DISTRIBUTION ≈ 500 ISSUE #840 - April 27, 2018 Locky News Lockington’s Priceless Paper _ $ FREE Lots on at Locky Rally Not only did the beautiful weather have people bringing their vintage tractors, Local Gold!!! trucks, cars, stationary engines etc to Lockington & District Living Heritage st Complex’ 21 rally, but market stalls, supporters of the home grown talent con- Congratulations to Jayden Wright cert, and especially the great display of ‘Scarecrows’ had a great influence on who recently won GOLD why one should visit Lockington on April 21 and 22. in Ten Pin Bowling Photos on this page coutesy of Beryl Marshall at the National Games 2018 in Adelaide. Left - Australian built Haflinger 1964 We are so proud of you Jayden! Below—VW’s lined up Left - Steam car & Roadster Right - Line up of “Prince” cars Inside This Issue….. 2 Rally photos Right - Old spanners & Adjustables display 3 Notices & Landcare Report 4 School News 5 Scarecrow Comp. Winners 6 & 7 Annual Adverts 8 & 9 Casual Adverts Left - Ella concentrates on magicians Rocco & 10 & 11 Annual Adverts Jye 12 & 13 LBU Football & Netball 14 Locky Golf & Shire News Below left—Dan Dockery, Greg Hann & James 15 Locky Bowls Schroen 16 Calendar Below The Healers, Steve Wickham & Neil Tay- - lor Next Typing Date MONDAY, May 7 Entries by 10am (Earlier if possible please) See page 2 for details This week’s Locky News was prepared by… Alison Stewart, Marilyn Baker, Lorraine Appleby See Page 2 for contact and publishing details. Registered No A0024058N ABN 68 147 443 610 Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the Publisher, Lockington Community News Inc. This paper is prepared for you by volunteers to help our community stay alive. Subscriptions Available. 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Any Casual Advertisements - must be accompanied by name, address and malicious information will be forwarded to the Police. telephone number (without this information the advert cannot be printed) All news items will be put on website unless we’re advised not to. ISSUE #840 - April 27, 2018 Page 3 Birth Anglican Parish of Rochester & Barbara and Neville Lockington Funston of Lockington and Maureen and St. Mary's Lockington John Pollock of Every Sunday - 11.00am Moama welcomed the Combined Service at Lockington on Sunday 29th April at 11AM birth of their granddaughter, Hailey Sienna, on April 5. So too did par- Holy Trinity Rochester ents Tracey and Matthew Pollock. Every Sunday - 9.00am Hailey, born at Echuca hospital, Enquiries: ph 5484 1054 weighing 4085g (9lb) is a sister for Jordan 20, Ebony 18, Cooper 13, Mrs Doris Brown nee Jasper St James and Cody 11. is turning 100 years of age Community Church on the 9th of May 2018. Death Doris grew up at Pine Grove East Every Sunday - 10.00 am and with her husband Alan Contacts: FAULKS (nee Broom) Jacqui and 4 children Pastor Bill Cochrane Members of the Bamawm Golf Club moved to Mt Barker WA 0427 865474 wish to pass on their deepest sym- in 1968. or Edwin Keele 5484 3117 pathy to Peter, Meaghan and Paul, The family are celebrating Elizabeth and Corey this major achievement. and their extended fami- ly, on the sudden pass- The postal address is: ing of Jacqui. 34281 Albany Highway Catholic Church They also pass on con- ALBANY WA 6330. dolences to Geoff, Peter, Tessa and John. Thank you, St Canice's, Lockington Dennis Jasper 9.00 am Sunday Mass on just the 1st, 3rd and (if there is one) 5th Sundays of every month As you get older you will understand St Joseph's, Rochester CONGRATULATIONS to Doris Sunday 10.30 am,12 noon (Latin Mass) more and more Brown nee Jasper formerly of Pine Sacred Heart, Elmore that it’s not about Grove East Via Lockington who Saturday Vigil 6.30 pm will celebrate her 100th birthday what you look like on 9 May. Doris and her husband or what you own, Allan still live on their farm