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Parliament dismiss unfit council Administrator in charge for two years SOUTH Gippslanders will be without are named. She will be sworn in today.

Mr Hill, now unemployed, refuses to accept councillors until the next round of counthe Parliament’s decision, saying the dismissal cil elections in October 2021. of council was the result of a coup by certain

South Gippsland Shire councillors were sacked elements within the community. with the support of the two houses of the Victorian He has called for a meeting with Premier Parliament last week, after Daniel Andrews to discuss Victorian Local Government how council was sacked and Minister Adem Somyurek criticised Gippsland South tabled a Bill calling for MLA Danny O’Brien on council to be dismissed.

Facebook in the wake of the There was a toxic, The decision was given intractable culture.” sacking.

Royal Assent on Friday, when Mr Somyurek said factors council’s sacking became contributing to the sacking of Minister final, soon after mayor Don council were six councillors Hill attended the opening of resigning, two thirds of current councillors the Long Jetty at Port Welshpool. not being elected on primary votes and the The move ends the tumultuous council term questionable process of how CEO Tim Tamlin due to fighting among councillors that saw was dismissed. the appointment of a municipal monitor and “There was a toxic, intractable culture that Commission of Inquiry. developed on that particular council mainly Both found the tensions were hindering driven by interpersonal disputes and that affected council’s ability to govern in the community’s the governance of that council and its ability to interests. govern in the interests of the people of South Council will be replaced by interim OUT THE DOOR: South Gippsland Shire Council mayor Don Hill and councillors were Gippsland,” the minister said. administrator Julie Eisenbise, a member of the Mr O’Brien said he did not support the sacked by the Victorian Parliament after Victorian Local Government Minister Adem commission, until a panel of three administrators dismissal of council lightly.

Somyurek fired the gun.

SEVEN sacked South Gippsland Shire councillors used $63,450 of ratepayers’ money to fight allegations they were failing in direction, leadership, culture, behaviour and decisionmaking.

Council was dissolved last week, with Minister for Local Government Adem Somyurek citing a “toxic” culture.

Answering monitor Peter Stephenson’s recommendation that they be suspended, the former councillors – mayor Don Hill, Alyson Skinner, Andrew McEwen, Ray Argento, Rosemary Cousin, Frank Hirst and Steve Finlay - enlisted the services of Melbourne law firm Kellehers, who penned an extensive defence against the recommendation.

Running to 130 pages, the document cost ratepayers an average of $500 per page.

“Indicative of the way they have been governing, the council could not even provide me an official response to my show-cause letter.

They could not even get that right, which was indicative of the way they were travelling,” the minister told ABC Radio.

Ratepayers have already been billed $131,316 for Mr Stephenson’s services, while council is yet to be invoiced for the Commission of Inquiry, which was headed by former Supreme Court judge Frank Vincent.

Former Korumburra and South Gippsland Shire councillor James Forbes said he was disgusted at the behaviour of the councillors and believes they should pay the money back.

The councillors’ submission argues that “suspension of elected members would, at this juncture, have a devastating effect on local democracy and community supported initiatives”.

Council’s timeline to disaster It started with claims of poor governance, fol- council.

Eventually the roles would be filled by counlowed by a string of resignations. This is how cillors Steve Finlay and Frank Hirst. council imploded: • Almost at the same time the two newbies are APRIL 2018: Then mayor, Cr Lorraine Brunt, sworn in, Cr Jeremy Rich quits after a drug raid writes to the State Government in April 2018, rais- on his family’s property.

He is due to face court in the coming weeks. ing concerns about the conduct of council and the MARCH 2019: The Leongatha Business Asstate of play regarding the organisation’s dealings with Ansevata Pty Ltd., a company of which Cr sociation hosts a public meeting.

It is attended by hundreds of people, who overJeremy Rich was a director.

JUNE 2018: State Government-appointed whelming vote ‘yes’ to council’s sacking.

• Monitor Peter Stephenson delivers his final municipal monitor Peter Stephenson comes to council on June 18, 2018, with a brief to “pro- report to Minister for Local Government Adem vide leadership and good governance for the Somyurek.

The report is scathing. municipality”.

MAY 2019: Council responds to the report, As well as offering to tutor councillors, he observes behavior and reports back to the minister. with a deadline set for May 9. They decide to enSEPTEMBER 2018: Cr Maxine Kiel gage the services of a Melbourne law firm at a cost of more than $63,000. resigns.

• Councillors push to advertise CEO Tim TamShe cites bullying by other councillors as her main reason for vacating the role. She is replaced lin’s role. Bryan Sword becomes new CEO. • On May 28, 2019 Cr Andrew McEwen is

by Cr Rosemary Cousin.

OCTOBER 2018: Cr Meg Edwards resigns. charged with one charge of misuse of position, after allegations by the Local Government InShe also airs claims of bullying.

She is replaced by former mayor, Jim spectorate that he leaked an email from CEO Tim Tamlin.

Fawcett.

He is due to appear in Korumburra MagisFEBRUARY 2019: Cr Fawcett quits, along trates’ Court on July 4, 2019. with Cr Lorraine Brunt, another former mayor.

The Inspectorate will allege that, in January The pair’s resignations are effective from 2018, Cr McEwen provided a Tarwin Lower resiApril 1.

Both make claims of bullying and a toxic cul- dent with information.

JUNE 2019: Minister Somyurek appoints a ture at council.

• Although another former mayor, Nigel Commission of Inquiry to investigate council.

The commission – which comprises three Hutchinson-Brooks wins Cr Brunt’s position on commissioners, including former Supreme Court countback. judge Frank Vincent – begins interviewing relHe declines the offer.

The candidate for Cr Fawcett’s seat, Graeme evant parties and holds a public hearing at KoruWinkler, also rejects the offer of a spot on mburra on June 5, 2019.

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The final report would conclude that, “There has been a high level of tension, discord and conflict between the councillors elected in 2016.

“Nearly all individuals involved have been heavily impacted emotionally by their experiences on and with the council.

“For these reasons we recommend to the minister that the council be dismissed.”

JUNE 2019: Cr Aaron Brown quits on June 12, 2019, citing a “toxic culture” at council. He is particularly unhappy with the way Mr Tamlin has been treated.

• After a negative scorecard from the commission, the minister finally pulls the trigger – with legislation ushered through State Parliament last week.

He said: “This is not a decision we took lightly, the Commission of Inquiry highlighted serious failures at South Gippsland Shire Council which required dismissal.”

• Last Friday (June 21), the current councillors were officially dismissed, after the legislation passed both houses of Parliament and received Royal Assent by the Governor.

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Shire open for business THE Leongatha Business Association believes the town may at last have a chance at revival.

President Brenton Williams says the association never had the intention of killing South Gippsland Shire Council and held its March public meeting at the behest of ratepayers who felt they were being shortchanged.

It led to an almost unanimous vote by about 400 people to urge Local Government Minister Adem Somyurek to sack council.

“People weren’t coming to the town because of the uncertainty generated by council. Now we can all push forward,” he said.

“The whole reason the public meeting came about was because people were coming to us and saying, ‘What are you going to do?’.

“We came out at the meeting and said, ‘We’re not a political party. We’re not here to talk about the CEO, just the councillors. We’re not here to bring anyone down, not start a witch hunt…we just want to get feedback about what you think about council.’

“We just wanted answers from the State Government about what was going to happen. If they were going to stay, that was fine. If they were going to go, get rid of them.”

Speaking in the days after the State Government voted to push through legislation to oust the current crop of councillors, Mr Williams and association vice president Anthony Walls, said there are brighter days ahead.

Both point to the planned Bair Street redevelopment as a project that will help reinvigorate Leongatha.

But the biggest thing, of course, is the end to the uncertainty surrounding council’s future.

“Now it’s done we can get the administrators

in and we can go back to business as usual. We can things rolling,” Mr Williams said.

Mr Walls said, “We can progress and move forward, because in the last 12 months this town has been in a massive hole. There were too many what-ifs and nothing was getting done.

“Business people want to come to town, but they weren’t going to come in that environment.

Now the past is put to bed.

“From the information we have, when administrators have been appointed in three other coun-

THE minister who signed the death sentence for South Gippsland Shire Council has rejected the mayor’s claim that an “orchestrated coup” was behind council’s sacking.

Victorian Local Government Minister Adem Somyurek.

Former mayor Don Hill said the campaign was driven by certain elements within the community, including the press.

But Victorian Local Government Minister Adem Somyurek said councillors alone were responsible for their plight.

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June last year there was a monitor put in place, recommended by the chief municipal inspector, so that’s a pretty slow coup,” he said last Wednesday.

“I understand the mayor of South Gippsland may not be having his best day today.”

Mr Hill is now an unemployed teacher after taking a year of leave from his teaching job at Drouin Secondary College.

He refused to believe there was any justification to sack council.

Mr Hill was critical of the reports by municipal monitor Peter Stephenson and the Commission of Inquiry that led to the minister deciding to call for council to go.

Mr Hill said the monitor’s report was “shallow” and “fluffy”, and the commission’s report was “not a fair reflection of events”.

He said the campaign to have council dismissed began after the 2016 local government election and was spelled out in a correspondence received by an unsuccessful candidate at that election.

Mr Hill said it alleged that members of the former Leongatha Chamber of Commerce, the press and unelected council candidates had caused upheaval within the council.

“At the election in 2016, the ratepayers spoke to remove five of the six councillors from the past council who did not believe in their platform of change,” he said.

“The two councillors who had a platform of progressive change were re-elected with an increased vote.”

Those latter two councillors were Mr Hill and Andrew McEwen.

Mr Hill said the new council was destabilised by those involved in the coup because they did not support the new council’s bid to improve transparency within the governance of the shire, and to reduce rates.

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Not fit to govern Internal fighting destroys council IN-FIGHTING between councillors impacted South Gippsland Shire Council’s ability to govern in ratepayers’ best interests.

That was the finding of the Commission of Inquiry, which recommended the Victorian Local Government Minister dismiss South Gippsland Shire Council.

The commission found councillors shouted and were aggressive towards each other, shut down alternate viewpoints, bombarded opponents with emails and telephone calls, and restricted their access to information.

Councillors also pressured staff to change their advice.

“There has been a high level of tension, discord and conflict between the councillors elected in 2016,” the commission’s report stated.

“This continuing conflict between councillors has impacted negatively on the council’s performance and its role as a representative, decision-making body, and performance of its role and the role of councillors as required by the act.”

The disunity had impacted council’s ability to make long term, strategic decisions, as well as decisions on potentially controversial issues.

Conflict between councillors affected relationships between councillors and staff, the people involved had been “heavily impacted emotionally”, and the resignation of councillors weakened the current council’s legitimacy as a representative body.

The commissions raised concern about the disposal of former CEO Tim Tamlin, the

LAST STRAW: Commission of Inquiry’s John Watson, Frank Vincent and Julie Eisenbise, now interim administrator of council. appointment of an acting CEO, and asking council asking staff for a report about how to achieve a three percent rate reduction strategy.

That was despite advice from council staff that pursuing this rate cut would have negative impact council’s financial sustainability.

The commission said a two year break in the elected council was necessary to disrupt the pattern of conflict, re-establish trust between councillors and staff, and repair council’s standing in the community.

The commission held 33 interviews, a public

Toxic culture

undoes council

A SCATHING report of a toxic culture within South Gippsland Shire Council was delivered by municipal monitor Peter Stephenson – and mayor Don Hill was in the firing line.

The monitor found some councillors intimidated and disrespected each other, focused on “pet interests” rather than the council’s future, disrespected the CEO and council staff, and were unfit to govern.

Some councillors did not understand their roles and conflicts of interests, and made questionable decisions, including over the sale of council land to IGA for a proposed supermarket at Korumburra.

Mr Stephenson found that among councillors, “intimidating and/or disrespectful behaviours are commonplace as are long email threads of ‘tit for tat’, accusatorial messages”, in breach of the Councillor Code of Conduct.

Councillors showed “poor and inappropriate behaviour” during confidential sessions and the monitor criticised Cr Hill for not being able to

hearing at Korumburra and received submissions.

It comprised chair Frank Vincent, Julie Eisenbise and John Watson.

Ex-mayor Don Hill said council had no chance to respond to the commission.

Mr Hill said Minister Adem Somyurek should hold another inquiry into the process that allowed council to be sacked.

“All the councils that have had a monitor or a commission of inquiry in the past have had more serious issues and were not dismissed,” he said.

Municipal monitor Peter Stephenson. maintain good working relationships between himself and councillors.

The monitor said the mayor “fuelled the acrimony between councillors both through comments made in local papers and during council briefings and meetings”.

The monitor said Cr Hill’s public commentary demonstrated a lack of respect for the CEO. “This is concerning when considered in the context of the CEO position being advertised,” Mr Stephenson wrote.

The monitor stopped short of saying bullying had occurred but noted many allegations of such behaviour, and clearly stated council was not fit to govern, with poor behaviour – publicly and privately – by councillors “symptoms of a toxic culture”.

“The actions of individual councillors and the failure by other councillors to hold them to account have resulted in stalled commercial negotiations, exposed the council to potential legal challenges to its decisions and compromised the development of important strategic policies such as the council’s budget,” he stated.

Some councillors tried to overturn council decisions by using inappropriate notices of motion.

Mr Stephenson said the community had expressed its frustration with council and stated there was a reluctance to invest in the shire due to a “widely held perception that councillors are distracted by individual interests to the detriment of strategic decision-making.”

KEY ISSUES IN MONITOR’S REPORT MUNICPAL monitor Peter Stephenson’s concerns about South Gippsland Shire Council were extensive.

He reported: • Delays to preparing the 2019-20 budget due councillors changing their minds weekly, with two councillors preparing new rating models up to seven times, despite these being rejected by other councillors each time. These models aimed to reduce the farming rate.

• An attempt to change planning rules in the farming zone for a single property was an example of ad hoc changes rather than a rigorous, broader review.

• Sessions meant to discuss strategies were rather consumed by “interpersonal matters or differences, discussions on low level matters such as pot holes”.

• Councillors not holding councillors accountable for failing to adhere to governance processes.

• Councillors leaking confidential information to the media, including “sensitive commercial negotiations” and the advertising of the CEO position.

The monitor said mayor Cr Don Hill should have taken stronger action to deal with such leaks, as the mayor suggested the leaks were by “...those councillors who just want to bring the council down”.

• Some council staff appearing anxious in the presence of some councillors due to “inappropriate councillor to councillor interactions”.

• Council not acting promptly to implement changes to councillor’s expenses policy recommended by the audit committee, despite its concerns about the policy allowing for claims by councillors “that might not be bona fide”.

Mayor defied council A LAST minute bid by some councillors to save the proposed new IGA supermarket at Korumburra featured in the monitor’s report.

Monitor Peter Stephenson said mayor Cr Don Hill and Cr Jeremy Rich acted without council authority when they met with IGA to discuss a revised proposal without council’s approval, after council voted not to sell the land by private treaty to IGA. “It caused significant frustration among the other councillors and the mayor acknowledged an ‘error or judgement’ in this matter,” the monitor said.

“No follow-on action was initiated by the council to hold the mayor and councillor accountable for actions that exposed the council to a significant governance risk.”

Negotiations between council and IGA have been discontinued.

Staff cop it COUNCIL staff have borne the public’s anger towards South Gippsland Shire Council, with reports of outdoor staff being spat on, the municipal monitor’s report found.

Reports were also made of council’s customer service staff being verbally abused and accused of being corrupt.

Staff were offered counselling.

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COUNCILLORS, DON’T COME BACK Former mayor delivers message Mr Fawcett said he was also angry at the beA FORMER mayor fears the main archihaviour of the South Gippsland Action Group tects of South Gippsland Shire Council’s (SGAG), who he believes was in cahoots with collapse could come back again if voters some of the councillors. are not wary.

Council, which is now being governed by an interim administrator, will again come under control of elected representatives after the next scheduled round of elections in October 2021.

But Jim Fawcett, who was among six councillors to quit in recent times, believes the toxic culture that pervaded the organisation could easily make a comeback if sacked councillors put their hands up for re-election.

“If the public has a poor memory, these people could get re-elected. That’s my main concern,” he said.

“Their behaviours won’t change. They’ll come back cleverer – they’re not silly. If they’d just kept their heads down they’d still be there, quite likely.

“The critical thing is to know who is at fault here. I blame councillors (Don) Hill, (Jeremy) Rich, (Andrew) McEwen and (Ray) Argento for instigating the behaviour and councillors (Rosemary) Cousin and (Alyson) Skinner for condoning it.

“I’d broadcast that from the castle parapet.

“I’m really angry with them for what they’ve done. I hope good people stand, but you couldn’t NO WAY: Former mayor Cr Jim Fawcett is urging the public to be mindful when it votes at blame them for saying, ‘I don’t need any of that the 2021 council election. nonsense.’ It’s a hard job at the best of times.”

Former group president Steve Finlay was among the last two councillors to win a spot on council before its collapse. The group had a focus on reducing rates.

“I think it’s time for groups like SGAG to recognise they’ve been misled by our elected representatives and do a service to the community by investigating and requesting answers to the legal fees incurred in all this mess and the personal activities of some councillors,” Mr Fawcett said.

They need to be a true watchdog, rather than just a mouthpiece for that group of councillors responsible for the bad behaviour.

“I get so frustrated the SGAG purports to represent the community, but all they’ve seemed to do in the past is be an apologist for the councillors who have been subject of such bad reports by the monitor, the commission, the Minister and Member for Gippsland South Danny O’Brien, who spoke in Parliament.

“Danny was really direct and to the point.

Those councillors should leave council and not come back.”

THE FALLOUT: SACKED REPRESENTATIVES RESPOND “There have undoubtedly been problems in the council.

“I am deeply disappointed in the monitor’s report and concerned about the shortcomings of the municipal monitoring process.

“Four councillors resigned during the Ex-councillor Ray term of the monitor. All Argento. four councillors failed No comment. to lodge any Code of Conduct complaints including evidence that would have enabled proper, evidence-based and independent investigation under council’s local law and the Local Government Act of their claims and complaints.

“The Commission of Inquiry fulfilled Ex-councillor Rosemary Cousin. the need for indepen“I am deeply distressed dent investigation of councillor at the sacking of the outgoing concerns. council.

“The commission offered nothing of substance in its place. This raises serious questions about how the administrators will operate and the accountability and transparency of their decision making; about the healing needed to rebuild with the community trust in local Ex-mayor Don Hill.

“I find it difficult to acgovernment.” cept that we were treated with natural justice.

“When we delivered our submission response to the monitor’s report on the deadline of May 9 at 5pm, the minister was on the radio four minutes later initiating a Commission of Inquiry. He had not bothered to read our efforts.

“The Commission Ex-councillor Steve of Inquiry process denied us the right to reFinlay. view or respond to any No comment.

other submissions.

“The commission report appears to lump whatever was said to them into one document and nothing was tested since the rules of evidence do not apply.

“The minister tables the monitor report and the commission report but failed to table our response.

He then moved the act through Parliament and members voted without seeing councillors’ submission.

“I have written to the minister and Premier requesting that the submission be tabled and made public as was promised originally, and also called for a meeting with the Premier over our serious concerns over the process.”

Ex-councillor Frank Hirst.

“In our higher levels of government, it’s clear from the start whose camp everyone is in, so we end up with a government and an opposition.

“Not so in local government, where councillors are not supposed to be aligned with particular ideologies; just argue issues on the basis of merit and move on if you don’t win the vote.

“Well, we all know

how well that worked, when few conservatives and no Leongatha natives were elected at the last vote.

“It was all downhill from there and blatant power has taken over, to the detriment of all our citizens.

“Gone is the likelihood of no rates rise this year and any chance of local democratic representation for two and a half years.”

Ex-councillor Matt Sherry.

No comment.

Ex-deputy mayor Alyson Skinner.

No comment.

Ex-councillor Andrew McEwen.

No comment.

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Girls, artists to create AN arts project will tackle harmful gender stereotypes by creating safe spaces in Korumburra, Leongatha, Foster and Mirboo North.

A network of young women will be established to work with South Gippsland Shire Council staff, artists and the public to create a public place where they would like to feel safer.

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The Girls Own Space project is one of seven arts projects across the state and the only rural project funded under the $630,000 Gender Equity and the Arts program.

For more information, contact councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community strengthening team on 5662 9200

IMPOUND OVERLOAD: A 33-year-old mother has had her car impounded after she was discovered with seven people in the five-seater.

Police impound overloaded car WONTHAGGI Police have impounded the car of a mother whose vehicle did not have enough seatbelts for its young occupants.

The incident occurred on Sunday night, with police discovering the 33 year old woman had crammed seven people into the five-seater.

Aside from the children, a 30 year old female was also not properly wearing a seat belt and was sitting in a child seat.

The driver will go to court for her actions and has lost the use of her car for 30 days at a cost of $1290 for the impound.

She will also receive a penalty notice for not wearing a seat belt at a cost of $322.

Man fined A VENUS Bay man has been slapped with an $806 fine for driving an unregistered motor vehicle.

Foster Police nabbed the man on Monday at 12.30pm.

Solar theft A SOLAR panel was stolen from a trailer at Foster on June 13.

The Folding Kings panel, valued at $200, was taken at about 4.30am on Lower Franklin Road.

Anyone with information about the theft should contact Foster Police on 5682 2407.

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KORUMBURRA Police are asking for community assistance after a front window of a house was broken.

The home was on the corner of Mine Road and Leongatha Road, Korumburra.

The incident occurred between the afternoon of Friday, June 14 and the morning of Tuesday, June 18.

A car wheel was thrown through the window.

Anyone with information should contact Korumburra Police on 5655 1244.

RESIDENTS in the Arawata region are being urged to exercise vigilance after a series of thefts in recent times.

The thefts, which have taken place along Fairbank Road, have elicited a warning for residents to lock gates and sheds, install security cameras, sensor flood lights and to avoid leaving small machinery items lying around.

Residents should also make note of car number plates if people are seen lurking.

Noticeboard PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS All Council sessions are located in Council Chambers, Michael Street, Leongatha.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10.00am (Council Agenda Topics only) Expressions of interest to present were made by accessing Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Presenting to Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; page (by COB 21/6), contact 5662 9222 for details. A list of booked topics can be viewed the day prior on Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website.

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4.6 Award Contract CON/216 Provision of Linemarking Services 4.7 Award Contract CON/217 Supply and Delivery of Cold Liquid Bituminous Products 4.8 Awards Contract CON/219 Annual Supply of Plant Hire and Cartage Contractors 4.9 Award Contract CON/220 Annual Supply and Delivery of Quarry Products and Road Making Materials 4.10 Award Contract CON/221 Annual Supply of Concreting Services ORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING 4.11 Award Contract CON/222 Provision of Tree and Wednesday 26 June 2019, 2.00pm Vegetation Maintenance Services Questions were registered (by COB 21/6) by accessing 5.1 Proposed Rating Strategy 2019-2022 Extractive Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Questions for Council Meetingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; page, Industries Rate Differential Category contact 5662 9222 for details. Alternatively you can 5.2 Proposed 2019/20 Annual Budget - Options in

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5.3 Rating Strategy 2019-2022 Please note that Council live streams and records 5.4 Annual Budget 2019/20 its Ordinary Council Meetings, refer to the Policy on 5.5 Revised Council Plan 2017-2021 Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website for more details.

