousin, Jersey, Hereford and Friesian, very quiet. 0447 331 762.

DASHOUND 2female pups, black and tan, x1 long hair, x1 short hair, vacc., m/c 941000024971 919/20, MB 157856, $3000. Ph 0409 333 627.

FISH FISH FISH

Adult pairs, Bristlenose Catfish, Goldfish, all sizes, Guppy's. Ph 0411 604 704.

GARDEN cement edging $20 the lot. Dog kennel $10. Table, 153cm x 91cm $15. Phone 0427 806 844 Churchill.

GOLF CLUBS

Selection for sale, individual prices, right hand, very good cond. Ph 5133 3138.

HAY TARPS

MOE, 17 Bristol Street, Saturday, 9am -1pm. No early callers. Camping and household items, clothing, bric-a-brac and Ryobi Router.

MOE, 17 Harold St, Sat. and Sun., 9-3. Deceased estate. Whole house lot, everything must go! Art supplies, furniture, white goods and much, much more. No early birds.

TRARALGON, 17 Woodhall Close, 8am, Saturday and Sunday. Glassware, Christmas deco, piano, dog carriers, bric-a-brac. No early callers.

TRARALGON, 31 Michael Crt, Sat. 9am. Clothing (mainly size 10), household/kitchen items, books, bric-a-brac,handmade cards and more.

TRARALGON

Mulch

MOE, 3Rafter Court, Sat. 9am -2pm. Ladies day fashion jewellery, most items gift boxed, fashion accessories, manchester, clothing, books, meercats, chooks and other collectables, craft items, antique mahogany hall table, lots more. BYO bags, no early callers.

MOE, 44 Canberra St, Sat. 8am-1pm. No early callers. 1.85 x1.12 trailer with cage, Honda tiller, bar freezer, lge ind. plant trolley, antiq. furniture/tools/ books, portable a/con. unit. Bulk Lego, alum. extension ladder, heavy duty garden stakes, large garden pots, old Beanie Kids, diecast models and vintage model trains.

MOE, 4/26 Saxtons Dve. Saturday and Sunday, 8am till 3pm. Variety of household items, bedding, shoes,

79 Kosciuszko St, Sat. 8am, Double bed and mattress, chest of drawers, dolls, ornaments, h/hold goods.

SUGAR

Japanese, first time in town, 23 y.o., size 6, no rush, good service. Phone 0498 039 676.

Notice to ADVERTISERS and RESPONDENTS

Voicemail introductions advertisements and voice messages may only be submitted by persons 18 years and older.

When making contact with people for the first time, it is advisable to meet in apublic place and let amember of your family or atrusted friend know where you will be.

We would advise readers and advertisers to exercise caution and giving out personal details. This will be respected by genuine respondents.

Custom Carpentry

Decks, outdoor areas, structural repairs, cladding, flooring etc. Custom build work. Ph Dean for aquote 0432 249 782.

ELECTRICIAN

Specialising in all domestic work. REC.4188. Phone Peter 0438 177 153 or Carol 5126 2110.

FENCING

Gas Appliances

PLUMBING

MORWELL, 15 Vincent Rd. Saturday and Sunday 8am onwards. Moving sale, everything must go!! Gun safe, shed stuff and household goods.

1Barry St.

MORWELL

431 Princes Drive, Saturday, 7.30am-3pm. Something for everyone.

4March

THORPDALE, 20 Station St, Sat. 8am-1pm.

GUITAR LESSONS

Gippsland

Chris's Antennas

Property Maintenance

Latrobe Valley Property Maintenance. For all your lawn mowing, gardening, rubbish removal, painting and general maintenance. Call Brad 0413 177 942

Vic Marino's Painting

TRARALGON, 103 Gordon St, Sat. 8am-2pm. Well established variety of plants, old tools, camping, antique furniture, snow gear, DVDs and CDs.

TRARALGON, 110 Gordon St, Sat. 8-2pm. Figurines, Marvel lamps, collectables, cards, teddies, dinosaurs, Dr Seuss books, DVDs, games, Star Wars, Lego. Left over stock from collector show, come get agreat bargain!

EXPRESS CLASSIFIEDS

Selena Traralgon

MORLEYS MACHINERY

Small Engine Mechanic and Salesperson (Full Time)

Two full time positions exist:

One for aqualified small engine mechanic or someone with asuitable skill set.

One for asales person.

The successful applicants will be required to work within asmall team environment.

We are looking for people who are motivated with attention to detail and also have good customer service skills.

Duties include but are not limited to.

● Carrying out servicing &repairs to all type of small engine equipment.

● Day to day running of aworkshop.

● Liaising with customers on the progress of their job and answering questions in relation to the repair.

Sales will include ensuring the showroom is stocked and clean as well as sales and customer service as directed by senior staff.

Above award wages and benefits to the successful candidates.

CV's to be sent to info@morleysmachinery.com.au

HC Driver for growing local business, email: billycant@bigpond.com or call Billy 0411 041 718.

ICU/PICU NURSES

wantedfor home care in Moe, Trafalgar, Warragul and Trida.

Minimum of 2years ICU/PICU experience. Must be Ventilation and Tracheostomy competent Competitive payrates. Please contact Patrik on 0410 942 230 or email patrik@intensive careathome.com

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EXPERIENCED TRUCK DRIVER

Currently we have afull time permanent position available for an experienced Truck Driver.

● HC driver's licence required

● Tipping experience preferred

● Clean driving record

● Reliable, punctual and self motivated Please send resume to: valleyearthmoving@valleygroup.com.au

Heavy Diesel Mechanic/Fitter wanted

We are looking for an experienced Diesel Mechanic to join our Maintenance and Repair Team.

The role consists of awidevariety of repair, diagnostic and preventative maintenance works across our Earthmoving, Road Maintenance, Quarry, and Heavy Haulage divisions.

The Fleet consists of predominantly modern Kenworth and Caterpillar machinery with around 90 Caterpillar machines, 60 Kenworth and Isuzu Truck and trailer combinations as well as afleet of LightVehicles and small engines.

The successful applicant will meet the following criteria:

● Aqualification or equivalent essential for at least one of the listed requirements with a minimum of 3years' experience post qualifications.

● Previous Road Transport and/or Heavy Plant maintenance experience

● Strong Mechanical &ElectricalFault-finding skills

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Experience in maintenance repair works, a background in heavy road transport or earthmoving/construction maintenance and repairswillbeanadvantage.

Successful applicants will be based out of the companies Bairnsdale Depot with onsite works required as needed.

Resumes detailing qualifications, experience, current licences, accreditations and including names and phone no's of three current employment referees may be forwarded to:

OFFICE RECEPTIONIST

Our firm is looking for an energetic, mature, career driven receptionist to join our team. This is afront of office position where you will be the first point of contact and will require you to have exceptional customer service skills.

The office receptionist is required to assist the Tax and Accounting Team by handling client queries, answering incoming calls, maintaining client files, recording data, and overall reception and administration support for the practice.

This is afull time position, Monday to Friday, working 8.30am to 5.00pm. For afew weeks each year, these hours may vary. Duties will include, but not be limited to:

● Answering Phones

● Customer service

● Diary Management

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CLASSROOM TEACHER

Full time,permanent commencing2023

(FTE can be negotiated if needed)

St Joseph’s PrimarySchool is aCatholic co-educational primaryschool located in Trafalgar just over 100kilometers East of Melbourne. Catering for approximately 105students, the school prides itself on beingawelcoming community where everyone is valued and respected

Applications areinvited from suitably experienced personsfor afull time,permanentposition as a Classroom Teacher startingin2023.

The successful applicantwill be appropriately qualified, demonstrate enthusiasm and ability to deliver the appropriate curriculum to arange of educational abilities,and be able to provide careand support for studentswhilst supporting and respecting the ethos of theschool and its environment.

Victorian Institute of TeachingRegistrationisa requirement

Applications close: Friday,9th December2022

Applications should includecover letter Curriculum Vitae and3 referees (seewebsite www.trafalgar.catholic.edu.aufor selection criteria and application form)

Mrs TrishMulqueen

Principal St Joseph’s PrimarySchool

Private Bag3 Trafalgar,Vic.3824

Email: principal@trafalgar.catholic.edu.au

St Joseph’s School community promotesthe safety,wellbeingand inclusion of all children

STOCKDALE ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL GROUNDS KEEPER / MAINTENANCE POSITION

12-month contract with the possibility of being ongoing Time fraction: 0.63

Salary: ES Range 2

Commencing: 23rd January 2023

Our school community is seeking aself-motivated individual who can support us to ensure that the grounds and facilities are well kept and maintained to ensure asafe learning environment for the whole school community.

Preferred but not essential: Demonstrated knowledge, experience and skills in the area of maintenance, gardening and ability to work individually and as part of ateam.

Please apply through DET Recruitment Online or Contact Catherine Browning -Business Manager on 5174 1607

Job opening date: 28th November 2022 Job opening ID: 1313941 Apply by: 11th December 2022

REQUIRED

For small family practice in Maffra. Hours are negotiable.

For more details or job description please contact: manager@johnsonst clinic.com.au

NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Network Administrator at our Cowes Location.

Minimum experience required: 3years.

If you think you are eligible please send your resume to patrick @burgerit.com.au

DELIVERERS WTD

Would you like to deliver the Latrobe Valley Express newspaper to individual homes on Tuesday and/or Wednesday afternoons in Morwell, Traralgon, Moe, Newborou gh and Churchill? Please apply to the Circulation Manager 0456 000 541.

Please note: Children must be 11 years or over as we will need to apply for agovernment Child Employment Permit Children younger than 11 cannot or will not be accepted. Adult deliverers also welcome.

ADVERTISERS

PLEASE NOTE:

Much hardship and difficulty is caused to job seekers by misleading advertising placed in the employment columns. Our Situations Vacant columns are reserved for advertisements which carry aspecific and genuine offer of employment. Ads for `Business Opportunities' and `Training Courses' and `Employment Services' should be submitted under those headings.

CARAVAN COVER

ADCO brand, to fit 18' 20'. Excellent condition, like new. $200 or nearest offer. Ph: 0439 602 598

COROMAL VAN '06

16ft., pop top, exc. cond., always shedded, easy to tow, many extras, $18,500 ono. Ph. 0447 456 036.

FIFTH WHEELER

MERCEDES Coach 1995, no reg., no r.w.c., WDB 38200461038660, partly fitted, good motor and box $14,500 o.n.o. Phone 0490 793 800.

QUEST Bluestone, 20ft, 2008, tandem, reg. till 2023, comb. shower/toilet, 3way fridge, new QS matt, recently serv., new brakes, lovely clean van. $29,500, selling due to ill health. 0413 683 223.

Motorcycles • WANTED NOW

Crossroads 30ft 2009, 3 slide outs with 2009 lveco Daily twin cab diesel with 170,000 klms. Will only seperate if 5th wheeler sells first. $85,000 or $60,000/$25,000. Phone 0432 219 885.

BMW1200

GS Adventurer, 2006, 72,000km, reg. 30/1/23, r.w.c., Wunderlich power module, Remus exhaust, lower/modified seat (orig. incl.), doubletake mirrors, Trickle charger, tail shaft Universal replacement done, 32L tank good for 800+ kms. In last 2000km -gearbox input shaft fault done (replacement later model box fitted by BMW Traralgon), new clutch while motor/box split, full BMW serv. and tune, new rear Heidenau tyre, gen. BMW new old stock side panniers all keyed alike to match top box and ignition keys, Touratech tank bag $13,000. 0436 408 480.

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16 FT REGENT

Crusader 1952. 10 mth reg. Island bed, 4berth, tool boxes, 3way fridge, awning, 12V Sys, Solar panel, Elec brakes, camping gear goes with it. $13,000 ono. Ph 0427 515 218. Site 87 Sale Motor Village.

Caravans and pop-tops, 1970s -mid 2000 models. Tired of waiting for buyers? Phone now, cash paid. Affordable Caravans 0418 336 238, 5623 4782.

Cars •

CASH FOR CARS

Old or new, buying all makes and models. LMCT 11618. Ph 0416 650 982. JAYCO Freedom '05, 15ft pop-top, model 14-45-1, a/c, burner cooktop, 3-way fridge, m/wave, TV/DVD, plenty of storage space, annexe as new, awning and privacy screens, elec. brakes, raised suspension $23,000. 0409 219 847.

JAGUAR XF Sports, 4dr, V6 twin turbo engine, 6 speed auto, very clean low km, reg. August '23, YNA-580, priced to sell $22,000 o.n.o. Phone 0418 383 522.

JAYCO SPRITE

14ft., rear entry with two single beds, very good condition, $12,000 ONO. Phone 0408 574 961.

KUDU Trek camper trailer, reg. 2/23, dble bed matt, 75L fridge/freezer, solar panel, camper wired 240v &12v, 100amph batt., water pump &sink, 2burn stove &hotplate, slide out drawers -all brand new $8500 o.n.o. 0448 496 172.

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YOUKNOW?

associated complexities

● Knowledge, expertise, and commitment to the purpose of the organisation and the Aboriginal community

● Be prepared to undertake aNational Police check and bankruptcy check

● Have acommitment to the purposes of the company

● Be willing to undergo Company Secretary training For further information about this role, please contact CEO Daphne Yarram on 0408 378 808, or email daphney@ywahs.org.au Closing date for EOI's is Friday, 16th December 2022.

BOWDITCH, Harry David 'Dave'.

14/2/1931 -28/11/2022.

Passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family after ashort illness at the Maryvale Private Hospital.

Aged 91 years

Dearly loved and loving husband of Lois. Loved father and father-in-law of David, Kaye and Chris.

Much loved and loving Grandfather of Benn, Jason, Luke and Sarah.

KEANE (nee Walsh), Catherine Mary.

Beloved wife of Dennis, adored mother of Mick, Pud, Richard and Nicky.

Beautiful Nana to Narelle, Shane, Rachaeland Adam, Chantelle, Danny and Holly, Bonnie and Matthew, Jim and Hannah and Great-Nana Kay to Beau, Ziggy and Marley.

Loved and adored mother-in-law to Carina, Lash and Paula.

RIDLEY, Keith Warren.

17/12/1924 -2/12/2022.

Passed away peacefully at Marjory Cole, Traralgon.

Loved and loving husband of Shirley (dec.) and Ellen (dec.).

Dearly loved Father of Alan, Daryl, Brendan and Karen.

Father-in-law of Terrie, Karen, Sara and John.

Loving Pop to Kane, Ryan, Robert, Justin, Erin, Kiera, Jessica and Gemma.

ZWIERLEIN, Eric Andrew.

Passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family, Monday, 5December 2022.

Beloved husband of Deb.

Loved and respected father and father-in-law of Rebecca and Daniel, Chelsea and Campbell, Alexander and Georgia.

Much loved Opa of Jessica, Hannah and Zach.

Gone home to be with Jesus We will all meet again

DONALD.

The Funeral Service for Mr Ken 'KD' Donald will be held graveside at the Moondarra Cemetery, Erica on Monday (12 December 2022) commencing at 11am.

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DONALD, Ken 'KD'.

Formerly of Rawson passed away peacefully on 1December 2022.

Aged only 70 years Loving Dad of Ronnie and Cass. Father-in-law to Aaron. Adored Grandpa of Oakley and Munro. Brother and brother-in-law to Cheryl and Geoff. Uncle to Glenn and Andrea.

Loved andremembered always

FRASER (Rahilly), Hazel Lorraine. Passed away peacefully on 29 November 2022, with Julie by her side.

Loved wife of John (dec.). Adored mother of Julie and Leah.

Hazel's 92nd birthday was celebrated yesterday with athanksgiving Requiem Mass in her honour at St Kieran's Catholic Church Moe. She will be sadly missed by her nieces and nephews, grandchildren and all who loved her.

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GAUL, Doreen.

KEANE, Kaye.

