Articles by Craig Wilson

  • Police target speeding on local backroads

    LOCAL Police are patrolling backroads across Ararat Rural City in a bid to curve the number of accidents and deaths on country roads.
    Operation SPEEDIE ties in with the Victorian Police Road Safety Strategy that states death and serious injury are not inevitable, they are preventable!
    Ararat Police members as well as officers based in Elmhurst, Willaura and Lake Bolac are regularly patrolling quieter country roads and running random speed tests in an effort to get drivers to slow down.

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  • End of an era, HMAS Ararat II decommissioned in Darwin

    THE navy ship carrying the Ararat name is no more, with the official decommissioning of HMAS Ararat II on Saturday the 2nd of July.
    The Royal Australian Navy decommissioned the Armidale Class Patrol Boat at a ceremony in Darwin following 16 years of service.

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  • ALL SET FOR TURNER/TUCKEY CUP

    THE stage is set for tonight’s annual Turner/Tuckey Cup between the best of the Ararat District juniors and Stawell. Ararat coach Scott Turner took the players in a skill session last week, with the game this year set to be played under lights at Alexandra Oval. Ararat will be hoping to retain its crown, with […]

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  • Street art brightens breezeway

    THE breezeway linking Barkly Street with the K-Hub car park has taken on a bright new look.

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  • Lions benefit from pub raffle

    MONEY raised from the weekly raffle at Lake Bolac’s historic pub will be put to good use by the Willaura Lions Club.
    Publicans Bernie and Jason Parr donated the proceeds of the raffle – $1240.00 – to Willaura Lions during their meeting at the pub in early June.

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  • Darren is a true Monopoly enthusiast

    LOCAL man Darren Lester is the proud owner of 130 sets of the much-loved board game, Monopoly.
    Mr Lester, who works at the prison when he is not chasing down rare Monopoly sets, has been collecting the game boards for the past four years.
    “Star Wars was one of my first sets,” he said of the collection, which also includes several sets of the standard board game.

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  • Kebab van takings stolen

    OZY Kokcu has lived in the Ararat community for 20 years.
    Many of us know him from his taxi driving days, and now from his kebab van which he runs from the Gum San carpark each week from Wednesday through to Sunday.
    Between Wednesday and Saturday of last week, a person or persons took the van’s takings from Mr Kokcu’s car, which totalled $4,000.

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  • Ben is top of his class

    YOUNG farmer Ben Hartwich has been voted top of the class by his peers, winning a prestigious award at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show.
    23-year-old Ben was named National Merino Sheep Young Judge Champion, beating entries from all other states and New Zealand.

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