Mallee Border Health Centre

Nurse Practitioner Di Thornton visits Underbool on a Tuesday. For appointments please call 0448 522 703 or 000 in an emergency.

Royal Flying Doctor Service Eye Clinic at Underbool - 21st and 22nd March at Primary School - for appointments (all community members) ring 03 8412 0414

Underbool Fire Truck Roster

March 2019 – Secretary Sonia McVicar

17/3  Huck Stone & Les Dunstan

24/3  Mop Crothers & Ian Beasley

31/3  Doug Gloster & Tim Gloster

The Underbool CFA will be holding its General Meeting on Friday 5th April. There will be a BBQ tea 6pm and the meeting will follow. If families could please provided a salad or sweet to share would be greatly appreciated. All welcome. Any apologies to either Col Lockett or Sonia McVicar.

UNDEBOOL GOLF CLUB

The Annual General Meeting and a General Meeting to follow will be held on Tue the 19th of March at 7pm, at the club house. Everyone welcome to come.

Underbool-Linga Memorial Hall Reserve Triennial Meeting

Notice is given of a PUBLIC MEETING to be held at the Underbool-Linga Hall on Thursday, March 14th, 2019, at 8 pm.

The purpose of the meeting is to nominate no less than three or more than nine persons as the Committee of Management for the Underbool-Linga Memorial Hall Reserve for a term of three years.  The current committee’s term will expire on 19.3.2019.  All positions will be declared open and nominations will be accepted prior to or on the night.  Nominations from women are encouraged, as well as men.  Further information, nomination forms and nominee declaration forms may be obtained by contacting your local Department of Sustainability and Environment office or at the meeting.

A General Meeting will follow the Triennial Meeting.

 For further enquiries please contact the Secretary, Neil Jackson on 0428 946 325.

Please note: After many years as secretary and treasurer, Neil and Kathy do not plan to stand for re-election as office-bearers.  If there are members of the community who would like to stand for nomination to the committee or election as office bearers, then please come along to the meeting on March 14^th.  Or, if you just want to come along to show support; that would be great. Thank you! 

Community Satisfaction Survey

Residents and ratepayers are invited to provide feedback on the services, facilities and programs Council provides, and to let us know where we can make improvements by completing Council’s annual Community Satisfaction Survey.

The survey is available online at www.mildura.vic.gov.au/haveyoursay or in hard copy available at all Council Service Centres and Libraries.

For More information call Council on (03) 5018 8100.                                        ALLAN BAWDEN,  INTERIM CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Underbool & District Tennis Association

The UDTA Grand Final between Pink Lakes and Wyperfeld will be held on Saturday 16th March at 11am. Presentations will take place as soon as the match has concluded and the AK Gibson medal count will follow straight after. 

After all presentations are finished we will have a short break to allow players to freshen up before our annual progressive tea. You are invited to catch a bus to a secret location to celebrate the end of the season. Each team will be asked to contribute to the meal and there will be a $10 per head fee to cover buses and meat. $20 for non tennis club members. Please let Pennie or Amanda know if you’d like to come ASAP. BYO drinks and chair.

Wyperfeld and Cowangie please supply a small dessert to share. Pink Lakes and Sunset please supply a salad to share.

An ANZAC Commemorative March and Service is being organised by the Underbool Progress Group for Thursday 25th April. This years service will include a march along Monash Ave, readings and the laying of wreaths. This will be followed by a cooked breakfast at the hall. Further details will be advertised closer to the event.

We are hoping that the current works being carried out to the Memorial Gates, the new pillars and entry area will be completed. If you would like to be involved or are able to help out on the morning please contact Fran Lynch on 0409509463.

(See more information further below)

Ouyen United Kangas

A practice match against Sea Lake Nandaly is being held at the Underbool Rec Reserve this Sunday (17 March).

Junior netballers will play at 9am and 10am (intra-club matches) and the Senior girls will start at 11am (against SLNT).

Seniors/Seconds footballers will start at midday.

BBQ and bar available. Get along and support the Kangas as season 2019 gets going.

Next typist: Nicole Kelly nicole_adam@live.com.au

Outen Park Main Gate WW1 Memorial Pillars

We have created a list of names for the proposed plaques on the new pillars. Through lots of research we have tried to ascertain connections to the Underbool, Linga,Torrita and Boinka areas.

Criteria for making the list is as follows:

• Name on Rolls of Honour Boards in the above towns

• If the person was born here/worked here/ or had immediate family in these towns

• Awarded soldier settlement blocks after WW1

Initially the Rolls of Honour names were checked – research suggests some of the spelling is incorrect, and initials may be those of nicknames rather than the person’s real name, and asterisks (paying the Supreme Sacrifice) have been put in the wrong place. Every endeavour has been made to find the relevant information about each person on the Honour Rolls.

More names have been added through places of enlistment, and soldier settlement allocations.

To date we are still trying to find information on Bachelor A , Donald J and Newham R (Underbool Roll of Honour) and Donohue J (Torrita Roll of Honour). A Vision Realised 1988 mentions a Methodist Minister AR  Newnham 1926-27 and there was a schoolteacher in Underbool Robert Donohue 1927-28.  Donald could be McDonald  as in John Dougal McDonald – Underbool. Re Donohue, a news item suggests a person of that name attended a funeral in the area.

The list must be finalized by March 21st for the plaques to be finished by Anzac Day.

This list is NOT the final list.  If you have any information, queries or comments please contact Fran   0409509463. We need your help.

NB The MRCC funding was for 2 new pillars to display WW1 names. This is the first part of the project. Additional funding will need to be obtained in the future for WW2 and later enlistments and could be for additional pillars or perhaps freestanding memorial within the Park itself.

Copies of the lists are on the two noticeboards in Underbool, and at Glosters Garage.