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Hospital awarded a ‘clean bill of health’ PRESIDENT-elect of the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association (A.M.A.) Dr Shaun Rudd gave the Cooktown Multi-Purpose Health Service a “clean bill of health” on Tuesday morning.

Dr Rudd arrived at the Cooktown airport on Monday night to begin a factfinding tour of the Cooktown, Hope Vale and Wujal Wujal hospitals.

Starting with Cooktown, Dr Rudd said the locals were very lucky to have their facility.

“The hospital here is both well-staffed and wellequipped,” he said.

“Most importantly though is that in Dr ‘Tash Coventry, the hospital has good clinical leadership, which recognises and administers to all aspects of the running of an organisation like this.

“She has a great team right across the board and leads them extremely well.”

Expecting to start his term as President in mid-June, Dr Rudd said he was grateful for being able to conduct his tour “now”.

“It’s great being able to

Dr Shaun Rudd, President-elect of the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Assocation (second from right) is seen here with local staff members (from left) Dr Alistair Frame, Acting Director of Nursing Rebecca Buldo and Hospital Superintendent Dr ‘Tash Coventry. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON.

do this now and not in six months’ time,” he said.

“I’ll be able to hit the ground running, which will help me be able to better assist our A.M.A. Members.”

He did clarify the role of the A.M.A. as being the usually-perceived role as representing doctors and health workers.

“Our advocacy not only

includes doctors and health workers,” he said.

“But we’re also conscious of the needs of patients too.

“We represent everyone involved in the hospital system.”

Dr Rudd’s visit at the hospital included a morning team meeting, which included Cook Shire Mayor Peter Scott and volunteer community leaders.

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“Cooktown’s a great little community and they deserve the team they have here,” he said.

His first stop after Cooktown was Hope Vale.

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WEEKLY

2nd & 4th Tuesday, every month. Trivia Night at the Cooktown RSL Memorial Club, 7pm. Info call 4069 5780.

Every Thursday. Bingo, 10am, and Social Darts, 7pm, at the Bowls Club.

Every Friday. Monster Meat Raffles in the Caf Bar, @ The Sovereign, from 6pm.

Every Friday. Members Draw, from 6.30pm; Raffles and Lucky Pokies Seat, 8-8.30pm, at the Bowls Club.

Every Friday. Members Draw (7.30-8.30pm) @ the Cooktown RSL Memorial Club plus raffles.

Every Saturday. Lions Club raffles and members' draw at the Top Pub, from 12 noon to 3pm.

Every Sunday. Social Bowls, from 8.30am, Bowls Club.

Every Monday. Hospitality Bowls, from 2.30pm, Bowls Club.

Every Sunday and Tuesday. Cooktown Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in the CWA Hall in Charlotte Street.

Sunday: from 1.30pm, Tuesday from 8pm. Call 0477 505 047 for details.

Every Tuesday. Cards and Games morning, 10am, Bowls Club.

Every Tuesday and Thursday. Swim 4 Your Life over 55s aqua aerobics - Cooktown Pool - 11.30am to 12.30pm.

Every Wednesday. Social Bowls, from 1pm, at the Bowls Club.

Every Wednesday and Saturday. Cooktown Pool - Aqua Aerobics: Wednesday from 5.30pm to 6.30pm, Saturday 12 noon to 1pm.

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Thu 15. Marlin Coast Veterinary Surgery visiting at the CWA rooms. Phone 4069 5337 or 4057 6033 for appointments.

Sat - Sun, 17 - 18. Vietnam & Veterans Motorcycle Club, FNQ Chapter (V&VMC FNQ Chapter) "Operation Cooktown" overnight ride. V&VMC FNQ Chapter email point of contact: VMC.FNQ.Sec@gmail.com .

Sat 17. Rossville Rural Fire Brigade - public meeting regarding local fire levy. All ratepayers in the Rossville/ Helenvale welcome to attend and have their say. Starts at 10am in the Rossville Community Hall.

Sun 18. Sunday Session: Pete & Merve live, from 1pm in the Caf Bar @ The Sovereign Mon 19 and Tue 20. Michael Chu Optometrist visiting Cooktown. Phone 4031 2788.

Tue - Wed, 20 - 21. Ordinary Meeting of Cook Shire Council, from 9am @ Council's administration building. Ph 4069 5444.

Sat - Sun, 24 & 25. Shirley Lynn, soloist, performing live at the Cooktown Bowls Club.

Sun 25. Beach Clean-up Day - North Shore, Archer Point, Walker Bay and Elim Beach. Phone 0488 581 032.

Sun 25. Rossville & District Citizen's Assoc Inc AGM, Rossville Hall, 2pm.

Sun 25 - Mon 26. Community Cabinet - public meetings @ PCYC Cooktown Events Centre. Ph 4069 5444.

Mon 26. National Sorry Day. Tue 27 - Tue 3. National Reconciliation Week.

CHURCH SERVICES Baptist: Hogg Street, near IGA, 9.30am Sun. Phone 4069 5155.

Cooktown Community Church (AOG/ACC): Gungarde Hall, 9.30am Sun; Home Group 7.30am Wed. Phone 4069 5070, 0427 756 793.

Catholic: 6pm Sat and 8.30am Sun, St Mary's, Cooktown. Phone 4069 5730.

Anglican: Christ Church Chapel, Sun 8.30am. Phone 4069 6778, 0428 696 493.

Lutheran: Hope Vale at 9am on Sunday, Cooktown.

Phone either 4060 9197 or 0419 023 114.

 letters to the editor Post-Ita emotional effects starting to appear WE would like to acknowledge the incredible efforts of the Cook Shire Council crew who cleared, within days, the two kilometres of mangled forest that was our driveway in the aftermath of cyclone Ita. Sincere thanks to A.P. Mal, Jaxon, John and Brownie and to the entire clean-up crew who have done such an amazing job in the area.

While roads and essential services have been restored to most of us, and insurance and government assistance will help to repair damaged homes and infrastructure and to compensate for lost crops, some aspects of the damage are not so noticeable and do not receive media coverage.

Things such as the emotional effects of emerging post-Ita into an altered and unfamiliar landscape, of the loss of lovingly cared-for gardens and irreplaceable old trees that provided food and shade, and the loss of access to bush tracks and recreational areas. And so the cleanup continues.

The Mitchell-Croft family Auravale, Bloomfield.

More thanks to clean-up crews WE would just like to say thanks to the team of guys who helped clean our block of fallen trees.

With Jim working away, it was going to be a long long exercise to do it ourselves, but, thanks to Eric and his boys and the council guys, the bulk of it is done. Many thanks guys, much appreciated.

Alice and Jim Hudson Cooktown.

Residents respond to CEO’S letter MR Wilton, CEO of Cook Shire Council is trying to slurry our reputation, so I would like to respond to his vindictive letter in the Cooktown paper in regards to our Helen Street property, badly damaged in Cyclone Ita. With myself and around 103 Cooktown residents who are disillusioned with council and in particular Mr Wilton, and who have taken a number of issues up with the Ombudsman in asking for a no confidence vote in the council, it was no surprise to see the malicious letter from Mr Wilton attacking myself

Where we go: Approx 1400 copies distributed every Thursday throughout Cooktown, Hope Vale, Rossville, Wujal Wujal, Bloomfield, Ayton, Marton, Port Douglas, Mossman, Cairns, Lakeland Downs/Laura, Mt Carbine/Mt Molloy, Mareeba and Coen, and subscribers across Australia and overseas.

own timber and run the sawmill. These boys are the backbone of Cooktown. The boys could see we needed help, and without asking and in no time at all, they had the roof secured with the tarp to save what little was left after the cyclone.

Maurie, Heather, Lloyd, Preston, Laura, Josh, Peter and their extended family, these were the people who helped, not any government department.

I will be sending a letter to Campbell Newman. I am not out to undermine anyone, I am just stating facts. With the hundreds of government department people attending the Cooktown cyclone, we got no help.

And especially no help from Cooktown council. Mr Wilton shouldn’t comment, or get a better source of information, before putting pencil to paper.

As it was stated in the Cooktown paper, free dumping would be from Monday to Thursday and after that you had to pay to dump. With our roof in the driveway and all the beds needing dumping, it was a hard day for all involved.

The people of Cooktown should have been better treated and free dumping should have been offered for a month, as most people don’t have the means to get the rubbish to the dump.

With people in their late 60s, this is the time when you are closer to a heart attack. Cooktown council has its eyes closed to the needs of the rate payers of Cooktown.

With a large roof to cut up and all our trees to be removed from the driveway, the sawmill boys battled through hot days ‘til the work was done. They know they were well appreciated; our doors will never be closed to these people.

As for the head CEO Stephen Wilton, this vindictive letter about us only reads to those people that have already dealt with him that our opinion of his conduct still stands.

To the many wonderful people of Cooktown who have been phoning to make sure we were all right, they are now a big family, and as they know, the tea pot is always on.

A special thank you to Russell Boshammer, who, knowing we would need plans to present to council for our re-build, came forward and offered us his services to fast forward our plans and put a roof over our heads.

My father, a hard Irish man always said, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”.

We will be ready for the next cyclone.

Paddy and John Stopyra.

Cooktown.

Rumours are noxious weeds

By GARY HUTCHISON IT’S been my life’s experience that small communities are incorrectly targeted as the worst for the spread of vicious lies and rumours.

Having now lived in a variety of different-sized cities, towns and communities, I know full well that the noxious weeds that are rumours can sprout up anywhere.

Regardless of where rumour mongering starts though, the impact it has on its victims is no less devastating or soul shat-

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and my husband – with in our opinion, his facts all wrong after a long lunch.

Firstly - we were never in the Local Disaster Coordination Centre. We were well aware it was closing at 12 noon and wouldn’t be opened to anyone after that time.

Mr Wilton or in fact, no one could have seen us there. It must have been a figment of Mr Wilton’s imagination. Or he needs to check his source of information.

The Courier Mail set up camp at our Helen Street house as we were one of the worst hit, and was surprised that after two days, no department came to help.

We were eventually supplied with a tarp to cover the bed. (That was the best that they could do at the time.) With the roof completely gone it was a bit of a joke. With the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent with the coverage of this cyclone, the money would have been better spent on the homeless people of Cooktown.

The girls from Community Services have been well thanked.

The greatest help came from friends Maurie and Heather Killen who gave us shelter - Maurie and Heather from Victoria.

Maurie has given his time to set up the old sawmill to train the Aboriginal boys to fell their

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tering – especially if a rumour is built on nothing but malicious lies intended on destroying the good name and reputation of someone undeserving of such vitriol.

As a social networking tool, Facebook can indeed accept blame for this sort of thing, with rumours starting from nothing, going viral and spreading around the world.

However, I often find uplifting quotes from this site, so I thought I would share this in regards to how to deal with rumours:

carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.

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You could be saving your own children’s lives Story and photo by GARY HUTCHISON GREG and Jana Whittaker watched helplessly over a 20-year-period, as their “beautiful, loving boy” changed into a rage-filled monster, imbued with inhuman strength, issuing forth with animalistic noises like nothing else they had ever heard before – so don’t tell them that recreational marijuana use is ‘cool’.

Now, with their son Marcus (Mark) being sentenced to a five-anda-half-year jail term in the Cairns Supreme Court last week, the couple are begging parents to either seek immediate help or report their children to the police if they in any way suspect they are involved with drugs.

