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■ The Peninsula VineHop Festival has been awarded a grant for its November event, but organisers say there is uncertainty about future years.

The grant was obtained through the State Government’s Small and Medium Events Program.

“We’re thrilled to be recognised as a highquality event that brings visitors to discover the beautiful Mornington Peninsula,” said Lisa MacGregor, VineHop founder and event producer.

“We are extremely grateful for the grant funding. To say the last few years have been challenging for the events industry and small businesses is an understatement,” Ms MacGregor said.

The cost of running VineHop has increased by 40 per cent since COVID-19, and we know event ticket sales are down across the industry.

“As a small, locally-run business, we’re doing absolutely everything we can to manage the increased costs and keep ticket prices affordable for our customers while still delivering a memorable festival experience.

“But the reality is – if we don’t sell enough tickets this year, it’s likely this will be our last VineHop.”

The festival last year generated an estimated $1.44 million of economic benefit for the region, including approximately 2600 overnight stays. Of the 7200 attendees in 2022, 50 per cent were from outside the Mornington Peninsula region.

“The festival was created to showcase the dynamic craft beverage industry here on the Peninsula – with everything from wine, beer and cider to a range of different spirits, seltzers and spritzers.

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“VineHop has repeatedly delivered significant benefits to the region beyond the participating brands.”

People are encouraged to purchase their tickets early to ensure accurate attendee numbers are known in the planning stages.

“We’d love the community to get behind VineHop this year. If you’re planning on coming, please book your ticket early.

“If you’ve been thinking about coming over the last couple of years, we’d love you to come along this year as it might be your last opportunity to take part.”

“Helping people discover the Mornington Peninsula and our incredible craft beverage industry is what drives us. We hope we can keep delivering VineHop for years to come,” said Ms MacGregor.

Peninsula VineHop Festival is on Saturday November 18 and is a multi-venue craft drinks tour on a festival scale, incorporating popular venues and showcasing around 40 craft beverage brands – including craft beer, cider, spirits, wine and seltzer.

Shuttle buses transport attendees between locations easily and safely throughout the day, with a number of different shuttle route options to choose from.

Private bus options are also available, allowing personalised itineraries and dedicated bus transport. Food trucks, DJs and live music at each venue keep the festival vibes high throughout the day.

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■ The Route 800 bus service between Chadstone and Dandenong is the busiest bus route in Melbourn e without seven- day service.

Local residents say there has not been a timetable change for more than 30 years.

“On Saturday afternoons it runs only every two hours with the last bus leaving Chadstone before 4pm,” says Peter Parker, Convenor of the Fix800Bus campaign

“It is thus not as useful as it could be for many needing to travel.

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Snow Fest is back

■ Springvale Snow Fest is a popular winter carnival and multicultural food festival hosted by the Greater Dandenong City Council. It returns this Sunday (July 30) from 12 Noon to 7pm at Buckingham Ave, Springvale.

This year’s event features real snow from Mt Buller in a free snow play area, an artificial ice-skating rink, roving performers, family carnival rides, cultural food and market stalls, free family activities and workshops including arts and crafts, face stamping and airbrush tattoos, and a fireworks finale at 6.50pm.

There will be ive performances from snow princesses and snow angels, Hong De Lion Dance and Extravaganza Roving Entertainment.

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“Most Melbourne bus routes gained (or regained) seven-day service about 15 years ago but the 800 was left out of the upgrade.

“This is despite major development in the Chadstone/ Monash area and the 800 being the only public transport in parts of Noble Park/Dandenong.”

The bus stops right outside Premier Daniel Andrews's electorate office at Harrisfield shops, opposite RACV.

A parliamentary question on notice was recently asked by Rachel Payne MLA on why the 800 bus doesn't run seven days.

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Route 800 operates every 20 minutes during the day on weekdays. Saturday service is much less, with buses every 60 minutes in the morning and 120 minutes in the afternoon, with the last bus around 4pm.

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Incorporating the traditions of the Cranbourne Sun (Est. 1893).

The Casey-Cardinia Edition readership area comprises part of the City of Casey including Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne North, Cranbourne South, Cranbourne West, Devon Meadows, Doveton, Endeavour Hills, Eumemmerring, Hallam, Hampton Park, Harkaway, Junction Village, Lynbrook, Lyndhurst (part), Pearcedale (part). The entire City of Casey is home to more than 340,419 people, living in approximately 102,790 homes.

The Shire of Cardinia readership area includes Cardinia Shire includes the suburbs and localities of Beaconsfield (part), Beaconsfield Upper, Officer, Officer South, Pakenham, Pakenham South and Pakenham Upper. The entire Shire of Casey is home to more than 118,675 people, living in approximately 35,098 homes.

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This is despite the 800 serving locations that are busy on weekends including major shopping centres like Chadstone Melbourne has about 350 suburban bus routes. Of these Route 800 is the 20th highest on a weekday boardings per hour basis.

On Saturday Route 800 ranks even higher, being the 10th most productive bus route in Melbourne, Mr Parker says.

Route 800 operates through the state seats of Oakleigh, Mulgrave and Dandenong

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Incorporating the traditions of the Frankston Post (Est. 1913). Frankston comprises Carrum Downs, Frankston, Frankston North, Frankston South, Langwarrin, Langwarrin South, Sandhurst, Seaford and Skye. Frankston is home to more than 134,143 people, living in approximately 56,935 homes.

GREATER DANDENONG

Incorporating the traditions of the Dandenong Advertiser (Est. 1874).

Greater Dandenong comprises Bangholme, Dandenong, Dandenong North, Dandenong South, Keysborough, Noble Park, Noble Park North, Springvale and Springvale South plus parts of Lyndhurst. Greater Dandenong is home to more than 152,050 people, living in approximately 54,694 homes.

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Incorporating the traditions of the Peninsula Post (Est. 1913). Mornington Peninsula comprises Moorooduc, Mornington, Mount Eliza and Mount Martha. Mornington Peninsula Shire is home to more than 154,999 people, living in approximately 89,155 homes.

SOUTHERN PENINSULA

Incorporating the traditions of the Southern Peninsula Gazette (Est. 1953). Southern Peninsula comprises Blairgowrie, Boneo, Cape Schanck, Capel Sound, Dromana, Fingal, McCrae, Portsea, Rosebud, Rye, Safety Beach, Sorrento, St Andrews Beach and Tootgarook.

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Western Port comprises Balnarring, Balnarring Beach, Bittern, Crib Point, Dromana, Flinders, Hastings, HMAS Cerberus, Main Ridge, Merricks, Merricks Beach, Merricks North, Point Leo, Portsea, Red Hill, Red Hill South, Shoreham, Somers, Somerville and Tyabb.

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✖Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing man Brett. The 44-year-old left his home address in Iona on July 17. Brett is described as being about 180cm tall, with a medium build, short brown and grey hair and a moustache and beard. Police and family have concerns for Brett’s welfare due to a medical condition. It is believed Brett might be travelling in a black Ford Ranger, registration 1KR8DA. The vehicle has a flare kit of the side and modified black wheels. It also has a canopy and an army sticker on the back. He is known to frequent the Lake Eildon and Bunyip State Forest areas. Anyone with information or anyone that may know of Brett’s whereabouts is urged to contact Pakenham Police Station on 5945 2500.

Fatality at Devon Meadows

■ Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal collision in Devon Meadows on Thursday night (July 20).

Emergency services were called to the South Gippsland Hwy, near Devon Rd, following reports of a collision between a truck and car about 9.50pm.

Investigators believe the truck, which was towing a trailer, was performing a right-hand turn at the time of the collision.

The male driver of the car, a 17-year-old from Lynbrook, died at the scene.

The male driver of the truck was taken to hospital for treatment and was expected to be spoken to by Police.

South Gippsland Highway was closed while MCIU detectives processed the scene.

Detectives are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the collision or been in the vicinity of the truck with trailer at the time to come forward. It is believed there were a couple of cars that drove past and may be able to assist with the investigation.

Anyone who witnessed the incident, has dashcam/CCTV footage or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

New reserve opens

■ A new recreation reserve at Botanic Ridge was officially opened by the City of Casey last Wednesday (July 19).

Casey Council’s Chair of Administrators

Noelene Duff and Chief Executive Officer

Glenn Patterson were joined by Cranbourne

MLA Pauline Richards to open Booring Recreation Reserve.

Members of Devon Meadows Junior Football Club, Devon Meadows Football Netball Club and Devon Meadows Cricket Club , who now call the new recreation reserve home, were also in attendance.

There is a multi-use community pavilion, which includes:

■ Six changerooms

■ Six unisex amenity areas, including three showers

■ Two unisex umpires rooms

■ A multi-purpose community space

■ Public toilets

■ First aid room

■ Canteen

■ Storerooms

■ An undercover spectator area.

Car chase locals nabbed

■ A black Holden Commodore, which was allegedly stolen overnight, was tracked in Melbourne’s north-east about 2.50pm Friday (July 21).

With assistance from the Air Wing, the vehicle was followed through Chadstone Police attempted to intercept the car on Punt Rd before it allegedly sped off.

It is alleged the occupants dumped the car at a fast-food restaurant car park on Canterbury Rd in Blackburn South.

They fled the scene in a waiting black utility, which was allegedly stolen.

The utility was involved in a collision with another vehicle on Orchard Grove.

Fatal collision

■ Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Endeavour Hills on Tuesday night last week (July 18).

Emergency services were called to the intersection of Heatherton and Power Rds, following reports a pedestrian had been hit by a car, just after 7.40pm.

It is believed the 87-year-old man was walking his dog when he struck by a car.

The Endeavour Hills man along with his dog died at the scene.

The 37-year-old male driver, also from Endeavour Hills, immediately stopped at the scene to render assistance.

He has been interviewed by detectives and released pending further enquiries. Detectives are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the collision or with dashcam to come forward.

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■ Conservation Volunteers Australia will launch the Urban Shade Forest project, a landmark initiative aimed at greening urban spaces and reconnecting people in cities to nature.

The project will commence with a community planting event on National Tree Day, on Sunday (July 30) at Spring Valley Park in Springvale South.

The Urban Shade Forest project, a collaboration between CVA and Chevron Australia , supported locally by Caltex and Greater Dandenong City Council, seeks to increase the amount of vegetation and canopy cover within urban spaces. The Dandenong Forest will be the first Urban Shade Forest created as part of the national project.

✔Construction of a new neighbourhood playground at Olivia Way Reserve, Hastings, is underway. The playground will be a fun, safe and accessible outdoor zone for local children, where they can explore a combination of traditional play equipment and nature play. The playground design has been audited by an access consultant to ensure it meets universal design principles, making it user-friendly for more people. The playspace will include:

■ two turn-over bars

■ climbing and balancing zone

■ harness, sling and toddler swings

■ play unit with slides, monkey bar and climbing poles

■ stepping-stone path

■ low carbon concrete footpaths

■ scooter track

■ recycled rubber soft fall (playground surface).

The revamped reserve will be complete with the addition of picnic tables, shelter, open lawn and kick-about area, native planting, bins, five off-street parallel car parks and a connecting footpath from the street to the playground. Existing trees will be protected, and new trees planted for natural shade and healthy natural environment. Cerberus Councillor Lisa Dixon said: “I am so proud that this playground includes universal design principals. I hope many local Hastings families will make good use of this playground.”

There were no injuries, and the black utility did not stop at the scene.

Three men got out of the utility on Fulton Rd in Blackburn South and fled the scene on foot.

A 36-year-old Dandenong man got onto a bus where he was arrested.

A 24-year-old Doveton man and a 31-year-old

Burwood man entered a property on Fulton Rd and were arrested a short time later.

The three men were assisting police with their enquiries.

Arrests after hoon driving

■ Three men have been charged, and two vehicles seized, following an investigation into alleged hoon driving.

A 28-year-old from Berwick – who is facing more than 100 charges – as well as a 20-yearold from Hallam and an 18-year-old from Hallam, were arrested by investigators from the Dandenong Achilles Taskforce.

This came after Police were alerted to vision of alleged hoon driving in Traralgon East on Saturday, June 24, where several cars were gathered to perform burnouts. The vision was allegedly then uploaded to social media.

Following extensive enquiries, Police executed five search warrants at homes in Berwick and Pakenham, as well as an industrial premises in Pakenham, from about 5am Thursday (July 20).

A 28-year-old man was arrested at a home on Jarryd Crescent, Berwick.

He was taken to Dandenong Police Station where he was charged with 111 offences; one of the greatest amounts of charges served by the Dandenong Achilles Taskforce. The charges include:

■ Reckless conduct endangering serious injury,

■ Incitement, ■ breach of bail conditions, ■ commit indictable offence whilst on bail,

■ drive vehicle cause loss of traction,

■ drive in a manner dangerous,

■ use unsafe vehicle, and, ■ making or causing unnecessary noise and smoke.

The Berwick man was remanded to appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday

During a search at a home on Kilberry Crescent, Hallam, two men – aged 18 and 20 – were arrested and taken to Dandenong Police Station, where they were both charged with reckless conduct endangering serious injury, drive in a manner dangerous, and drive vehicle cause loss of traction.

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MAN DIES AFTER POLICE ARREST

■ A 46-year-old man has died in hospital following an incident in Frankston North.

