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WALK SAFE LOLLYPOP lady Sharyn Routledge guides St Patrick’s Primary School students (from left) Sebastian Turner, Evie Giglio, Viv Giglio, Jack Reid, Mia Thompson and Max Turner as they join thousands of kids across the country celebrating National Walk Safely to School Day today. Story page 2. PHOTO: Kurtis Hickling
WHO WILL IT BE? Haines,, Lyman y both hopeful, p , expecting p gp preferences to decide fate of Indi seat
INDI Independent incumbent Helen Haines and Liberal candidate Ross Lyman have spent the past five weeks of the federal election campaign seeking to offer voters a clear choice amid a field of 10 candidates. They have both laboured their points of policy differences, and each remains hopeful of their success at the ballot box tomorrow, although neither was predicting a result when contacted by the Wangarat-
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ta Chronicle on Wednesday. What they do agree on though, is expecting to be the last two standing and for your preferences to decide the outcome of the seat. Dr Haines won Indi in 2019 - retaining its Independent status delivered by Cathy McGowan dethroning Liberal
2022 INDI FEDERAL ELECTION incumbent Sophie Mirabella in 2013 - although a 4.13 per cent swing to the Liberals last election has cut the margin to just 1.4 per cent. “I’m hopeful of being reelected but I don’t take the people of Indi for granted... it’s (result) too hard to tell,” she said on Wednesday, af-
ter another hectic day manning pre-poll stations which have been busier than ever across the electorate. “We’ve run a strong and positive campaign...supported by 1800 volunteers who’ve been busy door knocking throughout Indi. “As the Independent MP I’ve been fighting for the people of Indi...that’s who I represent and answer to, not party bosses. “In 2019 the electorate let me know stamping out cor-
ruption was a big issue and I’ve been championing that pursuing an integrity commission in parliament. “If there is a hung parliament, a minority government, I’ve been clear that my interests are front and centre putting the Indi electorate first...I will never negotiate away my ability to vote on issues in the best interests of Indi. “Whoever forms government, I and Indi have made it clear that an integrity commission, improved ru-
ral health and telecommunications, and climate action are important issues.” A similarly hopeful Mr Lyman was buoyed by prepoll support over the past week, but said a result was “too close to call”. “We’ve run a strong campaign and over the past two to three weeks I’ve got the sense the mood is shifting and people are looking for a change in Indi,” he said. ■ Continued page 4 ■ Other candidates page 4
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By ANITA McPHERSON KIDS across Wangaratta nd district will be hitting the footpaths and walking trails today with family and friends as part of National Walk Safely to School Day today. The community initiative aims to raise awareness about the health, road safety and environmental benefits regular walking can provide for the longterm wellbeing of children. Apart from the physical benefits, regular walking is also believed to have a positive impact on children’s cognitive and academic performance, and it’s something St Patrick’s Primary School principal Gabrielle Downie can attest to. She said while our busy lives today mean more parents find it convenient to drop children off at school on their way to work, the opportunity to walk offers a myriad of benefits. “There are fewer people walking then they did in the past and I think that’s due to the change of lifestyle with families being busy and having to fit more into their day,” she said.
Top 5 tips for parents to get their kids walking to school: 1. Walk some or if you can, walk all the way to school 2. Get off the bus a few stops earlier and walk the rest of the way 3. Leave the car at least one kilometre away from school and walk the rest of the way 4. Set your alarm 30 minutes earlier to fit in a walk to school 5. If you can’t walk in the morning, walk home after school. “But when you see children coming in from a walk they are fresher and more relaxed and having that exercise is great for their mental health - being part of nature and the community is a wonderful thing.” Ms Downie said walking to school is a great relaxation activity and the beauty is that just about anyone can do it in their own way. “It’s something which doesn’t require much skill, we can all engage in it and it’s a wonderful way to get some fresh air, clear your mind and notice your environment,” she said.
GOOD MORNING: Fresh from their walk and ready to start their school day are (from left) Jack Reid, Sebastian Turner, Evie Giglio, Viv Giglio, Mia Thompson and Max Turner. PHOTO: Kurtis Hickling “Walking side by side with someone is also a great way to have a conversation, open up and share your thoughts for the day.” The event will be the ideal warm up for a full day of activities at St Patrick’s where there will be healthy fruit snacks waiting for kids before they take part in interschool winter sports. This year, National Walk Safely to School Day joined forces with National Road Safety Week to draw the spotlight on road safety as well as support the importance of regular walking every day. Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman and chief executive
officer Harold Scruby said that until they are 10, children must always hold the hand of an adult when crossing the road. Mr Scruby said the national initiative also promotes healthy eating with the childhood obesity epidemic continuing to affect one in four children at critical levels across Australia. “The best exercise for all Australians is walking regularly,” he said. “Children need at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day and we should encourage them to take a walk before school, during and at end of their day.”
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ALMOST a third of the 117,571 eligible Indi voters in this federal election had already cast their vote by Tuesday, according to data published by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). The data shows 38,772 Indi residents had cast a vote by May 17, making up 32.98 per cent of eligible Indi voters. Of those voters, 19.5 percent cast their ballot by post. This is greater than the national average - just over a quarter of eligible Australians had cast their vote early by Tuesday. Previous elections have seen an increase in early voting - in 2019, 31.59 per cent of turnout was at early voting centres, up from 22 per cent in 2016. Early voting in Wangaratta is available from 8am-6pm today at St Patrick’s Hall in Ford Street. Three voting centres will be open from 8am-6pm in
CAST YOUR VOTE: Almost a third of eligible Indi residents had voted early by Tuesday, beating the national average. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling Wangaratta tomorrow. Voters can cast their ballot at St Patrick’s Hall, as well as Wangaratta High School (Edwards Street) and Fr James Byrne Memorial Hall at Our Lady’s Primary School (White Street). Outside of Wangaratta, Indi
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Local youth gear up for parkour action today ANTICIPATION has reached feverpitch ahead of the grand opening of the new parkour park at Wangaratta’s Apex Park Regional Playspace today. Rural City of Wangaratta’s Next Gen youth advisory group members Finn Vogels and Turner Pearson are excited to see the new addition to Apex Park and are keen to give the sport of parkour a try by signing up to one of the free workshops being offered by Bendigo parkour team “Walk the Walls”. “I have never been to a proper parkour park but have tried street parkour and enjoy watching parkour youtuber videos,” Turner said, who also enjoys BMX and mountain biking, adding that parkour appeals to his adventurous side and has many parallels with other adrenaline sports. “Doing parkour is really fun - it forces you to think outside the box to come up with new lines. “I think everyone should give it a try.”
READY TO FLY: Louis Pye, Finn Vogels, Lucy Sinclair and Lanie Evans with (front) Turner Pearson, are among those looking forward to making the most of the new parkour park which opens today in Apex Park. Finn acknowledged the importance of council and young people working together to deliver projects for Wangaratta’s youth.
“It was vital for the youth to have a say in the parkour park - it brings what their generation wants into the park and
it gives a broader idea of activities we want in Wangaratta,” he said. “I think it’s a great thing what the council is doing,
giving the youth a new spot to go and hang out. “It’s beneficial for the greater community - not only the youth - but I can
also definitely see it being a great place to go.” Today’s free grand opening event kicks off at 4pm and will feature a parkour display by Wangaratta’s own Ninja Warrior Frank Crispo, as well as a chance to discover more from Wangaratta Knights Rugby League Club, Wangaratta Dragons Hockey Club and Wangaratta Park Run. For those wanting to know more about Parkour, the Bendigo Parkour team “Walk the Walls” will be running free parkour workshops over the weekend and again on Sunday, June 5 and June 19. Registrations can be made via www.trybooking. com/BZDFV. The project was made possible through $500,000 in funding from the Victorian State Government, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions 2019/20 Regional Infrastructure Fund and a $500,000 low interest loan from the department as part of the Project Delivery and Loan Subsidy Agreement.
Illness tests schools’ agility SCHOOLS in Wangaratta continue to focus on being “agile”, “adaptable and flexible” as they work to cover student and staff absences due to COVID-19 and other illnesses, heading into winter months. “At the moment there is a bit of a wave, with flu and gastro (in addition to COVID cases),” Galen Catholic College principal Darta Hovey said. “That’s the way of it; whenever there are social events on the weekend, it’s bringing it in, particularly now we are gathering inside more often in the colder weather.” Mr Hovey said illness had affected students and staff, and the school was regularly drawing on its pool of casual relief teachers (CRTs).
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“For us at Galen, it’s about being agile, and assessing our numbers every day,” he said. “It’s not over 10 per cent of the student population affected, but when you are pushed for CRTs, do you combine classes? “That’s the sort of thing we’re assessing, but we are not at that stage. “We’ll just keep monitoring the numbers every day.” While masks are currently required to be worn at school only by close contacts of COVID-19 cases, Mr Hovey said the past two years had boosted awareness of
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and Numeracy) has really been affected for our students, and there are lots of catch-ups being done, but we think there are still some students who will miss out,” Mr Jones said. “Our year nine camp to Torquay last term was affected, and we have had to cancel a year 12 hike this week. “It’s great that we are getting back to extra-curricular activities; we just have to be adaptable and flexible, as we know things can change at the last minute.” Mr Jones said there had been an increase in the number of staff unavailable due to illness early in term two, but the school had been able to secure enough CRTs to cover absences. “We are certainly on the limit; we have a good supply
of CRTs we call on, and most of them are here most days,” he said. “We are living on the edge, but it hasn’t stopped us.” Mr Jones said the school’s focus was on arranging opportunities for parents to be on-site, after two years of minimal face-to-face contact, and families had responded well to these. Wangaratta High School principal Dave Armstrong said the Edwards Street school was tracking fairly well in terms of absences from illness, with no major increase since his arrival in March. “There are often staff and students out with COVID, so it is a bit more challenging than usual, but we have been talking to our community about ongoing
vigilance,” he said. “I think we are better prepared (for flu season) than we have ever been, because people are more aware of things like hand sanitisation, and we are about to put in another 81 air purifiers; we already have air purifiers in every classroom. “I think we are more cautious than before, and where people would have ‘soldiered on’ with illness before, they will now stay home. Many people are choosing, even if they have tested negative, to wear a mask as a precaution.” Mr Armstrong said it was important for excursions to proceed after two years of remote learning, and students undertook COVID tests before excursions, and on buses before departure.
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Haines, Lyman both hopeful, expecting preferences to decide the fate of Indi seat ■
YOUR CHOICE: Indi candidates (from left, top) Angel Aleksov (Animal Justice Party), Helen Haines (Independent), Lachlan O'Connell (Derryn Hinch's Justice Party), Stephen Williams (United Australia Party), Beth Stevens (Pauline Hanson's One Nation); (bottom, from left) Benjamin Gilbert (The Australian Greens), Liz Fisher (National Party of Australia), Nadia David (Australian Labor Party), Julian Fidge (Liberal Democratic Party), and Ross Lyman (Liberal Party of Australia).
Labor, Nationals hopeful but concede it’s big ask By JEFF ZEUSCHNER THEY remain hopeful, but both Labor candidate Nadia David and Nationals candidate Liz Fisher concede it would take something quite remarkable to prevail in Indi tomorrow. Coming off a primary base of only 12 per cent in 2019, Ms David said the 20 per cent swing she needs to win the seat is “possible, not probable”. The Beechworth-based criminal justice lecturer is proud of running Labor’s “strongest campaign in a very long time” in Indi. “The last decade has come down to preferences to decide the seat and I’m a stronger chance with the Liberals preferencing me ahead of Dr Haines,” she said. “I’m excited by the pre-poll feedback. “The Morrison Government is on the nose and I think many people are seeing Independents are not the answer as they can’t get things done by themselves, like an ICAC or climate action.” That said, Ms David believed if her ‘miracle’ win
in Indi didn’t eventuate, Dr Haines - who she has preferenced at number four behind the Greens’ Benjamin Gilbert and Animal Justice Party candidate Angel Aleksov would be elected on the back of a good campaign. Nationally, she said while many people remained undecided, she believed Labor’s “safe pair of hands and strongest team in living memory” will prevail, particularly given its core policies around aged care, health services, climate action, education, power and cost of living. The Nationals’ Ms Fisher conceded she was very much an “underdog”, but still hoped to win. “I know our party is coming off a primary vote of just under 10 per cent at the last election, but we’ve certainly been a lot higher than that previously and we’ve had a strong campaign,” she said. “I offer a very real choice for voters and have demonstrated I’d be part of a team.” Ms Fisher expected, based on past elections, Indi will again be decided on preferences, and said it will be
particularly interesting to see what level of support minor conservative parties - such as One Nation, Liberal Democrats and United Australia Party - get based on people’s view of how the pandemic was handled. Failing a ‘miracle’ increase in her primary vote, the majority of her preferences are expected to flow to Mr Lyman “who offers a plan and will be part of a great team”. “I don’t think Independents, with diverse views without a common vision, are good for functional government.” Greens’ candidate Benjamin Gilbert emerged yesterday, after a week in COVID lockdown, hitting pre-poll centres with his “secret weapon” - three year old son Moli playing the ukulele. Mr Gilbert said action on climate change had been the biggest talking point of this campaign and “only the Greens have a sound plan in line with the science”. He said he was hoping the party’s primary vote (four per cent in 2019) may increase as he believed his party’s
policies “resonate with the interests of youth”. Mr Gilbert said he’d be ‘“surprised” if Dr Haines whom his party preferenced first - didn’t hold the seat, while noting the “excellent campign by the very progressive Labor candidate”. “Nationally I’m hoping to see the Liberal Party out so we can get progress on climate,” he said. Liberal Democrats candidate Julian Fidge said he was hoping to double the primary vote (2.07 per cent) he received when he ran for the Australian Country Party in the 2016 federal election. The Wangaratta GP said preferences will again decide the fate of the seat of Indi, and he expected both Labor and Liberal parties’ first preference voting to be down. He believed micro party preferences will favour the Coalition - and Labor and Green preferences to favour Dr Haines - and preferences “may be enough to tip (Liberals) Mr Lyman across the line”. Nationally, he believed Labor didn’t have the “personalities or policies to win” and thought the Coalition would
be returned, with the United Australia Party a “dark horse” to pick up some seats. Animal Justice Party candidate Angel Aleksov said he believed Dr Haines will retain the seat with an increased margin. “It will be good to see Independent representation retained in Indi and we’d love to see her advocate more for animal rights,” he said. Nationally, Mr Aleksov said his party is looking forward to a change in government, with he and his party having preferenced Labor and the Greens ahead of Coalition candidates, seeking more action on banning live exports and addressing the “climate emergency”. United Australia Party candidate Stephen Williams was unable to make any comment. His predecessor in the 2019 federal election won almost four per cent of the primary vote. Neither Beth Stevens (Pauline Hanson’s One Nation) or Lachlan O’Connell (Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party) could be contacted for comment.
From page 1 “I’ve had an overwhelming response from the public, particularly talking to many hundreds of voters at pre-poll this week, and our volunteers’ vibe is that momentum is shifting. “Since January I’ve been campaigning on a positive platform to bring investment into Indi... people feel the region has been left behind under an Independent.” Mr Lyman questioned Dr Haines’ transparency, saying she had “failed to say who she would support in a hung parliament...although her voting record in 2021 showed she voted with Labor 80 per cent of the time”. He said he had a strong economic plan for Indi and if elected would be part of a team that can deliver on major issues. “If I am elected and we are in Opposition, I will still be part of a team that can work with federal and state MPs on fundamental issues for the electorate more than an Independent,” Mr Lyman said. For the record, the TAB odds this week had Dr Haines at $1.07, Mr Lyman at $8, Labor’s Nadia David at $34 and Green’s Benjamin Gilbert at $51 to win Indi. MONDAY EDITION ELECTION COVERAGE Monday’s Wangaratta Chronicle will have coverage of the federal election, including comments and reaction from Indi candidates.
