At a netball clinic in Echuca in April 1976, umpire Val Morrison (fifth from left) had her rule book in her hand as she explained some points of interest to these netball players from Kyabram and Echuca. From left, they are: Joanne Pyke, Diane Morgan, Leanne Butler, Beth Hancock, umpire Morrison, Julianne Payne, Laurise Niblet, Kathy Anderson, Marjorie Ferrier and Sharon Fitzsimmons. In front: Jacquie Boyle, Jan Morgan and Donata Scapin.
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50 years ago, April 1976
Business people in Echuca have been asked to ‘’remember their obligations to tourists’’.
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The president of Echuca Chamber of Commerce, Mr Lloyd Hart, has urged people to do their utmost to cater for the needs of tourists during the Easter holiday period.
Mr Hart this week reminded businessmen in Echuca that this was a declared tourist area, which obliged people from the city to help the tourist wherever possible.
He suggested that it was the tourist dollar which was protecting Echuca to some extent from the financial repercussions of the existing depressed state of primary industry.
“I anticipate a near record influx of tourists into the area over Easter, without whom many businesses in the city could be financially worse off,” Mr Hart said
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Sunday's bike-a-thon looks like raising about $2500.
President of Echuca Y's Men’s Club, promoters of the 65km ride, Mr Neville Brereton, said the event was “quite good”.
Working on the assumption that four legs are better than two are Jenny Mitchell, doing the steering, and Patty Thomas, both of Echuca. The girls proved to be up to the task and completed the course on their tandem, the only one entered in the 65km ride.
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He said nearly all 50 riders completed the course, which took the pedallers to Kotta and back.
Mr Brereton explained that the $2500 was at this stage only on paper.
‘’According to sponsors’ cards handed in by riders we should get $2500, but we now have to wait on people to give promised money before the figure is a reality,’’ he said.
25 years ago, April 2001
An amusement parlour will be set up in Moama on a six-month trial basis.
Murray Shire Council has agreed to allow the parlour to be established in Shop 7, 22 Meninya St, but has set strict conditions on its operation.
Eight submissions regarding the amusement parlour were received from adjoining business houses and the NSW Police Service.
Most raised concerns about operating hours, provision of toilet facilities, access to private facilities and a service area at the rear of existing shops, security, vandalism, truancy, discouraging business to the area, controlling patrons outside the shop and supervision.
Developer Ian Stewart addressed council's meeting at Mathoura on Tuesday.
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The foundations of Lockington's Waterwheel Court’s two new senior residential units are under way.
The units are being extended as part of the community committee’s plans to increase the number of residential units in the district.
Waterwheel community committee chairman Graeme Haines at the site of the new build.
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Building is set to begin in May, with part of the funding for the project coming from the Department of Human Services’ Office of Housing.
The new units will be owner occupied.
The Waterwheel Court units were established in 1994 with a grant of $300,000 and the help of voluntary labour from the community.
Waterwheel community committee chairman Graeme Haines said the additional units would boost housing in the area.
10 years ago, April 2016
Echuca Magistrates’ Court could be restructured so Campaspe Shire Council’s offices are separate to the courthouse.
At the moment both are joined at the facility on Heygarth St, which has caused headaches for shire staff and police.
Shire chief executive Jason Russell said no plans were in concrete but restructuring the building was a real possibility.
‘‘Council continues to work closely with Court Services Victoria in regard to this,’’ he said.
Council put the courthouse on notice in June last year when Court Services Victoria was given six months to make the Heygarth St facility safer or else it would be given the boot.
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AFL Victoria has threatened to fine any clubs who played in limited edition Anzac Day jumpers, which have Lest We Forget inscribed across the back, above the player numbers.
That includes Echuca Football Club’s senior team, one of just 100 chosen across Victoria to receive the Anzac Day jumpers.
Echuca’s Elliot Stewart, Kane Morris, Braydon Worsnop, captain Matt Pollock and Ben Reid in the changerooms with the Anzac Day jumpers hanging from lockers.
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The jumpers were part of an RSL Victoria strategy to raise funds to help returned soldiers from war zones in which Australia currently serves.
More importantly, the money would particularly assist the families of killed and wounded service personnel.
But because the RSL used a clothing manufacturer that did not have a licensing agreement with AFL Victoria, the jumpers were immediately jumped on.
EFC secretary Peter Young said the plan was to wear the jumpers and then auction them at a post-match function, with money raised split between the RSL and the club.
“But the AFL has stopped us in our tracks,” Mr Young said.
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