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Wednesday February 1, 2017

Dorothy Every from Ben Lomond has been named in this year’s Aus-tralia Day Honours list, acknowledging her outstanding record of community service across the communities of Guyra, Ben Lomond andGlen Innes. She is the recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia(OAM) in the General Division.

The announcement was made by Member for Northern TablelandsAdam Marshall at the Ben Lomond Australia Day breakfast.

The previous night, Nicole Corry was named Guyra’s Citizen of theYear at the Australia Day Awards ceremony held at the Guyra BowlingClub.

Nicole was presented with the award by Australia Day AmbassadorChristopher Cheng at a ceremony held at the Guyra Bowling Club onJanuary 25th.

Nicole was one of six nominations this year, with Ron and MaureenLooker (jointly nominated), Kirsten Porter, Julie Gittoes, Margaret Dayand Cameron Way also nominated.

The Contribution to Sport and Recreation award went to the GuyraVeteran Golfers. Kelsie Youman took home the Sports Award and theCommunity Event of the Year was awarded to the Guyra Lions ClubSenior Citizens Mystery Tour.

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Another record breakingyear at the Lamb & PotatoFes�val ‐ congratula�ons tothe hard working team thatmake this happen

Holy Smoke fireworks ‐ agreat show as always

Seeing a new venturecome to frui�on ‐ we hopeyou enjoy the all new GuyraGaze�e

Backyard Blitz beingplanned for the Preschool.Workers needed for a work‐ing bee next weekend

Storm debris s�ll notcleared away at the Showground

Sunrise a no show at theLamb & Potato Fes�val

No nomina�ons for Junior Ci�zen of the Year .Surely some of young people deserve recogni‐�on

Hot weather

Guyra Gazette Wednesday February 1, 2017

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Rainfall this week36.6mm 3 daysJanuary’s rainfall186.0mmm 12 daysRainfall year to date186.0mmm 12 days Rainfall last year to date 146.8mm 15 days

Rainfall Registrations - to9am Monday, January 30

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Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis,Nicole was forced to give up her jobas a registered nurse in her 40’s.Nicole underwent many treatmentsworldwide in her quest for full recov-ery from this debilitating and insidi-ous disease. Once things started toimprove for Nicole, she became avolunteer at The Hub at Guyrawhilst also studying business studiesat TAFE.

Nicole quickly undertook moreand more duties in the finance areaat The Hub. She was appointed Busi-ness Administrator, a role which shecontinues in today. Nicole also vol-unteers at the St Vincent de Paulstore in Guyra.

During her early days at the GuyraHub, Nicole oversaw the funding,spending, and reporting on all as-

pects of the Guyra Community Gar-den. She also worked in the gardento keep it to a high standard for thecommunity.

Although the community gardenis now a stand-alone organisation,Nicole is still a major force behind itand has been on the committee sinceits inception.

Throughout her journey and battlewith MS, Nicole wrote a blog, whichhas been adapted into a book: Mul-tiple Sclerosis and HematopoieticStem Cell Transplant: One PatientsJourney, which was published in2015. Nicole is determined anddriven to ensure that there is supportfor those in need in the communityand is constantly going above andbeyond in her endeavours.

Australia Day Ambassador, Christopher Cheng with the nominees for Citizen of the YearL to r:Cameron Way, Kirsten Porter,Nicole Corry, Julie Gittoes, Margaret Day

and Australia Day Ambassador Christopher Cheng

Christopher Cheng presents KelsieYouman with her Sports Award

Dorothy Every has been namedin this year’s Australia Day Honourslist, acknowledging her outstandingrecord of community service. Shehas played significant roles in a longlist of organisations over an ex-tended period of time.

She is the recipient of the Medalof the Order of Australia (OAM) inthe General Division, reflecting con-tributions to the Ben Lomond,Guyra and Glen Innes communities.

Dorothy said that she was ‘dumb-founded’ when she found out shewas to receive the award. It came ata time when her husband John wasfacing serious health issues, and al-though she was sworn to secrecy shedid share it with him.

On opening the letter she saidthat she couldn’t stop laughing andwas surprised that she had beennominated.

“I’ve had a bit to do with a lot ofthings,” she said. “I certainly didn’texpect an award – you do things forthe community because you want to,not to be rewarded.

The announcement was made atthe Australia Day Breakfast in BenLomond, and proved a welcomesurprise for the whole community.

“It was good to have it that way,”she said. “Ben Lomond is where Ilive and it was a fitting that I couldshare it with my friends there.”

When asked when she will stopher service to the community, shesaid ‘maybe when age stops me’, butshe has no plans to step down justyet.

“I have enjoyed doing it, so whywould I stop now.”

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Guyra Show only two weeksaway ‐ start thinking aboutyour entries now


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Shine continues to grow in popularity.On Saturday morning, 122 cars mo-torbikes and caravans line both sidesof Bradley street and the crowdsflocked to see them.

