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A MUDDY Abe Ankers kicked three goals in Wangaratta‘s seven-point win over Myrtleford in what was a tough slog for players at McNamara Reserve on Saturday.

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WANGARATTA’S average house price rose by 25.9 per cent in the 12 months to the end of June 2022, according to the Domain House Price Report.

The average house price was $530,000, up from $421,000 a year ago and 79.7 per cent higher than five years ago.

Alpine Shire saw an even more dramatic increase with the average house price up by

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26 per cent in the 12 months to the end of June 2022 from $627,000 to $790,000, a staggering 107.9 per cent increase in five years.

Benalla enjoyed a 24.6 per cent increase for the year to $430,000 while the average

house price in Wodonga was $475,000, up 21.5 per cent for the year.

In contrast, major capital city house prices dropped in Sydney and Melbourne with the Harbour City seeing a dip of 2.7 per cent to $1,552,015 in the last quarter of the financial year, although that was still an 8.3 per cent rise over the 12 months.

The average Melbourne house price dropped by 0.9

per cent to $1,074,369, but it was still an increase for the 12 months of 5.2 per cent.

Interestingly Canberra’s average house price of $1,154,535 was now higher than Melbourne’s while Adelaide had the biggest percentage increase of the capital cities with 27.4 per cent for the year to $793,220.

Licensed estate agent from Apex Property Partners, Travis Mullavey, said it

was a wonderful result for home owners right across the North East of Victoria, specifically the vibrant rural cities such as Wangaratta and Benalla.

“The different events of the past two years have seen prices in the district, in my professional opinion, reach values that are more in line with their real worth,” Mr Mullavey said.

“For many years our

markets have been undervalued, unfortunately it took an extreme social event to realise real property values.

“Our markets though will come under pressure with changing economic conditions, however, home owners should remain buoyant that properties in our district will experience little or no price reduction.

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Shepparton games promise SHEPPARTON would be included as a hub for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in the event of an election coup for the Liberal and National party later this year.

Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong and Gippsland were announced as planned games hub locations earlier this year, however, Nationals leader Peter Walsh has promised a fifth hub would be added to the games calendar if a Liberal and National government were to prevail in November’s state election.

Mr Walsh and shadow minister for sport Cindy McLeish announced on Friday their intention to add Shepparton to the 2026 games fixture, which Mr Walsh said would put the central township on the world stage.

“The bid for 2026 began here and Shepparton must be included in 2026,” Mr Walsh said.

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Family violence court need for North East WANGARATTA-based state MP Tania Maxwell has flagged her intention to lead calls for a dedicated family violence court to be established in the North East, as rates of family violence continue to soar throughout the region.

Ms Maxwell is set to meet with Centre Against Violence (CAV) chief executive officer Jaime Chubb and Hume Riverina Community Legal Service acting principal lawyer Alison Maher in Wangaratta today, in an effort to canvas the need for specialist legal services to be immediately deployed in the North East in response to recommendations

handed down by the 2015 Royal Commission into Family Violence.

Rates of domestic violence at Wodonga, Wangaratta and Benalla Local Government Areas (LGA) each remain well above the state average (36pc, 60pc and 98pc respectively), despite the commission’s recommendation priority should be given to rural, regional and remote communities to improve access to support services among victims and perpetrators of family violence.

In regions with limited legal supports available, Ms Maxwell said women experiencing domestic violence were 10 times

more vulnerable to experiencing legal problems than the general community.

Specialist family violence courts currently exist at Shepparton and Ballarat, however, Ms Maxwell outlined her intention to request a centralised court and Legal Aid office in North East Victoria to ease stress on established supports.

“Victoria’s royal commission into family violence made 227 recommendations to reduce this dangerous and sometimes deadly abuse,” she said.

“Among these was a priority call for victims and perpetrators in rural and regional communi-

ties to be given better access to support and services.

“But seven years later, when we’re seeing an escalating incidence, there’s still no specialist family violence court or Legal Aid office in Wodonga or Wangaratta and no support services in existing courts.

“The intensive help provided by these services is vital so families in need can be supported and access referrals and counselling.”

In the 12 months to March, Wangaratta LGA recorded 626 family incidents, Wodonga LGA recorded 873 and Benalla LGA reported 370.

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ABOUT 100 people have heard from McConnell Dowell - the contractor in charge of carrying out the construction of the local Inland Rail tranches - at an information night last week.

Hosted by Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC), the event gave local businesses a chance to understand how to be a part of the Inland Rail project in Victoria.

Business operators were also told about how the jobs and economic benefits of Inland Rail could help boost the region.

Designs are well advanced for the redevelopment of the Wangaratta train station, which would include major construction works of a pedestrian underpass, rail realignment, carparks and redevelopment of the

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Plans for Glenrowan mainly encompass a widespan bridge on Beaconsfield Parade for vehicular access and a newly designed pedestrian walkway to run parallel the structure.

‘Meet the preferred contractor’ events are intended to ensure local and Indigenous business understand about the opportunities available with the project.

An ARTC spokesperson said businesses in the region were excited by the opportunities Inland Rail offered, and the sentiment at the event was they understand the benefits Inland Rail will bring to regional Victoria through jobs and economic growth.

Business Wangaratta chair Dave Fuller spoke at the event about the potential for great economic benefits as the project

progresses, and the networking benefit of the evening.

Mr Fuller, who is also a rural city councillor, valued McConnell Dowell’s focus on using local providers and its strong attention to sustainability and the environment.

“Two streams of benefits, firstly in the ability for local businesses to tender for work packages offered via McConnell Dowell, but further into project - the ability for economic benefit to the accommodation and hospitality sectors as the region embraces an influx of workers,” he said.

“The room did express interest in knowing how support might be offered in regards to skill set shortages in the labour force, and about housing for additional workers.”

He said Business Wangaratta

supports the economic deliverables of this project, and equally acknowledges the commitment

by ARTC to minimise disruption when undertaking construction blitzes.

“I praise the ongoing conversations ARTC are offering the wider community to discuss the projects at Glenrowan and Wangaratta, encouraging neighbouring businesses to visit drop-ins and online for progress updates,” Mr Fuller said.

The Inland Rail Project involves the redevelopment of existing infrastructure near the railway to accommodate 2.4-metre double stacked train carriages, which will carry freight from Melbourne to Brisbane.

People can still register to attend the next meet the preferred contractor event in Seymour on September 1.

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From page 1 “Vendors may have to be slightly more patient as properties may stay on the market longer before their price target is achieved . . . transactions may take longer.”

Mr Mullavey said Apex Property Partners will continue to support vendors through this changing marketplace and will always strive

to achieve the best possible result for the vendor, even if it takes a couple of extra weeks on market.

“A property at 72 Sisely Avenue in Wangaratta was a prime example...the vendors were patient and achieved their desired result,” he said.

“While prices have increased this calendar year we have to date

seen a significant reduction in sale numbers, but this could all change with a strong spring selling season.

“Property owners should list with confidence over the coming weeks as the number of qualified buyers in the market remains constant and competition for property is healthy.”

Mr Mullavey said all property types, residential, lifestyle, vacant land, commercial and industrial property types were in demand.

“We often encounter property campaigns where there are 5-6 qualified buyers who either missed out or it was just not quite what they were looking for,” he said.

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A POLICE pursuit of a suspected car thief who became lost in Carboor came to an abrupt end when the vehicle he was driving was stopped by tactical spike strips on Saturday.

Police will allege that the male perpetrator stole a Ford Ranger from a Wangaratta residential address and it’s believed the vehicle ran out of petrol in Carboor.

The suspect has then allegedly stolen a Mazda 3 and police were alerted to the vehicle being driven in the Carboor area.

Acting Sergeant James McGinn said a pursuit of the vehicle and the driver ensued and police members deployed ‘stop sticks’ ahead of the assailant which punctured two of the vehicle’s tyres.

He said the suspect has then lost control of the vehicle and it has crashed into a paddock fence causing minor damage.

No one was injured during the incident.

Police arrested and conveyed the male to Wangaratta police station where he was questioned over the alleged offences, and investigations are ongoing by the Wangaratta Police Criminal Investigation Unit.

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A FIVE-year-old’s ongoing fight against a leukaemia diagnosis has inspired an outpouring of community support from local businesses and residents.

Former Wangaratta resident Luna Phillips was only three years old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in late 2020, relocating to Melbourne for an intensive course of treatment at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Her family followed, with parents Laura and Marc and younger brother Levi (now 3) establishing themselves in the inner north-west suburb of Ascot Vale as Luna fought the disease, gone from the rural city community but not forgotten.

Their brief return later this month for a dinner at Watermarc to raise funds for Camp Quality quickly became the hottest ticket in town, with some 80 tickets quickly selling out amid a slew of support from the local community.

Mother Laura said the family was excited to see and thank a community which had consistently supported Luna as she continued to fight the disease.

“It’s a bit like a celebration,” she said.

“Being from a small community you have those connections with people - Watermarc wanted to do something to support our

FAMILY TIME: Following a hectic one and a half years after daughter Luna’s leukaemia diagnosis, Laura, Marc, Luna and Levi Phillips will return to Wangaratta later this month to raise funds for Camp Quality. family on our journey which was really kind.

“Everyone wants to get around it and want to support Luna and Camp Quality - the tickets sold out really quickly.

“Luna’s really excited she’s going to write the nametags of where everyone’s sitting.

“We’re just really appreciative of everything.”

All funds raised by the dinner are set to be donated to Camp Quality, with a spokesperson on hand to detail the work of the na-

tionwide children’s charity, which is often tasked with providing escapes and family camps for children and their families managing a cancer diagnosis.

Ms Phillips said while many charities had supported Luna through her battle with ALL, Camp Quality had gone above and beyond by including Levi in a number of activities in recent months.

“We recently started getting more involved with Camp Quality - they involve the child going through

what they’re going through but also the siblings and parents,” she said.

“Sometimes the siblings get forgotten when there’s a diagnosis - Luna’s diagnosis came a couple of weeks before (Levi) turned two and we had to leave him with his grandparents.

“The siblings sometimes get pushed aside.

“With Camp Quality, the kids were both involved in a mini space camp and had an afternoon all about them - they had a volunteer each who played with

them all day.

“Their family camps also give more of an opportunity to reconnect with each other.”

After a tumultuous time filled with uncertainty and change, Ms Phillips said life had settled down for the family, with Luna settling into a Maribyrnong kindergarten and continuing to manage her ongoing treatment, which is expected to continue into next year.