They say that the psychotic attack on them and his former de facto wife in November, 2012, which resulted in his latest incarceration, was the result of locally-supplied marijuana that had been “laced” with some other chemical drugs.

And they are deeplyconcerned that society’s relaxation in its attitude towards using recreational drugs has seen parents openly using them in front of their children, along with condoning and supporting their involvement in the “scene”.

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They said his references applied to the actions of a “trusted family friend” of which they were totally unaware.

“It was later that we found out, we had no idea whatsoever at the time,” Jana said.

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“Throughout his whole life, we’ve loved and supported Marcus the whole time, even through his drug addiction.”

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Remembering that fateful horror night, Greg recounted the inhuman strength with which Mark was empowered.

After 20 years of hell with their own son, Jana and Greg Whittaker are warning parents that recreational marijuana use will lead to stronger drugs and are advising them to take immediate action as soon as they suspect their children might be involved with drugs of any description.

“I get parents coming to me every week for advice about their children using drugs, some as young as 12 and 13,” Jana said.

“Locals here have seen what we, as a family, have gone through with Mark, that’s why they come to us.

“But don’t think anyone can trust any drug dealer, let alone the local suppliers, because after our last episode with Mark had settled, he told us the ‘grass’ he had bought from a so-called trusted source had been ‘laced’.”

Last week, the court heard that the 37-yearold Whittaker was suffering a substance-induced

psychosis at the time of the attack, coupled with a personality disorder and elements of paranoia.

The court heard Whittaker had become enraged when his former de facto refused to tell him where his cannabis was.

As a result, he stabbed her multiple times with an arrow, before she ran to Greg and Jana’s car upon their arrival to stop the attacks. When they drove away, Marcus got into another car, chasing after the trio and ramming their vehicle forcing it to plough into an embankment.

The court heard that Whittaker then took two knives and began stab-

bing at Greg through an open, passenger-side window.

Greg drove to a nearby neighbour’s house with Marcus in pursuit where Greg, after warning his son to stop, was forced to shoot him in the shoulder with a rifle the neighbour had supplied.

In an ABC account of the case, it was reported that Justice Jim Henry, in sentencing Whittaker, took into account that he had suffered a ‘disturbed’ childhood.

Hearing of the judge’s comments, Greg and Jana have become concerned locals have misconstrued to what he was alluding.

“With his bare hands he ripped the door skin away from the window down,” he said.

“And how do you do that to a 4WD?” Jana remarked.

They said they first became aware of Mark’s involvement with drugs when they were living in Mareeba and he was 17.

At the age of 18, he was admitted to the mental health unit of the Cairns Base hospital, where he was first diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, a condition his parents believe had been triggered by his drug use.

And from then, he plummeted into a “brainfried” oblivion, dragging with him all who loved and supported him.

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Teila’s entry could almost be mistaken for an oil painting with it featuring the inclusion of delicate, pastel colouring in the sky.

Her photo is indeed aptly named.

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amines. He had everything going for him, but he turned into a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

“There has been at least one violent outburst every year.

“The doctor said his brain had been ‘fried’.”

In what they described as a tragic life so far, Greg and Jana said Mark had destroyed four relationships and had lost three children totally to former fiancees who had escaped him, along with losing custody of another two children, to whom the courts have awarded full custody to his parents.

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“They hung him out to dry.

“His first jail term was for 12 months.

“He hit a Mareeba drug dealer in the head with the back of an axe and put him into a coma for that.”

Siege situations requiring the attendance of police Special Emergency Response Teams (the equivalent of S.W.A.T.) have been included in recent years.

Greg said that prior to Mark’s most-recent court appearance, he had received two, 12-month jail terms, but that time in prison was not long enough.

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They are hopeful his extended term of imprisonment would see him receive the treatment he needed so badly, and that it would be long enough for him to be completely free of the scourge that

 Before last week, he had served 260 days in custody, but the system says he wouldn’t get help until he was sentenced.

He could have been getting it all during that time.

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had caused so much destruction and devastation to his own life as well as so many others.

However, they were critical of a system which prevented Mark receiving treatment while he was in custody awaiting trial.

In fact, so frightened were they after the last incident, they truly believed they would have to leave the country to be safe.

Even now, they are still not convinced that that will not be their ultimate course of action.

“Before last week, he had served 260 days in custody, but the system says he wouldn’t get help until he was sentenced,” Greg said.

“Up until now, our doors have always been open to him, loving him and trying to support him in every way possible,” Jana said.

“He could have been getting it all during that time.”

“But we’re a close family, and I think before we take him back, we will need to see him out on his own for at least 18 months – completely ‘straight’, free of drug and alcohol addiction – before we would even consider it.

But will they accept him into the family fold upon his release?

After hearing what they have survived and endured and heard the chilling words, “I’m going to kill you” on more than one occasion, Greg and Jana were very guarded in their response.

“In following their addiction, they are totally selfish, not caring at all about anyone else.”

Jana said Mark’s sen-

tence had given them “some” closure, and said without the tremendous support of different local agencies and friends they would not have had that closure.

“During these years, the Cooktown Police have been awesome, and especially recently, Senior Sergeant John McArthur and Detective Jett Stapleton,” she said.

“All the police have been very professional.

“Then there’s the hospital staff and ‘ambos’ and especially Dr ‘Tash Coventry and Jill and Donna from the Cooktown Mental Health unit.

“The staff of the Cooktown District Community Centre and Gungarde have been great.

“And the support we’ve received from the Endeavour Christian College has been awesome also.”

Any last comments on stopping children becoming involved with recreational drugs?

“Nip it in the bud and nip it in the bud now,” Jana growled.

“You’ll never convince us that it doesn’t lead to ‘bigger’ things and a life of hell that we’ve suffered.

“Report anyone you believe is dealing in drugs.

“You could be saving your own children’s lives.”

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SHOW DOWN WITH THE

PCYC Cooktown Big variety of classes to enter in show THIS week’s Show Down column will look at another popular section with a variety of classes – Craft.

of the most spectacular to view on show day.

This section is being generously sponsored by the Cooktown Post Office.

Classes in the Craft section are divided into Open and Junior (15 years and under). Each group offers great scope for all your creative talents! Whether needle work is your strong point, or you love to work with clay, wood or paper, there’s something in the Craft section for you to showcase your talents.

There are 18 classes in the Open section. Crochet is divided into two separate classes – fine work or doily, and any other item. Knitting, needlework (such as cross-stitch), patchwork and quilting, and any article of home dressmaking all have their own classes.

Head-wear, such as hats and hair accessories, can be represented by any medium.

The Craft section also has a class for doll and toy making – a craft once practised as

Mrs Jensen’s crochet pattern book and a sample of her work, on display at the James Cook Museum. Mrs Jensen lived on Maryvale Station on the Endeavour River in the early 1900s, and grew and spun all her own cotton for her needlework. Photo courtesy of the James Cook Museum. the only way to provide your children with toys! Additional classes in the open section are mosaics, woodwork, pottery, lead lighting, jewellery, beadwork (except jewellery), card making, a scrapbook page, any other paper craft and any other craft item.

The Junior section consists of four classes – any fabric or sewing article, jewellery, any paper craft, and any other craft item. These last two categories allow free reign to your creative talents! With so many varied classes in the craft category, this section could be one

The Show Committee would still like to encourage stall holders to register for a place at the show. Stall Holder Registration Forms can be downloaded from: http:// pcyc.org.au/Clubs/Cooktown/ News-Events/2014Show.aspx Indoor and outdoor locations of various sizes and prices are available. Competition schedules can be collected from the PCYC Cooktown Events Centre or downloaded from: www. pcyc.org.au/clubs/cooktown/ news-events/2014-show Copies will be making their way to outlying regions in the coming weeks for collection at central locations.

Next week’s Show Down column will look at the ever popular Children’s Art section. Once again we would like to say a big thank you to the Cooktown Local News for sponsoring this column, and the Cooktown Post Office for their generous support of the Craft section.

Council helping residents repair and rebuild after Cyclone Ita COOK Shire Council is assisting locals to rebuild and repair after Cyclone Ita by charging a flat fee for re-roofing permit applications, offering advice on repairs and removing bagged asbestos.

“If your property was damaged as a result of Cyclone Ita and repairs require structural members being replaced, such as roof battens, rafters and the like, the work will more than likely require building approval,” Cook Shire Council Chief Executive Officer Stephen Wilton said.

“This will ensure the repair works are carried out properly and that they are inspected by a building certifier prior to cladding or sheeting being re-installed.

“We understand that repairs can take time and we’re willing to assist and give advice where possible.”

For building approval application advice, contact Council’s Building Services team on 4069 5444 or mail@cook.qld. gov.au and for technical

advice on structural repairs contact Council’s consultant Building Certifier Clayton Baker on 0448 377 172.

Council will charge a flat rate of $170 per application for re-roofing a dwelling, rather than the usual $4.55 per square metre, and council will also assist residents by collecting and disposing of less than 10 square metres (bagged only) of asbestos-containing material.

“During the clean-up you may come across materials that contain asbestos fibres in the form of bonded asbestos,” Mr Wilton said.

“Take precautions when handling suspected asbestos containing material and wear appropriate personal protective equipment.”

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by ERIC GEORGE I RECENTLY sat down with Jude Hayley at her camp site and resort in Ayton.

It is a beautiful spot, rich and green, and has not suffered too much from Cyclone Ita. We sat in her office next to swimming pool and I started by asking her if

she is a North Queensland girl.

“I am. I was born in Bundaberg. I grew up in a family of five children. My parents had a motel when I was small, so I suppose hospitality and tourism was always there. They had a restaurant also and when I was about 13, I started to wait at the tables.

“My Dad was a carpenter, and he put all my brothers through apprenticeships as carpenters. I only went to school until Year 11. In those days, if you were offered a job in Bundaberg, you took it and I went to work as a secretary in real estate. I didn’t really want to go to university, and I have

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“Everything is different today and anyone who is employing looks for a Year 12 ticket. But in saying that, experience counts. If you are offered a job and you are not planning on going to university, I would say, take it. I know when I have employed people, I prefer experience to a Year 12 certificate. But it depends on what line of work you want to get into, I suppose.”

When did Jude get back into hospitality? “I worked in offices quite a bit. I did some modelling...”

Modelling?

That sounds very glamorous for North Queensland, so I asked her to tell me more. “Well, I mainly worked for a store called Wiper Brothers, and they used to have an article in the paper every week with their new clothes in stock. I worked for individual clothes stores for bikinis, I did a lot of catwalk work. That was when I was 17 or 18.

“And I went into a few surf girl contests, got a third one year, it was just a fun part of life.”

Is modelling a career Jude would recommend?

“No. My youngest daughter was thinking of going into modelling, but I turned her around a bit.

She’s a fashion designer now. It’s not a nice profession to be in – a lot of catty girls, and scraps behind the scenes.”

So what did Jude do after her modelling? “I was married at 23, to my first husband, and we had a tyre shop on the Gold Coast. I did all the office work. I had three children and we stayed quite a long time. Then

Jude Hayley and her husband Paul run a camp ground and resort near Ayton. we decided to have a seachange and went to Mackay. We built a boat and put it to work snorkelling. We had quite a good business, except for the weather, but the marriage broke down.”

