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REDUCE YOUR RISING ENERGY COSTS Energy for Australia - Naturally Enquire Today! Talk to the professional team at PLANET POWER now located at the ALDI COMPLEX Young Street, Albury about sound energy investment strategies & products for your home or workplace to help - 1054911-JL46-12 By TREVOR JACKSON ABOUT 500 women and children are assisted by Betty’s Place women’s ref- uge in Albury each year as a result of domestic violence. And those figures are not improv- ing, according to chief executive of Al- bury Wodonga Community Network, Lucinda Rhook. Ms Rhook said while those numbers also included the Towong, Wodonga and Indigo shires, the majority were from Albury - and she says we can all play a part in reducing these “horrify- ing” figures. “Part of White Ribbon Day, and the work we do at Betty’s Place, is trying to encourage people not to be silent about it any more,” she said. “Yes it’s confronting, and yes, it makes you sad, it makes you upset to hear these stories, but the worst thing we can do is to keep being silent about it.” The White Ribbon campaign is a national violence prevention campaign that aims to raise awareness among Australian men and boys about the roles they can play to prevent vio- lence against women. Men and women across Australia are called to wear a white ribbon or wristband as a visual symbol of their commitment and oath. And it’s this oath that Ms Rhook says can be taken by anyone who wish- es to show support. “Men and women can go online to the White Ribbon website and swear the oath,” she said. “It’s all about swearing not to be si- lent, to say no, it’s not okay.” With White Ribbon Day this Sun- day, AWNCI held a luncheon Tuesday to raise awareness of the situation here on the Border. This included a Welcome to Coun- try delivered by Wiradjuri Elder Nancy Rooke and guest speaker, well known psychologist Ursula Benstead. Ms Rhook said the support shown from the community was pleasing, with 140 people attending. She said a major point that needed addressing was the stereotype of those suffering domestic violence, who may be seen to be a single mum on Centre- link payments, or from a low socio- economic background. “We see women from all walks of life here,” she said. “No-one is immune from domestic violence. All women can come across it.” White Ribbon Day is about trying to achieve a change in the attitudes and behaviours that lead to violence against women, part of which is to not stay silent. “They say good men don’t use vio- lence, good men don’t stay silent when they see or hear about violence against women, good men lead by example and they condemn the men who choose violence,” Ms Rhook said. “That’s the whole theme of White Ribbon, for men to stop men using vio- lence against women.” The word on the street… Issue #161 – Friday, November 23, 2012 www.awnw.com.au “ Yes it’s confronting, and yes, it makes you sad, it makes you upset to hear these stories, but the worst thing we can do is to keep being silent about it… Lucinda Rhook Yes it’s confronting, and yes, it makes you sad, it makes you upset to hear these stories, but the worst thing we can do is to keep being silent about it… Lucinda Rhook Hidden violence SWEAR… Lucinda Rhook is urging people to go online and swear the oath in support of White Ribbon Day. Albury Christian book shop, Word, is closing its doors. The third- generation family business is suffering the wrath of the internet, like so many others. Read the full Krysten Manuel story on page 3.
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REDUCE YOUR RISING ENERGY COSTS
Energy for Australia - Naturally
Enquire Today!Talk to the professional team at PLANET POWER now located at the
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1054911-JL46-12
By TREVOR JACKSON
ABOUT 500 women and children are assisted by Betty’s Place women’s ref-uge in Albury each year as a result of domestic violence.
And those figures are not improv-ing, according to chief executive of Al-bury Wodonga Community Network, Lucinda Rhook.
Ms Rhook said while those numbers also included the Towong, Wodonga and Indigo shires, the majority were from Albury - and she says we can all play a part in reducing these “horrify-ing” figures.
“Part of White Ribbon Day, and the work we do at Betty’s Place, is trying to encourage people not to be silent about it any more,” she said.
“Yes it’s confronting, and yes, it makes you sad, it makes you upset to hear these stories, but the worst thing we can do is to keep being silent about it.”
The White Ribbon campaign is a national violence prevention campaign that aims to raise awareness among Australian men and boys about the roles they can play to prevent vio-lence against women. Men and women across Australia are called to wear a
white ribbon or wristband as a visual symbol of their commitment and oath.
And it’s this oath that Ms Rhook says can be taken by anyone who wish-es to show support.
“Men and women can go online to the White Ribbon website and swear the oath,” she said.
“It’s all about swearing not to be si-lent, to say no, it’s not okay.”
With White Ribbon Day this Sun-day, AWNCI held a luncheon Tuesday to raise awareness of the situation here on the Border.
This included a Welcome to Coun-
try delivered by Wiradjuri Elder Nancy Rooke and guest speaker, well known psychologist Ursula Benstead.
Ms Rhook said the support shown from the community was pleasing, with 140 people attending.
She said a major point that needed addressing was the stereotype of those suffering domestic violence, who may be seen to be a single mum on Centre-link payments, or from a low socio-economic background.
“We see women from all walks of life here,” she said.
“No-one is immune from domestic
violence. All women can come acrossit.”
White Ribbon Day is about tryingto achieve a change in the attitudes and behaviours that lead to violenceagainst women, part of which is to notstay silent.
“They say good men don’t use vio-lence, good men don’t stay silent when they see or hear about violence againstwomen, good men lead by exampleand they condemn the men who choose violence,” Ms Rhook said.
“That’s the whole theme of WhiteRibbon, for men to stop men using vio-lence against women.”
The word onthe street…
Issue #161 – Friday, November 23, 2012 www.awnw.com.au
“Yes it’s confronting, and yes, it makes you sad, it makes you upset to hear these stories, but the worst thing we can do is to keep being silent about it…
Lucinda Rhook
Yes it’s confronting, and yes, it makes you sad, it makes you upset to hear these stories, but the worst thing we can do is to keep being silent about it…
Lucinda Rhook
Hiddenviolence
SWEAR… Lucinda Rhook is urging people to go online and swear the oath in support of White Ribbon Day.
Albury Christian book shop, Word, is closing its doors. The third-generation family business is suffering the wrath of the internet,like so many others. Read the full Krysten Manuel story on page 3.
