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Wednesday July 1, 2020

Last week St Mary of theAngels came together withstudents across classes to celebrate Australia’s Aborigi-nal heritage.

The classes had a great dayresearching Aboriginal rolemodels, exploring Dreamtimestories and symbols, listeningto literature and creating art-works.

There was also great en-thusiasm for the Aboriginaldancing activities.

Dreamtime art and culture

Right: Teo Starr, Noah Brennan,Miss Ryder, Tom Graham, Baxter

Clark, Edward Grills, Mackenzie Ellem, Camilla Grills,

Freya Bray, Sam Reeves andCharles Drew

Below: Teo Starr (left) & Ned Newberry & Millie Neill

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Rainbow Room here to stayAfter testing the waters

with a shopfront selling arange of whimsical apparel forkids, Jypsi Hooper and part-ner Luke were encouraged bythe response and are nowplanning on what they hopewill be a long term retail ven-ture in Guyra.

Since throwing open thedoors to Little Loki & Me inMay for a trial period theyhave been encouraged by thesupport and patronage theyhave received. They have nowrebranded as the RainbowRoom reflecting a passion forcolour and also embracing awider range which includesadult clothing, handmadeitems, toys and a range of gift-ware and art.

The Rainbow Room is alsoembracing the trend to slowfashion – a movement whichembraces designing, creating,and buying garments for qual-ity and longevity. What youwill find in store is a uniquerange that is affordable, but

will also stand the test of time.With winter well and truly

here there are lots of options tokeep warm and dry fromscarves and beanies to kidsclothes and wet weather gear.If you are looking for gifts they

can help with lots of optionsavailable. They are also proudto support locals, with hand-made clothing, craft and giftsin store.

For the bargain hunterthere is also a rack of quality

pre-loved kids clothes tochoose from. To keep up todate with new stock you canfollow the Rainbow Room onfacebook. You can also browseon line to see what they havein stock.

Jypsi Hooper (with Hilda) has an extensive range of clothing and gifts to browse

A just reward for a helping handGuyra Volunteer Rescue As-

sociation (VRA) have beengiven a boost with Kirks IGAhanding over a $500 donationto the group as thanks for theirsupport over recent months.

In the midst of the COVID 19crisis, the VRA stepped in tosupport staff who were comingunder pressure due to panicbuying and increased demandfor home deliveries.

Manager Harry Kirk saidthat it just a small reward forthe group which he hopes theycan use to buy some new equip-ment to support their work inthe community.

“At the time we were run offour feet just trying to keep theshelves full and while we weretrying to cope with the influx ofcustomers we also had a highdemand for deliveries,” Harrysaid. “The VRA offered to do-nate time to help out with de-liveries and as soon as thathappened they were run offtheir feet helping us to meetthe demand.”

“They do a great job in thecommunity and this is an op-portunity to reward them forthe work they put in..

“We had some great feedbackfrom customers who sent cardsand emails thanking the VRAfor their great service, which

shows how much the work wasappreciated,”

VRA member Wayne Mendessaid that he enjoyed his timedoing deliveries and also en-joyed the opportunity to con-nect with people who werestaying close to home.

“It was good to help out andI enjoyed being able to have ayarn with people and theywere always so welcoming andgrateful for the service,” Waynesaid. “This is not what we nor-

mally do but we saw a needand it was a way of connectingwith people during what wasan uncertain time.”

The VRA are starting to getback into training now thatthings have settled down, afterbeing restricted to online train-ing for the last few months.While they have a core group ofdedicated members, more areneeded to keep service going.

They are always on the look-out for members and to find

out how you can become involved simply go along to theVRA shed in Yarrawanda St.Meetings are held on Tuesdaynights and everyone is wel-come.

Kirks IGA deliveries areback to normal now that thingshave settled down. The serviceis always available for the eld-erly or those without cars. Delivery is free within thetown boundaries.

Up to 100 new full-time jobswill be coming to the region inthe next few months with Armi-dale revealed as one of four lo-cations for the home of therecently-created Department ofRegional NSW.

Armidale will be one of fournew offices for the Department,with offices also to be estab-lished in Queanbeyan, Dubboand Coffs Harbour.