5.6 General Revaluation 2019 2.1 Strategic Business Investment Program Report 5.7 Community Satisfaction Survey Results 2019 2.2 South Gippsland Branding 5.8 Policy Review: Procurement Policy 2019 (C32) 2.3 Southern Gippsland Food Futures Program

2.4 Economic Development and Tourism - Advocacy 8.1 Financial Performance Report July 2018 - May 2019 Update 8.2 Assembly of Councillors 22 April to 21 May 2019 2.5 Caravan Parks - Management Review 8.3 Documents Sealed Awarded or Extended by the CEO 3.1 Review of Community Grants Program (C47) for 27 April to 24 May 2019 2019/20 14.1 Closed Session - Prejudicial Matter - Community 3.2 New Policy: Port Welshpool Maritime and District Grants Assessment Collection Policy (C73) 4.1 Sandy Point Caravan and Camping Ground - Site Investigation Findings 4.2 Investigate the Use of Design Panels 4.3 Enhancements to Communication Methods to the Public for Roads 4.4 Endorse Road Name Change - Part Section of Tilly Court, Leongatha 4.5 Policy Revision: Heavy Vehicle Usage on Council Roads Policy (C20)

WORKS THIS WEEK Sealed road maintenance: Whole Shire Tree requests: Whole Shire Bridge replacement: Ruby Arawata Road, Ruby Footpath and kerb replacement: Swanson Street and Melville Avenue, Korumburra, Mitchell Street, Nyora and Smith Street and Victoria Road, Loch Unsealed road grading: Poowong, Middle Tarwin, Walkerville Roadside slashing: Middle Tarwin, Buffalo, Leongatha South Tree uplifts: Ranceby, Arawata, Toora Jetty reconstruction: Fishermans Jetty, Venus Bay Drainage extension: Sanders Lane, Korumburra Culvert maintenance: Mount Best area Unsealed road maintenance: Berrys Creek, Mirboo, Mardan, Fish Creek and Yanakie area Erosion mitigation: Mount Best Building Works: Long Jetty Caravan Park Amenities Block Weather permitting

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BUILDING OR RENOVATING?

Erosion worries as rates rise BEACH erosion loomed as a potential stumbling good enough for council to say this is a State Governesponsibility,” block to the approval of Bass Coast Shire Coun- ment responsibility, or someone else’s responsibility,” he said. cil’s 2019-20 Budget. ery damaging Cr Whelan said the path “would be very

Wine named state’s best A SOUTH Gippsland wine has been named the best in Victoria.

The Gurdies 2017 chardonnay made by Dick Wettenhall with Inverloch’s Dirty Three Wines owners Marcus Satchell and Lisa Sartori won the Victorian Wine Show Premier’s Trophy at Parliament last week.

Bass MLA Jordan Crugnale also announced Bass River Winery in Glen Forbes was successful in the second round of the State Government’s Wine Growth Fund, receiving $10,000 to help expand into the Japanese market and promote Gippsland wine overseas.

Funding will also help the winery establish wine trade connections with assistance from Wine Australia’s networks.

to the environment”. ons while the Council received 35 public submissions red in person. budget was on display, with 15 delivered front of many Environmental issues were at the forefront concerns.

Local funding pledges include: • $900,000 for the Inverloch netball courts and $700,000 for the Dalyston netball courts.

• $2.9 million for tennis court renewal wal at Wonthaggi, Inverloch and Corinella.

Speaking after the meeting, Bass Coast ast mayor Cr Brett Tessari said the budget et was testament to council’s strong financial ial position.

“Council can now get to work with delivering the $21.1 million capital WELL SPOKEN: Cr Micheal Whelan was works program outlined in the budget, against spending $1.5 million on an Inveras well as other infrastructure projects loch bike path. across the shire,” Cr Tessari said.

Rain relief LEONGATHA’S reservoirs may only be at 57 percent capacity, but South Gippsland Water is not worried.

Managing director Philippe du Plessis said, “We are encouraged that with winter rainfall, reservoir levels have made their way above 86 percenT. “Even though the Ruby Creek system, supplying Leongatha and surrounds, is at 57 percent capacity, the good news is that each week its level is increasing.”

Rainfall recorded at South Gippsland Water’s storages from June 15 to 21 was Lance Creek 31mm, Ruby Creek 23mm, Deep Creek 17mm and Battery Creek 26mm.

Water storage levels are Lance Creek (Wonthaggi, Inverloch and Cape Paterson), 87 percent; Ruby Creek (Leongatha), 57 percent; Deep Creek (Foster), 86 percent; and Battery Creek (Fish Creek), 88 percent.

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Residents will see rates rise by 2.5 percent, with council projecting an operating surplus of $2.6 million for 2019-20.

Yet Cr Michael Whelan questioned spending $1.5 million on a bike path on Inverloch’s shifting sands without further investigation of the asset’s long term viability.

He proposed the extension of the pathway along Surf Parade, Inverloch “be subject to a local coastal hazard assessment”.

Cr Les Larke said the amendment was a “substantive change” to the budget and should be “struck out”.

The amendment was eventually voted down.

While Cr Whelan believed council had planned “essentially a good budget”, he said coastal erosion had been overlooked, But as he had been advised that pursuing changes to the budget would see it “fall outside of the legislative timeframe” for its delivery, he chose not to ask for more funding.

He made the point that relying on emergency funding to address coastal erosion issues was “totally inadequate”.

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MOVERS, SHAKERS: Former Member for Gippsland South Peter Ryan, Gippsland Ports’ Chris Waites, former South Gippsland Shire mayors Jeanette Harding and Michael Wrigley, Long Jetty advocate Paul McPhail, Cath Hunt, Gippsland South MLA Danny O’Brien and Grattan Mullett from Gunai-kurnai board cut the ribbon to formally declare the Port Welshpool Long Jetty open.

Long Jetty opens THE $10.85 million Long Jetty at Port spent, it is recognition of the people of South Welshpool was officially opened last Gippsland,” he said.

Ms Harding said the restoration of the jetty week. was a dream comes true.

It was a day of celebration for the South Gippsland Shire, Gippsland Ports and the people of Port Welshpool.

Former deputy premier of Victoria and Member for Gippsland South, Peter Ryan, and former South Gippsland Shire mayor Jeanette Harding, who flew in from Perth for the occasion, were among the large crowd.

In his final act as South Gippsland Shire chief executive officer, Tim Tamlin led proceedings, which included a welcome to country ceremony, followed by inspiring words about the road to the celebration by Gippsland South MLA Danny O’Brien.

“This is a red letter day,” Mr O’Brien said.

Mr Ryan said the jetty was an icon of the region.

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“This has happened at last, I can die peacefully now,” she said.

She called for an observatory at the end of the jetty so visitors could enjoy marine life.

“When that is complete I will come back, somehow and then it will be finished,” she said.

The ribbon was cut and the jetty was declared open.

The jetty was unofficially opened on December 21 last year.

Thousands flocked to the area over the Christmas-New Year period to walk the 850m jetty.

Over 25,000 people have walked the jetty since counters were installed in February.

The Jetty is still the only curved jetty in Victoria.

Local Kerri-Anne Pratt captured this accidental, perfectly timed shot of an Inverloch surfer taking a tumble in the waves recently.

MORE than 11,000 residents of South Gippsland Shire engaged with our social last week, in response to the council officially being sacked.

Julie Eisenbise, who was on the recent Commission of Inquiry, has officially commenced as the interim administrator.

alarm clocks at 3am when I never set them, had to unplug a lot of appliances and lamps from the walls to minimise it, but main light switches were the main problem. It was very frustrating, annoying and unnerving at times!!!”

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about bloody time!”

Rob Brown “Do we get a refund on our rates?!?!

A recent poll on The Star’s social determined 68 per cent of South Gippslanders are believers of the paranormal, with more than 32 percent saying there was no such thing.

According to Hal Pearce, “the jury is out!”

Here are some of the comments our spooky What gets you through these chilly winter thread attracted: months? Here is what some South Gippslanders Matt McRae said helped them keep their winter blues at “Never used to believe until we had a few bay: episodes in one house we used to live in. Now Izzy Kay we do.”

“Left my warm house to get to the fire briKaz Cruickshank gade, got my super warm gear on to do some “No, no, no - hilarious. Why don’t human training.” ghosts hang out at supermarkets and chemists Debra Lee Carmody and the local shoe shop? Why are they only “I get cooking. Slow cooker goes flat seen in conveniently creepy locations like at the out. Night time is curling up on the couch and foot of people’s beds in the middle of the night? watching Netflix.”

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LOVE BIRDS: Mark ‘Toddy’ Todd and Mr Bean are the best of friends.

Todd just loves his bird “He’s been a naughty boy lately because, as FOR local truck driver Mark Todd, the open highway is where he likes to take you can see, he’s been eating my Akubra.

“I fell asleep at Cowes and woke up with him flight – but it’s always a battle keeping his chewing my hat.” fine feathered friend, Mr Bean, at home.

For the most part Mr Bean is fixed to Toddy’s Originally from Shepparton, ‘Toddy’ moved to Gippsland in August.

His girlfriend bought Mr Bean, a Sun Conure, as a surprise.

The bird was a perfectly sized offsider for someone who had moved into a unit and no longer had space for a horse.

Speaking to The Star last week in Leongatha, Toddy said Mr Bean was a brilliant companion.

“He’s great company. He’s a bit of a time waster, spending ages mucking around in his cage,” he said.

shoulder, nuzzling into his neck and sometime closing in for a kiss.

He’s the take-anywhere mate for a bloke who likes to ramble. And best of all, he’s not afraid of horses.

“I took him to the Barmah Muster and apparently they’d never seen a parrot on a horse before.

That was first for them. That was pretty cool,” Toddy said.

“He’s good company.”

We’re pretty sure Mr Bean feels the same way about Toddy.

CEO’s message

LAST week we had to deal with the difficult situation of having our councillors dismissed.

An interim administrator will be appointed and will perform the role of the council for the time being.

Ms Julie Eisenbise has been appointed as the interim administrator and she will perform the role of the council for the next 90 days.

Eventually a panel of three administrators will take on that responsibility through to October 2021.

I am hopeful the ordinary meeting of council scheduled for Wednesday will proceed according to the agenda that has been published, but I am waiting for advice from Ms Eisenbise about how she’d like to proceed.

As soon as we know more about what’s happening with that meeting, we will post the information to council’s Facebook page and website.

I am optimistic about the future of South Gippsland and want this week to be the beginning of a more positive view of council.

My colleagues are a remarkable group of resilient and professional people who are dedicated to providing good service to this community.

It was heartening to hear them being praised for their efforts in Parliament last week.

This is a testament to the leadership of Tim Tamlin, the CEO whose decade-long tenure con-

Bryan Sword cluded on Monday. He’s left big shoes to fill.

I doubt there is a council organisation anywhere in Victoria that has been under as much scrutiny as ours over the past 12 months. I suggest that everyone should take time to read the reports of the Municipal Monitor and the Commission of Inquiry.

They both give the organisation a clean bill of health and should give the community confidence in our capability into the future.

Friday was an exciting milestone for the region.

I had the pleasure to speak on behalf of council for the official opening of the Port Welshpool Long Jetty.

I am hopeful the next few months will be a time for the community to rebuild its faith in council.

I can assure you of one thing – I will be doing my utmost to ensure that as an organisation that we acquit ourselves in a manner that earns your trust.

The fractiousness of the councillors is behind us and I hope there is some clear water ahead.

My focus will be to work with and support the administrators in their role, on the delivery of core services, and on a renewed focus on our priority projects.

The future is bright.

Mayor’s message Cr Brett Tessari AT last Wednesday’s ordinary meeting, we adopted the final 2019-20 Budget and revised Council Plan 2017-2021.

After four weeks on public exhibition, we received 35 budget submissions, and of those, 15 were heard in person.

In response to submissions received from the community, a number of changes were recommended for the final 2019-20 Budget. It was great to see such a high level of community engagement with the budget process - as the final result affects everyone: ratepayers, visitors and businesses.

You can view the adopted budget at www. basscoast.vic.gov.au/budget.

Our wonderful Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre is growing its appeal, through the presentation of a diverse range of shows, films and community events.

In the past week we have seen the amazing Wonthaggi Theatrical Group bump out after their phenomenal season of Les Miserables, a new release cinema program, international singer/songwriter Toni Childs, a Refugee Week community

event and a Bass Coast Fine Film Group film event, which is of course open to non-members too.

The best way to keep up with what’s on at the centre is to follow it on Facebook, look out for the ads in local papers or join the growing number of community members who receive email updates.

If you would like to join the mailing list, or find out more, call the centre a call on 5671 2470.

On Sunday, I attended the program launch for the Phillip Island Story Gatherers Inc’s upcoming festival.

This is the third year for the annual event, which until now has been known as the Phillip Island Literary Festival.

From this year, however, the festival will now be called the Phillip Island Festival of Stories. The festival, which is being held in Cowes from July 26 to 28, celebrates the ways of telling stories.

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Holiday hurdle Info centre closure hinders tourism Grace Griffith AS the visitor information Centre at Korumburra’s Coal Creek shuts down for winter, many locals are left wondering how its closure will affect tourism and businesses - and what other consequences will ensue.

South Gippsland Shire Council shut the centre until December and has urged visitors to use the Foster Visitor Information Centre.

In a recent Star post on social media, 100 percent of people who engaged disagreed with the closure of the centre.

“Exposure to Coal Creek and its well hidden and poorly advertised attractions is just one of the strengths of having the information centre based there,” Marie Gerrard-Staton from Korumburra said.

“Its proximity to Melbournites and ready access to the lovely flesh and blood volunteers who can also promote the region is another strength.

“It’s merely another cost cutting, short sighted, unpopular example of council’s inexplicable retrograde decision making.”

A frequent visitor to the area, Karen Penrose, said the statement that “everyone uses online” for travel research is not only untrue, but also not justification to cut services, especially when many

visitors are aging nomads.

“When we first visited the area in 2015, we visited all the information centres. Coal Creek was our first, then Wonthaggi and then Foster,” she said.

Wendy Earl from Leongatha said visitors frequently ask her where they can find more information and to send them to Foster was “a joke”.

The reason for the closure, according to council, is the Korumburra centre is not well patronised over winter.

Leongatha resident Carol Harry said this was no excuse and closure over winter may result in visitors forming an assumption that it was closed permanently.

“That’s what worries me, it’s a ripple effect and it just rolls on,” she said, “If people are recommended to go to Foster, then there won’t be that traffic through Leongatha and Korumburra.

“If people are coming here, they might pick up a boogie board or something for their kayak in Leongatha. They’ll fuel up here and go to our supermarkets.

“You’re not going to go to Foster to get info on Phillip Island. You’d be going backwards.”

Council advised the region’s official visitor brochures, including maps, would still be available in the Coal Creek foyer during the closure period.

Phone outage disrupts Mt Eccles TELSTRA customers were left without working landline or mobile service,” he said.

Mr Curtis believed more households were afinternet or landlines in Mount Eccles fected than Telstra’s estimate of 31. recently.

The outage forced residents to drive 20 kiloThirty-one residents were affected and they were frustrated outages continue to happen.

Resident Shaun Curtis said outages occurred most winters and mobile phone reception was limited in Mount Eccles.

“Telstra came through for us but it was still challenging for us to run a business without a

metres into town to report the fault and to contact technicians.

As a farmer in remote Wild Dog Valley, Mr Curtis has to help truck drivers navigate deliveries to his properties.

A Telstra spokesperson said the outage was the NO HELP: All that’s left are visitor brochures at the Coal Creek Visitor Information Centre result of a cable cut. during the centre’s winter closure and Leongatha resident Carol Harry isn’t pleased.

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The Star bats for you THE sacking of South Gippsland Shire Council will go down in history as an event – and an era – that we would have preferred not to have.

The dysfunction within council has been continuing throughout not only this term, but had its roots in the previous council, and was largely underpinned by differences in personality and ambitions among councillors.

While it’s an issue that we would have preferred not to report about, The Star newspaper has helped the community voice its lack of faith in the ability of councillors to govern and worked with the community to bring about a new direction for the region.

So said the report of municipal monitor Peter Stephenson, who also noted this newspaper supported a public meeting held by the Leongatha Business Association.

That meeting was attended by approximately 400 people and most called for council to be dismissed.

Mr Stephenson’s report also referred to The Star’s Facebook poll, asking if council should be sacked, with 96 percent of more than 1000 respondents voting ‘yes’.

In these days of social media and an overload of information, the editorial team at The Star has been pleased to decipher the news from the fiction throughout the council saga to keep our readers – our treasured community - informed.

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JUST want to send a vote of thanks and show appreciation from many in the community to the councillors - past and present, and particularly Cousens, Hirst, Sherry and Finlay for stepping up to the plate amidst such controversy, knowing they may well be sacked for representing and looking out for others.

This is a selfless thankless task few of us can handle. The community should be aware their nine elected councillors are not the same as the 370 council staff.

While dissatisfaction with by-laws, delayed permits, etc greatly impact the council’s rating, these are only marginally controlled by councillors in this shire as they are not permitted to communicate with the staff.

May I suggest that the public try to get to an occasional council meeting to see what is really happening.

Finally, thanks to Don Hill for promoting savings to ratepayers by enlightening ratepayers and then pushing through with the unnecessary $30 million shire office rebuilding project.

That saved me personally $2000. Thanks to the councillors who likewise rejected that plan.

The question now is will the three administrators honour the four year plan passed by the council to deliver the three percent rate cut in this coming year?

Otto Ippel, Koorooman.

Extend the pathway THERE is much emotive discussion in relation to the surfside pathway extension in Inverloch.

Much of this is politically based on the opposition from the South Gippsland Conservation Society.

The people of Inverloch have had this vitally important piece of community infrastructure withheld from them because of environmental ideology, not legitimate science based.

Councillors last week left the funding of the pathway in the 2020-21 budget but only by a small margin was this vote was carried. There are

councillors who still are being influenced by the strong but small environmental lobby, and I think there needs to be some more balance put to the people.

The erosion issue in Inverloch is real, climate change is real, but so too is the need for community infrastructure for the safety of our community to access the beach, ride to school and the broader community to actively participate in this amazing town we live in.

Max Wells, Inverloch.

Sham or shame?

THE municipal monitor’s report is a blatant attack on democracy.

Our councillors - the good and the not so good - were elected by us, the voters of South Gippsland Shire.

Some were not our first choice, however the electoral system we are governed by is the preferential voting system.

The key to why this ‘report’ misses the mark badly, is in understanding this fundamental statement (refer page 9): “The council administration is responsible for implementing council decisions”.

Why support your report by relying on the Memorial Hall meeting vote – a ‘stacked’ meeting of about 400 people.

Why did you ignore the equally strong 400plus signatories to the council accepted petition demanding the three percent rate reduction this year?

No ‘stacking’ there – just people on the street.

The majority of councillors are trying to pass the three percent reduction and the administration is attempting to block it.

Let’s see if the new regime works for the paying customers or not. So far it doesn’t look good. The shire has a guarantee of responding to communications within 10 days. The office of the minister works on 28 days.

Let’s hope this is not the benchmark for the standard of excellence we can come to expect.

John McCombe, Leongatha.

Kinder now starts at 3 because we know 2 years are better than 1

The Victorian Government is funding kindergarten for three-year-old children living in South Gippsland from 2020 for up to 15 hours a week, and rolling it out across Victoria from 2022.

This means another year of learning, playing and making friends. It just adds up.

Give your child the best start.

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THERE were thrills and spills at Mary MacKillop College last week for the running of the MacKillop 500 cardboard car race.

Students, staff, parents and grandparents attended the event now in its third year.

Students from the Year 11 Business Management and Year 10 Money and Markets, and Law and Finance classes undertook the design, organisation and management of the

event, and were given ‘hands-on’ experience as business operators.

While the rain held off, all the cars did a parade lap before racing began on the challenging track.

There was much excitement and intense competition in each of the three qualifying heats as homeroom ‘racing teams’ attempted to win a place in the premier event of the day, the MacKillop 500.

This year’s track had lots of twists and turns and tested students’ skills.

A hilarious spectacle of closematched racing ensued.

While there were not roaring engines, the dominant sounds were pounding feet, tearing cardboard and laughing children.

Winners of this year’s event was 8D, with 7D second and 9B third.

The best car award went to 8A. Principal David Leslie said South Gippsland businesses had been wonderful in their backing on the day.

“The business people who have

helped us have set a great example of positive community leadership,” he said, “At Mary MacKillop College events like this help prepare our students to be good community leaders themselves.”

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Railway brought end to the pioneering days

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he construction of the Great Southern Railway from Dandenong to Port Albert was the most important event in the early history of the district.

It changed the area from an isolated pioneer backwater to an important agricultural region. It is difficult to comprehend how important this development was and what a massive feat of engineering the construction of the railway was.

Prior to the opening of the railway the vast quantity of timber on the selectors’ farms was of no economic value.

This timber was in the way of progress and needed to be cut and burnt.

The sale of timber for building materials, fence palings and products like barrels could not happen without rail transport.

When the railway came to Mirboo North in 1886, pioneer settlers in the Leongatha North area organised a working bee to build a bridge over the Tarwin River to allow bullock drays and wagons to have better access to the rail network.

The railway was the ultimate transport link for these settlers in the 1880s.

Leongatha is located where it is as a result of the railway.

Surveyor Lardner and his team were responsible for surveying the Crownland into farms (selections) and townships.

A township called Koorooman was surveyed on the ridge at what is now Leongatha North.

Lardner was not to know the route of the South Gippsland Railway planned to go from Dandenong to Port Albert.

Surveying for the railway began in 1884 and took years to complete.

Finding a route over the hills between the valleys of the Bass and Tarwin River basins was difficult.

When the final route for the railway was surveyed near Johann Horn’s property on Coalition Creek, nowhere near the proposed township of Koorooman, surveyor Lardner reserved several hundred acres of Crownland for a new surveyed township.

He selected this site as it was at the point where the track between Mirboo North and Anderson’s Inlet would cross the proposed railway.

This became the site of Leongatha.

The Great Southern Railway was constructed in sections.

The second section between Korumburra and Toora was constructed by engineer Andrew O’Keefe and his team of overseers and navvies (railway construction workers).

O’Keefe’s tender was around $650,000, an enormous sum back in the 1880s.

The route had to be completely cleared of giant trees, cuttings excavated, gullies filled and bridges built.

All this was done with horses, bullocks and men.

Some 700 bullocks and 200 horses were used to clear and lay the line.

Supplying the men and horses was a huge task.

In the Leongatha and Koonwarra area, supplies had to come to Inverloch by sea and overland using wagons.

O’Keefe had a wharf built on the Franklin River to bring in supplies.

A small railway was constructed to take materials from there to a point near Bennison.

From here the railway was built in two directions north to Korumburra and south to Toora. Engines, trucks and railway lines were brought from Melbourne and Sydney by sea.

Camps for the workers where established where large cuttings needed to be excavated.

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The grave of Denis Maher.

The largest camps were at Kardella, Ruby and Koonwarra.

The construction was a long slow process.

There were landslides and huge quantities of earth had to be moved with horses and scoops.

Tree stumps had to be removed with explosives, an extremely dangerous activity.

In such an environment, accidents happened and medical care was almost non-existent.

On September 14, 1889, Denis Maher and William Holm were working felling trees near the site of the Leongatha railway station.

A rope and pulley were attached to the tree to stop it falling on nearby tents.

Unfortunately, this tree caused a second tree to fall on the two men.

William Holm died instantly and Denis Maher suffered a compound fracture of one leg. Johann Horn, who lived nearby and had some first aid experience gained while serving as a stretcher bearer in the Franco-Prussian War, dressed the wound and Peter Johnson set out on horseback to bring the doctor from Drouin.

It took Peter Johnson 12 hours to get to Drouin

and another 10 hours to return.

When they arrived, the doctor from Foster was already there but sadly Denis died the next day.

Both men were buried in the newly surveyed Leongatha cemetery.

The railway was completed to Leongatha in 1891 and marked the end of the pioneering days.

It was cheaper to bring in goods as they no longer had to come on wagons pulled by bullocks on rough muddy roads.

Dairy farmers no longer had to take produce to Mirboo North or Inverloch to have access to the city.

Cattle, sheep and pigs were able to be sold at yards near the railway and taken off to market.

Farmers benefitted greatly by being able to sell their potatoes and onions in Melbourne. Dairy factories and businesses in the towns prospered and the region quickly became a well-known source of important food products.

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LYRIC THEATRE PRESENTS

Talent galore to grace the Mesley stage AUDIENCES can expect quality performances by a mix of experienced and new talent in Lyric’s season of Young Frankenstein.