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Success flows to community
GETTING GREAT SUPPORT: Open Door Neighbourhood House executive officer Loretta Waters in the food pantry at the Burke Street base, which received support from the Wangaratta Bicycle Users Group via the group’s involvement in this year’s Wangaratta Chronicle Marathon and Fun Run. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling
Free forum calls local youth to shape future ‘RESHAPE Our Future‘ is the theme of a youth forum to be held in Wangaratta in June as part of a state–wide program. Organised by Youth Affairs Council Victoria, the forum is a free event designed to give young people aged 12 to 25 the chance to make a difference around the issues they care about, and to meet like–minded people. Following lockdowns and with the easing of COVID–19 restrictions, forums including the Wangaratta session and others being held in Melbourne and across regional Vic-
toria aim to make a space where young people can come together, learn and take action to shape the future. Session topics will include ‘We are the leaders of today and tomorrow‘ and ‘Pathways to Power: how you can make a difference‘, along with other locally–tailored sessions. The local forum will be held at the Wangaratta Performing Arts and Convention Centre on Tuesday, June 14 from 10am to 2pm, with food and entertainment provided. Free tickets can be booked at https://www. yacvic.org.au/reshape.
COMMUNITY benefits continue to flow from this year’s Wangaratta Chronicle Marathon and Fun Run, with local volunteer groups receiving donations from the event’s proceeds. The 1st Yarrunga Scout Group and Wangaratta Scout Group, who manned aid stations for the event, and the Wangaratta Kennel and Obedience Dog Club, which provided use of their space and organised fruit for competitors, have all received donations for their assistance with the March 19 event. Wangaratta Lions Club - which assisted with course marshalling and provided a breakfast barbecue on the day - received 15 per cent of all entry fees, which club president Michael Everard said would go towards the staging of this year’s Carols by Candlelight. Meanwhile, the Wangaratta Bicycle Users Group (BUGs), members of which acted as bicycle leaders and sweepers and manned the event’s baggage area, passed on its donation to Open Door Neighbourhood House’s Food Pantry. This pantry has offered a lifeline to thousands of local families over recent years, operating from the Burke Street neighbourhood house with the support of food partners and the community, and offering a vital source of nutritious, balanced meals, particularly to those impacted by the pandemic. Loretta Waters, executive officer at Open Door Neighbourhood
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House, said demand for the food relief service had grown in 2021 during the effects of COVID-19, and she was humbled by the BUGs’ donation to assist in its operation. “We are so grateful to be able to offer food support to our community, particularly during such difficult times and circumstances as we have seen over the last few years,” she said. “We couldn’t do this without the collective generosity of wonderful groups like BUGs which, without prompting, think of us - or of the home vegetable grower who drops off their excess produce, the local Advance Motel which donates $100 worth of food a month, or any other group or person who takes a moment out of their day to support people in Wangaratta who are doing it a little tough. “This is done in kindness, without judgement or stigma. Witnessing this within our community makes me a little misty-eyed, and I’m very proud to be a part of something so wonderful.” More than 700 people competed in this year’s Wangaratta Chronicle Marathon and Fun Run, conducted from the Wangaratta Showgrounds, and the volunteer assistance helped immensely in the planning and staging of the event.
SNAG A SNACK ON ELECTION DAY: Wangaratta High School prefects including Gracie York, Sheridan McDonald and Hayley Murphy-Graham, pictured with principal Dave Armstrong, will ensure locals have access to the famed ‘democracy sausage’ on federal election day, with a sausage sizzle happening at the campus as it operates as a polling booth tomorrow. The barbecue will be in action from 9am, with proceeds going towards construction of a social space for senior students. Head prefect Steph Grant said: “It’s a really important time to have your voice heard, and also to see what the Wangaratta High School community has on offer.” In addition to the barbecue, the high school’s year 11 VCAL students will hold a stall outside the polling booth to raise funds which will be invested back into their program. Craft items ranging from tie-dyed socks and aprons to face scrubs and candles, as well as marinated olives and dehydrated fruit, will be on sale at prices between $2 and $15, with EFTPOS facilities available. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling
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Volunteering shortage continues to bite clubs
By BRODIE EVERIST
SPORTS clubs around Wangaratta continue to report a shortage of volunteers, but despite surveys reporting the impact of COVID-19, clubs point to a wide range of causes for the lack of volunteers. Cam Green, manager of the Ovens and King Football and Netball League, said all the clubs in their league are experiencing some volunteer shortages, and that while volunteer numbers were dropping before the pandemic, COVID-19 had revealed the extent of the problem. “It’s just harder and harder to get new volunteers and new people to put their hands up,” he said. “Clubs have been struggling with that well before COVID, but on top of that, COVID is also affecting them as well.” Mr Green also highlighted another pressure on volunteers - a lack of umpires. While the netball league and reserves football competition run regularly with volunteer umpires in the Ovens and King League, this year even the senior football grade has needed volunteers, he said. “There’s a couple of games that require boundary umpires or goal umpires each week, just because we don’t have the numbers,” he said. Last year the Australian
STANDING UP FOR VOLUNTEERS: When it comes to volunteering at sports clubs “it’s too much left to too few”, said Cam Green, manager of the Ovens and King Football and Netball League. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling Sports Foundation published a survey showing 42 per cent of sports clubs have reported a decline in volunteering, partly due to the increase in workload, pressures and responsibilities of implementing COVID-19 protocols. Similarly, a report by Sport North East released in January said the COVID-19 pandemic had negatively impacted volunteer retention, although a majority of clubs in the survey did not report a change in the number of volun-
teers between 2019 and 2021. Wangaratta and District Cricket Association secretary Wayne Cooper thinks there are fewer teams and fewer volunteers in their association after the pandemic. “I think without the regular sport on the weekend people have found other activities to do,” he said. “Some of them enjoyed their time off, so they haven’t come back.” Mr Cooper was also worried that following COVID-19 protocols was
contributing to volunteer burnout. Whorouly Football and Netball Club president Eddie Costenaro said they’re lucky to have a good committee and a team of regular volunteers, but many aren’t willing to make long-term commitments. “People are always willing to help, but a lot don’t want to jump on a committee and have a role,” he said. “A lot will say, ‘when I’m there, I’ll help you out, but I can’t commit to anything.’”
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Extreme weather sees on ground search scaled back VICTORIA Police wound back its on ground search for a 70-year-old man missing from Dinner Plain since Friday, due to extreme weather and snowfall across the search area yesterday. Hundreds of police and other emergency service crews have been searching for ‘Christos’ since he failed to return from a walk in the area surrounding the village last Friday afternoon. With the search number being scaled back yesterday, extra attention is being applied to the aerial search using drones and the police helicopter. A Victoria Police spokesperson said off-road motorcycles will be joining the search focusing on outlying and more remote areas. “About 400 searchers have been involved in the search since Christos went missing including members from the mounted branch, search and rescue, airwing and local members, as well as BSAR, Ambulance Victoria, Parks Victoria, SES, Resort and Ski Lift staff along with local volunteers,” the spokesperson said. Police were to assess the continuation of the search at the end of yesterday.
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Salvation Army appeals for support By GRAHAM CLEMENTS
READY TO RECEIVE: Salvation Army pastors Peter and Rhonda Lewis welcome your donations. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling
THE Salvation Army is calling on the Wangaratta community to get involved in this year’s Red Shield Appeal, so open your hearts and wallets. “We are so grateful to the Wangaratta community who have always rallied together and supported the Red Shield Appeal year on year,” Peter Lewis, who heads the work of The Salvation Army in Wangaratta, said. “This year is no different - we need the help of community members more than ever as we continue to support those who have felt the devastating impacts of the past couple of years.” According to The Salvation Army, the community has developed a feeling of economic insecurity over the past few difficult years, much
of this due to the impact of multiple disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Lewis said that the funds raised in Wangaratta in this year’s Red Shield Appeal will remain local to be used in projects to assist those struggling with their mental health. Mental health issues were noted as a major concern by community members interviewed for the Social Justice Stocktake, commissioned by The Salvation Army in the electorate of Indi. Mr Lewis said the red shield appeal co-ordinator told him that appeal totals had been severely diminished over the past few years because of COVID. “If you have the means, please consider donating to the Red Shield Appeal this year,” Mr Lewis said.
He said donation activities for Wangaratta centre around collection points at several locations around town, including the Post Office, Bunnings, Big W and Coles. “At those venues our friendly volunteers will take your donations with a smile,” Mr Lewis said. “You can donate cash or use QR codes. “The collection points will be set up from Wednesday, May 25 to Sunday May 29.” Mr Lewis said people can also donate through the Salvation Army website at https://digitaldoorknock.salvationarmy.org.au/t/wangaratta-salvos. He also welcomes people who want to help collect donations and volunteer at the collection points, please contact 5722 1129 if you can spare some time.
Borrowers to benefit as BankWAW holds back on full rate rise Strong support for seven weeks until June 24. Meanwhile, savers are also set to benefit with increases well beyond 0.25 per cent to various term deposit products. The decision comes as the organisation seeks to support borrowers facing higher costs of living, as well as repay the loyalty of customers during the last two years of the pandemic. BankWAW chief executive officer Michael Mack said that the decision was very much in keeping
with the institution’s customerowned model and reflects a commitment to the many thousands of customers that supported the organisation during a period of rapid interest rate changes at the beginning of 2020. “As a customer-owned organisation it is important to constantly challenge ourselves to find ways to support our customers and communities wherever we can,” Mr Mack said. “We also need to have long
memories and acknowledge the support our customers provided when difficult decisions had to be made, when rates were going down rapidly at the outset of the pandemic.” Any customer experiencing difficulties is encouraged to call BankWAW on 1300 368 555 to discuss ways to assist them during the period ahead. Information can also be found at www.bankwaw.com.au/Support/Financial-Hardship.
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Above all else make your vote count AFTER six weeks of campaigning the federal election is almost here and for most Indi residents it hasn‘t come quickly enough. Despite some negative aspects to the campaign on a local and certainly national level, voters cannot give up hope that they still have a roll to play to ensure the successful candidate reflects the majority of our community‘s opinion . We can only choose who we think is best to serve our needs and hopes and that may be due to their personal strengths, their policies and for some their political allegiances. Their integrity, honesty and transparency must be important too otherwise we are simply handing over our future to someone who will not be accountable. Sadly, electorates have been condemned for choosing one candidate over another by the losing party or candidate, accused of making a mistake or a poor choice. This is not only patronising, it‘s straight out insulting. We might not agree with some candidates other electorates on the other side of the state or the country have chosen, but they have made their choice and we must respect that. The same should be accorded to us. Only one thing is guaranteed with our democracy, we will get the winning candidate we deserve and if they have our and their country‘s best interests at heart and represent us well, the government, whatever their persuasion, should deal with them openly and honestly.
PM not too blame for living costs rise IF you think Scott Morrison is responsible for the rising cost of living, then you don’t understand what is going on in the world. The rising cost of living is a global phenomenon, fundamentally driven by these three causes: 1) Lockdowns and restrictions - people have been unable to work, which has reduced the supply of goods and services, while government intervention has maintained the demand (debt repayment freezes, cash handouts). 2) Energy shortages - under-investment in fossil fuels and nuclear, in favour of renewables, which can’t supply the same reliable energy for the same cost. When energy prices rise - everything rises. 3) Global debt - which is the highest in human history. Wages have been struggling to increase, because global economic growth has been near-stagnant for the past decade. Extreme levels of debt, means the money once spent on growth or wage increases, instead goes into debt repayments. There is too much detail in any of these factors to explain them further here. But it should at least be clear that no single person is responsible for the cost of living rising and no-one can stop it. Decades of short-sighted politics, toxic ideologies and central banking are to blame. There is no easy way to fix any of it and some powers that be don’t want it fixed. Financial pain is unavoidable. All we can do is try to ease it - by opposing government restrictions, delaying the phasing-out of fossil fuels and understanding the global forces working against us - central banks especially. Josh Millar, Wangaratta
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In response to the letter printed in the Wangaratta Chronicle on May 16 from Patti Bulluss - “Haines helpless without a team”. Being an Independent MP does not mean you are not part of a team or can’t influence policy or funding. It gives you the freedom to represent your electorate and are able to work across party lines, with all levels of government plus various community groups, to achieve outcomes, in the best interests of your electorate. Helen Haines has a proven track record of doing this and of also giving credit where credit is due to others. Since her election in 2019 Helen actively helped secure funding for mobile phone towers, high speed internet infrastructure, local renewable energy projects, projects in economic development and investment in mental health programs. During her term, Indi has also directly benefited from funding for local roads and bridges, drought resilience projects and bushfire recovery grants. Helen is also dedicated to introducing a Federal Independent Commission Against Corruption - a powerhouse of work has been completed towards this with a comprehensive bill ready to debate and legislate. Being part of a political party is no
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PARK FUN: Despite the rain on Saturday, around 100 people converged on Merriwa Park to hunt for Hidden Creatures. This Rural City of Wangaratta initiative was the culmination of workshops run with students from Whitfield District Primary School, Carragarmungee Primary School, Everton Primary School, St Patrick’s Primary School, Springhurst Primary School, Oxley Primary School and Wangaratta West Primary School by the Arena Theatre Company over the past fortnight. (Pictured left to right) Maisie Broomfield, Maddi Pauls, Roxy Smithwick, Brianna Robison and Isla Brookfield were among the young people that braved the weather to take part in the hunt. The Hidden Creatures have temporarily vacated Merriwa Park to be upgraded into a weatherproof fixture. Stay posted for details of their return! guarantee that you will be a part of an effective government team or will achieve anything at all in the best interests of Indi - you are limited by your party policies and factions. It is clearly evident that Helen will be a powerful member of a growing influential crossbench, demanding a better standard of our next government and continuing to deliver for Indi. Helen Haines is part of a team of a different nature - a huge team of volunteers. A team of hundreds of like-minded people engaging respectfully in democracy and wanting the best for Indi. This kind of team gives me hope for the future of Australian politics. Kylie Edmondson, Wangaratta
Independents and sports commentators NO disrespect to the sports commentator; they manage to interview players and coaches before and after the game. They are not present when the coach lays out the strategy for the players to follow. They are not present when the captain gives his motivation during play intervals and yet they can advocate how to win the game. The final siren at the grand final and the score is level; would you have the “sports commentator” deciding who should be premiers? When we have a federal election, the party with the most seats has the right to form the government. If this is not an absolute majority, there will be negotiations with Independents to form a majority government. Do you want Independents making the “choice” for you, whether we continue with
a Liberal National Government or a left wing Labor Green Government. The multi-millions of dollars that Climate 200 is using to fund Independents against sitting Liberals, who do you think these candidates will support if successful? They won’t tell you prior to the election. Keiran Klemm, Londrigan
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NOTE: Comments as they appear online, without corrections. Facebook users this week commented on Ovens Valley MP Tim McCurdy saying that the state government had overlooked the North East in its new jobs initiative. Jill Lindquist:Hmmm, I feel a letter to the editor coming on. ... Stephen Queen: Labor and liberal last , it’s easy Leslie Matthews: Maybe Tim is part of the problem then.
