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PALS Numurkah staff were left reeling after they arrived at work on Monday to discover the facility had been broken into over the weekend. See story page 3.

WEARY Victorians are in for another week in lockdown, with Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday announcing that the current restrictions will remain in place until at least 11.59pm next Tuesday, July 27.

Mr Andrews made the announcement yesterday, citing daily cases in double � gures, more than 250 exposure sites stretching from Phillip Island to the Mallee and more than 15,000 primary close con-tacts in quarantine in Victoria as making the move necessary.

Mr Andrews also announced that travel to Victoria using Red Zone Permits will be temporarily paused as of midnight last night.

For at least the next two weeks, Victorian residents in red zones will require an exemption to enter the state – and these will only be granted in exceptional

circumstances.If people enter Victoria from New South Wales

without an exemption, they will be put on a return � ight or placed in 14 days mandatory quarantine under the COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV) program.

Fines of $5,452 may be imposed if a person is found to have entered Victoria from a red zone with-out a permit.

A person will still be able to enter Victoria from a red zone if they are aircrew, listed on the Speci� ed Worker List, or transiting through Victoria to anoth-er jurisdiction – e.g. traveling from regional NSW through Mildura to get home to South Australia.

Permits may also be issued in cases of family emer-gency.

Mr Andrews said that Victoria’s Chief Health Of-� cer will continue to consider the status of the Aus-tralian Capital Territory, but the pause of Red Zone Permits also applies to that jurisdiction while it is classi� ed as a red zone.

� ere are no changes to the current arrangements for border communities.

� ere remains only � ve reasons that Victorians are permi� ed to leave home: ge� ing essential supplies, exercising for up to two hours, care or caregiving, work or education if you can’t do it from home, or to get vaccinated at the nearest possible location.

Shopping and exercise must be done within 5kms of your home or the nearest location.

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A 72-YEAR-OLD Numurkah woman is sus-pected to have been having a ‘medical episode’ last � ursday when she crashed into the rear of a parked car in the IGA car park, according to police.

Driving her Great Wall SUV just before 1pm, the woman was turning right into the main en-trance of the car park, across the road from the Shamrock, but missed the entrance. She hit the

sign and � re hydrant box to the le� of the en-trance, then kept going, in what became a hook turn, and went straight into a Toyota Corolla, parked in the disabled spot closest to the IGA entrance.

� e Toyota was pushed into the safety barrier, which brought both cars to a halt.

Police were right behind the car when it hap-pened, so they were on the scene immediately.

When police got to the car, it was still in drive. If the parked Toyota wasn’t there to stop it, the SUV would have hammered straight into IGA.

� e driver was conscious, but unresponsive, and the doors were locked, so police had to break the rear driver’s side window to get into the car and turn it o� .

� ere was extensive damage to both vehicles. A small dog was in the parked car when it was

hit, but it was unharmed.

Bang ... The SUV came in at a sharp angle to take out the Toyota.

Collision stops car crashing into store at IGA

CASH tills, a safe, and a toy gun were found washed up in the Broken Creek last Wednesday.

Numurkah NewsXpress was robbed just a few months ago, and the thieves le� with the shop’s cash tills and the � oats of cash inside them. So, when An-drea and Craig Holmes were alerted to a sighting of cash tills in the Broken Creek, they raced down to have a look.

Gumboots on, Craig walked into the swamp and spo� ed the safe and tills - which were only visible because of the low level of the creek at the moment - when he was startled by the sight of a gun.

He was relieved to learn the gun was fake - just a kids toy - but the tills and safe were still of interest.

Initially, Craig and Andrea thought the tills might have been theirs, from the robbery. On closer in-spection, they weren’t, and the safe de� nitely wasn’t theirs either.

� e cash tills are believed to be from Rush, dating back to a burglary earlier this year - for which the o� ender has already been caught - but that can’t be con� rmed, as there are a lack of identifying features.

Other items also found, including coins and jew-ellery, are believed to be connected to a number of burglaries in Numurkah this year.

� ere were pens inside the safe, which still looked reasonably new, so the suspicious items didn’t ap-pear to have been in the creek all that long. Howev-er, Numurkah police told the Leader, that the safe had been buried in the mud for “quite a long time”, and it’s not believed to be linked to any incidents in the local area. � ere is a serial number on the safe, which Cobram CIU is trying to trace.

Investigations by Cobram CIU are ongoing.

Mystery remains for stolen items in the creekStrange fi nd ... Craig Holmes thought the items might have been theirs, but they weren’t.

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FIVE occupants of a ute were lucky to escape injury a� er a collision at the corner of Murray Valley Highway and Labuan Road, Strathmer-ton, last Friday.

