Latrobe Valley Express Wednesday 18 September 2024

Immortalityawaits

Thestage is set forthe Gip League GrandFinal. Traralgonwill be out to win senior footballpremiership i decade,while Moe will be ming forback-to-back Grade netball flags. miers have alreadybeen wnedinthe MidGippsland dNorth GippslandFootball-N ague,and featureintoday’s owcasecoverage.

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By PHILIP HOPKINS

LATROBEMagnesiumhas got ahelping hand from amajor US international industrialcompany while producing the first batch of magnesium oxide at its demonstration plant in Morwell, marking abig step towards the scaling up of its operations.

Rockwell Automation, basedin Milwaukee in Wisconsin and aleader in industrial automation anddigital transformation, has acontract to provide Latrobe with aplantwidecontrol system Rockwell’s regional director in the South Pacific, Anthony Wong, said LMG’s ambitious plans required a scalable process and aplantwide control system capable of delivering atruly connected enterprise.

“Rockwell Automation’sConnected Enterprise technology integrates plant-level and enterprise networks, securely connecting people, processes and technologies,” he said.

“This approach leverages smart manufacturingand machinelearning to enhance decision-making and streamline

connectivity -digital transformation from asingle point of control.”

LMG is pioneeringa patented hydrometallurgical extraction process that converts almost 100 per cent ash -abyproduct of coal-fired power stations -and ferro nickelslaginto valuable saleable products like magnesium metal, Supplementary Cementitious Material(SCM), silica, char, iron oxide, andcalcium carbonate.

Latrobe is using ash from Energy Australia’s brown coal Yallourn power station,which alone can supply LMG withenough ash to meetproduction needs for more than 30 years.

Magnesium metal, acriticalmineral, is lighter yetstrongerthan both steel and aluminium, making it ideal for use in automotive, battery, die casting, electronics, and bio-absorbable stent applications.

After evaluating potential solutions, LMG selected Rockwell Automation’s PlantPAx® DistributedControl System (DCS), combined with its Centreline Motor Control System (MCC).

“PlantPAx allowsLMG to make faster,

more informed process control decisions from asinglepoint of control. The system seamlesslyconnectsand records data, further optimising operations,” Mr Wong said.

With the growing demand for lightweight vehicles, the magnesium market is expected to double by 2030, andasthe only new western producer coming onstream, LMG is positioned to meet this demand, withplanstoexpand operations.

Followingsuccessful production at the 1000tonnes per annum (tpa) demonstration plant,LMG plans to builda 10,000 tpa plant in the Latrobe Valley, and has completed apre-feasibility study (PFS) for a100,000 tpa international mega plantinSamalaju Industrial Park, in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia.

Mr Wong said PlantPAxwas designed with scalable, modular architecture that simplifies integration, accelerates time to market, and offers advancedscalable system capabilities like human-machine interfaces(HMI), batch management and data collection.

“Recent updates to PlantPAx align

with digital transformation strategies, enhancing productivity and profitability whilst minimising operationalrisk,” he said

Mr Wongsaidthe LMG process was ground-breaking.

“Current magnesium production methods are more than 60 per cent more carbonemissionintensive,but this new process eliminates waste products and tailings,offering amoresustainable solution,” he said.

“Given LMGfocus on reducing their carbon footprint, Rockwell’s Centreline low-voltage MCCs were aperfect fit, offering asmallerfootprintand, energy-efficient industrial motor control solutions.”

Rockwell Automation’s strength is its ability to meettight deadlines and provide transparent timeframes. LMG’s chief operating officer, Ronan Gillen, said Rockwell’s support to help meet productiongoals had been outstanding.

“They have gone above and beyond to find solutions and make sure everything works,” he said.

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Council enters election period

LATROBE City Council has entered the Election Period.

The Election Period commenced at noon on Tuesday, September 17, and willrun until Saturday, October 26 at 6pm. Councils must comply with special arrangements in the lead up to elections.

The election period arrangements are intended to ensurethat council actions do not interfere with theprobity of the election process and to safeguard the authority of the incoming council.

The Local Government Act 2020 provides direction about what kind of information can be publishedbycouncil and the use of council resources during the Election Period. These resources include website and social media. To

avoid any potential breaches of the Act, all materialpublishedtothe councilwebsiteand social media, including comments on posts, willbeclosely moderated during the Election Period.

In practice,this means thatall comments will be temporarily hidden and quarantineduntil they havebeen manually reviewed for adherence to the Act.

During this time, people will still be able to react to posts.

Latrobe City has aCustomer Focus Team available to help with any enquiries. Theteam can be reached by phoning 1300 367 700 or emailing latrobe@latrobe.vic.gov.au Council’s communicationswill resume regular operation from Monday, October 28, 2024.

Prospective councillors had until yesterday (Tuesday, September 17) to officially lodge their application.

The final list of candidates in ballot paper order for all councils holding elections will be available on the VEC website this afternoon (Wednesday, September 18) following the ballot draws.

Where lodged, candidates’ personal statements, photographs and answers to the optional candidate questionnairewill be published on the VEC website.

Ballot packs, containing voting material, will be posted from October 7, with voting closing 6pmon Friday, October 25.

Results willbedeclared on Friday, November 15. Election day is October 26, 2024.

Pill anddrugs testingtokeeppeople safe

THE state government has introduced aBillinto Parliament to ensure pill testing -alsoknown as drug checking -can begin this Summer.

Once passed, theDrugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Pill Testing) Bill 2024 will allow both fixed and mobile pilltesting services to operate in Victoria.

The Bill will legally protect all parties, including festivaloperators, pilltesting operators, and their clients -sonobody is breaking the law by operating or using the testing service.

This follows close, ongoing collaboration with Victoria Police -ensuringthe right balance between holding drug dealers to account, while not deterring people from using the service.

There are no changes to police powers outside theservice -possession and supply of illicit drugs remainthe same -and all new guidelines and operational policiesfor officers will be clearly communicated before the trial starts.

The mobile service will begin during this Summer’s festivalseason andwill attend up to 10 musicfestivals and eventsthroughoutthe implementation trial.

This will also make way for afixed site to be established and open by mid-2025, in inner Melbourne, close to nightlife and public transport so more Victorians can easily access these lifesaving services.

The drug checking technology availableat these services will be able to test the make-up of most pills, capsules, powders, crystals, or liquids

and identify harmful chemicals that can lead to death. The Bill will also support expanded access to naloxone, the overdose reversal medicine.

Anote on candidate coverage

WITH councilelections comingupfor Latrobe City, Iwould like to make clear afew points regarding coverage within this masthead.

To ensure alevel playingfield from an editorial perspective,all prospective candidates are invited to provideone 300-word candidate statement along with aheadshot photograph.

Idohowever wish to make it absolutely clear there is adifference between editorial and paid advertising.

If candidates wish to heighten their campaigns further, they are permitted to do so out of their own pocket.

Any advertising containing editorialwill be clearly marked as such, and not provided by Express journalists.

Letters to the Editor will continue as normal, however Iwillbeusing my discretion

to eliminate any Ifeel crossover as mere candidate statements or that are clearly promoting arespective candidate.

Like many in the region, Iamwell aware this year’s election is shaping as very much a‘gloves off’ affair, and is looming as a critical juncture in the future direction of the municipality. Understanding that emotions will run high, it is still critical that due democratic process is adhered to.

As my predecessor once told me: "Not many people like politics,but everyoneloves an election".

Those wishing to submit acandidate statement can do so by emailingldurkin@ lvexpress.com.au

Liam Durkin

Editor,

Latrobe Valley Express

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DAILYRAFFLE WITH GREAT PRIZES

Disappointment for otherwise great moment

IWAITED many years to become aproud Australian Citizen.

Ibecame one on August 16, 2024. It wasagreat night, although none of us were presented with our certificate. We were told the government was having areshuffle. Disappointment Number 1.

Surely someone could have been sent

Ifounditstrangethat the Latrobe Valley Express printedafront page photo with the headline 'G'day mates' (21/08/24).Disappointment Number 2showingthree people who it said welcomed us. They did not welcome us and were not present on the night. Shame on you trying grab the limelight. Disappointment Number 3.

I'm now asking the Express to print apageofthe manyphotos taken by the lovely lady photographer on the night. My family back home was going to get acopy.

Thanks to the only two people present on the left of the picture from Traralgon West Nursery who presented us with aplant. It's proudly growing in the garden.

Oh, Idid receive my certificateeventually, which was bent. They could have used some stiffer card. Iamnow an Australian and very proud to be, so Isay to all you fellow Aussies "G'day mate".

Michael Kingsbury Churchill

Blinded by parking fine

IAMsure readers can relate their own tale of parking fine woe to complement Paul Christian’s parking fine ('No justice', LVE Opinion, 04/09/24). Ican relate.

Some years ago, unaware my optometrist’s eye drops were about to inflict aswirlingblindness, unlocking the car door was achallenge,let alone driving the thing away.

Itraipsed adizzy path to Traralgon Plaza, but threecoffeesand one hour later, Imadethe call to take the bus home.

Sure enough, late that afternoon. Ihad the fine. Okay, Itakedawrap. Ihad outstayed my welcome. Given the circumstances, surely aletter of explanation would do the trick.

But like Paul Christian’s enquiry my pleadings hit the wall.

So, to quote erudite correspondents, even 'Blind Freddy' and 'those with half abrain’, would deem this unfair.

Butlet’s dig alittle deeper as this appears crazy

Isurmise bylaws and their implementation are designed, not by our local people, but in some legislative CBD ivory tower.

Our officers may well have their own pressures withgovernment audits and (ugh!) Key Performance Indicators in the shadows.

Good luck to Mr Christian, but after three letters and some light-hearted repartee promising some under the counter red, Idid have my fine waived.

Ian Whitehead

Traralgon

Hospital heroes

IAMwriting to say ahugethank you to the staff at Latrobe Regional Hospital.

Unfortunately Ihave had cause to take my husband to the Emergency Department threetimes this year for totally different reasons.

On each occasion, my husband has been treated with ahighlevel of care.

All staff we have encountered, from the reception, triage nurses and ED nurses have been very thorough and professional showing care and compassion.

On one occasion my husband was admitted to the Avon Ward, where he spent 11 days and was once again treated by caring nurses and other ward staff.

Idon’t know where we would be without your kindness and professionalism, so Iwouldliketo let you know that you are all appreciated and respected.

Trish Lancaster

Traralgon

Rules arerules

RECENT state revenue legislation has the effect that invalid pensionersmoving out of home into an aged care facility may become subject to land tax.

This annual fee, almost as much again as local council rates, is in addition to the increased care and accommodation expenses and rising medical costs they encounter with such amove.

The bureaucratic logic behind this is somewhat obscure.

Iamthe trustee (a role inherited from my late father) of aproperty (formerly the family home) in which my aunt (an invalid pensioner) was left alife-time interest in her mother’s will.

Declininghealth meant that my aunt had to move into aged care.

Her home is now rented out in order to help pay her accommodation, care, and increasing medical costs.

Although Iamnot the beneficialowner of the property, Ihave received alandtax invoice on my aunt’s behalf.

Iqueried this (includingprovisionofall relevant documentation) with the State Revenue Office, and sought further legal advice, to no avail.

This is anew state government tax designed to recoup COVID spending.

It applies to any property that is not the owner's primary residence, and thereare no grounds of appeal.

Iamwriting this to alert other pensioners who may be similarly affected when having to move into permanent aged care.

Anne

Camier Morwell

Regular rants

IT appears John Duck has gone off on me with a specificrant, ('Similar views, different method', LVE Opinion, 11/09/24) but then again,hedoes have form with his rants.

As for "barraging our dear readers", there have been many correspondents who have been expressing their views quiteconsistently of late, including John Duck, Patricia Correa and Joseph Lis to name afew. Whether Ibelieve or disagree with their views is of no consequence.

As usual, Mr Duck always goes the person, not their arguments.

Nowhere did he put up an argument against anything Isaid in relationship to energy,only that people with half abrain didn't want Australia to be energy self-reliant on a24/7 basis and to be able to produce things that allow us to keep our own sovereignty. As Isaidinmyletter, if people don't believe in self-reliance and take umbrage to half abrain, then Idaresay the cap fits.

recognition in the community, which helps this person with re-election.

This local MP ends these publicly funded ads by telling us to contact their office. The problem is, when you do contact the office, they effectively but politely refuse to help.

Ifor one would rather seethe money they are wasting on name recognition go to charity groups. If they have money to waste on pointless name recognition ads, then they have money to help the needy.

If politicians wanttobeseen as hard working, then their deeds willachieve more than what they are spending our money on.

Ihave no issue with them spending their own money tryingtoget re elected,but stop wasting taxpayer's money when people are suffering.

Patrick Ansell

Morwell

Checkmate

ICOULD never beat my late father at chess because he was always thinking 20 or more moves ahead, whereas Icould barely manage two or three. In the same short-sighted way, our myopic PM Anthony Albozo is only capable of thinking of the next election and the next three years if Labor gets re-elected.

In stark contrast, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is thinking of the next 60 to 100 years via his futuristicproposal to build seven nuclear power stations across Australia.

Predictably, the PM is attacking Dutton'snuclear plan, saying that it is "unrealistic and too costly".

However, Albanese has no credibility, as is very clearlyillustrated by his broken promise (made on no less than 97 occasions in the lead-up to the 2022 election) to lower power bills by $275 per year. Hence the reason Ihave no respect for the guy and thus the reason Irefer to him as PM Albozo.

But circling back to my father.

In 1966, the Australian chess champion, Doug Hamilton, came to Churchill and challenged all comers.

On another issue Mr Duck -you claim to be an educator. Isincerely hope you never treated your pupilsinthe same arrogant way thatyou try to put down some of the correspondents to this paper. I can assureyou,ifIhad achildthat was astudent of yours and you talked to them in the same manner as you sometimes do to people in this paper, you would havereceivedavisit frommethatyou would have found very uncomfortable.

Neil Reid

Traralgon

Poor defence

IAGREE with you Marianne Robinson, ('Inexcusable', LVE Opinion, 11/09/24).

I'm prepared to cut some slack to people of older generations, in their acceptance at the time of the 'norms' of the day.

These may include what we realise today were outrageous and dangerous practices, such as high rates of smoking, drinking and driving, inferior salaries for women, racial taunts and assaulting children in the nameofdiscipline,aka corporal punishment.

However, as Marianne rightlyinfers,doubling down anddefending today, in this case corporal punishment, what is now illegal or even back when legally common, is simply illogical and and inexcusable, even if based on sheer ignorance.

My father was among the 20 or so chess players brave enough to take up Hamilton's challenge. After along and memorable match, my father defeated Hamilton and was the only chess player to do so.

My father always lamented that there was no mention made of this in the Latrobe Valley Express as there was no Express reporter in Churchill on that day.

Well, Pop, here is your mention in the Express 58 years later!

Joseph Lis Morwell

your say

THE Latrobe Valley Express welcomesletters to the editor.

letters

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

The defence that any of this 'did me/us no harm' is simply lazy, narcissistic, irrelevant, and wilfully uneducated, and the suggestion one may actually also assaultgrandchildren takes it to awhole new level.

JohnDuck Trafalgar

Irrelevant issue

WITH reference to Gary Mitchell's letter on the ABC story regarding sexism faced by female paramedics ('Nothing but praise', LVEOpinion, 11/09/24) -those who call for an ambulance should be in too much pain to worry about the sex of the person helping them.

In my experience, Idid not care who gave me that pain relieving needle.

Patricia Correa Traralgon

Moneycould be better spent elsewhere

DURING acost of living crisis that all politicians claimtounderstand, I'm curious: why do we have a local MP throwing away taxpayer money multiple times per day on radiocommercialstellingushow we shouldshoplocally?

Contrary to what politicians might think, most people have enough common sense to know what we should do.

We certainlydon't need to be lectured like we are all ignorant.

Whatthis politician rants about is justcommon sense,and serves only to give them name

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 aphonenumber, email address and the author'shometown for purposes of substantiating authenticity. Readers are entitled to aright of reply to a letter directed at them.

While healthydebate is encouraged, the editor will use his discretion if he believes letters are becoming slagging matches between writers.

The views expressed in letters to the editor are those of the writers, anddonot necessarily reflect the views of Latrobe Valley Express management or staff.

The letters section is designed to allow people to have their say, and not be hijacked for political agendas.

Letters involving religion will not be published.

Emailletters to news@lvexpress.com.au and include 'Lettertothe Editor' in the subjectline. Deadline for letters is Thursday 3pm.

Fears bushfire and forestryjobs willgo

By STEFAN BRADLEY

NATIVE timber harvesting in Victoria may have shut down, but that job axe keeps swinging, with the Department of Energy, Environmentand Climate Action (DECCA) set to slash more than 200bushfire and forestry jobs.

Despite announcing additional support packages for timber workersabout ayearago to benefit communities in places such as Heyfield and Yarram, DEECA’s proposedpositional impactsummary shows the government department is expecting to employ 1717 people in the Bushfire and Forest Services Group (BFS) in the future, down from 1925. This is acut of 208 jobs,with118 of those from Forest Fire Management(FFM).

StateMember for Gippsland East Tim Bull, said the revelation was “dreadful news on two fronts”.

“The first is the humanelement. In towns like Orbost, Omeo, Heyfield, Bairnsdale and Yarram that have FFM workers, it creates agreat deal of uncertainty,” Mr Bull said.

“These are communitiesthat have been impacted by the ridiculous decision to close our native timber industry, and now the government plans to cut more jobs which willfurther impact these local economies.

“Thesecondpointisthe lack of fuel reduction burning has allowed fuel loads to hit very dangerous levels again and it has left us very vulnerable, whichindicates they learned nothing from the 2019-20 fires.

“But on topofthat,the government’s responseis to make cuts to those who are there to protect us.

“Bottom line on this is, when you allow fuel loads

to build up to the levels they are again, it can only end one way in summer, there is no other possible outcome and Labor has now made it worse by weakening the frontline.”

The timber industry officially closed on January 1this year.

Heyfield Timber Festival Committee President Felicia Stevenson described the state government cutting these jobs ahead of the fire seasonafter shuttingdown the native timber industry as an “absolute disgrace”.

“Everything seems to be for Melbourne and nothing for regional Victoria,” Ms Stevenson said.

“All of ourtinytimber towns are the ones that aresuffering big losses.”

Ms Stevenson expressed concern for the coming fire season, while acknowledging she was unsure of whatspecificpositionswould be affectedwithin the BFS.

“I think people should be worried. Look at the bush now. You go for adrive, it’s just the fuel load everywhere,” she said.

“We don’t have the machinery nowtogoand fight it. Some of these tracks (are) probably already overgrown from not having the logging contractors in there working.

“We’rejustnot going to have theresources there to be able to fight it. Or they are going to actually callinfor firefightersoverinAmerica to come over and help us?”

According to the Weekly Times,the Environment Minister SteveDimopoulossaidthat DEECAwas in discussions with staff about“aproposed new model that will deliver value for Victorians and ensure we have the right people working on the

Jail timeexpected for man charged withbuggy crash

AMAN is set to be handed ajailsentence after pleadingguiltytoacharge relating to the death of agirlinafarm buggy crash at Rosedale three years ago.

Damien GavinGibson,36, attended the Latrobe ValleyCounty Court in person on Monday, September 9after pleading guilty to culpable driving causing death.

Gibson tookhis five children, another girl and aboy on ajoy ride duringabarbecuewith family friends at his Rosedale farm on September 11, 2021.

The six-year-old girl, Olivia Stevens, was thrown from theall-terrainvehicle when it hit a rut in the ground and rolled. Olivia was crushed under the vehicle’sroll bars and diedwhilebeing flown to the Royal Children’s Hospital.

The ABC reported that the court heard the vehiclewas in two-wheel drive mode when it rolled after its wheels became caught in arut Thecourt was also told that none of the seven

children on board were wearing helmets or seatbelts and that the buggy was only designed to seat four people.

In court, Olivia’s mother Yana Stevens spoke of the traumathe family experienced when learning of Olivia’s death.

“I didn’t know pain like this existed and somehow you just don’t die from it,” Ms Stevens read from her victim impact statement.

Gibson’s defence lawyer Peter Morrissey SC told the court his client wanted to read an apologyletter to the familyincourt, but after discussionwith the prosecution,itwas determined Ms Stevens didn’t want it read out.

In February, Gibson chose to revoke his bail, to begin servingalikely prison term. Thecharge of culpabledriving causing deathcarries amandatory jail term in Victoria.

JudgeRichard Maidment adjourned sentencing to the Melbourne County Court later this year.

right things -including making sure our communities can continue to enjoy the great outdoors, while protecting what we all love about the bush”.

“We will maintain astrongregional presence across Victoria,” Mr Dimopoulos said.

DEECAdocuments state that “functions and people” from the shuttered VicForests have been transferred to DEECA.

They also say the department plans to “take the opportunity from the consolidation of the FFMVic fireprogram and the end of native timber harvesting, and become amore integrated forest and fire land manager”.

Financial pressures may be afactor in these job cuts, as written throughoutthe documents are intentions to cut costs,increase efficiency and stay within a“sustainable budget envelope”.

BFS staff and functions are on-site at 99 regional sites, according to the documents.

Lynn to be sentenced next month, prosecution calls for life sentence

By TOMHAYES

THE prosecution in Greg Lynn’s case is calling for alife sentence to be handed down on the former Jetstar pilot.

Aplea hearing was heard in the Supreme Court of Victoria last Thursday (September 12) before Mr Lynn’s sentencing is set to commence. The hearing was scheduled for two days, but it was completed in one.

On March 20, 2020, campers Carol Clay and Rusell Hill went missing, and their bodies were later found near Dargo on November 30, 2021.

In June 2024, the jury found Mr Lynn guilty of the murder of Carol Clay, and not guilty of the murder of Russell Hill after afive-week trial in the Supreme Court.

The court had previously heard Mr Lynn’s plans to appeal the jury’s guilty verdict for the murder of Ms Clay.

Among those in the public gallery was Ms Clay’s two daughters and Mr Hill’s wife and children.

Starting proceedingswas Crown prosecutor Daniel Porceddu, who reaffirmed to the court that the murders were “cold-bloodedand callous.”

Mr Porceddu also argued that Mr Lynn had killed Ms Clay to coverupthe murder of Mr Hill. Victim impact statements were heard by Ms Clay’s daughter Emma Davies, Ms Clay’s sister Jillian Walker, and Ms Clay’s friend Alison Abbott.

Mr Porceddu followed the victim impact statements calling for Mr Lynn to be served with a lifesentence-the maximum penaltyfor murder.

This wasrebutted by Mr Lynn’s defence

barrister, Dermot Dann, KC, who maintained Mr Lynn’s innocence of murder.

“This cannot be acase that fallsinto the worst category,” Mr Dann said.

Thedefence acknowledged Ms Clay’s exceptional contribution to the community, which was followed later in the hearing with the defence telling the court about the background of Mr Lynn, including his career and the steps he had to take to become acommercialpilot,as well as hischarity work,church attendance, child fostering, and gaining the custody of his children afterhis first wife died,which brought him “credit” according to Mr Dann.

The defence stated that they remained troubled by the guilty jury verdict and how it could possibly be an unsafe result. Mr Dann reiterated the fact that there is only Mr Lynn’s version.

“Yourhonourhas to sentence thisman on the basis that thereisnomotivethat’s been established,” Mr Dann told the court. Mr Dann raised furtherconcernover the guilty verdict, labelling it as “precarious”, due to the lack of motive and the split verdict.

Mr Lynn has been in protection since he was assaulted in prison, from where he was shifted from aprotected prisoner into isolation.

Mr Lynn madea fresh apology to the families of the campers, knowing that they will “likely be rejected”.The apologieswere summarised and read by Mr Dann. The prosecution will get instructions fromMsClay’s family on theirviews to the apology letter before sentencing.

Justice Croucher adjourned the case for sentencing, which is scheduled for Friday, October 18 from 10.30am. Mr Lynn will be remanded in custodyuntil that date

The documents state that DEECA proposes to “implement aVoluntary Departure Package scheme in winter 2025”.

