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NEWS 04 Club fare Three great places to eat out in the Illawarra 06 Woodwork The local bloke who goes with the grain 08 Real food Whip up tasty, healthy passionfruit muffins 10 Cover feature Meet the woman behind Need a Feed 12 Gardening Why a little gardening is better than none 14 Apple pie bake-off See if you know one of the winners 15 Special lift-out! Thirroul Readers and Writers Festival 20 Dr Rip What are the dirty secrets sea foam is hiding?

22 Pet Special A life-saving cat and a reptile collection

24 Pet Special Give a pet a home; visit a dog-friendly cafe 26 Helping people SCARF and Thirroul Neighbourhood Centre BUSINESS 27 Local directory Your ultimate guide to small business 30 Chamber Chatter The NICC launches its new website SPORT 31 Tides 32 BMX Local star features in national TV commercial 32 Lawn bowls Join the fun at Scarborough-Wombarra Womens’ Bowling Club

Cover image courtesy of Anthony Warry Photography

MEET OUR CONTRIBUTORS DR ROB BRANDER

CATH HILL

– aka ‘Dr Rip’ – is a coastal geomorphologist and Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. A resident of Stanwell Park, he’s been studying beaches for 25 years, starting in Canada where water temperatures convinced him to come to Australia to do his PhD. He is an international expert on rip currents and runs a beach safety education program called The Science of the Surf (www.scienceofthesurf. com). He wrote Dr Rip’s Essential Beach Book. Read his column on page 20.

was born in Bulli – a fact she readily shares with any locals – and has now returned to the beautiful Illawarra with her husband and two children.

She currently works for the Communications and Media Law Association and was previously the Editor’s Assistant at Good Weekend magazine and The Bulletin. Cath is, among other things, a real foodie at heart and in this issue she visits some of the region’s best family friendly restaurants – see page 4.

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JANICE CREENAUNE

is a dog behaviour therapist and trainer with the Illawarra-born and now the world’s largest international dog training organisation Bark Busters.

His region covers Helensburgh to Gerroa and inland, including Goulburn.

Dogs are a passion and his mission is to save them from being surrendered and euthanised when all they need is a little training. He believes every dog deserves to be trained so it can enjoy a relaxed, fulfilled life. Turn to page 25 for his pet-friendly cafe recommendations.

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is a retired English teacher of 35 years, who has lived and worked in the Illawarra, and completed three year-long overseas teacher exchanges (in Minnesota, Oxford and Cornwall). A wife and mother of three, she sees the life of a retiree as an evolution, something to be cherished, enjoyed.

The Publicity Officer for Northern Illawarra University 3rd Age (U3A) her personal interests include travel, Letters-to-the Editor SMH, letterpress printing and film study. See page 6.

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Club Fare

Reviews by Cath Hill.

Below, from left: stone-grilled steak, chicken schnitzel, prawn pad Thai.

Illawarra Master Builders Club “The Builders” 61 Church St, Wollongong (02) 4229 6466, www.thebuilders.com.au The Builders has something for everyone. We sampled the Stonegrill Steakhouse, a self-contained restaurant in the club with an understated Australiana theme.

This unique dining experience involves cooking your own protein on hot ancient volcanic stone. My partner turned into quite the barbecue expert: “Yep, just another couple of minutes on that one...”

A standout was the delicious St Jack’s scallops entree. Ash, our knowledgeable and attentive host, looked after us beautifully.

Other dining options at The Builders include Platform 61 (pizza), Julianna’s Buffet (all you can eat) and the Hennessy on Church cafe. Entertainment at the Builders includes gigs, comedy nights and free jazz on Sundays.

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The Black Duck Bistro at the Bowlo

30 Boomerang St, Helensburgh (02) 4294 1122, www.tradies.com.au Eating out with young children can be difficult but Tradies makes it easy for families. Two helpful inclusions are the gated outside playground and ‘Max’s World’ , a supervised indoor play area where members can drop off their children (aged 3-12) for $5 on Thursday through to Sunday nights. Chances of completing a sentence are increased and the kids will be happy too.

The Flame Tree Grill is a great casual dining restaurant. The club fare is done well and you can also choose from Asian favourites. Tradies also do $10 lunch specials and the Blue Gum cafe is worth a look too, with expansive views over sports field to beautiful bushland.

Tradies also has live music on weekends.

Scarborough-Wombarra Bowling Club, 578 Lawrence Hargrave Dr, Wombarra (02) 4267 2139, bowlo.com.au You can see why ‘The Bowlo’ is beloved of locals. The views of the ocean and escarpment are amazing and the club itself has been largely untouched, adding to the relaxed and authentic charm of the place. Refreshing in a very renovated world.

President Marton Fox reckons the Black Duck restaurant is the “best Oz and Thai bistro on the coast”. We can only agree based on our very tasty meals.

Sundays mean barefoot bowls and it’s a very family-friendly environment. An activity like bowling really kick-starts the fun and pulls a gathering together, which makes The Bowlo ideal for functions.

Catch it while you can. 2515

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woodwork Precision is essential. Fortunately former maths teacher Steve Hodgson has what it takes to succeed in this unforgiving medium. Janice Creenaune reports.

Before retirement, Thirroul’s Steve Hodgson worked as a maths teacher, head of department and deputy in Illawarra schools. Now 64, Steve is a student again himself, honing his skills at the Illawarra Woodwork School.