Exhibitors came from Grafton,Armidale, Uralla, Inverell, Glen Innes,Tenterfield and Narrabri. PresidentDavid Tibbs said that this year’s eventwas the best ever and they were over-whelmed at the number of entries.Prizes were award to 10 vehicles as as-sessed by independent judges.

The display was enhanced by 30 mil-itary vehicles in the NAB car park.

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The 31st Lamb and Potato Festivalwill be remembered for the devasta-tion caused by a massive storm onthe evening of Friday January 20.

The storm hit Guyra at around4pm with heavy rain and strongwinds which blew down trees andfences, and caused considerabledamage to marquees at festival site.

The storms lasted from 4pm to7pm with the worst conditions be-tween 4pm and 5pm. The maximumwind gust recorded at the South

Guyra weather station was 121 kmper hour at 4.24pm.

The main damage was to themusic marquee which was lifted offthe ground and landed on top of thelamb statue.

However, what was a scene ofdevastation on Friday night was al-most back to normal by lunch timeon Saturday.

President of the Lamb and PotatoFestival committee Steve Mephamsaid that the community support wasoverwhelming.

“We are indebted to the emer-gency services who came out in thebad weather and also others who justrocked up and said ‘what can wedo?,” he said. “We didn’t have to askthey just got in and did the job.”

Overall Mr Mepham said the festival was an outstanding success.Some of the highlights were theShow and Shine, the bus tours andthe Ukulele extravaganza.

“We are already planning for nextyear and we will continue to build onwhat is a winning formula,” he said.

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FFeennccee ttoo sshhuutt oouutt wwiilldd ddooggssThe Wongwibinda Cluster Fence

project is about to shut the gate onwild dogs, keeping sheep and cattlesafe from attack across an area ofmore than nine thousand hectareseast of Guyra.

Project Manager, Leith Hawkins,from Northern Tablelands LocalLand Services is working with fivelandholders in the Wongwibinda areato build a 60 kilometre dog exclusionfence that will protect all of thegroup’s adjoining properties includ-ing Lynoch, Marysvale, DoughboyMountain, Karuah and Wong-wibinda Station.

A total of $549,839 has been al-located to the Wongwibinda ClusterFence project through the AustralianGovernment’s $3 million Agricul-tural Competitiveness White Paperprogram for pest and weed manage-

ment in NSW. The project is being administered

through Northern Tablelands LocalLand Services, with the Wong-wibinda Cluster Association to makein-kind contributions of more thanhalf a million dollars to match gov-ernment funding.

“The 1.6 metre high fence willstop wild dogs as well as pigs andfoxes. This model has been tried inQLD with very promising results re-ported so far, but nothing like thishas been done before in NSW,” saidLeith.

Wongwibinda Cluster Fence Asso-ciation Chair, Bruce McCarthy, saysdog numbers have increased signifi-cantly in the area posing a seriousthreat to the viability of sheep pro-duction and also endangering cattle.

“Our group believes that our co-

operative approach will be far moreeffective than any dog control effortswe could have achieved individually,”said Bruce.

“Regular monitoring and concen-trated baiting and trapping programsat pressure points on the fence willbe an important part of the ongoingprogram.”

Construction on the Wong-wibinda Cluster Fence is expected tostart this month.

Northern Tablelands Local LandServices is planning a series of Clus-ter Fencing field days in early 2017where local farmers will be able tofind out more about the ClusterFence project.

For further information about the Clus-ter Fence project contact Leith Hawkins atNorthern Tablelands Local Land Serviceson 02 6770 2007.

Top AveExtra heavy suckers $200 $168 Up $17Heavy suckers $147 $140 Up $10Medium suckers $138 $126 Up $8Light suckers $115 $111 FirmStore lambs $108 $ 99 Up $9Hoggets $105 $ 87Crossbred Ewes $115 $ 79 FirmMerino wethers $120 $ 93 Up $11Merino ewes $100 $ 80 Up $8Light merino ewes $ 52 $ 44

Pick up meals by 11.50amFeb 1 Wendy Lockyer, Feb 2Heather Marchant, Feb 3 Lyn &Richard Skinner, Feb 6 Kath Var-ley , Feb 7 Don & Be�y Mayled ,Feb 8 Jan Jordan & St Mary’sstudents

Community NoticeboardMeals on Wheels

Street Stalls

Service Clubs

Feb 9 Catholic Women’s LeagueFeb 10 Masonic Lodge

LIONS CLUB dinner meetings1st & 3rd Thursday of themonth at Guyra Bowling Club,7pm. Ph:Peter King 0412 780951ROTARY CLUB dinner meetings2nd & 4th Tuesday of the monthat Rafters Restaurant,6.30pm. Ph: Aileen MacDonald 0417 079 307

