LANE Edwards has had a dominant year on the Australian bronc riding scene. In September, 21-year-old Lane was named the 2025 Rookie Xtreme Broncs Australia Champion by the Australian Professional Rodeo Association (APRA), after another strong showing at the Marrar Madness campdraft and rodeo in the NSW Riverina. “The weekend was special because grandparents Des […]
IT WAS a hot and steamy day on Saturday, 22 November, for the Avon Valley Meats sponsored event with local Ben Veitch taking home the meat tray in the top grade while two visitors from Bondi were best in the lower two grades. The course has dried considerable over recent weeks and shots seem to […]
Bev, Bev, Di and Lou.
CHAMPIONSHIPS for 2025 have been completed, it’s now time for Social Bowls with the Selectors varying the format for games and the players trying various team positions. Point Score was the event of the day, thus the players were given the rink number and 4s being the event, the players were assigned to either rink […]
Denise Bruce and Al Minis with President Ashleigh Hickman.
Denise Bruce and Al Minis with President Ashleigh Hickman. Chris Sims and Alec Bruce again with President Ashleigh. WITH the end of year fast approaching, the completion of the 2025 club competitions for croquet took place. This time it was handicapped doubles. Partners were drawn as follows: Judy Hopkins & Dianne Shanley, Al Minis & […]
Derek Bardwell, Gai Falla.
THE Veteran Golfers at Gloucester played a strange event on Tuesday, 18 November, in the form of a Stableford Multiplier wherein the score for the pair at each hole is the multiplicand of the two individual scores. It’s a form of golfing quicksand during which, on this occasion, Gai Falla and Derek Bardwell prevailed. The […]
Three generations.
Three generations. Time for a chat. IT WAS a cool morning for Gloucester’s 232nd parkrun after hot days during the week, with piles of fallen bunyah branches providing evidence of the strong winds that had swept through the park. There were 35 finishers for the event, including visitors from Port Macquarie and Blackheath. Locals included […]
Bev Germon, Jenny Burley and Joan Ridgeway.
Bev Germon, Jenny Burley and Joan Ridgeway. Runners Up Cheryl Tull, Joy Hurworth and Suzanne Cross. UP early with the aim to get the Final of the Triples Championship underway before the heat of the day, the finalists, and the Social players were on the green raring to go by 8.30. The Championship score of […]
THE second and final round of the Glowing Shield staged by the Gloucester Veterans on Tuesday 11 November finished with a win for Anne Wand as the best of the Gloucester vets and for David Craig as the top Wingham player all of which no doubt contributed handily to Gloucester winning the Shield for 2025. […]
Stacey Groves, Paul Thibault, Dave Saunders.
THE top three players all had big scores at the Gloucester course on Saturday 15 November with players having to beat handicap to claim any prize at all. The three grades were won with stunning scores turned in by Stacey Groves, Dave Saunders and Paul Thibault. The weather was kind and the course favourable for […]
Dropped from the Test side, but Sam Konstas will get a look at England through the PM's XI. Photo: Steven Markham/AAP PHOTOS.
SAM Konstas will return to the scene of where he made his case for Test selection last summer, with the axed opener given a chance to face England with the Prime Minister’s XI. Dropped by Australia’s selectors after a poor start to the summer, Konstas was on Monday confirmed as a big-name inclusion for the […]