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THE deep intensity of Ken Done’s latest exhibition has changed the way we see the art-ist and his beloved Sydney Har-bour forever.
Mr Done told NewsWeekly that one of the many complex layers drawing this exhibition together was embedded in it’s production. The therapeutic properties of painting were evoked for his own respite from prostate cancer, perhaps con-tributing to the powerful nature of this series.
“It’s just over a year ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer,” Mr Done said.
“I underwent the operation for that on the Friday, I was home Sunday, I started work on this series of paintings on Wednesday and I stayed with them for probably about two and a half to three months.
“I did nothing else but these 14-15 paintings. I chose not to be distracted by anything else and just work on these pic-tures.”
“Most of my work has been a celebration about how beauti-ful Sydney Harbour is and the joys of it, so when they asked me if I would make a series of paintings about this subject, it was an immense challenge and I was very happy to do it - no-one has done it before.”
The paintings are an expres-
sion of both Australian and Jap-anese emotions 70 years after three Japanese midget subma-rines entered Sydney Harbour in May 1942 on a kamikaze mission.
“I’ve been to war zones and I’ve been to refugee camps, but you don’t often see me painting those kinds of things.
“Painting dead people is not the kind of thing that any artist would think ’well I’ll start the day with that,’ but I have been to areas of great destruction, so I knew something of that.
“I didn’t want to glorify
war. I was interested in finding out or thinking about the feel-ings that might have been in the minds of the young Japanese who attempted this task.”
Mr Done will escort the col-lection to Albury just in time for Storm 1 to be unveiled - a gift to the Albury Regional Art Gallery.
“I live in Sydney harbour and I like to paint it in all its forms.
“The picture (Storm 1) is literally about what the sea and the rocks feel after the storm.”
FAREWELL… Done has cleverly appropriated the old Japanese painting placing it second in the “Attack” series.
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WORD Bookstore is closing down, and with it the fellowhip and wide (sometimes con-troversial) variety of books and media that Christians across the region have enjoyed for decades.
While churches can take books on con-signment and sell them, the sad thing is that many Christians will not go to other church-es to purchase the items they need, in turn, highlighting the main benefit of having a non-denominational bookstore like Word.
It seems that tolerance does not necessar-ily improve just becuase you go to church on a Sunday. Unfortunately, it is the human condition.
But then again, it was also considered ‘the human condition’ to accept and actively support racism not even half a century ago, and look how far we’ve come.
Short of opening another non-denomina-tional Christian bookstore, we propose that churches in our region all purchase religious books and other media to sell through their doors. And don’t be afraid to get the more outragous, boundary-pushing variety in, it may just get the people in.
We also recommend that those with a re-ligious interest or curiosity go and get this material from wherever they need to. Don’t let yourself be bound by unfortunate reli-gious stigma and assumption.
Who knows, you might learn something.
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WODONGA’S youth will soon enjoy the benefits of the Midnight Basket-ball program.
With a starting date of Friday, 3 May now confirmed, the organising committee is seeking assistance to en-sure the tournament’s success.
With the success of the program in Albury, Wodonga representative Cameron Elston said those involved were excited to have the tournament up and running and were looking for the same level of support from the Wodonga community.
Midnight Basketball consists of more than just a game. It includes a hearty meal, life-skill workshops and basketball, with a motto of No Work-shop, No Jumpshot.
“Midnight Basketball is a national social inclusion program,” he said.
“It’s designed to help the youth identify and embrace positive op-portunities and try to take them away from some of the anti-social behav-iour that can occur when they’re left to their own devices on weekends and late at night.
“We’ve been excited so far with the support from the community. Now we’re starting our media campaign, we’re hoping the people will see this as an opportunity to help the youth, which will just feed back into the community.”
Mr Elston said the program was essentially owned by Wodonga coun-cil, but run by volunteers, which they now hoped to recruit for the up-com-ing season.
“We’re looking for two types of support at the moment,” he said.
“Firstly we’re looking for sup-port from businesses in the form of financial support. We have a variety of different packages that start from a bronze support program, which is as-sisting with one of our tournaments, all the way up to a platinum program which is to assist with our tourna-ments over a two-year period, but we’re also willing to accept any spon-sorship from businesses.
“Secondly we’re looking for vol-unteers from the community.
“We have a range of different roles we need to fill to help the program run, from bus assistants or drivers to general assistants, people to keep score, people to assist with catering and people to assist with the work-shops.”
Mr Elston said those who could assist, whether for a single night or long-term, and anyone who feels they have skills that may be of value to the program were more than welcome to participate.
For further information contact Mr Elston on 0410 449 511.
By KRYSTEN MANUEL
WORD Bookstore in Albury is the last Christian bookstore in the North-East region. With it’s up-coming closure, local Christians will lose more than just a shopping outlet.
“Since we’ve told people we’re closing down, people have been almost mortified,” manager Luke Tischler said.
“That’s a pretty strong word, but they are - we’ve had to do a bit of consoling.
“We’re the type of store which is somewhat unique. If Kmart closes down you have other op-tions, for us, you don’t.
“It’s been not only a bookstore, but a ministry centre where we’ve prayed for and assisted people at times.”
Word in Albury has been a family business for three generations but is now, like other bookstores, suffering the effects of online shopping and e-books.
“Seeing a two dimensional picture on screen is not the same,” Mr Tischler said.
“Most of our shoppers are of an older generation and aren’t particularly net savvy, or don’t have the resources to go online.
“The bottom line is that they prefer shopping in store.”
Another option is for local churches to purchase books on consignment, though this poses problems of its own.
“Some people would be hesitant to go to a church for a book,” Mr Tischler explains.
“For example, some people might not want to go to a Pentecostal or Anglican church, even if there’s a book they want.
“Unfortunately that can be some people’s mind-set, there’s automatically a boundary in their mind as far as going to a store associated with a church.”
Word Albury will close on Friday November 27.
CLOSED… Luke Tischler says the closure of Word will be a great loss to the community.
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Harrison’s in the swimWODONGA swimmer Harrison Lowe was this week awarded the Wodonga Council Young Achiev-er Support Scheme (YASS) award for November.
The 14-year-old has excelled in freestyle and butterfly events and from October, 2011 to May, 2012, held the seventh fastest time for his age group in Australia for the 50m butterfly.
