“A Town Like Blyth” ~Progressive and Community Minded~

Newsletter No 113—December, 2017 http://www.communitywebs.org/blythprogressassociation/

DATES TO REMEMBER: Dec 10th Blyth Netty Movie Arvo Seniors Christmas Arvo Dec 17th Carmen’s Ballet Concert Footy Club Movie Arvo Dec 18th Christmas Lights Judging Dec 21st Blyth Street Christmas Carnival 6.30pm Dec 24th Lutheran Christmas Eve Children’s Service 7.30pm Dec 25th Christmas Day Church Dec 26th Public Holiday Jan 1st New Year’s Day Jan 26th Australia Day Breakfast Jan 29th School Back

Colour pages have been kindly donated

WELKE TRANSPORT, VALLEY CEILING & WALL LINING,

EFFIGY HAIR STUDIO

RSL PLAYGROUND

REVAMP Federal MP Rowan Ramsey rolled into town on Sunday 5th November and opened the $46,000 revamped RSL Playground facili-ties and play equip-ment. This was all made possible through funds from the Federal Government Commu-nity Development Fund, Blyth Progress Association and assis-tance from the Wake-field Regional Council. cont… inside

FIRE DESTROYS BUSINESS

Unfortunately a fire de-stroyed the kitchen and adjoining rooms of BDH Bites on the morning of Saturday 14th October. This has put a sudden holt to the Haitana fami-ly’s popular café & take away business. But the good news is BDH Bites will be back in 2018. BDH Bites will rebuild and the Blyth community wishes them all the best in the process and many coffee lovers cant wait for their coffee to start brewing!!

BLYTH BOWLING CLUB The Blyth Bowling Club continues to be successful in attracting grants and this time receiving $25,000 from Office for Recreation and Sport Round 43 Active Club Program Grant for repairs to their current synthetic green. BBC Brian Eime receives certificate from Geoff Brock MP with Jean Farley, Ian Walker and Maureen Eime.

Congratulations to Brian Eime

WRC 2018 Citizen of the Year

Brian will receive the Award on Australia Day

Friday 26th January from WRC Mayor Reid,

at Padnaindi Reserve after a 8am breakfast

ALL WELCOME MERRY

CHRISTMAS

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MID NORTH RELAY FOR LIFE 2017—CLARE

Once again a number of locals supported Cancer research by participat-ing in the Mid North Relay for Life 2017 at the Clare Oval on 18-19th November. It was great to see the young and not so young locals spread themselves amongst a number of teams during the Relay. Well done to Mid North Relay for Life committee people Sue Pratt and Julia Agnew on their huge effort they put in both leading up to and during the Relay.

Nearly $60,000 was raised towards Cancer research which was a great effort by all involved. “The Fish Whispers” went home with the “Best Team Theme’, (left Captain Tamara Pyrke) and raised $3,550 The Cats for Life won the best Lamp postraised just shy of $4,000 (Below Back: Leanne Keech, Cathy Girsch, Kerryn Mugge, Captain Sue Pratt, Lyn Barr, Lesley Randolph, Graeme Wandel. Front Janet Zweck, Tracey Andriske, Heather Williams, Sam Jacka, Denby Wandel. Absent Daryl Andriske.

HARVEST 2017 The season has again been a mixed bag with the luck of the draw if you got rain during the season and then not so lucky if you got it during harvest. On the whole crops have been ok except for the crops which got hit by frost or mice!!. Harvest commenced late October for many and there for a while it looked as though it could be a early finish, but not to be. On November 30th and December 1st a decent rain sent the district’s farmers home for a rest. Bowillia topped the district with 52mm, Kybunga had 36mm, Blyth had 35mm and Hart 31mm. While over the hills in the west only 8mm fell. Below: The black crops seen in the district are Faba beans. With the recent rains the bean may discolour, plus too much rain can make the wheat grain sprout which makes it a long queue at the silo and less money in the bank!!...

Blyth Celebrations

and presentation of 2018 WRC Citizen of the Year

to Brian Eime at Padnaindi Reserve

From 8.00am

Hot breakfast & orange juice

Plates & cutlery supplied.

