“A Town Like Blyth” ~Progressive and Community Minded~

Newsletter No 105—August 2016 http://www.communitywebs.org/BlythProgressAssociation/

DATES TO REMEMBER: Aug 12th Bowling Club Tea 6.30pm

20th Footy & Netty @ BlythOval Cats Netball 21st Birthday 26th Golf Business Ambrose

30th Development Board AGM Sept 5th Fathers Day

12th Progress Assoc AGM 20th Hart Field Day 23rd Bowling Club Tea 6.30pm

25th Golf Closing Day Ambrose Ashes Bowling Match Newsletter Deadline ijzweck@activ8.net.au

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The Kybunga Residents Group and the Kybunga Centenary Committee organised a return to Kybunga on 19th June, 2016, meeting outside the site of the now de-molished, Kybunga Primary School 1881-1988. 180 people attended including 84 students, 11 teachers and 3 ancillary staff mem-bers enjoying reliving their connections with the Kybunga district. John Wood welcomed everyone and expressed the thanks and delight of the or-ganisers, that so many had accepted the invitation to attend a Reunion and a “walk down memory lane”. The Kybunga Primary School centenary parade down the main street of Kybunga was 35 years ago and the school closed and amalga-mated with Blyth Primary School 25 years ago. Vic Stockman -enrolled 1929, Verna Wood – teacher 1945-47, Glenn Hayes and Ryan Wood – Yr1 students in 1988, unveiled the Interpretive sign . Cont....

Well done to Joel Bertelsmeier on gain-ing selection in the 2016 12&U South Australia School Sport Australia foot-ball team which played their Champion-ship in Maroochydore during July. Joel’s team had won all their matches leading up to the Grand Final but were defeated by Victoria 8-11 to 2-7. Joel played some great football and was named SA’s 3rd best in the Grand Fi-nal. Joel said it was great to play in a team that are very fast, it was also good to play in a winning team and play his first grand final in a state team. Joel has made new friends and hopes that most of the team make it into the under 15 team State team. The hardest thing was to sing the crows song after each win.!!

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All the best to Elaine Page who has commenced a new chapter in her life by retiring from the family business, Page’s Deli. Elaine has worked 60 years of her life in the family busi-ness until June 30th 2016 when she handed in her retirement notice! Above—Elaine at her new place of residence at Lumeah Homes. Left: 2006 Elaine and Brian celebrating 60 years of EG Page & Son Deli. Cont..

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KYBUNGA REUNION cont’ The next stop was at the Blyth Primary School and the Cen-tenary Time Capsule was unearthed. (right) The Blyth Primary School parent club sup-plied a delightful morn-ing tea.

(left) John Wood and Kevin Hayes next task is to open the time capsule

1950’s students:Back: Dennis Dall, Douglas Clark, David Sar-gent, John Wood, Graham Gosden, Jeff Barr, Roger Redpath, Jeff Redpath, Yvonne Wandel. Front; Phillip McSkimmings, Pauline Gardner, Sharon Clark, Ross Wood.

The gathering proceeded to the Blyth Hall for a photographic dis-play, memorabilia sharing and lunch. (right) Adrian Clark and Peter

Wiech catch up.

A lucky find of 15 Cen-tenary books, sketches of the pepper tree by Bruce Wilson (left) and amazing sketches of the Hall, Shop, Church, Railway Station and School offered by Pe-

ter Clark’s enrolled 1954(dec), family - were available to people. Kevin Clarke asked the crowd to Salute the flag, sing God Save the Queen and Advance Australia Fair. A minutes silence for all the families who were remembering students who were de-ceased. Sue Clarke spoke about how the Kybunga Community were very welcoming and supportive towards new members and then said grace before lunch was served. Kevin Clarke presented Ro

Wood (right) for the many, many hours/days commit-ted to making the Reunion a success and a memora-ble one. There were many families present at the reunion who had 2 generations attend Kybunga Primary School. Vic Stockman and his daughters Susan, Janet and Alison. Joan Clark (McSkimming) and her children Douglas and Sharon. Jean Wandel (Hampel) and her daughter Yvonne. Noel Wiech and his children Peter, Debbie, Jenni-Lee and Vicki. Ken Clarke and his daughters Wendy and Judy. Shirley Rohlach (Hampel) and her son David. Jeff Clark and his daughter Kerri. Adrian Clark and his sons Andrew and Darren. Heather Angel (Evans) and her sons Ken-ton and Heath. Des Schumacher and his daughters Vicki, Tania and Lisa. Kevin Clarke and his daughters Carolyn, Sonya and Melissa. Jeff Redpath and children Nathan and Peta. Jeff Barr and daughter Kirstie. Denis Dall and daughter Narelle. John Wood and sons Stuart and Ryan. It was wonderful that so many were able to attend and catch up on news from family and friends.

Above: 1960’s students:

Back: Andrew Clarke, BrianWood, Peter Wiech, David Rohlack, Barry Jenkins.

Front: Joanne Sargeant, Wendy Clark, Debbie Wiech, Judy

Clark, Susan Stockman, Rhys Eldredge Darren Clark.

Right: Teachers Roll Call:

Rolfr & Lyn Geerling, Verna Wood, Neville Woolcock, Jim

Harradine, Ro Wood, Gary Wilson, Vicki Moliere, Marcia

Nolan, Katrina McInnes, Ron Rogers, Sue Scott, Sue Clarke, Heather Angel.

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BLYTH SNOWTOWN FOOTBALL CLUB The year is moving along very quickly with only about 4 weeks until finals. We have witnessed some great games of footy this year and hope you as spectators have en-joyed watching and supporting. We have one more home game at Blyth on 20 August. It was great for the U14s to finally get to sing the song after their win the other week.

