A few local footy clubs had their first practice matches on the weekend of March 23, while Pyramid Hill held their O’Connors CIH Pre-Season Practice Match Series on Sunday, March 24.
Eleven teams from five different leagues participated with gold coin donation for entry raising $1600 that will support the Pyramid Hill Fire Brigade.
Participating teams were Pyramid Hill, Bendigo Pioneers U18 Girls, Lake Boga, Woorinen, Charlton, Boort, Wandella, Ultima and Newbridge.
Along with the footy and netball clubs, there had to be umpires as well, and the Loddon Valley and the Central Rivers umpires jumped in to lend a hand.
There were many sponsors who contributed, and it was the Bendigo Pioneers U18 Girls who kicked the day off.
Free health, mental health and skin checks were available and local volunteers were the driving force behind the successful event.
Congratulations to the Pyramid Hill FNC and all other participating clubs, well done.
In a local footy tipping comp, it has been noticed that Weeko tipped his team, the Saints, correctly then forgot to put tips on for a couple of the early matches on Saturday.
Puts you a couple behind Weeko, and this will be telling at the end of the season, especially as it looks like the Saints may do OK this year. Great to see you keeping the faith and tipping the Sainters.
Noticed on the desk calendar on the Friday of the Shire Council’s meeting the quote was “A meeting consists of a group of people who have little to say – until after the meeting – P.K. Shaw”.
Please note, this is not a political statement following last week’s front page, just thought it was a bit funny.
Hope that everyone has had an excellent Easter break.
The Kerang Cup meeting was a ripping success as per usual.
All the local tennis tournaments held in Cohuna, Murrabit and Kerang were pretty much up to their usual standard and the bowls tournament in Cohuna and Kerang were also successful events.
Noticed that Halls Hardware were closed on Good Friday. That’s quite normal.
But wait, Peter also closed the shop on Easter Sunday and Monday. Probably had some grandkids to go and see, as there’s nothing more important than that.
Barb tells me that the grandkids love going to Pa’s shop. They would most likely be spoilt by pa, I’d suggest.
Good on you Pete. Hope the family had a great Easter.
Ron and Annette Kelly were quite busy over the Easter weekend with the Rotary Art Show taking up quite a bit of their time.
Of course, the Kerang Regional park run that is on every Saturday still needed its two top organisers to get the day off to a good start as well.
Great community effort from Annette and Ron and all those involved in organising the many events over Easter in the local district, be it the Quambatook Tractor Pull, the tennis or bowls tournaments in the local towns or the Barham-Koondrook Lions Club Mardi Gras on Easter Saturday.
It’s a great time of the year to be in the local district.
Local lad Geoffrey Davey spent a couple of days up in Sydney judging some sheep at the Sydney Royal Easter Show that runs from March 22 until April 2.
Geoff had been asked if he would judge some sheep and it turned out he wasn’t judging his own breed, the Poll Dorset and White Suffolk, but those ones with no wool, the Wiltshire Horn. It was a feature show for the Wiltshire Horn at the Sydney Show this year.
Good on you Geoff, it’s great that local livestock knowledge is being utilised.
Travelling back from Cohuna to Kerang, crossing the railway line, the speed limit is 80, then it goes to 100 after the railway crossing, then back to 80 just prior to the corner of the Murray Valley and Loddon Valley Highway.
The problem is that after this intersection turning to Kerang, there should be another 100km sign. What it means is that cars coming from Cohuna travel at 80 from that corner until they reach the Kerang derestriction signs, when cars coming from Bendigo are still permitted to travel at 100.
Makes absolutely no sense.
Was intending to write a thing on how my wife often forgets to take her drink bottle to work, but decided that discretion was the better part of valour.