Police attended a property on Hickory Crescent on Thursday afternoon (July 20) as part of an active investigation.

The Frankston North man subsequently barricaded himself inside the house about 4.40pm.

Members of the Critical Incident Response Team then attended and attempted to negotiate with the man.

Shortly before 8pm Police attempted to enter the property and were confronted by the man armed with knives and in an agitated state.

Police continued to attempt to negotiate with him however were unsuccessful.

The man was confrontational and as a result, he was tasered multiple times to no avail and subsequently flexible baton rounds were used.

The man was then provided with immediate medical care when he appeared to become unresponsive during his arrest.

He was taken to hospital where he died on Saturday morning (July 22).

No one else was in the property at the time of the incident and no one else was injured.

Homicide Squad detectives will prepare a report for the coroner, which is standard procedure following a death in custody.

The investigation will be oversighted by Professional Standards Command.

Reunited with dogs

■ A 79-year-old woman has been reunited with her pet dogs after her vehicle was stolen from a carpark in Narre Warren.

The two shelties, five-year-old Lucy and two-year-old Darcy, were left in the distinctive lime-green Hyundai Kona while their owner was swimming at a leisure centre at Westfield Fountain Gate between 5.30pm7.30pm Friday.

It is believed that sometime during the two-hour window, thieves have entered the changerooms of the swimming complex and made off with the victim’s car keys and phone.

On Friday night a member of the public located the dogs on the street nearby and looked after them overnight until they could be collected by a ranger on Saturday.

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Shows

■ PEP Productions: Life Without Me (by Daniel Keene) Until July 29 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. Director: Jeremy Guzman. Bookings: https:/ /www.trybooking.com/CINNB

■ PLOS Musical Productions: Strictly Ballroom (Musical) July 28-August 5 at the Frankston Arts Centre, Davey St., Frankston. Bookings: https://plos.asn.au/.

■ Aspect Inc: Stage Door (Edna Ferber and George S Kaufman) Until July 29 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Candice Mitrousis. Bookings: www.aspecttheatre.org.au

■ Frankston Theatre Group: Fast Food (by Morgan Rose) July 28 to August 6 at Mount Eliza Community Centre, 90-100 Canadian Bay Rd., Mt Eliza. Director: Elli Haskett. ,www.frankstontheatregrou.org.au

■ Essendon Theatre Company: We Wrote Some Plays (by Audrey Farthing, Melissa Forge and Angelo Snell) August 3 – 12 at the Bradshaw St. Community Hall, Bradshaw St., West Essendon. Directors: Audrey Farthing, Shobana Sebastian and Casey Bohan. www.essendontheatrecompany.com.au

■ MLOC Productions: Fiddler on the Roof, August 2 – 13 at The Alex Theatre, St Kilda. Directors: Adrian and Sarah Glaubert; Musical Director: Kent Ross; Choreographer: Bridie Clark. Further Information: www.mloc.org.au

■ The 1812 Theatre: Picnic at Hanging Rock (by Tom Wright) August 3 – 26 at The 1812 Theatre, Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Dexter Bourke. Bookingds: www.1812theatre.com.au or 97583964

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Frozen Jr August 11 – 20 at Centenary Hall, Williamstown. www.wmtc.org

■ Peridot Theatre Company: Things I know to be True (by Andrew Bovell) August 10 –20 at the Clayton Community Centre, Cooke St., Clayton. Director; Kellie Tweeddale. Bookings: www.peridot.com.au

■ Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC): Charlie and the Chocolate Factory August 19 – September 2 at the Cranbourne Community Theatre, Brunt St., Cranbourne. Bookings: www.cpacmusicaltheatre.com

■ Melbourne French Theatre: Flagrant Délire (by Jean-Pierre Martinez) August 22 –26 at The Stables, Meat Market, 2 Wreckyn St. (Cnr. Courtney St.), North Melbourne. Director: Luca Romani. Producer: Michael Bula. www. melbournefrenchtheatre.org.au

■ South Gippsland One Act Play Festival: August 26-27 at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre, Main St., Foster. www.famda.org.au

■ Gemco Players: Stepping Out (Richard Harris) September 8 – 23 at The Gem Community Arts Centre, 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald. Director; Annette O’Shea. www.gemcoplayers.org.

Auditions

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Ladies in Black (Music and lyrics Tim Finn, Book, Carolyn Burns) July 25 at 7pm at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Audition bookings: timascott56@gmail.com

■ Williamstown Little Theatre: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder July 23 at 10am, July 24 at 7pm at Williamstown Theatre, 2-4 Albert St., Williamstown. Director:Brbara Hughes. Audition Enquiries: 0417 589 015 or email bhughes@wlt.org.au.

■ Warrandyte Theatre Company: A Hit or Miss Christmas (Written and Directed by Emma Wood) August 5 at 1.00pm and August 9 at 8.00pm at the Warrandyte Mechanics Hall, 180 – 186 Yarra St., Warrandyte. Audition enquiries: wood.emma.e@gmail. com

■ Essendon Community Theatre: The Odd Couple (Female Version)(by Neil Simon) August 15, 17, 7-9.30pm;August 20, 10am2pm at the Bradshaw Community Thetre, Bradshaw St., West Essendon. Director:Angelo Snell. Audition bookings: www.essendontheatrecommpany.com.au

■ Wyndham Theatre Company: A Christmas Carol (by Charles Dickens) August 25 from 2.00pm; August 28 from 7.00pm at WTC’s Crossroads Theatre, Cnr Duncan’s Rd and Synott St., Werribee. Director: Alaine Beek. Audition bookings and enquiries: 0439 690 091 or email hello@essencetheatre. productions - Cheryl Threadgold

Flinders Quartet Observations

GHOST STORY

■ 2:22 A Ghost Story has its Australian premiere when opening in Melbourne at Her Majesty's Theatre this week, running for a fourweek season.

Starring Ruby Rose, Daniel MacPherson, Gemma Ward and Remy Hii, the hit play is written by Danny Robins and directed by Matthew Dunster.

Since opening in the West End in 2022 and winning multiple awards, the supernatural thriller is said to have since become highly popular in London.

Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam won't have any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, old friend Lauren and new partner Ben. Can the dead really walk again?

Belief and scepticism clash, but something strange and frightening is getting closer. So, they are going to stay up until 2.22, and then they'll know.

Performance Details: July 27 for four weeks.

Venue: Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne.

Bookings: Ticketek

- Cheryl Threadgold

Surviving Sunset

■ The Australian premiere of Surviving Sunset: An Actor's Hollywood Journey will be screened at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival at 4.40pm on Sunday (July 30).

Surviving Sunset tells the story of the challenging and often unglamorous life through the lens of writer/ director Shaun-Anthony Robinson. The documentary follows Robinson on a six-week trek through the trials and tribulations of trying to make it in Hollywood.

Surviving Sunset presents the gritty reality of the actor’s journey where making it is as likely as winning the lottery.

Robinson’s own story is supported by interviews with other Australian actors including George Kapiniaris (Acropolis Now), Shane Connor (Wentworth) and Roger Ward (Mad Max). Even Channel 10's entertainment reporter Craig Bennett makes an appearance.

“I’m so excited to be presenting my film at the festival,” said Shaun-Anthony Robinson, writer / director “This exciting milestone signifies the culmination of five years of relentless dedication and hard work to bring my story to life.”

The film features behind-the-scenes footage taking the audience right to the coal face of the industry.

Robinson in this film gives voice to the thousands of hopefuls not just from Australia but all over the world who arrive in Hollywood hoping to ‘make it’.

The documentary is raw and taps into Robinson's own traumatic childhood which led him to the stage. Having worked as a truck driver for most of his adult life, it was in his 30s that Robinson decided to focus on his first love –acting.

Robinson quickly carved a name for himself as the tough guy and appeared in TV shows including Frayed, Home and Away, The Secret Daughter, and Blue Murder and the feature films Event Zero, Dumb Criminals and The System.

The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival will run until July 30 at Cinema Nova, Carlton. Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Tickets are available from Cinema Nova. For more information about the film visit www.survivingsunset.com

- Cheryl Threadgold

Gershwin and Me

■ Virtuosic pianist and Gershwin aficionado Simon Tedeschi performs George Gershwin's masterpieces on Tuesday, August 1 in the Toorak Synagogue, which will be opened to the public for this exclusive event.

With three albums of Gershwin’s music and countless acclaimed performances of Rhapsody in Blue under his fingers, Tedeschi will

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present a suite of favourites including Rhapsody, Summertime, I Got Rhythm and more. The program will also feature works from composers within Gershwin’s world including Rachmaninov, Chopin and Debussy. Trumpeter Matt Jodrel will also make a guest appearance.

As he explains, Tedeschi’s affinity with Gershwin is multifaceted.

“I performed Gershwin with Larry Adler, who performed with Gershwin himself at a party. I was Larry’s last pianist - there were about seven decades between us.

“Rhapsody in Blue also connects me to another wonderful musician, the conductor, impresario, arranger and survivor Tommy Tycho, with whom I first performed Rhapsody in Blue.”

He describes Gershwin’s music as a clashing of ideals, a syzygy of styles, from Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Klezmer and the Viennese School to the blues, jazz and Latin music.

“Gershwin is the exemplar of an American composer, and I can’t wait to come to Melbourne to share with audiences a musical icon who has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I’m particularly looking forward to experiencing the acoustics of the Toorak Synagogue and the beautiful space that will certainly enhance the experience.”

Performance Date: Tuesday, August 1 at 7pm

Venue: Toorak Synagogue, Cnr Toorak and St Kilda Rds., South Yarra

Tickets: From $38

Bookings: gershwinandme.eventbrite. com.au

- Cheryl Threadgold

Theatre Works

■ Fabricated Rooms and Theatre Works present June from July 26 to August 5 at Theatre Works, St Kilda.

Written by Patrick McCarthy and directed by Emily Tomlins, this solo work will be performed by Caroline Lee.

After spending a year in silence, June invites an audience into her world. At times charming, at others shimmering with rage, she arrives fully formed but alters at will.

A gentle and challenging play about moving through the world and finding a voice that fits who you have become.

Performance Details: July 26 - August 5

Venue: Theatre Works, 14 Acland St., St Kilda

Bookings: www.theatreworks.org.au

Duration: 70 minutes

■ For classical music lovers, Bach’s famous Goldberg Variations are always a delight. While they were originally composed for keyboard, Australian composer Julian Yu has written a new arrangement for Australia’s much-loved Flinders Quartet, commissioned by the Myer Foundation.

And it is an arrangement with a difference, as it includes the traditional Chinese two-stringed instrument called an erhu, played by virtuoso Dong Ma.

Also on the program for the Flinders Quartet latest tour, is a work commissioned by the quartet called Dissipate, by Brenda Gifford

The idea behind the tour was to combine a range of cultural backgrounds and styles, all brought together through music.

“Our life’s work is centred around blending different sounds and different musical ideas into a cohesive artistic statement,” Flinders Quartet’s Zoe Knighton explains.

“This concert program has been incredibly rewarding and satisfying to create, with the end result serving to facilitate musical conversations across time, geography and language.”

There are regional performances by the Flinders Quartet at Shepparton Art Museum on August 5 and a sold out concert at Macedon Music on August 6.

Melbourne music lovers can make a diary note of November 10 at the Monash David Li Sound Gallery, while Yarra Valley audiences can enjoy the concert on November 11 at Warburton Arts Centre.

For more information and bookings, visit www.flindersquartet.com

Julie Houghton

Untitled Three Hander

■ A new, self-funded, independent theatre company has arrived in town. Limelight Department Theatre Company will present their inaugural production Untitled Three-Hander from July 26 to August 6 at the MC Showroom, Prahran.

Written by Hayden Hayes and directed by Tony Rive, this new Australian drama is described as 'all style with no substance'.

The story tells of a young woman (Rillo) stepping in and before too long being unwittingly immersed into the lives of two dependent men. 'Think Pinter and LaBute, it's as close to a sitcom as you'll find on stage.'

Emphasising the show will entertain audiences, Untitled Three-Hander is promoted as 'There’ll be no lessons learnt, politics unravelled, or faith questioned - just two guys, a girl, and another girl.'

- Cheryl Threadgold

People Pars

■ Ashlea Hansen has left Channel Seven after a decade of crime reporting at the network and has joined Sky News Australia as a Freelance News Anchor.

■ Michaela Carr has been appointed Network Producer for ARN, where she will be responsible for PM news coverage across ARN’s extensive network of stations. Most recently, she was a Presenter at 6PR and before that, held a similar network position at the ABC. Michaela begins on Monday (July 31).

For mature audiences.

Performance Details: July 26 - August 6

Venue: MC Showroom, L1/50 Clifton St, Prahran

Bookings: www.themcshowroom.com

- Cheryl Threadgold

Media Flashes

■ Brianna Travers has joined 9 News Melbourne as Chief of Staff. She was previously a Crime Reporter at the Herald Sun and before that, a Producer at 3AW Radio.

- Telum Australia

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Tedeschi

● ● Newly installed Laurie Jacobs with Grand Master Anthony Bucca.

● ● ● ● Bob Mann

● ● ● ● David Foong with Wayne Evans-Barker.

● ● Frank Lombardo with James Tulk.

● ● Robert Stuart.

