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►A major singles match was played at Bowral Bowling Club on Wednesday February 22.
Brian Porter defeated John Edmonds 31-29 on February 22.
This match was paused at 22-21 in Porter’s favour on February 18 due to an electrical storm.
► A former RAAF Fighter Combat instructor will be one of the star attractions at the 2017 Wings Over Illawarra Airshow at Illawarra Regional Airport on May 6 and 7.
Matt Hall, the only Australian ever to compete in the Red Bull Air Race, has been runner-up over the past two world championship seasons.
Wings Over Illawarra will follow his performance in Abu Dhabi and his upcoming race in San Diego, the first two rounds of the 2017 Red Bull Air Race series.
► The latest round of the Wingecarribee Tennis Association's ladies midweek competition was played on February 23.
►The future of The Bundanoon Club has yet to be decided.
An extraordinary meeting was held on February 26 to discuss options for the club’s future.
Club chairman Steve Granger said more than 60 per cent of members attended the meeting.
Members voted to sell up to three poker machine licences and for an adjournment of up to 80 days to look at further options for the future of the club.
►“If it wasn’t for the Girl Guides, we wouldn’t be getting to see the world so young.”
Taylor O’Brien (13) and Amelia Brook (14) are gearing up to set off on a trip they will remember for the rest of their lives.
The young duo from Moss Vale Girl Guides was selected for an international jamboree in the United Kingdom and will attend a second camp and complete a community project while they are in London.
► First responders in the Southern Highlands have received vital training.
CareFlight delivered specialist trauma training to first responders as part of its MediSim program.
Held at the SES headquarters at Mittagong on February 25, three RFS and 12 SES personnel took part.
►Family members from across the world travelled to the Highlands recently for a very special event.
They came from Singapore, China and Queensland to celebrate Patricia Gibbons 90th birthday at Southern Highlands Winery on February 25.
English-born Patricia met Bowral-born (Lionel) Gordon Gibbons in South Africa and emigrated to Australia in 1954.
TRAFFIC: All Southern Highlands roads are open and clear.
TRAINS: Commuters can expect a good service on the Southern Highlands today.
WEATHER: A cloudy day with a very high (90%) chance of showers, the chance of a thunderstorm, light winds and a daytime maximum temperature of 22 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
BATHURST: A woman has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after she was trapped in her car in the NSW Central West for more than 11 hours.
BENDIGO: An amateur BMX rider blackmailed children to perform sexual acts online, threatening to take his own life and to publish sexual photos so their families would see them.
OBERON: Less than a metre tall and having just turned three, Timothy went to live with his mother and stepfather in central western NSW. Relatives say he was happy and healthy, rough-housing with his cousins outside, playing video games and chatting on the telephone.
But on August 6, 2014 – just seven weeks after his mother and stepfather brought him to their Oberon home – he was dead.
NEWCASTLE: The city looks set to get its own wholesale flower market, allowing the region’s florists to source blooms from local growers rather than travel to Sydney.
WA: A school teacher who indecently recorded dozens of children has pleaded guilty to more than 60 offences. The male teacher, who was sacked upon being charged, faced the WA District Court on Thursday and entered guilty pleas to 62 charges, including 57 counts of indecently recording a child.
NT: Work has begun to fix a vital NT bridge which was badly damaged by Tropical Cyclone Alfred last week.
National news
CANBERRA: Senator Cory Bernardi says Tony Abbott should defect and join his new conservative party after the former prime minister was castigated by members of his own party for publicly urging the government to adopt a more right-wing agenda.
CANBERRA: The Australian Border Force has been warned over illegal body searches of passengers at international airports in a report that found immigration officers routinely lacked adequate guidance about their powers.
Photo special
The biggest swap meet in the Southern Hemisphere is a magnet for collectors and automotive lovers from across the country. Photographer Luka Kauzlaric was there, too.
National weather radar
International news
HOLLYWOOD: It was the year the Academy Awards ended in chaos. And then there was the ‘other’ Oscars stuff-up. Minor compared to getting the winner of best picture wrong, but another unhappy error.
JAKARTA: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will visit Indonesia next week, in a surprise move that underscores the success of Indonesian President Joko Widodo's weekend trip to Australia and the close personal relationship between the two leaders.
WASHINGTON: Key Republicans, including Trump allies, are talking up the gravity of the US President's Russia crisis amidst signs of heightened paranoia at the White House.
Face of Australia: Jerry Grayson
Former helicopter pilot Jerry Grayson has done things most people only dream about.
By the time he was 25, he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. He flew over the burning oilfields of Kuwait with German film director Werner Herzog. He helped film the Olympic Games, an IMAX movie, the James Bond movie A View To A Kill, Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, and a Rolling Stones concert. Read on