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Beanie Festival opens ■ The official opening of the Murrindindi Beanie Festival will be open at 6pm this friday (July 26) at the Alexandra Shire Hall. The Festival continues from 10am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday (July 27-28), with gold coin entry requested. Local people are encouraged to wear a beanie to work or school on Friday (July 26), with a gold coin donation requested. A Fibre Festival is alaso being held at the weekend, with stalls of clever creations, featuring woodwork, yarn , craft and food for sales. People of all ages are being encouraged to put their creative hats on, and schools and community groups are banding together. Money raised goes towards local projects and charities within Murrindindi Shire. Participants can knit, crochet, work with felt, or share their artistic skills. ■ Further information is available for event publicist Carolyn Weeks, phone 0400 997 655. cazart@live.com
● Cr Eric Lording ■ The Goulburn Valley Waste and Resource Recovery Group, together with Murrindindi Shire Council, is seeking the community’s views, concerns and priorities about litter and illegal dumping in the region. The results of the survey will help develop a ‘Regional Litter and Illegal Dumping Plan’ which will include a number of actions to tackle the top five litter and illegal dumping priorities. All survey responses are confidential and anonymous, and individual responses will be collated and analysed as group data. Murrindindi Shire Council Waste Portfolio Councillor, Eric Lording, said while attitudes and behaviours around littering and dumping rubbish have improved, continued action is needed. “Unfortunately littering and illegal rubbish dumping are persistent problems in our region, state and all around Australia – it is so disheartening to see. “Thanks to the Victorian Government for supporting the gathering of community insights and feedback so we can take on the challenges of litter and illegal dumping,” Cr Lording said. To have your say, visit www.engage. vic.gov.au/regional-litter-and-illegal-dumping-plans/goulburn-valley before Sunday August 3 and fill in the survey. The survey takes 10 minutes or so to complete and participants will go in the draw to win a $100 Visa gift card, supplied by GVWRRG. – Contributed
At Strath Creek
● The road accident scene on the Broadford-Flowerdale Rd. Photo: Strath Reedy Creek CFA ■ Strath Reedy Creek CFA brigade was called to a motor vehicle accident on the Broadford Flowerdale Rd, Strath Creek (Murchison Spur), on Wednesday, July 17, with the possibility of persons trapped. On arrival the volunteers found that everyone was out of the vehicle however there were injuries and those people were transported to hospital.
12-goal victory ■ Yea Girls’ Football team enjoyed an impressive 12-goal victory against Seville at home on Sunday (July 21).
■ Thornton-Eildon District FootballNetball Club is holding a Past Players and Sponsors Day at home on Saturday, August 17, when they play Yea. Contact Simone on 0416 581 453 as this will be a catered event.
Welcome Louis
● Flashback: last year’s Festival
Dave shows leadership ■ David Stirling began his address last Wednesday to the Rotary Club of Alexandra with a brief story of his life from leaving school as soon as he could. He told of his life as a VFL footballer, a baker, business man, father, husband and one who was wiped out by the 2009 bush fires in Marysville. He spoke of the fantastic work that the members of clubs like Lions and Rotary: members who follow their passion to serve, to build better communities and there when someone is needed. David explained how, in the middle of building up the Tower Motel in Marysville his son became seriously ill in Darwin. David and his wife played tag team as one looked after the motel while the other was at their son’s side in Darwin. Fortunately they were able to get their son back to Melbourne where it was a little easier for one of them at his side to support him. David said that after the 2009 fire he became aware of the massive amount of work done, for no payment, by people who had a passion to serve their fellow human kind. He said that when his family were involved with the recovery of their son they became aware of how this service to the community extended to every walk of life and they were surrounded by evidence of Lions, Rotarians and others going the extra mile to support their community. David went on to
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● David Stirling Photo: Robert Chaffe explain that the vari- the challenge of the ous changes in his life Tower Motel and in a had happened be- few short years the cause of his determi- family had built the nation to follow his business to the point deep passion, what he that it was rated by one really believed in, agency to be the third what he really wanted. best in the world for First it was foot- customer service. David explained ball, and yes, he did that there may be opplay at AFL level. Football is still an portunities for the important part of his Rotarians to be part of life. That is why he is the Thornton Footcommitted to the ball- Netball Club acThornton Football- tivities. said the thing Netball Club, with its thatHe makes 150 plus young people ties work iscommunithe netalso following their works, the links bepassion for football or tween people. netball. Rotarians have the His passion drove privilege of being ashim to give up a well- sociated directly with paid job in the sales a world-wide network. area of a thriving bakHis young people ing business to go out have limited contact on his own. with other generations It is why he took on
Highlight of the week for his group is the Thursday night $10 dinner where everyone gets together and shares a meal, with time to talk and catch up with others face to face. It puts a real person to the notes on their social media devices. David explained that there was an opportunity for Rotarians to mix with young people and share their experiences as well as identify opportunities for developing enterprises that include the needs of young people. “The invitation is extended to all people in the community who are interested in the future our youth. You will get great value for your $10.” Alexandra Rotary Past President Melinda Jackson joined with the Rotarians and guests in thanking David for his presentation and the frankness of his stories and response to questions. Melinda explained that a donation of David's behalf will be made to Angel Flight, as a way of confirming Rotary’s thanks for a fantastic evening. David looked at the sheet confirming the donation and quietly said, “Now there is just another way you Rotarians are serving our community that is not widely known. Thank you.” - Robert Chaffe
● Exchange student Louiswith host mum, Tracey Ukosich, as well as a later host, Amanda Hard. ■ The Rotary Club of Yea has welcomed its latest inbound exchange student, Louis, who comes from France for the year from France. He is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Saumur in District 1510. Bienvenue.
Program cutback ■ Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish says that the Andrews Labor State Government has cut funding to one of Victoria’s most successful family violence prevention programs. “The Speaking Out program provides training and ongoing support to women who have experienced family violence and/or sexual assault, enabling them to become advocates for change,” Ms McLeish said.
101st birthdays ■ Rosebank residents Lily Johnson and Jean Mahoney celebrated their respective 101st birthdays with a small party at Yea on Thursday (July 18).
Awards at KLW
● Peter Murphy and Chez Achia ■ Kinglake West CFA heled its annual awards dinner at Lawsons Restaurant Kinglake Pub on Saturday (July 20). Amongst the awards presented were to Peter Murphy - 30 years, Chez Achia - 10 years, and Pam Young - 15 years.
Tara’s 100th game ■ Tara Heard played her 100th netball game for Alexandra at Rebel Park on Saturday (July 20) against Powelltown.
Luke is Mr Kinglake ■ Luke Hannah was adjudicated as Mr Kinglake at the KFNC Ladies Day held at the clubrooms on Saturday (July 20). The ladies of Kinglake district has enjoyed a friendly social afternoon before the event.
Umpiring job ■ The AFL Outer East seeks a highly motivated, enthusiastic and suitably qualified individual for the key role of Director of Umpiring. The successful applicant will manage the promotion, development and operation of umpiring across the AFL Outer East region.
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Yea and Alexandra Magistrates’ Courts were busy places in the 1960s, 70s and 80s ... and Mansfield lawyer Rodney Ryan was often in attendance to represent his clients. ‘Rocket’ meant business ● Rodney Ryan and was unafraid to argue the merits of their cases. Thomas Michael Rodney Ryan took over the practice of his father, Malachy, in 1959. Rod was energetic in community affairs including tennis, golf and Rotary. He died this month at the age of 86, having only retired in 2016. He and wife Trish had five children: Malachy, Louise, Matthew, Rebecca (dec.) and Nicholas.
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Perhaps it has been the wet weather. Maybe the internet means we hear about more incidents. But the Black Spur appears to have more tree falls than usual, with a large number of road closures between Nabethong and Healesville when the Maroondah Hwy is blocked. Some oldtimers argue there are no more trees down than normal. Others say some of the trees, planted in the 1940s, are reaching their maximum heights.
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According to its website, Alexandra Newspapers has a statutory declaration in place, boasting of a 2500 weekly combined circulation of its Standard and Chronicle. There are different figures at the Regional Media Connect website. If you are supplying inserts you only need 1438 for the Alex. paper, and 482 for the Yea title. That’s only 1920; some 580 copies less than the statistic in the Statutory Declaration.
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Yea High School students and teachers planted 100 trees and shrubs on a local farm in two hours on Friday. The effort protects large old paddock trees and provides habitat for wildlife. Nillumbik Shire Council Mayor Cr Karen Egan says Arthur’s Creek Primary School has won Black Spot funding of $188,000 from the Federal Government to install Variable Speed Limit signs for school zone flashing ‘40’ with static ‘60’and installation of guard rail. Yea Rotary Past President Glenda Woods was guest speaker last week ... at the Rotary Club of Colville, Washington State, USA.
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■ Kinglake Ranges Blue Light Glow Paty will be held from 6pm-8pm on Friday, August 2 at Ellimatta Youth Space, 94 Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd, Kinglake. The event will be held from Prep.-Year 7 students, and entry will be $6 each. Contact Leading Senior Constable Paul Roberts, 5786 1333.
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● Shell wants to operate a 6am-10pm service station at Thornton. ■ Plans for a seven-day-a“The proposal is a good re- ments. week Shell service station are use of the old service station Illuminated signs would be due to go before Murrindindi site, and with the location on allowed only during the 102 Shire Councillors at their theGoulburn Valley Highway, hours of operation each week. monthly meeting scheduled for it is well positioned to take adThe property is bounded by tonight (Wed.). vantage of through traffic,” the the Thornton Caravan Park Operators want to have the staff have told Councillors. to the east, and private dwellservice station open from 6amThe officers suggest that ings to the west. The Rubicon 10pm on weekdays, and from prior to the commencement of Hotel Motel is situated across 7am-8pm on weekends. any works, the applicant needs the road. Plans put before the Coun- to obtain a septic tank permit A floodway overlay applies cil include a worskhop to oper- from Council. to the area. ate from 8am-5pm weekldays, “Prior to the installation orf There has been an objecand 8am-1pm Saturdays. the new effluent disposal sys- tion lodged to the project, and Kelaita Industries Pty Ltd tem, the existing septic tank the applicant has agreed to prowants to use existing buildings system must be decommis- vide an acoustic barrier. at 1294 Goulburn Valley Hwy sioned to the satisfaction of the “It is considered that the to run the station. responsible authority,” says the proposed use of the land will Council officers are rec- officers’ ereport. not have a significant detriommending that Councillors Other suggestions include mental impact on the adjoining vote to approve a planing per- suitable vehicle access, drain- property, and should be supmit. age and car parking arrange- ported,” say the officers.
Alyce’s wonderland ● Alex Green, Mansfield CEO Mansfield Shire CEO Alex Green copped the bullet from Councillors last week. The Councillors invoked their "termination by council" clause, reports the Courier. Mr Green, who agreed to the termination, finished up last Friday (July 19). He has been CEO in Mansfield for nearly four years. A Kids’ Gym is being proposed for the unused open space at Flowerdale. Locals held a meeting last Friday night (July 19) to commence the long-term project.
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■ Murrindindi Shire Council is likely to approve a $2986 grant at its meeting tonight (Wed.), so that Alyce Platt can present her Funny Little World show at Strath Creek in November. Strath Creek Hall and Reserve Committee sought the grant to support the event in partnership with Yea Arts Inc. The event will include musical entertainment and a three-course meal at a subsidised cost to the Strath Creek community. Councillors are being told that the partnership approach will see an arts and culture event to a small township. Ms Platt had roles in TV soap operas, Sons and Daughters (1983–85) and Neighbours (mid1990s) and worked as a TV presenter and game show host, including on Sale of the Century (1986–91). She grew up in Melbourne with her parents and two older brothers. At 16 she attended Box Hill Technical College for a two-year drama course. Other recommended grants are: ■ Australian Golf Course Superintendents Association. Multi-spectral drone analysis to determine plant health and reduce water consumption on golf course turf grass. It is suggested that $2140 of the requested $3800 be paid. ■ Terip Terip Recreation Reserve. Purchase of a new ride-on mower to maintain grounds. The Community Grants Panel suggests that Council pay $2750 of the $4750 which was sought. ■ Kinglake West Primary School. “Visual acknowledgement to create community connectedness.” Councillors are being urged to approve the full $1771 sought ■ YeaAgricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Association. The Show Society has asked for $3300 for the Yea Show Night Carnival. The Panel believes that support in part should be gicen with a grant of $2260.
Bunnings BBQs ■ The new Mernda Bunnings store is accepting rfequest letters from community groups to hold fundraiser barbecues in 2020. To be included in the 2020 ballot, the request must be on club letterhead as an email attachment by September 30. The ballot will be drawn in October and confirmation letters emailed at some stage in November. The store has some availability of December dates, on a first in first served basis.
Pageturners time ■ Kinglake Library tomorrow (Thurs.) has its Pageturners event at 7pm. This is an evening of books, discussions and ideas.
Council meeting ■ Yea will be the venue for the July meeting of Murrindindi Council at 6pm tonight (Wed.). The meeting is to be held in the Council chambers.
French chat
■ Alexandra Library will host a ‘French Conversation’ session with Yolande at 11am on Saturday, July 27. A Blokes Night, with a drink and yarn, was scheduled for 6.30pm last night (Tues., July 23).
NFNL fixtures
■ Saturday’s Northern Football League match fixtures are: ■ Division 1: Hurstbridge v Heidelberg, Greensborough v Northcote Park, West Preston-Lakeside v North Heidelberg, Lower Plenty v Macleod, Bundoora v Montmorency. ■ Division 2: Epping v Diamond Creek, Thomastown v Watsonia, Whittlesea v Fitzroy Stars, Eltham v Banyule. St Maery’s: Bye. ■ Division 3: Reservoir v South Morang, Heidelberg West v Panton Hill, Kilmore v Mernda, Lalor v Old Eltham Collegians. Laurimar: Bye.
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● Alyce Platt is likely to perform Funny Little World at Strath Creek, thanks to Murrindindi Council funding.
Funding sought for local projects ■ Murrindindi Council officers are lending their full support to three applications from local organisations. ■ Marysville Jazz and Blues Weekend Committee has asked the Council for $10,000 for their annual event.
■ The AFL Outer East Division Two matches this Saturday (July 27) are: Alexandra v Seville, Powelltown v Kinglake, Yarra Junction v Yarra Glen, Yea v Gembrook-Cockatoo. Thornton-Eildon: Bye. Division One: Monbulk v WarburtonMillgrove, Pakenham v Belgrave, (Saturday, August 3: Emerald v Doveton, Mt Evelyn v Officer.) Premier League: Berwick v Beaconsfield, Narre Warren v Healesville, Wandin v Cranbourne, Woori Yallock v Olinda-Ferny Creek. Upwey-Tecoma: Bye.
■ The Bonfire Station Microbrewery put in a request for $20,000 from the community grants fund. ■ Kinglake Distilleru has asked for $19,950 for barrel cooperage. The recommendation is to support this in full.
■ Some 40 Yea high School Year 11 and 12 students, accompanied by five staff, travelled to Central Australia and back by bus. The attractions visited included the Alice Springs Desert Park, Royal Flying Doctor Service Tourist Facility, Simpsons Gap, Standley Chasm, Ormiston Gorge, Glen Helen Gorge, camel rides, Kings Canyon, Kata Tjuta, Uluru, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre and the Coober Pedy opal mines.
Indigenous signs
■ Murrindindi Shire plans to install signage recognising the traditional owners of the land in the municipality. Part of the strategy plan to be considered at tonight’s Council meeting includes telling the stories of past and present communities.
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Farewell Sigmund ■ The Borth-East lost a friend this week. Sigmund Jorgensen died on Sunday at the age of 79. Siggy and I crossed paths (and swords) occasionally when he was a Nillumbik Shire Councillor. We also shared lots of laughs and the occasional red wine. At the time (late 1990s) we were publishing the Diamond Valley Advertiser.
Mayor ’s tribute ■ Cr Karen Egan, current day Nillumbik Mayor, issued a statement on Monday (July 22): “Nillumbik Shire Council today paid tribute to Sigmund Jorgensen, remembered for his significant and considerable contribution to the arts and the broader Nillumbik community. “Mr Jorgensen was a Nillumbik Shire Councillor from 1999 to 2002 and served as Mayor from 2000 to 2002. “He was the son of Montsalvat founder Justus Jorgensen, and served as chief executive and artistic director of the historic artist colony from 1969 to 2005. “Nillumbik Shire Council Mayor Karen Egan acknowledged Mr Jorgensen's important involvement in Nillumbik's arts and culture scene. “We are deeply saddened to hear the news of Sigmund Jorgensen's passing and offer our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues,” Cr Egan said.
● Sigmund Jorgensen and Ash Long pose for a book-ends ‘funny photo’ at the Nillumbik Shire offices in the late 1990s. Sig passed away on Sunday night (July 21).
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“‘Sigmund leaves an enduring legacy as a passionate advocate for the arts, and we are grateful for his tireless promotion of Nillumbik and Montsalvat as significant cultural centres.” “A prominent Arts and Heritage Advisor, Mr Jorgenson’s many notable achievements included the publication of The intimate story of an Australian artists' colony (Allen & Unwin, 2014), helping to found the Montsalvat Melbourne Jazz Festival and introducing public musical performances to the Montsalvat program. “He was also a judge at the Melbourne Asian Food Festival, worked as a food critic for the Melbourne Times and ran the award winning restaurant Clichy in Collingwood. “In 2013 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for service to the arts.”
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■ A memorial service to celebrate Sigmund Jorgensen's life will be held at Montsalvat at 2pm on Friday, August 9. Amongst the tributes paid was that by singer Judy Jacques: “Sig, who shared his passion and love for Montsalvat in so many ways. The Montsalvat Jazz festival, the Poets Festival, are just two that will remain in the hearts and memories of musicians and poets, in the hearts of the thousands of people who never missed a year of Festivals held in the exquisite surrounds of Montsalvat.
Yea High School Prefects, 1965
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Anxious time
■ Yea Under 17s coach Richard Ivey faced charges at the Kyabram District Football League Tribunal following incidents at the abandoned match at Girgarre. Ivey was scheduled to appear on charges of allegedly striking ‘an unnamed Girgarre player’ and alleged misconduct. Ivey also had to appear on a charge of kicking player Brett Hamilton of the Girgarre Football Club, said KDFL secretary Keith Whitford in a letter to Yea Football Club secretary Greg Garlick.
Slavin out 3 weeks
■ John Slavin (Yea) and J. Corish (Merrigum) each received three week suspended sentences at the KDFL Tribunal. Each were reported for allegedly striking each other.
Made game of it
■ “Although beaten by more than 50 points at Girgarre, Yea seniors performed creditably on Saturday, and kept with the opposition well into the third quarter,” wro0te Tom Dignam in 1989. “But the home team looked quite a smart combination - a good wining side that could be a danger on a dry day. They were faster to the ball and once they created a loose man scored with monotonous ease.”
Timber Towns
■ Murrindindi timber prdoucer, Marbut Pty Ltd, supports Yea Shire beiong a membert of Timber Towns. A letter stated that the company was heartened by local government’s willingness to be involved in the debnate on timber industry matters and would be pleased to assist directly where appropriate.
Own newsletter
■ Yea Shire anounced that it was going into the publishing business, and would produce its own newsletter for residents. Chief Executive Officer Peter Mangan said the newsletter would be used to introduce Councillors, officers and their functions: “Here’s what we do and here’s who is responsible for it.”
Street names
■ Station St resident Col Williamson said his property title showed as ‘Little Muddy Rd’. He said the land between Quinlan Motors (Elders in 2019) and the Railway Hotel (Peppercorn Hotel in 2019) was shown as Railway Rd. Upper Muddy Rd was a former name for Station St near the old Lee Gow’s store.
$4000 for trees
■ Yea river Improvement Trust received $4000 for tree planting, engineer Stan Kisler told the Trust meeting. An application had been made for $10,000. Commissioner Dougal Drysdale congratulated Mr Kisler on his initiative in securing the grant money.
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Lakers re-form
■ “The attempt of some Kinglake people to revive the green-and-gold guerneseys of ‘Ther Lakers’ is to be congratulated, we opined 30 years ago. ● Alan Thorley of Yea and District Historical Pages shares this photo of Yea High School prefects from 1965. He names them as (back row) Raynor Jeffrey, Robert Walsh, John Hatchell-Brown, Symonds or Barry Hodson; (front) Helen Murphy, Jan Lawrance, headmaster Neil Baudinette, Margaret Morgan and Heather Jeffrey. (The Jeffreys may have been Jefferys. - Ed.)
Heart attack
■ Yea newspaperman Keith Peplar suffered a heart attack at press-time.
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Yea clinic involved in ‘avoidable’ trial
■ Yea GP clinicians will be involved with Seymour Health, and consumers will work together as part of a new project to identify reasons which may prevent the use of available community services, in an effort to reduce potentially avoidable hospitalisations. The “Potentially Avoidable Hospitalisations” (PAH) project is a six-month undertaking initiated by Seymour Health and supported by funding from Murray Primary Health Network through the Australian Government’s PHN Program. The project aims to avoid admissions to hospital that could have potentially been prevented through the provision of appropriate non-hospital health services. The PAH project will focus on reducing numbers of preventable unplanned presentations to the Urgent Care Centre and admissions to the acute service. It will also enhance partnerships in chronic disease management. Seymour Health will work collaboratively with local GP clinics to identify any gaps in service delivery and/or referrals to chronic disease management programs offered at Seymour Health. Monthly outreach clinics will be conducted at each of the two Seymour GP clinics (Goulburn River Group Practice and Seymour Medical Clinic), Broadford Medical Centre and Yea Medical Centre; providing education and support to improve health outcomes to patients with chronic conditions. Nurses involved in the PAH project are all highly qualified in chronic disease management. Seymour Health PAH
● Gay Morey, PAH Project Lead, , with Carmel Carroll, Project Support. Project Lead, Gay Morey, said at Seymour Health and in the that visits have recently been greater community. This would strengthen the conducted at each of the GP Clinics to introduce the excit- number of patients educated to self-manage their chronic coning new PAH project. “All participating clinics will dition; thereby reducing the have surveys available from 1st number who present to the UrAugust, running through until gent Care Centre. Seymour Health has a Hosthe end of the month. “These surveys will help pital Admission Risk Program identify gaps and barriers that that provides care co-ordinamay prevent consumers from tion to clients living with using existing community ser- chronic disease in the Mitchell vices, and increase awareness and Murrindindi Shires. Eligible patients identified of the services available; so we encourage all to keep an eye under the PAH project could then potentially be referred to out to complete them.” It is anticipated that the the HARP. The PAH project will conproject will increase awareness of the chronic disease clude on December 31. – Contributed management support available
Yea locals add input ■ Murrindindi Shire Council says it has has received “some really fantastic input” from traders and community members in Yea about the concept design for safety upgrades on High Street. Cheviot Ward Councillor, Bec Bowles said more than 30 community members popped into the Yea Service Centre to chat with Council during the ‘drop-in’ information sessions run on Thursday, July 11. “There’s still time to check out the concept design and share your feedback with us. The survey on our website is open until Sunday (July 28). “Be sure to visit www.murrindindi. vic.gov.au/highstreetyea to find out more about the project and have your say,” Cr Bowles said. “Much of the feedback we received from the community has been really positive, particularly around our proposed protected parking lane and the shorter distance for pedestrians to cross the road,” Cr Bowles said. “So we’re feeling confident that our concept plans are on the right track. We will, however, be going back to our designers and asking them to look at improving access to the petrol station at the south end of High St, as well as the placement, layout and dimensions of some kerbs. “While we do have some budget constraints limiting what changes can be made to this con-
‘SAFETY UPGRADES’ PLANNED FOR HIGH STREET, YEA cept design, we are keeping a record of the ideas the community have shared with us throughout the consultation process so they can be considered in longer-term plans for Yea’s main thoroughfare. “The community has also brought our attention to a number of issues they would like VicRoads to be made aware of. “These include the 60kmh speed limit on Station St, with its proximity to the primary school and playground, and parking safety around the Bowls Club and Post Office. “There have also been a number of queries about the speed limit on High Street. Council will be sharing these community concerns with VicRoads. “Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to get involved in this important consultation process – your input is invaluable. Thanks too, to the Victorian Government’s Fixing Country Roads Program for their generous support,” Cr Bowles said. – Contributed
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Moving M’dindi
● Kirsty Barwick, Nerissa Carter and Lauran Williams, Murrindindi Shire Council officers, are excited for the Moving Murrindindi Program to hit the road. ■ Murrindindi Shire Council, in partnership with Community Accessability Inc, is launching the Moving Murrindindi Program over the coming weeks. The Program will see volunteer drivers work on a rotating basis to get those in need of assistance to medical appointments, social outings or other transport options both in and outside of Murrindindi Shire. Deputy Mayor Cr Leigh Dunscombe said being a volunteer delivers many benefits to the community as well as the person or people you directly support. “Studies have shown that volunteering directly improves communities by strengthening networks, friendships and connections. In addition, the volunteer can see the difference their contribution is making to the world around them,” Cr Dunscombe said. “And, if that’s not enough, volunteers are proven to have longer lives and better overall health. “The Moving Murrindindi Program aims to connect volunteer drivers with senior, disabled or financially-disadvantaged members of our community who need a low-cost transport option. “The success of this Program will depend on the generosity of the community in giving up their time to support those who need it. “Here in Murrindindi Shire, we see the power and value of volunteers every day in so many ways. “They’re coaching sport, caring for our environment and supporting young people and those in need. They’re organising events and fundraisers. They’re helping and caring in big and little ways. They’re the heart of our community. “That’s why we believe the Moving Murrindindi Program will be a success. Because when there’s someone that needs a hand here, there’s always someone willing to lend one,” Cr Dunscombe said. “With three community vehicles – one stationed at the Council office in each Alexandra, Kinglake and Yea – clients wishing to use the Moving Murrindindi service will be able to book a car and driver by phoning Community Accessability Inc. “The Program was developed in response to community feedback asking for more frequent and flexible transport options to improve access to appointments and hubs across the region. “We’re pleased to have Nerissa Carter on board as Council’s Moving Murrindindi Project Officer. Over the coming months, you might see Nerissa out and about promoting the Program as we put together a roster of volunteer drivers. “If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please contact Council’s Moving Murrindindi Project Officer, Nerissa Carter on 5772 0333 or email ncarter@ murrindindi.vic.gov.au,” Cr Dunscombe said. “A big thanks to ‘Transport for Victoria’ whose support has been invaluable getting the Program off the ground,” Cr Dunscombe added. – Contributed
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$95,737 grants
■ Murrindindi Shire Council has received 15 applications for grants or contributions from local community groups, organisations and businesses, which together total $95,737. Council’s Grants and Contributions Program provides the opportunity for local community groups, not-for-profit organisations and businesses to seek funding to support a range of activities and initiatives which contribute to broader community wellbeing, visitation and economic development. At its Ordinary Meeting in Yea on Wednesday (July 24), Council will consider applications for business and industry development grants from Bonfire Station, Kinglake Distilleryand Marysville Jazz Festival In addition, Council’s Community Grants Assessment Panel has recommended Council support applications from Strath Creek Halls and Reserves Committee, the Australian Golf Course Superintendents Association (on behalf of Marysville Golf Course), the Terip Terip Recreation Reserve Inc, Kinglake West Primary School and the Yea Show Night Carnival. As part of this process, Council officers have already approved fee waivers or reductions for Axiom Architects Pty Ltd (on behalf of Scouts Victoria), the Alexandra Community Christmas Tree Festival, the Yea Saleyards Committee of Management, Mittagundi Outdoor Education Centre, Yea Community House’s YAPPERS Group, Flowerdale Sports Club Inc and Big Hill Events. Deputy Mayor Cr Leigh Dunscombe said Council believes it’s important to support our community in delivering important services and opportunities to residents in all corners of our Shire. Likewise, we know the wider and longer-term value of helping businesses and industries expand. “If you’re interested in applying for support from Council, there are six streams available. I really encourage you to check out the eligibility criteria, financial support limits and assessment timeframes for each at www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/grants,” Cr Dunscombe said. – Contributed
What The Papers Say Fatal collision
■ Police and emergency services attended the scene of a fatal multi-vehicle collision that resulted in the death of a motorcyclist in Chirnside Park on Saturday (July 20). Emergency services were called to the intersection of Edwards and Paynes Rds following reports of a collision between two motorcycles and a ute towing a trailer about 4.40pm. The man driving the motorcycle was still to be formally identified. - Mountain Views Mail
Raised concerns
■ Raised intersections in Epping and Thomastown may be causing more vehicle accidents than reducing them after a probe into their benefits began in Parliament. Member for Northern Metropolitan Region, Craig Ondarchie, raised the issue in Parliament describing multiple adverse incidents that had occurred in his electorate. - Whittlesea Review
Jet ski stolen
■ Police are investigating after a jet ski was taken from a Healesville address this week. It is believed unknown offenders attended a property on Mt Riddle Rd sometime between 9.30pm on Wednesday (July 17) and 12 Noon Thursday (July 18). - Victoria Police
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From Our 1919 Files
Peace procession
■ Peace was celebrated in Yea on Saturday last by a display that will live long in the memory of those who took part in it. The celebrations consisted of a procession and sports in the afternoon and a variety entertainment and dance at night, admission to each of which was free, but voluntary donations realised over £10,tof which £6 was expended in prize money for the children's sports, The balance goes to the Soldiers' Memorial Fund. - Yea Chronicle
Eltham Court
■ The case against Edwards for non-vaccination of child was struck out. F.Dobson, same charge, was fined 10s in default distress. J. Ainley, Alfred Ainley and John Ainley were each fined 10s with 3s costs for being on licensed premises of Wine Palace, Hurstbridge, at illegal hours on 22nd June. - The Advertiser
Football matches
■ The Yea Trades play the Alexandra Trades, at Alexandra, on Saturday next. Yarck play the Alexandra District Returned Soldiers. - Yea Chronicle
Floricultural Soc.
■ A meeting will be held in the Parish Hall at Diamond Creek on Saturday evening, 26th July, at 8 p.m., for the purpose of forming a Floricultural Society. Objects. — To hold monthly meet ings, with lectures and displays of flowers in season. To hold a spring and autumn show, the proceeds to be devoted to any object which, in the opinion of the Committee at the time, needs assistance. All interested cordially invited to attend. Ladies, as well as gentlemen, eligible as members. - The Advertiser
Union Jack sold
■ The Union Jack carried in the procession was sold publicly by auction by Mr Tyson Creighton, auctioneer, at about 3.30 p,m', and realised £26 15s. It was sold over and over again, and on the Bruce auction principal, Finally it was put up and sold to the highest bidder, and after spirited bidding it was knecked down to Major Purcell for £10, who became the owner of the flag, - Yea Chronicle
Yarck, Kanumbra
■ Peace Day celebrations were very successfully carried out at Yarck on Saturday. Gobur and .Cathkin combined with Yarck. and conjointly celebrated the event by a grand procession from the local State school to the recreation reserve; where a picnic and sports programme were held. - Alexandra Standard
Eildon Weir
■ Peace Day was celebrated at the Iocal school on Friday. The weather was spring like. Rereshments were provided by Mrs, Turner, Mssres Allen Bros and Stont for the childten, who amused themeseles with football, basketball and rounders. The medals were handed to the children during the afternoon.. - Alexandra Standard
Soldiers to visit
■ A party of invalided soldiery from the various militarty hospiitals will. visit Panton Hill on Sunday next; where they will be entertained by the residents dents at dinnier and afteinoon tea, provision being made for 120. - The Advertiser
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Legal battles after wife’s death
Yea’s Jack Russell reveals a life of fighting officialdom ■ The unexpected death of his wife Robin in childbirth with their fourth child, set Yea man Jack Russell on to a long path of legal battles. Robin’s death at age 34 left Jack, then 38, with three children to raise single-handedly, whilst simultaneously running a four-year court battle against a doctor and medical authorities for malfeasance. Jack won the legal case, and used the financial settlement to put their surviving children Bradley, Diane and Cameron through church schools. He was heavily involved in community activity through organisations such as the Young Farmers, Apex, Scouts, the RSL, and he served as honorary secretary of the local primary school at Kallista. These days, Jack Russell is best known locally as the resident who has taken on Murrindindi Shire in a number of cases in the courts, with a legal bill to Council of close to $100,000. To some he is seen as abrasive and a troublemaker. He was banned by the Council and other organisations from a number of local facilities. Around 2011, he spent nine months on remand whilst on an attempted murder charge, that was later dropped. He was ordered to stand trial on one count of reckless conduct endangering life, to which he pleaded not guilty. To others, Jack Russell is regarded as a man who is prepared to fight community issues, without fear. Jack Russell, 80, was born in Kew in November 1938. His father, Percival George Paton Russell, was born in Fingal, Tasmania, and had worked as a shoemaker and furniture maker. His mother, the former Annie Elizabeth Nimon, born 10 years later at Ballarat, was well educated at University High School, becoming a telephonist. His grandfather, Joseph, was a bailiff at Mayday Hills in Beechworth, and later at Kew ‘lunatic asylums’. He accumulated nine residences, later passed on to the family. Jack and his brother George were raised in suburban Kew, and Jack recalls his early childhood as the happiest of times. Society was recovering from the years of the Great Depression, but World War II was just around the corner. Fate struck a blow during those war years, when young Jack, was run over by a tram. Aged six, he spent the next six
● Robyn Russell died in childbirth at age 34 then based in Carlton. He regards school (Year 8) at age 14, and was that half-year as an introduction to a taken on Peacock Bros. printers at lifetime of combatting authority. 486 Bourke St, Melbourne. There were 16 children in the Jacke says his father used his Maward, and he also spent time at the sonic connections to get him the job. Fairfield Infectious Diseases HospiThe company was an agent for a tal, recovering from diptheria. large mechanical accounting maHe recalls, at age nine, spending chine, and the teenager took to retime at the Kew Library, reading up pairing the intricate equipment. on the injustices revealed in the At age 18, he became a represenBelsen Trials, one of several trials tative to customers in the Mel-bourne that the Allied occupation forces con- CBD, describing himself as a ducted against former officials and “livewrire”. functionaries of Nazi Germany after He joined the machinery section the end of World War II. of McPherson’s as a cadet, returnThis set him up early with a dis- ing for a while to Peacock Bros., calltaste for the way in which official- ing on manufacturers. dom could treat individuals. Jack won a job with the Modern “My school years were magic,” Office company in Gertrude St, Fitzhe recalls. Many school friends be- roy, using his wages to buy his first came mates for life. car, a Commer half-ton ute. Jack developed an enquiring He had on going interest in motor mind, and his uncle Jim - who had a vehicles, soon buying a Volkslarge collection of military memo- wagen, then a 1963 ‘super-pursuit’ rabilia, would take the youngster on Falcon. regular excursions to the Melbourne He went on to collect 14 vintage, Science Museum. classic and veteran vehicles includBut Jack, as a teenager, was not ing a 1907 ‘Russell’ four-cylinder 30keen on being instructed. He left horsepower open tourer.