The Latrobe Valley Express, Wednesday, 18 September, 2024 —Page 5

Ground level: Heyfield Timber Festival organiser and life-long resident Felicia Stevenson. File photograph

Man rescued after Walhalla slip up

By TOMHAYES

AWALHALLA Goldfields Railway volunteer was rescued last week after falling down an embankment on the railway line.

At Happy CreekStation, about 1.5kilometres awayfromWalhalla, therunning of the 12pm services stopped after there seemed to be an issue with the train. Happy Creek Station is known to have afairlylarge clearing.

“At the very front right of the train, just unfortunate where he stopped,the distance between the train and the edge of the track is probably the narrowest of the whole part,” Walhalla Goldfields Railway President, Greg Hansford said.

After awalk around check of the train, the volunteer driver,Graeme Skinner, lost his footing and fellapproximately six to eight metres into Stringers Creek.

Mr Hansford explained that two remaining volunteers, Ian Ipsen (guard) and Miles Stayches (assistant driver) secured the train before Mr Staychesscaleddown the embankment to see what condition Mr Skinner was in.

“(Mr Skinner) is also the safety officer, so that caused abit of aproblem because the rail safety people, no one notified them of the incident, they rang(Mr Skinner)becausehe’s the first on the list… and they couldn’t get through to him,” Mr Hansford told the Express

and Ambulance Victoria,lastingaround three hours.

At 12.44pm, emergency services were paged to the incident.

Erica and District Fire Brigade Captain, Russell Wright explained the rescue.

“It’s located in steep terrainwhere there is no vehicleaccess, so I, myself, hadtowalkfrom Walhalla while other crews were put onto atrolley,” he said.

“About halfway down the embankmentisliterally asheer drop into the creek below.”

Capt. Wright said the rescue was the “definition of teamwork”.

“Quite often we makethe statement that ‘we work as one’, and Ithink yesterday (September 11) was pure evidence of what the definition of team really is,” he said.

“Wecouldn’t havedoneitwithout the helpofthe volunteers at the railway who assisted transporting our gear and equipment up and down the railway line.”

It was later discovered that Mr Skinner had sustained broken ribs on both sides, as well as a broken wrist. The volunteer also suffered knocks to the head but was able to answer questions during the rescue once he regained consciousness.

“Graeme is currently in aserious condition in ICU,” aWalhallaGoldfields Railway statement read on Thursday, September 12.

Mr Stayches straightened Mr Skinner up and sat him upright to prevent his head from sitting in the water.MrHansford reported that Mr Skinnerwas lapsing in and out of consciousness in the initial parts of the incident

The 12pm service had 16 passengers on board, six of which were tourists from Sydney.

“Fortunately beingthe last train it was not full,” Mr Hansford said. The passengers were extracted via rail trolley before being ferried back by road to Walhalla.

It is reported that the rescue required the Erica and District Fire Brigade, Tyers Fire Brigade, FRV’s High Angle Rescue Team, HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), as well as the Police

Capt. Wright said that the Erica and District Fire Brigade have seen similar incidents with cars off the road, but they had never come across something like this before.

“Somethinghappening on the railway, of this magnitude, is afirst for us,” Capt. Wright said. Mr Hansford explained that he had only ever heard of asimilar incidentoncebefore at the Walhalla Goldfields Railway.

Moetobacco shop fire under investigation

DETECTIVES from Taskforce Lunar are investigating aMoe tobacco shop fire.

Emergency services were called to the property on LloydStreetatabout5.35am on Tuesday, September 10.

The exactcircumstances surrounding the fire are yet to be determined and police are treating it as suspicious.

No one was inside the property at the time.

Anyone who witnessed the incident, has dashcam/ CCTV footage, or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers, or submit aconfidential report online.

Recreation reservebreak-in

POLICE are investigating after aburglary in Traralgon overnight betweenThursday, September 12 and Friday, September 13.

Investigatorshave been told unknown offenders forced entry to abuilding at Traralgon Recreation Reserve and stole food and drink. Investigations into theincident remain ongoing.

Anyone with information that can assist police is urgedtocontact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit aconfidential report online at: crimestoppersvic.com.au

Seeking assistance

DETECTIVES from Morwell SOCIT are seeking assistancefrom anyonewho witnessed asilver Holden Commodore swerving at log trucks.

The action was believed to have occurred on the following roads and surrounds: Morwell -Maryvale Road, Tanjil East Rd, or Traralgon Rd between

3.30pm and 5.30pm on August 7, 2024.

If you witnessed this or have any information, contact Crime Stopperson1800 333000,orsubmit aconfidential online report at: crimestoppersvic. com.au

Drink driver offthe road

WHILST patrolling the streets of Traralgon in theearly hours of Sunday,September 8, police intercepted adriveronQueens Parade at about 12.25am.

After witnessing him mount the footpath and drive through agarden bed, they thought he was worth acheck.

The 22-year-oldTraralgonman returned a positive PBT andwas taken backtothe Traralgon Police Station, where he registered areading of 0.201 on the Evidentiary Breath Test. As aresult, his vehiclewas impounded and he received an immediate licence ban. The man will be summonsed to court at alater date. If you are going to drink, don’t drive.

PoliceBeat with TomHayes

Loy Yang Aleading four decades

LOY Yang APower Station celebrates 40 years of generation this month.

First generation from Unit 1began in September 1984, with subsequentunits brought online over the next four years. The power station was completed in 1988 when the final unit was operational.

Over the past 40 years, Loy Yang APower Stationhas providedcritical power for the Victorian electricity system, helping to power homes and businesses across the state. On average over the past 20 years, Loy Yang has powered the equivalent of approximately three million average Australian homes per year.

The power station has been one of the largest employersinGippsland through its life,employing thousands of local people over that time.

AGL Loy YangGeneralManager,Christo van Niekerk, thanked the people who have worked at the power station and mine.

“Celebrating 40 years of powergeneration and local employment is aremarkable milestone," he said.

"I want to thankall the peoplewho have worked at the power station and mine over the years, enablingLoy Yang to provide safe and reliable electricity for Victorianhomes and businesses

Supplyingthe equivalent of three million homes per year with power is afantastic achievement

“As we plan for Loy Yang’s final decade of generation and the site’s transition into an integrated

energy hub, it’s important that we take amoment to celebrate the legacy of the power station at this 40-year milestone, as acriticalproviderofelectricity, an important local employer, and avalued member of the Gippsland community.”

An all-staff luncheon and discussion panel with past and present employees reflecting on their time

working at the powerstation willbeheld at site to mark the occasion.

AGL Rehabilitation &Closure Strategist, Benn Snell, whoishelping to prepare the sitefor closure over the next decade, reflected on his family’s connection to Loy Yang.

“My family’s connection to this place is special

with my grandfather working here when the mine and power station were opened 40 years ago," he said.

"I’ll be here when we closethe power station and I’m proud to be working on the transition of the site to ensure we create alegacy for the local community.”

Magnesium development gaining traction

From Page 1

“WE had afew challenges along the way, which is normal when commissioning anew and novel process, particularly with integrating equipment suppliers into the overall connected solution we wanted. The Rockwell team went above and beyond to incorporate this equipment and control required into the overall plant control system,"

Mr Gillen said.

“We also sourced equipment from overseas

thatcamewithout any code whatsoever,and the Rockwell team came in and wrote software for it, so that it could be part of the overall connected solution, and our commissioning could proceed.

We’ve been extremely impressedwiththeir willingness to solve problems.

“We are incrediblyproudofour futurelow CO2 process (that) canaddress potentially hazardous waste stockpiles and produce sustainable valuable products with downstream environmental benefits,

Wayofthe future: Theworld’sfirst pyrohydrolysis spray roasting technology processing wasteintomagnesium-rich sustainable materials is being developed withLatrobe Magnesium front of mind.

Photograph supplied

GRAMMAR

Wayback: LoyYang Aunder construction four decades ago Photograph supplied

Morwell great fondly remembered

By PHILIP HOPKINS

KEITH Brownbill, OAM, an outstanding Morwell education leader,Rotarian andachampionfor Morwell, has died at the age of 96. He passed away peacefully at Latrobe Regional Hospital on Sunday, August 25.

Mr Brownbill was aloved and respected family man,alifelongeducator and highly regarded in the community.

He was principal of Morwell High School for 15 years when, at retirement in 1987, he was the longest-serving school principal in the state.On arrivinginMorwelltobeprincipal, he joined Morwell Rotary, where he subsequently took on a multitudeofroles. His strongest passions included education, youth and Rotary.

His energy and community commitment led to him to become afoundationmemberofAdvance Morwell, where he was along-serving secretary and was awarded life membershipin2017. Mr Brownbill's contribution to the Morwell community was immense.

Keith James Brownbill was born in Inglewood on October 25, 1927, the eldest of four boys to Elsie and James Brownbill. Keith grew up on the family farm at Arnold West, living amodest and religious life steeped in the language of the Bible.

Keithwas educated at Arnold West Primary School, aone-roomrural school, later at Inglewood Higher Elementary School and then Bendigo High School.Herode his pushbike, and occasionally a horse,toInglewoodElementary, 20 kilometres return each day. When boarding at Bendigofor school,herode his pushbike 53km home to Arnold West on theweekends.

Gettinganeducation was noteasy for Keith. Money was tight. His father's Army pay and two academic scholarshipsenabled him to matriculate at Bendigo High School.

He went on to study literature, language and education at Melbourne University, becoming fluent in French.

After beginning as astudent teacher in 1945, Keith began his teacher training in 1946 and started as afully trained teacher at Hamilton High in 1950. He moved to Horsham in 1956, then Traralgon in 1960 before becomingprincipal of KanivaHigh School in 1963. At 36, he wasthe youngest principal in the state.

During 1970, as part of League for Exchange of Commonwealth teachers' program,hespent ayear in London teaching at the St Albans Girls Grammar School.

Mr Brownbill and his family moved to Morwell in 1972 when he was appointed principal of Morwell High School, arole he held until his retirement in 1987.

Mr Brownbill believedthat education could be amajor factor in people's development, as it had been for him, coming from asmall farming family in Inglewoodonthe old goldfields where hisfamily had alove of learning.

He believed the most important factor in education was the quality of teaching staff, and that "students must be encouraged to aim high, to test their arm, to be unafraid of failure". He was an educational visionary, demonstrated in his championing of the transition of MorwellHigh School intothe Morwell Campus of Kurnai College

He saw this change as providing studentswith the benefit of wider and more exciting opportunities andamodel for schools throughout the nation.

The relationships Mr Brownbill developed with his staff, students and their families wastestament to his good nature and the high esteem in which he was held, supporting him in his community endeavours for years to come.

His friend, David Swainsbury'sson and

daughter-in law,who graduatedfrom Morwell High in 1987 and 1988, said, "Mr Brownbill never forgot aface, sometimes the name escaped him, but not often; he was always interested in what you were doing and where you were living".

Mr Brownbillhad beenamember of Rotary in Kaniva, but on moving to the Latrobe Valley in March 1972, became amember of Morwell Rotary. The Morwell club had astrong history of student exchange and as principal of Morwell High, Keith expanded this project, welcoming students from South Africa, the USA, Japan, Finland and South America. He became Rotary president in 1983-84

was recentlyawarded Honorary Membership of the Morwell Rotary Club for life.

Afoundation member of Advance Morwell, Keith was actively involved in the organisation since its inceptionmore than 25 years ago, only stepping down as secretary (a role he had held for over 20 years) in March this year.

Keith was aquietachieverwho passionatelyand consistently worked for Morwell's betterment. With his great literacy, interests in sport, international affairsand overseasexperiences, suchasteaching English in China,hebrought immense valueto discussions about Morwell's development, understandinga broader perspectivethanmanyothers.

Mr Brownbill was actively involved in many of Advance Morwell's initiatives. He was extremely proud of Morwell and wanted to create an attractive and inviting urban environment. He organised the installation and maintenance of rose planter boxes throughout the CBD and for many years, despite his advancing age, could be seen dutifully watering these during the summer months.

His passion for the townwas alwaysevident, whether it was his involvement in the AirlieBank Homestead restoration,Morwell Town Common Redevelopment, preparingnumerous awardwinning TidyTown submissions, or organising various community events (including the initial International Rose Garden festivals).

Mr Brownbill wasalways looking for ways to enhance the town both physically and as atourist destination. He initiated the development of a Morwell tourism brochure, lobbied for new town entrance signage which he worked with Max Williamson to create.

One of his major legacies is the Sir Stanley Savige memorial and Legacy Place development, which Advance Morwell initiated and he alongwithMax Williamson played asignificant role in bringing to fruition.

He was akeen supporter of Morwell traders, runningMorwell'sMainStreetand Streetlife projects for many years and always wanted to engage with thecommunity, organising musical events in the Rose Garden and Morwell's Christmas activities including various incarnations of Christmas Carol events.

Keith was the organiser of the annual Len Falk Lecture, amember of the Australian College of Education, including being secretary/treasurer of their Gippsland Group for eight years and was on anumberofcourse advisory Committees of the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education.

and successfully spread news of Rotary through radio, TV and the local press. Amid the plethora of his Rotary roles were public relations officer for 12 years, internationaldirector fivetimes, sergeant at arms four times and club service director three times.

Keith focussed on programsthat benefited youth, together with Rotarians selecting to attend highlevelinterstate education programs. Amajor event in his Rotaryservice was his role to re-establish Rotary in China. He had learnt Mandarin to conversational standard, enabling him to speak to an audience in the Great Hall of the People. He

Awarded Morwell Citizen of the Year in 2000, Mr Brownbill was an original member of the Latrobe Valley U3A in 1989. He was arespected and much liked tutor of Frenchand CurrentAffairs,undertaking many roles including planner and president. He was also instrumental in establishing the Community Road Safety Councils in Victoria, being past president and the longest standing member of the Gippsland Community Road Safety Organisation;aformat adopted across thecountry Mr Brownbill was awarded an Order of Australia medal for his services to the community in 2012, having received aCentenary Medal in 2001. AMorwell High School tribute referred to Mr Brownbillas"aman of wit, intellect, culture, enlightenmentand scholarship" -afitting epitaph for aman whocontributed so much and engaged with so many.

His funeral notice read "a lifelong educator and highly regarded member of the community. A champion for Morwell".

- with Sue Brownbill,Graeme Sennett, Howard Williams and David Swainsbury

Vale: Morwell great KeithBrownbill OAMdedicated his lifetoserving the Morwell community. Photograph supplied

All-abilities artfor Latrobe

LATROBECityCouncil is establishing an annual community art exhibition to showcase the work of emerging local artists witha disability.

The Art for All Exhibition (Exhibition) will celebrate the diverse talents and achievements of people with disability and promote inclusion.

The Exhibition will be displayed at the Gippsland PerformingArtsCentre (GPAC) from November 6, 2024 to March 2, 2025, as partofLatrobeRegional Gallery’sseasonal programming. It will also form part of council’s celebration of International Day of People with Disability (IDPWD), held on December 3each year.

Artists withadisabilityinLatrobe City interested in submittingtheir artwork for consideration must complete an Expression of Interest (EOI) form by Friday, October 25, 2024.

An artist can submit only one artwork item to be considered,and it must be their original work. Acceptedartworks include

two-dimensional pieces, such as drawings, paintings, photography, screen prints and poetry, as well as sculptural objects like ceramics, glass or mixed media designs.

The EOI form can be completedonline at www.latroberegionalgallery.com/art-for-allexhibition or ahard copy form can be collected and submitted at Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.

Latrobe Regional Gallery staff can assist individuals to complete the forminperson, over the phone or email. Phone the gallery on (03)51285700oremail lrg@latrobe.vic.gov.au

If you are deaf,orhave ahearing impairment or speech impairment, you can reach council through the National Relay Service (NRS):

Teletypewriters (TTY)phone 133 677, then ask for 1300 367 700

Speak and Listen users phone 1300 555 727, then ask for 1300 367 700

Internet relay users connect to the NRS, then ask for 1300 367 700

Roll up your sleeves and save alife

VICTORIANS are once again being encouraged to rolluptheirsleeves and donate blood to save alifethisSpring.

There is ongoing high demand forblood products.

MinisterforHealthMary-AnneThomasvisited the Lifeblood pop-up donor centre at St Andrews Place near Parliament to see the operation in action, meet some of the staff, and encourage fellow Parliamentary colleagues to donate blood. The pop-up donorcentre visitedfor threedays last week to spread the word about the ongoing need for blood and encourage people to donate.

Lifeblood says therecontinues to be record high demand for blood, with around 33,000 donations needed everyweek to meet demand -that’s one donation every 18 seconds.

Victorians are some of the most generous blood donors in the country, with more than 7000having made more than 100 blood donations.

Blood provided by donors is used in arange of treatments, including for those who have had surgery, thosereceivingcancer treatment, women in childbirth, people with blood disorders, and trauma patients.

Lifeblood collects more than 1.6 million blood and plasmadonationseachyear. Plasmais avital componentofblood.Itcan take up to 13 plasma donations to make asinglevial of some plasma medicines, which is why so many donors are needed.

Along withthe Commonwealth and other state and territory governments, the Allan government contributes annually to the National Blood Authority to make sure Victorian hospitals can access blood and blood products when and where they’re needed.

Those looking to donate blood and help save lives can schedule an appointment by calling 13 14 95 or at lifeblood.com.au

Annual art show coming soon

MOE ArtSocietyInc hasits annualart show coming up.

Moe Art Society is anot-for-profit community group with the aim of promoting the appreciation of art in Moe and surrounds.

Each Spring, the society holds their annual art show, open to the local community and visitors.

This year's show will be open to the public from October 7to28, at the east end of Moe Library (located on George Street). Opening hours are: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm and Saturday 9am to 12noon.

This year, local primary school groups will also be participating, from October 7-12.

Membersartworkwill be on display,and available for sale, from October 15, with October 28 beingthe final chance to "support your local artists".

This event will highlight the work of the talented members, and participating schoolchildren, and

encourage anyone with an interest in the visual arts, or who has the desire to express themselves artistically, to consider joining the society.

Many involvedinthe artistic world have commented on the high standard of work achieved by this relatively small group.

They attribute this to the fact that their members are always willing to encourage and demonstrate various techniques to others and to offer positive critque.

They also count themselves as most fortunate to have some very experienced artists as members of the group, including the well-known Ken Downs, Bob Pelchen, Sharon Wooton, John Reeve, Sandy Thompson, HalinaTaig,Wendy Nickson and Eileen Powell.

Lucky tickets will be available for the chance to win artworks donated by Bob Pelchen and Halina Taig.

Welcome: Moe ArtSocietyhopestosee manylocalscome and browse theselection at itsannual Spring ArtShownextmonth. File photograph

ONE POINTERS

1. What does the Scottish word ‘loch’ mean?

2. What shape is an ellipse?

3. What ways can Bishops move in agame of chess?

4. What novel is Leo Tolstoy well-known for writing? TWOPOINTERS

5. In ancient Egypt, what was the process called for preserving adead body?

6. What state of America did Daniel Boone explore?

7. What superhero alias belongs to Hank Pym?

8. What is the largest rodent in North America?

THREE POINTER

9. Which of these metals is softer: gold, titanium or platinum?

10. What organ does meningococcal disease affect?

11. What bird did Edgar Allen Poe write about?

12. Before Foo Fighters, what band was Dave Grohl a member of?

FOUR POINTER

13. What is the name of the gate in the Tower of London that leads onto the Thames?

14. The section of anewspaper page that displays the publication name and page number is called what FIVE POINTER

15. I’ll give you the town, and you give me the state? One point for each answer 1. Ulladulla 2. Kingston 3. Hahndorf4.Meekatharra 5. Woolloomooloo

class; 30-36: Outstanding; 22-29: Well done; 15-21: Solid effort; 9-14: Room for improvement; 0-8: Hit the books.

and each lettermay be

onlyonce No colloquial or foreign words. No capitalised nouns, apostrophes or plural wordsending in ‘s’. Solution next Wednesday

GRAB &GO. TRARALGON

Thank you Latrobe Valley for giving us the opportunitytosharewith you our amazingTurkish food! We originally started our business in a mobile green food vanin2019that has become well known around Gippsland. Happy customers have informed us that theyhave travelled manykilometres for our delicious cuisine. We have come to Traralgon to open astoresoyou can experience the whole Turkish factor! We specialise in authentic Turkish döner kebabs and HSPs. Using only the finest and tastiest meats, fresh salads and aselection of sauces.

Welcome to Malaios, whereweinvite you on aculinaryjourney throughMalaysia’s vibrant and diverse Flavors. Nestled in the heart of Traralgon ,our restaurant is acelebration of Malaysia’s rich culinary heritage, offering an array of dishes that areascolourful and exciting as thecountry itself

At Malaios we pride ourselves on serving authentic Malaysian cuisine crafted from traditional recipes and the freshest ingredients. Our menu features atantalizing selection of dishes that showcasethe unique blend of influences from Malay,Chinese, Indian, and Thai cultures. Whether you’re craving the aromatic spices of aclassic Laksa, the comforting richness of Nasi Lemak, or the crispy delight of Roti Canai,each dish is meticulously prepared to deliver an unforgettable dining experience.

Kebabs include either lamb,chicken, mixed, falafel (vegetarian) or fish with your choice of salads and sauces. HSPsare ahit,with your choice of meats or falafels with chips or salads and sauces.

Come and visit us in our brand new shop at 69 Franklin Street Traralgonwhereyou can takeawayorthereis an option to sit and enjoy your tasty food. Youcan place aphone order on 51 642266 or we are on Menulog.

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Our warm and welcoming ambiance is designed to make everyvisit special. From the moment you step through our doors, you’ll be greeted by the inviting aromas of our kitchen and the friendly smiles of our staff.Our commitment to excellence extends beyond our food;westrive to provideexceptionalservice and acozy environment whereyou can relaxand enjoy yourmeal

We believe in morethan just serving great food—we aim to create lasting memories. Whether you’reherefor acasuallunch, afamily dinner,oraspecial celebration, we look forwardtosharing thetastes and traditions of Malaysia with you

Visit us at 120Franklin Street,Traralgon 3844, and let us takeyou on aflavourful adventurethat will leave youcoming back for more. We can’t wait to serve youatMalaios!

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Spring Whale Watching Wa Merimbula

If you are visiting the Sapphire Coast this spring then keep an eyeout for whales! Seeing whales in the wild is one of themost awe-inspiring natural spectacles on the planet.

From MaytoNovembereachyear, tens of thousands of humpback whales visitthe SapphireCoast on their annual journeytoand from Antarctica. Our beautiful coastline is oneofthe world’s best locations to experience this epic event. DuringMay,June andJulytheytravel northtobreed andcalve in thewarmwatersofthe GreatBarrier Reef.This year over 50,000humpbackwhalesexpectedtomaketheir annual migrationalong theeastcoast of Australia

During thesouthernmigration(August to November) toursdepart daily. During August andSeptember,humpbackwhalescan be seen feedinginthe waters off ourcoast -one of thefew places in theworld whereyou cansee this phenomenon! TheninOctober andNovember, mothersbring theirplayful newseasoncalvespast ourcoastline, providinghours of funaswewatch them play.Inadditiontohumpback whales we canalsosight SouthernRight Whales, Orca, Dolphins, Seals anda variety of seabirds.

So if youare keen to getout on the waterorwould love to knowthe best locations forland based whale watching please giveusacall (02) 6495 1686. Bookings can also be made online

Community Corner with Liam Durkin

Guest speaker

MOE District Historical Society (M&HHS) will have renownedformer localteacher BrianMcKenzie as their guest speaker next Wednesday (September 24).

The M&DHS will be open on Wednesday afternoon from 1pm to 4pm. The Public are welcome to attend the meeting.

M&DHS is situated at 2High Street, Moe.

Newborough Senior Citizens

THERE is plenty happening at the Newborough Senior Citizens Centre.

Mondays: Craft from 10am, followed by bring-your-own lunch, then cards from 1pm to 4pm.

Tuesday:Gamesfrom10ammidday. Lunch catered for at $10 per head. Bingo from 1.30pm-3.30pm. Wednesdays: Carpet bowls from 10am-11.30am. Bring-your-own lunch, then cards from 1pm-4pm.

