Alex Gretgrix

ST ARNAUD Football Club's Jarryd Kell, Kurt Torney and Austin Lowe carved up at the North Central Football League's awards night of nights over the weekend, taking home Reserves leading goal kicker, Best and Fairest and Under 17s Best and Fairest and leading goal kicker respectively. Finn Evans also came home as the leading goal kicker for the Under 14s competition.

“They're just so beautiful. When Judith's sons Owen and Roger got in touch, we knew we needed to honour her in the way she would have wanted,” principal Melissa Mitchell said.

They marked the occasion with maths and building activities, a presentation of certificates and little gifts and even a themed decorated cupcake or two.

From getting through the local team's general meeting to real-life experiences of more projects threatening properties not too far from home.

Despite missing two rounds and eight weeks off his motorbike, the St Arnaud teen clawed back his top spot at the Victorian Offroad Racing Championship.

“More women are asking for help and if my story can help one person, I've done my job,” Ms Perger said.

CHARLTON'S football future may still be bright as its youngest players secured their spot in the preliminary final on a trip to Sea Lake on the weekend.

Bendigo Bank's Community Bank Charlton and District staff presented a number of community groups across the region and beyond with over $320,000 worth of funding for a range of projects.

Organisers of the Wild Horses Festival rejoiced over the weekend, calling the news a “pretty big moment for us”.

A CHANCE meeting on the side of the road with “a guardian angel” was the difference between life and death for young Billie Nevill. What began as a normal trip into town from Stuart Mill turned into a parent's worst nightmare with the one-year-old went quiet in the back seat.