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Wednesday September 11, 2019

Fire chief signs off for last timeGuyra’s Fire and Rescue

NSW Station 315 is lookingfor a new Captain followingthe retirement of GrahamWilliamson. Graham, whojoined the team in 1974, hasnotched up 45 years of servicewith the Guyra brigade 38years of which were as Cap-tain

During that time, he hasbeen involved in lots of firesand lots of accidents, spend-ing many hours away fromhome often at the expense oftime with his family. How-ever, it is something that hehas done as a service for thecommunity and it has beenhis way of making a positivecontribution to the town.

“Being captain involvesquite a bit of responsibilitybut it is something I have en-joyed,” he said. “As captainyou are in charge of incidentsand also in charge of the sta-tion and most importantly incharge of your men.”

“You don’t do it for themoney, you do it because it issomething you want to do forthe community but it does in-volve a lot of time,” he said.“We have drills twice a monthplus being called out to inci-dents and then all the paper-

work and reports that follow.During those 45 years he

has often had to sacrifice timewith family because of hiscommitments and he says ithas definitely had an impacton them.

“They are often the oneshave to make the sacrificesand probably the biggestmedal should go to the wivesand partners who don’t knowwhat is happening when youhave been called out in the

middle of the night or howlong you will be gone. “

Over his 45 years in chargehe has witnessed a lot ofchanges and while moderncommunications have madethings a lot easier, regula-tions have made things morecomplicated and there is moretime spent on paper workthan he would like.

In the early years, road res-cues and accidents were a bigpart of the job, but thankfullyare not as frequent as theywere. It is also a job were youdon’t know what is next orhow many hours you willhave to put in.

“Sometimes we won’t havea call out for a month andthen you will get five or six ina week. It can be anythingfrom road rescues, to fire callsbut you always have to beready to go when the callcomes through.

“When I started out roadrescues were full on and therewere a lot of car accidentsaround the New England,and they can be the worst es-pecially when you mightknow the people involved,” hesaid.

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congratulating Graham Williamson on his retirement

Guyra CWA membersmarked the organisationsAwareness Week with agathering at ‘Juniels to helpraise awareness of mentalhealth issues in the bush.

Members of both the dayand evening branches joinedforces to shine a spotlight onthe issue at an afternoon teawhich was held last Wednes-day.

Secretary of the GuyraEvening and Guyra branchof the CWA of NSW, LeonieHawkins said one of the or-ganisation’s main messagesthis Awareness Week wasthe importance of a supportnetwork and regular catch-ups – or a ‘Sconversation’with friends.

Leonie said that it was alovely afternoon an opportu-nity for a little time out fromthe current tough conditions.

“Awareness week is allabout connecting with thecommunity and simply start-ing a conversation around is-sues facing rural women,”

she said.“The CWA is here to sup-

port not only our membersbut also the wider commu-nity. You don’t have to joinbut are more than welcometo just come along, have achat and see what we do.”

Any woman is welcome tocome to the CWA’s meetings.The evening branch meets atthe GALA Centre, 136Bradley Street, the firstWednesday of every monthat 6pm and the Guyrabranch meets on the last Fri-day of every month, 10am atthe Uniting Church Hall,Ollera St. Local women in-terested in joining the Guyrabranches can contact Leonieon 0408 207 664.

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The Guyra Junior RugbyLeague Club is on a high afterreceiving news that they are oneof two successful applicantsfrom the Northern Tablelandselectorate to get the go aheadunder the My Community Proj-ect campaign.

They will receive $120,000 infunding to build a coveredgrandstand at the SportingComplex. The proposed grand-stand will provide seating andshelter for spectators, protectingthem from the extremes of ourclimate including rain, snow,hail, and the hot sun.

The grandstand will be con-structed in front of the changerooms and canteen facilities.New concrete seating will bebuilt into the existing embank-ment and covered with a metalroof.

Guyra Junior Rugby LeaguePresident Gina Lockyer saidthat they are ready to begin con-struction as soon as the plansare approved.

“We were pretty lucky to getthis money and I think we werehelped because a lot of our mem-bers were already registered

with Service NSW and we kepton telling everyone they had tovote,” Gina said. “But I alsothink people voted because theycould see it was a worthy causeand how much it would add towhat is already in place.”

“It will mean we can hold big-ger carnivals and there are a lotof other events that will benefitby having the shelter in place. Itwill be a big boost not only forour members but for all groupswho use the grounds and there

is a lot of potential for use by thewider community.”