Thursdays: Carpet bowls from 10am-11.30am. Bring-your-own lunch. Bingo from 1.30pm-3.30pm.

The third Thursdayofthe month sees the DutchCard Club meet for Klaverjassen.

Fridays: Craft and movies from 10am-4pm in the Billiard room.

ThisSaturday (September 21) the centre is hosting abarbecueat$12 per person.

This month's barbecue is asport themed day.

To find outmore or to confirm attendance, phone 0474 131 772 or 0466 919 944.

NewboroughSenior CitizensCentre is located at 29 Boolarra Avenue, Newborough.

Social tennis

MORWELLSocialTennis is held Mondayand Friday mornings from 9am to midday at Ronald Reserve (off Vary Street, Morwell East).

Cost is $2 for modified tenniswhich doesn't require alot of fitness.

Social tennis promotes fun and community, welcoming anyone keen to just have ahit.

Morwell Tennis Club is getting ready for the tennis season with Sectional Play and juniors.

For more information, phone Naomi on 0405 739 819.

Field naturalists

THE next meeting of the Latrobe Valley Field Naturalists Club, starting at 7.30pm on Friday, September 27 in the Moe Library, will see Dr Jacinta Humphrey,anecologist and researcher at RMIT University present, via Zoom, apresentation on the influence of urban design.

The presentation will talk about how to improve habitat for native birds in residential areas.

The following day, (Saturday, September 28) the club's monthly

of urban birds are in the area.

The group will meet at 10am at the Moe Botanic Gardens, off Narracan Drive, later visiting the Ollerton Avenue Bushland Reserve and Lake Narracan.

Everyone is most welcome, both to the meeting and the excursion.

For more information, phone secretary Rose on 0410 237 292.

To learn moreabout Latrobe Valley Field Naturalists, visit www. lvfieldnats.org

Fashion parade

MOE District Cancer Council

Volunteer Group will be holding a fashion parade on Friday, October 4 from 1.30pm at the Moe Bowling Club.

For catering purposes,entry will be by pre-purchased ticket only. Cost is $10 entry, andincludes afternoon tea.

SinceNovember 2021, Moe District Cancer Council has donated $5000 to eight CancerResearchProjects –Melanoma, Oesophageal,Liver, Prostate,Pancreatic, Ovarian, Myeloma and Lung Cancer ($40,000 in total).

The group's current project is Paediatric Cancer research.

Next meeting will be held Monday, September 23, commencing at 1.30pm at the Moe RSL. All welcome. Come and join for acuppa anda chat.

For more information, contact numbers are:

Volunteer Group -Diane: 0438 517 470 or Linda (0427 671 780)

Cancer Council Supporters Hot Line: 1300 65 65 85

Cancer Council Help Line: 13 11 20

Quit Line: 13 78 48

Handcrafted Christmas decorations

ENHANCE your Christmas tree this year with unique,handcrafted decorations made from clay or ceramics by a local artist who is totally blind.

Each pack includesavariety of designssuchasChristmas trees, Santa boots and candy canes.

To placeanorder,phonePhillip Chalker on 0400 603 367.

Spiritual centre

LATROBE Valley Spiritual Centre, (located at 2Avondale Road,Morwell).

Join us every Sunday for service, starting at 2pm.

Guestspeaker every weekwith demonstrations from an invited medium.

Cuppa and afternoon tea follows.

For enquiries,phone Amanda Webb on 0411 051 044.

Prostatesupport

MEETING of Latrobe Valley

Prostate Support Group will be held Wednesday, September 25 at 7pm a the Morwell Club. Counter mealat6pm for those

Birdbrains: Latrobe ValleyField Naturalists will hearfromDrJacinta Humphrey,onhow to improve habitat fornativebirds in residential areas Photograph: Irene Proebsting

All welcome.

The groupisalsoholding an Awareness Day at Traralgon Centre PlazathisSaturday (September 21) from 9am-3pm.

Three members are currentlytaking part in charity walks, clocking up the kilometres.

For more information,phoneAllan Cunningham on 0458 111688.

Lighthouse Op Shop

END of season saleatthe Lighthouse

Op Shop -$5bargain grab bag of men's and ladies winter clothing in the last two weeks of September.

Come and stuff as many men's and ladies winterclothes into the supplied bag as you can fit for $5!

The shop is open Tuesdays and Fridays from 10am-3pm, and is located next door to the WellStreet Milk Bar, Morwell. For further information, phone Karyn on 0403 393 757.

Lions restructure

LIONS Club of Morwell has restructured and is moving forward.

The club needs new volunteers to allow us to continue supporting the community.

Next meeting is at the Morwell RSL,inthe boardroom on Tuesday, September24from 6pm.

All welcome.

For more information, call Liz on 0402849 548 or Geoff (0412 285 913).

Men's breakfast

GIPPSLAND Christian Church, Moe is hosting ahot breakfast this Saturday (September 21), from 8.30am.

Address is Level 1/36 George St, Moe, but entry is via the stairs at the back of Shaw's Arcade (RSL carpark). Lift available in the arcade.

Gold coin donations welcome.

Social dance

MOE Social Dance is organising its Annual Ball, which will be held at the Newborough Public Hall on Friday, October 11. will be by The Silhouettes.

Cost is $10 and it would be appreciated if those comingcould bring aplate to share.

The band will play from 8pm until midnight.

This is an opportunity for attendees to bring out their best ball gown or to dress informally if they wish. Areal chance to sparkle!

If you have any questions,ring Moe Social Dance President, Russell Hoyune on 0457 543 856.

Traralgon District Historical Society

THE last general meeting of the Traralgon District Historical Society saw members entertainedbya talk given by Kath McEntee.

Kath came to Australia in 1973 to teachatTraralgon High School, and has been in Traralgon ever since.

Supper was served after the meeting, with lots of chatter and friendship taking place.

The society is very busy organising their Annual Dinner, whichistobe held at the Traralgon Bowls Club on Tuesday, October 8. Meals are to be pre-ordered and paid for at the bowls club on the night. Guest speaker for the evening is Rob Christie, who has written abook called AConvenient Scapegoat -Angus McMillan and the Gippsland Massacres

Phone the society on 5174 8399 (leaveamessage if office unattended) or 0402 911 950 (secretary) for more information.

Traralgon District is are also participating in the 'Walk-in-Wednesdays' at Traralgon Court House.

The societywill be at the courthouse on Wednesday, October 9from 10.30am-2pm.

This coincides with display at the courthouse for History Month, which will run from Wednesday, October 9 to Saturday, October 12.

The theme for the display will be showcasing Heritage Houses in the Traralgon area.

The society would love anyone with photos or the historyofyourhouse to drop in.

Time to Tango

GIPPSLAND Tango is stepping into Spring with its first everfestival,this Saturday (September 21).

Gippsland Tango meets at the Yarragon Public Hall (7 Campbell Street).

The group is delighted to host professional dancers to showcase Argentinian Tango to the Gippsland community.

Commencing at 7pm with aone hourshow featuringGippsland Tango's regular professional teachers; renowned choreographer (Dancing With The Stars and other art/dance performances) Fabio Robles and Michelle Di Monte with Nathan Slater on guitar andEduardo Perez, who will take the audience on an imaginary journey through musicofthe Tango dance frompast to present!

Ticketsare $30.

Following this is the Argentine Social Dance, which is called a Milonga from 8pm with professional Argentinian DJ Jose.

perform adance for attendees during this time.

This is shaping as abeautiful night for not yet Tango dancers to see many dancers fill the floor and watch their moves as they interpret the music to their style.

Tickets to this are $25. Bring-yourown drinks. Light supper provided. More information about the starsof the night and to purchase tickets can be foundvia www.gippslandtangofest. com

Those interested may also phone Naomi on 0405 739 819.

Chess results

CONCEDING one loss to Peter Bakkerwas followed by victoryin every other contest for Ian Hamilton in Latrobe Valley Chess.

There was introduction to chess technique for Anna Wu and Goshen Wu.

Ben Jackson had three solid wins but overlooked the checkmatethreats in two crucial battles.

Not defending the attack caused problems for Cliff Thornton and gave Peter Bakker recovery after two early defeats.

Emma Jackson did not pay enough attention to all threats but managed the wins in three games.

Jack Wu was able to provide the required help for players asking for assistance.

HannahJackson forcedvictory against Jack Holme and allowed Steve Ahern to escape with adraw.

Phone Cliff Thornton on 0413 330 458 or Ian Hamiton (0400 221 649) for more on local chess.

Social ballroom dancing

AS we come out of Winter, don't let the Winter Blues consume you.

Join Latrobe Valley Dance Promotions Inc each Thursday evening, including school holidays, at the Girl Guides Hall (18 Margaret Street, Morwell)for an eveningofdancing, learning new skills, rehashingold ones and socialising.

Startingat7pm and finishing up about 10pm. Cost is $5 per person each night.

To learn more, follow the Facebook page: Latrobe Valley Dance Promotions Inc.

Alternatively, phone Norm on 0428 543 737, Lynda (0428 489041)or email latrobevalleydancepromotioninc@gmail.com

Youcan be apartof Community Corner

IF you are acommunity groupand have 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 'CommunityCorner' in the subject line and nothing else.

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HOROSCOPES

by Joanne Madeline Moore

September 16 -September 22, 2024

This week s a l about bring ng more balance and harmony into your busy world We celebrate the Equinox on Sunday – when the Sun trans ts nto Libra, and day and n ght are of equa length With Venus also vis t ng your s gn, it’s t me to tap into your passion and creativ ty So your motto s from fe low Libran, egendary stage actress Sarah Bernhardt: “L fe begets ife Energy creates energy It is by spend ng oneself that one becomes rich ”

be done Sunday is a good time to dive deeper into a new hobby or travel experience

Taskmaster Saturn and nebu ous Neptune could suck the wind out of your sai s, especially at home or work And you may feel d sappo nted or confused Don’t despair and give up, Gemini! Get your creative juices flow ng in imaginative new directions Sunday’s Sun/ Pluto trine focuses your busy mind and sharpens your cerebral talents So it’s the perfect time to analyse, study, research and d g deep as you uncover a mystery or so ve a perp exing problem

With Mars charging through your s gn, Crabs are rar ng to go! The Partial Lunar Ecl pse Supermoon Sun Mercury, Saturn and Neptune are all activating your travel and education zones so it’s time to make plans for a future tr p or a new course of study But – w th Saturn slowing progress and Neptune confusing issues – you need to be patient and pers stent Then – when the right moment manifests – you’l be ready w lling and ab e to move forward

It’s a big week for co ourful Cats On Tuesday n ght/ Wednesday, there’s a Partia Lunar Eclipse Supermoon in your intimacy/secrets/trust zone And Thursday/ Friday’s Sun/Uranus trine is terrific for n t at ng creative ideas and mak ng financ al progress Then Sunday’s magnet c Sun/Pluto trine boosts personal power and encourages passionate commun cat on and purposefu transformation So it’s time for se f-assured Lions to spark e and sh ne!

There’s a tendency to become obsessed about an dea (or person) as you focus with V rgo tunne -vis on You’re putting n 100% effort but don’t be disappointed if the resu ts aren’t perfect You’ll learn more from perce ved ‘fa lures’ than you will from successes Draw insp ration from film star Soph a Loren (who was born on September 20, 1934): “It’s better to explore and make mistakes than to play t safe Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full l fe ”

The Sun and Mercury are moving through your peer group zone, while Saturn, Neptune and the Partial Lunar Eclipse Supermoon stimulate your friendship zone So a work co league could frustrate you, an authority figure could annoy you, or a friend could give you confusing information Avoid the temptation to just su k, stew and simmer A doub e dose of Scorpio charm and diplomacy w ll get you through with your reputation (and sanity) ntact!

Expect a domestic drama or a professiona chal enge as Saturn, Neptune and a Partial Lunar Ecl pse Supermoon leave you wonder ng what on earth is going on!

Do your best to be especia ly diplomatic with a cranky co league or a recalcitrant relative B unt honesty isn’t the best policy – communication will improve w th some creative sugar-coating A pinch of patience (not your usua modus operandi) wil help smart Sagittarians sai through

From Wednesday to Saturday, you could feel doubtfu or disappointed, as Saturn and Neptune dull motivation and confuse communication Then your Capr corn confidence starts to return, as Sunday’s Sun/Pluto trine boosts your earthy energy and natura enthus asm Personal projects, ho idays, travel and education are highlighted Remember it’s Equinox week, so the more you re ax and tune into your inner equ libr um, the happ er you’ l be!

Saturn, Neptune and the Part al Lunar Eclipse Supermoon are st rring up your finance zones So impulse buys today could lead to cashflow prob ems tomorrow Astute Aquar ans will avo d making expensive purchases or major money moves, as you’re incl ned to view your financ a situation through rose-coloured g asses

The Sun/Uranus trine (on Thursday/Friday) is fabu ous for nnovative creat ve ideas, especially involving home and family

The Partial Lunar Ec ipse Supermoon is in Pisces but, f you daydream the week away, you’ll just end up feeling dazed and confused Try channel ing your creative energy into friendsh ps, oint ventures and group pro ects You’re keen to pursue a particu ar course of act on but is a loved one on the same page? Take the time to double-check, otherwise you could find you are veering off n comp etely d fferent direct ons Communicating c early is the key

COPYR GHT Joanne Madel ne Moore 2024

Special schoolvisit from Speaker himself

SPEAKERofthe House of Representatives, Milton Dick, visited seven schools across Gippsland as part of his national effort to build awareness of the role of Federal Parliament and to encourage students to participate in democracy.

The speakerwas invited to the region by Federal Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester.

“It’s all about beingaccessible to the students so they can gainanunderstandingofour Parliamentary process and ask questions about our jobs,” Mr Chester said.

“I invited the Speaker to talk about his role in Parliament and how the democratic process works.

“As Presiding Officer, the Speakerchairsthe

meetings of the House of Representatives and ensures they are conducted in an orderly manner and according to the provisions of the Constitution and the standing orders,whichare the written rules of the House.

“He is effectively the umpireofthe chamber, and he does his job with authority, impartiality, fairness and good humour.

“Milton has been an excellent Speaker, and the students welcomed the opportunity to learn more fromhim and ask us aboutthe more difficult parts of our jobs.”

The two Members of Parliament visited schools in Churchill, Woodside, Sale, Lindenow, and Orbost.

Leaders: TheSpeaker of the House of RepresentativesMilton Dickwith Kurnai College School Captains Bayden Baillie and HarryTownsend, alongside Federal Member forGippsland, Darren Chester

Career awareness: Churchill PrimarySchool student Kobe donsa replica robe of the Speaker of

TheGuide

AIR FRYERS:ARE THEY WORTHIT?

SBS Food, Friday, 8.30pm

Fifteen years ago,noone had heardofanair fryer, but since its 2010 introduction, the handy appliance has revolutionised home cooking.The frenzy overthese kitchen essentials shows no signs of abating, but this documentarycasts acritical eyeoverwhether the ubiquitous ovens areall they’re cracked up to be. In the vein of SuperSizeMe,British actor and presenter Denise van Outen (pictured) takes on achallenge of eatingnothing butair-fryermade food for30days. She also visits the home of Britain’s biggest-selling brand –Shark Ninja –tolearn all about the historyof the product, and later,checksout TheCrystalMazeset and stepsinside agiant air fryersimulator

PICK OF THE

GRANTCHESTER

THE BLOCK Nine, Monday, 7.30pm

Viewers tuning into TheBlockthis year could be forgiven forthinking MarriedatFirstSightis undergoing renovations –soprominent arethe personality clashes and heated chats. As the build hits the halfway mark, the teams struggle with ideas fortheir guestensuites amid sizeablefallout from the kitchen judging. Sydney sisters Maddy and Charlotte (both pictured), who joined the seriesafter Jesseand Paige departed, don’t get alot of love during the open forinspections but keep theirfocus on bonding with new builder Danasthey preparetodeliver the first room they’verealisedentirely on their own –can theysteer clear of the drama (akaKylie) all week long?

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6.30 Hard Quiz.(PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30 8.00 Shaun Micallef’sEve Of Destruction. (PG) 8.40 GuyMontgomery’sGuy Mont Spelling Bee. (PG) Presented by GuyMontgomery. 9.30 Planet America. 10.00 WouldI LieToYou? (R)

10.30 ABC Late News. 10.45 The Business. (R) 11.00 Interview With The Vampire. (Final, MA15+av,R) 12.00 Miniseries: Better.(Madl, R) 12.55 Grand Designs. (Ml, R) 1.45 Killing Eve. (MA15+v,R) 2.30 Love Your Garden. (R) 3.15 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.30 Catalyst. (PG, R) 4.30 Gardening Australia. (R) 5.30 7.30.(R)

NITV (34)

(R) 2.30

Fogle. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy!(R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 Secrets Of OurUniverse With TimPeake 8.30 Pompeii: TheDiscovery With DanSnow. (PGa, R) DanSnow tellsthe story of Pompeii. 9.25 Miniseries: TheSixth Commandment. (MA15+l) 10.30 SBS World News Late. 11.05 El Immortal: Gangs Of Madrid. (MA15+av) 12.55 Wisting.(Malv,R) 2.40 Miniseries:SafeHome. (Mal, R) 3.35 Make Me ADealer. (R) 4.25 Peer To Peer.(R) 4.55 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANCPhilippinesThe World Tonight.

Divine pairing: TomBrittneyand RobsonGreen in Grantchester

TASKMASTER AUSTRALIA

10, Tuesday, 7.30pm

Another crew of comediansline up to gain razor-tongued Taskmaster TomGleeson’s unattainable approval in this third Aussieinstalment of the hit UK game show. This time, it’sAaron Chen, Concetta Caristo,Mel Buttle,PeteHelliar and Rhys Nicholson (all pictured, from left), vying forthe gilded trophyofGleeson’s noggin, fighting their waythrough all manner of zanytasks, creative challenges and road blocks overseen by assistant TomCashman. In tonight’s premiere, the fearless fivesomepresent theTaskmaster with the worstthing to wake up to,competetoperform the mostepic wink, throw frisbees on Opposite Day, and maketheir horoscopes come true, before making their bed and lyinginit. Theside-splittingshenanigans arejustgettingstarted.

(R) 6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 TheMorning Show. (PG) 11.30 SevenMorning News. 12.00 My KitchenRules. (PGl, R) 1.35 BorderSecurity: International (R) 2.05 Catch Phrase. 3.00 TheChase. (R) 4.00 SevenNews At 4. 5.00 TheChase Australia 6.00 Today 9.00 TodayExtra.(PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 TheBlock.(PGl, R) 1.15 CountryHouse Hunters Australia. (R) 1.45 Innovation Nation. 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point (PG, R) 4.00 9NewsAfternoon 4.30[VIC]TippingPoint Australia.(PG) 5.00 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30[VIC]WINNews.

6.00 SevenNews. 7.00 Home AndAway. (PGad)

7.30 The1%Club UK (PG) HostedbyLee Mack.

8.30 TheFront Bar. (Ml)Hosts Mick Molloy, Sam Pang andAndyMaher takealighter look at all things AFL

9.30 Talking Footy Alook at the week’sAFL news.

10.30 TheLatest: SevenNews. 11.00 Air Crash Investigations: DeadlyDirective. (PGa)

12.00 Stan Lee’sLucky Man. (MA15+av) 1.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 Sunrise 5am News. 5.30 Sunrise

6.00 9News

7.00 ACurrentAffair

7.30 TheBlock. (PGl) ShelleyCraft findsherself being immortalised.

8.40 Human Error (Mlv) Holly puts her life in danger

9.40 Footy Classified. (Mal) Footy experts tackle the AFL’s big issues

10.40 9News Late

11.10 Law& Order:Organized Crime. (Return, MA15+av) 12.00 Tipping Point. (PG,R) 1.00 Hello SA (PG) 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 TodayEarly News. 5.30

Operation Ouch! 8.20 BTN Newsbreak. 8.25 DoctorWho 10.00 Merlin. 10.45 Late Programs. ABC FAMILY (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens. Noon Hart Of Dixie 1.00

6.00 Deal Or No Deal. 6.30 TheProject 7.30 Thank God You’re Here

Thursday, September 19

ABC (2) SBS (3)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Australian Story.(R) 10.40 Compass. (R) 11.10 Nick Cave And Warren Ellis At Hanging Rock. (PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 The Assembly.(PG, R) 2.00 ParliamentQuestion Time. 3.00 Great Australian Stuff.(PG, R) 3.55 Love Your Garden.(R) 4.45 Grand Designs. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow.(R)

6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG,R)

George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. George Clarkelooks at two eccentric builds.

10.20 ABC Late News.

10.35 TheBusiness (R)

10.50 Miniseries:Better. (Malv,R)

11.50 TheArt Of (R)

12.25 Grand Designs. (PG, R)

1.10 Killing Eve. (MA15+av,R) 1.55 Love Your Garden.(R) 2.45 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.35 Catalyst. (R) 4.30 Gardening Australia. (R) 5.30 7.30.(R)

6am MorningPrograms. 10.10 Inside The Steam Train Museum. (PG, R) 11.00 Auction 12.00 BBC News At Ten. 12.30 ABC World News Tonight 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 SingTo Remember: Defying Dementia. (PG) 2.55 Railway Journeys UK. (PG, R) 3.30 TheCook Up.(R) 4.00 Scotland’sSacred Islands With Ben Fogle. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (R) 5.30 Letters AndNumbers. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) Presented by Marc Fennell.

6.30 SBS WorldNews.

7.30 GreatAustralian Walks: Bruny Island. Gina Chick exploresBruny Island.

8.25 Junior DoctorsDownUnder: The Final Shift (Final, M) After 10 weeks thedoctors havecome to the endoftheir rotation in the emergencydepartment.

9.20 Rebus. (Final, MA15+lv) Hoping to prevent Cafferty’smurder,Rebus playsalong with Michael. 10.15 SBSWorld NewsLate 10.45 FreezingEmbrace (Premiere, Malv) 12.25 Devils. (Mal, R) 2.20 Miniseries: The Dark Heart. (Mal, R) 3.15 MakeMeADealer.(R) 4.10 Peer To Peer.(PG, R) 4.40 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC PhilippinesThe World Tonight

SBS VICELAND (31) 6am Children’s Programs. 5.55pm Octonauts. 6.05 Little JAnd Big Cuz. 6.20 Bluey 6.25 Paddington. 6.40 Ben And Holly 6.50 Kiri And Lou. 6.55 Supertato 7.05 Riley Rocket. 7.20 Bluey. 7.30 Shaun The Sheep 7.35 The Inbestigators 7.50 Operation Ouch! 8.20 BTN Newsbreak. 8.25 The Wonderful World Of Puppies. 9.10 New LeashOnLife. 9.40 Doctor Who. 10.25 Merlin 11.10 Late Programs. ABC FAMILY (22)

6am WorldWatch. 10.00 TheMovie Show 12.05pm WorldWatch. 12.35 PlanetA 1.30 The Story Of 1.55 Unknown Amazon. 2.50 The WineLovers’ GuideTo Australia. 3.20 WorldWatch. 5.15 The Toys That BuiltThe World. 6.05 Letters And Numbers. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 United Gangs Of America. 10.20 Mad Max Fans: Beyond TheWasteland. 12.10am Late Programs.

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The MorningShow. (PG) 11.30 SevenMorningNews. 12.00 MOVIE: Hailey Dean Mysteries: 2+2 =Murder. (2018 PGav,R)Kellie Martin,Giacomo Baessato, Viv Leacock. 2.00 Surveillance Oz: Dashcam. (PGl, R) 2.15 Catch Phrase 3.00 TheChase. (R) 4.00 SevenNews At 4. 5.00 TheChase Australia.

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Home And Away (PGa) Mali turns down his good luck Cash makescontactwithsomeone special. Harpertakes Tane’s heart.

8.30 MOVIE: TheDevil Wears Prada. (2006, PGl, R) An ambitious, naivejournalism graduate is forced to makesome tough decisions after she is hired as an assistant to the ruthless editor ofRunway,one of Manhattan’s leadingfashion magazines. Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep,Emily Blunt.