For two years running, he was awarded age champion in the Ov-
ens and Murray swimming cham-pionships, this year breaking four individual and two relay records.
Throughout the year, Harri-son also competed as part of the Wodonga Swimming Club relay at Age Nationals in Brisbane.
He also finished second in the 50m butterfly and fourth in the 50m freestyle for his age group at the Victorian Sprint Champion-ships.
Next month, Harrison will
represent Wodonga at the Victo-rian Age Championships in Mel-bourne where he will compete in 11 events including the boys 14 years 100m butterfly, 100m free-style, 50m freestyle and 200m freestyle.
The YASS provides financial assistance to young people to par-ticipate, develop skills, compete, perform or represent Wodonga in their chosen endeavour at a state, national or international level.
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Author publishedBy TREVOR JACKSON
AFTER winning the Elyne Mitchell Ru-ral Women’s Writing Award, Allans Flat author Kate Rotherham is about to have her winning entry published in the lat-est edition of Award Winning Australian Writing.
It’s the third consecutive year Kate has been published in the anthology.
She says she began writing after the advice of a friend, winning an award at the Write Around the Murray festival with her first submission in 2008.
And she hasn’t looked back, having been published in various Australian anthologies, literary journals and maga-zines.
Kate’s winning story, Companion Planning, tells of an aging farmer, stuck in the memory of his deceased wife, and not wanting to leave the land.
It’s typical of her work, much of which centres around rural life, parent-hood and family.
“I took the advice of write what you know,” Kate explained.
“I’m a social worker by trade. In my work I’ve met lots of farmers and rural folk.
“The community here is a big part of our work so it probably has an influence on my stories.
“I’ve met farmers who are determined to stay on the land and the difficulties that raises for family - wanting people to have their independence but not wanting them to be unsafe.”
Kate said when writing it was impor-tant to understand the character, to use the phrasing you imagine they would use.
“It’s about getting a real picture in your head of who you’re writing about,” she said.
“Trying to hear in your head the phrases they would use and trying to get that sense of their voice - I think that’s what separates believable stories from the not-so-believable.”
The almost whirlwind rise to success has also seen Kate write short plays, per-formed in Sydney, on the Gold Coast and more locally at Yackandandah.
And she says while she enjoys short stories, she would like to look to a longer
format in the future, time permiting.“I’d love to publish a short story col-
lection first,” she said.“When the kids are bigger and I have
a bit more time, maybe I’ll look at writ-ing a novel - but I feel I’m still a begin-ner in the short format.”
The Award Winning Australian Writ-ing anthology was released this week through Melbourne Books.
AWARDS... Kate Rotherham continues to taste success in a relatively short career.
Eye on speedALBURY police will continue mon-itoring the city’s worst streets for speed following the results of Al-buryCity’s Speed Check campaign.
Albury Highway Patrol has been targeting George Street, Yambla Av-enue, Kemp Street, Stedman Cres-cent and McDonald Road for the past six weeks.
Eleven speeding infringements have been issued with one motorist detected travelling at 104km/h in a 50km/h zone. Police also detected people for mobile phone offences, driving unregistered vehicles and
parking infringements.Motorists using George Street
reduced their speed the most, with an average reduction of 6.4km/h.
As a result of the campaign, council has scheduled additional line marking along McDonald Road to assist with traffic calming. Ad-ditional signage and traffic calm-ing will be considered for the other streets.
AlburyCity Road Safety Officer Lauren Torocsik said speeding in residential streets affected everyone in the community.
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“I JUST want to help people” is the phase heard over and over again while interviewing Dylan Blake.
Dylan will be riding from QEII Square to Federation Square, Melbourne, on 26 No-vember in one of his many bids to raise money for the carers accommodation at the Albury Base Hospital.
“Albury Carers Accom-modation helps people from elsewhere who haven’t got any-where to stay, they can get ac-commodated,” he said.
“It helps men, women, eve-ryone.
“It’s also to raise money for more breast cancer nurses in Albury.
“After this ride, I will be riding for a little girl from Wo-donga and I’ve also got in con-tact with Country Hope for kids with cancer.”
But it doesn’t stop there.“I want to ride from Albury
to Gympie later on – that’s six months of riding,” he said.
“It’s for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, to give someone a wish on the Border.”
Dylan has always had a pas-sion for helping people, espe-cially local people.
“I’d rather fix up my own backyard,” he said
“I’d rather help local people so the money stays local and helps people here.”
Dylan’s mother recently passed away from breast cancer, and is fighting alongside his six siblings to keep his mother’s house - while riding for locals that need him.
“All we need is for everyone to donate a dollar,” he explains.
“Every dollar adds up and they can go to something good for the community.”
Dylan is hoping to raise up-
wards of $20,000.To support Dylan, visit his
facebook page at www.face-book.com/DylansRideForCan-cer for updates and details for donations.
SELFLESS... Dylan Blake’s passion for less fortunate locals will take him on a ride to Melbourne on 26 November.
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The bigger pictureBy KRYSTEN MANUEL
AT just 16 years old, Xavier High student, Lara Files, has made her mark on a national scale, taking home a highly commended award in the ACMF (Australian Children’s Music Foundation) national song writing competition.
Miss Files began her musi-cal training at just four years old and has been song writing for the past four years.
Like many song writers, she writes about her life. Her win-ning song is a fresh exploration of positive perspective - not the typical teenage love story.
“It’s called The Bigger Pic-ture and I recorded it in Sydney with my cousin at his studio,” she said.
“It was about a girl that I know and she always seemed to be down and who needed to see the better side of things.”
The competition was no
small feat with judges like Ian Dickson, giving competitors an encouraging push in the direc-tion of their dreams.
“I’m hoping to pursue mymusic more and maybe becomea recording artist,” Miss Files said.
DREAMS... With stars in her eyes, Lara Files hopes to become a professional song writer.
More toys for girls and boysOVER 1,000 underprivileged children across Australia will again receive toys at Christmas, thanks to 104.9 Star FM’s ’I be-lieve in Christmas toy drive.’
As a contribution to the Sal-vation Army Star FM donated over 1300 toys last year and are hoping to raise even more in the coming festive season.