Congratulations to Joel Bertelsmeier on being selected in the State SSA 12&U footy team. Before flying out Joel received his State jumper at the Presentation Dinner at the Port Adelaide Club from a couple of his he-roes Port Power’s Broad-bent and Lobbe. Angus Kennett has been selected to attend train-ings for the NEFL U14 Carnival which is to be played on August 7 at Laura. We wish Angus well and hope he gets named in the final team to play. A few of our key players have received serious injuries this year, we wish all of them speedy recoveries. This has made selection challenging and has opened the doors for a few of our younger players to have a run in A grade. We welcome Lachlan Summers to our Club. He has been cleared from Alice Springs and had his first game in B grade on Saturday. Emily Zweck has joined the Club this year as a trainer and mas-sage therapist. She is currently undertaking the Diploma of Massage and Remedial Massage at the SA Institute of Fitness and has completed the Level 1 Sports Trainers Course and Ad-vanced Taping. Congratulations to the Social Committee on hosting the Rump and Red on 23rd July in the Blyth Hall. We were in fits of laugh-ter with Granny Flaps and was very interesting listening to Carl-ton’s Anthony Koutoufides tell his life story. A great turn out of over 100 people enjoyed a beautifully cooked rump steak meal.

Enjoying the

R’n’R night were Lucy Pratt, Han-

nah Salter, Zack

Bennett, Louise

Jaeschke, Bailey Jacka, James

Hunter, Nick

Schultz and Ash

Giles.

A month ago the CATS A Grade had 5 sets of brothers playing together. Ash & David Giles, Gareth & Rueben Ottens, Scott & Mickey Atkinson, Simon & Nick McCormack and Arryn & Caleb Lloyd.

And since then another set of brothers have played A Grade being Jace and Cameron Andriske. The 6 sets of brothers are yet to play all together - but it could happen!!

This year the club is hosting the NEFL Mail Medal dinner at Blyth on Monday 12 September. If you are able to help with this event please do not hesitate to contact Ros. On Sunday 14 August we are hosting the Central Zone Girls Football Carnival at Snowtown Oval. If you are able to help please also contact Ros. This year our wind up will have a change of format. More details will follow shortly but please mark off Sunday 18 September and Friday night 23 September on your calendars. So the next couple months will be very busy and exciting. This year the NEFL have been encouraging good sportsmanship and improved Code of Conduct both on and off the oval by play-ers and supporters. In the lead up to finals we encourage every-one to set a good example for our younger players. We wish all our teams’ good luck for the rest of the minor rounds and also in finals.

GO CATS!!

BLYTH GOLF CLUB After a late start to the opening rains the course has covered well with good June and July rains and a touch of sunshine. The Club again held a successful Open Am-brose attracting 72 golfers from 10 clubs. Thanks to Graeme Wandel from Clare Finan-cial Services for his continued sponsorship. Winners of the Mens Ambrose was the team from Riverton and the Mixed Winners from Spalding. The Clubhouse has nearly finished their reno’s with the ladies toilets recently given a new paint over, new tiles and basin installed by members. The month of August will see the Mid North Vets play on the course on Thursday 18th, and the Club will hold their 3rd Busi-ness 4 person Ambrose on Friday 26th August. If wishing to play on this day please RSVP to Janet 88445027. Cost is $25 for golf, food and some drinks—always a great social day. The Club Championships will be held on Wednesday 24th Au-gust for the Ladies and 26th August for the Men.

The Closing Day for the Club will be held on Sunday 25th Sep-tember with a 4 person Ambrose followed by an afternoon tea.

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CATS NETBALL President’s piece … With winter settled in, cold Saturday’s out in it are coming to the pointing end of the season. After what seemed a yo-yo beginning teams numbers have steadied, with teams focused on the last three games before the minor rounds finish. Coaches and players have continued to work relentlessly to aim for the big day in Sep-tember with several teams sitting in, or hovering around the top four. The A1 and A2 teams endure to show resilience and persistence against incredibly strong opponents, with the 1s yet to have a win and the 2s looking set to finish the season with a couple of wins under their belt. Ellie Ottens has played her 100th game with the Cats, and has been in the best players the last few weeks. While she has come up against some very tall, strong shooters Ellie has quick feet and clever movement to ensure they are never comfort-able. Bernie Keech has recently found herself back in the 1s, proving her strength in the centre court and goal circle. Both the A1 and A2 teams have certainly improved throughout the season, as evident in the scores compared with the first round. Finals hopes remain strong with the B grade teams, with the B1s at 3rd position and the B2s in 4th. Once teams were settled, coach-es Hayley Zweck and KerryLee Welke have developed players, proving dynamic opponents for other clubs through round two. The pick-up of Donna Furler for the B1s has provided a clear, agile target for centre courters and allowed fellow shooter Neve Pratt to continue to develop as in impressive young player regu-larly finding herself in the best players. We wish them luck and success leading in to the home straight to September. While the C1s are sitting 6th on the ladder and C2s just outside the four in 5th position, both teams are continuing to fight for the wins including the C1 win against MinMan on the weekend who are above them on the ladder. The J1s remain in 2nd position on the ladder, with Simone continu-ing to work on the development of these young girls. While some of them have struggled for wins until this season, they are a spritely group of play-ers who look set to lock in a date for September if they remain focused. At the last home match at Blyth the netballers were selling coffee and cake to raise funds for the end of year Netty trip(right: Ellie Ottens & Stacey Mugge).

Soon after “Cats Pam-pering salon” opened to raise funds and awareness to Ovarian Cancer. Right: Bec Jamieson, Lily Stirling, Ellie Ottens, Kristin Carling, Tilly Welke.