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Prime Minister is so full of egotistical compost that he can continuously replenish his own discharge. “If you want change, change the government.” Shane Long: So our hospitals are a mess no staff and outdated equipment. There’s little rental housing around what is is unaffordable. The price of a family shop has nearly doubled and you want to legalise illicit drugs. Jordan Swain: People need to understand they do not want to legalise them they want to decriminalise them, people with substance abuse problems and addictions should not be shunned and jailed by society but helped. They did it in Portugal early this century and the crime rate and drug deaths dropped by a huge amount. Nikita Gambrell: Completely out of touch with reality Linda Melhuish: bringing things like
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A fine line between a bulldozer and a bully I AGREE with Scott Morrison - he is a bulldozer. He pushed through with robodebt even when he was told it was illegal. He has bulldozed through large government contracts which have not gone through a proper tender process. He has used procedural barriers to prevent the Labor Party from debating in parliament. He has bulldozed barriers to obstruct freedom of information requests, hidden behind commercial in-confidence arrangements and claimed cabinet secrecy to hide from scrutiny.
that out on the last week always brings Labor undone. Facebook users this week also commented on Wangaratta Police calling for pedestrians to take care when crossing roads. Joy Longmuir: Some drivers forget they are also pedestrians. Some pedestrians take stupid risks. Erin Dowdle: It’s also concerning how many drivers nearly hit me on a weekly basis but not looking when reversing! And I’m sounding my horn yet this person kept reversing after me doing it for at least 30 seconds honestly . And then just shrugging there shoulders.. then last week… someone one nearly hit the front end and back end of my car. Pat Twitchett: It is very concerning that at the front door of our Base hospital there is no crossing knowing the sick and elderly have to be able to
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He bulldozed the procedures of the NSW Liberal Party to parachute in his captain picks such as Craig Kelly, now with Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party, and Katherine Deves. Australians often shorten words for ease of communication. Bulldozer easily shortens to “bully”. Kerryn Taylor, Wangaratta
Lyman offers a realistic vision AT last, someone has a vision for Indi. After reading a small yet very significant article in your newspaper on page 5 on Monday regarding our local Indi Liberal candidate, Ross Lyman, I felt hope for the future of our great region. With his extensive experience as a commando in the ADF, then his career
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Tim Longman: How dare they make •people look after their own lives Julie Doesn’t help when •two of theScott: new pedestrian crossings on Docker street either have new trees or car parks so close to the crossing that they block the view of drivers of any pedestrian approaching the crossing.Someone removed the young tree only for the council to organise its replanting. I love my trees, but a few metres away from the road edge would be safer for all David Simpson: Maybe they need to fine people for walking and texting, seen so many nearly hit because there stuck to there phone’s Stevie Ryan: To be fair, some of the newer crossings are not that well signed. If they put the effort that they did into Phillipson St, at the pedestrian crossings...
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Bridge a better way to spend $3 million WANGARATTA councillors should have been in the traffic jam on Parfitt Road, Great Alpine Road and Greta Road last Friday morning. It took me 35 minutes to go from the ‘esses’ in Parfitt Road to the Faithfull Street roundabout. Council and the Federal Government should spend the $3 million on a new bridge replacing the ramp (Old Stock Bridge) instead of upgrading the CBD. Laurie Meloury, Wangaratta
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Getting homes ready for a changing climate By BRODIE EVERIST
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ARBY Range resident Pam Procter is renovating her Wangaratta property, putting in a north-facing room with doubleglazed windows that will catch winter sun. The new room has double brick walls with an insulation layer, a concrete floor, and its accompanying grapevine-adorned pergola will shade the room in summer. She was inspired by the passive solar house she currently lives in, which is designed to trap heat from the low-hanging sun in winter, but uses well-designed eaves and shady plants, like the grapevine, to protect the house from summer sun. “I thrive on the winter sun, and I’ve got protection from the summer sun - it is just terrific,” she said. “And of course it keeps the costs down as well.” Wangaratta sustainability advocates want more houses like Ms Procter’s, which are better at withstanding the weather extremes predicted under climate change. Wangaratta Landcare and Sustainability is holding a community forum this June, discussing the designing and building of climate-ready homes, renovating to improve liveability, and landscaping house blocks and streetscapes to manage extreme weather. “These extreme climate events of heatwaves, storms and intense rain, and fires, they’re going to be part of the new weather patterns that we’re going to experience,” Wangaratta Landcare and Sustainability president Russell Sully said. “So what do we need to do to make our homes and our neighbourhoods adapted so that we can retain liveability in this
CLIMATE READY: Retired Warby Range resident Pam Procter is renovating her Wangaratta house for thermal efficiency so it better withstands temperature extremes. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling changing climate?” he said. CSIRO research predicts Australia will experience hotter days more often, and extreme rainfall events will become more intense over the next 70 years. A properly insulated house and well-designed property can alleviate many of these issues, said Luc Plowman, owner of sustainability and energy efficiency consulting company Detail Green. “If we get the basics right, when we get a heatwave in summer, if you’ve got a well-insulated house and well-shaded in summer, you’re not going to suffer that thermal discomfort,” he said. And extreme rainfall can also be fixed with good property design
and appropriate guttering. “Box gutters or gutters on top of walls are much higher risk,” he said. “In terms of getting leaves in there - you get a heavy downpour, you get heaps of hail in there and block up the downpipe, you can potentially get a leak.” He also recommended landscaping the property so that water flows away from the building rather than pooling near the house, which can lead to flooding or damage the building’s foundations. Building these sorts of climateready homes isn’t necessarily expensive, according to Mr Plowman. “The key is getting the passive
solar design and the orientation and the elements of the building right,” he said.
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rating doesn’t come at a huge cost. “You can build a seven star house that’s well-oriented for a couple of $1,000 more than minimum cost,” he said. “A passive house typically costs about 10 per cent more in capital costs, but the heating and cooling demand is somewhere between 50 and 90 per cent less than a standard house.” “So it certainly pays for itself.” Wangaratta Landcare and Sustainability’s community forum will be held from 5pm - 8:15pm on June 1 at the Gateway Hotel, 29-37 Ryley Street. Register by May 27 through Eventbrite. Email info@wlsi.org.au or call 0412 254 778 for more info.
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What they said on day 39 of the election campaign THE BEST LINE “It should have been a penalty.” - Tasmanian boy Luca Fauvette who was bowled over by the prime minister during soccer training on Wednesday in a visit to Devonport. SCOTT MORRISON “People being in jobs is the most important thing the economy needs. If you don’t have a job, you don’t have choices.” - On how wages can increase. “If Mr Albanese is that precious and he can’t hack a campaign, then how on earth is he going to handle
running this country?” - Rejecting Mr Albanese’s accusation that coalition campaign advertising has made fun of his Italian name. “What we’ve always seen from the Labor Party is when they can’t manage money, they come after yours in higher taxes.” - After the release of Labor’s costings. ANTHONY ALBANESE “We’re making sure that the commitments that we’re making to expenditure in areas like child
care, infrastructure ... they’re things that will boost the economy, boost productivity, because that’s what we need to do. We know people are going backwards, yesterday people went backwards by 2.7 per cent.” - Responding to a question on whether the fuel excise will be extended. “Our democracy is precious. We shouldn’t take it for granted. And I look forward to the outcome of the Australian people.” - On the federal election.
THE SUPPORT CAST “We do not have the luxury of burying and hiding billions of dollars in various slush funds, as Scott Morrison likes to do. The Australian people deserve a government that is better than that.” - Finance spokeswoman Katy Gallagher after Labor released its costings. “It sounds very much like magic pudding economics to me ... they’ve got many big spending promises.” - Finance Minister Simon Birmingham on the impact Labor’s
policies will have on the economy. “I’m not going to do what Mr Albanese does, and pluck out smiling emojis and loose comments to appease what is an interesting question by a journalist.” - Employment Minister Stuart Robert discussing whether wages should rise in line with inflation. REAL PEOPLE “He’s having a go is he? Tell him not to fall on anyone” - A tennis club member as the PM was handed a racquet. - AAP
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FINAL BID: Anthony Albanese has released Labor’s election promise costings and how they will be funded. Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS
Caddick’s luxury Sydney mansion to be sold THE luxury multimilliondollar mansion owned by Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick is now in the hands of liquidators. The conwoman’s husband Anthony Koletti has vacated the Dover Heights property in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Jones Partners, the receivers of Melissa Caddick and liquidators of her company Maliver Pty Ltd, issued a statement on Thursday. “In accordance with court orders Anthony Koletti has now vacated the Dover Heights property and we have taken possession of it,” Jones
Partners principal Bruce Gleeson said. He said the company was in the process of preparing the home for sale and choosing a real estate agent to market the property. The house is being sold to compensate Caddick’s 74 victims, who lost a total of $23 million through her Ponzi scheme. “We will be seeking further orders from the court to proceed with the sale of the property when it is before the court on 15 June 2022,” Mr Gleeson said. “We will also be holding an investor creditor meeting
within the next two weeks to discuss in detail the status of the receivership. “We anticipate strong interest in the Dover Heights property given the feedback we have received to date.’’ Caddick, 49, disappeared on November 12, 2020, hours after the Australian Federal Police and Australian Securities and Investments Commission raided her home. NSW Police declared Caddick dead after her foot was found washed up on a South Coast beach three months after she vanished. - AAP
LABOR says an extra $7.4 billion budget spending over the next four years is needed to drive jobs and economic growth. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has maintained through the election campaign his Coalition government is better placed to manage the budget and boost jobs. Announcing a Labor government would take the budget deficit for the 2022/23 financial year to $79.1 billion, finance spokeswoman Katy Gallagher took aim at the coalition for spending more and borrowing more than any other government. “We do not have the luxury of burying and hiding billions of dollars in various slush funds, as Scott Morrison likes to do. The Australian people deserve a government that is better than that,” she told reporters in Canberra. The costings include plans to crack down on multinational companies not paying their fair share of tax, public sector efficiencies and fees for foreign investment screening. Labor’s promises will also be partly funded by winding back $750 million in taxpayer-funded grants it links to “waste and rorts” under the Morrison government, as well as $560 million in penalties for corporate anti-competitive behaviour. Asked why Labor was spending more money, shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers said the investment was in key policy areas and was “worth it”. “We feel that the budget would be weaker, without investing in crucial economic policies like child care, cleaner and cheaper energy and training,” he said. “So we’ve made that judgment not lightly, but in the interest of the economy into the future because we want to make these decisions based on economics not politics.” The biggest spending commitment is $5 billion on child care.
Dr Chalmers said the “horse had bolted” on companies who received JobKeeper while making a profit, and an elected Albanese government would not be recouping the payments. But Labor would not seek to bolster the public service efficiency dividend, as the Coalition has promised in a bid to save an extra $1 billion off the budget bottom line. He said Labor’s policies would be seeking to address the workforce shortages through training and increased participation in addition to skilled migration. The Opposition’s costings document does not set out the cost of an aged care sector pay rise but neither does that of the Coalition. Mr Morrison said repairs to the budget after the last Labor government took six years to complete. “Are we going to have a Labor Party and a Labor leader that doesn’t know their way around the economy and is a complete loose unit, or is it going to be a government who understands how the economy works,” the prime minister told reporters in Launceston. “That is the choice Australians are going to get to make.” He said the jobless rate at 3.9 per cent was evidence the government’s economic plan was working. Mr Albanese and five of his senior shadow ministers are hitting 20 marginal Liberal-held seats in the final two days of the campaign, kicking off in Sydney and Brisbane on Thursday. Mr Morrison is in Sydney and expected to travel to Western Australia on Friday. Averaging of opinion polls gives Labor a 54.3-45.7 per cent two-party preferred lead over the coalition, according to the Poll Bludger website. Seven million people have either voted already or applied for a postal vote ahead of Saturday’s election. - AAP
NSW legalises voluntary assisted dying AFTER decades of campaigning NSW has become the last state in Australia to pass laws allowing people with a terminal illness to voluntarily end their own life. It means terminally ill people in NSW will be able to access voluntary assisted dying within 18 months. The bill passed the lower house on Thursday afternoon to thunderous applause, after passing the upper house with amendments following a marathon 12-hour debate. The bill was introduced into the lower house last year by Independent MP for Sydney
Alex Greenwich, with coalition and Labor MPs allowed a conscience vote on the issue. “I would like to thank the premier and leader of the opposition for allowing a free conscience vote on this,” Mr Greenwich told the lower house on Thursday. “That has brought people together on both sides, to have a robust and difficult conversation. “Today, NSW passes a threshold of honesty and compassion. “Honesty that not all people die well, and compassion that people in NSW with an advanced terminal illness
can have the same end of life choices as people in every other state.” The bill allows adults with a terminal diagnosis and up to six months to live to voluntarily end their life with assistance, based on the approval of two independent doctors. Dying with Dignity NSW President Penny Hackett said it was a historic moment for people who had campaigned for decades to stop terminally ill people enduring prolonged suffering. “We will now be the last state in the country to achieve this well overdue law reform,” Ms Hackett said. - AAP
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Showgrounds cattle yards to be auctioned By SIMONE KERWIN AN auction will be held next week to find a new owner for cattle yards which have stood at the Wangaratta Showgrounds for decades. The heavy-duty yards have been something of a landmark at the venue for many years, having been used around Wangaratta Show time for activities such as a carcase competition, which is no longer conducted. Wangaratta Agricultural Show Society president Fiona Evans said the yards now stood unused, and needed to be removed to allow for further development of the Showgrounds. The removal is part of the domino effect of $2.39 million in Federal Government bushfire recovery funding granted to the Rural City of Wangaratta, which is enabling upgrades at the Showgrounds as part of the Parklands Masterplan project. This funding will cover improvements to Wangaratta Football Netball Club facilities, additional infrastructure at the rodeo grounds, including sewerage, water and power upgrades, and improvements to the Wangaratta Kennel and Obedience Dog Club to allow for the housing of animals in times of need. It will also require relocation and an extension of the Wanga-
Underpass slow traffic this weekend MOTORISTS have been warned of possible delays over the next four days on the Rowan Street underpass due to works as part of the inland rail project. Site investigations will take place today, tomorrow, Sunday and Monday by construction firm McConnell Dowell including asset condition assessments between 7am and 6am. Traffic management crews will be operating around the area to ensure safety for road users and works may also require lane closures. Speed restrictions will be in place in the area so motorists may expect delays. The works may be impacted or rescheduled at short notice due to track availability, inclement weather and COVID protocols.
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TIME FOR CHANGE: Wangaratta Agricultural Show Society joint vice-presidents Don Webb and Bernie Evans and president Fiona Evans at the Wangaratta Showgrounds cattle yards, which will be auctioned next week. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling ratta Lions Club building, which will be moved from its current position to be closer to the kennel club and the space currently occupied by the cattle yards. Ms Evans said the Rural City of Wangaratta had kindly agreed to dissemble the concreted-in yards, ready for collection by the new owner following the auc-
tion, which will be held on-site on Thursday, May 26 from 2pm. Currently set up as 13 pens, plus a loading ramp and a cattle crush with head bail, the yards can be inspected prior to auction at any time at the Showgrounds. Ms Evans said the show society was unsure what price the cattle yards would fetch,
and while no particular project had been pinpointed, any proceeds would be invested back into the society’s activities and building maintenance. Interested buyers are encouraged to be at the Wangaratta Showgrounds cattle yards at 2pm on Thursday, May 26 for the auction.
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THE Justice of the Peace (JP) Document Signing Service has altered its evening hours at the Wangaratta Library. This is inline with the longer hours the library is open on a Thursday evening. Its new hours are: Wednesday 10am noon; Thursday 5pm - 6pm; and Friday 10am to noon. They are also available at the Myrtleford Library Tuesdays 1pm - 3pm; Bright Library Fridays 10am - noon. JPs are available to do certified true copies, witness affidavits, statutory declarations, sworn statements and other documents that require a witness. Powers of attorney are also done but by appointment only. Should you require a JP outside of the above hours please refer to the Justice Department website - Find a Justice. For more information contact the coordinator Robert Ford BJJP on 0417 581 167 or assistant coordinator Cheryl Sargent JP on 0458 483 187.