The collection included an eightcylinder 3½-litre 1938 straight-eight Daimler. Jack also had a collection of firearms and swords, later sold through Joel’s. Weekend past-times included the Bendigo and Ballarat swap meetings, and country vehicle runs. Jack and his family developed a connection with Sassafras, at one time owning nine blocks of land there. Here he met Robyn Hill, and her sister Susan. Robyn was working in the advertising department of Kodak, first at Abbotsford, and then East Coburg. Her background was from the ‘Fairy Hills’ area around Ivanhoe. They were engaged for 2½-years. They married in 1965, and established their home in Sassafras. They happily started their fasmily, and became involved in community affairs. Jack’s membership of Sherbrooke Apex, involved looking after the needy and infirm, in conjunction with the then-Sherbooke Council. He was an enthusiastic Scout Master for the Ferny Creek troop. Robyn played netball, became a referee, was the local Avon representative, and became a Sunday School teacher at the local Uniting Church. Robyn and Jack had three children, and it was during the birth (and death) of their fourth, a girl, that Robyn died in Jack’s arms. It was a case of Eclampsia, the onset of seizures (convulsions) . Preeclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy in which there is high blood pressure and either large amounts of protein in the urine or other organ dysfunction. The tragedy triggered a legal battle, fought by the doctor, the hospital and medical authorities. The Australian Medical Association was a formidable opponent. Jack assembled legal argument, and recruited expert witnesses. The case took four years before settlement by mediation. Jack was working at John Withers and Son, who held theW.T. Agencies business for the ‘Wotan’brand of products. He enjoyed working with engineers. He also worked with Carter and Taverner printing firm. Suddenly becoming a widower, and faced with the responsibility of raising three children, he acknowledges the help that was provided. He encouraged his children in many activities, including horse riding. He says he and his children remain close, and he has seven-
grandchildren ranging in age from 2-20. Jack made a career change, and worked in the civil engineering field at Trinity Grammar School, Kew. (He later returned to the publishing industry as a consultant, particularly in pre-press and management. He worked on commercial magazines for Pacific Magazines, and also at The Melbourne Trading Post, before its sale to Sensis.) Jack says he was hardened by the four-year litigation, and became an advocate for others who had been similarly affected by the AMA’s hard-line stance of defending any and every compensation claim. “I recognised the advocacy of a professor of medicine at Monash, and the people of the Ferny Creek Uniting Church with equal support during those four years,” he says. He became involved with helping people who had bad experiences with the Courts, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, the Transport Accident Commission and Workcover. Jack says he observed people being badly treated, and represented badly, and that gave him a better understanding of the inadequacies of authorities such as VCAT. Some people said: “I can’t get anyone to help me.” He helped one woman who took legal action after losing a foetus in a car accident. He addressed a public meeting at the Melbourne Town Hall, and he says that many of the changes proposed were adopted. Jack accepted no money, working ‘pro bono’. He had his own problems with these authorities after two serious accidents in 1998 and 2003. “Don’t just accept any others,” he advises. He fought officialdom, citing the example of an authority that wanted to charge $7.50 per page3 for a 1500page document. Another example was fighting to save three 2’6” gauge locomotives (engines) that were at the West Melbourne Gas Works. Jack reflects on the fighting history of his family. He traces ancestors as Scots ‘Worthies’, and back to the time of the Reformation. The fighting spirit continues. His father enlisted to serve in the 1914-18 war effort, and was a ‘crack shot’. He trained at Broadmeadows before service in Egypt. His uncle, Jim, spent 15 years in the militia. He returned ‘shellshocked’, with little ‘life’ after active service. ● Continued On Next Page
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Local People ● From previous page Jack re-married, and became step-father to a teenage girl. The marriage did not work out. Jack had built a second home at Sassafras, to accommodate the extended family. He says the properties are no longer in the family. “I was put on remand in 2011 and charged with an attempt to kill my then-son-in-law,” Jack says. “I was released some nine months lateer in 2012 when that charge was withdrawn by the prosecution on the basis of false evidence. “Yes, on fourth of July, 2012 Independence Day in the USA. Hoorah.” Jack says he is not bitter about his time in remand. He does not resent the loss of liberty. He had become hardened from his earlier battles, and he says his time in Remand Centre was used in a positive way to help others. He assisted prisoners with their cases, and he was particularly involved with supporting Aboriginal prisoners. “I met some wonderful people in strange circumstances.” He spent considerable time in the remand centre library, using the computer, researching issues and the law. Jack says he felt no fear, no fright. He had been living a lonely life, and this was company. He alleges that he was assaulted whilst on remand, and he says he was shackled, including the use of leg irons, when he visited Court or the hospital. He is pursuing personal injury claims. Jack had been involved in conflict with the Yarra Rages Council from 2009 over a planning matter. This saw him at odds with thenShire CEO Glenn Patterson. After being freed in 2012, Jack Russell at first moved to live in a tent at Kinglake. For a while he lived at Flowerdale. He had lived with friend ‘Millie’ at Glenburn. She died at age 93. Then came the move to Yea, with
● Jack Russell, 80, pictured in Yea this week. Photos: Ash Long. help from the Salvation Army. A number of Court cases are in progress, including a Yea assault allegation which he denies. This led to him being banned by then-Murrindindi Shire Council Chief Executive MargaretAbbey
● Jack Russell: a familiar sight around Yea streets.
from more than 40 municipal facilities. Jack says the bans led to him being rubbished by members of a number of local community organisations. Bans have recently been lifted by Ms Abbey’s successor, Craig Lloyd. This means that Jack Russell is again able to attend Council meetings, and he is submitting public interest questions at most meetings. These days, Jack continues a deep interest in the affairs of Murrindindi Shire Council. He has a number of Court cases in progress, so they cannot be argued in this newspaper interview. He has cast his eye wider in the north-east, and is increasing his interest in the affairs of the Mansfield Shire Council. He has renewed his interest in radio that was ignited by his uncle, Jim, all those years ago. He has re-commenced his interest in ham radio. Jack is still interested in firearms, and has a fascination with gold mining machinery and mining antiques. These days, he has given considerable thought to his father who suffered a stroke when Jack was 16. His father spent 14 years in Caulfield Repatriation Hospital, before dying at age 80 (the age that Jack Russell is now). Jack still suffres from serious symptoms from his 1998 and 2003 car accidents, as well as injuries to his shoulder from his time at the Remand Centre. Jack says he enjoys helping people: “Tell me youir trouble and I will do my best to help. Multiply that 100 times and you have my story. “I treat all people as they treat me. Liars stand no chance of respect.” Jack Russell says he has few regrets: “I’d do it all again.” - By Ash Long
● Jack Russell walks away from a case at the Seymour Magistrates’ Court. 2017.
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‘As good a Christian as had ever lived’ ■ One of the ministers of the early day of St Luke’s Church of England, the Rev. Mr Stackhouse, was described as “as good a Christian as had ever lived” at the Jubilee Celebrations held in January 1907. A preview of the event was published in the Yea local newspaper: “It was in the month of January, 1857, that a wooden church and dwelling house was erected in Yea which did duty also as a day school, and what was known as the "Muddy Creek Mission" was started, with Mr Ashe as the first comissioner in residence. “The celebrations of the Church of England are in keeping with this event, it being the Jubilee, or the commemoration of the 50 years of church work in this district. “In those days of pioneer work it was the regular custom of the aborigi nals of the district to congregate for worship in this building, and among these were the distinguished Dr King Billy and his comrades, old and young McCrea. “Prior to this, missionary work was conducted near the old Providence bridge, a bullock-wagon being used as a pulpit; and Mrs Grace McLeish's kitchen was also used as a place in which to conduct divine service. “St Luke's Church was built in the year 1868, and was added to after wards at a cost of over £1000.” ★ “The Jubilee celebrations in connection with St Luke’ s Church of England, Yea, commenced on Sunday last, by a united service at 3 p.m. in the Shire Hall,” said The Yea Chronicle on January 31, 1907. “The preparations were complete, and the congregation was a very large one, every available seat in the hall being filled. “All denominations were represented, and many drove in from the outlying district-in spite of the heatto attend the service, which was arranged so that everyone could intelligently follow it. “Hymn shccts setting out the order for service were given out in the hall, and a band of six performers (under Mr Stainsby) and an organist (Miss Daley) gave valuable assistance. “A sacred selection was admirably played by the band during the offertory, and the Holy City was sung with feeling by Mr W. Redpath. “The proceedings commenced with a hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers. “Then came the Apostle's Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and Prayers. Another hymn, O Lord. how joyful 'tis to see, was followed by prayers and another hymn, Jesu, Lover of My Soul. Here followed a reading from scripture, an address by the Rev. C. H, Barnes, of Carlton, who was at one time in charge of the parish. “The Rev. Mr Barnes said that he was going to give a sermon without a text, though not a sermon without a subject. “Especially did he wish to speak to those whose seats in the Shire Hall were full, but whose seats in church were very often not full. “He felt that on this occasion one might very profitably dwell upon such a subject as church-going. The occasion recalled to mind many very happy memories of the past. “The Church was not 50 years old so far as the building was con-
● The Rev. Andrew Toomath, minister at St Luke’s, Yea cerned. But they were commemo“Be that as it may, he wished his rating the 50th year of the founda- hearers to consider the question of tion of religious services in this dis- why should men go to church. First trict. of all a man ought to consider his On yonder hill there is a court- personal responsibilities. house, where the Rev. Andrew “Some men argue that after Toomath once preached the gospel. labouring six days they are entitled “It was only on Friday night last to take a rest on Sunday. that he spoke to Mr Toomath, when “However, sometimes it hapthe latter recalled with great delight pened that a man would tramp five the happy days when he was the first miles to find the spot where the fish incumbent Yea and Alexandra. were biting. “By the way, Bishop Perry used “He had also seen people going to say, "I next came to a place with away picknicking loaded with basthe very encouraging name of Yea." kets, dragging children along and “Our roads to-day are very dif- coming home with their children cryferent to what they were in Mr ing and thoroughly tired out. Toomath's time. “There were people who referred “They afford the means of transit to the lives of others as a pattern. Frefor all sorts of traflic. quently men were known to say, "Oh, “Mr Stackhouse used to say, "If Mr So and So don't go tochurch; you have a buggy, lock it up; if you whyshould I go?" have a horse, lock it up you'll have “Men might say "It is lawful for no use for it for nine months of the me to police magistrate the next day. year." Men do what I like with my own “ Mr Toomath told him (Mr time.” Barnes) that in those days there was “As sure as he stood there that not a bridge between Yea and day, there is no place in the KingAlexandra and many had carried dom of God for a man who lives only their lives in their hands in driving for himself. through this district. “Now there were some success“Mr Toomath also told him the ful business men in this town living following story of an incident which good lives. happened to him - and he world like “Theirs was the influence that everyone to remember it. counted. The influence of such lives “Mr Ker, of Killingworth, when was of more value to the ministry of he found that Mr Toomath's horse God than all the sermons and adwanted a rest, said to him, "I've got a dresses in the world. horse to lend you. but 1 want some“Some might say that he was one else to try it before you use it." pleading for something formal, some“It was tried and found "not want- thing conventional. But, never theless, ing." For some reason or other, it the old fashioned religion was good suddenly turned bad tempered.and enough for his father and ours, and it when Mr Toomath attempted to get ought to be good enough for us. on, the horse threw him, breaking “But suppose we should leave the three of his ribs. purely personal side, and shut our“That was, however, the only selves up and say, "Can't we listen to accident that happened to him. the voice of God in nature." “Since then Mr Hutchinson had “For his own part he believed that labouredhere, followed by the Rev. a reverend study of God in nature Mr Stackhouse, who was as good a was a grand thing. Christian as had ever lived. “Here he might say, we swere “It was 11 years since he died. fortunate enough not to have to look He (Mr Barnes) came to this parish at pillars of bricks and mortar the 19 years ago and left it 12 years later. whole time. “There were now on every hand “We had the opportunity of listensigns of increased prosperity; there ing to the birds, and viewing the moun were nicely formed roads, better tains and the streams and other obhousing, and he wished to plead that jects of God's handiwork. day for a better reverence than there “Nothing delighted him more than appeared to one to exist for the House to get away among the scenery, hut it of God. did not satisfy him. “Of course it had been held that “If he were in trouble, in sorrow, going to church was out of fashion. or in doubt, where should he get com-
fort'; The listening to the word of God was a good thing for man's moral and spiritual nature. “He wished all to get back to the habit of church going; that men would think of their responsibility and their influence ; that they would go to God and speak to him, and that they would allow their lives to be bound up in His, and accordingly He would reward them with every comfort; and be hoped that that day would be a starting point for a deeper reverence in the House of Cod. “The proceedings were brought to a close with a hymn, Abide with Me, and the Benediction. “There was a very large congrega.tion at St Luke's in the evening. The seating accomodation being somewhat overtaxed, a number of people had to remain outside. “The service was hearty and well rendered, the singing of the choir being of the jubilant strain. “For all the Saints was the first hymn, sung with all the majesty and joyousness such a beautiful setting of the hymn demanded. Miss Daley presided at the organ. The preacher, as at the former service, was the Rev. C. H. Barnes, who delivered a plain, practical, sound, and common sense a sermon which appealed to all. “Mrs Snodgrass sang the offertory solo, As a result of the appeal made at the morning service by the Rev. W. White, the following "Jubilee Gifts" will be added to the Church:- Oak Hymn Board, E. S. Purcell, Esq. ; Solid Leather Prayer Book, C. de B. Ker, Esq. ;Alms Dish, Major Purcell ; Altar Service Book, Madge Rule; Credence Table, D. Tyrer, Esq.; Holy Bible, W. H.and C. T. Marshall, Esq's. ; Pulpit Stair Rods. Mrs D. Tyrer. “Mr Himsworth has also consented to paint the interior of Church, and several other gifts are expected before the Jubilee Celebrations are over.” ★ On October 7, 1907, The Yea Chronicle, under the proprietorship of Major Frederick Purcell, published a letter to the editor about Sunday School accommodation. A correspondent calling themselves ‘Broad Church’ wrotte: “I quite agree with what "Observer " said in your last issue as to the "inadequate provision made by either of the Protestant Churches in the matter of properly equipped Sunday schools," and as "Observer" suggests straight out giving as a means of raising the necessary funds, is it not about time the Anglican section of the community roused and be stirred themselves and acted on the suggestion, instead of fooling away time depending upon raising funds for such accommodation by bazaars and other like fetes which, as a rule, seldom or ever produce the result anticipated by the promoters. “This mode of raising money is doubtless a good auxiliary in connection with Church work, but when it comes to providing for building you want some solid straight out giving for a start. “The writer has learnt with satisfaction that a splendid example of what straight out giving means has been recently shown in connection with the Roman Catholic Church here, when a few Sundays ago the congregation contributed over £600 as a start towards the erection of a
convent in Yea. When an appeal from their clergyman produced such a hand.some result as this from our brethren of the Roman Catholic persuasion, surely it is not too much for members of the Church of England to follow suit by subscribing the sum required for the crection of this long felt nursery of the Church in Yea (a Sunday school or Parish-hall) wherein Christian teachers can assemble and impart religions instruction to our children, not only to the mutual comfort of both, but also to the infinite comfort of the worshippers of St. Luke's; and hope some zealous member or members of the Church will take the matter up, make a canvass of the parochial district at once, and endeavour to rouse the dor mant generosity of its members for the attainment of this laudable object. “As a proof of honesty of sentiment the writer encloses £25 - which the editor is authorised to hand over to the Vestry of St. Luke's, conditional that a sum of £100 at least is collected by January 1, 1908. towards the erection of a Sunday school or Parish-hall in Yea. "Faith, if it had not works, is dead being alone."- James 2, 17. The Editor added the note: “We have received the £25 referred to by our correspondent.” ★ The next big event on the St Luke’s calendar was the induction of the Rev. T. Inniswood in July 1909. “The induction of the Rev. T. Tinniswood attracted a large congregation at St. Luke’s, Yea, on Sunday last, the Right Rev Dr Armstrong, Bishop of Wangaratta, performing the ceremony. The service was.most impressive. “His Lordship, the Bishop, who is an eloquent preacher, delivered an admirable discourse from the text, 'For we are labourers together with God."-9 v 3 ch first Epistle to the Corinthians: “These words, he said, seemed to imply a sort of partnership between God and his fellow workers. But God was always working. “Some people thought that when He made the world He intendled it to do its own work. “That was a mistake. God wished us to help one another; and we would find that in developing ourselves we were influencing other people. “Some people were disposed to ridicule us for trying to act like Christians, but if they found we were honest in our intentions they would begin to respect us; from respect they would begin to imitate us, and that was how God's work was done. “He wished us to be His agents fulfilling His purpose and doing His blessed will. “We should not only work for God but with God. “Very often we do His work in the wrong way. If we do it our way we must simply court failure. We could make no more insidious mistake than think we can make God's work our work. “Even St Paul failed and faultered in this respect. God's work was of a twofold character. We must first of all realise what sin is; it was the essence of opposition to His holy will. “It was therefore necessary to free ourselves from evil before the building up process can be commenced. ' Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart,” the newspaper recorded.
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Queenstown, Strathewen fires in 1939 ■ ‘Black Friday’ fires hit Victoria on Friday, January 13, 1939. Some 71 people died in what were considered as the most serious bushfires in the world. More than 1000 homes were burned, and the townships of Narbethong, Noojee and Woods Point were destroyed. Townships of Warrandyte and Yarra Glen were badly damaged. Intense fires burned on the urban fringe of Melbourne in the Yarra Ranges east of Melbourne, affecting towns including Toolangi, Warburton and Thomson Valley. In the days beforehand, fires hit the Queenstown (St Andrews) and Strathewen, and were reported upon by The Advertiser: Residents of Arthur's Creek, Strathewen and Queenstowndistricts spent an anxious time on Tuesday when a fire which had been burning in the Kinglake Ranges, near Mt. Sugarloaf since Friday, swept down before the strong north wind and did widespread damage to a number of properties. The strenuous efforts of the fire fighters saved many houses but some dwellings, thousands of acres of grass and an enormous amount of fencing was destroyed. Fortunately there was no loss of life. Travelling rapidly before the scorching north wind, the fire swept down from the ranges in the morning and it soon covered a large area and the most strenuous efforts failed to check its advance. The utmost the fire fighters could do was to concentrate on saving buildings and, as far as possible, to keep the flames from the fruit trees. On the western side, Messrs. L. Apted, A. Healey and E. A. Steer organised bands of willing workers who did a wonderful job in protecting vital points. With Messrs. Apted and Healey were Messrs.A. J. and G. McKimmie, J. Brown, A. Powell and S. Cleveland, while Mr. Hilary Hewitt and other helpers fought the fire on the adjoining front. At other points Messrs. Hill, Roberts, Macklin, Mann, Horne, and Rankine together with many helpers, worked hard to clear the threatened area of stock and to check the fire at danger ous points. The women of the district also played their part in providing the fire fighters with food and drink. For a considerable time it was fear ed that a bungalow on the north end of Mr. Hewitt's property would be destroyed. The fire burnt fiercely all around the building, but although the grass was burnt almost to the walls, the house was saved. Late in the afternoon the wind changed to the west and the fire fighters were enabled to take a brief respite before going around with buckets and sprays putting out burning fencing posts, etc. It was during this period that one of those incidents occurred that cause tempers frayed by hours of strenuous work in the scorching heat to boil over. A well-dressed young man in a smart sedan car with two young women had stopped at the edge of the fire and was taking a picture with a camera. "Are you from one of the papers?" asked Mr. Cleveland. "Oh, no! We just came up to see the fun!" was the reply. This just about finished Mr. Cleve-
Fires menace Kinglake, Whittlesea
● The Black Spur road between Healesville and Narbethong after Black Friday 1939. Photo: Department of Environment and Primary Industries. land, who "told off" the man in such been sent there as a possible danger traffic from a position outside the post office. Upon the posmistress terms that he hurriedly got in his car spot. These, with local residents, (Mrs. Ford) receiving a telephone and drove away. message from Queenstown Smith To be told that it was "fun" to see formed a strong contingent. It was realised that the path of the Gully or Strathewen stating that assuch terrible damage to property and even danger to lives would make fire coulcd threaten the home of Mr. sistance was wanted. Mr. Morgan and Mrs. A. Smith, an elderly couple would detail the requisite number of even the mildest man "see red." Damage was done on the follow- who lived in a mud brick house op- men. giving them instruction where o go and how to get there. ing properties - Mr. L. Apted lost posite Peake’s store. Mrs. Ford was continuously grass and fencing and some fruit Mr; Smith, who is aged 90 years, trees near the creek were destroyed; and Mrs. Smith were warned of their standing at the telephone from 2p.m. out of 120 acres of grass Mr. A. danger and while they were being to 11.20p.m. answering calls for asHealey has only about 15 acres left, urged to take what ever valuables sistance, which she passed on to Mr while his back fence was burnt. they could and leave, the fire' ap- Morgan, or reassuring inquirers of the district that their friends or relaMessrs. R. Mann, H. Hewitt, C. peared on the crest of the hill. Hill, Roberts and Macklin all lost This was about 5.30 p.m. It swept tives living in the district were all grass and fencing. down at lightning speed and the right. Others who spent many long hours Mr. Rushell lost a large quantity firefighters i'arely had time to caerry of cut wood at Strathewen, Mr. C. Mr Smith and help Mrs. Smith at the switchboards were Mrs. Norris Brain lost a quantity of grass, while across to the post office before the of the Strathewen post office whose feet became blistered; Mr.. A. Tarber a week-end weatherboard house of house was enveloped in flames. 5 rooms near Mr. Hewitt's at It was a tribute to the inud brick of the Panton Hill post office; Mrs. Strathewen was burnt to the ground. method of construction that the fire and Miss Fawcett, of St. Andrews; No no knows the name of the owner, burnt fiercely around and over the and Mr. and Miss Peake, of Smith who visited it only on occasional house without any portion of it being Gully. The latter two offices were cut week-ends. burnt. Mr. Sparks' home was in danger The wind changed about 6 p.m. off from Melbourne' nbut 10.30p.m. on Wednesday but it was saved by and this enabled the fire to he stopped on Tuesday when a large tree fell the fire fighters; Mr. J. Pickering sen a few hundred yards along the road. across the road at Smith Gully bringalso collapsed while fighting the fire. It was here that a large tree that ing down the telephone line. They all did splendid work and' Tuesday was a time of anxiety had been blazing fell across the road. for residents of Queenstown. The Residents immediately cut while it is impossible to record all flames came over the hills front through with axes so that traffic that they did, mention must be made Strathewen during the afternoon. should not be blocked, but repairs of the splen.did services rendered by Encouraged by the fierce arid were made to the telephone line until Mr; H. Young, the north riding -foreman; who was continuottsly oin the scorching north wind they advanced Wednesday afternoon. with amazing rapidity. The wireless call sent out for vol- job, from Tuesday morhing until Fortunately the path of the fire unteers from Melbourne to fight the Wednesday night. and who had nothwas about half a mile west of the bush tires met with a wonderful re- ing to eat .from midday. on Tuesday until Wednesday evening. township where the flames crossed sponse. At one stiage Mr. Young colthe Hurstbridge road on a front of They came in cars, trucks and about one and a quarter miles and char-a-bancs and early in the lapsed as the result of his exertions swept up the hills toward Smith's evening some hundreds were con- but on recovering he Insisted on carGully. gregated at Hurstbridge awaiting in- rying on. Mr. Ray Rogers also performed By strenuous efforts the firefight- structions where to proceed. ers saved one of the houses in the Although about 60 police were splendid work in the Queenstown path of the fire but a small sent up from Melbourne to assist in area and showed great organising weauherboard cottage in a bend in fighting the fires, no one apparently ability in directing groups of firefightthe main road caught alight ond; was thought to station anyone in authority ers. The Forests Commission sent out quickly consumed. in Hurstbridge to marshal men and 30 men to the district, and they did Mr. A. Williams lost his orchard to direct them where to go. and about a miloof fencing while Mr. At one period cars and trucks very good work, 12 of them remainW. Jamieson lost a quantity of fenc- were parked two deep in Amos street ing out all night being provided with ing. while the occupants awaited instruc- food etc by Mrs. H. Young. First Const. A. H. Beaton, of As the fire swept up towards tions, not knowing where to go. Smiths Gully, Mr. S.H.. Peake, of Seeing the confusion, Mr. R. C. Hurstbridge, also had a strenuous the store and post office was in- Morgan, the officer in charge of the time in directing operations and he formed and he gave the alarm. Hurstbridge railway station, took was ably supported by First Const. Fortunately, his son Const. F. over the duty of trying to evolve or- H.A. Bradbury, of Diamond Creek. The sustenance men employed Peake, was home for the day while a der out of chaos. car load of six other constables.had For several hours he directed the by the Eltham Shire Council did
■ As The Advertiser went to press on Friday, January 13, 1939, news came through of fresh fires. “This afternoon the fire menaced Eltham. Mrs. Rutter's house was completely destroyed and the flames were sweeping on towards Mrs. Morrison's. “There were very few to fight the fire as all the available men were said to have gone to assist the firefighters at Hurstbridge. “As The Advertiser was going to press news came through that fires were raging with renewed force at Kinglake and behind Whittlesea. “Prof. Laver's house was threatened and another fire was approaching Flatman's. “A bush fire swept over Sutherland's mill on Wednesday, burning down all the huts on the property. “The fire also menaced Flatman's mill. “Fires were also raging in the ranges behind Whittlesea” excellent work in preventing renewed outbreaks on Wednesday. A surprising number of small outbreaks occurred which the sustenance men stopped before they gathered enough strength to get away from the beaters. The men hurried from point to point as needed and quenched many outbreaks. With the change of wind to the south on Wednesday, the fire was much easier to control. The change forced it back towards the ranges and in the afternoon it was seen that the slopes of' Mt. Sugarloaf were almost completely covered with fires, none of them very large, but possessing possibilties of danger should the wind increase in strength. The slopes of this mountain are densely wooded, with thick and almost unpenetrable undergrowth beneath the tall trees. It is almost impossible to fight a fire in this area but fortunately those are no farms until the plateau on the top is reached, but before the fire could reach these, it has to traverse an area where the flames might be checked by expert firefighters. With a fire covering such alarge area and with incidents deserving of, record occurring at the same time at widely separated places, it is impossible to record all that happened but this .recital relates as much as he representative of The Advertiser was able to gather conccrning the conflagration. As the fire aproached Queenstown, Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett at the post-office, packed all the books and documents, and valuables in their car ready for instant flight, should the flames reach the post office. A bush fire broke out in Christmas Hills on Tutesday afternoon. At one time it was feared that it would get out of hand; btit; it was evenutally, got under control. The fire burnt fencing and grass.on Mr. Theo. Mann's property.
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Homes destroyed on Black Friday ■ The Advertiser weekly newspaper told of the destruction of the Black Friday fires of January 1939; Bush fires have taken a tragic toll in the past fortnight. Many parts of the district served by The Advertiser have been devastated, and the loss has not been confined to property, two people having been burned to death, one at Strathewen, and one at Warrandyte. Mr. F. Topping, whose dead body was found in the ruins of his house at Warrandyte, was for many years the Warrandyte correspondent of The Advertiser, and was an active worker in all public movements for the good of that town. He was also an authority on cricket, and a great cricket enthusiast. Mr. A. D. Pentreath, aged 53 years, a retired journalist, was a native of Bendigo, where he was a reporter on the Bendigo Advertiser. Earlier he went to Sydney, where he was known as a briliant writer and news-getter. He went from there to London as representative of the United Cable Service, later returning as first pictorial editor of the Sun-Pictorial. Some time ago, Mr. Pentreath suffered a nervous break-down, and came to Strathewen for a long rest. He stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Murdie, occupying a three-roomed hut near their dwelling. On Friday, when the fires threatened the home, Mr. Murdie ask ed Mr. Pentreath to remain in the bed of the creek, where he would be safe, and to wet bags for the fireflghters. As the fire approached, Mr. Pentreath was seen to walk towards the hut. Mr. Fred Pearce, one of the State Electricity Commission's men, who was trying to save the house, saw him try to enter the hut, which the flames had almost reached. He caught Pentreath by the arm, and told him to get back to the creek. Pentreath refused; saying he was not going to fight any fires. Pearce again tried to drag him out. whereupon Pentreath turned and struck Pearce in the face, temporarily stunning him. Then he went inside the hut, which a moment later was enveloped in flames. After the fire had died down, First Constable Brough and First Constable Grant of Whittlesea searched the ruins and found Pentreath's remains. He had burned almost to ashes. Among these was found a chain bearing a lucky penny and an Australian Jour nalists' Association badge bearing the inscription "N.S.W. district A.J.A. A. D. Pentreath, First secretary, 30/6/1911. The remains w'ere taken to the morgue. The fires raged from Tuesday to Saturday morning and occurred in the Eltham, Warrandyte, Yarra Glen, Strathewen, Queenstown, Kinglake and Whittlesea districts. At Etham, the fire, which began on Friday morning in the vicinity of Mr. Hurst' s poultry farm, consumed some fowl pens and killed many birds. Speeding before a strong and searing north wind, it passed on to Mr. Rutter's house, which, despite desperate efforts was burned to the ground. It then crossed the valley, and threatened the home of Mrs.
About 50 per cent of the volunteers from the city were useful, but others were just the opposite. While Mr. Mann was endeavouring to save some of his fenc ing by beating out the smouldering posts, a truck Ioad of city volunteers came alone with knalpsack extinguishers. They refused to assist him, and told hint to "Let 'em burn." At Strathewen a group of volunteers from Northcote arrived at the Strathewen post office with the remains of two nine-gallon kegs of beer. Some of the men took the truck belonging to the mail contractor (Mr. Norris) and drove it down the road where it crashed into another truck, severely damaging both vehicles. Later, one of the men who took part in the exploit stopped a car going to wards Melbourne, and asked for a lift to the city. He told the occupants with great pride what fun they had ad, and how they had taken the truck and was not sparing in detail. The two in the car listened politely, and even sympathetically. It was not until the car stopped at the ● The Advertiser front-page of January 20, 1939, told of the Black Friday fires. Northcote police station that the pasMorrison. When the fire began, the volunteers, working under Capt. W. Cross Society. The fire leapt the river senger realised that he had "given fire-bell was rung, and all the fire- Allan, Lieut. A. Parsons and First at three points between Mr. Rutter's the show away" to First Constables men of Eltham, together with most Constable O'Donnell did splendid and Mrs. Morrison's where it con- Brough and Grant, who were in plain tinued to advance rapidly. of the male residents turned out to work. clothes! It is said to have joined another fight the flames. They were on duty continuously He was condructed inside, and It was while the firemen were at from Friday to Sunday, and on Fri- fire, and the two swept across to the as a result all the names of those Mr. Hurst's property (and not at day afternoon were reinforced by town of Warrandyte, the story of the who took part in the episode were destruction of which has been fully revealed. Further action is likely to Hurstbridge, as stated last week in volunteers from the city. a paragraph received just as the paThere were three casualties. Mr. reported in the daily press. The fires which began in the follow. per was going to press) that the fire W. Deards cut his foot; Mr. Berry, Splendid work was done by Mr. attacked Mr. Rutter's house. the sustenance officer, tripped in Strathewen district on Tuesday, The fire-fighters reached some burning ashes at Morrison's raged with renewed vigor on Friday, Hilary Hewitt. He was said to have Morrison's before it was consumed, and severely burned both hands; and a number of properties were de- done the work of three men, and never ceased day or night. and made desperate efforts to save while on Sunday, Mr. G. Carver stroyed. Mr. Murdie's case is particularly the property. His efforts stood out even among twisted his ankle while descending a They fought the fire there for three step hill to fight a renewed outbreak unfortunate. He had worked hard for those of the other firefighters, all of many years to develop an orchard, whom were worthy of the highest hours, and had checked it several near Beauty Point. times before the house was deResidents of Eltham freely made which this year had borne better than praise. stroyed. Only lack of water pre- available their cars, and trucks for ever before. Had Christmas Hills been more Only a week ago he had arranged closely settled, the damage done vented the house from being saved. the carriage of fire-fighters to the to sell 2,000 cases of apples to a cool Mrs. Morrison was not at home, danger points. but her uncle, Mr. Neville Wanliss, Although Kooringarama guest- store, and was looking forward this would have been enormous, for the with his wife, together with Mrs. house was not in danger from the year to reaping the reward of years fire swept through the district on a wide front, and was exceptionally Phillips, two boys and a girl, were fires, a number of the guests became of hard work. The fire swept through his prop- fierce. spending a holiday there. nervous, and left for Melbourne. They saw the fire approaching, It continued on to Yarra Glen Too much praise cannot be given erty, completely destroying his orand took refuge in the river, where to the ladies of Eltham for the man- chard, fencing, outbuildings, and where over 30 houses and farms they remained for several hours. ner in which they rallied to give as- grass, and leaving only his house. were burnt. He is now faced with the probAbout 4 p.m. they emerged and sistance. The homes of Messrs Forder, were seen by Mr. Evans, who When volunteers began to arrive lem of starting again, and as it takes Melbourne, Bishop, 'Dwite, P. J. brought them in his car to "Kooring- early in the afternoon, and women years for a new orchard to reach the arama," Eltham, where they re- and children from the Research and productive stage, his case is one of Kelly, Hollands, and Miss Burleigh, were destroyed, and the post office ceived dry clothes and first aid was Warrandyte districts were brought great hardship. Mr. A. Rankine is in an even and-home of Mr. H. Williams, and given to Mrs. Wanliss, whose foot into the town for safety, Mesdames was badly burned. E.M. Andrew, Ford. Pyke, Parsons, worse plight, for he has not only lost the home of Mr. C. Young were She is now in a private hospital. Browne and Crick formed a nucleus his orchard, but his house also is saved only by tremendous efforts. After desperate efforts the fire of workers, which soon increased by gone. Mr. and Mrs. Williams and their Others who have suffered seri- daughters all assisted in preser-ving fighters saved the houses of Mr. W. many more, who provided meals for Linacre and the Laughing Water the 150 volunteers who made the fire ous losses in Strathewen are Messrs their home, which caught alight seven Poultry farm owned by Mr. Petre, station their headquarters, and also Sid. and W. Horne and Mr. or eight times, but each time they the Swedish Consul, but the beauti- for the five families who had taken Hopkinson. Mr. S. Home, whose were ready with water to put it out. home was burned, was severely ful home of Mr. A. S. Austin, nearer refuge in Eltham. It must have been a terrible orWarrandyte, was burned, also the The latter were fed at the fire sta- burned while fighting the fire, and is deal in the heat, for the fire consumed home of Mr. Smith, in Mt. Pleasant tion, and were provided with sleep- now in the Melbourne Hospital. Mr. road. ing accommodation at the Eltham W. Horne is also ill as the result of trees and shrubs within two feet of the building. his efforts. It is unfortunate that the Eltham Hall. Mr. Young lost his orchard, and Strathewen residents all worked Fire Brigade did not have enough They were returned to their homes hose to reach the place where the on Saturday, with a hamper of food day and night to check the flames, the garden round the house was and they were also assisted by vol- ablaze. fire started, for they might have put for each. out the blaze before it did any further The Eltham ladies were cutting unteers from the city and other parts The tennis court adjoining the post damage. sandwiches, preparing tea etc., from of the district. office was burnt, while the only thing They pay a particular tribute to standing in the Soldiers' Memorial The nearest fire plug was near Mr. early on Friday afternoon until 2.30 P. Leason's property, and from this a.m. on Saturday morning, and were the magnificent work done by First Park is the stone monument. the firemen ran out 1200 feet of back at the station by 6 a.m. on Sat- Constable Beaton, Mr. H. Young, The wooden bridge near the methe North Riding foreman, and to hose - all they had - but it was still urday morial was burnt, and collapsed, and sustenance workers from Panton 300 feet short. Ninety men were supplied with a short dettour is necessary. Nevertheless, the fire fighters, food donated by local people, but later Hill, Hurstbidge, and Queenstown ● Continued on next page both members of the brigade and on supplies were sent out by the Red under Mr. Young and Mr. M. O'Dea.
