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WEDNESDAY July 30, 2014

Police receive medals page 2

Aldi page 5

TAFE teachers protest

Award for teacher

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page 7

CMSC page 13

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Sport from page 38

Vets’ new home

Snowy Vets have relocated to their new, purpose built animal hospital on the Monaro Highway, just north of Cooma. The new premises offer state-of-the-art facilties for all aspects of the practise, including digital x-rays, purpose-built consulting rooms, a modern eco-design and plenty of space. See our feature on pages 21-26.

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Pictured left to right, Senior Constable Tony Edwards, Senior Constable Stephen James with Member for Monaro, John Barilaro, Senior Constable Jacki Pritchard with John Barilaro

Eight National Police Service Medals were among awards presented to police officers at the 2014 Monaro Local Area Command Medals and Awards Ceremony in Queanbeyan last week.

The Member for Monaro John Barilaro said the awards were an opportunity for the community to recognise the good work being done, every day, by officers of the Monaro Local Area Command. “It was a privilege for me to present a number of the awards as part of today’s ceremony and to formally acknowledge officers devotion to duty and commitment to maintaining law and order,� said Mr Barilaro. “Officers nominated for the awards have demonstrated exceptional professionalism to earn the nominations by their peers and today is a special opportunity for the police from the Monaro Local Area Command to pay tribute to their colleagues. “The complexities and challenges of modern policing are many and varied; policing is a career which has a real impact on the community. Today’s award recipients should feel proud of their outstanding commitment and dedication to their craft.�

National Police Service Medal Detective Senior Constable Philip McCloskeyQueanbeyan Former Senior Constable Paul Sweeney- Queanbeyan Inspector Neil Grey- Queanbeyan/Cooma Former Senior Constable Mark Jeffrey- Queanbeyan Senior Constable Tony Edwards- Jindabyne Senior Constable Ashley McDonald- Queanbeyan Former Inspector Ian Davey- Queanbeyan

Clasp to the National Medal Inspector Neil Grey- Queanbeyan/Cooma Senior Constable Tony Edwards- Jindabyne Former Inspector Ian Davey- Queanbeyan NSW Police Medal Senior Constable Richard Pearce- Queanbeyan Senior Constable Lisa Walsh- Cooma Detective Senior Constable Dean James- Queanbeyan Senior Constable Stephen James- Cooma Clasp to the Police Medal Inspector Neil Grey- Queanbeyan/Cooma Senior Constable Jacki Pritchard- Cooma Detective Senior Constable Mira Pieper- Queanbeyan Senior Constable Tony Edwards- Jindabyne Former Inspector Ian Davey- Queanbeyan Senior Constable Justin Sieverts- Queanbeyan Certificate of Service Former Senior Constable Paul Sweeney- Queanbeyan Michelle Stephens- Cooma General support officer Jan Maley- Queanbeyan Region Commander’s Unit Citation Police Alpine Operations Commander’s Unit Citation South Region Surveillance Unit Certificates of Appreciation Tristan Kilpatrick- Queanbeyan Patrick Hayes James Titterton

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TAFE teachers protest

The NSW Teachers Federation held a meeting to protest planned changes to funding for TAFE Institutions on Thursday July 24 at the Cooma ExServices Club.

Speaking before the meeting, NSW Teachers Federation TAFE Organiser, Rob Long, explained that its purpose was to give TAFE staff and community members an idea of the potential implications of changes to the TAFE funding model.

“We’re very concerned about TAFE’s in rural towns like Cooma maintaining viability if funding is privatised,” Mr Long said.

NSW State Government reforms to TAFE funding, termed Smart and Skilled, are being implemented throughout 2014 and are due to take full effect from January 2015.

Under the new model, a proportion of government funding for vocational training providers will be open to contest by the private education sector and government funded course concessions for qualifications beyond Certificate III will be restricted to courses dictated by a “skills list”.

Student loans emulating those offered at universities (VET FEE-HELP loans) will also be made available for some courses.

“They call it Smart and Skilled. This is a budget cut, one hell of a budget cut. This is run by NSW Treasury,” Mr Long said.

Australian Education Union Federal TAFE Secretary, Pat Forward, was in attendance in order to inform the meeting of the consequences of similar reforms which have been introduced in Victoria.

“Our concern is that the NSW government’s Smart and Skilled reforms are similar to the Victorian reforms, which have had devastating consequences, particularly in rural and regional areas where institutes have been forced to amalgamate,” Ms Forward said.

Not everyone is pessimistic about the reforms, with local resident and former TAFE student, Peter Kornek, voicing his support for some of the measures.

“I don’t see forcing an entity to become more competitive as necessarily a bad thing,” Mr Kornek said.

Pictured: South Coast Labour Council Secretary, Arthur Rorris, Australian Education Union Federal TAFE Secretary, Pat Forward, and NSW Teachers Federation TAFE Organiser, Rob Long.

News 3 Economic direction discussed At last night’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc dinner, CoomaMonaro mayor Dean Lynch spoke about the shire’s economic direction.

In July, council endorsed the 2014/2015 financial budget, which included $110,000 for economic development.

Cr Lynch’s presentation focussed on the adopted taskforce report and the destination management plan.

Cr Lynch has met with various stakeholders, including Chamber and asked for them to highlight which of the actions contained within the taskforce report, they can work with Council to achieve and deliver.

Actions that can be delivered by the various stakeholders will be funded via a council adopted Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Council and the stakeholder. These MOU’s will be focused on delivering achievable outcomes within allotted timeframes.

Cr Lynch said council will not be appointing an Economic Development Officer, rather, by including the wider business community, council will deliver tangible outcomes based on the taskforce report, that will ultimately build a more vibrant and prosperous community.

Cooma’s Tourism manager, Donna Smith also spoke at the meeting.

Her presentation concentrated on changes in place for Tourism with the vision of increasing visitation and visitor expenditure, staring with:

· Independent (Stafford Group) Review of Councils Tourism Services in 2012, including the role of the Tourism Manager & The Visitor Information Centre · The Key recommendations from this review that Council will be ( and are already) focussing on to optimise our Tourism sector: o Optimising and Prioritising our online presence o Event, Festivals & Marketing o Destination Branding o Street Scaping & Beautification o Regional commitment to Tourism o Restructure of the Tourism Manager role and the role of the Visitors Centre · Ms Smith introduced a new visitcooma.com.au website and the capital region living website and our Cooma VC Facebook page.

She said ‘Cooma-Monaro is very well represented online with high end, professional websites and a contemporary social media presence’.

Mrs Smith also spoke about the 12 month project we conducted with the Tourism Committee including identifying our current events (Tourism Events vs Community Events), Identifying Gaps in the Calendar, Forum of Event organisers – resulting in the creation of our ‘Cooma-Monaro Events Strategy’

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Permit conditions apply outside of fire danger period On Saturday July 26 at 11.49am, a fire was reported to the Monaro RFS at the back of Cappawidgee Road, Bredbo.

The blaze burnt 2 hectares of land but did not cause significant property damage, the cause of the incident is still undetermined and patrols were able to declare the fire out early on Monday morning.

On Sunday morning at 10:45am a report of a fire was made to the Monaro RFS adjacent to the Monaro highway, south of Ryans Road.

The Michelago and Colinton brigades responded but found a land owner was burning off on his property.

The fire was declared under control, but the property owner had not notified the RFS as they are required to do.

The landowner was been advised that it is a requirement to give the RFS at least 24 hours notice when conducting hazard reduction burns.

The RFS would like to remind people that even

though we are outside of the fire danger period, permit conditions still always apply.

Not notifying the RFS can lead to needlessly calling brigades out.

In the afternoon on Sunday at 14:37, a call was made to the RFS in regards to a roof alight in house on Dalgety road, between Berridale and Dalgety.

Dalgety RFS and Fire and Rescue Jindabyne responded.

The fire was caused by a fault with the chimney on the wood fireplace, where the blaze had extended into the roof cavity.

The owners managed initial extinguishment and the brigades ensured there was no further extension into the roof.

On Saturday 26 in the afternoon Cooma Ambulance attended a minor single car accident on Varney’s Range, the driver was a 65-year-old male who sustained no major injuries.

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P l a t y p u s Pals Inc. in conjunction with South East Local Land Services will hold a public meeting to find out!

The meeting will be held at Dalgety Memorial Hall on Tuesday August 21 from 5.30pm.

“We hope to engage local people in a platypus count to add to the work already undertaken in the Snowy catchment,” said Gavin Whiteley, G e n e r a l Manager South East Local Land Services.

Platypus Pals has a long standing relationship with the Australian Platypus Conservancy and the new project has a focus on river health in response to environmental releases for the Snowy River below Jindabyne.

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tributary to Bombala River known as Cambalong Creek.

Platypus Pals hope to draw out local knowledge at the Dalgety meeting and encourage people to watch for platypus regularly over time. The group will also work with local school children to raise the level of awareness regarding platypus and the health of our rivers more generally.

The meeting will provide tips on watching for platypus and general information from the Conservancy.

It will discuss the counting and recording methodology so as to ensure that the data gathered contributes to the growing body of knowledge regarding this iconic creature.

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A local from Nimmitabel will receive a 2014 Private Land Conservation Grant for outstanding conservation efforts.

“Support for individuals and groups undertaking conservation works on their own properties is important.

Why? Because 83.5 percent of Australia is outside of the formal network of protected areas,” said Ms Susanna Bradshaw, CEO of the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife.

“Government agencies play a part in conserving Australia’s unique animals, plants, and ecosystems by reserving and managing land in our national parks. Not-for-profit organisations also play their role by managing land in privately-owned sanctuaries.”

“Individual people and groups have a unique and crucially important role to play in the conservation jigsaw puzzle. By improving the habitat that private properties provide for native species, landowners can make all or parts of their own pieces of land into havens for biodiversity—almost mininational parks, if you will,” said Ms Bradshaw. Conservation on private properties can add up to important wildlife corridors linking up habitats between national parks across the country.”

“Individuals who manage all or parts of their properties for conservation deserve our recognition.

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rangers, and they provide an incredible contribution to the welfare of Australia’s environment,” Ms Bradshaw said. “The amount of manhours that these landowners put in is really something to applaud.”

“That is why the Foundation and its partners are proud to offer grants to support landowners undertaking conservation works on their own lands,” said Ms Bradshaw.

Local grant recipient: • Marie Wynan from the Wombat Protection Society will receive $3,571 over two years to create an educational film about wombats, habitat loss, their diseases and behaviour.

There is a serious lack of knowledge and misinformation regarding wombats. Many people don’t know much about their habitat needs, behaviour, or the mange mites that cause them agonising suffering.

The Wombat Protection Society’s aim in creating a film is to educate schoolaged children in particular as they will be the future custodians of our fauna and flora.

The 20-minute documentary will seek to address the lack of knowledge and help engage children and community members in assisting with the wombat’s survival.

Ms Wynan of the Wombat Protection Society was eligible for this grant as a Wildlife Land Trust member.

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New principal for CNPS Cooma North Public School is now under the guidance of a new Principal, with Belinda Jamieson having taken up the role at the commencement of term three.

Mrs Jamieson, a deputy principal at North Sydney Demonstration School prior to her current role, said that the transition to her new school had been a smooth one.

“It’s been an incredibly warm welcome, staff here are extremely nurturing and professional. It’s been a really positive move, I certainly feel that we’ve made the right decision,” she said.

Utilising her professional network, and experience in diverse school environments, Mrs Jamieson aims to build upon the existing learning programs in place at Cooma North.

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“My role is to help strengthen existing programs and introduce new programs to help create life long learners. The teachers here already run valuable and inspiring programs,” she said.

Mrs Jamieson, who was appointed on merit selection, has experience in staff development, including the mentoring of early career teachers.

“The staff here are all extremely keen to continue growing professionally,” she said.

Mrs Jamieson said that she and her husband, who will relocate from Sydney in the New Year, had spent a long time thinking about a move to a smaller community prior to the position being advertised.

“We’d been talking about moving to a smaller community, and we absolutely love the district.

We’ve spent a lot of time down here during the holidays,” she said.

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Council in partnership with the Touched by Olivia Foundation are working with the community on designs and plans for the upgrade of the playground at Banjo Paterson Park in Jindabyne.

The Touched By Olivia Foundation are a non-profit group that was formed in 2006 that helps communities facilitate playground designs that are inclusive for all children regardless of their age or ability.

The Banjo Patterson Park Playground project has been driven by the community for several years with fundraising, grant funding and support from the Touched by Olivia Foundation and Council.

Rebecca Ho from the Touched By Olivia Foundation, Ben Richards who is a Playground Designer together with Council will be holding meetings at Banjo Patterson Park on Friday 1 August between 12pm and 1.30pm and Saturday 2 August between 9am and 11am.

The Banjo Paterson Park upgrade is one part of Council's overall Draft Playground Strategy. A report will be presented to Council's Delivery and Operations Committee shortly, seeking endorsement for our proposed strategy to be placed on public exhibition for comment. The community must keep in mind that Council has limited resources to develop and maintain open space and playgrounds and the strategy must be economically viable.

We look forward to the outcomes of the meetings on the 1st and 2nd of August and the input from the Community. The information gained from these meetings will assist Council's Strategic Planners who are working closely with The Touched

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Last week was a lucky week in Cooma, with more than $13,000 being won.

The Cooma Lions Club’s Lucky Joker competition jackpot was won by Nick Moon, who scored $2,300.

This competition is sponsored by the Cooma Hotel and all proceeds are shared by the Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul, Cooma-Bombala Legacy, Sir William Hudson Memorial Aged Care Centre, Yallambee Lodge and the Cooma-Yamaga sister city youth exchange program.

The Lucky Joker at the Alpine Hotel also went off, giving Adrian Lemottee a cash injection of $6070.

Then on Saturday, the Cooma Stallions Exacta prize went off, giving Graham Boller $5000.

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Salvos sausage sizzle Jindabyne teacher recognised for outstanding achievement

Cooma’s Salvation Army store had a sausage sizzle, with entertainment, last Saturday.

The sizzle was free and musicians Graham Hush and Gordon Barr, who work with the Salvos’ Youth Ministry, provided the music.

Kelly Burke from Jindabyne Central School, was last week recognised with a 2014 Commonwealth Bank Foundation Teaching Award for her remarkable contribution to building the essential money management skills of young Australian students.

During a special ceremony hosted by the Commonwealth Bank Foundation in Sydney, Mrs Burke received her award from Commonwealth Bank Chief Executive Officer and Foundation Chair, Ian Narev. Mr Narev acknowledged fifteen teachers for their admirable efforts in running or developing innovative programs to educate Australian kids about money and finance.

Kelly Burke was chosen from over 250 quality applicants from across Australia. Her Kindergarten role-play program allows students to work through financial challenges including bartering, developing their own currency and practising purchasing items in carefully orchestrated real-life scenarios that teach students about money and its purpose in society.

Mrs Burke was awarded $10,000 to expand her financial learning program.

Mr Narev said he was proud of how the program assists teachers to develop and grow their financial education initiatives in schools across the country.

“We believe it is very important to support teachers who are working hard to improve their students’ financial literacy. This will improve the students’ financial wellbeing in the long term,” he said.

“2014 marks the third year of the Commonwealth Bank Foundation Teaching Awards. Every year, we continue to discover engaging and innovative programs from inspirational teachers.”

For more information on the 2014 winners, their specific programs and the Teaching Awards, visit www.commbank.com.au/teachingawards.

Pictured: Kelly receiving her Teaching Award from Ian Narev, CommBank CEO.

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ADF training in Kosciuszko Bombala Tyres for localised service National Park Australian Defence Force personnel (ADF) will conduct training activities in several locations in The Rolling Ground, Mount Tate and Munyang Valley areas, within the Kosciuszko National Park from 28 July to 15 August 2014.

These activities are designed to provide

a realistic test of ADF skills in the form of cold weather environmental survival, while remaining tactically focussed in a combat scenario.

The training will ensure the ADF has the highest level of capability to support Australia’s commitment to current and future operations overseas.

BOMBALA COUNCIL GENERAL MANAGER: Ms Ngaire McCrindle Now that 2014/15 Operational Plan and budget have been adopted and the responses from the Community Survey analysed, Council is closely reviewing all operations and examining if any cost savings or service delivery changes can or need to be made.

As part of this process, Council has decided to investigate the process of applying for a special rate variation for the next financial year. Effectively Council’s revenue is pegged at 2.3% in the current year however we know that many of our costs such as wages, Councillors allowances (set by the State Government), electricity, recently announced rise of 86% on street lighting and other materials and services are all increasing by more than this amount.

This leaves Council with two alternatives. Firstly, Council could continue to provide the current services to our community and increase rates revenue and fees for services.

Secondly, Council could decide which services need to be either reduced or removed to keep within current financial constraints. Any decision by Council will be made in consultation with our community as to preferred alternatives i.e. either increasing rates or cutting services.

In the coming months Council will also be working with all section 355 committees to review their constitutions and operations. These committees have responsibility for a number of Council assets including the Showground at Delegate, the Exhibition Ground at Bombala and the Bombala Racecourse as well as the majority of halls in our area. This work is part of the ongoing Council Asset Management Project which is reviewing all Council assets, including assessing whether they are required, their management, maintenance and usage.

Military personnel involved in the training will be carrying weapons; however they will not be carrying ammunition.

Local residents and park users should not be alarmed if they notice increased military movement during this period as this is part of the training.

The ADF acknowledges that these activities do result in possible disturbances to residents and park users, and seeks to minimise disruption wherever possible.

Training in cold weather environments is essential to provide ADF personnel with realistic experience.

Local authorities have been consulted, and the NSW Police Force is aware of the training.

The ADF would like to thank local residents, park users and National Parks and Wildlife Service for their continued support and cooperation during this important training.

Bombala Tyres Pty Ltd has been in operation for approximately 20 years and was known previously as Bombala Discount Tyres.

It is a locally owned family business and provides the Bombala and surrounding districts with tyres, rims, batteries and other automotive and tyre products.

Our friendly staff have over 19 years experience and can help with all your tyre needs ranging from earth moving machinery to a baby’s pram.

A mobile service is also available, where we can come to you should you find yourself with

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We have a large range of batteries in stock and have an extensive range of auto parts available. Bombala Tyres Pty Ltd is situated at 178 Maybe St Bombala NSW 2632, our trading hours are Monday to Friday 8am5.30pm and Saturdays 8am to 12.00pm with an after hours service also available if required.

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As Australians prepare their annual tax returns, leading tax depreciation specialist BMT is encouraging property investors to investigate the additional cash flow that can be generated by a tax depreciation schedule.

“There are thousands of property investors across the country who are not aware of the savings available to them through the use of tax depreciation,” said BMT Tax Depreciation managing director, Brad Beer.

“The average tax depreciation schedule saves an investor $10,100 in the first full financial year and $73,500 over ten years of ownership, however recent research we conducted revealed that 80 per cent of property investors may not be maximising the depreciation deductions available to them.

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depreciation schedules.”

Tax depreciation is based on the concept that as a building gets older the building and its fixtures wear out, or depreciate and decrease in value.

Specialist quantity surveyors are licensed to identify and accurately assess the depreciable value of buildings and their fixtures.

“Specialist quantity surveyors are able to make a comprehensive assessment of all the depreciable assets, not just the more frequently-claimed items such as carpet, hot water systems and light fittings,” said Brad Beer.

“Less obvious items such as garbage bins, mechanical exhausts and door closers may seem insignificant by themselves, however cumulatively can make a significant difference to the cash flow generated by an investment property.”

According to BMT, if property investors haven’t claimed depreciation since they purchased their property, they may also be able to amend the past two years’ worth of tax returns to reflect any depreciation they haven’t claimed.

Australian tax legislation additionally allows 2.5 per cent of the structural cost of a building to be claimed every year for up to 40 years as a depreciation deduction, and investors who purchase an established property are able to claim the residual value of the building from the date they purchased the property.

“Because depreciation is a non-cash deduction, property investors don’t need to have spent any money to claim depreciation on their property and are able to claim deduction for renovations, even if they were completed by a previous owner,” said Brad Beer.

“Investors are able to easily estimate a depreciation claim for a property using our free online tax 12noon depreciation calculator,” concluded Brad Beer.

Interested parties can access and make use of BMT’s free tax depreciation calculator at http://www. bmtqs.com.au/tax-depreciation-calculator

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COOMA-MONARO SHIRE COUNCIL WEEKLY NEWS AND COMMUNITY INFORMATION

30th July, 2014

building a better community

COUNCIL communiqué COUNCIL MEETING 11 AUGUST, COUNCIL CHAMBERS @ 4.30PM Council will be holding its ordinary council meeting Monday 11 August 2014, commencing with Public Forum where residents are welcome to address Council on any matter at 4.30pm.

