A pelican was found running amok in a Kyabram laneway last Sunday.
Fishy find
Kyabram’s Sally Draper wasn’t expecting what she was confronted with last Sunday morning when she read on Facebook that a pelican was trapped in a small laneway where she works at Kyabram Podiatry in north Albion St.
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When Sally got there, she was greeted by a scene of destruction, a bewildered pelican and a heap of regurgitated fish, some still alive.
When she opened the gate to the laneway to free the pelican, he waddled onto the nearby road, looked back at Sally as to say ‘thanks’ and took to the air in the direction of the Kyabram Fauna Park.
Sally said she just couldn’t believe how many fish the pelican had regurgitated while trapped in the laneway in a stressed state.
“There were fish everywhere, and I think that may have caused him to crash land where he did.
“He certainly was loaded with fish that he must have just caught somewhere.”
The pelican left behind a huge haul of fish, some still alive.
Average rainfall
Kyabram finished close to average rain for July after 2mm was recorded last week.
It took the July total to 40.2mm.
Kyabram’s average for July is 41.8mm.
The yearly rainfall total for Kyabram is 448mm to 452mm.
This year Kyabram has received 368mm so is on track to have above the average yearly rainfall although an El Nino is tipped for spring.
Change of venue
There has been a changed venue for the Peter Nelson Testimonial.
Planned to be one of the first functions to be held at the renovated Wilf Cox Complex on Saturday night August 22 it has now been switched to the Kyabram Club on the same night.
The reasons for the shift is that a new elevator to service the Garry Lyon Room at the complex has not arrived.
Organisers of the event need those attending to please make their booking to help with catering numbers.
Tickets are $35 a head, which includes a two-course meal.
Door to the past
The original door to the old Deniliquin jail now resides at the Deniliquin and District Historical Society
If only doors could speak.
Well, in this case the door to the old Deniliquin jail.
The original door to the jail, built in 1864, was discovered recently and donated to the Deniliquin and District Historical Society after being restored by local Men’s Shed members.
It has now been mounted on the front wall of the museum.
It has a peephole, but not a food delivery opening.
It would certainly have some interesting stories to tell if it could talk, at times housing 50 prisoners or more, three of which died on the hangman’s noose.
The jail was demolished in 1966.
Councillor seeks bigger seat
City of Greater Shepparton councillor for McEwen Ward and owner of the business Trellys’ Outdoor, Steven Threlfall, has announced he is seeking One Nation’s endorsement to run for the seat of Shepparton at the upcoming State election.
While he must go through the selection process, Mr Threlfall is hopeful of securing this endorsement within the coming weeks.
Bridge takes centre stage
A doomed old steel bridge at the Longwood Recreation Reserve has been given a second life, thanks to a group of volunteers.
Local boilermaker and welder Steve Tobin has made a stage from the bridge with help from his wife Sally, a friend Rowan Craven and other volunteers.
The redundant steel bridge was donated by Inland Rail and transported to its present site by Seymour Cranes.
Already used at a popular Longwood festival, Mr Tobin is hopeful the stage will become a well-used community asset.
Mayor remembered
Former Campaspe Shire Mayor Greg Toll, who died recently, was known as a good bloke and a fine councillor.
He was first elected as a councillor in 1997 and was one of the first councillors to represent the shire after amalgamations.
His funeral took place on Tuesday of last week and his burial at Patho Cemetery.
Farley supports Conargo school
Recently elected Federal Member for Farrer David Farley has weighed into the fight to keep the Conargo Public School’s doors open.
If the school can’t guarantee a suitable increase in enrolments, it may be forced into recess in 2027 and 2028.
But Farley, who knows the Conargo area well after working as jackeroo in the district in his younger days, believes the NSW Government has got its numbers wrong and “there is a good crop coming on.”
Farley recently won the seat of Farrer for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party.
Catch and release
If you are lucky enough to catch a Murray cod and want to put it back where it came from, there are certain guidelines how to do it most successfully.
First thing you don’t do is display your catch and make sure you keep it in the water.
And don’t start bragging to your mates by dangling it down with your fingers in its gills, if you can lift it.
Wet your hands before touching it and if you must pick it up, support its body horizontally.
If you plan to put it back into a flowing stream, aim it into the current until its strong enough to swim away.
But of course, all this valuable information applies only when you catch a cod, which is often the toughest task in this procedure.
Square dinkum
G’day
I spoke to my aunt this morning and she told me, ‘‘I pulled out a nose hair last night to see if it would hurt.
Judging by the reaction from your uncle, who was asleep at the time, it seemed pretty painful.”