Lyric icon Adrian Darakai plays the lead role of Frederick Frankenstein and will be joined by p Sam Shineberg as Igor in his first Lyric show.

This pair, according to director Daniel Lawrie, are a director’s dream, given they are so skilled in music, dance and acting. p Kiarna Smith, another local theatre regular, will play Inga, and Yasmine Watsford – long a Lyric name – is Elizabeth Benning.

Watch for memorable performances by Ben b Soumilas as Inspector Hans Kemp, a newcomer to theatre who plays his comical role to perfection, and Scott Lawrence as The Monster.

Kerrie Giles will be Frau Blucher, Brad Beach is the Hermit and Alex Swan is Ziggy. b They will be backed by the skilled ensemble of: Georgia Anton, Kasey Stoops, Maya Williams, b Chloe Stoops, Ruby Adkins, Amy Burgess, Nevada Crimp, Autumn Crimp, Michelle Burgess, Melinda Licciardi and Sammy Jacobson.

There is also Sophie Clarkson, Jayde Richardson, Emily Carlson, Kylie Osborne, Tara Swan, Laura Vivian, Linda Hamilton, Sheena Cumming, Nikki Stockdale, Julie Curtis, Leanne Crimp, Mirriam Robinson, Alanna Besley, Amy Smith, Jordon McFarlane, Nick Carlson, Laurie Martin, Jeremy Curtis, Billy Soumilas, Ben Gibbons and Kathy Pegler.

These volunteer performers look forward to STEAMPUNK: Some of the cast of Lyric’s Young Frankenstein, back (L-R), Sammy Jacobson, Kylie Osborne, Melinda Licciardi, Jade taking to the stage to bring their craft to you.

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Husband and wife team Ben and Jess Stein are the show’s co-musical directors, and according to director Daniel Lawrie, their work – and that of b the orchestra - must be heard to be appreciated.

“The music is big band stuff. It’s very brassy.

There’s even a French horn in there as well, which you usually do not have,” Daniel said.

While Ben will be conducting the orchestra, Jess will focus on vocals.

“Because they’re partners they know what b each other is thinking half the time and they’re a well oiled machine,” Daniel said.

Expect catchy dance numbers such as Puttin’ on the Ritz – a big number the audience will be “blown away by”, according to Daniel.

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The set building team led by Peter Western has developed grand sets that have overcome some technical challenges.

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Theatre-goers always remark on the scale and standard of the sets Lyric build, and the Young Frankenstein set will be no exception.

The sets were largely the work of the show’s artistic director Lisa Pellin, who also serves as the show’s choreographer.

“She does nothing small. She is the epitome of go big or go home,” director Daniel Lawrie said.

“Lisa’s also a good mentor to people who have not done a lot of dancing before.

“They can still be involved in a big dance FAMILY TIES: Director Daniel Lawrie, number and by the time she’s finished with them, who also plays Dr Victor Von Frankenstein, and Adrian Darakai as his grandson Frederyou’d think they’d been dancing for years.”

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Lyric promises an unmissable show Director declares musical will be like no other FOR generations, Leongatha Lyric Theatre has been presenting first class productions to the people of South Gippsland.

On July 5, that tradition will continue when the volunteer theatrical group takes to the stage with its major annual production, the musical Young Frankenstein, at Leongatha’s Mesley Hall.

The all singing, all dancing show features regular and new cast members, backed by talented musicians, set designers and back stage crew.

Director Daniel Lawrie is promising a visual extravaganza.

“I urge people not to miss this show because it is something that is so different and so funny compared to what has been done here,” he said.

“It’s a riotous comedy, it’s hilarious and has a lot of big Vaudeville singing and dancing type numbers, with cabaret style music.”

The show follows the story of Frederick Frankenstein, an expert on the brain working at a world leading university in the United States of America.

He is reluctantly summonsed to Transylvania nia after the death of his grandfather er Dr Victor Von Frankenstein, also played by Daniel.

“Frederick erick has for all of his life tried to steer clear ear of the Frankenstein name because off what the Frankensteins did with creating ting monsters, but when his grandfather er dies, he’s forced to connect with the family estate and is coaxed back into joining the family business,” Daniel said. d.

Frederick ick creates the iconic Frankenstein monster, known throughout the show how as The Creature and The Monster, and played

by Scott Lawrence, a Lyric stalwart.

“From there a whole heap of comedy y ensues and Frederick gets himself involved in the business, ess, but ends up adding an extra tra element from being an expert in

the brain and ends up creating smart monsters,” Daniel said.

Despite the subject, Daniel assured audiences the show was far from scary and in fact he would rate it PG and suitable for children aged seven and up.

“It’s an absolute belly laugh, which people love,” he said.

“There are some gags in there that young ones will get and there is the odd joke that will go over children’s heads.”

The show is based on the book by the acclaimed Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, with music and lyrics for the show by Mel.

It’s an absolute belly laugh” …director Daniel Lawrie.

“Mel Brooks has done The Producers and other cabaret type shows, and Young Frankenstein is bouncy, with catchy songs, big dance numbers and big tap numbers that are fantastic,” Daniel said.

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The Venus Bay real estate agent has been involved in theatre since he was an eight year old boy, and has previously directed comedies and plays.

He’s even performed in musicals and so knows what it takes to pull off the trio of performance: acting, singing and dancing.

Young Frankensein will open on Friday, July 5 at 8pm.

Further shows will be held on Saturday, July 6 at 2pm and 8pm; Sunday, July 7 at 2pm; Thursday, July 11 at 8pm; Friday, July 12 at 8pm; Saturday, July 13 at 2pm and 8pm; Sunday, July 14 at 2pm; Thursday, July 18 at 8pm; Friday, July 19 at 8pm; and Saturday, July 20 at 2pm and 8pm.

Tickets are available at www.lyrictheatre.net.au or by phoning 0490 525 482.

The box office is now open at Sweet Life Dafe and Cakes, 1 Bair Street, Leongatha from 11am-3pm, Monday to Friday, and 10am to 12pm Saturday.

COMICAL DUO: Adrian Darakai as Frederick Frankenstein and Sam Shineberg as Igor in Young Frankenstein. Photos by Mark Drury.

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34 ROYAL PLACE, LEONGATHA • Brand new home by local builder • 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite • Gas ducted heating, double glazed windows • Shinglers Ridge Estate

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Families will love this spacious home W

Inspection will reveal three more bedrooms, all with built-in robes, plus a bathroom and laundry.

The property is located 700m from the supermarket and shops, and is on a mostly level 693m2 (approximately) block.

The gas log fire in the front lounge The block also has enough width for offers a warm welcome as you enter the vehicle access to the back yard. home, with the master bedroom adjoining Buyers will find there is a lot to like and offering an ensuite and walk-in robe. about this neatly presented home.

The open living space has generous dining and family space, and is serviced by the central galley kitchen, and opens out onto a covered outdoor entertaining area.

There is a third north facing living area Alex Scott and Staff at the rear of the house, currently being used as a fifth bedroom.

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Lamont House is a piece of history Y

OU will feel the unmistakable the beautiful original brick chimney.

Alongside the kitchen, in the former boarding charm of yesteryear.

This gracious and inspiring residence with historical appeal offers business opportunities or grand family living in the heart of Leongatha.

Lamont House, circa 1890, was originally owned by John Ridgeway.

In mid-1898 Robert Long purchased the property and operated it as a general merchant until selling the property in 1921 to James McGuiness.

Mr McGuiness was a road contractor who built South Gippsland roads.

He set about developing and expanding the home creating an 11-room boarding house to take advantage of the demand for accommodation for professionals, bank personnel, teachers and alike moving to Leongatha for work.

In 1964, Lindsay and Olive Campbell purchased the property and continued to operate it as a boarding house until the late seventies when it then became a normal, yet grand, family residence.

The current vendors purchased the property in 1995 with a vision of operating the property as a business again.

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Since then Lamont House has maintained its charm as the family residence.

This federation home Lamont House offers more than just five bedrooms and two bathrooms.

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Two bathrooms and three bedrooms are located within the main part of the family home.

Outside, the former boarding rooms now house a dining hall that allows for endless opportunities, a fourth bedroom, gym and games area.

Travel down the stairs past the laundry to the former larder/cellar and be delighted by the fifth bedroom.

This outstanding property simply has so much more on offer including historical stables, alfresco dining, vegie garden, modern workshop and the list goes on.

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THINGS TO DO Pick up some goods in Loch WHERE: Throughout Loch township.

WHEN: Saturday, June 29, 10am-3pm.

WHAT: If you missed out on the Loch Food and Wine Festival, then here is your opportunity to get familiar with the quaint township of Loch with the village’s first ever Makers Market this Saturday.

Creative stallholders will offer their wares at three venues across the village: the Public Hall, Masonic Lodge and Bowling Club.

If you find yourself wanting to explore more of Loch, wander down to the suspension bridge WHERE: Gecko Studio Gallery, 15 Falls Road, on Loch-Poowong Road, or head to one of the Fish Creek. many cafes and wineries in the area for an afterWHEN: This weekend, 9am – 4pm. noon treat.

WHAT: All things circles are on show at Gecko Studio Gallery, with 50-plus artists contributing and more than 100 artworks on display.

Painters, photographers, printmakers and sculptors were all invited to join in a group show of circles and encouraged to bring their own WHERE: South Gippsland Historic Automobile Club, Leongatha Recreation Reserve. unique ‘spin’ on the topic.

The works range from weird to wonderful, and WHEN: Sunday, June 30, 10am start.

WHAT: Please your sweet tooth by attending the simple to fiendishly complicated.

The exhibition will run until Monday, July 15 Biggest Morning Tea hosted by the automobile club. and is open Thursday to Monday, 9am–4pm.

See the historic vehicle display and enjoy the club’s open day, although the while eating treats.

A raffle will be drawn at 11.30am.

Wander around the Round About – Circle Show

Treat yourself to a cause

Sing along to hits through the decades

BE SURPRISED: Mirboo North Market offers a variety of stalls catering to many interests.

WHERE: Dakers Centre, 9 Smith Street, Hannah Lipscome was at a recent market.

Leongatha.

WHEN: Sunday, June 30, 2pm start.

WHAT: Take the chance to rediscover some of the great old tunes of the twentieth century and enjoy newer numbers from the twenty-first cenMelanie Caple’s floral painting on exhibit at tury with The South Gippsland Singers. the Round About – Circle Show, which celSongs and medleys will get your feet tapping and beautiful ballads with mesmerise you. ebrates all round works by local artists.

Some of the hits included are Mack The Knife, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Love Me Tender, Money Can’t Buy Me Love, You Raise Me Up and Happy.

Afternoon tea will be provided and don’t forget your loose change for a raffle.

Admission price is $15 (tickets to be purchased at the door) and children are free.

Plethora of stalls will intrigue WHERE: Baromi Park, 49 Ridgway, Mirboo North.

WHEN: Saturday, June 29, 8am-1pm.

WHAT: Mirboo North Market presents a variety Mix cakes and cars at the South Gippsland of stallholder selling everything from plants and food to bric a brac, art, produce, craft and more.

See historical vehicles at the Biggest Morning Tea being held by the South Gippsland HisHistoric Automobile Club’s Biggest MornThe market is held on the last Saturday of the toric Automobile Club. ing Tea. month, except December.

South Gippsland Singers will take guests on a musical journey through the decades.

There are picturesque walks and dog friendly spaces in Loch, so take your pooch along with you this weekend.

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SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Fun for everyone

Unplug and thrive at Allambee Camp FUN and exciting outdoor adventure ac- wellbeing. It can even reduce stress.

For children, the chance to play with other tivities await young campers at Allambee children is one of the best things about camp.

Camp this winter school holidays.

Along the way, they also cultivate social skills

Camp can be one of the most rewarding, unforgettable experiences in a child’s life.

Camp provides children with an opportunity to unplug from technology, spend some time outdoors and being active with same aged children.

Children flourish in a camp environment.

They grow in resilience and independence.

Having experiences away from home builds their confidence and develops their identity.

Resilience, grit, backbone, whatever you want to call it, children get this in bucket loads at camp.

They get to step outside their comfort zone, try new things and see that even with setbacks, they will eventually succeed.

Camp gets children more active and social.

By unplugging from technology, children interact more with their peers and engage in creative thinking. It’s green time, not screen time.

OUTDOORS ADVENTURE: Children are guaranteed to have a rewarding time at Studies show being in nature boosts concentration, aids creative play and improves health and Allambee Camp.

that build character and bolster self-esteem. Some kids even make friends for life.

So, this winter get your children playing outdoors! Join in the school holiday fun at Allambee Camp. This local family owned and operated camp near Yarragon offers two to four -day school holiday adventures.

Children have the opportunity to challenge themselves on the outdoor adventure activities over three days and also join in on a wildlife park excursion on the last day of camp.

The most popular all year-round activities such as giant swing, flying fox, abseil tree, archery, billy cart races, low ropes, high ropes, geocaching, hut building and much more are part of the July 2-4 program. What a great experience that gets children outdoors.

Save your spot now and go to www.allambeecamp.com.au to sign your child up.

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Join in the fun and exciting outdoor adventure activities at Allambee Camp this winter school holidays.

Stay 1-4 days and enjoy camp activities such as the giant swing, flying fox, abseiling, low and high ropes, archery, billy carts and an excursion to the local wildlife park.

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Holiday fun awaits Wildlife Coast Cruises, based at Phillip IsTHE weather may be cooler but there are hot activities for children to enjoy these land, offers a diversity of trips that will give visitors the chance to see the region from another school holidays, indoors and out. perspective.

South Gippsland Tank Adventures at Wonyip, in the hills near Toora, has a collection of armoured fighting vehicles for visitors to view and even ride in.

The range spans from World War Two era to modern day vehicles, and some are being restored.

Host Cameron Stone has had several years’ experience as a Leopard tank crewman with the Australian Defence Force, serving in 1st armoured regiment

Discover the seals off The Nobbies, see the rock formations of Cape Woolamai or enjoy a twilight sunset cruise through the sheltered waters of Western Port Bay. There are cruises tailored to spotting whales and dolphins, coinciding with the Island Whale Festival from July 5-7.

SG Splash in Leongatha is a fun-filled aquatic and leisure centre, set in the grounds of Leongatha Recreation Reserve.

Come along these school holidays for swimming programs, barbecues, playing on the pool inflatable or book in a pool party to celebrate your child’s birthday.

Allambee Camp near Yarragon provides a variety to camps to suit all children’s interests and abilities, all based around outdoor activities to enhance children’s sense of independence (see story this page).

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SG Splash is an ideal place to be on wintry Wildlife Coast Cruises brings guests up close and fine days. with whales.

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THE VIBE

COMMUNITY SERVICE: Art show chairman Harry Leggett received a Paul Harris Fellowship from Leongatha Rotaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jeremy Curtis at the 2018 art show.

Entries now open GETTING GEEKY: This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Geekfest will celebrate all things retro and geeky. People ENTRIES are now open for the 43rd AnArt show chairman Harry Leggett said there in battle armour are welcome. will be a major raffle prize of a magnificent oil nual Arts Prom Country, Art and Photog-

Geeks, get ready â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderful seeing our visitors dress up THE wildly popular Geekfest will again be held at Coal Creek Community Park and taking an active part in the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no doubt this year will bring another and Museum this year, with a fun-filled successful festival.â&#x20AC;? retro theme event planned for Sunday, Tickets are now on sale for $15 per adult, $10 July 7. per child and $5 for an observer.

Geekfest celebrates all things geeky and will include a paint and take workshop, stalls, food vendors and prizes for the best dressed male, female and child.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentations include Alternate Worlds from Joe Italiano, which will explore all things fan-collectable.

He will also share his knowledge on comic books and the history of role playing.

Owen Hill, the founder of Microbee â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own personal computer - will provide a thorough history of the evolution of computers.

Meanwhile, James Graewolfe and Bree Frost will discuss their experience in costume design and their successes in this field.

South Gippsland Shire Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Renae Littlejohn believed the event is shaping up as something special. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Geekfest is looked forward to every year by our community members and visitors,â&#x20AC;? she said.

For more information on the event and to purchase tickets, visit coalcreekcommunityparkandmuseum.com/geekfest The event will be held between 10am and 4pm.

See home grown talent at Mardan A CONCERT showcasing local talent will be held at Mardan this Sunday, June 30.

The Ecumenical Pleasant Sunday Afternoon will be held from 2pm, with singers, musicians and comedy skits.

Further entries invited. Email samnicita@ outlook.com or phone 5664 9306.

Afternoon tea will be served. All welcome at Scots Pioneer Church, Mardan Road.

painting and previous winner of the show.

The raffle and other money made over the The show has had a great record of buyers event go towards local charities and services. over its long history and attracts more than 550 Enter online at www.leonartshow.com.au or entries from artists and photographers from across enquire at info@leonartshow.com.au Gippsland, Melbourne, regional Victoria and interstate.

New and established artists of all ages are welSOUTH GIPPSLAND come to enter.

SINGERS INC Prizes totalling more than $6000 include presents awards for various mediums, photography, 3D, junior sections and the All Abilities section.

Awards are announced on opening night.

The event is organised by the Rotary Club of Leongatha.

The show will be held from August 30 to September 1 at Mesley Hall, corner Ogilvy and Horn streets, Leongatha.

Guest Band The show is open from 1-5pm on Friday, August 30, with the official opening at 8pm, and then SOUTH GIPPSLAND from 10am to 6.30pm on Saturday, August 31, and INTERMEDIATE BRASS BAND then 10am to 3pm on Sunday, September 1.

Entry is $5 per person.

SUNDAY, JUNE 30 AT 2PM Opening night entry is $20 and includes finger THE DAKERS CENTRE food and drinks.

Entered artists are free. Tickets for the opening Cnr Watt & Smith St., can be purchased at the door.

LEONGATHA The show is on the same weekend as the popular Leongatha Daffodil festival, now in its 63rd year.

Adults $15; Children Free On the Saturday there will also be a street marAfternoon Tea provided ket, entertainment and car display.

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ON THE LAND

The only way is up for drones EVERY so often it’s good to look back to gain some direction on where you are heading.

moved so that anyone can fly.

They can be a boy, but as you spend a few more dollars, the drone moves a long way from being a toy and becomes a complex system of technology and mechanics.

Before you fly, there are rules and regulations controlled

by CASA. These regulations are about to change and there’ll be a significant impact on farm operations once they are introduced.

Within the current rules, there are conditions about how high you can fly, how close you can fly near people and where you can fly.

Before flying over your farm, you can refer to CASA’s Can I fly There App to see if there are any restrictions in place.

Once we’ve got the all clear, we conduct a site check - and look for obstacles - powerlines, trees and buildings, and minimise the impact on wildlife.

Drones have many benefits for farmers.

At its simplest form, it might be checking fences, or troughs or other farm infrastructure.

The fantastic thing is that everything you capture is locked to a GPS signal, so by using something like Google Earth you can

The other morning as I set up the P4 drone up to aerial map a paddock, it struck me how fast we have moved.

Ten years ago, this type of work didn’t exist at all.

Three years ago, remotely piloted aerial work existed mainly at the high end of the market – generally in large scale mining by those who had the budget to adopt drones.

Since the early days, drones have moved from being expensive, and potentially dangerous, to an amazingly complex data capture tool for the farm.

Disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry.

Placing drones in this context, I think about aerial photography. Some dairy farms I visit have an aerial photograph of the farm hanging on the hallway wall.

Just about anyone can put a drone in the air, point the camera at the farmhouse and instantly get a fantastic image. The costs are low and technology has

create a dynamic map of your farm assets.

The images are geotagged so you can also add them to any farm mapping application.

We aren’t talking about happy snaps here. If we take a look at the camera, most modern drones can shoot hi-res video/ photo at 4k quality, stabilised and GPS locked.

The cameras themselves are 18-22 megapixels which makes them great for detailed mapping of revegetation, soil and pasture condition.

Other sensors can be added such as FLIR for accurate crop/ moisture mapping.

Our drones are currently using InfraRed and Near InfraRed cameras to create high-resolution NDVI images.

An NDVI composite image can distinguish areas of the paddock where a crop is growing well from those where it is not, enabling zones to be created to target the right amount of treatment to each spot.

Due to the way vegetation reacts to stresses, an NDVI image can also reveal the presence of weeds, pests and water damage.

The other critical thing about drone mapping is repeatability.

Once a flight path has been

NO LIMITS: Drift Media’s Mick Green has watched the rapid growth of the drone industry. created for a paddock, the drone can be programmed to fly the exact path over and over again.

This can build up a sequence of data sets such as the growth in paddocks via season, or the effect of fertiliser in one particular area of a paddock.

By using GPS waypoints, the flight path can also talk to other

bits of farm equipment and the farm equipment can talk back.

So the drone might highlight an area of the paddock that might not be performing too well and could send the coordinates of the area in question to a GPS equipped tractor sprayer, which could then apply a remedy to that section only.

Drones can shift the way we approach farming, but not by themselves.

They are simply a tool which gathers an amazing amount of data.

It’s what we do with the data that is the critical part.

- MICK GREEN, DRIFT MEDIA

• VLE Leongatha

Buyers chase steers, bullocks sharp lift in supply of manufacturing grades.

The trade cattle were mostly heifers and improved 3c/kg. Grown steers and bullocks were in short supply selling 5c to 10c/kg dearer. Heavy grown heifers sold to solid demand for a better The usual buying group was present and com- quality selection. Heavy Friesian manufacturing peting in a dearer market. Quality declined with a steers improved 10c to 17c with the crossbred smaller proportion of prime cattle on offer and a portion lifting 5c to 10c/kg.

Cows sold mostly 10c/kg dearer and up to 20c/ kg in places. Heavy bulls gained a few cents.

Vealers reached a top of 310c/kg. Yearling heifers to the trade sold from 270c to 314c/kg.

3 LIMO BULLS, 2 BLK, 1 ORANGE Grown steers made between 280c and 320c $2200 + GST with the top price for a pen of feeder steers. BullVERY QUIET ocks sold between 300c and 336c/kg. Heavy grown heifers showing good finish made from 240c to 292c/kg. Heavy Friesian manufacturing steers sold from 209c to 279c with the crossbred portion from 239c to 298c/kg.

CODY LOUGHRIDGE Most light and medium weight cows made 0477 853 026 between 140c and 210c/kg. Heavy weight cows

THERE were approximately 1400 export and 170 young cattle penned representing an increase of 30 head week on week.

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BULLOCKS 18 O’Loughlin Bros, Meeniyan 13 J. Dean, Pearsondale 14 Rumridge Pty Ltd, Mt Eliza 5 D. & H. Bassed, Waratah Nth 10 B.P. Dilger, Jeetho West 4 D. & H. Bassed, Waratah Nth STEERS 2 A. & Y. Morrison, Inverloch 11 Tom’s Block 1 A. & P.A. Shaw, Hazelwood 4 Ludy’s Holding, French Island 10 R. & L. Heald, Foster North

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COWS 1 J. & K. Campbell, Wonga Wonga 1 S. Bridger, Glen Forbes 2 Marrajon Past Co, Glen Forbes 1 A. & P.A. Shaw, Hazelwood 1 B. & J. Casey, Korumburra 1 Quion Hill P/ship, Phillip Island

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BULLS 1 M. & D. McCaughan, Pound Crk 765.0kg 1 D. & P. Whiteley, Mirboo 1000.00kg 1 B. & J. Casey, Korumburra 920.0kg 1 J.J. Killian, Glen Forbes 855.0kg 1 R. & C. Pearson, Hedley 865.0kg 1 L. & C. Jenkins 900.0kg

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ON THE LAND • VLE Leongatha Store Sale

Demand steady for store cattle South Gippsland Stock Agents Association NUMBERS came back again at this weeks store sale with agents yarding 1950 head .

Overall the quality of the yarding was not as good as previous sales but there were still some good lines of cattle that came forward with prices being generally firm .

Well bred cattle with weight and well bred steer weaners continued to attract the strongest competition from all the regular feedlot buyers and local graziers.