10.50 To Be Advised.

12.25 Magnum P.I. (Mav) TC asks Magnum forhelp.

2.30 Home Shopping. (R)

4.00 NBCToday. News and current affairs.

5.00 Sunrise 5am News. The latest news, sport and weather 5.30 Sunrise.

NITV (34) 6am Shopping. 6.30 IEscaped To TheCountry 7.30 TheZoo 8.00

6am Dan In Real Life. (2007, PG) 7.50 3Days In Quiberon. (2018,PG, French) 10.00 Hearts And Bones. (2019, M) Noon Kin. (2018, M) 1.55 Krull. (1983,PG) 4.10 RedObsession. (2013,PG) 5.40 Queen Bees. (2021, PG) 7.35 Larry Crowne.(2011,M) 9.30 The Humbling.(2014, M) 11.30 Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star 12.40am Chasing TheDragon.(2017,MA15+, Cantonese) 3.05 Late Programs. SBS WORLD MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm ShortlandSt. 2.30 The CookUp. 3.00 Jarjums 3.35 Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea. 4.05 Cities Of Gold. 4.35 Motown Magic. 5.00 Our Stories. 5.30 The77Percent. 6.00 Bamay. 6.30 News. 6.40 Land Of Primates. 7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo 8.30 The Boy, The Queen And Everything In Between. 9.30 MOVIE: The Fighter (2010,MA15+) 11.30 Late Programs.

Friday,September 20

ABC TV (2) SBS (3)

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra.(PG) 11.30 9News Morning 12.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 1.00 Human Error.(Mlv,R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 TippingPoint. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon 4.30[VIC]TippingPoint Australia.(PG) 5.00 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30[VIC]WINNews.

6.00 9News.

7.00 ACurrent Affair

7.30 RBT. (Mdl, R) Followsthe activities of police units

8.30 30 Years Of TheFooty Show. (Mlns, R) Part 2of2.Features exclusiveinterviews, iconic moments, untold storiesand never-before-seen footage fromthe show

10.05 Casualty 24/7 (Mm, R) A59-year-old could haveserious injuries.

11.00 9News Late. 11.30 TheEqualizer (Mv) 12.15 Resident Alien (Mav) 1.05 Explore TV:Portugal &Spain. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’sVoiceOfVictory.(PGa) 4.30 A Current Affair.(R) 5.00 TodayEarly News.

9GEM (92,81) 7TWO (72, 62) 6am Children’s Programs. Noon Motor Racing. IndyCar Series. Grand Prix of Nashville. H’lights. 1.05 Young Sheldon 1.30 IDream Of Jeannie. 2.00 Bewitched. 2.30 The Nanny 3.30 Seinfeld. 4.30 TheAddamsFamily 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 IDream Of Jeannie. 6.00 TheNanny 7.00 YoungSheldon. 7.30 Survivor 47 (Return) 9.30 MOVIE: Mr &Mrs Smith. (2005, M) 11.55 Late Programs. 6am Morning Programs. Noon Pawn Stars. 1.00

SEVEN (7,6)

NINE (9,8) 6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 AustraliansInTimor-Leste: 25th Anniversary. 11.00 First On The Ground. (PGa, R) 11.30 PlanetAmerica. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.55 VanDer Valk. (Madv,R) 2.25 Guy Montgomery’sGuy Mont Spelling Bee. (PG, R) 3.15 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R) 4.00 Love Your Garden. (PG, R) 4.45 Grand Designs. (R) 5.30 AntiquesRoadshow.(R)

6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG,R) 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 GardeningAustralia. Hannah Moloney looks at nativeorchids.

8.30 Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure: Indonesia. (PGa, R) Part 1of4.Joanna Lumley sets off to one of her most epic voyages yetasshe heads to the Indonesian island of Banda.

(Malv,R)

12.00 Grand Designs. (R)

12.45 The Larkins. (PG, R) 1.35 Rage New Music.(MA15+adhlnsv) 5.00 Rage.(PG)

6.00 Deal Or No Deal. Hosted by Grant Denyer

6.30 TheProject. Alook at the day’snews. 7.30 DogsBehaving (Very) Badly Australia. (PGl) Presented by Graeme Hall. 8.30 GoggleboxAustralia. TV fanatics open up their living rooms to reveal their reactions to popular and topicalTVshows. 9.30 TheCheapSeats. (Mal,R) PresentersMelanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald takealook at the weekthat was. 10.30 10’s Late News. Coverage of news, sportand

6am MorningPrograms. 12.30 ABC World NewsTonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 The Point: Road To Referendum History Bites. (R) 2.05 Sing To Remember: Defying Dementia. (PG) 3.00 NITVNews: Nula. 3.30 ThePoint: Road To Referendum History Bites. (R) 3.35 The Cook Up.(R) 4.05 TombsOfEgypt:The Ultimate Mission. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS WorldNews

7.30 My Grandparents’War: Keira Knightley. (Ml, R) Part 2of4 8.25 Lost Treasures Of Ancient Laos. (PG) Part 2of2.Astonishing new discoveries open awindow into the civilisation that built Angkor 9.15 Lost TreasuresOfAncient Rome: Secrets Of Rome’s GreatWall. (PGas, R) Takesalookat Hadrian’sWall, thebiggest structure the ancient Romans everbuilt. 10.15 SBSWorld News Late. 10.45 Soldiers. (Malv)

12.30 AClass Apart. (Madlsv, R) 3.50 MakeMeADealer. (R) 4.40 Bamay.(R)

5.00 NHK World EnglishNewsMorning 5.30 ANC PhilippinesThe WorldTonight.

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 TheMorning Show. (PG) 11.30 SevenMorningNews 12.00 MOVIE: HaileyDean Mysteries: Dating Is Murder (2017,PGav,R) 2.00 House Of Wellness. (PG) 3.00 TheChase. (R) 4.00 SevenNews At 4. 5.00 TheChase Australia.

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Football AFL.First preliminary final. From the SCG. 11.15 Armchair Experts. (M)The panel presents auniqueand interactive analysis of theweek in AFL

12.00 GetOn Extra. Lizzie Jelfs, Matt Hill, Simon Marshall and Brent Zerafa dive headlong into theweekend’sbest racing. 12.30 Taken. (Mav,R)Christina orders the retrievalofsensitivedocuments in Zurich that are needed to prevent adisaster 1.30 Harry’sPractice. (R) Dr Harry Cooper and Dr Katrina Warren present information about animals and petcare.

2.00 Home Shopping. (R)

4.00 Million DollarMinute. (R)Hosted by Simon Reeve.

5.00 NBCToday News and current affairs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 TodayExtra.(PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 MOVIE: The Love Gala. (2023, PGa) Lesa Wilson, Marc Herrmann. 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30[VIC]TippingPoint Australia.(PG) 5.00 Tipping

6.00 9News.

7.00 RugbyLeague. NRL.Firstsemi-final. 9.45 NRL Finals Footy PostMatch Apost-matchNRL wrap up of the first semi-final, with expert analysis and player interviews.

10.30 MOVIE: Magnum Force (1973,MA15+lv,R)ASan Francisco homicidedetectiveinvestigating awave of underworld killings is reassigned. Clint Eastwood,Hal Holbrook.

1.00 TheGarden Gurus. (R) Expert gardening tips and design ideas.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R)

4.00 SkippyThe Bush Kangaroo (R) Mark organises asurprise party

4.30 Global Shop. (R) Home shopping.

5.00 TV Shop:Home Shopping. (R)

5.30 Postcards (PG, R)

TEN (10, 5)

6.00 Deal Or No Deal (R) Hosted by Grant Denyer

6.30 TheProject Alookatthe day’snews. 7.30 SortYour Life Out. (PGa) Hosted by Stacey Solomon. 8.45 Have YouBeen Paying Attention? (Malns,R)Celebrity panellists compete to see who can remember

GOTTHERE IN THEEND

Photograph: Liam Durkin

Maroonsbarnstorm their way into Grand Final

BY LIAM DURKIN

TRARALGON players might as well have ran onto Terry Hunter Oval wearingpastry chef hats for the Gippsland League Preliminary Final.

The Maroons absolutely creamed Moe on Saturdaytoprogresstotheir first Grand Final since 2015.

Traralgon brushed Moe aside by 55 points, 10.17 (77) to 3.4(22)onthe proverbial Victorian daythat saw rain, wind and even some sunshine at stages. In what was another finals horror show for Moe, the Lions were reduced to the lowest-ever score for aGippsland League Preliminary Final.

Moe lost rebounding defender Scott van Dyk in the first quarter, and had agoal disallowed in the second after an allegedinfringement involving the runners.

Adding to this was the absence of key defender and playing-coach Declan Keilty, meaning Moe found themselves with plenty of work to do at the main break, down by 23 points.

Things only got worse for the Lions, who failed to score in the third quarter. Traralgon all but booked themselves aplace in thedecider afterkicking 2.6 (18) to take a42-point lead at the last change. TheMaroonswere full of running for most of the day, whiletheir disposalbyfootcut the opposition to pieces.

Havingreachedthe preliminary final without

the luxuryofthe double-chance, Traralgon got the odds squarely in their favour, with contributor’s right across the board.

Moe had narrowly beaten the Maroons in the qualifying final afortnight ago, in what was atough game in windy conditions. The Lions followed up withanabysmaldisplayagainst Leongatha (58 point loss),the emotional scars of which might have had some effect seven days later.

Traralgon meanwhile lookedlike they had plenty of fuel left to burn, and could have easily extended their advantagehad it not beenfor wastefulness in front of goal.

The Maroons hadthe margin at 28-points eight minutes into the thirdterm, which threatened to all but extinguish thechances of aMoe comeback.

Frustrations were evident for Moe, possibly best summedupwhendefenderLukeMulqueentook amark at centre halfback, only to havethe decision reversed aftershovingfourths player Marlon Neocleoustothe ground

Agoal to hisbrother Harvey Neocleous at the 15-minute mark added more miseryfor the technically home team as three quarter time approached.

Traralgon veteran Dan McKenna, who has come out of retirementthis year, used his smarts on the eve of the lastbreak, working his opponent under the balltokick the easiest of goals fromthe lineto givethe Maroonseven more momentum

Conversionaside, Traralgoncoach Troy Hamilton was pleased withhis charges at the last huddle. With avirtually insurmountable lead, he instructed

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PRELIMINARYFINALS

them to protect the corridor and continue to hit their kicks “with conviction.”

Moe hadnooption but to risk an even greater defeat trying to win the game, and Keilty told them to “surge forward and give it everything you’ve got.”

Anon-descript final term played out, with Moe managing just one goal to Traralgon’s three.

Once the result was beyond absolute doubt, the Maroons chipped the ball around to not risk injury to any players.

Tye Hourigan was again best-on for the winners, taking acountless number of marks in defence.

His importance to Traralgon cannotbeunderstated.Ofthe five home-and-away games the Maroons lost this season, Hourigan did not play in four of them.

Big man Max Jacobsen continued his strong season with another showing in the best,along with Connor Ambler, Liam Willaton, Chance Doultree and Tristen Waack.

The Baldi twins, Riley and Trent, were again the two standouts for Moe, while Ben Maslen, Jacob Wood, Taj Eden and Ben Daniher battled hard.

Unfortunately for the Lions, the result made it three stumbles at the preliminary finalhurdle from their last three finals series (2019, ’23, ’24).

At the riskofrolling outclichés:onceisa mistake, twice is acoincidence, three times is apattern.

Last Saturday was Keilty’s last game as senior coach of the Lions, and despite delivering consecutive top three finishes, afinals record of two-wins, four-losses remains in the negative.

GIPPSLAND LEAGUE AWARDS 2024

BESTAND FAIREST

 FOOTBALL

Seniors: RileyBaldi (Moe)

Reserves: Chris Laverty(Sale)

Thirds: Elliot Stables (Maffra)

Fourths: Blair Roscoe (Traralgon) and Leo Stephenson (Maffra)

 NETBALL

AGrade: AprilBethune (Drouin)

BGrade: Kate Sperling (Leongatha)

CGrade: Jess Murray (Drouin)

17 and Under: LaraGill(Leongatha) and Mahli Stothers(Sale)

15 and Under: Virginia Daley(Moe) and Olivia Pearson (Bairnsdale)

13 and Under: Harper de Dios (Moe) MVP

Football: Shannen Lange (Sale)

Netball: Alana McRae (Wonthaggi)

LEADING GOAL KICKERS

Seniors: BraydenMcCarrey (Bairnsdale) -54

Reserves: Flynn Materia (Leongatha) -59

Thirds: Keenan Boi (Warragul) and Mitch Croatto (Leongatha) -47

Fourths: JaxonBrouwers(Wonthaggi) -53

LEADING GOAL SCORERS

AGrade: Emma Ryde (Warragul) -869

BGrade: Zoe Ryde (Warragul) -707

CGrade: JacintaTipping (Morwell) -473

17 and Under: Audrey McGannon (Leongatha) -508 15 and Under: AvaLangley(Bairnsdale) -479

Noteall 10 clubsrepresented in league awards

For the Maroons, the Grand Final completes something of afull circle journey almost adecade in the making.

Traralgon will play Leongatha for the premiership this Saturday, just as they did nine years ago. Grand Final preview-Pages 28-29

Moe midfielder Riley Baldi crowned GippyLeague senior best and fairest

FOOTBALL

Gippsland LEAGUE BY LIAM

DURKIN

SOARING like an eagle.

Moe midfielder Riley Baldicappedoff a superb season, winning the Trood Award and Rodda Medal for Gippsland League best-and-fairest.

The 23-year-old polled 19 votes,beating Sale ruckman Jack Leslie and two-time league winner Tom Marriott fromLeongatha, who were both tied for second on 18.

Moe supporters were forced to sweat on the outcome of votes in the final round, as this was the one game Baldi missed for the entire season.

He held aone-vote lead from Leslie and two from Marriott heading into Round 18. Marriott collected one vote in the last round, and Leslie none.

Much like Brownlow night, Gippsland League General Manager Daniel Heathcote did his best to keep the suspense when reading out the votes during Sunday's livestream.

The last game read out was between Sale and Bairnsdale,and there was amomentary pause after the letter ‘J’ was announced as three votes. Thosevotes however went to Salekey defender Jonty McGuiness, meaning Baldi’s name wasofficially stampedon themedal

The league best-and-fairest continued a remarkable run of high-level performance from Baldiinthe last twoyears.

He played just half the season last year, and still came runner-up in the league count, while in this season alone, he wasnamedin the best 14 times for Moe from 20 games, including all three finals.

He also polledthe second-most votesin

the league MVP, voted on by coaches of both teams for every game during the regular season. It should be noted his twin brother Trent also had an outstanding season playing in Moe’s midfield, and came fourth in the league MVP.

Astonishingly, the brothers finished with 68 MVP votes combined.

At club level, the twins have won the last two seniorbest-and-fairest awards (Trent in 2022, Riley the year after), named after Moe’s last premiership coach Alby Law. Likemany, the pair would undoubtedly tradeevery individual award to be apart of Moe’s next premiership.

For Riley, it has been abusy year for the man nicknamed ‘Eagle’ (a play-on words from his surnameand shaved head),combining footballvirtually all year round with cricket, on topofhis dayjob in theeducation sector.

Not many can play cricket and football at the highestlevel locally -only seven players in fact across the entire Gippsland League are currently doing it.

Thatgroup is: Baldi(MoeFNC/Moe CC), Mitch Membrey,JacksonMcMahon (both Traralgon and Ex Students CC), Tye Hourigan (Traralgon/Centrals CC), Jack Ginnane (Leongatha/Leongatha Imperials CC), Ethan East and Brayden McCarrey (both Bairnsdale and St Mary’s Nagle CC). McCarrey opens the battingfor Nagle, and showed his proficiency in both sports, winning the senior league goal kicking after booting 54 majors.

Moe’s senior league best-and-fairest winners are: Lester Ross (1958), Alan Steel (1963), Barry Rowlings(1973,1974), Lachlan Sim(1988), Jason Shields (2000),James Blaser (2017) and Riley Baldi (2024).

Ground level: Traralgon’s Hugh Dunbar prepares to pickupalooseballduring the preliminaryfinal against Moe

Photograph: Liam Durkin

Tender awarded for new pavilion

COMMUNITY

TRARALGON Football-Netball Club members got their last look at the two-storey changeroomand social facility at their home ground last Saturday.

Thefacility, which hasbeen condemned since floods rendered it almost unusable in June 2021, will finally be demolished later this month, making way for anew multipurpose pavilion.

The new pavilion willbeflood-proof to protect the facility fromfuture weather events, and include changerooms for use by football, netball and cricket clubs, akitchen, asocial space and aboxing gym.

Latrobe City Council made the announcement last Friday,that it had accepted atender from local company Langden Constructions Pty Ltd for

the construction of the new facility. The decision followed acomprehensive and competitive tender process, whereLangden Constructions Pty Ltd scored highest in the evaluation process.

The project cost of $6.2 million is covered by state government funding, an allocation from the federalgovernment’sLocal Roads and Community Infrastructure Program -Phase4,and an allocation from council’s capital works budget.

Thefinaldesign for the pavilion was established followinganengagement processwith aProject Reference Group which included members form the Traralgon Football-Netball Club, Ex Students CricketClub, Traralgon Boxing Club, councillors and council officers.

As part of discussions with the ProjectReference Group, it was decided asecond netball court is

also to be provided at the Traralgon Recreation Reserve, which will be funded throughcouncil’s Public Open Space reserve.

Traralgon FNC members votes to endorse design plans at aSpecial General Meeting last month.

Latrobe City Mayor,Darren Howethe project was apositivesteptowards restoring avenue that was severely impacted by weather events, and is a testament to the community’s resilience.

“The June 2021 floodand stormevent caused catastrophic damage to this important community asset and has left community groups and sporting clubsdisplaced," he said.

"I’d like to thank the user groups for their patience and for contributing ideas during the design development process.

“The contract with alocal construction business

Bragging rights on the party line

FOOTBALL

GIPPSLAND LEAGUE

BY LIAM DURKIN

THE Nationalswillbeatodds thisGippsland League Grand Final.

With Traralgon set to take on Leongatha, bragging rights as well as the premiership are on the line within the party room.

Member for Morwell, Martin Cameron played more than 250 games for the Maroons, while his Nationals colleague, Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath has strong family ties to the Parrots.

Nationals Member for Gippsland South, Danny O'Brien can outnumber Cameron, as Leongatha takes in his electorate.

Bath grew up in Fish Creek, and has already seen her oldclub win apremiership, afterthe Kangaroos claimed the Mid Gippsland title last weekend. Woodside did likewise in theNorth Gippsland Football-Netball League, the same club Federal Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester won a premiership with in the 1980s.

NationalsMember for Gippsland East, Tim Bull canget one-up on O'Brien and Bath, when his old clubBairnsdale takes the fieldonGrand Finalday. The Redlegs are playingLeongathafor the reserves flag.

Close to home: Member forMorwell, Martin Cameron will be thrilled to see Traralgon in the GippslandLeague Grand Finalthis weekend. He is pictured with stateopposition leader John Pesutto (himself aTraralgon boy) in front of Cameron’s lockeratthe Maroons File photograph

Bull had adecent senior career for Bairnsdale, playing the best part of 150 games. He was also a fair cricketer, playing AGrade on theGippsland circuit well into his 50s. The Nationals have become colloquially known

marks apositive step towardsrebuilding not only the facility, but the future of the Traralgon Recreation Reserve.

"It is importantthatwegive this venuethe justice it deserves andensure it willbeenjoyed by the whole community, including visitors, formany years to come.”

The multipurpose pavilion will catertothe Traralgon FNC, TraralgonBoxing Club, Ex Students Cricket Club and other potential tenants interested in using the spaces available.

Construction is expected to take place during the next football season, meaning Traralgon will be joining visiting teams in using portable rooms.

as the 'sporting party' due to the number of exfootballers becoming politicians.

Of most noteisformer Fremantle coach Damian Drum, who served as Nationals Deputy Leader between 2002 and 2014.

Insane finish to Mid Gippy season

FOOTBALL

MID

GRAND Finals can be so unforgiving

No two are ever the same, and the contrast for players and clubs between winning and losing is vast Win, and there is an immediate bond that compels players to organise reunions and relive the moment for a lifetime Lose, and it becomes no more than an opportunity lost and at best a brief discussion if ever the game might be brought up Such sentiments were evident when the final siren sounded at Meeniyan Recreation Reserve to end the Mid Gippsland Football-Netball League senior Grand Final at the weekend Fish Creek completed back-to-back triumphs just, edging out Yinnar by two points in a pulsating finish, 7 4 (46) to 6 8 (44) The pressure of participating in a Grand Final is enormous, but what a privilege it is for players to have earned that pressure over the period of a season

A great analogy once told to me by a coach was "Imagine I placed a board in the middle of the oval, 10 metres long and just 30 centimetres wide and asked you and your teammates to walk across it Seems easy enough, and if you did happen to slip off, you are safe as the board is on the ground But imagine now I place that same board between two 10 storey buildings and asked you to walk across it The task remains the same, but the consequences of a mistake or lack of concentration can be disastrous - welcome to grand finals!"

Fish Creek and Yinnar, first and second on the MGFNL ladder after the home-and-away season, were deserving of their place in the 2024 Grand Final

Despite the Kangaroos being warm favourites, the very wet conditions promised that the contest might well be tighter and tougher, even with the Magpies missing one of their inspirational leaders in Nathan Rowley through a knee injury

Early on, there was no real surprises as the intensity and attack on the football was fierce Yinnar got their first major through Flynn Schill, taking the early initiative by continued pressure that helped get their second through

Kane Grinstead-Jones

The heavy rain and hail caused even greater problems early for the Kangaroos, as the game became a real street fight

Yinnar led at the first break by 15 points, a rare feat by the Magpies to keep the reigning premier scoreless for a quarter

It's hard to keep a champ down however, and it was Darcy Berryman that got the first score, a goal for Fishy

The Kangaroos excitement was short lived, as Yinnar bounced back via a great piece of play started by a look-away Schill handball that ended with a nice conversion by Grinstead-Jones His second kept some space between the two sides

Fish Creek coach Jarrod Walker fell to the pressure, an indiscretion seeing him leave the field and highlighting the frustration felt by his side, as they struggled to stay in touch

Grinstead Jones continued to be a handful for the opposition; his set up of teammate Josh Bugeja to goal had his team and supporters with all the momentum

It was only a rare indiscretion by Yinnar that led to a 50 metre penalty for Fish Creek to goal after the halftime siren Berryman kicked his second, and his side was still in touch, just 10 points behind Fish Creek's Matthew McGannon got the first goal of the third quarter and all of a sudden it was 'game on' in the 2024 Grand Final

Yinnar's forward 50 pressure opened the door for Will Robertson to respond quickly, before Fish Creek's Blaine Coates also converted nicely as the game's momentum seesawed The Magpies led by just three points at the last break

Ben Cheffirs put in a contender for Goal of the Year against the run of play early in the last quarter that put his Magpie's side nine points in front

Fish Creek needed a winner, and quick, as time was starting to slip away Roland Di Biase responded accordingly His goal pulled the margin back to just three points, and when Thomas Vuillerman goaled, Fish Creek hit the lead for the first time in the afternoon at the 12 minute mark of the last quarter

A courageous clash deep into the last term personified the commitment of both sides A one point margin favouring the Kangaroos with seven minutes to go saw the arm wrestle continue for the entirety of the final quarter

Fish Creek clung on and won by just two points in one of the league's great grand finals

Walker was equally proud and relieved postgame

"Huge game, the conditions made it a real slog but it meant two extremely willing teams could go toe-to-toe," he said

"It was a hot footy all day and to Yinnar's credit they played the ground really well Tough hard footy are what grand finals are made of

"Super proud of our group, when the going gets tough the tough gets going "

Unfortunately, there had to be a loser, and Yinnar coach Sam McCulloch was on the wrong end of the result

"Absolutely shattered Could not fault any of the boys efforts," he said

"Gave it everything we had and felt like were on top for a fair part of the game but didn’t capitalise

"Full credit to Fish Creek who certainly made the most of their opportunities and took their key moments in the game

"Some skill errors and decisions didn’t go our way and momentum certainly shifted at different stages throughout the day Proud of the group throughout the season and was certainly an achievement to give ourselves the opportunity to win a premiership But inevitably there’s only one winner and we will have to get back to work and come back bigger and better next year "

With close to 40 senior premierships, this one is certain to hold its own special place among Fish Creek history

The Kangaroos have shown incredible resolve to comeback after fire torched their clubrooms just week after last year's premiership

The legend of Fish Creek not only continues, but

Demons hail in premiership, literally

IT’S raining sideways!