Deputy Premier and Ministerfor Regional NSW John Barilarosaid this is great news for re-gional NSW and for Armidale lo-cals, with new job opportunitiesset to become available.

Chief Executive Officer forArmidale Regional Council,Susan Law said that the newswas a welcome boost to the re-gion and would bring a fantasticinjection of jobs and economic

stimulus.“The Government’s decision to

locate an office here shows won-derful confidence in our region,”Ms Law said. “It will be anotherhighly valuable measure to fur-ther invigorate our region, incombination with other eco-nomic stimulus initiatives byCouncil and the business com-munity.

“We have already seen thebenefits from the relocation ofother industries to Armidaleand we’re excited to see a simi-lar outcome from hosting theDepartment of Regional NSWoffice,” she said.

“We look forward to workingwith the NSW Government andthe Member for Northern Table-lands, Adam Marshall, to getthis underway as soon as possi-ble.”

Harry Kirk hands over a cheque to Wayne Mendes from Guyra VRA

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100 new jobs bound for region

Lack of footpaths alongRyanda St putting stu­dents on their way to &from school at risk

Dogs barking incessantlyin Wirruna Street. Pleaseconsider your neighbours

Street stall table notbeing looked after

Being woken by thephone at 4am to be told“there’s movement in thepiano room”

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Sporting activity startingto emerge from lockdown

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Keep up the goodwork

The Guyra CWA memberswould like to acknowledgeMartha, Janelle and the staffat GALA on the publicationof the Guyra Gazette.

How fortunate are we inGuyra to have a newspaper.During the last few monthsthe inclusion of the cross-words and puzzles have keptour minds active and im-proved our local knowledge.

You have kept the townand district connected andwe at Guyra CWA thank youfor your dedication to ourcommunity. Well done andkeep up the good work.

Heather StarrPresident Guyra CWA

Hydrogeologist report ‘severely lacking’

The release of the longawaited “Hydrogeologist re-port” that has guided thecouncil in their groundwaterresource development projecthas done nothing to allayconcerns.

A grand total of SIX sen-

tences in this report of 41pages are found under theheading “Environmentaland Sustainability”.

Here is a summary of thesix relevant sentences; “Thescope of the investigationstudy has not enabled a de-termination of the sustain-ability of aquifers in theregion” and “there is cur-rently poor understanding ofthe groundwater system par-ticularly in relation torecharge factors”. Despitethis report, “council believesit can sustainably utilize thisresource to enhance watersecurity”. How can councilreach this conclusion? Thereport itself claims no realunderstanding of sustain-ability or connectivity ofgroundwater systems.

The report also claims thatthere are no ground waterdependent ecosystems(GDE’s)identified in the areaof the bores and yet, accord-ing to the Bureau of Meteor-ology Atlas of GroundwaterDependent Ecosystems,Mother of Ducks is clearlylisted and is located only a

few hundred metres from thebore at Izzeard Park. Howwas this missed by the hy-drogeologist?

Based on six sentences, ofwhich one is incorrect andthe others state a lack of un-derstanding, Mr Scott Mc-Donald stated on the ARCWeb page 23 Jun 2020“While water security is fun-damental, we would not un-dertake any action unless wehad the evidence that itwould not impact on environ-mental assets such asMother of Ducks Lagoon.”What is evidently clear, fur-ther development and infra-structure of this project mustnow cease until further re-search has been completed.

Rebecca Smith

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QUOTE of the week

Always remember

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final destination

Well, I finally did it. Wehave a cupboard full of suit-cases. They go back a longway, so recently I disposed ofthe oldest. They were still inalmost new condition as wehaven’t travelled much, butthey didn’t have wheels oradjustable handles so no onewould want them now. Re-ally, who wants to carry asuitcase and it’s not as if taxidrivers, train or planeporters are going to give youa hand either.

Now we only have half adozen cases of various sizesand five overnight bags. Youget the picture; the kidsdidn’t take their bags withthem when they moved out.

Anyway, when one child wentoverseas for a holiday, (theyounger generations are somobile compared to us); shemade us aware that our suit-cases weren’t suitable. Thecases needed to be weatherand shock proof and havethat special lock that only theowners and every customs of-ficial in the world could getinto.