Aged 82 years Loved sister of Paddy, sister-in-law to Jo, and much loved and cherished aunty to all our family. Kaye lived life to the fullest and spread love and warmth wherever she went. R.I.P. Kaye XX.

LOW, Ronald (Ron). 18/9/1929 -1/12/2022.

Loved husband of Jessie (dec.). Father and fatherin-law of Judith and Geoff, Colin and Jo, Lindsey and Phil, Barbara and Richard, Rob and Karen. Proud grandfather of 17 and great grandfather of 13.

Atrue gentleman kind and generous, loved and respected by all who knew him

Great-grandfather to Stella, Myles, Huw, Ledger, Lacey, Eva, Gracie, Tom, Phoenix, Willow, Ellie, Kade, Ariel and Frankie.

Forever in our memories

RIDLEY, Keith.

Lovely neighbour and gentleman. Condolences to the Ridley family. Iwill miss our chats Keith. From Leah.

TRINIDAD, Rogelio (Junior). Passed away peacefully with family at his side on Friday, 2December 2022.

Devoted and loving husband of Nenia. Loving dad of Phoebe and Luke, and Phoenix. Doting Lolo of Patrick.

ZWIERLEIN, Eric Andrew. 17/6/1959 -5/12/2022. Passed away peacefully.

Much loved son of Walter and Ilse Zwierlein.

Dearly loved husband of Debbie. Much loved dad of Rebecca and Daniel.

Dearest Opa of Jessica Hannah and Zachariah.

Dearly loved dad of Chelsea and Campbell. Very much-loved dad of Alexander and Georgia.

Much loved brother of Robert. Loved brother-inlaw of Linda. Loved uncle of Matt, Marti, Raenie and Kahn.

Deep in our hearts you will always stay, Loved and remembered every day.

Dear Debbie and Lindy, we love you and thank you. God bless.

JONES. The Funeral Service to celebrate the life of Irene Beryl Jones will take place in the Rose Chapel, Gippsland Memorial Park, Cemetery Drive, Traralgon MONDAY (12 December 2022) commencing at 12.30pm, following which Irene will be laid to rest at the TRAFALGAR Cemetery.

WILSON.

The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation for Mrs Janice Wilson will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel 6Ollerton Avenue Moe on FRIDAY (9 December 2022) commencing at 2pm.

Janice's Service will be livestreamed. To view the livestream, go to: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and then click on livestreaming.

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GRAY, Robert 'Bob'. Joy, Ian, Lisa, Tim and their families would like to sincerely thank everyone who attended Bob's funeral, sent flowers and cards, made phone calls, offered their condolences and supported us at this difficult time. Many thanks to Latrobe Valley Funeral Services for their compassion and expertise.

DEMETRIOS, Andrew.

In sadness the Demetrios family, announce the sudden passing of Andrew, on 3December 2022, age 65 years.

Beloved son of belated father George and Joanne (Nola) Demetrios, announce the passing of their second son Andrew, of seven.

It is with great sadness on Andrew's passing, he was an incredible son, brother, brother-in-law, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, great-uncle, and friend.

Andrew was inspirational, for those fortunate to know him, his hard working, passion, servant heart and love for others. His passion for life was contagious, he always made you feel special and loved, that was clearly his magic.

Andrew's dedication to his family was second to none, his love for his wife Dolly, his children, and his grandchildren, was the passion of his life, and brought the biggest smile on his face. Andrew lived life to the absolute fullest, making every day as full as it can be.

Words cannot adequately describe the loss we feel, our family heart is clearly broken, however it does give us peace his love, wonderful memories and his enormous legacy that Andrew leaves behind.

In sadness Demetrios family.

The President, Committee &Members of Moe Angling Field and Game wish to pass on their sincere condolences to Graeme, Ken, Stuart and their families on the passing of Doreen.

Fond memories of days spent socialising and serving members and visitors in the canteen. Thank you for your valued contributions Doreen, you will be sadly missed by all.

HARDY (Bush), Beryl Ellen.

Passed away peacefully at Latrobe Regional Hospital Traralgon, 29 November 2022 surrounded by her loving family.

Aged 82 years

Dearly loved wife of Alan (dec.). Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Ray and Nicol, David and Cindy, Wendy and David. Adored Nana of Chewie, Matthew, Jessica, Ashleigh, Alex and Amy. Great Nan of Abrielle, Isabella, Haylee and Lincoln.

Mum and Dad reunited

JONES, Irene Beryl.

Born 20/4/1932, passed away peacefully at St Hilary's on 30/11/2022.

Aged 90 years Much loved and adored wife of Les (dec.).

Mother of Gary, Debbie and Michael.

Loving Nan to Mitchell, Hollie and Rob, Chloe and Aidan, Harrison, Ben, Emma and Luke.

Great Grandmother to 8.

Afull life, lived well

Forever in our hearts

JONES, Irene. Went to sleep on Monday 29 November 2022.

Dearly loved and loving sister of Marge. Loved and respected aunty of Garry and Michele, Craig and Leesa, Glenn and Jacqueline (dec.). Forever loved, forever missed, forever in our hearts and thoughts, until we meet again. Gone home to Les. Heaven has gained my two beautiful sisters.

McDERMOTT, Mrs Valma Service No. VF510158

The President, Committee, Staff and Members of the Moe RSL Sub-Branch deeply regret the passing of their esteemed Service Member and friend, Valma. We offer our sympathy to all her family.

LEST WE FORGET

NATION, Steven William. Passed away 28 November 2022, after ashort illness. Eldest son of William (Bill) (dec.) and Shirley. Brother of Adrian. Father of Jackson, Eric, Kirralee and Miranda. Friend of many.

Rest In Peace Our loved one

POWER, Magdalena Anna "Magda". Passed away suddenly, in the comfort of her own home, on Sunday, 27 November 2022.

Aged 65 years Much loved and loving wife of David. Protective and supportive mother of her sons, Martin and Jeremy.

Will always be remembered

RICH, Brenda. Passed away on Monday, 28 November 2022, after along illness, with family at her side.

Loved and loving wife of Nigel. Mum to Carolyn and Donna. Mother-in-law of Paul. Nanna to Violet and Pearl.

Forever In Our Hearts

Brenda's Funeral held TUESDAY (6 December 2022).

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Much loved and respected leader in the Filipino community and the Church. In the loving arms of His Creator

For Funeral and livestreaming details, please visit our website.

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TYLER, Peta Kathleen. Passed away peacefully on 3December 2022.

She was loved and will be dearly missed by loving partner Geoffrey. Children Peter, Steve, Nikki and Jodi. Grandchildren Michael, Jemma, Kai, Caleb and Wyatt. Great Grandchild Lucas. Daughter-in-law Rhonda and son-in-laws Matthew and Zackary.

All her wonderful friends and extended families. Fly high our Angel

WILSON (Rye), Janice Margaret.

Passed away peacefully at West Gippsland Hospital Warragul on 30 November 2022. Surrounded by her loving family.

Aged 70 years

Dearly loved and loving wife of Ken for 49 years. Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Mark and Rachael, Tammy and Jeremy. Adored Grandma to Katie, Zach, and Deegan.

WILSON, Jan. 30th November 2022. Dedicated member and volunteer of Walhalla Goldfields Railway. We'll miss your laugh and awesome presence! Thoughts are with Ken and family at this time. Board, members and volunteers at Walhalla Goldfields Railway.

WRIGHT (neeLynch), Patricia EileeN 1/3/1931 -3/12/2022.

Loving wife to Raymond Wright (dec.).

Loved and respected mother and mother-in-law to Peter, Terence (dec.), David (dec.) and Mitchel, Anne and Greg, Geoffrey and Sharon, and Andrew and Nook.

Grandmother to 12 beautiful grandchildren and 16 beautiful great grandchildren.

Reunited with the ones you loved and missed

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Funerals

HARDY.

The Funeral Service for Mrs Beryl Hardy will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 6Ollerton avenue Moe on FRIDAY (9 December 2022) commencing at 11am.

The Funeral will leave at the conclusion of the Service for the Trafalgar Cemetery.

Beryl's Service will be livestreamed, to view the livestream go to: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and click on livestreaming.

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KEANE (nee Walsh). The Funeral Service for Mrs Catherine Mary (Kay) Keane will be held at Maffco, Bundalaguah Rd Maffra, WEDNESDAY (7 December 2022) commencing at 1pm, followed by burial at the Briagolong Lawn Cemetery.

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LOW. The Funeral Service to celebrate the life of Mr Ron Low will be held at St Andrew's Uniting Church, Contingent St, Trafalgar on MONDAY NEXT WEEK (12 December 2022) at 10.30am.

At the conclusion of the Service the cortege will leave for the Trafalgar Cemetery.

ZWIERLEIN. AService to Celebrate the Life of Mr Erik Zwierlein will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 260 Princes Hwy, Traralgon on FRIDAY (9 December 2022) commencing at 2pm. Erik's Service will be livestreamed. To view the livestream, visit our website.

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LAWSON, Janette. 1/1/1939 -5/12/2014. Time does not heal the hurt of missing you Janette. You are still loved and missed every minute of every day. Linda and Gary, Lachie and Samantha, Neil Wendy, Kaitlin, and Alec.

NATION. The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation for Mr Steven William Nation will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 260 Princes Hwy, Traralgon on FRIDAY (9 December 2022) commencing at 11am.

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RIDLEY.

The Funeral Service for Keith Warren Ridley will be held at St James Anglican Church, 100 Grey Street, Traralgon on THURSDAY (8 December 2022) commencing at 1pm. Private Cremation to follow.

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Mooney has winner at Moe

HORSE RACING

By TOM HAYES

FRIDAY Racing at Moe RacingClub, on November 18, featured an eight-card program.

It did not take long for alocal winner to be crowned;Moe-trained Little Brother held off fellow Gippsland runnerPiccolo Fiore to win theRace 1Ladbrokes Punter Assist Maiden Highweight Plate over2088metres for Darryl Blackshaw.

The four-year-old gelding progressedhome in the final 800m, climbing the order. Little Brother has shown promise in his previous three starts, placing twice.

Sale-trained Piccolo Fiore, for Adam Hanley, also had an impressive finish.

The five-year-old mare climbed from seventh at the 800-metre mark, falling just short of the win, edged out by 0.3 lengths.

Another local stole the show, winning the next race, the S&S Equipment Hire BM58 Highweight Handicap (2447m).

Seven-year-old mare Heartland Raider won her first race of the year, after breaking throughafter displaying strong formleading in.

Following athird-place finish in the Moe Cup in mid-October, this time around HeartlandRaider stayed toward the front, within the top three throughout the entire race.

TrainedbyMoe’s Charlie Gafa, the mare came home like asteam train to win by nearly three lengths.

In Your Hands tookout the Race3 Bottlemart Moe Maiden Plate (1217m),in her debut race.

The three-year-old filly settled into the midfield, beforemakingher launchtoward thefront at the 800-metre mark.

In YourHands stormed ahead in the final 100 metres to winbytwo lengths.

Anothermaiden winner ran in the Race 4 Moe Optical Maiden Plate (1628m).

Hanley experienced better luck this time around, as Jakk’s Fortune was victorious.

In his seventh careerstart,the four-year-old gelding posted his first finish inside the top four.

Jakk’s Fortune settled into the rear of the midfield before beginning to surge on the frontrunners, as they turned into the finish straight.

“We’ve been jumping him alot just to try and mix up his work …itseems to have all played out today,” Hanley told Racing.com.

Peter Moody’s River Noire was the second horse to win on debut in Moe in the Race 5 Nextra Moe Maiden Plate (1117m).

The three-year-old filly led from the jump until the finish, despitealatechallengefrom Penman.

“She’s always shown us very good ability,” Moody said to Racing.com.

“EarlyJuly, she finished right beside ahorse called Giga Kick in aPakenham jump-out.” Giga Kick won the richest raceinAustralia -the Everest -inmid-October.

The Race 6Ian Grants Caravans BM58 Handicap (1117m) was won comfortably by San Telmos Fire.

The four-year-old mare settled behind the pacesetters before bursting into the lead after the final bend, stretching out by 1.25 lengths It’s San Telmos Fire’ssecond careerwin; her first was on debut in September 2021.

Jenniferwish has amassed good form just about her wholecareer.Inthe past seven starts, she has placed on five occasions, including her latest, in Moe, winning by a nose on the outside.

The four-year-old mare won the Race 7 Ladbrokes Switch Class 1Handicap (1217m), beating Moody’s Forbidden City to the line, climbing back from abackmarkerposition.

In the final race of the meeting, another local cameuptrumpsinthe Race 8Xmas Party Raceday 9th Dec Shannon Noll Live BM58 Handicap (1628m).

Gimme ABuzz, trained by Moe’s Tim Hughes tookatriumphantvictory after settling in the midfield.

The four-year-old horse took its second career victoryafter astring of last-placed finishes.

He went four-widearound the bend, before stretchinghis lead to nearly three lengths down the middle of the straight.

When the market opened, Gimme ABuzz was paying $31 for victory, with trainer Hughes believing the odds were “out there”.

“He did agreat job today, I’m really happy with him so far this prep,”Hughes said to Racing.com.

Midweek returns after Vic Open

BOWLS MIDWEEK PENNANT

BY MICHAEL HOLROYD

MIDWEEK Bowls returned for Round 6, after a week off for the Victorian Open and the playing conditions were certainly an improvement on recent weeks.

DIVISION 1

NEWBOROUGH travelled to Warragul and the home team won narrowly in atight contest.

Janette Gallasch and her rink of Matt Draisma, Elsie Hefford and Peter Gallasch had a16-14 win over Joan Goldie and her rink of Bob Goldie, Jeff Wetzel and Julie Jackson.

Gabrielle Draisma andher rink of IanBelling, Jim Powerand MargaretRatcliffehad a21-20 win over Heather Mooney and her rink of Peter Policha, Fran Clark and Rod Lewis.

For the visitors Jo-Anne Michaels andher rinkof Ed and Mary Whelan togetherwith NoshaMichaels had a20-19 win over Pat Hammond and her rink of John Vickerman, Gaye Renn and Graeme Davis  WARRAGUL 14-56 DEFEATED NEWBOROUGH 2-54

TRARALGON welcomed Morwell and Kathy Smiles and her rink of Chris Thomas, Ian Bloomfield and Rosie Lorenz defeated Rita Reddiex and her rink of Ross Harford, Shirley Skinner and john Osborne 37-14.

As for the visitors Kerry Wright and her rink of Bill Tumney, Irene Biggs and Kevin Pigdon defeated Pat Trewin and herrinkofCarolyn Roscholler, Ron Baker and Garry Trewin 27-20.

Judy Tumney and her rink of Helen Cook, Bob Skinner and Keith Gadsby had a19-15 win over Paddy Francis and herrink of Barry Fernance, Marion Cartledge and Bill Francis.

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TRARALGON 12-72 DEFEATED MORWELL 4-60

IN aclose game at Drouin,Morwell Club came close to awin with Beryl Noblett and her rink of Iyoko Yoshimura, Roger Rejmer and Sue Karleusa defeatingDenise Hamilton and her rink of Ron Westrup, Jan Aubrey and Dennis Throup 23-19.

However, the home team fought back with Maureen Leighton and her rink of Elaine Thorpe, John Leightonand Geoff Bailey winning 21-13 over Jan Karleusa and her rinkofDashaa Martin,Jody Capp and Gail Rejme.

Whilst Sheryl Atkinson and her rink of Mary and Les Firth together with Mark Atkinson drew 16-all withTess Borgand herrink of Leanne Broadbent, Bernie Kirkup and Robert ‘Nobby’ Noblett.

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DROUIN 13-56 DEFEATED MORWELL CLUB 3-52

VISITORS Trafalgardefeated Traralgon RSL by one shot with only one rink up.

