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Storm lashes Naracoorte

Storm lashes Naracoorte

By Chris Oldfield
Thunder, lightning, rain and hail last Friday dumped up to 170mm on Naracoorte, causing stormwater to gush into homes, businesses and service centres. Flooded buildings, fallen trees causing blackouts to 300 homes and hailstones the size of marbles to golf balls wreaked havoc. Most rain fell Friday between 5pm and 7pm.
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Naracoorte B grade table tennis report Spring Season

Naracoorte B grade table tennis report Spring Season

By Zoe Williams and Sophie Matters
The first game for Tuesday night was played by the Yetis and the Pegasi, the very first game was between Dean Dunsford and Helen Grady, the scores were 9-11, 11-9, 11-6, 8-11 and 5-11, and it was Helen who won.
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Double show success for Naracoorte High

Double show success for Naracoorte High

By Kristin Murdock
Naracoorte High School’s Agricultural Studies students and staff had a busy show season competing at both the Royal Adelaide Show and Royal Melbourne Show in September. The dedicated teams trained once a week after school and were involved in the whole process.
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Robe Bowling Club report

Robe Bowling Club report

By Valma Jennings
Robe Bowling Club held a Bowling Arm Tournament on Monday 20th November, in balmy conditions, with 14 teams attending and playing 4×10 ends of 2 bowl triples. Players attended from Woodville, Blyth, Salisbury, Jervois and across the South East. The day was sponsored by Ann Moore, John Maybe and Ian Bruce and Family.
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Naracoorte Market Report 21/11/2023

Naracoorte Market Report 21/11/2023

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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Naracoorte RSL pennant results

Naracoorte RSL pennant results

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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New Forestry Initiative To Create Workforce Opportunities

New Forestry Initiative To Create Workforce Opportunities

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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Squash Spring Pennant results: Round 12

Squash Spring Pennant results: Round 12

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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Keeping the peace

Keeping the peace

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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Naracoorte Rangers Baseball report

Naracoorte Rangers Baseball report

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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AGM Naracoorte and District Senior Citizen’s club

AGM Naracoorte and District Senior Citizen’s club

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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Bridge@Bowls

Bridge@Bowls

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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