Gina said they hope to beginconstruction shortly and oncework begins it should be com-pleted in around six weeks.

Grandstand gets go ahead

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THhe plans are ready and construction is expected to get underway during the off season

Fire chief signs off for last time (from page 1)

“It is not so bad now, but itis still part of the job you haveto put up with. Nowadays wealso do backup medical callsso if the ambos are out oftown and there is an emer-gency we are called on in-stead.”

Graham said he wouldn’thave been able to do the jobwithout his team behind him.Guyra has maximum of 12 re-cruits at any one time, andhave just got two new re-cruits.

“We are always chasingnew recruits, but they need tolive in town or close by, and itcosts a heap of money just totrain each recruit so you needto make sure they are in it fora reasonable period of time,”he said.

“It is definitely something Iwould recommend to anyonewho wants to give somethingback to the community.”

Guyra’s Fire and Rescue NSW Station 315 RecruitsBack l to r: Tim Ellis, Jamie Williamson, Dean Mitchell, Shane Davidson, Geoff Dowden, Jason Campbell

Front:Barry Simpson, Graham Williamson and Stephen Sole Absent: Scott Campbell and Michael Kirk

GOOD NEWS for JuniorLeague getting the goahead for the Grandstand

BIRDS, blossoms daffodiland wattle providingcolour against the droughtstricken landscape

RESIDENTS going theextra mile to save water

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First of all, I would like tothank those many people whocontacted me regarding myletter to the Gazette about theRural Waste Managementlevy so the ARC can supply anon-existent service. The com-ments from all the people re-ferred to the arrogance anddictatorial attitude of the ARC(I believe inefficient could beadded).

Here we are a week laterand the same ARC are apply-ing for a Special Rate Varia-tion (SRV). Does this lot knowthe “reasons” that the Bound-aries Commission gave foramalgamation of the Armidaleand Guyra Councils? Themain point was the savingsachieved through the ‘economyof scale’ due to the supposednon viability of the existingCouncils.

A rate moratorium was im-posed on the ARC in an effortto reign in spending and thenew Council were given$15million in lieu. Now theywant more. Isn’t this a case of

fraud whereby something isachieved by deception or falsepretenses.

My previous comments inregard to anecdotal evidencesuggesting that we will get arating increase of 30%-50%seems to be well on the way tobeing achieved by ARC.

With the increase in the rat-ing schedule, as it is, it seemsthat the increase in rates andlevies is inversely proportion-ate to the services provided.Tom’s Gully Rd, Briarbrookand Brushy Ck. Rd’s and a lotof other area roads will beartestament to this.

The ARC are now starting to

exclude Guyra from the amal-gamation, with the initialrumblings by some withinCouncil to take all meetingsback to Armidale. The situa-tion whereby Guyra will be re-duced to a village in theArmidale area is starting totake shape. The statement byMayor Mr. Simon Murray inhis inauguration speech asMayor when he said “I willsupport Guyra should theywish to return to a stand-aloneCouncil” is now starting tosound very hollow.

While I could comment con-siderably more on the failuresof the ARC and the amalgama-tion, I believe it is suffice tosay, “People in most cases getwhat they deserve unless theyare prepared to do somethingabout it”.

Unless people are satisfiedwith the status-quo we need tostand up and be counted. Con-tact me if you believe you canhelp because everyone can.Over to you.

Ray Mulligan

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Little athletes off to Sydney

On Friday 23rd August, 18students from St Mary of theAngels School travelled toTamworth to represent theschool at the Diocesan Athlet-ics Carnival. All students put

in 100% effort on the day andare to be commended for theirsportsmanship. Congratula-tions to Annie Williamson andOlive McFarlane who will berepresenting the Armidale

Diocese at the Polding Athlet-ics to be held in Sydney on the18th October. Annie will becompeting in long jump andOlive will be running in the100m event.

Annie Williamson Olive McFarlane

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One stop shop rolling in to townDrought community outreach

activities are coming to Guyraand will provide a one-stop-shopinformation service to the localcommunity. The event is open toeveryone and is designed to helppeople access federal and stategovernment funding assistance,information from healthproviders, contact with localcharities distributing droughtrelief, telecommunications sup-port and advice on drought re-covery.

The one-stop-shop has beentouring across the region andwill be at the Guyra BowlingClub on Wednesday September18th from 10am to 2pm. Resi-dents will be able to get adviceon everything from taxation tothe nbn.

