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THE ILLAWARRA

July 2023

Keeping community news alive

Duane Byrnes

Thirroul’s Alone Australia star on family, community and Country

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Meet Our Contributors Caitlin Sloan is an Illawarra Flame journalist. She was born and raised in Helensburgh and the fifth generation of her family to attend Helensburgh Public School, graduating in 2010 – almost a century after her great-greatgrandmother. Caitlin has a passion for writing stories, regional travel, good wine, and also works as a bartender at the historic Helensburgh Hotel.

Dr Berlinda Png is a GP at Bulli Medical Practice. She was born in Singapore, graduated with honours from The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2007 and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Berlinda’s areas of interest are older adults’ health, children’s health, women’s health, chronic disease management and skin cancer.

Berlinda enjoys spending her spare time with her husband and four daughters, cooking and walking.

Caroline Baum is a journalist, author and the ambassador for the Older Womens’ Network (OWN) in NSW. She is a co-founder of the True Story festival of non-fiction, to be held at Coledale hall on November 18 and 19.

Jeremy Lasek has spent decades in media, marketing, events and PR. His career began in the Illawarra with the Lake Times, ABC Radio and WIN-TV. Jeremy became national news director at WIN in Canberra before joining the National Capital Authority as head of media and events. He was executive director of ACT Government Communications, Events, Arts, Heritage and Protocol for many years. Before returning to Wollongong, Jeremy was CEO of the National Australia Day Council and head of communications for the Australian Federal Police.

He’s now volunteering on the YES23 campaign.

Karen Cobban has worked in film and theatre for over 20 years. She trained at AADA and the Actor’s Centre, as well as voiceover at AFTRS. Karen has appeared in many commercials, short films, corporate videos and theatrical productions. As a playwright, Karen has written several children’s plays as well as other works, such as 96 Candles. She is currently writing Speedbumps, Obstacles and the Odd Greek Tragedy.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The publishers acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their cultural and spiritual connection to this land. Their stories are written in the land and hold great significance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, from the mountains to the sea.

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Thirroul Surf Club seeks Silver Salties to join Thursday group

By Genevieve Swart

It’s a festive morning when the Flame visits the Silver Salties at Thirroul Surf Club. Two of its members – Hagen Kreusser and Allan Hutton – are turning 70 and there’s cake to celebrate.

There are also two giant cards, large-as-life portraits sketched by Col Bruton, 89.

Col – a former marathon surf ski paddler – is one of eight Life Members who have been drawn back into the surf club thanks to the Silver Salties.

The program is part of a nationwide Surf Life Saving initiative to promote fun, fitness and friendship for over-65s.

Co-ordinator Ian Sakoff – a former club captain at Thirroul SLSC – was inspired to start the social group after volunteering with Meals on Wheels.

Delivering food made him realise how many elderly people were sitting alone at home. One encounter stuck in his mind: “The lady who said, ‘My son’s coming to visit me – not this Friday, the Friday after, for one and a half hours’. It’s just sad.”

Thirroul’s Silver Salties first met in January 2021.

Now there are 30 people on the books, with about 20 turning up each week.

“They’re loving it,” Ian says. “So yes, I think it’s changed them. There’s a whole lot of older members that got re-involved with the club. Last year at our carnival, they helped out with the barbecue and they helped out presenting trophies.

They just thought that was fantastic.”

The Silver Salties group has not only brought old members back to the surf club, it’s attracted new ones. “I would really like it to be offered to everyone,” Ian says.

They like to keep things simple. “It is what it is.

It’s just go down the beach and have a chat, have a coffee,” Ian says.

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Sometimes the group splits in two. Some go on a walk, while the rest sit on the surf club’s front veranda, read the papers and enjoy the view (today, there are dolphins).

The Salties – aged from their 60s to 90s – even have their own newsletter, The Silver Salties Sentinel, written and printed by Col Bruton. His reports provide an entertaining outlet for nine decades of memories of local life.

“All that info and history that he’s got, it’s getting used,” Ian says. “It’s really fantastic for Col. I hope I’m like that when I’m that age. There’s a few there, all in their late 80s, and they’re going really well.

“And that’s the secret … keep going.”

Join the Silver Salties on Thursdays, 9-11am for a walk, talk, optional swim. Meet on the front verandah at Thirroul Surf Club, The Esplanade. Free, all welcome. Contact Ian, 0422 216 594, ian.sakoff@gmail.com

Hagen, Col and Allan at Thirroul surf club

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The Weather Man

By Caroline Baum

For many people, the easiest form of small talk with a stranger is to talk about the weather. But not for Roger Badham. Recently awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the King’s Birthday Honours for his services to meteorology, it is a subject he takes very seriously indeed.

It’s fair to say that, in conversation, he appears underwhelmed by the prestige of his new gong.

Around the world, especially in the field of competitive sailing, it will add neither currency nor cachet. To sailors, and to his international network of clients and his mates, Badham is known simply as Clouds. It’s a nickname he got in Perth in 1985 while working with the crew of Australia II during the America’s Cup and it stuck.

Roger Badham, 74, grew up on the waterfront at Cronulla but spent most of his adult life planting vast numbers of native trees on acreage under the escarpment and using rare timbers he has collected over the years to restore old wooden boats.