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Kinglake suffers in 1939 fires ■ “A huge fire started behind "Eothen", the home of Professor Laver, swept onwards toMr Young’s place, which is occupied by Mr. and Mrs.' Smith, and thence across to the "Oaks Farm" taking 'the 'stables and outbuildings, and thence to Palm Cottage owned by Mr. F. Thomson, where stables, outbuilings and potatoes went up in smoke.” So started The Advertiser’s report, on January 20, 1939, of the week’s fires at Kinglake. The report continued: From there the fire, leapt across in one big sheet of flame and burnt Mr. S. Rau's home, fowls. outbuildings, etc. Ron Skelton's place was the next to go. Mr. Skelton narrowly escaped with his life; he lay in the potato paddock with a wet bag over his head. His horse stood beside him; she appeared to be quite unconcerned With renewed pace, the wall of flame swept on to Mr. Dyball's home. Mrs. Dyball and the children had a terrifying experience - Mr. Dyball being awaywhen it started. The fowls were let out and were burnt to death. Jackie Dyball fought to save sheds till his father arrived, but too late, haystacks, sheds, etc. went. Mr. Bob Oldfield's house kept catching fire and was partly burnt. Mrs. Brydon's fowls were all burnt. Mr. Sutherland, saw miller; has had considerable losses. Whilst helping to save Dr. McKenzie's home, a. spark ignited Mr O'Rourke's home and burned it down. Mr. C. O'Rourke and Mr. Fred Parkes lost all their clothes; Mr Ron Thom lost his wood bench aind saw,,and Mr. Leo. Lawrey his fences. On Friday night practically the whole of the mountain slopes from St. Andrews North to the Kinglake Hotel were in flames. The .beautiful Jehosophat Valley was destroyed. Local residents were reinforced by volunteers from the city, strenunously fought the fire, and their efforts saved "Eothen" and "The Oaks," Professor Laver's properties, and also Professor: Greenwood's bungalow. The fire reached, these houses on several occasions, but each time was beaten out. Mr. H. A. Davies, who is leasing a portion of "The Oaks" lost a quantity of potatoes around the edge of the paddock through b'eing scorched by the flames., Mr. Skelton's case is one for great sympathy. Not only did he lose his home and all his crop of peas and potatoes, but he was rendered unconscious by the dense smoke, and was found lyinig in a paddock by his house with a bag over his head. He was taken to hospital. He has now recovered, and is facing the task of starting again from scratch, An unpleasant two hours-was spent on the road near Professoi Greenwood's on Friday night by Mr H. A. Davies When nearing the top of the mountain, he found that a blazing tree about 4 ft in diameter, had fallen across the road, complete'ly blocking In attempting to turn on the narrow road, to go hack, the back wheels fell into a deep gutter, and the car could not be moved. After spending an hour in vain. in
Fire lighters caught ■ It is stated that Mr. H. Young, the North Riding foreman, saw some young men in a car, lighting a fire among some dry pine needles on the Christmas HillsYarra Glen road after the disastrous fires on Friday. He sent word by a passing motorist to the Yarra Glen police station, and kept watch on the fire-lighters until the police arrived.
● Kinglake and surrounding areas suffered in the Black Friday fires of 1939. trying to extricate the vehicle, he council should make some grant to- only three weeks, was burnt together with the home of Mr. Parkinson. hurried to Kinglake, and obtained wards the relief fund. Several unoccupied houses were Cr. Orgill suggested that the counassistance from firefighters on duty cillors might put in £3, £4, or £5 each. also destroyed. there. The work of those who fought the Cr. Owen - That would be all The car was replaced on the road, and the log removd after about two right, but did you see that the Premier fire, and of the women of the district said yesterday that he intended to put who catered for them, is worthy of hours' work in the burning forest. The fire from the Sugarloaf came a special tax on the people to pay for the highest praise. First Constable Freischer, whose tip from Mason's Falls and threat- the fire damage? Cr. Orgill withdrew his suggestion, own efforts were highly praised by ened the Kinglake East school. Mr. Orme Rumley stayed at the and it was agreed that the council give the townspeople, aid that great assistance was given by Colonel Canschool from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. beating £25 to the relief fund. Cr. McDonald said he had been non, Capt H. O. White, M.L.A., and out small grass, fires which were started at intervals by sparks and told at Kinglake that some of the bush the men of the 58th Battalion, who fires had been caused by men out af- came to Yarra Glen rationed for 24 burning leaves. hours, but who stayed for 36 hours Residents of the Panton Hill dis- ter wombats. He gave notice that he would without a break, to assist in checktrict quickly responded to the call for ing the flames. assistance, and splendid work was move at the next meeting that The despatch riders of this unit done by Captain Roach-Pierson and no bonus for wombats would be paid were particularly useful in maintainMr. G. Whitehead, who also pro- dyring the summer months. The Shire Engineer (Mr. G. H. ing communication with the various vided cars for the conveyance of the Williams) reported that the fire at fire fronts. fighters to the various points. Rover scouts who came to assist Although far from well, Captain Strathewenhad destroyed two bridges Roach-Pierson worked strenuously and a culvert, the damage being the fighters also did wonderful work, as long as his services were needed. about £300. - It was decided to try to and were valuablie in rendering first While the fires did .not reach get a grant from the Country Roads aid. Mr. J. W. Lee Atkinson, a mediWhittlesea district, those residents Board to repair the bridges. cal student, and Mr. Geo. Kinnear, ★ who volunteered to give assistance Sweeping on to Yarra Glen the also did splendid work. were kept busy on the . mountains They not only saved three houses between Humevale, Tommy's Hut, fire consumed all those beautifiul homes on the hill overlooking the fer- from being burnt, but Mr. Atkinson and Howitt's Lookout. subsequently sent up a truck oad of Under Messrs A. Blair (Forests tile valley of Yarra Glen. These included "Kincraig" chaff for farmers whose fodder was officer) First Constables Brough and Grant, and Messrs A. J. owned' by Mr. W. Ross, "Tanana". destroyed, and provided a number McDonald and A. Gale, of the (Mrs. French), "Banool" (Mr. of homeless families with crockery Whittlesea Bush Fire Brigade, Seymour), "Inshallah" (Mr. and cutlery. The local residents also worked breaks were burnt from Owens' mill Davies), "Blaadben,': (Dr. Pig-don). AIthough it is cleared and at the uniringly, ind although, where so up the new iroad to Tommy's .Hut. Mr. Brough spoke in high terms foot of the hilll, the fire swept through many gave of their best. It is difficult to single out any of the splendid work done by the the grass and burned numerous farm single person, many ributes were volunteer fire fighters sent up by the houses. Another fire came down the paid to Mr. Gordon Hubbard, who Forests Commission, who worked ranges through Dixon's Creek and is said to have saved many lives. right through to Sunday night. At great personal risk to himself, Mr. Everard M.L.A. spent Sun- Steel's Creek, carrying terror and dehe drove out time after time into the day and Monday in visiting the dev- struction in its path. The residents, reinforced by vol- danger area, bringing women and astated districts. He expressed the deepest sym- unteers from the city: and from other children to safety. ★ pathy wvith the sufferers and ar- district's, fought strenuousily, and Fori the relief of sufferers from ranged for many who had serious managed.to save many places, but the bush fires, local efforts have losses to receive relief, not only in the losses were extremely heavy. The following homes, in addition been begun in several centres in adfood and clothintg -, but in chaff and t hose already mentioned, were des- dition to the provision of subscripfeed for stock. He also urged local centres to troyed in the Yarra Glen district - Mr: tion lists, form relief committees, who could Harvey, Mrs. Clarke (occupied by ' Many entertainments will be be of great assistance to , local suf- Mrs. Scott and family), and Mr. Gil- held. A sulbscription list has been ferers, and also to the State Relief bert Ball, all at Yarra Glen: Messrs opened at Whittlesea, and is availCommittee and those administer- Norman Barry, Gordon Smedley, able at the post office for those who Beck, Thomson, Gordon, Meares, wish to con tribute. ing the Lord Mayor's Fund. Up to Tuesday afternoon £4/10/ 'At .the meeting of the Whittlesea Coles and Mrs. Booth, all of Dixon's had bein subscribed. Council on Wednesday, the Presi- Creek. Adance to aid the funds will be At Steel's Creek, the beautiful dent (Cr. R.J. Smith) said that since the last meeting the bush fires had home of Captain Dickens, which had held in the Queenstown Hall on Satcaused devastation throughout only recently been built, and in which urday night (January 21). Mrs. G. Victoria, and he thought that the Captain Dickens had been living for Quinnof Queenstown Hotel and Mr.
A. Fawcett are providing the orchestra, prizes and supper, and the hall is being given free. A very, well attended meeting of Eltham, Research, Montmorency and Briar Hill residents was held in the Eltham Hall on Monday night to discuss plans for organsing a Bush Fire Relief Fund for the Shire of Eltham. It was decided to form a Bush Fire Relief Committee, CrAndrew being appointed chairman, and the Shire Secretary (Mr. Tingate) was appointed Hon. secretary. It appeared to be the general opinion that the money collected.should be handed to the Eltham Shire Council or distribution to those in the shire who were in need of assistance. Resolutions were passed approving of the use of collectlon lists, and the holding of entertainments to aid the fund. Mr. Kelle said that the Research members of the Eltham Betterment League would be willing to hold a dance on January 30 to .aid the fund.. It was also suggested that a. grand ball should be held by .the committee on Febirun'y 3 in the Eltham Hall. The question. of whether the, fund should be administered by the shire or handed into the Lord Mayor's Bushfire Fund, aroused: brisk discussion, some maintaining that urgent assistance could.be, better given if the fund were administered locally. Eventually. it was agreed that the fund, be available to give, urgent immediate aid and that the balance be given to the general fund. The ladies present formed a committee to.hold a ball on .February 3. The proceeds of the monthly Hall dance on Saturday night will be given to the fund. A meetling of Diamond Creek residents was held .on Tuesdaynight' to arrange for the raising of funds for Bush Fire .Relief. Cr. J.L. Ryan occupied the chair, and there was a very good attendance including representatives from Wattle Glen (Mr L Jones), Eltham (Cr. Braid), Research (Messrs Brinkkotter and Bode), Montmorency (Mr. L. W. Mason), Briar Hill (Mr. T.W. Fordham and Mr. L. Frost) It 'ias decided to hold a Ball in the Diamond Creek Hall on Friday, ,January 27, dancing to be from 8 to 2am. As th expenses of the night are covered by donations, the committee expects to realise a substantial sum. There .will be something special for the Monte Carlo. Supper will be ser ved in the Parish Hall opposite, the use of which has been given free, and transport has been arranged from Eltham, Briar Hill, Wattle Glen, and Greensborough.
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The Arts Oliver
■ Aspect Theatre presents Oliver! until July 27 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, Parkdale. Based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver! is directed by Leah Osburn, with musical direction by Matthew Tzivakis and choreography by Sabrina Pickering. Set in Victorian England, Oliver! tells of an orphan escaping from the workhouse and joining a pack of pickpockets and their leader, Fagin. The show follows the journey of Oliver and those around him as he searches for love and a sense of belonging. Director Leah Osburn has sought to draw the audience’s focus primarily to Oliver himself. “We see Oliver as a naïve child,” she explains, “but we also see his bravery when he stands up for what he believes in.” Andrew McDougall plays the role of Fagin and highlights the contrast in his character’s behaviour. “Fagin is very unforgiving when things go wrong, but he’s also very caring towards all of the kids in his gang. He treats them like family.” McDougall has been performing in professional and amateur theatre for around 20 years, and says this is a bucket-list role. “It’s been great to play around with it and find what naturally works in the story. This is a great show.” Performance Details: July 26 and 27 at 7.30pm, July 27 at 1.30pm Venue: Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd, Parkdale. Tickets: $30/$25. Bookings: www.aspecttheatre.org.au - Cheryl Threadgold
ARK Fest
■ ARK Theatre will present the ARKfest Short Play Festival from March 7- 8, 2020 and is calling for scripts. This unique festival brings together writers from all over Australia with Victorian and interstate theatre groups and ensembles to perform original plays of 10 minutes’ duration. All submissions are accepted for judging regardless of the writer’s experience or age and will be assessed anonymously by a selection panel. Play submissions open between September 1-15, midnight. Plays should be no longer than 10 minutes in length, no more than 8 in the cast, with minimal props/set. All genres are welcome including radio plays, youth scripts and monologues. Plays incorporating a black box theatre style with one feature prop are highly encouraged. A maximum of five plays may be submitted. All scripts must be original and unperformed (Crash Test Drama and workshops excepted) at time of submission. There is no submission fee for writers. Up to 3310-minute plays will be chosen by theatre groups and ensembles from a shortlist of approximately 60, to be performed over the weekend in several heats. Two plays from every heat will move through to the Finals, as decided by the adjudicators. There will be presentations and awards for Best Script, Best Production, People's Choice Best Production, Best Director, Actor and Actress. Writers and theatre groups are also welcome to submit a play and if shortlisted, the writer’ ensemble/theatre group gets first option to perform it. Registrations open October 1 – November 10 at a cost of $40 for a single play or $60 if you wish to perform two. Performance venue: Lilydale Heights College Performing Arts Centre (LHCPAC), 17 Nelson Road, Lilydale Festival Date: March 7 – 8, 2020 (Labour Day Weekend) Enquiries: Paula Armstrong 0422 954 837 arkshorties@gmail.com Please note: Theatre groups and ensembles do not know what play they will be performing when they register. This is adds to the excitement of the festival. This year, plays moving forward into the final are determined by the adjudicators only. P eople’s Choice for Best Production will be available in the Finals. - Cheryl Threadgold
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Entertainment
A Room of One’s Own ■ In 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered two lectures to the students of women’s colleges at Cambridge University on the subject of ‘Women and Fiction’. Later Woolf’s lectures became a key work of feminist literary criticism and argued that throughout history women’s fiction has effectively been excluded by the patriarchy, socially, financially and educationally. This production, adapted by Peta Hanrahan, imaginatively explores Woolf’s iconic text and shows how extraordinarily prescient it was. Woolf notes with irony the importance of money to opportunity. “A woman,” she said, “must have a room of one’s own if she is to write fiction.” These two factors are incompatible when applied to women’s lives. “Making a fortune and bearing 13 children—no human being could stand it.” By bringing this epochal text to life, Hanrahan has created a space for an intellectual conversation between the actors on the stage and the audience. Hanrahan divides Woolf’s words between four actors, Anthea Davis, Marissa O’Reilly, Anna Kennedy and Jackson Trickett. Each presents a perspective of Woolf’s message using the
● Anthea Davis in A Room of One’s Own. Photo: Tommy Holt stage as a collision of ideas books and loiter at street corbouncing off each other atom- ners and let the line of thought like as the text ponders one of dip deep into the stream’, a the great dilemmas of human carefree existence denied to existence: why throughout his- women. tory have women been so The contemplation of marginalised? Woolf’s streams of thought What, Woolf asks, would lasts long after the final curtain have happened to an equally call. talented, hypothetical sister of Performance Season: Until Shakespeare? Whatever her July 28 gift, no woman would have Venue: fortyfivedownstairs, been allowed to write and cre- 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne ate as Shakespeare was able Bookings: www.fortyfive to. downstairs.com To write, Woolf argues, - Review by women must ‘dream over Kathryn Keeble
Come From Away
● Nicholas Brown, Douglas Hansell and the original Australian company in Come From Away. Photo: Jeff Busby ■ Broadway-winning musical, Come From Nathan Carter plays a convincing stiff EnAway, is brought to Melbourne by Junkyard glishman until he relaxes into romance with a Productions, Rodney Rigby and Newtheatricals fellow passenger. Emma Powell is a stand-out an ebullient, canteam. It is the story of how the small Newfound- do Beulah. Kevin J and Kevin T, played by land town of Gander dealt with the diversion of Nicholas Brown and Douglas Hansell take us 38 aircraft and 7000 passengers to their airport through fears of non-acceptance as a gay couple when all US airspace was cleared after the 9/11 by Newfoundlanders. Accompanied by a lively eight-piece band terrorist attack. This is a story of hope and huplaying Newfoundland style music including manity in the aftermath of tragedy. Melbourne’s much loved Comedy Theatre guitars, bazouki, percussion, pipes, Irish flute has been refurbished for this heart-warming pro- and fiddle. Under Luke Hunter and Vicky Jacob’s musical direction they uphold the unique duction. of the island to carry the story. The buzz in the foyer tells all. Canadian vibe Brilliant stage direction and choreography husband and wife, Irene Sankoff and David keeps the narrative script at a rapid pace on a Hein, co-wrote the book, music and lyrics after simple, multidimensional set. Characters speak interviewing the townsfolk skilfully condensing directly to the audience achieving a tangible 16,000 stories into a 100-minute musical. connection befitting the spirit of Gander. This outstanding, talented, predominantly Filled with humour. A must-see musical. An Australian cast of 12 each play multiple roles, uplifting tale of kindness and generosity and a act, sing and dance. great night of theatre. Zoe Gertz’s strong vocals capture the vulWhere: Comedy Theatre, Exhibition St nerability and resilience of pilot Beverley Bass. Melbourne Richard Piper humorously slides with ease Tickets and times: ticketmaster.com.au or and energy from his central role as the Mayor comefromaway.com.au of Gander into numerous other characters. - Review by Sherryn Danaher
What’s On Indian Film Festival
● Indian film star ‘King Khan’, Shah Rukh Khan. ■ Indian film star Shah Rukh Khan will be honorary guest of the 10th Indian Film Festival in Melbourne from August 8 -17, officially opening the festival on August 9. Over the past decade, the Festival has grown from a grassroots event to the largest Indian Film Festival in the Southern hemisphere, winning a number of awards and working closely with the Victorian Government, which has strongly supported its growth. The 2019 Festival theme is ‘courage’, a central tenet that reflects the growing inclusivity and diversity of the Indian film industry. Shah Rukh Khan has appeared in more than 80 Bollywood films, and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards (more than any other actor). For his contributions to film, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, and the Government of France awarded him both the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Légion d'honneur. Khan also has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide. In terms of audience size and income, he has been described as one of the most successful film stars in the world. Speaking on being appointed as the chief guest for the festival, Shah Rukh Khan, said, “I’m honoured and delighted to accept the invitation from the Victorian government and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne to open their festival as their chief guest. “An industry of our magnitude and diversity deserves to be celebrated with great passion and fervour, which is what the festival embodies”. Festival Director, Mitu Bhowmick Lange said: “We are so elated with the news of Mr. Khan joining us to be our chief guest. He’s truly an icon of Indian cinema internationally, a person millions follow and look up to". Further details: www.iffm.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
Tolarno Galleries Skyground Winter conditions take hols and snowfall covers the area. For a couple of days, the relentless drifts of snow dictate the speed of travel. A major road between the two towns is closed and flights out of Queenstown/Tahuna are suspended in Wänaka the seasonal low brings temperatures that eventually fall to the coldest ever recorded for the period. And in some parts of Otago, the November rainfall eventually exceeds the month's highest measure on record in over a century/ A little further north. In the Southern Alps/ Kä Tiritin o te Moan the storms have also begun taking shape - the sky and ground swapping places in a whirlwind of ice, snow and wind. This is Laing's final destination, where she begins shooting what will become her photographic aeries, Skyground 2019. Exhibition closes Saturday August 17. Tolarno Galleries Level 4. 104 Exhibition St, Melbourne - Peter Kemp
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Sensory Decadence ● Dion Mills, Mona Mina Leon, Jessica Clarke and Julia Grace in Pomona. Photo:: Teresa Noble ■ In a wasteland of hopes and dreams, Ollie (Mona Mina Leon) searches for her twin sister only to become lost in a nightmare of disturbing proportions where people prostitute themselves and bodies are harvested for organs. But Alistair McDowall’s Pomona is more than just a Kafkaesque vision of lives lost, it serves as a metaphor for those of us who choose not to get ‘involved’. This is highlighted by Zeppo’s (Dion Mills) obtuse monologue about Raiders of the Lost Ark with which the play commences. We lead our lives with a Hollywood fantasy for support. Ollie encounters security guards Moe (Arthur Angel) and Charlie (Nicholas Denton), the latter vicariously finding meaning through playing a dungeons and dragons type fantasy. Neither wants to know who or what they guard. Fay (Jessica Clarke) familiarises Ollie with the brothel run by Gale (Julia Grace) from where Ollie’s sister disappeared. And Keaton (Artemis Ioannides) holds Gale responsible for any leak of information. The interweaving of these characters, all simultaneously present on stage as performer and purveyor, highlights the playwright’s mastery of form and the casts’ artistry. The ensemble interaction and the crispness of the delivery adds a sense of tension and anxiety as does each of the character’s sense of culpability in crimes that seem to become more extreme, violent and grotesque as the play unfolds. McDowall wants us to feel uncomfortable – Charlie trying to prolong the length of spittle drooling from his mouth perhaps the grossest example. This, however, accentuates the underlying theme. By not wanting to be ‘involved’ we allow an emergence and acceptance of the grotesque. The sense of discord is also encapsulated in the play’s sequence where we are confronted by characters in extremis – they are suicidal. It is only by weaving back through the story (by the audience becoming ‘involved’) do we make sense of the absurdity we are witnessing and realise we are just as culpable. We embraced the escapism of society that allowed the obscene to happen. The play becomes a commentary on society itself. The final moment of the play is a realisation of an endless search as we learn how Ollie embarked on her crusade – we return to where we started. Underpinning this extraordinary performance is sharp lighting (Lisa Mibus). The atmosphere and distortion of torch and strobe lighting adds to the tension that director, Gary Abrahams, has inculcated throughout the play. This Australian premiere production is Red Stitch at its best. Until August 11 Red Stitch Rear, 2 Chapel St, St Kilda East www.redstitch.net - Review by David McLean
At Glen Eira Celebrating Culture: Contemporary Indigenous Art Don't miss this compelling exhibition which features works by contemporary indigenous artists and examines themes of identity, colonisation, personal history, community and destiny and richness of a significant culture. Exhibition closes July 28. Glen Eira City Council Gallery - Peter Kemp
● Latonya Wigginton in Sensory Decadence. Photo: Aaron Walker ■ One Fell Swoop Circus and Kahneman calls the two Darwin, Ellen Grow, Jonathan Gasworks Arts Park present selves; the Experiencing Self Morgan, Charice Sensory Decadence from Au- (that lives each moment) and Rust,Latonya Wigginton; gust 16-23 at Gasworks Arts the Remembering Self (that lighting design by John Park, Albert Park. constructs the story after- Collopy; set/costume design by Human beings are naturally wards). Stephanie Howe; composition inclined to value remembering Drawing on influences by Duane Morrison; dramaover experiencing. spanning from ASMR to the turgy by Debra Batton. But what would happen if surrealist world of readymades, Performance Season: Authe experiencing self were tri- Sensory Decadence invites gust 16 – 23 Wed. – Sat umphant? Melbourne audiences to ex- .7.30pm, Sat. 1.30pm In a celebration of sensa- plore a unique alternative Tickets: $45 Full, $40 Contion, five circus artists pursue world. cession and Under 30s, $30 the immediate completeness “We were inspired by the Grps 6+ and Locals Night of experience, through contem- idea of the 'two selves' from Bookings: 8606 4299 or porary circus. Daniel Kahneman’s book, online at www.gasworks. One Fell Swoop Circus Thinking Fast and Slow,” ex- org.au/event/sensory-decapresents the premiere season plains co-creator and co-direc- dence/ of Sensory Decadence by bring- tor Charice Rust. Venue: GasworksArts Park, ing their skill set and style to Created and directed by 21 Graham St Albert Park bear on what Nobel Prize- Charice Rust and Jonathan www.onefellswoopcircus.com winning economist Daniel Morgan; performed by Ryan - Cheryl Threadgold
Meeting the Ganderites ■ A unique opportunity presented itself when the Melbourne media were invited to the Supper Club to meet the people whose stories are portrayed on stage at the Comedy Theatre in the Broadway-winning musical Come From Away. We met Newfoundlanders, aircraft passengers and pilot Beverly Bass. They are all key players in story of the diversion of 38 planes to Gander airport Newfoundland after United States airspace was shut down due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Stories revealed sleepless days as locals dealt with the unprecedented situation. Affectionately known by the locals as the plane people or come from away-ers, the arrival of these 7000 passengers, near doubled Gander’s population. Gander, with other local communities, provided hospitality for the next five or six days. Brian Mosher, schoolteacher cum unpaid, sole community TV broadcaster, tired from an initial seven hour shift reporting the unfolding event, went home to sleep when his producer called him back in to broadcast another three bulletins that night. Interviewing the Mayor, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, following up requests for supplies and visiting the school/rescue centre meant virtually no sleep for the next five days. Brian’s cigarette-lighter-charged Motorola ‘brick’ phone was in hot demand in this pre mobile phone time. On one plane were an Englishman and an American woman unknown to each other until billeted together in Gambo, a tiny neighbouring town. A romance soon developed and this year, Diane and Nick Marsden celebrate 17 years of marriage. They even honeymooned in Newfoundland. The experience sees them cherish every moment together and they have seen all productions of Come From Away, worldwide. The show reaffirms their relationship and love for one another. Mayor of neighbouring Appleton, Derm Flynn and his wife, took six passengers into their
modest bungalow. He spoke of the generosity of Newfoundlanders providing food from their pantries. A big game hunter passenger’s request to try the local delicacy, preserved moose, yielded twenty jars and three moose casseroles. Arriving in Gander the day before the planes were diverted, young, rookie Gander Beacon journalist, Janice Goudie, was immediately sent to the airport to cover the story. Imprinted in her mind is her first sight of passengers; their stunned faces peering from windows of the bus taking them from their aircraft. Some passengers were forced to spend up to twenty eight hours on their planes while customs and immigration were organised. With three hot meals a day, guests piled on kilos. They were treated to hunting and fishing expeditions, karaoke nights and Newfoundland music. To cool the massive amount of food, the ice hockey rink became arguably the world’s largest makeshift refrigerator. Everyone selflessly found a role. The Rock, as Newfoundland is known, has a topography of shale, granite crags and forest. In this harsh environment the community thrives on sharing, volunteering and a strong sense of survival couched in a history of aviation, climatic and sea rescue. Having provided food, beds, showers, clothing, phone lines and much more, the Ganderites asked for nothing from their guests. Overwhelmed by the benevolence, passengers left behind cash and cheques, have since arranged scholarships, pledged money and given generously. Lifetime friendships have emerged from the generosity and warmth of reception given to a bunch of bewildered come-from-awayers, from many nations. Brian Mosher spoke of a deafening silence and sense of emptiness when they left. When asked what message he would like people take away from the musical, now retired Gander Mayor Claude Elliot’s reply was disarmingly simple. ‘Kindness and generosity. Much needed in the time in which we live’. - Sherryn Danaher
Observations Can’t Do Tomorrow
■ Melbourne’s new urban art festival Can’t Do Tomorrow, to be presented February 20 29, 2020 in Kensington is calling for artist submissions. The first of its kind in Melbourne, Can’t Do Tomorrow will celebrate urban art and contemporary culture in the underground spaces The Facility, Kensington. Everything at the summer festival is designed for people who want to immerse themselves in a new way of consuming, or being consumed by, art. Can’t Do Tomorrow will transform The Facility into an Eden with more than 100 artists, galleries, crews and collectives who will descend on The Facility to display and sell work in urban art disciplines as varied as: painting, murals, photography, stencil, sculpture, video, illustration and epic immersive installations. Founded by Director of The Facility, Kent Johnston, the festival has been a long time coming. Johnston says: “I'm not an expert in the urban art scene but I have always loved it! I’ve questioned why Melbourne hasn’t had a large-scale celebration of its talent and my guess is there’s never been the space. I’m lucky enough to work at The Facility every day - this incredible old wool store smack bang in the middle of the city. “It’s been the epicentre for Melbourne’s artists for decades. Each day, hundreds of people pass it on their way to and from work by train but have never seen inside. Now’s your chance.” Headed by Festival Director, arts and event producer Zoe Paulsen, Can’t Do Tomorrow is set to appeal to both the experienced urban art enthusiast as well as novices. Can’t Do Tomorrow is calling for artist submissions. Visit www.cantdotomorrow.com/artistsfor info on how to get involved. Applications close September 1. Event Details: February 20-29, 2020 , The Facility, 2R Chelmsford St, Kensington. - Cheryl Threadgold
Melbourne Arts Artist of the Year and A Sunburnt Country Artist of the Year is an annual exhibition by Ringwood Art Society that invites members to submit three works in different mediums, and in each of the three subject categories portrait, life study and landscape. A Sunburnt Country features work by Ringwood Art Society members inspired by the famous Australian by Dorothea McKellar. Exhibition opens July 29 and closes September 6. Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery 32 Greenwood Ave, Ringwood ★ NGV Friday Nights returns this winter for the 2019 Melbourne Winter Masterpiece series. This season features the best of Australia's vibrant musical talent; exclusive late-night access to the Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality and Cai-Qiang: The Transient Landscape exhibition, bars and dumplings in the pop-up Hutong Dumpling Bar. Upcoming performances include: Rainbow Chan Friday July 28, 6pm - 10pm NGV International Bookings Required Fees apply. Rainbow Chan is a singer, producer and multi-disciplinary artist who has built a reputation with her idiosyncratic brand of pop and vibrant aesthetics. Drawing on nostalgia, diaspora and her Chinese heritage - the result is a collage of seemingly disparate sounds and cultures. Kira Puru Friday August 2, 6pm - 10pm. NGV International Booking required fees apply Performer, photographer, visual artist, DJ and vocal powerhouse Kira Puru continues to prove herself as a force to be reckoned with. Sketching the Souls of Warriors Saturday August 2, 8am - 10.30am NGV International; Boking Required fees apply Bookings: 1 3 8629 2237. - Peter Kemp
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Local; Theatre The Bacchae PART 1 I well remember, for all the wrong reasons, a previous reworking of Euripides’ The Bacchae, commissioned from Fraught Outfit and St Martins Youth Theatre for the 2016 Melbourne International Festival, so I was a little gun shy when invited to review The Bacchae at the Carlton Courthouse. I was reassured that the production was cast from MUST, Monash Student University Theatre; 39 females including several professional theatre makers. I recognised the brilliant veteran Yoni Prior. The program notes include: “Forget the original Bacchae, where the women wait offstage while the men try and fail to tell their story. “In Robert Reid's epic new next (sic) the women take centre stage en masse. This fierce retelling inspired by Richard Schechner's Dionysus in '69 weaving in classic and pop culture references from Sophocles to the Manson Family. Join the Cult.” Long quote, but reflecting this performance experience (and Bacchic fury must be experienced]) but this performance from this cast is more than orgiastic - it's epiphanistic!) As I followed the two-plus hours of very inventive ensemble and individual creation in Part 2 of The Bacchae it reminded me of the best Triple Mac, with the lot. The Bacchae; The Manson Family; Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army; the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago; 1970 Kent State shootings; speak of crowded house - any more dramatic allusions and the place would explode. This Bacchae is fierce and intelligent and well worth your devotion. - Review by Peter Green
Paradise Lost
■ Two in my top 10 for 2019 in the same week. Max Gillies in Krapp's Last Tape which closed after a sold-out season at fortyfive downstairs, a season that was a remount of the equally successful season in November 2018. Add Paradise Lost from a very talented and inventive company, The Bloomshed, at the Butterfly Club. This production is the epitome (‘epitome’ from my dictionary is a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type). This production was written collaboratively, I was assured, by Elizabeth Brennan whose wildly enthusiastic Eve (always smiling like the cabin crew's welcome aboard) reminded me of 24/7- gym- guinea pig - young woman pedalling in manic haste on an exercise bike or climbing to nowhere on the step machine. As the title suggests, The Bloomshed have mined deep into John Milton's 10,000 word epic poem (published 1667 and revised 1674) and found gold. James Malcher is John Milton and appropriately doubles as God; Emily O'Connor a very shifty Archangel Michael opposed by James Jackson's Lucifer and as a drop kick Adam, Edan Goodall Why the list? Unless I'm a poor judge of talent, performative smarts and theatrical energy, these theatre makers will emerge from the indie ruck and become a second wave of Australia's writer/performers. The simple plot that drives this 60 minutes of comic and absurd genius? The Archangel Michael has corporatised the Garden of Eden as a walled nature reserve and instructed Adam and Eve to have sex as frequently as possible ; all day and night if they like to, in order to fill the Earth with millions of people. My description does poor justice to a very clever script; and even less justice to excellent ensemble performances. Paradise Lost from The Bloomshed goes in to my top 10 for 2019 (estimate reviews for 2019 approx. 80). - Review by Peter Green
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‘Well Hung’ at Clayton
● Julia Day (Lynette) and Corey Saylor-Brunskill (Trev) in Well Hung. Photo: John Shelbourn ■ Encore Theatre presents the comedy Well maker, a gentleman farmer, mistaken identities Hung until July 27 at the Clayton Community and ‘more broom-cupboard action than could Theatrette. be dreamed of.” Written by Robert Lord and directed by Production Season: Until July 27 David Collins, Well Hung has been likened to Venue: Clayton Community Theatrette, Fawlty Towers meets rural life in a small town Cooke St, Clayton. when a local murder overtakes lives. Bookings: www.encoretheatre.com.au “With a bumbling police force, a lusty home- Cheryl Threadgold
Attractions at Bayside Gallery ■ Pets Are People Too Brings together Australian artists whose work reflects on the intimacy and affection that exists between humans and animals. Artists: Catherine Bell, Matthew Gove, Anastasia Klose, Bronwyn Hack, Kate James, Noel McKenna, Tim McMonagle, KathyTemin, Jenny Watson. Exhibition July 27 - October 6. ■ Events: The Psychology of Pets - expert panel discussion. Celebrate National Science Week and the latest exhibition Pets are People too, with this fascinating panel discussion on the psychology of pets. Hear from leading pet behaviouralists and
passionate advocates about how and why your pets think, act and feel. Saturday August 17 at 2.30pm Bookings Essential Doggie Day Out at Bayside Gallery Bayside Gallery is letting the dogs in for one afternoon only. Bring your four-legged friends to Bayside Gallery for a fun-filled afternoon of activities, treats and see the exhibition. This is a rare opportunity to appreciate art with your best friend. Saturday August 31. Bayside Gallery, Brighton Town Hall Cnr Carpenter & Wilson Sts. Brighton - Peter Kemp
Latest shows, auditions SHOWS ■ Encore Theatre: Well Hung (by Robert Lord) Until July 27 at the Clayton Community Centre, 9-15 Cooke St., Clayton. Director: David Collins. Bookings: 1300 737 099. ■ Aspect Inc: Oliver! Until July 27 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Leah Osburn: Musical Director: Matthew Tzivakis; Choreographer: Sabrina Pickering. Bookings: https://www.aspecttheatre.org.au/ ■ BATS Theatre Company Inc: The Vicar of Dibley Returns Until July 29 at Cranbourne Community Theatre. Bookings: www.batstheatre.org.au ■ Frankston Theatre Group: Yes, Prime Minister (byAntony Jay and Jonathon Lynn) July 26 - August 4 at the Mount Eliza Community Centre. Director: David McCall. Bookings: 1300 665 377. ■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Aladdin Junior August 2 - 11 at the Centenary Theatre, 71 Railway Place, Williamstown. Bookings: 1300 881 545 or wmtc.org.au ■ The 1812 Theatre: Baskerville: The Sherlock Holmes' Mystery (by Ken Ludwig) August 8 13 at The 1812 Theatre, Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Justin Stephens. Bookings: www.1812theatre.com.au ■ The Basin Theatre: Boeing Boeing (by Maro Camoletti) August 9 - 31 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr. Doongalla and Simpsons Rds., The Basin. Director: Pip LeBlond. Bookings: www.thebasintheatre.org.au or 1300 784 668. ■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group Inc (STAG): Children of the Wolf (by John Pea-
SHOWS cock)August 15 - 24 at the Strathmore Community Centre, Cnr Loeman and Napier Sts., Strathmore. Director: Michele Haywood. Tickets: $20 adult, $15 concession. Bookings: 9382 6284 or www.stagtheatre.org/reservations
AUDITIONS ■ Encore Theatre: Almost, Maine (by John Cariani) July 28 at 3.00pm, July 29 at 7.00pm at Fleigner Hall, 31-39 Highland Ave., Oakleigh East. Director: Laura Bradley. Enquiries: laurachaela@gmail.com ■ Peridot Theatre: Stage Kiss (by Sarah Ruhl) July 29, 30 at 7.00pm at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Director: George Werther. Enquiries: 0402 222 090. ■ Warrandyte Theatre Company: 1. Contractions (by Mike Bartlett) 2. Elegy for a Lady (by Arthur Miller) 24 July at 8.00pm, 28 July at 6.00pm at Warrandyte Mechanics' Institute Hall, Yarra St., Warrandyte. Directors: David Tynan and Adrian Rice. Enquiries: 0439311428 or 0431572511 ■ Torquay Theatre Troupe: Parramatta Girls (by Zina Carman) July 28 at 2.00pm at 16 Price St., Torquay. Director: Zina Carman. Further details: zinacarman@gmail.com ■ Essendon Community Theatre: Jack the Ripper: The Musical (Book and lyrics by Ron Pember and Denis de Marne; Music by Ron Pember) August 24, 31 from 2.00pm - 5.00pm at Bradshaw Street Community Theatre, Bradshaw Street, Essendon. Director: Robert Harsley. Audition bookings essential: 0414 917 381 or robertharsley47@gmail.com
What’s On A Room In Europe
● Yoko Murakoshi will perform the Baroque Dance in A Room in Europe. ■ The Courtly Arts Performers of Victoria present A Room in Europe, featuring chamber music and dance from the Baroque era, for two performances: on Sunday, August 11 at 2pm at Guildford Music Hall, and Sunday, August 18 at 2pm at the South Melbourne Community Centre. In the stately homes of Europe, friends would gather to present and enjoy musical offerings in a relaxed and intimate setting. The Early Music Consort of Melbourne, Baroque dancer Yoko Murakoshi and soprano Sarah LouiseAmos (South Melbourne only) will relive chamber music of the 17th and 18th Century. The music covers the full range of the baroque period from its beginning with Caccini, represented in this program by the sublime Amarilli mia bella to its maturity in J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 2 arranged for recorders and bass; with Frescobaldi, Purcell, Lully, Telemann and others in between. Performed on period instruments including recorders, bass viol, lute and baroque guitar. Dance was also a major form of musical expression at the time in ballets and opera, and the solo dance repertoire also suited the more intimate chamber setting. In this programme solo dances are featured from Lully’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Phaëton, and Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise. The Early Music Consort of Melbourne was formed over 40 years ago by Helga Hill to provide historically informed accompaniment to her meticulously researched dances. The consort’s members are early music specialists playing instruments appropriate to the period. Yoko continues Helga’s legacy by keeping these dances alive through these programs. Sunday August 11 at 2pm Guildford Music Hall, Midland Highway, Guildford (rear of Guildford Family Hotel). Tickets: http://bit.ly/ARoomInEurope2 Sunday August 18 at 2pm South Melbourne Community Centre, Cnr. Park Street and Ferrars Pl., South Melbourne. Tickets: http://bit.ly/ARoomInEurope. Ticket Prices: Full $20, Student / Senior: $15. Available through Try Booking or at the door. Further information: https://www.courtly arts.com/events/ - Cheryl Threadgold
Melb. Symphony
■ Ears Wide Open: A Midsummer Night's Dream The MSO will have you tripping through Mendelssohn's musical fairy garden, as you discover the composer's keen imagination and sharp melodic wit that made him a perfect musical match for Shakespeare. Conductor Tianyi Lu will examine three movements, the intermezzo, Nocturne and famous Wedding March in this part-concert part guided musical journey. July 30 at Melbourne Recital Centre. - Peter Kemp
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Melba Big Band
■ The 16-piece all-female Melba Big Band will bring back the good old dance hall days when they perform at Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, on Saturday (July 27) at 8pm. Big Band favourites such as L.O.V.E, Almost Like Being In Love, Basically Blues, Jive at Five, and Tequila, as well as the music of Count Basie, Gershwin and more will be on the nights playlist. Tickets at www.memomusichall. com.au od Friday Appeal.
