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You have to feel for young Trent Guihot following the Oberon Tigers’ loss to Bathurst Panthers on the weekend. Remember he bet 347 $2 lottery tickets at the start of the Group 10 competition that the mighty Tigers would win the season's flag.
Rumour has it that while he is still confident of collecting, he is hedging his bets by outlaying 347 $2 lottery tickets that Parramatta will win the 2016 NRL competition.
Now that the dust has settled on the federal election and young Billy Shorten has conceded, we can start to actually watch television without interruption.
Our political analyst young Leila Rodwell has discovered a very interesting fact that sprang to light during the election campaign. How do you know a politician is "telling pork pies?" Well, "you can see his/her lips move".
And now for the really big news around town following the announcement last week that Oberon Council is forming a new projects development team to "assist, support and facilitate new tourism ventures in Oberon".
Already many readers have identified a couple of tourism events which will boost our tourist numbers. Weekend tours of the renovated toilet facility in Miss Wilson Park are expected to attract a lot of attention, while monthly excursions through the earthworks at the Oberon Common will provide an insight into naturally occurring asbestos formations.
Well, it's been a full financial year since the introduction of the famous "TIF" (town improvement fund) and already we can see the enormous improvements funded by the levy in and around Oberon.
I know with all the wet weather over the past six weeks it's been hard for a lot of our township ratepayers to get out and take advantage of the wonderful improvements, but take my word for it, the TIF is really setting us apart from every other council in Australia/Canada and New Zealand.
The TIF will be increased in our 2016/17 rate notices. With the success of last year's improvement it goes without saying that if we pay more into the TIF our town improvements will also improve, thus ensuring millions of tourists visit our wonderful township every year. Let's just hope that the proposed council amalgamation between Oberon and Bat-Hurst council could have two choices.
1. Spend the TIF money in Bat-Hurst or 2. Abolish the Oberon TIF. We'll have to wait and see.
Our sports reporter young Des Foley reports that young Len Mawkes still hasn't displayed his brand new second-hand golf buggy. The wet conditions over the past few weeks have ensured he can't get his buggy up to the Oberon Golf Club - it's been bogged in his backyard. Rumour has it that he is going to turn it into a water feature and conduct tourism tours each weekend.
There were reports of good rainfall around town. Peter Stiff recorded 52 millimetres, while young Gordon Rawlings recorded 722mm. Apparently, young Gordon uses a wheelbarrow as a rain gauge. Not to be outdone, young Jock Schrader measured 936mm - he uses a box trailer.