Lifestyle1 issue 951

Family celebrates the ultimate success for Brad

Former North Gambier champion Brad Close has lived the dream – he is an AFL premiership player. And he wasn’t just part of Geelong’s 2022 premiership team he was an integral part, so much so, that when SEN’s Kane Cornes was asked to share how he would

have voted in the Norm Smith, he prefaced his thoughts with this remark. “I liked Brad Close’s game – not that he would have been in the votes.” Earlier in the call, Cornes has identified Close as one of a handful of players that had seen Geelong go from

being humiliated in the 2021 preliminary final to premiers the following season. “That’s where the improvement has come from. Close just isn’t a good player, he is a big game player.”

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Creamy chicken chasseur

2 tbsp plain flour

1 tsp dried mixed herbs

4 chicken thigh cutlets, skin on, trimmed

1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

20g butter

200g button mushrooms, halved

2 tbsp tomato paste

125ml (1/2 cup) white wine

250ml (1 cup) Massel Organic Chicken Liquid Stock, warmed

2 tbsp pouring cream

1 tbsp chopped fresh continental parsley leaves Microwave baby potatoes, to serve Steamed green beans, to serve Method

Combine the flour and mixed herbs in a large bowl. Season. Add the chicken and toss until coated. Heat oil and butter in a heavy-based frying pan over medium heat. Add the chicken. Cook for 4-5 minutes each side or until golden brown. Transfer to a plate. Add mushroom to pan. Cook, stirring, for 4 minutes or until softens slightly. Add tomato paste . Cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Pour in the wine . Simmer for 1 minute or until reduces slightly. Pour in the stock and bring to the boil. Return the chicken, skin-side up, to the pan. Reduce heat to mediumlow. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. Transfer chicken to a plate. Stir cream into sauce. Top with chicken. Serve with parsley , potatoes and beans , if using.

Let her rest in peace...

Well we certainly have reached an all time low as a society. I’m not sure if you noticed last week, but some old lady passed away and they put her funeral on television. On nearly every channel.

I don’t know what others think, but I think they’re taking reality television one step too far here. The media certainly have a lot to answer for.

I was really disappointed with the whole way the media handled the old lady’s passing. It’s never good to hear about a loved one’s death on the news. They really should’ve just let her family call the people they wanted to notify.

For the television channels to treat someone’s death as news is pretty insensitive. Sure, she was a pretty flashy dresser with all her shiny crowns, tiaras and jewels, and all the designer clothing, but I don’t think she wanted all the publicity.

Then to turn the old lady’s funeral into some big circus that thousands of people were then encouraged to come and gawk at…what a disgrace. How morbid are people today!?

In a world where we have Netflix and social media and Spotify, to make a special effort to go and watch a box with a dead old lady in it is simply horrific.

The treatment of her family was appalling as well. Shouldn’t people just be able to mourn their loved one in peace? But no, they had to be trotted out as part of the whole dead old lady carnival, didn’t they. Making members of her family walk along with the funeral procession to be stared at didn’t help this situation in any way either.

I think there’s a bit of an

TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE

WATSON TERRACE

NOTICE UNDER SECTION 33 ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1961

I, Sarah Philpott, Chief Executive Officer, for, and on behalf of the City of Mount Gambier Council, in accordance with the instrument of delegation under the Road Traffic Act 1961 section 33 make the following order.

I declare that the ‘Spring Time on Watson Tce’ Jens Hotel event to be conducted from Friday 30 September 2022 to Monday 3 October 2022 is a ‘temporary purpose’ to which this section applies.

I direct that the following traffic restrictions be implemented:

WATSON TERRACE CLOSURE – being the entirety of Watson Terrace off Commercial Street East, for the duration of the event, between 2:00pm Friday 30 September 2022 and 8:00am Monday 3 October 2022.

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elephant in the room that no one else has the courage to talk about, but I’m going to go there. The way they treated this old lady was simply atrocious. The poor old thing was ninety-six, and they were still making her work. Up until a few days before she passed, they were still trotting her out to do her job kissing babies, making public appearances, swearing prime ministers in, demanding her servants bake her scones and make gin and tonics.

Clearly they worked the poor woman to death. I’m confident she’d still be alive today if they didn’t work her into the ground. Surely they should have let her retire thirty years ago! Just let her sit on the couch and do some knitting.

The other thing we need to talk about is a situation where a person dies and their child immediately takes their job, particularly when your job is to be the head of state for half the countries in the world.

Am I the only one who thinks there’s a problem with a situation where a lady dies and immediately her son is now the official ruler of countries he hasn’t set foot in for years. That’s the very definition of nepotism, isn’t it?

That sounds more like North Korea to me. I’m a big fan of democracy, a system of government where the people decide who is going to be in charge based on merit and popular vote, rather than just the loins they came forth from.

You can’t tell me that if this was put to a vote, this new guy is the one we’d elect. He’s clearly a

stooge. He wouldn’t be the first person we’d elect in his family, let alone if we opened up the application process a bit wider than that.

I want you to imagine that you need to go to the doctor next week. When you arrive, there’s no sign of your regular doctor. “Excuse me,” you might say. “Where’s Doctor Smith?”

“Unfortunately my Dad died last week,” says the young man with a pair of trackies and a dirty hoodie on, sitting at your former doctor’s desk.

“That’s very sad,” you say, since you’re an empathetic person.

“Now what seems to be the problem,” the doctor’s son says, as he tries to figure out how to put the stethoscope around his neck.

“That’s ridiculous,” you might be thinking. “Doctor’s only have stethoscopes around their neck on TV. They don’t do that in real life.” And you’d be right. A person who has inherited a job, who hasn’t had to go through an application process and hasn’t undertaken any training for the role, may not actually have the skills that are necessary and may think that all doctors walk around with stethoscopes around their neck all day. A person shouldn’t be given an important job simply because of who their mum or dad is.

Anyway, I’m sure the new guy will do a lovely job. It’ll be a good effort if he reigns for seventy years like his mummy.

If you think you’d make a good head of state, send an expression of interest to robbietansel@gmail. com

Military pioneer honoured again

Mary Duggan receives unexpected accolade from Australian Defence Force

“It is women like you who have paved the way for us to succeed.”

That was the simple message Boandik St Marys resident Mary Duggan received last month in a package containing a medal from the Royal Australian Air Force acknowledging Mary’s defence force service.

When the package first arrived Mary thought it was potentially a belated acknowledgement of turning 100 – a milestone she celebrated in May - but instead it was the medal accompanied by a message from Fiona (Fee) Grasby OAM a serving Warrant Officer of the Royal Australian Air Force. - sent as a sign of gratitude and honour towards Mary and her distinguished military service.

It is not the first time Mary has been recognised for her ground breaking military service.

Two years ago, Mary, who is the oldest surviving WAAAF member in

South Australia, received another special honour when Member for Barker Tony Pasin presented her with a commemorative medallion on behalf of the Federal Government, marking the 75th anniversary of World War II..

“Barker has a rich Second World War history and is proud to be the home to veterans from this remarkable generation of Australians like Mary who served our nation during the Second World War,” Mr Pasin said. “For these surviving World War Two veterans living in Barker, the 75th Anniversary was an opportunity, on behalf of the nation, to say ‘thank you for your service’, possibly for the last time. Australia can never fully repay the debt we owe these amazing men and women but, to mark their service, the Federal Government is producing this Commemorative Medallion and Certificate of Commemoration for

the remaining living Second World War veterans.”

She was as handy with a needle and thread as she was a gun and Mount Gambier’s Mary Duggan, the lingerie designer turned sergeant has fond memories of her time in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF).

It was after only a short time in the WAAAF that Mary emerged as a leader and was promoted to sergeant, spending much of her tenure based at the Mount Gambier Airport but having also travelled the length and breadth of Australia during her time in the military.

Her initial training was at Victor Harbor and she also completed more training at Warrnambool before rising in the ranks and taking charge not just of the women, but at times men who were under her care during training.

“I often was in charge of teaching men how to shoot and they were always surprised how well I could shoot,” Mary said.

Growing up in Casterton, Mary had handled guns from the age of four, so for her, weapons training was one of the easier aspects of life in the WAAAF. “I learned shooting from my father on the farm, growing up in a country area that’s just what we did,” she said.

And while Mary might have been handy with a rifle, she was also a lingerie designer by trade, working with lace as she created French style underwear in a local shop. She also diversified into millinery. “I pretty much had a go

us that would march from the airport into town (Mount Gambier),” Mary said.

There was around 50 in total stationed at the airport but over her four year military career, Mary was certainly not confined to this region, with arguably one of her more interesting gigs being aerial photography out of Sydney.

“I used to develop my own photographs and print them,” Mary said.

And while Mary is proud of her military service, her life is now all about family – a family she created with travelling salesman Mark, who also spent time in the military, and eventually ended up working in homewares and furniture sales.

After moving 12 times in eight years, it was time to settle down and focus on their children’s education.

“So we settled in Mount

family still in Mount Gambier and some as far away as Perth.

Mary does always stop and take stock on the nation’s special days of commemoration of those who have served and she has taken on raising the flag, laying the wreath and delivering readings at services held at Boandik Lodge St Mary’s site.

HONOURING MARY’S SERVICE: (Left) Mary Duggan at a

History making musical

Hip hop, animation & multimedia collide in production

A combination of hip hop, afro-beat, R’n’B, installation art, animation, theatre and multimedia, The Deep North is a celebration of the African Australian diaspora and the first musical of its kind.

After a sell-out season at Adelaide Fringe 2021, the high energy performance about coming of age is touring for the first time to regional South Australia.

Featuring Triple J RnB singer Elsy Wameyo and renowned Adelaide MC Stephen Tongun and playwright Matt Hawkins (Frank Forbes and the Yahoo Boy) The Deep North tells the story of Jasmine Mutesa who has to choose between a scholarship at one of Adelaide’s most prestigious schools and keeping her family from falling apart in Port Augusta.

It is an entertaining and empowering story about finding your voice and the meaning of home.

Presented by South Australian Playwrights Theatre, a company committed to new theatrical work from the state’s diverse voices, The Deep North is the first production of its kind in Australia.

Director Matt Hawkins said it was important for them to provide an opportunity for African Australians to see themselves on stage and to present the rich and diverse stories of the African diaspora.

“The challenges of living across two, or more, countries and the development of hybrid cultures will be something to reflect upon and ultimately celebrate during the performance,” Hawkins said.

Hawkins has worked as a playwright, screenwriter and TV producer in Ghana and Uganda and has also written extensively for theatre, film and TV in Australia. He worked intensively with the

project’s key artists through 2020 as well as composer James Bannah Jr to create a relevant and powerful piece of musical theatre.

“The fusion of past and present is a key aspect; the multimedia segments of the show aim to expose audiences to the historical context of several countries within the African continent, whilst the

‘story’ is set in contemporary South Australia,” Hawkins said.

“Storytelling devices drawn from African tradition are utilised, and these are presented alongside modern rap, poetry and music, to convey a narrative that considers what it means to be torn between different worlds.”

Country Arts SA chief executive Anthony Peluso said to have the South Australian African community present their visually striking and profoundly beautiful story on our regional stages was a very special moment.

“This performance incorporates so many elements of African art. It’s mesmerising,” Peluso said.

“The first theatre of its kind in our state and featuring tremendous talent, The Deep North is a moving and yet upbeat story - an unmissable night at the theatre.”

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre

Mount Gambier

October 18 - 7pm October 19 - 11am (Schools Performance)

Floral tributes for Queen

City of Mount Gambier Mayor Lynette Martin OAM was joined last week at Elizabeth Knight Reserve by Member for Barker Tony Pasin, Travis Fatchen on behalf of Member for Mount Gambier Troy Bell and other dignitaries to lay a wreath to celebrate the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II following her passing on September 8.

The City of Mount Gambier chose the site where students from Reidy Park Primary School recently planted a canopy of trees to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee to commemorate her enormous contribution to society.

Queen Elizabeth II was Patron of The Returned & Services League of Australia and Mount Gambier Community RSL president Bob Sandow laid a wreath in memory of The Queen.

District Council of Grant CEO Darryl Whicker also laid a wreath and parish priest Father Neil Fernando paid his respects on behalf of the Anglican Church of Mount Gambier. For members of the public looking to show

their respiect, the Royal Family have noted that instead of leaving floral tributes, Australians may wish to consider making a donation to a charity of their choice.

Mayor Martin said Queen Elizabeth II has a special place in the hearts of Mount Gambier residents, especially those who remember her visit in February 1954.

“As Mayor of the City of Mount Gambier, it is important that as a city we acknowledge the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and to provide a place where our residents can place floral tributes to honour her passing,” Mayor Martin said.

“We give thanks for an extraordinary life and for a lifetime of service to the Crown and as Queen of Australia and her other realms and territories, Head of the Commonwealth.

“The Queen will forever be a part of the city’s history and heritage, and we will continue to share any formal arrangements to celebrate her incredible life and service.”

Penola tribute Queen’s service commemorated

A Tree Planting Service has been held in Penola to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her 70 extraordinary years selflessly serving the Commonwealth.

Member for Barker Tony Pasin said the project to plant trees at the Penola Showgrounds was funded by the Federal Government through the Planting Trees for The Queen’s Jubilee Program announced at the beginning of Her Majesty’s 70th year as Monarch.

Penola Pastoral Agricultural & Horticultural Society applied for funding to plant trees to honour the Queens Platinum Jubilee, by planting trees near the new pavilion, which also received funding through the Federal Coalition Government in 2020.

Mr Pasin said planting trees to honour the Queen’s 70 years of service was even more meaningful

now, giving the community an opportunity to come together and reflect on a life of service.