Whittlesea 2020
■ The Whittlesea Country Music Festival is back and scheduled for Saturday, February 8, 2020 commencing 10am - 9pm. A street party with buskers, poets and activities for the children will kick off in the morning followed by a twilight concert from 3.30pm onwards. Artists to be confirmed soon.
Newport turns 15
■ The Newport Folk and Fiddle Club will celebrate their 15th birthday in August. Formed in 2004 it has grown from strength to strength with regular music activities and guest artists. Their next big show will feature West Of The Blues with Phil Manning, eight Westbased bands, Performance Anxiety Workshop, Art Exhibition and Open Mic on Sunday, September 15. More info at http://nffc.org.au/ blues.html - Rob Foenander
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Jean-Claude, the Arrogant Frog ■ John Rozentals has a chance encounter with a bargain French bottle and recalls a past meeting in Languedoc with its creator. It was just over 12 years ago that I met French winemaker JeanClaude Mas at the tasting bench of his largish winery on the outskirts of the Languedoc town of Pézenas, where he had arranged accommodation for us in a truly endearing hotel. He had just started selling his Arrogant Frog label in Australia and was having a laugh at the silliness of his countrymen in thinking that Languedoc produced such ordinary wines as to be largely left to its own devices outside a revered appellation system that was a great marketing tool but often acted against beneficial change and crucial innovation. Meanwhile, he was growing fashionable varieties such as chardonnay in unfashionable areas such as Languedoc, adopting the latest Australian production and marketing techniques, and selling French wine like there was no tomorrow. He was exactly what you'd expect a French former-racing-cardriver-turned-winemaker to be charming, good-looking and, yes, racy. I immediately liked him, both for his winemaking skills and for his sense of humour in selling wine to Australians under his new Arrogant Frog label. The wines were good and they
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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood
Boy from Oz comes to town
■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.
Out and About
In the grip of Hugh
Global warming real
■ Hugh Michael Jackman AC - Australian actor, singer, and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in a variety of film genres. Hugh starred in his first world tour at the Hollywood Bowl with his show, The Man. The Music. The Show, last week and this show received rave reviews from all around the world. With a live orchestra and dancers, the show featured hit songs from: The Greatest Showman, Les Misérables and The Boy from Oz. Check the website for future shows at the Hollywood Bowl. https://www.hollywoodbowl.com
■ Alaska has been hit with record-high temperatures that have the arctic state packing heat. The unusual heat wave will have the northernmost state cooking in temperatures of 87 degrees or higher, the National Weather Service said. "Expect record or near-record high temperatures each day," the agency said. Scorching temperatures could continue into next week and challenge the all-time high temperature at Anchorage International Airport of 85 degrees on June 14, 1969.
Secondhand drinking
Passing of Rip Torn ■ Rip Torn, a prolific actor best known for HBO's The Larry Sanders Show and the Men in Black franchise, died last week at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut, his representatives said. He was 88. In a career spanning more than six decades, Torn established himself as a versatile performer, appearing in 10 Broadway plays (and directing one), more than 80 feature films, and dozens of television shows. Born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas, in 1931, Torn studied acting at Texas A&M and the University of Texas, and served a stint in the Army before heading to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. He made his film debut with an uncredited role in Elia Kazan's 1956 film Baby Doll, before relocating to New York City to study at the Actor's Studio. Known for his gravely drawl and sinister-looking smile, Torn excelled at playing shady, amoral characters and outright villains, as in his depiction of the evil wizard Maax in the fantasy film The Beastmaster. But he could also project no-nonsense authority, as he did playing the celestial attorney Bob Diamond in Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life, or Zed in the first two Men in Black films. And in one of his most celebrated later roles, he combined those attributes in 2004's DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, as sleazy dodgeball legend Patches O'Houlihan, who delivers one of the film's funniest lines: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." But it was the 1992-1998 HBO comedy The Larry Sanders Show for which Torn will be perhaps best remembered. For playing Artie, the doggedly loyal attack dog of a producer who runs the eponymous show and manages the fragile ego of its star, Torn was widely acclaimed. He received six Emmy nominations, winning once in 1996, and over the show's run was also nominated for two American Comedyawards (winning one), anAmerican TelevisionAward, and four CableAce awards (winning one), among many other accolades. Torn was married three times: to Ann Wedgeworth from 1955 to 1961, to Geraldine Page from 1963 until her death in 1987, and to Amy Wright from 1989 until his death. He is survived by Wright, his five children, his sister, and four grandchildren.
Ice cream licker licked
■ The crime of the century has been solved. Yes, police in Texas say they have identified the dastardly character who, wait for it, licked a Blue Bell ice cream tub in a Walmart and then put it back. Lufkin cops say the licker is a juvenile who, along with her boyfriend, admitted to the viral stunt. She will not face adult charges. In a Facebook post, police explained why it had taken them so long to crack the case. "A 'catfish' with a similar screen name within one letter of the suspect's screen name began taking credit for it," they wrote. "It was actually the catfish and not our suspect who bragged on Instagram about the incident saying: “Yeah, I really did that. You can call it Flu Bell ice cream now because I was a little sick last week.” I hope this horrible act doesn't catch on.
● Huigh Jackman and wife Deborra-Lee Furness
■ Forget secondhand smoke. Now you have to worry about the secondhand drinking. One-fifth of adults or an estimated 53 million people in the United States suffer from other people's boozing annually, making this "a significant public health issue," according to a new study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. "One thing to think about with the one in five number is that it is only limited to a snapshot in time of about a year. So, probably more people have actually been harmed by someone else's drinking at other times in their life," study author Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, a senior scientist with the Alcohol Research Group. The damages included everything from traffic accidents, physical abuse, marital problems, property damage and financial issues. The current research, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, analyzed the data to provide insight for potential alcohol control policies, such as taxation and pricing to reduce alcohol's harm to persons other than the drinker.
LGBT numbers overestimated
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■ Although US adults think LGBT people make up nearly 24 per cent of the US population, this is a dramatic overestimation, according to Gallup, which asserts that the LGBT population is in reality closer to 4.5 per cent. Gallup also reports that the percentage of Americans identifying as LGBT is most prevalent among millennials. In its survey, Gallup asked, "Just your best guess, what per cent of Americans today would you say are gay or lesbian?" From the respondents' answers, the average was 23.6 per cent. In other words, American adults think LGBT people make up nearly 24 per cent of the population, which is more than five times the real percentage of 4.5 per cen t. In May 2015, Gallup found that Americans thought LGBTs were 23.2 per cent of the population, and in May 2011, they thought the percentage was 24.6 per cent. "Americans estimate of the proportion of gay people in the US is more than five times Gallup's more encompassing 2017 estimate that 4.5 per cent of Americans are LGBT, based on respondents' self-identification as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender," reported the survey firm.
94 killings every day ■ Mexico is experiencing its worst ever murder rate with 94 killings each day amid a massive surge in violence between cartels. The number of homicides has rocketed over the past four years with more than 3000 people slaughtered in June alone and over 17,000 in the first six months of this year. If the current trend continues 2019 will beat the previous year's record of 33,341 murders, which was 33 per cent more than three years ago. Compare this to the total recorded last year in the UK, which has half Mexico's population but only has 726 murder victims. Crime levels are so dire the government has called the army in. The rising death toll is the result of many cartels splintering into factions, which in turn are engaging in increasingly bloody battles over control of lucrative drug, theft, extortion and kidnapping rackets. Security specialist Ricardo Blas told Mexico News Daily: "The last year of the administration of former president Enrique Peña Nieto was bad in terms of the crime rate but 2019 is on the path to being even worse. "It's important to understand that we're doing worse in security than the worst year on record."
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■ It is hard to believe, but it is more than 100 years ago since Lucille Ball was born. Today, she lives on through her films and re-runs of her television shows such as I Love Lucy, Here's Lucy and The Lucy Show. I thought she was just fabulous. I can remember the first time I saw Lucille Ball in a film - it was at a Saturday afternoon matinee in 1951 and I laughed at her antics in the Fuller Brush Girl playing opposite Eddie Albert. Lucille Désirée Ball was born on August 6th 1911 in Jamestown, New York. The family moved around a lot due to her father's occupation. After he died in 1915, Lucille's mother remarried. It was her grandfather who took Lucille and her brother Frederick to see vaudeville shows. Lucille was enthralled and decided to be an actress. She managed to get work in the chorus of Broadway shows before going to Hollywood where her first small on-screen appearance was in a film titled The Bowery which starred George Raft and Wallace Beery. Lucille persevered but it took her two years and almost 30 film appearances before she was even listed in the credits. Lucille met and eloped with Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. It was a stormy relationship and although Lucille filed for divorce in 1944 they reconciled and continued their marriage.
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Lucille dyed her hair red and appeared in films such as Lover Come Back, Easy To Wed and Sorrowful Jones. In 1949 Lucille was cast in the successful radio series, My Favourite Husband, playing opposite Richard Denning. When the show was being considered for a television series Lucille insisted that Desi Arnaz be cast as her husband. The next door neighbors were to be played by Vivien Vance and William Frawley (who loathed each other off-screen). The first episode of I love Lucy was broadcast in October of 1951. The show went to air ‘live’ in front of a studio audience in Los Angeles and was kinescoped for airing on the East Coast. Desi stepped in when there was a problem
● Lucille Ball with the quality of the film and the show was going to be dropped - Desi paid for quality filming and introduced the three-camera technique on the condition that their company, Desilu, retained the rights to the film stock after the episodes had been aired for the first time. It was a ‘master stroke’ as the show has now been in syndication throughout the world for 60 years. In later years the Desilu Studios produced
shows such as The Untouchables, Star Trek, Mission Impossible and My Three Sons. Lucy and Desi had two children Lucie and Desi Jnr. I Love Lucy was in production till 1960 and when it finished Lucy and Desi divorced. Lucy continued her television career in Here's Lucy and The Lucy Show. She married her second husband Garry Morton in 1961. Lucy was very busy with her Broadway show Wildcat, managing Desilu Studios, television shows and appearing in films such as the title role in Mame. Desi Arnaz passed away in 1986 and Lucy died in 1989. Her final public appearance was at the Academy Awards just four weeks before her death. Although they had gone their separate ways Lucy and Desi still loved and respected each other. Lucille Ball was one of the greatest comedienne's of the twentieth century and as we watch those old shows on television - there is no doubt - we still love Lucy. - 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
‘Look Back in Anger’ at Eltham Little Theatre ELT's choice for the July season was John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. A story of Jimmy Porter, his wife Alison, their friend and Jimmy's business partner Cliff, Alison's friend Helena and Alison's father, Colonel Redfern The play opens on a lazy Sunday afternoon in a one room attic flat in a town with Alison ironing and the two men reading the Sunday papers. ELT built a good interior of a oneroomed flat, very busy with the full complement of what would be expected Alexander Loadman played Jimmy, an intelligent man who was in partnership with his friend Cliff in running a street-corner candy stand. He also likes playing the trumpet which no-one else thinks he can. Loadman captured the role with expertise, giving a great and highly energetic performance particularly in a couple of fight scenes with Cliff. His wife, Alison was played by Tamasin Mummery, who also captured the character in completely ignoring her husband's tirade against everything yet giving a moving poignant performance particularly in the final scenes. An excellent portrayal. Jimmy's mate Cliff was played by Jason Triggs. Cliff felt sorry for Alison and interfered when he thought things had gone too far. Triggs gave a great and another energetic performance particularly in the fight scenes with Jimmy. Alison's friend and Jimmy's lover, Helena, was portrayed by Ada Jean. As Helena Jean caught the essence of a good friend but who also despised Jimmy but could not bear to be without him. Jean gave an outstanding performance in the role capturing the character with aplomb. A small part was Alison's father, Colonel Redfern. Played by Adrian Quintarelli who gave the character realism carrying the role as envisaged by the author. Agood evening of theatre from ELT and this is a company not to be missed.
Butterfly
■ Frankston Performing Arts was the venue for Opera Australia's opening night of the 2019 tour of Madama Butterfly. A well set stage with a raised stage
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Peter Kemp built as a Japanese home with sliding walls and various steps down around the front and sides. Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly) was portrayed by Eva Kong. A wonderful performance by a delightful soprano with her voice equalling her acting talent. Good stage presentation and very popular with the audience. Her servant, Suzuki, was played by Barbara Jin. Another great performer whose acting skills were enhanced by her voice. There were some wonderful arias from both Eva and Barbara. Lieutenant Pinkerton was given an outstanding performance by Bradley Daley. A great interpretation of such a member of the US Navy, being nice and loving with his marriage to Madama Butterfly then forgetting all about her when his ship leaves. Bradley has a good strong tenor voice used magnificently on this evening. His acting was a dream , being really loving and then marrying his American sweetheart and wanting his son back. The American Consul, Sharples, was given a good interpretation by baritone Andrew Moran. As US consul he tried to warn Pinkerton that this Japanese marriage would be taken seriously by Butterfly and to be careful. Andrew gave a good performance in the role with a good voice to match. Goro, the marriage broker, was
given a good and somewhat when called for an amusing interpretation by Michel Lapina. Cio-Cio Dan's uncle, the Bonze was played by Steven Gallop. A very imposing role and rather detrimental to Cio-Cio San. A good performance and again enhanced by a wonderful voice. A small but important role was given by baritone Shoumendu Schornikow as the rich Japanese Prince Yamadori who wished to marry Madama Butterfly. .Awell -done performance adding to the high standard of the evening. A god start to the Opera Australia Tour. FrankstonArts Centre Director: John Bell Concertmaster: Yuhki Mayne
Open House
■ To complement the year-round exhibitions, the NGV runs a dedicated schedule of programs featuring talks, behind-the-scenes tours, and one-off events. From 1968 to Now: The NGV on St Kilda Road Saturday July 27. 11am - 12pm. NGV International. Booking required Free Entry. Built in 1968, the NGV building on St Kilda Road set new standards for exhibition layout, art storage and conservation, and represented a new era in the arts and public architecture. Discover the story behind NGV's relocation to St Kilda Road on a special tour as part of Open House Melbourne. Architecture Installations at the NGV. Sunday July 28. 11am 12.30pm. NGV International. Booking required. Free Entry NGV Senior Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture Ewan McEoin leads on a tour of three installations at the NGV for Open House Melbourne, including John Wardle Architect's Somewhere Other. So IL. Viewing China and the 2018 architecture Commission Doubleground. This program begins at NGV Australia and includes a 10-minute walk from NGV Australia to NGV International. National Gallery of Victoria !50 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne - Peter Kemp
OK. With John O’Keefe Flintstones reboot
● The Flintstones ■ Everyone's favourite families, the Flintstones, and next door neighbours, the Rubbles, are to return to telly in a new adult based comedy series. There will be more belly laughs as Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty and their kid Bam Bam, not forgetting Dino the dog , get up to all sorts of comical situations. The original series started 1960 and ran for six years. The new series is soon to commence production and will not be seen until early next decade as animation is a labour intensive process - it will be worth the wait .
A star is born
■ Hal Cumpston is a 20-yearold actor from Sydney. His claim to fame came once he released Bitched, a low budget film he wrote and starred in as well as being chief cook and bottle washer. Bitched caught the eye of Hollywood producers and offered Hal a lead part in a new, 10-part series of Walking Dead , all about the apocalypse zombie world.
Trivia time
■ Q: Name the very first vocalist to perform at the Sydney Opera House in 1960. A: Vocalist was American Paul Robeson who sang Ol Man River during lunch break of the construction workers toiling on the site .
Cease and desist
■ A leaked email from the Australian media watchdog has issued as stern warning to TV networks to refrain from screening the footage taken by the accused gunman as he gunned down 50 people in the New Zealand massacre in March. The leaked email falls short in saying what action will be imposed if the instructions are violated.
Warning for Brighton residents
■ Channel 9 has confirmed the 2020 series of The Block will be filmed at a suburban address ,360 New St, Brighton . The address is currently the site of a home for the elderly and has room to construct five homes. Nine stumped up $ 4.5 million for the land. If you live near Bay St, Brighton make plans now to battle hoards of rubber neckers. - John O’Keefe
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TO THE MOON - 50th Anniversary Commemoration: Action/Drama/Adventure/History. Tom Hanks, Lane Smith, Cary Elwes, Rita WilBryan Cranston, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch,
Tcheky Karyo, JoBeth W illiams, Kevin Pollak. Year: 1998. Rating: M. Length: Assorted Running Times/12 Episodes. Stars: Stars: **** Review: Now on Blu-Ray for the first time, the compelling 12 part story of the Apollo missions and their heroic astronauts, from President John F. Kennedy's historic speech, through the first manned expeditions into space, to the defining moment of the space programme of putting a man on the moon. Exemplary filmmaking on every level, the epic story unfolds through standout performances such as Bryan Cranston, Cary Elwes, Sally Field, Chris Isaak and many more, all reflecting the stories of the men, women and children who lived, breathed and manufactured from the power of human will to one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind. Executive produced by Oscar winner Tom Hanks, along with Oscar winner Ron Howard, this is Hanks' first foray into television miniseries, and would go on to do the same on the highly acclaimed and multi-award winning "Band of Brothers" (2001) and "The Pacific" (2010), among others, this was a passion project for Hanks, which also has him introducing each episode, as well as direct the pilot episode, but not new to him, as three years earlier he starred as astronaut Jim Lovell for Ron Howard in "Apollo 13.' Remastered in HD for its premiere Blu-ray release, "From The Earth To The Moon" is ultimately a journey through a time and by people on an odyssey of passion and dreams that are in equal part an intelligent, ambitious, exciting, tragic, gripping and haunting, an overall unmissable experience! FILM: DUMBO: Genre: Family/Fantasy. Cast: Michael Keaton, Eva Green, Colin Farrell, Alan Arkin, Danny DeVito. Year: 2019. Rating: PG. Length: 130 Minutes. Stars **½ Review: A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer. Big and relatively effective live-action reimagining of the 1941 animated Disney classic of the same name has an abundance of eyecandy to relish, sparkling set design, all filmed entirely on a sound stage, and breathtaking costume design by four time Oscar winner Colleen Atwood, all carried along with sprinkles of humour, thrills and excitement, and even moments of typical Tim Burton darkness. The cast are all in top form, and they include Colin Farrell as a war veteran and former circus star assigned to look after Dumbo with his children, Danny DeVito as the owner and ringmaster of the small struggling circus, Eva Green as a compassionate trapeze artist, and Michael Keaton as the ruthless and enigmatic entrepreneur who acquires the ailing circus to exploit the newborn and unique Dumbo. It's all in there, as you would expect from a big budget Disney CGI spectacle, however, the one crucial element lacking is the magic, charm and wonder that made the 1941 animated version so special to so many over the years, and even though there's plenty here for the family to feast on, what else this also has to offer is to inspire new audiences to experience the original, and that's the one which will continue to soar in the imagination for generations to come. FILM: SHAZAM!: Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy. Cast: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Michelle Borth, Mark Strong. Year: 2019. Rating: PG. Length: 132 Minutes. Stars: *** Review: American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, a young boy is given a special gift, and by shouting out one word SHAZAM! - this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero with super powers, but getting to learn them is something else altogether. There's lots of laughout-loud fun to be had in this latest DC super-hero romp of orphans and wizardry, brimming with humour, action sequences, and as you would expect, top shelf CGI effects, and everything goes into the well established recipe for a super-hero blockbuster.
Rourke’s Reviews The Lion King
Crawl ■ (MA). 87 minutes. Still showing in cinemas. Under-promoted and hidden from critics prior to release, one would automatically think that Crawl is an unmitigated disaster, ready to quickly disappear from cinemas without a trace. The fact that the film is quite a bit of fun makes one wonder why the studio thought they had such a turkey on their hands. Set in Florida, which has seen numerous natural disasters over the years, is about to be hit again by a category 5 hurricane, and the authorities are in the process of making sure local residents have fully evacuated. Professional swimmer Haley (Kaya Scodelario) has just completed a trial meet when she receives a call from her sister Beth (Morfydd Clark), telling her that she can't get in contact with their father Dave (Barry Pepper), whose house is in the area which will be hit hardest. Haley, who has been estranged from her father for years, reluctantly agrees to check on Dave, but when she arrives at the old family house, not only discovers that Dave has been injured, but soon comes face-to-face with the reason for his injuries. The script by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen (whose biggest achievement was penning iconic director John Carpenter's last feature film, the 2010 horror/thriller The Ward) is very basic and bythe-numbers, introducing supporting characters solely for the reason of being torn to pieces by the killer reptile, in an attempt to create a respectable body count for what is really nothing more than a flooded chamber piece. French director Alexandre Aja, who garnered much-deserved attention for his brutal, incredibly suspenseful 2003 thriller High Tension, before moving to Hollywood to helm a seemingly endless series of remakes (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D, Mirrors) does his best to raise the lacklustre material, showing imagination and punch when the writers regularly fail to do so. Performances are adequate (Pepper's voice is still a dead ringer for Johnny Depp's), and the special effects are thankfully convincing most of the way. Though Jaws is an obvious inspiration, this compact little movie feels like a cross between Lake Placid and Hard Rain, two quite under-rated films. The best film featuring this particular creature is still the Lewis Teague/John Sayles productionAlligator (1980), starring Robert Forster, which sadly has yet to arrive on blu-ray. RATING - ***
■ (PG). 118 minutes. Now showing in cinemas everywhere, including IMAX. Outstanding, photo-realistic CGI animation is the only saving grace of this needlessly overlong, depressingly soulless product, coming across as nothing more than an expertly crafted, assembly line cash cow. It's such a pity that so much technical wizardry (at a cost of $260 million) is wasted on such a lazy, shot-for-shot regurgitation, instead of using it to create something genuinely innovative and original. Watch the classic 1994 original instead, or for a more compelling, entertaining blend of photo-realistic landscapes and animated characters, watch Disney's under-rated 2000 effort, Dinosaur. RATING - *1/2
The Pool ■ (MA). 91 minutes. Available on Blu-ray and DVD. Coming out nearly a year before Crawl, this cleverly constructed Thai thriller has a similar set-up, in that it has two characters trapped in an enclosed space while trying to evade a hungry reptile, and while it may not have the budget of its Hollywood cousin, it offers up more tension, and isn't afraid to be mean and ruthless when needed. Day (Teeradej Wongpuapan), a crew member working on a low budget movie, which is filming at an abandoned pool, manages to secure an extra paycheck by using his own dog for a key scene, allowing him to be employed as the animal wrangler. Once the long, arduous shoot has finished, and the crew have left, Day decides to enjoy a dip in the six-metre deep pool before it drains. Relaxing on an inflatable raft, the tired Day falls asleep, and when he awakens to the sound of thunder, he sees to his surprise that the water level has lowered considerably, to the point where he can't quite reach the ledge (all under the watchful eye of his loyal dog, which is tied nearby). With a storm approaching, Day slowly realises the trouble he now finds himself in, but this pales in comparison when a wandering crocodile slips and falls into the pool Day is trying to escape from. Matters take a turn for the worse when Day's girlfriend Koi (Ratnamon Ratchiratham) turns up and also ends up in the pool. The Pool, which was a massive box-office hit in its native Thailand, is one of those unexpected discoveries that deserves to find an appreciative global audience. RATING - ***½ - Aaron Rourke
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Down 1. Cosy 2. Furnace 3. Polynesian island group 4. Heart or lung 5. Complain 6. Movement 7. Blackboard marker 8. Drumming insects 9. Amongst 10. Fuel energy rating 11. Go around 12. Playful water mammal 13. Propel 14. Christian festival 15. Sacred song 16. Long (for) 17. Try out (food) 18. Cudgel 19. Obscene material 24. Charity offerings 28. Youths 30. Milky gem 31. June 6, 1944 (1-3) 33. Eagle nests 35. Equal (2,1,3) 37. Raven 38. Deer 40. Yelling 42. Geological division 44. Positive electrodes 45. Least moist 47. Fencing blades 48. Great disturbance 49. Prepared mentally, ... up 50. Sports ground buildings 53. Wed again 54. Impedes 57. Rescued by plane 58. Examines closely 60. Brighter 63. Temper fit 65. Hatchets 66. Settee 68. Cry weakly 69. Corrode 76. Outstanding 79. Fellows 80. Not anybody (2-3) 81. Lodge firmly 83. Boundary 84. Media tycoon, press ... 85. Pixie 88. Disadvantage 90. Team 91. Tiny amount 93. Skin irritation 95. Paradise garden 97. Flourish of trumpets 99. Friends star, Jennifer ... 100. Periods 102. Degrade 104. Kinder 107. From Italy's capital 109. Rectify 110. Arabian prince 111. Ode 113. Glancing 115. Summer footwear 117. Cousin's mother 118. Nuclear explosive, ... bomb 121. Morally sound 122. Friendly 127. Chest 128. Gave weapons to 129. Childbirth contractions (6,5) 132. In unison (3,8) 133. Relative by marriage (2-3) 134. Call up (feelings) 135. Vigilant 136. Magician's cry (3,6) 137. Idealists 138. Rissoles 140. Of course 141. Document summaries 142. Blameless
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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens
This tends to the discomfiture of Mr. Smallweed, who finds it so difficult to resume his object, whatever it may be, that he becomes exasperated and secretly claws the air with an impotent vindictiveness expressive of an intense desire to tear and rend the visage of Mr. George. As the excellent old gentleman’s nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous, and his eyes green and watery; and, over and above this, as he continues, while he claws, to slide down in his chair and to collapse into a shapeless bundle, he becomes such a ghastly spectacle, even in the accustomed eyes of Judy, that that young virgin pounces at him with something more than the ardour of affection and so shakes him up and pats and pokes him in divers parts of his body, but particularly in that part which the science of self-defence would call his wind, that in his grievous distress he utters enforced sounds like a paviour’s rammer. When Judy has by these means set him up again in his chair, with a white face and a frosty nose (but still clawing), she stretches out her weazen forefinger and gives Mr. George one poke in the back. The trooper raising his head, she makes another poke at her esteemed grandfather, and having thus brought them together, stares rigidly at the fire. “Aye, aye! Ho, ho! U— u — u — ugh!” chatters Grandfather Smallweed, swallowing his rage. “My dear friend!” (still clawing). “I tell you what,” says Mr. George. “If you want to converse with me, you must speak out. I am one of the roughs, and I can’t go about and about. I haven’t the art to do it. I am not clever enough. It don’t suit me. When you go winding round and round me,” says the trooper, putting his pipe between his lips again, “damme, if I don’t feel as if I was being smothered!” And he inflates his broad chest to its utmost extent as if to assure himself that he is not smothered yet. “If you have come to give me a friendly call,” continues Mr. George, “I am obliged to you; how are you? If you have come to see whether there’s any property on the premises, look about you; you are welcome. If you want to out with something, out with it!” The blooming Judy, without removing her gaze from the fire, gives her grandfather one ghostly poke. “You see! It’s her opinion too. And why the devil that young woman won’t sit down like a Christian,” says Mr. George with his eyes musingly fixed on Judy, “I can’t comprehend.” “She keeps at my side to attend to me, sir,” says Grandfather Smallweed. “I am an old man, my dear Mr. George, and I need some attention. I can carry my years; I am not a brimstone pollparrot” (snarling and looking unconsciously for the cushion), “but I need attention, my dear friend.” “Well!” returns the trooper, wheeling his chair to face the old man. “Now then?” “My friend in the city, Mr. George, has done a little business with a pupil of yours.” “Has he?” says Mr. George. “I am sorry to hear it.” “Yes, sir.” Grandfather Smallweed rubs his legs. “He is a fine young soldier now, Mr. George, by the name of Carstone. Friends came forward and paid it all up, honourable.” “Did they?” returns Mr. George. “Do you think your friend in the city would like a piece of advice?” “I think he would, my dear friend. From you.” “I advise him, then, to do no more business in that quarter. There’s no more to be got by it. The young gentleman, to my knowledge, is brought to a dead halt.” “No, no, my dear friend. No, no, Mr. George. No, no, no, sir,” remonstrates Grandfather Smallweed, cunningly rubbing his spare legs. “Not quite a dead halt, I think. He has good friends, and he is good for his pay, and he is good for the selling price of his commission, and he is good for his chance in a lawsuit, and he is good for his chance in a wife, and — oh, do you know, Mr. George, I think my friend would consider the young gentleman good for something yet?” says Grandfather Smallweed, turn-
Charles Dickens ing up his velvet cap and scratching his ear like a monkey. Mr. George, who has put aside his pipe and sits with an arm on his chair-back, beats a tattoo on the ground with his right foot as if he were not particularly pleased with the turn the conversation has taken. “But to pass from one subject to another,” resumes Mr. Smallweed. “‘To promote the conversation, as a joker might say. To pass, Mr. George, from the ensign to the captain.” “What are you up to, now?” asks Mr. George, pausing with a frown in stroking the recollection of his moustache. “What captain?” “Our captain. The captain we know of. Captain Hawdon.” “Oh! That’s it, is it?” says Mr. George with a low whistle as he sees both grandfather and granddaughter looking hard at him. “You are there! Well? What about it? Come, I won’t be smothered any more. Speak!” “My dear friend,” returns the old man, “I was applied — Judy, shake me up a little! — I was applied to yesterday about the captain, and my opinion still is that the captain is not dead.” “Bosh!” observes Mr. George. “What was your remark, my dear friend?” inquires the old man with his hand to his ear. “Bosh!” “Ho!” says Grandfather Smallweed. “Mr. George, of my opinion you can judge for yourself according to the questions asked of me and the reasons given for asking ’em. Now, what do you think the lawyer making the inquiries wants?” “A job,” says Mr. George. “Nothing of the kind!”