Strathmerton and Yarroweyah Fire Brigades, along with police and ambulance, responded to the incident, where a vehicle was reported to be on � re, at 6.55pm. � e twin cab ute with � ve people on board, was tee-boned by another ve-hicle and ended up on its side. � e occupants were able to get themselves out of both vehicles; they were all checked by ambulance o� cers and none required hospitalisation.

At 3.35am on Saturday, Yalca, Nathalia and Strathmerton Fire Brigades were called to a car � re at the corner of Murray Valley Highway and Lyles Road, Nathalia. � e car, which was thought to have been abandoned, was on � re. Strathmerton were stopped enroute.

� en at 3.20pm that day, Drumanure and Katandra brigades were turned out to a pile of tree limbs on � re at Katamatite/Shepparton Road, between Centre Road and Invergordon Road, Invergordon. Drumanure had a stop mes-sage sent to them.

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Continued � om � ont page.Face masks remain mandatory indoors (not at

home) and outdoors unless an exception applies – this includes all workplaces, and secondary schools.

Minor changes will be made to the Author-ised Premises and Authorised Worker List to include services that operate solely outdoors where physical distancing can be maintained at all times, such as pet grooming mobile services

and pamphlet delivery services. As of today, more students with disability will

be able to return to on-site learning. Where a parent or carer indicates that a student with a disability cannot learn from home due to vulner-ability or family stress, the school must provide on-site learning for that student. � is change will apply to students enrolled in specialist schools and students with a disability enrolled in main-stream schools.

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PALS sta� were le� reeling on Monday morn-ing when they arrived at work to discover the O’Connor Street, Numurkah, facility had been broken into over the weekend.

An unknown o� ender or o� enders gained ac-cess to the building by smashing a reinforced glass door. A� er entering the o� ce, they went through desk drawers and � ling cabinets, steal-ing approximately $2,000 in cash from around a dozen tins, jars, pencil cases and envelopes.

PALS manager Linda Boyd described the the� as devastating.

“Most of the money had been saved up for activities for the clients, which they now won’t be able to do. Because there were less activities last year due to COVID, there was more money there than we would have usually had,” she said.

“� ere was two years worth of darts money there that was going to go towards a big outing. We try so hard to fund raise and save money to make things happen for the clients and they’ve taken it all.”

As well as money that had been saved from fundraising and activities, some of the clients’ own money was stolen.

“� ere were a number of pencil cases contain-ing money that the clients had brought in so they could buy drinks and pay for activities, and they’ve taken the notes out of all of them.

“� ey must have know who they were stealing from; people with disabilities who have very lit-tle money to begin with. It’s just disgusting, and so unfair.

“Insurance will cover the damage to the door, but it won’t replace the money, and the clients will su� er as a result of that.”

Ms Boyd said they had been directed by PALS head o� ce that, following the incident, they were no longer to keep cash on the premises, a policy which, whilst understandable, will make life complicated.

“It means we will have to be constantly going to the bank, and paying for things with cards, and ge� ing the clients to pay with cards. It’s going to make everyday things much more challenging,” she said.

PALS assistant Lilly Fairley, who discovered the break in when she arrived at work at 8.30am on Monday said the situation made her feel sick.

“� e saddest thing for me is that they stole the clients’ own money. � ey stole from these vul-nerable people, and that gives me such a sick feeling,” she said.

“I hope they feel really crap about that.”Ms Boyd said that si� ing alongside the sick

feeling, was a feeling of confusion.“How they’ve gone about it is quite bizarre,”

she said.“Apart from the smashed glass, they’ve le� the

place as they found it. � ere was no ransacking; it was all very methodical.

“All of the tins and jars were put neatly back in place a� er the money was taken out of them, and they even zipped all the pencil cases back up. It’s the tidiest burglary you’ve ever seen.

“None of it makes any sense.”When the Leader spoke to Ms Boyd on Mon-

day she said she was feeling very vulnerable, but knew there was worse to come.

“It’s a very violating thing to have happen, and I feel so � at right now,” she said.

“But we still have to tell the clients’ families, and I’m just dreading that.

“� at will be the worst part.”� e investigation of the incident is ongoing,

and anybody with any information, or who saw any suspicious activity, particularly on the va-cant land at the rear of the building behind St John’s parish house, between 4.30pm Friday and 8.30am Monday is urged to contact Cobram Criminal Investigation Unit on 5871 2866.

Low act leaves PALS reelingViolated... PALS assistant Lilly Fairley and manager Linda Boyd were reeling on Monday after discovering the break in and theft.

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New Senior Citizens committee announced New Senior Citizens committee announced LOR� INE Evvert is the new president of

the Numurkah Senior Citizens Club a� er being elected at the club’s AGM last Wednesday.