Sue Robinson and her rink of Carol Saunders, Shirley Melsenand Paul Dawsonwon 23-12 against Margaret Gibbins and her rink of Margaret Morley, Lyn Mackintosh and Jeff Blythman.

For the home team Julie Sutcliffe and her team

of Titch Hore, Margaret Morley and Max Gibbins defeated Helen Robertson and her rink of Carolyn Fox, Col Carmichael and Ken Capper 19-11.

Marianne Hodson and her rink of Adriana Eaton, Gordon Bayley and Dave Hodson defeated Heather Taylor and her rink of Pat Tatterson, Terry Robertson and Tim Anderson 23-21.

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TRAFALGAR 12-55 DEFEATED TRARALGON RSL 4-54

DIVISION 2

MOE welcomed Newborough (3) and had agood win with Val Rodgersand her teamofStanSheedy, Brian Rodgers and Brenda Hosking defeating Joy Cadby and her rink of Helen Grubb, Michael Holroyd and Charlie Cadby 20-16.

This was Joy and Charlie’s last game of midweek pennant as they make tracks to their new home in South Australia.

ValGriffiths and her team of StanMyers,Len Middling andRobyn Dodd had a25-12win over Natalie Lambos and her rink of John Vicic, Alan Luck and Adrienne Birchall.

For the visitors Heather Disisto and her rink of LynMadden,Wayne Butler and Jim Cuthbertson had a21-13 win over Lorraine Horton and her rinkofWim Detering,Maureen Bartley and Steve Pallot.

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MOE14-58 DEFEATED NEWBOROUGH (3) 2-49

NEWBOROUGH (2) had anarrow win overvisitors Warragul (2) with only one rink up.

Bev Luck and her rink of John Arnold, Denise Ryan andIainPrestondefeated Margaret Keefe and her rink of Freda Lay, Brian Barby and Robert Renn 30-11.

For the visitors Gladys Atkinson and her rink of Alison Matthews,May Baldwin and David Ferguson defeatedCarmel Goss and her rinkof Gladys Perkins, Jenny Cocks and Robbert Cook 20-13.

Glynis Mitchell and her rink of Dawn Thomas, David Gatewood and Greg Mitchelldefeated AnnMary Ryan and her rink of Ruth Verhagen, Michael Weatherall and Graham Cocks 20-11.

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NEWBOROUGH (2) 12-54 DEFEATED

WARRAGUL (2) 4-51

DROUIN (2) travelled to Morwell Club (2)and for the home team Sandy Sinnott and her team of Barbara Lewis,Norma Tyrer and Duncan Hanlon won33-13 against LynJeffreyand her rink of Lyn Rippon, Andre De Waele and David Tayles.

ShirleyKolcze and her rink of Janine McCowan, DavidBroadbent and Jo Leslie won 24-17 against Mary Andrews and her rink of Phil Jarred, Margaret Owens and Brian Thorpe.

For the visitors Irene Dawson and her rink of GraemeAubrey, Margaret Rhodesand Necip Akarsu had a17-16 win over Betty Burridge and her rink of Steve Kilpatrick, Barry Flanigan and Joyce Hughes.



MORWELL CLUB (2) 14-73 DEFEATED

DROUIN (2) 2-47

TRARALGON (2) travelled to Neerim District and

camehome with awin despiteonlyhaving one rink up.

Lyn Moffat and her rink of Richard Johnson, Cheryl Reynoldsand BillKirby had a29-8win over Pat Fraser-Aurisch and her rink of Bronwyn Throup, Dianne Tame and John Rochford.

For the home team Cookie Halligan and her team of Joe Marino, Neville Cousins and Kay Cousins won 23-17 against Barbara Scott and her rink of Barbara Baker, Ross Smith and Jim Goodwin.

Karren Sheers and her rink of Graeme Wingrove, Thelma Schroeder and Gerry Engelstad had a26-21 win over May Cross and her rink of Frank Stake, Janine Barling and Graham Cross.



TRARALGON (2) 12-67 DEFEATED NEERIM DISTRICT 4-57

DIVISION 3

YINNAR welcomed Drouin (2) and for the home team MeredithKennon and her rink of Kerryn Nicholson, Max Aumann and Tim Roche defeated Ethel Van Maanen 26-19,while Jennie Harris defeated Maureen McMillan 21-15.

For the visitors Maria Wansdefeated Hilarie Anstey 20-16.

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YINNAR 14-63 DEFEATED DROUIN (3) 2-54

THEvisiting Morwell (3) side won all 3rinks at Traralgon (3) with Jenny Duncan and her rink of Ron Draeger, Denise Pigdon and Danny McKeown defeating Shirley Richardson 36-13.

Palma McNeil defeated Fay Marsh 21-17 and Glenda Thompson defeated Muriel Johnson 24-14.

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MORWELL (3)16-81 DEFEATED TRARALGON (3) 0-44

TRAFALGAR (2) welcomedYarragon,Joanna Reekie and her rink of George Ward, Lyn Hill and Tony Dawson had a24-11 win over Kaye McLaren.

Lyn Sephton defeatedMarionChetland 25-20and for the visitors Margaret Arnold defeated Margaret Moss 27-16.



TRAFALGAR (2) 14-65 DEFEATED YARRAGON 2-58

GARFIELD travelled to Morwell (2) and came home with awin.

Gwen Fabris andher rink of Margaret Hyam, Judy Pocklington and Luke Monckton defeated Letty Mizzi 24-11 and Maureen Lamport defeated JanMoody 23-19.

For the visitors RebeccaMathesondefeated Helene Newton 24-11.

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GARFIELD 14-58 DEFEATED MORWELL (2) 2-54

DIVISION 4

WARRAGUL (3) 10-46 defeated Drouin (4) 0-35; Traralgon RSL (2) 10-47 defeatedMorwell Club (3) 0-21; Newborough (4) 8-41 defeated Yinnar (2) 2-38;Traralgon (4) 10-46 defeated Moe(2) 0-33; Yallourn North 10-64 defeated Trafalgar (3) 0-23; Moe (3) 8-38 defeated Churchill 2-37.

Backinaction: Midweek pennant returned afteraweek offfor the Victorian Open file photograph

Local winnersatrecent Moemeet

HORSERACING

By TOM HAYES

MOE Racing Clubhostedthe Early Christmas Race Day, anine-card programonSaturday, November 26.

The track was graded aSoft 7during the week, then upgraded to aSoft 6for the opening race.

For races two to nine, the track was graded a Soft 5.

Roaring Success took out the Race 1Traralgon Cup Sunday, 27 November Maiden Plate over 1217 metres, in comfortable fashion.

The three-year-old gelding bolted from abackfield position, joiningthe frontrunners on the final bend Roaring Success then took the lead at the 100metre mark, stretching his lead to claim the first win of his career, after two starts.

The Race 2Ladbrokes Bet Ticker Maiden Plate (1217m) provided aclose three-way finish.

Eventual winner Nicking Gracie got agreat jump from the barrier and led from start to finishto claim her first win.

The three-year-old filly was challenged on the final straight by Bold Response and Ivanov. Yet, she hung on to win by anose to Bold Response, with Ivanov aclose third.

He’s ALegend was the third maiden winner of the meet, taking out Race3’s Ladbrokes It! Maiden Plate (1628m).

The three-year-old gelding sat towards the front of the pack for most of the race.

It was only at the 450-metre mark that he took the lead around the bend.

The $1.60 favourite charged home to claim the third placing of his career, from four starts.

Thetoyboy came from along way back to win the Race 4Ladbrokes Switch Maiden Plate(1017m).

After settling behind the pack, thethree-year old gelding began to come into his stride at the 450-metre mark.

With 100m to go, Thetoyboy swamped the frontrunnerstotake the lead, and run away for his maiden victory by nearly two lengths.

After fourraces in hiscareer, Thetoyboynow has three top-four finishes in his last three races.

The Race 5Ladbrokes Punter Assist 0-58 Handicap (1017m) was won by four-year-old gelding, Obsessive Nature, by almosthalf alength.

He settledwiththe backmarkerschallenging the frontrunners on the home straight.

Obsessive Nature was the widest runner of them all, carving the field fromthe outsidetowin the race.

In atight race,every runner finished within three lengths of the winner.

Bucks cleaned up the Race 6Ladbrokes Market Controls 0-58 Handicap(2088m), by justoverthree lengths.

Trained in Sale by Damien Walkley,the

six-year-old gelding raced the frontrunners for most of the race.

Little Brother, trained in Moe by Darryl Blackshaw, held about afour-length lead during the race, as he hoped to make it two consecutive wins.

The $3.40 favourite remained composed, bursting into the final bend to pounce upon the leaders and win in convincing fashion.

The Race 7Ladbrokes Same Race Multi 0-58 Handicap BM 0-57 (1217m) was miraculously won by Nicajon.

Out of the 11 runners, the eight-year-old gelding sat in 10th place for most of the race.

Once they took to the final straight, Nicajon began to make his move through the pack.

Inside the final 50m, he darted into the lead to win by alength.

Nicajonhas displayed fine form, placinginthree of hislastfour races.

Eight-year-oldgelding Heljinsky won the Race 8 Ladbrokes Mates 0-58 Handicap BM 0-57 (1217m) in aclose finish to the line.

Heljinsky settledinthe midfield and began to descend on theleadersasthe pack headedonto the home straight.

From the 200-metre mark, atwo-way sprint between Heljinsky and Kishstar took place, with the former prevailing by ahead.

Heljinsky has returned good results, despite only holding two career wins; the gelding has placed in

Harriers supporting agreatcause

ATHLETICS TRARALGON HARRIERS

BY GARYFOX

TRARALGON Harriers Athletics Club ran six kilometres on the new Traralgon-Morwell walking trail, starting at the Latrobe Regional Hospital, on Thursday, December 1.

Competing in pleasant conditions were total of 63 runners.

The course takes in asectionofthe new path from LRH, to Old Melbourne Road, and back.

Great running by Zack Beasley saw him first home with an impressive time of 23 minutes and 12 minutes, closely followedbyMiles Verschuur (23.46) and Ian Cornthwaite (23.50).

Yani Cornthwaite was the first woman home, producing excellent running with atimeof28.46 followed by Liz Kenney (29.37) and Karen Graham (30.45).

Michelle Possingham, the chief executiveof Lifeline Gippsland, was presented achequefrom the Traralgon Harriers Athletics Club, which represented the money we raised from The Memorial Run.

The club’s alignment with Gippsland Lifeline is another positive community relationship,along with Gippsland Rotary Centenary House and The Gippsland Plains Rail Trail, showing support for very important services in the community.

Next weekisthe Track Night at Newborough, giving runners agreat chance to run agood time on the synthetic track.

This week the Traralgon Harries Athletics Club reached 140 members, an amazing milestone. The club thanks the work of many people and has grown to be genuinely inclusive and welcoming.

More information on Harriers: www.traralgonharriers.org.au or visit the Traralgon Harriers Athletics Club on Facebook.

 FULLRESULTS FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1:

ZackBeasley23.12, Miles Verschuur 23.46, Ian Cornthwaite23.50, Glenn Graham 24.46, Owen Notting

25.55, Clinton Jolly26.16, DarrelCross 26.18, Chris VanUnen27.21, Shane Gavin 27.23, NickTalerico 27.32, GeoffFrancis 28.45,Yani Cornthwaite28.46, Liz Kenney29.37,DaveMann 30.10, Stephen McLeod 30.28, KarenGraham 30.45, David Barr32.08, Gary Fox32.21, RonVerschuur 32.34, Johnny Roscoe 32.54, Kate Mayer33.06, Phill Mayer33.06, Desley Tulloch33.39, Maree Graham 33.40, Ian Twite33.49, Paul Rollandin 34.08, ClaireMacumber 34.17, Kristine Sapkin 34.33, Catherine Leonard35.08, Kathleen Kent 35.19, Callie Cook 35.21, Alfie Warner 36.08, Kylee Earl 36.31, Michelle Sawyer 36.31, Alysha Duncan 36.41,

Andrew Legge 36.42, Kate Cumming 38.00, Mandy Ellis 38.15, Rhys Patterson38.39, MarkFairbairn39.49, Kaye Livingstone 40.07,Belinda Heafield 40.35, Jim Townsend 40.39, David Hood 40.39, Bruce Salisbury 43.06, Ella Warner 43.36, Maltilda Lappin 44.09, Ann Bomers44.35, Denise Twite50.08, Barry Higgins 50.45, Lea Frances 56.30, Desmond Dalton 57.14, Eily Dalton 57.14, Bob Duljas 60.22, Ruth Duljas 60.22, Ian Heafield 64.24, PeterGrixti 65.00, KathyQuinn 65.14, Michelle Colwell 65.17, Christina Creighton 69.22, Luke Witham 69.22, Anika Roscoe NTR, Marieka Reilly NTR

seven of his past eight starts.

In thefinal raceofthe meeting, there was alocal winner, with Stay AWhile claiming the Race 9Ian Grants Xmas Party Raceday 9th Dec Shannon Noll Live 0-58 Handicap BM 0-57.

Trained by Moe’s Michael Templeton, the sixyear-old mare led from start to finish, holding off the fast-finishing field.

Stay AWhile has produced decent outings in the recent past, placing in every race since August and winning three of her last four starts.

Vetcricketers at Nationals

CRICKET VETERANS

GIPPSLANDGoannas were well representedinlastweek’s Over 60s National Championships in Geelong.

Ray Smith wasVictoria’s leading batsman in the Victoria One team, which won the final against South Australia on Thursday.

He top-scored with 43 in the first victory against New Zealand, 31 not out against Queensland, 21 not out against New South Wales, and finished with 35 in the Grand Final against South Australia.

In fifth division, Ray Floyd, Neil Meredith and PeterAnton performed admirably in the Victoria Green team, which also won its four matches.

Floyd made 30 and Anton 35 not out in the first game against ACT, and Meredith took three wickets. Floyd made 40 and Meredith took two wickets in the second game against Victoria Grey, while Floyd made 42 not out and Anton took two wickets in the third game against New South Wales.

In the final game, Anton made25and Meredith 15 not out, and Meredith tooka wicket in the team’s win over Victoria Blue.

Back home, the Gippsland Goannas Over 70s lost to Glen Waverley in atight game on Sunday.

The Goannas were depleted in numbers, but managed to field ateam.

Both sides included anumberofOver60 players to enable the fixture to proceed.

Goannas skipper Ian Southall won the toss and batted, withthe sidelosing three wickets and being restricted to an inadequate total of 125 off 36 overs.

Fill-inplayer Rob Taylor top-scored with an entertaining 26 off 15 balls at the end of the innings, while Ian Gibson (22), Andrew Smith(14)and DickNoble (14) were the other main contributors.

Glen Waverley lost five wickets in its chase, ending on 134.

The wicket-takers were Noble with 3/24 off five overs of leg spin, while Southall bowled seven tight overs to take 2/18.

Catches were taken by Derek Morris and Gibson.

TheOver70s have abye in the next round, playing their next game on January 8asa home game against Mornington/Canterbury.

The Over 50sgameagainstGeelong, scheduled for Sunday, has been postponed until January 22 in Geelong.

The next game for the Gippsland Over 60s is against Iona at Iona thisSunday, December 11.

Great work: Harriersvice president Andrew Legge and presidentPhilMayer present Lifeline chief executiveMichellePossingham with achequeafter thememorial run. photograph supplied

Jobdone: Bucks, ridden by Trafalgar jockeyJason Maskiell, winsatMoe on November 26. photographs jaytown/racing photos

Localsuccess: Stay AWhile,ridden by Tayla Childs and trained by Moe’s MickTempleton, wins race nineatMoe on November 26

Gippsland rules the pool

SWIMMING

ATEAM of 83 Gippsland Swimmers once again claimed the title of Country Junior District Champions at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre on Saturday, November 5.

Historically,Gippsland were the champion district at the previouslynamed ‘Country 7-10 Competition’ from 1978-1988.