“It’s really nice for her, life has settled down for her a little bit more,” she said.

“The first 8-10 months we had to be close to the hospital, it was hectic - now there’s just a lot more time being at home with the family.

“For us this is as close to normal as we’ve been for close to a year and a half.”

Tickets are completely sold out for the August 20 Watermarc dinner, with live auctions and raffle prizes available on the night.

Community donors include: A1 Tyrepower; Annie Mayfield; ACME Picture Framing; Booktique; Cavedon Wines; Dalzotto Wines; Delatite Ford Mansfield; Donna Bella Lingerie, Edgars Books & News, Eldorado Road; Flynns Inland Surf Co; Glenbosch Wine Estate; Hey Gorgeous; John Wohlers; Lux Lighting; Madeline Grace Skin Clinic; Massage Shop; Simply Stems; Skinsational; Spirited Party Shop; Olive Health Foods; Wangaratta Jewellers; Wangaratta Lighting & Décor; Weathercraft Wine and Woodpark Wine.

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Re-connect with music

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A RECENT visit to Wangaratta to mentor songwriters helped whet Thando Sikwila’s appetite for her planned return to the rural city in October, when she’ll perform at the first live Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues since 2018.

While known to television viewers as a grand finalist on this year’s series of ‘The Voice’, the Zimbabweanborn soul and R&B artist is far from an overnight sensation, having worked hard over the last 13 years to establish her place in the industry.

After moving to Australia with her family as a sevenyear-old, Thando grew up in Canberra.

“We came here because there was opportunity for higher education; I think my parents expected me to become a doctor or a lawyer, so by choosing the career path I did, I knew I had to excel, and I excel at things I’m passionate about,” she said.

After a couple of years of missing touring and live shows due to the pandemic, Thando said ‘The Voice’ was “a great way to get into people’s lounge-rooms”.

“It’s been really interesting watching the audiences coming to my shows since the TV show and understanding that I was a fullyrealised artist before it. It’s been really fun watching their reactions,” she said.

Thando, who will perform in Wangaratta under her new stage name, Thndo, said she was itching to bring her show to Wangaratta, and

EXCITED: The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues will form part of Thando Sikwila’s “re-introduction” as Thando. encouraged audiences to “come and re-connect” with live music.

“Music is such an important part of our lives, and to have not had the opportunity to connect live has been hard for us as artists over the last couple of years. This will be a chance to enjoy yourself and try to forget about the pandemic,” she said.

“I’m so proud to be part of the line-up. I was going to be performing with (Melbourne-based New Orleansstyle band) Horns of Leroy,

but I’m so glad I pushed for my own show as well,” she said.

“I’ve been to a lot of festivals (with Horns of Leroy), and I know it will be a great way to showcase my own work.”

Thando will take to the Merriwa Park outdoor stage in a ticketed event on the Saturday night of the Wangaratta festival. She will also be part of the festival’s community project, which will see an army of local musicians march into Merriwa Park on Sunday, October

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Melbourne-based Thando’s recent visit to Wangaratta was as a guest speaker at songwriter workshops hosted by APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) as part of its Regional Sessions, an initiative in which it partnered with the State Government through Creative VIC. The program, held at the

Wangaratta Performing Arts and Convention Centre, offered Victorian songwriters and composers the chance to hone their skills and build local and international networks.

“I love mentoring. What I really want to do is start up a facility where artists can do everything from writing to learning about music taxes a creative space where they can find their feet,” Thando said.

“I’ve been doing a fair bit of songwriting for a few art-

ists over the last few years, which is a great opportunity to collaborate, and I know the amount of work it takes to create music.

“Not everyone is going to love it, but if it’s authentic, it will always speak to someone.”

Thando said she had been spending time putting together her band, and as well as working on songs in the studio, had been focusing on developing the many visual elements of her live show.

“I knew it needed to be fully developed, if seeing me on ‘The Voice’ had been people’s first impression,” she said.

She said audiences could expect a big band and backing singers, with R&B and soul numbers creating sounds to cater for all ages.

“There will be music to get up and dance, and to sit down and reflect,” she said.

“This is a new era, coming off the back of ‘The Voice’, and the Wangaratta festival will be part of my re-introduction tour as Thndo.

“I really want people to see this - I’m excited.”

A new record, ‘Lessons in Love’, is due out soon, and follows “the journey of a relationship”.

“I recently left a 10-year relationship, and I was in the moment while writing this music. I think if you allow yourself to be vulnerable, people can see themselves and hear themselves in the songs, and I’ve been blessed to have people come up to me after a show and tell me that’s what they’ve experienced,” she said.

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PAYING IT FORWARD: Centre Against Violence workers Kelly, Jo, Laura and Lucy with Bianca Paolo from Wangaratta’s Where is my Coffee.

Stepping It Up for those in need of support TEAM members from the Centre Against Violence (CAV) have stepped up for the homeless by donating meals and coffees for locals in need.

As part of the Stepping It Up campaign, workers from the Wangaratta and Wodonga offices took part in the initiative.

On any given night in Australia, there are more 116,000 people without a safe or secure place to sleep.

Alongside poverty and a

lack of affordable housing, family violence is one of the leading reasons for homelessness for individuals and families seeking help from support services.

Led by Beyond Housing, with multiple organisations alongside the CAV, they have collaborated to raise awareness of Homelessness in the Ovens, Murray, and Goulburn regions.

CAV chief executive of-

ficer Jaime Chubb said many people want to help but do not know how.

“The Stepping It Up campaign is an easy way for the community to “pay it forward” to those in need,” Ms Chubb said.

“Pop into one of the 34 participating cafés across the region and purchase a coffee or meal which will then be passed onto a local person in need.”

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‘No body, no release’ push Maxwell calls for convicted killers to disclose whereabouts of victims’ remains

By RYAN MALCOLM CONVICTED killers would remain in jail until they share the location of their victim’s remains, under new legislation introduced to parliament by Wangaratta-based state MP Tania Maxwell.

Laws were established in 2016 to prevent a killer being paroled unless they divulged the whereabouts of their victim’s body to police, however, Ms Maxwell said a ‘no body, no release’ clause should be added to the Serious Offenders Act 2018 to extend detention orders in the event a sentence had been served.

Ms Maxwell said the families of victims were often served a life sentence of “pain and misery”, contending convicted killers should be expected to provide closure to family members in order to secure their release.

“It is a small consolation, but consolation nonetheless, that a perpetrator should serve a similar

sentence,” she said.

“Some might suggest this is an unfair proposition for killers who have disposed of a body in a river or another location that makes finding the remains near impossible - but I say they should think of that before they choose to take a life and hide the primary evidence.

“There are established cases where offenders have played ongoing mind games with our justice system and victims’ families over the location of the body - let’s take that power away from them.

“To take a life and not be prepared to declare where the body has been discarded is abhorrent - the perpetrator deserves a prison sentence that reflects the seriousness of the crime and gives a victim’s family some comfort in knowing they will never be released.”

Premier Daniel Andrews said his government would investigate Ms Maxwell’s proposed amendments, introduced last week, in due time.

“We already have significant rules around this issue but we will look at that matter and it will be debated back and forth as it normally is and there’ll be a respectful engagement,” he said.

“I’m sure as the leader of the government in the upper house the Attorney-General will engage proactively with the (Derryn Hinch’s) Justice Party on those issues.”

Seven prisoners were subject to Victoria’s ‘no body, no parole’ law when it was enacted at the end of 2016.

These included Sudo Cavkic, who was sentenced to more than 25 years in prison for the murder of solicitor Keith Allan, who police concluded was probably killed in the Mount Macedon region, and Thomas Keith Halliday, sentenced to 32 years for the murder of Mildura mother Shelley Joy Stephenson in 2006.

The victims’ remains have never been found.

TINY SCULPTURE: It is the final week of Petite Miniature Textiles 2022 at the Wangaratta Art Gallery.

The collection has captured the imagination of visitors who marvel at the intricate creations, such as this shimmery little chalice; Leanne Bray’s Being Grey, 2022, (hair, seed beads and silver thread, H14xW6xD6cm) which pays tribute to the artist’s mother. See the exhibition before it ends on August 14.

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Housing crisis shifts into another gear HOUSE prices have reached levels that local home owners wouldn’t have dreamed about a couple of years ago.

If you’re in the market you’re looking at all time high home equity levels.

However, if you’re a renter and trying to save for your own property the task has become a lot tougher with everything costing more including rent.

A story in today’s Chronicle reports that the North East is the second highest when it comes to rental increases in the last three years.

Now with mortgage interest rates rising over four consecutive months, more pressure has been put on investors to repay their mortgages, and rent prices are likely to increase as a result.

Many household budgets are facing unprecedented strain with the chain reaction of inflation hurting all corners of society to varying degrees.

Local community housing organisation BeyondHousing has yet again highlighted increasing demand among the region’s at-risk population with more than 6400 households impacted across the Ovens, Murray and Goulburn regions last financial year.

With the current circumstances of stagnate wages and the rising cost of living, these figures are likely to rise.

A joint-governmental agency approach to the housing crisis needs to step up a gear to address problems now rather than just talking about what might be done down the track.

The establishment of more affordable homes in the region would be a start before high house prices, but more so, growing mortgages and rents start to become a nightmare for our local economy.

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In the Sergei Prokofiev composition, Peter and the Wolf, which instrument depicts the duck?

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Which city hosted the 1986 Commonwealth Games?

What was the name of the first manned mission to land on the Moon?

Who wrote the 2011 book, Fifty Shades of Grey?

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Which former townsite in Western Australis has been described as ‘Australia’s Chernobyl’?

Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, and Ben Silbermann launched which social networking service in March 2010?

Which person created the 2012 web video series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee?

The rifle popularly known as the AK-47 was created in which country?

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In which sport would you use an épée?

Who immediately succeeded Peter Hollingworth as Governor-General of Australia?

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FACEBOOK users this week have been commenting on latest findings showing Wangaratta’s average fuel prices being more expensive than neighbouring towns such as Benalla and Wodonga who experience four cents and 14 cents cheaper average unleaded fuel respectively.

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And has been higher than Tallangatta so go figure, it’s a rip off.

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Facebook users have also been commenting on the lobby group for Victoria’s 79 councils plea to the State Government to revisit the 1.75 per cent Fair Go Rates cap as it’s currently less than a third the proportion of the 6.1 per cent inflation rate announced last week.

