General News
6 November, 2025
Flashback: November 6 1975
The marriage of Maureen Frost, with Ken Crisp, was celebrated at the Hopetoun Joint Parish Church, on Saturday, October 14, with Rev Jago officiating.
Maureen is the fourth daughter of Mr and Mrs F. J. Frost, of Hopetoun, and Ken is the son of Mr and Mrs D. Crisp, of Brim.
The bride wore a white chiffon gown and a Juliet-style head piece which held her long veil.
Attending the bride were Mrs Sue Webb, Mandi Frost, Julie Pickering and Judy Pickering. The attendants wore brown crimplene frocks with chunky yellow beads and carried yellow bouquets.
Best man was Mr Gary McConville and groomsmen were Jeff Crisp, John Hood and Barry Newman.
A reception was held in the Hopetoun RSL Hall where guests were received by the bridal party and parents of the bridal couple.
The bride’s mother wore a full-length crimplene gown. The groom’s mother wore a full-length blue chiffon dress.
Friends and relatives travelled from Melbourne, Mildura, Sydney and Canberra to join the couple for the happy occasion.
The church was beautifully decorated by Mrs Mott and photographs were by Hilary Franklin.
The couple will make their future home at Brim.
Hopetoun wickets tumble
This game was declared a one-day game due to the weather not permitting play on the first day.
D. Punn winning the toss, Cannum elected to send Hopetoun into bat.
Hopetoun started badly with Kel Robins being out with the score on six; wickets continued to fall regularly with the highest partnership being an eighth wicket stand between Todd Rivett and Keith Robins of 19 runs.
Most of the batsmen fell to the pace of Ken Stonach and slow bowling of brother Dale. The batsmen giving the most resistance would have been G. Puckle again proving his ability, L. Poulton and T. Rivett, with the latter making his score in quick time.
Once again the batting has not been up to the standard it should be, only three batsmen being into double figures.
When Cannum began to bat they had 37 overs in which to make 87 runs to win. Unfortunately for Hopetoun they let Cannum only 19 overs to make 97 runs. None of the Cannum batsmen were really in trouble.
The hard hitting of K. Strachan, D. Macleash and captain B. McDonald had the Hopetoun bowlers very unhappy about their bowling.
The fielding improved on last year with some great pieces of self-fielding. However there is still room for improvement.
The only way batting and fielding is to improve is for the officers to get properly involved instead of standing in groups talking and letting things go by – need a bit of keen effort to use a bat.