From 1989, the trophy was won by Ovens & Murray District for the next 4years.

Gippsland reclaimed the title in 1993 and has held onto it since.

Gippsland coaches for the day were Caiden

SCOREBOARD

ATHLETICS

GIPPSLAND ATHLETICS CLUB

Round eight of the trackand field season held on Tuesday, November 29.

200M.Women: U/14–Z Dalton 29.80 Men: U/20 –J VanBaalen 32.52; Open –M Coulter 28.09, BCaffrey 31.81; Masters–J Fernando 26.94, SDalton 35.12, ITwite 40.90.

DISCUS.Women: U/14–Z Dalton 12.03; IGeorgeson 12.48; Open –V Fuller 16.75; Masters-FSaltmarsh 14.19Men: U/14–J VanBaalen 18.77; U/16–O VanBaalen 19.75; Open –BCaffrey 20.82, MCoulter 19.81; Masters-S VanBaalen 30.04, S Dalton 20.85, ITwite20.40, JFernando 17.20.

HIGH JUMP.Women: U/14–Z Dalton 1.20; U/18–I Georgeson 1.45 Men: U/16–O Van Baalen 1.50; Masters-S VanBaalen 1.30, J Fernando 1.30.

1500MWalk.Women: U/14–M Read 8:31.99.

1500M. Men: U/14–J VanBaalen 6:07.94; Open –MCoulter 4:59.70, BCaffrey 6:07.49; Masters–JFernando 6:06.08, I Twite6:32.97,S Dalton 8:14.79.

HAMMER.Women: U/18–I Georgeson 11.73; Open –V Fuller 16.86; Masters–F Saltmarsh17.61.Men: U/16–O VanBaalen 16.13; U/20 –J VanBaalen 21.45; MastersSVan Baalen 36.26.

100M.Women: U/14–Z Dalton 14.26Men: U/16–O VanBaalen 14.49; Open –M Coulter 14.22; Masters–JFernando 13.13, SVan Baalen 15.03.

LAWN BOWLS

Gill (Traralgon),Lorrianne Mckenzie (South Gippsland), and Penny Georgeson (Traralgon), under theteammanagement of Simon Turnbull (Sale) and Miriam Ripper (Sale).

The Gippsland team consisted of 83 swimmers spreadacross the South Gippsland Bass (33), Warragul (9), Sale (10), Traralgon (22),East Gippsland (4), Moe (4), and Morwell (1).

At the conclusion of the day,Gippsland were declared the overall champions with atotal of 1302 points, led by captains Max Auteri (Traralgon) and Chloe Szkwarek (Traralgon), 202 points ahead of rival Ovens and Murray.

During the meet, the team won eight individual events, came second on four occasions and placed third 14 times.

The team also won five relay events, placed second four times and third twice.

Place-getters on Saturday, November 5: 11-Year Old-Girls: Rebecca Barclay(South Gippsland): 3rd50-metreBackstroke; Gemma Cook (South Gippsland): 3rd50m Backstroke, 3rd50m Freestyle; Adelaide Ripper (Sale): 2nd 50m Breaststroke; Chloe Szkwarek (Traralgon): 1st 50m Butterfly,2nd 50m Backstroke, 3rd50m Freestyle 11-Year-Old Boys: MaxAuteri(Traralgon): 3rd50m Backstroke; RexBrocklesby (South Gippsland):1st 50m

Butterfly,1st 50m Backstroke, 2nd 50m Freestyle; Harry Kurrle (Traralgon): 3rd50m Butterfly

10-Year-Old Girls: Mackenzie Gibbs (Sale): 3rd50m Breaststroke; Elise Pratt(Traralgon): 3rd50m Freestyle

10-Year-Old Boys: Archie Smyth (South Gippsland): 1st 50m Backstroke, 1st 50m Freestyle; Jayden Tran (Morwell): 1st 50m Butterfly,3rd 50m Breaststroke; Max Williamson (Sale): 1st 50m Breaststroke.

9-Year-Old Boys: Logan Gibson (Warragul): 3rd50m Butterfly,2nd 50m Breaststroke, 3rd50m Freestyle; Ethan Lynch (South Gippsland): 3rd50m Breaststroke.

8-Year-Old Girls: Pippa Biorci (Warragul): 3rd50m Backstroke; Pippa Brideson (Sale): 3rd50m Breaststroke.

8-Year-Old Boys: Hayden Rawson (Traralgon): 1st 50m Backstroke.

Div 4: Morwell (3) 12 82, Warragul (3) 678; Trafalgar (2) 15 82, Yarragon 358; Traralgon (4) 18 103, YallournNorth 059; Churchill 12 89, Newborough (4) 686.

Div 5: Trafalgar (3) 16 72, Traralgon RSL (3) 253; Longwarry(2) 14 59, Moe (3) 257; Morwell Club (2) 14 69, Morwell (4) 250; Garfield (2) 16 62, Drouin (3) 050; Neerim District (2) 14 69, Traralgon (5) 251. Div 6: Morwell Club (3) 845, Yinnar/ Churchill 240;YallournNorth (2) 842, Neerim District (3) 239; Boolarra(2) 8 41, Traralgon (6) 234; Drouin (4) 10 16, Traralgon RSL(4) 00;Thorpdale (2) 10 16,Newborough (5) 00;Trafalgar (4) 856, YallournNorth (3) 228.

Pennant laddersround seven, Saturday, December 3. Div 1W LD FA Dif Pts Newborough 17 00 630 439 191113

Traralgon 14 30 620 449 17174 Drouin 14 30 528 555 -27 72 Morwell 14 30 569 552 17 68

Trafalgar 13 40 517596 -79 56

Traralgon RSL1 25 0533 554 -21 48 Moe 12 50 525 594 -69 40

Warragul 12 50 455 638 -183 33

Div 2W LD FA Dif Pts Morwell Club 16 10 590 489 10198

Longwarry1 43 0616 458 15878 Neerim Dist 14 30 559 529 30 70

Traralgon 24 30 582 551 31 66 Newborough 24 30 525 544 -1962

Traralgon RSL2 34 0496 588 -92 56

Thorpdale 12 50 498 559 -61 47 Drouin 21 60 471 619-14827 Div 3W

GOLF

CHURCHILL &MONASH Star medal, monthly medal &club championship –round three,Saturday, November 26.

Agrade (monthlymedal): DBurridge 13 85 72. Bgrade: TSterrick209878. C grade: LAnderson 27 10376. Dgrade: M Hutchinson 29 10576. Scratch: DBeyer82. DTL: DByers 73; MBrereton, DBeyer77; RDent, TCollins,PEllwood 78; CGilfillan, WSutton, BBarnes 79; MAllen 80 on c/b NTP: 5th DEllwood, 12th BSebire, 14th DByers.Pro-pin: 3rdRKing.Target hole: DByers.Putts: LAnderson 26. Bidies: R King 3rd. Club championship. Agrade: DBurridge 212. Bgrade: C Gilfillan 75 75 80 230. CT Collins 77 75 79 251.Handicap winner:D Burridge 67 74 71 212. Scratch winner &club champion D Beyer828282246.

Stableford,Tuesday, November 29. Winner: MRyan29onc/b.DTL:L Brent 29. NTP: 3rdLBrent, 5th VReid, 12th L Brent, 14th VReid. Birdies: LBrent 3rd, L Brent 14th

MIRBOONORTH

Stableford,Thursday, December 1.

Agrade: GRenwick(11)42pts.B grade: NBaker (23) 38pts.DTL:R Matthews 38, JKus 36, JMcFarlane 35, JSmeriglio 34 on c/b.NTP:4th NRutledge,16th DTaylor Birdies: 4th NBaker,6th GRenwick, 13th JHughes

Stroke, Saturday,December 3.

Agrade: PSmart(11)71onc/b.B grade: CLePage (27) 71.DTL:D Woodall 71; MHeiberg, RScurlock, MPayne 73; N Rutledge74on c/b.NTP:4th DWoodall, 6th RMatthews,13th RMatthews,16th MPayne.Birdies: 4th SEvison, RTaylor J Robbins; 6th DWoodall RMatthews; 16th MPayne

Championship playoff Bgrade: MHeibergd RTaylor MOE

Men’sBen Boon Plate,Sunday,November 27

Best three of four aggregatefourball stablefordround: RMarshall, LEllis,P Moss -Trafalgar (101).

Individual stableford.

4B multiplication stableford,Wednesday, November 30.

Overall winners: AGriggs &KSavige 68. Runners-up: LBates &JBlandford55. NTP: 4th PDyt, 8th PThompson, 14th AWilliams Target hole prize: PDyt.

Open medley stableford,Thursday, December 1.

Agrade: AHayes (12) 35. Bgrade: A Shearing (19) 36. Cgrade: MWalshe (26) 39. Runners-up: MMatthews 37; KBrien 36; MDonaldson 35; BWoszczeiko, G Wilson, AGauci, KAyton, PRodaughan 34 on c/b; BJenkins,A Devent, GBrien, C Weir 33 on c/b.Birdies: WHiriaki, KBrien AShearing 4th; PStephens SNyko8th;A Gauci, GWilson 14th.NTP: 4th GBrien, 8th PStephens,14th AShearing Women’sstableford, Saturday, December 3.

Agrade: HStanlake(27) 26. Men’sstrokeSaturday, December 3. Agrade: LVeeman (10) 69. Bgrade: A Gauci (18) 70. Cgrade: CImer (30) 71

Runners-up: JGaul 72; WYeomans,P Stephens,M Donaldson, KBeath 73 on c/b; DCollings,T Wolski, GBrien 74 on c/b; SStephens 75 on c/b.Gross winner:T Johnson 77.Birdies: LVeeman 4th; VPowell 8th; BThompson, WYeomans,DCollings, MFife, MWeir 14th. NTP: 4th MFife, 8th V Powell,14th BThomson. Monthlymedal: L Veeman.

TRAFALGAR

Open men’s&women’sstableford, Friday, December 2.

Winner: WRobbins 36pts.Runner-up: J Chamber 34pts on c/b.DTL: MScammell 34; GJansen, PRobertson, DWatt, RBoon 33. Birdies: 5th RBoon, PHobson; 13th J Chambers; 15th WRobbins

Strokemonthly medal &clubchampionships -round two, Saturday, December 3.

Agrade (medal): HMcNair 65 nett. B grade: RParsonage 70 nettonc/b.Scratch winner:N Blake71gross.DTL: PTown67; PMoss 69; SLee 70; NBlake, PO’Connell, RBalfour,R Anderson 71; JTabuteau, B McKenzie,GGrant 72 on c/b.NTP: 2nd C McKie,5th GPetkovic,11th SClark, 13th C Moody,15th BWattchow.

Championship winners.

Agrade: Scratch –CHasthorpe.Handicap –CHasthorpe.B grade: Scratch -B Aplin. Handicap -B Aplin. Cgrade: SLee Handicap -HFiddelaers. Dgrade: GGrant. Handicap -GGrant.

RSL462; Moe 17 87,Warragul 171; Morwell 18 102, Trafalgar 059; Newborough 14 81, Drouin 466.

Div 2: Longwarry1692, Neerim District 2 61; Newborough (2) 14 87,Drouin (2) 466; Traralgon (2) 16 106, Traralgon RSL(2) 2 64; Morwell Club 15 77,Thorpdale 366.

Div 3: Traralgon (3) 12 85, Boolarra6 71; Warragul (2) 16 82, Moe (2) 263; Newborough (3) 14 80, Yinnar 470; Garfield 16 91, Morwell (2) 271.

Agrade: KAyton (10) 37 on c/b.B grade: BHarland (15) 35. Cgrade: GFennell (23) 31 on c/b.Runners-up: BBarnes 37; SJewell, PBrown, KMcLachlan, B Harland 35 on c/b; LWain, RSheehan, L Weir,L Ellis, MHiriart, MPeel 34 on c/b; MLewis,GGeisler,PMoss,CJeffries MRobinson, CWeir 33 on c/b.Birdies: G Geisler,RMcGregor 4th; GSmith,ATurner, RMcRobert, BBarnes 8th; SJewell 14th NTP: 4th BCarter, 8th ATurner,14th LEllis Tuesday, 29 November 2022.

Winners: RAllan (25) 17,PRodaughan (18) 17,M Walshe (26) 17,LStewart(33) 18.NTP:4th LStewart;8th PRodaughan, PThompson. Winning team: NGriffiths,P Rodaughan, MWalshe

TRAFALGARWOMEN

Stroke/monthly medal, Championships –round two(15 players)9 holes (3 players).

Medal winner: JTickell (10) 71 nett. Medal runner-up: AOwen(30) 73 nett. Scratch winner:J Tickell (10) 81.DTL: AOuthred 75pts; LRisol, BKeily76pts.Putting: LRisol 30. NTP: 5th JTickell. Eagles nest: 15th JTickell.Gobblers: LRisol 18th,J Tickell 5th. Nine-hole winner:V Davy (29) 43 nett.

Runner-up: SBalfour 46 nett. Hole-in-one: June Tickell 5th.

Championship winners: Agrade: Scratch –J Tickell 168. Handicap –BKeily147.B grade: Scratch –A Owen 206. Handicap

-Aija Owen 146. Veterans: AOwen146.

TRAFALGARSENIORS

Stableford24,Tuesday, November 29. Winner: SKlemke22 on c/b.Runner-up: PGriffin 22. DTL: HSavige,N Mether 21 on c/b; LPearce 19;T Shearer,R Gould, TPrice 18.Scratch: JTickell 43. NTP: R Gould. Bradman’s:H Fiddelaers.

Stroke– monthly medal &club championships –final round,Thursday, December 1.

Women’s winner: AOuthred 32 on c/b Runner-up: AMcNair 32 on c/b.DTL: K Ludlow32, CDeppeler 35, BKeily38. NTP: 2nd HSavige.NTP: 5th JTickell. Bradman’s: MGrant on c/b.Men’s winner:G Coulter 30. Runner-up: RGould 31.DTL: NMether, JKerr 32; RPyke, UTomski 33; SGould, GGrant, TShearer,C Hooker 35 on c/b Scratch: DBaker 43. NTP: 2nd GThomas NTP: 5th HMcNair.Bradman’s:M Bennett. 2022 seniorschampionship results Women’s Scratchwinner: JTickell 133. Handicap: AOwen88. Men’s Scratch winner:T Shearer 129. Handicap: JKerr 90.

Warragul 09 42 3128.83 57

Moe Blue 18341 103.55 48

Neerim District 18152 72.85 38 Poowong 18152 63.47 32.5

Trafalgar 09 07 234.7415.5

Section 1singles: Moe Blue 2- 4- 29 d by Drouin Gold 2-4–34, Drouin Maroon 1- 3 -34 dbyTrafalgar 3- 7- 45.

Team BP WL D% Pts

Moe White2 7700 167.96 35

Drouin Gold 27 61 0141.84 30

Moe Blue 27250 111.3 20

Trafalgar 2724 167.82 17.5

Drouin Maroon 1807 152.43 10

Champions: Gippsland wonthe CountryJunior District Swimming Championshiprecently. photograph supplied

Morwell showstop form in top flight

BOWLS SATURDAYPENNANT

BY MICHAEL HOLROYD

STRZELECKINorth Playing Area Saturday Pennant was in excellent playing conditions with many of the grass greens running at an excellent pace and providing great bowling conditions in the sunnyweather, with alight breezeblowing at most clubs.

DIVISION 1

WARRAGUL welcomed Moe in what was abattle to see who would be bottom team on the ladder after Round 7, at the midpoint of the season.

Michael Smogavec andhis teamofJan Parniak, Val and Brian Rodgers won 23-21 against Bill Clappersand his rink of Terry Sullivan, David Alderman and Paul Simmons.

Steve Pallotand his rink of Stan Myers,Ian Caines and Banger Harvey had a23-13 win over Janette Gallasch and her team of Matt Draisma, Graeme Davis and Peter Gallasch.