MSO SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE

■ There is a fascinating backstory to Hector Berlioz’s dream-inspired composition Symphonie Fantastique (1830) that adds another dimension to this dramatic and impassioned work.

The French composer is said to have been in an opium haze and state of “infernal passion” for English actress Harriet Smithson (who he did later marry) when he composed the piece.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor Jaime Martin, a former elite flautist and Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, expertly leads the performance with vibrancy and precision.

Sticking to the dream theme the bill began with an ethereal work by Michael Atherton Shall We Dream. The Gondwana Voices children’s choir entered the auditorium from the back, humming and creating eerie sounds by running their fingers around the rim of a half-full glass – that old party trick.

Accompanying the choir and MSO was soprano Alexandra Oomens whose voice was haunting and pitchperfect.

Excerpts from Mendelssohn’s a Midsummer Nights’ Dream: incidental music (1842) followed with a glorious and uplifting performance of the Wedding March.

Oomens and the Gondwana Voices appeared again with mezzosoprano Stephanie Dillon in a beautifully blended vocal piece, Ye Spotted Snakes.

While the first two works delighted, Symphonie Fantastique was certainly the highlight with its intensity and dramatic emotional expression.

The symphony has been labelled “programmatic” meaning each movement portrays specific events, but it also uses recurring themes throughout to add cohesiveness.

It is a work that transfixes the audience and while the precision of the strings, in moments of frenzied energy, enthralled, the woodwind, brass and percussion sections got their moment in the limelight.

The woodwind solos were exquisite and the deep rumbling of percussions in contrast to the thunderous explosions excited and delighted.

Congratulations to the MSO on an absolutely wonderful program, superbly performed.

- Review by Beth Klein

Christian Hull

■ Comedian and author Christian Hull returns to Melbourne with new stories to tell as part of a four-state tour, presenting his new live comedy show on September 8 - 9 at The Comic's Lounge in North Melbourne.

Perhaps best recognised for his enthusiasm over a T-shirt folder, excitement over guessing paint colours, reactions to content like five-minute craft hacks and trying to find the soy

auce Coles mini, Christian has earned over 66M likes and 1.7M followers on TikTok, 1.2M on Facebook and 265K+ Instagram followers –with a total of 3.3M+ followers across social media.

Performance Details: September 8 and September 9 at 7pm

Venue: The Comic's Lounge, 1/26 Errol St., North Melbourne Bookings: www.thecomicslounge. com.au

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Cheryl Threadgold

La Cage Aux Folles

■ The hit Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles will open in Melbourne for a limited season at Arts Centre Melbourne from November 9.

The musical will star Paul Capsis in the lead role of Albin and internationally renowned singer and actor Michael Cormick (Beauty and The Beast, The Phantom Of The Opera) as his husband Georges.

he original 1983 Broadway production ran for more than four years and won six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book.

The success of the musical spawned a West End production and several international tours as well as the box-office smash-hit film The Birdcage starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.

Subsequent revivals have garnered considerable success, winning the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in both 2004 and 2010, as well as the Olivier Award in London for Best Musical Revival in 2008.

“I am overjoyed to be bringing our production of La Cage aux Folles to Arts Centre Melbourne, it’s such a beautiful story with a timeless message of acceptance and love of who you are,” said producer David M. Hawkins.

“Paul Capsis is one of our greatest artists, he is a scream as Albin, hearing him act those lyrics of ‘I Am What I Am’ makes one realise how far we have come as a community, but also how much further we still need to go. Couple that with the rich luscious voice of Michael Cormick and it’s a match made in showbiz heaven,”

“La Cage Aux Folles is a fully Australian created production, led by exciting young Melbourne director Riley Spadaro with inspired choreography by Veronica Beattie George. I have adored bringing this to the stage and can’t wait for it to play our beloved theatre capital Melbourne,” he added.

A traditional Broadway musical with big, brassy dance numbers, La Cage Aux Folles was considered revolutionary in many ways when opening on Broadway in 1983, breaking down barriers for gay representation by becoming the first hit Broadway musical centred on a homosexual relationship. The show’s act one finale, I Am What I Am, received praise as a "gay

anthem" and has been widely recorded, most notably by Gloria Gaynor.

Based on the 1973 French play of the same name by Jean Poiret, La Cage aux Folles boasts infectious melodies by Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly, Mame) and a book by Harvey Fierstein (Kinky Boots, Torch Song Trilogy).

The show tells the story of a gay couple who run a St Tropez drag club and when their (heterosexual) son brings his fiancée’s ultraconservative parents for dinner, chaos and hilarity ensues.

This production, by Showtune Productions, opened to rave reviews at the State Theatre in Sydney earlier this year with direction by Riley Spadaro (The Italians, This Bitter Earth), and choreography by Veronica Beattie George (The Boy From Oz, Guys and Dolls).

Further casting announcements will be made in the coming months.

Showtune Productions in association with Arts Centre Melbourne presents La Cage Aux Folles

November 9-19

Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse

Directed By Riley Spadaro

Choreography by Veronica Beattie George

Musical Direction by Craig Renshaw

Set Design by Grace Deacon

Lighting Design by Phoebe Pilcher

Design Associate and Costumes by Jozef Zoda

Wigs and Make-up Design by Drew-Elizabeth Johnstone.

- Contributed

SEN’s team

■ Sports Entertainment Network has been awarded the Suncorp Super Netball League’s newest team.

SEN was granted the licence after a competitive tender process run by Netball Australia, overseen by a subcommittee including consultants Colin Smith and David Gallop.

In granting the licence, Netball Australia will operate the team throughout 2023, before fully transitioning to SEN in 2024.

The team will be based in Melbourne’s south-east, with a name to be unveiled ahead of the upcoming season.

The group already owns four sports teams, all in basketball.

Chief Executive Craig Hutchison said acquiring this team was the first of many steps into netball, a sport the business believes in.

“We see an opportunity here to step up and ensure the Victorian netball community gets the second team it deserves,” Mr Hutchison said.

“We believe firmly in the direction of the Netball Australia Board, its Chief Executive Kelly Ryan and the leadership team.”

- Contributed

Sisu

■ (MA). 92 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas July 27.

A tremendously entertaining blend of graphic 80’s style action, and a not-so-subtle treatise on the Nazi plague that is again raising its ugly head, the new film from writer/ director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports, and who hasn’t helmed a feature film since the fun Big Game in 2014) swings for the fences in a confident manner, and thankfully scores a large bullseye.

Set in Finland during 1944, the story focuses on grim, local prospector Aatami (Jorma Tommila), who has been crossing the scarred Finnish landscape on horseback looking for gold.

After much effort, Aatami succeeds spectacularly, but as he starts to journey back home, he encounters a group of German soldiers, who look all but defeated, as Germany is now clearly losing the war.

What these troopers don’t know however, is that Aatami is a former special forces soldier, who has killed so many Russians he has been seen by the enemy as an unstoppable ghost.

These soldiers, led by the cruel Bruno (Aksel Hennie) , begin to realise in growingly fatal fashion, that the legend is a brutal reality.

To put it mildly, Sisu is not for the squeamish (it is quite surprising that the film has managed to obtain an MA rating).

Every kill is presented in all its gory glory, and the whole endeavour is seeped in a vicious atmosphere, but Helander balances the material cleverly, making sure the expertly staged action doesn’t overwhelm the sombre nature of the story playing out around it.

Tommila is excellent as Aatami, convincing us that he can endure whatever punishment the enemy can throw at him, a major plus when the film does frequently ask us to suspend disbelief.

Hennie makes for an appropriately risible villain, and also leaves a strong impression.

It is disquieting that we are needing a growing number of films at this time to denounce Nazism (the recent sequel, The Wrath Of Becky, is another example), which has been scarily on the rise over recent years, with supporters becoming more and more public.

Sisu is the perfect film to warn us of these toxic horrors, while also offering top shelf entertainment.

RATING - ****

Alcarras

■ (M). 120 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas July 27.

Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, the latest film from Carla

Simon (Summer 1993) is a beautifully realised and crafted drama looking at family and generational change. The film gives us a large gallery of characters, as a family of peach farmers, who have harvested on the same land since the 1940s, discover with shock that Rogelio (Josep Abad), the clan’s quiet patriarch, has never had a formal contract with the Pinyols, who are the actual landowners. Only a handshake promise was made that the Pinyols would never sell the land, but with solar technology becoming a hugely profitable industry, that promise is broken, and the family have until the end of the harvesting period to vacate the property. Rogelio’s son Quimet (Jordi Pujol Dolcet) becomes obsessed with the harvest, and his behaviour starts to take a toll on those around him, who react in various ways, whether it be his wife, their three children, Quimet’s siblings, or the elder members of the family.

Simon is delicate in the creation of both the people and the world they inhabit, but doesn’t resort to cheap sentimentality or melodramatics, and gets remarkably natural performances from her non-professional cast, all of which have been chosen to perfection.

Those looking for a strong story with a propulsive pace will be disappointed and impatient with Alcarras, but for those who want a film where the time is taken to genuinely bring its characters to living, breathing life, while immersing them in a totally believable environment, then this will deliver a richly rewarding cinema experience.

RATING - ****

Quicksand

■ (M). 86 minutes. Now streaming on Shudder.

The Shudder streaming channel has provided viewers with some good-to-marvellous films (Brooklyn 45, Huesera : The Bone Woman, A Wounded Fawn, La Llorona and Hatching to name a few), but there have also been some misfires, and Quicksand definitely falls into that category.

The central premise of a couple ( Carolina Gaitan and Allan Hawco), whose marriage is breaking down, being stuck in quicksand while hiking in a Columbian rainforest, sets up an intriguing, character based chamber piece, but bad writing and direction flatten the material’s potential, making it almost impossible to become involved with the couple’s predicament and personal problems.

Even at 86 minutes, Quicksand feels long, indicating that nothing is working from an early stage.

RATING - *½ - Aaron Rourke

■ Don Cherry holds the unique distinction of being both a professional singer and a professional golfer.

In 1956 Don Cherry had his biggest selling popular song Band Of Gold which sold over a million recordings and went Gold.

Donald Ross Cherry was born January 11, 1924 in Wichita Falls, Texas and was the youngest of three children.

At the age of 15 he was working as a singing telegram boy.

Don began singing with the big bands before landing a recording contract with Decca Records in 1951.

Don had a smooth singing style and recorded songs such as Thinking Of You and Belle My Belle My Liberty Belle

In 1952 the great American composer Irving Berlin wrote a country song for Don. It wasn't a great song and unfortunately it was lost.

Don Cherry played golf on three Walker Cup teams winning the Canadian Amateur Championship in 1953 and the Sunnehanna Amateur Title in 1954.

During the day he was playing with the golfing stars such as Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.

In his night time singing appearances he was working with his showbusiness friends Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and Perry Como.

As an amateur he competed in the Masters nine times, the Walker Cup three times, the

Whatever Happened To ... Don Cherry

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

America Cup twice and eight times in the US Open

Don managed his dual career very nicely and in 1963 he became a professional golfer. Don lost his hair at an early age and wore a hairpiece.

During a golf exhibition match at the Bay Hill Golf Club a wind gust blew his hairpiece off as Don hit the ball causing him to hit the fairway creating a huge divot - instead of replacing the divot Don threw the hairpiece into the hole, put the ball on top and then hit a great shot.

Don Cherry was a headliner in Las Vegas He did a concert in Cleveland with Elvis in 1956 and later Don was thrilled to learn that he was

one of Elvis Presley's favourite singers. He appeared on many variety television shows and worked with Dean Martin for 11 years.

Whilst appearing on The Dean Martin Show, Dean was not happy with Don's hairpiece and sent him over to the make up department for a new wig.

When Don came back Dean was pleased and rang the make up people to say they were keeping it.

"You can't do that - that is John Wayne's hairpiece!" Dean replied, "Don't worry about that, we're keeping it anyway."

During his life time Don has never smoked or drank alcohol. He met his wife Francine whilst jogging one morning in Las Vegas and they were married in 1993. Francine is also a singer and appeared in 28 Broadway shows.

Sadly tragedy struck when Don's son Stephen was killed during the World Trade Centre attack in 2001.

Check out www.doncherry.us

Kevin Trask

Kevin can be heard on 3AWThe Time Tunnel - Remember WhenSundays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens. And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon. www.innerfm.org.au

BENEATH THE SURFACE, BEHIND THE SCENES

Jacinta steps away

■ ABC Radio Melbourne’s Afternoons presenter, Jacinta Parsons, has announced that she will be stepping back from the show from tomorrow (Thurs.).

Jacinta told her audience that she had decided to step away so she could focus on other responsibilities outside the ABC She will, however, continue to co-host The Friday Revue with Brian Nankervis, each Friday from 12.30pm to 3.30pm. Her last Afternoons will be next Thursday, July 27.

“Like so many, my life has gone through some changes over the past couple of months, which has meant I’ve had to make some changes to the way I can work,” Jacinta said in a media statement.

“I’m desperately sad to say I’m needing to scale back from the Afternoons show so I can keep up with my other responsibilities.

“I’m grateful to the ABC for their support and very excited to say that I’m not leaving entirely –and will continue to join Brian Nankervis every single Friday for the Friday Revue.”

ABC Radio Melbourne Content Director Shelley Hadfield said Jacinta would continue to be a much-loved member of the radio team.