“I started practising about eight years ago and continually push myself to improve with new materials, tools and methods,” Steve says.

“I owe a great deal not only to my inspirational teachers Rob Chapman and Stuart Montague (artisans in the true sense of the term), but also to my woodworking group as we continue to inspire and encourage each other.

“We are fortunate to have the Illawarra Woodwork School in Woonona with such a strong community of artisans in our area who reach out to the wider community to increase skills in others.

“It is also great fun, as well as developing new skills. There are about 40 of us in about six classes, wide-ranging in age from a 15-year-old schoolgirl to someone 77 years young, and a growing number of women.”

Visiting the Tolga Woodworks in Far North Queensland and later Bungendore (near Canberra) inspired Steve and he started to experiment with wine racks and picture frames.

Steve has made a number of practical projects for the family home, including a beautiful dining table, hall tables and a demandingly constructed chest of drawers. Recently Steve has also moved into construction for the sake of art. An ambitious piece, yet to be wall-mounted, shows a ripple effect.

“Each piece of timber is a different wood and the wave is created by carefully hand-shaping the pieces for maximum effect. About 70 hours of work has been dedicated to this one piece,” Steve says.

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Every second seems worth it.

“I try to make best use of the timber. Sometimes I buy the wood, occasionally somebody thoughtfully gives me a piece. At the moment I have a 100-year-old cedar piece from the Bank of NSW in Sydney. It has history and the development of recycled timber, transformed and used in another way so that it has another useful life, is very important to me. This piece will eventually become a coffee table,” Steve says.

“This attitude infiltrates the entire industry. We are all conscious of the importance of the natural resource. I am also very conscious of wasting wood and making mistakes. It is a very unforgiving medium in that regard. I never throw anything out, recycle as much as I can and even make blocks for the kids with leftovers.

“I also use woods to contrast each other.

Blackwood is stable, hard and easy to work with, but the local hardwood, brown barrel, trees just to our south and higher in the escarpment, is a wood that regenerates quickly.

“American oak contrasts well with red cedar and the wood is necessary to keep in mind for a pleasing final finish.”

Steve primarily produces works for himself, with encouragement from his wife, Robin, family and his woodworking group. “We often joke at class that we are creating the antiques of the future.” n Writer Janice Creenaune is also the publicity officer for Northern Illawarra University of the Third Age, (NIU3A) which holds talks on Wednesdays in the Excelsior room of Thirroul Community Centre, 9.30am-noon. For more on NIU3A, contact janicecreenaune@gmail.com 2515

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Real food with Steph Stephanie Meades has a recipe for passionfruit muffins that is free of gluten, nuts and dairy. And it’s delicious!

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My neighbour has a very fruitful passionfruit vine that is not only lovely to look at, but it produces the most deliciously plump passionfruit, perfect for cooking with. He kindly pops his head over the fence every so often to offer us a handful.

This weekend I used them to make the most perfect passionfruit muffins that were a hit with everyone! So I just had to share it.

PASSIONFRUIT MUFFINS Makes 12 mini muffins.

INGREDIENTS: ½ cup coconut flour, sifted ½ tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt ¼ cup coconut oil ¼ cup rice malt syrup 3 eggs, whisked 1 ripe banana, mashed 2 passionfruit 1 tsp vanilla METHOD:

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Mix dry ingredients in a small mixing bowl.

Melt coconut oil, and then add to whisked eggs and rice malt syrup.

Mash banana in separate bowl and mix with pulp from the passionfruit.

Add fruit to moist ingredients and then combine with dry ingredients, stirring well. Leave to sit for 5 minutes before spooning into a mini muffin tray.

These muffins won’t rise during cooking, so you can fill them to the desired amount in each mould.

Cook for 25 minutes in a moderate oven (180°C), or until golden brown and cooked through.

Enjoy warm with a dollop of yoghurt for dessert, or cooled for morning tea. Yum! n For more wholefood recipes, visit www. lifewellnessco.com, follow us on Instagram or Facebook, or visit Flame Tree Community Co-op and check out the recipe folder in store. 2515

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Need a Feed

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Shaz Harrison-Shaw is helping families in need, in the Illawarra and further afield. 2515 reports.

When 2515 meets Shaz Harrison-Shaw at Sandon Point for our cover photo-shoot, her smile is as bright as the day is sunny. She’s great company – affable and interesting – and her drive to help others is infectious.

If you haven’t already heard about Shaz, you must live in a cave. Shaz is a local resident, Sandon Point born and bred, with a glorious vision: she wants to feed millions of families in need throughout Australia.

Admirable, you think, but a tad lofty? Not at all. Not when you see what Shaz and her team of hard-working volunteers have achieved in only a few years – establishing NSW, Queensland and Victorian branches of emergency food-relief service Need a Feed, the not-for-profit organisation that she co-founded in 2013.

Need a Feed supports “local families in times of need in a variety of ways, from providing food to personal care items and school supplies”, Shaz says. To date, it has supported more than 6300 families and rescued, collected and distributed more than 43 tonnes of food. Need a Feed works in partnership with organisations such as CareSouth, Neighbourhood Centres and others to get the things that people need to the people who actually need them.

Shaz kindly took time out of her exhausting schedule to answer our questions.

What was the motivation behind starting Need a Feed?

Need a Feed was born in February 2013 due to my own circumstances years ago.

