Kukerin hosted Lake Grace in the final game before the Christmas break. The game was played in good conditions and the Kukerin side got away to a good start on all four rinks and and as the game wore on continued to play well and won the game convincingly with an  8 –0 win.  This leaves Kukerin in second spot on the pennant ladder.

 Sunday with our five round robin players away playing in trial games at Kulin a small but dedicated group of bowlers played social bowls in very trying conditions before retiring to the comfort of the clubhouse to enjoy a bit of socialising. We welcomed visitors Garry George and Sandra Tremowden for the afternoon who enjoyed a game with us.

Please check your emails regularly for bowling notes from the Captain during the Christmas and New year period  regarding  competitions and playing times e.t.c. 

As this is the final news before Christmas we wish all of our bowling friends and the general public a safe peaceful Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year
Article by P.Adams

Muresk Institute Diploma of Leadership and Managment

In 2018 Muresk Institute is running a short course for emerging leaders in agriculture, technology and enterprise (ELATE) to expand career options and skills.
Units will be delivered by industry experts focusing on emotional intelligence and innovation in business, teamwork, workplace relationships and managing priorities and contemporary farming, risk management and safety. 
This program is aimed at emerging leaders, particularly women in agricultural careers and farming enterprises as well as professionals seeking to expand career options and skills.
Units of competency will be delivered by industry experts over three blocks focusing on the following topics:

• emotional intelligence and innovation in business,
• teamwork, workplace relationships and managing priorities; and
• contemporary farming, risk management and safety.

Upon attaining this qualification emerging leaders will demonstrate highly developed leadership and management skills, the ability to seek innovation, embrace new technologies and develop their chosen business to reach its potential within the industry.
Three scholarships to the value of $3,000 each are available for this course. To apply, please email Prue.Jenkins@dtwd.wa.gov.au for more details.
Scholarship applications close Wednesday 31 January 2018.
Article supplied by Grower Group Alliance
 
 
Community call to find missing Malleefowl
Have you seen the elusive and endangered native Malleefowl in your local area?  If you have, we want to hear from you!  

The much-loved Malleefowl is renowned for its fascinating behavior.  The bird builds a huge compost mound to generate heat for incubating its eggs.

Known populations of Malleefowl are currently monitored in the Wheatbelt areas north-east of Perth and southern areas, such as Ongerup. Historically, however, they inhabited the South West from Margaret River to Dumbelyung.

Bushland clearing, feral predators and other pressures have dramatically reduced the bird’s distribution, but the South West Catchments Council (SWCC), in partnership with the National Malleefowl Recovery Team (NMRT), have launched a new project to discover if any Malleefowl are still living in the South West.   

The project wants to hear from community members, farmers, wildlife enthusiasts or even motorists who might have seen Malleefowl, particularly in the Shires of  Wickepin, Dumbleyung, Kent, Katanning, Woodanilling, Wagin, Narrogin, Kojonup and West Aurthur, to contact NMRT Project Officer Liz Kington to report the sighting.

Liz can be contacted on lizk@nationalmalleefowl.com.au or on 0417 996 719.

This project is supported by the South West Catchments Council through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landare Program.
 
Photo Caption: Malleefowl bird at a Malleefowl mound, photo coursesy Sharon Guillam.
Available for interview: Liz Kington, National Malleefowl Recovery Team Project Officer (WA) 0417 996 719

REPORT UNVEILS WA GROWER GROUPS $3B VALUE
A Grower Group Alliance-commissioned study has shown grower groups have contributed $3 billion dollars to the WA economy over the past 25 years.
The study report is the first of its kind to determine the economic and social value that grower groups provide to farmer members, research & development corporations, sponsors and the wider WA agriculture industry.
GGA strategic advisory group chairperson Kelly Manton-Pearce said the report provided a compelling case for the importance of grower groups as an economic driving force in regional WA.
“Grower groups are an incubation hub for the next leaders in agriculture, providing skills and opportunities for staff and members to learn skills in governance, finance, sponsorship and funding,” she said.
“Across the agriculture industry there is strong support for grower groups in WA as the groups play a crucial role and are a valued local conduit between farmers and the agricultural research and development sector.”
Article by Grower Group Alliance 
 
Farm Water Rebate Scheme
To download the Farm Water Rebate Scheme Schedule please the below file

To the farming communities of Kulin, Wickepin, Tincurrin, Kukerin and surrounding areas.