Jacinta will pursue some parttime professional opportunities outside the ABC.

■ The Heide Museum of Modern Art will bring into dialogue a delection of significent worlks by contemporary Latin American and Australian artists.

The exhibition Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes explores the ways that art can take our imaginations beyond the limitatiuoins of the known world and the veil of visual appearnces.

Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes considers art as a generative force and complex form of language, investigation, and theatre.

Artists in the exhibition embrace instability, and recognise forms of erasure and new realms of oossibility, critically engaging with unacknowledged or difficult historiesm as well as impacts on our changing society and natural environments.

Exhibion opens July 29 and closes October 22.

Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen.

- Peter Kemp

Tissu Tissue

Tissu tissue – Lara Merrett

A manifstation of the wyay she observes the world around her, Melbourne-born Merret’s stuning works on canvas are a visual language through which she expresses a world view, charged with a conceptual exploration of materiality and mystical thinking.

One of Australia’s most highly regareded abstract colourists, Lara Merrett has for some time been of the forefront of painters evolving and posing important challenges to the tradition of abstraction, creeating gallery installations un whuch her brightly painted surfaces are intended to be tangibly experienced – touched, walked among, intersecteed, and even at times, cut thrpugh and removed.

Exhibition closes August 12, Sullivan + Strumpf 197/108 Rupert St, Collingwood.

- Peter Kemp

Gertrude St

The Arts

Ronnie Chang’s live performance

stallations for everyone to enjoy free.

For 10 nights from July 27 – August 6, audiences will be invited to experience a confluence of projections by 11 of the Festival’s artists-inresidence, alongside community and collabporative projects, events, parties, talks and screenings.

Presented by The Centre fo Projection Art Festival will again illuminate street facing windows of public and private spaces in Melbourne’s inner-north.

- Peter Kemp

Inner Essence

■ As part of the Inner Essence series artist Brett Ashby has painted paint the portrait of John Foreman.

Since moving to Docklands as part pf the Review Shopfront Activation Program Ashby has held regular performance art exhibitions where he has painted subject portraits whilst riding his skateboard supported by a live musician.

An artist with a difference, this painting of John Foreman was done by the artist while riding a skateboard and completed in a few minutes.

To visit his gallery go to www.brettashby.com

Brett Ashby Institute of Fine Art. 381 Docklands Drive, Docklands.

- Peter Kemp

■ Multi-talented comedian Ronnie Chang is returning to Australia for a short national tour pre-Christmas, including a pit-stop in Melbourne, September 16.

Ronnie is just as popular in Hollywood as Oz, where he made his name a few years ago in the ABC series 'International Student'. A graduate of Melbourne Uni, his comedic patter relates to time spent at the 'shop'. Highly recommended.

Beach Boys Book

■ The Beach Boys juggernaut continues to roll on with the release of a limited-edition biography 'The Beach Boys by the Beach Boys' on December 23. It is an elaborate production, the cost is A$2000. Only 415 books available, all personally signed by four of the Beach Boys including Brian Wilson.

Honour for Aussie actress

■ The much loved and highly talented actress Sigrid Thornton has been awarded a Australian Film Walk of Honour Award. The prestigious award was awarded in a ceremony prior to screening of 'Slant ', a dark, comic thriller starring Sigrid.

Costumes on display

■ At the Melbourne Arts Gallery you will find many costumes all belonging to Barry Humphries and his alter egos in Sandy Stone, Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna. The exhibition is free and runs through until end August.

New Blues Train Station Master

■ For 29 years the popular Blues Train has travelled between Queenscliff to Geelong, carrying top blues bands. Founder Hugo Armstrong is putting the train on the market. The train operates eight months of the year serving dinner and drinks for 7000 guests a year.

Gertrude Street Projection Festival

The iconic Gertrude Street Projection Festival returns or its 15th year, weaving together community art public spaces, night and sublime light in-

with Peter Kemp

- John O’Keefe

OK. With John O’Keefe

● ● Don Cherry

● ● Jacinta Parsons

● ● ● ● Ronnie Chang

Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

LOCAL BOY CONQUERS THE WORLD

■ Hi everyone, remotely from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites in West Hollywood comes this week’s news.

Bob Prfitchard hits home

■ Bob Pritchard is known as ‘Mr Marketer’, and is an internationally renowned businessman, marketer, speaker and radio host.

His clients include many of the world's leading companies including the Coca-Cola Company, Citibank, Anheuser-Busch, Mercedes-Benz, and Frito-Lay.

Bob has more than 30 years of experience as a business, marketing trouble shooter and consultant.

This Los Angeles based businessman is about to get married for the seventh time and he is planning a rock and roll wedding underneath the legendary Hollywood sign in October.

Bob was guest speaker at the entertainment industry’s Marquee Club at the Emerald Hotel in South Melbourne.

Bob Pritchard grew up around South Melbourne and sang on Kommotion and Uptight, television shows back in the sixties, and he also sang at teenage dances back then.

Not one to stand still, he moved to America to find his way into international business speaking. Bob is one of the best.

Whole Foods shuts down

■ The popular grocery store chain shuttered its San Francisco flagship location a little more than a year after it opened, citing worker safety concerns.

“We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being,” a Whole Foods spokesperson told the local outlet in a statement.

“If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location.”

The company said rampant drug use and growing crime led to its decision, a city hall source said. The Whole Foods store had already reduced its hours after experiencing “high theft” and hostile patrons, a store manager said.

Dahl books ‘updated’

■ The publisher of Roald Dahl, the famed children’s author who wrote ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’,’Matilda’, ‘James and the Giant Peach’, and ‘The BFG’, among other works, has collaborated with the Roald Dahl Story Co., which manages the works’ copyrights and trademarks, to make hundreds of alterations in order not to offend anyone with Dahl’s original works. The Roald Dahl Story Co. admitted they had worked with Inclusive Minds, which monitors children’s literature for inclusion, diversity, and accessibility.

Asian population problem

■ Asia faces a problem: Its population is aging faster than any other continent’s. A growing percentage of people in Japan, South Korea and China are over 65, and those countries’ economies are suffering because of a lack of available workers. Governments are struggling to find the money to support retirees.

Biden drops George

■ Every president since Nixon had hung a portrait of George Washington above the fireplace in the Oval Office, but not Biden. That spot has instead gone to Franklin D. Roosevelt. When Biden looks up from his desk, he sees the portrait. He tells people that F.D.R. is the president who never forgot about the working class.

Suspect Drinking Water

■ Nearly half of the tap water in the United States is estimated to have at least one type of polyfluoroalkyl substance, or PFAS, a new national study from the US Geological Survey released recently shows. The group of chemicals, commonly used in consumer products like non-stick cookware and linings of fast food boxes, have been linked to human illnesses like cancer, low birth weight, and thyroid disease. The agency claims it’s the first comprehensive study of its kind on unregulated private wells giving average consumers information about the risks of PFAS when they grab a glass of water from their kitchen sink, said Kelly Smalling, the study’s lead author and research hydrologist.

Out and About Decade-Old Drugs

■ For a decade now, the world has had highly effective medications for hepatitis C infections. In the United States, they’ve mostly been sitting on the shelf, according to a new study.

These drugs are called direct-acting antivirals because they block proteins the virus needs to copy itself. Sold as pills, these drugs are easy to take with almost no side effects and they cure an astonishing 95 per cent of the patients who take them. American patients pay more than twice as much for prescription drugs as patients in 32 other wealthy countries they are often unable to afford them. Using testing data from Quest Diagnostics, a large commercial laboratory, researchers were able to track the fates of 1 million Americans diagnosed with hepatitis C infections in the decade since the most effective drugs were introduced. Overall, just one in tree were cured over that time period. “Today nearly 15,000 Americans die annually from hepatitis C,” said Dr Jonathan Mermin, director of the National Centre for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at the CDC. “These deaths could have been prevented. Thousands of people are dying every year in our country and many more are suffering from an infection that has been curable for over 10 years.”

Masks NOT healthy

■ A new study out of Germany details the elevated CO2 levels in the air a masked person breathes, levels that are actually harmful if you’re pregnant. Citing CO2 safety standards set by the Navy, the scientists find that while masked, someone is breathing extremely toxic levels of CO2. And in fact, the authors postulate: this might be why some maskmandate countries saw an increase in stillbirths and a drop-in childhood test scores during the pandemic, while COVIDchillaxed Sweden did not.

San Francisco is safe

■ Since becoming one of city’s highest-profile employers, the Twitter owner has had a lot to say about the state of things in the City by the Bay, raising questions about whether the social media company’s headquarters would remain there. The billionaire has described it as “post-apocalyptic,” claimed many Twitter employees “feel unsafe” coming to work in the city’s downtown and suggested “you could literally film a Walking Dead episode in downtown SF.” City leaders say critics are unfairly portraying San Francisco as unsafe, citing statistics that show a violent crime rate lower than many large cities.

Infections on the rise

■ The risk of getting sick from E. coli, salmonella, listeria and other foodborne germs rose to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, says the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. “Progress in reducing (intestinal) infection incidence was not observed during 2022, as influences of the COVID-19 pandemic subsided,” the CDC said in its weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “Collaboration among food growers, processors, retail stores, restaurants, and regulators is needed to reduce pathogen contamination during poultry slaughter and to prevent contamination of leafy greens.” Each year, approximately 9 million Americans are sickened by pathogens in food, according to the CDC’s Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. Also known as Food Net, it monitors diagnosed infections caused by eight common foodborne pathogens at 10 sites in the United States. Among the millions of illnesses, about 56,000 people are admitted to hospitals and 1,350 die every year.

Thoroughly washing and drying your hands is the most important factor in preventing the spread of gastrointestinal infections, experts say. Other key tips include not leaving your food out at room temperature for hours at a time, washing your hands when handling raw meat, avoiding contamination of surfaces with raw meat and thoroughly washing your leafy greens and other fruit and vegetables.

■ If you are considering coming over to California for a holiday, then I have got a special deal for you. We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood. I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper. Please mention ‘Melbourne Observer’ when you book to receive the ‘Special Rate of the Day’ for your advance bookings. Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood.

Military recruiting down

■ Most new recruits are children of military families, but that pipeline is now under threat with bad news for the Pentagon, given already acute recruitment problems, and for US military readiness. Since 9/11 gave recruiting a patriotic boost, the military has endured 20 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan with no decisive victories, scandals over shoddy military housing and healthcare, poor pay for lower ranks and rising rates of post-traumatic stress and suicide. And in a tight labour market, young people have plenty of options.

Transgender suicide

■ A new Danish landmark study finds that suicide rates and psychiatric conditions are much higher among trans-identifying people. Trans-identifying people in Denmark had a suicide death rate 3.5 times higher and a suicide attempt rate 7.7 times higher than people who did not identify as transgender, according to the study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

There were 92 suicide attempts and 12 suicide deaths among the study’s 3759 trans-identifying people between 1980 and 2021.

The study analysed the medical and legal gender change records of nearly seven million people in Denmark, including almost 3800 transgender people, over the last four decades. Trans-identifying people also tended to die younger overall, whether, by suicide or something else, the study found.

● Pictured at the Marquee lunch, Bob Pritchard with West Hollywood’s Ramada Plaza Hotel Managing Director Alan Johnson.

Lovatts Crossword No 5

Across Across Down Down

149. Dinners or lunches

150. Crocodile Dundee star, Paul ...

152. Brahma follower

154. Sends (money)

157. East Timor's capital

158. Foot arches

162. Part of eye

163. Exotic flower 166. Loop 167. Missile-launch pit

169. Nevada divorce city 171. Taj Mahal site

172. Fleet 173. Takes a break

175. Indigenous New Zealander

176. Acute remorse

179. Burnt brightly

180. Mountain chain

182. Relaxation art, ... chi (1'2)

183. Food additive (1,1,1)

184. Regal

186. Oval

189. Communications industry

190. Not anybody (2-3)

191. Of sound system

192. Freshness

196. Sacred ritual

197. Pig in a ...

198. Dummy pill

199. Paralysed

201. Tennis ace, Gabriela ...

202. Men's neck scarves

203. Capital of South Korea

204. Shameful secret, ... in the cupboard

205. Away from home, far ...

208. Movie theatre 210. News footage 211. Petticoat 212. Understand 213. Personal identity 215. Indigestion 219. Striped equine

221. Hospital worker

223. Supervisors

227. Prefabricated (concrete)

228. Unlock 230. Depart

231. Lace frill

232. Percussion instruments

233. Earth's environment, Mother ... 234. Temporary relief 238. Gaps

239. Design-tracing device

240. Rots

243. Group loyalty, ... de corps

246. Car repair set (4,3)

247. Desist

250. Swindle

251. NZ PM, ... Clark

253. Resupplies with weapons

256. Duplicate

257. Hoisting anchor cry (5-2)

258. Cruelty

262. West African country

263. Glue

266. Madam (2'2)

268. Writer, James ...

269. Nervous disorder

270. Aggravate 271. Many

272. Rascal

273. Surplus 274. LA suburb, ... Air 275. Spouse's boys

276. Holstered pistols (4,4)

277. Alberta's capital

278. Tooth doctors

1. Nightclub

2. Belonging to whom?

3. Golfing strokes

4. Unattractive

5. Scrape together (4,2)

7. Tidiest

8. Between

9. Investigate

10. Venison animal

11. Open-air pool

12. January 1st, New ... (4'1,3)

13. Strong painkiller

14. Accustoming

15. Hooded snakes

16. Infuriate

132. Propeller sound

133. Mode of expression

134. Octagon number

137. Sits idly

138. Uttered

141. Raise objections

142. Unwilling

143. Gave medicine to

151. Academy Awards

153. Achievable

155. Register

156. From Baghdad

159. Appointees

160. Employed (4,2)

161. Ancient

164. Length of metal links

165. Notions

168. Formerly Constantinople

170. City devastated by A-bomb

173. Curative

174. Hit with glancing blow

177. Faintness

178. Equatorial

181. Spray cans

185. Humorous account

186. Unveiled

187. Layabouts

188. Go in front

193. Stoat-like animals

194. Issue (from)

195. Procedures

200. Skilled arguers

201. Japanese meat dish

206. Died away, ... out

207. Curtains, cloth, etc

208. Middles

209. Most submissive

211. Tastes

214. Debarred

216. Longest Asian river

217. Simpler

218. Outdoor meals

220. French peak, Mont ...

222. Happen repeatedly

224. Motives

225. Allowed

226. Travelling stagehands

229. ... & hearty

232. Distribute, ... out

235. Tendency to fantasise

236. Iron

237. Tied

241. Explain in detail

242. Grand Canyon state

244. Tenor, ... Domingo

245. Imprecise

248. Panics

249. Ireland (poetic)

251. Residence

252. Lent to

253. Frisks

254. Paris landmark, ... Triomphe (3,2)

255. Fulfils (demand)

259. Delegate

260. Religious statues

261. Veils

262. Hitler's ... Kampf

264. Serpents

265. Grow weary

267. Donkey/horse cross

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By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Bette’s story

■ Melbourne singer songwriter Bette Ford is on a mission to make a difference.

