MC's Mark Baldwin and David Lawerence announced Brian Sullivan, Damien Boyle, Peter Orcher, Alan Williams and Peter Black as the newest inductees of the Shearing Hall of Fame. Photo: Supplied.
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Quite the sight
Residents in south Saunders St and Outram Ave, Kyabram, were literally caught on the hop on Thursday of last week when a kangaroo bounded around the roads and gardens for some time.
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The roo visited various homes in the area and was last spotted heading for the Parkland Golf Club course.
The popular theory for the appearance is the ’roo was trying to answer a mating call from the nearby Kyabram Zoo and had lost his bearings a bit.
Apparently, it is not the first kangaroo with ambitions of breaking into the zoo, and just how far they have travelled and where they come from has all been a bit of a mystery.
Visit the mighty Murray
You don’t have to circumnavigate the globe to enjoy visiting one of the 25 best places in the world.
One of those 25 places is on our doorstep — the mighty Murray River.
This is the opinion of National Geographic in its list of the top 25 places to visit globally.
The list was compiled through a nomination, researching and reporting process by National Geographic’s team of travel experts and international editorial teams.
In its findings National Geographic describes the Murray River as ‘‘the agrarian heart of Australia.’’
The report emphasis the Murray River is the third-longest navigable river in the world behind the Amazon and Nile rivers.
Division two win
Miles Gould has been running Ky Lotto @ Toys for the past 11 years but so far, selling a division one winning ticket has been elusive with just the one division winner, a local who pocketed close to a million two years ago.
Now Miles’s enthusiasm for another division one sale has been whetted again with the recent sale of a division two winning ticket, which was a $6666 windfall for a local man.
‘‘Another division one win is coming,’’ Miles predicted in somewhat convincing salesman style this week.
Rainfall not recorded
Kyabram’s October rainfall has been listed as 18.2mm, but it was more than that due to a malfunction at the Kyabram weather station.
It failed to register at least 20mm or more in the last rain event on Friday and Saturday, October 18 and 19.
No rain has been recorded since then.
Shearer honoured
If you have a bit of age on you and know anything about the Australian shearing industry, there is a good chance you have heard of Alan Williams.
Based in Moama, Alan was what you call a gun shearer in his heyday, and his contribution to the industry has just been officially recognised.
He has been inducted into the Outback Shearing Hall of Fame at Hay along with Brian Sullivan, Damian Boyle, Peter Orcher and Peter Black.
Alan was a household name in the shearing industry in the 1960s and in 1965 when he won the Australian Strongwool Shearing Championship at the Royal Melbourne Show.
In his back-breaking profession, Alan averaged shearing between 180 and 240 sheep every day, with his biggest tally in one day an energy sapping 256.
When he retired from shearing he transitioned into a shearing instructor in 1973 art Echuca Technical College and also in Victoria and throughout the Riverina.
Alan progressed from a rousabout to wool presser then shearer, where he really excelled and became one of the country's best shearers.
New inductees
Deniliquin and district has welcomed four more inductees into its Transport Hall Of Fame.
Industry stalwarts Ken Seignor, Kenneth and Terry Grimison and Ray Brooks have just been added to the wall at a function in Deniliquin, which was attended by a crowd of 230 people.
The induction ceremony was held in conjunction with the Deni Truck Show, which drew 70 trucks plus cars and bikes.
PS Adelaide is back on the water.
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Steaming along
PS Adelaide is back on the Murray River again at Echuca-Moama after six weeks in dry dock undergoing upgrades and maintenance work.
The work has involved bringing it up to a professional standard which will allow the public and crew to enjoy more comfort.
Micro abattoir open
Poultry processing for the first time commenced last week at the new micro abattoir in Barham.
In the milestone event 130 chickens were processed from Lauren Mathers’ Bundarra Farms at Barham.
A founding member of the committee which set up the abattoir, Mrs Mathers was thrilled with the new venture which reduces the transport stress of the birds travelling to Melbourne to be processed.
Square dinkum
G’day
Woke up this morning to find the dog had swallowed a whole bag of scrabble tiles, so we rushed him to the vet to get checked out ... no word yet.
