ROWSTHORN THE GUEST OF CLRS DINNER
Community Living and Respite Services (CLRS) will hold its annual fundraising dinner on Thursday, March 2.
There are limited tickets still available for the dinner, now in its 15th year, to be held at the Moama Bowling Club from 6.30pm.
Guest presenter is Peter Rowsthorn.
For more than 35 years, Mr Rowsthorn has been on television, stage and film entertaining audiences across Australia.
He started as a stand-up comedian and is now a multi-skilled performer.
He's best known for his television roles starting way back in the ’80s with the Comedy Company and more recently as the long-suffering husband Bretty in Australia's most successful sitcom Kath and Kim.
In 2018, he was one of the most popular celebrity contestants on the fourth series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Australia.
The dinner raises funds for CLRS, a community organisation accredited to provide disability services in Echuca, Moama and surrounding districts.
Tickets are $140 and available from www.trybooking.com/CEUBX For more information you can contact Gillian Noelker on 5480 2388 or events@clrs.org.au
POPULAR ICE CREAMERY ON THE MARKET
Lockington’s popular Ciurleo’s Ice Cream and Waffle House is for sale.
Listed with Luke Ryan Real Estate, the listing says Ciurleo’s “has been a massive boost to the town of Lockington and has been a catalyst for putting Lockington on the map!! Selling not just ice cream, but waffles, hotdogs and chips, baked potatoes, sliders, coffee, milkshakes and cold drinks are some of the other foods on offer.”
The listing adds the shop has plenty of room for outside dining, large floorspace in the main shop front, plenty of space in the commercial kitchen for food preparation, storage room, toilet facilities with plenty of room to add a shower into this area if desired, office, and even another room you could use as a bedroom. This is all just the shop.
Behind the shop is a separate residence. The shop and home have separate entrances and yards.
This makes the property freehold purchase an ideal investment as it offers the buyer the opportunity to collect two rental incomes, or if you purchase business and freehold together it will give the buyer the chance to live behind the shop or to rent the residence separately, offering another income stream to the ice cream shop.
Freehold includes the land, shop, shedding and residence and is priced at $430,000
Business including all equipment and lease on the shop is priced at $100,000 plus stock at value.
For more, you can call Luke Ryan on 0438 841 127 to arrange an inspection.
ECHUCA’S HOTTEST DAY SINCE 2021
Echuca sweltered through its hottest day in more than two years last Friday.
The mercury climbed to 41.5 degrees, comfortably surpassing the year’s previous hottest day of 39.0 on January 14.
No day in 2022 reached the 40 degree mark and we had to go back to January 2021 when the temperature hit 40.8 degrees.
TOWN GARAGE SALE IN DENI
Calling all bargain lovers, collectors and salvage hunters — the Deniliquin Town Garage Sale is back.
Get in the shed or garage, scrape up a variety of goodies and register to host a sale on the weekend of March 11 and 12.
As the Victorian Labour Day weekend, visitors and locals alike are sure to be out looking for a bargain between the weekend’s other events.
SHEPPARTON MILITARIA AND COLLECTABLES EXPO
After a few years’ hiatus, the Shepparton Militaria and Collectables Expo returns to the McIntosh Centre at Shepparton Showgrounds on Saturday, March 4 and Sunday, March 5.
The expo has been held for more than 20 years by the Northern Victorian Arms Collectors Guild, which in turn has been running for more than 50 years in Shepparton.
Guild secretary Carl Webster has been collecting American Civil War items for more than 20 years, and showcased a few different collectibles from his personal collection as an example of what people could expect to see at the expo.
Mr Webster said he purchased an absent for leave pass from eBay, and that it was a good example of how a small item could be connected to more influential people and larger events.
The document dated back to August 10, 1864.
It gave a leave of absence to Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Colonel Henry Madill.
His regiment fought in multiple notable battles, including the Battle of Gettysburg.
The document was signed by Major John Hancock, brother of General Winfield Scott Hancock.
Winfield Scott Hancock ran for president in 1880, losing to James Garfield who was assassinated just four months into his first term.
He also brought in a $1 confederate note, issued in 1862.
Mr Webster said almost every confederate note was painstakingly hand signed and numbered.
He said it was not uncommon for these notes to have uneven or rough borders since scissors or shears were used to hastily cut the sheets of notes apart.
Mr Webster also had with him a Civil War campaign medal, a confederate CSA Kepi hat and a blood-stained section of wood flooring from a farm house that was used as a hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Other members of the guild said the expo would have 213 tables with 54 dealers.
The expo will run on the Saturday from 9am to 5pm, and on the Sunday from 9am to 3.30pm.
Tickets will be available at the door, with a $10 flat rate, but children accompanied by an adult and under 16 will get in free. You can find more information about the expo at www.nvacg.org.au.
YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD
The Australian Over-70 Cricket Team was in action this week at Caulfield in Melbourne for the Silver Ashes against old enemy England.
The veterans cricket battle is just as fierce as their younger rivals.
Australia lost by eight wickets, posting 9-159 from its allotted overs before England chased the winning target for the loss of two wickets.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Have you heard the joke about a piece of paper? It is tear-able.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Floyd Mayweather Jr, boxer, 46, Billy Zane, actor, 57, Phil Knight, entrepreneur, 85, Lleyton Hewitt, tennis ace, 42, Jason Akermanis, footballer, 45, David Williamson, playwright, 81, Mike Whitney, cricketer, 64, Russell Ingall, supercars driver, 58, Paul Barry, journalist, 71.
FAST FIVE QUIZ
1. What colour is chlorophyll?
2. The Daily Telegraph is the major newspaper in which Australian city?
3. How many clubs play in the Goulburn Valley League competition?
4. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
5. In maths what does 11 x 11 equal?
TIP OF THE WEEKEND
A scratching last week with Maid Of Iron withdrawn from Morphettville. We’ll head to Sandown and go with Mr Maestro in the Stow Storage Autumn Classic (Race 5, No.1).
FINALLY
The events calendar ramped up last week with the Riverboats Music Festival and Echuca-Moama Show. This week it is the Great Northern Show in Rochester before a hectic March. What a time to live in this wonderful part of the world we call home.
FAST FIVE QUIZ ANSWERS
1 Green, 2 Sydney, 3 12, 4 Leonardo da Vinci, 5 121.