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connecting people with organisations, talking with struggling families directly, running/planning events, sponsorship/networking meetings, communicating with our partner organisations on how we can work together more effectively, there are so many layers to Need a Feed.

We are only limited by our mind on where life can take us, I am putting everything into Need a Feed so I can leave a legacy for our children and know that the Need a Feed team made a difference to millions of lives. Anything is possible.

Who inspires you?

You’re a driven person – what other projects are you My mum and dad are always inspiring me, they are the most selfless, giving people you would ever involved in? Where do you get the energy from? meet – seriously, talk to anyone who knows them A lot of my time is spent on building awareness of and that person will be speechless with how kind the Need a Feed cause, collecting and distributing and loved my parents are. food, meetings, event planning and co-ordinating I am so lucky because I have a mother and a Need a Feed volunteers.

I consistently work on building my own personal ‘birth’ mother to inspire me.

My birth mother found me when I was 17 and wealth … this allows me to continue to volunteer so the story continues today through our ups and my time to the running of Need a Feed. downs and an amazing life together since then. She I also travel several times a year to Queensland is the co-founder of Need a Feed and helps to for paid work as a carer/nurse looking after my co-ordinate the Queensland branch of Need a birth sister who is in a wheelchair, has mental Feed. We both wanted to form Need a Feed health issues and needs assistance 24 hours a day. because of different personal reasons. We now I am very passionate about Need a Feed; it’s the bounce ideas off each other, motivate each other possibilities of where we can go and how many and talk regularly on all things Need a Feed and families we can support by partnering with more how to improve our service and reach more people. and more organisations and businesses that gives I believe you should surround yourself with me energy, it’s so exciting. positive, uplifting people who can inspire, When I am passionate about something the encourage, motivate and create with you. energy appears. You can always dig a bit deeper, I am always striving to be the best possible stay up a bit later, when you are passionate about version of me. something or exploring the potential of an idea.

What’s a normal Need a Feed day for you?

The morning starts after the three kids are all sorted and where they need to be.

My days are pretty jam-packed, there is always something happening with Need a Feed, which I love. I am always thinking about how I can raise awareness and funds so we can keep helping families who come our way through a variety of reasons. They may be stuck in a rut, may have slipped through the ‘gap’, domestic violence situations, sick family member, the list goes on. I am grateful to be able to help those in need …

Working with so many cool volunteers is a bonus, people who want to help others and are willing to spare their valuable time to do just that.

I really love all parts of running Need a Feed – from following up with emails, social-media management, co-ordinating volunteers, emergency food drop-offs, food collection, packing parcels,

Photos by Anthony Warry Photography

My husband and I had purchased his family house after his mum died, this left us struggling financially. I quickly found out that food can get pushed to the bottom of the list, which can add to daily stresses. After I sold my last business I thought, ‘Now is the time to give back and support those in need’, something I had wanted to do for ages. I have since made it my life’s mission to help those in need and make a real-life difference at a local, grass-roots level. I am so lucky that my husband and family are so supportive, I’m really grateful for them.

Goals for the future?

One goal for Need a Feed is a warehouse space; the opportunities are endless as to what we could do there.

A big goal: I want to feed a million people in my lifetime!

Someone recently gave me an idea about a business within Need a Feed, it was a brilliant idea so who knows where it can all go! I am open to new opportunities and am very excited to explore this and all ideas that come across the table.

Life is such an amazing journey, and I am looking forward to the next part of the ride!

One of my life goals and something I always work on is to be in the moment, be myself, go with my gut feeling, be open to new opportunities and always be aware of the personal and business life balance. 2515 Need a Feed

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The 10-minute gardener Think you’ve got no time to garden? Think again, writes Narelle Happ.

Life is very busy for all of us and often people have told me they don’t have the time to garden. Gardening doesn’t have to mean hours of hard labour. Just 10 minutes a week can see your garden change for the better. This will then spur you on to keep going.

With weather set to improve in coming months, those 10 minutes a week will help the garden reap the benefits as plants start to come out of the winter chill.

TIPS FOR 10-MINUTE GARDENING: Planting Need colour in the garden? Check out your local nursery and grab some potted colour. Nothing cheers up a grey day like spots of colour in the garden to come home to. Even on a balcony, pots can be filled quickly and make quite a statement.

Lots of natives are in flower over winter so check out what’s flowering now and plan for winter colour next year by planting now. Think Acacia, Banksia, Crowea and Grevillea species.

Sow quick-growing seeds of Asian greens, lettuce and radishes in the vegetable garden. Pick broccoli side shoots to keep them producing. Harvest your winter citrus and share the fruit with friends.

Bare-rooted plants are available at this time of year and there are so many varieties to choose from. Start thinking about where you need summer shade and winter sun and choose a deciduous plant.

Fertilise and watering Keep winter/spring flowering annuals thriving by giving them a fortnightly

watering with a seaweed solution.

Check indoor plants aren’t drying out with extra heating in the house. Soak once a week in a sink or put out in the rain when forecast.

Pruning Check grafted plants such as passionfruit and citrus for suckers coming up from the root stock. Remove by cutting them off close to the trunk.

Inspect plants for pests and diseases.

Have them identified and remove before the infestation or disease begins to spread. Prune off affected plant material and place in your bin to prevent spread.

