The Weekly Advertiser – Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Abandoned resort back on course

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Apush to restart a bushfire-impacted, major tourist development in Hor sham has begun after an injection of State Government money boosted investor efforts.

Developers interested in revitalising the burnt-out Horsham Fairways Resort project on land beside Horsham Golf Club, left aban doned after 2009 Black Saturday bush fire damage, have met with nearby residents to discuss the site’s potential redevelopment.

Horsham Rural City Council facilitated the meeting, attended by about 40 nearby residents as well as the site’s landowners, after a suc cessful application from potential developers Australian Tourism Group, ATG, for State Government money in October.

The tourism development group won $345,000 as part of the State Government’s $10 million Enabling Tourism Fund for development of a masterplan for the site’s redevelopment.

The State Government fund, intended for ‘public and private tourism infrastructure pro jects’, included objectives ‘to drive investmentready status’ of tourism developments.

Horsham council investment, attraction and growth manager Fiona Gormann said there were no ‘concept plans’ at this stage, how ever ATG’s plans would be ‘developed and presented to key stakeholders for feedback in March 2023’.

She said the property and development under discussion formed part of the Horsham Golf Club Special Use Zone, and that all previouslyapproved building and planning permits had lapsed.

“Council has not received any planning appli cations from ATG for this site,” she said.

“The developer will be required to complete a planning application as per the Horsham Planning Scheme and also submit a building application.

“The development will go out for public no tice as per the planning scheme requirements.

“The owner and developer are committed to ensuring the residents in the surrounding areas are engaged throughout the development process.

“ATG informed attendees there are no con cept plans at this stage.”

Ms Gormann said the resident information meeting at Horsham Golf Club went beyond public consultation requirements to involve Haven and Horsham residents with the pro ject’s potential.

“The meetings and discussions being under taken by the owner and developer with the local residents are over and above statutory require ments,” she said.

“This is occurring as the owner and developer want to involve the local surrounding residents in the journey of this exciting project.

“The meeting and discussions were well re ceived by the residents who attended.”

Horsham Golf Club sold the site to Hor sham investors nearly two decades ago, with intentions for the club, and the resort, to be collaborative players in the project’s tourist attractiveness.

Horsham Golf Club president Gerard Bardell said despite the project still awaiting develop ment confirmation, the build would be ‘excit ing’ for the golf club, as well as for Horsham businesses and Wimmera people.

“From the club’s perspective, we will be working closely and waiting to be engaged, and we look forward to working with the develop ers,” he said.

“The project is still to come to fruition, and we imagine they are out there scoping for opportunities and working through feasibility studies.

“We have had preliminary discussions with the developers about the project, but nothing more than that at this stage.”

SPEEDY: Stawell Little Athletics Club members Isla Murphy and Matilda Giusa tear down the North Park track. Stawell athletes will be joined tomorrow by Country Fire Authority and Victoria Police personnel for a community-based sponsored ‘fun’ round of competition. Story, page 54.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Slashing teams working long hours

HRCC’s operations staff are working long hours to catch up on weatherimpacted slashing and mowing programs.

Acting Chief Executive Officer John Martin said the long wet winter this year had resulted in rapid growth in turf and grass across our municipality.

Persistent rainfall meant the latewinter roadside spraying program was less effective than usual and sodden roadsides have caused the slashing program to start very late.

However improved weather over the past few weeks has allowed slashing crews to focus on rural roads across the municipality, with at least one cut completed in most areas.

All of Council’s tractors are working 10.5 hours per day and two tractors normally used for urban mowing have been partly redeployed to rural slashing.

All up, more than 200 hours per week of work is going into roadside slashing as the crews try to catch up.

In urban areas, Council is currently receiving many requests for the mowing of parks as well as complaints about long grass on private land.

“We are aware that the public is concerned about roadside vegetation and the appearance of reserves and Council staff are too,” Mr Martin said.

“They take great pride in what they do however in many cases we have been unable to achieve our desired level of service, which the community are accustomed to, because of the inclement weather. Persistent rain and saturated soils have also prevented timely servicing of parks and reserves in some areas.

“This is a problem for many councils, not just ours,” he said.

Free Green Waste Disposal

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Green waste fees will be waived for HRCC residents and ratepayers across all waste management facilities until Wednesday November 30.

Councillor Column: Cr Penny Flynn

Sometimes it feels like we have a plan for everything. And for someone like me who likes to be organised a plan is always a great place to start and important reference document.

Every four years Council is required to develop a Council Plan. This plan has five key themes, Community, Liveability, Sustainability, Accessibility and Leadership.

This Council Plan also includes a Health and Wellbeing Plan. From this each year Council develops an Annual Action Plan outlining how we are going to deliver on the Council Plan.

There are nine priorities included in the Health Wellbeing plan.

One priority highlighted was improving sexual and reproductive health.

Engagement responses on this priority highlighted that some people in our community did not have a good understanding of services available for support safe sexual practices and reproductive health.

To support this priority, the Annual Action Plan includes the following action aligned with Liveability: “In partnership with our health and wellbeing partners, advocate for the provision of locally based sexual health and reproductive health services and outreach programs”.

We are fortunate in this region to have the organisation Women’s Health Grampians who strive to see improvements in women’s equality, health and wellbeing in the Grampians region and further afield.

I was however disappointed, when reading the Department of Health – Victorian Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan 2022-30, to learn of the planned location of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Hubs. New hubs where established this year in Warrnambool, Shepparton and Gippsland.

What about Horsham and the north west of the state?

To access these hubs women from the Wimmera and Mallee would need to travel to Bendigo, Ballarat or Warrnambool.

On behalf of women who choose to make western Victoria their home, advocacy work for women’s health in our region needs to continue to ensure we have equal access and do not need to travel to access these important health services.

MAYORAL ELECTION

Members of the public are advised that Horsham Rural City Council will hold a Council Meeting on Thursday 17 November 2022 at 5.30pm in the Municipal Offices, Council Chamber, Roberts Avenue, Horsham.

The purpose of the Council Meeting will be for the election of the Mayor and related matters.

The meeting will also be livestreamed on the Horsham Rural City Council website www.hrcc.vic.gov.au.

assist residents with property clean-up, Horsham Rural City Council is offering free green waste disposal until the end of November.

Shortage of polling staff in Lowan

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Election managers have high lighted a shortage of work ers for Wimmera, southern Mallee and southern Grampians polling stations ahead of this month’s State Election.

Victorian Electoral Commission, VEC, support officer for Western Victoria Graeme Sargent said Lowan electorate district, which encompasses Horsham and Hamilton regional cen tres, southern Mallee and Northern Grampians municipalities, as well as swathes of Ararat shire, were short of required staff.

Mr Sargent said public sector work ers in metropolitan areas had been offered secondments to regional Vic toria to help fill a shortage of elec tion workers across Lowan electoral

district. However, he said despite the shortage, he was confident every poll ing station would be staffed on No vember 26, election day.

Mr Sargent said the VEC had ‘most ly’ filled management electoral po sitions across Lowan, however had not employed enough issuing officers, ‘general’ election-day workers.

As of yesterday morning, the Lowan electoral office, based in Horsham, had filled only 65 percent of required electoral workers.

A VEC statement reported neigh bouring Ripon district, which includes Ararat voters, had filled 90 percent of required staff, however noted Lowan district, the state’s largest electorate district covering more than 40,000 square kilometres, was almost three times larger than Ripon.

Mr Sargent said there were 53 voting

stations across Lowan and 106 trained management staff were required across the district, two per location, and that those jobs were always the VEC’s priority before issuing officer positions were filled.

He acknowledged the district’s elec toral office was having to ‘work hard er than usual’ to find election workers in ‘pockets’ of Lowan.

“Lowan is the biggest district, it is a huge job to get people to take on that electoral worker responsibility, especially at a management level. It involves a lot of training, both online and face-to-face,” he said.

“I encourage people to register for non-management positions, too – it doesn’t guarantee work because of course we are chasing people in spe cific areas. But we can’t employ peo ple if they are not on our VEC data

base. We will be hiring people even in this late pre-election stage.”

Election manager at Lowan’s elec torate office Lynne Sargent said vot ing centres near Stawell, Warrack nabeal and areas south-east of the Grampians were in more urgent need of election staff.

“Voting centres west of and north of Horsham seem to be doing pretty good with registered staff, but we are still a little short in Warracknabeal and in and around the Stawell area, too,” she said.

“In particular, we are after manage rial staff for Stawell-region centres.”

Mrs Sargent said even though the figures ‘perhaps sounded grim’, the reality was a ‘majority’ of unfilled election jobs across Lowan were ‘pack down’ jobs.

“It has been more difficult to organ

Industry accolades for newspaper staff

Four staff members at The Weekly Advertiser received high accolades at a Victorian newspaper awards night.

The winners were recognised at the Victorian Country Press Association annual awards on Friday.

Photographer Paul Carracher won best sports photo in a 6000-plus circulation section with ‘Gotcha!’– a perfectly timed cricket action shot.

The photograph featured on the back page of the March 2 edition.

Carracher captured Homers wick et-keeper Luke Deutscher turning a slick throw by Paddy Mills into a wicket as he caught NoradjuhaToolondo’s Justtin Combe short of ground and sent stumps and bails flying at Horsham Sunnyside reserve.

Journalist Sarah Matthews won best news story in a 6000-plus circulation section with ‘I love him – Transplant hope for Bodhi’s family’.

The story, in last year’s October 27 edition, followed the story of young Bodhi who had been diagnosed with alpha-mannosidosis – a rare, incurable and degenerative storage disorder affecting about 200 people worldwide.

After initially being told by doctors ‘there was nothing they could do’, Bodhi’s family fought to find a way to stop his condition from worsening.

A bone marrow transplant was Bo dhi’s only hope and he was a match with his sister, Billie, and at the time of publishing the story, the family was hopeful a transplant would oc cur soon.

Advertising account manager Lee

circulation section.

The winning advertisement was “Are you up to the challenge?” cre ated for Morrow Motor Group in The Weekly Advertiser’s October 6, 2022 edition.

ACE Radio Broadcasters Hor

sham general manager Brendan O’Loughlin said it was a credit to the team behind The Weekly Adver tiser to be recognised across three categories.

“To be producing a product with award-winning advertising, pictures and news articles is an honour,” he said.

“Paul, Lee, Kelly and Sarah are all very deserving of their awards and we are proud of the work they do each week.

“It was a great event and to be ac knowledged for the work of our team was a perfect way to cap it off.”

– Abby Walter

ise this year,” she said. “After COVID restrictions people are less willing to give up their time, even though these jobs are paid.”

Mrs Sargent said the district still needed to fill about 35 percent of its 270 election day jobs across the district.

A VEC spokesperson said the VEC would continue to monitor staffing levels as election day approached and would ‘respond appropriately’ if need ed, however there was no indication at this stage that voting centres would not be able to operate on election day as planned.

People can register to work at the State Election through the VEC web site vec.vic.gov.au

All VEC election jobs are paid roles.

Disability commission

Disability Matters Horsham commu nity sessions to support people with disabilities and their families to par ticipate in Australia’s Disability Royal Commission, originally scheduled for October 20 but cancelled as the region braced for possible flooding, are oc curring between 1pm and 4pm tomor row, and 9am and noon on Friday at Horsham Neighbourhood House.

The sessions, hosted by Your Story Disability Legal Support and Rights Information and Advocacy Centre, will link up people with experience and knowledge of disability exploita tion with free legal advice and Royal Commission advocates on how af fected people could share their story.

Your Story Disability Legal Sup port lawyer Michelle Bowler said the Horsham sessions would remain free and would provide information, dem onstrations, submission support and access to onsite support including legal advice and counselling.

“Staff from the Disability Royal Commission will also be there to speak with residents and are par ticularly interested in hearing about people’s experiences in supported in dependent living facilities and group homes,” she said.

Public submissions to the Disability Royal Commission close on Decem ber 31.

For more information and to regis ter for Disability Matters Horsham, people can call Your Story Disability Legal Support on 1800 77 1800, free call.

Meadows and graphic designer Kelly Laird won best print advertisement in a 6000-plus

TOP OF THEIR FIELD: The Weekly Advertiser staff, from left, Lee Meadows, Kelly Laird, Sarah Matthews and Paul Carracher won Victorian Country Press Association awards for advertising, journalism and photography last week.

Picture: ABBY WALTER

Electoral hopefuls on campaign path

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Candidate nominations for this month’s State Election have closed as electoral hopefuls start the final leg of their pre-poll cam paigns.

Western Victorian voters will head to the polls to cast their vote on Saturday, November 26, to select their preferred representatives for each of the state’s two chambers of parliament.

State Member for Lowan Emma Kealy will stand for re-election in the State’s Legislative Assembly, the parliament’s ‘Lower House’, while six representative challengers have nominated to contest Ms Kealy’s in cumbency.

They are, in ballot order; Richard Etherton, Angry Victorians Party; Emma Kealy, The Nationals; Tamasin Ramsay, Animal Justice Party; Rob ert Coleman, Family First Victoria; Amanda Mead, Independent; Mick

Monaghan, Labor; and Richard Lane, Greens.

Voters in Hindmarsh, Yarriambiack, West Wimmera, Horsham, Glenelg and Southern Grampians will vote for their preferred Lowan district repre sentative, as will most voters in Ara rat Rural City Council and Northern Grampians Shire.

With a change in Lowan’s elec toral boundaries before the 2022 State Election, voters in Stawell and Great Western will vote as part of the Lowan district, rather than within the neigh bouring seat of Ripon as they did in 2018.

Voters in Ararat and the eastern part of Ararat Rural City have remained in Ripon for the 2022 ballot, as have voters in the north-eastern part of Northern Grampians Shire.

State Member for Ripon Louise Staley will re-contest her seat, with confirmed challenges from seven can didates, in ballot order; Luke Smith,

Shooters, Fishers and Farmers; Wayne Rigg, Independent; Earl James, Greens; Martha Haylett, Labor; Wren Louise Wilson, Derryn Hinch’s Jus tice Party; Louise Staley, Liberal; Holly Sitters, Animal Justice Party; Craig George, Family First Victoria; and Bernard Quince, Independent.

In the 2018 State Election, Ms Sta ley defeated Labor candidate Sarah De Santis by only 15 votes after pref erences were distributed.

Ms Kealy won in Lowan with a significantly more comfortable margin than Ms Staley; Ms Kealy defeating her closest challenger Maurice Billi by 17,938 votes after preferences were distributed.

Two-tier ballot

Voters in Ripon and Lowan will also cast their vote for their preferred Legislative Council representatives, the state’s ‘Upper House’, on Novem ber 26.

Five elected Western Victoria region

candidates in the Legislative Council will represent the collective districts of Lowan and Ripon, as well as Bel larine, Eureka, Geelong, Lara, Mel ton, Polwarth, South Barwon, SouthWest Coast and Wendouree.

Labor representative Jaala Pulford will not contest in the 2022 election, however Beverley McArthur, Liberal; Gayle Tierney, Labor; Stuart Grimley, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party; and Andy Meddick, Animal Justice Party, will all re-contest.

Voters can find further information about the 57 candidates standing for Western Victoria region on the Vic torian Electoral Commission website.

Voting early

For people who would prefer to cast their vote before November 26, early voting centres across Lowan and Ripon opened on Monday.

There will be three early-voting cen tres available for Lowan voters, at St Johns Anglican Hall, 10 Andrew

Students enhance Dimboola’s memorial

A new mural and extension of Dim boola’s Avenue of Honour at Dim boola Memorial Secondary College honour former and current service men and women.

Student Evan Barber painted a mu ral depicting a soldier for the front of the school.

“I really wanted to do something to improve the look of the school, so I thought I would paint a mural,” he said.

“I got some ideas from students and together we came up with the idea, before I worked with a teacher to decide on the final design.

“It came up really well and I’m re ally proud of it.”

Dimboola RSL president Brian Bosworth said an extension of trees at the college’s Avenue of Honour was complete.

“The initial purpose of the exten sion was to close off a gap, but we saw an opportunity to earmark the trees in honour of the Army, Navy and Airforce,” he said.

“It’s a reminder that the sacrifices of servicemen and women are not over, it’s continuing and I imagine will continue forever.

“I don’t want Dimboola students to join the Army, Navy or Airforce, I would love to think we will arrive at a time when that’s not necessary, but while it is necessary, I know that some of them will.”

Mr Bosworth said the college had

significance as the place of the town’s memorial.

“We do not have a soldier stand ing in the street resting on arms or anything like that, the school and its avenue of honour are our memorial,” he said.

“We come here for ANZAC Day; the students come here every day, so we need to maintain it.

“The school has two purposes, the most important is education, but al

most as important to the community is the fact it is the memorial.”

Principal Sally Klinge said work was done to make areas of the college more aesthetically pleasing.

“We had landscaping done and the school council felt that Elizabeth Hall, a former student who gave a significant bequest to the school, should be recognised, so we have done that with the newly landscaped area,” she said.

“Being a memorial school means a lot to our students.

“Evan’s mural depicts a soldier thinking respectfully about lost mates and the sacrifices that people made.

“It’s a message we send to our stu dents through our ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day services.

“I think they are all very proud of the school’s history, so it’s important to acknowledge that with the mural and Avenue of Honour.”

Street; Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre, 31-33 Lambert Street, Ararat; and 110 Brown Street, Hamilton. Gum San will also double as an early voting centre for Ripon.

Mail voting

Postal vote applications opened in early November and people can ap ply to vote by post until Wednesday, November 23.

Ballot packs for postal voters started making their way to voters on Mon day, and voters can drop off their completed ballots to any voting centre or post it back to the electoral com mission before 6pm on election day.

Postal voters with ‘unreliable’ mail delivery can have their ballot packs emailed to them, however the ballot form must be printed and returned to a voting centre or by mail to the VEC. No online voting is available.

People wanting further information about any State Election matters can visit website vec.vic.gov.au

Hyslop elected

Karen Hyslop has returned to the role of Northern Grampians Shire council lor, Kara Kara Ward representative.

Ms Hyslop was elected in a byelection to fill former mayor, the late Tony Driscoll’s seat, and took the oath of office on Monday.

Ms Hyslop resigned from her posi tion as Northern Grampians councillor in November 2020 after eight years of Kara Kara Ward representation.

Ms Hyslop secured 45.21 percent of first preference votes, ahead of Prue McAllister at 43.6 percent and Amelia Kingston at 11.2 percent.

Ms Hyslop was elected with 52.34 percent of votes after distribution ahead of Mrs McAllister with 47.66 percent.

Water releases

Planned releases of treated wastewater flowed into western Victorian streams and catchments last week.

GWMWater released water from Warracknabeal and Willaura wastewa ter treatment plants into the Yarriam biack Creek and Cockajemmy Lakes, after treated water storages increased because of non-use.

GWMWater director Mark Williams said the treated water was typically used on racetracks, golf courses, vine yards and recreational reserves in the region.

Water from the Warracknabeal plant was released downstream of the War racknabeal Weir Pool, while water from Willaura plant was classified as ‘Class C’.

Appointments to the boards of directors of public health services, public hospitals, multi purpose services, early parenting centres, Ambulance Victoria, HealthShare Victoria and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare)

The Department of Health is pleased to invite applications for part time board director positions of public health services, public hospitals (including early parenting centres), multi purpose services, Ambulance Victoria, HealthShare Victoria and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) with terms of office commencing from 1 July 2023.

These positions provide an exciting opportunity for members of the Victorian public to contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities. Applicants are selected for their capabilities, including personal and professional attributes, skills, knowledge, and experience that contribute to the strategic leadership of public health care for the Victorian community.

Safe and high quality healthcare for all Victorians is a priority of the Department of Health. Applicants must be able to demonstrate and provide evidence in support of the capabilities they identify in their applications.

The Department of Health is committed to ensuring boards, and committees, reflect the rich diversity of the Victorian community. We encourage applications from women, people of all ages, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender diverse, intersex and queer people.

Applications close at Midnight Monday 21 November 2022

Further information including how to apply, please visit www.health.vic.gov.au/board-applications

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HONOURING: Dimboola Memorial Secondary College year-12 student Evan Barber unveils an ANZAC mural he painted for the school.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Hot water – as simple as turning on a tap

It seems amazing today in a modern world that so ciety considered having a household hot-water sys tem a luxury.

In relative terms, before the read ily available connections to gas and electricity we can now enjoy, hot water came from a glorified kettle on a wood stove.

There would be some still among us who would remember those days, especially if they had child hoods in remote rural areas.

But being part of a modern Aus tralian society means those Spar tan days are long gone and what we look at now is how far wa ter-heating technology has come and accompanying efficiencies.