Please BYO Chair and other drinks

plus a your best singing voice.

Thanks to Wakefield Regional Council and Blyth Progress Association

Q: Why did Santa put a clock in his

sleigh?

A: Because he wanted to see time fly!.

Clare Financial Services

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RSL PLAYGROUND REVAMP & OPENING 5TH NOVEMBER 2017

Special thanks to Peter “Roosta” Agnew (Top left),

Barry Spinks above, Ian & Janet Zweck (top middle &

right) for their hours spent helping with the redevelop-

ment of RSL Playground.

Thanks to Progress Assoc members for their support and

scrumptious afternoon tea had in the Blyth Cinema..

Below: Denni Russell, Rowan Ramsey, Ian Roberts, Kerry

Smith, Tina Paynter, Tracey Andriske, Alycia Zweck, Janet

Zweck.

Above: Rowan Ramsey

MP congratulates Pro-

ject Co ordinator Janet

Zweck on the

completion of the

“Have fun, stay out of

the sun” Playground

Shelter”

Right: Tilly Welke en-

joys the new surfboard.

Above: Billy Wandel prepares to give

the new Merry Go Round a big push.

BLYTH HOTEL

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BLYTH SNOWTOWN FOOTBALL The Blyth Snowtown Football Club recently held their AGM with some positons for the 2018 season changing. David Pratt continues his role as President for a third year. We welcome Ian Wandel as Vice President; Ros Zweck continues as Sec-retary and Luke Dohnt as Treasurer. Committee members AJ Wood, John Wood, Anthony Price, Derryn Stringer, Kerrin Rown and Phillip Bigg. We welcome new Committee members Trudy Arbon, Adam Conradi and Ashley Hentschke and trust that your time on the committee will be rewarding for you and for our Club. We sincerely thank those that have served on the com-mittee for their valuable contribution to the Club over the past years. Derryn Stringer and AJ Wood jointly have taken on the role of Sponsorship Co-ordinator. The Social Committee contin-ues with Jace Andriske in the role of President. We are pleased to announce that Carey Payne (right) from Craigmore has been appointed A Grade Coach for season 2018 which will begin on 14 April 2018. He has a wealth of experience, previous-ly coaching at Central Yorke Cougars in the Yorke Valley League as well as Metropoli-tan teams. Other coaches that have been appointed so far are U17 – Scott Atkinson; U14 – Rob Pratt. The positions of B Grade Coach, Minis, Subminis and Auskick Co-ordinator are still available. If you know of anyone who is willing and able to take on one of these roles please let us know. If you know of any players not getting a game at other clubs or new players to the district please contact David Pratt or Ros Zweck and we will make con-tact with them. All players and members will again have to reg-ister via the Sporting Pulse website in the new year. The Committees work tirelessly over the year and we now look forward to our Christmas break.

Blyth Playgroup 9am every Thursday during School terms

At Blyth Primary School. ALL under school age children WELCOME

Coordinators Belinda - 0422795091 , Alycia - 0439581313

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for more information

FINAL 2017 session (14th Dec) Xmas Decorations and Picnic Lunch Farewell for year

Playgroup will resume in Term 1 2018. On Thursday 30th December the Blyth Playgroup fami-lies enjoyed “Messy Play” with Melanie from Playgroup SA. The children thrived in playing in slime, water, spa-ghetti, sand and playdough. Melanie finished the ses-sion by making volcanoes from vinegar and carb soda in a bottle. The children’s eyes all lit up when the frothy bubbles came flowing out the top. Left: Ruby Kells, Elsie & Belinda Angus, Ivy Weckert. Below: Wait and see the volcano ex-plode.

BLYTH COMMUNITY NETWORK

As 2017 draws to an end, Blyth Community Network have giv-en the Blyth Primary School teachers a special lunch to say “Thankyou” to them for their dedication, effort and care in teaching the children. On Sunday Dec 10th a Christmas Afternoon tea will be held in the Blyth Community Hall Supper Room from 2:30 to 4:30pm for all senior members of our community. Upon Helen Wiech’s retirement from this group, we thank her for her care, com-passion and organising skills regards all events we have held in the past 12 years. We also wish everyone a safe and blessed Christmas as we celebrate the birthday of Jesus knowing that we are always loved by Him.