I looked inside the biggestof the cases only to find it fullof wire coat hangers. I knowthat I dislike wire coat hang-ers and that I put any I comeacross in the recycling, so Iwas a bit surprised. However,it validates my theory thatyou only have to have a cou-

ple of wire hangers in a cup-board and they breed; just toannoy you, so they can makelots of rattling noises whenyou are looking for yourfavourite jeans and so theycan get into a massive tangle.I fixed that lot, straight intothe bin without any attemptto sort them out. Then I wasable to stack three smallercases, in descending order,into the large one and shovethe overnight bags into theother cases.

The Problem Of The Suit-cases is now solved, at leastfor a little while. Bonus:there’s room in the cupboardfor some other (possibly) es-sential Stuff.

Just in CaseRamblings by the Guyra Ghost.

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A group of Guyra knittersand crocheters are justifiablyproud of themselves. As well ascrafting gifts for family andfriends, they have raised over$700 for Guyra’s Neighbour-hood Centre, The Hub so far in2020.

The original idea behind thegroup was as a social outlet,but it was decided that theycould also raise money for char-ity while enjoying the companyof friends. The group meetonce a week on Thursdays be-tween 2pm and 4 pm, usuallyat the Guyra Library.

The Library has been instru-mental in handling the sale ofthe group’s craftwork, but withthe lockdown restrictions addi-tional sale points at Brisk Trad-ing and the Burgess GarageShop have ensured that fundsto help our local communitycan still be raised.

In previous years they hadsent their money overseas sup-porting the work of the Cather-ine Hamlin Fistula Foundation

in Ethiopia. However, they de-cided to give a helping handcloser to home after seeing howmany in our community werestruggling due to the droughtand bushfires.

They chose to direct theirprofits to assist with the workthat The Hub was doing to sup-port those who were doing it

tough.Coordinator at the Hub Chris

Hietbrink said that it was ahuge and very welcome sur-prise to receive the money fromthe group and they have beenable to put it to good use.

“The money has been used topurchase fuel and groceryvouchers which we have been

able to give out to people in cri-sis,” Chris said.

“Even that little bit of moneygoes a long way to help providevouchers for those in need andis very blessed contribution forthe Guyra community that weare very grateful for.”

Crafty ladies give back to community

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COVID-19 Social Gathering restrictions ease

From Wednesday, 1 July NSW willmove ahead with the considerable easing of COVID-19 restrictions for social gatherings.

Changes coming into effect includethe recommencement of junior andadult community sport, with strict socialdistancing guidelines.

The number of people allowed insideindoor venues will be determined bythe one person per 4 square metrerule, with no upper limit. All activitymust be seated only.

Cultural and sporting events at out-door venues with a maximum capacityof 40,000 will be allowed up to 25 percent of their normal capacity. This ruleis important for Guyra because itmeans user groups can once again access the Guyra Showground and theSporting Complex.

To avoid a coronavirus flare-up dur-ing this time it falls on all of us to followthe below advice from medical experts:

• follow the rules about gatherings,

self-isolation and quarantine• maintain a physical distance of at

least 1.5 metres from others• practise good hand hygiene• stay active and healthy• take extra care if you’re around

vulnerable people• get tested if you have any symptoms,

even if they are only mild• follow NSW Health advice about

staying home while you are waiting fortest results.

It’s also important moving forwardthat all businesses, volunteer organisa-tions (including sporting bodies) andcommunity groups establish and regis-ter a COVID-19 Safe Business Plan.

The plan helps entities meet the requirements under the COVID-19rules of the day. To access a COVIDSafe plan template visit: nsw.gov.au

$66,270 for improvements to Guyra Showground

I was very pleased to be able to announce last month a $66,270 grant,funded through the State Government’sCOVID-19 Showgrounds Stimulus

Package, for a range of maintenanceworks at Guyra Showground.

The aim of this funding program is to get tradies working and money circulating in the local economythrough the purchase of materials.

The works taking place include afresh lick of paint, inside and out, forthe secretary’s office and canteen,while the grandstands will also bepainted and any broken boards andpanels replaced.

The cattle shed will be made to lookmore professional and easier to main-tain with a concrete floor to be putdown over the existing earthen floor.

I want to congratulate Show SocietyPresident Richard Post and his teamfor having this list of shovel ready projects ready to go and I’m sure theywill all contribute to making the venuemore secure, accessible and safe.