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Reserve Bank should go over rate forecast I AGREE with calls in the national media: the Reserve Bank board should be sacked.

They have encouraged young people to purchase homes in the belief interest rates would remain stable at pre-June rates in the short and medium term (until 2024).

I do hope our new Prime Minister will institute an inquiry similar to the banking inquiry and then appoint a minister of the government with a sole portfolio to keep watch over the banking system including the Reserve Bank.

Any person in authority who has power over people’s lives should be accountable at the ballot box.

You will recall I’m sure when our previous Prime Minister was lauding the honesty and integrity of the big four banks.

With his back to the wall he instituted an inquiry that found the big four banks were crooks in white collars and smart suits and were robbing even the dead; just how low can you go. Limbo dancers would be envious.

None of this of course will relieve the financial stress of mortgage holders who were duped by unaccountable public servants.

Brian Fox, Wangaratta

Local hospital continues top service AFTER spending six days in our wonderful local hospital, I would like to thank all the staff involved from the paramedics who conveyed me there to the nurses, doctors, administration, cleaning and catering staff a big thank you for your care and concern for me.

I hope that local people appreciate what a great hospital we have here despite the lack of support from state and federal governments.

Even though we do not get the monies that Bendigo, Ballarat, and Melbourne get, the staff do this amazing job.

Once again thank you all very much.

Philomena Trevor-Hunt, Wangaratta

How to make your mask a better fit I NOTICE a lot more people in shops and about trying to protect others and themselves from one or more COVID infections by wearing a mask.

Thank goodness.

Should an Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander voice be enshrined into the Australian constitution?

I CAN JUMP PUDDLES: Harriet O’Brien (4) couldn’t get enough of last week’s wet weather, getting her gumboots dirty at Christopher Robin Kindergarten as the rain fell consistently across the North East throughout the week.

PHOTO: Kurt Hickling Evidence is building to show repeat infections can lead to long term health problems.

Many are using surgical masks which are cheaper than the higher price N95/P2 but they’re less effective.

According to the American CDC there is a simple way to improve surgical masks.

Tie a knot in the ear strings as close as you can to the edge of the mask.

Then put the mask on, press the nose piece in place for a good fit.

Then tuck in the bunched up edges of the mask at the knot point.

I find this improves both seal and comfort.

It is very important if you have only had two doses of vaccine that you get the boosters you are entitled to.

Vaccination may not prevent infection, but the evidence is strong that a full course of vaccinations can prevent you becoming deathly ill.

Marian Gedye, Killawarra

Plenty or reasons to walk your dog AS more of us return to working at the office, a new survey by Guide Dogs Australia reveals that three in five dog owners have worried about how getting back to work outside the home might be impacting their dogs.

Opting to work from the office and increased social lives are taking away from the time our dogs treasure.

But with two-thirds of Aussie dogs displaying unfavourable new behaviours as owners return to the office, puppy parents are encouraged to walk the talk.

The survey was conducted for PAWGUST, a campaign in its fifth year that is inviting the public to give back to their best mates and beat the guilt by committing to a 30-minute walk together every day in August.

According to this new Guide Dogs survey, it’s not just our dogs that are suffering from this lack of walks with a quarter of dog owners feel guilty daily, and a similar proportion feel it weekly.

Ryan Jones, Guide Dogs specialist

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Chance to dispose of unwanted chemicals

FAMILY HERITAGE: The grapes for Brown Brothers Patricia Noble Riesling 2019 vintage were handpicked from the Milawa Vineyard which has been producing botrytis since the early 1960s.

Brown Brothers Noble top drop MILAWA winery Brown Brothers has won Sweet Wine of the Year at the 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Awards held in Melbourne last week.

It was the only wine or winery in North East Victoria to pick up a major award this year, Brown Brothers Patricia Noble Riesling 2019 scoring 95 points and listed among the 2023 best varietals.

The ceremony held in Melbourne celebrated the best of the best, recognising the nation’s top wines, winemakers, viticulturists and wineries, the event

regarding itself as setting the industry benchmark for the Australian wine sphere.

The awards were hosted

by Halliday Wine Companion’s chief editor Tyson Stelzer in front of a crowd of 125 guests at Stokehouse restaurant in St Kilda.

Mr Stelzer said this year’s results were a testimony to the tremendous diversity of Australian wine at the top of its game.

“Our winners hail from the who’s who of large estates in famous regions and from small boutiques in remote outposts,” he said.

“It’s exciting to see unexpected places and estates stepping forward with wines that have topped their classes.”

The awards also mark the release of the 2023 Halliday Wine Companion.

Taking out Winery of the Year was Tasmania’s Pooley Wines, with Xanadu Wines’ Glenn Goodall names Winemaker of the Year and Tom Carson from Serrat, Yarra Valley names Viticulturist of the Year.

Wine of the Year went to Best’s Wines Foudre Ferment Riesling 2021, Great Western.

RURAL City of Wangaratta Council invites residents to get ahead of their spring clean by clearing out sheds, cupboards and under the sink areas of unwanted household chemicals.

Residents are asked to dispose of them safely at Sustainability Victoria’s Detox your Home event on Saturday, August 20 from 9am to 12pm at Rural City of Wangaratta Works Depot at 51-69 Newman Street.

Co-hosted with the Rural City of Wangaratta, Detox your Home is a free and convenient service for residents to safely dispose of everyday household chemicals such as weedkiller, pesticides, cleaning chemicals, cosmetics, cooking oil and much more.

“Council encourages correct waste disposal practices, the Detox Your Home program provides necessary controls and treatment of household hazardous waste, to ensure safe disposal” council’s waste services coordinator, Sean Ginnivan, said.

“Everyone in the community can help keep toxic chemicals out of the environment by registering online and bringing items to the Detox your Home event.

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CLEAN OUT: Residents can register to dispose their chemicals safely at Sustainability Victoria’s Detox your Home event on Saturday, August 20 from 9am to 12pm at the Wangaratta Works Depot, 51-69 Newman Street.

“It’s a free event that benefits the whole community.”

Detox your Home events are staffed by experts who identify and sort the chemicals for safe transport back to a licensed facility in Melbourne where they are processed for reuse or safe disposal.

Chemicals that can be disposed of also include items you can find around your home labelled Corrosive 8, Oxidizing agent 5.1, Toxic 6.1, Flammable liquid 3, Flammable solid 4.1, and detergents, glues, fire extinguishers and more.

Common products like cooking oil, cosmetics and cleaning products

are all materials that can harm the environment and should not be placed in kerbside bins.

Residents are urged to see councils website for a comprehensive list of items that can be included in kerbside bins wangaratta.vic.gov.au/what-to-putin-your-bin.

With community safety in mind, Detox your Home events are now drivethrough and contactless, supported by a COVIDSafe plan.

For more information on disposable items or for essential registration for the event visit www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/DetoxYourHome/.

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WHAT’S UP WITH THE WEATHER?

By Peter Nelson,

former CSIRO climatologist

A cold blast back to 1955 weather THE very cold air mass which arrived in our region at the start of June and delivered the coldest June weather at many places since 1949 did take a while to have an effect at places in the Kimberley region of WA. There were some unusual heavy frosts at Newman just further south with the lowest temperature falling to minus 1.3 degrees Celsius early in July.

At Broome the mean minimum temperature for July was 10.4C, more than three degrees below normal and one of the coldest for July since 1949.

The mean minimum temperature for July was six degrees lower than that for June and this was the biggest drop from June to July in the same year at Broome.

Previous biggest temperature falls from June to July in the same year were in 1965 and 1955.

In July of 1955 there was very heavy rain at Cocos Island which certainly happened last July.

August 1955 was wet and very unsettled in Victoria and NSW and maximum temperatures were slightly above the August normal.

The current synoptic weather charts show a very deep complex low pressure of central pressure of 965mbs just south of WA which has brought very strong winds to 120kph at places in southern Victoria.

The first week or so in August 1955 brought precisely the same disturbed weather conditions with a record wind gust of 108kph at Melbourne on August 7 and then a record low barometer reading for August of 983.8mbs.

I still have the daily charts of 1955 which I have kept for 67 years.

September and October 1955 were also wetter and slightly warmer than average in Victoria with more thunderstorms than usual.

Wangaratta had a record daily fall of 129.3mm on September 23, 1955 .

A state-wide thunderstorm on October 20 did much damage.

Both November and December 1955 were much colder than usual, rainfall was near average in NE Victoria.

Maximum temperatures at the moment were above normal for a change, while the north winds continue with some rain periods the next two days before the final front arrives by next weekend.

On Wednesday last week there were high temperatures in the far north west of NSW where Tibooburra recorded 31C and 35C at Birdsville, the highest for early August since 36C in 1981 after which heavy rain saturated NE Victoria during August that year.

During the next week the next active low pressure system will reach our region.

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Ceramics the centre of Linda’s study, practice Across the arts

BY ANITA McPHERSON amcpherson@ nemedia.com.au

LOCAL artist Linda Lees will exhibit a selection of ceramic sculptures as part of a group exhibition being held at the Murray Art Museum Albury next year.

The Wangaratta-based artist was a successful applicant for the 2023 Open Call program; a competitive application process run by MAMA’s curatorial team providing opportunities to exhibit for artists in the region.

Linda said she was pleasantly surprised to be selected, having held a solo exhibition of her ceramics at MAMA in 2019.

Her ceramic collection called “Arcadia” will be part of a group show curated by MAMA staff which also includes Cornélia Selover, Glenda Helen Mackay and Sharon McEachern; the four presenting paintings, assemblage works and ceramics which speak to the experience of living and working in the region.

“I will be exhibiting small ce-

CREATIVE CERAMICS: Among Linda’s collection is Sunset over canola, 2020, (stoneware ceramics, h18x w25x20cm).

LIFE ON THE LAND: The ceramic works made by Linda Lees are inspired by the place she calls home and the marks we make on the land. ramic sculptures, mostly abstract, which are inspired by the marks people make on the land,” she said.

“They are drawn from the corrugated and curved iron of sheds, watertanks and barbed wire fencing which can be found in the rural area where I live.”

Linda said Arcadia is inspired by her connection to the place

that she has called home for the past 17 years.

She said the pieces were created as part of her final body of work towards her arts degree.

It has certainly been a busy time for the artist, who last year invited members of the Cheshunt community to come together in a social setting and learn how to make simple ceramic pinch pot,

while sharing their connections to their local hall.

