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Who doesn’t love a day at the hairdressers.
► ONE week remains in the Southern Highlands Hockey Association’s (SHHA) regular season for senior teams.
The SHHA semi-finals will be contested on September 2 and 3 at the Welby hockey fields.
►THE semi-final of the consistency singles was played at Bowral Bowling Club on August 20 with Robin Staples defeating Keith Edwards 151-13.
► WHILE the Broughton Pass Bridge won’t open anytime soon, plans are underway.
Wollondilly Shire Council engineers inspected the bridge with member for Hume Angus Taylor recently to evaluate the damage.
The bridge was damaged during the massive storm event in June this year. More here.
►WEDNESDAY night’s council meeting had highs, lows, laughter, bickering, unanimous decisions and passionate disagreements: all the elements of the past four-year term.
In the final meeting before the September 10 election, general manager Ann Prendergast acknowledged the councillors’ efforts and contributions, but also the many challenges they presented. More here.
►FUNDING opportunities of up to a million dollars are up for grabs by community groups, sports clubs and councils.
Goulburn MP Pru Goward said such groups in the Goulburn electorate were encouraged to apply for the grants under the NSW Government’s 2016/17 ClubGRANTS program.
She said the funding was intended to help successful applicants deliver important sports infrastructure projects in the community.
► MAYOR Larry Whipper overruled a suggestion that could have seen council declare its support of a 16,000 strong petition against coal mining in the Southern Highlands this week.
Councillor Garry Turland requested suspension of standing orders at Wednesday night’s council meeting to debate a “matter of urgency”.
Cr Turland said the time was now for council to make a decision and back the petition that Goulburn MP Pru Goward would debate in parliament on Thursday. More here.
►BOWRAL’S newest set of traffic lights was meant to solve a problem, but it may well have created a few more.
While the removal of the roundabout at the junction of Bong Bong and Merrigang Streets may have moved congestion away from the middle of the intersection, adjoining streets are now faced with issues of their own. More here.
TRAFFIC: All roads are clear in the Southern Highlands today. Drive safely and enjoy the journey.
TRAINS: Commuters can expect a good service on the Southern Highlands line today.
WEATHER: A partly cloudy day with areas of morning frost about higher ground, medium (50%) chance of showers along the coastal fringe, slight (20%) chance elsewhere, winds W/SW 15 to 20 km/h tending S/SW in the morning then becoming light in the late afternoon and a daytime maximum temperature of 12 can be expected in the Highlands today.
Here's a look at what the local weather is doing right now:
7.00AM: Good morning and welcome to another edition of Highlands Rise and Shine. Over the next few hours we will be bringing you as much information as possible from across the Southern Highlands and nationally.
Weather, road conditions, breaking news, we will have it all - and we'd love to have your help! If there's anything happening in your part of the world, drop us a line! Email jackie.meyers@fairfaxmedia.com.au
State of the Nation
Need a national news snapshot first thing? We've got you covered. But also check out what's happening around regional Australia …
►Illawarra: Lauren Darlington looked every bit the sweet sixteen-year-old with a mouth full of braces when her mum forged her birth certificate so she could work as a prostitute. Seven years later she is real, raw about her demons, blogging to touch others.
“I wasn’t eating well or sleeping and I was using drugs the clients would give me at work to keep me awake,’’ Lauren said of her time as a Sydney escort.
“Mum got half of what I made for ‘driving me around’.’’
► LEETON: There was something not right in what Vincent Stanford was telling police about his movements the day Stephanie Scott went missing.
It was one of the earliest clues that the 24-year-old cleaner was keeping a murderous secret and it was picked up by the officer in charge of investigating the disappearance of 26-year-old Ms Scott, Detective Sergeant Tim Clark.
On April 8 last year, three days after Ms Scott vanished from Leeton High School where she worked as an English and drama teacher, police received certain information about Stanford, Detective Clark told a sentencing hearing in Leeton this week for Stanford’s twin brother, Marcus.
► LAVINGTON: A drug-dealing prostitute was found with ice, ecstasy and $400 during a traffic stop at Lavington, police allege.
Carli Kreyts, 21, appeared distressed and dishevelled during her appearance via video-link in Albury Local Court on Tuesday following her arrest last week.
She dropped her head in her hands when told she wouldn’t be able to be bailed from the Junee Correctional Centre until at least Friday.
► NOWRA: The cancer that killed a servicemen at HMAS Albatross was in all likelihood caused by exposure to asbestos fibres and toxic chemicals, according to an Australian Defence Force report.
The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force concluded Petty Officer Greg Lukes’ exposure to respirable asbestos fibres, petroleum, petroleum by-products, toxins or a combination of these while serving with the 817 Squadron, the home of the Sea King Helicopter, had in all likelihood caused his cancer.
In early 2012, Petty Officer Greg Lukes was a fit 35-year-old, married with two adorable kids.
► BENDIGO: When Kelly Turley got the news her donated pancreas and kidney had finally arrived a year ago this week, her husband nearly turned them down by mistake.
“I'm walking out the door, running late for fire brigade training, got in the car and the phone rang and it was a private number,” Jason Turley said.
Initially reluctant to answer the phone, expecting yet another cold-calling salesperson, Mr Turley nearly hung up on one of the most important calls of his life.
►NEWCASTLE: Rio was supposed to be the realising of an Olympic dream for Hunter hockey player Simon Orchard.
Just days after being knocked out of medal contention with favourites the Kookaburras, the 30-year-old spent a night in a Brazilian police station facing fraud charges without a passport.
National news
► William Summer was not alone on census night. He and millions of Australians wasted hours trying to log on to complete the form to no avail.
When it was later revealed that the Australian Bureau of Statistics had taken the census offline fearing foreign hackers, what Mr Summers, a communications professional, couldn't understand, was why the census Twitter account had continued to urge Australians to keep trying to log on, even though it was an impossible endeavour.
Turner told analysts at last year's earnings briefing that "there's no way fares could go any lower".
But they have.
Airfares to eight of Flight Centre's top 10 destinations are now cheaper than last year with "London and LA [Los Angeles] significantly down on last year," said Turner.
National weather radar
Did you know
August 26 is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
On this Day in History
►1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
► 1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
► 1978 – Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
► 2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
International news
►USA: On November 3, 1948, the newly victorious US President Harry Truman triumphantly held up a copy of the Chicago Tribune. On the front page was written the bold headline: "Dewey Defeats Truman".
Smiling for the cameras, Truman told the assembled press: "That ain't the way I heard it!"
With about a 6 percentage point lead in the polls and less than 80 days left before the general election, the Democratic Party's Hillary Clinton should be a shoo-in to win the presidency over Republican Party dark horse, Donald Trump.
► ITALY: Massimo Piermarini was among the last to reach his grandchildren's home in the small mountain town of Arquata del Tronto after the earthquake hit, early Wednesday morning.
"They didn't want me to go because it was too dangerous, but I said I didn't care, I had to go looking for them," he told Italian media.
"But unfortunately for the little girl there was nothing I could do."
His granddaughter Marisol Piermarini, 18 months old, had died in the night as the house collapsed on her.
Faces of Australia: Abbey Boon
ABBEY Boon can’t explain how she knows she’s a girl – she just is.
Some of the 11-year-old’s earliest memories include asking her parents for a fairy dress, taking Barbies to preschool, playing with her grandmother’s makeup and throwing a Ben 10 watch received as a gift across the room in disgust.
Abbey was born a boy and until about a year ago went by Ethan at home and school.