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Science and nature were on his radar from early on: his father was a radiologist and his mother was a landscape architect. As a child, he developed a love of competitive surf swimming and of sailing in dinghies along the beaches of the Northern Illawarra, so he was always aware of the swell and the wind. After failing to get in to study medicine, he opted for pharmacology and chemistry and pursued his interest in maths and physics. But, describing himself as “an outdoors man”, he was not interested in statistics, and wanted to find a practical way to apply his interest in the weather – at a time when courses in climatology were limited.

But times changed and with the rise of the internet he found himself swamped with requests from individuals and organisations, all eager for his specialised expertise in forecasting the smallest variations in wind and temperature over a period of a couple of hours. His work has taken him all over the world, but these days he can do most of it from his home in Wombarra (where the original slatted wooden box he used to shelter his measuring instruments now serves as his mailbox) and predicts that he will be replaced in a few years by the power of quantum computing. He plans to retire next year, after the Olympics and the America’s Cup. His best known and most long-standing clients have included the Ferrari team for whom he does the forecasting for the Formula One circuit (“never got a car out of them”, he quips); the New Zealand sailing team at the Olympics (“unfortunately that means very early starts as they are two hours ahead and they train first thing”); and various crews competing in big competitions like the Whitbread Round the World Race. He’s done more than 40 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races, including the disastrous 1998 race during which a ‘super cell’ storm event killed six sailors, and which prompts painful memories of testifying as an expert witness at the subsequent State Coroner’s Inquest.

As for his favourite weather phenomenon, Roger replies without hesitation: mammatus clouds, an unusual pattern of bulges or pouches emerging from the base of a cloud (which he describes more poetically as “full breasts hanging from the sky”) during warm-weather storms. So now we know what to look for when summer comes.

Dr Gardner in Iraq, cycling with his daughter and in scrubs

Thank you, Dr Gardner

By Genevieve Swart

A Stanwell Park doctor who used his military experience to fight the virus has been added to the COVID-19 Honour Roll and awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to medicine.

“It’s an extraordinary privilege and an honour, but it was completely unexpected,” says Dr Trevor Gardner, an Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District anaesthetist and co-chair of Wollongong Hospital’s Covid-19 Taskforce. “It’s the sort of thing that happens to grown-ups, not people like me.”

Trevor is 62 and, when we speak in June, hours away from welcoming his first grandchild. He and his wife moved to the area in 1996 and live in Stanwell Park. He has a son and three daughters – one is a nurse who worked alongside him in the Covid ward in Wollongong. Trevor’s hobbies are hanggliding, sea kayaking and cycling, and he’s happier talking about these than work awards.

Fortunately, the Local Health District broke the media release mould to put out a proud, detailed account of his “stellar and selfless career”, including years with the Australian Defence Force. Trevor was deployed in Rwanda, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was part of the aeromedical evacuation response to 2005’s Bali Bombing. In 2012, he went on sabbatical with CareFlight.

Or, in his words, “I’ve just been alive for a long time, so I’ve done some stuff.

“I’m pretty proud of the job I did in Iraq in 2004.

There were an extraordinary amount of horrendous injuries all day, every day for a bunch of months in Iraq. You just had to look after the person in front of you … whether they were an American soldier or a Polish soldier or an Iraqi civilian – didn’t matter. I think I contributed to that one, under difficult circumstances, because I was well trained.”

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Covid came and Trevor, along with his colleague, Wombarra surgeon Professor Bruce Ashford, was asked to lead a taskforce at Wollongong Hospital.

In the army, you have a mission, then you work to achieve it, he says. “Bruce and I took the same approach to the Covid taskforce. Because hospitals, like all big bureaucracies … they’re very slow to react. When the balloon goes up, it’s not what you need. You need to be a little bit bold, make decisions, back yourself.”

His aim was to “maintain the capability of the hospital”: protect staff, so they could treat patients.

Trevor soon realised hospital buildings needed to change. Masks he saw as a failure. “PPE is like when everything else has failed and the enemy’s in the room, you put on your mask. So it occurred to me that we could make an engineering solution.”

His idea was to constrain spaces and control the airflow using practical measures – such as fans and HEPA filters – to blow the virus away. Local glaziers helped, working fast to install windows with holes and louvres, and sliding glass doors.

“Easter 2020 was our first retrofits. We’re pretty happy with the stuff that we did in anger, rapidly.”

Hundreds of those retrofits are still in use today in hospitals across the region, with studies ongoing.

Trevor – who’s never had Covid – led through the worst of times, from March 2020 to October 2021. What got him through it? “Riding my push bike!” he says, laughing.“Bruce and I would do a Royal National Park run or a Darkes Forest run.

We’d scheme and plan, nut out all our problems.”

He and Bruce are now looking forward to an annual cycling fundraiser the pair started in aid of Head & Neck Cancer Australia. Ride Beyond Five is a 104.8km loop through the Royal National Park, the escarpment and Sea Cliff Bridge. Save the date and support the good doctors: 26 October 2023.

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Connecting Threads in the Garden Thanks to Coledale Public School parent Amy Geddes

9am, when Coledale Public School embarked on a journey to the Botanic Gardens, to learn about textile waste and sustainability!