I’d like to take the opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Shane 'Arg' Argent. It gives me great pleasure to announce that I have been given the opportunity to represent CSBP Fertilisers in your district covering the Kulin Area Manager role for Maree Dougall who has gone on maternity leave over the next 12 months, and in saying, we wish her all the very best of luck.

For those of you who don’t know me, I have grown, lived, worked and socialised in and around the areas all my life. I grew up on the family farm in Pingaring, 48 kms east of Kulin, which has a mixed cropping and sheep enterprise and still is being run by my family to date. I have spent the best part of 20 odd years around Kulin and districts, surrounding myself with agriculture as a shearing contractor and worked in Rural Merchandise for the past 3 years prior to joining CSBP in March this season at Customer Service in Kwinana.

I have a good love of sport which has also seen me play football, tennis and golf around the districts over the years. I had the privilege to play for Kulin/Kondinin and Kukerin on the football field and have swung a tennis racquet on nearly all the courts within our district as well.

I enjoy being actively involved within communities at all levels and really understand what it takes to make a community and enterprise succeed. Currently my family and I reside in Waikiki, where our boys attend school and my wife teaches lower primary. We are very excited about my role as Kulin Area Manager, and look forward to spending time amongst the people we have known all our lives and to meet and enlarge our circle of friends to the new faces that I’m about to embrace strive for.

Along with CSBP and your local sales agents I look forward to the challenges and successes the coming year brings. So here’s to good product, good service and good results for this harvest and the next.

Wishing you all the best over harvest and the festive season.

Regards,
Shane (Area Manager Kulin) pictured below:

It was a glorious morning to end the Playgroup year, complete with a delicious morning tea feast to celebrate Christmas and our Graduating Playgroup friends plus a first birthday surprise!  Jingle Bells filled the air as eighteen kids had a wonderful time playing outside in the sandpit, seesaw, swings and climbing frame, while Mums, Grandparents and an Uncle watched on and enjoyed a few morning tea treats themselves.  We also celebrated the first birthday of Phoebe Bairstow, who will turn one this Saturday! Happy Birthday Phoebe!
 
It’s been a wonderful year for Dumbleyung Playgroup with many new families, a successful Melbourne Cup Luncheon Fundraiser and nine new (baby) members joining us in 2017! Belated congratulations, to the Gilfellon and Shepherd families with the healthy and gorgeous arrivals of Leo and Kyra. What a beautiful year it has been and a delight to watch our little ones grow up!   
 
This year, four of our Playgroup members will be moving onto Kindy in 2018.  Dumbleyung Playgroup wish Angus Roberts, Eloise Bartram, Mia Smith and Kelsie Smith all the best with their new school adventures and thank them for being a part of Playgroup for the last four years. 
 
We also bid a sad farewell to a few of our families who have supported the Dumbleyung Playgroup collectively for 23 years!  James and Shonel Bennett (Evelyn, Dayna, Sophie and Katie), Troy and Carly Smith (Jaxon, Koby and Mia) and Drew and Laura Bartram (Flynn, Bridie and Eloise), Dumbleyung Playgroup extends a heartfelt thank you for all of your support and commitment to our wonderful little Playgroup.  We wish you all the best for the future and will miss you all immensely!
 
Dumbleyung Playgroup will resume in February 2018, which will be another fun-filled year for the little ones in our community! Thank you to all our members, our community and the Shire for all of your support throughout 2017!  We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.  We look forward to seeing you all in 2018!
Article by P.Gooding