“Catters Cash

Jackpot” which had reached $100 was won by Alice Wil-liams and was all smiles when re-ceiving it from Koutoufides, Bec Jamieson & Tahlia Tilley

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BLYTH BITS Happy 80th birthday to Barry Mugge who is celebrating with train and cruise holiday. Photo on right is Barry when he was around 15 yrs. Happy 70th to Jude Burns who cele-brated with the golf ladies at Rielly's, Mintaro and a visit to her family in Canada.

Happy 60th birth-day to Brenton Stir-ling (left) who celebrated it quietly with his family. Maurice Wiech celebrated his 60th with his family at home. Happy 50th birthday to

Darren Paynter (right)who will celebrate in style with his family and friends with a trip abroad!

Congratulations to Matthew and Hayley Noble (left) on the arri-val of their first child, Estelle Zoe born at Clare Hospital on 7th June weighing in at 8lb 1oz.

Congratulations to Ashley and Maggie Hentschke on the arrival of their 2nd child, Alexis Pearl, on 27th July born at Calvary Hospital weighing 8lb 7oz . A sister for Josh. The wintry weather has seen the locals taking holidays. Maureen & Brian Eime spent some time in Fiji with daughter Amelia; Bob & Dorathea Juett enjoyed their bus travels to Birdsville, Kevin & Yvonne Zacher had their first viewing of the Flin-ders Ranges as well as flying over Lake Eyre; Brett & Tanya Bertelesmeir to sunny Queensland; Rohan & Alex Welke and family met up with Jeremy and Carmen Kells on the snowy slopes of Mt Hotham; Kym & Richard Schultz together with Wayne & Valerie Carling climbed the Syndey Harbour Bridge; Leon and Margaret Zweck have arrived home after a 3 month overseas trip visiting Turkey, Italy, Greece and friends in the Greek Isles plus catch up time in India with their daughter Tamara’s family including granddaughter Zara.

Cont…. Elaine has moved to Lumeah Homes, Snowtown, and is thoroughly enjoying mixing with the residents and thriving in the lovely facilities. Elaine attended Blyth Primary School and worked in the Deli after school and after a short time at Clare High School returned to work fulltime in the shop due to her Mum’s poor health. Elaine and Brian have been manag-ing the shop for the past 35 years when their Dad, Elvis (Gordon), passed away. Page’s Deli has been open sev-en days a week including Christmas Day and Good Fri-day, which is unique and a privilege for a small country town such as Blyth. Elaine always greeted customers with a smile on her face and happy to have a chat with local and travellers alike. Her witty rhymes when doing a sale always brought a smile to the customer’s faces. (A dollar thirty, don't be flirty! A dollar forty, don't be naughty!) Elaine didn't need a calculator when adding up the deli items, as her addition skills were top of the class. While the younger generation may have tried to put it over Elaine, she was always on the ball to catch them out. Elaine’s patience was excep-tional when the school children filed in before footy or tennis practice nights to purchase their array of lollies. The Blyth Community wishes Elaine all the best in her retirement days and we now await the future of our town’s icon EG Page & Son Deli. Well done to Ros Zweck on a great interview with CBN Khmer at a recent “Sunrise Cambodia” Charity fundraiser held at Fulham Gardens. Ros spoke about her recent trip to Cambodia and involvement with “Cosi Cows for Cam-bodia”. Check it out on Facebook. Our condolences are extended to Hedley and Graeme Wandel and families on the passing of wife and mother, Dorothy Wandel. Dorothy was 85 years. Happy 101st birthday to Marcia Roberts who celebrated with friends and family on Sunday July 24th. Marcia still enjoys whipping up a beautiful array of petite delights—and her guests love them!!

The Blyth CWA held their AGM on the 19th July with Officers remain unchanged. President Effie Williams. Vice president Winsome Mugge, Secretary Anna Eime. Treasurer Winsome Mugge. Handicraft Secretary Rachel Brown. Social Secre-tary Tot Pawelski.

Results of competitions for the year. Single bloom 1st Dorothy Eckermann 25 points, 2nd Mar-cia Roberts 20 points, 3rd Anna Eime 16 points Multiple Bloom 1st Dorothy Eckermann 18 points, 2nd Ver-na Wood 17 points, 3rd Marcia Roberts, Winsome Mugge, Tot Pawelski, Anna Eime all on 14 points Competitions 1st Anna Eime 20 points, 2nd Dorothy Ecker-mann, Winsome Mugge 15 points, 3rd Verna Wood, Effie Williams 13 points. Blyth CWA meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in the Blyth Hall Supper Room. We usually gather at 10.30 am for handicraft, bring a lap lunch and begin our meeting at 1.00 pm New members are always very welcome