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BLYTH BITS: Happy 80th birthday to Alf McQuirk who will celebrate at a big party !! Alf turns 80 on Thursday 21st December and will be par-tying at the Blyth Christmas Street Carnival, so make sure you wish him a happy birthday. Happy 30th birthday to Holly Ottens for No-vember 29th and she celebrated with a party at home with friends and family. Cheerio to all those who have been unwell and have had stays in hospital. Special cheerio to Kaye Wandel who is spend-ing time in Balaklava Hospital. Cheerio to Barry Spinks who is recuperating after surgery. Cheerio to Brian Page who spent 2 weeks in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and enjoyed a room with a view over the Ade-laide Oval. Due to poor health Brian has had to closed Page’s Deli after 71 years with the doors open to the Blyth community and travellers. In 2016 we celebrated Page’s Deli 70th birthday. The Blyth Main Street is certainly a lot quieter with Page’s Deli doors not open. Brian will not be returning to the shop and in 2018 more will be known as to the shops survival. We wish Brian all the best with his on going treatment. Thanks to Les Maynard who has been manning the Saturday and Sunday papers outside Page’s shop and to Ian Wandel at the Blyth Post Office for taking over the weekday papers. There for a while Blyth was spoilt to have three eateries in town but due to the temporary closure of BDH Bites due to the fire, then Brian’s poor health and the closure of Page’s Deli, the Blyth Hotel has been left to carry the load. It is great Jarrod & Naomi have provided extras supplies to locals and travellers for a quick takeaway or drink.

Hannah Wandel (daughter of Graeme & Denby) has continued to thrive in Can-berra and recently was awarded 2017 Emerging Leader of the Year at the National Australian Leader-ship Excellence Awards (ALEAs) Final at a gala din-ner ceremony at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth. Hannah is the Founder and CEO of Country to Canberra, a national Not-for-profit which empowers young rural women to reach their leader-ship potential through leadership training, inspiration, connec-tion and mentoring to overcome gender and geographical barri-ers to success. Hannah manages governance, sponsorship, stakeholder engagement and 15 volunteers in her role. Hannah is a Director of YWCA Canberra, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and Director of the National Rural Women’s Coalition – Australia’s peak body for regional women. Hannah currently works as an adviser at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Well done Hannah! (Hannah also suffered a ruptured achilles during 2017)

Local Kylie Williams enjoyed success recently when she at-tended the The SA Health Awards in the Panorama Ball Room, Adelaide Convention Centre. Kylie was a team member of the winning Country Health SA Integral Leader-ship Program—which won the award for Excellence in Non-Clinical Services. The CHSA Integral Leadership Program is an ambitious, large-scale, network wide change initiative which has improved organisational performance through implementing new structures and processes, such as the inte-gral performance and accountability frame-work; shifting mindsets, motivating manag-ers to think and act differently about complex performance is-sues; building positive culture, to shift towards reflective, inclu-sive and learn-by-doing behaviours; and developing skills of 200+ leaders, through workshops, coaching and action learning. Kylie’s team was up against some larger and excellent competi-tion and the country team were thrilled with their win. Needless to say a long night of celebrating was had!. Well done Kylie!

Also congratulations to Jeremy Kells (Kells & Co) who won the NAB’s SA/NT 2017 Quality Advice Business award at the NAB Excellence Awards. Jeremy and wife Carmen attended the awards at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Well done Jeremy.

Sue Pratt has been seen in a few papers as her job as the Balaklava High School Agriculture teacher encouraging stu-dents to pursue careers in agriculture by attending the Food & Fibre Education SA Initiative camp. Sue also attended for a few days & had a great time visiting the diverse array of occupations agriculture can lead to.