While the basics of understand ing modern hot-water systems is now commonplace, market de mand for high-quality and seam less operation has led to out standing products.

Access to instant hot water, after all, has almost become a right more than privilege to the average Australian householder.

Wade’s in Horsham constantly keep a close eye on these devel opments and through a process of analysis and assessment have identified Rinnai hot-water sys tems as their products of choice.

Wade’s recommend, install and service electric and gas Rinnai systems for customers across the Wimmera and beyond.

Wade’s plumbing manager Steve Crowe said three products stood out in popularity – the Rinnai Elec tric Hotflo, Rinnai Gas Hotflo and Rinnai Continuous flow units.

He said the Rinnai Electric Hot flo ranged in size from 25 to 400 litres, has plug-in models available for 25-litre and 50-litre units, vit reous enamel tanks and single or twin-element configurations from 160 to 400 litres.

“There are dual-handed connec tions for flexible installations and

ideal for emergency installations.

Soft and hard-water anodes are available and there are extensive cylinder warranties – seven years for 25 and 50-litre models and 10 years for 80 to 400 litres,” he said.

“When it comes to Rinnai Gas Hotflo systems, 135 and 170-litre models available that run on natu ral or LPG gas.

Mr Crowe said “The products are designed for easy change-over, with inlets and outlet locations the same as older three and four-star

tanks and 135-litre models come with 4.7 rating efficiency and 170 litres with a 4.0 rating. There is also an eight-year cylinder war ranty,” he said.

Mr Crowe said Rinnai caused a stir in the hot-water-supply indus try in the early 1990s when it pio neered continuous-flow hot-water systems.

“The breakthrough, involving Australia’s first fully electronic gas continuous-flow hot-water sys tems, represented a revolution in

the hot-water services and pro vided people with confidence that they would never run out of hot water. And that is important,” he said.

He said the Rinnai Infinity system range included a ‘Builders’ range of standard 16, 20 and 26-litre models.

He said a wide ‘Infinity’ range of premium models included12, 16, 20, 26, Touch, 32 and new 28-litre Internal models.

“An ‘Enviro’ range comes with highly efficient seven-star-equiva lent condensing models in 16, 26 and 32 litres,” he said.

“There is an average six-star efficiency rating through the se ries and other features such as built-in anti-frost protection, mar ket-leading minimum flow rates to suit AAA-rating fixtures and wide range of hot-water controllers and accessories.

“Infinity and Enviro models come with a market-leading 13+12-year heat-exchanger warranty of up to 25 years and have a three-year cover for parts and labour, which increases to five years if two or more hot-water controllers are in stalled with the unit.

“A Builders range comes with 10+5-year heat-exchanger war ranty of up to 15 years and three years cover for parts and labour.”

Pioneer of the ‘continuous flow’ hot water system.

In the early 90s Rinnai forever changed the way Australians enjoyed hot water, with our launch of the country’s first fully electronic gas continuous flow hot water systems. It was a revolutionary leap that provided total confidence and comfort by knowing that your hot water would never run out. We called it Rinnai Infinity.

Rebates of up to $500 may be available when upgrading from electric to gas

HOT STUFF: Wade’s staff member Steve Crowe with the range of Rinnai hot water services. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Horsham

station and 7-Eleven outlet to be built at the current Action Aids site on Dooen Road, adjacent to the

The council has made minimal effort to contact a handful of adjacent residents and affected businesses. It has not been advertised, as per usual, either. Why not?

This will be a 24-7 operation and will naturally cause some considerable distress to the Dooen Road Milk Bar and Ampol service station around the corner in Bail lie Street.

Do we really need yet more competition to established locals in these two retail areas? There are 10 fuel outlets in Hor sham already.

The proposed site is currently listed as residential on the 2022 Horsham Zoning Plan, despite what has previously been there.

It is a prime residential area and will certainly cause considerable depreciation of adjacent home values – of which I am one, living directly opposite.

Dooen Road comprises considerable her itage value and does not need this type of business included at all, in such a prime location. I hope the council does not view this as a positive outcome.

Being a 24-7 operation, this 7-Eleven and fuel station outlet will create a large amount of noise, air and light pollution.

It will become a gathering place at all hours for youth and traffic – probably with associated, potential issues.

It will also create massive traffic dis ruption to an already overly-busy double intersection, where three highways meet, and this is exclusive of the large hospital and residential traffic which joins via Bail lie Street.

Ambulances, school buses, countless trucks and general traffic, somehow juggle to get through here on a daily basis.

The plan is to exit B-Doubles into Baillie Street – plainly ridiculous.

Major traffic alterations will be required to accommodate this fuel outlet.

Dooen Road will likely lose one lane in its approach to the traffic lights, just where it is most needed.

There are much more suitable, commer cially zoned sites just a little further north along Dooen Road.

If it really must go ahead, move it from this residential area.

I strongly urge the council to consider local Horsham ratepayers, many more of whom should be included in this discus sion, before it goes ahead, if that is what the council decides.

Leigh Hammerton Dooen Road, Horsham

Historical trees

A small notice on the Horsham Rural City Council page in The Weekly Advertiser, November 2 – Re: Horsham caravan park tree removal.

I wonder if anyone who read it knew of the history of these trees?

Following is an overview of their history.

The funding came from one of the public minded and generous donors to this then town, Mr James Millar of the May and Millar foundry.

The avenue was planted with sugar gums, prior to 1905. According to a news paper report that year, they were being watered and weeded, to facilitate a wide walkway from Horsham Botanic Gardens to the then swimming crate in the Wim mera River. This was a time when people who wished to learn to swim used this early form of our swimming pool.

The avenue, designed to both beautify the area and encourage locals and visitors to stroll from the gardens to the river, no doubt also offered shade and firewood as sugar gums, I am lead to believe, are gen erally used for that purpose.

Both the May and Millar families gave much to this town to assist citizens in their aims to grow and develop as a community.

Along with the avenue, James Millar and his family were instrumental in fi nancially aiding the fire brigade, donating the drinking fountain now located in May Park, and just prior to his death in 1910 he authorised that gas lamps be fitted in dark street locations and to the Wesley church, by donating the organ, now in the Wesley Performing Arts Centre.

The Horsham City Brass Band was an other group to benefit. After forming in 1872 and practising for their outplays in many and varied sites, including the May and Millar foundry, a skin store, the Cri terion Hotel’s billiard room, a Firebrace Street foundry and private homes, James Millar saw the need for them to have a secure home and gave the much needed additional funds to build a permanent band hall, which opened in Pynsent Street in 1908.

So much of the legacy of these two families has been lost including their two foundry buildings; two beautiful homes on Victoria Parade, now Dimboola Road, are now a vacant block and a service station and sadly the Pynsent Street band hall was destroyed by fire in 1966.

Contact that I have had with visitors to Horsham indicate that people are inter ested in local history and so I am hoping that the council staff will have the insight to maintain the few remaining Millar av enue trees.

A report that the trees are termite infest ed, their regrowth is poorly attached and they are past their useful life expectancy is not available to the public.

Helen Curkpatrick Haven

Ararat to Stawell

I noticed the duplication of the Western Highway between Ararat and Stawell was raised again as an election issue by the Liberal-National Party, November 2.

My first reaction was, if this was so important, why didn’t they complete the project when they were in power, at state and federal levels? Clearly, we are being played for fools, yet again.

I can remember attending a review of this project at least four to five years ago, when some ‘Very Important Persons’ came to Ararat to hear submissions.

An environmental impact statement was discussed, but the proponents admitted that it was ‘quick and dirty’ and conducted in summer – when the vulnerable things looked for, including the Golden Sun Moth, froglets and rice-flowers were sim ply not around.

VicRoads showed lots of pretty pictures of sweeping roads, but when I asked where the rubbish collection, school bus and postal services would run, they had no answer.

It seemed to me that access to local farms would be worse, rather than improved.

Interestingly, none of the issues raised made it into the final report, posted online.

The simple fact is, the project does not stack up.

Spending half a billion dollars to cut no more than three minutes off the travel time between the outskirts of Ararat and the outskirts of Stawell is an absurdity.

What is needed is to take the kink out of the highway where it crosses over the railway line to the south of Stawell and to develop a bypass for Great Western.

If this bypass was duplicated, then it would add sufficient roadway for easy passing of slow traffic.

All that would then remain, would be to re-do the whole of the highway pavement between Ararat and Stawell.

The hundreds of millions of dollars saved should then be spent on repair of the Western Highway, west of Ballarat, which is in a deplorable state.

Cor Lenghaus Armstrong

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BY MICHAEL SCALZO

There has been a leadership change in Hindmarsh council, with the shire’s deputy mayor stepping up to take the top job.

Hindmarsh Shire councillors voted four-to-two for deputy mayor Brett Ireland to take over as mayor from councillor Melanie Albrecht during the council’s statutory meeting last week.

Cr Albrecht did not renominate for mayor. Cr Rob Gersch nominated Cr Ireland for the role and was supported by Crs Albrecht and Ismay. Cr Albrecht was elected deputy mayor.

Cr Ireland, a Mornington Peninsula expat, was elected to serve his first term as councillor in the November 2020 election.

He said his election as mayor was ‘surreal’.

“A little over two years ago I was cutting down trees at the golf club, cooking barbeques on Aus tralia Day, and doing what everyone in this shire does for their community,” he said.

“Cr Ron Ismay approached me one day while in Jeparit to see if I was interested in being a councillor.

“Back then I didn’t even know there was remu neration for the role, so I probably got into this for the right reasons.

“My journey started from there – now I am sit ting here as shire mayor.”

Cr Ireland said having broad council support for his mayorship was ‘flattering’ and that he would be ‘spoilt’ in his role as the shire’s ribboncutting figurehead.

“There are so many good infrastructure pro jects on the go at the moment and it has all come from the good work of council staff,” he said. “My job will be launching all these projects to the public.”

Cr Ireland said the Wimmera River Discovery Trail project, refurbishments at Jeparit swim ming hole, Rainbow Recreation Reserve chan

geroom updates, master plans for Jeparit and Rainbow caravan parks, and construction of the new Nhill Tennis Club clubroom were highlights of upcoming shire-funded project launches.

He said what makes a good mayor was one that led from the ‘heart’.

“I have been heavily involved with the opera tion of sports clubs before and I have always got my hands dirty in the community,” he said.

“I am hoping to be in the role for a while and I just want to help my community the best I can.

“I don’t see it about being me – it is an op portunity to help the towns in the shire. It is an opportunity I haven’t had before.”

Cr Deborah Neslon also nominated Cr Wendy Bywaters for the mayoral position.

Council determined Cr Ireland’s mayoral term of office would be one year.

Armstrong: Let’s get more stuff done

Councillor Jo Armstrong is starting her fourth term as Ararat Rural City mayor after the coun cil’s statutory meeting last week.

Cr Bob Sanders nominated Cr Armstrong for the role, and as the only nomination, she was duly elected.

Cr Armstrong nominated Cr Sanders for the role of deputy mayor, which was also the only nomination and he was re-elected.

Cr Armstrong said she was looking forward to continuing to work with Cr Sanders in the coming year.

“You are dedicated, you are enthusiastic and it’s been great working alongside you,” she said.

The council voted unanimously for both roles to have a term of one year.

Cr Armstrong said she was grateful for the on going support and trust of her fellow councillors.

“For me, the most valuable and important fea ture of this council term continues to be the very people I work with,” she said.

“We’re an effective team of individuals and we each bring our various strengths and experi ences to work together for what is best for Ararat Rural City.

“I thank you all for your commitment to fulfil our duties to serve our community respect fully and responsibly to the best of our skills and judgement. We are stronger together.”

Cr Armstrong said the council had achieved ‘a great deal’ over the past two years.

“We’re experiencing real momentum and we’re building opportunities to grow this place,” she said.

“How exciting is the second half of our council term going to be – let’s get more stuff done.”

Cr Brett Ireland

As we navigate our way through the easing of Coronavirus restrictions, it’s good to remember we’re #StrongerTogether.

Council Update

NEW EXHIBITION: NOTIONS OF CARE

Ararat Gallery TAMA is thrilled to open a new thoughtprovoking exhibition, ‘Notions of Care’.

Notions of Care is a thematic group exhibition bringing together artists’ projects from across Australia to explore the intersection between art and ideas related to care.

The exhibition invites audiences to consider how contemporary artists cultivate practices that nurture audiences, look after the environment, support themselves and attend to those around them.

Notions of Care is a Bus Projects exhibition touring with NETS Victoria. This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and received assistance from NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund 2020, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

Find out more by contacting the Gallery - gallery@ararat. vic.gov.au or 03 5355 0220.

COMMUNITY AND EVENTS GRANTS

PROGRAM

Applications are open and will close 17 November!

Ararat Rural City Council’s Community and Events Grants provide funding to clubs, organisations and community groups for the provision of programs, projects, activities, and events that deliver outcomes for the benefit of Ararat Rural City.

For more info and to apply, visit www.ararat.vic.gov. au .

ARARAT OUTDOOR POOL SEASON

The Ararat Outdoor Olympic Pool is now open for the 2022/23 summer season. The outdoor pool is open from 6am - 9am Monday to Friday and 1pm - 7pm on the weekend.

Season passes are available from the Ararat Fitness Centre Customer Service Desk. Passes are $90 Adult, $60 Child, $150 Family.

For more information on the outdoor pools and municipalities’ aquatic facilities, phone (03) 5352 1064.

ARARAT POUND: LOOKING TO ADOPT?

Missy is a female staffy cross, approximately 3-4 years old, very sweet natured and active. Her foster parents say that she is very well behaved and would suit a a young family.

Ararat Rural City Council community safety officers can assist with more information on pet adoption, call 5355 0920 or email locallaws@ararat.vic.gov.au if interested.

Laneway Exhibition Space Launches with Carey Street Kinder

Barkly Street Breezeway has been transformed into a vi brant, outdoor exhibition space that features the talents of local, emerging, and young creatives from the region.

Ararat Rural City Council’s new Outdoor Exhibition Space led by Ararat Gallery TAMA is the final addition to the Barkly Street Breezeway project, transforming the laneway into a more lively, usable, and engaging space.

Ararat Gallery TAMA Visual Arts Coordinator, Katy Mitch ell, said the Barkly Street Exhibition Space is very much an extension of the Community Wall featured in Ararat Gallery TAMA.

“The Gallery is thrilled to install our very first project by Carey Street Kindergarten in the fabulous new art boxes found in the Barkly Street Laneway,” Ms Mitchell said.

“The ability to support local artists and young creatives by displaying their work in a high-traffic, public space is a privilege; I’m proud to deliver yet another community gallery for everyone to enjoy.

“The Laneway Exhibition Space offers a creative out door experience and adds an element of inspiration, imagination, and joy to how visitors and our community experiences the Ararat CBD.”

Carey Street Kindergarten teacher Lucie Kennedy is thrilled for the Laneway Exhibition Space to feature a recent project by her 3-year-old group focusing on the indigenous seasons.

“The class was learning about the Djab Wurrung season of ‘Larneuk’ which runs from July to August and is the wettest time of year in this region. During this period, it’s also the season of the nesting bird which is what the project is based on,” said Ms Kennedy.

“Before we started the project, we looked at pictures of local bird nests for inspiration – the children had a choice of materials and took inspiration from each other’s work.

“I was impressed with the creativity displayed by the young ones, especially in some of their project descrip tions.”

This outdoor community exhibition space was created thanks to support from the Victorian Government’s COVID Safe Outdoor Activation Fund 2021, as part of a larger laneway refurbishment project.

Ararat Gallery TAMA is seeking local artists and commu nity groups to exhibit in the Laneway Exhibition Space.

Council

• Willaura Rec Reserve – 2:45pm

• Moyston Rec Reserve – 4:30 pm

Times and venues:

• Buangor Rec Reserve – 9:30am

• Tatyoon Rec Reserve –11:15am

• Lake Bolac Info & Business Centre - 1pm

These sessions will cover how impacted residents can provide data to Council, ask questions, seek support from agencies such as Agriculture Victoria and Emergency Recovery Victoria, and learn more on Council’s partnership with Landmate.

For more information contact Kristi on KSullivan@ararat.vic.gov.au or phone 0408 845 214.

Fireworks spectacular returns

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Apyro-musical show will light up skies above Horsham this month as a fireworks to music spectacular returns to the show ground.

ACE Radio’s MIXX FM and Bal larat-based Northern Fireworks will build on their 2021 Kannamaroo Fes tival collaboration to construct an other purpose-built fireworks-musical display – a headline event within the region’s annual November festival.

Northern Fireworks director and lead pyrotechnician Matthew Batty said his 2022 Kannamaroo sky show had been specially designed to sync with music broadcast via MIXX FM.

“We thought we would do some thing special last year coming out of COVID and we wanted to continue that this year,” he said.

“The fireworks will sync up to a specially-designed song medley broadcast live on the radio – with the fireworks mirroring the dynamics of the music.”

Mr Batty said the show would not be

a ‘typical small-fete style’ fireworks display.

“We will have multiple firing posi tions set up that will allow us to fire, in time with the music, the entire range of pyrotechnics we offer,” he said.

Mr Batty said with a background in sound design, he had worked closely with ACE Radio Horsham content director Adam Roche to design a suit able song playlist and to construct the technological syncopation required to make sure both the radio broadcast and the fireworks worked in perfect time with each other.

“It is all about dynamics – to design a show that fuses the dynamics of the music into the fireworks,” Mr Batty said.

Mr Roche said it was a ‘no-brainer’ to collaborate with Northern Fire works again for this year’s Kannama roo festival.

“We don’t get to do this kind of show very often,” he said.

“Last year was a great success, bring ing everyone together after we emerged from tough COVID restrictions.

“MIXX FM ran a countdown for weeks leading up to the fireworks display before broadcasting live from the showground to a great sky-show display that followed the music we were playing.”

Mr Roche encouraged people to head along to Horsham Showground on the Saturday evening to watch the fire works, while they listened to MIXX FM presenters broadcast the evening live.

“Come together, come to the show ground and listen to MIXX FM and be dazzled by the fireworks,” he said.

“If people can’t make it along physi cally, they should tune in on their radio at home, or in the car, and watch the fireworks wherever they are.”

Mr Roche said radio streaming ser vices would, however, carry a broad cast delay that would disrupt the tim ing of the firework-music show.

He said it was best to listen in on a digital, analog or car radio.

“If people can’t get to the show ground, I recommend they drive to their favourite spot with a clear view of the sky and listen to MIXX FM from their car,” he said.

Kannamaroo Festival activities take over Horsham from 6pm on Friday, November 23, with live music, mar kets and rides set to line Firebrace Street.

Activities continue on the Saturday, with scheduled events including water skiing, music and rides at several loca tions around town before the culmina tion of pyro-musical fireworks.

On Sunday, events include a pool party and an outdoor film at Horsham Soundshell geared at families.

NBN upgrade

Stawell and St Arnaud will receive upgrades to better support Fibre To The Node to Fibre To The Premis es infrastructure.

NBN Co and the State Govern ment announced a co-investment through the $550 million Connect ing Victoria program to improve broadband infrastructure.

These upgrades are expected to considerably enhance the capabili ties of the network in the area.

Improving connectivity is part of Northern Grampians Shire’s Com munity Vision 2021-41.

Mayor Kevin Erwin said it was a wonderful outcome for Stawell and St Arnaud communities.

“We continue to advocate in ac cordance with the vision set out by our shire residents and these dig ital infrastructure upgrades are a central part of this vision,” he said.

“The council has always had a strong advocacy agenda, but there are many instances where the com munity does not see our efforts.

“Rest assured, the council is working hard behind the scenes to ensure our vision comes to life.”

College STEAM centre official

Horsham’s St Brigid’s College officially opened the school’s new STEAM centre.

The educational centre integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathemati cal, STEAM, subjects.

St Brigid’s College principal Gerard Raven said the opening of the STEAM building marked the completion of stage one of the school’s mas terplan, which included a $7-million building and landscaping works.

“It’s a state-of-the-art learning facility for our students and a comfortable and safe student hub for their social development,” he said.

“We’re now excited to start planning the next stage of our development, which includes up grading student amenities and the cafe and canteen space.”

Mr Raven said the building was officially opened by Senator Jana Stewart and the Blessing was done by Monsignor Glynn Murphy.

