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HOSPITAL patients from the Great Southern would be able to stay in specially-built
hotels before and after surgery under a policy announced by Labor.
Shadow Minister for Health Roger Cook said it currently cost between $1,500 and $2,000 a day to keep a patient in a hospital bed.
“You could accommodate someone in a six-star hotel cheaper than that,” he said.
“So why not look at doing things differently, improving services as you go along and making a system more effi cient?”
He said under a system already operating in Queensland, “mediho-tels” were built in or near hospitals to accommodate patients after their operations.
“They’re too sick to undertake the arduous journey home but not sick enough to stay in a hospital,” he said.
“We want to accommodate those
Medihotels for region?
Shadow Minister for Health Roger Cook discusses local health care issues with Member for Albany Peter Watson on Tuesday.
people in a specialised hotel environ-ment potentially with family staying with them.
“They can continue to receive vis-its and clinical care but continue to receive post-operative care and recu-perate in a more relaxed environment than staying in a hospital bed.”
He said this introduced an important fl exibility to the healthcare system.
“There’s no such thing as a standard patient to fi t a standard bed,” he said.
“Patients come with different levels of need and requiring different levels of care.
“Medihotels is about adapting hos-pitals to meet the needs of patients rather than demanding that patients meet the needs of hospitals.
“If necessary they could be accom-modated in a medihotel the night before an operation if their operation is very early in the morning.”
He said Labor was yet to announce which Perth site or sites it planned to build medihotels on but preliminary costing showed they could deliver
an “extraordinary amount” of extra capacity.
“In Western Australia a country patient has an average length-of-stay of about nine days,” he said.
“If we can reduce that length-of-stay by just two days the opportu-nities to deliver more services are
amazing so we save $60 million in terms of effi ciency each year.
“We free up over 5,000 hospital bed-days right across the system al-lowing us to treat another 54 patients a day.”
He said medihotels would be the fi rst in a series of announcements to
form a health policy package called “putting patients fi rst”.
“This is about changing the conver-sation in health away from this tired old rhetoric around cutting budgets, restricting access to services,” he said.
“We are starting off by saying ‘surely there’s a fresh way that we can look at this, a new way that we can cast the health debate which puts the patient at the centre of everything we do’.”
Greens’ candidate for Albany David Rastrick said his party welcomed initiatives that offered better services for country patients.
“The Greens WA support keeping WA’s hospital system as a govern-ment service, as this is one way of ensuring that quality health treatment is available to all community mem-bers, not just the wealthy,” he said.
Nationals’ WA candidate Robbie Sutton and Liberals’ candidate Greg Stocks have been contacted for com-ment.
The Kalgan River provided great conditions for the
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REGIONAL students are expect-ed to benefi t from better access to higher education as the federal government starts rolling out its $93.4 million election commit-ment during 2017.
The pressure could fi nally be lifted from regional families try-ing to fund their children’s living expenses, which has forced many regional students to delay their studies by taking 18 months off to earn money, penalising them compared to their city counter-parts.
O’Connor MP Rick Wilson said that from January 1, 2018, the workforce independence provi-sions for Youth Allowance and ABSTUDY Living Allowance will be reduced from 18 months to 14 months, benefiting this year’s Year 12 students.
Mr Wilson said the change
was subject to the passage of legislation that will change the required period for regional and remote area students to earn the nominated sum to satisfy the necessary provisions.
Students fi nishing Year 12 this year will be able to take advan-tage of the 14 month period to earn $24,042 and be considered independent for Youth Allowance or ABSTUDY Living Allowance.
“Importantly, young people who are considered independent may receive a higher rate of pay-ment because, unlike dependent recipients of Youth Allowance or ABSTUDY Living Allow-ance, their rate is not reduced based on parental income,” Mr Wilson said.
Students will be able to prove independence within a year of leaving school and access Youth
Allowance and ABSTUDY while retaining their place at university.
“Breaking down the barri-ers that make it more diffi cult for regional students to attend university has been a long-term priority for me so it’s very satis-fying to see these requirements amended.”
About 3,700 regional and re-mote students across Australia are expected to benefi t from this change.
Regional and remote students will also be supported through a 50 per cent increase to the Assis-tance for Isolated Children (AIC) Additional Boarding Allowance and the means-tested component of ABSTUDY Group 2 School Fees Allowance.
“Rural families have been pushing for changes to the ad-
ditional boarding allowance and the Government is committed to delivering these reforms,” Mr Wilson said.
“This means lower income families in O’Connor who are geographically isolated will receive additional assistance to improve access to educational opportunities.”
The Additional Boarding Al-lowance is a means-tested sup-plementary payment to provide extra support for lower-income families with a secondary student who boards away from home.
This is in addition to a non-means tested Basic Boarding Allowance to contribute to the costs of boarding a student away from home.
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ALBANY marine scien-tist Dr Harriet Paterson is inviting beachgoers to help with a citizen science project.
Dr Paterson is studying microfi bres, tiny plastic fragments that tend to ac-cumulate inside fi sh and other marine life.
“These are fibres that have come from fi shing ropes, peoples’ laundry, washing their fl eeces and other things. It’s all plas-tic that’s broken down,” she said.
“It also gets into the food chain.”
She said plankton and small fish swallow the tiny fibres but cannot digest them.
When larger fish eat these creatures they grad-ually accumulate the in-digestible plastic in their own bodies.
“Then it gets bio-accu-mulated into bigger fi sh and the fi sh that we eat,” Dr Paterson said.
“It leaches chemicals called phthalates and those chemicals leach into the bodies of the fi sh.
“We eat the fi sh, they get into us and it’s going to be
a big issue one day.”Phthalates are a group of
chemicals used to make plastics more fl exible and
harder to break. A US Government fact
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the reproductive system of laboratory animals, but human health effects from exposure to low
levels of phthalates are unknown.
Dr Paterson studies the amount of microfi bre pol-lution on each beach by obtaining a one kilogram sample and examining part of it under a micro-scope.
She said volunteers had already collected 200 samples from beaches between Geraldton and Albany, but needed sam-ples from beaches east of Manypeaks.
“I’ve got some samples but not from as many beaches as I’d like and the remoter the better,” she said.
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MOST of us have heard of the Padre White Lookout, which is located near the Desert Mounted Corps monument on top of Mt Clar-ence, but not everybody knows the story behind this signifi cant site. Padre White is a revered character in Albany’s
history.From 1916 to 1918, he served as an Army
chaplain with the 44th Battalion and on his return to Australia delivered sermons in remembrance of locals who lost their lives in World War I.At the dawn of April 25, 1930, he led parish-
ioners from St John’s Church to the summit of Mt Clarence, where an observance took place marked by a boatman laying a wreath in King George Sound.It is the recorded events of this day in Albany
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MOVIE buffs can take a step back in time and re-live the excitement of rolling up to the drive-in thanks to a bit of modern technology and the en-thusiasm of Central 70 owner Tom Kennedy.
Mr Kennedy successful-ly re-launched his latest venture on Saturday night at the site of the original Central 70 on Stead Road and was excited at the prospect of giving people a taste of the drive-in cul-ture during summer.
“We trialled it in Sep-tember just to test every-thing out,” he said.
“We worked out a few things. We had to raise the screen by a metre so everyone could see over each other’s four-wheel-drives.”
“They didn’t have those back in the 60s.”
“Saturday night was awesome. We had 30 cars, which makes the place look busy and there were kids running around making new friends and everyone was having a great time.”
Mr Kennedy said the original site that ran from December 1964 to February 1983 was re-nowned for having some of the best equipment when it opened, and got its name from its location and the fact it boasted a
Central 70 owner Tom Kennedy is sharing his passion of the drive-in movie culture with a bit of help from some modern technology.
70mm projector.He said he also wanted
to re-create the best pos-sible experience and was keen to get a mix of lo-cals and tourists through the gates while he tests the interest by screening movies every Saturday night during January.
“We’ve got an awesome 1080P full HD projector which we’re really happy with and with the stereos
that a lot of people have in their cars, the sound is great too,” he said.
Mr Kennedy said he was also hoping to get com-munity groups on board to use the facility for fundraising by showing special-interest fi lms.
Upcoming fi lms include The Man From Snowy River, Finding Dory, Mad Max and The BFG.
THE Great Southern suf-fered its worst road toll in at least seven years with 32 people dying on local roads throughout 2016.This has prompted calls from the RAC for a re-newed focus on deliver-ing the state’s road safety strategy Towards Zero.
RAC genera l man-ager corporate affairs, Will Golsby, said the region’s road toll had more than tripled from 10 in 2010 to 32 fatali-ties last year, despite the Towards Zero strategy
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Movie magic returns Win a $50 food voucher in our new competitionHIDING somewhere amongst the pages of this week’s paper is a western ground parrot.Find him and you could win a $50 food voucher to spend at North Road Supa IGA.You also have more chance of spotting The Week-ender’s western ground parrot than the real thing.The bird is so elusive, that it wasn’t until 2004 that someone managed to take a photo of it in the wild. The western ground parrot is one of the world’s rarest and most endangered birds and its remaining tiny population exists here on the South Coast.
It originally occupied WA coastal areas from Cape Arid to Dongara; however, the bird is now limited to the Fitzgerald and Cape Arid national parks.
Its exact population numbers are unknown, but it is thought no more than 140 individual birds exist in the wild.
As its name suggests, the parrot is a ground-feeding bird, making it highly susceptible to at-tacks by feral predators.
The bushfi res which devastated Cape Arid Na-tional Park in 2015 are also likely to have had a negative effect on its already fragile population.
To enter the competition, please email [email protected] before noon on Monday with your name and phone number and tell us on which page you spotted the parrot.
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being signed in 2009.“Every life lost on WA
roads is one too many and each has a lasting ripple effect in the com-munity,” Mr Golsby said.
“It’s clear that lead-ing into the State Elec-tion in March, both the state government and the opposition need to act immediately and re-evaluate their approach to the Towards Zero road safety strategy if we’re to reach the strategy’s tar-get of 40 per cent fewer deaths by 2020.”
A preliminary count shows, shockingly, the Great Southern’s road toll more than doubled in 2016, compared to the 12 lives lost in 2015.
This dramatic rise in Great Southern road deaths is echoed in the state’s road toll, with 194 people killed on WA roads in 2016 – 33 more
than WA’s 2015 total.“Road fatalities in re-
gional WA remain un-acceptably high,” Mr Golsby said.
“The Great Southern, Wheatbelt and South Wes t a l l pe r fo rmed poorly and the Great Southern’s fatality rate remains more than fi ve times higher than the state rate of 7.36.
“As a community we cannot continue to be complacent. We can and need to do more to stop fatalities and serious in-juries on our roads.”
The latest Annual Re-port released by the Road Safety Commission iden-tified that $95 million remained unspent in the Road Trauma Trust Ac-count.
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By ANNE SIMPSON
REGIONAL growers, educators and passionate food advocates will have a unique opportunity to discover the intricacies of growing their own food and how to improve the basic soil structure that is an ongoing challenge for most of those living in the Great Southern.
The Soil and Food Health Conference will be a day-long event presented by Women in Agriculture, a broad term incorporat-ing the sponsorship and support from three major rural women’s networks: Rural, Regional & Re-mote Women’s Network (RRR), Women In Farm-ing Enterprises (WIFE) and Australian Women in Agriculture (AWiA).
These groups have been developed out of a need to acknowledge and sup-port the roles played by women in all areas of farming.
The familiar term “you are what you eat” has become increasingly rel-evant in recent times and will be explored by the guest speakers, including well-known personality and MC for the day, Sab-rina Hahn, Nicole Mas-ters (Auckland, NZ), Dr Carole Hungerford (Syd-ney) and Maree Gooch (Perth).
The women will de-liver some dynamic and thought-provoking pres-entations, likely to reso-nate with anyone who has concerns about the way we grow our food and the impact it has on global health.
Soil health issues will be addressed by Hahn based on her 40 years in the horticultural industry.
Hahn has one of WA’s most recognised voices on ABC radio, along with her signature cackle and exuberant attitude towards all aspects of gardening.
She has also been de-scribed as a whole lot of hort with heart, master gardener, writer and sto-ryteller of note.
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Sabrina is a highly en-tertaining speaker and a media pioneer in advocat-ing sustainable gardening practices.
Gooch will be refl ecting on some of the less talked about aspects of farm safe practices, such as chemi-cal use and educating and empowering women in agriculture.
She is a consulting pro-ject director with Safe Farms WA alliance and also chair of the RRR.
The management of soils in relation to agri-cultural productivity and health will be covered by Nicole Masters, director at Integrity Soils (NZ).
Her presentation will be based on what she has witnessed internationally.
She is one of a growing number of people who are facilitating a rapidly expanding world of qual-ity food production and biological communities.
Dr Hungerford is a gen-eral practitioner and a strong believer in pre-ventative health measures and reducing our reliance on artifi cial pharmaceu-ticals.
She will make the health link from our food to the human body, and how the quality of what we eat is
the best preventative to many medical ailments.
The Soi l and Food Health Conference will be held at the AEC from 10am to 6pm on Saturday, January 28 and includes a full day conference, lunch and networking sundowner.
There will also be an in-teractive Q and A with the expert panel at the end, with stalls from present-ers and sponsors alike.
Tickets are $140 and are available through Tick-etek or at the AEC Box Offi ce.
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DAVID and Christine McLean sold The Albany Hotel for an undisclosed sum last week.
The new owners are Nev Walton and Lexy Grover.
“For ten-and-a-half years we’ve kept it as a country pub which is as it should be,” Ms McLean said.
“Our staff and customers are very important to us.”
The outgoing owners farewelled their regular customers on Thursday night with a few drinks.
“We invited all of our members to be there and a big heap of them turned up,” Mr McLean said.
He said they decided to start a
membership group about fi ve years ago. “I had an aim of getting 50 members and we just clocked 148,” he said.
“Membership entitles you to dis-counts and all that sort of stuff.
“They just pay a membership fee every year which we put back for them anyway. We have a Christmas show and another one during the year.”
He said The Albany Hotel was the oldest in WA and had the rare distinction of currently being the only pub operating in the town’s main street.
According to the historic plaques
in the hotel, The Albany was the fi rst licensed hotel in the state in 1835. The original proprietor was Bob Dickinson and his phone number was 31.
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THE weekend’s Adven-turethon Albany again attracted some of the best local talent and competi-tors from all corners of Australia.
There were 300 entries over the weekend event, which included the ultra, duathlon and kids com-petition.
Reveling in the wind and rough water condi-tions was Albany’s Kris Plain who claimed vic-tory whilst competing in the Adventurethon Albany Ultra event on Saturday.
Plain fi nished the course in an impressive time of 3 hours 53 minutes and 14 seconds, more than eight minutes faster than his nearest rival, Tom Chad-bourne, who was second (4h 1m 47s).
Plain has now won three Adventurethon Albany Ultra events.
Third place was claimed by 17-year-old Douglas Lewin (4h 12m 58s), who was third in the Adventur-ethon Albany 2016 race.
The fi rst woman in the individual Adventure-thon Albany Ultra event was Ariarn Huston who crossed the finish line with in a time of 5h 8m 6s.
Organisers Joel and Ta-mara Savage were happy with the event despite some challenging weath-
er, with strong winds blowing over their entry and fi nishing gates.
The former local resi-dents included Albany on the list of Adventurethon venues which include north Queensland, north-ern NSW, Victoria and WA’s Kalbarri.
“I must admit it’s the reason we chose Albany, but the visiting athletes love the natural beauty,” Mr Savage said. “It’s the best course we have.”
“Of the 300 entries over the weekend, 80 per cent are from out of town. We are hoping to continue bringing the event here, but need more funding.
“We wanted to bring more professional ath-letes but costs cut the number.”
The ultra event was not for the faint-of-heart, consisting of an ocean paddling leg from the An-zac Peace Park out past the shipwreck, Cheynes
II, then through Atuturk Channel to the Quaranup peninsula where com-petitors attempted a 2km rock-hopping run before continuing on the gru-eling ocean paddle.
Finally back on dry land, competitors set out on their mountain bikes for a 22km trek to Mt Mel-ville then Mt Clarence with great views and var-ied terrain to test even the most experienced of mountain bike riding en-thusiasts.
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Joel and Tamara Savage are hoping to organise the challenging event next year.
The paddle leg to Quaranup began in front of the Albany Anzac Park.
Kris Plain enjoyed the local conditions.Ariarn Huston enjoys crossing the line as the fi rst woman.
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A LONGSTANDING Shire of Denmark coun-cillor has died.
CEO Bill Parker said staff and councillors were saddened to learn of former councillor Alex Syme’s passing.
“Former councillor Syme is remembered as an active councillor who served with integrity and held a strong passion for the environment,” Mr Parker said.
“Mr Syme’s contribu-tion to the protection of the local environment was recognised through life membership of the Denmark Environment Centre.
“He was a founding member and served as convener up until his elec-tion to Council in 1997.”
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THE National Anzac Centre and National Archives of Australia have partnered to provide visitors to the Albany Precinct with complimenta-ry access to the Discovering Anzacs online-research archive.
This will be available free of charge at a technology kiosk located at the Forts Store.
Albany Heritage Park manager Matt Hammond said the kiosk would enable visitors and locals to conduct their own archival research on the Australian and New Zealand contribution to World War I.
“The National Anzac Centre is a cultural pilgrimage for Australians wishing to honour and remember the Anzacs of the First World War,” he said. “We pride ourselves on deliver-ing state-of-the-art experiences that refl ect this.”
“The kiosk will be a valuable
resource for those wishing to un-dertake further research on the personal stories interpreted within the National Anzac Centre.”
Discovering Anzacs enables users to explore a diverse selection of government records about Austral-ians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War.
Users can recreate the wartime journey of an individual on the front-line, or those left behind at home, as well as explore a growing selection of government records about sol-diers, munitions workers, nurses, conscription, internment, wartime copyright and patents, defence cor-respondence and more.
The National Archives of Australia developed Discovering Anzacs in partnership with Archives New Zealand as a gift to both nations for the centenary of World War I.
“We’re proud to be able to bring together the offi cial records of the National Archives of Australia and the Archives of New Zealand in our Discovering Anzacs website,” direc-tor-general of the National Archives of Australia David Fricker said.
In all, the site includes the records of more than 600,000 people in-volved in confl icts or behind the scenes, including those of munitions workers, internees and merchant marines, as well as servicemen and women.
“We hope members of the public will post their own photographs, news clippings and tributes to their relatives,” Mr Fricker said.
“I’m sure many people will also enjoy playing an active role in transcribing records online to make them more searchable – as many have done already.” Visitors to the centre can follow the path of soldiers through WWI.
Photo: National Anzac Centre
Digital access to discover the Anzacs
between 1997 to 2013.He was recognised in
2010 for his service to lo-cal government, receiving two Western Australian Local Government As-sociation Awards for long and loyal service and an eminent service award in 2013.
He was also named Citi-zen of the Year in 2014.
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The Weekender, January 12, 2017 9feature of the week
owns the bay mare with O’Loughlin, couldn’t wipe the smile off his face and was singing the young trainer’s praises after the race.
“He’s only a young bloke, but he’s so passionate,” Cooper said.
“It’s not like he’s got all day to train horses either.”
“He works as a full-time boiler-maker on top of his work with the horses, but he’s just so keen.
“That’s exactly what you need, a young trainer who’s keen. He’s great at reading the horses and I think it’s defi nitely in his blood.
“We were pipped last year with Crystal Gardens and felt unlucky, so it’s great to have stuck by her and to get this one.”
Cooper was also full of praise for veteran jockey Miller, who’s at the opposite end of the measuring tape to most of his counterparts.
“That was a great ride. Danny re-ally used his experience to sort her out because she can be a bit stub-born,” Cooper said.
The long-odds win drew rous-ing cheers from the crowd for O’Loughlin and his connections
as Miller brought Elite Flight back to scale.
Despite a shaky grip on the win-ning bracelet that was presented by The Great Southern Weekender’s general manager Russ Cooper, the young trainer kept his cool to thank his supporters, connections and wife Katie, who had worked with Elite Flight in the lead up to the race.
The Albany Racing Club will follow up the glamour of Ladies’ Day with another meeting at Percy Spencer Racecourse this Saturday, January 14, as it gears up towards the Albany Cup in April.
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The Weekender’s general manager Russ Cooper presents the spoils to Great Southern Weekender Bracelet winning jockey Danny Miller and winning trainer Liam O’Loughlin.