HAVE YOUR SAY! PLANS ON PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Business Papers are available to the public on Council’s website www.cooma.nsw.gov.au the Friday of the week preceding the meeting.

PUBLIC NOTICE RESIDUAL WASTE BIN AUDIT Cooma-Monaro Shire Council’s Resource and Waste Services would like to advise residents that Council will be conducting bin audits, in the Cooma township kerbside collection area during the month of August.

These audits are a requirement of the Environment Protection Authority and form part of the Waste Less Recycle More Initiative funded by the Local Government Organics Collection Grant that Council has secured for the Food and Garden Waste Collection Service.

The audits will involve collecting two hundred and twenty samples (220 x 240litre bins) over a two (2) week period. These samples are collected at random and the data is used for statistical purposes only. Council is required to do a representative survey of the waste going to landfill prior to the introduction of the Food and Garden waste bin service rollout. Householders should continue to manage their waste as they normally would and to not change their behaviour during the audit.

WEATHER PERMITTING THE FOLLOWING WORKS WILL CONTINUE Jerangle Road Maintenance Grading Carlaminda Road Maintenance Grading Rose Valley Road Maintenance Grading Beresford Road Maintenance Grading Cooma Town Entrances

Entry Signs – Canberra Side Sign Maintenance Urban/Rural sign maintenance Yareen Road Footpath Construction Springfield Road Table Drain Cleaning

WATER RESTRICTIONS NIMMITABEL IS CURRENTLY ON

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Council will use a “random number generator” in the field, so that the first house number is selected randomly and without record, with each second (2) or fifth (5) household sampled from this starting point. At no time will the waste sample collected be connected to an address.

The audit is based on NSW Department of Environment and Heritage guidelines for conducting a household kerbside residual waste audit. Council will follow strict protocols on privacy and confidentiality to ensure individual household information is safeguarded during the audit. Cooma-Monaro Shire Council is bound by the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998. To this context, the audit will be conducted.

If households would prefer to be excluded from the audit or would like further information, please contact Jeff Tate on 6455 1922.

LIONS PARK, YALLAKOOL ROAD CONCEPT PLAN

RECREATIONAL FACILITIES STRATEGY

The Lions Club of Cooma have prepared a concept plan for improvements to the Lions Park in Yallakool Road, Cooma. The plan was reviewed and the recommendation adopted by Council at its July meeting, and is now being placed on public exhibition for comments.

Plans and comment sheets are available at Council’s reception, Monaro Regional Library located in Vale Street, Cooma, and Cooma Visitors Centre.

Written submissions to be addressed to General Manager, Cooma-Monaro Shire Council, PO Box 714, Cooma NSW 2630 or emailed to council@cooma.nsw.gov. au. Submissions close at 5.00pm on Thursday 21 August 2014.

Councils Recreational Facilities Strategy is the document used by Council for planning upgrades and new recreational facilities throughout the shire, and is due to be reviewed.

A copy of the Recreational Facilities Strategy can be obtained from Council’s website www.cooma.nsw.gov.au, or hard copies will be available at Councils reception, Monaro Regional Library located in Vale Street, Cooma, and Cooma Visitors Centre.

Written submissions are to be addressed to General Manager, Cooma-Monaro Shire Council, PO Box 714, Cooma NSW 2630 or emailed to council@cooma.nsw. gov.au. Submissions close at 5.00pm on Thursday 21 August 2014.

POSITIONS VACANT CLEANER

5000 POPPIES…ANZAC DAY 2015 Monaro Regional Libraries are inviting all crafters to participate in commemorating the Anzac Centenary by ‘planting’ a field of more than 25000 poppies in Fed Square Melbourne.

If you would like to be part of this, the idea is to hand make one or more poppies: They can be crocheted, knitted, felted or sown from any materials. They can be any shade of red but must not be any more than 15 cm in diameter.

Patterns are available at www.5000poppies. wordpress.com or from Cooma, Bombala or the Mobile Libraries.

Your finished poppies can be dropped off at any of the libraries or sent to the address on the website.

Council has a position available in the Engineering Division for Cleaner at Centennial Park Cooma.

File Ref: IS/POS/224 Salary: $839.30 - $901.20 (includes Disability Allowance) Applications Close: 4.00pm, Monday 11 August 2014

COMMUNITY SERVICES OFFICER Council has a position available in the Environmental Division for Community Services Officer in the Cooma office.

File Ref: IS/POS/225 Salary: $1,079.10 - $1,133.10 / week Applications Close: 4.00pm, Monday 4 August 2014 For further information on either of these positions, please contact Natalie Fanning on (02) 6455 1777, or for an information pack, go to Council’s website: www.cooma.nsw. gov.au or collect from Council Front Reception.

DEVELOPMENT DETERMINATIONS June 2014 The following Development Applications, Modifications, Reviews or Complying Development Certificates have been determined in June 2014.

APPROVALS

MONARO HIGH SCHOOL YEAR 10 GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP YEAR 10 GEOGRAPHY VISIT COOMA LANDFILL

LAND

PROPOSAL

10.2014.304.2

32 Creek Street Cooma

3 lot strata subdivision (mod: amend Condition 12)

Lot 1 DP986361 and Lot 17 Sec 22 DP758280

Council hosted students from Monaro High Schools Year 10 Geography class at the Cooma Landfill. Monaro High School teacher Andrew Wilson said that “many of the students have told me how much they enjoyed the day and have said that they now have a better understanding of the need to change the way we view and handle our resources”.

Ally Madden from Bournda Environmental Education Centre thought that the day was very successful and attributed it to Council’s waste manager and staff’s participation on the day. Ally said “It really was fascinating to learn all about your landfill site, and priceless for these students to have an opportunity to really see and understand what happens to their rubbish and recycling!

Well done!”.

10.2013.193.2

51-53 Lambie Street Cooma Lot 6 Sec 3 DP758280

10.2014.301.1

10.2014.302.1

Dual Occupancy (mod: two single dwellings)

Lot 245 DP209292, Lot 1 DP1196226, Lot 246 DP209292

Change of use (shop to residence) + additions and alterations

13 Wangie Street Cooma

Dwelling

Wangie Street Cooma

Lot 244 DP209292

10.2013.204.2

Burra Road Michelago Lot 16 DP11175, Lot 1 DP81804 and Lot 1 DP414403

10.2014.310.1

304 Dry Plains Road Cooma

2 lot subdivision (mod: contribution fees) Shed

Lot 201 DP806849

10.2014.274.2 10.2012.119.1

NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH During the month of August, Monaro Regional Libraries are ‘Researching your WW1 Servicemen’. Photos of the men listed on the cenotaphs at Cooma and Bombala will be displayed at both Libraries.

Jess Warner will be at Cooma Library from Monday to Friday 11-15 August, to assist people research their

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To find out more, visit www.familyhistorymonth.org.au

10.2014.311.1

10.2014.309.1

3 East Camp Drive Cooma Lot 116 DP1109187

Dwelling (mod: reduce size)

Kelly Road Michelago

5 lot staged development

Lot 48, 176, 120, 63, 40, 41, 65, 66, 98, 99, 113, 115 and 116 DP754896

Commissioner Street Cooma Lot 5 DP38292, Lot 3 DP1174293, Lot 7031 DP1023417, Lots 4, 5, 6 & 7 DP36707 and Lot 5 Sec 25 DP758280

1445 Smiths Road Clear Range

Relay for Life (25-26 October) 24 hour event

Carport

Lot 69 DP751813

REFUSALS

DRAFT PLANNING AGREEMENT Council has received a proposal to enter into a Planning Agreement to be made under Section 93F of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 in relation to York Street Nimmitabel.

The proposed Planning Agreement specifically relates to the development of two new single dwelling houses at 35 and 37 York Street, Nimmitabel respectively, which are currently under consideration by Council in development applications 10.2014.294.2 and 10.2014.326.1.

The draft Planning Agreement proposes that the applicant pay Council $12,000 of developer contributions towards construction of a road in York Street, likely to cost around $24,000. The draft Planning Agreement

is accompanied by an Explanatory Note in accordance with clause 25E of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulations 2000.

The draft Planning Agreement, Explanatory Note, and associated applications can be inspected at Council’s offices between 8:30am - 4:45pm until 20 August 2014 or at www.cooma.nsw.gov.au. Anyone may make a written submission to Council on the above documents.

Written submissions should be addressed to the General Manager, Cooma-Monaro Shire Council, PO Box 714 Cooma 2630 or sent to Council’s email address at council@cooma.nsw.gov.au. Your submission must reach Council by close of business 20 August 2014.

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LAND

PROPOSAL

10.2006.40.2

Montgomery Street Cooma

Units (6 x 3 bedrooms) (mod: staged development)

Lot 2 DP246089

In accordance with Section 101 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 notice is given of Council’s determination of the above Applications/Certificates.

The Public is advised that Section 101 provides that following this notice a period of three (3) months is allowed for the commencement of legal action as to the validity of the consent or certificate, after which the validity of the consent or certificate cannot be questioned in any legal proceedings.

The Applications are available for public inspection, free of charge, at Council’s office during ordinary office hours.

SENIOR STAFF

Mayor Dean Lynch 0419 295 954

Deputy Mayor Bronnie Taylor 0427 546 299

Councillor Rogan Corbett 0412 722 505

Councillor Martin Hughes 0405 209 685

Councillor Angela Ingram 0410 036 671

Councillor Tony Kaltoum 6452 1730

Councillor Craig Mitchell 0429 383 388

Councillor Ignazio Mondello 0407 714 460

Councillor Winston Phillips 0487 430 000

COUNCIL CONTACT DETAILS

General Manager John Vucic Phone: 02 6455 1777 Director of Corporate Services Stephen Molloy Fax: 02 6455 1799 Director of Engineering Services Linda Nicholson Web: www.cooma.nsw.gov.au Director of Environmental Services Peter Smith Email: council@cooma.nsw.gov.au After Hours Emergency Contacts WATER 0417 278 056 WASTEWATER 0419 251 378 ROADS 0447 415 150 RECREATION During Week: 0419 251 926 - Weekend/Public Holidays: 0427 011 144

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National tree day at Cooma North Public Celebrate local schools’ achievements in Education Week

Last Wednesday, Cooma North Public School’s 2/3C helped our school celebrate National Tree Day by planting 10 new seedlings around the school grounds.

Students and teachers look forward to watching these seedlings flourish and grow.

The school thanks Mrs Graham and Mr Clarke for all of their hard work in organising the day.

A special thank you also extends to Cooma Toyota for supplying the National Tree Day kits and Cooma Council for their kind donation of the seedlings.

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¡ Great Teaching, Inspired Learning will improve the quality of teaching and learning by lifting entry requirements for

teaching degrees, supporting early career teachers and mandating professional development for every teacher; ¡ Local Schools, Local Decisions provides principals and communities with greater local authority to ensure schools best respond to the needs of their students; ¡ Every Student, Every School strengthens the support for 90,000 students with disabilities, learning or behavioural needs; ¡ Connected Communities is an innovative education reform that positions schools as ‘hubs’ in some of NSW’s most complex and disadvantaged communities by linking school education to other services, such as health, welfare, early childhood education and care, and vocational education and training; and ¡ The $80 million Rural and Remote Education Blueprint for Action will help bridge the gap in educational achievement between city and country students. “I encourage all members of the community to get involved in the Education Week celebrations at your school and discover the fantastic work being done by our local teachers and students.â€?

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The Member for Monaro John Barilaro said Education Week is an important time to recognise the valuable contribution of local public schools.

This year’s Education Week is from Monday July 28 to Friday, August 1– and marks 60 years since Education Week was first celebrated in 1954. “Education Week is the time for us all to celebrate the achievements of public schools, their students, staff and school communities,� Mr Barilaro said. “In 1954, the theme for Education Week was ‘lighting the way to a better world’. So much has changed since then, but our local public schools remain committed to that philosophy. “Let’s use Education Week as an opportunity to take a closer look at the valuable contribution schools make to our young people and community, and to celebrate and praise their work.�

Mr Barilaro said that in three years the NSW Liberals & Nationals Government has introduced major reforms:

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Gallery Jindabyne pops up in town The grand opening of Gallery Jindabyne, otherwise called the Popup Gallery and artists’ space, by the Snowy River Shire Mayor, John Cahill took place on Friday, July 25th.

Located on the western side of Nuggets Crossing, this is an excellent location to expose the work of the talented local artists and sculptors and provide visitors to the area with an opportunity to taste other aspects of the culture of the Snowy Mountains.

Artists, photographers and sculptors displaying their work include Kerry Wooden, Todd Costa, Deb Theiler, Janneane Cahill, Sylvia Wall, Jackie Eyles, Rod Saul, Peter Bartripp, Sue Edmondson, Michael Scott Lees and Richard Nutt. Kerry has volunteered to operate the gallery which will become her studio when she is on duty, thus adding to the visitor experience.

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is an initiative of Kerry Wooden and Todd Costa who approached Bruce Marshall regarding the otherwise empty shop front and he has kindly sponsored the arts by allowing the artists to use the space until a lessee is found for the premises.

Right: Todd Costa is complimented on the launch of Gallery Jindabyne by Terry Chalk

Todd Costa and Kerry Wooden toast the future success of Gallery Jindabyne.

Kerry Wooden with her modernist landscape “Heat Haze”

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a variety of industries for students who are considering a trade-based career. “It’s giving them an experience of occupations pertaining to our region.

They’ve also had the experience of working with different teachers and developing as a group, which is great for their employability,� Ms Ewart said.

Students completed a Work Safely in the Construction Industry session, as a component of the course, which resulted in their attainment of a White Card.

Steven Freeman, who is currently in the process of arranging work experience as a carpenter, said that he had gained both experience and enjoyment from the

program. “I enjoyed carpentry, learning the angles and the purpose of the different machines.

Automotive was good too, I learnt a lot about engines which I hadn’t known before. I enjoyed it heaps,� he said.

Isaac Singh, currently gaining carpentry work experience on a one-day-perweek basis, reiterated this appreciation of gaining experience beyond a single industry. “The teachers were good, auto was good, and they’re a good bunch of blokes to work with,� he said.

Economic direction discussed at meeting Continued from page 3

The changing role of the Visitors Centre and the Tourism Manager – the new focus will

be on implementing a range of technology solutions for the provision of information services and focusing on tourism marketing

and events to help drive visitor growth and high visitor spend. This Includes dedicated resourcing for online presence, operating

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Parkinson’s disease is a progressive, d e g e n e r a t i v e neurological condition that affects a person’s control of their body movements. It is not contagious and not fatal. It is thought to be genetic in a very small percentage of cases.

Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are caused by the progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the middle area of the brain.

This causes a lack of dopamine, a chemical messenger necessary for smooth, controlled movements.

The symptoms appear when about 70 per cent of the dopamineproducing cells have stopped working normally.

Parkinson’s disease cannot be cured, but the symptoms can be managed.

With a combination of medication and multidisciplinary support, people with Parkinson’s disease can live independent and productive lives.

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hours of the VC will match the seasonal and trending needs of the customer.

Resources will be dedicated to assisting and attracting Events, conference and reunions.

Mrs Smith outlined the importance of VCs – Cooma is still seeing around 55,000 visitors through the door each year (significant numbers), growing markets including the grey nomads demand

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Friday July 25 marked the completion of a Career Pathway Taster Program for a group of Year 10 Students at Monaro High School.

The program, which commenced in February and consisted of 18 sessions, offers experience in a wide range of industries, including automotive, animal studies, and wool classing.

Cooma Campus TVET coordinator and part time General Education teacher, Carolyn Ewart, took the group for their final class, which consisted of a certificate presentation and career planning session.

Ms Ewart said that the program is intended to provide a broad introduction to

On Saturday August 8, the Cooma Ex-Services Club, in conjunction with the Cooma Community Chest, will hold a winter ball at the club.

The ball is being held as a fund-raiser for Parkinson’s Disease research.

Tickets are $65 each and the price includes a two-course dinner, pre-dinner drinks and a lolly bar. The required dress is ‘cocktail attire’.

Music for the ball will be provided by Canberra band Hit Parade.

The club is hiring decorators to ensure the winter theme is fully exploited.

The recipient of the profits was chosen because it was felt Parkinsons doesn’t receive a lot of publicity.

However, there is a local Parkinons Support Group.

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Ben exploring options

St Patricks’ school student Ben Hayden, is adding a dimension to his school life through a school-based apprenticeship.

Ben has been experiencing different work scenarios while he decides which is most suitable for him.

Last week, he worked with plumber, Jamie Mugridge.

St Pats principal Frances Robertson said this was the first time the school had had a school-based apprentice and this had been done in partnership with Monaro High School.

About the scheme An Australian School-based Apprenticeship is an Australian Apprenticeship which is undertaken part-time while the Australian Apprentice is at school. An Australian School-based Apprenticeship arrangement combines paid employment as an apprentice or a trainee, off-the-job vocational training and senior secondary school studies.

It provides senior secondary school students with hands-on industry experience, and the ability to work towards or complete a

nationally recognised qualification, while they complete their senior school certificate.

An Australian School-based Apprentice undertakes a combination of secondary school subjects, paid work and vocational training undertaken on or off the job. An Australian School-based Apprentice can undertake training in a traditional trade or other occupation at the Certificate I, II, III, IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma level.

Training delivered by a Registered Training Organisation may be undertaken for a couple of hours every week or for a longer block of time, less frequently.

This will depend on the requirements of the Registered Training Organisation and the vocational training course. Australian School-based Apprentices will need to negotiate time-release from their school subjects to attend work and training, arranging to catch up on any school material they miss at a later date.

Pictured: Ben Hayden and Jamie Mugridge.

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Lion Club lends a hand to Mens Shed

The Cooma Mens Shed was recently successful in obtaining a grant for concreting at the Shed.

The Cooma Lions Club generously agreed to pour and finish the concrete in recognition of the work the Mens Shed does in refurbishment of the Lions Club’s Snowmen and Santas.

This is another fine example of two community

organisatisons helping each other .

The resulting slabs and paths are a great assett to the Mens Shed and will make outdoor work easier and cleaner in all weather, especially under the new pergola, which has effectively doubled the workspace of the Shed.

Bombala passengers air grievances Bombala and Nimmitabel residents were among the 30 people who met with CountryLink representatives at a meeting in Bombala last Thursday.

The meeting had been called to discuss changes to the Trainlink bus schedule, which has the service leaving Bombala more than an hour earlier and not serving Nimmitabel at all.

The news schedule is under a 12-month trial, travelling from Bombala to Berridale and Jindabyne then Cooma and on to Canberra.

It means Bombala passengers, who are mainly elderly, having to endure cold dark winter mornings, plus and extra two and a half hours travelling time.

As the new route does not include Nimmitabel passengers from there have had to use a coastal bus service, with unsuitable times.

The meeting was an opportunity to present

a petition to a representative of the Member for Monaro, John Barilaro – Mr Barilaro was overseas and unable to be present.

Bombala resident and regular passenger, Maureen Peisley, said the meeting had been useful, with the Countrylink representatives hearing a lot of the grievances and taking plenty of notes.

She said one of the major concerns was the lack of consultation prior to the timetable being changed.

Bombala Shire mayor, Bob Stewart, said the people at the meeting had not held back on letting the bureaucrats know their feelings.

He said he was hopeful of a sensible solution, such as a feeder bus to cater for Bombala and Nimmitabel, but in the end, he said it would be a political decision.

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New option for new vehicle sales in Bombala New car buyers in the region have a new choice, Village Mahindra in Maybe Street, Bombala.

New stock will be arriving at the outlet from early August, dealer principal Peter Cottrell said.

Mahindra is an Indian motor company, established in 1945.

It employs more than 155,000 people in more than 100 countries.

Mahindra offers a range of competitively priced vehicles, including SUVs, 4WDs and tractors.

A new buyer from Queensland has recently driven his new XUV 500 to our region.

The following is his testimonial: NEW MAHINDRA XUV500 TESTED ON THE SNOWY RUN What better test for your new Mahindra XUV500 than a run from Moranbah in Central Queensland down to the Snowy Mountains, with the family aboard, and with a pop-up caravan in tow?

That’s the challenge Brett Ogden, window tinter/stay at home Dad from Moranbah in Central Queensland chose to give his Mahindra XUV500 and

Pictured, Brett Ogden recently tested the Mahindra XUV 500 on a trip from Queensland to the Snowy Mountains.

the results of the approximately 4000-kilometre haul were nothing if not surprising.

On top of the five passengers and luggage, for the return trip Brett added a 6-berth pop-top camper – itself containing cargo – to the challenge.

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Put to the test, the XUV500’s 140bhp, 2.2 litre mHawk, direct injection diesel engine stood tall.

“On the way down we easily achieved 7.6 litres per 100 km with 2 adults, 3 kids and baggage. Then, with the top camper attached on the way back, the XUV500 towed it without a hiccup and the fuel economy was still only 8.8 kilometres per 100 kilometres.

