50 years ago February 1975
There was apparently little hope that a grant would be made available from the government for the supervision of the school crossing on the Northern Hwy at Rochester.
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The Rochester Shire Council at its meeting on Thursday received a letter from ROSTA, advising that the government had made available a subsidy to municipalities on a two-for-one basis to enable the supervision of school crossings.
The letter requested the council to be selective in choosing the crossings to be supervised, and provided guidelines to aid councils in exercising selection.
Under the guidelines, the shire engineer, Mr W. Reid, said Rochester had ‘’Buckley’s hope of getting a grant’’.
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After setting a record for the 1500 metres at Melbourne’s Olympic Park on Tuesday, Rochester’s Lois Bickley had to wait more than two hours before she could convince officials of the record.
Lois was competing in the open 1500 metres event at the international meeting and was expected to clash with the Kenyan star Rose Tata.
However, when the starters fronted the starter, Rose was not in the field, although she had been on the track doing her warm-up.
It is believed that Rose had gone to the changing rooms and the race started in her absence.
Still a junior, 17-year-old Lois ran the 1500 metres in the Australian and Victorian junior record time of four minutes 31.4 seconds.
At first, no official would give Lois the record form to fill in, so she could claim the new record.
Finally, the Victorian Amateur Athletic Association gave Lois the prescribed form and she then spent the next 90 minutes running from corner to corner of Olympic Park, seeking officials to fill in the form.
25 years ago February 2000
In a top class game of cricket, Bamawm-Lockington United proved too strong for Echuca South in the final of the Campaspe Cricket Association one-day final series.
Echuca South went into the match as favourite, but BLU, batting second, overtook the South total of 129 in the 38th over.
Association president Jim Ogden said both the A- and B-grade games had held the interest of the crowd.
‘’The one-day games have revitalised cricket in the Campaspe Cricket Association,’’ he said.
‘’A-grade was a top-class game on a good wicket and a slow ground. The game was interesting through to the last couple of overs.’’
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Rochester business and industry is coping well with the power restrictions applied by the Victorian Government from last Friday.
David Major of IGA Everyday in Rochester summed up the situation saying, ‘’It’s business as usual but with a little less personal comfort.’’
Murray Goulburn manager Doug Sims said the factory had reduced power usage wherever possible but there would be no staff reductions, and processing milk would continue.
‘’We’ve switched off every light we can do without and the only area where air conditioning cannot be switched off is the processing area.
‘’It’s inconvenient but we won’t be reducing production and will wait and see what happens as the week progresses.’’
10 years ago February 2015
At 27, there are some people who cannot drive a car.
But most 27-year-olds definitely could not fly a plane.
And Michael Jones might be the only one who can say that he had built a plane by 27.
Michael is a Rochester-born pilot who, with his buddy Adrian Vandersluys, built a two-seater, single-engine ‘hot rod’ of a plane.
‘‘It’s a one-of-a-kind high-performance machine,’’ Michael said.
‘‘I built it from a kit, so I had all the hardware I needed, but I sourced a more powerful engine for it.
‘‘Part of the charm is having something no-one else has.“
What is under the hood is not the only individual thing about this plane — based on a Van’s RV-7.
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If you saw an injured joey by the side of the road and still alive, what would you do?
You may only want to help the poor creature, but there are good ways and bad ways to do it.
The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning wants people to start helping animals the right way.
‘‘Even though members of the public mean well when they try to care for injured wild animals, it is critical for the animal’s survival they are treated by trained carers,’’ wildlife compliance officer Phuong Tran said.
Tess Gallagher is a registered and trained carer with Wildlife Victoria, and she thinks anyone who loves animals enough to take care of an injured one should sign up.
‘‘It would make my life a lot easier if people were registered,’’ she said.
More carers would enable her to focus on her local area, Lockington.
‘‘I get calls from two, two-and-a-half hours away and by the time you arrive the animal has either moved or died,’’ Tess said.
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