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7 December, 2023
The Addy Looks Back - December 2023
During December... 10 YEARS AGO 2013 Dan Leddin was named Club Person of the Year at the Clubs Victoria Achievement Awards for his hard work at the Maryborough Golf Club. Over at the Highland Society, they scored Regional Club of the Year. Passenger...
During December...
10 YEARS AGO
2013
Dan Leddin was named Club Person of the Year at the Clubs Victoria Achievement Awards for his hard work at the Maryborough Golf Club.
Over at the Highland Society, they scored Regional Club of the Year.
Passenger rail services returned to Talbot this month for the first time in more than 20 years.
Former local Liam Belcher won gold, taking out the 98kg weight rangel title at the Commonwelath and Oceanic Powerlifting/Benchpress Championships.
20 YEARS AGO
2003
The future of Maryborough’s Mardi Gras was up in the air this month, with dwindling attendance and bands and sideshows pulling their support at the last minute. Local businesses also noted a general lack of trade during the event, and the issues of underage drinking was discussed.
Channel Nine’s Postcards series dropped in Avoca to film shots around the town.
Parents and teachers welcomed a speed limit reduction to 40 km/h outside Dunolly’s primary school.
Nine-year-old Mitchell Burman took out the boys 10 years and under event at the prestigious Western Victorian School-aged Tennis Championships in Warrnambool this month.
50 YEARS AGO
1973
The new Bet Bet Shire offices were officially opened on December 7.
Youngsters Lisa Phillips, Mandy and Trina Hughes and Helen Hepworth (aged 8-13) put their heads together and sold just about everything you can think of — ice blocks, pony rides, clothing and old crockery to raise $30.89. The girls were junior members of the local guide dogs for the blind auxiliary and donated their earnings to the Guide Dog Movement.
Maryborough voted no in the 1973 December referendum, which proposed two amendments to the constitution which would give the Commonwealth power to make laws about prices and income.