“And that was without me even babying it.

“The engine is really powerful and refined; we’re very impressed with the Mahindra.

“It was my wife who picked it; we had set criteria for a new car. It had to be turbo diesel, manual because she loves manual, and we wanted leather, because with the three kids and dogs and stuff, you just wipe the mess away. We also wanted something new with no issues or anything else, and didn’t want to go into enormous amounts of

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As a former car salesman himself, Brett has a keen eye for sorting the wheat from the chaff, and he found that the Mahindra ticked every box. After they test drove a few other makes and models, they came back to the XUV500.

Brett really appreciates that for a vehicle which looks so compact from the outside, the XUV500 has loads of room on the inside, and not just plentiful legroom – “There are little nooks and crannies everywhere. Like, cup-holders everywhere, and when you’re on a long trip and you have to go through the drive-through, you don’t have to worry about drinks spilling over because everyone has a cup-holder, even the third row.

Everyone’s got what they need.”

Brett really likes the cornering lights and how much of a difference they make, but his kids really get a kick out of the Voice Command function.

His son loves the fact that the XUV500 has third row seats, and that he can control the air conditioning himself separately from the other areas of the vehicle.

The simple fact that there’s vents in the third and second row, that is something that people who have been in the car, and found themselves sitting in the middle row, have all commented on. Usually you just get those under seat vents.”

Brett’s other car that he uses around town as a promotional vehicle is a big American style pick-up, so he enjoys the contrast of economical motoring. “It’s a big gas-guzzling V8, so the whole idea of being able to look at the fuel economy and go, ‘wow, we’re near 1000

km from a 74 litre tank in the Mahindra - it’s just great.

“Where we are at Moranbah, it’s doing a lot of 100kph driving, on what I would call pretty ordinary roads. And everything’s super-sized here because of the mines; big massive trucks, road trains, wide loads and all that sort of stuff that you have to overtake and know that your car isn’t going to leave you hanging out there on the other side of the road for too long. But I was able to overtake anything, even with the trailer on the back, it didn’t feel like it was on the back at all.”

In a part of the country where one brand has a stranglehold on the market, Brett, like many Mahindra owners, enjoys standing out from the flock.

“Up here, everyone is always, “you’ve got a buy one of these”.

“They go on about turbo diesel, well here is one that will happily keep up with them when it is towing, cost half as much, and I can fit 10 times the stuff in it.”

“Were happy with it, and I’m happy to tell everyone about it, and so is the wife. Everyone says, what is that? And tell ‘em, it’s a Mahindra. And you can see people’s eyes opening and saying “What? You only paid that for it?

“If anyone is considering purchasing a similar SUV I highly recommend test driving the Mahindra XUV500.”

All Mahindra Vehicles feature a leading 3 year / 100,000 kilometre warranty with free roadside assist Speak to Village Mahindra today to book a test drive 6458 3522 or 6458 3122 after hours.

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Local mums up for ‘AusMumpreneur’ awards Local mothers and businesswomen Susan Burke and Linsey Nichols have both been nominated for prestigious National AusMumpreneur Awards.

With voting opening on August 1, it is the perfect time for Cooma residents to unite and get behind the local ladies.

Both women have been heavily inspired through motherhood to undertake career paths that align closely with their family values.

Susan Burke has received the nod for her own business, Susan Burke Interactive Lesson Design and Lynsey Nichols was nominated for her involvement in the children’s book Gilbert The Garbage Truck Needs Your Help, a project that she created with the help of her husband.

The 2014 AusMumpreneur Awards presented by the AusMumpreneur Network celebrate and recognise mums in business achieving outstanding success in areas such as business, product development, services and innovation.

Nominees must be from Australia or New Zealand with the intention to acknowledge the growing number of women who successfully balance motherhood and business in a way that suits their life and family.

Coming from a small country town like Cooma, the fact that our community can boast such high achievers as Susan and Lynsey reflects greatly upon the supportiveness of our town.

In order to help put Cooma on the map in the context of business innovation and hardworking women, Sue and Linsey need as much support as they can get.

Susan, a mother of two and a primary school teacher, felt that although she was making a difference as a teacher, she wanted

to extend that further and attempt to improve education on a larger scale.

Lynsey, mother of three and her husband, Trevor are both passionate about the need to teach children the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling.

Trevor is a local garbage truck driver and he was inspired to write a children’s book that Lynsey then illustrated.

They turned their book into an interactive show for preschool and school children, which interestingly led to Lynsey and Susan meeting.

From here the pair worked together to bring Lynsey’s characters to life, Susan created interactive whiteboard activities that could be incorporated into the live show and offer schools the option of additional learning experiences to enhance the book.

Left: Lynsey Nichols and two of her children with Gilbert the Garbage Truck, This is how Susan started Right: Susan Burke and her two children with an interactive lesson on display. her own business, after much encouragement from Lynsey.

Finalists will be selected by a public vote at managed to turn this into a business that can Susan now also travels with Lynsey, also benefit other children. www.ausmumpreneur.com with voting closing performing together in front of children all over It can be challenging to be a successful at midnight on Monday 6 October 2014. the state.

The winners of the 2014 AusMumpreneur businesswoman whilst raising a family and “Sometimes as a teacher, I felt that other Lynsey gives this advice for others thinking Awards will be announced at a glamorous people’s children were getting the best of about starting their own enterprise, “Dream Awards event in Melbourne in October 2014. me. I wanted to spend more time with my big. Go out on a limb and take risks. Try not For more information on the own children, whilst still being able to pursue to be hampered by the dollar sign. Profit can AusMumpreneur Awards visit: www. a career in education. My children provide be measured in what you achieve, not just by ausmumpreneur.com or contact Peace me with inspiration every day. They trial the how much money your business is making. If Mitchell on 0431 615 107 or info@ lessons I create!” said Susan. our message about recycling impacts on just ausmumpreneur.com Evidently, Susan and Lynsey both draw one child during each show we do, I feel I’m much inspiration from their children and have making a difference and achieving success.”

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Out and About in Platypus Country You are warmly invited to Platypus Country to get a taste of what we have on offer

Saturday August 2nd Saturday 10am–4:30pm

Saturday all day

Saturday 11am-3pm Saturday 10am-4pm 365 Days a Year

Visitor Information Centre and Lavender House open – Pick up maps to explore the area and be calmed by the scents of beautiful platypus country! 10% off goods purchased for today only.

Station buildings and Engine shed are open – explore the fascinating history of the area.

Mention “Out & About” & enjoy the specials on Maybe Street at: Bombala Bakery – Selected specials.

Cosmo Café -Coffee/tea and lavender cake special.

Linga Longa - Specials on delicious cakes and tea/coffee Catch the new exhibitions at both the Bundian Way Aboriginal Art Gallery and the Borderline Gallery at the Rural Transaction Centre, Bombala Street Delegate.

Delegate School of Arts History Museum open.

Early Settlers’ Hut is open– See how the pioneers lived.

COME ON DOWN! IT’S FREE. Spot the monotremes (platypus and echidnas).

Visit South East Forests, Platypus Reserve, our galleries and museums.

Stroll the beautiful river walks.

Explore the railway land.

More information call the Platypus Country Visitor Information Centre on 6458 4622 Council Reception Details Ph: 6458 3555 71 Caveat St Fax: 6458 3777

Mayor: Bob Stewart Deputy Mayor: BRAD YELDS GENERAL MANAGER: NGAIRE MCCRINDLE

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Don’t forget that the whole world changes on Friday, when we can no longer sign our unique name on credit card transactions.

Instead, we will all have to remember yet another ruddy number before we can use our cards.

Is this supposed to be more secure than having a unique name and autograph?

Who knows. But if you have a card and don’t know your PIN, better contact the bank. There is the option of using the same PIN on all credit cards, but, while convenient for the memory, it’s not so convenient if someone happens upon the PIN AND all your cards.

Well done to young Josh Alford for his sixth in the pool at Glasgow last Saturday.

While he didn’t win a medal, he did improved his PB, which is pretty good going on the world stage.

Good to see so many former Cooma Cats players back in town on the weekend.

While they didn’t get to see any matches due the opposition forfeiting, they did enjoy kicking the footy around and testing more mature muscles.

Luckily there were no strains reported and the team of ’84 enjoyed a fun night out.

As we get to the pointy end of the footy season, it appears that all local codes will be in finals contention this year. Here’s hoping...!

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Thanks to local SES Editor, The NSW SES volunteers of the Snowy River Unit have a long and proud history of assisting their community with invaluable emergency response during floods, storms and other emergencies.

Over the last year, the NSW SES Snowy River Unit has committed 1,888 volunteer hours to training, storm response and many hours assisting all other Emergency Services and community events. Of particular note is the role the local members perform rescuing trapped or injured people from not only the local community but the broader NSW community who visit our National Parks, especially during winter. I was delighted to visit Perisher last week to hand over the keys for new equipment designed to enhance the alpine search capability of SES volunteers. Over $320,000 in NSW Government funding has been made available to purchase an Isuzu FSS 550 4X4 crew heavy rescue truck and two new Bearcat 570 snowmobiles, which are replacing two older models in the fleet of ten snowmobiles. This new Isuzu rescue truck will ensure that

volunteers are responding to calls for assistance in a state of the art vehicle specifically designed for the roles they perform with volunteer safety at the core of its design. Over the past few weeks we have seen some severe weather and heavy snow falls impact the Alpine region, this equipment will go a long way in assisting emergency call outs. The NSW Government is proud to have committed to the NSW SES and its volunteers $48 million over five years in Operational Fleet funding. NSW SES Snowy River Unit volunteers are extraordinary men and women who play a vital role in their local community and I would like to thank them for selflessly giving their time to help others in real need. I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the families and employers of volunteers, without their constant support they would be unable to fulfil their role. There is no question that the people of this local community know they can depend on these men and women for help and protection during emergencies.

John Barilaro Member for Monaro

Riposte Lisa Ashurst I think I may be turning into one of those phone tragics. Look, it could still be just the novelty of having full mobile phone reception here inside the house after long months of having zilch and I’m hoping that’s all it is, but I’ve noticed that I am checking my mobile whenever I walk past it to see if I have a message or something which is a bit silly seeing as if I did I would have heard the tone right? It’s one thing if I have been out and about out of earshot but when I’ve only been in another room or something such checks are completely unnecessary.

Thing is, I can remember rolling my eyes at the kids when they checked their mobiles every five minutes day and night and now here I am, doing exactly the same thing! But at least I’ve recognised what I’m doing which means I should be able to Stop Doing It. I never had this thing going on when I had a land line. I only went near that phone if it rang or if I noticed the little light flashing that indicated someone had called and left a message and because it was at the other end of the house I was living in at the time, I only noticed the flashing light if I happened to venture

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I happened to mention this to Daughter recently (who can go almost an hour now between phone checks) but all she said was that that’s what people do with mobile phones so don’t worry about it, it’s normal. Twin I on the other hand only looks at his apparently when he thinks of it so does this mean I should be worried about his state of mind or should I just assume he’s so tied up with his university studies that he no longer has the time to obsess over possible missed calls and/or text messages? I’m going to opt for the latter because he seems normal enough in every other way.

So maybe I’m just going through a phase or it’s that novelty thingy of having full mobile reception now but whichever it is, I’m making a very conscious effort to walk past that phone without looking at it, except when I come in after being busy with something outside and so far, so good. It’s been 11 minutes and 23 seconds now since I last checked and I’m feeling no nasty withdrawal symptoms at all!

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World Hepatitis Day Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD) is supporting World Hepatitis Day, an annual event held on 28 July to provide an international focus for people living with viral hepatitis.

The goal in 2014 is to raise awareness of Hepatitis and highlight the importance of testing, treatment and regular liver assessment for affected people.

Alison Nikitas, HIV and Related Programs Manager for SNSWLHD said “It is important for all people with Hepatitis B or C to have a regular liver check-up to assess their liver health and, if necessary receive appropriate treatment, to prevent them progressing to liver cirrhosis, liver failure or liver cancer.”

“Hepatitis B is largely preventable as there is an effective vaccine available, whilst no vaccine is available for the prevention of Hepatitis C. However a cure is now possible for many people

living with Hepatitis C. “she said.

In 2014 SNSWLHD HIV and Related Programs Unit received a Community Grant from Hepatitis NSW to produce a resource pack for people at risk of Hepatitis C, including Aboriginal people, young people at risk and people exiting the justice system.

The Shower Pack includes a disposable razor, toothbrush, toothpaste and soap as well as a range of printed resources on Hepatitis. The packs are to be distributed during education sessions and in conjunction with local organisations working with people at increased risk of acquiring Hepatitis.

NSW Hepatitis Awareness Week 2012 runs from the 28 July to 3 August.

For more information visit www.hep.org.au or www.hep.org.au/c or call the NSW Hepatitis Helpline 1800 803 990.

Show you care this Daffodil Day Friday 22 August is Daffodil Day, a national day of hope which provides an opportunity for Cooma and Snowy Mountain locals to contribute to a cancer-free future.

Residents are being urged to show they care this August by wearing a Cancer Council pin, volunteering at a Daffodil Day site or visiting one on the day.

In the Southern NSW region alone, it is predicted that 1,506 people will be diagnosed with cancer and 482 people will die from the disease every year by 2016 .

Supporting Cancer Council’s Daffodil Day

shows those who are affected by cancer that people care about better treatments, more support, advocacy and a cancer-free future.

In 2014 through Daffodil Day, Cancer Council NSW aims to raise $3.2 million ($9.7 million nationally) to continue to help fund vital cancer research, prevention programs, advocacy and support services.

By showing you care, together we can beat cancer.

For more information or to register your support for Daffodil Day 2014, visit: www.daffodilday.com. au.

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Serendipity at the Raglan

Kevin ‘Cowboy’ Hambly opened the Raglan Gallery’s latest exhibition - ‘Serendipity - a collection of new works by local artist Andrew Dawes last Saturday.

Andrew is a keen walker, and he and his ‘bush tucker man’ style hat are a familiar sight around Cooma.

He has a long association with the Raglan, both as a regular volunteer and as an artist.

His drawings are always delicate and c a r e f u l l y observed works of art, and his view of the gallery draped in wisteria features on

postcards, cards, and linen tea towels sold at the gallery shop.

This new collection also includes some paintings.

Pictured: Kevin Hambly and artist Andrew Dawes.

Below: Andrew Caps with Marie Cox and Pam Mertens.

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Well here we are in July! Winter is with us, as is the end of the financial year, and not to mention we have started the second half of 2014. Christmas creeps closer!

While this is traditionally a time to bury our heads & stay indoors out of the cold, it could also be an opportune time to look at reviewing your home loan, and financial situation.

Interest rates remain at record lows, with many Lenders offering rates under 5%, particularly for fixed terms. Some Lenders are also currently offering special deals for new loans and refinances.

So at this time of year, when you are starting to get your affairs sorted for the tax agent, consider whether you could benefit from a review of your current home or investment loan.

For those who are unhappy with returns on their cash investments, maybe it could be time to consider getting into the investment property market.

Whatever your situation is, I am happy to look at it with you, and offer suggestions or advice. If you are unsure of what your options are, I can give you some clarity.

If your needs are more related to financial planning, I can introduce you to Damian Toms, a very experienced and highly qualified financial planner. Damian travels to Cooma on a regular basis and is available for appointments at a time and place to suit you.

To organise an obligation free appointment to discuss your loan, or financial needs, call me now on mobile: 0431 351 873

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Wednesday July 30 2014

Forecast mixed outlook across building and construction Master Builders latest forecasts for the building and construction industry show a mixed outlook across the three major sectors of the industry over the three year forecast period to 2016-17.

Residential building, commercial and industrial construction and engineering construction are at different stages of the cycle which affects the overall industry outlook.

The return to positive conditions implicit in the forecasts comes after an unusually long period of weakness. However, subdued prospects for many parts of non-residential construction, particularly a continuing fall-back in resources sector related engineering construction, means that overall the building and construction industry conditions faces headwinds over the forecast period. Indeed the current economic climate presents downside risks that may impede the timing and strength of the forecasts.

Residential Building The value of residential building work done is set to grow strongly over the next three years, after a strong pick-up in 2013-14.

The value of residential work done is forecast to grow from $51 billion in 2013-14 to $68 billion in 2016-17.

The number of dwelling starts is predicted to exceed 200,000 during the forecast timeframe.

The underlying assumption is that interest rates will remain at low levels and continue the process of unleashing unmet pent up demand from the previous decade where supply failed to match strong population growth.

The stronger performing states are to be New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania, albeit from a low base.

Despite the attention paid to the upturn in residential building, it remains in its early stages and the challenge for policy makers is to address the housing undersupply by tackling inefficiencies and impediments that is a major cause of the shortfall.

Non-Residential Building Following a bleak three years, non-residential building bounced back in 2013-14 with growth estimated at 5.9 per cent in real terms.

The different non-residential construction sub-sectors are at different stages of the cycle, some are still caught in the tail end of prolonged periods of downturn, some are gaining confidence, while others face decline after experiencing a period of extremely buoyant conditions.

As a result, non-residential construction overall may not lift appreciably over the next three years due to weakness in some construction sub-sectors sectors offsetting growth in others. For example the continued waning of mining related engineering construction.

Commercial and industrial construction subsectors are forecast to experience growth.

Education and institution related building will decline after experiencing some recent growth and engineering construction will continue to feel the effects of fading resources related infrastructure investment.

The value of total non-residential work done over the period 2016-17 is expected to lift somewhat from the 2014-15 period to be equal to around $36 billion. Higher than pre-GFC levels but below the stimulus driven peak in 2010-11.

New South Wales is predicted to lead the way in non-residential construction with growth areas including industrial, retail, office and accommodation building.

Tasmania is another positive story, with its non-residential construction sector beginning to bounce back after a dismal few years.

Engineering Construction The engineering construction sector continues easing back from the very favourable conditions created by the intense investment phase of the resources boom, as evidenced by its estimated six per cent decline in 201314 following the decade long boom.

In this context, engineering construction is predicted to fall by nearly 20 per cent in real terms over the next three years, from $122 billion in 2012-13 to $102 billion in 2015-16.

Nevertheless, the forecast fall back in activity in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland follows boom conditions and will remain at high levels.

New South Wales Victoria and Tasmania look set to particularly benefit from stronger infrastructure spending.

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3.00 Last Of The Summer Wine. 3.30 Midsomer Murders. 5.00 News. 5.30 The Drum. 6.00 Eggheads.

6.30 QI. (PG) 7.00 News.

7.30 7.30. 8.00 Catalyst. (PG) 8.30 The Time Of Our Lives. (M) 9.30 The Men Who Made Us Spend.

10.20 Lateline. 10.55 The Business. 11.20 Stephen Fry On Wagner.

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News.

10.00 The Men Who Made Us Spend. 11.00 Big Ideas.

12.00 News. 1.00 Great Expectations. 2.00 At The Movies. (PG) 2.30 Tractor Monkeys. (PG) 3.00 Last Of The Summer Wine. 3.30 Midsomer Murders. (PG) 5.00 News. 5.30 The Drum.

6.00 Eggheads. 6.30 QI. (PG) 7.00 News.

7.30 7.30 ACT. 8.00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Final. (PG) 9.30 Secret State. (M) 10.20 Lateline. 10.55 Dirty Laundry. 11.35 Rage. (MA15+)

6.00 Rage. 10.30 Rage.

11.30 Catalyst. 12.00 Aust Story. 12.30 A Farmer’s Life For Me. Final. 1.30 The Trophy Room. 2.00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield.

Finals Series. 5.10 River Cottage: Summer’s Here.

6.00 Saturday Landline.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

7.00 News. 7.30 Father Brown. (PG) 8.20 New Tricks. (PG) 9.20 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M) 10.20 Movie: The Night Watch. (2011) (M) 11.50 Rage. (MA15+)

6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders.

10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 The World This Week. 11.00 7.30 ACT. 11.30 Praise. 12.00 Landline. 1.00 Gardening Aust. 1.30 Compass. (PG) 2.00 Father Brown. (PG) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Finals Week 1. 5.00 Midsomer Murders. 6.30 Compass. (PG) 7.00 News.

7.30 Grand Designs.

8.30 Silent Witness. Final.

(M) The murder investigation continues.

9.30 The Tunnel.

10.20 Broadchurch. (M) 11.10 Adam Hills: Inflatable. (M)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News. 10.00 Grand Designs.

11.00 Big Ideas. 12.00 News. 1.00 Landline. 2.00 Kitchen Cabinet. 2.30 Tractor Monkeys. (PG) 3.00 Last Of The Summer Wine. (PG) 3.30 Midsomer Murders.