Remove spent flowers from plants that have finished flowering over winter. This will encourage new growth once spring begins and improves the habit of the plant.

Mulching Now is the best time to mulch. The weather is cool so mulching is easier work.

It may take more than 10 minutes, but even if you mulch one garden bed at a time, you will be saving on moisture loss over the hot season. Plus plants will be healthier and your soil will maintain the good guys, such as micro-organisms which help to keep your soil fertile for plant growth. Worth every minute. n Narelle will hold a “Grow a Productive Garden” workshop at Helensburgh’s Sunrise Nursery on Saturday, August 27. For more information, visit www.agardenforlife. com.au 2515

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Best pies!

About 30 entries were received for the inaugural Darkes Apple Pie Bake-off, the CWA’s Heather Smith reports.

Organiser Jo Fahey, whose family runs Glenbernie Orchard at Darkes Forest, said she was “humbled and very happy” that so many had gone to the effort of entering the competition.

“I can’t believe the variety and the excellent creativity that people have come up with,” said Jo, declaring the bake-off would become an annual event.

Winners: Back row, from left: Meghan Robinson, June Dunne, Katrina Hewes and Kate Brown. Front row, from left: Rowan Brown; CWA President Carol Pugh holding the winning pies of Sally-anne Stein and Alyssa Kennedy-Whiting; and Stella Seidler-Francis. Not pictured: Joint Junior winner Riley McRae. Inset: CWA’s Jannette Parsons and Kerry Hale.

Judged by former R&R Café chef Rob Lisk and CWA land cookery officer Michelle Walsh, the pies were evaluated on appearance, crust and filling and overall flavour.

Michelle, who auditioned for MasterChef a few years ago, said it was great to have kids in the kitchen. “It’s wonderful that families are cooking together,” she said. Added Rob: “The Juniors have made a great effort.”

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PROGRAM OF EVENTS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

Venue: Railway Institute Hall, Thirroul

FESTIVAL PREVIEW

7.00 – 9.00pm Poetry reading by Orkney Island poet Pamela Beasant, introduced by Sue Barnett. Story

by Lynne Cook, introduced by Judi Morison.

Canapes, drinks and good conversation.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

Venue: Thirroul Community Centre Hall

SESSION 1

9.30 – 9.40am Welcome to country – Aunty Barbara Nicholson.

9.40 – 9.50 Director Victoria Keighery’s welcome.

9.50 – 10.00 The Hon. Linda Burney opens Festival.

10.00 – 10.40 The Hon. Linda Burney discusses her biography Unfinished Journey with her biographer, Noel Beddoe.

10.40 – 11.00 Morning tea.

11.00 – 11.30 Awards for the festival’s Writing Competitions. Winners or representatives to read out winning entries. Ann Collaery and Denise Russell to MC. 11.30 – 11.55 Lynn Woodley interviews Robyn Cadwallader about her book, The Anchoress.

11.55 – 12.30 Panel on the assassin’s veto and free speech with Chris Masters, Nonee Walsh, Marcus Craft. Co-ordinator: Denise Russell.

12.30 –1.30 Lunch.

SESSION 2

1.30 – 1.50pm Paul Sharrad talks about writing his biography of Thomas Keneally.

Chair: Victoria Keighery.

1.50 – 2.10 Joe Davis: ‘Travelling with D.H. Lawrence in Taormina and Thirroul’.

Introduced by Marion Jacka.

2.10 – 2.35 Panel on writing as political action.

Marcelo Svirsky, Jess Moore, Brian Martin.

Co-ordinated by Helen Wilson.

2.35 – 2.55 Script writer Stephen Guest in conversation with Karen Crowe.

2.55 – 3.15 Afternoon tea.

3.15 – 3.35 Robert Hood talks about writing on the edge. Chair: Sue Cragg.

3.35 – 4.05 Connecting the writer and reader – writing book reviews: Tim Douglas, Mark Mordue in conversation with Ann Collett.

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4.05 – 4.25 Gillian Barlow discusses indigenous writing with Karine Shellshear.

4.30 – 5.30 Literary quiz. Compered by Michele Moore and Denise Russell.

SESSION 3

7.30 – 10.00pm Words Out Loud. MC: Tim Allen.

Singer-songwriter Sandon Groves to open the night. Four writers talk for 10 minutes about important writing moments in their writing careers: Robert Hood, Robin Cadwallader, Marion Halligan and Noel Beddoe.

Refreshment break.

Poetry Out Loud: Ron Pretty, Aunty Barbara Nicholson, John Stokes, Marcela Hayes, Mark Mordue, Victoria Keighery, Karine Shellshear, Frances Patterson.

Story Slam: True stories in 5 minutes.

Audience to judge winner. Hal Pratt, Michele Moore, Bruce Loomes, Karine Shellshear.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

Venue: Thirroul Community Centre Hall

SESSION 4

9.30 – 10.00 Writing after work: Judi Morrison, Pat Simmons, Yasmin Mobayad co-ordinated by Victoria Keighery.

10.00 –10.30 Can the novel save the world?

Shady Cosgrove, Karine Shellshear and Karen Lane talk with Lyndall Fowler.

10.30 – 11.05 Multi-prize-winning novelist Marion Halligan in conversation with Dorothy Jones.

11.05 – 11.20 Disapol Savetsila presents a monologue and talks about play writing.

Chair: Rika Wedlock.

11.20 – 11.35 Morning tea.

