Darwin Defenders Maurie Gerdtz, left, and Laurie Schmidt of Horsham will be part of a Wimmera group flying to Darwin this weekend to take part in commemoration services for the 70th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of the city in 1942. Wimmera-Mallee district soldiers played a key role in the defence and Horsham flies a [...]
By DEAN LAWSON Maurie Gerdtz, 89, considers the pattern bombing of 54 high-level aircraft as his most frightening experience of a Japanese attack on Darwin in February, 1942. “It’s the one thing that scared me the most,” he said. “It was the second night and our anti-aircraft guns couldn’t get up that high and there [...]
Stawell district community leader Andrea Cooper is looking forward to ‘a new look’ in her push to help raise money and awareness in a fight against blood cancer. Cr Cooper, a Northern Grampians Shire councillor, will go under the clippers and lose all her hair at Stawell Retravision store at 10am on March 15 as [...]
Wimmera Mobility Group leaders want more people to get involved and make the most of the information, opportunities and activities the organisation promotes. Chairman Geoff Baker said the group, operating for about two years, had about 40 members but was keen to attract more for a 2012 launch on February 28. “The biggest thing we’re [...]
Horsham Saints junior cricketers, from left, Josh Carroll, Harry Bryan and Jono Carroll join senior players Damian Bryan and Glenn Carroll in appealling for plenty of support for Pink Stumps Day this weekend. The pink-themed sporting fund-raiser will support the McGrath Foundation’s fight against breast cancer. See full story, page 13 of the February 9 [...]
A former Horsham College president and long-time council member has described circumstances holding up plans to rebuild Horsham College as a bureaucratic fiasco. Graham Gerlach, on the college council for 10 years and president for four, pleaded for a ‘logical and sensible’ outcome in anticipation of a college visit this month by Education Minister Martin [...]
Edenhope’s annual summer festival returns this Saturday with a day full of family entertainment – and organisers promising a few surprises this year. Henley On Lake Wallace kicks off at 2pm with the traditional street parade and the amusing variety of floats. Other events on the busy Henley schedule include the quick shear contest, Australian [...]
Wimmera Health Care Group will raise money for its Murray To Moyne cycling team with an auction in Horsham on Saturday. The group and a Murray To Moyne committee are organising the auction at 3 Arnott Street near Wimmera Base Hospital. Group community liaison officer Amelia Elliston said a wide range of items would go [...]
A Horsham cricket club will embrace all things pink for the next fortnight as it joins a national project in the fight against breast cancer. Horsham Saints is one of 1000 clubs padding up across Australia for Pink Stumps Day 2012. Pink Stumps Day, a McGrath Foundation and Cricket Australia Cricket Cares program, is in [...]
Campaigners lobbying to reopen Ararat’s Olympic municipal swimming pool will wait for the results of a council investigation into the integrity of the structure before establishing an action plan. Joint campaign spokesman Ambrose Cashin said findings would dictate a course of action but he was confident community sentiment and passion would ultimately lead to a [...]
