8 – WEDNESDAY, January 23, 2013 Thehe StandardStandadardrd AUSTRALIA DAY 2013 www.standard.net.au Our true blue way to Shire events make a splash OUR AUSTRALIA DAY AMBASSADORS SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS live entertainment from 8:30am. A free sausage sizzle hosted By MATTHEW O’TOOLE There will also be free entry by the Lions club will kick off into the Balmoral pool for a pool festivities in Dunkeld from 8am TEN events across the Southern party. with Australia Day award winners Grampians Shire will provide plen- Branxholme’s Old Railway to be announced along with a fl ag- ty of ways to celebrate Australia Reserve will host a free barbecue raising ceremony and speeches Day including free entry into the and a speech by councillor Cathy throughout the morning. shire’s six outdoor pools. Armstrong from 6pm. Festivities at Glenthompson will Hamilton’s botanic gardens Byaduk’s sport pavilion will be start at noon with a fl ag raising will host the town’s Australia Day the town’s venue for a free break- ceremony, community lunch and festivities , kicking off at 10:30am fast and fl ag-raising ceremony an Australia Day ceremony, again with a fl ag-raising ceremony, from 8:30am. featuring an address by ambas- award presentation, citizenship The town square at Cavendish sador Lawrence Money. ceremony and addresses by mayor will have a fl ag-raising ceremony, The botanical gardens in Albert Calvano and Australia Day music, morning tea and an address Penshurst will host an address by TV’s George Donikian is Warrnambool’s Australia Day ambassador. Picture: FAIRFAX ambassador John Birt. by London Paralympic table ten- former Essendon champion foot- There will also be musical enter- nis player Melissa Tapper from baller John Birt and a barbecue ALISTAIR McCOOKE — career as a radio announcer write for the Sunday Age Spy tainment by Hamilton Brass and 9:30am. breakfast from 8:30am. Hawkesdale: Veteran surf in Queensland before moving column and the Diary in the Hamilton Singers along with Tic Coleraine is set to host a break- Tarrington’s brass band will lifesaver and paramedic to TV in 1980 as the face of The Age. He writes Money’s Toc Kaboom and a free community fast and fl ag-raising ceremony provide entertainment at the Alistair McCooke will be the multiculturalism on Australia’s Melbourne in The Age. Money barbecue. along with an address by Australia recreation reserve from 8:30am 2013 Australia Day ambas- Channel O/28, now SBS. is a regular on ABC and com- Balmoral’s Apex Park will host Day ambassador Lawrence Money along with a fl ag-raising ceremony, sador for Hawkesdale. With Donikian became the mercial radio, has also written a fl ag-raising ceremony, free com- from 8am at the tourist information speeches and a free barbecue. over 30 years’ experience as founding anchor of the SBS’s four books and invented the munity barbecue, speeches and and exhibition centre. a surf lifesaver, Mr McCooke World News Service before board game Holiday. is credited with rescuing joining the Nine Network to RUSSELL REES — Noorat: VR1497771 dozens of people . In 2004, work with Graham Kennedy Former Country Fire Authority Time to celebrate he was acknowledged as the on the Coast to Coast chief offi cer and Australian Victorian and national surf program and hosting Wide Fire Service Medal award RAUERTSRAUERTS lifesaver of the year for his World of Sports. Donikian winner Russell Rees join ed GLENELG Casterton’s celebra- work in promoting automatic then joined Network 10 as the CFA at 11 . At 22, he Shoe fitting specialists Shoe fitting specialists MATTHEW O’TOOLE By tions start at 8am with defi brillators as standard its main news presenter in became a CFA career offi cer , a free breakfast, face- equipment in surf lifesaving Adelaide in 1991 and later rising through the ranks to a SCHOOL SPECIALS VISITORS and shire painting and live music at kits. Mr McCooke worked as a Melbourne . Donikian also number of senior manage- residents are being en- Island Park, followed by safety supervisor in a United was an original member of ment positions. In 