Fruit fly traps baiting
Kyabram Lions Club members will be re-baiting fruit fly traps this Saturday, October 28.
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Lions members will be outside the Salvation Army Op Shop in Bradley St from 9am to noon.
The re-baiting cost is $6 per trap and new traps will be available at a cost of $16.
Try your hand at fishing
Don’t forget to get those fishing rods ready for Kyabram Fishing Club’s “come and try” day this Sunday.
It will be held between 9am and 1pm. at the corner of McEwen and Gray roads on the town’s south-west border.
If there are any queries, co-ordinator John Martin can be contacted on 0417 532 645. A barbecue lunch will be available.
Rain or no rain?
Our Moulamein mate China Gibson is a keen weather observer who has been taking more than the average interest in the past week’s weather pattern.
Mixed signs at the beginning of last week had China puzzled as to what to expect as far as rainfall went.
He was faced with a couple of contrasting theories from his father, also a man of the land and a keen weather watcher, although both conclusions seem a bit obvious.
His father claims a new moon on its back means one of two things — it’s full of water and it is going to rain, or it is holding the water in and it’s not going to rain.
And the new moon on its side theory also means two things. Either the moon is tipping the water out, so it is going to rain, or the new moon is empty and it is not going to rain at all.
China points out that last month, the new moon came in on its back and his neck of the woods received between 60mm and 70mm of un-forecast rain.
Also, early last week, China spotted three bearded dragon lizards sitting on top of fence posts, another happening which many of the old timers claim is a sign rain is on the way.
Adding to the intrigue, China’s mate’s hip has been playing up, an ailment also regarded as another sure sign rain is imminent.
The only other sign, and probably the most popular concerning possible rain theories, is that when the kookaburras laugh, it’s going to rain. But that wasn’t on China’s list of theories this time.
And what was the outcome of these theories? Well, up to Monday of this week, the half-moon on its back wasn’t interested in overflowing, and neither was the new moon on its side.
Those lizards were probably more interested in mating than predicting rain, and the bloke with the crook hip has had to suffer in silence with no excuses this time for his pain.
So maybe the reluctance of kookaburras laughing was another pointer that they weren’t prepared to predict rain this time.
Turns out there wasn’t much
Kyabram has received only 5mm of rain in the past fortnight after the 54mm deluge on October 4.
The October total now stands at 67mm, which is well above the long-term average of 41mm.
Tongue-twister
I bet this player has a nickname.
Stanhope Cricket Club has a player in its ranks at the moment whose name is a tad difficult to pronounce. So try your luck and good luck.
Manojkumarchowdary Boddu
He plays in the club’s D-grade team and last Saturday made 21 runs, which was the top score in a beaten side.
Big names locked in
Echuca-Moama’s Riverboats Music Festival has snared some big names to provide the entertainment.
Missy Higgins, Peter Garrett and Kasey Chambers have been locked in and are just a few of the cast who will perform at the 12th edition of the festival in February.
Meanwhile, Shepparton’s 2024 festival will have a lead-up event at Tallygaroopna’s Memorial Hall on Friday, October 30, when Ben Salter will be the headline act and will launch his new album Sublimation.
Fright at Cactus Country
Strathmerton’s award-winning business Cactus Country will hold two events to celebrate Mexican culture.
The first, titled Fright Fest, will be held this Saturday, while the second Day of the Dead will take place the following Saturday, November 4.
Fright Fest is Cactus Country’s version of Halloween.
The Happy Mexican from Melbourne will have a food truck on-site to reduce costs.
Further details can be obtained online.
Fight for service
Tocumwal is adamant it wants and needs an ambulance station in the town and isn’t giving up the fight to achieve it.
There has been no response to a meeting in August between Berrigan Shire Council and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park, and a public meeting was held on Monday to keep the campaign for a new station in the public eye.
Future hanging by a thread
Finley Bowls Club’s future is still in doubt, despite the club re-opening for the time being.
A recent meeting attracted nearly 100 people to hear about the plight of the club, but the crunch will come with the response to its upcoming annual general meeting.
Increased costs and decreased patronage have put the club’s future in serious doubt.
Did you know?
1. There are more than 60 designated wine regions in Australia,the majority of which are in Victoria and NSW), and collectively they produce about 1.35 trillion bottles of wine every year — and it’s damn good!
2. The wine cask (goon) was invented in Australia. It is believed ‘goon’ got its name as a shortened version of “flagon” when winemaker Tom Angove was looking for a way to sell half-gallon flagons of wine.
3. Aussies drink 1.7 billion litres of beer a year. That’s about 680 bottles of beer for each adult.
4. The Anzac biscuit — sweet and crunchy baked goods made of rolled oats and desiccated coconut — was made for World War I soldiers. And there is a law against calling them cookies.
Square dinkum
G’day.
When I was young, my mother would send me to the store with just one shilling, and I would bring home a bag of potatoes, a loaf of bread, a bottle of milk, a pound of butter, a block of cheese and two dozen eggs.
You can’t do that these days. There are too many security cameras.
Hooroo!
Sports reporter