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“Come together, come to the showground and listen to MIXX FM and be dazzled by the fireworks. If people can’t make it along physically, they should tune in on their radio at home, or in the car, and watch the fireworks wherever they are”

– Adam Roche

OFFICAL OPENING: Monsignor Glynn Murphy blesses the St Brigid’s College STEAM centre at an official opening with, back from left, Horsham mayor Robyn Gulline, School Advisory Board chair Jo Martin, Member for Lowan Emma Kealy, 2023 school captain Larissa Barber, Catholic Education Ballarat education consultant Tim O’Farrell, 2023 school captain Rory Doran and principal Gerard Raven, and front, Federal senator for Victoria, Jana Stewart and student Bethany Arnup.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Changes to city’s meal service

Horsham Meals on Wheels service is chang ing in line with updated Victorian best practice guidelines.

The rural city’s Meals on Wheels service is facilitated by Grampians Community Health, with volunteers from Horsham’s Centre for Participation.

Meals are prepared at Grampians Health Hor sham campus.

The changes being implemented include meals must be handed to a person at a residence. They can no longer be left at the residence if no one is present.

Angela Murphy, Grampians Community Health program leader of community assist, which operates the program, said the changes have been made mandatory by the government and are designed to ‘keep people safe from hav ing food spoilt by being left unattended’. She said Grampians Community Health had looked at all options to minimise the effect on clients, including providing a collection point for those later in the day.

She said the service was advised that was not possible, as meals must be delivered within a specific time frame after they have been cooked.

“We acknowledge it is a change for some peo ple, but really it is about making sure the food is kept at the highest quality,” she said.

“Meals on Wheels provide an important ser vice and a nutritious, daily cooked, fresh threecourse meal.

“People who receive meals also find the social interaction with the volunteers something they look forward to.

“We deliver about 230 meals each week to people and have 285 volunteers available to deliver them.

“The service is a partnership between the three, well-known organisations, and we are guided by Meals on Wheels Victoria Best Practise Guide lines which we have to follow.”

Ms Murphy said people needing more informa tion could call Grampians Community Health on 5358 7400.

DELIVERIES: Meals on Wheels volunteer co-ordinator Maree Varley helps volunteer Steven Taylor load a round of deliveries.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Record stock at exchange

AHorsham Regional Livestock Exchange leader says the saleyards saw the largest Novem ber yarding since 2018, last week.

On Wednesday, 21,500 head of stock were yarded at Horsham including 16,648 lambs and 4670 sheep.

Commercial Enterprises co-ordina tor Paul Christopher said last week presented a window of opportunity for farmers to transport their stock.

“The main reason for the increase in numbers has been that producers have been able to yard and transport their stock after so many weeks of wet weather,” he said.

“After 75 millimetres of rain since last week, numbers will likely drop off again.

“Quality was good, however prices were back – when you have so many on offer it’s a supply and demand balance.

“It was a little disappointing to have prices $10 to $15 back.”

Graham Pymer’s market report on Wednesday last week noted quality ranged from plain to very good and several pens of heavier trade weight lambs were passed in.

The medium and heavy trade weights sold from $180 to $214, with heavier weights selling from $192 to $228 per head and light trade weight lambs sold from $140 to $170 per head.

Old lambs reached $220 and Merino lambs mostly sold from $111 to $131 per head.

– Paul Christopher

Merino ewes sold for up to $148 and heavy crossbred ewes sold for up to $144 per head.

Mr Christopher said October was usually the biggest month for the live stock exchange.

“It’s all been pushed back three to four weeks because of the weather, so that’s why we’re getting big numbers now,” he said.

“We expect it will be half decent leading up to Christmas – we probably won’t see another day above 20,000, but to have the numbers in the teens would be great.”

Mr Christopher said it was sad to see the rain spoiling crops across the region.

“We’ll have to wait and see what happens when harvest begins, but this could be an opportunity for farmers to buy livestock and run them on the crops to get some return,” he said.

Mr Christopher said it was good to see plenty of people ‘have a look’ at the livestock on Wednesday.

“People came along who hadn’t seen it with the roof, so it was a chance to showcase the livestock exchange as well,” he said.

“It was nice to see vendors and buy ers out of the sun and under the roof.”

Heritage weekend a ‘celebration of Nhill’

Organisers of a long weekend dedicat ed to showing off Nhill’s 140-year her itage have lauded the event’s success.

Nhill Heritage Weekend committee member Jenny Creek said an esti mated 1500 to 2000 people visited the town across the event’s four-day schedule, despite a heavy rain forecast that loomed over activities, for a ‘cel ebration of Nhill’.

“The Nhill Heritage Weekend start ed as an idea to showcase a few local tourism venues but became a whole town event,” she said.

“It was a celebration of all Nhill has to offer as a vibrant community with a rich history and a promising future.”

Ms Creek said Nhill Agricultural and Pastoral Show kicked the heritage weekend into gear and attracted visi tors from across Victoria and inter state.

“Visitors came armed with umbrel las and sturdy boots to enjoy the day,” she said.

“As usual the handcrafts display, shearing demonstrations, animal nurs ery and ice-cream vans were winners.

“Throughout the weekend, Nhill’s heritage silo was open for guided tours during the day and transformed with a spectacular coloured light dis play in the evenings.

“Vintage tractors and machinery that

usually gather dust during the year at the Vintage Machinery Club were also fired up.”

Ms Creek said restoration and ‘firingup’ of mid-century aircraft engines at Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre was a particular highlight.

“While the aircraft engines were be ing started for the public, back in town visitors wandered through the art gal lery, heritage buildings and museums. Some listened to poetry in the historic John Shaw Neilson cottage, indulged in Devonshire teas or relaxed at local cafes and restaurants,” she said.

“A community concert and worship service added to activities on offer.”

“After 75 millimetres of rain since last week, numbers will likely drop off again”

HAPPY FEET: ACE Radio and The Weekly Advertiser staff, with Heidi Higginson and Roger the lamb, support McHappy Day by wearing McDonald’s socks. McHappy Day 2022 is on Saturday. The event raises money and celebrates Ronald McDonald House Charites Australia. McDonald’s restaurants host McHappy Day to make an annual contribution to the charities, which provide a range of programs to help families stay together and close to the care they need when a child is diagnosed with a serious illness.

Childhood friends celebrate

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Two Geelong Football Club supporters and lifelong friends born a few months apart shared a special birthday experi ence in Horsham last week.

In 1947, aged 15, Sonny Johns moved with his family from Rock hampton, Queensland to Rupanyup, where he found himself living two houses up from his new friend Don Ballantine.

Mr Johns, who will turn 90 on November 26, and Mr Ballantine, who turned 90 in September, met at Horsham Plaza last week to hold the Cat’s 2022 AFL premiership cup.

As a boy in Rupanyup, Mr Johns followed his new friend to cricket training, and later to football training at Rupanyup Football Club, where he learnt about Australian football.

Mr Johns said the pair had been friends since that first cricket session and grew up to be ‘best men’ at each other’s weddings.

After 75 years, they also remained ardent supporters of the Geelong Cats.

“I had never heard of football and had never seen an Aussie rules game before. But I became a trainer at Rupanyup in 1951 and did that job there for 15 years. I was a hopeless player,” Mr Johns said.

“I don’t think much of rugby now, Aussie rules is a much better game.”

Mr Johns worked in the steel in dustry, before opening up a general store in Rupanyup with his late wife Lois.

Mr Ballantine worked as a dams and water-channel ranger across the region’s agriculture sector and also

spent time working in Rupanyup’s hardware store.

Mr Johns said the pair would travel to Geelong’s Kardinia Park, together with their families, to watch the Cats play.

He said he fondly remembers the 1951 and 1952 grand finals, when Geelong defeated Essendon, and then Collingwood to win back-toback flags.

In answering the age-old question – was Gary Ablett senior or Gary Ablett junior the better footballer?

– both said the senior Ablett was their favourite.

“Ablett senior was a crowd puller, a showman,” Mr Johns said.

“His son was great with a good handball, but his dad could take a mark – he was such a strong player.”

Mr Ballantine said, after 90 years of life, he was qualified to give ad vice to young people in the region.

“Go your own way and you will be fine,” he said.

These days, Mr Johns often rides his bicycle between Rupanyup and

Murtoa, and volunteers his skills at Rupanyup Men’s Shed.

Mr Johns said the key to living long and happy was to always ‘keep going’.

“Doesn’t matter what it is, just do something that keeps you interested. It is a matter of staying busy,” he said.

“If I stopped riding my bicycle, I think I would seize up.

“So as long as I am still doing that, I will keep on going.”

Promised upgrades

State Member for Lowan Emma Kealy said if a Coalition government was elected on November 26, there would be money for two sporting precincts, an airport, a walking trail and a passenger-rail business case in the Wimmera.

Ms Kealy announced this week the Na tionals would contribute $7 million to a redevelopment of ANZAC Park in Warrack nabeal, and $5 million to Horsham Rural City Council’s redevelopment of Horsham City Oval and its City to River project.

She also announced a Nationals promise to contribute $240,000 for a Horsham Aero drome redevelopment master plan.

“The Nationals have started conversations with airlines that fly into regional centres across Australia to get a sense of what they need to attract a domestic air service, and to start gaining interest for a service for Horsh am in the future,” she said.

Ms Kealy also commitmented to ‘reinvig orate’ the case for increased passenger rail services across Western Victoria.

Within the commitment she pledged sup port for a business case that could return passenger rail services to Horsham and Hamilton.

“Improving connectivity between our communities and larger centres is vital to the long-term sustainability of our region, and I am committed to continuing to work alongside our communities to make this a reality,” she said.

Ms Kealy promised $200,000 to develop a feasibility study into transforming an existing water tunnel near Pomonal into a walking track.

UNITED: From left, Don Ballantine and his wife, Aura Ballantine, Sonny Johns and his daughter Anne Johns, celebrate 75 years of friendship and 90 years of life with the Geelong Football Club’s 2022 AFL premiership cup. Picture: MICHAEL SCALZO

Lowan district’s incumbent has added a multitude of commitments to Nationals Par ty promises ahead of this month’s State Election.

Call

in flood review

Horsham municipal staff have asked residents for ‘patience’ as repairs to flood impacted infrastructure in the mu nicipality undergo inspections in line with government funding procedures.

Horsham Rural City Council acting execu tive officer John Martin said damage to coun cil-owned roads, road shoulders, footpaths, bridges and drains, ‘especially in rural areas south of Horsham’, meant engineering assess ments were needed before applying for govern ment disaster funding.

He said these inspections would take ‘at least’ four weeks to complete because of the extent of the flood damage to council infrastructure.

“There’s a bit of a process. We have to carry out an engineering assessment of the damage then estimate costs and apply to the government for disaster funding,” he said.

“The event has been declared an eligible di saster, meaning the council can seek funding to repair the roads and other damaged essential public assets.

“We have a number of roads that require ur gent repairs following the flood event, which started in mid-October, which we will tackle as a priority.

“Our entire road network including bridges will be inspected as part of this disaster.”

Mr Martin said with knowledge from previ

“The event has been declared an eligible disaster, meaning the council can seek funding to repair the roads and other damaged essential public assets”

– John Martin

ous flood disasters, council understood these procedures would ‘get the best results for the community’.

“The funding requirements also stipulate who must complete this work and when,” he said.

“So we will be working with our local contrac tors around availability and scope of works.

“As was the case in 2011 and 2016, this is a significant project and needs to be done properly rather than as a quick fix. Council understands that everyone’s road will be their priority.

“Where we have been able to open up roads, we have done it as soon as possible.

“Where we need to close roads for our commu nity safety, we will.

“We have been receiving a lot of customer requests and thank our residents for letting us know about their issues.

“We’ll do the most urgent works as soon as possible, but we can’t fix everything straight away. We ask residents to be patient.”

• Ararat, Yarriambiack responses, page 25.

Project encouraging active play

Goroke P-12 College students are busy creating a bike track throughout the school to promote being active during recess and lunch times.

Teacher Steve Charlton said the bike track was created using funds from a State Govern ment Active Schools initiative.

“The track is a spot for students to be active

during recess and lunchtime,” he said. “We’ll also purchase some bikes with the funding, so all students will be able to use it.

“Some of our year-10 students designed the track, which they were able to sell to active schools as the ideal way to spend the money, before they got started on the project.”

ACTIVE SCHOOLS: Goroke P-12 College students, from left, Malachi Pickering, Kye Sampson and Aiden Dean work on a new bike track. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

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Dimboola care centre to close

Dimboola’s Allambi Elderly Peoples Home is closing its doors in 2023. Committee of management chair Ann Falking ham said it took careful consideration and an ex ternal review of operations and financial viability to come to the decision.

“Allambi has struggled to remain financially viable for a number of years as the sector experienced increased legislative requirements, increasing operational costs and new standards including an increase in the number of staff required, and have found it difficult to attract registered nurses due to a nationwide shortage of qualified staff,” she said.

“An external independent financial review of the home commissioned by the Department for Health and Aged Care has concluded that despite our best efforts, the home is now considered too small to be financially viable and our advice is that we would continue to struggle to meet the expected standards under the Aged Care Act 1997.

“The committee has worked tirelessly with an aged care advisor over several months to explore alternate revenue streams and additional funding and have actively sought other approved provid ers to take over the operations to keep Allambi open.

“Unfortunately, this has not produced any posi tive outcomes.”

Allambi came to life in 1963 when 50 mem bers of the Dimboola Community met to discuss building ‘a suitable accommodation for aged persons in Dimboola’.

“The committee has worked tirelessly with an aged care advisor over several months to explore alternate revenue streams and additional funding and have actively sought other approved providers to take over the operations to keep Allambi open. Unfortunately, this has not produced any positive outcomes”

– Ann Falkingham

Allambi was initially managed by the Dim boola Hospital, until its amalgamation with Wimmera Base Hospital in 1995.

Since then, Allambi has been governed and managed by its voluntary committee of manage ment as a community-owned, non-profit incor porated entity.

Ms Falkingham said staff and the management committee would be working with residents and their families to find alternate accommodation in other aged care homes across the region during the coming months.

The home is expected to close by February 1, 2023.

“Current staff will be paid their full entitle ments and assisted to gain new employment,” Ms Falkingham said.

“The decision does not affect the retirement vil lage units operated by the organisation, they will remain and will continue to operate the meals on wheels program at this stage.”

Sponsorships

Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary

The Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary was one of 65 local sporting clubs and community groups to benefit from the Clubs most recent round of sponsorships totaling $88,000.

Hospice Care Auxiliary President Lea Crammond said “Thank you for your wonderful sponsorship to Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary.

“We are absolutely delighted to have been supported so kindly. The funds you have generously provided for us, is to contribute to the payment of the blue divan in the photo. “This may be converted for use as a bed for family members when staying with those in hospice care.”

The Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary has now received $8,261 from the HSCC to assist with their many projects overs recent years.

Ball brings community together

Supporters of a mental-health support network in Ararat shook off two years of COVID-19 dis connection at the weekend and raised money for community health resources.

Ararat-based mental health support non-profit One Red Tree Resource Centre hosted its first ‘Red Ball’ on Saturday, a gala evening to raise money for the organisation and gather likeminded people eager to ‘service the mentalhealth needs’ of Ararat and Grampians com munities.

Organisation founder and education director at One Red Tree, Tammie Meehan, said ball attend ees all shared a common purpose and she felt a ‘sense of community’ among the crowd.

“The Red Ball was extremely well supported, with more than 260 people from across the com munity coming together to support the resource centre,” she said.

“This shows how important it is for our locals to have services delivered in their own commu nity, where they all live and work.”

One Red Tree Resource Centre provides mental health services and training in the region in col laboration with education and health practition ers.

Ms Meehan said the event was not possible without the efforts of One Red Tree ball commit tee, local musicians, caterers, event hire, the Ara rat Town Hall team, local businesses and friends, along with major sponsors ACE Radio Network, Ararat Rural City Council, Seppelt Wines and Ararat Medical Centre.

“The Red Ball was designed to bring our community together so everyone could recon nect, enjoy themselves, promote the importance of mental health services and dance the night away,” she said.

A GOOD CAUSE: From left, Morgan Clugston, Vanessa Brown and Emily Clark enjoy a night out at One Red Tree Resource Centre’s first ‘Red Ball’ on Saturday.

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RSL president: We should never forget

Wimmera residents observed a minute’s silence on Friday to commemorate Aus tralians who fought in wars across the world, for Remembrance Day.

In Horsham, people gathered at the cenotaph in Sawyer Park to lay wreaths and pay tribute during a November 11 commemoration service.

Horsham RSL sub-branch president Don Pirouet said Remembrance Day was a significant time to remember the people who gave their lives in wars throughout history.

“The importance is that we should nev

er forget the sacrifices of all the soldiers, sailors and women who lost their lives in World War One when Remembrance Day started,” he said.

“It’s those sacrifices we need to re member because the trailblazing that those people did are the ones that set the path for the next generation and future generations.

“The turnout, considering it’s not a public holiday, was quite good with be tween 100 and 150 people.

“We generally do get a good turnout for our services here, so we’re very happy.”

ARARAT: Jenny Hurnall and Helen Molloy at Ararat’s Remembrance Day Service.

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FORGET: Horsham College, St Brigid’s College and Horsham Holy Trinity Lutheran College 2022 and 2023 school captains, from left, Oliver Hier, Ryan Pfitzner, Sabian Panozzo, Larissa Barber, Harriet Overman and Rory Doran lay wreaths at Horsham’s Remembrance Day service. Pictures: ABBY WALTER

TRIBUTE: Horsham RSL sub-branch president Don Pirouet and commemorative events chair Gareth Lane pay tribute to Australians who fought in wars across the world at Horsham cenotaph on November 11.

COMING SOON…

A BETTER WAY TO SORT OUR WASTE

When changes to waste services come into effect in April 2023, urban customers will have four bins.

What

What

goes in each bin?

What goes in each bin?

General waste

General waste

Food

Food and Organic Waste Bin (FOGO)

General waste

Food and Organic Waste Bin (FOGO)

General rubbish, nappies (wrapped or bagged), food waste - only if you do not have a food and garden waste service, polystyrene and foam (including meat trays, plastic bags and soft plastics) however, if you can, please take these to a drop-off point for recycling, window glass, glassware, mirrors, Pyrex and crockery.

General rubbish, nappies (wrapped or bagged), food waste - only if you do not have a food and garden waste service, polystyrene and foam (including meat trays, plastic bags and soft plastics) however, if you can, please take these to a drop-off point for recycling, window glass, glassware, mirrors, Pyrex and crockery. What goes in this bin will end up in landfill

General rubbish, nappies (wrapped or bagged), food waste - only if you do not have a food and garden waste service, polystyrene and foam (including meat trays, plastic bags and soft plastics) however, if you can, please take these to a drop-off point for recycling, window glass, glassware, mirrors, Pyrex and crockery.

What goes in this bin will end up in landfill

What goes in this bin will end up in landfill

Mixed recycling

Mixed recycling

Mixed recycling

Food and kitchen scraps such as vegetable peels, meat, fish, prawn shells, coffee grounds, egg shells along with garden waste including grass clippings, flowers, weeds, leaves, small branches.

Food and kitchen scraps such as vegetable peels, meat, fish, prawn shells, coffee grounds, egg shells along with garden waste including grass clippings, flowers, weeds, leaves, small branches.

What goes in this bin will be sent to a FOGO processing facility

What goes in this bin will be sent to a FOGO processing facility

Aluminium foil and cans, steel cans and trays, paper and cardboard, rigid household plastics and their lids e.g. milk bottles, soft drink bottles, washing liquid bottles, yoghurt tubs, etc. What goes in this bin will be sent to a resource recovery centre

Aluminium foil and cans, steel cans and trays, paper and cardboard, rigid household plastics and their lids e.g. milk bottles, soft drink bottles, washing liquid bottles, yoghurt tubs, etc.

Aluminium foil and cans, steel cans and trays, paper and cardboard, rigid household plastics and their lids e.g. milk bottles, soft drink bottles, washing liquid bottles, yoghurt tubs, etc.

What goes in this bin will be sent to a resource recovery centre

What goes in this bin will be sent to a resource recovery centre

Why do we need to have a 4-Bin Service?

Under the State Government’s Circular Economy Policy all Victorian councils must introduce Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) collection for all urban households and separate glass recycling collection.

This change is being implemented across the state, including here in Horsham.

Under the State Government’s Circular Economy Policy all Victorian councils must introduce Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) collection for all urban households and separate glass recycling collection. This change is being implemented across the state, including here in Horsham.

By implementing this new service, HRCC will divert organic waste from landfill, which represents 47% of the total waste generated in the municipality. The organic waste will be used to produce compost which will minimise the negative environmental impacts of organic waste ending up in landfill, and will increase the lifespan of the landfill.

By implementing this new service, HRCC will divert organic waste from landfill, which represents 47% of the total waste generated in the municipality. The organic waste will be used to produce compost which will minimise the negative environmental impacts of organic waste ending up in landfill, and will increase the lifespan of the landfill.

