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News Extra

Drivers pay for deal ■ Northern Victoria MLC Wendy Lovell said locals driving to Melbourne via CityLink would take a hip pocket hit after the Andrews Labor Government signed a secretive deal with Transurban that will increase tolls to pay for a completely different new road – the West Gate Tunnel.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report into the West Gate Tunnel Project and CityLink tolls, which estimates the deal struck by the Andrews Labor Government will cost motorists an extra $37.3 billion in tolls.

The analysis shows that $26.5 billion of that increase (around 71 per cent) will come exclusively from CityLink users – and that includes Yan Yean drivers who use the tollway when coming in to the city via the Monash or Tullamarine Freeways.

Microchipping Day Council will host a Microchipping Day at its Kinglake Service Centre on Saturday 30 March from 10am to 1pm. There will also be a free sausage sizzle.

If you would like to get your cat or dog microchipped on the day, the cost is $25 per animal.

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For those residents registering their dog or cat for the first time we are offering the highly reduced rate of a $5 per registration for the 2019/20 year. That’s a saving of up to $130 on the full registration fee! This reduced registration rate only applies to those getting their pets microchipped on this day.

We do ask that pet-owners ensure their dogs are on leashes and their cats are in a boxes/carriers while they’re at the Kinglake Service Centre.

For more information, please contact Council’s Community Safety Team on 5772 0333.

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Aged, disability services in doubt ■ The question of whether Murrindindi Shire will opt out of providing aged and disability services, will be discussed at the Council meeting due to be held at Yea tonight (Wed.).

Local residents currently pay a portion of their annual rates for the services, and additional fees are received by the Council to fund the services. “"At its March Meeting, Council will consider an officer recommendation to withdraw from being a provider of aged and disability services,” said Council Director Michael Chesworth.

“The recommendation also includes consideration of how Council will work with the Commonwealth and State Governments to identify alternative provider(s) who may be better placed to take advantage of the funding changes and provide greater choice and flexibility in how services are delivered. “"We have been talking to our community, staff, volunteers and other providers of aged and disability services during this review.

“Our primary focus has been on ensuring that those who rely on our services will continue to receive reliable, high quality support and care in the future following the introduction of the reforms.

"By making this decision now, Council will be in a better place to both support the appointment of an alternative service provider (or providers) and assist them and our clients and staff in a smooth transition to the new arrangements before the funding changes are introduced. “"The officer report recommends that Council stay actively involved throughout the transition process to support a new service provider (or providers).

“It also recommends that Council continues to play a role in supporting older people and people with a disability in our community through service planning and navigation, advocacy and community information into the future.

"Council will take the officer recommendation into consideration at its meeting, but will

make its own decision based on what it thinks is the best outcome for the community.

"Whatever the outcome [tonight], there will be no immediate impact on those receiving our services.

“If the decision is for Council to move away from delivering these services, Council will work for as long as it takes to ensure the transition to new service providers is smooth for our clients.

"Ensuring our community receives continuity and quality of aged care and disability services has been and continues to be our priority," Mr Chesworth said.

Tourism link likely to cease ■ A vote tonight (Wed.) by Murrindindi Shire Councillors is likely to see links with the regional tourism body, Goulburn River Valley Tourism, to come to an end.

Latest thinking has the Murrindindi region aligning itself more closely with the Yarra Ranges region, closer to Melbourne.

Council will consider the future of its participation in regional tourism body GRVT at tonight’s meeting.

The Shire’s Director of Community Engagement, Shivaun Brown, said Council became a member of GRVT in 2011, partnering with Mitchell Shire, Strathbogie Shire and the City of Greater Shepparton.”

The City of Greater Shepparton last week voted to withdraw.

“The purpose of the body is to collectively develop and promote marketing initiatives that attract visitors to the region as a whole, as well as provide tourism industry development opportunities,” Ms Brown said.

"Our current Memorandum of Understanding with GRVT expires on June 30, 2019.

“Officers are recommending that Council discontinue the

Shivaun Brown arrangement with GRVT and seek other opportunities to meet the regional tourism and marketing needs of Murrindindi Shire," Ms Brown said.

"The City of Greater Shepparton made a formal decision to withdraw from GRVT at its Council meeting on March 19.

“This has influenced our officers' recommendation that Murrindindi Shire Council withdraw from GRVT as it raises questions about longer term viability.

“We understand Mitchell and Strathbogie Shires will also consider their future involvement with GRVT shortly.

"In making their recommen-

dation to withdraw from the agreement with GRVT, officers considered a number of other factors - in particular, the community feedback provided during consultation for the Draft Tourism and Events Strategy which called into question how Murrindindi Shire's tourism industry is engaging at a regional level.

"Council officers are recommending that Murrindindi Shire Council resolves to discontinue the arrangement with GRVT at the close of the current MOU in June and start taking steps to plan alternative arrangements for future regional tourism activities," Ms Brown said.

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Index to major display advertisers Across Technology .......... Pages 1, 8, 19, 101 Advanced Myotherapy .............. Pages 14, 93 Alexandra Quality Meats .................. Page 25 All Things Natural and Organic ....... Page 24 Australian Clinical Labs ................... Page 8 Bailey’s Funeral Services .............. Page 66 Billanook College ............................. Page 23 Camberwell Sewing ......................... Page 27 Centre State Drilling ....................... Page 97 Cindy McLeish MLA ......................... Page 24 Clarinda Charloais ....................... Page 100 Country Club Hotel, Yea ................... Page 5 Crump Spreaders ........................... Page 76 Dalton Building, Garden Supplies .. Page 55 DMD Mixed Martial Arts .................. Page 49 Eastern Volunteers ......................... Page 45 Eddy’s Transport & Towing .............. Page 54 Embling Rural ................................. Page 21 Emu Wire Industries ....................... Page 26 Extensions Unlimited ..................... Page 38 Eze-Bracket .................................... Page 46 Fiona Milne, Cosmetic Physician .... Page 47 Geoff Lambert ................................ Page 11 Gilson College .................................. Page 4 GLA Real Estate ..................... Pages 102, 103 Grand Central Hotel, Yea .................. Page 6 Grosvenor, Cairns ............................. Page 32 GTS Containers ................................ Page 39 Hall’s Funeral Services .................... Page 3 Holmwood Aged Care ...................... Page 57 Hoogies of Yarra Glen ...................... Page 60 Ivanhoe Cycles ............................... Page 74 Japan Snow Holidays ....................... Page 92 Khancoban Lakeside Caravan Pk ... Page 50 Killingworth Hill Whisky Bar & Cafe .. Page 2 Kosnar Framing .............................. Page 24 Landmark Harcourts ..............,....... Page 104 Manfred’s Shoe Lounge ................. Page 33 McCormack Funerals ...................... Page 28 Melbourne Mediation Centre .......... Page 98 Melb. Wildlife & Pest Control .......... Page 51 Metro Cinemas Boronia ................. Page 73 Mooroolbark Church of Christ ........ Page 19 Murrindindi Shire Council ................ Page 8 Nalinga Steel ................................... Page 91 Neil’s Aussie Beer Shed .................. Page 12 Neil Beer Seymour ............................ Page 7 North Central Hire ........................... Page 56 North-West Drilling .......................... Page 101 Northern Sky Limousines ............... Page 58 Old Victorian Fencing ...................... Page 65 On The Move ................................... Page 40 Planning Victoria ........................... Page 34 Progressive Controls ..................... Page 29 PS Cumberoona .............................. Page 50 Rosicrucians ................................... Page 67 Seville Tractors .............................. Page 78 Shepparton Tile Centre .................. Page 75 Simply Helping Goulburn Valley ..... Page 30 Slocum Floorcoverings ................... Page 99 Solartronics ................................... Page 86 Star Tree Services ......................... Page 25 Stihl Shop Seymour ....................... Page 94 Tasmanian Gourmet Garlic ............. Page 47 Terry Miller Concrete Tanks ............. Page 59 TGA Legal ......................................... Page 37 Tilco ................................................ Page 68 Trades and Services Guide ..... Pages 81-84 Tre-And ........................................... Page 48 Tribute Funeral Services ................ Page 72 Victorian School of Languages ....... Page 45 Wallan Secondary College ............... Page 13 We Sell Doors ................................. Page 85 Whittlesea H Hardware ................... Page 71 Yarra Valley Brazzen ................... Page 52-53 Yarra Valley Dental .......................... Page 20 Yea Automotive ................................ Page 22 Yenckens Hardware ........................ Page 77

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Praise for Country Fair ■ The success of the Kinglake Country Fair has been related to State Parliamentarians by Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish.

“I attended the Kinglake Country Fair, which was a fabulous event,” Ms McLeish told the Legislative Assembly.

“Keen to breathe life and colour into the Kinglake Ranges and to provide a fun family event, William and Robert Verhagen of Integrity Real Estate and Stacey Crowther and Georgia Shuttleworth of Mountain Events got together to resurrect the fair, which had lapsed for almost 20 years.

“Most impressive is that the organisers are all young. They are to be congratulated for their enthusiasm and hours of hard work.

“Not only did they have youth on their side but they seemed to round up so many other young people to act as volunteers on the day.

“It was marvellous to see this level of volunteerism from so many young community members.

Local Briefs K’lake spraying ■ Murrindindi Council will be conducting weed spraying on some roadsides in Kinglake and Kinglake West until Friday (Mar. 29). Blackberries in these areas are not suitable for picking or eating.

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CFA n’hood day ■ Kangaroo Ground CGA will hold a Neighbourhood Day from 10.30am-12.30pm this Sunday (Mar. 31). The Brigade is inviting residents to help with the washing of a local fire truck. Sausages in bread will be served.

Happy Sound DNA ■ Sounds can recharge, recreate and reconnect. Happy Sound DNA sessions will be held at the Community Hub at Taggerty (CH@T), which is the former Taggerty Primary School, from 10am-1pm on Saturday (Mar. 30) and Saturday, April 6.

The sessions will explore how universal sound is blended with acoustic memories to form uplifting “sound-scapes’.

M’dindi repeater

● ‘Miss Strawberry’ at the Kinglake Country Fair.

Clean-up at UT Creek

● More than 20 people gathered at Rotary Park in Alexandra last Sunday (Mar. 24)to collect litter and debris on the bed and banks of UT Creek. The last of the Clean Up Australia Day events for 2019 was organised by UT CreekMaintongoon Landcare Group and supported by Murrindindi Shire Council.

DEATHS

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JONES - Dinah (nee Hill) Late of "Brilliant", Yarck and Benalla. Passed away peacefully at Kellock Lodge, Alexandra , Sunday March 24, 2019 aged 77 years. Loved and loving wife of Worrall (dec.). Loved and adored mother of Robert, mother-in-law of Amanda and treasured step grandmother of Phoebe, Charlie and Ruby. Loved and adored mother of Tom (dec.), mother-in-law of Alison and doting grandmother(Di Di) of Harry and Edward.

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Reunited with Worrall (Dad) and Tom.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

YEA-KINGLAKE RSL Meets monthly on last Friday.

JONES, (nee Hill). The Funeral 11.30am.

Yea RSL Hall. Phone Service celebrating the life of Mrs 5796 9353 Dinah Jones will be held on Friday March 29 2019 at 2.30 pm in St YEA CWA John's Anglican Church, Downey Meetings. 4th Thursday. 1.30pm St, Alexandra followed by burial in Yea RSL Hall. Phone 0400 424 the Yarck Cemetery.

888. New members welcome

“There were carnival rides, children’s yoga, drones, dog jumping, the onearmed tradie event, a cake-eating competition and the adventure challenge time trial run by another young person, Vanessa French, whose parents operate the Kinglake Forest Adventures.

“Elimatta youth were out in force, led

by Kate Chalmers, a recent Murrindindi shire Young Citizen of the Year.

“Delicious options were provided by local food trucks, including Bowl of Soul, Yarra Valley Caviar, My Little Country Kitchen and Damian’s Pizza.

“Damian is a much-loved regular at the old Glenburn Hotel site. Hargreaves Hill and Steels Gate winery did their bit for the adults.

“Many other community groups who are involved, including the Kinglake Historical Society, Landcare, Rotary, Kinglake Karate and Kinglake Firefoxes.

“The three primary schools, Kinglake, Kinglake Central and Kinglake West, all got involved, and it was great to see the children learning about customer service and taking and receiving money and even how to mix a smoothie using bicycle power,” Ms McLeish said.

■ A new UHF CB Radio repeater has been established by the MurrindindiWoodbourne Community Hub. The new UHF Repeater operates on UHF Channel 4, the repeater actually receives on channel 34 and re transmits (repeats) received signals on channel 4.

To access the repeater users need to select channel 4 on their UHF radios and have the Duplex or Repeat function enabled for that channel and then when they transmit your radio automatically transmits on channel 34.

The repeater area extends north to Yea and south to Glenburn.

Pupils recognised

■ There will be a suspension of standing orders at the Murrindindi Shire Council meeting tonight (Wed.) to recognise the achievements of student leaders at: ■ Middle Kinglake Primary School, ■ Yea Primary School, ■ Sacred Heart Primary School, and ■ Yea High School .

Cheviot proposal ■ Neville Roberts’ proposal for a property at Cheviot will go before theMurrindindi Council meeting tonight (Wed.).

Mr Roberts is asking for permission to use land for storage (caravans, boats, vehicles and lock up self-storage); placement of 20 shipping containers. Officers are recommending that the application be refused.

R’course Rd plan ■ Murrindindi Councillors are due tonight (Wed.) to receive a report with development plan that has been prepared to guide future staged residential development on land at 66 Racecourse Rd, Yea.

KLW home idea ■ A.R. Maa is aplying to tonight's meeting of Murrindindi Shire Council to use and develop land at 5 Pine Riodge Rd, Kinglake West, for the purpose of a dwelling.

Portfolios return ■ Murrindindi Shire Council looks likely to return to the portfolio system for Councillors that was dropped last year.

Portfolios are likely to be adopted as follows:Land Use Planning Portfolio – Cr M Rae;Aged and Disability Services Portfolio – Cr M Rae; Communications, Tourism and Events Portfolio – Cr J Ashe; Financial Services and Grants Portfolio – Cr L Dunscombe; Youth, Recreation and Community Planning Portfolio – Cr C Bisset; Waste and Environment Portfolio – Cr E Lording and Cr R Bowles; Infrastructure Portfolio – Cr E Lording; and Information Technology Portfolio – Cr R Bowles.

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Ticks & Crosses

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Spikes at Toolangi

● Aerial photography exercises have caused angst, especially around Acheron and Taggerty.

Ausnet won few friends by not advising in advance of its low-flying helicopter exercises in parts of Murrindindi. Local residents around Acheron, Buxton and Taggerty voiced their disapproval on social media, saying it was a breach of privacyh. Ausnet said the aerial inspection of ‘assets’ was also to to take place at Narbethong, Marysville, Diamond Creek and Hurstbridge.

Murrindindi Shire Director Community Engagement, Shivaun Brown, says the Council wants to get an understanding of how communities use local pools. She says the Council wants to seek their ideas about how the number of pool visits can be increased. Perhaps a conversation with decades-long tenant, the Yea Water Tigers Amateur Swimming Club, might reveal an unhappiness about limits on their use of the Yea pool..

Some 11,000 people play basketball in the Eltham community, Parliamentarian Vicki Ward told the Legislative Assembly last week.

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Big cross to the Bureau of Meteorology and radio station ABC 774 that went to air last week with a report that Yarck had rainfall of 45mm.

More like 1mm, say locals.

● Matt and Catrina Kells at the Botanic Gardens at Frankston on Saturday (March 23).

Popular Murrindindi firefighter Matt Kells and Catrina were married at the George Pentland Botanic Gardens at Frankston on Saturday (March 23).

A pest poisoning program will be running until the end of July.

Locations in Murrindindi Shire include Buxton, Eildon, Flowerdale, Kinglake, Limestone, Marysville, Murrindindi, Narbethong and Rubicon.

A new community hospital is to be built in Eltham by the Andrews Labor State Government. “This is going to be a great advantage not just for the people who reside within the district of Eltham but for all those along the growth corridor between Yan Yean Rd and Plenty Rd,” Ms Ward said. “This is great far-sighted policy by this government, and I am thrilled to support it and indeed thrilled that my community supported it overwhelmingly.”

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■ Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish has told State Parliament about steel spikes in tracks at Toolangi.

“My question is to the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, and it concerns recent reports that a number of steel spikes have been discovered along bush tracks in the Toolangi State Forest,” Ms McLeish said last week in the Legislative Assembly.

“Ten centimetre-long spikes were found concealed under leaves and bark on the Breakoday Track and Martins Track in the Toolangi State Forest by a four-wheel driver over the long weekend.

“I understand the spikes punctured the tyres of a number of vehicles. It is not only the risk to the safety of bush users that is so galling but also the risk to our emergency services and government agency staff who use these tracks.

“The threat of a CFA truck being sabotaged during an emergency is not something we should have to think about.

“Unfortunately, however, it is something the Government cannot ignore. What action is the Government taking to prevent similar instances in the future to ensure the safety of bush users and emergency services?” Ms McLeish asked.

■ A number of regional fire brigades have worked at Terip Terip over the weekend, in unforgiving, difficult country, to secure a local fire after lightning strikes.

Marysville alert ■ Emergency units were called at the weekend to a motor vehicle accident involving a race car on Lake Mountain Rd, near Royston Gap Rd and Upper Taggerty Rd, at Lake Mountain Alpine Resort, near Marysville.

Initial reports stated the possibility that there may be one or more people trapped.

TV man at Alex.

■ Stephen Blackburn, best known for his comedy appearances on Fast Forward, and his trio, will appear at the Alexandra Shire Hall at 7pm, Friday, April 26. They will present a show called The New Hip, with witty songs presented in an array of styles.

Film Society ● Steel spikes at Toolangi.

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Art unveiled at Sacred Heart ■ The framed artwork two Sacred Heart School Yea students was unveiled after being exhibited to the public during Catholic Education Week 2019.

Each year as part of Catholic Education Week, a Visual Arts Exhibition is held at the Catholic Leadership Centre in East Melbourne.

All schools in the Archdiocese of Melbourne are invited to submit up to five artworks to be considered by the curators to be included in the exhibition.

The exhibited work was completed last year by then Year 5 student Liam Harrison, and Year 6 student Millicent Charles.

2018 was the Catholic Year of Youth and the theme was Open New Horizons for Spreading Joy. A young Australian indigenous artist, Amunda Gorey, painted the flyer for the Year of Youth, titled Christ our Joy. The students observed that Ms Gorey's work showed symmetry and concentric circles using dots. Inspired by this style, students were asked to choose from a selection of shoes and to write the life story of the person who once owned that shoe.

As a way of 'opening new horizons for spreading joy', students stepped into someone else's shoes and painted their life story onto their shoe.

Liam's artwork is titled Livin' by the Beach and is painted on a rubber thong which has been mounted on a sand background.

The mediums for Liam's work were spray paint and vipond paint.

Millicent's work was completed during a unit of study on the French painter Claude Monet and his love of his gardens in Giverny.

Rather than paint, students explored the technique of dry needle felting, layering coloured wools to create a representation of one of Monet's famous paintings. They needed

Local Briefs Terip Terip fires

■ Murrindindi Film Society's 2019 season opens at the Yea Shire Chambers on Friday, April 12 with the American classic The Grapes of Wrath. Doors will open at 6.45pm for drinks and nibbles.

Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the film is set in America during the 1930's depression. A poor family of tenant farmers are forced off their land in Oklahoma and begin a journey to California as migrant workers, only to find an over supply of labour and mass exploitation by corporate farmers. Their survival is a great story of human endurance.

Contemporary realist films were rare when this film was made. It's realistic black-andwhite cinematography provides a documentary quality and there is an evocative use of landscape. The basic themes of loss of employment, home and self-respect are still very relevant 80 years later.

John Ford directed and Henry Fonda headed a talented cast. This is an opportunity to see an historically and cinematically important film, now rarely screened.

Prospective new members will be made most welcome and first-time guests may attend free-of-charge.

All enquiries to Jill Dwyer, Secretary, 5797 2480 or jill.dwyer@bigpond.com

Writer discusses

● Liam Harrison and Milicent Charles with their artwork at Sacred Heart School, Yea to consider colour choice, light challenge I present to them. As and shade, proportion and bal- a teacher, it is inspiring when ance in the way they ap- you capture the interest and enproached the application of the thusiasm of students,” Ms Ali wool. said.

Millicent's artwork is titled This is the fourth time that A Day at the Lily Pond and was student artwork from Sacred inspired by Monet's Water Lil- Heart has been chosen for exies Series. hibition in Melbourne.

Visual Arts teacher, Sacred Heart Principal, Suzanne Ali, spoke of her ad- Judy Degenhardt, commented miration for the way in which that this reflected the calibre of Liam and Millicent had applied the teaching and curriculum themselves to the creative pro- that Sacred Heart was able to cess and engaged with the offer, and that she felt particutopic. larly proud of the students' “I am so proud of the way achievements. the students embrace whatever - Contributed

Advance Care Planning Week

■ Alexandra District Health last year launched its Advance Care Planning Clinic led by ACP Nurse Jeanie Hurrey. The initiative is said to have been well received by the community and a fortnightly clinic continues at the Hospital. Appointments can be made by calling 5772 0900.

Jeanie is also available to speak to community groups or events to assist with gaining a better understanding of Advance Care Planning. If you would like to contact Jeanie to arrange a presentation please contact 5772 0900.

NationalAdvance Care Planning Week (April 1-5) is an annual initiative by Advance Care Planning Australia. Aim of the initiative is to encourage all Australians, regardless of age or health status, to make their future health care preferences known.

■ Crim writer Mark Brandi discussed his new novel, The Rip, at the Craft Kitchen and Bar, Eltham, on Monday night (Mar. 25).

Help requested

■ Assistance is being requested to organise the ANZAC Day observance to be held at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Kinglake, on Thursday, April 25.`If you can assist with the Dawn Service, please contact Peter Crook on 5786 2030.

Menzies event

■ Alexandra Golf Club will be fundraising for Menzies Support Services, Dame Pattie Menzies Centre on Saturday (Mar. 30).

9.30am book in, 10.00am shot gun start. Bring a team or join one. This event is sponsored

by Simpson's Caltex and Alexandra Tyrepower.

