1979
After trailing Echuca for three quarters Rochester scored a winning point right on the siren in its match with Echuca.
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Bill Nalder, one of the best players on the ground, had a big say in the result, the Tigers kicking four goals to one in the final term to win 86-85.
Mackiner, Robinson and Haring were among the best, while Robinson kicked four goals.
Rochester was sitting eighth and Echuca second bottom at the time, after seven rounds of the season.
— Questions were being asked if the Rankin St Playground would be opened in the Year of the Child as members of the Rochester Community Welfare Community expressed their concern over the slow-paced project.
The shire had received a cheque for $1000 for adventure playground equipment three years earlier. A year earlier the committee had determined a playground was required after a survey was held in the town.
It revealed at least 70 children of primary-school age were living in the McKenzie and Johnson St areas, making the playground a priority.
Council responded by saying the playground was planned for completion by Christmas 1979.
1989
Tomato growers in the Campaspe Valley faced the loss of their price negotiation powers amid a recommendation by the state government to review payments.
Growers did have the right to negotiate prices and contracts with processing companies, but a recommendation had been made to abolish the privilege.
— Bamawm Lawn Tennis Club’s 1989 debutante ball involved nine girls and their partners being trained by Kerryn Trewin of Strathallan and chaperonied by Olive McMahon.
Flowergirl at the event was Jeanette Russell and page boy Adrian Dinsdale.
Melinda Warnecke was partnered by Neil Francis, Narelle McEwen was partnered by Robert Hardess, Tina Laffey and Mark Ryan were a couple, Trudi Mason and Rohan Ayres, Amanda Walker and Matthew Savill, Denille Anderson and Brad McEwan, Faye Wright and Jason Turner, Wendy Glasson and Steven Hicks, Shandel Warren and Dean Mitchell were other couples.
A Rochester debutante ball held only a matter of days later involved the following partners: Annette Cox and Jason Gill, Kirlee Taylor and Scott Wileman, Tanya White and Kevin Cowley, Heidi Fullard and Tim Growcott, Kim Elliot and Chris Willis, Tracey Willis and Stuart McKenzie, Melinda Hann and Karl Hansen, Taree Gilbert and Stephen McWhinney, Geraldine Gray and Timothy Grogan, Nicole Turner and Nathan Rogers, Nicole Major and Michael Tamburini, Cindy Costello and Robert Lecek, Karen Tyres and Colin Allan, Deanne Tamburini and Simon McCarty, Leisa Wellington and Travis Lee, Zita Chambers and Brent Lewis, Donna Burgmann and Rohan Smyth.
1999
Lockington Lions Club secretary Frank Dullard won the Ted Harwood Memorial trophy for his compilation of the history of the Lockington district prior to the town’s back to in 1997.
He wrote an article for the Lions Club national magazine, The Lion, detailing the achievements of the small community and the involvement of the Lockington Lions in projects that had breathed life into the town in recent times.
The article was selected as the most outstanding piece submitted by a club for the year and the Ted Harwood Memorial award accompanied that recognition.
— Three Rochester Tigers, coach David Williams and co-captains Anthony McPhee and Simon McCarty, were recognised with life membership of the league after notching 200 games of senior GVL football (including interleague matches).
Rochester was sitting on top of the ladder with eight wins and one loss from the opening 10 rounds (also having had a bye) and was equal on points with Echuca. To celebrate the milestones Rochester beat Shepparton United by 43 points.
Tim Rasmussen kicked four goals and McPhee three, while Dwight Weeks was best on ground alongside Jeremy Campbell, Scott Hansen and Brad Sparks.
Ten years earlier, in 1989, McPhee and McCarty were also named Goulburn Valley Football League rookie of the month recipients.
McPhee won his award ahead of Tatura’s Robbie Auld, who is now a senior member of the AFL executive alongside his brother Travis, and Shepparton’s Shaun Hart, who went on to be a premiership star with the Brisbane Lions.
Some wonderful names were part of the judging panel, former Shepparton News sports editor Noel Hussey, Kyabram Free Press’ Gus Underwood and former Channel 7 leading football journalist Mark Stevens (working at the Shepparton News at the time).
— Fifteen debutantes and their partners were presented to at an Anglican ball in Rochester, Jim and Sue White responsible for training the participants.
Kirby Taylor, Brooke Sinclair, Jessica Woodyard and Chloe Thompson were the four maids of honour that accompanied the debutantes, along with flowergirl Jesica Juffs, page boy Shane Gledhill and trumpeters Matthew and Jock McMillan.
The debutantes and their partners were Nicole Fowles and Craig Harris, Jeanette Hartley and Travers Pay, Lauren Clarke and Shaun Coghill, Simone Bloomfield and Matthew Higgins, Natalie McMinn and Stacey Moon, Sheree Chiswell and Heath Aitken, Kylie Penny and Nathan Williams, Pamela O’Sullivan and Matthew Glen, Shelley Lawry and Eldred Cox, Lynsey Campbell and Clinton Oliver, Shae Eddy and Ben Anderson, Erin Griffith and Christopher White, Lisa Cowan and Ben Foster, Leanne Carter and Marty McCaig, Joelene Morrissey and Ashleigh Cunnington.
2009
Parents were describing the scenes in Edward St, outside Rochester Primary School, as crazy for a 15-minute period from 3.30pm on weekdays.
Cars, bicycles and foot traffic were apparently heading, uncontrolled, in all directions and parents were calling for a designated crossing in Edward St between the primary and secondary schools.
A petition was being planned for delivery to Campaspe Shire to have the matter actioned.
— Rochester Citizens Advisory Group had Campaspe Shire’s road network in its sights at its monthly meeting, members describing the grading of bitumen road edges as “unsatisfactory”.
Council responded to the criticism by explaining the grading works had been delayed because of the lack of moisture in the ground, which made the grading program impossible.
Council’s asset portfolio was being managed by councillor Greg Toll, who said only rainfall would allow the works to be completed at the levels expected, with the shire even going to the lengths of using water tankers to undertake works.
Rochester moved to equal-top-of-the-ladder with a 62-point win against Euroa when Kahl Oliver kicked five first-half goals before heading to the bench when injured after completing a spectacular one-handed mark.
The Tigers had won seven of their first eight games and led the competition from Tatura, Mansfield, Shepparton and Kyabram, all with six wins.
Tim Letcher kicked four goals, Dylan Cuttriss two and Heath Aitken was best on ground, ahead of Chris McCarty and Brad Collins.
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