5.00 News. 5.30 The Drum.

6.00 Eggheads. 6.30 QI. (PG) 7.00 News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Australian Story.

8.30 Four Corners.

9.20 Media Watch. (PG) 9.35 Q&A. 10.35 Lateline. 11.10 The Business. 11.35 The Iraq War. (MA15+)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News. 10.00 Time Team.

Final. 11.00 Four Corners.

11.45 Media Watch. 12.00 News. 1.00 Q&A. 2.00 Kitchen Cabinet. 2.30 Tractor Monkeys. 3.00 Last Of The Summer Wine. 3.30 Midsomer Murders. 5.00 News. 5.30 The Drum. 6.00 Eggheads. 6.30 QI. (PG) 7.00 News. 7.30 7.30.

8.00 Foreign Correspondent.

8.30 Life At 9: Creativity.

9.30 At The Movies. (PG) 10.00 The Book Club. 10.30 Lateline. 11.05 The Business.

11.30 Four Corners.

PRIME7 (6)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 Criminal Minds. (M) 1.00 Criminal Minds. (M) 2.00 The Daily Edition. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 News At 4. 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. 5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 The X Factor. (PG) 8.45 Criminal Minds. (M) Hotch collapses during a case briefing.

10.40 Motive. (M) 11.35 Men At Work. (PG) 12.00 The Mindy Project. (PG)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 Movie: Stolen Youth. (1996) (M) 2.00 The Daily Edition. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 News At 4. 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. 5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 8.00 Border Security: International. (PG) 8.30 Movie: The Avengers.

(2012) (M) Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans. A group of heroes battle an evil god.

11.30 What Really Happens In Bali. (M)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 Movie: Loss Of Faith. (1997) (M) 2.00 The Daily Edition. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 News At 4. 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. 5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

6.00 News.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

8.30 Movie: The Dilemma.

(2011) (M) Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder. A man uncovers out a shocking secret.

10.45 To Be Advised.

12.15 How The Other Half Live. (PG)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.

12.00 To Be Advised. 1.00 V8 Xtra. 1.30 Motor Racing.

International V8 Supercars Championship. Ipswich 400. 2.30 Motor Racing.

International V8 Supercars Championship. Ipswich 400. 4.30 Motor Racing.

International V8 Supercars Championship. Ipswich 400.

5.30 Sydney Weekender. 6.00 News. 7.00 Movie: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. (2006) 10.00 Movie: Air Force One. (1997)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.

11.00 Dr Oz. 12.00 To Be Advised. 1.30 Motor Racing.

International V8 Supercars Championship. Ipswich 400. 2.30 Motor Racing.

International V8 Supercars Championship. Ipswich 400. 3.30 Motor Racing.

International V8 Supercars Championship. Ipswich 400. 5.30 To Be Advised.

6.00 News. 6.30 The X Factor. 8.15 Sunday Night.

9.15 World’s Most Extreme Airports. (PG) 10.15 Castle.

11.10 Castle. 12.00 Whitney.

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 Movie: Crimes Of Passion: Sleepwalker. (1997) 2.00 The Daily Edition. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 News At 4.

5.00 Deal Or No Deal. 5.30 Million Dollar Minute. 6.00 News. 7.00 Home And Away.

(PG) 7.30 The X Factor. (PG) 8.45 The Amazing Race Australia V New Zealand.

Return. (M) 10.15 The Goldbergs. Return. (PG) 10.45 Brynne: My Bedazzled Diary. Premiere. (M) 11.30 Parks And Recreation. 12.00 Strike Back.

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 Movie: Because I Said So. (2007) (M) 2.00 The Daily Edition. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 News At 4.

5.00 Deal Or No Deal. 5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 The X Factor. (PG) 8.45 Winners & Losers.

(PG) Frances goes on a date with a client.

9.45 Chicago Fire. (M) The team tries to save Firehouse 51.

11.35 Men At Work. (M) 12.00 Happy Endings. (PG)

WIN (8)

6.00 Today. 9.00 Mornings.

(PG) 11.00 News. 12.00 Ellen. (PG) 1.00 Alive And Cooking. 1.30 Extra. 2.00 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) 3.00 News Now. 4.15 News.

5.30 Hot Seat.

6.00 News.

7.00 WIN News.

7.30 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) Hosted

by Scott Cam. 8.40 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG) Howard tries to win back Bernadette.

9.40 Movie: The Hangover 2. (2011) (MA15+) 11.40 The AFL Footy Show. (M)

6.00 Today. 9.00 Mornings.

(PG) 11.00 News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 Alive And Cooking.

1.30 Extra. 2.00 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) 3.00 News Now. 4.15 News. 5.30 Hot Seat.

6.00 News.

7.00 WIN News.

7.30 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) See all the best behind the scenes of the couples’ first few days of renovation.

10.40 Arrow. (M) 11.40 Extra.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Mornings.

11.00 News. 12.00 Ellen.

(PG) 1.00 Alive And Cooking.

1.30 Extra. 2.00 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) 3.00 News.

4.15 News. 5.30 Hot Seat.

6.00 News.

7.00 WIN News.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 21. Canterbury Bulldogs v Penrith Panthers.

From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

9.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 21. Manly Sea Eagles v Brisbane Broncos.

From Brookvale Oval, NSW. 11.30 Extra.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

6.00 Guppies. 6.30 Dora.

7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Mornings. 12.00 Fishing Australia. 12.30 Partners.

1.00 Hot In Cleveland. 1.30 Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner.

2.00 Movie: City Slickers.

(1991) (PG) 4.30 Discover Downunder. 5.00 News. 5.30 Getaway. (PG) 6.00 News.

7.00 Movie: Bride Wars.

(2009) (PG) 8.50 Movie: Strictly Ballroom. (1992) (PG) Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Gia Carides.

10.50 Movie: The Stepfather.

(2009) (AV15+)

6.00 Guppies. 6.30 Dora.

7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Financial Review. 10.30 Wide World Of Sports. 11.30 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

1.30 Surfing. Men’s World Championship Tour. Round 5. Fiji Pro. Highlights. 2.30 Animal Emergency. 3.00 Endangered. 4.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 21.

South Sydney Rabbitohs v Newcastle Knights. 6.00 News. 6.30 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) 7.40 The Voice Kids. 9.10 60 Minutes. 10.10 The Mentalist.

(M) 11.10 CSI. (M) 12.00 Financial Review.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Mornings.

11.00 News. 12.00 Ellen.

1.00 Alive And Cooking.

1.30 Extra. 2.00 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) 3.00 News Now. 4.15 News. 5.30 Hot Seat. 6.00 News.

7.00 WIN News.

7.30 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) 8.40 House Husbands.

(PG) Kane is pressured into a date.

9.40 Extraordinary Lives: My Granny The Escort. (MA15+) 10.40 Embarrassing Bodies.

(M) 11.40 Extra. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Mornings.

(PG) 11.00 News. 12.00 Ellen. (PG) 1.00 Alive And Cooking. 1.30 Extra. 2.00 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) 3.00 News. 4.15 News. 5.30 Hot Seat.

6.00 News.

7.00 WIN News.

7.30 The Block Glasshouse. (PG) 8.40 Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year South America.

Final. (PG) The boys recount their latest escapades.

9.40 Arrow. (AV15+) 10.40 Arrow. (M) 11.35 Extra. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

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SATURDAY

30–August 5

6.00 Early Morning, Day 6.

8.30 Studio 10. 11.00 GCBC. 12.00 Dr Phil. (M) 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Jamie Does‌ 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Ent. Tonight. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Bold.

5.00 News.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 The Project.

7.30 The Bachelor Australia. Return.

9.10 Offspring. (M) 10.10 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 7.

10.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Late, Day 7.

6.00 Early Morning, Day 7.

8.30 Studio 10. 11.00 To Be Advised. 12.30 Dr Phil.

(M) 1.30 The Doctors. 2.30 GCBC. 3.00 Judge Judy.

3.30 Ent. Tonight. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Bold. 5.00 News. 6.00 Family Feud. 6.30 The Project.

7.30 The Bachelor Aust.

8.30 Law & Order: SVU. (M) An assault victim is accused of murder.

9.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 8.

10.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Late, Day 8.

6.00 Early Morning, Day 8.

8.30 Studio 10. 11.00 The Living Room. 12.00 Dr Phil.

1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Jamie Does‌ 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Ent. Tonight. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Bold. 5.00 News. 6.00 Family Feud. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Living Room.

8.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 9.

9.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 9.

10.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Late, Day 9.

6.00 Early Morning, Day 9.

8.30 St10. 10.00 St10: Extra.

11.00 Bondi Vet. 12.00 The Living Room. 1.00 The Talk.

3.00 Australian Laureate Awards. 3.30 GCBC. 4.00 What’s Up! Downunder. 4.30 Everyday Gourmet. 5.00 News. 6.00 The Simpsons.

6.30 Movie: Megamind.

(2010) (PG) 8.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 10.

10.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Late, Day 10.

6.00 Early Morning, Day 10. 8.30 St10. 10.00 Bolt Report. 11.00 The Talk. 1.00 Movie: Tooth Fairy 2. (2012) (G) 3.00 Everyday Gourmet.

4.00 Bolt Report. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 Bondi Rescue. (PG) 6.30 50 Years Young.

8.30 Extant. Molly goes on the run from the authorities.

9.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 11. Events include: badminton, squash, cycling and netball.

10.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Late, Day 11.

6.00 Commonwealth Games: Closing Ceremony Continued.

8.00 Studio 10. 8.30 Studio 10. 11.00 Bondi Vet. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Jamie Does‌ 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Ent. Tonight. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Bold. 5.00 News.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 The Project.

7.30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities: Virgin Births. Return.

8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M) Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. (M) 11.30 The Project.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. 6.30 GCBC. 7.00 Huey. 7.30 Bold.

8.00 Family Feud. 8.30 Studio 10. 11.00 A Taste Of Travel.

11.30 Lorraine Pascale: Baking Made Easy. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Jamie Does‌ 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Ent. Tonight. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. 4.30 Bold. 5.00 News. 6.00 Family Feud. 6.30 The Project.

7.30 Save With Jamie.

8.30 NCIS. (M) 9.30 Under The Dome.

(M) Barbie and Sam investigate a tunnel.

10.30 Blue Bloods. (M) 11.30 The Project.

SBS ONE (3)

Prime Time TV Guide July

6.00 WorldWatch. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 Insight. 2.00 Dateline. 3.00 France 24. 3.30 Al Jazeera.

4.00 Journal. 4.30 PBS News. 5.30 Global Village.

6.00 Destination Flavour.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Wild Brazil: Enduring The Drought. (PG) 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency: Tough Love.

(M) A look at a hospital ER. 9.30 Borgen. Return.

10.35 World News Late.

11.05 Movie: How I Ended This Summer. (2010) (M)

6.00 WorldWatch. 1.00 Dangerous Roads. (M) 2.00 Squids: Love And Death In One Night. 3.00 France 24. 3.30 Al Jazeera. 4.00 Journal. 4.30 PBS News.

5.30 Global Village. 6.00 My Sri Lanka With Peter Kuruvita.

6.30 World News. 7.30 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey Turkey. Premiere. (PG) 8.00 Destination Flavour Down Under. Premiere.

8.30 Heston’s Great British Food. Premiere.

9.30 Masters Of Sex. Return.

10.35 World News Late.

11.05 Movie: Special Escort.

(2007) (M)

6.00 WorldWatch. 1.00 Costa’s Garden. 1.30 Inspector Rex. (M) 2.25 Wonderful Indonesia. 2.30 NITV News Week In Review.

3.00 France 24. 3.30 Al Jazeera. 4.00 Journal. 4.30 PBS News. 5.30 Global Village. 6.00 Food Factory: Supersized. 6.30 World News. 7.30 Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure. (PG) 8.30 Australia’s Secret Heroes. (PG) 9.35 As It Happened. (PG) 10.30 World News Late.

11.00 Movie: Diary Of A Nymphomaniac.

(2008) (MA15+)

6.00 WorldWatch. 1.00 The Trouble With Tolstoy. (PG) 2.10 Souvenirs De Serge.

(PG) 3.00 Martin Amis On Britishness. (PG) 4.00 Photo.

(PG) 4.30 PBS News. 5.30 The Destiny Of Rome. (PG) 6.30 World News.

7.30 Greeks Of The Sea. (PG) 8.30 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. (M) 9.25 Movie: Bend It Like Beckham. (2002) (PG) Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.

11.25 Movie: District B13: Ultimatum. (2009) (M)

6.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 WorldWatch. 1.00 Al Jazeera.

1.30 Designer People. 2.00 Speedweek. 4.00 Motorcycle Racing. Superbike World Championship. Round 7.

4.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial.

5.00 World Of Cycling. 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 6.30 World News.

7.30 Lost Worlds. (PG) 8.30 Secrets Of The Vatican. (M) 10.05 Good Italy, Bad Italy: Girlfriend In A Coma. (M) 11.50 Movie: Coco Chanel And Igor Stravinsky.

(2009) (MA15+)

6.00 WorldWatch. 1.00 Clash Of The Dinosaurs. (PG) 2.00 Are You My Mother? (PG) 3.00 France 24. 3.30 Al Jazeera. 4.00 Journal. 4.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial. 5.00 A Year At Kew. 5.30 Global Village. 6.00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam. 6.30 World News.

7.30 James May’s Toy Stories: Flight Club. (PG) 8.30 Michael Mosley: Don’t Worry, Be Happy. 9.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (PG) 10.25 World News Late. 11.00 Clown.

(M) 11.30 Shorts On Screen.

(MA15+) 12.10 Movie: White Night. (2007) (M)

6.00 WorldWatch. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 AndrĂŠ Rieu: Magic Of The Musicals.

2.40 Mister Rococo. 3.00 France 24. 3.30 Al Jazeera.

4.00 Journal. 4.30 PBS News. 5.30 Global Village.

6.00 Food Safari.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Amanda Keller. (PG) 8.30 Insight. Presented by Jenny Brockie.

9.30 Dateline.

10.30 World News Late.

11.00 New Worlds. (MA15+) 12.00 Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown.

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Snowy Vets have moved into new home

Pictured in their new spacious new home, Snowy Vets team members Mike Mesley, Colin Taylor, George Timmins, Kelly Barnes and Amy Winter.

Snowy Vets have moved in to their brand new home at 393 Monaro Highway, Cooma.

The clinic will hold an Open Day on Saturday August 23, from 10:30am.

Many people may have seen the building works going on over the past six months, but for those who haven’t seen the new hospital it is on the west side of the Monaro Highway just after you head past Yallakool Road on the way to Canberra.

(Opposite M & T Motors); It is a time of both excitement at the prospect of moving in, and exhaustion after the past months of decisions, planning and execution.

No doubt there is more work to do as we make our transition from our beloved old home in Baron Street, to the new Hospital on the highway. The same business and staff will all make the move – Snowy Vets is undergoing only a change of home.

The new facility provides much more capacity for us to care for the animals of the Monaro and Snowy Mountains;

better than ever before. Not only that, it will be an enjoyable place to visit for all animal lovers, and a very positive landmark for visitors to the town at its Northern gateway.

The new, bespoke hospital itself has been designed features to merge a sense of earthiness with the clinical requirements of a hospital. We have aimed to, as much as possible, make it an unintimidating and natural place for pets to visit. The reception area and consulting rooms will feature the rammed earth walls that have been the source of so many comments so far.

If you’ve never seen rammed earth walls before, we encourage you to come and visit us out there soon, and just run your hands on them and feel their texture and presence.

Our earth was sourced locally from a quarry in Bredbo – making the process relatively low in embodied energy.

Australian made double-glazed windows with unique German “tilt and turn� mechanisms allow us to be well protected from the elements, and thus very energy efficient.

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milder days, and step outside to reach our beautiful natural surroundings from almost anywhere. Passive solar design will ensure that maximum solar heat gain is achieved throughout winter, minimising heating costs and again saving energy.

Heating in our cool climate will be achieved by coils of warmed water in the concrete slab. The water will be heated by solar panels, as well as by a wood fire in the reception area, and then circulated through the floor. This provides the building with a generous, healthy and even warmth. This will be particularly crucial for our patients when in hospital or during general anaesthesia, not to mention a welcome treat for you, as well as our deserving team!

Lighting is all energy-efficient Australian-made LED lighting, and there are motion detectors in specific rooms to ensure no electricity is wasted when not being used. An extra few banks of solar panels will be installed to connect to the grid, ensuring we give as much as we receive in terms of energy.

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Home Snowy Vets new premises are state-of-the-art Continued from page 21...

An ingenious new system, to be installed for us by a company called Ventis, will ensure an excellent circulation of air through the building, and filtration systems will ensure the air is dust, microbe and allergen free. This is of particular importance in our dedicated sterile surgery room; the positive pressure the system creates will ensure maximum sterility just as you will find in state of the art human surgical facilities. The Ventis system will also allow for better use of hot or cool air in the roof space, which can be released or recirculated under the control of thermostats – keeping us warmer in winter and cooler in summer.

Cats will be especially well catered for in our new home. The reception area will have a designated cat zone (No Dogs Allowed!) where our feline friends can hopefully relax a little more. From here they will head into their own, purpose equipped cat consulting room, where we can diffuse some feline pheromones to further improve their state of mind. We will do the same in the cats-only ward of the hospital, where cats can rest easy in their light filled and sound proofed room seeing, smelling and hearing only other cats.

Of course, our dogs will be equally well catered for. Another two consulting rooms will be available for our canine patients, and they too will have their own sound proofed hospital ward (OK, the sound proofing is for our sanity in this case!) as well as a huge grassed outdoor area where they can spend time outdoors, walk, sniff and generally be merry.

Both cats and dogs in recovery from anaesthesia, or in intensive care, will be

comfortable in our new, personally designed and installed heated ICU beds. With individually adjustable heating in each cage they are the Rolls Royce of veterinary cages – installed with the comfort of your pets in mind. Video cameras will be monitoring these cages, and are able to be viewed from any of the 10 computer screens around the building, or even on line, ensuring many eyes will be on our most critically ill patients.

A dedicated X-ray Room is included in the plans to house our new, high end and very adaptable digital X-ray machine.

The new machine will vastly improve the quality of Xrays we can take, as well as allowing us to do lots of things we haven’t been able to do in the past. Most notably this will include taking good Xrays of teeth in cats and dogs (and other little pets too), but also to take great Xrays in horses as well.

Probably one of the greatest advances in our ability to serve your animals comes in the form of our new equine facilities.

Horse owners in our region to date have not had access to many services that could potentially be very useful and well used. Our new purpose-built and designed stables have taken design tips from a number of equine and mixed practices around NSW. They will allow us to hospitalise horses in stables, take good quality radiographs of horses’ limbs and teeth, do ultrasound reproductive work with mares as well as having facilities to do some routine procedures like minor surgery, geldings etc on site. We believe this will be a huge step forward for the horses and horse

owners of our region.

Something we, the staff, are really looking forward to, is so much more space. This luxury will allow us to provide other services for the first time. We hope to be able to provide puppy preschool classes and client information nights in our new reception

comfortable. Finally, the vast amount of space all around us out therewill allow us all to be outside more; tending to the gardens, walking on the lawns and enjoying the wonderful Monaro View, down the valley towards the Tinderrys.

We hope that everyone might come and

area. Our staff room will now be equipped with a sofa bed, so our critically ill patients will have a vet or nurse close by through the night if required. Our pharmacy will be expanded in size so we can continue to provide you with the best in medical therapy, along with more space for herbal and other complementary medicines.

Three consulting rooms should allow us to provide acupuncture and physiotherapy appointments more easily and comprehensively. A quiet space, dedicated to the purpose, will allow us to make your pet’s final moments more peaceful and

drop in to say hi some time, just to get a feel for the place and enjoy a walk around the grounds.

Snowy Vets, in our various forms, have been providing an excellent level of veterinary service to the animals of our region for over 35 years. The improvements in care have really accelerated in the recent past. We have outgrown our current home and, in building this new hospital, we consider it a reflection of our current high standard of expertise and service, but also a demonstration of our aspirations for progress. We believe this hospital is one of the best of its kind anywhere in NSW, perhaps Australia. That is our aspiration for our standards of care and service as well.

Congratulations to Snowy Vets on their fabulous new home.

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Meet the men of veterinary science Mike Mesley Mike was born on NewYear’s Eve, 1977.

He grew up and went to school in Sydney, and studied Vet Science at Sydney University, qualifying in 2001.

After graduation, he moved to work in rural mixed practice in Young, NSW, and has worked in mixed practice ever since, including a stint in Windsor, England, working on the Queen’s corgis.

Just after he married Myolene in 2006, Mike came to work on a short locum stint at the Cooma Animal Hospital.

He loved the region, the

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practice and George so much he decided to make it home. He joined George as a partner in the business in 2007.