Church NoticesSt James, AnglicanSun 8am Traditional Service, 9.30am Family Service; 1st Sunday ofthe month: Backwater 2pm 3rdSunday of the month: BenLomond 11.30amSt Marys CatholicSaturday Mass 6pm in Guyra,Sunday 9am 1st Sunday of themonth: Ben Lomond, 3rd Sun-day Wards Mistake, otherwiseGuyraSt Columba’s PresbyterianSunday 10.00am Bible Studyat 9.30am Session Clerk:Geoff Clark - Ph 6771 1022 Uniting ChurchRegular Sunday Service -9.30pm Enquiries Nancy Davidson 6779 1366Seventh-day AdventistSaturday from 10am BibleStudy, 11am Divine Service.Enq: 6779 1587 Northwest Church66 Llangothlin St Service 10amSunday. Connect group and Spek-trum Youth Tony Stace0427956772. Church of Freedom10 Nincoola Street - Contact:0421 847 973 Tuesday Prayer6.30pm, Wed Bible Study6.30pm Sunday Service 10am

Guyra Sheep and Lamb Sale Weekly Market ReportNumbers were back 2742 head to 3101 sheep

and lambs at Guyra on January 25, There wasamajor fall in sheep numbers. Extra heavylambs were extreme, averaging up $17 on theprevious week, topping at $200. Heavy lambswere in reduced numbers to be $10 dearer thanlast day.

Store lambs realised prices $9 up from lastday, topping at $108 and averaging $99.Medium lambs averaged $126, $8 dearer.Merino wethers were strong at $120, with ewesmaking $100. Crossbred ewes made $115 to theprocessors, to average $79. These were firm onlast day. Light merino ewes made to $52.

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will be held on February 15

FFoooodd PPaannttrryy ooppeennss iinn GGuuyyrraaThe globalcare Food Pantry is now operating in

Guyra, providing access to low cost pantry food, bread,vegetable and fruit for low income earners.

Northwest Church is playing host to this new serviceat their building in Llangothlin St, which commencedon January 20th.

The pantry is manned by volunteers from theChurch, including Ruth Stace who said that the servicehas been well supported so far.

“We cater for people on low incomes, who can accesscheap groceries,” Ruth said. “I have been surprised andpleased with how it has gone so far.”

Anyone on Centrelink benefits can become a mem-ber of the Food Pantry. The cost is $30 for a bag offresh produce with 1 bag of groceries, or $50 for a bagof fresh produce with 3 bags of groceries.

The pantry is open on Fridays between 1pm and3pm.

Local support has been received from Kirks IGAwho donated bags and Vidler’s Butchery who have pro-vided meat vouchers.

A variety of fresh food is available each Friday

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A pump failure at the Guyrawater treatment plant recentlycaused dirty water to be presentin the town water supply.

Director of Engineering forArmidale Regional Council RalfStoeckeler said that the pump onthe clearwater tank failed caus-ing the water level to drop sig-nificantly.

This resulted in sludge at thebottom of the town reservoirbeing stirred up when the pumpswere restarted.

The problem has now beenfixed, and the mains have beenflushed to remove the dirtywater.

The importance of maintaining local services andconnecting with the community are a high priorityfor pharmacist Vu Nguyen.

Originally from Adelaide, Vu chose to ‘go bush’working in a number of smaller communities acrossthe country beginning in WA and Qld before makinghis way to the NSW towns of Quirindi, Werris Creek,Trangie and Cobargo.

Nine months ago Vu purchased the Guyra Pharmacy from Tony Nguyen (no relation). While heis still getting to know the town, he is aware thatkeeping it local is important.

“If I can do something to keep it local I will,” Vusaid. “Providing a wide range of services benefitseveryone and helps keep people and services intown.”

The range of services is expanding and Vu anticipates offering more options in the future.

“The direction of pharmacy is changing and thereis more emphasis on providing professional services- things like medical certificates, health checks andfree blood pressure monitoring are just some of theservices on offer.”

“Customer service is a high priority - my teamworks hard to ensure people are made welcome andvalued,” he said. “It is important to meet the needsof my customers and also be part of the communityproviding employment and supporting communitygroups.”

Vu has four children ranging in age from 18

months to 11 years. They are yet to join him, but heis hoping to set up a permanent base in Guyra wherehis family can enjoy the benefits of a rural upbring-ing.

Since arriving in town Vu has been working longhours to establish himself, but he wants to find moretime this year to pursue outside interests. He enjoys

soccer and tennis so you may see him kicking a ballor swinging a racquet in the coming months. Andmaybe down the track he thinks that golf is some-thing he could enjoy.

“I would like to thank the locals for their supportso far and hope to have a good relationship into thefuture.”

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Guyra Preschool is looking for parents to assist with a revamp of theirbackyard. They are planning to hold a working bee on Saturday February11th starting at 8.30am.

Any parents who would like to get involved should contact AmandaCampbell on 67791715. Many hands making light work, so give her acall if you can help out.


Weaner merinos go a year on one drenchSimple management practices on a Guyra

property have made it possible to give lambs ashort-acting drench at weaning, and to then goover one year without need for another drench.

Deborah Maxwell from WormBoss, will berunning a workshop at Warrane, northwest ofArmidale, on the morning of Tuesday 14thFebruary and will present the practical and ef-fective strategies that she has used to achievethis on her property just west of Guyra.