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Films & times in italics to be confirmed- Film info can be found at www.imdb.com Natalie McElroy will "like" bookings to confirm those made on Facebook. Additions & changes to program made 28-7-16 Wed 3rd August 7.30pm HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (PG) 4 stars, Sam Neill Comedy/Drama Thur 4th August 2.00pm EDDIE THE EAGLE (PG) 3.5 stars Hugh Jackman, Ta-ron Edgerton Fri 5th August 7.30pm THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (M) 3.5 stars, Margot Robbie, Alexander Skarsgard Sat 6th August 4.30pm HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (PG) 4 stars, Sam Neill Comedy/Drama Sat 6th August 8.00pm THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (M) 3.5 stars, Mon 8th August 10.30am EDDIE THE EAGLE (PG) 3.5stars Tues 9th August 2.00pm HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (PG) 4 stars, Wed 10th August 7.30pm THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (M) 3.5 stars, Fri 12th August 10.30am EDDIE THE EAGLE (PG) 3.5 stars, Fri 12th August 7.30pm THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (M) 3.5 stars, Sat 13th August 4.30pm THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (M) 3.5 stars, Sat 13th August 8.00pm INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (M) 3 stars, Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum. Sun 14th August 4.30pm THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (M) 3.5 stars, Wed 17th August 7.30pm INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (M) 3 stars, Fri 19th August 7.30pm INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (M) 3 stars, Sat 20th August 4.30pm INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (M) 3 stars, Sat 20th August 8.00pm LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (M) 3.5 stars, Kate Beckinsale Comedy/Drama/Romance Sun 21st August 4.30pm LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (M) 3.5 stars, Tues 23rd August 2.00pm LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (M) 3.5 stars, Fri 26th August 7.30pm STAR TREK BEYOND (M) 3.5 stars, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto Action/Adventure/Sci Fi Sat 27th August 4.30pm INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (M) 3 stars, Sat 27th August 8.00pm STAR TREK BEYOND (M) 3.5 stars, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto Action/Adventure/Sci Fi Programme can be subject to change, so if coming some distance, please confirm film & time. Bookings: Natalie McElroy 0498 756 519

To deal with the increased popularity of the Blyth Cinema, Nat McElroy has been appointed as a part time manager of the Cinema and has been doing a great job in creating new ideas to pro-mote the cinema. The Blyth Cinema continues to be well supported from the districts movie lovers and during the recent school holiday period, ticket sales tipped over the 2000 mark. During the 2 weeks of school holidays the cinema were holding 3 to 5 sessions daily to satisfy the movie goers appetite with the showings of recent release movies “Finding Dory”, being the most popular, as well as Ice Age 5. The Cinema committee decided prior to the holidays to hire a popcorn machine from Mid North Bouncy Castle Hire for the busy 2 week period to reduce waiting time for this popular snack. As patrons walked in the door the aroma of cooked popcorn proved too tempting for many with nearly 1000 bags/boxes being sold during this time. During the second week of the school holiday rush, Cinema Manager, Nat McElroy, was delighted to receive a message from Chris & Julie Carter, owners of the popcorn machine, for their generous donation of the Pop Corn machine and trolley to the Blyth Cinema. Thanks is extended to Chris and Julie for this wonderful gesture especially from the 30 volunteers who help behind the Cinema Candy Bar. Next month the Cinema will remove the old seats and replace with new and slightly bigger ones.

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The much sought after Clare/Blyth region Local shopper Discount Program is again up and running, and is offering shoppers out-standing savings right the way through to 31st Dec 2016. The Program this year has a number of exciting new additions with Day’s Quality Meats, Clare & Pirie Shoes, and D & T Glazing of-fering up to a cool 10% off labour or purchases. The Discount Program now offers shoppers savings from businesses on a mas-sive variety of items every day including Meat at Day’s Quality Meats, electrical products at Dunstan’s Electrical & Mid North Communications, trade supplies & hardware essentials at Sand-ers H Hardware & Mitre 10, toddler & kids necessities at Peeka-boo Kids, Automotive requirements at Sprints Auto & Clare Tyres, motorbike & chainsaw needs & apparel at Stihl Shop Clare & WG Bikes & Gear, office & stationary at Office National, house & reno-vating services at Valley Ceiling & Wall Linings, D & T Glazing, & Centre State Pest & Weed, Engineering at Mid North Sand Blast-ing, food & entertainment at the Blyth Hotel, Caltex Clare, Blyth Cinema, & Lakeside Miniature Railway, hair & beauty at Effigy Hair studio & Muscle Matters. Local Shopper Discount Cards are on sale now, and have the potential to save buyers much more than the cost of the card, which for the remainder of this year only, are great value at $20.00 each. Discount Cards can be purchased from any of the Blyth/Kybunga Cricket Club committee members as per list below, or phone orders & enquiries to Darren Clark on 0428445218. The Discount card can be used at all our participating businesses, every business day of the year until 31/12/2016, so grab one and put it alongside your credit card and use it every time you go shopping. Used as intended, the Discount Program cards leading up to Christmas will pay for themselves easily. The local Shopper Discount Program is an initiative of the Blyth/Kybunga Cricket Club, and has been put in place to encourage & reward locals for shopping at local business in our region. Reve-nue raised from the program is retained to self-fund the Discount Program, and help provide much needed funds to offer cricket as a sport, and run cricket at grass roots level in our community. SUPPORT LOCAL. BKCC Committee – Darren Clark, Justin Zweck, Kim Eime, David Pratt, Joe Pratt, Mick Agnew, Wayne Jamieson, Ben Hahn, Bazz Napper, Chris Napper, Rob Hackett.

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST The Blyth/Kybunga Cricket Club are calling for expressions of interest to fill 2 volunteer positions for the coming 2016/17 cricket season, being (1) 2016/17 Under 17’s Coach, and (2) 2016/17 Milo Cricket Co-ordinator based at Snowtown (fortnightly) working in with the Milo Cricket Co-ordinator from Blyth. SACA Requirements for both positions are for both successful applicants to have completed a police check, and obtain level 1 coaching accreditation throughout the season (both subsidised by BKCC). Coaching accreditation is normally approx. 6hr training generally held on a Sunday with other Club members. Both posi-tions can be filled by either males or females. Expressions of in-terest can be forwarded by email to dandkclark@live.com.au by 6pm on 12/08/2016. Both positions will be determined by the BKCC Management Committee. Nigel Harris has tirelessly coached the U/17’s for the past 3 years, and has also Co-ordinated the well-attended Milo Cricket sessions at Snowtown last season. We owe much of the Clubs success to Nigel, and the Blyth/Kybunga Cricket Club has strengthened be-cause of his efforts. We thank Nigel very much for all he has achieved and done for the Club. A job well done ‘Steady’.