His children Zara, Quinn, Raphael and Josphine, have all been born since his move to the Monaro and the family now makes its home on the banks of the Snowy River.

Mike completed his specialisation in Veterinary Acupuncture in 2008, when he ranked first in the graduating class of 80 vets from around Australia and South East Asia.

He is currently studying Veterinary Chinese

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Herbal Medicine which will complete his Masters in Veterinary Oriental Medicine.

He enjoys the constant and head-spinning variety that being a vet in rural mixed practice brings. He is passionate about natural medicine, the role of diet in good health, and enjoys the challenge of running a small business on top of it all.

His aims are to do still more study in natural medicine, as well as to continue to drive Snowy Vets’ evolution into a practice of excellence.

In his (seemingly sparse)

spare time, Mike loves to spend time with his family and friends, play and watch sport, read, and spend time in the great outdoors. He hopes to be able to travel to see more of Australia and the world when time allows.

Myolene owned their Border Collie Rose before she met Mike.

Rose doesn’t let Mike forget how the pecking order goes, including during her travels on their honeymoon!

RSPCA rescue cat Boo Radley is king of the household and mouser extraordinaire.

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George Timmins was born on 5th June, 1948. He was raised on a sheep and wheat property, along with five brothers and one sister, close to the town of Condobolin, right in the centre of NSW. He attended Sisters Of Mercy Primary School in Condo, then went off to boarding school at The Marist Brothers’ St Joseph’s College at Hunters Hill in Sydney.

After school it was on to Sydney University to complete a Degree in Veterinary Science, graduating in 1973.

After graduation he worked as District Veterinarian at the Braidwood Pasture Protection Board during 1974 then in February 1975 started as District Vet in the Cooma & Bombala P.P. Boards where he remained for nearly 15 years.

On July 1, 1989, George defied veterinary collegues, accountants, advisors and friends - who all said he was crazy - and joined Peter Wolfe BVSc in private practice at the Baron Street Veterinary Surgery.

George took over the business in its entirety in 2000 and through sheer hard work, family support, attention to detail and very particular care for

patients and clients built a successful veterinary business.

In November 2004 he opened a new surgery in Leesville Industrial Estate, Jindabyne.

George enjoys everything about rural mixed practice, especially the fact that every single day there is always the chance to experience and learn something new.

He says that all the staff, both vets and nurses, are well-credentialed, excellent at their jobs, and are positive, happy people that are fabulous to work with. Consequently it is always a delight to go to work.

The clients are, in general, fantastic and appreciate all the work that goes towards solving their animals’ various problems.

Throughout his working career and his life he has never lost sight of his Joey’s boarding school Motto -- “In Meliora Contende “, which means “ To Strive For Better Things.”

George has a wife Vida and three boys , Nicholas, Patrick and Scott. The boys all went to Joey’s for their secondary school education.

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Meet the men of veterinary science Colin Taylor BVSc (Qld) Colin grew up and went to school in south eastern Queensland, before he completed a Bachelor of Veterinary Science from The University of Queensland in 1994.

Since then he has worked in a variety of Veterinary Practices in Queensland, London, New South Wales and in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, in both small animal and mixed practices.

Colin married Judy in 2000 and moved to Western Australia. Both their children, William and Molly, were born in the Kimberley.

Colin came to Snowy Vets from Broome as he and Judy were looking to move their young family east to

be nearer to the extended family and enjoy the rural lifestyle. Snowy Vets offered an opportunity to move to a beautiful part of the country in a wellmanaged mixed practice.

Colin’s specialty lies in surgery.

He enjoys challenging himself with cases requiring complex orthopaedic or soft tissue surgical intervention.

We often call upon him to perform cruciate ligament repair, fracture repair and complicated thoracic and abdominal surgery. Colin really enjoys the most challenging and diverse cases, which rural mixed practice seems to bring him surprisingly regularly.

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Ryan Leliard BSc BV MS (Murdoch) Ryan Leliard is a part-time member of Snowy Vets crew and is a specialist in equine dentistry.

Born in Zimbabwe, Ryan is a graduate of Murdoch University.

His experience includes working with large animals and wildlife in South Africa, prior to returning to Australia to practice.

Ryan worked in an equine referral practise in Towoomba as well as a clinic in Kojonup, Western Australia before moving to this region permanently.

An experienced horseman, Ryan has an affinity with horses which has led him to his speciality.

With Snowy Vets, Ryan also deals with small animals and livestock.

His private practise is Snowyequine.

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Our staff - the core of our business Our staff are the absolute core of our business. Everything we provide is driven by the quality of our staff, and we are extremely proud of them.

At Snowy Vets, we are in the business of service. Service to your animals, our patients, means providing the highest possible level of health care, and doing that in a caring and compassionate manner. Service to you, our client, means providing a friendly, welcoming service, understanding and addressing your concerns, and communicating well at all times.

At Snowy Vets we pride ourselves on our levels of expertise, in all areas.

As you probably know, vets are among the most highly

Meet our nurses:

Nikki Anderson Position: Vet Nurse How long working with Snowy Vets: since 2010 Best thing about being a vet nurse: Variety of work Any plans for further study (e.g.

Vet science): Yes, in the future Best thing about the new premises- It will be warm!

Cath Sirett Position: Veterinary Nurse I have been with Snowy vets for 5 years (since 2009) Best things about being a nurse: the challenges that present themselves both at the clinic, and out in the field, the opportunity to work with and help animals on a daily basis, and the interaction with the community, clients and other members of the team.

Plans for further study: I would like to increase my theoretical knowledge and practical experience in large animal medicine and husbandry as well as develop my skills in management.

Best thing about the new premises: The improved facilities for large animals, allowing us increased scope and opportunity to provide clients with a local and holistic service for their animals.

Fiona Abbott Position: Vet Nurse Certificate IV (and receptionist) How long working with Snowy Vets: Since October 2007 - 6.5yrs Best thing about being a vet nurse: Helping pets through illness and into recovery. Also the cuddles!

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qualified of all graduates, undergoing what many consider to be the most demanding of any undergraduate course, lasting 5 to 6 years. On top of this, all our vets participate in a huge amount of further education, and all have specific areas of expertise developed by extensive further training. The diversity of this specialisation is, we believe, one of our strongest points; from production animal herd health to traditional Chinese medicine and from orthopaedic surgery to equine dentistry.

Our veterinary nurses are all highly qualified, with the minimum qualification amongst our whole staff being the very advanced Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. Our nurses also undertake significant amounts of further training in both

Vet science): Not in the immediate future as I have a young family, but might look to further studies in the future.

Best thing about the new premises: Improved facilities and care for our patients, separate dog and cat areas and better sound proofing.

Ashleigh Antoun Position: Receptionist How long working with Snowy Vets: Just over 2 years Best thing about being a vet nurse: The fact that i’m not one. I don’t think i could do half the things the girls do. Credit to them.

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Vet science): n/a Best thing about the new premises: We will have so much more space and won’t constantly be running into each other in the hallway. Also the new equipment we can use and the facilities we are able to share with the community.

Kelly Barnes Position: Cert IV Veterinary Nurse Working duration with snowy vets: Jan 2011 3yrs 6months Best parts of being a nurse: seeing pets leave the clinic happy and healthy. Meeting familys new pets. Learning something new each day.

Further study: I would like to branch further in equine nursing and animal training and handling.

Best thing about new clinic: Having a staff room, loads more room and new equipment to use.

Amy Writer 2. Vet Nurse 3. I was first employed at Snowy

continued to study different topics to increase my knowledge in all aspects of the animal care industry with my most recent course being completed in June this year. This was a course on veterinary clinical pathology.

Best thing about the new premises: having a specifically designed practice.

Linda Falconer I just work casual for the snowy vets. Classed as a vet nurse. My back ground is as research scientist but now work with my partner Nev who owns thredbo valley horse riding. So I spend most days in the saddle!

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What she loves about the jobstaff meetings Future Study plans- I’m sure she does Nicola Kennedy Position: Veterinary Nurse How long working with Snowy Vets: 6 1/2 years Best thing about being a vet nurse: everything! being able to help animals and seeing the love and joy they offer in return.

Any plans for further study (e.g. Vet science): I completed my Diploma of vet nursing with a specialisation in surgical nursing 2 years ago. Since then I have

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technical and service-based courses throughout the year, and one of our nurses recently received her Diploma in Veterinary Nursing with a Surgical specialty.

Even our support staff are committed to further training.

We are currently undertaking a year-long further education program designed specifically for veterinary businesses, aimed at improving our performance in communication on the phone, at reception and in fact at all points in our contact with clients to ensure the highest possible levels of service to our clients.

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This will allow us to greatly improve our quality of care.

We have a new digital X-ray processor, which has already (for the past month) vastly improved our diagnostic capacity when compared to our old film-based processing method. The technology allows us to take much improved images, and has already proved its worth in a number of cases.

From diagnosing a young dog with shoulder disease, to helping us determine if a cat’s tooth needs to be removed, we have already seen the benefits.

The new technology, in conjunction with our new facilities, will allow us to take good quality Xrays in horses – something that has never before been available here on the Monaro. This has

been something sorely missed; we are excited about the improvement in treatment outcomes that we will be able to achieve for the horses of the region.

In addition, dental imaging for horses will w also be available, ensuring we are well equipped to w maximise your horse’s dental health, which has been proven to be one of the driving factors in longevity f and quality of life in horses.

A new ultrasound machine, with us for only the past f fortnight, has also f greatly improved our capacity to help our patients.

Where many patients have been referred to Canberra or Sydney for

ultrasound examinations, we will now be able to do most of that work in house.

This will not only save many clients a deal of effort, it will also make it available to more patients and improve the health outcomes in

a huge number of cases.

Already we have found it hugely useful in a number of cases, including diagnosing a splenic contusion (bleeding from the spleen)

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The new ultrasound scanner will also add significantly to our capacity for equine work as well.

We have a probe that is specifically designed to allow us to do horse reproductive ultrasound, so we will be able to check the cycling of mares in season, ensuring best possible reproductive management.

It will also help us to detect pregnancy in mares very early p on. o Again, this is a service that horse owners of the Snowy h Mountains have been missing M out o on for a long time – we are excited to be able to provide e it and look forward to helping to t create many more foals this spring!

There have been many other improvements in equipment associated with our big move, we hope to see you soon out there and give you a tour.

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Nimmitabel Advancement Group July news The July meeting of NAG was held on Thursday July 19 at the Community Centre.

Twelve people attended and four apologies were received.

The following matters were amongst those discussed/decided/reported upon: Footbridge at Bombala/Monro Street intersection – Work on the footings for the bridge has started.

The Old Mill Committee – The grant application to the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal for the funding of the ‘Information Cube’ to be placed outside the Mill was unsuccessful. However, the Nimmitabel Garden Club has agreed to fund the cube.

Photographic Competition – The winning photographs in the competition for possible post cards depicting Nimmitabel will be displayed in the Nimmity News and on the Nimmitabel website.

Postal services in Nimmitabel – Australia Post has been contacted and asked to progress the re-introduction of full postal facilities in Nimmitabel.

Pebblecrete bins for flower pots – CMSC has delivered 10 pebblecrete bins and they have been placed on two of the four corners of the Bombala Street-Clarke Street intersection.

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Wind Farm Community Funds – CMSC has advised that it has noted NAG’s suggestion that upgrading the Nimmitabel caravan park facilities would be a suitable use of funds from the Community Enhancement Program Fund when it is established.

Banner Frame – The northern banner frame has been moved to its new position.

African Love Grass – The problem of African Love Grass extending towards Nimmitabel from Cooma was noted and the CMSC will be advised of NAG’s concern.

Caravan Park pads – The need for some sites at the Nimmitabel Caravan Park to have concrete pads installed was noted and CMSC will be asked to include it in their upgrade program.

The next meeting of NAG will be held on Thursday August 16 at 7.30 pm in the Community Centre – this will also be the AGM - all welcome.

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Enjoy Kosciuszko but respect the snow and conditions The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) reminds visitors to Kosciuszko National Park to take safety precautions before venturing into the backcountry this snow season.

NPWS Area Manager Anthony Evans said the recent weather conditions had caused snow cornices to form and caused unstable snowpack in some areas, both of which could cause an avalanche.

“In the Snowy Mountains, heavy early-season snow falls can cause unstable conditions on the steeper slopes along the Main Range,” Mr Evans said.

“In addition, most of the snow this winter has come with high winds which have caused the formation of huge, overhanging cornices on the lee side of mountains.

“There are cornices around Mt Kosciuszko and Blue Lake, which is not unusual, however due to this

season’s conditions, there are also cornices in places where we wouldn’t normally expect to see them.

“Avalanches do occur in Australia, although they aren’t as common as in Europe or North America, and the safest place to enjoy the snow is in the less exposed areas below the tree line or on resort grounds and established cross country trails.

“We want visitors who are experienced and prepared to enjoy the backcountry, but carry the right equipment, which includes a Personal Locator Beacon, and follow all other precautions on the Alpine Safety page at www. nationalparks.nsw.gov.au.

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“The best solution is to understand the risks, such as avoiding steep slopes greater than 30 degrees after heavy snow, and avoiding being near the top of a slope where cornices develop.

“Enjoy Kosciuszko National Park but ensure you are properly prepared and if you’re not an experienced ski tourer or mountaineer, hire an experienced backcountry guide for those adventures.”

Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) are available from the NPWS visitor centres at Jindabyne, Tumut and Khancoban. Their hire is free of charge, however a $400 deposit applies.

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9.30 Pot Cops. (M) 10.20 Alan Carr: Chatty Man. (M) 11.15 Sun, Sex And Suspicious Parents. (M)

6.25 Good Game: SP. 6.50 News On 3.

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7.00 Sinbad. (PG) 7.40 Shaun The Sheep.

7.50 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Good Game: SP. 8.25 Slugterra.

8.50 Lanfeust Quest. (PG) 9.15 Sword Art Online. (PG) 9.35 Ouran High School Host Club. (PG) 10.00 Close.

6.00 Outnumbered. (PG) 6.30 Leonardo.

7.00 Sinbad. (PG) 7.50 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Young Dracula. A visiting netball team turns into vampires.

9.00 Rush TV. An inside look at the world of action sports.

9.30 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

6.25 Total Drama Pahkitew Island.

6.50 News On 3.

7.00 Operation Ouch!

7.30 M.I. High.

8.00 MY:24.

8.25 Dance Academy. Tara and her friends are feeling the pressure.

8.55 Young Dracula.

9.20 Kaeloo.

9.30 Rage. (PG) 10.30 Close.

6.20 Deadly 60.

6.50 News On 3.

7.00 Operation Ouch!

7.30 M.I. High.

8.00 Bushwhacked!

8.25 Dance Academy.

8.55 Young Dracula. (PG) Not everyone is abiding by Vlad’s treaty.

9.20 Kaeloo. (PG) 9.30 Rage. (PG) Music programming.

10.30 Close.

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6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Rosemary & Thyme.

(PG) The ladies attempt to stop land being sold.

8.30 Lewis. (M) Events take a tragic turn when one of the alumni from Oxford’s last-surviving, allfemale university is found murdered during a reunion.

10.30 Waking The Dead. (M) 11.40 The Bill. (M)

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Hotel SOS. Premiere.

(PG) A team attempts to help owners of a motel get their business back on track, in five days.

8.30 Criminal Minds. (M) Agents Prentiss and Todd go undercover as the unit attempts to track a serial killer.

11.30 When Weather Changed History. (PG)

6.30 Movie: The Tale Of Despereaux. (2008) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

9.30 Australia’s Best Houses. (PG) Take a look inside some amazing houses.

10.00 Fantasy Homes

By The Sea. 11.00 Cowboy Builders. (PG) 12.00 Downsize Me. (PG)

7.30 Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You. (1999) (PG) Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik. A student tries to set a girl up.

9.40 Movie: Indecent Proposal. (1993) (M) Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson. A wealthy financier threatens an idyllic marriage.

12.10 Movie: The Long Ships. (1964) (PG)

6.30 The Vicar Of Dibley. (PG) 7.30 Fawlty Towers. (PG) 8.50 Escape To The Country. Aled Jones helps a couple hoping to find a home with potential to be leased out for holidays in Devon.

10.50 Homes Under The Hammer.

12.00 Hairy Bikers’ USA. (PG)

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Cities Of The Underworld: City Of Caves: Budapest. (PG) 8.30 Foyle’s War. (M) Foyle joins a celebration committee.

10.45 Waking The Dead. (M) 11.50 Murder In Mind. (AV15+)

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Highway Patrol. (PG) 8.00 Crash Investigation Unit: Kenthurst. (PG) 8.30 Air Crash Investigations. (PG) 9.30 Air Crash Investigations: Munich Air Disaster. (PG) 10.40 Seconds From Disaster. (PG) 11.40 When Weather Changed History. (PG)

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6.30 Seinfeld. (PG) 7.30 Pawn Stars. (PG) The team meets the 31-tonne Robosaurus.

8.30 Hardcore Pawn. (M) Seth brings in a consultant in a bid to increase their retail business, in the wake of the gold price crash.

9.30 American Pickers.

(PG) Mike and Frank fall for t a neon sign.

11.30 Rude Tube. (M)

6.30 Seinfeld. (PG) George changes his lunch order.

7.00 Doomsday Preppers: Back To The Stone Age. (PG) Meet a prepper from Arizona.

8.00 Football. AFL. Round 19. Fremantle v Carlton. From Patersons Stadium, Perth.

11.00 Bizarre ER. (M) 11.30 SportsFan Clubhouse. (PG)

6.30 Seinfeld. (PG) Elaine is on the hunt for a special mechanical pencil for her boss.

7.00 Football. AFL. Round 19. Sydney v Essendon. From the SCG. 11.00 Movie: The Art Of War III: Retribution. (2009) (MA15+) Anthony “Treach” Criss, Warren Derosa, Sung Hi Lee. A spy battles North Korean terrorists.

7.30 Football. AFL. Round 19. North Melbourne v Geelong. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 1000 Ways To Die: Death Penalties. (AV15+) Chronicles people’s last moments.

11.30 1000 Ways To Die: Deadliest Kitsch. (AV15+) Chronicles people’s last moments.

6.00 Seinfeld. (PG) 6.30 MythBusters. (PG) 7.30 Movie: Johnny English Reborn. (2011) (PG) Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Gillian Anderson.

9.30 Movie: Hot Fuzz.

(2007) (MA15+) Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent. A cop is transferred to a remote town.

6.30 Seinfeld. (PG) 7.30 Danger: Diggers At Work. (PG) 8.30 Pawn Stars. (PG) The crew checks out a Stradivarius violin.

9.30 American Restoration.

(PG) The team works on a Custer Car. 11.00 Hardcore Pawn: Combat. (M) 11.30 SportsFan Clubhouse. (PG)

6.30 Seinfeld. (PG) 7.30 Guinness World Records Gone Wild. (PG) 8.30 World’s Craziest Fools. (PG) Clips of people making fools of themselves.

9.00 American Dad! (M) Hayley starts an internship.

9.30 Family Guy. (M) Meg and Peter bond.

10.00 Kinne. (MA15+) 10.30 Family Guy. (M) 11.30 American Dad! (M)

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6.00 The Regular Show. (PG) 6.30 Adventure Time. (PG) 7.00 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) 7.30 Auction Hunters. (PG) o 8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG) Raj dates one of Penny’s acquaintances.

9.30 Movie: The Whole Nine Yards. (2000) (M) 11.40 Two And A Half Men. (M)

6.00 The Regular Show. (PG) 6.30 Adventure Time. (PG) 7.00 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) 7.30 Britain’s Got Talent. (PG) 9.30 Movie: What’s Your Number? (2011) (MA15+) Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor.

11.40 Two And A Half Men. (PG)

6.00 The Regular Show. (PG) 6.30 Movie: Planet 51.

(2009) (PG) Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Jessica Biel. An astronaut encounters a race of little green aliens.

8.30 Movie: The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. (2003) (M) Elijah Wood. The quest nears its end.

6.00 Adventure Time.

(PG) Finn and Jake make a wager.

6.30 Movie: The Pink Panther. (2006) (PG) 8.30 Movie: Get Smart.

(2008) (PG) After terrorists expose the identities of US intelligence agents, Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 track down an arms dealer.

10.50 Movie: Mars Attacks!

(1996) (M)

7.40 Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year South America.

(PG) The boys recount their latest escapades.

8.40 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG) After Sheldon’s mother pays a visit, he finds himself competing with the gang for her attention.

9.40 Movie: The Hangover.

(2009) (MA15+) 11.40 Two And A Half Men. (M)

6.00 The Regular Show. (PG) 6.30 Adventure Time. (PG) 7.00 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) 8.00 Top Gear. (PG) Celebrity guest is Jay Leno.

