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LOOKING BACK THROUGH THE YEARS

By GREGOR MACTAGGART

WELCOME to the first instalment of Looking Back Through The Years. We’ll take a look back at what was making news in the pages of The Express at various intervals during our proud history.

50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 15, 1971

NO PEACE YET IN BREAD WAR

Any changes in the bread dispute between retailers and manufacturers appears dependent on a meeting both parties hope can be held tomorrow. However, spokesmen for the retailers and manufacturers seem uncertain whether the meeting will be held. An estimated 95 per cent of Gippsland bread retailers are involved in some action against manufacturers who have reduced the retailers’ sales margins by five per cent and in some cases more. Gippsland retailers were represented by the Association at a meeting last Thursday in Yallourn with four bread manufacturers - Home Pride, Sunicrust, United Gippsland Bakers and Morwell Australian Continental Bakery.

POISON IN LV STREAM

Trout have been poisoned in another Latrobe Valley stream. It is the Hazel Creek at Nilma. The dead fish were found by officers of the Latrobe Valley Water and Sewerage Board.

UNDERS AND OVERS

American teacher Beth Ryan, 18, watches Melvin Fenton, 15, line up and unders and over shot at the Lionel Rose Centre. Beth, from Batavia, in New York State, is one of the US teachers ‘’ímported’’ by the state government.

FUN FACT: A 1970 Datsun 1600 Auto would have set you back $2150 at Harry Keighley Motors.

25 YEARS AGO Tuesday, September 16, 1986

MOVING SO QUIETLY

Although 17 youngsters were assembled under the one roof in Morwell on Sunday, not a sound could be heard! The unusual phenomena was attributed to the Latrobe Valley Chess Club’s annual junior chess championship with competitors battling through five rounds of 30 minute games ... in concentrated silence. Eventual winners were champion scorer Jonathon Smith, 15, of Moe, who

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went the five rounds undefeated to score a perfect five points. Second was Jeevan Amaringsham, 13, of Morwell with four points and third was Paulo Rech, 15, of Traralgon with three points.

10 YEARS PLAN FOR LOCAL TV AGGREGATION

The Gippsland Broadcasting Taskforce has come up with an alternative to aggregation of regional television by 1988. In a discussion paper released yesterday, the taskforce has suggested a 10-year staged introduction to aggregation as a ‘possible fallback position’ to total aggregation within two years. The Taskforce claims this proposal would save local content and employment. Taskforce secretary Mike Willis said the main opposition to aggregation was the possible loss of jobs and local program content. “TV8 would continue its operations until 1988 when a second competitive station would be introduced. This would mean that throughout Victoria, two stations rather than three would be competing for the limited regional market,” he said.

TIGERS BECOME PREY AS MAGPIES SWOOP

1986 will go down as the year of the Magpie following Sale’s 22-point win over Morwell in Saturday’s Latrobe Valley Football League grand final. Despite the drizzling rain which persisted all day, the two top teams in the competition turned on a highly-entertaining game of football which had the large crowd on its toes throughout the match. Shane Loveless booted four goals as Sale won the match 13.15 (93) to 10.11 (71) with Magpies ace Damien Hogan winning the Stan Aitken Medal.

FUN FACT: A three-bedroom home in Bennett Street, Moe with a 30mx15m inground pool was on the market for $72,000.

10 YEARS AGO Monday, September 12, 2011

MEDICARE LOCAL SLAMMED

The president of the Australian Medical Association (Victoria) has called the proposed formation of Gippsland Medicare Local a ‘’big mistake’’ and a ‘’waste of money’’. Speaking to The Express while on a two-day visit to the region, Dr Harry Hemley said doctors in the region were ‘’very angry’’ at the proposed changes as they did not feel supported by the government. The AMA president said the formation of Medicare Local is part of a federal government push, costing taxpayers $457 million to set up, with an additional $167 million annually to fund its ‘’bureaucracy’’, draining funds from general practices.