Jude went to work in a chiropractor’s, and then a sunglass shop, where she met Paul, her future husband. They moved to Airlie Beach and opened up another sunglass store.

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“When we took over, there was a little cottage where we used to live, the restaurant and three cabins. That was all. When we first took over it was wet season and I think it rained for two months. We didn’t see a soul. We thought, oh no, what have we got ourselves into? But it got progressively drier of course. It was basically a camping ground then.

“We brought this house in, in two pieces, from Townsville, so now we rent the cottage out as a self-contained twobedroom unit. We put in

three safari tents, which people seem to like.

“Initially, we kept the restaurant open all the time, but my parents have been ill and I have been going back and forth, so we decided to close the restaurant. Except, since last October we have had the bridge workers staying here, so the restaurant is open all the time.”

Does Jude get a lot of her business from visiting contractors? “We do. We get a lot of contractors, and we also get Melbourne University.

They came for the first time about five years ago

and stayed two nights.

They have come every year since. There’s usually about 30 of them, and they now stay five nights.

They come to study the local plants, I think it’s part of the science program. We feed them breakfast and dinner, and they go off to Cooktown one day and Cape Tribulation another. They’ll spend a day down the back of our property, because we have some endangered species there.

“We get a few schools in, a lot of government workers, if they don’t mind sharing we can accommodate about 30. It’s not a very big park. You would probably class Hayley’s as a life-style business.

“We’re seeing a lot more caravans. Before it was more off-road campers, but since the road from Cooktown to Rossville has been bitumenised, and I think by the end of the year it will be all the way to Bloomfield, I think we will see a lot more caravans.

“We’ve got a very laidback camping ground.

We don’t have any cement slabs or regimented areas for people to camp in. That’s how we like the park, and we get a lot of return visitors because the park is that way.”

Finally, I asked Jude to imagine someone had made her Queen for the day, and she had the chance to do something for the Ayton-Bloomfield area; what would she choose? She laughed and said, “I don’t really know... It’s a hard question.” She thought some more and settled on an annual picnic. “Yes, an annual picnic in the park.

In our park. I’d be happy with that.”

DNA could help solve RSL break in POLICE investigating last Tuesday morning’s break and enter of the Cooktown RSL Memorial Club, are hoping items from the scene will reveal vital DNA evidence that will assist them in solving the case.

However, assistance is still being sought from any member of the public who may

POLICE BEAT have seen any person(s) or vehicle acting suspiciously in Adelaide Street between 4am and 5.30am.

It is believed the rear door of the premises was jemmied open at about 4.40am, after which the person(s)

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Anyone who can assist with information about the break and enter of the RSL can either contact Cooktown station on 4069 5688 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

NEWS

One door closes, another opens

By GARY HUTCHISON

of the PCYC’s licence for 12 months offered them the opportunity of transferring their licence to another body if one became available.

IF ever the cliché, “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” had a more appropriate application, surely that was the situation with the recent suspension of the PCYC Cooktown Events Centre After School Care Program.

And it was the PCYC’s situation and predicament in which working parents had found themselves that prompted CDCC Manager Kaz Price to set the machinations in progress in an attempt to fill the void.

However, the use of another cliché, “one door closes, another opens” is also appropriate with the more recent plans of the Cooktown District Community Centre to run its own program to provide a muchneeded service for working parents.

PCYC Cooktown Manager Sergeant Howard Pratt said more and more statutory regulations being applied to such programs and the facilities in which they are conducted had placed them in the invidious situation in which they had found themselves.

And he said more stringent supervision from the statutory bodies that oversee those regulations had virtually given them no choice in the decision making process.

Sgt Pratt said that while the events centre was a multipurpose facility, it was neither designed as, nor meant to function as a child care centre.

Speaking with the Cooktown Local News last week, Ms Price said the CDCC was only waiting on three things, after which she hoped to be able announce when the resumption of the program could start.

PCYC Cooktown Manager Sergeant Howard Pratt.

Photo: GARY HUTCHISON. “Essentially, once PCYC took over, we recognised there was a desperate need within the community for this sort of program,” he said.

“And in good faith and because we could at the time, we offered the service we have provided.

“But to continue now as we are, we could end up losing the licence completely, which we don’t want to do.”

He said that the facilities and services as well as staff-

ing qualifications that must be offered varied with the ages of the children in care.

“Much more was required of us if we had wanted to cater for school-aged children, which basically was not a financially viable option for us,” he said.

“Getting and keeping suitably qualified staff was another issue.”

While he recognised the need for a program was still as desperate as it was when they first offered it, suspension

“We’re just waiting on an answer to the application for the licence, certification as to the suitability of our building and Supervisor Certificates for three CDCC staff members,” she said.

“They’re all still pending, but if everything goes to plan, we’re looking at around the end of June before we can start it all.”

Ms Price said the service offered by the CDCC would be similar to that of the PCYC’s.

“The After School Program fits very well with our other CDCC programs,” she said.

View

from the Hill

Back to normal SO, it’s over for the year.

All the rain and cyclones have gone back to where they came from and we can get back to a normal life. In Cooktown, that means the breeze is here again, and the air feels good. As long as you remember to put something heavy on top of every piece of paper (something Cooktowners do as a reflex), we get along just fine.

Of course, there is a down side. Those Cooktown men with working wives will no longer be down at the boat ramp at the crack of dawn, pushing their boats out to go fishing. Well, that is the way God ordained it. For eight months of the year, you may as well forget about your boat. Perhaps I could prevail on you to work in the garden instead? Or fix all those things around the house that have needed fixing since last year? The dry months are great for painting, and the old place could do with freshening up.

Perhaps you could get a candle-lit dinner on the table, ready for when the wife gets home from work? (As a hint, defrosted pizza in front of the

telly does not count... She deserves more.)

The thing about the dry season is that it is just so nice to be out and about.

The still, sweaty days before Christmas are a faded memory. Now we can be smug when the tourists get worn to a frazzle by the trade winds. “How can you live up here?” they wail. “This wind – it’s terrible – doesn’t it ever stop?” No, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

So what are you going to do this dry season? I hope, for your sake, you are not one of the people who have to slave 23 hours a day to keep our tourists well-fed and happy. Or have had to go into rehab and counselling like most of the shire. (They have had to go for therapy after suffering terribly after the cyclone. The pressure of absolutely everyone saying what a good job they did and how completely wonderful they are, has left them twitching. Admiration like that can be hard to take if you are not used to it.)

The View from the Hill is written by a Cooktown resident who submits the column to the newspaper and who receives no payment. No editorial direction is ever given to the author.

Accordingly, the (often provocative) opinions contained in the column are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of the Cooktown Local News or its publisher.

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The comforts of the Racecourse Hotel History Researched by M. SCULLY THE Historical Society was recently given a copy of an article published in the Cooktown Independent newspaper, which extolled the comforts of the Racecourse Hotel.

As copies of this paper are quite scarce, I thought that I’d pass this story on to our readers. The paper was established on June 6, 1884 and continued publishing until 1908. Its chief editor and manager was a James Fowler.

The Racecourse Hotel was owned and operated by John Savage and his family, and was situated on the left hand corner (going out of town) at the intersection of Racecourse Road and Endeavour Valley Road. Of course, it was known then as the Palmer Road. The hotel was originally named the Packhorse Hotel, the Carrier’s Arms and finally in 1889, the Racecourse Hotel. John Savage, a former mayor of Cooktown, passed away unexpectedly at the hotel, on October 5, 1890, aged

only 53. His wife Elizabeth took on the role as publican until moving to the West Coast Hotel in 1893. The property, however, remained in the family, with the Savage children Letitia, William and James being shown in the council rates as the owners of the hotel, while employing different personages as the licensee. One such person, Alfred Patrick, brought a touch of notoriety to the hotel by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. This happened after a week of solid imbibing of his wares.

From 1903 to 1906, a Mrs Dyer was the publican while the property was still owned by the Savage children. The 1912 Council Rates Register shows the property had been sold to J. R. Thompson of Ebagoolah, south of Coen; by 1915 it appears to have lost its licence and its tenure is shown as “buildings” and occupied by a Charles Goodall. Roll on the years to 1933 and the property description is now “vacant land” on the Palmer Road. Unfortunately, the historical society doesn’t have a photograph of the hotel. The following description will have to suffice.

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“The Racecourse Hotel: from the Cooktown Independent, August 28, 1889. By our special correspondent.

The historic Carrier’s Arms Hotel, Two Mile, has been improved into the Racecourse Hotel and I can forgive the abolition of an ancient name and land mark, when it gives place to a building which Mr Savage has managed to make his suburban hotel quite equal to any in town with the advantage of far superior views from the spacious balconies. From the northern balustrade can be seen the harbour and the Seaview Hotel peering through the trees to the left, while on the right side there is a world of ‘Nature’s green effulgence’ right up to the base of Mount Cook and its baby mounts, which all seem near enough to grasp.

From the front, the racecourse and grandstand are so close and clear that every phase of a race can be noted on the balcony while enjoying cigars and coffee, and from the south there can be seen the football and cricket contests as well as the beautiful semicircle of wooded hills even to North Shore, with

The Cooktown Racecourse grandstand. Photo submitted. the sullen branches glistening through the trees like silver embroidery on a regal pall. Although the interior is not yet finished, there is excellent accommodation for 40 visitors, the bedrooms being comfortably furnished and well ventilated, all the beds fixed up with spring mattresses and everything in every room being as clean and tidy as if in George street or Collins street.

The stabling is about the best I’ve seen in the north, and the paddock and the watering accommodation are all that a horse owner could desire. The grounds are good and are being rapidly improved, Mr Savage acting as his own ‘Chaffey1’ in the matter of irrigation from the never failing Mount Cook creek, which he was fortunate enough in being allowed to annex in the early

days. The host and hostess of the Racecourse Hotel are honestly proud of their Two Mile heritage and I congratulate them on their belongings and on the energy with which they are still improving the property.”

From the Macquarie Dictionary: George and William Chaffey were Canadian born Australian pioneers of irrigation.

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Program wins national award HOPE Vale Maternal and Child Health Worker Elaine McGreen was one of the Apunipima Pēpi-pod Program team that was announced the winner of the Team Innovation category of the HESTA Australian Nursing Awards at a gala ceremony in Sydney last Thursday night.

The team was recognised for their innovative work in rolling out safe sleeping devices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies on Cape York in a bid to reduce above average rates of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI).

The pods are being rolled out as part of a two year study led by Chair of the SIDS and Kids National Scientific Advisory Group Professor Jeanine Young from the University of the Sunshine Coast to assess the acceptability and feasibility of using Pēpipods in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The prize of $10,000 will be spent on technology to enable Health Workers rolling out the pods to collect data for the study.

Apunipima Maternal and Child Health Team Leader Johanna Neville said the team was honoured to have won the award.

“The Pēpi-pod Program is an Australian first and the team is thrilled to be doing something

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high risk families; original data to inform acceptable, feasible, effective and sustainable strategies that build parent, health provider and community capacity in reducing SUDI risk; increased parent and community awareness of safe sleeping recommendations and the addressing of national (Council of Australian Government) and international goals (Millennium Development Goal 4) to reduce infant and child mortality. innovative and empowering to reduce infant death on Cape York,” she said. One of the many positives of this program is that Indigenous health workers are leading the roll out.