9.30 Movie: RoboCop. (1987) Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O’Herlihy. A cop is turned into a cyborg.

11.30 Two And A Half Men. (M)

6.00 The Regular Show. (PG) 6.30 Adventure Time. (PG) 7.00 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) 8.00 Top Gear: Vietnam Special. (PG) The boys attempt to travel the length of Vietnam.

9.30 Movie: Battle Los Angeles. (2011) (M) 11.50 The Originals. (AV15+)

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6.30 Friends. (PG) 7.30 A Current Affair.

8.00 RBT. (PG) Follows the activities of police units.

8.30 RPA. (PG) A woman’s unborn baby is at risk.

9.30 Amazing Medical Stories: The Smallest People In The World. (M) 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies: Magaluf. (M) 11.30 Hoarding: Buried Alive. (PG)

6.30 Friends. (PG) 7.30 A Current Affair.

8.00 RBT. (PG) 8.30 Embarrassing Fat Bodies. (M) 9.30 Supersize: Saving Britain’s 70-Stone Man. (PG) 10.30 Britain’s Biggest Hoarders. Premiere. (PG) 11.45 Weekend Aristocrats. (PG)

6.30 Friends. (PG) 7.30 A Current Affair.

8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

8.30 Movie: Absolute Power. (1997) (M) Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris. A thief attempts to prove that the US president was an accomplice in a woman’s murder.

11.00 Movie: The Number 23. (2007) (MA15+)

6.30 Secret Dealers. (PG) 7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

The team revisits Stowe School.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M) A man dressed as Santa Claus is found murdered at a company Christmas party.

9.30 CSI: NY. (M) A police shooting creates uproar.

10.30 CSI: Miami. (M) 11.20 The Closer. (M)

6.30 Wild China: Heart Of The Dragon.

7.30 RPA: Where Are They Now? (PG) Discover the fate of Brett.

8.30 Movie: Chocolat.

(2000) (M) Juliette Binoche, Victoire Thivisol, Johnny Depp. A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village.

11.00 The Closer. (M)

6.30 Friends. (PG) 7.30 A Current Affair.

8.00 RBT. (PG) 8.30 Movie: Copycat. (1995) (M) A troubled criminal profiler and psychologist becomes entangled in the mind games of a serial killer, who is copying some of the most notorious killers in history.

11.00 Air Crash Confidential. (M)

6.30 Friends. (PG) 7.30 A Current Affair.

8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot. (PG) Poirot investigates the murder of a beautiful and flirtatious woman at the hotel where he is holidaying.

9.10 Midsomer Murders.

(PG) A South American model is murdered.

11.20 Absolutely Fabulous. (M)

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6.00 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Early Evening, Day 7.

6.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Early Evening, Day 7.

8.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 7. Events include: netball, athletics and diving.

10.15 Burn Notice. (M) 11.15 The Killing. (MA15+)

6.00 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Early Evening, Day 8.

Events include: cycling, diving and lawn bowls.

6.30 Commonwealth Games.

8.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 8.

9.30 True Justice. (M) 10.30 Mansome. (M)

6.00 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Early Evening, Day 9.

Events include: hockey, table tennis and squash.

6.30 Commonwealth Games.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M) 9.30 Movie: Days Of Thunder. (1990) (M) 11.45 Motor Racing.

Formula 1. Hungarian Grand Prix. Replay.

6.00 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Early Evening, Day 10.

Events include: diving, badminton and table tennis.

6.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Early Evening, Day 10.

8.30 Law & Order: SVU. (M) A series of male escorts are assaulted.

10.30 The Killing. (MA15+) 11.30 48 Hours. (M)

6.00 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Early Evening, Day 11.

6.30 Commonwealth Games.

8.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 11.

9.30 XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014.

Evening, Day 11. Events include: hockey.

11.00 48 Hours.

6.00 To Be Advised.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG) 7.30 Garage Gold. Meet the owner of a garage business.

8.00 Undercover Boss. (PG) Meet Sara Bittorf.

9.00 An Idiot Abroad.

(M) Karl Pilkington heads to Peru, where he visits the lost Incan city of Machu Picchu.

10.00 Hell’s Kitchen. (M) Lovely escapes elimination.

6.00 To Be Advised.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG) 7.30 David Attenborough’s The Life Of Mammals: Meat Eaters.

8.30 David Attenborough’s The Life Of Mammals: The Opportunists. A look at mammal omnivores.

9.30 48 Hours: Wounded

By Love. (M) 10.30 Movie: The Crew.

(2008) (AV15+)

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6.00 To Be Advised.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond. (PG) 7.30 The Simpsons.

8.00 Futurama. (PG) 8.30 The Simpsons. (PG) Bart makes a voodoo doll.

9.00 Futurama. (PG) 9.30 The Simpsons. A look at people in Springfield.

10.30 Bob’s Burgers. (PG) 11.00 Cheers. (PG) 11.30 Craig Ferguson. (PG)

6.00 To Be Advised.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond. (PG) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. (PG) 9.00 Don’t Trust The B----. (M) 9.30 Movie: Some Kind Of Wonderful. (1987) (M) An outcast falls for a pretty and popular girl.

11.30 Craig Ferguson. (PG)

6.00 To Be Advised.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond. (PG) 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) Hosted by Cat Deeley.

9.30 Graham Norton. (M) Chat show hosted by Graham Norton.

10.30 Offspring. (M) Mick asks Billie to come to London.

11.30 Craig Ferguson. (PG)

6.00 Becker. (PG) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG) Debra becomes upset after Raymond chooses his mother’s spaghetti and meatballs over her lemon chicken for dinner.

8.00 To Be Advised.

11.30 The Loop. (PG)

6.00 Raymond. (PG) 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.00 Futurama. (PG) 7.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 8.30 Movie: Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark. (2010) (M) Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison. A girl is sent to live with her father.

10.30 Movie: Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead. (2009) (AV15+) Tom Frederic, Janet Montgomery, Gil Kolirin.

6.00 To Be Advised.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond. (PG) 8.00 The Simpsons. (PG) Homer becomes trapped in an isolated canyon.

8.30 Witches Of East End. Premiere. (M) Sisters learn their heritage.

9.30 Torchwood. (M) 10.40 Dexter. (AV15+) 11.50 Craig Ferguson. (PG)

6.00 To Be Advised.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond. (PG) 7.30 Rules Of Engagement. (PG) 8.30 New Girl. (PG) 9.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? (M) 9.40 Sex And The City. (MA15+) 10.20 Sex And The City. (M) 11.00 Emily Owens M.D. (M)

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6.15 30 Rock. (PG) 6.40 American Ninja Warrior. (PG) 7.30 The Feed.

8.00 Community. (PG) 8.30 Movie: Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame. (2010) (M) Tony Leung Ka Fai, Chao Deng, Carina Lau. 10.45 South Park. (MA15+) 11.15 Movie: Blades Of Blood. (2010) (M)

6.15 30 Rock. (PG) 6.40 American Ninja Warrior. (PG) 7.30 The Feed.

8.00 Gadget Man. 8.30 South Park. Final. (M) Kenny’s parents are sent to prison.

9.00 Drunk History. (M) Hosted by Derek Waters.

9.30 SLICE. 11.10 South Park. (M) 11.40 Real Humans. (M)

6.05 30 Rock. (PG) 6.30 MythBusters. (PG) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Knife Fight. Premiere.

8.30 RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Final. (M) 9.20 Sex: An Unnatural History. (MA15+) 9.50 Sex: An Unnatural History. (MA15+) 10.20 Lip Service. (MA15+) 11.20 Savage U. 11.50 Friday Feed.

6.35 The Office. (PG) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Unplanned America: When Fantasy Meets Reality. (M) A look at littleknown subcultures.

9.00 Unplanned America: Family Matters. (MA15+) 9.30 Fargo. (M) 11.20 Benidorm Bastards. (PG) 11.50 Shorts On Screen. (MA15+)

6.00 Parks And Recreation. (PG) 6.25 India’s Dancing Superstar.

7.30 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One. 8.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 9.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG) The misadventures of a New York cop.

10.20 Movie: Easy Money.

(2010) (AV15+)

6.15 30 Rock. (PG) 6.40 American Ninja Warrior. (PG) 7.30 The Feed.

8.00 30 Rock. (PG) 8.30 Movie: Sunshine Cleaning. (2008) (M) 10.10 South Park. (M) 10.40 Pizza World Record. (MA15+) 11.10 The Sarah Silverman Program. (M) 11.35 The Feed.

6.15 30 Rock. (PG) 6.40 American Ninja Warrior. (PG) 7.30 The Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation. (PG) 8.30 From Dusk Till Dawn.

(MA15+) Seth senses the deal slipping away.

9.25 Real Humans. (M) 10.30 South Park. (M) 11.00 Threesome. (M) 11.30 Skins. (MA15+)

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7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG) 7.30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 8.10 Video Killed The Radio Star. (PG) 8.30 Lily Allen: From Riches To Rags. (M) 9.30 My Tattoo Addiction.

Final. (M) 10.15 Alan Carr: Chatty Man. (M)

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AWEX Wool Forum full of information for growers About 100 people attended the AWEX Wool on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Innovation from the wool Forum at Cooma Ex-Services Club last industry from the SheepCRC:.

It dealt with trials done to Wednesday night.

The three-hour forum included an industry assess the wearability ,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;comfort update by AWEX CEP, Mark Grave, a keynote factorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of wool.

Prof James said wool is presentation by Professor James Rowe, CEO of Sheep CRC, a wool buyer panel, and an used considered prickly and uncomfortable to wear next to introduction to WoolClip Software program.

In his address, Mr Grave spoke about the the skin.

Wool comfort and role of fibre state of the wool industry, and changes since diameter wools 1993.

The Sheep CRC has For example, in 1993, the wool clip was 776mkg, EMI was 442c/kg and there were completed a comprehensive 26,455 woolclassers registered.

In 2104, the wool clip is 330mkg, EMI 101c/ kg and there are 18,905 woolclassers registered.

Of these, 9772 are professional woolclassers and 8075 are ownerclassers.

NSW has 53 percent of the total professional classers, with 5243 and only 17.9 percent of owner classers.

Mr Grace said AWEX had been searching through archives and discovered there were 181 woolclassers who had been continuously registered since 1963. It was these classers who recently received a special 50 years stencil. As others reach the 50-year mark, they will also be recognised.

Mr Grave said the industry faced a couple of challenges - getting young people into the industry and retaining them through Umberto Botto with sports and suit materials. education and career opportunities.

Mr Gave moved on to changes in research program to understand the comfort of wool worn next woolpacks and bale weights.

He said overwidth bales had become a to skin as lightweight knitwear.

The key findings were that: safety issue. â&#x20AC;˘ finer micron wools are More attention needed to be paid to pressing, he said, with a new wool pack essential to guarantee comfort under hot/sweaty conditions designed to assist growers.

The new packs will have four sewn seams when garments are most likely on eth base and a stitch line on top as a to cause prickle and itch. â&#x20AC;˘ finer wools also produce fastening guide. moisture buffering The packs will be stronger and will have a better properties and reduce the maximum length of 1.25metres.

He said with nine wool pack manufacturers sweaty/clingy feel of garments Pictured at the AWEX wool forum last week are, from left , Professor James Rowe, competing for business he expected there during exercise under hot Italian Umberto Botto, Tim Marwedel, from G Schneider Australia, Andrew Blanch from would not be a great increase in costs to conditions.

New England Wool and AWEX CEO Mark Grave.

The CRC developed the growers for the new packs.

Existing packs will continue to be used until Wool ComfortMeter instrument Important role of Wool Classers in an Using a combination of data collected to predict wearer comfort the supply is exhausted, he said. at pregnancy scanning together with data In regard to wool pack weights, Mr Grave and this instrument accurately predicts the increasingly high-tech sheep industry The modern Merino ewe needs to produce collected during shearing, would provide a said the maximum weight accepted will be prickle and itch as well as the sweaty/clingy characteristics of knitted wool fabric and high quality wool as well as being a good powerful way of making better management 204kg and the minimum will be 110kg. mum and raising prime lambs. and selection decisions.

At present, he said, the average weight was related garments.

Finding the most productive ewes and Ensuring appropriate inputs, such as better The ability to measure the level of comfort 178kg and the median was 185kg.

He said classers needed to ensure scales of fabric and garments means that it is now managing them appropriately requires the nutrition, for highly productive ewes and being on presses were correctly calibrated so the possible to ensure that there are no surprises use of objective measurement. It is likely able to cull the passengers, can reduce costs that Wool Classers could provide growers and increase profit. when consumers purchase wool garments. correct weights were pressed.

The CRC is working with its Participants As consumers, retailers and wool supply with assistance in collecting in-shed data Mr Grave illustrated his presentations with examples of soft bales, or bulging bales, chain understand this new tool for quality as an additional component of their current to make data collection easier and to ensure that its utilisation is more effective. Having which were in warehouses in Melbourne last assurance and the role of finer diameter business model.

The Sheep CRC is already working with AWEX and the Wool Classers involved in this wools, it is likely to increase demand for the week. superfine and ultrafine wools that Australia pregnancy scanners to develop better ways process is a most important aspect of the Sheep CRC of capturing data and using it effectively.

CRCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future plans.

Professor James Rowe;s presentation was now produces in increasing volume.

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Mixed quality yarding at Cooma sheep sale

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Keeping the local dollar here!

Coooma Associated Agents yarded BC, 22, 102 850 crossbred lambs and 1000 D & B Blyton LMK, 23, 91 mostly mutton sheep in a very DL Whiting ELD, 10, 90 mixed quality offering at Cooma on C & J Ceely ELD, 8, 81 July 22.

NW Robinson LMK, 8, 80 The recent snow and cold weather David Norris BC, 4, 80w affected quality with limited medium P & A Devereux BC, 12, 78 trade weight lambs on offer with the P & A Devereux ELD, 16, 62.50 yarding mainly consisting of lighter weight unfinished lambs.

WETHERS Medium weights from $102-$135 David Boyle , MLP, 12, 95 Lighter weights from $75-$90 RS & WM Hamson, ELD, 4, 95 XB Hoggets sold out to $90 HG & JR Dixon MLP, 6, 90 Heavy XB wethers selling to a Cottage Creek Past Co, LMK, 12, top of $95 whilst heavy XB ewes 85 reached $90 with restockers paying Boate & Ewart, BC, 97, 83.50 to $103 for a pen of 3 YO 1st X D & L Platts MLP, 2, 70 ewes.

NW Robinson LMK, 15, 70 Merino wethers sold to $85 with M & J Keys BC, 14, 50 very few on offer.

JA Kobold BC, 47, 47 Merino ewes well supplied with $88 being the top for better EWES conditioned lines whilst lighter Haylock Partners MLP, 53, 88 merino ewes sold from $44-$65 RS & WM Hamson ELD, 1, 85 Next sheep sale August 19.

S Locker & W Lloyd MLP, 4,80 Haylock Partners MLP, 41, 80 Quotations Olimar Pty Ltd BC, 9, 66 Lambs M & J Keys BC, 17, 40 HG & JR Dixon MLP 5 135 Bottom & Bylund BC 24 118 JB & AM Starr MLP 23 112 JB & AM Starr MLP 33 108 R, L & J Hain MLP 10 105 R & S McDonald BC 15 102 Fraser, McDonald & Sons

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Global gaze on animal production In a world-first, hundreds of international researchers, policy makers, students and industry specialists will gather in Canberra from September 8 -12, to focus on harnessing the best environmental, welfare and food supply outcomes from animal production.

NSW Department of Primary Industries senior principal research scientist, David Hopkins, said this is the first time the International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores and International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology (ISNH/ISRP) have been run together.

“With registrations from 45 countries to date, the event offers opportunities for Australians who work and study in the field to meet with others and explore multiple facets of animal production at global and local levels,” Dr Hopkins said.

“Bringing people from so many countries together allows us to examine strategies which look after the planet and our environment in the face of increased demand for food.

“Energy use, better use of limited resources, optimising production, enhanced animal health, welfare and food safety, and healthier food for a hungry world are the major themes we will be exploring.”

INSH/ISRP 2014 will run in conjunction with the Biennial

Australian Society of Animal Production Conference and the line-up of local and international speakers has already attracted more than 400 registrations.

Dr Hopkins said specialised tours on September 12 will give local producers and processors the opportunity to meet with visiting researchers.

“Places are available for those who can’t attend the conference in the three tours which will highlight dairy, beef, sheepmeat and wool production,” he said.

“These tours are designed to show our international visitors how NSW producers manage sustainable production systems to meet market demand and give the locals some insights into what their neighbours are doing.”

It’s not just meat, milk and fibre produced by cattle and sheep enterprises, production and management of ruminants and herbivores from kangaroos to buffaloes will feature on the program.

Registration and program details are available online for the September 8-12 event, http://www. herbivores2014.com/registration. html or by contacting the ISNH/ ISRP 2014 conference secretariat, (02) 9254 5000, registration@ herbivores2014.com

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Local studs compete at Bendigo Farmers applaud Local Merino studs Conrayn and Adina, have sold rams at the recent National Sheep sale and Show at Bendigo.

Adina sold two rams to Conndruille, Tasmania, for $1500 each.

Conrayn sold two rams after auction for $3500 and $1500.

The top price for the sale was $25,000 for a ram offered by Grathlyn Stud. The sale average was $2482.52.

Conrayn also won the Mount Gow Memorial Trophy for the most successful superfine exhibitor.

carbon tax repeal The National Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Federation (NFF) has congratulated the Coalition Government for delivering on its election promise to repeal the carbon tax, with the Senate passing the necessary legislation on July 17.

NFF President Brent Finlay said the NFF has not supported the carbon tax due to the unnecessary cost impost on Australian farm businesses, agricultural input suppliers and food processors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Australian agriculture is breathing a sigh of relief now the tax has finally been abolished. The sector itself was excluded from directly paying the tax. However, costs imposed on other businesses were passed on to agriculture and the bottom line of farm businesses,â&#x20AC;? said Mr Finlay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carbon tax flow-on costs hit Australian farmers every time they paid for essential electricity, fertiliser, chemical and fuel supplies. Rather than promoting Australian farm competitiveness, the tax dampened the sectorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to grow and increase productivity.

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Herefords Australia is very pleased to announce the appointment of a Commercial Development Officer.

Elizabeth (Liz) Pearson from Guyra will commence in the role from Monday 21 July. Liz has strong connections to the New England region. Aside from the family cattle property at Guyra, Liz went to PLC in Armidale and the University of New England, graduating from the latter with a Bachelor of Agribusiness in 2003.

Lizâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous employment history and experience has been centred around agriculture and beef production.

Liz has worked for Cargill Beef Australia at their Jindalee Feedlot, Elanco Animal Health as the Southern Feedlot Sales Manager (NSW, VIC, SA & TAS) and also in the Stock & Station Agency sector.

Lizâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appointment comes after an extensive search and selection process, culminating in a Board Selection Panel interview process of the final four short-listed candidates on Thursday 26 June in Armidale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Board Selection Panel were unanimous in their view that Liz has all the professional experience and personal attributes we were seeking to fill this very important role,â&#x20AC;? CEO of Herefords Australia John McKew commented.

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Cooma Baptist Church lend a hand A team of eight not only what from Cooma Baptist they have but Church have arrived also a deeper back from a shortunderstanding term mission trip to of God’s desire the Philippines. for us to love our Led by Pastor neighbours as we Farhad Khan, the love ourselves. team spent time Australians visiting and building have the choice relationships with of food, housing, people living in education, careers Lorega on Cebu and medical aid. I Island. would encourage Lorega is an every Australian urban slum of to take full approximately 7000 advantage of the people. choices available In the past year to them and excel this area has at whatever they been hit by an choose to do in earthquake and life, but always super typhoon to remember the Hyian, which poor.” claimed thousands Accompanying of lives over Pastor Khan was various areas of the our own local Philippines. upcoming country Then four artist Michael months ago a fire Horneman, local roared through the carpenter Isaac slum destroying Hor neman, 99% of the slum School teacher leaving everyone Liz England, displaced with no apprentice The team of Cooma locals who had a life changing experience in the Phillippines, including Pastor Khan, Jared Tonini, possessions. electrician Michael Horneman, Liz England, Dominic Dowdy, Nick Tugwell and Gail Curzon.

Pastor Khan has Dominic Dowdy, The aim of the mission trip was also to raise had a long-term University relationship with a small church that ministers to the awareness for young adults about the issues of global students Jared Tonini and Nick Tugwell and 70-yearpoverty and to see how 80 percent of the world lives. people of Lorega. old ‘Grandma’ Gail Curzon.

