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By Graham Pymer, MLA
Cattle: LWB 11 – LWY 576 – LWC 182 – OAY 24
Cattle numbers declined to 795 this week at Naracoorte, that’s a drop of 445 head on last week. Quality was mostly good with few plainer cattle through the offering.
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By Linda Prentice
The Naracoorte RSL ladies had a delayed start for their Round 8 at home last week against Millicent. Fortunately the Hurn Green was playable by the regulation wait time, as the new green was still well under water.
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A new State Government-funded initiative will support the Limestone Coast timber and forestry sectors to address current skill gap shortages and develop the ‘workforce of the future’. Minister for Education, Skills & Training Blair Boyer officially opened the Mount Gambier Skills Centre this week, which will have a specific focus on timber and forestry, with an accompanying field based role working directly with industry.
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By Jenny Dickenson
Zeus has finished on top of the ladder 1 point ahead of Hera and will battle it out in the grand final on Wednesday night which is sure to have some great matches and will be interesting to see who will win as they have been so close all pennant.
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By Wayne Hawthorne
With the current Egypt-Israel crisis in the Sinai Peninsula, it was interesting to learn that local Jo Callaghan was over there 21 years ago in a peace monitoring role. Jo recently spoke to Naracoorte Men’s Probus members of her army career and time in the Middle-East.
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By Martin Wirper
The grounds at Memorial oval could not escape from the damage Friday’s storm caused in Naracoorte. A limb broke off the gum tree on the visitors side of the ground and caused damage to the fence.
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By Di Arnold
The AGM was held on 10th November at the clubrooms. Very few members attended so this made the meeting brief. There were a few changes in the committee positions. Fay Schinckel is the President, Di Arnold is secretary/treasurer and Pat Carrick will be the booking officer.
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By Bridging the Gap
It was wonderful having 26 ladies play 28 boards of bridge last week. We were thrilled four recently absent players returned, welcome back Julia, Ruth, Chris and Helen. Huge congratulations to E/W winners, Sally Macdonald and Sandra Haynes with a whopping 76.67%.
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By Chris Oldfield
THE Naracoorte Lucindale Council seeks your feedback about whether to spend $8 million on new basketball/netball facilities, or $35 million on a new sports complex. People can offer their feedback by writing to the council, talking to one of their elected members or voicing their opinion via the council’s website.
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By Beverly King
Last Monday ten ladies competed for the honour of the ladies singles champion for the 2023/24 season. In the first round A. Barker defeated L. Williams, and B. King defeated S. Bennett, the second round A. Barker defeated D. Arnold, H. Whitehead went down to C. Fox, C. Murphy defeated B. King and C. Healy defeated S. Williams.
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By Louise O’Shaughnessy
The Naracoorte Mill Quilters is a “like-minded” group of ladies that gather once a month to share our love of all things quilted! But our members are not just from Naracoorte, some ladies travel from as far as Robe, Bordertown and Lucindale to be able to come together.
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By Linda Prentice
After a cancellation of women’s last Friday due to heat, Naracoorte RSL and Districts Bowling Club had both Saturday divisions play away. Division 1 played against Millicent Red and had two rinks up and one down.
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