BLYTH TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

Children’s Christmas Eve Presentation with Carols

Sunday 24th December at 7.30pm

At Blyth Lutheran Church

************ Christmas Day Service

9.45am Holy Communion Pr James Leach

At Blyth Lutheran Church

ALL WELCOME

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BLYTH BOWLING CLUB The pennant bowls is nearly half way through the season with Division one sitting at second on the premiership table, Division Two climb-ing the ladder every week and are now in the top four of the premiership table. Thursday Pennants are sitting just out of the four. During the last two months some of our play-ers have been playing in State Events such as State Pairs and State Mixed Pairs. Well done to Maureen and Brian Eime for making the last 16 in the state and playing in Adelaide at Grange Bowling Club on Sunday 3 December. Saturday 2nd December saw the Bowling Club hold their annual Christmas dinner, with 33 people attending for a three course meal consisting of prawn cocktail, roast pork and turkey with hot vegetables and plum pudding, custard and icecream. Thanks to all help on the day and night. It was an enjoyable night by all. During the night the club welcomed another Life member. Raelene Lamond was presented a life mem-bership award from Club President Bruce Farley, for her services to the club plus her involvement in the Hutt and Hill River/ Brough-ton Thursday Pennants over the past 30 years. Raelene retired from the game about 5 years ago. Raelene now joins her husband Brian and they are the first husband and wife Life Membership recipients of the Club. In November at the club tea, David Lamond President BMW presented two 80 badges to two members of our club, Jeff Pratt and Barry Kennett who turned 80 years old during the off sea-son of bowls. Both Jeff and Barry have involved in the club for over 40 years. Including being both President of the club, in-volved on the committees, selectors and attending working bee. Jeff is also Life Member and Patron of the club. Cosmo Four was held in October with the all rinks full, we had people from Peterbrough, Goowla , Port Pirie, Riverton, Tanunda as well as the local area too. All players enjoyed a fish lunch with lovely salads made by the club and sweets. The win-ner of the day was Auburn Bowling Club and runner up was Riverton Bowling Club. It was enjoy by all attended the day.

BLYTH DEVELOPMENT BOARD Blyth Development Board approved the following Grant Applications in the October 2017 Round: Blyth Kybunga Cricket Club $ 8,000 New 2 lane training net Blyth Netball Club $ 600 Installation of underground power and meter board Blyth Lutheran Church $ 4,000 Purchase and install 3 new RC Air conditioners.

The Blyth Cinema continues to attract groups to the town. School groups converge to the cinema at the end the School Term, various clubs hold suc-cessful fundraisers with mini-mum fuss, and birthday parties are held to occupy the young-sters for a hour and half watching their favourite movie. To make a booking contact Nat

Left: Max Williams enjoys his 6th birthday party with his

friends at the Cinema.

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BLYTH TENNIS CLUB

Prior to the season starting we had several meetings at MNTA level with assistance from Tennis SA, to make a major change to the junior competition. Previous years has seen 15 teams (8 players per team) in 1 division with ages ranging from 8-16.

So a trial season was agreed to with 3 divisions and teams of 4 players. It has been a major change and while we have had some teething problems, and a change to some teams after 4 weeks, the positives clearly outweigh the negatives, and we have more juniors than ever before playing tennis in our associa-tion.

There are 12 teams in division 1, a 10 team division 2 Pool A, a 8 team division 2 Pool B and a 10 team division 3 competition. The purpose of the change is to have players more in line with their abilities and age (which was also raised to a true U17 comp), and in line with Tennis SA policy. Next season the clubs will have a greater handle on who should play where, and the potential to have more teams entered next season, and more players.

At Blyth to start the season we submitted 2 division 2 teams and 2 division 3 teams. We have now changed this to 3 division 2 teams and 1 division 3 team.

Our division 2 teams are Blyth Storm and Blyth Hurricanes in Pool A and Blyth Thunder in Pool B. Both Storm and Thunder are top of the table in their pools, and Hurricanes sit 5th. Our division 3 team is called Blyth Heat and they are 3rd on the ta-ble. It's great that we have been able to give the chance of giving more players a Saturday game with the division 3 team, this would not have happened under the old competition.

