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Community cars set to roll

● From left: Zsigmond (Ziggy) Balatinacz, Nerissa Carter (Murrindindi Shire Council), Dan Walsh, Keith Davies, Diane Welsh, Dave Manning, Ruth Manning, Tanya Wylie (Community Accessability), Julie Kennedy (Community Accessability), Andrew Blejwas, Laurine Blejwas, Peter Kerr, Greg Harland ■ 'Moving Murrindindi' has hit the road. community who need a low-cost transport opThanks to the team of newly-inducted volun- tion to get to medical appointments, social outteers in Alexandra, Kinglake and Yea, those in ings or other transport hubs. need of transport assistance can now call ComFor more information about Moving munityAccessability Inc on 5721 3045 to book Murrindindi or to join the team of volunteer a lift. drivers, see www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/ The 'Moving Murrindindi' Program con- movingmurrindindi or phone Council on 5772 nects volunteer drivers with senior, less-mobile 0333.

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Sustainable House Open Day ■ Houses with sustainable features such as composting, passive solar design, energy efficient appliances and home food production will be open throughout Nillumbik for Sustainable House Day on Sunday, September 15.

In recent years, many sustainable homeowners and designers in Australia have moved beyond sun-harnessing passive solar to embrace Passive House (or Passivhaus) design.

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energy usage, airtightness, insulation and ventilation.

Others use Passive House principles without becoming certified.

These homes, which will all be open on Sustainable House Day, September 15, are all excellent examples of how Passive Houses can be built in the real world–and they’re more diverse than you’d expect.

To attend, register online ahead of the event: www.sustainablehouseday.com - Contributed

Local News National action

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■ People dying on the roads are a daily occurrence this year, and police from across the country are saying enough.

While one life lost on the road should be too many, it seems that the message of driving safely is not getting through. mThis week all police jurisdictions are coming together to run a national road policing operation.

Known as the National Day of Action, it is taking place as a direct response to the terrible year on Australian roads.

Grants help kids ■ The City of Whittlesea’s Community Development Grants are helping to create a foundation for a better future for students.

Future Foundations Limited, an organisation striving to increase resilience, selfesteem, confidence, communication techniques, and better understanding of emotions in children experiencing disadvantage were one of 17 recipients in round one of the 2019/20 Community Development Grants.

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Local football, netball finals

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● Jilly Hargreaves and Kim Slavin share a laugh at the netball finals.

● Chantelle Farley’s attack is repelled by Kate Broadway (Yea)

● Jess Armstrong (Yea) shoots for goal in the C-Grade final.

● ‘Say hi to your mum for me’: Aaron Prescott in the Seville-Kinglake game.

● Jake Strachan’s possession is challenged by Kinglake’s Ryan Hurst.

● Jason Wathen seems surprised at the altitude he gains in the Kinglake-Seville reserves Final at the Woori Yallock ground.

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Local People Mike in the chair

● Mike Dalmau ■ Mike Dalmau was guest speaker at last week’s Rotary Club of Yea meeting. Mike is chair of the Yea and District Community Bank, having taken over from inaugural chair Gary Pollard.

The Yea and District Community Bank has returned more than $200,000 to the Yea and district community in its 10 years of operation.

The Rotary Club of Yea is a supporter as well as a recipient of a number of grants.

Letter to the Editor Protest rally Sir, Communities from across northern Victoria and southern New South Wales will converge on Tocumwal for what is expected to be the region’s biggest ever protest rally.

Community and farming groups have combined to organise the rally as they continue to protest against a failing MurrayDarling Basin Plan.

The ‘Fix The Basin Plan’ community rally will be held at Tocumwal on the Murray River foreshore on Thursday, September 5 at 11am.

Politicians are not listening to the devastating negative impacts that the Basin Plan is having on the social, economic and environmental fabric of our communities, despite promises they would all be protected.

If we continue along the same path this devastation will only get worse, so we need to fix it now.

People intend to come together in droves at Tocumwal to deliver the message loud and clear that we want action. We were promised a plan that would protect our communities, our farms, our children and our future.

We were also promised a plan that would protect our environment.

It’s failing on every single count. We have a federal Water Minister David Littleproud, who says of the Basin Plan "it is not perfect, but it's the best we have got," it’s the best we can have.

That is rubbish. We are tired of government ignoring the real issues.

We can have an effective, workable plan that looks after the environment as well as our communities; but we can’t have it until Mr Littleproud admits there have been massive mistakes, and commits to fixing them.

Enough is enough. Basin communities are no longer prepared to be the sacrificial lambs while our federal Water Minister plays politics. We do not have to accept second best, despite what he keeps telling us.

We urge people from the Upper Goulburn to make a big effort to attend the rally.

Your support will show that we want a Basin Plan that is based on evidence and facts, protects our river systems, environment and the communities, some of whom are struggling with continuing zero allocation, which would not be necessary if we had effective water policy and management.

We must send a clear message to Water Minister Littleproud and the Federal Government that the only option is to pause the plan and fix it.

- Jan Beer Cheviot Hills, Yea

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Rotarians hear about gardening

● Rotarian Chris Jackson presents Cally Sinclair with her wooden angel.

Photo: Robert Chaffe ■ The Rotary Club of Alexandra, was last week taken into the world of gardening by landscape designer Cally Sinclair from Molesworth.

Cally explained that great gardens are the address by showing safe delivery of elecCally said that it is result of the integration images of gardens in trical power to our most fortunate to have of a number of skills the city and country communities. forward thinking including horticulture, she had helped design.

The recent tree fall- people who have landscape architecSome were in ing incidents ,includ- worked hard to deture, landscaping and Marysville, quite a ing deaths, were velop and maintain landscape design. challenge as the hor- raised and how other- the beautiful trees and Each garden is an ror of the 2009 fire is wise stable trees have gardens in the Shire. expression of the still visible in the sil- been dropping.

Chris Jackson, needs and desires of houettes of the large chairman for the The concern is that the gardener and that dead trees that sur- we may be de- evening, thanked is where the landscape round the town. stabilising our trees by Cally for here insights designer begins with The before and af- our activities includ- into great gardens and the people who will ter images confirmed heavy pruning. as he presented her use the garden. that Cally has a par- ingCally said that with her own “wooden Tailoring a garden ticular gift of undersafety is a major con- angel” made from to the personal needs standing of her clients “mountain ash”, he of a client is a chal- and their situation cern in landscape de- reminded everyone sign, including how lenge as it usually in- when it comes to dethat Rotary is also an volves things that signing the landscape we mange our road active part of the Open verges. people hold dear with in which they live, Rotary’s recent Gardens. a passion, like the old work and play.

Cally said that this work in conjunction year peppercorn tree that During question the open gardens was used as a centre time attention was with the Murrindindi in October will include of family activity in- drawn to the use of in- Shire to replace dead outstanding gardens cluding Easter egg digenous species in and near-dead trees in from Eildon, Thornhunts, to the tree that both public and private Leckie Park is the sort ton and Taggerty that just must stay be- gardens as well as the of proactive garden in- have not been open cause. impact of heavy prun- tervention that should before.

In the modern ing of trees to facilitate be considered.

- Robert Chaffe world, gardens have a vast range of uses from quiet places of meditation and reflection through to spaces to play rough and tumble games with space for a grill and entertaining.

Cally, as the landscape designer, tries to address all these variables while ensuring the garden is robust and sustainable, water use efficient, a wild fire suppressor, exclusion of weed species and the adoption of indigenous plants.

It is inevitable that as her work proceeds an extensive wish list develops that then has to be refined and costed often many times to ensure the whole project is affordable and manageable by the client.

A lot of work needs to be done in the "back room” to design a landscape and create the foundations of a ● Peter Phillips won the Dalhousie District great garden.

Championship. Photo: Alexandra Golf Club/Facebook.

Cally concluded her

Peter wins trophy

Country News Cattlemen ridicule Parks deer cull

● Graeme Stoney ■ The Parks Victoria strategy of bringing in helicopters to reduce deer numbers in the Alpine National Park has been ridiculed by the Mountain Cattlemen’sAssociation of Victoria.

The statement comes following the release of deer harvest numbers from the Game Management Authority, which found record numbers of both deer taken and hunter activity recorded across the state.

“Parks has recently proudly announced it has reduced deer numbers by 119 in the Spring and then 130 in the Autumn using helicopters and back up ground crews,” said Graeme Stoney, President of the MCAV. According to the GMA, estimates of the 2018 deer harvest found that 121,600 deer were taken – an increase from 106,275 in 2017.

The numbers, Mr Stoney said, were in stark contrast to those touted by Parks.

“The pathetic numbers of deer culled by Parks efforts using helicopters have been received with some amusement from our members - clearly they are ridiculous,” he said.

“How much did Parks Victoria spend on helicopters and ground support to harvest a couple of hundred deer when recreational hunters are seen to be doing the job much better?”

Mr Stoney said the Parks strategy was further proof of their ineptitude as a management authority, calling the deer cull exercise “ineffective”, and at “high taxpayer expense with helicopters reportedly costing up to $2000 per hour.”

“Recreational hunting has demonstrated its value not only in pest control, but also as an economic stimulus to those towns on the edge of deer habitat,” Mr Stoney said.

The MCAV believes recreational hunters need to be given not only more incentives to hunt, but also right to access the Alpine National Park with dogs; something that is currently forbidden.

“This would have to be strictly governed, of course, with tracking devices and number limitations, but deer in the High Country is reaching plague proportions – we need to do something now, because if we don’t act it will be too late,” Mr Stoney said.

“One of our members has reported hunters have reduced deer by 300 in one small valley adjacent to the Alpine National Park last season at no cost to the taxpayer.”

It is estimated there are more than one million wild deer in Victoria – with the animals credited with damaging eco systems, destroying National Parks and even causing car crashes in semi urban areas as they move closer to the Melbourne fringe.

“Parks Victoria are concerned about a hundred odd brumbies on the Bogong High Plains, but seem to turn a blind on to literally hundreds of thousands of deer and have no viable solution,” Mr Stoney said.

“There is just not enough being done to control this rampant pest species and encouraging legal recreational hunting is a major part of the answer,” Mr Stoney said.

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A community dinner will be held at the Toolangi Tavern at 6.30pm for 7pm on Friday, September 20. The event is being supported by Murrindindi Shire Council. Bookings are being taken by the Toolangi Castella District Community House.

● Don McLeish and Cindy McLeish Members of the McLeish clan, and members of Yea-Kinglake RSL, gathered this month at the Yea RSL Hall to see long- serving RSL member, Don McLeish, honoured.

With family watching, 97-year-old Don McLeish, a WWII veteran, was presented with 50-year and 60-year RSL Long Service Certificates by Cindy McLeish, MLA for Eildon.

Her late father, Campbell McLeish, was a Yea RSL member. Cindy is Don's niece.

Cindy thanked Don for his service to the nation during war and congratulated him on his long service with the Yea RSL in support of local veterans and their dependants.

"I am pleased to advise also that on August 14, Don became eligible for the National RSL 75 years Long Service Certificate," Cindy said.

Don McLeish joined the RSL on August 14, 1944 during WWII.

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Residents of Royal Cres., Kinglake, are not happy about the condition of their road. A petition is on its way to Murrindindi Shire Council.

● Mother Eden-Elizabeth Nicholls with Bishop John Parkes.

Bishop John Parkes visited Christ Church Molesworth parishioners on Sunday (Aug. 25) for the ‘Blessing of the Fleece’. He was presented with an almond tree.

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A public servant has been lucky to keep their job after making the wild claim of ‘blackmail’ against a prominent local identity. The staffer made the mistake of making the defamatory allegation in writing, and then mistakenly sent the email to the accused. The author’s boss quickly and honourably stepped in to take full responsibility for the snafu. The staffer won’t score any second chances.

Readers’ contributions to the ‘Ticks & Crosses’ column are welcomed.

Send your contribution to: editor@LocalMedia.com.au Contributions will be published at the sole discretion of the Editor.

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Wellness retreat planned for Yea ■ Plans for a $970,000 wellness retreat in Yea - ‘Little Bhutan’ - will be put before Murrindindi Shire Council tonight (Wed.).

The retreat, which plans to include yoga activities, a restaurant and group accommodation, is planned for grazing land at 5393 Goulburn Valley Hwy, Yea (east of Limestone Rd).

It is in a farming zone, approximately 3kms to the east of the Yea township.

A 96-page planning permit application is for land owned

by Sherin Wong. The name of the permit applicant has been redacted from Council documents being presented to tonight’s meeting at Alexandra.

The application was first submitted to Council in November last year.

The applicant is requesting buildings and works including yoga hall, main building (comprising kitchen, lounge etc), meditation hall, five guest villas and a residents dwelling.

■ Kinglake Seniors football team have an AFL Outer East Division Two Semi-Final appointment at 2.10pm Saturday at the Mt Evelyn Football Ground, with access off Tramway Rd, via York Rd.

New President ■ Cam Armstrong is new President of the Yea Tigers Cricket Club. Ryan Akers is taking on the position of Treasurer. Marc Steiner is Senior Head Coach for 2019-20.

Scout Hall works ■ An application for development of the Alexandra Scout Hall site at 174 Grant St, is due to go before Murrindindi Shire Council toght (Wed.). There are plans to develop the hall, reduce car parking and subdivide the land into two lots.

AGM at Kinglake ● An existing barn would be retained on a Yea property at which a wellness retreat is planned.

The yoga studio is the pri- the retreat but will also be open mary purpose of the applica- to the public. tion.

The matter is going before There is provision of 71 car Council because a neighbour parking spaces across the site. lodged an objection.

A two-storey building will “They key issues for include the restaurant. The din- Council’s consideration relate ing hall will have an outdoor to whether the proposal is an eating area capable of seating appropriate form of tourism for 20 people and 30 seats inside the area and whether the pro(50 seats altogether). posal will have an adverse efThe restaurant is intended fect on amenity and agricultural to be used by guests attending activities in the area.”

Countdown to Oaks Day event ■ The Oaks Day event is on again and will be held in Yea on Thursday, November 7 at Beaufort Manor.

Money raised this year will go to the Yea Community Cancer Charity which raises money for local cancer patients to support and help with their journey through their illness.

This year the Oaks Day organisers have been given a $1200 grant from the Yea Community Bank.

The sum of $1000 to go towards hiring the Beaufort Manor, with $200 in vouchers to spend in the local community.

“We are grateful for their generosity and will make our efforts easier to raise money for the local Yea Community CancerCharity,” said one of the organisers, Mary Armstrong.

Cost of the entry will be $50 with complimentary drink (champagne or orange juice).

Local woman Debbie Reading and her team from Debs Delights have been hired to provide a two-course course lunch.

Bookies and sweeps are back again to make it a truly authentic race day.

There will also be raffle and lucky door prizes and there is a collection of items for the silent auction.

Fashions on the Field will be a highlight with two sections and also Best Hat. Drinks will be

■ The Annual General Meeting of the Kinglake Ranges Tennis Club will be held at 7pm on Tuesday (Sep. 3) at the the Kinglake Central clubroom. New committee members are being encouraged to join. Memberships will be available on the night.

Youth Precinct ■ Murrindindi Shire Council looks likely to tonight (Wed.) adopt the draft Rotary Park Playground and Skate/BMX Park Master Plan. Shire CEO Craig Lloyd will be given the task of applying to Sport and Recreation Victoria for delivery of the project in 202021. The Council looks set to allocating a maximum of $379,134 in the 2020-21 budget for the project.

Crowd at funeral

■ A large crowd gathered at St Luke’s Anglican Church on Monday (Aug. 28) for the funeral service of Mrs Joan Purcell, who passed at the age of 97. Mourners proceeded to the Yea Cemetery.

Mrs Purcell was the last of members of the family name in Yea. Other family members - now with other surnames - continue their association with the district.

Caravan park plan

● Ladies pictured at last year’s Oaks Day function held at Beaufort Manor, Yea. available at bar prices throughout the day.

There are hopes for a great attendance.

Tables of 10 for groups are being offered, and there are bookings also being taken for individuals/couples who want to go will be placed on mixed tables.

Tickets will be available at Yea Community Bank (Bendigo Bank) from mid-October. There will be no ticket sales at door. Numbers are requested by Monday, October 28 for catering purposes.

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Grants for local organisations ■ Alexandra Scouts have received a $699 fee reduction for their planning permit application to Murrindindi Shire Council.

A $1398 grant was requested by Council officers, delegated with power to decide on the matter, decied on a 50 per cent approval.

Similarly, the Alexandra Indoor Swimming Pool group received a 50 per cent reuction on their planning and building application fees, $386.90 and $204.23 respectively.

Local Briefs Trip to Mt Evelyn

Further community grant applications will go before the Murrindindi Shire Council meeting to be held tonight (Wed.) at Alexandra.

The Alexandra Community Christmas Tree Festival is seeking $4000 to bring the festival to the town centre.

Foggy Mountain Inc. has asked for $5000 for the ‘Ten Years On - Foggy Mountain Primary School Recording Project’.

Sing and Grow Australia has requested $480 for a mu-

sic therapy program in Eildon.

Each of those three programs have good chances of being approved.

The Upper Goulburn Landcare Network has requested $4530 for the ‘Say Goodbye to Queensland Fruit Fly’ campaign. A recommendation is being put to Councillors to provide $3000.

Alexandra Bowling Club has put its hand up for a $500 sponsorship from Murrindindi Council. This will probably be supproted in full.

■ Improvements totalling $170,000 at the Yea Caravan Park look set to be included in the current financial year’s Capital Works Program of Murrindindi Shire Council.

The reserve’s funds will go into deficit if Councillors agree to the plan, and will be repaid over time by the rental associated with the caravan park lease.

Netball court works

■ A sum of $300,000 for the renewal of the Kinglake Memorial Reserve netball courts will go before this week’s Murrindindi Shire Council meeting.

There are plans to add the project to the 2019-20 capital works program, “including the allocation of $300,000 for the project from the reserve holding residual Victorian Bushfire Recovery and Reconstruction Authority funds”.

Digital agora

■ Over four weekends in September, the townships of Hurstbridge, Eltham, Diamond Creek and St Andrews will be illuminated by the artworks of the Digital Agora. Sixteen artists will present illuminated projection artworks outdoors at night.

Emotions Anon.

■ An Emotions Anonymous International meeting is held every Tuesday at 7pm in the Buxton Community Hall This 12 step program provides a warm and accepting group in which people share experiences, strength and hope without fear of criticism. Everyone is welcome.

Phone Beth, 5774 7555.

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Casting spells ■ Born and bred in Yea, Gina Callander was this month pictured on social media as Hermione from the Harry Potter series.

Gina appeared with the characters Cat In The Hat (Sherryn Hewitt) and Greg (Kellie) as part of National Book Week.

The event was part of the Play And Learn Skills (PALS), a combined kindergym and playgroup for children aged 0 - 5 years of age.

It is delivered by qualified staff from Gippsland Lakes Community Health, at Bairnsdale Early Learning Centre.

Squeaky wheel ■ Kinglake identity Charles Exton this month gave an inter-

Petition filed

■ Flowerdale residents were up in arms 30 years ago about uncompleted road works.

We reported on a petition, from 44 residents, calling for works on the service road alongside the Yea-Whittlesea Rd.

Greg wins again

■ Greg Barker was again named winner of the Yea Football Club Seniors best and fairest award. He was followed by Peter Cunningham, Peter Tunnis, Brendan Dingnam, Greg Bowe, Peter Rollason and Vincent Dignam.

The Seconds voting was Roger Kirkham, Les Gates, Peter McLeish, Jason Pumpa, Gerard O’Dowd, Anthony Aldous and Stephen Lyster.

Pat doubles vote

● Gina Callander (at right) as Hermione (Harry Potter) with Cat in the Hat and Grug as part of Book Week. view with this newspaper about the need for certain projects in his region.

He has collected a petition - with more than 500 signatures for public toilets to be re-installed at the Kinglake Memorial Reserve.

He hopes to present the petition at next month’s Shire meeting.

Interestingly, Mr Exton has been agitating for repair works to be undertaken at the netball courts.

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■ Pat Quinlan doubled the vote og his opponent Steve McGinn in an extraoridnary byelection held by Yea Shire Council. The ‘Glenmore’ manager, 64, won 1287 of the 2006 votes cast.

Lake Mountain

■ The Eildon and Alexandra Tourist Association invited Yea representatives to discuss a combination of Shires forming the Lake and Mountain Region for tourism promotion.

Bush dance

■ Uncle Henry and the Prickly Pears were engaged to entertain at the Bush Dance and Labour Action to be held at the Kinglake Community Centre in aid of the Kinglake Child Care Centre in 1989.

Court call

■ Former National Party state leader Peter Ross-Edwards called on Yea, Alexandra and Whittlesea communities to fight the State Government’s move to close local Magistrates’ Courts.

Seniors say thanks

■ Bett Dolling of the Yea Senior Citizens issued a word of thanks to students from Yea High School for making way at the Shire Hall for the group’s meeting, even though the students were in the middle of rehearsals for Grease.

Litter problems

■ Litter problems in the Yea township dominated discussion at the Yea Development Committee meeting held in the Council chambers. “This is not just a Shire Council problem; this is also your problem as a retailer in the street,” said a circular to traders.

Show’s role

■ The Whittlesea Show Society believes the education of both full- and part-time farmers was an important role it must play, wrote Walter Mott, Senior Vice-President of the WhittleseaAgricultural Society in 1989.

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Glamp away ■ Sonya and Paul Herges from Sedona Estate, Murrindindi, want to introduce ‘glamping’.

The galmourous camping option goes before the Murrindindi Shire Council meeting tonight (Wed.).

Threee glampinmg tents are proposed, however an objection has been received from a neighbour (to the west) of the Shannons Rd property.

An officer recommendation to Councillors suggests that the permit be allowed.