By implementing this new service, HRCC will divert organic waste from landfill, which represents 47% of the total waste generated in the municipality. The organic waste will be used to produce compost which will minimise the negative environmental impacts of organic waste ending up in landfill, and will increase the lifespan of the landfill.

Glass Glass jars (empty, no lids) pasta sauce, jam, condiments, glass bottles, including broken bottles (empty, no lids) wine bottles, beer bottles, spirit (alcohol) bottles, olive oil and sauce bottles.

Glass

Glass jars (empty, no lids) pasta sauce, jam, condiments, glass bottles, including broken bottles (empty, no lids) wine bottles, beer bottles, spirit (alcohol) bottles, olive oil and sauce bottles.

Glass Glass jars (empty, no lids) pasta sauce, jam, condiments, glass bottles, including broken bottles (empty, no lids) wine bottles, beer bottles, spirit (alcohol) bottles, olive oil and sauce bottles.

But not glass cookware (e.g. Pyrex, microwave plates), drinking glasses, ceramics (e.g. crockery, earthenware), vases

But not glass cookware (e.g. Pyrex, microwave plates), drinking glasses, ceramics (e.g. crockery, earthenware), vases

But not glass cookware (e.g. Pyrex, microwave plates), drinking glasses, ceramics (e.g. crockery, earthenware), vases

What goes in this bin will be sent to a resource recovery centre

What goes in this bin will be sent to a resource recovery centre

What goes in this bin will be sent to a resource recovery centre

What

about rural residents?

What about rural residents?

What about rural residents?

Rural households will receive the general waste and mixed recycling bin. In addition, there will be implemented drop off points for glass collection and organic waste composted on the property.

Rural households will receive the general waste and mixed recycling bin. In addition, there will be implemented drop off points for glass collection and organic waste composted on the property.

Rural households will receive the general waste and mixed recycling bin. In addition, there will be implemented drop off points for glass collection and organic waste composted on the property.

Chambers to headline at lake

BY ABBY WALTER

Australian country singer-song writer Kasey Chambers is head lining Lake Charlegrark Country Mu sic Marathon next year.

After a two-year hiatus, the music mara thon is returning from February 17-19, for the 30th time.

Since 1992, the event has run on the third weekend of February annually, at the foreshore of Lake Charlegrark near Minimay.

Other artists and bands booked for the 2023 event are Jayne Denham, Bill Cham bers, Sandra Humphries, Danny Stain, Steve Bartel Band, Brett Gray, Graeme Hugo, Heartland, Gavin Chandler, Rod ney Vincent and Jarrod Stevenson.

Lake Charlegrark Country Music Mara thon committee president John Naylor said they were thrilled to be organising the event for 2023.

“After a couple of years not being able to host the event, it will be good to get everyone back to see each other. I know people from all over who come along are excited,” he said.

“I think the musicians are all stoked to be able to get back to work and be doing what they love again.”

Mr Naylor said the committee was for tunate to have secured Chambers for the music marathon.

“It will be fantastic to have her as our main artist,” he said.

“Also, to have Jayne Denham and other artists already booked in is great.”

Mr Naylor said powered sites at the

caravan park were already booked out.

“There’s always non-powered parking available around the lake, however, there’s less space for that this time because the lake is very full – it’s overflowing, which is great,” he said.

“There’s also the free paddock for camp ing at the back.”

Mr Naylor said it was always a struggle for volunteers, but he had a great team behind him for the event.

“People step up and we have a committee of terrific people who all get involved,” he said.

“It’s fantastic that we can get the event going again and as everything is falling into place we are looking forward to a great event.”

Horsham resident Teresa Bottoms asks Horsham Rural City Council waste and sustainability officer Andy Van questions regarding Horsham’s new bin service at a pop-up display at Horsham Plaza. The council’s waste education officer Alex Jaimes said hundreds of people were asking about the ‘Better Sorted Waste’ program.

“It’s pleasing to see so many people have a positive attitude towards the benefits the changes will bring,” he said. “I think people realise that we need to do more to sort our waste better so that we don’t have to send so much material to landfill. People have wondered whether the glass bin is too big. Others have suggested that we have drop-off points in urban areas instead.” The Better Sorted Waste program, which includes introducing a four-bin service for glass, organics, general waste and co-mingled recycling, will begin on April 3, 2023. Picture:

ABBY WALTER

Authorities warn on mosquitos

Authorities are warning Victorians to be cautious of mosquitos follow ing recent flood and rain events.

Stagnant water around the Wim mera are ideal breeding environ ments for mosquitos.

Mosquito-borne diseases in Vic toria include the Ross River vi rus, Barmah Forest Virus, Murray Valley Encephalitis and Japanese encephalitis virus. JE and MVE viruses can cause severe illness and death in some people.

The Victoria Department of

Health advises people to protect themselves from mosquito bites by covering up with loose-fitting clothing, using insect repellents that contain picaridin or DEET and sleeping under a mosquito net if outdoors.

Dusk and dawn are peak biting times and it is recommended to avoid areas of stagnant water. The department recommends people reduce pools and containers of water near homes, remove waste or plants in drains and gutters and

cover all windows, doors and vents with insect screens.

The Victoria Department of Health manages a state-wide pro gram to reduce the impact of dis ease transmitted by mosquitoes. The program funds councils in key areas to undertake weekly mosquito surveillance.

People with health concerns can see their GP or call Nurse-On-Call on 1300 60 60 24. In an emer gency, call 000.

Kasey Chambers

Picture: CHLOE ISAAC

The Department of Health is pleased to invite applications for part time board director positions of public hospitals (including early parenting centres) and multi purpose services with terms of office commencing from 1 July 2023.

These positions provide an exciting opportunity for members of the Victorian public to contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Applicants are selected for their capabilities, including personal and professional attributes, skills, knowledge, and experience that contribute to the strategic leadership of public health care for the Victorian community Safe and high quality healthcare for all Victorians is a priority of the Department of Health.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate and provide evidence in support of the capabilities they identify in their applications.

The Department of Health is committed to ensuring boards, and committees, reflect the rich diversity of the Victorian community.

We encourage applications from women, people of all ages, Aboriginal and/

Rural Northwest Health 2023 Appointments to the Board of Directors of public hospitals, multi purpose services and early parenting centres

Flood recovery process outlined

Ararat council has high lighted its workers will be out and about to ‘triage’ and provide assistance to municipal communities af fected by October flooding.

Ararat Rural City Council will host community meetings for flood affected residents to ‘fully understand impacts’ on the community and pro vide residents with an ‘infor mal’ platform to ask questions, seek support from government agencies and ‘learn’ how to provide flood related data to council.

Mayor Jo Armstrong said ex tensive damage to crops was

‘devastating’ for the commu nity and that it was ‘more im portant than ever’ to check in and offer a helping hand.

“Farmers are resilient as they are often hit by natural dis asters. However, floods can sometimes be understated, es pecially when the impacts are not obvious,” he said.

“The amount of damage might be overwhelming for some and will not be fully understood for a few months.”

Cr Armstrong said data collec tion about flood impacts in the municipality would help with council’s claims to government for financial assistance.

Ararat council emergency

management co-ordinator Kris ti Sullivan said she was eager to ‘get out and meet impacted residents to collect critical data and offer recovery clean up resources and support.’

She said residents could con tact her on email KSullivan@ ararat.vic.gov.au or call 0408 845 214 for more information.

Ararat council will host its flood recovery community meetings on Friday at Buangor Recreation Reserve, 9.30am; Tatyoon Recreation Reserve, 11.15am; Lake Bolac Informa tion and Business Centre, 1pm; Willaura Recreation Reserve, 2.45pm; and Moyston Recrea tion Reserve, 4.30pm.

Yarriambiack assessing road damage

Yarriambiack council staff have started road assessments after the state’s October flood event and has reassured com munities staff are working hard to appraise any damage.

Council chief executive Tam my Smith said the municipal ity’s road network was ‘signifi cantly’ damaged, but staff were ‘working through assessing the roads and funding approval to repair them’.

“As a result of the increased road network damage, there

will be delays in our response times,” she said.

“Our staff will be working hard to assess the reported roads and work through the identified issues across our 4800 kilometres of roads we are responsible for. We want to reassure the community that we’re doing everything we can to fix the condition of council’s road network.”

Ms Smith said there was a strict process every affected council must work through

to ensure funding is allocat ed where it is required. “This takes time and we’re asking our residents to be patient as we get through the assessments and funding process before we can fix the roads,” she said.

Yarriambiack residents were also encouraged to report dam age to council roads by taking a photo and sending a loca tion via the ‘Snap Send Solve’ smartphone app, or by directly reporting the damage on the council’s website.

Place and wellbeing focus

A learning program that connects primary school children to place and community through art has captivated students at a Wim mera school.

Students at Jeparit Primary School will have a rotating cast of art and science specialists visit its campus to engage children with their cultural community in new ways.

Jeparit Primary School teacher and program initiator Rebecca Foster said the program, set to run into the next school year, would focus on ‘belonging’ and ‘wellbeing’ and connection to place through learning.

“The program sprung from a passion our principal Frank Donahue and I have – to make children feel a connection to ‘their’ place,” she

said. “Following interrupted years of COVID, factoring a wellbeing aspect into the program became even more important.”

The school has invited artists from across Victoria to lead students through specialised aspects of the program.

Artists include Kyneton’s Sarah Brooke, who is part of a State Government program The Song Room and its art-learning module ‘Ka leidoscope’.

Wotjobaluk filmmaker Tracey Rigney, Wim mera animator Desiree Cross and environmen tal educator Jeanie Clarke will also feature throughout the program.

UNITED: Jeparit Primary School students, from left, Anaya Singh, Pandora Fulton, Lydia Paech and Elora Williams, with The Song Room’s Sarah Brooke, settle into a new belonging and wellbeing learning program at the school. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Saturday, November 26

Sunday, November 28

Pipeline drives water award

GWMWater and Interflow won an Infrastructure Project Innovation Award at Victorian Water Awards this year for a collaborative effort on the Mt Cole pipeline renewal project.

Interflow is a provider of pipeline infra structure solutions.

The award recognises significant and in novative infrastructure projects within the water industry that drive prosperity and sustainability.

GWMWater partnered with Interflow to renew the Mt Cole pipeline, which restored a core water asset to an optimum condition to ensure a safe and reliable water supply for Ararat.

The rehabilitated section of the pipeline is now able to deliver up to half of Ara rat’s raw water supply from the Mt Cole Reservoir and will be an integral part of the East Grampians Rural Water Supply Project.

The project involved relining the pipe line with a record-breaking installation of 1.4 kilometres of Primus Line; a highpressure, flexible, Kevlar-reinforced liner, in a single pull.

GWMWater managing director Mark Williams said despite maintenance works and other measures to ensure there were minimal impacts to customers, finding a long-term solution to renew the pipeline was critical.

“The first 1.4 kilometres of the Mt Cole pipeline, which runs through the Mt Cole State Forest from Mt Cole Reservoir through to private property, was experi encing an increasing rate of failures in

recent years,” he said. “The pipeline’s rugged location posed many challenges for the project as vehicle access was only possible at the top and bottom of the line.

“Replacing the pipeline with traditional construction methods would require sig nificant interference with environmentally and culturally sensitive areas.

“Some parts of the terrain were so remote that equipment needed to be heli coptered in.”

The rehabilitation of the pipeline has enabled Lake Fyans, Mt Cole and Mt Wil liam headworks to be the primary sources of supply for the planned East Grampians Rural Pipeline Supply Project.

“Water corporations in rural and remote areas are often presented with unique challenges compared with our metro counterparts, and so we have to think out side the box in terms of project solutions,” Mr Williams said.

“This was a project that several teams across our organisation were involved in and we thank them for their hard work.

“This project demonstrates that there are viable options for rehabilitating pressure pipelines in even the most challenging conditions.”

Groups unite for Stawell carols

Stawell district organisations have joined forces to deliver Stawell Community Carols next month.

The event is at Cato Park on Fri day, December 9 from 6pm. Organising committee spokes man Lllewelyn Clark of Stawell Biz said the carols last ran in 2019 and the event’s revival offered a chance to gain broad community involvement in both its planning and presentation.

“Stawell Apex ran the event for many years and Stawell Perform ing Arts Company, SPACi, then took on the job of organising car ols,” he said.

“We know community carols is really important to Stawell locals and this group hopes to bring oth

ers on board to build on the event for years to come.”

StawellBiz, Stawell Interchurch Council, Northern Grampians Shire Council, Grampians Com munity Health, Grampians Youth Events, Stawell Neighbourhood House, Stawell Brass Band and Stawell Performing Arts Com pany have partnered to deliver the event.

The committee will present Stawell district groups and acts in cluding Stawell Ecumenical Sing ers, Stawell Brass Band, Stawell Performing Arts Company and the Vanuatu Singers. It will work businesses to offer food and drinks.

“Grampians Youth Events is a

major sponsor, so the event is family friendly and will be drug and alcohol free,” Mr Clark said.

“The committee is also looking for further support and sponsor ship, so the staging, sound and light for carols meets community expectations.”

Mr Clark said the committee welcomed volunteers to help with event delivery.

He said the committee was also seeking groups or individuals wanting to perform to register their interest.

He said people could contact the committee via their Facebook page, stawellcommunitycarols or email stawellcommunitycarols@ gmail.com

ON SONG: Stawell Community Carols committee members, from left, Dianne Stewart, Llewelyn Clark, Lynn Pitcher, Gary Saunders, Jane Delley, Melissa Mair and Rachel Whittaker. Absent were Taia Hayter, Junior Issachar, Joyce Matheson and Sara Smith.

“Water corporations in rural and remote areas are often presented with unique challenges compared with our metro counterparts, and so we have to think outside the box in terms of project solutions”

– Mark Williams

Invitation to enter ‘another world’

Horsham

artist Jonathon Schoolderman is pre senting his first drawing ex hibition this month.

The exhibition opened at Re drock Books and Gallery in Hor sham yesterday.

Schoolderman has lived in the Wimmera for 20 years and has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember.

“I began with wild finger paint ing around the age of three then later became enthralled with drawing animals and using wild colours,” he said.

Schoolderman attends weekly sessions with artist and mentor Anthony Pelchen.

“My mission is to support peo ple with a distinct creative abil ity amidst often quite consider able other personal challenges,” Pelchen said.

“I run with the inklings and particular ways each person has. Together we tease out new pos sibilities and grow what is in nate.

“It’s a matter of providing the right materials and prompts, with the studio as a safe place to anchor, relax, experiment and make.

“Artists always benefit from a goal and having their work seen, so we aim for exhibitions and other professional outcomes.”

Schoolderman said drawing

and painting were important parts of his life.

“Drawing is like a very good friend,” he said.

“It’s kind of reassuring, steady ing and allows me to imagine new, exciting environments.

“They start with lines and then they scream out for the colour.

“I get totally immersed and transported to another place.”

Pelchen said Schoolderman had an endless stream of ideas for new drawings.

“They grow like spider webs.

Very quickly a small detail be comes a full-blown image,” he said.

“They’re exuberant and intri cate, with some things we may recognise combined with more abstract, pattern-based, possibly psychological elements.

“His use of textas is quite spe cial. The colour on paper is bold and bright and on canvas more muted and subtle.

“The end results are beguiling. He seems to be offering us an invitation to enter another world, his world, where we can get both marvellously lost and find some thing new.”

The exhibition runs until De cember 15.

‘Space of calm and relaxation’

A new exhibition at an Ararat gallery explor ing ‘care’ will launch its November showing with a dance performance this weekend.

Ararat Gallery TAMA will host ‘Notions of Care’, that explores the link between art and nature through textile, film and ceramic mediums.

Gadigal artist Arini Byng will launch the exhibition on Saturday with a dance perfor mance.

Curators Kathryne Genevieve Honey and Nina Mulhall said collections were ‘tended to’ and ‘considered’ pieces that would pro vide care ‘back to the artist and the viewer’.

“Our curatorial intention was to create a space of calm and relaxation through the use of scent, audio, feel and of course sight,” she said.

“This premise was formed before COV ID-19. In the aftermath of which, the exhibi tion feels more relevant than ever. In these

strange times we need to look after ourselves so that we are able to care for each other.”

Byng will also display her work during the exhibition, alongside Yindjibarndi artist Katie West from the Pilbara who will display her naturally dyed fabric; moving image artist Poly Stanton; and artistic pair Snapcat – Anna Dunhill from Melbourne and Renea Coles from New South Wales’ South Coast.

Ararat Rural City mayor Jo Armstrong said she was thrilled the gallery would host this new exhibition.

“A unique art exhibition presenting tex tiles, film and ceramic artworks is on its way to Ararat, with people encouraged to join in the official opening to celebrate this new exhibit on Saturday,” she said.

Celebrations start at 2pm and the galley encourages attend ees to RSVP by emailing gallery @ararat.vic.gov.au or calling 5355 0220.

Horsham presents

EXHIBIT: Ararat Gallery TAMA’s Kim Dearnley, left, and NETS exhibition coordinator Erin Mathews ready the gallery for the ‘Notions of Care’ exhibition.

EXCITED: Horsham artist Jonathon Schoolderman shows his aunt Christine Grogan, left, and his mother Lyn Bottrell his exhibition of drawings at Horsham Redrock Books and Gallery.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

DANCING WITH THE STARS: Horsham Primary School students shone brightly on Friday during their 2022 junior concert. Family and friends gathered for the energetic performance. Pictured, clockwise from above, are: Jensen Pickering and Paige Schultz; Kiaan Bautista; front row, Thomas Stehn, Jazmin Nyikos, Lily Spasic and Cooper Newell; and Zivaa Kuffer, Mitchell Smith and Layla Edmonds. Pictures: ABBY WALTER

INVITATIONAL: Natimuk and District Gymnastic Club hosted its annual invitational at the weekend, welcoming more than 300 gymnasts from across the state and South Australia. Male and female gymnasts from levels one to 10 showcased their talent across two days of competiton.

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Gauging interest

Volkswagen has imported two examples of its ID.4 electric SUV to Australia as part of a register-your-interest program that will go live before the end of the year.

Presented in European specification and trim, the pair includes the 150kW310Nm ID.4 Pro Performance with 522 kilometres of battery range and the 125kW-310Nm ID.4 Pure Perfor mance with a 345 kilometre range.

Volkswagen Australia says the high ly specified ID.4 Pro Performance will most closely reflect its planned launch specification, while the ID.4 Pure Per formance takes on a ‘key role during discussions with fleet and government agencies’.

Pricing for the electric newcomer is targeted at the ballpark of VW’s

own Tiguan 162TSI R-Line, which at $57,690 before on-road costs would make the ID.4 a lot more afford able than the least-expensive version of similar-sized rivals including the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, Tesla Model Y or Volvo XC40 Recharge that all cost upward of $70,000.

The ID.4 and its coupe-styled sib ling, the ID.5, are both expected to become available for purchase in Aus tralia towards the end of 2023.

Both are built upon Volkswagen’s MEB dedicated battery electric ar chitecture, which VW says allows designers and engineers to minimise front and rear overhangs, ensuring greater cabin space and cargo capac ity.

Volkswagen Australia says the MEB platform also ensures the heftier kerb weight inherent to BEVs is distributed

in a way that benefits steering, ride and handling qualities.

ID.4 Pro Performance features an 82kWh battery pack while the ID.4 Pure Performance has a 55kWh bat tery. In both instances the batteries are located between the vehicle’s floor and between the axles to ensure even weight distribution and to lower the centre of gravity.

The German importer says the ID.4 is targeted at a broad demographic and in Pro Performance guise will offer 125kW DC fast charging capa bilities to enable a 10 to 80 percent charge in as little as 33 minutes, and to 100 percent in 42 minutes. The ID.4 Pure Performance offers 110kW DC fast charging, which due to the smaller battery capacity is seven and 10 minutes quicker on both measures, respectively.

Both rear-wheel drive, the ID.4 duo ride on a multi-link rear suspension set-up.

VW says the Pro Performance model can accelerate from rest to 100kmh in 8.5 seconds, while the Pure Perfor mance model is 0.5 seconds slower.

Volkswagen Australia will announce specification and pricing for the ID.4 closer to its launch, but says features including 19-inch alloy wheels, pro gressive steering, area view camera, augmented reality head-up display, a 12.0-inch infotainment array, and a 450W seven-speaker audio system are likely standard inclusions.

Volkswagen passenger vehicles brand director Michal Szaniecki said the clear target was to have the ID.4, along with the ID.5, in Australian driveways by late 2023.

“Strategically the Volkswagen ID.4

and ID.5 represent the most sizable opportunity for Volkswagen Australia in countless years,” he said.