From Monday 19 Novem-ber, Star FM and local WAW Credit Union Branches will open their doors for the people of the Border to donate gifts.
This year’s campaign will be driven by Star FM’s New Breakfast Show Ben and Kris-tie.
“We both love Christmas and it’s great to see everyone get involved and spread the Christmas cheer to those that are less fortunate,” Ben said.
“We can’t wait to get in-volved!”
The annual appeal receives a huge amount of community support each year and making the lead on this for another year
is the WAW Credit Union. “With so many issues over-
seas and in Australia taking upour time these days, it’s refresh-ing to stop and focus our efforts and resources on other, impor-tant things in life,” WAW Credit Union Deputy CEO MichaelMack said.
“Making our children smileand helping others duringChristmas is very important to the staff at WAW and we are sovery proud to be able to help with Star FM’s I Believe inChristmas toy drive.”
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Jamie’s got the right recipeBy KRYSTEN MANUEL
WODONGA TAFE student, Ja-mie Cox, has sweated it out in the AUS-TAFE 2012 culinary trophy to take home a silver medal.
“They don’t tell you how close you how close the points are but they said it was very close to winning best overall - there was one guy that trumped me,” Mr Cox said.
Mr Cox is no stranger to competition, having competed in the culinary trophy for the past three years of his appren-ticeship. He won bronze at state in his first year, silver in his second and now progressing to a national level to take home a silver in his final year.
“Competitions are good, they put you under pressure and show you what you can accom-plish,” he said.
“Making something from scratch and then coming up with one of these really good looking dishes, it shows you ’I can do it.’
“I love the pressure, I love busy nights. For me person-ally, I like working with my hands and I can’t stay still for too long.”
But it’s not all smooth sail-ing.
“Everybody might think it might be like Masterchef but it’s not. You’ve got a bench space that’s about 60cm by 60cm, so you’re throwing stuff left right and centre.
“There’s people walking around staring at what you’re doing so it adds to the pressure.
“You get more confident as you go and by the end of it all, you’re like ‘whatever hap-pens, happens, I’m happy to be here’.”
Mr Cox warns future com-petitors to expect the unexpect-ed when entering the competi-tion.
“It all comes together in the end ... eventually,” he said.
“At all competitions some-thing seems to happen to me.
“I was in one competition and literally both soles of my shoes fell off and my feet came straight through the bottom of them. I had to keep working!
“I bought two pairs of shoes to nationals.”
The Zed Bar apprentice is hoping to continue his winning streak and go to the culinary Olympics one day.
WINNER… Jamie Cox took a silver medal at the AUS-TAFE Culinary Trophy.
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Fire Action Week Nov. 18-25 Protect your family by planning ahead this summer.
Fire Action Week is a great opportunity to gather all the information you need to prepare for this year’s fi re season. Book a CFA Home Visit, fi nd out about FireReady meetings in your area and check the CFA’s website to see if your local CFA station is open on CFA Sunday - 25 November.
And remember to talk to your family about what you’re going to do on a hot, dry, windy high fi re risk day. For more information about Fire Action Week and how to stay safe this fi re season, visit the CFA website or ring 1800 240 667.
visit cfa.vic.gov.aucall 1800 240 667
Know when to leave:
NOVEMBER 18-25, 2012
A message from the PremierAs Victorians, we live in one of the
country’s most fire-prone areas, so
preparing for summer means
preparing for fire.
All Victorians need to be aware of
the dangers of bushfires and ensure
they plan well ahead of time. Plan-
ning and preparing for fire is not
just for those who live in bushfire-
prone areas – it’s also for anyone
who plans to travel through or near
those areas.
For those with homes in or around
bush, coastal scrub, grass or pad-
docks – even if you’re in an urban
area – then planning ahead and
preparing your property are vital.
Suburban homes, even if they are
several kilometres away from risk
areas, can be vulnerable to fire
caused by flying embers.
There are many things you can do
right now to get ready for the fire
season and protect your family.
Get a relocation kit ready with im-
portant documents and essentials –
mobile phones, radios, clothes and
water – so you are ready when you
make the decision to leave the area
before a fire.
Talk to your family and others in
your life about planning and
preparing for the threat of fire. If you have family, friends or
neighbours who might need assis-
tance leaving early before a fire,
talk to them about how you could
help.
Please remember that on hot, dry
windy days, fires can start and
spread quickly. Check Fire Danger
Ratings and warnings at
cfa.vic.gov.au. If you are unsure,
you should leave.
If you are planning to travel
around our great State during the
fire season, there are precautions
that can be taken to make your jour-
ney safer.
Check the Fire Danger Ratings for
the areas you will be visiting every
day, on the CFA’s website or by
downloading the FireReady smart-
phone app, and listen to local radio
for warnings and advice while you
are on the road.
I wish all Victorians a wonderful
summer, whether you’re at home or
travelling around experiencing our
State’s outstanding sights and at-
tractions.
Be prepared and stay safe.
Ted Baillieu MLA
Premier
Premier Ted Baillieu
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‘Planning ahead is critical’
Bushfire survival plans should include seperate strategies to acre for companion
Don’t forget your petsWHEN constructing a fire plan, don’t forget about your animals – the last thing a family needs is to lose a beloved pet because they couldn’t be found in the chaos of a fire situation.
Local veterinarian and Al-bury RSPCA president, Arthur Frauenfelder offers some sim-ple advice for those formulating a plan.
“The absolute priority is for everybody to have a fire plan,” he suggests.
“Number one priority is people come first - that must be stressed. Secondly, it’s very simple to sit down and in half an hour design an animal plan.
“Firstly you need to keep cats and dogs in the house so they’re totally accessible and you’re not chasing them around the back yard. Have carry-cages for the smaller animals, includ-ing smaller dogs. The cages must be somewhere accessible so when you’re about to leave you can grab them easily.”
Dr Frauendfelder also sug-gests pets have collars with contact details and are micro-chipped in the event they go missing.
For larger farm animals it can be more difficult, but again, following some simple instruc-tions can save the animals where possible or practical.
“Horses can be put in a large paddock with very little fuel,” he said.