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By TOM PURDY
THE sun-drenched Percy Spencer Racecourse was the only place to be on Sun-day afternoon as a sharply
dressed holiday crowd gathered for the Albany Racing Club’s annual Ladies’ Day.
The event is one of the social high-lights on the club’s racing calendar and the sparkling punters were blessed with plenty of sunshine and near-perfect weather to enjoy the day’s racing and events.
In between races, all eyes were on
the regional heat of the WA Country Cup’s Fashions on the Field and this year’s ambassador Holly Young.
Kalgoorlie’s Jennifer Jones got the judge’s nod of approval and was a popular winner from the pool of 10 fi nalists who all went to that extra effort in this annual celebration that tips the hat to women’s involvement in racing.
The feature race saw the enthusi-astic crowd line the track to watch Danny Miller, at 69 years, one of the oldest jockeys in the game, use every bit of cunning and experience to bring Elite Flight home over the
last 200m to claim The Great South-ern Weekender Bracelet (1603m).
The six-year-old mare had indif-ferent form heading into the Ladies’ Day feature, but jockey Miller got her out of the gate and gave her the ride she needed to blitz home by a comfortable length from the Paul Hunter-trained Qingdao.
The result repaid the faith shown by young winning trainer Liam O’Loughlin who believed the mare could repeat its triumph of the same race in 2015 under trainer Steve Wolfe.
Winning owner Steve Cooper, who
Veteran Miller
Danny Miller on Elite Flight storms home in the $30,000 Great Southern Weekender Bracelet at Albany Racing Club on Sunday.
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Historyof Health
Willem Einthoven and the dawn of ECG technology
Welcome to the History of Health, a regular series of articles by Albany Health Campus hospitalist/senior medical practitioner Dr Brendan Carson (BSc BM BS, FRACGP).
If you’re ever in a hos-pital emergency de-partment and nurses
are sticking dots on your chest and conducting an electrocardiogram (ECG), you might want to be thinking relaxing thoughts.
For example, you might want to think about Dr Willem Einthoven and where the whole idea of where an ECG comes from.
Willem Einthoven lived over a hundred years ago.
He was a fairly unre-markable medical stu-dent and looked to be
a fairly unremarkable doctor until one day he attended a demonstration of the electrogram.
T h e e l e c t r o g r a m seemed to consist of a large wooden box, two jars of water and a bull-dog.
Wires from the box dan-gled in the jars of water, and the bulldog stood with one foot in each jar.
The bulldog’s name was Jimmy.
The doctor, Dr Waller, showed how every beat of Jimmy’s heart showed up in a twitch of the nee-dle of the electrogram.
Einthoven was ein-tranced.
Waller was not par-ticularly interested in the uses of the electrogram, but Einthoven certainly was.
He would have been fa-miliar with the centuries of research that showed that electricity had some-thing to do with the heart.
A hundred years ear-lier, Dr Abildgaard had electrocuted chickens to stop their heart and then electrically resuscitated them.
Einthoven would have understood the basic ideas: electricity makes muscles twitch, the heart is a muscle, the fl ow of electricity in the heart makes the heart beat.
The e l ec t rogram - which was just a device for measuring electricity - was recording that fl ow of electricity.
But the electrogram was too clunky and insensi-tive to be much use, so Einthoven improved it.
Some of his earlier models had significant problems.
O n e m o d e l w a s ex t remely sens i t ive to even the slightest tremor, so Einthoven dug a hole in the fl oor of his laboratory, put the machine in and packed around it with rocks.
Another was more reliable, but filled two rooms and required fi ve operators.
But eventually Einthov-en was able to produce “das normale electrok-ardiogramm.”
The person experi-encing the electrocar-diogram still had to, like Jimmy the bulldog, sit
with hands or feet in buckets of salty water.
But when they did, Ein-thoven could measure the electrical flow through their heart with great pre-cision - and start to look at how healthy and sick hearts were different.
What this means today is that if your heartbeat is irregular, or if we suspect you may have had a heart attack, or if someone in your family has died of a strange heart condition and you’re worried you might have it, one of the fi rst things doctors and nurses do is stick some stickers onto your chest and measure the way electricity fl ows through your heart.
And it’s all down to Einthoven, Waller, Dr Abildgaard’s chickens, and Jimmy the Bulldog.
– Doc Brendan
A L B A N Y H e a l t h C a m p u s ( A H C ) midwives working in the new Team Midwifery model of care safely successfully delivered their first baby on December 14.
T h i s n ew m o d e l came about as a direct r e s p o n s e t o m a ny requests from Great Southern mothers for midwives to be involved in their care throughout pregnancy and birth.
AHC clinical nurse manager maternity and
newborn Angie Farlie said that until the introduction of the team, women were cared for mainly by their GP and often only came into contact with a midwife once they were in labour.
“As well as providing g r e a t e r c h o i c e f o r mothers, this also adds to the attraction of the Great Southern for midwives, as they're trained to deliver holistic maternity care and see this as a core role in their practice,” Ms Farlie said.
“We believed that by introducing a variety of choices for women we could encourage midwives to come and live and work in the region.”
Ms Farlie said that since the introduction of the new model, additional midwives were recruited to fully staff the roster.
“The new staff said they were attracted because of the new model of care,” she said.
Team Midwifery offers continuity of midwifery
care for low-risk women and their families in collaboration with a specifi c group of GPs.
Expectan t mothers wanting to take part in the program should contact Albany Health Campus Maternity Unit on 9892 2310.
Hospital's new midwifery model gives mums a greater choice
PostscriptNo animals were h a r m e d i n t h e invent ion of the ECG, because its wires don’t carry live current.
Jimmy the Bulldog travelled the world, assisting Dr Waller for many years.
D r A b i l d g a a rd (who was actually a vet) reported that all of his resuscitated chickens survived, at least one escaped and ran off, and one was back laying eggs a few days later.
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10 The Weekender, January 12, 2017
To answer Mr Shanhun’s letter – The Weekender, January 5 - since
the fi rst proposal for an artifi cial surf reef back in the late 1980s and up until now, we surfers have contributed to Albany’s economy many millions of dollars, way more than the $8 million dollars expected to build this reef.
Adult surfers ‘do’ own homes and pay rates and taxes, teenager surfers buy clothing and surfboards and buy fuel when they go surfi ng and they pay taxes. The younger surfers do spend money at food outlets and surf shops: as for tourist surfers, “who cares” - its for the Albany surfers.
When the visitors do come here to surf, that’s a bonus for the city and its retailers.
As for the risk of surfi ng a reef break and sharks, most WA surfers accept full responsibility for their actions.
Eastern states’ surfers feel the gov-ernment should do more to protect them. That’s impossible.
Mr Robertson - the dredging spoil that was dumped by the Department of Transport (PWD) back in 1985 just off Middleton Beach did have an effect on the sea bed contours from 1986 onwards; that’s what messed up the good surf that we did have.
The main cause of erosion at Emu Point was when coastal engineer Nellero Suragusso built the groyne in 1990. He ignored the advice of many knowledgeable locals. Now look what’s happened, there will be more
problems. The other option is to use the rocks from the groyne at Whale World that will fi x up that problem from the past 15 years.
In this time of coastal changes and storm damage, a reef will not obstruct the ocean dynamics. It’s only when you let our government build infra-structure closer to the beach or rock walls then you get problems.
The proof is there to see and no poli-tician wants to accept responsibility for their f… ups.
– Tony Harrison, Little Grove
Wave power and renewablesIt was refreshing to read Allanah
MacTiernan and Peter Watson’s po-litical stand on supporting renewable energy - something Australia needs to pick up the pace on.
However it did make me wonder where each individual candidate for the upper and lower house of the Western Australian Parliament have stood on installing renewable energy into their own homes.
How many domestic solar panels does the Labor candidate have as compared to the Libs or Nats?
How many does the Greens’ can-didate have compared to the One Nation candidate? They may have other relevant renewable domestic accoutrements?
Maybe some of them are “fracking” in their backyards? It would be nice to know who has walked the walk rather than talked the talk on renewables.
– Michael O’Doherty, Albany
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Albany’s worst road surface?
I have driven along Alfred Street in McKail every day on the way
to work for a number of years and have to say, it has to have the worst road surface for a residential street anywhere in Albany. Boasting more fi lled-in pot holes than it does actual road bitumen, the surface would look more at home in a Third World country than Australia!
Every winter, the rain washes out the bitumen fi lled-in pot holes and makes the holes bigger. They then get fi lled in with more bitumen and as soon as it rains the whole process begins again! The people of this town and especially Alfred Street deserve better than this! I would love to know when the council plan on resurfacing this road properly?
– Steve McGovern, Albany
East River RoadI would like to congratulate the Shire
of Denmark for turning down a proposal to establish a major road bridge in a sensitive forest location near Denmark. The decision makes sound economic, social and environmental sense and paves the way for a proper process of community consultation.
This decision sends a strong mes-sage to the government that Royal-ties for Region funding needs to be allocated in a transparent and well-planned way.
With our current budgetary defi cits,
this is not the time to support expen-sive road and bridge projects that are environmentally damaging and of unproven benefi t.
However, I’m concerned state gov-ernment may withdraw funding for the development of a proposed new light industrial area for Denmark.
Terry Redman as Minister for Regional Development needs to guarantee continued funding for this new industrial site, a project urgently needed and one that has been many years in the planning.
I wholeheartedly support Denmark Council taking a comprehensive look at what its town requires in the way of preparing for a major emergency such as wildfi re.
– Diane EversGreens’ candidate for the South West
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THE Albany Water Ski Club is already preparing to host its next Lower Great Southern Ski Cham-pionship after this year’s successful event over the weekend.
The long-running sporting event again attracted a mix of com-petitors, both young and old to the Kalgan River.
About 32 skiers took part in three disciplines – slalom, trick and jump – with many completing personal bests to earn points in the regular
state series competition.Club president Geoff Brady said
this was noticeable with the many youngsters who took part in coach-ing clinics before the championship began.
“We had a very successful event,” Mr Brady said.
“There were some great results, especially by those accomplishing personal bests.”
Although some of the state’s top skiers were competing in the
eastern states, Mr Brady said the Albany event is keenly supported every year. As a result he expects the 50th championship next year to be “big”.
He said the feature of the weekend was provided by Damon Nottle who took on the slalom gradually increasing his speed to the maxi-mum and reducing the tow-rope length.
“He did fi ve buoys on an 11 metre rope - very impressive,” he said.
Local Stephen Moss undertakes some tricky moves during the Lower Great Southern Ski Championships on the Kalgan River.
Skiers show their skills at champs
Rebekah Beech holds on tight.
Eliza Easton during the slalom. Fletcher Green tries a trick.
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Time is running out to purchase your ticket for the 2017 Albany Colour Dash.
Held on January 28 from 5pm, the Colour Dash will be an explosion of colour to end the summer holidays for young people aged 12 - 25.
The aim of the game will be to cover yourself in as much colour as possible while making your way through the Colour Dash obstacle course, then hang around after for the after party featuring live music, food and fun.
TIcket sales close on January 13 and are almost completely sold out!
Visit the Albany Public Library, Albany Leisure and Aquatic Centre or visit www.albany.wa.gov.au for to purchase your tickets.
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The National Anzac Centre and National Archives of Australia have partnered to provide visitors to the National Anzac Centre
Story playgroundat Albany Library
The Albany Public Library invites children to unleash their imagination at the Summer Reading Club.
The Summer Reading Club is a free online and in-library holiday program, run in partnership with the State Library of Queensland, the Australian Library and Information Association, and the Australian Public Library Alliance.
This year, the Club is all about exploring the themes and conventions associated with super and everyday heroes and their villainous counterparts.
Young readers will be encouraged to engage with a variety of traditional and non-traditional heroes and heroines by exploring a variety of genres and participating in local program activities.
Albany Public Library will be hosting a Reading Club Party featuring Jamie the Clown on Wednesday, 18 January.
Story Playground will be back on Tuesday’s, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s from 10 – 25 January, from 10.30am onwards. Bookings are essential and can be made through Albany Public Library.
Summer Reading Club members can also meet 21 new Australian authors and illustrators online, read their helpful creative tips and preview their newly released titles. Children can join in the fun at the Albany Public Library or online at www.summerreadingclub.org.au until 31 January 2017.
For more information contact Youth Services Librarian, Dora Adeline on 6820 3611 or email [email protected].
precinct with complimentary access to the ‘Discovering Anzacs’ online research archive via a technology kiosk located in the precinct.
‘Discovering Anzacs’ enables users to explore a diverse selection of government records about Australians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War.
The National Archives of Australia developed ‘Discovering Anzacs’ in partnership with Archives New Zealand as a gift to both nations for the centenary of World War I.
In all, the site includes the records of more than 600,000 people involved in conflicts or behind the scenes, including those of munitions workers, internees and merchant marines, as well as servicemen and women.
The research kiosk is available free of charge at the Forts Store, located within the National Anzac Centre precinct. You can read this story in full at www.albany.wa.gov.au
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Join now and make a splash in 2017Albany Leisure and Aquatic Centre is welcoming the New Year with two fantastic promotions.
Parents can enrol their children in ALAC’s Swim School, Swim2Survive program from only $12.50 per week, with 10 complimentary Family Swim Passes included.
For community members wanting to get fit during 2017, the ALAC Health and Fitness team are offering a special New Year, New You gym and group fitness membership for only $10.95 per week.
The ALAC Swim School will also be hosting a Swim School Open Day on Saturday, 21 January from 10am - 4pm. Water challenges and games will be available, as well as a bouncy castle and pool inflatables. Children will also be able to receive swim school assessments during the day.
Terms and conditions apply, contact Albany Leisure and Aquatic Centre on 6820 3400 or visit the Centre today to take advantage of these amazing deals.
14 The Weekender, January 12, 2017
A FAVOURITE weekend drive for Albany residents is Darrel Rad-cliffe’s fantasy sculpture drive off Mercer Road in Walmsley.
Mr Radcliffe has placed dozens of his chainsaw carvings on either side of a track on his bush block, between sculptures carved directly into living and dead trees.
It is well worth driving the circuit at least twice as you are sure to miss many of the owls, eagles and other works hidden in trees and derelict vehicles the fi rst time around.
It is almost two years since The Weekender last visited the property
and in the meantime the number of carvings has more than doubled.
“I have been on long-service leave,” Mr Radcliffe said.
“I’ve just been concentrating on this little sculpture drive and it’s been hugely successful. It’s much more fun than doing commissions.”
Commissions for the City of Albany now include two works at Emu Point, two at Eyre Park and one at Cull Park.
Although he has been a Porongu-rup Art in the Park winner Mr Rad-cliffe said he had no plans to enter
larger competitions in the city or place his work in galleries.
“I just enjoy it more. I’m semi-retired just out here and it’s much easier, there’s no stress,” he said.
“I was contacted by two lots of Australian tourist buses so I’ve widened the road and they come in quite regularly - about once a month.”
The property is open to visitors daily from 8am to 5pm. Mr Rad-cliffe asks guests to stay in their vehicles for safety reasons.
– Geoff Vivian
Darrel Radcliffe retouching a carving of an Anzac at his Mercer Road outdoor sculpture studio.
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A MT Barker homeowner will be offered a 272sqm strip of land at the back of his property if he pays all council costs.
Council decided that the landowner, Tony Smith, who intended to build his retirement home on a bat-tleaxe block behind 18 Muir Street, could resume a right of way at the back of his property.
The shire created the right of way in the 1990s to provide a service road to make it easier to subdi-vide lots between Gorman Street and the Catholic Church.
The Minister for Lands must now approve the amalgamation of the properties.
MT Barker Turf Club will partner with Community TAB to raise much-needed funds for Motor Neu-ron Disease (MND) Research at the annual Grapes & Gallops Race Day on Sunday, January 22.
The Community TAB program be-gan in early 2015 and since then has seen more than $280,000 raised for not-for-profi t organisations around WA through partnerships between race clubs and Community TAB.
Community TAB partners with every race club in WA to raise funds for a local not-for-profi t organisa-tion and matches dollar-for-dollar all funds raised at major race days up to $5,000.
Mt Barker Turf Club is taking part in the program for the fi rst time this year.
Secretary Coralie Caporn said
MND Research was chosen as partner because there were some people with the disease in their community.
“The funding from this day will go to MND Research to assist all people with the disease and also those local to Mt Barker,” Ms Ca-porn said.
“Our Grapes & Gallops Day is the highlight of our season with around 2,000 attendees.
“Fundraising will be happen-ing on the day through raffl es by volunteers.”
Racing and Wager ing WA (RWWA) chairman Jeff Ovens said the positive effects of the fundrais-ing program had been extensive for regional WA with a vast majority of WA race clubs based in regional communities.
“RWWA recognises that race clubs play an important role in their community contributing economi-cally and socially,” Mr Ovens said.
“Partnerships like these are an ex-ample of the strong connection race clubs have with the communities in which they operate.
“Community TAB is proud to play our own part in giving back to the community by partnering with our race clubs around WA.
“Our donation to MND Research is one of more than 50 community organisations that will be support-ed as part of Community TAB’s $150million contribution to the WA community this year.”
Community TAB will match all funds raised on the day up to $2,000.
MT BARKER artist Carly Le Cerf is holding an exhibition of new landscape paintings called Afterglow at a Walpole gallery later this month,
Although known for her recent ex-hibitions of images based on aerial photographs, she said Afterglow was the result of time she had spent on a hill near Cranbrook.
Ms Le Cerf said while she was there she made watercolour sketches and took photographs which she then worked on back at her Mt Barker studio.
She used these images to paint with the hot wax-based medium called encaustic, a style familiar to those who have seen her recent exhibitions.
The result is a series of images of hillsides dotted with trees in a rosy pre-sunset light.
“That’s why it’s titled Afterglow,” she said.
“I’ve always loved the impressionist painters and the way they were able to capture that last minute light before it’s dark.
“They are all of that colour.”Afterglow opens at Petrichor Gallery,
8 Nockolds Street, Walpole, at 5.30pm on Friday, January 20.
It continues daily from 10am to 4pm until Sunday, February 19.
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ROLLER skating enthusiasts are invited to play an entirely new sport that started in Mt Barker this summer.
Roller tag is described as a non-contact sport with each player wearing a bib carrying a velcro tag.
Players score points by stealing their opponents’ tags as they skate around a circuit at Mt Barker Rec-reation Centre.
Maria Swaddling said she and her husband Lloyd had the idea for the game while having lunch at a worksite.
“I wanted to start skating again,” she said.
“I didn’t want to just skate around in a circle; that’s pretty boring.”
After discussing options such as playing with a ball or hoops they came up with the idea of tags placed in different positions on the players’ bibs, each position being worth dif-ferent points.
The game has two teams of six players; the king, queen, joker and three pawns.
The king carries a tag in the mid-dle of his back worth 10 points and the joker a tag in the middle of her back worth 20.
The queen has no tags and the three pawns have tags on each hip worth two points each.
“Now the whole objective of the game is to get as many tags as pos-sible,” Ms Swaddling said.
“It’s very strategic because the pawns can only tag the king and the queen can tag pawns and kings.”
She said when the whistle goes the queen tries to tag as many pawns as possible and may take one of her own pawns with her for strategic reasons.
“The pawn goes straight past the other pawns and straight for the king and then tags pawns and the king, whatever she pleases,” she said.
Each round ends when the king is “tagged”.
However the king may choose to retire to the pit, whereupon the Joker takes his place.
This is a risky move as the oppos-ing team might score 20 by tagging the joker, but only 10 if they tag the king.
“Because it’s for any level of skaters what happens quite often is that someone will be out there and they’re skating their little hearts out and they’ll be exhausted,” Ms Swaddling said.
“They’ll come fl ying into the pit and one of them could be the king.
“If you’re playing that king posi-tion you’ve got to really think hard:
‘let them tag me or take a chance and hope the joker doesn’t get caught’.”
Ms Swaddling said the game had developed rapidly since starting in September.
“We’ve had all sorts of dynamics out there with people that are super fantastic on skates – they play it a different way,” she said.
“For someone who hasn’t skated for 30 years they’ll rock up and they’ve got a position they can play as well.
“But you put them all out there to-gether and the dynamic is fantastic to watch.”
Roller tag is a mixed game for people of all skating abilities aged 13 and up.
Ms Swaddling said they were considering starting a junior com-petition.