“During Her Majesty’s 70 amazing years, Australia hosted The Queen on 16 occasions, and on many of these visits, trees were planted at community events and ceremonies—leaving a long-lasting reminder of the special occasion for the people in those communities. In fact, The Queen is said to have planted 1500 trees throughout Her reign,“ Mr Pasin said. “Planting Trees for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is a fitting way to celebrate and honour our longest serving Monarch, and I congratulate the Penola Pastoral Agricultural and Horticultural Society on taking up the opportunity and for the lasting legacy these trees will offer to the Penola community in the Queen’s honour.”

Aged care opportunity

Scholarships on offer to enter the aged care sector

If you aspire to go further in your healthcare journey, Boandik encourages you to consider applying for one of the Federal Government’s Aged Care Nursing and Allied Health Dementia Care Scholarships.

Four hundred scholarships have opened for carers and nurses who are studying courses related to the care of older people, or leadership and management.

In addition, 100 scholarships are available for allied health professionals to focus on dementia-related postgraduate qualifications.

A guaranteed number of scholarships are also available per year for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, according to the Federal Department of Health.

“The course of the COVID-19

pandemic has shown Australians the value of the healthcare professions,” Boandik interim chief executive Glenn Rappensberg said.

“The professionals in this industry were at the coal face of this pandemic.

“In our industry, carers, enrolled nurses, and registered nurses play a critical role in ensuring we continue to deliver excellent quality services for the people for whom we provide care and support.

“These professionals play an equally important role in ensuring that community members who have transitioned to care, due to a dementia diagnosis, receive dignified care and support.

“I encourage anyone with aspirations of caring for our community through the healthcare professions to apply for a scholarship.”

Students are eligible to apply if their course commences or continues next year.

The opening of the scholarship placements comes in the latest round of the Federal Government’s Aged Care Nursing and Allied Health Dementia Care Scholarships, which, overall, commits to the creation of 1500 new scholarships over three years.

These scholarships are open to registered or enrolled nurses, personal care workers and allied health professionals.

For more information, visit https:// www.acn.edu.au/scholarships

For more information regarding the Federal Government program, visit https://www.health.gov. au/health-topics/aged-care/ providing-aged-care-services/ working-in-aged-care/initiativesfor-aged-care-nurses

AGED CARE CAREERS: (Above)

Enrolled nurses Crystal Palmer & (left) Emma Outtram (pictured with as resident).

Meet the council candidates

A ‘Meet the Candidates’ session the Naracoorte

Lucindale Council elections will be held in the Naracoorte Town Hall this Wednesday at 7pm.

There are two elections being contested for Naracoorte Lucindale Council: Mayoral (one vacancy) and Councillors (10 vacancies).

The program for the ‘Meet the

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Candidates’ session will comprise:

• Welcome

• 5-minute presentation by Mayoral candidates

• 5-minute presentation by Councillor candidates

• 60 minutes for audience members to mingle with and to ask questions of candidates

Candidate profiles for the 2022 council elections are now live on the Electoral Commission of South Australia’s website. Go to https:// result.ecsa.sa.gov.au/lgeresults

Postal votes for the 2022 council Eeections must be received before 5pm on Thursday, November 10.

College making up for lost time

Tenison Woods College set to host a special reunion event next month

There’s certainly something special about reminiscing on school days with friends from the past. Tenison Woods College values this community connection and sees the importance of celebrating the past and engaging in discussions about the future. So much so, that the college will hold an inaugural all-encompassing reunion in October after two years of event restrictions.

Catholic Education has a rich history in the region, spanning back to the early days of settlement in the South East, from the first Parish School established in Penola in 1866, to today where three Catholic Schools have made their mark in the area. Tenison Woods College takes pride in this story and values the relationships with and support from community members.

In an effort to maintain strong community ties and forge new connections, the event Together Again, will allow people to socialise in a casual setting at City Hall, in the Main Corner Complex. The event will bring together current and past students, families and staff.

Principal David Mezinec believes it is the perfect opportunity to come together and reunite, now that socialising is in full swing.

“Our Together Again event gives an opportunity to reconnect with everyone in our community,” he said. “I cannot wait to see people face to face and enjoy conversations and share stories. I really encourage everyone to get their current or past classmates together. Touch base on your social channels and plan an evening out.

“The evening will offer a chance

to share stories, reminisce about school days past and learn about our plans for the future. I invite old Mercy and Marist scholars, former St Paul’s and Tenison College students and friends of the College to consider attending the event and reconnecting with their Tenison Woods College family.”

For staff at the College, the ability to meet, teach and connect with students and families in the community is all part of their Tenison Woods College journey.

One member of staff, Steve Primer, has been teaching at the College for more than 40 years and highly regards the community focused approach at the school.

“I began my career here in 1979

community that makes it easy to work in and my colleagues have become my life-long friends and family. It’s been a great experience so far and I’ve met and taught thousands of students and worked with hundreds of staff members.”

With a great deal of development currently happening at Tenison Woods College, the event is the perfect opportunity to learn more about future plans. There will be conversations aplenty on how far the College has come since 1972 when Tenison College was formed, following the merging of Mater Christi College and Marist Brothers Agricultural College.

It wasn’t until 2001 that Tenison Woods College was born, through the amalgamation of St Paul’s School and Tenison College.

Today, the school is developing

and changing, currently undergoing construction of a brand-new double-storey Junior School, which will house students from Year 1-6 from 2023.

This follows on from the completion of an all new Reception building in 2021. Together, these builds will form a state-of-the-art Junior School Precinct.

Tickets to Together Again are free, with bar services available on the night. Booking registrations are required.

TICKET DETAILS: Saturday, October 15 5pm – 8pm City Hall, Main Corner Mount Gambier For bookings and more information: https://bit.ly/3dGj8m9

Labour of love finally ready to launch

Passionate advocate & talented illustrator set to unveil educational project

Rosangela Garofalo Crispino’s 14 year dream has become a reality as she launches her children’s picture book Alina Piccolina and her adventures with Zietta this at 7pm at City Hall, The Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre.

Celebrating the Italian language, culture, tradition, food, family, and love, Alina Piccolina holds a special place in Rosangela’s heart.

“It originates from my passion for my Italian culture - the desire came from my relationship with my niece Alina – on whom the character is based,” Rosangela said.

“At a young age, my niece was obsessed with Dora the Explorer.

I wondered why there wasn’t an Italian equivalent, so I took it on as a challenge!”

Rosangela (pictured right) created Alina Piccolina as an educational character to deliver a strong message on belonging.

“The sense of belonging is my philosophy, and I believe that when we understand and know our heritage and culture, we gain a sense of who we are,” she said.

In 2018 Rosangela’s dream started on the path to reality when she participated in the Flinders University New Venture Institute Venture Dorm (eNVIes) course and was voted The People’s Choice Award. The award validated Rosangela’s belief that the children’s book was relatable and would be supported by the community.

A chance encounter saw Alina Piccolina illustrated by local iIllustrator and graphic designer Tahlee Chant (pictured above left).

“Illustrating Alina Piccolina has me creating more art, more designs than ever before,” Tahlee said.

The first in a series of books to come, the public is invited to the official launch, with $2 from each book sale going towards the Stand Like Stone Foundation as an educational fund so that the money stays in the region.

This a free event with limited bookings left by contacting the Mount Gambier Library on

(08)8721 2540 or booking online at mountgambier.sa.gov.au/library under ‘Programs and Events’.

Lifestyle1 has caught up with both Rosangela & Tahlee and will run a more comprehensive profile after the official book launch.

Exhibitors triple for 2022 BrickGambier

BrickGambier set to light up the October Long Weekend with a bumper LEGO lovers event

The creativity and fun of LEGO returned last year as BrickGambier shook off its COVID enforced hiatus in 2020 with another October Long Weekend extravaganza,

It was a low key return with border restrictions affecting exhibitor and visitor numbers but organiser Emma Robinson, from the Limestone Coast LEGO users Group LEGO, said the fan event has already attracted around 60

exhibitors, triple the number from the 2021 event.

“We are very excited to have our Victorian counterparts back joining us, not just exhibitors but visitors as well, this year, and we even have an exhibitor from Tasmania,” Emma said. “This year

is also the highest number of local exhibitors we have ever had – we have 10 which is awesome. It is also good to see that we have a mix of regular exhibitors and also new people showing off their work.”

Empak Homes has returned as the major sponsor of the event,

which is being hosted at the Mount Gambier Showgrounds on October 2 and 3.

The display will be open from10am to 4pm on both days, with a special sensory session on October 3 at 9am and while there will be limited tickets at the door, online ticketing is available and preferred. Tickets are $7 for a single ticket and $20 for a family ticket (two adults and up to three children).

Not only are the exhibitor numbers back where organisers like to see them but other aspects of the event, now being held for the fifth time, are also returning, including the play tables, allowing kids to have their own turn at creating something from LEGO.

Of course, the beauty of BrickGambier, which held its inaugural event in 2017, is basically everyone has an emotional connection to LEGO from childhood and this showcase event allows visitors to not just check out the amazing creations from what many of us see as a childhood toy but also the chance to speak to the creators about their displays and pick up some LEGO tips.

Visitors also get to have their way on their favourite exhibit with a People’s Choice vote.

“People definitely love the displays that have moving parts,” Emma said.

October 1 is the day the exhibitors set up their BrickGambier displays, with that task from one to six hours, depending on how complex the creation or how many pieces it has had to be separated into for transport to the Mount Gambier event.

New and used LEGO will be for sale and there will be a photobooth and coffee van onsite.

Tickets can be purchased at www.brickgambier.com.au

“...this year is also the highest number of local exhibitors we have ever had...” Emma Robinson

Everything’s coming up roses

When Naomi Zanker looks back over her 75 years, the creative arts have always been a part of her life. A passion ignited as a young child, it is now burning as brightly as ever as she unveils her Everything’s Coming Up Roses exhibition at Penola’s Gallery 54 which runs until October 16.

“I guess being part of a creative, literary family rubbed off, as I think I’ve always been interested in art and literature, doodling, drawing and writing poetry for myself,” Naomi said.

And the more she delved back into the recesses of her childhood memories, the more she reminisced over how prominent art was in her formative years.

“The Age newspaper had a children’s page when I was a child which included a competition drawing to be coloured in,” Naomi said. “I only sent one entry off, but I won ten shillings and sixpence prize after I painted the picture with my tin of watercolour paints.

“I also loved my drawing book at primary school and remember being a perfectionist with some pieces in it. At high school, I actually scored 10/10 for a painting I did in Year 8 Art.”

There were also mentors from within her family life which ensured art would aways be front of mind.

“My ‘favourite’ cousin, five years my senior, also painted and I loved what he could do,” Naomi said.

“He painted professionally after he left school and was apprenticed to an artist.”

The Nhill based artist opened what is her seventh solo exhibition at Gallery 54 earlier this month, with Nhill based colleague Gayle Newcombe doing the honours. It is Naomi’s second solo exhibition at the Penola gallery and it is an

“...I guess being part of a creative, literary family rubbed off, as I think I’ve always been interested in art and literature, doodling, drawing and writing poetry for myself...”

exhibition inspired by a 2021 Spring visit to the South Australian town.

“We pulled up next to the Penola Rose Garden in October last year to collect my Still Life work from Gallery 54, and I couldn’t help myself,” Naomi said. “I had to photograph some of the roses to add to my resources. Oversized roses have been part of my work for many years. Then I was invited to return to Gallery 5 and showing my delight in the roses in Penola seemed to be a good fit. Maybe some will be recognised.”

Given the body of work Naomi has produced since turning her hand more seriously to her artistic practice, it is hard to believe she really only took that childhood passion and turned it into a serious past time much later in life.

“By the time I retired I was aware of an urge to try my hand at art, in whatever form I felt most comfortable,” she said.

That saw antique furniture restoration, an upholstery course, patchwork quilting and embroidery all emerging as projects for Naomi but it was in week two of

retirement that Naomi started to really find her way.

“A colleague, who had already been retired for some years, who taught art and textiles, who had joined a local group, invited me to join her at the Neighbourhood House for a painting day to see if that was something I might enjoy,” she said. “I went armed with a sketchbook and a packet of coloured pencils. I had a go at a mini landscape and the experienced painters who used oils and created lovely scenes, gave me so many hints and critical observations of my piece that I determined to learn to use the paint medium, study composition, get the hang of ‘dark before light’, ‘thin before thick’, focal points and all the technical stuff that seemed to come so easily to them.”

From there, there was no turning back and just as she was all about

developing and evolving when she first joined the art collaborative, that continues to be central to her work.

“I would say my work is eclectic,” Naomi said. “I love the Australian Impressionists and try to be more impressionist than realist when I play with landscapes. I love modern semi-abstract work but I can’t paint like that. I admire some of the Dutch Masters but my still lifes tend to be simplified, slightly modernised versions, and they are more realist than Impressionist. My florals tend to be realist, though I want them to be seen as paintings or portraits, not photographs.”

And that is one area where she knows she continues to be a work in progress, taking feedback on board rather than to heart.

“I painted a bowl of nectarines once, very large, and I overheard the comment from a viewer, ‘If

I wanted a photo of nectarines I’d have taken it myself’,” Naolmi said. “So I’m still trying to get the impression rather than the real. And yet, having completed quite a few portraits, I appreciate the need to make the subject recognisable.”

Landscapes are back on the agenda at the moment for the Nhill artist and she is going through a period of experimenting, not matter the outcome.

“My current interest is painting water with light reflections – rivers mostly and that means I read more how-to articles, look at lots of images from other artists or my own photo collection for inspiration, then shrug and give myself permission to play,” Naomi said. “If it works, great! If it doesn’t, well, there’s more canvas and paint in the cupboard.”

What Naomi does want, is for her work, whatever the genre, to be thought provoking.

“Simple, easy on the eye, pieces that take you somewhere outside of yourself or make you look intently to see ‘what else is there?’,” she said.

Learning from others and doing her own research has been the cornerstone of Naomi’s development as an artist rather than any formal art education.