We began by splitting up into three groups. Our group started with the treasure hunt. We were supplied with a questionnaire that listed questions about composting. We were rewarded with a ruler, crafted from recycled plastic!

The next task on our hands was, oh yeah, eating!

After that we went to the Discovery Centre and got the old clothing that we brought (a t-shirt or jeans) and made some epic bags out of them, without even needing sewing! The bags were awesome.

After making some bags we learnt about worms.

As part of the ‘Connecting Threads’ textile upcycling We found out that if clothes were made of 100% cotton, worms would eat them! That means that initiative at Coledale Public School, students from anything that’s made mostly out of cotton or other years 3-6 visited the Discovery Centre at natural fibres can be put in a worm farm!

Wollongong Botanic Garden. They learned about Finally we walked through the garden to a our local landfill at Whyte’s Gully, made their own building where we did a virtual landfill tour of upcycled bags and were shown amazing examples of textile art by Penny Hoswell, the waste education Whytes Gully, our local tip. We learnt about how they stop the rubbish from flying away (they cover officer at Wollongong City Council.

Below is a fabulous recount of the day from year it up) and where all of the wastewater goes (into 6 students Arlo Schulz, Bec Sheath and Finn Kline. four ponds, three for wastewater and one for stormwater). We also learnt about the Revolve Shop, an Op shop-style place. In the Revolve Shop, Did you know that the average Australian they take anything that gets taken to the tip that buys 56kg of clothes every year?

Well, I certainly didn’t. This is everything you need can still be used. They then resell it!

The Botanic Gardens was an amazing experience to know about our clothes upcycling adventure!

We came to the gorgeous gardens, straight away for Coledale Public. As we all got back on the bus, everybody was talking about all the things we we were greeted by beautiful trees, flowers, cacti, you name it! It was the 29th of March, Wednesday, learnt. It was a wonderful day.

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Solar haves & have-nots By architect Ben Wollen

Apart from weekend traffic, there’s one thing you learn quickly about living in the Northern Illawarra and that’s how precious solar access is.

I recall my first taste of winter here in a singular moment at the Wombarra Bowlo.

After a bushwalk, we were enjoying beers, finska and sun on our backs. It was early afternoon and there was a crowd enjoying the same then, quick as a flash, the temperature seemed to drop 10°C at 3pm as the sun set behind the escarpment.

Also quick as a flash, most of the crowd departed, crouched under the gas patio heaters or retreated indoors for Thai food. The more seasoned locals were ready for that sun to set and donned their puffer jackets and beanies and kept swilling outside. I now own several puffer jackets, beanies and have started collecting beer cosies.

We live on the upper escarpment and it’s not unusual for some houses up our way to lose direct solar access before midday during winter. While the inverse of this condition can be great in summer heatwaves, during winter it means that some households either have to migrate down to the beach points along the coast to extend their vitamin D intake or put the heater on after lunch!

A home on the upper escarpment that has open access to the northern low winter sun is a rare gem.

Further down towards the coastline, there are areas blessed with an extra hour or two of winter sun.

Before I jump into where these solar-blessed areas are, here’s some background on celestial movements. The summer and winter solstice represent two opposite points in the Earth’s axial

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tilt. The winter solstice, around June 21st in the southern hemisphere, corresponds to the earth’s tilt being maximised away from the sun. This results in the shortest day and longest night of the year, and colder temperatures. How this all relates to architecture is in the angle of the sun.

In winter, the angle of the sun at midday is 33 degrees above the ground plane. In summer, it’s more like 80 degrees. If you have north-facing glazing with the appropriate eaves over, you will benefit from deep solar penetration in winter and minimal in summer. This is probably one of the easiest passive design strategies available.

But what if your neighbour blocks you out, or there’s a big tree, or you live under the escarpment?

That’s where you have to really look at making the most of what solar access you can get and, in our area, that generally means from the east thanks to the escarpment overshadowing us from the west.

The closer you are to the coast, the more solar access you will get in winter, but there are certain little pockets in our ’hood that have a solar advantage over the rest.

To observe this in action, I went to Sublime Point Lookout to photograph (see below) who’s who in the premium Solar Access ’hood. And the winners are – on the northern side of Kennedy’s Hill. These lucky duckies had sun in their homes right up until 3.30pm on the winter solstice.

The south-eastern tip of Thirroul along the ridgeline of Surfers Parade was an even bigger winner in the solar stakes – the sun was still shining at 4pm!

For the rest of us who live north of Thirroul, it’s a run out to Sandon Point if we want to capture those last rays. Good news is the days are getting longer now. Before we know it we’ll all be looking to the escarpment to shelter from the heat!

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July 13

Alice in Wonderland Camp

By Girl Guide Liana Photo: Kinya Donnan

Hargrave display opens

By Caitlin Sloan

A five-year labour of love to showcase the work of Lawrence Hargrave has had lift off.

On Thursday, June 8, volunteers at the Lawrence Hargrave Society and the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) celebrated the official

Last year Helensburgh Guides went on camp in Mittagong, Southern Highlands at Bebrue. Our leader Brolga, Raven and Maggie attended with myself and all the girl guides. The camp spot had the house, an archery area and big open land.