Secondary cattle and x/bred types are still lacking full competition as the winter sets in but they all managed to find new homes . Generally the grazier competition was mostly from the South Gippsland district and handful of cattle heading back into East Gippsland.

Thursday, June 20 Steers: W. & K. Alexander, 6 Ang, 2yo, 560kg, 277c, $1550; 14 Ang, 2yo, 467kg, 317c, $1480. S. Battern, 7 Ang, 2yo, 482kg, 282c, $1360. G.W. Charlton,

ALL THINGS RURAL

13 H/ford, 2yo, 477kg, 306c, $1460. J. & M. Connell, 5 H/ford, 2yo, 475kg, 290c, $1380. Lester Farms, 11 BB, 2yo, 455kg, 316c, $1440; 15 Ang, 2yo, 427kg, 334c, $1430. A. Crooke, 8 H/ford, 20mths, 433kg, 286c, $1240. D. Jerram, 8 Ang, 16mths, 405kg, 355c, $1440.

PG Potatoes, 20 Ang, 16mths, 375kg, 328c, $1230; 21 Ang, 16mths, 352kg, 310c, $1090. Wllnut Park, 11 Ang, 14mths, 368kg, 323c, $1190. D. & M. Adams, 6 Ang, 12mths, 339kg, 292c, $990. Backline P/L, 7 Ang, 16mths, 337kg, 311c, $1050. A. & B. Wilkin, 5 MG, 12mths, 334kg, 275c, $920. M. Lawless, 22 Ang, 12mths, 309kg, 320c, $1010.

D. Jerram, 8 Ang, 12mths, 284kg, 359c, $1020. Wallenbeen, 17 Ang, 8-10mths, 301kg, 322c, $970. Mirrabooka, 21 Ang, 8-10mths, 299kg, 314c, $940; 11 Ang, 8-10mths, 290kg, 320c, $930. Wallenbeen, 10 Limo X, 12mths, 304kg, 263c, $800. A. Stollery, 18 Char X, 12mths, 280kg, 264c, $740. H. & J. Lewis, 5 Ang X, 287kg, 285c, $820.

Heifers: J. & M. Connell, 6 H/ford, 2yo, 391kg, 255c, $1000. D.J. Halliday, 7 Ang, 2yo, 390kg, 243c, $950. A. Stollery, 8 Char, 12mths, 346kg, 258c, $880.

D. & M. Adams, 5 Ang, 12mths, 315kg, 241c, $760. R. & J. Crooke, 14 Ang, 16mths, 301kg, 229c, $690. Wallenbeen, 6 Ang, 8mths, 277kg, 249c, $690.

Cows and Calves: Gregorys Red Angus, 7x7, $1120.

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Star Careers Acute Care Nurses (Division 1) wanted ICU/PICU experience preferred but not essential Wanted for home care in Leongatha area who love the outdoors and having fun!

Due to nature of program, females are encouraged to apply.

Please contact Patrik 0n 041 094 2230 or email patrik@intensivecareathome.com

Position Vacancies Bass Coast Health

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Bass Coast Health is seeking applications for the following positions:

BEING a hairdresser is a career choice that can take you absolutely anywhere.

Occupational Therapist Grade 1 Full time, from 1 July to 31 December 2019 – closing 26/06/19

Integrated Family Services Practitioner 0.6EFT permanent plus 0.6EFT limited term until June 2020 – closing 28/06/19

Endorsed Enrolled Nurse Aged care permanent part time 72 hours per fortnight – closing 30/06/19

Senior Finance Officer – Aged Care, Revenue & Business Support Part time or full time available – closing 05/07/19

Registered Nurse, District & Palliative Care

TRUCK DRIVERS We have two positions available in our General Freight division. Leongatha-based, for regular runs, Leo-Melb-Welshpool-Leo. You will need: • HC or MC licence • Clean and tidy appearance • Excellent time management • Good driving skills • Satisfactory reference checks • Good 5-year driver history report.

To apply, email your resume to Carol hr@stoitse.com.au, quoting ref: L020.

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0.42EFT permanent – closing 12/07/19

Dentist Part time 32 hours per fortnight – closing 12/07/19 For full position details, a position description and how to apply, please refer to the BCH website basscoasthealth.org.au or contact Human Resources via email hr@basscoasthealth.org.au

For Melissa Weekes, from Razor Sharp in Leongatha, it’s been a job that holds few regrets.

“I’ve been hairdressing for almost 14 years.

I just fell into it. I was working at David Jones in Chadstone,” she said.

“One of my friends worked at the salon there at the shopping centre. She told me they were looking for an apprentice.”

Keen for something different, Melissa was quick to apply.

“I’ve always been creative. I started my apprenticeship and haven’t looked back,” she said.

“Ask any apprentice and they’ll tell you there are hell days. If you don’t love it you won’t stay in the trade.

“It’s not as glamorous as it’s made out to be.”

Melissa was living in Glen Waverley at the time, but grew up in Korumburra.

Six years ago – after having twin boys - she began looking for jobs that would take her back to South Gippsland.

And what would she say to someone considering a career in hairdressing?

“Stick with it and gain as much experience from other hairdressers as you possibly can.

You can travel anywhere as a hairdresser,” she said.

Previously Melissa has worked for salons servicing female clients. Working for a barber CUTTING EDGE: Melissa Weekes, is “all new”.

She admitted that male customers are “a lot from Razor Sharp in Leongatha, loves being a hairdresser. cruisier”.

At Latrobe Community Health Service you’ll be part of a positive and passionate workplace. We’re dedicated to providing you with career opportunities, through work that is rewarding and meaningful within the community.

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Indigenous Men’s Group Facilitator and Case Manager Sale & Latrobe Valley, Permanent full time (25175)

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Applications close COB 28 June 2019 For more information about this position and application process, please visit our website at: southgippslandhospital.org.au/ careers/employment

TANKER DRIVERS We are seeking tanker drivers at our Leongatha depot. Casual/seasonal work, including nights and weekend work. Potential to lead to full time work for the right applicant.

You will need: • HC or MC licence • Clean and tidy appearance • Excellent time management • Good driving skills • Satisfactory reference checks • Good VicRoads 5-year driver history report.

Call Jason on 0438 513 905 for more information.

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Morwell, Fixed term full time (25140) At Latrobe Community Health Service we want to help you get back to what matters. To see the full position description and to apply, go to www.lchs.com.au/careers/current-vacancies

We are an equal opportunity employer and therefore, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment. We are partnered with Job Access and pledged to Soldier On. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and identities, LGBTIQ+ people, people with a lived experience of disability and service personnel and their families to name a few. We will make reasonable adjustments when required. We are a child safe organisation. Successful applicants will be required to obtain a satisfactory security clearance and an Employee Working with Children Check before we can make any offer of employment.

Looking for a role in which you can make a real difference?

Do you have a keen interest in the sciences and maths coupled with an analytical mind?

Located in idyllic South Gippsland, with beautiful beaches and National Parks on the doorstep, you will have the best of the South Gippsland and Bass Coast region close by. Entry level along with experienced operators are encouraged to apply, salary will be commensurate with experience. Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit www.sgwater.com.au for a copy of the Position Description and information on how to apply.

More Information: x Ash Turner on 0427 839 897 or People and Culture on 03 5682 0467 for general employment enquiries.

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Star Careers

SEARCH FOR A JOB FIND A CAREER MILKER

WeSupportU is an NDIS provider new to South Gippsland looking for suitably qualified

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to assist children and young people participate in activities in the community.

The support workers will be provided with training and behaviour support strategies and ongoing assistance to perform their role.

Renumeration is dependant on qualifications and experience.

Please email contact details, CV and expression of interest cover letter to info@wesupportu.com.au

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FAMILY SAFETY CONTACT WORKER – DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Part time – fixed term The Family Safety Contact Worker will provide support to women and children who have experienced or are currently experiencing family violence.

Position located in Leongatha.

For further information please visit www.ethicaljobs.com.au/Members/TSAVIC/familysafety-contact-worker---domestic-violence

For rotary dairy 4 minutes from Korumburra Alternate weekends and some week day milkings.

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Experience preferred

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FULL-TIME assistant milker / general farm hand required for large Kongwak dairy farm. 24 swingover herringbone shed, milking 380 cows.

Current driver’s licence required. Ph: 0427574229.

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A.W Smith & Sons Pty Ltd CATERING MANAGER WANTED Full Time Permanent Position Salary Upon Application PRE-REQUISITES Previous food preparation and cooking experience Knowledge of allergy and dietary requirements Knowledge of Food Safety Standards Competent computer skills Excellent presentation and good communication skills.

High level of customer service.

Working With Children Check and national criminal record check required.

A positive “can do” attitude is a must.

Training provided and ongoing.

To apply: email (preferred) post your application letter and resume attention to Matt Wallis.

BH (03) 5664 6524 Email: matt.wallis@pgladventurecamps.com.au 90 Dollar Woorarra West Road, Foster Nth 3960 Hurry this highly sort after position will fill quickly!

Permanent Part-Time Sales Assistant A permanent part-time position has become available in our Gift & Homewares store.

This position requires an enthusiastic person to be involved in the daily running of our business.

The successful candidate will demonstrate sound customer service skills, and a willingness to learn. Flexibility with working hours are a must and weekend work will be required on a roster based system Please forward written application and resume to: The Manager 15 McCartin Street Leongatha 3953 Or email branch@awsmith.com.au Applications close 29th June 2019 Successful applicants only will be notified.

ST JOSEPH’S SCHOOL KORUMBURRA VACANCIES @ GSHS

Planned Activity Group Coordinator 0.6EFT (48 hours per fortnight) Permanent Part Time (Job # PH0601) Contact: Selina Northover, Director of Primary Healthcare. Ph: 5667 5696 or email selina.northover@gshs.com.au Applications Close: 30/6/19

Endorsed Enrolled Nurses Korumburra Hospital – MFW Part time and Casual roles available (Job # ND0602) Contact: Tracey Edmonds, Nurse Unit Manager - MFW. Ph: 5654 2751 or email tracey.edmonds@gshs.com.au Applications Close: 7/7/19

Clinical Coder/Health Information Clerk Full Time 1.0 EFT (Job # PH0605) Contact: Sharon Shaw, Health Information Manager. Ph: 5667 5508 or email sharon.shaw@gshs.com.au Applications Close: 7/7/19

Dietitian – Gr 2 0.63 EFT Limited Tenure until December 2019 (Job # PH0601) Contact: Vivian Carroll, Allied Health Manager.

Ph: 5654 2701 or email vivian.carroll@gshs.com.au Applications Close: 7/7/19 (extended)

Learning Support Officer The successful applicant will have a demonstrated commitment to Catholic education and to the safety and wellbeing of children.

Applications are invited for the fixed-term position of Learning Support Officer to commence on 15 July 2019. This position is classified in accordance with the Victorian Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2018.

St Joseph’s Primary School Korumburra Our family orientated primary school is seeking an enthusiastic Learning Support Officer to join our school community. This is a permanent part time role 5 days per week, 8.55am-3.20pm, for the remainder of the 2019 school year.

Education Support certificate III or IV and previous experience is preferred.

A position description and application form are available on the school website under careers www.sjkorumburra.catholic.edu.au Applications should be made in writing, including the names and contact numbers of three referees and forwarded via email to The Principal, Mrs Michelle Charlton at principal@sjkorumburra.catholic.edu.au On appointment, the successful applicant will require a current Victorian Police check and a current Employment Working with Children’s Check.

Applications close Monday 1st July at 5.00pm St Joseph’s School, Korumburra promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all children.

Registered Midwives (Job # ND0402) Contact: Tracey Palmer, Nurse Unit Manager General Ward. Ph: 5667 5614 or email tracey.palmer@gshs.com.au Full details, including the position descriptions are available at www.gshs.com.au. Email applications, quoting relevant job reference number to jobs@gshs.com.au.

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HOUSE SITTING – RENTAL A senior businessman is seeking house minding or rental opportunities during his consultancy for a major South Gippsland company in the coming months.

HOUSE MINDING: Will provide security, cleaning, pet walking and feeding, mail collection and lawn mowing. Will also pay a weekly rent if needed.

FURNISHED RENTAL: Looking for a quality furnished house or flat. Rent can be paid as a lump sum in advance if needed.

AVAILABILITY PERIOD: Mid-Sept to Mid-Dec and Mid-Jan to Mid-April.

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CHRISTENSEN (nee McKean) - Gwenyth Muriel (Muriel).

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Beloved mother and mother-in-law of Una and Ron, Christine and Keith, Iris and Mark (dec) and Roy. Greatly loved Nanna of all her Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren.

GOODWIN - A Graveside Service to Celebrate the Life of Mr Barry Robert Goodwin will be held at the Leongatha Lawn Cemetery on WEDNESDAY June 26, 2019 commencing at 1pm.

WHITE - A Funeral Service to Celebrate the Life of Mrs Irene Patricia White (nee Cripps) will be held at the Leongatha Uniting Church Hall, Peart Street, Leongatha on FRIDAY June 28, 2019 commencing at 1pm.

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South Gippsland Shire Council NOTICE OF AN APPLICATION FOR A PLANNING PERMIT Pursuant to Section 52(1) of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 The land affected by the application is located at: 10 & 93 Thorpdale Road, Mirboo North; 2580, 2628, 2630, 2632, 2634, 2659 & 2710 Strzelecki Highway, Mirboo North; 14-16 Galvins Road, Mirboo North.

The application is for a permit to: Removal of selected native vegetation on public and private land to facilitate replacement of pipeline infrastructure.

The applicant for the permit is: Gippsland Water The Application Reference Number is: 2019/92 You may look at the Application and any documents that support the Application at the office of the Responsible Authority – South Gippsland Shire Council, Private Bag 4, 9 Smith Street Leongatha 3953, Telephone: 5662 9200. This can be done during office hours (Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm) and is free of charge. Applications are also available to be viewed on Councils Website at www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au Any person who may be affected by the granting of the 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.

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Signature for the Applicant: D. Wardle Submissions can be received after this date up until a decision is made.

Dated: 25 June 2019.

Will be forever in our hearts.

Please see Herald Sun for Funeral details.

GOODWIN - Barry Robert.

Passed away peacefully at the Leongatha Hospital on June 7, 2019.

Aged 77 years.

Loved soulmate of Hazel (dec 26.01.2019).

Adored father of John, Tracie and Bobbie Lee. Father-in-law of Steven and Peter.

Loved Grandfather of Melissa, Kirk, Macey (dec), Alysha and Brandon.

Great Grandfather of Luke, Zak, Skye and Reed.

Reunited.

PRITCHARD (nee Howell) - Inez May. 25.07.1927 - 18.06.2019 Beloved mother and mother-in-law of Sandra and Gary, Ron and Beverley, Lance (dec), Kevin and Michelle, Glenn and Maureen, Alan and Karen.

Dearly loved Nan Inez of all her Grandkids and Great Grandkids.

Always remembered.

QUAIFE - A Funeral Service to Celebrate the Life of Mr William Robert (Bill) Quaife will be held at the Amenities Complex, Korumburra Showgrounds, South Gippsland Highway, Korumburra on THURSDAY June 27, 2019 commencing at 11am.

Private Cremation.

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Farewell Alan THE head of Inverloch’s community banks has retired after 13 years.

Alan Gostelow, chair of Inverloch and District Community Bank branch of Bendigo Bank, is no longer chair of the board.

His leadership was celebrated with a dinner at RACV Inverloch attended by directors, and state and regional Bendigo Bank management.

More than $500,000 has been given back to the community under Mr Gostelow’s leadership and guidance.

“You may not think who you bank with matters but it does,” he said.

“Every day our customers help change local lives and save lives, simply by banking with us.”

The newly elected chair of the board is Philip Clark.

Bass council lobbies in Canberra REPRESENTATIVES from Bass Coast Council have just taken a lobbying trip to Canberra.

Mayor Cr Brett Tessari said he went to the nation’s capital with CEO Ali Wastie and staff “to pursue some ministers and some chiefs of staff”.

“It was a busy schedule and we spent with a day speaking to some incredible speakers – renowned not just throughout Australia but also the world. On the Monday and Tuesday we actually had 10 high-level meetings pursuing our advocacy document,” he said.

“We spoke to the education department twice, infrastructure, environment, housing and social awareness. We spoke to the arts – and we even had a last minute meeting with the top adviser to the Acting Prime Minister. It was hard work.”

Private Cremation.

Family and Friends are invited to Celebrate Inez’s Life at the Leongatha RSL, corner of Smith Street and Michael Place, Leongatha on FRIDAY July 5, 2019 commencing at 12.15pm.

All welcome.

QUAIFE William Robert (Bill).

Passed away peacefully at the Leongatha Hospital on 18.06.19.

Loved Husband of Anna for 33 years.

Dearly loved Father of Robert, Andrew, Daniel, Amanda and Lisa.

Father-In-Law to Kellie, Trish, Jenni, Mark and Jason.

Loved Pa to 14 Grandchildren and 2 Great Grandchildren.

Loved Son of Nita and Bill (dec).

Will be sadly missed.

WHITE - Irene Patricia (nee Cripps).

Passed away suddenly at home in Leongatha on June 11, 2019.

Daughter of Joan and Jim (both dec), stepdaughter of Vic (dec), wife of John (dec), sister of Christine and Greg.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of our much loved and adored sister, sister-in-law, aunt and great aunt.

Reunited with her beloved John.

Rest peacefully Irene.

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COMMUNITY FOCUS: Inverloch’s Bendigo Bank’s Philip Clark and Terry Hall wish retiring chair Alan Gostelow well.

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OVERDEVELOPMENT may still be a threat in Inverloch’s Park Street.

The embattled residents have been deflecting plans for 31-33 Park Street for years.

They have attended numerous Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearings to stop outlandish development ideas.

Most recently, the residents were faced with the proposal of a childcare centre.

According to realcommercial.com, the developer sold the property in November last year.

It was advertised as 2415m2 block with an approved permit for a 115 place childcare centre.

However, the development has not progressed and the permit will lapse on August 23 this year.

This has left residents to wonder what will be proposed next.

Bass Coast Shire Council’s acting manager strategy and growth Donna Taylor said council received a planning permit application on May 21.

The application proposed the removal of a covenant from 33 Park Street.

The new owner may choose to extend the planning permit for the childcare centre, but the application must be made by August 23.

At this stage, the site has not been rezoned.

Residents feared the development of the childcare centre due to the size of the street.

The narrow road offers limited space for parking. It was believed some parents would not to use the industrial estate for parking during drop off times.

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Town unites for aged care The Freemason donated $10,000, with Keith THE community has joined forces to Murray, the grand master of Freemasons Victoria, support the revitalisation of a Wonthaggi present to pass over the cheque. Many Freemaaged care facility. son members travelled from across the region and Armitage House, at Wonthaggi Hospital, is set to be upgraded.

The groups, Powlett Lodge Freemasons, Bass Coast Health and the Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club, held a dinner to raise funds.

Armitage House Residential Aged Care opened in 1990 and has provided state of the art care to the local people of Wonthaggi for decades.

In 2016, the Armitage facility was re-vitalised to become the sub-regional centre for sub-acute care.

The house now provides inpatient services including geriatric evaluation and management, rehabilitation and palliative care.

The Powlett Lodge Freemasons partnered with Bass Coast Health and contacted the Workmen’s Club to discuss holding a fundraising dinner for the cause.

Melbourne to support the event.

The Wonthaggi Workmen’ Club sponsored the evening and provided a cheque for $10,001.

The club’s Rod Bye and Kevin Williams acknowledged the valuable work and the importance of Armitage House in the community.

“Our club is about strengthening and creating an inclusive community that our members are proud of,” Mr Bye said.

Bass Coast Health CEO Jan Child was thrilled with the generosity of the community.

MOVING FORWARD: Bass Coast Health’s Jan Child and Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club’s Rod Bye received donations towards the upgrade of Armitage House.

• Leongatha badminton

Karsten leads way for victory THE always immaculately groomed Karsten Krohn has produced his best badminton for the season to steer his team Germany to a commanding win.

Karsten received excellent support from Shaun Helms, Rob Brownlow and new player Brad Allen who shows tons of talent and will improve the more he plays.

Germany’s opponents Australia had an average night with Steve Johnson their only shining light.

The U.S.A. team put up a great effort to take their match right up to top side New Zealand.

The result was three sets all and a 24 point win to the Kiwis,

with Glenn ‘Wilson’ Kleeven in scintillating touch.

He was rather fired up after opponent Greg Marshman tried to hit him numerous times with the shuttlecock.

Ian Cole was also very good for the U.S.A. team.

The Holland team totally whitewashed the struggling Canada side that seem lost in the Yukon at present.

The Dutch are rolling along well with Rodney Wyatt and Angie Almond playing well, but the star is Tom Dudley, back from his overseas honeymoon.

He is playing brilliantly.

The final match to report on was Ireland, which went way too good for Scotland.

Tim Bright too experienced for his Scottish opponents and club secretary Rhonda Newton had a top evening showing

great touch all night.

Special mention to new player James Maskiell who is really getting into the swing of the game.

Our club championships are on July 2 and the club would love to see a big turnout of players to contest all the events on offer.

Results - Round 7 Holland 6/126 d Canada 0/53, New Zealand 3/109 d U.S.A. 3/85, Germany 5/112 d Australia 1/65, Ireland 5/115 d Scotland 1/68, China - bye.

Ladder

New Zealand ..................................... 41 Holland .............................................. 39 Ireland ............................................... 35 Germany ........................................... 32 China .................................................. 23 Australia ............................................. 21 USA ................................................... 20 Scotland.............................................. 18 Canada5................................................ 5

South Gippsland Bridge Club Inverloch Pairs competition June 21

garet Munro.

Second with yet another strong, steady score In first place with an outstanding 70.14 percent were Frank Arndt and Clive hope with 56.55 were the ever consistent team of Jack Kuiper and percent.

Third with a sound 50.89 percent were Helen Richard Moss.

Dakers and Dirk Jacobs.

Second, with the very strong score of 67.57 East/West: percent, was the rapidly rising pair of Clive Hope and Alan Johnston.

First with another stunning score and showIn fourth place with 48.96 were Julie and Ian ing their prowess, were Jack Kuiper and Richard Macphee.

Moss with 70.24 percent.

East/West: Second with an excellent 53.27 percent were First with the excellent score of 63.10 percent John Sutton and Alan Johnston, both well into the was the talented pair of Kaye Douglas and John points again.

Sutton.

Third with another fine score were Marie Second with a fine 60.42 percent was the very Sands and Ken McKenzie with 48.71 percent. steady pair of Matti Shubb and John Quayle.

Coming events Third, with 58.04 percent, was Marie Sands There will be a bridge lesson from Jack Kuiper and Ken McKenzie, and fourth with 48.21 percent on Tuesday July 2 at 11.30 am. was Maureen Stiles and Penny Loughran.

BYO Lunch followed by Nationwide Pairs at Tarwin Lower Pairs competition June 18 1pm.

North/South: Visitors are always welcome.

Please check the Club website for finding First with a very strong 57.44 percent was the always reliable pair of Faye Rowlands and Mar- partners.

North/South:

DEBATING DEMOCRACY: Leongatha Secondary College students at the Local Constitutional Convention at Belgrave were Zali Rogers, Isla Hickey, Angus Clarke, Harry Vanderzalm, Harry Taylor Smith, presenter Sami Shah, Angus Ritchie, Phil Smith, Ruby Box, Eden Free and Talia Janssen.

PM centre of convention debate Students explored the debate question, “That a SHOULD Australians choose their prime general election should be immediately called if a REVEGETATION EFFORT: Sue Miles, Dan Drummond, Richard Baillie, Phillip Graley minister? prime minister is deposed by their party?”

and Peter Walsh volunteered to plant trees along the Great Southern Rail Trail.

Trees to beautify rail trail CYCLISTS will know the wind can be bushes will become habitat for native birds.

Amongst the larger trees are manna gum and strong near the saleyards along the Great silver wattle with smaller trees and shrubs such as Southern Rail Trail, near Koonwarra.

To address this, the trail management committee planted 2000 native trees and shrubs on land under its management either side of the trail near Hogans Road.