“I have built quite a library of art books, which I do refer to periodically,” she said. “I used to buy or subscribe to several artist magazines, and occasionally try some of the how-to techniques applied to the pieces I might have been struggling with at the time.”

She has also tapped into the Grampians Brushed courses and heads to workshops whenever possible.

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EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES EXHIBITION - GALLERY 54 - IN THE ARTIST’S OWN WORDS

wind did not let up, but the roses of Penola won. Their portraits began to emerge shortly before Christmas, and by May I knew they were ready for their first outing.

“I retired in 2003, and felt I was ready to follow sisters and cousins down the Fine Art track, to see how far I could go. A considerable number of group shows, with our local creative artists, Rotary Art Shows in various places, and now seven solo exhibitions later, I feel I am starting to enjoy the experience of putting the work I do out there for others to enjoy.

“Just like people portraits and still life paintings, flowers require close attention to form and light in the execution of the painting. But, where people ‘sit’ for the artists, and still life subjects can be set up and left and returned to later, flowers tend to move in the wind, or droop by the end of a sitting, or just not cope well in a vase.

“So, I admit to resorting to photographing the roses in those two Penola gardens, not once but many times, as if in preparation for a full-blown portrait. The sun was intermittent, the

“I have picked up a few prizes along the way, and some of my favourite pieces have gone to new homes, but the pleasure comes mostly from the creative process, from standing back from the easel wondering what to do next to complete a piece, and from the feedback that others appreciate what I make when I’m playing in my studio.

“Ethel Merman sang ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses’ many years ago, as an encouragement for people to consider that not all in life was gloomy and sad. I’d like to think that this humble offering could bring a smile to many faces too. Just enjoy! Go smell the roses!”

The Ethel Merman song ‘Everything’s Coming up Roses, rejoices in spring, sunshine, and roses after a period of hardship; the ideal title for Naomi Zanker’s second exhibition at Gallery 54. These are portraits of Penola roses, studied by Naomi when she visited Penola in Spring, 2021.

“When I visited Penola to collect my work from Gallery 54 after the Still Life Exhibition in Spring, 2021, I was thrilled by the roses blooming in the park in the main street, and further on in the garden in front of the Hospital. I have loved and painted roses for many years, but these presented new challenges.

“...I love the Australian Impressionists and try to be more impressionist than realist when I play with landscapes...”

“... if it works, great... if it doesn’t, well, there’s more canvas and paint in the cupboard...”

“...the more you meet other artists, enjoy their work, and talk technique and interests, the more you grow as a person as well as an artist...”

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“I have learnt techniques from specialists which I apply to almost every piece, whether it’s composition, light source, colour mixing or finding the focal point and there have been several workshops with tutors I have had the privilege of learning from over the past nearly 20 years, too,” Naomi said. “But the most learning has come with the regular fortnightly painting sessions with the NCA group. We might be dwindling in number and in output, and maybe just a little more social than productive these days, but there is still a sense of helpful advice and strong encouragement.”

Naomi clearly does find plenty of time for work, though, given the amount of art competitions, commissions and exhibitions she has been a part of over the

past two decades, focussed on offerings in Western Victoria, the prestigious John Shaw Nielsen Art Prize at Penola and the Victor Harbor Rotary Show but often travelling further afield.

“It does mean travel, but meeting other artists and forming networks of like-minded people outweighs the cost and sales usually mean coming out in front, if not making a fortune,” she said.

“Commissions have varied from oversized flowers to vintage cars for an enthusiast, an old mansion for its current residents, and several portraits, one of which went to The Archibald as an entry before reaching its final destination.”

Naomi might have initially developed her love of the creative arts courtesy of strong family influences but it has been the support of the artistic community now that has inspired her to continue to work and evolve.

“The more you meet other artists, enjoy their work, and talk technique and interests, the more you grow as a person as well as an artist,” she said.

“The encouragement I have received from the wonderful, creative and professional people at this delightful gallery (Gallery 54) has spurred me on to keep improving my work, trying new subjects and techniques. I am thankful to the artists of the Limestone Coast for making me feel so welcome in their midst.”

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Providing a musical backdrop to a cause

Mental health awareness & fundraising the focus of new family friendly festival

What started back in January as one man’s quest to lift the lid on mental health has become an inaugural music festival with a mission to raise funds and awareness

Musician Michael Wilson (above centre) used social media to share his mental health challenges and set himself a task – his New Year’s resolution was going to donate $10,000 to mental health causes, garnering the funds from his gigs throughout the year.

He put the call out for venues and people to help him get his deeply personal mission off the ground and that is where events manager Natasha Little entered the fray. “I have known Michael for quite a while and was happy to offer up my skills to help in any way I could,” Natasha

The Mount Gambier Bowls Club’s John Reppin also became a central figure in Michael’s mental health campaign and now, nine months down the track, Michael’s personal campaign is now a music festival titled Close 2 Home –simple branding around the fact that mental health is a

subject that hits close to home for all of us.

“Basically whenever you are talking about mental health or suicide prevention it is literally close to home for everyone in this community and even more so in the past few months,” Natasha said.

Hosted at the Mount Gambier Bowls Club, with two stages filled with local, South Australian and interstate talent, as well as plenty of family friendly activities on offer, Close 2 Home is this Saturday from 1.30pm, with one stage of entertainment inside the covered green and the other in the car park.

“Basically Michael could have kept doing all those small gigs but doing something a little bigger and getting more artists involved just seemed the smart thing to do,” Natasha said. “It was a chance to get the community together.”

The first step was sourcing the bands and given the cause, Natasha did not find it difficult to find bands, both locally, and further afield, happy to be involved in an event shining a spotlight on such an important issue.

Taylor Henderson (above left), who initially found fame on reality talent show’s Australia’s Got Talent and The X Factor, will headline the Close 2 Home festival, with Sydney based Phil Stack (above right), of Thirsty Merc fame, and also a familiar face in Mount Gambier courtesy of his involvement with the

James Morrison Academy of Music and Generations in Jazz, another big name to join the bill.

Close 2 Home has even attracted Perth based artist Michael Ward, with Melbourne’s Jun Parker Band, with a swag of local talent also set to hit the stage.

Louise Adams (pictured left), Fox Array (pictured below right), Higgs Field pictured below centre) and Fi and Frenz (pictured below left) are the local acts set to be part of the inaugural festival and, of course, Wilosim (Michael Wilson).

Adelaide’s The Unset, Fuselage, Stokes and Duality round out the comprehensive play list.

And while the action on stage is the main focus of the event, with Michael also set to share his story on the main stage right before the headline acts his the stage, there will be plenty around the fringes.

There will be a variety of food trucks on site to keep hunger at bay and some of the service providers in the mental health space will have stalls and ready to help or just to have a chat.

Children’s entertainment will include Next Gen Entertainment which will take kids into the world of virtual reality, as well as a raft of giant games, a pop up stall from the Mount Gambier Library and it wouldn’t be an event without the opportunity for face painting and tattoos. The bowls club is also taking advantage of being the venue for

the festival, offering barefoot bowls on one of the spare greens, while many of the artists will also have merchandise available on site.

Tickets are $20 for adults and children under 14 are free.

Pre-booking is preferred via this link: http://www.trybooking. com/ccfcv or you can simply donate via this link: https://www. trybooking.com/au/donate/ close2homefestival

Natasha is optimistic this October Long Weekend event will be a permanent fixture on the Limestone Coast calendar and that it will always support local causes or projects. “We will always look to give back to the local community in some way,” she said.

Keep an eye on Close 2 Home’s social media platforms for more information and the details of the time of each performance will be confirmed closer to the date. Organisers can always do with more help as well so if you can volunteer on the day, please contact Natasha at close2homefestival@gmail.com

“We have already had so much support, especially from local business, who are always so generous with these type of events,” she said. The Close 2 Home proceeds will be headed the way of Headspace Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier & District Suicide Prevention Network, The Junction South East and Four Reasons Why.

Time for the animals to have their say

St Martins Lutheran College Year 6 Musical to tell a reimagined version of Noah’s Ark

For almost 15 years, one of the centrepieces of the St Martins Lutheran College school year has been the Year 6 musical and this year is no exception as the 2022 cohort look to bring the story of Noah’s Ark to life in a fun, new way.

SPLASH! is a wonderfully wet and wild musical comedy version of then time honoured Old testament tale, told from the animals’ point of view. Preston Parrot is on a mission to save his animal friends from the greatest flood in history. But when no one believes his news, he resorts to a little deception and arranges a luxury cruise on board The Ark. Aboard, you’ll find a crew of colourful comic characters, including ballroom dancing giraffes, loopy lemmings, a band of brutal pirate rats and a love-sick French cat. The journey is overflowing with surprises - a rock and roll party, a kidnap, a storm and a rescue are just some of the twists and turns that make this show an adventure you’ll never forget.

For Year 6 teachers Sandra Halleday and Michelle Yates, who have worked side by side on the past four productions, the musical is a labour of love and a highly valued aspect of the Year 6 curriculum. “I enjoy doing it because it combines my own love of musicals with teaching and because it gives students the opportunity to learn skills in the performing arts at an earlier age than they might have otherwise,” Ms Halleday said.

As a Year 6 subject, preparations for musical start when the school

year starts, as the students and staff work through what it takes to put together such a major school production.

“We introduce the musical at the beginning of the year and read through as a whole year group over a few weeks,” Ms Halleday said. “We eventually get them into groups to practice different scenes, to try out different characters. After they become familiar with the story and songs, students choose three characters they’d like to be and are put into groups to practice specific scenes for the audition.”

Those auditions are held late in Term 1 with students reading for the parts they previously earmarked and potential soloists also perform a song from the musical’s score.

Then comes rehearsals as the students look to hone their skills.

“We usually rehearse at least two to three double lessons a week and this includes acting, singing and dancing,” Ms Halleday said.

“Our music teacher Georgina Farrugia and dance teacher Bec Stojanovich have been invaluable in assisting us in getting the students ready for this year’s show.”

The focus for the students is the performance although back in May students were part of the poster competition to accompany promotions for the production and Tayah Fraser (pictured right with her competition winning promotional poster), who is also playing the lead role of Preston Parrot, won that competition.

That leaves plenty of jobs for the staff involved in terms of making

sure all the nuts and bolts of putting on any performance are ready to go.

“We mostly source or make the props and costumes ourselves and ask our maintenance guys to help make the bigger backdrops,” Ms Halleday said. “We ask for parent and staff help with the make-up for the performances.”

Tayah, who is bringing Preston parrot to life will be joined in some of the main roles by Amarley Battersby plays his wife Polly, Cedric Seagull (Libby McDonnell), Pierre Pusé (Taylor Lucas) and Crusty Scab (Jacquelyn Angelino).

There are 47 in the cast and staff continue to strongly believe the musical experience is a vital and valuable part of the Year 6 curriculum.

“School musicals are such incredibly valuable experiences,” Ms Halleday said. “Not only do they give students the opportunity to develop acting, singing and dancing skills but it also encourages teamwork, commitment and confidence performing in front of an audience. The atmosphere of performing is unlike anything else. It is well worth the time and effort and endless hours of rehearsals to see the look on the students’ faces when they perform for the first time and realise what they’ve just achieved.”

Images below from a recent rehearsal with the St Martins Kindergarten studnets as the audience.

PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

• Thursday, September 29 10.30am

• Friday, September 30 10.30am & 7pm

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Playgrounds in the spotlight in the District Council of Grant budget

District Council of Grant staff have carefully researched and considered equipment options for the playground based on availability, suitability, budget and on going maintenance.

Residents and visitors of the area are encouraged to review the playground options proposed and vote for your most preferred via the survey below. A hard copy survey can be downloaded in the documents section or picked up at Council’s Principal Office or Carpenter Rocks General Store.

Additional feedback is welcome for future improvements to the playground, however this feedback will be considered by council in future budgets. Survey submissions will be accepted via the following methods:

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Carpenter Rocks is part of a swathe of community playgrounds in the District Council of Grant that will go through this consultation process and eventual redevelopment. The District Council of Grant

has identified that some existing playground infrastructure within the area requires attention and council are being proactive to repair, maintain and/or replace this equipment.

Playground upgrades have been included in council’s major project works program for the 2022/2023 financial year, following the receival of Federal Government stimulus funding. The stimulus funding is being provided by the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program.

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The Carpenter Rocks community is currently being asked to have their own say on their preferred playground equipment options and colours until this Thursday.

When a picture paints a thousand words

It is Ron’s second exhibition of portraits at the Robe art space – his first one back in 2017 – and for all the work Ron has created, portraits are his first love.

“I love painting portraits, I love meeting people and getting to know something of their life,” Ron said.

The first step in this exhibition was locking in the 15 subjects for the portraits and Ron was overwhelmed with the response to his call for people to find some time to sit for him and once selected, the gallery put together a sitting

schedule so Ron could start the journey of creating all 15 portraits.

Those sitting took place over two days at Karatta in May.

“I take a lot of photos while I am talking to them and asking questions,” Ron said.

So as Ron works the camera, he also focuses in on the personal story each portrait subject has to share. “I am trying to catch them in a reflective mood and I also like them to laugh and tell stories of joy because I will often work from a smiling photo,” Ron said. “This is the advantage of using a photo to

work from and nearly impossible to do painting from a live sitting.”

Then the hard work really begins as Ron looks to merge his artistic skill with the information he has gleaned from his subjects to produce a portrait that captures more than just how his subjects look.

“…I am trying to catch them in a reflective mood and I also like them to laugh and tell stories of joy …”

“Everyone has a great story,” he said. “It is amazing how one image can say so much about a person. I like to glean as much information about the sitter as I can from the photo.”

Of course, Ron is also looking to nail the physical as well as the ethereal.

“Over the next three months I spent a lot of time with their images,” he said. “Breaking them down into dots and dashes and tones and colours. That might sound strange but I just look at every tonal change in their face

and try and transcribe it into a shape of paint. I need to work on the skin tones while the paint is still wet. I hope that the painting looks like the sitter but I may have to tweak parts of their face to create an illusion that looks like a three dimensional image of them.”