Lorraine takes over from outgoing president Vin Manley, who will step away from the com-mi� ee.

Senior vice president Val Bloor retains her po-

sition for the next year, while junior vice pres-ident Rob Hall will be replaced by Don Rosie, but will still be a member of the commi� ee.

Geke Brals is the club’s new secretary, a� er Sue Corbet stepped away from the role, and Kath Watson will continue on as treasurer.

Sue Kennedy, Graeme Tyack, Ian Clark and Alan Hendy have all stepped away from the commi� ee, while Val Usher, John Blackman, Len Morey and Joy Muir are the club’s newest commi� ee members.

Senior Citizens members all enjoyed a� er-

noon tea at the club for the AGM, where ra� e prizes were given out.

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NUMUR� H and Nathalia secondary school kids will take part in Live4Life’s mental health and youth suicide prevention training program over the coming weeks, and the program was launched with a bang last week.

Live4Life aims to increase understanding, reduce stigma, and improve the mental health knowledge of all people in Moira Shire, but also all young people around the country.

Live4Life empowers our community to further under-stand mental health through the Live4Life team youth mental health � rst aid course for students. � e training provides the skills to recognise and help with mental health problems and crises in family and friends, but to get help from adults when needed.

Kids from all eight secondary schools across the shire will take part in the program, but, due to COVID restrictions, the schools have been split up into groups. So, kids from Numurkah Secondary College, St Mary of the Angels, and Nathalia Secondary College all gathered at Nathalia Community Sports Centre last Wednesday to begin the program.

� e program is run for year eights and 11s, by year nines and 10s, who have already completed it. Once students have completed the course in year eight, they have the op-tion of joining the crew, to be part of the running of the program.

Last year was the � rst year of the program, but it was something of a false start, given gatherings and activities of the scale required weren’t possible. Individual schools still ran modi� ed programs within their own school, but this is the � rst year where it is running properly.

St Mary of the Angels principal Ma� Carver spoke at the launch in Nathalia last Wednesday.

“Live4Life brings our community together to improve youth mental health, and to reduce youth suicide,” he said.

“Our aim for everyone in our community is to be talk-ing about mental health, to be talking about mental health improvement strategies, and to be reducing the stigma of mental health.

“Today’s launch is about spreading the word and con-necting as a community, but also having lots of fun. � e mo� o for 2021 is ‘No ma� er the weather, it does get be� er, together.’”

Also present at the launch was Leading Senior Constable Surrey Hunter, who is also the Youth Resource O� cer at Wangara� a, and you could hear a pin drop when he told his story in front of the students and teachers.

“I’ve been a copper for 37 years, and I have a mental

illness,” he said. “I have PTSD. I didn’t get it from one traumatic event,

I got it from what’s called ‘the bucket e� ect.’ You stick an empty bucket under a dripping tap, and it � lls up, and even-tually � ows over. In March, 2005, my bucket � owed over.

“I was o� work for almost two years. For probably nine months, I did not leave my house, my depression was that bad. � e only time I le� my house was to walk my dog or go and see my doctor.”

He told the students that the � rst step to recovery is ac-ceptance, and he learnt that the hard way.

“So, how did I get back to where I am today? � e key for me, and the moment when I started to turn it around and get be� er, was when I accepted that I had a mental illness. From that moment of acceptance, things changed,” he said.

“Now, I’m in a place where I’ve been back at work for an-other 15 years, working with you guys, which I love. But I know the signs when I’m starting to go downhill. I can rec-ognise them, and I know what I need to do to pull myself back into line.

“Hopefully this training will give you the ability to rec-ognise those signs, when things aren’t going right, in your own life, and also in the lives of your friends, and be able to step up, step in, and do something really good for your-selves and your mates.”

Speaking to the Leader a� er the launch, Surrey said it’s crucial that the kids learn about mental health as early as possible.

“We know that most mental health issues start around the age of 12-14,” he said.

“Being able to recognise the signs and to know what to do and how to get help is so vitally important.

“When these kids start to su� er, if they don’t know where to go, or how to get help, or can’t recognise the signs in their friends, then that’s where they fall apart. And that’s why it’s so important to do this.

“I de� nitely didn’t get any of this training when I was the same age as these kids, and if I had, I might have been able to recognise the signs in myself earlier.

“Back when I was that age, the world was a lot less com-plex than it is now.”

� e training will be run over three sessions, which will happen across three weeks. � e � rst session is a general overview of what mental health is, and what mental health issues are, the second is all about helping a friend going through a mental health crisis, and the third is about help-ing a friend who is developing a mental health problem,

Live4Life comes to NathaliaListening intently ...Kids from the three local high schools gathered to listen to guest speakers and the Live4Life crew.