Yarck Gymkhana

■ The Yarck Gymkhana is scheduled to be held from 9am-4pm on Saturday, May 25 at the Yarck Recreation Reserve. Open to all riders. $4 per class.There will also be fancy dress and novelty events.

Easter Art Show

■ The Rotary Club ofAlexandra EasterArt Show will this year celebrate its 50th anniversary. Opening night will be held from 7pm on Friday, April 19 (Good Friday). The show, at the Alexandra Leisure Centre, will also be open on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

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Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens ARIES: (March 21-April 20) Lucky Colour: Peach Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 3.4.5.6.

Lotto Numbers: 1,14,23,34,43,6, This is a period in which major changes are occurring in your life and some could feel a lack of being able to control other people's actions. Friendship and finances wont mix; unwise to lend money or possessions.

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TAURUS: (April 21- May 20) Lucky Colour: Yellow Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 7,8,4,5, Lotto Numbers: 6,8,3,42,23,31, Watch that tendency towards jealousy or possessiveness.

Opportunities in career open up and some could be offered situations back into the past under better conditions. Some are in for a lucky streak financially.

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GEMINI: (May 21- June 21) Lucky Colour: Cream Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 8,9,3,4, Lotto Numbers: 8,2,13,34,45,22, Now is the time to relax, unwind and spend more time with loved ones you love. Luck should come in love and personal relationships rather than career.

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■ The postman delivered a letter from the Victorian Electoral Commission last week.

The VECsent Long Shots a notice entitled ‘Apparent Failure to Vote’.

The VEC does not have a record of me voting at the State Election held on Saturday, November 24.

On that day, as part of a local newspaper editor’s duties, I attended at booths at Kinglake West, Kinglake, Flowerdale, Yea, Alexandra, Thornton and Taggerty.

But I only voted once ... as an absentee, at Flowerdale.

My absentee vote was handled by a long-standing wellknown and always-efficient electoral officer.

So, I have filled out the form and sent it back to the VEC. However, it does raise an important question.

If the VEC cannot find my voting paperwork, was my vote ever counted?

How many times does this happen, especially in marginal seats?

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the 28-day deadline with a detailed explanation.

The notice – which is a not a fine – asks apparent non-voters for a reason for why they appear not to have voted in the 2018 State election.

A detailed response with supporting documentation is more likely to be con■ The Victorian sidered valid and sufElectoral Commission ficient, while ignoring is urging Victorians the notice, or providwho were sent an Ap- ing an inadequate exparent Failure to Vote cuse, may result in a Notice to respond by penalty of $81.

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make sure you’re notified whenever there’s a State or council election you need to vote in.’

The VEC launched VoterAlert, a free SMS and email reminder service, at the 2018 State election.

More than two million Victorians received alerts on key election dates, including a reminder to vote on Saturday, November 24.

People can sign up at vec.vic.gov.au/ voteralert

Electoral Commissioner, Warwick Gately, said that recipients should contact the VEC for assistance if unsure what to do, rather than ignore the notice.

“If you need help understanding what the notice means and what you need to do, you can call us on 1300 551 575 or visit our website at vec.vic.gov.au,” Mr Gately said.

“I also encourage you to sign up to our VoterAlert service, to

■ Nominations close on Sunday (Mar. 31) for the Murrindindi Business Awards.

Nominations can be made online, and forms are also available at the Shire offices, libraries and visitor information centres.

Categories include: ■ Excellence in Customer Service ■ Excellence in Products and Service ■ Excellence in Innovation and/or Sustainability ■ Young Business Person of the Year ■ Excellence in Business (with five or less employees) ■ Excellence in Business (with six or more employees).

To enquire, contact Teena Wait on 0403 352 475.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22) Lucky Colour: Mauve Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 7,8,9,4, Lotto Numbers: 7,8,12,23,34,45, Your lover could be moodier than usual. Unwise to appear to be making decisions on your own, otherwise your motives could be misunderstood. Fiancés look better and for some a windfall is likely.

LEO: (July 23-August 22) Lucky Colour: Pink Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 7,8,4,3, Lotto Numbers: 5,7,12,23,34,41, More at ease with the world in general and able to control your fate. Now could b a good time to resume contact with friends you may have upset in the past.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 8,9,3,4, Lotto Numbers: 1,14,23,34,45,11, An excellent period for most. Energy levels are high and your emotional drive will make things happen. The unexpected can bring luck and love.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23) Lucky Colour: Orange Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 8,9,1,4, Lotto Numbers: 6,8,23,34,44,12 For many your love relationship could become intense and take up a lot of your life and you may find it hard to balance your need for security with the emotional pull.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 7,8,1,3, Lotto Numbers: 1,6,23,35,34,4, Many could be tempted into a relationship with a touch of the exotic. Caution, don't confide in anyone if you are not sure you can trust them .

SAGITTARIUS: (November23- December20) Lucky Colour: Cream Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 6,8,3,2, Lotto Numbers: 2,7,13,35,41,11, You and you lover should be on the same wave length.

Most will be communicating with others and if you need to influence others around to your ideas, now is the time to push your luck.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19) Lucky Colour: Dark Blue Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 6,3,4,5 Lotto Numbers: 1,5,23,34,41,22, Making waves will not get you anywhere with a bit of tact, you will attract all the right attention and more co operation from your lover. Many could be on a winning streak.

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AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19) Lucky Colour: Fawn Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 7,9,3,1, Lotto Numbers: 1,15,23,34,35,44, Many will be in the right place at the right time and be able to attract luck. A good time to head into ventures of your own or expand present ones. A surprise romantic interlude.

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PISCES: (February 20- March 20) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 1,5,2,3, Lotto Numbers: 1,5,23,21,29,33, It should be a lot easier to make people listen to you.

Most will admire you for your help and support. Lovers should delight you with their attention.

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Sport Extra ECDRA results ■ Dr Bob (Robert Irving) achieved top stage score for the East Central District Rifle Association Inc this week with the only possible 60 points.

Dr Bob also took the top aggregate two stage score as he followed his 60.4 with a 59.3 and a total of 119.7 just one point off the maximum score 120.30.

Captain Neal Hambridge was easily the most consistent with 59.3,59.5 and a total score 118.8.

Peter Daldy was the shooter who shot the best group with a 49.7 out of the possible 50.10 in his class.

Roger King was not far behind with another 59.4 followed by 57.3 for a total of 116.7.

Captain Neal was pleased both with the scores and the application of all shooters and believes the ECDRA is in good shape for the first pennant against, the Club's main rival for the McAuliffe Shield, Nagambie.

Although these were the top scores the actual results were not the main focus as most shooters were trying out different rifles and loads ready for the busy program starting next week.

Saturday’s program included a working bee to prepare the range for the Autumn Dragon Diesel Challenge on April 8 and then the shoot in the afternoon.

Captain Neal Hambridge was keen to sort out team issues because Team Target Shooting is an individual sport most times but in Team Target Shooting it all changes as the Coach does the work on judging the conditions and calculating sight adjustments and “all" the shooter does is focus on shooting and placing the shot in the same spot every time.

Although it was busy day there was still was time to welcome our regular visitor from Karramomus, Peter Daldy, and visitor Yowie and make sure they had time to shoot and any assistance they needed to get the most of their day on the range.

Results from Wednesday’s shoot were: TRifle - Peter Daldy 49.7, 48.4 = 97.11; F-Std - Richard Godden 50, 54.2, 54.2 = 158.4, Robert Irving 60.4, 59.3 = 119.7, Rodger King 59.4, 57.3 = 116.7, F-TR Marty Kelly 58.5, 54.1, 58.5, 88.8 = 258.19.

Saturdays results were: T-Rifle - Andrew Braden 25, 35, 12 = 72. F-Std - A - David Wallace58.2, 59.3.55.3 = 172.8, Graeme Kerr 59.4, F-Std - B Robert Irving 56, 55.1, 54.3 = 165.4, Roger King 55, 58.2, 31.1 = 144.3, Richard Godden 53.2, 46 = 99.2, Rosco Davis 58.4, Glenn Chisholm 52.1 F-TR Neal Hambridge 59.3, 59.5 = 118.8 ,Yowie 14. F-Open - Neal Hambridge 57.2, PalmaR David Wallace 47.1.

We wish our local team all the best for the Pennant Season with its first round on Saturday March 30 at Nagambie and the up coming Dragon Diesel Challenge, followed by the ECDRA annual Easter Monday Prize shoot.

- Robert Chaffe

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■ Murrindindi Council is keen to find out about the swimming experience of local people over summer so it can make sure that four public pools are meeting community needs.

Council Director Community Engagement, Shivaun Brown, said Council wants to get an understanding of how communities use pools and seek ideas about how they can increase the number of visits.

"Our goal is to ensure things like opening hours, fees and programs are right so that as many community members as possible can make use of the public pool facilities we have in Marysville, Yea, Eildon and Alexandra," Ms Brown said. “"If you have feedback or an idea about any or all of the public pools in Murrindindi Shire, please take a minute to share them with us through our Pool Survey. The feedback we receive from the community will help guide the future of public pools and swimming services. The survey will available on our website at www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/ publiccomment until Sunday, April 14," Ms Brown said.

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Jack’s fight gets personal ■ Yea activist Jack Russell has taken to naming Murrindindi Shire staff members, in his ongoing battles with the Council.

Mr Russell has called on the Council to release the resumes of its senior employees.

He has made a Freedom of Information application to have the profiles released for Council Directors Michael Chesworth (Corporate Services), Stuart McConnell (Assets and Development) and Shivaun Brown (Community Engagement).

Mr Russell also wants to examine the CVs for managers Graham Haylock (Business Services), Tara Carter(Governance and Risk), Liz Peddle (People and Culture), Caroline Lintott (Community Assets), Darren Jackson (Acting, Development Services), Zoe Blakeney (Environmental Sustainability), Naomi McNamara (Community Wellbeing), Jacqui Rabel (Customer Experience), and Matt Thomas (Tourism and Events).

Mr Russell has requested that records of experience levels and accreditation be made available.

Mr Russell has asked for the information to be made available within 10 days, and gave his pension card details alongside his request for a waiver of fees and charges.

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End for Bulk Buy

● Craig Lloyd, Murrindindi CEO

Christchurch condolence ■ Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish last week spoke in State Parliament about the Christchurch tragedy.

“I rise to support the Premier’s motion and to express my deepest sympathy and sincere condolence for the horrific tragedy which occurred in Christchurch,” Ms McLeish said.

“The painful and disturbing events were felt by all of us.

News of the tragedy spread very quickly.

“Everybody talked about it; everybody was appalled. But the pain and suffering of the Muslim community in New Zealand and the people of New Zealand must be excruciating.

“My thoughts are with the Muslim community, their families, their friends and their leaders. Muslims in New Zealand, Australia and across the world have had a knife to their heart.

“They must be numb as a result of these truly shocking events. The people of Christchurch must also be numb, and my thoughts are with them, because those in Christchurch are still reeling following the loss of 185 people in the earthquake which devastated that city eight years ago.

“It is hard for anyone to come to terms with a senseless act of violence, and what we saw here was indeed senseless.

“This level of violence was perpetrated on innocent people praying, practising their Islamic faith as part of their everyday life, a quite time for reflection—children and adolescents with their lives to live and parents now lost to their children, friends, family members and members of the Islamic community.

“Some of the lost were local, having moved to New Zealand to carve out new lives in a safe and welcoming country—safe from many conflicts and away from what they have seen overseas.

Murrindindi Matters

● Cindy McLeish spoke last week in Parliament “It is a peaceful and tran- munity for the year 12 Muslim quil country, and Christchurch achievement awards. is certainly a peaceful and tran“Professor Salmaan quil city.

Qureshi, who is associate pro“Foreign nationals and visi- fessor of ophthalmology at the tors alike were all impacted by Royal Victorian Eye and Ear this orchestrated violence.

Hospital, reflected that Aus“We saw an extremist, a tralia is an easy place to be a relatively young man, Muslim, and so is New radicalised to the worst ex- Zealand. tent—a person full of anti-im“They are multicultural and migration messages and hate multifaith countries where speech. people are valued for their dif“The evil was shown by the ferences and where diversity fact that he was filming his ac- and inclusion are promoted and tivities, which certainly calls practised. into question the role of social “Our countries have freemedia in these events. dom—freedom to practise “But he was a coward wear- your religion without fear or ing a helmet and battle gear judgement—and this is what who succumbed quickly when should be the case. challenged.

“It can be easy to take for “He went to the Al Noor granted these freedoms that we Mosque in Riccarton, taking 42 lives indiscriminately, then have in both New Zealand and drove some five kilometres to Australia.

“We see that those freethe Linwood Islamic Centre, doms were compromised by taking another seven.

“We saw another person the clearly premeditated atwho fell victim succumb in the tacks, and they were all the hospital in Christchurch, and more eerie as the attacker went certainly many more were about his atrocities in a orderly hospitalised with gunshot manner.

“This was clearly one of the wounds. With every tragedy, as we have heard, come the sto- darkest days for the Muslim ries of heroes—those who put community and for the people themselves in the line of fire to of Christchurch.

“But we in Australia are protect others or those who stepped up to try and stop the with those in Christchurch, evil man.

New Zealand, and with the “Through this event, fami- Muslim community. lies and communities are for“We remain as one and not ever destroyed. The impact of divided. We should all be proud this day will be with them for- of who we are and where we ever. have come from. These ac“On Sunday I joined with tions should be absolutely conmany from the Muslim com- demned,” Ms McLeish said.

■ The end of Murrindindi Shire Council's 'Dindi Bulk Buy Program' is fast approaching. Best to hurry if you want to take advantage of the good value and peace of mind the Program offers, says a Council media release.

Since the Program launched inApril 2018, more than 50 solar systems - totalling a 249 kW of solar power capacity - have been installed on the rooftops of homes and businesses across Murrindindi Shire.

Cr Rebecca Bowles said the Dindi Bulk Buy Program is helping Council meet its environmental sustainability priorities. Council is focused on this because the community said protecting the natural environment and reducing resource consumption are important.

"It's fantastic to see how committed locals truly are to our environment, with the number of people who have taken this opportunity to invest in renewable energy,” Cr Bowles said.

“Interest in and uptake on solar systems has been furthered with the Victorian Government rebates, which were announced and launched late last year.

"I know this sounds a bit sales-pitchy, but there's actually never been a better time to install solar.

“The Victorian Government is providing a 50 per cent rebate on solar installations up to the value of $2,225 for eligible households until June 30.

“And that's not to mention the interest-free loans they're offering to help cover the remaining 50 per cent of the cost of installing a solar system for those that are eligible.

"Council is encouraging Murrindindi home, business and farm owners to take advantage of both the Dindi Bulk Buy Program - which ends on April 9 - and the State Government rebates while they're available.

“Not only is solar power kind to our environment as a renewable source of energy, but it's also a good opportunity for people to keep electricity costs down in the long term," Cr Bowles said.

"The number of solar systems installed under the Dindi Bulk Buy Program already will keep some $110,000 in the community every year*, an amount which would have otherwise gone toward electricity bills.

“Additionally, the number of people who have switched to renewable energy under the Program will see more than 11,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2-e) emissions be avoided over the next 30 years," Cr Bowles said.

"If you're interested in finding out more about the Dindi Bulk Buy or its partners, check out www.dindibulkbuy.com.au, but remember to do it before April 9," Cr Bowles said. *Based on an average Victorian cost of a kWh is 0.35c. Estimate savings dependent upon user maximising their available solar power.

- Contributed

Dusty roads

■ Murrindindi Council maintains more than 600km of unsealed roads around the Shire?

Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay said the exceptionally dry period experienced in recent months has made dust a real pain on our unsealed roads.

"We understand that the dust coming off these roads is a nuisance for people and we are trying our best to minimise it where we can," Cr McAulay said.

"We are asking drivers to be mindful of the impact of dust on people and animals by reducing their speed when travelling on unsealed roads. Just have a look out the rearview window and you'll see how much dust even the most compact of cars can kick up.

The dust gets into animal's water troughs, on clean washing on clotheslines and can aggravate people's allergies,” Cr McAulay said.

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What The Papers Say Nagambie booms

■ Local business group Go Nagambie has estimated investment in the town will exceed $20 million in the next 12 months.

The investments come after three years of growing business confidence in the town’s attractions and potential as well as an increase in funding from governments to improve local infrastructure and services.

Situated under two hours from Melbourne’s central business district, Nagambie was not only seen as a tree change from the hustle and bustle of city life, but also an idyllic setting for holidays and weekend escapes.

- Seymour Telegraph

Gathering place

■ An Aboriginal gathering place is high on the agenda for Whittlesea Reconciliation Group in addressing the needs of Aboriginal people in the community.

Group members met with Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services Linda Burney, Federal Member for McEwen Rob Mitchell and City of Whittlesea Mayor Lawrie Cox and Cr Emilia Sterjova to discuss the Aboriginal community’s increasing population and its community-controlled services.

Whittlesea Reconciliation Group raised with Ms Burney and Mr Mitchell the need for an Aboriginal gathering place within the community, which would act as conduits to other services.

- Whittlesea Review

Women for Women

■ Healesville Women 4 Women are hosting a Summer Gathering on Sunday (Mar. 31), to tour a sustainable garden and meet a pair of knowledgeable permaculture advocates in Badger Creek.

It is an opportunity to learn how the owners, Dale and Martin, have established and manage their garden and how they use the produce to live off the land. Dale said they want to help and inspire people to take a similar approach to self-reliance through permaculture.

“I’m a firm believer in sharing knowledge, you can’t take it with you and if we are going to save this planet we all have to pull together and tread lightly on the earth,” she said.

- Mountain Views Mail

Rain please

■ Still not much rain to speak of, except at the Yarck end of the world, and thin columns of smoke, courtesy of dry lightning strikes, creating havoc in several parts of the plateau and on its slopes, have been a feature of the last week. With dried out paddock grasses almost snow white in colour and as slippery as ice - bring on the autumn rains - Granite News

Letter to the Editor ■ Sir, It seems that Murrindindi Council prefers to make arbitary, rash and ill-conceived decisions, and to put up a later retraction through the auspicies of the CEO, and with a ‘photo shoot’ or press release, whilst naming the staffer as being the ‘obstacle’ in the decision process. What a farce.

There is too much of this grandstanding, even if the retraction is just, and the consequences are never thought through to a logical conclusion.

The Local Paper quotes many recent examples, and not least the fiasco of the ‘Media selection’ - manipulation, process and which is one of many examples of a morbid capacity to dominate.

Do we need to live with such arrogance and poor insight into the needs of the ‘common people’, and tgo suffer such abuse. I think not.

Currently there are 12 councils in Victoria that have been named for their elleged transgressions in, one way or another, and now subject to a Local Council Representative Review to ensure fair and equitable representation, and submissions are invited.

- Jack Russell, Francis St, Yea

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Court Lists Seymour Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Monday, April 1 Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division.

Victoria Police - Gardiner, J (40644)v Benmasaud, Nathan. Uni-Mill Park Thursday, April 4 Traffic Camera Office Traffic Camera Office v Nathan, Matthew. Melbourne Victoria Police - Yates, C (42281) v Hooke, Barry. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Yates, C (42281) v Basile, Aaron. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Robinson, S (43940) v Blainey, Rebel.

Pcet-Castlemaine Victoria Police - Fidler, T (41595) v Brown, Jason. DtuSeymour Victoria Police - Cavanagh, J (38037)v Ennis, Daniel. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Westgarth, R (32813) v Turner, Craig. UniKinglake Victoria Police - Lock, M (42446) v Jones, Christopher.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Lansell, Jacob Lea. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Brown, J (42049) v Brown, Jason. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Gleeson, D (22146) v Mason, Shane Jason. Socit-Seymour Victoria Police - Cavanagh, J (38037)v Flynn, Patricia.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Brown, J (42049) v Hart, Nicholas John.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - O'neill, J (40075) v Woods, Travis. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Dangal, A (42686) v Lang, Jessica Catherine. Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Aisbett, J (34281) v Basile, Aaron John.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Stoneman, Mark.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Porter, I (33403) v Humphries, Simon Vincent. Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Baker, S (23294) v Miletic, Milica. Traffic Camera Office Victoria Police - Baker, S (23294) v Miletic, Milica. Traffic Camera Office Victoria Police - Baker, S (23294) v Redenbach, Dallas.

Traffic Camera Office Victoria Police - Baker, S (23294) v Vurmeski, Mihaylo.

Traffic Camera Office Victoria Police - Pezzimenti, P (32040) v Nunn, Allan.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Harrison, Shaun.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Vig, Harpreet. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Coglin, Liam. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Campbell, Brayden.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Sanderson, L (41694)v Jorgandzijovski, Dragi. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Mcgrath, Lynette. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Bennett, N (36915) v Charles, Sean. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Barclay, J

Contents of Court Lists are intended for information purposes only. The lists are extracted from Court Lists, as supplied to the public, by the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, often one week prior to publication date; for current Court lists, please contact the Court. Further details of cases are available at www.magistratescourt.vic.gov.au The Local Paper shall in no event accept any liability for loss or damage suffered by any person or body due to information provided. The information is provided on the basis that persons accessing it undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. No inference of a party’s guilt, innocence or liability should be made by publication of their name as a defendant. Court schedules may be changed at any time for any reason, including withdrawal of the action by the Plaintiff/Applicant.

E&OE. (36190) v Stoneman, Mark Francis. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Krickic, B (22069) v Tarascio, Rosario.

Highway Patrol-Wallan Victoria Police - Shortt, T (40203) v Orman, Elif. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Malane, B (36738) v Cook, Jeffrey. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Zeffert, K (37093) v Crawford, Rory. State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Grant, B (28598) v Johnson, Rachael Jade. Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Mion, C (40159) v Brown, Jason. DtuSeymour Victoria Police - Mizzi, J (30000) v Benmasaud, Nathan.

State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Shepherd, Raymond.

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From Our 1939 Files

Whittlesea news

■ Complaint is made by some residents that the tree growing in front of the electric light post at McKendirick's corner obscures the light from the street lamp. It is said that almost the whole of the corner, which is a very dangerous one, is cast into shadow by the foliage of the tree. An effort will be made to have the light placed on an arm to carry it clear of the tree.

St Andrews

■ There was a very good attendance at the clearing sale at Queenstown on Wednesday of the furniture, farm plant, etc., of Mr. W. Pickering, who is leaving for New Zealand.