Ms Maxwell, who is also Operations Managerwith WormBoss, says that the practices arequite simple, but need to be adhered to strictlyso that they exploit the Achilles’ heel of bar-ber’s pole worm.

“Reaching over a year is quite extreme andmight not be possible every year, but most peo-ple should easily achieve quite a few months ifpractices are applied well,” she said. “Beforeusing WormBoss, I always had to drench within4-6 weeks of the weaning drench.”

“I use WormBoss’s integrated approach thatdoesn’t rely totally on drenches; the sheep arebred for resistance and some paddocks are pre-pared as low worm-risk.

“This has allowed the 2015 drop weaner ewes

to develop their own immunity without beingoverwhelmed and they are now 13 monthssince their last drench.”

“Monthly monitoring showed the youngewes reached 300 epg during the springmonths, but rose to 680 epg before Christmas;

still not high enough to drench. By January theirresults had dropped back to 240 epg.”

Ms Maxwell said that weaners will be underenormous pressure from worms this year, so aprepared weaning paddock makes an enormousdifference to worm control, as does choosingthe right drench to use.

The workshop will also describe how to startpreparing low worm-risk paddocks for lambingewes, which should be started now or very soonfor spring-lambing flocks.

A series of workshops and support for NewEngland sheep producers to apply the Worm-Boss program is being funded by Meat andLivestock Australia under their ProducerDemonstration Sites Program.

“Producers have the opportunity to try outthe program with financial incentives fromMLA for a Drench Test and WormTests whilegaining advice on the results. They are yourlevies, so you may as well use them,” said DrMaxwell.

To attend this free workshop contact DebMaxwell by 10 February. [email protected] 524 163.

Wendy Warner commenced thisweek as the Library Information Of-ficer at Guyra Library, relieving forAimee Hutton who is on maternityleave. Wendy has experience workingin the Catholic Schools library systemin Armidale and Guyra, and will be inthe position until August.

Her first priority is to continue withplans to celebrate the 60th birthday ofthe library. The community is invitedto join the birthday celebrations whichwill take place on the front lawn ofthe Council Building on Friday Feb-ruary 17, from 10:30am.

The library was officially opened onthe 19th February, 1957 with librarianJoy Varley (Finlayson) in charge andMadge Ditton (Sole) as her assistant.

Joy and Madge have been invited tojoin the celebrations which will in-clude a morning tea and birthday cake.There will be helium balloons and acolouring competition for children.

The history of library services inGuyra will be the subject of a talk byDot Vickery. A Book Fair will also beheld in the Council Chambers duringthe week commencing February13th.The Fair will be open from 10am to5pm each day.

The library houses a range ofbooks, magazines, DVDs and talking

books. Free internet access and WiFiis available. It is open Monday to Fri-day from 10am to 5pm as well as Sat-urday mornings from 9.30am to11.30am.

STOP PRESS: The library has actually been in operation for 70 years.Prior to relocating to the LT Starr Memorial Building, it had operatedfor 10years at the RSL Hall.

His Excellency General The Hon-

ourable David Hurley AC DSC(Ret’d) Governor of New SouthWales and Mrs Hurley will be specialguests at the birthday celebrations.

They will also visit the Guyra Men’sShed.

Library prepares for birthday bash

Deborah Maxwell Operations Manager with WormBoss

Erica and Harriet Ulrick and Jake Siddell enjoying storytime with Wendy Warner on Monday. Storytime is held on Mondays commencing at 11am and Wendy is encouraging parents

with toddlers to take advantage of this free service


KKoolloorraa ccoonnssttrruuccttiioonn oonn ttrraacckkConstruction on Guyra’s

new aged care facility is ontrack for completion by theend of September.

The 32 bed facility hasbeen in the planning for anumber of years and formerGuyra Shire Councillor DotVickery said she is relievedthat work is now progress-ing.

Slabs are currently beinglaid, and the framework hascommenced. The brickworkwill commence in the nextfew weeks.

Some minor damage to thesite occurred during thestorm which stuck on Janu-ary 20, however this has notimpacted on the expectedcompletion date.

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The new aged care facility is taking shape and should be completed by the end of September

MMaarrsshhaallll wwiinnss iinn CCaabbiinneett rreesshhuufffflleeNorthern Tablelands MP

Adam Marshall has been pro-moted to Tourism and MajorEvents Minister and AssistantMinister for Skills, under theBerejiklian-Barilaro Cabinet re-shuffle announced on Sundaymorning.

Mr Marshall released a state-ment saying he felt both hon-oured and privileged to beappointed to the Berejiklian-Bar-ilaro Cabinet to serve as Tourismand Major Events Minister and

Assistant Minister for Skills.“Tourism is a $37.1 billion a

year industry, employing close to297,000 people in NSW. Sydneyis recognised the world over as amecca for international visitors,along with our beautiful coastalareas,” Mr Marshall said.

“I am really looking forward tohelping open up rural and re-gional NSW to more interna-tional and domestic tourists andbuilding the capacity for our re-gions to attract and host more

major events and grow theevents we hold now.”