folding his arms with an air of confirmed resolution. “My dear friend, he is a lawyer, and a famous one. He wants to see some fragment in Captain Hawdon’s writing. He don’t want to keep it. He only wants to see it and compare it with a writing in his possession.” “Well?” “Well, Mr. George. Happening to remember the advertisement concerning Captain Hawdon and any information that could be given respecting him, he looked it up and came to me — just as you did, my dear friend. WILL you shake hands? So glad you came that day! I should have missed forming such a friendship if you hadn’t come!” “Well, Mr. Smallweed?” says Mr. George again after going through the ceremony with some stiffness. “I had no such thing. I have nothing but his signature. Plague pestilence and famine, battle murder and sudden death upon him,” says the old man, making a curse out of one of his few remembrances of a prayer and squeezing up his velvet cap between his angry hands, “I have half a million of his signatures, I think! But you,” breathlessly recovering his mildness of speech as Judy re-adjusts the cap on his skittle-ball of a head, “you, my dear Mr. George, are likely to have some letter or paper that would suit the purpose. Anything would suit the purpose, written in the hand.” “Some writing in that hand,” says the trooper, pondering; “may be, I have.” “My dearest friend!” “May be, I have not.” “Ho!” says Grandfather Smallweed, crest-
“But if I had bushels of it, I would not show as much as would make a cartridge without knowing why.” “Sir, I have told you why. My dear Mr. George, I have told you why.” “Not enough,” says the trooper, shaking his head. “I must know more, and approve it.” “Then, will you come to the lawyer? My dear friend, will you come and see the gentleman?” urges Grandfather Smallweed, pulling out a lean old silver watch with hands like the leg of a skeleton. “I told him it was probable I might call upon him between ten and eleven this forenoon, and it’s now half after ten. Will you come and see the gentleman, Mr. George?” “Hum!” says he gravely. “I don’t mind that. Though why this should concern you so much, I don’t know.” “Everything concerns me that has a chance in it of bringing anything to light about him. Didn’t he take us all in? Didn’t he owe us immense sums, all round? Concern me? Who can anything about him concern more than me? Not, my dear friend,” says Grandfather Smallweed, lowering his tone, “that I want YOU to betray anything. Far from it. Are you ready to come, my dear friend?” “Aye! I’ll come in a moment. I promise nothing, you know.” “No, my dear Mr. George; no.” “And you mean to say you’re going to give me a lift to this place, wherever it is, without charging for it?” Mr. George inquires, getting his hat and thick wash-leather gloves. This pleasantry so tickles Mr. Smallweed that he laughs, long and low, before the fire. But ever while he laughs, he glances over his paralytic shoulder at Mr. George and eagerly watches him as he unlocks the padlock of a homely cupboard at the distant end of the gallery, looks here and there upon the higher shelves, and ultimately takes something out with a rustling of paper, folds it, and puts it in his breast. Then Judy pokes Mr. Smallweed once, and Mr. Smallweed pokes Judy once. “I am ready,” says the trooper, coming back. “Phil, you can carry this old gentleman to his coach, and make nothing of him.” “Oh, dear me! O Lord! Stop a moment!” says Mr. Smallweed. “He’s so very prompt! Are you sure you can do it carefully, my worthy man?” Phil makes no reply, but seizing the chair and its load, sidles away, tightly bugged by the now speechless Mr. Smallweed, and bolts along the passage as if he had an acceptable commission to carry the old gentleman to the nearest volcano. His shorter trust, however, terminating at the cab, he deposits him there; and the fair Judy takes her place beside him, and the chair embellishes the roof, and Mr. George takes the vacant place upon the box. Mr. George is quite confounded by the spectacle he beholds from time to time as he peeps into the cab through the window behind him, where the grim Judy is always motionless, and the old gentleman with his cap over one eye is always sliding off the seat into the straw and looking upward at him out of his other eye with a helpless expression of being jolted in the back. Chapter XXVII— More Old Soldiers Than One Mr. George has not far to ride with folded arms upon the box, for their destination is Lincoln’s Inn Fields. When the driver stops his horses, Mr. George alights, and looking in at the window, says, “What, Mr. Tulkinghorn’s your man, is he?” “Yes, my dear friend. Do you know him, Mr. George?” “Why, I have heard of him — seen him too, I think. But I don’t know him, and he don’t know me.” There ensues the carrying of Mr. Smallweed upstairs, which is done to perfection with the trooper’s help. He is borne into Mr. Tulkinghorn’s great room and deposited on the Turkey rug before the fire. Mr. Tulkinghorn is not within at the present moment but will be back directly. The occupant of the pew in the hall, having said thus much, stirs the fire and leaves the triumvi-
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From Page 67 rate to warm themselves. Mr. George is mightily curious in respect of the room. He looks up at the painted ceiling, looks round at the old law-books, contemplates the portraits of the great clients, reads aloud the names on the boxes. “‘Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet,’” Mr. George reads thoughtfully. “Ha! ‘Manor of Chesney Wold.’ Humph!” Mr. George stands looking at these boxes a long while — as if they were pictures — and comes back to the fire repeating, “Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, and Manor of Chesney Wold, hey?” “Worth a mint of money, Mr. George!” whispers Grandfather Smallweed, rubbing his legs. “Powerfully rich!” “Who do you mean? This old gentleman, or the Baronet?” “This gentleman, this gentleman.” “So I have heard; and knows a thing or two, I’ll hold a wager. Not bad quarters, either,” says Mr. George, looking round again. “See the strong-box yonder!” This reply is cut short by Mr. Tulkinghorn’s arrival. There is no change in him, of course. Rustily drest, with his spectacles in his hand, and their very case worn threadbare. In manner, close and dry. In voice, husky and low. In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps. The peerage may have warmer worshippers and faithfuller believers than Mr. Tulkinghorn, after all, if everything were known. “Good morning, Mr. Smallweed, good morning!” he says as he comes in. “You have brought the sergeant, I see. Sit down, sergeant.” As Mr. Tulkinghorn takes off his gloves and puts them in his hat, he looks with half-closed eyes across the room to where the trooper stands and says within himself perchance, “You’ll do, my friend!” “Sit down, sergeant,” he repeats as he comes to his table, which is set on one side of the fire, and takes his easy-chair. “Cold and raw this morning, cold and raw!” Mr. Tulkinghorn warms before the bars, alternately, the palms and knuckles of his hands and looks (from behind that blind which is always down) at the trio sitting in a little semicircle before him. “Now, I can feel what I am about” (as perhaps he can in two senses), “Mr. Smallweed.” The old gentleman is newly shaken up by Judy to bear his part in the conversation. “You have brought our good friend the sergeant, I see.” “Yes, sir,” returns Mr. Smallweed, very servile to the lawyer’s wealth and influence. “And what does the sergeant say about this business?” “Mr. George,” says Grandfather Smallweed with a tremulous wave of his shrivelled hand, “this is the gentleman, sir.” Mr. George salutes the gentleman but otherwise sits bolt upright and profoundly silent — very forward in his chair, as if the full complement of regulation appendages for a field-day hung about him. Mr. Tulkinghorn proceeds, “Well, George — I believe your name is George?” “It is so, Sir.” “What do you say, George?” “I ask your pardon, sir,” returns the trooper, “but I should wish to know what YOU say?” “Do you mean in point of reward?” “I mean in point of everything, sir.” This is so very trying to Mr. Smallweed’s temper that he suddenly breaks out with “You’re a brimstone beast!” and as suddenly asks pardon of Mr. Tulkinghorn, excusing himself for this slip of the tongue by saying to Judy, “I was thinking of your grandmother, my dear.” “I supposed, sergeant,” Mr. Tulkinghorn resumes as he leans on one side of his chair and crosses his legs, “that Mr. Smallweed might have sufficiently explained the matter. It lies in the smallest compass, however. You served under Captain Hawdon at one time, and were his attendant in illness, and rendered him many little services, and were rather in his confidence, I am told. That is so, is it not?” “Yes, sir, that is so,” says Mr. George with military brevity. “Therefore you may happen to have in your possession something — anything, no matter what; accounts, instructions, orders, a letter, anything — in Captain Hawdon’s writing. I wish to compare his writing with some that I have. If you can give me the opportunity, you shall be rewarded for your trouble. Three, four, five,
Magazine guineas, you would consider handsome, I dare say.” “Noble, my dear friend!” cries Grandfather Smallweed, screwing up his eyes. “If not, say how much more, in your conscience as a soldier, you can demand. There is no need for you to part with the writing, against your inclination — though I should prefer to have it.” Mr. George sits squared in exactly the same attitude, looks at the painted ceiling, and says never a word. The irascible Mr. Smallweed scratches the air. “The question is,” says Mr. Tulkinghorn in his methodical, subdued, uninterested way, “first, whether you have any of Captain Hawdon’s writing?” “First, whether I have any of Captain Hawdon’s writing, sir,” repeats Mr. George. “Secondly, what will satisfy you for the trouble of producing it?” “Secondly, what will satisfy me for the trouble of producing it, sir,” repeats Mr. George. “Thirdly, you can judge for yourself whether it is at all like that,” says Mr. Tulkinghorn, suddenly handing him some sheets of written paper tied together. “Whether it is at all like that, sir. Just so,” repeats Mr. George. All three repetitions Mr. George pronounces in a mechanical manner, looking straight at Mr. Tulkinghorn; nor does he so much as glance at the affidavit in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, that has been given to him for his inspection (though he still holds it in his hand), but continues to look at the lawyer with an air of troubled meditation. “Well?” says Mr. Tulkinghorn. “What do you say?” “Well, sir,” replies Mr. George, rising erect and looking immense, “I would rather, if you’ll excuse me, have nothing to do with this.” Mr. Tulkinghorn, outwardly quite undisturbed, demands, “Why not?” “Why, sir,” returns the trooper. “Except on military compulsion, I am not a man of business. Among civilians I am what they call in Scotland a ne’er-do-weel. I have no head for papers, sir. I can stand any fire better than a fire of cross questions. I mentioned to Mr. Smallweed, only an hour or so ago, that when I come into things of this kind I feel as if I was being smothered. And that is my sensation,” says Mr. George, looking round upon the company, “at the present moment.” With that, he takes three strides forward to replace the papers on the lawyer’s table and three strides backward to resume his former station, where he stands perfectly upright, now looking at the ground and now at the painted ceillhg, with his hands behind him as if to prevent himself from accepting any other document whatever. Under this provocation, Mr. Smallweed’s favourite adjective of disparagement is so close to his tongue that he begins the words “my dear friend” with the monosyllable “brim,” thus converting the possessive pronoun into brimmy and appearing to have an impediment in his speech. Once past this difficulty, however, he exhorts his dear friend in the tenderest manner not to be rash, but to do what so eminent a gentleman requires, and to do it with a good grace, confident that it must be unobjectionable as well as profitable. Mr. Tulkinghorn merely utters an occasional sentence, as, “You are the best judge of your own interest, sergeant.” “Take care you do no harm by this.” “Please yourself, please yourself.” “If you know what you mean, that’s quite enough.” These he utters with an appearance of perfect indifference as he looks over the papers on his table and prepares to write a letter. Mr. George looks distrustfully from the painted ceiling to the ground, from the ground to Mr. Smallweed, from Mr. Smallweed to Mr. Tulkinghorn, and from Mr. Tulkinghorn to the painted ceiling again, often in his perplexity changing the leg on which he rests. “I do assure you, sir,” says Mr. George, “not to say it offensively, that between you and Mr. Smallweed here, I really am being smothered fifty times over. I really am, sir. I am not a match for you gentlemen. Will you allow me to ask why you want to see the captain’s hand, in the case that I could find any specimen of it?” Mr. Tulkinghorn quietly shakes his head. “No. If you were a man of business, sergeant, you would not need to be informed that there are confidential reasons, very harmless in themselves, for many such wants in the profession to
which I belong. But if you are afraid of doing any injury to Captain Hawdon, you may set your mind at rest about that.” “Aye! He is dead, sir.” “IS he?” Mr. Tulkinghorn quietly sits down to write. “Well, sir,” says the trooper, looking into his hat after another disconcerted pause, “I am sorry not to have given you more satisfaction. If it would be any satisfaction to any one that I should be confirmed in my judgment that I would rather have nothing to do with this by a friend of mine who has a better head for business than I have, and who is an old soldier, I am willing to consult with him. I— I really am so completely smothered myself at present,” says Mr. George, passing his hand hopelessly across his brow, “that I don’t know but what it might be a satisfaction to me.” Mr. Smallweed, hearing that this authority is an old soldier, so strongly inculcates the expediency of the trooper’s taking counsel with him, and particularly informing him of its being a question of five guineas or more, that Mr. George engages to go and see him. Mr. Tulkinghorn says nothing either way. “I’ll consult my friend, then, by your leave, sir,” says the trooper, “and I’ll take the liberty of looking in again with the final answer in the course of the day. Mr. Smallweed, if you wish to be carried downstairs — ” “In a moment, my dear friend, in a moment. Will you first let me speak half a word with this gentleman in private?” “Certainly, sir. Don’t hurry yourself on my account.” The trooper retires to a distant part of the room and resumes his curious inspection of the boxes, strong and otherwise. “If I wasn’t as weak as a brimstone baby, sir,” whispers Grandfather Smallweed, drawing the lawyer down to his level by the lapel of his coat and flashing some half-quenched green fire out of his angry eyes, “I’d tear the writing away from him. He’s got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there. Judy saw him put it there. Speak up, you crabbed image for the sign of a walking– stick shop, and say you saw him put it there!” This vehement conjuration the old gentleman accompanies with such a thrust at his granddaughter that it is too much for his strength, and he slips away out of his chair, drawing Mr. Tulkinghorn with him, until he is arrested by Judy, and well shaken. “Violence will not do for me, my friend,” Mr. Tulkinghorn then remarks coolly. “No, no, I know, I know, sir. But it’s chafing and galling — it’s — it’s worse than your smattering chattering magpie of a grandmother,” to the imperturbable Judy, who only looks at the fire, “to know he has got what’s wanted and won’t give it up. He, not to give it up! HE! A vagabond! But never mind, sir, never mind. At the most, he has only his own way for a little while. I have him periodically in a vice. I’ll twist him, sir. I’ll screw him, sir. If he won’t do it with a good grace, I’ll make him do it with a bad one, sir! Now, my dear Mr. George,” says Grandfather Smallweed, winking at the lawyer hideously as he releases him, “I am ready for your kind assistance, my excellent friend!” Mr. Tulkinghorn, with some shadowy sign of amusement manifesting itself through his selfpossession, stands on the hearth-rug with his back to the fire, watching the disappearance of Mr. Smallweed and acknowledging the trooper’s parting salute with one slight nod. It is more difficult to get rid of the old gentleman, Mr. George finds, than to bear a hand in carrying him downstairs, for when he is replaced in his conveyance, he is so loquacious on the subject of the guineas and retains such an affectionate hold of his button — having, in truth, a secret longing to rip his coat open and rob him — that some degree of force is necessary on the trooper’s part to effect a separation. It is accomplished at last, and he proceeds alone in quest of his adviser. By the cloisterly Temple, and by Whitefriars (there, not without a glance at Hanging–Sword Alley, which would seem to be something in his way), and by Blackfriars Bridge, and Blackfriars Road, Mr. George sedately marches to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the farfamed elephant who has lost his castle formed of a thousand four-horse coaches to a stronger iron monster than he, ready to chop him into
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To Be Continued Next Issue
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Thornton footy in the 1890s ■ Local football for the 1895 season started on Saturday, May 25, according to a local newspaper report: “The football eason opened, on Saturday, when the Alexandra team journeyed to Thornton, to play the first match of the season. “Alexandra had some difficulty in getting a team, only beiig able to muster 12 men against Thornton's I5,so the game was looked upon as a sure thing for the home team, but the red ad blacke pushed them very close notswithstandinding their handicap. “The game resulted in a win for Thornton by two goals to one. “Crougey, Kellock, Hill andDixon played good football for Alexandra whilst J. and W. Dobson, Tossol and H. Robinson did best work fair Thornton. “Kellock got a nasty blow on the face from one of his own players, and had to retire from the field in the third quarter. “Much praise is due to Mr. A. E. Stillman,. who umpired the match in a very impartial manner. “Alexandra try conclusions with Mansfield to-morrow (Saturday, MJune 1) in Mr. Gordon's paddock. “The following pliyers will represent Alexandra, who are requested to be on the ground, not later than. 2.30 - Leckie, Hill, Lee, Dixon, Crougey,. Mensforth, Maddeford, Hubbard, Asquith, Baudewig, Geoghegan, Armstrong, Robinson (3), Dobson (2), Tossol, McMartin, Longbottom. EmergenciesBartlett, Waymouth, Ainsworth, MCCready, Wilson.” ★ In October 1896, M. Power wrote to the Alexandra Shire Council for a refund of rent of the hall for A ball held by Alexandra and Thornton football clubs in aid of hospital. “Agreed to.” ★ By September 3, 1897, the Standard was reporting: “On Saturday last the Thornton. footballers journeyed to Yarck to play the return match with the Yarck boys. “Thornton are certainly to be complimented on their pluck for venturing out in.such weather, it was pouring rain from the time they left in the morning until they arrived home at night. “The ground was one sheet of water,.but notwithstanding this both teams were in readiness at 3.30, and one of the most friendly games ever witnessed resulted in a win for Thornton by 1 goal 1 behind to 1 behind. “After the match the visitors were invited to tea at Mr. Smith's hotel, and justice having been done to the good things provided,.they started on their home journey, well pleased with their visit to Yarck, and the reception accorded them by the members of the football club.. “Mr. George Robinson acted as central umpire, and as usual his decisions were never once questioned.. “To-mornow (Saturday) the third match of the season between the Alexandra and Thornton football clubs takes place on the latter's ground.. “Play will commence at 2.30 sharp. The following wiltl represent Alexandra,and are requested to be in readiness at l o'clock, at the Miners' Exchange - Lee (capt),. Armstrong,. Hubbard,. Williamson, Ainsworth,. Hall,. Maddeford,
● Advertisement for a Fancy Dress Football Match at Thornton Football Ground in the September 24, 1897 edition of the Alexandra and Yea Standard. Kilpat rick,. Prosser (2), Woods, Kent,. Payne, Johnson,, McGee,. McColl,. M'Creedy, Woodsman, Vining, Kellock, McNicholl, Mensforth Popple, Brooks, H. Kilpatrick, A. Andrews. ★ Alexandra vs Thornton (Saturday, September 4, 1897) “The above teams met on Saturday last for the third time this season, and the Thornton boys again came off victorious. “The weather was beautiful, and after the heavy rain we have had of late, it was-taken advantage of by a large number for a day's outing. “Boggy loads were to be seen coming from all directions, and pulling.up as near the ground as possible so as to got a good view of the match, whilst groups were to be seen posted here and there round the ground,, wearing the colours of their tean.. “The ladies, as usual at Thornton, wore in strong force, and "'barracked" well for their side. “The Alexandra team.were late in putting in an appearance, but once there, they were not long in getting on to thed ground. “J. Maddeford captained the visitors, and. J. Carew filled a similar position, for the home tenm. “On the former counting his men, he found that only 16 had turned up, and consequently had to commence play with four men short, but at halfitime added two more to their number. “The first and secondquarters
were very even, both teams working hard. and playing realgood football. “Every man playing the ball,and doin their uotnost to score, while not as much as an angry word was to be heard on anypat of theground. “Up to half-time only one behind had. been scored by Thornton, Alexandra failing to score anything. “Shortly after the commencement of the third quarter it.was plainly to be seen, that. Alexandra had run themselves out for they grtadually weakened and Thornton, taking advantage of this, redoubled their efforts, and were not long in soring.a goal.. “Thelast quarter Thornton had it all their own way, and added three goals and several behinds to their score. “At the termination of the match the tolals wereThornton 4 goals, 8 behinds; Alexandra 1behind. “For the visitors the best game, andr T. Prosser and G. Kent played the best game, and C. Prosser, Kellock,Armstrong, McColl, Wilson and Hubbard also played well. “Those who played best for the home team, were H.. Robinson,. R. Rennie, Carew, Tossol,. Baudewig, and R. Finney. “Mr.Geo. Robinson acted as central umpire,. anl although not in the best of health did his bet to keep up with the play and to give satisfaction. to.both sides. “Messrs. J, McKinnon and W. Robb officia.ted as goal umpires.
“It was fully expected by many that when the above teams met, it would be one of the roughest matches on record, but they were disappointed, for a more friendly game it has not been our lot to witness, and both teams are deserving of praise for the mannly and friendly spirit sh own towards each other throughout the whole contest.. “At a meeting, of the Thornton footballers held at the Rubticon hotel on. Saturdaly eveninglast, it was decidecl to hold a fancy dress football ball on Friday 8th October. “A. collection is to be taken up on the gccund, by theladies, in aid of the Alexandra hospital. “The proceeds of the ball are to go towards the funds of the club, and the price of admiossion. has been fixed at 3s 6d. for double ticket: “We wish the Thornton boys every success, and feel sure the residents of that and the neighbouring districts will turn out in full force, and assist in making the affair a success.” ★ The ‘Odds and Ends’ column of the local newspaper in September 10, 1897, noted: “Thornton footballers are carrying all before them this season. 'Stood’ Robinson is to be complimented fo the way he has brought the juniors out this year.. “The success of the team is mainly due to "Stood's" untiring efforts in keeping them at practice, and in getting them to roll up to matches.” ★ Thornton Football Club’s welldeserved reputation for social events started in the 1890s. “On Friday last a fancy costume football scratch match was played at Thornton. “‘Stood’ Robinson and J. A Maddeford picked sides, and, the fun caused by the players for over two hours was fast and furious. “Of course, no one present expected to see a severely contested match. “The idea was to get as much funn ou of the supposed match as possible, and the Robinsons, Maddeford, Gilmours and Hulley succeeeded in so doing, raising at times roars of laughter from the spectators. “Perhaps the best costumes were that of J. Gilmour and E. Hulley, who were got up as wild men of the woods, mounted on horseback, and it would have been impossible for even their own mothers to have recognised them. “The novel costumes of the other players attracted much attention and caused great amusement to those present, which we are sorry to say, consisted entirely of Thornton residents. Alexandra people being conspicuous' by their absence, “The Thornton footballers had gone to a deal of troble in arranging matters so as to give a good afternoon's amusement to visitors, and to take up a collection in aid of our local hospital, but owing to he business people and residents of Alexandra not thinking it worthwhile r to patronise them, and thereby showing that they did not appreciate their efforts the committee very wisely decided not to make any collection. “We. think that these gatherings, especially when got in aid of charity, should receive the support they de-
serve, and when young men make such an effort, and work'so hard to ensure success, and then do not receive any support from town residents, and not even a life-governor or' member of the hospital committee being present, it is a disgrace, and does not give outside districts any encouragement to try and assist the hospital. “It is well known that when an entertainment or sports of any kind is got up in Alexandra, the Thornton people are always to the fore, and ready to do all in their power to assist and then for them to receive such treatment in return, is very unjust. APLAINAND FANCYDRESS BALL was held in the Thornton hall in the evening, and it is doubtful if ever before has a greater number of dancers been assembled within those walls at one time. “Close upon 50 coupleswere present, and not what may be called a bad dancer among them. “Everyone seemed pleased with themselves and all around them,joy being visible in every countenence. “There was not one present who did not thoroughly enjoy themselves, and towards the close of the evening many enquiries were made as to when the next ball was to take place at Thornton. “There were not a great number in fancy costumes, and among those, first place must be given to Miss Dolly Robinson, who looked exceedingly beautiful as spring flowers. “Miss Neily Johnson was again attired as the " Alexandra and Yea Standard," and was much admired. Miss A. and G. Whiting as powder and patches, Miss A. Lee, flower girl, Miss E. Coller, lady Barbara, and Miss Coller, as night, also looked very nice. “The young ladies who appeared in evening dress and known to us were Misses Page, M. Christie, M. Wilson (visitor), E. McMurray, Bell Robertson, Jess Robertson, M. Lee, E. Maldeford, R. Sparks, L. Maddeford, M. McCormack, M. Hoban, J. McMartin,.K. McMartin,. E. Mitchell, Barbara Downey, K. Davis, L. Johnson, R. Hanning, E. Payne, Chance Whiting, Eva- Whiting, M. McClure, F. Robb, M. Scorah, N. Dunn and J. McCallum. “Mr. Tom Robinson was the only gentleman in fancy 'costume, and was attired as Jack Tar. “The music was supplied by Miss Snow Whiting, and reflected great credit on her. “The task set this young lady, to play through a prograinme of 24 dances is not one that many.young ladies would care to undertake, and she is deserving of great praise for the excellent music she provided. “‘Stood’Robinson, hon secretary, and his committee must be complimented for the way in which they carried out the whole affair. “Not a single hitch occurred throughout the day and night, every member of the committee knowing his work, and performing it with a will that was pleasing to witness.”
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Toast proposed to ‘manly sports’ ■ Little press coverage was given to Thornton football affairs in 1898, 1899 or 1900. The Robertson Cup was the focus of a May 31, 1901, report: “A meeting of delegates appointed by the Thornton and Alexandra clubs was held at Wood's Hotel on Saturday evening last, for the purpose offraming rules for the, propoer carrying out of the competition for the Robertson Cup. “Mr. Phillips was voted to the chair. “The following delegates were present: Thornton: Messrs T. and W. Robinson; Alexandra: Messrs Kent and Mustey. “Mr. Mustoy proposed and Mr. Kent seconded - That the Alexandra and Thornton football club (sic) enter into competition for the cup. Carried. “Mr. Mustey proposed and Mr. T. Robinson seconded- that the best two matches out of three decide the premership. Carried. “Mr. T. Robinson proposed and Mr. Musty seconded -That a draw for the first round be made. Carried. “Mr. T. A. Fox was present, and having drawn up a set of rules to govern the cup matches, was asked to read same, which was adopted, with some alteration. “Mr. Kent proposed and Mr. W. Robinson seconded-Messrs A. Stillman and W. Robinson be asked to act as umpires in the matches proposed to be held in cup competition. Carried. THE DRAW “The following is the draw for the first round, the game to take place on the ground of the first named club in each instance. June 1-Alexandra v. Thornton. Juno 22-Thornton v. Alexandra. “Mr. T. A Fox was appointed secretary to the committee. “A vote of thanks to Mr. Phillips for presiding terminated the proceedings.” ★ A match between a combined Thornton-Alexandra and Jamieson was covered in the September 20, 1901 edition of the Alexandra and Yea Standard: “The football match at Thornton on Saturday last was very one-sided. It was expected that the strong combination to be pitted against Thornton and Alexandra would have brought about quite an opposite result. “Thornton did not let Jamieson have a look in in the first quarter. The game was characteristic of that' good fooling that has always prevailed in this district, and our footballers are to be complimented on their easy victory. “The local team was made up of Thointon and Alexandra players, which really is purely an Alexandra team, while Janmeson, we are informed had selections from Mansfield, Bonnie Doon, Maindample, Trappers, and their own ranks. It was a great defeat and our boys are jubilant. The visitors were entertained in a right loyal manner, and thoroughly enjoyed their trip. “An enjoyable evening was put in in the Thornton Public Hall, and the following ladies and gentlemen assisted in currying out a first-class program of and instrumental numbers :- Song, Mr. D. Sparke; recit ation, Mr W. McSolvent; song, Miss D.Robinsion; song, Miss Morrisey;
● William Hoskin Whiting, host at the Exchange Hotel, performed Gloria In Excelsis, at a smoke night in 1902. song, Miss Hewart; song, Mr W. Robinson, Geo. Kent, and J. Robb; song, Mr. Langhorn; song, McMartin. Mr. W. Ridge; instrumental music by ★ Mr. Scorah, Mr. Sparke, Miss Thornton Football Club, and its Morrisey, Mr. Dale, Miss Hewart, good relations with peers at alexMr. W. Robb, Miss Scorah, and Mr. andra, was mentioned in the April F. Scorah, jun. 17, 1903, edition which included a First Quarter.-Thornfton: report on a ‘Complimentary Smoke Carew, Sugden and Wood, 1 goal Night’: each; behinds by Christie (3), “On Friday evening last, at Sugden, Wood, Baker, and Carew; Whiting's Exchange hotel, a comtotal, 3-7-25. Jamicson Nil. plimentary smoke night and presenSecond Quarter.-Thornton : tation was tendered to Mr. W. T. Sugden 1 goal ; behinds by Sugden Mustey, who had just returned on a and E. Payne; total, 41-9-33. visit from Kyneton. This gentleman, Jamieson: Behinds by Harrison (2), until a few months back, occupied a Kennedy; total, 3 points. position in the local National Bank, Third Quarter. - Thornton: from whence he was transferred to Goals by Wood and H. Johnson ; the town already mentioned. behinds by G. Kent (2), McCallum, “Mr. Mustey, it will be rememE. Payne, Wood, Carew (2) ; total, bered, took great interest in sport in 6-17-53. Jamieson: Goal by general, and beside other things ocKennedy and behind by Harrison, cupied the position of secretary to the total, 1-4-10. tennis, football and cricket clubs, also Last Quarter.-Thornton: Be- captain of the football club, consehinds by R. Rennie (2), Wood (2). quently the members and friends of McCallum, H. Johnson, J. Rennie, the above named clubs met and deCarew, and Mustey; total. 6-26-62. cided that on his returning to this town Jamieson : Goal by Kennedy; and for a short holiday, he should be acbehinds by Buckland and Burns; corded a fitting welcome, which took tolal, 2-6-18. Grand total of 62 points place as above stated. to 18. “A word of praise is here due to “Mr. A. Stillman gave great sat- Mrs. Whiting for the able and credisfaction to both teams as central. itable manner in which she catered Messrs. Langhorn and H. Johnson for'those present - the large dininghad charge of the flags.” room, vhich was tastefully decorated ★ with flowers and evergreens interThe Standard of May 2, 1902, laced with the colors of the local footrecorded details of The annual meet- ball club, looked charming, while the ing of the club held at the Rubicon table, literally covered with good Hotel, on April 8, when the following things, would have done credit to a office-bearers for 1902 were chef de cuisine. elected:- President, W. Buckley; “At about 8.30 the room began to vice-presidents, D. Sparke and W.J. fill rapidly, and half an hour later there Robb ; treasurer, W. Buckley; com- were fully fifty present, several memmittce, H Robinson, Geo. Kent, W. bers of the Thornton Football Club Robb, S. Jeffery, W. McSolvent, R. putting in an appearance, thus showRennie, and W.J. Gilmore; delegates, ing that the good feeling existing beH. Robinson and W. Buckley; cap- tween these clubs was likely to retain, H. Robinson; vice-captain, J. main so. Carey; match committee, H. “Mr. J.W. Leckie, president of the
local club, occupied the chair, and in a short speech informed those present the object for which they had assembled there that evening. “Before proceeding further, he asked all to fill their glasses and proposed the toast of The King, which was drunk with musical honors. “The chairman, in proposing the toast of Our Guest, said that he was pleased to preside over such a gathering there that night. “He spoke at considerable length on the good qualities which the guest of the evening possessed, both on the football field and in his business capacity. “During the three years ‘Billy ' had been resident here, he had always found him to be a thorough gentleman and a true "sport." “When Mr. Mustey received "marching orders " towards the end of last football season, the members did not have time to give him a fitting send-off, so it was arranged that should he at any time again be in our midst, he should be accorded a hearty welcome. “This was their object this evening. After wishing Mr. Mustey future prosperity and happiness, he then had much pleasure in asking him to accept a small token of the esteem in which he was held, from the members and friends of the Alexandra Football Club, which took the form of a gold mounted mbrella, suitably engraved. The toast was drunk with musical honors. “Mr Mustey, on rising to respond, was received with deafening applause, said he was pleased to see such a gathering, and hear the many expressions tendered him, but did not think he was deserving of them any more than anyone else. “He considered football helped to make a.man of one, and hoped that he would long be spared to he able to look back with pleasure to the many happy times he had had in their midst. “He once more thanked them for their valuable presentation. Mr. W. Whiting, who occupied the vicechair, then proposed Manly Sports, and in a neat and appropriate speech considered that sport was not sport at all if not manly, the more risks the more enthusiasm. “He.trusted that the guest of the evening would longenjoy the pleaures of this life. “Mr J.A.Baker then proposed the Host and Hostess, and said that the hostess (Mrs. Whiting) would be remembered by some present that evening as the old time and popular hostess of bygone days. “He hoped that both she and the host would enjoy many more such. happy days. Thp toast was most nthusiastically drunk,with musical honois. “Mr. Whiting suitably responded. “The last toast onthe list was The Chairman, which was proposed by Mr. Whiting; and drunk with musical honors. “The following are to he commended for their able efforts in the way of harmony during the evening:Mr. Wakeham, Bid Me to Love, and Why Must we Say Good-bye; Mr. W.H. Whiting, Gloria in. Excplsis, The Laird o' Cock'pen, and a whistling solo, Ben Bolt ; Mr. W. Dobson;Alice,` Where art Thou, and The Blue Alsatian Mountains; Mr. Leckie, Way Down upon the Swannie River ; Mr. Raiymond, over
ture (Cake Walk), Kiss Your Goosie, and Come Out; Mr. Henley, Getting it by Degrees; Mr.. B. Johnson, two. tin whistle solos; Mesers. Kidney, Wilmot, Barbour, Robinson, Kean, F. Johnson, Irvine, and Creighton also contributed. “The singing of Auld Lang Syne brought a very enjoyable evening to a close. “The committee, Messrs. Armstrong, H. Johnson, G. Fullerton, and the secretary, E.N. Sampson, are to be complimented. on the excellent manner in which the arrangemonts were carried out.” ★ Annual meetings in 1903 for the Thornton and Alexandra were recorded in the local newspaper: “The annual meeting of the Thornton Football Club, was heold at Buckley's Rubicon Hotel, on Friday evening, April 3, when there was a large attendance present. “Mr. W. Buckley, president of the club, occupied the chair, and after several matters of trivial importance had been dealt with, the election of officers was then proceeded with, and resulted as follows :“President, Mr. W. Buckley (reelected); vice-presidents, Messrs. R. H. Ellis, J. Wylie, W. Knowles, A. Sparke, and H. Jennings; secretary, Mr. W. H. Robinson (re-elected); treasurer, Mr. W. McSolvin; captain, Mr. G. Kent; vice captain, Mr. Carew; match committee, Messrs. G. Kent, H. Robinson, and W. Kean; delegates, Messrs. W. Buckley, and G. Kent. “The membership fee was fixed at 2s. Gd., and the meeting adjourned. “The annual meeting of the Alexandra Football Club will be held at Wood's Corner Hotel, on Saturday (to-morrow) evening, at 8 p.m., when a full attendance is requested. “A scratch match between teams representing Alexandra and Johnson's Creek will be played on the park area, to-morrow afternoon, when a number of new men will strip for both sides. “It is to be hoped that a full muster will put in an appearance, and an interesting game ensue.” ★ According to a June 12, 1903, item: “The verdict of those who witnessed the [Alexandra v Thornton] match, on Saturday last, is that the best team won. The visitors have been most successful this season in getting to.gether an exceptionally strong team, several of which are players of the front rank. “The Davis, Kent and Robinson Brothers, and Rennie, Baker, Barber, and Keene exhibited great dash throughout the match and although they did not have the best of the play showed great superiority over their opponents. There is no need to again allude to the weaknesses of the local team, as they appear to take but little notice. Nevertheless they played a great game and gave Thornton a tight go for their victory. “The play for the first half of the game was of a particularly even nature, notwithstanding that the board showed Thornton 11 points to 1. “The second half, as usual, Alexandra played much better football, but in the matter of scoring points, were certainly unlucky. “The final scores were Thornton, two goals eight behinds, twenty points; Alexandra, one goal three be hinds, nine points.”