Grounds of objection include disturbance of nearby livestock, traffic impact, visual impact, potential for bushfires, and potential for wastewater to impact adjoining dams.

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BP emblem

● A 1908 on the easetrn outskirts of Yea, heading towards Molesworth.

Photo courtesy of Alan Thorley, Yea and District Historical Pages.

■ Susan McCormick, a Yea High School student, achieved Guiding’s highest achievement with the presentation of the BP emblem.

The Kinglake resident, then 15, began working for the badge at the Kinglake Guides which had disbanded when Jenny Beales left the area.

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Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens ARIES: (March 21-April 20) Lucky Colour: SILVER Lucky Day: TUESDAY Racing Numbers: 1-2-1-9 Lotto Numbers: 1-12-19-25-28-37 More opportunities and scope to push career plans. Some may have doubts about existing relationships. Wise to leave things the way they are for the moment. Social scene brings some unusual invitations.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20) Lucky Colour: YELLOW Lucky Day: WEDNESDAY Racing Numbers: 2-4-3-4 Lotto Numbers: 4-13-22-31-39-40 Friends could try to meddle in your private affairs if you let them. Your ideas could be spot on, so use your own intuition for the best result. Most will be more in demand on the social scene.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21) Lucky Colour: PINK Lucky Day: WEDNESDAY Racing Numbers: 4-5-3-2 Lotto Numbers: 4-13-22-31-32-42 Don't rush into any romantic encounters on the side or you will be found out. Health is important, so look after yourself. Most will be feeling more aggressive and pushing their point of view across at work and this could make things happen.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22) Lucky Colour: WHITE Lucky Day: SUNDAY Racing Numbers: 5-1-6-5 Lotto Numbers: 5-14-22-26-35-41 Emotionally a rather intense period and most are inclined to overspend to keep their loved one happy. New opportunities to gain financially are indicated.

LEO: (July 23-August 22) Lucky Colour: RED Lucky Day: SUNDAY Racing Numbers: 5-1-8-9 Lotto Numbers: 5-11-18-30-35-43 Financial gain and surprises are in store. Many visitors are indicated, so keep plenty of drinks in the fridge and make sure you don't overindulge.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23) Lucky Colour: NAVY Lucky Day: WEDNESDAY Racing Numbers: 3-6-4-1 Lotto Numbers: 3-12-18-30-36-42 Travel is indicated and should be happy and entertaining. Most problems will resolve and past contacts delight many.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23) Lucky Colour: ROSE Lucky Day: FRIDAY Racing Numbers: 1-4-6-2 Lotto Numbers: 1-14-25-30-34-43 Most will be able to influence others to their way of doing things. More travel than usual is indicated. Answers to mysteries and the tying up of loose ends. Real estate dealings could be profitable.

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Petition to seal Saleyards Street ■ A petition submitted by Philip Armstrong, and signed by 19 people, is urging Murrindindi Council to seal Saleyards St, Yeda.

The petition is due to be tabled at the Council meeting tonight (Wed.) atAlexandra.

A Shire officer is recommending that the petition by referred to Stuart McConnell, Council’s Director of Assets and Development, for a report to be prepared for the September 25 meeting.

“Council permitted the initial subdivision of blocks on Saleyards St to proceed without imposing a sealed road c ondition on the developer,” says a report to Councillors.

Increased traffic volume is expected on the unsealed section of Saleyards St following Council’s recent approval of a planning permit for the Smith St subdvision, it is argued.

“The dust created by the existing traffic on Saleyards St is impacting on the health and wellbeing of the current residents,” the petition argues.

“It is anticipated that this will only become worse with higher traffic flows.”

● Saleyards Street, Yea. Image: Google Maps.

Councillors are being ad“Saleyards St is the only vised that the “existing contrac- street north of Smith St,” the tion standard of Moyle St” will report contends. accomodate the additional eight “Nowhere in this report does new dwellings that will require the Council’s Development access from this road (Moyle Engineer give an opinion as to St)”. the suitability of Saleyards St Notes prepared by the to accommodate additional trafCouncil’sd Development En- fic traffic requiring access to gineer say that”no aiitional the four allotments proposed off contribuitions will need to be Smith St”. made by existing residents to Councillors are due to vote the north of Smith St”. at tonight’s meeting.

Access to mental health services

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22) Lucky Colour: PINK Lucky Day: THURSDAY Racing Numbers: 1-5-1-2 Lotto Numbers: 3-12-15-16-33-43 Travel should be more interesting than is usual. Good news should reach you soon. Christmas should bring many happy surprises, however do not repeat gossip.

SAGITTARIUS: (November 23- December20) Lucky Colour: BLUE Lucky Day: THURSDAY Racing Numbers: 2-2-7-6 Lotto Numbers: 2-11-20-27-29-38 Many will be renewing relationships and friendships.

Many will be attracted to the unusual and someone with a hint of mystery could take your attention. However, some may not be able to handle the pace.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20) Lucky Colour: WHITE Lucky Day: TUESDAY Racing Numbers: 3-2-8-3 Lotto Numbers: 12-21-30-38-39-40 Others will be trying to influence you around to their ideas. However, you could surprise all with your own ability to expand your business and aims. Believe in yourself when it comes to going after your own ambitions.

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Mayor welcomes Summit visitors

● Cr Sandice McAulay welcomed delegates to the Visitor Information Services Summit held last week at Holmesglen @ Eildon.

■ More than 100 tourism industry delegates from around Victoria visited Murrindindi Shire for the Visitor Information Services Summit held from Wednesday to Friday (Aug. 21-23) at Holmesglen @ Eildon.

Murrindindi Shire Council Mayor, Cr Sandice McAulay, said the Summit included a number of 'Discover Dindi' study tours for delegates to see and learn about the fantastic natural attractions and tourism businesses in the Shire.

"The Victoria Tourism Industry Council's Visitor Information Services Summit is the annual meeting for all visitor information services personnel, economic development staff and regional tourism bodies,” Cr McAulay said.

“Delegates from all over the state come together to be inspired and exchange ideas through professional development sessions, case study presentations, keynote addresses and study tours.

“It's all about delving into the customer experience of tourists using visitor information services, like Visitor Information Centres.

"Thank you to the local businesses, including Sedona Estate, Bonfire Station and Fallon's Bus Service, who supported the Summit with local produce and services, as well as those involved in our study tours - we couldn't have done it without you," Cr McAulay said.

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CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19) Lucky Colour: BLUE Lucky Day: MONDAY Racing Numbers: 3-3-2-1 Lotto Numbers: 3-12-21-26-30-39 Friends could provide an excellent financial opportunity.

Old friends get in touch and most will feel more like socializing. Financial y a lucky period for you.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19) Lucky Colour: GREEN Lucky Day: SATURDAY Racing Numbers: 1-8-9-2 Lotto Numbers: 9-18-24-34-36-42 A period of rewards and surprises coming up. Most will gain more responsibility and harder work, but the rewards should be worth the effort and some could expect a financial windfall.

Murrindindi Matters

■ Police remain tight-lipped about their ongoing investigation about an incinerated human body which was found in a burn-out car near the Murrindindi Rd-Camp Creek Rd corner. Emergency service volunteers assisted Police at the accident scene.

Kinglake awards

● Michelle Dunscombe and Yan Yean MLA Danielle Green (at front) with Kinglake community members at last week’s announcement ■ Yan Yean MLA Danielle Green last week and NorthWestern Mental Health services,” Ms ventured into the Eildon electorate to announce Green announced in a statement. increased access to mental health services.

“Catchment boundaries in Murrindindi were She said Murrindindi Shire residents will first relaxed in 2009 following the deadly Black be able to access mental health services from Saturday bushfires and these changes will mean Austin Health, Goulburn Valley Health and residents can continue to get care close to home.

Melbourne Health untilApril 2021.

“The Royal Commission into Victoria’s In the past, Kinglake residents have been Mental Health System will comprehensively exsent as far as Shepparton, rather than to nearby amine the current systems’ strengths, limitations Melbourne services. and challenges including timely access to men“The Murrindindi local government area tal services for all Victorians. falls within the Goulburn Valley Health catch“The Government will implement all the ment, however residents in towns in the south of Royal Commission recommendations, with an the LGA like Kinglake, are geographically interim report due in November, said Ms Green closer to services provided by Austin Health in the statement.

■ Kinglake Ranges Neighbourhood House were joint winners of the Collaboration Award with Ellimatta Youth for the Employment and Enterprise Program in the Learn Local Awards.

Probity officer

■ Strathbogie Shire Councillors have made the decision to engage an independent probity officer to oversee the Chief Executive Officer recruitment process.

The probity officer will provide objective scrutiny of the recruitment process and whether the prescribed probity requirements have been followed. The Council wants to provide community assurance.

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Sport Extra Thornton-Eildon District FNC

■ From humble beginnings in 2018, finishing bottom of the ladder the the division with only a couple of wins under the belt for the year, 2019 saw huge growth and constant improvement for the Thornton Women’s Football team in 2019.

With Allan Dunlop as coach, with experienced Tash Hay as captain guiding the girls throughout the whole journey in 2019 with a group of fun, inclusive and inspiring women meant the hard work on the training track plus some patience with skill development saw the team rewarded with a finals berth this year.

Our team greatly appreciated the sponsors of TEDFNC in particular Simpsons, Tyre Power and Jelmac.

Without sponsorship our club could simply not be able to provide opportunities for these women. ★ The run down by coach Allan Dunlop: The Thornton girls travelled to Upwey for their Preliminary Final showdown against Monbulk.

The girls came out hard and took it up to the much-fancied Monbulk, after a hard hitting open quarter onlyone1 point separated the two teams.

Monbulk were able to string a couple of goals together in the second quarter to come into the main break a couple of goals in front.

Thornton were forced to make some changes at half-time and came out swinging hard.

Kelly Fitzpatrick was thrown forward with almost instant results, despite spending much of the quarter in attack.

The Thornton girls broke even; 13 points separated the two teams at the final change.

A quick centre break and Yolanda Vinycomb was able to snap a goal in the first 20 seconds of the quarter. With eight minutes left on the clock only six points separated the sides.

However Monbulk were able to break through our incredible defence and kick a goal with only minutes left.

Monbulk held on to win the game by 13 points. Despite the loss, this group of girls have done them and their club very proud, a Preliminary Final in only their second season has been a magnificent achievement.

The club is filled with excitement as to what 2020 could bring. ★ The excitement and high spirits, despite the loss is truly inspiring, especially reading personal posts from players this year post game with really encouraging for the future of this club.

Many are appreciative of the diversity of being able to play netball, and football.

They value the men’s teams support especially during games with volunteers and the cheering during finals.

This team proves celebrating small gains builds momentum, and the pay off on the scoreboard start to show.

Congratulations to the 2019 season at TEDFNC and we really look forward to a huge year in 2020.

- Sarah Stevenson

Local News Healthy creek ■ Nillumbik Shire Council and Bio2Lab are working with local businesses to protect the health of the Diamond Creek waterway by preventing stormwater pollution.

The Stormwater Pollution Education Program is a new initiative between the Council and Greensborough-based data analytics company Bio2Lab, focussing on the Eltham Industrial Estate area.

Legacy Week ■ Legatees in Mansfield, Alexandra and Yea are preparing for the annual Legacy Appeal conducted during Legacy Week, September 1-7. Phone Legatee Sam in Yea, 0459 572 132.

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Court Lists Seymour Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Thursday, Septemebr 5 Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division.

Victoria Police - Bennett, J (42868) v Coleman, David John. Uni-Sunshine Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Knight, Rhys Daniel.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Kamali, V (42448) v Gargan, James. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Dadic, M (44702) v Ellis, Peter Francis.

Pcet-Williamstown Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Galea, Chantal Marie. Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Taylor, Justin Paul.

Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Stephens, S (32520) v Gordon, Michael.

Uni-Stawell Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Benmasaud, Nathan Timothy. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Paterson, S (41989) v Johnson, Cameron.

Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Collinson, Peter. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Capan, Shaun Mladen. Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Nicholson, Dylan.

Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Oraha, Y (42872) v Eastick, Carmen.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Masson, T (38689) v Tassell, Travis Alexander. Central VictoriaSocit Victoria Police - Pezzimenti, P (32040) v Murphy, Nicole Denise. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Pezzimenti, P (32040) v Reddy, Vinod. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Moon, Jenny. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Bennett, N (36915) v Gargan, James. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Gordolo, C (30144) v Hall, Neil Russell.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Hall, Neil Russell.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Jensen, Sandy. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Hall, Neil. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Callaghan, G (28288) v Mcdonald, Colin Howard. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Blaschko, D (21098) v Lunney, Sarah Joan. State Highway Patrol South East Victoria Police - Garbutt, E (35708) v Bailey, Michael.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Harvey, J (31671) v Baldock, Jason. UniWallan Victoria Police - Garbutt, E (35708) v Hunter, Jamie. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - O'neill, J (40075) v Copulos, Christopher.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Bova, L (31851) v Johnston, Brendan.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Bova, L (31851) v Johnston, Brendan.

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(42448) v Tebble, Michael.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Webster, B (41109) v Tant, Christopher.

Uni-Whittlesea Victoria Police - Mullett, K (39188) v Bux, Jamie. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Whelan, A (31847) v Webb, Justin Thomas. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Rider, Danielle.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Hall, Neil Russell.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Houguet, B (40313) v Valentine, Stephen William.

Victoria Police - Bortolotto, C (40740) v Turner, Matthew Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Haber, Brad Christopher. Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Paul, L (32960) V Stevens, Jan. UniEuroa Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Biddlestone, Jake.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Best, Michelle Louise. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Vella, S (43453) v Duke, Scott Daniel.

Uni-Knox Victoria Police - Wright, B (36938) v Woodberry, Leah.

Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Shortt, T (40203) v Pollard, Warren. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Cavanagh, J (38037)v Springall, David John. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Cartledge, M (35878) V Willett, Allan Russell. Uni-Epping Victoria Police - Haddad, M (44362) v Biddlestone, Jake.

Pcet-Seymour Victoria Police - Tait, W (37033) v Springall, David

John. Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Mcclure, R (40291) v Rocke, Arron. UniCobram Victoria Police - Mcclure, R (40291) v Rocke, Arron. UniCobram Victoria Police - Varnam, H (41854) v Biddlestone, Jake.

Ciu-Banyule Victoria Police - Bending, S (39833) v Springall, David.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Turner, J (34532) v Borell, Keenen. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Dawson, Donald.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Tait, W (37033) v Taylor, Christopher John. Uni-Nagambie Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Pollett, Leah. Community Corrections Centre Victoria Police - Turner, J (34532) v Doran, Elisha. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Richardson, David.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Webster, B (41109) v Holloway, Dianne Jillian. Uni-Kilmore Community Corrections Centre - Enright, Cv Byrne, Danial. Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections Centre - Peacock, T v Vale, Thomas. Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Webb, Justin. Seymour Community Correction Centre Environment Protection Authority - Ryan, M v Byriell, Geoffrey Noel. Environment Protection Authority Victoria Police - Garbutt, S (33632) v Love, Clinton. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Webb, Craig. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Stephens, S (32520) v Gordon, Michael.

Highway Patrol-Northern Grampians Victoria Police - Coleman, R (39955) v Molnar, Paul. Ed3 Tasking & Coordination Victoria Police - Thornton, A (41692) v Webb, Justin Thomas. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Brown, R (27257) v Henne, Jessica. UniKinglake Community Corrections Centre - Peacock, T v Biddlestone, Jake. Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Pollett, Leah. Community Corrections Centre Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Pollett, Leah. Community Corrections Centre Friday, September 6 Victoria Police - Ziebell, K (39453) v Rohde, Dale. SocitSeymour Victoria Police - Fraser, P (35913) v Rohde, Dale Gregory. Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Rohde, Dale. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Raynor, D (38224) v Mahon, Glen.

Victoria Police - Sanderson, L (41694) v Rohde, Dale Gregory. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Swanwick, Belinda. Office Of The Chief Commissioner

From Our 1919 Files

Meetings allowed

■ The ordinary monthly meeting of the Eltham Shire Council will be held on Monday next.

The influenza restrictions in the Whittlesea Shire were lifted on Tuesday last, and public meetings can now be held.

- The Advertiser

Red Cross workers

■ The fifth annual meeting of the Yea branch Red Cross Workers' Society was held on Saturday afternoon, 9th August, General regret was expressed at the absence, through illness, of the President, Mrs. E. S. Purcell, Mrs, J, W, Hamilton was asked to take the chair. It was moved by Mrs. Tosh, seconded

by Mrs Dalesy, that the SocIety continue to work until the material on hand a is exhausted.

- Yea Chronicle

Memorial at Yarck

■ A meeting was held in the Yarck Public Hall on Saturday night last, convened by Mr Nicholson, to consider the erection of a memorial to fallen soldiers.

Mr Nicholson occupied the chair. Crs Lade (president of the shire), J. Baker and W Knowles attended to place before the meeting what had been done in Alexandra for such an object. Cr Lade took with him designs and specifications submitted to the Alexandra committee, but he was not asked to put them on the table.

- Alexandra Standard

Medals for soldiers

■ A public meeting, convened by the President of the Shire, was held in the Shire Hall on Tuesday night, for the purpose of considering ways and means in connection with the presen tation of medals to returned nurses, sailors and soldiers.

Cr. A, McLure occupied the chair, At the outset Mr. J, G. GMacdonald suggested that the proposals of the Welcome Home Committee should be placed before the meeting, and if no other better suggestions were forthcoming the meeting might forthwith adopt them, Mr. S. Dodgshun, secretary of the Welcome Home Committee, read out the suggestions approved by the Wel come Home Committee.

- Yea Chronicle

Battery starts

■ The Minister of Mines (Hon. S. Barnes) will officially open a battery at Queenstown to-day (Friday). The Minister will be accompanied by Mr. Dickson (Secretary for Mines) and Mr. W. H. Everard, M.L.A. The party will be entertained by local residents. The establishing of a battery at Queenstown should be an incentive to further mining operations in the district. Very encouraging reports are to hand of the mine working at One Tree Hill.

- The Advertiser

Mrs Scorah dies

■ On July 30, a well-known and highly respected resident of Thornton passed awayin the person of Mrs F Scorah. The de ceased lady died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs D. McDonald, of Ascot Vale. The late Mrs Scorah was a colonist of 67 years, having arrived in Australia in 1852.

- The Advertiser

Ruffy welcome

■ There was a bumper house at Ruffy hall on Friday, August 8, the occasion being a welcome home and presentation to WarrantOfficer T Nolan, M.M, Privates T Dwyerand I Rowan, all of whom looked fit and well.

Visitors were present from Euroa, Creighton's Creek; Locksley, Tarcombe and Highland.

Cr Maygar ably filled the office as chairman.

- Alexandra Standard

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Joan Margaret Campbell Purcell ■ Joan Purcell was fondly remembered at a service held on Monday (Aug. 26) at St Luke’s Anglican Church, Yea. Family friend Neil Beer delivered this tribute: Joan was born on Sunday, May 28, 1922 at Travancore Hospital in Holmes Rd, Moonee Ponds.

Her mother was Ann Marie (nee Booth) and father Frederick Houghton Gentles who fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front from 1914-1918.

Fred, as some here will know, lived to just short of his 100th birthday.

Joan was the eldest of 3 girls, her younger sisters being Jacqueline (sometimes called Shirley) and Judith.

She began school at Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School in Essendon at 4¾ years of age and spent the whole of her school life at this school.

All her life Joan was an outgoing, talkative , vibrant personality and as her childhood and best friend for 79 years, Shirley Lawrance, always said "Joan should have been on the stage".

The friendship between Joan and Shirley began at Lowther Hall when they were 11 years old. They became and stayed best friends for 79 years.

Joan adored attending parties, Pantomines and the theatre: this led to her to playing in amateur theatrical performances at the Princess Theatre and His Majesty's Theatre, with also a turn on the ABC with Bruce Beresford.

At school Joan was involved in pageants and plays, basketball, tennis, athletics, baseball and after school, horse riding.

At seven years of age, Joan was given her first pony and would ride from her home in Essendon through the paddocks to Bulla, Oaklands Hunt Club each Saturday.

As she progressed to bigger horses she also suffered a few falls, breaking her collarbone at 13 and when she was 17 breaking her leg very badly with a compound fracture of the tibia and fibia.

Joan's Uncle Sier had white ponies which she rode in various classes at Melbourne Royal and Sydney Royal Show - in saddle pony classes and led classes.

She also rode in country shows and made many country friends She went to her first race meeting when seven years old at Moonee Valley, and later in life loved to watch the races on TV. When Joan left school she began a three-year course in Dietetics at Emily McPherson, which led to a one-year Science course at Melbourne University, as her aim was to gain a Bachelor of Science.

However her ambitions were cut short due to the badly broken leg sustained when her horse clipped a fence and fell and due to the outbreak of WWII. Her Dietetics course was temporarily suspended and by the end of the war her life had changed from city living to living in the country.

In the meantime whilst recovering from her broken leg, Joan came to visit Shirley Lumley (Lawrance) in Yea, whose family had taken up running the Grand Central Hotel.

Her visit was to be for three weeks but she ended up staying for three months, and it is during this time that

● Joan Purcell she met her husband to be, Harold. needed in Yea , so she held a meetOf course as these were the war ing in her home to get things started years there were many balls and - four people attended, and then adfundraising efforts for the teenagers vertised publicly a bigger meeting to attend and it is during this time with the result that in 1954 the first that Joan met her husband Harold - school in the old Miller St building Joan said "he was coming down the began.

From then on, with Joan at the stairs at the Shire Hall as we were walking up and he obviously liked forefront, there was lots of what he saw" and so they talked fundraising and dedicated hard work and Val Borrie appointed as the away the evening.

Joan then began working in the teacher.

As of this year the pre-school will Supply Laboratories Physics Section in Melbourne and remained in have been in existence for 65 years this employment until 1945, living in all due to one little lady's determinaMelbourne after she had married tion.