Mid Gippsland’s youngest footballers copped the worst of the weather for their Grand Final last Saturday

Not that that would have worried Meeniyan Dumbalk United, who easily accounted for Yinnar 12 10 (82) to 3 7 (25)

The Demons took the premiership in the second quarter, after kicking 6 3 (39) to 0 1 (1) Angus McInnes had a Grand Final to remember, booting half-a-dozen majors

Jay Rogalsky, Grady Ryan, Xavier McCafferty, Luke Douch, Harvey McKay and Harry Bugeja battled hard in the loss

The weather put a dampener on the post-match presentation, as hail started pelting down at literally 45 degree angles

If body language was any indication, league officials looked like they were contemplating moving the presentation undercover, but decided to rush through the formalities

Chilly premiership: MDU won the Thirds flag in arctic conditions

Photograph: Liam Durkin

What a club: Fish Creek continues to set an unparalleled mark when it comes to winning senior football premierships The Kangaroos have now won close to 40 following their epic two-point Grand Final win in Mid Gippsland at the weekend Photograph supplied

Dogs have their flag-winningday

FOOTBALL

MID GIPPSLAND

BY LIAM DURKIN

THE perfect apprenticeship.

In hislastgamebeforetakingoverasNewborough senior coach, Patt Frendo led the Bulldogs to the reserves premiership at the weekend.

Newborough completed adominantseason in the early timeslot, defeating Yinnar 7.3 (45) to 1.7 (13) in the Grand Final.

Four seasons in one day hit Meeniyan Recreation Reserve, although fortunately for those wearing the red,white andblue, rainheldoff for the post-match on-ground celebrations.

The Bulldogsopened the gamewith 3.1 (19) to no score in the opening term, kicking with the breeze toward the scoreboard.

The Magpies could then only manage six behinds when it was their turn heading to the scoring end, giving Newborough ahandy 20-point lead at the main break.

The Bulldogs addedanother two goals in the third, while keeping Yinnar to asolidary behind.

This effort all but grasped one hand on the premiership cup for Newborough with 20 minutes (and strategically, no time on) left to play.

From ascoringperspective, the last quarter mattered little, as thefinalmarginwas exactly the sameasithad been oncethe final message was delivered.

Newborough had alot of support on the day, helped somewhat by the fact its senior team had exited finals afortnight earlier.

Senior players were quick to congratulate theirclub mates, encapsulating awhole club environment.

While the reservespremiership is often referred to as the ‘who cares cup’, there was clearly plenty of people who did judging by how many ran onto the ground after the game.

For the players involved,itwas something to celebrate.

For the coaches and support staff, satisfaction having negotiated circumstances only applicable to reserves level.

Even the premiership team had no numbers at onestage of the season -itjust happened to be the firstgame. Theydidn’tlose amatch after that.

Newborough’s Jake Bowden accepted the best-onground medal, before Frendo and skipper Daniel Smith hoisted the cup aloft.

The win was the Bulldog’s first reserves flag since 2014.

It also broke adecent hoodoo,asFrendo noted on stage the Newborough twos had “turned to water” in previous finals.

The run since 2014 had seen three straight sets exits(2015, ’17and ’22),apreliminary final finish (2018) andGrand Final loss (2016).

Herewego: Newborough playersrun ontothe groundfor the Grand Final

Experience: Newborough veteranRob Wilson helpedthe Newborough reservestothe Mid Gippsland flag

Tradition: Newborough players belt out the clubsong followingthe Grand Final.

Calm before the storm: Newborough playersgather forthe post-match presentations

Jobdone: With the game won, Newborough coachPattFrendo takesaprivate momenttotakeitall in

Glory: Newborough coach Patt Frendo and captain Daniel Smith hold the premiership aloft. Photographs: Liam Durkin

Standing room only: Supportersrushed ontothe oval to congratulatethe Newborough team

Woodside’s watershedpremiership

FOOTBALL

NORTH GIPPSLAND

BY TOM HAYES

THE year of the Wildcats.

Woodside produced the result of the season, becoming North Gippsland Football-Netball League senior premier after defeating the league leading TraralgonTyersUnited at Gaskin Parkatthe weekend.

Rainpersisted for most of the morning in Churchill, with even hail making an appearance before the Reserves Grand Final.

Thankfully, the sun beamed through the clouds ahead of the senior game, however wind remained afactor.

The wind gusted across Gaskin Park, heading diagonally in the directionofthe Switchback Road end and the scoreboard wing. And yes, it played itspart.

TTU spent the entire second half of the season on top of theladder, and theystarted the game with that title on their backs. No one had beaten the Bombers since Woodside did in the first round of the season.

TTU was undefeated for the entire 2023 season, meaning they came into the Grand Final with only one loss to their name since the start of 2023. They certainly set the tone in this encounter.

The league leaders got the first goal of the game in the first fiveminutes,scoringatthe Switchback Rd end.

Still wet under footfrom the previous games, it was evident that Gaskin Park proved that the game would be awet and windy slog.

NORTH GIPPSLAND

Minor scores were accepted by the Bombers at the time, but Ithink at the game’s end, they might’ve preferred them to be worth six.

They added their second major of the game when wingmanKade Duncan crept forwardinside 50 and snapped truly around his body, gifting the Bombers with acomfortable 14-point buffer.

The winddid itsjob and kept the ball locked in TTU’s half for the majority of the quarter, but aquick counterattack from Woodside had them outnumbered going forward.

With the ball trickling around Woodside’s forward line, TTU had ashortage of numbersready to bring the ball forward. Dan Farmer seized upon that opportunity to get the Wildcats on the board, winning afree kick in the goal square, catching his opponent holding the ball, going back, and slotting his first midway through the term.

Anything they could do, the Bombers did better at that stage.

Caleb Michie found himself at the bottomofa pack soonafter the centrebounce, earning himself afree kick within range for apush in the back. He went back to rubout Woodside’s reply,kickinghis first goalafter missing outinlast year’s Grand Final.

The umpires were not afraid to ping either side for rolling the ball deliberately out of bounds. Not even the wet weatherwas an excuse, as the whistle was blown on multiple occasions, sometimes as a savinggrace, sometimes as bonus depending on where it happened.

With TTU’s constant inbounds into the forward 50, Woodside did well to weather the storm, either rushing the ball over the line to reset, or using composure to ease the ball back out, even if it was sent back within seconds.

Woodside’sCam Whiteoaksnagged alategoal in the term to get Woodside their second. Some crafty work from Farmer,kicking the ball while laying on his back, gave Whiteoak the opportunity to score on the goal line.

TTU went forward from the next centre bounce, but thesiren saved the Wildcatsfrom conceding another, as the Bombers went into the first break with a10-point advantage.

Now Woodside had the wind.

Moving back to his preferred positionindefence, CalebMichieprovedtobeaproblemfor Woodside, ending multiple chance of theirs as the second quarter siege was underway.

But then came an onslaught. Consideringthe conditions, it was an onslaught.

Afloating ball headed for the boundary was

strangled together by Liam Leeson, who confidently went back to his mark on the boundary line.

Struttingforward, he opted for the droppunt,which paid dividends, bringingWoodside to within akick.

Despite Woodside bringing the ball forward on repeat occasions, the Bombers were holding up defensively sound to hang onto their lead.

Minutes later, the lead changed.

Adownfield free kick was paid to Woodside’s Michael O’Sullivan, who made no mistake from 25 metresout to giveWoodsideatwo-point advantage midway through the second term.

The repeated entries suddenly took their toll on TTU, as Whiteoak was once again found loose in the forward 50, snapping around his body to give Woodside their own buffer.

Tempers began to ease their way out of TTU, as another free kick was gifted to the Wildcats inside50, whichproved costly,asJai Williams put Woodside up by 15 points. All of asudden, the Bombers had atask on their hands.

Aswitch must have been flicked in the Bombers camp, as the wind was so much of afactor in the final 10 minutes of the half, they owned possession and scoring opportunities.

The minor scores kept flowing for TTU, as they continued to waste chanceupon chanceinfront of goal, despite their dominance all over the field during that portion.

The script hadbeen flipped oncethe halftime siren sounded. Woodside now had the lead, as TTU trailed by 14 points at the main break.

With no rain during play, it was due during the break, as clouds began to cover Gaskin Park again to give the grass another rinse, making sure that we didn’t see aclean game of football. It remained heavy under foot, the ball would be wet, and the wind stayed around.

Desperation came quicker than expected for TTU, throwing bodies on the line for smothers that didn’t reallyhavemuch impact, but nonetheless, they were showing some fight.

Woodside weathered the rain to perfection, but weren’t able to capitalise at the booth end, as TTU soon went the other way. The minutes were ticking off the clock.

The Bombersgot the first and only goal of the third term 12 minutes into the quarter, thanks to Beau White who dribbled the ball through to give the Bombers some life, bringing the margin back to five points.

Thegustheading across the ground then had its turninthe spotlight,withthe ballcontinuously stuck on the scoreboard wing for minutesupon end.

Countless times the ball would go end to end, boundary throw in after boundary throw in. No one was gaining more from this than Woodside, as it prevented TTU from getting forward as much. But push they did, and inaccuracies might’ve killedthem in the end, but thatpressure sure was mounting.

TTU continued to creepcloser as the third quarter cametoaclose, but again, they wouldhavewished for agoal at some point. Evenfor somesort of mental edge.

Minor scoresflowed through, but Woodside maintainedtheir lead against the wind, without scoringagoal for themselves.

Thetwo teamsheaded into their huddles for one finalinstruction, as Woodside led by three points going into the final quarter of the season.

Like never before seen in this game, it opened up in the last. Anditwas one-way traffic to Woodside.

Williams kicked another to set the tone, and once again gave the Wildcats an all-important buffer. Youngster Ashton Janssen, who still has another season of thirds to play, found himself forwardtoo and joined in on the party that was about to rain down on Gaskin Park, snapping around the body to give the Wildcats a15-point lead.

Kickingagainst the wind, which wasalmost absent in the last, was still going to be ahard task for TTU to outscore Woodside by three goals from here. Mission impossible.

Minuteslater, the equation became even harder for TTU, as Josh Kennedy kicked an impressive setshot to send the Woodside fans into raptures. The midfield-forward hybrid was beyond the arc as he walked in, peeled out to his right, slotting it for another major.

Twenty-one points the difference, 15 minutes to go.

The margin was beyond them. TTU were deflated. They had no answers.

The game soon found aperiodofrealisation. Woodside was going to be premier. They would win their first flag since forming in 2008. TTU found aconsolation goal late, but just minutes remained.

Time wasagainstthem, and they were doing everything to pushfor threelatewinners, butit was no use. In doing so, the Bombers gave away two 50-metre penalties, setting Woodside up for another set shot, that eventually went wayward. And thatwas all shewrote on season 2024 Woodside were premiers, defeatingTTU by 15 points, and the joy burst from the fence as playersembraced andfansrejoiced. Then they came together, as ahuddleofabout 100people gathered in the middle of Gaskin Park.

Whiteoak was named best-on-groundfor his enormous performance.Hekicked two goals in asloppygame of football, but they proved to be crucial.

Ben Johnson, Josh Hicks, Adam Janssen, Mark Collison, and Kennedyjoined him in theWildcats’ best.

For the runner-up, Stuart Goddard,Guy Sinclair, Michael Jacobsen, Trent Hourigan, White, and Jake Albanese were admirable in defeat.

Duringthe presentations peered an awkward affair, as league sponsor from AGL Loy Yang was represented by Jamie Aitken, who coached TTU to theflag last year.

 THE reserves game saw asimilar revengefuelled match play out, as Yallourn Yallourn North knocked off the side that put them on the verge of elimination two weeks prior.

The Jetsdefeated Woodside, 5.14 (44) to 3.11 (29), righting their wrongs from last year’s Grand Final loss.

TheExpress’ own Blake Metcalf-Holt wasapart of the Jets’ premiership-winning team. Owen Budge took out the best-on-ground medal for his performance.

Historic: Woodside wonits firstNorth Gippsland senior premiership at theweekend

Photograph: ErikaAllen

Grand Finalobservations

Vital role

HOPEFULLY former Woodside coachMichael Duncan got to share in the spoils of victory last Saturday.

His fingerprints are all over this premiership.

Duncan took on acoaching job not many wanted at the end of 2019, ayear that saw the Wildcats win just five games.

When asked by this writer what on Earth he was thinking, Duncan simply said coaching Woodside was a"free hit”. He ended up hitting most balls for six in his four years at the helm.

In 2021,Woodside lost just one game and looked agood shot at the premiership before the season was cut short.

The next year, they got within 20 minutes of the GrandFinal, only for Yallourn Yallourn North,

and more specifically, Barrie Burnett, to stop that. Woodside then made the Grand Final last year, losing to an undefeated TTU.

TheWildcatshave goneone better in each of the last three years.

A1-1 split with TTU in grand finals is perhaps fair given the two sides have shared top spoton the ladder for the last two seasons.

Wayitis

SPEAKING of Burnett, it is acruel ironythe man he credits with YYN’s success in recent years, Adam Bailey, hasn’t been there to witness it.

Adding to the complexity, Bailey playedfor Yinnar in the Mid Gippslanddecider at the weekend, a game the Magpies lost by two points.

Bailey came to YYN as coach in 2015, taking the Jets from the wooden spoon to the top of the

ladder in his first season. Unfortunately, he lost two consecutive Grand Finals as coach, and leftthe club by the time they saluted in 2019 under Burnett.

Oddly enough, by then Bailey had joined TTU, where Duncan was coaching.

Coaches club

ALL these coacheshaveinadvertentlycrossed over at some point.

Duncan left Woodside to coachWarragul Industrials this season, ajob vacated by Mark Collison,who then played for Woodsideinlast Saturday’s Grand Final.

JackBrown coached againstWoodside last Saturday, the sameopponent his two-time Morwell premiership teammate, Duncan, coachedinthe Grand Final last year.

Brown nearly coached against another Morwell

with Liam Durkin

premiership teammate in this year’s decider, but avoided that after YYN, coached by Tom Hutton, lost the preliminary final by three points. Brown was co-coach alongside Jamie Aitken last year, who played in apremiership with Collison forTraralgon in 2011.

Most of these coaches can be traced back to one person: Harmit Singh.

Singh coached Morwell to back-to-back flags in 2013-14, and anumberofplayers from thosesides have gone on to coach senior football in their own right.

Graduates from the ‘Singh

East), Simon Noy (Yarragon), Jake Best (Traralgon) and Jake Weston (Toora).

Bombers blitzthe competition

FOOTBALL NORTH GIPPSLAND BY

DURKIN

TRARALGON Tyers United were crowned premiers and champions in the North Gippsland Football-Netball League Thirds competition for 2024.

The Bombers did in the GrandFinal what they had done for most of the season, and brushed their opponents aside with ease.

While the final margin of 83 points might not have indicated it, TTU was made to earn their victory against Churchill rightupuntilhalftime

TheCougars led by five pointsatquarter time, and only trailed by 25 points at the main break.

The Bombers however kicked 7.5 (47) to no score in the final term, to make the scoreboard read 18.18 (126) to 7.1 (43) when fulltime was called.

Riley Denovan kicked six goals for the winners, to finish the season with 87 majors. League best-and-fairestwinner Tarquin Crosby was best-on, followed by Noah Leslie, Denovan, Benj Selwyn, Tyson Tangiand Zac Bastin.

Best for Churchill was Josh Shankland, Tom Dicorato, Ashton Busk, Jarrod Thomas, Darcy Fehlberg and Lleyton Hecker.

Barring relocation for work or study, top-age players from either side will now graduate into seniorranks. Club insiderswillwatch their progress closely as they hope to become North Gippsland players of the future.

The Cougars qualified for the Grand Final afteranextraordinary preliminary finalagainst Rosedale. Churchillwon by 21 points, in agame that saw 32 goals kicked.Tyson Crawford nailed eight for the Cougars and Lachlan

School’ are: Duncan, Adam Bailey, Joel Soutar (Morwell), Boyd Bailey (Morwell), Julian Blackford (Yinnar), Devon Soutar (Morwell

Jobdone: YallournYallourn Northplayers gather forpresentationsafter theGrand Final.

Photograph: Lyns Snaps

LIAM

Speairs seven for the Blues.

Sweet success: Traralgon TyersUnited completed an undefeated seasoninthe Under 18s. Photograph: Nicole Denovan

Speech: YallournYallourn North reserves coach Ash Anderson and captain Thomas Lawrey take to the stage postgame Photograph: ErikaAllen

Heartonsleeve: YYN club favouriteOwen Budge wasnamed best-on-ground. Photograph: ErikaAllen

Growing CV: YYN ruckman Daniel Pottswon his fourth premiership at the weekend. Aselfconfessed basketballer who plays footy, he’s hadastellar career (a senior flag and reservesleagues best and fairest).

Premiers crowned in local leagues

NETBALL

MID GIPPSLAND/NTH GIPPSLAND

BY LIAM DURKIN

MEENIYAN Dumbalk United com-

pleted a remarkable finals run to take out the Mid Gippsland A Grade netball premiership

The Demons defeated Fish Creek in a nail-biting Grand Final by two goals, 39 to 37

In what was an extra-special occasion for MDU players, they were able to win a premiership on their home court

As they say, the Demons might not have been the best team during the year, but they were the best team in finals MDU came from fourth on the ladder, and then survived three sudden death finals on their way to the decider

Even that only tells part of the story - the Demons won just one game between Round 15 and 18, and lost the last game of the regular season by 22 goals to Foster MDU started finals by eliminating Morwell East, a team it was 10 points off when the home-and-away ladder was finalised

The Hawks had only missed the double-chance by two points themselves

MDU followed this by turning the tables on Foster in the semi-final, beating the Tigers by nine goals, and then

edged past league powerhouse Yinnar in the preliminary final by two goals

The Demons might have caught Fish Creek off guard by the time the Grand Final rolled around, as they had not played each other since Round 9

The Kangaroos won that encounter 44-36, but went into the decider having played just one game in three weeks

Fish Creek was awarded a rest for the first week of finals after finishing on top of the ladder, and then another week off after beating Yinnar by one goal in the semi-final

MDU goal attack Lillyca White was named best-on-court in the premiership

In other grades, Stony Creek was too strong for Foster, winning B Grade 38-27

Former Mirboo North premiership player and coach Ebony Best returned home to Foster this year, and ended up coaching the B Grade side

Her brother Jake also came back home to play football for the Tigers, and was among the league’s leading goal kickers He will be watching Trarlagon with interest this weekend when the Maroons play in the Gippsland League senior football Grand Final

Jake was the previous coach of Traralgon, calling the shots between 2021 and 2023

MDU had double-delight by winning the C Grade flag, getting over Yinnar 33-25

The Magpies had better luck in D Grade, beating Fish Creek 23-15

Junior netball saw two of the three games go to overtime

Boolarra won the 17 and Under in overtime, while Hill End did likewise in the 13 and Under

The Demons secured two junior flags on the day, also winning the 15 and Under

 NORTH GIPPSLAND netball

saw a bevy of Bulldogs on court

Churchill Football-Netball Club's blue was traded for Sale City’s red, white and blue, as the Bulldogs had every grade of netball in grand finals at Gaskin Park

Sale City completed a clean sweep of senior grades, winning A, B, C and D, to go with a premiership in the 15 and Under age group

The only team to miss was the 17 and Under, who suffered the unfortunate fate of going into the Grand Final undefeated, only to lose the most important game of the year

No matter what sport, it honestly happens more often than not

Netball scoreboard GRAND FINALS GRRA A ANND FINNA A AL L LS S

MID GIPPSLAND

AGRADE: MDU 39 def Fish Creek 37.

BOC: Lillyca White (MDU)

BGRADE: Stony Creek 38 def Foster 27.

BOC: Kelsie Schelling (Stony Creek)

CGRADE: MDU 33 def Yinnar 25

BOC: Lauren Wightman (MDU)

DGRADE: Yinnar 23 def Fish Creek 15.

BOC: Katie Linton (Yinnar)

17 AND UNDER: Boolarra 47 def Toora 46

BOC: Rahni Wissmer (Boolarra)

15 AND UNDER: Boolarra 20 def Yinnar 16.

BOC: Aleeah Munnich (Boolarra)

13 AND UNDER: Hill End 21 def Yinnar 20.

BOC: Lily Blackshaw (Hill End)

NORTH GIPPSLAND

AGRADE: Sale City 51 def Heyfield 44.

BOC: Charlotte Ronchi (Sale City)

BGRADE: Sale City 40 def Woodside 38.

BOC: Demi Godenzi (Woodside)

CGRADE: Sale City 27 def Woodside 23.

BOC: Ally Gull (Sale City)

DGRADE: Sale City 29 def TTU 25.

BOC: Daniella Pirona (Sale City)

17 AND UNDER: Rosedale 30 def Sale City 29.

BOC: Maddi Hodgson (Rosedale)

15 AND UNDER: Sale City 19 def TTU 18.

BOC: Isobel Scott (Sale City)

Tone setters: Sale City won every senior netball flag on offer, starting with D Grade Photograph: ErikaAllen

Great times: Sale City with the North Gippsland C Grade premiership pennant and cup Photograph: ErikaAllen

Brilliant: Sale City won a close B Grade decider against Woodside Photograph: ErikaAllen

Start to the day: Hill End won the Mid Gippsland 13 and Under premiership in dramatic circumstances, beating Yinnar in extra time Photograph: Liam Durkin

We undefeated: Sale City took out the North Gippsland A Grade netball premiership to officially be crowned premiers and champions for season 2024 Photograph: ErikaAllen

Demon delight: Boolarrawon theMid Gippsland 15 andUnder flag

Photograph: Liam Durkin

Pulsating: Boolarrabackeduptheir 15sflag with victory in the17and Under,winning in overtime

Photograph: Liam Durkin

Easydoesit: Yinnar wastoo strong in theMid Gippsland DGrade Grand Final. Photograph: LiamDurkin

Celebrate: MDU rounded offasuccessful season with the CGrade premiership in Mid Gippsland

Photograph: LiamDurkin

Bfor best: StonyCreek wonthe Mid Gippsland BGrade netball flag

Photograph supplied

Notmanyare that privileged: MDU had an extraspecial AGrade premiership,winning on their home court. Photograph supplied

Future stars: Sale Citywon the North Gippsland 15 and Under premiership

Photograph: TomHayes

It does happen: Rosedale upstagedSale City to win the North Gippsland 17 andUnder flag.The Bulldogs hadn’tlost agame all year

Photograph: TomHayes

Mighty Moe Lions into another GF

NETBALL GIPPSLAND LEAGUE

BY LIAM DURKIN

MOE are back where they want to be, with another Gippsland League AGrade netball Grand Final coming up.

The path to this year’s decider has been abit more tenuous however.

Shockwavesreverberated around the local netball fraternity after the Lions lost the second semi-final to Warragul.

It wasMoe’sfirst loss in AGrade since Round 1lastyear, and threw them into asudden death preliminary final against Drouin.

The Lions made sure of qualifying for their second consecutive Grand Final, beating the Hawks 64-37 in Traralgon last Saturday.

Moe will now set themselves for arematch with the Guls,and look to becomethe firstMoe team to win back-to-back flags in the top grade of either football or netball. While externally not much appears to have changed, with the Lions rollingwith virtually the same AGrade squadas12months ago, the performanceofMoe’s BGrade team has meant success has followed success.

