NEWS
CRICKET matches were washed out and streets were flooded as heavy spring rain fell on Warrnambool. Lindsay Street, Morris Road, Donovans Road and Bromfield Street were all closed to traffic as water sat deep on the roads. The rain caused heartache for farmers with silage crops affected.
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THE rains came after Warrnambool City Council had announced a $2.55 million five-year works program to improve drainage.
WARRNAMBOOL and District Base Hospital opened a new $20,000 palliative care unit. The unit was to be used for pain relief treatment and respite care. The president of the hospital’s board of management, Mr Frank Lodge, carried out the official opening.
AUTOMOTIVE and welding students at Warrnambool North Technical School took in a major project in the October of 1985.
The students journeyed to Swan Hill to take part in a fuel economy competition.
The students took the vehicle they made, called The Spirit of Progress, with them to Swan Hill and were up against 16 other entries from across the state.
The vehicle achieved 111.667kms per litre of fuel used which won them the two-stroke class award.
The vehicle completed 20 laps at a speed of 25kmph. The vehicle featured bicycle handles, wheels, brakes and speedometer.
There was a bit of the classroom with them, with the seat of the vehicle being an old classroom chair. The vehicle was powered by a 14cc brush cutter motor.
SPORT
KOROIT Football Club singed on Mike Hamblin as its new coach. Hamblin had just finished a one-season stint coaching rival South Warrnambool.
PROMISING golfer Simon Farrer won the Christian Brothers’ College Sportsman of the Year award.
ENTERTAINMENT
BEFORE it closed down, some of the biggest names in Australian music graced the stage of the Lady Bay Hotel in Warrnambool. October 1985 was a golden period for the hotel with a who’s who of acts playing at the venue. These acts included Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, Dragon and the Uncanny-X Men.
SCOTSMAN Eric Bogle was also in town, playing a show at the Warrnambool Performing Arts Centre.
IT was a bit lower profile out at the Illowa Hall with a Hoe-Down held as a fundraiser for Miss Victoria entrant Kathy Durdin.
FOR film lovers, it was horror movie time with Poltergiest II showing at the Capital Cinema. Big Trouble in little China was at the Terang Drive-Inn.