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Celebrate literacy and community together By SIMONE KERWIN CELEBRATING community is the very appropriate theme of this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime, as society emerges from COVID restrictions and moves back to something approaching ‘normal’ gatherings and connections. Locals have a chance to be part of the annual event, with Wangaratta Library children’s and youth services officer Tanya Hopper set to join people across Australia in reading this year’s chosen book, ‘Family Tree’, at 11am on Wednesday, May 25. Organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the annual storytime - which will be held next week in addition to the Wangaratta Library’s usual Tuesday morning storytime session - aims to encourage children to read and enjoy books, and highlights the value of literacy. Each year, a picture book written and illustrated by Australians is read simultaneously across Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere in the world. ‘Family Tree’, written by singer/songwriter Josh Pyke and illustrated by Ronojay Ghosh, is a celebration of family, community and the seasons of life, and was selected by the ALIA for its focus on community diversity. Tanya, who has been in the children’s and youth services role
FAMILY FUN: Tanya Hopper, children’s and youth services officer at the Wangaratta Library, reads ‘Family Tree’ to Gemma (2) and Hamish (nine months) Mitten and their mum Alison, ahead of next week’s National Simultaneous Storytime. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling She said she was thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to promote literacy through her current role, which she came to after many years working with children in another guise, as a dental assistant. “At the end of 2019, I wanted to try something different, so I did a two-year course during COVID, and did my placement here in November last year,” Tanya said. “Then there was a position available, and now I am just in my element. I’ve always loved reading, and I love reading to
since December, said she was looking forward to reading the book during National Simultaneous Storytime. “It’s a beautiful story told from a tree’s perspective, about what has happened in its lifetime, and really builds on that saying that it takes a village to raise a child,” she said. A local kindergarten group is booked in to listen to the reading at the Wangaratta Library, and Tanya said others were also welcome to attend and celebrate the event.
children and sharing that love of reading. “Our library is for the community; it’s not just about books, it’s a community space which is inclusive and welcomes everybody.” It’s just that sentiment that’s at the heart of ‘Family Tree’. If you’d like to take part in National Simultaneous Storytime at the Wangaratta Library on Wednesday, May 25 from 11am, RSVP to the library on 5721 2366 or email library@wangaratta. vic.gov.au
Festival of Dance in Wangaratta this weekend
SHOWTIME: Hannah Lockhart is among the young dancers who will be competing in the Wangaratta Festival of Dance which kicks off this weekend.
the Wangaratta Festival of Dance committee was surprised to see entries to this year’s competition arrive so quickly. Committee president Terri Dillow said within 24 hours of entries opening they were at 80 per cent capacity, reaching their limit within just a few weeks. Local dance companies say the Wangaratta Festival of Dance provides an opportunity to network with other dancers and parents, see the hard work of teachers and students come to fruition and showcase the talents of young people in our community. Passionate dancer 16 year old Hannah Lockhart, who has been
YOUNG dancers from across the region will take to the stage at the Wangaratta Performing Arts and Convention Centre tomorrow to begin the first in two weekends of spectacular competition in the annual Wangaratta Festival of Dance. Weekend one will include competition on Saturday and Sunday for juniors aged 12 years and under and school troupes, while competition for dancers 13 years and over will take place on Friday, May 27 and Sunday, May 29, with “all troupes” set to compete on Saturday, May 28. With COVID having caused disruption over the past two years,
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CVGT adopts new name and logo AS 40 years in operation approaches, CVGT Australia has adopted a new name and a fresh look. From Friday, July 1, the organisation will be known as CVGT Employment. “The new name is designed to better reflect our purpose of finding people meaningful employment, while also making it easier for the community to recognise what we do,” chair Liz Corbett said. “The logo was also created to demonstrate our commitment to creating connections between participants and employers, between our business and the community.” CVGT Employment remains a notfor-profit, for purpose charity. “It’s an exciting time for the organisation as we approach our 40th anniversary,” Mr Russell said. The organisation was formed to help young unemployed people in central Victoria, and now serves communities across three states from more than 120 sites. While also supporting young people into study or work, CVGT Employment works with people and businesses from a wide range of backgrounds. There is support available for traineeships and apprenticeships, disability employment and for parents wanting to return to the workforce.
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Freemasons fund Kokoda scholarship
FOR THE NEXT GENERATION: Freemasons from the Wangaratta Lodge of St John and the Freemasons Foundation have donated to the Bob Iskov Kokoda Scholarship. Pictured (from left) are Roger Porter of Freemasons Wangaratta, Lt General (ret) Ash Power AO CSC and Ovens Valley MP Tim McCurdy.
FREEMASONS at the Wangaratta Lodge of St John and the Freemasons Foundation have donated $2000 to the Bob Iskov Kokoda Scholarship, the first instalment of four annual planned donations to the fund. The scholarship fund gives year 11 students the chance to walk the Kokoda Track with a trekking company. It was established in memory of Wangaratta man Bob Iskov, who fought on the Kokoda Track in World War Two. Roger Porter, secretary of the Wangaratta Lodge of St John, said the lodge was proud to support a cause for young Australians.
“They’re going to send young people to do the Kokoda Track and we think that will help them come back and be better citizens in Australia,” he said. “In Benalla they do a similar thing at the secondary college. “I’ve seen them before and after they’ve done the track - they speak very well and they’ve matured a hell of a lot just doing that one thing.” The Wangaratta Lodge of St John was formed in 1872 and is in its 150th year. To mark the anniversary the lodge is planning several functions during 2022 culminating in a celebration of its 150th birthday in November 2022.
Play School visiting next week STORIES TO TELL: Join Humpty, Little Ted, Big Ted and Jemima on their enchanted adventures when they visit Wangaratta next week.
JEMIMA, Big Ted, Little Ted and Humpty are heading to Wangaratta next week to entertain local youngsters and their families at St Patrick’s Hall. The beloved Play School toys are touring nationally with their show ‘Once Upon a Time’, and will be at the Ford Street hall
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Wedge-tail Eagle reigns supreme By IAN DAVIDSON and CHRIS TZAROS THIS week’s bird is the mighty Wedge-tail Eagle, known by the Bpangerang as Mulyan. They are Australia’s largest living bird of prey and one of the largest eagles in the world, with a wingspan of over two metres. They were once considered to be a menace by farmers because landholders were convinced that eagles swooped down and carried off lambs, and as a result thousands of eagles were shot and poisoned. It is now known that Wedgetailed Eagles mostly take small kangaroos and rabbits, and seldom eat lambs — and usually just their carcasses. Together with long wings, the Wedgetailed Eagles have a characteristic long, wedgeshaped tail, and legs that are feathered all the way to the base of the toes. The bill is creamy, the dark brown, and the feet off-white. Young Wedge-tailed Eagles are mid brown in colour and become progressively darker for at least the first 10 years of their lives;
MAJESTIC: A magnificent Wedge-tailed Eagle. PHOTO: Chris Tzaros (Birds Bush and Beyond)
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This explains the scientific name of the Wedge-tailed Eagle which means ‘bold eagle’. Wedge-tailed Eagles mate for life and if one bird of a pair is killed, the survivor will find a new mate. Established breeding pairs are territorial and live in the one area throughout the year, defending around their nest sites from other Wedge-tailed Eagles. Surrounding the territories are large home ranges in which the birds hunt for food but do not defend. There is usually overlap between the home ranges of two or more breeding pairs and of nonbreeding birds. Wedge-tailed Eagles build their nest in tall live or dead trees with a good view of the surrounding countryside. The nest is a large structure of dead sticks, usually reused for years, often reaching considerable size. Nests are very large and may weigh 100s of kilograms. Nests have a shallow cup on the top, lined with fresh twigs and leaves. Chicks are dependent on the adults for roughly seven weeks and usually stay as juveniles for a further 11 weeks before they disperse.
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WANGARATTA RSPCA WHEN you are looking for your next pet, make an appointment at the Wangaratta RSPCA. The shelter has many animals waiting for homes with availability changing daily. The Wangaratta RSPCA animal adoption source code is BR100934 and animal microchip numbers are below. Cats: Short hair, male, 6 months, 956000014645213, ‘Zing’; Medium hair, female, 2 years, 991003001345714, ‘Tania’; Short hair, female, 10 months, 956000014865069, ‘Tabitha’; Short hair, male, 4 months, 956000014961965, ‘Sambo’; Medium hair, male, 1 year, 956000014969096, ‘Sam’; Short hair, female, 4 months, 956000015018202, ‘Rosie’; Short hair, female 3 years, 941000026566959, ‘Regan’; Short hair, male, 4 months, 956000015014825, ‘Ralph’; Short hair, female, 8 years, 956000014972820, ‘Munchkin’; Short hair, female, 6 years,
CWA sweet and savoury treats for a good cause By MARTIN DAVIS
IDA LOVE A NEW HOME: I’m a little shy at first, but soon enough I’ll shower you with purrs, head-butts, and plenty of lap time. Could I be your purrfect match? Ida’s microchip number is 956000014650844. PHOTO: RSPCA Wangaratta 956000006053900, ‘Marley’; Short hair, male, 3 months, 956000014964478, ‘Manny’; Short hair, male, 1 year, 956000013319572, ‘Loki’; Short hair, female, 11 months, 956000014650844, ‘Ida’; Medium hair, female, 4 months, 956000014709369, ‘Betty’. Dogs:
German Shepherd, male, 3 years, 900164001972417, ‘Polar’; Bull Arab x, male, 9mths, 956000014864823, ‘Jimmy’; Bull mastiff x, male, 1 year, 9560000145151023, ‘Frank’; Border Collie, male, 11 months, 953010005002084, ‘Alby’. Various guinea pigs also available.
WHOROULY CWA is welcoming everyone to come along to the Whorouly Recreation Reserve on Friday, June 17, to support their cuppa for cancer event, where there will be raffles, prizes and homemade food for everyone to enjoy. Cuppa for cancer is in conjunction with the Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea, with the Whorouly branch looking forward to getting many people there for the first post-COVID event. Whorouly CWA president,
Jannette Allen, said days like the Biggest Morning Tea show what the local community is all about and allows people to share stories. “The day will include everything people love about the CWA with both sweet and savoury treats for only a gold coin donation,” she said. “All of the funds are going to the Cancer Council to assist those with cancer and to help fund lifesaving research. “We usually have our annual cuppa for cancer in May when the Biggest Morning Tea is normally held but due to many of us going
away, we have moved it back to the June.” The Biggest Morning Tea is one of the events which the Whorouly CWA commit to each year, with their mantra being about supporting the community in which we live. “Although this is an Australia-wide event, there is always someone within the local community who is impacted by cancer no matter if they are your family or friends,” Ms Allen said. “Everybody you talk to has some sort of a connection, so the least we can do is to put on a morning tea to help raise funds for the cause.”
We’re here to listen. BOOKS GALORE: Students (from left) Christopher Stevens, Corie Hooper, Imogen Curro and Skyler Cimino yesterday grabbed a sneak peek of some of the books to be offered at next week’s book fair.
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10 years ago a family reading night with a performance by “Westbeat” African drumming group as well as story reading, carnival games, competitions and a raffle, along with supper in the school hall at 7pm.
Local author Malcolm Webster will be a special guest, reading from his book “The Box Boy”, doing some illustrations and signing copies of his book. Families and members of the community are invited to join in the fun, with funds raised going to help the school purchase books for its library. The Book Fair will be open from 9am to 4.30pm from Monday to Wednesday.
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Parkour opening in Apex Park today THE grand opening of Wangaratta’s Parkour Place Space will be held today in Apex Park from 4pm until 8pm. Experience the sporting adventure with the help of the Bendigo Parkour group - Walk the Walls. Those attending will be able to sign up for free Parkour workshops which will run all weekend and extend over the following months. Have a go on the rock climbing wall or challenge friends on the wipe out inflatable with Come and Try sports also on offer as well as face painting, food vendors and more.
Scrap art in Moyhu Saturday THE next Moyhu Lions Country Market being held at the Moyhu Lions Park tomorrow morning from 8am until 12pm will feature a scrap art show, with all artworks made from recycled or scrap materials. Entries are welcome with prizes to be won in the kids and adults sections, announced at 10.30am. There will also be the usual range of stallholders plus egg and bacon rolls, sausages in bread and hash browns from the Moyhu Lions van, barista coffee and lots of goodies on the community stall.
Supersprint at Winton SEE Supercars in action when the Winton Supersprint is held at Winton Raceway this weekend. Winton Raceway is one of the few circuits in Australia where you can see all the track from the most popular vantage points, with action today through until Sunday. Supporting Supercars in 2022 are the Carerra Cup, Formula Ford, Aussie Racing Cars, National Sports Sedans and SuperUtes with more information and tickets at www.wintonraceway.com.au.
REGIONAL TOUR: Two-piece indie pop-rock band This Way North will be sharing the stage with singer-songwriter Mark Lang in Yackandandah tonight.
Abstract art in Wangaratta GUEST artist Dore Stockhausen from Beechworth is holding an exhibition of paintings inspired by the local environment at the Art Gallery on Ovens in Wangaratta this weekend. Her love of the rough granite found in the area is abstracted by formal geometry in this latest series of works. The exhibition is open today and Monday from 10am until 4pm and
AS we continue to shake off the lockdown blues, two-piece indie pop-rock band This Way North from Yackandandah with their longtime mate and acclaimed singer songwriter Mark Lang (Skipping Girl Vinegar) are touring throughout regional Victoria this May and June - bringing some much-needed live music and connection to destinations including their hometown tonight. Rich with melody and storytelling, singer-songwriter Mark Lang has returned with his debut solo release. A renowned lyricist and storyteller, his performances are a must-see immersive live experience. Mark has written three critically acclaimed albums making many ‘Album Of The Year’ lists as the singer-songwriter of Australian indie band Skipping Girl Vinegar. Returning home after an extensive North American and European solo tour pre-COVID, which included appearances at the legendary Cambridge Folk Festival, Woodford and Port Fairy Folk Festivals to a sell-out launch at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Mark is ready to get back out on the road and do what he does best. This Way North is still celebrating the release of their third EP (released early
on Saturday and Sunday from 10am until 2pm and entry is free.
Wangaratta Speedway action ENJOY a night of racing action at the Wangaratta Speedway tomorrow with gates open at 2pm and racing starting at 5pm. All are welcome with events including the VSC Open Ladies feature, Darren Levy Memorial VSC Sports Sedans round 3, GP Midgets and more.
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ENJOY live music in the Cheshunt Hall when Music in May is presented in the King Valley on Saturday night. Lucy Wise, Evan Davis and Mischa Herman are all multiinstrumentalists who explore Celtic, folk and American old time music to lift the soul, with all welcome to listen and dance at the social event. Doors and bar open at 6.30pm with the show starting and 7pm and
Wangaratta selfmade market A self-made market featuring stalls showcasing handcrafted items will be held in Apex Park on Sunday from 9am until 1pm. Celebrating the opening of the new Parkour area, there will also be music and free family entertainment.
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NHW staff proud to celebrate IDAHOBIT
NORTHEAST Health Wangaratta (NHW) celebrated IDAHOBIT on Tuesday. IDAHOBIT is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia, calling for an end to discrimination of LGBTQIA+ communities. “We changed our flag to a new pride progress flag, noting that progression towards inclusivity for the whole LGBTQIA+ community, however there is work occurring throughout the whole year to promote inclusive practice,” George Howe, acting executive director workforce operations said. Last year NHW committed to a permanent diversity and inclusion team within the operational structure and appointed their first diversity and inclusion manager role in September 2021. “We’re excited by the prospects of change and increasing the safety for LGBTQIA+ community in our service,” Jess Widdop, diversity and inclusion manager said. Staff at NHW have access to pronoun badges to be able to wear as an invitation for community members to share their pronouns. “Part of our celebrations today includes sharing information with our
workforce about pronouns - what they are and why they’re important as well as a pronoun badge to wear every day,” Ms Widdop said. “We know there are changes and
growth to be made and invite the community to share their ideas with us while we work towards being a safe and inclusive space for LGBTQIA+ communities.”
RAISING THE FLAG: NHW staff marked IDAHOBIT on Tuesday by raising the pride progress flag at the front of the hospital.
Agriculture expert to speak at Landcare By BRODIE EVERIST ACCLAIMED sustainable agriculture expert Professor Tim Reeves will be guest speaker at the Warby Range Landcare Group’s 30th anniversary annual general meeting on May 30. Mr Reeves, professor in residence at the University of Melbourne’s Dookie campus, will discuss sustainable farming techniques at the meeting at the Town & Country Tavern in Wangaratta.
“Many of our current farming systems are unsustainable and increasingly risky - soil carbon and nitrogen depletion; herbicide resistant weeds; high dependence on energyrich, increasingly expensive inputs; and increasing susceptibility to climatic and market shocks - are some indicators of this,” Prof Reeves said. “How can we have profitable farms that are also more diverse, more resilient, and more sustainable?”