Contact my office:Phone: 02 6772 5552 Fax: 02 6772 5026

Email: northerntablelands@parliament.nsw.gov.au

Authorised by Adam

Marshall, Mem

ber for Northern Tablelands. Funded using parliamentary entitlements.

July 2020.

Hub staff Chris Hietbrink, Sarah Hunt and Sonia Shipman with Helen McDonald from the knitting group

Guyra Gazette Wednesday July 1, 2020 Page 6

New England CommunityCollege(GALA) are lookingforward to holding theirFirst Aid course this month.This will be the first onesince all the restrictions, andcertain measures have beenput in place to adhere to allthe rules and regulations forthe prevention of Covid 19 .

Spotlight on First AidInfo on our courses

We provide a range of FirstAid courses—CPR, Asthmaand Anaphylaxis; Basic FirstAid and First Aid for ChildCare workers - these wouldbe the main ones we offer. AFirst Aid Certificate lasts forthree years then has to be re-newed. Some organisationsrequire CPR updates every12 months. First aid train-ing consists of multiplechoice questions and one daytraining. When you enrol forthe First Aid you will receivea work book with multiplechoice questions to be com-pleted before the course date.

At the moment we canoffer farmers and farm work-ers who have been affectedby the drought and bushfires

free first aid courses. All youhave to do is contact us andwe will check that you qual-ify and book you into ournext course.

Disability training and involvement

New England CommunityCollege is an approved or-ganisation to deliver trainingto people with a disability.Several different types ofcourses are available forthese students. We workwith students from allaround the area providing alarge selection of courses.These range from basic com-puters to life skills. If you orsomeone you know couldbenefit from some coursesthen give us a call.

What Secretarial Services do we offer?

For the many people whoare seeking employment wecan help update your resumeso it’s ready for any jobs youmay be interested in. Justcontact us for more info.

Don’t forget to check ourupcoming courses on the adand the webpage.

Community College Corner

136 Bradley Street, GuyraPhone: 6779 2132

E: admin@gala.org.auwww.gala.org.au

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Australian Poetry Hall ofFame,Guyra. Our Saturdayfarmers and craft market isgrowing with new stalls, localironbark honey and spuds, plushandmade craft.  Once againwe were entertained by themusic of Otto and Tony fromTimor. There is also plenty ofspace for new stall holders.

The projection screen was in-stalled this week and is readyto show films. The most afford-able option for showing andviewing films is to form a filmsociety. The inaugural forma-tion meeting and sign up nightfor the new Australian PoetryHall of Fame- Guyra Film Soci-ety is scheduled for Thursday9th July 6pm. All interestedfilm fans are welcome to at-tend. 

This Weeks’ Program: Mati-nee Poetry 12-12:30 Wednesdayto Friday 

Learn English Class 2:pm to3:30 Wednesday, Saturday $10

Thumpin’ Thursday Open

Mic Music, Stand up  Comedyand Spoken Word 6:30 to 9:30 

Fridays FunKlub with NoBeer is an all ages family night-club which is drug and alcoholfree 

6pm to 8pm Drumming Cir-cle: bring your djembe or otherpercussion instruments 8pmto11pm Psytrance Dance Fun-Klub. 

Australian Poetry Hall ofFame is also looking fortrainees in Hospitality, EventManagement and Digital andMultimedia Publishing. 

Every Tuesday night is re-hearsal night for the grandopening show in Septemberand anyone interested in beingpart of “The Greatest PoetryShow on Earth” is welcome toattend. 

You can also find AustralianPoetry Hall of Fame on Youtubewhere you can subscribe towatch new poetry andstreamed events. 

Lisa Carter, NECC trainer in Armidale with pies cooked by her students from the Ascent Group

News from AustralianPoetry Hall of Fame

Guyra Gazette Wednesday July 1, 2020 Page 7

Last Thursday, BlackMountain Public Schoolstudents participated inan Incursion with MrMatt MacKenzie fromThalgarrah. The topic was– Water and Erosion.

The students learnedabout water bugs and ex-amined them under themicroscope, the impor-tance of water in our livesand how to stop erosion.We participated in a fan-tastic STEM project tomove water from onesource to another usingpipes, hoses, containersand funnels.

