Wimmera police tally road offences

Wimmera police detected 101 traffic offences during a four-day statewide road policing operation across the Labour Day long weekend.

Police caught three drug drivers, three unlicensed drivers, 36 speeding offences, three disobey signs or signals, one seatbelt offence and three unregistered vehicles in the Horsham police service area.

In the Northern Grampians police service area, police detected two drink drivers, five drug drivers, one unlicensed driver, 36 speeding offences,

Camilleri joins regional tour

Iconic band, Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows and country music darlings Darlinghurst will tour the Wimmera and Grampians next week.

Fronted by ARIA Music Hall of Famer Joe Camilleri, The Black Sorrows have been at the forefront of Australian music for decades.

Renowned for their high-energy live shows, musicianship and infectious rootsy rhythms, The Black Sorrows, in one form or another, has not stopped recording and performing since Camilleri formed the band in 1984.

Darlinghurst is a Melbourne based four-piece country group that’s creating a fresh sound in the Australian Country music scene.

Shows are at Ararat Town Hall on Friday, March 31 and Horsham Town Hall on Saturday, April 1. People can purchase tickets via the venue.

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two disobey signs or signals, three seatbelt offences, one mobile phone offence and two unregistered vehicles.

Across the state, police recorded almost 7000 traffic offences during Operation Arid, which saw police ramp up enforcement for the long weekend.

There have been 75 lives lost within the first three months of the year, 45 percent higher than the same time last year and the five-year average – both 51.

There have been 11 lives lost to date in March – historically the highestrisk month on Victorian roads.

Assistant Commissioner of road po- licing Glenn Weir said considering high traffic volumes and good weather across the long weekend, the majority of people on Victorian roads did the right thing.

“Disappointingly, though, we continue to detect motorists for the type of behaviour that’s been contributing to road trauma this year – that being speed, distraction and impaired driving,” he said.

“It is simply not good enough to just ignore the warnings.

“The reality is, there have been more lives lost on our roads than there have been days this year.

“Police are constantly engaging with the community to educate first and enforce when the message does not get through, and we make no apologies for this. We are doing everything we can to reduce trauma on our roads.

“March is a busy time with footy returning, lots of major events and good weather – so if you’re out and about, you can expect us to be out too.”

More than one third of offences related to speeding, with almost 80 percent of speeding motorists travelling between 10kmh and 25kmh above the speed limit.

The total 6764 offences recorded

What’s Chiropractic got to do with football?

In a game of football, it’s important that each team-player play their role. They are experts in what they do. Defenders, mid-fielders and forward players they all have their game.

If, however we stack the defence to stop the opposition scoring the ball gets stuck in the backline and there is no-one to kick it to.

Health choices can be like that. When there is pain, some people just take medication or wait for it to go away.

That’s like playing only defence. It’s a low scoring game.

Chiropractic is designed to move the vertebrate and get the nervous system responding to all states of play. Chiropractic keeps you moving so the rest of your body can work better.

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GUDAIR during Operation Arid included 2573 speeding offences, 727 unregistered vehicles, 396 disqualified, suspended and unlicenced drivers, 323 mobile phone offences, 313 disobey signs or signals; 198 drink-driving offences from 107,435 preliminary breath tests, 192 drug-driving offences from 3454 roadside drug tests, 159 seatbelt offences and 123 vehicle impoundments.

There were two lives lost on Victorian roads throughout the long weekend, with fatal collisions in Barnawartha North on Saturday and Wangaratta on Monday.

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Horsham Special School raised more than $1900 for the Leukaemia Foundation as four staff members participated in the World’s Greatest Shave. From left, principal Ben Tait, education support worker Soraya Bennett, assistant principal Josh Harvey and classroom teacher John Greive shaved their hair for the cause at a school assembly on Monday morning. Students voted for Mr Tait’s hair to be cut into a ‘skullet’ hairstyle.