Member for Northern Table-lands Adam Marshall said thatthe Drought Communities OneStop Shop initiative was doingan important job taking variousState and Federal support serv-ices directly into communities.

“This vehicle is touring thestate with staff from the RAAand Rural Resilience teams onboard to help farmers with

questions about assistance, helpwith applications on the spotand to talk individually withlandholders about what specificsupport they might need.

“Farmers can speak directlywith staff for information aboutdrought transport subsidies aswell as Drought AssistanceFund and Farm InnovationFund loans and other supportmeasures and resilience pro-grams.

“Over the past week we have

seen Rural Financial Counsel-lors, NBN Co, TAFE and Serv-ice NSW all come together totake their expertise directly intocommunities,” Mr Marshallsaid.

“The feedback so far on thistour has been very positive with63 people from Bingara and 43from Warialda calling in and ac-cessing the services, many ofwhom were not aware whathelp was available.

Agencies involved include the

Rural Financial CounsellingService Northern Region,  De-partment of Human Servicesmobile centre, Australian Taxa-tion Office, nbn local, NSW De-partment of Primary Industries,, Rural Resilience Program,Rural Adversity Mental HealthProgram (RAMHP), Local LandServices, NSW Farmers, TheSalvation Army, Rotary,Friendly Faces, SafeWork NSW,TAFE NSW, Landcare and TheHub.  

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Preliminary works for theGuyra CBD upgrade will com-mence on Wednesday Septem-ber 11th in preparation formajor road pavement workswhich are scheduled to com-mence on Monday September16th.

These works will see the up-grade to the road pavement andmajor improvements to roadand parking curvature fromNincoola to Ollera Street.

Due to the current water sit-uation, water for the roadworkswill not come from the townsupply, and council have insteadmade arrangements to cartwater from a nearby bore.

There is expected to be somedisruptions to traffic move-ments and parking alongBradley Street, however Coun-cil hope to minimise any disrup-tions.

The work is expected to taketwo weeks, weather permitting,with completion expected byFriday September 27th.

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Sept. 12th Joyce Betts

Sept. 13th. Golf Ladies

Sept. 16th. Lions Club

Sept. 17th Pamela Carter

Sept. 18th Anne Hulbert

Community NoticeboardMeals on Wheels

Street StallsSept. 12/13/14 Lions Club

Sept. 19th Hospital Auxiliary

Sept. 19th Hospital Auxiliary

Sept. 20th Wigs for Cancer

Church Notices

St James Anglican

Sunday 9am Morning Service, 1stSunday of the month Backwater2pm, 3rd Sunday of the monthBen Lomond 11.30am St Mary’s Catholic

Saturday Mass 6pm in Guyra,Sunday 9am, 1st Sunday ofmonth Ben Lomond, 3rd SundayWards Mistake, otherwise Guyra7am Wards Mistake, 9am GuyraFather Stephen O’Shea St Columba’s Presbyterian

Guyra Sunday 9.00am, BenLomond Service, first Sunday ofeven-numbered months, 2.00pmRev Andrew Campbell, Ph. 0447 724 536 Uniting Church

Regular Sunday Service 9.30amEnq. Nancy Davidson 6779 1366Seventh-day Adventist

Saturday from 10am Bible Study,11am Divine Service. Enquiries: 6779 1587 Northwest Church

66 Llangothlin St, Sunday meeting 10am, Thursday 7pm Food Pantry - 1st, 3rd & 5th Friday of month 11am-12, 1pm-2pmTony Stace 0427956772.Church of Freedom

10 Nincoola Street - Contact:0421 847 973, Tuesday Prayer6.30pm, Wed Bible Study 6.30pmSunday Service 10am

Service Clubs

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month at Guyra Bowling Club,

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ROTARY CLUB dinner meetings

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6pm for 6.30pm. Ph: Aileen

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Superhero Day at Bald Blair

NAIDOC Week celebrationsfocus on Guyra this Friday,when Council holds a familyday at the recreation groundfrom 11am to 2pm.

Traditional games, a freebarbecue and live music by na-tionally acclaimed local bandTerra Firma will feature at thefamily day and everyone is in-vited to get involved.

The Guyra celebration fol-lows a well-attended NAIDOCWeek event at the ArmidaleAboriginal Cultural Centre andKeeping Place last Friday.

Around 300 people attendedA Day in the Dale last week,held by Council in partnershipwith the cultural centre.