Mr Reeves’ professional career has included roles as the director general of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, based in Mexico; member of the UN Millennium project task force on Hunger; and senior expert with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, working on sustainable intensification of smallholder agriculture. Over the Warby Range Landcare Group’s 30 year history it has helped
protect and enhance natural assets in the Ovens and Broken rivers catchments. Its involvement has included revegetation, erosion reparation and reversal, invasive species eradication and control, endangered species protection, bushfire recovery and rehabilitation, and a strong emphasis on sustainable agriculture. For further information and booking details contact Peter Ockenden on 0408 313 979.
Gateway wins gold QUALITY Hotel Wangaratta Gateway will compete with accommodation venues from across Asia and the Pacific, as it vies to be recognised as Choice Hotels Asia-Pac’s ‘Hotel of the Year’. The Gateway recently received the 2021 Gold Award for excellence as part of the extensive franchise, joining other Quality Hotels from New South Wales and New Zealand in receiving the award. The award was presented as a result of a customer feedback metric and judged by a panel from the Choice Hotels Asia-Pac executive team. According to Choice Hotels chief executive officer Trent Fraser, the award was recognition for the Gateway’s management of a challenging period for the tourism sector during the pandemic. “Congratulations to the team at Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway on this win, which I’m sure is a welcome way to start a great year as we seek to put the challenges of 2021 behind us,” he said. “It is wonderful to recognise our top operators this year through our awards - these franchisees have applied great resilience and innovation to deliver outstanding service and create memorable experiences for their guests. “We commend all of those within the Choice Hotels network who have overcome challenging odds over the last two years and have shown great resilience and positivity towards the recovery effort. “We hope the 2021 Gold Awards list inspires more Australians to get out, holiday, and explore our regions, supporting local economies and jobs that have been impacted by the pandemic.” The ‘Hotel of the Year’ is set to be announced during the Choice Hotels Asia-Pac Conference in Melbourne in August. Mr Fraser hopes the intervening months will see the tourism sector continue to rebound, as travel restrictions gradually recede.
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ALL those wanting to learn some practical tools and strategies for living well and building resilience in these challenging times are invited to take part in a free workshop being held by the Quest for Life Foundation at the Wangaratta Performing Arts and Convention Centre on Monday. The one-day workshop is open to everyone but may be really helpful for those who are feeling a little stressed or overwhelmed right now. It will introduce participants to the four key principles of building resilience, peace of mind, managing the symptoms of burnout and stress and what can help us in our daily life. Quest’s senior facilitator Margie Braunstein invites members of the community to attend what she describes as a “nonconfronting workshop” teaching practical, self-care skills. She said the organisation has conducted hundreds of workshop in rural and regional locations over the last 20 years - the Wangaratta session being funded by an anonymous local foundation. “It is open to everybody and we’d really like to see men as well as women come along,” she said.
DOWN TIME: Quest for Life Foundation senior facilitator Margie Braunstein will share tools and strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing during a workshop being held in Wangaratta on Monday. “We know that people in the bush do it tough and they are pretty resilient, but the challenges of rural life do come at a price. “The workshop would suit all those looking for strategies to improve their mental health and well-being - or what we call a recipe for peace of mind.”
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By DEREK OGDEN REMEMBER when car ignition keys alone turned the engine on and off, gearboxes were manually operated, clutch pedals were prodded and windows wound up and down by hand? I recently did a spot of travel back in time in the Yaris Ascent Sport, the compact hatchback from Toyota. With its eschewing of such modern automated aids, the Yaris Ascent Sport manual, I presume for economic advantages, really is a handson vehicle. At $22,130, plus on-road costs, the car is the entry level to the Yaris line and the only variant featuring a sixspeed manual transmission. The others have a direct shift CVT, which adds just $1500. A CVT-equipped hybrid on SX and ZR attracts a further $2000 over their equivalent petrol variants. Ownership costs include a five-year warranty, extendable to seven years, up to 10 years on the hybrid battery and five annual services capped at $195 each. Standard equipment on Ascent Sport includes Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, LED daytime running lamps, tail and stop lights; auto retractable door mirrors with LED turn signals; and power windows. For the first time on a Toyota vehicle in Australia are ground-breaking safety features, designed to make Yaris the world’s
safest compact car. They include front-centre airbags, sensors that can detect vehicles or pedestrians at intersections when making turns and a secondary collision brake. STYLING The all-new Yaris is shorter and lower than its predecessor, with a longer wheelbase (40 mm) for maximum interior space and stability. Despite the lower roofline, interior headroom is not compromised, the driver and passengers sitting lower thanks to the new Toyota Bplatform. A sporty exterior boasts a stand-out cascading grille, longer bonnet, sculpted door panels, dynamic character lines and a shorter rear overhang. There are 12 exterior colours. INTERIOR Ascent Sport has an allblack interior, offering an open, spacious and comfortable cabin with ample headroom and an up-market ambience with high-quality seat fabrics. Despite a wider centre console, there is no room for an armrest, hence no leaning post for the driver. Gearshift and cup holders take up the space. However, the new platform allows the driver’s seat to be set lower and further back towards the centre of the car, creating an appealing driving position and helping to lower the vehicle’s centre of gravity
by around 15mm. The steering wheel is set closer to the driver, with wider tilt and telescopic adjustments. Electric steering is tuned for a light feel at low speed and responsive feeling at high speed. INFOTAINMENT Driver information is sourced through a 7-inch touchscreen and a 4.2-inch multi-information display in the instrument cluster. Bluetooth connectivity includes phone and music. With enhanced voice recognition, there’s access to Sir, Eyes Free, Google Now voice commands. AM / FM / DAB+ digital radio are in the hands of six speakers, while USB video playback is on offer when the vehicle is stationary. ENGINES / TRANSMISSIONS The new direct-injection three-cylinder 1.5-litre petrol engine’s 88 kW and 145 Nm forge gains of 10 per cent and 2.7 per cent over the previous 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine, the result of a lighter block and crankshaft, reduced frictional losses and high-speed combustion technology. SAFETY Eight airbags include driver, front passenger, two front centre, two front side, two curtain shield. The new front-row centre airbags - a first in class - are designed to offer additional protection in a
range of accidents. They can act as energyabsorbing cushions between the driver and front passenger in side crashes, or in passenger-side crashes when the driver is the only occupant. They can also provide safety benefits in rollover accidents. DRIVING The new 1.5-litre petrol engine produces more power and torque - while using less fuel - than the 1.3 and 1.5-litre four-cylinder engines it replaces. Tagged with the ‘Sport’, engine performance is not all that impressive. High revs are the key otherwise stalling is the downfall. Toyota claims the new Yaris manual uses just 5.4 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres on the combined cycle. The test car clocked 7.9 litres per 100 kilometres while flitting around town and 3.7
litres per 100 kilometres on a motorway run. The little motor was quiet enough at low revs but let out a raspy reply when urged to work higher up the scale. The manual gear shift at times was not of Toyota’s usual high standards and needed firm handling to avoid connecting with the wrong gear. On the upside, the new platform underpins a significant increase in body rigidity, which contributes to agility, stable handling, ride comfort and lower noise and vibration. SUMMARY Having generally left manual motors behind to the ascendancy of the so smooth automatic transmission, it is interesting to be reminded just how inconvenient shifting gears by hand is in heavy stop/start city traffic. Spare the gear(rod) and spoil the child, it would seem.
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Forum to focus on feral deer issues in alpine communities By MARTIN DAVIS UPPER Ovens Valley Landcare is inviting the community to attend a special forum in Bright this month focused on feral deer. The ‘Living with Deer’ forum will be held on Saturday, May 28 at the Pioneer Parks Pavilion in Bright from 10.30am to 3.30pm. To register for the event go to events.humanitix.com/living-withdeer-forum. Feral deer are emerging as one of the most invasive species across Australia and the North East contains some of the highest populations of deer across the state. Initially introduced for game in the 1860s and being valuable to hunt-
ers, they now have become a serious pest from a curiosity. Upper Ovens Valley Landcare president Peter Jacobs said deer impact residents of the North East in many ways, from grazing valuable pastures to destroying fences and gardens. “Deer are in all our national parks, and there is no current solution to eliminating them, as they are still protected as game under Victoria’s Wildlife Act,” he said. Mr Jacobs said the Landcare group wants residents of the North East to learn about deer and hear ideas about reducing their impact. “There are lots of ideas be they assistance with culling through to fence designs and non-lethal deterrents,” he said.
FERAL DEER FORUM: Upper Ovens Landcare will hold a forum in Bright this month focused on the feral deer issue.
FORMER Australian fast bowler Damien Fleming will be the guest speaker at Myrtleford Golf Clubs’ centennial dinner after David Schwarz had to cancel due to family commitments. Myrtleford Golf Club president George Browne said he hopes that having the self preclaimed “bowloligist” will hopefully get more people to come and enjoy the night, helping celebrate 100 years of the club. Tickets can be bought through Eventbrite and by searching Myrtleford Golf Club.
Staff, accommodation shortage By MARTIN DAVIS BUSINESSES across Alpine Shire are struggling to get workers post-COVID, with some hospitality venues only opening up to three days a week. Bright Chamber of Commerce president Rupert Shaw said it has been difficult for the hospitality businesses in Bright to find staff to stay open during peak periods. “Within the Alpine Shire the unemployment rate is 1.4 per cent compared to the
national average of four per cent,” he said. “Everyone who can be employed is, but luckily things have backed off a bit with school holidays ending and normal businesses are slowing off until we see the next peak when June comes around (and the ski season starts).” While many businesses within the area are struggling to find people, Mr Shaw said chefs for the hospitality industry were particularly scarce.
“There aren’t people on the street looking for work like during the Great Depression, so you are trying to tempt people away from another job, so that’s putting pressure on wages,” he said. With the increase of jobs available, people are coming into the area without longterm rentals, and housing prices are rising in the area around the Alpine Shire. “People who are wanting to live here for full time work like nurses or someone who is here all the time I don’t feel
it has gotten any better,” Mr Shaw said. Alpine Shire Council is seeking to help tackle the accommodation challenges through its Alpine Housing Project. Mayor Sarah Nicholas said council is working on a longterm solution to the current housing availability issue, along with short-term options in the lead up to next summer. “We are aware of eight homes that have come onto the long-term rental market as a result of our initial
campaign,” she said. “We are now working to better understand the issue, possible next steps and roles and responsibilities when it comes to addressing housing availability. “We’re certainly not alone - many regions around the country are being impacted by housing availability constraints.” Council is in the final stages of completing an action plan to identify a future, long-term direction for essential worker housing.
“It’s important that we have a considered, strategic approach - this is a complex and long-term challenge,” Cr Nicholas said. “We recognise that it’s also essential to have an eye to the near future - our businesses experienced a hectic summer period, and we’re anticipating next spring and summer to be just as busy. “We’re exploring other temporary solutions to identify ways to support key workers with accommodation during the busy season.”
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Draft Asset Plan In accordance with Section 92 of the Local Government Act 2020, the Rural City of Wangaratta is required to adopt an Asset Plan by 30 June 2022. At the Council Meeting of 26 April 2022 Councillors endorsed the Draft Asset Plan 2022-2032 for public exhibition for a period of 28 days. Interested parties are invited to make submissions to Council on this Draft Asset Plan to be considered when adopting the plan for the period 2022-2032. Per Section 92, clause (7), the adopted Asset Plan will have effect from 1 July 2022. How do I make a submission? Copies of the Draft Asset Plan 2022- 2032 can be obtained upon request from the Wangaratta Government Centre or can be accessed from Council’s website Any person may make a written submission regarding the Draft Asset Plan, proposing changes or additions to the plan for consideration prior to adoption.
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C35320 King Valley Playground Upgrade Tender closes at 2pm Monday 23 May 2022.
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C35452 Reconstruction of Merriwa Park Retaining Wall Tender closes at 2pm Wednesday 25 May 2022. Further details may be obtained by visiting Council’s website.
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SOUTH WANGARATTA FIRE BRIGADE Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Brigade members and elections for the Brigade Management Team will be held at the South Wangaratta Fire Station on Monday, May 23, 2022 at 7pm. Members of the public are invited to attend.
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Notice of an Application for a Planning Permit
Notice of an Application for a Planning Permit
(Section 52(1) Planning and Environment Act 1987)
(Section 52(1) Planning and Environment Act 1987)
An application for a planning permit has been made which may affect you.
An application for a planning permit has been made which may affect you.
The land affected by the application is located at: Hume Freeway, Chiltern
The land affected by the application is located at: 33-45 Main Street, Rutherglen
The application for a permit is for: Service Centre
The application for a permit is for: Health Facility
The applicant for the pemit is: Robert Allison C/- Tract Consultants
The applicant for the pemit is: Victorian Health Building Authority
The application reference number is: PP22-0017
The application reference number is: PP22-0106
You may look at the application and any documents that support the application at any of Indigo Shire Council Offices: • 34 High Street, Yackandandah • 101 Ford Street, Beechworth • 153 High Street, Rutherglen • 40 Conness Street, Chiltern
You may look at the application and any documents that support the application at any of Indigo Shire Council Offices: • 34 High Street, Yackandandah • 101 Ford Street, Beechworth • 153 High Street, Rutherglen • 40 Conness Street, Chiltern
This can be done during office hours and is free of charge.
This can be done during office hours and is free of charge.
Any person who may be affected by the granting of a permit may object or make other submissions to the Responsible Authority.
Any person who may be affected by the granting of a permit may object or make other submissions to the Responsible Authority.
An objection must be sent to the Responsible Authority in writing, include the reasons for the objection and state how the objector would be affected. This should be sent to: Manager Planning & Statutory Services PO Box 28, Beechworth 3747 or info@indigoshire.vic.gov.au
An objection must be sent to the Responsible Authority in writing, include the reasons for the objection and state how the objector would be affected. This should be sent to: Manager Planning & Statutory Services PO Box 28, Beechworth 3747 or info@indigoshire.vic.gov.au
The Responsible Authority will not decide on the application prior to 10 June 2022.
The Responsible Authority will not decide on the application prior to 13 June 2022.
If you object, the Council will tell you its decision.
If you object, the Council will tell you its decision.
Please be aware that copies of objections submissions received may be made available to any person for the purpose of consideration as part of the planning process.
Please be aware that copies of objections submissions received may be made available to any person for the purpose of consideration as part of the planning process.
www.indigoshire.vic.gov.au Phone: 1300 365 003
www.indigoshire.vic.gov.au Phone: 1300 365 003
GLENROWAN FIRE BRIGADE Election of Office Bearers
Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 7pm Glenrowan Fire Station All members encouraged to attend. New members welcome. Phone Peter 0408 313 979. Wangaratta Historical Society NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY MEETING June 2, 2022 at 5pm in the community room at the Wangaratta Library. A call for election of a President, Vice President, Secretary and Committee Member. All welcome.
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PAINTER, old school, for all your painting needs. Commercial, industrial renovations. Phone Julian 0412 597 482.
Ritchies Supa IGA is a leader in the independent Supermarket and Liquor industry. We are seeking a Store Manager to join our Beechworth team. Previous applicants encouraged to re-apply. Join the Friendliest Team in the Supermarket Industry today! Applications to: luke.allan@ritchies.com.au
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Expression of Interest Commercial Builders Registrations sought for Commercially Registered Builders for
ST MARY OF THE ANGELS COLLEGE NATHALIA YEARS 8-9 CENTRE, RESOURCES, MUSIC, AND DRAMA New Building Extension of 940m2 and Refurbished Building of 552m2 with associated external works. Tenderer’s registration to include, and will be evaluated on, the following criteria: Submission quality; Previous relevant company experience; Personnel experience; Current commitments; Perceived financial viability; References or past experience with client and design team; Proximity; and Perceived ability to provide an appropriate service on this project. Registration does not imply selection on limited tender list. Documents expected to be released to selected tender list in June 2022. Registrations by mail only by 3rd June to No. 42 Architects Pty Ltd PO Box 542 Beechworth VIC 3747.
Contact Ken Woodman 0427 424 201. DUCTED VACUUM SYSTEMS. Sales/ Service/Repairs. Free quotes. Contact 0 4 11 8 8 1 9 2 2 , luandadatavac@ gmail.com. DANIEL’S Carpentry and Maintenance Solutions. Servicing Wa n g a r a t t a a n d surrounds. For a free quote and examples of my work find us on Facebook or www. danielscarpentry.com or phone 0413 660 636. ENVIRO LIQUID WASTE. Your locally owned and operated septic cleaning business. Servicing septics, grease traps, triple interceptors and winery waste. Phone Peter 0419 163 420.