“Country NSW has somespectacular attractions - naturaland man-made - that we can pro-mote and enhance with better fa-cilities, infrastructure and links.Seeing more people visiting ourregions and enjoying what theyhave to offer will be importantfor me. I cannot wait to getstarted with this work!”

“In the skills role, I want towork closely with the Deputy

Premier to ensure the govern-ment and TAFE works with in-dustry to overcome the biggestchallenge of not having enoughskilled people to fill the jobsbeing created. This is a criticalportfolio for the continued eco-nomic growth of the state andcountry NSW.”

Guyra based MLC Scot MacDonald has retained his position as Parliamentary Secre-tary for Planning and the CentralCoast.


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# Congratulations one and all foryour distribution and publishing ofthe Guyra Gazette.

You have given Guyra back all thethings that were in our paper and wecan now read it without a magnify-ing glass.

Once again congratulations, I amlooking forward to the next one.

Maureen Lockyer

# Congratulations and thank youall on the new Gala’s Guyra Gazette.A wonderful publication and acredit to you all. Indeed a pleasureto read.

We look forward to the secondedition in the New Year.

Leigh and Bob Ramage

# Congratulations, thank you andwell done, we all love our newpaper. Hope you can keep up thegood work.

Jan Claridge# We would like to congratulate

you on your first edition of yourprinted newsletter, we both enjoyedreading it very much and look for-ward to the next copy.

Sarah & Phil Williams

# Well done, it is what Guyrahas been missing since the GuyraArgus was taken over by Armi-dale. It is great to see the schoolnews, local events, rosters, what’shot, what’s not, church noticesand all about Guyra.

Thank you for putting in the adfor kids sewing Classes for Jan-uary, I already have an inquiryfrom it, it is important to get theyounger generation sewing ( Skillfor Life ). One of my long termstudents has just sent me a photoof her school project using skillsshe learnt in the last school holi-days, I was very proud of her andshe says it is going in the showtoo.

Congratulations teamRobin Godlonton

# I would like to congratulatethe team of local girls who havestarted up the new GuyraGazette.

Hopefully the community willsupport this paper/magazine andget us back a locally producedpaper.

Since the Guyra Argus has beenmoved to one of our outer sub-

urbs it has lost that ‘local’ feel.This is probably because the teamat the ‘Gazette’ are all locals andknow the community so well.

Small country towns have lostmany of their facilities over thelast few years and it is good to seesomething making a return.Please all get behind this enter-prise and support the “Gazette”with advertising etc.

To the girls, I wish you all thebest and hope the venture is asuccess.

Ray Mulligan.

# Hello everyone at the Gala’sGuyra Gazelle, I have just fin-ished reading the Christmas Edi-tion [ I know it is almost the endof January - Walgett has extraslow snail mail !!] Well done for awonderful publication. It was sogood to receive news from mybeloved community of Guyra.

Keep up the good work andwill be awaiting the next Editionin February. [should arrive byEaster!!!! ]

Have a good new year and allthe best for this year ahead thatwill bring much happiness and a

lotto win or two.Well done. God Bless you all.

Holysmoke

# The Black Mountain PublicSchool P & C has supported theschool in attending the RotaryChristmas Street Parade for anumber of years now and wouldlike to express our concerns withthe starting time, the reducednumber of parade participantsand holding this event at theGuyra Showground.

As the parade is held within theshowground, we believe thecrowd is somewhat disconnectedto the parade and the floatswithin the ring this year generateddust that created an unpleasantviewing experience.

We are also concerned withholding this event after lunch dur-ing the hottest time of the day.The children and parents are re-quested to assist with decoratingthe float prior to the event whichcreates a challenge to maintain theprimary school children attentionduring the heat of the day andwithout lunch.

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A new group pushing tohave the amalgamation ofGuyra and Armidale Du-maresq Shires reversed, is call-ing on Liberal MLC ScotMacDonald to back up claimsthat the merger seems to beworking.

Amalgamation No ThankYou (ANTY) spokepersonRobert Gordon has called onMr MacDonald to justifyclaims that the ‘right thing wasdone’ when the merger wentahead.

“The comments that MrMacDonald makes on themerger are in a similar style tothe original merger proposal -long on rhetoric and short ondetail,” Mr Gordon said.

“His claims are all cliché andno substance.”

“Projects, which we understand Mr MacDonald isasserting are a result of the

merger, were all previouslyplanned by the former GuyraShire’” he said

“These include the KoloraAged Care Facility , CBD

beautification, the Show-ground management plan andall road works projects cur-rently underway which were allplanned before the amalgama-tion.”

“Mr MacDonald appears tobe trying to justify the mergerbased on past good work bythe Guyra Shire,” Mr Gordonsaid.

ANTY are calling on MrMacDonald to provide actuallong term benefits since themerger. They have alsolaunched a petition to be takento the NSW government ask-ing that the amalgamation bereversed and that Guyra ShireCouncil be reinstated.

ANTY spokeperson Robert Gordon


>>> from page 8We believe if this event was

held at the original time of 11amin the main street of Guyra, itwould be more beneficial to thebusinesses and stall holders toprovide lunch and entertainmentto the crowd once the parade isover.