It was part of the “Collective Vessels” project, supporting Linda’s honours degree, and it explored local halls and the role they played in small, rural communities.

The project will be celebrated during a photographic exhibition being held at Bainz Gallery at the Wangaratta Library in December.

Linda will also be holding further pinch pot workshops in the King Valley in the near future, supported by King Valley Arts, with the dates and venue to be advised.

Leadership program taking applicants

By LEAH ANDERSON-BYRNE APPLICATIONS are now open for the 2023 Alpine Valleys Community Leadership (AVCL) annual program.

Established in 1999, the program engages participants from across the North East and border regions in an immersive ‘learning by doing’ experience over 10 months, from February through to November.

AVCL executive officer, Jacqui Bramwell, emphasised the ongoing need for practical leadership within the region.

“In recent years we have faced a raft of tumultuous challenges across the North East, disrupting and impacting individuals, organisations and communities,” she said.

“To build resilient communities and ensure the vitality and

YOUR CHANCE TO JOIN: The 2022 Alpine Valleys Community Leadership annual program cohort visiting Old Beechworth Gaol. sustainability of our region, it is essential that we continue to develop diverse and capable leaders.

“The annual program now has over 450 graduates, people from all walks of life who are on the

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“Our graduates are capable of leading in a range of settings, and this has been achieved through the development of leadership

skills such as strategic thinking, collaboration, planning, governance and local knowledge and networks” One of these graduates is AVCL program manager, Suz Christion.

“I completed the annual program back in 2013, and found it to be a valuable learning experience,” she said.

“This year I have stepped into the role of program manager, so in many ways it’s a full circle moment, and it’s such a privilege to be taking others on this journey.

“The program delivers experiential learning on the essentials of leadership, and the content continues to evolve over time as we are exploring current and emerging regional priorities.”

Applications close on Sunday, September 11, for further information and to apply go to the AVCL website www.avclp.org.au.

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Exhibiting pride in the North East THIS month, local talent is on show at the library as part of a Pride in the North East exhibition.

LGBTQIA+ In the North East (LINE) Wangaratta are showcasing an exhibition that includes artwork contributed from individual community members as well as the results from two different community projects.

The Queer Arts Program was coordinated in 2020-21 with support from the Rural City of Wangaratta to combat social isolation during COVID-19 and the exhibition includes photojournalism and fabric art.

The North East Rainbow Flag Project, coordinated in 2021-22, saw LINE Wangaratta volunteers visit six towns in the region, including Benalla, Mansfield, Yarrawon-

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ga and Yackandandah, with over 30 people contributing towards a 4-metre patchwork rainbow flag.

The flag, and photos of the process of creating it, are now on display for community members throughout August for the exhibition.

LINE Wangaratta president Allison Winters (they/ them) said they were “so excited” to show the results of some of the art-based programs and projects over the past two years in a public gallery.

“We invite all community members to view the creations from local LGBTQIA+ people,” they said.

“We also hope that out wonderful LGBTQIA+ community see the exhibition and feel inspired to continue to create art, show their pride, and consider attending an art program with LINE Wangaratta in future.”

The Pride in the North East exhibition is on display in preparation for Wear-ItPurple Day on August 26, a day to celebrate and show support for young LGBTQIA+ people.

LINE Wangaratta, partnering with local organisations and GOTAFE, have collaborated to celebrate the day in style at the GOTAFE campus next-door to the exhibition.

More information about LINE Wangaratta can be found at www.linewangaratta.org or www.facebook. com/linewangaratta/.

HARD WORK ON SHOW: Allison Winters from LINE Wangaratta is excited to share a new exhibition at the Wangaratta Library this month.

Bruce McAvaney sets the stage for Brainwave’s The Big Quiz LEGENDARY sports broadcaster and stats wizard Bruce McAvaney is urging Australian workplaces to compete in Brainwave’s The Big Quiz.

Bruce McAvaney is challenging all workplaces to come together, form a team, dress up, challenge themselves, and rebuild some post-COVID workplace comradery by competing to be crowned the nation’s “brainiest” business in The Big Quiz.

The Big Quiz is a unique live streamed quiz event created by Brainwave, the only national charity that supports more than 1000 Australian families and children with brain illnesses and injuries.

As Australia’s champion of stats and facts, McAvaney will be one of the surprise guest questioners on the night.

“There is something incredibly special about competition,” McAvaney said.

QUIZ QUESTIONER: Bruce McAvaney is ready to quiz you.

“It is exciting, enthralling and while many Australians see it as a mechanism for division, it is the backbone that unites us, often for the greater good.

“Are you the brainiest of businesses?

“Here is a chance to pit yourselves against your fellow Australians on behalf of Brainwave, a national charity supporting families and children with brain illnesses and

injuries.”

Hosted by award-winning comedian Charlie Pickering, The Big Quiz will feature surprise guests, entertainment, and prizes in a bid to raise critical funds to support families and children with brain illnesses and injuries.

The event will be livestreamed into your workplace from 4:30pm to 6pm on August 18.

A tax deductible donation of $500 gets a team of up to ten people entry, with a free bonus team entry if a business registers five teams.

All proceeds go to support children with brain illnesses and injuries and their families across Australia.

Founded in 1994, Brainwave is the only national charity that supports more than 1000 families with children impacted by neurological conditions.

No matter where families are located across the country, the organisation assists in delivering holistic support, access to information and resources and building meaningful connections with and between families when adversity strikes.

To purchase your ticket to The Big Quiz 2022, or for more information, visit: https://www.thebigquiz.com.au/

Sports, not screens: the key to happier, healthier children WHETHER it’s sports practice, music lessons or a casual catch up with friends, when children are involved in after-school activities, they’re more likely to feel happier and healthier than their counterparts who are glued to a screen.

In a new study conducted by the University of South Australia and the Department for Education, researchers found that children’s wellbeing is heightened when they participate in extra-curricular activities, yet lowered when they spent time on social media or playing video games.

Published in BMC Pediatrics, the study analysed data from 61,759 school students in years four to nine (via the 2018 South Australian Wellbeing and Engagement Collection), assessing the average number of days per week children participated in after-school activities (3-6pm), and measure these against wellbeing factors - happiness, sadness, worry, engagement, perseverance, optimism, emotion regulation, and life

satisfaction.

It found that most students watched TV about four days of the school week and spent time on social media about three days of the week.

According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, one in seven children (equivalent to about 560,000 children) have a mental health disorder, with one in 10 children having concerning levels of wellbeing.

Lead researcher, UniSA’s Dr Rosa Virgara said the research highlights an acute need to encourage children to participate in activities other than screens.

“Helping children develop a good sense of personal wellbeing is paramount in today’s uncertain environment,” Dr Virgara said.

“This is especially important for primary school-aged children as they’re learning about the challenges and risks that full-time school can present; but it’s equally important for teenagers who are facing a range of physical, social and emotional changes.”

PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS FOR ALL STUDENTS Enquire now for senior study options in 2023 www.galen.vic.edu.au Phone: 03 5721 6322

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Rising rents, stagnate wages hurting region Low incomes make North East one of the most unaffordable to live

By STEVE KELLY RENTAL prices in North East Victoria have surged by an average rate that’s the second highest in Victoria made worse by stagnant wages in the region, according to a new report.

The three-year annualised increase in rents was 10.1 per cent in the North East, with the average rent at $400 a week, as of the end of July.

A new analysis of rental data by the Everybody’s Home, a national campaign to fix the housing crisis, coinciding with Homelessness Week, reveals the regions in Victoria where renters are hardest hit.

The three year analysis cross references SQM rental data with wage growth for workers in retail or health care and social assistance and rental increases.

Workers in those occupations saw average wages increase only 2.3 per cent annually over three years.

Garry Nash and Co Real Estate director Cameron Meggs explained some of the influences on the rental market in Wangaratta, one that has traditionally been strong.

He explained that affordability is a large barrier for renters to enter the housing market due to the

HOUSING STRESS: The three-year annualised increase in rents was 10.1 per cent in the North East, with the average rent at $400 a week, as of the end of July.

nature of the region’s household income being relatively low.

“This increases the difficulty for people to get access to a mortgage to purchase their own property so more people require rental accommodation,” he said.

Although the demand for rental accommodation is very predictable and ongoing, Mr Meggs said those who do own investment properties generally only own one with multiple property owners being in the minority.

He said if there were financial incentives (such as tax conces-

sions; reduced stamp duty) to assist more investors to purchase an investment property this would help ease the supply issue.

“There are also many people whose employment is not permanent in Wangaratta, so they are reluctant to purchase knowing that it is likely that their job will take them to other locations so leasing a property is a more convenient option,” he said.

Mr Meggs said weekly rent has increased significantly over the past few years mostly due to competition from renters for a reduced

supply of properties.

He said the COVID pandemic resulted in rental increase being prohibited for a period of time while the market (sale) value of property continued to increase resulting in further supply and demand issues which created even more competition among renters.

“Recently rental property “minimum standards” were introduced to ensure the quality of living conditions, safety and security or renters is maintained as best as possible which is a wonderful step forward for the industry,” he said.

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Coaches to replace trains amid works THE Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) will be carrying out essential rail maintenance and enhancement works in Victoria, with the intentions to improve reliability for the V/Line passenger rail services travelling on the North East rail line to Albury.

Works to renew the track and undertake drainage works will occur in the South Dynon area, a purpose built locomotive depot west of Melbourne, from August 6 until August 26.

ARTC general manager for asset maintenance services Costas Kokkini said ARTC has made a concerned effort to limit track closures and delays for North East travellers.

“These works will bring long term benefits and improvements for passenger rail services between Melbourne and Albury,” he said.

“The maintenance program and other urgent works requires track closures to allow access to the tracks for works that cannot be done safely when trains are running.

“ARTC has made every effort to minimise impacts to services and we thank the community for its patience while these critical, long-term improvements are underway.”

ARTC will then carry out annual maintenance program works between September 3 and September 5, to help to maintain a high standard of reliability across our network.

V/Line passenger train services between Melbourne and Albury will run as coaches while works are undertaken - passengers are encouraged to check the V/Line website for service disruptions.

For more information about the impacts to passenger services and replacement coaches in Victoria visit www.vline.com. au/Timetables/Service-changes or www. transportnsw.info/regional for NSW TrainLink services.