Brolga inspected our bunk room and we got the all clear to go outside and have fun. We decided to run around and look for Kangaroos which was fun. We did several fun activities including a Queen of Hearts Croquet match and archery, which was funny because everyone missed their targets. We did a hedge maze at a historic place called Harpers Mansion in Berrima, went back after a picnic lunch and got all dressed up in costumes themed for our special Alice in Wonderland dinner followed by making up a play performance. We left to go home the next day. I had a lovely time at camp!

Leader’s note: A magnificent Madhatter tea party was held with all Wonderland snacks by Maggie! opening of a permanent exhibition honouring the achievements of the aeronautical pioneer at HARS Aviation Museum at Shellharbour Airport.

Lawrence Hargrave Society president Rob Deacon said: “It’s such an amazing story… and [the exhibition] is going take Hargrave’s story to thousands more people.”

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Get Creative on Wentworth

There’s a growing creative vibe in Port Kembla, with live music, little galleries and eclectic shops like Yakka – a record store/deli/bottle-o – adding quirky character to Wentworth Street.

Yakka is the streetfront enterprise at a collective space called Creative On Wentworth (COW) in a building owned by the Offord family from Helensburgh, owners of HBP+ Storage.

“I fell in love with the building,” Andy Offord says.

“It is a 1930s building that was originally a dance hall.”

Wentworth Street’s historic character inspired him to invest in Port Kembla. “I just loved the different architecture throughout the street. Then I couldn’t believe that it was also so close to such a beautiful beach. It’s a great part of the Illawarra.”

The old dance hall is also beautiful out back, with a mural by local artist Ayjay adorning the brickwork on Wentworth Lane. In November 2022, the Wonderwalls Festival brought even more colourful street art to the heart of Port Kembla.

“Wentworth Street has a similar feel to the Marrickville and Newtown areas,” Andy says. “It attracts creative people and businesses.”

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“There are spaces for all creatives. Retail spaces, artists spaces, exhibition space, workshop space.

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Bulli mum calls for playground shade

No shade at Bulli Beach playground

By Genevieve Swart

Bulli mum Yvette Farmer has been campaigning for shade at Illawarra playgrounds. She’s contacted Health Minister Ryan Park, MP for Keira, called Wollongong City Council and started a Change.org petition that had almost 400 signatures in June.

Yet action may not come in time for the current generation of children.

“Mr Park says it’s a council matter. However, council say they don’t have the funds and need state or external funding,” Yvette told the Flame.

“I’ve spoken to numerous people [at council], who have been helpful. They are pro shade and pro trees, but they’re very reluctant to spend any money. They basically told me they only upgrade parks every few years, so maybe next time.

“I was joking with the guy from council. I said, so by the time my kids are 25, there’ll be some excellent playground for them to walk past.”

Bulli Beach playground was upgraded in 2022 but it has no trees and putting in shade cloths is prohibitively expensive. “Shade cloths cost more than a entire park upgrade,” Yvette says. “[Ward 1 councillor] Mithra Cox has been awesome. She’s pro shade and park. But she said vandalism is a big problem. I know at Nicholson Park [in Woonona] there’s some banksia trees that just keep getting chopped down when they get to a certain height.”

A former teacher, Yvette has a health science degree and has worked on a project with Western Sydney University and Greening Australia about the impact of trees in schools. She has two children, a three-year-old and a baby. “In summer basically from 10 o’clock till 4pm I don’t think those

parks are a safe place to take my family.”

Yvette says the concern about hot playgrounds is universal among parents she meets. “Every person I talk to says, oh my gosh, yes … It’s not just about going to a playground and hopping on a swing. It’s where mums and dads meet each other – we’ve made some of our best friends at playgrounds.”

Hot playgrounds take a toll on mental health too, she says. “You’ve got the parents with little kids who are isolated at home in a really vulnerable time of life when you need social connection and support. And also for kids, you want them to bump into each other, and run around and get dirty, and learn all those skills in a safe outdoor setting.”

A Council spokesperson said trees have been planted but will take time to grow. “The Urban Greening Program will be supported by a new Tree Management Policy which comes into effect on 1 July 2023 … Once this new policy is in use, we will soon start local consultation on proposed shade tree planting along the new shared pathway along Ursula Rd, Bulli. We will also investigate options for additional tree planting for shade at the Bulli Beach playground.”

Neighbourhood Forum 3 will add the issue to the agenda for its August 2 meeting in Bulli.

to replace the ageing Bili cribs that help Hospital needs cribs need babies with jaundice.

Corrimal Lions Club acted immediately, with the help of the Australian Lions Foundation, and bought a crib to make it five cribs in the ward.

Lions Clubs have a proud history of supporting The Lions clubs in our Zones 1 & 2, which our health initiatives. At a local level, it has come to our Helensburgh club is part of, have joined forces with attention through Corrimal Lions Club that Corrimal Lions to raise funds to purchase Wollongong Hospital’s neo-natal ward has only five additional cribs to allow babies to be treated locally. neo-natal humidicribs and these are in high Helensburgh Lions Club will be allocating funds demand. If they are unavailable, babies requiring to help with this project. We will also be holding these cribs need to be transported to Sydney, which some fundraising activities with the next being a puts additional pressure on their families.