“When the fire comes through they will be forced to one end of the paddock and will
jump the fire.“With cattle and sheep, if
you can’t move them all early you have to make a decision about which ones you want to keep.
“Cattle and sheep will stand in a corner, the fire will go through them, and they’re lost - but it’s very important not to let them out of the yard or they can stray onto the road and be hit by cars.”
Dr Frauenfelder said there was no need to panic with pets in the car once on the move.
He said they could survive as normal while travelling, and all that was required was to have enough emergency food and water supplies until it was safe to return home.
“You don’t have to stop after half an hour to water the ani-mals,” he said.
“You just keep going and get out, and go to where you’ve planned.
“It all sounds very basic but if you have a plan in place it can save your animals.”
Watch the ratingsFIRE Danger Ratings tell you how a fire would behave and how hard it would be to put out if one started. They are your trigger to take action.
The ratings are based on weather conditions and other fac-tors, such as the volume of dry vegetation in an area. They are forecast using Bureau of Meteor-ology data up to four days in ad-vance. The ratings are declared by fire weather district, so it’s impor-tant to understand which district you’re in.
The three most important rat-ings to look out for are Severe, Extreme and Code Red.
Code Red signals the worst conditions for a grass or bushfire and means that if a fire was to start, it would be uncontrollable. No house can withstand a fire in
Code Red conditions, so defend-ing your home is impossible.
A rating of Extreme or Severe signals high fire risk conditions. If a fire starts and takes hold, it will be unpredictable and fast-moving.
If you live in a high-risk area, your house is not prepared, or you are not able to defend it, leaving early in the day is your safest op-tion.
Total Fire Bans tell you what you can and cannot do to avoid a fire starting. They are legal re-strictions which, if broken, can be penalised with large fines and imprisonment.
Check your rating every day over summer at cfa.vic.gov.au or by calling the Victorian Bushfire Information Line on 1800 240 667.
DANGER… Understand the fire danger ratings and keep safe this summer.
Understand, and planTHIS summer, it’s up to each individual to understand their own fire risk and plan ahead.
The fire risk depends on where you live or travel, the weather conditions and how prepared you are.
If you live or travel near areas that are heavily forested, have thick bush or long, dry grass, or coastal areas with lots of scrub, you’re at risk.
Drying grass after a wet winter has increased the risk of grass and scrub fires this summer and weather conditions will have a significant effect on how severe a fire is and how quickly it spreads.
The combination of dry conditions with hot, windy days means bushfires can quickly become uncontrollable. Many people get caught out by fire dur-
ing or after a wind change.It only takes a change in wind direc-
tion to turn a small fire into a dangerous, fast moving fire front.
Knowing where to go, when and how you’ll get there on a bad day is an impor-tant part of your planning this summer. If a fire threatens, a drive that would nor-mally take five minutes could take hours, or be inaccessible.
Fires can be confusing, disorienting, physically and psychologically stress-ful and exhausting. Making decisions in these circumstances is difficult and may cost lives.
Now is the time to make plans, not when there is fire in your area.
Decide in advance when you’ll leave,
where you’ll go, how you’ll get there, and where you‘ll shelter if you get caught out and cannot leave your prop-erty or your area.
Ensure everyone you live with knows these plans so you’re all clear about what you’ll do on a high fire risk day. Check on friends nearby to see if they have a fire plan in place.
Prepare a relocation kit containing important documents and essentials like mobile phones, radios, medications, clothes and water, and pack the kit in advance, so there’s no delay in an emer-gency.
Talking to CFA is the best way to un-derstand your fire risk and plan ahead.
For further information, go to cfa.vic.gov.au
PLAN… Don’t forget to include your animals in a fire plan.
See a photo you like?Call us on(02) 6022 5800
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A day never to be forgottenI STILL remember, like it was yesterday, the events of Ash Wednesday, 1983.
Waking in the morning, I knew it was going to be a bad day.
The sun cast an eerie glow, the result of fires 300-odd kilo-metres to the north.
Months of hot, dry weather had created the perfect tinder-dry bushfire conditions.
By midday it had deteriorat-ed, with strong wind whipping up the stifling heat, funnelling a
disaster towards an unsuspect-ing community.
As the afternoon approached I cried out to leave, but she wouldn’t budge.
And then it unfolded – there was no warning, just a change of wind – and hell was un-leashed on a little country town.
By then it was too late to flee, nowhere to hide, we were trapped by the raging firestorm.
Cars streamed towards the football oval, I followed suit, not wanting to tackle the uncontrol-
lable beast in its own domain.I sat helpless with other
residents seeking shelter, as sparks rushed between cars, homes burst into flames in the distance, and we huddled together, hoping, praying tomor-row would arrive.
As the flames leapt high above, we were at the mercy of Mother Nature, at her most furious.
We survived, but the scars remain to this day, and eve-ry fire season those horror thoughts return. RAGING… A simple wind change can catch whole communities by surprise.
AS the bushfi re season approaches, NewsWeekly journalist Trevor Jackson knows only too well the importance of making the decisionto leave early. Below he shares a personal experience.
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with purchase offerSaturday 8th December 9.00am - 5.00pm
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Christmas on a Budget
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· Preheat oven to moderately hot 210*C (190*C gas). Score pork rind in a criss-cross pattern. Rub salt into the pork rind
· Place loin on rack (scored side up) in a shallow baking dish: bake 1 hour 15 minutes. Remove from oven; stand, uncovered, 10 minutes. Remove string before slicing. Serve with Quick Apple Chutney.
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Culture in the cafeTHE Café Culture Series is returning to Wodonga this weekend with the Irish trio, Diddly Eyes.
Accomplished Irish musician, Frank Murphy, an original To Be Sure, To Be Sure member, has drawn on years of ex-perience and joined forces with Anthony O’Neill and Andrew Cooper to form the trio specifically for the Cafe Culture se-ries.
O’Neill is one of Melbourne’s elite traditional musicians, proficient in guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals. A product of the vibrant Melbourne Irish music scene, O’Neill spent time with the Ploughboys, Bushwackers, Purple Den-tists, Idle Diddlies and Saorise, to name a few.
The classical trained Cooper became interested in Irish music from his love of the fiddle, in particular the Donegal style of fiddling which grabbed his at-tention when he visited Ireland.
