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Andrew said he had to get them all in the horse float to get them to the show but it was worth the effort. The pygmy cross miniature goats, bred by the family, won the pet sheep, goat or calf class and came runner-up in the overall pet parade against a menagerie of creatures. Pictured are Oliver, 9, Fabian, 7, and Sebastian, 5, with their prize-winning goats, mum Heidi and her kid, four-month-old Nibbles (seated). Photo: Sloane Griffin Photography – See more winners from the show next week.
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Perfect weather saw huge crowds for both the Friday night carnival and Show Day on Saturday at the 161st Kyneton Show on the weekend. The Bellchambers brothers from Newham, with a mother and her baby goat, were among the hundreds of entrants. Dad Andrew said the boys had been training the pair all week, catching them in the paddock and practising leading them up and down in the yard so they were ready to perform in the Pet Parade.
Kyneton firefighter John Pearce and Coliban group officer Andrew Jan were among a contingent of volunteers deployed this month to Queensland to assist in a massive bushfire crisis. Arriving as more than 100 fires raged at once, incident management teams from Victoria, consisting of planning, intelligence and logistics officers, worked closely with local crews in Toowoomba and Rockhampton, while aircraft assistance and strike force units were also provided. Working from the Rockhampton Incident Control Centre, Mr Pearce said the large fire in the national park at the Carnarvon Gorge had a perimeter of about 850 kilometres. "It’s size was in excess of 360,000 hectares and still growing," he said. "The District 2 CFA crew were working in the incident control centre in various role, myself and Andrew Jan were working in operations, others were working in planning, public warnings and logistics. "The Malmsbury tanker went up and worked around the Toowoomba fire, and we had other CFA crews at Tara and Cairns. "We had two CFA strike teams at the Carnarvon Gorge. "My main role was supporting operations, and for my last few days I was coordinating the air activity over the fire." Mr Pearce said the local landowners were mainly large cattle station owners who had experienced 10 years of drought before this year producing feed after rain for the first time in a decade. "They had a very big vested interest in making sure the fire didn't come out of the national park," he said. "The Carnarvon Gorge is very similar to the Grampians topography, so not easy. Continued page 3.