Ron is all about attention to detail and no more so than with his subject’s eyes.

“It is a real highlight for me when I can make their eyes light up and look real in the portrait,” he said.

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“Their face just lifts of the canvas when you get the eyes right and add all the other finer details like hair, clothes and background.”

The sitters came from Robe, Millicent, Mount Gambier and Apsley and Ron knows this is an opportunity to expose even more people to his work.

“My ideal is for the word to spread and lots of their friends and family come to the gallery to see my work and the other great work the gallery has by other artists,” he said. “The quality of the work at the Karatta Gallery is exceptional.”

Diplomatically Ron was not prepared to choose a favourite of his finished portraits – too much like asking a parent to choose a favourite child.

“I love them all equally and just like children some have given me more challenges than others but they have come through and I have reconnected to them,” he said. “My partner’s favourite is Bev’s portrait and I have had a lot of compliments about Jack’s and Mick’s portraits. People see what characters they are even if they don’t know them. Many of the sitters said to me they loved their portrait and that is really rewarding because I took a risk and it is a relief to know they love it.”

The 15 portraits were officially unveiled earlier this month and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

“At the opening I received so much positive affirmation,” Ron said. “They loved the concept and all the portraits together and how they sat in the gallery space.

Friends and family of the sitters told me how well I had captured them and happy it made them feel. Many of the portraits sold at the opening and a lot of others said they are going to purchase.”

Ron now has his fingers crossed that this current exhibition, which runs until October 20, will generate more commissions as Ron looks to emerge from artistic exile courtesy of COVID.

“I am a bit over painting houses, which was my COVID income, while there were no exhibitions,” Ron said, as he starts to lock in exhibition space going forward, working on a couple of commissioned portraits and an Archibald Prize entry.

“I have realised that I lost a lot of acquired knowledge during the enforced break from exhibiting when I started painting for this exhibition but as I painted more things naturally came back to me,” he said. “I would like to maintain that ability and wisdom by practising and doing more painting.”

PORTRAIT PERFECTION: (Opp. page main photo) Harrow artist Ron Penrose & (inset) Ron Penrose at the opening of his Karatta Wine Room & Gallery exhibition and (opp. page bottom row of portraits) three of the popular portraits - Jack, Bev & Mick and (this page from top) Ros, Andrea, Helen, Bernie & Bec.

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Portland District Health (PDH) has announced Sam Sharp as its new chief executive officer.

family at Narrawong, is an accomplished and experienced senior executive leader with more than 25 years’ experience primarily across local government and health sectors. She has held senior executive roles for the past seven years and previously worked for PDH in various roles across drug and alcohol and homelessness support.

Ms Sharp says it will be a privilege to help her community to provide the best possible health service for the region.

“I’m looking to help deliver the best health service that we can in Portland,” she said.

“The Portland region relies on the hospital; it’s like the light on the hill. Given the tyranny of distance that we work under, it’s important that people know there’s a health service that can support them when they need it.”

PDH Board chairperson Peter Matthews announced the appointment last week, saying Ms Sharp would lead the health service to a positive future.

“Sam is very experienced in the health sector, knows the local community and has previously worked for both Portland District Health and Glenelg Shire,” Mr Matthews said. “The board is excited by the vision, energy and expertise that Sam will bring to the role. We are confident that PDH will continue to serve the community of Portland and district with high quality care under her leadership.”

Mr Matthews also paid tribute to interim CEO Karena Prevett who filled the position for more than 12 months. “The board thanks Karena for her integrity, tenacity and stamina in her leadership of Portland District Health at a time of great challenge and uncertainty,” he said.

Ms Sharp will start on December 6. Ms Prevett will continue in the interim position until then before returning to her previous role as Director of Corporate Services.

Ms Sharp grew up in Coburg and on a farm near Bacchus Marsh but had annual holidays at a family property in Allestree before moving to the area in 1997.

“Living here and having previously worked in the hospital, I know what an important service it is for the community and I’m pleased to be able to make a contribution back to the area that has supported me to get my start in health,” she said.

“…it is amazing how one image can say so much about a person…”

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Celebrating cabernet in style

Month long program of events set to showcase Coonawarra’s top drops

The Coonawarra Wine Region is gearing up for a busy month ahead, as the Coonawarra Cabernet Celebrations Wine Festival returns this October.

And, with uninterrupted cross border travel, interstate visitors are expected to come in their droves to soak up the celebrations, having missed out on the event due to restrictions the past two years.

A highlight on the Limestone Coast’s event calendar, the festival is designed to showcase and celebrate Coonawarra’s signature variety, Cabernet Sauvignon, and boasts a program of more than 60 events across five weeks, with no small number of Cabernets and other fantastic wines to be tasted as part of festivities.

The month-long festival, hosted by the Coonawarra Vignerons, kicks off this Saturday with bespoke tastings and special events taking place at cellar doors and wineries across the region.

From high end wine dinners to vertical tastings, winery tours to masterclasses, exhibitions to workshops, the region will offer wine enthusiasts the opportunity to experience and discover the best of Coonawarra, and with October offering up five weekends, organisers have themed each one to appeal to a wide variety of tastes.

Coonawarra Vignerons events & marketing manager Heidi Guyett said there will be plenty of opportunities for wine aficionados, foodies and families alike to explore and experience Coonawarra, whilst enjoying the world-class wines, country hospitality and sense of community.

“This year’s program is as extensive as ever with over 60 food and wine experiences to be enjoyed,” Mrs Guyett said. “There’ll be events where guests can sample vintages a decade old - or older, dine with winemakers and boutique winery owners, go behind the scenes in the winery, or taste wines

that are yet to be officially released, all the while learning about the process and the passion that goes into Coonawarra’s famed wines.

“We are particularly excited about the return of our cross-border neighbours. Victorians have always been among the most engaged and loyal audience for our region. They love coming to our events and we are seeing that they are as eager as ever to make up for lost time.

“Across the board we are seeing great demand for ticketed events. Unlike other large scale wine festivals, many events featured in the program tend to be very intimate in nature, which is half of the appeal.

“Visitors are almost guaranteed to spot the owner or winemaker floating around, be it pouring wines, talking to their products or sharing their passion for growing and winemaking in Coonawarra.”

The first weekend will see the Coonawarra Cabernet Celebrations Golf Day and Family Fiesta kick off the month-long festival..

The following weeks will see themes around blending wine and the marriage of Cabernet Sauvignon with other varieties, a weekend tribute to the original festival – which historically took place on one single weekend, along with an exclusive look at new release wines – ‘from barrel to glass’, wrapping up with a ‘showtime’ theme on the weekend of the local Penola show.

“Coonawarra’s wineries go to great lengths to make sure that there is a variety of offerings to suit a whole range of visitors,” Mrs Guyett said. “From lawn games to nature play, cooking classes, chocolate, cheese and wine tastings, as well as live music, there’s so much to choose from! The hardest part really will be deciding where to go first.”

Leconfield Coonawarra has been involved in the festival since

its inception and will kick off their celebrations with a ‘Great Day Out’ this Saturday, offering visitors an afternoon of live music, food, wine and fun on the winery lawns.

Local duo Christy and Jason Wallace will be performing on the day and cellar door manager Kerrie Marcus is looking forward to welcoming back the crowds for a relaxing afternoon – the perfect way to spend Saturday this long weekend.

“It’s always such a great event with a great atmosphere. We have such a loyal following of visitors that come back year after year,” Ms Marcus said. A”s the wine flows, so does the fun! We invite families to come along, pack a picnic rug or make themselves at home at the tables & chairs provided.”

Another of the feature events in the calendar is the Regional Cabernet Decade[nce] Tasting, which has long been a highlight in the festival program.

“This combined winery event brings together up to 15 producers and winemakers in one location to taste and compare wines 10 years and older along side current release Cabernets,” Mrs Guyett said. “Not all of our producers have cellar doors, so this is a great opportunity for them to be involved in the festival, and for guests to taste their wines and meet the faces behind them.” .

Tickets to the tasting are $40pp and are available to purchase online, and interested parties are advised to book in quickly to avoid disappointment.

The Coonawarra Cabernet Celebrations Masterclass also returns as a feature event in the October program for the first time in two years and is already proving to be a highly sought after event. Hosted by the Coonawarra Vignerons together with Langton’s, the Masterclass will showcase the 2019 Vintage with a lineup of six international Cabernets from regions such as Bordeaux, Napa

Valley and Hawkes Bay, alongside six of Coonawarra’s own premium Langton’s classified wines.

Acclaimed Coonawarra winemaker Sue Hodder of Wynns Coonawarra Estate will be leading the session alongside Ned Goodwin Master of Wine, and looks forward to presenting outstanding examples of the variety from around the world.

“The 2019 vintage has been heralded as ‘exceptional’ for the traditional Cabernet regions globally,” Ms Hodder said. “This Masterclass will provide an opportunity to taste the versatility of this noble grape from noted wine makers from around the world.”

For those venturing to the region, navigating your way around Coonawarra is a breeze with the region’s cellar doors all scattered along one stretch of road, and a shuttle bus hop-on hop- off service is available each weekend of October to transport festival-goers to and from events.

A Mount Gambier transfer bus will also be running from the Blue Lake City to Coonawarra on the first three Saturdays of the monthOctober 1, 8 and 15 - to assist and encourage eager festival goers to join the celebrations, without the dilemma of arranging a designated driver. Tickets for the shuttle and Mount Gambier transfer bus can be purchased online, and passengers are encouraged to book ahead to secure their seat.

The festival is made possible by the South Australian Tourism Commission through Events South Australia with funding made available through the Regional Events and Festival Program.

CELEBRATING CABERNET: (Above from left) Winermaker Sue Hodder’s masterclass & DiGiorgio dinner and (below from left) Dan Redman at a tasting & Bellwether Wines luncheon

JAMES BLUNDELL ARTS CENTRE

KINGSTON SHOW KINGSTON FOOTBALL CLUB

Ocotber 2 (Main Show) & October 3 (Horses in Action)

GELTWOOD FESTIVAL LOCATIONS AROUND

EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES NAOMI ZANKER EXHIBITION

MASTER OF MAC PARK PARK GAMBIER October

CLOSE 2 HOME FESTIVAL GAMBIER BOWLS CLUB

A performance with a purpose

Youth mental health & suicide prevention in the spotlight in this new arts & health project

Naracoorte Lucindale Council and Wellbeing SA are proud to be bringing an exciting new arts and health production to Naracoorte next month.

‘The Rain Maker’ is a multiplatform performance arts project designed to educate youth audiences around a range of themes that are impacting youth mental health today.

Set in a football club, ‘The Rain Maker’ depicts the struggles of two young players and their coach.

Star footballer Billy Jackson is destined for a future in AFL but events are threatening to derail his dream. His best friend Howie is the target of bullying. As a male dancer living in a small country town, it’s taking its toll. Joining the football club helps, but its only when Howie seeks counselling, does he recover his self-esteem, mental health and identity.

Coach Wikileaks is there to support the players, but he too is preoccupied with an imminent threat. The club haven’t made finals

in three years and the committee are threatening to replace him with AFL great Bernard Merriton.

Written by Megan Rigoni, directed by Chris Thompson and with original music by Gully Thompson, ‘The Rain Maker’ employs comedy, drama, music and dance to engage youth audiences. Each performance is followed by a Q&A facilitated by Standby, where audience members are invited to discuss the various themes portrayed in the play.

‘The Rain Maker’ delivers the mental health messages in a way that is entertaining, immediate and highly relevant while stressing the importance of mateship, mentors and professional care in times of crises.

Studies show that farming communities in Australia experience mental health problems at twice the rate of the general population, with ‘rural stoicism’ and fear of stigma are common barriers to sufferers seeking appropriate mental health care.

‘The Rain Maker’ is designed to educate youth audiences around a range of issues relating to youth mental health care, including encouraging audiences to: • be proactive and mindful of their mental health care • seek professional help when needed

• access early intervention mental health services such as Headspace, Lifeline and Beyond Blue • talk to friends, family and colleagues about their feelings of vulnerability, grief and loss • accept that life can be difficult, but in time will improve • break down the stigma associated with mental illness • support family and friends in their mental health journey

‘The Rain Maker’ will be appearing at Naracoorte Town Hall at Thursday, October 20, at 6.30pm with a light supper to follow. This is a FREE community health event.

To book, go to https://bit.ly/ rainmaker_naracoorte The performance is targeted at

youth but we encourage youth and their parents to attend, along with any other adults who may be interested in attending.

Old favourites & new activities on the horizon for Seniors celebrations next month

An enthusiastic working group of representatives have been busily putting together a diverse

program of activities to bring the regions’ seniors together for a fun filled month during October.

This year’s program is being delivered by the Wattle Range Council with generous support and assistance from a range of community groups and organisations.

An annual fixture for almost a decade, the group’s coordinator Catarina Santos said they were pleased to have some activities return by popular demand as well as introducing some new exciting events.

Regular attendee, Sue Looby said she was looking forward to the Lake McIntyre Walk and BBQ, catching a movie and listening to

live music, while good friend Fay Hart was hoping to get some inspiration from the cooking demonstration and enjoy the delights on offer at the Resthaven high tea and art exhibition.

New activities this year include:

• performances by the Tantanoola Play Group and Millicent High School’s music class;

• open days at Millicent, Kalangadoo, Nangwarry and Beachport Museums;

• a multicultural themed lunch ‘Asian Cuisine’;

• live music by Kevin and Billy for the official opening and Profile Band for the closing event and award ceremony;

• a road safety presentation by SA Police on the use of gophers;

• a mystery bus trip.

Magic that will blow your mind

To help support the seniors in attending, bus transport will be available free of charge to some events, with organisers recommending those wishing to participate reserve their seat early to avoid missing out.

