Beaufort

  • Wandering Walkers set for the ultimate adventure

    REMEMBER those 50-seat Gold buses which transported schoolkids to their excursions? Well, this is what the Walkers – Carla, Josh and their two daughters – are set to call home as they begin their tour around Australia. It was a dream Carla and Josh had held onto for eight years before deciding to act on […]

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  • Parkrun off to a great start in Beaufort

    UPWARDS of 80 runners have braved the cold over the last fortnight to participate in the launch of Beaufort’s parkrun around the lake. The program, which consists of a five-kilometre course or two laps around the Beaufort lake, launched in the town a fortnight ago and has attracted participants from as far as Brisbane, Ararat […]

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  • Midcourt depth key for Beaufort

    A SCINTILLATING finish to the home-and-away season has given Beaufort A-Grade coach Alice Laidlaw plenty of selection “headaches” ahead of Saturday’s Elimination Final. Despite only losing four matches this season, Beaufort ended one of the most competitive Central Highlands netball campaigns in fifth position and opens its finals series in a cut-throat tie against Dunnstown […]

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  • Plenty to Crow about: Beaufort announces 2023 coaches

    DANIEL Jones will coach Beaufort’s senior football team alongside Mitch Jenkins in 2023, with Brendan Howard stepping down from the role. A best-and-fairest winner with North Ballarat in the Ballarat Football League, Jones will step into senior coaching for the first time in his career; having played an important role in Beaufort’s rejuvenation since joining […]

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  • ‘Damo’s Day’ a celebration of a Beaufort favourite son

    “DAMO don’t even think about bringing your wallet on Saturday, mate,” Beaufort co-coach Mitch Jenkins said ahead of Beaufort’s main training session last Thursday. Dominating a whiteboard usually filled with strategies and a review of the game before is ‘Damo’s 300th…FINALLY’ printed in bright red marker and a list of the celebrations planned to accompany […]

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  • Connect Hearing comes to Beaufort

    LOCALS will receive better access to hearing aids and audio care, with Beaufort and Skipton Health Service adding an audiologist to its Allied Health program. Kim Holmes, from Connect Hearing, will be available once a week at the Beaufort campus, where locals diagnosed with hearing loss can be fitted with hearing aids and gain a […]

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  • Cricket nets project hits roadblock

    BEAUFORT Cricket Club and Pyrenees Shire Council are at loggerheads over the construction of the town’s new cricket nets, after council proposed an alternative design due to costing issues. Council representatives presented a new design for the three-wicket training facility at a Beaufort Cricket Club meeting on Wednesday, which would see the facility built on […]

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  • Peter O’Roure steps down as Beaufort’s librarian

    USUALLY when your interviewee rings a few minutes before your scheduled meeting, you brace yourself for the worst. A cancellation? An eleventh-hour change of heart about speaking to the media? Thankfully it was no such news which would have sent the Advocate’s brains trust scrambling for another story. And I should have known better. I […]

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  • Beaufort set for new cricket nets

    BEAUFORT Cricket Club is hopeful its new nets will be ready for the beginning of the upcoming season, with work expected to begin this month. Pyrenees Shire Council has appointed a contractor for the project which will deliver a fully enclosed three-wicket training facility. The new facility will be built adjacent to the tennis courts […]

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  • Charity run comes to Beaufort

    FORMER AFL great and media commentator Kane Cornes will be in Beaufort in September as part of an ambitious fundraising effort for a children’s cancer charity. Cornes announced recently he will run from Adelaide to Melbourne ahead of the AFL Grand Final to raise money for My Room Children’s Cancer Charity. He says a similar […]

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