Memories of judo in Mount Isa
I was in Mount Isa from 1977 to 1983 as the Queensland Inspector of Mines.
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I was also the Treasurer of the Mount Isa Judo Club at Wellington Oval from about 1978 to 1983.
At that time there were two Judo Clubs in Mount Isa.
I am cleaning out old documents and found this newspaper cutting from the NW Queensland Advertiser which, was a free newspaper, circulated in opposition to the Star.
The cutting is dated 26 June 1979.
It took weekly Saturday mornings in front of K Mart or the TAB, or the hardware store in Miles Street to sell raffle tickets in order to build an extension to the original dojo.
The floor of the extension was covered with conveyor belting cut to length with a hand knife lubricated with soapy water, in the Mary Kathleen salvage yard in 40 degree heat.
When I left, the Club had no debts and were able to pay much of the cost to send judokas to competitions.
Looking at the website today it seems that maybe this sport has died in Mount Isa and like the documents I am throwing out, it has become redundant.
Bogdan Kochout,
by email
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Our youth justice system continues to be in crisis under Annastacia Palaszczuk and Labor.
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Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