11.35 – 11.55 Climate fiction for young adults: Cat Sparks. Chair: Josie Castle.

12.00 – 1.00pm Debate: Novels need heroes.

Compere: Marion Jacka; Judges: Jane Lymer and Tim Allen. Affirmative: Josie Castle, Dorothy Jones. Negative: Clare Woodley, Cat Sparks.

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MEET THE PRESENTERS GILLIAN BARLOW is

an architect and writer who writes about Aboriginal issues, including her family.

Her PhD was on Aboriginal housing and will be published in December 2016 by Saddle Road Press. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and sites, including Off the Margins and TEXT magazine’s Special Edition No 17, Mud Map: Australian women’s experimental writing.

PAM BEASANT is a poet from the

Orkney Islands in Scotland. She works as a writer, editor and arts officer. Her books include Running with a Snow Leopard and Orkney: A Celebration of Light and Landscape with photographer Iain Sarjeant. Her poems appear in many anthologies and she has received writing fellowships in Britain.

NOEL BEDDOE has published three adult novels: Autumn, Yalda Crossing and On Cringila Hill; poetry and five novels for young adults. The adult novels were nominated for the Miles Franklin Award and On Cringila Hill was also nominated for the NSW Premier’s Prize for fiction.

Noel has also written a biography of Linda Burney, Unfinished Journey.

THE HON. LINDA BURNEY is the new

federal MP for Barton and the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the federal House of Representatives. She is the former Deputy Leader of the State Opposition in NSW and the subject of a biography

by Noel Beddoe. As part of the 2012 Sydney Festival, Burney performed as herself delivering her inaugural speech to the NSW Parliament in a theatrical production called I am Eora.

ROBIN CADWALLADER lives

outside Canberra. She has published reviews, prize-winning poems and short stories, a non-fiction book about virginity and female agency in the Middle Ages (2008), a poetry collection, i painted unafraid (2010), and an edited collection of essays on asylum seeker policy, We Are Better Than This (2015).

Her first novel is The Anchoress (2015).

ANNE COLLETT teaches English

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Literature at the University of Wollongong. She has a particular interest in poetry, women’s writing, visual art and the post-colonial world.

LYNNE COOK lives in

Wollongong. She is a Varuna alumna and has had work published in local and national anthologies.

She has won many awards for her short stories.

SHADY COSGROVE is

the author of the novel What the Ground Can’t Hold (2013) and the memoir She Played Elvis (2009), which was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel award. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Antipodes, Southerly, Overland and various newspapers.

MARCUS CRAFT has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist and editor for newspapers, magazines and websites in Australia, the UK, South Africa and the US. With his journalist wife Genevieve, he publishes 2515 Coast News, 2508 District News and The South Coaster tourism guide.

KAREN CROWE has an interest in alternative modes of screen exhibition, and has worked on film festivals in the Illawarra and in the UK. She is completing a PhD on the revival of country cinemas in NSW and believes in a future for sub-minute cinema.

JOSEPH DAVIS has published nine

books and written hundreds of articles on the literature, art, politics and environment of the South Coast. He has also produced four Illawarra art catalogues and co-curated last year’s Illawarra bicentenary The Road to Wollongong (1815-2015) exhibition.

TIM DOUGLAS is the Editor of The

Weekend Australian Review. He has written widely on the arts and culture during his 16-year career as a journalist in Australia and Scotland.

Illawarra songwriters’ competition, as well as the Thirroul Seaside Festival Talent Quest. In 2016 he won two prizes at the Illawarra Folk Festival for songwriting.

STEPHEN GUEST is a Bellambi screenwriter. Two of his scripts have won international awards: a drama, The Other Side of Normal, won the Grand Jury Prize for the 2013 New York Screenplay Contest. It was optioned by Silver Heart Productions. A periodaction-adventure was a finalist in the 2013 London Film Awards.

MARION HALLIGAN’S books

include Spider Cup, Lovers’ Knots, Wishbone, The Golden Dress, The Fog Garden, The Point, The Apricot Colonel, Valley of Grace, Goodbye Sweetheart, collections of short stories including Shooting the Fox, a children’s book and books of autobiography, travel and food. In 2006 she was awarded an AM.

ROBERT HOOD has

written science fiction, fantasy, crime and horror. He has published young adult novels, collections of short fiction, an adult epic fantasy novel, children’s books and over 130 short stories. A 820-page retrospective collection of his spectral work, Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories, was published in 2015.

DOROTHY JONES is a former professor of English at the University of Wollongong who has published many articles and book chapters of literary criticism. In particular she has written about post-colonial women writers, including Marion Halligan. She has published a collection of literary essays on women’s writing, A Kingdom and a Place of Exile.

VICTORIA KEIGHERY

is the festival director.

She squeezes what poetry she can into arts policy, grant applications, strategic plans, handbooks on obscure arts practices and conference papers.

SANDON GROVES is a KAREN LANE loves anything involving 16-year-old local singer/songwriter/ musician. In 2015, he won the Inaugural

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BRIAN MARTIN is a professor of social

sciences at the University of Wollongong. He has published 15 books, most recently Nonviolence Unbound and The Controversy Manual, a practical guide for understanding and participating in scientific and technological controversies.

CHRIS MASTERS

worked as a journalist on Four Corners for many years and has won several Walkley Awards. He has also written four books.

