50 YEARS AGO

Shire Roads Under Fire

At Monday’s meeting of Rodney Shire Council, Councillors had to deal with a number of complaints about roads which had become somewhat the worse for wear owing to the excessively long wet period. A letter from D Hogan (Frank’s father) and 21 others stated that River Road, Toolamba from Trevaskis corner to Toolamba Cemetery was in a deplorable state.

Historic Apex Conventions At Tatura

Ritchie Trevaskis, a life member of the Tatura Apex Club, will open the District 4 Convention. Ritchie was a founding member of the Tatura Club when it was formed in 1959. Club highlights for the year include, combined with Lions and the RSL, running a very successful Mardi Gras, constructing a covered entrance to the hospital and raising $1,500 from paper drives.

CANON & MRS PAGE FAREWELLED

All Saints Hall, Tatura was packed to capacity when more than 200 people from all walks of life gathered to bid farewell to Canon Cliff Page and his wife Jean who are leaving Tatura shortly for Daylesford after more than 10 years’ service at All Saints.

Approaching Marriage

Rosemary Graham and Ross Hepworth tied the knot at the Parish Church of St Augustine’s, Shepparton after which the reception followed at the Victoria Hotel, Shepparton. (still married and living in Tatura).

Tatura Civic Halls

The Committee of Management of the Tatura Civic Halls is very pleased to see the advertisement by the Shire of Rodney in the Tatura Guardian, calling for tenders for renovations to the Tatura Civic Halls. These renovations, when competed, will give Tatura modernised halls with kitchen facilities

Tatura

Physiotherapy Clinic

85 Hogan Street, Tatura

Lisa M. Cullum

Opening HOurs:

Monday : 8:30am – 4pm

Tuesday: closed

Wednesday: 8:30am – 4pm

Thursday: closed

Friday: 8:30am – 12noon

From July Tatura Physiotherapy Clinic will be open the first Thursday evening of the month 5-8pm and closed on the Friday.

For an appointment phone 5824 2889

by Andy Crawford

equal to any available in the Goulburn Valley.

Football

Tatura finished too well for Stanhope on Saturday to win their seventh game of the first round. Final scores were Tatura 13-14 (92) def Stanhope 10-6 (66)

Tatura’s Senior Side

B P Hansen, M Kelly, B Young

HB E Grey, T Tamburro, S Cohen

C J Steen, E Antonio, J Hicks

HF D Green, A Serra, R Doolan

F R Stammers, R Davies, T Harding

Foll F Houlihan, N Smith

Rover F McMahon

19th P Connors 20th A Crawford

Goals: F McMahon 4, R Doolan 3, N Smith, F Houlihan, R Downie, R Stammers (usually played on the backline) A Harding, A Serra.

Best: F Houlihan, N Smith, T Tamburro, F

McMahon, M Kelly, J Hicks, P Hansen

A GRADE NETBALL RESULTS

MT’s 98 def Scorpions 2

Best: MT’s - P Bonadesi, J Italia

Scorpions - W Stone, J Snelling

Bluebirds 35 def Rivals 30

Best: Bluebirds - S Smith, A Witten

Rivals - F France, N Price

250 GAMES FOR FREDDO

Freddo McMahon will run out on Saturday against Mooroopna to play his 250th senior game for the Bulldogs. Freddo started playing with the Under 17’s when they were playing in the Shepparton Junior League. Freddo was 14 years of age and won the Purcell Medal for the best and fairest boy in the comp. He first played with the senior side in 1958 and is now in his 16th year as a senior player.

COURSING CLUB

Sylvan Prince, owned and trained by Mr RS Izon of Springvale won the final by 2 points earning his owner $1,600 in prize money, plus a trophy. Club Secretary, Alan Calder, stated a capacity entry of 64 greyhounds contested the two day Derby.

RUSS STEEN WINS WINTER CUP

Every nerve bared, every muscle stretched, every effort given as Lindsay Ferguson and Russ Steen battled for the Winter Cup, a cup well earned by Russ. Two up and one to play tells nothing of the hard but extremely fair war these two seasoned veterans waged for 3½ hours.

SACRED HEART MOTHERS CLUB

A total of 26 members attended the June meeting of the Sacred Heart Mothers Club held in St Mary’s Hall. Two new members, Mrs Zappia and Mrs Gill, were welcomed by Mrs Kerrins who said how happy she was to see many members who had been absent for some time, able to attend once more.

Many interesting topics were discussed during the meeting with the next fundraiser being a rag drive.

