Ovens and Murray Advertiser

3 days ago | omadvertiser.com.au | Coral Cooksley

BEECHWORTH Men’s Shed member Allan Mansfield delved deep into the barrel to draw winning tickets including a huge cubby house as first prize at the close of a fundraising raffle on Wednesday. A West Wodonga resident won the cubby house valued at $2100 built by Mr Mansfield. Other winners for second, third and fourth prizes hail from Beechworth. More to the story with winners and funds raised in nex...

3 days ago | omadvertiser.com.au | Coral Cooksley

RUTHERGLEN Rotary’s biggest fundraiser on the calendar – the County Fair on Sunday – is one of Victoria’s longest running and largest regional markets. Club president Frank O’Loughlin said the outstanding free event from 9am to 3.30pm is expected to draw 5000 to 8000 visitors. “Since we took over the event in excess of $400,000 has been raised and distributed to the community for project...

3 days ago | omadvertiser.com.au | Coral Cooksley

Friday, 6 June to Monday, 9 JuneBEECHWORTH ARTS COUNCIL: Photographic exhibition. 10am to 4pm. ‘Beechworth Family Album - Portraits of Creative Beechworth’. The next chapter in the Beechworth Family Album - a photography project started in 1984 and produced every decade since then. Photographs include local artists, photographers, musicians and creative groups taken by local photographer Mark ...

3 days ago | omadvertiser.com.au | Coral Cooksley

A FORMER longtime Rutherglen resident travelled from the seaside town of Torquay to Rutherglen to attend the opening of a sculptural tribute to honour local First Nations artist and Elder Yackaduna (Tommy McRae 1835-1901) and his family on Saturday. Ro Porter with her late husband Rob had been a driving force behind the ArtsRutherglen project. “We were leaving Rutherglen with mixed emotions as we ...

3 days ago | omadvertiser.com.au | Coral Cooksley

PAT Giltrap was born in Melbourne, moved to England with his parents and siblings until eight years old when the family returned to Australia living in the North East. He left the area after finishing school and after 27-odd years he returned to the North East five years ago with his wife and young daughters to live in Stanley. What do you do workwise? I do a lot of work on the small farm we call home, but what I actually do for money? I work in the construction industry on major projects.