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RURAL

August sale, calm before storm

BY BAILEY ZIMMERMANN bzimmermann@ nemedia.com.au

ALTHOUGH numbers were low for the monthly store cattle sale, cattle farmers are gearing up for what should be a bumper spring weaner sale in a couple of weeks time.

Just 300 head were sold at the Wangaratta Livestock Exchange on Friday morning, some 1100 head less than this time last month.

But Corcoran Parker cattle agent Justin Keane said prices are rising at a good time for farmers, as they prepare for the spring sale.

“It was about $200 per head dearer than what we’ve had for the previous couple of weeks,” he said.

“It’s certainly great to see a much more positive trend and there were a lot more people there trying to buy a few cattle and it’s got a lot to do with the fact we’re on the verge of what looks like is going to be a pretty good season.”

The spring weaner sale will be held on August 19, when Mr Keane is expecting 3000 head of cattle to be sold at store condition.

Mr Keane said farmers have been holding out on

A GOOD OFFERING: Kevin Jaeger in front the highest selling of his and wife Sharyn Harrison’s four pens of Angus cattle from his property in Molyullah at the Friday market, which sold for $3300 per head.

PHOTO: Bailey Zimmermann selling their cattle until the spring sale.

“It’s a lot to do with our feature sale, where better lines of cattle are probably being reserved for that

sale,” he said.

“Buyers will be able to go there and buy cattle that will be in store condition and you’re only a week from spring where the cattle start

Fruit fly survey aims to explore local knowledge

By KURT HICKLING HOME gardeners and property owners across the Goulburn Murray Valley have the opportunity to take part in the Queensland fruit fly online community survey and share what they know about fruit fly and options to control the pest.

The survey findings will help identify opportunities to support and educate the community about fruit fly control and management Goulburn Murray Valley Fruit Fly Area Wide Management Program coordinator, Ross Abberfield said the short survey takes about two minutes to complete and is accessible through the program’s website at www.fruitflycontrol.com.au.

“We’re asking property owners and anyone with a vegie garden, fruit tree or interest in gardening to take a couple of minutes and complete the survey,” he said.

“By participating in the survey, community members can play an active role in informing and identifying important education activities that are aimed at supporting the community manage fruit fly.”

The Goulburn Murray Valley Fruit Fly Area Wide Management Program was established in 2017 and brings together government, industry and the community to apply control and education measures across the

doing very well so I think it’s a good opportunity for people to get in and buy.”

Cattle farmer Kevin Jaeger was at the sale on Friday, he said he and his wife

Sharyn Harrison were looking to clear out some of their lower quality cattle from their property at Molyullah to cash in while they could.

“We’re just trying to get

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a better line for when we can sell our next lot and our next lot is 10 times better,” he said.

“These odds and sods we’ve rounded up here just haven’t worked out and we’ll be happy with what we can for them.”

Mr Jaeger was able to sell 17 young angus cattle with autumn calves at an average weight of 450-500kg for just under $3000 per head.

Mr Jaeger, who has been involved with cattle sales for 55 years said he hasn’t had much luck cashing in with the recent high prices.

“The agent who bought them told us they’d make more,” he said.

“But we did okay and to be honest we’ve cleaned up all our lesser cattle and our cattle at home look 10 times better.

“Our cattle aren’t ready yet, we’ve been quite unfortunate, our cattle just haven’t been ready at the right times when the big money has been about.”

Mr Keane said he expects prices to be at a similar high rate, if not higher by the time of the spring sale.

“Prices will remain stable or if not slightly more positive,” he said.

“I would expect a good yarding and it should do alright.”

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“Fruit fly control needs to be carried out by the whole community to be effective and relies on the program’s capacity to increase community awareness, education and engagement about fruit fly management,’’ Mr Abberfield said.

The program includes the council areas of Moira, Greater Shepparton, Strathbogie, Campaspe and Berrigan.

Program partners include Cobram and District Fruit Growers Association, Fruit Growers Victoria, Summer fruit Australia and Lions International.

“Effective fruit fly control by the whole community is essential in protecting our region’s multi million dollar horticultural industry, our

regional economy and the lifestyle our region is so well known for,” he said.

“By asking the community to complete the short online survey it allows us to understand the community’s knowledge of fruit fly and where we should be concentrating our education efforts to make sure we are doing everything possible to effectively manage the pest,” Mr Abberfield said.

Fruit fly control must be carried out by the whole community to be effective and relies on the program’s capacity to increase community awareness, education and engagement about fruit fly management.

The Goulburn Murray Valley Fruit Fly Area Wide Management Program is supported by the Victorian Government.

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The Katamatite farmer: a country sporting legend shines on court

By KEVIN HILL WANGARATTA’S annual Australia Day tennis tournament has become a local institution since it first kicked off 96 years ago.

Some of the legendary names in the sport have trodden the grass courts of Merriwa Park in late January, including Davis Cup luminaries Neale Fraser, Frank Sedgman, Rex Hartwig and George Worthington.

A shy, prodigiously talented 13 year-old from Albury, Margaret Smith, once swept through the tournament to win the C Grade singles. Five years later, she collected the first of seven Australian singles championships, en route to taking out 24 Grand Slam titles. Of course, as Margaret Court she remains a celebrated (somewhat controversial) figure in the game.

Countless other talented visiting stars strutted their stuff, like Wayne Reid, Bob and Daryl Mark, cunning left-hander Jimmy Matthews, Brian Tobin, and Albury’s Wurtz brothers (Ken and Rod), who chalked up a staggering 16 singles titles between them.

There were a couple of other regular attendees who, in my growing-up years of the ‘50s, epitomised the strength of regional tennis and rank highly among the North East’s best-ever players...

Bert Kearney hailed from Murchison; his great mate Pat O’Kane was Katamatite born-and-bred... ooo O’Kane, who passed away recently, was a fixture in the tiny town of Katamatite (population just over 430) for all of his 96 years. He is acclaimed as one of its greatest products.

Like most of his eight siblings, he was taught the rudiments of tennis by his dad Maurice, on the town’s hardcourts.

Honing his talent by belting thousands of tennis balls against a wall at the club, he was encouraged by Maurice to utilise both hands.

The ambidextrous O’Kane style sometimes disconcerted opponents as he began to rise through junior ranks... they were unable to exploit a possible backhand weakness, as he would simply swap the racquet from right to left hand and play with equal proficiency.

Pat’s first foray to the Wangaratta tournament began in the late ‘40s. His cousin Gerald, the licensee of the Criterion Hotel (a then-prominent establishment at the southern end of Murphy Street) followed in his father’s footsteps by being heavily involved with the local club. He’d been a three-time singles champ.

Wangaratta’s Kevin ‘KB’ Hill regularly writes about local sporting legends on his blog KB on Reflection.

The following piece is about footballer Ken Boyd.

KB’s blog can be found at https://kbonreflection. wordpress.com/author/kbhill7.

Pat, nine years his junior, relished the prospect of tangling with Gerald during the tournament... ooo Pat O’Kane and Bert Kearney were the face of country tennis. The pair were fierce singles rivals and dominated Country Week during the post-war era. They met in many memorable matches, and also formed a dynamic doubles partnership.

One encounter - a final at Kooyong - had been affected by rain, and O’Kane convinced himself that the fluffed-up balls were suiting Kearney’s steady, baseline game.

He approached the umpire, Mrs Nell Hopman, for new balls, but when she answered in the negative, he belted them out of the court, and over the nearby railway line.

Mrs Hopman had no option but to produce a new tin of balls. Satisfied that he had triumphed in this ‘battle of wits’, O’Kane went back to receive serve, only to notice Kearney dipping the new balls under a nearby tap...

Pat O’Kane won eight Country Week singles titles, six inter-regional championships, and was seeded fifth in the Australian hardcourt titles of 1952.

He played against many of the greats - including Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and Neale Fraser - and reflected that he produced some of the best tennis of his career while lowering his colours to these champs.

Former Davis Cup captain Harry Hopman once wrote that O’Kane could have taken his game to another level had he been prepared to forego the farm and concentrate on tennis full-time, but the pull of Katamatite was too strong for the dyed-inthe-wool cockie...

He toured overseas with Kearney and Mervyn Rose in 1958, contesting Wimbledon and the US, French and Italian Opens, besides several other tournaments in Europe and Ireland.

It was on this tour that he turned in what he regarded as one of his finest performances, against one-time world number one Neale Fraser, just five days after the left-hander had played off in the Wimbledon final.

He took Fraser to three sets in Ireland’s Limerick Open, highlighted by Pat taking out a marathon second set, 11 games to nine... as some consolation, he and Kearney were successful in the doubles championship.

O’Kane and the left-hand-

ed showman Mervyn Rose were first opposed in an under 21 event at Bendigo.

Rated Australia’s outstanding junior behind Frank Sedgman at the time, Rose was unperturbed when Pat accused him of cheating...

He had shouted, ‘Bad luck’, a couple of times, after Pat passed him with seemingly obvious winners, which persuaded the umpire to call the points in Rose’s favour...

“You’ll never make the Davis Cup team by cheating, Merv,” O’Kane blurted.

“You want to bet?” was the reply.

The pair eventually became great friends, and Pat was on the sidelines, riding every shot, when Merv Rose took out the 1958 French Open.

O’Kane’s strong relationship with many of the topranking players resulted in him inviting some of them to compete in exhibition matches in regional areas.

A leather skipping rope remained his constant companion when playing tennis.

It was one of his keep-fit exercises when playing, and he still continued to skip into his late 80s.

In the latter part of his career, he contracted ‘tennis elbow’, which prompted him to curtail his tennis commitments, before a spinal injury, incurred whilst haycarting in 1963, hastened his retirement from the game.

His contribution to tennis was acknowledged in 2000 when he received an Australian Sports Medal.

O’Kane’s association with the Yarrawonga Football Club began when he was recruited from Tungamah.

A strong, high-marking forward, he later transferred to Numurkah for four years, where he played a key role in two premierships, before moving over to the BenallaTungamah League club Burramine, which his brother Brendan (‘Curly’) was coaching.

Another two flags followed, with O’Kane proving irresistible in front of the big sticks, once booting 31 goals in three games.

Melbourne invited him to play a handful of reserves games at the time he was playing pennant tennis in the city, but again, farm commitments were the barrier to him taking up the offer... ooo Pat’s fascination with the ‘Sport of Kings’ began when he started pencilling for bookmaker Don McLean.

His keen eye for the punt was

illustrated when he declared that 20/1 outsider Lord Fury would win the 1961 Melbourne Cup, despite having finished last in its lead-up race, the MacKinnon Stakes.

