2015
Fibre to node NBN for Ky
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Wireless network towers are popping up all around the district, but Kyabram residents can expect their National Broadband Network to be delivered by optic cables.
NBN Co Victorian corporate affairs manager Michael Moore said Kyabram residents should not be fooled by a tower appearing close to their town soon.
“It will be beaming away from Kyabram, not into it,” he said.
In good news for the town, Mr Moore said Kyabram would receive fibre to the node as a way of providing very fast broadband.
This runs fibre to a neighbourhood node/pillar and from there using the existing copper network to connect to the premises.
It can be faster to deploy because there is no need to replace the entire connection from the exchange to the home or business.
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Master quilter to share creative wisdom at fair
Kyabram master quilter Catharina Sudholz is set to show her skills at the Melbourne Craft and Quilt Fair this month.
Catharina has spent her life honing her skills and imparting her knowledge on her kids and grandkids alike.
Catharina bought her first sewing machine when she was seven, after saving up $36 in pocket money.
For the past 17 years, Catharina has particularly focused on patchwork and quilting.
Catharina will take daily seminars at the craft and quilt fair, teaching embroidery shading in colour as well as how to select the right materials for a project.
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Legends of the GV
Eight of the best known names in Goulburn Valley football were honoured on Sunday with induction into the GOTAFE GVFL Hall of Fame.
The inductees join the inaugural eight members of the Hall of Fame who were inducted in 2014.
Goulburn Valley luminary Don Kilgour announced the esteemed inductees, and welcomed them into the prestigious Hall of Fame.
The Free Press’ own Gus Underwood was one of the inductees.
Mr Underwood said he was honoured to be recognised after beginning his career in sports reporting as a cadet journalist with the Kyabram Free Press in 1961.
1995
Campaspe board’s first meeting
The Campaspe Economic Development Board is up and running, with the first officials elected.
The initial meeting at Echuca elected Don Oberin, of Echuca, as the chairperson.
Mr Oberin is a former mayor of Echuca and has been in business there for years.
A former mayor of Kyabram, John Neale, is the deputy chairperson.
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Getting the message across
Two stalwarts of the Kyabram branch of Diabetes Australia, Debbie Ayres and Joy Salter, have had a busy week this week, Diabetes Australia Week.
And they are hoping to be busy again today when they help conduct a street stall in Allan St from 9am to noon.
The Kyabram group, as with other branches, is aimed at educating the public, supporting diabetics and their families and raising money to assist with research programs into disease.
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Mal joins the ranks of Bombers’ life members
Mal Cox continued a proud Kyabram Football Club tradition for his family when he ran out on to the ground for the Bombers’ reserves against Tongala recently.
It was his 200th game for the club at senior level.
The majority of his games tally — 150 in fact — have been for the reserves, the other 50 with the seniors.
On Saturday night at the club’s annual ball, the Bombers took the opportunity to officially recognise his feat of reaching the 200-game milestone when he was awarded a life membership of the club.
1975
Jimmy was a big hit
The Haslem St School’s Pegball side was in all sorts of trouble against St Augustine’s on Thursday — until burly Jimmy Christophas, 12, strode to the crease.
Jimmy, with a determined look on his face, set about to belt the ball into the outfield on a couple of occasions to help his side to some quick runs.
However, Jimmy wasn’t quite quick enough and a scramble to the crease on the third occasion saw him short of his mark.
And despite Jimmy’s effort, Haslem St lost the game to the Saints.
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Another milking machine for Fiji
A second milking machine is to be sent to the School of Agriculture at the University of Fiji by the Rotary Club of Kyabram.
The gift is the result of a visit to the school in May by Kyabram Rotary Club president Ern Miles.
The first milking machine was sent to the Narro Agricultural School 12 months ago and the gift received such publicity that the dean of the Faculty of Agriculture suggested that as the school was establishing a dairy herd of Friesian and Jersey cows in the near future, the club may be able to help in the supply of a machine for their proposed Herringbone dairy.
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One that got away
I, like a lot of people, left Deakin Reserve on Saturday pondering just what went wrong to cause that four-point defeat by home-ground killers and reigning premiers United.
I don’t think I’m biased in saying Kyabram gave the impression for most of the day that they were the best side and would eventually win the game ... but didn’t.
Although there was never more than a couple of kicks in it from start to finish, the signs, I thought, were there to say Kyabram was the better side and would prove it before it was all over.
— Gus Underwood
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