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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Two-for-one proseccos at the Dolphins Leagues Club last night got the better of a local Year 2 teacher, who decided today that her class was going to watch a movie - followed by some DEAR time. Emma Roper, a popular primary teacher at South Betoota Public School, told The Advocate that she feels like ants...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Local father of four, Michael Collander, took time out of his busy Thursday morning to speak to The Advocate via telephone regarding The Bachelorette, which he's often forced to watch of an evening time. While he describes himself as not being a fan of reality television or television in general, the 43-year-old told our reporters...

CASHEW DURKIN | Food | Contact As urban legends continue to swirl regarding the ingredients in McDonald's popular McNuggets, a recent study conducted by the CSIRO has declared that nobody really cares what's in them as they taste like the popular and addictive narcotic drug, heroin. While the multinational purveyor of fine foods remains tight-lipped as to what's really in the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Celebrations are heating up South Betoota and one local engineering student is getting ready to drink himself into a pair of handcuffs. Walking past the bargain bin wines and other assorted brain varnishes down at the Cobb & Co Cellars on George Street, Elliot Stapleton explained to our reporters that he felt like treating himself tonight as he just...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Thinking he had it made because he walks to work each day through a nice park, Miles Frucor knows deep down that things could be better. More often than not, the 28-year-old corporate lawyer sees a troupe of gipsies in the park slacklining of a morning time - and he can't help but feel jealous...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact You only turn 18 once and last night it was Debbie Granger's turn. The local student didn't let the fact that it was a Monday night rain on her birthday parade, inviting her closest 30 friends over last night for a few coming-of-age drinks. In that exclusive group was Willis Elrond Hazzard, a spritely young man...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Peter Gormond is a man who thought he had everything - until he got a pasta maker. Since that day last autumn, the 28-year-old panel beater turned his back on the traditional, dry pasta that the working class enjoys. He's a fresh pasta boy now. Somehow, Peter finds time to make pasta each time he eats it. Sometimes two or three...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In an unprecedented twist to the evening, the chicken dish has actually received rave reviews. At a local fundraiser for the Betoota Small Business Network's non-perishables for Africa drive, guests approached the set menu with justified sceptisism. As the vegetarian meals made their way to the diet-requirement guests, a large majority of the 200-people plus patronage begin to barter. "If I...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Two Islander men that have never met each other but might still know the same people have exchanged a unique and exclusive look, often shared by people of Polynesian decent when they recognise that they are both Polynesian. The two men have made eye contact at the front door of one of Betoota's most popular night spots, The Duck'n'Weave....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A report commissioned by Australia's peak scientific body has concluded that people who drink hard liquor straight from the bottle are 'definitely' not thinking about tomorrow. Glenn Davidson, from the CSIRO, told our reporters that a number of problem binge drinkers were surveyed for the study and nearly all respondents replied that their mind was...