Council encourages seniors in the community to join in and support this wide-ranging program of events. Book your attendance by contacting the Millicent Visitor Information Centre on (08)8733 0904.

The full Celebrate Seniors October Program for 2022 is available online on council’s website www.wattlerange. sa.gov.au; or Facebook page. Alternatively, programs can be collected any of council’s offices or the Millicent Library.

Internationally reknowned magician Cosentino brings a new show to the Limestone Coast

When ‘International Magician of the Year’ Cosentino takes his spellbinding live show out on the road to regional areas, the houses are always packed. It’s a rare opportunity for audiences to experience the world-renowned stage performer in the local live arena. Now, by popular demand and with an exciting new show, Cosentino is touring again. Throughout October this year, Cosentino will be visiting towns across South Australia. See dates below.

The 90-minute show – Deception – sees Cosentino perform deathdefying escapes to thrill the senses, mind-boggling stage illusions, and cutting-edge street magic that twists the view of reality. Combined with his trademark blend of dance and magic, and that touch of

hilarious audience participation, Cosentino promises to take fans on a journey that will not only captivate those who have long followed his career, but also the curious who are attending their first ever show, until the very last mindbending moment.

Cosentino became a household name when he appeared on Australia’s Got Talent in 2011.

Viewers around the country were blown away by his skill and showmanship. But this entertainer was no overnight success story.

Cosentino had been working away at his craft for years before making his debut on television. He toured steadily through regional Australia, garnering a solid fanbase and demonstrating his deft skill. His experience was recognised by judges and audiences alike, taking

the magician, illusionist and escape artist through to the runners-up position.

Fast forward to now and Cosentino has written, produced and starred in no less than nine prime-time television specials. In fact, he was the first Australian magician to have his own television show.

He has multiple Merlin Awards to his name – the highest accolade awarded in the magic industry –acknowledging him as International Magician of The Year and International Escape Artist of The Year. He sits in esteemed company, others who have been awarded the prestigious accolades, given out by the International Magician’s Society in New York, include David Copperfield, Criss Angel and Penn & Teller.

MOUNT October October

Love at first sight

Hailee’s highland dancing passion burns bright

You had me at hello. That famous line from the hit movie Jerry Maguire sums up Hailee Pearce and highland dancing.

The first time the young dancer saw a highland dancer on stage, it was all she wanted to do and 11 years later she is starting to make her mark as she travels Australia competing at the highest level.

And it has been a huge few weeks for the talented 15-yearold, staring with her win in the Barrier Reef Championship 14-15 years which was held in Townsville, competing against dancers from new South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the host State and then sitting her highland dancing exams and competing at the Port Adelaide and South Australian Championships, where she finished runner up and third respectively.

And there are at least two more championships on the horizon before the end of 2022 for the Year 10 Tenison Woods College student.

Hailee started her dancing career at MJ Dance Studio, where she danced for a decade, and it was at an MJ concert that she saw that highland dancing performance and wanted to give it a go.

“I really enjoyed watching it and so I asked my mum if I could do it

(highland dancing),” Hailee said.

Now in her 11th year of highland dancing, the sport is a huge part of her life.

She has a dance class on Monday, a championship class on Tuesday, joins the younger students on Saturday for a class and also looks to set aside an hour a day of practice.

For Hailee, though, none of that is a chore – it is her passion.

“I love it because of the dancing, I really enjoy it and love meeting new people through dancing,” Hailee said. “My favourite dance is the Scottish lilt. This is because it’s a dance I don’t

normally do in a competition but I also enjoy dancing it when it is.”

Hailee also loves the travel she has been able to do as she pursues her highland dancing career.

“I love travelling and going to different championships around Australia,” she said. “I have travelled to Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, and Queensland for dancing.”

And ultimately she has an even longer trip in mind when it comes to making her mark in highland dancing circles.

“I aim to keep improving so I can possibly go to Scotland in the future to dance there,” Hailee said.

Capturing the Limestone Coast Range Council

Inclusive Education Teacher

The College invites applications for a full time Inclusive Education Teacher to work predominately within our Middle and Senior Schools (Years 7 – 12).

The Inclusive Education Teacher will work alongside classroom teachers and Learning Enrichment Teams to support students with diverse learning needs, so they can reach their full potential.

The successful applicant will have appropriate qualifications and experience. Applicants must be supportive of the Christian ethos of the College and committed team players who are keen to contribute to the ongoing development of a busy and growing school.

Conditions:

This position will commence in January 2023.

Applications should be forwarded via email only by 11 October 2022. Applications should include a cover letter briefly addressing the person specification and a resume, which includes the contact details of at least three referees (one of which should be your most recent Head of School/Principal). Further information and a position description can be found on the College website (www.stmartins.sa.edu.au).

Enquiries to:

Karen Boylan

Learning Enrichment Coordinator

Email: kboylan@stmartins.sa.edu.au

Phone: 08 8725 1430

Applications to:

Mandy Taylor

HR and Compliance Manager

Email: hr@stmartins.sa.edu.au

• Meet or exceed your budget each month, quarter and year

• Proven experience in proactively expanding customer base and market

• Hold a current drivers licence.

• Excellent relationship management skills

• Excellent communication skills

• Highly organised with attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines & time management

• The ability to work both as part of a team and autonomously

• Skills in Microsoft Word, Outlook & Excel

Contact Jason Allen Email jason.allen@sen.com.au Phone 0417 285 163

Winners of the annual Wattle Range Council Photographic Exhibition were announced earlier this month before an audience of 70 photographers, families, and friends.

An increase in entries saw 328 digital images submitted, across 11 categories, with the nature category being divided into Flora and Fauna, recognising the calibre of photography put forward.

An impressive 53 photographers presented entries, 29 of them for the first time, many of whom received accolades.

Wattle Range Council manager libraries & gallery Janice Nitschke was again impressed by the variety and exellence of entries arriving.

“It is fantastic to see our region from the perspective of these creative and incredibly talented photographers,” she said.

Among the first time entrants to receive recognition were:

• Janet Crowe’s stunning photograph of a pair of teals which won the Lake McIntyre category,

• Tahlia Kirkland who took out the Business & Industry category with a captivating photo of a pair of hands shearing a sheep,

• Monique McGregor’s mystical image titled Pretty Pixels which won Nature (Fauna), and

• Hugh Manningdale with his stunning Drone image of the Salmon Hole swell.

“Four stunning photographs all interpreting the diversity and beauty of Wattle Range,” Mrs Nitschke said.

“First time entrants also featured heavily as Runner-Up and Merits including Bianca Briggs, Russell Murphy, Paula Brockman and Katie Edwards.

“After many years of assisting us with the photographic exhibition, long-time event supporter Steve Chapple entered and was successful in winning the Landscape category with a moody and beautiful seascape of the Southend Jetty.

“Return photographer Simon Whennen showed his prowess as a nature photographer as did Steve Chapple.”

There was also continued success for previous winners.

Liam Mills, whose work is featured on the new Beachport entrance sign won the Sport and Recreation category with a capture of a lone surfer.

Alex Window was victorious in People and Portrait with an image of the sculptural sand of the beach cliffs and his daughter.

Mary Whitehead won both the Black and White category with a striking photograph of harvest time and the Nature (Flora) category with a beautiful photograph of a blue wren in wattle flowers and Phil DeKoning once again won the Panoramic category with an outstanding photo of Lake Leake and a brilliant sunset.

“Developing photographer Lily Cain again impressed, when she won the youth category with a stunning photo of the sunset on the horizon,” Mrs Nitschke said. “The judges acknowledged the standard of photography from all the youth who entered and rewarded them with vouchers to encourage them to continue to develop and achieve.

“All winning, runner up, third or merit images have been printed and hung in the Millicent Gallery for display and already visiting photographers from Portland and the Limestone Coast who have attended commented on the quality and diversity of the exhibition,” she explained.

Work is now underway to select the photographs for the 2023 Wattle Range Council Community Calendar.

“In its 15th year, the calendar has continued to evolve and be enriched through the range, quality and excellence of the photography submitted in each Photographic Exhibition,” Mrs Nitschke said.

The exhibition is on display in the gallery through to October 12.

CLICK GO THE SHEARS: (Above) Shearer’s Hands (Tahlia Kirkland Winner Business & Industry 2022)

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Castle Camps increases offering in 2022

Progeny of proven sires on offer at September 30 sale

Last year Castle Camps again saw a total clearance of rams from both breeds. With this in mind the stud will increase the number of rams offered.

This year will see 75 White Suffolk and 90 Border Leicester rams at our annual sale on Friday the 30th of September. The sale will again be on Auctions Plus.

This will give the opportunity to those who can’t attend on the day to participate in the sale as well.

This year’s offering of White Suffolk’s will see rams from our list of proven sires including Glengarry 18/8030 who is in the top 5% for Pwt, also Days 18/82 who is the

This year will also see the first progeny from three young Castle Camps sires.

The first two, 19/24 & 19/29 are both sons of Woolumbool 17/3980 and are in the top 5% for Inter muscular fat and Shear Force.

The third is 19/10, a son of Mertex 17/593 and is a ram with great width and depth through the back end and is in the top 20% for Pwt.

The Border Leicester offering will again see rams from sires that have breed very well for us in recent years.

Including Castle Camps Arora 17/318 who is in the top 5% for weaning rate. Castle Camps

Over the years wool quality

our clients.

We continue to get great feedback for both breeds with our clients getting excellent results with both lambs and their first cross ewes.

One of our clients told us that they moved 80% of their first cross wether lambs in the first draft averaging 23.8kg.

Other clients who have carried their wether lambs through the summer on either fodder crops or in a feed lot have averaged over 28kg.

All say that the lambs matured early and had exceptional carcass qualities.

With James Pitchford saying that they have been using Castle Camps Border rams for the last three years with the wether portion consistently weighing better than expected and the ewe lambs present well in the Naracoorte first cross sale.

This year’s sale will be held on the property at 2018 Riddoch Hwy, Keith and Auctions Plus on Friday the 30th of September starting at 11am, with inspections from 9.30am.

Ian and Sue invite you to come and inspect the rams either on sale day or before the sale.

You can also follow us on face book or go to our website www. castlecamps.com.au for our online catalogue which are now avilable or just give Ian a call on 0438 566 030 to arrange a suitable time for an inspection.

SEPTEMBER SALES

Kurralea Tuesday

Tuesday 27th September

Paxton Stud

Wednesday 28th September

Paradoo Prime

Friday 30th September

Castle Camps

Friday 30th September

OCTOBER SALES

Cloven Hills

Tuesday 4th October

Wattle Glenn-Corriedale Hills

Tuesday 4th October

Janmac

Wednesday 5th October

Woolumbool

Wednesday 5th October

Mullinger Park

Thursday 6th October Chrome

Thursday 6th October

Pembroke

Thursday 6th October

Cashmore-Oaklea

Friday 7th October

Marjardah

Monday 10th October

Yarramie

Monday 10th October

Wrattenbullie

Monday 10th October

Mulgundawa-Richmond Park

Monday 10th October

Kenlorne

Tuesday 11th October

Yarram Park

Tuesday 11th October

KS Sheep Studs

Wednesday 12th October

Depta Grove

Thursday 13th October

Derrynock

Thursday 13th October

Cloverlea

Friday 14th October

Warrawindi

Friday 14th October

Gemini

Wednesday 19th October

Konongwootong

Thursday 20th October

Jackson Farming

Thursday 20th October

Compton House

Wednesday 26th October

Macquarie Ram Sale

Thursday 27th October

NOVEMBER SALES

Sterling Dohne

Thursday 10th November

ON PROPERTY SALES (by appointment)

Prolific Sheep Mount Monmot

Lanacoona

Summit Park

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Paradoo Prime

2022 sale showcasing the great performance of commercial ewes

At Paradoo Prime and with the help of Thrive Agri Services we have made a big effort to work on maximising the production of all our growing ewes.

Our performance from commercial ewe lambs and their subsequent years production as a (2nd lamber) or a rising 2 YO has been great.

For the past three years we have been consistently scanning at an average of 180% in second lambers and these have weaned an average of 161% over 20202022.

When this is combined with weaning 120% average in pregnant ewe lambs as first lambers, then all of a sudden, some very attractive and impressive production numbers begin to take shape.

The other key imperative is keeping your second lambing dry rate to a very low figure. This is key.

For example if you are weaning 2.8 plus lambs average per ewe in the first two years and your dry rate in the second lambers is below 1% then all of a sudden your production system is very hard to beat. (2.8 lms x $140 = $392 before your ewe is 27 months of age).

The production output from proactive management in nutrition and managing ewe condition makes it very rewarding and exciting.

This is all completely achievable and comes from accurate and transparent data from commercially run ewes.

When considering mating ewe lambs, it is not only just the management to get them in lamb that is important.

The subsequent management once ewe lambs have accomplished their first lambing is most vital to ensure they are set up for their second lambing.

Mating your ewe lambs can have many benefits for your overall flock.

Joining your ewe lambs can be challenging but by using the correct methods and staying consistent, this can be achieved.

The weight that ewe lambs achieve at joining is the single largest factor dictating the

• Joining age

• Teaser use

• Growth rate over joining

Ewe lambs are generally joined between the ages of 7 to 10 months old and are immature animals that are actively growing and increasing in size and body weight.

In fact, ewes will not reach full maturity until 24-30 months of age and if successful will be lambing for the second occasion by the time they are 24 months of age.

Managing your ewe lambs up until they are 1.5 years of age can be challenging and requires a lot of labour and inputs, however the benefits are worth it.

A common mistake made is not replacing the adequate condition back onto the growing ewes and neglecting them.

Due to ewe lambs and second lambers making up 40-50% of your flock, you need to ensure they are achieving their optimal genetic reproductive potential and that you are striving to achieve high scanning rates.

Failing to maintain the condition of your second lambers can sacrifice the number of lambs generated causing a loss in production.

