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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite the fact he has been a committed skateboarder since 1999, local plumber Rick Garley (32) still hasn't done any of the cool tricks that he first got him interested in the hobby, from the award-winning Playstation Game Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1. After just under two decades of consistent skateboarding, Rick still hasn't done...

16 February, 2016. 16:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In what's being hailed as a discovery of a lifetime, a 17-year-old local boy has stumbled across an old pre-plain packaged deck of lung busters - something completely out of his world. St Gregory's South Betoota student Oisin Breathnach revealed to The Advocate that at first, he didn't know what he was...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Hitting back at the recent descent into coffee snobbism, a new local cafe is fighting the trend by offering only instant varieties as well as a number of basic breakfast dishes. Nathan's Cafe is the latest addition to West Betoota's famed Cordillo Street dining strip which already has half a dozen cafes and restaurants. However, owner operator...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local bloke, Ed Moore (27) is of the understanding that an individual rose always costs $65 per stem. "Jesus, I don't why we are going to war over oil when there's fields of this shit somewhere" he says in front of the 19-year-old assistant florist who has guided him to the last remaining Valentines Day Roses at 11am. "This is...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Rather than putting the finishing touches on her last essay of the semester, Daniella Sawkins elected to head out with friends and enjoy the last Sunday evening of term at the local. Enjoying a miscooked $10 rump with the sauce she didn't ask for, one sem-sav-sunrise quickly turned into seven and before she knew it,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite the fact that his friend's house party is well and truly pumping, Brad Miller (20) has decided to find a table in the courtyard and smoke marijuana non-stop through a ceramic bong. The fact that he has brought his own novelty bong with him to a party where most people are drinking cocktails is not lost on the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT 68-year-old fibreglass swimming pool builder, Glenn Hardman has left his two adult children and wife in the lobby of his local cinema to quickly go and get the car ready, it has been confirmed. Without saying anything about the film they just watched, Glenn whispers 'I'll meet you in the car park, I think your mother wants to...

8 February, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact On the first of August last year, the body of a retired teacher and former scoutmaster was found in bushland on the edge of Betoota. Dennis Coolidge was discovered in a shallow grave with his hands tied behind his back, covered in multiple burns and contusions and two small calibre bullet wounds...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Arriving at the pub at 8:45 was not a good move for Sydney man, Charlie McCarthy (29). After a late client meeting, he rushed to meet his remaining unmarried mates at the local Bag 'n' Famish Hotel, only to learn that he had just missed the opening hours of the kitchen. "I should have known better. Of course you...

7 February, 2016. 16:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There was a time in Sam Grotley's life when he used to care about his handwriting, but that part of him died shortly after Peter Brock miscalculated a downhill sweeping left-hander. Not long after, the predictive text and spell check on his mobile and laptop left his desire to spell words correctly...