2014
Beloved Ky butcher calls it a day
A butcher who spent more than four decades in the same job said he had “loved every minute of it”.
Graham Warren will hang up his knife and steel this Saturday to take a well-earned break after 41 years in the business.
But it’s not goodbye for ever.
“I’m out of this shop, but I’m not leaving the district. I’ll be back,” the popular Kyabram butcher said.
He said his favourite thing about the job was meeting people and chatting to them, because he got on with mostly everyone.
“I reckon I’ll really miss the early mornings when people sing out ‘Hello Graham’ as they pass by.
“I always give a wave no matter who it is.”
Rodeo queen has ripper time in US
Kyabram and Australia’s own Rodeo Queen Dani Quinsee has returned home after a month-long whirlwind tour of the United States and Canada.
Ms Quinsee won the prestigious Rodeo Queen title in September last year and was sent overseas to act as Australia’s ambassador for the sport.
Dani travelled to San Francisco, the Calgary Stampede in Canada, Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth and the world’s biggest rodeo, the Cheyenne Frontier Day, in Cheyenne, Texas,
With only a month left to hold on to her title, Dani is busy preparing for a trip to Queensland to help judge and decide Australia’s next Rodeo Queen.
“It’s been a big reward this title and I have been all around Australia as well, but in a month it’ll be good to hand it over to someone new as well.”
1994
High honours for Heidis
Two Kyabram Guides, Heidi James and Heidi Fry, have received their highest honour in their guide section — the BP emblem.
Both girls had to work hard for the award, completing the following challenges from the Guide program.
- Keeping the promise and the law
- Giving service
- Enjoying the outdoors
- Thinking for yourself
- Exploring the arts
- Fitness
- Becoming a home-maker
- Getting to know people
Teacher returns and looks up familiar faces
Canadian teacher Pat Reinders has returned to Kyabram for a holiday, five years after returning home.
Pat was a teacher at Dawes Rd Primary School in 1989, on an exchange program with Ian and Trish Perry.
She and her husband, Chester, are from Peace River in Alberta and recently returned for a holiday in Australia, visiting Cairns, Darwin, Sydney and Melbourne.
In Kyabram to renew friendships, Pat met up with her old primary school Year 3 class.
1974
Two women among seven candidates for Kyabram Town Council
Seven candidates are seeking election for the three vacancies on the Kyabram Town Council at the annual elections on August 22.
The nominations include only one of the two councillors retiring due to the effluxion of their three-year term, two women and the son of Kyabram’s first mayor.
Cr Russ Pruden is the only retiring councillor who is seeking re-election. Cr Alan Edis, who has also served his three-year term, didn’t nominate for re-election.
Kyabram’s returning officer, Mr E. T. Cornish, who received the nominations and announced the candidates at 4pm on Wednesday, said the coming election had created the most “general interest” he could remember during his term as Kyabram’s Town Clerk.
Mr Cornish said it was the first time that females had sought election to the council.
Who were the seven candidates for 1974 Kyabram Town Council elections?
Cr. Russ Pruden, Mr Ken King, Mr Vic Kuhle, Mrs Marj Wickham, Mrs Anne Adams, Mr Tony Cole and Mr Maurie Wood.
Local beer to run out by weekend
Strike action by members of the Transport Workers’ Union has prevented deliveries of barrel, canned and bottled beer to Kyabram hotels and all expect to “run dry” by the weekend.
Beer is one commodity in short supply, but if the strikes continue, there could be a shortage of some grocery lines, including frozen vegetables, in the near future.
The last delivery of barrelled beer to a Kyabram Hotel was a fortnight ago when all three hotels received their usual quotas.
Since then, the Blue Brick Hotel has received a shipment of packaged (cans and bottles) beer and when the barrels run out, the management intends to sell them over the counter until all supplies are gone.
Pigeon mania
Three semi-trailers loaded with a total of 14,000 pigeons arrived in Kyabram on Saturday to release the birds under race conditions for the long trip to Melbourne and metropolitan areas.
Pictured is one of the attendants releasing the birds from the cages on one semi-trailer. After circling for a few minutes, they joined in large mobs and commenced the journey.