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Epsom Hcp attracts good field
■ The classic Epsom Handicap, to be run at Randwick on October 20 over 1600 metres, has attracted some very smart gallopers over the ‘mile’ trip. Early favourite among the first nominations is the star Western Australian mare, Arcadia Queen. Adjudged one of the best sprinter-milers in the country, she is a winner of Kingston Classic in Western Australia, among other group races. The Kingston Town Classic is one of the hardest to win, having won her five her only five starts with an unlucky second. She is coming up a four-year-old mare in August, and is strong has she has indicated at all her outings. Prepared by Grant and Alana Williams in Perth, as stated, she is a model of consistency, as her record shows. Arcadia Queen is by the triple-crown winner, Pierro, who is doing well at stud with his progeny. Just behind her in the market is the Hawkestrained, Brutal, a class galloper, coming off a ● Brutal wins in great style at the Valley. Racing Photos win the Doncaster Handicap back on April 6, with top rider, Glen Boss in the saddle.He is the metres, he feels that she has turned the corner son of New Zealand sire, O'Reilly. and his mainstay. Brutal is out of a New Zealand mare in Ironically she will return to racing in the reAlberton Princess, from the Irish stallion Golan. cently named Winx Stakes at Rosehill over 1400 From his only six starts at that stage he had won metres on August 17. three with two placings. Her main event will be the ultra-rich Cox He was a winner in Victoria before doing Plate at Moonee Valley in late August, hoping to most of his racing in Sydney. emulate Winx in winning the big one. He is in the care of one of the Hawkes brothAlthough four naturally, like Winx, is out of ers, Michael at Rosehill, under the tuition of his the question. father, John Hawkes, a member of the AustraFor a while now I felt that she was always lian Racing Hall of Fame. going to show something, and thought that she Michael's brother, Wayne, looks after the Vicwould be an ideal Caulfield Cup horse. torian operation. After winning the Australian Oaks she took With his win in the Doncaster, Brutal has her record to six wins and three minors from her taken his winnings to over $2 million. 10 starts. The ride by Boss in the Doncaster to get the Verry Elegant is by top New Zealand sire, three year-old home was a ripper, after drawing Zed, from Opulence, and will be the one to beat the extreme outside of the 18 horse field. come the big day. For mine Brutal will be the one to beat in one of the classics of the Australasian turf, come Grand Final Day. One that will attract attention is the New Zealander, Te Akau Shark, a noted mud-runner, who has only started six times for five strong wins. Last year he won the Open Sprint Hastings in New Zealand, in the care of Jamie Richard, winning over 1400 metres, so the 1600 of the Doncaster will be up his alley, as he shows in his strong finishes. On the next line is the good filly, Verry Elegant, formerly with Darren Weir, now with leading Sydney trainer Chris Waller. He has openly stated after losing his world champion. Winx to stud, being mated with leading sire, I Am Invincible, that Verry Elegant, could be his next really good one in the stable. Her place was expected to be taken by the Caulfield Guineas winner, and a future top notcher, The Autumn Sun, but his owners the so much that he is a big rap for her. He feels Arrowfield Stud, whisked him away in the his that she is now showing his ability on the track with her manners and learning the art of how to three-year-old days to stand at their property. Since this has all happened, Verry Elegant race properly. After winning the Australian Oaks over 2400 already was showing great promise for Waller,
Ted Ryan
The James Cummings trained mare, Alizee, is smart on her day, and is a winner at Flemington having won eight of her 20 starts up until her run in the Legacy at Randwick in April. Back in February, Alizee won the Futurity in good style at Caulfield, and is a top mare on her day. Very consistent and the stable is a big rap for her, and generally puts in at each start, Forget all about her run in the Doncaster, it just wasn't her day. The John Thompson trained Dream Force put in a good run, finishing second behind Brutal in the Doncaster, and is a consistent galloper, running a great third behind Win in the George Ryder at Randwick. Another horse that always does his best, is the well named galloper, Happy Clapper, being unplaced in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes behind Winx. Overall I really like Brutal, he a good young strong colt, and turns four in August.
Trainer on mend
■ Good news during the week that a good friend of mine for some time is on the mend in hospital after being kicked by one of his horses. I refer to Bruce Purcell who I met up with when Ray Benson, the former caller with 3UZ and 3DB, called races at Pakenham, Moe, Traralgon, Sale and Bairnsdale. We were both good friends with Bruce and his wife Jean, and we go back to when his father George, trained around the area. Bruce was injured trying to unload a young horse at the Cranbourne track, when one took fright and knocked him over. At the time of going to press, Purcell was still on the critical list with swelling on the brain and a number of fractures to his body and face. Let's hope he comes good, because knowing Bruce he will keep punching. Good luck my friend, on behalf of Ray and myself. - Ted Ryan
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Capital idea at Maryborough
■ Maryborough certainly lived up to its name as the trotting capital of Australia last Monday July 15, when half of the ten event card catered for the squaregaiters. Bacardi Lindy-Virginiacollection filly Rum Junction part-owned, trained and driven by Scotts Creek's Anthony O'Connor provided the biggest upset of the afternoon when successful in the Bristol Hill Motor Inn 2Y0 Maiden over 2190 metres at Supertab odds of $$40.60. Beginning safely from gate five, Rum Junction settled three back in the moving line as Venkman (gate three) crossed Black And Gold shortly after the start, with Gatesys Girl left racing in the open. Commencing a forward move three wide in the back straight on the final occasion, O'Connor produced the "drive of the day" by ducking down to trail the leader approaching the home turn, before making full use of the sprint lane to prevail by 2.8 metres in a mile rate of 2-04.6 over Gatesys Girl which didn't shirk the issue, with Venkman a half head away in third place. ★ Veteran Bendigonian (Sutton Grange) trainer Graeme Dalton combined with Chris Alford to land the McPhersons Printing Group Maiden Trotters Mobile over 2190 metres with Majestic Son-The Kahmotion 4Y0 mare Miss Kaikoura. Raced by the Bendigo Harness Racing Training Centre's Leigh Graham, Miss Kaikoura led throughout from gate two, accounting for Sophies Yank (three back the markers) by 1.9 metres in a rate of 2-08.5. Lion Heart was third a nose away after having every chance in the trail and using the sprint lane. ★ Arcacia trainer Patrick Ryan combined with Chris Alford to snare the 2190 metre DNR Logistics 2Y0 Maiden Trotters Mobile with The Best Dream, a daughter of The Best Madrik and Lasting Beauty. Restrained from outside the front line to settle five back the markers, Alford angled the filly away from the inside mid-race to park exposed racing for the bell. Striding effortlessly to the front in the last lap when Kyvalley Surfrider galloped, The Best Dream reached the wire 16.1 metres in advance of Quake Proof which held his ground after always being handy. Speedway Queen was third 6.2 metres back after following the runner up. The mile rate 2-05. ★ Junortoun's Len Maher combined with Chris Svanosio aboard 9Y0 Armbro Invasion-Sister Beach gelding Declan Henry to greet the judge in the Aldebaran Park Maiden Trotters Mobile over 2190 metres. Moving from three back in the running line to be one/one mid-race, Declan Henry joined the pacemaker Forever Kronos on the final bend, with Miss Bouchea easing three wide after a cosy trip four back the markers. In a slugging finish, Declan Henry prevailed by 2.3 metres over Miss Bouchea and Forever Kronos who was a neck away in third place. The mile rate 2-06.5. ★ Astute Cardigan trainer Anton Golino provided the trifecta in the Lachlan Hurse Plumbing 3Y0 Trotters Mobile over 2190 metres with Orlando Storm defeating Deneuve Star and Ready To Shine. With former New Zealander Jack McKinnon in the sulky, Orlando Storm had too much quality for ther rivals after racing parked early, then one/one at the bell as Deneuve Star circled the field to park in the breeze. Easing three wide at the straight entrance, Orlando Storm scored by 6 metres over Deneuve Star in a rate of 2-04.8. Ready To Shine came from the rear to finish an eye catching third a neck away.
Few accolades
Harness Racing
no wrong at present and is on the crest of a wave, chalking up another winner when 5Y0 Artistic Fella-Bunny Lebowski gelding Creative Lad trained by grandfather Jim Barker scored in the Flying Brick BBQ & Bar Pace over 1609 metres at Geelong on Wednesday. Enjoying a one/one passage from gate three, Creative Lad finished too well for Fresco Bromac along the sprint lane off the back of the leader Dee Mach to gain the judge's nod by a head, with Dee Mach weakening to be a disappointing third 6 metres away. The mile rate 202.4.
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with Len Baker over the same trip, both driven by an in-form Greg Sugars. Enforce The Law starting from 30 metres having start number 19, ran home stylishy from mid-field to defeat the pacemaker Beat Hanoverdakashby 5.9 metres, with Rory McHinson (30m) third 7.4 metres back off a one/one passage. The mile rate 2-03. ★ Mister Joe Major (gate 3) making only his 7th race appearance, trailed the leader Jang Pel which began very quickly from outside the front line to receive the run of the race. Angling three wide on the final bend, Mister Joe Major rattled home to dead-heat after Jang Pen kicked clear on turning looking all over a winner. Tigerfhinn was third 4.9 metres back after trailing the winner. The mile rate 2-02.1.
Taken back
■ Pet Rock-My Little Black Dress gelding Rocking Bugatti was successful in the 2190 metre DNR Logistics 3Y0 Pace at Shepparton for Bendigo's Chris Svanosio. Raced by Clive & Rachel Henderson, Rocking Bugatti was taken back at the start from outside the front line, before going forward after being trapped wide to park outside the pacemaker Diesel Don. Striding past the pacemaker with around 600 metres to travel, Rocking Bugatti was pressured by Puntarno Stride outside him racing into the home turn, but gave plenty all the way up the running to score by 1.1 metres in 1-58.2 from late finisher Major Comment (one/two), with Puntarno Stride giving ground over the concluding stages to finish third 1.5 metres away.
Used sprint lane
■ Four year old Mach Three-Making Magic gelding My Magic Merlin was most impressive in winning the Barastock Pace over 2190 metres for Indigo Valley duo Wayne and Chris Anderson in a rate of 1-58.5. Trapped wide from gate six, My Magic Merlin went forward to park outside speedy Invergordon hope Ramblenroller. Despite doing it hard in the early stages, My Magic Merlin which has been in dynamic form of late, crossed the leader at the bell to score arrogant 10.6 metre victory over Ramblenroller and Royal Bengal who was 1.4 metres back in third place after using the sprint lane from three back the markers last lap.
Eased three wide
■ Maree and John Caldow were winners at Shepparton when Bye Bye Barbie, a 4Y0 daughter of American Ideal and Bring Her Back greeted the judge in the 2190 metre Bohbron Park Pace. Beginning speedily from outside the front line to park outside the leader Elenna, before receiving cover shortly after when Bettor B Nice trailed her forward to park in the open. Easing three wide on turning, Bye Bye Barbie finished best to blouse Bettor B Nice by a head in 2-01.4, with Elenna holding down third 3.8 metres away.
■ Undera trainer Justin Torney does not often receive accolades, but should after providing a stable double at Shepparton on Tuesday - lightly raced 8Y0 Lawman-Angel Force gelding Enforce The Law in the JDC Contractors Trotters Handicap over 2190 metres and 7Y0 Art MajorLittle Fib entire Mister Joe Major who deadheated with Jang Pel in the Hunter Rural Pace ■ Hamilton reinswoman Jackie Barker can do
Can do no wrong
■ Little known Kyneton trainer Linsay Potter combined with Chris Alford to land the 2570 metre Yabby am Racing Trotters Handicap at Geelong with Sonny Brooke, a 4Y0 gelded son of Majestic Son and the prolific matron Kellybrooke. Jumping straight to the front from the pole, Sonny Brooke ran his rivals ragged to register an easy 10.6 metre margin from Our Quick Cash (four wide last lap from near last) in a 2-06.4 rate. Ventimiglia was third 18.9 metres away after racing exposed from the bell.
Midfield passage
■ Another Kyneton winner on the night was 7Y0 The Pres-Howz Lucky gelding Primz Luck for Tony Xiriha which led all the way from gate five in the Devcon Properties Trotters Mobile over 2100 metres. Raced by long time harness supporter Sam Godino, Primz Luck careered away on the final bend to score by 18.2 metres in advance of Its Not Dark Yet which galloped over the concluding stages when issuing a challenge. Maori Amour was third a head away after a mid-field passage.
Toyed with rivals
■ The state's leading training combination of Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin landed the $25,000 Reg Withers 3Y0 Classic over 2180 metres at Kilmore on Thursday with very smart Courage Under Fire-Jets Girl colt Struve in a rate of 1-59. Driven by Chris Alford, Struve led from gate five and was never out of second gear, toying with his rivals to record a 3.7 metre victory from Malcolm's Rhythm one/two - three wide trail on the back of the third placegetter Im Sir Blake in
Sulky Snippets This Week
■ Tuesday - Kilmore/Mildura, Thursday Maryborough/Terang, Friday - Ballarat, Saturday - Melton, Sunday - Shepparton, Monday - Yarra Yalley, Tuesday - Bendigo.
Horses to follow
■ Major Manbar, Yankee Roller, Bettor B Nice, Our Quick Cash, Idle Times, Bullion Lady, Terrorleen. the final circuit) last lap), finishing 1.1 metres in arrears of the runner up.
Snared Cup
■ The Lagoon (Bathurst) trainer Amanda Turnbull snared the long standing 7-Eleven Cup over 2180 metres at Kilmore with Kiwi bred Ellmers Hoofing It, a gelded son of the now defunct Falcons Seelster and Ellmers Ras. First up since January 2018, Ellmers Hoofing It driven by Zac Phillips was taken back to the tail of the field from outside the front line as polemarker and hot favourite Better Exclusive led easily from the pole. Gaining a one/one trail racing for the bell on the back of Terrorleen ahead of him, Ellmers Hoofing It when eased three wide on the home turn, finished his race off well to prevail by 4.1 metres over Terrorleen and Albarock who was 1.1 metres away in third place after following the pair home. The mile rate 2-02.4.
Pair victorious
■ Alison and Chris Alford were victorious with Majestic Son-Tuppeny Bit gelding Dreamee in the $14,000 The Maori Classic for Two Year Old Trotters over 2180 metres at Stawell on Thursday, leading throughout to greet the judge by 2.5 metres from Pink Galahs and Dublin Chubb in a rate of 2-06.4. The Maori Classic (although a mobile start) is an important lead up to the time honoured Redwood Classic at Maryborough August 4..
Fishing News Regions win big ■ Launching a boat and cleaning your catch in regional Victoria has got even easier for recreational fishers over the past four years thanks to a suite of improved facilities at lakes, rivers, estuaries and bays. Victorian Fisheries Authority CEO Travis Dowling said recreational fishing licence fees and the State Government’s Target One Million plan to get more people fishing, more often, had invested nearly $1.4 million into 27 projects since 2015. “We know fishers appreciate boat launching facilities in good order and cleaning tables that make it easy to take home fresh fish for the family dinner table,” Mr Dowling said. “That’s why we funded the extension of boat ramps and the construction of new ones at Tullaroop Reservoir, Taylors Lake near Horsham, Swan Hill, Corringle, Corinella, Toolondo, Hazelwood Pondage, Pental Island, Yarrawonga and Majors Lane on the Victorian side of Lake Mulwala, Lake Eildon, Surry River and Venus Bay. “Several of these locations have also welcomed floating pontoons and jetty repairs to optimise use and speed up launching and safe boarding of boats. “New fish cleaning tables have been built at Warrnambool, Point Richards and Indented Head in Corio Bay, and Crouch’s Inlet at Warneet, whilst at Lake Eildon, solar lights have been installed at several ramps to
● Travis Dowling improve visibility when launching in low light.” Mr Dowling said the collaborative approach with regional councils had assisted in the construction and maintenance of boat ramps, and boaters could look forward to more good news as the newly created Better Boating Victoria took charge of improving facilities including parking. “The creation of BBV earlier this year delivered on a commitment of Target One Million phase 2. “BBV is leading the charge of simplifying the management of boating infrastructure under one umbrella organisation, improving boating facilities across the board and making launching and parking free of charge soon. “Recreational fishing is in great shape in Victoria thanks to unprecedented investment over many recent years. “We are the envy of many fishers interstate with booming inland fisheries for trout and native fish, and thriving marine fisheries for tuna, kingfish, snapper, King George whiting and calamari.” www.vfa.vic.gov.au/targetonemillion2
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Yea Netball
Yea Girls celebrate 74-point win ■ Sunday was a beautiful sunny day, perfect weather for a bunch of eager girls to play a great game of footy. The short numbers didn’t stop the Yea girls from working had and producing a score of which to be proud. Remi Pitman’s consistent tackling, and the marking and teamwork of Cassy Wilsmore and Ruby O’Dwyer, made for a strong midfield throughout the whole game. Goals came flooding in with three from Asha Close, three from Abbey Hanlon, and two from Cassy Wilsmore. Holly Calder made her return from a foot injury and kicked a beautiful two goals to add to the scoreboard. More wonderful goals from Emily Cunningham, Lily Undy and Brea Redding, filled the girls with joy and smiles. Their teamwork shone brightly as they fought hard in the slippery mud from first to last siren. There smiles and completely happiness could be seen from everywhere as they ran off the ground clamming there incredibly memorable win. Yea: 14.7 (91) d Seville 2.5 (17) Awards: Emily Cunningham, Vanessa James, Asha Close, Abbey Hanlon, Holy Calder - Kira Bradley
Muddy conditions at the Rec. PHOTO: FACEBOOK
● Yea Girls achieved a 12-goal win over Seville on Sunday at The Rec.
River Pigs took complete control SENIORS Yarra Glen 23.17 (155) defeated Yea 6.6 (42) After a solid start to the match, Yea succumbed to the running power of Yarra Glen to go down heavily by 113 points. With a strong breeze to one end, the Tigers started with the wind yet trailed to two goals at the first change, before holding firm to concede only four majors in the second term. The visitors slotted three of their own in the third quarter before a forgettable final 30 minutes where the Riverpigs took complete control, slamming on nine goals to zip. Luke Smith played his best game in yellowand-black, and the same could be said of fellow
defender Matt Squires, while Daniel Evans offered plenty of drive from defence. Julian Mahon battled hard all day in an undermanned midfield, Darcy Pell gave plenty in the ruck and Josh Carroll (two goals) was a focal point inside 50. The Tigers lost Andrew Chisholm and Brad Clements to injury during the contest. Yea will host Gembrook-Cockatoo on Saturday. Yea. Goalkickers: J. Carroll 2, B. Wilsmore, X. O'’Dwyer, C. Evans, J. Harry Best Players: R. Aldous, D. Evans, A. McSpeerin, L. Smith, M. Squires, J. Mahon RESERVES Yarra Glen 19.13 (127) defeated Yea 1.2 (8)
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Yea were comprehensively beaten by Yarra Glen on Saturday to the tune of 119 points. The Tigers made a good fist of it early, holding up their more fancied opponents before some accurate kicking for goal (12.4) saw the home side open up a big half-time buffer of 69 points. The match continued in a similar vein as Yea struggled to contain the hosts hard running game style. Ryan Sargeant was great in his return game, Sof Vlamis worked tirelessly and Clint Rose gave his all. Tom O'Dwyer continued his strong season and Max Hargreaves played his best game of the year, while Matt Helder kicked the Tigers’ only goal. Yea will square off against Gembrook Cockatoo at home this weekend. Yea: Goalkicker: M. Helder. Best Players: R. Sargeant, S. Vlamis, C. Rose, T. O'’Dwyer, M. Hargreaves, N. Charles. - Patrick Evans
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■ Yea Golf Club held its final midweek event in the Mini Gender Competition on Wednesday (July 17). Some 21 golfers, including AGA representative Sharna Farrell, contested a stableford event to decide the winning team. Play was followed by a lovely lunch and a short presentation from Sharna. Winner of the day with 42 points was Margie Wright (29) with her new clubs. Second on CB was Ken Whitford (7) from Alan Pell (13) with 35 points. Fourth was Bob Glenister (9) with 34. Second for the Ladies was Vicki Clements (25) with 32 with Di Holdsworth (22) on 31 third. The men won the team average 29.5 to 26.0. NTP on the 14th was Martin Lowe and on the 11th for 2 was Michael Spagnolo. President Ivor Brayley took out the Club Award. Final Gender Points were: Ladies 59 + (20)= 79. Men 25 + 22(10 + 5 + 2 +5) = 47 It was decided at Club Committee this week, to advertise and promote a limited offer of full club membership to.new candidates for $150. This is about 40 per cent of the usual fee. New members have no restrictions and eligible for a reduced fee in their second year as well. So existing members please contact and promote this initiative. Sharna also talked to us about promoting golf in our schools for young people. We hope to have something in place by term four, plus possible special clinic days over the summer holidays. - Alan Pell
A-GRADE Sitting undefeated on top of the ladder you become the target team everyone wants to beat and they dig a little deeper and play a lot harder. So Yea A-Graders have to be on their toes every week. After a full side last week the Tigers were back to having a depleted lineup having the Coppinger sisters out again. The game started and you knew Yarra Glen wanted to be the team that beat Yea and were pulling out all stops. The defensive pressure on the Tigers goalers in the ring made it unusually difficult to feed the ball in and caused numerous turnovers which were luckily blocked in the mid court and not converted otherwise the score could have been higher at the first break. Yea 10 to Yarra Glen 12. The second quarter saw some positional changes by the goalers which took some time for the Tigers to adjust to but the momentum was on their side at the quarter time whistle, Yea 19 to Yarra Glen 24. Yarra Glen were not going to allow Yea to get back into the game in the third and with a lack of options the only thing Coach Rachel Hickey could do was rotate the mid court for fresh legs with varied levels of success. Yea 31 to Yarra Glen 40. Nine points down going into the last you could tell Yarra Glen weren't comfortable and knew Yea would show why they are the team to beat by coming out strong. With a couple of intercepts which they converted in the first minutes of the quarter the Tigers put themselves back in the game and to their credit they held strong and before the crowd knew it the scores were even and everyone was on the edges of their seats. Unfortunately a missed goal in the dying seconds meant that Yea’s undefeated run was brought to an end with a valiantly fought one point loss, Yea 48 to Yarra Glen 49. - Deb Schickerling B-GRADE B-Grade played a good game against Yarra Glen but were outplayed on Saturday by the home team. The Tigers remained in touch in the first half, down by seven at half-time. The third quarter was disappointing as Yea dropped their intensity and lost some confidence as Yarra really hammered home a winning 18goal margin at the last break. Nikki urged her team to put in fighting last quarter, concentrating on all that she had asked of them at the start of the game. The team responded and won the last quarter to finish up 16 goals behind. As always the team takes away the positives and looks to next week. To make the finals the girls must win all the remaining games, a task they are confident and capable of achieving. Yarra Glen 55 def Yea 39 Goals: S. Phillips 20, C. Hayes 16, B. Bond 3. Best: C. Hayes, M. McSpeerin, B. Bond. Awards: J. Watts and L. Cronk. - Cindy Hayes C-GRADE Yarra Glen jumped Yea to a 5-0 lead before the Tigers hit the scoreboard, but from then on the Tigers were at the top of their game. After the slow start Yea were fabulous in their response, everyone lifting their work rate to draw back and really show the Glen that they were here to play, 4 down at quartertime. Yea's next two quarters were amongst the best for the season, playing with a real attack on the ball to gain possession and then controlling the possession to score. Defensively all seven players did their job, pressuring every Yarra Glen pass with a strong contest that resulted in Yea regaining possession on multiple occasions. The Tigers hit the front by one goal late into the third quarter before Yarra scored the last to level the scores at ¾-time. This was anyone's game and Yea continued with a fantastic intensity and will to win for each other. Unfortunately they went down by two goals but walked off the court exhausted but proud of their game, winning three of four quarters. Yarra Glen 27 def Yea 25 Continued on Next Page
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● From Previous Page Goals: F. Purvis 14, K. Alldrick 11. Best: M. Jarvie, C. Helder, F. Purvis. Awards: M Jarvie and C Helder - Cindy Hayes D-GRADE A draw at their last encounter and sitting second and fourth on the ladder this game could have gone either way on paper. After a solid warm up the Tiger Ds hit the court with purpose and outscored Yarra Glen 7 to 5. With tighter defence in the attacking end and quicker transitions the lead could have been more and the girls took the instructions and implemented the changes in the second quarter and doubled Yarra Glen’s scoring shots 4 to 8. Goaling duo Abbey Christie and Hannah Broderick were relentless in giving themselves every opportunity to score by positioning perfectly for rebounds. The third quarter started well and was only let down by lapses of fatigue causing some basic errors. Yea 25 to Yarra Glen 12. Teagan Britton was a wall in defence and worked equally well with Kim Slavin and Jilly Hargreaves. Susie Bennett had a difficult start in her first quarter against one of the stronger players in the grade but grew as the game went on. Jaq Dalton came up against some attention from the umpire she hasn't experienced all season but to her credit didn't drop her head and continued with her great determination and drive and was able to get lots of hands to ball. Grace Cunningham returning from injury ran out the mid court like she hadn't had anytime off along with Caitlin Broderick who pulled out another dominant performance Jude McGill come on in the last as a warm up to her C-Grade game and instantly had a impact helping the Tigers to impressively keep their opposition scoreless for the quarter. Yea 34 defeating Yarra Glen 12, highlighting the progress the team has undergone and the fact they are hitting their straps at the right time of the season. - Deb Schickerling
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■ Some 17 players contested the stroke and putting event on Saturday for the Monthly Medal. Winning on CB with nett 72 was Alan Pell (12) from Jonathon Fisher (14). Third was Michael Spagnolo (6) with 73 from fourth Rick Wills (9) 74 on CB from TrevorConnell (18). There was no NTP on the 14th. In the putting Michael Spagnolo beatAlan on CB with 28 putts. The Club Award was closely fought with Greg Clements winning byone shot from Wayne Rowe and Carl Maffei. Chooklotto was won by Sam Wright (chook) and the stubbie holder was won by Wayne Rowe. - Alan Pell
● Ladies Captain Vicky Butler congratulates Margie Wright on her fine round.
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Thornton visits Kinglake WOMENSFOOTBALL Our Thornton Eildon open women’s team certainly is coming along with the ladies venturing with the club up the hill to Kinglake against the top of the ladder first year team to the comp Healesville. With an early start to the day, this week’s 16side team in high spirits from last week’s convincing win, were keen to measure their season’s progression against Healesville. With a couple of ladies unavailable and Healsville represented by 21 players from the first bounce Thornton already knew it would be a case of pushing through with no bench. Healesville got the jump early, first quarter kicking 3 goals 7 behinds to zero, and in the second finishing the quarter with 6 goals 9 behinds to Thornton ladies managing to get one goal on the board. The third quarter saw Healesville adding 3 more goals and 5 behinds proving a big day for the back line. In the last quarter, Thornton re-grouped adding one goal and 1 behind with Healesville only managing one behind. This proved to be an excellent quarter for the T/E ladies pushing themselves despite having five players less than the opposition. Final scores: Thornton 13 to Healsville 69 Goals: N. Hay, Y. Vinycomb Best: M. Bessant, T. Brown, H. Lee, M. Oram, J. Thomas, K. Fitzparick. ★ WOMENS NETBALL B Grade 11 v Kinglake 18 This week B-Grade took to the court with the wind in their sails (not really, we played inside) with high hopes for the same victorious results from our last Kinglake-Thornton showdown. Kinglake, as expected, made sure they brought a skilled and full side to the table, to ensure it wouldn't happen again, and knuckles were white from tension from players and spectators alike. The entire game saw goal for goal between the two sides, with Tamara, Keely, Jess G and Tayla bringing their trademark attack to the forefront. Defenders Shantelle, Jess S, Maggie and Heather worked harder than ever and were tried and tested by the pace Kinglake brought. Tayla, Tamara, Maggie and Shantelle tried on some stellar intercepts, resulting in bulk cheers all round. Aside from some confusion in the fourth quarter when our Tayla somehow managed to sink a goal from the goal circle line playing centre (wizard?), the game was a fantastic indicator of how far this team has come during the 2019 season. We say it every week, but we're doing it again. We are so proud of the progress these players have shown this year, and their persistence in the face of every challenge that is placed at their feet every Saturday morning. It's not easy turning up to Thornton in wind, rain and mud for a loss, but it sure is easier to turn up to a club you love playing at. So proud of our cosy little netball club, keep up the good work and the great spirits ★ C-GRADE Thornton 30 v Kinglake 34 At this week’s game the Roos went and played Kinglake for the second and last time of the season, all the girls had a great game and it was the best one all season. With Tamara from B-Grade in GAand Jayne in GS, those girls were getting almost every goal in, also thank you to our mid court players Jess B and Jayde in WA, Hannah in WD and Jessie in C for smoothly getting the ball down to our goalers. Even though Kinglake’s side had great shooters passes we had Cassie from B-Grade in GK and Elley in GD both girls did a good job at intercepting when they could and always went for the rebounds. The coach Liz even went into GK for a quarter - she also did some great defending. Thornton coach Liz Westwood was exceptionally proud to see the progression of this year’s netball squads, this week in particular having a few unavailabilities, however all the girls lifted
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● Daryn Leaumont (with son Madden) and Jared Sloane, of Thornton-Eildon District Football-Netball Club, enjoy an after-match drink with Kinglake. and applied fantastic pressure to well-presented The second Thornton were rewarded for and represented Kinglake. No netball training their efforts coming back at Kinglake with 4 this week as the club is enjoying a bye week- goals 1 behind, keeping Kinglake adding to their end. tally by 2 goals 3 behinds. ★ Kinglake kicked away in the second half, MEN’S FOOTBALL proving why they are finals favourites for this RESERVES The Reserves played Kinglake away After season. Our players who took the field for Thornton last week's forfeit we were under manned again but we got a team on the park and played with should hold their heads high and look to take the 14 with three new players and two Marysville same style of football to the Yarra Junctiongame Villains all putting the jumper on for the first after the bye. time this year. We are hoping to welcome back some key The boys fought hard and I was very proud players and will be interesting to see the secoff the effort they put in but with Kinglake having the extra men out there they linked up well onds players step it up in the seniors squad. As a whole it has been noted our seniors side and the over lap off players were just to hard to played exceptionally well, with the scoreboard defend. Once again Rick Pezzimenti was a stand out not reflective of the on field game play this round. best and Villains player James Bissit was hard Kinglake 129 to Thornton 44 at ball all day, and picked up free kicks for putKinglake. Goalkickers: A. Fairchild 9, M. ting his head over the ball. McAllister 3, E. Robinson 2, W. Graf 2, B. Paul sporton played his best game off the White, M. Newton, R. King. Best Players: T. year in the ruck and was outstanding all around McDonald, R. King, A. Fairchild, M. McAllister, the ground. Young Jamie Rose, playing his first game for W. Graf, B. White. Thornton Eildon. Goalkickers: T. Kindred club ,was really good providing some run and 2, R. Hurst, G. Nai, R. Anderson, C. Kalogirou. never gave up. It’s been a hard twoweeks for the Seconds Best Players: J. Hehir, R. Anderson, J. Lowe, R. but we need to take some positives out off it, Deray, R. Hurst, T. Kindred picking up six new players, and the fact the boys ★ keep showing up and having a crack with a Thornton Eildon Football and Netball Club never- give-up attitude, and as coach, that's all I will be enjoying a bye this coming weekend and can ask for, so thanks lads will be holding a club inclusion general meetKinglake 157 to Thornton 13 Kinglake. Goalkickers: B. Gallichio 14, J. ing. This entails open discussion about strengthWhitehead 3, M. Genio 2, L. Young, J. Heal, H. ening our club’s gender equality and inclusion, Caine, J. Morgan. Best Players: B. Gallichio, J. Orchard, J. Whitehead, L. Young, M. McAllister, plus promoting future opportunities. D. Mercuri This meeting will be taking place Thursday Thornton Eildon. Goalkickers: M. (July 25) at Thornton Football Club Rooms Herridge, D. Leaumont. Best Players: R. starting at 6pm. All are very welcome. Pezzimenti, J. Bisset, J. Zirkle, P. Sporton, M. August 3 footy and netball will be in full swing Herridge, A. Littlejohn. with Thornton at home including the ladies ver★ sus Yarra Junction. SENIORS Our Thornton Auskickers will have the opRound 14 on Saturday (July 20) proved to be an interesting round right across the board in portunity with Marysville Auskick children to have a game half-time of the seniors match to the Division 2 seniors footy. Powelltown got up over Alexandra by 14, cap off a fantastic year for both community Seville provedstrong over Yarra Junction by 69 Auskick groups. points and Yarra Glen were clear winners over On Saturday, August 17, our club will be holdYea by 113. ing a Sponsor and Past Players Day which is A depleted Thornton side travelled to the the final round of the season at home versus third-placed Kinglake on Saturday. The majority of the side topped up by Sec- Yea. We welcome all sponsors, past players and onds players, with the club ensuring injuries are taken seriously and the club missed its key play- members of our club for a fantastic day planned, please RSVP to Simone on 0416 581 453 as this ers who are currently out. Thomas Kindred proved he is worthy of a is a catered event. Seniors game. He is relatively new to Thornton, We would love to see you all there. For furkicked two goals, and obtained a top six best on ther information please see our promotional ground. flyer. Kicking against a strong wind in the first quarOur club would formally like to thank the ter Thornton placed disciplined and pressure ongoing support within our community and we footy that probably didn't show on the scoreboard with Kinglake registering 6 goals 7 behinds with are really looking forwards to progressing into Thornton side only managing 1 behind in the the future. - Sarah Stevenson first quarter.