There was active competition and the sale yielded an amount in. excess of the estimate.

The auctioneers were Mr. C. M. Bannerman and C. Jessop & Co. in conjunction.

Alexandra fire

■ About 7.30 p.m. on Monday, Mr. Fred Johnson, of Aitken Street, called at Mr. Stillman's garage for petrol for his motor cycle. Mr. Ted Stillman attended to the bowser, and from some unknown cause the petrol burst into flames at the tank. In a few seconds there was a blaze many feet high. The fire bell was rung and quite a crowd col lected in a remarkably short time. Efforts were made to extinguish the fire by throwing gravel on it.

An ordinary household fire extinguisher assisted to a certain extent to lessen the flames, but it was not until Mr. Les Stillman arrived and used a "Pyrene" extinguisher that the fire was completely subdued.

G’borough Druids

■ The Greensborough Druids' Lodge gave a very happy evening last Monday. Mr. A. Kelle again entertained with music from his panatrope, which may be set to any time and needs little attention. As there was no time wasted between dances, the night was full of fun. Mr. Kelle, formerly of Scotland Yard, talked for a little while on crime, giving examples of the severe treatment of criminals only 50 or 60 years ago, and the comparatively light sentences given to-day.

Arthurs’ Creek

■ Only ten or elevne persons attended a meeting called at Arthur's Creek last Thursaday with the subject of forming a football club to enter the Panton Hill District Association. This was so disappointing that the convenors decided, that it would be useless to go on with the proposal.

Dixon’s Creek

■ An accident that might have resulted in serious injury occurred on Wednesday o n the Dixon's Creek-Toolangi road. Miss Alma Ellis, while droving some cattle along the road, had the misfortune to be.pulled from the saddle through getting tangled up in tele phone wires. Fortunately for her she had safety stirrup irons, and escaped with a few bruises. Wires hanging about at all heights are very dangerous. The postal authorities should see that they are all placed at a safe height above the ground.

Epidemic spreads

■ The junior room of Diamond Creek State School seems strangely quiet and empty at present as the smaller children are falling victims one by one to the epidemic of measles which is sweeping the district.

Strict measures

■ Profiting by past imistakes, the Diamond Valley Football Association has taken strict measures,to prevent ring-in.players, w hile the attitude of delegates, demanding a stricter interpretation of the rules, should act as a de terrent to rough play.

By amending the constituition, and affliating with the Victorian Football Union, delegates have acted wisely.

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System down ■ Yarra Ranges Council is experiencing issues with its e-planning and online services due to an external technical issue.

Road hold-up ■ An important road connection (O'Herns Rd duplication between the Hume Freeway and Redding Rise) in Epping remains on hold because of an environmental assessment lying dormant with the Federal Government, says Whittlesea Mayor Cr Lawrie Cox.

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Entertainment

Ultimate Vegas Show at Crown

● The Ultimate Vegas Show is at The Palms At Crown on Saturday (Mar. 30).

■ All the sizzle and spectacle of a Las Vegas David Cotteras Dean Martin, Mark Andrew as show will be celebrated at The Palms at Crown Elvis Presley, and others greats including with entertainment maestro Michael Boyd stag- Carmen Miranda – performed by Kelly Byrne ing The Ultimate Vegas Show on March 30. (star of Matador).”

The Ultimate Vegas Show mixes circus and Todd Patrick , one of Australia’s dance leaders, who began his formidable career with ■ Tyrell Jones and Sam Redway of Knaive illusion acts with Las Vegas’s top artists.

The show pays tribute to Dean Martin, Elvis Disney and then Versace, Dior, Issey Miyaki, Theatre describe their production Bin Laden the One Man Show: "Osama bin Laden sits Presley and other legendary greats by Australia’s Gucci and Chanel across Europe and Asia, choyou down,makes you a cup of tea, tells you best impersonators all framed by Vegas showgirls reographs the show. and boys and supported by a live band.

He has worked internationally, including prinhis life story and blows your mind.

Producer and co-star Michael Boyd, the cipal dancer at The Lido, Paris.

“If people want to go even more in depth The 90-minute show, which has played to than that,its the life story of Osama bin Laden ‘magical mind’ behind recent blockbusters Cabaret De Paris and Mystique, as well as one of the sell-out crowds in Melbourne, Adelaide and the told in the way he might tell it .”

And so it was on the opening night of Bin finalists on Australia’s Got Talent in 2013, said: Gold Coast, will perform two shows only, with a “In The Ultimate Vegas Show we pay hom- repertoire covering Salsa to Showgirl, Ballroom Laden the One Man Show at Theatre Works from Tyrell Jones and Sam Redway of the age to the showgirl and all of her feathers and to Ballet, Rock and Roll to Rio. sequins and high-kicks and heels; mixed up with Performance Details: Saturday, March 30 at very small UK-based Knaive Theatre .

2pm and 7.30pm Sam offered and delivered to me, in the breathtaking illusions and circus acts.

“Then, through the critically acclaimed stage Venue: The Palms at Crown front row, a cup of tea, no milk,no sugar, and talents of impersonators, we will pay tribute to Tickets: from $69 a biscuit and we were away.

Bookings: ticketmaster.com.au or 136100 On a bare stage, white board, tea point on some of the greatest Vegas performers ever with a table and a solitary chair; the very personable and affable Sam took us and his character (if that's the right word) on the journey from privileged but otherwise normal young The witch and her cat are one? Room on the Broombrings man; married to childhood sweetheart at 18, ■ Room on the Broom live onstage returns to Melbourne’s flying happily on their broom- together physical theatre, munew father, to disappearance then emergence Athenaeum Theatre on April stick – until a stormy wind blows sic and puppetry to this story to become monster then myth. and 18. away the witch’s hat, bow and about friendship, sharing and We know so little of the man, too much of 17 Based on the picture book wand. working together to the stage the monster, yet to follow Sam's interpreta- by Julia Donaldson and Axel A helpful dog, bird and frog children aged 3-8 … and tion, he wasn't born to inspire the fall of the Scheffler, and presented by the find the witch’s lost things, and for their adults.

Twin Towers, airline suicide crash into the award-winning team behind they all hop on the broom for a Performance Details: Pentagon and other bombings.

The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s ride.

Venue:Athenaeum Theatre, This production comes to Theatre Works Child and The 13, 26, 52, 78 & But this broomstick’s not 188 Collins St, Melbourne after the Edinburg Fringe; touring the USA 91-Storey Treehouses, the char- meant for five and – crack – the Dates: WednesdayApril 17 (yes, acclaimed in L A), Seymour Centre acters of Room on the Broom broom snaps in two. and Thursday April 18 Sydney and the Adelaide Fringe. fly in to Melbourne for the EasWhen a hungry dragon apTickets: All $36 - $40 It’s more than a show, an acted memoir , ter school holidays following pears, who will save the poor Bookings: Ticketek, 9650 an entertainment and each performance is sold-out seasons across the witch? And will there ever be 1500 followed by a free- flowing discussion with country during 2016 and 2017. room on the broom for every - Cheryl Threadgold any audience that wants to remain and engage with Sam and each other Excellent performance that stretches and challenges. Bin Laden the One Man Show played at Theatre Works.

- Review by Peter Green

In Melbourne Bin Laden

‘Room on the Broom’ at the Ath

Woah, Alyssa 2

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■ Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Top Arts is an annual showcase on Victoria's most exciting emerging young artists who have excelled in VCE Art and StudioArts.

Top Arts 2019 presents the brightest bourgeoning thinkers from across the state with 49 works drawn from over 2000 submissions.

Illuminating the pressing concerns affecting young Australians and the world at large, Top Arts 2019 artists explore a broad range of contemporary issues from familial grief transferred across generations, to the acceleration of climate change and the effect of consumerism on modern society.

The exhibition showcases a breadth of mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, fashion and video art, highlighting the ingenuity ad diversity of young Victorian creatives. Exhibition runs until July 14 Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square, Swanston St. Melbourne - Peter Kemp

■ Col and Fil present their new sketch comedy show, Woah, Alyssa! 2 at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival until April 7 at the Pilgrim Bar. The show is said to resemble the most consistent episode of Saturday Night Live ever, only every character is played by two boys who love each other.

Like its predecessor, it will include absurdity, parody, song and satire.

Topics include straight male actors getting too much praise for playing gay, that one friend who’s only on Tinder ‘as a joke’, the thin line between saying “Daddy” in a hot way vs a creepy way.

Colwyn and Fil are two boyfriends who live, write and produce their work together, and they toured their debut show last year to critical acclaim and present monthly variety shows at Hares and Hyenas.

Performance dates: Until April 7 at 9.10pm Venue: Crowded in the Vaults, Pilgrim Bar, Federation Wharf.

Bookings: https://www.comedyfestival.com. au/2019/shows/woah-alyssa-2

● Col and Fil in 'Woah, Alyssa! 2'

What’s On Night Dance

■ The location is North Melbourne at the Meat Market and Night Dance from choreographer Melanie Lane, performed by Lillian Steiner, Melanie Lane , Gregory Lorenzetti , Benjamin Hancock , Sidney Saayman and Ryan Ritchie .

The program suggests: "Traditional dance forms are turned on their head as Lane and her co-performers (doesn't anyone dance any more?) slide between exotic dance, burlesque, and pop ... transformative journey into the world of nighttime entertainment".

I have seen this work before and remember thinking then the parts were less than the whole and the whole wasn't much to write home about.

Much of what happened was in slow motion and more pretension than portentous and the 50 minutes had me trying to read the time on my watch.

As I watched, I recalled a doco I saw years back on vogueing and here let Google speak: vogue verb gerund or present participle … dance to music in such a way as to imitate the characteristic poses struck by a model on a catwalk.

- Review by Peter Green

Recital ■ Two things excited me last week - my first visit to the Newport Substation and a Dance Massive production (one of 28!) Recital performed by Richard Cilli and Claire Edwardes The program said (amongst other things): "A strange and mesmeric double act …

Claire Edwardes and Richard Cilli unite their distinct virtuosic talents in an unusual presentation of how movement sounds , and how sound moves ... Edwardes and Cilli collaborate with acclaimed director and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek … set in the orthodox world of music and dance recital … the outcomes are impressive disturbing and wildly ecstatic".

All above was true but more it was like a Bach; constructed and and measured in part and the the dancer, Richard was gripped by Dionysian siezures that threatened, without the Bacchae's furious assaults, to rend limbs from torso.

All this from Claire setting two metronomes in motion.

Without absolute simultaneous starts they phased into then out of unison; here the mathematical metaphor for the 50-minute performance.

Many things came to me: the battle of the sexes, the unbearable tension between a shuddering Richard and Claire, unbearable but unresolved, the scherzo that lay in the title I left exhausted but satisfied.

- Review by Peter Green

National Anthem

■ Presenting a cacophonous array of artistic voices and perspectives, National Anthem brings together 24 artists, from a range of generations, who critically address Australian national identity.

Built around the key works in the Michael Buxton Collection, together with works sourced from beyond the collection, this project reflects on the ways that the desire for a singular national identity often excludes indigenous histories and denies the multiplicity of voices, cultures and experiences that enrich, contest and enhance Australian way of life.

Channelling humour and satire and engaging in tactics such as play, intervention and confrontation, the artists from National Anthem seek self-determination and collectively hold a mirror up to contemporary Australia, prompting new representations of who are or who might aspire to become..

Exhibition closes July 7.

Buxton Contemporary Gallery Cnr Southbank Boulevard & Dodds St. Southbank - Peter Kemp

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Loacl Theatre Very Merry Blimpmas

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Humble uke to the fore ● Tiana Hogben, Jayden Masciulli and Caitlyn Staples in A Very Merry Blimpmas.

■ Hit by a Blimp, Tiana, Jayden and Caitlyn, present their third sketch show A Very Merry Blimpmas from March 28 – April 7 at the Trades Hall.

For both the lovers and haters of the silly season, this show aims to highlight the best and worst parts of the holidays with absurd twists on the Christmas traditions, characters and Carols you know and love/hate.

Tina, Jayden and Caitlyn are going allout with an extravagant Christmas spectacular to make up for their ascandalous performance at the local Carols by Candlelight last year, which left them shamed and ostracised from the City of Glenhorse.

So, they’ve hired the “amphitheatre” in the “park” to right the wrongs of last year.

Spoiler alert: they don’t.

Following the success of their sketch shows Who We Were (Melbourne Fringe 2016) and I’m Here (Nominated Best Comedy Melbourne Fringe 2017, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2018), A Very Merry Blimpmas is set to be a festive journey of silly sketch, songs and dances not appropriate for the family Christmas family lunch.

Hit By a Blimp are Melbourne-based writers and performers Caitlyn Staples (Improv Conspiracy), Tiana Hogben (Get Krack!n, The Housemate) and Jayden Masciulli (The inBestigators), all with backgrounds in improvisational comedy, acting, writing and theatre.

They specialise in feel-good, comedy with heart – often explored through exaggerated humour, alternate realities and spontaneous musical numbers.

Venue: Trades Hall - The Archive Room, 54 Victoria St, Carlton Dates: March 28 – April 7 (No Wednesdays) Time: 6:30pm, 5:30pm Sunday (50 mins) Bookings: www.comedyfestival.com.au Tickets: $20-25.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Pity Party

■ The comedy duo Sweaty Pits present Pity Party as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival until April 7 in Globe Alley, Melbourne.

Frankie McNair and Miriam Slater decided to combine their true loves (comedy and each other) in 2016 and give birth to the sketch comedy duo Sweaty Pits.

They aim to make change by screaming about the issues they care about with a positive, absurdist, and energetic energy and hope to leave the audience with a belly full of laughs as well as a message.

Performance Dates: Until April 7 Time: 8.30pm Cost: $25 - $30 Venue: Globe Alley (formerly known as Belleville), 1 Globe Alley, Melbourne Tickets: https://www.comedyfestival. com.au/2019/shows/pity-party - Cheryl Threadgold

● Sweaty Pits Frankie McNair and Miriam Slater, in Pity Party.

● The Longbeach Ukes entertain at theatre reviewer Maggie Morrison’s birthday party: Tony Brooker (left), Peter Grigg, Jonno Kingma, Veronica Young, Beni McMaster, Fran Paddington (front) and Dave Paddington.

■ The Longbeach Ukes, also well-loved songs from stage Starting with its origins on known as LUKES, is a com- productions. twitter, the term Adulting has munity-based musical club This is the Moment from become a huge online trend bawhich encourages members to Jekyll and Hyde started the per- sically describing or congratuexplore the ukulele, a ‘humble formance followed by lating oneself for doing “grownyet beautiful musical instru- favourites such as I’ve got You up things”. ment’ via the thrill of bringing Under My Skin and On This Using autobiographical exsong favourites to life.

Night of a Thousand Stars had periences, York takes a satiriThe group is based in the audience ready for guest cal slant on all of the things you Aspendale and all music-lov- actor/singer Alinta Chidzey just wish you could get together ers are warmly welcome to at- (Anita in West Side Story) who in your own adult life including tend. joined Michael in a two-piece holding down a job, paying your Members come from all set. bills on time, cooking dinner suburbs surrounding Kingston With stepping down to the (that doesn’t just involve going and the Long Beach area – auditorium, encouraging par- to a Macca’s drive-thru) and Mordialloc, Aspendale, ticipation and the odd personal even doing your taxes.

Aspendale Gardens, Chelsea, word with an audience memTash York has paved a lot Bonbeach, Carrum, Seaford ber, Michael’s energy and of her cabaret success from her to Frankston and Langwarrin. lively body movement had the previous award-winning show The LUKES are also avail- audience calling for more af- These Things Take Wine in able for hire to entertain at re- ter closing with Send In The Australia, and has appeared in tirement homes, parties and Clowns. the Melbourne Comedy Festiconferences.

In his final farewells of val previously with her trio For further details contact thanking the band and the au- show The Desperettes: A Guide Peter, 0425 718 382. dience, Michael missed hav- to Being a Wingman.

- Cheryl Threadgold ing guest Alinta Chidzey return Adulting has received multo the stage. tiple five-star reviews, sold out - Review by her season last year at the Graeme McCoubrie Edinburgh Fringe and received the Adelaide Fringe WeeklyAward for Best Caba■ Fresh from his role of ret..

Magaldi in the Melbourne Dates and Times : March season of Evita, Michael re28 – April 21, 9.30pm (no cently performed two one-hour ■ Big Hair Productions pre- Weds), 8.30pm Sun. segments of feel-good enter- sents Tash York in Adulting: Tickets: $23-$27 tainment for Morning Melo- Growing up is hard from Bookings: www.comedy dies at the Hamer Hall March 28 – April 21 at the festival.com.au/2019/shows/ Trades Hall.

Melbourne. adulting His professional career launching 2003 role as Galileo in Ben Elton’s and Queen’s, We Will Rock You took him throughout Australia, Japan and the UK and with sell out seasons breaking Box Office records, Michael has been kept busy ever since.

As a sought-after soloist he frequently performs with various state and other orchestra’s throughout Australia while late last year returning from a soldout season of A Friday Night at The Opera concert at the London Coliseum.

His extensive repertoire of musical numbers came to the fore demonstrating a versatile and lyrical voice.

With his nine-piece band under the direction of pianist Craig Schneider and a fivepiece brass, a guitar, bass and drums skilfully supported ● Tash York in Adulting: Growing up is hard.

Michael’s varied renditions of

Morning Melodies

Adulting is hard

● Rowan Thambar ■ Rowan Thambar presents his 2017 Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy nominated show in Melbourne’s International Comedy Festival.

23 and Disappointed will be presented from March 28 to April 21 at Vic’s Bar, The Victoria Hotel.

Rowan, 24, says his act is diverse, with stand-up, autobiographical moments and musical comedy helping him paint a unique perspective on heartbreak, family and race in Australia.

2018 was a big year for Rowan, being handpicked to MC the prestigious Comedy Zone showcase at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, performing at the Melbourne Town Hall as a part of Triple J’s Good Az Friday and sold out shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival and Bris Funny Fest.

23 and Disappointed explores what it means to grow up as a Sri-Lankan millennial in Australia.

Rowan says: “My show is about trying to working out the kind of man I want to be. It’s also about the struggle to maintain that hope despite disappointments.

“I talk about my family, wanting to be successful and also about a break up. It’s really an honest reflection on what it was like to be 23.”

A classically trained pianist at the Newcastle Conservatorium, Rowan also brings unique musical comedy to the stage.

Inspired by jazz, blues and RnB his style is said to be cool with original song and lyrics.

Performance season: March 28 – April 21 at 6pm (5pm on Sunday) Venue: Vic’s Bar, The Victoria Hotel Cost: $18 - $25 Bookings: http://bit.ly/MICFRowan Thambar - Cheryl Threadgold

National Gallery The Art of Maori Culture A new exhibition on the art of Maori culture opened on Saturday March 23 at the NGA. Spanning over 250 years, and featuring portraits of Maori men and women, Maori Markings: Ta Moko explores the tradition of ta moko, the unique Maori art of marking the skin, from its origin through to its contemporary resurgence.

To receive moko and wear the markings is considered a great cultural privilege.

Using the tapping of a sharp chisel known as ubi to cut into the skin, ta moko marks an individual with connecting patterns that tell of prestige, authority and identity.

Though based on traditional designs, the practice of ta moko allows room for artistic expression, particularly since its contemporary resurgence in the 1990s.

Exhibition opened on Saturday, March 23 National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place Parkes A.C.T. - Peter Kemp

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The Arts National Gallery Radical Inventor: Alexander Calder Known as the man who made sculpture move, Alexander Calder (1896 - 1976) was one of the most influential and pioneering figures of modern art in the 20th century.

Revered for his ingenuity, inventiveness and innovation, Calder will be celebrated in his first retrospective at an Australian public institution, featuring works never-been-seen before in Australia, including an impressive display of Calder's most iconic forms: suspended mobiles.

The exhibition will feature nearly 100 works spanning the artist's oeuvre, ranging from early childhood sculptures to avant-garde innovations to large-scale objects from the last chapter of his career in the 1970s.

Organised in collaboration with he Montreal Museum of fine Arts, Canada, the exhibition brings together sculpture, drawing, painting, jewellery and other media from the Calder Foundation New York Exhibition: April 5 - August 4.

National Gallery of Victoria 150 St. Kilda Rd, Melbourne - Peter Kemp

Mildura Arts Centre Painting of Life - Shegofa Rahaimi Shegofa's paintings explore the experience of daily life, responding to those she sees who are in need or in trouble, or taking inspiration from nature.

Rendered in a style that is highly expressive, the works are imbued with multiple emotions.

Exhibition opened March 22 and closes Sunday May 5.

Mildura Arts Centre 199 Coreton Rd, Mildura - Peter Kemp

Town Hall Gallery Town Hall after Dark Hawthorn's Town Hall Gallery will be holding another one of its popular After Dark sessions.

Enjoy a free after-hours viewing of some of the best artwork to be found in Melbourne's East, alongside live music, immersive activities, access to The Emporium and arts Bar. Gallery goers will be entertained by the boundary-pushing electric violinist. Xani Kolac, who audiences will recognise as one half of The Tonks.

Visitors will also get to explore the current exhibition Delineation, which highlights the diverse world of contemporary drawing practice in Australia.

The featured artists employ vari ous ways of using lines, continually challenging our expectations between an object and its representation.

Delineation artist, Carmel Seymour, will also be presenting a tea ceremony inspired by her artworks. The brews are made in conjunction with a naturopath intended to enhance imagination and fertility.

Melbourne-based artist Caroline Packham, will present her performance piece Anthropic Augmentation which is set to be an After Dark highlight.

The roaming projection explores an imagined future memoir of theYarra River which is uniquely set in the year 2030.

Friday April 5. 8pm.

Town Hall Gallery 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn - Peter Kemp

MUMA Art Schools from Asia (China) Presented by Anthony Yung, one of Asia Art Archive's senior researchers based in Shanghai, this second and final talk by AAA will focus on the history of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China.

Wednesday April 3. 1pm-2pm. Venue: G104 Building G Monash university. Caulfield Campus Free.

MUMA, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Ground Floor, Building F, 900 Dandenong Rd., Caulfield East.

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Entertainment

Nightshades in Gipps.