By holding this event in themain street of Guyra, it will re-strict the crowd from spreadingout too much and giving busi-nesses, stall holders and the pa-rade the best exposure whilstcreating an inclusive and excitingatmosphere where as the Show-ground is a very large area to fillto create the same environment.

The P and C believes this eventis important to the community asit displays the different aspectsof the community from educa-tional providers to commercialbusinesses that supports thecommunity as well as creating asocial event.

We understand from conversa-tions at this year’s parade that weare not the only group with con-cerns and encourage other mem-bers or groups within thecommunity to express their con-cerns.

Black Mountain P & C Association

Members of the Guyra CyclingCommunity and other bike enthu-siasts are again committed to as-sisting and caring for ourcommunity by raising awarenessabout health and fitness and find-ing a cure for cancer.

The Guyra Branch of Can As-sist received a healthy contribu-tion, from Tour de Rocks, in 2016to help them do their good work,with cancer sufferers, in andaround Guyra.

Bike riders from all over theNew England, mid north coastand further afield are into trainingfor the 2017 instalment of Tour deRocks. The ride will commence inArmidale on the 20th of April andfinish at South West Rocks on the22nd.

This year the route will be al-tered slightly by taking minorroads from Bellbrook to Kempseywhich will be safer for the ridersand add a point of difference forthose who have done the ride be-fore.

Guyra will again be entering ateam, led by Ken & Kirsten Porterand David Mills. More riderswould be welcome to join the teamand we are always looking for peo-ple to take on the support roles.Please contact Kirsten Porter 0447471157 for more details or theTour de Rocks website.

Guyra Cycling Community con-

gratulates Kay Endres on beingawarded Armidale Citizen of theYear. Kay is well known to ourmembers for her energy and en-thusiasm to anything Tour deRocks, she works tirelessly for thecause securing sponsorship andterrific raffle prizes.

Also congratulations to KirstenPorter for being nominated forGuyra Citizen of the Year for allher efforts in promoting cycling inGuyra.

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Australian Dance Enterprises (ADE) classes aim to provide dance stu-dents with the opportunity to dance in a creative, safe and positive envi-ronment in which they can learn all aspects of the art of dance, as wellas improve dance skills to benefit their everyday living.

ADE also aims to improve the fitness of dance students through dancein a fun, stress free atmosphere and to help students develop self-confi-dence, self-esteem and new social contacts.

ADE dance styles include classical ballet, jazz dance, tap, creativedance, modern dance, contemporary dance and hip hop. Other specialityclass include performance classes, private lessons, eisteddfod classes andexam classes.

Our major highlight for all our students is our end of year dance recitalheld at University of New England Lazenby Hall. Students get to showoff their dance skills they have worked all year to perfect in an entertain-ing showcase of dances.

Classes are held in Guyra at the Guyra Community Hall. Enrolmentday is Thursday, 2nd of February 3:30pm to 5pm. Classes commenceThursday, 9th of February.

For further information visit our website www.australiande.com oremail principal Colette Brazier [email protected]

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Photos feature Guyra students performing at their end of year recital.

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The residents at Kolora have had a busy start to the year with a num-ber of outings and celebrations. They celebrated Australia Day in colour-ful attire and shared a morning tea of Aussie food including lamingtons,before a traditional Aussie singalong.

Special guest Wan Wan Williams visited in the lead up to the LunarNew Year, with a hands on cooking lesson. Her spring rolls proved tobe a fun, hands on activity for the residents.

They also enjoyed an outing to the Lamb and Potato Festival wherethey were able spend some time browsing the stalls, before enjoyinglunch at Rafters.

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Caresse Thompson, George Watson and Jenny Vidler Nola Richer at the Lamb and Potato Festival

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“No camping in this area” Certainly not after the storm on Friday, January 20

The ‘train station’ suffered irreparable damage in the stomr

Debbie Sole assists Glenda Soraghan to draw the Hospital Auxiliary’s Christmas raffle

which was won by Len Giles. Second prize was won by Barb Ellis.

I have spent most of my adult life in-volved in various forms of communi-cation: signalling, teaching, lecturing,writing, play-acting, reciting, singing,and playing musical instruments. I havefound the experiences so fascinatingthat I decided I’d share some instanceswith you in the hope of entertainingand informing you.

I shall begin each article in this serieswith details of some of the many un-usual signals, signs, and inscriptions Ihave come across; and which have givenrise to the series. I thus, perhaps per-versely, deal with the ‘visual’ before themost common method of communica-tion - the ‘vocal’.

I have chosen to call these ways ofcommunication codes.

The obvious ones are:(a) vocal - speech, singing; (b) visual - gesture, signs, print; (c) movement - body language, dance; (d) instrumental -(visual & aural)

painting, music etc. Sub-sections of these include various

forms of signals; e.g. sign language (Aus-lan), Braille, and distance transmissionforms - flags, semaphore, Morse code,telephone, fax and digital forms etc.