Working together ... The kids handmade stress balls at the launch day last Wednesday.

All together ... This was one of the activities the kids did together on the launch day.

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Sarah PetersIt’s probably necessary, but it doesn’t affect me

personally; I’m a New South Wales resident. I work in Numurkah, so I can get across the border, and I don’t have that five kilometre radius rule. As long as I stay within the border bubble, I can go as far as Shepparton, without any issues. Technical-ly, I can actually go all the way to Mildura without an issue, which is a bit ridiculous. So, personally, it doesn’t really affect me, but I think it’s probably necessary. Having said that, if I were in a Victori-an’s shoes, I’d probably say something different, I imagine. We need to stop the spread, because our vaccination rate is so low.

Kylie TaylorIt needs to happen, it’s as simple as that. We

need to get it under control, for a start. I know people will be disgruntled, but I actually believe that the whole country needs to be locked down for a full month. Even places like Western Austral-ia - everyone. Lock the whole country down for a full month, and you’ll be surprised what happens.

Liam Thorne It’s probably necessary. With cases not really

coming down, or fluctuating around the same level, I don’t really think there should be any calls for opening back up. It’s a good conserv-ative move I think. In regional Victoria, I guess it’s a little bit of a grey area for them. It would be hard to sort of put the ring of steel up again. But I think we’ve just got to tough through it and do what we’re told to do. I’m not really one to fight it; I certainly won’t be going out and protesting it.

What do you think of Victoria’s lockdown extension?VICTORIA’S five day snap lockdown will be-

come at least a 12 day lockdown, after Premier Dan Andrews yesterday announced that it would be extended for another seven days.

The lockdown was due to end last night, but with 13 more locally acquired cases yesterday, numbers are nowhere near low enough to ease

restrictions, the Premier said. Mr Andrews said he couldn’t “run that risk” of

having an outbreak similar to what Sydney is go-ing through.

“A News South Wales-style long, lengthy, very challenging lockdown where you just lose control of cases, we have avoided that,” he said yesterday.

The Premier also confirmed that, after weeks of pleading with Melbournians away in Sydney to come home, it is now too late. Anyone in Sydney can now only enter the state if they apply and are accepted for a working permit, or if they apply for a special consideration permit for compas-sionate reasons - like a family member dying.

That stands for at least the next two weeks. While it’s universally accepted that Victorians

are all sick and tired of going in an out of lock-downs, most agree that they are necessary - but not everyone shares the same view.

The Leader took to Melville Street to ask Nu-murkah locals what they thought.

John StevensonGiven we’ve hardly ever even had the virus up

here, it seems rather pointless. The lockdown shouldn’t be going any further out than Mel-bourne, really. I don’t even think the Olympic team should be going over to Japan. It’s ridicu-lous - half the athletes have got the virus already, and it hasn’t even started yet. God knows what it’ll be like by the time the end of it comes. So no, I don’t think the government has done very well with managing this thing.

Lisa NorrisI think it’s annoying but necessary. It’s annoy-

ing for the families who have to sort out working from home and school from home, but necessary because, well, we don’t want to end up like Syd-ney, do we? If I were in the government’s shoes, I probably would’ve done the same thing. As much as you don’t want to, I think you’ve got to look at the bigger picture and what’s going to be best for everyone.

Maddie LogieI don’t love it. I think they should have maybe

extended Melbourne and everywhere that is a hotspot, but not all of regional Victoria. We’ve got no cases here. To be fair though, Dan An-drews is going to get backlash from critics, no matter what he does. There’s not much we can do about it now though, let’s just get through it.


NUMURKAH SHIRE COUNCILTUESDAY, 12th JULY

Present: Crs. Dudley (President), Gordon, Bail, J. and H. Tuckett, Meiklejohn, Thornton, Ross, Garonne.

Correspondence From Shire of Tungamah, asking if council will share

expense of five chains of formation, and pipe culverts, between Maidment and Linehan, Yarroweyah and Strathmerton.—- Agreed to.

From Nathalia Repatriation Committee, forwarding statement showing the manner in which council grants have been disbursed. Regular weekly payments of 15/-, 17/6 and 20/- were being made to three returned sol-diers whose wounds rendered them unfit to earn a liv-ing.--Received.

From Robt. Lindsay, Picola, council to re-consider decision with regard to the road between the late Peter McDonald’s properties. The road has always been a public one, and it was unfair to compel he and his family to open every time they used it.—

Cr. G. Tuckett said there did not appear to be much in the objection; there was only one gate to open.—Cr. J. Tuckett said Mr Lindsay could only use the road at certain times, and at any time it saved him very little. He moved that no action be taken in regard to the request. Mr Payne was willing to have the gate left open at such times as Mr Lindsay was able to use the road.—Cr. G. Tuckett seconded the motion, which was carried.