They were joined in this endeavour by members of the Nerrena/TarwinValley Landcare Group.

Apart from providing wind protection and eventually shade for trail users, the trees and

hemp bush, prickly currant bush, swamp paperback and prickly moses providing great cover for smaller birds.

Committee member Dan Drummond also sourced Pottiputki planters to make the planting job easier.

These tools enable workers to plant seedlings without having to bend over – a great back saver when planting hundreds of trees a day.

That was the topic of conversation when 10 After group discussions, students offered their Leongatha Secondary College students attended views to the whole group. this year’s Local Constitutional Convention in Speaker was ABC journalist/comedian Sami Belgrave.

Shah, who discussed his views and background.

Shape Thompson Reserve BASS Coast Shire Council is seeking maintenance for the BMX track and improved acfeedback on its revised Master Plan for cess for vehicles and pedestrians.

The plan will be on public exhibition for final Thompson Reserve in Inverloch.

The reserve currently has a master plan adopted in 2016.

It was recently reviewed, in response to changes, including new change facilities for the Inverloch Stars Soccer Club, new multipurpose training facilities for a variety of sports, ongoing

community feedback from Monday, June 24 to Sunday, August 4.

Visit www.basscoast.vic.gov.au/projects to provide feedback online, or contact council’s by phone on 1300 BCOAST (226 278) or (03) 5671 2211 or email active@basscoast.vic.gov.au.

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AMBROSE WINNERS: Event winner, from left was the Wont- Sponsor Evelyn Indian with Meeniyan’s Irene Holm, Lyn Jennison Toni West and Nancy Sperling won A haggi team Patsy Britt, Ivy Carnegie, Carole Sartori and Dot Garry, and Sheila Constantine (absent Andrea Thorson) who placed third. and B Grade respectively during Winners pictured with sponsor Evelyn Indian.

Wednesday.

NTP Balls went to 4th Toni West, 7th Andrea Thorson, 14th Penny Hughes (Patterson River) IT was another Winter Wednesday on June 19, and 16th Wendy Parker.

DTL Balls were awarded to Traralgon No 3 65 however 19 ladies braved the elements to play the net, Traralgon No 1 65.5 net, Woorayl 66.375 net, stableford event.

Toni West won A Grade with a score of (11) Leongatha No 4 66.5 net, Phillip Island 67.5 net.

33 points and Nancy Sperling won B Grade with (28) 30 points.

DTL Balls went to Lynda Bassett with 29 pts, ON Saturday 80 golfers enjoyed perfect winter Noreen Williams, Wendy Parker and Glenyce conditions for golf.

McRobert with 27 pts respectively, and Dot Kit Rotthier took best advantage to amass a Stubbs on 26 pts. great score of 39 points and take the Overall and Nearest the Pin on the 16th was Trish Owen, and C Grade events.

2nd shot on the 16th was Bronwyn Debenham A Grade was taken out by Kevin Castwood The weather was perfect last Friday for the with 35 points and Garry Rotteveel had a win in B 71 ladies who arrived to play in one of the main Grade also with 35 points. days on our golfing calendar: the LGC Ambrose DTL Balls were won by Chris Indian, DaShield, which was once again generously spon- vid Child, Mark Lafferty, Barry Stevens, Walter sored by Evelyn Indian.

Taberner, Andrew Smith, Glen Marsham, Peter For over 20 years Evelyn has provided won- Walsh, Phil Douglas, Nick Lafferty, Paul Dell, derful trophies and raffles which are keenly sought Renato Monacella, Antony Roberts, Peter Harby all contestants, this year from all the clubs in tigan, Jason Dennerley, John Feddersen, Daniel the South Gippsland District as well as Traralgon, Yeap, David Forbes and John Belli.

Patterson River and Eagle Ridge.

Nearest the Pins were Garry Rotteveel on the A big thank you goes to Evelyn for her contin14th hole and Paul Richardson on the 16th. ued valuable support of the club, and also thank On Tuesday last week 50 golfers took part in a you to all club members for their work which conStableford Competition with Mark Warby leading tributed to the successful running of the day. the way with 38 points to win the Overall and A Winners were: Grade events.

In first, Wonthaggi 81 (16.5) 64.5 net (Dot B Grade was taken out by Peter Stivic with 34 Garry, Patsy Britt, Carole Sartori, Ivy Ruby). points and Antony Roberts did best in C Grade Second was Traralgon No 2. 77 (12.375) with 37 points.

64.625 net (Ann Bland, Peg Thomas, Marg Wylie, DTL Balls were awarded to Jeff Brewer, Frank Pat Coles) Smedley, Peter Waters, Bob Smith, Joe Lowell, Third was Meeniyan c/b 74 (9) 65 net (AnTrevor Moss, Geoff McDonald, Gary McGrath, drea Thorson, Irene Holm, Lyn Jennison, Sheila Chris Leaver, Fred Debono, Wayne Keen, Doug Constantine) Clemann and Colin Bear.

Nearest the Pins were Allan Kuhne on the 14th hole and Col Martin on the 16th.

On Thursday Terry Grace had a day out to card a great score of +2 to win the Overall and C Grade events.

Here is an easy guide to Paul Wagner, a visitor from Philip Island, took At Point Lonsdale tides in your area. the A Grade honours with +1 and Paul Luck won JUNE / JULY To determine tides for a particB Grade also with +1. ular area, add or subtract periTime height ods of times as shown below.

DTL Balls were won by Greg Ellt, Brian Fen(metres) Earlier Minutes nessy, George Hendry, Frank Smedley, Rob PritApollo Bay ...........................25 chard, Ian Barlow, Barry Day, Bert Borg, James King Island (Grassy) ...........10

Leongatha Ladies

Leongatha

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King Island (Surprise Bay)....40 King Island (Franklin) ...........40 Lakes Entrance .................... 170 Lorne ...................................... 20 Mallacoota Inlet.................... 158 Rip Bank ................................ 15 Snowy River Entrance ......... 170 _______________________ Cape Schanck, Flinders, Mornington Ocean Beaches, Seal Rocks, Venus Bay, Waratah Bay, Woolamai ....... nil _________________________ Later Minutes Altona ................................... 195 Barwon Heads Bridge ........... 15 Carrum ................................. 195 Corinella ................................. 68 Cowes Pier............................. 50 Dromana .............................. 195 Frankston ............................. 195 Geelong ............................... 210 Hastings ................................. 66 Hovell Pile ............................ 195 Inverloch Pier ......................... 15 Melbourne ............................ 200 Mornington ........................... 195 Newhaven Jetty ..................... 30 No. 1 West Channel (Annulus)........................... 50 No. 2 South Channel Light .... 70 No. 8 South Channel Light .. 150 Port Albert Pier ...................... 90 Portarlington Pier ................. 190 Portsea Pier ........................... 80 Port Welshpool (Rabbit Island .................... 10 Queenscliffe Pier ................... 30 Rhyll ....................................... 60 Rosebud............................... 195 Rye Pier ............................... 170 St. Leonards Pier ................. 190 Sandringham ....................... 195 Sorrento Pier........................ 130 Stony Point ............................. 40 South Channel Pile Light ..... 190 Swan Island Dock ................ 120 Tooradin ............................... 105 Warneet.................................. 84 Williamstown ........................ 200 Welshpool Pier....................... 90

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Next week is Woorayl’s fun Flag Day sponFowler, Don Smith, Peter Walsh, Geoff McDonald, Alan Sperling, Peter Stivic, Jim Arnott, John sored by Inge Giliam.

Renwick and Andrew Smith.

Nearest the Pins were Andrew Smith on the 14th and Ken Smirk on the 16th.

A fantastic field of intrepid golfers took to the course on Saturday to play in the long running and popular four-man ambrose event.

Thursday, June 20.

The sponsors of the event were a mix of good Competition: Stableford. mates and long serving members of the club: th Day Winner: Gary Renwick (12) 38, NTP 4 : Brian Wilson, Bob Hughes and Butch Hemming, Neil Whitelaw, DTL’s: Neil Whitelaw (12) 36, who supplied a great array of trophies for the Brian Clarke (27) 35, Steve Bickerton (8) 35. lucky winners.

Saturday, June 22.

As usual, Butch was elected to speak on behalf Competition: Heiberg Family Cup (Par). of the group at presentation time and continued the Day Winner: Doug Taylor (19) +2, Winner C Grade: Nick Whichello (23) +2, Winner A Grade: tradition of taking the opportunity to raise a glass Josh Robbins (16) -1, DTL’s: Neil Rutledge (19) in honour and memory of great mates and much +1, Stan Evison (22) sq, Peter Whitaker (24) sq, missed past members, Blockhead and Atlas.

The winners on the day were Matt Smith, Josh Keith Clerks (21) -1, 2nd shot NTP 1st hole: Jim Kidd, NTP: 4th Brian Clarke, 6th Tom Traill, 13th Smith, Brett Stubbs and Ash Peters who combined Russell Pentland, 16th Stan Evison. well to shoot a great score of 58.375 nett.

Congratulations go to Doug and Richard TayIt was fantastic to see young Josh team up with lor for taking out the Heiberg Family Cup for dad to win his first major event at Woorayl.

2019.

Runners up were Brian Hogan, Ty Hogan, Ray Sullivan and Alistair Hillis just half a shot behind on 58.875 nett.

Brian and Ty won the event last year with a FOURTEEN ladies braved the elements last Wednesday to compete in the second and final couple of other blokes so they were clearly not round of the S&B Thomas Aggregate Stabl- the weakest link. eford Board event, and the daily event of Secret Ball down the line went to the incredibly unPartners. lucky team of Jason Redmond, Michael Grist, Shirley and Brian Thomas, along with their Warren Turner and Geoff McKinnon who had daughter Jo Graeme, sponsored the daily event. their only bogey of the day on the last hole to miss Players were lucky as they experienced only out on the winner’s trophy by less than a shot with light showers on and off all day and managed to 59.125 nett. finish without getting too wet.

Anthony Clemann, Daryl Hunt, George JohnThe winners of the S&B Thomas event were son and Graeme Salmon also collected a ball with Ann Poole and Linda Forrester with a total score 59.750 nett. of 115 points over the two rounds.

NTP on the 8th was par 3 specialist Ty Hogan The winners of the Secret Partner daily event and on the 17th it was Michael Grist who fired were the pairing of Jenny Riseley and Pauline one in close with his trusty nine wood and holed Lancaster who had 52 points.

BDL went to Elly Berryman and Heather Sul- the putt.

The raffle winner was the Foz syndicate. livan with 50 points and Jo Fennell and Ann Poole Next Saturday is Monthly Medal day and the with 50 points also.

Nearest the pins on 8th Ann Poole, 11th Ann forecast is for warm and sunny weather, so be there, or be square.

Poole, 17th Heather Sullivan.

Woorayl

Mirboo North

Woorayl Ladies

WOORAYL WINNERS: Pauline Lancaster and Jenny Riseley Winners of the S&B Thomas board event was Ann Poole and Linda were the winners of the Woorayl daily event.

Forrester with sponsor Shirley Thomas.

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CLEAR CUT: Winners at Inverloch Bowls Club on Sunday were Carol Hughes (skip), Winners at Inverloch Bowls Club on Thursday were Martin Hannaford (skip), Rob Howard, Veronica Griffiths, Rae Haines and Jenny Haydon.

Jeff Gilbert and Jenny Haydon.

Inverloch Good weather conditions on Thursday, June 20 saw 31 players compete in a mufti social ‘fours’ match over two games, each of 12 ends.

The club welcomed visitors John Hill from Tarwin Lower and all the way from Warrnambool, Linda and Jeff Gilbert.

The match provided only three undefeated teams; two with two wins and the other with a win and a draw.

The unlucky, third place team, with a win and a draw and 30 points was John Hill (Tarwin Lower) (skip), Marg Griffin, Pat Sheedy and Norm Price.

The runners-up, with two wins and 37 points were Steve Snelling (skip), Keith Cousens, Peter Dalmau and Mal Scott.

Just pipping them by one point were the winners for the day, on two wins and 37 points, were Martin Hannaford (skip), Rob (did somebody mention Juan Pablo Roberto) Howard, Jeff Gilbert (Warrnambool) and Jenny Haydon.

The lucky draw winners were Rob

Howard, Carol Waters, Judy Moule, Mal Scott, Pat Sheedy and Keith Cousens.

Sunday’s terrific weather contributed greatly to bringing a good field to the mufti social ’fours’ match over two games of 10 ends each.

Although there was a clear winner, the runners-up position was a little more difficult.

Both teams ended with one win, a loss and 20 points each.

The hard luck story went to the team of Carol Waters (skip), Judy Moule, Jeff Gilbert (Warrnambool) and Kathy Heaphy with minus one shot.

The runners-up for the day, with plus four shots were Bob Davis (skip), Kevin Woolstencroft, Peter Shaw and Jim Haydon.

This left the winners, with two wins, Carol Hughes (skip), Veronica Griffiths (Wonthaggi), Rae Haines (Wonthaggi) and Jenny Haydon.

The roast beef was last Friday evening’s club dinner fare.

The spinning wheel again proved to be popular with numerous meat trays and John Turner’s gourmet bas-

ket up for grabs.

With Jack now heading up north, the mailbag was entrusted to Reg Varty who extracted a couple of laughs on the night.

The next club dinner is scheduled for July 5, so to avoid missing out, get your names registered with the club as early as possible.

Next Friday evening, the club will again be hosting the club membership draw where a jackpot of $110 will be on offer.

Other attractions on the night will be Jack’s envelopes and the wine draw.

It’s important that you be in the clubhouse to claim the membership draw jackpot and only one envelope can be held by any one person in the draw.

Buffalo indoor Wednesday, June 19 AN enjoyable night of bowling at Buffalo this week with 13 bowlers present.

After three teams of three and one of four were selected, three games of eight ends were played with skippers changing each game.

In the first game on mat one both teams scored on four ends but Joe Occhipinti, Carolyn Benson and Stephen Suckling managed to beat Charlie Tumino, Peter Tiziani and Gary Stirling on the last end when two was scored to win 7-6.

On mat two Danah Suckling, Illene Tiziani and Bill Wolswinkel won six ends and beat Toni Heldens, Mary Tumino, Joyce Occhipinti and Joy Dyson, 7-3.

In the second game Joe, Carolyn and Stephen had their second win defeating Danah, Bill and Illene 14-4.

On mat two the end score was the same, with Toni, Mary, Joyce and Joy beating Charlie, Peter and Gary 14-4.

The third game saw Toni, Mary, Joyce and Joy out bowl Joe, Carolyn and Stephen to win 11-3. Danah, Bill and Illene had their second win by beating Charlie, Peter and Gary 11-6.

At the end of the night three teams had two wins and a loss and the night’s winners were decided by number of ends won.

Winners were Danah, Bill and Illene (WLW) 14 ends; sec-

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Dunbar wins Lex Watt Trophy

ond Toni, Mary, Joyce and Joy (LWW) 13 ends; third Joe, Carolyn and Stephen (WWL) 11 ends; fourth Charlie, Peter and Gary (LLL) 11 ends.

Social bowls Wednesday, 7.30pm at the Buffalo hall. All welcome.

Foster Indoor Bowls This last Saturday we had a roll up of eight players.

It was good to see Gwenda Bevan out again. We had equal numbers of ladies and men, so it was decided to challenge the ladies against the men.

After 18 ends the ladies came out winners: Bev Tyers, Jose Bohn, Rosa Raiti and Gwenda Bevan.

It was a good game and could have gone either way.

Foster Yellow in the Pennant are keeping their fingers crossed for another win to keep themselves in the top four for finals.

Mardan Hello bowlers. This week our pennant performance was a bit of a disaster.

We went down to Dumbalk by 12 shots.

The score was 19 to 31.

Dumbalk got away to an early lead that we could not peg back.

Mardan skipper champion bowler Vito Serafino has re-jigged his team so maybe next week good things will happen.

This week at social bowls the numbers were still low with eight bowlers braving the cold evening.

The selectors decided on pairs for the night, making four teams of two players using six bowls and playing two games of 10 ends, with the usual winning teams after the first match, moving mats.

The interesting thing was that all pairs won a match and also lost one.

The runner-up pair was Graeme Trease and champion bowler Vito Serafino with one win and 11 ends, only to be displaced by Bev Greenwood, who bowled marvellously together with Russell Grady to pip the runners-up with one more end, to take home the bragging rights for this week.

That’s all for this week, RG.

South Gippsland Midweek Bowls Group Winners were Sean McWilliams (s), Ken McDonald and Wilma Coleman.

Runners-up were Bill Williams (s), Bob Glogoski and Michael Chidley.

One game winners were Charlie Wright (s), Ray Dickie and Peter Thorley.

On Thursday, June 20, midweek bowls was played at Tarwin Lower with 18 bowlers.

Sadly the weather forecast and the dreaded winter ails kept most people home.

For the hearty, we had a good day of bowling with not a drop of rain in sight just a light wind, so we able to play our two games of 12 ends.

There were some high scores although the green was hard to read, and we still had a enjoyable day and plenty of laughter.

A special thank you to Wilma for her home baking for our free raffle table and here homemade soup. Thank you to Pauline H in the kitchen and the bar.

It is a pleasure to play at Tarwin Lower for the service these ladies provide for midweek.

Next week we will play at Koo Wee Rup. Lunches will be provided, 11am start and dress mufti.

For more information or to register contact Peter on 5678 5974.

SGIBBA With the last week of the draw this Tuesday night, we can see the top three teams are confirmed, but in what order is still unknown.

Once again there were mixed match results last week, with Korumburra Blue 22 defeating Korumburra White 16, Foster Yellow 26 defeating Foster Black 22 and Dumbalk 31 defeating Mardan 19.

The battle between Foster Yellow and Korumburra White for fourth position will be decided conclusively; as they play each other for the final game.

Ladder K’burra Blue ...........28 Dumbalk..................24 Mardan ....................22 Foster Yellow ..........14 K’burra White .........14 Foster Black ..............6

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Grant Ridge Rail Trail parkrun

As usual, we were pleased to welcome parkTHIRTY three fearless souls and eight runners from surrounding events including Newvolunteers braved the one degree start to However, the major threat was Alex Dunbar borough, Traralgon and Churchill.

THE Cycling club held the Lex Watt the day for parkrun on this winter solWe were especially delighted to meet Geoff Trophy race around the Pound Creek cir- who was just one minute down on the bunch of stice morning! five and three minutes down (out of 13) on the who has recently taken on the role of parkrun cuit on Saturday.

Riders and officials were blessed with a great afternoon - negligible wind and some weak sun.

The race was a handicap event run over 2 laps of the 24km circuit and Club Champion, Alex Dunbar, was again in great form.

Alex gave a 13-minute start to a trio of riders, followed by seven minutes to another trio whilst the second scratch duo had a start of two minutes.

The benign conditions allowed the front trio to work well and stay together over the first lap.

It was a similar situation with the other groups.

At the end of the first lap Mark Bensley led Bernadette Fitzgerald and Rod Cheyne around to start the final lap.

However, they had lost 4min of the lead on the chasing trio of Phil Hanley, Peter McLean and Tom Fitzgerald.

This trio had to stop for cars along the Tarwin Lower Rd though, and this allowed the chasing duo of Brett Franklin and Leigh Stott to catch them just as they were moving away again.

front markers.

The climb back toward Koonwarra saw the field come together and then break up with the climbs to the turn, and race back past the golf course.

Mark Bensley and Tom Fitzgerald managed to hold on to the back markers but Alex Dunbar was not finished and headed off solo over the golf course hill to run out first and fastest with a time of 1.22.23.

Brett Franklin raced home for second, whilst Tom Fitzgerald won the dash to the line for third over Leigh Stott.

Mark Bensley was fifth, Peter McLean sixth, Rod Cheyne seventh and Phil Hanley eighth.

The only junior to show was Bastian Jefferies and he completed an out and back time trail on Pound Creek Rd in a time of 18min 15.73 sec.

This was around 30 seconds slower than his time in April and shows missing some weeks impacted his form.

Next week the club has Time Trial titles at Outtrim with seniors racing the clock to Leongatha South and return.

There were 11 first timers on the course and 10 people achieved a PB. First time Run Director Elly Robertson had laid down the challenge - June 22 = two two = tutu.

Several volunteers and a few runners dusted off their tulle skirts styled them beautifully with their puffer coats and beanies and took to the course.

Before the event kicked off, we spoke to Charles who, with his partner Heather, had recently moved to our beautiful town from near Mansfield.

Charles and Heather are avid bushwalkers with several long distance bushwalking events under their belt and previous membership of bushwalking clubs.

After reading about parkrun, Charles and Heather decided to brave the chilly morning and find out what it was all about.

We were excited to have a first time volunteer on the team as well.

Ellie was on site early, joined by her four legged friend a beautiful golden retriever.

Event Ambassador for Eastern Gippsland, which includes supporting the Event Directors and their teams at the Churchill, Sale, Bairnsdale and Lakes Entrance events.

Geoff was here to experience his first official Grand Ridge Rail Trail parkrun.

The usual camaraderie was in full force on the trail with lots of smiling, chatting and high fives as runners and walkers passed each other by.

As the final walkers crossed the line with smiles on their faces and some furry friends in tow, everyone was feeling much warmer and full of those feel-good endorphins to kick off the weekend ahead.

Parkrun is a free, timed, weekly event held in Mirboo North as well as at thousands of locations around the world.

No matter your age, fitness level or pace, everyone is welcome at parkrun. Participants can register online www.parkrun.com.au/register/ and can reach out to the local team by emailing grandridgerailtrail@parkrun.com or finding us on Facebook @grandridgerailtrailparkrun.

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Inverloch Star Mitchell Reed controls the ball and awaits oncoming challenges from the April Htoo controls the ball for the Wonthaggi Reserves.

Leongatha defence.

Korumburra City v Mirboo North United

U14s – BYE U12s No luck on the pitch for the home side, Mirboo North were too strong with a good win.

Zane Brady was the sole scorer for Burra.

U16s A nice home game saw no advantage for the Burra, a Mirboo North power house taking a convincing win with Korumburra unable to score.

Reserves This week’s Burra Brewing Co. Mens player of the week award goes to Phil Richards.

Coming off the bench, Phil brought stability to the Korumburra midfield.

Kane Boswell got his first ever goal for Korumburra City in this one.

Unfortunately, Mirboo North were too strong for Korumburra.

Women Coach Andrew Halkett – This week we took on Mirboo North who were sitting in third spot on the league ladder.

You would never have thought this as from the start Korumburra dominated the play.

Plenty of opportunities were created though great passing and movement and Dakota, Milly and Em had chances to score but were unable to capitalise.

Mirboo North started to get a foothold in the game and against the run of play went 1-0 up.

For the remainder of the first half chances were fairly even with Burra’s keeper Treen Halkett making some good saves. Mirboo North went 2-0 up just before half-time with a well taken long range shot.

The second half started as a fairly close contest with both teams not giving an inch, and then out of nowhere Emily Shaw hit a cracker from long range to get Burra back in the game.

From this point on Burra dominated possession and poor handling from Mirboo’s keeper, and a great tenacity and ‘never give up’attitude from Jodie Olden created the equaliser.

Within the next couple of minutes Korumburra took the lead through Milly Hurst.

A nervous last five minutes saw Mirboo North almost equalise but Korumburra held on for a well deserved win.

Korumburra Women’s Burra Brewery Player of the week went to Jessica Halkett.

Korumburra Men’s Burra Brewery Player of the week went to Phil Richards.

Seniors Seniors Burra started strong and took an early lead through a well placed header from Newton.

The home team were passing and moving well and it began to show.

Sorrell popped up with a quick-fire double before Lloyd bobbled one home.

It was one-way traffic, with Mirboo struggling to get a grip of the game.

Burra led 4-0 at half-time.

Burra made changes at the break which appeared to disrupt their rhythm, Mirboo forcing their way into the game.

However, City was soon 5-0 up after a long throw-in from Lloyd appeared to come off an opponent’s head and into his own net.

