Trotting track hit by hot water thieves
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Thieves literally were in hot water with a recent raid at the Kyabram trotting track.
They made off with a hot water service that trainers used to wash down horses after a work out.
The thieves must have really wanted a hot bath since they didn't take anything else.
Farm sees rare two-headed calf birth
The birth of a calf with two heads at Strathmerton is estimated to be a one-in-400-million chance.
Cattle owners BJ and Kellie Payne who run an Angus beef cattle farm didn’t know what to expect when they attended a prolonged birth from one of their cows.
They couldn’t believe the newborn would survive given the time the birth took.
Then a big shock.
The calf was alive and well when finally born…..but sadly had two heads, four ears, four eyes, two noses and two mouths.
A vet determined the calf couldn't survive and had to be humanely euthanised.
Warm start to winter
A burst of late autumn weather has ushered in winter.
Maximum temperatures have been above average over the past week.
Last Thursday the temperature peaked at 17.6 degrees.
No sub zero temperatures have been recorded so far this month and the only rain was on June 1 when 5.6mm was registered.
Remembering a legal luminary and sportsman
Brian Birrell, who recently passed away, was a well-known and respected legal figure in the Goulburn Valley.
He worked at the then Dawes and Vary.
Brian was a talented sportsman and had brief stint with the Tatura Football Club in his younger days.
Brian is the father of Federal member for Nicholls Sam Birrell.
Echuca teens dies in Melbourne hospital
An 15-year-old Echuca boy died in a Melbourne hospital on June 5 after a traffic accident in Fitzroy.
He was riding an SYM Orbit motorists scooter on Nicholson St when he collided with a vehicle at 12.40am.
He died later in hospital.
Truck show finds new home
The Deni Ute Muster site with have company this year.
The site will now also be the home for the Deniliquin Truck Show.
Deniliquin Truck Show and Industry Expo president Leesa Muir said the new partnership and site will allow the event to grow further.
The Truck Show has been held at Deniliquin’s Memorial Park and for the last two years at the local racecourse.
Historic old Goulburn River bridge set for restoration
One of Victoria’s oldest bridges is to be restored.
The Old Goulburn River Bridge at Seymour, built in 1863, was once part of the Hume Hwy.
It was updated in 1892 but nothing happened much for the next century before it was closed to vehicles in 1987 and to pedestrians in 1998.
Now the bridge is set to be restored after Mitchell Shire Council’s budget included the $5.4 million of borrowed funds allocated over the next two years.
Mooroopna man receives six-year sentence
A Mooroopna man who was responsible for the death of a man after an altercation in a Mooroopna supermarket has been sentenced to six years in jail.
Matthew Atkinson, 20, pleaded guilty in the Shepparton Supreme Court to charges of manslaughter and drug trafficking.
Bjorn Delphine, 46, died in hospital after the attack in June last year after Atkinson had accused him of possessing naked photos of under aged girls.
Atkinson has spent 378 days in pre-sentence detention which will count as time already served.
Resident sentenced for animal cruelty
A 55-year-old Mitchell Shire resident will have to perform 250 hours of unpaid community work after being found on three animal cruelty charges.
He has also been placed under a 10 year monitoring order.
RSPCA Victorian inspectors initiated the case after a concerned resident had reported the mistreatment of a dog.
Victorian Junior Landcare grants open for applications
The Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grants are now up for grabs with $450 000 available for projects that involve young people actively caring for the State’s biodiversity and natural environment.
Schools, kindergartens, childcare centres and youth groups can apply for grants uo to $5000.
Applications close on June 14 at 3pm and to apply visit
www.environment.vic.gov.au/grants/victorian-junior-landcare-and-biodiversity-grants
Fine over river redgum theft
A 53-year-old Mooroopna man has been hit with a $1 480 fine for illegally taking up to two cubic metres of river redgum from Gemmill’s Swamp Wildlife Reserve in August 2022.
It is illegal to cut down and remove trees or take fallen or felled timber from Parks Victorian land without authorisation.
Victorians can legally collect free firewood for personal use from designated collection areas in State forest during autumn and spring firewood seasons.
More details can be sourced at
www.ffm.vic.gov.au/firewood-collection-in-your-region.
Residential development on the rise in Berrigan Shire
Berrigan Shire is seeing a surge in interest for residential development.
Two applications have been received for sub division proposals which could result in a least 50 new homes created in the shire.
Square Dinkum
G’day
Recently, my wife had to retake her driving test. She was really upset when she came home and told me she had failed.
I said, ‘’That’s a shame. What did they pull you up on?’’
She replied, ‘‘A very long rope ….. the car is still in the channel.’’
Hooroo!!!
Sports reporter