The residents of Englebert Lodge in Echuca are well cared for by the staff at meal times. And this week residents reported they were more than happy with the accommodation and care they received. Pictured in August 1975 are staff members Mrs J. Curtis (left) and Mrs D. Flower (right) serving a meal to Mrs N. Hickson.
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50 years ago, August 1975
Echuca City Council and the Technical School Executive Council will step up their efforts to have the school moved to a new site.
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Council will ask the Education Minister, Mr Thompson, whether Echuca’s case for a new technical school will be reconsidered soon.
Council will tell the school executive it supports strong proposals for the school to be located on a new site in Echuca South.
It is also going ahead with a valuation of technical school sites in High St.
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Cr Bob Snow, who got together Echuca’s seven-man snooker team to play Eddie Charlton, asked Eddie for guidelines on the sort of game his team should play.
‘’Just let each player play their own game,’’ Eddie said. ‘’Don’t play for safety or make it easy.’’
Eddie Charlton gives a demonstration to Echuca children. The demonstration was in St Mary’s hall and Eddie set up a frame, promising the children a break of 100. He easily beat his target, in fact, cleaned up the table withouth a miss. Youngsters who got a firsthand look were (from left) Darren Ross, Kenny Barthelson, Helen Ross, Michael Monahan, Graeme Keeley, Brendan Keegan and Shane Keegan.
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Bob Snow must have been a bit worried a few minutes later when he saw Eddie clean up a complete snooker frame without one miss during a demonstration for school children.
Eddie Charlton, for more than 20 years a miner at Newcastle, is one of Australia’s best known sports personalities after wins in the world snooker championships, the Australian championships and the BBC television series Pot Black.
25 years ago, August 2000
The new Echuca Post Shop in Pakenham St has made life a lot easier for people with disabilities like Ross Corrigan, from Echuca.
Ross was honoured with being the first customer through the doors when the post office opened for business at 9am on Monday.
The front entrance to the new building features a gently sloping access ramp.
Ross Corrigan, from Echuca, was the first customer through the doors when the new Echuca Post Shop opened for business on Monday morning.
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Echuca Post Shop manager John Seamons said the former post office in Hare St had disabled access at the side of the building.
Ross said having access to the retail shop was very important to him and others with a disability.
‘’'I couldn’t have got to this before, whereas it’s easily accessible now,’’ Ross said.
‘’It makes a big difference, not just for me, but everyone else in a wheelchair and even elderly people.’’
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A district farming family, which has been taking daily rainfall observations for the Bureau of Meteorology for more than 100 years, received a special presentation as the Olympic Torch passed through the Goulburn Valley on Thursday.
Dairy farmer Mrs June Hill, 79, of Colbinabbin, was presented with the award by Dr Sharman Stone who, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment, has responsibility for the bureau.
Dr Stone said the Hill family, whose grandfather pioneered the family farm in 1858, was one of the army of unsung heroes who voluntarily provided the bureau with invaluable weather data.
‘’Today there is a heavy dependence on satellites, radar and automatic weather stations. However, information provided by thousands of volunteer observers in a network across Australia is immensely valuable in compiling the overall climate and weather picture,’’ Dr Stone said.
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Training six times a week is more dedication than the average person has, but to fulfil a dream of Olympic glory it necessary.
Zoe Stratton has a good start to her dream. At age 10, Zoe recently won the 50 metre backstroke and 50 metre butterfly in the 10-year-old class at the Nunawading swim meet.
Participants had to have qualifying times to compete and Zoe raced in seven events.
Swimmer Zoe Stratton recently won gold at the Nunawading swim meet.
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With two wins, a second and a personal best time in the freestyle, Zoe has qualified for the Victorian state team.
‘’The second in the freestyle was really good as it is my weakest stroke,“ Zoe said.
10 years ago, August 2015
Federal Member for Murray Sharman Stone has called for a gender quota system to be introduced to the Liberal party.
Dr Stone, who is dominating headlines with her demands, said it was time for it to be an equal number of men and women when it came to pre-selection.
She said her own party had the worst representation of any major party.
Federal Member for Murray Sharman Stone called for a gender quota system to be introduced in 2015.
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According to Dr Stone, all you have to do is look at the state and local government areas to see women representation is scarce.
Not one of the six candidates for the Murray Plains seat last year was female, while at a local government level, Campaspe Shire has nine councillors and only two of them — Emma Bradbury and Carol Howell — are women.
And then there’s Tony Abbott’s Cabinet, where again there are only two female ministers, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Health Minister Sussan Ley.
Dr Stone said this was concerning and disappointing.
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Echuca-Moama skiers Lloyd Woolman and Emma Barnes have been named male and female Victorian skiers of the year.
At the Ski Racing Victoria awards night held earlier this month, the duo, who often train together on the Murray River, were announced the winners of the prestigious award.
Lloyd and Emma were also the state’s highest male and female point-scorers for the recent skiing season while Emma was also named the most improved junior.
Emma’s dad Neville Barnes said he was ‘‘over the moon’’ when referring to his daughter’s achievement.
‘‘We knew she’d be in the hunt for that award,’’ he said.
‘‘But you can’t take anything for granted, that’s for sure.’’
At just 15, Emma is also the youngest skier to win the title.
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Two Goulburn Valley men are using a modified motorbike-taxi to bring smiles to the faces of children in some of the poorest and most remote villages in Cambodia.
Their moto-taxi has been transformed into a mobile entertainment centre and is the brainchild of Echuca’s Adrian Paschkow and Shepparton’s Stuart Woodward.
Both are volunteers with Sustainable Cambodia, a non-government organisation.
Adrian Paschkow with some of the village children.
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Adrian and Stuart equipped the tuk tuk, Cambodia’s most iconic form of transport, with an 80cm television screen, a deep cycle battery and power inverter and a bundle of DVDs — and the Tuk Tuk Theatre was born.
In June, their small international team of volunteers travelled more than 1000km in 10 days, visiting eight remote villages with entertainment ranging from The Lion King and Mickey Mouse to Mister Bean and David Attenborough wildlife documentaries.
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