A lunch planned for May 6 at the Kyabram Club will offer former employees of Henry Jones Foods a chance to catch up with their workmates.
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Organisers have kept in touch with quite a few, but have lost touch with others who are now based elsewhere. Hence the open invitation for people to attend the event.
It will be from noon onward and those interested are asked to contact Jan Mellis if they are coming for a meal.
She said the reunion would include workers from the past 30 years, with more information available from Jan Mellis on 0499 432 891.
Echuca Moama Tourism meeting
The next Echuca Moama Tourism member meeting in Kyabram, for members and businesses from Kyabram, Rochester, Katunga, Koonoomoo, Ulupna, Strathmerton, Tongala, Yarrawonga, and surrounding towns, will be held on Wednesday, May 3, at 4pm.
The meeting is from 4.30pm to 5.30pm and is being held at the Kyabram Parkland Golf Club on Racecourse Rd, Kyabram.
People can book their place at the meeting via https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/616882782007
Echuca Moama Tourism is resetting the future and connecting more than 270 tourism businesses, who together create unforgettable travel experiences for visitors to Echuca Moama, and surrounding regions.
It is hosting a series of meetings to meet with members and local business owners to present our redesigned membership program to better suit the needs of diverse businesses directly involved in tourism, and those that indirectly support and benefit from a buoyant and sustainable visitor economy.
The focus of the group is on five key pillars: member services; destination marketing; partner services; industry development, and advocacy; and visitor services.
Change of ownership
A story in the Free Press last week about a change of ownership of local business Ky Cleaning Service has revived memories for former Kyabram policeman and businessman Gary Storer, now living in Bendigo.
Gary recounts his memories of the early Ky Cleaning Service.
“Originally it was a small part-time after-hours cleaning business run by Terry Nepean and Ken Risstrom after they finished their day jobs,” Gary said.
“I bought the business from them when I left the Police Force in Kyabram in 1990 and registered the business name of Ky Cleaning Service.
“The transfer of the business was conducted by Tony Hansen, then an accountant at Morrison and Sawyers. The business name registration and company set up was completed by Steven Bubb at Dawes and Vary.
“After two years we had three full-time staff, myself and wife Lesley and Allan Gascoyne plus nine casual staff throughout the local area.
“I sold the business to John Connelly a bank manager from Rochester. One of my best-known staff was Rose Vick, and I also had the pleasure of presenting her with a life membership when I was president of the Kyabram Football Netball Club.”
Can anyone remember them?
Croydon couple Vida and Don Settle who celebrate their 71st wedding anniversary tomorrow are former locals.
Well they married in the Cooma Methodist Church all those years ago after meeting at Young Farmers meeting.
They have five children and these days live at the Cherry Tree Grove retirement village at Croydon.
Announcement of their marriage milestone was featured in last Friday’s In Black And White column in the Herald Sun.
Winter on horizon
Kyabram has received only 0.4mm of rain since the 27.6mm deluge on Sunday, April 16.
Minimum temperatures have taken a dive with the chilly minimum of 5.4ºC on Monday, April 17, the lowest recorded so far this year.
Since last Friday maximum temperatures have risen about 20ºC with a top of 22.5ºC on Saturday and 23ºC on Sunday, which have been predicted to rise higher on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
Really big frogs
Our mate up at Moulamein China Gibson is intrigued with frogs — big frogs of the Southern Belle variety.
China says they are in the top 100 of endangered wildlife species in our great country, but you wouldn’t think it in his neck of the woods where they are plentiful at the moment.
He asked one of his professor mates how big they can get and was told “as big as your hand”.
Sceptical at first of this claim he has a change of mind as you can see by the photo, which is of a Southern Belle frog that is not fully grown.
“I know they are the only frog that eats other frogs but if they get any bigger, they will start eating our lambs.”
Decision a disgrace: Walsh
State Member for Murray and Nats leader Peter Walsh has described the Victorian Government’s decision to vote down a motion that would have brought both houses back to regional Victoria for a proposed sitting of parliament for the first time in more than a decade as a “disgrace”.
But there is still a motion before the upper house to have a sitting of the Legislative Council in regional Victoria.
Mr Walsh said he would support the hearing if it went ahead to be held in Rochester where the 2022 flood clean-up is still raw in everyone’s mind.
Raising the roads
Strathbogie Shire Council has voted to raise Weir and Reedy Lake Rds at Kirwans Bridge near Nagambie above flood-level height.
The roads have been the only access routes from the community of 100 homes into Nagambie since the closure of Kirwan’s Bridge in last October’s floods.
The 2.7km unsealed section of both roads will be raised by about 1.8m.
A current council report into the future of Kirwans Bridge will reveal costs on rebuilding and repairing Kirwans bridge.
Tastes of Goulburn
Taste of the Goulburn returns to Seymour this Saturday (April 29).
The best wine and food will be there to sample with 50 vendors from 10am to 5pm.
Buses replace trains
For travellers from Echuca to Melbourne buses will replace trains on Echuca-Bendigo lines from this Sunday to Wednesday, June 21.
Trains will still operate between Bendigo and Southern Cross station.
The changed conditions will add about 50 minutes to the journey from Echuca to Melbourne.
Did you know?
– The world's longest concert lasted 453 hours.
– It takes 70 different pieces of wood to make up a violin, explaining why some of them are so expensive (one even sold for $16 million).
— All clownfish are born male. They have the ability to change their sex later on.
– A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
Ky Famous People File
JIM HIGGS
James Donald Higgs OAM was born on July 11, 1950, at the Kyabram Memorial Hospital.
A leg spinner he played in 22 Test matches for Australia between 1978 and 1981 and took 66 wickets and 309 first class wickets.
In the words of Gideon Haigh: “Jim Higgs was Australia’s best leg spinner between Richie Benaud and Shane Warne”.
His misfortune was to play at a time when wrist-spin was nearly extinct, thought to be the preserve only of the eccentric and the profligate, and so to find selectors and captains with little empathy with his guiles.
He was a Victorian selector from 1982-83 to 1988-89 and was appointed an Australian selector in 1985-86.
He was also president of Richmond from 1994 to 1997 and served on the Board of Cricket Victoria.