near Uniting Church it’s about the person Albany Western Australia. Bamawm Fiona Zambonetti you’ve become April 29 - 11.00am Parish service at Rochester May 9 - 9.00am Landcare report: Contacts: Our Annual meeting was held at the Lockington Hotel on Ray Wakefield 5486 2592 Thursday 5th April, with John Wright remaining President Graeme Haines 5486 2284 and Wendy Sims as Secretary/Treasurer. During the last 12 months we have been fortunate to have had a wide range of Psalm 95, V 1. guest speakers, Andrew Crossman - growing Avocados, Shane Weller - growing Walnuts, David Hammond - growing hemp and Faye and Andrew Oh come , let us sing to the Bail educating us about the native flowers on their property. We have ex- Lord! Let us panded our weather probes which can be accessed at locking- shout joyfully to tonlc.weebly.com at any time. the rock of our salvation. At our meeting Shari Ranking from the North Central Catchment Manage- ment Authority, spoke to us about her previous work in Queensland on the gas fields and later in pastoral areas covering a huge land area stretching from Normanton to Mt Isa and across towards the east coast. Meals on Wheels New members are most welcome, we meet on the second Thursday night of even months at the Lockington Hotel at 7pm, commencing with a meal prior To be collected 11.30 am to the meeting. April 30 Catholic Ladies - This year our major project is the planting of trees along the old Elmore rail- May 7 - Bush Nursing Centre May 14 Bamawm Uniting Church way line, between ODonnell road and Diggora road. Come along and join - May 21 LBU Football Club us. - May 28 St James Eve Fellowship - June 4 Action Group Wendy Sims 0427 868307 - Page 4 ISSUE #840 - April 27, 2018 On the last day of term we held Crazy Hair Day. Students were asked to make a gold coin donation to be forwarded Lockington Consolidated to the Leukaemia Foundation. We raised approx. $300, great work! School News Congratulations to Charlie Byrne who this week compet- ed at the State Swimming Championships in Melbourne. To get to this stage Charlie had won his events in Echu- ca, then headed to Swan Hill to compete in the Regional Finals before heading to Melbourne. We are so proud of you Charlie, congratulations. Lockington Scarecrow Competition. The prep students, along with Deb and Mrs Connors spent a lot of time making scarecrows to enter into the local competition. Don’t they look great? Save the Date – LCS is holding a Trivia night on Friday 18th May. Please contact the school for more infor- mation on 54862474 ISSUE #840 - April 27, 2018 Page 5 Page 6 ISSUE #840 - April 27, 2018 COMMUNITY COMMUNITY RETAIL LOCKINGTON ACTION CLUB OF RECREATION LOCKINGTON RESERVE MONTHLY MEETINGS: Bookings now made with 1st Wednesday - Dinner at Clubrooms Donna Tink: 3rd Wednesday - 54862697 or 0458 101 660 Activity If you cannot contact Donna, Amped hair would like to extend a huge phone Louise Murray President: thankyou to our Lockington clients for there Julian Pearce: 0428 844 489 ph 5486 5338 or 04 2886 5338 support over the years and continued support and well wishes with our move to Rochester.. HEALTH We are very pleased with how the Cricket Nets & Sports Ovals. new premises are coming along and we are Indoor Netball, Basketball, Badminton & Tennis ECHUCA excited to show off the new salon when we CHEMIST open on the 10th of April... BAMAWM RECREATION The new address is 53 moore st Rochester RESERVE (next to Kits Kafe) and the number is 54841370 although we can still be reached on with Indoor Stadium the old number... Beauty Products Vitamins available for hire day and night - - Keep an eye on Facebook for details of our Rate $8 per hour plus $2 light coin meter Prescriptions - Fragrances official opening night for Champagne and Meeting & Social Rooms for Private Hire 192 HARE STREET nibbles and a look around the salon.