As we mentioned, this age group can make up half (40-50%) of your flock, therefore by failing to recover their condition this can have huge economic impacts.

This age group is considered to have low conception rate and the highest percentage of dries when compared to mature aged ewes hence why management skills and more inputs are needed.

For further information please contact Tim Leeming PH 0427 797 242 or Andrew Kennedy PH 0408 512 240

Di Jenke at Strathalbyn, are focussed on breeding Corriedales that are commercially viable with emphasis on both wool and meat. Graham, being a woolclasser for 50 years, has concentrated on lowering the micron of the flock so that there is a return for the wool, whilst still maintaining the attributes of the Corriedale breed: a sheep that has good doing ability and producing both meat and wool. Stud ewes have averaged 25.7 micron over the last eight years, with the lambs’ wool averaging 22.5 micron.

The stud’s objectives were substantiated in the Meat Eating Quality Genomics Trial conducted by the Australian Corriedale Association in Tasmania from 2017 to 2020. Out of 37 rams in the trial, progeny sired by two Wattle Glen rams, when measured, were in the top 30% for weaning weight and post weaning weight, while also in the top 30% for fleece weight, while still producing two of the top four for fineness in their wool when micron tested. Semen is available for sale from both these rams, Wattle Glen 15004 and Wattle Glen 160094.

It is with pleasure that Wattle Glen joins with Corriedale Hills to offer 50 selected rams in the inaugural SA Corriedale Feature Sale on Auctions Plus on October 4th 2022 at 11am (SA Time). Inspection of Wattle Glen rams prior to the sale can be organised by contacting Graham or Di Jenke on 0429 936 598 of 0428 696 031.

At Corriedale Hills, the Lush family run a flock of over 1500 commercial Corriedales, as well as their Stud Corriedales and Poll Dorsets.

We have put the focus of selection on growing sheep that produce well and can look after themselves.

To that end, our sheep need to get in lamb quickly and look after their lambs. They need to have clean wool of good value and be resistant to flystrike. They need to mother their lambs well, and the lambs need to produce.

Corriedale Hills is a member of the Performance Corriedale Group, which uses the analysis tools of Lambplan to identify and use more productive genetics.

The group uses the Maternal Wool Production plus (MWP+) index to identify sheep with higher fertility and growth, and an emphasis on carcase quality and wool production. The group also nominates sires to be a part of the MLA Resource Flock, as well as conducting its own trials. Through these trials, we have found that some of our lines perform exceptionally well for Eating Quality (as measured by Intramuscular Fat and Shear Force).

Since it was established in 1926, Corriedale Hills has continually sourced sires from around Australia and New Zealand. By using bloodlines that have performed well elsewhere, we test them alongside our own breeding and see if they improve our sheep, and any improvements we pass on to our commercial flock and those of our clients.

Together with Wattle Glen’s 25 Corriedale rams, Corriedale Hills will offer 25 Corriedale rams, which will be followed by 45 Poll Dorset Rams.

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Leading genetics to feature in sale

Woolumbool’s 35th Annual Spring Sale set to include several notable sires

Buyers at Woolumbool’s 35th Annual Spring Sale can expect to get hold of a range of leading sheep genetics in Australia.

The auction on Wednesday October 5 near Lucindale, South Australia will feature nearly 300 rams, including 12 Elites and 270 flock rams, and will look to build on a record-breaking 2021 result.

The sale will include four Elite Poll Dorsets, 8 Elite White Suffolks, 90 Poll Dorset flock rams, 90 White Suffolk flock rams, 60 Muti-Meat

Composite Maternal Homozygous flock rams with double copy of the booroola gene, and 20 Multi-Meat

Composite Maternal Heterozygous flock rams with single copy of the booroola gene.

The catalogue will include several notable sires with progeny, including Poll Dorset Felix 190968 and White Suffolk Trigger Vale 191124.

“There have been a few changes in sheep genetics in recent years, but their LEQ (Lamb Eating Quality) numbers have still held up,” Woolumbool stud principal Aaron Clothier said. “They’ve got good growth, good fat coverage, good eating quality and they will be very popular.”

He is confident buyers will have good options throughout the catalogue at the October 5 sale.

Australia, with fast growth, good fat, high muscle, increased worm resistance, good meat-eating quality rams all backed up by their gold quality ASBVs,” Aaron said.

In the maternals, multi-meat buyers can expect the same as the terminals with added finer micron wool, increased fecundity, and lower adult weights.

Multi-meat composites were included for the first time and sold

are fully paddock reared with no supplementary feeding and will be 13-15 months of age at auction.

The annual auction is now one of the most respected and wellestablished sales in the country, and local commercial Poll Dorset client Patrick Ross can talk to his success over that long period of time.

“I don’t think I’ve missed buying a ram at the Woolumbool sale for

Naracoorte Market Report - SHEEP & LAMBS

There was an increase in lamb numbers at Naracoorte to 2205. Quality varied from average to very good. More drafts of new season lambs came forward with prices for the good quality from firm to $5/head dearer. Old lambs with cover sold to improved competition as they were mainly from firm up to $10/head stronger. Plainer lighter lambs sold to less demand and were easier in places. Restockers paid from mostly $90 to $141 for good store young lambs and also $46 to $64/head for lighter weights. Restockers purchased crossbred ewes for $118/head in the sheep market. Merino lambs made to $138/head.

Light trade weight new season lambs sold from $124 to $140/head averaging 740c/kg cwt. Medium trade weights made from $155 to $185 and the heavy trade weights sold from $187 to 196/head as they averaged from 800c to 805c/kg cwt. Heavy young lambs made from $207 to $216 reaching a top of $229/head averaging from 807c to 814c/kg cwt.

Light weight old lambs made from $90 to $120/head averaging 650c/kg cwt. Light trade weight old lambs sold from $130 to $156/head. The medium weights made from $154 to $170/head to average 740c/kg cwt. Heavy old lambs sold from $179 to $204 and made the market top of $240/head with the costs varying from 720c to 750c/kg cwt. Heavy hoggets made from $121 to $144/head.

Sheep numbers decreased to 1,379 head with most weights and grades offered. The yarding did contain a large portion of Merino ewes that had been recently shorn. Light sheep sold to a cheaper trend, medium and heavy mutton sold from firm to $5/head dearer. Light sheep sold from $73 to $90 and medium weight Merino ewes made from $100 to $120/head as they averaged an estimated 510c/kg cwt. Heavy crossbred ewes sold from $150 to $180 and the heavy Merino ewes made from $130 to $148/head with costs varying from 450c to 500c/kg cwt. The rams of all breeds with cover sold from $80 to $125/head.

Naracoorte Market Report - CATTLE

There was a larger yarding at Naracoorte of 530 cattle. Quality was from average to very good as the majority of the cattle offered showed cover. The market did have well presented grown heifers and well bred younger cattle some of which were grain feed suiting both feeders and processors. The regular buyers attended and operated combined with more restocker interest after recent rain. The market consisted of 13 bulls, 292 trade cattle and 225 cows. Prices for the younger cattle were from firm to 20c/kg dearer and in some isolated sales stronger with an increase in demand. Grown heifers sold from unchanged to a few cents dearer, cows varied from unchanged to 7c/kg easier. The bulls sold from 5c to 15c/kg dearer on average.

Vealers going onto feed mainly sold from 512c to 584c, the trade paid to 530c with heifer vealers going to a restocker at 646c/kg. Yearling steers to the trade made from 486c to 567c, with the restockers and feeders paying mostly from 486c to 587c as they reached 628c/kg. The yearling heifers to the trade sold from 520c to 550ckg. Heifers purchased by restockers and feeders made from 520c to 600c/kg.

The limited selection of grown steers to the processors sold from 405c to 470c with feeders paying from 512c up to 541c/kg. The good quality offering of grown heifers which took up a large portion of the trade run made from 435c to 530c, plainer heifers sold from 405c to 470c and restockers were active as they paid from 300c to 556c/kg for suitable grown heifers.

Heavy weight cows sold from 390c to 423c, leaner and medium weights made from 334c to 380c, and restockers purchased suitable cows from 323c to 364c/kg. Heavy weight beef bulls sold to stronger competition as they made from 332c to 400c/kg.

this year. To be able to go to a sale and know you’re buying in the top 10 per cent of the breed, gives you an enormous amount of confidence in the quality of the data.”

Patrick sees the success of his purchases in the paddock.

“When I apply their genetics to my ewe flock, I get an incredibly good result with my prime lambs,” he said. “Because I’m strictly

in the past five years have had average growth rates in excess of 400 grams per day from birth to the day they are sold at 22 kilograms.

The Clothier family look forward to welcoming all buyers to their on-property auction in the Yacca Downs Woolshed, The on-site sale will be interfaced with Auctions Plus. Updates about the sale will be posted at www.woolumbool. com.au

New research on hay

A new study has shown that feeding microwave heat-treated forage hay improves sheep dry matter intake and apparent digestibility. The study by PhD scholar Md Safiqur Rahaman Shishir at the University of Melbourne, along with supervisory committee team of Dr Paul Cheng, A/Prof Graham Brodie, and A/Prof Brendan Cullen, shows microwave heat treatment improves digestibility by 8 per cent in sheep, and may lead to improved weight gain. Forage hay is the conserved form of roughage, mostly used in sheep’s diet during drought in summer and winter. However, its use contributes mainly to maintenance due to comparatively lower digestibility than fresh forage. A previous small-scale in vitro digestibility study suggests that microwave heat treatment improves lucerne hay dry matter digestibility by 15 per cent. While fed microwave treated lucerne hay, the average daily weight gain of sheep was increased by 8 per cent compared to untreated lucerne hay. “Microwave heat treatment is a non-ionic electromagnetic processing technology that is quick, energy-efficient, and safer to handle,” Mr Shishir said. “Based on our literature study and understanding, we have developed a hypothesis that microwave energy interacts with available inter and intracellular water,” he said. “Eventually it converts them into steam and creates pressure in the cell wall that leads to cellular rupture causes microstructure destruction at the cellular level. Therefore, the accessibility to cell nutrients might be increased.”

Dr Cheng, the principal supervisor of Mr Shishir, said they had done some electron microscopic imaging of microwave-treated and nontreated hays. “The result suggested that the hypothesis of microstructure destruction due to microwave heat treatment is visible and significantly higher than the non-treated one,” he said.

The research group conducted an apparent digestibility and nitrogen balance trial with sheep to see the actual effect of feeding microwave treated forage hay. It found that apparent digestibility substantially improved by 8 per cent when microwave lucerne was fed to sheep. However, other microwave-treated forage hay (wheat hay) did not show any effect when fed to sheep. “If you consider small numbers of sheep, the profit improvement due to feeding microwave-treated lucerne hay looks minimal, but the importance can be more visible when applied on farm scale, which is possible with higher microwave capacity,” Dr Cheng said. The research group believes that more trials are needed for further validation of the findings. “Research on microwave heat treatment of forage hay is still in the initial stage,” Dr Cheng said. “Despite this study showing microwave heat treatment to be effective for improving forage hay dry matter intake and digestibility, a large number of trials is needed for further validation. However, this PhD project showed a path for future research in this area, particularly in microwave time and power selection.”

1. In which year did Kate Middleton and Prince William marry?

2. Which three colours make up the German flag?

3. What does the anacronym UNESCO stand for when referring to the United Nations peace and security arm?

4. With which sport do we associate Irish athlete Rory McIlroy?

5. On which date did Queen Elizabeth II die?

6. Which Richard Flanagan novel won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction?

7. Who won the 2005 Norm Smith Medal?

8. What is the capital of China?

9. By what professional name is rapper Curtis James Jackson III known?

10. For which NFL franchise does legend Tom Brady play?

11. French engineer Louis Reard is credited with inventing which iconic fashion item, launching in the 1940s?

12. The Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris is credited with being the birthplace of which dance style?

13. Which city hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics?

14. Stop Your Fussin’ and Don’t Walk Away are early hits for which award winning artist?

15. Joining forces again for another instalment of the Ocean’s film franchise, which three actors play the characters Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan and Linus Caudwell, having brought those characters to life in ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 12 and Ocean’s 13?

16. Who won the 2022 Coleman Medal as the leading goalkicker in the AFL?

17. The Lambs and the Pickles are the two main families at the centre of which award winning 1991 Australian novel?

18. Bunbury and Collie are towns in which Australian State?

19. Which actress played Sybylla Melvyn in the film adaptation of the Miles Franklin novel My Brilliant Career?

20. Which French sculptor created the iconic The Thinker sculpture?

21. Viracocha, Inti and Mama Quilla are three gods from which ancient civilisation?

22. Bogota is the capital of which South American country?

23. The male

24. Which metal presents in liquid form at room temperature?

25. What is the scientific name for the North Star?

26. Which movie was Kevin Costner’s directorial debut?

27. Which civil war was fought between 1861 and 1865?

28. Who won the 2022 Western Border Football League A Grade premiership?

29. Who is the Member for Wannon?

30. How many times did Australian artist Brett Whiteley win the Archibald Prize?

31. What is a baby elephant called?

32. Which Oscar winning song opens with the lines ‘Tell me something, girl. Are you happy in this modern world?’?

33. Who is the Premier of South Australia?

34. Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone & Lance Bass are the members of which 1990s boy band?

35. Who won the 1989 Norm Smith Medal?

36. Benito Mussolini was once the Prime Minister of which country?

37. Which Russian city was previously known as Leningrad?

38. Aussie actor Dan Ewing played which character in the Aussie prime time soap Home & Away?

39. What is the capital of Queensland?

40. Jamie Foxx won the 2005 Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of which real life character?

Horoscopes Sarah Kulkens

ARIES (March 21- April 20)

Lucky Colour: White

Lucky Day: Thursday

Racing Numbers: 5-3-2-6

Lotto Numbers: 5-12-26-36-34-40

A happy and lucky period coming up for love and money, unless your critical remarks could ruin a good chance. Perhaps you are expecting too much from others; maybe you should give them the benefit of the doubt.