BBQ outside Coles on Saturday, 8 July. So come Our friends in the neo-natal ward tell us the along, buy a sausage sizzle and know the funds are demand is for an additional four cribs at a cost of going to help a baby in need at our local approximately $30,000 each. We also hear they Wollongong Public Hospital.

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Watch for diabetes, the silent killer

By Dr Berlinda Png, a GP at Bulli Medical Practice

Diabetes is the seventh most common cause of death by disease in Australia.

Diabetes is a chronic condition marked by high levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. It is caused by the inability to produce insulin (a hormone made by the pancreas to control blood glucose levels) or to use insulin effectively, or both.

It affects about 1.9 million Australians.

The main types of diabetes are type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes.

Treatment aims to maintain healthy blood glucose levels to prevent both short- and long-term complications, such as cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, blindness and lower limb amputations.

Insulin replacement therapy is required by all people with type 1 diabetes, as well as by a proportion of people with other forms of diabetes if their condition worsens over time.

Common symptoms and signs of diabetes

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Your health professionals will help you to understand how to identify healthy eating choices that suit you and to add achievable activity goals into your routine.

Your doctor will assess if you need glucoselowering medications and explain how they work.

They will let you know if you need insulin replacement at any stage. It is essential to know how to manage your diabetes around activity, study or work, stress, being sick, hormonal changes and during pregnancy.

Diabetes can be well controlled. Your GPs are here to help you. For more information, speak to your GP or visit the Diabetes Australia website.

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Singers celebrate 40th anniversary

By Bethan Farmer of Stanwell Park Arts Theatre

What does it really mean to be part of a community?

Sarah O’Neill, a university student who volunteers regularly at the Flame Tree Coop in Thirroul, shares her take on this

Community and environmental sustainability have been the foundational pillars that I have strived to build myself upon throughout my life.

Encompassing all aspects of personal health, outward practices and inward beliefs, these principles have guided me through my own metamorphosis, where I have come to find what it is that I want to fill my life with.

Seeking this sense of a community that not only shared in my core values and principles, but made me analyse and act upon them, I finally signed up as a volunteer at Flame Tree after being a member for a year or so.

My first impressions of the Flame Tree community were a deep sense of passion and togetherness that emanated into every aspect of the store itself, as well as the people who filled it.

I felt encouraged and inspired by this beautiful community spirit to further my own knowledge of the value of fuelling my body with quality and nourishing food that this collective had been built around.

I believe that true change, progress and understanding comes from the shared human experiences that happen when we come together as a community, working as one, towards shared goals and aspirations for our future. At its core, to me, this is what the Flame Tree Co-op represents and strives to achieve.

I sincerely encourage anyone who is seeking this connection to come in, say hello and find what the Flame Tree community means to them.

Visit Thirroul’s Co-op at 355 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, flametree.coop

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It’s an uncharacteristically busy July for us here at SPAT. Our improv comedy workshops Improv Your Mind kick off on Tuesday, 18 July, with facilitator Nurina Simpson excited to get started with the basic principles. The five weekly workshops will focus on learning through playing different ‘improv games’ to build confidence and cooperation.

Nurina says: “The skills you will learn, such as teamwork, collaboration, listening, communication, and the ability to adapt and problem-solve, can all be adapted to your social and professional life. Improv relies on building an atmosphere where performers can support each other, no matter which ridiculous direction the scene goes!”

Whether you fancy yourself as a bit of a comedian, or if you feel like taking a step outside your comfort zone, everyone (aged 18+) is welcome to come along and give it a go at the Stanwell Park CWA Hall, on Tuesdays from 18 July to 14 August, 6.30-8.30pm. Open to people of all abilities, the cost for a block of five classes is $100 per person. Snacks provided!

Tickets are now on sale for our 40th Anniversary Singers show, Forty and Still Going Strong. Featuring some of our favourites from the past 40 years, as well as musicians including pianist Lisa Baraldi, this will be a night to remember (and sing along!). Guests will be treated to a three-course sit-down dinner, dress code is formal and there will be prizes for best dressed on the night. It starts at 6.30pm on Friday, July 28 and Saturday 29th; Friday, August 4 & Saturday 5th. Tickets are $40.

Our Film Society was thrilled to secure the great Danny Kaye comedy from 1955, The Court Jester, which screened at the hall on June 24. spat.org.au for bookings and information

The apple of Australia’s eye National award for our local orchard!

By Jo Fahey of Darkes Glenbernie Orchard

APAL CEO Philip Turnbull with 5th generation farmers Casey and Callum Burns at the awards

Our own Darkes Glenbernie Orchard has been awarded national honours! We were crowned with the inaugural Agritourism Award at the Apple and Pear Australia Ltd (APAL) Awards for Excellence at a function at Federation Square in Melbourne on June 1.

The APAL Awards for Excellence recognise the outstanding contributions of those who’ve helped to shape and influence the Apple and Pear industry across all areas, from researching and growing through to marketing and exporting.

The Agritourism Award recognises businesses that demonstrate excellence in the promotion of apples and pears through programs and initiatives that shine a positive light on the industry. Agritourism is the point of intersection between grower and consumer.