Thank you so much toMatt from Thalgarrah forsuch an amazing, highlyrelevant and engaginglearning experience!Happy Holidays!

Mrs Justine EddyRelieving Principal

Exploring water and erosion

June 25th ­ A reduced penning thatsaw all categories represented. Thequality of the offering was mostlygood, while a large percentage wereforward in condition. These showingthe benefit of crops. All regular buyerswere in attendance.

There were varying trends throughthe young cattle with vealer steers torestockers showing a cheaper trend.This carried through all weight classes.The better quality light weight vealerheifers to restockers posted stronggains, the heavier weights howeversaw a cheaper trend.

Light weight yearling steers saw lit­tle change, the medium weight feed­ers were slightly cheaper. Yearlingheifers to restock and feed saw little

change apart from quality. Well fin­ished trade heifers also remained firm.There were some very good quality,well finished heavy grown steerspenned. These attracted strong com­petition from both processors andfeedlotters, eventually purchased togo onto feed. Both quality and condi­tion contributing to a dearer trend.

Well finished grown heifers sold todearer trends. There was increasedcompetition in the cow market withdearer trends of 10c to 20c/kg andmore in places. Restockers were par­ticularly keen on a few pens of PTICcows pushing prices well in excess ofsimilar cows to process. Heavy bullssold to cheaper trends.

June 26th ­ It was the final saleof the 2019/20 season this weekand the somewhat orderly retreatof the market continued.

Most of the losses in the North­ern region were seen on the firstday of sales with the pattern ofthe better style, higher yieldingtypes selling closer to expecta­tions than that of the lower styleand yield types.

24,804 bales were sold nation­ally for the week with a passed inrate of 11.5%. Major buyers in­cluded Lempriere, EndeavourWool and Techwool. In a seasonlook back that was first hamperedby international trade disputesthen crippled by a global pan­

demic the results make for som­bre reading.

First hand bales offered for auc­tion nationally fell 18.2% or nearly281,000 bales. The Eastern Mar­ket Indicator fell from an openinglevel of 1710 to a close of 1110(down 35%). The closing level isthe lowest since April 2015. Thisneeds a little more perspectivehowever as the market has beenretreating from an unprecedentedhighpoint set two years ago.

That high point was a whopping47% above its previous high. Wehave now fallen 47% since thathigh point. New season sales con­tinue for a fortnight before a threeweek recess.

Armidale Cattle Sale

June 24th – There was a re­duced penning that saw 2,470mostly good quality lambs and just660 sheep penned. Heavy weightlambs were well supplied, showingthe benefit of crop and supple­mentary feed.

There were limited numbers ofplainer condition lambs to suit re­stockers. The usual processors

were in attendance, howeverthere was limited restocker com­petition. A single buyer preparedto compete with processors onsome of the well finished lines.

Demand was weaker through­out resulting in cheaper trends.Whilst very good, the qualitywasn’t quite up to the previoussale.

Restocker lambs saw a cheapertrend of $10 to $20/head. The wellfinished lambs to process saw thattrend $10 to $24/head cheaperwith the heaviest weights least af­fected.

The reduced restocker competi­tion on the better finished lambshaving a greater effect on the lightand medium weight trade lambs

up to 22kg estimated dressedweight.

The sheep market was signifi­cantly cheaper, despite the major­ity of the offering showing plentyof condition. Variations in skin val­ues accounting for much of theprice variation within weightclasses.

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Weekly Wool Sales

Guyra Sheep & Lamb Sale

Guyra Senior Citizenswill hold a meeting atthe RSL Hall this Sat-urday July 4th startingat 12pm to elect a newcommittee. Anyone iswelcome to attend andbecome involved.

They have regular gettogethers, and enjoy so-cial activities such ascard games.

A new committeeneeds to be formed toenable activities torecommence following abreak due to COVID-19.