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The Centre helps people and communities be more confident, skilled, and productive. We have rewarding vacancies for dedicated and supportive trainers who are passionate about building the skills and knowledge of our learners.
TRAINER AND ASSESSOR $63K - $66K+ Salary packaging For our courses: Certificate III Health Support Services, Certificate III Individual Support (Aged Care), Certificate II Health Support Services, Certificate II Civil Construction, Certificate IV Disability, Certificate IV Disability - Traineeships and Ability Me (Certificate I Transition Education and Certificate I Work Education).
For more information, please visit https://www.thecentre.vic.edu.au/careers/
Ĵ 3 days per week Ĵ Responsible for superior administrative support, customer service and process improvement Ĵ Based at the Rural City of Wangaratta Kernow has been at the forefront of the environmental health industry in Victoria for more than 23 years. This is a part-time 0.6FTE administration role supporting the Environmental Health team. To be successful, you will have recent experience as an administrator or office manager with proficiency in the Microsoft Suite of products. To apply for the role, please email your CV and an expression of interest to Eliza Nelson, HR Co-ordinator eliza.nelson@kernow.net.au by 25 May 2022. For more information see www.kernow.net.au
Reliability Technician (Maintenance Fitter) Casual
About Us: Brown Family Wine Group is one of Australia’s most loved and trusted wine companies. With premium vineyards in Victoria and Tasmania, our family of wines has now grown to five brands - Brown Brothers, Devil’s Corner, Pirie, Tamar Ridge and Innocent Bystander. We are passionate about our wines and our core values of Wellbeing, Respect, Innovation and Pride in What We Achieve Together. Most recently we have been certified as “A Great Place to Work” and are committed to honouring this recognition throughout all aspects of the business. About the role: Reporting to the Reliability Coordinator you will be tasked with providing a range of preventative and re-active maintenance as and when required across a broad range of production and operational plant and equipment. About you: Ideally, the successful candidate will be highly motivated and have a background in engineering, maintenance, and mechanical technologies. You will have qualifications/substantial experience in relation to mechanical/engineering/an infrastructure environment, the ability to maintain a safe, efficient, and tidy working environment as well as being to research, develop and implement continuous improvements and technical and efficiency advancements. You will also have: Strong attention to detail. Administrative and organisational skills including computer literacy across all platforms with a good experience of computer-based solutions and administration. Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team, use initiative and work without direct supervision and to communicate professionally and effectively at all levels. Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships across the business. Driver’s Licence. Forklift License (desirable but not essential). What’s on Offer: Work within one of Australia’s leading wine companies Career development Be part of a passionate and dedicated team Generous employee benefits including discounts on all products. More Information: Further information and a position description may be obtained by emailing careers@brownfwg.com.au or by calling Allyce on (03) 57 205 500. Applications should be submitted prior to close of business on Friday 3 June 2022.
Expression of Interest - NIOA (BENALLA) Production Workers with Australia’s leading Weapons and Munitions Provider
NIOA is an established and growing 100% Australian owned and operated company. Due to recent program successes, several newly formed roles exist within the Production division to assist with the everyday running of the business for Australia’s leading Weapons & Munitions business. As a Production Worker your responsibilities will include: x Interpret production plans and targets, to determine items to be moved, gathered, or assembled. x Wraps and packs customer orders for transport. x Conveys materials and items from receiving areas to storage or to other designated areas. x Marks materials with identifying information. x ÀÀv® à Ãȳ § ½vÀÈà ® ý ï à ¿Ë ® ³À assembly. The successful applicants will ideally have demonstrated experience and a track record in a similar role. Other desirable skills and experience include: x Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. x Clear understanding of workplace health, safety, ¿Ëv¨ ÈâƜ ®Û À³® ®Èƛ x High levels of self-motivation and initiative. x v½Èv ¨ Èâ v® ð á ¨ Èâ ȳ v® ® ܳÀ§ ®Û À³® ®Èà v® À ¿Ë À ®ÈÃƛ x Knowledge and application of industrial and personal safety behaviours x Manufacturing / Production experience is desirable x Training will be provided where necessary. The successful applicant will be offered a highly attractive remuneration package proportionate to their skills and experience. The ability to obtain a Defence à ËÀ Èâ ¨ vÀv® v® v ïÀ vÀà ¨ ® vâ À ¿Ë À ƛ Please email Cover letter and CV to: HR@nioa.com.au ATT “Production Worker - BENALLA”
Work with a passionate, values based and professional team. Flexible work arrangements. Generous conditions including salary packaging, above award package and professional development. 1.0 EFT (Hours can be negotiated) $94,181 - $98,447 plus super Located in Wangaratta / Wodonga. The Centre Against Violence values inclusivity and diversity and are a team that is passionate about supporting victim/ survivors in both family violence and sexual assault. This role will be responsible for supporting the supervision and development of the family violence practitioner team, including supporting the day-to-day operations of programs and service staff in line with operational guidelines, service specifications and targets, relevant risk assessment tools, frameworks, policies and legislation. This position will also carry a small high risk/complex case load. Position requirements: ғ Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work, or a related social science discipline ғ Minimum 2 years’ experience working within the family violence sector ғ Experience in the provision of high-quality assessment of individuals and families, where family violence is an identified risk ғ Excellent written and oral communication skills ғ Working with Children’s Check and National Police Check Applications close Thursday 2nd June 2022, 12 noon For full position description & application kit visit centreagainstviolence.org.au For enquiries contact Kate Robinson Family Violence Services Manager on 03 5722 2203 or krobinson@cav.org.au.
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O’CONNOR, Christopher.
Cherished brother of Margie, loving uncle to Melanie, Wayne, Christian and Sara. Loved Great Uncle of Jasper and Lucy. Forever in our hearts and memories.
Chris, We never want to say goodbye forever, Even though we know it’s a part of life. Our hearts are heavy as you lay at rest, But we understand God only takes the best. Your life was a blessing, Your memory a treasure, You were loved beyond words And will be missed beyond measure. Deepest condolences to Shirley, Bree, Shannon and families. ~ Fogga, Nathan, Jade, Aaron and families.
Benjamin Lee West together with their parents are pleased to announce their wedding on Saturday, May 21, 2022.
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Ramsay (Alexander) Neil & Fay May 20, 1972 Congratulations and best wishes on your 50th Wedding Anniversary. With all our love to you both on this special occasion. ~ Sharon, Paul, Megan, and all the family.
BOWDEN, Dennis Ian. 31/1/1953 – 13/5/2022 Passed away in Perth, WA after a short illness. Loved brother of Graeme, Beverley, Judy (dec) and Adrian. A memorial service will be held in Wangaratta at a date to be decided.
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DEATH NOTICES O’CONNOR, Christopher Lawrence (Cisco).
Saturday, February 14, 1948 Friday, May 13, 2022 Departed all who loved and knew him peacefully at home. Aged 74 years. Eldest son of Alan and Moya. Dearly loved husband to Shirley. Adored father to Shannon and Bree. Brother to Mike and Margie. Poppy to Dylan, Ava, Heidi and Scarlett. Godfather to Aaron. Father-in-law to Emily and Michael. Brother-in-law to Sue. Uncle to Christian, Melanie and Geoffrey. Stepdad to Chantal and John. “The best portion of a kind man’s life is his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness, calmness, and love”. Chris your kind soul will be missed by many.
Chris, No grief is greater than the death of such a kind man and a great friend, You will always be in our memories. Deepest condolences to Shirley, Bree, Shannon and families. ~ Slack, Pam and family.
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17/11/1974 – 11/5/2022 Tragically taken but always with us. Beloved husband of Michelle. Devoted dad and father-in-law to Kaleb and Tara, Isaac and Danica and Noah. Loving Assa to Elijah and Fynn. Lachlan our lives will never be the same again. You were the glue that held our family together. You showed us a strength that we GLGQ¶W NQRZ H[LVWHG D ¿JKW WKDW ZH GLGQ¶W NQRZ was possible, and a love that we didn’t know would hurt until it was taken away.
ROBISON, Doreen Mary. Passed away peacefully May 17, 2022 at Wangaratta. Aged 88 years. Loved wife, mother, mother-in-law and Nana to David (dec), Ernest, Debbie and Brianna. Reunited with David. So dearly loved. So sadly missed. A funeral service to honour Doreen’s life will be held at North East Funerals, 184 Greta Road, Wangaratta on Wednesday, 25 May 2022 commencing at 2pm. Interment will follow at the Wangaratta Lawn Cemetery.
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You remained strong for those who loved you until the very end. We love you and are proud of you, rest peacefully now. Love always Bree & Michael. Love you Poppy x Ava & Scarlett. ~ Gone but never forgotten ~
O’CONNOR, Christopher Lawrence. 14/2/1948 to 13/5/2022
The funeral service for Lachlan Pearson will be held at Mason Park Funerals, Mason Street, Wangaratta on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 2pm. After which we will make our way back to the Myrtleford Hotel for refreshments. Lachlan’s service may be viewed via livestream at www.masonpark.com.au/live-streaming
ROBISON, Doreen Mary. Loved sister of Jan Murphy, brother-in-law of Jim (dec). Aunty of Marc, Noel, Deborah and Natalie. Always in our hearts.
DYER, Herbert Victor (Skipper). May 21, 2014. Year 8 still missing you and our darling Lynette. May the winds of love blow softly and whispering for you to hear. We love and remember you. ⯔ R.I.P till we meet again. ~ Your loving wife Margaret, and family, Rae, Wendy and Jeff.
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TALARICO, Angela. You loved nothing more than being surrounded by your family and friends, sharing good food, a drink, and a laugh. Rest in peace my friend. ~ Margaret.
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WANGARATTA Chronicle photographer Melissa Beattie made her way around to snap some sports action on the weekend. Charlie Young also took some great baseball photos.
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JUBILEE GOLF CLUB SATURDAY, May 14 Stroke 1st Round Club Championships and Silver Spoon: A Grade Winner: Kay O’Shea 72. B Grade Winner: Kellie Roberts 73. Ball winners: Jackie O’Brien (2) 76, Liane Graham 77, Leeanne Carmody 78, Frances Duffy 78. NTP: 4th Jackie O’Brien, 8th Melody Adams, 13th Di Murphy, 17th Kay O’Shea. Saturday, May 14 Stroke 2nd Round Club Championships: A Grade Winner: Rodney Sebire 69. Runner Up: Rhys Rigoni 73. From Gordon Paterson, Aaron Kungl and Jack Stamp. B Grade Winner: Ritchie Arnold 73. Runner Up: Ben Waite 73 C Grade Winner: Gary Walder 71. Runner Up: Fraser Jeffrey 73. D Grade Winner: Rob Lowe 74. Runner Up: Josh Wason 74. Ball winners: Gordon Paterson 73, Aaron Kungl 73, Jack Stamp 73, Tom Arnold 74, Ash Robins 74, Joe Marjanovic 74, Charl DeMink 74, Steve McNaughton 74, Andrew Charles 74, Michael Cordier 74, Bronte Bruce 75, Glenn O’Connell 75, Brian Wallace 75, Jim Moore 75, Peter Ford 76, Jeff Hemphill, Wayne Roberts, Greg Hogan, Mal White, Paul West and Glenn Ryan 77. Eagle on 9th Hole to Andy Senkic. Super Nine Club Shirt: Josh Wason 22. Aroma Deli: Martin Van Rhee 22. 2 Balls: Rob Lowe 21. NTP: 4th Tom Arnold, 8th Steve Fisher, 13th Andy Senkic. Sunday May 15 Winner: Michael Cordier 39. Ball winners: Mark Dean 36, Greg Allan 34. NTP: 4th Bryan Filliponi, 8th Greg Allan, 13th Bryan Filliponi, 17th Luke Porritt. Monday, May 16 Stableford Monday Vets A Grade: Ian Dinsdale 40. A Runner Up: Alex Gibbs 36. B Grade: Brian Carr 36. B Runner Up: William Slade 33. Ball winners: John Porter 32, Andy Walker 31, Pat Ernst 31. NTP: 4th William Slade, 8th John McKenzie, 13th Pat Ernst. Tuesday, May 17 A Grade winner: Kay O’Shea 35. B Grade Winner: Helene Gallo 35.Ball winners: Robyn Grealy (2) 35, Robyn Harrison 34, Linda Stone 34, Leeanne Carmody 31. On a countback from Robyn Hogan NTP: 4th Linda Stone, 8th Helene Gallo, 13th Linda Stone, 17th Joy Hester. Wednesday, May 18 9 Hole Stableford: A Grade Winner: Alan Sands 18. Runner Up: Alan White 15. B Grade Winner: Spencer Lamb 18. Runner Up: Tony Ransom 13. NTP: 13th Alan Sands.
WANGARATTA GOLF CLUB Women’s Competition: May 10: Womens 18 Hole 4BBB Winner: Lesley Anderson / Lois Sanderson 42 C/B. Runner Up: Barb Thomas / Judy Hirschfeld 42. Ball winners: Carolyn Sullivan/Jill Halbwidl, Sue MIller/Lorraine Adams. NTP: 4th Lois Sanderson, 9th Barb Woodward, 11th Lesley Anderson, 13th Maggie Ray. Women’s 9 Hole Stableford: Winner: Barb Woodward 21. Runner Up: Liz Madden 16. Men’s Competition May 1: 18 Hole Stroke Winner: Neil Membrey 65. Runner Up: Dan Madden 66. Ball Winners: Matt Nicolosi, Greg Sullivan, Chris Martens, Scott Thomson, Phil Moss. NTP: 4th Peter Korteman, 7th Michael Webster, 9th Paul Judd, 11th Scott Thomson, 13th Michael Webster, 16th Brannan Duffy 9 hole Stroke Winner: Arthur Ingarfield. Runner Up: Graeme Beale. Men’s Competition: May 14 18 hole Stableford: A Grade winner: Trevor Cooper 37 Points. A Grade runner up: Ashley Clayton 36 Points. B Grade Winner: Phillip Moss. B Grade Runner Up: Richard Griffiths. Ball Winners: Laurie Miller, Ray Hutton, Neil Mckinnon, Shane Cowton. NTP: 4th Phillip Moss, 9th Rod Moyle, 11th Phillip Moss (Dominos Voucher), 13th Trevor Cooper, 16th Sam Antonacci. Secret 6: Neil Mckinnon. Eagle on the 11th: Phillip Moss. HOLE IN ONE 11TH: PHILLIP MOSS.
TARRA GOLF CLUB THE second round of the 2022 club championships was held with the leader being Jason McCoy with a total of 157. The winner of the stroke event for the day was Jason McCoy with a score of 75-5-70, the runner up on the day was Pete Nolan with a net 71, there were no nearest the pins for the day and next Saturday in conjunction with the third round of the club championships, the members will also compete for the Presidents Trophy. Ladies are also welcome on the day to play their own event. Starting time is 11:30am rollup for a 12noon start, all players welcome. The Tarrawingee pennant side has done it again winning the pennant final in their division for 2022, with several members standing aside so other members could represent the club and with the minimum number of players qualified managed a 3/2 win
Walking along gravel roads, and bush tracks in the Strathbogie State Forest near Euroa. Climbing and descending approx 500m in elevation. Thursday, June 2 Heritage Falls Trail, Warby Ovens NP Sandi, 0439 552 152 An easy to medium loop walk of approx 8km from Booth’s Road atop the Warby Range. We will follow the road to Spot Mill Track, then descend along Cellar Track before reaching the rear of Booth’s Winery and Black Dog Brewery. From the sawmill, behind the winery and brewery, we follow a foot track to the old sheep dip site, then follow the gully along the Warby Heritage Falls Trail (steep in parts) passing old dry stone weirs, cascades and rock pools. Robins frequent the lower slopes in winter, and the occasional wombat and roo is often sighted.
