June Steele, the daughter of Tom McMaster-Smith, Fred and Bev Sullivan (representing long-time cannery partner Sullivan’s Transport), Joy Kohn (daughter of Ralph Gardiner), third-generation orchadist Kelvin west, Isobel Hunter (wife of former orchadist Jack Hunter), Isobel Attwood and Hilda Tottenham were other special guests.
The only surviving director of the cannery, 93-year-old Don Cooper, was unable to attend. He lives in Queensland.
Barry Churches recognised the work of Marg Richards, Pauline Laidlaw, Tracey McArthur, Nicole Fraser and Sandra Brown in organising the event.
He also acknowledged the role of the town hall committee in co-ordinating the event, and Maria Radanov’s role in setting up the exhibition.
Co-author of the centenary book, Geoff Allemand, explained how his parents had met at the cannery.
He and Peter Matthews explained the book started out at 80 pages and then it extended on a further four occasions before ending up at 138 pages.
Mueller century
A scorching century from Kyabram Cricket Club’s batting wiz Kyle Mueller delivered his side its third successive win in Cricket Shepparton’s Haisman Shield competition.
Mueller single-handedly dismantled the Old Students attack with a sublime unbeaten knock of 131 off a 115 deliveries in a 151-minute stay at the batting crease.
Three years ago he posted his highest career score of 146 against the Shepparton side.
Stevie Childs Dux
Kyabram P-12 College Dux Stevie Child will spend the next 12 months completing an engineering traineeship at Mandalay Resources’ Costerfield Mine.
Stevie will spend her gap year working at the mine, 10km north east of Heathcote, after scoring a 90.65 ATAR to top the charts at the P-12 College
She is planning on starting her university engineering course in 2024.
Al Rafael Tesoro scored 89 as his ATAR to finish runner-up, while Amelia Pulsoni, Paige Billing and Lilly Waasdorp were also high achievers.
The Kyabram P-12 College mean study score was 29.66, well up on previous years as was the ATAR average.
At the St Augustine’s College Dux of the School was Jordan O’Neill, who received an ATAR of 96.8.
Tyrrell’s Northern Victorian seat
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party will have a representative in the Victorian upper house as Invergordon farmer Rikki Tyrell claims one of the five Northern Victorian seats in the Victorian parliament’s Legislative Council.
Northern Victoria is one of eight electoral regions in Victoria’s upper house and will have three new members (five in total) after Liberal Democrat Tim Quilty and Tania Maxwell (Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party) were defeated at the November election.
A third new member was required with the retirement of Labor member Mark Gepp.
Labor will have only one representative in Northern Victoria as candidate James McWhinney failed in his bid to replace Mr Gepp in the role.
Jaclyn Symes will represent the government, returned to her role, while Liberal Wendy Lovell was also returned.
Nationals candidate Gaelle Broad was elected, as was Ms Tyrell and Animal Justice Party’s Georgie Purcell.
These results were based on 88.35 per cent of the vote being counted. Ms Purcell and Ms Tyrell were elected in the 24th and 25th counts under the complicated counting system.
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