Brett recently opened the doors of the watering hole after being closed for six months and has been more than happy with the response.
While the Undera Hotel has just reopened, another in the district has closed.
Mooroopna’s Cricketers Arms Hotel has closed its doors after a change of freehold ownership and licensee.
Matt Sleeth and his partner Mia Parkkola, who have run the pub for the past five years, believe they had no option other than to pull the pin.
SANTA’S HO-HO-HORRIBLE ENCOUNTER
Even poor old Santa isn’t safe these days. During his annual pre-Christmas visit to Cobram, he was confronted and allegedly assaulted by a local resident — a 14-year-old boy.
The attacker has been charged with discharging a missile and recklessly causing injury and will appear in a children’s court at a later date.
OVER 100MM RECORDED THIS JANUARY
Kyabram’s January rainfall has soared over 100mm.
Rainfall amounts of 37.2mm on Monday, January 8, followed by 3.8mm on Tuesday and 2.4mm in Friday night’s storms, have taken the total to 108.2mm.
These figures came after 65mm was recorded on January 3 and 4 — making this January the sixth wettest since record-keeping began in 1887.
It’s the wettest Kyabram January since 2016 when 78mm was registered.
The year 1941 holds the record for the wettest January with a whopping 174mm followed by 138mm in 1974 and 125mm in 1954.
Other years when January rainfall topped 100mm were 1984 (115mm) 1918 and 2011 (113mm), 2008 (105mm) 1993 (103mm), 1904 (102mm) and 1928 (100mm).
FORMER APEXIANS INVITED TO REUNITE
Kyabram Apex Club was one of the most active and best attended service clubs in Kyabram last century.
Now the wheels are in progress for former club members to take a step back in time and relive some of the highlights from those years.
A committee comprising David Blake, Gavin Armstrong and Barry Churches is planning a reunion for Saturday, February 17.
The event will be at the Kyabram Club, and the organising committee is now establishing numbers for the reunion for catering purposes.
Any former Kyabram Apexians who wish to attend the reunion are asked to contact any of the above members.
STRANGER HELPS FRUSTRATED SHOPPER
A Traps reader was very impressed with a woman in Kyabram’s Woolworths Supermarket who went out of her way to find an item being sought by a frustrated customer last week.
A lengthy and thorough search proved fruitless, and the customer was taken aback when the woman told him she wasn’t a Woolworth’s employee.
“She couldn’t have done any more to help me and it was greatly appreciated,’’ the customer told Traps.
COMMUNITY MEETING TO DETERMINE BRIDGE FATE
Interesting get-together tonight at Kirwins Bridge near Nagambie as locals fight to reopen the historic wooden construction.
A stand-in engineer will be present to give his opinions on the bridge’s future so there will be a lot of interest in what he has to say.
A sausage sizzle will kick off the information meeting at 5.30pm.
FISHING ENTHUSIASTS REJOICE
More good news for anglers.
The Yanco Creek and Tributaries Advisory Council has just released 27,000 golden perch (yellow belly) into the Billabong Creek at Conargo north-east of Deniliquin.
The release has been on a $1 for $2 scheme funded through the Refreshing Rivers Program and NSW Fisheries.
The release follows recent releases of over 10,000 Murry cod and 4500 yellow belly fingerlings in the Edward River near Moulamein and 30,000 yellow belly fingerlings into waterways near Deniliquin.
SQUARE DINKUM
G’day
A local barber has just been arrested for drug trafficking … this news has taken me by complete surprise.
I’ve been a customer of his for many years and I had no idea he was a barber.
Hooroo!
DID YOU KNOW?
1. Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there wasn’t any at that time.
2. The coyote is a member of the dog family and its scientific name, “canis latrans” means barking dog.
3. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 inch) tongue.
4. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle — a group of geese in the air is a skein.
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