2001, couraged to join Glenelg a fl ag-raising ceremony Nations humanitarian mine the federal government’s he was appointed chief of- Idaho Shire’s Australia Day featuring Australia clearance project in Iraq, Immigration Review Panel in fi cer and until July 2010 was celebrations . Day ambassador Emily where he also trained medics. the 1980s. responsible for ensuring that Now $79.95 Portland’s celebrations Burke singing the na- EMILY BURKE — Casterton: JOHN BIRT — Hamilton Victoria’s 59,000 volunteers, SAVE $10 kick off at 8am with a free tional anthem and the Talented soprano Emily Burke and Penshurst: Former 400 career staff, 2000-plus barbecue breakfast, face- announcement of award will swap concert halls for Essendon Football Club vehicles and 30 aircraft could painting and live music winners. Island Park as the 2013 best and fairest winner and respond and meet emergency at the Memorial Triangle Heywood will kick Australia Day ambassador for premiership player, John Birt, demands . Mr Rees now works with a fl ag-raising cer- off its celebrations at Casterton. A music graduate will be the 2013 Australia for the Municipal Association emony at 9am which will 11:30am on the banks of from the Victorian College Day ambassador for Hamilton of Victoria as a risk advisor . include an Australia Day the Fitzroy River with of the Arts, Burke has also and Penshurst. Birt played Mr Rees is also president at Aboriginal address. live entertainment and studied language and 193 games for Essendon his local netball club, a surf Australia Day award a fl ag-raising ceremony . voice in Italy at the Milan including two premierships lifesaving club member and Atlanta winners will be an- It will be followed by Conservatory including between 1957 and 1967, was a recipient of the the Sizes 10-3½ nounced as well as poetry the announcement of the performing in the Milan winning the clubs best and Centenary Medal in 2003. SHANE HILLS — Portland reading and an address Heywood citizen of the Conservatory Chorale. Burke fairest award three times in Now $79.95 and Heywood: from Australia Day am- year and a free lunch at was a runner-up in the 2006 that period. Birt is heavily Shane Hills SAVE $10 bassador Shane Hills. 12:30pm. ABC TV series, Operatunity Oz, involved in the Collingwood is the CEO and founder of which led to her performing in Rotary club . Melbourne’s iconic chocolate Opera Australia’s production LAWRENCE MONEY saloon Koko Black . After Venus of Rigoletto at the Sydney — Coleraine and travelling to Germany and Sizes 13-3 Documentary launch Opera House. Since then, Glenthompson: Two-time Belgium to learn the art Now $79.95 CROSSLEY Burke has performed with Melbourne Press Club’s Quill of chocolate making in activities including the Melbourne Symphony award winner for Victoria’s 2001, Mr Hills convinced SAVE $30 didgeridoo workshops, Orchestra, the Royal best columnist Lawrence Belgium chocolatier Dries A SURVIVAL day event traditional weaving les- Melbourne Philharmonic, the Money will be the 2013 Cnockaert to return with him will be held on Australia sons and dancing . Local Adelaide Art Orchestra and Australia Day ambassador for to Melbourne to start the now Day by the Tarerer bands will perform till Shoe fitting specialists Shoe fitting specialists the Cleveland Symphony Coleraine and Glenthompson. famous chocolate brand in BARGAIN BIN FROM $29.95 Gunditj which will fea- late. Orchestra. Starting in 1979, Money late 2003. The Koko Black ture the offi cial launch The event will run GEORGE DONIKIAN — began his career as a brand has grown to include of the documentary fi lm from 3pm till 10pm at St Warrnambool: Veteran radio newspaper columnist for the seven Melbourne stores and Yarnin’. Brigid’s Church, Crossley . and television journalist Melbourne Herald’s Black and two interstate with more than The day will start Entry is by gold coin George Donikian start ed his White column, going on to 250 employees. Fairy St., Warrnambool. Ph 5562 3149 at 3pm with children’s donation. VR1487997 Want to spoil your best mate? 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