From W. O’Rourke, Kotupna, asking for title of land exchanged by the council and he some time ago.—Sur-vey to be made as soon as possible.

From same, asking for renewal of license to water front age to Wakiti lagoon. - He had leased this for 20 years, and the Public Works Department had now cancelled the license, and handed the frontage to the Forestry De-partment, which was now issuing licenses to others. He considered he had first claim.—It was pointed out that the council had already recommended that landowners on the frontages be given preference. —Mr O’Rouke to be informed that council had no objection to his appli-cation.

From T. H. Ball. Strathmerton, asking permission to remove green trees- overhanging line of proposed new fence.— Granted.

From Thos. Collins, Picola North, asking to be al-lowed to remove about 40 dry trees on E. and W. road.—Granted.

From V. F. Thorpe, Picola, asking permission to lay pipe to creek for domestic purposes. —Held over for one month.

From T. O’Brien Strathmerton , asking sanction to re-move tree overhanging his fence.— Granted

From Numurkah Butter Factory asking permission to put in an extra crossing from McDonald-street to the factory.— Granted.

ReportsR. Callander reported having collected rates totalling

£5687 11/8. The rates outstanding were--—Cen-tral Riding £147 5/3 , Eastern £122/2/6, Western £273/10/11, Moira £85/16/9; total £628/15/5. Elec-tric light rates £90/5/8.—Received.

The treasurer reported the bank overdraft to be £282.6/4/4 —Received

Referring to the Nathalia electrical engineer’s report, Cr. � ornton said it was wrong that sto-ries should be given circulation without � rst being veri� ed. In one case spoken of at Nathalia it was stated that one consumer had never paid for light when the books showed that regular payments had been made It was wrong that such damaging statements should be made, and he hoped would cease.

� e date of the Revision Court was � xed for Friday, 22nd July, at 11 a.m., at Numurkah.

Regarding the deferred suggestion to pur-chase a � re engine for Numurkah, Cr. Meikle-john moved that the ma� er stand over for one month

—Seconded by Cr. � ornton and carried.

This week in 1921 ... To celebrate the State Library of Victoria’s

digitising of the war years editions of the Numurkah Leader, each week we will include the news of the week, 100 years ago.

To view these editions online go to trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/591.

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FOR a second straight year, the Lions Ladies’ annual high tea has had to be re-scheduled, a� er yet another bout of COVID in-fections in Victoria plunged the state into an air of uncertainty once again.

Held on the � rst Sunday of Au-gust every year since 2008, the high tea is the Lions Ladies’ big-

gest fundraiser for the year and, since its inception, has raised over $20,000 for a host of char-ities. Those include Numurk-ah Palliative Care, Numurkah District Health Service, breast and prostate cancer, the Nu-murkah Historical Society, Motor Neurone Foundation, the town band, and a number

of others. � e event was cancelled for

the � rst time last year, and the Lions Ladies had hopes of bring-ing it back this year, but it is not to be - or at least not yet. Given the uncertainty around restric-tions, and the age bracket of a large majority of the members, the decision was made ahead of

time, and plans will begin for the high tea to take place in the com-ing months.

Each year there is a theme, and the tables are decorated accord-ingly, with a prize given out for the table voted the best. � ere’s also a guest speaker, and a ra� e that normally nets about $800 for the chosen charity.

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IT’S been a hard 18 months for making plans, and another local school production has fallen prey to the COVID lock-down curse.

Yet when the Numurkah Secondary College school production team learned that lockdown was imminent last � ursday - opening night - they rose to the challenge in style.

NSC teacher, and produc-er and choreographer of the school’s 2021 production of the Wizard of Oz, Cassie Wil-lis, said the cast and crew really stepped up when news came through that last Friday’s per-formance would have to be cancelled due to Victoria’s lat-est lockdown.

“� e kids took the news re-ally well and just made pu� ing on the best show possible on � ursday night their priority,”

she said.“� ey knew there was noth-

ing that could be done, so in-stead of dwelling on it, they got on with and rose to the chal-lenge.

“I couldn’t be prouder of how they handled it.”

� e show went o� without a hitch in front of a packed house on � ursday night, perhaps made easier by a very special performance the day before.

On Wednesday, PALS clients from Numurkah, Cobram and Yarrawonga were treated to a matinee performance of the show.

Ms Willis said the PALS crew made a perfect � rst audience for the young performers.

“� ey were so enthusiastic and they sang along and really got into it, so it was a beautiful atmosphere,” she said.