Sam Clayson is our professional tennis coach who takes coach-ing on Monday nights at the hard courts. We have quite a few younger potential players who are hitting the ball for the first time this season, and under the careful eye of Sam some if not all of our young up and coming tennis players will be seen out on the courts on a Saturday in no time! Thanks to Simone Bigg for her time and effort in placing the players into groups and coordinat-ing this important part of our tennis coaching.

Thursday nights we have practice for the Saturday players on the grass courts, and we also run a practice for our non Saturday players on the hard courts, and try have match play for them to prepare for the real stuff. Our ball machine 'Lobster' gets a real work out on Thursday night's and we can see the improvement in the junior players constantly hitting the ball back when Lobster fires them off.

The junior players are all now playing in their official Blyth Tennis Club polo shirts and caps, and gives them a real sense of be-longing to the club with their official uniform. Thankyou to all the parents for making the financial commitment for the shirts (caps supplied by the club) and also for the professional coaching.

If you have a child in the 8-10 age group and are considering a Saturday sport, please contact either myself, President Kylie Williams or Simone. Under the new concept we can fast track your child into Saturday competition tennis a lot quicker as our division 3 team is for 1st time players, and playing other players who are also on the court for the first time. And with 4 player teams we have more flexibility to give our players more of a chance to play on Saturdays as opposed to 8 player teams.

Congratulations to Blyth Thunder player Drew Bertelsmeier who won the Under 11 age group at the Clare Junior Tournament. Great work Drew!

And also to Kasey Bigg, Cartia Jaeschke and Joel Bertelsmeier who have played A Grade tennis, and Angus Kennett who has played B Grade. Great work by our juniors to play senior tennis

and I hear they have had more wins than losses. Consider they have to report for junior tennis at 8.15am, play then off to senior tennis in the afternoon, only getting home later that afternoon and playing 5 sets for the day. Well done guys! And I hear there was a father/son doubles combination last week in A Grade at Clare, 13 year old son did all the running, and it came down to the wire in a tie breaker. How much oxygen did Dad need after the game Joel? Probably the same question to Kasey after a doubles game with her Mum. But how good is that, to go out and play a competition match with your child. I'm thinking of making a comeback!! Michael Jaeschke , Junior Co-ordinator The Tennis Club has made some great improvements to their grounds in the last 12 months with the final touch of new signage on the new pergola. The new playground is fully operational and thanks to the Wakefield Regional council for funding this important project for not only the tennis club but also for the community. Many RV travellers have also been enjoying the play equipment as well.

Thanks to Paul Gibson, Jack McRae, Christian Whiteright) for erecting a new shed to cover Guild-ford Street pump which had previously blown away by September’s tornado. During the last few weeks Senior tennis numbers have been low, with one week having 12 players out, but still field-ed the A & B Grade teams with Juniors and fill ins. The A Grade tennis team have been travelling along nicely and are currently sitting at 2nd, while the B Grade are close to break-ing into the top 4.

