A NUMBER of Warracknabeal district athletes with a disability are training hard as they look forward to competing in several sports events in both Victoria and South Australia. In October a team will travel to Mildura to compete in an All Abilities cricket tournament. This will be followed in November by the Tri-state games in [...]
FORMER Warrack Eagle and premiership midfielder Nick Peters was recently re-signed as a North Ballarat Rooster for 2012. Peters’ contract was renewed following a meeting with Roosters’ officials, as part of a post-season review process, and followed reports SANFL club South Australia had been courting the 21 year old. Roosters’ football manager Marg Richards said [...]
NORTH Wimmera Bowls Association saw a good turnout for its opening day for season 2011-12 at Warracknabeal Bowling Club on September 19, with 64 players contesting the event. The newly formed Division consists of teams from Beulah, Brim, Hopetoun, Jeparit, Minyip, Murtoa, Rainbow, Rupanyup, Warracknabeal and Warracknabeal Golf. The women from Murtoa, Minyip and Rupanyup [...]
WIMMERA Off Street Drag Racing Club’s recent meeting, the first in 18 months, has been hailed a success. Based on gate takings, organisers were delighted by a crowd of nearly 600 people attending the meeting at Warracknabeal Aerodrome. Although a good number of competitors travelled to attend, president Brendan Rosser said he was pleased to [...]
WARRACK Home Timber and Hardware is encouraging the community to support the show by entering some good old fashioned home style cooking. With all the kitchen essentials to help start those cooking adventures, the business is definitely the place to start your cooking adventure. Cooking lines featured at Warrack Home Timber and Hardware include paper [...]
EVERYTHING is shaping up well for Warracknabeal’s 125th annual Agricultural and Pastoral Show on October 6. Show committee secretary Jean Wise said: “The weather forecast is looking good for sunny weather and the grounds are in magnificent order thanks to our hard working band of volunteers and the outdoor staff of the Yarriambiack Shire.” “There [...]
HORSHAM Country Music Association Chairman Lyall Wheaton said that nearly 100 people attended the recent Morning Melodies at the Warracknabeal Comm-unity Centre. Performers Tom Routledge from Oxley and Patsy McCallum from Ballarat entertained the crowd with a wide range of “good old country music” songs, including Gene Pitneys classic “Liberty Valance”. The next country music [...]
MENTAL Health Week, from October 9-15 is an annual national awareness event and includes World Mental Health Day on October 10. Depression and anxiety can affect people’s thoughts, mood, behaviour and physical health. It can affect anyone at any time. They are common illnesses with about one million Australian adults suffering depression and two million [...]
FOR Horsham’s Melanie Tippett a day at the races with her band of “hens” proved all the more exciting when she received a special wooing by none other than Warracknabeal’s own Adrian Bibby. Miss Tippett, who is set to marry fiance Adrian Wade in Queensland on October 7, spent Sheep Hills Cup Day recently enjoying [...]
WARRACKNABEAL Police are investigating damage to three windows at Warracknabeal Town Hall overnight on Wednesday. Sergeant Bill Alford said the hall’s two display cabinets in Scott-st, and the window near the supper room in Phillips-st were smashed sometime after midnight, causing about $500 damage. “The broken windows at our town hall are another testimony to [...]