IT was sad to hear that Leslie Johnson, wife of my former council workmate Warick Johnson passed away suddenly last weekend. Best wishes to ‘Wazza’ and his family members along with all their friends during these trying times. At the time of going to print, funeral arrangements weren’t known.
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IT sure makes you wonder what you are thinking about sometimes and although there is no real need to let anyone know about it Murray Rose reckons I probably should. Last Monday I dropped the cricket score books, camera and some articles off at the Walcha News Office before moving onto the Apsley Advocate to hand in the cricket and golf reports. On the way, back along Fitzroy Street, I parked in front of Jobs Australia before jumping out of the car to grab the gear to take to the Walcha News, which was extremely difficult because it was already there.
GEE the big storm last Wednesday caused plenty of devastation around the place including lifting the small plant shed off its piers at the North Street council depot. Across the road council employee John Bell was fairly fortunate when a sizeable tree limb fell all around his mailbox (pictured on page 5) and failed to cause any real damage. ‘Belly’ reckons the wishing well under the tree branch didn’t fare quite as well.
DURING recent times new Roos coach Gary Natty was visiting his brother Peter in Nambucca Heads where he purchased some Melbourne Cup Calcutta tickets. Last week Peter phoned his younger sibling to inform him he had drawn Protectionist and if he wanted they could buy the horse together for half price. Gary decided to let the offer slide and picked up $150 for his troubles but would have been thrilled when he found out Peter bought Protectionist and collected over $3000 after the German horse won the race.
STILL at the Melbourne Cup what would the odds be of some Walcha people who were in different groups bumping into each other when there are over 100,000 people in attendance? Well Jess Strelitz and Bec Naylor did when they ran into Ben Ussher and Chris Broadbent at the event that stops the nation.
THE Marchant boys Jamie and his young son Jackson went for a bike ride early last week along the levee bank before negotiating the slope into the skate park. Unfortunately for Jamie his bike went one way and the rider went the other which caused a broken arm and nasty gash around one of his eyes. For all the details on how it happened see ‘Jacko’.
SHEARER Dylan Wilson finished third in a show shear competition at Warrnambool recently which qualifies him for a trip to the land of ‘The Long White Cloud’ next April. When Dylan suggested he’d run down the main street of Warrnambool naked if he won the trip, his mother Donna told him it would be a good idea if he did it very late at night so there wouldn’t be any interference with a passport required for the NZ trip. Apparently he took her advice.
AT the doctor’s surgery last Tuesday Freddy Mulligan and receptionist Libby Rogers were discussing the fish in the Apsley River when Libby suggested it was because of all the rain Niangala had received. When Fred reckoned a lot of the water from that area would flow into the McDonald River Libby informed him the McDonald ran into the Apsley.
IT didn’t take long for Freddy to let Libby know that on his map the McDonald water ran down into South Australia while the Apsley water flowed down to South West Rocks and there was a big thing between the two catchments called the Great Dividing Range.
LAST week there was a mention that a council employee took an early morning dip in Maineys Creek. It can now be revealed Mark Morris was the water cart operator that pulled off the double somersault with half pike when he attempted to throw the suction hose from his pump into the water. Apparently ‘Dorrie’ used a nearby fence as a clothesline until his gear dried out.
WALCHA Central School ‘jack of all trades’ Dave Baumer has been moonlighting as a bar tap plumber - or at least he was earlier in the week when he attempted to give Apsley Hotel publican Graeme Hislop a hand to fix his taps. Let’s just say it would be a good idea if Dave gets some plumbing lessons from his son Tim if he wants to pursue his new ‘career’ much further.
MOST Saturday mornings IJ Cross usually travels out to ‘Auchen Dhu’ to transport DI Fletcher to town to do his shopping and do the rounds, last Saturday was slightly different IJ had to take Davie home after he bit the dust the night before on the Fitzroy Street bridge and had to spend the night in hospital.
PAKINGTON Street resident Petra Evans was mowing the lawn the other day when a ‘smart-alec’ bicycle rider rode up behind her and asked her how she was going. Because of the noise of the mower Petra didn’t hear him coming and didn’t she jump high into the sky – well as high as she could. The only clue about the identity of the rider is he lives around the corner in Apsley Street.
STILL on scaring people, renowned specialist Wayne Brennan was about to give his much better half Cathy a fright when his son Andrew jumped out from behind a bush and scared the living daylights out of his old man. It’s a different story when the boot is on the other foot Wayne.