Natalie McElroy will "like" bookings to confirm those made on Facebook. Additions & changes to program made 02/12/17. Sat 8 Dec 6.00pm “DADDY’S HOME 2” (M) 3.5* Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell Sat 9 Dec 8.00pm “MURDER ON THE ORIENT” (M) 3.5* Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp Sun 10 Dec 5.00pm* “A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS” (MA) 3.5* Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell *FUNDRAISER BLYTH NETBALL CLUB TICKETS: $25 incl drink & nibbles Wed 13 Dec 2.00pm “MURDER ON THE ORIENT” (M) 3.5* Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp Wed 13 Dec 7.30pm “MURDER ON THE ORIENT” (M) 3.5* Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp Fri 15 Dec 7.30pm “MURDER ON THE ORIENT” (M) 3.5* Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp Sat 16 Dec 8.00pm “A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS” (MA) 3.5* Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell Sun 17 Dec 2.00pm “WONDER” (PG) 4* Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson Sun 17 Dec 4.30pm* “DADDY’S HOME 2” (M) 3.5* Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell *FUNDRAISER BLYTH FOOTBAL CLUB TICKETS: TBA Tues 19 Dec 2.00pm “WONDER” (PG) 4* Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson Wed 20 Dec 10.30am “WONDER” (PG) 4* Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson Wed 20 Dec 2.00pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Fri 22 Dec 7.30pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Sat 23 Dec 4.30pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Sat 23 Dec 8.00pm “MURDER ON THE ORIENT” (M) 3.5* Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp Tues 26 Dec 4.30pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Fri 29 Dec 7.30pm “MURDER ON THE ORIENT” (M) 3.5* Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp Sat 30 Dec 4.30pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Sat 30 Dec 8.00pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Mon 1 Jan 3.30pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Mon 1 Jan 7.30pm “MURDER ON THE ORIENT” (M) 3.5* Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp Thurs 4 Jan 1.00pm “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Thurs 4 Jan 3.30pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Fri 5 Jan 1.00pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Fri 5 Jan 3.30pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Fri 5 Jan 7.30pm “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” (PG) 4* Dan Stevens Sat 6 Jan 4.30pm “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Sat 6 Jan 8.00pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Sun 7 Jan 4.30pm “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” (PG) 4* Dan Stevens Mon 8 Jan 1.00pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Mon 8 Jan 3.30pm “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Tues 9 Jan 1.00pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Tues 9 Jan 3.30pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Wed 10 Jan 10.30am “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Wed 10 Jan 1.00pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Thurs 11 Jan 1.00pm “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Thurs 11 Jan 3.30pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Thurs 11 Jan 7.30pm “STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI” (M) 4* Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver Fri 12 Jan 10.30am “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Fri 12 Jan 1.00pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Fri 12 Jan 7.30pm “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” (PG) 4* Dan Stevens Sat 13 Jan 4.30pm “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Sat 13 Jan 8.00pm “STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI” (M) 4* Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver Sun 14 Jan 4.30pm “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” (PG) 4* Dan Stevens Mon 15 Jan 10.30am “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Mon 15 Jan 1.00pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Tues 16 Jan 10.30am “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Tues 16 Jan 1.00pm “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Wed 17 Jan 1.00pm “LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Wed 17 Jan 3.30pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Thurs 18 Jan 10.30am “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Thurs 18 Jan 1.00pm “FERDINAND” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Fri 19 Jan 1.00pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Fri 19 Jan 3.30pm “FERDINAND” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Fri 19 Jan 7.30pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Sat 20 Jan 4.30pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Sat 20 Jan 8.00pm “STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI” (M) 4* Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver Sun 21 Jan 4.30pm “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” (PG) 4* Dan Stevens Mon 22 Jan 1.00pm “FERDINAND” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Mon 22 Jan 3.30pm “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Tues 23 Jan 10.30am “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Tues 23 Jan 1.00pm “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” (PG) 4* Dan Stevens Wed 24 Jan 1.00pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Wed 24 Jan 3.30pm “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” (PG) 4* Dan Stevens Thurs 25 Jan 10.30am “THE SON OF BIGFOOT” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Thurs 25 Jan 3.30pm “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Fri 26 Jan 10.30am “FERDINAND” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Fri 26 Jan 1.00pm “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” (PG) 4* Dan Stevens Fri 26 Jan 7.30pm “THE GREATEST SHOWMAN” (PG) 4* Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron Sat 27 Jan 4.30pm “FERDINAND” (PG) 3* ANIMATED Sat 27 Jan 8.00pm “STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI” (M) 4* Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver Sun 28 Jan 4.30pm “THE GREATEST SHOWMAN” (PG) 4* Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron Tues 30 Jan 10.30am “PADDINGTON 2” (G) 4* Brendan Gleeson,Sally Hawkins Tues 30 Jan 2.00pm “THE GREATEST SHOWMAN” (PG) 4* Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron Wed 31Jan 7.30pm “STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI” (M) 4* Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver

Rainfall in the District Blyth Kybunga Hart Bowillia

Post Office AJ Wood Field Site Wayne Carling 2017 Oct 9.6mm 6.2mm 6.6mm 10.4mm

2016 21.6mm 43.0mm 25.8mm 30.0mm

2017 Nov 22.8mm 19.4mm 29.0mm 14.6mm

2016 5.6mm 25.6mm 13.2mm 20.0mm

2017 YTD 299.2mm 351.4mm 293.6mm 341.6mm

2016 YTD 450.2mm 590.7mm 431.0mm 494.6mm

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Next Newsletter Deadline is Friday