Mirboo scored their first goal from the penalty spot after a handball from a Burra defender.

Soon after though, Jacob Beckwith scored his first for the season, showing great eNorthusiasm bursting into the Mirboo box and prodding the ball through the keeper’s legs.

A 6-1 win was exactly what Burra needed heading into their game against Phillip Island next weekend.

WoNorthaggi United

U6s The WoNorthaggi U6 game against Phillip Island started really strong with a goal straight away from Rhylee.

WoNorthaggi had more players than Phillip Island, so Leah was courageous and represented them.

Shay worked hard in the midfield and worked well with Amelia.

Blayke started off in defence and ended the game in the offence with a few near-misses.

The Macca’s player of the day award went to Rhylee, who was excellent in getting some tough goals and shared the ball around well with the team.

U8s The WoNorthaggi U8 team once again dominated.

Early goals from Hayden gave the team a commanding lead.

Jackson O was strong in the centre, with Ollie crushing it in the defence.

A brilliant team effort with goals also from Daisy, Axel and Jude saw WoNorthaggi take a convincing win.

Special thanks to Will and Jax for braving the cold in goals.

Congratulations to Will, this week’s Macca’s player of the day.

U10s It was always going to be a tough game for the U10s, facing a bigger and stronger team, but the Wonthaggi Women’s Marion Bals stays strong players started well.

With great structure and brilliant passes the and protects the ball from her opponent.

WoNorthaggi team looked strong.

Congratulations to Luke for scoring his first goal for the season against a quality team.

The Macca’s player of the day went to a young player who ran the game out from start to finish, well done Isla.

U12s In the U12s the first half began with both teams playing some nice football.

WoNorthaggi had a goal disallowed for offside and then began to press Phillip Island back with increased pressure.

Always being mindful of the counter attack, the Islanders managed to sneak a first half lead.

This was against the run of play and they took that lead into half-time.

The second half started and the lead was doubled almost immediately, catching WoNorthaggi cold.

WoNorthaggi regrouped and pulled a goal back making it 1:2.

It was there to play for and both teams competed for every tackle.

A small mistake let Phillip Island in again and they didn’t miss, making it 1-3.

WoNorthaggi gave it everything to get back into the game from then on, creating chance after chance with no luck in front of goal.

Phillip Island finished the stronger as WoNorthaggi tired and bagged another two goals with the game finishing 1-5.

It was a great effort by our smaller and younger players not to be muscled out of it in a very physical game.

They did themselves and the club proud.

Women The WoNorthaggi Women took on an undefeated Phillip Island side in what was to be a tough affair for the team.

Phillip Island started the game on fire, pinging long passes and shots in on goal and scoring the first four.

WoNorthaggi’s Olivia put some extra effort in on the attacking side of things and with amazing team work Alycia scored WoNorthaggi’s first goal.

WoNorthaggi had a great defensive line with Meg putting in prime effort in the back.

In the second half WoNorthaggi never gave up their efforts, with Olivia scoring a goal to make the score 11-2, WoNorthaggi with a humbling loss.

Reserves The WoNorthaggi Reserves moved up the ladder again on the weekend, with a brilliant 3-1 victory over Phillip Island. The team played brilliantly through the middle of the pitch, passing it well and opening up spaces for through-balls and crosses.

Goals from Scott and April where helped along by an unlucky Phillip Island own-goal to secure the victory.

Inverloch Stars v Leongatha Knights

U12s Inverloch Stars U12s were anticipating a tough game as they took on the Leongatha Knights at home this weekend.

Coach Vince Green asked them to focus on holding their defensive and offensive lines and to turn quickly when the ball rebounded.

He coached positively and strongly, consistently encouraging the young stars to stay focused and move to the correct positions.

Hamish Gleeson took on the role of captain, leading well from the backline, organising the structures and reminding his teammates where to

Inverloch U12s Harvey Green attempts to keep the ball from Leongatha’s Reuben Gammon. position themselves.

At the half-time break the young Stars were in touch with a 0-1 score line, having held off several forward attacks and shots at goal from the Knights.

Unfortunately, the Stars were unable to break through the stronger defensive line of Leongatha in the second half, going down 0-5 after The Knights hit the net consecutively close to the end of the game.

A fantastic effort for the Inverloch Stars regardless though, with everyone watching from the bench excited about how hard they worked and proud of the resilience they showed as the game began to slip from their control.

A special thanks to our Under 12 coach who worked extremely hard to keep the young players positive, motivated and focused. Well done Inverloch Stars under 12s.

Women A beautiful day in Inverloch as the Senior Women took on Leongatha.

Play was strong from both sides but it was Inverloch who put the first score in the board.

It was not long before Leongatha were able to even the score-line however, with a great cross from the right wing heading straight into goal.

Another goal to Leongatha saw them take the lead.

Some great passing by the Inverloch team saw them able to even the score and then add another one before half-time to lead 3-2 at the break.

Leongatha were strong in their attempt at a comeback in the second half but Inverloch’s Elli Hutchinson and Sarah Cantwell were tenacious defenders.

Flanked by Taegan Holford and Hayley Koster on the left and right back, Inverloch’s back line kept shutting down Leongatha’s attempts at goal.

On the few occasions where Leongatha took a shot at goal Inverloch’s keeper, Jordan Crugnale, made some great saves.

Inverloch’s Fiona Richardson and Lucy Simnett were dynamic in the midfield, sending the ball forward at every opportunity. Newcomer Sharnee Gray along with Aidan MacGregor and Beth Nuske all put in stellar performances to push the ball forward to striker Emily Smith who was able to score two more goals for Inverloch.

A great game from both sides but it was Inverloch who took home the win 5-2.

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Tiger time at Loch LOCH Primary School students were treated to a day of fun last Monday, with superstars from the Richmond Football Club visiting to kick the footy and spend some time with the kids.

Dustin Martin, Dan Butler, Jake Aart, Callum Coleman-Jones, Kamdyn McIntosh and Ryan Garthwaite were among the players who made the trip over.

What at first was excitement at meeting some of their favourite Richmond players quickly turned into competitive energy as the students were put through some drills with the Tigers.

The kids had a blast chatting and having a kick with Dusty and co, and learned some great footy lessons throughout the day.

TIGER TOWN: (front) Jaelah Milkins, Principal Tracey King, Layla Nichollos, Pippa LeServe, Phoenix Larkin, Geoffrey Lightowler and Amelia LeServe donning their team’s colours with Dan Butler, Dustin Martin, Ryan Garthwaite, Kamdyn McIntosh and Jake Aart (back).

DUSTIN MARTIN: Dusty locks in and shows a young student strong chest-mark technique. The kids loved spending time Kamdyn McIntosh talks strategies with the with the 2017 Brownlow Medallist. kids while they wait for the footy.

Wonthaggi Table Tennis B Grade Championships THE annual B Grade Table Tennis Championships were hotly contested on Thursday June 20 at the Wonthaggi Table Tennis Centre.

All B Grade players are juniors and have gradually moved through into higher grades with experience and noted talent.

A number of B Grade players compete in more than one grade and also turn up for Thursday night coaching with Bruce Harmer, a workload which has ensured development.

The main event, which was the Open Singles, was between Callum Martin and Andrew Chetcuti.

The match was an epic and went to three sets, with Andrew powering ahead in the third to take out the title.

The Handicap Singles final had everyone on the edge of their seats with Braden Andrighetto looking good despite a big handicap.

His opponent Charley Donohue managed to gain a surprising lead in the third and, with newfound momentum, never looked back.

In the Restricted Singles cousins Hamish Burns and Dillen Andrighetto fought out the final.

It was an entertaining back and forth final, with both Hamish and Dillen producing some great moments.

Hamish was the one who got over the line in the end.

Hamish was back again to play the final of the popular Jumbo Ball event against his brother Jayden.

Unsurprisingly the matchup was intense, with each brother

wanting to win bragging rights over the other.

Hamish got the chocolates though, winning his second event of the day.

Junior coaching for this season finishes next Thursday, June 27 from 6.00pm.

A second B Grade season will commence after the school holidays and junior coaching will also resume then.

New players aged 8-15 years RIDING HIGH: Mardie (front) and daughter Sophie (back) are guided by instructor Alare welcome. Phone 5674 4627 lison O’Hallaran (middle). for more information.

A Reserve end of season championships will be held on Monday, June 24 Braden Andrighetto has finished the season as leading player. paddle-board.

The semi finals will be Daniel Renfrey “It is a lot of fun and it’s great to see people played on the first Monday after come out and participate,” she said.

STAND up paddle-boarding awaits funding from the school holiday break.

“Anyone can come and keep fit and keep acGippSport to ensure it will continue on at Leongatha’s South Gippsland Splash complex past this tive, so it’s really rewarding in that regard.”

Allison has been dedicated to her role as an inweek. structor of the activity and with its future at Splash The program, part of the ‘Gippy Girls Can’ campaign to promote participation of Gippsland cloudy, is hoping for a positive outcome.

“I’ve been doing it for over a year and I’ve women and girls in sport, has been running at Splash every Saturday from 1-3PM but only has really enjoyed it so hopefully something can be figured out.” one lesson remaining.

A decision on the funding for the program Instructor Allison O’Hallaran has enjoyed should be made soon. every moment teaching others how to standing

Splash paddle-boarding’s push to stay afloat

Open Singles, L to R: Callum Martin, r/up, Jumbo Ball Handicap, L to R: Hamish Burns, Andrew Chetcuti, winner. winner, Jayden burns, r/up.

Restricted Singles, L to R: Hamish Burns, Handicap Singles, L to R: Charley Donohue, winner, Drillen Andrighetto, r/up. winner, Braden Andrighetto, r/up.

Stand up paddle-boarding has welcomed people young and old to participate.

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Fish Creek’s Elysia Shaw looks for an option Inverloch battled out a tough 57-46 win over the Industrials on Saturday. inside the D.

Gippsland netball results Results - Round 10

Wonthaggi GS Chelsea Bowman steals the pass from Warragul GD Christie Hillberg.

A Grade: Traralgon 85 d Drouin 36, Warragul 63 d Wonthaggi Power 38, Maffra 28 lt Leongatha 48, Moe 49 lt Morwell 51.

B Grade: Traralgon 53 d Drouin 42, Warragul 47 d Wonthaggi Power 46, Maffra 32 lt Leongatha 56, Moe 46 d Morwell 35.

C Grade: Traralgon 45 d Drouin 32, Warragul 36 d Wonthaggi Power 31, Maffra 40 d Leongatha 24, Moe 39 d Morwell 34.

Under 17: Traralgon 44 d Drouin 23, Warragul 27 lt Wonthaggi Power 41, Maf-

fra 29 lt Leongatha 53, Moe 33 d Morwell 31.

Under 15: Traralgon 61 d Drouin 5, Warragul 25 d Wonthaggi Power 24, Maffra 47 d Leongatha 21, Moe 34 d Morwell 28.

Under 13: Traralgon 55 d Drouin 12, Warragul 33 d Wonthaggi Power 31, Maffra 34 d Leongatha 29, Moe 40 d Morwell 14.

Ladders

A Grade Morwell ............. 157.73 Traralgon .......... 146.73 Warragul ........... 126.76 Moe .................... 128.31 Leongatha ......... 102.82 Maffra................... 90.70 Drouin .................. 80.63 Sale....................... 85.41 Bairnsdale ............ 69.71

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Wonthaggi Power . 57.31 B Grade Traralgon .......... 143.95 Leongatha ......... 138.25 Moe .................... 122.46 Warragul ........... 119.51 Sale .................... 133.33 Morwell .............. 106.27 Drouin .................. 80.76 Maffra................... 71.51 Wonthaggi ............ 65.76 Bairnsdale ............ 63.60 C Grade Maffra ............... 144.41 Warragul ........... 127.14 Moe .................... 120.50 Morwell ............. 105.08 Traralgon .......... 104.78 Leongatha........... 100.00 Drouin .................. 88.89 Sale....................... 82.52 Wonthaggi ............ 80.32 Bairnsdale ............ 67.08 Under 17 Morwell ............. 151.54 Sale .................... 135.40 Moe .................... 131.89 Wonthaggi ......... 119.88 Leongatha ......... 128.30

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Maffra................... 84.69 Traralgon .............. 73.68 Bairnsdale ............ 88.18 Drouin .................. 73.10 Warragul ............... 60.26 Under 15 Sale .................... 323.72 Maffra ............... 159.85 Bairnsdale ......... 184.43 Leongatha ........... 98.03 Traralgon .......... 144.81 Morwell .............. 107.94 Moe ...................... 96.10 Wonthaggi ............ 78.40 Warragul ............... 40.57 Drouin .................. 13.04 Under 13 Maffra ............... 160.89 Traralgon .......... 191.83 Sale .................... 260.00 Leongatha ......... 135.51 Bairnsdale ......... 131.53 Moe .................... 110.37 Wonthaggi ............ 88.51 Warragul ............... 45.48 Morwell ................ 35.56 Drouin .................. 25.94

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Parrots netball results A Grade

Mirboo North B Grade’s Jayne Quigley measures a shot over the opposition GD.

Mirboo North netball U15

Mirboo North 53 - Yinnar 20 BOC sponsored by Mirboo North IGA and Wyncity Morwell was Meghan Harris.

Coaches Award sponsored

by Jump & Climb Traralgon was Chloe Beedall.

A strong win this week.

It was great to see the team implement structures from training.

Pressure on the ball and transition down the court was impressive to watch.

They will undoubtedly keep working hard and continue to improve.

U17

Mirboo North 57 - Yinnar 44 BOC sponsored by Mirboo North IGA and Wyncity Morwell was Maddi Knowles.

Coaches Award sponsored

by Jump & Climb Traralgon and Trafalgar Mens & Boyswear was Chloe Palmer.

Good game against a tough opposition.

Some great passages of play but the team needs to make sure they look after every

Leongatha 48 d Maffra 28 Auction player: Kayla Redpath. Awards: Jasmine Friend - Sports First, Kayla Redpath - Lyn Rose Boutique.

An amazing effort by the girls. We went in knowing it would be a tough game but the girls came out firing. Great effort to coach Kathy for pulling the dress on too. A sight to see.

B Grade the opposition’s turnovers into Leongatha 56 d Maffra 32 goals.

D Grade Auction player Kasie Rump. Awards: Kasie Big week at training make Mirboo North 37 - Yinnar 36 Rump - Lyn Rose, Sally Trease - RSL. sure you are there early so we BOC sponsored by Mirboo A tough game after the long trip to Maffra. The North IGA and Grand Ridge can get a good start to training. first half we played a flat game then regrouped and Brewery was Connie Lia. B Grade came out playing hard. Great team effort.

Coaches Award sponsored Mirboo North 43 - Yinnar 39 C Grade

by Betty Lane and Ridgeway BOC sponsored by Mirboo Leongatha 24 lt Maffra 40 Discounts were Emily Robert- North IGA and Mirboo North Auction player - Ash Payne. Awards: Luca son and Flynn Burgess-Pincini. Hotel was Maddi Knowles.

What a game!

Coaches Award sponsored Riseley - Rusty Windmill, Ash Payne - Voyage The team worked hard by Jimmy Jambs Café and Str- Fitness. all game against a tough ezlecki Bakery was Charlie Had a strong, hard game girls and we fought opposition. hard until the end and played as a great team.

Brewis.

They transitioned brilliantly Pumped for next week girls. Go Parrots.

Well done ladies, we never and tried to make the most of Under 17 gave up, great team work. each turnover.

Leongatha 53 d Maffra 29 The work at training is payThere needs to be a bigAwards: Hlly van der Pligt - Leongatha FC ger focus on fourth quarter fit- ing off. canteen, Chloe Brown - Rusty Windmill, Alice Let’s step it up and keep imness coming into the end of the Reid - coach’s award $5, hot chips. proving each week. season.

Awesome win girls. Very slick and pure game.

A Grade C Grade Bring on our next game. Go Parrots.

Mirboo North 42 - Yinnar 53 Mirboo North 29 - Yinnar 32 Under 15 BOC sponsored by Grand BOC sponsored by Mirboo Leongatha 21 lt Maffra 47 North Pizza and Mirboo North Ridge Brewery and Mirboo Awards: Harper McLennan - Rusty Windmill, North IGA was Miki Hilliar IGA was Amy Symmons.

The team was beaten by an Katelyn Harris - Serafino’s.

Coaches Award sponsored Very strong side and a tough game, however

by Betty Lane and Jimmy Jambs opposition who were much betwe worked our butts off and didn’t give up. Can’t ter on the day.

Café was Janet Bradley.

We need to go back and work wait for next week. Go Parrots.

A really tough game.

Under 13 Mirboo North worked hard extra hard to make sure we can Leongatha 29 lt Maffra 34 all game but just couldn’t turn match it with them next time.

possession.

Awards: Molly Heber - Rusty Windmill, Lucy Patterson - Sweet Life Cafe, Grace Guy - Baker’s Delight.

A great game Parrots. Super happy with the performance and the way we played.

We didn’t come out on top in the battle of the birds but it was a great game. Go Parrots.

Alberton Results - Round 10

June 22 A Grade: Fish Creek 51 d MDU 36, Tarwin 16 lt Foster 73, Toora 45 d Stony Creek 30.

B Grade: Fish Creek 39 lt MDU 40, Tarwin 39 d Foster 38, Toora 46 d Stony Creek 24.

C Grade: Fish Creek 36 d MDU 18, Tarwin 38 d Foster 11, Toora 40 d Stony Creek 21.

17 & Under: Fish Creek 37 d MDU 16, Tarwin 22 lt Foster 26.

15 & Under: Tarwin 18 lt Foster 35, Toora 32 d Stony Creek 10.

13 & Under: Fish Creek 3 lt MDU 34, Tarwin 8 lt Foster 19, Toora 22 d Stony Creek 8.

Ladders

A Grade Foster..................226.10 Fish Creek ..........141.28 Toora ..................145.34 MDU .....................88.36 Stony Creek...........86.41 Tarwin ...................29.53 B Grade Toora ..................185.47 MDU ...................122.19 Fish Creek ..........100.26 Stony Creek .........74.88 Foster.....................94.95 Tarwin ...................60.08 C Grade Fish Creek ..........199.41 Tarwin ................165.33 Toora ..................107.97 Stony Creek .........92.09 MDU .....................60.45 Foster.....................57.10 17 & Under Fish Creek ..........189.38 Foster....................82.91 Tarwin ..................91.77 MDU .....................67.03 15 & Under Foster..................252.94 Fish Creek ..........126.28 Toora .................. 119.73 Tarwin ..................90.96 Stony Creek...........26.99 13 & Under MDU ...................444.87 Foster..................140.17 Toora .................. 112.41 Tarwin ..................79.23 Stony Creek...........34.50 Fish Creek .............32.41

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019 | thestar.com.au

Umpiring badge pinned on Lilly Lilly plays netball for Mirboo North Netball LILLY Worsfold successfully achieved her Umpiring C Badge on Saturday June Club and has been attending umpire training for the last few years held at LDNA. 22 at the LDNA courts.

All her hard work paid off as she umpired a A big thank you to Pat Kuhne and Kerri Besley for coming along to LDNA to do the testing for the badge.

great game.

LDNA would like to congratulate Lilly on this brilliant achievement.

NETBALL VOLUNTEER: Lilly Worsfold has been a huge success and a hard worker at LDNA. Kerri Besley and Pat Kuhne tested her umpiring skills.

LDNA results and ladders Results - Saturday, June 22 11 & Under Group 1: St Laurence Maroon 11 d Mirboo North 2, Mt Eccles Pink 7 d Inverloch Kongwak Blue 4, Leongatha Parrots Budgies 19 d Town 5, St Laurence Gold 17 d Mt Eccles Blue 6.

11 & Under Group 2: Mt Eccles Purple 26 d St Laurence Blue 0, Town 13 d St Laurence Maroon 4.

13 & Under Group 1: Korumburra Bena 25 d St Laurence 9, Leongatha Parrots Budgies 19 d Mt Eccles Yellow 16, Mt Eccles White 33 d Inverloch Kongwak Blue 11.

13 & Under Group 2: Inverloch Kongwak Yellow 13 d St Laurence 9, Mirboo North Purple 13 d Mirboo North Gold 9, Mt Eccles Purple 9 d Town 7.

15 & Under: St Laurence Blue 36 d Mt Eccles White 24, Mt Eccles Aqua 32 d St Laurence Maroon 22, Inverloch Kongwak Blue 27 d Mirboo North 14, Town 38 d

Inverloch Kongwak Yellow 17.

17 & Under / C Grade: Meeniyan & District 46 d Mt Eccles White 21, Mirboo North Purple 38 d Mt Eccles Silver 32, Town Tangerine 55 d St Laurence 19, Town Black 41 d Mirboo North Gold 28.

Open: MDU 49 d St Laurence Maroon 18, Town 61 d Mt Eccles Silver 42, St Laurence White 54 d Mt Eccles Aqua 35.

Ladders 13 & Under Group 1 Mt Eccles White ...... 214 16 L Parrots Budgies .... 155 14 Mt Eccles Yellow.......110 8 Korumburra Bena ...110 8 Inver Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wak Blue ........ 62 4 St Laurence ................. 59 2 13 & Under Group 2 Mirboo Nth Purple.. 135 12 Inver Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wak Yellow... 71 9 Mirboo Nth Gold ..... 132 7 St Laurence ................ 74 7 Town ........................... 98 5 Mt Eccles Purple ......... 41 4 15 & Under Town ......................... 210 16 Mt Eccles Aqua........ 104 10 St Laurence Blue ......118 9 Mt Eccles White ...... 103 8 Inver Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wak Blue ........ 97 8 Inver Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wak Yellow .... 85 7 St Laur Maroon ........... 79 6 Mirboo North .............. 53 0 17 & Under / C Grade Meeniyan & Dist ..... 156 16

Mirboo Nth Purple...115 10 Town Tangerine ........110 10 Mt Eccles Silver ....... 109 8 Town Black ................. 96 6 Mt Eccles White .......... 82 6 St Laurence ................. 81 6 Mirboo North Gold ..... 76 2

Open MDU ......................... 167 16 Town ......................... 126 12 Mt Eccles Silver ........119 10 St Laurence White ...117 7 St Laurence Maroon .... 58 3 Mt Eccles Aqua ........... 49 0

LDNA umpires Saturday, June 29 10am: ALL Abilities: Brittany Price.

10.15am: New beginner and general umpire training. Sixth session for new trainees.

Tournament players to attend tournament training session.

11am: Pat Kuhne, Charlotte Exelby, Phil Smith, Lorri McKenzie, Jacinta Muhovics, Angelique Dunlevie, Katrina Spark, Abbey McColl, Abagail Exelby, Zara McKenzie, Sophie Clarke, Jesseme Arnason, Bek Vagg, Ashleigh Poland, Alicia Prentice, Georgia Hamilton, Louise Strickland, Hayley Bourke, Elle Douglas, Zara Gardener.

12 noon: Steph Thoonen, Abbey McColl, Brit Price, Alex Ritchie, Barb Challis,Zara McKenzie, Mitch Price, Jade Hamilton, Angelique Dunlevie, Jesseme Arnason, Pat Kuhne, Abagail Exelby, Sue Ritchie, Lilly Worsfold, Sophie Clarke, Ashleigh Poland, Ashleigh Challis, Paul Kemper, Louise Bruce.

1pm: Phil Smith, Chloe Prentice, Jacinta Muhovics, Belinda Whiteside, Bek Vagg, Lauren Baudinette, Lilly Worsfold, Phoebe Hinds.

2.20pm: Barb Challis, Steph Thoonen, Sue Ritchie, Kylie Strickland, Lorri McKenzie, Mitch Price, Katrina Spark, Chelsea Hofman.

Enquiries: Anita Gourlay, umpire coordinator 0418 135 624.

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West Gippsland results Results - Round 11 A Grade: Inverloch Kongwak 57 d Warragul Industrials 46, Phillip Island 42 d Bunyip 27, Nar Nar Goon 45 d Kilcunda Bass 23, Dalyston 50 d Korumburra Bena 43, Koo Wee Rup 79 d Garfield 31.