Compiled by Andy Crawford

Pilates At The Community House

Hello people of Tatura!! I’m Simone and I’m your new local Pilates and rehabilitation instructor.

My business Core Strength Fitness Victoria has been running since 2008 and is well known in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne.

I would, now, like to extend my experience to you!

So, a bit about me.

I am a mum of 4 kids aged from 15 to 20. I grew up swimming and dancing and so have a love for understanding how the body works.

I fell in love with Pilates when I was 19 years old, because it complimented my ballet so well. I travelled around Europe and Britain for about 4½ years when I was younger and met lots of different people and experienced a lot of different cultures.

Whilst being a stay-at-home mum I decided to complete my Personal Training, Group Fitness and Pilates certificates.

This enabled me to be able to work around the schooling and extra curricula lifestyle of my children and keep me fit at the same time.

I started my business, in 2008, in a bungalow in my backyard and running private mobile classes.

Working in local gyms gave me some more experience until one day I decided to start running classes from my local Community Centre.

I always dreamed of having my own wellness studio but realised I could help more people through Community Centre work.

By 2019, I was running 19 group Pilates sessions and several private sessions in a number of Community Centres.

When COVID lock downs hit Melbourne, I took my business 100% online to keep my clients moving.

This was a great success and I still have a number of them online with me now.

The majority of my clients range in age between 40 and 80, so I have had a lot of experience helping those with ongoing ailments, conditions and injuries.

I love the challenge of ensuring everyone gets a complete personal workout and in assisting them reach their fitness goals.

Over the last 2 years I have been mentoring and training new instructors to help set them up on their own journey.

So, what is Pilates??

Simply, low impact strength training that will improve back health, joint health, muscle tone, posture & core strength.

My classes are designed to the class participants and offer all level abilities.

I am starting my first session here in Tatura on Tuesday 27 June, at 7pm, at the Tatura Community House, and can’t wait!

You can contact me on 0409688279, corestrength08@gmail.com or go to my website at www.corestrengthfitnessvictoria.com.au

CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME? by Ma

Merle

“I tell you Merle,” Agnes said as she nodded her head side to side, “this meditation is doing us the world of good. Honestly, I am sleeping better than I have for ages and feeling so well.”

“Yes, and that’s just while you are here meditating Agnes,” I chided. “Oh, ha-ha, you are so funny Merle, although you are right. But I am also sleeping so well at night. I think it’s the best thing we have done for ages.”

“Well, we have been very disciplined Agnes. Doing this meditation three times a week has been working very well for me too. I don’t feel nearly as stressed as I used to. Garry keeps asking if he can come and join us, but I told him there is no room left in the group.” I gave a jovial laugh and Agnes joined in with me.

“We are a bit cheeky Merle, but I do like just the two of us doing this. I mean we mostly just sleep, listen to music and snore but there are some things women like to keep to themselves and I think this fits into that category, don’t you?”

“Oh yes indeed, Agnes,” I agreed. “Now let’s have a cup of tea and I can see if there is any of that sponge cake left in the fridge.” I was putting the kettle on when Agnes raised her voice and pointed out of the window. “Well now what is that up there on your decking Merle?” Her tone was quite accusing.

“What are you looking at Agnes?” I mean how did she think I knew what she meant. The pot plant? The table? “There are many things on the decking Agnes, you will need to be more specific.”

“Oh, I will be specific, Merle. I am looking at what appears to be a warm, fluffy, cat bed. I mean I could be wrong, but that is certainly what it looks like from here.”

“Oh, I see,” I answered slowly. “Yes, well that would be a cat bed then, that you are seeing.”

Agnes turned and looked at me. “But what on earth, Merle, why?”

“It’s not really my fault. Garry bought it. He said now that it is getting colder, and the little cat seems to be here to stay, we should take better care of it.” Agnes raised a knowing eyebrow at me. “We? Oh, my Merle, we?”

“It’s not like that at all, Agnes, you know what Garry is like. He just feels a sense of ownership around the place because of the work he does out there in the yard, and I suppose the deck is all part of that, and I suppose the little doggy and the cat are also part of that too.”

“So, you have gone from the woman who will never have a stray cat hanging around to making sure it is warm and cozy with you setting up a nice place for it to sleep? It’s a wonder it does not sleep on the bed with you.” Agnes had an almost disapproving tone to her voice. I felt as though I was being scolded.

“Don’t be silly Agnes, you know Roger is not allowed in the house.” I felt now was not the time to mention that he has taken to following Barney in through the doggy door. I’ll maybe save that for another time, or better still, never.