In 2011, I was visiting York Cathedral,England, when what appeared to be aninscription on an archway in one of thechapels caught my eye. It was a series

of geometric line ‘letters’. I must havestood for minutes, from about 30 yardsaway, gazing at these ‘runes’-like letters.

Eventually I deciphered it: they were‘stick-figures’ sending a semaphore sig-nal that read “Jesus Christ Our Sav-iour”, and more that I don’t recall.

As it was some 65 years since I hadread a semaphore signal, I’d had to turnmy back on the inscription to place myarms in the positions of the stick figuresto ‘read’ it. I have never learned whysuch an inscription was there.

I will discuss the origins and historyof semaphore signals in later articles.

Ron Vickress

Ways we communicate with each otherCodes of Communication No 1


109th Guyra Show Friday & Saturday24 & 25 February, 2017

Friday•••• Junior Sheep Judging•••• All Breeds Heifer Show (including local

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A white Christmas in Lapland, Finland is “Hot” ac-cording to Mary and Tony Walls who ventured to theArctic Circle late last year.

They slept in a glass igloo, drove a Husky team andsnow mobiles, obtained a licence and drove Reindeer,saw the Northern Lights and, of course, met the realSanta Claus.

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The Top of the Range Fours wasplayed in ideal weather over twodays. After the five rounds ofbowls were played the results were:First place (composite team)Nathan Wise, Scott Thorning, TimThorning and Dylan Eapher withfive wins + 47 points.

Second place went to anothercomposite team of Braden Sole,Chris Kliendienst, Jason Heaverand Glen Graham with four wins+ 59 points. Third place ToddFuller, Thomas Inman, SteveFuller and Dean Farrell with 4 wins= 57 points (Armidale City).Fourth place C Rogers, R Latter, CYates and J Thomas with 4 wins =33 points (composite team). 5thplace Brendon Baker, RusselBerghofer, Darren Hungerfordand Phil Ross with 4 wins + 33points (Inverell).

The results of Bowls played overthe weekend of January 28-29. Sat-urday January 28 Dan Kennedy (-8) played Robert Moore (-1) inHandicap Singles. Dan had to giveRobert 7 shots start and found he

was unable to close the gap, Robertwent on to take the win 31 shots to22 shots over 40 ends. Also inhandicap singles Cameron Peardon(+3) played Bill Betts (+8).Cameron proved too consistent forBill and went on to win the game31 shots to 16 shots over 25 ends.

Sunday January 29, in an opensingles game Cameron Peardonplayed John Hamel with Cameroncarrying his Saturday form to Sun-day and he went on to win 31 shotsto 20 shots over 32 ends. The othergame was a handicap singles gamebetween Wayne Reeves (+6) andSteven Sole (-8). With a 14 shotstart Wayne was sure to give Stevena strong game, however Stevenproved too consistent for Wayneand went on to take victory 31shots to 21 shots over 33 ends.

Now to upcoming events -NEDBA Triples February 11-12,to be played at Armidale Ex Serv-ices, NEDBA State Pairs February25-26, to be played at Guyra,NEDBA Senior Pairs February 25-26, to be played at Walcha,

NEDBA State Singles March 4-5,to be played at Armidale City,NEDBA Senior Singles March 4-5,to be played at Glen Innes. In allNEDBA events Guyra has a num-ber of representatives.

Club Championships set downfor weekend February 4th and 5th.Saturday February 4th start 1pm,starter and Umpire David Wilcox.

Major Singles: Scott Campbell toplay David Wilcox, marker ColStanley. Barry Presnell to play An-

drew Sparke, marker Steven Sole.Robert Moore to play DanKennedy, marker Robert Walls

Handicap Singles: Barry Camp-bell to play Geoff Reeves, markerRoger Cox

If you cannot play on the day setdown, could you and your opposi-tion please try to arrange to play onan alternative date (preferably thenext day) - if not contact a memberof the match committee.

The Bowls Bandit

Stonecutters’ Ridge Golf Course was the venuefor the Women’s Medal Playoff State Final in De-cember. The New England representatives playedsome good golf.

Congratulations to Cheryl McDonald (WalchaGC) who won the Division 1 Gold Medallion forthe Country regions, with an excellent +5.

Belinda Lenehan (Guyra R and GC) returned acard showing +8 in Division 2, placing her in themiddle of the field while Jeanette Wark (WalchaGC) scored +20 in Division 3.

Sunday, 29th of February saw asingle stableford played for a Clubtrophy. The winner was D Towellson a count back from W McCowen,with 41 points each. Nearest the pinswent to D Towells on the 7th and SMendes on the 10th and the 18th.

Club Championships start on the11th of February. Country FreshBakery will sponsor Saturday, 11thof February. Guyra Fourways willsponsor Sunday, 12th of February.Guyra Smash Repairs and GuyraMechanical will sponsor Saturday,18th of February and Kirks IGA willsponsor Sunday, 19th of February.Guyra Fuels are our major sponsors.

Mid-week GolfThe best performed team this

week was Hillbillies and Plus Fourswith 64 points. Guyra Greys scored62 points and the Baldersleigh Bash-ers scored 61 points.