■ Nightshades is the latest work by Gippsland writer Jeannie Haughton, currently in production and rehearsal by Off The Leash, Theatre with Teeth, opening on April 5 at the West Gippsland Arts Centre.

With her world unexpectedly upturned, an academic retreats into the local history she has been researching, immersing herself in vivid lives and compelling voices from the past.

Her refusal to deal with the present, however, is driving her friend to distraction.

Off The Leash Theatre’s Artistic Director, Jeannie Haughton, says she has conceived this piece as a collaboration of local artists, musicians, performers and production creatives, a showcase for inherent talent, regional stories and for the WGAC itself.

“Recently and beautifully refurbished, the WGAC is proud to co-produce with OTL, committing itself to contributing to and developing, vital community theatre,” says Jeannie.

Director and performer Kellie Bray says she was drawn to the play’s evocative, theatrically rich and complex storytelling.

“You have to draw on all your resources,” says Kellie. “Your instinct, experience, visual eye and attuned ear, because you're flying creatively blind, no guidelines, no reference points; you need to generate passion and trust, and push and inspire the fabulous folk who generously offer their talents to the cause and the adventure of an original work.”

Kellie believes in the need to return to the original source.

“In this case it is the wonderful Jeannie, who brings extraordinary knowledge and script, insight, personal investment and a brilliant visual sensibility.

● Director/performer Kellie Bray rehearses Nightshades, opening in Gippsland on April 5.

“To be entrusted with the work and to have that mentorship and guidance is rare and special. And I hope she doesn't feel the need to throttle me too many times.”

Performance Season: April 5, 6, 13 at 8pm; April 6, 13 at 4pm, April 14 at 2pm Venue: West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul.

Bookings: WGAC: 56 242 456 Website: www.wgac.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Kinky Room of Astrology, Ciggiez ■ Julia Rorke and Crowded present Jeneane’s Kinky Room of Astrology and Ciggiez from April 8-21 at Federation Wharf.

Jeneane asks who wants their birth chart read – she says she has the answers as we follow her through her world of highs and lows.

Julia Rorke is a nominee Golden Gibbo at the 2018 ● Julia Rorke in Jeneane’s Kinky Room of Astrology and Ciggiez .

Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a nomi- 8 – 21 at 9.10pm Booking: https://crowded. nee for the Emerging Artist Venue: Federation Wharf, net.au/ciggiez/ Award 2018 Adelaide Fringe, 15-19 Federation Drive, Tickets: $15 - $22 Performance Details: April Melbourne - Cheryl Threadgold

Get Rickshaw, Die Trying ■ Jeeves Rema presents his Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show Get Rickshaw Die Trying from March 26 – April 7 at 6.45pm at Tasma Terrace, East Melbourne.

Jeeves is going to be a dad. The only thing that stands in the way of his goal of being the best dad in the world is that he already dislikes his unborn, next-gen kids.

He explores stories from his past to reveal how his very own ethnic upbringing has affected him as a human being, and future-dad, so far.

This show contains personal, yet relatable anecdotes, some beat poetry and, as always, mathematical representations of specific social situations.

Get Rickshaw Die Trying is the sequel and natural continuation of Jeeves’s stand-up series.

His first three shows in Melbourne – He’s Just Not That India (2016), It’s My Chapati and I’ll Cry If I Want To (2017), and The Fault In Our Sitars (2018) have performed to soldout audiences in both Melbourne and Sydney.

Show Details: March 26 - April 7 at 6.45pm Venue: Tasma Terrace - 6 Parliament Pl, East Melbourne Tickets: $20-$25 Bookings: comedyfestival.com.au Bookings recommended.

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What’s On Wakey Wakey

■ Red Stitch presents the Australian premiere of Wakey Wakey, the latest work from American playwright Will Eno. Written during Eno's five-year residency at New York's Signature Theatre Company, Wakey Wakey is both a celebration and a meditation on life; a joyful exhortation to live authentically.

With the assistance of quirky projected visuals and a supportive music score, Eno’s everyman hero, Guy, invites his audience to join him in exploring the question for which no philosopher, physician or theologian has been able to provide a definitive answer.

At once gently perceptive and unashamedly humoU rous, Wakey Wakey is an idiosyncratic conversation through the trivial and profound, urging us to re-examine our relationship to the world.

“People talk about matters of life and death.

But it’s really just life, isn’t it. When you think about it.”

One of America’s leading living playwrights, Eno’s evocative imagery and preoccupation with the nature of being has been compared to that of Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee.

Wakey Wakey - the second of Eno’s plays to premiere in Australia at Red Stitch - is directed by David Myles in his first production for the Company.

David’s directorial credits range from opera to drama to rock musicals in Europe and Australia, including The Merchant of Venice with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre.

Red Stitch Ensemble member Justin Hosking is joined by guest actor Nicole Nabout in her debut for the Company.

Hosking brings an intimate knowledge of Eno’s work, having performed in Eno’s The Realistic Joneses for the Red Stitch in 2017.

James Lew (set and costume) and Justin Gardam (sound design) return to the creative team, and Marshall White (AV) and Lucas Silva-Myles (lighting design) join Red Stitch for the first time.

Venue: Red Stitch Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel St, St Kilda Previews: April 23 - 26 Opening Night: Saturday April; 27 Season: Sunday April 28 – May 19 *Q&A Session post show on Thursday May 9 Times: Thursday – Saturday 8.00pm, Wednesday and Sunday 6.30pm Tickets: $15.00 – $55.00 Bookings: 9533 8083 or www.redstitch.net - Cheryl Threadgold

True Colours

■ The latest exhibition is from Casey Jenkins, a new mind altering, body modification, transformative, durational performance artwork by Casey Jenkins in collaboration with neuroscientist Dr Marc Seal of Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

How fixed are our conceptions and our prejudices?

For two weeks in a make-shift gallery lab Jenkins will undertake intense live perceptual training to morph her mind with the goal of perceiving previously imperceptible hues and developing synesthesia.

True Colours /True Colors is the first of a series of investigations into the malleability of the mind's eye, how our perceptions corrupt in a media-saturated age and what impact this has on our attitudes and beliefs.

By creating new, arbitrary language categories and associations and drilling them into her brain, Jenkins aims to warp her perceptions and change the way she views the world.

Monitored by MRI scans with the support of neuroscientist, Dr. Marc Seal of the Murdoch Children's Research Centre, True Colors/True Colors draws on the rich oeuvre of body-modification artwork, but explores new territory as the body part being modified is the brain.

Exhibition: April 6-18.

Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 Noon - 5pm.

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Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Mike’s 50th ■ Australian music great Mike Rudd will celebrate his 50th anniversary in the industry with an evening of great songs and reminiscing.

From renowned Aussie bands, Spectrum to Ariel, Mike has trodden an incredible and unique path through the musical landscape, inspiring and influencing many fellow artists along the way, says his media release.

Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East, Sunday ,May 26. Tickets at the club.Go

Russell returns ■ Aussie singer musician Russell Morris returns to the scene with another new album of original songs to add to his illustrious 50year career.

His upcoming release, Black and Blue Heart, follows on from his successful works over the past decade that have seen him receive ARIA awards and platinum album sales.

The title track to his new album is written

by Melbourne singer-songwriters Gary Leonard Hammond and Paul O'Gorman.

‘Let It Be’ tour ■ The songs of Lennon and McCartney will be brought to life once again, thanks to some of Australia's great singers.

John Paul Young, Russell Morris, Glenn Shorrock, Doug Parkinsonand Jack Jones will take to the stage at Melbourne's Hamer Hall on Sunday, August 4 for a Beatles extravaganza. Tickets on sale soon.

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Margaret River confounds with cooler vintage ■ Just when I thought I had this whole global-warming caper sorted - and that all of Australia's grapegrowing regions were going to move up a notch in the temperature stakes - comes news that the 2019 vintage in Western Australia's Margaret River is two-to-three weeks later than normal due to cooler weather.

Since last August, temperatures in the area have been lower than averages recorded between 2010 and 2018, in stark contrast with those experienced in other Australian regions, most which have encountered heat waves.

Vintage, it is anticipated, will continue into late April and early May. Quality-wise, it all looks good for the vintage in one of Australia's prime regions, though yields are down slightly on last year.

"The recent spell of nice war weather has really move things along quite significantly," said Voyager Estate's Steve James.

"The temperatures, whilst not hot, have been very conducive to high functioning of the grape vine and I believe we are on track for another excellent season."

Certainly, reports on the quality of chardonnay picked so far have been very encouraging.

I can't wait to hear about the district's main red claim to fame, cabernet sauvignon.

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Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz ($32): have certainly diversified their Blanc ($20): Another dry white from This blend of 85 per cent cabernet grape sourcing recent years to in- the coolness of Orange, this time and 15 per cent shiraz comes en- clude areas other than their home dominated by fresh, zesty flavours of passionfruit, but with plenty of tirely from the family's vineyard at base in the Hunter Valley.

Murrumbateman, near Canberra.

This dry white was made from palate structure providing interest It's a lovely example of a clas- grapes grown in the much cooler and substance.

I wrote recently that the best sic Australian blend, with the hall- Orange region and it shows in its marks of both varieties - the minty crisp dryness but quite complex full Australian wines from this variety leanness of cabernet and the softer flavours. Fruit-wise, ripe pears and came from the Adelaide Hills and Orange. This wine certainly vindirichness of shiraz. citrus dominate. cates that claim.

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Seafood restaurant with a rich history ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Connie and Ted’s ■ Connie was born September 21, 1919, in Bolton, England.

Ted was born April 21, 1918, in Peterborough, England.

They both emigrated to the United States when they were two.

Connie and Ted met at a volunteer fire department dance in 1938. They fell in love, and were married on Connie's birthday, September 21, 1940, settling in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Ted entered the Navy and was stationed in Pensacola, Florida, with Connie by his side. Their first daughter, Carolyn, was born June 2, 1942.

While on leave, Ted took up fishing, a sport he enjoyed his whole life.

They returned to Pawtucket, where their second daughter, Joanne, was born February 25, 1947.

That same year, Ted built a summer cottage in Matunuck, Rhode Island. Connie and Ted enjoyed many years of fishing in the years that followed.

That love of fishing was passed on to their daughter Carolyn's son, Michael Cimarusti, in spite of the fact that Ted made Michael clean and fillet the day's catch.

Ted passed away on January 1, 1996, and now fishes in that great ocean in the sky…

Connie and Ted's is inspired by their story, their love for family, and the good times they spent together fishing off the shores of New England.

At Connie and Ted's, you'll find simply prepared fish and shellfish, inspired by the classic clam shacks, oyster bars, and fish houses, that dot the New England Seaboard and the Western Coast.

Not laughing

● Enjoying the daily catch at 8171 Santa Monica Boulevard is Managing Director Countdown Motion Pictures, Gavin Wood (foreground), with Managing Director Ramada Plaza Alan Johnson, international property guru Paul Birchall and Atlanta Property developer Peter Whitfield.

Households on welfare

Truth about Hooters ■ When you announce where you're headed for dinner, it's met with a bit of excitement and hopefully agreement.

Announce to the family you'd like to go to Hooters, though, and it might be met with doubt and a disapproving scowl.

There's no denying that Hooters with their scantily-clad waitresses and looks-based hiring practices has always targeted a certain client base.

It's hard to believe they've been doing it for more than 30 years, and they haven't aged well.

They called Hooters "a fading relic of the 1980s", and they've been on a very slow downward slide for a long time.

There's only one year in recent memory that they saw a sales increase, and even then it was just a pretty sad one percent.

In 2008, they had 400 restaurants. By 2011, they had closed 35 locations and lost an annual revenue of more than $100 million.

Between 2012 and 2016 they closed a further seven percent of their locations. So what's going on with this bro-centric breastaurant?

BrandIndex is a company that surveys a wide customer base across dozens of industries in order to determine what's trending and what's not.

They took a hard look at Hooters and what they found was pretty hilarious or would be, if it wasn't so dismal.

Customers were asked to rate Hooters on a scale of 1 to 100, and women rated the chain at a pretty sad -21.

That might not be surprising, but how about the guys? Their average score clocked in at an almost equally sad 2, climbing a bit from the -3 they scored just a few months prior.

Getting rid of any taboo associated with Hooters is key.

And that taboo? The numbers don't lie.

American trivia ■ Winning American Lotto Numbers: The most commonly drawn numbers in the lottery are 44, 38, and 40.

■ Interesting American Work Survey: What working Americans do when they are ill?

12 per cent: Work from home 34 per cent: Take a sick day 54 per cent: Go to work anyway Source: Civic Science survey of 2005 employed adults who work outside home.

■ The Laugh Factory Comedy Club, one of the world's most recognised and respected names in the comedy club business over the last three decades, has filed a $10 million-plus law suit against Malaysian comedian Harith Iskander in a "massive breach of contract and copyright infringement" case according to Laugh Factory lead attorney, Clifton W. Albright.

The attorney predicts that: "The impact of this case will be significant and far-reaching for comedy clubs and the protection of their brands, reputation and trade secrets."

The lawsuit alleges that Iskander and his wife, with the support of business partners, stole Laugh Factory's intellectual property while pretending to make preparations for opening Laugh Factory comedy clubs throughout Asia.

"In 35 years, I've never once sued a comedian," states Jamie Masada, owner of Laugh Factory, "I'm standing up for all the comics that have had their work or intellectual property stolen in the past."

The Laugh Factory originally opened its doors in 1979, and has been recognized as "the #1 comedy club in the country" by such high-profile media as USA Today.

With Southern California locations in Hollywood (its original Sunset Boulevard locale) and Long Beach (opened in 2008), comedy's top stars as well as today's brightest emerging talent shine on its legendary stage.

GavinWood

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■ More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.

The latest Census Bureau data analysed by the Center for Immigration Studies finds that about 72 per cent of households headed by non-citizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California, the number one immigrant-receiving state in the US. Meanwhile, only about 35 per cent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare in California. All four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households.

In Texas, for example, nearly 70 per cent of households headed by immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 per cent of native-born households in Texas are on welfare.

Guns, guns, more guns

● Hooters: a relic of the 1980s

Coke’s plastic problem ■ Coca-Cola has admitted that it produces a mind-boggling three million metric tons (3.3 million tons) of plastic packaging a year which is the equivalent to 200,000 bottles every minute.

The beverage company has previously refused to disclose the information, but has now provided the data to activist Ellen MacArthur, who is urging companies and governments to do more to prevent plastic pollution.

The figures didn't break down exactly how the plastic was used, but The Guardian reports the volume translates to 108 billion 500ml PET plastic bottles bottles a year, more than onefifth of the entire world's PET bottle output, which is roughly 500 billion a year.

In its reports published on Thursday, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation said: "The decision by more than 30 companies to publicly disclose their annual plastic packaging volumes in the report is an important step toward greater transparency."

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■ The calendar year of 2018 had the second highest number of gun transactions on record, and the number of gun background checks this past Black Friday was among the highest volume days on record with more than 182,000 transactions, an FBI official told a House Appropriations subcommittee.

During her opening statement, Christine Halvorsen, acting assistant director of the FBI's criminal justice information services division, said that since 2010, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System experienced "substantial increases in the volume of background checks".

"This past Black Friday was among the highest volume days in the NICS history. In that one day, the NICS processed over 182,000 transactions. In calendar year 2018, the NICS processed 26.2 million transactions with only 2016 exceeding that volume with 27.5 million transactions," Halvorsen wrote in her written testimony to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.

Gavin’s special deal

■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you.

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'.

Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays Gavin Wood

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■ I can remember seeing Tyrone Power in The Mark Of Zorro at a Saturday afternoon matinee in the Grand Picture Theatre in Coburg.

There he was, all dressed in black with his moustache and mask, swashbuckling his way through the big swordfight scene.

He thrust his trusty sword at a set of candles on a brass candelabra. "Ha," said the villain "You missed." But then, all the sliced candles dropped to the floor as the spellbound audience of children let out a collective gasp - he was so cool and good looking.

I became a big fan of Tyrone Power from that moment on.

Tyrone Edmund Power Jnr (it was his real name) was born in Ohio in 1914. Tyrone's sister Anne was born the following year.

He was not a healthy child and the family moved to the warmer climate of California to improve his health. His parents were both film and stage actors and they divorced when Tyrone was only six. In 1931 his father died of a heart attack and passed away in Tyrone's arms.

Tyrone worked as a stage actor for many years before landing a film contract with Twentieth Century Fox studios in 1936. After appearing in minor film roles his break came when he was cast in Lloyd's Of London and he gained acclaim and attention.

Tyrone appeared in several successful films over the next two years but his best role occurred in 1939 when he played the title role of

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Jessie James opposite Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott.

I asked Maureen O'Hara in a radio interview about her memories of Tyrone Power, as they worked together in 1942 on The Black Swan. Maureen described Tyrone as and "absolute gentleman" and a "sweetheart".

He served as a pilot during the Second World War and flew on missions during the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa.

He rose to the rank of Captain and was discharged in 1946. He returned to the screen in The Razor's Edge opposite Gene Tierney.

Apparently he turned down some interesting roles during his career - Richard Burton's role in The Robe and Burt Lancaster's role in From

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Here To Eternity. (It could have been Ty on the beach with Deborah Kerr.)

His films included Blood And Sand, The Rains Came, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Rose Of Washington Square, The Long Gray Line, Witness For The Prosecution and The Eddy Duchin Story.

Tyrone Power was married three times and had three children. All of his children had the "acting bug" and appeared in small roles in films.

Tyrone suffered a heart attack in Madrid in 1958 whilst performing a strenuous swordfight scene with George Sanders during the filming of Solomon And Sheba.

He died on his way to hospital - he was only 44. His only son Tyrone Power Jnr was born several months after the tragedy.

We still have the legacy of the films of Tyrone Power to enjoy - he never won a Best Actor Academy Award for any of his films but he was a wonderful actor.

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

Greek islanders live on ... and on OK. With John O’Keefe Gudinski supports farmers

● Michael Gudinski ■ Details are scratchy but it’s sure to happen. Michael Gudinski is the mastermind behind a massive entertainment concert to raise well-needed funds to assist Victorian farmers suffering from lack of water, and those deverstated from fires.

The event is in early planning stages. You will recall how Michael pulled everyone together to help victims of Black Saturday Fires, raising $ 8 million.

Toyota teams with the AFL

● The people of the little Greek island of Ikaria claim to have more healthy residents living amongst them who are 90 years of age or over, than percentage-wise any other place on earth.

■ The 8500 people of the little Greek positives to lowering depression and island of Ikaria in the Aegean Sea, body weight, and ultimately also help say they have more healthy residents increase that lifespan. amongst them who are 90 years of The Ikarians also boast diets high age or over, than percentage-wise any in vegetables and beans, low in meat other place on earth. and sugar, and with extensive use of And they say they can thank being Extra Virgin Olive Oil whose antioxiinsulated from mechanised convedants, they say, lower the risk of heart niences and gadgets and the fast-food disease and cancer, while those who culture of modern society elsewhere, live to 90 or above also drank goat’s for helping them preserve age-old milk almost weekly as it was easier to customs and lifestyle habits to explain digest than cow’s milk, and was high their exceptional average longin tryptophan that reduced stress and lifespans. again lowered the risk of heart disPlus the fact that a daily 30-minute ease. afternoon nap is a cherished custom They also use goat’s milk to make of Ikarians in reducing stress and decheese, incorporate some 150 varietcreasing the chance of heart-attack, ies of wild- growing green vegetables while they say that few of them wear rich in antioxidants in their general watches, and that showing-up late is cooking, and drink teas they make from herbs they grow themselves to both socially acceptable and a help in lower blood pressure, and to in turn reducing stress and wrinkles. further lower the risk of heart attack And family and community supwith David Ellis and decrease dementia. port and strong social connections are

Struth

■ Toyota has put pen to paper to sponsor the AFL for coming season through to 2023. At $ 18.5 million a year, you’re sure to see the Toyota logo appearing here , there and everywhere including AFLW. The new deal is said to be the largest football sponsorship contract ever.

Radio’s Pat Panetta on stage

■ Broadcaster Pat Panetta has teamed with fellow comedian Jon Hindmarsh for a 45-minute rollicking routine prepared for the Comedy Festival.

Known as ‘Monty Python Off the Radio’ the act will be performed at Kindred Studios , Yarraville starting March 28 until April 4.

Kindred Studios is licensed so you can enjoy a sherbet or two while enjoying the merry making.

Dump button useful

■ Thank heavens for the dump button when F1 drivers spoke to their control teams during the Grand Prix.

Much of the drivers language was pretty fruity and fortunately the dump button operator masked the naughty bits in time.

Brush with fame

■ Ahn Do’s Brush with Fame is soon to be back for its fourth season on the ABC. Guests include Lindy Chamberlain, Danni Minogue and Michael Clarke.Its’a great format with great talent.

- John O’Keefe

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: MY GENERATION: Genre: Documentary Cast: Michael Caine, Paul McCartney, Twiggy, Roger Daltry.

Year: 2017.

Rating: PG. Length: 85 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Verdict: A time-capsule of the cultural revolution that occurred in the 1960s England is explored with British film icon Michael Caine who narrates and stars in this vivid story of his personal journey through 1960s London, based on his personal accounts with archive footage.

This delightfully entertaining, quirky and highly insightful featurelength documentary of a cultural revolution also features a Who'sWho of the period including Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Twiggy, Roger Daltry, legendary photographer David Bailey, The Rolling Stones, and many other star names of the period.

Assembled with footage over a period of six years with striking images from one of the most explosive, defiant and insanely crazy decades of the 20th century, from the movies such as the "angry young man kitchen sink" classics that launched countless careers and the electrifying soundtrack of a generation, Michael Caine is as infectious as a raconteur as he is actor, as he tells the story of the birth of pop culture in London, when the young working class stood up.

It's only major flaw is that it's not long enough, but nonetheless, this baby-boomers delight is a joy, and as Austin Powers would say, Yeah Baby!

FILM: SUSPIRIA: Genre: Fantasy/Horror/Mystery.

Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Grace Moretz, Doris Hick.

Year: 2018.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 152 Minutes.

Stars: **½ Verdict: A mysterious darkness swirls at the centre of a worldrenowned dance company run by a coven of witches in West Berlin in 1977, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist, and some will succumb to its nightmare while others will wake up.