He has since performed with Tara, Too Rye Aye, The Ploughboys, The Borderers, Cyril Moran and The Sun-downers.
Together, Diddly Eyes have created a repertoire of foot-tapping, blood-stirring jigs and reels, tempered with ballads and funny songs, poems and the obligatory handful of jokes.
The gig takes place at Arts Space, Wodonga, Sunday at 5pm.
Tickets pre-purchased are $18 for concession or Arts Wodonga members and $20 for non-members.
Purchases on the night will cost $25 all tickets.
Phone Arts Space Wodonga on02 6022 9600 for further details.
Meat eating flowers and moreBy KRYSTEN MANUEL
IT’S all happening at the Albury Botanic Gar-dens.
This week was the launch of the first book to document the history of the gardens, and at the wake of the opening of the Children’s Garden next month, children are invited to come and ex-perience an art program that will open their minds to weird and wonderful horticulture.
“It’s part of an international botanic gardens agenda to engage children in horticulture and the importance of plants, and to have fun at the same time,” the curator and conductor of the event, Paul Scannell said.
“We talk about beautiful looking seed pods and flowers, as well as plants related to T-Rex and meat eating plants.
“We’ve got Nail Can Hill - that’s covered in sundews which is a carnivorous plant.
“We can relate all that back to T-Rex and the dinosaurs and some of the early plants like cycad and treefern.
“We can show them symmetry of flowers and the way flowers are arranged in almost a math-ematical sequence for the later primary school years.
“We can study evolution of plants, how they have adapted leaf forms and leaf shapes, fronds and hard coatings to protect them from animals.
“We can really get them to sink their teeth into horticulture.”
The Weird and Wonderful art program is ap-propriate for children of all ages.
24 November, 10.30am-12pm at the Albury Botanic Gardens. The event is free and supplies art paper, BYO other art supplies.
HISTORY… The weird and the wonderful will be discussed at the Botanic Gardens during the opening of the Children’’s Garden.
beentertained�� Television, movies, music and more…
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TOMORROW � Hume Murray Farmers’ Market. Fresh produce and prepared foods grown and made on our doorstep. Gateway Village, Wodonga. 8am-noon.Enquiries 02 6058 2996.
� Weird and Wonderful. Plants that eat meat? Plants that dinosaurs ate? Meat eaters from Nail Can Hill? Living fossil plants? A fun art program for kids of all ages at the Albury Botanic Gardens. BYO art materials, A3 paper supplied. Enquiries 02 6043 5699.
� Friends of Wodonga Library next pre-loved book sale. Wodonga Library, 9.30am.
� Albury Toy Library is open 10am-11am. Enquiries email [email protected].
� Wodonga Toy Library, 9am-noon at Sacred Heart Parish Hall, Beech Street, Wodonga. New members welcome. Enquiries 0404 936 208.
� Seen the movie? Come and meet two of the original members of The Sapphires, Laurel Robinson and Lois Peeler, at a special screening of the hit movie. 7pm-10pm, Wonga Wetlands. Enquiries 02 6051 3800.
SUNDAY � Cafe Culture Series. Irish Trio, Diddly Eyes. Arts Space Wodonga, 5pm. Tickets 02 6022 9600.
� Culcairn Classic Cars first annual Swap Meet and Show ’n’ Shine. Classics, muscle cars, bikes and choppers, modern retros, utes. Free in ground parking, food and drink, undercover sit down eating. Culcairn football ground from 7am. Admission $5, children under 12 free. Enquiries 02 6029 8432or 0429 447 519.
� Bundyi festival, wood-fired oven gathering. Pastor Darren Wighton of the Koori church will host a multi-denominational gathering at the community wood-fired oven on the banks of the Murray. 11am Hovell Tree Park. Enquiries 02 6023 8753.
� Chiltern Mo Ride. A participation ride raising money and awareness for prostate cancer and depression. Catering for all riders from professionals to families. Chiltern Recreation Reserve. Various costs, various times. Enquiries 03 5726 1611 or www.chilternvic.com
� See Mia Grace and the Aviators liveat the Telegraph Hotel, 5pm.
MONDAY � Probus Club of Albury Hume meeting. Commercial Club Albury. 10am-noon.All welcome.
TUESDAY � Wodonga Toy Library, noon-1.30pm at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall, Beech Street, Wodonga. New members welcome. Enquiries 0404 936 208.
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“IF people think they know what Ken’s work is all about, they should think again,” Di-rector of Mossman Art Gal-lery, John Cheeseman said.
“If you’re a fan, you’ll be surprised. If you’re not a fan, you’ll become a convert.”
Ken Done is one of Aus-tralia’s most iconic artists, known for simple, bold and bright paintings of his belov-ed Sydney Harbour.
Albury Art Gallery exhi-bitions co-ordinator, Jules Boag, is looking forward to bringing the critically ac-claimed exhibition “Attack: Japanese Midget Submarines in Sydney Harbour,” to Al-bury.
“The paintings show the story of the kamikaze suicide mission with the midget sub-marines,” he said.
“They left knowing that they would never return. They came across Sydney Harbour and ended up sink-ing a supply ship, but in the process were killed.
“It’s an interesting con-nection between Australia and Japan - now we have such a different relationship com-pared to 70 years ago.”
The works explore a dark-er, more complex side of the artist and the harbour.
“As Ken said to me, ’I’ve never painted people dying before’,” Mr Cheeseman said.
The work was commis-sioned by the Mossman Gal-lery in Sydney, an idea that began with Mr Cheeseman.
“I have a tradition of working with ideas that are central around an area, look-ing at heritage and other types of things.
“Coming to Mossman, one of the key events that had happened around here was the Japanese attack on the harbour. It was something that had interested me since I was a small child.
“It was getting towards the 70th anniversary of the event and it just happened to be that Ken himself is a local Moss-man artist.
“His work is associated so strongly with Sydney
Harbour, but he hadn’t been known for doing work that was of a darker nature and I thought it would be a great challenge to give him - to push his artistic practice.”
“The response that we’ve had is absolutely incredible. People say they see his art-
work in a new light.”Ken will be present at the
opening of the exhibition on Friday 30 November.