Council’s Aboriginal Commu-nity Development Officer, Cyril

Green, said that everyone whogot involved helped to make ita fun day but also highly in-formative with some seriousmessages about the welfareand voice of our community.

“We’re now hoping for a posi-tive turn-out at the Guyra cel-ebration to wrap up ourNAIDOC Week activities foranother year,” he said.

On Friday September 6thstaff and students at BaldBlair Public School were en-couraged to dress up in theirfavourite superhero characterto raise awareness and fundsfor Muscular Dystrophy Aus-tralia’s programs, services andresearch.

National Superhero Week isan event held all across Aus-tralia. It was fantastic to seeall children participate. Therewas a huge variety of Super-heros like: Spiderman, Bat-man, hockey hero, dance hero,Ladybug and Cat Noir, LukeSkywalker and many more.

It is a fantastic cause andhopefully by participating indays like these we can helpsupport men, women and chil-dren affected by MuscularDystrophy. Katie Campion, Molly Morgan, Harriet Ulrick

NAIDOC celebrations

The Drover’s Daughterauthor Patsy Kemp.

Bushfire disaster assistanceResidents, farmers and com-

munities impacted by the hor-rific fires across the region willbe able to immediately accessdisaster assistance. The naturaldisaster declaration follows a se-ries of fires that took hold overthe weekend within the Armi-dale Regional, Glen Innes Sev-ern, Inverell, Tenterfield, Urallaand Walcha local governmentareas.

Assistance is being providedthrough the jointly funded Com-monwealth-State Disaster Re-covery Funding Arrangements(DRFA).

Closest to Guyra the BeesNest fire located north of Eborand to the north west of Dorrigo,has burnt out 66,500 hectareson multiple fronts and has aperimeter of more than 300 kilo-metres. The fire began on Fri-day and was fanned by strongwinds with an evacuation centreset up in Dorrigo for those in im-mediate danger.

As firefighters continued tobattle the blaze on Mondaythere were reports of light snowand sleet on the fire ground. TheNSW Rural Fire Service saidthat it is likely to take several

weeks to fully contain unlessthere is good rain.

Member for Northern Table-lands Adam Marshall said thatthe fires have been absolutelydevastating. Mr Marshall at-tended a community meeting atEbor, where the NSW RuralFire Service and Local LandsServices updated locals on fireconditions and expectedweather patterns over the nextfew days.

“I’m pleased the NSW andCommonwealth governmentsare working closely together toprovide immediate relief tothose impacted in the last fewdays and support the longerterm recovery of our local com-munities.”

“Locals should continue tokeep their radios on for emer-gency broadcasts and regularlycheck the NSW RFS ‘Fires NearMe’ app on their devices for up-dates.”

Assistance measures avail-able include:

* help for eligible peoplewhose homes or belongings havebeen damaged;

* support for affected localcouncils to help with the costs of

cleaning up and restoring dam-aged essential public assets;

* concessional interest rateloans for small businesses, pri-mary producers and non-profitorganisations;

* freight subsidies for primaryproducers;

* grants to eligible non-profitorganisations; and

* Emergency fodder and/orwater for stock.

To access emergency fodderand/or water for stock, contactLocal Land Services on 1800 814647 to arrange pick up.

For information on personalhardship and distress assis-tance, contact the Disaster Wel-fare Assistance Line on ?1800018 444?. To apply for a conces-sional loan, grant or freight sub-sidy, contact the NSW RuralAssistance Authority on ?1800678 593? or visitwww.raa.nsw.gov.au????

Further information on disas-ter assistance is available on theAustralian Government’s Disas-ter Assist website at www.disas-terassist.gov.au and the NSWemergency information and re-sponse website at www.emer-gency.nsw.gov.au

Two authors with very differ-ent life stories will share theirexperiences at Armidale Re-gional Libraries this month.

Get an insight to life of adrover and his family in the1950s and 1960s when authorPatsy Kemp speaks at theGuyra library from 11am tonoon on Wednesday September18th. She will also speak at theArmidale library starting at3pm.

Her new novel The Drover’sDaughter describes the highsand lows of growing up on thestock routes of NSW andQueensland, living out of asmall truck with a family ofnine, six horses, four dogs and3000 sheep.

Ms Kemp says drovers hold aniconic place in the Australiannational identity. The courageand perseverance needed totransport cattle and sheep hun-dreds of kilometres throughrural and outback areas haslong captured the imaginationsof Australians and peoplearound the world.