Oscar nominated "Call Me By Your Name" (2017) director by Luca Guadagnino has taken the 1977 horror classic of the same name directed by Dario Argento, and fashioned a uniquely bold, complex, dark and insanely wild psychological horror opus that will either divide audiences by testing their patience during its slow burning two-and-a-half-hour plus running time padded with cumbersome subplots, or squirming at its gut wrenching moments stomach turning shock.

Rarely uninteresting for a moment, and more than likely to be enjoyed by the new generation of audiences that are not familiar with the 1977 classic, Dakota Johnson genuinely impresses with a compelling performance as the new and ambitious young dancer, however, it is veteran Oscar winner Tilda Swinton that is simply startling, turning the screen into moments of total spellbinding and head-scratching disbelief, and good enough reason alone for seeing the film.

Running nearly an hour longer than the original, this radical reboot is an all encompassing homage to the Argento version, while remaining uniquely original in its own way, stripping away all the startling colour pallets, tight direction, editing and unforgettable music score by Goblin that made the original such a powerful classic of the genre, it is also a long, tedious and ominously pretentious head banging exercise, an unnecessary, twisted and sickening tale that will either having you gripped by its spell or running for the nearest exit, I chose the exit.

FILM: PEPPERMINT: Genre: Action/Drama/Thriller.

Cast: Jennifer Garner, John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba.

Year: 2018.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 101 Minutes.

Stars: **½ Verdict: Five years after her husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, a woman comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go.

Stylish but cliché-riddled action potboiler of an every-day young mother turned nasty bare-knuckled, gun toting, adrenaline pumping, kick-ass 2018 "Death Wish" avenging angel falls way short on logic and intelligence, delivering an action-romp of mediocrity and rancid predictability, like finding an old piece of Pizza in the back of the fridge well past any use by date.

No doubt better suited as part of a Drive-In double feature, with a Pizza in hand, the only surviving redemption is the stand-out and compelling performance by Jennifer Garner as the tormented, haunted and avenging mother, battling not only a major, if not entire, drug cartel, by throwing her all into the role, and giving an otherwise follow-the-dos, by-the-numbers romp some genuine force and solidity.

Driven by a flawed screenplay by Chad St. John (London Has Fallen/ 2016 ... I rest my case), like so many other B-Grade movies through the generations, this is ultimately nothing more than a blood-letting, emotionless and formulaic Grindhouse vigilante yarn, or yawn, about lowlifes getting what they deserve, and any chance of a franchise now lies among the corpses of the untold victims.

A far cry from other big screen avenging angels such as the pistolpacking Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1&2), Uma Thurman as the slicing and dicing The Bride in Kill Bill (1&2) and Charlize Theron as the fearless Furiosa in the eye-popping Mad Max: Fury Road, to name a few, these are a far safer bet to go with.

Rourke’s Reviews Hal

■ (M). 90 minutes. Limited season at Cinema Nova from March 28.

Three decades after his tragic passing, Hal Ashby, one of the most under-rated film-makers of alltime, is finally given the spotlight in this lovingly crafted documentary, skilfully covering the ups and downs of what was a truly fascinating and frustrating career.

Born in 1929, Ashby entered Hollywood on the lowest rung, photocopying scripts for studios, before gaining employment on productions as an assistant editor.

Working under legendary directors such as William Wyler (Friendly Persuasion, The Big Country, The Children's Hour) and George Stevens (The Diary Of Anne Frank, The Greatest Story Ever Told), Ashby quickly gained much-needed experience, and in 1965 made the move to the role of chief editor with Tony Richardson's cult black comedy The Loved One. A chance meeting with director Norman Jewison (Fiddler On The Roof, Rollerball, Moonstruck) soon blossomed into a life-long professional and personal friendship, with Ashby hired as editor for The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966), In The Heat Of The Night (1967), for which he would win an Oscar, and The Thomas Crown Affair.

Encouraged and supported by Jewison, Ashby would make his directorial debut with the 1970 racial drama The Landlord (****), which is as scarily relevant now as it was when released 49 years ago.

This would begin a string of artistic triumphs, including the brilliant black comedy/touching romance Harold & Maude (1971) (*****), the provocative and profane The Last Detail (1973) (*****), starring Jack Nicholson, the worthy if uneven Shampoo (1975) (***), Bound For Glory (1976) (****½), an incredibly vivid look at the American underclass, Coming Home (1978) (****½), a multi-Oscar winner that certainly influenced Oliver Stone's Born On The Fourth Of July (1989), and Being There (1979) (****½), arguably featuring Peter Sellers’ finest big screen performance.

When the 80s brought to an end the era of individual artistic control, and corporate business took over, Ashby found it even harder to make films the way he wanted to, and this increasingly hostile relationship between he and studio executives saw his output become compromised and highly erratic.

Lookin' To Get Out (1982), where he re-teamed with Jon Voight, was taken out of his hands, and proved to be a spectacular critical and commercial failure (a subsequent extended cut, closer to Ashby's original vision, has since been released), and his humanistic, improvisational approach seemed to be at odds with Hollywood's intricately polished output.

The fatal blow came after he

had finished principal photography on 8 Million Ways To Die (1986) (***½), and took a short break before beginning the editing process.

The producers, who Ashby had not got along with, unceremoniously fired him during this break, and locking him out of the editing room, cut the movie together themselves.

Though it makes for an awkwardly structured film (based on the novel by Lawrence Block, and featuring his popular Matt Scudder character), you can still see the passion and care that Ashby put into the picture, with improvised scenes that create a wholly unique type of tension and character interaction (a particular verbal confrontation between Jeff Bridges and Andy Garcia remains a highlight).

It wasn't long after this that Ashby fell ill, and soon the world would lose a truly original talent.

A multitude of people, whether they be former work colleagues or fans, gladly sit down to talk about Ashby and how he continually fought for both social justice and artistic integrity, and as the documentary progresses, the genuine appreciation and love for this criminally under-appreciated genius becomes overwhelmingly apparent.

Kudos must go to Amy Scott, making her directorial debut here, who seems to understand Ashby's view of the world around him and the flawed people that populate it, which is understandable, as she too comes from an editing background.

With 18 credits to her name, including All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2010) and Bunker77 (2016), Scott, who has also worked under the name Amy Cargill, treats her subject with real affection and respect, not only wanting to show audiences what a magnificent filmmaker Hal Ashby was, but also the fiercely independent person who always tried to give the outcast and ostracised a voice in a growingly hypocritical world.

Some may quibble that elements of Ashby's life are skimmed over (there is a deliberately soft touch to his lesser 80's output, though Scott justifies why these films don't reach the same heights as his 70's body of work), but Scott has intensely focused on what matters; the talent on display, the films that affected millions of moviegoers, and the way Ashby touched just about everyone he worked with, in front of and behind the camera.

There is quite simply not a wasted moment. I cannot recommend Hal enough (how it didn't get an Oscar nomination is beyond me, and is far better than the eventual winner, Free Solo), and strongly urge everyone to catch this wonderful documentary in cinemas during its limited season.

This long overlooked master finally gets the recognition he deserves.

For more details and session times, please go to the Cinema Nova website at www.cinema nova.com.au, or call during office hours on 9347 5331.

RATING - ***** - Aaron Rourke

Top 10 Lists MARCH 24-30 THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. CAPTAIN MARVEL. 2. HOTEL MUMBAI. 3. A DOG'S WAY HOME. 4. GREEN BOOK. 5. FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY. 6. ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. 7. SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER. 8. WHAT MEN WANT. 9. GRETA. 10. KING OF THIEVES. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: MARCH 21: DESTROYER, FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY, INVENTING TOMORROW, JONI 75: A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, SWIMMING WITH MEN, THE LEGO MOVIE 2, THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN, VOLCANOES 3D. MARCH 28: DUMBO (LIVE ACTION), FATE/ STAY NIGHT: HEAVEN'S FEEL II - LOST BUTTERFLY, FIVE FEET APART, US, WHERE HANDS TOUCH. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. MORTAL ENGINES [Science Fiction/Adventure/Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving].

2. SUSPIRIA [Horror/Mystery/Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton].

3. FREE SOLO [Documentary/Alex Honnold].

4. ANNIHILATION [Sci/Fi/Drama/Horror/ Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh].

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6. THE GRINCH [Animated/Family/Comedy/ Benedict Cumberbatch].

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8. OVERLORD [Action/Horror/Action/Horror/ Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier].

9. BEAUTIFUL BOY [Biography/Drama/Steve Carell, Timothee Chalamet, Amy Ryan].

Also: MY GENERATION, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS, THE OLD MAN & THE GUN, WIDOWS, SECOND ACT, ROBIN HOOD, A STAR IS BORN, PUZZLE, ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE. NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: HOSTILES [Western/Adventure/Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi].

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THE BOUNCER [Action/Thriller/Jean-Claude Van Damme].

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Local Theatre with Cheryl Threadgold and team

Muriel’s Wedding The Musical

Director: Simon Phillips Musical Director: Daniel Puckey Choreographer: Andrew Hallsworth Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre was home to the opening night of Muriel's Wedding the musical.

The production is a theatrical version of P J Hogan's iconic hit film, updated to today by the writer himself with music and lyrics by Australian award-winning songwriters Kate MillerHeidke and Keir Nuttall with additional songs

by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ukvaeus and Stig Acderson of ABBA. A very colourful night of entertainment. Good use was made of two stage revolves for changing scenes and moving actors from one scene to another.

One outstanding set was the scene of Sydney.

Looking across Sydney Harbour with the city skyline to the rear of the stage and the Sydney Opera House viewed through a massive construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The scene was well used by all on stage for various sections of the story.

The choreography was outstanding, many variations and Andrew Hallsworth must be congratulated on such a wonderful job.

It was a good smooth-running production bringing great amusement to the opening night audience who thoroughly enjoyed the production.

Muriel Heslop was played by Natalie Abbott in her very first professional stage production.

Natalie proved her expertise in her portrayal giving an outstanding performance catching all the finer nuances of such a character.

Her best friend Rhonda was played by Stefanie Jones. Although she has been on stage since she was seven years, she told your reviewer that this is her first lead role.

She handled same with ease capturing all the feelings of a girl who liked to party then suffered loss of legs through cancer. A good and moving performance.

David James was Muriel's father Bill Heslop.

Bill was a local councillor only interested in what he could get out of it for himself without any family feelings unless the family could help him in some fraudulent scheme.

David caught the essence of the character, not copying the film but giving the character his own interpretation. An excellent job.

Muriel's mother, Betty Heslop, was given a great portrayal, by Pippa Grandison, of the mother who cared for her family but had trouble with her husband.

Muriel's siblings were Jacob Warner as Perry Heslop, Caleb Vines as Malcolm Heslop and Manon as Joanie Heslop.

Manon brought the house down with three words, "You're terrible, Muriel". Without doubt one of the most remembered lines of the play.

Muriel's so-called friends were Christie Whelan Browne as Tanya Degano, Imogen Moore as Jane Nuttall,and Cathy Hamilton as Cheryl Moochmore.

These three are very talented and beside being good actors, their dance routines were wonderful, and singing was up to the standard set by the lead stars.

The ABBA team was played by Jaime Hadwen as Agnetha Faltskog, Laura Bunting as Anni-Frid Lynstad, Michael Simon as Bjorn Ulvaeus and Evan Lever as Benny Andersson.

All four captured the characters with ease giving a first-class performance in their scenes.

All the performers gave excellent portrayals of their characters and looked as if they were really enjoying their roles.

The sets and colour was vibrant and the Melbourne opening night audience showed their approval with a standing ovation.

Melbourne's season opened March 23 and the Sydney season opens July 4 with previews from June 28.

Tickets from www,tiketmaster.com.au - Peter Kemp

● Rebel Wilson on the red carpet of Muriel’s Wedding. Photo: Kevin Trask

Int. Jazz Festival

■ The Melbourne International Jazz Festival will this winter take over the city with a jampacked 10-day program filled with premieres, Australian exclusives and international collaborations from May31 to June 9.

Presenting some of the greatest musicians from all over the globe, local legends from across Australia and events for everyone from the jazz novice to the life-long lover, the Festival will feature more than 500 Australian, international and emerging artists in over 25 iconic venues, concert halls, bars and outdoor spaces across Melbourne and surrounding suburbs.

The 22nd Festival program includes jazz luminary Herbie Hancock; piano virtuoso Billy Childs; power-house vocalist Lisa Fischer; national jazz treasure Vince Jones; acclaimed bassist and composer Linda May Han Oh with her new work Aventurine; as well as Laura Mvula, José James and Troy Miller reimaging George Gershwin with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Other visiting international artists include trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire with an Australian exclusive of his politically charged new album: Origami Harvest; Ghost-Note led by Snarky Puppy’s multi-Grammy-winning percussion duo Robert ‘Sput’ Searight and Nate Werth; visionary pianist, composer and musical thinker Vijay Iyer and his Trio; and Festival favourite Bill Frisell Trio returning with their distinctive melodic style.

Continuing a commitment to a three-year cultural exchange with the Tokyo and Singapore jazz festivals, MIJF welcomes two international acts that push the boundaries of jazz: Marginal Consort and an international ensemble led by Michael Pignéguy.

Japanese collective Marginal Consort will upend expectations on improvisation at The Substation, while Perth-based drummer and composer Michael Pignéguy unites eight trailblazing musicians from Malaysia, Singapore and America in a performance that melds Arabic, Latin, funk, soul and classical composition.

In his eleventh year as the Melbourne International Jazz Festival Artistic Director Michael Tortoni explained that music is a way of life, “Jazz is a powerful communicator globally – it connects everyone: children, young people, older people and individuals from all communities, races and gender.”

“I’m extremely proud of our international reputation. We have so many great musicians from across the globe who want to be part of our inclusive Festival,” said Tortoni.

The Festival encourages anyone new to jazz to get involved – little music lovers will be introduced into jazz with a family-friendly performance by ARIA recipient Justine Clarke at The Melba Spiegeltent, while Nocturnal at the Melbourne Museum takes a jazz twist with a line up of dynamite acts including Jazz Party, Horns of Leroy featuring Thando and Tanya George.

On the eve of the Festival, the new Jazz Assembly will welcome a mass participatory chorus to congregate and lend their voices in the premiere of a new Festival commission at Federation Square led by prolific Australian vocalist and composer Gian Slater.

More than one-third of this year’s Festival offers free inclusive events, including the entire Jazz Out West program; Sound Walks from Federation Square; lunchtime city concerts at Southern Cross Lane and St James; and intimate conversations and workshops with visiting international artists at the Close Encounters series held at The Channel.

As the Festival reflects the ongoing evolution of jazz, it is committed to enabling diversity, opportunities and artist development across the whole sector with two programs that shape prospective leaders – the ongoing PBS Young Elder of Jazz and a new initiative, Tomorrow is My Turn.

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■ Powderkeg Players: The Beast (by Eddie Perfect) April 4 - 13 at the Dempster Park Hall, 82 Phoenix St., North Sunshine.

Director: Terese Maurici. Bookings: trybooking.com or powderkegplayers.com ■ Skin of Our Teeth Productions: Lear (by William Shakespeare) Until March 29 at the Old Geelong Gaol, Myers St., Geelong. Director: Steven Georgiadis. Bookings: 0409 389 461.

■ Sherbrooke Theatre Company: Neighbourhood Watch Until March 30 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. Director: Stephen Barber. Bookings: 1300 650 209.

■ SLAMS: All Shook Up Until March 30 at The Alan Ross Centre, Billanook College, 197 Cardigan Rd., Mooroolbark. Bookings: 0409 100 044.

■ Warrandyte Theatre Company: Animal Farm (by George Orwell) Until April 6 at Yarra St., Warrandyte. Director: Kia Moon. Bookings: www.trybooking.com/BACCN ■ Essendon Theatre Company: Suite Surrender (by Michael McKeever) March 28 - April 6 at Bradshaw Street Community Hall, Bradshaw St. (off Buckley St.), West Essendon. Director: George Benca. Bookings: 0422 029 483 or www.essendontheatrecompany.com.au ■ Encore Theatre: The Shadow Box (by Michael Cristofer) March 29 - April 13 at Clayton Community Centre, 9/15 Cooke St., Clayton. Director: Annie Blood. Bookings: 1300 739 099.

■ Eltham Little Theatre: Suessical the Musical (by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, and Eric Idle, based on the works of Dr Seuss) March 29 - April 14 at 1603 Main Rd., Research. Director: Rebecca Fleming. Bookings: 0411 713 095.

■ Panorama Theatre Company: The Producers April 5 - 14 at the Frankston Arts Centre.

Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.

Tickets: thefac.com.au or 9784 1060.

■ Diamond Valley Singers Junior Show: Kids Summers Night's Dream April 6 - 14 at the Warrandyte High School Theatre, Alexander Rd., Warrandyte. Bookings: www.dvsingers.org.

■ Ark Theatre: Visiting Mr Green, (by Jeff Baron) April 5 - 14 at Lilydale Heights College Performing Arts Centre, 17 Nelson Rd., Lilydale.

Director: Lisa McNiven. Bookings: http:// www.arktheatremelb.com or 0491 104 744.

■ BATS Theatre Company: Into the Woods Jr April 9 - 12 at the Cranbourne Community Centre. Bookings: www.batstheatre.org.au ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Buying the Moose (by Michael Wilmot) April 26 - May 11 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Peter Newling. Bookings: www.mordialloctheatre.com.au ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Over the Bridge (by Arthur Miller) May 3 - 18 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Chris McLean. Bookings: htc.org.au or 9457 4117.

■ Phoenix Theatre Company: Green Day's American Idiot May 10 - 18 at the Doncaster Playhouse. Bookings: www.phoenixtheatre company.org

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■ The 1812 Theatre: Ghosts (by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Eamon Flack)April 14, 16 at 7.00pm at 3-5 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Dexter Bourke. Enquiries: 0411 287 043.

■ Encore Theatre: Well Hung (by Robert Lord) April 14 at 2.30pm, April 16 at 7.30pm at Fleigner Hall, 31039 Highland Ave., Oakleigh East. Director: David Collins. Enquiries: 0423 505 980.

■ Ark Theatre: Becky's New Car (by Steven Dietz) April 23 at 6.30pm and April 28 at 7pm at Lilydale Heights College PerformingArts Centre. Director: Carina Field. Audition Bookings: carinafield@gmail.com

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens The court is, by solemn settlement of law, our grim old guardian, and we are to suppose that what it gives us (when it gives us anything) is our right. It is not necessary to quarrel with our right.”

“No,” Said Ada, “but it may be better to forget all about it.”

“Well, well,” cried Richard, “then we will forget all about it! We consign the whole thing to oblivion. Dame Durden puts on her approving face, and it’s done!”

“Dame Durden’s approving face,” said I, looking out of the box in which I was packing his books, “was not very visible when you called it by that name; but it does approve, and she thinks you can’t do better.”

So, Richard said there was an end of it, and immediately began, on no other foundation, to build as many castles in the air as would man the Great Wall of China. He went away in high spirits. Ada and I, prepared to miss him very much, commenced our quieter career.

On our arrival in London, we had called with Mr. Jarndyce at Mrs. Jellyby’s but had not been so fortunate as to find her at home. It appeared that she had gone somewhere to a tea-drinking and had taken Miss Jellyby with her. Besides the tea-drinking, there was to be some considerable speech-making and letter-writing on the general merits of the cultivation of coffee, conjointly with natives, at the Settlement of Borrioboola–Gha. All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter’s part in the proceedings anything but a holiday.

It being now beyond the time appointed for Mrs. Jellyby’s return, we called again. She was in town, but not at home, having gone to Mile End directly after breakfast on some Borrioboolan business, arising out of a society called the East London Branch Aid Ramification. As I had not seen Peepy on the occasion of our last call (when he was not to be found anywhere, and when the cook rather thought he must have strolled away with the dustman’s cart), I now inquired for him again. The oyster shells he had been building a house with were still in the passage, but he was nowhere discoverable, and the cook supposed that he had “gone after the sheep.” When we repeated, with some surprise, “The sheep?” she said, Oh, yes, on market days he sometimes followed them quite out of town and came back in such a state as never was!

I was sitting at the window with my guardian on the following morning, and Ada was busy writing-of course to Richard — when Miss Jellyby was announced, and entered, leading the identical Peepy, whom she had made some endeavours to render presentable by wiping the dirt into corners of his face and hands and making his hair very wet and then violently frizzling it with her fingers. Everything the dear child wore was either too large for him or too small. Among his other contradictory decorations he had the hat of a bishop and the little gloves of a baby.

His boots were, on a small scale, the boots of a ploughman, while his legs, so crossed and recrossed with scratches that they looked like maps, were bare below a very short pair of plaid drawers finished off with two frills of perfectly different patterns. The deficient buttons on his plaid frock had evidently been supplied from one of Mr. Jellyby’s coats, they were so extremely brazen and so much too large. Most extraordinary specimens of needlework appeared on several parts of his dress, where it had been hastily mended, and I recognized the same hand on Miss Jellyby’s. She was, however, unaccountably improved in her appearance and looked very pretty. She was conscious of poor little Peepy being but a failure after all her trouble, and she showed it as she came in by the way in which she glanced first at him and then at us.

“Oh, dear me!” said my guardian. “Due east!”

Ada and I gave her a cordial welcome and presented her to Mr. Jarndyce, to whom she said as she sat down, “Ma’s compliments, and she hopes you’ll excuse her, because she’s correcting proofs of the plan. She’s going to put out five thousand new circulars, and she knows you’ll

Charles Dickens be interested to hear that. I have brought one of them with me. Ma’s compliments.” With which she presented it sulkily enough.

“Thank you,” said my guardian. “I am much obliged to Mrs. Jellyby. Oh, dear me! This is a very trying wind!”

We were busy with Peepy, taking off his clerical hat, asking him if he remembered us, and so on. Peepy retired behind his elbow at first, but relented at the sight of sponge-cake and allowed me to take him on my lap, where he sat munching quietly. Mr. Jarndyce then withdrawing into the temporary growlery, Miss Jellyby opened a conversation with her usual abruptness.

“We are going on just as bad as ever in Thavies Inn,” said she. “I have no peace of my life.

Talk of Africa! I couldn’t be worse off if I was a what’s-his-name — man and a brother!”

I tried to say something soothing.