“This enhances community relationships and creates a safe space for the exchange of knowledge and support.”

Pēpi-pods, which originated in New Zealand, see infants (of families with known risk factors for SUDI) of up to six months placed in a portable, lined container to sleep. The Pēpi-pod is small enough to fit between the parents in bed, thereby enabling babies to co-sleep in their own safe place.

Professor Young said the program combines a safe sleeping space with a targeted safe sleeping health promotion initiative for families with known risk

factors for SUDI. “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies are 3.8 times more likely to die suddenly and unexpectedly than non-Indigenous infants and we know that infant deaths are associated with co-sleeping in hazardous circumstances; particularly for preterm or low birth weight babies or where smoking, alcohol, drug use or unsafe sleep environments are present. Many Indigenous families prefer to co-sleep to ease breastfeeding and stay as close as they can to their baby – the Pēpi-pods enable families to maintain this practice and keep baby safe,” she said.

Established in December 2013, the program will run for around two years with preliminary findings expected in December 2014. Expected outcomes from this project include reduced rates of SUDI amongst

The winning Pepi-pod Program team: Leanne Craigie, Senior Project Officer – Health Promotion; Children’s Health Queensland, Hospital and Health Service; Maternal and Child Health Worker Elaine McGreen (Hope Vale); Maternal and Child Health Worker Johanna Hunt (Aurukun); Program Lead: Professor Jeanine Young, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of the Sunshine Coast and Chair, SIDS and Kids National Scientific Advisory Group; Maternal and Child Health Worker Trainee Carina Denman (Mossman Gorge); Maternal and Child Health Team Leader Johanna Neville and Manager Family Health Programs Rachel Sargeant.

Photo submitted.

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Arts Minister Ian Walker urged Queenslanders to forward their finest lines for the $4000 Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry and the $3000 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize.

“You could put a pin anywhere on a map of Queensland and that’s where the winners could come from.

“The only criteria will be their talent, and regional Queensland has no shortage there.

“The Val Vallis Award is a national prize for an unpublished poem or suite of poems, while the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, open to Queenslanders, offers a publishing contract with University of Queensland Press.

“Our work with the Queensland Poetry Festival to present these awards is part of our drive to develop new work and discover Queensland writing talent.”

Queensland Poetry Festival artistic director Sarah Gory said the poetry initiatives were an important platform for poets, who will benefit from workshops with British-Somali poet Warsan Shire, 2014 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence.

The two poetry awards, funded by the Queensland Government, close on July 10 with winners named on August 20 at the opening of the Queensland Poetry Festival. More information is available on www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com

Choose to love as Christ loves said, “When Jesus tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”

From the Pulpit LOVE can be seen, demonstrated and experienced. Read 1 Corinthians 13 ( Bible) Corrie ten Boom, a prisoner of war, had plenty of reason to hate her enemies but chose to love and forgive. She

Paul writes in Romans 12:20 21, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink...Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

Years ago, Doug Nichols went to India as a missionary, but was hospitalised with TB. Doug tried to share his faith, but spoke little of the local

language. No one would listen to him.

One night, he noticed an old man near him trying to get out of bed to go to the “bathroom”. But he was too weak and as a result, his bed was a mess in the morning and others including the nurses, made fun of him.

Doug said, “It happened again the next night. I really didn’t want to do it, but somehow I managed to get up and took him in my arms carried him to the bath-

room.

Then I returned him to his bed. As I turned to leave, he reached up and kissed me on the cheek mumbling what I think was, ‘Thank you’”.

Doug said, “The next day the patients asked if they could read some of the literature that I had brought. Others had questions about God.” What changed?

He said, “I didn’t preach a sermon. I couldn’t even speak their language. All I did was take an old man

to the bathroom and anyone can do that.”

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Poems of the pandanus Writers’ Corner

I HAVE always been fascinated by the quirky, angular form of the pandanus palm. It seemed always to speak

of mystery and the allure of tropical climes.

Have you too been charmed by some particular plant or animal?

Send us your thoughts, in verse or prose, for our column to either: editor@cooktownlocalnews.com.au or thekellers@bigpond.com or post them to: PO Box 645, Cooktown, 4895.

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“Pandanus Ponderings” Pandanus palms speak lazily of the sea; Of the coast and sand and the drifter in me.

Their drooping fronds whisper of halcyon times; Of dreamy wanderings in tropical climes.

Their roots are strong, multi-pronged and anchored tight In case, on a balmy moonlit night, they might Float away to explore some alternate shore; Their mystic geometry our joy no more.

By DIANNE KELLER

“Pandanus Palms” I am in love with the pandanus palms; With their spikey leaves and their angled arms; With their strong attitude, “Hey, look at me!

I so choose to be like no other tree.

As all old cathedrals, buttressed to the ground, Anchored they shall stand where sea winds abound.

Eccentric and aloof from all they see, They’ll never deign to be in love with me.

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PHOTOS: GARY HUTCHISON

Dining out on Mother’s Day Left: The Sovvy verandah was where Milinh and Tara Zaicz and Anna Dalla Pozza and Ba’il Zaicz decided to spend some time on Mother’s Day. Right: Mother’s Day for Bart and Penny Johnson and Penny’s mum and dad ‘Poss’ and Geoff Weingarth meant time spent together in the convivial ambience of the Sovvy verandah.

Maureen Roberts (left) has been visiting her daughter Alison Booker since November, but will return home to the UK on Monday. The girls are seen here on Sunday night ready to enjoy a Mother’s Day dinner.

It wasn’t just the mums who were enjoying Mother’s Day at the Bowls Club, with Ben Scott and Madison McGowan finding plenty to laugh about while waiting for dinner.

Saeng Mouykeng was treated to her Mother’s Day dinner by her daughter Bo Skipworth, with the girls accompanied by husband and dad Peter Skipworth.

Left: Three generations of Walker mums, Mickala, Ivy and Gail at the Bowls Club on Sunday night.

Right: Granddad Jack Scott was keeping the kids, Jack and Charlie Scott and Summer Jayde McGowan occupied, so all the mums could enjoy their Mother’s Day drinks and dinner at the Bowls Club on Sunday night.

Two mums, Ronnie Mead and Desley Cotton, were joined by ‘Pinky’ Cotton at the Bowls Club to not only celebrate Mother’s Day, but Ronnie’s birthday also.

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Also celebrating Mother’s Day at the Bowls Club on Sunday night were Ashley, Joy and Allan Kruger.

Two generations of mums, Sue Scott, Lindy Hanley and Tammy McGowan topping off their ‘day’ with dinner and drinks at the Bowls Club.

NEWS

Council gets ready for ‘hunger games’ THE flab fight has begun at Cook Shire Council, with more than a dozen staffers signing on for a 10week weight loss challenge.

important health issue, which is obesity,” Cook Shire Council Chief Executive Officer Stephen Wilton, who has signed on for the challenge, said.

The Council Flabby Tipping Competition kicked off with a weigh-in on Monday, and several Flabby Tippers have already been heard to threaten fellow competitors with strategically placed ice cream and doughnuts.

“It will give our staff some encouragement to lose unwanted kilos, and hopefully inspire their friends and family and others in the community to follow along.

“It’s all for a bit of fun, but also to raise an

“Although some staff have already been joking about the ‘hunger games, I hope it will promote a healthy over-

all lifestyle change for those of us who need it.”

Competitors can choose the day and time of their weekly weighin, with the only stipulation being the first and last weigh-ins must be on the same day of the week.

Four of the ‘annonymous bellies’ who have signed up for the Cook Shire Council’s ‘hunger games. Photo submitted.

The winner is the person who has lost the highest percentage of their body weight overall at the end of the 10 weeks, and will be declared on Monday, July 28.

Fete success a credit to many AS tired as they were last Saturday, Friends of the Foundation Vice-President Daphne Fenton and her dedicated band of volunteers were delighted with the “huge success” of their fete, held at the PCYC Cooktown Events Centre.

“We raised well over $7000, we’re all feeling pleasantly tired after a great fete,” Mrs Fenton said.

All their planning and organisation was followed by a frenzied week of collecting and sorting donations, along with cooking, wrapping and other preparation.

Particularly pleasing for Mrs Fenton was the number of younger people who had involved themselves in the event.

“It was very heartening to have three teenage girls lending a hand, while one little six-year-old lad was also very eager to help,” she said.

“We have a great community here and the talent pool for these occasions is limitless.”

Also joining the locals in attending the large variety of stalls on offer were a number of “Woofers” currently living and working on properties in the area.

Mrs Fenton attributed the success of the fete to the generosity of the sponsors and donors to the event, along with the support of the townsfolk.

“So many people to thank for their generosity and support, we couldn’t have done it without them,” she said.

“Especially the volunteers who donated so many hours before, during and after the fete.

“And let’s not forget the hospital staff who not only manned some stalls on the day, but performed duty for their shifts at the hospital at some time.”

Photos: GARY HUTCHISON.

Volunteers at the Friends of the Foundation fete were kept busy on Saturday. Seen here (from left) are Somer and Josephine Camp and Kathy Williams serving (from front right) Travis, Kellie-Rose and Rosalyn Jerome at the Mothers’ Day gift stall.

Pre-loved books and magazines helped raise muchneeded funds at the fete, with Sylvia Simpson seen here offering Lacey Smith and her mum Tanya Reddish her choice to take home.

Peter Herrmann (front) and Garry Curran (back) kept the ‘chocolate wheel’ spinning during the day - raising money from the raffles on offer.

Feeding the ‘masses’ with hot dogs was the job happily accepted by volunteers (from left) local Chris Palmer and German visitor Melanie Seidel, while Shaylee Darvell was delighted to accept the fare on offer.

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FRIDAY 16

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:00 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Dust Echoes 10:35 Double Trouble 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 ABC News With Jane Hutcheon 1:00 Call The Midwife 2:00 At The Movies 2:30 Hebburn 3:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 3:30 Midsomer Murders 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: Archery GB V Eggheads 6:30 QI: Alan 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 QLD 8:00 Kitchen Cabinet: Joe Hockey 8:30 Jonathan Creek: The Curse Of The Bronze Lamp 9:35 Luther: Luther is blackmailed by Jenny’s former madam and her heavies who threaten to kill the quirky teenager if he doesn’t comply.

Meanwhile he is called to investigate a series of strange, random murders.

10:30 Lateline 11:05 Randling: A snappy, surprising new game show hosted by Andrew Denton. Comedians Felicity Ward and Heath Franklin go up against Renaissance woman Wendy Harmer and writer Benjamin Law. 11:35 Rage 5:00 Rage

6:00 Today 9:00 Global Shop Direct 10:00 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost” 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 LIVE FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - Brisbane Broncos Vs Gold Coast Titans 9:30 FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - South Sydney Rabbitohs Vs Melbourne Storm 11:30 Movie: “Showdown In Little Tokyo” - The story of Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday as they attempt to run from Sheriff Pat Garrett and evade the law.

1:00 Movie: “Cross Of Iron” A squad of German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during WWII led by a battle-hardened Sergeant fight to survive Soviet attacks and dogmatic Commanders in a chaotic and lethal environment in this sympathetic portrayal of another side of the war.

