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FOOTBALL
By LIAM DURKIN
MORWELL East Football-Netball Club welcomed a new name into prestigious company when Brad Gibson ran out for his 300th game last weekend.
The Hawks veteran had a milestone to remember, booting five goals in a 74-point victory over Boolarra.
Reflecting on his football journey, Gibson said it was an honour to have his name alongside those in the 300 club.
“It’s been a long time, over 21 seasons now, it’s a lot of training nights but it’s nice to join some company up there with that sort of record,” he said.
“I still remember my first senior game out on the Morwell East ground as a 17-year-old, you don’t forget that.”
Alan and Leah Wolford s farm worker had to travel some distance in their tractor to find some of the drowned calves.
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Caught between the floodwaters of the Thomson River and Rainbow Creek, both fed from Cowwarr Weir spill, the yearling and autumn-drop heifers on Alan and Leah Wolford’s farm didn’t stand a chance.
Of 50 missing heifers, the family has found 10 all dead and caught with flood debris on neighbours’ farms some of them found kilometres from the paddocks they were grazing.
“I had to get the cows up first. By the time I went back for the young cattle, they were gone,” an emotional Alan Wolford said.
By TOM GANNON
YOU would have been hard-pressed to find a parking spot in Yinnar recently after 25 Need For Feed trucks loaded with fodder arrived in town.
Volunteer drivers made their way from Nar Nar Goon with more than 600 bales of hay to assist the region’s farmers heavily impacted by last month’s wild storm.
The cavalcade made a pit stop in Yinnar around noon before delivering fodder to 20 commercial farms and 15 lifestyle properties in the Yinnar and Heyfield districts.
Loaded up: A cavalcade of trucks loaded with fodder arrived in Yinnar early Saturday morning. photograph tom gannon
Need for Feed founder Graham Cockerell, who started the organisation in response to the 2006 East Gippsland bushfires, said the fodder was well-received by farmers who often put their livestock’s needs before their own.
Liz Bell
Volunteer group Blazeaid is seeking coordinators and volunteers to help them rebuild fences and other structures damaged during recent storms and floods.
The volunteer-based organisation works with families and individuals in rural Australia after natural disasters such as fires and floods.
The group has set up bases in Heyfield and Yinnar, and has put out the welcome mat for volunteers who are welcome to set up camp and enjoy three free meals a day, great company and a sense of camaraderie.
Gippsland coordinator Graeme Allen said the group’s aim was to rebuild fences and other structures to give farmers a “clear a path to move forward”.