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over Bright at the Wodonga golf club. This is the club’s 16th flag and for all the players who represented the club for the season, congratulations, well done. New members are always welcome at the Tarrawingee golf club with a first year membership of $100.00 and $60.00 for juniors the contact number is 0428122590 or by contacting a member of the club. Tarra Ladies Tarra Ladies played the third round of the club championships today (Tuesday, May 17). The stroke event was won by Joan Quarrell 102-31-71. The runner/up was Di McLaughlin 103-25-78. NTP: 13th Lynn Barrow. Winner 9-hole Stableford event was June Christensen, 13 points.
illness striking some walkers, it was decided to complete the medium Stanley Forest walk only. Five walkers met in Beechworth and travelled to Clark’s corner at Stanley. The walk began and ended on Rooney’s track, using forestry roads and several foot tracks for an approx 8km circuit. Steep in parts, however, the forest was delightful after a few days of rain and we were greeted with sun streaming through the foliage. A highlight of this walk was the many different fungi to be found, probably a result of a wet summer. After Pat’s usual lovely cuppa plus freshly baked biscuits, we all travelled back via Murmungee lookout on Lady Newton Drive, stopping to enjoy the fantastic valley views. Coming events Sunday, May 29 Strathbogie Surprise number 3 Michael, 0447 617 880 A hard loop walk of approximately 18km from James Reserve to Carter’s Lookout, along Lightning Ridge Track.
WARBY WALKERS SUNDAY, May15 Flagstaff Range near Stanley This walk originally was to be Flagstaff Hills for a hard walk and Stanley Forest for a medium walk but due to days of rain this week and
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RESULTS for Monday May the 16th when twenty nine members and two visitors played are as follows:Andy Barbero and Maureen O’Keefe d Cassie Hurley and Julie Davey 7/5,Cheryl Sampson and Bronwyn Townsend d Marie Wallis and Margaret bennett 7/5, Michael Prater and Joan Dyson d Annette Filipek and Barbara Trower 7/1, Rhonda Diffey and Christine Ireland d Yvonne McLaughlin and Elaine Mudge 7/6,Wendy Waddington and Janet Kelly d Susan Fischer and Dawn Wind 7/4, Elise Downes and Robyn Muller d Trish Rogash and Nathan Reynolds 6/5, Heather Gulbin and Gavan Kelly d Anne Dodd and Bruce Guttormsen 6/5. On Wednesday the Wangaratta Pennant team travelled to Howlong to play against a Walla Walla/ Howlong combination known as “Wallalong”. Wangaratta prevailed with the result being 11 wins to one in favour of Wangaratta. The end result does not accurately reflect the good standard of play by both teams. Playing times are Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are 1pm on all days. Please arrive 15 minutes early to allow for the draw to be done. Late arrivals will be included in the next game. Visitors and new players are welcome. Just contact one of the numbers listed below. Club contacts are president Trish Rogash on 0409974326 and captain Terry Wilson on 0417326739.
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Wilson’s change to pitcher stems the flow for Rangers
LET IT GO: Bryan Wilson lets his pitch fly.
PHOTO: Charlie Young
WANGARATTA Rangers played Porepunkah Panthers in the under 11s and the A Grade of baseball on Sunday with their under 15s having the bye. Once again the Rangers had a good number of players with 13 turning up and they all got a turn at bat, although the Rangers could only score five runs in the four innings played. They all enjoy the game and will continue to improve with their ball handling each week. The encouragement given by the Panthers’ coaches and spectators to the Rangers players was greatly appreciated by all. Panthers won 33 runs to Rangers five. Panthers were the first to bat in the A Grade game and were able to bring in two runs before they lost their third out to a fly ball catch at left field. Rangers Black were ready to play in their turn at bat when they had scored three runs before they lost their first out, then brought in two more to hold a three run lead at the top of the second innings, neither team could get a runner on base in their second innings both going three up, three down. Panthers left two runners on base in their next dig, while Rangers were able to bring in one more run in theirs. A change of pitcher by Rangers saw Bryan Wilson throwing from the mound. Although it was his first game for the season, Wilson threw well for the four innings that he pitched and with good support from his teammates in the field, they stopped Panthers from adding to their score for the rest of the game while adding three more runs to their score to run out winning, nine runs to Panthers, two. The two Rangers B Grade teams were up against each other. Both teams had players missing
but still had full numbers. Known more for his capabilities as a catcher, Sam Grigg started on the mound for Rangers Orange. Rangers Grey brought in two runs and left bases loaded when they lost their third out. Then with Brendon French pitching to his son Heath in the catcher’s position, they only had three batters face them before side away was called with the pitcher having only thrown 16 pitches. Both teams were making errors in their fielding allowing the opposition to bring in runs in the next two innings and Rangers Grey held a one run lead at the top of the fourth inning. Rangers Orange made a change of pitcher, bringing their usual pitcher, Jason Jonker to the mound. Rangers Grey added another three runs in their fourth turn at bat, mainly from fielding errors made by Orange, then stopped Orange from worrying the scorers to win eight runs to four. Rangers under 15s had the bye in their grade. This Sunday’s games: A Grade N.A.S.C. Bears vs Rangers Black at Springdale Heights. Wodonga Warriors vs Porepunkah Panthers at Gayview Park, Wodonga. B Grade Bears vs Rangers Grey at Springdale Heights. Warriors vs Benalla Bandits at Gayview Park. Rangers Orange vs Porepunkah Panthers at Targoora Park. Under 15s Wodonga Warriors vs Benalla Bandits. Rangers vs Panthers. Bears have the bye. Under 11s Bears vs Rangers. Panthers and Warriors have the bye.
Final show of the season for Wang Raceway
By DEAN THOMPSON
THIS Saturday night Wangaratta City Raceway will wrap up its season with the a number of featured events including the final running of the Darren Levy Memorial for Sports Sedans with over 30 entrants in that field alone. Add in a feature for the Junior Sedans, the Ladies Sedans and series rounds for the Junior 1200cc Sedans, Production Sedans and the Grand Prix Midgets and it makes for a heck of an entertaining night. With a season long state series for Sports Sedans concluding this weekend at Wangaratta in the final round of the Darren Levy Memorial, a terrific and fitting list of strong competitors have nominated to compete and try to win the final event ever for the memorial. Competing for the hon-
ours of winning the final memorial event is a large list of Alexandra Club members, known as the strongest of Sports Sedan clubs. Robert Garlick from Healesville leads the series points from clubmate Dale Smith and those two will try to secure the overall victory in the state series. Drivers such as Wangaratta member Felicity Roycroft, who has competed at the previous two rounds of the memorial series, is looking to tie up an overall memorial season victory as will Warrick Howie, Corey and Caleb Lincoln, Jay Nicolaisen, Nathan Shortis, Rob and Jamie Lock, Brendan Harper, Matthew Brooks, Luke Fallon and Josh Service. An annual Ladies Open Sedan feature event is penciled in with Roycroft the favourite after she recently won down in the Latrobe Valley.
LOCAL: Tay Cummins from the Wangaratta Club will be in the Ladies Sedan feature. PHOTO: Vern Parker Photography Jaimi Barber, Tay Cummins and Kelly Lamb are just some of the other competitors that will keep her honest. The annual Junior Open Sedan feature event of the season forms a round of the state series points for the class. Victorian champion Dylan Barrow is the driver to watch, however, Connor
Claridge, Marty Bassett, Marcus Maclean, Jacob Tinworth who has won at Wangaratta this season, Riley Balins and Michael Sayers are a long list of racers who can compete and perhaps the win. Scott Hawkins and Danny Harrison from Leeton are back in town to try to pick up where they left off after our last race meeting in Produc-
tion Sedans where they went one, two in the feature. Production Sedan racers Trevor Mills and Stephen Laidlaw against the Wangaratta contingent of racers of Chris Lack, Chris Fitzgerald, Brendan Harper, Tom Barnard and Raymond Ussher. While Mills and Laidlaw on paper look to be a likely winner, the result is far from a lock. Grand Prix Midgets will compete in the series round they missed out on a fortnight ago when weather played havoc with the region. Local competitors Jack Ward, Shawn Ward and Terry Brown will fly the flag for the North East, against the likes of Chris Fowler, Paul Perry and Ashley Booker . Arthur Hutchinson leads the entrants in the Junior 1200cc Sedan state points event with the likes of Braiden Webster, Ella Sheedy, Riley Taylor and Wangaratta
based racer Bryce Leek all looking to topple the favourite. Rounding out the evening’s competition is the Standard Saloon class which will see Micheal Fleming-Robertson from the Corowa Club and Wangaratta’s Shane Roycroft and Trevor Evans dueling with Matt Leek, Wayne Sheerman and Tim Hutchinson from out of town, all capable of winning. Entry Fee to enjoy the racing is $25 per adult, $20 for aged and disabled concession, $10 for kids aged six through to 16, children under six free and a family ticket is $60 for two adults and three kids over the age of six. The gates to the public open from 2pm and racing begins from 4pm. Public enquiries can be made to 0458 889 974. On site canteen and bar facilities and strictly no BYO.
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Bushies impress on big stage
By WILLSON MACK MURRAY Bushrangers had six players represent the club in the Colgate Young Guns Series at IKON Park last Sunday. Darcy Wilson (Wangaratta Rovers), Tom Cappileri (Myrtleford) and Ollie Hollands played for Victoria Country under 18s, while Tyler Norton (Wangaratta), Toby Murray (Wangaratta Rovers) Fletcher Hart (Albury) and Ryan Eyers (Corowa-Rutherglen) played for the Young Guns under 23 team. The Colgate Young Guns team was selected by AFL recruiters with an eye towards the 2022 AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft, which will be held on Wednesday, June 1. The squad featured the state’s brightest 19-year-old prospects, most of who are competing as top-age players
RISING STARS: (L-R) Tyler Norton (Wangaratta), Fletcher Hart (Albury), Ryan Eyers (Corowa-Rutherglen) and former Murray Bushranger Zavier Maher. Toby Murray (Wangaratta Rovers) also played for the Young Guns. in the 2022 NAB League Boys season. The team also included several VFL-listed players. Murray Bushrangers talent manager Mick Wilson said all the Bushrangers boys played well. “They all went pretty well but it was disappointing that Brayden George couldn’t play
because he was still showing signs of concussion from two weeks before,” Wilson said. “Tom Capileri played really well and I thought Tyler Norton was good too. “Ryan Eyers played his first game down forward in a while and unfortunately Toby Murray lost his front tooth in the first half so he
PROMISING: (L-R) Darcy Wilson (Wangaratta Rovers), Brayden George (Wangaratta Rovers), Ollie Hollands (Wodonga) and Tom Capileri (Myrtleford) played for Victoria Country. squads that will compete at the 2022 NAB AFL National Championships - U18 Boys. The Colgate Young Guns secured a 20.12 (132) to 11.7 (73) victory over Victoria Metro in the first game of the series at Avalon Airport Oval on Saturday, May 7, which was followed by an 11.11 (77) to 6.11 (47) win over Victo-
had to go off to hospital. “Toby’s all good now and he’s going to play for Essendon’s VFL side in a curtain raiser for ‘Dreamtime at the ‘G’ which will be exciting.” The series also gave players in the Victoria Country U18 and Victoria Metro U18 teams the chance to push their case for selection in the
ria Country at IKON Park on Sunday. “In the Vic Country game the Young Guns won by five goals but scoreboard aside it looked like a pretty even game,” Wilson said. “The Young Guns were probably a bit too strong physically because they’re all a bit older than the under 18 boys. “The series is a good way for the boys to get exposure before the mid-season draft and gives AFL clubs at closer look at the talent.” The Victoria Country squad for the NAB AFL National Championships will be chosen in the next month. “They’re picking a squad of 48 to play a trial game on the June long weekend and then they’ll pick their squad for the national championships from there,” Wilson said. “The Allies squad will be finalised this week.”
Social Oxley table tennis competition’s back to form
By JUNE UEBERGANG
“RAPPING at the windows, crying at the locks, let’s get started, it’s right on seven o’clock,” were the cries from the 21 players who lined up with their bats and fire in their bellies, ready to take on all comers in last Monday night’s social table tennis competition in the Oxley hall. The ‘infatiguable’ Richard Morgan drew the short straw when he partnered June Uebergang, to take on ‘Dad and daughter duo’ Adam and Phoebe Bosley, who had returned to the scene after missing last week. And although Morgan
and Uebergang seemed to meet many of the challenges thrown up to them, unfortunately this was not reflected when the final scores saw the Bosleys riding home with a 21-12 victory. An outstanding game saw Gary ‘Stretch’ Coad, partnering the ‘Glenrowan Tiger’ David Waters, to take on the blokes from ‘Fine Food street’, William Bonwick and Martin Butcher. The scores ebbed and flowed from the first point, but going by the grins of ‘Stretch’ and ‘Tiger’, they had consumed everything Bonwick and Butcher served up. The man who delves deep
into history, Neil Brock, and ‘girl of the present’ Cheryl Coad, lined up against ‘small in stature but big on game’ Kate Cole and the bloke who drives a hard bargain, Graham Stephens. From start to finish it was a great tussle of ‘gotchas’ with long and short deliveries, and unbelievable ground coverage. And although ‘the historians’ kept looking to the future of each point, the long and the short of it saw Cole and Stephens victorious. Back from their holiday in sunny (?) Port Douglas, where it never rained but poured, Rob Millison and Karen van de Sande were ready for busi-
Simon Brown, they played in unison in the set against ‘daughter-in-law’ Lucy Uebergang and Cheryl Coad. And while everyone played well, Simon played ‘wheelie’ well, and June played better than usual, it was a very hard-fought tactical encounter. Final scores saw Brown and Uebergang Snr winning 21-20. “Always on the go’ Robb Mollison and ‘high-flying desperado’ Janet Heath were in fine form as they ducked and dived all over the table and surrounding ‘turf’, against the equally ‘rip-tearers’, teenager Archie Crispin and Don ‘is good’ Heath in the longest
ness when they fronted up to the ‘unreadable’ playmaker Leonie Waters and her partner with many tricks up her sleeve, Sue McGregor. With all four players absent from the tables the previous week, each too a while to find their feet, but had lost no dexterity in their hands as they dosed their opponents with sharp and foxy serves and strokes all over the table. Great to watch, and when asked who won, van de Sande said, “I think they did.” Great elation was displayed when ‘hands on hips’ June Uebergang registered her second win for the season. Partnering ‘high roller’
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Wangaratta table tennis play grand finals
FULL STRETCH: Mark Comensoli in full flight.
BACK SPIN: Klaus Kazenwadel puts some revolutions on the ball.
IN THE ZONE: Daniel Larkings lines up a forehand.
THIS week at WTTA (Wangaratta Table Tennis Association) was the grand final for the autumn competition. A Grade: The longest match for the night, both teams fighting to win but ultimately Constable Connor (M. Brown, A. Harding and A. Robertson) took home the title defeating NE Ag & Industrial (M. Comensoli, K. Parker and I. Groom). The match that decided the fate of Constable Connor came down to two of the league’s strongest players M. Brown vs M. Comensoli. With an audience of around 30 onlookers, M. Brown walked away proud, winning the match and grand final for Constable Connor. B Grade: NE Ag & Industrial (T. Tatulaschwili, D. Larkings and A.
Plum) proved once again how strong their team is taking out the win, defeating West End Lotto (K. Kazenwadel, R. Gerrett and G. Barrow). West End Lotto were not going down without a few words said and a few line calls questioned. C Grade: The front runners for the season Boralma Berkshire (P. Fitzgerald, J. Lindner and M. Bowd) who were number one on the ladder all season were defeated by West End Lotto (M. Bellingham, M. Curran and M. Murphy) which goes to show that it all comes down to how each team plays on the night. Consistency awards: Congratulations to: A Grade: J. Wright. B Grade: K. Kazenwadel. C Grade: P. Fitzgerald, J. Lindner, A. Holmes and L. Kelly.