BLYTH BOWLING CLUB Bowling club members has been busy over the passed two weeks, by erecting the shelter on the east side of the bowling green, so we can play east – west. The Club is appreciative of $5000 received from the Wakefield Regional Coun-cil Community Infrastruc-ture Program and $9,850 from the Blyth Develop-ment Board Grants pro-gramme which has funded majority of this project. Thanks to all who have help in the project its been much appreciated. Right: Brian Eime, Ron DeLu-ca, Ian Farley & Barry Spinks.

The club will be holding two Friday night teas in August and Sep-tember the dates are 12 August and 23 September. It will be a two course meal costing $12 per head. Everyone is welcome, please contact Cheryl Wandel for catering purposes if attending. The club is getting back to normal with everyone back for holi-days, we hope that Maureen and Brian Eime enjoyed their trip to Fiji with there daughter Amelia and husband Tim. President Jean went to England, Isle of White, Paris and Singapore, we hope Jean has recovered from the great experience she had. Jude Burns going over to Canada to visit her son and granddaughter, hope she had a relaxing time with the family. September 25 Blyth Bowling Club and Wasley Bowling Club will be holding a bowls match called the ASHES, so any members or new members are welcome to play on the day, starting time 1pm with a BBQ after the second game.

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The distance between where I was starting and where I wanted to be

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Here’s how I applied the "start small" process to my habits .. Reading: One Page A Night

I started by reading just one page of a book every

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from the first year. I worked on this habit over about a year and a half. That probably

sounds like a long time, but it only seems that way in retrospect.

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read today to count a win. It’s always a small, daily effort that I focus on. But when I look back on my progress, I realise what big achieve-

ments those daily habits have developed into.

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My name is Damien Graham I am the Coordinator for the Mid North Community Passenger Network (MNCPN), I have been the Coordinator for eight years. The MNCPN started approxi-mately 15 years ago as the four Councils recognised a need for a reliable transport service in regional areas. The councils are Clare & Gilbert Valleys Council, Wakefield Regional Council, Regional Council of Goyder and the District Council of Mallala. The four councils are fully supportive of the network and are proactive on ensuring its sustainability now and into the future. The (MNCPN) covers a vast area of 12,282 sq km’s, this net-work is the 4th largest in the State. The network has 7 cars based around the mid north at Clare, Riverton, Burra, Eudunda, Ham-ley Bridge, Balaklava and Mallala. We currently have 50 volunteer drivers within the region who assist people in the communities to get to and from Adelaide for medical and specialist appointments and social engagements. These volunteer drivers do a mandatory Volunteer Driver Ac-creditation Process (VDAP) before they join the network. This VDAP comprises of a mandatory child screening check, medical, driver assessment and induction. All costs related to the VDAP are paid by the network. The volunteers are very professional and proud to be associated to the network providing exceptional service to others in the community. All volunteer drivers are re-cruited within the community so they have local knowledge of the area. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer driver please contact 88421677 for further information. Clients who use the network cars pay a fee and the price is de-termined on the km’s travelled, this is explained to the client be-fore the trip. Bookings are essential and must be made as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. All fees go back into the network to cover costs and to expand the network for future use. It is a service which is community orientated helped run by the community.

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Vietnam with Michael & Annette Jaeschke Annette, Michael, Louis and Cartia left Blyth at 4.30am Sunday June 26th and via Singapore arrived at their Hanoi Hotel (6.30am Ade-laide time the next day) 26 hours later! Needless to say not all went to plan along the way. Hanoi is an amazing, busy and chaotic city. We did a street food tour and found crossing the road/intersections with no traffic lights amongst hundreds of scooters, cyclos and taxis that cram the roads was quite daunting. Our guides advice - keep walking as if you wait-ed for a break in the traffic you would never cross. Visited Ho Chi Minh at the mausoleum. It is an amazing building and he looked pretty good considering he has been dead for over 40 years! We took the overnight train (four of us in a tiny cabin with 4 bunks) to Lao Cai near the China border . Onto Sapa, a mountainous frontier town with the most amazing scenery. The town of Sapa is perched atop overlooking terraced rice paddies and small villages down in the valleys below. We did 2 days of walking to several villages on small tracks, across rocky streams, fairly steep hillsides and de-scending to the valley floor. These villages only got electricity 20 years ago, and every small tin shed sells drinks has free wi-fi. The Vietnamese love their smart phones. In Sapa every second business is a massage and/or cafe—great to relieved our aching calf muscles. We berthed a boat at Halong Bay and visited the extraordinary lime-stone shaped islands, dinner in a cave, a night on the boat, kayaking around one of the islands and a quick swim. The local people con-sider this area to be heaven on earth. To Hue, the ancient capital of Vietnam where we visited the Imperial citadel and mausoleums of 2 emperors which were built on the grandest scale. 90% of Hue was destroyed in the Vietnam war. Onto Hoi An, heritage site, with many old buildings, markets, narrow streets, restaurants and more shops than Annette and Cartia could visit in the 4 days we were there. At night scooters were banned from the street so no fear of getting run over. The temperature was 36 degrees and 60% humidity, pool by day back into the town at night, where thousands of locals and tourists would come out in the cool of night, an amazing place. Had a $6 haircut and had 12 kg of laundry done for $24, at a shop near the hotel, which also had mas-sage and sold beer and food. Toured the tunnels of Cu Chi, where the Viet Cong would hide out during the day and attack the US troops at night during the war, visited the war museum which showed the futility of war from the perspective of Communist Vietnam, and the lingering affects of the chemical warfare and the bombs and landmines that continue to explode around the country. Our guide told us it will take another 100 years to clean up the country properly, more bombs were dropped on Vietnam by the US than what the US used in WW2. Ho Chi Minh City is more modern than Hanoi, traffic is chaos and people everywhere, 10 million in fact. Vietnam now has a 2 child policy, it is a long narrow country and fitting 93 million people there while trying to maintain their agricultural land to feed them all will be a challenge in future. Spent 2 days on the Me-kong Delta, stayed in an eco lodge on an island and riding bikes. We had a taste of the rice and snake wine, 40% alcohol . Vietnamese are very friendly and English is widely spoken. cheap beer ($1.25 for the local drop, Tiger). We didn't try everything, we were told if it moves we eat it, but we didn't try the dog on the menu; And there is western food in many places so the odd pizza, pasta and hamburger went down well. Booking through a local travel agent Tonkin Travel based in Hanoi. was the best thing and first class. $A1 is 16,000 dong. We learnt and practised a few Vietnamese words, like hello, thank you, goodbye etc which our drivers who didn't speak much English thought was very funny, and a great way to break the ice with them. Our 18 day