Moe will hope to have aflag in the bank by the time its AGradeteam takes the Morwell court, with the Lions also playing in the BGrade Grand Final.

Moe’s BGrade has taken aweek off heading into the decider, as reward for winning the qualifying and first semi-final.

Locals will get to see aMoe versus Traralgon Grand Final in BGrade,after the Maroons came from withoutthe double chance to reach the big stage.

Since then,the Lions have goneabout their business, although co-coaches Ashlea Stubbs and Ramayer Gourleywere undernoillusionsthis Saturday presented anew challenge.

"We are absolutely confident in our capabilities, but we do not underestimate Warragul,” they said.

“The semi-final loss allowedthe players and coachestoregroup, reflect and adjust where needed.”

Fromthe outset,the mostobvious challenge for Moe appears to be quelling the influence of Warragul shooter Emma Ryde.

Ryde entered the competition full of hype, and even fear from some opponents this season due to her towering frame.

Shehas gone on to shoot nearly1000 goals (942), at an average of more than 50 agame.

last month,and polling the third-most votes in the Gippsland League MVP award.

With gun shooters at eitherend,the battle in the midcourt could go along way to deciding the outcome of the game.

Macy Gardiner and Alex Moody make for astrong Moe combination, and they will be out to ensure Warragul pair Sienna Green (second in the league MVP) and Alexandra Cole aren’t given freedom to roam.

Moe's coaches said they felt confident as the big day approached.

“The key has been incredible on court connections, communication, trust, individual accountability and friendship,” they said.

Gourley for her worth has shot738,and with goal attack Georgia Moody in close quarters, the Lions won’t be aone-trick pony.

Incidentally,the Lions’ first ever senior netball premiership was woninBGrade against Traralgon in 2017.

The next year, Moe had its AGrade andBGrade in theGrandFinal,withAGradedefeatingtheMaroons to win the club’s maiden first grade netball flag.

Olivia Barnett looks alikely matchup for Ryde, while fellow defender Emma Sculley will be there to assist.

Barnett has had an outstanding season, named best-on-court in the VNL under 23 Grand Final

“The major differencefrom last year to where we are sittingnow, is the continued growth and connectionsthe playing group has madethisseason which has made us stronger.

"There is no doubt an increased excitement and energy with the opportunity to go back-to- back this weekend.”

GIPPSLAND LEAGUE GRAND FINAL

Adam Jaensch (coach)

Coach: Ashlea Stubbs Ramayer Gourley (GS): Co-coach. One of the premier goalers in the game.She is an assetonand off the court with herextensive knowledge of the game.

EmmaSculley (GK): Emma is known for her incredible timing, consistently plucking the ball out of seemingly nowhere and a rebounding machine.

Olivia Barnett (GD): Olivia is one of the cleanest defenders in the league with an impressive success rate, creating significant turnovers on court.

Hollie Bugeja (WD): Hollie’sworkrate sets her apartfrom opponents. She sets the pace and challenges everyone to keep up.

Macy Gardiner (C): Macy is suchaversatile player,with ahigh work rate, relentless in her defence and fast-paced in attack.

AlexMoody (WA): Moe’s captain. Awell-rounded netballer,able to use her body and speed across the court with pinpoint accuracy on the feed.

Georgia Moody (GA): Georgia’sspeed and accuracy will be secondto-none in her hunt for her third Gippsland League premiership. Charlize Bird (C): Youwill find Charlize in everycontest and will have afly at everyball she can get her hands on.

Jordan Pyle (WD): Jordanisanoutstanding defenderwith amazing athletic ability.Competitive through the air and on the drive.

On thecusp: Moe has the chancetogoback-to-backinGippsland League AGrade netball thisweekend File photographs

Valuable: Hollie Bugeja hastaken her game to anew levelthis season, playing forMoe andthe GippslandStars VNL team.

Can Traralgon pull off an upset?

FOOTBALL

GIPPSLAND LEAGUE

BY LIAM DURKIN

MAKE no mistake, Traralgon aren’t just playing in the Gippsland League Grand Final to give Leongatha an opposition.

The Maroons are there to win and to win their 21st senior football flag.

“We’ll be disappointed if we don’t win,” first-year Traralgon coach Troy Hamilton declared to the Express

The Maroons havetaken the competition by storm this season, and find themselves in the last game of theyear, and with some freedom as all the pressure will be on their opponents.

The Parrots are playing in their eighth consecutivedecider,and withthe opportunitytocreate clubhistory by winningahat-trick of titles for the first time.

Much of this season was acase of everyone falling in behind Leongatha, who finished three games clear on top of the ladder.

TheParrots took the quickest route to another Grand Final after disposing of Moe in the second semi-final,while Traralgon had to survive two sudden death eliminators.

While Leongatha willtakeheavy favouritism into Saturday, the Maroons will have reason to be confident nonetheless.

Traralgon only lost to the Parrots by margins of five and 34 points during the regular season, and the two teams are yet to meet in afinal this year.

Thereinlies the beautiful uncertainty of finals football, where history has proven time and time again that ‘anything can happen’.

Hamiltonknowsthis better thanmost, having guided Mirboo North to multiple underdog premierships in the Mid Gippsland Football-Netball League.

The most famous of these came adecade ago, when the Tigers turned around a90-point semifinalloss to Newborough, to then defeat the same team in the Grand Final.

While the man himself insists “that was along time ago”, it will be interesting to see if Hamilton has any of the Midas Touch left.

Traralgon was not expected to cause much damage this season, following the departures of senior experienced players Mark Collison, Brett Eddy, Tom Schneider and playing-coach Jake Best.

Little was anyone to know howeverthe sheer quality of what was coming through.

The investment in youth under the coaching of Best during his three year stint (2021-23) has paid dividends, with anumberofTraralgon’s youngsters blossoming this season.

Names such as Tom McMahon, Kade Ruyters and Lucas Tripodi have playedconsistent senior footballunder Hamilton, while ConnorAmbler, Luis D’Angelo and JacksonMcMahon have become household names.

The Maroons have played afast-paced game, highlightedbyprecision disposal by foot and a rebounding defenceprepared to sit behind the ball and wait for hack kicks to come in.

In preparing to take on Leongatha, the Maroons should have no issue matching the Parrots for leg speed,but will be challenged with winning the ball in close before exploding away.

The Parrots don’t really have aweakness, so it would be futiletrying to look for one to expose, and Traralgon are unlikely to want to turn the game into astoppage-after-stoppage scrap.

With this in mind, the game might simply become acase of who is better for longer.

Traralgon key forward Dylan Loprese is the only survivor from the Maroons’ 2015 premiership, which ironically, was the start of Leongatha’s Grand Final run.

Adding to the irony, Best played for Leongatha in that game.

Regardless of result, Saturday is looming as an emotional time for all wearing the maroon and white.

Traralgon footballers and officials have been withoutproper facilities for more than threeyears

Not to let that deter them, the Maroons have simply got on with the job, and to their unbelievable credit,haveplayed and won finals across the grades in the last three years.

That same attitude will hold them in good stead come Grand Final day.

Leader: Traralgon captain, TyeHourigan. Photograph: Liam Durkin

Keep ‘em p coming

YallournYallournNorth wonits fourth reserves premiership inseven seasons, and firstinNorth Gippsland, afterdefeating Woodside on Saturday. TheJetstookthe 2024 flag5.14(44)to3.11(29).

Photograph: Lyns Snaps o y

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6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 TheOttoman Empire By Train. (PGa) Part 4of5 8.25 Medina Azahara: Lost Pearl Of El-Andalu. Takesalookat theMadinat al-Zahra, the ruins of apalace in modern-day Spain. 9.25 AncientSuperstructures: Angkor Wat. (R) ExploresAngkor Wat. 10.25 Dinosaur With Stephen Fry: When Dinosaurs Ruled TheEarth. (PGa, R) 11.20 TheReal Peaky Blinders. (R) 1.20 Devon& Cornwall With Michael Portillo (PGa, R) 3.10 MakeMeA Dealer.(R) 4.00 Peer To Peer.(R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 France 24 Feature. 5.30 Al JazeeraNews.

6am WorldWatch. 9.30 Small Business Secrets. 10.00 The Movie Show 12.10pm Kim’sConvenience. 1.10 SmallTown Secrets. 2.00 Queer Sports. 3.50 In My Own World. 4.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 PBS Washington Week With The Atlantic. 5.35 The MachinesThat Built America. 7.05 Abandoned Engineering. 8.00 Cycling. UCI Road World Championships. Women’s elite individual time trial. 10.45 Late Programs. 6am The Crossing. Continued. (2020, PG, Norwegian) 6.40 Romeo And Juliet. (2013,PG) 8.50 Binti. (2019, PG, Dutch) 10.30 BabyDone. (2020, M) 12.10pm Look At Me. (2018,M,Arabic) 2.00 The World’s FastestIndian.(2005, PG) 4.20 Arthur And The TwoWorlds War. (2010,PG) 6.15 Lucky You. (2007, PG) 8.30 Pride And Glory. (2008,MA15+) 10.55 Late Programs. 6am MorningPrograms. 1.35pm RugbyLeague.Koori Knockout.

6.00 NBCToday 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 House Of Wellness.(PG, R) 1.00 Football. AFL Women’s.Week 4. Adelaide v Essendon 3.00 Football. AFL Women’s.Week 4. Collingwood vWestern Bulldogs. From Victoria Park, Melbourne. 5.00 SevenNews At 5. 5.30 Border Security:Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R)

6.00 SevenNews. 7.00 TheVoice. (PGl) Hosted by Sonia Kruger 8.45 7NEWSSpotlight. An exclusive specialinvestigation 9.45 TheLatest: SevenNews. 10.15 Crime Investigation Australia: MostInfamous: Date With A Serial Killer –RodneyFrancis Cameron. (MA15+av,R)A look at the case of Rodney Francis Cameron. 11.25 AutopsyUSA: Chris Benoit. (MA15+adv) 12.25 Lipstick Jungle. (Mds, R) 1.25 Harry’sPractice. (R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R)

3.30 Million Dollar Minute. (R) 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 Sunrise 5am News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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6.00 Hello SA.(PG,R) 6.30 ACurrent Affair 7.00 WeekendToday 10.00 AFL Sunday FootyShow. (PG) 12.00 Wide World Of Sports. (PG) 1.00 BondiVet. (PGm, R) 2.00 TheBlock. (PGl, R) 3.15 TheBlock (PGl, R) 4.30 Getaway. (PG,R) 5.00 9News FirstAtFive. 5.30 Postcards. (PG) 6am MorningPrograms. 9.00 Loving Gluten Free. (Return) 9.30 Intrepid Adventures. 10.00 Drew Barrymore. (PGas, R) 11.00 Lingo.(R) 12.00 Amazing Race Australia: CelebrityEdition. (PGal, R) 1.10 Everyday Gourmet.(R) 1.30 GCBC. (R) 2.00

6.00 9News Sunday.

7.00 TheBlock. (PGl) 8.30 60 Minutes. Current affairs program, investigating,analysing and uncovering the issuesaffecting allAustralians. 9.30 Footy Furnace. (Mlv) Alook at the latest round of football. 10.30 9News Late. 11.00 TheFirst48: Tricked/ Rogue Gun. (Mal) 11.50 Transplant (MA15+m) 12.40 Australia’s TopTen Of Everything. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: HomeShopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’sVoiceOfVictory.(PGa) 4.30 GolfBarons. (PG,R) 5.00 Today EarlyNews. 5.30 Today

6.00 TheSundayProject. Joins panellists for alook at theday’s news, events and hottopics. 7.00 TheAmazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition. (PGl) Hosted by Beau Ryan. 8.30 FBI. (Mdv) Theteam hunts for those responsible whenatruck driver is murdered and thedrug he wastransportinggoes missing 11.30 TheSundayProject. (R) Joinspanellists for alookatthe day’s news, events and hot topics. 12.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBSMornings. Morningnews and talk show, coveringbreaking news, politics,health, money,lifestyle and pop culture with GayleKing Tony Dokoupil and NateBurleson.

M*A*S*H. 8.30 MOVIE: TheShawshank Redemption.(1994,MA15+) 11.20 Late Programs. 9GEM (92, 81)

7TWO (72, 62) 6am Children’s Programs. 2.10pm SurfingAustralia TV 2.40 Ben Fogle: Starting Up Starting Over 4.40 MOVIE: The Croods: ANew Age. (2020,PG) 6.30 MOVIE: WarWithGrandpa.(2020,PG) 8.30 MOVIE: The Suicide Squad. (2021, MA15+) 11.00 Gotham. 1am Love AfterLockup 2.30 Teen Titans Go! 3.30 Beyblade X. 4.00 PowerPlayers. 4.30 Transformers: Cyberverse 4.50 Late Programs. 6am Morning Programs. 9.00 AFootball Life. 10.00

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9.30 Media Watch. (PG) Presented by Janine Perrett.

9.50 Prisoner X. (Ml) Alook at the story of Prisoner X. 11.20 ABCLate News. 11.35 TheBusiness. (R)

11.55 Planet America. (R)

12.25 Grand Designs. (PG, R)

1.15 Love Your Garden.(R) 2.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.30 Catalyst. (PG, R) 4.30 Gardening Australia. (R) 5.30 7.30.(R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Michael Palin In North Korea. (R) Part 2of2

8.30 8Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. (Mls) Game show featuring contestants tacklingawords and numbers quiz. Hosted by Jimmy Carr

9.25 NeverMind TheBuzzcocks. (Mlns) Music-based pop culture quiz show, hosted by GregDavies.

10.15 Have IGot News ForYou

U.S. Hosted by Roy Wood Jr 11.05 SBS WorldNews Late. 11.35 Suspect. (Malv) 12.05 Of MoneyAnd Blood. (MA15+dv) 2.00 TheSpectacular (Malv,R) 4.00 MakeMeADealer. (R) 4.50 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The WorldTonight.

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Home And Away (PGa) Cash takes astep back.Eden and Michelle havea hearttoheart. Leah finds out the truth.

7.30 AFL BrownlowMedal: RedCarpet. (PG) Coverage of thered carpetarrivals featuring AFL players and their partners.

8.05 AFL BrownlowMedal. An awards event featuring votes from this year’s AFL rounds which are tallied, culminating in the announcement of the winner of the league’s Brownlow Medal.

11.00 To Be Advised.

12.45 TheEvent. (Mav,R)The White House is gripped by apower struggle.

2.00 Home Shopping. (R)

4.00 NBC Today. News and current affairs.

5.00 Sunrise 5amNews. The latest news, sportand weather 5.30 Sunrise

6.00 9News. 7.00 ACurrentAffair

7.30 TheBlock. (PGl) Hosted by ScottCam andShelley Craft

8.45 Australian Crime Stories: Derek Percy–The Face Of Evil. (Malv,R)Takes alook at notorious child-killer Derek Percy, who abducted and murderedYvonne Tuohyin1969. 9.55 Outback Opal Hunters. (PGl, R) The BoulderBoystry to keep their jobs. 10.55 9News Late. 11.25 La Brea (Mav) 12.10 Transplant. (MA15+m) 1.00 Cybershack. (PG, R) 1.30 Talking Honey. (PG) 1.40 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 Today Early News. 5.30 Today

6.00 Deal Or No Deal Hosted by Grant Denyer 6.30 TheProject. Alookatthe day’snews. 7.30 TheAmazing RaceAustralia: Celebrity Edition Hosted by Beau Ryan. 8.40 Have YouBeen Paying Attention? (Malns)Celebrity panellists compete to see who can remember the most about events of theweek 9.40 Inspired Unemployed(Impractical) Jokers (Ml, R) The jokers take orders in abusycafé. Punters helpwith weirdtexts,before

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9GO! (93, 82) 6am Arthur And The TwoWorlds War. Continued. (2010,PG) 6.55 Belle And Sebastian. (2013,PG, French) 8.45 To Catch AThief. (1955,PG) 10.45 Three Floors. (2021, M, Italian) 1pm Romeo And Juliet. (2013,PG) 3.10 Binti. (2019,PG, Dutch) 4.50 Widows’ Peak.(1994,PG) 6.45 West Side Story (1961, PG) 9.30 Mothering Sunday. (2021,MA15+) 11.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG, R) 6.30 SBS WorldNews. 7.30 Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey: China. (Premiere) Shaun Micallef heads to China. 8.30 Insight. Kumi Taguchiexplores how memories define us and whether we canalwaystrust them 9.30 Dateline. AJapanese American Vietnam Warveteran searches for thesoldier whosaved his life.

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6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 SevenMorning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Hailey Dean Mysteries: AMarriage Made ForMurder.(2018,PGav,R)Kellie Martin, Giacomo Baessato,Viv Leacock. 2.00 Surveillance Oz: Dashcam. (PGl, R) 2.15 Catch Phrase. (PG, R) 3.00 The Chase.(R) 4.00 SevenNews At 4. 5.00 TheChase Australia.

6.00 SevenNews. 7.00 Home AndAway. Justin falls into Claudia’s trap 7.30 My Kitchen Rules Mikeand Pete are hoping to impressthe judgeswiththeir old school Italian classic menu with atwist. 9.05 TheRookie (Mav)When atoddler is foundatthe scene of acrime, Nolan and Nune must decide what to do withhim. 10.05 Made In Bondi. (Mal) Anew girl enters the group 11.10 Chicago Fire. (Return, Mav) Kidd andHerrmann fight over Ritter 12.10 HoleyMoleyAustralia. (PGsv, R) 1.35 Harry’sPractice. (R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBCToday 5.00 Sunrise 5am News.

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6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra.(PG) 11.30 9News Morning 12.00 TheBlock.(PGl, R) 1.15 Explore TV:Trade Routes Of TheMiddleAges. (R) 1.45 My Way. 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30[VIC]TippingPoint Australia.(PG) 5.00 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30[VIC]WINNews. 6am Morning Programs.

6.00 9News. 7.00 ACurrent Affair. 7.30 TheBlock. (PGl) Hosted by ScottCam andShelley Craft 8.45 TheHundred With Andy Lee. (PGs) Andy Leeisjoined by a panel of comedians and 100 Aussies to explore the fun behind the facts. 9.45 Footy Classified. (M)Footy experts tackle the AFL’s big issues. 10.45 9News Late.

11.15 Chicago Med (MA15+am)

Thebestin business recognised

TRARALGON South business Foundation Civil and Miningwon the region’s topbusiness award at the 26th annual Federation University Gippsland Business Awards.

The businesswas named Business of the Year winner at the Gippsland Business Awards (GBA) galadinneratFederationUniversity'sauditorium, where more than300 people fromacross the region were celebrating the best of the region's business sector.

Bairnsdale’s Dwyers Group joined an impressive list of Gippsland businesses to be inducted into the Gippsland Business Awards Hall of Fame.

Awards Chair, GraemeSennett, congratulated all the winners on their achievements.

"Yet again, we are astoundedbythe calibreofthe awards' participants. The variety and diversity of businesses across the region is truly remarkable," he remarked.

"With such an impressive array of finalists, once again, choosing the winners provedtobeachallenging task for the judges."

Mr Sennett said Foundation Civil and Mining

had demonstrated exponential growth since it was established, driven by astrong focus on value and providing return on investmentfor majorcustomers.

“Demonstrating areal passion for their industry and the local community, Foundation Civil and Mining has continually identified and capitalised on opportunities for growth,while also planning for theirfuture development and long term sustainability,”MrSennett said.

EachGBA finalist is assessed and independently rated by five different judges across eight judging criteria.

Other local winners were:

 Indulge Yourself Beauty Therapy Skin & Laser Clinic, Moe (in the category of Beauty and Personal Care);

 Regional Migration Australia, Traralgon (Business and Professional Services);

 The Collective. Cospace, Traralgon (New Business), and;

 Moe Fresh Poultry (Retail).

Brillianceinbeauty: Leah VicinoofTAFE Gippslandpresents the Beautyand Person Care

Brad Shermanfrom Indulge Yourself Beauty TherapySkin and

Bright futureahead: Moeplumber andinternational ‘Skillaroo’Sebastian BattistawithTAFE Gippslandplumbing teacher PeterQuinn, programmanager Jason Clements, TAFE Gippsland ChiefExecutiveLaura Macpherson, boardchair Paul Buckley, director educational deliveryLinda Austin, headofdepartment AlexTerranova and programmanager JacksonHall. Photograph supplied

THE Olympics wasn'tthe only event where Australians competed internationally. Moe apprentice plumber Sebastian Battista has just wrapped up his time at the WorldSkills exhibition in France.

WorldSkills was held in Lyon, taking in amultitude of disciplinesincluding construction and building, creative arts and information technology. Sebcompeted for Australia, takingonthe fitting moniker of a'Skillaroo'. Moe plumber heads to Paris for the WorldSkills exhibition

Offand racing: The NewBusiness Awardwent to Matt and Kristini Buglisi, Jasmine Crutchfield and Ben Plozza of The CollectiveCospace,Traralgon.Presenting the awardwas Latrobe CityMayor, Darren Howe (blacktie)and DeputyMayor,Tracie Lund (red blazer).

Topmarks: Gippsland Business of theYear winners,Emma Materowski and MatthewWeddell from Foundation Civil and Mining,Traralgon.

So fresh: SarahGilbertfromAGL presents the Retail awardtoChris and KimMangion of Moe Fresh Poultry Photographs supplied

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Great effort: Kristie Morganand Trish Reardon from Regional Migration Australia (based in Traralgon), with Wellington ShireCouncilMayor,Ian Bye. The shiresponsoredthe Business and Professional Services sectionofthe awards

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Preps celebrating 100-days at St Paul’s

MOVING at apacethat might be abit quick for a person who is 100-years-old, the St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School Prep ‘centenarians’ made their waythrough theschoolgrounds to celebrate their 100DaysofPrep.

Withrollersinhair, pearls draped around necks, bushy white mustaches and walking sticks, it was evident to see that the Preps were very excited to celebrate their 100-day milestone with each other. Leading the pack of oldiesweren’ttheir teachers, but some almost unrecognisable senior citizens. Slowingthemselvesdownwhile remembering they are supposedtobe100 foraday,everyonewas able to set down their walking frames and walking sticks to enjoy acup of Milo with abiscuit to recuperate their energy after afun-filled morning.

The ‘centenarians’, aka Preps, celebrated their learning milestone andalongside their new friendships at the very beginning of their learning journey.

Sacred Heart Book Week fun

The children were able to prepare their own jar before the production, which listed their own specialmomentswhich gave them joy and happiness.

Concluding the day, students participated in a mixture of juniors and senior groups in activities basedaround the 2024 awarded shortlisted books of the year.

SACRED Heart Primary School, Morwell began its celebrations for Book Week with aparade. Children dressed as many different book characters, with Harry Potters,Princesses, Dinosaurs, Bluey and Where’s Wallys all featuring. Thetheme for 2024 was 'Reading is Magic'. Students attended aliveproduction at the school brought to them by Meerkatt Production called Timeless based on the book by author Kelly Canby. The story is based on agirl called Emitt, whose familyalwayscravesmore hours in aday. In the story, Emitt reflects about time and herrelationship withit, andfocusesonwhat things in life make herhappy but cost no money

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Esso Australia Pty Ltd (Esso),awholly owned subsidiaryofExxonMobil Australia Pty Ltd, is committed to operating and decommissioning its’ Gippsland and Bass Strait facilities safely and effectively

After delivering energy to Australia for over 50 years, many of the Bass Strait oil fields arenow reaching the end of their productive life. As planning for decommissioning progresses, Essoisfocused on safely shutting-down non-producing facilities and ensuring theystay safethroughout the entire decommissioning process.

Community Information Session and Drop-in

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Wednesday25September 2024 -Welshpool Welshpool Memorial Hall 49 Main Street,Welshpool 10.00 am –1.00 pm

Wednesday25September 2024 -Leongatha

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To register your attendance,please email us at: consultation@exxonmobil.com

If these dates and times don’t suit,please contact us at consultation@exxonmobil.com or by phone on 03 92610000.

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. Placing misleading ads is an offence against the Trades Practices Act and state/territory fair trading acts and all advertisements are subject to the publisher's approval. For further advice, contact the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on 1300 302 502 or your state consumer affairs agency.