“The ID.4 will not set out to charge customers a premium for being a style statement or short-change practicali ties in any way for being electric.

“We know that Australians most love medium SUVs, and the ID.4 combines this versatile body style with enviable Volkswagen engineering including a long range.

“The ID.4 will bring electric per formance to a broad customer base with target pricing similar to our most in-demand SUV, the Tiguan 162TSI R-Line. Arriving at the same time will be the coupe-style ID.5 with pricing similar to a Tiguan R, enabling cus tomers to alternatively pick an even more design-focused BEV.”

Matt Brogan

Toyota has introduced its re freshed MY23 Corolla hatch and sedan range to Australia with a new starting price of $28,130 plus on-road costs and a ‘raft of upgrades’.

Upgrades include Toyota Connected Services functionality, a new mul timedia system and its latest fifthgeneration petrol-electric powertrain.

Quiet deletion of the manual gear box option, as well as price rises of between $2425 and $3785 depending on variant, mean it is now $4235 more expensive to get behind the wheel of a new Corolla Ascent Sport.

All Corolla variants now arrive with a continuously variable transmission, CVT, as standard.

With the introduction of a new hy brid driveline – which teams a 1.8-li tre petrol engine with a high-output motor-generator and lighter lithiumion battery pack – in electrified guise, the Corolla now benefits from a 13kW increase in peak power to offer a max imum combined output of 103kW.

The 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol en gine remains unchanged with 126kW202Nm for the hatch and 126kW-

203Nm for the sedan. Additionally, and as premiered in the new Corolla Cross recently, the Corolla hatch and sedan are now offered with Toyota Connected Services technology that enables owners remote functionality to check information including fuel level or driving range, whether the doors are locked or unlocked, and whether the windows are up or down.

Owners may also remotely perform functions such as locking the car, starting the engine and activating the horn or hazard lights. The system can even locate the car if the driver has forgotten where they parked it.

Importantly, Toyota Connected Ser vices can also provide assistance in the event of an emergency where the airbags are deployed or if a collision is detected, by automatically notifying an emergency call centre and allow ing the driver to communicate with the operator. The system may also be activated via a roof-mounted SOS button and can even assist authorities in tracking a stolen vehicle.

On the safety front, Toyota has en dowed the Corolla range with an ex panded Toyota Safety Sense active safety suite, which now includes mo

torcycle detection, intersection colli sion avoidance support for crossing vehicles at left or right turns, emer gency steering assist, and accelera tion suppression at low speeds, while improving a range of existing features.

The system features newly improved cameras and radar sensors that Toyota says offers a ‘wider range for detec tion of obstacles or vehicles’.

Further, all hatch variants now in clude a blind spot monitor as stand ard, while lane trace assist has been expanded to include the emergency driving stop system feature that has been designed to bring the vehicle to a gradual stop if it detects the driver is no longer making vehicle inputs.

The active cruise control system has also been enhanced and now offers four distance settings, the ability to

detect other vehicles earlier, and the addition of deceleration assist when changing lanes.

From a connectivity and infotain ment standpoint, the Corolla range now adopts Toyota’s latest genera tion multimedia system featuring an 8.0-inch touchscreen display on all variants. The system includes new shortcut buttons, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity, DAB+ digital radio reception and a USB-C port as standard.

The Ascent Sport hatch gains a 7.0inch multi-information display in the instrument cluster and rear seat re minder function, while ZR variants gain a 12.3-inch digital instrument panel.

For the Ascent Sport sedan, native satellite navigation is standard on the

hybrid, along with front sun visors that include illuminated vanity mir rors.

Exterior changes include new 16inch wheels for Ascent Sport and SX grades, and a new-look grille.

Both hatch and sedan Ascent Sport variants are now available with an op tional convenience park that adds rear cross-traffic alert and front-rear park ing sensors for the hatch, or rear cross traffic alert and blind spot monitoring for sedan.

Stepping up to the SX gets rain-sens ing wipers and an electrochromatic rear-view mirror for both body styles, while the hatch further adds remote climate control pre-conditioning, as well as parking sensors front and rear.

– Matt Brogan

REFRESH: Exterior changes include new 16-inch wheels for Ascent Sport and SX grades, and a new-look grille.

‘Wild and wonderful’ Vegas show

With the global aftermarket automotive parts sector speculated at nearly $500 billion this year, it is no surprise that a show dedicated to this industry within an industry attracts a huge audience.

The annual, three-day SEMA – Spe cialty Equipment Market Association – trade show in Las Vegas each No vember has grown to massive propor tions, attracting more than 70,000 buyers from around the world along with, this year, 2400 exhibitors and a total 161,000 attendees.

Many thousands of new products ranging from mechanical performance components through to paints, lubri cants, consumables and tyres to new technology were on display, and for sale, as the exhibition itself morphed into something of a show-and-tell with manufacturers, customisers and performance modification companies vying for attention with crowd-pulling vehicles.

This year, organisers made addi tional space available for burgeoning electrification technology that now of fers, on a broad scale, EV conversions of classic cars.

Creating plenty of attention was a radically styed BMW M4 converted into a ute.

It is a long stretch to outlay $160,000

for an M4 and then slice the roof off at the rear, in the process removing everything apart from the floor.

The BMW ute is finished with Stek Automotive USA’s carbon film high lights while the mechanicals remain the same as a stock M4, built around a twin turbo petrol straight six.

Moving to Japanese iron and the Toyo Tires area provided some of the most spectacular modified cars

at SEMA, among them an LS3 V8swapped Toyota GT86 built by Cam eron Cocalis, 21, in four years.

Resto-mods were commonplace at SEMA, like the Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R with a stroked RB30 six-cylin der engine, a large turbo and nitrous oxide injection that cranked out a ‘healthy’ 1050kW driving through a six-speed Hollinger gearbox similar to that used in a V8 Supercar.

SEMA 2022 ushered in what was called ‘SEMA Electrified’ – a pavil ion dedicated to the electrification of not only classic models but also the new wave of electrified supercars and hypercars.

Featured was a DeLorean DMC with a full EV conversion from a company that makes EV ‘crate’ motor conver sions.

SEMA excels at providing vari

ety with motorsport specials shar ing space with American classics and Japanese domestic market builds alongside modified Italian supercars, lifted trucks with big V8s in diesel and petrol, electrified classics and wild custom vehicles.

Off-the-shelf lift kits, huge mud tyres on equally huge rims and sixwheel drive conversions were com monplace, in addition to outlandish paint, ground clearance you could potentially walk under and engines uprated to double or triple the stand ard specification.

As well as connecting manufacturers with buyers, the annual event provides education seminars that focus on busi ness strategies and techniques such as online marketing, customer service, product training and new vehicle tech nology.

It facilitates networking events and provides features and attractions that highlight industry trends, including live drifting demonstrations, hands-on workshops and drive experiences.

The show itself occupies 112,000 square metres of exhibit space with a similar amount of space for special features throughout the Las Vegas Convention Centre, outside areas and neighbouring Westgate Las Vegas Re sort and Casino.

– Peter Barnwell

SHOW-AND-TELL: Exhibitors at this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association, SEMA, three-day event showcased some outlandish ‘only in Vegas’ metal.

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ARIES:

(March 21- April 20)

Lucky Colour: Blue

Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 7.8.9.3.

Lotto Numbers: 4.12.23.24.35.41.

Many could become seriously attracted towards a secret affair. Many could guard against over indulgence of food or sex and travel could be more hazardous.

TAURUS:

(April 21- May 20)

Lucky Colour: Red

Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 7.8.9.3.

Lotto Numbers: 1.6.8.23.35.22.

Unwise to mix business with pleasure and your financial judgement may not be up to par so consult the experts. A legal matter should have a favourable result.

GEMINI:

(May 21- June 21)

Lucky Colour: Silver

Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 6.3.4.6.

Lotto Numbers: 3.5.45.13.39.40. A new love on the scene or more emphasis on your love and social life is indicated. Romantic re-encounters for the seeker and some unfinished business finding solutions.

CANCER:

(June 22- July 22)

Lucky Colour: Orange

Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 7.3.1.5.

Lotto Numbers: 6.12.24.34.45.11. There should be some fortunate developments concerning finances. Do not fight with loved ones as things are likely to get out of hand.

LEO: (July 23- August 22)

Lucky Colour: Green

Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 9.7.6.4.

Lotto Numbers: 9.4.5.45.33.21. A very expansive period in which to push your luck if trying to start a ventures of your own. However, do not take on the problems of others. Lovers will support you.

VIRGO:

(August 23- September 23)

Lucky Colour: Lilac

Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 6.7.3.4. Lotto Numbers: 2.13.24.34.41.11. Avoid conflict with lovers or it will get out of control. During most of this period you should be able to reap the rewards that you have been working for in the past.

LIBRA:

(September 24- October 23)

Lucky Colour: Cream

Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 8.9.5.4 Lotto Numbers: 1.14.23.34.42.33. Most will be making important decisions concerning their immediate future, many could be feeling defensive and aggressive –it’s not the time to upset those who support you. Lucky in games of chance.

SCORPIO:

(October 24- November 22)

Lucky Colour: Violet

Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 2.4.3.7. Lotto Numbers: 2.4.12.23.31.22.

Friends and family may be leaning on you for support and advice. Make sure you are not doing too much. Many could be tempted to make an expensive purchase for their homes.

SAGITTARIUS:

(November 23- December 20)

Lucky Colour: Green

Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 8.9.3.4.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.23.34.45. Most will be in for some financial luck. A new friend could open up a more exciting relationship. VIP’S should be more supportive, however, someone could embarrass you about your past.

CAPRICORN:

(December 21- January 19)

Lucky Colour: Blue

Lucky Day: Tuesday

Racing Numbers: 8.4.5.6.

Lotto Numbers: 1.13.24.34.42.22.

A good time to ask for favours – many will be assuming positions of greater responsibilities. A change of address is indicated and some luck in real estate is indicated.

AQUARIUS:

(January 20- February 19)

Lucky Colour: Red

Lucky Day: Friday

Racing Numbers: 4.5.6.2.

Lotto Numbers: 1.3.12.24.34.45.

A sudden boost of your luck is indicated. Those who rely on you could be more demanding than usual. Someone making an most unusual demand could take you by surprise.

PISCES:

    For the week November 20 - November 26

1. Of what nationality was Martin Luther, the professor and monk responsible for the Christian Lutheran Church?

2. Cricket is upon us. Who captained Australia during the infamous 1933 Bodyline series?

3. Folklore suggests what Australian delicacy is named after the man who was Gov ernor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901?

5. A fall-out between broth ers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler led them to create rival com panies and products that for decades even had Wimmera sports people arguing which products were the best. What are the names of the German companies?

6. In 1940, the United States Navy coined the term RA DAR for an object-detection system. RADAR is an acro nym for what?

7. What object in the Kui per belt became officially known as a ‘dwarf planet’ by the International Astronomi cal Union in 2006?

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8. During the early to mid 1980s the music of what award-winning pop-music band led by English singersongwriter born George Alan O’Dowd flooded the world?

9. We have the Pyrenees mountain range at the southeast end of our region. It shares the same name as a European mountain range that forms a natural border between what two countries?

10. For many years the Red Gum Yacht Squadron called what Wimmera lake home?

(February 20- March 20)

Lucky Colour: Silver

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Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 7.8.3.4. Lotto Numbers: 2.13.23.34.41.11. Unexpected travel could be on offer. Business ventures should be on an upturn and real estate should be more profitable. Most can expect a wonderful time in their love life.

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Answers: 1. German. He was born in Saxony, the son of a copper miner. 2. Bill Woodfall. 3. The lamington, after Lord Lamington. 4. Brown and rainbow. 5. Adolf developed Adidas and Rudolf Puma when their joint company split in 1948. 6. Radio Detection and Rang ing. 7. Pluto. It lost its ‘planet’ status based on an official change in definitions. 8. Culture Club. O’Dowd adopted the name Boy George. 9. France and Spain. It separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe. 10. Toolondo Reservoir.

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Shortland (PG) 5:45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross 6:15 Forged In Fire (PG) 7:05 Jeopardy! (PG) 7:30 NITV News Update 7:35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M l,s) 8:30 Hoarders (M l) 9:20 The Artist’s View: Metallica (M d,l,s)

6:00 Home Shopping 9:00 Three Wide No Cover (PG) 10:00 Travel Oz (PG) 11:30 South Aussie With Cosi (PG) 12:00 Creek To Coast (PG) 12:30 Weekender 1:00 Sydney Weekender 1:30 Master Build (PG) 3:30 TBA 4:00 Horse Racing *Live* 6:00 Border Security International (PG) 6:30 The Yorkshire Vet (PG) 8:30 Escape To The Country 10:30 I Escaped To The Country 11:30 Alan Carr’s Adventures (PG) 2:10 Horrible Histories 2:40 Operation Ouch! (PG) 3:40 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 4:00 The Fairly OddParents 4:35 The Beachbuds 5:00 Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir (PG) 5:30 Hardball 5:55 The Inbestigators 6:35 Built To Survive 7:00 Secrets Of Skin (PG) 7:40 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PG) 8:00 The Penguins Of Madagascar 8:25 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (PG) 6:00 rage (PG) 7:00 Weekend Breakfast 9:00 rage (PG) 10:30 rage Guest Programmer (PG) 12:00 ABC News 12:30 Vera (PG) 2:00 Midsomer Murders (PG) 3:30 Stuff The British Stole (PG) 3:55 Spicks And Specks (PG) 4:45 Landline 5:10 Dubboo: Life Of A Songman 6:10 Secrets Of The Museum 6:55 VIC Election Announcements *Live* 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Doc Martin (PG) 8:20 Shetland (M l) 9:20 Significant Others (M d,l) 10:10 Des (M l) 11:00 Silent Witness (M v) 12:00 rage Guest Programmer (MA15+) 5:00 rage (PG) 12:00 Dipper’s Backyard BBQ Wars (PG) 12:30 STIHL Timber sports (PG) 1:00 Blokesworld (PG) 1:30 Australia ReDiscovered (PG) 2:00 Australian V8 Superboats Championship 2022 3:00 Rides Down Under (PG) 4:00 Pawn Stars (PG) 4:30 Barter Kings (PG) 5:30 Last Stop Garage (PG) 6:00 American Pickers (PG) 7:00 TBA 9:00 Movie: “Men In Black” (PG) (’97) Stars: Will Smith 12:00 In The Night Garden 12:30 Buddi 12:55 Peppa Pig 1:35 Molly And Mack 2:05 Bananas In Pyjamas 2:40 Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood 2:55 Tish Tash 3:30 Play School 4:00 Ready, Steady, Wiggle! 4:25 Thomas And Friends 5:00 Love Monster 5:30 Kiri And Lou 6:05 Interstellar Ella 6:30 Noddy Toyland Detective 7:00 Andy And The Band 7:30 Spicks And Specks (PG) 8:00 QI (PG) 6:00 Home Shopping 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show - Weekend 12:00 Seven’s Horse Racing: Kembla Grange/ Ballarat/ Sunshine Coast *Live* 4:00 AFL Women’s: Finals: Week 3: Teams TBA *Live* 6:00 Seven News 7:00 AFL Women’s: Finals: Week 3: Teams TBA *Live* From TBA 9:00 TBA 10:20 Movie: “Anna” (MA15+) (’19) Stars: Sasha Luss 1:00 Home Shopping 6:00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) 7:00 The King Of Queens (PG) 8:00 Frasier (PG) 9:00 Becker (PG) 10:00 Friends (PG) 12:00 The King Of Queens (PG) 1:00 The Real Love Boat Australia (PG) 3:30 TBA 4:30 TBA 5:30 Friends (PG) 6:00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 10:15 Friends (PG) 12:15 Home Shopping 1:45 Mom (M) 2:15 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 3:35 Two And A Half Men (M) 2:00 ABC News 2:30 Ticket To Qatar 2:45 ABC News Video Lab 3:00 ABC News 3:30 Close Of Business 4:00 ABC News 4:30 The Breakfast Couch 5:00 ABC News 5:30 ABC News Regional 6:00 ABC Evening News 6:30 Australian Story 7:00 ABC National News 7:30 Back Roads 8:00 ABC News Tonight 8:15 Four Corners 9:00 ABC Nightly News 9:30 Heywire 10:00 ABC Late News Weekend 6:00 Getaway (PG) 6:30 A Current Affair (PG) 7:00 Weekend Today 10:00 Today Extra Saturday 12:00 Our State On A Plate 12:30 Cross Court 1:00 Drive TV 1:30 My Way 2:00 The 56th Annual Country Music Association Awards 4:00 Destination Australia 4:30 The Garden Gurus 5:00 NINE News: First At Five 5:30 Getaway (PG) 6:00 NINE News Saturday 7:00 A Current Affair (PG) 7:30 Movie: “The Bourne Identity” (M l,v) (’02) Stars: Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje 9:45 Movie: “The Bourne Supremacy” (M l,v) (’04) Stars: Brian Cox 10:00 Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures (PG) 11:00 Escape Fishing With ET 11:30 Healthy Homes Australia 12:00 The Love Boat (PG) 1:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation (PG) 2:00 A-Leagues All Access (PG) 2:30 Roads Less Travelled 3:00 MacGyver (M) 5:00 Reel Action 5:30 I Fish 6:00 Waltzing Jimeoin (M) 6:30 Scorpion (PG) 7:30 NCIS (M) 8:30 NCIS: Los Angeles (PG) 10:20 MacGyver (M) 1:00 Revolution (PG) 2:00 World Endurance Championship Highlights 3:10 Movie: “100% Wolf” (PG) (’20) Stars: Loren Gray 5:10 Movie: “Babe” (G) (’95) Stars: James Cromwell 7:00 Movie: “Nanny McPhee” (PG) (’05) Stars: Emma Thompson 9:00 Movie: “Parenthood” (M s) (’89) Stars: Steve Martin 11:30 Duncanville (M) 12:00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians (MA15+) 2:00 Baywatch (PG) 9:00 Australia By Design 9:30 Studio 10: Saturday 12:00 The Living Room (PG) 1:00 My Market Kitchen 1:30 Healthy Homes Australia 2:00 Well Traveller 2:30 Cook With Luke 3:00 What’s Up Down Under 3:30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield 4:00 Farm To Fork 4:30 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn 5:00 10 News First 6:00 Bondi Rescue (PG) 7:00 Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders 7:30 Blue Bloods: Homefront (M) 8:30 CSI: Vegas: In Harm’s Way (M v) 9:30 NCIS: Guardian (M) 10:30 My Life Is Murder (M) 11:30 The Cheap Seats (M) 12:00 Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man (PG) 1:10 The Most Expensive Rehab In The World (M d,l) 1:35 Gymnastics: Artistic World Challenge Cup 2:35 Sportswoman 3:05 ABC World News Tonight 3:30 PBS Newshour 4:30 Mastermind Australia 5:30 Vs. Arashi 6:25 Speed With Guy Martin (PG) 7:30 Impossible Engineering (PG) 8:30 The Artist’s View (M) 9:00 Stuck (M l) 10:15 Kids Raising Kids (M d,l) 12:30 Antiques Downunder (PG) 1:00 The Best 30 Years (PG) 1:30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives

The Avengers (PG) 3:20 Movie:

“Against The Wind” (PG) (’48)

6:00 Home Shopping 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show - Weekend (PG) 12:00 House Of Wellness (PG) 1:00 Border Security International (PG) 1:30 Cricket: WBBL: Sydney Sixers v Hobart *Live* 5:00 Seven News At 5 5:30 Border SecurityAustralia’s Front Line (PG) 6:00 Seven News 7:00 TBA 8:00 TBA 9:40 Greatest ABBA Covers Versions Ever (PG) 10:50 TBA 12:00 World’s Deadliest (M) 1:00 Home Shopping

2:00 On The Fly (PG) 2:30 Merv Hughes Fishing (PG) 3:00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates (PG) 4:00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction (PG) 5:00

Cricket: WBBL: Sydney Thunder v Adelaide *Live* 8:30 Movie: “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2” (PG) (’10)

3:00 Waffle The Wonder Dog 3:30 Play School 4:00 Ready, Steady, Wiggle! 4:35 Mecha Builders 5:00 Love Monster 5:30 Kiri And Lou 6:05 Interstellar Ella 6:25 Alva’s World 7:00 Andy And The Band 7:30 Australia Remastered 8:30 Louis Theroux’s LA Stories: Edge Of Life (MA15+)