SHOUT OUT TO BLOCK NOISE

Angry residents have turned to politicians for help after their pleas to ease traffic noise near the Morwell Princes Freeway bypass have fallen on deaf ears. Residential Outcry Against Roadnoise called on State Member for Morwell Russell Northe to reduce the ‘’ever-increasing’’ noise from the freeway. ROAR spokeswoman Julie Hall said the freeway reopened, the current peace and quiet would be ‘’shattered by around 20,000 vehicle movements a day.”

DEMONS RISE TO THE TOP

Boolarra caused one of the biggest upsets in Mid Gippsland Football League history, knocking off undefeated minor premier Trafalgar to claim its first premiership in 14 years. It was just the fourth seniors’ flag the Demons have won since 1905. “It hasn’t sunk in yet, I can’t believe it,” premiership coach Tony Giardina said. “Two in the 50s and one in 1997 and other than that we have been down the bottom ... a lot of blokes that have played here have been thrashed week-in, week-out, so it’s as much for them as it is for us.” Boolarra won 13.4 (82) to 8.5 (53), marking the end of a 31-game winning streak for the high-flying Bloods,

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who were chasing a third consecutive flag.

FUN FACT: The top rating show on Prime7 was Packed To The Rafters, starring Rebecca Gibney and Erik Thomson.

FIVE YEARS AGO Monday, September 12, 2016

STAFF WALK OFF THE JOB

Latrobe Valley Centrelink staff walked off the job in unison with tens and thousands of public service workers across the country for a 24-hour strike on Friday as a three-year-old industrial dispute intensifies. Local Community and Public Sector Union members said enterprise bargaining, which has dragged on for more than 1000 days, was about maintaining fair conditions and work-life balance. The federal government’s stance is the union was ‘’favouring industrial action over delivering pay rises for their members”.

CLOSE CALL AT DRIVE THRU

KFC Morwell’s drive thru received some unexpected thoroughfare on Friday when a vehicle crashed into the barrier outside the service windows about 12.30pm. The male driver of the vehicle was hospitalised after suffering a medical episode, which police say contributed to the incident.

ROLLING INTO TOWN

A giant piggy bank, stretching to three metres in height and weighing in at 700 kilograms, will roll into Morwell and Traralgon on its way across Victoria to raise $1 million for children with life-threatening conditions. The annual Very Special Kids Piggy Bank Appeal kicks off in Gippsland at the Morwell Hotel on Wednesday. Very Special Kids supports 41 families in Gippsland and more than 900 across Victoria.

SOCCER FUN DAY

More than 900 students converged on Newborough’s Burrage Reserve for the annual Friendship Games. The games provide an opportunity for Victorian special school students to participate in a soccer tournament that emphasises camaraderie and togetherness.

FUN FACT - A superbly located, immaculately presented threebedroom brick veneer home in Traralgon was on the market for $299,000.

ONE YEAR AGO

FIX THIS MESS

Residents at a unit block in Moe say they are living in fear as a dilapidated burnt out flat has started to attract ‘’dangerous’’ visitors. A unit at the Langford Street complex was gutted by fire about 10 months ago and has become a hangout for alleged illegal activity, according to residents. Police tape and protective boards cordoning off the unit have been slashed, and inside is littered with drug paraphernalia, empty alcohol jars and rubbish.

PLANNERS SAY APPROVE PLANT

Latrobe City planning officers have recommended councillors approve a permit to build a used lead acid battery recycling facility at Hazelwood North. Planning documents state that the proposal is ‘’generally in accordance’’ with planning policy and is within the guidelines of an industrial zone.

MILK TANKER COLLECTS SERVICE STATION BOWSER

The driver of a milk tanker that crashed into the Shell Coles Express petrol station in Traralgon just after midnight last Friday has no memory of the accident. The man, aged in his 60s, allegedly failed to brake at the intersection of Breed Street and the Princes Highway, travelled over a centre median strip, collected traffic lights before entering the westbound lane of the highway and into the exit lane of the service station. The truck collided with a parked car and stopped before hitting the service station, where the driver, two women and an attendant were inside.

FUN FACT - Residents tuned into 103.1 3BBR FM to enjoy a number of classic radio shows as part of the Victorian Seniors Festival.

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