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MY TIMEworking inKatherinewas briefbut thememorieswill belong last-ing.

The senseof community and thepride locals have intheir town is trulyunique.

That pride and loveof community is thecornerstone of trulygreat towns.

Katherine is a placewhere people and thecommunity stick to-gether, through goodand bad.

They are the first tocongratulate each otheron success, and thefirst to grab you bythe boot straps and getyou back on your feetwhen you need a hand.

I am proud to havebeen an editor of theKatherine Times becauseit is truly a paperwhich supports and re-flects those wonder-ful, dinky-diAustralian communityvalues which we allhold dear to ourhearts.

Happy 30th birthdayto the KatherineTimes.

I know the next 30years you will con-tinue deliver for

people of Katherine.

- Mark WiltonEditor July to October

2011

t h e e d i t o r s

FOR thirty yearsthe Katherine Timeshas played an impor-tant role in the livesof the people in theKatherine region.

And it is thanks tothe people - our read-ers - that the paperis going strong, de-spite so many modern-day ways of accessingall the latest news.

The paper has come along way from thefirst edition printedin 1983 to today’sedition - but onething hasn’t changed:The Katherine Times isa paper for and about

the people in theKatherine region.

There is never alack of story to betold - and despitehaving to report ontragic events, crimeand anti-social behav-iour, I am still agreat believer in goodnews.

And there is no bet-ter place than Kather-ine for a journalistto find a good-newsstory.

With an overwhelmingsense of community,people in our regionare never too caughtup in their own busi-ness to give eachother a helping hand.

There is no shortageof stories about com-munity heroes andquiet achievers, ofpeople who go theextra mile to help aneighbour in need orraise money for a per-son they’ve only justmet, of students andsports people who do

theirschoolsand clubsand theircommunity proud.

And they are thestories that will al-ways be written aboutthe people in Kather-ine.

I feel honoured tobe able to help sharethose stories throughthe work the KatherineTimes does.

It is you - the peo-ple in our region, thepeople who contributeto the every-day lifein our community andto the paper, and thepeople who buy thepaper every week - whogive the staff at theKatherine Times inspi-ration and motivationto keep going for an-other 30 years.

Happy birthdayKatherine Times -thank you Katherine.

- Annie HesseEditor since October 2011

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RIGHT: Mark Wilton’’s first frontpage - on July 6, 2011- coveredthe live cattle export ban and a sudden cold snap.

LEFT: Annie Hesse’s first front page - onOctober 12, 2011 - covered the tragic deaths of two

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Ban ‘destroying’north Australia

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THE halt on live export trade to Indonesia is“destroying Northern Australia” as businesseslose their employees to “jobs with a future”.Cattle producers and employers in related in-dustries said they could only “hope and pray”for the live export ban to Indonesia to be lifted,while they have to watch their employees leavethe industry.

Northern Feed & Cube’s General Manager,Lawrence Christian, said the export ban had“literally devastated” his business and the firstemployee had already resigned in what he calls“a sensible decision”. “She came to us for a chat about a new jobshe had been offered and all we could do wassupport her decision to leave and take the newjob,” Mr Christian said.“It is sensible – in the situation the industryis in we cannot tell anyone to stay unless we canguarantee continuing employment.“People depend on their employment andtheir income and they have to look at the future.

“Because of the live export ban every em-ployee in the industry is in jeopardy, contrac-tors' employees are in jeopardy, farmers'employees are in jeopardy.“Government has to wake up and realise thatthey are destroying Northern Australia.”Mr Christian, who only started three monthsago as the general manager at Northern Feedand Cube – in what was meant to be a “step upin the career” – said he was now working “tohold it together as long as possible”.“Our business is to 98 per cent related to thelive export business – we make the feed thatgoes onto the ships and we make the pre-feedthat is fed to cattle before they go onto the ships.

“As of the exact day (from the day the exportban was put in place) we had only one boat toleave with our feed on.“Before the ban we were a progressive busi-ness with no indications of any problems andno expectation of not going easily for another20 years. Now we can only hope and pray forgovernment to wake up.”Mr Christian said government needed to re-alise that the industry was “not a machine youcan just turn off. Farming is a 12-months-a-yearoperation.”

“The export ban has put everyone on edge –it is hard for people not to know what the futureholds.”

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Katherine hasjust sufferedthrough its

coldest Junesince 1946.So it is nowonder we

were allrugging up likeHaley Wilson, 7,who said she

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pants to schoolbecause it hasbeen so cold.

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The Katherine Tourist Promotion Asso-ciation has come out in full supportof the Government’s plans to conserve

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