Urban slums are the fastest growing movement of Following the fires, Cooma Baptist Church ran Apart from being able to contribute to 11 building various forms of fundraising to provide some relief for people due to global poverty. Over half the world’s projects in the slum, each person has returned with a the struggling families who are slowly rebuilding their population live under or on US$2.50 per day. very special experience and a fresh understanding of Pastor Khan said, “Poverty is ultimately an absence life and values. homes.

Cooma Baptist Church would like to thank everyone of choice.

“Seeing how they live hits pretty hard,” Jared Tonini It is my hope that young Australians take their saids. in Cooma who contributed. The local residents of Lorega are overwhelmed by the love and support position in the world with thankfulness, gratitude and “I now have a better understanding of how lucky we deeper sense of responsibility. received by strangers. are to live here and I’m so proud that by going there By taking a team into extreme poverty, young we could give them hope,” he said.

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by Meredith Kirton The New South Welshmen tasted success in this year’s Victorian Biathlon Championships at Mt Hotham on July 19 and 20.

There were some very strong results especially in the U19 Girls and Open Men with recently qualified IBU athlete Damon Morton (18) smashing the open men’s field by 8:22, despite racing up two divisions. His sister Darcie (14) came first in the U19 female 4.5km The Under 19 girls from NSW - Left to right: Sabrina Howell, Darcie Morton, sprint, while team mate Gabi Hawkins, Tess Bradford Gabi Hawkins (15) took the honours on Sunday in the 4.5km Mass Start. Both girls snow conditions in 10 years according to local experts.” were racing up a division in order to indicate their interest She went on to add, “In the absence of our Olympic and in attending 2015 Biathlon World Junior Championships.

IBU athletes, who are overseas training for Summer World Sabrina Howell (17) and Tess Bradford (16), also Championships, the young NSW biathletes performed competed in the U19 girls with Tess as the newest very well and gained valuable racing experience. There member of the NSW Team commenting: “I’m really happy were good improvements on day 2 as the nerves settled with my result today. I think I’ve improved a lot but gosh it and shooting became less tense and more accurate. The was hard – and fun! And I think all the NSW kids did really U19 girls were particularly competitive which augurs well well.” for their aim of competing at the Biathlon World Junior For the boys in the U19’s, Will Neuhaus (15) was just Championships in February 2015. pipped by Harry Jacobs, two years his senior, in what was The event was attended by Ubaldo Prucker, who is a a pleasing race for him, given he was skiing up a division. visiting dignitary from the International Biathlon Union “That was hard” commented Will Neuhaus, “I didn’t shoot and one of its founding members. He is a former IBU as well as I would have liked … but I’m happy with my Vice-President (Development) and is the official who ran percent behind result.” His team mate Matt Wright (14), biathlon events at both the 2006 Olympic Winter Games also skiing up a division in the U17’s, finished second to and the 2013 Winter University Games.

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U11s tough match After a long school holiday break the under 11’s played a tough game against Wests who have just come down from first division to second.

The first half was the best the team have played all season.

Our work rate in the forwards and our scrums really highlighted what we have been working on at training.

Ball security and excellent passing by our backs saw us control the majority of the play. Wests pressured our line but our defence stayed solid and structured.

The second half was a tough battle with Jindabyne

letting two late tries through in the last five minutes. A great effort and well deserved win to Jindabyne. Final score Jindabyne 22 - Wests 12 GO YOU MIGHTY PIGLETS!!!

Under 12’s had a strong win against Easts on Saturday in a home game.

The forwards dominated the rucks setting up some early tries. The Player of The Day was awarded to Ben Bright but all players contributed to a great winning result.

Under 16’s also had a strong win against Vikings in Canberra.

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Cooma Cats celebrate 30th anniversary Cooma Cats held a reunion last Saturday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of winning the MAFL Division 2B premiership in 1984.

Members of the 1984 team travelled from Perth, the Central Coast, Albury, the Far South Coast and Canberra to attend.

They joined local Cats for dinner at the Australian Hotel.

The night was a chance for everyone to relive the 1984 premiership, with the DVD of the game playing on the big screen.

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by Cats president Adam Asanovski. 1984 coach Maurie Hore and captain Peter Dean also spoke on the evening.

A fine time was had by all, including a spirited rendition of the Cats team song, accompanied by Jacko in the spoons.

Some things never change…

Top left: Captain Peter Dean, strapper Kevin Jackson and coach Maurie Hore.

Top right:At 74, Maurie Hore is still a good kick.

1984 secretary Gail Eastaway, Graham Rankin, Dave Williams, Bull Janson, Eric Newell, Pat O’Connell, Ricky Johnson, Peter Dean, Richard Upton, Maurie Hore, Graeme Mann, Kevin Jackson, Tom Lewis and Steve Gatehouse.

Above: Ross Knee and Kym Pearce; Left: Peter Ryan and Graeme Mann; Middle: David Leitch and Steve Gatehouse; Right: Graeme Mann and the other old boys had a great time kicking the footy about; Bottom left: Bull Janson and Pat O’Connell; Below: Graham Rankin, Dave Williams and Richard Upton.

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73

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80 HIGHLAND GROUND SPREADING

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78

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64 JINDABYNE BOWLING & SPORTS CLUB

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ROOSTERS TITANS RAIDERS EELS SDEA EAGLES PANTHERS RABBITS STORM

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ROOSTERS COWBOYS WARRIORS EELS SEA EAGLES PANTHERS RABBITS STORM

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Bowlers looking forward to handicap pairs In social bowls last Saturday Max Butler and Graham Vale, a regular visitor at this time of year, were slow to get going against Mike Mannile and John Vincent which resulted in Mike and John gaining a 9/1 lead after six ends but they spent the next four ends on that score whilst Max and Graham slowly made up the difference and then moved ahead.

In allowing Mike and John to score on just five more of the 19 ends played, Max and Graham were comfortable winners 25/16.

Neil McGregor, Evelyn Hamilton and Lorraine West were early 13/2 leaders over Mario Frezza, Renate Winckel and Nelson Wallace before the latter offered any real opposition.

Although Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team outscored Neil, Evelyn and Lorraine for the remainder of the match they had given too much start in the early stages and went down 15/18.

On Sunday Peter Mariscano, Jack Sajina and Paul Cannell looked like having a run away win over Renate Winckel, Ron Wainwright and Wayne Lodge when they held an 11/3 lead after nine ends.

Renate, Ron and Wayne then said enough is enough and proceeded to dominate the game and allowed Peter, Jack and Paul only two more one shot ends on their way

to a 23/13 victory.

Keith Goodwin played swinging lead for Don Jarvis and Richard Nichols and for Bob Lahey and Nelson Wallace in a game that saw the lead change several times over the early ends until Don and Richard put on 11 shots over four ends to put them in front 15/8.

Bob and Nelson squared the match at 17/17 on the 19th end but Don and Richard kept their nerve and scored the necessary one shot on each of the last two ends to gain a 19/17 victory.

One match in handicap pairs was played on Sunday where Peter Harris and Colin Roberson received two shots start from Tony Gray and Neil McGregor.

The first eight ends were evenly contested with Tony and Neil holding a slender one shot advantage.

Peter and Colin then won nine ends straight to set up a 27/8 lead.

Tony and Neil fared a little better over the final stages but could not make up the leeway for Peter and Colin to win 30/16 and move into the next round where they will meet Wayne Flynn and Kim Weston to whom they will have to give four shots to start.

Some changes have been made to the playing conditions of the handicap pairs.

The midday sausage sizzle on August 17 will now be before play at 12, with play starting at 1pm and the fee for play and sausages will be $10 each for the first round played then $9 for each additional game.

These changes will allow more time for green preparation if it is a frosty morning and warmer start of play.

The draw matches in the handicap pairs still to be played (with team handicap shown in brackets) is as follows.

Ken Rees and Brian Seears (19) v Skip Hamilton and Don Jarvis (21) with the winner to play Keith Goodwin and Peter Marsicano (12).

Bob Lahey and Geoff Venables (12) v Jack Sajina and John Schoon (9), the winner to play Alan Crowe and Tony Brooks (23), Mick Mayhew and Nelson Wallace (16) v Mike Mannile and Wayne Lodge (10), Wayne Flynn and Kim Weston (17) v Peter Harris and Colin Roberson (13).

Matches set down for 10/08/14 are (skips names only), Seears v Jarvis and Venables v Schoon and could be played earlier if agreeable.

The draw is on the Notice Board showing matches set down for play on 17/08/14.

Dress for the event is mufti, if desired, or club uniform.

Cooma ladies golf results On Wednesday July 23 on a cold, but lovely sunny day, a very small field played the 18-hole stableford competition.

The winner was Gaye Wilson with 30 points.

The nine-hole stableford field was slightly bigger and the winner was Julie Upton with 14 points.

1St PRIZE - $1000

There were two balls and these were hotly contested On Saturday 26th a nine-hole stableford medley by three players who all scored 13 points, namely Clare was played and the winner with 21 points was Don Nowland, Midge Theron and Maureen Fletcher on a McGregor. countback.

Balls were won by Lorraine McGregor, Marilynne Maureen missed out and Clare and Midge received Weston and Lyn Last, all three players scoring 17 points. balls.

Until next week, Happy Golfing!

2ND PRIZE - $500

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3RD PRIZE - $200

last place - $100

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RAIDERS V WARRIORS

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Cooma Colts have good wins in round 11 Full On Constructions and Rhythm Snow Sports Under 6’s The Under 6 Colts were at home to the Bungendore Tigers on Sunday with another great show of both attack and defence displayed by the Colts. The Colts were first to put points on the board through a great run from Othon Morgan after defending the first set from the Tigers. It was a good effort in defence from Neariah Smith, Archie Kaufline, Lachlan Bryan and Mitchell Fletcher with some big hits from Othon Morgan and Kyte Lee. However the Tigers kept the intensity on and managed to get three unanswered tries to take the lead. Aiden Dixon, Ikani Smith and Rhylee RosenbaumRobinson hit back in attack to put Kyte Lee and Othon Morgan in good field position to tear through the Tigers defence and level the score with a try each. The Tigers managed to score another try to take the lead going into the last 10 minutes, but the Colts were able to hit back with another two tries to Kyte Lee taking the final score the Colts way 20 – 16. It was another great effort by the Colts to take the win at home yet again. The medal winner this week was Kyte Lee. South East Embroidery Under 7’s The South East Embroidery Under 7 Colts converged on the Cooma Showgrounds for round 11 and their performance was nothing short of spectacular. After the long and dreary drive from Bungendore the young Bungendorians probably wished they’d stayed at home as the Colts put on a display of skill and power.

Dempsey Woolf, Charlie Payne, Charlie Perea and Tyrell Bartlett were devastating in defence and set the platform for their team mates to show some razzle dazzle and run over 10 tries. The deceptive speed of Hunter Caldwell, the footwork of Khian Flanagan and Jett Kelly, and Jack Dunn’s ferocious power were too much for Bungendore as they struggled to contain the young Colts. Especially worthy of mention was Connor Nelson’s try which had more twists and turns than a Hollywood soap opera and left the crowd screaming for more.

The Black, Red and White almost kept their opposition scoreless but regardless the final score was still impressive with a 48 – 4 win.

Next weekend the boys travel to North Canberra for what will be their biggest test to date, so this week they will be finishing their homework early to ensure they get enough sleep and are in peak condition.

Snowy River Painting Under 8’s The Snowy River Painting under 8’s played at home this week against the Queanbeyan Blues, both teams came out firing and there was no shortage of tries being scored. Queanbeyan had the lead after the first break but Cooma didn’t take long to level the score.

A late try took Queanbeyan away with the win 38-36. This week’s try scorers where Charlie Fleming, Nazareth Smith, Cameron Filtness, Clayton Clarke and Jacob Smith; with Lachlan Sky and Allira Williams also scoring their first tries for the season. Josh Williams and Thai Brazaulitis had a brilliant game in both attack and defence which saw Thai take out the player of the week, all in all it was a very good team effort well done to everyone.

Monaro Panel Beaters Under 9’s The Monaro Panel Beaters under 9’s took on the Bungendore Tigers at the Cooma showground on Sunday. With no reserves, they all had to muscle up and focus to get on with their jobs. Bungendore scored early and looked a formidable opponent. The Colts composed themselves, then started to click into gear. There was some great defence from Jack ‘thumper’ McPherson and also Azak Morgan and Tommy Russell. Then the Cooma boys opened up the throttle and scored some great tries. Scorers on the day were Justin McDonald 4 tries, Louie Mould 3 tries, Copper Inskip and Jordan Williams bagged one each. Thumper, Mason Turner and Shane Williams all kicked goals. Making the final score 42 to 8 in favour of the Colts. Cooma were best served by Justin, Louie, Cooper and Jack. Choc award went to Tommy Russell and Shane Williams. Pie and drink award went to Justin McDonald and the medal went to Jack ‘Frosty’ Kleven for his tackle and strong run. Well done boys.

Sportspower Cooma Colts Under 10’s All players stepped up to the plate, with many playing their best game to date.

Alex Aitkenhead was by far the big improver, his enthusiasm in attack and his aggression in defence stepping up a notch or two.

Same for Jonah Perea, running and tackling with plenty of vigour, and also kicking a goal.

Talon Kelly saved the day many times and crossed for one of our tries, showing us his true speed. Michael Day and Aron Umback were very solid in the middle, with barnstorming runs and rock solid defence. Doron Morgan, Shawn Ingham and Marcus Riley came on in the second half, giving us some very good runs. Sam Williams and Adam Constance also came on in the second; Adam providing some long weaving runs and Sam some strong defence.

Jake Maddrell followed up from last week, running strongly and defending strongly. Cody Clarke moved closer to the middle and proved he can handle the quicker pace in there.

Lachlan Hemphill and James Bannon ran the left and right very well and also made some very good runs and as always defended very strongly. James also scored a try. Tirone Morgan again was very solid, with strong running and some hard hits in defence. Barrett Bannon’s passing from dummy half was top class again but this week his defence really shone through.

Every player put in 100%, building nicely for a strong run to the semis. 3pts Talon. 2pts

Lachlan.1pt Alex. Players of the Week Tirone and Barrett. Pizza Award to Jonah. Canteen Award to Cody.

Highland Ground Spreading Under 11’s BYE Mainstreet Under 12’s The Mainstreet U/12 Cooma Colts played the Queanbeyan Kangaroos in Cooma on a beautiful Sunday afternoon! Cooma started well with good defence from several players really having a good go namely Jason Kelly, Alec Miners, Jayden Williams, Ethan Conley, and Russell Haylock. Nic Zusak, in his never give up mood, running down an attacking player and after several attempts pulled him down short of the line. It was a great effort on little man against big man and the little man won, otherwise all defended well throughout the game. Cooma scored first. Saddler took the line on and scored with Tyler converting.

Cooma kept the pressure on the opposition with Cooma attacking the line with some good runs from Tyrone Mason, Josh Sharkey, Colin Kingston, Bryson Clarke, Will Cahill and James McGufficke having some good runs from dummy half.

Cooma were on the attack with a great kick from Tyler who found one of his runners with Jayden Williams scoring. Cooma came out a bit flat in the second half with the opposition finding players out of position out wide on several occasions and run a couple of quick tries in.

Cooma fought hard with another try to Nic Zusak picking up a loose ball and sprinting away to score. The opposition held off a well improved Colts side even though they did not win they had a good moral boost with a major improvement in their game. Final score Queanbeyan 24 Cooma 14.

Franks Butchery and Inspirations Paint Under 13’s The Franks Butchery and Inspirations Paints Under 13 Cooma Colts played the Valley Dragons Green at Cooma Showground on Sunday. The Valley Dragons were the first to cross the line and, through mistakes and giving away some penalties, it was not long before they scored their second try and were leading 10 nil. Strong defence from James Hayden, Sean Dixon and Archie “Hitman” Allen, allowed Cooma to gain some possession and enabled Jesse Williams to score a great solo try under the posts which was converted by Remy Oldrey. With new found fight and well led by Remy, the Colts were able to head back up field and Jayden Miners scored out wide to bring the score to 10 all. The Valley Dragons quickly put two more tries back on the Colts, but the boys were not phased and went on to score two more tries of their own to bring the scores to 20 all at half time. Through the weight of possession and the fact that the Colts had no reserves, the boys could not hold out the Valley Dragons, and with the wind in their sails the Valley Dragons went on to win the game 54-20. The team award went to Jesse Williams, and the team medal went to David Constance for showing how dominant he can be.

Snowy Plains Merino Stud Under 14’s Snowy Plains Merino Stud played Queanbeyan United Blue on Sunday in a great game of football. Bill Zammit scored the first try after racing up the field 50 metres, Queanbeyan then snuck in 2 quick tries. The continued persistence of the boys saw Liam Rankin weaved his way through the opposition to score and then convert, leaving the score 10 all at half time. The sun was shining and by half time the boys were exhausted. Queanbeyan came out strong in the second half and scored a few more tries leaving the final score 30 points to 10 points. Great game by all today and picking man of the match was hard, the medal went to Lachlan Jones. Thanks to Jimmy Harding, Joel Saville and Matthew Chelin for filling in, and Peter Mould for running the water.

Dodd’s Hotel Under 15’s A good game was had by both sides with both teams being side by side on the ladder. Both teams started with very strong defence and Cooma proved it by defending the try line well within 30 seconds from kick off due to Cooma knocking on. Cooma was able to hold their ground and show some fantastic runs. Jake Hedger showed his speed and skill and was able to make a break with great back up from Matthew Chelin Jake was able to pass ball to Matthew and with his speed he was able to score right under the posts, with a successful conversion from Bailey Burke, Cooma leads 6-0. The game proved to be hard and fast with both sides making the same mistakes and showing a lot of tired boys, because neither team had any reserves. Some fantastic runs were made from everyone especially our forwards Alex Swan and Joel Saville. Charlie Allen worked hard drawing his team to the line, great communication from everyone. Carson Barrett playing his second game back, showed his power in defence and was able to score the second try for the team right in the corner, with an unsuccessful conversion we were still leading 10 – 0, and that’s how the score stayed. Valley Dragons just couldn’t go over their try line, Cooma Colts were just stronger and played the better game on the day. Medal went to Charlie Allen.

Pictured from top: The Cooma Colts Under nines; Justin McDonald; Under 10s Talon Kelly; Under sixes Mitchell Fletcher.

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One down, three to go for in-form Red Devils was not being reflected on the scoreboard.

When Cooma was awarded a penalty close to Daramalanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s line Matt Cusbert took a tap and charged at the defence. The other forwards drove in and pushed him over the line for the opening try. Aaron Stewart converted to give Cooma a 7-0 lead. Shortly before halftime Aaron Stewart kicked a penalty goal to extend the lead to 10-0.

Coomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second half effort was rewarded with 4 tries.

Dylan Wilson, returning from a broken wrist, intercepted a pass and raced away to score under the posts. Aaron Stewart converted and the Red Devils led 17-0. Matt Cusbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect cut out pass found a flying Jakob Stewart who scored out wide. Younger brother Aaron kicked the conversion and the score moved to 24-7 in Coomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favour. Dylan Wilson then used his remarkable speed to

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skirt around the defence and run 40 metres to score his second try. The conversion was unsuccessful and Cooma led 297.

Tyran Murphy scored Coomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last try. Daramalan scored a converted try on fulltime and the final score was Cooma 34 Daramalan 14.

Coomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win was the result of hard work and discipline. Jackson Reed, Brendan McCole, Ismail Hudson, Jake McIlvenny and Dom Giagios worked tirelessly. Ned McDonnell was a handful in attack and punishing in defence.

Lindsey Browne replaced the hard working Joe Altmann in the second half and continued to impress.

The combination of Aaron Stewart and Josh McDonald in the halves created opportunities for centres Dylan Wilson and Rob Hayward who played his first games since injuring his knee eight weeks ago.

Wingers Tyran Murphy and Jakob Stewart

along with fullback Ben Turner-Mann were outstanding.

Their hard running kick returns were matched by their fantastic cover defence which denied Daramalan on several occasions. Matt Cusbert led from the front scoring the first try, saving a try with a brilliant tackle, communicating well with the referee and keeping the team focused on the job at hand.

In a difficult game to choose Best and Fairest players the points were awarded to Dylan Wilson (3), Aaron Stewart (2) and Tyran Murphy (1).

Playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Player honours were shared

by Josh McDonald and Jackson Reed.

Needing to win all 4 remaining games to secure a place in the finals itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1 down and 3 to go for the Red Devils.

Pictured, Ned McDonnell and Joe Altmann in action for the Under 18s.

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After a three week break the Monaro Freight Under 18â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travelled to Canberra to take on Daramalan.

The Red Devils thrashed Daramalan 50-15 in Cooma in round 4, but a much stronger Daramalan team took to the field last Saturday.