The best individual score was 20points by H Raper. 18 points werescored by P Grills and J Shiels. 17points were scored by P Mulligan, JWaters and N Paine. 16 points werescored by S Youman, P White and JPrisk.

Cameron Peardon

At the Guyra Lady Golfers’ An-nual Presentation Evening, our majorsponsors including National AustraliaBank (NAB), Guyra Welding Works,Gittoes Family, Kirks IGA andRafters Restaurant were thanked fortheir ongoing donation of prizes.

The following winners were pre-sented with their trophies: KarenOehlers-Club Champion; ShonaMulligan-B Grade Champion;Wendy Jackson-C Grade Champion;Jenny Shiels and Wendy George-

4BBB Champions; Karen Oehlersand Joyce Betts-Foursomes Champi-ons, Wendy George - WG Medal Di-vision 1, Belinda Lenehan WG MedalDivision 2, Kath Varley WG MedalDivision 3; Karen Oehlers- Veteran’sWGA Division 1, Meg Simpson Vet-eran’s WGA Division 2, Kath Varley-Veteran’s WGA Division 3; KarenOehlers-Mabel Mackenzie Brooch:Division 1-Karen Oehlers, Division2-Belinda Lenehan, Division 3-KathVarley, Senior Veteran-Joyce Betts.

Additional Prizes.Kirk’s Trophy Match Play- Karen

OehlersMay Mitchell Memorial Match

Play- Julie WalkerPar Medal Trophy-Meg Simpson4BBB Stroke NEDGA Jug-Karen

Oehlers and Julie WalkerBest Stableford Round for Tracey

Norberg Trophy-Anita Murray andPip White 9 (equal first)

Putting Competition - Kath Varley

Runners up Chris Kliendienst (Guyra), Glen Graham (ArmidaleCity) Braden Sole (The HIlls) and Jason Heaver (Quirindi)

Lady golfers’ presentation evening

New England District Golf Association

Right l to r: Cheryl McDonald (Walcha), Belinda Lenehan (Guyra), Jeanette Wark (Walcha).

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Guyra cricketers have returnedto the pitch following the Christ-mas break. The second grade teamhas had two games for a loss and awin.

They were missing captain Char-lie Keen who was injured duringthe off season will miss the rest ofthe year.

On January 21 they played ExServices at the Sporting Complex.After winning the toss Guyra bat-ted first and struggled to makeheadway with the bat. Only PatKeen (60), Andrew Frost (23) andBJ Cameron (11) managed to reachdouble figures and the team was allout for 120 off just 33.3 overs.

Ex Services made short work ofthe run chase passing Guyra in the21st over. Tom Smith was the bestof the bowlers taking 3 for 10,with Simon Brown and Nick Pagetaking a wicket each.

On January 28 they travelleddown the hill to take on Hillgroveand this time the bowlers put theteam in front with a good per-formance dismissing Hillgrove for78. Andrew Page (4 for 22) andPeter Presnell (3 for 23) shared thehonours.

With only a small total to chaseGuyra only Pat Keen (41) foundform with the bat, doing the ma-jority of the work.

Shane Wolfenden (10) also con-tributed and Guyra were lucky tocome away with a win finishing on

6 for 79.Third grade had their first game

against TAS at home on the week-end and struggled to regain form.They were wishing Matt Friend (exGuyra player) had stayed with theclub when he made a well com-piled 78 for the TAS team, helpingthem on their way to a total of 7for 167.

In reply Jake Ellis started the in-nings with a quick 20 before he

was caught by (you guessed it)Matt Friend). Only Troy Martin(19) and Cody Patterson (20) wereable to get runs on the board andGuyra fell well short to finish on88.

This weekend will see a fullround of games with 2nd gradeplaying on the Guyra Turf and 3rdgrade travelling to Elizabeth Park.Both teams with take on Ex Serv-ices.

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Jake Ellis made a quick 20 for third grade at the Sporting Complex

Cricketers back in action

The summer of Wednesday golfcompetitions has recorded some siz-zling results including wins by Be-linda Lenehan and Jenny Rogers.Belinda won the Stableford compe-tition on 21st December with 43points while Jenny Rogers was run-ner-up with 41 points. WendyGeorge was the winner of the De-cember Nearest the Pin silver charmfor the most accurate shots on the18th hole; 20cm from the flag.

On 4th January Belinda Lenehanwon the Stableford with 39 pointsand Wendy George was runner upwith 38 points. On 11th JanuaryJenny Rogers won the Par competi-tion with +3. Runner up with +2was Julie Walker. Shona Mulliganwon Nearest the Pin on the 7th; just3 metres from the flag.

On 24th January, amid some raindelays, the winner was Donna Whitewith 41 Stableford points and therunner-up was Pip White with 39Stableford points.

Next Wednesday’s golf is a Stable-ford for the Black Mountain NurseryTrophy and Karen Oehlers is thestarter. The round is also a qualifierfor the Graham Betts Trophy.

Julie Walker

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