Anyone wanting to try their hand at the new game are invited to turn up at the Mt Barker Recrea-tion Centre with their skates on a Monday night.
Games run from 6pm to 8pm and the entry fee is $6 for the centre and a further $1 for the Roller Tag club.
Enquiries are welcome to 0419 923 728 or the Mt Barker Roller Tag Facebook page.
– Geoff Vivian
The Black and White roller tag teams at Mt Barker Recreation Centre.
New game decided over lunch
MT Barker kids can enjoy a daycare centre that of-fi cially exceeds national quality requirements.
Plan tagene t Ear l y Learning and Develop-ment Centre has been awarded an “exceeding” rating from the regula-tory Australian Children’s Education and Care Qual-ity Authority (ACECQA.
“Rather than just doing blanket programming which is all that’s actually required, we do individu-al programming and cater for children’s specific needs,” early childhood teacher Kylie Floate said.
She said the visiting inspector was particularly
impressed with the winter bushwalking program in State Forest over the road from the centre.
“We immerse the chil-dren in bush play which is supposed to be com-pletely unstructured and allows them to be in na-ture and do the things that kids should be doing,” Ms Floate said.
“In a childcare centre we are restricted in that – we can’t take the children outside at a whim.
“So for us to provide that for our families was quite unique – they were able to go on little scavenger hunts and we interwove our maths and literacy
into the bush experience as well.”
Every licensed cen-tre has to meet a set of criteria to be rated by ACECQA.
“A meeting (rating) is what most centres would like because it’s hard enough to get.
“Then there’s ‘exceed-ing’ and in the very rare case there is ‘exception-al’,” Ms Floate said.
The centre is affi liated with the Wanslea organi-sation.
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Price: $355,000Area: Spencer ParkBlock Size: 566m2Agent: Albany Property BrokersRep: Rita McLeanPhone: 9841 0207 or 0427 423 200
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THIS neat -as-a-p in three-bedroom home is the perfect way to hop into the property market or add to your portfolio.
The br ick and t i le home is located just a short stroll to shops and schools and oozes that simple charm that makes a home out of a house.
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Once inside you can’t help but feel relaxed with the wide entrance-way leading you to the family-sized kitchen and lounge that is nicely worn-in after a recent modernisation.
The kitchen features modern appliances in-cluding a dishwasher and gas cooktop to make the most of the town gas supply.
There is also the fan-tastic views over Bluff Rock, Mt Clarence, Mt Melville and the city lights at night to enjoy.
A quality Kent tile fi le that would make a lum-berjack proud is sitting in the corner of the lounge waiting patiently for win-ter and the large north-facing lounge room win-
dows ensure you won’t have to light it until then.
The master king-sized bedroom also has a lovely light and bright feel and features a gen-erous built-in robe.
The remaining bed-rooms are also similarly large.
The luxurious combina-tion of an instantaneous hot water system and never-ending town gas supply may cause a queue to form outside the home’s single bath-
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On the outside there are low maintenance gardens at the front of the house and a fully en-closed yard at the back which is ideal for pets or the little ones.
There is also a small garden shed in which to keep the mower and the tools in and plenty of space for the lumberjack to keep his wood.
Ri ta McLean f rom Albany Property Bro-kers is the exclusive agent and is holding a home open on Saturday January 14 from 3pm to 3.30pm.
For more details on this great little property at 41 Hillman Street in Spencer Park, Rita can be contacted on 0427 423 200 or 9841 0207 or email [email protected] and quote property ID SP945.
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3.9ha (9.7ac) gives you the space for horses, with 2 stables ready to go. To the back of this property is a 1985 4 bed, 2 bath home with good-sized rooms, spacious living areas & invi ng verandahs that overlook the property. Very close to town, many sheds, tank & scheme water. Zoned rural.
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
42 Lowanna Drive H/O Sun 12-12.30 $639,000
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This 1970m2 property is a delight. Spacious 6 bed character home with open living area warmed by le re, addi onal 2 living areas, func onal kitchen with wood benchtops, & invi ng verandahs for relaxing & gazing out over lawns to tall trees. Mul ple garaging. (MK523)
Rep: Craig Nathan Direct: 9841 0224 Mobile: 0407 774 594Rep: Amber NathanDirect: 9841 0231Mobile: 0427 262 375
Spread yourself out $445,000
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New to the market is this 663m2 block which could capture the views over King George Sound back to town. Close to local shopping centre. Start designing your dream home today! At this price, it won’t be around for long! (ZBH647)
Rep: Graham Walker Direct: 9841 0220 Mobile: 0418 422 266
Bayonet Head beauty $155,000
NEW LISTING
This could be demolished by investors who are looking for loca on & future development, but if you want a small character home, on a large 853m2 block with town views, a bit of elbow grease and you can have it too. Zoned R30, the block is a gem. (ALB201)
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
Screaming poten al $479,000
NEW LISTING
Pris ne presenta on, sunny vista/town lights, renovated bathroom & kitchen, dishwasher, large lounge with le re, mber oors, spacious living, 3
beds (master has BIR), front pa o and entrance hall. It’s a light, bright brick home that’s been loved & is a must-see.
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
41 Hillman Street H/O Sat 3-3.30 $355,000
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A big family home in the Sanctuary. O ering 4 beds, 2 baths plus o ce with equally generous living areas. This home has the size, quality & appeal with garaging UMR & side gates for access and scope to build that 2nd workshop. Walk to two playgrounds. (MK522)
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
The life it can be $445,000
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This warm and invi ng family home has been loved inside and out by its current owners. Very well maintained & beau fully presented and this draws instant appeal to this 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home.
Rep: Joe TrichiloDirect: 9841 0227Mobile: 0409 370 676
37 Lorenzo Way H/O Sat 2-2.30 $339,000
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Fantas c loca on with impressive views is what Albany is all about. Walking distance to shopping centre, 4 good- sized rooms, 3 bath, rainwater tanks plus scheme, massive w/shop with room for full-sized caravan plus 3 cars. It’s all here and wai ng.
Rep: Kerrillea RydeDirect: 9841 0237Mobile: 0419 027 336
56 Bayonet Head Road H/O Sun 12.30-1 $799,000
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It’s not o en you can nd a generous 3 bed, 2 bath home in this range. All bedrooms are large. Huge lounge area & invi ng country kitchen. More-than-adequate north-facing pa o, a good-sized yard of 809m2 & a dbl gge. It’s most de nitely a winner.
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
16 Flemington Street H/O Sat 12.45-1.15 $319,000
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This 884m2 block is just wai ng for someone looking to build their family home. With a great 20m frontage, there is ample room for many di erent designs & s ll plenty of room for vehicle access into backyard. Quiet no-through street, short walk to school & Woollies. (ZBH645)
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
What an opportunity $139,000Are you looking for a riverside lifestyle? This could be just what you have been searching for. Backing on to the Kalgan River with access to launch a boat, this is an ideal loca on. Set in the new Kalgan Village Estate, these blocks have just been released. (ZK137-143)
Rep: Craig NathanDirect: 9841 0224Mobile: 0407 774 594Rep: Amber NathanDirect: 9841 0231Mobile: 0427 262 375
Escape to the countryside fr $170,000Older style BV&T home that is just ripe for you to add your personal touches. Solidly built, it features 3 bed, a lounge, kitchen/dining, pa o & single gge. Gas stove & HWS. All this on 830m2 block. Close to Emu Point and Middleton.
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
22 Boronia Av H/O Sun 2.30-3 $297,000
Approx 1.2ha (3ac) with large entertaining area (addi onal living room), enjoy a kitchen with dishwasher, large drawers & stone benchtops. 4x1, dbl brick construc on, new carpets, quality blinds, extra shr/WC in laundry, 2 si ng rooms, sheds & garaging, a bore & solar panels. Level land.
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
24 Brook Street H/O Sun 1-1.30 $545,000With very keen & willing sellers, an inspec on of this newly refurbished 3x1 is a must. Near shops, schools & medical & opposite park & playground = great buying & nego able asking price. View today if you are serious about ge ng into the market.
Rep: Rick JacksonDirect: 9841 0208Mobile: 0429 436 598
18 Lind eld Crescent H/O Sun 1.45-2.15 $289,000As an investment this property, a er the $300 p/wk rent, needs li le top-up to cover the mortgage. Let someone else contribute to your re rement. 3 bed home with modern kitchen & bathroom. In need of nothing. 865m2 block with fully fenced yard. (L290)
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
Let someone else pay $229,000
Park the nny or van. Create a block & build out the back, (there is 118m2 here) or just renovate & enjoy such great future poten al that sits in your own back yard. There is room for swings & trampolines. Polished mber oors & a lovely large living & kitchen. Maybe rent it out?
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
66 Seymour Street H/O Sat 3.30-4 $410,000
Don’t miss out on this great li le property only a short distance from well-known Be y’s and Cheynes Beaches. Walk to the local store and only a 25 minute drive to Albany! Summer will be sorted. Inspect today. (OD502)
Rep: Kerrillea RydeDirect: 9841 0237Mobile: 0419 027 336
Summer getaway home $245,000
Spectacular 2 storey, 5 bed, 4.5 bath cedar & Colorbond home with cathedral ceilings, blackbu ooring & panoramic rural & ocean views. Oversized dbl gge, 2 x kitchen, 2 x laundry, wide
verandahs & outside spa. 2,178m2 in quiet cul-de-sac. (BH712)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
You’ll pinch yourself $1,250,000
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Not only priced to sell quickly, this 3 bed brick home has had improvements within. You can add your own personality but it’s an appealing home ready to move into. On a 901m2 block with access into yard with good-sized pa o, garaging & a secure yard.
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
12 Turner Street H/O Sat 12-12.30 $295,000From the street, this 3 bed home looks invi ng, but step inside & you will discover many extras. An extension provides a spacious 2nd living area & a recent extension is a semi-enclosed decked pa o. On 886m2, this home has garaging plus ample yard.
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
1 Hugel Pl H/O Sat 11.15-11.45 & Sun 1.45-2.15 $329,000• 446m2• Flat & serviced• Good loca on• Ideal for rst home• Buyer or investor (ZO253)
Rep: Joe TrichiloDirect: 9841 0227Mobile: 0409 370 676
Bargain block $75,000
With the beach within walking distance for the daily swim, a tennis court awai ng your physical a en on and the spa to just relax the day away what more could you want? How about an excep onal house with retreat quali es where you just wouldn’t want to leave.
Rep: Kerrillea RydeDirect: 9841 0237Mobile: 0419 027 336
40B La Perouse Road H/O Sun 11.30-12 $1,150,000If inner-city living with a secluded feel is what you’re chasing, this 3x1 home, that sits at the rear of another street-front home, will excite! Neat, large living and kitchen, mber oors, built-ins, deck & modern design. Water views & walk to cafes. (ALB200)
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
Secluded $439,000Harbour views everywhere! Below replacement value! This one-level 4 bed, 2 bath has many features & must be seen to be believed. It has 2 decks, large games/lounge, family room overlooking water, granite bench tops, wide hallway, dbl gge plus extra side parking. (BH716)
Rep: Rita McLean Direct: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
Excep onal water vista $865,000
Brick & le, 2 storey home with 6 bed, 3 bath, lounge, kitchen/dining, games room, 4 car gge, 3 car carport, gas hea ng & electric storage HWS. Huge 1415m2 block. (MTM410)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
Room for Brady bunch $770,000Great block value. This 799m2 level block does, for no extra cost, provide you with a humble co age that’s basic but adequate to use either while building or ripe to renovate. It’s a base that can easily be le , with plenty of me to develop later. Centrally located.
(O789)
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
Irresis bly priced $149,000Playground for the children, the white sands of Middleton Beach, golf, bowls, co ee & dining are all close by this very well-located vacant block. The 285m2 site is priced very compe vely & awaits your dream home. (ZMB058)
Rep: Rick JacksonDirect: 9841 0208Mobile: 0429 436 598
It’s all here $329,000
Room for boat or van, this cheapie is a rac ng lots of interest. Has water glimpses. Don’t be le wondering! Large rooms, BIR, spacious kitchen, lounge with nted windows, 2x HW systems, pa o, 3 forms of hea ng, living & double garage. Fruit trees. In good condi on.
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
12 Green Island Crescent H/O Sat 11-11.30 $325,000Perched midway between the heart of the city & popular Middleton Beach, this unit will wow you! Totally retro original features with the ability to modernise. 2 bed, 1 bath, large private yard & separate garage.
Rep: Joe TrichiloDirect: 9841 0227Mobile: 0409 370 676
6/173 Middleton Road H/O Sat 3-3.30 $299,000• 3 bed plus semi-ensuite• Kitchen/dining/lounge• Addi onal lounge• Enclosed outdoor pa o• Immaculate gardens & lawns• Double garage plus carport• Rural outlook, 644m2 block
Rep: Craig NathanDirect: 9841 0224Mobile: 0407 774 594Rep: Amber NathanDirect: 9841 0231Mobile: 0427 262 375
30 Hudson Road H/O Sat 1.45-2.15 $337,000
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Brick & le home with carport UMR, access to the back to a sep dbl gge, 3 beds, a semi-ensuite, 2 WCs & central kitchen-dining area. Currently tenanted, so let them help with the mortgage. Start to pro t from property, then move yourself in. Dbl gge at rear. (BH710)
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
Investors $329,000
Like the idea of entertaining or just relaxing? Quality built 4/5 x2 plus built-in stainless steel entertainer’s kitchen on your private and secluded pa o. Want a spacious home? Want a NEW kitchen and NEW bathrooms? Think the kids could use some “private space”, then this is the home for you!
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
5 Gillam Place H/O Sat 2-2.30 $479,500Sit back & enjoy the peace and tranquillity or take your horse for ride around the block. With 8.9ha (22ac) of lush pasture, bushland, dam, large GP Shed with extras & a beau ful 5 bed country home, it’s too easy.
Rep: Kerrillea RydeDirect: 9841 0237Mobile: 0419 027 336
572 Hunton Road H/O Sun 2-2.30 $985,000With a choice of elevated building sites & magni cent views to the Southern Ocean & city, this 8.422ha block adjoins na onal park and is only 7mins drive to CBD. (ZLG174)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
Hideaway $640,000
If a secluded, lush farm block is what you have been wai ng for then this could be it. A small weekender provides ideal accommoda on whilst you build your dream home on this undula ng land. Quality 64ha farming land, generous water supply (ZZA114)
Rep: Craig NathanDirect: 9841 0224Mobile: 0407 774 594Rep: Amber NathanDirect: 9841 0231Mobile: 0427 262 375
Quality pastured block $1,150,000
286m2 block zoned R30 that’s a short stroll to café, restaurant, park & bowling club. 5 mins drive to golf club & Emu Point and a stone’s throw to Middleton Beach. (ZMB057)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
Metres from Middleton $550,000
Caravans welcome, boats welcome, kids welcome. This awesome home has something for everyone. A large 4 bed, 2 bath home on 838m2 block with 30m frontage. New ooring, freshly painted, impeccably maintained.
Rep: Joe TrichiloDirect: 9841 0227Mobile: 0409 370 676
3 Kitcher Parade H/O Sat 1.30-2.00 $475,000
This level 2 bed unit with its own courtyard is in a small complex that was built with space in mind. Plenty of open space with individual gge UMR. Next door to co ee shop, just down the road to Reeves & perfect if you like a stroll into town. It’s one that needs to be seen to appreciate.
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
Unit 1/5 Campbell Road H/O Sun 3.15-3.45 $228,000
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SATURDAY9.45-10.15 33 Panorama Caravan Park Li le Grove $167,000 2x1 Jackie
10.00-10.30 112 Burgoyne Road Albany $579,000 4x2 600m2 Rita
3 Katoomba Street Orana $349,000 3x1 560m2 Amber
10.30-11.00 10 Valencia Close Orana $349,000 3x1 1061m2 Amber
9 Tomlinson Crescent Spencer Park $585,000 4x2 850m2 Jackie
11.00-11.30 12 Green Island Crescent Bayonet Head $325,000 3x1s 769m2 Rita
5 Lancaster Road McKail $290,000 3x1 1467m2 Amber
11.15-11.45 1 Hugel Place Spencer Park $329,000 3x1 886m2 Jackie
11.30-12.00 19 Gerdes Way McKail $469,000 4x2 706m2 Amber
12.00-12.30 3 Bryant Court Lower King $329,000 3x1 704m2 Rita
12 Turner Street Orana $295,000 3x1 901m2 Jackie
12.15-12.45 5 Donald Drive McKail $244,000 3x2 300m2 Amber
12.45-1.15 16 Flemington Street Orana $319,000 3x2 809m2 Jackie
1.00-1.30 4 Greenwood Drive Willyung $729,000 5x2+studio 7776m2 Rita
30 Canning Street Orana $239,000 3x1 735m2 Amber
1.30-2.00 3 Kitcher Parade McKail $475,000 4x2 834m2 Joe
1.45-2.15 30 Hudson Road Yakamia $337,000 3x1 644m2 Amber
75 Woollahra Street Milpara $555,000 4x2 2033m2 Jackie
2.00-2.30 5 Gillam Place Mt Melville $479,500 5x2 910m2 Rita
37 Lorenzo Way Orana $339,000 3x2 760m2 Amber
2.30-3.00 2 Grandis Way Yakamia $555,000 4x3 719m2 Jackie
22 Boronia Avenue Collingwood Heights $297,000 3x1 830m2 Amber
3.00-3.30 41 Hillman Street Spencer Park $355,000 3x1 566m2 Rita
6/171 Middleton Road Mt Clarence $299,000 2x1 Joe
3.15-3.45 40 Bayonet Head Road Bayonet Head $320,000 4x2 838m2 Amber
69 Grenfell Drive Bayonet Head $437,000 3x2 559m2 Jackie
3.30-4.00 66 Seymour Street Mira Mar $410,000 4x2 1118m2 Rita
4.00-4.30 458 Lower King Road Lower King $350,000 3x1 822m2 Amber
SUNDAY11.30-12.00 40b La Perouse Road Goode Beach $1,150,000 3x2 1416m2 Kerrillea
11.45-12.15 30 Canning Street Orana $239,000 3x1 735m2 Craig
12.00-12.30 42 Lowanna Drive Marbellup $639,000 4x2 3.9ha (9.7ac) Jackie
36 Grove Street East Li le Grove $639,000 4x2 1888m2 Rita
12.30-1.00 56 Bayonet Head Road Bayonet Head $799,000 4x3 809m2 Kerrillea
10 Valencia Close McKail $349,000 3x1 1061m2 Craig
1.00-1.30 75 Woollahra Street Milpara $555,000 4x2 2033m2 Jackie
19 Gerdes Way McKail $469,000 4x2 706m2 Craig
24 Brook Street Elleker $545,000 4x2 1.21ha (3ac) Rita
1.15-1.45 2 Culley Road Bayonet Head $565,000 4x2 619m2 Kerrillea
1.45-2.15 1 Hugel Place Spencer Park $329,000 3x1 886m2 Jackie
18 Lind eld Crescent Spencer Park $289,000 3x1 728m2 Craig
2.00-2.30 572 Hunton Road Kalgan $985,000 5x2 8.9ha (22ac) Kerrillea
17 Ashwell Street Mt Melville $419,000 3x1 862m2 Rita
2.30-3.00 1/99 David Street Spencer Park $410,000 3x1s 403m2 Jackie
22 Boronia Avenue Collingwood Heights $297,000 3x1 830m2 Craig
3.15-3.45 1/5 Campbell Road Spencer Park $228,000 2x1 96m2 Jackie
458 Lower King Road Lower King $350,000 3x1 822m2 Craig
4.00-4.30 12 Turner Street Orana $295,000 3x1 901m2 Jackie
91 Douglas Drive Millbrook $649,000 4x2 2ha Craig
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226 York Street Albany 9841 2255
All ready & wai ng for someone to move in. New execu ve-style, free-standing townhouse. 3 q/size beds, large open living, garaging plus 2 x very private courtyards. Loads of space for visitors & very close to town. Perfect lock & leave while enjoying life.