Glenbernie has been a leader in this, driving awareness and educating people about orchard processes and the apple industry through its farm experiences.

This award is a tremendous thrill for our farm family.

Creating connections and understanding about growing food and the value-adding chain is integral to our story. For us, sharing knowledge is as important as sharing our World Cider Award-winning products!

We are pretty proud of our bona fide approach and to have industry peers across

Australia recognise our high-quality work in this space is quite special.

Destination Wollongong general manager Mark Sleigh congratulated our farm and the family on the award.

“What a terrific result and what a wonderful story the Darkes Glenbernie Orchard is for our region,” Mark said.

“The orchard is a product of their labour and love and it should fill us all with a sense of pride that we have one of the nation’s best orchards right here in Wollongong.”

It’s winter time at the orchard right now but apples, cider and honey are still plentiful in the farm shop and the farm cafe is open for a warm treat when visiting Thursday to Sunday!

Stock up on apples and start practising apple pie or crumble making to enter the annual August Bake-off!

Save the date Apple Pie Day – Sunday, 27 August Raising money for Stanwell Park Country Women’s Association

SHOP ONLINE AT

www.darkes.com.au Glenbernie’s AppleShack farm store is open 10am-4.30pm daily in Darkes Forest

July 19

Learn to sew

By Shelley O’Neil

My mum sewed and while she didn’t exactly give me lessons, I learned from her because she always had a sewing project on the go. When I was at uni I made clothes and sold them at the local markets.

My most difficult sewing project was a bridesmaid’s dress in gold satin with a boned bodice and lemon yellow overskirt. Eek! … a very 80s look. Later, working on film sets with props and costumes, having sewing skills was invaluable.

Once you know how to wrangle a sewing machine, it’s easy to take on simple projects like repairing a split seam or making new cushion covers.

You can alter clothes you own that don’t fit quite right, mend things rather than throw them away, and adapt vintage and thrift purchases to get on board with the “circular fashion” movement, save resources and help solve the fashion industry waste crisis.

Make-Do is a local library of things where members can borrow items for DIY projects, parties or events rather than having to buy or hire them.

Make-Do has several sewing machines available for borrowing. Join up at makedo.myturn.com.

We also have free memberships for concession card holders and those who are unemployed.

A big thank you to BlueScope WIN Community Partners Program who generously provided Make-Do a grant to facilitate this workshop.

Sewing Basics Workshop

Coledale residents and Make-Do members Shelley O’Neil and Alison Merceia will teach you the basics of sewing machines and how to use them on Saturday, 22 July 10am-12pm at the Coledale Community Hall. It’s FREE for Make-Do members.

Tickets at events.humanitix.com/sewing-basicsworkshop. Get in quick! Limited places.

A humble hero: Your hot water system

By Electrify 2515’s Kristen McDonald

Your hot water system may not be an exciting conversation starter but it is one of the easiest ways to reduce your emissions and energy costs at home and will play an important role in our electric future.

In NSW our hot water systems are typically the biggest household energy consumer accounting for about a quarter of a home’s energy usage. Yet they also have the potential to help secure a more stable grid due to their flexible nature. With a decent system, you can choose when it heats water and that can be timed to line up with solar production.

Most of us (about 45%) either use a gas hot water system, which typically has been cheap to run (but rapidly growing more expensive) and is a E2515 teammate Laura Scalafiotti Photo: (c) Goodchat

significant source of greenhouse gas emissions; or an electric resistance system (also ~45%) which are cheap to buy and install, but use 3 to 4 times the amount of energy. If your electric resistance heater isn’t that old, and you have a decent-sized solar PV system, then installing a simple timer to heat your water during the day (rather than the overnight ‘off peak’ rate that many are set to) is not a bad option.

Otherwise, here at Electrify 2515, we encourage you to consider an electric heat pump water system. This provides significant efficiency gains.

On the existing electricity grid, the cost of water heating is roughly halved when using a heat pump compared to a natural gas water heater. When paired with solar panels, the costs fall even lower to around 3 times less than gas heating costs (and two-thirds of an electric resistance). They aren’t cheap, with systems ranging from $1500 to $5500.

However, government incentives are available.

We’ve put together a heat pump guide.

Check it out and let us know if you make the switch. Happy showering!

Visit www.electrify2515.org/water

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July 21

Working on WhaleX Thirroul filmmakers captured an innovative experiment with artificial whale poo What did you love about this project?

We were delighted to join the WhaleX team and play a small part in successfully highlighting the role of whales as climate engineers and showing how their creation of artificial whale poo could play a viable and economical role as a solution for carbon sequestration.

XPRIZE Carbon Removal aims to tackle the biggest threat facing humanity – fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth’s carbon cycle. We loved working with a very special dedicated team of scientists and engineers.

New short film WhaleX – released in June on World Oceans Day – showcases an innovative plan to create artificial whale poo to help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Behind the documentary are filmmakers Kirsty B Carter and Joe Harrison (pictured), from Thirroul-based production company Painting in Pictures. Thanks to Kirsty for taking the time to tell us more.

How did you come to produce this film?

As a boutique production company with a climate-conscious approach, we strive to create films that don’t cost the earth. When the XPRIZE team reached out to us from New York and London, inviting us to represent Australia as the exclusive filmmakers for the WhaleX team’s XPRIZE Carbon Removal film, we were thrilled.

