2015

Ky college tackles colourful production.

Kyabram P-12 College will tackle the popular musical by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice, Joseph and the Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat for the school production this year.

Based on the biblical tale of Joseph, who possessed the ability to interpret the future through dreams, the musical is sure to be a family hit when it opens at the Plaza Theatre tomorrow night.

Caitlyn Kelly, Aporei Own, and Victoria Gillie (narrators) and young star Brandon Armstrong as Joseph head up the cast, which also features Daniel Walkeden and Simeon, Bim Sherwood as Jacob, Luke Davies as Baker and Alex Si as Pharaoh/Potiphar.

Show director Kim Morrison said it was the 21st year the school had used the Plaza Theatre, and it is the third time students had performed this production (1994, 2004, 2015).

“We thought this being a great family show with bright colour sets and fantastic songs, it would be a great way to celebrate 21 years of school productions with the Plaza Theatre,” he said.

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Keen to save trees from axe,

Hope is still alive that 20 significant Rushworth trees will not be cut down.

VicRoads will host another public meeting in Rushworth tomorrow night to discuss community concerns regarding the proposed removal of 100 trees along Tatura-Rushworth Rd.

The meeting comes after community members banded together to stop the trees’ removal, arguing that VicRoads had not consulted the community and worried that at least 40 of the trees were significant for biodiversity and ecological management.

VicRoads had planned to remove the trees along a 3.6km stretch of the road to address a history of crashes.

Rushworth Action Group for the Environment has led the charge to stop the removal of the trees after Rushworth gardener, landscape architect and RAGE member Louise Costa intercepted botanists conducting a vegetation survey in November last year.

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Dogs chase tail all match

The much-anticipated clash between Lancaster and Merrigum fizzled into a runaway win for the Wombats in the Kyabram District Football League on Saturday.

The Bulldogs were undermanned going into the game, missing key playmakers Linc Wallington and Tom Sullivan, as well as coach Christian Barnett against a fired-up rival eager to prove it is Nagambie’s major threat for this season’s flag.

Where Merrigum had few scoring options in a fame where defences generally ruled, Lancaster had Heath Barnett and Michael Liverton doing the finishing off work around goals.

Barnett bagged six for the game and Liverton four, and both played prominent roles in the impressive Lancaster win.

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1995

Appeal reveals tough times

Locally last weekend’s Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal raised about $15,000.

A fine effort, main may think, but the figure is about $3000 below last year’s apple total.

Lieutenant Rhonda Elkington of the Kyabram Salvation Army believes that this year’s lower figure is an indication of the tough current economic situation, with many people feeling the pinch.

More and more people are turning to charity organisations such as the Salvation Army for assistance and with even tougher times forecast more people will need their help, but the charity groups re not as successful in raising funds.

Rhonda commented that: “Even if people don’t have a lot of money to donate, they usually dig into their pockets and find a few coins for this appeal … this year we had our knock backs.”

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Trip of a lifetime

The Kyabram Secondary College band Odyssey has begun its trip of a lifetime in Sweden, representing Australia in the Music 4 Youth Festival.

Over the next three weeks the students will tour around the southern part of Sweden by bus playing in musical programs and concerts.

The students are competing against bands from Europe where the main style of music is grunge and heavy metal where Odyssey play rock music.

The band members have found life in Sweden a little different to Kyabram with Europe currently in summer and daylight sometimes lasting until 11pm at night.

Odyssey won the regional Music 4 Youth Festival in Kyabram and went on to Adelaide where it was the national winner chosen to represent Australia in Europe.

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Two divisions for GVL

It’s official – the Goulburn Murray Region review committee has recommended a two-division league be formed by Goulburn Valley League and Tungamah League clubs.

The new look league would consist of two 10-team divisions with current CGL club Euroa being shifted to the second division, of which the remainder will be made up of current TFL clubs.

About 100 people from Goulburn Murray Region leagues and clubs packed the Shepparton United clubrooms on Wednesday night to hear the findings of the GMR committee investigating the structure of football.

Victorian Country Football League president Arnold Clarke, general manager David Code and field officer Barry Senior, along with VCFL Investigation Committee member Reg McVilly, attended the meeting.

Other GMR leagues besides GVL and TFL were untouched in the committee’s recommendations, but there is a strong chance that Murray League and Picola League could merge in the near future to form a second two-division, 20-team GMR league.

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1975

Pool works start

Work has started on large-scale extensions and alterations to the Kyabram Swimming Pool

Local firm Pigatto Bros started the extension of the pool last week, while a Melbourne firm started enlarging the pool’s filtration plant.

Total cost of the work is expected to be $74,000.

The Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation has made a grant of $49,000, the Kyabram Apex Club has donated $10,000 to the project, and the balance will be financed by the council.

As well as extension to the pool and a larger filtration plant, it is hoped there will be sufficient money to carry out alterations to the amenities on the block.

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Knights are now ‘the biggest’

The completion last week of a large bulk furniture store on the Eastern side of Union St has enabled Knights Big Store to claim it is the largest furniture and floor covering store in the Goulburn Valley.

The new store has a floor area of 3170 square feet, which brings Knight’s total floor area to a mammoth 16,320 square feet.

The new store has been built in the most economical manner possible, using all local labour.

Even the shopfront was constructed by Knight's own staff, and a feature of interest is the new plug in type electrical system which will provide almost nil cost conversion in the event of a future ceiling.

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Lions crack it for a win

Stanhope chalked up its first win for the season on Saturday after taking complete control in the third quarter when they kicked five goals to Tatura’s two points.

It was evident why these two teams are on the bottom of the ladder as they both play very inconsistently.

They lack the ability to maintain the pressure and concentrate once they have gained the ascendancy.

In the first half Tatura was by far the more positive side because they combined well, and they had Forbes slightly on top at centre-half forward, whereas the Lions were falling down badly in the key forward positions.

But after half-time Stanhope took complete control, and they looked set for a decisive victory halfway through the last term.

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