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
Unit 1/99 David Street H/O Sun 2.30-3 $410,000Horse lovers,this well established property (approx 3ac) is sure to appeal with 2 paddocks, a bore & various sheds. The 3 bed home features an enclosed verandah = addi onal games/family space. At the end of a road, only 10-15 mins to Albany CBD, and a dry block. (OD515)
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
Wishing for a pony? $430,000With plenty of room to move around this spacious 1,102m2 block you will be able to build a huge home as well as an oversized shed, cubby house, leaving ample room for a cricket pitch as well. Located 5 minutes walk to Mt Barker’s main ameni es. (ZOD343)
Rep: Craig NathanDirect: 9841 0224Mobile: 0407 774 594Rep: Amber NathanDirect: 9841 0231Mobile: 0427 262 375
Build your dream home $59,900
Tranquility! Peaceful, relaxing areas o the main bed, the dining/ family room to the deck & gardens. Cooks will love the kitchen’s stove & features. Property spans from street to street with easy access for truck/van into dbl gge. Rear access. 1,888m2. Water glimpses.
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
36 Grove Street East H/O Sun 12-12.30 $639,000For the investor, your purchase of this very neat & comfortable excellent rental proposi on makes good sense. It’s got 3 bed, 1 bath, a separate lounge, has gge & carport/lean-to and is on a 1,012m2 sewered block. (O774)
Rep: Rick JacksonDirect: 9841 0208Mobile: 0429 436 598
Add to your por olio $280,000It’s about being happy - a home that’s modern & comfortable, safe & with friendly neighbours. This 2006 built 2 bed park home gives the security without the worries. Lease for block un l 2042 so you can stay & enjoy the company. Pa o area, established vegie patch. Walk the shing rod down to the water’s edge.
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
33 Panorama Caravan Park H/O Sat 9.45-10.15 $167,000
Determined to have an ocean view? This well-built 4 bed, 2 bath home will provide it all. Spacious home, generous living both indoors & out, 850m2 block, garaging, 2x o ce spaces, beau ful views of Middleton, walking distance to hospital & shops, quiet no-through street.
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
9 Tomlinson Crescent H/O Sat 10.30-11 $585,000Not all blocks are created equal. This is certainly a block to build a dream on. 518m2 block elevated from the road with stunning ocean views from the north east aspect. It will not last long at this price! (ZMTC041)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
Million-dollar view $325,000This 3x1 home has a great track record with only one owner and seeing 4 genera ons of one family. Spacious living area with le re, combined kit/dining, dbl gge plus carport, garden shed and a comfortable outdoor pa o.
Rep: Craig NathanDirect: 9841 0224Mobile: 0407 774 594Rep: Amber NathanDirect: 9841 0231Mobile: 0427 262 375
30 Canning St H/O Sat 1-1.30 & Sun 11.45-12.15 $239,000
Neatly presented brick character home with jarrah oors & large rooms, renovated kitchen & bathroom. Sensa onal gardens plus a large games room/teen’s retreat. Lovely hidden rear pa o, hydroponics & chickens for garden lovers.
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
17 Ashwell Street H/O Sun 2-2.30 $419,000
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What would you do with 5.355 ha of bushland right next door to a shopping complex and within walking distance to the local primary school? This is a rare opportunity to own a large por on of land in Bayonet Head. (ZBH646)
Rep: Kerrillea RydeDirect: 9841 0237Mobile: 0419 027 336
Mind boggles! $260,000
Well located in Yakamia, this large block is an opportunity to design a home that suits your needs for many years. Located only mins to town, walk to ovals, parks & shopping centre, yet quietly located in a no-through street. Being 1222m2, this block will not crowd your style! (ZY283)
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
Live the life $249,000
Make an o er…. with stunning views over the marina on Princess Royal Harbour, there is not a lot that this home needs. A mix of old with high ceilings, jarrah oors, a verandah to sit back & watch the ac vity on the water, 3/4 bed. Renovated kitchen & large dining/ family room. Central loca on... here it is.
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
112 Burgoyne Road H/O Sat 10-10.30 $579,000
In this private Mira Mar Estate. 613m2 block is in a quiet cul-de-sac loca on. Short walk to the white sands of Middleton Beach, restaurtants & cafes. (ZMM205)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
Only a few le ! $390,000A walk along the water’s edge – what a way to start or end your day. This 2,403m2 building block will provide the step-back, slow-down lifestyle, all you need to do is build the home that suits your needs. This block is level, fenced & ready to go, so are you? (ZLK371)
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
Take that step back $210,000Located in the Middleton Beach area this 1,012m2 zoned for development land is level living for re rees - think Super! Solid brick home of 3 bed, 2 bath & 2 living areas both warmed by wood res. An open-plan design. Brick gge & pa o area at rear. Walk to Middleton Beach & bowling club. (MB098)
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
Zoned for development $889,500
This 2,033m2 block with a comfortable 2 storey, 4 bed, 2 bath home has all the extras plus the room to change with the family. Huge pa o, gge UMR plus a func onal 12.2mx6.1m GP shed that has a 3.6m high door. 2 road access, this property provides the life your family will need.
Stunning, secluded home in Drew Street o ers the lifestyle, the loca on & the opportunity. Built in 2006, it has 4 bed, 2 bath, polished oors & style plus. The 1,529m2
block easily allows a full-size tennis court that could be traded for another home. Call for a private inspec on. (MM697)
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
75 Woollahra Street H/O Sat 1.45-2.15 & Sun 1-1.30$555,000
Darling of Drew$745,000
Built 2012 of clad & Colorbond construc on, this 3 bed home is insulated, has air-con & features open plan living, 2 WC, semi-ensuite and robes in all bedrooms. Gas In nity HWS. 509m2 block. (MK506)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
New homes surround $380,000
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226 York Street Albany 9841 2255
Beau ful corner loca on with view of local parks & Oyster Harbour. Everything has been nished with striking xtures, modern, spacious & the storage is just incredible. Absolutely immaculate inside & out. Inspec on is a must.
Rep: Kerrillea RydeDirect: 9841 0237Mobile: 0419 027 336
2 Culley Road H/O Sun 1.15-1.45 $565,000
This appealing 2 bed unit is a stand-out bargain. You won’t nd cheaper! Currently the cheapest 2 bed residen al home in Albany. The home features good-sized open-plan kitchen/dining & living area. Cheap but not nasty, beau fully presented. (L281)
Rep: Joe TrichiloDirect: 9841 0227Mobile: 0409 370 676
Stunning value $169,900
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Studio too... all on almost 2 acres! Immaculate presenta on & something for the whole family… a big 4 bed family home PLUS a study, 2 separate lounge rooms, a new kitchen, a large family room, the HUGE shed for him, a studio for ar st/teens’ retreat/ visitors, a large pa o, solar panels, solar hot water
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
4 Greenwood Drive H/O Sat 1-1.30 $729,000
If seclusion & space is what you’re seeking, it’s exactly what you’ll get! 1.8ha with an awesome 4 bed, 2 bath home with media & cra rooms, north-facing sunroom, deck, sheds, rainwater & scheme water plus planning approval for 2nd home. (LG429)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
Builder’s own home $1,350,000
226 York Street Albany 9841 2255
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Cheapie... appealing brick home with high ceilings and spacious kitchen/dining. New paintwork makes this home light & bright. 3 beds all with BIRs, a lovely outlook & water glimpse, cul-de-sac loca on, pa o/deck & a lock-up store/u lity room. Perfect for those wan ng some shing close by. (LK485)
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
3 Bryant Court H/O Sat 12-12.30 $329,000
Last block available in “Pines Estate”. Only a short drive to the CBD, this large corner block of 2,034m2 o ers you the scope to design & build a home that accommodates all the “I wants” plus allows room for that big shed to nker with the boys’ toys. (ZMK684)
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
Great opportunity! $312,000
The views here have to be seen to be appreciated! Polished sheoak features, 2 large decks with «the best» water views, 2 sep living areas, granite bench tops. 3 bed, 2 bath, dbl gge + extra parking. Secure living – ideal lock and leave. (MM692)
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
Sparkling water views $795,000
Two adjoining lots that can be bought as a whole or separately. Total area approx 2.56ha or Lot 94 approx 1.27ha and Lot 95 approx 1.29ha. Residen al development poten al. Frontage to Oyster Harbour. Ideal lifestyle, development block... perhaps both! (ZLK291 & ZLK336)
Set on 1,061m2 this 3x1 home has been freshly painted, has new carpets & curtains, 2 paved pa os at rear, an updated kitchen & bath, an enclosed rear yard, fruit trees, rainwater tank, dbl lock-up gge + dbl carport. This will not last long; don’t delay.
Rep: Graham WalkerDirect: 9841 0220Mobile: 0418 422 266
Rep: Craig Nathan Direct: 9841 0224 Mobile: 0407 774 594Rep: Amber NathanDirect: 9841 0231Mobile: 0427 262 375
Waterfront opportunity $675,000ea 10 Valencia Cl H/O Sat 10.30-11 & Sun 12.30-1 $349,000When your family deserves something special, this home must be viewed! It’s well located, designed for enjoyment no ma er what room you are in. Wide, sweeping stairs that lead to the theatre room & master suite. The kitchen & living areas like pages out of Vogue magazine. (MM696)
Rep: Rita McLeanDirect: 9841 0207Mobile: 0427 423 200
Middleton Beach area $1,150,000
43.54ha (107.6ac) property mostly pastured, small creek, undula ng & located on the edge of the Kalgan River, it provides scheme water, power & 2 road access. Shearing shed & basic yards. Panoramic harbour & river views from most spots across this property to build your dream home. (ZK135)
Rep: Jackie CowleyDirect: 9841 0213Mobile: 0408 427 554
Views galore $950,000
This 4x2 home is an ideal starter for a rst home buyer. Set on 838m2, this a ordable home has been well maintained with near new oor coverings and paint work. Be quick to secure this home.
Rep: Craig NathanDirect: 9841 0224Mobile: 0407 774 594Rep: Amber NathanDirect: 9841 0231Mobile: 0427 262 375
40 Bayonet Head Road H/O Sat 3.15-3.45 $320,000
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By ANNE SIMPSON
MIKE Taylor is one of those people who love nothing better than par-ticipating in the com-munity, with his role as president of the Albany Men’s Shed high on the list of numerous pro-jects.Born in England in
1945, Mike has a back-ground in engineering and came to Australia in 1973 as one of the last Ten Pound Poms.At the age of 40 he
moved into the insur-ance industry and ran a successful business for 10 years before deciding to take early retirement. Mike and his wife Judy
moved to Albany in 2005, possibly antici-pating a more leisurely pace of life.H o w e v e r , w i t h i n
months of residing in the
Great Southern, Mike had become heavily in-volved in setting up Al-bany’s fi rst Men’s Shed.He then spearheaded
the major fundraising push to build permanent new premises in Sanford Road, which garnered huge community and
council support and re-sulted in an infl ux of new members. “The Men’s Shed is a
passion of mine and it has made a huge differ-ence to the health and wellbeing of local men who are retired, unem-ployed, on their own and who need the friendship and support of other men.” Mike said.“Our members include
farmers, businessmen, and those in need of some respite.” The Department of
Veterans’ Affairs has also recognised the val-ue of Men’s Sheds for their veterans. The Albany Men’s
Shed, which now has close to 100 members, also participates in spe-cifi c charitable projects with retired tradies al-ways willing to share their skills and manage
various projects. Mike will be retiring
from his role as president in September, but in the meantime will continue to oversee the adminis-tration of the Men’s Shed with an excellent team of multi-skilled people. Like so many other
seniors, Mike is involved in a number of organisa-tions and is unlikely to fi nd himself with much time on his hands once he relinquishes his ex-ecutive role at the Men’s Shed.He is a member of the
Albany Probus Club, the Missions to Seaman and is the Great Southern Delegate to the state’s Freemasons.He is on the St John’s
council and sings in the church choir. Mike also enjoys walking every day and finds time to tend his garden.
IT is alarming how many people don’t have a will.
I have heard all sorts of argu-ments as to why is it unneces-sary to make a will, such as “everything will automatically go to my wife/husband/ family anyway.”
Sadly, the reality is very dif-ferent.
This is what could happen if you die Intestate – ie with no valid will. (This should not be confused with dying interstate.)
An administrator will be ap-pointed by the courts to attend to your affairs, whose duties will involve organising your funeral and collecting your assets.
These will be distributed, through a pre-determined for-mula, with certain family mem-bers receiving a percentage of your assets despite what you may have wished.It can be an expensive, lengthy
and complicated process which can also present your family with unnecessary distress and potential problems over who is entitled to inherit what.Things can get even trickier
when there is a former spouse/partner and offspring involved from previous/combined fami-lies.It’s not that hard to make a
will.Community legal services can
deal with simple wills for eligible seniors/pensioners and there are also DIY will kits available from the Post Offi ce and online sources.
If in doubt, make an appoint-ment with a lawyer regarding making your will and setting your affairs in order to ensure your family are not left unpre-pared.
– Anne Simpson
The above information is of a general nature only and has been gathered from several in-ternet sources. Please contact your lawyer for specifi c legal advice.
By ANNE SIMPSON
TALKING about dying is never easy, nor is broaching the sub-ject of funerals, making a will and deciding who is going to inherit the family silver or Aunt Lucy’s chipped vase.
We all know that death comes to us all, and in the words of Woody Allen:
“It’s not that I’m afraid of dy-ing, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
My late mother, who I have mentioned in a previous col-umn, started planning her funeral when she hit 90, four years before she died.
She already had her funeral fund, which she mischievously dipped into every now and again, but ultimately covered the necessary costs when she died.
Initially I found these discus-sions rather maudlin and I didn’t want to think about life without her.
So I baulked at discussing the subject to any length es-pecially when the number of hymns she wanted, together with several pieces of glorious background music to enhance the occasion would rival an Andre Rieu concert!
Then I realised that it was not my gig – it was hers.
After all, as she briskly point-ed out, at her age she didn’t have a lot of other major events to organise and she needed to feel that she had some control over the fi nal chapters in her life. Fair enough.
So we made plans together. We also had lots of laughs, shed a few tears and shared plenty of positive thoughts.
Mum was able to impart her wishes openly and honestly and fell about laughing when I assured her she didn’t need to plan the menu for her wake.
(Nor did she need to worry about what shoes to wear to
ensure she could skip through the Pearly Gates without mis-hap).
She also wondered what people would say about her at the funeral, which made me realise how important it was to let our loved ones know how special they are while they are still alive and not wait till they have passed away.
When the time came, eve-rything fell neatly into place – we knew what mum wanted, we made sure she had lots of fl owers and music and we all celebrated her amazing life well lived.
A couple of hymns were left off the Order of Service, but she would have been delighted at the way in which her entire family gathered to wish her farewell, and share decades of memories together.
Since then I have had a much clearer idea about the need to be prepared for my family’s sake, without being
morbidly preoccupied about my own death. I have left simple instructions for my fam-ily, chosen a funeral director, nominated the kind of burial I would like and selected my favourite music.
Ultimately it will be up to them to fi nalise the arrangements, which is just fi ne.
This move may not suit every-one, but I like to think that when the time comes, it will be a help and comfort to my family.
My will is up to date, with a few special items allocated to those who hold them dear.
But I confess I have yet to organise an enduring power of attorney in case I suddenly or gradually, become unable to manage my affairs.
Stay tuned on that one…
Meanwhile, to my fellow sen-iors and elders, continue to live life well, enjoy every moment and don’t be afraid to make a few plans.
Be prepared, because it’s your funeral
Where there’s a will…
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NARRIKUP’S Mun-grup Stud con-t inues i ts long associat ion as
sponsors of the Great Southern’s richest horse race this year as part of the Grapes and Gallops festival at Mt Barker Turf Club on January 22.
The family-owned busi-ness is the state’s larg-est thoroughbred nursery and has supported the event for more than 25 years; from its humble beginnings to the event becoming one of the big-gest days on the region’s racing calendar.
Mungrup Stud’s Tom and Ann Croucher and Claire Dawson are hands-on in the family business that was established by Ann and Claire’s parents, Gray and Jan Williamson and said they always looked forward to the Grapes and Gallops festival.
“We’ve seen this event grow from a feature sprint to a really exciting festival with huge crowds that top the racing calendar,” Mrs Croucher said.
“We always looked for-ward to the sprint when we were younger and now we take our kids along and they love it, so it’s great to still be associated with it.
“It’s great for the region and it’s also great to see that level of prize money for a local race.”
Studmaster Claire Daw-son said the event was a perfect fi t for the family’s long history of breeding some of WA’s best sprint-ers.
“WA buyers love their early sprinters and we’ve bred some of the best over the years so it’s fi tting that we’re involved with this race,” Ms Dawson said.
“We have a new stallion in I’m All The Talk whose fi rst foals are due in Au-gust and I’m sure we’ll see his progeny run in the sprint one day.”
The Grapes and Gallops festival is also celebrating
its 10th year and festival chairperson Kim Tyrer said it was amazing to see how the event had grown since its inception.
“When you live it and breathe it every day you don’t notice all the little changes.
“Looking back at old pho-tos recently you could just see how everything has grown,” Ms Tyrer said.
The event has been successful in attracting visitors to the region with 40 per cent of punters travelling from outside the region to attend.
Ms Tyrer said combining one of the region’s biggest races and showcasing the its wineries was the key to the event’s success and she was proud of the festival’s ongoing support of local businesses.
“It ’s such a unique
festival. When you go to other major racing events around the state, they’re usually just focused on a race,” she said.
“We provide so much more entertainment and the wine and the food is the key as well.
“And it’s great to see all the girls in their fabulous dresses and the guys in their suits and such a re-laxed atmosphere.”
This year’s event will showcase wines from Ar-cadia, Galafrey, Gilberts, West Cape Howe, Plan-
tagenet Wines, and Hawk-ers Ridge and a range of regional produce including local cheeses, gourmet pizzas, strawberries and French pastries.
Ms Tyrer said the event was family-friendly and there would be plenty for children to do with a packed event schedule between races.
The program will boast eight races, including the $100,000 Mungrup Sprint over 1,300m, with nomina-tions yet to close.
Mungrup Stud’s Claire Dawson with stallion I’m All The Talk ahead of this year’s Grapes and Gallops festival at Frost Park on January 22.
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CIRCUS artist, street performer, co-median, actor, dancer, choreographer, director...there appears little that Aaron Jessup has not accomplished to rave reviews around the world.
Renaissance man Jessup will be in Albany on January 14 as part of Southern Edge Arts’ Summer School program to give a short performance of Perilous Comedy, a circus-comedy street and stage act and share his skills in creating performances, jug-gling and contact improvisation
He will also perform in a street show at a venue yet to be announced.
His act combines daredevil rope walking, charming audience interac-tion, expert fire/knife juggling and sharp-witted comedy.
His workshops will be open to people of all ages and experiences.
Jessup is a second-generation San Francisco street performer and spent the past two years travelling and per-forming at arts festivals throughout the world, having been seen juggling fi re, knives and walking his slack rope on the streets of Perth, Melbourne, Edinburgh and Colorado.
His fi rst stage appearances were with his father, Charles Levine, who per-formed in New York during the 1970s.
Levine was a pioneer of the modern street performance era and Jessup was often picked out of the audience as a “volunteer” who would go on to steal the show.
At 16 years, Jessup began perform-ing his solo show at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, studied Chinese acrobatics with world renowned trainer Master Lu Yi and appeared as an acro-bat and juggler with the Pickle Family Circus and Make*A*Circus.
Along the way, Jessup also studied capoeira - a Brazilian martial art, mod-ern dance and contact improvisation, eventually performing with Scott Wells and Dancers, an Isadora Duncan award-winning dance company.
Jessup is a two-time recipient of the coveted Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship, completed his MFA in dramatic arts/acting at UC Davis and currently travels internationally with his two award-winning solo shows.
Catch him at 6pm on Saturday, January 14 at Southern Edge Arts, 77 Sanford Road.
Aaron Jessup, who has entertained audiences around the world, will be in Albany this week to take part in SEA’s Summer School program.
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PEOPLE are invited to take a free guided tour of the Albany Entertain-ment Centre next week.
Venue tours will take place on Wednesday, January18 and 25, be-tween 10.30am and 2.30pm
The tours will be held approximately every 30 minutes.
Visitors to the venue will be able to witness fi rst hand the day-to-day running of the Albany landmark and have the opportunity to view the magnif icent Ngal lak Koort Boodja canvas, on display in the Princess Royal Theatre.
The Ngal lak Koort Boodja, which translates as Our Heartland, was the culmination of a se-ries of historic meetings between Noongar Elders in 2003, during which the idea of an ‘arts docu-
ment’ for the Noongar people was raised.
Elders of the Noon-gar Nations of Australia selected six artists to develop a creative sym-bol of the Noongar con-nection to Country, the result being the canvas.