Being chosen to create an exclusive documentary for the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition was truly an honour.

What were some of the challenges?

Filming on a boat presented unique difficulties, with rolling waves and constant motion.

Overcoming seasickness and maintaining stability demanded patience and a lighthearted approach.

On one of the days of filming, I was overcome by seasickness. I then had to interview the team while keeping my eyes fixated firmly on the horizon as I suffered my very first crippling jelly legs and jelly stomach seasickness. That was a first.

Any friends you’d like to thank?

We would like to express our gratitude to Penny at Honest Don’s for keeping us caffeinated and entertained during the early mornings when we had to endure weather cancellations.

Additionally, we would like to thank local fellow filmmaker Danny Smith from Austinmer, who grabbed his camera and jumped on the boat with us to capture some incredible shots.

as a source of New history book newspapers information. The book was

edited by Society secretary Janet Lee. Save on postage if you Our newest publication is ready to order. An up-tolive locally and can pick date comprehensive coverage of the history of up from Helensburgh Helensburgh and surrounding villages, the (cash sales or bank A4-sized book contains 72 glossy pages with over deposit) or Stanwell Park 180 photographs in black & white or full colour.

Along with a chapter on First Nations history by (EFTPOS available).

To order this book for local author Kieran Tapsell, a number of our $25 (plus P&P if members have contributed to the book. This needed), contact us via replaces the little booklet The First Hundred Years, email at info@ produced for Helensburgh’s Centenary in 1984, historichelensburgh.org. and reprinted in 2009, which was nearly 40 years au or send an SMS to Jan 0418 681 384. out of date.

Also available at our website: Some of the chapters used the Historical www.historichelensburgh.org.au Society’s extensive collection of local community

By Helensburgh Historical Society’s Jan Lee

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Expansive native display gardens; rainforest walk; picnic areas; sensory trail.

Entry $7 Children Free

Extensive range of plants for sale, including hard to find grafted grevilleas.

Tree of the Month

Dogs on leash welcome.

By Kieran Tapsell, of Banksia Bushcare

Guioa semiglauca (Guioa or Wild quince)

Guioa semiglauca is a rainforest tree that reaches about 15 metres, but can grow higher. There is a large specimen on the right-hand side of the track from Stanwell Avenue to the kiosk in the Stanwell Avenue Reserve. It seems to be one of the few trees able to keep growing through lantana as it is one of the most prolific species with 225 examples in the Reserve. However, it loses its lower lateral branches early, and they become a target for being destroyed or severely damaged by deer rub once the lantana, Ochna or Senna have been removed.

The tree is easily identified by turning over the leaf. The bark is dark grey to charcoal, particularly as it gets older. It has flowers and red fruits in the forks of the leaves.

Eftpos available.

Illawarra Grevillea Park Winter Open Days Sat & Sun / 10am-4pm July 1 & 2, 8 & 9 Grevillea Park Road, Bulli www.illawarrgrevilleapark.com.au

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Weed of the Month: Senna pendula (Cassia)

Senna pendula (or Cassia) is an invasive weed. It has a beautiful yellow flower, followed by a long bean containing its seeds. It has invaded many parts of the escarpment and can be very clearly seen when it is flowering in April and May. It can grow to 4 metres and the stems are dark and tough to cut. It is relatively easy to pull out when young.

Its leaves look like a native tree, Breynia (Breynia Oblongifolia), but Senna has opposite leaves and Breynia has alternate leaves and is harder to pull out. Best time to remove Senna? When it’s flowering and distinguishable from Breynia.

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July 23

What’s On

Submit events at theillawarraflame.com.au

sought for a celebration publication. Contact Judy Bull, judy.bull@bigpond.com Wingdom book launch Sun 23 July Author Dianne Ellis will launch her first chapter book, Wingdom, an adventure fantasy set in an insect world for ages 7-11. At the South Coast Writers Centre in Coledale, 1.30-3pm.

Music & Tea: Jazz in July

Thu 7 July 11am at Wollongong Art Gallery. Free,

donations for the artists appreciated.

Collections: ASQ x SCS Tue 25 July Don’t miss the Australian String Quartet in concert with our own Steel City Strings Quartet at Wollongong Art Gallery at 6.30pm.

Steel City Strings Quartet will perform a smelterhot Collection of works ending with Elena Kats-Chernin’s moving musical memoir of lost love, Cinque Forme d’Amore. The ASQ will play the grand finale, Dvorák’s melodically rich and festive String Quartet No.14. An evening that will resonate with your soul. Book via steelcitystrings.com.au Sista’s Green Sea Dreaming launch

Thu 6 July 6-8.30pm at Wollongong Art Gallery.

By Simon Luckhurst After 11 (!) years of publishing Dreaming Inside (poetry and writing by First Nations inmates in Junee Gaol) the Ngana Barangarai (Black Wallaby) team has worked in a second gaol for the first time.

Now they’ve published a book in which First Nations women inmates tell their stories.

“The stories are powerful, moving and incredibly revealing,” says Aunty Barbara Nicholson.

