RURAL Northwest Health’s 120th anniversary celebrations went off without a hitch during the weekend as past and present staff, visitors and community members attended the many activities offered. Guests included current and ex-board members from the Hopetoun, Beulah and Warracknabeal boards, representatives from the Department of Health and Wimmera and Southern Mallee Alliance health services, [...]
BEULAH Football Club tested the 2011 waters recently, when players took part in a practice match against Minyip-Murtoa. Lunging into the six quarter match, Beulah proved they would once again be “the team to beat”, with the welcome of four strong Irish players and former Collingwood player, David King, sure to further reinforce the premiership [...]
KELLALAC farming family Lynette and Kim Byron and their son Shannon are fairly new to accessing funds for farmers. After stumbling across an advertisement the Byron’s, whose farm is a short drive south of Warracknabeal, started thinking about more sustainable farming and how they could get involved. By just ticking a few boxes they started [...]
IRATE Horsham resident, Richard Newby, contacted the Warracknabeal Herald recently, regarding closed and damaged roads in the shire. Mr Newby contacted the Herald after “nearly coming to grief” on the Rainbow-rd bridge. Going over what he described as a “speed hump”, Mr Newby said he then came across two large pot holes just before the [...]
THE record wet harvest is expected to dominate discussion at this year’s Victorian Farmers Federation’s Grain Group Conference, as growers gather in Horsham to discuss the issues surrounding storing high moisture grain and marketing downgraded weather-damaged grain. VFF Grains Group President Russell Amery said that with the unseasonal rain many growers had only recently finished [...]
Ford Mustang and FPR GTO, Porsche, Audi, Nissan GTR, BMW, Fraser Clubman hill climber, Lancer EVO, Subaru WRX, many of the great racing Marques were at the Warracknabeal Aerodrome on Sunday to play. Hosted by the Wimmera Offstreet Drag Racing Club for lunch, 45 cars and well over 100 competitors and marshals arrived at the [...]
FOLLOWING a 12 month-long restoration project, Warracknabeal Mens Shed members were proud, and possibly somewhat relieved, to return a 1920s-era Massey Harris harvester to Wheatlands Museum on Saturday. Mens Shed president David Mollison said the harvester, which he believed was built around 1915-20, was unusual in that it was manufactured by Massey Harris in Toronto, [...]
SIR: De facto couples in Victoria are celebrating an important anniversary, although they might not know it. March 1, marked two years since the Federal Government introduced major changes to the Family Law Act, giving de facto couples in Victoria the same laws that govern married couples, in the event of a break-up. The changes [...]
WITH the beloved annual Y-Fest fast approaching yet again, Yarriambiack Shire Council is calling for community input into safety concerns at the Saturday morning parade. Council noted that the content of the parade is increasing each year and becoming more varied however, this is becoming more and more limited by the space being taken up [...]
WARRACKNABEAL Rotary exchange student Aisha Dennes has been confirmed safe following Japan’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami last week. Aisha, 15 has been in touch with her parents Lee and Darren Carey as well as members of the Rotary Club of Warracknabeal, from her base at Kanazawa. Rotarian Ray Duffield, who accompanied Aisha to Kanazawa, assured [...]