12:00 Reel Destinations 12:30 Fishing Australia 1:00 Great Australian Detour 1:30 The Coolangatta Gold 2:30 Driving Test (PG) 3:00 Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo (PG) 4:00 Bondi Vet (PG) 5:00 NINE News: First At Five 5:30 Postcards (PG) 6:00 NINE News Sunday 7:00 Lego Masters Bricksmas Special (PG) 8:40 60 Minutes (PG) 9:40 NINE News Late 10:10 The First 48 (M v) 11:10 Murder In A Small Town (MA15+)

10:30 Broke (PG) 12:30 Friends (PG) 2:00 Basketball: Round 7: New Zealand Breakers v Adelaide 36ers *Live* 4:00 Basketball: Round 7: Sydney Kings v Illawarra Hawks *Live* 6:00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 9:00 Friends (PG) 12:00 Home Shopping

2:00 ABC News 2:30 Australian Story 3:00 ABC News 3:30 Offsiders 4:00 Landline 5:00 ABC News With Auslan 5:30 The World This Week 6:00 ABC Evening News 6:30 Victoria Votes: Campaign Trail 7:00 ABC News Sunday 7:30 Insiders 8:30 ABC News Tonight 9:00 ABC News

6:00 Religious Programs 8:00 The Living Room 9:00 Luca’s Key Ingredient 9:30 Studio 10: Sunday (PG) 12:00 The Challenge Australia (M) 2:00 Football: Celtic v Everton *Live* 5:00 10 News First 6:30 The Sunday Project (PG) 7:30 The Graham Norton Show

8:30 NCIS: Hawaii (M v) 9:30 FBI:

(M v) 10:30

(M v) 11:30

12:30

Sunday Project

12:30 Scorpion (PG) 1:30 Pooches At Play 2:00 Destination Dessert 2:30 Formula 1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix 3:30 The FBI Declassified (M) 4:30 What’s Up Down Under 5:00 Reel Action 6:00 Bondi Rescue (PG) 6:30 MacGyver (M) 7:30 NCIS (M v) 10:20 48 Hours (M)

1:30 TBA 2:00 SpeedSeries 4:00 Dance Moms (PG) 5:00 About A Boy (PG) 5:30 Transformers: Cyberverse (PG) 5:45 Movie: “Home” (PG) (’15) Stars: Jim Parsons 7:30 Movie: “Fast & Furious” (M l,s,v) (’09) Stars: Don Omar 9:30 Movie: “The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift” (M v) (’06)

10:00 The World From Above (PG) 11:00 Paul O’Grady For The Love Of Dogs (PG) 12:00 Worldwatch 1:00 Motor Sports: Australian Superbike Championship *Live* 3:00 Figure Skating: ISU Grand Prix UK 5:00 Football: Countdown To Qatar 5:30 Ascot Kayaking 5:30 Trains At War (PG) (In English/ French) 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Saving Venice (PG) (In English/ Italian) 9:10 Pearl Harbour (MA15+) 11:00 Charles And Diana

1:50 The Rising (PG) 3:20 France

English News 3:50 Insight (PG) 4:50 Forged In Fire (PG) 5:40 The Bee Whisperer (PG) 6:40 The Buildings That Fought Hitler (PG) 7:35 Jack Whitehall’s Got, Got, Need 8:30 UnXplained With William Shatner (M) 9:20 Football, Gambling And Me 12:10 Movie: “Hue And Cry” (G) (’47) Stars: Harry Fowler 1:50 Movie: “Frankie And Johnny” (G) (’66) Stars: Elvis Presley 3:40 Movie: “Alexander The Great” (G) (’56) 6:30 Bondi Vet 7:30 Mega Zoo (PG) 8:30 Movie: “The Last Samurai” (M) (’03) Stars: Tom Cruise 11:20 House (M)

Lives At Sea (PG) 3:10 Luke

Railway Vietnam (PG) 3:40 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) 4:10 Tony Robinson’s World By Rail (PG) 5:00 Jeopardy! (PG) 5:30 Letters And Numbers 6:00 Mastermind (PG) 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Celebrity Letters And Numbers (M) 8:30 Scotland’s Extreme Medics (M l)

Think You Are? (PG) 8:30 Football: Group C: Argentina v Saudi Arabia *Live* 11:30 Football: Group D: Denmark v Tunisia *Live*

HENMAN, Alec Edwin

Passed away on November 8, 2022 aged 97 years.

Dearly loved husband of Kath (dec) and Marion.

Loving father of Evelyn (dec), Brian (dec), Nanette, Graeme, Steve and their families.

Adored Pa and Great Pa to all of his grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.

“Treasured Memories”

KELM, Peter John of Jeparit, on November 5, 2022

Loved son of Harold & Una (both dec).

Loved brother and brotherin-law of Geoff & Carol, Barry & Susan.

Loved uncle of Mathew & Tammy, Corina & Shane; Lorea & Shane, Natasha & Nathan, Nathan.

McLEAN, Terence Warren (Terry)

Passed away on November 10, 2022 aged 75 years.

Dearly loved husband of Shirley (dec).

Loving father and fatherin-law of Quinn & Jacki; Jarrod & Renee; Ryan & Leanne.

Adored Grandad to Baylee; Kadyn, Zahlee, Eli, Dominic & Isaak; Jessica & Jonty, and Great Grandad to Jasper & Prudence. Reunited with Mum

MILLS, Robert William ‘Bob’ 24-1-1933

Passed away peacefully 9-11-2022. Aged 89.

Beloved father of Gary & Shane.

At rest with our beautiful Mother.

CLARK, Francis John (Frank)

The Funeral of Frank Clark will take place at the Graveside, Horsham Lawn Cemetery on Monday, November 21, 2022 commencing at 2pm.

Trevor Bysouth & Daughter Ph 5381 1444 AFDA Member

KELM

The Funeral of Mr Peter John Kelm will leave the Lutheran Church Jeparit on Monday, November 21, 2022 after a service commencing at 11.00am for the Jeparit Cemetery.

This Service will be live streamed via the following link. http://livingitlive.com.au/ peter-kelm/ W.B. Gardiner & Son Funeral Directors Warracknabeal 0407 340 064

HENMAN, Alec Edwin

The Funeral of Alec Edwin Henman will take place at the Graveside, Horsham Lawn Cemetery on Thursday, November 17, 2022 commencing at 2pm.

A funeral service for the late Mr Robert William ‘Bob’ Mills will be held at Kaniva Lawn Cemetery, Thursday, November 17, 2022, commencing at 2pm

Kaniva & District Funerals Emiley & Mathew Bone 0419 008 464

Birds for sale, hand raised green cheek conures, lovely coloured aviary bred cockatiels, opaline turks, Bourkes all colours, all young birds, ring for prices Ph 0408535515

Boer and Boer x goats, near Horsham Ph 0429647095

REDUCED last Shepweiler girl puppy, dob 16/8, ready 14/10, lovely little girls vacc, chipped, wormed, vet checked, source# MB166978, m/chip# 95301000601619/614/606/626 $600 Ph Kerrie 0499853884 Dimboola

Salami pigs wanted Ph 0481864397

2003 Canterbury Signature series caravan, 17’ tandem, d/bed, elec hot water, air con, fridge, awning, reg 3/23 $16,000 Ph 0437164589 Ararat

Ladies

Bristlenose catfish, great tank cleaners $5 each until sold out Ph 0474159010 after 6.30pm

Budgies, young, asstd colours $10ea Ph 0423182267

Goats wanted Ph 0427361940

Japanese quails , 4 colours, male and female $5 each Ph 0414851313

White Suffolk Flock Ram , located Drung, OB-Free Certified, Gudair Vac, born Sept 2021, pic# 3HSJU041 Ph Brierwood 0400792111 or 0429935382

Young pigs 2mth old, well bred, free ranged, suitable to spit or grow out, PIC# 3H5CG003 from $100 each Ph 0439834521

2013 On the Move caravan 21’, as new colour co-ordinated annex, cafe style eating area, lovely deco, q/bed, large 2 door fridge/freezer, washing machine, immaculate condition $45,000, Ph 0407812480

Coolroom, fully assembled with unit fitted, 1.8m x 1.4m x 2.4m (h), VGC, working order, $3800 Ph 0417101120

Trevor Bysouth & Daughter Ph 5381 1444 AFDA Member

McLEAN, Terence Warren (Terry)

The Funeral of Terry McLean will take place at St Andrew’s Uniting Church, Horsham on Wednesday, November 23, 2022 commencing at 2pm.

Private cremation. The service may also be viewed online at https:// vimeo.com/event/2603437

Ph 5381 1444

Member

Pembroke Welsh Corgi puppies are waiting for new owners and forever homes, 4 Red-White long tail male and 2 fawn / white bobtails. Puppies born on 21.8.2022 are available to loving new forever homes. They have wonderful personalities, happy adored babies raised in love and affection. All babies are very special and we will only consider full of love and responsible family. Mum and Dad are available to meet, Puppies will come with the first vaccination / vet checked / wormed every two weeks since two weeks of age / microchipped / puppy pack / pedigree paper, Interstate enquiries are welcomed and puppies can be delivered to most area of Australia at buyers cost, Welsh Pembroke Male Pups . Males ONLY Pedigree Papers . Red and White Males and Fawn and White Males . 953010005823666, 953010005 822557/7598/3710/2565/3667, photos available of parents and pups and and other info, Transport at Buyer Cost,MBDA 14545 Ph or text for info 0448024815

Pet carrier crate for cat or dog, large $50 Ph 0473870476

Pure breed black faced Dorper ewe lambs, pic# 3HSDC083 Ph Liz 0419664345

15’ Millard caravan , annex, registered, d/bed, kitchen, neat tidy clean van $4250 Ph 0419505737

1950 Bondwood caravan, 12’ 4 berth small, porthole window, restoration started, windows not fitted, W2 x H2.4m $2500 Ph 0400696362 Horsham

1960s Bondwood caravan 14’ white, alloy roof, 4 birth, W2.1x H2.5m, light grey and red interior, almost complete restoration, needs trim inside and out etc $4500 Ph 0400696362 Horsham

1981 Viscount caravan , 16’ pop-top, roll out awning, full annex, shower, porta loo, double bed, microwave, 240v fridge, external gas hot water, 12v tv and aerial, reg till April 23, cover included, photo on request $8500 Ph 0428146771

Jayco Discovery pop-top, 2013, vin# 6AM000000DIR52049, tare 1518, regit til Aug 23, roll out awning, full annex, ground floor mat, shower toilet and hand basin, hot and cold water, solar with battery plus two extra solar panels, wind u antenna, two single beds, tv with dvd, built in radio, hot plates 3 gas one elec with grill plus microwave, reverse cycle split level air con, stabiliser bars and caravan mover, EC $28,000ono Ph 0409967815 Horsham

Mars 2019 Extremo Rear Fold Camper Trailer, used 6 times, always kept under cover, 70L water tank, electric winch, 12 months rego, # 12,500 ONO, Ph Ken 0427047473

1986 Acco 1830D, 20’ tipper, s-cam brakes, 18407-F, grain bin, 22’ stock crate on stands, sheed, 2’ Thomas steel gravel sides, 109,000kms $21,000 plus Gst Ph 0427064052 evenings JD S670, 9870, 9650, 640D, 941D, 936D, 36HV Smale pick up, all harvest ready Ph 0427544227 or 0428544229

Mazda BT3-500 Motorhome , 1991 10spd, modern interior, sleeps 3, full RWC, cull complienced, EC, $39,000 Ph for full details 0411450027

Ph 0438951101 Massey Ferguson 585 Header

Windsor Caravan 1998, 19’6 Statesman, island bed, reading lights, battery pack skylight, aircon, gas stove, microwave, fridge, rollout awning, annexe walls ECT, $19,500 Ph 53820505

full length overcoat, like new, very soft leather, silky lining $250ono Ph 53822267

John Deere model D 1953 tractor, restored and painted, good rubber $12,000

MILLS, Robert William

Trevor Bysouth & Daughter

Heavy

Trailer 6x5 full enclosed , lockable, ideal tradesmans trailer, heavy duty build $3800ono Ph 0419509335

Two church pews in EX $350 each or both for $600 Ph 0428820446

Two restored wrought iron/ timber garden benches $350 each Ph 53522691

Dining table and chairs, VGC $465 Ph 0403314295

Husqvarna

UHF CB repeater, diplexer, power supply, TX/RX unit, cable, cabinet $800 Ph 0419509335

Electrolux animal stick vac, cordless, adjustable height, unused accessories, part warranty, new cond $250 Ph 53542553 or 0408511140 Ararat

Fully electric arh chair, 3yr old, cost $2000 sell $400ono Ph 53822267

Lightforce

Makita

Ultra Vision Quattro HID 70w driving lights, good to VG cond, new reflectors in last 12mths, complete with wiring looms and covers $450 the pair Ph 0401504176

Vintage Look Record Player also plays cassettes, CDs, USB, bluetooth and AM/FM radio, brand new in box $200 Ph 0427774890

Furniture for sale , best or nearest offer Ph 0403576973

1 seater lounge chair $250 Ph 53870522 AH Horsham

1x Large dining room table, timber and glass with 6x timber and fabric dining chairs, VGC, selling for $350 Ph 0408516069

2 seater leather lounge $300 Ph 53870522 AH Horsham

2 single adjustable beds and linen, coffee table, table and 4 chairs, sofa bed Ph 0487635047

Lounge Suite, quality 3Pc by Morgon Furniture. Excellent condition, solid hardwood frame, high density foam cushions, zip off covers. Piping detail on cushions and arm ends. $450 Ph 0407340226

Set of drawers $40 Ph 0428844245

Single medical bed, GC $150 Ph 0419547093

Steel/timber coffee table with magazine rack $400 Ph 53522691

Two single beds with mattresses, EC $300 Ph 53911628

Alicraft Boat and trailer, 4.35, Baystalker, centre consult, 40hp Yamaha reg Q0733 on 2006 trailer Mackay reg V26727 $14,000neg Ph 0419933542

216,100kms, 1TV 3JA $2,450 Ph 0429821539

Light blue Toyota carona sport, 2005, 311,000kms, TRD592 Ph 0493100329

2009 Hyundai Tucson, quto, reliable and tidy, towbar, reg til 2/23, 250,000kms $5,500 Ph 0438532351

2012 Holden Cruze,1.8 manual, regularly serviced, recent major service with timing belt replacement, water pump and all pulleys, new tyres, bluetooth android touch screen stereo and reverse camera, in daily use, no issues, 1TY2JR $6000ono Ph 0415772074

Holden Gemini x2 , 1981 TE8TF69-188333B, 4dr sed man SL, 1983 TG8TF69-241320B, 4dr sed man SL, as is both $4300ono Ph 0427801969 no text

Subaru Forester 2005 , AWD AUTO, lots of kms, well maintained, VIC RWC, TMA226, $4900, Ph 0428504569

Cream enamel and brass bed, base and mattress, queen size, EC, selling due to doubling up on beds, $800 or best acceptable offer Ph 0428504301

Evinrude 6hp o/b motor, fresh water only, rarely used, model 6804B, VGC $650 Ph 53470200

Mangrove Jack fold-up boat trailer, W90542 and custom boat loader Ph 0409583014

2000 Holden Statesman VH auto, 6cyl, 3.8 petrol, white, 282,000kms, QIU916 $6000 Ph 0491034206

2004 6 Cylinder Fairlane Ghia, runs very well, leather seats, reg until Dec 2022, 220,000km, WLP718, $7000 Ph Bev 0402910990

Mitsubishi 2013 ASX, auto 4x4, 2.2lt diesel, one owner, RWC, reg till Jan 23, 182,000kns, 1CA3HO $12,000 Ph 0428852409

The Weekly Advertiser welcomes your advertising. We are required strictly by law to include specific information on some items when publishing your advertisement.

A snapshot of your obligations are as follows:

ROAD VEHICLESAll advertisements for road vehicles must include a price, as well as:

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• Either an engine number, VIN or chassis number if the vehicle is not registered.

Nissan

Suzuki Baleno , 1.4 auto, 5 months old, as new, reg 5/23, 1VN21Z $19,750 Ph 0400788853

XR6 2010, auto, service history, RWC, full rego, EC, XSF 763, POA Ph 0428989234

2015 Toyota Hilux SR5, auto, 4x4, MY14 Dual Cab 5 spd, silver sky,

Christian Devotions

Remembrance Day

I write this after attending a Remembrance Day Service where we, in silence, contemplated the loss of lives during wartime. Following the service, I re-read the poem “In Flanders Fields,” written by John McCrae following the death of a friend in battle. It is a poem filled with contrasting images – the larks singing amidst the sound of gunfire, the dead who had been alive as recently as a few days ago, and the failing hands throwing the torch to those still filled with life.

The night before he was crucified, Jesus spoke these words to his disciples – “I am leaving you with a gift –peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give isn’t like the peace the world gives. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” (John 14: 27) The peace Jesus promised is also filled with contrasts – where there is rejection, we know God loves us (Rom 8: 38-39), when we are worried about our past we can be assured that God forgives us (John 3: 16-17), and when we feel misunderstood and betrayed we know that God’s depth of understanding cannot be measured (Isaiah 40: 28-29).

JK Milling are seeking applicants for permanent and casual positions which are available in the Storage area of our business.

The successful applicants may have the opportunity of full-time employment after a qualifying period. Applicants must be fit and be able to climb large silos.

Training will be provided, therefore persons who might have a focus for the above-mentioned work tasks but no experience, are encouraged to apply.

Please reply with your resume to the: Human Resources Manager, JK Milling P/L, PO Box 1239, Horsham 3402 Ph. 5382 0044

Email: andrew@jkmilling.com.au

You can be more than part of your community be someone making a difference for people in your community

Employment Opportunities

Employment Opportunities

salary packaging in addition to salary** See our website for further information We are seeking committed and passionate people who are ready for exciting and rewarding careers in our growing community health organisation

Intensive Mental Health Clinician

Intensive Mental Health Clinician

38 hours

38 hours

$39.26 to $44.92 per hour

$39.26 to $44.92 per hour

Contact: Jemima Bibby

Contact: Jemima Bibby

NDIS Plan Management Officer

NDIS Plan Management Officer

38 hours $34.47 to $38.43 per hour

38 hours $34.47 to $38.43 per hour

Contact: Mia Fraser

Contact: Mia Fraser

Case Manager Aged Care 38 hours

$34.04 to $36.50 per hour

Case Manager Aged Care 38 hours $34.04 to $36.50 per hour

Contact: Karen Watson

Contact: Karen Watson

Closing: 12pm Monday 28 November 2022

Closing: 12pm Monday 28 November 2022

To download a position description and key selection criteria form visit our website: gch.org.au

To download a position description and key selection criteria form visit our website: gch.org.au

For further information email

employment@gch.org.au or call contact person on 5358 7400

For further information email employment@gch.org.au or call contact person on 5358 7400

Just as I am grateful to those who lost their lives to protect our freedoms, so too am I grateful to

for the inner peace we find when we take our troubles to him, lay them at his feet and leave them there, trusting him.

It is Remembrance Day – Lest we Forget.

Christine McWilliams, City Heart Church of Christ

All positions can be found on recruitment online or by scanning the QR code:

For further information on these positions, please contact Shannon Argall on 5385 2381

OFFICE ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS MANAGER

JK Milling is seeking a career focused person for the above mentioned position.

The role will include general administration duties, client services and a range of documentation tasks related to our domestic and international, merchandising, manufacturing and export operations.

Applicants with previous exposure in the grains and transport sectors or having training / experience in sales should consider this position as an advancement for their career.

Training will be provided therefore persons who might have a focus for the abovementioned work tasks but no experience, are also encouraged to apply.

Selection criteria for the position will include your proficiencies in the following: - communication skills, use of computers, Microsoft programmes, sound English, Grammar and Mathematical skills.

CHEF – COOK – KITCHEN HAND

Please reply with your resume to the: Human Resources Manager, JK Milling P/L, PO Box 1239, Horsham 3402 Ph. 5382 0044

Email: andrew@jkmilling.com.au

Junior Laundry Assistant

Casual

Job No. 4467 closes 21/11/2022

Executive Assistant

Permanent Full Time

Job No. 4466 closes 22/11/2022

Ward Clerk

Permanent Part Time

Job No. 4472 closes 22/11/2022

Contracts & Tendering Officer

Permanent Part Time

Job No. 4458 closes 22/11/2022

Nurse Unit Manager

Permanent Full Time

Job No. 4473 closes 22/11/2022

Client Services Assistant

Permanent Full/Part Time

Job No. 4477 closes 27/11/2022

To apply or for more information please go to: https://whcg.mercury.com.au/

Horsham Neighbourhood House

Administration Assistant

Horsham Neighbourhood House has a vacancy for an Administration Assistant who will work closely with the Manager to assist in the promotion and advertising of the House, its services and programs.