Jayde Leech and his rink of BarryHawkett, Michelle Muccillo and Jan Rudy had a22-18 win over Jim Power and his rink of Des Stephens, Ian Belling and Daniel Cooper.

David Smith and his rink of John Vickerman, Ken Scammell and Robert Renn salvaged apoint forWarragulwhen they drew 19-19with Sandy Caines and his rink of Bob Rennie, Paul Louis Read and Ted Kuklinsky.

 Moe17-87 defeated Warragul 1-71

NEWBOROUGHtravelled to Drouin where Kevin Lovett and his rink of Brian Carpenter, Jo-Anne Michaels and George Lambos got the visitors away to agreat start winning 34-8 against Mark Atkinson and his rink of David McIlfatrick, John Leighton and Geoff Bailey.

Tommy Lodge and his rink of Barry Daley, Dave Wurlod andScott Jones continuedtheir good form with a21-19 win over SamanthaAtkinson and her rink of Peter Wallace, Denise Hamilton and Mick Fleming.

Drouin fought back with Sheryl Atkinson and herrink of Maureen Leighton, Jan Aubrey and Les Firthhaving a23-12 win overAlanGrubb and his rink of Nosha Michaels, Rod Lewis and Neale Houston.

Toby Wallace and his rink of BruceAndrews, Dale Hendick and Graeme Aubrey had a16-14 win over Ryan Marston and his rink of Tony Knipping, Josh Kennedy and John Backman.

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Newborough 14-81 defeated Drouin 4-66

MORWELL continued its goodformwith abig win over the visiting Trafalgar side with Nathan Cook and his rink of Jim Turnere, Sarah Ashby, and Laurie Melhuish havinga28-12 win over Tim Fraser and his rink of Jim Wilson, Wayne Hurst and Ken Capper.

David Cook and his rink of Jodie Ashby, Kevin Pigdon and Keith Gadsby had a26-19 win over Matt Schreyerand his rink of Col Carmichael, SteveLodge and Wayne Arnold.

Ron Lyfield and his rink of Ross Harford, Brian Kingsley and Chris Goldsbrough won 22-15against Ian Milesand his rink of Bernie Detering, Nathan Fraser andTim Anderson.

Steve Collins and his rink of Danny McKeown, Mike Arnold and Ernie King completed the clean sweep with a26-13 win overDarren Kane and

his rink of Danny Bryant, Peter Jonasand Paul Dawson.

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Morwell 18-102 defeated Trafalgar 0-59

TRARALGONfaced Traralgon RSL and enjoyed playing on afree running green as Vin McIlwain and his rink of KirstyVan denHoff, Shane Chapman and Matt Eccles had a32-12 win over Alan Kanavan and his rink of GarryTrewin, Titch Hore and Rick Lukey.

Matt Ferrari and his rinkofIan Hilsley, Brenton Hackett and Matt Ferrarihad a26-13 win over Ross Sizeland and his rink of Peter Barnes, Chris Mackintosh and John Taylor.

The home team responded well with Beau Williamson and his rink of Gordon Bayley, Dick Glossop and Dave Morley havinga19-18 win over Mick Coram and his rink of Angela Hacket, Ian Kirkup and Shane O’Loughlin.

DaveHodsonand his rink of Eric Warfe,Ross McKenzie and Kevin Durwood had a18-17 win over Jim Scullin and his rink of NickTurnbull, Pat Trewin and Chris Ward.

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Traralgon 14-93 defeated Traralgon RSL 4-62

DIVISION 2

NEWBOROUGH (2)continuedtheir good form with astrong win at home against Drouin (2).

Graham Cocks and his team of Mary Whelan, Phil Marston and Jeff Wetzelhad a25-16 win over Arthur Moore.

Robbert Cook and his rink of Albert Van Stekelenburg,John Arnold and Michael Weatherall had a26-10 over Brian Thorpe.

For the visitorsDavidTayles and his rink of Donald Mowat, Wayne Hawken and Rudy Kerkvliet had a20-19 win over Spencer Goss.

StevenBarr and hisrinkofLyn Jeffrey,Mary Firth and Bob Cole had a21–17 winover Joan Goldie.

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Newborough (2) 14-87 defeated Drouin (2) 4-66

MORWELLClub(2) retained top spotonthe ladder with astrong win at home against Thorpdale.

Brett Harle and his team of Dashaa Martin, Mil Karleusa and LeeMcKenzie Hada 19-16 win over Ron Mackie.

Tara Harle and her team of Michael Skinner, Alan Campbell and Roger Rejmer had a23-13 win over Ross Kennedy.

For the visitors Ben Powell and his rink of Wendy Jennings, Kath Geisler and Denis Gunn had a 18-16 win over Robert ‘Nobby’ Noblett.

Danny Vanzuylenand David Stevensdrew19-all.

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Morwell Club (2) 15-77 defeated Thorpdale 3-66

LONGWARRYwelcomedNeerim District and for the hometeamAdam Proctor and his rink of Craig Cousin, Col Finger and Trevor Kitchin defeated Shane Hogan 29-11.

Ken White and his rink of Grant Pask, Ian Peterson and Barry White had a22-15win over Trevor Kuhnell.

Ken Towt and his rinkofHank Metselaar, Robert Proctor and Peter Lieshout had a23-12 win over Peter Throup.

For the visitors NeilAdams and his rink of Colin McKay, Roger Till and Angus McGillivray had a 23-18 win over Russell White.

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Longwarry16-92 defeated Neerim District 2-61

TRARALGON (2) welcomed Traralgon RSL (2) and had agood 38-10 win, with Cary Locke and his rink of Ken Mooney, Al Hegartyand Trevor James defeating Gordon Asbury.

Ron Sherlock and his rink of Matt Ogilvie, Ian Bloomfield and Maurie Sutcliffe had a27-12 win over Ron Osler.

Abe Roeder and his rink of Chris Thomas, Rosie Lorenz andBillFrancishad a25-15 win over Max Gibbins.

The home teamsalvaged two points with Gordon Bakker and hisrink of Margaret Gibbins,Joe Ward and Alan Jones having a27-16 win over Dave Currie.

 Traralgon (2) 16-106 defeated Traralgon RSL (2) 2-64

DIVISION 3

BOOLARRA welcomed Traralgon (3) and for the visitors Bill Kirby and his rink of Robert and Fay Marsh together with Ron Baker had a32-8win over David Caldwell.

Whilstthe home team won the other threerinks with Darren Napierdefeating Gordon Slimmon 23-16, Terry Parker defeated Brendon Smiles 20-19 and Travis Baker defeated May Cross 20-18.  Traralgon (3) 12-85 defeated Boolarra 6-71 NEWBOROUGH (3) came home from Yinnarwith awin,AlanLuck and hisrink of Peter Bertoli,Bev Luckand Heather Mooney defeated Tim Roche 30-13 and Ed Whelan defeated Luka Djudurovic 22-13.

The home team was well served by Murray De La Haye who defeated Peter Policha 22-9 and Gavin Osborne defeated Ann-Mary Ryan 22-19.  Newborough (3) 14-80 defeated Yinnar 4-70 GARFIELD welcomed Morwell (2)withNick Henwwod andhis team of Les Pumphrey, Bob Lamport andSteveBassed having a27-15 win over John Osborne.

JoelBrookes defeated GerryVan Duin 29-17. Steve Whyte defeated AbbasMehran23-18 and the visitors were well served by Ken Turner who salvaged 2points by defeating Tom Cleary 21-12.  Garfield 16-91 defeated Morwell (2) 2-71 WARRAGUL (2) travelled to Moe (2) and came home with awin as Linda McCoy and her rink of John Bell, Brian Kennedy and Margaret Ratcliffe defeated Val Griffiths 24-12.

Noel Rubenstein defeated John Woods 23-15 and Bob Currie defeated Wim Detering 21-20.

Lorraine Horton salvaged two points for the visitors with a15-14 win over David Gatewood.  Warragul (2) 16-82 defeated Moe (2) 2-63

DIVISION 4

prior to leaving for South Australia, drew seven shots on the last end to defeatBillBrown 30-17 and tiethe overallscore. Newborough were in aposition to snatch victoryafter trailing all day however Chris Thomas and his rink of Paul Dodds, Herb Kennedy and Tony Colwell managed three shots to defeat Steve Cunningham 44-9 despite Michael Holroyd defeating Craig Flanigan 22-13 and Chris Cunningham defeating Cathleen Dodds 25-15.

 Churchill 12-89 defeated Newborough (4) 6-86 COL Mayman and his rink of Maureen Rooney, Ken Fordand Gary Bassett defeated Ray Roberts 31-8 Stuart Huulse defeated George Platschinda 29-16, Bill BishopdefeatedGaryIngley 21-19 and Norbert Schroeder defeatedDarren Fry 22-16togive all the pointstoTraralgon (4) against Yallourn North.

 Traralgon (4) 18-103 defeated YallournNorth 0-59

WARRAGUL (3)travelled to Morwell (3) and the home team withGraham Hutchinsonand hisrink of PaulineBetteley,Max Duncan and Brian Smith defeated Bill Clarke33-12 despite the visitors winning three rinks.

Lester Mason defeated Bob D’Brass 26-13, Brent Grigg defeated Trevor Curtis 20-19 and Greg Mitchell defeated Rita Reddies 20-17.

 Morwell (3) 12-82 defeated Warragul (3) 6-78

DIVISION 5

LONGWARRY (2) 14-59 defeated visitors Moe (3) 2-57.

MargaretWilson and her rink of AlisonCaldwell, Coral Read and Sue Allford won 33-18, however the home team prevailed with Gerard Mitchell winning 20-14 and John Majkut winning 21-10.

Garfield (2) 16-62 defeated Drouin (3) 0-50 with Helene Newton and her rink of Wes Goodman, Cheryl Bretelerand MaureenLamportwinning 24-16, GordonMoxeywon 17-14 and Barrie Smith won 21-20.

Morwell Club(2) 14-69 defeated Morwell (4) 2-50 with Jan Karleusa and her rink of Iyoko Yoshimura, Zac Arnold and Jo Leslie winning 27-13.

Betty Burridge won 21-13, but the visitors salvaged two points with Glenn Watkins winning 24-21.

Neerim District (2) 14-69 defeated Traralgon (5) 2-51.

Greg Bond and his team of Bronwyn Throup, Gerald Winter and George Rymer won 31-14, Jim Schroeder won 22-19 and for Traralgon (5) Jim Goodwin won 18-16.

Trafalgar (3) 14-72 defeated Traralgon RSL (3) 2-53 with Bill Lithgow and his rink of Antony Dalgleish, Greg Sephton and Ed Davies winning 31-10.

Paul Gridley won 24-15 and for Traralgon RSL (3) John Farquhar won 28-17.

TRAFALGAR

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Trafalgar (2)

DIVISION 6

YALLOURN North (2) 8-42 defeated Neerim District (3)2-39;Morwell Club (3) 8-45defeated Yinnar/Churchill 2-40; Thorpdale 10-16 defeated Newborough (4) 0-0; Boolarra (2) 8-41 defeated Traralgon(6) 2-34; Drouin (4) 10-16 defeated TraralgonRSL (3) 0-0; Trafalgar(4) 8-56 defeated Yallourn North(3) 2-28.

(3) had astrongwin over neighbours Yarragon with Mal Clymo and his rink of Shirley Melsen, Alex Brodie and Peter Watson defeating Richard Polmear 26-10 and Anthony Mitchinson defeated Sam Mazza 25-10.

thevisitors Jarrod Griggdefeated Frank Farrugia 22-15 and Kevin Arnold drew 16-all with Bruce Giles.

15-82 defeated Yarragon 3-58 AFTER CharlieCadby, in his lastgame for the Club

Victorious: IanCaineswas partofMoe’s winning rink over WarragulinDivision 1. file photograph

Latrobe Valley well beaten by SMCA

CRICKET GCL BY LIAM DURKIN

SALE-MAFFRAhad arelatively easy win over Latrobe Valley in Gippsland Cricket League action on Sunday.

Playing at Sale Oval, the Sharks won by six wickets to keep their unbeaten record intact.

Fielding what would have to be the strongest SMCA side this writer has seen in his six year’s covering GCL,the Sharks hadnoshortage of quality -especially with the bat.

Literally every player could be classed as a genuine top six.

Before they could bat however,SMCAneeded to field after losing the toss.

They found bowling to be of little challenge against Latrobe Valley, who slumped to 3/20, and continued to lose wickets in semi-regular fashion after that.

Skipper Rhys Holdsworthoffered some resistance, making 52 off 104 balls.

Holdsworth has been in strong form of late, making 75, 53, 94 and97infour of his last five hits for home club Trafalgar.

Alex Burcombe chipped in with ahandy 34, to see the visitors post 8/159 from their allotted 50 overs.

Jack Tatterson did most of the damage with the ball, taking 4/25, while Gareth Wolmarans struck twice with the new ball to see Latrobe Valley sink to 2/16.

Sale-Maffrawasted no time getting stuckinto the chase, and sent Adrian Burgielout to open with Tom Morrison.

Both struck at over 100 or close to, with Burgiel scoring 34 off 28 balls.

His 34 comprised 24 runs in boundaries,and his six boundaries almost eclipsed the effort from the entire Latrobe Valley team (seven).

Steve Spoljaric came in at first drop, and played amore cautious hand, making 38 off 69.

When the Bundalaguah-acedeparted, theSharks needed just 19 to win.

Strike rates stayed healthy for Sale-Maffra, with Rohan Diamond making an innings high 51 not out from 39 balls.

The Sharks secured victory inside 30 overs.

Holdsworth’s Trafalgar teammate Jackson Noonan had some joy with the ball, taking 2/41.

Sale-Maffrawill now turn their attention to playing Traralgon in the final home-and-away match.

This game could determine the minor premiership, but could also be adead-rubber as the top-two teams go through to the final.

Traralgon is agame clear in second, and also has agame in hand.

The Tornadoes play against third-placed Bairnsdale this Sunday.

ELSEWHERE, Warragul won athriller against Leongatha in the other GCL match played last Sunday.

The Wild Dogs snuck home by six runs, successfully defending 126.

Batsmen found the going tough at Leongatha Recreation Reserve, and for Warragul, only Fraser Duncan (33) and Dan Vela (28) were able to make an impression.

Mitch Clark had everything going for him, and ended with figures of 5/27 from 7.1 overs.

Harry Hoekstra was near-on unplayable, and took

3/10fromeightovers, in an effortthat included three maidens.

To give an indication of what batsmen were up against, Clark was the only bowler (of eight used) to go at more than two-an-over.

Clark looked to be picking up where he left off with the ball, opening the batting for the home side.

After getting to 33, and probably rightly thinking it was his day, Clark was dismissed to see Leongatha delicately poised at 4/81.

With Shiran Rathnayake still in, he threatened to be the difference.

The Wild Dogs were able to get wickets around him however, and the pressure eventually meant Rathnayake joined the cluster after he made 29.

Warragul pressed on, and soon had Leongatha 9/115.

With the game on the line, the Wild Dogs needed ahero.

Jona Wattsbecamethat hero, taking the last wicket in the 43rd over.

Watts ended with 3/19, along with Vela, who returned near-identical figures of 3/20.

You have to acknowledge Warragul one thing; they do have agreat fighting spirit.

IN junior representative cricket, wins went to Bairnsdale, Sale-Maffra and Leongatha in the Under 13 Development League.

Bairnsdale was too strong for Latrobe Valley, in agame highlighted by Campbell Moncrieff scoring acentury.

Moncrieff plundered the bowling to all parts of the Jack Canavan Complex.

He was the lastman dismissed after openingthe batting for 105.

While reaching 50 is agreat moment for any

youngster, getting acenturyisindeed the stuff dreams are made of.