Her exploration of the drover’slife turns the spotlight on thewomen and children who trav-elled with them.

A screenwriter for some ofAustralia’s favourite televisiondramas, Kaneana May, will pro-vide her author talk at the Armi-dale library on FridaySeptember 20th.

Bookings are requested foreach of the talks. Phone 67703636 for the Armidale librarysessions or 6770 7123 for PatsyKemp’s talk at the Guyra li-brary.

Writes ofpassage for guest authors

Ladies’ GolfLast Wednesday there was no

golf played at Guyra as 12 ladiesventured out to play in the VWScramble out at Inverell.

It was a fun warm and dustyday on a very dry course whichcontributed to some very lowscores with the locals winningthe day. Thanks girls.

No trophies made their wayback to Guyra but with DonnaWhite winning the raffle we did-n’t come home empty handed.

This week we are playing aStableford Event with JulieWalker as starter also someladies are travelling out to War-ialda to play in the 4BBB OpenDay. Good luck ladies.

Wednesday 18th September isa Stroke and Putting Competi-tion playing for Joyce Betts’ Tro-phy.

Positions are filling fast forthe inaugural Guyra Sixes to berun over the 19th and 20th Oc-tober the field is restricted to 32players only.

Due to the dry conditionsgolfers are now permitted to teeup when taking your preferredlie.

Birdie

Men’s GolfToo windy for golf last week-

end so the regional Australiabank ambrose will be resched-uled. Next Sunday will be a sta-bleford for the Grazag trophy.Now is the time to nominate forthe Guyra Sixes this can be doneby contacting Richard Burey.

The Albatross.

Men’s BowlsIn the final of the Handicap

Singles Dan Kennedy defeatedRoger Cox 31-12. Well done toDanny. Matches for Saturday14th 12 pm start.

Major/Minor pairsS Sole, R Walls vs I Jacobs, M

Walls. D Kennedy, G Starr vs CPeardon, R Moore

On Sunday 15th Septemberthere will be a Bowls meetingand presentation at 11am fol-lowed by Box Draw Pairs12.30pm. All welcome to play –bowls shirt if you are a bowler.$300 prize money sponsored byMurray & Betty Bourke andDavid Wilcox

Vets GolfIt was very windy, but sunny

and warm on Tuesday when 16Vets played for the Reg TaylorShield. The stroke winner wasIan Taylor with 83 off the stickand the best stableford scorewas won by David Bearup witha great score of 42.

Nearest the pins wereawarded to Chris Newberry onthe 7th, Nancy Prisk on the 9th,Terry Varley on the 10th andJake Ellis was closest to the pinon the 18th. Ian Taylor had aneagle on the first and Jake Ellison the 9th. Congratulations!!

Next week the Vets will beholding their Annual Generalmeeting after Tuesday golf at2pm. Please come along - it’s achance for you to make sugges-tions that could improve ourclub.

The Annual General Meetingfor the club will be held on Sun-day, 15th September.

The Vet

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September 5th - Numbers showed a fur-ther increase with yearlings well repre-sented. There was also a good supply ofcows. The quality of the offering was verymixed with some very well bred cattle justlacking condition. That condition was at apremium with very few well finished cattleavailable. The standout were a couple ofpens of supplementary fed heavy grownsteers. There was reduced processor com-petition with a couple of major processorsnot operating. There were no live export or-ders in the bull market. Restockers wereparticularly active however there were min-imal numbers of cattle suitable to feed.Market trends through the young cattlewere generally cheaper with quality a majorfactor. The well bred light weight yearlingsteers saw an odd firm to slightly dearersale. Breed and quality contributed greatlyto the significant price change on the heav-

ier yearling steers to feed. Trends were sim-ilar for the yearling heifers, selling up to20c/kg cheaper. The well bred, out of con-dition lots attracted stronger competitionthan the plainer quality pens. Those heavygrown steers that had been treated with aHGP, with nothing to compare to from theprevious sale, there is no market commentpossible. Well finished grown heifers toprocessors sold to a cheaper trend with re-duced processor competition. The plainerquality and condition grown heifers sold tomuch cheaper trends. With restockers ac-tive, the plainer condition light and mediumweight cows sold to a dearer trend. Theplainer cows struggled to attract demand. 3and 4 score cows sold to a slightly cheapertrend, despite two buyers being out of themarket. Heavy bulls sold to a much cheapertrend, up to 40c/kg, with the reduced com-petition the driving factor.