In 2007 he won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Literary Work Advancing Public Debate. He has been awarded the Public Service Medal and the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society in Journalism.

YASMIN MOBAYAD is a Geelong-

based writer and editor. She is pursuing a PhD in creative writing. She has written monologues for performance, articles for the media and is the editor of Prjktr Mag, and co-founder of lowercase poetry.

JESS MOORE is an Illawarra activist who works for the community vegetable growing project Green Connect. She was a founder and spokesperson for StopCSG Illawarra.

MARK MORDUE is a

writer, journalist and editor. He won the 2010 Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year. He has published the travel memoir Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip and the poetry chapbook Things That Year. He is working on a Nick Cave biography, as well as two books of poetry dealing with rail travel and a year spent living in Thirroul.

JUDI MORISON is a local writer

who has recently completed a historical novel set in the English Midlands and north-west NSW during the 19th century. The work was inspired by, and is loosely based on, the stories of her Gamilaraay great-grandmother and her Welsh great-grandfather.

Illawarra. She is a poet and academic who has worked as a lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at UNSW and UOW. In 2014 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Wollongong.

RON PRETTY’S eighth book of poetry, What the Afternoon Knows, was published in 2013 and the third edition of his Creating Poetry in 2015. He published 230 books by Australian poets in his 20 years (1987-2007) as publisher for Five Islands Press. He has taught writing in Australia and overseas.

DENISE RUSSELL is the festival’s program director. She is author of two non-fiction books: Women, Madness and Medicine (2001) and Who Rules the Waves: Piracy, Overfishing and Mining the Oceans (2010), and many articles and book chapters. She also founded the journal Animal Issues.

DISAPOL SAVETSILA

is a playwright who has been published in anthologies. In 2013 he won the ATYP’s national monologue competition and Stringybark’s Future Times Award. He took part in Sydney Theatre Company’s Rough Draft program. He is a writer with Theatre versus Everything, which produced a play at Crack Theatre Festival 2015.

PAUL SHARRAD has published books on Indian and Pacific writers and articles on writing from many countries. Recently he has published poetry and short pieces on Thomas Keneally. He is working on a study of Tom Keneally’s literary career.

KARINE SHELLSHEAR has been a reviewer of poetry for Poetry Australia, and has had her own poetry published in Australia and overseas. She is working on a memoir of the Sydney beach suburb of Bronte in the 1960s and is bringing together a biography of her late husband, architect Colin James.

DR AUNTY BARBARA NICHOLSON is a PAT SIMMONS is a writer of poems,

senior Wadi Wadi woman from the

short stories and flash fiction. Her work

has been published in anthologies and children’s magazines and she has won writer competitions in Australia and the UK. Pat lives at Scarborough with her menagerie of dogs, cats, guinea pigs and rabbits.

CAT SPARKS is an

award-winning author, editor and artist. A 2012 Australia Council grant sent her to Florida to participate in Margaret Atwood’s The Time Machine Doorway workshop. She is finishing a PhD on climate change fiction. Her debut novel will be Lotus Blue (Talos Press).

JOHN STOKES is on a campaign to

write deep literature in plain English. He is widely anthologised, has won or been short-listed for many prizes and long-listed for international awards. His Fire in the Afternoon won a 2015 National Writing and Publishing Award.

MARCELO SVIRSKY

teaches politics and international studies at the University of Wollongong. His last monograph After Israel: Towards Cultural Transformation (2014) has received critical acclaim, and an Arabic version has been published. He is working on a study of the possibilities of ‘shared life’ in Palestine.

NONÉE WALSH

worked as a journalist for ABC radio and online for three decades reporting on the environment, science and the law. She won a Walkley Award in 2003 for reporting from the Waterfall train crash after being rescued from a carriage. She now manages the website and social media for the International Association of Women in Radio and Television.

HELEN WILSON occasionally writes on environmental and cultural topics. She edits The Greens NSW members’ journal, GreenMail.

LYNN WOODLEY is an editor, speech

writer and compiler of policies, plans and reports. Her writing is routinely sprinkled with magpie selections and quotes from her eclectic reading.

The Thirroul Readers & Writers Festival gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of Culture Bank Wollongong, www.culturebankwollongong.org.au. Thanks to the Hon. Sharon Bird, Member for Cunningham, Friends of Wollongong Library, 2515 Coast News, Illawarra Folk Festival, Judi Morison and Lynne Cook for their support. Cover illustration by Hal Pratt.

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The life-saving cat

You’ve heard of the cat with nine lives. Well, local schoolgirl Melody has a cat that’s saved two lives.

“Preston was having a holiday with my grandparents. One night he woke my grandma by jumping on her,” Melody says. “He had to keep jumping up to a high door handle to get into their bedroom.”

Eventually, the cunning cat managed to pull the handle down, open the door, run and leap onto the bed to wake up her grandparents.

“My grandma found the lounge room was full of smoke!”

A pillow, thought to have been placed near the fireplace to dry, had fallen in and was smouldering from the heat.

“Preston’s nickname is Houdini, the great escape artist, because he can get out of anything,” Melody’s mother says. “Preston is a Burmese, he has a lot of dog traits. He follows you around, loves water, sucks his tail like a dummy and will go to sleep sucking his tail.

“He love the girls [Melody and her younger sister, Harmony].