7th February 2018 Please forward personal or club info/photos to Janet

Zweck. Ph/Fax 8844 5027 or ijzweck@activ8.net.au

Geoff Brock MP

Member for Frome 8633 1210

PO Box 519, Port Pirie 5540

Rowan Ramsey MP

Fed Member for Grey 1300 301 742

PO Box 296, Port Pirie 5540

Blyth Progress Association Committee Kerry Smith (Chair4) 8844 5368; Denni Russell 0431233679 (Sec) Janet Zweck(Treas) 88445027;

Kym Schultz, Tracey Andriske, Ian Roberts, Alycia Zweck, Tina Paynter, Katherine White.

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From the book “1,000 unforgettable Senior Moments”: A driver was filling out an insurance claim form explaining his mishap this way. “Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.” Another driver on his claim wrote, “I thought my window was down but I found out that it was up when I put my head through it.”

Let’s hope this doesn't happen to any locals!!

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BLYTH POST OFFICE Licensee: Ian Wandel

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BLYTH COMMUNITY HALL The Mid North Film club dinners and other catering events have been our main fundraisers for the year. A huge thankyou to community members who supply food and help at these func-tions. The Community Hall is seeking a new Treasurer at our 2018 AGM to be held on Wednesday 14th February. Please consider whether you can fill this role as your contribution to a volunteer committee who serve the community by ensuring that our Community Town Hall facilities stay at a high standard.

Are you interested in joining the Hall Committee?? Meet-ings are held bi-monthly and held in the Library room. For fur-ther information contact Narelle Roberts 0458128932.

Advance Physiotherapy has recently expanded from their Clare based clin-ic to Snowtown and Burra. Our local Ellie Ottens (right) is consulting at the Snowtown Hospital every Monday from 9-5pm and is also teaching Pilates classes at the Snowtown oval. To contact the clinic for more information or to book an appointment call 88857809.

BLYTH LUTHERAN CHURCH UPDATE It has been 14.5 months since the Blyth Lutheran Church was damaged and in the next 2-3 weeks the congregation are praying for a return by Christmas Eve. While much of

the external work to the building has been completed, there is still much to be done inside, but Builder Michael is trying his best to ensure handover is done by Christmas

Eve, and there probably wont be too many minutes to spare!! Just like the TV show “The Block!”.

Kybunga News Welcome to Wayne and Sharon Rankin as they settle into Kybunga Congratulations to Barb Hayes on completing the Half Mara-thon event at Tanunda in October. A run of 21Kms in 2 hours. Maureen Wiech came back to celebrate her 80th Birthday with family and friends in the local district. Rhys Eldredge has made a full recovery and is “back in step” after losing 2 toes in an unfortunate accident while moving sheep. The Kybunga Resi-dents Group has pur-chased a Weather Sta-tion to assist land own-ers with weather condi-tions in regards to spray-ing and harvesting con-ditions.

May the harmony of Christmas

stay in your heart all year round and may the Lord send his bless-

ings. May God bless you and let this

Christmas season bring comfort and joy to you and your

family.