Her mother Trish Simpson, who is also a singer and popular entertainer, had a double mastectomy in 2020 and is now back singing up a storm thanks to her medical team who acted quickly and decisively during Victoria’s lockdown in 2020.

Described as a melodramatic Melburnian with a uke and some stories to tell, Bette’s passion to raise awareness and money is unstoppable.

Proceeds from the sale of her music and shows are donated to the Breast Cancer Foundation. Her song Come Home Soon was written about her mum’s experience and reached number 1 on the charts.

More info on Bette https:// www.instagram.com/bette_foord_music/

Ron and Mario

■ TV and stage star Ron Lees will present the Mario Lanza Show along with special guests Peter Sullivan, Andrea Lees and Sandra Lees

Hosted by Issi Dye, the show commences 2pm on Sunday, August 6, at the Dorset Gardens Hotel. Tickets $25 and booking can be made on 9725 6211.

- Rob Foenander

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2024

■ In 2024 the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra celebrates music’s ability to tell stories that move and inspire, from evocative soundscapes and epic film scores to the majestic works of the great composers.

The 2024 program features 12 world premieres, 11 by Australian composers, two premieres of international composers, 17 MSO debuts and 14 artists performing exclusively with the MSO in 2024 Program highlights include the Baroque and Beethoven Festivals, Chief Conductor Jaime Martín conducting Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Holst’s The Planets, the spectacular Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Beethoven’s Ninth Lawrence Renes conducts Faure´’s Requiem with Siobhan Stagg, while Principal Conductor in Residence Benjamin Northey conducts Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed and a powerful Holocaust Memorial Concert - Kaddish, presented with the Australian War Memorial.

The MSO will perform a moving tribute concert Hopelessly Devoted in memory of the late Olivia Newton John, and the Australian premiere screening of original film The Lion King with a live score.

The 2024 line-up features the Australian premieres of MSO Commissions from international artists Tan Dun and James MacMillan, and the world pre-

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mieres of new work from Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, 2024 Composer in Residence Katy Abbott and Cybec Young Composer in Residence Naomi Dodd. A new work from Elena Kats-Chernin and William Barton will also have its world premiere.

Making their Australian debuts are American conductor and cellist Jonathon Heyward , striking mezzo-soprano Raehann BryceDavies, charismatic German conductor Anja Bihlmaier, and internationally acclaimed Chinese soprano Hui He.

Across the year, Jaime Martín leads the MSO for three breath-taking galas. The Ryman Healthcare Season Opening Gala Jamie Conducts The Planets, features two of the most emotionally stirring works of all time. Alban Gerhardt brings intense musicality to perform Elgar’s ravishing Cello Concerto, and Gustav Holst’s magnificent The Planets , which famously doesn't include our own planet, acquires a new celestial addition in the world premiere of Earth ; an MSO commission from Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon.

The Ryman Healthcare Winter Gala brings together a stellar ensemble of vocal soloists and the extraordinary voices of the MSO Chorus for Carl Orff’s thundering Carmina Burana. The program also features world-renowned yidaki player William Barton per-

forming Peter Sculthorpe’s evocative Earth Cry.

Martín leads the MSO through the astonishing range of all nine Beethoven symphonies for the Beethoven Festival, culminating in the Ryman Healthcare Spring Gala Beethoven’s Ninth. This spectacular concert will feature some of Australia’s best opera singers and the MSO Chorus, with a program that also includes the Australian premiere of James MacMillan’s Concerto for Orchestra, commissioned by the MSO in partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Baroque expert and 2024 MSO

Artist in Residence Erin Helyard will direct the Baroque Festival, exploring the concertos of Bach and Vivaldi and the arias of Handel and Vivaldi, featuring superstar soprano Samantha Clarke. The week culminates with one of the most indemand choral conductors of our time, Stephen Layton (UK) making his MSO debut leading a 300th anniversary performance of Bach’s St John Passion.

Continuing his exploration of the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler and Antonin Dvorák, Martín’s year begins with Mahler’s epic third symphony featuring the Young Voices of Melbourne, the MSO Chorus, and Raehann Bryce-Davis. Hailed by The New York Times as a “striking mezzo-soprano” and by the San Francisco Chronicle for her “elec-

trifying sense of fearlessness”, Bryce-Davis is making her Australian debut.

Jaime Conducts Romeo and Juliet will take the orchestra and audiences into the world of love and passion telling the story of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers through Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture , as well as Martín’s own suite of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. For the first time with the MSO, in the same program, Martín will conduct prodigious violinist Christian Li for Pagnini’s Violin Concerto No.1.

In a unique collaboration, the Australian War Memorial and the MSO mark 80 years since the liberation of the first extermination camps in 1944 with a special performance of mourning and remembrance, Kaddish: A Holocaust Memorial Concert. AWM’s first musical Artist in Residence, Christopher Latham, curates a program that includes Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony, a new work by Elena Kats-Chernin and William Barton, and works by Jewish composers, musicians and artists, led by Benjamin Northey. Northey conducts seminal works from American composers Bernstein and Gershwin, which are brought to life in two programs of American Stories. Australian composer Joe Chindamo’s Ligeia Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra features trombone soloist Jonathon Ramsay.

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Bette Ford

■ The Moonee Valley Racing Club has struck gold again with the announcement that they have offered a run in their big event come October 28, for the winner of a big American race.

The New York Racing Association and Moonee Valley have announced the Grade1 USD $ 600,000 Saratoga Derby International, slated for Saturday August 5 at the Saratoga Racecourse , will offer an automatic berth into Ladbrokes Cox Plate, for the winner.

The new lucrative race will provide the winner of the Saratoga Derby , a test over 1900 metres for three-year-olds, a place in this year’s Cox Plate.

Winning connections will also be afforded generous subsidies for transportation and accommodation.

The Saratoga Derby, contested over 1900 metres, is the second leg of an important threerace turf invitational series for three-year-olds on the NYRA circuit, that includes the grade 1 Belmont Derby, and the Grade 3 Jockey Club Derby.

The first leg of the series, the Grade 1 Belmont Derby over 2000 metres, was run on July 8, with the winner invited to run in the Saratoga Derby.

In 2021, well-known young Irish trainer Joseph O’Brien’s colt State of Rest won the Saratoga Derby before winning the Cox Plate defeating Anamoe, who won the Plate last year.

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Fund. The remainder will from the CTC Victoria’s Racing Minister, Anthony Carbines, said it was a significant help and is going to make a big difference to trainers and the technology that is going to be available.

The facilities will cater for their horses and their animals at the Cranbourne Complex.

That technology includes X-Ray and ultrasound machinery, a bone scanner, and standing CT equine imaging to be housed at the everexpanding training centre.

It’s going to the largest training centre available in Victoria.

The Club in recent times has seen an influx of a number of trainers, certainly the majority of those probably occurred when Caulfield was closed down.

The Hospital will form part of a new major entrance to the Cranbourne Training Centre near the current-tie-up stalls and hopes that the construction of it, can begin as soon as possible.

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State of Rest later returned to Europe and won the Group One Ganay in France, and the Group One Prince of Wales at Royal Ascot.

He achieved the incredible feat of winning four Group One races in four different countries.

State of Rest is now a resident stallion at Newgate. The great Irish trainer, Aidan O’Brien, followed a similar pathway in 2014, when training the first ever international winner of the Cox Plate, Adelaide.

Adelaide finished second in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby, and won the Grade1 Secretariat Stakes in the US, before famously winning the Cox Plate, with champion jockey Ryan Moore on Adelaide.

The final field for the 2023 Group One Saratoga Derby will be drawn on August 2.

Cup hits NZ

■ The iconic Melbourne Cup Trophy has ventured across the Tasman Sea to visit Auckland and Cambridge in New Zealand, as part of the 21st Annual Lexis Melbourne Cup Tour.

New Zealand has a proud history with the Lexis Melbourne Cup with 44 New Zealand bred horses having won the iconic race.

Horses of the calibre of the mighty Rising Fast, who won the coveted event back in 1954.

Silver Knight won it for Bruce Marsh in 1971, and who will ever forget tone of the wettest Cups on record, with Van Der Hum, ridden by Bobby Skelton ploughing up the straight, on a very heavy track.

Then we had the good stayer Kiwi scoring with a young rider named Jimmy Cassidy, booting him home.

The big mare Rose won it for the “enzedders” back in 1988.

Leading New Zealand trainer, Graeme Rogerson, when in Victoria, prepared Efficient for leading owner, Lloyd Williams to in 2007.

Over the years the New Zealanders haven’t been able to produce like they did in the earlier years.

The Cup was taken by the time-honored Stud Trelawney, the home to seven Melbourne Cup winners, and Rich Hill Stud,where the Cup got up close and personal with 2009 Cup winner, Shocking.

There were several New Zealand trainers on the list with Cup week on the agenda. They included Roger James with his top filly, Prowess, as well as Ken and Bev Kelso, with the winner of the 2023 Australian Guineas at Flemington in Legarto.

Graeme Rogerson has his eyes firmly on the Melbourne Cup with his smart galloper, Sharp’N’Sharp, who is a talented horse.

Boost for racing

■ Great news for the racing industry with news that the Victorian State Government will back a new $44.6 million Equine Veterinary Clinic and Hospital to be built at the Cranbourne Racing Centre.

The Victorian Government will put up $2 million to the cost from the Victorian Racing

■ I was saddened to learn of the death of one of the best trainers to grace the turf.

Not only one of the best rrainers, he was a great man, who helped many a trainer, and plenty of others in his racing life.

He was always offering words of wisdom, whether you were a trainer, or anything to do with the Sport of Kings.

When I joined Channel 9 as a young man, Tom was always on hand to answer our questions about the equine side of things. His record as a trainer stood out at a time when there many a great trainer around, and he was up right there with the best of them.

Over the years I got to know his son Tom Junior, who raced some smart horses too, so the polish rubbed off.

Our sympathy to Tom Hughes and his family, he will be missed.

- Ted Ryan

● ● Graeme Rogerson. Racing Photos.

VALLEY DOUBLE TO BEN’S KILMORE STABLE

■ Yarra Valley commenced the week with an interesting even eight event card – the highlight being a double to the Kilmore based Ben Yole stable and ace Lexton reinsman James Herbertson.

Ten-year-old Bettors Delight-Girl In A Million gelding Guys Bettor Bet a winner of 27 from 274 outings with 70 placings was first to arrive taking the restricted class United Petroleum Pace over 2150 metres.

Despite racing uncovered from gate five as Hear The Call inside him led, Guys Bettor Bet after looking to be struggling on the final bend rallied in the straight to record a 1.4 metre margin over the pacemaker returning a mile rate of 2-01.9. Speculator came from the tail for third 6.8 metres away.

■ Stablemate 7Y0 Four Starzzz Shark-Illustrator stallion Image Of Starzzz was victorious in the Yarra Valley Toyota Pace again over 2150 metres for restricted class, leading throughout from the pole to account for Pinnacle Hope (one/ two) which flashed late, with Our True Colours (three wide last lap from the rear to be outside the winner home turn) third. The margins a head by a half head in a thrilling finish with the mile rate 1-59.5.

■ Kilmore trainer Alannah Logie combined with Ellen Tormey to land the 1650 metre Eastern Generator Hire Vicbred Pace with much travelled 11Y0 Bettors Delight-Barogue Pearl gelding Friends in a mile rate of 2-00.3.

Settling at the tail from an inside second line draw, Friends in a daring move was sent three wide racing for the bell to sit parked for the final circuit outside Goodtime Halo (gate three).

