Caption: Four generations of one family are pictured and they gathered to to celebrate the 90th birthday of Mrs E. Perry. At the back are Mrs D. Campbell of Echuca, and her daughter Mrs Margaret Major, of Rochester. Seated in the front are Mrs Perry and her great granddaughter Kim Major, of Rochester.
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50 years ago September 1975
Two closely linked Rochester district farmer organisations, the Rochester Artificial Breeders’ Co-operative and the Rochester Herd Test Association, have merged together to form the Rochester Herd Improvement Co-operative.
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The manager-secretary of the co-operative, Mr Roger Taylor, said the co-operative had seven directors and four herd test advisers.
Mr Taylor gave some interesting figures on artificial insemination in the Rochester district since 1960.
Cows inseminated in the first year (1960) were 3019 and this had risen to 25,098 in the 1974-75 season.
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The Rocheter Football Club will not seek to rejoin the Bendigo League. The secretary of the Rochester club, Mr J. Knight, said that his club’s executive had met and decided to remain in the Goulburn Valley Football League.
There was a large amount of publicity regarding the possible application by the club to re-affiliate with the Bendigo League, and this apparently stemmed from a delegates’ meeting of the GVL, where Rochester was denied a final game this season.
At the GVL delegates’ meeting there was a sharp exchange between the league president, Mr Jack Arthur, and the Rochester secretary, Mr Knight.
25 years ago September 2000
A separate director of nursing position is to be re-introduced at Rochester and Elmore District Health Service, three years after the chief executive and DON positions were combined in an effort then to strengthen the health service’s financial position.
Morner IcIvor Health and Community Services CEO/DON Judith Pellas will take up the new position.
REDHS chief executive Jill Dunbar will relinquish the DON role but maintain a link with nursing as deputy DON.
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A league coach’s award has capped off a great year for junior football in Rochester.
Alf May, who coaches the under-14 Magpies’ junior football team in Rochester, was recently named the Goulburn Campaspe Coach of the Year, following in the footsteps of fellow junior footy coaches Kevin Brown and Geoff Enever.
Rochester’s junior football coaches Geoff Enever, Alf May and Kevin Brown have each won the Goulburn Campaspe Junior Football League’s coach of the year award.
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Brown won the award in 1998 and Enever in 1997.
In season 2000, May’s Magpies finished the season second on the ladder to Echuca Green.
10 years ago September 2015
A pair of students from Rochester Secondary College have claimed top honours in this year’s Murray River Culinary Challenge.
April Crouch and Angelica Dipasupil — who were representing the Campaspe region in the final — won with their three-course meal against opponents from Swan Hill, Shepparton, Wangaratta and Wodonga districts.
This year’s challenge featured 157 students from 20 schools and culminated in Thursday’s final at Echuca TAFE.
Rochester Secondary College students April Crouch and Angelica Dipasupil in action during the final of the Murray River Culinary Challege.
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Aside from taste, the judging criteria included creative presentation, hygiene and bench and stove work.
The Rochester duo finished the competition equal on points with students from Catholic College Wodonga, but won after the scores were divided by the criteria.
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It was fast, it was physical and it was furious.
The Heathcote and District Netball Association A-grade finale lived up to all expectations, beside the fact that it was an absolute white wash.
Last year’s grand final heartbreak is just a distant memory for the Colbinabbin stars as they buried North Bendigo 50-29 to be crowned HDNA premiers at Huntly’s Strauch Reserve.
There were tears and there was laughter as the Hoppers squad accepted their medals and the fleeting plaque which eluded them last season.