Lord Fury led from start to finish, and the winnings went towards building a new shearing shed at the O’Kane farm.

On the other side of the coin, his horse Little Princess was retired after beating just one horse home in 11 winless starts.

He did have particular success, as a part-owner of pacer Murray Mack which won more than 20 races, including a Sire’s Produce at the Melbourne Showgrounds.

Cycling was another of his great interests. One of his heroes was the legendary Sid Patterson, and he keenly followed the fortunes of his brother-in-law John Holgate, whose major success came when he won two Melbourne to Yarrawonga road races.

As a pro-athletics enthusiast, he rendered lengthy service to the iconic Burramine Gift program, and was bestowed life membership of the sports club. He was also on the board of directors of the Victorian Athletic League for a decade.

His annual pilgrimage to the Stawell Gift continued until his mid-80s. There was no-one prouder at Central Park when Katamatite’s own Glenn Crawford greeted the judge in 1995.

Crawford won his Gift heat in convincing fashion, but had to survive an agonising five hours of deliberation after a protest was lodged by the stewards. O’Kane and John Carr (Pat’s best-man, and the 1957 Gift winner) represented the race-favourite at his appeal, culminating in the disqualification being overturned. Instead, a fine was handed down.

Crawford swept to an emphatic win in the final the next day in a blistering 11.79 seconds (still the fastest time ever recorded). oooo Pat O’Kane maintained a deep connection to the Australian Labour Party and the Collingwood Football Club.

He knew only too well that the local Federal seat of Nicholls was far beyond the reach of the ALP, but nevertheless, was always a keen observer of the result.

He kept an eye on the voting in Katamatite one year, and ascertained that there should be eight guaranteed ALP votes - six O’Kanes and two McDermotts...alas, the figures showed only seven votes...

He was unable to fathom it out...couldn’t believe that someone in the family had crossed the party line...until, much to his relief, he

IN ACTION: Pat O’Kane at a Yarrawonga tournament.

OLD RIVALS: Bert Kearney and Pat O’Kane. worked out that one of the O’Kanes had recently moved to Bendigo and changed electorates...

Likewise, he took his role as a lifelong supporter of Collingwood seriously...

When his son Brian asked him to name his six greatest Magpies, he grabbed a pen and began to scribble down the names. In order, Albert Collier (1), Nathan Buckley (2), Bobby Rose (3), Des Fothergill (4), Jack Regan (5), Ron Todd (6).

The result was that he endured a restless night, and at 7 o’clock the next morning Brian received a surprise call from his dad; the list just didn’t seem right...

“I want to change it,” he said. “Bobby Rose has to go in front of Buckley...write it down, Brian.....that’s for history’s sake.....”

Long-time friend Danny Russell says that Pat wrote many other lists for his scrapbook, including the greatest tennis players of alltime...

“Pat said: ‘I was lucky to have seen the great American Jack Kramer play at his

best...I rank him ahead of Pancho Gonzales and Lew Hoad as the best player I have seen...’ In later years, he loved Nadal...”

Danny added that, in 2015 he was asked to rank the 10 greatest racehorses in an article for the Herald-Sun...”I haven’t told anyone ‘til now...but that was Pat’s list.

It had to be...” ooo Pat O’Kane, champion sportsman, brilliant raconteur, outstanding citizen, maintained that he was the only person to have shorn 200 sheep in a day, and competed at Wimbledon.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Edna, and children Anne Maree and Brian.

He was the father-in-law of Brennan and Cheryl and grandfather of Patrick, Billy, Gus and Piper.

P.S: With special thanks to Anne Maree O’Kane and Danny Russell. * This article first appeared on Kevin Hill’s blog, KB On Reflection, where he tells the stories of local sporting identities and events.

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MATCH REVIEWS

Thompson’s ton gives Panthers big win All Blacks’ forward boots 18 ggoals against g Tarrawingee g to make it 101 for the 2022 season

CENTURION: Benalla’s Lachy Thompson leads his side from the ground after surpassing 100 goals for the season.

PHOTO: Garry Jones

OPTIONS: Tarrawingee’s Daniel Everitt attempts to spoil Benalla All Black’s Harry Moran.

PHOTO: Kurt Hickling

FIRST USE: Dan Witham goes high in the ruck, tapping the ball down to his teammates. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling

BENALLA All Blacks’ full forward Lachy Thompson brought up a rare milestone at the Tarrawingee Recreation Reserve on Saturday after he booted his 100th goal for the season, part of his bag of 18 majors in the Panthers’ win over the Bulldogs 39.14 (248) to 3.10 (28).

The 220-point margin is the largest seen this year in the senior competition, with the visitors packing on 10 goals in the second term to lead by 88 points by halftime.

Thompson had bagged 10 goals by the long break, and said the milestone of 100 for the season seemed like a possibility.

“I thought I was a chance because everyone kept talking about it,” he said.

“I had 10 at half-time, so everyone was talking about it at half-time, and ‘Spanna’ (coach Nic Spencer) was asking me if I wanted to kick 100 today or save it for next week, but I still had seven more to kick so it wasn’t like it was a guarantee.

“It was a bit of a play around in the forward line, Trent Chapman got the ball and he saw me and kicked it over the top to me, and I ran into an open goal square, which was a nice easy one.

“The last couple of months I’ve worked on getting a set routine on my set shots, which has helped out a lot.

“I just want to thank the footy club - they’ve had a lot of faith in me, putting me down there all year and there are a lot of good guys down at the club that are just that happy to see someone playing good football.

“It’s nice to be able to do it for them, and hopefully we

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can go all the way.”

Spencer said the result was possible thanks to the drive and hunger from every one of his 21 players.

“I think we just wanted it more than they did, really,” he said.

“We were in and under all day, first to the contest, Jake Jones had his hand on everything.

“Our midfield group was unreal again, Al Jacka, Riley (Moran), Jackson Hourigan, Brady Hayes - those boys ran it out all day, and obviously Harry Moran and Lachy Thompson up forward, they were a pretty deadly duo on Saturday.

“Our conversion rate inside our forward 50 was nearly 50 per cent, so they were just coming from everywhere - at one point they had only three forwards, they just tried to flood the back line.

“We were just moving the ball so well, they couldn’t do anything to stop it.”

Sitting three wins clear on top and with a percentage almost double anyone else in the competition, Benalla will enter the finals as favourites.

In other matches, Whorouly grabbed its third win in a row on a muddy deck over Moyhu 15.19 (109) to 7.6 (48), Greta took the win over Milawa by a goal, Bright thumped North Wangaratta by 79 points, and Bonnie Doon held on in a low-scoring affair against Goorambat 4.5 (29) to 0.3 (3).

Blues outlast Milawa by a single goal in a thriller ■

From back page “Milawa is very, very good at taking the corridor and really hitting up lead-up targets, so we had to make certain we tried to limit that as best we could.”

Now with several highprofile scalps to their name including Milawa, Bright, and a one-point loss to Bonnie Doon last week, the Blues have positioned themselves well to go deep into the finals series.

“Our form’s been really good, so the confidence is there anyway, but what it does is it bears down on your ability to understand the game and realise the way we play the game and the way we’ve trained for a number of years, all that’s taken a while for the boys to understand it, implement it and get the result,” Newbold said.

“They’re getting the re-

ward for that now, whether that means we win like we did on Saturday or we lose by a kick like we did against Bonnie Doon, there’re a lot of positives with what we’re doing.

“If we can build that sense of consistency and when we get momentum and make use of it, and reduce the momentum of the other team, it gives you a great chance to win.

“I think that’s really what the players understand, so that’s making a big difference to us.

“The confidence is there, I suppose it’s more an affirmation of what we’re trying to do.”

Brad Whinray was best on ground in a strong team performance from Greta, while Milawa midfielders Todd Bird and Ben Clarke turned in incredible performances.

SOLID FORM: Brad Whinray was named best on ground for Greta in the Blues’ six-point win over Milawa on Saturday.

PHOTO: Melissa Beattie

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WINNERS AND LOSERS

ROUND

15

OVENS AND MURRAY SENIORS LADDER

ROUND 15 - AUGUST 6 MATCHES

#

TEAM

P

W

L

D

%

PTS

1

WANGARATTA

15

14

1

0

260.88

56

2

YARRAWONGA

15

13

2

0

162.49

52

3

ALBURY

15

11

4

0

133.99

44

4

MYRTLEFORD

15

8

7

0

112.14

32

5

LAVINGTON

15

8

7

0

100.64

32

6

WANGARATTA ROVERS

15

8

7

0

100.17

32

7

COROWA RUTHERGLEN

15

6

9

0

81.86

24

8

WODONGA

15

5

10

0

87.28

20

9

WODONGA RAIDERS

15

1

14

0

50.30

4

15

1

14

0

41.72

4

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NETBALL SCORES

ROUND 16

Myrtleford 31 def by Wangaratta 55

BEST: MYRTLEFORD: Saige Broz 3, Tina Way 2, Sophie Cappellari 1.

WANGARATTA: Kate Dean 3, Hannah Grady 2, Amy Byrne 1 . GOALS: MYRTLEFORD: Rebecca Piazza 13, Morgan Byrne 12, Sally Botter 6.

WANGARATTA: Georgia Clark 35, Amy Byrne 17, Rachelle Petts 3.

Wang Rovers 32 def by Wodonga 45

BEST: WANG ROVERS: Briony Simpson 3, Kelsie Wilson 2, Sarah Riches 1.

WODONGA: Ella Dickins 3, Ellie Ainsworth 2, Cassi Mathey 1. GOALS: WANG ROVERS: Sarah Riches 20, Hidden Player 8, Bree Schutt 2, Rebecca Kreltszheim 2. WODONGA: Cassi Mathey 21, Hidden Player 14, Hannah Pole 10.

Lavington 42 def North Albury 40 Wodonga Raiders 46 def by Albury 48 Yarrawonga 44 def Corowa-Rutherglen 43

THIRDS FOOTBALL RESULTS

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 ALBURY VS LAVINGTON WANGARATTA VS WODONGA RAIDERS NORTH ALBURY VS YARRAWONGA COROWA-R’GLEN VS WANG ROVERS WODONGA VS MYRTLEFORD

WANG ROVERS WODONGA

Ned Turner, Sam Nolan, William ASHTON, Kyle McQuade. WODONGA: Jack Mathey, Hugh Venturoni, Etienne Tshijika, Denis Mutsinzi, Aaron Reichman, Luke Sproule. GOALS: WANGARATTA ROVERS: Kyle McQuade 3; Ned Turner 3; Lachlan Barbour 2; William Ashton 1; James Kelly 1; Sam Nolan 1; Zak Sartore 1. WODONGA: Luke Sproule 2; Jack Mathey 1.