We now know it as the Yea Hal until the end of the war.

Joan and Harold married July 4th Childcare Centre, which has been (American Independence Day) 1942 essential to the early childhood at Christ Church, Essendon, on a growth of so many local children.

Joan was a great believer that the cold wet windy day with only three days’ notice to organise everything war years were the beginning of as that was when Harold had leave. Women's Liberation, with women They managed three days honey- having the freedom to earn their own living, travel overseas, gain a higher moon at Beaumauris.

In 1945 they returned to Yea pur- education and enrol in University chasing 'Outlook' in Smith St. Yea, courses.

Joan had a strong religious faith where they spent all their married life, producing three baby-boomers: and lifetime involvement with the Church.

Helen, Margaret and David.

She was heavily involved in the So a busy married life in Yea began, with Harold returning to work CWA, with state music and drama, in the family business E.S. Purcell started CWA Night Branch, was Up& Co. and running with his brothers, per Goulburn Group President for the family properties, Sheoak, two years, on the CWA State ExecuBeaumanto and Highlands with tive and given Life Membership of Joan supporting him in his many CWAVictoria.

Eighteen years as a member of community activities.

Not content with the workload of the Girl Guides Association of Vic., raising three children, Joan partici- involved in re-writing a Brownie pated in a large and varied number Guide Book for Australian Brownies. of organisations She assisted in the formation of She decided that a pre-school was

● Bob and Shirley Lawrance with Joan and Hal Purcell.

Young Farmers in Yea, and also the to keep in touch with so many famearly formation of the Baby Health ily and friends.

Centre.

We often laughed at the risqué Joan held office in the Yea Pri- jokes Joan would send on and thought mary School Mothers’ Club, mem- how very with it and modern she was ber of Yea High School Mothers’ keeping up with this latest technolClub, Church of England Guild, Li- ogy. ons LadiesAuxiliary, RSLAuxiliary, She loved the fact that she could Yea Fire Brigade Auxiliary, Red enjoy being in touch with the exCross, and Yea Hospital Auxiliary. tended family no matter whether She represented Yea on Austra- they were in Australia or travelling lianAssistance Plan, was judge of the world.

Rotary’s high school competitions, Joan was so very proud of the member of the Yea Liberal Party, achievements of her three children Judge of Regional and Yea Sun and their partners, her five grandShow Girls, and taught religious in- children and six great grandchildren, struction at Primary School. and we often heard of the latest anJoan was also involved with the tics and funny things the great local Pony Club and was radio an- grandkids had said and done. nouncer at the Yea Show for many Joan said: "I have had a very years. comfortable life and am so blessed I fondly remember in the 1970s, be surrounded by loving friends, when I worked in Lilydale travelling to grandchildren, great down from Yea each day, picking family-children, grandchildren and Joan up from Smith St at 7.30 in the living so close by."with my children morning so she could travel into the She loved going out with the girlscity by train.

The car radio was always tuned Helen and Margie, and of course, to 774, however by the time we shopping. It wasn't a day out if you reached Murrindindi Station, the couldn't shop.

It was so like Joan to tell the chilradio was turned off as I was entertained by Joan for the remainder of dren to wait a week for her funeral after she passed away. the journey.

When they asked why Mum? Joan relished having long meaningful conversations and very much Joan replied "You can't expect enjoyed her discussions with her son- people to just drop everything to in -law Richard Ivey on the English come to my funeral."

The information in this eulogy has language and grammar. She was devastated when Richard passed mainly come from a journal that Joan wrote and in which she said: away very suddenly in 2014.

In 2004 Joan decided that she "Life is like a tapestry - the silk shinneeded to downsize from the large ing, gay colours of every hue, a glimrambling house with wonderful mering kaleidoscope.

“A knot or two, some tiny, and views up on Smith St. After spending seven years in her one or two large ones, where you neat brick home in Snodgrass St , have tried to cobble the strands toshe made her own decision to move gether". to Rosebank in 2010.

Joan was loved and treasured by Joan loved her IPad and was very so many in her community ... a long grateful to young Richie for getting live well lived. her going on it at the age of 81 and “We will miss you so very much keeping her updated as it allowed her Joan.”

● Grand-daughter Caroline Purcell with Joany at the Yea Show.

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Joan’s life of family, community service

● Joan Purcell (at right) celebrated her 96th birthday at the Peppercorn Hotel, Yea, and was joined by great-grandson Jack, grandsons Richard and David, daughters Helen and Margaret (with grandson Fynn) and son David.

● Lady Delacombe meets Joan Purcell. Governor’s visit, circa 1964.

● Thanks to Amanda Taylor (Mandy Lawrance) and Scott Lawrance for help with this photo feature page of the life and times of Joan Purcell.

● Shirley Lawrance (nee Lumley) and Joan Purcell (nee Gentles) at the Royal Melbourne Show. Circa 1940s.

● Jan Beer and Joan Purcell.

● Harold Purcell and Owen Jackson at a Yea Water Board meeting.

● Fr Thomas Leslie of St Luke’s Anglican Church with Joan Purcell.

● Joan Purcell was proud of great grandsons Jack and Fynn.

● Joan Purcell offers a word of encouragement to Chris Lawrance.

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Local Theatre A Study of Being

■ In her first self-produced contemporary dance work, emerging artist, Kayla Douglas takes the messiness of the human experience and places it against the clinical backdrop of a laboratory like environment.

A Study of Being will be presented from September 25-28 at 8pm at Dancehouse in the upstairs studio.

Arising from the desire to understand the meaning of this existence, the work takes the ‘human being’ and places it under a microscope to be examined.

Found in a humanoid state, more machine than man, the subjects develop a greater sense of human essence through their investigations into what it means to ‘be’.

They are deconstructed, tested, analysed and reassembled again in order to try to better understand their purpose and significance.

Through a feat of human movement the subjects swarm together in dynamic unison and draw apart in striking individuality.

The work shifts from being physically high impact to incredibly heartfelt as they tap into the authentic intricacies and complexities of the human condition – testing both their physical limits and emotional capacity.

“We as human beings have this intense desire to feel like we are significant,” says Douglas.

“When I was younger I would often think about why I existed, why any of this existed and what might have been here instead if we didn’t.

“As I got older I started to accept that maybe, by chance, we just do and that we instead attach meaning and significance to our own lives.

“This particular work has been in my mind for years and I think it’ll continue to be for the rest of my life.

“As is our human nature I don’t think we’ll ever stop searching for answers to these questions because there has to be more to this life than merely existing … right? ” Performance Dates: September 25-28 Times: 8pm (50 minutes) Venue: Dancehouse – Upstairs Studio, 150 Princes St, Carlton North Tickets: Full: $25 | Concession: $20, Fringe Dwellers, Fringe Binge Bookings: http://dancehouse.com.au/performance/performancedetails.php?id=340 or melbournefringe.com.au/event/a-study-ofbeing/ - Cheryl Threadgold

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Kinky Boots opens

● Brodie King, Ben Hamilton, Tanner Thomsen and Bryce Gibson (Lola’s Angels) in Kinky Boots in Cranbourne. Photo: Wayne Smith ■ The Cardinia Performing Arts Company rescue his family business, unexpectedly find(CPAC) presents Kinky Boots until September 8 ing inspiration in the form of drag queen Lola. at the Cranbourne Community Theatre.

Charlie discovers that when you change your This dynamic musical tells of Charlie Price mind about someone, you can change your whole inheriting his father’s shoe factory, which is on world?. the verge of bankruptcy.

Performance Details: Until September 8 Torn between joining fiancée Nicola in LonVenue: Cranbourne Community Theatre, don for a new life or returning to his hometown Brunt St, Cranbourne to save his father’s dreams, Charlie chooses to Bookings: www.cardiniaperformingarts.com

What’s Your Gamble?

Mei Ling

■ Australasian Chinese Theatre and Wolf Heidecker Arts Management present Mei Ling in Melbourne from August 30 -September 8 at Singing Wok, 152 Tennyson St., Elwood.

Written and produced by Moni Lai Storz and directed by Wolf Heidecker, Mei Ling in Melbourne tells of Tootsie (real name Trudy), a singing hippie who returns to reclaim her son, John Williams.

Now as an ageing, feisty middle age American woman, she returns to Melbourne to see the son she has abandoned 30 years ago and to meet her Chinese daughter-in-law, Mei Ling.

Set mainly in John’s apartment, Mei Ling and her mother-in-law share stories and songs. Mei Ling, being a Chinese daughterin-law, is filial, and dutifully respects Tootsie as her newly found mother-in-law, and does not support her husband's wish for Tootsie, his mother, to be out of their home.

In Mei Ling’s culture, all sons have the duty and obligation to have their parents stay with them. Anytime.

Mei Ling is caught in the middle of the mother and son sandwich. They are also caught between their own cross-cultural values: duty and obligation (Mei Ling) versus rights and responsibilities (John Williams).

Will all their dilemmas be resolved? How? Performance Details: August 30, 31, September 5, 6, 7 at 8pm; September 1, 8 at 3.30pm Venue: Singing Wok, 152 Tennyson St., Elwood Bookings: Pay cash at door $20, but first reserve seats by emailing monilaistorz@gmail.com

What’s On Protesting The Silence

● Darcy Smith, Christopher Grant, Rohana Hayes and Greg Caine in Protesting the Silence: Marooned.

■ The new Australian play Protesting the Silence: Marooned will be presented by The Wolves Theatre Company at The Lawler, Southbank Theatre from September 18 – 28.

Four souls, one woman and three men are Marooned in a waiting room in the afterlife.

They have no connection other than they have all tried by apparently failed to take their own lives.

As strangers, they are able to talk about their suicides in a remarkably frank way, but as time slowly passes, in a series of vignettes, some not only begin to yearn to go home but fear they haven’t survived.

This fear and want manifests into an evergrowing hunger to live. But despite this hunger, they are still Marooned.

Finally, one of them believes that their only way out is for them all to help each other.

Desperate to get home to his children, this man known only as 1620, begins trying to get the others to open up. He wants them to reveal the real reason as to why they are here.

But not everyone is forthcoming.

Some are not convinced that the truth will set them free and one doesn’t want to go back.

Regardless, 1620 perseveres and is proven to be right. One by one the others are sent home.

Now alone, he is preparing for his return, so happy that he is still alive. Then ‘God’ informs him that his suicide attempt was successful and he is to remain where he is.

This is a powerful exploration of suicide, uncovering not only a surprising amount of humour, but despite its final tragedy is so entertaining that many people are returning to see it again and again.

Performance Details: September 18 – 28 Venue: The Lawler, Southbank Theatre, 140 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank Bookings: mtc.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Temporary

● Anna Bardsley (left) and Louise Bence in What’s Your Gamble?

■ Three Sides of the Coin presents What’s issue in Australia. In fact it is claimed “We are Your Gamble? on Thursday, September 12 at the biggest losers in the world.” It’s time to re7pm and Tuesday September 17 at 6pm at the claim and change our cultural narrative.

Catherine Simmonds, Artistic Director, exMC Showroom, Prahran.

Promoted as an ‘engaging, emotional, con- plores the space between the ‘lived experience’ fronting collage of stories performed by people and the language of art, providing marginalized who’ve been personally harmed by gambling’, people a creative space in which to “discover the cast are not actors, but people with lived the need to speak and speak the unspoken”.

Performance Dates: September 12, 7-8pm; experience of gambling harm.

Personal stories will be shared, transforming September 17 at 6pm Venue: MC Showroom, 48 Clifton St., painful life experiences into activism, appealing to audiences to view gambling as something Prahran.

Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au that affects us all.

- Cheryl Threadgold Gambling is discussed as a public health

● Isabelle Wang (Mei Ling), Marie-Therese Byrne (Tootsie), Karan Bhatia (John Williams) and Keam-Mar Lai (Wally) in Mei Ling in Melbourne. See report, left.

■ Writer and performer Katie Lees presents her one woman comedy show Temporary, about the corporate daily grind from September 16-22 at The Butterfly Club at 5.30pm.

Directed by Nisrine Amine, Bridget Jones meets The Office in this story where Amy’s life as a receptionist is a rut of emails, ergonomics and endless unrealistic expectations.

She smiles politely, makes the perfect cup of coffee and has a delightful phone manner.

She spends her days tackling the big issues – like the optimal temperature of the air conditioning and how to ensure the coffee machine is being appropriately cleaned.

Created on the clock behind a real reception desk, Temporary finds humour in the mundane 9 – 5. Because if the receptionist doesn’t do it, who will?

Performance Details: September 16 – 22 at 5.30pm Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

● Katie Lees

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Local Theatre Shows

■ The Basin Theatre: Boeing Boeing (by Maro Camoletti) Until August 31 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr. Doongalla and Simpsons Rds., The Basin. Director: Pip LeBlond. Bookings: www.thebasintheatre.org.au or 1300 784 668.

■ The Mount Players: Rock of Ages Until September 1 at Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith St., Macedon. Director: Alice Bottomley.

Bookings: www.themountplayers.com ■ LilydaleAthenaeum Theatre Company: Picnic at Hanging Rock (by Joan Lindsay, adapted by Tom Wright) Until August 31 at 39 - 41 Castella St., Lilydale. Director: Helen Ellis. Bookings: 9735 1777.

■ Brighton Theatre Company: Stargazers (by Reina Hardy) Until August 31 at the Brighton Arts and Cultural Centre, cnr Wilson and Carpenter Sts., Brighton. Director: Pedro Ramos. Bookings: 1300 752 126 or www.brightontheatre.com.au ■ Warrandyte Theatre Company: The Lady From the Sea (by Henrik Ibsen, adapted

by David Eldridge) Until August 31 at the Mechanics Institute Hall, cnr Yarra Rd and Mitchell St., Warrandyte. Bookings: 0431 572 511 ■ PEP Productions: Assassins the Musical Until August 31 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. Director: Daragh Wills; Musical Director: Maddy Corbel. Bookings:www.pepproductions.org.au ■ Adelphi Players Theatre Company: Double Bill - I Am Hamlet (a comedy thriller

by Richard James) and Mother Figure (by Alan Ayckbourn) from August 30 - September 1 at the Booran Road Hall, 264 Booran Rd., Ormond. Director: Michael Mace. Bookings: 9690 1593.

■ Track Youth Theatre: High School Cinderella August 30, 31 at 7pm, August 31 at 2pm at the Renaissance Theatre, 826 High St., Kew. Tickets: $20/$12.50. Bookings: http:/ /www.trybooking.com/BEITQ ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Ladies in Black (by Carolyn Burns and Tim Finn) August 30 - September 14 at 29 Burke Rd., Malvern East. Director: Alan Burrows. Bookings: 1300 131 552.

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Proof (by David Auburn) September 6 - 21 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale.

Director: Peter Roberts. Bookings: 9587 5141.

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: The Drawer Boy (by Michael Healey) September 6 - 21 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Karen Wakeham. Bookings: www.htc.org.au or 9457 4117.

Auditions

■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Two One Act Plays. The Real Inspector Hound (by Tom Stoppard) and Black Comedy (by Peter Shaffer). September 8 at 8pm, September 9 at 7pm at 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Gaetano Santo. Enquiries: gaetanosanto.aus@gmail.com

Colour at QV

■ QV Melbourne’s laneways and outdoor QV Square will be transformed into a playful world of colour and light from Thursday (Aug. 29)- Sunday, September 22.

The new interactive installation will elicit nostalgia, invite play and chase away the winter ‘Sads’ as Melburnians are transported to a ‘happy place’.

Incorporating Carla O’Brien’s latest touchable neon art exhibition, a state-of-theart new sensory digital game with $12,000 in prizing up for grabs, a dog therapy day with Guide Dogs Victoria and rainbow-themed snacks, Happy/Days is entirely FREE. QV hosted Carla O’Brien’s first ever solo exhibition in 2017 and is thrilled to welcome her back to exhibit a range of new works, including her biggest piece ever created: a giant rainbow coloured three-metre long Neon Archway.

Reminiscent of carefree childhood fun, Happy Days will also feature free rainbow cheese toasties, rainbow hot chocolates and make-your-own rainbow fairy bread (with rainbow icing!) at the custom-built Happy Bakery.

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Into-Me-See

● Brendan King (Johnny King) in Into-Me-See. ■ BoilOver Performance Ensemble rolls up to BoilOver is an inclusive performance enthe Melba Spiegeltent for The Melba And Be- semble that presents performance works that yond season of Fringe 2019 to present Into-Me- take the stigma out of disability and allows audiSee on September 14 and 21 at the Melba ences to be challenged and inspired by their kind Spiegeltent, Collingwood. of theatre.

This inspiring and moving work will be preThis work uses the universal language of sented by artists with diverse abilities. Into-Me- dance theatre and physical story telling and is See explores the wild and wondrous inner lives accessible to everyone. of the ensemble members as they invite you to Sunbury Community Health is proud to supsee-into the light and shade of their individual port this group, which is based in Sunbury and storylines, their alter egos and intimate emotional supported by professional arts practitioners. worlds, told through the story of a wayward bunch Into-Me-See is the latest show from the enof travelling gypsies who find an abandoned bag. semble who performed it in 2018 and again by What's inside the bag unravels a tale of the popular demand in 2019 at The Bowery Theatre many hats we wear and who we dream our- in StAlbans. selves to be, what we carry, what we keep inThey have had the opportunity to train at Cirside, what we let out and what we leave behind. cus Oz and performed for BigDance18 with Set to a memorable collection of musical Ausdance Victoria at Federation Square. scores from art house films this high level work Dates: September 14 and 21 inspires and challenges the audience to see-beTimes: 4.30pm and 6.30pm (both days) yond difference and see-what’s within, after all Venue: The Melba Spiegeltent, 35 Johnston we all have some kind of inner rock star we are Street, Collingwood dying to let out.

Tickets: Full $25, Conc $18, Groups of 6+ Bellatrix, the sultry cabaret Diva and Roxy $20.

Balboa the Strong Woman is just a few of the Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au or call characters you will meet along this ride.

9660 9666.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Entertainment Toy Symphony

■ Gavin Roach presents the Victorian premiere of Michael Gow's Toy Symphony from September 12-21 at the Meat Market, North Melbourne.

Roland Henning has writer's block. When he tries to explain the situation to a therapist, his story begins to tumble back and forth between his childhood and his work as a playwright.

At the root of it all is that extraordinary day in primary school which shattered his boyhood and plunged him headlong into the dizzy circus of life and art.

Toy Symphony was written at a time when white privilege and the toxicity of power in masculinity, heteronormativity, and queer misogyny within the arts was at its peak; there has never been a better opportunity to challenge the norm and expose the grotesque horror beneath.

Probing society’s nerve endings to expose the current politics around white ownership of Australia, the unfiltered objectification of women, and the blind narcissism of ‘self', this surrealistic nightmare is for anyone who isn’t afraid to rage against the personal and political machine.

Dates and Time: September 12-21 at 7.30pm Location: The Stables, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne Tickets: Full: $20, $15 Group (4+)+ transaction fee Booking: https://melbournefringe.com.au/ - Cheryl Threadgold

Aust. Realness

■ Freud pointed out that we cling to the idea of small differences in creating identity.

When it comes to class, these so-called differences are exploited by government.

In Australia, despite a fleeting dalliance with

egalitarianism thanks to Gough Whitlam, the rise of the middle class has been precipitated by politicians: Menzies’ ‘forgotten people’ have morphed into Howard’s ‘battlers’. The battlers are now Morrison’s ‘quiet Australians’.

Author Tim Winton pointed this out in his seminal 2014 essay, The C-Word.

Critiquing the idea of Australia as a ‘classless’ society is explored in this new work, Australian Realness, by Zoey Dawson.

Complete with canned laughter, Dawson lampoons an Australian sit-com staple: two families, one bogan and one from the chattering middle class are thrown together with explosive comedic results.

In Dawson’s world, the comedy is decidedly black. All the family come together for Christmas. The turkey’s in the oven, the Moët’s on ice and, naturally, mayhem ensues.

Each character is mirrored by their classopposite doppelganger.

Linda Cropper is excellent as both fag-toting bogan mum and Country Road-clad matriarch. Greg Stone makes the most of his roles as both hapless hubby and ocker, blue singlet-wearing, working-class dad.

Obnoxious offspring are played by André de Vanny and Emily Goddard with Chanella Macri as Goddard’s partner.

While it’s an interesting premise, in practice, the production doesn’t hit the mark.

Despite a great set by designer Romanie Harper that literally collapses the comfortable, bourgeois establishment and some excellent performances, the narrative is often impenetrable. The audience is bludgeoned by stereotypes and endless clichés. The descent into an apocalyptic dystopia is mystifying.

Performance Details: Until September 8.

Venue: Merlyn Theatre, Malthouse.

- Review by Kathryn Keeble

What’s On Passionate Machine

■ Doctor Rosy Carrick presents Passionate Machine, at The Butterfly Club from September 16 – 22.

Remember PE kit. Cancel free trial. Call mum. Everyone writes instructions to their future selves.

But what happens if the future starts writing back? Join Doctor Rosy Carrick as she brings her multi award-winning play over from the UK to find out.

Pipping Jodie Whittaker to the post as the world’s first female time travelling doctor, Rosy debuted this show at the 2018 Brighton Fringe UK, where it won the coveted Best New Play Award, and Edinburgh Festival, where it walked away with the Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence.

Rosy Carrick has to build a time machine – because her future self has already done so and is now stuck 100 years in the past after a failed mission to save Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky from committing suicide.

Given that her knowledge of quantum physics is limited to the works of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rosy must summon the help of science’s greatest minds if she is to rewrite history and save herself…

Darting between multiple narratives, this performance explores the realities of time travel and self-determination – taking in Bowie, motherhood, #metoo and hangovers along the way. The narrative is told as a true story, weaving itself into real-life events until fact and fiction become indistinguishable.