TAURUS (April 21- May 20)

Lucky Colour: Peach Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 3-2-6-2

Lotto Numbers: 3-12-25-26-34-40

You really have to keep your mind on what you are doing, as what you feel like doing could conflict with the plans of those around you. Stay cool and you will eventually get your own way.

GEMINI (May 21- June 21)

Lucky Colour: Yellow Lucky Day: Friday

Racing Numbers: 2-5-2-1

Lotto Numbers: 2-15-24-40-22-26

Do not expect too much from others in any tight situation. Impatience could get the upper hand, so stay cool. People may not be what hey seem, so you better look beneath the obvious.

CANCER (June 22- July 22)

Lucky Colour: Silver Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 2-5-8-5

Lotto Numbers: 1-15-29-21-10-33

Home environment will be very important to your state of mind. Be careful how toy choose your words, with out sacrificing your own point of view. Travel could be coming up fairly soon.

LEO (July 23- August 22)

Lucky Colour: Pink Lucky Day: Thursday

Racing Numbers: 1-3-5-2

Lotto Numbers: 1-12-15-26-34-40

This is a good time to tie up loose ends and attend to financial matters. You may decide to visit someone and end up somewhere entirely different. Romantic relationships should be very enjoyable.

VIRGO (August 23- September 23)

Lucky Colour: Orange Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 2-3-2-1 Lotto Numbers: 2-15-24-40-45-44

Be very realistic in all your dealings and finish the tasks at hand, plus pay attention to the people you love and this could then be a very harmonious period. A boost can come in financial affairs.

LIBRA (September 24- October 23)

Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 2-3-5-9 Lotto Numbers: 2-15-26-34-40-22

A very impatient mood can prevail and this could irritate your co workers. The desire to express your feelings in an art form can be successful. A personal relationship could take a lot of your time.

SCORPIO (October 24- November 22)

Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Thursday

Racing Numbers: 5-6-8-4 Lotto Numbers: 1-15-45-20-3-39

If you think positive and apply your energy in the right direction, anything you do should succeed. Take care to maintain the peace around you. A chance meeting could develop into a romantic interlude.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23- December 20)

Lucky Colour: Fawn Lucky Day: Sunday

Racing Numbers: 2-3-5-6 Lotto Numbers: 2-15-26-34-40-33

A new venue of interest could present itself and you could be called upon to cope with other people’s problems. Someone you are attracted to could soon be joining your family circle.

CAPRICORN (December 21- January 19)

Lucky Colour: Dark Blue Lucky Day: Saturday

Racing Numbers: 2-3-5-6 Lotto Numbers: 1-12-15-26-34-40

Think very carefully on all aspects of any situation before commiting to anything. The urge to take off in an unconventional manner may be tempting. Romance could be the highlight of this period.

AQUARIUS (January 20- February 19)

Lucky Colour: Orange Lucky Day: Sunday

Racing Numbers: 2-6-5-3 Lotto Numbers: 2-15-26-34-40-33

Keep a tendency to be reckless under control and your affairs should start to really get off the ground. A very romantic period, give your love and you should be rewarded in kind.

PISCES (February 20- March 20)

Lucky Colour: Red Lucky Day: Friday

Racing Numbers: 1-6-5-2

Lotto Numbers: 1-15-26-34-40-22

Low key attitude is the wisest, especially if you are wanting to make others accept your ideas. Best to keep to your own counsel where possible. You could be inclined to overdo it, so let your instinct tell you when you have had enough.

Hard fought final roundPicture purrfect season

Family celebrates ultimate success for Brad

The last regular round of the Mount Gambier Table Tennis Winter Season was fought out with great ferocity last week, with finals contenders being decided in all grades.

Sunny’s Guns needed to knock off the undefeated Sweet Enough team to secure their place in this week’s A Grade decider, unfortunately it was a mountain too high as Travis Sweet guided his team to a comfortable victory. Scott Davies did his bit to keep the Guns in it, keeling his singles sheet clean and in doing so handing a rare defeat to Sweet in a 5-game thriller.

Nothing separated the two heavyweights in the opening game, Davies eventually prevailing 12-10 thanks to an errant forehand from Sweet that sailed long past the table.

As expected, Sweet came back with a vengeance, taking the next two games to gain the upper hand. The fourth game had onlookers’ jaws dropping on the ground as the combatants traded heavy blows and sublime skills, pushing each other all around the arena in a true battle of wills.

After one of the longest singles games in recent history, Davies finally took the game by an extraordinary 20 points 18. Sweet appeared to have spent all his petrol tickets, giving up the fifth and deciding game by a comfortable 11 points to 7.

Unfortunately for his team, Davies’ efforts were all for nought, Sweet Enough recording a 7-4 victory. Chop Block posted a similar result against Topspin, Leigh Barry maintaining a clean singles sheet for the winners while Aaron McPhee performed strongly for Topspin, including a marathon 5-game come-from behind victory over Robin Pellen after being down 2 games to 1.

The final A Grade encounter of the regular season saw Kennel Mates hand JK Ronald an absolute thumping, Ben Newman the standout for the victors with a clean singles sheet.

Former North Gambier champion Brad Close has lived the dream – he is an AFL premiership player.

And he wasn’t just part of Geelong’s 2022 premiership team he was an integral part, so much so, that when SEN’s Kane Cornes was asked to share how he would have voted in the Norm Smith, he prefaced his thoughts with this remark.

“I liked Brad Close’s game – not that he would have been in the votes.”

Earlier in the call, Cornes has identified Close as one of a handful of players that had seen Geelong go from being humiliated in the 2021 preliminary final to premiers the following season.

“That’s where the improvement has come from. Close just isn’t a good player, he is a big game player.”

And the Champion Data stats bear the out.

Going into the game with a season average of 78 Supercoach points, Close racked up 118 in the season decider. He had 18 disposal, six kicks and 12 handballs, and they were quality possessions with the hard running half forward running at 83 per cent disposal efficiency in the cauldron of a grand final.

He kicked two classy goals and was also credited with four assists and eight score involvements.

Parents Andrew and Andrea and sisters Alycia Pitson and Emily Close were in the thick of the on ground celebrations and given dad Andrew’s decorated 382 game career at Western Border level, that yielded no premiership success, perhaps having a chance to touch the coveted silverware was just reward.

Multi-award winning sports journalist, who headed up the AFL Nation call at the weekend, and a Cats supporter, Gerard Whateley also singled out Close in his post match analysis. “He kicks goals every game he plays,” Whateley said. “There has always been something about him.”

Close was also the first player his captain, Joel Selwood, embraced on the final siren as the enormity of what the Cats legend had achieved sunk in. It was only three years ago that Close was part of an SANFL premiership with Glenelg and it was in 2014 and ‘16 that he was part of North Gambier premiership line-ups.

PREMIERSHIP SUCCESS: (Above)

Sister Emily Close, dad Andrew Close, premiership player Brad Close, mum Andrea Close & sister Alycia Pitson.

The only bright point for JK Ronald was Katrina McPhee’s win over David Harris-Jones late in the piece, Kennel Mates ultimately romping to a 10-1 win.

Sweet Enough will now meet Knight Owls in next week’s A Grade final, pitting mother Sirinat Sweet against son Travis in what will be the ultimate grudge match.

The undefeated Rose Between Thorns had a bye in the last round knowing that they already had secured their spot in the B Grade final.

The Smart Alecs had to defeat Rennick Raiders in their bout to ensure they stayed ahead of Ray’s Mob and progressed to this week’s decider.

The Alecs managed to post a comprehensive 8-3 victory, led

by a clean sheet performance from Harry Childs.

Childs’ epic 5-game encounter with Rennick Raiders player Mark Bachman culminated in a thrilling 15-13 final game.

Bachman was the best for the Raiders, coming back from a 2-1 deficit against Alex McGregor in the final rubber of his Winter season campaign.

Ray’s Mob also recorded a similarly dominant 8-3 victory over Moss Boss, Rayelene Hutchesson and Chris Turner both posting clean singles sheets.

Unfortunately, the result wasn’t enough to secure a spot in the finals, Smart Alecs going through by virtue of their superior games percentage.

In the last B Grade encounter, War Dogs recorded a comfortable 7-4 win over Dukes and Nukes, Rob Halleday leading the way with a clean sheet.

The C Grade final placings also went down to the wire, Tom Horrigan’s Hard Knox needing to defeat Andrew Schbert’s Comeback Kids and rely on Mark Devaney’s Demolition falling to Jacob Ireland’s High Rollers in order to progress.

Horrigan and Lorraine Halleday got Knox off to the perfect start, winning their respective opening singles rubbers.

Halleday kept her singles sheet clean throughout the contest, as Hard Knox went on to record an 8-3 win. Schubert was best for the Comeback Kids. In the other matchup, Clean Sheets to Ireland and Tracey Rawlings ensured the High Rollers coasted to a 7-4 victory over Demolition. Hard Knox will now face Deakin Lofthouse’s Tricksters in this week’s C Grade playoff.

Mount Gambier Table Tennis Club is always welcoming of new players of all ages, experience, and capability. Practice is held at 7pm on Monday nights and competition is at 7pm on Wednesday nights at the Mount Gambier Showgrounds Hall.

Anyone interested in having a go, please contact the club at mtgtabletennis@gmail.com or find the club’s Facebook page, or just come along on a Monday night and speak to a friendly welcoming committee member.

3-rubber winners:

• A Grade: Leigh Barry (Chop Block), Scott Davies (Sunny’s Guns), Ben Newman (Kennel Mates)

• B Grade: Rayelene Hutchesson, Chris Turner (Ray’s Mob), Rob Halleday (War Dogs), Harry Childs (Smart Alecs).

• C Grade: Jacob Ireland, Tracey Rawlings (High Rollers), Lorraine Halleday (Hard Knox)

Panagopoulos in stunning form

Blue Lake Golf Club ladies handover breast cancer fundraising donation

The weather was once again on its best behavior for the single stroke competition with 23 women at the Blue Lake Golf Club last week vying for the meat vouchers donated by Swallow Drive Meat Supply and the Blue Lake Golf Club.

Once again in Division 1 Karen Panagopoulos featured prominently taking first prize carding 100/27/73 from two even nines of 50/50 that included a run of pars on the 14th, 15th and

16th, but she did have to wait on a countback from Helen Stratford scoring 95/22/73 before taking the win. Stratford had 48/47 with pars on the 1st, 5th, 15th and 17th leaving a few too many missed putts out there.

Not far behind was third placegetter Sue Agars signing for 96/22/74 also with two consistent nines of 49/47 with pars on the 2nd, and the two dog-leg holes 9th and 15th.

Agars was the nearest to the pin

2nd shot winner on the 2nd.

Beryl Mahoney was the first over the line in Division 2 also carding a good score of 104/31/73, one over her handicap. Pars were recorded on two par threes, the 5th and 16th.

New women’s president Lesley McPherson took second spot on the podium with 105/31/74 from splits of 53/52 that also included pars on the 5th and 16th.

Lynette Hirth 121/42/79 with a little too much red ink on her card was still ahead of the rest of the field to take the third winning voucher. McPherson was the winner of 2nd shot nearest to the pin on the par three 2nd.

Chip in ferret winners were Geraldine Scott 6th, Jaynee Oberer 10th, Lee Anderson 14th and Beryl Mahoney 16th.

This week will see the last monthly medal sponsored by Bev Pascoe and also the last of eight qualifying rounds with the best three used to qualify for the 2022 Open Club Championships.

A presentation of the monies raised from a recent fundraiser was

State selection for Millicent bowlers

Bowlers headed to Queensland for national championships in October

The Millicent Bowls Club has two bowlers chosen to play for South Australia over the next month.

Aaron Emonson will travel to Queensland on September 28 and play through to October 6. Aaron has been selected after several trips to Adelaide in the past six months to play in the Para National Championships against all the other States. The games will be played at the Mermaid Beach Bowls Club, a team of seven bowlers from South Australia earned their right to play for the State, six men and one lady and they will play in the singles, pairs and triples.

Wayne Ross has also won the honour to represent the State in the National Championships to be played at Broard Beach Bowls Club in Queensland on October 13. Wayne is playing in a fours team made up from the Lower South East Region, consisting of Carl Schapel who is now playing at Grange, but a past Millicent member and Brad Errock and Daniel Langdon, Mount Gambier Bowls Club members. This team played their first round in the South East and then won the right to travel to Adelaide to play against the other regions in South Australia in a knock out competition. Winning all games there they have now won the right to play against all the other States in Australia, playing for the title of National Fours Champions.

MILLICENT STATE REPRESENTATIVES: Wayne Ross and Aaron Emonson

Jill Gilmore of the Mount Gambier Breast Cancer Awareness Group. Raising a total of $555 it was said that it would go a long way to helping local women through the long challenging cancer journey including lymphodema also a

STROKE WINNERS: (Above rear) Beryl Mahoney, Karen Panagopoulos, Sue Agars and (front) Lesley McPherson, Lynette Hirth & Helen Stratford CHEQUE

CHEQUE PRESENTATION: (Below)

Busy times for Mount Gambier ladies

Plenty of silverware on offer in past week at Mount Gambier Golf Club

Sue Ryan 29 (Mount Gambier), Kathryn Mules (Penola), 26 and Kay Bowman (Beachport) 25 points.

Barry last week.

Following a wet weekend, conditions were slow but perfect weather for golf on Wednesday prevailed and a countback was necessary to determine the winners.

Lyn Hudson and Rose Hunt combined well to just nudge out Lizzie Clements and Faye Mainwaring, all finishing with 64 points.

Ball rundown winners were the combination of Jan Shanahan and Vicki Clark with 63 points and Anne Headlam and Julie Hanel, 62 points. Rose Hunt claimed the pro shot prize on the 8th hole while the respective winners for the second shot on the 16th hole were Jennette Braun – A, Kathy Ewer - B and Lizzie Clements C grade. The best individual score on the day was won by Sharran Waters with 36 points.