“Oh, it’s of no use, Miss Summerson,” exclaimed Miss Jellyby, “though I thank you for the kind intention all the same. I know how I am used, and I am not to be talked over. YOU wouldn’t be talked over if you were used so.

Peepy, go and play at Wild Beasts under the piano!”

“I shan’t!” said Peepy.

“Very well, you ungrateful, naughty, hardhearted boy!” returned Miss Jellyby with tears in her eyes. “I’ll never take pains to dress you any more.”

“Yes, I will go, Caddy!” cried Peepy, who was really a good child and who was so moved by his sister’s vexation that he went at once.

“It seems a little thing to cry about,” said poor Miss Jellyby apologetically, “but I am quite worn out. I was directing the new circulars till two

that alone makes my head ache till I can’t see out of my eyes. And look at that poor unfortunate child! Was there ever such a fright as he is!”

Peepy, happily unconscious of the defects in his appearance, sat on the carpet behind one of the legs of the piano, looking calmly out of his den at us while he ate his cake.

“I have sent him to the other end of the room,” observed Miss Jellyby, drawing her chair nearer ours, “because I don’t want him to hear the conversation. Those little things are so sharp! I was going to say, we really are going on worse than ever. Pa will be a bankrupt before long, and then I hope Ma will be satisfied. There’ll he nobody but Ma to thank for it.”

We said we hoped Mr. Jellyby’s affairs were not in so bad a state as that.

“It’s of no use hoping, though it’s very kind of you,” returned Miss Jellyby, shaking her head.

“Pa told me only yesterday morning (and dreadfully unhappy he is) that he couldn’t weather the storm. I should be surprised if he could. When all our tradesmen send into our house any stuff they like, and the servants do what they like with it, and I have no time to improve things if I knew how, and Ma don’t care about anything, I should like to make out how Pa is to weather the storm. I declare if I was Pa, I’d run away.”

“My dear!” said I, smiling. “Your papa, no doubt, considers his family.”

“Oh, yes, his family is all very fine, Miss Summerson,” replied Miss Jellyby; “but what comfort is his family to him? His family is nothing but bills, dirt, waste, noise, tumbles downstairs, confusion, and wretchedness. His scrambling home, from week’s end to week’s end, is

washed!”

Miss Jellyby tapped her foot upon the floor and wiped her eyes.

“I am sure I pity Pa to that degree,” she said, “and am so angry with Ma that I can’t find words to express myself! However, I am not going to bear it, I am determined. I won’t be a slave all my life, and I won’t submit to be proposed to by Mr. Quale. A pretty thing, indeed, to marry a philanthropist. As if I hadn’t had enough of THAT!” said poor Miss Jellyby.

I must confess that I could not help feeling rather angry with Mrs. Jellyby myself, seeing and hearing this neglected girl and knowing how much of bitterly satirical truth there was in what she said.

“If it wasn’t that we had been intimate when you stopped at our house,” pursued Miss Jellyby, “I should have been ashamed to come here today, for I know what a figure I must seem to you two. But as it is, I made up my mind to call, especially as I am not likely to see you again the next time you come to town.”

She said this with such great significance that Ada and I glanced at one another, foreseeing something more.

“No!” said Miss Jellyby, shaking her head. “Not at all likely! I know I may trust you two. I am sure you won’t betray me. I am engaged.”

“Without their knowledge at home?” said I. “Why, good gracious me, Miss Summerson,” she returned, justifying herself in a fretful but not angry manner, “how can it be otherwise?

You know what Ma is — and I needn’t make poor Pa more miserable by telling HIM.” “But would it not he adding to his unhappiness to marry without his knowledge or consent, my dear?” said I. “No,” said Miss Jellyby, softening. ““I hope not.

I should try to make him happy and comfortable when he came to see me, and Peepy and the others should take it in turns to come and stay with me, and they should have some care taken of them then.”

There was a good deal of affection in poor Caddy. She softened more and more while saying this and cried so much over the unwonted little home-picture she had raised in her mind that Peepy, in his cave under the piano, was touched, and turned himself over on his back with loud lamentations. It was not until I had brought him to kiss his sister, and had restored him to his place on my lap, and had shown him that Caddy was laughing (she laughed expressly for the purpose), that we could recall his peace of mind; even then it was for some time conditional on his taking us in turns by the chin and smoothing our faces all over with his hand. At last, as his spirits were not equal to the piano, we put him on a chair to look out of window; and Miss Jellyby, holding him by one leg, resumed her confidence.

“It began in your coming to our house,” she said.

We naturally asked how.

“I felt I was so awkward,” she replied, “that I made up my mind to be improved in that respect at all events and to learn to dance. I told Ma I was ashamed of myself, and I must be taught to dance. Ma looked at me in that provoking way of hers as if I wasn’t in sight, but I was quite determined to be taught to dance, and so I went to Mr. Turveydrop’s Academy in Newman Street.”

“And was it there, my dear — ” I began.

“Yes, it was there,” said Caddy, “and I am engaged to Mr. Turveydrop. There are two Mr. Turveydrops, father and son. My Mr. Turveydrop is the son, of course. I only wish I had been better brought up and was likely to make him a better wife, for I am very fond of him.”

“I am sorry to hear this,” said I, “I must confess.”

“I don’t know why you should be sorry,” she retorted a little anxiously, “but I am engaged to Mr. Turveydrop, whether or no, and he is very fond of me. It’s a secret as yet, even on his side, because old Mr. Turveydrop has a share in the connexion and it might break his heart or give

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From Page 69 him some other shock if he was told of it abruptly. Old Mr. Turveydrop is a very gentlemanly man indeed — very gentlemanly.”

“Does his wife know of it?” asked Ada. “Old Mr. Turveydrop’s wife, Miss Clare?” returned Miss Jellyby, opening her eyes. “There’s no such person. He is a widower.”

We were here interrupted by Peepy, whose leg had undergone so much on account of his sister’s unconsciously jerking it like a bell-rope whenever she was emphatic that the afflicted child now bemoaned his sufferings with a very lowspirited noise. As he appealed to me for compassion, and as I was only a listener, I undertook to hold him. Miss Jellyby proceeded, after begging Peepy’s pardon with a kiss and assuring him that she hadn’t meant to do it.

“That’s the state of the case,” said Caddy. “If I ever blame myself, I still think it’s Ma’s fault.

We are to be married whenever we can, and then I shall go to Pa at the office and write to Ma. It won’t much agitate Ma; I am only pen and ink to HER. One great comfort is,” said Caddy with a sob, “that I shall never hear of Africa after I am married. Young Mr. Turveydrop hates it for my sake, and if old Mr. Turveydrop knows there is such a place, it’s as much as he does.”

“It was he who was very gentlemanly, I think!” said I. “Very gentlemanly indeed,” said Caddy. “He is celebrated almost everywhere for his deportment.”

“Does he teach?” asked Ada. “No, he don’t teach anything in particular,” replied Caddy. “But his deportment is beautiful.”

Caddy went on to say with considerable hesitation and reluctance that there was one thing more she wished us to know, and felt we ought to know, and which she hoped would not offend us. It was that she had improved her acquaintance with Miss Flite, the little crazy old lady, and that she frequently went there early in the morning and met her lover for a few minutes before breakfast — only for a few minutes. “I go there at other times,” said Caddy, “but Prince does not come then. Young Mr. Turveydrop’s name is Prince; I wish it wasn’t, because it sounds like a dog, but of course be didn’t christen himself. Old Mr. Turveydrop had him christened Prince in remembrance of the Prince Regent.

Old Mr. Turveydrop adored the Prince Regent on account of his deportment. I hope you won’t think the worse of me for having made these little appointments at Miss Flite’s, where I first went with you, because I like the poor thing for her own sake and I believe she likes me. If you could see young Mr. Turveydrop, I am sure you would think well of him — at least, I am sure you couldn’t possibly think any ill of him. I am going there now for my lesson. I couldn’t ask you to go with me, Miss Summerson; but if you would,” said Caddy, who had said all this earnestly and tremblingly, “I should be very glad — very glad.”

It happened that we had arranged with my guardian to go to Miss Flite’s that day. We had told him of our former visit, and our account had interested him; but something had always happened to prevent our going there again. As I trusted that I might have sufficient influence with Miss Jellyby to prevent her taking any very rash step if I fully accepted the confidence she was so willing to place in me, poor girl, I proposed that she and I and Peepy should go to the academy and afterwards meet my guardian and Ada at Miss Flite’s, whose name I now learnt for the first time. This was on condition that Miss Jellyby and Peepy should come back with us to dinner. The last article of the agreement being joyfully acceded to by both, we smartened Peepy up a little with the assistance of a few pins, some soap and water, and a hair-brush, and went out, bending our steps towards Newman Street, which was very near.

I found the academy established in a sufficiently dingy house at the corner of an archway, with busts in all the staircase windows. In the same house there were also established, as I gathered from the plates on the door, a drawing-master, a coal-merchant (there was, certainly, no room for his coals), and a lithographic artist. On the plate which, in size and situation, took precedence of all the rest, I read, MR. TURVEYDROP. The door was open, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instruments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking rakish

Magazine in the daylight. Miss Jellyby informed me that the academy had been lent, last night, for a concert.

We went upstairs — it had been quite a fine house once, when it was anybody’s business to keep it clean and fresh, and nobody’s business to smoke in it all day — and into Mr. Turveydrop’s great room, which was built out into a mews at the back and was lighted by a skylight. It was a bare, resounding room smelling of stables, with cane forms along the walls, and the walls ornamented at regular intervals with painted lyres and little cut-glass branches for candles, which seemed to be shedding their old-fashioned drops as other branches might shed autumn leaves.

Several young lady pupils, ranging from thirteen or fourteen years of age to two or three and twenty, were assembled; and I was looking among them for their instructor when Caddy, pinching my arm, repeated the ceremony of introduction. “Miss Summerson, Mr. Prince Turveydrop!”

I curtsied to a little blue-eyed fair man of youthful appearance with flaxen hair parted in the middle and curling at the ends all round his head.

He had a little fiddle, which we used to call at school a kit, under his left arm, and its little bow in the same hand. His little dancing-shoes were particularly diminutive, and he had a little innocent, feminine manner which not only appealed to me in an amiable way, but made this singular effect upon me, that I received the impression that he was like his mother and that his mother had not been much considered or well used.

“I am very happy to see Miss Jellyby’s friend,” he said, bowing low to me. “I began to fear,” with timid tenderness, “as it was past the usual time, that Miss Jellyby was not coming.”

“I beg you will have the goodness to attribute that to me, who have detained her, and to receive my excuses, sir,” said I. “Oh, dear!” said he.

“And pray,” I entreated, “do not allow me to be the cause of any more delay.”

With that apology I withdrew to a seat between Peepy (who, being well used to it, had already climbed into a corner place) and an old lady of a censorious countenance whose two nieces were in the class and who was very indignant with Peepy’s boots. Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Just then there appeared from a side-door old Mr. Turveydrop, in the full lustre of his deportment.

He was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig.

He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear. He had such a neckcloth on (puffing his very eyes out of their natural shape), and his chin and even his ears so sunk into it, that it seemed as though be must inevitably double up if it were cast loose. He had under his arm a hat of great size and weight, shelving downward from the crown to the brim, and in his hand a pair of white gloves with which he flapped it as he stood poised on one leg in a high-shouldered, round-elbowed state of elegance not to be surpassed. He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.

“Father! A visitor. Miss Jellyby’s friend, Miss Summerson.”

“Distinguished,” said Mr. Turveydrop, “by Miss Summerson’s presence.” As he bowed to me in that tight state, I almost believe I saw creases come into the whites of his eyes.

“My father,” said the son, aside, to me with quite an affecting belief in him, “is a celebrated character. My father is greatly admired.”

“Go on, Prince! Go on!” said Mr. Turveydrop, standing with his back to the fire and waving his gloves condescendingly. “Go on, my son!”

At this command, or by this gracious permission, the lesson went on. Prince Turveydrop sometimes played the kit, dancing; sometimes played the piano, standing; sometimes hummed the tune with what little breath he could spare, while he set a pupil right; always conscientiously moved with the least proficient through every step and every part of the figure; and never rested for an instant. His distinguished father did nothing whatever but stand before the fire, a model of deportment.

“And he never does anything else,” said the old lady of the censorious countenance. “Yet would you believe that it’s HIS name on the doorplate?”

“His son’s name is the same, you know,” said I. “He wouldn’t let his son have any name if he could take it from him,” returned the old lady.

“Look at the son’s dress!” It certainly was plain — threadbare — almost shabby. “Yet the father must be garnished and tricked out,” said the old lady, “because of his deportment. I’d deport him!

Transport him would be better!”

I felt curious to know more concerning this person. I asked, “Does he give lessons in deportment now?”

“Now!” returned the old lady shortly. “Never did.”

After a moment’s consideration, I suggested that perhaps fencing had been his accomplishment.

“I don’t believe he can fence at all, ma’am,” said the old lady.

I looked surprised and inquisitive. The old lady, becoming more and more incensed against the master of deportment as she dwelt upon the subject, gave me some particulars of his career, with strong assurances that they were mildly stated.

He had married a meek little dancing-mistress, with a tolerable connexion (having never in his life before done anything but deport himself), and had worked her to death, or had, at the best, suffered her to work herself to death, to maintain him in those expenses which were indispensable to his position. At once to exhibit his deportment to the best models and to keep the best models constantly before himself, he had found it necessary to frequent all public places of fashionable and lounging resort, to be seen at Brighton and elsewhere at fashionable times, and to lead an idle life in the very best clothes.

To enable him to do this, the affectionate little dancing-mistress had toiled and laboured and would have toiled and laboured to that hour if her strength had lasted so long. For the mainspring of the story was that in spite of the man’s absorbing selfishness, his wife (overpowered by his deportment) had, to the last, believed in him and had, on her death-bed, in the most moving terms, confided him to their son as one who had an inextinguishable claim upon him and whom he could never regard with too much pride and deference. The son, inheriting his mother’s belief, and having the deportment always before him, had lived and grown in the same faith, and now, at thirty years of age, worked for his father twelve hours a day and looked up to him with veneration on the old imaginary pinnacle.

“The airs the fellow gives himself!” said my informant, shaking her head at old Mr. Turveydrop with speechless indignation as he drew on his tight gloves, of course unconscious of the homage she was rendering. “He fully believes he is one of the aristocracy! And he is so condescending to the son he so egregiously deludes that you might suppose him the most virtuous of parents. Oh!” said the old lady, apostrophizing him with infinite vehemence. “I could bite you!”

I could not help being amused, though I heard the old lady out with feelings of real concern. It was difficult to doubt her with the father and son before me. What I might have thought of them without the old lady’s account, or what I might have thought of the old lady’s account without them, I cannot say. There was a fitness of things in the whole that carried conviction with it.

My eyes were yet wandering, from young Mr. Turveydrop working so hard, to old Mr. Turveydrop deporting himself so beautifully, when the latter came ambling up to me and entered into conversation.

He asked me, first of all, whether I conferred a charm and a distinction on London by residing in it? I did not think it necessary to reply that I was perfectly aware I should not do that, in any case, but merely told him where I did reside.

“A lady so graceful and accomplished,” he said, kissing his right glove and afterwards extending it towards the pupils, “will look leniently on the deficiencies here. We do our best to polish — polish — polish!”

He sat down beside me, taking some pains to sit on the form. I thought, in imitation of the print of his illustrious model on the sofa. And really he did look very like it.

“To polish — polish — polish!” he repeated, taking a pinch of snuff and gently fluttering his fingers. “But we are not, if I may say so to one formed to be graceful both by Nature and Art —

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with the high-shouldered bow, which it seemed impossible for him to make without lifting up his eyebrows and shutting his eyes “ — we are not what we used to be in point of deportment.”

“Are we not, sir?” said I. “We have degenerated,” he returned, shaking his head, which he could do to a very limited extent in his cravat. “A levelling age is not favourable to deportment. It develops vulgarity.

Perhaps I speak with some little partiality. It may not be for me to say that I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman Turveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my removing my hat as he drove out of the Pavilion at Brighton (that fine building), ‘Who is he? Who the devil is he?

Why don’t I know him? Why hasn’t he thirty thousand a year?’ But these are little matters of anecdote — the general property, ma’am — still repeated occasionally among the upper classes.”

“Indeed?” said I. He replied with the high-shouldered bow.

“Where what is left among us of deportment,” he added, “still lingers. England — alas, my country! — has degenerated very much, and is degenerating every day. She has not many gentlemen left. We are few. I see nothing to succeed us but a race of weavers.”

“One might hope that the race of gentlemen would be perpetuated here,” said I. “You are very good.” He smiled with a highshouldered bow again. “You flatter me. But, no — no! I have never been able to imbue my poor boy with that part of his art. Heaven forbid that I should disparage my dear child, but he has — no deportment.”

“He appears to be an excellent master,” I observed.

“Understand me, my dear madam, he IS an excellent master. All that can be acquired, he has acquired. All that can be imparted, he can impart. But there ARE things — ” He took another pinch of snuff and made the bow again, as if to add, “This kind of thing, for instance.”

I glanced towards the centre of the room, where Miss Jellyby’s lover, now engaged with single pupils, was undergoing greater drudgery than ever.

“My amiable child,” murmured Mr. Turveydrop, adjusting his cravat.

“Your son is indefatigable,” said I. “It is my reward,” said Mr. Turveydrop, “to hear you say so. In some respects, he treads in the footsteps of his sainted mother. She was a devoted creature. But wooman, lovely wooman,” said Mr. Turveydrop with very disagreeable gallantry, “what a sex you are!”

I rose and joined Miss Jellyby, who was by this time putting on her bonnet. The time allotted to a lesson having fully elapsed, there was a general putting on of bonnets. When Miss Jellyby and the unfortunate Prince found an opportunity to become betrothed I don’t know, but they certainly found none on this occasion to exchange a dozen words.

“My dear,” said Mr. Turveydrop benignly to his son, “do you know the hour?”

“No, father.” The son had no watch. The father had a handsome gold one, which he pulled out with an air that was an example to mankind.

“My son,” said he, “it’s two o’clock. Recollect your school at Kensington at three.”

“That’s time enough for me, father,” said Prince. “I can take a morsel of dinner standing and be off.”

“My dear boy,” returned his father, “you must be very quick. You will find the cold mutton on the table.”

“Thank you, father. Are YOU off now, father?”

“Yes, my dear. I suppose,” said Mr. Turveydrop, shutting his eyes and lifting up his shoulders with modest consciousness, “that I must show myself, as usual, about town.”

“You had better dine out comfortably somewhere,” said his son.

“My dear child, I intend to. I shall take my little meal, I think, at the French house, in the Opera Colonnade.”

“That’s right. Good-bye, father!” said Prince, shaking hands.

“Good-bye, my son. Bless you!”

Mr. Turveydrop said this in quite a pious manner, and it seemed to do his son good, who, in parting from him, was so pleased with him, so dutiful to him, and so proud of him that I almost felt as if it were an unkindness to the younger man not to be able to believe implicitly in the elder.

To Be Continued Next Issue

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● Joshua Reckless ■ Stars in the new Australian production of Barnum which opens in Melbourne on April 27 at the Comedy Theatre, include Todd McKenney as P.T. Barnum, Rachael Beck (Barnum’s wife), Suzie Mathers (Jenny Lind), Joshua Reckless (GeneralTom Thumb), Akina Edmonds (Joice Heth), Kirby Burgess (Ringmaster) and a circus-arts strong ensemble.

Joshua Reckless, a 2018 graduate from the WesternAustralian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), is making his professional debut in Barnum as Tom Thumb.

Originally from Western Sydney, Joshua enjoyed dancing in groups at primary school before auditioning at age 12 for Oliver! He believes experience gained from the next six years of non-stop amateur shows was helpful to attaining a place at WAAPA. Acknowledging the wonderful support from his family, Joshua says, “Whenever I wanted to try something, my dad and my mum were with me the whole way. Even my younger brother who had no interest in the performing arts would come watch my shows.”

One of Joshua’s favourite roles was the lead in an amateur production of Peter Pan. “What hyper-active kid doesn’t want to play Peter Pan?” he asks, pointing out that sword fights, climbing trees and flying are hard to beat.

“But my absolute favourite role was when I was at WAAPA and had the privilege of bringing Usnavi to life when we did In The Heights.”

When congratulated on his role of Tom Thumb, Joshua politely replied: “Thank you very much. I’m very excited to work with such an amazing group of artists on this piece.”

Joshua says this production of Barnum will be a ‘unique incarnation’, pointing out that although creating some wonderful things, P.T. Barnum was an opportunist who acquired his fortune through questionable means, a man chasing fame, riches and success, but at what cost?

“So we, as a company, are looking to explore this slightly darker Barnum and ‘the seductive nature of “fame” - of finding worth as a “someone” through outside validation, “as our Director Tyran Parke so wonderfully puts it”.

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According to Joshua, Tom Thumb was “one of the most talented, famous and celebrated performers of his time”.

Originally named Charles Stratton, Tom Thumb was born with dwarfism. Barnum hired Charles, falsely advertised him as an eleven year old, called him ‘General Tom Thumb’and taught him to sing, dance, mime and impersonate famous figures.

Joshua greatly admires Tom’s performance skills, which led to him meeting Queen Victoria three times.

“I can’t tell you how exciting it is to step into his shoes for this show.”

Once this run finishes, Joshua goes to Perth in June-July to work with Stuart Maunder and the WA Opera on Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Tobias Ragg. “Another piece I am really excited to sink my teeth into.”

And long term plans for Joshua? “I know personally there is nothing else in this world I would rather do than tell stories.”

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History

Stolen beer, a new suit and a broken neck ■ The Tallarook-Yea rail line always provided plenty of ‘copy’ for the region’s local newspapers.

In 1883, as the railway line was being constructed, the Seymour Express (Jan. 5) offered a glimpse to the rough life as the tracks were laid: “The guardians of the peace have been called into action during the past week or two, through the conduct of several of the men working on the line near the King Parrot.

“A man, who has the repu tation of being a ' bruiser,' rolled out a cask of beer from a tent, and supplied his mates, 'ad lib.'

“Two of the unfortunates who happened to help to drink the beer, were carted into Yea, but the ring leader and the prosecutor being absent, the men were discharged.

“A couple of police are badly required at the King Parrot.