Senior Citizens

set to return

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• Mary Ellen Jones (nee Bowen) turned 100 ­ she was born inJuly 1911 and celebrated with a quiet family gathering• John Mitchell had great success showing his prize Rhode IslandRed pullet across NSW and Qld

• Dave Bearup was enjoying a second retirement after a stintselling real Estate and a previous career as the local newsagent

• Jackson Livestock rebranded as The Professionals• Free camping was banned at the Showground and Grey

Nomads were upset that council had imposed the restrictions•Stock theft was on the rise with the New England considered

one of the hotspots in NSW•Local knitters were busy making squares which were being

sewn into rugs being donated to the Addis Abab Fistula Hospital

Looking Back ­ July 2011

Many have experienced the confusion that follows a traffic accident and have tried to summarize what happened in a fewwords or less, on an insurance or accident form. The followingare some examples: ·• Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with atree I don’t have. ·• I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way. · Theguy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him. ·• I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my motherin law, and headed over the embankment. ·• In my attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telegraph pole. ·•I had been driving my car for 40 years when I fell asleep at thewheel and had an accident. • To avoid hitting the bumper of the car in front I struck a pedes­trian. · • An invisible car came out of nowhere, striking my vehicle, andvanished. • The telephone pole was approaching fast. I was attempting toswerve out of its path when it struck my front end.

JUST FOR FUN

Guyra Gazette Wednesday July 1, 2020 Page 9

Senior Police are disgustedby the number of driverscharged with drink drivingoffences across the New Eng-land Police District. In themonth of June twenty-onedrivers have been chargedwith drink driving offences –4 x Special Range, 4 x LowRange, 7 x Mid Range, 6 xHigh Range.

Twelve of those chargescame in the last week, in-cluding a 24 year old malecharged with Special RangePCA at Guyra on Tuesday af-

ternoon.New England Acting Crime

Manager, Inspector ChrisMcKinnon said drink anddrug driving continues to bean unexplainable issue forlocal motorists.

“There is absolutely no ex-cuse for drink and drug driv-ing,” he said. “You knowwhat you’ve drunk or in-gested yet you insist on plac-ing yourself and innocentroad users at risk - the lackof thought process is beyondbelief.”

“There is no legitimate oracceptable reason for resi-dents to drink and drive. Ifpeople are planning ondrinking away from home,then plan your night respon-sibly and organise a soberdriver or taxi.”

Random breath testing canhappen anytime, anywhere.If you are heading out andplan to drink then planahead on how you are goingto get home. If you drink anddrive, you will face the conse-quences.

Career opportunities

power up Essential Energy has opened

applications for its annual in-take to its award-winning ap-prenticeship program, with 39apprentice and trainee posi-tions available across 32 loca-tions.

The energy distributor is re-sponsible for powering morethan 865,000 homes and busi-nesses in one of Australia’slargest network areas. The Es-sential Energy apprentice pro-gram boasts high rates ofcompletion, with 93 per cent ofemployees completing theirapprenticeship, well above na-tional averages of 63 per cent.The program combines formaltraining with on-the-job expe-rience in what it takes to oper-ate a modern electricitynetwork that covers around 95per cent of NSW.

Luke Jenner, General Man-ager for Customer and Net-work Services, said thatEssential Energy prides itselfon recruiting exceptional peo-ple, who are motivated andpassionate about working withthem and who want to becomean important and valued partof the team.

“Our apprentice programwas recognised as the best inAustralia at the 2019 Aus-tralian Apprentices awards,reflecting the success of theprogram for both apprenticesand the business,” he said.

“The program reflects ourgeographic dispersion, withapprentices being recruitedfrom, and being able to liveand work in many of the re-gional towns containing fielddepots across our footprint,”continued Mr Jenner.

If working outdoors in ateam environment appeals toyou, an apprenticeship ortraineeship with Essential En-ergy may be the perfect way topower up your career.

Applications are now openand will close at 11.55pm(AEST) Sunday, 19 July 2020.To apply, visit www.essen-tialenergy.com.au/kickstart

Police warn there is no excuse for drink driving

From the Archives

GCS Staff (around 1975/76)Back l to r: Tom Hruza, Lindsay Crisp, Jim White, Neville Gooch,

Bob Hillard, Alan Sutton, Peter Metcalf

Middle: Unknown, Unknown, Robyn Rogers, Nita Hillard, ? Scullin,

Patsy Wright, Audrey Little, Nancy Prisk

Front: ? Graham, ? Purkiss, Bill Wicks, David Steele, Prue Melville, Ian Lever

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One half of the Terrible Twosome won’thear the last of how the other half tookover the tipping and brought them to thetop of the Locals Leaderboard on 73points.