Art buffs will also be ex-cited to know they can attend “conversation with the artist,” an intimate discussion and tour with the artist himself.
Exhibition: Opens 30 No-vember, 6pm and follows a Japanese theme with sushi and ’J-pop.’
Conversation with the art-ist: 1 December. 10.30am.
Dawn with Done: 7 De-cember, 7am- 8.30am.
SHOWCASE… “Caught in the Net’’ - one of the Ken Done paintings that will be on display at the Albury Art Gallery.
By KRYSTEN MANUALMOVIE: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2DURATION: 1 hr 55 minutes
APPROPRIATING a movie from a book is always hard. Details are always missed, relationships and scenarios are never explored to their full potential - such is the nature of the beast.
I walked out of Breaking Dawn: Part 2 of the Twilight Saga, among the inevitable babble of complaints and questions regarding the movie’s rendi-tion of the book.
What I believe we all forget, is that a movie isn’t meant to be, and can nev-er be the same as the book. It is an art
form in its own league and is bound by its many limitations.
So let’s talk about the movie.As actor Kristen Stewart (Bella)
said in one of her recent interviews, “it’s a big movie, it’s hard to do some-thing that matters to so many people.”
This particular film, being the last instalment of the saga, was so highly anticipated and under so much pres-sure and expectation, it seemed almost bound to fail.
So the unanticipated twist was quite genius.
Somehow, the movie did not deviate from the book, but still shocked even the hardest of the ’Twihards.’
“I was very surprised at the ending
but without that ending it would have been a bit wishy-washy,” Janine King (self admitted Twihard) said.
“The double ending was good, it re-ally gave it guts.
“I thought ’oh my God, they’re tak-ing licence.’ It worked, everyone sat up and took notice.”
Special effects were much bet-ter in this instalment than the previ-ous, though still inconsistent. It seems the special effects team are definitely “team Edward,” having done a stun-ning job with the vampires, but still not hitting the mark with the wolves.
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Large rooms, open settings and tasteful features are sure to provide the new owners with a pleasurable living experience.
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This charming 1870s cottage has been partially restored and beautifully maintained Updated kitchen and bathroom with characteristics of a by-gone era All this on a spacious, tree-filled 1600m2 allotment
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The home is in good condition with 3 good size bedrooms, lounge-kitchen, bathroom and laundryPerfect as a weekender, retirement villa or an investment you can use from time to timeLovely established shade trees make the perfect scenario for those afternoon refreshments
CHILTERN $340,000
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www.wodongarealestate.com.auMore great listings and photos available at 6056 1888
Unique renovated home over 2 levels with master and retreat upstairs. The home offers 3 split systems, two bedrooms, BIRs, formal lounge, open plan kitchen / dining with timber look fl ooring and dishwasher. Single carport, secure yard and entertaining area. Avail 3.12.12
High St, Barnawartha $250pwTwo bedroom townhouse in Central Wodonga. Features ducted cooling, gas heating, lounge plus separate meals area, private courtyard, gas cooktop, dishwasher, built in robes, full bathroom, good size laundry, single lock up garage with remote access. Avail now
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Give triathlon a triWOMEN are being encouraged to give triath-lon a try when the Albury Wodonga Triathlon Club holds a ‘women’s only’ mini-tri Sunday at Allans Flat.
The event will follow the regular club race and will comprise a 300-metre open water swim, 13km ride and 3km run over the pictur-esque Allans Flat course.
Organiser, Nadia Mellor says the women’s only event is designed to introduce women into the sport in a friendly, non-threatening environment.
“We encourage all ages and abilities to come along and have a go,” she said.
“You don’t need a fancy bike, just one in good working order, a helmet and a pair of runners.
“If the swim is a concern, the club will have members available to swim the 300 metres and we’re also encouraging women to form a team and just complete one leg each.”
The club has been running the women’s only event for the past few years, resulting in a number of women continuing with the sport, some even taking on greater challenges such as Olympic distance and half ironman events.
The regular mini tri will commence at 8.30am with the women’s event at 10am.
Registration is from 9am and the cost is $15 for individuals and $5 for each team member.
All proceeds raised from the event will go to the local McGrath Foundation Breast Care Nurses.
High-speed hobbyBy TREVOR JACKSON
“IT’S a bit of a hobby,” is how Kim Jones describes his Formula Atlan-tic race car.
While that may be a fair descrip-tion, Jones was certainly on the pace at Winton over the weekend, quali-fying the car around one and a half-seconds faster than a V8 Supercar, and taking out the round win.
“Not bad for a 30 year-old car and a 56 year-old driver,” the Brad Jones Racing team boss quipped.
The historic class of racing al-lows open-wheel cars up to a 1986 vintage.
Jones runs a 1980 March, sourced from North America some five years ago, rebuilt to its former glory, running a 1600cc Cosworth engine and tipping the scales at just 500kgs - without Jones aboard.
“I’ve just lost a little bit of weight because my son said I was the sin-gle heaviest component in the whole show,” Jones joked.
“They only produce around 240 horsepower, so the speed is all through the corners - they’re not
hugely fast down the straight so the weight does make a difference.”
As a young driver Jones raced Formula Fords, but said he couldn’t afford to step up to the Atlantic class until later in life.
“To me pure motorsport was al-ways open-wheelers,” he said.
“But I had a young family and that was the direction I went in.
“I worked on the cars and Brad-ley drove them, so I’ve always been a frustrated race car driver.
“I never had enough money to get one then, but like most people, when you get older you can afford the things you couldn’t when you were young - so I bought it, and I enjoy it.
“Now I have something I can compete with. It’s good fun.”
Jones said conditions on the Sun-day created a lot of talk in pit lane, with rain producing plenty of inter-est on and off the track, and the class itself evoking memories of times passed.
“The rain made it even more in-teresting because we have slicks on the cars,” he said.
“They’re not very heavy so they slip and slide around - it got every-one’s attention.
“It’s surprising the number of people up and down pit lane who
said, “they sound fantastic, that’sthe way I remember open-wheelers to be, big wide tyres, good noise andfast racing” - it’s nice that you canbring that back.”
