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By Max Clifford. There were 67 in the field at Mt Gambier Golf club on a perfect golfing day and the field scored well. Peter Emetlis, a local, was best in Div 1 with 39 points from Rob Harkness on 38, and Doug Robbins 37. Div 2 went to Millicents Rob “Tank” Thompson with 39, […]
By Janmac Poll Dorset and White Suffolk Stud. A large selection of impressive rams by Janmac’s homegrown sires will feature in the stud’s annual spring sale this year, highlighting the depth of the stud’s genetics. And having recently returned from Sheepvention, one of the largest sheep expos in the country, Janmac Poll Dorset and White […]
By Zoe Williams & Sophie Matters. The first Tuesday night game was between the Scorchers and the Trackers, one of the first single games was between Buck Buckner and Dean Dunsford. The game went for five sets and scores were 11-8, 2-11, 4-11, 11-8 and 11-7, it was Buck taking the win. The third double was played by Shane Sinclair and Tracy Westover from the Scorchers and Dean Dunsford and Tyler Sinclair from the Trackers, scores for this game were 11-7, 11-5, 10-12 and 11-8, the Scorchers were able to win. Final scores for the night were 6-6, 23-21, the Scorchers won the night. The Heros and the Beamers versed each other as well on Tuesday night and one of the first singles was played by Austin and Stuart Martyn. The game went for four sets and scores were 11-9, 9-11, 5-11 and 3-11, it was Stuart who won. The […]
Opinion: By Kim Radok, Credit Matters. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works cooperatively against common threats.” Charles Darwin. It was expected that on the conclusion of COVID, the world would return to […]
By Sally MacLeod. Last Wednesday, the Sherlock family kindly sponsored a stroke round where ladies competed for the coveted Helen Sherlock Memorial trophy. As mentioned last week, Helen was a keen golfer and a great supporter of the golf club and we thank the family for their generous and ongoing donations of prizes for this […]
By Sandy Edwards. The Naracoorte and District Support Group of the RFDS, held their AGM on Tuesday 1 st August. Major Fundraising for the year was Welly’s Poker Run, and a Lamb Drive. We catered for funerals, birthdays, dinners, clearing sales, held wood raffles, received numerous donations and bequests. Lindy Allchurch, Volunteer Co-ordinator from Central […]
By Tim Delany. Cattle: LWB 13 – LWY 347 – LWC 176 – OAY 3. Naracoorte agents offered a smaller number of 539 cattle which was 192 head less. There was a slight decrease in overall quality as it varied from very good to average when compared with last week. However the yarding did have some excellent heavy cows, younger cattle with cover and some well presented grown cattle within the trade run. The regular field of buyers attended not all operating fully. It was a close to unchanged cow market with the younger and grown steers selling from generally firm to a few cents dearer. Grown bulls did sell to less demand and were from 5c up to 14c/kg cheaper in places. Young steers to the trade sold from 270c to 350c, heavier steers above 400kg lwt made 264c to 310c and the younger heifers were mostly from 260c […]
By Bridging the Gap.Twenty ladies played 30 boards last week & it was a difficult decision making day for both directions! South suffered with few points & there were only 7 hands in either direction that had 25 or more combined points to confidently bid to game. Congratulations to Liz Ogilvie & Sue Hood who were N/S winners with 59.48%, followed by Sandra Haynes & Sally Macdonald who scored 54.90%. Great result for Jill Perkins & Sars Crawford winning E/W with 59.27% closely followed by Helen Edwards & Jenny Pridham on 58.44%. In the illustrated board neither direction had an 8 card ‘fit’ in any suit. Although E/W collectively had 22 high card points, a No Trump bid was potentially disastrous considering North’s 6 Diamonds plus E/W were Vulnerable! Bidding was tricky for both sides & consequently there were 5 different bids. Not one of the 5 bids was successful […]
By Chris Oldfield. MEMBER for Barker Tony Pasin would prefer a different funding method than the “all or nothing” approach of Telstra’s Connect Limestone Coast project. The $40 million project involves 27 phone towers scattered across the region, each costing $1.5 million. But the project relies on Federal funding for 50 percent of the cost. […]
By Sam Brooskby. Saturday 2nd September 2023 Field: 49 (13 Ladies and 36 Men) Sponsor: MiniJumbuk A Grade Winner: Loren Bald 80-9: 71 (C/B) A Grade Runner-Up: Chris Burford 83-12: 71 (C/B) B Grade Winner: Josh Pettman 85-18: 67 B Grade Runner-Up: Scott Lawrie 87-15: 72 C Grade Winner: Jack Pilkington 110-37: 73 C Grade Runner-Up: Cooper McCully 105-27: 78 Ladies Winner: Kim Trueman 98-24: 74 (C/B) Ladies Runner-Up: Robyn Talbot 109-35: 74 Ball Rundown: 71: Michael Parker, Nick Prattent 72: Michael Schinckel 74: James Fulton, Sam Brooksby, Terry Munro Nearest to Pins Farmers Leap: Chris Moyle Naracoorte Print: James Norcock Bushman’s Arms Nearest to Pins A Grade: Paul McCarthy B Grade: Shane Kavanagh C Grade: Peter Childs Ladies: N/A
By Rosie Legoe. Fine weather prevailed for the 18 golf ladies who played the 3 rd & final round of Bricey’s SE Collision Repairs Par competition. The members of our club would like to thank Leon for his continued loyal support of the Lucindale Country Club, we’re all very grateful. It was also the final round of the Olympic Golf Game which was instigated this year after an enterprising member’s suggestion. It’s a fun & novel competition comprising of 2 specific rounds in each of the Olympic Stroke, Stableford & Par games during the golf season. The best score from one of the rounds in each event is accumulated to discern the Olympic Gold & Silver winners. We were thrilled to see Annie Haynes back at the club after her various flights overseas & the Kimberley area. We were also thrilled to welcome Daniel Flint from Wangolina who offered a […]
By Mel Tiver. #matessavingmates Inc. is a not for profit group which was started after a founding member lost her husband to drink driving last year. This started a manic desire to try and prevent drink driving from shattering the lives of other families and small communities. We sought the sound advice from a friend with extensive business experience and managed to entice her to join the crew. We then went ahead and created a group that can do what we want it to do, be all about community, education and maybe even save a life. Through fundraising including a social knockout bowls night which will be held annually in Padthaway and generous donations from businesses and corporations we were able to purchase a Toyota Hiace 12 seater bus for people to hire. We now have our bus ready for hire and being a smaller bus, we’re hoping people will […]
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