-Gippsland Basin Geophysical and Geotechnical Investigations

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-Turrum Phase 3Drilling

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Please fill in the Esso Consultation Questionnaire (sli.do) in the Esso Consultation Hub to let us know if you’d like to be consulted or have anyquestionsor feedback.

Please refer to the NOPSEMA brochure Consultation on offshorepetroleum environment plans brochure.pdf (nopsema.gov.au) to understand moreabout consultation on offshorepetroleum environment plans assessed under the OffshorePetroleum and GreenhouseGas Storage (Environment) Regulations 2023. Your feedback and our response will be included in the relevantregulatoryapplication documentation and submitted to the regulator.

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BRIEN, Geoffrey Peter (Bluey). Passed away at Latrobe Regional Health Traralgon on 11 September 2024 after along illness surrounded by his loving family. Aged 80 years OBE Dearly loved husband of Gwen for 49 years. Much loved father of Narelle and George. Adored Pop of Marli and Kohen, and best mate to Audrey. Resting peacefully at last Loved brother of Eunice. Fond uncle of David, Jenny, Jodie, Susan and families.

Sleeping peacefully Private Family Cremation.

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BROWNBILL, Keith. Latrobe University of the Third Age mourns the death of Keith. He was an esteemed member, president, tutor and mentor to all.

BUXTON (nee Hoppner), Jancine (Jan) Hazel. Passed away suddenly on 10 September 2024.

Aged 77 years

Partner to Wal, mother to Jane (dec.), Tracey and Donna. Loved grandmother to 8 grandchildren,special grandmother to Kai and 2 great grandchildren. Private Cremation will be held with celebration of life with friends and family.

Nan, Iwill always be beyond grateful for everything you've done for me. Throughout the years we grew closer than anything, Iwill forever cherish the memories of random conversations at all hours of the night, laughing about so many things. Love you forever and always Nan Love, Kai.

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JONES, Frederick Graham. We are all saddened to hear of the passing of Graham, amuchrespected and remembered former staff member. Our love and thoughts are with all Grahamsfamily and friends at this time. From Peter and Jean Kennedy and all the team at Kennedy HaulageDriffield Quarry.

KRUTOP, Paul William. Passed away surrounded by his loving family on Thursday, 12 September 2024. Aged 68 years Adored partner of Leanne. Father of Matthew (dec.), Lucas, Casey, Abbey and Maddison. Loving son, brother, father-in-law and poppy. Passed calmly and is resting easy

LITTLE, Max John. Passed away peacefully in his sleep at Margery Cole Aged Care Traralgon on 16 September 2024. Reunited with his beloved wife Joyce and daughter Colleen. Dearly loved husband of Joyce (dec.) for 64 years. Much loved father and father-in-law of Colleen (dec.) and Alan, Gail and Alec, Shane and Lyn. Adored grandfather of Trent and Stevi, Olivia, James, Sarah, Deanna, Tania, and Cara. Great grandfather of Phoebe Hazel, Max, Paige, Ava Jackson, and Harper.

WHITE (nee Spence), Pamela Joy 'Pam'.

Passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family at Monash Hospital, Clayton on Monday, 16 September 2024.

Aged 69 years

Loved and loving mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, sister-in-law, aunt and friend to many. Fly Free

HOWARD. The Funeral Service for Mr Daniel Roy Howard will be held at St Kieran's Catholic Church Lloyd Street Moe on FRIDAY (20 September 2024) commencing at 1.30 pm. The Funeral will leave at the conclusion of the Service for the Moe Memorial Park Cemetery. Daniel's Service will also be livestreamed, to view the livestream please visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and click on livestreaming.

MOE-MORWELL-TRARALGON MOE 5126 1111 Place your tribute on latrobevalleyfunerals.com.au

HOWARD Daniel (Danny). 6/3/1960 -29/8/2024. Aged 64 years Please join us to celebrate the life of Mr Daniel 'Danny' Howard, FRIDAY (20 September 2024) at 1.30pm at St Kieran's Catholic Church, Moe.

KRUTOP. The Funeral of Mr Paul William Krutop will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 260 Princes Highway, Traralgon on MONDAY (23 September 2024) commencing at 11am.

At the conclusion of the Service the Funeral will leave for the Traralgon Cemetery, Gippsland Memorial Park. Paul's Service will also be livestreamed. To view the livestream please visit our website.

MOE-MORWELL-TRARALGON

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LITTLE. The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation for Mr Max John Little will be held at the Gippsland Memorial Park Crematorium Rose Chapel, TUESDAY (24 September 2024) at 2pm.

Max's Service will also be livestreamed, to view the livestream please visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and click on livestreaming.

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ANDERSON, Jeff.

The children and grandchildren of the late Jeff Anderson and myself wish to sincerely thank family, friends, neighbours and Jeff's former colleagues for honouring Jeff by attending his funeral in person, online or via livestreaming. Your comments of praise for Jeff and sympathy to our family have been graciously received. Thank you for the notices in the Express, cards, emails, telephone calls, flowers and food delivered to our home.

We thank Latrobe Valley Funeral Service staff for the professionalism and empathy our family received throughout our darkest days. To the people that we are unable to personally contact please accept our most sincere appreciation and gratitude for your kindness. Thank you one and all. Doreen Anderson.

BARTLEY, Rupert. The family of Rupert Bartley would like to express their sincere gratitude to all who offered their condolences and support during this difficult time. Your kindness and generosity is deeply appreciated. Special thanks to Baw Baw Views, Tanjil Place Medical, LRH and Palliative Care. With heartfelt thanks, Maureen Bartley and family.

Myrt. On behalf of Ches, Tony, Peter, Kerry and all our extended family we would like to thank everyone for your condolences and kindness at this very difficult time. Flowers, cards, dropping into the house, the many phone calls and all the home made dishes. Not forgetting the trailer loads of wood helping Ches out. Thank you so very much. Rest in Peace beautiful Myrt

MUNRO,

CASEY, Elizabeth Amy (Libby). 18/9/1983. Many years have passed since you went away, I love and miss you every day. In my heart your memory is kept, for my blue-eyed girl Inever will forget.

Gone but not forgotten

R.I.P. Love Dad and Ree, Zeb and Tomma,

VALLEY FUNERAL SERVICES

Brilliant badminton teams

LVBA

THE Latrobe Valley BadmintonAssociation completed its season recently.

Thursdaynight players gathered at the Top Pub, Morwell for presentation night for both home-andaway and pennant competitions. More than 50 members and partners enjoyed amealand great company at the presentation Players received trophy glasses andpremiers were presented with shields.

Work: Kites team wonthe BGrade pennant premiership in Latrobe ValleyBadminton. Pictured is Hiren Rajapaske, PaulaStockton, Himesh Rajapaskeand Ashwanth Palanikumar. Photographs supplied

 WINNERS WERE:

AGrade home andaway premiers: GlenCowwarr (Dillon Silvester,Jess Lyons,Roly Durano,Sumit Shevade,Ian Bailey)

Runners-up: Glengarry(Cayla Silverster, Drew Silvester,RyanDowsett, Will Macreadie)

BGrade home and away premiers: Flynn Gormy (RichardDerham, Brendan Crawford,Fiona Musgrove,PetiteCrawford)

Runners-up: Flynn Fire (MarcRathjen, Liam Boothman, Bronwyn Woodward, Raelene Grazotis)

AGrade pennant premiers: Leopards (Garry Silvester,Alvin Hu, Lenin Thenamirtham, Neil Griffiths)

Runners-up: Panthers(ChaminkaPerera, Blair Rooney, Dean Blomquist, Ritvik)

BGrade pennant premiers: Kites (Hiren Rajapaske, Himesh Rajapaske, Ashwanth Palanikumar,Paula Stockton)

Runners-up: Eagles (Tracy Millett, DanTowb, Jackson Hoogerwerf,HuxleyTratford)

NBL here to stay for another two years

Backfor more: Traralgon will host NBL matches over the next twoyears.

BASKETBALL

LATROBE Valleylocals will be able to enjoy watching some of Australia’s best basketball talent in their ownbackyard, thanks to the continuingpartnership between the National Basketball League (NBL)’s SouthEast Melbourne Phoenix, Latrobe City Council and thestage government.

Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major Events SteveDimopoulos announcedthat the SouthEast Melbourne Phoenix willplaya regular season home gameatGippsland RegionalIndoor Sports Stadium (Traralgon) in both the 2024/25 and 2025/26 NBL seasons.

The first game will see Phoenix face off against the Brisbane Bullets on Saturday, January 11 2025. The games will mark the fourth and fifth times the Phoenix have played in Traralgon.

The three previous games has seen sold out crowds, with the most recent bringing basketball fans from across Victoria and generating an estimated economic benefit of almost $650,000 for the local region.

The Phoenix’s firstgame under the new partnership will be played as works continue at the Gippsland Regional Indoor SportsStadium. These projects willhelp increase sports

Our team: Locals have adopted South East Phoenixastheir ownNBL sideinrecent years. Photographs supplied

participation among the Gippsland community and bring more elite sport to regional Victoria, with the benefits flowing to local businesses and communities. South East Melbourne Phoenix Chief Executive,

Winners: Flynn Gormy were BGrade home-and-awaypremiers.

Tommy Greer welcomed the fixture. “The club as awhole love our annual pilgrimage to the Latrobe Valley and we look forward to our GRISS fixture each season, so we’re really excited,” he said.

Harriers award their golden boots

ATHLETICS

HARRIERS BY IAN CORNTHWAITE AND MILES VERSCHUUR

THE pathways along Waterhole Creek in Morwell were tackled by around 40 committed Traralgon Harriers. Participation was reduced, partly because of the rainy conditions and the Athletics VictoriaBurnley 5km and half-marathon the following weekend.

The 6km Waterhole three-lap circuit had the added challenges of circumnavigating or jumping fallentrees and other windthrow debris.The course, however, is enjoyable and its levelness offers the potential for some fast personal outcomes.

TheBurnley Half-Marathon saw 20 Traralgon Harriers traveltothe banks of the Yarra River for the penultimateround of the Athletics Victoria XCR Season.

The task was either a5km or a21.1kmrace along Yarra Boulevard starting and finishing at Kevin Bartlett Reserve in Burnley.

For the 5km runners, their course involved one 5km out-and-back loop, while the half-marathon runners completed the same loop four times. Although repetitive, it did allow for plentyof cheeringonoffellow Harriersduring the race and only 2.5kmbetween drink stops.

The weather on the start line was perfect for

racing, with somenice warm sunshine, but the wind did pick up towards the end of the race, which coupled with the fact manypacks haddisintegrated, made the running slightly more difficult.

In the 5km race, fresh off a15thplaced finish at the National Cross Country Championships in Tasmania, Dempsey Podmore ran avery respectable 17:19.

Alysha Duncan also opted for the 5km event ahead of the SydneyMarathon. Areturning Denise Twite, alongside Ann Bomers continued their hot streak of form in theWomen’s60+ Division,securing crucial points in the back end of the season.

In the half-marathon,CoreyMilner started strongly and enjoyed running in atightknit pack early.

Milner closed well to finish in 1hr, 10 minutes, and 18 seconds, just shy of his sub-70 goal.

Richard Ogilvie continued his excellent formwith his 1:13:43, apersonal best overthe distance. Next across was Miles Verschuur (1:18:47) in his road half-marathon debut, clearing the bar of 80 minutes.Greg Semmler and Ian Cornthwaite enjoyed aclose battle, with Cornthwaite clearing out to snare the bronze medal in the 60+ division. Matt Deppeler was next across, followed by Gary Fox, Ian Twite, and Ron Verschuur in quick succession.

The ever-consistent Sarah Lewis (1:28:19) ran under 90 minutes as the fastest female Harrier

Alongside Lewis for muchofthe racewereCourtney Ellis (1:29:31)and Yani Cornthwaite(1:30:05), with Lewis only increasing her lead in the back end of the race. These efforts earned the Division 2team second place. Kate Jones and Anna Cardillo made up theDivision 3team in excellent efforts.

The Golden Boots were awarded to Gary Fox for his excellent AV XCR debut and to AlyshaDuncan for her efforts not only across the season, but also in preparation for her marathon.

RESULTS:

 FEMALE OPEN

21.1km: SarahLewis 1:28:19; Courtney Ellis 1:29:31;Yani Cornthwaite1:30:05;KateJones 1:42:58; AnnaCardillo 1:48:07.5km: Melissa Jones 24:51; Alysha Duncan 26:52; Denise Twite35:21; Ann Bomers36:03

 MALEOPEN

21.1km: Corey Milner 1:10:18; RichardOgilvie 1:13:43; Miles Verschuur 1:18:47; Ian Cornthwaite 1:25:19; Greg Semmler 1:26:55; MatthewDeppeler 1:34:33; GaryFox 1:51:29; Ian Twite1:54:07;Ron Verschuur 1:54:17.

Male 16 -5km: DempseyPodmore17:19.

Male 14 -5km: Seth Bomers29:07

Taking on the famous city Tantrack

ATHLETICS

HARRIERS BY MILES VERSCHUUR

TRARALGON members tackled the famous Melbourne Tan recently.

Unfortunately, all goodthings come to an end, andthe same must be said for the brilliant 2024 XCR Season.

The finalhurdlewas the shortest and fastest round of the season, the Tan Relays. Each runner was to tackle a3.8km loop of the famous running track; starting and finishing along the Yarra River and running up the Anderson Street Hill. Given most had raced the Burnley Half-Marathon only six days earlier, there was plenty of sore legs in both the Harriers and the wider AV field. Rain added to the difficulty, which along with making everybody cold turned the Tantrack into something more akin to across-country course.The spectacle was enhanced by some returningOlympians mixing in with the field. Nevertheless, Harriers entered five very competitive teams to do battle against Victoria’s best.

Division 2Women finished off an excellent season, with Yani Cornthwaite and Alice Miliani running the exact same time of 15:18 to place the team eighth. Sarah Lewis however stormed home, pipping Diamond Valley on the line to secure afourth

placefinishfor both the Tan and the entire season -the team’s highest finish since being promoted from Division 3atthe end of 2019.

Division 3Women saw some excellent racing, with Ree Graham leading out strong, areturning CallieCook,and the ever-improving Mel Jones and Anna Cardillo making for a10thplace finish and an improvedladderposition fromprevious seasons.

Division 3Men were led out by abarnstorming Corey Milner, recording atimeof12:04 for 3.8km.

Salegun Ed Wilsonwas out nextin13:49, handing over to Miles Verschuur (13:04), who madeup aplace, as did DempseyPodmore (12:58). The team was handily anchored by the second-fastest Harrier for the day, Richard Ogilvie (12:37), earning avery respectable fifth place finish and ninth on the ladder.

Marty Lynch started Division 5Men, beforehanding over to Ian Cornthwaite who securedsecond place for the season in the 60+ Men, havingwon gold the previous two season. Clinton Jolly (16:01) put in aconcerted effort, withGreg Semmler bringing the team home in an excellent time of 14:06; seventh for the round and 13th for the season.

Ron Verschuur was the first runner for Division 7, with Denise and Ian Twite,and Seth Bomers joining Ron; all in excellent form.

The last Golden Bootswereawarded to Callie Cook and Clinton Jolly. Alongside these regular awards, Semmlerwas presentedwitha giftof

appreciation for his four years captainingthe side, as were officials Randella Barnes and Gary Fox. Avote was taken for the GoldenBoot of the Season, which Dempsey Podmore won in a landslide. Corey Milner and Seth Bomerscame equal-second.

RESULTS:

DempseyPodmore22:38, Andrew Greenhill23:55, Jerzey Podmore25:19,Adrian Sutcliffe 25:46, David Barr 26:15, Trent Kooyman 26:24, Clinton Jolly26:41, Yani Cornthwaite26:51, ScottSyme 27:17, Chris VanUnen27:36, RonVerschuur 29:19, Angeline Snell 29:43, Andrew Broberg29:45, Gary Fox 29:48, Owen Notting 29:48, Belkey Podmore 30:18, MollyIrvine 30:25, Ashleigh Dugan30:27, Jason Odlum 30:51, PeterSanders30:53, Dave Mann 30:55, Darrel Cross 31:05, DesleyGray 31:26, Giuseppe Marino 32:15, ReeGraham 32:35, KatKent 34:41, ClaireMacumber 35:22, Emma Marino 35:40, Kate Mayer36:28, Phillip Mayer36:28, Catherine Leonard37:11,Mark Lansdown 38:05, Danelle Wright 40:46, Collette Hofmann 41:22, Mandy Ellis 41:23, BarryHiggins 46:00, Andrew Legge 50:00, KathyQuinn 59:45, Michelle Colwell59:45, Kylee Earl1:00:00, Timothy Graham 1:02:12, Kristina Creighton 1:02:25, Kaye Livingstone NTR, Stephen Mcleod NTR, Samantha McGown NTR, JayMcGown NTR

Nothing much can separate local runners

ATHLETICS

HARRIERS BY IAN CORNTHWAITE

TRARALGON Harriers braved brisk conditions during last Thursday’s (September 12) 6km event. Of the 49 participants, standout results were Desley Gray’s 31:26, and the close dualbetween Jason Odlum, Peter Sanders and Dave Mann –just four seconds of separation.

Jason Odlum followed Thursday’s run with atrip to Sydney to participate in the Sydney Marathon,a42.2kmand 25, 000 entrants event aiming to become one of the worlds’ most highly rated marathons.. DempseyPodmore eclipsed the field last Thursday, just twodays before running his fastest Athletics Victoria Tan Relays leg to date. Andrew Greenhill, at his fittest in many years, produced the second-fastest time, with Jerzey Podmore third, continuing the family sporting legacy. Yani Cornthwaite finishedwell-aheadofthe quickest female times, followed by Angeline Snell and the leisurely run by Molly Irvine. The Traralgon Harriers Memorial Run is coming up, and will be held on Sunday, October 20.

This eventraises money for Lifeline Gippsland,and offers 12km and 6km distances.

Those wishing to take part can register on the day by coming downtoLatrobe Cricket Club (MaryvaleRecreationReserve, off Holmes Road, Morwell) between 8.30am and 9am. Minimum $20donation.

RESULTS

 FEMALE OPEN

4x3.83km: (Yani Cornthwaite: 15:18, Kate Jones: 16:36, AliceMiliani: 15:18, SarahLewis: 14:45) 1:01:57; (Maree Graham: 19:57, Callie Cook: 22:57, Melissa Jones: 18:48, Anna Cardillo: 18:05) 1:19:47

 MALE OPEN

5x3.83km: (Corey Milner:12:04, EdwardWilson: 13:49, Miles Verschuur:13:04, DempseyPodmore: 12:58, RichardOgilvie: 12:39) 1:04:34. 4x3.83km: (Martin Lynch: 15:00, Ian Cornthwaite: 14:29, Clinton Jolly: 16:01, Greg Semmler:14:06) 59:36; (Ron Verschuur:18:47,Denise Twite: 26:49, Seth Bomers: 18:02, Ian Twite: 18:46) 1:22:24. Volunteers: Randella Barnes and GaryFox

Together: HappyHarriersteam membersafter theBurnleyHalf Marathon and5km event.

Photograph supplied

White backhome forNBL season

NBL

BY TOM HAYES

TRARALGON basketball export Jack White willreturn to the Australian courts this season, whenthe NBL25 season getsunderwaytomorrow (Thursday, September 19).

In astory that sees White come full circle, he will be representing MelbourneUnited, the teamwhich he began his professional careerwith back in 2020. White signed athree-year contract with United after his college journey with Duke University came to an end.

After goingundrafted in the 2020 NBA Draft, White decided to head back to home shores.

White spent threeyears with United, before testing his trade in the US once again, signing a two-way contract with Denver Nuggets, and its G League affiliate, Grand Rapids Gold.

In the 2022/23 season, White won the championshipwith the Nuggets,beforedeparting, simultaneously entering the 2023 GLeague Draft.

Selected with Pick 1, Whitelanded at South Bay

Locals test their mettle at high quality Sale meeting BASKETBALL

HORSERACING

By TOM HAYES

APODIUM finish was the best resultfor local trainers at Sale Turf Club's meeting last Wednesday (September 11).

An eight-race meet was scheduled on acloudy day that ended with rain, howeverthe track held up all day, rated aGood 4throughout. IT wasn’t until the Race 8Ladbrokes Own Spring 0-62 Handicap over 1732 metres where that podium result was seen.

Ten Downing Street tookthe early ascendancy, and with it trailed Cortain. Both horses held pace, even as the field turned onto the main straight.

Coming in hot was the eventual race winner Nearing Liberty, who was running off pace, and behind himwas his challenger, She’s AHustler.

Cyclone Harmony for Moe’sPeter Gelagotis emerged fromthe midfield on the straight,making his run on the outside at the bend before steaming down the middle of the straight. Meanwhile at the front, Nearing Liberty was doing enough to fend off the efforts of She’s A Hustler, but the two almost appeared too close to call at the line.

Nearing Liberty eventuallycrossed first, only just,by0.06lengths

Cyclone Harmony didn't get close to the leading pair in the end, but comfortably picked up third place, just under two-and-a-half lengths behind,still half-a-length ahead of fourth place.

GELAGOTIS had another horse claim fourth in Race 4s Ralcon Homes Maiden Plate (1732m).

GOLF

CHURCHILL &MONASH

StablefordSaturday7th September 2024.

AGrade Winner: M. Soppe 37 pts

BGrade Winner: G. Harvey35pts

CGrade Winner: J. Thomas 44 pts

D.T.L: 1. A. Auld 36, 2. S. Allison 34, 3. M. Harvey34, 4. P. Kearns 33, 5. J. Soppe 33, 6. D. Byers32, 7. B. Kilday32, 8. G. Barnes 32, Birdies: M. Harvey3rd,J.Soppe 3rd, P. Junker 12th

N.T.P: 3rdPro-Pin:M.Harvey, 5th P. Kearns

12th P. Bolding,14th R.Welsh

Target Hole: R. Madigan

ParTuesday10thSeptember

Winner: M. Hutchinson -1

D.T.L: V. Reid -5

N.T.P: 3rdM.Dear,5thM.Dear,12thL Brent, 14 th S. Caldwell

Birdies: M. Dear 3rd

MIRBOONORTH

Tuesday, 10th September,Stableford, AGrade: TBradshaw(11)39pts

BGrade: JHughes (18) 37pts c/b

DTL: WReynolds 37,NBickerton, T Whitelwa 36 c/b

NTP: 4th TBradshaw, 6th CStanlake, 16th LVisser Birdies: 4th TBradshaw, LVisser,16th N Bickerton.

Saturday, 14th September,Stableford,

Lakers, the GLeagueaffiliate for Los Angeles Lakers, spendingmost of the 2023/24 season on the west coast.

White was given another opportunity at NBA level, taking on a10-day contract with Memphis Grizzlies, butultimately ended without acontract offer.

After that page turned, White decideditwas time to return to Australia, signing atwo-year dealwithMelbourneUnited justamonth after his stint at the Grizzlies.

Now 27-years-old, Melbourne United have agreat asset in White, who not only comes with plenty of ability, but also experience playing in the US for the better part of adecade.

With his addition, you could only expect United to get stronger, after the impressive campaign it dished up last season.

Melbourne United finished on top of the ladder with a20-8win-loss record, finishing three games clear of the second-placed Perth Wildcats.

No one could’ve expected the end to the season however, as the Tasmania Jack Jumpers came from third place to steal the championship in five games (3-2).

White adds to United’s size, who now boast five forwards. White is the shortest of the five, with a recorded height of 198 centimetres (6’6”).

Landing back in Melbourne, White teamed up with former United teammate and ex-NBA champion (2015/16 with Cleveland Cavaliers) Matthew Dellavedova, which onlygoes to show the star power and experience on that roster.

The NBL has beenseen as alanding spotfor those that couldn’t quitefind their grooveinthe US, and also as astepping stone for young, exciting prospects.One thing that tends to be acommon occurrence is the fact that those with experience in the US appear to be head and shoulders above those that don’t.