MEMORIES… Kim Jones’ March open-wheeler brought back plenty of fond memories at Winton Motor Raceway on the weekend.
Local Sport
Hayes one busy VIPBy GARRY HOWE
CHAMPION trainer David Hayes might have to excuse himself from official duties at times as the spe-cial VIP guest at the Wodonga Cup meeting on Sunday 2 December.
Hayes heads up the famous Lind-say Park operation established by his father Colin in South Australia, which now has its headquarters on the Hume Highway at Euroa.
The Hall of Fame trainer will mix with patrons as part of his offi-cial duties as the cup meeting’s first VIP guest, but may also find himself in the stalls area and mounting yard at some stage during the day.
Lindsay Park’s acting racing manager Ebani Harvey said it was still too early to confirm, but she hoped the stable would be repre-sented by a couple of nice maiden gallopers and last start Geelong win-ner Moving Moment on Cup Day.
Club president Colin Haynes, who races a couple of horses with
Hayes as part of the Alzone syndi-cate, also hoped Manila Jewel might be a candidate for the Cup, which this year has increased prizemoney of $80,000 to coincide with the 80th running of the race.
Manila Jewel was a last start sixth in the Group 2 Matriarch Stakes at Flemington on the last day of the Melbourne Cup carnival.
Haynes said he was thrilled to
have someone of Hayes’ calibre as a guest on Cup Day.
“We’ve been trying to get him for a couple of years now, but he’s usually in Hong Kong this time of year,” he said.
“He will be a great attraction and create a bit of interest, particularly if he has a few runners as well.”
The Alzone syndicate is named after a horse most of the members raced with Wodonga trainer Stephen Aldridge. Alzone was a winner at the Boxing Day meeting last year.
The group now races a three-year-old that has had one unplaced run at Seymour and an unraced Fastnet Rock two-year-old that had a recent barrier trial at Tatura and is expected to hit the track soon.
Haynes said he was thrilled with the way the Cup meeting was shap-ing up.
He said a lot of interest would also centre on whether local trainer Brian Cox could notch his record 11th cup.
“Brian looks like having a coupleof good ones in,” Haynes said. “Heis really a very good trainer in the area and has certainly got the scoreon the board.”
Cox should again be represent-ed by Murdoch’s Joy, which wasdenied last year when the GeraldEgan-trained Jetconi won his secondsuccessive cup.
Egan confirmed to NewsWeekly last week that Jetconi would be backto attempt a cup hat-trick before be-ing retired from racing.
Wodonga and District Turf Club chief executive Brad Thomas ex-pects a big crowd on Cup Day.
He said packages on the frontstraight had sold out already and heexpects the crowd to top 3500.
The Age racing writer Patrick Bartley will host the VIP marquee.
VIP... Hall of Fame trainer David Hayes will be a special VIP guest of the Wodonga and District Turf Club on Cup Day.
First ute beautBy TREVOR JACKSON
IT WAS a baptism of fire for young Border driver Matt Chahda in his first outing in a V8 Ute race on the weekend at Winton.
Chahda was caught up in a major accident on Saturday that took out several vehicles around him, spinning his ute but leav-ing it intact and on track.
And despite a tough week-end of racing he was rewarded with the Hard Charger award.
Chahda said considering his
lack of experience in the class, having never raced one of the V8 Utes before, he was more than happy with the weekend’s efforts.
“I was the only person out there who’d never raced in the series before,” he said.
“To beat a lot of the guys who do it full-time was good.”
Chahda said the ute was one of the hardest cars he’d driven, with tight racing and no room for error.
A mistake off the start line
in Sunday’s final race made the award even sweeter.
“In a class that’s so hard to pass, to get the most passes in my first time out there wasn’t what I expected,” he said.
“I was pretty unhappy with how the race went Sunday, messing up the start, so to get the award was pretty cool.”
Chahda now heads to Syd-ney for the final round of the series where he hopes to qualify higher up the grid and is aiming for a top 15 result.
HARD CHARGER... Matt Chahda was on the charge in the weekend’s V8 Ute races at Winton.
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Local SportMark of CainBy TREVOR JACKSON
ALBURY boxing trainer Mark Janssen is full of confidence for his current fighter, Cain Oldfield.
The Queensland-based wel-terweight has only competed in one professional bout, winning by knockout within a minute, but al-ready he has Janssen’s full attention.
It’s the passion Oldfield displays that Janssen says will take him to the top of the sport.
Not only is he making a com-fortable living in his current em-ployment, but he has no problems travelling to Albury from North Queensland to attend Janssen’s Uni-versal Gym and hone his skills.
And as he faces his next bout in China, that’s exactly what he’s been doing, putting as much faith in the local, world-renowned trainer as Janssen does in his abilities.
“I’ve always wanted to be a world champion but it seems a bit far-fetched when you’re a kid,” Old-field told NewsWeekly.
“A guy from work, Kali Mee-han’s cousin, told me about Mark, and when you come down and see him and all the photos, all the world champions he has around his arm, the photos at press conferences with Don King, it makes it feel real.
“When I come down here I tune in and listen to what he has to say, because I know he’s right.”
While relatively inexperienced in the professional ranks, Janssen has no doubt Oldfield has the ability to go as far as he desires.
He said Oldfield’s maiden vic-tory was a brutal display of power, but he added there was more to the man than just pure force.
“Cain has the resistance, the power, the speed and the hunger to be a top-class fighter,” Janssen said.
“But it takes more than skill. You have to have the right personality, you have to be able to handle pres-sure, you have to be able to take a good shot, and it sure helps if you can punch.
“Cain can punch like 10 men. It’s everything you look for in a fighter to take him to the next level.
“It’s still very early days but I’m confident he’s going to have a great career - we’re looking to win cham-pionships.”
And if passion is any gauge, Old-field is already a winner.
“I don’t think money is every-thing,” he said.
“I had a break from boxing for a while and thought, what if I grow old and think, coulda, shoulda, woulda? - so I decided to do it. If I fail, then I’m still happy.”
Oldfield and Janssen will spend the final two weeks of his prepara-tion in Albury prior to heading off to China in early December.
PASSION... Mark Janssen and Cain Oldfield after a training session in Albury in preparation for their upcoming Chinese bout.