Although tackled strongly by The Falcon Prince on turning after following him, Friends defied the challenge to record a nose victory. Williebillie (one/two last lap – three wide home turn) was third 3.9 metres away. The mile rate 2-00.3.

■ Cranbourne based reinsman Kyle Marshall is having a ball in Victoria and chalked up another winner when successful aboard fellow Cranbourne trainer Scott Ewen’s 4Y0 Hes Watching-Cracklin Rosie gelding Hes Olly in the Blonde & Co. Pace over 2150 metres.

Beginning fast from gate five, Hes Olly was able to stride past Best Back Bruce shortly after the start and rated to perfection defied all challengers to greet the judge a half neck clear of Norms Lady (one/two – three wide home turn) in a 1-59.8 mile rate. Helansen (one/one) was third 3 metres away.

Rough night

■ It was a rough night for punters at Shepparton’s Tuesday fixture and very honest 8Y0 Artistic Fella-Madam Narryna mare Roslyn Gaye didn’t help the cause when chalking up her 18th success in 191 outings by taking the 1690 metre Saddleworld Shepparton Pace – first leg of the quaddie at odds of $61.

Bred raced and trained by Tongala’s Gary Merkel who snared all the spoils, Roslyn Gaye with Laura Crossland in the sulky enjoyed a sweet passage from inside the second line following the poleline leader Always Be Chloe another Goulburn Valley trained runner.

Using the sprint lane on turning, Roslyn Gaye dashed home in a 28.2 final quarter to blouse the pacemaker by 1.3 metres, with Tooram Cee Cee off a three wide trail from near last in the final circuit for third 2.2 metres away. The mile rate 1-57.2.

■ Another long priced winner was Echuca trainer Peter Lindberg’s 7Y0 Down Under Muscles-Reba Supreme gelding Star Down Under ($23.00) in the 2190 metre Jims Diggers Trotters Handicap.

Bred and raced by Peter under the banner of Echuca Sulkies Pty Ltd, Star Down Under was bad away from outside the front line as were some of his rivals, but made ground quickly with reinsman James Herbertson lobbing one/one mid-field trailing the hot favourite Van Doren (10m) which raced outside the leader Firengrace (barrier two).

When Van Doren strode to the front on the final bend, the effort of racing exposed told and Star Down Under out wide finished best to prevail by 6.2 metres (his 7th in 53 outings) over Berriesandcherries (barrier three) which trailed

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the judges nod by a head, with American Hammer (one/two – three wide last lap) third 5.3 metres back in third place. The mile rate 1-55.9. Liam Older has only recently joined the Alex Ashwood/Taylah French stable.

■ Cardigan trainer Anton Golino’s Love YouTop Of The Anvils 4Y0 entire Iron Love has returned to racing in dynamic fashion for Pat Driscolls Yabby Dam Farms Pty. Ltd, making it two from two this time in when successful in the 2150 metre Sheahan Plumbing Trotters Mobile.

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the pilot. Yankee Lover (10m – five pegs – one/ three at bell) was third a half head away. The mile rate 2-02.8.

■ Four year old Bettors Delight-Carolsideal gelding Carolsdiamond first up for Strathfieldsaye trainer Julie Douglas landed the rich $10,000 Alabar Vicbred Platinum Maiden Pace on debut.

Driven by brother-in-law Daryl Douglas, Carols Diamond after a failed bid from gate two to cross Roam inside him was left stranded until another first starter Ariarne after a slow beginning from gate five went forward to park outside Roam at the bell.

Moving to join the leader on the final bend, Carolsdiamond showed great intestinal fortitude to gain a last stride nose victory in a rate of 159.2. Aliza Hill after trailing the leader was third 7.7 metres away.

■ 2015 Inter Dominion and 2016 Ballarat Cup winner Lennytheshark sired filly Lennys Angel a daughter of Earth Angel to snare a dramatic Neatline Homes 3Y0 Pace over 2190 metres.

Trained and driven by David Aiken (Lennys trainer), the filly settled three back in the moving line from gate three as Kialla Kid led from inside her. Going forward in the last lap to join Kialla Kid on the home turn as Son Of The Shark, Island Feenix and Eye Dee Philtra all came to grief on the final bend, Lennys Angel easily accounted for Royal Appointment (three pegs) by 10 metres returning a mile rate of 1-59.3. Kialla Kid battled on gamely for third a half neck back.

Caught wide

■ At Bendigo on Wednesday, Kyneton duo Greg and Steve Leight were victorious with their 4Y0 Peak-Van Perfect gelding Perfect Peak ($34.00) in the Racing Education Centre Trotters Mobile over 2150 metres.

Given a lovely trip from gate four most of the way after Jack Sullivan aboard Major Max which had been caught wide from outside the front line went forward to race exposed outside the poleline leader Mumstheword.

When Major Max strode past Mumstheword on the home turn, Perfect Peak was poised to pounce and that he did, scoring by 3.3 metres from Lindy Grace which trailed the leader and finished fast. Major Max was gallant in defeat 1.9 metres back. The mile rate 2-02.4.

■ The Haeuslers Echuca Trotters Mobile went to 6Y0 Love You-Focus On Me gelding Kyvalley Surfrider to the deafening roar of Ross Creek part-owner/trainer Katrina Fitzpatrick.

Driven by Michael Bellman, Kyvalley Surfrider was away safely from gate six to enjoy the run of the race on the back of the pacemaker Dances (gate three), before running home late along the sprint lane to blouse the leader by a neck returning a mile rate of 2-01.4. Tetra (four pegs) was third 11.1 metres away.

■ Heathcote owner/trainer Terry French combined with in-form eighteen year old Liam Older to snare the Gold Central Victoria Pace over 1650 metres aboard 4Y0 Well Said-Fun On The Run mare Interpretation. Coming out running from gate four, Interpretation was restrained to allow Community Art to cross him in what was the ‘drive of the night’ from Tayla French who had weaved in-between runners from the extreme draw.

Using the sprint lane, Interpretation gained

Allowed to find his rhythm from gate four as pole marker Hold That Gold led before taking a trail on Everybodylovesme . Iron Love (three wide) sprinted brilliantly to assume control racing for the bell and coasted for the rest of the journey, winning as he pleased by 13.6 metres in advance of Kyvalley Picasso along the sprint lane from four pegs. Everybodylovesme after looking beaten approaching the home turn rallied in the straight to finish third a metre back. The mile rate 1-58.8.

4 trots events

■ Ballarat raced on Thursday with an even program featuring four trotting events, the first being the VHRC /Aldebaran Park Benefiting Our Members Maiden Trotters Mobile over 2200 metres, the victor being Havelock (Maryborough) breeder/owner/trainer/driver Tina Ridis’ 6Y0 Danny Bouchea-Town Player mare Chantilly Dee.

Despite racing uncovered for most of the trip, Chantilly Dee outstayed her rivals to score by 14.7 metres from the leader Heza Gunslinger in a rate of 2-04.3. Roll With Roscoe was third 2.3 metres away.

■ The Australasian Premium Trotting Sale Heat for 3Y0 Colts & Geldings over 2200 metres went the way of Kialla trainer Wayne Potter’s Aldebaran Eagle-Naked Majesty gelding Avenel Eagle with daughter Tamsyn in the sulky. Settling four pegs from gate six and one/ one for the last lap, Avenel Eagle ran home strongly to account for Darcys Fireball (one/two last lap from the rear) by 2 metres, with Aldebaran Jensen third 1.8 metres back after racing exposed for the final circuit. The mile rate 203.5.

■ The Fillies heat saw an easy victory to the Jess Tubbs trained and Greg Sugars driven Cognati, a daughter of Majestic Son and Elusive Charm which led throughout from the pole to greet the judge by a neck from a death-seating last lap Aldebaran Miley in 2-03.4. The Sky Is The Limit after following the winner was third 11.1 metres back.

■ The 2200 metre Aldebaran Park Benefiting Our Members Trotters Mobile was taken out by A.J & Beau Tindale’s Used To Me-Elle Galleon 5Y0 mare She Sailz giving Greg Sugars another winner on the card.

Tackled at the start from gate three by both Acool Investment and Silent Reverie (three wide), She Sailz defied all challengers to defeat Eagles Nest (one/two) and Countess Chiron (one/ four) in a rate of 2-03.5. The margins 14.2 by a half head.

■ Speedy 5Y0 Somebeachsomewhere-Our Narissa Franco gelding Telemachus raced and trained by Smythes Creek’s Nathan Cahir led throughout from gate four in the VHRC/ Heywoods Shepparton Motor Panels Pace over 1710 metres giving youthful Heathcote concessional reinsman Sean O’Sullivan his seventeenth winner.

Kicking clear on the final bend, Telemachus scored by 1.4 metres over Tallaras Shadow (one/ one at bell) and Metro Memory from near last returning a mile rate of 1-58.2.

Double day

■ Two meetings Friday running in conjunction with each other – Melton and Mildura.

At Melton, Cranbourne trainer/driver Kyle Marshall’s high quality American Ideal-Rusty Mac colt Son Of Mac (gate four) at the unbackable odds of $1-06 was another easy winner of the 2240 Swift Signs Pace, leading for the last half of the journey in defeating Melanion (one/one) and Jilliby Nitro which was left exposed after trailing the winner, but has bigger fish to fry in upcoming races. The mile rate 1-56.2.

■ Wednesday – Bendigo, Thursday –Charlton and Kilmore, Friday – Mildura/ Geelong, Saturday – Melton, Monday –Maryborough, Tuesday – Shepparton.

■ At Mildura local reinsman Luke Watson chalked up a treble scoring aboard Stylish Gem for Frank Cavallaro in the McDonalds Irymple & Mildura Pace, Powerofpersuasion for Sandra O’Connor in the Gary Ridings Thermo Imaging Pace and Headbanger trained by himself in the Hero Retirement Planning Pace, while Ellen Tormey and Ryan Sanderson each drove a double – Son Of Zodiac (Andrew Vozlic) and Wiltshire Boulevard (Scott Garraway) for Ryan and while Neds Beach and Itsallaboutned also gave Reece Moore the Tormey double.

Life of luxury

■ Handy trotter Carnera has been retired to a life of luxury – with a record of 19 wins and 47 placings from 187 outings, the horse earned stakes in excess of $165,000 from wins in both Victoria and Queensland.

Entertainment Indie Symphony

■ ‘Indie Symphony’, presented by Orchestra Victoria at Hamer Hall on Friday, September 8, offers a spectacular and rare Australian opportunity to experience a selection of independently developed video games and live performance of their scores like never before, extending orchestral music beyond its genre boundaries.

In this special event which celebrates the vital role of music in enlivening video games, Indie Symphony will showcase beloved soundtracks from bestselling, independently developed, video games.

This is the first time that Australian video game fans will be able to experience these soundtracks performed live by a full orchestra with guest soloists, accompanied by striking visuals from feature games and bespoke lighting designs.

The soundtracks featured in this special event have transcended gaming, inspiring millions with their captivating melodies. Composed by Christopher Larkin, the epic score for breakout game Hollow Knight is the central work of the concert and its epic finale. Hollow Knight is one of Australia’s top-selling games, with a soundtrack that has amassed over eight million listens and is available on vinyl, five years post-release.

Indie Symphony’s program will also feature Stray Gods, a groundbreaking roleplaying musical, and acclaimed games Celeste, Necrobarista, Journey, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Hades. These soundtracks have transcended gaming, inspiring millions with their captivating melodies, and this is an opportunity to connect with them in a unique experience.

Each of the showcased games are a testament to the incredible talent of Australian game developers, composers, musicians, orchestrators, and fans. Indie Symphony champions the creativity and diversity found in the games and music industries. With a strong emphasis on representation, the concert highlights women and gender-diverse creatives who have often been underrepresented in these fields.

‘Indie Symphony’ will play at Hamer Hall in Melbourne Friday, September 8 at 8pm Running time is approx. 140 min (including 20 min interval).

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Diana Trask: Memories Are Made Of This

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Compulsory Acquisition of Interest in Land

The Greater Western Water Corporation (ABN 70 066 902 467) (Greater Western Water) declares that by this notice it acquires the following interest in part of the land described as Lot 3 on Plan of Subdivision LP203463S and contained in Certificate of Title Volume 9687 Folio 144.

An easement for water supply and sewerage purposes over that part of the land marked as “E-2” and “E-3” on the plan for creation of easement (Surveyor’s Ref. 302903CE23, Version 04) depicted below in accordance with the rights and obligations set out in Memoranda of Common Provisions AA8989 and AA8988 in relation to the water supply and sewerage components of the easement respectively.

Interests Acquired: That of Nick Zurzolo and Sheryn Lee Zurzolo (registered proprietors) and all other interests.

The acquisition is made pursuant to section 130 of the Water Act 1989, for the purpose of the Aintree Sewer Rising Main.

A notice of intention to acquire the interest in the land was served on 22 December 2022.

Published with the authority of Greater Western Water.

For and on behalf of Greater Western Water

Signed: CATHY BOURKE

Name:Cathy Bourke

Acting Manager Major Infrastructure and Project Delivery

Greater Western Water

Date:21 June 2023

ALL CAR advertisers must supply registration or Vehicle Identification Numbers. By law, we are unable to publish listings without those details.