Withthree ex-NBA champions on their team, Dellavedova, White, and Ian Clark (2016/17 with Golden State Warriors),Melbourne United willbe hoping to right its wrongs of last year and make the most of its top-of-the-ladder finish.

Before the official season gets underway, all 10 NBL teams took part in aweek-long preseason tournament.

White and United faced Cairns Taipans in their firstblitz game, coming out on top 94-87. White

collected 14 points and seven rebounds, as well as asteal and ablock.

United then went down to Brisbane Bullets 111-104 in its second blitz game. Adouble-double from White wasstill notenough, after the big man recorded 17 points and 13 rebounds to go with an assist and asteal.

Melbourne made acomeback in its third and final blitz game, defeatingCairns Taipans 106-100. White was instrumental in the comeback, which saw United come from five points down to win by sixpoints. Whitehad ahand in six of those points.

Leading the United offence, White scored 24 points, almost recording adouble-double with nine rebounds. Adding to his stat line, he collected four assists, two steals, and two blocks.

Melbourne United finished fifthinthe blitz tournament, with two wins and aloss, with Brisbane Bulletsand Perth Wildcats going undefeatedat the top of the table respectively.

United willstartthe season againstthe the Jack Jumpers tomorrowatJohn Cain Arena from 8.30pm.

Captain Hilfigerrosefromthe back of the field to nearly pinchanother podium for the Moe trainer.

Scarywon by three-and-a-quarter lengths, with the initial leading pair of It’sreel and Righteous claiming second and third respectively. Also in the field wasanother Moe-trained product, Levuka for Paul and Tracey Templeton.

The four-year-old mare couldn’t make an impressioninher seventh start, finishing 13th of 14 runners.

LESS luckwas foundbyMoe trainers Allison Bennett, Christine Sexton,and CharlieGafa, who’s collective best result was sixth.

Sexton’s Delightful Journey was that sixth place runner in the Race 6Morelli’s Furniture and Bedtime BM70 Handicap (1615m).

Delightful Journey led for most of the race, taking the field around the bend onto the straight. But the seven-year-old gelding eventually tumbled in the standings.

He fell 4.5 lengths behindbythe time he crossed the line, butwas awfully close to a podium, just under half-a-length behind third place.

In the same race, Dahwilly for Bennett came 10th.

Finishing in 10th place was more of acommon occurrence than usual, with Gafa’s Acey Deucy claiming 10th in the Race 5Bennett Electrical BM64 Handicap (1415m).

Also coming 10th wasSexton’sfirst runner, Among The Trees, who ran in the Race 2Sanlam Private Wealth 4YO+ Maiden Plate (1415m).

There were no local horses running in Races 1, 3, and 7.

Daywinner: DTaylor(27) 36pts

DTL: DJerram 32, MPayne 31, NTP: 4th PDraper,6th NWhichello,16th S Woodall, MOE

Sunday, 08 September 2024 OPEN

Sunday9holeStableford

Grade AWinners: Anderson, Leigh (25) 18

Place Getters: Langstaff, Jay16

Wednesday, 11 September 2024 WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY 9HOLEStableford

Grade AWinners: Lee,Judy (42) 12 C/B

Wednesday, 11 September 2024 WOMEN'S 2PERSON Four-ball

Overall Winners: Leehann Stewart, & Evelyn Mitchell, 65 Place Getters: Thompson, Pat&Dyt, Phyllis,63Borg, Kathy& Wallis,Elizabeth, 61

Nearest to Pin: 4th Evelyn Mitchell, 8th

Christine O'Reilly, 14th KarenShaw

Target Hole Prize: Christine Elliot

Thursday, 12 September 2024 OPEN

Medley Stableford

Grade AWinners: White, Lockie (7) 37

Grade BWinners: Klaver,Mark(13)41

Grade CWinners: Woszczeiko, Bryan(23) 40 Place Getters: Chambers,Jason 39, Dow, William38C/B,Duncan, Glenn 38 C/B,Spiteri, Patrick38, Coffin, Phillip 37, Eastaway,Karl36, WOODALL, Paul 36 C/B,Stirzaker,Jason 36 C/B,Weir,Charles

Latrobe Valley Express, Wednesday, 18 September, 2024

Addition: Traralgon’s Jack Whitewillhopetomakeanimpactwhen theNBL25season begins later this week

SCOREBOARD

36, Byrnes,Jarrad 35 C/B,Gaul, Joshua 35 C/B,Robertson, Jenna 35 C/B,Coutts

Matt35

Great Score: Jamie Lodge (Birdie) @4 Glenn Duncan (Birdie) @14, MattCoutts (Birdie) @8,Laurie Veenman (Birdie) @8, Jeff Condon (Birdie) @4,Maurice Papettas (Birdie) @14, Craig Dunstan (Birdie) @8, Russell Dent (Birdie) @8,Jenna Robertson (Birdie) @4

Nearest to Pin: 4th AnthonyGauci, 8th Matt Coutts,14th Jason Stirzaker

Saturday, 14 September 2024 1st Rnd MENS 4BBB PAR

Overall Winners: Borg, Shannon (5) 0C/B

Place Getters: Pickard,Andrew 0Imer, Corey -2 Stansbury, Les -3 C/B

Nearest to Pin: 4th Laurie Veenman, 8th TerryDonnison

MORWELL

11th September 2024 Women's Stableford

Winner: SKarleusa 38 pts

DTL: CBoers37pts

NTP: 2nd NTePaa 11th NTePaa 15th C

Boers

TRAFALGAR

Tuesday10/09/2024 -Ambrose

Players: 26, Women 3, Men 23

Winners: RobDeVries,Peter Cooke, Ray Williams,Max Pugliese (28 c/b)

RunnersUp: Tony Shearer,Steve Gould, Werner Drescher (28)

DTL: GeoffFallon, Duane Baker,Bev Keily, Nola Fordham (28.25)

NTP: Tony Shearer (13), Hank Fiddelaers (15)

Bradmans: PeterGriffin,Rod Brisbane,Sue DeVries

Thursday: 12/09/2024 -Stroke/Monthly

Medal

Players: 59, Women 20, Men 39

Women’s Winner: Nola Fordham (22)

Runner Up: KarenMacGregor (34 c/b)

ScratchWinner: June Tickell (45 c/b)

DTL: BevKeily(34), Sue Williams (35), Cheryl Toyne (35), SandraBalfour (36), Sue Klemke(36)

NTP: Aija Owen (15)

Bradmans: Sonia Roberts

Men’s Winner: PeterCooke(29)

Runner Up: GeoffThomas (30)

ScratchWinner: Gavin Patchett(40)

DTL: Tony Price (32), AnthonyCunningham (33), Graeme Harris (34), Harold McNair (35), David Balfour (35), GeoffCoulter (35), Hank Fiddelaers(35), SteveKlemke(35)

NTP: NormMether (15)

Bradmans: RodBrisbane

WednesdayWomen's results: 11/9/24

9-Hole Stableford

Winner: Cheryl Toyne (28) with 18 points

Runner-Up: Angela Bayley(23) with 17 points c/b

DTL: Sue Klemke, JennyEvison and Olwyn

Balfour on 17 points and Lorna Risol with 16 points c/b

Friday, September 13th 2024, Open Men’s

&Ladies Stableford

AGrade Winner: Dane Ellwood 37 pts C/B

BGrade Winner: John Dodorico 38 pts C/B

DTL's: Jess McGrath 37,NickRowe37, BrettRobinson 35, Jamie Winter 35, Kurt Batt34, Bob Baldry34, Ryan Wilson 34, Birdies: 5th: Dane Ellwood 11th:Dale Gude 13th:David Winfield, Kurt Batt15th: Wayne Robbins

Saturday,September 13th 2024,Stableford

AGrade Winner: GarryJansen 39 pts

BGrade Winner: Neil Rankin 35 pts

DTL’s: Brad Griffin35, Paul Fogarty34, Josh Clarkson 33, RayWiseman 33, Tony Gray 32, Greg Evison 32, Greg Donohue 32

Photograph: Melbourne United/Instagram

Junior cups shared across LVSL

SOCCER

LATROBEValley Soccer Leaguejunior cup finals were held at the weekend.

Traralgon Olympianshosted asuccessfulevent, which saw juniorteams from across the LVSL compete for cup glory.

Eight of the league's 11 clubs were represented, showing awealth of players coming through the ranks.

The most incredible final was in the under 15s, after the host club won 4-3 in extra time against their neighbouring rivals Traralgon City.

Goals to Archer Mallia and Maurice Baldacchino has Olympians 2-nil up, before Traralgon City pulled one back just before halftime.

Brock Healey scored to put Olympians ahead 3-1 earlyinthe secondhalf, but two late goals from City levelled it at 3-all at the final whistle. Baldacchino scored again in extra time to win the cup for Olympians.

Results from across the grades were:

Under 17: Traralgon City3def Falcons 1

Under 15: Olympians 4def City3

Under 13: City2def Sale 1(Purple Division)

Under 13: Newb/Yallourn3def Tyers1(BlackDivision)

Under 11: Churchill 2def Morwell Pegasus 1(Purple Division)

Under 11: Falcons 2def Pegasus 0(BlackDivision)

Under 11: Falcons 2def Sale 1(WhiteDivision)

Best on ground medals went to:

Under 17: Ben Nicholls (Falcons)

Under 15: Avan McDonald (Traralgon City)

Under 13 Purple: Carter Hammond (Traralgon City)

Under 13 Black: JaiCann (Newb/Yall)

Under 11 Purple: BillyBreheny(Churchill)

Under 11 Black: Ali Mattioli (Falcons)

Under 11 White: Lila Pirotta (Falcons)

Passion: Maurice Baldacchino celebratesafter kicking thewinning goal in extratime forOlympians Photograph: Damen Francis

Champs: TheOlympiansteam with theUnder15s trophy. Photographs supplied unless stated

Strong: Traralgon Citywon the Under 13 Purple Division cup

Congrats: Newborough Yallourntook outthe Under 13 BlackDivision Cup final.

Nice one: Churchill United claimedthe Under 11 Purple Division cupfinal.

Triumph: Archer Mallia holds up the cupfollowing Traralgon Olympians’stunning extratime victoryin the Under 15 Latrobe ValleySoccer League final.

Photograph: Damen Francis

Double dose: Falcons 2000clinchedthe Under 11 WhiteDivision cup final.

Short and sweet success for ace swimmers

SWIMMING

TRARALGON Swimming Club swimmers aged 12

to 18 had asuccessful time at the Victorian State Age Short Course Championships.

Atotal of 29 swimmers took part at the three-day meet, which is the highestperforming competition for short course (25m) racing in Victoria.

More than 1500 of the best age grouperscompeted at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in a challenging Heat-Final format.

Results for the Traralgon Swimming Club were exceptional: 69 finals; 11 Gold; 14 Silver and eight Bronze.

Swimmers broke three Country and four Out of Gippsland records.

Theclubfinished seventh in the overall points score, the 25th year in succession finishing in the Top 10.

Traralgon Swimming Club Performance Coach, Cam Juha, who together with head coach Dean Gooch, were impressed with their charges.

“Individually we hadsome outstandingswimmers.Multiplegold medal winning racers Ash Nicholes, Lockie Bellion, Kayla Wilson and Kody Said were amazing, however we were super excited about the performances of our first time 12-yearolds Milla Said, Aliza Couling and Chloe Rawson who each picked up medals," Juha said.

"The future of the clublooksbrightwith these andother young guns coming through.”

Gooch also spoke highly of the team.

“Overall we had no issues with attitude, effort or determination to perform," he said.

"The swimmers were supportive,encouraging and enthusiastic about their own and fellow team mate results.

"I was very proud to lead this group of young adultstoachievetheir individual and teamsuccess. Twenty-five years of Top 10 finishes by the club is an outstanding and enduring achievement.”

Following the meet. Traralgon Swimming Club

CaptainAsh Nicholes was selected onto the Victorian team to compete in New Zealand next month in athree-waycompetitionbetweenNZ, Victoria and Western Australia swimmers.

Medallists at the ShortCourse Championships were: Ash Nicholes (2 silver, 3bronze), Kody Said (3 gold, 3silver), KaylaWilson (3 gold, 2silver, 1 bronze), Lochie Bellion (2 gold, 3silver, 3bronze), Milla Said (1 gold, 1bronze), Jess Whiting (1 gold),

The world gameunites at the Friendship Games

By LIAM DURKIN

EVERYONE was awinner as special schools from across Gippsland came together for the Friendship Games.

The Friendship Games gives studentsfrom special schools an opportunity to participate in friendly competition matches.

Playedina tournament-styleformat, special schools from as far as EastGippsland journeyed to Newborough/Yallourn Soccer Club for the games.

Students gathered under the clubroom veranda to hear the national anthem, before the ribbon was cut, officially opening the 2024 Friendship Games. Players wasted no time getting into the games, taking to the pitches with enthusiasm and gusto.

All mannerofpositivity was applauded,and every goal celebrated wildly.

The games were rescheduled following recent storm activity in the Newborough area, although the new dateofTuesday,September 10 carried with it some poignancy.

Fittingly,this date felljusttwo daysafterthe Paralympics ended. Perhaps the next Paralympics star was among this year’s Friendship Games.

More than 200 students have participated in the FriendshipGamesannuallysince its inception more than 15 years ago.

The Friendship Games was founded by former Baringa School, Moe staff member Jos Adrichen, who has seen it grow to astage where schools from as far as Wangaratta have come to Gippsland.

Dignitaries including Newborough/Yallourn Soccer Clubofficials, Latrobe City Councillor Sharon Gibson and major sponsors were on hand to show their support, and assist with the running of the games.

Each participant received amedal, atrendy Friendship Games drink bottle and cap.

The Friendship Games receives continued support from Latrobe City, Moe Racing Club and the major power generators.

Brodie Cargill(1silver), Chloe Rawson (1 silver), Aliza Couling (1 silver). Mixed 12-18years4x50 Para-Able Bodied Free Relay-Pat Woolan, Kayla Wilson, Ruby Paulet,Lockie Bellion (1 gold), Mixed 12-18years4x50Para-Able Bodied MedleyRelay -ZaydenBurton, LaraLandels,Lockie Bellion, Kayla Wilson (1 silver) Records

AshNicholes -200IM (2.02.13) -Country16/17 years; previous: Isaac Jones (Warrnambool; 2.02.42 in 2012). Out of Gippsland 17 years/over and Open; previous: Jeremy Meyer(Traralgon; 2.02.58, 2009). 200 Free (1.49.42) -Country 16/17years; previous: Isaac Jones(Warrnambool; 1.49.63, 2012)and Open; previous: his own (1.50.52, 2024) Kody Said -800mFree(8.39.40) -Out of Gippsland and Open; previous: LukeMuir(SGB; 8.48.56, 2019). 1500mFree(16.44.73) -Out of Gippsland and Open; previous: LukeMuir (SGB; 16.47.34,2019)

Beecroft’sParalympic gold has been officially stamped

PARALYMPICS

TRARALGON swimmer Emily Beecroft willget her own Australia Post stamp.

AustraliaPost is celebrating the incredible sporting achievements of the Aussie Paralympic goldmedallists with theirfirst ever official Australian Paralympic Team Stamp.

Beecroft will be one of 25 gold medallists honoured with astamp.

Each stamp is created after the Aussie athletes win gold, with their official Paralympic medal ceremony imagefeatured on each unique stamp

The sheetlet of five stamps will be available online,and at participating Australia Post Office outlets.Australia Post Executive General Manager Retail, Josh Bannister, said the stamp program is ahistoric honour for the Australian Paralympic Team.

“AustraliaPost is proud to supportthe incredible talent in the Aussie Paralympic team and honour our gold medal winners with their own official stamp," he said.

"Recognising athletes on astamp that is accessible to their families and all Australians is aspecial tribute.

“Whether it be in the pool, track, courtside, or on the pitch, Aussies can throw their support behind their favourite gold medallists and take home apiece of history with astamp,sharing the love and excitement for the Paris 2024 Paralympics.”

Paralympics Australia Chief Executive, Cameron Murray said the stamps are more than just asymbolofvictory.

“Australia Post's recognition of our athletes' achievements highlights the incredible impact they have on the nation, inspiring every Australian to dream big and push beyondlimits. We’re proud to see our Paralympians celebrated in such an iconic way," he said.

“Thestamps areawonderful testament to the hardwork, resilience,and extraordinarytalent of ourParalympians.”

The stamps can be purchased at https://auspost.com.au/shop/collectables/ paris-2024-paralympics-games.

Team first: BaringaSchool, Moe students Elijah, Jett,Casey, Max and Blakeare all smiles at the FriendshipGames Photographs: Liam Durkin Squad: Ella, Ellie,Ryan, Declan and Trey proudlyrepresented Baringaatthe Friendship Games

Fishes: Medal winnersand recordbreakers Kody Said and Ash Nicholes Photographs supplied

Great guns: Thegold medal winningrelayteam of Ruby Paulet,Lochie Bellion, PatWoolan and Kayla Wilson of TraralgonSwimming Club

Waiting gamecontinues on legacy projects

COMMONWEALTH GAMES

By LIAM DURKIN

LEGACY projects for the Latrobe Valley from the cancelled 2026 Commonwealth Games are still showing no signs of coming to fruition.

The Latrobe Valley was promised upgrades to local sportinginfrastructure and new social housing by the stategovernment, as compensation after theGames weresensationally scrappedinJuly last year.

However, more than 12 months since then Premier Daniel Andrews made the shockannouncement, citing a$6billion blowout, the waitinggame continues.

Ted Summerton Reserve, Moe, Latrobe City Sports and Entertainment Stadium, Morwell (Falcons Park), Morwell Gun Club, and the Gippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium, Traralgon,wereslatedtohostcricket, rugbysevens, shooting and badminton at the Games.

The state government has confirmed its commitment to delivering legacy projects, but could not pinpoint atimeframe when locals might expect to see shovels in the ground.

“There are arange of projects thatweare delivering,movingstraight into the deliveryof, both in terms of housingcommitments but also too in the sportinginfrastructure upgrades,” Premier Jacinta Allan told this reporter at aconference in her hometown of Bendigo, which was also to be a venue for the Games.

“It speaks to the reason why we looked at the opportunity, becausewewanted to have that

longer term investment in sportingand housing infrastructureand promotingrural andregional Victoria. We are now working on that program.”

In astatement, astate government spokesperson added “We are continuing work to deliver four sporting projects for the Gippsland region-the scope for these projects has been announced and planning is underway."

"In addition to this, our$1billionRegional Housing Fund will deliver morethan 1300new social and affordable homes right across rural and regional Victoria."

Thereare 16 sporting infrastructure projects across the state, as part of the Allan government's Regional Sports Infrastructure Program.

For Gippsland specifically, theprojects arefor:

-GRISS: refurbishing courts and changerooms and upgrading the foyerand broadcasting facilities, to go with new solarpanels andassociated roof loading;

-Ted SummertonReserve: ovalrefurbishment, new changerooms, lighting, scoreboard and sightscreen,and refurbishment of the existing pavilion and new terracing;

-Morwell Gun Club: new shotgun trap shooting range and security fencing, and;

-Falcons Park: new pavilion,changerooms and change pod.Redevelopmentoftwo fields with lighting andupgrades to afurther fieldand car parking.

The oppositionhowever has lashed the proposals, saying projects remain in the realms of fantasy.

The Nationals have consistently referred to the cancellation as the ‘Con Games', and Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath said

locals deserved an answer sooner rather than later.

"The Allan Labor governmentisleavingcommunitiesinthe dark on the cancelled Commonwealth Games legacy projects," she said.

"It’s well over one year since the Games cancellation and Labor's lackoftransparency and accountability is deeply troubling.

"This (last) week in Parliament Iraised the fact that of the 353 documents requested by the Select Committee investingthe Games cancellation, Labor provideda mere three,claiming executive privilege over the remaining 350.

"On July 18 2023, Labor committed to ‘sit down with councilsand communitiestoplanthe next

steps’, however the state government’s silence is deafening.

"Gippslanders were promised sporting and housing legacy projects, but there are no details or delivery timeframes.

"The Latrobe Valley desperately needs social and affordablehousing as well as private developments. Ihave written to the Ministerfor Housing demanding an update, but no answers are forthcoming."

Morwell MP Harriet Shing is Minister for Housing, and was Minister for Commonwealth Games Legacy from December 2022 to July 2023.

Hall of Fame honour for Morwell tennis icon Allison Miller

TENNIS

MORWELL tennis legend Allison Miller (nee Beck) was officiallymadesuch, after being inducted into the Tennis Coaches Australia Hall of Fame.

Miller wasrecognised for herexceptional contributionstothe sport as acoach and player.

Though no longer residing in the Latrobe Valley, her roots in the regionand her influence on Australian tennis remain as strongasever Miller began her tennis coaching career in the Latrobe Valley, and has been coaching for more than 40 years.

Her dedication has inspiredgenerationsofjunior players, with more than 500 students now under her guidance.

Her tennis journey commenced as ajuniorat

Morwell Tennis Club. Millerwon the Traralgon Labour Day Open Ladies Singles Title four times and is anine-time Morwell Tennis Club Ladies Singles Champion. Her achievements include representing Country Victoria against South Australia and securing three Central West Gippsland regional titles, including being aseven-time Latrobe Valley Tennis Association Ladies Singles Champion.

Miller's achievements offthe court are just as impressive.

She has held significant roles in tennis administration, including serving as aTennis Victoria StateSelector and beingalong-timemember of the Tennis Coaches Australia (TCA) Board.

Miller also served as Tennis Victoria Region 11 Central WestGippslandSecretaryfor many years

Miller said she was humbledupon being inducted.

“It’s such an honour to be recognised in this way,' she said.

"Tennishas alwaysbeenahugepartofmylifeand sharing my love of the game with so many young players over the years is incredibly rewarding.

"I feel privilegedtobepart of such avibrant community.”

Her dedicationhas earned her lifememberships at both the Berwick and Dandenong Recreation Tennis Clubs, and she continues to serve as junior coordinator and committee member at Berwick Tennis Club.

Former Morwell Tennis Club President and life member, Darrell White OAM,who has known Miller for nearly 50 years, spoke veryhighly of her.

“Allison’sdedicationtotennisand to our local

Time to tee up for mental health

MEMBER forMorwell,Martin Cameron,will once again host the Tee up for Mental Health Golf Day to raise critical fundsfor mental health supports and programs.

All proceeds from the day will go to Lifeline Gippsland to fundits crisis telephone counselling service, and to Rotary to supportits local mental health projects.

“Lifeline Gippsland experienced a45per cent increase in calls to its 24-hour crisis line during the pandemic, and that surge hasn’t eased off,” Cameron said.

“Lifeline Gippsland receives $150,000 annually from the state government and triagesanaverage of 11,000 calls ayear at acost of $430,000, so the financial shortfall must be recouped through fundraising.

“The crisis telephone line at Lifeline Gippsland provides mental health support for Victorians, so we are raising funds for areally important cause.

“Likewise, Rotary doesa power of workin our communities by donating to mental health initiatives and helping fund mental health first aid programs.

“Our Rotarians selflessly do so much behindthe-scenes in the mental healthspace,especially for young people, which is critical given around

community has been nothing short of exceptional," he said.

"Hercommitment to nurturing young talent and promoting grassroots tennis has left an indelible mark on our region.

"It’s aprivilege to see her inducted into the Hall of Fame; she truly deserves it.”

Theinductionceremony took placeearlier this month at the Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club.

75 percentofmental health issues start between 12-25 years of age.

“This day is awhole lot of fun for agreat cause, so Iencourage anyone interested in playing to register.”

The Tee-up for Mental Health Golf Day will be held at the TraralgonGolfClubonFriday, September 27 and is athree-person Ambrose event.

There are plenty of prizes up for grabs, including $10,000 for ahole in one on the 15th hole.

Registrations are open until September 20.

For moreinformation, phone Ron Elliotton0407 347 470 or email rjelliott05@gmail.com

Ticking: Upgrades aredesperatelyneeded at FalconsParktoaddress its aging facility.

Photograph: Liam Durkin