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Kokoda Trek with Daryl Andriske Recently I was able to fulfil a long time dream of walking the Kokoda

Track which retraces the steps of the Australian soldiers that fought in the

Second World War against the Japanese. Our trek began with a drive to

Owers Corner and a visit to the Bomana War Cemetery where Australian

Soldiers are buried. We then trekked 4 hours through the Goldy River to

our first camp site at Dump 66. Day 2 was a climb up the Golden Stair-case to Imita Ridge which is the furthest point that the Japanese advanced.

We then moved onto Ua-Ule Creek and camped at Ioribaiwa Ridge. This

day was about 10 hours trekking, crossing the creek 22 times and was

physically challenging. Day 3 was a 9 hour trek along the Maguli Range

and here we saw the last visible trenches used by both Japanese and Aus-

tralian soldiers. Camped overnight at Naoro which is where the aerial

supply drops were made during the war. Day 4 We trekked along the

swamps to Brown River where we able to have our first decent wash since we began. After crossing Brown River we climbed ‘The Wall’ which

certainly tested the fitness training we had completed leading up to the

challenge. Upon reaching the top we trekked 6 hours along the ridge to

village of Menari with a population of about 500 people. Here the local

Seven Day Adventist Minister and children from the village visited our

camp site and sang songs to us. Day 5 was a trek to Brigade Hill & Mis-

sion Ridge - the scene of a major battle and where 101 Australian Soldiers

lost their lives. We stopped here to learn about the battle and participate in a commemoration service. I was privileged to read a poem, and we

then sang the National Anthems of Australia and New Guinea. After

leaving this site we came across Nishumura’s Stump where a Japanese

soldier hid for three days during the battle of Brigade Hill. Camp was at

Efogi Village– the site of one of the airstrips and first aid post and is the

half way mark of the trek. Day 6 We had a horrendous climb up to Na-

duri, the village where one of the last Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels lived. His son

still shares stories with visitors about his father’s war experiences. We rested here and played soccer with local children. Our trek continued

towards the top of Mount Bellamy and overnight camp was at 1900 Camp

(the number of metres above sea level). Day 7 We climbed to the peak of

Mount Bellamy (2190m), the highest point of the track. Here we enjoyed

spectacular scenery and then began our descent to Templetons Crossing.

Camp was at Eora Creek (after approx. 8 hours walking) and was the

scene of major battles during both the withdrawal and advance of the Australian soldiers across the track. Day 8 After breakfast we trekked to

Isurava Battlefield, to inspect the battle sites and reflect on the heroic

deeds performed by our soldiers and held another memorial service. We

stood on the site where Steel Kingsbury, Victoria Cross Recipient, was

shot by a Japanese Sniper. A magnificent memorial of 4 granite pillars

has been constructed with the words etched on each Endurance, Courage,

Sacrifice, Mateship which is the ‘code’ of the Australian soldiers. We

travelled onto Isurava Village where we stayed the night. Day 9 We de-scended down to Deniki where we could see our final destination, Koko-

da. Deniki was a defensive position of the Australians during the fighting

withdrawal back from Kokoda. We continued our descent to the village

of Hoi where we had lunch before trekking onto the arches at Kokoda.

On our last day we flew back to Port Morseby and enjoyed our first show-

er in 9 days. The trek of 97.5km was both physically and emotionally

challenging but still an inspiring, awesome and empowering adventure.

Wool Tour with the Andriskes Daryl & Tracey Andriske travelled to Hong Kong and Vietnam re-

cently as part of the Elders Wool Tour Group. There were 34 in our

group and were all sheep farmers / wool growers (except us). Our first stopover was Hong Kong. Here we took a cable car to Victoria

Peak the highest mountain on the Hong Kong Island, a ferry ride

through Victoria Harbour, Tai O Fishing village and then to Ngong

Ping Plateau to visit the Giant Buddha. We finished the day with a Skyrail ride to enjoy great views over the city.

Part of our tour included visits to woollen mills, knitting and textile

factories. These included a ferry ride into China to Novotex Woollen

Mill and then to Australian Wool Innovation Resource Centre in Hong Kong with the representatives sharing with the wool growers

how they are promoting wool to buyers and textile factory owners to

include in their garments.

Our next stop was Hanoi the capital of Vietnam where we visited more textile factories and seeing firsthand how they are beginning to

mix wool with other fabrics to make clothing. The size of the facto-

ries and number of employees working on sewing & cutting ma-

chines, checking garments, folding and packing is just amazing to see. After Hanoi we travelled to Halong Bay and enjoyed a breathtaking

cruise around some of the islets vising the fishing village, caves,

swimming and anchoring amongst the islets for an overnight stay.