ANTIQUE MIRROR. Back English Oak Sideboard 2 srawers and 3 cupboards, Will forward photo by text if interested. VGC. $350. Ivanhoe East. 0431 239 955.

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AQUARIUM. Large. 210ltr. 141 cm long x 31.5cm wide x 72cm high on a solid pine table, made to measure. Used Cond. $130. Whittlesea. 0421 521 320.T-AA

BED. Plega Electric Adjustable QS. Inner spring and latex mattress used by one person for only two weeks As new. $1200 ONO Bayswater. 9729 7875. T-AA

BICYCLE. Boys. Malvern Star. Suit 5 years-9 years. VGC. $75. Brighton. 0402 027 621.

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BIKE. 28”. Shogun Metras. Extended handles. Comfort seat plus helmet, bottle holder. As new. $300. Mornington. 0409 511 339.

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BIKE. 28”. Shogun Metras. Extended handles. Comfort seat plus helmet. Bottle holder. As new. $300. Mornington. 0409 511 329.T-AA

BRICKLAYER’S SCAFFOLDING. Long pipes and planks. Various sizes Single and double clips VGC. Best Offer. Cheltenham. 0438 533 123. T-AA

CANE LOUNGE. 2 x Single Seat. One double seat needs new cushions. GC $20. Research. 0408 131 386. X-DD

CARAVAN. Snowy River 2021 SRC21. Lots of extras. EC. $59,950. Frankston. 0417 124 444

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CARAVAN. 16’ Windsor Windcheater Pop Top. Single beds. Heavy duty. Towing gear. Many extras,. VGC. $15,000. Briar Hill. 9434 7546.

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CARAVAN. Jayco. Pop Top Starcraft. 14ft 12v system. TV & AC. Awning, R84242. 3-way fridge. 870K. GC. $11,900. Yea. 0412 063 971.

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CEILING FAN. New with remote control. GC. $50 Greensborough. 0406 939 273.

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CURTAIN RAILS. Cord drawn. Heavy Duty Brown. 2 x 282cm long. 1 x 191cm long, non-adjustable with brackets. Selling as a bundle. Used Cond. $30. Whittlesea. 0421 521 320.T-AA

DINING TABLE. Timber 180cm x 105cm with glass top for protection. Six chairs with padded seat covers. EC. $500 Ringwood North. 0499 869 975.

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DISHWASHER. Miele Model G527. Comes with installation opening book and hoses. GC. $35. Eaglemont. 0457 1641.

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FIBREGLASS Extension Ladder. 3.8 TD 6.3m. FC. $50. Greensborough. 405 939 273.

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FRONT including bonnet for Ford BA XR6. Fair offer. Seymour. 0419 881 573.

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FLOWERING ORCHIDS. Some with flowers and some without. The name of the orchids are Cologyne, Cristata, Flaccida, Slipper Orchid, King Orchid Dendrobiums, Crucifix, Stanhopes (upside down orchid), Ctalyne and many others. The prices start from $5 to $35 per pot. GC. East Ivanhoe, 9499 4415.

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FORD. 93 XF Panel Van. VIN 6FPAAAJGCMPM. 77,320. Fair Cond. $1500. St Alabns. 0481 213 471.T-AA

GOLF CART/TROLLEY. Junior. ‘Vega’ make. Colour: black. Littel used. GC. $25. Doreen. 9717 3465.

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HAND MOWER. New Makita cordless. Twin 36V batteries. Holds up to 4 x 180 batteries for extra run time. 10 stage height adj 534mm (21”) cutting capacity. Full tool kit. DLM 535. As new. $350. Eltham. 0428 270 937.

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HAY

Very good quality grass hay. Rolls $50, bales $6.50. Kinglake West. 0400 529 469.

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MATTRESS. Plega Latex. This is a soft mattress for a Queen adjustable bed. One half measures 203cm x 75cm x 8cm. As new. OOnly used a short time, always with excellent protection. No marks on mattress. Will also fit some caravans and boat bunks. $300. Donvale. 0410 031 094. T-AA

MATTRESS. Coleman

Queen Inflatable. Inbuilt pump. Inflated once, never used. As new. EC. $90. Yea. 0412 063 971.

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RADIATOR. Suit Commodore VB, VK. 6 cyl. New. $75. Balnarring. 0490 699 383.

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RIMS. 4. 18-inch to suit Toyota Hilux, GC. $350. Reservoir. 0418 752 691.

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RUNNERS. Men’s Nike. Size US9. White with a red stripe. $50. Box Hill North. 0401 494 336.

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SEWING MACHINE. Vintage (two). Werthiem brand. Average Cond. $100. Wandong. 0418 399 261.

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SUZUKI. 2022 Vitara

Manual 2WD SUV. 4 cyl, 1.6L, petrol, one owner, low kms (2250 kms). New car warranty till 2027. Reluctant sale due to overseas relocation. As new. $29,900. Wandin East. 0400 062 010.

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TANDEM TRAILER. 10’ x 5’, all steel construction, lights, brakes all in good working order. Made by Forest Hill Trailers. GC. $2000. Croydon. 9726 8513.F-I

TOYOTA Sedan. 2001. Silver. A/C, good tyres, body good, runs great. Clean little car. 190,000 kms. No registration. Car was purchased for granddaughter but she never got her liecnec. Would make someone a good car, JT764AEB 20006409. VGC. $32,000. Mill Park. 0402 145 766. T-AA

VACUUM. Shark Rotator Upright With all accessories. Instruction guide. Mop shark steam pocket guide book. EC. $370. Eltham. 0404 7151 151. X-DD

VACUUM CLEANER. Kirby powerful all surface carpet shampooer included. Perfect working order. Well maintained, recently serviced with all convenience parts, parts manual. $300. Elsternwick. 0412 732 375.

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CARROTS. Secondgrade. Bulk or bags. Strathbogie via Euroa. Leon, 0490 522 512. T-AA

MOONEE PONDS BAPTIST CHURCH , 45 Eglinton St, 5.30pm Mondays, supports those from Moonee Valley in a tough place. All welcome for a free hot meal from 5.30pm on Mondays. If you have food handling, listening or cleaning skills, then contact us to help out. 0466 075 820. UFN

MORNINGTON Dutch Australian Seniors Club. Meets weekly in Tyabb Community Hall, Frankston-Flinders Rd, Tyabb on Mondays, 10am2pm. Morning coffee, games of Klkaverjas and Rummicub. New members welcome. Nel, 0414 997 161. Paula, 5779 8291. UFN

SOCIAL BALLROOM DANCING. Lessons and practice, 7.30pm -10pm Wed. Scots Church Hall, Yea. $5. Dance: 1st Saturday of month. 7.30pm11pm. 0490 425 234UFN

WALKING MACHINE. Electric. Paid $170, will sell for $70. VGC. Ferntree Gully. 0407 533 560. T-AA WHITTLESEA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Meets at c2pm on the third Sunday of each month (except January). Visitors most welcome to attend. At Whittlesea Bowls Club, Church St. 0414 740 778.

WIRE FENCE Temporary. 5 builders, with 5 blocks and clips. 3.3 metres wide, 2.1m height. GC. $300. Reservoir. 0418 752 691.

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SCORES FROM WEEKEND MATCHES

■ Victorian Amateur Football Association. Premier Men’s. Old Scotch 14.11 (95) d Old Brighton 9.10 (64). Collegians 16.16 (112) d Old Xaverians 5.10 (40). University Blacks 13.21 (99) d Old Melburnians 5.4 (34). Old Haileybury 14.12 (96) d Caulfield Grammarians 10.9 (69). University Blues 9.13 (67) d St Kevins 9.11 (65).

Premier Men’s Reserves. Old Scotch 11.4 (70) d Old Brighton 9.9 (63). Old Xaverians 21.10 (136) d Collegians 5.1 (31). University Blacks 8.5 (53) d Old Melburnians 5.6 (36). Old Haileybury 21.7 (133) d Caulfield Grammarians 7.7 (49). St Kevins 12.8 (80) d University Blues 5.5 (35).

Premier B Men’s. St Bedes/Mentone Tigers 12.10 (82) d Old Trinity 9.12 (66). Fitzroy

11.9 (75) d AJAX 10.8 (68). Williamstown

CYMS 15,15 (105) d De La Salle 10.14 (74). Beaumaris 19.16 (130) d Monash Blues 4.5 (29). St Bernards 15.20 (110) d Old Geelong

7.6 (48).

Premier B Men’s Reserves. Fitzroy

24.18 (162) d AJAX 1.3 (9). Williamstown

CYMS 13.7 (85) d De La Salle 8.5 (53). Beaumaris 21.18 (144) d Monash Blues 1.2 (8). St Bernards 19.10 (124) d Old Geelong 4.1 (25). Old Trinity 12.8 (80) d St Bedes/Menton

e Tigers 9.4 (58).

Premier C Men’s. Parkdale Vultures 8.9 (57) d Old Carey 8.5 (53). PEGS 12.7 (79) d

Mazenod OC 9.17 (71). Old Ivanhoe Grammarians 20.17 (137) d Marcellin OC 5.9 (39).

Old Camberwell Grammarians 16.8 (104) d Ormond 10.8 (68). Hampton Rovers: Bye.

Premier C Men’s Reserves. Parkdale

Vultures 18.15 (123) d Old Carey 3.5 (23).

Mazenod OC v PEGS. Old Ivanhoe Grammarians 13.6 (84) d Marcellin OC 5.7 (37).

Ormond 11.11 (77) d Old Camberwell Grammarians 9.10 (64). Hampton Rovers: Bye.

Division 1 Men’s. Prahran 15.11 (101) d Kew 9.7 (61). UHS-VU 16.9 (105) d Old Peninsula 12.7 (79). Ivanmhoe 15.13 (103) d Preston Bullants 13.7 (85). Therry Penola

14.9 (91) d Glen Eira 14.6 (90). Oakleigh

13.13 (91) d West Brunswick 10.6 (66).

Division 1 Men’s Reserves. APrahran

10.14 (74) d Kew 2.6 (18). UHS-VU 15.16 (106) d Old Peninsula 0.0 (0). Preston Bullants

11.4 (70) d Ivanhoe 8.12 (60). Glen Eira

18.11 (119) d Therry Penola 7.12 (54). West

Brunswick 9.7 (61) d Oakleigh 6.7 (43).

Division 2 Men’s. Brunswick 18.7 (115)

d Bulleen Templestowe 8.9 (57). Old Paradians

17.13 (115) d Aquinas 9.8 (62). Whitefriars

16.8 (104) d South Melbourne Districts 9.8 (62). Parkside 14.8 (92) d Old Yarra Cobras

10.7 (67). St Mary’s Salesian 11.11 (77) d

MHSOB 10.15 (75).

Division 2 Men’s Reserves. Brunswick

11.8 (75) d Bulleen-Templestowe 7.7 (49).

Aquinas 8.6 (54) d Old Paradians 8.5 (53).

South Melbourne Districts 6.5 (41) d Whitefriars 1.7 (13). Parkside 10.14 (74) d Old

Yarra Cobras 5.7 (37). MHSOB 24.19 (163)

d St Mary’s Salesian 8.6 (54).

Division 3 Men’s. Canterbury 16.12 (108)

d Richmond Central 8.10 (58). Elsternwick

16.20 (176) d Wattle Park 7.9 (51). Hawthorn 23.18 (156) d La Trobe University 9.9 (63). Power House 22.16 (148) d Swinburne University 8.4 (52).

Division 3 Men’s Reserves. Wattle Park

20.14 (134) d Elsternwick 4.5 (29). Hawthorn 24.21 (165) d La Trobe University 5.6 (36).

Power House 27.11 (173) d Swinburne University 4.6 (30). Richmond Central 13.12 (90)

d Canterbury 12.6 (78).

Division 4 Men’s. Albert Park 13.11 (89)

d Masala 10.13 (73). St Johns 15.4 (94) d Box Hill North 11.10 (76). North Brunswick 29.20 (194) d Eley Park 2.1 (13).

Division 4 Men’s Reserves. Masala d Albert Park, forfeit. Box Hill North 14.8 (92)

d St Johns 6.12 (48). North Brunswick 22.11 (143) d Eley Park 4.4 (28).

■ Eastern Football Netball League. Premier Division. Seniors. Rowville 14.12 (96)

d East Ringwood 8.13 (61). Park Orchards

13.8 (86) d Blackburn 8.11 (59). Balwyn

14.10 (94) d Norwood 8.10 (58). Berwick

9.8 (62) d Noble Park 6.12 (48). Vermont

33.14 (212) d Doncaster 5.5 (35). Doncaster

East 17.8 (110) d South Croydon 10.11 (71).

Division 1 Seniors. South Belgrave 12.10

(82) d Mitcham 11.7 (73). Croydon 12.7 (79)

d Bayswater 7.9 (51). Mooroolbark 15.12

(102) d Lilydale 0.8 (8). North Ringwood 7.14

(56) drew with Montrose 8.8 (56). Beaconsfield 12.14 (86) d Wantirna South 9.11 (65).

Division 2 Seniors. Knox 11.22 (88) d East Burwood 8.12 (60). Waverley Blues 15.15

(105) d Heathmont 7.11 (53). The Basin 6.8

(44) d Upper Ferntree Gully 4.13 (37).