The position will also include Customer Service and general office administrative tasks.

The applicant will have excellent communication skills, organisational and administrative skills. They will be able to work to timelines and be able to work independently and as part of a team.

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The position is a permanent part time role.

• 15hrs per week

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Applications close on 5pm Monday 28 November.

For a copy of the Position Description and Key Selection Criteria contact Manager Charlie Helyar on 5382 5352 or hello@horshamnh.com.au

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NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF AN

AMENDMENT

The Horsham Rural City Council has prepared Amendment C81hors to the Horsham Planning Scheme.

The land affected by the Amendment

The land affected by the amendment is within the settlements of Brimpaen, Bungalally, Clear Lake, Dadswells Bridge, Dahlen, Dooen, Douglas, Drung Drung, Duchembegarra, Grass Flat, Heathvale, Jallumba, Jilpanger, Jung, Kalkee, Kanagulk, Kewell, Laharum, Longerenong, Lower Norton, McKenzie Creek, Mockinya, Mitre, Natimuk, Noradjuha, Nurrabiel, Pimpinio, Quantong, Riverside, St Helens Plains, Telangatuk East, Tooan, Toolondo, Vectis, Wail, Wartook and Wonwondah.

What the Amendment proposes

The Amendment proposes to implement the findings of the following six flood studies:

• Horsham and Wartook Valley Flood Investigation (2019)

• Natimuk Flood Investigation (2013)

• Warracknabeal Brim Flood Study Investigation (2016)

• Mount William Creek Flood Investigation (2014)

• Wimmera River and Yarriambiack Creek Flow Investigation (2009/10)

• Lower Wimmera Flood Investigation (2016-17)

The Amendment applies the Floodway Overlay and Land Subject to Inundation Overlay on land which is subject to flooding in a 1 in 100 year flood event. It also applies the Special Building Overlay to land subject to stormwater flooding. The Special Building Overlay Schedule 1 replaces Design and Development Overlay Schedule 9 (Stormwater Management Area). Schedule 4 to the Design and Development Overlay (Flood Fringe Development) is deleted on the basis that it is redundant.

The Amendment updates Clause 02.03-3 (Environmental risks and amenity), deletes Clause 13.03-1L (Floodplain management - Horsham) and includes the six flood studies as Reference Documents within the Horsham Planning Scheme.

Specifically, the Amendment seeks to:

• Amend Planning Scheme Map Nos.1LSIO-FO, 2LSIO-FO, 4LSIO-FO, 5LSIO-FO, 6LSIO-FO, 7LSIO-FO, 8LSIO-FO, 10LSIO-FO, 11LSIO-FO, 12LSIO-FO, 13LSIO-FO, 14LSIO-FO, 15LSIOFO, 16LSIO-FO, 17LSIO-FO, 18LSIO-FO, 19LSIO-FO, 21LSIO-FO, 22LSIO-FO, 23LSIO-FO, 24LSIO-FO, 25LSIO-FO, 26LSIO-FO, 27LSIO-FO, 28LSIO-FO, 29LSIO-FO, 30LSIO-FO and 31LSIO-FO to apply the LSIO1 and FO1 to include identified flood prone land and delete reference to either the FO or LSIO.

• Insert Planning Scheme Map No. 20LSIO-FO to apply the LSIO1 and FO1 to identified flood prone land.

• Insert Planning Scheme Map Nos. 9SBO, 10SBO, and 13SBO to apply the SBO1 to identified flood prone land.

• Amend Planning Scheme Map Nos 9DDO, 10DDO, 12DDO and 13DDO to delete the DDO9 as a result of its replacement by the SBO.

• Amend the Planning Scheme Map Nos. 11DDO and 14DDO to delete the DDO4.

• Amend the Planning Scheme M ap Nos. 11DDO and 14DDO to delete the DDO4.

• Amend Planning Scheme Map No. 12 to apply the Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ) and Low Density Residential Zone (LDRZ) to replace the Urban Flood Zone (UFZ).

• Remove Clause 37.03 (Urban Flood Zone) and the Schedule from the scheme.

• Delete Schedule 4 to Clause 43.03 (Design and Development Overlay) (Flood Fringe Development).

• Delete Schedule 9 to Clause 43.03 (Design and Development Overlay) (Stormwater Management Area).

• Amend Schedule 1 to Clause 44.03 (Flood Overlay) to meet the requirements of the Ministerial Direction - the Form and Content of Planning Schemes, clarify exemptions and remove duplication in the scheme.

• Replace the Schedule to Clause 44.04 (Land Subject to Inundation Overlay) with a new Schedule 1 to meet the requirements of the Ministerial Direction - the Form and Content of Planning Schemes, clarify exemptions and remove duplication in the scheme.

• Insert Clause 44.05 (Special Building Overlay) into the scheme.

• Insert Schedule 1 to Clause 44.05 (Special Building Overlay) to replace DDO9.

• Amend Clause 02.03-3 (Environmental risks and amenity) by making specific reference to the six flood studies undertaken by the WCMA and the application of the flood-related overlays.

• Delete Clause 13.03-1L (Floodplain management) on the basis that the provisions are effectively replaced by the schedules to the overlays.

• Amend the Schedule to Clause 72.03 (What does this planning scheme consist of?).

• Amend the Schedule to Clause 72.08 (Background Document) to include the flood studies as Background Documents.

• Amend the Schedule to Clause 74.01 (Application of zones, overlays and provisions).

• Amend the Schedule to Clause 74.02 (Further strategic work).

Where you can inspect the Amendment

You may inspect the Amendment, any documents that support the Amendment and the explanatory report about the Amendment, free of charge, at:

• the Horsham Rural City Council website (from Nov 17) www.hrcc.vic.gov.au/c81Flood-Amendment;

• the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) website www.delwp.vic.gov. au/public-inspection; and

• during office hours at the office of the Planning Authority, Horsham Rural City Council, Civic Centre Offices, 18 Roberts Avenue, Horsham.

How you can make a submission to the Amendment

Any person who may be affected by the Amendment may make a submission to the planning authority about the Amendment. Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the amendment is supported or opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter wishes to make.

Name and contact details of submitters are required for council to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend council meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions. The closing date for submissions is Tuesday 20 December 2022. A submission must be sent to the Horsham Rural City Council.

A submission can be sent by mail, to Strategic Planning Team

Submission to Amendment C81hors

Horsham Rural City Council PO Box 511 Horsham VIC 3402

Or submitted by email to: strategic.planning@hrcc.vic.gov.au

Or submitted using the online submission form available on Council’s website: www.hrcc.vic.gov.au/c81Flood-Amendment

The Planning Authority must make a copy of every submission available at its office and/or on its website for any person to inspect free of charge for two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.

The following panel hearing dates have been tentatively set for this Amendment:

• Directions hearing: week commencing Monday 13 March 2023

• Panel hearing: week commencing Monday 24 April 2023

A copy of every submission available at the Council offices and on the website for any person to inspect free of charge for two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.

Weather, Pomonal shine on Saturday

BY ‘ONE SHORT’

Grampians pennant com mittee took a punt on the weather last week, and with the addition of a couple of grounds reverted to the original 40 over draw.

Fortunately, it was a good move, as the rain came after play had ended.

Pomonal had a solid victory against Combine2 at Great Western. Batting first, the Tigers reached a credible 4-203 at five runs an over, with Corey Taylor, Lynden Brewis and Clinton Mackley all recording half centuries.

In reply, the scoreboard pressure got to the Combine, dismissed for 139, with Travis Nicholson the mainstay with 73.

Mackley, Harry Evans and Taylor all took two wickets.

Gappers2, with 1-142, cruised to an easy win against Rymston2, 138, thanks to a 100-plus partnership from Les Pyke, 78 not out, and Rob Scott, 38 not out. Nathan Quick had previously scored 71 not out for Rymston.

James Zanker was again among

the wickets with 3-33. Rhymston1, 8-77, fell to St Andrews 1-80.

Adam Haslett 3-21 and Neville Bohner, 50, were the Saints standout performers.

Chalambar, in its first match for the season, defeated Gappers1.

Batting first, Chalambar recorded 111 runs with Ross Kettle, 30, and Sam Pilgrim, 40, the main contribu tors.

The Gappers turn at the crease re sulted in just 92 runs and apart from Charlie McIntosh, 46, and Wayne Pederson, 35, little resistance was offered to Ethan McKinnis’ 6-24.

This week sees Swifts-Great Western1 take on Chalambar at Central Park, Stawell; Halls Gap face St Andrews at Halls Gap; Rhymney-Moyston1 will meet Pomonal at Alexandra Oval, Ara rat; and Rhymney-Moyston2 and Swifts-Great Western2 at Moyston. Halls Gap2 two has the bye.

The matches of most interest will be Combine1 and Chalambar and Rhymston1 and Pomonal. Both these games are scheduled for turf, but the weather will probably dic tate ground changes.

Chally’s first match last week

proved a win, thanks to their bowl ers, particularly Ethan McKinnis.

This week they face a more tal ented line-up and will have to post a better score against the likes of Sam Cocks, Tom Fitzgerald and Jack Cann, to name a few.

The pressure is on Ross Kettle, Sam Pilgrim and co to give their bowlers enough runs to play with.

Rymston’s batting has been poor so far this season and will have to improve to topple the Tigers, who have posted two impressive wins thanks to batters Mackley, Matt Peel, Taylor and Brewis, together with the two bowlers Lachie Green and Lachlan Dalkin.

In other matches, Halls Gap1 is at home to St Andrews, with both sides needing a win.

The Gappers have not hit their straps yet, while the Saints are building a very good side with re cent additions of Jack Ganley and Tom Mills.

The final match is Combine2 v Rhymston2. Rymnston has yet to win a match but has been competi tive in all games but is up against a side that features leading associa tion run scorer Travis Nicholson.

Legacy calling all bowlers

Wimmera Legacy Club is hosting the 63rd annual two-bowl open triples tour nament on Saturday.

Players are invited to Coughlin Park Bowling Club, Horsham, for three games of 10 ends, from noon.

Entry is $30 a team and entries close at 6pm tonight. The event is a major fundraiser for Wimmera Legacy Club.

The Wimmera Legacy Club provides welfare support to widows, widow ers, children and disabled dependants of Australia’s deceased veterans who served their country in war or peace keeping operations and members of the Australian Defence Force who died

on hazardous service or in operational training accidents.

Wimmera Legacy relies primarily on the public for donations and has 33 vol unteer Legatees who look after the wel fare and needs of more than 110 widows and their families within the Wimmera.

All money raised stays in the area to help with support and welfare of these families.

Priceline Horsham is sponsoring the event for the 12th year.

Owner Cobie McQueen said the busi ness was happy to continue its support of Legacy.

“It’s such a worthy event,” she said.

SUPPORT: Wimmera Legacy Bowls Tournament organiser Gary Coutts with sponsor Cobie McQueen from Priceline. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Homers post first-up win

BY ABBY WALTER

Homers finally had a chance to put a win on the Horsh am Cricket Association A Grade board after a delayed season and two byes.

After batting first Homers had Jung Tigers all out for 140 and won by 55 runs.

Homers’ strongest batters were Mark Mbofana with a half-century from 63 balls and Paddy Mills with 35 from 76.

David Puls bowled nine overs and took three wickets for Jung and was supported by Tyler Puls who took two wickets during his nine overs.

With seven batters out for less than 10 runs each, Jung was in for a tough session.

Brenton Hallam stayed at the crease long enough for 30 runs, but was the highest run scorer for the team.

Angus Adams made 28 runs while Brett Jensz and Martyn Knight made 20 runs apiece.

Homers’ Simon Hopper was a force with the ball, taking four wickets, two leg before wickets and two catches, off fewer than eight overs.

The Tigers were all out before the end of the 40th over.

West Wimmera Warriors and Rupan up-Minyip drew after the match was abandoned in the second session.

Rupanyup-Minyip were seven

for 179 after 45 overs, with Daniel Schaper making 64 runs off 45 balls and

While the middle order looked shaky, and Warriors’ Jeremy Weeks took two wickets from five overs and eight runs, Schaper scored eight fours and one six to have the Blue Panthers in a comfortable position heading out to bowl.

After 29 overs, West Wimmera was sitting two for 108 with Mitchell Dahlenburg the main run scorer on 60 from 100.

Weidemann took one wicket and Schaper ran out Liam Preston who scored 16 runs.

HALF CENTURY:

Saints, Noradjuha Recreation Reserve. C Grade – Horsham Saints v West Wim mera Warriors, Coughlin Park; Colts v Blackheath-Dimboola, Dudley Cornell Park; Laharum v Homers, Laharum Sports and Community Centre; Lubeck-Murtoa v Quantong, Murtoa Recreation Reserve; Natimuk v Jung Tigers, Natimuk Recre ation Reserve.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Despite a bye, Noradjuha-Toolondo Bullants remain at the top of the lad der heading into the next round.

Jung will have a challenge ahead against the Bullants, who will be re freshed and ready to hold the top spot for another week.

Homers and Rupanyup-Minyip will have a solid contest ahead, while West Wimmera has a bye.

This week: A Grade – Jung Tigers v Bullants, City Oval; Homers v Rupa nyup-Minyip, Sunnyside Recreation Re serve; West Wimmera Warriors, bye. B Grade – Jung Tigers v Lubeck-Murtoa, Dimboola Road Oval; Colts v Black heath-Dimboola, Dudley Cornell Park; Rupanyup-Minyip v Laharum, Rupanyup Recreation Reserve; Bullants v Horsham

Last week: A Grade – West Wimmera Warriors 2-108 (M. Dahlenburg 60) drew with Rupanyup-Minyip 7-179 (D. Schaper 64, C. Weidemann 54, J. Weeks 2-8), match abandoned; Homers 8-195 (M. Mbofana 50, P. Mills 35, S. Hopper 33, D. Puls 3-20, T. Puls 2-39) d Jung Tigers 140 (B. Hallam 30, A. Adams 28, S. Hopper 4-17, J. Kannar 2-33). B Grade – Horsham Saints 2-63 (M. Crafter 34, R. Frew 2-22) d Colts 60 (S. Sounness 3-26, A. Laffy 2-12); Laharum 5-82 (P. Bandara 3-19) d Jung Tigers 78 (J. Mahoney 6-10, D. Bun worth 2-10); Lubeck-Murtoa 4-87 (J. Hedt 52, S. McCurdy 2-34) d Rupanyup-Minyip 8-86 (B. Turner 3-23, N. Ballagh 2-10); Blackheath-Dimboola drew with Bullants, match abandoned. C Grade – Wimmera Warriors 1-154 (J. Dickinson 50, J. Crow hurst 50) d Jung Tigers 87 (L. Sonego 34, J. Crowhurst 3-12, W. Wheaton 2-9); Natimuk 7-89 (Z. Smith 34, O. Potter 4-13, P. Drummond 2-13) d Homers 87 (A. King 3-0, A. Coutts 2-6, C. Cameron 2-8); Laharum 1-68 (J. Shevlin 29, S. Wouters 25) d Quantong 67 (A. Marra 5-7, S. Wouters 2-15); Blackheath-Dim boola 7-207 (L. Krelle 50, D. Sexton 48, J. Barry 42, H. Crute 2-19, R. Kirkwood 2-29) d Horsham Saints 8-204 (L. Pike 59, R. Kirkwood 58, J. Barry 2-17, A. Laverty 2-24); Colts forfeit to Lubeck-Murtoa.

Junior profile

Chase

C Grade, under-16s and under-14s

Why do you play cricket? I enjoy playing cricket with my friends.

What is your favourite or funni est cricket memory? My favou rite moment was playing for Hor sham under-13s in last season’s grand final in Portland.

Who is your favourite player? Matthew Wade.

Who is the toughest or best player you have played against? Luke Miller.

Do you think you could beat a member of your family at cricket? I think dad would have me covered in the family.

Whelan, 12 Laharum Cricket Club, Mountain Ants and Horsham Saints Cricket Club

Connor Weidemann making 54 runs off 117 balls.

Mark Mbofana was the highest scoring batter for Homers with 50 runs in a winning game against Jung Tigers at the weekend.

Ready to race at Stawell

Stawell Little Athletics Club is preparing for two events in the season calendar.

The club will host its Little Ath letics community round tomorrow night and on December 4 will host the Western Country Regional Relay Carnival at North Park.

President Elishia Murphy said the community round was about pro moting fun, family and fitness.

“It’s about bringing the communi ty together with athletics,” she said.

“It’s also a thank you to Coles for their support during the season – they give out bananas each week to athletes, or for clubs that are too far away from a Coles supermarket, they give a $250 voucher to provide free fruit to the children.

“For the round, Coles has donated shirts and hats to all the athletes and during the night we will be giving out vouchers for Coles and some of our sponsors.”

Mrs Murphy said the club had asked businesses, sponsors and emergency services to get involved.

“Stawell Police, Country Fire Au thority and people from other busi nesses will be running in fun races with the athletes,” she said.

“We’ll have three of our scheduled track and field events before leaving time for our fun races.

“Four committee members will be dressed as bananas for a race and the athletes are encouraged to dress up in red for Coles or yellow for bananas, with the most imaginative

dress up earning them a prize.” Mrs Murphy said the Western Coun try Regional Relay Carnival was a chance for all clubs in the region to participate against each other.

“Athletes from the under-nine to under-17 age groups compete. It’s a huge day,” she said.

“There are different events with four-by-100-metre relays, four-by200-metre relays, mixed relays and more.

“Teams that do really well and finish first, and sometimes second depending on times across the state, go on to compete at Lakeside Sta dium in Melbourne for state cham pionships.

“This is the second time we are hosting the event in Stawell.”

Hall triumphant in tennis return

Stawell tennis players were treated to beautiful spring conditions for the first time this season during Friday night competition.

The tennis lifted a notch in some hotly contested matches.

In the David O’Jones Mitre 10 A Grade 1 group, Patty Hall made a triumphant return, winning all three sets, all tight af fairs, to be three games clear of a logjam in second place.

In the A2s, it was the silky-smooth Bri an O’Shannessy who will advance next week, just holding out Malcolm Raggart, who almost continued his meteoric climb up the rankings, but will remain with the second group for another week.

In the A Grade ladies, it was club leg end Jade Cross, who demonstrated she is a class above her opposition, with some comprehensive victories and finishing 11 games clear of her nearest rival.

In the Carey Covers B Grade ladies, just two games separated first and third, with hard hitting youngster Sophie Hut ton taking the honours and earning a shot at Cross and co. next week.

In the B Grade 1 men’s group, a fresh face at the club this season, Hayden Price, took out the night by the barest of margins, while in the B2s, the same score line applied, but with Leon Mona ghan reigning triumphant.

In the Stawell Gold Mine C Grade Mens 1 section, Joe Dunn took care of business in workmanlike fashion, fin ishing one solitary game ahead of Phil Hutton, with Zayne Hall a further two games adrift.

In the C2s, it was Seth Blake who just

held out youngster Will Edgar, locked on the same number of games, but a superior grading will see Blake advance.

Annabelle Price, Cass Coffey and Erin Freeland were separated by just one game in the C grade ladies, on 21, 21 and 20 respectively, which will see Price move on to tackle the B Grade ladies next week.

Evie McMurtrie proved too strong in the Stawell Toyota D Grade ladies, win ning two sets out of three, including an 8-0 demolition alongside Carel Chang, to end up two games clear of Chang at nights end.

In the D1 mens, Jack Stevens showed all comers a clean set of heels, winning all three sets convincingly, to be eight games clear, while in the D2 section, Marlow Edgar played a lead role in two big wins, which paved the way for a two-game win over a host of youngsters.

In the Wombat Earthmovers E Grade mens, some of Stawell Tennis Club’s upand-coming juniors battled, with Archie Hoffman winning all three sets on his way to a six-game triumph.

Natalie Martin methodically disman tled her opposition over three sets in the E Grade 1 ladies group, winning all three sets comfortably to finish eight games clear, while in the E2s, it would be Amara Jagan who held off Larni Gooden in a thriller, 20 games to 19 games, with Sophie Martin a further two games back.

– Joel Freeland

SET: Stawell Little Athletics Club members, from left, Isla Murphy, Jenson James, Loui Lang, Matilda Giusa, Jacob Giusa, Logan Murphy, Tyler Carver, Alijaah Giusa and Blake Sanger. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Opportunity for Kalkee

Kalkee has the opportunity to knock Central Park from the top of the pennant ladder in round seven of Central Wim mera Tennis Association action on Saturday.

Both teams won in round six and are only separated by percentage on the ladder.

Drung South hosted ladder-lead ers Central Park on Saturday in a close day of tennis.