“Preston gets dressed up in the dress-up clothes, wheeled around in a pram – basically he’s one of them, whatever they do, he does – they even swing him in the hammock. He’s very good.”

Melody with Preston, the 15-year-old family cat.

Rosie and Bronson, the kelpie with a Facebook page.

Kelpie on Facebook

Man’s best friend is bow-wowing Facebook.

Proving cute cats do not rule the internet, many pooches now have their own pages (such as Boo, a US Pomeranian fluffball with more than 17.5 million likes). Here in 2508, we have our own social media star: Bronson, a three-year-old kelpie from Stanwell Tops.

Owner Rosie Malki runs the Morning Brew mobile coffee van, spending her mornings visiting Helensburgh Station, various tradies’ sites and Coledale Hospital. In the afternoon, she often enjoys a beach walk with Bronson.

“He’s a kelpie, and we think he might have Doberman or Rottweiler [ancestry].

When we first got him, I was scared of him, then I just fell in love with him. He is so human. If he could speak, he’d have the best character.

Rosie posts “anything and everything” about Bronson on Facebook, including “the naughtiest things that he does, like stealing our dinner off the benchtop”.

“He has 24 friends. It’s just for my friends and family but I do get random people trying to add Bronson. He’s got my partner’s last name, so he’s ‘Bronson Griffin’ on Facebook. He does have a girlfriend, which is Lindy’s dog.”

Lindy Keygan, of Helensburgh Pet Food & Produce, has a kelpie named Codge Holden. “The other day they were licking each other on the face, and I was like, are you guys actually kissing? They are very cute, always playing.”

Bronson’s Facebook relationship status is set to “it’s complicated” and he “works” at McDonald’s.

“It’s just for a laugh,” Rosie says. “I like to post a lot of photos of him and use it as a diary.”

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Ella Fakes, with central bearded dragons. Photos: Rob Fakes

Ella’s menagerie

Thirteen-year-old Ella Fakes love animals.

“She is a real animal person,” says her mother, Karen Lederer. “She wants to be a zoologist or a veterinarian … she is always at the vet, talking to them.”

“Ella has a Central Bearded Dragon called Sherbi, which is short for ‘Sherbet the dessert queen’, a MasterChef-inspired metaphor for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.”

It’s a family joke that MasterChef contestants often confuse the spelling of “desert” and “dessert”.

Sherbi is about eight months old, about 30cm long and a very pretty golden colour.

“She also has two Murray Darling Pythons, named “Fluffy” and “Cuddles”, and 11 guinea pigs.

Ella knows that the snakes and guinea pigs can never be friends!”

The reptiles share a two-storey dwelling indoors, with the two pythons on the bottom floor.

The pythons are “beautiful creatures”, Karen says. “They are like the ‘child’s python’, they have a good temperament for children.”

Ella’s friends like to visit and have their photos taken with the snakes, which are “medium sized”, about 1m and 1.5m long. Ella’s father, Rob Fakes, sparked her love of reptiles when he adopted the snakes from a paragliding buddy a few years ago.

Now they take it in turn to feed the pythons.

“In winter they’ll go for a couple of months without being fed, in summer two to four weeks, and before or after hibernation, once a week to build them up, and fill them up,” Karen says.

Last winter, Ella single-handedly saved the snakes’ lives. “They came out of hibernation very poorly. Ella noticed: ‘Mum, listen to the snakes.’

They had a cough.”

It turned out their tank had cracked, the heat mat was broken and the snakes hadn’t had warmth all winter. A third, older snake died.

“The vet said they’re in a bad way, I don’t think they’ll survive. He said you’ll have to bathe them twice a day, check their throat, get a swab and clean out the mucus.

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Country Companion Animal Rescue has dogs and cats looking for foster parents or forever homes, Julie-ann Ehrlich reports.

Floyd, the cat with one blue eye and one green eye, was taken into foster care a couple of weeks ago by a young couple in Helensburgh. They very quickly realised they could never give him up if someone came along who wanted to adopt him.

They are what is known in the business as “foster failures” – they had to adopt their foster cat!

It’s great news for Floyd, but it means they are no longer available to foster.

Fostering is one way to decide if a pet is right for your family. Many new family members start out as foster pets, only to be adopted as they become too much a part of the family to give them back.

Also, if someone misses having a dog, but because of their situation finds keeping one is not possible, they can always apply to foster for a short time.

They can also help dogs between homes by taking them for a walk or a sleep-over, just to remind themselves a pet is something they still want in their lives, when the time is right. They can become “part-time” pet owners!

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Puppycino, anyone?

Philip Comans, of Bark Busters Illawarra & Southern Highlands, reviews three dog-friendly cafes.

Honest Dons, 20 McCauley St, Thirroul Penny and her team love dogs!

Along with really delicious food (like smashed avocado and fetta on sourdough with poached eggs and roasted mushrooms, or field mushrooms with fetta and avocado) and truly terrific coffee, our doggie friends can enjoy their very own Puppycino with yummy liver treats and frothed milk. $1 from each of these goes to Wollongong Animal Rescue Network. It’s sunny and friendly, I’ve never had a dud meal here and only wish I had more time to visit.

Fireworks Café, 40 Moore St, Austinmer Scotty has been wowing us for over 10 years and his cakes are legendary (often baked by his wife Jill).