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Handy win for Alex. Twos SATURDAY The AFL Outer East League Round 14 of the 2019 season saw the Rebels return to Rebel Park with the Club's Under 18s hosting Olinda Ferny Creek. Olinda Ferny Creek had won the previous encounter between the teams by less than a goal and the Rebels started with two goals to one in the first quarter before kicking two unanswered goals in an excellent second quarter. The third quarter was an arm wrestle with both teams kicking two goals and only 16 points in it at three-quarter time. The Rebels played inspired football in the last quarter and kicked four goals from eight scoring shots whilst keeping the visitors at bay to win 10. 6 (66) to 3.4 (22) in a great team effort. Awards: Bundalaguah Engineering award Jye Aldous, Hadfield Contractors award - Aaron McDonald, Alexandra Tyrepower award James Geldart, Alexandra Apparel award Jackson Harris, Alan and Betty Parsons award - Ryan Lucas, Steyger Family award - Jordan Laurie-Rhodes, Coach's award - Tyson Pedlar. The Under 18s travel to Narre Warren on Saturday. ★ RESERVES The Reserves, in sixth place on the ladder, needed a win and percentage against Powelltown to keep their finals hopes alive and also looked to reverse the loss earlier in the season. Five goals to one in the first quarter followed by four goals to one in the second gave the Rebels a handy lead at half-time, continuing the good work in the second half adding seven goals to two, winning 16.16 (112) to 4.3 (27), Peter Hoornweg with a haul of 9 goals. Awards: Caltex fuel card - Max Church, Alex Sportspower - James Kidd, JAMMM Catering - William Ellis, Buxton Hotel - Ruben Marks, Grant St Grocer - Paul Brooks. ★ SENIORS The Seniors had Michael Coombs, Isaac Hedger and Tom Rouget come into the side to replace Travis Carter, Scott Heverenand Brent McDonald. The Rebels also needed the win to have any hope of playing Finals but Powelltown was in exactly the same position as both teams kicked three goals in the first quarter before the Demons kicked four goals to one in the second
● Hugh Kidd at the timekeepers’ box at Rebel Park on Saturday.
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● Alexandra Rebels Reserves had the better of Powelltown on Saturday. quarter to hold a handy lead at half time. Broadford for four games of football and three The Rebels controlled the third quarter with games of netball, the facilities in terrific condifour unanswered goals to hold a four-point lead tion despite rain during the week. at the last change. UNDER12sFOOTBALL The lead changed several times in the last Alexandra 14.17 (101) quarter but the Demons were able to kick sevdefeated Broadford 0.3 - 3 eral consecutive goals late in the quarter to win Essence Coffee Lounge award Drew Coller; by 14 points, 10.7 (67) to 12.9 (81). Reddrops Foodworks award Noah Campbell; Awards: Endeavour Petroleum award - Ali / Alexandra Bakery and Café award Ryan Keith Ray, Alex Standard award - Brayden Sproles; Provender Country Bakehouse award Norris, JAMMM Catering - Ben Cooper, Buxton Casey Collett; Coach's award Billy Bedggood Hotel - Patrick Ferguson, Vibe Hotel Marysville and Zac Wright. Thank you to Patrick Ferguson - Chris McKay, Grant St Grocer - Ryley Norris. and Ryley Norris for umpiring. ★ UNDER14sFOOTBALL NETBALLAWARDS Alexandra 2.2 (14) Caltex $25 fuel card award - Mandy Gesler; defeated by Broadford 19.9 (123) Vibe Hotel Marysville $20 meal - Tara Heard; Essence Coffee Lounge award Banjo Christy's Beauty Therapy $15 voucher - Fitzpatrick; Reddrops Foodworks award Michelle Jack; Lachlan Armstrong; Alexandra Bakery and A-Grade lost 42 - 53: JAMMM Catering $20 Café award Derryl Mills; Provender Country meal - Shona Gesler, Grant St Grocer $10 meal Bakehouse award Harry Correa; Hadfield Con- Caitlan Haggis; tractors award Dylan Jack; Armstrong Family B-Grade lost 30 - 48: JAMMM Catering $20 award Ben Weeks; Coach's award Riley meal - Bethany Cairns, Grant St Grocer $10 Kirkpatrick. Thank you to Conor Heaslip and meal - Sasha Mason; Tom McKinlay for umpiring. C-Grade won 39 - 31: JAMMM Catering UNDER16sFOOTBALL $20 meal - Sally Krijt, Essence Coffee Lounge Alexandra 3.4 (22) $10 meal - Madison Richards; defeated by Broadford 14.21 (105) D-Grade lost 32 - 42: JAMMM Catering $20 Essence Coffee Lounge award Blake meal - Ebonni Carlton, Essence Coffee Lewindon; Reddrops Foodworks award Caleb Lounge $10 meal - Clancy Holohan. Harding; Alexandra Bakery and Café award ★ Ethan Russell; Provender Country Bakehouse Do not forget to order your Club merchan- award Bailey Goschnick; Bundalaguah Engidise - polo shirts, warm up shirts @ $50, hoodies, neering award Jacob Bourke; Alan and Betty vests @ $70, Club stubby holders @ $7, travel Parsons award Ben Jack; Coach's award Bowen mugs @ $15, peaked caps and beanies @ $25, McCarthy. Thank you to James Kidd for umbumper stickers are free. The Alexandra His- piring. tory Book is also in stock, available at the UNDER11s NETBALL Alexandra Newsagents @ $30. Alexandra 6 defeated by Broadford 9 Gate raffle was won by Mandie Westwood, Reddrops Foodworks award Georgia Wales; meat tray by Ray Steyger, wine by Peter Alexandra Bakery and Café award Katy Puls; McKenzie and the points margin was unclaimed. HG Turf award Asher Kaiser. Last Thursday's Rebel Raffles saw Conor UNDER13sNETBALL Heaslip unsuccessful at finding the Holmesglen Alexandra 21 drew with Broadford 21 @ Eildon Joker Jackpot, other winners were Reddrops Foodworks award Emily Irwin; Reddrops Foodworks / Houseboat Sales Lake Alexandra Bakery and Café award Milly Weeks; Eildon - Elizabeth Kidd, Eildon Bakery / Out- Alex Physiotherapy award Rose Hurrey. door Education Group - Max Church, Alexandra UNDER15sNETBALL Quality Meats / AFNC canteen - George AnderAlexandra 40 defeated Broadford 31 son, Yea Chinese Restaurant / Bailey Funerals Reddrops Foodworks award Jamie Baird; Lucy Wallis. Alexandra Bakery and Café award Tahnee The Holmesglen @ Eildon Jackpot will be Heard; Alex Quality Meats award Amanda worth $800 this week so come along and buy McDonald. some tickets at $1 each but you need to be at the A very big thank you to the above award sponClub rooms at 8.00 pm for the draw. sors for their continued support of our junior Next Saturday the Rebels are at Rebel Park footballers and netballers in 2019. and host Seville for two games of football and Next Sunday the Rebels are at home for the four games of netball, with the Under 18s trav- last round of the home and away season and elling to Narre Warren. host Yea in three games of football and three Everyone is invited in to the social rooms games of netball, the Under 16 football hosting after the games for the awards, everyone is Euroa in a big day of junior sport. welcome. The following week the Rebels and Yea will ★ be hosting the first week of Finals. If anyone SUNDAY can assist with the canteen please speak to MeThe Alexandra Football-Netball Club junior lissa Crane, Christina Irvine or Shona teams returned to Rebel Park last Sunday for Miljkovic to go on the roster.
Local Sport ECDRA c’ships ■ It was not a perfect day but the weather was much better than during the week as the East Central District Rifle Association members gathered for the third round of the ECDRA Club Championship shoot at Violet Town Range. Yes, the Violet Town wind was there and as difficult as ever but the Mountain Marksmen were determined not to be baffled by it. It was the senior members Neal, Rosco and Geoff James who showed the way on the 500-yard first stage with ECDRA Captain Neal Hambridge and Rosco Davis shooting the same score, 59.3. Geoff James, one of the most experience shooters, now in the over 80 years of age class, shoot so well with 58.7. That is 7 out of his 10 shots were in the highest scoring zone. Well done Geoff, your ability to read the conditions and then follow through with good shot placement is something we can only aspire to. Newcomers found the Violet Town wind just too smart for them. With a sense of both expectations of a high score from the leaders and a chance to get the better of that wind by the lower order shooters that the Mountain Marksmen moved to the 600 yard range. The competition was intense and the more experienced shooters did their best to share any knowledge about how to keep the group centred in the middle of the target to the less experienced shooters. The pattern of scores at 500 yards repeated itself at 600 yards with Neal Hambridge posting both the top range score of 58.2 and then the top off-rifle score for the day 177.5. The offical scorer is yet to determine the championship points for each shooter and as soon as he can those results will be circulated. The off-rifle scores for the third round of the ECDRA Club Championship for 2019 were: Neil Hambridge 59.3, 58.2 = 177.5; Geoff James 58.7, 57.1 = 175.8; Rosco Davis 59.3, 56.0 = 175.3; Randell Underwood 53.1, 55.2 = 108.3; Paul Watkins 50.1, 53.2 =103 .3; Richard Godden 52.0 , 50.1 = 102.1 and Glen Chisholm 51.0, 51.1= 102.1. The shooters were glad of a cuppa before heading home and the conversation again focused on Geoff as he seemed to have the wind on a string with his 7 super centrals at 500 yards and yet for others it was so difficult. Rosco shared the news that he had actually got onto the old Gobur range, with the permission of the manager and recovered some items worthy of keeping. The old champions board had been damaged beyond repair. The members were reminded of the annual meeting next week starting at 10am. There will be a brief general meeting afterwards and a chance to clean up some small maintenance jobs before lunch with the Euroa Clay Target Club. During lunch there will be an opportunity to share thoughts about the management of the shooting complex and the common infrastructure. Members are also advised that there will be a Violet Town Shooting Complex governance committee meeting after lunch as well as a working bee to clean up a couple of the bigger maintenance jobs. It is one of Target Rifle shooting biggest events this week at the Bisley range in England where the 150th Imperial Shoot finishing with the Queen’s Prize final over 1000 yards on Saturday(July 27). This is the world championship of Target Rifle Shooting and a time to recall that it was won in 1978 by Eildon shooter, Ross Graeme. Eildon Rifle Club was part of the ECDRA and Ross was a well known member of the rifle shooting fraternity. New shooters are most welcome but if you are looking for a shot next Saturday will not be the day as it is committed to the annual meeting, the combined club lunch and a working bee. Please check the calendar at www.ecdra.com.au for details of all shoots including mid week shoots. - Robert Chaffe
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Improved Saints challenge Yea
● D. Fisher (Yea Under 10s) calls for the ball.
● S. Heyen (Yea Under 10s) shows his attacking skills.
● L. McAlpin (Yea Under 10s) kaes a determined effort towards goal.
● S. Charles (Yea Under 12s).
● J. Porter (Yea Under 12s) meets with a barrage of opposition.
● Yea Under 10 Awards: Awards: S. Heyen, J. Cunningham, H. Dignam ● Yea Under 12 Awards: C. Bradshaw, B. Philpot, J. Porter UNDER10s defeated St Mary's 0.1.1, however the improvement of St Mary's in this encounter was eviden Round 13 saw our Yea U10 Tiger Cubs head on the scoreboard. over to Seymour to take on St Mary’s. With the wind directed at one end of the With the kids listening to instructions from ground there was a distinct scoring end which both coaches and now their own abilities to read Yea was lucky enough to have going into fina game play, both teams were competitive from quarter two points down. start to finish. The strong training session Thursday was Some of the highlights were: Ivy’s continused to draw upon by Coach Papa and the kid ued efforts in the forward line were so close to took on the inspiration and kicked 3.1 snatching being rewarded; maybe next week Ivy; Benji’s them a 10-point victory. Yea 5.1 (31) defeating run and bounce out of the back line; and at the St Mary's 3.3 (21) other end of the oval, Dusty’s impressive goal Goalkickers: T. Dunne, J. Taiton-Allen, J kick and equally impressive celebration show Porter, S. Charles they’ve been watching and learning from their Awards: C. Bradshaw, B. Philpot, J. Porter AFL idols. - Deb Schickerling Chevy’s tackles were one after another and ★ his ability to remain composed while under presUNDER 14s sure from the opposition show the mature player The Tigers’ second last game was played in that is emerging. Seymour against St Marys. Look out for the combination of Sam, Louie It was always going to be a tough game bu and Sienna through the centre, the team to beat this did not deter the boys at all. in the future. With great words of advice from coach Clin Simply, everyone played well and everyone Rose, they ran out heads high to front St Mary’s had fun and that’s what it’s all about. St Marys were strong off the toss moving the Awards: S. Heyen, J. Cunningham, H. ball to their goals but the Tigers defence wa Dignam strong. - Julie Birchall Pressure from Tom and James kept St Mary ★ on their toes, unfortunately they were too strong UNDER12s on the day. The last time these two sides met it was a ● Ebony Ockwell (Yea Under 12s) holds Isaac Smith (St Mary’s) to account. - Belinda Johnston one sided affair with Yea the victors Yea 8.5.53
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Yea’s proud effort against St Mary’s
● Lila McKay
● Maya Cronk
● Bonnie Aldous
● Bridie McSpeerin
● Millie Charles 11ANDUNDER The girls began the game confidently. Ada, Lila and Elsie were a great defensive unit intercepting a St Mary's pass to send the ball through Ella, Marley, Maya and to Bridie to get the first goal of the game. The girls worked together as a team showing a lot of improvement. Defensively the girls worked super hard to keep the ball out of the goaler's hands. Mid-courters played a cohesive quarter to get the ball into the goalers who scored their second goal for the game. Two wonderful goals from Bridie and Maya started the third quarter with lots of excitement. Sienna, Marley and Ella made clever choices mid-court and the defenders stuck tight to their attackers to restrict goals. Great defending from Sophie and Ada, many intercepts and rebounds were taken by the pair. Sunday’s terrific game was Yea's highest scoring game so far - well done girls. Final Score: Yea 8 def by St Marys 24 Awards: Country Chicken - Sophie Butterworth; Your Wardrobe - Sienna Porter; Encouragement- Maya Cronk. - Megan Leatham ★ 13AND UNDER Captain: Bonnie Aldous 1st Quarter - The Under 13 girls set off to a good start keeping the ball up their attacking end for much of the quarter. Ashlee F (GD) and Annie D (GK) did some great defending getting some great rebounds and keeping the ball out of St Mary's goal 1/3. Bridie Mc (C) and Bonnie A (WD) did some great intercepts of the ball to maintain pressure in our attacking end. Despite some great team play St Mary's pulled ahead. Score: 6-0. 2nd Quarter - Early in the second quarter Chloe B (GA) was rewarded with a great goal after some fast footwork. Annie D (WA) and Mia W (C) and Bonnie A (WD) continued to work well together to move the ball to the attacking end. Despite some height differences the girls had some good spring in their step making some great intercepts. Bridie Mc (GK) andAshlee F (GD) kept the pressure on preventing the scores from changing much. Score: 7-1. 3rd Quarter - Millie C (C) broke free many times to move the ball to our goal end with the support of BonnieA (WA) and Annie D (WD). Chloe B (GA) scored over second goal of the match despite some strong defence by the opposition. Hayley F (GK) and Ashlee F (GD) worked hard in defence as St Mary's continued to score well. Score: 15-2.
● Olivia Johnson
● Grace Cuningham
● Maddie Granter 4th Quarter started with some sufficient position changes allowing the girls to challenge themselves with some different skill sets. Chloe (GD) had a hard fall requiring another shuffle and substitution. Millie C (GK) did a terrific intercept in the goal circle but despite some good efforts in defence St Mary's continued to score pulling ahead by a significant lead. Well done girls, yet again another great effort. Final Score : Yea 3 def by St Marys 29 Awards: Your wardrobe - Millie Charles; Country Fried Chicken - Haylee Fyfe; Tiger Bucks - Bonnie Aldous. - Natasha Ward ★ 15AND UNDER Captain - Grace Cunningham Vice-Captain - Bridie Hayes Yea U15s started strong, hot on the heels of St Mary’s team with the whole team working well together. There was great defending by Madeline and Arienne, preventing St Mary's at the goals. Zoe achieved some magnificent goals and it showed with the crowd cheering her on. Tilly fought hard, actively keeping her eye where the ball was at all times. Chelsi also made her presence known on the court as WD, chasing for it where she could. The girls played their absolute best on Sunday in the beautiful sunshine, keeping the scores pretty even for most of the game. Olivia scored some beautiful neat goals as she always does. The game continued to be exciting to watch. Our Yea girls should be proud of their efforts as they fought very hard to keep up, however as the final quarter progressed,St Mary’s got away from us and claimed victory. Final Score - Yea 28 def by St Mary's 44 Awards; Madeline Granter - Tiger Bucks; Arriene Holdsworth-Rose - Country Chicken; Zoe Gregory - Your Wardrobe. - Kay Granter
This Sunday’s SDJFNL matches
● Bridie Klinge in action against St Mary’s on Sunday. Photo: Georgie Wells.
■ 11 and Under. Round 14. Sunday, July 28. 11am. Alexandra v Yea. Broadford v Seymour. St Mary’s: Bye. Euroa: Bye. ■ 13 and Under. Round 14. Sunday, July 28. 12 Noon. Alexandra v Yea. Broadford v Seymour. St Mary’s: Bye. Tabilk v Euroa. ■ 15 and Under. Round 14. Sunday, July 28. 1.05pm. Alexandra v Yea. Broadford v Seymour. St Mary’s: Bye. Tabilk v Euroa.
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NFNL Netball Section 1 ■ Ivanhoe 1 51 drew with Bundoora 1 51. Heidelberg 1 54 d Greensborough 1 43. Diamond Creek 2 54 d North Heidelberg 1 50. Diamond Creek 1 58 d Fitzroy Stars 1 55.
Section 2 ■ Craigieburn 1 35 d Greensborough 2 28. Ivanhoe 2 33 d St Mary’s 1 32. Heidelberg 2 29 d Northcote Park 1 26. Heat 1 28 d Laurimar 1 23.
Section 3 ■ Thomastown 1 33 d Ivanhoe 3 25. Old Eltham Collegians 1 28 d Diamond Creek 3 27. Watsonia 1 35 d Heidelberg 3 18.
Section 4 ■ Hurst-bridge 1 29 d Kilmore 1 27. St Mary’s 2 45 d Ivanhoe 4 36. Diamond Creek 4 28 d Bundoora 2 26. North Heidelberg 3 35 d Craigieburn 2 31.
Section 5 ■ Watsonia 2 37 d Greensborough 3 26. Heat 2 42 d Northcote Park 2 15. Bundoora 3 39 ed Montmorency 1 30. Macleod 1 32 d Ivanhoe 5 20.
Section 6 ■ Kilmore 2 34 d Heidelberg West 1 30. Thomastown 2 24 d Diamond Creek 5 23. Laurimar 2 39 d Heidelberg 4 21.
Section 7 ■ Bundoora 4 36 d Whittlesea 1 35. Epping 1 32 d South Morang 1 26. Hurstrbidge 2 24 d Mernda 1 19. St Mary’s 3 27 d Craigieburn 3 18.
Section 8 ■ Watsonia 3 30 d Mernda 2 20. Fitzroy Stars 3 38 d heat 3 5. South Miorang 2 35 d Montmorency 2 26. La trobe 2 40 d Macleod 2 31. Reservoir 2: Bye.
Section 9 ■ Northcote Park 3 29 d Reservoir 1 27. Epping 2 39 d Whittlesea 2 26. Kilmore 3 20 d West Ivanhoe 1 12. Lower Plenty 1 35 d Thomastown 3 15.
Section 10 ■ Mernda 3 30 d montmorency 3 24. South Morang 3 24 d Kilmore 4 19. Hurstbridge 3 19 d Thomastown 4 16. Watsonia 4 40 d Bundoora 5 13.
Section 11 ■ Fitzroy Stars 4 27 d Laurimar 3 24. Bundoora 6 22 d Mernda 4 19. Montmorency 4 33 d Hurstbridge 4 10.
Section 12 ■ North Heidelberg 5 29 d West Preston 1 14. Heat 4 20 d Heidelberg West 2 17. Kilmore 5 43 d Mernda 5 12. Bundoora 7 20 d Laurimar 4 7.
Grandstander Search for coaches
■ Yarra Junction Football Club is already on the search for coaches for both Seniors and Reserves football in 2020, as well all four grades of netball. Applications to President Tony Aulich need to be submitted by Aug. 1.
Finals dates set
■ The AFL Outer East has set dates for Division Two finals. Qualifying and eliminations are on Saturday, August 24. Semi-finals are on Satuyrday, August 31. The Preliminary Final is on Saturday, September 7. The Grand Final is on Saturday, Septem,ber 14.
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Bad Friday night for Whittlesea 3rds ■ A Friday night fixture at the RMIT Campus Bundoora did not favour Whittlesea Thirds against Eltham 1, with a 72-27 result in Northern Football Netball League results.
EAGLES SCOREBOARD SENIORS WHITTLESEA ....... 3.2, 9.4, 13.7, 18.10 (118) ST MARY’S ................. 4.6, 5.8, 7.9, 10.14 (74) Whittlesea. Goalkickers: N. Pupillo 5, C. Bland 3, P. Higgins 2, M. Andrews 2, N. Stebnaile, B. Watson, C. McCabe, R. Carter, X. Dimasi, C. Taplin. Best Players: T. Falls, M. Atta, N. Andrews, N. Pupillo, M. Andrews, M. Coen. St Mary’s. Goalkickers: C. Petroro 2, . Guldon 2, D. Ronalds, R. Hanlon, N. Daisley, T. Cotter, J. Wolczko, M. Hocking. Best Players: D. Ronalds, N. Daisley, M. Guldon, T. Cotter, J. Dean, T. Cantwell. RESERVES WHITTLESEA ............ 2.2, 5.3, 9.7, 18.12 (120) ST MARY’S ................... 1.4, 4.5, 8.9, 10.10 (70) Whittlesea. Goalkickers: S. Indian 8, L. Crowley 3, J. Robinson 2, C. Rowe, B. Burgess, J. Adamson, K. Burns, N. Byatt. Best Players: S. Indian, J. Robinson, M. Langford, L. Crowley, H. Bland, L. Hughes. St Mary’s. Goalkickers: L. Shaw 2, J. Girolami 2, S. Mitrovski, A. Shaw,. R. Phelan, D. Barker, J. Johnston, M. Patti. Best Players: T. Bickerton, A. Batchelor, S. Mitrovski, D. Pieper, R. Pieper, M. Watkinson. UNDER 18 ELTHAM 1 .................... 5.0, 6.1, 7.4, 10.12 (72) WHITTLESEA ................ 0.0, 1.1, 4.2, 4.3 (27) Eltham 1. Goalkickers: L. Butterfield-Ticker 2, B. Smith 2, L. Rushton-McCoach, T. Allin, E. Giann, J. Minahan, S. Waldron, L. Ross. Best Players: C. Sullivan, B. Smith, S. Waldron, R. Herrick, E. Giann, L. Butterfield-Ticker. Whittlesea. Goalkcikers: T. Bland, L. Tyrell, K. McMillan, J. Coco. Best Players: K. Green, R. Johnson, E. Kynaston, B. Rowan, B. Pimperl, K. Treacy.
NFNL SCOREBOARD DIVISION 1 ■ Seniors. Hurstbridge 18.8 (114) d Bundoora 17.11 (113). Northcote Park 10.7 (67) d Lower Plenty 7.15 (57). Greensborough 11.9 (75) d North Heidelberg 9.9 (63). West PrestonLakeside 17.10 (112) d Macleod 7.9 (51). Heidelberg 17.10 (112) d Montmorency 9.8 (62). ■ Ladder. 1. Greensborough, 203.43, 48. 2. Heidelberg, 148.34, 40. 3. North Heidelberg, 1123.54, 34. 4. West Preston-Lakeside, 98.00, 24. 5. Northcote Park, 79.46, 24. 6. Macleod, 93.23, 22. 7. Bundoora, 88.11, 20. 8. Montmorency, 85.95, 20. 9. Hurstbridge, 81.08, 20. 10. Lower Plenty, 60.56, 8. ■ Reserves. Bundoora 19.15 (129) d Hurstbridge 5.7 (37). Lower Plenty 22.20 (152) d Northcote Park 1.2 (8). Greensborough 14.21 (105) d North Heidelberg 5.3 (33). West PrestonLakeside 9.8 (62) d Macleod 8.6 (54). Montmorency 14.19 (103) d Heidelberg 4.2 (26). ■ Ladder. 1. Greensborough, 421.86, 48. 2. Bundoora, 215.60, 44. 3. Montmorency,. 131.11, 36. 4. West Preston-Lakeside, 133.64, 32. 5. North Heidelberg, 101.16. 32. 6. Heidelberg, 94.92, 28. 7. Macleod, 98.35, 16. 8. Lower Plenty, 67.59, 16. 9. Hurstbridge, 53.29, 4. 10. Northcote Park, 23.87, 0. ■ Under 19. Eltham 1 10.12 (72) d Whittlesea 4.3 (27). St Mary’s 9.8 (62) d Diamond Creek 5.8 (38). Banyule 14.17 (101) d Macleod 5.4 (34). Greensborough 1 14.8 (92) d Heidelberg 4.5 (29). Bundoora v Montmorency. ■ Ladder. 1. Eltham 1, 199.13, 48. 2. Bundoora, 184.49, 36. 3. St Mary’s, 137.86, 36. 4. Whittlesea, 122.75, 32. 5. Heidelberg, 122.04, 32. 6. Montmorency, 107.19, 30. 7. Greensborough 1, 112.64, 24. 8. Diamond Creek, 87.86, 18. 9. Banyule, 50.00, 16. 0. Macleod, 27.26, 4. DIVISION 2 ■ Seniors. Diamond Creek 14.5 (89) d Banyule 6.13 (49). Thomastown 15.18 (108) d Epping 7.6 (48). Eltham 12.8 (80) d Fitzroy Stars 6.9 (45). Whittlesea 18.10 (118) d St Mary’s 10.14 (74). Watsonia: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Banyule, 198.20, 36. 2. Whittlesea, 136.94, 36. 3. Eltham, 131.97, 32. 4. Thomastown, 121.76, 28. 5. Diamond Creek, 99.89, 26. 6. Fitzroy Stars, 85.23, 18. 7. St Mary’s, 76.63, 16. 8. Watsonia, 70.22, 12. 9. Epping, 46.14, 4.
■ Reserves. Banyule 12.7 (79) d Diamond Creek 5.7 (37). Thomastown 12.13 (85) d Epping 1.7 (13). Fitzroy Stars 14.14 (98) d Eltham 5.7 (37). Whittlesea 18.12 (120) d St Mary’s 10.10 (7). Watsonia: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Eltham, 210.45, 40. 2. Whittlesea, 219.48, 36. 3. Fiotzroy Stars, 158.60, 36. 4. Banyule, 142.59, 28. 5. St Mary’s, 129.22, 28. 6. Thomastown, 99.52, 20. 7. Watsonia, 81.50, 12. 8. Diamond Creek, 60.60, 8. 9. Epping, 9.84, 0. ■ Under 19. Eltham 2 8.8 (56) d Bulldog Bloods 7.6 (48). Lower Plenty 25.27 (177) d Hurstbridge 0.4 (4). Mill Park 11.10 (76) d West Preston Lakeside 5.7 (37). Laurimar 23.7 (145) d Greensborough 2 4.7 (31). South Morang 7.10 (52) d Mernda 7.9 (51). ■ Ladder. 1. South Morang, 186.51, 48. 2. Mill Park, 211.79, 40. 3. Mernda, 130.39, 36. 4. Lower Plenty, 311.08, 32. 5. Laurimar, 132.56, 32. 6. West Preston-Lakeside, 143.77, 24. 7. Eltham 2, 58.55, 20. 8. Greensborough 2, 43.49, 16. 9. Hurstbridge, 19.37, 8. 0. Bulldog Bloods, 47.89, 4. DIVISION 3 ■ Seniors. Laurimar 12.15 (87) d Heidelberg West 10.10 (70). Lalor 11.13 (79) d Reservoir 6.12 (48). South Morang 11.9 (75) d Kilmore 8.10 (58). Panton Hill 20.10 (130) d Old Eltham Collegians 9.9 (63). Mernda: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Laurimar, 169.77, 52. 2. Panton Hill, 236.33, 40. 3. Kilmore, 145.96, 32. 4. South Morang, 108.64, 30. 5. Heidelbeergt, 114.16, 24. 6. Mernda, 107.60, 24. 7. Old Eltham Collegians, 71.80, 14. 8. Lalor, 51.31, 8. 9. Reservoir, 35.87, 0. ■ Reserves. Old Eltham Collegians 15.8 (8) d Panton Hill 11.7 (73). Heidelberg West 16.10 (106) d Laurimar 3.5 (23). Lalor 19.16 (130) d Reservoir 6.4 (40). Kilmore 13.6 (84) d South Morang 8.10 (68). Mernda: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Heidelberg West, 422.02, 48. 2. Kilmore, 202.00, 40. 3. Old Eltham Collegians, 108.55, 32. 4. Mernda, 119.29, 28. 5. Panton Hill, 131.17, 24. 6. South Morang, 88.79, 20. 7. Lalor, 80.56, 20. 8. Laurimar, 51.65, 8. 9. Reservoir, 21.11, 4.
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■ Division 1 Women’s. Darebin Falcons 1 15.10 (100) d Bendigo Thunder 2.1 (13). VU Western Spurs 1 15.9 (99) d West PrestonLakeside 0.2 (2). Diamond Creek Women’s 1 16.15 (111) d Bundoora 0.1 (1). Montmorency (1): Bye. ■ Division 2 Women’s. Heidlebreg 8.7 (55) d Darebin Falcons 2 1.3 (9). Diamond Creek Women’s 2 4.5 (29) d St Mary’s 3.3 (21). VU Western Spurs 2 7.12 (54) d Eltham 1.0 (6). ■ Division 3 Women’s. VU Western Spurs 1.3 (9) d Reservoir 1.0 (6). Greensbrough 5.4 (34) d Montmorency 2 2.4 (16). Hurstbridge 3.4 (22) d Wallan 0.6 (6). Laurimar 4.5 (29) d Mernda 0.4 (4). ■ Under 18 Girls. Darebin Falcons 7.7 (49) d Diamond Creek Womens 4.3 (27). Epping 3.1 (19) d Whittlesea Panton Hill 1.3 (9). Montmorency 6.7 (43) d Research 1.2 (8). Laurimar 8.2 (50) d Northcote 1.0 (6). ■ Under 17. Research 24.9 (153) d Yarrambat 7.15 (57). Eltham 7.8 (50) d Diamond Creek 4.9 (33). South Morang 8.11 (59) d Greensborough 8.7 (55). ■ Under 16 Blue. West Preston-Lakeside 11.10 (76) d Laurimar 10.8 (68). Greensborough 16.13 (109) d Mernda 6.7 (43). Yarrambat v Montmorency. ■ Under 16 Red. Diamond Creek 8.13 (61) d Wallan 3.5 (23). Research 9.11 (65) d Eltham 4.5 (29). Kilmore 12.12 (84) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 11.5 (71). Whittlesea 16.19 (115) d Mill Park 3.8 (26). Hurstbridge: Bye. ■ Under 16 Girls Blue. Greensborough 5.7 (37) d Wallan 5.3 (33). Reserarch 8.7 (55) d Kilmore 2.2 (14). Diamond Creek Womens’ Red 3.9 (27) d Yarrambat 3.1 (19). Montmorency 9.5 (59) d Northcote 2.5 (17). ■ Under 16 Girls Red. Diamond Creek Womens Blue 13.9 (87) d Mill Park 3.2 (27). Darebin Falcons 6.15 (51) d South Morang 1.0 (6). Whittlesea 5.2 (32) d Eltham 2.0 (12). ■ Under 15 Blue. Eltham 16.18 (144) d Research 8.9 (57). Laurimar 10.5 (65) d South Morang Vlue 5.7 (37). Montmorency 12.12 (84) d West Preston Lakeside 7.6 (48). Yarrambat 13.17 (95) d Wallan 6.4 (40).
■ Under 15 Red. Northcote reservoir 12.9 (81) d South Morang Gold 6.12 (48). Greensborough 18.18 (126) d Keon Park 5.2 (32). Mernda 11.9 (75) d Kilmore 3.5 (23). Whittlesea 11.17 (83) d Mill Park 6.4 (40). Diamond Creek: Bye. ■ Under 14 Blue. South Morang 5.15 (45) d Eltham Black 3.4 (22). Kilmore 10.5 (65) d Mill Park 0.2 (2). Whittlesea 12.10 (82) d Greensborough 5.4 (34). Laurimar Black 9.8 (62) d Yarrambat 9.3 (51). ■ Under 14 Red. Epping 9.9 (63) d Montmorency 2.3 (15). Diamond Creek 6.10 (46) d Research 6.5 (41). Mernda 7.7 (49) d Northcote 4.6 (30). ■ Under 14 Green. Reservoir Thomastown 6.5 (41) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 2.9 (21). Lauriomar Teal 9.8 (62) d Wallan 6.3 (39). Eltham Red 9.6 (60) d Panrton Hill 3.4 (22). ■ Under 14 Girls Blue. Research 2.7 (19) d Eltham 2.5 (17). Diamond Creek Womens Blue 12.8 (60) d Montmorency Blue 3.2 (20). Whittlesea 6.3 (39) d South Morang 6.2 (38). Laurimar 1.3 (9) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 1.1 (7). ■ Under 14 Girls Red. Montmorency White 6.8 (44) d Northcote 1.3 (9). Diamond Creek Womens Red 10.11 (71) d West Preston Lakeside 1.0 (6). Wallan 13.22 (100) d Mill Park 0.0 (0). Yarrambat 8.7 (55) d Mernda 2.3 (15). ■ Under 13 Blue. Montmorency 4.4 (28) d Laurimar Black 3.8 (26). Eltham Black 15.11 (101) d yarrambat 3.0 (18). Epping 4.5 (29) d Diamond creek 2.4 (16). West Preston Lakeside 8.6 (54) d Northcote 4.10 (34). ■ Under 13 Red. Whittlesea 3.5 (23) d Kilmore 0.6 (6). Researtch 10.9 (69) d Hurstbridge 0.1 (1). Mill Park 7.6 (48) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 5.5 (35). ■ Under 13 Green. Eltham Red 8.13 (61) d Keon Park 0.2 (2). South Morang 9.7 (61) d Mernda 5.2 (32). Wallan 6.10 (46) d Laurimar tewal 3.4 (22). ■ Under 12 Blue. Whittlesea 10.14 (74) d South Morang 3.3 (21). Eltham Panthers 5.6 (36) d Wallan 2.2 (14). Montmorency Black 8.8 (56) d Eltham Red 0.2 (2). ■ Under 12 Red. Mill Park 16.11 (107) d Northcote 3.2 (20). Yarrambat 9.7 (61) d Eltham Black 5.2 (32). Mernda Blue 3.12 (30) d Kilmore 2.2 (14). Laurimar: Bye. ■ Under 12 Green. Research 12.16 (88) d Thomastown 3.5 (23). Montmorency White 8.3 (51) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 2.1 (13). Reservoir 8.9 (57) d Mernda Red 1.3 (9). Diamond Creek 4.4 (28) d Epping 4.2 (28). ■ Under 12 Girls Blue. Diamond Creek Womens 6.9 (45) d South Morang 2.1 (13). Darebin Falcons 2.4 (16) d Eltham 1.5 (11). Green Searchers 3.6 (24) d Wallan 3.4 (22). Laurimar 7.8 (50) d Miontmorency Black 0.3 (3). ■ Under 12 Girls Red. Hurstbridge 4.1 (25) d Yarrambat 2.1 (13). Mernda 4.15 (39) d Montmorency White 0.0 (0). Whittlesea 3.5 (23) d Northcote 1.1 (7). ■ Under 11 Blue. Yarrambat 7.7 (49) d South Morang 4.7 (31). Eltham Black 9.9 (59) d Research 3.3 (21). Montmorency Black 5.3 (33) d Laurimar Teal 0.1 (1). West Preston Lakeside 12.9 (81) d Laurimar Black 2.3 (15). ■ Under 11 Red. Eltham Panthers 4.8 (32) d Whittlesea Blue 4.4 (28). Wallan v Diamond Creek. Eltham Red 10.11 (71) d Mernda Blue 0.2 (2). ■ Under 11 Green. West Ivanhoe 8.9 (57) d montmorency White 1.6 (12). Greensborough 2.2 (14) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 0.0 (0). Kilmore 4.3 (27) d Mill Park 1.7 (13). ■ Under 11 Silver. Reservoir 9.8 (62) d Mernda Red 1.0 (6). Keon Park 5.10 (40) d hurstbridge 1.1 (7). Northcote Yellow 2.3 (15) d Epping 1.1 (7). Whittlesea Gold 19.11 (125) d Northcote Blue 3.2 (20).