“Roger, of course I forgot you have named it too. Sounds very much like Roger is here to stay.”

“Let’s just eat cake Agnes and enough about all of that nonsense.” I said rushing over to the fridge and grabbing the sponge cake.

“And Garry?” Agnes said looking at me with her questioning eyes.

“Yes, what about Garry Agnes? Is there a question in that?”

“I was just wondering about how often he seems to have been coming around. Last time I spoke to you, he had just been here as well. It seems to me that he has been here an awful lot lately.”

“Agnes read into it all you like. You know he gets lonely, and you know I need work done out in the yard. As long as I give him a cup of tea and a biscuit or two, not five like I think he would happily guts down, then everyone is gaining something. He gets to enjoy my company and I get the work done. Plus, he sorts the sleeping arrangements out.”

“Animal sleeping arrangements I presume Merle?” Agnes once again had a tone to her voice along with another raised eyebrow.

“You are in a strange mood today, Agnes. You used to try and push Garry and I together and now you are acting like I have done something wrong.” Agnes sighed. “You’re right Merle, I am a bit out of sorts. You see Fred has been at me for the past few weeks to work out if you are interested in Garry or not because he said Noelene from the club has been asking him to set her up with him. To be honest I am sick of Fred and sick of his pestering lately. And now I feel like some sort of double agent spy.”

I did not know how to respond or to answer Agnes. She was never sick of Fred. They were always so lovey-dovey and now she is sick of him. Oh dear.

“Um, Agnes are you and Fred okay?” I asked gently. I really am such a caring friend to Agnes.

“Not really Merle, we are just bumping heads at the moment, and I am getting cranky at him for all sorts of things. I mean he trapses through the house with his outdoor shoes on, leaving mud everywhere and I can’t stand it. I growl at him and he says he won’t do it again, but the very next time he goes out into the yard, in he comes with his dirty shoes. I know it sounds minor but it really gets under my goat. I could strangle him to be honest. Clearly, he doesn’t get it. Just thinks I am being fussy and all.”

“Oh, fussy not.” I sternly replied. “You can never be too fussy about that sort of business. How men don’t understand the idea of a clean floor is beyond me. How can anyone ever think outdoor muddy or dirty shoes are acceptable in the home? I would be very upset too Agnes. Take the damn shoes off, I say. I never allowed it back when hubby was alive. Or from the kids either. I don’t blame you being upset, not one bit.”

“Yes, it is the straw breaking the weakened camel’s back at the moment, Merle.” Agnes looked a little sad.

“Maybe it’s time we went away on another weekend Agnes, just the two of us again. What do you think?” I said this as cheerfully as I could to lift her mood up a bit.

Agnes brightened immediately. “I think that would be great, Merle. Let’s get the cake sorted and then make some plans while we enjoy our afternoon tea.”

Although Fred does get under my skin, he has made Agnes very happy, and this business was most disturbing. I think I will pay him a visit tomorrow, firstly to make sure he understands his wrong doings with his outdoor shoes and then to tell him to tell Noelene to leave Garry alone. And Fred can mind his own business as well. Yes, that’s what I will do. Fancy people sticking their nose in other people’s business when it has nothing to do with them. Why would they think they can do that? Can someone please explain? Anyone?

Ross and Ray

TATURA – A FIT PLACE TO LIVE!

The Rotary Club of Tatura, with backing from the Greater City of Shepparton Council, Tatura Community Planning Committee, Tatura Walks and Ride Committee, Tatura Football and Netball Club, Primary School, Lions Club and Boot Camp groups is planning to install a 6-station exercise equipment plant in the Lake Bartlett area adjacent to the gas BBQ and toilet block. The exercise equipment has been selected to be suitable for all age groups to use and enjoy. This project is currently quoted at around $65,000. To date, almost $23,000 has been raised through the generous donation / pledges of forty local businesses and six individuals. Submissions have been made to Shepparton Council ‘Our Sporting Future Grant program’ for $15,000, on a matching $ for $ basis. Further, grant submissions have been made to Qantas Regional Development grants, and the Rotary Foundation to assist in bridging the gap to the funds needed to implement this project. The Rotary Club of Tatura has already implemented several projects within the town for the benefit of the local community and this is our latest effort.

With fund raising ongoing, any business or individual who wishes to contribute to this community project can do so by contacting either Rhonda Rose on 0418181295 or John John on 0451126622. The community spirit within Tatura is strong, and it is this that will see this project succeed.

The photo shows Foundation Director Ray Fleming accepting a $1,000 cheque for Ross Mussolino on behalf of Tatura Walks and Ride Committee.