B Grade: Warragul Industrials 45 d Inverloch Kongwak 32, Phillip Island 58 d Bunyip 32, Nar Nar Goon 49 d Kilcunda Bass 18, Dalyston 72 d Korumburra Bena 45, Koo Wee Rup 52 d Garfield 37.

C Grade: Inverloch Kongwak 35 drew Warragul Industrials 35, Bunyip 44 d Phillip Island 31, Nar Nar Goon 44 d Kilcunda Bass 15, Dalyston 41 d Korumburra Bena 31, Koo Wee Rup 45 d Garfield 28.

Under 17: Inverloch Kongwak 57 d Warragul Industrials 14, Phillip Island 54 d Bunyip 30, Nar Nar Goon 42 d Kilcunda Bass 14, Korumburra Bena 32 d Dalyston 30, Koo Wee Rup 38 d Garfield 24.

Under 15: Warragul Industrials 24 d Inverloch Kongwak 19, Phillip Island 37 d Bunyip 17, Kilcunda Bass 23 d Nar Nar Goon 20, Dalyston 37 d Korumburra Bena 29, Koo Wee Rup 40 d Garfield 9.

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Ladders

Korum-Bena........................... 86.21 Garfield .................................. 75.30 Phillip Island .......................... 75.06 Kilcunda-Bass ........................ 37.39 Under 17 Phillip Island....................... 223.28 Inverloch-Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wak ................ 246.19 Korum-Bena ....................... 224.68 Dalyston .............................. 172.29 Cora Lynn ........................... 126.16 Bunyip .................................. 110.98 Tooradin Dalmore .................. 68.88 Koo Wee Rup ......................... 74.58 Garfield .................................. 63.90 Nar Nar Goon......................... 62.74 Kilcunda-Bass ........................ 35.73 Warragul Industrials ............... 25.67 Under 15 Dalyston .............................. 204.93 Cora Lynn ........................... 204.19 Koo Wee Rup ...................... 206.47 Phillip Island....................... 191.20 Warragul Indust ................. 155.19 Inverloch-Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wak .................. 136.52 Korum-Bena......................... 124.36 Bunyip .................................... 69.00 Tooradin-Dalmore .................. 72.38 Nar Nar Goon......................... 50.14 Kilcunda-Bass ........................ 24.21 Garfield .................................. 19.76 Under 13 Cora Lynn ........................... 273.77 Dalyston .............................. 192.96 Inverloch-Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wak ................ 169.94 Phillip Island....................... 162.16 Tooradin-Dalmore .............. 245.22 Korum-Bena......................... 183.56 Koo Wee Rup ....................... 155.86 Nar Nar Goon......................... 91.03 Garfield .................................. 57.99 Bunyip .................................... 57.08 Kilcunda-Bass ........................ 18.71 Warragul Indust ........................ 9.33

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thestar.com.au | Tuesday, June 25, 2019

• Catani v Poowong

Magpies use strong third to soar above Catani POOWONG used an impressive third quarter in which they held Catani to only two behinds to head back home with a tough 76-61 win on Saturday.

The home side was the stronger of the two teams at the start of the game, booting the first goal within a minute of the opening bounce.

James Doria was able to help the Magpies get back in it though, with a nice mark and goal evening the scores.

Poowong’s defence, led by Jayden Sullivan, then kicked into gear and intercepted and used the ball well to

set the team’s attack in motion.

The away side led the first break 26-19.

Catani started the second quarter much like they did the first, snapping a quick goal and a behind to level the scores.

The Magpies again turned up the pressure in the defence and midfield though and were able to recollect themselves to slot home multiple goals through Hazendonk and Hooker.

This resulted in a 19-point half-time lead.

Poowong’s Lachie Green, Jack Hazendonk and Thomas Wyatt started to cause major concerns for the home

side in the third term with their quick ball movement.

On top of this, their defence was stifling and the side was able to take advantage of this positive play through goals from Wyatt and Hazendonk.

The away side headed into the rooms with a 64-30 lead at the final break, the home side with it all to do in the final term.

The response from Catani was strong, coming out swinging in the fourth and piling on quick goals.

Wyatt was able to slot home a goal to calm the storm for a period but Catani kept coming.

The inspired home side kicked three straight to make it a two kick game but ran out of time after Poowong played possession footy at the end of the quarter, eventually going down by 15 points.

The win sees the Magpies go clear in third spot, while Catani remain seventh.

Seniors: Catani 9.7-61 defeated by Poowong 10.16-76.

Reserves: Catani 4.327 def Poowong 3.826.

BIG LEAP: Emmanuel Jakwot was a dominant presence for the Giants in ruck. Photo by Mark Drury.

• Korumburra-Bena v Dalyston

Giants’ accuracy seals the deal KORUMBURRABena recorded a solid home win over a struggling Dalyston on Saturday, kicking an impressive 14.7 to come out on top 91-72.

Both sides were up to the contest early, with Dalyston kicking two early goals and the Giants quickly responding.

Korumburra-Bena then settled down with on-ballers Snooks, Fitzpatrick and Hill taking control of the game, hitting forward targets

Monson and Dixon for multiple goals.

The home side went in 34-18 up at the break.

The second term was a replica of the first with Dalyston pegging back the Giants early and the home side responding fast with two goals from Patterson.

The Giants were again able to find another gear in the middle of the park and topdrawer delivery into the forward 50 saw Dixon score another just before half-time to make it 64-37 at the main break.

Both sides knew

the importance of the third quarter and came out playing attacking football, trying to transfer their efforts to the scoreboard.

The Giants settled quickest with two goals from Dixon and a goal from Snooks to put the side six goals up.

The home side quickly slipped into habitual turnovers though, missing targets by foot and hand and allowing the Magpies to score three late goals and trim the lead to 83-59 heading into the final term.

The last quarter was a thrilling affair, with

Dalyston kicking two quick goals, ensuring it was now game on.

It was end to end play, with the crowd enjoying what was now a very tight contest.

Late in the quarter, Monson made the defining play of the game by winning a huge contest under pressure and steadying to kick a sealer, giving his side a 91-72 victory.

The Giants will play Koo Wee Rup in a good test away from home next week while Dalyston take on Inverloch-Kongwak at home in what will be a big challenge.

SENIORS

• Mirboo North v Yinnar

Tigers claw their way back in tight win FORTITUDE came to the fore in Mirboo North’s stirring 12-point victory over Yinnar at Tigerland on Saturday.

Struck down by match-ending leg injuJack Hazendonk gets the jump on his man ries to Julian Blackford and takes a chest mark for Poowong. and Riley Oddy before half-time, the mighty Leongatha Junior Footy Tigers overcame a fivepoint last-change deficit to eventually take CGJFL ladders the chocolates.

UNDER 12 UNDER 10 W L D % Pts Leongatha Green 7.2.44 Yinnar had regained Newb Reds ...... 7 0 0 491.84 32 Morwell Royal 4.3.27 the lead just before Trafalgar......... 5 2 0 562.07 24 Leongatha Green best: H. Gill, Mirboo North ... 5 2 0 404.35 24 C. Richards, T. Hibberson, M. three-quarter time, after Morwell Navy ... 6 2 0 269.01 24 Carter, C. Bruce, B. McRae. Mirboo North clawed L’gatha Green... 5 2 0 148.42 24 Morwell Royal best: J. Taylor, back three earlier MagHill & Rovers......5 3 0 172.29 20 T. Walsh, M. Lappin, G. Jiath, New Blues ..........3 4 0 64.00 12 J. Mooney, S. Cheffers. pie goals in the third Yinnar ................2 5 0 22.41 12 Leongatha Gold 4.5.29 term.

Moe Maroons.....1 6 0 16.56 8 Boolarra .............1 6 0 21.00 4 Moe Maroons 4.4.28 Danny Campbell, Yallourn Nth .......0 6 1 9.62 4 Leongatha Gold best: M. Croatto, R. Hume, C. Reid, Z. Sebastian Famularo UNDER 12 Borg, T. Geary, T. McKenzie. and Jarrod Henderson W L D % Pts Moe Maroons best: B. Hansch, Yinnar............ 8 0 0 825.49 32 B. Blandford, Z. Daley, J. Riley, were leading possession L’gatha Green... 6 2 0 240.34 24 J. Shields. gatherers for the MagL’gatha Gold .... 5 2 1 162.86 22 Mirboo North ... 5 Trafalgar......... 5 Hill & Rovers......4 Moe Maroons.....4 New Blues ..........3 Morwell Royal ....3 Morwell Navy .....2 Boolarra .............1 Yallourn Nth .......0

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Moe Maroons 9.7.61 Leongatha Gold 5.7.37

Leongatha Gold goals: R. Da. Pozzo 2, R. Checkley 2, F. Dunn. Best: K. Jarvis, J. Fixter, S. Borg, M. Gorman, J. Clark, R. Bell.

Moe Maroons best: W. Jenkinson, C. Walsh, C. Weir, A. UNDER 14 W L D % Pts Styles, X. Cox, L. Roe. Moe Maroons ... 6 1 0 342.62 28 Leongatha Green 14.12.96 L’gatha Green... 5 1 0 212.65 28 Morwell Royal 6.0.36 L’gatha Gold .... 5 1 0 207.51 28 Leongatha Green goals: L. Trafalgar......... 5 2 0 156.96 24 Gill 4, J. Callahan 3, F. Lord Yinnar............ 4 3 0 117.23 20 2, T. Richards 2, B. Grabham Mirboo North .....2 4 0 94.39 16 Andrews 2, T. Harris, L. HibHill & Rovers......1 4 0 52.36 16 berson, M. Burggraaff. Best: New Blues ..........0 5 0 15.97 12 T. Harris, B. Robb, E. Davis, O. Morwell Royal ....0 7 0 21.84 4 Davis, F. Lord, T. McRae. Morwell Royal best: S. Cheffers, N. Page, J. Gardner, I. Bennett, L. Reynolds, R. Scott.

pies, whilst power forward Bradley McBride had three goals to his name.

Yinnar added drama when it goaled 25 seconds into the final term and extended its advantage to 11 points.

Several Tigers were severely sore and with only one bench rotation available, the Magpies saw an opportunity to put Mirboo North to the sword.

However, from thereon the Tigers’ pressure was suffocating and Yinnar’s scoring ceased.

Liam and Jake Nash, Daniel Taylor, Rhys Kratzat, Mitchell Wightman and Brayden Wilson became uncontrollably busy in Mirboo North’s forward half and the Tigers cou-

rageously carried all before them.

Kratzat’s high roost from half forward was marked and converted

by Wilson, before Kris Berchtold put the Tigers in front with a long bomb.

Most of the play was being bottled up on the bottom wing, where tackling was frenetic and the boundary line became Mirboo North’s friend.

Whenever the Magpies ran the ball forward, Mirboo North skipper Damien Turner, Liam Smit, Clancy Bennett, Tristan Sal-

erno and Lincoln Oddy promptly sent it back from whence it came.

Frustratingly for the Tigers, they were doing most of the attacking, but kicked three successive behinds that narrowly missed the wide opening.

Daniel Taylor’s switch into the forward line that brought two first half goals continued to reap benefits with quality possessions in tight situations.

When Jake Nash’s long kick to the goalmouth in time-on was marked by Berchtold, he slipped a hand pass

to Taylor for his third major, sealing the 7361 win for the home side.

With the win the Tigers stay just a game behind top spot Yallourn Yallourn North.

- ROVER Seniors: Mirboo North 10.13.73 def Yinnar 9.7-61.

Reserves: Mirboo North 1.2.8 def by Yinnar 17.11.113.

Thirds: Mirboo North 6.8.44 def by Yallorn Yallorn North 22.10.142.

Fourths: Mirboo North 3.0.18 def by Yinnar 16.15.111.

Breakers buried by St Kilda THE sun was shining at Dalyston setting the stage for a great contest.

Early on it looked like the Sharks were going to have a day out - piling on seven quick first quarter goals.

However, the second quarter was a very different story.

Suddenly under pressure the Sharks weren’t able to extend their lead - remaining goalless for the quarter.

Playing coach Sophie Bolding and Casey Demon Tayla Tatterson, in her first game for the club, led the way in the pressure stakes with the same level of intensity matched Liam Nash was a standout player for the Ti- across the ground.

They were supported in the mid-

gers, making his presence felt.

Seniors: KorumburraBena 14.7.91 def Dalyston 11.6.72.

Reserves: Korumburra-Bena 7.5.47 def by Dalyston 12.7.79.

Thirds: KorumburraBena 14.11.95 def Dalyston 0.3.3.

Fourths: KorumburraBena 16.8.104 def Dalyston 0.2.2.

field by Ella Angarane and Carly Heislers who created contest after contest to shut down the Sharks fast moving game style.

After their fair share of attacking and a few close attempts, the Breakers’ hard work was rewarded through a goal to Ella Angarane.

The Sharks however added three more goals in the final term to win 79-7.

With a new coaching structure and good numbers including another five new players taking the field this week, things are looking up for the Breakers.

While they are competing against more experienced and well established teams they have shown they can make these teams work for it.

Yall-Yall North ... 357.93 44 Mirboo North .... 218.58 40 Hill End ........... 164.96 32 Morwell East..... 145.47 32 Yinnar............. 101.24 24 Boolarra .................38.54 20 Trafalgar ...............110.44 16 Newborough ..........40.88 8 Thorpdale ...............35.43 4 GOALKICKERS K. Hughes (Y-YN) ........ (7) 49 C. Saunders (Hill E) ..... (6) 40 D. McDonald (Y-YN).... (6) 39 M. Coutts (Yinn).......... (0) 35 B. Bosman (Traf) ......... (2) 23 L. Mulqueen (Hill E) .... (1) 22 D. Hayes (Traf) ............ (3) 22 B. Wilson (Mirb N) ...... (3) 21 D. Hutchison (Morw) .. (0) 21 M. Powell (Thorp) ....... (2) 20

RESERVES Yall-Yall Nth ..... 447.76 44 Trafalgar.......... 181.17 36 Morwell East..... 202.47 28 Yinnar............. 184.93 28 Boolarra .......... 100.20 24 Hill End ..................81.03 24 Mirboo North .........73.26 20 Newborough ..........55.20 12 Thorpdale ...............10.17 4 GOALKICKERS L. Visser (Yinnar) ........ (0) 25 T. Phillips (Y-YN) ......... (4) 23 B. Darby-Lock (Y-YN).. (0) 22 C. Alexander (Yinnar) .. (3) 19 M. Gore (Y-YN) ........... (1) 18 B. Mahoney (Yinnar) ... (5) 16 C. Hughes (Y-YN) ........ (0) 16 J. Scorse (Y-YN) ......... (3) 16 T. Wyatt (Traf) ............. (1) 16 M. Dow (Y-YN) ............ (0) 16

FOURTHS Yinnar.............895.38 100 Yall-Yall Nth .....154.36 66 Trafalgar..........107.76 55 Mirboo North ....136.15 50 Morwell East...... 78.22 50 Newborough .........26.21 11 Hill End .................18.59 11 GOALKICKERS J. Wyntjes (Yinn) ........ (0) 26 S. Lissa (Yinnar) ......... (0) 21 P. Winmar (Mirb N) ..... (0) 17 W. Hester (Y-YN) ......... (2) 14 E. Woodall (Mirb N) .... (1) 13 M. Porykali (Yinn) ....... (3) 13 H. Hopkins (Traf)......... (0) 13 J. Walravens (Y-YN) .... (1) 13 Q. O’Kane (Mirb N)...... (0) 11 R. Brown (Yinnar) ....... (4) 10 D. Makepeace (Yinn) ... (1) 10

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FOOTBALL

SENIORS ND

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KILCUNDA BASS 8.1-49 DEF BY NAR NAR GOON 14.8-92

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BUNYIP 5.7-37 DEF BY PHILLIP ISLAND 17.14-116 GARFIELD 13.14-92 DEF KOO WEE RUP 10.15-75

INVERLOCH KONGWAK 15.20-110 DEF WARRAGUL INDUSTRIALS 5.8-38 WONTHAGGI 5672 0800

KORUMBURRA-BENA 14.7-91 DEF DALYSTON 11.6-72

WEST GIPPSLAND FOOTBALL LEAGUE

BYE - TOORADIN-DALMORE AND CORA LYNN

FOUNTAIN GATE 8796 6777 WARRAGUL 5623 9000 MOE 5127 9500

MORWELL 5120 0200 TRALAGON 5175 6700 SALE 5149 5100

• Inverloch-Kongwak v Warragul Industrials

Youthful Sea Eagles grab convincing win INVERLOCHKongwak is coming of age as of late and their huge 11038 win over Warragul on Saturday may suggest they

have turned corner.

the looking back.

The side were in dominant form at Inverloch Recreation Reserve, getting the jump with a 32-6 quartertime lead and never

HIGH FLYER: IK’s Tristan Van Driel soars for a breathtaking hanger over his Industrials opponent.

Coach Tom McQualter was pleased by the performance of some of his young guys.

“I’m really excited about Oscar Toussaint and Lachy Scott in the middle. They’re both so clean and they break the game open for us,” he said.

“Cusack in defence took about 12 marks and had his best game for us as well.”

IK were dominant in the middle, winning contested footy through Toussaint, Scott and Hawking and delivering it into the forward line for Van Driel, Gibbins and Beattie-Powell, who had 10 goals between them, to take advantage.

“I’m pleased we competed hard on the inside and opened the game up with switches to give our forwards good looks at it,” coach McQualter said.

“Our key forwards Tristan (Van Driel) and Sam (Gibbins) pre-

sented really well all day and finished off well, which was good to see.”

The home side’s play was too overwhelming for the visiting Industrials and they took a 65-13 lead into half-time.

Like many games as of late though, the Sea Eagles experienced a rough patch in the first half of the third quarter, allowing the away side a chance to find their feet.

“The ability to maintain the appropriate intensity for a full game, we don’t have it at the moment,” coach McQualter said.

“That lapse didn’t hurt us this week, but that’s the lapse against Phillip Island that cost us four goals and cost us the game.”

Despite the rough patch, IK were able to take a 43-point lead into the final break and continue their dominance in the final term to record an important win after two straight

ROUND 11 SENIORS LADDER W L D

Cora Lynn .. 10 0 Phillip Is..... 9 0 Toor/Dalm ... 7 3 KooWeeRup.. 6 4 Inv-K’wak.... 6 5 Bunyip........... 6 4 Nar Nar G ....... 6 5 Garfield ......... 5 5 Kor-Bena ....... 3 8 Warr Indus .... 2 9 Dalyston ........ 1 9 Kil-Bass.........1 10

Josh Clottu gathers the ball for the home side under approaching pressure. losses.

The Sea Eagles will have a chance to put a streak together against a struggling Dalyston this week, though coach McQualter knows his team still needs some work.

“We weren’t efficient in front of goal so I want that to improve

Reserves: InverlochKongwak 13.11.89 def Warragul Industrials 6.6.42.

Thirds: InverlochKongwak 10.10.70 def Warragul Industrials 3.3.21.

InverlochSeniors: Inverloch- Fourths: Kongwak 15.20.110 Kongwak 1.2.8 def def Warragul Industri- by Nar Nar Goon 10.12.82. als 5.8.38. and we need to work on maintaining an effort for four quarters,” he said.

“We’re a young side so we have to reinforce the basics.”

• Kilcunda-Bass v Nar Nar Goon

Scoreless quarter kills Panthers A STRUGGLING Kilcunda-Bass failed to register a single point in the second quarter of their home game on Saturday, sealing the deal for travelling Nar Nar Goon.

The away side were up for it from the first bounce, with Armour and Blackwood causing the Panthers problems around the ground with their contest work and ball use.

Hansen and Lewis were also active up front for NNG, both getting on the board early.

At the first break the Panthers trailed 18-34 and were lucky not to be down more with Nar Nar Goon kicking 5.4.

The home side had it all to do in the second quarter but it was soon obvious they would not make much progress.

The Nar Nar Goon midfield was all over the contested ball, consistently winning

first use out of the middle and delivering it to outside runners and forwards with ease.

This saw the side put on multiple fast goals to start the term.

On the other hand, Killy Bass were finding it extremely hard to win any football in contests and penetrate the strong NNG defence.

This suffocating pressure and defensive work all over the ground for Nar Nar Goon resulted in the Panthers not being able to register even a behind in the second quarter, trailing 18-60 at the main break.

The home side was able to find a couple goals in the second term through Gibson, who had five for the game, but the onslaught continued with NNG piling on five more through Hansen, Lewis and Rose.

The away side took an insurmountable 30-92 lead into three-quarter time.

With nothing to lose, Kilcunda-Bass threw the kitchen sink at NNG, forcing the

ball forward whenever they could and producing instant pressure when their opposition had possession.

They kept the away side scoreless for the quarter in a bizarre turn of events and slotted three goals through Gibson and Holmes.

Despite their determination, the Panthers came away 49-92 losers when the dust settled.

They will take on Phillip Island away this week in a bid to move from the bottom of the ladder.

The home side started the stronger of the two, booting four straight goals in the first term through Williams, Ross and Allen.

Bunyip also managed to resist any dangerous PI attacks, holding the away side to just four behinds

The third term continued down the same trend for PI, with the defence even more suffocating than the previous quarter.

Pedersen and Bruce continued to give the Bunyip defence headaches, running all over them and creating goals for themselves and others.

In what was one of the more dominant displays in a quarter so far this season, Phillip Island held the home side scoreless while they piled on seven straight goals,

RESERVES LADDER W L D

%

Toor/Dalm ... 9 2 0 344 Bunyip ....... 9 2 0 211 Phillip Is..... 9 2 0 162 KooWeeRup.. 7 3 0 148 Nar Nar G..... 6 5 0 126 Garfield ......... 6 5 0 110 Inv-K’wak ...... 5 6 0 93 Cora Lynn...... 4 7 0 142 Warr Indus .... 4 7 0 56 Dalyston ........ 4 6 0 45 Kor-Bena .......1 10 0 40 Kil-Bass.........1 10 0 35 GOALKICKERS

Pts

36 36 36 32 24 24 20 16 16 16 4 4

O. Fitzpatrick (Inv-K) .....(4) 29 D. Hull (Toor-Dal) ..........(0) 28 D. Young (Bunyip).........(1) 27 J. Wilson (Cora L) .........(0) 20 K. Taylor (Ph Is) ............(3) 18 L. Thomas (Nar G) ........(0) 17 M. Cameron (KooW) .....(0) 15 A. Splatt (Toor-Dal) .......(0) 14 D. Larkin (Ph Is)............(0) 13

W L D

Island bounce back in a Dog fight PHILLIP Island recovered from a goalless first quarter to thrash Bunyip on Saturday, coming away 116-37 winners at Bunyip Recreation Reserve.

GOALKICKERS N. Gardiner (Cora L)......(0) 47 J. Wells (KooW) ............(2) 38 A. Dean (Toor-Dal) ........(0) 37 D. Sheen (KooW) ..........(5) 24 N. Langley (Cora L) .......(0) 24 C. Pedersen (Ph Is) .......(6) 23 M. Stevens (Nar G) .......(0) 23 S. Brewster (Warr) ........(2) 23 J. Suarez (Toor-Dal) ......(0) 21 S. Gibbins (Inv-K) .........(3) 20

Phillip Is... 10 0 Bunyip .......7 3 Cora Lynn ...7 3 Inv-K’wak....7 3 Toor/Dal .....6 4 Nar Nar G ...... 5 4 Koo Wee Rup.. 5 5 Warr Indus ... 4 5 Kor-Bena ...... 2 8 Garfield ........ 1 9 Dalyston .......0 10

RIGHT: Eyes on the ball, Eamon Trigg reaches high over Bass’ Ned Bradley.

leading 85-31 at the final change.

Bruce and Pedersen capped off a brilliant forward line display in the fourth, both getting on the scoreboard again, kicking an impressive six goals each for the game.

Kimber and Wright also continued their control of the footy, winning it in the contest and dealing it to teammates with efficiency.