3:30 Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 4:00 Brand Developers 4:30 Good Morning America

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “Welcome To Paradise” (M) - With their present lives boring and their futures bleak,three long time girlfriends go looking for fun at a legendary beach resort, where two decades ago, they had their youthful last flings. 2:00 The Daily Edition 3:00 The Chase 4:00 Seven News At 4 5:00 Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Million Dollar Minute 6:00 Seven News - Seven News live and comprehensive coverage of breaking news and local, national and international top stories, plus Sport, Finance and Weather updates.

7:00 Better Homes & Gardens 7:30 2014 AFL Premiership Rnd 8 - Essendon Vs Sydney 11:00 TBA 1:00 Movie: “Farewell, My Love” - A young woman sets out to seek revenge on a Russian crime family who killed her family when she was a child.

3:00 Home Shopping 3:30 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today

5:00 World News 1:00 Living Black 1:35 Inspector Rex - A Dead Certainty 2:30 NITV News Week In Review 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Food Factory 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 This is Brazil! - Brasília & Rio de Janeiro 8:30 The Last Days Of Anne Boleyn - Anne Boleyn is one of the most famous and controversial women in British history. In 1536, she became the first queen in Britain’s history to be executed. The brutal speed of her downfall, and the astonishing nature of the charges against her - treason, adultery, even incest - makes her story shocking even to this day.

9:35 As It Happened: Edward and George: Two Brothers, One Throne 10:35 SBS World News Late 11:05 Giro d’Italia - Stage 7 1:30 Kurt Wallander: The Collector 3:10 Movie: “Chiko” (MAV) - In German and Turkish. A Scarface-style crime drama about a Turkish immigrant turned drug dealer who won’t stop until he’s sitting at the top of the Berlin underworld. Yet his friendship with a former partner drags him down.

4:50 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize

SATURDAY 17

6:00 Rage 10:30 Rage Guest Programmer 11:30 TBA 12:00 Australian Story 12:30 The People’s Supermarket 1:15 QI: Alan 1:50 Movie: “The Spanish Main” (G) 3:25 Movie: Blackbeard The Pirate 5:10 River Cottage: Winter’s On The Way 6:00 Saturday Landline 6:30 Gardening Australia 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Death In Paradise - DI Humphrey is surprised when his wife pays an unexpected visit to the island and suggests they give their marriage a second chance.

8:35 The Gods of Wheat Street: She Who Supplanted Her Sister - Everyone is relieved to have Odin home, but the business is in deep trouble despite all their efforts. When Jamie, Odin’s wife, arrives out of nowhere all Libby’s insecurities return.

9:30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: When Phryne arrives at the exclusive fashion house of Madame Fleuri for a fitting, she unexpectedly finds herself amidst a crime scene, and everyone present is a suspect!

10:25 Accused: Helen’s Story - Helen Ryland is distraught to discover her only son has been killed during his first day of work. While her husband is consumed by grief, she sets out to discover how the accident happened.

11:25 Rage Guest Programmer 5:00 Rage

6:00 Children’s Programs 7:00 Weekend Today - Saturday 10:00 Danoz Direct 11:00 Surfsport 12:00 The Middle 12:30 TBA 1:00 Movie: “Little Giants” (PG) 3:00 TBA 4:00 The Bottom Line 4:30 Reel Action 5:00 4WD TV 5:30 Getaway 6:00 National News Saturday 7:00 TBA 12:00 Movie: “The Cave” (M) - A routine deep-sea dive turns deadly for a group of seasoned cave explorers when the cavern they’re surveying collapses, stranding them inside a network of caves at the bottom of the ocean with no way out. But finding the exit becomes an even bigger priority when they discover that evil creatures are sharing the space.

2:00 Movie: “Moonwalker” (PG) - A peek inside the wildly creative mind of Michael Jackson, this entertaining film showcases the King of Pop in a special effects-filled adventure, complete with music videos, classic songs and impressive dance moves.

4:00 Brand Developers 5:00 Extra 5:30 Wesley Impact

6:00 Saturday Disney 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show - Weekend 12:00 Live Well - Join Olympian Elka Whalan, Author Chloe Maxwell and Women’s Health Editor Felicity Harley and our weekly guest specialists. 1:00 Dr Oz 2:00 TBA 5:30 Queensland Weekender - Dean Miller and his team cover the length and breadth of Queensland with great suggestions for weekends, short breaks and holidays.

6:00 Seven News 7:30 2014 AFL Premiership Season Rnd 9: Fremantle Vs Geelong 11:00 World’s Wildest Police Videos - A feuding family starts a vicious slugfest outside a courthouse, a convicted sex-offender tries to out-run police by racing across rooftops, and an armed bank robber draws cops into a deadly shoot out!

12:00 Seven’s V8 Supercars 2014 Highlights 1:00 Movie: “Milk” (M) - Follow Harvey Milk and the struggles he faced as a gay American activist who became California’s first openly gay elected official.

4:00 Home Shopping 5:00 Dr Oz - Turbocharge Your Metabolism - Get answers to your health questions from Dr Oz and other leading doctors, hospitals, associations and authors.

5:00 World News 1:00 San Remo Song Festival 2014 3:00 Twiggy: The Face Of The 60s 4:00 Contact - Guy Le Querrec: Miles Davis 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 AGiro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights.

6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Miniature Britain 8:30 Movie: “Harry Brown” (MAV) - Harry Brown is an elderly exmarine living in a dingy English housing estate apartment. The escalating crime and violence has made him so frightened that he won’t even use the underpass near his home. Shortly after his wife dies, Harry’s best friend is murdered, prompting Harry to seek revenge on the criminal lowlifes who have made his life hell.

10:30 Giro d’Italia - Stage 8 1:30 FA Cup 2014 Final 4:45 German Pokal Final 2014 - LIVE coverage of the German Pokal Final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The German football cup competition is now in its 71st season and the winners will qualify for the group stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League.

SUNDAY 18

6:00 Rage 8:00 Weekend Breakfast 9:00 Insiders 10:00 Offsiders 10:30 The World This Week 11:00 7.30 QLD 11:30 Songs of Praise: A Tale of Six Towns 12:00 Landline 1:00 Gardening Australia 1:30 Flickerfest: Bee Sting 1:50 Death In Paradise 2:50 Don Pasquale 5:00 Midsomer Murders: The Animal Within 6:30 Compass: Twilight Songs 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Restoration Home: Coltman Street 8:30 Inspector George Gently: Gently With Honour - Gently and Bacchus delve into the world of army secrets when a young former soldier commits a murder and Gently finds some uncomfortable truths in what it means to serve one’s Queen and Country.

10:00 Balibo - Robert Connolly’s controversial film about the deaths of six Australian-based journalists in East Timor, 1975.

11:50 Movie: “Fehrenheight 451” (M) 1:40 Movie: “If I Had A Million” (PG) 3:00 Restoration Home: Coltman Street 4:00 The New Inventors 4:30 Catalyst 5:00 Order In The House

6:00 Children’s Programs 7:00 Weekend Today 10:00 Financial Review Sunday 10:30 Wide World Of Sports 11:30 Sunday Footy Show 1:30 Customs 2:00 2014 Intrust Super Cup - Recliffe Dolphins Vs Sunshine Coast Falcons 4:00 Sunday Football - Canterbury Bulldogs Vs New Zealand Warriors 6:00 National News Sunday 6:30 TBA 12:00 Financial Review Sunday 12:30 What Would You Do - Using hidden cameras, host John Quiñones observes and comments on how ordinary people behave when they are confronted with a dilemma that requires them to either take action or walk by and mind their own business.

1:30 Spyforce: The Bridge - Erskine and Gunther, on a mission to New Britain, find that the man they have been sent to rescue has been killed by the Japanese.

2:30 Brand Developers 4:00 Good Morning America - Sunday 5:00 National Early Morning News 5:30 Today

6:00 Sophia The First 6:30 Jake and The Neverland Pirates 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 AFL Game Day 11:30 Guys With Kids - “First Birthday” Chris decides to throw Ernie’s first birthday and Gary and Marny decide to get back in shape and begin a strict kale-only diet, which quickly proves challenging. 12:00 TBA 5:30 Great South East 6:00 Seven News 6:30 TBA 11:40 Royal Pains: Sand Legs - It’s Labor Day Weekend in the Hamptons. It’s been a busy, intense summer for everyone at HankMed and the excitement is far from over. HankMed has been hired to step in as event medic for the Hamptons Invitational Labor Day Volleyball Tournament. But when Harper invites Hank to attend her family reunion for the weekend, he agrees to go to show that he is capable of putting their relationship ahead of work and his patients.

1:30 Harry’s Practice 2:00 Home Shopping 3:00 NBC Today 4:00 NBC Meet The Press 5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Al Jazeera News 1:30 So Frenchy, So Chic 2:00 Speedweek 4:00 2014 Superbike World Championship 4:30 UEFA Champions League Magazine 5:00 Subaru World Of Cycling 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Road To The 2014 FIFA World Cup - France 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Lost Worlds: Sacred Wonders Of Britain 8:30 Derren Brown: The Great Art Robbery 9:50 Magic Mushrooms 10:50 Giro d’Italia – Stage 9 1:30 Movie: “Marriage And Other Disasters” (M l) - In Italian. Set in the beautiful city of Florence, this Italian romantic comedy follows Nana (Margherita Buy). a love-weary 40-something bookstore owner who shrugs off the marital naggings of her family in favour of a quiet life with her cat. However, unbeknown to her pushy family, Nana is secretly in love with a self-centred novelist (Mohammed Bakri) who exploits her kindness at every opportunity.

3:15 Ohio Slave Girls: Their Story 4:10 Kill Arnman - Malaysia/Pentjak Silat 4:40 Adbc Bitesize 4:50 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize

MONDAY 19

SBS

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Backyard Science 10:15 Get Into Textiles 10:40 Atoms Of Fire 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 ABC News With Ros Childs 1:00 Landline 2:00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road 2:30 Hebburn 3:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 3:30 TBA 4:00 Last Tango In Halifax 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: Life’s Too Short Vs Eggheads 6:30 QI: Arts 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Australian Story 8:30 Four Corners 9:20 Media Watch 9:35 Q&A 10:35 Lateline 11:10 The Business 11:35 Changi: Curley 12:35 Movie: “Drive, He Said” (M) - The longhaired star of an Ohio college team can’t decide if he wants to turn pro or join his radical roommate in bringing about a revolution.

2:05 Movie: “A Damsel In Distress” (G) 3:45 Movie: “Flying Down To Rio” (G) 5:30 Eggheads: Life’s Too Short Vs Eggheads

6:00 Today 9:00 Global Shop Direct 10:00 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “Clara’s Heart” (PG) 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 TBA 11:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - Kurdistan - Tony and his crew venture to the war zone and fledgling country of Kurdistan to explore the tragic history and hopeful future of the ethnic group known as the Kurds.

12:30 Nitro Circus Live - St Petersburg - The St. Petersburg stop starts badly when angry baggage handlers hold the crew hostage. There’s an intense paintball game, the crew get kicked off an indoor ski slope and try to dress like locals. Two sold out shows mean Nitro leaves Russia with a bang!

