MIRACLE BOND

EAST Loddon P12 students have been praised for their extraordinary compassion and support of Turkey.

The country’s Consul-General to Victoria, Arif Eser Torun, visited the school on Tuesday to accept a $5000 donation towards rebuilding Turkey after a devastating earthquake last month.

“This is not about the donation but that people remember, share

By CHRIS EARL

their feelings and their grief,” said Mr Torun whose home city of Antakya was levelled in the 7.8 quake.

“My hometown was the most devastated city. The total city collapsed and will have to be rebuilt.

“The earthquake was the equivalent of eight atomic bombs in two minutes.”

East Loddon students forged a connection with Turkey during centenary of ANZAC commemorations with visits in 2015 and 2018 and sister school ties with a school in Canakkale, located just across the Dardanelles from the Gallipoli Peninsula.

The school has twice hosted Turkish exchange students. The program was put on hold in 2020 by COVID.

Principal Steve Leed said the visit of Mr Torun and Friends of Gallipoli chairman Dr Johnm Basarin coincided with the school’s Respectfully Red day to raise awareness and funds for the victims of the Turkish earthquakes.

“We are very gratefuil for the friendship of East Loddon,” said Mr Torun.

“This compassion and love for others and a bond that is something quite extraordinary ... like a miracle.”

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Mr Torun said the friendship with the East Loddon school and Australia had grown over more than a century following the end of World War One. His grand-father had been injured fighting for Turkey against Australian and Commonwealth troops at Gallipoli in 1915.

February’s earthquakes killed more than 57,000 people, left 1.5 million people homeless and affected another 14 million people.

PLEASE do excuse us ... we fell asleep at the wheel, perhaps racing from dozing moments of the multiple Z variety. You see, we missed picking up that last Friday was World Sleep Day when the World Sleep Society issued a global call to action to organise sleep health awareness activities on and around Friday, March 17. However, we can report that locally there was at least one veteran cricketer who embraced the concept with a very late return home Sunday morning. He just beat the sunrise and reports indicate his sleep pattern may have been interrupted only in time for sunset.

WHILE he was safely tucked up in bed after enjoying fellowship with mates on the night shift, it was a different story for at least one group of bowlers who were in action bright eyed and bushy tailed, complete with fans on the sidelines. We’re not sure how the bowls travelled to said greens on Sunday morning but one bowler, who transports his gear in a classic old Gladstone bag, may not have been of much help. His form on Saturday was so wide of the mark there was speculation he headed to the nearby antique fair in Inglewood to see if there was a buyer.

TALKING of heading afar, you may notice that Bradley of Boort has missed a week in updating his Treemendous Sign. Bradley was not asleep in telling OTF that there would be no new photograph this week. After starring in the season of comedy play God Goes to a Shrink, Bradley headed off for a weekend of relaxation ... and no doubt sleep.

SO INSTEAD of Bradley’s wit, we have included a photograph of the recent colour run raising funds for Boort kindergarten. It was a pretty colourful sight as runners were sprayed in every shade of the rainbow as they strutted around Little Lake Boort. We reckon the runners would have slept well afterwards.

IF YOU’VE become a bit drowsy reading OTF this week - it’s wakey wakey time! When a dinosaur sleeps, which one makes the loudest noise? Tyrannosnorus. A sleeping bull is known as? A bulldozer. Where do fish go to sleep? In a river bed. How do you refer to a sleepy woodcutter? A slumberjack. What do you call a nun who sleepwalks? A roamin’ Catholic. The keyboard never sleeps, why? Because they have two shifts.

WRAPPING up for the week, we’ve got a special tip. You can afford to lose a few minutes in the cot over the next week or so. And make them up when daylight savings ends on April 2 ... that’s when the big hand on the clock is turned back one whole hour and darkness descends earlier every night.

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ANTIQUE buffs descended on Inglewood at the weekend when local stores and the town hall hub combined to present a fair raising funds towards stage two of the hub development. Among more than 20 stallholders was Ballarat’s Anne Rogers pictured with hub committee president Enzo Scafati who tanked kitchen helpers Faye Orange, Deb Coon and Rosemary Harrison and organiser Christine Skinner for their efforts over the weekend. LH PHOTO

Insulin removal rethink urged

MALLEE MP Anne Webster wants the Federal Government to rethink its removal of diabetic insulin Fiasp from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Dr Webster has written to Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler urging him to reinstate Fiasp.

The Government has said the insulin will be taken off the list from April 1.

“Fiasp is an innovative mealtime insulin that improves blood sugar control in diabetes pa- tients at a faster rate than other diabetes medications,” Dr Webster said.

“I have been inundated with calls from people concerned about what this move will mean for them – whether it forces people back onto older, slower acting medicines or significantly raises their out of pocket costs.”

Dr Webster said Fiasp was currently the only rapid-acting insulin available for patients. Fiasp was added the PBS list in 2019.

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