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The Northern Midlands Courier
December 21, 2021-January 20, 2022
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Holiday arrangements
you the news from the region.
It’s been a year.
We weren’t expecting that a
world pandemic would still be
dominating our lives as we nudge
the end of another 12 months.
Remember how we all promised
each other that if we could just
make it through to Christmas —
last year — that everything would
be fine in the New Year?
But it hasn’t. And yet we’ve
survived. And it hasn’t been all
gloom.
Remember veteran Longford
racehorse trainer Bill Ryan’s excitement when his daughter Mon-
2022 is published on Thursday,
January 20.
Editor Alison Andrews will
be back working and available
from Monday, January 10.
To contact, phone 0438 655
993 or email
alison@nmcourier.com.au
THE COURIER’S final edition
for 2021 is out today, two days
earlier than usual so that we can
deliver it to you before Christmas Day. Please enjoy the read.
The Courier will take a short
break before the first edition in
ica succeeded in what seemed the
impossible to get Ryan’s fouryear-old filly Still A Star into the
field for the running of the country’s richest 1600 metre horse
race, the All-Star Mile.
What an achievement for a little
horse from Pateena Road, Tasmania.
We’ve had big celebrations
along the Midland Highway all
year as Perth, Campbell Town and
Ross commemorate their 200th
birthdays.
The gala cricket game between
arch rivals Campbell Town and
Ross on the new Ross turf wicket
a couple of weeks ago was a memorable way to wrap up celebrations with the promise of cricket
returning on a regular basis to the
Midlands.
We’ve seen outstanding performances by our children and our
adult musicians and artists.
Northern Midlands artist Mi-
have a lot of single men and
women to help this year,”
said Helping Hand’s Joan
Barnes.
“We’ve changed the way
we do things in the past
couple of years.
“We used to pack hampers but now we are giving
out vouchers for Hill Street
(supermarket) so that people can choose their own
things.
“We also lay out a table of
Christmas food like mince
pieces, Christmas cakes and
puddings here at Helping
Hand so people can help
themselves and we have
gifts wrapped up for the different people.”
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HANDS ON: Cressy’s Angela Jenkins has been the district high school’s Pride Award for 2021 for her many years
serving the school and district.
A special award for a special person
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CRESSY District High School’s special award, presented rarely, could
have been written for Angela Jenkins.
The coordinator of the school’s
annual end-of-the-year awards presentation was shocked when she was
announced the Pride Award 2021 recipient during the presentation.
“I had no idea that it was to be me
— and I organise it,” she said, quietly
thrilled.
The award, given for outstanding
contribution to the school and the
community, acknowledges many
years of service to her local community and the school she loves.
Angela grew up at Cressy, daughter
of Kurt and Joy Malinowski.
Her mother was a Goss before she
married so Angela’s connections to
Cressy run deep.
She was a student at Cressy for 10
years from 1966 then worked in Launceston and at Longford in retail before
accepting a position as administrative
clerk at the school in 2004.
After she and her husband, Greg,
married, they built a house on land
across the road from her parents.
They’ve been there ever since.
Angela and Greg’s son, Ethan, was
also a student at Cressy, before his sad
death, in 2016, aged just 22.
It meant that Angela was also heavily involved as a parent at the school,
as an officer bearer for both the Parents & Friends Association and the
Mothers Club for 16 years.
She drove the establishment of
a school canteen during that time,
fundraising, coordinating and volunteering in the canteen, which was first
set up in a caravan and then in its existing onsite building.
Angela was a founding member of
the Cressy Local District Committee
and is still on the committee. She was
involved nin the Cressy War Memorial Pool from when she was a teenager
and served as secretary during her 19
years on the pool committee.
She is secretary of the Cressy Trout
Expo committee.
Cressy principal Craig Brown said
in presenting the Pride Award to Angela that she was a quiet achiever.
“She has exceptional emotional intelligence including social awareness,
trust, communication skills and the
capacity to problem solve and find innovative, positive solutions,” he said.
“Angela’s resilience and calm manner in times of stress are admirable
traits.
“She goes out of her way to help
those in need of support and has
demonstrated loyal and dedicated
commitment to her local community.”
The quiet achiever was still lost for
words several days after the award
presentation.
“I just love it here,” she said.
“I love the kids and the staff and the
job — every day is different.
“I think you can see in the buildings
and surroundings that this is a school
that moves forward and the community is passionate about the school.”
THE local group working
with Telstra to improve
mobile phone and internet
services across the Northern Midlands has met with
the council seeking funding towards three new mobile base stations.
Telstra has told Cressy
businessman
Richard
Duncan that it needs local and state government
financial input to successfully apply for federal
funding to build the base
stations at Royal George,
Deddington and the existing Delmont exchange
and upgrade the Lake
Leake facility.
Mr Duncan, representing the Northern
Midlands Business Association, has been campaigning for most of the
year for improved mobile
phone and internet services in the region which
has suffered for years
from lack of reliable communication services, particularly across farming
country.
Mr Duncan and Telstra personnel met with
council representatives
last week seeking a 10
per cent contribution, or
about $400,000, towards
the approximately $4
million cost for the three
base stations and Lake
Leake upgrade.
The group will also be
looking for a $605,000
state government contribution before submitting
its funding application for
the remainder to the federal Regional Connectivity Program, round two, by
January 27.
Mr Duncan said that
the Deddington, Royal
George and Delmont base
stations would include
communication towers.
“The Delmont tower
will be easier because
there is already optic cable connected to the exchange,” he said.
“The other two will
need fibre optic laid to
them and that’s the expensive part - it’s about
$100,000 a kilometre to
lay fibre optic.”
Mr Duncan said that
once the Delmont tower
was installed, he would be
talking to National Broadband Network to connect
WiFi to the tower.
“That would be of huge
benefit to farmers in the
region to connect to the
(NBN) Sky Muster satellite,” he said.
The new towers and
stations will improve outdoor and indoor coverage
across the targeted areas,
according to a Telstra
spokesman.
Mr Duncan is one of
the businesses and residents at Cressy, Longford,
Conara and other Northern Midlands towns and
farm properties affected
by the region’s communication Black Spots.
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chael McWilliams sold out his
latest exhibition, in Hobart, within minutes of it opening — again
— and this time people camped
overnight outside the gallery to
make sure they could be there to
buy when the doors opened.
And the country community
who calls the white painted, little
timber Pisa Church, near Cressy,
their own, celebrated early this
month after finally buying their
church back from the Anglican
Diocese after a three-year battle.
We are determined, talented
and wise out here on the flat Midland plains between the mighty
Eastern and Western Tiers. And
we are kind to our neighbours.
That’s what will carry us
through to a new year, rich with
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