When the dust settled the away side had kicked a strong 17.14 to Dalyston’s 5.7, coming away 79-point winners.

Pts

42 38 30 28 24 24 24 22 12 8 4 4

LADDER

Seniors: Kilcunda Bass 8.1.49 defeated by Nar Nar Goon 14.8.92.

Reserves: Kilcunda Bass 5.7.37 defeated

by Nar Nar Goon 12.8.80

31.

%

200 256 128 118 136 127 113 99 59 56 44 41

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• Phillip Island v Bunyip

and taking a 24-4 lead into the first break.

From here on out though, it was a Phillip Island domination.

Pedersen and Bruce stepped up for the away side, booting multiple goals each in the second term, and with Kimber controlling the play around the ground PI began to overwhelm the home team.

Increased pressure and more control of the game’s flow saw Phillip Island hold Bunyip to just one goal in the second term and head into the main break up 44-

1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0

%

Pts

257 100 204 70 198 70 151 70 128 60 131 55 99 50 99 45 54 20 52 10 9 0

GOALKICKERS J. Verhagen (Cora L) .....(0) 33 L. Kinder (Warr) ............(1) 25 D. Taylor (Nar G) ...........(0) 24 D. Mooney (Bunyip) ......(2) 23 N. Anderson (Ph Is) ......(0) 19 J. Sheeran (Toor-Dal) ....(0) 19 J. Garnham (Inv-K) .......(0) 19 M. Sellars (Ph Is) ..........(2) 8 H. Anderson (Ph Is) ......(1) 14

FOURTHS LADDER W L D

1 2 3 3 4 5 8 7 9

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

%

255 179 235 262 152 140 68 23 8

Pts

The win sees Phillip Island stay just four points behind top spot Cora Lynn and gives them a big boost heading into this week’s game against bottom side Kilcunda-Bass.

Garfield ......8 Kor-Bena ....7 Phillip Is.....7 Nar Nar G.....6 Inv-K’wak....6 KooWeeRup .. 5 Bunyip.......... 2 Cora Lynn..... 1 Dalyston ....... 0

88 77 70 66 60 50 20 12 0

Seniors: Bunyip 5.7.37 defeated

by Phillip Island 17.14.116.

Reserves: Bunyip 6.10.46 defeated by Phillip Island 9.8.62.

Thirds: Bunyip 6.6.42 defeated

by Phillip Island 9.7.61.

Fourths: Bunyip 2.3.15 defeated

by Phillip Island 10.8.68.

GOALKICKERS I. Braaksma (Garf) ........(4) 18 C. Pursell (Nar G) ..........(0) 17 E. Hatley-Smith (Bun) ...(0) 17 M. Walton (Ph Is)..........(1) 15 J. Cuman (Kor-Bena) ....(4) 14 J. Garnham (Inv-K) .......(0) 14 D. Parker (KooW) ..........(0) 12 F. Parker (Nar Nar G) .....(3) 12 R. Menzel (Nar Nar G) ...(4) 11 K. Walker (Kor-Bena) ....(1) 11

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• Toora v Stony Creek

Atkins clinic gives Maroons tough win A DOMINANT final quarter by mid- team home.

“Brett Mitchell coached well and tagged Darcy fielder Darcy Atkins gave Stony Creek throughout the game, which made the play pretty an important 77-50 win over Toora at congested,” Maroons coach Scott Anderson said.

Toora Football Ground on Saturday.

“He put on a clinic in the final quarter though;

The midfielder had been tagged tightly all day he just wore them down and gave us a lot of before coming alive in the fourth and leading his opportunities.”

The game began a tight contest, with Stony Creek able to withstand the Magpies’ attacks, holding them to only three behinds for the first term.

Toora were up to the challenge too though, pressuring well and only going down 3-12 into the first break.

“I would’ve said it was quite an ugly first half to be honest,” coach Anderson said.

“It was pretty scrappy and they didn’t let us open the game up and run.”

With Atkins being held well and players like Dyson, Baxter and Green all making their presence felt around the ground and on the scoreboard, Toora started to look dangerous.

As a result, Stony Creek took a slim 25-20 lead into the main break.

The Magpies kept up the high pressure inside and Stony Creek could only match it, scrapping for each bit of clean possession.

With Toora pressing both on the field and on the scoreboard, Troy Sinclair and Matija Sageti, recent inclusions into the senior side, stood up.

They provided stability and efficient ball use when Stony needed it and helped their team maintain an 11-point lead at the final break.

“They haven’t played much for us this year so Toora’s Michael Shaw commits the spoil on to see them perform so well really pleased me,” his Stony Creek opponent. Photo courtesy coach Anderson said.

Gerard Bruning-@fourcorners framing.

With Toora experiencing some injuries and

TIGHT ENCOUNTER: It was a congested game for the most part before Stony Creek managed to gain control. Photo courtesy Gerard Bruning-@fourcorners framing down on rotations, the Maroons and Atkins took advantage, running the ball fast through the corridor and the wings and giving their forwards great delivery.

From this, Nolan kicked his third to cap off the game and give the away side a 27-point win.

“I was happy with our run and carry, it was too much for them in the last term,” coach Anderson said.

The Maroons will have a light week on the track as they prepare for Fish Creek away, while Toora will hope to recover in time for Tarwin.

Seniors: Toora 6.14.50 defeated by Stony Creek 11.11.77.

Reserves: Toora 3.2.20 defeated Stony Creek 2.5.17.

Thirds: Toora 2.8.20 defeated by Stony Creek 14.11.95.

• Tarwin v Foster

Tarwin locked down by inspired Tigers IT’S not often a key defender stands out in their team’s 13-goal win, but this was the case for Foster centre-half back Michael Howell on Saturday.

SENIORS LADDER W L D

%

Pts

Foster ......9 1 0 203.79 36 Stony Ck ...7 3 0 112.04 28 Fish Ck.....5 5 0 103.12 20 Toora .......5 5 0 96.26 20 MDU........2 8 0 69.48 8 Tarwin ........2 8 0 66.25 8 GOALKICKERS T. McGowan (Foster) .... (5) 35 M. Baxter (Toora) ......... (2) 26 S. Hawkins (MDU) ....... (2) 23 J. Shaw (Fish Ck) ......... (4) 23 M. Clark (Foster) .......... (0) 16 J. Nolan (Stony) ........... (3) 16 N Dickinson (Tarwin) ... (0) 15 B. Mitchell (Toora) ....... (0) 15 K. Bergles (Stony) ........ (0) 14 D. Granger (Foster) ...... (2) 13 L. Manders (Toora) ...... (0) 13

RESERVES LADDER W L D

%

Pts

Stony Ck ...8 2 0 235.56 32 Foster ......8 2 0 185.24 32 Fish Ck.....5 5 0 71.90 20 Toora .......4 6 0 71.09 16 Tarwin .....3 7 0 73.49 12 MDU...........2 8 0 61.45 8 GOALKICKERS B. Nolan (Stony) .......... (1) 52 M. Green (Foster) ......... (3) 21 J. Bright (Foster) .......... (1) 17 N. Mathieson (MDU) .... (1) 16 A. Wilson (Fish Ck) ...... (3) 14 P. McRae (Tarwin) ........ (0) 13 C. Cary (Stony) ............ (0) 13 J. Bassett (Toora) ......... (1) 12 J. Buckland (Fish Ck) ... (0) 10 L. Park (Fish Ck) .......... (0) 10 A. Bright (Fish Ck)........ (3) 10

Howell committed a lockdown job on key Tarwin forward Nick Dickinson and was one of the catalysts behind his side’s 120-41 win at Tarwin Lower Recreation Reserve.

Tigers coach Brad Rooney was thrilled with his defender’s performance.

“He did a great job for us and was really important,” he said.

“He kept Dickinson outside the 50 and completely shut him down, which was big.”

The away side got off to a near-perfect start, dominating in the middle, keeping the Sharks to 1.3 for the quarter and scoring 6.7 for themselves through brilliant play from Cook, McGowan and Neville.

“It was good to start fast, and I thought we kicked pretty accurately, which has been a problem for us,” coach Rooney said.

“We were impressive around the ground, but in the middle we got on top and shut them out early.”

The game continued down the same path after the first term, with Foster withstanding Tarwin attacks, applying intense pressure and getting the ball to McGowan, who had an impressive five goals eight behinds for the game.

By the final break, the Tigers had an insurmountable 104-33 lead.

“Winning the ball inside and flicking it out to our runners, as well as our forward pressure were really pleasing aspects of our game,” coach Rooney said.

“This made it easier for us to force turnovers and score.”

Despite an injury to captain Nathan

Kangaroos back on the winners’ list Fish Creek kept their intensity up however, FISH Creek recorded a solid 73-46 win against Meeniyan-Dumbalk United and were able to withstand any MDU run.

The endeavour in the middle from the Roos over the weekend after two consecutive was fantastic and led to MDU turnovers and Fish losses.

Creek goals.

LADDER W L D

%

rev up at quarter time. He had a re-

Seniors: Tarwin 5.11.41 defeated by spectable day on the field but would Foster 17.18.120. end up with a black eye to go with his Reserves: Tarwin 4.7.31 defeated by team’s heavy loss.

Foster 12.11.83.

• Fish Creek v MDU

THIRDS Pts

MDU........8 0 0 620.83 32 Foster ......5 3 0 236.53 20 Stony Ck ...5 3 0 89.03 20 Toora .......1 7 0 41.62 4 Fish Ck .......1 7 0 22.89 4 GOALKICKERS S. Pearce (MDU) .......... (1) 26 Z. Duursma (Foster) ..... (0) 22 S. Bright (MDU) ........... (1) 16 J. Bright (Stony) .......... (5) 14 A. Rhodes (Toora) ........ (0) 12 B. Cantwell (MDU) ....... (1) 11 L. Elliott (Stony) ........... (3) 9 H. VanderZalm (MDU).. (2) 7 B. Armstrong (Foster) .. (0) 7 O. Cox (Foster) ............. (0) 7

Grylls, the Tigers were able to close out the game in style, with Howell continuing to keep Dickinson scoreless and McGowan feasting on the Tarwin defence.

The side will look to follow up on their 79-point win by facing off against MDU this weekend and coach Rooney hopes they can get their captain back for what could be a good test.

“We’ve got one week and then we’ve got the bye so hopefully we can get Nathan and some other blokes back soon.

“Until then we’ve just got to keep embracing the challenge every week, and keep TOUGH DAY: Tarwin playing coach getting better.”

Foster remains eight points clear on top. Mark Garnham gives his players a

Fish Creek’s Col McPhee gets his kick away under pressure.

Backline general Chad Macri, returning from injury, and Jake Buckland, who had been out of the game for 12 months, were welcome returns to the side.

The Kangaroos turned the ball over early and allowed MDU the better start, with the visitors kicking the first goal through Brown seven minutes in.

The home team responded quickly though, Stefani and Wilson working well to get the ball to Cooper for a goal.

The remainder of the quarter was even with both teams competing hard and playing efficient footy; Fish Creek taking a slim three-point lead into the first break.

The home side turned it on in the second term, forcing the ball forward at every opportunity, allowing Shaw to snap home two of his four goals.

Their defensive pressure increased too, keeping their opponents scoreless for the quarter and building the foundation for a 25-point lead at the main break.

MDU lifted their game in the third quarter, winning more of the contest and scoring a quick goal through Tom Corrie.

A late goal to the home team capped off what was an entertaining quarter and saw them lead 5824 at three-quarter time.

The Kangaroos started the fourth quarter the stronger of the two sides, pressing hard early, but kicking inaccurately.

The Demons were able to string together a few goals midway through the quarter in response, reducing the lead to 25 points.

The home side then recollected itself, with Shaw slotting home his fourth goal and giving his team a 27-point win despite its poor 9.19 kicking in front of goal.

MDU will face top side Foster away this week in an attempt to bounce back, while Fish Creek will play Stony Creek at home in what should be a tight contest.

Seniors: Fish Creek 9.19-73 defeated MDU 6.10-46.

Reserves: Fish Creek 8.2-50. defeated MDU 5.13-43.

Thirds: Fish Creek 1.3-9 defeated by MDU 8.9-57.

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• Warragul v Wonthaggi

Warragul storm home to shut down Power IT took until the last kick of the day for Knowles and captain looks likely to grow was impressed by and players will have to just a couple games at home next week, the side’s conviction work hard to stay in the short of shaking things which will be a good Aidan Lindsay leading into form. the game to be decided. chance to get back to

A winning goal in the dying seconds saw Warragul overcome a 10-point final break deficit to beat Wonthaggi in a thriller.

On paper the Power put forward one of their best teams in years, and though they were defeated by Warragul, their efforts were sure and will carry them positively into the second half of the season.

Welcoming big man Kane McCarthy back into the side, the Power made a few small changes as they looked to re-assess while retaining structure comROUND 10 ing into the business end of the year.

SENIORS Moving Ben Eddy LADDER W L D % Pts and Tom Murray forSale .......... 8 1 0 125.90 32 ward, swapping with Maffra........ 7 3 0 142.38 28 Moe .......... 7 3 0 134.19 28 Kade Waters and Jake Drouin ....... 7 3 0 98.42 28 Thomas moving back, Leongatha ... 5 5 0 108.52 20 they were progressive Bairnsdale ..... 4 5 0 89.94 16 with their strategy and Traralgon ....... 3 7 0 99.83 12 Wonthaggi..... 3 7 0 76.69 12 in developing player Warragul ....... 3 7 0 69.07 12 potential.

Morwell ......... 2 8 0 77.69 8 For much of the GOALKICKERS game Wonthaggi were B. Dessent (Sale) ..........(0) 34 guided by the spark of B. McCarrey (Bairns).....(0) 25 Toma Huther, as the B. Hughes (Warr) ..........(3) 21 B. Beck (Drouin) ...........(2) 20 six-foot-three ruckman D. Bedggood (Maffra) ...(3) 20 was influential over A. Dugan (Moe).............(2) 19 head and surprising C. Dunne (Leon)............(2) 19 on the ground, dealing J. Ginnane (Leon) .........(2) 19 D. Loprese (Trar)...........(0) 18 the ball to teammates M. Bennett (Maffra).......(4) 17 efficiently.

Huther’s defensive RESERVES pressure brought him LADDER W L D % Pts around a dozen tackles Maffra...... 10 0 0 292.74 40 and a reputation in the Traralgon ....9 1 0 306.30 36 middle as someone you Leongatha ...7 3 0 141.43 28 don’t try to take on.

Bairnsdale...6 3 0 134.82 24 On the ball, the PowMoe ..........5 5 0 195.51 20 Warragul ...... 4 6 0 107.77 16 er had the usual strength Wonthaggi.... 3 7 0 90.16 12 of Mitch Hayes, Tim Morwell ........ 3 7 0 44.44 12 Drouin .......... 1 9 0 23.89 4 Sale .............. 1 8 0 23.34 4 GOALKICKERS

J. Van Iwaarden (Trar)...(0) 22 J. Galea (Moe)...............(0) 21 L. Wright(Leon) ............(0) 20 J. Reeves (Maffra).........(5) 20 L. Durkin (Moe).............(1) 19 J. Egan (Maffra) ............(1) 15 M. Dignan (Maffra) .......(0) 15 L. Carman (Maffra) .......(0) 14 J. Chessells (Moe) ........(1) 12 T. Bansgrove (Warr) ......(0) 12 J. Bishop (Trar) .............(0) 12

THIRDS LADDER W L D

%

Pts

Traralgon .... 7 1 0 181.21 28 Warragul .... 7 2 0 179.64 28 Maffra........ 7 2 0 121.82 28 Bairnsdale .. 5 3 0 140.66 20 Sale .......... 4 4 0 113.46 16 Leongatha ..... 3 6 0 82.54 12 Morwell ......... 3 6 0 68.16 12 Moe............... 2 7 0 77.46 8 Wonthaggi..... 1 8 0 41.95 4 GOALKICKERS L. Noble (Trar)...............(0) 25 T. Thatcher (Maffra) ......(3) 22 B. Vickery (Bairns) ........(0) 19 W. Anderson (Moe) .......(0) 18 L. Wilson (Warr) ...........(5) 15 L. Bambridge (Warr) .....(0) 15 Z. Bezzina (Morw) .........(2) 14 L. Gilliam (Warr) ...........(2) 12 H. Kellow (Bairns) .........(0) 12 M. Luckie (Trar) ............(0) 12 J. Hutchins (Sale) .........(0) 12

FOURTHS LADDER W L D

%

Warragul .. 10 0 0 202.53 Traralgon ....9 1 0 386.27 Sale ..........7 2 0 156.63 Moe ..........6 3 1 208.84 Leongatha ...5 5 0 80.53 Drouin .......... 4 6 0 80.17 Bairnsdale .... 3 5 1 100.61 Maffra .......... 2 8 0 43.36 Morwell ........ 1 9 0 57.16 Wonthaggi.... 1 9 0 29.41 GOALKICKERS

Pts

40 36 28 26 20 16 14 8 4 4

K. Ruyters (Trar) ...........(2) 21 N. Wheildon (Moe) ........(2) 21 T. Hamilton (Trar) ..........(0) 19 K. Hermansen (Drouin) ..(1) 16 V. Caia (Warr)................(1) 15 M. Nico (Sale) ...............(0) 14 F. Materia (Leon) ...........(0) 13 B. Cornelis (Won)..........(1) 13 J. Monacella (Morw) .....(0) 12 D. Berryman (Leon) ......(0) 12

the way.

Following a calf injury, McCarthy played three and a half quarters, with some short stints on the ball he finished with a goal and

The side did not have enough left to finish the job though, relinquishing a threequarter time lead to go down by a kick.

Coach Lee Rowe

however, and is confident the seniors will respond.

“We have a good depth right now, Joel Liddle is set to be back at the club next week

side,” he said..

“It’s a good time of the year to find depth at the club.”

With their position near the middle of the ladder, Wonthaggi are

up.

Finding form at this time of the year will mean they could give most Mid-Gippy clubs a good run.

They face Morwell

winning ways.

Seniors: Warragul 10.9.69 def Wonthaggi 9.9.63.

Reserves: Warragul 4.11.35 def by Wonthaggi 11.3.69.

Thirds: Warragul 16.14.110. def Wonthaggi 3.4.22.

Fourths: Warragul 12.7.79 def Wonthaggi 3.2.20.

FOOTY DRAWS THIS WEEKEND ALBERTON Round 11: June 29 Fish Creek v Stony Creek Foster v MDU Tarwin v Toora

MID GIPPSLAND Round 12: June 29 Yinnar v Yall-Yall Nth Hill End v Mirboo North Boolarra v Morwell East Thorpdale v Trafalgar Newborough - Bye

GIPPSLAND Round 11: June 29 Bairnsdale v Maffra Sale v Warragul Wonthaggi v Morwell Traralgon v Leongatha

WEST GIPPSLAND Round 12: June 29 Cora Lynn v Bunyip Dalyston v Inverloch-K’wak Ko WeeRup v Korum-Bena Phillip Island v Kil-Bass Tooradin Dalm v Nar Nar G Warragul Indust v Garfield

BELOW: Wonthaggi’s Jakeb Thomas races Warragul’s Ben Hughes for the footy, both players neck and neck just as the teams were. Photo courtesy Warragul Gazette.

ELLINBANK Round 11: June 29 Poowong v Buln Buln

The coach powering Gippsland footy’s development Daniel Renfrey AFTER a successful playing career and a stint in aged care, Leongatha icon Rhett McLennan has found success in yet another field – coaching.

Rhett, who played over 300 games for various senior teams including Leongatha and won three premierships during his career, is undertaking his fifth year as a coach at the Gippsland Power.

This is his first year as head coach after serving as an assistant under Lee Brown for four years.

Throughout his time at the club he has helped to develop some of the best young talent the region has to offer, something he now has a love for.

“I really enjoy helping people and I suppose I’m very lucky in the sense that my passion since I could walk has been football, like a lot of blokes,” Rhett said.

“I get great enjoyment out of imparting knowledge on the kids.”

Helping people is nothing new to Rhett, who for six years was the CEO of Prom Country Aged Care, assisting retired or aged people in their later years of life.

Rhett finds his experience in helping these people and coordinating staff has helped with his coaching career.

“There are definitely similarities between the two, like having the ability to communicate to people with different personalities,” he said.

“Sometimes you have to speak to someone and sometimes showing them will have better impact.

Coaching 40 kids really isn’t too different to managing 104 staff.”

While he learned a lot during his time in aged care, the change in careers has been a much-welcomed one for Rhett.

He has been extremely successful in developing young Gippsland talent and finds it to be very rewarding.

MENTOR: Rhett has made it a priority to develop young footballers in Gippsland and has done so successfully.

“I get a great buzz out of watching players I’ve influenced progressing and even playing at AFL level,” he said.

“You get major satisfaction out of seeing guys do well at the next stage, whether it be Vic Coutry or AFL” There’s proof in the pudding too, with AFL players Josh Dunkley, Xavier Duursma, Tom Papley, Harry McKay and Ben Ainsworth all receiving guidance from Rhett before making the big smoke.

The Gippsland Power have been strong so far this season, sitting in third spot in the NAB League.

They are undoubtedly in safe hands with Rhett, who will continue to make developing young players his priority.

“My goal is to always improve the players that we’ve got playing and then whatever happens in my career it’ll be the same principle, just trying to help people.”

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Parrots pay the price against rivals LEONGATHA paid the price for a poor marks, and when you face a quality opposition like first half which included a scoreless open- Maffra, they make you pay.” put up a fight however, slowly coming ing term against second spot Maffra on intoGatha the game in the third quarter.

Saturday.

Cam Olden was again inspiring for the away

The Parrots played an inspired final quarter but could not recover in time, going down 88-65, their rivals exacting revenge for their previous matchup.

“We made too many fundamental errors and turned it over too much, especially in that first quarter,” coach Paul Carbis said.

“We were lucky they kicked poorly and kept us in the game.”

The home team applied intense pressure to the Parrots and capitalised off turnovers, resulting in goal kicking opportunities for Bennett and Bedggood.

This saw them achieve an 18-0 quarter-time lead and a 52-22 lead at the main break.

Coach Carbis watched on as his side could not put a foot right in the first two quarters.

Josh Hopkins was a positive for the Par“It was a bit of everything,” he said. rots despite the loss.

“We were fumbling, missing kicks, dropping

side in the middle of the park, winning a lot of the pill and making strong and fast decisions with it.

Ben Willis and Patrick McGrath, both of whom returned to the side last week, were also strong for the Parrots and provided a much-needed spark.

“Cam Olden was great for us again and Ben Willis and Patty McGrath were both really good and helped to get us going a bit,” coach Carbis said.

“Willis and McGrath have only just come back as well so that’s a really good sign.”

The score stood at 83-41 at the final break but after settling into the game, the Parrots were motivated to not go home without a fight.

The side clamped down on Maffra’s offence in the final term, keeping them to just five behinds, and put four goals on the board through Maskell, Wright, Nagel and Dunne.

With injuries to Nagel, Easton and Borschman hitting the team however, and with such a large

GOING LONG: Leongatha’s Colin Sanbrook delivers the ball before Maffra’s Ed Carr can tackle him.

Photos: Gippsland Times.

deficit to climb back from, the Parrots fell by 23 points.

“We had a few injuries again but the boys won’t give up, they keep on fighting each week,” coach Carbis said.

“It was a frustrating game but you like your team to finish off well, which thankfully has been a pattern for us.”

While this loss puts Leongatha two games outside of the top four, coach Carbis is confident his team can respond well and put together a run.

“The good thing about this team is we do bounce back after poor performances,” he said.

“We didn’t play up to our usual standards, so hopefully we can get on top of that and have a better performance against Traralgon.”

Seniors: Maffra 12.16.88 defeated Leongatha 10.5.65.

Reserves: Maffra 17.6.108 defeated Leongatha 7.9-51 Thirds: Maffra 8.9.57 defeated Leongatha 4.7.31.

Fourths: Maffra 8.13.61 defeated Leongatha 2.6.18.

Rhett Kelly searches for a teammate with a handball.

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