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Life is busy for Russell Williams, but that is exactly what he wants. or signup to continue reading The 84-year-old has achieved a lot during his career but has also given back to the community in many ways, including as a volunteer with the Buninyong Fire Brigade, in Victoria. Growing up in Scotsburn, Mr Williams joined the building industry in his younger years and built his own home with his wife Carolyn in 1966. Mr Williams joined the Buninyong CFA in 1978 as a 35-year-old, in what he said was an eye-opening experience. "I just felt like I needed to do something - at that stage, there were a lot of fires around," he said. "I thought, 'well, I'm sitting around doing nothing, I could go and help fight the fires'. "The first six months opened my eyes up to what the fire brigade guys do. "One bad fire we went to was out in Scotsburn - we had a big dust storm come over Ballarat a few years ago. I was out in the middle of that with the fire. That frightened the pants off me. "I thought, 'bugger this, I'm going home to resign', but I stayed with it and have been there ever since. "It was quite the frightening day out there." Another interesting experience for Mr Williams was during the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983. "(Russell) built a house at Aireys Inlet ... it just got it finished, and it burnt to the ground - and then he had to go back and rebuild it," Ms Williams said. "That was an experience," Mr Williams said. "(The owners) were lovely people; they claimed it on insurance, and we went back and built it again." Mr Williams said the gear and techniques used by firefighters in those days were very different back then. He said that in the early days of his firefighting career, they would drive trucks with a 2000-gallon tank on the back and little else. "They went well for the time we had them," he said. "There was no breathing apparatus in those days - you just covered your face and got on with the job. "I think the biggest change is the trucks - they're keeping up to date, obviously - and communication, that's amazing these days. "We just had a little two-way radio and that's all it was to it." He was the brigade's captain for two years and was also the first Lieutenant for two years during his service. He remained a volunteer until about 1997 when an operation forced him to step back from actively fighting the fires. He was made a life member in 2001. "We had some really nice guys and nice families (in the brigade), and made so many good friends out of it," Mr Williams said. "There's so many new members in it now, and a lot of females in it now, which I think is a very good thing. I think they've got a very good brigade over there now." Mr Williams was also the leader in the restoration of the historic Merrywether Fire Engine. The manual fire engine drawn by a horse and pumped by handfirst hit the streets in Buninyong in 1882, about 10 years after the original fire station was built in 1872. It helped fight a huge blaze that destroyed The Crown Hotel on New Year's Eve in 1884. In 1997, Mr Williams and a group of other workers decided to restore the engine to its former glory. "At that stage, I was only a carpenter involved in that sort of work. I just took it on and the other guys came along and did it," he said. "The wheels were all wobbly - they went into Sovereign Hill and they fixed those up and got them straight again. "We had to take it back to the raw paint that was on it and do it all up again. "I remember I made the letters for the side of it, we got another fella in to do the pin striping on it. It was quite rewarding." The restoration project took about a year, and is now proudly displayed in a special room at the front of the new Buninyong-Mount Helen Fire Station, opened in 2022. "It's been a good thing for the town to get the new fire station up and running. They're keeping up with the times," Mr Williams said. If you think being a builder for 55 years and volunteering with the fire brigade was enough for Mr Williams, think again. He has been a member of the Buninyong-Mount Helen Men Lions Club for 37 years, of the Bunionyong Cemetery Trust for 12 years, an "instigator" of the Buninyong Mens Shed, according to his wife, and has been a member for 12 years. He has also been on the vestry at St Peter's Church in Buninyong for three years and was a cub leader for eight years. "In all, I reckon I've done 113 years of voluntary labour," Mr Williams laughed. "You've got to keep active, you can't just sit around doing nothing all day." In the six decades they have lived in their Buninyong home, the couple said the town has changed quite a bit, but it still retains its charm. "(It's) progress," Mr Williams said. "You can't say it's for the good, you can't take for the bad - just progress, really. "We knew just about everybody in the town a few years ago. It's a lovely place. "Buninyong has been good to us. We've made some lovely friends, and our (four) kids were all educated at Buninyong school ..." "If you think of Buninyong and how it's changed, I think, when I first came here, there was only the supermarket, or very small supermarket - just a grocery shop, really, a butcher shop, and probably a corner shop," Ms Williams said. "It wasn't really anything else very much, and now we've got the chemist, the supermarket - we've got everything, you don't have to go to Ballarat." DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. WEEKDAYS Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation. WEEKLY The latest news, results & expert analysis. WEEKDAYS Catch up on the news of the day and unwind with great reading for your evening. 