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Congrats on Wedding Planner, ex publication! Now about Just Married, suggest change title as some pics & copy months after event. TBW improvn all time, well done.
Re big cats story: my brother and cousin saw one years ago in the Dergholm area while spotlighting. It was up a tree eating a sheep carcass.
They took photos but i’m unsure how they turned out.
My grandmother also saw one crossing the highway near Penola Golf Course one night. It would be good to hear other readers stories and theories.
My theory on big cats is much the same as flying saucers and aliens.…if you believe hard enough…you get to believe what you see…and then the men in white coats come to get you and take you away…then you get to keep company with the other big cats at the farm.
About this rail land project: does mt g really need another pub? ‚and people who want 5 star go to motels anyway. What’s wrong with our other function venues in town?
As for the road system, if this complex really does take off, imagine how congested it would be, let alone how difficult it would be for the truckies to get in and unload, they have enough trouble as it is.
Plus shoppers will have to cross the road dividing the retail section, presenting a safety issue and adding to the traffic flow problem. Jobs? To support these new jobs, you need business and that doesnt come from nowhere, it will be taken from existing businesses in mt g, threatening jobs held there. In all, a bad plan and why do anything, the land is doing no harm as it lies.
To the young reporter who stalked us last weekend get a life can u not find any thing better 2 fill your paper with than young peaple having fun.
In response to the SMS accusing a reporter of stalking young people “having fun” last weekend.
I think you are rude, and seriously in need of anger management counselling.
Obviously you are too ignorant to even put your name out there.
You got all of that out of one sentence?
In regards to the person attacking the reporter on the story about young people and binge drinking (a night on the streets). Ive seen what goes on in town and so have most other residents of Mount Gambier, and if you consider teenagers running around public streets late at night smashing bottles, throwing rubbish everywhere, abusive language and fighting “HAVING FUN”, then you are in need of some serious pshychological help. With the carry on and crazy behaviour that occurs, not just outside the pubs and nightclub, but even outside Kmart on a Thursday night, it would be fair to say that there are a lot of young people who are far too immature to even leave the house without parental supervision. And.… well.… theres another story all in its own. ‘Bad Parenting’ !!
As a regular blue lake walker and (dog lover) i totally agree with tracey k’s comments it is a disgusting problem and needs a stern council solution!
Re warning others not to smoke when cleaning the lawn mower with a vacuum cleaner in the bedroom. Thanx 4 the warning luv I think it’s such a common thing to do (tongue in cheek) other people with as much common sense as you will be saved from their own stupidity now. Try cleaning the lawn mower on the back lawn next time without the cigarette if possible. Petrol is a little flammable! Can’t believe this was given print space. The Border Watch must be desperate for real news. Most Mt Gambians are not this stupid, what must visitors who pick up our paper think when they read this rubbish? Chris
A house fire is news Chris. The cause of the fire was somewhat unusual, which also makes it news.
i agree with Chris on that. it was a pretty stupid story to open up too.
Its a bit wierd that the lady got done for arson at the age of 18 too lol
I thought it was hilarious and laughed the entire way through the story. She is a fruit cake. Why take it so seriously ? Its blatantly obvious that the majority of people would never do such a thing, thats why it was so funny.
I loved the bit where she says, “I swear this time I did not do it”.
That was just classic. The Border Watch hit on a gold mine with her, she is a walking story all by herself, hehe.
Even bought my Dad a copy of the paper so he could have a giggle to.
Glad no one was hurt though
Yeh, it was the funniest story I’ve read in ages. I liked the quote from the fire brigade bloke: “Please no smoking when working with lawnmowers and certainly not inside the house.” Classic.
I’m sure we’ve all been there — receive an electricity bill and just about die of shock. Once you get yourself up from the floor, study it a little more closely. Generally it is for around 90 days, give or take. Divide your account by however many days to ascertain your daily cost. Then go for a walk around your house and jot down all the varying things you use electricity for. Then you may come to the conclusion that electricity is actually very cheap. However, a three monthly bill you can’t jump over really does knock your socks off. Next, divide your electricity bill by however many pay periods you have in the three monthly period, and start paying that amount each pay period. Then, when you receive the next power bill for the next ninety days you may be pleasantly surprised, and even have a credit?! Good luck!
Today’s Cameo didn’t mention newsprint was used as toilet paper back in those days. Today’s story is only good for that. What a load of c**p!
Last week I visited the Mount Gambier History Group “History Collection Centre” at the Reidy Park Centre.
I would like to congratulate the History Group for the work that they have put in to the Centre, and encourage people to visit the centre when it is open on Tuesdays between 2 and 4pm. I am sure that they would appreciate and help or donations that people could give.
Judith,
Craigmore
Blatant revenue raiser from council targeting unregisted dogs on page 3 today. What about the thousands of cats that roam free to eat our native wildlife!
Don’t hold you breath on council conducting cat registrations. I wrote to the council regarding this, and even wrote a whole page about how the Caloundra council have constructed their cat control program, as well as the structure of their cat registrations program.
I never received an answer. This is not the first letter I’ve written to local council regarding urgent issues. Ive never received a reply to any letter.
Mr Perryman has already admitted in his comments to The Border Watch, that he doesn’t care, and that it is not his problem. He said, it’s a state government problem.
Looks like we are due for the mayor to be replaced with someone who does care!