Moncrieff received good support from Des Hine, who remained not out on 53.

Their efforts saw the visitors to ahugescore of 240 off 40 overs.

Shaven Rajapaksewas the bestbowlerfor Latrobe Valley, taking 3/26, along with Nethul Gamage who snared 2/21.

Latrobe Valley was bundled out cheaply in reply, only managing 110.

SkipperLinc Chila did his best, making 27 against the new ball.

Sale-Maffra won acompetitive game against Warragul.

Batting first at Western Park, the visitorsclosed at 7/148 off 50 overs.

Xavier Hurley retired on 50,while Max Shaw contributed 37 in the middle order.

Wicketswereshared in the WildDogs camp. Will Tomlin and Ed Dieu each took 2/19.

Warragul never quitegot going with the bat, and were bowled out for 111.

In abatting effort that saw them fall an ‘innings short’, Musa Faisal Wahid made asolid 25.

Leongatha defeated Traralgon at Leongatha Secondary.

Ty Debono and Cooper Newman did most of the work, scoring 40 and 32 respectively.

The Tornadoes were never in the hunt, bowled out for 63.

Louis Read (3/9), Eamon Berryman (2/0) and Jobe Williams (2/9) were miserly for the winners.

Burrows plays part in Gippsland Pride win over South East

CRICKET

By LIAM DURKIN

MORWELL Tigers Yinnar Raiders cricketer Ben Burrowsrepresented Gippsland Pride on Sunday.

Burrows was the teams wicket-keeper for the Round 2clash in the Under 16 Youth Premier League.

The youngster played under the watchful eye of former AFL coach Guy McKenna, who has made the move from football to cricket since his time at Gold Coast Suns ended, and is now acoach and talent specialist with Cricket Victoria.

Playing South East Sharks at Ted Summerton Reserve, the home side bowledfirst after losing the toss.

Playing on avery good wicketwith asmooth outfield, Gippslanddid well to keep their opponents under200 -acommendable effort giventhe match was played with ‘chicks boundaries’ -the same that were used for the recent WBBL match.

SouthEastclosed at 8/192 from their allotted 50 overs.

Burrows had one assisted run-out toward the

end, and returned aclean-sheet, withzero byes let through.

No byes is always apoint-of-pride for keepers.

The fielding from Gippsland was of high standard, with the stumps thrown down on numerous occasions.

Pride established asolid base in reply, getting to 48 without loss.

Sale-Maffra’s Sam Anderson batted for most of the innings, and ended with amature88from79 balls in aknock that included 14 fours.

Pride reached the required total in the 44th over, winning by four wickets.

Burrows had abrief time at the crease, but was out in the middle as the winning runs were hit, remaining one not out from four balls.

The win took Pride’s record to 1-1.

Their next match is on this Monday (December 12).

Burrowshas enjoyed astrong season in representative cricket, and despite his age, has already represented the Latrobe Valley District Cricket League senior team in the Gippsland Cricket League.

Anydanger boys: Morwell TigersYinnar RaiderscricketerBen Burrowsinactionfor Gippsland Pride on Sunday. Well-known local umpireTonyFlinn keepsacloseeye on proceedings in the background. photograph liam durkin

Lone hand: Rhys Holdsworthmade ahalf-century forLatrobe Valley District CricketLeague against Sale-MaffraonSunday.

photograph tomparry

Stunning CentralsvictoryinLVDCL

CRICKET

LVDCL

BY LIAM DURKIN

THERE was no major turn-ups in Round 9ofthe Latrobe Valley District Cricket League.

Granted one day cricket can often return close results, matches were fairly competitive across the board for the first game of summer.

Hopefully the English players in the LVDCLdidn’t suffer too much in the heat.

ANYONE reading this at Latrobe Regional Hospital might want to check to see there still isn’t 11 Trafalgar players choking.

The Ships had their match against Centrals under control for 95 per cent of the day, only to lose off the very last ball of the game.

It might not have been Corey Pollard’s match, but he made themost of his moment.

Needingthree to winoff the last ball, the Lion’s all-rounder got the winning runs away, securing a quite memorable, and seemingly impossible, win. Not even half-an-hour earlier, aCentral’s win appeared highly improbable -the Lions needed 47 off 30 balls to chase the Ships’ total of 197.

This game was at Traf mind you, aground bigger than the MCG -and there was five men out.

But you can’t put fielders in the car park.

Withthe game seeminglyonlygoing one way, South African ReghardHefer decided to go down swinging. After getting hisscoreto22, he then went 6, 1, 6, 6, 2, 1, 6, scoring ahalf-century in the process.

Some of thosesixes were ‘big’ -clearing the football fence straight.

His efforts backed up those of Rob Webber up top, who scored 58 off 77 balls, and Sam Gray, who played avery patient hand of 39 from 115.

Trafalgar’s own batting card soonbecameancient news. Rhys Holdsworth did make afine 97 off 111, while captain Aydan Connolly and Aiden George contributed scores of 34 and 32.

Pollard, havingarrived late to thegame,put down a sharp chance at catching cover, and gone wicket-less in his five overs,showed how cricket has afunny way of levelling out, by seeing the visitor’s over the line with an unbeaten 18 from 17 balls.

For Trafalgar, the match evoked memories of the North Melbourne loss to Essendon after being69 points up in 2001 -how could you possibly lose from that position?

MORWELL got the job done against Morwell.

Batting first at Ted Summerton, the Tigers compiled 6/235 from their allotted 50 overs.

Skipper Jordan Campbell led from the front, making 95 after taking it upon himself to bat first drop.

He received good support from Lachie Day, who made 52 -aninnings which should give him agreat deal of confidence.

Sean Spiteri grabbed two wickets for Moe, on a pitch that as we all know by now, you nearly count dot balls as amoral victory.

Lion leaders Noah Kane and Andrew Philip each went about chewing down the required total, putting on a123-run partnership for the second wicket.

CaptainKanescored 68, and Philip 80 off 91 balls Their dismissals however triggered acollapse, and meant Morwell was able to run through the rest of the game as Moe closed at 9/218.

BlakeMillstook the new ball, and endedwith 3/35, while Travis Pickering (2/32) and Steve Bilic (2/38) were serviceable.

WILLOW GROVE showedgood signs against Jeeralang-Boolarra.

The Wolves had abat, and made arespectable 7/156 on the Boolarra astro.

Pete Grima was the mainstay, scoring 47, while a few others got starts.

CRICKET

COMMENT

BY LIAM DURKIN

LVDCL SCOREBOARD -ROUND 9

Latrobe Innings

RChokununga. cFarnworth bWilliams 15 JColtman cunknown bFarnworth 6 BZomer bWarr 53 LDobson cHolt bHarvey. 41 MZomer bHarvey. TGamage cWilliams bHarvey. 13 ITerrick cKellybFarnworth 18 ABloomfield not out 13 BMadden runout (unknown) 2 Extras (nb 3, w21, b0,lb1). 25

Total. 8/186

Churchill bowling: KFarnworth 10-0-28-2, KHolt 10-1-36-0, MHarvey 10-2-38-3, CWilliams 5-1-13-1, SWarr 10-0-35-1, JKeighran 5-0-35-0

ChurchillInnings

MHarvey. lbw bGamage 11 RVelardi bDobson. 17

CS Williams cColtman bTerrick. 16 BKelly. bB Zomer 6 JKeighran cChokunungab BZomer 43 KFarnworth lbw bTerrick 3 NDuncan bB Zomer 13 SWarr cBZomer bDobson 5 KHolt not out 17 CWilliams lbw bGamage 0 JRae lbw bGamage 1 Extras (nb 3, w16, b0,lb0). 19

Total` 151

Latrobe bowling: TGamage 7.3-1-17-3, JBloomfield 7-1-42-0, LDobson 5-0-13-2, ITerrick8-0-40-2, BZomer 10-0-39-3

MorwellInnings

KFortuin c&bColgrave 12 LDay cFarmer bSpiteri 52 JCampbell bSpiteri 95 BMills lbw bGrant 9 CSeymour runout (Grant, Kane). 3 GHarvey. cPhilip bBlunt 1. 8 SDouglas not out 9 LGettings not out 17 Extras (nb 1, w13, b0,lb6). 20 Total. 6/235

Moe bowling: RColgrave 9-2-37-1, RBlunt 9-2-40-1, DFarmer 5-2-14-0, CGrant 10-0-38-1, SSpiteri10-0-54-2, JSingh 2-0-17-0, J Atkinson 5-0-29-0

Moe Innings

NKane cDouglas bMills 68 SSpiteri. runout (Day,Douglas) 2 APhilip cCampbell bWhelpdale 80 PSpiteri. cDouglas bMills 7 CGrant c. Pickering bBilic 5 JSingh lbw bMills 0 JAtkinson not out 19 RColgrave cHarveybBilic 6 RBlunt cHarveybPickering 9 RStraughair bPickering 3 DFarmer not out 2 Extras (nb 1, w13, b0,lb3). 17 Total. 9/218

Morwell bowling: TPickering 6-0-32-2, BMills 10-0-35-3, LGettings 3-0-15-0, GHarvey10-0-54-0, RWhelpdale 10-2-32-1, SBilic 10-0-38-2, LDay 1-0-9-0

Ben Heath tookthree wickets for the Panthers,and Hasitha Hewawasam nabbed 2/12 off 10 economic overs.

Jeeralang-Boolarra won the match in the finish, but were madetowork forthe points, losing six wickets in the process.

Asanka Ranthilakage top-scored on 40, and was followed by Nila Thillekarathna (32 not out) and Kanishka Ranthilakage (31).

Josh Hammond took 2/20 for the Wolves. RAIDERS won with abonus point.

The Tigers of the Yinnar variety demolished CATS, defeating the reigningPremier Apremier by 109 runs.

Batting firstathome, Raidersmade6/218, led by an imperious 91 not out fromMaduraPerera, and scores of 29 from Alex Burcombe and 28 from Liam Maynard.

Vaughan Penrose, playing his first AGrade match in two seasons, enjoyed some joy with theball, taking 2/43

CATS nevergot going with thebat, andwere bundled out for 109.

Stand-in skipper Jamie Cochrane did his best with 41, but with the next highest score extras on

across the league, and the region for t shown understanding and support, whic appreciated.

For the sake of reader interest,Iha choose aGreatest XI I’ve played again

Trafalgar Innings

AGeorge. cGraybHefer 32 LWhite. cHefer bHourigan. 8 RHoldsworth. cHenrybFenech 97 AConnolly. bWebber. 34 JNoonan not out 5 RWhite not out 3 Extras (nb 1, w10, b0,lb7). 18 Total. 4/197

Centrals bowling: MFenech9-2-42-1, RWebber 9-0-43-1, RHefer 7-4-10-1, THourigan 10-1-21-1, JStuart10-0-43-0, CPollard 5-0-31-0

Centrals Innings WHenry. lbw bHeathcote. 0 RWebber. lbw bHoldsworth. 58 SGray. st Burgess bGeorge 3. 9 THourigan. cHennessybGeorge 3 RHefer cWhite bHeathcote. 51 CPollard. not out 18 JStuart. cHoldsworthb Heathcote 8 EFoley not out. 0 Extras (nb 1, w13, b3,lb5). 22 Total. 6/199

Trafalgarbowling: JNoonan9-0-50-0, DHeathcote9-1-47-3, AGeorge 8-0-44-2, OMcLeod-Agland 4-1-12-0, RHoldsworth10-4-17-1, L Durkin 10-1-21-0

Willow Grove Innings

BHams cRanthilakagne bHeath 10 JHammond lbw bHeath 13 NWheildon bGregor. 9 CPolo bHewawasam 22 SDawson lbw bHewawasam 2 PGrima bSmith 47 AJames cRanthilakagne bHeath 11 JCoombs not out. 21 LCumiskey not out. 3 Extras (nb 1, w13, b0,lb4). 18 Total. 7/156

Jeeralang-Boolarrabowling: BHeath 10-0-44-3, LSmith 10-4-31-1, D Gregor 9-1-35-1, HHewawasam 10-4-12-2, LSamaraweera8-1-19-0, SDeSilva 3-0-11-0

Jeeralang-BoolarraInnings

BMcCormack. cGrima bCumiskey 0 ARanthilakagne lbw bWheildon 40 KRanthilakagne bGrima 31 NThillekarathna not out 32 LSmith bHammond 1. 5 BHeath c&bHammond 8 NEdirisinghe cHamsb Walsh 5 HHewawasam not out. 9 Extras (nb 2, w15, b0,lb0). 17 Total. 6/157

WillowGrove bowling: LCumiskey 3-0-25-1, RGiles 3-0-16-0, P Grima 5-1-20-1, NWheildon 9-0-37-1, DWalsh 10-0-30-1, JHammond 7.2-1-20-2, JCoombs 2-0-9-0

RaidersInnings

GChesire cKeyhoe bStewart. 18 CMills cHagleybMotta 15 ABurcombe st Keyhoe bPenrose 29 LMaynard. cKeyhoe bGissara. 28 BMacFarlane lbw bPenrose 0

22, that was all anyone needed to know about the batting effort.

Raiders put in an outstandingeffort withthe ball, with aquartet of players taking two wickets.

Burkeley MacFaralane (2/3), George Chesire (2/11), Burcombe (2/28) and Perera (2/31) ran riot.

LATROBE gotonthe winners list against Churchill.

The Sharks were asked to bat first at GeorgeCain Oval,and didapretty job of it, closing at 8/186.

Captain Benn Zomer top-scored with 53, and Lachlan Dobson made 41 as the pair put on 90 for the third wicket.

MattHarveyfound success with his finger spinners, taking 3/38, and Ken Farnworth continued on his wicket-taking ways, grabbing 2/28.

The Cobras threatenedtopress on and win the game with the bat, but were denied by the Sharks striking at semi-regular intervals.

John Keighranmade43for the homeside,but the rest of the card struggled to convert, and Churchill was eventually rolled for 151.

Tyron Gamagewas superb for Latrobe, taking 3/17, while Dobson (2/13) and Izayah Terrick (2/40) chipped in.

Zomer added three wickets to go with his

that matter, have chhas been greatly ave attempted to nst.

LAST weekend, Iplayed my 100th AGrade game for the Trafalgar Cricket Club.

My thankstoeveryone who sentwell wishes,and to my teammatesoverthe years for the memories so far.

When Istarted out, my aim was to win apremiership and play 100 first grade games, so it is satisfying to now have both those items ticked off.

Unfortunately the result on the weekend couldn’t have gone much worse -losing off the very last ball of the game.

Someone was right when they said there is no justice in cricket.

That aside, it was interesting to briefly reflect on the journey.

Ouropening bowlers on the weekend were the same twoopening bowlerswho took thenew ball when Imade my AGrade debut just over adecade ago

As aclub, we havebeen fortunate to have strong continuity over along period of time, which has in turn, made it an enjoyable place to be.

My thanks also to opposition clubs for their hospitality andfor the challenge of competition.

In my line of work as areporter, it can be difficult at times to put allegiances aside, but all clubs and players

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t the likes of Matt them when they amalsodiscounts havebeenmany

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cult task, it only athas been around ld(Latrobe), Mark oe), Rob Phoenix Churchill),Shane ders), Rob Webber (Morwell), Chris Mirboo Nth).

If Ihad to choose one, Iwould rate the greatest cricketer I’ve played again Andrew Philip is the best batsman I’ Chris ‘Tassie’ Johnson the best bowle

Brad Knowles as nst. ’ve bowled to, and erI’ve faced.

Moving forward, I’d just like to keep of cricket, and hopefully be able to cont with batand ball. Idon’t thinkitisa have just filled aspotonthe team-shee 100 games.

