Good Anzac turnout
ABOUT 90 people turned up at the Dawn Service, followed by the traditional march at 9.45am down our main street. It did not seem the same without the bagpipes, but we had the Lone Horse leading the march.
I have never heard of this tradition before. Evidently, when we lost one of our horsemen, they would strap his boots into the stirrups backwards to honour the fallen soldier.
Our Moulamein Public School was running this show and did a great job. There was well over 100 people at this event.
The day finished with another Anzac tradition with two-up at the Tatts from 7pm. All proceeds from the two-up game went to the Edward River Gardens retirement home.
There was only a very small crowd at the two-up, but we managed to raise more than $750 for our old folks. Thank you to all those that threw a few bucks into the bucket.
Our publican, Young Jacko, had a couple of tosses for the bucket.
Great result, I thought, I can do this. I can turn 20 bucks into $160 in three throws like Young Jacko did for the old folks. A donation to Jim instead of the bucket.
Maybe next year.
What swans flying
THE Mighty Swans had another win in the Ones as well as our Colts, who are going to be a force to be reckoned with this year.
Our netball girls did not have such a good weekend but they were only just out of it.
We are at home again this week against Ultima. The game will be followed by the players’ auction over at our Bowling Club.
Breast screening dates
BREAST Screen NSW will be in Moulamein from May 3-6, and you do not have to be from Moulamein to make use of this great service.
To book, please ring our health centre on 03 5887 5012. Our health centre also offers a pathology collection service on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The cost is $6 to cover the freight.
The flu vaccine is also available at our health centre for everyone in our district.
Harvest limps along
LAST week the harvest was ramping up, but now there are a few less crops coming down to the required moisture content to keep harvesting at full rate.
But there are still plenty of headers going from crop to crop trying to find some dry rice to harvest. Keep looking, fellers.
The moisture will come down. It is just a bit slower this year.
No rain forecast yet, so all is good for the rice farmers. Not so good for us sheep farmers or the winter croppers.
Bush sculpture comp
IT may be still just over a month away, but it is amazing how quickly that goes when you are going to get onto this work of art, but never quite get onto it.
There is two grand up for grabs for the Large Freestanding Sculpture with $500 for second.
This is an acquisition competition for the first prize, so your creation will stay at our gallery.
The Small Freestanding Sculpture is $500 first prize and $200 second.
You get to keep this one, but you can put a price tag on your creation and someone else may want to take it home.
Sculptures can be of any form, made predominantly of recycled farm materials reflecting an Australian rural theme. Entry fee is $25 and all entries must be for sale.
Our gallery girls will take 20 per cent of the sale price as commission.
We cannot go too big for the large section – it must be able to be carried by two people.
I can only assume that if you make it in more than one section that can be carried by two people, that will be OK.
This great event will be happening on the Queen’s Birthday weekend Friday, June 11. For more information, please ring Joy on 0488 380 470.
River levels
OUR Edward River has had the plug pulled, but is now steady at around 1.2 metres and just over 900 megs a day. It looks like there could be a rise on the way.