In reply to the letter in today’s Border Watch from Loretta Hill-Nischke, obviously a member of the food police referred to earlier on a different topic, but possibly a different branch, I’m surprised I’m still alive. I’ve actually been pinching myself since reading your letter just to make sure, given that when I was at primary school in the sixties, in Victoria,(not sure whether this happened in South Australia) crates of small bottles of milk sat in the sun till recess time, when they were distributed to each classroom. Not to mention , of course, the inch,(sorry, Loretta if you didn’t grow up with imperial; I didn’t grow up with metric — by the way, what’s five degrees celsius in fahrenheit?)of cream at the top of the milk. Apart from the inappropriate storage of the milk, not refrigerated , all that fat in the inch of cream, how come I’m still alive today? There was of course no air conditioning, but that doesn’t count anyway, so I guess my whole generation should have all died of food poisoning from our lunches being in the corridors. Maybe it’s time for some common sense to prevail? I’m just going to organise my pre paid funeral ’cause it would seem I should have been dead a long time ago.….….….….….…..
Having daylight saving at all is bad enough, but starting it so early, eleven weeks before the longest day, is ridiculous. It’s light at the moment at six thirty at night. Imagine in another eleven weeks how much daylight there’d be at night anyway. There is absolutely no need for daylight saving at all. If the times were left on normal time, there would be plenty of light at both ends of the day so whether you’re a morning person, or whether you’re a night person, you’re catered for. Instead, as soon as it’s actually light in the morning reasonably early, and easy to get out of bed, not cold and dark like it is in the winter, they start daylight saving and we’re back getting up in the dark again. This whole daylight saving thing is a big con, but it’s been around for so long now, over thirty five years, that many people have never experienced a summer without it, and don’t realise there really is plenty of daylight at night in summer for them to do a bit of gardening. go for a walk, have their barbies, whatever they like to do.
Any one thinking of Select TV, forget it they won’t send an installer to Mt Gambier!
independant installation for selectv can be arranged if you have dish ‚box an card from selectv.many installs done here in Mt. gambier.
dishes,sat.boxes,install,tune ‚alignment,cabling also arranged if you have the card only option purchased from selectv.this is independent from their recent Win tv promo free installs for 24 month contract stuff! OK! ring 0417874470 moblile Mount Gambier.ask for Rick.
Jockeys make a choice to ride. Trainers choose to train. Owners choose to buy into sport and entertainment. But the beautiful, intelligent horse has no choice. Whipped to the jump and if it doesn’t win. … well guess where they end up! Stop this barbaric sport now. Sure would love to beat a few of the cruel supporters arses over jumps, bet they wouldn’t like it! Kate
To the Sports Editor,
I am formerly from the South East, and would love to see the football results, especially the MSE and all games played ie Bs, Senior and Junior colts with all details on your website. It was included last week but only the senior games this week.
many thanks
In response to the bold blue tower proposed for the main corner redevelopment — my colleagues and I consider this design to be not in keeping with the beautiful old building it is to be attached to. Such a modern structure will date quickly and detract from the beauty of the site. Perhaps Mr Silvy’s design would be better suited to the new library area and the brief for this design should have been that the redevelopment would be in keeping with the current heritage building.
We saw the International Space Station pass right over Mt Gambier tonight! It was extremely bright. Time was 20:19 CST. From west-east.
May said: ’ … There is absolutely no need for daylight saving at all … ’
Personally I am in favour of daylight saving, however I am against the 3-week extension of it that has occurred in the last few years (although given that the Eastern states have gone ahead with this, in SA we don’t have much choice about going along with it, to avoid even more confusion).
Prior to the extension, daylight savings ran from the last week of October until the last week of March; five months in total. Now it is from the first week in October until the first week in April; six months in total.
Although I would not support such a move, I accept with a high degree of pragmatism, that we the Australian states that do have daylight savings are moving towards the Northern Hemisphere standard of seven months of DST; late September until late April (of course in the Northern Hemisphere it would late March until late October, etc!).
This would be a bad move, in my opinion, but I think it is what will eventuate.
On the topic of daylight savings more generally, whilst I understand the problems it causes for groups such as farmers, my argument in favour of daylight saving is based on the fact that most people have more use for an extra hour of daylight between 8-9pm than in between 4-5am.
Many cultures, for instance in some Southern European nations, adapt to excess summer light by having work days that start earlier than ours, often around 7-8am.
This allows workers, especially outdoor workers to start their work in the cooler early hours. It also allows people to have more hours of daylight in the evening for recreation and leisure activities.
However given that I cannot see this changed work schedule being readily adopted in Australia, the best solution is to put the clocks forward and move an hour of daylight into the evening.
The oft-used example of school-children walking to school in the dark is quite spurious given that during most daylight saving months it is light before 7:30am, although this could become a problem if daylight savings is extended to far either side of summer.
I can certainly see how people in very hot climates are against daylight saving and there is probably a good argument in favour of the far north of SA not adopting daylight saving like the rest of northern Australia.
Oops, I didn’t realise that May’s post regarding daylight savings that I replied to was from over a year ago, LOL !
Never mind Adam…a touch of the sun will do that.
This morning I threatened the birds I was going to choke them if they didn’t shut up with the whistling at insane hours.
Tomorrow, being Sunday, I swear I will skin them and cook them for lunch if they decide to get busy too early.
To to the person who sent the sms about the space station. Thanks for that my husband and I went out tonight and was rewarded with a view of 4 satellites. 1 travelling west east, another east west — 1 going south north the other north south– all seen with the naked eye between 8.20 and 8.40 very cool. Do yourselves a favour and head out tomorrow night if its clear.
Jade
The International Space Station will be flying over Mount Gambier on Thursday, October 22 at 21:11:10. It will come up at the horizon from the southwest, extremely bright.