1:00 Extra 1:30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo - Follow My Leader 2:00 Brand Developers 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 TBA 2:00 The Daily Edition 3:00 The Chase 4:00 Seven News At 4 5:00 Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Million Dollar Minute 6:00 Seven News 7:00 Home And Away - Mark goes to extreme lengths to show Phoebe Kyle’s true colours. Jett’s away from the Bay but not from Marilyn and John’s thoughts. Andy struggles to put his pride aside and ask the Braxton’s for his job back.

7:30 TBA 11:00 Talking Footy 12:00 Suits: “Heartburn” - Louis suffers a heart attack that rocks the firm. Rachel learns that Louis doesn’t plan to pay for her to attend law school, while Harvey and Mike handle a difficult client.

1:00 Home Shopping 3:30 Sons & Daughters - Wayne is put on the spot when Karen, bent on revenge, makes an announcement to Gordon about his son.

4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra 5:30 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Trapped In An Elevator 2:05 First Australians 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5:00 Living Black 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam 6:30 SBS World News 7:35 Mythbusters: Apple Bobbing Bungee/Tennis Wing Walk 8:35 Vikings: The Choice 9:30 RocKwiz - Marlon Williams, Pieta Brown & Tina Arena 10:30 SBS World News Late 11:00 The World Game 11:30 Clown: The Ambassador 12:00 Shorts On Screen - Joey 12:35 Movie: “Poetry” (M) - In Korean, English Subtitles. A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrols in a poetry class.

3:10 Mission Everest: Follow adventurer Bear Grylls and his friend Gilo Cardozo as they prepare to fly over the summit of Mount Everest.

4:50 Adbc Bitesize 4:50 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize

TUESDAY 20

7 CENTRAL

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Behind The News 10:30 Jung In Europa 10:40 La Mappa Misteriosa 11:00 Four Corners 11:45 Media Watch 12:00 ABC News With Ros Childs 1:00 Q&A 2:00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road 3:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 3:30 TBA 4:00 Last Tango In Halifax 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: Puddings Not Tarts Vs Eggheads 6:30 QI: Blue 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Foreign Correspondent 8:30 Two Men In China: Shanghai 9:30 At The Movies 10:00 The Writers’ Room: American Horror Story 10:25 Lateline 11:00 The Business 11:25 Four Corners 12:15 Media Watch 12:30 Movie: “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” (PG) 3:30 Rugby Union: Shute Shield 5:30 Eggheads: Puddings Not Tarts Vs Eggheads

6:00 Today 9:00 Global Shop Direct 10:00 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “Be Kind Rewind” Video store employee Mike can’t believe his bad luck when his buddy, accidentally magnetizes his brain and inadvertently erases every video in the store. Now, they’re pressed to produce their own low-rent remakes of every erased film. 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 TBA 11:30 20/20 12:30 Extra - Catch up on all the latest in Hollywood’s current affairs as we find out what the world’s hottest stars have been up to this week.

1:00 Impractical Jokers - Pick A Loser - Four prank-loving friends compete in extremely awkward social experiments in this hiddencamera series, tricking real life people into falling for their hilarious pranks.

1:30 Brand Developers 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “A Mind To Kill: White Rocks” (M) - A detective and his team are in a race against time when a young mother is murdered at a holiday camp and her son, who may have witnessed the crime, has vanished.

2:00 The Daily Edition 3:00 The Chase 4:00 Seven News At 4 5:00 Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Million Dollar Minute - Million Dollar Minute is a battle of general knowledge, where every correct answer is a step closer to the ultimate test: Can one person, in one minute, win one million dollars?

6:00 Seven News 7:00 Home And Away - Sasha is handed a juicy story about Tamara’s accident - but will she decide to publish it? Tamara’s recent misfortunes lead her to a big decision. Unexpectedly, Kyle challenges Phoebe’s decision to cut ties with her father.

7:30 TBA 12:30 Harry’s Practice 1:00 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra 5:30 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Movie: “Teen Spirit” (M) 2:30 Food Lover’s Guide To Australia 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Food Safari - Turkish Safari 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Secrets Of The Manor House 8:30 Insight 9:30 Dateline 10:30 SBS World News Late 11:00 Giro d’Italia - Stage 10 1:30 The Killing: Sarah Lund and Ulrick Strange return from Afghanistan with new, conclusive evidence, while Brix and his team are looking at what appears to be an important finding in the investigation.

2:45 East West 101: Men Of Conscience 3:45 The Circuit: Of Mice and Men - Now back in the chair, Magistrate Peter Lockhart’s standing is under threat when he is discovered helping disgraced elder Harry Pope, and a confrontation with Mick results in a surprising invitation for Drew.

4:45 Adbc Bitesize 4:50 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize

WEDNESDAY 21

IMPARJA

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 ABC News Mornings 10:00 My Place 10:25 Homemade History 10:45 Behind The News Specials 11:00 One Plus One 11:30 Foreign Correspondent 12:00 ABC News With Ros Childs 12:30 National Press Club Address 1:30 Vet School 2:00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road 2:30 Hebburn 3:30 TBA 4:00 Last Tango In Halifax 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: Good Neighbours 6:30 QI: Birds 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 QI: Kings 8:30 Spicks & Specks 9:00 Jonah From Tonga 9:30 Upper Middle Bogan: Forefathers And Two Mothers 10:00 United States Of Tara: Crackerjack 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:30 Hustle 12:30 Movie: “Cornered” (M) 2:30 Football: VFL: Round 7 Williamstown Vs Geelong 5:30 Eggheads - Good Neighbours

6:00 Today 9:00 Global Shop Direct 10:00 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “Did You Hear About The Morgans?” (PG) - Two successful New Yorkers, are at their wits’ end with repairing their strained marriage. But when they become the only witnesses to a brutal murder, the police hide them away in Wyoming – together. 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 TBA 11:40 Rizzoli & Isles - Welcome To The Dollhouse - Young female professionals dressed as dolls are turning up dead on the public transit system, and Jane and Maura must piece together the clues.

Angela implements new ideas for the café.

12:30 Extra 1:00 Impractical Jokers 1:30 Brand Developers 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today

5:00 World News 1:00 Insight 2:00 Dateline 3:00 France 24 International 6:00 Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Movie - “Helen West: Deep Sleep” When the suspicious death of a pharmaGiro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 My Family Feast - Serbian cists wife is ruled an accident, a determined prosecutor is convinced of foul 6:30 SBS World News play and digs deeper to find the truth. 2:00 The Daily Edition 3:00 The Chase 7:30 Walking Through History: Cornwall 4:00 Seven News At 4 5:00 Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Million Dollar Minute 8:30 One Born Every Minute - What Happened Next?

6:00 Seven News 9:30 The Bridge 7:00 Home And Away - Sasha’s article about the hit and run sends 10:35 SBS World News Late ripples through Summer Bay. Bianca struggles to step back and let 11:05 Giro d’Italia - Stage 11 Heath look after Harley alone.

1:30 Movie: “A Matter Of Heart” (M) - In Italian. Garage owner Angelo 7:30 TBA and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying 12:10 Dr Oz: “Montel William’s Secret Struggle” - Get answers to your neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart health questions from Dr Oz and other leading doctors, hospitals, attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who associations and authors. has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as 1:00 Home Shopping one of the men’s condition deteriorates, the other becomes more 3:30 Sons And Daughters - Gordon is horrified to realise that Charlie has deeply involved in his personal life. plans to develop their relationship.

3:25 Movie: “Zion And His Brother” (M) - In Hebrew. Set in a working4:00 NBC Today - International news and weather including interviews class suburb of Haifa, a tragic turn of events drives a wedge with newsmakers in the world of politics, business, media, enterbetween a pair of inseparable brothers as the youngest re-examines tainment and sport. his loyalty towards the older brother he once looked up to.

5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News 4:55 ADbc

THURSDAY 22

ABC

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:00 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Classic Tales 10:10 Seeking Refuge 10:35 Behind The News 11.00 Making Australia Happy 12:00 ABC News With Ros Childs 1:00 QI 1:30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg 2:00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road 3:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 3:30 TBA 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: Show Me Do Mooi 6:30 QI: Common Knowledge 6:55 Clarke and Dawe 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 The Checkout: Factory Seconds 8:30 Call The Midwife 9:30 The Men Who Made Us Fat 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:35 Two On The Great Divide 12:30 Movie: “The Outlaw” (PG) - The story of Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday as they attempt to run from Sheriff Pat Garrett and evade the law.

2:30 Football: WAFL: Round 9: Subiaco Vs West Perth 5:30 Eggheads: Show Me De Mooi

6:00 Today 9:00 Global Shop Direct 10:00 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “A Walk To Remember” (PG - Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart in this coming-of-age story based on the bestselling book.

Mandy Moore stars as a straitlaced preacher’s daughter who meets an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world, he begins an unexpected journey he’ll never forget. 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 Top Gear 8:40 The NRL Footy Show 10:40 Two And A Half Men: I Scream When I Pee 11:10 Two And A Half Men: One Nut Johnson 11:40 The AFL Footy Show 1:30 Extra 2:00 Brand Developers 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today

12 – Cooktown Local News – Thursday, May 15, 2014

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “Hard Evidence” (M v) When Sandra Prine landed a good job, she never thought it could destroy her. She soon learns that her boss, a government official, is a corrupt criminal and risks her life to end his abuse of power. 2:00 The Daily Edition 3:00 The Chase 4:00 Seven News At 4 5:00 Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Million Dollar Minute 6:00 Seven News 7:00 Home And Away - Maddy dreams up grand schemes for a mid-year school dance. Jett returns from camp with an expensive surprise for John and Marilyn. Heath and Bianca make some drastic relationship decisions. Phoebe worries that her relationship with her father is ruined.

8:00 TBA 11:00 Movie: “Bangkok Dangerous” (AV) - Joe, a remorseless hitman is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong, a street punk and pick pocket to run his errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment.

1:00 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News

7:00 World News 1:00 Jimmy’s Forest - Summer 1:55 Speed Of Life 2:50 A First Date 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 My Sri Lanka With Peter Kuruvita 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Luke Nguyen’s France 8:00 French Food Safari 8:30 Jonathan Phang’s Gourmet Express - Singapore To Penang 9:30 Fargo - The Six Ungraspables 10:30 SBS World News Late 11:00 Giro d’Italia - Stage 12 1:30 Coppers: What’s Your Emergency?

2:30 Breaking Into Europe 3:20 Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections - Richard Hammond reveals the surprising inspirations behind some of the design features of Japan’s bullet train, the world’s first highspeed locomotive.

4:35 Minnie Loves Junior 4:50 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize

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ARIES (March 21st - April 20th) A comment made recently by a friend will surprise you. At first, you may disagree quite strongly with what this person has said. However, take time to consider this: you will find it makes sense. Romance. If you like children you will be in luck this week: you will have more than enough contact with them. Be thankful that they are not all your own!

TAURUS (April 21st - May 21st)

You will be even more generous than usual at the moment: this will be very much appreciated. Someone you see on a daily basis will remind you of something important.

Romance. The Moon/Juno Midpoint moving through your sign should help you to understand your partner a little better. You may not realise how you have been taking them for granted recently.

GEMINI (May 22nd - June 21st) A careless comment by a friend may be slightly embarrassing. You will need to find a way to stop this happening again.

Don’t get angry: find a way to let this person know how you feel. Romance. You will need to spend some time by yourself this week.