Last Friday, the final Open Day this year for the ladies in the South East was played at the Mount Gambier Golf Club which hosted 69 ladies from Flagstaff Hill, Penola, Blue Lake, Naracoorte, Millicent, Kingston, Naracoorte, Beachport, Lucindale, Bordertown and Mount

highlight of the day and after 18 holes, Lana Barlow (Milllicent) and Kerry Pedlar (Mount Gambier) tied with 89 off the stick which resulted in a playoff down the first hole. After two long shots, both players were on the green for three but Barlow’s approach was close enough to record a birdie with her putt, making Pedlar’s putt a must but just missed the cup. Lana Barlow won the Championship with Kerry Pedlar runner up. The nett event was won by Mount Gambier player, Helen Gregory with 76 nett from her sister, Faye Mainwaring with 78 nett.

B Grade players played a stableford and Mount Gambier players claimed the first four prizes. Helen McIntyre was the victor with 35 points from Denise Harvey 34, Bernie Jennings 32 on a countback from Anne Headlam with 32 points.

C Grade players also played a stableford and visitor, Debbie Tincknell from Millicent was the winner with 36 points from Mount Gambier players Betty McKechnie 35 points, Jess Parsons 33, and Rose Hunt 31 points.Lizzie Clements from Mount Gambier claimed the D grade prize with 30 points from

The Veterans prize was won by Helen McIntyre with 35 points.

Nearest the pin prizes on the 6th holes were won by Lana Barlow –A, Josie Ashby – B grade while the second shot on the 16th was won by Debbie Tincknell – C and Lizzie Clements in D grade. The pro shot was won by Helen Gregory.

Long drive prizes on the 15th hole were won by Elaine Morrow –A, Helen McIntyre – B while on the 17th hole, Jess Parsons – C and Sue Ryan in D grade.

The team of Helen McIntyre, Janina Morrison and Rose Hunt won the teams event with 97 points.

After a hectic week on the golf course last week, a small field of six ladies played a stableford competition on Saturday. Janina Morrison took home the winner’s voucher with 36 points, one shot in front of Kerry Pedlar with 35 points.

This coming weekend will see the commencement of the Mount Gambier Golf Club’s Spring Tournament starting off with the 4 ball better ball par event for men and women on Thursday followed by events on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS: (Above) Ladies SE Championship, Lana Barlow, left receives her trophy and prize from president Mary Kentish at the Ladies Open Day.

The Mount Gambier RSL Bowling Club held their first ladies’ competition of the season when holding their 2-bowl drawn triples last Wednesday, kindly sponsored by Rosaville General Store, Mount Gambier. Eighteen ladies entered the competition and were drawn into teams of three players.

All teams played three games of eight ends with all bowlers showing the off season hadn’t blunted their enthusiasm. The winners for the day were Lead - Sharon Bruhn, Second – Shirley McIntyre and Skipper – Jane Crowder.

The Thursday summer aggregate competition commenced Thursday 22 September 2022 with winners for the day being Peter Bruhn and Paul Smith. The summer social bowls are held every Saturday. Both competitions commence at 1pm with all nominations to be in by 12.30pm. Anyone interested in playing or joining the RSL Bowling Club, please contact the club on (08)8725 9515.

Meals are available between 6pm and 7pm on Friday evenings so come along and enjoy a friendly, social atmosphere where new members are welcome

DRAWN TRIPLES: Sharon Bruhn, Shirley McIntyre & Jane Crowder, the winners of the 2-bowl, drawn Ladies triples, Mount Gambier RSL Bowling Club

STABLEFORD PODIUM: (Above top right) Runners up Faye Mainwaring, Lizzie Clements, Heather Barry, sponsor, winners Lyn Hudson and Rose Hunt in the aggregate stableford competition.

Millicent bowlers secure drought breaking win

The annual Scudds/Earl Shield won by Millicent for only the second time in the competition’s history

Mount Gambier RSL bowls members travelled to Millicent to take part in the annual Scudds/ Earl Shield competition earlier this month, with 112 players taking part in the day.

The competition has been an annual event for 16 years with Millicent only winning the shield

once in that time, back in 2008.

This year Millicent turned the table around and came out victors with the total shots for Millicent being 202 to RSL 175.

The competition is held once a year and is rotated between the clubs.

scheduled to start at 12.30pm after a BBQ lunch but due to heavy rain and the greens covered in water, the competition didn’t commence until 2.15pm which cut the games back from 25 ends to 12 ends.

The best performing rink for Mount Gambier RSL went to Fleur Roachock, Max Schulz, Peter Bruhn and Ron Plunges winning by nine shots.

Best rink for Millicent went to Ian Ross, David Taylor, George Hobson, Bob Baxter winning by 20 shots.

SCUDDS/EARL SHIELD: Graham Wilson, Peter Hyland & Wayne Ross

BEST RSL RINK: Max Schulz, Peter Bruhn, Ron Plunges, Fleur Roachock (the best rink for RSL)

BEST MILLICENT RINK: Bob Baxter, George Hobson & Ian Ross. Absent: David Taylor.

Wallis wins SEAC khanacross event

Glenburnie Saleyards Complex revs into action for SEAC series & Victorian State series

Host club South Eastern Automobile Club (SEAC) held a multi-club khanacross at the Glenburnie saleyards complex on Sunday, for a round of the SEAC series and the Victorian state championship series.

With a very good entry of 43 willing and eager starters, director for the day, SEAC club president

Curtis Boyd found some interesting track layouts that he adapted”to the area available at the complex.

Mother Nature gave everybody a warning that the day could be/ would be wet, windy or sunny and that combination of weather conditions just added to the mix for the day.

Having a sea of orange track markers proved to be a bit too much of a challenge for a quarter of the field, with ten drivers doing their own thing in the first test and earning the W for their efforts.

Adelaide’s Tony Wallis got into race mode, taking top spot in each of the two attempts at this layout, followed by Stephen Lanham and Mathew Webb on the first run, with Jeff Salmon and Chris Hortop chasing Wallis in the second attempt.

A change of layout for test 3 and 4 saw some quite tight left, right, left, right combination esses midcourse and these proved to be quite tight for those that did the course correctly.

WD proved to be popular with 9

drivers, preferring to do it differently and getting slowest time plus 5 seconds for their effort.

Edward Lewis in the Opel powered auto special had the right car for the job and a dryish track and put in a good run for each attempt to get the coveted number 1 spot for test 3 and 4.

Mathew Webb literally threw the mini at the layouts and got the second spot for test 3 by half a second from Tony Wallis in the big “bini”, being chased by Jeff Salmon in fourth.

Second pass at this busy run, Wallis improved by some 3 seconds to nearly catch the special of Lewis, with Webb in third spot doing a similar time to his first attempt. Jeff Salmon could not improve much on his first run and got the fourth spot again.

After a lunch break the test area had some more changes and Tony Wallis showed all that his bini definitely had the grip to get fastest times in both passes.

Mathew Webb did all he could in his mini but alas, not enough power to catch the big brother. Mathew collected 2nd points by 3/100ths of a second from Jeff Salmon, having a big go in the Subaru for 3rd spot.

Fiesta driver Darren Colgan found some speed and got the points for4th spot.

Nearly half the field got it wrong and scored the popular WD for their efforts.

In the last run of the day, Wallis again set the pace with Jeff Salmon now enjoying a little grip to get home in second spot from Ross Batson’s Mirage in third and Stephen Lanham having a big dip and getting it all right for the 4th spot.

The WD entry again proved popular with 7 falling victim to losing their way around the tricky layout.

When the list is compiled with all the applicable times added, the top spot went to Anthony Wallis with a total of 192.71 seconds, from a very tidy Jason Sims in 2nd spot, 218.40 seconds and Chris Harwood in 3rd with 218.95 seconds.

Brian Shanahan had a good run through the day doing enough to claim 4th spot with his total of 223.93 seconds. Interesting to note that all 4 spots were class C front wheel drive cars.

In fifth spot 4wd Lancer driver Dale Cagney struggled all day with his car not happy with the tight twisty wet surface. Pushing it as hard as he could, he drove well to only get the one cone penalty in has total of 223.98 seconds, that

one cone pushing him down the list a spot.

Toyota Soarer steerer, Phil Wilson, wrestled the big car in his usual style and stayed away from all the track markers and his total time of 224.27 seconds good enough for 6th outright.

Matthew Caldwell enjoyed the layouts in the Mitsubishi lancer and totalled 225.80 seconds with a penalty clear day and 7th outright points.

VW polo driver Stephen Lanham also had a penalty free day and looked to be enjoying his time behind the wheel, getting the points for 8th outright with his time of 226.10 seconds.

Trying as hard as he could, Jeff Salmon had to settle for 9th outright points in the Subaru STi with his tally of 226.24 seconds including a rare WD encountered on the first run.

Rounding out the top ten, Murray Height had an enjoyable outing in his Toyota Corona and his total of 227.00 seconds reflects his tidy driving style.

With the handicap scoring system applied, no changes for

the top four. Tony Wallis first, Jason Sims second, Chris Harwood third, Brian Shanahan fourth, Phil Wilson moves up to 5th, Matthew Caldwell up to 6th, Stephen Lanham up to 7th, Murray Height up to 8th, Darren Colgan up to 9th and Damien Wilson Gets the 10th spot points, up from 16th outright.

It would be fair to say that the scores did not truly reflect the activity for the day with track grip ranging from dry to running water from a shower of rain, causing all sorts of hassles for those “ serious” drivers and adding to the enjoyment level of those just out for fun.

Thanks must go to the District Council of Grant District for allowing the SEAC club to conduct these motorsport events on an excellent surface at a great venue.

KHANACROSS ACTION: (Above from left) Dale Cagney, Chris Harwood & Matthew Webb.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF DARREN ARCHIBALD

Wet & wild action at SEAC motorkhana

SEAC hosts a round of South Australian & Victorian championships

The South Eastern Automobile club (SEAC) were hosts to a round of the South Australian and Victorian motorkhana championships, as well as one of their own series for 2022.

With a good attendance from the Victorians and a dozen or so from the Adelaide area, add in the local die-hards and the director, Bruce Hamilton, had a field of 40 eager drivers to keep entertained for the day.

Mount Gambier’s weather gods were a little kinder to us here, compared to what the rest of the state copped and “only” pelted us with one shower of hail and strong winds, just to prove that the track markers would not stay in place – along with many light showers through the day.

Officials for the day had their work cut out, keeping an eye on the competitor doing the course and looking for the track markers that were hit or run over completely, as well as those that the wind blew over, in the rain.

Specials are a small steel tube frame with an engine and 4 wheels, but NO roof or windscreen, so the drivers of the 4 specials were open to the rain at each outing.

Overall results for the 14 tests completed in atrocious weather conditions are, no surprise, 1, 2 and 3 to the specials pilots, with Michael Exell well clear of David Beames, having a mediocre day, doing enough to hold off Edward Lewis with the times of 478.11, 500.75 and 501.47 seconds respectively having to be tempered with “how much rain” encountered on their runs.

Next home, Anthony Wallis proved to be the quickest of the tin tops, 519.81 seconds for his day, heading off Mathew Webb in the “original brick”, 540.59, hotly pursued by Bendigo’s Brian Shanahan pushing his Nissan pulser

at 540.66 seconds.

Always pushing hard local club member Phil Wilson enjoyed the wet tracks in the big soarer and put in a good day to get home in 7th outright with his total of 543.07 seconds.

Junior, Declan Webb. Sharing the family mini also had a good day in the wet and pushed hard (as always) to get home in 8th outright with his total of 557.53 seconds.

Adelaide regular Wayne Casey

the pointy end of the day, but a rare WD moved him down the order to finish in 9th spot with a total time of 564.95 seconds, just good enough to hold off a big charge from Ken Trimnell in the yellow Swift, finishing in 10th spot with Ken’s total of 565.86 seconds.

Kerry Delaney was the quickest in the ladies class, finishing in a credible 20th outright and a well driven total time of 626.84 seconds for her effort in the black n red Mirage.

scoring is applied, Tony Wallis gets the number one spot from Phil Wilson (2), Mike Exell (3), Nicholas Lanham(4) Mathew Webb(5), Brian Shanahan(6), Ken Trimnell(7), Wayne Casey(8), David Beames(9) and Edward Lewis(10).

Scoring for this multi-club championship round will change somewhat when the “club” drivers are separated into their own score setups.

Considering the awful weather experienced there were quite a

those participating with very odd driving styles throwing up the odd challenge or two to keep on course.

WET & WILD: (Top row from left) Tony Wallis & Edward Lewis and (bottom row from left) Michael Exell & David Beames.

Photos courtesy of Curtis Boyd and Brian Shanahan

Last week the Millicent Bowls Club had a great turn-out for the 2-4-2 game as it was played on the Thursday public holiday to remember Queen Elizbeth’s passing, with 48 players taking part in the

The honour of winning the competition went to Glen Jones and Faye Hill taking home $48 each with a score of 35+22 shots up, coming in second and winning the $5 bar voucher went to Rob Chamber sand Steve Carnellor, with a score of 33+6.

Other winning teams for the day were, Jim Campbell, Derek Bowering 32+11. Steve Skeer, Kym Stewart 32+8. John Madden, Peter Scanlon 32+8. Robert Radley, Peter Varcoe 32+6. Ian Ross, Andre Reinders 31+9. Jan Buhlmann, Carlene Goden 31+5. Ross Warren, Brain Goode 31+3. Garth Baker, Rod Gibbs 31+2. Peter Hyland, David Crase 30+10 and a draw between, Neil Whelan, John Drew and Sam Schofield, Carl Schapel 20+0. (Far Faye Hill & Glen Jones (Left) Rob Chambers & Steve