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►Benton Gym hosted two workout sessions in honour of out Anzacs on April 26.
The gym held two fundraising workouts for Legacy on Anzac Day in remembrance of an Australian soldier killed in action in Afghanistan in 2011.
►Members of the Highlands community will be among thousands across the country who will acknowledge the 20th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report.
Funding from the Healing Foundation will enable the Wingecarribee Reconciliation Group (WRG) to hold a commemorative event. A Yarning Up Respect and healing event will be held at the Wingecarribee Aboriginal Community Cultural Centre to commemorate the report’s 20th anniversary.
►Birthday and engagement celebrations and the great outdoors of the Southern Highlands are among the snaps featured in the latest social media gallery from April 23 to 28.
►A 344-panel solar power system at Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre is part of council’s ongoing commitment to renewable energy.
Council began installation of the system on April 27.
►The smell of community generosity – and hot cross buns – was in the air at Bowral and District Hospital on April 28.
For the third year running, the teams at Bakers Delight Bowral and Mittagong held an Easter ‘Bundraiser’.
More than 5000 hot cross buns were baked for the one-day event on April 1, with bakers hard at work all day to keep up with the demand.
►Take a look at our gallery of photos taken at sporting events around the Highlands this weekend.
►A Chevalier College graduate has received one of Wollongong University’s top honours.
Jessia Semken, who grew up in Moss Vale, won the 2017 University of Wollongong (UOW) Casey-Lee Hull Memorial Scholarship.
The scholarship is a memorial for Casey-Lee Hull, who was one of the first students to participate in the In2Uni’s University Preparation Program (UPP).
► The Berrima District Cottage Hospital was built during 1889 on land near the Glebe at Bowral.
It was the first hospital between Goulburn and Sydney and owed its existence to the dedicated efforts of a Hospital Committee and the support of local people.
Initially the compact building could accommodate six patients, four males and two females, but had been designed so the wards could be extended. 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 today.
WEATHER: A mostly sunny day with patchy fog early this morning, light winds becoming N/NW 25 to 35 km/h in the morning then tending W/NW 20 to 30 km/h in the evening and a temperature of 19 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 the Southern 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
Regional news
NSW: Wollongong councillor Bede Crasnich has heard all the stories of a panther, or panthers, roaming the Illawarra escarpment and he’s not buying it. He’s offered to pay $5000 to anyone who can show him an Illawarra-caught panther. The big cat must be captured alive, and must be unharmed, he stresses.
VIC: Regional train lines will get a $1.45 billion funding boost as the Andrews government moves to shore up its support across country Victoria ahead of next year's state election...read the full story.
QLD: Police are still on the hunt for an alleged attacker, after two men were stabbed at a home in Logan on Saturday night. Police said a 22-year-old had an argument with the occupants of a Slacks Creek home and was ejected...read on.
NSW: The Wests Tigers and police are investigating an incident after Saturday night's match between the Tigers and Sharks at Leichhardt Oval in which a projectile was launched in the direction of the players. Fairfax Media understands the projectile was believed to be aimed at departing Tigers five-eighth Mitchell Moses.
National news
NSW: Maitland’s massive Groovin’ the Moo crowd was largely well behaved, police said, despite dozens of people being charged with drug possession at the weekend festival...read on.
NSW: A 40 year old man will face Taree Local Court charged with several offences following an alleged police pursuit on the Pacific Highway. The man was allegedly drink driving with four children and his wife in the car...read on.
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International News
►A former Illawara man killed in a head-on crash in France is being remembered by as an honest, hard-working guy who would do anything for anyone...full story here.
FACES OF AUSTRALIA
Gabrielle Smart has sage advice for all her peers.
Take up every opportunity you are offered, the Forster teenager says.
“Never think you are not good enough, ” she says.
The Year 11 Great Lakes senior campus student has returned from the UBS Young Women’s Leadership Academy full of enthusiasm, confidence and optimism for a bright future...full story here.