September 6th - Disap-pointingly losses continuedthis week and accelerated ata sharper rate than lastweek’s decline. Once again alarge withdrawal rate prior tosale left a very small threecentre national offering ofonly 26,500 bales. Comparedto last season to date the na-tional offering is down almost18%. The actual volume ofbales sold is down almost30% or 65,000 bales fewer.Even allowing for an ex-pected fall in productionthese figures indicate a buildup in grower stocks held instore or on farm. 17,221bales were sold nationally forthe week with more than one

third of the offering passedin. Major buyers includedTechwool, Tianyu and Fox &Lillie. The heavier falls in thebroader Merino types hasmoved them more into align-ment with the finer typesleaving all the Merino typesroughly 35-40% below levelsof 12 months ago. The Cross-bred types by comparison re-main well supported in thecurrent environment. TheEastern Market Indicator hasnow fallen 35% from its highpoint in August last year. Thisis practically the same magni-tude of fall that we witnessedafter the 2011 peak, givingrise to the theory the bottommay be close by.

Guyra Sheep & Lamb Sale

Armidale Cattle Sale

September 4th - There was littlechange in numbers with 1200 lambsand 3000 sheep on offer. The qualityof the lamb offering was quite plainwith limited supplies of well finishedcrossbreds.

There was a single pen of newseason lambs. Lightweight Merinolambs were well supplied and therewere some well finished longer wool

Merino lambs. The usual buyerswere in attendance.

Comparing trends to the previoussale 2 weeks ago there were varyingtrends through the lamb market. Thesingle pen of new season lambs soldto a slightly dearer trend takingweight difference into account.

Lightweight Merino and crossbredlambs sold to cheaper trends. The

well finished crossbred lambs up to24kg estimated dressed remainedfirm with some cheaper sales. Thefew heavy weight lambs sold tocheaper trends. There was a largesupply of lightweight sheep, that in-cluded a number of pens of youngMerino ewes.

Well finished sheep were limitedin supply. Restockers purchased

some of the young ewes. The markettrend for plainer condition sheep toprocess was cheaper. There wasstrong demand for well finished lineswith the medium and heavyweight3 scores selling to dearer trends.There was quite a price variation be-tween shorn Merino sheep andthose carrying decent skin length.

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Junior Soccer comes to a close

Unfortunately Saturday sawthe end of the 2019 soccer seasonfor all of our junior teams with the12B Spirits and the 14A Ghostsbeing defeated in their semi-finalsin Armidale. Our other Juniorteams, Under 6s – Under 10s, alsoplayed their final round of gameson Saturday morning completinga great season of soccer. Despitethe strong, cold winds there weremany happy soccer players enjoy-ing their final run.

A big thank you from the GuyraUnited Soccer Club to all 126 jun-ior players and their families fora fantastic season. An even biggerthank you must go to our wonder-ful junior coaches Steve Ahern,Mitchell Hope, Trudi Brown,Kristy Campion, Cordy Lloyd,Briana Merritt, Jess Brennan(with assistance from Scott Mc-Farlane), Michael Colvin, theDullaway family, Craig Lockyer,Hayden Raper and Adam Bren-nan. Without these volunteercoaches we would not be able tofield the number of teams wehave this year.

Under 6 Spooks had a great endto the season with 3 more goalsbeing added to their season tally,

all off the boot of their leadinggoal scorer Corey Banfield. Thisteam has been a joy to watch andthey have enjoyed every game.Thank you to Steve Ahern forcoaching this new team and en-couraging them every week.

Under 12 Spirits took on theDK Warriors at the later time of11.30am on Saturday morning.On a different field and withstrong, swirling winds both teamsbattled to find their usual form re-sulting in a low scoring game. Aconfusing penalty gave Guyra thechance to score in the first halfbut unfortunately it didn’t findthe net. The Warriors went to halftime with a 1-0 lead giving theSpirits hope for a comeback.Sadly, this was not to be and DKadded another goal early in thesecond half to secure a 2-0 win.We wish them luck for the GrandFinal.

A massive congratulations tothe Spirits for a fantastic season.Every player has improvedthroughout the season and theirteamwork has been outstanding.We have been very proud toCoach this team and we hope tosee them back bigger and betternext season. The Dullaway Fam-ily.