Important block awaits Wangaratta City By WILLSON MACK ALBURY Hotspurs shapes as Wangaratta City’s next task as a crucial three weeks awaits. The Devils face the Hotspurs, Twin City and Albury City before a league-wide bye on June 12. Wangaratta coach Daniel Vasilevski believes the next three weeks will set the back end of his side’s season up. “It’s a really important few weeks for us,” Vasilevski said. “It’s close at the top so it’s going to be important to get points on the board and get a few good results in the next three games. “We’ll also have Vitaly (Leschen) and Karl (McLaughlin) back after the bye too so we’ll have a full squad to attack the back half of the season.” As for Hotspurs this weekend, Vasilevski just wants to see his side start well. “Albury Hotspurs are sitting
lower on the ladder (10th with one win) but we can’t take them lightly,” he said. “We’re playing away which is a big advantage to them but I just want to see us start the first half well. “And if we do get a goal I want us to keep pushing ahead and no take the foot off the pedal like what’s happened a few times this season. “Once we get the first goal we need to keep going hard.” Goal difference will well and truly be in the back of Wangaratta’s mind with Twin City (8th, two wins) and Albury City (7th, three wins) all sitting towards the bottom half of the table. The Devils have drastically improved their goal difference over the past few weeks with big wins over Wodonga Diamonds (7-1) and Myrtleford (4-1) over the past few weeks and that opportunity may arise over the next three weeks.
NICE TOUCH: Stoycho Ivanov in action last weekend.
PHOTO: Janet Watt
Lady Devils up for tomorrow’s Albury Hotspurs challenge By NATHAN DE VRIES DESPITE sitting at the lower end of the ladder, Wangaratta’s senior women’s side will head into this Sunday’s match against third-placed Albury Hotspurs with momentum on their side, following their Wednesday night 5-3 victory in the FA Cup semi final. The Lady Devils booked their place in the final in con-
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vincing fashion, dominating Wodonga Diamonds across the field. Coach Lockie Campbell said the energy on display from the side will be the key to a win against Hotspurs. “It’s definitely going to be a tough match this weekend,” he said. “We played our FA cup semi final on Wednesday and won 5-3, with a lot of great energy
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and attitude throughout the entire game, so the goal this weekend is to match that same energy. “Going into the game this weekend, we definitely need to control the midfield, make use of our fast wingers and their amazing work rate - the backline will have to work hard and shut the ball down instantly.” Campbell said to back up
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from a 6-2 loss against Myrtleford last Sunday and take a win in a semi final showed the depth of talent and drive available to the squad. “It’s brilliant the way the girls are responding to my directions, asking something from them and them immediately trying and working with what I’ve given them,” he said, “Anika Miller came back into the squad on Wednesday
after missing a few weeks due to a slight tear in her groin, and she absolutely killed it “Her ability to read the play and know where to go is unbelievable. “If she plays the same this weekend along Beth (Cope) and Naomi (Howe) in the midfield, we are in for some points. “This weekend so far we’re only missing Georgia Ma-
honey, but slotting Sarah Morris up top was a game changer for us. “Her drive and attitude towards the ball was what gave us our momentum on Wednesday night, so we will be looking for more of the same from her this weekend.” The Lady Devils take on Albury Hotspurs this Sunday from 11.20am at Aloysius Park in Albury.
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Benalla face Bright in table topping clash By NATHAN DE VRIES ROUND nine of the Ovens and King footy fixture is shaping up to be a massive weekend, with the top of the ladder set for a shake-up. Top side Benalla All Blacks with make the trip up the Hume Freeway to take on giant-slayers and number two side Bright at Pioneer Park, while the third placed Demons host number four team Bonnie Doon. Benalla coach Nic Spencer said despite multiple injuries to the list, his side has fronted up to every match with determination. “The last three or four weeks we’ve been struck with injuries something shocking, but our blokes that have stepped into the senior role really stood up,” he said. “That King Valley game we had 11 senior players out, Goorambat game we had eight blokes out and lost two blokes in the first quarter, and on the weekend we still had six out against Tarrawingee. “It’s just a battle of trying to have blokes on the ground at the moment. “Other than that, I’m stoked with how our systems are going - our ball movement I think is what’s really separating us from the rest of the group. “Even on the weekend in wet conditions, we’re carving it up, zig-zagging all across the ground with our kicks.”
Undefeated Blues set to tear down Lions By NATHAN DE VRIES
PANTHERS READY: Nic Spencer and the Benalla All Blacks take on the number two team in Bright tomorrow. PHOTO: Garry Jones he’s probably handed off another 15-20 goals as well. “He draws a lot of attention, and Cody is much the same. “I think Chris is loving it down there, I know last year he had to pretty much shoulder the whole load by himself.” Benalla All Blacks face their biggest challenge so far this year, up against powerhouse Bright side in Bright, but Spencer said his boys are up to the task. “It’s always tough going up there to play, they do play their home
With a whopping percentage of 396.97, the Panthers’ forwards have been getting the job done week in and week out. “It’s like a three-headed monster down there between Chris O’Connor, Lachy Thompson and Cody Crawford - they’re pretty special to watch down there,” Spencer said. “Every time they touch the footy, you nearly expect them to kick a goal or find the other one. “There are a lot of goal assists as well - Lachy Thompson has kicked 40-something goals for the year but
ground very well,” he said. “In saying that I think this week might be one of the first weeks that we’ve had going in unchanged - we’ve still got five or six out, not that that worries us too much. “We’re pretty confident in our system and what we’ve got going, we still have many elite players that can carry it.” In other matches, Milawa take on Bonnie Doon, Goorambat host King Valley, North Wangaratta head out to Tarrawingee, and Whorouly plays Greta on the road.
Demons defying setbacks to rebuild By NATHAN DE VRIES AFTER being knocked around by injuries, unavailabilities and more, the Demons fought to reclaim a win last weekend over the Bats, and look poised to fight again against Bonnie Doon tomorrow. Milawa coach Ricky Petts said following their loss to Bright two weeks ago, the 20-point win over Goorambat last Saturday was a good palate cleanser. “The win on the weekend was one of the most rewarding wins I have had outside of finals,” he said. “Again we were hit with unavail-
ability of players and we were able to find a way. “The win showed us that when we play as a team to our game plan that we give ourselves a chance to succeed - it seemed to galvanise the group as well. “The whole team showed a lot of heart in that win and we were all really happy with how we were able to execute the game plan.” With several key players unable to play at the home game against Bonnie Doon tomorrow, and with Petts himself sidelined due to COVID, the pressure to perform has never been higher.
“This weekend is another huge challenge for us,” he said. “Unfortunately we have been hit with some more injuries and COVID. “We will need everyone to play their role again and stick to the game plan - the belief is there but we still need to execute. “I have confidence that the assistant coaches will be able to get the job done in my absence. “We hope to get a good crowd, it is a big game for us. “We want to win at home and away so where we play shouldn’t effect what we do.”
INNER SANCTUM Auskick With all the local football up and running, the Auskick season is fast approaching!
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PRESSURE’S ON: Greta will look to keep their undefeated status when they take on Whorouly tomorrow. PHOTO: Janet Watt
Auskick is the best way to get your 5 – 10 year old son or daughter involved in footy, with plenty of fun games and activities for all levels of skill and ability. The Wangaratta region has three fantastic centres which are all run by teams of enthusiastic and passionate coordinators and volunteers! Auskick Centre’s and Start Dates Greta Auskick – Saturday April 23rd @ Greta Rec Reserve To register for Auskick simply visit https://play. afl/auskick and use the search function to find a centre near you!
BACK ON TOP: The Demons will have to dig deep with a depleted list to take on Bonnie Doon tomorrow. PHOTO: Melissa Beattie
Random Rule 11.2 MATCH FORFEITURE 11.2.1 Forfeiture For the purposes of this Law, a Team forfeits a Match if: (a) it is unable or it fails, refuses or neglects to commence or recommence play: (i) at the scheduled starting time; or (ii) within such other time period determined or specified by the Controlling Body, a field Umpire or these Laws; (b) a field Umpire determines, in accordance with these Laws, that a Team has forfeited the Match; or (c) an event occurs under the Laws which results in a Team forfeiting the Match. 11.2.2 Consequence of Forfeiture Where a Team forfeits a Match, the following shall apply: (a) the points for the Match shall be awarded
GRETA will be looking to maintain their flawless track record for season 2022 when they host an in-form Whorouly squad on the courts at the Greta Recreation Reserve tomorrow. The Blues have been one of the premier sides in O&K netball for some time now, which A grade coach Loren Gathercole puts down to the team’s work ethic. “The girls work really hard, and it’s great to see them getting results for that,” she said. “We also have a lot of fun, and have a lot of respect for each other on and off the court. “We’re lucky to have such a strong, versatile side - I can throw most of the girls anywhere and they’ll be able to adapt and take on that position.” Gathercole said the competition has been fierce all year, and the match against the Lions will be no different. “I don’t think we could be singled out as the team to beat because I think the competition is quite strong, and there are a lot of teams that are looking good,” she said. “This year is hard with COVID still around, because missing players can have a huge impact on a team, so it’s hard to get a proper gauge on where teams are at. “I’m really looking forward to the game against Whorouly - they’re looking very strong this year, so I think it’s going to be a hard, close match.”
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Big man challenge for Wangaratta WANGARATTA will venture up the highway to Birallee Park tomorrow where a clash against Wodonga Raiders awaits the league’s top side. The round seven clash marks the final round before next weekend’s interleague bye where the Ovens and Murray will face off against the Goulburn Valley League. “It’s certainly strange having two byes in a month and we definitely would prefer to have a three or four week block in between but we’re happy to roll with it,” Wangaratta coach Ben Reid said. “We’re going to have a handful playing interleague so they’ll get a game under their belt but it makes it difficult to handle training when you’ve got the byes. “For us though this weekend is just about putting in a good four quarter performance and finish off this last game before the break, we don’t want to fall into bad habits now.” Although the Raiders do lack depth and is the only team yet to register a win, their midfield still poses a threat. They boast arguably the league’s best ruckman in Isaac Muller, as well as ball magnets Jarryd Hodgkin and Max Beattie who have both been in prolific form this season. Muller produced an absolute ruck masterclass against Albury last weekend, racking up a whopping 70 hit outs, 18 dispos-
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als, two goals and 164 ranking points in his side’s loss. The clash against Muller shapes as Chris Knowles’ biggest challenge of the season. “Beattie and Hodgkin are really good mids that we’re going to have to be weary of and Muller is probably the ruckman of the competition at the moment,” Reid said. “It’s going to be Chris Knowles’ biggest challenge, he was super against Dawson Simpson and Callum Crisp last weekend but he’s got another big challenge again this weekend. “Knowles has really improved this year and I think that comes down to his pre-season - he put in the work over the off-season and it’s showing but he’s been in great form.” After missing last weekend, Joe Richards is set to return from hamstring tightness, while Matt Kelly has recovered from illness and should also be back in the fold. “We’re hoping both ‘Joey’ (Richards) and ‘Bater’ (Kelly) should be right,” Reid said. “A few guys will be stiff to miss out but I guess that’s a healthy problem to have. “Going into the back half of the year we’re hoping to get more continuity into the side.”
DEFT TOUCH: Chris Knowles, pictured against Callum Crisp, faces a huge task against the league’s premier ruckman in Isaac Muller tomorrow. PHOTO: Melissa Beattie
Hawks jumping to other end of spectrum By WILLSON MACK WANGARATTA Rovers netballers will be wanting to take all of the confidence they can get out of their first win of the season last weekend against Wodonga. The Hawks will go from one end of the spectrum to the other when they come up against the league’s most in-form team in Corowa-Rutherglen at WJ Findlay Oval. But for Wangaratta Rovers coach Jo Cresswell, she just wants her girls to keep the game as competitive as possible.
“It’s going to be a tough one but as long as the girls execute their skills hopefully we won’t let the score run out,” Cresswell said. “We have to be realistic because they’re a really good side but as long as we are up for the fight and give them a challenge that’s all I can ask for as a coach. “We’ve just been making skill errors that have been killing us but every player wants to work on that and get better which is pleasing to see as a coach.” The ‘Roos boast quality across the whole court
with Toni Wilson medallist Sophie Hanrahan a pillar in defence, while shooter Grace Senior is arguably the best in the competition. But Wangaratta Rovers star defender Mikaela Trethowan has been in top form recently and may be able to restrict Senior’s impact. Cresswell is hoping her side’s willingness to improve will earn them a victory over a top side. “The team deserves to knock off one of the big teams just because of the
way they go about their netball,” she said. “Their intensity and effort is always great so hopefully at some stage this season we grab a big win. “If we can keep this squad together and keep on building I’m sure we can have some success.” Meanwhile, Wangaratta faces the seventh placed Wodonga Raiders who sit with a two wins, three losses, one draw record. The ‘Pies responded well from their loss to North Albury with a 50-37 victory over Myrtleford.
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SEARCHING: Sarah Riches in action for Wangaratta Rovers. PHOTO: Melissa Beattie
ANOTHER danger game is staring Wangaratta Rovers in the eyes after a disappointing loss to Wodonga last weekend. The season doesn’t get any easier for the Hawks tomorrow when they clash with the much improved Corowa-Rutherglen at WJ Findlay Oval. Like Wangaratta Rovers, the Roos have had a topsy-turvy start to their season but still sit in fifth spot with a three wins, three losses record, one position above their counterparts by percentage. But for the Hawks, there’s no better motivation than putting in a great display for their gallant ruckman Shane Gaston’s 200th game. Gaston becomes the only ruckman in Wangaratta Rovers’ 72-year history to reach the 200 game milestone and at 34-years-old is still playing some outstanding football. At 196cm he’s often giving up height to his opposing big man but over time he has recognised that and developed his craft accordingly. “I’ve just tried to develop my own rucking style over the years,” Gaston said in KB Hill’s interview of the Hawk warrior. “At centre bounces, I use my body and jump into blokes. “Having never been known for taking the big pack mark, I just rely on running a lot, and contesting around the ground.” Gaston was named Hawks’ skipper in 2016 and couldn’t be more proud to be awarded that honour. “To be accorded that honour was huge,” he said. “After all, 780 players have worn the Brown and Gold, and there’ve only been 23 captains “I had it for four years and really loved the responsibility.”
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Local racing’s back The Wangaratta Turf Club will host its first race meet since December 23 after local cup p was abandoned THE Wangaratta Turf Club will host its first meet since December 23 after the local cup day was abandoned due to wet weather. The club is set to roll out a seven race card with plenty of local interest to go around on Sunday afternoon. Ben Brisbourne has a contingent of nine gallopers accepted into the race day, while Chris Davis (seven), Craig Weeding (five), Andrew Dale (five), Ledger Racing (four), James Fraser (two) and Dan McCarthy (one) will all have runners throughout the afternoon. Wangaratta Turf Club chief exceutive officer Sean Barrett is looking forward to a great afternoon at the races. “We haven’t had races on since December 23 so it’s been a fair break from holding races,” Barrett said. “We’ve still had strong activity at the track with the training centre and jump outs going on but it’s going to be great to welcome members, owners and the public back to the races. “Hopefully we can get a good crowd in and enjoy a great day at the races.” Local trainers have been in hot touch with Ben Brisbourne racking up three
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winners last week. “Our trainers have been in terrific form recently so hopefully nothing changes,” Barrett said. “Hopefully we can see our local trainers take home a few winner’s cheques.” The track is currently rated a heavy eight but Barrett expects it to improve by Sunday. “We’ve had a little bit of rain over the past few days but I’d say the track will improve a little bit by Sunday,” he said. “Our track manager does a great job preparing a track that’s fair to all horses and jockeys.” Ticket prices are $15 for general admission and $10 for concession. The club will open the Grand Oaks Room to all, while the outdoor canteen and bar will also be available to the public. Sunday shapes as a cracking autumn’s day with the forecast predicting a sunny 18 degrees. Race one kicks off at 11:40am with the final race to be run at 3:55pm.
CLUB LEGEND SHANE Gaston (pictured battling with Yarrawonga’s Lachie Howe) will play his 200th game for Wangaratta Rovers tomorrow in their huge clash against Corowa-Rutherglen. Story page 41. PHOTO: Melissa Beattie IT RETURNS: The Wangaratta Turf Club will host its first meeting since December 23 on Sunday. PHOTO: Melissa Beattie
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