Honouring a living legend
OUR Moulamein Footy-Netball Club have been busy behind the scenes organising the renaming of our footy ground. Who says we can’t keep a secret in Moulamein?
Mind you, I wasn’t told about it until just before it happened (no one trusts me anymore).
Our oval has been renamed the Peter Jackson Oval. Those who know Peter would know how much he has put into our community over many years. Peter is a life member of pretty well every club or organisation he is involved in. The only reason he is not a life member of our Moulamein Bowling Club is that by the time he got too old to play tennis, which wasn’t many years ago, he was getting a bit old to put the years into our bowling club. Mind you, he is only 93, so there may be time yet.
I have said for years about our footy-netball club, what can you give someone that is above a life membership?
Well done to those who organised this great event. The Jackson family has been around our club since the 1880s. There were four generations represented at our ground on Saturday. Well done, Jacko, an honour well deserved.
I think the Peter Jackson Oval is just a bit higher honour than a life membership.
Chloe’s first game
OUR little mate Chloe Wilson has been running around the boundary for our seniors for a couple of years. Last year she took home the trophy as the Best First Year Boundary Umpire.
Chloe has done three colts’ games in the centre this year in the Central Murray League. Not a bad effort. Central umpire in a different league for the colts. Play netball for Moulamein and then do the boundary for our seniors. But on Saturday Chloe crossed the white line on her home turf and went out into the middle to be a central umpire for our senior game. Well done, Chloe. We may see you running around the MCG before you finish. Well, that is where you started, I suppose. The MCG. The Moulamein Cricket Ground (now the PJO).
Variety bash
UNFORTUNATELY, I didn’t read our school rag, the Wongi, closely enough. So I missed this great event. Evidently, there were plenty of cars, crazy dressed-up people having a great time at our Moulamein School for smoko.
The first I knew about it was when all these crazy cars started to drive out on the Hay Road. I always reckoned they would be a lot of fun to do so. I would have loved to talk to a few of the entrants to ask what really happens and how you get into it. This great event certainly made a difference to the kids at our school.
Not only did they come through as a lot of crazy people having a great time. They left a donation of 10 grand for our school for new playground equipment. Well done to the Variety Bash and thank you very much. I’m sure if our school writes to our 200 Club, we could get even more playground equipment for our school.
Birds through a farmer’s lens
OUR Gallery Girls have a local exhibition coming up in September. Well known district farmer Nick McKindlay is well known for his love of taking unreal photos of birds.
The opening of this great flock of photos will be Friday, August 31, from 4.30pm until 7pm at the Moulamein Art Gallery and will stay up until the end of September. This is a collection of bird photos captured during the course of the working day by a farmer.
I spend a bit of time in the paddock as well. But what Nick captures through his lens is well above what I even see, let alone what I could capture in a photo. Nick has the knack of getting a perfect photo.
If you are a bird lover, or you just want to see some expert photos, have a look at this lot. Everyone is invited to the opening. There will be drinks and finger food provided at the opening.
Moulamein working sheepdog trials
THESE trials will be on again from September 2 to 5. The organisers always make sure that local organisations cater for this great event so everyone can benefit from its success and everyone gets fed well.
The sheepdog committee would also love some help to set up on Sunday, September 1, as well as during the running of the event if you can spare some time. For more information, or to volunteer to help, ring Barry on 0429 302 155 or Peter on 0427 346 021 and you can get put on the roster. I might just take my dogs over and make them watch what real sheepdogs can do.
River levels
GET your boat going. Even though our Edward has continued to drop and is down to around one metre and just over 650 megs a day. The flow below Stevens Weir almost doubled in a day to over 1050 megs a day. If this does not fire the fishing up, nothing will. But it dropped back to 725 the next day at the time of writing. There is less than two weeks to go for our cod season if you would like a feed. Fishing has been pretty lean from what I hear. Still only three natives caught in my creek since the floods in 2022. This brief rise could change all that.