Ngallak Koort Boodja depicts sacred animals, plants, water, ancestral spirits and landscapes formed within 14 circles representing the inter-related dialectal groups of the Noongar people.
Everyone who takes part in a venue tour will receive a valid for one week voucher which can be used to obtain a free beverage with any purchased meal at VIEW Restaurant.
VIEW is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 3pm, serving lunch as well as tea, coffee and cake.
AEC open for tour
EVER since its inception in 1967 the Western Australian Opera has estab-lished itself as a strong, vibrant company and a fl agship organisation in the national arts landscape.
During the ensuing 50 years, the City of Perth’s Opera in the Park production has become one of the most popular events on the summer calendar, drawing thou-sands upon thousands of people to the Supreme Court Gardens to revel in some of the world’s greatest operas.
To celebrate WA Opera’s special an-niversary, Opera in the Park 2017, on February 4, will be a 50th Gala Concert
showcasing the wonder of the human voice.
As has occurred each year since 2010, the Opera in the Park production will be simulcast to regional communities throughout the state, enabling enthusias-tic opera lovers or fi rst-timers to experi-ence the beauty of live world-class opera from their own communities.
The uplifting program will feature highlights from The Toreador’s Song from Bizet’s Carmen, the instantly rec-ognisable Anvil Chorus from the Mozart masterpiece Il Trovatore and the towering Nessun Dorma from Turandot by Puccini.
It will be presented by national artists along with the WA Opera Chorus and WA Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen.
The entire audience will be invited to dress in black tie or evening dress to celebrate WA Opera’s 50th Anniversary at this gala concert of operatic hits in one of the most beautiful settings Perth has to offer.
The simulcast is on Saturday, February 4, at 8pm, at the AEC. Free tickets are now available – with a limit of four per person.
Simulcast celebrates WA Opera’s 50 years
THE Lockyer Action Network’s (LAN) annual community fun day will be held at the Weerlara Lake Reserve this Sunday, January 15.The family event commences at
11am and continues until 2pm offering a variety of entertainment for children including bouncy castles, bubble soc-cer, pony rides and Circus Craze.Open to the whole community, the
event has been supported by Lottery-west, the City of Albany and Albany MLA Peter Watson.LAN is working in partnership with
Rainbow Coast Neighbourhood Centre, The Child and Parent Centre, Commu-nity Garden and The Albany Girl Guides to provide child-focused art and craft activities and educational resources.To keep parents’ energy levels on
the up, baked goods, a sausage sizzle and a coffee van will be available, while market stalls will sell a variety of goods.A car-boot sale will be part of the fun
with organisers inviting participants to take their vehicle along to sell pre-loved items or unwanted Christmas gifts.To be involved, contact LAN at
[email protected] or through the group’s Facebook page.LAN is a not-for-profi t volunteer-run
organisation which has become an advocate for the local community. Last year’s family fun day was the fi rst
it organised.LAN is participating in Clean Up Aus-
tralia Day focusing on Weerlara Lake and will be calling for community help in the near future.
Lockyer fun day is for the entire community ALBANY’S 8–14 year olds will have the rare op-
portunity to learn how to build their own synthesis-ers at a workshop next week.Interactive sound designer and musician David
McKenzie is running the Retro Sound Workshop at Vancouver Arts Centre. It will be held on Tues-day January 17, for the cost of $20 per participant.Vancouver representative Marianthe Loucataris
said participants would use a system called the “little bit”.“You can actually make a synthesiser by put-
ting together different components,” she said. “It comes in a simple structure.”Mr McKenzie will also run a free installation
called The Sound Den.“It’s an interactive installation which involves be-
ing able to move through lights to trigger sound, as well as playing sounds on the synthesisers,” Ms Loucataris said. The Sound Den has already started and will run until Tuesday January 24. – Geoff Vivian
Synths for kids
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Thursday ........................................... Carla GeneveFriday .................................Rob Vermeulen/DJ AZ'tSaturday ................................. DJ Rusion/Darren DSunday ....................................................DJ Rusion
denmark hotelFriday .....................................................Blue Stuka
mount barker hotelFriday ....................................................... Tre Amici
the white starFriday ...........................Billy Neal's "Driving Wheel"
featuring Lez KarskiSaturday ...................Valdaway with special guestsSunday ..........Slap My Thighs and Call Me Barbara
boston brewerySaturday ........................................ Jazztrix Quartet
earl of spencerSaturday ......................Billy Neal's "Driving Wheel"
featuring Lez Karski Sunday .................................................... Jack Kelly
albany boatshed marketsSunday .................................................... Tony King
due southSunday ...................................................Joe Fowler
elleker tavernSunday ........................ Pocket Duo (Tauuri & Brett)
king river tavernSunday ............................... Jam Session/Open Mic
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 8 till late, South Coast Country Music Club
4 MILE PEG, ALBANY HIGHWAY, ALBANY
Doors open at 7.30pmMembers $10, non-members $15 & U/16 FREE
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THE keenly antici-pated Tales from the Antiques Roadshow, which centres round the popular BBC tel-evision program, will not be coming to Al-bany after all. The Weekender
was advised after the paper went to print last week that the January 28 perfor-mance at the AEC has been cancelled.
Antiques show cancelled
THE Searchers hold a lasting place in the his-tory of popular music throughout the world and are bringing their Solid Gold Hits national tour to Albany.
As one of Britain’s best-loved groups The Search-ers’ distinctive jangling sound of the 12-string guitar and rich harmonies embellished with their immaculate vocals.
They will be at the Alba-ny Entertainment Centre on Sunday, February 5.
From their early begin-nings in the late 1950s as a skiffl e group formed by John McNally and a bunch of friends, through the heady days of the 1960s as teenage idols.
The Searchers have comfortably settled into a position well-deserved by a band with a sound that has infl uenced artists for generations.
Their many hits include Sweets For My Sweet, Sugar And Spice, Needles and Pins - their version of Jackie De Shannon’s When You Walk In The Room and covers of Love Potion Number 9, Don’t Throw Your Love Away, and Someday We’re Gon-na Love Again.
The Searchers were the second group from Liver-pool after The Beatles, to have a hit in the USA with
Needles And Pins and their total record sales are in excess of 45 million.
T h e g r o u p , w h i c h emerged as part of Liv-erpool’s early 1960s Mer-sey Beat scene along with The Beatles, the Swing-ing Blues Jeans and Gerry and the Pacemakers, has been reduced over the years with sudden deaths of its original members.
But remaining band members, McNally and Frank Allen, have been joined by Spencer James and Scott Ottaway and are thankfully in the rud-est of health and eager to continue their life of constant touring.
McNally and Allen, bass player since the middle of 1964, have faithfully pre-served and enhanced their treasured reputation and image to the present day.
Have gu i t a r s ( and drums), will travel is their motto.
Their marvellous all-evening’ solo shows are considered must-see events in the entertain-ment calendars of 60s afi cionados.
At a time when you might think life should be taking perhaps a more lei-surely pace, The Search-ers are busier than ever and enjoying a gruel-ling work rate that others would fi nd daunting.
The last two decades have seen some of the most rewarding times for this much-admired group.
These include two sell-out shows at London’s Wembley Stadium with Cliff Richard as guests on the fi rst knight of pop’s 30th anniversary celebra-tion and on millennium
New Year’s Eve, again with Cliff, at the National Indoor Arena, Birming-ham.
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THERE’S no doubt John Galvin’s Ford XY GT Falcon has got history.
Sadly it’s the kind of history that puts a lump in your throat and goes beyond the cut and polish.But it’s also the kind of his-
tory that keeps this classic car on the road where it be-longs and makes you count your blessings.The XY was a pet project for
John and his son more than 10 years ago when he was living in the Wheatbelt.
The simple aim was to get the car running and regis-tered and worry about the fi nishing touches later.When others might reach
deep into their pockets to get a project complete, John seemed to pull it out of thin air and do it on a shoestring. John stripped it back to bare
metal and enlisted the help of a retired panel beater to straighten her out.He said there wasn’t a lot of
rust to cut out, but there were a few dents and the paint job had to be acrylic – none of this two-pack business.He either used what he had
from the XY or ratted parts from other cars he had lying around. He pulled a more favourable
nine inch diff off another XY, pilfered the dash and wiring loom from an XW and on and
on it went until he got this girl on the road.He didn’t even bother with a
clear coat after the paint and stripes had gone on. It got a good rub down with some 1200-grit and a coat of polish and that was it.John said he dropped a 351
Cleveland engine straight in and recalls sitting back on a couple of milk crates with his son Brad just watching the car idle after they fi rst lit her up.“We never even cleaned
the engine. We just slipped it straight in,” he said.“We just sat there and
watched it together for ages.”“Really we registered the
car too soon. We slipped the engine in on a Friday, we got it going on the Sunday and registered on Monday.”“We just wanted to get it on
the road and never bothered to finish off all those little things that need doing.”John is a fi rm believer in
driving cars when you’ve got them there to drive - rain or shine.And that philosophy has
also helped heal some wounds following the tragic loss of his son Brad in a motorbike accident six and a half years ago.The strong memories he
forged with the car are indel-ibly linked with his son and it is spiriting to see it out on the road as often as John fi nds it possible, rather than tucked away in a forgotten corner. “The car is about Brad and
it’s something we did togeth-er. He used to drive it all the time. I just love it,” he said.Despite the tragedy, it’s no
surprise that John looks right at home behind the wheel
and the car fi ts him like a pair of old jeans.And like anyone who has
a car with a bit of history, he knows every little nook and cranny.He points out a few things
that need a bit of attention, least of all his worn-out dou-ble-pluggers that are solely to blame for his foot slipping off the clutch time and again and causing those rear tyres to wear out so quickly. But it’s all about enjoying
the ride and there are no complaints from John. For all its history, this car is a keeper - along with the memories.
– Hot Rod
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4WD PARTS& ACCESSORIES
AUTOMOTIVE
ASBESTOS REMOVAL
AUDIT
ACCOUNTING
AGRICULTURAL SERVICES
CLOCK REPAIRS
Phone9842 2788
to advertise
AIR CONDITIONING
AIR CONDITIONING
9842 2277Unit 4, 27-29 Graham Street, Albany
www.albanyair.com.au
SUMMER COOL WINTER WARM
• Wall / Multi-splits
• Ducted Systems• Cassettes / Under
Ceiling• Pre-tube During
Construction
Obligation-free Design Quote
AU06752
BOBCAT/SKID STEER LOADER
SERVICES
BITUMEN CONTRACTORS
BATHROOMS
BLINDSCLEANING
Phone9842 2788
to advertise
CARPET CLEANING
CAR WASH
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SPECIALIST IN BATHROOM & KITCHEN [email protected]
Phone 0419 886 932
The most energy-effi cient systems available.Customised designs & installations.Expert knowledge of all leading brands.
AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATIONCOMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIALSALES, INSTALLATION, SERVICE & REPAIR
CALL CRAIG 0499 088 018offi [email protected]
AU32476
Old Clocks• Bought • Sold
• Repaired • ServicedCall Steve on 0403 895 406
www.kingsrestorations.com.au
KINGSAntiques & Restorations
Phone 9842 2788to advertise
BUILDING
BOOKKEEPING
Specialising in Offi ce & Vacate CleaningLocally owned and operated
9841 [email protected]
Commercial & Domestic
Cleaning
Phone Rick Phone Rick 0406 516 5800406 516 580
• Pavers • Patios • Walls • Driveways • Roofs • Concrete • Gutters
• Decking • Cobwebs
Specialising in applying sealers to Pavers, Concrete & Limestone
DOMESTIC & INDUSTRIAL DOMESTIC & INDUSTRIAL
Regional Carpet Cleaners &
House MaintenanceNo job too big
or too small
Neil Bates0438 287 361
Brake Repairs • New Car ServicingFuel Injection Servicing • General Repairs
Diff & Transmission Overhauls • 4WD & TrucksTune-ups & Diagnosis • Clutches
Performance Enhancements
96 Stead Rd, Albany 9842 5789
Dirty Carpets?"If they're not clean we don't leave the scene."
Countrywide Carpet CleanGlyn Jones Qualifi ed Technician
Albany Town & Surrounds
0427 608 297
BYATT BOBCAT SERVICESBYATT BOBCAT SERVICES• Building Sites • House Pads• Driveways • Confined Areas• Soil, Sand & Gravel Delivery
• Clearing • General Bobcat Jobs
Call Alfie Byatt Phone/Fax 9841 6016Call Alfie Byatt Phone/Fax 9841 6016Mobile 0428 416 016Mobile 0428 416 016
DL 16111
Here to help with quality recycled & after-market parts
for yourFOUR WHEEL DRIVE
55 Sanford Rd, AlbanyPH 9841 1951
DL 16111
Wheatcroft Accounting
Upper level, 69 Lockyer Ave, AlbanyPhone: 9842 2942 www.wheatcroft.com.au
Posi-track & Mini Digger ServicesBG&E and KE RUSSBG&E and KE RUSS
• House and Shed Pads• Site & Backyard Clean-ups• Post Holes• Bucket Work & Laser Levelling• 6 and 8 Wheel Tippers for Deliveries• Harley Rake - Excellent for Driveways• Excavator, Loader, Posi-tracks• Mini Track Dumper
Bernie - 9842 24600428 221 542
Keith - 9842 87410428 221 565
Albany MobileAlbany Mobile Mechanics Mechanics
Servicing and RepairsServicing and Repairs
Tim Thomson Mobile Mechanic042 375 6066
Automotive and Marine, Petrol or DieselAny time, anywhere
The most advanced wash technology direct from GermanyUnited Albany Hwy • 225 Albany Hwy
- Call Karl Wallace -Ph: 9844 9134 Mob 0427 611 840
• Ultrasonic blind cleaning• New blinds & repairs
For all your Blind Cleaning needsCall me for an obligation-free quote
CARPENTRY
CARPENTRY
DAVID SLEETRACTOR & TRUCK
REPAIRSBelarus Parts
0428 411 608
Fed up with the headache of
BOOKKEEPING?Tax man causing you problems?
Let me handle everything for you…• MYOB, Quickbooks, Xero
• GST & PAYG for BAS returns• Bank reconciliations• One-on-one training
• Annual, quarterly or monthly bookkeeping• Using your system or starting from scratch
Good rates – friendly service – any size of business
Fully-qualifi ed Bookkeeper & BAS Agent Sonya Delamotte
SMD Bookkeeping Service0417 778 986
• Demolition Works & Strip Outs• External Recladding Solutions• Fencing & Retaining Walls• Asbestos Removal
PHONE: 9841 5678
Agents for:
• Roo Bars • Bull Bars • Tow Bars • Roof Racks• Side Bars & Steps • Aluminium Fabrication
• All your 4WD needsCall into 5 Monck Lane, Albany • 9842 2617
The Albany Stockists The Albany Stockists for all your 4for all your 4WDWD needs! needs!
23 Minna Street, Albany 9841 200023 Minna Street, Albany 9841 2000
Heavy Vehicle Accreditation
0427 787 059Bill Tiller
[email protected] & Alcohol Testing
Action Audits AlbanyCert No 131223
TREV'S DECKSAND
CARPENTRY
Trevor Warburton
0427 991 084
48 The Weekender, January 12, 2017
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Steven Wright
fun spot
Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn’t be any of them left alive.
Ernie Pyle
WATER FILTERS
WATER BORES
UPHOLSTERY
WINDOWTINTING
TVINSTALLATIONS
Kandoo WindscreensKandoo Windscreens• Household • Automotive
• Commercial
Contact Stephen9844 8416 - 0418 958 889
FUTURETECHNOLOGIES
Greg [email protected]
TV & SATELLITEHOME THEATRE SET UP
NETWORK & PHONE CABLINGCOMPUTER SUPPORT & SALES
VIDEO INTERCOM
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Phone 9842 2788to advertise
Tel: 9841 3015 — Mob 0427 882 561
WA DRILLING SERVICES
Phil Putland— Lic ADIA ContractorPhil Putland— Lic ADIA Contractor
• Domestic & Commercial • Domestic & Commercial Water BoresWater Bores
• Hard Rock Drilling• Hard Rock Drilling• Test Holes• Test Holes
• Pumps Supplied & Fitted• Pumps Supplied & Fitted
7 DAYS A WEEK SERVICE7 DAYS A WEEK SERVICE
~ Obligation Free Quote ~~ Obligation Free Quote ~Only Quality Materials UsedOnly Quality Materials Used
FAMILY TRADITION OF QUALITY CRAFTSMANSHIP,
SEATING YOU RIGHT SINCE 1965.
• Frame repairs • Furniture repairs• Recover and restore specialists
• Foam cut to size
157a Chester Pass Road, AlbanyPh: 9841 3627 | Mob: 0427 447 523
Email: [email protected]: www.albanyupholstery.com
Advertise your trade in our specialAdvertise your trade in our special
CCOOLLOOUURR trades centre pages
It makes good dollars and sense to advertise in The Weekender Trades Centre
Give Jamie a call on 9842 2788
WINDOWCLEANING
WINDOW CLEANINGNo job too big or small
Carpet & Window CleanPackage Discounts
Perfect for Bond Clean
GLEN DAY Mobile – 0427 206 006
Foundation ElectricalEC11478
SALESSERVICE
INSTALLATION• Drinking Water Analysis • Bench Top
• Under Bench • Water Softening • Replacement Cartridges
9841 3671 • 43-45 Sanford Rd, Albany
Be part of the good times and great classic hits with Albany’s better gold mix from the 60s, 70s & 80s For enquiries on a specialised, cost-effective advertising campaign to suit your business callLata Wright on 0409 449 110 or 9842 9937 or Kira Mead on 0429 418 192 or 9842 9937.
Locally owned and operated by The Weekender @ The Weekender. 107 Stead Road, Albany.
Gold MXAM1611
Also streamed live
WATERCARTING
0477 126 2640477 126 264
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Anon
TREE LOPPING
STAINLESS STEEL
TILING
TV & VIDEOREPAIRS
Quality TILESTILESTILES and materials, plus free design and tech advice,
drop in or phone 9847 4312 32 Graham St, Albany32 Graham St, Albany32 Graham St, Albany
[email protected]@[email protected]
SCAFFOLDING
SECURITY
SKYLIGHTS
SHEET METAL
ROOF RE-COATING
73 Cockburn Rd Tel 9841 3739
LARGEST RANGE OF KEYS IN ALBANY
SPECIALISTS IN :
Domestic, Commercial & Automotive
LOCKSMITHAlbany Security Supplies
ROOFING ROOFING
Specialists in
• Security Alarms • CCTV• Access Control • All Areas
Phone: 9841 3621Sec.Lic. SA44383
AL
BA
NY
Local Bristile & Monier ContractorRoof Tiling Trade Certifi cate
• Re-roofi ng • Extensions 50-Year Guarantee on Monier
Wunderlich ProductsPH: PAUL: 0419 612 375
or DARREN: 0409 374 223Member of Master Roof Tilers Association
CITY WIDECITY WIDEROOF TILINGROOF TILING
• Pruning • Removals • Chipping• Climbing • 23m Cherry Picker
• Mulch Sale & Deliveries• Bobcat • Stump-grinding Service
9841 80990418 713 808
• Specialising in stainless fabrication for automotive, architectural, industrial and custom work
• Tube fabrication and bending• Balustrades • Welding and repairs
• Polishing and restoration
9841 3341 • 0419 701 897116 Chester Pass Road
ALLWAY ROOFING
Awarded MBA Excellence in Metal Roo ng
Specialising in all aspects of:Metal Roofing and
Wall Cladding
9844 34390417 386 911
TV + VIDEO + HI-FI + CD + DVD GAME CONSOLES + MOBILE PHONES
SATELLITE TV ANTENNA INSTALL
REPAIRS AND SERVICE—— Call Neil or visit ——
37a Albert StreetTelephone 9842 6607
N & S Electronics
A.B.ROOFING
• 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE
• 12 YEARS' WORKING IN ALBANY
• ALL WORKERS HAVE POLICE CLEARANCE
We do all roof-plumbing services from the award-winning Anzac
Centre to your home, all with the same high standard in mind.
Please come into our shop11b Minna Street, Albany
www.albanyroofi ng.com.au9841 5900
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Phone9842 2788
to advertise
Phone 9842 2788to advertise
SkylightsA L B A N Y
Only the best products used to save you money and brighten your day.