GG was off his game last week and hasslipped to 2nd place on 71 points alongwith Bulldog, From the Desk and Eel-be-Right.

Last year’s winner, Jy is keeping a steadypace but the surprise package in the

Locals this year is Sarbear who seems toknow her teams and is in 3rd place withJy and Chris on 69 points.

B&L at Fourways have taken the lead inthe Celebrities on 75 points, but they areclosely followed by the Gazette only 2points behind on 73.

Sue, Vu and Soley are all on 69 pointsbut that will be sorted this week with afew different team choices. Don’t give upon Ben who is quietly in the outfield.

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ROOM DIVIDER 6ft high x 4 pan-els, polished pine. Make an offer,ph: 6779 1635

HAY CONDITIONER, second hand,wanted to buy. Ph: Chris 0427 522840TO CARETAKE OR RENT house onproperty in Guyra area, includingsheds, workshop. Ph: 0402 821 943

GUYRA SENIOR CITIZENS meetingat RSL Hall Saturday 4th July, 12pm toelect a new committee. Anyone wel-come to attend and become involved..GUYRA & DISTRICT HISTORICALSOCIETY AGM will be held on Thurs-day, 23rd July at 5.30pm at The GALACentre..GUYRA SHOW SOCIETY AGM will beheld on Saturday, 25th July at 9.30amat the Bowling Club, to be followed bya general meeting.

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Dearly beloved wife of Bentley.

Loving mother and mother-In-law of

Louise & Mick Burey, Ashley, Kylie &

John Atkin and loved grandmother &

great-grandmother of their families.

Aged 66 years

Funeral Service to be held at St

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Guyra, tomorrow Thursday 2nd July

2020 commencing at 11:00am,

followed by private cremation.

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RETURN THANKS

JUDITH CECILY BRAZIER16.4.1941 - 7.6.2020

The family of the late Judy Brazier wouldlike to thank everyone for your kindness, support, cards and offers of sympathy onthe passing of our beloved Judy.

Our thanks to the Paramedics, McLeanCare and Piddingtons for your help andkindness.

Please accept this as our personal thanks.Peter, Peter James, Sharon, Gregory, Lorraine

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6 July Kath Varley

7 July Jan Jordan

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New England Community College136 Bradley Street, Guyra (RTO#90145)

Phone: 6779 2132

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MIXED FIREWOOD. Ute or bogey trailerloads available. Call 0429 302 600

WHERE’S SUPER SPUD

Find Super Spud! This week you needto look for Super Spud. Heappears three times. Thereare no prizes just put yourdetective hats on tear yourhair out looking for him!

SUNDAY, 8th NOVEMBER: Guyra Cup(note postponement from 19th April).

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COURSES

22nd July - WHS White Card $16023rd & 24th July - RMS Combined Traffic

Control course $36027th July RSA $205 & 28th July RCG$155 - do both - get a discount $340

30th & 31st July & 3rd August - Forklift $795

30th July Food Safety Supervisor $18531st July - Espresso Coffee $140

14th August - First Aid $170

CHURCH SERVICES

St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church -Guyra - Contact: 6779 1667::Mass 6pm Saturday

St. Columba’s Presbyterian Church:9am Sunday followed by morning teaContact: Rev. Andrew Campbell 0447 724 536

The Chapel:66 Llangothin StreetSunday Service: 10amContact: Linden Pollard 0412 531 883

GUYRA VINNIES CONFERENCE, CCare& Support have a new mobile number forclients to contact us.

Mobile; 0467 591 020Shop number; 6779 2133.

email: guyraconf@vinnies.org.auWe are open each Wednesday only,from 2pm to 4 pm. Clients can ring oremail or drop in on Wednesdays.Note: We are now re-open for face toface interviews.

Food Pantry at The Chapel1st, 3rd & 5th Friday of the month.

10am - 12pm and 1pm - 2.30pm.NNOELENE MAY MORSE

18th June 2020Ron (Digger) Morse would like to

thank Dr Jey and the staff at MPS Guyra,Doctors and staff at Armidale Hospital,Chris Hietbrink and the team at TheHUB Guyra, for the care and love shownto his beloved wife, Noelene Morse.

