WHAT’S the difference between lawn bowlers and golfers? In this modern day blurring of some sporting seasons, OTF reckons we’ve got this conundrum solved. The rain on Sunday saw one Loddon golf club pull the pin, another played a day earlier. Ask any lawn bowler, and they will tell you the game goes on and not to worry about a few spots.
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WHILE we’re transplanting timings, a zoo in Florida has two reasons to celebrate with the first birth of an Australia koala and a newly renovated habitat for the cuddly creatures. “For the zoo and for us here, it’s the very big deal,” said Amarylis Celestina, who oversees carnivores and koalas at the Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society in West Palm Beach, Florida. “We are trying the best that we can to help with a lot of the genetic diversity within the population that we have here in the United States. So that’s why it’s important that we do have a joey and that we were successful this year.”
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ACROSS in Germany, another Aussie visual was on show when Bayern Munich’s players lined up with the image of a white cockatoo statue on their T-shirts as they celebrated winning a soccer title.
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OUR footy clubs are in full swing with their pub raffles. The meat trays a raging hit on Friday nights with locals. But imagine replicating a French raffle last week when a Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out Tuesday he’d won a Pablo Picasso painting worth $1 million with a $117 raffle ticket. There were 120,000 tickets were sold worldwide raising funds for charity.
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