Venue: The Butterfly Club – Upstairs Tickets: $35/31/28 Dates: September 16-22. Venue Box Office: 9663 8107 Time: 5.15pm (70 mins, no interval) Bookings: https://thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

Queer and Present Danger

■ Anna Piper Scott, Golden Gibbo nominee is here to destroy myths about transgender people in Queer and Present Danger, September 16 -22 at The Butterfly Club.

Anna Piper Scott: Queer and Present Danger is everything you’ve ever wanted to know about being a trans woman.

Anna shares real life experiences that are awkward, empowering and everything in between: from trying to understand the arbitrary nature of women’s sizing or people suddenly being very curious about genitals.

Anna demystifies trans life for cisgender folks, and gives transgender folks some sweet comebacks. After all, as she points out, you learn a lot when you’ve gone through puberty twice.

As much a comedy show as it is an honest exploration of life outside the gender binary, Anna Piper Scott: Queer and Present Danger is sure to be one of the biggest drawcards this Melbourne Fringe. Directed by local comedy Renaissance woman Liz Skitch (Mothermorphosis, Po Po Mo Co).

“Stories about trans people are very rare, but even when they are told, they’re almost always stories of heartbreak and tragedy and suicide – don’t get me wrong, those stories are important – but that’s nowhere near the whole story,” says Anna.

“Almost every time I do a gig I get either get old straight people who are very excited to have found a trans person they find relatable or young queer folk who are very excited to hear and see themselves on stage. “ I don’t want to trumpet myself too much, but I think it’s reasonable to say that I really am a hero and the voice of a generation.”

Performances: September 16 – 22 at 8.30pm Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

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Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Songs of Simon

■ Whilst Paul Simon may have retired, his legendary songs will be forever enjoyed by the millions of fans around the world.

Simon and Garfunkle to Graceland show comes to the Frankston Arts Centre on September 7. Once again you can relive those timeless tunes such as Mrs Robinson, The Boxer, Mother and Child Reunion, Call Me Al, and the iconic Bridge Over Troubled Water plus more.

Performed by 'Shelley and Robertson' and their live band, this is a show not to be missed, says their media release.

Vicky sings John

■ Vicky O'Keefe brings the songs of her famous late father Johnny to the Caravan Club Oakleigh stage on Saturday, October 12.

As a celebration for his 40th anniversary, Vicky will fill your heart with warm, wonderful memories of a true legend in Australian Rock 'n' Roll history. More details and tickets at the club.

Frankie at Atrium

■ Popular entertainer Frankie Stevens will perform a Melbourne Cup Day gig at the New Atrium, Safety Beach, commencing 4pm.

All the popular Rock n Roll hits from the 50s and 60s artists and others is on offer.

Bookings 59 81 8123.

- Rob Foenander

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Wines from former Methodist chapel

■ John Rozentals looks at some entry-level reds from a former Methodist chapel on the outskirts ofAdelaide.

There has long been a strong love-hate relationship between religion and the production of alcoholic drinks.

The hate part of the equation arises when religion talks about the evils of 'drink' and its negative effects on society, relationships and, ultimately, the individual.

The love part is probably best exemplified by Belgian monks who have been brewing beer for centuries - and it's much more likely to be super-strong ale rather than innocuous low-alcohol or flavourless mid-strength stuff.

And wine-wise don't forget that one of our oldest producers is the Jesuit-based Sevenhill Cellars in the Clare Valley.

One of my favourite wineries in one of my favourite Australian wine-producing districts had its birth in 1865 as the Methodist - and you can't get more anti-alcohol than a fervent Methodist - Seaview Chapel and schoolhouse in McLaren Vale, on the southern outskirts of Adelaide.

A special commemorative service was held one hundred year later, in 1965, to mark the church's closing before it was incorporated into Chapel Hill Winery in the early 1970s by Adelaide's Professor Tom Nelson, who also purchased and installed the famous stained-glass

● Vines at Chapel Hill: an old favourite brand of the writer's. window, made in about 1770 in check by regular pumping to en- but I'd suggest red-sauced pasta as Glasgow and now a central part of courage their integration into the a good mate.

WINE OF THE WEEK the winery's logo. body of the wine.

Chapel Hill 2018 The Parson As with the McLaren Vale reDrink with pizza or just about Shiraz ($20): I love the robust, fullgion itself, the heart of Chapel Hill any lamb-based dish. lies in its full-bodied reds, and I alBremerton 2017 Tamblyn bodied flavours of this wine which ways look forward to receiving Cabernet Shiraz Malbec Merlot typifies a young McLaren Vale samples from Michael Fragos, the ($18): The 'Tamblyn' name for this shiraz that will develop beautifully current Chief Winemaker and blended red recognises Lucy and over the coming five or six years.

The flavours of plums come to CEO. Rebecca Willsons' grandmother's WINE REVIEWS family who migrated to Australia the fore, and I'd be drinking it with comfort food, such as hearty beef Chapel Hill 2018 The Parson from Cornwall.

Cabernet Sauvignon ($20): HarNormally I'd disregard the 6 per stews with lots of mushies and other vest was timed to avoid both green cent component of a blend, but the vegies, while the coolish weather tannins and jammy, overripe fruit. merlot does give this red a soft persists. It's exceptional value at The result is an attractive, pow- roundness that many drinkers will about $20. We are so spoilt in Australia. erful red with rich flavours and per- adore.

- John Rozentals sistent tannins which were held in Food-wise it's a versatile wine,

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5. "I wonder what he uses as an easel".

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3."It's sold so be careful where you put the red sticker".

2. "I didn't win but I got a date with one of the crew".

1. "If he were Van Gogh, he'd have lost more than an ear!"

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Mobile security and info in WeHo

■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Extra set of eyes and ears

■ The City of West Hollywood's Security Ambassador program is providing the city with supplemental safety, security and hospitality services.

Security Ambassadors are deployed on bicycles along Santa Monica Boulevard from Doheny to La Brea, the Sunset Strip, Pick Up Line vehicles, special events, alleys, City parking lots and residential neighborhoods within city limits.

Security Ambassadors act as an extra set of eyes and ears for the Sheriff's Department and assist with identifying and addressing quality of life issues.

Proving once again that West Hollywood is one of the safest cities in California.

5 Neighbouring Cities ■ While West Hollywood flourishes as a tight-knit community and neighborhood, its official status goes beyond that as a city in its own right.

Famous for passing legislation such as same-gender domestic partner benefits for city employees, and bans on fur sales and declawing of cats, West Hollywood represents not only much of LA's entertainment history but also a beacon of social justice.

The legendary Sunset Strip has been undergoing a revival of sorts as the home of go-to music venues, and many of LA's top destination restaurants lie within West Hollywood's borders, but there are other spots that fly under the radar.

Whether you're a longtime resident, or are visiting this bustling city beneath the hills for the first time, there's always something new to discover in West Hollywood. Take advantage of its rich, creative history and vibrant culture.

The Westside awaits a cornucopia of food, shopping, arts and culture, architecture, nature.

And the best way to experience the Westside is to travel off the beaten path and uncover the locals' best kept secrets.

Whether a first-time tourist, regular visitor, or long-time resident, the Westside offers something for everyone.

Unveil a treasure trove of local hidden gems in five neighboring cities: Beverly Hills, Culver City, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, and West L.A.

China jails journalists

■ The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2018 report on deadly attacks and abuses against journalists shows that the "biggest jailer of journalists," as of December 2018, is Communist China, which is holding 60 reporters.

In second place behind China is Egypt (38 reporters jailed), then Turkey (33 reporters jailed), Saudi Arabia (28) and then Iran (28).

Worldwide, 348 journalists are being held in prisons, according to the RSF, 324 men and 24 women.

Among the 348 detained reporters, 179 are professional journalists, 150 are non-professional bloggers, online reporters, citizen journalists and 19 media workers, according to the RSF report.

● Lyndon Johnson

Diets over the decades

● Pictured on Santa Monica Boulevard outside the Wells Fargo Bank which is in front of the Ramada Plaza Hotel is Ramada Managing Director, Alan Johnson, Security Ambassador Caesar Aguilar, with Ramada General Manager, William Karpiak.

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From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

No cure to poverty ■ When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America.

More than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later, the welfare system has utterly failed the poor.

The poverty rate remains mostly unchanged, and tens of millions of Americans are dependent on government assistance.

Currently, the United States spends about a trillion dollars a year on 80 different federal, state, and local welfare programs.

About 40 million Americans are considered poor.

If we divided that $1 trillion among those 40 million people, we could give each person approximately $25,000 a year, or $100,000 a year for a family of four.

We're clearly spending a lot of money, so why have we not ended poverty? Our welfare system discourages work. It discourages families from staying together. And it encourages dependence on government. In other words, welfare keeps the poor poor.

In many cases, welfare has harmed the very people it was supposed to help, especially children.

Why has this happened? As welfare benefits grew over the years, they increasingly served as a substitute for a working parent.

As the taxpayer became the family breadwinner, that encouraged many men to stop upholding their responsibilities, leaving more and more women as heads of single-parent households.

On the other side of the coin, single mothers were discouraged from marrying the fathers of their children because that reduced their benefits.

Sadly, the cycle continues today as many children who grow up on welfare eventually follow in their parents' footsteps when they have families of their own.

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■ During the 19th century, a diet called "Fletcherism" became popular. Introduced by American Horace Fletcher "the Great Masticator", the diet promoted chewing a mouthful of food at least 32 times or until it was turned into liquid. He argued his method of eating could help people avoid disease and lose weight.

Elvis Presley was famously a fan of the "Sleeping Beauty Diet," or a diet where a person is sedated for days at time. The reasoning behind the diet was that a sleeping person wouldn't eat.

Losing weight alters brain activity. For example, after following a weight loss program for six months, women scored better on memory tests. Research has also linked obesity to poor memory, especially in overweight pear-shaped women.

A fat cell lives for about seven years. When a fat cell dies, a new one grows to replace it. The body keeps track of how many fat cells it has as well as the amount of fat in each cell.

If fat cells are removed by liposuction, for example, the body compensates by growing new fat cells in other areas of the body.

Obesity has been linked to several types of cancer. Specifically, being overweight causes inflammation that causes cell changes in the body. However, just by losing 5 per cent of your body weight can significantly lower dangerous levels of inflammation.

People with a disorganised work space are more likely to eat junk food.According to a University of Minnesota study, people in disorganised workspaces are more likely to choose unhealthy snacks.

After undergoing bariatric surgery, approximately 87 per cent of patients said their taste buds had changed. Almost half of them said food didn't taste as good, so they didn't eat as much. Additionally, people had less of a preference for salty foods. Losing weight can reduce arthritis symptoms.

A recent study found that eating dark chocolate in moderate amounts is associated with lower levels of abdominal fat.

Scientists speculate that the antioxidants may help fight inflammation and improve metabolic functioning.

Scientists believe there are as many as 100 different types of "fat genes," or genes that increase the likelihood of someone developing type 2 diabetes and becoming obese. However, scientists note that obesity-promoting genes can be offset by regular exercise and a healthy diet.

‘Religion is answer’ ■ A new survey shows that religion is important to 72 per cent of Americans and that, among weekly churchgoers, 81 per cent believe religion can answer "all or most of today's problems. " In the poll, conducted Dec.12, Gallup asked, "How important would you say religion is in your own life very important, fairly important or not very important?"

For "all Americans," 51 per cent said religion is "very important" and 21 per cent said "fairly important," which equals a total of 72 per cent on the importance scale.

However, 27 per cent of all Americans said religion was "not very" important in their lives.

For "Christians," the percentages were higher: 62 per cent "very important and 25 per cent "fairly important," for a total of 87 per cent important. Only 13 per centof Christians said religion was "not very" important in their lives.

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We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.

I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper.

Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'.

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■ I remember asking Frankie Laine in a radio interview, who was his favourite singer and without hesitation he said, “Nat King Cole”.

Nat was not only the favourite singer of many people but he was also highly regarded in the music industry - what a voice.

Nathaniel Adams Coles was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on St Patrick's Day in 1919.

His father was a Baptist minister. Nat had three brothers and a half sister.

I did have the pleasure of meeting and interviewing his brother Freddy in 2000.

He was taught to play the organ as a child and by the age of 12 was taking piano lessons.

He began playing professionally in his teenage years and adopted the stage name of Nat King Cole - it was said to have come from the nursery rhyme Old King Cole.

Nat went to Los Angeles and formed the very successful Nat King Cole Trio with guitarist Oscar Moore and bass player Wesley Prince.

In 1937 he married Nadine Robinson who was a dancer. In 1943, Nat had his first hit song for Capitol Records, Straighten Up and Fly Right.

Many hit songs followed and it is said that the revenue from his hit songs helped to finance the construction of the circular Capitol Records building near Hollywood and Vine in LA. In 1948 he divorced Nadine and married Maria Ellington. His hit songs such as The Christmas Song, Nature Boy, Mona Lisa and

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Nat King Cole

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

Unforgettable made him one of the highest selling recording artists in the US and throughout the world.

In 1955 Nat King Cole made his first trip to Australia for a national tour which was a tremendous success.

Rowan and Martin, who were later to become famous in the television series Laugh In, were the support act for his show.

Lee Gordon had booked Nat for the tour and brought him back again the following year.

Alan Heffernan, who was Lee Gordon's accountant, told me that during the tour there was a mix up with flight arrangements.

Nat and Maria had no sleeping berth andAlan was in a panic. As the weary Nat stepped off the

● Nat King Cole plane he put his arm around Alan's shoulder and said, “Alan, I know it would have been set up, but sometimes these things go wrong. Don't worry about it.”

This was typical of Nat's nature and everyand everybody loved him. His hit songs included Get Your Kicks On Route 66, Sweet Lorraine, For Sentimental Reasons, Too Young, Answer Me, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, When I Fal

In Love, Ramblin' Rose and Those Lazy, Hazy Crazy Days of Summer.

In 1956 he began his television series, The Nat King Cole Show, on NBC and was the firs AfroAmerican to host his own variety program Nat suffered from racism for most of his life and was attacked by a group of thugs whils singing onstage in his home state of Alabama His film roles included The Blue Gardenia, St Louis Blues and Cat Ballou, where he performed the title song with Stubby Kaye.

After years of heavy smoking Nat King Cole died in 1965 of lung cancer. At the time of his death he was estranged from Maria and lef behind five children from his two marriages His daughter Natalie has become a famous singer and in 1990 recorded the duet Unforgettable singing to a recording of her father's voice An official United States postage stamp featuring Nat King Cole was issued in 1994.

The life of Nat King Cole would make a great film - he was one of the great singers of the Twentieth Century.

Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - Remember When Sundays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens.

And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon. www.innerfm.org.au

Street art on canvas at Ferntree Gully

September Exhibition Street Art on Canvas and Skate Deck A chance for Street Artists and Artists to display their works on canvas and Skate Decks.

Weekends form Saturday September 7 to Sunday September 29.

Official opening and presentation at 2pm, Sunday, September 8.

Featuring a live band, One More Weekend.

All Welcome. Free Entry.

Ferntree Gully Arts Society The Hut Gallery 157 Underwood Rd. Ferntree Gully

The Arts

Hidden Faces Hidden Faces is an exhibition of portraits by Victorian artists, originally submitted for a number of national portrait prizes, including Doug Moran, Portia Geach, Shirley Hannan, MAMA Albury, Archibald & Black Swan which were either hung in the 'official' exhibitions or have not been shown in Melbourne.

Now well established in Melbourne Arts calendar, Hidden Faces reveals a broad spectrum of entertaining, challenging and insightful paintings of such well-known subjects as Performers: Marta Dusseldorp, Ezekiel Ox, Jeff Martin, Lindy Morrison and Julia Baird; Sport Icons: Paralympian, Kate Ross and Nathan Lyon; Artists: Victor Majzner and Christopher Seater;Author: Rosalia Ham, Director: Fred Schepisi; Professors: Damien Kingsbury and Jenny Hocking.

Hidden Faces follows in the long tradition of the French Impressionists of the 1860s who held a breakaway exhibition from the French Academy.

The inaugural Salon des Refusés held in 1863 by command of Napoleon III, included works by acclaimed artists Edmund Manet, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne.

This 2019 show includes a diverse array if exciting, diverse, witty and experimental artworks by Victorian artists whose talent deserves to be seen and appreciated.

Exhibition closes October 3.

Free entry open all day every day.

The Lobby Pan Pacific Melbourne

with Peter Kemp 2 Convention Centre Place South Wharf

National Portrait Gallery

ing its attention to acclaimed bel-canto operas.

Widely regarded as the pinnacle of bel-canto operas, Melbourne Opera's upcoming production of Norma boasts a superb cast of singers and musicians-led by international opera sensation Helena Dix. Helena will join this production, hot off the heels of her principal role debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York earlier this year.

She also recently covered the tole of Norma for the world-famous Sondra Radvanovsky.

Rounding out the cast is Helpmann and Green Room award-winning mezzo-soprano Jacqui Dark in the role of Adalgisa; London-based Australian tenor, Samuel Sakker in the role of Pollione and Melbourne Opera favourite Eddie Muliaumaseali'i in the role of Orovesa.

Season: September 17 - 24.

At Mildura

Curiosities Et Al Oli Gasperini's work focuses on the ability of highly figured woods to convey images and emotions whilst remaining functional and decorative, Women in Vogue: Celebrating perhaps even whimsical.

60 years in Australia Exhibition closes Sunday Oct. 13.

Celebrating 60 years of Australia's Vineyard most exceptional women as they apThe watercolours in Mark Dober's peared in Vogue Australia, the Na- exhibition Vineyard were made on site tional Portrait Gallery announces an in the Mallee landscape, the largest exhibition in collaboration with this re- made at an abandoned vineyard at eminent fashion title.

Cardross, on the fringes of Mildura.

The exhibition will showcase 60 Water is a key determinant of land years of the Vogue Australia archives use on this region. The politics of together with a special tribute to some water - its reliability for competing of the remarkable Australian women purposes - is an ongoing issue of great who have featured in its pages. importance for residents, farmers and The show will include iconic por- the nation alike. Vineyard can be traits of Cate Blanchett, Kylie viewed as a metaphor for this issue.

Minogue and Elle Macphersonamong Exhibition closes Sunday October 20. others.

Mildura Arts Centre National Portrait Gallery 199 Coreton Rd, Mildura King Edward Terrace Parkes, A.C.T.

OK. With John O’Keefe ABC’s Jane goes solo

■ One of my favourite ABC presenters is Jane Hutcheson and her main gig is One to One. Jane has called it quits and finishes up with Aunty at end of this month.

In her next life Jane intends taking groups to exciting parts of the world, writing features , maybe another book and would you believe being interviewed by a celeb on One to One. In all, Jane has done 500 interviews over nine years. Good luck, Jane.

Roll call ruckus

■ We hear that in a presentation to 3AW staff the head honchos from new Sydney owners did themselves no favours by screwing up their roll call of AW’s current on-air talent. They made no acknowledgment of afternoon talent Tom Elliott, yet mentioned Bruce Mansfield who died three years ago. What a way to build team morale .

Myer opts for new face

■ Seven time Logie winner Asher Keddie , aged 45, has signed on as style ambassador for Myer. She replaces Jennifer Hawkins who did not renew .

Asherwill be the new face of Myer, appearing in their TV commercials, parades and general promotions. Hawkins ‘contract lasted1- years and we wish Asher every bit of luck as she is one of the nicest ladies on Australian TV.

Crooning couple

■ Nine is pulling out all stops to put on a blockbuster show for The Footy Show Grand Final episode. All the old gang will be there except Trevor Marmalade who has given the show a big miss.

One segment worth watching will be Sam Newman teaming with Rebecca Maddern in a duet. Sam does have a good voice and in the days gone by he had a regular spot on the Ernie Sigley Show on Nine of a morning.

Mistaken identity

■ Many of us have heard of the online dating site, Tinder which vets all applicants before a pic and profile can be included.

Former UK boy band member Matt Goss applied and got knocked back with Tinder explaining “we suspect you are an impersonator looking similar to one of The Bros artists”.

Problem was Matt Goss was the real thing. Whole thing turned out satisfactorily as he is now all loved up.

- John O’Keefe

Glen Eira

Melbourne Opera Norma Following the critical and public success of The Flying Dutchman, Otello and Roberto Devereux, Melbourne Opera is once again turn-

Twenty Melbourne Painters Society The 2019 annual exhibition of this prestigious group of traditional realist painters promises to generate great interest amongst collectors and public.

Glen Eira City Council Gallery Cnr Glen Eira and Hawthorn Rds.

● Asher Keddie is the new face of Myer.

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: ROCKETMAN: Genre: Biography/Drama/Fantasy.

Cast: Taron Egerton, Richard Madden, Jamie Bell, Bryce Dallas Howard.

Year: 2019.

Rtaing: MA15+ Length: 121 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Review: A musical fantasy on the childhood (as Reggie Dwight) and through to the sex, drugs and rock n' roll odyssey of singing legend Elton John's breakthrough years struggling with depression, substance abuse and sexual orientation.

Beginning in AA rehab and looking back over his life, this is a wonderfully flamboyant and energetic musical jukebox that is a deeply rooted cousin of Elton John's ninth studio album, the autobiographical "Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy" (1975), as it primarily explores his relationship with songwriter Bernie Taupin, utilizing the music to fit the timeline and emotion from childhood and family up to his 1983 hit "I'm Still Standing," capturing all the insecurities, sensitivities humility and vulnerabilities along the way.

Director Dexter Fletcher has his finger right on the button as how musicals work, and his marriage of visuals and music are an eyepopping, fun-filled, toe-tapping treat, a kaleidoscopic fantasia that, without copying, evokes Ken Russell's "The Boy Friend" (1971) and "Tommy" (1975), as well as Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz" (1979), Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting" (1996), his own "Sunshine On Leith" (2013), to the glam rock of "Xanadu" (1980), among others.