“� e kids came out to meet them and mingle with them a� erwards, and the PALS guys treated them like celebrities, which was a real con� dence boost for them ahead of their � rst nigh time performance.”

� ough COVID restrictions put paid to Friday’s perfor-mance, the cast and crew have every intention of making sure that those with tickets still get the chance to use them.

“We are de� nitely planning to reschedule, because we know a lot of the kids’ friends and fam-ily members had tickets and were really looking forward to it,” Ms Willis said.

“Obviously we don’t know when we’ll be able to do it yet, but we’re going to do everything we can to make sure nobody misses out.”

Wizard of Oz wows pre-lockdown crowd

Group effort... Like true theatre stalwarts, the cast and crew took Thursday’s lockdown announcement in stride to put on a fantastic show.

All worth it... Rahni Lawless as Dorothy, Bridget Brown as The Scarecrow, Abi Higgins as The Lion, Toby Brown as Toto and Christopher Bodsworth as The Tinman accept applause following a rousing performance.

No cowards here... (From left) Abi Higgins gives it her all as Rahni Lawless, Bridget Brown and Toby Brown watch on.

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OSWALD —(Robinson) Dorothy May (Dot)08.051937 ~ 18.07.2021Late of Strathmerton, passed away peacefully at Nathalia.Loved wife of Lance (dec.). Our loving Mum, Nana and Great Nana, dearly loved by her children and their partners Lance (Bomber) and Rosie; Peter and Judi; Susan and Bill (Sims), her cherished, grandchildren Lance & Anna; Scott & Jac; Kerry and Shannon; Marcus and Kim; Haiden & Danni; Bianca; Luke and Jamie; Jessica & Aaron; Billy and Lauren and great grandchildren Isla, Emmi, Molly, Tilly, William, Sebastian, Jayden, Codey, Kade, River, Isaac, Ivy and .5 (twice).

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SHARP — John Robert (Jack)25. 5. 1926 – 15. 7. 2021Aged 95 years.Passed away peacefully at Numurkah District Hospital.Dearly loved husband of Chris. Adored father of Morag and Fiona, and father-in-law of Noel and Lewis.Much loved Grandad of Stephanie and Tim, Noel and Jayne, Nicole and Alex, Mathew and Sam, Darian & Dean, and Natasha, and his 12 great grandchildren.

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STEWARD —Ronald Victor Dear DadYou never looked for praises,You were never one to boast,You just went on quietly working, For the ones he loved the most.

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HE was the big name on-field recruit of the Murray League in 2021, and now Jackson Trengove has been announced as Barooga’s playing coach for 2021.

The former Port Adelaide and Western Bulldogs utili-ty, who only finished his 185 game career at AFL level last year, has already made a mas-sive impact at the Hawks, espe-cially for their younger brigade.

He has been a mentor for everyone at the club, working closely with current coach Tim Hargreaves.

Barooga president Marcus Fry told the Leader that coach-ing was always on the cards for the boom recruit.

“Our initial conversations with Jackson around 18 months ago were about coach-ing,” he said.

“He always had the desire to coach, but he just wanted to come and experience the country life first, before he committed to any coaching.

“As an assistant coach, he’s been very actively involved this year, and with Tim’s busi-ness getting a bit bigger, and his time diminishing, Jackson’s desire to coach was there, so the timing was perfect.

“To make the announcement now, it means we’re probably three months ahead of a lot of clubs.”

People inside the club say his impact has been profound, and

he is held in the highest regard, so it should come as no sur-prise that he’s been appointed as senior coach.

“He’s brought so much pro-fessionalism to the club, the way he goes about it is fantas-tic,” Fry said.

“His communications skills are first class and he’s just a real people’s person who’s fitting into the community well.”

Fry says Trengove and Har-greaves will continue on work-ing together for the rest of this year, before Trengove takes over for next season.

“There’ll be no difference with how we operate for the rest of the 2021 season, Tim and Jackson have been work-ing together since round one anyway,” he said.

“Over the past couple of weeks, Jackson has led a couple of quarter time and half time huddles, so he’s just slowly in-creasing what he’s doing. But nothing really changes for this year, as far as we’re concerned.”

On the field, Trengove has kicked 17 goals from 10 games, kicking at least one goal in every game he’s played, and had stand-out performances against Mulwala and Cobram.

The Hawks have had a dis-appointing season, handing Echuca United its only win for the season in recent weeks - when Trengove was on the sidelines - but also had a good win against Deniliquin.

ON the eve of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Swimming Australia has announced its new, in-novative brain child; the Australian Swimming League (ASL).

The inaugural series will commence in the last quarter of 2022, and will provide Australia’s world-leading swimmers and the next wave of young talent with the opportunity to compete against each other in elite competition on an an-nual basis, while delivering a fresh, exciting, and engaging entertainment product for fans both in attendance and watching at home.

