MORE than 80 people donned their raincoats and gumboots to take part in a Yarrilinks tree planting activity to celebrate or remember their mums on Mothers Day. Yarrilinks coordinator Tim Inkster said he was extremely happy with the amount of people who braved the weather to take part in the event. “All up about 200 [...]
WARRACKNABEAL Fire Brigade firefighters were given an opportunity to learn how to use a Hazmat suit during Tuesday’s regular training session. As part of the brigade’s ongoing training program, firefighters learned how to use the suits, and the special breathing apparatus inside. With an airtight seal, the chemical proof suits have a self-contained breathing system [...]
Model gliding enthusiasts from across the country started to arrive in Warracknabeal yesterday, to compete in a high level Aerotow scale model glider competition being held over four days at the Warracknabeal Aerodrome, finishing on Sunday. Event organiser, Mike O’Reilly of Model Flight in Adelaide said, “the numbers of competitors is looking really good and [...]
WOODBINE’S Individual Residential Lifestyles house appears to be on track for its scheduled completion and handover in early September. The developer, Contract Control Systems, has already completed the site scrape in Noall-st, prepared the building footprint and imported clean fill for the compaction of the site of the slab. Woodbine chief executive Bernie O’Connor said [...]
YARRIAMBIACK Shire communities paused yesterday to remember fallen comrades, loved ones and those currently serving in the Armed Forces, during ANZAC Day services at Warracknabeal, Sheep Hills Brim and Minyip. Assembling at Sheep Hills Cenotaph in the chilly dawn air, attendees were moved by the dawn service which featured the playing of the Last Post, [...]
VICTORIA’S 2012 Rural Ambassador and finalist in the Australasian Rural Ambassador awards, Rose Harris, was the guest speaker during the 2012-13 Warracknabeal Agricultural and Pastoral Society annual dinner on Friday. During the annual dinner presentations were made to the winners of the 2012-13 Crop Competition. Chief steward of the wheat competition, Bruce Hein, commented on [...]
WARRACK Wheelies and Triangle Titans cycling team members are ecstatic to have completed, respectively, their 14th and fourth Murray to Moyne cycling relay. Cycling an impressive 520 kilometres, the teams joined 1700 other cyclists for the event, aimed at raising funds for their various health services. For Warrack Wheelies, although the total amount raised is [...]
RURAL Northwest Health supporters will take a considerably long walk this weekend to help raise important funds for the Warracknabeal campus. Staff, residents and supporters of RNH plan to walk from Hopetoun to Warracknabeal to raise money for RNH’s Wattle Unit, which recently won a major Victorian Healthcare award for person centred care. “Walk For [...]
THERE were flannelette shirts, “blueys”, ugg boots, thongs and tattoos, real and fake, as far as the eye could see on Saturday night when Warracknabeal Town Hall auxiliary committee hosted “Bogan Bingo”. THAC vice president Stacey Drage said, despite facing the possibility of cancelling the event on Thursday, 66 tickets were sold for the event. [...]
MAJOR infrastructure projects at Beulah, Hopetoun and Woomelang received $275,000 funding from State Government’s Local Government Infrastructure Program last week. Member for Mildura Peter Crisp who visited Beulah on Thursday said the funding allows Yarriambiack Shire to get on with delivering priority projects for the community, including the redevelopment of council’s Hopetoun depot, development at [...]
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