Presentation DayGuyra United Soccer Club’s

Presentation Day will take placeon Saturday 21st of Septemberfrom 11.00am at the Guyra Recre-ation Fields (weather permitting).Junior and Senior players willcome together to celebrate the endof season with a family fun day.Junior presentations will be heldfirst followed by a BBQ lunch andcake. The Senior presentationswill then take place. There will befun games all day for the kids(and adults), face painting andmusic so something for everyone.We request that all players weartheir new jerseys, club hoodies orclub shirts on the day for photos.The jerseys can then be returnedat the end of the day. We look for-ward to seeing you to celebratethe achievements of our greatclub.

Editor’s note: A raffle is beingorganised to raise money to helpSarah Rosten with expenses forher upcoming overseas trip. Tick-ets will be for sale at the presen-tation day with the first prizebeing a load of wood and otherprizes to be confirmed. A 100 clubwill also be run on the day so ifyou want to support Sarah pleaseget along and buy some tickets.

Thursday Night Mixed Social Tennis

Last Thursday evening it wasfantastic to see so many keentennis players turn up for theGuyra Tennis Clubs first socialtennis night. On Thursday 12thSeptember 2019 we will be hold-ing our second social tennisnight at 6pm.  If you are inter-ested in playing the cost is $5.00per player. A sausage sizzle willalso be available for $2.00 persandwich.

Sally Purvis

Junior cricketThere was a good roll up of

junior cricketers last week andGuyra Cricket Club will be look-ing to field three teams in the10s, 12s and 14s age group thisyear.

Another information sessionand practice will be held at theRecreation Ground nets thisThursday from 4pm. You canalso register your interest byphoning Jason Campbell 0428763 688, Simon Brown 0427 665131 or Graham Cameron 0415872 685.

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First place on our Locals Leaderboard waswon by Jy, 257 points, who maintained his leadover GG. 251. These two doggedly achieved thesame scores for the past 3 weeks!

3rd place goes to the PIA who picked up hisgame over the past month and The 3 Bunniesedged out the Red Devils and Bookworm to take4th place.

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Guyra Junior Rugby League(GJRL) held their annual pre-sentations on August 31st wrap-ping up another successful year.

GJRL President Gina Lockyersaid that it had been a year ofgrowth for the club with 130players registered, up morethan 50 on last year.

Major awards went to AlyshaClark who was named Club Per-son of the Year, with Cody Fordwinning the Homegrown Spudaward and Oakley Brazier theHomegrown Spudette.

The Brazier family trophywas presented by Harrison,Angus, Thomas and Hugoalongside grandmother Elva.The award this year went toMavric Foster with SamSurawski winning the AndrewJames Bull award.

Under-12sCoaches’ award - Rave Bra-

zier and Tommy Ryan, Most im-proved - Riley Melmoth, Bestforward, Players’ player -andBest and fairest - Cooper Wilson,Best back - Ryan Williams

Senior league tagMost improved - Claire David-

son, Highest point scorer -Rhylee Adams, Coaches award -Phoebe Kennedy, Commitmentaward - Selina Surawski, Bestand fairest - Tayla Mitchell

Under 10s‘Tough as Nails’ award -

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Under-14sBill Williams Players’ player -

Tahmani Landsborough, Bestand fairest - Tahmani Lands-borough

Intermediate league tagEncouragement award -

Myah Wilson, Most improved -Kate Ward, Coaches’ award -Lai-Lei Levy, Most consistent -Sophie Mitchell, Best andfairest - Akashia Brazier

>>>>from page 12Mid-fielders Jemima Atkin,

Ashlee Morgan and UrsulaGeere built great strength withtackles and scoring goals. Theyplayed a great game of passingand setting up play for strikersElla Turner in centre andCamilla Grills and Stevie McEl-roy on the wings. They all hadgreat runs and everyone had ashot at goals. Jemima Atkin re-ally stood out in this game withher ability to hit the ball intothe goal. Corners were playedwell with Ashlee pushing outand Ursula and Ella receivingthe ball and getting the pass

and shots away. Camilla Grills showed that

she owned her position on thewing and her aggression on get-ting the ball in the goal wasamazing to watch. Stevie as al-ways proved that she has foundher spot. She has great teamsupport and look for all herteam players and works herplay well with her team mates.Ella and Ashlee also proved howwell they are at passing andusing game play to beat theother team.

With this fantastic win we arenow in the Grand Final!!

We are so excited to have

come this far and our U11 teamhave proved themselves as play-ers to watch for the future. Welldone girls and best of luck forSaturday. We play at 10.30 ifanyone would love to come andsupport our Under 11’s GuyraShamrocks.