The classic "Saturday Nights All Right For Fighting" number is a bewitching and exhilarating time-capsule, time travelling journey from the back streets at the turning point of his youth to the showgrounds of his young adulthood that is just one of the many moments, and like all throughout never copies any of its influences and succeeds in remaining wholly original.

Taron Egerton is a stand-out as Elton John, capturing his essence, weaknesses, strengths and voice with tremendous grip and believability for every moment of his screen time, along with Jamie Bell in a superb performance as songwriter Bernie Taupin, and aided with stellar performances by Richard Madden as Elton John's manager, John Reid, an unrecognizable Bryce Dallas Howard as his mother, Steven Mackintosh as his embittered father, and Stephen Graham as music publisher Dick James.

Along with superb period detail and costume design, this is a dazzling, funny, sad, unforgiving, enlightening and tragic evolution of a unique man told through his music that has entranced generations, a bittersweet adult musical-fantasy no matter how familiar or flawed to some, wears its heart firmly on its sleeve.

FILM: THE HUSTLE: Genre: Crime/Comedy.

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp, Tim Blake Nelson.

Year: 2019.

Rating: M. Length: 94 Minutes.

Stars: **½ Review: Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star as female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, who team up to take down the dirty rotten men who have wronged them.

A gender-swapped remake of the delightfully wicked "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (from 1988) with Michael Caine, Steve Martin and Glenne Headly, which itself is a remake of "Bedtime Story" (from 1964) with David Niven, Marlon Brando and Shirley Jones, this is a surprisingly light-hearted, for the most part inoffensive and bubbly affair that keeps smile on the face throughout, and even though it may fall short, remarkably only by a small margin, it doesn't quite reach the heights of its two predecessors, which are admittedly a hard act to follow to begin with.

Beautifully filmed in and around Majorca in Spain, star and producer Rebel Wilson is a joy to watch in a devilishly charming comedic performance that is both restrained and outrageous where exactly where it needs to be, as is Oscar winner Anne Hathaway with an equally impressive bag full of emotions as her eventual partner in crime, along with Alex Sharp as a young Mark Zuckerberg-ish internet millionaire who they set their sights on as the mark to fleece.

Directed by Chris Addison, who's previous credits include the acclaimed award winning series "The Thick Of It" and "Veep," has managed to create a worthy updated addition for the new generation of a story that has done exactly the same for their parents and grandparents before them, a funny, quirky, non-taxing, likeable, warm and enjoyable romp with plenty sparkle and wit.

No masterpiece by a long shot, and definitely not without its flaws, like its predecessors, this is an effectively dependable, old fashioned and formulaic comedy that tickles the funny bone in all the right places, a formula that has been a staple diet with overwhelming success and fondness for generations of the past, and now, one for both the young and old generations today.

Rourke’s Reviews Dragged Across Concrete

Vying To Survive

■ (R). 159 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas August 29.

After seeing Dragged Across Concrete at its Australian premiere almost a year ago, it is a relief to see S. Craig Zahler's latest slowburn thriller finally arriving in local cinemas.

After coming out of nowhere with the attention-grabbing Bone Tomahawk in 2015, followed by the outstanding Brawl In Cell Block 99 in 2017, Zahler continues to provoke audiences with this deliberately morally ambiguous concoction, and like his previous efforts, will lead to highly divisive reactions and opinions.

The story centres on police detectives Brett Ridgeman (Mel Gibson) and Anthony Lurasetti (Vince Vaughn), who have just been suspended after being filmed performing an illegal drug bust on two suspects.

Acquiring a bagful of cash from the bust, the duo, who feel out of step with today's attitudes towards law enforcement, come across information regarding a major money exchange, and decide to intercept this criminal meeting so they and their families can live an easier life.

Of course, nothing goes quite to plan. Dragged Across Concrete may cover familiar ground, but Zahler cleverly subverts the multiple tropes that are present in the plot.

Working from his novelistic type script, Zahler again dares to swim against the tide, taking his time to build character and story, allowing every hot topic to develop nicely.

Performances across the board are first-rate. Gibson, like in the recent Blood Father, is knowingly cast, and delivers one of his best performances.

Vaughn, who I am not normally a fan of, seems to respond to Zahler's ultra-focused direction, and while not as good as his career-best turn in Brawl In Cell Block 99, he is still excellent, reminding one of his good work in the underrated 1998 thriller Clay Pigeons.

Kudos must also go to Tory Kittles, JenniferCarpenter, Laurie Holden, Udo Kier, and Don Johnson.

Dragged Across Concrete will infuriate and offend some with its deliberate pacing and non-judgemental approach to its incendiary material, but Zahler is obviously striving for something more than standard genre thrills, and for those who pick up on this, will be fully enthralled with what will be one of the best films of the year.

RATING - ****

■ (M). 116 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas August 29.

In what is China's answer to Dallas Buyers Club (making $450 million at the box-office, including a staggering $200 million opening weekend), Dying To Survive is a genuine crowdpleaser, one that happens to be based (if quite loosely) on a true story.

Xu Zheng stars as Cheng Yong, a struggling businessman who is currently trying to sell cheap Indian herbal medicines.

In the middle of a bitter divorce, and trying to hang on to joint-custody rights of his young son, Yong is approached by LV (Wang Cuanjun), a leukemia patient who wants the shady Yong to import a generic knock-off drug from India, as the local, government-approved equivalent is too expensive to buy.

Seeing this as a money-making opportunity, Yong eventually agrees, and teaming up with other interested parties, including single mother Liu Sihui (Zhuo Tan), loner Yellow Hair (Yu Zhang) and Priest Liu (Xinming Yang), is soon raking in the profits, but as their success grows, the mainland police begin to close in, lead by Cao Bin (Yiwei Zhou).

Co-writer/director Muye Wen, making his feature film debut, skilfully mixes social drama and comedy, and manages the unlikely feat of being able to criticise the Chinese healthcare system as well as the government hierarchy who allow pharmaceutical companies to gouge those who rely on their product to survive.

The cast are terrific, but one wishes some of the supporting roles were better written, especially Liu Sihui, whose circumstances are trickier than the others.

Though facts are changed for dramatic purposes, Dying To Survive is both engrossing and hugely entertaining, and deserves to find an appreciative following amongst western audiences.

RATING - ****

Weathering With You

■ (PG). 114 minutes. Now showing in selected cinemas.

The highly anticipated follow-up to the blockbuster smash Your Name (available on Blu-ray and DVD through Madman), which accrued an impressive $360 million at the global box-office, Weathering With You certainly has a lot to live up to.

RATING - *** - Aaron Rourke

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NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: AUGUST 22: ANGEL HAS FALLEN, OVERCOMER, THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM, WEATHERING WITH YOU. AUGUST 29: AMAZING GRACE, DOGMAN, DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE, KURSK, THE KITCHEN, THE NIGHTINGALE. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. AVENGERS: END GAME [Action/Sci-Fi/ Fantasy/Adventure/Robert Downey, Jnr.].

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6. ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL [Sci-Fi/Action/ Adventure/Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz].

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens

But I am anticipating now the purport of our conversation on the ride home instead of first marrying Caddy. We all went to church, and Mr. Jellyby gave her away. Of the air with which old Mr. Turveydrop, with his hat under his left arm (the inside presented at the clergyman like a cannon) and his eyes creasing themselves up into his wig, stood stiff and high-shouldered behind us bridesmaids during the ceremony, and afterwards saluted us, I could never say enough to do it justice. Miss Wisk, whom I cannot report as prepossessing in appearance, and whose manner was grim, listened to the proceedings, as part of woman’s wrongs, with a disdainful face. Mrs. Jellyby, with her calm smile and her bright eyes, looked the least concerned of all the company.

We duly came back to breakfast, and Mrs. Jellyby sat at the head of the table and Mr. Jellyby at the foot. Caddy had previously stolen upstairs to hug the children again and tell them that her name was Turveydrop. But this piece of information, instead of being an agreeable surprise to Peepy, threw him on his back in such transports of kicking grief that I could do nothing on being sent for but accede to the proposal that he should be admitted to the breakfast table. So he came down and sat in my lap; and Mrs. Jellyby, after saying, in reference to the state of his pinafore, “Oh, you naughty Peepy, what a shocking little pig you are!” was not at all discomposed. He was very good except that he brought down Noah with him (out of an ark I had given him before we went to church) and WOULD dip him head first into the wine-glasses and then put him in his mouth.

My guardian, with his sweet temper and his quick perception and his amiable face, made something agreeable even out of the ungenial company. None of them seemed able to talk about anything but his, or her, own one subject, and none of them seemed able to talk about even that as part of a world in which there was anything else; but my guardian turned it all to the merry encouragement of Caddy and the honour of the occasion, and brought us through the breakfast nobly. What we should have done without him, I am afraid to think, for all the company despising the bride and bridegroom and old Mr. Turveydrop — and old Mr. Thrveydrop, in virtue of his deportment, considering himself vastly superior to all the company — it was a very unpromising case.

At last the time came when poor Caddy was to go and when all her property was packed on the hired coach and pair that was to take her and her husband to Gravesend. It affected us to see Caddy clinging, then, to her deplorable home and hanging on her mother’s neck with the greatest tenderness.

“I am very sorry I couldn’t go on writing from dictation, Ma,” sobbed Caddy. “I hope you forgive me now.”

“Oh, Caddy, Caddy!” said Mrs. Jellyby. “I have told you over and over again that I have engaged a boy, and there’s an end of it.”

“You are sure you are not the least angry with me, Ma? Say you are sure before I go away, Ma?” “You foolish Caddy,” returned Mrs. Jellyby, “do I look angry, or have I inclination to be angry, or time to be angry? How CAN you?”

“Take a little care of Pa while I am gone, Mama!”

Mrs. Jellyby positively laughed at the fancy.

“You romantic child,” said she, lightly patting Caddy’s back. “Go along. I am excellent friends with you. Now, good-bye, Caddy, and be very happy!”

Then Caddy hung upon her father and nursed his cheek against hers as if he were some poor dull child in pain. All this took place in the hall.

Her father released her, took out his pocket handkerchief, and sat down on the stairs with his head against the wall. I hope he found some consolation in walls. I almost think he did.

And then Prince took her arm in his and turned with great emotion and respect to his father, whose deportment at that moment was overwhelming.

“Thank you over and over again, father!” said

Charles Dickens Prince, kissing his hand. “I am very grateful for all your kindness and consideration regarding our marriage, and so, I can assure you, is Caddy.”

“Very,” sobbed Caddy. “Ve-ry!”

“My dear son,” said Mr. Turveydrop, “and dear daughter, I have done my duty. If the spirit of a sainted wooman hovers above us and looks down on the occasion, that, and your constant affection, will be my recompense. You will not fail in YOUR duty, my son and daughter, I believe?”

“Dear father, never!” cried Prince.

“Never, never, dear Mr. Turveydrop!” said Caddy.

“This,” returned Mr. Turveydrop, “is as it should be. My children, my home is yours, my heart is yours, my all is yours. I will never leave you; nothing but death shall part us. My dear son, you contemplate an absence of a week, I think?”

“A week, dear father. We shall return home this day week.”

“My dear child,” said Mr. Turveydrop, “let me, even under the present exceptional circumstances, recommend strict punctuality. It is highly important to keep the connexion together; and schools, if at all neglected, are apt to take offence.”

“This day week, father, we shall be sure to be home to dinner.”

“Good!” said Mr. Turveydrop. “You will find fires, my dear Caroline, in your own room, and dinner prepared in my apartment. Yes, yes, Prince!” anticipating some self-denying objection on his son’s part with a great air. “You and our Caroline will be strange in the upper part of

in my apartment. Now, bless ye!”

They drove away, and whether I wondered most at Mrs. Jellyby or at Mr. Turveydrop, I did not know. Ada and my guardian were in the same condition when we came to talk it over. But before we drove away too, I received a most unexpected and eloquent compliment from Mr. Jellyby. He came up to me in the hall, took both my hands, pressed them earnestly, and opened his mouth twice. I was so sure of his meaning that I said, quite flurried, “You are very welcome, sir. Pray don’t mention it!”

“I hope this marriage is for the best, guardian,” said I when we three were on our road home.

“I hope it is, little woman. Patience. We shall see.”

“Is the wind in the east to-day?” I ventured to ask him.

He laughed heartily and answered, “No.” “But it must have been this morning, I think,” said I. He answered “No” again, and this time my dear girl confidently answered “No” too and shook the lovely head which, with its blooming flowers against the golden hair, was like the very spring. “Much YOU know of east winds, my ugly darling,” said I, kissing her in my admiration — I couldn’t help it.

Well! It was only their love for me, I know very well, and it is a long time ago. I must write it even if I rub it out again, because it gives me so much pleasure. They said there could be no east wind where Somebody was; they said that wherever Dame Durden went, there was sunshine and summer air.

Chapter XXXI— Nurse and Patient I had not been at home again many days when

to take a peep over Charley’s shoulder and see how she was getting on with her copy-book.

Writing was a trying business to Charley, who seemed to have no natural power over a pen, but in whose hand every pen appeared to become perversely animated, and to go wrong and crooked, and to stop, and splash, and sidle into corners like a saddle-donkey. It was very odd to see what old letters Charley’s young hand had made, they so wrinkled, and shrivelled, and tottering, it so plump and round. Yet Charley was uncommonly expert at other things and had as nimble little fingers as I ever watched.

“Well, Charley,” said I, looking over a copy of the letter O in which it was represented as square, triangular, pear-shaped, and collapsed in all kinds of ways, “we are improving. If we only get to make it round, we shall be perfect, Charley.”

Then I made one, and Charley made one, and the pen wouldn’t join Charley’s neatly, but twisted it up into a knot.

“Never mind, Charley. We shall do it in time.”

Charley laid down her pen, the copy being finished, opened and shut her cramped little hand, looked gravely at the page, half in pride and half in doubt, and got up, and dropped me a curtsy.

“Thank you, miss. If you please, miss, did you know a poor person of the name of Jenny?”

“A brickmaker’s wife, Charley? Yes.” “She came and spoke to me when I was out a little while ago, and said you knew her, miss.

She asked me if I wasn’t the young lady’s little maid — meaning you for the young lady, miss — and I said yes, miss.”

“I thought she had left this neighbourhood altogether, Charley.”

“So she had, miss, but she’s come back again to where she used to live — she and Liz. Did you know another poor person of the name of Liz, miss?”

“I think I do, Charley, though not by name.”

“That’s what she said!” returned Chariey. “They have both come back, miss, and have been tramping high and low.”

“Tramping high and low, have they, Charley?”

“Yes, miss.” If Charley could only have made the letters in her copy as round as the eyes with which she looked into my face, they would have been excellent. “And this poor person came about the house three or four days, hoping to get a glimpse of you, miss — all she wanted, she said — but you were away. That was when she saw me. She saw me a-going about, miss,” said Charley with a short laugh of the greatest delight and pride, “and she thought I looked like your maid!”

“Did she though, really, Charley?”

“Yes, miss!” said Charley. “Really and truly.”

And Charley, with another short laugh of the purest glee, made her eyes very round again and looked as serious as became my maid. I was never tired of seeing Charley in the full enjoyment of that great dignity, standing before me with her youthful face and figure, and her steady manner, and her childish exultation breaking through it now and then in the pleasantest way.

“And where did you see her, Charley?” said I. My little maid’s countenance fell as she replied, “By the doctor’s shop, miss.” For Charley wore her black frock yet.

I asked if the brickmaker’s wife were ill, but Charley said no. It was some one else. Some one in her cottage who had tramped down to Saint Albans and was tramping he didn’t know where. A poor boy, Charley said. No father, no mother, no any one. “Like as Tom might have been, miss, if Emma and me had died after father,” said Charley, her round eyes filling with tears.

“And she was getting medicine for him, Charley?”

“She said, miss,” returned Charley, “how that he had once done as much for her.”

My little maid’s face was so eager and her quiet hands were folded so closely in one another as she stood looking at me that I had no great difficulty in reading her thoughts. “Well, Charley,” said I, “it appears to me that you and I can do no better than go round to Jenny’s and see what’s the matter.”

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From Page 57 The alacrity with which Charley brought my bonnet and veil, and having dressed me, quaintly pinned herself into her warm shawl and made herself look like a little old woman, sufficiently expressed her readiness. So Charley and I, without saying anything to any one, went out.

It was a cold, wild night, and the trees shuddered in the wind. The rain had been thick and heavy all day, and with little intermission for many days. None was falling just then, however. The sky had partly cleared, but was very gloomy — even above us, where a few stars were shining. In the north and north-west, where the sun had set three hours before, there was a pale dead light both beautiful and awful; and into it long sullen lines of cloud waved up like a sea stricken immovable as it was heaving. Towards London a lurid glare overhung the whole dark waste, and the contrast between these two lights, and the fancy which the redder light engendered of an unearthly fire, gleaming on all the unseen buildings of the city and on all the faces of its many thousands of wondering inhabitants, was as solemn as might be.

I had no thought that night — none, I am quite sure — of what was soon to happen to me. But I have always remembered since that when we had stopped at the garden-gate to look up at the sky, and when we went upon our way, I had for a moment an undefinable impression of myself as being something different from what I then was. I know it was then and there that I had it. I have ever since connected the feeling with that spot and time and with everything associated with that spot and time, to the distant voices in the town, the barking of a dog, and the sound of wheels coming down the miry hill.

It was Saturday night, and most of the people belonging to the place where we were going were drinking elsewhere. We found it quieter than I had previously seen it, though quite as miserable. The kilns were burning, and a stifling vapour set towards us with a pale-blue glare.

We came to the cottage, where there was a feeble candle in the patched window. We tapped at the door and went in. The mother of the little child who had died was sitting in a chair on one side of the poor fire by the bed; and opposite to her, a wretched boy, supported by the chimneypiece, was cowering on the floor. He held under his arm, like a little bundle, a fragment of a fur cap; and as he tried to warm himself, he shook until the crazy door and window shook. The place was closer than before and had an unhealthy and a very peculiar smell.

I had not lifted by veil when I first spoke to the woman, which was at the moment of our going in. The boy staggered up instantly and stared at me with a remarkable expression of surprise and terror.

His action was so quick and my being the cause of it was so evident that I stood still instead of advancing nearer.

“I won’t go no more to the berryin ground,” muttered the boy; “I ain’t a-going there, so I tell you!”

I lifted my veil and spoke to the woman. She said to me in a low voice, “Don’t mind him, ma’am. He’ll soon come back to his head,” and said to him, “Jo, Jo, what’s the matter?”

“I know wot she’s come for!” cried the boy.

“Who?” “The lady there. She’s come to get me to go along with her to the berryin ground. I won’t go to the berryin ground. I don’t like the name on it.

She might go a-berryin ME.” His shivering came on again, and as he leaned against the wall, he shook the hovel.

“He has been talking off and on about such like all day, ma’am,” said Jenny softly. “Why, how you stare! This is MY lady, Jo.” “Is it?” returned the boy doubtfully, and surveying me with his arm held out above his burning eyes. “She looks to me the t’other one. It ain’t the bonnet, nor yet it ain’t the gownd, but she looks to me the t’other one.”

My little Charley, with her premature experience of illness and trouble, had pulled off her bonnet and shawl and now went quietly up to him with a chair and sat him down in it like an old sick nurse. Except that no such attendant could have shown him Charley’s youthful face, which seemed to engage his confidence.

“I say!” said the boy. “YOU tell me. Ain’t the lady the t’other lady?”

Charley shook her head as she methodically drew his rags about him and made him as warm as she could.

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“Oh!” the boy muttered. “Then I s’pose she ain’t.”

“I came to see if I could do you any good,” said I. “What is the matter with you?”

“I’m a-being froze,” returned the boy hoarsely, with his haggard gaze wandering about me, “and then burnt up, and then froze, and then burnt up, ever so many times in a hour. And my head’s all sleepy, and all a-going mad-like — and I’m so dry — and my bones isn’t half so much bones as pain.

“When did he come here?” I asked the woman.

“This morning, ma’am, I found him at the corner of the town. I had known him up in London yonder. Hadn’t I, Jo?” “Tom-all–Alone’s,” the boy replied.

Whenever he fixed his attention or his eyes, it was only for a very little while. He soon began to droop his head again, and roll it heavily, and speak as if he were half awake.

“When did he come from London?” I asked.

“I come from London yes’day,” said the boy himself, now flushed and hot. “I’m a-going somewheres.”

“Where is he going?” I asked.

“Somewheres,” repeated the boy in a louder tone. “I have been moved on, and moved on, more nor ever I was afore, since the t’other one give me the sov’ring. Mrs. Snagsby, she’s always a-watching, and a-driving of me — what have I done to her? — and they’re all a-watching and a-driving of me. Every one of ’em’s doing of it, from the time when I don’t get up, to the time when I don’t go to bed. And I’m agoing somewheres. That’s where I’m a– going.

She told me, down in Tom-all–Alone’s, as she came from Stolbuns, and so I took the Stolbuns Road. It’s as good as another.”

He always concluded by addressing Charley.

“What is to be done with him?” said I, taking the woman aside. “He could not travel in this state even if he had a purpose and knew where he was going!”

“I know no more, ma’am, than the dead,” she replied, glancing compassionately at him. “Perhaps the dead know better, if they could only tell us. I’ve kept him here all day for pity’s sake, and I’ve given him broth and physic, and Liz has gone to try if any one will take him in (here’s my pretty in the bed — her child, but I call it mine); but I can’t keep him long, for if my husband was to come home and find him here, he’d be rough in putting him out and might do him a hurt. Hark! Here comes Liz back!”

The other woman came hurriedly in as she spoke, and the boy got up with a half-obscured sense that he was expected to be going. When the little child awoke, and when and how Charley got at it, took it out of bed, and began to walk about hushing it, I don’t know. There she was, doing all this in a quiet motherly manner as if she were living in Mrs. Blinder’s attic with Tom and Emma again.