Phone KAY HENNY on 0438 411 34311b Minna St, Albany
0428 774 448
DIY SUPPLIESFrames - Modular,Aluminium mobile
Yard - 11 Ashford Street
PUMPS
RADIATOR REPAIRS
Foundation ElectricalEC11478
SALESSERVICE
INSTALLATION• Pumps • Motors • Water Filters
• Davey • Grundfos • Mono• Onsite and Workshop • Fully Qualifi ed
9841 3671 • 43-45 Sanford Rd, Albany
Adams Total Tree ServiceAdams Total Tree Service
T: 9841 2015 M: 0404 409 861
SERVICES INCLUDE:• Removals & pruning• Chipping• Mulch $80 / Truckload
ALL ROOF RE-COATINGAND
• GENERAL ROOF REPAIRS• SEALED AND RECOATED
• DULUX REGISTERED APPLICATORFor Free Quotes or Enquiries call Kevin
High Pressure Cleaning
Phone 9844 3447Mobile 0419 686 595
• Repairs/replacement to patios, gutters, downpipes and roofs
• FREE quotes• Roof anchor safety systems installed
and certifi cationGIVE US A CALL 0418 950 380
ALBANY GUTTER REPLACEMENT
PLUMBER
KINGSPlumbing
Roofi ng & GutteringSeptic InstallationsSewer Connections
Maintenance & New Work
Phone: 9841 5977 Mobile: 0408 936 359
Fax: 9841 5877
PL: 1090 • GL: GF000928
• Pruning • Removal• Mulching• Stump Grinding • 15m & 24m Cherry Pickers • Professional Climber• Bobcat & Forestry Mower
Cert III Arboriculture & Cert IV HorticultureBrad Taylor 0428 417 393
Fully-insured Professional Service
PET CARE
PLASTERBOARD
PAINTING
Albany Pet CareAlbany Pet Care
SMS or call Vanessa0439 820 995
Insured and Police Clearedwww.albanypetcare.com.au
Est 2006 HOME SERVICE
We care for your pet while you're away.Great or Small, Food, Water and Exercise.
DOG WALKING AVAILABLE ANY TIME
• RANGE HOODS • WOOD FIRE HEATERS• SKYLIGHTS • EXHAUST VENTS
• OUTDOOR KITCHENS
Albany & Great Southern | 45 Harding Road 0428 447 154 • www.ventroair.com
Professional interior & exterior painting. Excellent team in Albany &
surrounding areas.
Ph 9525 4111for a FREE QUOTE Rego 8212
EFTPOS
available
MECHANIC
Call Mick for all of your fi eld-service mechanical and electrical repairs.
Servicing the whole Great Southern area!
Mobile: 0488 691 998Email: [email protected]
ASBESTOSRoof removal from $30.00 M2*Replacement with Colorbond
including Anticon from $48.00 M2*Fence removal from $30.00 LM*
Fence replacement with Colorbond or Timber of your choice.
P.M.A. DEMO 0428 416 045
[email protected]*Conditions apply LIC# WARA 1821
Phone: 0447 681 148Email: [email protected]
Andrew Hobbs
PLASTERBOARD FIXER
Phone Reg on 0427 088 969
• New Houses • Renovations & Repairs• Saggy Ceilings • Wall Damage• Decorative Moulding & Cornice
• Prompt Service
IR Hazel
For a professional finish
MBRMount Barker RadiatorsMobile Radiator Service Offering New
Radiators and Repairs for ALL Vehicles
9851 [email protected]: MRB6618
MAINTENANCE
R.E.M.R.E.M.RENOVATIONS. EXTENSIONS. MAINTENANCE.
Pain ng, ling, paving, retaining walls, fencing and carpentry.
Hamish Laing0432 430 622
25 years' experience
• Gutters • Wall Cladding
• Roof Restorations • New Roofs
• Water Tanks
Home Mak er
Dave Freeman• Fencing • Bathrooms/showers renovated
• High-pressure cleaning • Carpentry/alterations• Tiling • Concreting • Painting • Decks
Mobile: 0418 931 359 - Ph/Fax: 9844 7932
Registered Builder
Registered Pest Controller
Country Enquiries Welcome
Home Main te nance Serv ic es
HOME MAINTENANCE• Fencing • Garden retic • Tree lopping
• Waste removal • General repairsPhone Colin on
9844 8491 • 0409 689 372
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The Weekender, January 12, 2017 53GARAGE SALE
WANTED
GARDENING
LIVESTOCK
FOUND
MACHINERY
CARS
CARS CARS
PUBLIC NOTICES
MOTORCYCLES
PETS
HEALTH & WELLBEING
EXPERIENCED Hip Hop teacher wanted for thriving local dance school. Children Check card a must. Classes to run within school terms on Thursday afternoons. Contact 0428 129 672.
Part-Time/Full-Time – Monday to FridayTo join our small, friendly family practice
Contact: Kerry 9841 8455Email: [email protected]
DOCTOR WANTED
EMPLOYMENT
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
5 Beehives with bees. Bee suits, four framed spinner, hot knife, 100s of other items, too numerous to list. $2,000 ono. 9845 1012.
5 HP, 4 stroke outboard motor, $750. Sliding door unit, 2.4m x 2m, new $1,200 plus windows. Caravan mover, remote, $1,250 as new. Caravan jack, $150. 0409 295 395.
30KG bags of chook wheat, $16.50. 39 Federal St. 9841 7469 or 0429 027 805.
HIGH LINE PULLETS20 Weeks OldPh: 9841 7469
M: 0429 027 805
CHIPPER/SHREDDER 6.5hp B/S, USA made, NEW $695 inc GST. 9892 7700.
2016 and previous years’ “Classic Motor Event” posters also available at The Great Southern Weekender, 107 Stead Road.
$10 each. Cash only. 9842 2788.
2016 POSTERS AVAILABLE NOW
CRASH helmet, o/face, brand new, white. Cost $110, selling for $80. 0408 099 478.
FOAM cut to size and covers made to order. Real tradesman advice for all your cushion and mattress requirements. Albany Upholstery, Chester Pass Rd, opp Catalina Rd. 9841 3627.
GO-GO Gopher, dismantles in 3 parts to transport. $1,000 ono. 9844 1220.
HAY good quality, new season, 5’6” baroota wonder wheat rolls. $88 inc GST. 9834 3038 or 0427 343 038.
HOMEBREW supplies, beer, wine, spirits, Great Southern Supplies, Brooks Garden Shopping Centre Albany, 9841 5700.
HUSQVARNA o/locker (S15) still in box $278, new Kenwood Chef mixmaster (700W) $599 includes box of bakeware. 9841 3640.
9841 21999841 2199
LOG splitters, 28 tonne, 6.5hp Kohler, horizontal/vertical split, NEW $2,285 inc GST. 9892 7700.
iPhone SE Space Grey 64gb
As new condition. $650. Phone 041 9911 721
MINELAB 4000, gold detector, completely ready to use. Good condition. $3,500. 0429 436 626.
MOTOCADDY S3 electric golf buggy with extras, $700. 0409 080 317.
ORBANYS1800 613 536
13 Ashford Street, Albany
Manufacturer & RetailCanvas/Denim
SEAT COVERSAutomotive & ATV
PACKING boxes, second-hand, all sizes. 9841 6091.
PEA straw garden mulch, excellent quality, compact easy-to-handle bales, $9 a bale del to Albany, or pick-up on farm, $8 a bale. Supplying Albany & surrounds for 20 years. Web: bjspeastraw.com.au 9851 4069.
PEA straw, no weeds, exc garden mulch, $10 bale del. 0428 447 967 or 9864 9049.
PIAF tickets x2, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Saturday, 4th March, 8pm. $51 each at AEC. 9844 1184.
PIG mulch, organic, weed-free, Mt Barker $260, Albany $300, Denmark $360. 9851 1050.
Fresh, Local, Seasonal
FRUIT & VEGIESAvailable at:
Rainbow Coast Produce 76 Bay View Drive, Little Grove
EVERY DAYOyster Harbour Store Market
2-6pm every WednesdayBoatshed Markets 10-1 every Sunday
RIDGWAY Seeds - Rye grass specials. Long & sort season Rye grass. Feb 27th pick-up. Bulk lots. 0428 532 072.
WESTINGHOUSE Freestyle refrigerator. 390L, cycle defrost, single door. $150 ono. 9842 5497.
WHITE desk with shelving, $30. 0407 754 720.
WOOD working machines, full workshop, 3-phase power. 0409 295 395.
LISTEN TO WEEKENDER
GARAGE SALESevery Friday 10 - 10.30am
repeated Saturday & Sunday between 7.30 - 8am on
WEEKENDER TRADER‘Until Sold’
deals availablePhone 9842 2787
SELL IT FAST 9842 2787
MOVING SALEExcess stock, kitchen - cabinet
hardware. Tools, board, laminates, 2nd cabinets.Suit handyman, hobbyist,
tradesmen or DIY.Friday afternoon 2:30 - 4:30pm
Saturday morning 7 - 11am29 Hercules Crescent Albany,
just off Barker Rd.
SAT 7:45, Stoddard Cnr, McKail. Clothes, bookcase, camping gear, toys, anchor.
SAT 8am, Swarbrick St. All sorts!
SAT 8-2, Nambucca Rise, Lwr King. Moving house, something for everyone.
SAT 8-3, Baudin Place, S/Park. Plants, DVDs, army/camping gear, bric-a-brac.
SAT 8-3, Windermere Rd, Lwr King. Baby, kids & general items.
SAT 9am, Hudson Rd. Toys, crockery, boots, Xbox games & gardening.
SAT 9-1, Rufus St. Books, bikes, DVDs, fi sh tanks, plants, h/hold.
SAT & Sun, 8am – 5pm. 68 De Pledge Rd, Kendenup.
SAT & Sun 9-3, Stirling Tce indoor markets. Antiques, collectables, locally made hats, woodwork, rustic home décor, recycled art, watches, pet supplies & much more.
WEEKENDER garage sale posters available when you book and pay for your garage sale notice.
FIREARMS wanted, second-hand rifl es, shot guns and gun safes. Cash paid. Dealers licence no. 9992243. Rays Sports Power. 9842 2842.
JASON Verstain wax polish for outside woodwork. This is a discontinued product, any leftover quantity considered. 9845 1210.
WTB: Nintendo 64. SNES, Atari 2600, consoles and games. Cash paid $$$. 0428 186 022.
CAPE Gooseberry seedlings. Only $5, limited numbers left. Please call or text 0439 910 875.
DATE palm seedlings. Only $5, limited numbers left. Please call or text 0439 910 875.
PROFESSIONAL relaxation massage & refl exology therapy. Qualifi ed practitioner. Appointments week days & weekends. Located in CBD. Barbara 0497 021 810.
SUFFOLK fl ock rams, $400ea. Reg. stud Albany. 9845 1012 or 9845 1008.
WANTEDWind-up,
dome clocksfor collector.
Any condition.
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9851 2306
CORDLESS drill. Found Sun, 8th Jan along Albany Hwy. Please call 0405 429 913 to describe drill for return.
Kioti Tractors
9841 2199
Available at:Available at:
1997 V70 Volvo wagon, 7 seats, wrecking only- damage underneath. 0405 700 080.
1999 Hyundai Sonata GLE, runs well, A/C, manuel. $1,400. 0428 869 978.
2010 Isuzu D-Max LS-U 4x4 TD, auto, 117,000 km, hard-top cover, $23,500. 0417 795 101.
2011 Corolla auto hatch. Dual petrol/LPG, new tyres, tidy. 42,000km. $15,000. 0437 860 553.
2013 Colorado, DBL cab 4x4. Canopy, 5 speed, war, v/clean, red. 32,000km. $32,000. 0437 860 553.
2014 Nissan Navara. Turbo diesel, manual, tow bar. One owner, under 15,000km. $23,990 ono. Call Greg 0458 459 626 or 9851 2232. Mt Barker.
VEHICLE FINANCE
• Competitive Rates
• Private Sale/Older Vehicles
ALBANY FINANCE LTD
9841 5100www.albanyfi nance.com.au
BMW X5, 2001, luxury, silver/blk int, host of features. $9,500. 0419 472 911.
BRUMBY ute, 1992, no problems, 12 mths rego, LPG/petrol, ex parts. $2,300 neg. 9845 1247.
COMMODORE VZ wgn, 2006, V6, auto, A/C, C/C, tow bar, clean, tidy, exc cond. Detailed servive/repair history. 177,000 km. $5,900 ono. MTB 0419 802 803.
FREE - old car tyres, suitable for gardens. 9841 4734.
MINI Cooper, 2009, R56, Chilli hatchback, 2 door, manual, 6 speed, 1.6 litre, yellow with black striping. 83,000 km. $18,000. 0427 776 982.
RHINO sunseeker 2.5 awning (new) $250. 0422 031 229.
SSANGYONG Korando, 2012, AWD SUV, 2L turbo diesel, 6SP auto, Bluetooth, aux, USB, radio, nudge bar, tow bar, side steps, headlight protectors, electric brakes. Exc cond, new car warranty, roadside assist. FSH. $16,000. 0402 780 395.
SUBARU Forester, 2004, man, VGC, low 150,000 km, 6 months rego, good tyres, mags. $6,500 ono. 0431 688 242.
TOYOTA Rav4, 1998, 174,000 km, VGC, new stereo, bull bar, spotties, immob, alarm. $4,400 ono. 0407 900 289.
NISSAN Patrol 2003, fac-tory intercooled td42t, low 190,000km, alloy wheels with BFG tyres, two-way, roof rack etc. Very good cond. $30,000. 0428 989 677.
SUZUKI Bandit 2008, 1250cc, burgundy, 15,000km, ex cond, ABS, gear rack and sac, sports exhaust, lic 06/17. $6,500. 0427 451 560.
SUZUKI GSX 1250 FA, 2011. ABS bought new 2014, as new, never wet. $6,950. 0429 429 330.
PRINCESS Norm split (yellow) pair. Western Rosella males. 0488 903 718.
WANTED Hen Regent parrot. Male Blue Princess parrot. 0488 903 718.
VY Commodore sedan 2004. Good kms, 4 mths rego, ex cond. $6,000 ono. 0427 873 677.
WANTED: 740 Volvo wagon rear door, prefer white. 0405 700 080.
SPECTRUM THEATREProudlove Parade (under UWA)
AUDITIONS“A HOME FOR STRAY CATS”
A Murder Mystery Thriller by John KirkpatrickCo-directed by Jenny Crostin & Darian Mercuri
Sunday 15th January 1-3pm & Tuesday 17th at 7pmor by previous arrangement with Darian
10 people required, various ages and gendersFor enquiries contact Darian on 0430 781 477
CASTINGWanted: Singers & Helpers
Sound of MusicPresented by
Albany Light Opera & Theatre Company
Information NightWednesday 18th
January @ 7.00pmPort Theatre,
Princess Royal DriveAuditions – 28th & 29th
Keep updated
More info Anne Davidson 0419 605 672
Albany Light Opera Theatre Company
The 2017 Dads’ Support Group begins on Saturday, February 11, and will be held on every second Saturday of the month.
When: 10am Where: 121c Aberdeen Street, Albany.
The Dads’ Support Group is facilitated by the Men’s Resource Centre and provides information, support and friendship for new
dads or fathers who have special needs.
Contact: 9841 4777, [email protected] information at www.mensresourcecentre.org.au
DADS’ SUPPORT GROUP
NOTICE OF MEETINGSkål International Albany advises members that the Club’s 2017 AGM will be held on Wednesday, February 1, at 6pm
at Le Grande Motel, Albany Highway. The regular monthly meeting will follow. All members are encouraged to attend.
President: John Woodbury. Secretary: Bronwyn O’Flanagan.
The Bureau of Meteorology gives no warranty of any kind whether express, implied, stat-utory or otherwise in respect to the availability, accuracy, cur-rency, completeness, quality or reliability of the information or that the information will be fi t for any particular purpose or will not infringe any third party Intellectual Property rights.The Bureau’s liability for any loss, damage, cost or expense resulting from use of, or reli-ance on, the information is en-tirely excluded.
WeekenderTides Information
GSSMA Open Day, Sat 21st Jan, 2-5pm at Dowsetts on Sanford Rd. Rocker cover races, sausage sizzle. All welcome. More info 0416 024 250.
PHOTOGRAPHIC swap meet 8-2, Sat 14th Jan, St John’s Hall, York St. Enq 0428 413 986.
CLASSIFIEDS 9842 2787 DEADLINES: Display & Lineage ads 5pm Tuesday
traderCLASSIFIED ADVERTISING DEADLINE
Display & Lineage 5pm TUESDAY. Until Sold rebooking - 4pm TUESDAYAll advertisements are accepted on the following Terms and Conditions.
1. The Great Southern Weekender has the right to refuse to publish or republish any advertisement without giving any reason therefore.2. No liability shall be incurred by The Weekender by reason of any amendments to or error or inaccuracy in, or the partial or total omission of an advertisement or by reason of delay or default or from any
other cause whatsoever, provided that if an error occurs which in the opinion of The Weekender clearly lessens the value of the advertisement and the advertiser notifi es The Weekender of the error within fi ve (5) days of when the error appeared, then one correct insertion will be made without charge.
*UNTIL SOLD CONDITIONSFirst 75 characters, or part thereof including spaces: $27 - OR - fi rst 75 characters, or part thereof including spaces, PLUS a photo for 2 weeks and lineage-only thereafter: $44. Each additional 25 characters, or part thereof: $2.75. All adverts must be pre-paid. Ads are restricted to private advertisers, and will be run for two consecutive weeks. If your item does not sell within that two-week period you MUST RE-BOOK it prior to the booking deadline of 4.00pm Tuesday. These ads must be reconfi rmed each week thereafter. If more than one week lapses the item will be deemed sold, and the ad cannot be repeated unless paid for. Once published the ONLY thing to change will be the PRICE. Not included in the offer are any business ads, rental hire, employment etc for the purpose of ongoing profi t. Any real estate ads or garage sales are also excluded as are references to internet sites or businesses. ONLY ONE ITEM PER UNTIL SOLD AD.
SELL IT FASTER 9842 2787F: 9842 2789E: [email protected] Stead Road, Albany
Run your ad until sold.
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52 The Weekender, January 12, 2017
BIRTHDAYS
CELEBRANTS
DEATHS
BOATS
CARAVANS
CARAVANS CARAVANS
EMPLOYMENT
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THANK YOU
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
SELL IT FAST 9842 2787
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BIG red fi re engine, parties, hens’ nights, limo. 9842 2468.
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From the Motley Crew
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MOGGYBIRTHDAYBIRTHDAY
ACCREDITED celebrant, Gaye Morton. 0417 907 454. Ceremonies for all occasions.
JILL Duxbury CMC, all ceremonies, any day. Find me on Facebook, South Coast Ceremonies with Jill Duxbury. 9844 9205.
KEN Ewers-Verge, CMC. 9841 5552.
HALLIGAN, Jean: Long-serving member of the Orchid Society. Sympathy to her family.
The Bethany Family caring for your family
9841 7177All hours
1 Prior StreetProudly Albany owned & operated
Albany South Coast Lions
3.7M Stacer, VGC, 15hp Johnson, safety gear, sounder, galv trailer, good deck and storage. All lic. $3,250 ono. 0438 414 342.
4.2M Infl atable boat, alum. deck, new cond, $1,400 ono. 15hp Maxus short shaft outboard motor, new cond, with fuel tank and spare prop. $1,500 ono. 0428 453 221.
4.2M Quintrex Dory wide beam, fully equipped. 30hp Yamaha outboard, galv. Dunbier trailer. $8,000 ono. 9840 9235.
8.3M Fishing boat, 100hp Perkins dsl. All offshore safety gear incl new elec anchor winch fi tted with plough anchor. Many extras incl in sale. Phone for list. Penned at Emu Point. All in exc cond. $19,000. Ken 0401 085 150.
10.5M live-on-board boat. Caterpillar engine + drive system. 400L fuel tanks. Very economical to run. Great for overnighters /holidays. 4 berth with galley and toilet. Lots spent recently, new electronics, radios, safety gear, bilge pumps, etc. All painted ready to go anywhere. $25,000 ono. Ph: 9844 6562.
11.5FT Sail dinghy, Heron, wood with 4 sail, main sail, 3.5hp outboard, trailer etc. $900 ono. 0427 387 552.
12FT alum. dinghy with trailer, lic, 6hp Johnson. $1,700 ono. 9841 8705.
20FT aluminium boat, many extras. 9841 6210.