Swimming Australia CEO Alex Baumann was thrilled to announce the partnership between Swimming Australia and the ASL.

“Swimming is an integral part of Australian culture and leading recreational activity, not to mention the success our Olympic and Paralym-pic athletes have achieved in the sport,” he said.

“For generations, Australian swimmers have been some of the best in the world and are

household names both at home and abroad. “Outside of major international events, it is

important for Swimming Australia to create a high-profile domestic platform to showcase our current and future stars which also supports our vision of delivering greater opportunities for Australia’s leading athletes.

“We are delighted to be working with the ASL to establish an annual, made for broadcast league, that will provide high level competition for our swimmers, while entertaining a broad au-dience in a way which excites and inspires.”

The ASL is set to introduce a club-based com-petition under a license model where each team will be represented by a set number of swim-mers, split evenly between male and female athletes, including multi-class and juniors. To ensure close competition, the ASL will feature an annual draft that delivers an equal spread of talent across the league.

The ASL will take place over several weeks at

venue(s) across Australia, involving a set amount of competition days, and featuring a bumper event program showcasing all strokes.

Swimming Australia national head coach Ro-han Taylor said the ASL is absolutely fantastic news for Australian swimming.

“From a coaching perspective, an annual profes-sional league will offer regular elite competition to drive performance outcomes and provide a vital opportunity for Australia’s best emerging talent to compete against our finest swimmers,” he said.

“With prize money on the line as part of this new professional league, I anticipate every round will be hotly contested and will offer viewers action packed racing where the level of compe-tition will see Australian swimming go to new heights.”

The ASL is privately owned and will run the competition with the support of Swimming Australia.

ASL CEO Stuart Coventry said he looks for-

ward to the partnership.“The ASL is thrilled to be partnering with

Swimming Australia to establish and operate this new professional swimming league,” he said.

“The ASL will be swimming, but not as you know it! It will be an exciting format that delivers a fast-paced event program that pits individuals and teams against one another in an elite com-petition with plenty of action in and out of the water.

“This competition will capture the imagination of a diverse audience through our fast-paced, ac-tion-packed, highly entertaining and family fo-cused product. We look forward to sharing more details about the league over the coming months ahead of the inaugural series commencing in Summer 2022.”

The ASL is planning to run an initial ‘opening night’ event in October 2021 to kick off this new innovative format, with event details to be an-nounced in due course.

Ground-breaking professional swimming league unveiled

NUMURKAH Small Bore and Rifle Club’s top scorers this week were as follows.

Bev Braybon with 183.1 in 20m benchrest, Lindsay Bray-bon with 198.12 for 20m prone, Col Saxton with 195.8 in 50m benchrest.

20m benchrest scores were: B. Braybon 86.0 97.1 183.120 prone scores were: L. Braybon 99.7 99.5 198.12, G. Bray-

bon 96.2 98.2 194.4, H. O’Brien 92.0 97.4 189.4, D. Cook 92.0 94.3 186.3, B. Sneddon 90.1 94.3 184.4

50m benchrest scores were: C. Saxton 96.1 99.7 195.8, J. Mat-ys 96.1 98.3 194.4

There will be no shooting at Numurkah until further notice.

Small bore results

Trengove to take the reins at Barooga

AFTER 12 rounds of Murray League footy, Numurkah’s season hasn’t been what coach Sean Harrap had hoped it might, but he says there’s still so much to gain on the run home.

The Blues have had a very up and down season, which, with such a young side, was always to be expected.

They narrowly lost to Nathalia by three points, after being nine points up with minutes to go; they pushed the undefeated Tonga-la to within 30 points; they had a thrilling one point win against Deni at Deni, where Trent Craven covered himself in glory to kick the winning goal; and their spirited round one performance against Rumbalara was arguably their best win for the year.

But while their highlights have been encouraging, their low-lights have been every bit as disappointing - if not more.

After such a brilliant round one performance, they were then blown out of the water by Finley, and the Cats have only won a single game since then; they were smashed by Deniliquin at home by 52 points; embarrassed by Cobram by 114 points - although they’re not peerless in that regard; and then put in a lacklustre performance against Moama.

With four wins and eight losses, sitting three wins outside the top six with four games to play (COVID restrictions pending), finals are mathematically possible, but would be a miracle.

Having said that, the Blues could easily win three of their final four games.

They will miss their game against Nathalia this weekend, due to COVID restrictions, but then have Echuca United, against which they will be heavy favourites. They then play Rumbalara, which will be tough, but if they produce another performance like

round one, can win. A win against Tongala the following week would seem extremely unlikely, but Barooga in the final game of the season is more than winnable.

