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.
Underbool Fire Truck Roster
March 2019 – Secretary Sonia McVicar
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.
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
ANZAC Commemorative March and Service
Due to a delay by contractors to the planned works to the Memorial Entry of Outen Park we have had to make some changes the previously advertised format for this year Commemorative Service. This years service will be conducted on Thursday 25th April. It will still include a march along Monash Ave, readings and the laying of wreaths.
To join in the Commemorative March and Service, assemble at 6:40am at the top of the school oval on Monash Ave. March to begin at 6.50am along Monash Ave to the Outen Park Memorial Gates. The Service at the gates will commence at 7am. Afterwards at the hall refreshments of tea, coffee, Milo and Anzac biscuits will be available.
For further information please contact Fran Lynch on 0409509463.
Underbool-Linga Memorial Hall
A successful Triennial Meeting of the Underbool-Linga Memorial Hall Reserve Committee was held on Thursday, 14th March, at which the following community members were elected as office-bearers:
President- Ron Jackson, Vice-President- Dot Brown, Secretary- Helen Gloster, and Treasurer- Rosemary Jackson.
Thank you to Ron, Dot, Helen and Rosemary for accepting these positions.
The hall is a valuable asset used by most members of the district and it is good to have continuing community support.
***PLEASE NOTE – Hall bookings will now be taken by Helen Gloster. N. Jackson, outgoing Secretary
Underbool Town Website - www.underbool.vic.au
Underbool town website has a lot of information for you to access – what events are coming up, news reports of happenings in Underbool, businesses, community groups, sport clubs, calendar of local meetings and events, health, rosters for CFA and sport catering, local history…..
Lost your copy of the Underbool Press? The current and past issues can be found on the website.
Please have a browse on the site, and remember to check there for local information.
If you have suggestions for other information that could be added please call Ron or Rosemary 50946394 – leave a contact number and/or a message if no immediate answer.
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 available here and on the two noticeboards in Underbool, and at Glosters Garage.
Next typist: Sonia McVicar ssmcvicar@bigpond.com