VINNIES SHOP is re-opening on Tuesday, 7th July. Opening hours:

Tuesday 10am - 2pmWednesday 1pm - 4pmFriday 10am - 2pm

The 2020 season will be going aheadas normal with some slight changes.Juniors will play a 9 week competitionstarting from the 25th of July 2 and fin-ishing on the 19th September. Seniorswill start on the 18th July and run for14 weeks.

PLEASE NOTE REGISTRATIONSFOR BOTH SENIOR AND JUNIORTEAMS WILL CLOSE ON THE 12TH

JULY. SO PLEASE IF YOU HAVEN’TREGISTERED DO SO BEFORE THISCUT OFF DATE!

You can find the link on the GuyraUnited Soccer Facebook page to regis-ter. Nikki will be doing an hour regis-tration session at our major sponsor theRoyal Hotel from 7pm until 8pm Thurs-day 2nd July if you would like help reg-istering. Teams will depend on the

numbers registered!! The Guyra United soccer club are also

looking for Junior coaches. If anyone isinteresting in coaching a junior teamcould you please email our club withyour interest at guyraunitedsoccer@hot-mail.com. We look forward to a differentbut exciting season.

Guyra United Soccer Club Committee. 

Men’s BowlsThere were four Club Championship

games played over the weekend in comfort-able weather conditions. All games wereplayed on Saturday June 27th.

Scott Campbell played Robert Walls andin this game Robert was successful over 25ends defeating Scott 31 shots to 12 shots.Wayne Reeves played John McIlwain andin this game John was successful over 28ends defeating Wayne 31 shots to 17 shots.Mallie Walls played Col Stanley and in thisgame Col was successful over 28 ends win-ning 31 shots to 20 shots. Andrew Sparkeplayed John Jackson and in this John wassuccessful over 37 ends winning 31 shots to28 shots.

Notwithstanding the scores in mostgames the bowls were as keenly contestedas they always have been and the standardof bowls has not fallen off as would haveexpected pleasing to see. Now games setdown for this weekend:

Saturday July 4th. Start: 12.00pm.Starter: Paul Johnson. Umpire: DavidWilcox.

Club Pairs: Scott Campbell and BoydStanley to play Barry Walls and DanKennedy.

Open Singles: Anthony Bull to playRoger Cox marker Mallie Walls.

Barry Presnell to play Barry Campbellmarker Wayne Reeves.

Major/Minor Pairs: David Wilcox andPaul Johnson to play Murray Bourke and

Andrew Sparke.As stated last week all boarded games

are play or Forfeit as the Match Committeeendeavours to finalise the Club Pairs andOpen Singles to have a Club Champion inboth games in the Champion of Champi-ons.

The Bowls Bandit

Ladies’ GolfLast week the ladies didn’t play due to

the inclement weather.This week we are playing the NEDGA

Jug 4BBB Stroke sponsored by Grills Rac-ing.

Next week is a Stroke- Golf NSW MedalRound along with the Veterans WomensGolf Australia Championship.

Shona Mulligan is the starter. Shona isalso the sponsor.

Good luck to all ladies participating.Birdie

Men’s GolfLast Sunday saw a good field contest an

18 hole stableford for a club trophy, The winner with 39 points was Len Stan-

ley the runner up was Richard Burey with33 points.

Nearest to the pins were Richard Bureyon the 7th, Peter Jackson on the 10th andBarry Simpson on the 18th.

Next Sunday will be an 18 hole stroke fora club trophy and the July monthly mug.

The Albatross

Guyra Junior Rugby League have de-cided to withdraw from the Group 192020 season. President Gina Lockyersaid the decision was not the outcomethat they were anticipating, but unfor-tunately with the current COVID re-strictions in place by Armidale RegionalCouncil, they have been left with nochoice but to withdraw from the compe-tition.

ARC guidelines are that no morethan 20 people can gather at afield/venue at any one time, includingcoaches/trainers and parents etc. Therestrictions make it impossible to suc-cessfully enter a competition.

Also, with the season kicking off onJuly 18, and with no training GJRLhave had to take into consideration theduty of care to players. The health andsafety of the community also played amajor factor in the decision.

In the downtime GJRL will continueto work to ensure they will be back big-ger and better next year.

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