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MPerera. not out 91 BBurrows cKeyhowbGissara. 4 CStanlake. not out 17 Extras (nb 1, w14, b0,lb0). 15 Total. 6/218

CATS bowling: JMoore 8-3-13-0, NMiller 5-1-19-0, JMotta 9-1-38-1, CStewart 10-2-29-1, VPenrose 10-2-42-2, SGissara6-0-67-2, J Cochrane 2-0-18-0

CATS Innings

JCochrane cBurrowsbMcColl 41 JMoore cBurrowsbBurcombe 0 SGissara. lbw bPerera. 2 CStewart st Burrowsb Chesire. 20

EPor gneaux cBurrows bPerera. 0 DKeyhoe. bChesire. 10

JMotta cMcColl bBurcombe 0 BHagley. lbw bMcColl 5 VPenrose cMills bMacFarlane 8 CMcDonald not out 1 NMiller bMacFarlane. 0 Extras (nb 0, w18, b0,lb4). 22 Total. 109

Raidersbowling: HMcColl 6-0-27-1, ABurcombe 4-0-28-2, MPerera 6-1-31-2, GChesire4-2-11-2, OMcColl 2-1-5-1, BMacFarlane 1.4-0-3-2

Traralgon West Innings

BEdebohls cDavis bWoodall 6 RWilkie lbw bBanks 53

SRasool st Davisb Thomas 13

JMocacella bThomas 1

IZafar cAlexander bSchellekens 55 TFitch not out 55

MGriffiths cWoodall bAlexander 4 RFalla runout (Barnes,Corry) 1 DCookie bCorry. 1 MWilliams runout (Corry) 6 BGriffiths not out. 3 Extras (nb 2, w25, b0,lb3). 30 Total. 9/228

Mirboo North bowling: MWoodall 7-0-33-1, AThomas 10-1-47-2, D Banks 10-0-38-1, JAlexander 10-0-41-1, JVan Rooye4-0-32-0, C Shellekens 4-0-14-1, LCorry5-0-20-1

MirbooNorth Innings

BPedlow. c&bFalla 57 JAlexander bFitch 33 DDavis runout (unknown) 8 JVan Rooye. cMonacella bFalla 17 LCorry cWilliams bFalla. 5 WCheatley. bCooke 10 HBarnes cFitch bCooke. 3 CShellekens runout (Zafar,Moncella) 6 AThomas cWilkie bRasool 8 MWoodall bWilliams 0 DBanks not out. 3

Extras (nb 0, w4,b1,lb2). 7 Total. 157

Traralgon West bowling: BEdebohls 7-1-38-0, SRasool 10-3-36-1, TFitch 10-1-36-1, RFalla 10-2-33-3, DCooke4-1-10-2, MWilliams 0.5-0-1-1

half-century.

TRARALGON WEST just keeps winning.

The Eagles latest victim was Mirboo North, and they didsowith abonuspointthrown in for good measure.

Mirboo North Rec was the venue, and Traralgon West made 9/228 on it after being challenged to have ahit.

Rob Wilkie led by example, scoring 53, while Tim Fitch and Rami Zafar did likewise, also posting half-centuries.

Wickets wereshared in the Tigerscamp, although only afew were able to go at under four-an-over.

Mirboo North made apromising start, with Brett Pedlow and Jed Alexanderputting on 71 for the opening stand.

After Pedlow was caught-and-bowled however, and Alexander bowled for 33, wickets tumbled, and the Tigers were all out for 157 in the 42nd over.

Reece Falla took 3/33 and Darcy Cooke 2/10 to see the Eagles keep their unbeaten run alive.

How big would the smile on Fitchy’s face be right now.

That being said, I’m proud to have kept my spot most weeks and to have kept going. Bowling medium pace means you naturally fall down the pecking order, and on last count, I’ve been axed close to 30 times before getting to 100. Longer term, Iwant to be there when the ribbon is finally cutonour turf wicket oval, whenever that may be, and to also get overseas and play during the English summer.

I’ve always put off playingoverseas for fear of missing out on afooty flag,and Ithink I’ll do the same until Iconcede it is no chance of happening or Ifeel Ihave played enough games to warrant retiring.

Professionally,I alsowant to be here for the Commonwealth Games, so Iexpect to be tied to The Express at least until then.

And this will never happen, but I’ll say it anyway.

As acricket tragic, Iwould love to play justone game against Peter Siddle, him playing for Latrobe, and me for Traf.

Milestone man: The Express’ own Liam Durkin played his100th A Grade at the weekend.

photograph zoeaskew

Awards for junior champions

By LIAM DURKIN

NOT often this many legends are in one room.

The inaugural presentationofthe George WMunro Awardwas held at Ted Summerton Reserve, Moe on Sunday.

The award, established last year, recognises those in Gippsland who have contributed greatly to junior cricket.

Its namesake is the current Gippsland Cricket Region 7president.

WithRegion 7encompassing all six associations across Gippsland, ranging fromBairnsdaleto Warragul,Munro has been alighting-rod for junior representativecricket, continually advocating and pushing for greater opportunitiesfor young players

As the citation on the award states:

The George WMunro Award

Presented by the Board of Gippsland Cricket

In recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the advancement of junior representative cricket programs run within Gippsland and/or elite junior programs in which Gippsland competesand the mentoring of junior cricketers competing at these events.

George WMunro Awardrecipients

and Graeme Anderson -father of Australian comedian Wil.

Anderson, adairy farmer from Heyfield, has giventremendousservice to local cricketfor the best part of 50 years, and his love for the game is undoubted.

Upon receiving his certificate, he quipped how he still played cricket the day he was married, and made the trip to Country Week the day Wil was born.

Ahumorous story told in his son’s book ‘Survival of the Dumbest’, tells howWil told the old man he didn’t want to be afarmer becausehedidn’t want to spend the rest of his lift getting up at 5am to milk thecows.

And sureenough, upon landinghis firstradio job, he was required to get up at 3.45am.

TDCA SCOREBOARD

AGRADE

ROUND 10

Rovers Innings

OMason

cLaytonbScott. 17

TPearce c&b Swift. 15

LLittle cCollins bGrazotis 12

DWilliams lbw bScott. 51

EWilliams lbw bO’Keefe. 20

DDuncan lbw bBabb. 16

LPatterson bO’Keefe. 9

MFloyd st MoorebBabb. 2 WCoad. runout (Swift,Moore) 1 CSchmidt cSwift bBabb. 4

SDuff. not out. 1

Extras (nb 2, w16, b0,lb5). 23

..........................................171

Total.

Yarram &District bowling: KGriffiths 7-0-28-0, DO’Keefe 8-1-26-2, AScott5-1-18-2, JSwift2-0-9-1, SGrazotis 10-1-35-1, JCollins 3-0-10-0, JBabb10-1-40-3.

Yarram &District Innings

JMoore. bPatterson 23

AScott. cPatterson bDuff. 95 DO’Keefe. lbw bDuff. 12

DRash not out 19

JSwift not out 11 Extras (nb 2, w6,b 2, lb 4) 14 Total. 3/174

Rovers bowling: MFloyd 7.2-0-52-0, EWilliams 3-0-33-0, L Patterson 3-0-36-1, SDuff5-0-28-2, DWilliams 1-0-9-0, OMason 1-0-10-0.

Ex Students Innings

MDyke. lbw bThillekarathna 49

JPryde cStarkey bThompson 8

LStockdale bThillekarathna 55

MMembrey cMeers bRandall 28

MRobertson bStarkey 24

MHarris cRandall bStarkey 4

ZBastin. cThillekarathna bRandall 4 JRobertson lbw bDunstan 2 AMatthews not out 9 KDuncan lbw bRandall 0 NThompson cThillekarthna bRandall 6 Extras (nb 0, w20, b0,lb8). 28

Total......................................................................217

Sunday represented the ideal time for those passionate about junior cricket across Gippsland to gather, as theregionsYouth PremierLeague team,Gippsland Pride, was in action out on Ted Summerton Reserve.

Atotal of 18 recipients were awardedcertificates, includingthose fromTraralgon District Cricket Association and Latrobe Valley District Cricket League.

Among the throngwas also legendary Warragul footballer and former Shield player Bob Baldry,

The old man even called him on his first day to say “congratulations, now I’m just going to sleep for another hour”.

Munro congratulatedall award winners, and wished to acknowledge their contributions.

“All those people deserve the award, let’s hope there is alot more that get onto that shield because of the work they do in Gippsland junior cricket,” he said.

Well-knownSMCA identityDavid Anderson was also present, and spoke of the background in seeing the award established.

Batsmen have their turn in the sun

CRICKET TDCA

THE TraralgonDistrict CricketAssociation went from famine to feast at the weekend, as runs were on the order,incontrasttoprevious rounds where ball dominated bat.

MATCH of the Round had Glengarry visiting nearest neighbour Toongabbie.

With good weather leading into Saturday, it finally meant Roger Ries Oval was in no doubt of being suitable for play, with both the ground and wicket looking an absolute picture.

Amazingly, Toongabbie sent Glengarry in to bat and some home deck knowledge soon looked as if it would be amasterstroke, as afired up Keenan Hughes made life difficult for the opening batsmen, removing Al Jenkin for just six while testing the resolveofFrankMarks by paintinghim black and blue with the ball.

Markstoughed out the initial attack,and together with captainNat Freitag, put on 138 before Marks fell for asuperb 77.

Freitag’spartners then came and went as Nathan Allen, Ben Marks and Lachlan Clark all got starts, but it was Freitag who just couldn’t be removed going on to make 117 not out which included 12 boundaries and two big sixes.

This is the first hundred in TDCA AGrade this season, and although it included alittle luck with afew miss shots going very close to the stumps, it was amasterclass in how to use your feet and crease when negotiating spin bowling while also taking on quality quicks on agood lively wicket.

Toongabbie toiled hard in the hotconditions and used eight bowlers in the process.

Kev Stoddart was the only multiple wicket taker with 2/63 as Glengarry went on to make a formidable 5/269 from 50 overs.

With no Cam Graham, the new ball was entrusted to Gareth Waack-Hawkins and Jenkin, whogot the Magpiesoff to agoodstart,but had to deal withthe resistance of Jason Veneman who madeagood 43.

Once thedangerousRob Wheildon and Stoddart were removed, it was going to be abridge too far for the Rams as the middle to lower order strung

afew startstogether but couldn’t negotiate the pressure enough and were bowled out in the 40th over for 143.

Allencontinued to impress, as theleg-spinner claimed 4/37, while the opening bowlers claimed two wickets each.

This was Toongabbie’s first loss for the season, which now has them fourth on the ladder, while Glengarry continue on their winning ways to now sitfirmly on top of the table.

ROVERS came into the match againstYarram & District on ahigh after notching up their second win for the season.

Rovers batted first on atypical good looking Duncan Cameron wicket, and got off to adecent enough start being 37 before the first wicket fell.

Afew starts to Tyler Pearce (15), Liam Little (12) and EwanWilliams (20) hadthe score building nicely, as Dougal Williams was goingalong his merry way at the other end to 51 from 72 balls.

It was Williams’ dismissal though thattook Rovers from being able to achieve ascore of 200plus to being bowled out for 171 in the 46th over as Williams was the sixth wicket to fall at 153.

Although 171 is adecent enough score, it can’t hide the fact Rovers lost their last six wickets for 21 runs,and with fourovers stilltobebowled maybe the young team shouldn’t have pushed for quick runs as early as they did.

Still, with ascore on the board anythingcan happen and happen it did.

Unfortunately for Rovers it wasn’t in their favour.

Yarram&District captain Anthony Scott, having batted in the lower order all season, musthave had somewhere to be as he and regular openerJack Moore came out in amood andScott smashed around the Rovers attack.

Moore was the first wicket to fall as he made 23 from 27 balls and was dismissed in the 11th over with the score on 119.

Up the other end, Scott wasgoing crazy as no bowlerwas safe, with Ewan Williams going for 20 from an over, Mitch Floyd going for 22 and Lachy Patterson getting hit for three sixesinarow as Scottquickly got to 50 and then had acentury in his sights. Three figures wasn’t to be however, as he was caught on the boundary offthe bowling

of SimonDuff, but the damage he inflicted was severe as he finishedthe day95runsfromjust 49 balls which included seven boundaries and eightmonstersixes which had the VLine trains duckingfor cover.

Dylan Rash and Jarryd Swift finished the job for Yarram, who passed Rovers’ total in just 20.2 overs as the Pelicans walked away convincing winners, while Rovers walked away shell-shocked.

EX Students batted first at Terry Hunter Oval against Imperials, and got to workstraight away, scoring 39 before the first wicket fell.

This wicket (James Pryde for eight) meant Lee Stockdale then joinedMattDykeinthe middle as the two batsmen then set themselves forbig scores.

Dykeended up falling one run short of his 50, while Stockdale was cruising on 55 before Dilsahn Thillekarathna was brought on and knocked both of the batsmen over giving Imperials areprieve.

Mitch Membrey and Matt Robertson both got 20s, but when Tom Starkey was brought back on the middle order couldn’t handle it, and together with Joel Randall stopped the scoring, taking Ex Students from 4/186 to all out for 217, giving the visiting team asniff at victory.

Randall’s good record against Ex Students with the ball continued,ashefinishedwith4/28,while Tom Starkey now sits just one wicket behind top spot for the season,only going wicketless once this season.

Imperials needed agood foundation to get near the Sharks’ total, and theycertainlyachieved that at 2/65.The only issue being that in form bat Ryan Morley was already in the sheds at 1/13.

Once Starkey and ScottAitkenwere removed, the depth of Imperials was tested again, and although Dean Campbell (10), Joel Randall (15) and Brad Wells (15) all got starts, they were just never in the hunt, finishing all out for 138 in the 46th over.

Stockdale claimed 4/16 to go with his 50 rounding out abrilliant all-round performance, while Jack Robertson also claimed four wickets in his 6.2 overs.

GORMANDALE had the bye.

Imperials bowling: TStarkey 10-0-42-2, SAitken 10-1-42-0, D Thompson 4-0-19-1, JRandall 7.4-1-28-4, DThillekarathna 7-0-36-2, LBalakrishnan 4-0-23-0, PDunstan 4-0-19-1

Imperials Innings

RMorley..............bHarris 9 TStarkey bStockdale 30 SAitken cMRobertson bJRobertson 28 DThillekarathna cBastinbStockdale 3 DCampbell cDykebStockdale 10 JRandall runout (Duncan, Dyke). 15 LBalakrishnan bStockdale 0 BWells cDykebJ Robertson 15 PDunstan bJRobertson 4 DThompson not out 2 CMeers. bJRobertson 0 Extras (nb 0, w16, b2,lb4). 22

Total......................................................................138

Ex Students bowling: AMatthews 9-1-26-0, MHarris 8-2-17-1, K Duncan 8-1-33-0, NThompson 4-0-17-0, LStockdale 10-4-16-4, J Robertson 6.2-2-23-4.