Myrtleford 5.1.31 def Wangaratta 2.8.20 - BEST: MYRTLEFORD: Ashton McPherson, Tom Sparks, Liam Morgan, Jake Hood, Lachlan Miotto, Damon Harrington. WANGARATTA: Braeden Marjanovic, Waitai Tua, Jett Roberts, Daniel YOUNG, Joe Berry, Harry McMonigle. GOALS: MYRTLEFORD: Addison Bedendo 1; Brody Bouker 1; Toby Cossor 1; Damon Harrington 1; Lachlan Miotto 1.

Yarrawonga 5.11.41 def by Corowa Rutherglen 6.7.43; Wodonga Raiders 6.8.44 def by Albury 10.5.65; Lavington 17.10.112 def North Albury 1.2.8

19

0.6 1.7 1.2 6.7

3.10 4.12.36 8.11 11.12.78

GOALS: WANGARATTA ROVERS: Jake McQueen 2; Brodie Filo 1; Raven Jolliffe 1. WODONGA: Jett Cassidy 3; Samuel Jewell 3; Oscar Willding 2; Matthew Wilson 1; Jordan Taylor 1; Will Bradshaw 1. BEST: WANGARATTA ROVERS: Raven Jolliffe, Jake McQueen, Jace Mcquade, Jack Gerrish. WODONGA: Adam Jorgensen, Joshua Mathey, Angus Baker, Samuel Jewell, Charlie Morrison, Jett Cassidy.

MYRTLEFORD WANGARATTA

3.4 5.4 4.2 5.8

5.6 5.11

5.6.36 5.13.43

GOALS: MYRTLEFORD: Nicholas Warnock 2; Kurt Aylett 1; Sam Martyn 1; Ryley Sharp 1. WANGARATTA: Abraham Ankers 3; Ben Reid 1; Joe Richards 1. BEST: MYRTLEFORD: Mitch Dalbosco, Simon Curtis, Matthew Dussin, Ryan Crisp, Callum Crisp, Josh Muraca.

WANGARATTA: Abraham Ankers, Liam Mcveigh, Michael Bordignon, Hunter Gottschling, Daine Porter.

LAVINGTON NORTH ALBURY

3.2 5.5 0.0 1.1

8.8 12.10.82 1.1 7.1.43

GOALS: LAVINGTON: Darcy Hennessy 3; Jack Kirley 3; Tim Hanna 2; Myles Aalbers 1; Shaun Driscoll 1; William Glanvill 1; Jake O’Brien1. NORTH ALBURY: Tim Broomhead 4; Sam Azzi 1; Archer Gardiner 1; Carter Norman 1.BEST: LAVINGTON: William Glanvill, Jack Driscoll, Jack Kirley, Christopher Annett, Darcy Hennessy, Aidan Cook. NORTH ALBURY: Flynn Gardiner, Tom Sharp, Julian Hayes, Will Maclean, Callum Pattinson, Sam Azzi.

SCOREBOARD - JULY 30 YARRAWONGA COROWA R’GLEN

2.3 9.4 4.1 8.2

9.7 14.14.98 10.5 11.7.73

GOALS: YARRAWONGA: Leigh Williams 8; Ryan Bruce 1; Ryan Einsporn 1; Bailey Frauenfelder 1; Michael Gibbons 1; Jess Koopman 1; Tim Lawrence 1. COROWA RUTHERGLEN: Kaelan Bradtke 3; Cameron Wilson 3; Cameron Barrett 1; Hayden Filliponi 1; Jason Marks 1; Darcy Melksham 1; George Sandral 1. BEST: YARRAWONGA: Leigh Williams, Leigh Masters, Ryan Bruce, Harrison Wheeler, Kyal Tyson, Michael Gibbons. COROWA RUTHERGLEN: Cameron Barrett, Cameron Wilson, Jake Wood, Callum Spencer, George Sandral, Daniel Saunders.

Wangaratta Rovers 12.11.83 def Wodonga 3.1.19 - BEST: WANGARATTA ROVERS: Charles Ledger, Will McCarthy,

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WODONGA RAIDERS ALBURY

3.2 3.4 6.9 8.13.61 5.4 8.9 12.12 15.15.105

GOALS: WODONGA RAIDERS: Isaac Muller 3; Jason Burke 2; Max Beattie 1; Brendan Kantilla 1; Mark Whitehead 1. ALBURY: Jeff Garlett 3; Lucas Conlan 2; Brayden McMenamin 2; Jacob Page 2; William Blomeley 1; Jacob Brunner 1; Fletcher Hart 1; Brydan Hodgson 1; Brayden O’Hara 1. BEST: WODONGA RAIDERS: Isaac Muller, Charlie St John, Alex Daly, Cooper Daly, Bradley St John, Jason Burke. ALBURY: Anthony Miles, Tom O’Brien, Brayden McMenamin, Brydan Hodgson, Lucas Conlan, Isaac McGrath.

RESERVES RESULTS Wangaratta Rovers ..16.13.109 Wodonga ..................... 4.9.33 BEST: WANGARATTA ROVERS: Joshua Newton, Alex Dowsley, Xavier Naish, Noah Amery, Cameron Ramsay, Josh O’Donohue WODONGA: Brad Thompson, Dylan Bramble, Brett Doswell, Casey Marr, Private player, Zac Nugent.

GOALS: WANGARATTA ROVERS: Alex Dowsley 6; Sam Allen 2; Cameron Ramsay 2; Noah Amery 1; Darcy Booth ; Cameron Chamberlain 1; Regan Gorman 1; Sam Henderson 1; Josh O’Donohue 1. WODONGA: Private player 2; Brett Doswell 1.

Myrtleford .....................0.6.6 Wangaratta .................. 7.6.48 BEST: MYRTLEFORD: Riley O’Shea, Charlie Crisp, Corey Southern, Malachi Owers, Mitchell Botter, Nate Bevacqua.

WANGARATTA: Josh Nanson, Brendan Gamze, Jesse Bianco, Noah Trimble, Lachlan Canning.

GOALS: WANGARATTA: Jayden Adamo 1; Harrison Bell 1; Lachlan Canning 1; Brendan Gamze 1; Fraser Holland-Dean 1; Josh Nanson 1; Tyler Nanson 1.

Lavington .................. 14.3.87 North Albury ................ 2.1.13 GOALS: LAVINGTON: Kade Garland 8; Nicholas Sheridan 2; Darcy Smith 2; Jake Nicholson 1; Matthew Paynter 1. NORTH ALBURY: Tim Bowler 1; Liam Reimers 1. __________________ Yarrawonga............ 25.12. 162 Corowa R’glen .............. 2.4.16 GOALS: YARRAWONGA: J Adkins 6; M Hemphill 6; R Mulquiney 4; X Leslie 2; T Lovell 2; R Clarke 1; C Frauenfelder 1; C Pearn 1; B Radford 1; J Urquhart 1. COROWA-RUTHERGLEN: L Lavis 1; J Seymour 1.

Wodonga Raiders ...........0.3.3 Albury ....................18.24.132 GOALS: ALBURY: Matt Lewington 5; Campbell O’Brien 2; Zach Sears 2; Max Bruton 1; Jake Elias 1; Darcy Harrington 1; Christopher Lockhart 1; Jamison Scott 1.

WINNERS AND LOSERS

OVENS AND KING SENIORS LADDER

SCOREBOARD

TEAM 1 BENALLA ALL BLACKS 2 BONNIE DOON 3 BRIGHT 4 MILAWA 5 GOORAMBAT 6 GRETA

P 17 17 17 17 17 17

W 16 13 12 11 10 10

L 1 4 5 5 5 6

D 0 0 0 1 1 1

B 2 2 2 2 2 2

% 333.71 169.12 176.72 119.95 123.18 118.96

PTS 64 52 48 46 44 42

7 8 9 10 11

17 17 18 17 17

6 4 4 3 2

9 13 14 14 15

1 0 0 0 0

2 2 1 1 2

76.83 72.81 59.64 53.21 36.36

28 16 16 12 8

TARRAWINGEE WHOROULY NORTH WANGARATTA KING VALLEY MOYHU

*Ladder correct at time of print from Ovens and King website.

NETBALL SCORES

ROUND 20

A GRADE: Greta and Milawa 35-all, draw Benalla All Blacks 46 defeated Tarrawingee 44 Whorouly 49 defeated Moyhu 31 Bright 42 defeated North Wangaratta 28 Goorambat 51 defeated Bonnie Doon 45

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13

B GRADE: Greta 21 def by Milawa 69; Tarrawingee 36 def

by Benalla All Blacks 38; Whorouly 37 def Moyhu 23; Bright 36 def by Nth Wang 42.

B RESERVE: Greta 31 def by Milawa 47; Tarrawingee 44 def Benalla All Blacks 28; Whorouly 56 def Moyhu 14; Bright 36 def by Nth Wang 43; Goorambat 19 def by Bonnie Doon 54.

C GRADE: Greta 13 def by Milawa 30; Tarrawingee 44 def Benalla All Blacks 14; Whorouly 25 def by Moyhu 46; Bright 20 def by Nth Wang 35.

U15s: Greta 17 def Milawa 9; Whorouly 46 def Moyhu 6; Bright 16 def by Nth Wang 17.

No other scores available at time of print.

BENALLA ALL BLACKS VS GOORAMBAT KING VALLEY VS MILAWA BONNIE DOON VS BRIGHT GRETA VS MOYHU WHOROULY VS TARRAWINGEE NORTH WANGARATTABYE

BRIGHT NTH WANGARATTA

5.2 9.4 2.1 3.2

13.9 15.10.100 3.2 3.3.21

GOALS: BRIGHT: Dylan Bursill 7; Cooper Thomason 4; Nick Howell 2; Kieren Jamieson 1; Darcy Sholl 1. NORTH WANGARATTA: Jack Brown 2; Jamie Berry 1.BEST: BRIGHT: Dylan Bursill, Cooper Thomason, Rodrigo Arguello, Samuel Dalbosco, Darcy Chellew, Nick Howell.