His rich chocolate cake is always on the menu and made from Valrhona chocolate! His best-seller main is a super fresh salad wrap with hummus and peanuts, so healthy it hurts! But for us the full kilojoule meals are the go. With an ever-changing menu – including such delicious offerings as meat loaf with sweet onion jam, Thai-style fishcakes, pork belly salad with pomegranate, and pea and ham soup – you’ll never get bored.

Bread & Espresso, 190 Lawrence Hargrave Dr, Thirroul The newest pooch-friendly venue is Norby and Sandy’s amazing “hole in the wall” sized cafe offering smooth Allpress coffee (thanks Andrew!) and stupendous fresh breads (sourdoughs, fruit loafs etc) baked daily and locally. Topped off with fresh pastries such as banoffee pie, almond croissant, chocolate mousse cakes, mini cupcakes, and savoury fare including homemade pork and fennel or lamb and rosemary sausage rolls (made by Sandy’s mum), and fabulous beef and potato, beef and Guinness or chicken and leek pies with the butteriest, flakiest pastry. They say great things come in small packages and this cafe is proof positive. 2515

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SCARF is looking for local companies to help refugees rebuild their lives in Australia, reports CEO Sherryl Reddy and the SCARF team. as well as providing Wollongong’s Access Law Group and Mo Chi skills-development Dining (the latest venture from Peter and Nicola opportunities and Sheppard of Caveau) have both generously signed pathways to up as gold sponsors of SCARF, each donating sustainable $5000. employment.

SCARF would like to hear from more businesses We are calling on local businesses to partner interested in helping refugees settle and build a with SCARF as annual sponsors, helping to expand sense of belonging in the Illawarra. our programs and activities. This is particularly Since Wollongong became a Refugee Welcome important as the Illawarra region prepares to Zone in 2005, the Illawarra has received more welcome new refugee entrants from Syria and Iraq than 1500 refugees – from Asia, Africa and the over the coming 12 to 18 months.

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COME TO CARPET BOWLS All are welcome, reports Thirroul Neighbourhood Centre’s Margaret Brown.

Since 2010, Carpet Bowls has been played and enjoyed at the TNC. The people who join in this activity are dedicated to having a great time in good company and consuming a sumptuous morning tea.

Companionship and laughter is more important than being competitive. Everyone is friendly; some have never played carpet bowls before but, with time and encouragement, their skills have improved spectacularly. Dave, who started as a novice, is now the ‘Skip’ and greatly enjoys it.

John co-ordinates the group, with Daphne as his offsider, and everyone pitches in to help with setting up and preparing the famous morning tea. Each member of the group contributes $2 per week towards costs and money left over is used for outings, such as a recent Christmas in July party.

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Training hard

This is a screen grab from Kai Sakakibara’s latest TV commercial.

TV commercials, training, race-commentating, studies and more – local BMX champs Kai and Saya Sakakibara are always busy. Saya reports

For Kai and I, moving on after the results from the 2016 BMX World Championships in Medellín, Colombia (in late May) was hard. However, we sometimes find ourselves only thinking about the small picture when we should be thinking about all of our other opportunities in the future. We both have plenty more BMX World Championships ahead of us.

Kai and I had some time away from heavy training and gave ourselves a mental break from the stress of pre-competition preparation. I went back to concentrating on keeping up to date with schoolwork and Kai had some chilled-out days. We both did, however, take our road or BMX bikes out for a ride on the road because we just couldn’t help ourselves.

Kai, during this time, went to the Gold Coast to shoot a promotional video for Garnier Australia.

He had one full day of filming and reshooting from all different angles and it produced one of the coolest ads I’ve ever seen!

It seemed like he had a really good time working with professional surfer Sally Fitzgibbons filming a

race against each other; Kai on a bike, Sally on a motorised surfboard. (Check it out on Garnier Australia’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=4wZxhb6XAxw) A few weeks ago, Kai suffered a mechanical problem during sprint training and, as a result, badly injured his knee. He was unable to compete in rounds 4 and 5 of the NSW State Series so he helped the volunteers in the commentary tower and announced some races. It was great for the spectators to have a little change in perspective and voice, plus his commentary drew a lot of compliments. I maintained my consistency and took home the winning position for both rounds.

Kai and I are training for the last two rounds of the World Cup in the USA, which are held in late September. This will be my first time competing at a World Cup and I am very excited to see how I go against the best female riders in the sport.

Follow us at kaisakakibarabmx and sayasakakibarabmx or visit www.instagram.com/ sayasakakibara and www.instagram.com/ sakakibarakai 2515

Join in ladies lawn bowls

It’s easy to have fun at Scarborough-Wombarra Womens’ Bowling Club, writes club vice-president, Pam Carter Scarborough-Wombarra Womens’ Bowling Club plays lawn bowls each Tuesday. We arrive at 9.30am for morning tea; game starts at 10am. After the game we have lunch.

We have a fun group of ladies – some from the now-closed Helensburgh Bowling Club – playing social bowls as well as club competitions.

The winners of the 2016 pairs competition are Elaine Smith and Lynne Lyons. Runners-up were

Lou Bartle and Pat Maribito. It was a close game, with an extra end played to determine the winner.

Congratulations ladies for a great game.

On June 20, 54 visitors joined up for our Winter Wonderland Gala Day. We all had a fun day, playing social bowls, and enjoying a great winter lunch of soup and puddings.

Call 0408 293 196 for more details on how to join the club. 2515

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