AT: Tim, I'm looking for a vehicle that will allow four people to sit across the front.
TA: I can smell a good yarn is this, continue.
AT: I was the designated driver for a few boys lads coming back from the footy at Timboon recently and after stopping in at a couple of watering holes we got to the eastern outskirts of Warrnambool when the drama unfolded. I decided to take on an amber light near the Flying Horse despite a late warning about the new red light camera.
TA: Amber?
AT: OK it was reddish. I was pushing for the line like many of the horses and dogs I back but unlike them I did get my photo taken. I got snapped which will cost me three points and just over $200. I've now been told by unreliable sources that the camera is also a speed camera, which would cause me a few concerns because I could have been above the speed limit going through the intersection. But, this all got me thinking, $200 for a family portrait is probably fairly cheap.
TA: Moving on, it's been a great recruiting coup by Warrnambool to snag talented Caramut ball magnet Lachlan Barr as the Blues gear up for a Hampden league premiership assault.
AT: What sort of coin would Warrnambool be handing over for Barr to join them this far into the season?
TA: Stop being so negative. Barr is acknowledged as one of if not the best player in the Mininera league. He has won the league best and fairest, is a three-time Caramut best and fairest and the Swans are no chance to play in the finals. I reckon he's just decided to have a game with the Blues in a bid to play in a premiership side. Surely the Blues wouldn't have been involved in offering financial inducements.
AT: Next you'll tell me that you believe in the tooth fairy. Speaking of good fairies, we came across a heart-warming story this week. It involves Warrnambool's John and Kathy Holland. They probably will not want this acknowledged but I think we should tell people about what's happened.
TA: Sources have told me that a Melbourne couple and their nine-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter came up to Warrnambool for a couple of days break over Easter on a Camp Quality trip. Apparently they ventured down to the mini-golf and Johnny being Johnny got talking to the family and soon realised the 11-year-old girl was having chemotherapy for cancer. He spoke to her father for a while about their problems before the girl got ill again and had to be rushed back to Melbourne for more treatment. The father told Johnny the family was one-eyed Brisbane Lion fans and there favourite player was Jonathan Brown. Holland's started thinking about a way to provide a little joy for the family during such a tough time. He phoned Jonathon's dad Brian and told him the family idolized the Lions gun forward. Brian spoke to Jonathon and he said the family would be made welcome in the Brisbane Lions rooms after there game against the Kangaroos tonight at Etihad Stadium.
AT: That's a super effort.
TA: But wait there's more. Holland got in contact with former South Warrnambool star Ricky Barham about getting some tickets for the game. Barham, who played with Collingwood before joining the Sydney Swans as an ace recruiter, ended up getting four tickets into the Medallion Club for the family.
AT: Lovely story after what has been a tragic week for many local people including the Ashworth family who lost Haydn after a horrific car accident.
TA: I heard another yarn in the street concerning Simon Crisp who works at a fruit shop in Liebig Street. He might have suffered a slight injury in his quest to get ready for the Melbourne Marathon, a slight hamstring tear.
AT: That disappointment could not be any worse than his efforts in The Standard footy tipping competition. His boss Mario is thinking of coming off the interchange bench to do the tips.
TA: Another interesting sight in town this week was more than 50 police from around Horsham, Stawell and Ararat calling Warrnambool home for a couple of days while they undertook some bonding and unwinding.
AT: Talking of unwinding, former Cobden/Warrnambool reporter Jared Lynch is settling in working for The Age. Lynch has been an avid cyclist and swimmer in the past and recently joined the Richmond Recreation Centre is an effort to smash himself back into some sort of shape. Now Lynchy rates himself a bit of an athlete so when he jumped in the pool he decided he was going to cut his previously usual 30 laps. He managed the laps, but almost collapsed when he got out of the pool. Apparently Lynchy hadn't considered that the Cobden pool is only 25 metres but the pools in the big smoke are 50m. He did twice the distance he was doing when he was fit and pulled up very sore. You're not in Cobden any more, Lynchy.
TA: I understand that the Hampden league has just sent out a draft copy of draws for 2011 and 2012. The clubs have until the end of June to send back comments and many are not happy. Until next week, hooroo.
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