The friend had been here and there, and had been played about from hand to hand, and had come back as she went. At first it was too early for the boy to be received into the proper refuge, and at last it was too late. One official sent her to another, and the other sent her back again to the first, and so backward and forward, until it appeared to me as if both must have been appointed for their skill in evading their duties instead of performing them. And now, after all, she said, breathing quickly, for she had been running and was frightened too, “Jenny, your master’s on the road home, and mine’s not far behind, and the Lord help the boy, for we can do no more for him!” They put a few halfpence together and hurried them into his hand, and so, in an oblivious, half-thankful, half-insensible way, he shuffled out of the house.

“Give me the child, my dear,” said its mother to Charley, “and thank you kindly too! Jenny, woman dear, good night!

Young lady, if my master don’t fall out with me, I’ll look down by the kiln by and by, where the boy will be most like, and again in the morning!” She hurried off, and presenfty we passed her hushing and singing to her child at her own door and looking anxiously along the road for her drunken husband.

I was afraid of staying then to speak to either woman, lest I should bring her into trouble. But I said to Charley that we must not leave the boy to die. Charley, who knew what to do much better than I did, and whose quickness equalled her presence of mind, glided on before me, and presently we came up with Jo, just short of the brickkiln.

I think he must have begun his journey with some small bundle under his arm and must have had it stolen or lost it. For he still carried his wretched fragment of fur cap like a bundle, though he went bareheaded through the rain, which now fell fast. He stopped when we called to him and again showed a dread of me when I came up, standing with his lustrous eyes fixed upon me, and even arrested in his shivering fit.

I asked him to come with us, and we would take care that he had some shelter for the night.

“I don’t want no shelter,” he said; “I can lay amongst the warm bricks.”

“But don’t you know that people die there?” replied Charley.

“They dies everywheres,” said the boy. “They dies in their lodgings — she knows where; I showed her — and they dies down in Tom-all– Alone’s in heaps. They dies more than they lives, according to what I see.” Then he hoarsely whispered Charley, “If she ain’t the t’other one, she ain’t the forrenner. Is there THREE of ’em then?”

Charley looked at me a little frightened. I felt half frightened at myself when the boy glared on me so.

But he turned and followed when I beckoned to him, and finding that he acknowledged that influence in me, I led the way straight home. It was not far, only at the summit of the hill. We passed but one man. I doubted if we should have got home without assistance, the boy’s steps were so uncertain and tremulous. He made no complaint, however, and was strangely unconcerned about himself, if I may say so strange a thing.

Leaving him in the hall for a moment, shrunk into the corner of the window-seat and staring with an indifference that scarcely could be called wonder at the comfort and brightness about him, I went into the drawing-room to speak to my guardian. There I found Mr. Skimpole, who had come down by the coach, as he frequently did without notice, and never bringing any clothes with him, but always borrowing everything he wanted.

They came out with me directly to look at the boy. The servants had gathered in the hall too, and he shivered in the window-seat with Charley standing by him, like some wounded animal that had been found in a ditch.

“This is a sorrowful case,” said my guardian after asking him a question or two and touching him and examining his eyes. “What do you say, Harold?”

“You had better turn him out,” said Mr. Skimpole.

“What do you mean?” inquired my guardian, almost sternly.

“My dear Jarndyce,” said Mr. Skimpole, “you know what I am: I am a child. Be cross to me if I deserve it. But I have a constitutional objection to this sort of thing. I always had, when I was a medical man. He’s not safe, you know. There’s a very bad sort of fever about him.”

Mr. Skimpole had retreated from the hall to the drawing-room again and said this in his airy way, seated on the music-stool as we stood by.

“You’ll say it’s childish,” observed Mr. Skimpole, looking gaily at us. “Well, I dare say it may be; but I AM a child, and I never pretend to be anything else. If you put him out in the road, you only put him where he was before. He will be no worse off than he was, you know.

Even make him better off, if you like. Give him sixpence, or five shillings, or five pound ten — you are arithmeticians, and I am not — and get rid of him!”

“And what is he to do then?” asked my guardian.

“Upon my life,” said Mr. Skimpole, shrugging his shoulders with his engaging smile, “I have not the least idea what he is to do then. But I have no doubt he’ll do it.”

“Now, is it not a horrible reflection,” said my guardian, to whom I had hastily explained the unavailing efforts of the two women, “is it not a horrible reflection,” walking up and down and rumpling his hair, “that if this wretched creature were a convicted prisoner, his hospital would be wide open to him, and he would be as well taken care of as any sick boy in the kingdom?”

“My dear Jarndyce,” returned Mr. Skimpole, “you’ll pardon the simplicity of the question, coming as it does from a creature who is perfectly simple in worldly matters, but why ISN’T he a prisoner then?”

My guardian stopped and looked at him with a whimsical mixture of amusement and indignation in his face.

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“Our young friend is not to be suspected of any delicacy, I should imagine,” said Mr. Skimpole, unabashed and candid. “It seems to me that it would be wiser, as well as in a certain kind of way more respectable, if he showed some misdirected energy that got him into prison. There would be more of an adventurous spirit in it, and consequently more of a certain sort of poetry.”

“I believe,” returned my guardian, resuming his uneasy walk, “that there is not such another child on earth as yourself.”

“Do you really?” said Mr. Skimpole. “I dare say! But I confess I don’t see why our young friend, in his degree, should not seek to invest himself with such poetry as is open to him. He is no doubt born with an appetite — probably, when he is in a safer state of health, he has an excellent appetite. Very well. At our young friend’s natural dinner hour, most likely about noon, our young friend says in effect to society, ‘I am hungry; will you have the goodness to produce your spoon and feed me?’ Society, which has taken upon itself the general arrangement of the whole system of spoons and professes to have a spoon for our young friend, does NOT produce that spoon; and our young friend, therefore, says ‘You really must excuse me if I seize it.’ Now, this appears to me a case of misdirected energy, which has a certain amount of reason in it and a certain amount of romance; and I don’t know but what I should be more interested in our young friend, as an illustration of such a case, than merely as a poor vagabond — which any one can be.”

“In the meantime,” I ventured to observe, “he is getting worse.”

“In the meantime,” said Mr. Skimpole cheerfully, “as Miss Summerson, with her practical good sense, observes, he is getting worse. Therefore I recommend your turning him out before he gets still worse.”

The amiable face with which he said it, I think I shall never forget.

“Of course, little woman,” observed my guardian, tuming to me, “I can ensure his admission into the proper place by merely going there to enforce it, though it’s a bad state of things when, in his condition, that is necessary. But it’s growing late, and is a very bad night, and the boy is worn out already. There is a bed in the wholesome loft-room by the stable; we had better keep him there till morning, when he can be wrapped up and removed. We’ll do that.”

“Oh!” said Mr. Skimpole, with his hands upon the keys of the piano as we moved away. “Are you going back to our young friend?”

“Yes,” said my guardian.

“How I envy you your constitution, Jarndyce!” returned Mr. Skimpole with playful admiration.

“You don’t mind these things; neither does Miss Summerson. You are ready at all times to go anywhere, and do anything. Such is will! I have no will at all — and no won’t — simply can’t.”

“You can’t recommend anything for the boy, I suppose?” said my guardian, looking back over his shoulder half angrily; only half angrily, for he never seemed to consider Mr. Skimpole an accountable being.

“My dear Jarndyce, I observed a bottle of cooling medicine in his pocket, and it’s impossible for him to do better than take it. You can tell them to sprinkle a little vinegar about the place where he sleeps and to keep it moderately cool and him moderately warm. But it is mere impertinence in me to offer any recommendation.

Miss Summerson has such a knowledge of detail and such a capacity for the administration of detail that she knows all about it.”

We went back into the hall and explained to Jo what we proposed to do, which Charley explained to him again and which he received with the languid unconcern I had already noticed, wearily looking on at what was done as if it were for somebody else. The servants compassionating his miserable state and being very anxious to help, we soon got the loft-room ready; and some of the men about the house carried him across the wet yard, well wrapped up. It was pleasant to observe how kind they were to him and how there appeared to be a general impression among them that frequently calling him “Old Chap” was likely to revive his spirits. Charley directed the operations and went to and fro between the loft-room and the house with such little stimulants and comforts as we thought it safe to give him.

To Be Continued Next Issue

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Transition at Sacred Heart School, Yea 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 ... School!

■ Kinder transition has blasted off at Sacred Heart School, Yea. No, the children haven't been building another Apollo, but they have written their names on a rocket that is zooming them off in readiness for school in 2020.

Already they have counted how many eggs the chickens have laid, discovered how high they can go on the climbing net, run to the top of the wooden dragon, followed the sequence of stories and made their own books, created artworks and puppets, sang songs and played percussion instruments, and there is still more to come, like cooking.

During Term Three, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School offers a complimentary kinder transition program for children who are either enrolled to commence Prep in 2020, or who are thinking of enrolling.

The program takes place every second Monday from 9am-1am and the next session meets in Maranatha Hall on Monday (Sept. 2) Purpose of the program is to allow the children to get to know the school and to feel comfortable in the grounds, whilst also enjoying pre-literacy school activities, music, games, art and lots of oral language experiences.

The kinder transition program continues in Term Four in the Prep room with the Prep teacher.

Families who are interested in a school tour, or in having their child participate in the transition program, should make inquiries at the school office on phonme 5797 2723. Enrolled students receive a complimentary Sacred Heart sports T-shirt that they wear to each transition session. Houston, this is Sacred Heart. We are ready for take off!

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● Heidi Dredge excited about collecting an egg.

● Full concentration on the work at hand. ● Tony Johnston’s rocket ship.

● Toby Johnston and Zach Fairchild.

● Heidi Dredge, Siobhan Somerton, Toby Johnston, Bella Brennan and Zach Fairchild making music at the Sacred Heart Transition session.

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Div. 2 Elimination, Qualifying Finals

● Rachael Normington (Yea B-Grade) against Powelltown at Yarra Junction.

● Judy Watts in action for Yea D-Grade against Alexandra at Woori Yallock.

● Cindy Hayes (Yea B-Grade) played an impressive game against Powelltown.

● Fiona Purvis in the Yea C-Grade team against Yarra Glen.

● Jilly Hargraves (Yea) and Kate Mullins (Alexandra in the D-Grade Final.

● Chelsea Helder in the Yea C-Grade match against Yarra Glen.

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Set to run in the Cox Plate

■ The Moonee Valley Racing Club is right on the ball with their international Cox Plate to be run at Moonee Valley on October 26.

To celebrate the running of the 99th year of the running of the Cox Plate, the Moonee Valley Racing Club, has launched the Ladbrokes Cox Plate International Series.

The winners of the leading middle-distance weight-for-age GroupOone races around the world will be eligible to win the AUS $2million bonus, should they win the Cox Plate this year.

With prize money of $5 million on offer, the Cox Plate is Australia's richest Group One weight-for-age race, and the richest 2000 (2040) metre race in the world.

The first race to be included in the Ladbrokes Cox Plate International Series was the JRA Group Takarazuka Kinen over 2200 metres on Sunday June 23.

The Takarazuka Kinen is one of Japan's most prestigious races, with an honour roll that includes many a champion.

The likes of Deep Impact in (2006), Admire Moon (2007), Orfevre (2012), Gold Ship (2013● Mystic Journey wins well at Caulfield. Racing Photos 14), and Mikki Rocket last year.

The 2019 Takarzuka Kinen was won in imis recuperating well after undergoing brain surpressive fashion by top galloper, Lys Gracieux, gery. Cranbourne trainer Robbie Griffiths, who and the high quality mare is among the nominais also the head of the Victorian Trainer's Assotions for this year's Cox Plate. ciation, hadn't been well for some time.

The second leg of the Cox Plate InternaI have been a friend of Robbie's for quite a tional Series will be the Group One Juddmonte while, going back when he and his brother Rod International which was run at the York Racewere riding. course recently.

Over the years he has had good success with The Juddmonte International is recognised his team, and dedicated staff. as one of the world's great thoroughbred races, He was operated on at the Monash Medical with many champions victorious over the 2090 Centre for a brain aneurysm, and will naturally metres at York. go through post-operative care and is reported The immortal Roberto won the inaugural runto be resting comfortably. ning back in 1972.

He was due to possibly get out of hospital as He was followed by other great gallopers such we go to press today. as Willow, Troy, Singspiel, Giant's Causeway, He has been a fighter right throughout his life Sea the Stars, and the great Frankel, who feain racing, and will jump this hurdle in his stride. ture on the honour roll of the Juddmonte InterAll the best Robbie, to you, your family, and national. your team.

The Juddmonte International carries prizemoney of one million English pounds ($1.8 million AUD).

Last year the Godolphin's Benbatl finished second to the mighty Winx, in her winning her fourth consecutive Cox Plate.

Benbatl then finished fifth in the Juddmonte International behind Roaring Lion.

He followed this up with victory in the Group One Caulfield Stakes over 2000 metres, enroute to the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.

Under the conditions of the Ladbrokes Cox Plate International Series, if the winner of this year's Juddmonte International wins the Cox Plate, connections would win the lot.

They take home the three million Australian for the Cox Plate win, plus the Australian Bonus of two million.

All up, a total of AUD $5 million, or £2,755,000 English pounds.

In addition to the prizemoney and bonus, the Moonee Valley Racing Club, also offers the win- waiving the nomination and acceptance/declaning connections of the Juddmonte Interna- ration fees. tional, return flights and accommodation, and covers all expenses incurred in travelling to Melbourne to contest the Cox Plate as well as ■ One of the most popular racehorse trainers

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Sheeds is tops

■ News that AFL footy legend and racing enthusiast, Kevin Sheedy, has been appointed the face of the Melbourne Racing Club's Series campaign would be welcome news among all racing lovers.

On top of his outstanding contributions to League Football, Kevin is well known in racing circles having raced the former Blue Diamond Stakes and Doomben Cup winner, Bel Espirit.

On top this he races horses and is closely connected to the sire, Moshe, a brother to leading sire, All Too Hard.

Sheedy will attend the Ladbrokes Caulfield Guineas Day at Caulfield on October 12, where he will present the winner of the Schillaci Stakes, and officially invite the connections to take part in the rich Everest Classic, worth $14 million, all up.

He added there is no better time to get behind Australian Racing and the MRC. Following the announcement last month that the MRC had procured the Australian Turf Club-owned slot in the TAB Everest Series of events, the MRC Everest Series leading up to the October 19 race, will be represented by the winner of the Schillaci Stakes on Saturday October 12 to run in the big race.

As stated, Kevin has had a long interest in horse racing; he was a natural fit to head up the MRC Everest Series.

I have worked with Kevin on a few occasions, he is always so switched on in anything he tackles, and it is great to see, someone of the calibre of ‘Sheeds’ heading up the classic attempt.

Sheedy will be in the mounting yard at Randwick come Everest Stakes Day, cheering on the Melbourne Racing Club galloper.

From a friend, well done Kev; catch up when you get back to Melbourne, and all the best.

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Rated to perfection at Terang

■ Youthful Riddell based trainer/driver Xavier O'Connor scored an easy victory with above average 4Y0 Modern Art-Shenfields Lane gelding Too The Max at Terang on Tuesday, taking out the Greavey's Fruit, Veg & Flower Pace over 1680 metres.

Quickly away from the pole to lead, Too The Max was rated to perfection and when given full rein on straightening, coasted to the wire 1.9 metres in advance of a death-seating Athlone, returning a mile rate of 1-58.9.

Speechcraft was a distant third 8.1 metres away from three back the markers.

Harness Racing

Best form

■ This season's S-A Derby winner Major Exclusive, a colt by Art Major from Saved A Corka raced and trained by Rockbank's Ted Caruana, returned to his best form with an all of the way victory in the Terang CRT Pace over 2180 metres.

Beginning swiftly from gate three to lead for Ararat freelance Michael Bellman, Major Exclusive nursed to the wire scored comfortably by 2.6 metres in a rate of 2-02.1 from local hope I Am Erik (gate six) which raced exposed, with Madame Annie (three wide last lap from the tail) third 2.7 metres away.

Raced roughly

■ Bannockburn trainer/driver Geoff Webster was successful aboard 5Y0 Angus Hall-Cee Em Lass mare Clover Lou in the Morsbearings Trotters Handicap over 2180 metres.

Beginning safely from barrier two, Clover Lou crossed to lead but after being pressured by Penelope mid-race, allowed her to stride clear at the bell.

Although inclined to race a little roughly in the final circuit, Clover Lou finished best along the sprint lane to prevail by 2.5 metres over a game Im Notta Trotter which battled on gamely after leading up the outside division last lap.

Penelope faded for third 3.1 metres away. The mile rate 2-08.1.

Surged to front

■ Allendale trainer Allan Stephens snared the Goodtime Lodge Pace over 1680 metres with 8Y0 Bettors Delight-Lite Energy mare Soho Madonna who registered her first victory since August 2015.

Raced by son Adam, Soho Madonna gave Michael Bellman who gave a polished exhibition a double on the night.

Going forward from outside the front line to sit in the open outside polemarker Heza Braxton, Soho Madonna surged to the front on the home turn, defying all challengers to greet the judge 11.6 metres in advance of Caesars Falcon (one/ two) and Fresco Bromac (one/one) who had every opportunity to run her down. The mile rate 2-00.7.

Full steam up

■ At Yarra Valley the day before, Maddingley trainer Faye Gillespie would have been ecstatic when 6Y0 Julius Caesar-Mystical Rainbow gelding Magic Caesar scored in the Yarra Valley Party Hire Pace over 2150 metres.

Driven by Greg Sugars, Magic Caesar (Greg Sugars) spent most of the race at the tail end before being sent forward three wide solo in the final circuit.

With full steam up, Magic Caesar crossed to lead on the final bend to defeat a death-seating Lotakevi by 1.2 metres in a rate of 2-02.1. Run Miles Run was third 2.2 metres back after always being handy.

Training double

■ On a day of multiple victory's at Yarra Valley, Alison Alford chalked up a training double with Zephiane in the 2150 metre Yarra Valley Toyota Vicbred Trotters Mobile and Ripple Effect the Ashmores Automotive Smash Repairs Pace over 2150 metres as did Gavin Lang with Kathys Son (2150m United Petroleum Pace) and Pirate Bay (1650m Donvale Bowls Club Pace), while Chris Alford finished the afternoon with

finished full of running four wide on straightening to register a runaway 5.1 metre margin over the ever reliable Bernie Winkle (one/two - four wide home turn), with Bad Billy third 2.3 metres away when first up since January. The mile rate 1-57.9.

Top The Ace making his first appearance for Kelly, led throughout from gate three to easily account for a hard pulling death-seating Manassa Sky by 11.7 metres in a rate of 1-57.8.

Old timer 11Y0 Lights And Music was third a half head away after trailing the winner and using the sprint lane.

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Strong run home

■ Maryborough raced on Wednesday, the day belonging to hard working Nulla Vale (Lancefield area) trainer/driver Steve Cleave who landed the Good Work - Big Cat Print Pace over 1690 metres with half brothers - 5Y0 Village Jasper gelding Tre Cool and the Redpath Tyre & Battery Service Pace over the same distance with 4Y0 Shadow Play gelding Mirakuru, both from the same broodmare Maximum Joy. Tre Cool settled three back in the moving line from gate five before gaining a three wide trail on the back of Calaquendi ahead of him racing for the bell.

Easing four wide on turning, Tre Cool ran home strongly to record a 2.8 metre margin in 1-59.1 over Calaquendi and Inaugurate from last third 4.1 metres away.

Mirakura a horse with a most promising future, possied three back in the moving line from the extreme draw and despite racing a little fierce, let rip with a nice turn of speed three wide in the last lap to assume control on the final bend.

Racing clear on straightening, Mirakuru reached the wire 11.5 metres in advance of a death-seating Love Me Or Hate Me, with Oscar Bravo running on late from mid-field along the markers for third 3.1 metres back in a mile rate of 1-57.1. Both winners are raced by Steve and Cleave Racing Stables.

Procession time

■ Monegeetta trainer/driver David Miles landed the Happy Birthday Colin Phyllis Trotters Mobile over 1690 metres with head strong 5Y0 Muscles Yankee-Jasmyns Gift mare Zoeys Gift in a mile rate of 2-00.9.

Going forward from the extreme draw as the start was effected, Zoeys Gift was trapped three anf four wide before surprisingly being allowed to cross the leader Angels Breath at the bell.

Once in the lead, the race became a procession, with Zoeys Gift scoring by 1.4 metres from Angels Breath which had her chance along the sprint lane. Forever Kronos was third from midfield 1.6 metres away.

Happy results

■ Swan Hill raced on Wednesday and astute Toolern Vale trainer Adam Kelly made an unusual visit to the Northern Region with happy results, snaring a stable double - 5Y0 Shadow Play-Magical Miss gelding Magical Marn taking the Grainflex Pace over 2240 metres and 6Y0 Aces N Sevens-Princess Dilinger gelding Top The Ace the Websters Vaccine Pace over the same trip, both driven by stable reinsman Zac Phillips.

Magical Marn a heavily supported favourite, appreciated the drop in class from recent metropolitan racing and after being restrained from outside the front row, spent most of the race at the rear as NSW visitor Plata O Plomo (gate 3) crossed polemarker Tippitinya shortly after the start to lead. Trailing Bad Billy (three wide last lap) approaching the home turn, Magical Marn

■ Barham trainer Ruth Arthur is no stranger to Swan Hill meetings after competing both there and Nyah on a regular basis over the years and brought up two wins in succession with SafariElsu Dream filly Wild Imagination who was successful in the 1750 metre Tama Australia 3Y0 Pace.

Driven by Chris Svanosio, Wild Imagination starting from the extreme draw was immediately sent forward in the three wide line covering plenty of extra ground all through the race.

