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Mr Viglatorrio left Kyabram a little over a month ago on a journey to visit relatives and attend the world’s biggest sporting event.

After seven days in Argentina, Mr Viglatorrio left his mother with family and travelled to Brazil to watch all three of Australia’s matches in the World Cup.

“I was proud to be an Aussie because we played so well, especially considering we were playing some of the top sides,” he said.

“I enjoyed this World Cup so much there is no reason why I won’t go to another one, so I wouldn’t rule it out.”

Reserve’s ‘medium usage’ rating raises eyebrows

Kyabram sports administrators have questioned claims made by Campaspe Shire Council that Kyabram Recreation Reserve is only experiencing “medium usage”.

Council’s statement comes after vandals caused large amounts of damage to the Recreation Reserve oval two weeks ago, but was still played on by multiple teams the next day because of a lack of alternate facilities.

Kyabram Football Club president John Bacon and Kyabram Junior Football and Cricket coach Peter Ryan said the lack of facilities highlighted a major problem for sports teams in Kyabram.

They said there were too few grounds to accommodate football and soccer, which does not allow the ground to be properly maintained.

“The council are doing a good job and trying to maintain it, but it’s not medium usage. If they have deemed it medium use I would hate to see an oval they deem high use,” Mr Ryan said.

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Dolls to make life easier for young hospital patients

The active Mooroopna Kiwanis Club has made a generous gift to the Kyabram Hospital as part of its ongoing Young Children Priority One project.

The project involves caring for children under the age of six years and members of the club were in Kyabram last week to present calico trauma dolls to the hospital.

The dolls, made by Mooroopna Kiwanis club members, will be used by the hospital to explain to children undergoing surgery the medical procedure involved.

Mooroopna Kiwanis member Margaret Taylor, chairperson of the YCPO, said the purpose of the dolls was to help relieve the children of the anxiety involved in their stay in hospital.

“It helps to take the fear of the unknown away,” she said.

“Words don’t always help.”

Apex handover dinner

More than 50 members, life members and guests attended the Apex Club of Tatura’s handover dinner, which was held at Grey Gums Restaurant on June 25.

Outgoing president Paul Evans thanked all members for their efforts in fund raising activities, service work and other events in which the club was involved during the past successful but busy year.

Incoming president Geoff Woodhouse gave a stirring speech that included most words in the English language and some that were not but should be.

Some of the activities during the year were the annual peanut roasting, a membership night and the Food Festival, which this year promises to be bigger and better than last year.

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Andrea makes a fine picture

Andrea Salter, 5, is a budding young artist who can paint a pretty picture.

And Andrea makes a pretty picture herself, as our photographer discovered when he called to take the photo of Andrea at work.

Andrea is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Chris Salter of Hutson St, Kyabram.

Drainage costs to limit Ky’s growth?

Several things would limit Kyabram’s future development, town engineer Mr Charles Godfrey told the Parliamentary Public Works Committee flooding inquiry yesterday.

Mr Godfrey, who was giving evidence to the committee at Shepparton, was asked if drainage and its cost would limit the town’s growth.

He said he thought the town would be restricted by several factors, including its locality and the proximity of large centres such as Shepparton and Echuca.

Mr Godfrey said the topography of Kyabram was such that most town areas drained to depressions in the residential area and the removal of floodwater was dependent upon the capacity and reliability of pumping units.

Failure or inadequacy of the equipment causes flooding to dwellings.

After the hearings, committee chairman Mr Derek Amos said everything possible would be done to find solutions to the flooding problems.

These will eventually go as recommendations to the governor in council.

Nearly the big one...

A Kyabram Post Office syndicate collected the $989.32 second division prize in last Saturday night’s Tattslotto draw.

Any of the eight members watching the draw on TV could have been excused for feeling a little uneasy in the stomach after the fifth marble had been drawn, as the syndicate at that stage had every number.

But the sixth number and the supplementary number evaded the syndicate. Had the syndicate had the sixth number it would have collected the entire first division pool as the four successful entries all won with the supplementary number.

Each member of the Post Office syndicate that shared the second division prize will receive $123.66.