HOLIDAY ADVENTURERS with Tanya and Drew Bertelsmeier. We spent an amazing 3 days in Dubai, the highlight was the de-sert tour, recommend it to everyone. lots of laughs and bruisers but Drew and I would do it again. It was very hot 42d and the humidity was at 90% but the desert tour is early evening, a lot cooler, we were not complaining as they had 51d before we ar-rived. After the tour they cooked a fantastic meal and you sit down to watch the belly dancing, you also ride camels, surf the sand dunes and hold falcons. (one of Drews highlights) The shopping malls are unbelievable, with ice rinks, ski slopes, floors full of kid’s games, not to mention great shopping. Our 5-star ho-tel was more like 7 stars. The buildings are also amazing, but strange not to see trees and plants. We visited the famous Palms and the tallest building Burj Khalifa. Taxi drivers are just a bit cra-zy but they are cheaper than taking the bus or train if your happy to risk your life. LOL We were so excited to travel to Holland on the airbus 380, it was huge, we met an African man who runs his own hospital-ity business, Drew was excited to receive some money he gave Drew as it had elephants print-ed on it. We also plan to stay in contact. 7 hours later we arrived in Hol-land and family to greet us. Over the 2.7 weeks we visited so many places all around Hol-land, we stayed with my auntie who I stayed with 33 years ago. Drew loved the food and way of life. I haven’t been able to drink coffee since coming back, I was a bit spoilt over there with their coffee! He liked the idea of getting on your push bike and going to the shops. Holland have more pushbikes what they do popula-tion. We visited my Great Grandpas statue, he was the pioneer of Tu-lips, we also visited the building where my mum was born and my grandpa had his Boiler maker business. Amsterdam was an eye opener for Drew! (you need to ask Drew to details) We dressed up in costumes in Volemdam a beautiful

fishing village. I would have to say the Delft is my favourite part of Holland, I have a second cousin who lives here, she or-ganised push bikes for us and we headed off on a 6-km bike ride around the country side of Delft, half way stopping for a lovely lunch. We rode alongside of dykes, over bridges and ad-miring the wind mills. Drew and I also went to see the lion king, all in Dutch but we know what was going on. It was the opening night and apparent-ly, I had photos with famous people, still have no idea who. The costumes are amazing. The 600 yr. old jail was an eye opener in The Hague. They

locked us in one of the cells and turned off the lights so we could experience what they went through, the jail also was a place of torture. Not nice but interesting. We visited cheese factory’s, chocolate factory’s, climbed up the old windmills, Clog factory’s, smallest house in Amsterdam 2.2m wide, travelled through Amsterdam on boat through the canals and by horse and cart, beautiful sound on the cobblestone roads and even went go carting with family, amazing all indoors and two stories. So much more and so much fun!

BLYTH’S BEST CHRISTMAS

LIGHTS Is on again and $100 is up for grabs.

Blyth Progress Association members will be judging the town for its Best Christmas Lights on Monday 18th December from

8.30pm, so don’t for get to switch you lights on!! Please note: Last year’s category winners can not win their same category this year.

Thanks to our sponsors Complete Wool Ser-vices, MC & KL Eime Silage, Vision Builders and Clare Mitre 10.

PHOTOGRAPHY COMP Thanks to Tanya Bertelsmeier for continu-ing to sponsor this comp. Remember

photos are to be of the district landscape/weather or people. And one of this year’s category is “A Selfie”. So you got to be in

it to win it. This competition is for all ag-es so please start snapping or go through your phone for some great selfies... Pho-

tos can be emailed to ijzweck@activ8.net.au or Facebook mes-senger by 19th December. Cash prizes up

for grabs.

Quandong Cooks are wanted

again for the quandong dessert competition. Frozen quandongs are available from Medika Gallery for

you to let your imagination grow wild on a delectable dessert or pie.

Bring your dessert to the BBQ table so they can be kept in safe keeping. Please name your plate underneath.

NEW COMPETITION FOR THE KIDS

This year a “Best Christmas decorated Biscuit” competition for the kids has returned thanks to

the sponsorship of Wood’s Mobile sheep Dipping. The biscuit can be

home made or bought and the judges will be looking for the best, unique Christmas decorated bis-

cuit. Please bring entries to the BBQ table by 7.15pm.

AND THE USUAL FANCY DRESS & DEC-

ORATED BIKE competi-tions continue at 7.00pm thanks to Clare Financial

Services

BLYTH CHRISTMAS STREET CARNIVAL

COMPETITIONS

MAJOR SPONSORS OF THIS ISSUE

The Matriarchs… Pat Sangiovese

Mary Tempranillo Alice Shiraz

...and their Rogues. Maurie Vermentino Ken Sangiovese Rosé Oscar Vintage Port

Elegantly Clare.

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matriarchandrogue@gmail.com

0413 602 023

Made for drinking...

Matriarch & Rogue encourages the responsible

consumption of alcohol.

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