“If our Member, Mr Hunt, would kindly mention the matter to the Chief Secretary, I feel assured the thing would be done without further delay.

“It not, there will be some serious work to be chronicled before long, as there is no police protection along the line, the nearest points being Tallarook or Yea.” The case was brought before the Yea Police Court, with Messrs Quinlan, Purcell and Merry, Js.P, presiding.

Mr J.K. Davies, Railways Surveyor, appeared on summons, charged with the violent assault on Mr Edward Miller.

“It appeared that plaintiff, who is one of the firm of Miller Bros., at present engaged constructing the Yea railway, called at the tent of the defendant, who is also engaged on the line, a. few days ago, andthe alleged assault was then committed.

“After hearing the evidence, the Bench inflicted a penalty of two pounds and six guineas costs. .

“However, we understand the case is not to rest there, for Mr Miller, who is in delicate health for some time, intends instituting proceedings for damages,” noted the Express. ★ Workers were taking advantage of the summer weather: “Work on the Tallarook to Yea line is being fairly pushed ahead,” the January 26 issue commented.

There was plenty of work, and there was a price to pay at other locations.

“Haynes and Party have finally succeeded in forming a Melbourne company to work the old Freemasons' claim at Ti-tree,” said of a mining operation near Junction Hill.

“It is their intention to carry on the tunnel, and six men will be employed in a few days for that purpose.

“The only drawback seems to be the scarcity of labor. Yea, at the present time is a fine country for working men.

“An ordinary laborer looks for eight shillings and sixpence a day ; six months ago, six shillings would have been taken with thanks, but even at the high rate, men are not to be got — more power to them,” said the March 16 edition. ★ The following week saw the Express record the visit of a ‘chameleon inspector’: “Some time since, a coarse-looking navry got out at the Seymour Railway Station, and after making a few inquiries started off in the direction of Yea, with his swag slung across in the usual approved

● Preparations were made for the new Yea Railway Station in 1883. (Photo from c.1905). fashion. “Some hours later he turned ers in the vicinity, and if such a small respondent”, it was recorded: “In up at the Punt in the garb of a gentle- population is not considered a rea- consequence of agitation asking for man, or as the puntman put it a ' flash son for chosing the site, we fail to the station site to be removed from see how any other can be discov- E. Maher's to the Yea side of the cove from town.'

“However, Charley didn't like his ered.

King Parrot Bridge, Mr Sims, an “On the- other hand, had the spot officer from the department, was appearance, and taking out a double barrel gun he kept him bailed up in near the Doogalook Post Office been sent up on Tuesday last to report on one corner until he landed him on selected, not only would the residents the matter, and promised the resiin the immediate vicinity be dents (should there be no engineerthe other side of the river.

“The next change in character convenienced, but the place is a natu- ing difiiculties in the way) that their occurred up the stream, where the ral outlet for at least half a dozen request would be granted. whilom navvy came ont as a lover other districts.

“A fatal accident occurred at the “It is the junction for the Dairy King Parrot on Sunday evening to of the gentle art, but the final metamorphosis took place, when he ap- Creek, Whittlesea, and Broadford Patrick Hines, well-known in Yea peared in his true character and roads, besides being the outlet for a and surrounaing districts, where he large outlying district and a splendid carried on business as tailor. made a raid upon the shanties.” forest. ★ “Deceased was walking over the “We again hope that those mat- King Parrot Creek Bridge, and when The controversial political character of Tommy Bent, aptly named, ters may be considered by Mr Gillies on the end next to Tallarook, slipped won a mention in the Express col- before he sanctions the depopula- and fell over the embankment, fifting theory of his predecessor.” umns: teen feet high, and broke his neck. ★ “When Mr Bent held ofiice as “The police were at once inDelays in constructing the line formed of the accident ; but did not Minister of Railways, we pointed out the absurd situation in which the sta- were noted. Rain had arrived in May arrive until noon on Monday, consetions on the line between Tallarook 1883: “Through some slight inaccu- quently, the body lay on the road-side and Yea were to be placed,” the edi- racies the levels at the junction, the for eighteen hours, and had it not Tallarook to Yea railway contractors been for the residents it would have tor said on April 27, 1883.

“But Mr Bent's whole career as have been delayed in commencing un doubtedly been devoured by the boss of the Railways was distin- to lay the sleepers. pigs and dogs.

“The line is all ready for a disguished by a contemptuous indiffer“An inquest was held in the ence to the requirements of the pub- tance of five miles for such. evening, when a verdict o£ acciden“The sawmill of the contractors tal death was recorded. Deceased's lic; his whole and sole object appeared to be devoted in subordinat- has been broken up, and all the plant widow intends taking an action ing the interests of the colony to the is being emoved to Essendon, pre- against the Broadford Shire Couninterests of his unholy voting ma- paratory to its removal to New South cil for neglecting to have the road chine, and as a matter of course, our Wales.” fenced; damages, £500.” ★ remarks were treated with cool imThe editor added: “We can In the Yea column of May 18, scarcely believe that such disgracepertinence.

“We now would direct the atten- 1883, “from our own correspon- ful neglect could occur, and hope that tion of his successor to the matter dent”, it was recorded: our correspondent has been misin“On Thursday, the 10th May, the formed. If such really occurred we and trust that before stations are erected in solitary grandeur, the fol- first sod of the. Yea Railway Station will know what to say on the matter was turned. It is situated on a gently hereafter.” lowing facts may be inquired into.

“It is proposed to place the near- sloping sideling on the north side of ★ est station at a short distance from Mash-mallow Hill, being almost in An item, headlined ‘Unlucky Messrs Cobbs' stables on the Yea the centre of the township reserve Beer’, was published in the Seymour and not more than 500 yards from Express on May 25, 1883: road.

“The present population in the any of the business places or public “ A few days ago, an excise-indistrict consists of the groom's house, buildings such as they are. spector seized seme beer on the Yea “It will be much more convenient line, and after congratulating himand as when the coaches cease running, the man referred to may prob- to the inhabitants than f the station self on the clever capture, went in ably change his residence, thestation had been more distant nd is just far search will partake of some of the peculiari- enough to allow the shrill whistle of of further conquests. ties of one of Mr Bent's proposed the locomotive to be modified, and “While he was away, the owner lines where the terminus consisted thus prevent a disagree able nui- of the beer removed it, and congratusance. of a charred gum tree. lated himself on euchring the excise“The gravel pits are also in the man.

“The station is evidently intended for the Kerrisdale and Traawool se- township at the west end, so that there “His triumph was also short lived lectors and common sense ought to will be a little more life observable though, for while he was enjoying point out that its proper situation during the next three or four months. the smothered wrath of the foiled “Several of the gangs along the inspector, a third party dropped on would be on the Tallarook side of line have finished the earth works and the beer and conveyed it to the neighthe King Parrot Bridge.

“The other proposed station is embankments; the ballasting and lay- boring ranges, where there was some only a few miles higher up and would ing the sleepers and rails will be the boisterous drinking for two days afappear to have been selected for the next thing.” terwards.” ★ express purpose of discommoding ★ In the Kerrisdale column of May the residents of the district.

A letter writer, ‘Observer’, of“There are only four household- 18, 1883, “from an occasional cor- fered a point-a-view regarding the

June 1, 1889, edition: “There Is a large farming population residing between Saw Pit Creek and the Whittlesea road being surrounded with high hills, they are compelled to go via Doogalook Post Office to Yea, Tallarook, etc.

“It is proposed to establish a railway station at Mrs Homewood's, as the nearest station for all these fanners to so to this will cause a great loss of traffic to the Tallarook and Yea railway, as it would not pay farmers to cart logs and fire wood the extra uphill 2½ miles from Doogalook Post Office to Mrs Homewood's.

“A wood siding near Doogalook Post Office would quite alter this, and enable farmers to improve their lands and stay thereon, instead of crossing tlie border to New South Wales and Queensland, where they can have 640 acres freehold, and three times that amount grazing right at £2 per mile per year rent.” ★ There was anticipation (Aug. 24, 1883)as the opening of the railway drew closer.

“I am off for new suit, so that I may look what l'm not at the opening of our railway,” wrote the Yea correspondent of the Seymour Express.

“I hear that there is to be a big feed and a dress ball at the opening. and that admission is to be by ticket only. How comservatiye people become when they get into power.” ★ “The iron horse has arrived in Yea at last, and has astonished those natives, young and old, who never saw the like before.

“It is expected that the line will be open in about six weeks from now,” quipped the September 14, 1883 issue.

“The Tallarook to Yea line is to be opened, which event is brated in a fitting manner by residents,” added the October 5 issue. ★ “We are expecting to see a siding formed at once at Doogalook to have timber of all the best descriptions sent to the City,” said the Doogalook correspondent of the Seymour Express on October 12, 1883.

“It has been a mistake of the Railway department not to form a station at Doogalook as it is the most central, and answers the convenience of all— when I say all, I mean the greater number of farmers and selectors between Tallarook and Yea. ★ A narrow escape was reported in that same issue.

“On Tuesday morning one of the ballast trains working on the Yea line had a narrow escape from being wrecked. While the train was travelling at a pretty good pace, the axle of the titird waggon from the engine snapped right across the centre.

“One of the wheels dropped on the line, and the broken axle pointing upwards, struck that of the next two waggons, and smashed them also. A navvy was standing on the first truck, and when the axle snapped, he jumped on to the next; no sooner had he alighted than another snap told him an axle was gone there as well, and he jumped on to the third. A similar misfortune met him here, and he had to spring on to the fourth, where he was enabled to sit down and bless his stars for a

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Grandstander W’sea Committee

■ Members of the General Committee for the Whittlesea Eagles Football Club include: Marie and Rod Luscombe, Michael Atta, Steven Dempsey, Cameron Powell and Sue Hoysted.

Lakers practise

■ Kinglake Football and Netball Club Seniors and Reserves footballers each had a practice match with Laurimar Power at the Memorial Reserve on Sunday (Mar. 24).

All four netball team had a run againt the Wallan Magpies sides at the Indoor Stadium.

A barbecue, with bar, was held throughout the afternoon.

New lights at Yea

■ Yea Football Netball Club is aiming to get four new 25-metre lighting towers installed at the Recreation Reserve to replace the current 14-metre units.

Club President Brad Watts is leading the charge to find grant financing, and it is understood that an application has been made to theAFL. The $234,000 funding, announced by the Andrews Labor Government before last November’s State Election, for female changing room facilities, is due to see works commence this year.

Kinglake girls play

■ The Lakers have their own junior girls participating in a football team. The KJFNC last week highlighted Maddy, Willow, Khye and Grace in Facebook publicity.

Sunday morning saw an Under 9 practice match against Park Orchards at Stinton’s Reserve.

Thurs. night meals

■ Kinglake Football Netball Club has welcomed back Thursday night meals, from 6pm.

The first night of the season also included members staying to watch the Richmond v Carlton AFL match.

Grandstander tips

■ AFL Round 2 tips for this week: ■ Thursday, March 28. Richmond v Collingwood (MCG) (N).

■ Friday, March 29. Sydney Swans v Adelaide Crows (SCG) (N).

■ Saturday, March 30: Essendon v St Kilda (Marvel Stadium, twilight). Port Adelaide v Carlton (Adelaide Oval, twilight). Geelong Cats v Melbourne (Geelong, night). West Coast Eagles v GWS Giants (Optus, Perth, night).

■ Sunday, March 31. North Melbourne v Brisbane Lions (Marvel). Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs (MCG). Gold Coast Suns v Fremantle (Marvel, twilight).

Coaching w’shops

■ AFL Outer East is holding coaching workshops for junior, youth, seniors and female coaches.

All coaches must attend at least one AFL Victoria approved workshop in 2019 to obtain the four points required to retain their coaching accreditation.

The senior workshops was held on March 17 at Olinda. Femnale workshops were held last week at Hawthorn Football Club, Waverley Park. Junior and youth workshops will be at Olinda from 6.30pm-9.45pm on Monday, April 29.

20 sides in U19s

■ The Northern Football and Netball League competition with comprise 20 Under 19s sides in 2019. The first round is on April 5-6: Banyule v Greensborough 1, West Preston-Lakeside v Heidelberg, Bundoora v South Morang, Eltham 1 v St Mary’s, Hurstbridge v Greensborough 2, Laurimar v Whittlesea, Lower Plenty v Montmorency, Macleod v Diamond Creek, Mernda v Bulldogs Bloods, Mill Park vs Eltham 2.

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Eagles netballers into Final ■ Whittlesea Eagles Summer Netball team have played their way into the Grand Final against Montmorency this Friday (Mar. 29), after a 37-27 win against Heat.

It was described as “a controlled, well executed game against a mature team.

“Everyone played their role with versatile players in many different positions.

“Young Eagles players that have improved dramatically with their pre-season under new coach Leanne.

“The 400 metre penalty runs are paying off at training,” said a Club spokeswoman. ★ The 2019 Committee for the Whittlesea Football-Netball Club includes:Mick Hayfron, Luke Dyson, Presidents; Daniel Prestopino, VicePresident; Adrian Stewart, Secretary; Mandy Carter, Treasurer; Jamie Russell, Football Operations Manager; Blair Harvey; Senior Football Coach; Chris Hoysted, Senior Woemn’s Football Coach; Sean McAuliffe, Development Football Coach; Aaron Newport, Under 19 Football Coach; Mandy Carter, Netball CoOrdinator; Nick Attard, Superules Co-Ordinator; Luke Dyson, Sponsorship; Don Binion, Grounds Manager; Jack Dyson, Social Committee Manager/Facilities Management Co-Ordinator; Kaye Fraser, Catering Manager; Daniel Prestopino, Membership Manager/Merchandise Sales CoOrdinator; Adrian Stewart, Grants Manager/Disciplinary Manager; Rod Lucombe, Cross Committee Representative; Samantha Murphy, Tribunal Advocate; Mick Heyfron, Junior Liaison.

● Whittlesea Eagles Summer Netball Team: into the Grand Final this Friday.

Lakers star on Outer East site ■ Kinglake netball coach Latoya Wards and football coach Andrew Fairchild have featured at the AFL Outer East website.

“Kinglake Football and Netball Club is ready to hit the ground running in the 2019ATC Traffic Division Two Season after a productive off-season for both sides of the club,” says the feature, which is also published on Facebook.

“In her first season as Lakers Head Netball Coach Latoya Wards saw some mixed results across the grades with B, C and D Grades missing the finals, but her A Grade outfit managed to play off in the big dance, losing by just one goal in a nail biting match with Yea. “The Lakers had four players named in the Team of the Year with Alice and Bridget Waack, Caitlin Ryan and Monique Nagle winning selection.

“Kinglake came so close in the 2018 to the A Grade crown.

On the whole Wards enjoyed the challenge of the leading the Lakers netball in 2018 and expects improvement from her lower grades, especially B Grade this season. “‘We’ve had an increase in depth throughout the club which will help our B Grade side immensely,” “‘We’ve picked up Bille Cvijetic as a player-coach so she can provide an extra set of eyes up and down the court as well, plus she’s a goaler, so she can really fast-track the development of our younger shooters.”

“Wards has been preaching a fitness focus during the preseason after deciphering that the girls were fading late on in games.

● Latoya Wards, Kinglake Netball Coach. Photo: AFL Outer-East

Lakers look to ‘tempo’ game: coach ■ Kinglake seniors’ footy coach Andrew Fairchild has definite ideas about how his team can improve its on-field performance, according to an interview published at the AFL Outer East website. “‘This might sound pretty funny, but I always figure that if you’ve got the ball the opposition haven’t and if they haven’t got the ball they can’t score – we’ll be playing a much more tempo game this year,” “‘Training so far has been focusing on game-sense and kicking patterns, stuff like when to kick and where to kick.”

“Whilst their recruiting policy may indicate a short-term plan, Fairchild is adamant that 2019 is just the start of something bigger for the club. “‘We’ve got expectations that we’re going to be competitive every game and of course we’ll be looking to win every game we play,” “‘But anything we achieve this season will only help what we do the year after,” Fairchild told the League.

Kinglake plays away with Gembrook-Cockatoo on April 13.

● Andrew Fairchild Photo: Herald Sun

“‘I believe that last year we had the skills but we didn’t always have the legs to run out the final quarter so we’ve been working really hard on our fitness.”

“Wards expects that the whole club, not just the netball is set for a big year in 2019,” says the AFL Outer East report. “‘I’m expecting everyone as a whole to step up as club, both on and off the field.”

“Kinglake’s new football coachAndrew Fairchildis feeling the same vibe after settling in to the Lakers hot seat.

“He’s made an immediate impact as well with Kinglake one of the biggest recruiters over the off-season with no less than 10 players joining the club, most coming through Fairchild’s Northern Football League connections.

“The Lakers set out to target experience and bigger bodies after Fairchild noted a tendency for the Lakers to get ‘pushed off the ball’.

“This can probably be explained by the fact that Kinglake had 17 players under 23 come through their senior side in 2018.

“For the new recruits, the opportunity to enjoy the country ‘vibe’ was a big selling point in their decision to move to Kinglake. “‘For the blokes from the Northern, it’s a chance to get our and to something different, you know a bit of a country town and a country league vibe – that’s what they’re after.”

“Fairchild will also bring in a different game-style in 2019, looking to shy away from Kinglake’s 2018 ‘run and gun’ to bring a more structured and controlled style of game this season.”

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Class field for T.J. Smith

■ The T.J.Smith classic to be run at Randwick on April 6 , has attracted some of the best sprinters in the land for the coveted trophy.

The unlucky runner in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington, Osborne Bulls, looks the one to beat having missed a place only once in his 16 starts.

Prepared by James Cummings for the Godolphin camp, Osborne Bulls came from near last in the Newmarket to go down by only three quarters of a length to the sensational filly, Sunlight.

Sunlight, on leading in the Newmarket, ran some great sectionals right up there with the likes of Winx and Black Caviar.

As stated by her trainer, Tony McEvoy, she ran 10.47 seconds, 10.5, 10.57 and 10.82 seconds for the 200-metre splits.

So the run put up by Osborne Bulls giving the flying filly around six lengths start from the four hundred metre mark, was sensational.

On the same line of betting is the Everest champion, Redzel, who loves the challenge on his home track.

At his last start he had a slight off day when beaten by veteran sprinter, Ball of Muscle, one of the most consistent gallopers racing.

On the next line is the smart Trapeze Artist in the strong barn of top trainer, Gerald Ryan.

Ridden by Blake Shinn, the four-year-old won his seventh race after 19 starts, recently.

That was the day the jockeys paid tribute to, Tye Angland, the top jockey who was made a paraplegic after a bad fall at Sha Tin. Tye was the regular rider for Trapeze Artist and Blake Shinn and other riders in the race paid tribute to Tye with his name emblazoned on their silks.

The Greg Hickman-trained Peirata is further down the market, finishing unplaced behind Trapeze Artist, but always puts in.

The three year-old Graff put in a great run in the Newmarket in an open field, and rattled home to run fourth.

He has outstanding potential and is one to watch, wouldn't surprise if he won.

The strongAnthony Freedman stable has two good chances in Shoals and Santa Ana Lane.

Shoals is coming off an excellent second to Trapeze Artist over 1300 metres in the Group One League Stakes at Randwick and is one of the best mares racing in Australia.

Santa Ana Lane is one of the best going around and always puts in.

He is going to be in the firing line in the run to the line.

Then you have the mighty filly, Sunlight, as mentioned earlier, with the sectionals on her side as displayed in the Newmarket.

A hard race, one I feel like keeping out, is forced to pick one or two I like Osborne Bulls and Sunlight.

Deni Diggers Cup

● Osbourne Bulls wins in great style at Caulfield. Racing Photos online purchase to the 2019-365 Golden Mile Raceway, will automatically be entered into the draw to win return flights to Sydney, all-inclusive hospitality in the Members on day one of the championships at Randwick, plus accommodation for two people.

To purchase your Golden Mile tickets and enter the draw simply go to country.racing.com/ bendigo I will be working for the Club on the big day; it should be a ripper.

Admission is only $20 for adults, concession $15 and children under 16, accompanied by an adult or guardian are admitted free.

If you would like to come along for the big day, ring the Club for bookings, on 5448 4209.

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Golden Mile shine

■ The Bet 365 Golden Mile Raceday experience promises to be greatly enhanced this year with the biggest line-up of entertainment and activities in its eight-year history.

The meeting this Saturday at Bendigo is a stand-alone meeting.

This year's line-up includes SEN's Off the Bench team featuring Liam Pickering and Scott Cummings, who will be conducting an outside broadcast and breakfast from 9am on the racecourse before hosting the all-inclusive, Off the Bench Marquee, with a Punters Club during the day.

Former top trainer, Peter Moody, will cast his eyes over the horses in the mounting yard before each race and will provide Silk patrons with expert tips over the course of the afternoon at a function that will be hosted by Racing.Com's Kate Watts.

Families will be well catered for with numerous activities such as, Laser Tag, Rock Climbing, Bungee Tramps, Water Zorb Balls, and much more in the Kids Free Zone.

Roaming entertainment, live music and the chance to win on course prizes rounds off what will be a great day for both families and racing purists.

The stand alone Golden Mile Race Day meeting, meaning no metropolitan meeting, on Saturday March 30 will showcase many of

■ The Deniliquin Racing Club is preparing for its big ANZAC Day meeting come April 25 at the picturesque track, with plenty of action promised on the big day.

I have had the pleasure of working for the Club on the PA, for the past three years, helping with sponsor, jockey and trainer interviews and general comments.

The Club puts on a five action packed racecard, with plenty of entertainment all round.

They cater for the punters who would like to bet on Melbourne and interstate races, as well as running a Punters Club on the local races.

I go up with the race-caller Nigel Killip, his wife Caroline, and son Jake.

Caroline runs the Punters Club, with Nigel picking the horses.

The Club conducts an excellent Fashions on the Field competition for young and old alike, with good prizes.

There are TAB and bar facilities on course, with bookies betting on the local and interstate races, including Melbourne.

The Club is running marquee packages with a fee of $85 per person fully catered, an Entertainer Package for $95, and the Corporate Marquee,’The Lions Den’, fully catered for with entry.

After the last I will I will join the team running the Two-up in respect of ANZAC Day During the day and during the presentation of the Diggers Cup we will stand-to, to remember those who fought in World Wars and conflicts for Australia.