The opening exchanges were torrid and the game swept from end to end. The Red Devils stuck to their game plan and remained composed. Luck was not on Coomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side and winger Jakob Stewart was denied twice in the opening 10 minutes by a wicked bounce and a dubious knock-on call. Injury and retirements forced changes in the forwards. Ismail Hudson moved to hooker, Dom Giagios and Joe Altmann went into the second row and Ned McDonnell packed in at No. 8. Although the new look pack began to take control of the midfield, and scrum-half Aaron Stewart skillfully directed play, Coomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dominance

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Red Devils post two wins in last home games

Ryan Morgan takes a hit in the first grade match.

Right: Ben Neilson palms off the opposition

The Cooma Red Devils played their last home game of the regular season on Saturday afternoon against ADFA at Rotary Oval and came away with two convincing wins.

Reserve grade took to the field on Saturday with a close to full strength side ready to make up for last week’s heavy defeat to Goulburn.

Cooma received the kick off and from the start were confident with the forwards getting across the advantage line allowing the new centre pairing of Damo Allen and Matt Crowley room to bash through the line.

After 15 minutes Cooma was the first side to post points when Neil Schouten was able to pick and drive from 5m out and push through the defence and score. Eddie missed the conversion from nearly in front but Cooma was off to a good start.

Cooma was able to extend its lead minutes later when ADFA made a mistake in their own, giving Cooma had a handy 10 nil lead. ADFA hit back with a try of their own, after they capitalised on a Cooma turn over and scored an unconverted try to reduce the lead to 10-5.

The next 10 minutes saw the game even out and good defence from Sam Hand, James Dorahy and Brad Evans stopped ADFA posting further points.

Cooma was able to go back on the attack after a strong run and a well placed kick from Andrew Stewart got Cooma into good field position. From this Cooma went on the attack and it was again Ben Schouten who was able to score when Cooma switched back to a blind side raid and Ben brushed past the defence to score.

Matt Crowley converted and Cooma went into half time leading 17-5.

After half time Cooma stepped up its intensity and with strong runs from David Bodycott, Matt Perkins and Chris Roberson got Cooma into good field position, this gave Cooma the chance to post more points and from a quick tap Nester combined with his brother and put Ben over under the posts, Crowley converted and Cooma’s lead extended out to 24-5.

Cooma crossed again minutes later after ADFA tried a 15 man line-out only to give away a penalty and quick thinking from Nathan Boate saw that the ADFA players, in a rush to get back to their positions, had left the blind open and he was able to find Neil Schouten running down the wing who ran through and scored.

Crowley again converted for a 31-5 lead. Cooma went very close to scoring soon after when Brad Constance on the back

of a strong run got tackled only half a metre from the line.

Cooma finished off the afternoon when the backs combined and an offload from Ryan Pritchard to Nathan Boate allowed Boate to put Eddie E Train Thomas over in the corner.

Crowley added the extras and Cooma ran out victorious 38-5. Points in second grade: 1 point Matt Perkins, 2 points shared between the two Schouten Brothers, 3 points James Dorahy and Player’s Player Eddie Thomas.

First grade First grade took to the field on Saturday afternoon ready to make up for last week’s embarrassing loss to Goulburn, and with the second spot on the ladder still up for grabs they had a lot to play for.

From the opening whistle both sides set about finding each other’s strengths and weaknesses, Cooma were looking to play simple footy while ADFA were ready to pounce on any turnovers and counter attack with their speedy outside backs.

Cooma was the first side to post points when after some strong runs from Jimmy Nichols, Ben Neilson and Matt Jamieson had Cooma getting across the advantage line.

From this Phil Johnson was able to crash through the defence and score.

Ryan Morgan converted and Cooma had a handy early lead which they soon extended out to ten nil when Cooma kicked a penalty goal.

ADFA responded with an unconverted try after they found room through the Cooma defence. Cooma was able to respond, this time it was Pat Egan, playing in the backs this week, who found room to move and was able to hold onto the ball after he dropped his first three touches and ran over three would-be-tacklers to score.

Morgan converted and Cooma had a 17-5 lead, this lead was extended further before halftime when strong runs from Will Nicholls, James Strange and Andrew Rolfe got Cooma into good field position. From this, Leighton Bates was able to get over the line.

Morgan again converted and the Red Devils went into half time leading 22-5. After half time Cooma looked to go on the attack further and with Cooma’s scrum dominating the oppositions, strong defence from Tom Laddams, Ryan Morgan, who pulled off a great try saving tackle on the opposition winger, and Eddie Thomas, who did everything right in his first grade debut, this strong defence repelled ADFA’s attack on numerous occasions.

Cooma scored again when Ben Neilson was able to crash over after Bates had been held up on the play before.

An unsuccessful conversion gave Cooma a 27-5 lead but after the try Cooma switched off and ADFA scored two converted tries to narrow the lead to 27- 19.

Cooma rallied and with Steven Boate barking instructions and good hard running from Pat Egan, Ben Kelly and Brock Robinson got into good field position. From this, Tommy Laddams was able to run straight through the middle of the field and crash over under the posts.

An easy conversion saw Cooma lead 34-19. Cooma finished off the afternoon with the try of the season thus far.

From a scrum five metres out from their own line the backs pulled off a move and Will Nicholls put Ryan Morgan in a hole.

At full pace, he found himself with only a winger and full back to beat and the winger falling for a dummy kick.

Zing just ran around the fullback and sprinted away and scored a length of the field try. He converted his own try and Cooma ran out winning 41-19.

Points in first grade: 1 point the front row of Brock Robinson, James Strange and Andrew Rolfe, 2 points Will Nicholls, 3 points and Player’s Player Ryan Morgan. Next week Cooma plays Hall at Hall in the last game before finals the following week.

Above: Will Nicholls gets a pass away on first grade.

Middle: Schouto powers through the defence.

Left: the reserves match featured strong running from the Red Devils.

Wednesday July 30, 2014

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Stallions U18s V Bulldogs The Under 18 Stallions travelled to Eden on Sunday to take on the third placed Merimbula Pambula Bulldogs in a game that could determine second place on the ladder with only two games to play prior to the semi finals.

The Stallions had put themselves under pressure early with an error in their own 20 metres. The Bulldogs made the most of the opportunity with their winger showing a clean pair of heels to outpace the Stallions defence and score to lead 6-0 after nine minutes.

Shortly after this the Stallions showed good structure in attack to get good field position.

This was wasted as a penalty against them gave the Bulldogs another opportunity to go on the attack. The Stallions showed good defence to hold out the Bulldogs on a number of occasions, close to their line.

With the Bulldogs getting the rub of the green in decisions, another went their way, with a try coming from a pass that was flat at best, to take a 12-0 lead.

Another decision went against Cooma with only two minutes remaining until half time with a Bulldogs knock on going unnoticed and from the ensuing set the Bulldogs scored a try to take their lead to 16-0 at half time.

The boys came out firing in the second half and dominated in their first attacking set and then forced a Bulldogs dropped ball, putting them immediately on the attack. A last tackle option from Austin Willis saw him dart from dummy half to score after seven minutes, and Aaron Pidcock’s conversion took the score to 16-6.

A short time later, in what could have been the turning point of the match, an unlucky Adam Rodwell was denied a try for the Stallions and was penalised on top of this. The Bulldogs were able to build on this momentum change and after another fortuitous penalty dived over for a try to lead 22-6.

The Stallions tried hard for the remainder of the half but couldn’t find a way through the Bulldogs defence. Damien Hayden slotted into halfback well in his first full game, and in the forwards Kieren Rodwell and Richard Bensley dominated and Brandon Williams in the second row put in a big effort. A dominant performance from Luke Ingram saw him awarded the Players Player for the second week in a row – well done.

Photos courtesy of Ashleigh Steinke

Top to bottom: Damien Hayden looks for the off load, Tyler Jones’ great run from dummy half, Aaron Pidcock finds the gap to make good yards and a great tackle by Josh Steinke and Aaron Pidcock

45 Anytime Fitness Aims to Raise $1000

for Adults Living With Cancer

Anytime Fitness Cooma has raised over $730 for the Canberra Hospital to improve the quality of life for adults living with cancer. Personal Trainer Sarah Atkinson and Owner Stacie Sims originally set out to raise $500, but have re-adjusted their goal after the generous support of Anytime Fitness Members. "Throughout July we are offering $0 Joining Fee, as long as a minimum $20 donation is made to our Dry July Anytime Fitness Cooma Team. We also have a donation tin available in the club and the response from members has been truly amazing. We have almost doubled our original goal of $500 and we hope to make it to $1000 before the end of July!" Said Stacie. Stacie and Sarah agree that this is a great cause to support and is in line with the clubs goal to help improve their members lives and wellbeing through active living. “We are truly passionate about helping people achieve their fitness goals by providing the facilities and services they need to feel something better.

Dry July supports people living with cancer by improving facilities available to them and their families and hopefully this results in them feeling something better. This is why we believe it is a great cause to support.”

Donations can be made by visiting the Dry July website and searching team name: Anytime Fitness Cooma. To join the club and start your new healthy life today call Club Manager Anne on 64521522 to take advantage of the $0 joining fee special before the end of July.

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Wednesday July 30, 2014

Tigers on top - a season of successes This weekend past saw the Tigers senior teams secure mixed results, with most sitting in favourable positions on the Capital Football ladder.

In premier league, the round review gave local lad Iain Elliott a great deal of praise, “Tuggeranong United 0 Cooma Tigers 3 (Goran Josifovski 8’, Jordan Lando 20’, Stephen Domenici 75’) Cooma Tigers remained top of the National Premier Leagues: Capital Football competition after a 3-0 win over Tuggeranong United at Kambah. The Tigers ultimately claimed a convincing victory, but it could have been a very different outcome had Tuggeranong taken the number of chances they created. Daniel Colbertaldo missed a first half penalty for the hosts whilst Sean Murphy, Muad Zwed and substitute Matt Menser, making his 150th Premier League appearance, passed up presentable opportunities. By contrast Cooma was deadly when they got in behind the United defence with Goran Josifovski getting the leaders off to the perfect start, slamming home his tenth goal of the season with an arrowed finished. And the Tigers were 2-0 up in twenty minutes after Jordan Lando swept home a first time half volley following a superb break down the right flank by the outstanding Iain Elliott. Tuggeranong then missed their penalty and were made to pay for their profligacy in front of goal as Cooma sealed the points fifteen minutes from time. A ball over the top allowed Stephen Domenici to get in on goal and, after he rounded Rowan Forbes Shepherd, he confidently drilled home his tenth of the campaign to seal another win and another step towards the title.”

The premier league under 20’s saw a disappointing slump in their recent good form, drawing 2-2 with Tuggeranong in what was a rather lack-luster performance by the boys, ending their eight straight winning streak.

The division three lads nabbed the three points against Belnorth on Saturday, slotting two goals past the opposition and only conceding one.

Division five see themselves at seventh place on the ladder after an unfortunate 3-1 loss to Belnorth at the weekend, their hopes for a spot in the final four slowly dwindling.

The Lady Tigers roared home against ADFA on Sunday, easily securing the three points with a comfortable 3-0 win, Tigress Marie Rampal representing Cooma neatly at the top of the goal-scoring ladder.

This weekend Nijong is set to shine black and gold, with many of the teams playing at home. Saturday will see division five baring their teeth against Gungahlin while Sunday the premier league teams will be roaring as they pounce on Woden Valley and the Lady Tigers are set to spar with Tuggeranong.

Club stalwart Nicki Tonini sat down with the coaches of the senior’s teams

to discover how their seasons were progressing: Nikki Tonini Tigers set to Roar!

As the season has just passed its half way point, the senior Cooma Tigers teams are paving the way for what could be one of Cooma’s most successful seasons in its long proud history. Momentum is starting to grow, teams are training well. Good results are being earned. Thank you to our loyal supporters who travel to our games, both home and away, as well as all our sponsors, players, managers, helpers and coaches. But we are only halfway through the competition and there is no silver in the cabinet yet. Good luck to all the teams as we move toward the business end of the season.

Presidents Report: Cooma Tigers Football Club prides itself as one of the oldest continuous football clubs in Australia. Founded in 1952; we are also one of the most culturally diverse clubs in our region, having players and coaches from 16 different cultural backgrounds. As a result of the success of our State League and National Premier League teams the club is implementing a development program for our juniors to give them the opportunity to participate and be part of the future Capital Football Junior League competitions and the National Premier League competition.

Premier League: Coach: Gabriel Wilk “After a slow start to the season, we have improved through hard training sessions and desire to win. More depth in the squad and all players consistently performing have gotten us to first position on the ladder. Although we are playing well and winning matches against top sides, there are still five games to go with finals to come. It is very important that we continue to prepare well and not let complacency interfere with our goal of coming first and winning the league. Everyone is looking at us as the team to beat so every game now is getting tougher to win.”

20’s Premier League: Coach: Eric Bonnett “After a long preseason with several successful friendly matches we should have been more than prepared for Round 1 but due to some tactical and personal issues we did not get off to a great start.

Our first win wasn’t until Round 3 and since then, Cooma 20’s have not looked back with seven wins from eight matches and conceding only seven goals. Despite our strong defensive efforts, scoring goals have been a problem considering the number of chances created. I’m very impressed with the players ability, attitude and commitment so far and we are more than capable of winning silverware this season.”

Under 18’s: Coach: Goran Noveski “So far it’s been a pretty good season with young players playing beyond their

years. All the players have been training hard and I am very happy with their commitment and desire to win. The boys love coming to Cooma and playing at Nijong with the passionate home supporters. If everyone keeps giving 100%, keeps training hard with no complacency, we should end up winning the competition.

It is due to a great club and crucial club members such as Harry Hovasapian, Mick Klima, Nick Tonini, Mike Toderoski and assistant coach Indon Jinoski for allowing the boys great training facilities to be able to improve and achieve the highest potential possible.”

Men’s State League 3: Coach: Mick Klima “It has been a pretty solid performance so far this season. We have a brand new squad and a good mix of young players and more experienced players. We have been very well organised at the back with the least amount of goals conceded in the league. We struggled a little bit earlier in the season due to playing a new system, but with time it has improved and players have adapted well. Everyone has been training very well with consistent numbers to training. We welcome back Cam Macintosh back after his serious injury.

Young players such as Brock Simpson and Hamish Toohey are starting to realise their full potential. We are playing in a very competitive competition and it is important to keep our run of form going into the finals.”

Men’s State League 5: Coach: Daniel Walker “Its been an up and down season for Division 5. Starting the season with only two draws out of the first six games it was not looking pretty. Major injuries to key players have not helped the situation.

To Cooma’s credit after a team meeting was held, Cooma have not looked back, sitting just outside the top four and very confident that if they play as a team, a semi final birth is on the cards. With a mixture of young talent coming through in the likes of a goalkeeper Alex Bruce and the experienced personnel in Captain Mark Burke and Vice Captain Dave D’Amico it should make for a very interesting final few games.”

Ladies State League 2: Coach: Gerard Rampal “Great start to the season. We have come a long way seeing most players haven’t played together and are new to the team - some being first time soccer players. With that in mind its been pretty successful season seeing as we are sitting in first place with finals in contention.

Camilla McDonald and Caitie Devereux are our new players and have really improved.

All players are playing to a high standard and that is due to everyone training well, keeping fit and having a high commitment to the team. If we continue our form and keep our discipline we should be in a good position to win the competition.”

Seras cyclers attend training day

The South East Regional Academy of Sport (SERAS) recently held its third training day for the 2014 Cycling Program in Canberra.

Athletes participated in physiological testing conducted by the academy’s athlete performance specialist Courtney Porter, with the assistance of SERAS student interns Scott Reaper and Michelle Moore from the University of Canberra. Athletes undertook ergometer testing at CIT Bruce’s physiological testing laboratory, as well as several functional movement screenings relevant to their sport.

This was an invaluable experience for the athletes, exposing them to testing protocols similar to that of elite athletes. Data obtained from testing will provide individualised feedback, such as training zones and a base measure in which to assess their progress over the coming months. Athletes were also prescribed their eight-week strength and conditioning programs to assist with their physical development and enhancing their

basic movement patterns throughout their sport.

Following testing, SERAS head coach Graeme Northey delivered a road coaching session at Stromlo Forest Park.

This session enabled the athletes to train as a squad and learn bunch riding techniques. Cycling NSW state development coach Tom Dawson was also present at both the testing and coaching sessions to offer advice and assistance to the athletes.

Squad members in the SERAS Cycling Program for 2014 include: Tasmin Davies (Crookwell); James Toparis (Goulburn); and Tom Toparis (Goulburn).

SERAS congratulates Jordan Louis (Cooma) who has recently been offered a scholarship with the ACT Academy of Sport (ACTAS).

Pictured above, SERAS Scholarship holders Jordan Louis (recent 2014 holder), James Toparis, Tom Toparis and Tasmin Davies; SERAS Head Coach Graeme Northey; and SERAS Student Interns Michelle Moore and Scott Reaper.

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Ambrose Championship Sixth in world, PB for Josh decided Cooma Golf report by Garry Atkinson

The highlight of golf over the past week was the Ambrose Championships taken out by Peter Smith and Col Langdon in lovely winter conditions.

Mind you they won by half a stroke so it really was a close competition.

To recap the weekend.

A field of 23 players contested an individual stroke on Saturday. Our winner was Norm Marshall with a 69 nett from Matthew Moxon with 72 nett (on a countback from Brian Searl).

Ball winners went down to Tony Clibborn with a 77 nett. Nearest the pin prizes were taken out by the very accurate Wayne Ryan on the fourth hole and Gerard Day on the 17th.

On Sunday golfers played in the two-man Ambrose Championship for 2014 with Peter Smith and Col Langdon taking out the event with 64 from Sam Patricks and Norm Marshall with 64.5 and then Martin Gelling and Brian Searl with 67.

Nearest the pin on the ninth went

to Norm Marshall and Gary Batten won the 17th.

On Wednesday 24 players contested the men’s single stableford. There were some very low scores with Tony Slater winning the day scoring 39 stableford points from Geoff Bohringer with 36 points. Ball winners went to 32 points.

Nearest the pin on the 17th went to Gary Batten (who must love that hole) who hit a beauty to easily win the ball prize.

Next week sees August monthly medal (stroke event and great barbecue) to be played with an individual Stableford on Wednesday and Sunday.

All golfers should remember that the draw is up on the notice board for the matchplay knockout.

The finals are on November 30, but each knockout match prior to that needs to be completed within one month of the previous match.

Also a reminder about the Fireman’s Shield Legacy Charity Day in a fortnight’s time.

See you on the greens.

Cooma swimmer Josh Alford made it to the finals of the Mens S14 200m final at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.

He competed in the first heat of the event, which was won by eventual winner Daniel Fox in a world record time of 1.57.16.

Josh placed sixth, in a time of 2.03.99.

In the final, which was won by Daniel Fox, Josh again placed sixth, but improved his time to 2.03.43.

Josh is now trained in Canberra, but spent many hours in training at Cooma pool.

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Cooma Bocce Club hosted the Tonini cup earlier than usual this year for the purpose of assisting Daniel Pevere in raising funds to travel to Monaco and Cherici in Italy to represent Australia in this year’s World junior Bocce Champion ships.

The Tonini Cup has been sponsored by the club’s most passionate and generous club member, Beppi Tonini.

This competition was established for the purpose of combining all levels of bocce playing abilities into mixed teams, from the most experienced to beginners, young and old. Teams are simply made up from names drawn from the hat at random. Winners and placegetters receive gifts donated by the Tonini family.

Third and second place was decided on points for and against due to both teams having won two games and lost two games.

Third place getters in this year’s competition was the team of Maureen D’Amico, Micheal Schenker and David Pevere, who by a mere seven points missed out on second. Runners up were Magherita Zasso, Daniel Pevere and Beppi Tonini, On paper this team looked favourite to take out the comp. Winners on the day were Maria Roncelli, Antonino Germun and Loris Stefani. Although they were the most consistent on the day it wasn’t without some luck in their third game which saw them scrape through by two points and aided by a bad tactical error by the opposing team.

Then a drop of the guard in the last game saw them suffer a convincing defeat. None the less they had done the business on the day and came out triumphant, Congratulations!

As usual a tremendous meal was cooked up by Beppi and

helpers and a feast was had by players and guests. Daniel thanked everyone for attending and supporting his efforts and wished them all the best for the day.

Many thanks go to Beppi and the Committee for a great day and to all who attended.

Members and guests are reminded that on August 10, a social competition day will be held at Queanbeyan in aid to raise more funds for Daniel’s journey. If interested in attending, please contact David on 0428911095 to arrange travel.

Also, on August 17, a Spaghetti Lunch will be held for all to attend also to Raise funds to help Daniel and Eileen on their way. Come for lunch, have a game, socialise and have fun.

Pictured, winners of the Tonini Cup, Maria Roncelli, Antonino Germun and Loris Stefani.

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