NORTH WANGARATTA: Brandon Fitzpatrick, David Killen, Dylan Fischer, Jack Brown, Luke Kuschert, Harry Miller.

TARRAWINGEE BENALLA

0.4 2.8 2.9 3.10.28 7.3 17.6 24.11 39.14.248

GOALS: TARRAWINGEE: names unavailable. BENALLA ALL BLACKS: Lachlan Thompson 18; Harry Moran 7; Alistair Jacka 5; Jackson Hourigan 2; Brayden Wapling 2; Trent Chapman 1; Justin Gervasoni 1; Tom Levy 1; Chelton Orchard 1. BEST: TARRAWINGEE: Daniel Witham, Ollie Williams, Hugh Amery, Mitchell Barry, Daniel Everitt, Patrick Byrne. BENALLA ALL BLACKS: Lachlan Thompson, Riley Moran, Harry Moran, Rory Wapling, Jake Jones, Chelton Orchard.

GRETA MILAWA

1.5 4.7 2.3 2.5

5.10 4.6

8.13.61 8.7.55

GOALS: GRETA: Daniel Cassidy 5; Joshua Bell 1; Cameron Newbold 1; Mark Wettern 1.

MILAWA: Josh Owen 3; Brent newton 1; Lachlan Sykes 1; Steven Williamson 1. BEST: GRETA: Bradley Whinray, Tom Baker, Tyler Arrowsmith, Daniel Cassidy, Tom Fursdon, Nicholas Pell.

MILAWA: Todd Bird, Ben Clarke, xavier Ham, cheyne gilmore, Simon Pane, Josh Owen.

GOORAMBAT BONNIE DOON

0.0 0.0 3.0 3.2

0.0 4.5

0.3.3 4.5.29

GOALS: BONNIE DOON: Al Bennett 1; Jayjay Curtin 1; Morgan Evans 1; Beau Smith 1.

BEST: GOORAMBAT: Blake Uebergang, Private player, William Greenhalgh, Private player, Perry Knox, Travers Nolan. BONNIE DOON: Travis Kirkham, Patrick Smith, Guy Murray, Morgan Evans, Zac Tanner, Zak Bailey.

WHOROULY MOYHU

3.4 6.12 13.15 15.19.109 1.0 3.0 4.3 7.6.48

GOALS: WHOROULY: Riley Calvene 5; Max Grant 3; Glenn White 2; Cameron Wood 2; Patrick Milner 2; Andrew Newton 1. MOYHU: Jack Aumont 2; Liam Cook 2; Thomas Gorman 1; Daniel Maples 1; Charlie West 1. BEST: WHOROULY: William Allen, Andrew Newton, Riley Calvene, Samuel Ferguson, Xavier Cannizzaro, Hamish McLeod. MOYHU: David McDonald, Nick Stewart, Liam Cook, Dylan Carmody, Thomas Gorman, Xavier Wales.

RESERVES RESULTS Bright .................. 17.13.115 North Wangaratta ...... 4.5.29 GOALS: BRIGHT: Darcy Martin 4; Callum Smith 4; Regan Alexander 2; Leon Hughes 2; Adam Wheelan 2; Jack Fraser 1; Tjay Kinthari 1; Mitchell Tesoriero 1.

NORTH WANGARATTA: Cameron McCormack 3; Blake Marlborough 1.

Tarrawingee .............. 8.5.53 Benalla All Blacks ....... 9.7.61 GOALS: TARRAWINGEE: Hayden Johnston 3; Luke Dinsdale 2; Jake Mountney 2; Thomas Deans 1.BENALLA ALL BLACKS: Harry Parsons 3; Dylan Exton-Cash 2; Liam Sinclair 2; Private player 2.

Greta .......................13.1.79 Milawa ...................... 9.8.62 GOALS: GRETA: Tom Webster 5; Trent Whitecross 3; Damiun Cassidy 1; Matthew Haring 1; Jason Humphries 1; Samuel Monaghan 1; Osbert Ramage 1. MILAWA: Daniel Bryant 3; William Russell 2; Zachary Wallace 2; Jordan Friend 1; Matthew Gardner 1.

Goorambat ................ 6.6.42 Bonnie Doon ................ 1.3.9 GOALS: GOORAMBAT: Jack Trevena 3; Andy Ellis 1; Gary Priest 1; Kobe Black 1. BONNIE DOON: Chris Leitch 1.

Whorouly ...............12.10.82 Moyhu......................... 1.3.9 GOALS: WHOROULY: Simon Chalmers 3; Adam Harris 2; Brett Allen 1; Darcy Allen 1; Martin Davis 1; Ryan Harris 1; Lance Warr 1; Daniel White 1; Geoffrey Zach 1. MOYHU: Matt Milner 1.

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15 MATCH REVIEWS Wodonga continue to haunt Hawks with 42-point win ROUND

By WILLSON MACK

BIG BOOT: Jake McQueen sends one long in his team’s loss to Wodonga on Saturday. PHOTOS: Kurt Hickling

STACKS ON: The contest was hot in tight.

BIG MEN: Shane Gaston goes head-to-head with Michael Driscoll in the ruck.

COMPOSED: Sam Carpenter looks for a teammate.

SPOILED: Michael Bordignon flies for the spoil.

PHOTOS: Janet Watt

COMPETITOR: Daine Porter leaves the field due to the blood rule.

WODONGA continues to have the wood over Wangaratta Rovers, posting their second win against the Hawks this year at WJ Findlay Oval on Saturday.

A five goal to one second term put Wangaratta Rovers on the back foot as the home side never recovered to go down 11.12 (78) to 4.12 (36).

The Bulldogs were also missing Ethan Redcliffe and Alex Smout - two of their best players, making the win even more disappointing for the Hawks.

Jake McQueen was arguably Wangaratta Rovers’ best player kicking two of his side’s four majors, while for the Dogs Sam Jewell and 19-year-old debutant Jett Cassidy

booted three each.

Raven Jolliffe was also prominent for the Hakws, while young tall Jace McQuade continues to develop nicely.

Wodonga shocked Rovers in round six by 27 points, and now the Hawks have lost their spot in the five to Lavington on percentage with three rounds left.

Wangaratta Rovers have games against Corowa-Rutherglen, North Albury and Albury to come and two wins would more than likely secure their spot in finals with the Panthers facing both Wangaratta and Albury in the run home.

In the O&M’s other matches, Wangaratta beat Myrtleford by seven points in a muddy affair and Lavington were too strong for North Albury, saluting by 39 points.

TEAM TALK: Wangaratta’s backman have their line meeting.

Fun in the mud at McNamara Reserve

IT was a day for mudlarks at Myrtleford’s McNamara Reserve where Wangaratta survived a scare from the Saints to grab the four points.

Heavy rain over the past few days made the ground a bog by the end of the clash where seven goals were kicked in the first quarter but none in the second half as the Magpies edged out Myrtleford 5.13 (43) to 5.6 (36).

“It was just about accepting the conditions and trying to embrace them,” Wangaratta coach Ben Reid said.

“We found out what guys like the contest and who

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likes to dig in and do the hard-nosed things.

“It was definitely a game that you may only play once a year but it could happen again so it was good to have a hit out.”

Reid admitted the conditions put any game plans out the window.

“Myrtleford was really strong in those conditions and I think any talent that any team has gets thrown

out the window in games like these,” he said.

“There was no speed in the game, it was just about winning the ball and then kicking it forward.

“It’s hard to take things away from it because any structures or game plans go away.”

In polar opposite conditions to what would be seen in the Northern Territory, Abe Ankers was the star kicking three goals as a small forward.

“For a bloke who has played most of his footy in the NT and probably hasn’t really seen conditions

like those Abe Ankers was great,” Reid said.

“I also thought ‘Bater’ (Matt Kelly) and Daine Porter were good as well, they’re the sort of guys who really do embrace the challenge.

“It was also great to get Hunter Gottschling back in the side after having eight or nine weeks off with injury.”

In a 15-minute period to start the second half, the ball barely moved more than a 30m area in Wangaratta’s attacking end.

The ‘Pies finished with 1.11 after quarter-time to

hold on, although the game wasn’t decided until they kicked a point in the last minute of the match to go seven points up.

“Eighty per cent of the play was in our forward 50 in the second half,” Reid said.

“There were probably 25 blokes around the ball though so it was hard to get any shots away but it helped run minutes off the clock.

“Once we kicked a point to go seven points up that was when we felt we were safe because they weren’t going to kick two goals.”

The Magpies now have

three games left until finals and sit one win clear on top of the ladder.

“I’m happy with where we’re at, we’re building nicely,” Reid said.

“We’re starting to get players back now, Matt Grossman might be back next week, Hunter played his first game back on the weekend and Jessie Smith returned in the second and played well too.

“We’ve got blokes putting their hands up to play senior footy so selection is going to be tough over the next few weeks which is a good problem to have.”

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BREAKING FREE WANGARATA Rovers star Brodie Filo tucks the ball under his arm in his side’s 42-point loss to Wodonga on Saturday at WJ Findlay Oval. It was the second time this year that the Bulldogs ran over the top of the Hawks.

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Blues outlast Milawa

Greta p pulled off a thrilling g one ggoal win over league g jjuggernaut gg Milawa at Greta Recreation Reserve

HISTORIC scenes went down at the Greta Recreation Reserve on Saturday, as Greta pulled off a win over Milawa in both footy grades for the first time in years, with the seniors coming in by six points 8.13 (61) to 8.7 (55).

An evenly-matched contest throughout, the Blues

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pushed out to a 14-point lead by half-time, thanks to strong work around the contest from the midfield and a

locked-down back six.

Momentum swung Milawa’s way as the Demons surged to within 10 points, and even drew level in the final minutes of the match.

However, Greta stalwart Dan Cassidy managed to take a mark in front of goals, and converted to gift the

Blues the points.

Coach Greg Newbold said his side was fortunate to take a win over a quality side like Milawa.

“It was a good win, a good game of footy,” he said.

“They were up and about - they had Jamie Allan back in the team, they played him

deep forward and he was pretty dangerous early on but we withstood the challenges.

“We won the ball and got more inside 50s but we weren’t that efficient going inside 50 - that last kick into the forward 50 was pretty inefficient but we generated

enough repeat entries to get enough scoreboard pressure on.

“Our back six or seven were really strong, really competitive all day - they didn’t lose a lot of one-onones, and we were able to put a bit of pressure on them.

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