Home » 2017 » Tackling the Port to Port

Tackling the Port to Port

Andrew Rogers

SWAN Hill will be represented by 22 riders in this year’s Port to Port. The 16th edition of the charity ride starts in Mildura tomorrow and finishes in Echuca on Sunday, with riders stopping at Swan Hill overnight.

The Swan Hill team is called POSH — Peddlers of Swan Hill — with five riders to tackle the full distance.

Debbie Leahy, Andy McSwain, Albie Walsh, Dave King and Denise Braun will take on the event in its full 400km brutality, while the remaining seven riders — more sensible perhaps — will take part in a relay-style ride to Echuca.

Leahy has taken part in the event, which raises money for Chances for Children, 12 times. On seven occasions she has done the full distance.

Anyone wishing to contribute to the fundraising effort can contact her on 0408 326 642 or Louisa Curran on 0409 439 902. 

Digital Editions

  • Chaotic kitchen comedy

    Chaotic kitchen comedy

    SERVING a chaotic, interactive hour of restaurant fun, Signor Baffo has delighted audiences around Australia while he attempts to avoid disaster in the kitchen. Coming…

More News

  • Dust off the glad rags

    Dust off the glad rags

    NOT your ordinary rock ‘n’ roll show, the fast-paced Shake, Rattle ‘n’ Roll will return to Swan Hill with their full choreographed stage performance of the hits that defined an…

  • Where outback meets rodeo

    Where outback meets rodeo

    TO station owners and the stockmen and women of the Flinders Ranges, New Year means only one thing. Carrieton Rodeo. For more than 70 years, all the cracks from stations…

  • Crash survivor located

    Crash survivor located

    CONCERNS were raised yesterday for the missing driver of a vehicle found crashed on Murray Valley Highway in Beverford before he was found about 10.30am. The vehicle was involved in…

  • Cooler reprieve

    Cooler reprieve

    TRAINS services have resumed on the Swan Hill and Bendigo lines after around-the-clock repairs to fire-damaged infrastructure between Bendigo and Castlemaine. The welcome public transport relief came as cooler conditions…

  • Donate to save lives

    Donate to save lives

    SWAN Hill residents are being urged to roll up their sleeves and give blood as Australian Red Cross Lifeblood’s mobile donor centre prepares to roll into town, with dozens of…

  • A summer of making

    A summer of making

    THE Art Gallery of Swan Hill has been bustling with activities to keep curious and creative children occupied during the school holidays. Tuesday’s clay Murray cod making session was fully…

  • Heat illness risks rise

    Heat illness risks rise

    SUMMER has been slow to arrive, but health experts warn there are still many hot days ahead, bringing increased risks of heat related illness across Australia. Each year, hot weather…

  • Protect against bites

    Protect against bites

    PEOPLE across southern New South Wales are being urged to protect themselves from mosquito bites following a probable case of Japanese encephalitis and the detection of the virus in sentinel…

  • True Movement Gains Ground Among Elite Teams as Broncos Step Forward

    True Movement Gains Ground Among Elite Teams as Broncos Step Forward

    Entry into elite performance environments tends to move slowly, shaped by habit and guarded routines. True Movement™ entered those spaces through a different route. The system developed from founder Erin…

  • Collection under the hammer

    Collection under the hammer

    AN eclectic curation of vintage and antique Australian pastoral machinery and memorabilia will go to auction on 1 February. Yvon Smythe and her late partner, Neil O’Callaghan, began the Manangatang…