Joining the pacemaker Gracia Cullen (gate 5) on the home turn, Wild Imagination dashed clear on turning to record an impressive 5.7 metre victory over Key Defender along the sprint lane from three back the markers, with Gracie Cullen holding down third 3.6 metres back. The mile rate 1-56.3.

Treble for night

■ Marong trainer Shaun McNaulty landed the Cydectin Multimin Trotters Handicap over 2240 metres at Swan Hill with Travel Bug, a 3Y0 gelded son od Dream Vacation and Tricia Powell in a 2-04 mile rate giving Zac Phillips a treble for the night.

Starting solo on the front line, Travel Bug jumped straight to the front and rated to perfection, left his rivals standing on the home turn, coasting to the wire 17.6 metres ahead of Tennoeagle (10 metres) which trailed, with 30 metre equal backmarker Kimmywho also trained by McNaulty coming from the rear on straightening for third 20.7 metres away in third place.

Too tough

■ At Ballarat on Thursday, Grenville's Greg and Debra Moss were successful with 7Y0 Zooma-Hersbey gelding Strazeele in the 2200 metre Parma For A Farmer Trotters Mobile. Left exposed for the final circuit after Magic Owens ahead of him dropped to the back of the leader Argentine Tango, Strazeele raced by daughters Donna and Kristy was too tough at the finish for his rivals, scoring by 2.9 metres over Magic Owens, with Argentine Tango weakening to be third 9 metres away. The mile rate 2-01.6.

Was restrained

■ Mt Cottrell trainer/driver Ritchie Caruana snared the Flying Horse Bistro Pace over 1710 metres with Off The Radar, a 6Y0 entire by Grinfromeartoear from Mattsbabe in a rate of 1-57.5. Spending most of the race at the rear after being restrained from outside the front line, Off The Radar ran home strongly out wide on the track to prevail by a half head from Tasmanian Tiwanaku (one/one) and the leader All Starzzz Megan who was a nose away third in a thrilling finish. It was Off The Radar's 7th success in 46 outings.

Victory No 8

■ Lance Justice's speedy Kiwi bred Bettors Delight-Sacajawea 4Y0 gelding Jean Luc chalked up victory number eight when greeting the judge in the 2200 metre Nextra Wendouree Newsagency Pace. Crossing Goodtime Rusty (gate 4) inside him shortly after the start, Jean Luc was challenged several times looking vulnerable. Although the margin wasn't big, Jean Luc gave plenty in the straight, scoring by 2 metres in 2-00 even from Deekays Dollar from last, with Our Quinn (four back the markers) 2.7 metres away in third place.

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday - Shepparton, Thursday Maryborough/Melton, Friday - Mildura/ Bendigo, Saturday - Melton, Sunday - Stawell, Monday - Yarra Valley, Tuesday - Echuca.

Horses to follow

■ Mota Mate, Athlone, Madame Annie, All Jokers Todaright, Izzy Jolie, Manassa Sky, Luv Me Or Hate Me, Key Defender, Kevin Richard, Poppys Princess, Time Thief, Deekays Dollar.

Arts Extra Convent Gallery Gallery 1 We Watch Them to be Ready forTheir Arrival Siying Zhou The nuns at the Abbotsford Convent once used this front room to make cakes for the visiting priests. In response to the site's history, Zhou embodies shared experiences, reconstructing a version of the past that does not belong to her. By juxtaposing the labour of the nuns with that of Chinese immigrant women, Zhou draws attention to the invisible labour and love that these women give under unequal power and social structures.

Gallery 2 Transform into the animal you need to Anthea Kemp Transform the animal you need to be is an exhibition investigating ideas of how nostalgia and place feeds into one's identity. The intention of the artist is to create new personal symbolic meaning through representations of animals.

Gallery 3 Morning Fumes Camille Thomas and Atla Hale Morning Fumes is an exhibition that combines two practices that work with ritual; the ritual of making and ritual mace personally sacred.

Gallery 4 Bring Home the Bacon Stephanie Wilson Bring Home the Bacon is about an element of society that the artist encounters regularly and finds the strangest and also the most interesting corporate and institutional style interiors. It is a pert of society in which they are a willing participant, but also one that they recognise as absurd and lacking value.

Gallery 5 Pheromone Trap Jennifer Mathews Pheromone Trap presents a sculptural installation that explores the ideas of parasitism in relation to private property. If we look at the interior of the house through the vantage point of the parasite, we are welcomed into a pleasurable and distressing infrastructure. Against the uninvited use of sustenance and warmth, our host van only react with hostility or hospitality.

Gallery 6 (Everything is normal). Lachlan Horn My practice drifts between video, sculpture, installation and printmaking. Reading informs a lot of my work and I often steal the good bits. Playing in the spaces between language, memory, images and stories, I take pleasure in the simultaneous potential and inadequacy of works and the poetic spaces as they are pulled, pushed and spread around.

Abbotsford Convent Gallery 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford - Peter Kemp

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Rebs C and D in finals push ■ The AFL Outer East League has a staggered finish to the season across the three divisions, with the weekend kicking off the first week of Division 2 Finals, the final round of home and away matches in Division 1, and Round 17 of the Premier Division.

Alexandra Under 18s travelled to Healesville to host Wandin.

An even contest in the first quarter saw the Rebels hold a four-point lead at quarter time after kicking two goals to one but Wandin moved up a gear in the second quarter and kicked six unanswered goals to lead by five goals at halftime.

After a contentious tackle left a young Rebel unconscious and unable to return to the game, the Rebels had no bench whilst the Wandin team continued to rotate eight players through their bench in the second half.

The Rebels continued to work hard and the second half was a very even contest as both teams kicked one goal each in the third quarter and one goal each in the last quarter, Wandin taking the win 9.9 (63) to 4.8 (32).

Well done to the Rebels for giving their all despite no rotations and showing true Rebel spirit.

Awards: Bundalaguah Engineering award - Billy Miller, Hadfield Contractors award - Blake Azzopardi, Alexandra Tyrepower award - Angus Smith, Alexandra Apparel award - James Geldart, Alan & Betty Parsons award - Tom Rouget, Steyger Family award - Jackson Harris, Coach award - Willem Woolford.

Next Saturday, the Under 18s travel to Berwick Springs for their last match of the season. ★ The first weekend of Division 2 Finals saw Alexandra represented by the C- and D-Grade netball teams who played in Qualifying Finals at Woori Yallock. ★ NETBALLAWARDS Caltex $25 fuel card award - Mandy Gesler.

Vibe Hotel Marysville $20 meal - Kylie Cairns; Christy's Beauty Therapy $15 voucher - Tara Carter; C-Grade defeated Powelltown 45-26: JAMMM Catering $20 meal - Hana Duldig, Essence Coffee Lounge $10 meal - Ashleigh Creighton; D-Grade lost to Yea 44 -29: JAMMM Catering $20 meal - Eliza Gesler, Essence Coffee Lounge $10 meal - Taite Ritchie. ★ Division Two Finals continue this coming Saturday with C-Grade to play Seville in a Second Semi-Final with the winner to progress to the Grand Final and the loser to progress to the Preliminary Final.

D-Grade play Powelltownin a First-Semi Final with the winner to progress to the Preliminary Final and the loser to finish their season.

Venues for these matches are still to be confirmed by the League. As mentioned before, the Under 18s travel to Berwick Springs for their last game of the season on Saturday.

This coming Thursday, training will continue for the Under 18s football and two netball teams,

Sports Briefs No golf report

■ There was Yea Golf Club report to hand when we went to press.

Cricket training

■ Training for the Yea Tigers Cricket Club starts at 11am this Saturday (Aug. 31) at Topline Sports in Kilsyth.

Thornton report

■ The Thornton-Eildon District Football Netball Club appears in the news section.

Boat, Fishing Show

■ The Lake Eildon Boating and Fishing Show will be held from October 11-13, including houseboat display and water sport demonstrations

PHOTO: ASH LONG

● Mandy Gesler shot 20 goals for Alexandra’s C-Grade side on Saturday. the bar will be open and meals will be available, everyone is welcome.

The Alexandra Football-Netball Club Senior Presentation function is on Saturday, October 5 at the Marysville Vibe. ★ The Alexandra Football-Netball Club's rooms were the venue on Sunday (Aug. 25) for the 2019 Junior Presentation function for under 11s, 13s and 15s netball and Under 10s, 12s, 14s and 16s football teams.

A large crowd of players, parents, grandparents and supporters enjoyed presentations of trophies, medallions and assorted gifts.

Thank you to the trophy and medallion sponsors for their support and Eildon Bakery Café for the catering.

Congratulations to all the players, thank you to the coaches and their respective support staff, to all the canteen and Thursday dinner staff on a great job and everyone that contributed during the year to assist our junior football and netball teams complete a successful season in the Seymour District Junior Football/Netball League.

Thank you to Michelle Jack and Ross Malcolm for their assistance with photos during the year. A speech from Under 10s football coach Daniel Crane commenced proceedings and the players were called up to receive a Reddrops award and a medallion which was sponsored by North Central Constructions.

Presentations continued with coaches giving the following trophies and all remaining players in each team receiving a medallion.

UNDER 11 NETBALL Award: Best & Fairest. (Sponsor: St Marys Primary School. Darcy Kidd.

R/U Best/Fairest. (Conway Transport). Regan O’Toole.

Most Improved. (Stuart / Dee Lomas). Ashlee Collett.

Most Determined. (Vita Nova Fitness). Katy Puls.

Coach’sTrophy (Michelle Jack). Milly Wales.

Medallions were sponsored by Marion Coller. ★ UNDER 12 FOOTBALL Best and Fairest. (St Marys Primary School).

Noah Campbell.

R/Up Best/Fairest. (Marion Coller). Ryan Sproles.

Most Determined (Vita Nova Fitness). Drew Coller.

Most Consistent (Fineblade Civil). Callan Howell.

Most Improved (Stuart / Dee Lomas). Casey Collett.

Best Utility (Shane Rowntree). Will Clark.

Best 1st year player. (Michael / Kate Gleeson) Angus Burchall.

Coach's trophy (Stuart Coller). Ashley Dean.

Medallions were sponsored by Marion Coller. ★ UNDER 13 NETBALL Best & Fairest (Alex Grain Store). Danielle Nadj.

R/U Best/Fairest (Conway Transport). Emma Whitehead.

Most Improved (Stuart / Dee Lomas). Tahlee Christie.

Most Determined (Vita Nova Fitness). Caeley Palmer.

Coach's Trophy(Penny Van Lierop). Ruby Russell.

Medallions were sponsored by Charlie Bisset ★ UNDER 14 FOOTBALL Best and Fairest (Mick McCarty). Bradley Irvine.

Memorial Trophy. R/Up Best/Fairest (Brad Kidd). Harry Correa Most Determined (Vita Nova Fitness). Banjo Fitzpatrick.

Most Consistent (Fineblade Civil). Lachlan Armstrong.

Most Improved (Stuart / Dee Lomas).

Mitchell Coutts.

Best Utility (Armstrong Family). Cooper Kidd.

Best 1st year player (Michael/Kate Gleeson).

Charlie Hill.

Coach's trophy (Brad Miljkovic). Joseph Mills.

Medallions were sponsored by Brayden Norris. ★ UNDER 15 NETBALL Best & Fairest (Murrindindi Earthmoving).

Eliza Gesler.

R/U Best/Fairest (Conway Transport). Jazmin Collett.

Most Improved (Stuart/Dee Lomas). Taylah Dean.

Most Determined (Vita Nova Fitness).

Mikaela Krijt.

Coach's Trophy (Mandy Gesler). Tayla Arnett.

Medallions were sponsored by Aaron Westworth. ★ UNDER 15 NETBALL Best and Fairest (Keith/Ali Ray). Ryan Lucas.

R/Up Best/Fairest (Fineblade Civil). Brodie Humphries.

Most Determined (Vita Nova Fitness). Bowen McCarthy.

Most Consistent (Fineblade Civil). Jacob Bourke.

Most Improved (Stuart / Dee Lomas). Caleb Harding.

Best Utility (McCarthy Family). Ben Jack.

Best 1st year player (Michael/Kate Gleeson).

Ethan Russell.

Coach's trophy (John Tossol). William Cannan.

Medallions were sponsored by Michael Harper.

- Ray Steyger

Local Sport ECDRA

■ The final round of the East Central District Rifle Association Championship Club shoots, before August 30 cut off date for nominations for the State Champion of Champions competition, was conducted on Saturday.

It was a sparking late winter’s day with clear bright light and a wind that was just off the snow.

The wind, more like a breeze ,was icy cold and it played havoc with both the shooters and the shots, the hard part was the shoot was held over 500 and 600 yards, the longest ranges the ECDRA can shoot at Violet Town Range.

It was Rosco Davis who showed the way at 500yards with a 59.3 but David Wallace 58.3, Neal Hambridge 58,4 and PaulWatkins 58,2 were hot on his tail, the match was going to be decided at the 600 yard range and the conditions had not got any easier with the wind picking up a little.

David Wallace was off to a great start, at the 600yd stage, with 59.3 only to be matched

by Neal Hambridge also with 59.3, both showing exceptional ability to read the wind.

Finally, based on a two stage count one at 500 and one at 600 yards, Neal Hambridge won the day with 117.7 just 0.1 point ahead of David Wallace with 117.6.

A great result showing the depth of ability in the ECDRA Club a particularly sound performance by all shooters and for new members Randell and Glen they are slowly learning the tricks of that Violet Town wind.

The off-rifle results were; Distance. 500y F-Std Ross Davis 59.3, David Wallace 58.3, Geoff James 54.3, and Glen Chisholm 54. FOpen Neal Hambridge 58.4, Paul Watkins 58.2, Randell Underwood 48. Distance 600y F-Std David Wallace 59.3, 57.3 =116.6, Geoff James 53.2, 56.4 = 109.6, Glenn Chisholm 52, 52.1 = 104.1, Randell Underwood 54.2 and Ross Davis 53.1; F-Open Paul Watkins 57.1,55.3 = 112.4, Neal Hambridge 59.3 and Randell Underwood47.2.

The aggregate of the single stage at 500 and 600 yards was: F-Std; David Wallace 58.3,59.3 =117.6,Ross Davis 59.3 53.1 = 112.4, Geoff James 54.3, 53.2 = 108.5, Glen Chisholm 54,52, = 106 and Randell Underwood 48, 54.2 = 100.2 ; F-Open Neal Hambridge 58.4, 59.3 117.7, Paul Watkins 58.2, 57.1, = 115.3, and Randell Underwood 48 47.2 95.2. David Wallace took out the F standard class win and Neal Hambridge the F Open Class with Neal’s score being the highest off-rifle score for the day.

What a contest and then the match to be decided by just 0.1 points a great shoot and a great way to reach this part of the selection phase.

The final selections are yet to be determined as October, when the State shoot will be held, is a busy month and family comes first.

The executive’s decisions will be in next week’s paper. The way the members focused on the shoot on Saturday it is clear who ever gets the nod to attend the Champions of Champions will serve our community well.

As for the title of Club Champions, that has to wait until the presentation dinner that is held later this year and again going on the standard displayed under the cold conditions on Saturday the winners will be well deserving of the title.

There is a champion in each class of shooting Target Rifle, F Class standard and F class Open.

This competition will make the presentation dinner a special occasion.

Next week the ECDRA is heading back to Karramomusfor the second round of theChas Hayes Long Range Pennant and again Captain Neal Hambridge asks all shooters to be sure to arrive early so that the shoot can start on time to avoid the late afternoon cold and loss of clear light.

Shooters should check the calendar at www.ecdra.com.au for last minute details as should new shooters, although they are most welcome it is not good to turn up to Violet Town when the Club is at an away shoot.

- Robert Chaffe

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NFNL Scoreboard Division 1 ■ Seniors. Results. Round 18. Saturday, August 24. West Preston-Lakeside 12.14 (86) d Macleod 1.3 (81). Greensborough 10.15 (75) d Hurstbridge 8.6 (54). Montmorency 13.14 (92) d Lower Plenty 11.12 (78). North Heidelberg 21.8 (134) d Bundoora 12.7 (79).

Heidelberg 11.13 (79) d Northcote Park 3.12 (30).

■ Ladder. 1. Greensborough, 197.90, 68. 2.

Heidelberg, 150.99, 56. 3. North Heidelberg, 123.56, 50. 4. West Preston-Lakeside, 104.71, 40. 5. Montmorency, 91.64, 36. 6. Macleod, 94.10, 30. 7. Northcote Park, 72.73, 28. 8.

Hurstbridge, 85.14, 24. 9. Bundoora, 81.86, 20. 10. Lower Plenty, 61.38, 8.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 18. Saturday, August 24. West Preston-Lakeside 9.10 (64) d Macleod 8.12 (60). Greensborough 24.17 (161) d Hurstbridge 1.3 (9). Montmorency 20.22 (142) d Lower Plenty 5.2 (32). Bundoora 25.9 (159) d North Heidelberg 2.6 (18).

Heidelberg 6.19 (55) d Northcote Park 2.2 (14).

■ Ladder. 1. Greensborough, 446.14, 72. 2.

Bundoora, 193.36, 56. 3. West PrestonLakeside, 151.41, 52. 4. Montmorency, 142.41, 48. 5. Heidelberg, 98.37, 36. 6. North Heidelberg, 71.89, 36. 7. Macleod, 115.58, 28. 8. Lower Plenty, 63.09, 24. 9. Hurstbridge, 47.94, 8. 10. Northcote Park, 24.76, 0.

■ Under 19. Results. Round 18. Saturday, August 24. Whittlesea 9.10 (64) d Banyule 2.5 (17). St Mary’s 15.13 (103) d Macleod 6.6 (42). Bundoora 11.8 (74) d Eltham 1 10.13 (73). Greensborough 1 9.6 (60) d Diamond Creek 6.7 (43). Heidelberg 9.11 (65) d Montmorency 7.9 (51).

■ Ladder. 1. Eltham 1, 161.70, 60. 2. St Mary’s, 152.01, 56. 3. Heidelberg, 138.59, 52. 4. Bundoora, 147.81, 48. 5. Montmorency, 106.04, 46. 6. Whittlesea, 107.38, 36. 7.

Greensborough 1, 96.98, 28. 8. Banyule, 61.62, 28. 9. Diamond Creek, 75.35, 18. 10.

Macleod, 33.63, 8.

Division 2 ■ Seniors. Results. Round 18. Saturday, August 24. Whittlesea 18.13 (121) d Watsonia 6.5 (41). Eltham 10.15 (75) d Epping 4.7 (31).

Banyule 11.19 (85) d Thomastown 10.12 (72).

Fitzroy Stars 12.17 (89) d St Mary’s 8.12 (60).

Diamond Creek: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Banyule, 179.56, 52. 2.

Whittlesea, 150.44, 52. 3. Eltham, 142.15, 44.

4. Thomastown, 121.42, 36. 5, Diamond Creek, 107.96, 34. 6. Fitzroy Stars, 88.48, 30.

7. St Mary’s, 80.13, 24. 8. Watsonia, 62.14, 12. 9. Epping, 43.90, 4.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 18. Saturday, August 24. Whittlesea 12.16 (88) d Watsonia 1.1 (7). Eltham 30.25 (205) d Epping 2.1 (13).

Banyule 9.4 (58) d Thomastown 3.11 (29).

Fitzroy Stars 9.15 (69) d St Mary’s 7.5 (47).

Diamond Creek: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Eltham, 250.84, 52. 2. Whittlesea, 226.02, 52. 3. Fitzroy Stars, 165.70, 48.

4. St Mary’s, 143.85, 40. 5. Banyule, 131.49, 40. 6. Thomastown, 94.27, 28. 7. Diamond Creek, 75.54, 16. 8. Watsonia, 56.94, 12. 9.

Epping, 9.86, 0.

■ Under 19. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Mill Park 12.13 (985) d Mernda 3.14 (32).

Lower Plenty v West Preston-Lakeside.

Sport

Eagles U19s win final game

● Whittlesea Under 19s finished the home-and-away season with a 9.10 (64) win against Banyule 2.5 (17).

Photo: Whittlesea Football and Netball Club/Facebook ■ Three-out-of-three wins pleased Whittlesea (63) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 4.9 (33).

UNDER 19 Eagles supporters in last Saturday’s NFNLRound WHITTLESEA ............ 4.5, 6.6, 9.11, 12.16 (88) ■ Under 14 Girls Blue. Diamond Creek 18 home-and-away matches.

WATSONIA ....................... 0.0, 0.1, 0.1, 1.1 (7) Womens Blue 7.5 (47) d Whittlesea 3.5 (23).

Whittlesea. Goalkickers: B. Toll 3, S. Dempsey ■ Under 14 Girls Red. Diamond Creek SENIORS 2, J. Adamson 2, N. Byatt 2, H. Jarvie, B. Lang, Womens Blue 3.17 (35) d Yarrambat 1.3 (9).

WHITTLESEA ................ 2.1, 4.3, 4.6, 9.10 (64) J. Dyson. Best Players: S. Dempsey, L. Hughes, ■ Under 13 Blue. Montmorency 4.4 (28) d Laurimar Black 2.4 (16).

BANYULE ....................... 1.2, 1.3, 2.5, 2.5 (17) H. Jarvie, C. Sloan, J. Robinson.

Whittlesea. Goalkickers: L. Tyrell 2, B. Watsonia. Goalkicker: R. Eley. Best Players: ■ Under 13 Red. Whittlesea 5.5 (35) d Mill Fitzgerald 2, K. McMillan, L. Quine, T. Holm- J. Ozimek, R. Eley, J. Needham, N. Wyles, J. Park 1.6 (12).

■ Under 13 Green. South Morang 3.1 (19) d berg, J. Ellks, L. Webb. Best Players: L. Wool- Leslie, A. Creak.