Toongabbie Innings

TDunn cMarks bWaack-Hawkins.. 3 RWheildon lbw bJenkin 19

JVeneman cClarkb Allen 43 MStoddart. cMarksbJenkin 0 KStoddart. bWaackHawkins 11

JChalmers. cFrancis bAllen 12

KHughes cTaylorbMayberry. 16 AHood lbw bAllen 19

BFleming bAllen 0 MBarry. lbw bFrancis 0 THood not out 2 Extras (nb 0, w13, b1 lb 4) 18

Total. .................................................................143

Glengarrybowling: GWaack-Hawkins 6-1-14-2, AJenkin 10-1-29-2, MMerton6-0-27-0, NFreitag 5-1-16-0, NAllen 8.4-1-37-4, B Mayberry4-0-11-1, JFrancis 1-0-4-1

GlengarryInnings

AJenkin cKStoddartb Hughes 6

FMarks cMStoddartb Barry.............77

NFreitag not out 117

NAllen cVeneman bHood. 18

BMarks lbw bKStoddart. 19

LClark bKStoddart. 12 Extras (nb 0, w19, b0,lb1). 20 Total. 5/269

Toongabbie bowling: KHughes10-0-49-1, KStoddart10-0-63-2, MBarry10-0-43-1, BFleming 3-0-27-0, MStoddart5-0-33-0, R Wheildon 3-0-7-0,J Veneman 5-0-30-0, THood 4-0-16-1

Gormandale -BYE

BGRADE -ROUND

CGRADE –ROUND 7

Toongabbie

3/8,

Hennessy125*,

MEarles2/7, JThomas 2/15)

&District4/107 (J Becker32*, ADunkley31*); Rovers 221(RMartin 135, BNikodemski 43, L Rickwood 4/34, RFarnham 3/34) def Imperials 73 (O Grant 2/5, R Chawla 2/6)

CRICKET

Great service: George WMunro Awardrecipients,pictured with theaward’s namesake(holding theshieldonthe left). photograph liam durkin

RobertBaldry(Gippsland CricketRegion 7), Leon Davies (GCR7), Keith Henderson (GCR7), Brendan O’Loughlin (GCR7), RodPollock (GCR7), RayAlvin (Bairnsdale),TimCavanagh (Bairnsdale), Max Semkin (Leongatha), Geoff Wyatt(Leongatha), Kristen Webber (Latrobe Valley), Ian Rossborough (Latrobe Valley), David PLittle(Traralgon), David WLittle and Mary Little (Traralgon), DarrylWebber (Traralgon), Graeme Anderson (Sale-Maffra), KenBailey (SMCA), Charlier Pierrehumbert(Warragul), Brian‘Barney’ Snell (Warragul).

BASKETBALL

CBL

By TOM HAYES

IT’S Grand Final week, as teams competed in the CountryBasketballLeague GippslandDivision Semi Finals over the weekend.

For the Men’s, there were two comfortable Semi Final victories, which creates an enticing Grand Final.

First up, Traralgon T-Birds hosted Warragul Warriors on Saturday night; only one of last season’s Grand Finalists would make it to the big dance.

The last time these sides faced, Warragul forced the T-Birds’ only loss of the 2022 season,taking the lead in the final term to win by five points.

This time around, Traralgon righted its wrongs to make its way to the Grand Final.

Big performances from Ben Barlow (33 points), Frazar Brouns (24 points) and Christian D’Ángelo (23 points) were enoughtoalmostoutscore the entire Warriors side.

The T-Birds marched to the Grand Final, winners by 14 points: 99-85, hoping to go back-to-back this weekend.

Traralgon had to wait until the following day to find out who it would face in the Grand Final.

Like the first Semi Final, the encounter between Maffra Eagles and Moe Meteorswas aGrand Final rematch of sorts, as these sides battled it out in the 2020 Grand Final, but this time it was second versus third, when Maffra hosted Moe.

Maffra blitzedMoe in the opening term, outscoringthembynine points,whichgrew in the second, as Maffra took a13-point lead into the half.

Moe draggedthe deficit back to justseven points heading into the last quarter, but like the first term, Maffra gripped the match by the throat to blow the lead back out to 17 points.

The Eagles were led by Sam Whelan, who scored 35 points including threethree-pointers in his 100th game for the club.

Headed for its second Grand Finalinthree years, Maffra and Traralgon will both enter withjustone loss each all season.

In the Women’s, both Semi-Finals were decided on Saturday, setting up another intriguing Grand Final this weekend.

Top-of-the-ladder Moe Meteors took on fourth placed Maffra Eagles in the first Semi Final.

Moe had only lost one game all season, winning nine games by an average of over 20 points, yet Maffra fought it until the very end.

The Meteors took afour-point lead into the half, despite trailing by threepoints at the end of the first quarter.

Agripping third quarter saw nothing between eitherteam,both scoring19pointsapiece-the margin the same going into the final quarter.

Maffra had the edge in the final term, outscoring Moe for the second quarter of the match.

But it wasn’t by enough -asMaffra fell short by two points: 62-60,Moe gettingrevenge for the 2020 Grand Final defeat to Maffra.

Caitlin Demczuk top scored forMoe with 19 points, including two three-pointers, Piper Albert and Brooke Hunter were the only others to reach double-digit point tallies.

Shortly after, the second Semi Final took place when Korumburra Wildcats hosted Traralgon T-Birds.

Like Moe, Korumburra had only lost one game all season, which was to Moe in Round 7.

The T-Birds still had adecent record of eight wins andtwo losses,but were undeniably the underdogs

in this encounter.

It wasn’t much of afight, as Korumburra seemingly won every quarter but the last to ease to victory by 27 points.

The damage was doneearly in the fray,with the writing on the wall for Traralgon, as the Wildcats led by 30 points going into the last quarter.

Traralgon took something positive away from the defeat, as Sammy Labros had the most points of anyone on the floor with 28.

Korumburra were led by ChloeHogg(22 points), Alahna Arnason (14 points), Krystal Arnason (12 points) and Gemma Dixon (10 points).

Coming off astormingvictory, Korumburra will face Moe in the Grand Finalthis weekend, and like the Men’s, both sides have only one loss all season.

Meteor showeronthe way to GF Meeting transferred to

HORSERACING

By TOM HAYES

TRARALGON was host to Saturday Racing, which consisted of seven races.

After months of lobbying, the Latrobe Valley RacingClubfinallybroughtanother meeting to town, following atransfer from Balnarring.

Usually holding two meets annually, Latrobe ValleyRacingClubwas able to provide more racing, with its third meeting for the year.

and his first since March 2020.

Another maiden winner crossed the line in the Race 4Morwell BowlingClubMaiden Plate (1100m).

Six-year-oldmareHayrick Lanewon by oneand-a-half lengthstothe closing pack of Strikeout, Needa Bigger Boat and Saturn Isle, who finished second, third and fourth respectively.

It took 21 races for Hayrick Lane to put her first winonthe board, finally doing so in Traralgon.

Noll to performatMoe races

HORSERACING

By LIAM DURKIN

SECOND comes right after first.

Moe Racing Club will hold atwilight meeting this Friday, headlined by Shannon Noll, who will perform live after the last race.

The meeting will see eightraces held for the Ian Grant’s Caravans Twilight Christmas Party Races.

Noll has been booked to provide entertainment, and is set to rock the racing club with hit songs including ‘What About Me’, ‘Lift’ and ‘Drive’. What About Me was the highest selling single of 2004 in Australia.

Noll came to prominence after getting his start on the firstseries of reality television series Australian Idol, becoming something of

aculthero for being the famous runner-up to Guy Sebastian.

LikeSteven Bradbury before him, his story has entered the Australian vernacular, often colloquially associated with someone who has supposedly been ‘robbed’ of an award.

In more recent years,socialmediaposts by Noll were the subject of running gags by people taking the proverbial in the comments section.

Now that he is set to land in Moe, the singersongwriter could well be the biggest name the town has welcomed for quite some time.

Tickets to this Friday’s meeting are available at https://linktr.ee/moeracing

It has been very busytimes at MoeRacing Club recently, with the club hosting five meetings in the last six weeks

The track was graded aGood 3for the entire picnic meet, with perfect weather provided for everyone attending.

It didn’t take long for alocal to come up trumps, when Rules Alot pipped Cerveau by anose.

In Race 1’s WIN Television Gippsland Maiden Plate over 1900 metres, Rules Alot did enough to hold off Cerveau.

The five-year-old gelding for Moe’s Catherine Martindale endedan11-race drought of finishing outside thetop three, winning his maiden race.

Sale’s Smokin’ Salmon for Troy and John Kilgower won the Race 2Latrobe City Council Trophy Race (2) Handicap (1100m).

The six-year-old mare won by three-quarters of alength to Rue Lepic.

The victory was Smokin’ Salmon’s third of her career, and her first since June 2020, ending an 18-race win drought consistingofjust two placings.

Race3’s RACV SolarOpen Trophy Race Handicap (1100m) was won by Bedivere.

The seven-year-old gelding held off acharging pack to win by just over alength to second, third and fourth place.

For Bedivere, it was the fourth win of his career

Troyand John Kilgower had their secondwinner of the day,whenCalypso Rich took outthe Race 5 TRFM TrophyRace (3) Handicap(1100m).

Thesix-year-oldgelding stretchedaway by over alength to collect the fourthwin of his career.

It was his first race after a31-week spell. The gelding found form straight away, after asuccessful start to the year.

Little Richie Turf won his first race in over a year, in the Race 6Latrobe Valley Express Open Trophy Race Handicap (1430m).

Atight contest saw the top three runners separated by no more than half of alength.

For Little Richie Turf, it’shis fifth career win, following an inconsistent 2022,filled with six places.

The finalrace of theday -the Race7bet365 Trophy Race (1) Handicap was taken out by Who Are Those Guys over 1430m.

Just like the previous race, Who Are Those Guys held off the fast-finishing Femme Americain and Secret Surprise,who finished around half-a-length behind.

It was the four-year-old gelding’s second consecutive win, after taking his first win just last week in Ballarat.

Nollsy: ShannonNoll will playatMoe Racing Club this Friday. photograph supplied

Power players heading north

FOOTBALL

By TOM HAYES

THE only way is up, as Gippsland Power graduates BaileyHumphrey and Jacob Konstanty will head north to their new respective clubs.

Moe’s Humphrey and Konstanty of Warragul wereselected in the first round,going to Gold Coast Suns and Sydney Swans respectively.

FiveGippsland Power players were selected during the AFL’s 2022 NationalDraft, withthose players nowspread across four clubs.

Power teammates Cooper Vickery, Coby Burgiel and Max Knobel were selected the followingevening when the draft resumed.

Humphrey is headed north to Gold Coast Suns, who used pick six to secure him.

“The relief just all released …Iwasn’t nervous anymore, my heart was pumping and Ijust had a massive smile on my face,” Humphrey said.

The 18-year-old joins an illustriouslist of Gippsland Power graduates to be selected within the top 10 of an AFL National Draft, joining the likes of four-time Hawthorn premiership player Jarryd Roughead, Collingwood champion Scott Pendlebury and 2021 Coleman MedallistHarry McKay.

Humphrey revealedthathis draft daywas “stressful”, with uncertainty looming hours before the draft.

Melbourne Demons were hinting at the possibility of trading picks for Essendon’s prized pick four, which could have been used to select Humphrey, yet the order remained the same.

He becomes the fourth Power representative to join the Suns, joining Morwell’s Ben Ainsworth and Moe’s Sam Flanders in the sunny state.

“I’m pretty excited to see them and get to know them alittle better,” Humphrey said.

Humphrey explained his excitement to play with midfielder Touk Millertoo, who presented him with his jumper on draft night.

He will spend the next few weeks with ahostfamily on the Gold Coast while startingpre-season training.

Lowanna College’s Sports Academyhead coach, Allan Chandler, spoke to The Express about the program and how it has travelled in the recentpast.

“I think we’re getting our name out there to more than just Moe,” Chandler said.

“Whatit’s doing is showing how that extra bit of care and love and help and support can actually push these kids to be the best they can be.

“We’ve been reallylucky with the number of kids being drafted.”

Konstanty will go not-so-far north to Sydney, who used pick 20 to secure his services.

“My head was just spinning ahundred miles an hour, so up and about, it was just asurreal feeling,” Konstanty said.

Watching the draft from home, Konstanty was able to celebrate at full capacity with friends and family.

Konstanty, aDrouin footballer, is the seventh Gippsland Power graduate to be drafted to the Swans, followingthe likes of current-Warragul senior coach Jed Lamb, the electrifyingTom Papley and 2005 Sydney premiership players LukeAblett and Sean Dempster.

Another notable Drouin footballer that made it to the big-time, winning aflag with the Magpies is Dale ‘Daisy’ Thomas.

Konstanty has noted who he is most excited to link up with at the Swans.

“Tom Papley -I’m really keen to meet him and Ihope he can help me out and put me under his belt abit,” Konstanty said.

Alongside Konstanty, fellow-Power teammate Cooper Vickery was also selected by the Swans. Both players flew out to their respective clubs on Thursday, December 1, as they embark on their AFL careers.

Stockdale to lead Vic Country

CRICKET

VCCL

By TOM HAYES

TRARALGON’S Lee Stockdale will be on his way to Canberra next year after being named captain of the Victory Country cricket side.

The lastCountry Cricket Championshipstook place in Toowoomba in 2020, as thelast two championships were cancelled due to COVID-19.

Victoria won the 2020 Country Cricket Championships, defeating Western Australia by 40 runs in the GrandFinal,with Stockdale playing avital role in that winning team.

Stockdale plays for Ex-Students in the Traralgon District Cricket Association (TDCA), where Ex-Students are enjoying adecent start to the 2022/23 season, sitting second with only one loss.

He is currently averaging 39 with the bat from three matches, his highest total thisseason84 against Rovers.

With the ball from those three games, Stockdale has taken six wickets at an average of 10.67 runs per wicket– his best figures 3/8 against Glengarry.

The 2023 Country Cricket Championships will be Stockdale’ssixth carnival representing Victoria Country.

This will be the first time thatStockdale will lead the squad as captain, afterserving as vice-captain three previous times.

“It was anice feeling (to be announced as captain),it’s alwaysnice to get pickedinthe squad and obviouslytoget named as captain is nice,”

Stockdale said.

Victoria will hope to go back-to-back at the Championships, with Stockdale believing it is well within reach.

“(We) want to play well, we won the last one in Toowoomba, so it’d be nice to win again, especially with the side that we’ve got.”

As thenew captain,Stockdalewill take on some newroles within the squad, on and off the field.

Stockdale said he will be “making sure everyone’s

comfortable,everyone’s happy and settled,” off the field.

“I’llhavetomakesome decisions out on the ground and try to lead from the front at the same time,” he said about his duties on the field.

In terms of self-preparation, Stockdale says, “nothing’s changed.”

However, due to the different dates compared to past championships, Stockdalebelievesthat his squad will have more time to prepare.

“We’re probably luckier this (season), because normally it’s straight after the New Year,” Stockdale said.

“Normally between the round before Christmas and the Championships -you don’t get any cricket in for two or three weeks.

“This carnival’s not until mid-to-late (January), so we’ll actually be able to train alittle bit.”

Stockdale will be joined by fellow Gippslanders Jack Rietschel and Jack Wrigglesworth, who now playsinGeelong

“Jack Wrigglesworth at the last tournament took the most wickets and made theAll-Australian team,” Stockdale said.

“Jack Rietschel’s an absolutestar, he’s one of our spin bowlers that can make some handy runs.”

The Country Cricket Championships will take place between January 13 and 20, 2023, in Canberra, with the competition comprising most Australian states.

Moe Football Factory

AFL PLAYERS FROM MOE

Compiled by Liam Durkin

Alby Law Essendon 1951

Lester Ross St Kilda 1959

JohnSomerville Essendon 1960

Frank Goode NorthMelbourne 1961

GeorgeSavige Footscray 1962

BillJames Melbourne1963

Robert Goode NorthMelbourne 1963

TedHopkins Carlton 1968

Stephen Boyle Footscray 1972

Harry Frei Footscray 1973

Barry Rowlings Hawthorn, Richmond 1974

DarrenJones Geelong1988

Peter Somerville Essendon1988

Lachlan Sim Brisbane Bears1988

Jason Shields Footscray 1989

RobertMcMahon Fitzroy 1994

Troy Makepeace Nth Melbourne1999

Sam Skinner Brisbane Lions, Port Adelaide 2016

Declan Keilty Melbourne2017

BrockSmith BrisbaneLions 2019

SamFlanders Gold Coast 2019

Leo Connolly St Kilda 2019

Harrison Pepper Hawthorn2019

Bailey Humphrey GoldCoast 2022

Farwell: BaileyHumphrey (left), joinedbyJacob Konstanty(right),saysgoodbye to Lowanna College andAllanChandler

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Big V: Trarlagon cricketerLee Stockdale has been named captain of Victoria Country. file photograph