Mulgrave 12.10 (82) d Ringwood 9.15 (69).

Boronia 8.23 (70) d Templestowe 6.5 (41).

Division 3 Seniors. Fairpark 10.12 (72) drew with Ferntree Gully 11.6 (72). Oakleigh District 14.8 (92) d Coldstream 4.6 (30). Silvan

21.18 (144) d Whitehorse Pioneers 9.15 (69).

Donvale 16.15 (111) d Warrandyte 4.14 (38).

Division 4 Seniors. Forest Hill 15.16

(106) d Nunawading 11.10 (76). Kilsyth 11.14

(80) d Croydon North MLOC 6.6 (42). Chirnside Park 15.12 (102) d Scoresby 10.12 (72).

Surrey Park: Bye.

■ Essendon District Football League.

Premier Division. Greenvale 13.5 (83) d

Aberfeldie 12.9 (81). Airport Werst 20.15

(135) d Avondale Heights 13.13 (91). Pascoe

Vale 17.9 (111) d Essendon Doutta Stars 9.2

(56). Keilor v Maribyrnong Park. East Keilor v Strathmore.

Division 1. West Coburg 16.19 (115) d

Tullamarine 7.9 (51). Deer Park 25.25 (175)

d Westmeadows 5.9 (39). Hillside 7.18 (60)

d Keilor Park 7.9 (51). Craigieburn 24.109

(154) d Roxburgh Park 9.8 (62). Rupertswood

16.14 (110) d Moonee Valley 12.8 (80). St

Albans 17.13 (115) d Glenroy 7.3 (45).

Division 2. Oak Park 13.11 (89) d Northern Saints 12.7 (79). Sunbury Kangaroos 19.13

(127) d East Sunbury 6.7 (43). Burnside Heights v Hadfield. Coburg Districts v Taylors

Lakes.

■ Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League. Division 1 Seniors. Rosebud

12.8 (80) d Bonbeach 9.5 (59). Dromana

13.11 (89) d Mt Eliza 10.6 (66). Frankston Bombers 12.14 (86) d Langwarrin 7.8 (50).

Frankston YCW 14.9 (93) d Pines 12.5 (77). Red Hill 10.13 (73) d Sorrento 8.8 (56).

Division 1 Reserves. Bonbeach 8.11 (59)

d Rosebud 4.6 (30). Mt Eliza 7.4 (46) d Dromana 7.2 (44). Langwarrin 15.16 (106) d Frankston Bombers 0.0 (0). Frankston YCW

9.4 (58) d Pines 5.4 (34). Red Hill 16.16 (112) d Sorrento 4.3 (27).

Division 2 Seniors. Chelsea 25.18 (168)

d Seaford 14.9 (93). Mornington 22.19 (151)

d Crib Point 9.3 (57). Edithvale-Aspendale

33.14 (212) d Rye 9.2 (56). Devon Meadows

15.5 (95) d Hastings 7.9 (51). Karingal 15.20

(110) d Somerville 14.8 (92). Pearcedale 15.14 (104) d Tyabb 14.11 (95).

Division 2 Reserves. Seaford 10.7 (67)

d Chelsea 8.2 (50). Mornington 10.16 (76) d

Crib Point 10.16 (76) d Crib Point 0.14 (14).

Edithvale-Aspendale 24.20 (164) d Rye 0.2

(2). Devon Meadows 12.12 (84) d Hastings

2.4 (16). Karingal 7.9 (51) d Somerville 2.,15

(27). Pearcedale 15.18 (108) d Tyabb 2.4 (16).

■ Northern Football Netball League. Division 1 Seniors. Banyule 12.10 982) d

Greensborough 12.7 (79). Montmorency 15.13

(103) d Hurstbridge 13.4 (82). North Heidelberg 20.11 (131) d West Preston-Lakeside

11.6 (72). Heidelberg 17.13 (115) d Bundoora 5.7 (37). Macleod 12.11 (83) d Whittlesea 4.10 (34).

Division 1 Reserves. Banyule 14.17

(101) d Greensborough 8.7 (55). Montmorency 25.13 (163) d Hurstbridge 8.9 (57).

North Heidelberg 13.11 (89) d West Preston Lakeside 6.6 (42). Heidelberg 28.21 (189) d Bundoora 0.2 (2). Whittlesea 12.7 (79) d Macleod 5.12 (42).

Division 1 Under 19.5. Eltham 11.15

(81) d Bundoora 3.7 (25). Greensborough 1

16.10 (106) d Banyule 6.4 (40). North Heidelberg 9.11 (65) d Montmorency 6.7 (43).

West Preston Lakeisde 8.8 (56) d Heidelberg

5.6 (36).

Division 2 Seniors. Diamond Creek 17.12

(114) d Panton Hill 8.11 (59). Watsonia 24.9

(153) d Epping 11.10 (76). Northcote Park

14.12 (96) d Thomastown 9.7 (61). Eltham

10.8 (68) d South Morang 5.5 (35). St Mary’s

24.11 (155) d Lower Plenty 7.9 (51).

Division 2 Reserves. Diamond Creek

13.18 (96) d Panton Hill 9.3 (57). Watsonia

17.20 (122) d Epping 5.4 (34). Thomastown

21.11 (137) d Northcote Park 2.2 (14). Eltham

17.12 (114) d South Morang 4.5 (29). St Mary’s 26.17 (173) d Lower Plenty 2.2 (14).

Division 2 Under 19.5. Diamond Creek

6.10 (46) d Laurimar 6.7 (43). Lower Plenty

12.3 (75) d South Morang 7.17 (59). Watsonia

12.11 (83) d St Mary’s 8.14 (62).

Division 3 Seniors. Old Eltham Collegians

9.4 (58) d Laurimar 6.15 (51). Heidelberg

West 14.17 (101) d Kilmore 12.3 (75).

Kinglake 17.18 (120) d Fitzroy Stars 9.11 (65). Mernda 23.16 (154) d Reservoir 1.3 (9). Lalor: Bye.

Division 3 Reserves. Laurimar 11.8 (74)

d Old Eltham Collegians 6.7 (41). Kilmore 15.9 (99) d Heidelberg West 6.7 (43). Kinglake 7.8 (50) d Fitzroy Stars 6.13 (49). Mernda 25.24 (174) d Reservoir 0.0 (0). Lalor: Bye.

Division 3 Under 19.5. Kilmore v Panton Hill: Bye. Thomastown 10.8 968) d Macleod

9.12 (66). Hurstbridge 12.12 (84) d Greensborough 2 6.12 (48). Mernda 20.11 (131) d

Banyule-Heidelberg West 3.1 (19).

■ Outer East. Premier Division Seniors. Woori Yallock 15.13 (103) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 12.14 (86). Upwey-Tecoma 14.13 (97)

d Gembrook-Cockatoo 12.5 (77). Wandin

21.12 (138) d monbulk 17.7 (109). Pakenham

11.14 (80) d Mt Evelyn 9.4 (58). Narre Warren: Bye.

Premier Division Reserves. Olinda-Ferny

Creek 13.16 (94) d Woori Yallock 4.6 (30).

Gembrook-Cockatoo v Upwey-Tecoma. Monbulk

13.13 (91) d Wandin 4.5 (29). Pakenham

12.10 982) d Mt Evelyn 5.5 (35). Narre Warren: Bye.

Division 1 Seniors. Emerald 15.12 (102)

d Officer 11.10 (76). Seville 22.13 (145) d

Berwick Springs 4.13 (37). Healesville 18.7 (115) d Belgrave 5.5 (35). Hallam: Bye.

Division 1 Reserves. Officer 13.6 (84) d

Emerald 11.8 974). Se3ville 7.8 (50) d

Berwick Springs 6.3 (39). Belgrave 12.7 (79)

d Healesville 8.8 (56). Hallam: Bye.

Division 2 Seniors. Powelltown 27.15 (177) d Yarra Junction 5.10 (40). WarburtonMillgrove 17.21 (123) d Broadford 8.2 (50).

Alexandra 12.14 (86) d Yarra Glen 7.10 (52).

Division 2 Reserves. Powelltown 20.14 (134) d Yarra Junction 3.4 (22). WarburtonMillgrove 10.15 (75) d Broadford 2.4 (16).

Alexandra 8.8 (56) d Yarra Glen 4.4 (28).

■ Southern Football Netball League. Division 2. East Malvern 17.6 (108) d Caulfield Bears 12.12 (84). Keysborough 11.14 (80) d

Black Rock 8.13 (61). Highett 10.4 (64) d

Doveton Doves 6.7 (43). Murrumbeena 16.14 (110) d Hampton Park 9.3 (57). East Brighton 18.9 (117) d Skye 6.7 (43).

Division 3. Endeavour Hills 21.22 (148) d Clayton 3.10 (28). Frankston Dolphins 17.20 (122) d Ashwood 10.10 (70). Lyndhurst 11,.6 (72) d Heatherton 4.13 (27). Carrum Patterson Lakes 17.28 (130) d Narre South Saints 2.9 (21).

Division 4. ALyndale 19.19 (133) d Doveton Eagles 3.3 (21). Dandenong 16./10 (106) d Moorabbin Kangaroos 11.8 (74). South Mornington 15.13 (103) d Hampton 16.11 (107).

■ Western Region Football League. Division 1. Yarraville Seddon Eagles 15.6 (96) d Hoppers Crossing 9.14 (68). Altona 12.12 (84) d Point Cook Centrals 12.3 (75). Spotswood 17.9 (111) d Point Cook 11.14 (80). Werribee Districts 12.14 (86) d Caroline Springs 10.5 (65).

Division 2. Sunshine 16.18 (114) d North Footscreay 10.7 (67). Parkside 9.11 (65) d Albion 6.12 (48). Newport 8.6 (54) d Wyndhamvale 7.11 (53). Braybrook: Bye.

Division 3. Albanvale 18.14 (122) d Laverton Magpies 1.10 (16). Sunshine Heights 8.14 (62) d Suns 15.5 (95). West Footscray 22.17 (149) d North Sunshine 6.10 (46). Tarneit: Bye.

Your Stars

with Kerry Kulkens

ARIES: (March 21- April 20)

Lucky Colour: Green

Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 1.3.2.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.2.15.26.36.39.

Not a wise time to lend money or possessions and arguments with partners over finances is also indicated. Read anything carefully before you sign it. An unexpected encounter could brighten up your love life.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20)

Lucky Colour: Blue

Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 1.9.6.4.

Lotto Numbers: 1.15.24.42.32.20.

There is happiness around the home or love for most. Something you started earlier this year should now pay off with interest. There could be some financial fringe benefits for the hard worker and for the singles, many wing dings coming up.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21)

Lucky Colour: Yellow

Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 5.6.2.3.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.32.20.24.33.

For the career-minded, a lucky development could improve the financial side of things. The lookers should find love. Socially an enjoyable and relaxed period, and it could be the right time to ask for favors.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22)

Lucky Colour: Red

Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 1.9.6.4.

Lotto Numbers: 1.15.40.20.39.8.

Big changes are likely and could affect you on all levels. Money spent in the home should be well worth the effort and for some the return of an old love is indicated, some good luck with the colour blue.

LEO: (July 23- August 22)

Lucky Colour: Silver

Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 8.6.5.2.

Lotto Numbers: 1.15.29.37.6.11.

Unexpected travel, for many love lives should be getting more interesting. Some discreet or even secret developments tend to bring unexpected financial rewards. Be nice to an elderly relative.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23)

Lucky Colour: Fawn

Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 4.2.3.6.

Lotto Numbers: 4.12.29.6.33.30.

Luck is with you and should bring results soon. Don’t trust your first impressions over the next few weeks. Effort now should put you well ahead of any work obligations and favors could be repaid to you.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23)

Lucky Colour: Green

Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 1.3.5.2.

Lotto Numbers: 1.15.26.34.40.33.

Opportunities to gain financially and new interests should present themselves. A long-term secret could surface, and someone could return to your life very suddenly.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22)

Lucky Colour: Violet

Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 4.3.2.1.

Lotto Numbers: 4.12.26.35.5.11.

A good time to begin new ventures and push your plans, people who matter will be more co operative and a new you will begin to emerge. Be confident and sure. Love affairs could really hot up.

SAGITTARIUS: (November 23- December 20)

Lucky Colour: Cream

Lucky Day: Saturday

Racing Numbers: 9.6.5.3.

Lotto Numbers: 9.15.26.34.45.40.

A very social period with plenty of invitations, many will be asked to become more involved in group activities and some will become leaders in their chosen field.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19)

Lucky Colour: Dark Blue

Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 6.9.5.3.

Lotto Numbers: 9.15.23.30.1.6.

Many offers should come your way and financial returns could increase and an old friend or flame could re-enter your life with interesting side effects, many singles will double up.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19)

Lucky Colour: Blue

Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 8.6.2.3.

Lotto Numbers: 8.15.26.34.40.33.

A financial windfall is indicated, and luck can come in many ways. Many will change a thing or two in their lives and you will have more control over your emotions and problems will disappear.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20)

Lucky Colour: Pink

Lucky Day: Sunday

Racing Numbers: 9.6.3.2.

Lotto Numbers: 9.6.13.20.25.45.

You could expect to get a few home truths concerning your personal relationships. Major changes are indicated and moves, and travel are in the air for most Pisces.