Junior profile

Central Park got off to a solid start, winning both doubles match es, but Drung South came back to win both of their opening singles matches.

The rest of the sets were very close.

Sue Walter and Willow Sainsbury are in top form for Central Park, winning most of their sets.

Central Park won seven sets, 78 games to Drung South’s five sets,

71 games. Second-placed Kalkee was in top form against St Mi chaels, winning eight sets, 78 games to St Michaels’ four sets, 64 games.

Kalkee’s Jeff Friberg and James Sayle proved too strong in their opening doubles match against Ian Nitschke and Peter Hayse, winning eight games to four.

Hayley Thomas was a standout for Kalkee and won all her sets.

The rest of the sets were evenly matched throughout the day. As the competition heats up, St Michaels is in unfamiliar territory sitting on the bottom of the pennant ladder.

In next week’s matches, Central Park and Kalkee should be a close contest at Central Park and St Mi chaels will continue to look for their first win of the season as they take on Horsham Lawn.

Round six results

Seniors

Pennant: Central Park 7-78 d Drung South 5-71, Kalkee 8-78 d St Michaels 4-64.

A Special: Kalkee 10-93 d Horsham Lawn Dor man 4-72, Central Park 11-104 d Haven 3-54, Natimuk 11-100 d Drung South 3-60, Horsham Lawn Thompson 11-101 d Telangatuk East 3-73, Homers 7-82 d Brimpaen 7-75.

A Grade: Horsham Lawn Bardell 8-83 d Haven 4-65, Central Park 8-85 d Drung South 4-57, Horsham Lawn O’Connor 7-73 d Homers 5-58.

B Special: St Michaels 9-86 d Laharum 3-44, Central Park 7-79 d Natimuk 5-62, Horsham Lawn 8-87 d Haven 4-50.

Juniors

Open: Natimuk Yellow 4-29 d Central Park 2-21, Horsham Lawn Gold 4-30 d Horsham Lawn Green 2-25, Natimuk Blue 5-33 d Hom ers 1-22.

Section 1 Boys: Natimuk 5-31 d Quantong 1-20, Central Park 4-29 d Haven 2-25.

Section 1 Girls: Haven Red 5-34 d Homers 1-28, Horsham Lawn 5-34 d Haven Purple 1-17.

Section 2 Boys: Homers White 6-36 d Hor sham Lawn White 0-12, Central Park 5-34 d Horsham Lawn Green 1-16, Homers Red 5-35 d Haven 1-19.

Section 2 Girls: Horsham Lawn White 6-36 d Homers 0-11, Haven 4-29 d Horsham Lawn Gold 2-27, Horsham Lawn Green 3-22 d Cen tral Park 3-20.

Section 3 Boys: Haven forfeited to Horsham Lawn White, Horsham Lawn Green 6-36 d Horsham Lawn Gold 0-9.

Section 3 Girls: Horsham Lawn White for feited to Natimuk, Horsham Lawn Gold 4-33 d Haven 2-29, Homers forfeited to Horsham Lawn Green.

Section 4 Boys: Natimuk 6-36 d Horsham Lawn White 0-11, Horsham Lawn Red 3-27 drew with Haven 3-27.

Section 4 Girls: Horsham Lawn White 6-36 d Haven Pink 0-6, Haven Orange 5-31 d Central Park 1-19, Horsham Lawn Gold 6-36 d Horsh am Lawn Green 0-15.

Why do you play tennis or what do you like most about tennis? I like tennis because it is a fun sport and I can meet new people.

What is your favourite tennis memory? Win ning a premiership with my team, in my first season of Match Play.

Who is your favourite player? Ash Barty. Who is the toughest player you have played against? Elly Dunn.

Do you think you could beat your family members? I can beat my mum and sister, but I can’t beat my dad just yet.

Match Play Section 5: Horsham Lawn Pink 3-19 d Natimuk 3-16, Horsham Lawn Purple 6-24 d Haven 0-8, Horsham Lawn Green 4-19 d Central Park 2-11, Horsham Lawn White 6-24 d Horsham Lawn Gold 0-5, Horsham Lawn Red 4-21 d Horsham Lawn Yellow 2-16.

Match Play Section 6: Homers 4-18 d Hor sham Lawn Blue 2-17, Natimuk 4-17 d Central Park 2-12, Horsham Lawn Red 5-22 d Haven 1-14, Horsham Lawn Gold 3-16 d Horsham Lawn Green 3-14, Horsham Lawn Orange 4-19 d Horsham Lawn White 2-12.

Matilda Webster, 11 Horsham Lawn Tennis Club Section three

FOCUS: Marita Turnbull, Natimuk, is a picture of concentration during Saturday’s B Special clash against Central Park. Turnball had mixed results, winning two of her three sets of doubles. Central Park won the day, 7-79 to Natimuk’s 5-62. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

HABA squads show class

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Horsham junior basketball teams showcased their tal ent at the weekend, claiming a sweep of inter-regional grandfinal victories across a bookedout Horsham junior basketball tournament.

Horsham Amateur Basketball As sociation, HABA, hosted its Hor sham Junior Classic tournament, welcoming more than 100 teams of junior basketballers to Horsham and the Wimmera from across re gional Victoria.

Junior Horsham association squads claimed five of 14 division al grand-final wins, with HABA under-14 A girls, under-14 B girls, under-16 A boys, under-16 B boys and under-18 girls squads all tak

ing home tournament champion ship honours.

HABA junior vice-president Brent Barclay said inter-associa tion support was a highlight across three days of competitive basket ball.

“The biggest thing I took from the tournament was how packed Horsham stadium was with young basketballers supporting and watching rival association match es,” he said.

“There was this cross-regional support evident, and people were not necessarily chasing their own clubs around all weekend to only watch their home-town squads.”

A packed Saturday tournament fixture culminated in the headline Country Basketball League southwest conference men’s match be

tween Horsham Hornets and Colac Kookas at Horsham Basketball Stadium.

“The Saturday evening senior game during the junior tournament represented a big part of what we are trying to build into the fabric of the association,” Mr Barclay said.

“It is about building that team and family culture. Having all our junior divisions watching each oth er’s matches, as well as the senior game on that evening, just illumi nates the opportunities to young basketballers of the available path ways from junior to senior com petition.”

He said the association would host the tournament again in No vember 2023, however last week’s competition had ‘almost maxed out’ the event’s participatory po

tential. “This year was the biggest one yet, so next year we will see how we go doing it again,” he said.

“This year was probably all we could handle in terms of the num ber of teams with the available courts and facilities in the region.”

Tournament basketballers played at school courts in Horsham, and at regional club courts in Warrack nabeal and Dimboola.

Mr Barclay said 105 basketball teams, 934 players, 112 coach es, 101 team managers, and more than 40 referees from Melbourne, Portland, Warrnambool, Hamil ton, Echuca, Euroa and Mildura all contributed to the association’s largest ever junior tournament.

PRESSURE: Jasper Beddison, Chavi Sulic and Aiden Reinheimer pressure Echuca’s Keoni Anderson in under-14 competition.

Tarkyn Benbow, Horsham, under-18s

Elliot Tippet, Horsham under-12s

Mahlie Tepper, Horsham under-14s

FIERCE: Horsham

Amateur Basketball Association played host to 105 junior basketball teams from across Victoria at the weekend for its Horsham Junior Classic tournament.

Pictured in action, above, Toby Lakin, Horsham, competing in an under-18 match against Euroa; above right, Chavi Sulic, Horsham under-14 v Echuca Pirates; and right, Tate Newton, Horsham under-12 v Mildura. Pictures:

PAUL CARRACHER

Another win for Hornets

BY ABBY WALTER

Horsham

Hornets men’s team look to be hitting their stride with another win under their belt in round seven.

Horsham defeated Colac Kookas in Country Basketball League’s southwest conference at the weekend, while Ararat Redbacks had a tough double-header copping two losses.

The Hornets hosted the Kookas and won convincingly by 34 points.

Mitch Martin and Austin McKenzie were the biggest scoring contributors with 22 and 20 points.

The Hornets doubled the Kookas score in the first quarter and set the tone for the remainder of the game.

Too strong across the court, the Hor sham side never let Colac see a steady run and came away with the win.

Ararat faced Mt Gambier Lakers and was defeated by four points on Saturday.

Zac Dunmore scored 37 of the Red back’s 87 points.

On Sunday, Ararat had another game across the border, playing against Millicent Magic, losing 104 to 92.

Dunmore was again a standout for the Redbacks with 38 points to his

name, supported well by Joshua Fieg ert with 26 points.

Ararat remains in third on the lad der, with only percentage separating it from Magic and one game below the Lakers.

The Redbacks will be looking for a comeback in round eight when they face Colac Kookas.

The Hornets are sitting fifth on the ladder and will face Terang Tornadoes for the second time this season and will have a chance to put another win on the board.

The Lady Hornets had a bye in round seven, but will come out firing against Terang Tornadoes who they defeated comfortably in round six.

Horsham Hornets women’s team are third on the ladder.

This week: Men, Horsham Hornets v Terang Tornadoes at Terang, Ararat Redbacks v Colac Kookas at Colac. Women, Horsham Hornets v Terang Tornadoes at Terang.

Last week: Men, Horsham Hornets 93 d Colac Kookas 59, Mt Gambier Lakers 91 d Ararat Redbacks 87, Millicent Magic 104 d Ararat Red backs 92.

Wimmera league fixture released

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

As Wimmera league football and netball players look to wards the start of preseason train ing, clubs and supporters have cast an early eye across the 2023 season fixture.

Wimmera Football Netball League released next season’s fixture on Sat urday, giving ample opportunity for clubs to prepare grounds, canteens and grudge-match jeers and taunts.

Locations for home games of clubs with multiple grounds have not been confirmed.

ACE Radio’s 1089 3WM sport broadcaster Grant Kuchel, from The Shirtfront, spoke to The Weekly Ad vertiser about the 2023 season fix ture.

“The round that stands out to me is round three, that is probably the big one, when Minyip-Murtoa plays Southern Mallee Giants,” he said.

“Obviously, former Burras star Ki eran Delahunty went to the Giants as coach.

“I suspect the crowd should be relatively friendly, but who knows – there shouldn’t be a heap of bad blood.

“I guess he left for opportunity, so I don’t think it will be too bad.

“Round one will be good, too, when the Burras unfurl their 2022 premier

Good Friday, April 7

Ararat v Stawell

Round 1 – Saturday, April 15

Dimboola v Nhill

Horsham Saints v Warrack Eagles

Minyip-Murtoa v Horsham

Southern Mallee Giants v Stawell Ararat, bye

Round 2 – Saturday, April 22

Nhill v Ararat

Warrack Eagles v Dimboola Stawell v Minyip-Murtoa Sunday, April 23

Horsham v Horsham Saints

Southern Mallee Giants, bye

Round 3 – Saturday, April 29

Ararat v Warrack Eagles

Dimboola v Horsham

Horsham Saints v Stawell

Minyip-Murtoa v Southern Mallee Giants Nhill, bye

Round 4 – Saturday, May 6

Horsham v Ararat

Stawell v Dimboola

Southern Mallee Giants v Horsham Saints

Warrack Eagles v Nhill

Minyip-Murtoa, bye

Round 5 – Saturday, May 13

Dimboola v Southern Mallee Giants

Horsham Saints v Minyip-Murtoa

Nhill v Horsham

Warrack Eagles, bye

Round 6 – Saturday, May 20

Southern Mallee Giants v Ararat

Minyip-Murtoa v Dimboola Stawell v Nhill

Horsham v Warrack Eagles

Horsham Saints, bye

Round 7 – Saturday, May 27

Ararat v Minyip-Murtoa

Dimboola v Horsham Saints

Nhill v Southern Mallee Giants

Warrack Eagles v Stawell

Horsham, bye

Round 8 – Saturday, June 3

Horsham Saints v Ararat

Minyip-Murtoa v Nhill

Southern Mallee Giants v Warrack

Eagles Stawell v Horsham Dimboola, bye

June 10 – Long weekend, league bye

Round 9 – Saturday, June 17

Ararat v Dimboola

Nhill v Horsham Saints

Warrack Eagles v Minyip-Murtoa

Horsham v Southern Mallee Giants Stawell, bye

Round 10 – Saturday, June 24

Nhill v Dimboola

Warrack Eagles v Horsham Saints Horsham v Minyip-Murtoa

ship flag at home before they run out against Horsham Demons.”

This year’s Wimmera league netball premiers Horsham Saints will play Warrack Eagles as they strive to back up their 2022 success.

Saints netballers meet their 2022 grand final rivals Horsham Demons in

Stawell v Southern Mallee Giants

Ararat, bye

Round 11 – Saturday, July 1

Ararat v Nhill

Dimboola v Warrack Eagles

Minyip-Murtoa v Stawell

Sunday, July 2

Horsham Saints v Horsham

Southern Mallee Giants, bye

Round 12 – Saturday, July 8

Warrack Eagles v Ararat Horsham v Dimboola

Southern Mallee Giants v MinyipMurtoa

Stawell v Horsham Saints Nhill, bye

Round 13 – Saturday, July 15

Ararat v Horsham

Dimboola v Stawell

Horsham Saints v Southern Mallee Giants

Nhill v Warrack Eagles

Minyip-Murtoa, bye

Round 14 – Saturday, July 22

Stawell v Ararat

Southern Mallee Giants v Dimboola

Minyip-Murtoa v Horsham Saints

Horsham v Nhill

Warrack Eagles, bye

Round 15 – Saturday, July 29

Ararat v Southern Mallee Giants

Dimboola v Minyip-Murtoa Nhill v Stawell

round three during an ANZAC week end clash at Horsham City Oval. However, there will be a change in tradition for Wimmera league spec tators, with the ANZAC Day clash between the Saints and Demons foot ball and netball teams not played on ANZAC Day evening.

Warrack Eagles v Horsham Horsham Saints, bye

Round 16 – Saturday, August 5

Minyip-Murtoa v Ararat Horsham Saints v Dimboola

Southern Mallee Giants v Nhill Stawell v Warrack Eagles Horsham, bye

Round 17 – Saturday, August 12

Ararat v Horsham Saints

Nhill v Minyip-Murtoa

Warrack Eagles v Southern Mallee Giants Horsham v Stawell Dimboola, bye

Round 18 – Saturday, August 19

Dimboola v Ararat Horsham Saints v Nhill

Minyip-Murtoa v Warrack Eagles

Southern Mallee Giants v Horsham Stawell, bye

Finals

Qualifying Final, Saturday, August 26

Elimination Final, Sunday, August 27

Second Semi-Final, Saturday, September 2

First Semi-Final, Sunday, September 3

Preliminary Final, Sunday, September 10

Grand Final, Saturday, September 16

The teams will play at Horsham City Oval on Sunday, April 23, not on the public holiday-proper in 2023 – on Tuesday, April 25.

Mr Kuchel said he believed it was a change that perhaps suited the Hor sham clubs.

“I think clubs don’t really want to

host night games – maybe they be lieve they get smaller crowds com pared with standalone day games,” he said.

“It gets a bit colder in April, so may be that keeps people away, too,”

Mr Kuchel also highlighted two football match-ups he tipped would be significant.

“The football grand-final replay in round seven at Ararat between the Rats and the Burras, that will be huge,” he said.

“Word is the Rats have done some more recruiting to cover losses to Liam Cavanagh and Matthew Hutchesson.

“This game should be a good one.

“The other game I see that might have something extra to it will be the round 10 clash between Nhill and Dimboola footballers.

“Last season, in round 15 when the two clubs met, there was an incident involving Dimboola player-coach Jack Landt.

“A few weeks later an investigation had him suspended for the final series, which carries through to this season, too.

“The two teams will meet in round one, however Landt will not be avail able for selection.

“But there might be something to their round 10 re-match in 2023.”

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Volleyballers to take centre stage

BY DAVID BERRY

Horsham will be the centre of the vol leyball universe this week with seven straight days of finals, grand finals, reunions and a tournament that has record entries.

It all started on Monday night with three highly contested preliminary finals, followed on Tues day night with the association’s final night of training and continues tonight with the start of the juniors, B and C grade grand finals for the winter season.

Tomorrow night it is the turn of the women, A and A Reserve in grand finals, while Friday night sees version four of ‘Harry’s Match’ preceded by a junior boys curtain raiser between Horsham Stars and HTLC Tigers, which officially kicks off the association’s 27th annual tournament.

The weekend will have tournament matches played across five venues on eight courts with some hotly contested volleyball, especially in the championship division of the men and women.

Grand finals

The juniors will take centre stage first up to night at 6pm, when the undefeated Stars take on the lucky losers HTLC Tigers, after Murtoa could not field a team.

The Stars have been unstoppable all season and on the back of Zane Joseph and Kai Dodson, should be too strong for the improving HTLC Tigers.

Cadel Hawken and Malakai van Buuren will give their all for the Lutheran team. C Grade is next, between the two student teams in Murtoa Geckos and surprise opponents HTLC Block and Roll.

The Murtoa team is full of experienced players in Grace Turner, Sebastian Maggs and Ellonia Barnett, but they will need to bring their best as the Lutheran team, headed by Haidyn Young and Noah Werry, has improved as each week has gone by.

B Grade follows, with Team USA taking on Silent Theories.

Team USA has gone through the season unde feated and have John Turton and Luke McCal lum as their ever consistent players.

Silent Theories are the surprise packets of the competition.

Having to win their last regular game to make finals, they have put two very good finals victo ries on the board and with Eliza Camilleri and Tahlia Dufty in good form, an upset could be on the cards here.

Thursday night sees the women kick off pro

ceedings with Nuggets and Rangers to do battle.

Nuggets have been the top team all season on the back of consistent play by Clare Whyte and Ella Van Duren.

The Rangers experienced players in Tamikah Dockrill, Maddison Watts and Mercedes Arnott will have to pull out all stops to win.

In A Grade, Hellenic Nuggets are up against Heidelberg.

Hellenic Nuggets have put together another consistent season, but with their two key players in Ben Wilde and Dimitrios Vettos unavailable, lady luck once again will shine on Heidelberg and another premiership beckons.

A Reserve will wind up a big grand final series, when Blockbusters and Waterhammers square off against each other.

Blockbusters will miss Tom Milbourne, whose presence on the net accounts for many of his team’s points.

This might open the door for Waterhammers to claim an unlikely premiership victory.

Harry’s Match IV

Friday night will see the fourth edition of ‘Har ry’s Match’ – when the association will shine a light on men’s mental health and raise money for Beyond Blue.

The Good Ol’ Boys – a team made up of close mates of Harry Denson will do battle against a Volleyball Horsham All Star team at Horsham Basketball Stadium from 8.30pm.

27th annual tournament

This weekend sees the biggest ever Horsham tournament on record as 49 teams from across the state and South Australia face off against each other across seven divisions.

The tournament will be played on eight courts in Horsham across five different venues – Hor sham Basketball Stadium, St Brigid’s College, Horsham College, Holy Trinity Lutheran Col lege and 298 Primary School.

The championship men’s division will see one of the strongest fields put together, with current Honors Men’s National Club champions BBJSC Pakenham back to defend its title.

The side will face stiff opposition from the Good Ol’ Boys as well as a Horsham team fea turing some fresh new faces.

Horsham girls will be out to defend their titles from last year in both the championship and division one women’s divisions.

Matches get underway at all venues at 8am each day, with finals from 12.30pm at the basket ball stadium and St Brigid’s College on Sunday.

Gloury wins way to next level

Horsham City Bowling Club’s Daniel Gloury is moving onto the next stage of the Victorian State Singles Bowls Championships.

He won the Wimmera playing area ‘Blue Ribbon’ event, State Singles Championship, with a win in the final against Dimboola Bowling Club’s Peter O’Lough lin.

In the semi-finals, Gloury de feated Horsham Sunnyside bowl er Brendan Lloyd and O’Lough lin defeated Horsham Golf’s Geoff Bald.

Gloury will now play the win ners from Northern Wimmera, North Central and Grampians divisions.

The overall winner will play in the last 16 of the Victorian State Singles Championships in April next year.

STATE SINGLES: Horsham City Bowling Club’s Daniel Gloury is Bowls Wimmera playing area ‘Blue Ribbon’ event State Singles Championship winner.

Sport Basketball triumph

Horsham’s Keeley Schultz takes on Colac’s Sara Rongdit in an under-14 game at Horsham Junior Classic basketball tournament. The three day basketball event attracted more than 100 junior basketball teams from across the state to play in stadiums in Horsham, Warracknabeal and Dimboola. The under-14 girls team was one of five Horsham teams to win grand finals at the weekend. Story, page 56.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER