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The Week that Was with Nicola Ceccato of the Shepparton News

This interview first aired on Friday the 28th of June, 2024 on ONE FM 98.5 Shepparton.

One FM fill-in breakfast announcer Plemo is joined by Nicola Ceccato, journalist from the Shepparton News who gives us 'The Week That Was' weekly news wrap of everything that's been happening in the Goulburn Valley.

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Duration:: 13m
Broadcast on:: 28 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

You're listening to a 1FM podcast. Ah, morning rituals. Finding slippers, popping on the kettle. The smell of toast. Having your day ruined by the bloody plastic wrap on the Shepperton news. The wrap is for sandwiches, not newspapers. Fridays 8am, a time for sicato and plemmo. On 1FM 98.5, unless she's late, again. Folks, she's not here. I don't know where she is. Hang on, I bet that's her. Hello, is that you, Nicola? How are you going, plemmo? Yes, well, better now that I can hear your voice. Sorry about that. I'm not too sure what's happening. I'm pretty sure it's me, because, well, I slept in this morning. It's just one of those Fridays. Now, you've been out chasing lots of fantastic stories in the past week. I'm assuming? Ah, yes, well, I think it definitely has. Yeah, everyone's...it's always a packed week, and there's nothing heaps and news going around if we can fill five papers, isn't it? Really? Are you telling me the Shepp news is going to be more than 24 pages long? Yes. Oh, my goodness. I don't want to be a big one. It's a thick one. Now, there was some art going on, bad art, I believe. Yes, so the mini-mart is coming up this weekend. And it's on Sunday, 30th from 10 to 4 at Riverlink, East Bank. And the news had a chat with artists home about their work and creating a bad art store, which people can come along and participate in, in creating some bad art. But there's heaps of workshops going around, there'll be school talks, activities, and people can just go around and, yeah, walk around and mingle and interact with artists and see what they're doing as well too. So it's, yeah, it's going to be a pretty big day, it sounds like. Are you an art fan there, Plano? Well, I'm into the audio arts, as you could assume, being into radio. But what is it? Is it like a, a little festival, is it, or is it an exhibition? What is it exactly? Mini-mart. What's a, what's a cool bad, bad, bad, I don't know, bad, man? Oh, no, no, no, Mini, Mini, it's called Mini-mart. Yeah, what is it? We talked to Toad, who's doing, who's doing that, that, that bad art. No, the, it's, I don't know how to describe it, I guess. I don't know if festival's work, or is it like, Mark? Mark, like that sort of like, you kind of walk through everyone's got a store for the thing. Yeah, I think that would be the way, I haven't, I didn't write the story, but that's from my understanding reading the story, that that's what that's about. So, I'll have to hunt that down over the weekend, hopefully. Yeah. Now, do you like potatoes? Love potatoes, be great. Do you like big potatoes? Do you ever wonder how those fish and chips shops get really, really long chips? They must be growing some big potatoes, I imagine. Speaking of big potatoes, I believe there was a story about big potatoes in the Shepherd of the News. Yes, yes. I'll call from resident, pulled out a 17 kilos sweet potato from you. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Did you see the picture? Yeah, I did see the picture, and as I said to you, before the phones cut out, I fared that, I think I might try and chase him down, because I think it's really interesting. How do you grow a big potato? Do you put steroids in it, or what do you do? Yeah. Well, from my understanding, I think he was just the shocked, he pulled it out. I don't think he meant to grow at that big, but, yeah, I don't know. And when you see, when you see American movies, and you grow the biggest pumpkin, all this carrot, and that sort of thing, it always astounds me how the ability to manipulate the size of a vegetable or a fruit, like, that's just insane to me, but yeah, I don't, I don't know if this was intentional, I think it was just the shocked. Yeah, is it, is the potato a genetic freak, or is it supernatural powers in play to grow your vegetables? No, I'm so big. Does it say what he's going to do with the potato? I think he made giant chips with it, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, there'd be one chip per plate going by the photo. Yeah, yeah. Huge. And it's a picture in, we had it in the paper this week, and he's holding a chip that he made from it, I think, I don't know, but yeah, yeah, I don't know, it's a lot of potatoes. It certainly is. If you haven't seen the picture, you can check it out on the Sheppernon News website, or if you've got a hard copy of the Sheppernon News, what day was it in, do you know? Oh, I could probably find that one in, I'd actually, I'm pretty sure that was today's paper, it didn't, so yeah, so, speaking of tasty things, baking dough, bakery. Yeah, baking dough bakery, there's one, some awards, they went down to Melbourne over the weekend and competed in Australia's best pie and pasty competition, and they came back with like, it was like 20 awards or something, which is insane. Yeah. Definitely, there's no better way to say that you're good at what you do than winning 20 awards. Yeah. Overachieved? I don't know. Oh, yeah, honestly, what a great achievement to have, and they won, they actually won for best in Australia, they got a gold for their spliced roux and chunky vegetable pie. Yeah, I don't even know what that means. Yeah, I'm not a huge kangaroo person, but it makes you want to go and try it, you know what I mean? A kangaroo is really good if it's pretty much raw, it's not really good, but it's not too good coming out the other end, you sort of get a bit smelly because of all the protein in it. Just, just a heads up there, if you're going to your partner's house this weekend and you eat kangaroo for all the listeners, now, so what's your favourite pie? My favourite pie, or it's hard, it's, I feel like it's not really a traditional pie, but I do love a good, like, I love curry pies, but there's always, there's these places that do, like, like creamy cauliflower pies, and I love it, I love a good creamy cauliflower pie. Yeah, are you the kind of girl that sources a pie, or are you a no sauce girl? It's a 10, like, I wouldn't put tomato sauce in a creamy, like, white cream, vegetable pie, that's just been sinful, but like, it would be, it would be different if it was, like, you know, like a normal meat pie, like a red meat, that's inside, I put tomato sauce, what about you, you, you're a sauce guy? Well, why am I 100% not a sauce guy, the only thing that I have sauce on is pies and sausage rolls that I, I don't really have them that often, but when I do, I like to put sauce on them, but the rest of the time, no, not a sauce guy, not into it. Now, let's move on, uh, don't go prison, it's closing down, does that mean we're going to have criminals running everywhere, or what's going on there? No, not quite, um, so yes and huge news for the don't go prison this week, uh, it was announced that, um, it was announced that there was going to be a closure, um, uh, on Wednesday, uh, but it's, it's going to be closed in that nine weeks time, and there's about 70 inmates who are there, and they're all going to be transferred over to Beech Worth Prison. Um, so they won't be running around, um, but I think, uh, the issue, um, that's come from that is about 160 jobs people that work there, um, and, uh, you know, the Department Justice come back and said, you know, we, we're going to, um, you know, the government said we're going to be relocating, uh, we, we, we can offer you jobs, like, you know, based off vacancies around different prisons, uh, around the state, uh, around Australia and, um, and, uh, unfortunately, um, uh, yeah, unfortunately, it's kind of a matter of, um, people aren't really sure, uh, they can't just really uproot their life and somewhere else. And there's a piece in today's paper, um, where there's kind of talked about, uh, this is what, um, this is what, this is what people are feeling and, um, the staff have come forward to have, um, to say how they're feeling about it and corrections Victoria, um, has, yeah, provided statements as they did the other day to say, you know, we're going to try and move people as much as we can, um, and give them jobs, um, but it's essentially given them nine weeks to sort that out. That's a long period of time, um, when you uproot somebody's life to work out what to do next. Now, speaking of prisons, greatest shepherding, no, I've been not saying that, the greatest shepherding colleague, I was going to say speaking of prisons, I, I retract that statement on the grounds that I will get in trouble. Um, what's going on down at the greater shepherding school, the super school? Uh, yeah. So they're, um, so we know about the life, you know, the content of the, um, uh, disposal scheme that we have, um, bottles and cans, yeah, taking them down. Um, so GSSC has, um, kind of put, they've started putting all their bins, uh, around their student led project, um, they've put purple bins, um, which cause a great field of confusion on Facebook, we saw, but, uh, it is, it is their own bins, um, and they put, uh, all their bottles and, um, uh, cans in there, and any money that's raised, um, is going to go towards, uh, any programs, but at the moment, they're saving to put some money towards a helping, uh, students go over a trip over to Italy later this year. So, um, yeah, which is great. And this is, I know, it's, it's one of those things that like, you know, having those bins in places around, um, yeah, provides opportunity for people to have their own fundraising on and know that, um, uh, the, um, uh, that there's some work being done across a few different groups here where they're fundraising and using the, um, CDS to do that, so, yeah, very cool. Yes. All the conspiracy theorists in me says they're covering the school with tracking devices under the guise of purple bins. Um, that's just the conspiracy theorists in me. Um, so is there anything else that's been going on? What have you got on for the weekend? Uh, uh, like what's happening this weekend or what I have going on this weekend? A little bit of both. Clearly she doesn't want to talk about, it must be a hot date, folks. She's, she doesn't want to talk about what she's doing. No, it's, it's a cleaning weekend this weekend and I'm working on the weekend too. So a very boring weekend for me, but not so boring for the, uh, rest of the region, I would say. So yeah, like we said, we've got the, uh, mini-mom Sunday, we've got the Art Speaks exhibition that's happening tonight at, at, uh, a resume to think as well. Um, you've got, uh, a bit of, uh, a bit of kids, uh, fun at Miak with some balloons on Sunday. Yes. Um, and yeah, there's a poetry slam also happening at Sunday at Riverlink. Poetry slam, though, is that the kind of thing you'd be into? Me, I, I wish I was good at poetry. I, I joined a poetry club when I was at school and, um, I definitely were writer because I remember writing a piece of, and they kind of looked at it and they were like, that's not really poetry. That's the story. Sorry. Uh, yeah. Don't know if it's quite my thing. I'd love to be great at it, though. Maybe one day. It's all in the delivery. As long as you start everything with, hey, yo, yo, yo, it becomes poetry straight away, doesn't it? Uh, sure. Yeah. Of course. I forgot. Actually, some people, for sure. Yeah. So I forgot I'm talking to a theatre chick, I forgot about that, yeah. And fantastic, uh, performance by, in the physicist yourself and all the cast, absolutely unbelievable. I just want to say, um, really enjoyed that because I hadn't spoken to you, I don't think since, uh, you guys were up on stage. So a great job by Stag and yourself and Rowan and all the others there. Yeah. No, thank you. It was such a good experience and, um, yeah, Stag's did such a good job putting on those shows, uh, every year and, um, yeah, that was really, really great. I'm glad you could come along to watch it. So. Yeah, I'm a fan. I'm going to be going tomorrow. Actually in like, I liked it. It was like underground. It was like the hardcore underground of, of theatre kind of thing. I'm the kind of person who likes to go to a, go to see a band where there's probably like five people in, in the pub kind of thing. So that's small setting. I, I really do enjoy, I'm definitely, I definitely became a fan of theatre on that night, uh, not because of your recorder playing, but, uh, because of everything. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so glad to hear. Yeah. Thank you very much for, um, taking some time to speak to us this morning. And, uh, hopefully we'll speak to you again next week. Yeah. No worries. Thanks so much for that. You enjoy your weekend. You too. Keep it safe. 98.5, 1FM live and low, local Nicholas Saccato from the Shepparton News. Let us know what went on around the valley this week. You've been listening to a 1FM podcast.