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Mark Almond: Will the Little Rocket Man now seize the chance to cause havoc?NASSAU, Bahamas — Scottie Scheffler birdied every hole but the par 3s on the front nine at Albany Golf Club on Friday and finished his bogey-free round with an 8-under 64 that gave him a two-shot lead in the Hero World Challenge. Two months off did nothing to slow the world's No. 1 player. Scheffler already has eight victories this year and is in position to get another before the end of the year. Scheffler was at 13-under 131, two ahead of Akshay Bhatia (66) and Justin Thomas (67), both of whom had to save par on the 18th hole to stay in range going into the weekend. Scheffler started with a lob wedge to 2 feet for birdie and never slowed until after he went out in 29 to seize control of the holiday tournament against a 20-man field. Scheffler cooled slightly on the back nine, except it didn't feel that way to him. "Front nine, just things were going my way. Back nine, maybe not as much," Scheffler said. "A couple shots could end up closer to the hole, a couple putts go in, just little things." Asked if he felt any frustration he didn't take it lower — he once shot 59 at the TPC Boston during the FedEx Cup playoffs — Scheffler sounded bemused. "I think in this game I think a lot of all y'all are looking for perfection out of us," he said. "Today I shot 8 under on the golf course, not something I hang my head about. A lot of good things out there — clean card, bogey-free, eight birdies. Overall, I think I'm pretty pleased." Thomas felt his 67 was stress-free, particularly the way he was driving the ball. The wind laid down again, rare for the Bahamas, though it is expected to pick up on the weekend. Thomas wasn't concerned to see Scheffler get off to a hot start, especially with three par 5s on the front nine and a short par 4 that at worst leaves a flip wedge to the green. "You literally can birdie every hole as soft as the greens are," Thomas said. "He's a great player, a great wedge player, and you have a lot of birdie holes to start. I'm honestly surprised he only shot 8 under. It's a sneaky course because if you fall asleep on some shots, you can get out of position. But if you're on and focused and really in control of everything — like these last two days with no wind — you can just make so many birdies." Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley had a 67 and was four shots behind. No matter how benign the conditions, it wasn't always easy. Cameron Young, who opened with a 64 for a two-shot lead, followed with a 75 despite making five birdies. That included a double bogey on the final hole when his approach tumbled down the bank into the rocks framing the lake that goes all the way down the 18th hole. Patrick Cantlay was trying to keep pace playing alongside Scheffler, but he had three bogeys over the final seven holes and fell seven shots behind with a 71. The tournament, hosted by Tiger Woods, is unofficial but offers world ranking points to all but the bottom three players because of the small field. It's the weakest field in 25 years, but Scheffler at No. 1 gives it enough cachet. He is the first player since Woods in 2009 to start and finish a year at No. 1 in the world. And even after a layoff — giving him time to tinker with a new putting stroke — it looks like it might be a while before anyone changes that. Get local news delivered to your inbox!
According to Bowen Yang , Sydney Sweeney was “game” for anything during her March 2024 viral “ SNL ” hosting gig. Yang said during First We Feast’s “Hot Ones” that he at first was concerned about the “Bowen Straight” sketch needing an intimacy coordinator. The skit has Sweeney finding out Yang is straight, and then having an affair with the openly queer cast member. Yet Sweeney assured Yang that “ Euphoria ” more than prepared her for their onscreen “SNL” intimate scene. “Pitching ‘Bowen Straight’ to Sydney Sweeney was really fun,” Yang said. “I just remember being like, ‘We’re going to need an intimacy coordinator for this and it’s going to be completely up to your comfort,’ and then she was like ‘Bowen, I’m on “Euphoria,” it’s not going to be anything.’ So that was really fun and she was so game for it and she was wonderful.” Sweeney will reprise her role of Cassie for “Euphoria” Season 3. Sweeney previously told Who What Wear that she is looking forward to returning to the series after a hiatus. “I actually like [the delay] because there’s so much room for growth for both me as a person and also Cassie as a character,” Sweeney said, while teasing of the upcoming storyline, “It’s going to be very, very wild.” “Euphoria” Season 3 will now go into production in January 2025 and consist of eight episodes. Meanwhile, Sweeney is also portraying boxer Christy Martin in David Michôd’s biopic, appears in Ron Howard’s “Eden,” and will transform into Kim Novak for Colman Domingo’s directorial debut “Scandalous” about the alleged romance between Novak and Sammy Davis Jr. Sweeney told Vanity Fair that her “SNL” monologue mocking her pinup appeal was part of her political statement about the faux feminism of Hollywood. “I actually had to push for a lot of it ,” she said of the monologue. “Some people were a little nervous about it, but in real life, I’d like to say I’m a funny person. And sometimes I wish that I could address more [things with] my ‘Syd’ self, but I find that with social media there’s such a lapse in how things are communicated. It’s hard to get things across in the way that you intend to — they can be misconstrued. So being able to do it onstage in very Syd fashion, I loved it. I felt like I was taking the power back.”Veterinary Surgical Instruments Market Size: Strong Growth Ahead (2024-2032)
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