Also for those who would like to swing on afterwards, there will be live music .

Always a good meeting, I look forward to ANZAC Day, come April 25..

Quickest way to Deniliquin is up through Echuca and Moama, and straight on.

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Victoria's up and coming young equine stars all vying for an amazing one million dollars in prizemoney.

The Bendigo Jockey Club is also pleased to announce an innovative reciprocal privileges partnership with the Australian Turf Club for Bendigo Jockey Club members to capitalise on the recently announced Qantas link between Bendigo and Sydney which commences on the day after the Golden Mile on March 31.

In announcing the partnership, Bendigo Jockey Club CEO Aaron Hearps said "The recent Qantas announcement presents a wonderful opportunity for the residents of Bendigo and Sydney to experience a day at the races, before indulging the many tourist attractions and fine dining each city provides".

"BJC members now have the opportunity to jump on a short 95 minute flight on a Saturday morning, spend a day at a race meeting in New South Wales, experience a night in Sydney, and then fly back to Bendigo on Sunday afternoon".

The BJC-ATC reciprocal arrangement commences immediately and presents an exclusive opportunity for BJC members to watch Winx, for possibly her last race in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday April 13.

To celebrate the reciprocal partnership, any

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Stirring battle at Melton Plate ■ It was Melton Plate night at Tabcorp Park Melton last Saturday and a great crowd from the district turned out to witness a terrific race program – the feature being the $50,000 (Group 2) City Of Melton Plate for four and five year old pacers over 2240 metres – the victor being Great Western trainer/driver Kerryn Manning’s very smart American Ideal-Galleons Honour 4Y0 gelding Duke Of Wellington who has a huge future.

Forced to race uncovered from gate 4 outside War Dan inside him, Duke Of Wellington moved on level turns approaching the home turn and in a stirring battle up the straight, proved too strong to register a brilliant 1.5 metre victory in an outstanding mile rate of 1-54.6 (last half mile 56.9 – quarter 28.9).

Rishi ran home strongly to finish third a metre back after being badly held up at a vital stage.

Tenacity shown

■ Gippsland was the venue for harness racing on Monday March 18, with Warragul holding a eight event card.

A big winner on the day was 4Y0 Art MajorBella Aurora gelding Good Guy Mac who greeted the judge in the 1790 metre Warragul Cup Easter Sunday Pace for C1 class.

Trained at Bolinda by Kari Males and driven

by Zac Phillips, Good Guy Mac starting solo on the second line settled with most of the field ahead of him, before going forward to park in the open outside Blue Chipped which led from gate two.

Showing tenacity on turning, Good Guy Mac scored by a head from Betterman Stride (three wide last lap) in a mile rate of 1-57.8. Blue Chip was third 1.3 metres away.

■ Myrniong duo Jess Tubbs and Greg Sugars snared the 2210 metres Warragul Sporting & Social Club Claiming Pace over 2210 metres with former Kiwi 6Y0 Art Major-Biddy Mulligan gelding Arthur Lowe much to the delight of a host of owners including Paul Dobson and son Nick who was making his first venture into the sport as an owner.

Driven by Greg, Arthur Lowe was restrained from gate four to settle mid-field as polemaker Hokonui Ben led with ease. Moving to race uncovered through the middle stages, the speed increased prior to the final bend as Sugars applied plenty of pressure to the leader, gaining a narrow margin on turning.

Kept going in the straight, Arthur Lowe defied all challengers to register a 2.1 metre margin over Our Sir Ivanhoe (three wide home turn from the tail), with Jakarras Ace (one/one) third a neck away. The mile rate 1-58.5.

It was Arthur Lowe's 11th success in 95 outings. Prolific winning gelding Classy Western unfortunately had to be put down after going amiss during the race.

Harness Racing

an impressive 2.4 metre margin over Cee Cee In America which led on turning, with Torrid Saint 1.2 metres away in third place after leading at the bell. The mile rate 1-57.9.

3 metres ahead

Sulky Snippets

■ Bolinda trainer Brent Lilley combined with Chris Alford aboard 4Y0 Art MajorCourageousnquick gelding Princely Reign to land the North Central Review Pace for C0 class over 1690 metres.

■ Wednesday - Bendigo, Thursday Raced by a large syndicate headed by Neale Echuca, Friday - Maryborough/Geelong, SatDonnelley, Princely Reign after starting from urday - Melton, Sunday - Horsham (Cup), the extreme draw was restrained to the tail of Monday - Kilmore. the field as Candy Mandy (gate three) exploded away to lead.

Moving forward three wide uncovered in the final circuit, Princely Reign sustained the run, ■ Zoom Along Dreamer, They Wantano, greeting the judge three metres ahead of Bacardi Jess, Birthday Suit, Tam Major, TorShesalwaysdreaming (one/one at bell) which rid Saint, Code Bailey, Royal Vendetta, switched down to the sprint lane on turning, with Goodtime Grace, Smile Lyal.

Royal Vendetta 1.7 metres away in third place after moving to race exposed at the bell when having his first outing since August 2017. The which has been bursting to break through in recent outings, taking the 2190 metre R0 class mile rate 1-59.5.

A.G. Electrical Maryborough Pace.

Beginning swiftly from gate five to make a failed bid for the front running as The Whole ■ Long Forest trainer Andy Gath joined forces Package (gate 2) safely held him out, Hayes put with Gavin Lang to provide Neale Donnelley the foot to the floor in the back straight on the with another winner, capturing the Triple Treat first occasion to cross over and lead with the Harness @ Trackside Pace for C3 & C4 class gelded son of Grinfromeartoear and Show Me over 2180 metres with ex-NSW 4Y0 Amber. Travelling beautifully, I Am Marquez at Somebeachsomewhere-Just Delight gelding start number eight, coasted to the wire 16.3 metres in advance of The Whole Package which Kerford Road.

Taken back at the start from gate six, Kerford held down second 1.8 metres clear of a hard Road settled at the tail as Be A Major Threat driven Phelingood Philtra (three back the markfrom outside the front line was driven aggres- ers). The mile rate 1-57.7. sively to take the lead away from Chrissy Divinyl.

Gaining a lovely three wide trail home in the last lap on the back of Beach Skipper (one/two), ■ At Ballarat, Parwan trainer Craig Demmler Kerford Road joined in strongly in the straight to combined with Greg Sugars to record a tough prevail by 6.1 metres from Kotare Mahdi from victory with 5Y0 Bettors Delight-Glenferrie last on the marker line. Beach Skipper was a Alexis gelding Hezatoff in the C3 to C5 class Brace Education and Training Pace over 1710 game third a neck away. The rate 1-59.6. metres.

Despite racing exposed from outside the front line, Hezatoff was too strong at the finish, de■ Daylesford sister and brother Anne-Maree feating the leader River Patrol by a head in 1and Glenn Conroy brought up two wins in suc- 56.7. Heza Cracker (three back the markers cession with 4Y0 Bacardi Lindy-Yankee Poem gained an inside passage to be third a nose away. mare Shield Maiden by taking the McIvor Estate Heathcote Vicbred Trotters Mobile for T0 class over 2180 metres at Kilmore.

With Glenn in the bike, Shield Maiden raced ■ Great Western's Peter Manning provided an

by Pat Conroy and partners led all of the way upset winner at Ballarat when Shark Gesturefrom gate three and after an easy time, just lasted Tipitina Rose 6Y0 gelding Romantic Gesture to score by a head in 2-07.4 from Mar Pacifico greeted the judge in the TAB Multiplier Pace which made the final bend very wide from well for C1 class over 1710 metres.

With daughter Kerryn in the sulky, Romantic back, with Bacardi Jess (three wide last lap from Gesture ($38.60) was given the run of the race four back) third 2.3 metres away. from the pole trailing the pacemaker Wanted Lady (gate 4).

Easing away from the inside on the final bend, ■ There were two meeting on Thursday - Romantic Gesture ran home well to register a Maryborough in the afternoon and Ballarat at 6.6 metre margin (his second in 43 outings) over Wanted Lady in a rate of 1-56.1. SA visitor night.

At Maryborough, Anne-Maree Conroy Wroxton Steel (three back the markers) was notched up another success when ultra-consis- third 2.7 metres away.

- Len Baker tent 5Y0 Conch Deville-French Frolic mare Tuscan Dawn scored in the Seelite Windows & Doors Trotters Mobile for T0 & T1 class over 2190 metres.

Trapped in the open from gate four, Tuscan Dawn received cover mid-race when A Nip Will Do eased away from the back of the leader and ■ While anniversary events for the bushfires favourite Theresastormcoming (gate 3). of 2009 are now complete, community memWith the trio drawing right away in the final bers are still being encouraged to seek supcircuit, Anne-Maree showed no interest in using port. the sprint lane after ducking down to trail the Should you or someone you know require leader, electing to make the home turn three counselling through this time, contact the wide.

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Will Do 6.9 metres back in third place. The mile The Bushfires of 2009 Community Suprate 2-06.1. port Project is led by a committee focused on supporting people living in Mitchell, Murrindindi, Yarra Ranges, Whittlesea and Nillumbik regions.

■ Local reinsman Mark Hayes who has driven The committee is made up of local, state numerous winners on the Maryborough track, and federally funded organisations, working was successful aboard the Col Latter together to distribute information kits and pro(Shelbourne) trained gelding I Am Marquez vide mental health and wellbeing support.

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with Len Baker from the pole, Major Times a son of Art Major and The Good Times was kept honest throughout the race by Three Summers (gate five), with the pair turning together.

Proving a little too strong at the finish, Major Times scored by 1.2 metres from stablemate Tam Major (one/one - three wide home turn) in a mile rate of 1-57.1. Three Summers was a game third 5.7 metres back.

■ The other highlight of the Terang card was the $12,000 Gammalite Cup for C5 or better class over 2180 metres named after the pride of Terang, which was taken out by Bannockburn trainer Geoff Webster's 4Y0 Art MajorKabbalah Karen B gelding Kasbah Kid which brought up two wins in succession after winning at Ballarat the previous Friday.

Driven by Greg Sugars, Kasbah Kid led throughout from the pole, defeating Franco Tristan (one/one) and a death-seating Code Bailey in a mile rate of 1-58.1.

The margins 2.6 metres by a head.

Gammalite is buried at the Dalvui Raceway winning post.

Night to remember

■ Chintin trainer Ken Ward enjoyed a night he won't forget in a hurry after landing a stable double (possibly his first) at his home track Kilmore on Wednesday March 20, when 6Y0 Village Jasper-Skipper Patricia gelding snared the C1 class Jet Roofing Pace over 2180 metres and 4Y0 Million Dollar Cam-Lady Jade Skipper the Kilmore Art Expo 13th & 14th April Pace Final for C1 class over 1690 metres, both driven

by Monegeetta's David Miles.

Village Skipper from gate five was restrained to the tail of the field as Jakalija crossed Bet The Limit shortly after the start.

Moving forward four wide in the final circuit, Village Skipper ran home stylishly to prevail by 1.3 metres in advance of Bet The Limit which eased off the inside on the home turn, with Jakalija holding down third 3.5 metres back. The ■ It was Tontine Pacers & Trotters night at mile rate 2-04.7.

Terang on Tuesday, with both races valued at ■ Jamieson Steele starting from the extreme $25,000. draw, possied three back in the moving line goThe T1 or better class Tontine Trot over 2680 ing a spot closer in the last lap as Paying Your metres was a thriller, with Shelbourne (Bendigo) Way ahead of him eased three wide to issue a duo Kate Hargreaves and Alex Ashwood's 4Y0 challenge to the pacemaker She Can Rock.

Majestic Son-Focus On Me gelding Well De- Shifting three wide on the final bend, Jamieson fined successful at TAB odds of $22.80.

Steele finished too well for his rivals, defeating Trained by Kate, Well Defined one of only Bit Of A Dream (four wide home turn after foltwo front markers was well up in class as to lowing the winner throughout), reversing last what he had been racing against, settling on the week's decision - the margin 3.4 metres in a back of the leader One Yankee Ginga, with mile rate of 1-58.4. Cantbetold (three back the Kyvalley Finn (10 metres) easing away from markers) was third for Leon Conway 1.6 metres three back the markers to possie one/one. away.

Pushed back a spot racing for the bell as Aldebaran Kiri assumed control leaving Kyvalley Finn parked, Ashwood drove Well Defined through a narrow gap in the last lap to be poised ■ Lancefield's ‘Rocket’ Rod Petroff brought off one/one approaching the home turn. Easing three a well planned plunge whenArt Major-Classiwide on turning, Well Defined sprouted wings in cal Truscott colt Iconic Major making his race the shadows of the post to prevail by a half head debut scored in the Trackside Bistro 3Y0 Pace over Kyvalley Finn, with Parisian Amore a head over 1690 metres.

Trained and driven by Rod for part-owner/ away in third place. The mile rate 2-06.3. Kate's dad Bruce would have been "over the moon" as breeder Tony Llewellyn, Iconic Major (gate four) mid-field in the moving line before going he is a part-owner of the winner.

■ The Tontine Pacers for T2 to T4 class over four wide in the last lap following SA visitor Cee 2180 metres went the way of the Emma Stewart Cee In America. trained 4Y0 entire Major Times with Chris Alford Switching down to the sprint lane on turning, in the sulky. Safely retaining the inside running Iconic Major finished full of running to register

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Danger In Devon wins Alexandra Cup

● Sarah Brockhus and Jacque Carter

● Sharon Brandeville and Belinda Hocking

● Louy Drysdale of Yellingbo with Ashleigh Toogood of Woori Yallock

● Melissa Overman, Sophie Askew and Nat Turney

● Davina Bennett, Gordon Bennett and Jacqui Wilson

● Ann Hall and Jess Reid

● Tash Gemenis, Kate Newman and Kim Campbell

● Marisa hodge, Anita Keddell and Karen Witchell

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Tigers hunt for volunteers ■ Yea Football Netball Club’s season is underway, and Saturday saw practice matches at ‘The Rec’.

Club President Brad Watts has called on members of the Yea community, particularly older people, to help out at the Tigers in a variety of volunteer positions, including: ■ bar staff, ■ Canteen Co-Ordinator, ■ Canteen helpers, ■ Catering Co-Ordinator, ■ cleaning of clubrooms, ■ game day - runners, water carriers, ■ game day - boundary, goal umpires, ■ gate attendant, ■ medical trainers, ■ timekeepers.

● Vicky Butler and Di Elliot ■ What a great job with the Murrindindi Masters. Winner Sue Aurisch represented the Golf Club so well, the club isproud of your achievements!

Back on home turf there was the first round of the Kath Homewood Memorial.

The weather was a little warm and many red faces returned after the job was done.

The heat will disappear and then players will be saying it is too cold.

There was a wee tussle for the the honours between captain Vicky Butler and Di Elliott, both on 73. After the dreaded count back, the Captain was the victor.

On Thursday (Mar. 21) it was off to Kilmore. Through no fault of their own, a team was one short, hence no bowl was in contention but one who fell short on the count back was not going to be done on Thursday.

Di took the bull by the horns so to speak and came in to win B-Grade with 41 pts and two player of the year points.

On Wednesday (Mar. 27), another Monthly Medal is up for grabs then Seymour for their bowl.

- Karen Sangster

● Deb Schickerling shares advice with Yea D-Grade netballers on Saturday.

Those people wanting to volunteer, should contact Sue Spagnolo, Vice-President, 0438 924 257.

The Club has released its calendar of 2019 events: ■ Round 1 - Jungle Party. Saturday, April 13.

At Yea Recreation Reserve.

■ Round 3 - Ladies’Day. Sunday, May 5. A Yea Recreation Reserve.

■ Round 5 - YFNC Ball and Past Premiership Players’ Day. Saturday, May 18. At Yea Shire Hall.

■ Round 10 - Mystery Bus Trip. Saturday, June 22.

■ Round 13 - Ivey-Hedger Cup and Mr Yea. Saturday, July 13. At Yea Recreation Reserve.

■ Round 17 - End of Season Function. Satur● Avenel and Yea had a tough contest at ‘The Rec’ on Saturday. day, August 10. Location to be advised.

Good crowd at Alex. Cup

Pelly wins 4-stick ■ Captain Alan Pell says that the other 10 sticks just get in the way! With 39 points Alan Pell(11) won Wednesday’s Competition from second David Ngo (32) with 37.

NTP on the 14th (10th second time round) was Jeff Aurisch, and Neil Peterson took out the Club Award.

- Alan Pell

Winter season opens ■ It was the Winter season opening for the men at Royal Yea. Six teams contested the Ambrose Event on Saturday (Mar. 23).

With 68 off the stick the team of Sam Wright (20), Carl Maffei (25) and Jeff Aurisch (14) took out the competition with a nett 58 1/6.

Second were Robert O’Halloran (19), Russ Akers (15) and Alan Pell (11) with 67 gross and 59 ½ nett.

Robert. O’Halloran won the NTP on the 18th, and the team of Ivor Brayley, Neil Peterson and John Tanner took out the Club Award.

Chooklotto Superdraw was won by Neil Peterson $100, Myrna Patterson was second with $60, and Greg Clements third with $40.

- Alan Pell ● Email your sports results by 10am Mondays (earlier if possible please) to: editor@LocalMedia.com.au

● Cosmic Scoop greets the judges in the first race at Alexandra.

■ Danger In Devon, a five-year-old bay geldClerks of Course were S. Glass and R. ing, won the 1540-metre Alexandra Cup on Cummings. Racecaller was B. Sporle.

Saturday in a time of 1:32.82.

Alexandra Race Club patrons for 2018-19 Jockey Shaun Cooper (66.5 kg) was aboard were: A. Pearse, B. Purvis, S. Shipton, Reddrop the Amy Johnston-trained New Zealand horse Family, D. Evans, J. Thorburn, J. McLeod, to secure the $6000 prize money for owners A. Landmark Harcourts, Schrubland Estate, AB Yargi, Johnston-Houlihan Bloodstock, J. Houseboats, Embling Rural, Hedger ConSimpson, P. Dobson, S. Kaplan, M. Ivey, Nine structions, Koala Cherries, Alexandra VeteriMile Racing and W. Presley. nary Clinic, Rubicon Hotel Motel, Glencoe Danger In Devon paid $12. The major race Group, Marysville Caravan Park and TAC. was sponsored by Cathedral Golf Club.

Other results: Then followed Albert’s Lass (jockey, Reece Race 1. 1. Cosmic Scoop, $2.60. 2. Little Red Goodwin), Hay Handsome (Courtney Pace), Rooster. $9. 3. Dad ‘n’ Bri’s Shed, $9. 4. Rets.

Murphy’s Corner (MrG. Secombe), Heaven’s 5. Jude The Obscure. 6. Moss and Me. 7.

Reject (Tim Grace), Sinister Sums (Chelsea Betiina. 8. Makemerich.

Heard), My Boy Eagle (Dani Walker), Solas Race 2. 1. Norsika, $4.20. 2. No Dreams All (Rob Kirkpatrick), Stormus (Natasha Baxter) Hope, $1.70. 3. Zai Bu Zai, $9. 4. Lucente. 5. and Diamond The Lad (Anita Bell).

Dehughes. 6. Bruin. 7. Buddy For Nothing. 8.

It was a successful day after the disappoint- Passover. ment of a cancelled meeting earlier this month Race 3. 1. Messika, $1.70. 2. Dark Vixen, due to track problems at the time. $3.40. 3. Joffa Print, $26. 4. Big John Stud. 5.

Officials for the meeting include C. Walsh, Malenna. 6. Superior Rose. 7. Allabout President; R. Tranter, Vice-President; B. Thatbass. 8. Sneaky Flirt.

Gamble, Treasurer; R. Walsh, Secretary; K. Race 4. 1. Double Elvis, $2.50. 2. Gilded Burge, Assistant Secretary.

Prince, $12. 3. She’s A Headhunter, $2.30. 4.

The Committee comprised A. Robinson, S. Nievre. 5. Rocket Strike. 6. Lochend EmmaWhitling, N. Parkinson, M. McEvoy, M. Hall, rose. 7. Dandarbong.

C. and A. Mullins, J. Munn, G. Doyle and J. and Round 6. 1. Bayfury, $3.10. 2. Derek The J. Bates.

Viking, $1.70 3. Can Get AWitness, $2.25.

Sports Briefs Yea knockout draw

■ Yea Golf Club conducted its knockout draw, on Saturday (Mar. 23).

The preliminary round is to be played by the end of April; the first round by the end of May. (Brackets) indicates a prelimary match.

1. Peter Johnston v (Martin Lowe vAlan Pell).

2. Jeff Aurisch v. (David Ngo. v John Anstey).

3. Peter Keast v Kevin Coghlan.

4. Carl Maffei v Jonathon Fisher.

5. Ray Partridge v (John Tanner v Matt Madden).

6. Wayne Lehmann v (Brian Priestly v Bill Dredge).

7. Brian Simmons v Bob Glenister.

8. Russ Akers v Rob O’Halloran.

9. Bruce Kindred v (Brendan Chenhall v R. Wealands).

10. Graeme Bryant v (Gary Pollard v Brad Clements).

11. Trevor Connell v Rick Wills.

12. Steve Rumney v Wayne Rowe.

13. Ken Whitfort v (John Phillips v Greg Clements).

14. Ivor Brayley v (Malcolm Bett v Allan Thatcher).

15. Michael Spagnolo. v Terry Chaplin.

16. Jeff Moss v Sam Wright.

Boners netball

■ Elizabeth Westwood, formerly of Coldstream Netball Club, is the 2019 netball coach for Thornton-Eildon.

Sandra Bee, the 2018 netball coach has had to resign as coach for 2019, due to work business and family commitments.

Club President Dave Stirling said: “On behalf of the club I would like to thank Sandra for the commitment with the drive from Oakleigh to the club and the girls in 2018, which I know she enjoyed and wished she could continue in that role which I know all our netballers will miss her.

“Sandra is prepared to stay involved where she can and help with our new appointment of the 2019 netball coach.

“This is certainly a difficult position for Elizabeth coming in late, but with the support of the netballers, Sandra and the club, I'm sure this wont be a problem when looking at her netball resume “So let's all get behind Elizabeth in 2019 and welcome her to the club on Thursday night as we do in true Thornton family style,” Dave Stirling said.

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