Coach Sean Harrap said he’s bullish about the final rounds of the season.

“Regardless of being in finals contention or not, there’s so much to gain out of these last few rounds for our young group, heading into next year,” he said.

“We should be heading into the final month of the year with the clear mindset that we should be winning at least two or three of these games, because we’ve shown we’re capable of doing that.

“In saying that, we’ve probably also shown we’re capable of los-ing three or all of them, with some of the performances we’ve had throughout the year.

“Going into next year, we really want to work on closing the gap between our best and worst. You’re never going to win a flag if you don’t know what you’re going to get from your group week to week; we need to be more ruthlessly consistent.

“I have no doubt we can get there though.” Harrap said he is buoyed by the form of some of his younger

players.“Rhys Cason as a 17-year-old has been incredible obviously, he’s

been our best player for the year clearly, but it’s more than just Rhys,” he said.

“Blokes like Jarrod Holmes, Zach McKeown, Flynn Penberthy and Trent Craven, who have all been exposed to senior footy this whole year, will start to really grow into good senior footballers. That’s what’s going to take us forward next year.”

A lot to gain in Blues’ run home

Young star ... Coach Sean Harrap says young players like Flynn Penberthy (pictured) are the future of the club.


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verse doesn’t want us to play golf at the moment - or any oth-er local sport for that ma� er.

If it’s not COVID lockdowns, then it’s been the weather; with a rainy day keeping the Nu-murkah women indoors last Wednesday.

But all was not lost, and the girls made the most of the can-cellation to have a bit of fun, while supporting a very good cause.

� e day was scheduled for our pink ball charity day, and vice captain Julie Hannaford had planned a number of activ-ities to take place, both on the course, and a� er golf over a� er-noon tea.

But a� ernoon tea turned into morning tea, and everyone still turned up wearing some pink – a� er all, we couldn’t let the commi� ee members’ baking ef-forts go to waste, could we?

� ere was pu� ing on the car-pet, a hotly contested version of beer pong (without the beer), and a ra� e for a container of Julie’s delicious home-made yo-yos, which all made for a very successful morning, raising $300 for Breastscreen Trials.

With lockdown continuing into this week, we will not be playing the Meat on Mel-ville sponsored Doris Cham-bers foursomes event today as scheduled and, at time of writ-ing, who knows when we will be back on the golf course again.

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by JDMANY of last � ursday’s golfers at Numurkah

found the lightning fast greens a bit of a problem, but not the ever-consistent Stephen Piggo� .

Stephen’s 40 points meant he was the only one of the 37 players to play to or be� er than his handicap. It also gave him a � ve-point bu� er over the runner-up, Steve � ornton, who survived a three-way countback on 35 points.

Tyson Woods and Ron “Sono” Grandell � n-ished third and fourth respectively, earning club vouchers for their 35 points.

Martin Harper, Paul Arnel (enjoying a stretch of long service leave), Col Stone, Hugh Gunn, Glenn “Bubba” � omson (in a rare � ursday appearance) and Allan Newby all won balls for 34 points.

� e other ball winners were Graeme “Doggie” Sprunt and Jack Hepworth with 33 points, and Adam “Happy Days” Farrell, Darryl Sheridan and Neville “Ni� y” Smith, all 32 points.

Barry Schmedje scored a rare double, ‘winning’ both the tin of boiled lollies and the Mickey Mouse ears.

Barry had the lowest score of 22 points, which could have been be� er if he hadn’t picked up his ball on the ninth hole (his last), forge� ing he had

a ‘double-header’. He also four-pu� ed the 18th green, including three from about 10 centime-tres and managed a ‘windy’ into the bargain.

At least his playing partners had some enter-tainment!

All the nearest the pins went o� , with Dudley Bryant scoring on both the fourth and the Barry Pruden sponsored 18th.

Barry didn’t mind giving the ball, as he won the money hole seventh. Glenn � ompson was clos-est for two on the 14th, as was Graeme Sprunt on the second, while Martin Harper added an-other ball with a good shot to the 15th (knock-ing o� what I thought was a winner!).

Saturday golf was abandoned thanks to the COVID lockdown, as were Sunday’s pennant games.

� e powers that be have decided the pennant games would be halved, meaning Numurkah has both divisions one and two into the � nal this Sunday at Shepparton.

Division one plays the host club, while division two plays Hill Top. Times are yet to be decided.

At the time of writing, � ursday and indeed Saturday golf are in limbo. Check the Facebook site for further updates.

Steves’ day ... Steve Thornton (pictured) played well to fi nish runner-up to Stephen Piggott.

No golf, but plenty of cash

Fun(d) raiser … Merren Carr tries her hand at putting on the carpet.

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