This week’s pic of the week from Estelle Close is of the Indented Head ship wreck, the Ozone, on the northern shore of Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula between Geelong and St Leonards. This is all that is left of an 1886 Scottish-built steam ship. Her first revenue earning voyage took place on December 18,1886, sailing from Melbourne to Mornington, Sorrento, Queenscliff and return. Sadly some of the glamour of the occasion was lost when Ozone, berthing at Queenscliff for the first time, collided heavily with the pier.
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Crackers on the move
Has Kyabram’s ‘cracker king’ spread his/her wings.
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After a fresh batch of booms in Kyabram on Satuday night, Echucaites had the peace of their balmy early Sunday evening shattered with some fireworks that sounded very much like what has been happening in Ky over the past few weeks.
Dog owners in Echuca certainly didn’t appreciate the din and let it be known on social media.
Great dunny hunt
Continence Health Australia is on a search for Australia’s missing toilets.
More than 24,300 have been listed, but many ‘secret’ loos haven’t.
Continence Health Australia wants to fill in the gaps as the National Public Toilet Map is a crucial resource for those living with incontinence.
Northern Victorian croppers were disappointed when the Easter weather forecast of rain turned into a fizzer.
Not even 1mm was recorded at the Kyabram weather station.
The 0.8mm registered on Sunday into Monday was the first rain to fall this month and continued the worrying dry start to the year, with only 58mm recorded.
Trust for Nature
A northern Victorian project to save the plains-wanderer has been named a finalist in the 36th Banksia National Sustainability Awards in the Biodiversity category.
The project spearheaded by conservation organisation Trust For Nature has seen 650 hectares of the plains-wanderer’s native grassland permanently protected.
A female plains-wanderer at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
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Carrier honoured
Southern Riverine transport operator Craig Congram has been honoured by the National Rural Carriers.
The Kenworth icon was presented with the award at National Carriers Conference for his ongoing contributions to the transport/carrier industry.
The award is presented by the Australian Livestock and Rural Tranporters Association (ALRTA) with Paccar Kenworth.
It was the 40th year the award has been presented.
In a new initiative by ALTRA Pauline Kennedy also received the inaugural award for the Rural Transport Woman of the Year.
Truck roll over
About 200 sheep perished in a truck rollover at the north roundabout at Deniliquin on April 8.
One of the main entrances to the town was blocked for nearly four hours in the clean-up operation .
The truck was carrying 650 sheep and the driver suffered minor injuries.
Clubs merge
Shepparton Club and Kialla Golf Club have combined in a move to strengthen both organisations.
Kialla members were in favour of the amalgamation.
Shepparton Club general manager Wayne Sutton said the amalgamation represented more than just a merger of the two clubs, ‘‘it’s a celebration of what makes our community great’’.
Award winning delights
Shepparton’s and Mooroopna’s North End Bakehouse has scooped two major awards.
It was named Australian winner of best Hot Cross Bun and Vanilla Slice awards at the recent Victorian Baking Show.
A total of 127 entries from Victoria, South Australia and NSW contested the awards.
It is the fourth win in the past five years in the Hot Cross Bun section and the third successive win in the Best Vanilla slice category.
Square dinkum
G’day
I told my wife I wanted to be cremated ... she booked me in for next Tuesday.
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