Macar thur Advancement & Development Association Inc. Issue Nº 216 MARCH 2017

MACARTHUR NEWS

The next General Meeting of the Macarthur Advancement & Development Association Inc.

Wednesday 8th March. 7.30pm at the Macarthur Senior Citizens rooms

Important Notice

The interruption to the power supply planned for Sunday March 5th has been postponed due to the events being held in Macarthur on that day.

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Before you complain –

Have you volunteered yet?

Last week members of the MADA committee

were in Koroit with representatives of 17 other

small towns in the Shire. The sign above was part

of the presentation given by one of those towns

and it really made us think. One of the major

complaints we have been hearing is that other

towns, like ours, are having difficulty attracting

younger volunteers. They tend to be involved

only in sporting clubs or schools.

Over the past few couple of years most of the

presenters have been older people but now there

are younger people becoming involved in some of

the town organizations. Macarthur has something

like 22 different clubs and many of them are strug-

gling to fill positions on their committees and in

most cases the members are in the older age group.

There is a core group of people who are on more

than two committees and are being stretched.

If we don’t have younger men and women in-

volved and ready to take over, many of the clubs/

organizations will not survive. MADA, the

Historical Society, Lions Club, Hall Committee,

Swimming Pool Committee, RSL and others, will

not be able to offer the services and support they

have in the past unless they have an injection of

new members to share the load and ensure their

survival.

If you think something isn’t being done or

could be done better, before you complain, ask

yourself “How can I be part of the solution?”

Do we just need younger people to be in-

volved? By no means! The Senior Citizens Club

would love more members and so would the

Men’s Shed. Both of these groups cater to the

older members of the community. The Bowls

Club is always looking for more players, from any

age group.

One of the new Councillors was in town recent-

ly and was completely blown away by the facili-

ties and number of clubs and groups in Macarthur.

His town is slightly larger and not nearly so well

served. We will only continue to enjoy this if

people become involved.

Have you volunteered yet?

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The Great Australian Bake Off

The Great Australian Bake Off, on Foxtel’s LifeStyle

FOOD, is now casting for a new series! We are once

again looking for Australia’s best home bakers who will

have their bakes tasted in The Bake Off Shed by the

iconic Maggie Beer and culinary genius Matt

Moran.

If you or someone you know would like to be part

of the show, then we would LOVE to hear from

you!

Applications are open so if you or your mum, dad,

sister, brother, grandparent, uncle, aunt, colleague,

neighbour or friend are a star baker then click on

this link to apply… www.lifestyle.com.au/

applynow

Hurry because applications will be closing soon…

Good Luck!

Gemma & The Bake Off Team

(Check out the flyer for the Great Australian Bake Off on the Macarthur Facebook page…. Editor)

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MACARTHUR BOWLS

CLUB.

WEEKEND PENNANT.

Congratulations to Division 4 finishing in 3rd

place on the ladder.

Semi Finals. Macarthur had the largest win of the

finals scoring 83 to Penshurst 56. Jean Schroeder,

Phil Burton and Ron Collie got away to a good

start but Ron had to retire and Val Burton came in

as substitute. The score of 36 was double that of

Barry King and co. Carole Dunn John Bragg and

Graham Windus put together a 28 playing Peter

Linke whose team scored 19. That figure, 19, was

then replicated by Carol Uebergang and Neville

Linke when their day ended on the same score.

Preliminary Finals saw Macarthur play Hamilton.

Unfortunately Hamilton were too strong on the

day putting an end to Macarthur’s run to the final.

Ron Steff defeated Carol Uebergang, the resilient

Fred Schroeder and Ian Douglas 33, 11. Ray

Downs had a great battle for most of the day to

run out late game winners 28 to Jean Schroeder,

Phil Burton and Roger Moodie 16. That left the

jovial matchup between Ray Fary who became

lost for words, and was defeated by Carole Dunn,

John Bragg and G Winduss 15, 27.

Congratulations to all players who put in through

the season.

Corporate Cup has finished, winners for the night

were Robyn Sharrock, Ian Douglas, Samuel Shar-

rock. Encouragement award went to Byaduk

Duck Fudgers, and Macarthur Men's Shed.

Winners for the comp were Macarthur Cricket

Club, the Who Dun Its, Greg Carter, Ian Brilley,

and Will Edwards, with Michael Brilley and

Jeremy Hunt as fill ins. The raffle was won by

Rosie Johnson. Thanks to our Sponsors for the

Corporate Cup, Petcheys Spuds and Alexandra

House.

Sunday 5h March the Club is holding a 'Skills Day' starting at 9.30am. Come and enjoy a morning of fun bowls, finish off with a cuppa and scones with jam and cream.

The Macarthur Bowls Club welcomes new members.

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Broadwater Tennis Club Inc.

Update on the happenings at Broadwater, we have one

competitive team this year. We start finals on the 25th

and play Willatook. If we win we play in the grand

final. Good luck to our team and bring home another

grand final medal.

Our Junior Tennis Training is happening at the moment.

We have 20 children registered. Brayden Burgess from

Warrnambool Indoor Tennis takes the children and they

all seem to have a lot of energy and are all doing really

well.

Thank you to the parents for committing to these

lessons and bringing their children. It is great to see them all playing and enjoying exercise.

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MACARTHUR CEMETERY TRUST

BOARD

The Board is pleased to advise the appoint-

ment of three new Trustee Board Members

as well as re-appointment of another,

whose 5year term had expired recently. In

making their applications, each of these

was required to be interviewed by the

Board, have their applications pass

through rigorous evaluation and assess-

ment by the State Department of Human

Services before receiving final approval by

the Governor-in-Council. In all, this

process took almost 3 months.

We are therefore happy to welcome Sharon

Muldoon, Grahame Stafford and Ian

Cowland to our ranks, each of whom we

are sure will bring their own particular

strengths and experience. The fourth (re-

appointed) member referred to is Barry

Sharrock. We should also mention here

that due to a limitation under the Ceme-

teries & Crematoria Regulations, the Board

is limited to just 11 members. Only

through the generous offer of Geoff Shar-

rock to stand aside was it possible for all

3 new applicants to be admitted to Board

membership. And despite his no longer

being a Board member, Geoff continues to

serve voluntarily until the next vacancy

occurs, at which time he is expected to

re-apply.

Our Cemetery enjoys complementary

remarks from the community and visitors,

whether for funerals, engaged in family

history research or just passing through.

Funeral directors too have praised the

state of our grounds and facilities. Gener-

ous donations are also made from time to

time to aid the Board in its work.

Many challenges confront small cemetery

trustee boards, mainly of a financial

nature, such as cost and maintenance of

equipment, mowers