Laurimar Teal 2.4 (16). acott, R. Johnson, K. McMillan, E. Kynaston, ■ Under 12 Blue. Whittlesea 4.4 (28) d MontK. Burns, B. Goodwin.

JUNIOR GRAND FINALS Banyule. Goalkcikers: M. Graham, D. Watt. ■ Under 16 Blue. Greensborough 5.14 (44) d morency Black 2.2 (14).

Best Players: P. Molony, M. Mikic, N. Mayne, Yarrambat 1.4 (10).

■ Under 12 Red. Mill Park 6.6 (42) d M. Graham C. Walsh, S. Mortell.

Yarrambat 3.5 (23).

■ Under 16 Red. Bundoora Park Thunderbolts ■ Under 12 Green. Diamond Creek 3.4 (22) d 10.14 (74) d Whittlesea 3.4 (22).

RESERVES ■ Under 16 Girls Blue. Research 5.14 (44) d Mernda Red 2.4 (16).

■ Under 12 Girls Blue. Diamond Creek WHITTLESEA ........ 3.3, 9.6, 14.10, 18.13 (121) Yarrambat 1.4 (10).

WATSONIA ...................... 2.4, 2.4, 4.5, 6.5 (41) ■ Under 16 Girls Red. Eltham 4.2 (26) d Dia- Womens 8.6 (54) d South Morang 1.3 (9).

■ Under 12 Girls Red. Mernda 2.1 (13) d Whittlesea. Goalkickers: J. Murphy 4, C. Bland mond Creek Womens Blue 2.2 (14).

3, M. Atta 2, S. Taplin 2, R. Dyson, M. Andrews, ■ Under 15 Blue. Yarrambat 10.13 (73) d Hurstbridge 1.2 (8).

■ Under 11 Blue. Montmorency Black 10.16 S. Indian, X. Dimasi, M. Langford, T. Falls, B. South Morang Blue 5.12 (42).

Bell. Best Players: M.Atta, X. Dimasi, C. Bland, ■ Under 15 Red. Mernda 10.15 (75) d Dia- (76) d West Preston-Lakeside 1.2 (8).

■ Under 11 Red. Eltham Red 9.5 (59) d Wallan J. Murphy, B. Bell, J. Eid. mond Creek 8.3 (51).

Watsonia. Goalkickers: K. Van Zwienen, S. ■ Under 14 Blue. South Morang 9.8 (62) d 1.5 (11).

■ Under 11 Green. West Ivanhoe 5.2 (32) d Leishman, M. Perfetto, X. Kelly, T. Leonardis, Eltham Black 1.6 (12).

B. Sutherland, K. Kemp. Best Players: G. Hines, ■ Under 14 Red. Research 5.11 (41) d Dia- Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 4.3 (27).

■ Under 11 Silver. Whittlesea Gold 6.8 (44) d M. Crawford, D. Gervasoni, K. White, X. Kelly, mond Creek 3.2 (20).

K. Kemp.

■ Under 14 Green. West Preston-Lakeside 9.9 Keon Park 3.5 (23).

Thornton women shine

Division 3 ■ Seniors. Results. Semi-Final. Saturday, August 24. Panton Hill 6.12 (48) d Laurimar 5.10 (40). Sunday, August 25. Kilmore v South Morang.

■ Reserves. Results. Semi-Final. Saturday, August 24. Heidelberg West 12.8 (80) d Kilmore 1.10 (16). Sunday, August 25. Old Eltham Collegians v Mernda.

Sunday Finals ■ Darebin Falcons 8.11 (59) defeated Diamond Creek Womens 2.1 (13) in the NFNL Under 18 Grand Final at C.T. Barling Reserve on Sunday (Aug. 25).

■ Research 9.17 (71) were strong winners against Eltham 5.3 (33) in the NFNL Under 17 Grand Final at J.E. Moore Park, Reservoir, on Sunday (Aug. 25).

● The Thornton-Eildon women’s football team pictured at Upwey-Tecoma last weekend. Photo: Toni Maree Abbott.

■ The Thornton girls travelled to Upwey for couple of goals together in the second quarter to the quarter in attack the Thornton girls broke their Preliminary Final showdown against come into the main break a couple of goals in even, 13 points separated the two teams at the Monbulk. The girls came out hard and took it front. Thornton were forced to make some final change, a quick centre break and Yolanda up to the much-fancied Monbulk, after a hard changes at half-time and came out swinging Vinycomb was able to snap a goal in the first hitting open quarter only one point separated hard. Kelly Fitzpatrick was thrown forward with 20 seconds of the quarter, with 8 minutes left the two teams. Monbulk were able to string a almost instant results, despite spending much of on the clock only 6 points separated the sides.

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Mixed bag for netball teams ■ Murrindindi’s netball teams enjoyed only limited success in Saturday’s finals.

Yea’s B- and C-Grade sides had disappointing losses to Powelltown and Yarra Glen respectively, at Yarra Junction. This ends the Tigers B- and C-Grade campaigns for 2019.

Alexandra’s D-Grade team was devastated with the 44-29 loss to Yea, at Woori Yallock.

The Rebs score a second chance in a SemiFinal this Saturday (Aug. 31).

Alexandra enjoyed a 45-26 win against Powelltown in C-Grade.

Yea rests its hopes on its A- and D-Grade teams which play this weekend, probably at Healesville.

Kinglake’sA-Grade netballers lost the Elimination Final to Seville, 37-32. The B-Grade team lost to Yarra Glen, 46-25, in a Qualifying Final.

PHOTO: ASH LONG

A-GRADE

ELIMINATION FINAL SEVILLE ..................................... 11, 20, 30, 37 KINGLAKE .................................. 7, 15, 23, 32 Kinglake. Goals: Billie Cvijetic 21. Best Players: Alice Waack, Taisha Agnew, Bridget Waack. ★ QUALIFYING FINAL YARRA GLEN ............................. 16, 30, 41, 53 YARRA JUNCTION .................... 10, 20, 26, 33 Yarra Glen. Goals: Nicole Moate 18, Alicia Hughes 30, Chloe gray 5. Best Players: Katelyn Vanderkolk, Nicole Moate, Alana Stone.

Yarra Junction. Goals: Amelia Rose Michelle 20, Claire Spicer 13. Best Players: Catherine Vermeltfoort, Katelin Borondy, Mia Motteram.

● Yarra Glen’s Madelaine Dale tries to block the shot of Yea’s Jess Armstrong PHOTO: ASH LONG

B-GRADE ELIMINATION FINAL POWELLTOWN ........................... 7, 24, 35, 44 YEA .................................................. 6, 8, 17, 23 Powelltown. Goals: Tayla Morton 29, Jodie Stenhouse 15. Best Players: Jacqueline Darwall, Jaime Lord, Kylie Hetherington.

Yea. Goals: Meg Sundblom 16, Cindy Hayes 7.

Best Players: Lauren Cronk, Cindy Hayes. ★ QUALIFYING FINAL YARRA GLEN .............................. 8, 23, 35, 46 KINGLAKE ................................... 6, 15, 20, 25 Yarra Glen. Goals: Stephanie Gibbs 26, Andrea Evans 7, Ellen Brown 1`3. Best Players: Stephanie gibbs, Meaghan Carter, Prue Purdey.

Kinglake. Goals: Danielle Howe 17, Molly McAllister 1, Teana Wards. Best Players: Danielle Howe, Lauren Watson, Taisha Agnew.

C-GRADE

ELIMINATION FINAL YARRA GLEN ............................... 9, 16, 25, 31 YEA ............................................... 5, 10, 13, 17 Yarra Glen. Goals: Elise Tanzen 19, Ruth Corry 10, Jodie Wilson 2. Best: Jacinda Fraser, Elise Tanzen, Madelaine Dale.

Yea. Goals: Jessica Armstrong, Fiona Purvis 3.

Best Players: Jessica Helder, Deborah Schickerling, Jessica Armstrong. ★ QUALIFYING FINAL ALEXANDRA ............................... 17, 26, 35, 45 POWELLTOWN .......................... 4, 12, 20, 26 Alexandra. Goals: Mandy Gesler 20. Best Players: Mandy Gesler, Hana Duldig.

Powelltown. Goals: Simone Traynor, Ghemma Beer 10. Best Players: Erin Benham, Simone Traynor.

D-GRADE

● Brydee Bond (Yea) shoots for goal, as Jacqueline Darwall defends for Yarra Glen in B-Grade, at Yarra Junction. Cindy Hayes looks on.

ELIMINATION FINAL POWELLTOWN ........................... 5, 14, 19, 23 YARRA GLEN ............................... 4, 13, 19, 25 Powelltown. Goals: Holly Cole 24, Kristy Sumner 1. Best Players: Caitlyn Parker, Hope McIntosh-Forrer, Holly Cole.

Yarra Glen. Goals: Katherine James 13, Kim Christian 10. Best Players: Charlotte Adam, Kim Christian, Zoe Binks. ★ QUALIFYING FINAL YEA ................................................ 9, 19, 27, 44 ALEXANDRA .............................. 11, 18, 27, 29 Yea. Goals: Hannah Broderick 20. Best Players: Judy Watts.

Alexandra: Best Players: Sarah Haggis.

Club Reports Yea Netball B-GRADE ELIMINATION FINAL YEA V POWELLTOWN Yeabowed out of the premiership race after going down convincingly to Powelltown. The first quarter was played at a high standard with defensive pressure a highlight from both sides, keeping scoring low. Yea trailed 7-8 at quarter-time.

Powelltown completely dominated the second quarter, blowing Yea out of the game. It took until after the 12-minute mark forYeato even bother the scorer, Powelltowntaking a match winning lead of 16 goals into half-time.

Yea got the rev up they deserved from coach Nikki Wattsat half-time and were asked to respond with a fighting spirit and not to drop their heads. Their second half was a lot better, all players making sure their work rate was at 100 per cent and despite things seemingly not happening the way they'd have liked, it was a well fought out finish. Powelltown still won the second half but only by 5, but were certainly well deserved winners on the day.

Despite their early exit the team has had a good season, beating all but two sides in the competition and at their best were a great team to watch. Well done to all players and big thanks to coach NikkiWattsand her assistant Deb Schickerling.

Powelltown 44 def Yea 23 Goals:M. Sundblom 16, C. Hayes 7 Best:L. Cronk, M. McSpeerin, C. Hayes C-GRADE ELIMINATION FINAL YEA V YARRA GLEN After only losing by one goal in the last encounter, Yea had every reason to be confident going into their elimination final against Yarra Glen.

The first five minutes of the game was goal for goal, both teams really pressuring the other when in possession. Yarra Glen were fierce around the midcourt contests making our girls work had to maintain the ball but they stood up to the challenge well. Yarra Glen steadied with late goals to take a four-goal lead.

As the game progressed, Yarra Glen’s lead also progressed but not without being made to earn every ball.

Yea'spressure all over the court was excellent, but so was their opponent and it wasYarrawho were able to capitalise a little easier than theTigers.

With the deficit only three turnovers away going into the second half, Yea tried a few different positional changes which worked well, but not well enough to eat into the margin. Yarra Glen scored a few goals very quickly in the third quarter and all of a sudden the margin was 12.

Scoring was low again for both teams in the last quarter, both defensive ends certainly the best for their teams.

Well done toYea who fought it out to the end but went down by 14 goals, a margin that was not reflective at all of the game.

C-Gradehas seen a great group of girls come together, a lot of them not playing together before. They continually worked for each other all season and always saw the positives no matter the result. Well done on a good year girls.

Yarra Glen 31 def Yea 17 Goals:J.Armstrong 14, F. Purvis 3 Best:C. Helder, D. Schickerling, JArmstrong D-GRADE QUALIFYING FINAL YEA V ALEXANDRA TheTigersfaced up to the next door neighbours in Alexandrain a highly anticipated contest. Both encounters during the season went down to the final minute withYeacoming out on top by one and two respectively.

In windy conditions atWoori Yallockboth teams didn't seem bothered by the conditions and started really well, the standard of play at a high level with great ball movement and good shooting. The lead altered on a few occasions but it wasAlexwho took a two-goal lead into quarter-time.

Yea broke Alex's centre pass to start the second quarter and then scored from their own to soon level the scores. Once again the lead kept changing as both teams fought hard to break the other, one getting ahead before the other responded. This continued all throughout the second and third quarter and it was completely fitting that at ¾-time scores were level.

What happened in the last quarter was outstanding.

Yeatook their game to another level and every player with a Tigers dress on played out of their skins, transitioning the ball from defence to attack with timing, accuracy and great movement from all players.

As one player lifted, their mate did the same and this went through the whole group as they completely dominated theRebelswinning the last quarter 17 goals to 2, to win by 15 goals.

The Tigerswill now look to take that outstanding form into their game againstSevillenext week, the winner booking the first spot in this year's Grand Final. One thing is for sure that if they play like they did on Saturday, they will be unstoppable. Well done girls.

Yea 44 def Alexandra 29 Goals:A. Christie 24, H. Broderick 20 Best players: the whole team.

- Cindy Hayes

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AFL OUTER EAST SCORES AT A GLANCE DIVISION 2

■ Seniors. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Elimination Final. Yarra Junction 14.13 (97) d Kinglake 13.7 (85). Powelltown 16.7 (103) d Gembrook-Cockatoo 11.11 (77).

■ Reserves. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Elimination Final. Seville 8.8 (56) d Kinglake 5.3 (33). Gembrook-Cockatoo 5.10 (40) d Yarra Glen 4.9 (33).

■ Fixture. Seniors. 2.10pm, Saturday, August 31. Semi-Finals. Seville v Yarra Junction, at Healesville. Kinglake v Powelltown, at Mt Evelyn.

■ Fixture. Reserves. 2.10pm, Saturday, August 31. Semi-Finals. Yarra Junction v Gembrook-Cockatoo. Yarra Glen v Seville.

Sport

Kinglake grasps second chance PHOTO: ASH LONG

DIVISION 1

■ Seniors. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Monbulk 22.26 (158) d Belgrave 7.7 (49).

Doveton 6.7 (43) d Warbuirton-Millgrove 3.7 (25). Mt Evelyn 14.18 (102) d Emerald 12.10 (82). Pakenham 10.10 (70) d Officer 7.7 (49).

■ Ladder. 1. Pakenham, 183.29, 56. 2.

Monbulk, 171.60, 56. 3. Doveton, 120.06, 40.

4. Mt Evelyn, 115.91, 36. 5. Officer, 143.00, 32. 6. Emerald, 77.74, 20. 7. Belgrave, 55.39, 8. 8. Warburton-Millgrove, 41.76, 8.

■ Reserves. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Monbulk 17.7 (109) d Belgrave 4.5 (29).

Doveton 9.13 (67) d Warburton-Millgrove 7.4 (46). Mt Evelyn 18.15 (123) d Emerald 4.4 (28). Pakenham 14.14 (98) d Officer 3.5 (23).

■ Ladder. 1. Pakenham, 352.23, 56. 2. Mt Evelyn, 310.99, 56. 3. Officer, 175.89, 44. 4.

Doveton, 128.73, 36. 5. Monbulk, 110.74, 32.

6. Emerald, 59.89, 24. 7. Belgrave, 29.86, 4.

8. Warburton-Millgrove, 23.51, 4.

■ Under 18. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Doveton 7.8 (50) d Warburton-Millgrove 5.4 (34). Emerald 9.8 (62) d Mt Evelyn 4.11 (35).

Pakenham 7.6 (48) d Officer 4.5 (29).

Monbulk: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Pakenham, 265.62, 92.86. 2.

Officer, 269.35, 78.57. 3. Monbulk, 90.65, 53.85. 4. Emerald, 108.85, 46.15. 5. Doveton, 99.73, 42.86. 6. Mt Evelyn, 54.66, 25.00. 7.

Warburton-Millgrove, 30.74, 10.71.

PREMIER LEAGUE

■ Seniors. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Berwick 15.20 (110) d Upwey-Tecoma 3.6 (24). Cranbourne 19.17 (131) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 3.7 (25). Wandin 14.11 (95) d Healesville 14.9 (93). Narre Warren 14.20 (104) d Woori Yallock 3.11 (29). Beaconsfield: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Berwick, 232.58, 60. 2. Narre Warren, 208.84, 60. 3. Beaconsfield, 185.30, 48. 4. Woori Yallock, 106.31, 46. 5. Cranbourne, 132.56, 38. 6. Wandin, 79.83, 36. 7.

Olinda-Ferny Creek, 72.59, 24. 8. UpweyTecoma, 490.69, 20. 9. Healesville, 35.29, 8.

■ Fixture. Round 18. Saturday, August 31.

Narre Warren v Berwick.Olinda-Ferny Creek v Wandin. Upwey-Tecoma v Cranbourne.

Woori Yallock v Beaconsfield. Healesville: Bye. ■ Reserves. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Berwick 16.13 (109) d Upwey-Tecoma 0.0 (0). Cranbourne 12.14 (86) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 5.2 (32). Wandin 10.4 (64) d Healesville 3.8 (26). Narre Warren 20.21 (141) d Woori Yallock 2.1 (13). Beaconsfield: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Narre Warren, 444.44, 62. 2.

Beaconsfield, 357.89, 60. 3. Berwick, 518.73, 56. 4. Cranbourne, 138.83, 48. 5. Wandin, 62.29, 36. 6. Upwey-Tecoma, 83.88, 28. 7.

Olinda-Ferny Creek, 59.45, 26. 8. Healesville, 23.95, 12. 9. Woori Yallock, 16.07, 12.

■ Under 18. Results. Saturday, August 24.

Beaconsfield 18.19 (127) d Berwick Springs 2.2 (14). Berwick 12.14 (86) d UpweyTecoma 1.4 (10). Gembrook-Cockatoo 7.9 (51) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 1.7 (13). Wandin 9.9 (63) d Alexandra 4.8 (32). Narre Warren 20.18 (138) d Woori Yallock 0.4 (4).

■ Ladder. 1. Berwick, 380.84, 60. 2. Narre Warren, 387.66, 56. 3. Beaconsfield, 292.93, 52. 4. Upwey-Tecoma, 164.18, 44. 5.

Gembrook-Cockatoo, 109.01, 44. 6. Woori Yallock, 102.28, 32. 7. Berwick Springs, 48.38, 22. 8. Alexandra, 33.75, 12. 9. Wandin, 26.95, 12. 10. Olinda-Ferny Creek, 26.68, 6.

● Kinglake’s Ryan Baerken takes a magnificent leap in a bid to grab the ball in the Reserves clash against Seville.

■ Kinglake suffered losses in both Seniors and PHOTO: ASH LONG Reserves matches at Woori Yallock on Saturday (Aug. 24).

The Reserves were eliminated after their loss to Seville. The Seniors have a second chance in the semi-final this Saturday (Aug. 31).

SENIORS YARRAJUNC. .......... 8.5, 8.6, 14.8, 14.13 (97) KINGLAKE ..................... 0.2, 4.5, 8.6, 13.7 (85) Yarra Junction. Goalkickers: D. Johnson 4, E. Wadsworth 3, H. Tindley-Roe 2, J. Holmes, B. Clark, J. Bommbinski, S. Morton, L. Hoffman.

Best Players: D. Johnson, E. Wadsworth, M. Brown, L. Spaulding, L. Hoffman, P. Cubbin. ★ POWELLTOWN .......... 1.1, 5.2, 11.6, 16.7 (103) GEMBROOK-COCK. ... 3.4, 5.6, 8.8, 11.11 (77) Powelltown. Goalkickers: D. Roy 5, L. Garthwaite 4, R. Nayna, D. Fraser, J. Walker, J. Rohan, D. Fraser, R. McCrimmon, J. Ashby.

Best Players: J. Johnson, J. Mullan, J. Walker, J. Ashby, J. Garthwaite, S. Sanders.

Gembrook-Cockatoo. Goalkickers: M. Firrito 4, J. Tilly 4, D. Scott, M. Brown. Best Players: D. Volta, D. Leversha, J. Tilly, D. Williams, S. Martin, M. Firrito.

RESERVES SEVILLE ........................ 2.0, 5.3, 5.4, 8.8 (56) KINGLAKE ....................... 2.1, 3.1, 4.3, 5.3 (33) Seville. Goalkickers: J. Larkin 2, C. Van Dreumel, J. Zotos, J. Wight, J. Digianddomenico, D. Wallace, A. Prescott. Best Players: J. Wilson, J. Strachan, A. Prescott, J. Lansdell, M. Hassan, J. Larkion.

Kinglake. Goalkickers: B. Gallichio 3, L. Graf, C. Booker. Best Players: J. Graf, B. Howlett, C. Booker, D. Pywell, R. Hurst,A. Young. ★ GEMBROOK-COCK. ... 0.3, 3.5, 3.6, 5.10 (40) YARRAGLEN ................... 1.4, 1.5, 3.9, 4.9 (33) Gembrook-Cockatoo. Goalkickers: D. Wilkie, M. Wareham, M. Frazzetto, A. Mitchell, T. Bastow. Best Players: M. Wareham, D. Fidone, G. Hartridge, A. Mitchell, L. Taylor, C. Sweeney.

Yarra Glen. Goalkickers: L. Thomson 2, L. Coulson, D. Barker. Best Players: C. Moate, L. Thomson, M. Dolan, D. Brodie, S. Myles, D. Barker.

ALEX. UNDER 18 ROUND 17 WANDIN ............................................... 9.9 (63) ALEXANDRA ....................................... 4.8 (32) Alexandra. Goalkickers: T. Rouget 2, B. Humphries, J. Harris. Best Players: B. Miller, B. Azzopardi, A. Smith, J. Geldart, T. Rouget, J. Harris. ● Alexandra Under 18s are due to play Berwick Springs at Sweeney Reserve, Berwick Springs, at 10.20am this Saturday (Aug. 31).

● Kinglake’s Clinton Booker takes on his usual ruck duties in the Reserves clash against Seville at Woori Yallock on Saturday.

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