FINN Spindrift 3 metre twin hull dinghy. Width 1.25 metres, carrying capacity 225kg and rated to 6hp motor. Weight 55kg. In good condition. $750. 0417 962 941.
SKIPPER’S Ticket, Albany & Gt Sthn. Boat supplied free, 1 on 1 or groups, 7 days a week. Mark, 0428 429 911.
YACHT 22ft, ‘Baci’ sloop rigged coach house, bunks & galley. $8,000 ono. 9842 1056.
CARAVAN shell, unlic, buyer to collect. $100. For pics or more info call 0437 323 045.
FIFTH wheeler, 30ft, 2006. Custom painted, triple slide-outs, GMC crew cab, 6.6L turbo diesel, auto. Must sell, make an offer. Will sell fi fth wheeler separately as live-in accommodation. 0429 925 930.
JAYCO Freedom 2004, pop-top, dual axle, r/o awning, solar panel, long single beds, 3-way fridge, m/wave, gas stove, r/c air con, lic till April 2017, ex cond. $13,750. 0428 422 747.
MOTORHOME Toyota Hilux, 1989 with shower, TV etc. Very good condition. $14,000 ono. 0427 059 126.
PARAMOUNT Delta, 19.6ft, 2006, dual axle, R/O awning & full annexe, island D/B, 3-wat fridge, new m/wave, full stove, A/C. $26,000. 9844 7257.
ROADSTER 15ft, 2 single beds, excellent condition. $10,800. 0408 955 759.
TOYOTA Hilux camper, 2002, solar panel, fridge, new Fiama awning, gas stove. Many extras incl. $16,000. 9844 7257.
COMMUNICATIONS, MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS OFFICER
1.0 FTE – $73,717 per annum (12-month contract)
Are you looking for an opportunity to progress your career whilst working for a high-performing non-government organisation in the environmental sector?
South Coast Natural Resource Management is seeking a dynamic and knowledgeable person to drive improvements and new approaches to communications, marketing and promotions that generate greater stakeholder engagement and understanding, and increased income from donors and funders.
Based in Albany, this challenging and exciting role provides the opportunity to complete a suite of defi ned tasks that will advance the career of aspiring communications, marketing and promotions professionals.
For a copy of the job description, selection criteria and application process follow the links at(http://southcoastnrm.com.au/frontpage/job-vacancies) or contact Ms Joanne Headlam at [email protected]; 9845 8537 or 0427 121 583.
Applications close at 5pm, Monday 16 January 2016
COOKQuality Suites Banksia Gardens Albany is seeking a qualifi ed cook to perform the role of Kitchen Supervisor and who will contribute to the ongoing success of our organisation and re-launch of our restaurant in early 2017.The person we are looking for is hands on, reliable, honest, fl exible and has a “Can do” attitude at all times.We are seeking someone with:• The pride and pleasure of producing great dishes in short time • Punctuality and reliability• Great communication skills and a friendly personality • An eye for detail and a true passion for food• The ability to supervise, manage, motivate and mentor staff• Food safety knowledge (knowledge with food safety programs would be an advantage)• OHS knowledge• Excellent organisational skills• Excellent time-management skills• The ability to be fl exible with hours and rostered days• The ability to work as part of a team• A good sense of humour• A positive outlook and attitudeIf you have the above attributes and are a self-starting “go getter” then Quality Suites Banksia Gardens Albany is looking forward to speaking with you.You will be rewarded with an excellent working environment, supportive management team, attractive hours and uniforms.Applications close Monday 23th January 2017To apply for this position or for any further details please contact Sam Allen or drop into our offi ce with a resume.
At Pioneer Health Dental we are committed to delivering high-quality dental care to our patients and are looking for a full-time permanent Dental Assistant to join our team. A Cert III or IV in Dental Assisting and 3 years’ experience is essential.
DENTAL ASSISTANT
REMUNERATION WILL BE ABOVE THE AWARD RATEIf you think this is an opportunity for you please email your CV to [email protected] or call Michael on 0424 894 359.
• Be well presented• Have excellent command of English
and good communication skills• Be organised and have initiative• Have excellent clinical skills• Ensure service and patient care is a
priority
• Keep accurate and up-to-date records• Maintain required stock levels• Sterilise instruments and maintain
infection control standards• Help at reception from time to time
The successful candidate needs to:
SUPPORT WORKER / FINANCE ASSISTANTKatanning Regional Emergency
Accommodation Centre
For further information and to obtain the criteria for this position, contact Shell: 9821 4008
Applications close Friday 10th February 2017
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced person to fi ll this position. The successful applicant will work 30 hours per week and
needs to be on-call every third week.Essential Skills:
• Police Clearance • Working with Children • Driver’s Licence • Own Transport • MYOB • Able to be away for overnight training
• Able to do on-call every third weekPreferred:
• Experience with working in a multicultural community• Computer knowledge • Experience in ‘Not-For-Profi t’
organisation an advantageWe Offer:
• Award wage • 30 hours per week • 4 weeks’ annual leave plus 17.5% leave loading
• A friendly and safe workplaceApplications addressing the selection criteria
should be addressed to:Manager
Katanning Regional Emergency Accommodation CentrePO Box 883, KATANNING WA 6317
Permanent position available for:• DENMARK – STARTING ASAP, 2017
4th week of every month to deliver 2,125 newspapers to
• KOJONUP/KATANNING AREACan be split into 2 sep areas.
DISTRIBUTORS WANTED
Apply at 107 Stead Road or call Mandy 9842 2788.
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* This document is intended to provide general securities advice only and has been prepared without taking account of anyone’s objectives, fi nancial situation or needs and therefore before acting on information contained in this document you should consider its appropriateness having regard to all your personal circumstances.
Santos Ltd (STO) Recommendation:
take up SPPSANTOS is the second-largest Australian pure oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Papua New Guinea.
We are expecting a brighter period ahead for Santos with production forecast to increase by 22 per cent to more than 70 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe).
This is thanks to new east-coast coal seam gas to liquid natural gas (LNG) and increased product ion f rom i ts Papua New Guinea LNG projects.
We recommend that existing shareholders apply for up to $15,000 of additional shares via the recently announced Share Purchase Plan (SPP).
The SPP issue price will be the lesser of AU$4.06 per share or a two per cent discount to the fi ve-day
volume weighted average price immediately prior to the closing date.
At AU$4.06 the offer i s a t a 23 per cent discount to Morningstar’s fair value estimate of AU$5.30 per share and there are no brokerage or transaction costs to apply for additional shares.
The SPP may be subject to scale back.
The SPP forms part of Santos’ AU$1.5 billion capital raising with AU$1 billion already locked in via an institutional placement at AU$4.06.
Proceeds will be used to reduce debt, further removing uncertainty around Santos’ ability
to operate profi tably in a sustained lower oil price environment.
Core goals remain to target debt reduction through maximising operating cash fl ow, sales of non-core assets and releasing capital from infrastructure.
Post-raising net debt declines by one quarter to AU$4.3 billion, net debt/equity from 66 per cent to 44 per cent, and net debt/EBITDA more than halves from 4.2 to sub 2.0.
The capital raising should remove virtually any doubt about Santos’ viability without diluting shareholders to any meaningful extent.
With capital expenditure now being run largely in maintenance-only mode, Morningstar are forecasting free cash fl ow in excess of AU$1 billion, sufficient to drive net debt/EBITDA below 1.0 from 2019.
T h i s i n c l u d e s a reinstatement of a 40 per cent payout ratio from 2018.
The company’s fair value estimate of $5.30 per share equates to a 2017 EV/EBITDA of 5.9, a free cash fl ow yield of 8.9 per cent and a P/E of 16.9.
– Cafi ero Pietropaolodirector, wealth
management
Bright future for Santos
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Legalease
In Shawl v Anglican Community Services (ACS) [2016] FWC 5990, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) found that Ms Shawl, a carer at an aged-care facility operated by ACS, who was terminated for slapping a resident on the mouth, was unfairly terminated.
The slap was witnessed by a col-league who was in the room at the time of the incident. The colleague reported that Ms Shawl, who was attending the resident, who was screaming, slapped him with her right hand when he would not be quiet. The colleague said that the slap was loud and could be heard over the resident’s screaming.
Ms Shawl denied that she slapped the resident and instead claimed that she had brought her right hand towards the resident so that it was in front of his mouth and without touch-ing him said “Shh! Please be quiet”.
After considering the evidence the FWC found that, on the balance of probabilities, Ms Shawl did not slap the resident and therefore there was no valid reason for dismissal.
The FWC took into account:
1. The lack of any physical evi-dence on the resident of abuse.
2. The lack of corroborative evidence from any other party. The resident suffered from dementia and could not give evidence.
3. The lack of any history of com-plaints, over approximately 15 years of employment, that Ms Shawl had engaged in any conduct of violent, abusive or intemperate nature.
4. The evidence that the colleague at the time of the incident was stand-ing behind the resident and there-fore would not have been able to clearly see the physical contact.
Ms Shawl, who was not seeking re-instatement, was awarded $16,000 in compensation.
The Full Bench of the FWC has re-fused permission for ACS to appeal the judgment.
The decision causes confl ict for aged-care providers who are faced with extremely onerous obligations regarding the welfare of their resi-dents and under the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth). Additionally, incidents of elder abuse can cause extreme damage to an aged-care provider’s brand, as has been evident in recent times.
We recommend that a thorough investigation be undertaken when-ever incidents, which may lead to termination, arise. The decision to terminate employment must only be made after very careful considera-tion of all of the evidence gathered from such an investigation. Relevant factors to consider include whether the alleged assault was actually seen and whether there is any ani-mosity between witnesses, such as to raise ulterior motives for reporting.
Th e Slap, allegedly54 The Weekender, January 12, 2017
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Are you ready?Scheme water cannot be guaranteed during a bushfireWater Corporation is prepared for bushfire season. However, we cannot guarantee that water pressure or water supply will be maintained in the event of a bushfire. Extreme demand, fire damage and power cuts can all result in a total loss of water.
If you plan to stay and defend your property during a bushfire, you must have your own independent water supply and pumping capability, and must not rely on scheme water.
Full details about how to prepare for the bushfire season can be found at emergency.wa.gov.au
CITY OF ALBANY ORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING CALENDAR FOR 2017
2017 ORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING DATES
CITY OF ALBANY ORDINARY COMMITTEE MEETING CALENDAR 2017
2017 COMMITTEE MEETING DATESNote: All Committee Meetings commence at 6.00pm
City of Albany Notice
PUBLIC NOTICES
Month Year Ordinary Meeting (6.00pm)
January 2017 NO MEETING
February 2017 28 February 2017
March 2017 28 March 2017
April 2017 26 April 2017 (Wednesday)
May 2017 23 May 2017
June 2017 27 June 2017
July 2017 25 July 2017
August 2017 22 August 2017
September 2017 26 September 2017
October 2017 24 October 2017
November 2017 28 November 2017
December 2017 19 December 2017
Commercial, Community & Corporate Services
Development & Infrastructure Services
No Meetings Scheduled for January 2017
Tues 14 February 2017 Wed 15 February 2017
Tues 14 March 2017 Wed 15 March 2017
Tues 11 April 2017 Wed 12 April 2017
Tues 9 May 2017 Wed 10 May 2017
Tues 13 June 2017 Wed 14 June 2017
Tues 11 July 2017 Wed 12 July 2017
Tues 8 August 2017 Wed 9 August 2017
Tues 12 September 2017 Wed 13 September 2017
Tues 10 October 2017 Wed 11 October 2017
Tues 14 November 2017 Wed 15 November 2017
Tues 5 December 2017 Wed 6 December 2017
Albany South Coast Lions invite past & present members to an Australia Day Breakfast.
The Den, No.3 Allerton Rd. 8:30 – 9:00 start, January 26.
Will also open two time capsules. RSVP by 20-1-17 to
0488 423 468 or 0407 423 468.
REAL ESTATE
STORAGE
PUBLIC NOTICES
FOR LEASE
FOR RENT
FOR SALE
SITUATIONS WANTED
WANTED TO LEASE
MT BARKER sheep grazing land for lease. 72 acres. Negotiable rates. 0428 696 772.
UNIT 1x1x1, Mira Mar, new, near the beach. $210 p/w plus bond. 0409 130 193.
HOME for sale Middleton Beach. 39 Golf Links Road. 9842 1828 or 0458 441 828.
LIFESTYLE, 100 acres. Sheds, accommodation, soaks, dam, bore, ute. Enquiries 9845 3080.
LEASE land wanted. 50-500 acres. Prefer Albany – Porongurups. John 0477 721 317.
CASUAL work required. Anything considered. Replies to The Weekender. 98422 788.
BUDGET self-storage units, from $25 p/w (month min), avail now. Ideal Storage. 9842 2395.
CITY Centre Secure Storage, 52 Cockburn Rd, Albany, 18m2 & 21m2 units available now. Payment options. Call Derek at Wellington & Reeves. 9841 1455.
Ask us about posters, stubbie holders, magazines, booklets, greeting cards, stickers and more...
GET IT GET IT PRINTEDPRINTED
Your locally-owned newspaperPh 9842 2788Ph 9842 2788
community noticesWalking
OVER 50s walking group will meet on Saturday, January 14, at 9am, at Serpentine Road fi rst car park, for a walk at Mt Melville. Contact 9844 8536 after 6.00pm.
OVER 50s easy pace walkers will meet on Saturday, January 14, at 9.30am, at Esplanade, Lower King, to walk in the area. BYO morning tea. Con-tact 9847 4462.
PhotographersALBANY Photographic So-
ciety will hold a photographic swap meet, on Saturday, Janu-ary 14, at 9am, in St John’s Hall. Contact [email protected] or 9841 1386.
DanceDENMARK Country Music
Club night will be on Satur-day, January 14, at 8pm, at the Bornholm Hall. Members $10, non members $12, bring a plate. Contact 9841 8538.
Workshop VANCOUVER Art Cen-
tre will host a Retro Sound Workshop for ages 8 to14, on Tuesday, January 17, from 10.30 to noon or 12.30 to 2pm. Contact 6820 3741.
CyclingOVER 50s cycling group will
meet on Wednesday, January 18, at 9am, at the Youngs Sid-ing Store for the 42km Anvil Beach Ride. Coffee mid ride at Blueberry Farm. Contact 0418 647 897.
OVER 50s easy riders will meet on Wednesday, January 18, at 9am, at Eyre Park, for a ride to King River, Coraki Park. Contact 0429 453 085.
BowlsEMU Point Sporting Club
will have a special meeting, to discuss new greens, on Thursday, January 19, at 7pm.
MarketsTHE Outdoor Craft Markets
will be held every Saturday morning in January, at St. John’s Church, from 8am to 1pm. Enquiries to 9841 8212.
LeukaemiaFRIENDS of the Leuke-
mia Foundation will meet on Wednesday, February 1, at 4.30pm, at Motel Le Grande. Contact 0408 094 817 or email [email protected]
U3ATHE University of the Third
Age is in recess. Lectures recommence on February 3. Phone 9844 7404.
MeetingOVER 50s next General
Meeting will be held in Feb-ruary 2017. The Over 50s offi ce is closed until Monday, February 6.
LeukaemiaFRIENDS of the Leuke-
mia Foundation will meet on Wednesday, February 15, at 4.30pm, at Motel Le Grande. There will then be a sun-downer with Foundation staff. Contact 0408 094 817.
LeukaemiaFRIENDS of the Leukemia
Foundation will host a charity golf day (three-person Am-brose) on Sunday, March 12, at Riverview Golf Club. $90 per team. Contact 0428 441 227.
Square dancingSQUARE dancing is held
every third Saturday, at 7.30pm, in the King River Hall. Contact 9841 6253. Be-ginners welcome.
EckankarECKANKAR Sunday ser-
vice will be held on the fi rst Sunday of every month at
10am till noon, at Albany Bridge Club, Mill Street. En-quiries to 9842 9531.
Old FarmTHE Old Farm Strawberry
Hill requires volunteers for house tours. Contact 0417 230 756.
Over 50sOVER 50s offi ce at Sport and
Recreation House, 22 Collie Street, is open from 11am to noon on Mondays and 2pm to 3pm on Fridays.
ScrabbleSCRABBLE Club meets
every Monday from 9am to 1pm at the Bridge Club in Mill Street. Phone 9844 8668.
LupusALBANY Branch of the
Arthritis Foundation has in-formation on Lupus. Contact 1800 011 041 (Perth) or 9842 9229.
DanceLATIN, ballroom and other
fun dances are held on Fri-days at Albany CWA Hall. Beginners classes are at 7pm, classes at 7.30, social dancing at 8.30. Entry fee $10. Phone 0417 948 155.
VolunteersBETHEL Aged Care needs
volunteers for its guest speaker spot, part of its resident activ-ity program. Phone Kirsten on Tuesday or Wednesday on 9842 3263.
CollectorsALBANY Collectors Club
meets at 1.30pm, on the third Sunday of every month, in the WA Museum, Residency Road. Enquiries to 9842 2915.
Make-A-WishALBANY’S Make-A-Wish
foundation is seeking new members. If you can spare time, please call 0418 124 805.
SigningA JUSTICE of the Peace is
on duty at the Albany Court House every weekday between 10am and 1pm to sign affi da-vits and statutory declarations.
Irish DanceIRISH Dance classes for
fun and fitness, with tradi-tional and new choreographed dances to upbeat Celtic tunes. Beg to Adv. Thursdays from 3.45pm. All enquiries 0404 126 014.
ToysRAINBOW Coast Toy Li-
brary, behind the PCYC in Sanford Road, is available Saturdays 10am-noon dur-ing school terms. Enquiries to 0435 981 783 or [email protected]
SeniorsBROADBAND for Seniors
is held regularly at Worklink in the Centrelink building on Peels Place. Call 9841 7741.
Snake removalIF YOU need a venomous
snake or other reptile removed, free licensed reptile reloca-tors are available. Call 0409 753 997.
ElvisELVIS Fans meet at the
Women’s Rest Centre, lower York Street, on the second Sunday of each month at 2pm. Details on 9841 7131.
BadmintonALBANY Badminton Club
will meet every Tuesday and Thursday at 8pm at PCYC. Enquiries to 0407 916 854.
BridgeALBANY Bridge Club meets
in Mill Street on Tuesday at 10am, Thursdays at 1pm and Fridays at 7pm. Classes avail-able. Call 9841 2642.
CraftTHE Redmond Stitchers
meet every Tuesday from 10am to 3pm at the Redmond Progress Hall, Redmond-Hay River Road. BYO lunch. Phone 9842 5377.
Al-AnonIF your home is unhappy
because someone drinks too much we can help you. Con-tact 9844 8148 after 5pm.
Men’s shedsKATANNING Men’s Shed
meets every Wednesday at 9am at the shed behind Stocko’s. Contact 9821 2197.
TAMBELLUP Men’s Shed meets every Wednesday at 1pm. Contact 9842 7544.
DepressionTHE Depression Support
Network Albany is open from 10am to 3pm, Tuesday to Thursday, 39 Mokare Rd, Spencer Park. Contact Jo 0428 289 578.
Civilian widowsCIVILIAN widows meet
every fourth Thursday, at the White Star Hotel, at noon for lunch. For more information phone 9841 8920.
Art groupALBANY Art Group will
meet on Mondays at 10am in the art room at the VAC. Details on 9842 8820.
Bereaved parentsCOMPASSIONATE Friends,
a bereaved parents support group, meets at 7pm on the third Monday each month at The Lighthouse, 39 Albert Street, Albany. Phone 9842 1519 between 9am and 3pm for details.
Rock and RollALBANY Rock and Roll
Club meets every Sunday at the Albany Bowling Club between 5 and 7pm. Contact 0429 464 362 or www.clu-brock.org.au
Tae Kwon DoALBANY’S World Tae
Kwon Do Federation affili-ated club trains on Monday, Wednesday and Friday Nights. Call 0477 288 603.
ArcheryRAINBOW Coast Archers
now shoot on Saturdays, with a 12.30pm muster and 1pm start, at Simpson Road, off Chester Pass Road, with free coaching. Contact 9844 7938.
MarketsMANYPEAKS Indoor Mar-
ket is held on the third Sunday of every month, between 10am and 2pm, in the community hall. Stallholder enquiries are welcome. Call 0419 935 155 for more information.
Alzheimer’sHAWTHORN House, now
on Henry Street in Milpara, has support groups for those supporting someone with memory loss due to dementia. Details on 9841 3755.