We then travelled to Hoi An and onto Saigon. Here we visited a feed-lot where they hold 8,000 cattle which are imported from Australia

and then onto another feed lot which is currently under construction.

We also enjoyed the sites of Saigon including a boat ride along the

Mekong River, tour of the Cu Chi Tunnels where the Vietnamese lived underground during the American War (as they call it – also

known as the Vietnam War), an emotional tour of the War Remnants

Museum and the Reunification Palace.

This was the end of our group tour and we travelled back up to Hanoi and took an overnight train to the beautiful area of Sapa. This is cur-

rently a less commercialised area (although they have just built a huge

sky rail and in the process of building another ‘big Budha’ and tem-ples on top of Fansipan Mountain as well as many motels in the town.

In Sapa there are many small villages not far from one another. We

walked through the valleys, vegetable gardens and villages and were

met by very friendly people (especially when they thought we might buy something from them).

The food was a highlight of our holiday with banquets for lunch and

dinner enabling you to sample their finest cuisine and eat things that

you would never eat any other time such as elephant ear fish and di-nosaur eggs.

Our final leg of our journey was a trip to Siem Reap in Cambodia to

visit the famous Angkor Wat, the world’s largest religious monu-

ment , Ta Prohm temples which are falling apart and only held togeth-er by giant tree roots and finally the sunset views from Pre Rup Tem-

ple which finished off a spectacular holiday.

CWA Scone Recipe (Geelong)

* Turn on the oven to 200˚

(20˚ lower for fan forced)

INGREDIENTS

* ½ cup full cream milk

* 1 cup cream

* 3 cups of flour — sifted

* ¾ tsp of baking powder

* Pinch of salt

METHOD * Add the cup of cream to the ½ cup milk — room temperature

* Pour the cream and milk and mix into the flour

* Fold lightly with a knife

* Tip onto a floured board

* Knead lightly and cut or roll them out

* Put in the oven in the next one from the middle

* Take about 10-15 minutes. Makes 18 small scones

SCONE TIPS

Mrs Margaret Primmer’s Scone tips

* Always use full cream milk and cream at room temperature

(you can microwave for up to 15 seconds to take the chill out)

*Always sift the flour

* Gently handle the scone dough, roll and pat it lightly

* Don’t fall into the trap of making them too big as they can

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OBITUARY

DOROTHY MAY WANDEL 5.5.1931—29.7.2016

(as ready by Granddaughters Sophie, Jess, Hannah)

We’re here to celebrate the life of Dorothy May

Wandel: a loving and humble mother, daughter, wife, grandmother, sister and friend, who was

one of the most caring people we’ll ever know.

She was also the best dispenser of lollies any

granddaughter could have ever dreamt for, and

was officially Telstra’s best customer, having

spent much of her life chatting with friends and

family over the phone.

She was someone that devoted her life to other people and her faith. If something was wrong,

she was the first person we’d call to make us

smile, and for that reason plus a thousand more,

she will be sorely and forever missed.

Dorothy - or Dotty as we often liked to call her -

was born on the 5th of May, 1931 at Kapunda

Hospital to Sarah (nee Bartsch) and Heinrich

Menzel. She was baptized at the Kapunda Lutheran

Church by Pastor WJ Koerber, with Olga Dodd,

Doris Laubsch, Herman Biele and Walter

Bartsch as her sponsors.

She was the eldest of five children: her sisters

Lorna &Audrey and brothers, Keith and David.

Dorothy lived at Marrabel until she was two

years old, before the family moved to Kapunda. The Menzels were modest, hardworking and

devoted to their church.

She was educated at Kapunda Primary and High

School. Interestingly, only a couple of days ago

we found some of her old school books, and as

we opened one of the pages, we saw that she had

actually been awarded DUX of Year 9! She had never mentioned this before. This goes to the

heart of who she was – humble – never bragging

about her accomplishments or best traits. Rather,

she focused on the attributes and achievements

of those around her.

Dorothy also went to Sunday School and was

confirmed at the Kapunda Lutheran Church,

again by Pastor Koerber. She was a member of the Kapunda Luther League, and loved singing,

as well as spending time with her brothers, sis-

ters and friends.

Having grown up during the Great Depression

and World War II, life was often tough, and

despite doing well she left school at 15 to help

with domestic duties. As her grand daughters,

she would always encourage us to keep up with our education, as she felt it was something she

didn’t quite have the chance to continue on with

herself.

In addition to her domestic duties, Dotty worked

at Kapunda’s famous Rawady’s Brothers Deli

for eight and a half years – alongside owners Eli,

Gordon & Reg – with whom she became life-

long friends. She worked hard, often helping out customers who popped over during the intermis-

sion of plays in the Town Hall.

Dorothy was a member of the Kapunda Banjo

Club and Concert Party – and kept her Banjo in

her bedroom up until she passed away. She was

a talented performer, and possibly her biggest

claim to fame was being asked to sing live on Adelaide radio station, 5AD. She performed the

song ‘Peggy O’Neil’ and did so well, they even

made a record out of it! Very, very rarely Dotty

would let us play this record at home. We’d

dance around the table and exclaim ‘Granny

you’re famous.’ Today, you might just hear a

scratchy snippet of Dorothy’s Peggy O’Neill, as

we leave the service.

It was at a Luther League social in Blyth where

Dorothy met Hedley. They married not long

after, on the 16th of February 1957 in Kapunda.

When asking grandpa how she looked that day,

over the years, he has consistently said that

when she came down the aisle, Dorothy looked like ‘a beautiful swan’. She then moved to the

Wandel family farm, where she spent the next

59 years of her life.