Your romantic life has felt strained lately: you need to recharge your emotional batteries.

FOR KIDS

CANCER (June 22nd - July 23rd)

There may be a dispute in your working life at the moment: now would be a good time to try to settle this as amicably as you can.

Romance. A glance from an admirer will help to put you in a good mood. Your love life needs a boost and this would be a good week for a bold move.

LEO (July 24th - August 23rd)

You may need some help with a practical problem this week. You mustn’t be afraid to ask for other people’s advice - they will be happy that you value what they have to say. Romance. Don’t forget to tell your partner how much you care for them. They may need some convincing at the moment: you haven’t been paying them as much attention as you should recently.

VIRGO (August 24th - September 23rd) An important decision about your career must not be put off any longer: stop looking for excuses and do something. Any decisions you come to this week will work out well for you – provided you have the courage of your convictions. Romance. It may be better if you ignore some of the things which have happened recently: sometimes you can blow things out of proportion.

FINDWORD No. 198

LIBRA (September 24th - October 23rd)

A LAUGH WITH LOTSA

You will be spending quite a bit of time thinking about your job. This is not the best time to make a move, however. Try to analyse what you think is wrong with your situation and then see how you can put it right rather than change it completely. Romance. A letter or e-mail from a friend who is living a long way away will help to cheer you up.

SCORPIO (October 24th - November 22nd)

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MUDDY RIVER

A friend has been holding you back recently: you will be much more successful without this person’s advice. Try to disregard what they have to say without giving offence. You will need to be more diplomatic than usual. Romance. You may wish that you could spend more time by yourself. You need a chance to mull things over - but don’t be too anti-social.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23rd - December 21st)

A financial deal may be more favourable to you than to the other person concerned. Don’t be afraid to push for what you can get! Romance. A romantic meeting may last much longer than you expect.

You won’t be in any hurry to get away, however!

CAPRICORN (December 22nd - January 20th)

At times, you may wish that you could be somewhere else. However, an option which seems exciting might be less fun in practice. There won’t be any way to escape this: you will have to grin and bear it.

Romance. This would be a good time for settling any long-standing disputes that may have come between you and your partner.

AQUARIUS (January 21st - February 19th)

QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Love is when the other person’s happiness is

more important than your own.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr

SOLUTIONS No. 198

You will be amazed at how much energy you have at the moment. You can use this to start a number of projects at once. Just be sure to complete them! Romance. An offer from a friend overseas could seem too good to be true. Don’t be too sceptical, however: this person may have stumbled upon something.

PISCES (February 20th - March 20th)

You will have to take a more active approach in getting what you want; you cannot sit back and wait this week. Set yourself some short-term goals and try to achieve them by the end of the week. Romance. An unexpected show of support will go down well with a long-standing admirer. They may want to show their gratitude in unexpected ways, however.

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INDIGENOUS heritage in the Great Barrier Reef will be strengthened thanks to $70,000 in funding to develop a cultural heritage strategy and database.

Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion, and Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch, said the announcement was part of the Australian Government investment of $1.6 million this financial year in 18 projects across Australia through the Indigenous Heritage Program to strengthen the connection between Indigenous communities and their heritage values.

knowledge,” Minister Scullion said.

workshops with local elders.

“Indigenous heritage projects provide education, training, employment and business opportunities that help Indigenous Australians to meet their cultural obligations to care for their country and maintain traditions.”

“The information will be used in management strategies, local media, at on-country workshops or meetings and for kids taking part in school activities such as junior ranger programs and camps.

Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch, said the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority would receive $70,000 through the 2013-14 round of Indigenous Heritage funding.

“It will also help to further develop a sustainable heritage tourism strategy for Green and Fitzroy Islands, something I’m particularly interested in”

GET YOUR COPY A budget to enshrine inequality !

NOW Minister Scullion said the projects focus on supporting, identifying, promoting and conserving the heritage values of places important to Indigenous people.

“Projects cover activities including the conservation of burial sites, conducting heritage surveys and repair work, developing cultural heritage management plans and recording and passing on traditional

By ANDREW HAMILTON *for eurekastreet.com.au

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Governments have always included in their budgets a ‘we’re serious’ clause. It doesn’t address the real problems of the economy, saves relatively little money, but it is a symbol of the government’s fierce determination to fix the economy.

It has normally been directed at the vices of the underclass.

Once it took the form of increasing the tax on booze and cigarettes, the working man’s weaknesses. Nowadays governments slash spending on the disadvantaged.

And so it is in the latest budget. This change from demonising things to demonising people deserves reflection.

The decision to make an example of welfare recipients in the budget was clearly taken before the appointment of the Audit Commission. The enquiry into welfare had been announced as a way of reducing unsustainable expenditure. Yet the growth in expenditure on welfare has in fact been relatively modest compared with other areas of government. The decision had to do with politics and ideology, not with economic need.

The impact on disadvantaged young people will be particularly harsh, particularly on those

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“The project will develop a Gunggandji cultural heritage strategy that identifies and shares the cultural heritage aspects, values and places on Gunggandji country,” Mr Entsch said.

“Activities include the recording and active teaching of knowledge, practices and customary responsibilities, which will benefit current and future generations.

“The project will employ Gunggandji people to co-ordinate and record stories, knowledge and information through on-country

who have no safe home. Their income support will be unreliable, their access to appropriate education more difficult, and health care more costly. The cuts to education and health will also affect the services provided by the states The practice of further disadvantaging the already disadvantaged reflects growing inequality between the more affluent and the disadvantaged members of society. Although a common response to discussions of inequality is to decry the ‘politics of envy’, the effects of growing inequality are real and corrosive in society.

Government ministers and the heads of the public service are relatively affluent. They mix with and consult others who are notably affluent. Neither affluence nor consorting, of course, is a moral fault. But the style in which we live and the people with whom we live and speak shape our imagination, the way we instinctively see the world.

And what matters to those with whom we mix and what they take for granted will also matter more to us. We come to share their view of the world.

In an unequal society in which politicians and senior bureaucrats are relatively affluent they are likely to share with their conversation partners a working vision whose effect will be to entrench and deepen privilege.

The other key aspect for the project is a community Cultural Heritage Management System (Data Base) that will allow Gunggandji to record, store and manage knowledge and information about Gunggandji country, culture and people.

This is viewed as a high priority by the Gunggandji People.

The government’s investment through the Indigenous heritage projects supports Indigenous people to care for their land and heritage and this in turn helps to strengthen and preserve the history, culture and self-esteem of communities.

They will accept the gods of economic growth, competition and the market as inescapable, if not totally benign, and define the public good in terms of economic growth without asking whom it benefits.

They will also instinctively accept the division of society into winners and losers, and so believe that losers are responsible for their own weakness, and are morally at fault. This makes it natural to dismiss financial support for the disadvantaged as part of a decent society, and so to redefine it as a reward for jumping through a number of humiliating hoops. It also makes it harder to see that disadvantage often means you can’t jump.

Shared affluence leads to a failure of the imagination.

Inequality also makes it more likely that disadvantaged people will be used for target practice.

When economic liberalism rules it is easy to make those who cannot compete scapegoats to deflect public anger from the deficiencies of the government.

Shared affluence means that this can be done with an untroubled conscience. So if the government becomes unpopular we may expect attacks on asylum seekers, the unemployed, youth with disabilities Indigenous Australians and all the usual suspects.

Inequality of wealth and power tend to perpetuate themselves

and to become more deeply routed in society. The narrowing of the political imagination is reinforced by practices like cash for access, in which the economically powerful and the politically powerful are brought together to further their individual interests. The voice of the poor or of the common good will not be heard in that land.

So inequality makes it easy for governments to identify the common good with the interests of the affluent and so to serve their interests. In the budget the financial restrictions placed on regulatory agencies and the abolition of many statutory bodies will certainly make it easier for wealthy developers to circumvent regulations and to enrich themselves without respect for the environment or social needs of the nation.

Australia will survive this budget. But it will survive as a more divided nation with less sense of mutual responsibility. And the enshrinement of inequality will further exacerbate the disillusion with democracy characteristic of so many Western nations. Democracy rests on the acknowledgment of the unique and equal value of each citizen. The culture of inequality corrodes that belief. * EUREKA STREET is published by Jesuit Communications Australia.

Living Well

COMMUNITY

with MICHELLE HODGKISS

‘Silver wall’ is hot in the pot SILVERSIDE is a cut of beef from the hindquarter of a cow, just above the leg cut. It gets its name because of the “silver wall” on the side of the cut; which is a long fibrous ‘skin’ of connective tissue.

This can make it a little tougher than some other meats, however, slow cook it in a hotpot all day and you are guaranteed meat that will just fall apart on the plate!

Low in fat and high in both protein and potassium, it can be purchased in the bag, and just popped into a hot pot all day on “hot” – ready for when you come home from work or the children finish school.

It can be served either hot or cold, with mustard sauce (see recipe below) and is also excellent for the next day on sandwiches.

Mustard sauce for Corned Beef Silverside:

• Add flour, mustard, salt and pepper;

Ingredients:

• Cook until mixture thickens.

1 egg; ¼ cup sugar; 1 tbs. flour; 1 tsp. mustard; Salt and pepper to taste; 1 cup liquid the beef is boiled in ¼ cup vinegar.

Method: • Beat egg and sugar;

• Then stir in liquid gradually; and

The Silverside is shown here served with roasted parsnip, sweet potato mash, broccoli, honey glazed carrots, tomato and olive oil bread, which I will share in next week’s “Living Well”.

Nature’s cyclone recovery Story and photos

by JACQUI SYKES

Top: What was once dense rain forest, looks nothing like its glorious past before Cyclone Ita.

HOW amazing is the ability of nature to recover from natural disasters?

In 1994 in Sydney, where I was living, fires spread through many areas including the royal national park on the city’s southern outskirts. Only two months later I could see that new plants were already establishing themselves through the ashes.

Middle: The trees on the hill have had vegetation stripped while the foreground was protected, showing how it used to be.

And so it has been with Cyclone Ita. The McIvor River valley to the north-west of Cooktown was hit hard when the cyclone reached the mainland – still rated at Category 4.

Loretta Reedman lived in the valley for 37 years before moving closer to Cooktown. She was shocked at the devastation when she was delivering the mail soon after the storm.

“The first time I went through I felt very emotional,” she said.

“The brutality of the destruction – the smashed and broken limbs and trees bereft of leaves – makes it seem as though there can be no way back to the way it was.

“What used to be rainforest has been taken down to about 10 feet and you can see through what was previously an impenetrable barrier.

“The McIvor Causeway has changed completely, where there was a dense

McIvor River debris showing the high water level. canopy is now just a mess of tangled vines and branches.

“At the bridge the destruction is even worse and you can see how high the water was running by the debris in the trees.”

Only a month after the event Loretta can already see a difference: “As I’m driving along, I can see the trees are starting to generate new growth, I can see the change in the open areas already, but I just hope that in time the rainforest will recover as well.”

For me, seeing it for the first time, many of the hills which bore the brunt of the cyclone as it cut a swathe across the land,

still look seriously thinned of vegetation while the valleys display the scene as it was previously – lush and green.

Although the teak and mahogany plantations appear to have sustained substantial and irreparable damage, closer inspection of the brutalised native vegetation shows new buds and red leaves as the reconstruction of the forests begins.

