TWO weeks ago, Noel Hurstfield\u2019s bike was stolen from Ararat\u2019s main street.<\/p>\n
It was a huge shock to Noel, who first alerted Deb at Deb\u2019s Diner, who in turn contacted police.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, a post was put up on the Ararat Residents Facebook page, asking for help in getting Noel a new set of wheels.<\/p>\n
People in Ararat would know Noel by sight.<\/p>\n
He often carts a small trailer behind his bike which is used to carry a lawnmower. Fortunately the trailer was not attached when the bike went missing.<\/p>\n
Noel said he relies on his bike as an essential part of his business.<\/p>\n
His bike was eventually found destroyed, prompting numerous offers flooded via Facebook from community members who wanted to donate the funds needed to buy a new bike.<\/p>\n
Liesa Iezekil offered to use her shop in the main street as the designated place for people to donate money.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually had to knock back money,\u201d Liesa said, so forthcoming was the community in making donations.<\/p>\n
Noel then talked to Donna at Lardner Bros and chose a new bike, and Lardner Bros will be making the needed additions to the new bike so that Noel can start carting his trailer again and resume cutting lawns for his regular clients.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would have missed a bit of money without being able to mow lawns for a little while,\u201d Liesa said.<\/p>\n
Liesa said that the town has rallied around Noel because he is so involved in the community, with sports in particular.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the community, he goes into all the shops and chats to everybody. The kids love him, they all love him,\u201d Liesa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TWO weeks ago, Noel Hurstfield\u2019s bike was stolen from Ararat\u2019s main street.
\nIt was a huge shock to Noel, who first alerted Deb at Deb\u2019s Diner, who in turn contacted police.
\nAfterwards, a post was put up on the Ararat Residents Facebook page, asking for help in getting Noel a new set of wheels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Noel-and-bike.jpg?fit=843%2C1124&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-fk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}