Dorothy loved contributing to the farm and kept

up to 600 chooks at a time. She collected eggs 3

times a day, reared meat birds, enjoyed feeding

up the shearers and could have been the next

Channel Nine weather presenter – as she knew the forecast like the back of her hand. In her

latter years, she was also the farm’s best security

guard. No-one could enter or exit – not Tony,

Hedley or the Kennetts - without Dotty clocking

their whereabouts. In fact, Tony probably could

have outsourced his timesheet to Dotty to save

himself some paperwork.

In 1958, Dorothy gave birth to a son: Graeme, and from that moment on, she was his number

one fan. She loved being a mum, and no matter

whether it was his sports, farming, business or

community accomplishments, Dotty was always

incredibly proud. “I don’t know what I’d do

without him, he does so much for me,” was

certainly one of her most-used phrases.

Motherhood certainly didn’t stop her perform-ing, and after being approached by Michael Pratt

in the late 70s, she took part in the local ‘Bull n

Bush’ production for several years. Dorothy’s

highlight was her solo performance of the Vera

Lynn song, “We’ll meet again”, which she sang

multiple times at Blyth and in other towns when

the show went “on the road.”

She was thrilled to see Graeme get married to

Denby, and in her words, peak happiness came

when the grandchildren arrived. First came So-

phie, then Jessie then Hannah. Her excitement

was so high, that when Hannah arrived, it was

actually Grandma who came to the hospital to

take Denby and the baby home. To be fair, Grae-

me was on the tractor at the time! Because she lived just 200 metres down the road, Grandma

soon became a frequent babysitter, to which

both parents were deeply grateful.

For the three of us, our childhood memories with

Grandma are endless. She’d sing us songs like

the ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ and ‘Click Go the

Shears’, we’d play make-believe with her and

she’d let us play under the table with pots and pans. We loved her so much, that every time

we’d have friends come and visit, going to see

‘our Grandma’ was one of the top things to do.

Once we were a bit older, we’d get off the

school bus at Dotty’s house. On the way inside,

we’d grab a bottle of creaming soda from the

outside fridge. She’d then serve us an array of

lollies, Tim Tams, cheese, apples, and toast– made exactly how each of us individually liked

it. After this massive feast, she’d then warn us

not to spoil our dinner and send us home to mum

once she’d got home from work.

During this period, Granny also loved watching

her soap operas, and we can safely say that no 5,

8 or 10 year olds were better-versed in the love triangles of shows like the Bold and the Beauti-

ful than us. This love of stories, movies and

music continued for her entire life.

When Mum and Dad were working, Grandma

was also the resident family member who at-

tended our recorder concerts. Dad was probably

the most grateful person for this, as he truly

believed there was nothing worse. Despite all of

the screeching and mayhem, Grandma actually

seemed to enjoy all our recorder, piano, school

and ballet concerts, and it was always heartening

to see her beaming face in the crowd.

As kids, Grandma was also one of our best taxi

drivers, which was quite fitting, considering she sped around in a canary yellow Cortina. With a

hanky in her hand, she drove this car every-

where, including to the CWA, Lutheran choir

and Guild –all of which she was a member. She

loved these groups and the friends and memories

she made in them.

She did a lot of other things during this period,

like helping at Hospital Christmas Fetes, Linen Days and at Blyth Primary School with the LAP

Programme. When Graeme became secretary of

Blyth/Snowtown Football Club he couldn’t get

anyone to wash the new Cats guernseys, so

Dorothy took on the role for a number of years.

For her whole life, she also kept a daily diary,

keeping track of all she got up to (plus the rain-

fall, of course).

Graeme and Dotty also remained incredibly

close, and she always kept her humour with him.

In fact, one April Fool’s Day, Dotty received a

phone call from a very eager sales person saying

that a double decker road train of cattle was

being delivered to the farm. Grandma got herself

into a complete fluster, not realising that this

was actually Graeme on the phone and no more than a simple joke.

Dorothy cherished the special times with her

brothers, sisters and in-laws, and loved spending

Christmas time and birthdays with them and

their families. She had a very close relationship

with her Mother and spoke dearly of her until

she passed away.

Over the years Grandma took much pride in her

colourful cottage garden keeping up her petunias

and pansies right to this day. Grandma’s main

interests of recent times were DVDs, family,

friends, phone calls and music, including hymns,

Andre Rieu, and Andrew Lloyd Weber. Sophie

and Jessie even took Grandma to the Andre Rieu

concert in Adelaide for her 80th birthday, which she loved. In the slideshow after this obituary

there are two songs of significance, one of which

is by Andre Rieu, while the other is her ‘Bull

and Bush’ Vera Lynn song, which we mentioned

earlier.

In her latter years Dorothy was most content

living on the farm with Hedley and chatting with her sisters and friends on the phone. She loved

being near to Graeme and Denby and keeping up

with the news from her grandchildren and three

great grandchildren. Sophie’s eldest daughter,

Poppy, fondly referred to her as ‘Kit Kat

Grandma’ knowing what she’d receive when

visiting. Grandma was thrilled when Sophie’s

second daughter came along in 2014 and was named ‘Nellie May’ after her. Grandma fortu-

nately got the opportunity to meet Jessie’s baby

daughter Gracie only 6 weeks ago, which

brought her much joy.

Right up until her final days, Grandma was

sharp as a tack, always well aware of what was

going on. Grandma felt blessed to have lived a long and gracious life and we all felt blessed to

have known her.

Dorothy was peacefully called to her heavenly

home on July 29, in the Clare Hospital after only

a brief stay, with Graeme and Hedley by her

side. She is now at home with her Lord and

Saviour.

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