Reflections from the past

The principal, Mr Arthur Cook, said that it was necessary that young people learn to be more responsible in handling a motor vehicle and to increase their driving skills.

Mr Schoeffel said it was highly likely that a number of students at the assembly would be killed or seriously injured in motor accidents and he believed the numbers could be greatly reduced with increased Driver Education Schemes.

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Membership and admission charges for the Echuca War Memorial Olympic Swimming Pool during the 1974-95 season seem almost certain to be increased above those of last season.

This was indicated by several members of Echuca City Council when the Town Clerk, Mr K. F. McCartney, reported to Monday’s meeting that it was time to fix the charges for the new season.

Council referred the matter to the public works and services committee which will make a recommendation to the next meeting.

Turnstile admission charges last season were 10 cents for adults, 5c for individual children and 2c for children attending in school groups.

Membership charges were $6 for families, $4 for adults and $2 for children.

25 years ago September 1999

The memory of Victorian police officers killed in the line of duty will be honoured on Wednesday with a blue ribbon salute.

Blue Ribbon Day will be observed for the first time this week in memory of 134 members of the Victoria Police Force slain while serving their community.

Blue ribbons were first used as a community symbol of sympathy and support in August, 1998, following the murders of Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller at Moorabbin.

Senior Sergeant David Yates of Echuca police encouraged local people to call into the Echuca station to pick up a ribbon.

Donation forms are available with the ribbons at the Echuca police station and a O’Neills Newsagency in Hare St or donations can be made at any branch of the Commonwealth Bank.

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With just 100 days to the end of the millennium, the Campaspe Shire is on the verge of completing its Year 2000 compliance program.

After 12 months of work on the project, Campaspe Shire’s general manager of corporate services, Mich Jaensch, said the council had nearly completed the compliance work as required by the state government.

The council’s Y2K plan was broken into two parts: plans for any potential municipal emergency and maintaining the services and functions without council.

A Municipal Emergency Coordination Centre will be set up on New Year’s Eve and several staff will be on call in the case of emergency.

10 years ago September 2014

Thirty new full and part-time jobs will be created at Ellwaste in Echuca as part of a new $2.2 million regional recycling facility.

The project will see material collected from kerbside recycling bins processed locally instead of being shipped to Shepparton and on to Melbourne.

Ellwaste managing chairman David Elliott addressed a crowd of about 50 people yesterday to announce details, which included a state government cheque for $300,000 to kick start the project.

The creation of 30 new jobs will help plug the hole created by the loss of 38 jobs at Fonterra.

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The collateral damage in the latest broadside in the retail wars on core items looks like being boutique bakeries.

On the back of $1 a litre milk at Coles, Woolworths has announced 85c loaves of bread.

And Moama Bakery owner David Wegener said the low prices might affect his specialist business.

‘‘But I’d like to think it wouldn’t because we have great bread sales and our customers are very loyal,’’ he said.

‘‘We try and give quality and I’m not sure that 85c would be quality.

‘‘They (Woolworths) wouldn’t be making any money out of that. They’d be selling at a loss just to get the customers through the door.

Beechworth Bakery Echuca manager Kylie Divola thought the price move was probably more to compete with Aldi, which sells its bread for 90c.

She did not expect the price reduction to affect her business too much.