Bottom left: New growth showing through already.

Bottom right: New, green leaves showing through the dead.

As we all come to terms with the damage around us, it is comforting to see the natural recovery process starting.

The power of nature to destroy and recover is nothing short of awesome.

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Sport Cooktown Local

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Phone: 4069 5773 • Fax: 1300 787 248 Email: editor@cooktownlocalnews.com.au

Big weekend of golf sees great scores returned

Sports reports deadline: 5pm, Monday prior to publication

Marlin Coast Veterinary Surgery Will be visiting Cooktown WedneSday, JUne 11 from 2pm and ThUrSday, JUne 12 until 12 noon Clinic is at the CWA rooms FOR APPOINTMENTS PLEASE PHONE

Sylvia Geraghty 4069 5337 or Clinic 4057 6033 Appointments are essential

Country Road Coachlines CAIRNS TO COOKTOWN ~ Passenger and freight ~

EXPRESS

In the Bunker SOME fantastic golf was played last week for Italian Restaurant Weekly Stroke competition, with the winner for the week being Graham Burton who returned a nett score of 62.

Last Saturday’s selffunded 3-Club Stableford competition attracted a large field and some fantastic scores were returned, even though players were only allowed three clubs with which to play.

Stableford score of 37 points. Robyn McDonald and Marilyn Clark both finished with scores of 35, which resulted in a count- back being required that saw Robyn declared the runner-up.

Leading the field so far for this week’s Italian Restaurant Weekly Stableford competition is Will Lawton and Mick Mason who have both returned scores of 30 Stableford points.

All the Nearest-ThePins were landed with Graham Burton claiming 2/11 and 9/18 and Rick Butler for 14.

The Cooktown Memorial RSL Club Monthly Medal competition is being played this weekend because the following weekend, as we know, is the Cooktown Open

Last Sunday was a busy day with lots of social and competition golfers going for a round. Sayah Scott had a great game to win the Sovereign Resort Sunday 9-Hole Stableford competition with a score of 18 points. Another count-back was required between Steve Butler, Andy Daly, Mark Rolan and Kim Haskell to decide the runner-up. They all returned scores of 16 points, but big Andy was declared the runner-up.

BUS SERVICE

Wal Welsh blitzed the field to finish with a

INLAND RUN DEPARTS CAIRNS

Andy takes the 45-shot honours

Bus Services

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DEPARTS COOKTOWN

Please ask around and see if you can find a group that is willing to raise some extra money for their club. If we can’t find anyone within the next week, the commit-

ond with 368, with Ross third with his 356.

Wed, Fri, Sun at 1.30pm – Arrives Cairns 6pm Sat at 12.30pm – arrives Cairns 5pm

Thanks Andy Daly for volunteering your time to man the on-course bar on the 7th/8th for Sunday only.

The “Shark’s” Tips – ‘Open Up On Short Irons’ - Ben Hogan had the right attitude on short-iron shots. He said, “I want to be known as the man who hit them the straightest, not the longest.”

The 8-iron, 9-iron, and wedges are the control clubs after all; so there’s no point in trying to slug them. I do give these irons a full swing, but I enhance my control with an important change at address. Whereas I address the longer clubs in

Mon, Wed and Fri at 7am

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Tues, Thurs and Sat at 7.30am

May dates for your diary include:

AGENTS

COOKTOWN (Photo Shop) 4069 5446 BLOOMFIELD (Ayton Store) 4060 8125 LAKELAND (Mobil Roadhouse) 4060 2188

Bus Service and Airport Shuttle Bus Bookings essential: 7 days 4069 5446 Owned and operated

by Allan Harlow

• The schedule is subject to change or to cancel without notice • Child fares • Student fares • Pensioner rates (not available on Saturdays)

LAST Wednesday night saw a 45-shot Standard Match contested.

Wednesday, 21 – Standard Match from 5.30pm; and

From a possible score of 450, Andy took the honours with his score of 391, followed by Karen in sec-

Wednesday, 28 – 3P Service Match from 5.30pm.

Janne Stewart Secretary/Treasurer.

a square stance - my feet, knees, hips, and shoulders are aligned parallel to a line extending from my ball to my target on the short irons, so I open things up a bit. I pull my left foot back a few centimetres from that parallel line, thus rotating my hips, knees, and shoulders a few degrees counterclockwise so that I’m aligned a bit to the left of my target.

This stance facilitates a more upright backswing and a more descending attack on the ball which, on the 8-iron, 9-iron, and wedges, will encourage a straight or softly leftto-right shot with a high, soft trajectory yet lots of backspin on landing.

Happy golfing everyone.

Kelly Barnett Manager Cooktown Golf Links.

Pistol shoot cancelled but rifle shoots are on

If you would like to try pistol shooting, you are welcome to come along at 5.30pm on a Wednesday night, just bring photo ID and closed in shoes.

COASTAL RUN DEPARTS CAIRNS

‘Travel with the Local Boy’

Unfortunately, the Hope Vale Aboriginal Academy are not going to do our barbecue breakfast and lunch catering for the Cooktown Open and the Endeavour Christian College are also unable. To help.

tee have decided they will need to call on our members to come out and work a morning and afternoon roster to do the barbecue. Please let me know if you can help.

Sporting Shooters Association Cape York Branch on Cameron Creek Road advises that the Pistol Shoot scheduled for this

Saturday, May 17 has been cancelled, while the Rifle Shoots are planned as advertised.

frustrating at the same time.

Contact the Rifle Discipline Captain Toby Graves on 0438 695 663 for information.

Saturday 17 - Rifle practice and Sightingin from 8am;

A small group attended the shotgun shoot last Saturday with challenging windy conditions, which made the shoot both entertaining and

The rest of May’s dates for your diary include:

Sunday 18 – Service Rifle Shoot from 9am; and Sunday 25 – Black Powder Shoot from 9am.

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THE ladies have been on the green recently with two major competitions taking place over the past few weeks - the Championship Pairs

and the A Grade Singles.

Mitchell and Alex Poberay with a score of 21–16.

May Rootsey and Merle O’Doherty had a cracking game in the Ladies Pairs defeating Trish

Then last weekend, the hotly contested A Grade Singles was held and won by Sue Steffensen,

beating Trish Muitchell 26–11. Trish is a bowler to keep an eye on in future games.

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HOPE Vale will have two sides and a combined Cooktown/Wujal Wujal/Laura another in the 2014 Cape Cluster competition in which Three Rivers teams will compete for the first time.

The Cape Cluster will be split into two zones - Northern Cape and Southern Cape.

Southern Cape sides will be Kowanyama, Pormpuraaw, Coen, Hope Vale (two) and Cooktown/Wujal/Laura combined.

Northern Cape teams will be Napranum Natives, Napranum Twal, Weipa Raiders, Goodline, NPA, Lockhart River and Aurukun.

Cairns-based QRL Regional Co-ordinator David Maiden told the Cooktown Local News on May 9 that he welcomed the Three Rivers sides.

“Thanks to the Three Rivers teams for competing in the Cape Cluster for the first time as well as NPA,” Maiden said.

Maiden spent some time in the Three Rivers

picked to compete for the Remote Area Rugby League (RARL) challenge in Cairns on the weekend of June 28 and 29.

League recently and has contacted officials of all clubs about the format.

“I have tried to speak with them all as to their preferences for this year’s competition and the overwhelming choice was to split the Cape into Northern and Southern zones to minimize travel and expense,” he said.

Other sides will be Bowen, Palm Island and Thursday Island’s Kaiwalagal Rugby League.

After that, a Northern United representative side will be picked to meet Queensland Outback on TI on 19th July.

“As a result, I proposed the following, looking forward to their feedback to see if they were happy with the format.

Maiden’s proposal was that both zones play a round robin format and will generally play two games at each venue. The top two teams in each zone would then play the semi-finals and a grand final on the weekend of September 6 in Coen, which is central in distance.

“There is an option to bring all teams down for that weekend and have a big gala weekend of footy with the kids playing as well,” he said.

Southern Cape round one games would be in Hope Vale on June 14

Cairns-based QRL Regional Co-ordinator David Maiden. Photo submitted. and Cooktown would host round four on August 16.

Southern Cape:

Competition dates and venues (proposed).

Rd 2 – July 12 – Coen;

Northern Cape:

Rd 3 – July 26 – Kowanyama;

Rd 1 – June 14 – Hope Vale;

Rd 1 - May 24 - Napranum (Weipa);

Rd 4 – August 16 – Cooktown; and

Rd 2 – June 14 – Bamaga;

Finals – September 6 – Coen.

Rd 3 – July 26 Lockhart River;

Cape Cluster players will have the opportunity for representative football with both Southern and Northern Zone sides to be

Rd 4 – August 16 Weipa or Aurukun; and Finals – September 6 – Coen.

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Fallen trees will create ‘dry’ fishing zones WITH all the newly-fallen trees in the rivers, those new tree snags will be dry zones for fishing for quite a while.

Fallen trees leak sap and resin into the water and fish do not like this at all.

After the cyclone surges flushing the Endeavour River, many areas that were sandy are now hard river bottom.

In the past, small boats could successfully use only a sand anchor in the Endeavour, but that is no longer possible for reliable anchoring. All boats now need to carry a plough type anchor to ensure safe anchoring.

While the many boats that went offshore the previous weekend had a gem indeed, last weekend certainly wasn’t flash for fishing because of the windy weather.

However, fishing for reef fish and offshore trolling for mackerel and other species is now largely limited by boat size in the prevailing windy conditions. If you are able to get offshore though, the mackerel are certainly still worth a try.

The full moon is today, Thursday, and the tides are strong. Over the weekend coming, the tidal flows will range from 1.6 to one metre in height.

Recently, mangrove Jacks and fingermark have been landed from the river mouth tidal zones, while the crabs are still on the go and there have been good numbers of golden trevally and small queenfish caught and landed from our rivers too.

Have a fun fishing week!

Tight lines.

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Above: Pat Elliott From Crib Point, Victoria with a 8kg permit she landed from the Endeavour River.

Top right: The Lure Shop’s Bart Johnson was pleased with this bar cheek coral trout.

Bottom right: Darren Murphy with this nicesized Spanish mackerel caught on the Lure Shop break down trip.

Photos submitted.

Rains come after Moses deserts Hash WHEN Hashers are abandoned by those who have the responsibility of providing a dry run, the elements take an unfair advantage.

Hash Trash

For many years Moses has managed to stop the rain for the Monday night run, hardly ever has he failed. When he did

fail, he always found an excuse to explain why his orders of no rain allowed on the run had been ignored. Thus his reputation grew and we have come to expect that the rain will stop for the Monday night run.

The warnings that things might be differ-

ent with his absence started on Sunday when a carefully-laid trail with chalk was washed away.

So Monday morning out came the toilet paper and the dreaded shredded and the trail was relaid.

With a howling wind and heavy scuds of rain all day, only the true,

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That means there were even less than last week!

At 5.30 pm the rain and wind stopped and so the small valiant group set forth following a non existing trail. Once they were on their way down came the rain, the

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wind blasted and battered them, but only one lonely Hasher bailed out and short cut it back to base.

When the wet and glowing crew returned complaining about the lost clues on a trail that they followed that didn’t exist, they were confronted by a curry that didn’t

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