Parkinson’s diseasePARKINSON’S Support
Group meets on the fi rst Tues-day of each month, at Lotteries House, at 10am. Queries to 9841 8997.
Family historyRESEARCH your family
history at Albany Public Li-brary. Volunteer help is avail-able, on Tuesdays and Fridays, from 9.30am to noon. Contact 9841 7446.
SwimmingALBANY Master Swimmers
meet at ALAC, on Sundays, at 1pm, or offer instruction, with a qualifi ed swimming instruc-tor, on Wednesdays at 6.30pm. Phone 9844 9401.
The Weekender, January 12, 2017 57sport
sport results
ALBANY Cricket As-sociat ion’s A Grade double-header weekend continued on Sunday with Round 11, as North County went up against Collingwood Park and Denmark hosted Rail-ways at McLean Park.
Manypeaks had the bye, which was a shame, as momentum was high from the previous day’s demolition of Railways.
County elected to bat but by the 24th over their innings was over with just 87.
Craig Tonkin displayed his dependable veteran prowess with the highest score of 25.
County left the crease with two ducks and two out for one apiece and got ready to fi eld and retain some dignity.
C o l l i n g wo o d Pa r k backed up their previous days strong performance with a superb bowling performance, with Bryce Jackson fl ying high to fi n-ish with an awesome 5/21 off seven overs.
Ben Carter followed suit, securing a sizzling 3/18 also off seven overs and Ben Grey rounded it out with a jaw-dropping 2/1 off 1.5 overs.
ATHLETICSRESULTS of the Albany
Athletics Club, Track & Field, January 4.
Triple jump: M65 D. Smith 7.84m, W65 C. Dickason 5.48m, Vis: MU18 A. Jones 11.29m.
Discus: M30 C. Robson 22.73m, M65 D. Smith 22.28m, M75 P. Muller 20.61m, W65 C. Dickason 14.19m, F36 C. Erenshaw 5.61m. Vis: MU18 A. Jones 29.54m.
100m: W65 C. Dickason 23.55s, T36 C. Erenshaw 49.94s. Vis: MU18 A. Jones 12.59s. 800m: W65 C. Dicka-son 4m08.5s (Record). 1,500m: M60 S. Fretton 6m57.74s, W65 C. Dickason 8m29.04s.
GOLFRESULTS of Albany Golf Club.
January 7. Men: Mark Blyth Fine Jewellery Stableford: Nett: J. Hodgkinson 42, B. Mason, B. Gors 41, M. Bassett 39, R. Fagents, D. Burkett, L. Sumich 38, B. Osman, R. Williams, D. Cook, M. Marwick, S. Pi-etrapaolo, A. Kinsey, N. Tutt, C. Haven 36, B. Walker, N. Sewell, L. Branch-Smith, D. Garrood, S. Opalinski, J. Hills, G. Basden, E. Orzel 35. Gross: S. Griskonis 34.
WOMEN: Stroke: Nett: G. Kneale 36, G. Waugh, S. Tre-venen 33, T. Hunter 32, H. Groves 31.
January 5. Women: Stroke: T. Hunter 71, L. Wilson 71, K. Steicke 72, S. Trevenen 72, M. Bradshaw 73, N. Filipowski 73, H. Warren 73. 9 Hole: B. Smith 20, V. Spitz 219, J. Austin 17.
Tuesday Scroungers: I. Moran
20, W. Ferguson 20, M. Cum-mins 20.
January 4 . Wednesday Scroungers: Elders Insurance Albany – Par: Nett: E. Orzel +3, M. Marwick, F. Green +2, B. Maxwell, D. Michael +2, B. Lowrie, N. Ham, A. Muir, P. Da-vis, R. Willcocks +1, M. Davies, N. Tutt, B. Gors, D. Nichols, E. Ackland, G. Wilcox, C. Ridley Sq. Gross: D. Northcott -3.
RIFLERESULTS of the Albany Rifl e
Club on Saturday, January 7.
The Albany Rifl e Club Shot from 300 metres, with two pos-sibles scored, one in Target Rifl e by visitor L. O’Donnel with a 50.2, and a possible scored in F/Class by B. Thompson (60.8).
Target rifl e top off rifl e was L. Loxton with 96.3 and she
also had the top handicap with 99.2. F/Class top off rifl e was B. Thompson with 114.9 and he also had the top handicap score of 119.4.
Scores: F/Class: T. Broad O/R 110.5, H/C 119.090, P. Jones O/R 93.3, H/C 117.750, T. Jeffery O/R 60.0, H/C 117.140, S. Ansquer O/R 104.2, H/C 119.109, b. Thompson O/R 114.9, H/C 119.400, B. Price O/R 110.4, H/C 119.090, D. Attwood O/R 98.3, H/C 117.998 and visitors A. Griffiths O/R 107.5 and Pete O/R 101.3. Target Rifl e – L. Loxton O/R 96.3, H/C 99.200, S. McDonald O/R 91.3, H/C 97.000, D. Sobik O/R 90.3, H/C 98.333, L. Jones O/R 52, H/C 97.667 and visitor L. O’Donnel O/R 96.4.
The next shoot will be a 105 from 600m, 700m and 800m on January 14.
(33) and Jack Steele (26) and opener Coen Mar-wick (20). Captain Matt Wolfe made 35 not out.
Denmark’s Matthew El-lul had another good day with the ball finishing with 2/41.
Railways fi nished their innings at a challenging 5/246.
Peter Ross impressed again with the bat, top scoring for Denmark (35), Matt Burton (22), Ryan Gaerth (24) and Atkinson (16).
But at the end of 28 overs the innings was over and Denmark fin-ished with 126.
Coen Marwick was ex-ceptional with the ball, capturing 3/42 off 7.1 overs; Walters 2/19, 1 maiden off fi ve overs im-pressed as did Ryan Tin-dale 2/21, 1 maiden off 6 overs. Simon Harvey was blistering with 2/7 and Carl Evers secured 1/35.
Players will have to be content with the nets for a few weeks and don’t return to the pitch until Saturday, January 28, for Round 12. Manypeaks will be at home to Den-mark and Railways will host North County at Tigerland. Collingwood have the bye.
– Nicolette Mulcahy
Manypeaks’ Myles O’Meehan (left) celebrates the dismissal of Railways’ Carl Evers on Saturday.
Collingwood Park began their innings with buoyed confi dence.
Opener Mathew Heberle made 13 but the top order collapse of Ben Grey and Josh Duane, both out for a duck, was bittersweet.
Nathan Dovey steadied the onslaught with 17, along with captain Tim Pyle (22), Hayden Burl-ing (18) and Ben Carter (10 not out).
Park held on and by 37.1 overs had secured victory - all out for 110.
County’s performance with the ball was a high-light. Harry Broomhall, ever consistent, shone on the day with a mouth-watering 5/18 off 10 overs. Fabian Bolton im-pressed with 3/18 and Gary McGlade was solid fi nishing with 2/35.
The previous day’s per-formance when they were well beaten was long for-gotten and Railways gave an awesome display with the bat after they won the toss against Denmark at McLean Park to close out Round 11.
Matthew Walters made 99, so close to the ton, and was ably assisted at the crease by Hayden Davies
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COLUMN COURTESY OFI HAVE always been a big supporter of rock fi shing safety and the wearing of PFDs (personal fl oatation devices/life jacket) as rock fi shing claims way too many lives, many of which could have been saved if a PFD was worn.
But over the last few years I have started to form a strong opinion that PFDs should be worn all the time in boats and if you are fi shing alone.
I believe it should be enforced by law.
An incident in Exmouth last week was the perfect example of how things can go wrong in an instant and become life threaten-ing.
A very keen and expe-rienced Exmouth angler was fi shing out wide from the cape trolling for mar-
managed to tread water until he was lucky enough to be picked up by a pass-ing boat.
A remarkable survival story and one that could have ended with yet an-other boating death in WA.
In this case wearing a PFD would have made keeping afl oat a lot easier and saved a lot of energy.
But if you or I had found ourselves in the same situation could we have kept afl oat for six hours?
I know 100 per cent for sure that I wouldn’t.
With each loss of life
THE need for regular vessel and equipment mainte-nance and carriage of in-date fl ares will be reinforced when the Department of Transport (DoT) Marine safety education team visits the South Coast next week.
Manager safety education Laurie Adams said the DoT trailer would visit boating hot spots at Walpole, Denmark, Albany and Bremer Bay to promote safety on the water.
Mr Adams said the clear message to boat owners was to make safety the priority when planning a voyage by following the steps in DoT’s free boat maintenance BEST Check guide.
“The guide shows skippers the ‘BEST’ safety checklist which identifi es items under the headings boat, equipment, safety equipment and trailer to be maintained before each trip and includes an annual 45 point check,” Mr Adams said.
Marine safety educators to give skippers tips on safe boating, copies of free boating guides and other free publications and stickers.
The trailer will be in Walpole/Denmark on Friday, January13; Albany, Saturday, January 14; and Bremer Bay, Sunday, January 15.
lin. He had just released a fair-sized blue mar-lin when he dropped his camera over the side and in his attempts to grab it he overbalanced and fell overboard.
This was bad enough but the engine was in gear and the boat started mov-ing away from him. So he was in the ocean wearing only a pair of shorts and a pair of gloves and in deep trouble.
The next six hours proved to be a true test of human endurance as he
due to a boating accident I try and fi nd out as much about what went wrong for a few reasons.
I am making sure, as much as humanly pos-sible, that I don’t put myself in the same situa-tion, that if things happen out of my control I have the equipment on hand to make survival possible.
The one big thing is that most of this type of incident happens very quickly.
Most of the victims did not have time to don their life jackets or grab other survival gear such as
EPIRBs or fl ares before they found themselves in the water, thus cut-ting down their chance of survival.
I pose these simple ques-tions to all boat owners: Have you ever put your life jacket on? Have your crew ever put one of your life jackets on?
Do you do a safety talk to all new crew and ex-plain all the safety gear on your boat? Are your life jackets in a place where everybody on board can grab one in a few sec-onds?
Answer all these ques-
tions to yourself and I will let you make your own mind up on what you do about it.
Again, I implore any-body who fi shes in a boat by themselves to always wear a PFD and look at getting a personal EPIRB as well.
As for the rest of you skippers out there, please make sure that everybody who gets on your craft know about the place-
ment and how to use the boat’s safety equipment.
Look at getting PFDs for yourself and your crew to wear all the time.
Safety equipment is available in Albany at Albany Rods and Tackle, BCF Albany, GB Marine, Rusty’s Marine, Trail-blazers and Watercraft Marine.
– Alby
Andrew Jarvis wearing his PFD which did not restrict him catching a solid Two Peoples Bay sambo.
Time for anglers to get serious about safety
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SUN and tide times on the South Coast are as follows. Tide times are printed for Albany. Add 15 minutes for Bremer Bay, subtract 15 minutes for Walpole.
Friday, January 13: Sunrise: 5.08am, Sunset: 7.26pm: Tides: 7.23am 0.2m, 11.32pm 1.1m.
Saturday, January 14: Sunrise: 5.09am, Sunset: 7.25pm: Tides: 7.48am 0.27m, 11.53pm 1.03m.
Sunday, January 15: Sunrise: 5.10am, Sunset: 7.25pm. Tides: 7.49am 0.34m.
Monday, January 16: Sunrise: 5.11am, Sunset: 7.25pm. Tides: 12.04am 0.95m, 7.56am 0.41m, 11.38pm 0.88m.
Tuesday, January 17: Sunrise: 5.12am, Sunset: 7.25pm. Tides: 8.03am 0.45m, 1.06pm 0.57m. 4.04pm 0.55, 11.36pm 0.83.
Wednesday, January 18: Sunrise: 5.13am, Sunset: 7.24pm. Tides: 7.23am 0.47m, 12.52pm 0.63m, 4.28pm 0.6, 11.20pm 0.79m.
Thursday, January 19: Sunrise: 5.14am, Sunset: 7.24pm. Tides: 7.13am 0.46m, 1.45pm 0.67m, 4.21pm 0.66, 10.49pm 0.77m.
GIVE these times a try this weekend.Saturday: 12.12am – 12.32am, 12.22am, major
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ALBANY Cricket Asso-ciation A Grade players returned to the crease last weekend for a double-header which provided varied results for all teams.
On Saturday, Rail-ways played Manypeaks and Denmark took on Collingwood Park in Round 10, while on Sun-day, North County played Collingwood Park and Denmark met Railways for Round 11.
Railways hosted Peaks, batting after winning the toss. But the good news ended there as they only made a dismal 71.
Openers Coen Marwick (0) and Hayden Davies (1) went cheaply with another two ducks and six batsmen scoring less than 10 apiece, refl ecting a mediocre innings.
Matt Wolfe carried the team showing fortitude to reach the highest score of 31.
Many Peaks bowlers and fieldsmen were on fi re and had come to win. Wade Anning was awe-some fi nishing with 3/5 (two maidens off four) overs, Brendan Grogan impressed with 2/19 then rounded out his perfor-mance with two run outs.
A wicket each went to Warwick Durack, Matt Hope and Myles O’Meehan.
Peaks grabbed their wil-low and headed to the crease with victory in sight and confi dence to boot.
Opener Ryan Kinnear was solid with 39 but it was Shayne Wornes with a stunning 76 and cap-tain Craig Sinclair, fi ring on all cylinders mak-
ing 56, who relished in the conditions. Warwick Durack (32) and Myles O’Meehan (not out 22) were also in form.
At the end of 50 overs Manypeaks celebrated victory with a classy sev-en for 278.
Railways struggled all day, with Coen Mar-wick (2/51) and Hayden Davies (2/33) the pick of the bowlers.
Collingwood Park host-ed Denmark in the other match of the day, making a solid 169 in 49.2 overs after electing to bat.
Captain Tim Pyle im-pressed with 65 and open-er Jesse Spaanderman was consistent with 33.
Denmark’s bowling was a highlight. Ryan Guil-foyle secured 3/20 (two maidens off 9.2 overs), Jason Benson was on song with 3/34, and they were backed by Matthew Ellul (2/35) and Fynn Un-derwood (1/31) to round out an awesome stint with the ball.
Fielding highlights in-cluded in-form keeper Peter Ross with three catches and one each to Benson, Guilfoyle and Jeff Atkinson. Adam Falls was on target securing the solo run out.
Denmark relished the run chase and secured victory after 49 overs, declaring at 8/174.
Opener Atkinson contin-ued his recent form mak-ing 34, Ross was superb (36 not out), Ryan Gaerth (in his fi rst match of the season) made an impres-sion with 24, Adam Falls 23 and Captain Dan Rob-son 17.
– Nicolette Mulcahy
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THE Albany Speedway Club hosted the summer series for super sedans at the weekend and what a show they put on.
A huge crowd witnessed Dustin Higgs blitz the fi eld for the win, closely followed by Phil Barton and Gary Higgs for third.
Modified Sedans had their South Coast Clas-sic sponsored by Stirling Print and the $5,000 on-the-nose to win had driv-ers competing from all over the state.
Matt Noakes took the win, closely followed by Aydan Trewern (second) with the Purple People Eater for third – well done Blake Watson.
It was great to see the Ball family return.
The racing was amazing with Nathan Penn lead-ing for most of the race feature until the engine gremlins put him on the infi eld.
Steve Beres and David Gordon had the most air going into turn two in their Modifi ed Sedans.
Anthony King, Blake Jackson and Neville Man-stead also had a great run.
In the Junior Sedans, Brooke Watson took the win, closely followed by Daniel Erceg and Mitchell Claybrooke for third.
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Jacinta Tester wins her heat in front of an enthusiastic crowd.
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*Maximum recommended driveaway price for new qualifying 2016 compliance plated models ordered between 1/12/2016 and 31/01/2017 and delivered by 28/02/2017 including dealer delivery and statutory charges. Prices may vary between dealers. Excludes Government, Rental and National Fleet customers. Nissan reserves the right to vary, extend or withdraw this off er. »Towing capacity is subject to towbar/towball capacity.The capacity may be reduced if a nongenuine Nissan towbar is fi tted. ‡For full details of the myNissan Service Certainty program visit nissan.com.au/service.New Vehicle Warranty expires 3 years from date of fi rst registration or after 100,000km (whichever comes fi rst). Conditions apply. See nissan.com.au for more details. Terms and conditions apply to Roadside Assistance; please visit nissan.com.au/roadsideassistance.
2016 MODELCLEARANCE*
ACROSS THE NISSAN RANGE
FREEQUEENINNERSPRINGMATTRESS
FREE2 x
BEDSIDES$599*
Save $240GET THE TALLBOYFOR ONLY $159 tWHEN PURCHASED WITH PACKAGE (NORMALLY $399)
plus
MADISON
QUEEN BEDINCREDIBLE PRICE – GOOD QUALITY
DRAWERS ON DOUBLE EXTENSION RUNNERSALSO AVAILABLE IN BLACKALSO AVAILABLE IN DOUBLE & KINGMATCHING DRESSING TABLE & MIRROR ALSO AVAILABLE
*Strict limit of 1 package per household. t
3Dimensions:2 Seater Lounge 1810W x 910D x 770H3 Seater with Chaise: 2750W x 910D x 770H; Chaise 1490mm
CIELO LOUNGE SUITE
5 YEAR STRUCTURAL WARRANTY
3 YEAR SEATING WARRANTY
Upholstered in luxurious ‘leather look’ fabric
Only available in Black $500SAVE
$899*NORMALLY $1399
3 SEATER WITH CHAISE
$300SAVE
$499*NORMALLY $799
2 SEATER
ZOEY QUEEN BED
QUEENINNERSPRING
MATTRESS
FREE
$100SAVE
$299NORMALLY $399
SALE PRICE
ARI ACCENT CHAIRAvailable in Charcoal and Lime
$249 BUTTON ACCENT CHAIR$249
A c c e n t C h a i r s
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Bookcase - $199
$497INCREDIBLE PRICE – GOOD QUALITY
DRAWERS ON DOUBLE EXTENSION RUNNERSALSO AVAILABLE:
UNDERBED STORAGE – $179 SINGLE TRUNDLE BED – $99 KING SINGLE BED – $279
NORMLLY $857
$360SAVE
NIKKI PACKAGE
1 x SINGLE BED $1991 x BEDSIDE $1591 x TALLBOY $499
$857
$500SAVE
$1799NORMALLY $2299
FEATURING 3 RECLINERS
SAMUEL THEATRE LOUNGE SUITE
3 x RECLINERSSTORAGE CONSOLE WITH CUP HOLDER5 YEAR STRUCTURAL WARRANTY 5 YEAR SEATING WARRANTY
Dimensions: 2590W x 2235L x 1016D mm
Available in Slate (pictured) and Indigo
COSMIC QUEEN BED
QUEENINNERSPRING
MATTRESS
FREE
$100SAVE
$299NORMALLY $399
SALE PRICE
Available in Citrus, Neutral and Steel
OXFORD PACKAGE
1 x QUEEN BED $7992 x BEDSIDES $5981 x TALLBOY $699
$2096
ON THE SLATS
LIFETIMEWARRANTY
OF THIS BED
UPGRADE TO
KINGFREE
$800SAVE
$1296
INCREDIBLE PRICE – GREAT QUALITY
STRONG PINE CONSTRUCTIONDRAWERS ON HEAVY DUTYDOUBLE EXTENSION RUNNERSLIFETIME WARRANTY ON SLATSALSO AVAILABLE IN KING
NORMALLY $2096
64 The Weekender, January 12, 2017
SaleHUGE NEW YEAR
Unit 2 & 3 / 5 Brooks Garden Boulevard Lange (next to Harvey Norman) 9841 2346ALBANY
HAMILTON LOUNGE Available in Left or Right Hand Facing Chaise. Dimensions: 2800mm wide; Chaise 2000mm deep.
Hurry!!Only while stocks last!
$300SAVE
$699NORMALLY $999
Available in Slate & Coffee (pictured)
TULLOS ROCKER RECLINER
Available in Chocolate, Burgundy and Moss (pictured)
RAULO ROCKER RECLINER
$299*NORMALLY $499
SAVE $200
*Strict limit of 2 per household. *Strict limit of 2 per household.
$399*NORMALLY $599
SAVE $200
BRADLEY RECLINER
$199*NORMALLY $399
SAVE $200
*Strict limit of 2 per household.
TO SEE MORE, PLEASE GO TO www.pinediscount.com.au
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