We held our Junior Hockeypresentation on Saturday after-noon after our mighty win inthe morning. It was held at theBowling Club. Our players alltook away fantastic awards thatreflected on how much theyhave learnt and developed skillsover the season. They each re-

ceived a hockey ball to practicewith until next season. Thankyou to the Hockey committee foryour support over the season.Our fantastic sponsorsthankyou to you as well. Ourteams had new shirts and newgoalie gear. This made a worldof difference for us as we wereable to have four teams in thecompetition two under 9s,under 11s and under 13s. Ourcoaches who all donated timefor training and games as wellthank you. If anyone in inter-ested in playing next year wewould love to have you.

Guyra Gazette Wednesday September 11, 2019 Page 10

Junior League presentations 2019

Under 12s Tommy Ryan, Rave Brazier, Cooper Wilson,

Ryan Williams, and Riley Melmoth

Harrison, Elva, Thomas & Hugo Brazier with Mavric Foster

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The 3 Bunnies 247

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Bulldog 243

Bookworm 239

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Phantom 227

Eel-be-Right 225

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The top 8 teams to battle it out in the finals are:

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The Caspers were at homeagainst TAS in the qualifyingfinal on a very wild windy day.The boys gathered early at theground to prepare themselves forwhat they knew would be a verychallenging game against ayoung and enthusiastic team invery tough conditions.

The start of the game wasfrantic and it seemed to take theCaspers a while to get into thegame with the TAS side dominat-ing early possession. This was re-warded 25 minutes into thegame when a TAS attacker foundhis way through the Caspers de-fence and calmly slotting the ballpast the outstretched arms ofDes Walls.

This seemed to wake the boysfrom their slumber and the re-mainder of the half was playedend to end as the Caspers triedeverything at the end of the firsthalf to try and find the equalizerbut went in a goal down at halftime.

The boys were upbeat at halftime, believing they were gainingthe upper hand but knew theyhad to start the second half well

to get back into the game. This isexactly what the Caspers did asthey began the second half dom-inating the TAS side and push-ing hard for a goal, which camethrough some magic build upand a flying header by Corby lev-elling the score.

The best was yet to come whenfive minutes later a ball found itsway to Harrison Dowden outsidethe box and he unleashed a pow-erful shot leaving the TAS keeperno chance and the Caspers weresuddenly a goal up.

The boys continued dominat-ing and looked as though theywould kick away with the gamewhen some good build up oncounter attack once again founda TAS striker in the clear andlevelling the score at 2-2. This ishow it remained until full timeand the game was going to extratime.

For the majority of extra timethe Caspers dominated and hadat least five shots thwarted bythe TAS keeper. They kept push-ing but could not break the dead-lock and the game went to apenalty shootout.

This is a tough way to decide agame and the Caspers wentdown 8-7 leaving them devas-tated but the Casper supportersletting the boys know they wereproud of their efforts. The boysshould be proud of themselvesand I believe with the youth ofthe team these boys will benefitfrom the experience and coulddominate this competition foryears to come.

Hold your heads high boys allof you should be proud. TheCasper’s would like to thanktheir loyal followers for their sup-port over the whole season, wetruly do have the best fans in thegame.

Also, presentation day for bothJunior and Senior players will beheld at the Guyra Recreationalgrounds on Saturday 21st Sep-tember 2019, with the Juniorpresentation commencing at11am. There will be a BBQ lunchand we ask that everyone weartheir Guyra United Jersey, shirtsor hoodies to the day. All playingjerseys must be handed back onthe day. Thank you. See you allthere.

The Under 11 junior hockeyteam have made it to the GrandFinal defeating PLC in the finalplayed on Saturday 7-3. PLChave been one of the top teamsto beat this year so this was anamazing win for Guyra.

All the players really steppedup their game with the defenceplaying a strong game, clearingthe ball through to the mid fieldand up to the strikers. FreyaBray played brilliantly clearingthe ball and remained strong onall her tackles and passesthrough to the mid field. TessaJackson also played a greatgame in back coming out strongon all corners and not lettingPLC get a hit away at goal. AbbyGrills and Matilda Coddingtonalso played brilliantly inter-changing with Tessa and Freya.Matilda was a great support togoalie Annie Williamson whocleared the balls well out of thegoal. Abby Grills showed greatstrength clearing the balls outwide to the mid field and thewings.

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