Wallan Thirds loss ■ Wallan 3.6 (24) went down to Rupertswood 4.13 (27) in Round 14 of the Under 19.5 competition in the Riddell District Football League on Saturday (July 20). Lancefield, Woodend-Hesket and Melton Centrals each had a bye. Diggers Rest 8.5 (53) were victorious over Riddell 5.9 (39).
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Local A-Grade netball disappointments ■ There were local A-Grade disappointments for Yea and Alexandra in Round 14 on Saturday (July 20). Kinglake had the bye, and ThorntonEildon do not field an A-Grade team.
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■ A-Grade. Results. Round 14. Saturday, July 20. Gembrook-Cockatoo: Bye. Powelltown 53 d Alexandra 32. Kinglake: Bye. Seville 68 d Yarra Junction 37. Yarra Glen 49 d Yea 48. ■ Ladder. 1. Yea, 164.32, 52. 2. Seville,. 177.81, 48. 3. Kinglake, 139.38, 40. 4. Yarra Glen, 91.48, 36. 5. Alexandra, 87.87, 32. 6. Powelltown, 98.21, 28. 7. Yarra junction, 85.39, 28. 8. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 34.81, 12. ■ B-Grade. Results. Round 14. Saturday, July 20. Powelltown 48 d Alexandra 30. Kinglake 56 d Thornton-Eildon 39. Seville 59 d Yarra Junction 25. Yarra Glen 55 d Yea 39. GembrookCockatoo: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Seville, 227.67, 56. 2. Yarra Glen, 142.13, 40. 3. Kinglake, 131.43, 40. 4. Powelltown, 107.25, 36. 5. Alexandra, 125.40, 32. 6. Yea, 95.51, 28. 7. Yarra junction, 88.61, 28. 8. Thornton-Eildon, 56.80, 12. 9. GembrookCockatoo, 33.60, 8. ■ C-Grade. Results. Round 14. Saturday, July 20.Alexandra 39 d Powelltown 31. Kinglake 18 d Thornton-Eildon 11. Seville 36 d Yarra Junction 9. Yarra glen 27 d Yea 25. GembrookCockatoo: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Seville, 363.69, 56. 2.Alexandra, 209.43, 52. 3. Powelltown, 154.10, 40. 4. Yarra Glen, 127.24, 36. 5. Yeam, 123.49, 28. 6. Yarra junction, 79.88, 24. 7. Kinglake, 70.90, 24. 8. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 32.74, 12. 9. ThorntonEildon, 21.70, 8. ■ D-Grade. Results. Round 14. Saturday, July 20. Powelltown 42 d Alexandra 32. Kinglake: Bye. Seville 43 d Yarra Junction 5. Yea 34 d Yarra Glen 12. Gembrook-Cockatoo: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Seville, 202.19, 56. 2. Yea, 141.25, 46. 3. Alexandera, 127.61, 40. 4. Yarra glen, 94.95, 34. 5. Powelltown, 125.22, 32. 6. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 93.73, 30. 7. Kinglake, 76.54, 26. 8. Yarra Junction, 19.57, 12.
Riddell District
■ Seniors. Rupertswood 8.16 (64) d Wallan 6.9 (45). Diggers Rest 22.7 (139) d Broadford 2.7 (19). Ruddell 15.7 (97) d Romsey 6.7 (43). Macedon 11.14 (80) d Woodend-Hesket 4.5 (29). Lancefield 15.14 (104) d Rockbank 1.4 (10).elton Centrals: Bye. ■ Reserves. Wallan 8.11 (59) d Rupertswood 4.5 (29). Diggers rest 24.16 (160) d Broadford 0.0 (0). Romsey 8.6 (54) drew with Riddell 8.6 (54). Woodend-Hesket 14.17 (101) d Macedon 4.1 (25). Lancefield 15.6 (96) d Rockbank 5.2 (32). Melton Centrals: Bye.
■ Under 12. Alexandra 14.17 (101) d Broadford 0.3 (3). Tabilk 27./18 (180) d Wandong 0.0 (0). Yea 5.1 (31) d St Mary’s 3.3 (21). Euroa 9.6 (60) d Seymour 3.0 (18). ■ Under 14. Broadford 19.9 (123) d Alexandra 2.2 (14). Tabilk v Wandong. St Mary’s 13.13 (91) d Yea 0.2 (2). Euroa 23.9 (147) d Seymour 3.1 (19). ■ Under 16. Broadford 14.20 (104) d Alexandra 3.4 (22). Euroa v Seymour. St Mary’s: Bye.
SCOREBOARD
UNDER `12 ALEXANDRA ........ 24, 4.10, 8.15, 14.17 (101) BROADFORD ............... 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3 (3) Alexandra. Goalkickers: R. Sproles 5, C. Howell 3, C. Collett 2, N. Campbell, C. Miljkovic, D. Coller, W. Fallon. YEA ............................... 0.0, 2.0, 2.0, 5.1 (31) ST MARY’S ................... 0.1, 0.1, 2.2, 3.3 (21) Yea. Goalkickers: J. Tainton-Allen 2, J. Porter, T. Dunne, S. Charles. St Mary’s. Goalkickers: S. Brown 2, J. Farrell. UNDER 14 BROADFORD ...... 5.4, 12.4, 14.5, 19.9 (123) ALEXANDRA ................. 0.0, 1.0, 1.1, 2.2 (14) Broadford. Goalkickers: C. Robinson 6, O. Dicker 3, B. Rask 3, S. Kilroy 2, E. Hinchcliffe 2, X. Arandt, J. Ross, M. Whitfield. Alexandra Goalkickers: H. Correa, D. Bevan. ST MARY’S ............ 3.1, 5.8, 9.11, 13.13 (91) YEA ................................. 0.1, 0.1, 0.2, 0.2 (2) St Mary’s. Goalkickers: S. Thomson 3, L. Lubeck 2, J. Best 2, F. Rutherford 2, O. Munro 2, R. Wilson 2. UNDER 16 BROADFORD ....... 1.3, 4.10, 9.19, 14.20 (104) ALEXANDRA ................. 2.3, 2.3, 3.3, 3.4 (22) Broadford. Goalkickers: C. Keen 4, O. Dicker 2, B. Jewell 2,H. O’Sullivan 2, L. Canizzo, B. Stray, N. Lingard-Lejins, B. Hall. Alexandra. Goalkickers: J. Ferrier 2, R. Lucas.
FOOTBALL LADDERS
ALEXANDRA V POWELLTOWEN
A-GRADE ALEXANDRA ............................... 10, 19, 30, 42 POWELLTOWN ......................... 16, 27, 42, 53 Alexandra. Best Players: Caitlamn Haggis. Powelltown. Goals: Nicole Jajder 13, Samantha Hansen 40. Best Players: Marissa Haynes, Samantha Hansen, Olivia Caneva. B-GRADE POWELLTOWN ......................... 16, 28, 41, 48 ALEXANDRA ................................. 4, 10, 18, 30 Powelltown. Goals: Jodie Stenhouse 8, Tayla Morton 40. Best Players: Jodie Stenhouse, Erin Mullan, Jaime Lord. Alexandra. Goals: Brooke Pearce 11, Emma kidd 20. Best Players: Emma Kidd, Shanon Whiottaker-Prendeville, Caroline Lee. C-GRADE ALEXANDRA ................................ 8, 17, 28, 39 POWELLTOWN .......................... 6, 13, 18, 31 Alexandra. Goals: Mandy Gesler 23, Michelle Jack 11. Best Players: Hana Duldig. Powelltown. Goals: Shelley Gray 9, Ghemma Beet 12. Nikki Armstrong 10. Best Players: Kelly Peers. D-GRADE POWELLTOWN ......................... 11, 23, 33, 42 ALEXANDRA ................................. 9, 17, 22, 32 Powelltown. Goals: Holly Cole 27, Kristy Sumner 15. Best Players: Kristy Sumner, Jessica Morris. Alexandra. Goals: Kate Mullins 7. Best Players: Eboni Carlton.
SEYMOUR DISTRICT JUNIOR SCORES AT A GLANCE FOOTBALL
● Olivia Caneva (Powelltown) takes a high leap against Alexandra A-Graders. Shamini-Jane Philip 20. Best Players: Cindy C-GRADE ALEXANDRA ................................ 8, 17, 28, 39 Hayes, Brydee Bond. C-GRADE POWELLTOWN .......................... 6, 13, 18, YARRA GLEN .............................. 8, 13, 20, 27 31 Alexandra. Goals: Mandy Gesler 23, Michelle YEA ............................................... 4, 12, 20, 25 Yarra Glen. Goals: Elise Tanzen 18, Jodie WilJack 11. Best Players: Hana Duldig. Powelltown. Goals: Shelley Gray 9, Ghemma son 4, Ruth Corry 5. Best Players: Elise Tanzen, Beet 12. Nikki Armstrong 10. Best Players: Kelly Madelaine Dale. Yea. Goals: Fiona Purvis 14, Kathleen Alldrick Peers. 11. Best Players: Molly Jarvie, Chelsea Helder. D-GRADE D-GRADE POWELLTOWN ......................... 11, 23, 33, 42 ALEXANDRA ................................. 9, 17, 22, YEA ................................................ 7, 15, 25, 34 YARRA GLEN ................................. 5, 9, 12, 12 32 Powelltown. Goals: Holly Cole 27, Kristy Yea. Goals: Hannah Broderick 15. Best PlaySumner 15. Best Players: Kristy Sumner, Jes- ers: Kim Slavin. Yarra Glen. Goals: Molly Duncan 1, Kiom Chrissica Morris. Alexandra. Goals: Kate Mullins 7. Best Play- tian 8, Katherine James 3. Bbest Players: Charlotte Adam, Ellie Symes. ers: Eboni Carlton.
YARRA GLEN V YEA A-GRADE YARRA GLEN ............................. 12, 24, 40, 49 YEA ............................................. 10, 19, 31, 48 Yarra Glen. Goals: Nicole Moate 27, Alicia Hughes 22. Best Players: Nicole Moate, Alicia Hughes, Katelyn Vanderkolk. Yea. Goals: Melissa Martinov 4, Nikki Watts 41, Sharmini-Jane Philip 3. B est Players: Melissa Martinov, Megan Leatham. B-GRADE YARRAGLEN ............................ `13, 26, 46, 55 YEA .............................................. 9, 19, 28, 39 Yarra Glen. Goals: Stephanie Gibs 33, Ellen Brown 22. Best Players: Ellen Brown, Stacey Gilder, Alex Beray. Yea. Goals: Brydee Boyd 3, Cindy Hayes 16
KINGLAKE V THORNTON-EILDON
B-GRADE KINGLAKE ................................. 11, 27, 40, 56 THORNTON-EIL. ........................ 9, 22, 31, 39 Kinglake. Goals: Danielle Howe 40, Latopya Wards 16. Thornton-Eildon. Goals: Kelly Grant 21, Tamara Morris-Thomas 18. C-GRADE KINGLAKE ..................................... 2, 8, 16, 18 THORNTON-EIL. ............................ 5, 8, 9, 11 Kinglake. Goals: Hayley Bawden 18, Stacey Chalmers 8. Thornton-Eildon. Goals: Jayne Farnan , Tamara Morris-Thomas , Jessie Williams , Jessica Bellamn Elley Morrison , Liz Westwood , Cassandra Worm, Jayde Thomas.
■ Under 10. 1. Seymour, 24. 2. Tabilk, 22. 3. Wandong, 22. 4. Alexandra, 18. 5. Yea, 16. 6. Broadford, 16. 7. St Mary’s, 16. 8. Euroa, 16. ■ Under 12. 1. Alexandra, 712.20, 52. 2. Euroa, 319.78, 44. 3. Tabilk, 299.67, 36. 4. Seymour, 159.40, 32. 5. Yea, 104.94, 24. 6. Broadford, 78.54, 14. 7. St Mary’s, 36.56, 6. 8. Wandong, 1.51, 0. ■ Under 14. 1. St Mary’s, 706.02, 48. 2. Euroa, 499.01, 48. 3. Tabilk, 267.57, 32. 4. Broadford, 215.40, 32. 5. Yea, 54.82, 20. 6. Alexandra, 53.63, 16. 7. Seymour, 23.04, 8. 8. Wandong, 13.34, 0. ■ Under 16. 1. Broadford, 376.16, 52. 2. St Mary’s, 169.74, 36. 3. Alexandra, 62.04, 28. 4. Euroa, 75.00, 24. 5. Seymour, 23.94, 12.
NETBALL
■ 11 and Under. Results. Round 13. Sunday, July 21. Broadford 9 d Alexandra 6. Euroa 17 d Seymour 5. St Mary's 24 d Yea 8. ■ 13 and Under. Results. Round 13. Sunday, July 21. Alexandra 21 drew with Broadford 21. Euroa 55 d Seymour 10. St Mary's 30 d Yea 3. Tabilk: Bye. ■ 15 and Under. Results. Round 13. Sunday, July 21. Alexandra 39 d Broadford 31. Seymour 30 d Euroa 27. St Mary's 44 d Yea 44. Tabilk: Bye.
NETBALL LADDERS
■ 11 and Under. 1. Euroa, 264.29, 44. 2. St Mary’s, 143.68, 40. 3. Broadford, 176.56, 32. 4. Seym,our, 127.94, 32. 5. Alexandra, 60.47, 24. 6. Yea, 6.82, 16. ■ 13 and Under. 1. Euroa, 583.58, 48. 2. Broadford, 126.11, 36. 3. Seymour, 117.82, 32. 4. St Mary’s, 97.22, 28. 5. Alexandra, 103.74, 24. 6. Yea, 29.49, 18. 7. Tabilk, 27.20, 6. ■ 15 and Under. 1. Tabilk, 177.29, 48. 2. Euroa, 124.91, 38. 3. Broadford, 119.08, 32. 4. Alexandra, 112.54, 28. 5. Seymour, 101.93, 28. 6. Yea, 53.37, 14. 7. St Mary’s, 49.57, 4. ● Yea supporter Barry Purvis looked dashing in a special Collingwood blazer at this month’s cancer charity fundraiser. It has been presented to the Purvis family by Magpies 259game veteran, captain Harry Collier.
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AFL OUTER EAST FOOTBALL SCORES AT A GLANCE DIVISION 2
■ Seniors. Round 14. Results. Saturday, July 20. Powelltown 12.9 (81) d Alexandra 10.7 (67). Kinglake 19.15 (129) d ThorntonEildon 6.8 (44). Seville 15.16 (106) d Yarra Junction 5.7 (37). Yarra glen 23.17 (155) d Yea 6.6 (42). Gembrook-Cockatoo: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Seville, 234.46, 48. 2. Yarra junction, 187.87, 48. 3. Kinglake, 150.88, 48. 4. Yarra glen, 131.75, 36. 5. GembrookCockatoo, 115.47, 32. 6. Powelltown, 115.24, 28. 7. Alexandra, 90.40, 38. 8. ThorntonEildon, 29.28, 8. 9. Yea, 30.77, 4. ■ Reserves. Round 14. Results. Saturday, July 20. Alexandra 16.16 (112) d Powelltown 4.3 (27). Kinglake 23.19 (157) d ThorntonEildon 2.1 (13). Yarra Junction 7.9 (51) ed Seville 5.2 (32). Yarra Glen 19.13 (127) d Yea 1.2 (8). Gembrook-Cockatoo: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Yarra Glen, 279.67, 48. 2. Yarra Junction, 181.85, 48. 3. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 153.54, 44. 4. Kinglake, 199.13, 36. 5. Seville, 174.79, 36. 6. Alexandra, 150.18, 36. 7. Powelltown, 58.34, 16. 8. Yea, 22.72, 8. 9. Thornton-Eildon, 18.62, 8.
Sport
Yea lifts at Yarra Glen PHOTO: ASH LONG
DIVISION 1
■ Seniors. Round 12. Results. Saturday, July 20. Doveton 12.11 (83) d Mt Evelyn 6.5 (41). Officer 25.22 (172) d Belgrave 11.10 (76). Emerqald 9.12 (66) d WarburtonMillgrove 8.17 (65). Pakenham 14.10 (94) d Monbulk 3.8 (26). ■ Ladder. 1. Monbulk, 174.14, 44. 2. Pakenham, 166.01, 40. 3. Doveton, 123.38, 32. 4. Officer, 130.93, 24. 5. Mt Evelyn, 122.21, 24. 6. Emerald, 73.05, 12. 7. Belgrave, 60.84, 8. 8. Warburton-Millgrove, 46.92, 8. ■ Reserves. Round 12. Results. Saturday, July 20. Mt Evelyn 14.14 (98) d Doveton 1.8 (14). Officer 19.17 (131) d Belgrave 3.6 (24). Emerald 9.11 (65) d Warburton-Millgrove 4.10 (34). Pakenham 3.13 (31) d Monbulk 3.4 (22). ■ Ladder. 1. Mt Evelyn, 357.89, 44. 2. Pakenham, 298.16, 40. 3. Officer, 169.26, 32. 4. Doveton, 145.27, 28. 5. Monbulk, 100.31, 20. 6. Emerald, 60.40, 20. 7. Belgrave, 30.04, 4. 8. Waerburton-Millgrove, 24.65, 4. ■ Under 18. Round 12. Results. Saturday, July 20. Mt Evelyn 7.10 (52) d Doveton 6.6 (42). Emerald 13.10 (88) d WarburtonMillgrove 2.5 (17). Pakenham 12.14 (86) d Monbulk 2.7 (19). Officer: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Pakenham, 232.41, 90.91. 2. Officer, 324.12, 77.78. 3. Doveton, 113.15, 50.00. 4. Monbulk, 80.33, 50.00. 5. Emerald, 110.06, 40.00. 6. Mt Evelyn, 47.54, 22.73. 7. Warburton-Millgrove, 31.66, 16.67.
PREMIER LEAGUE
■ Seniors. Round 12. Results. Saturday, July 20. Cranbourne 11.8 (74) drew with Woori Yallock 11.8 (74). Olinda-Ferny Creek 16.10 (106) d Healesville 4.6 (30). Narre Warren 27.27 (189) d Upwey-Tecoma 7.8 (50). Wandin 17.9 (111) d Beaconsfield 13.17 (95). Berwick: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Berwick, 243.90, 44. 2. Narre Warrten, 201.56, 40. 3. Woori Yallock, 100.88, 34. 4. Beaconsfield, 160.74, 32. 5. Cranbourne, 132.58, 26. 6. Wandin, 74.69, 26. 7. OlindaFerny Creek, 82.54, 20. 8. Upwey-Tecoma, 53.92, 12. 9. Healesville, 38.42, 8. ■ Reserves. Round 12. Results. Saturday, July 20. Cranbourne 18.12 (120) d Woori Yallock 4.1 (25). Olinda-Ferny Creek 3.11 (29) d Healesville 4.3 (27). Narre Warren 17.15 (117) d Upwey-Tecoma 3.3 (21). Beaconsfield 16.8 (104) d Wandin 4.1 (25). Berwick: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Berwick, 611.05, 44. 2. Narre Warren, 472.55, 42. 3. Beaconsfield, 397.93, 40. 4. Cranbourne, 126.39, 32. 5. UpweyTecoma, 126.39, 32. 6. Wandin, 54.87, 24. 7. Olinda-Ferny Creek, 58.75, 18. 8. Healesville, 19.12, 8. 9. Woori Yallock, 13.44 , 8. ■ Under 18. Round 12. Results. Saturday, July 20. Alexanxdra 10.6 (66) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 3.4 (22). Berwick 16.14 (110) d Berwick Springs 4.1 (25). Gembrook-Cockatoo 8.8 (56) d Woori Yallock 1.2 (8). UpweyTecoma 8.4 (52) d Narre Warren 6.10 (46). Beaconsfield 24.17 (161) d Wandin 1.3 (9). ■ Ladder. 1. Berwick, 476.25, 44. 2. Narre Wareren, 416.20, 44. 3. Beaconsfield, 329.70, 36. 4. Upwey-Tecoma, 184.68, 32. 5. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 89.34, 28. 6. Woori Yallock, 93.76, 24. 7. Berwick Springs, 44.63, 14. 8. Alexandra, 32.54, 8. 9. Olinda-Ferny Creek, 24.89, 6. 10. Wandin, 20.07, 4.
● Patrick Evans was in control at Yarra Glen in AFL Outer East Division 2 competition on Saturday. ■ Yea Seniors put in a creditable performance THORNTON-EIL. .......... 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 2.1 (13) against Yarra Glen on the Flats on Saturday Kinglake. Goalkickers: B. Gallichio 14, J. (July 20). Whitehead 3, M. Genio 2, L. Young, J. Heal, H. Kinglake was the only Murrindindi senior Caine, J. Morgan. Best Players: B. Gallichio, J. GOULBURN VALLEY team to have four premiership points in Round Orchard, J. Whitehead, L. Young, M. McAllister, ■ Seniors. Results. Round 14. Saturday, 14 of the Division Two competition. D. Mercuri. July 20. Shepparton 10.13 (73) d Shepparton Each of Thornton-Eildon (against KingYARRA GLEN V YEA United 7.8 (50). Euroa 14.3 (87) d Mansfield lake), Yea (against Yarra Glen) and Alexandra SENIORS 13.7 (85). Benalla 11.13 (79) d Seymour 6.5 (against Powelltown) can be proud of their ef- YARRA GLEN .......... 5.2, 9.8, 14.9, 23.17 (155) (41). Mooroopna 12.7 (79) d Shepparton forts last weekend. YEA ..................................... 3.2, 3.3, 6.6, 6.6 (42) Swans 10.11 (71). Echuca 10.14 (74) d Tatura ALEXANDRA V Yarra Glen. Goalkickers: A. Smith 4, R. Gur8.10 (58). Kyabram v Rochester. ney 4, J. Schille 3, B. Ashton 2, N. McCulloch 3, ■ Reserves. Results. Round 14. Saturday, POWELLTOWN L. Telford, J. Smith, J. Marks, A. Hocking, D. July 20. Sheparton United 7.13 (55) d SENIORS Hurley, B. Gardner. Best Players: N. McCulloch, Shepparton 5.2 (32). Euroa 20.18 (138) d POWELLTOWN ........... 3.3, 7.8, 7.8, 12.9 (81) R. Gurney, J. Marks, B. Ashton, A. Smith, D. Mansfield 1.2 (8). Seymour 8.7 (55) d Benalla ALEXANDRA .................. 3.2, 7.4, 8.6, 10.7 (67) Hurley. 7.6 (48). Shepparton SWans 13.5 (83) d Powelltown. Goalkickers: D. Roy 4, J. Rohan 3, Yea. Goalkickers: J. Carroll 2, B. Willsmore, X. Mooroopna 5.4 (34). Echuca 8.10 (58) d L. Rano, L. Middlemast, J. Mullan, D. Fraser. O’Dwyer, C. Evams, J. Harry. Best Players: R. Tatura 2.5 (17). Kyabram v Rochester. Best Players: T. Stokes, B. Wratten, J. Johnson, Aldous, D. Evans, A. McSpeerin, L. Smith, M. ■ Under 18. Results. Round 14. Saturday, R. Johnson, D. Roy, N. Moody. July 20. Shepparton 16.6 (102) d Shepparton Squires, J. Mahon. Alexandra. Goalkickers: B. Norris 5, C. McKay United 4.2 (26). Mansfield 10.2 (62) d Euroa RESERVES 2, S. Steiner, C. Heaslip, R. Norris. Best Play- YARRA GLEN ........... 4.2, 12.4, 16.9, 19.13 (127) 7.4 (46). Seymour 7.15 (57) d Benalla 3.6 ers: B. Norris, B. Cooper, P. Ferguson, C. McKay, YEA ..................................... 1.1, 1.1, 1.1, 1.2 (8) (24). Mooroopna 19.19 (133) d Shepparton R. Norris, L. Collard. Swans 3.3 (21). Echuca 19.18 (132) d Tatura Yarra Glen. Goakickers: D. Case 5, DE. RESERVES 1.1 (7). Kyabram v Rochester. 4, D. Barker 4, L. Vanderstadt 3, D. ALEXANDRA .......... 5.6, 9.11, 13.14, 16.19 (112) Galbraith KYABRAM DISTRICT Brodie, M. Kikidopoulos, J. Rooney. Best PlayPOWELLTOWN ............. 1.0, 2.1, 3.2, 4.3 (27) ers: L. Vanderstadt, R. Crosby, D. Barker, D. ■ Seniors. Results. Round 13. Saturday, Alexandra. Goalkickers: P. Hoornweg 9, W. Case, D. Fenech, C. Orren. July 20. Shepparton East 36.22 (238) d Ingram 2, P. Brooks 2, J. Williamson, W. Ellis, Yea. Goalkicker: M. Helder. Best Players: R. Ardmona 3.6 (24). Avenel 25.21 (171) d J. Kidd. Best Players: M. Church, J. Kidd, W. Sargeant, S. Vlamis, C. Rose, T. O’Dwyer, M. Rushworth 3.1 (19). Lancaster 14.12 (96) d Ellis, R. Marks, P. Brooks, P. Hoornweg. Dookie United 6.8 (44). Murchison-Toolamba Powelltown. Goalkickers: D. Smith, M. Hargreaves, N. Charles. 14.14 (98) d Undera 12.9 (81). Nagambie ALEXANDRA V Kogelman, T. Green, T. Markoulakis. Best Play14.29 (113) d Violet Town 4.4 (28). Tallyers: B. Walker, J. Dobson, S. Roberts, J. Neale, OLINDA-FERNY CREEK garoopna 18.15 (123) d Merrigum 8.6 (54). M. MKogelman, B. Traynor. Longwood: Bye. Girggare v Stanhope. UNDER 18 ■ Reserves. Results. Round 13. Saturday, KINGLAKE V ALEXANDRA ................... 2.0, 4.0, 6.2, 10.6 (66) July 20. Shepparton East 21.5 (131) d ArdOLINDA-FERNY CK ...... 1.2, 1.4, 3.4, 3.4 (22) THORNTON-EILDON mona 6.1 (37). Avenel 26.14 (170) ed Alexandra. Goalkickers: H. Dunsford 2, R. SENIORS Rushworth 0.0 (0). Lancaster 16.14 (110) d 2, T. Rouget, B. Jack, J. Bourke, J. LaurieKINGLAKE ............ 6.7, 8.10, 15.14, 19.15 (129) Lucas Dookie United 1.1 (7). Undera 19.17 (131) d Rhodes, J. Harris, B. Humphries. Best Players: THORNTON-EIL. ........... 0.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.8 (44) J. Aldous, A. McDonald, J. Geldart, J. Harris, J. Murchison-Toolamba 2.5 (17). Nagambie Kinglake. Goalkickers: A. Fairchild 9, M. Laurie-Rhodes. 23.14 (152) d Violet Town 2.4 (16). Tallygaroopna 10.11 (71) d Merrigum 5.2 (32). McAllister 3, E. Robinson 2, W. Graf 2, B. Olinda-Ferny Creek. Goalkickers: L. Slattery Longwood: Bye. Girgarre v Stanhope. White, M. Newton, R. King. Best Players: T. 2, D. Garnett. Best Players: E. Royle-Young, R. ■ Under 18. Results. Round 13. Saturday, McDonald, R. King,A. Fairchild, M. McAllister, Goldberg, J. Riordan, L. Slattery, B. Jessop, L. July 20. Shepparton East 20.18 (138) d W. Graf, B. White. Ardmona 4.1 (25). Rushworth 8.6 (54) d Thornton-Eildon. Goalkickers: T. Kindred 2, Dennis. Avenel 5.7 (37). Lancaster 16.19 (115) d R. Hurst, G. Nai, R. Anderson, C. Kalogirou. ● Is your sport, is your club’s report Dookie United 1.4 (10). Murchison-Toolamba Best Players: J. Hehir, R. Anderson, J. Low, R. published in this newspaper. We ac19.13 (127) d Undera 0.2 (2). Merrigum 11.6 Deray, R. Hurst, T. Kindred. cept reports until 10am Mondays: (72) d Tallygaroopna 1.3 (9). Nagambie: Bye. RESERVES editor@LocalPaper.com.au Girgarre v Stanhope.
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Unique business and lifestyle opportunity :Nestled on just over ½ acre of land are these delightful Guest houses. “The Churches of Yarck. Versatile layout, yet stylishly designed means that each studio is equally suited to a romantic couples' retreat or to accommodate families or groups. The Great Victorian Rail Trail lies to the rear of the property and there's plenty of room to store your bikes. Options are endless with township zoning for the astute buyer to secure a piece of local history $430,000
Alexandra
Alexandra
Breathtaking views on 4 acres:Set amongst breathtaking views you’ll find a charming 3 bedroom home with great northerly aspect. Master bedroom with ensuite and walk in robe, central family bathroom with spa bath & second sitting room or parents retreat. Open plan living with floor to ceiling windows and large deck to take in the views. Privacy on 4Ac, 4 rows of shiraz vineyard, established fruit bearing orchard & large colourbond shed with concrete floor. $565,000
Alexandra
Build Your Dream Home! • Large flat block measuring just under 3 Acres with a dam. • Situated at the entrance to 'Pellerin Estate' • Rural fencing and timber post and rail entrance • Power, town water and telecommunications available, sealed road and private court location. $195,000
Magnificent Views:• 140 acres (56 Ha) of grazing hill country • 15Ac approx ideal for a hay paddock, several fantastic spots to build your dream home. • 3 dams, a natural spring and amazing views of Mt Cathedral • Very private yet easy access $385,000
Landmark Harcourts Alexandra 56 Grant Street, Alexandra I 5772 3444
Sales Specialist I Belinda Hocking 0418 115 574 Property Management I Sarah Brockhus 0457 537 222 Glenburn
Neat as a Pin:• Well maintained 3 bedroom home on approx. 690sqm • Central bathroom & separate shower room • Large Kitchen with electric cooking • Single car garage & separate store room. $275,000
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Stunning Home On Approximately 30 Acres This stunning 4 Bedroom, Harkaway home, only a short distance from Yarra Valley wineries, is sure to impress. Built with no compromises, this energy efficient four bedroom home is appointed with top quality fittings throughout. High ceilings welcome you down the entrance hall into a spacious light filled living area showcasing breathtaking views through surrounding windows. A separate sitting room provides a second space to unwind and relax. The hostess kitchen offers expansive Caesar stone benchtops, walk-in pantry and Belling oven. Outside, the fully powered 60 year old woolshed conversion provides a charming outdoor entertaining and BBQ area. In addition, a powered 12 x 7.5m shed is equipped with bathroom, toilet and mezzanine floor, plus a 12 x 6m machinery shed adjoining timber stockyards. Fully fenced, divided into five paddocks, one good-sized dam, brick well, irrigated stock water and automatic gates.
Yea
With a stunning rural view to the North facing frontage & tree views to the rear that have been standing for over 100 years, this picturesque location is a little slice of Heaven on earth.
Yea
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Immaculate, Central Commercial "Freehold" For Sale This well-established, immaculate commercial building "Freehold" is located in Yea, Victoria, in the Murrindindi Shire. *This establishment offers unlimited potential for investors, developers or owner operators. The brick building has great natural light with a flexible fit out, is set on a leafy, tree-lined street with ample on-street parking as, well as a dedicated parking lot. The property extends back to a quiet, rear street with direct access, offering sub division potential. The main entrance is right on the bustling main street known as High street, connecting Mansfield, Alexandra, and Lake Eildon to Melbourne.*Currently tenanted as a Veterinary Hospital & has been servicing the local area for many years; some of the shop fitting has been installed by the Tenant and caters to large and small animal. Currently open five days-a-week and offering 24-hour emergency services every day of the year.
Homely & Family Ready Looking for a family ready home with quant country charm? This property is sure to delight any family with what it has to offer and is also located a short 350m walk to High Street, Yea. The original cottage has been extended into an inviting home with 3 Queen sized bedrooms, Master with ens, a quite & sunny sitting room just off the open plan kitchen, dinning & family room that leads through stunning French doors onto a decked entertainment area. All set on well over 1000 m2 with a freshly build double garage & dry, sheltered access directly into the home. * 3 metre ceilings * Well planned country kitchen with quality appliances & plenty of bench space *cathedral ceilings to open living zone* 3 x split systems, ceiling fan & slow combustion fire * excellent rear access with huge garage/ man shed * Vendors flexible on short or long settlement. Inspection will delight.
Real Estate Sales Professional – Kerryn Rishworth 0412 346 169. kerryn.r@landmarkharcourts.com.au Property Management – Sharon Butcher 0402 113 927 Contact Landmark Yea for all of your Stock, Merchandise, Insurance & Financial Services 5979 5797 2799
Landmark Harcourts Yea 52 High Street, Yea I 5797 2799