The title, Sista’s Green Sea Dreaming, was selected by Aunty Barb as an amalgam of suggestions made by the inmates. The “green sea” refers to the prison greens the women must wear.

Dark Emu author Bruce Pascoe will launch the book. Bruce accompanied Aunty Barb on her visit inside Junee Gaol for the first Dreaming Inside volume in 2012. Hearing him speak promises to be very special. There will also be cultural performances and an auction of inmate artwork.

Free. Book via Humanitix.com Thirroul Centenary St Michael’s Catholic Church, Thirroul, will celebrate the centenary of the parish in October.

Previously part of Bulli parish, it was declared on 31 October 1923, covering the area from Bulli Pass to Stanwell Park. Celebrations are planned for 28 October. Stories and photos about the parish are 24 clubs & community

Garden Trail feedback open to 30 July The Illawarra Edible Garden Trail is happening 11/12 Nov between Helensburgh and Woonona from 10am-4pm in partnership with Food Fairness Illawarra, gardentrail@foodfairnessillawarra.org.au At Your Library

Thirroul Library Wed 5 July Soccajoeys, 2:30-3:30pm, ages 5+ Wed 5 July D&D Dungeon Crawl, 10am-2pm,

ages 12-18

Thu 6 July Craft for a Cause, 10am-12pm,

ages 12-18

Wed 12 July Weaving, 10-11am, ages 8+ Fri 7 July Harry Potter Breakout Room, 10am-

12pm, ages 8+

Thu 27 July Let’s Try... Belly Dancing and

Percussion, 6-7pm, over 18’s

Helensburgh Library Wed 5 July Winter Movie, 10:30am-12:15pm Fri 7 July Weaving, 10:30-11:30am, ages 8+ Wed 12 July Yarn Lizard 10:30-11:30am, ages 5+ Thu 13 July Robotics, 2:30-3:45pm , ages 8+ From Mon 24 July Join us for Wriggle and Jiggle,

rhymes, songs, stories for children from birth to 2.

Stanwell Park U3A in July Mon July 17 Testament Ep; 6 ‘Power and Glory’ with John Romer, YouTube Mon July 24 ‘We Need More Trains and Faster Trains’, Phil Laird Mon July 31 ‘The Colourful and Exotic World of the Tulip’, Patricia Henderson Meetings at Hillcrest House. Talks 9.30-10.30am then Tea and Music Appreciation 11am-12pm.

Contact Jenny on 0406 350 025. All welcome.

U3A Northern Illawarra Wed July 19 9.30. Martin Arrowsmith. Art Deco.

11am: Aileen Harland, The power of words Wed July 26 9.30. David Goss, The History of AFL football. 11am: Jo Oliver, Biography of Adelaide Perry – artist & teacher.

At Thirroul Community Centre. Further details: Therese Jordan 0413 218 957

Alec Watts will perform at July’s Music and Tea concert at Wollongong Art Gallery. Photo: Dom O’Donnell

2023 JULY OUTINGS

Bookings made through the office. Please call in advance as some tickets need to be pre purchased. Limited number on buses. Pick up and drop off direct to your home.

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JUNE/JULY OUTINGS AND SHOPPING TRIPS COSTS

Tuesday 4th July

Bunnings Kirrawee

Transport $5.50

Thursday 6th July

Music & Tea at Wollongong Art Gallery

Transport/Admin $10.50

Friday 7th July

Sylvania Shopping

Transport $11

Tuesday 11th July

Movies at NINA – The Dressmaker

Transport/Admin $10.50

Friday 14th July

Dapto Shopping

Transport $11

Tuesday 18th July

Nursery – Sunrise Nursery Helensburgh

Transport $5.50

Friday 21st July

Warrawong Shopping

Transport $11

Wednesday 26th July

Archibald Exhibition at Art Gallery of NSW

Ticket $22, Transport/Admin $21.50, plus Lunch

Friday 28th July

Shellharbour Shopping

Transport $11

NINA receives funding from the NSW Govt to assist commuters who find it hard to access general public transport. If you have limited or no access to private or public transport due to your location, financial resources, physical or cognitive capacities, when you need to travel then NINA can help you! If you think you are transport disadvantaged and need assistance, then please give the office a call 4294 1900

Monday–Friday (8.30am-4.30pm) | telephone 02 4294 1900 18 Walker Street, Helensburgh

Deadly stories by a science champion

By Genevieve Swart

The Kamilaroi boy who loved catching water dragons, blue-tongues and red-bellies, but was told he’d never be a zookeeper, has grown up to be a First Nations science champion bringing textbooks and telescopes to children in remote communities.

“I’m the CEO and founder of Deadly Science,” says Corey Tutt, fresh off the plane after a week in the Northern Territory. “We send STEM resources all over Australia to under-resourced schools. We connect school kids with scientists, to hopefully find them a passion and purpose.”

As well as running his charity, Corey has a science show on radio and is the author of two books, The First Scientists and This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! A Celebration of Blak Excellence.

“I’m also a husband, I’m also a friend. I’m a mad rugby player and a keen fisherman as well,” he says. “I try and balance it all. This past week I’ve been at five different schools teaching kids how to make lava lamps and take strawberry DNA. So my job is very varied.”

Born in 1992, Corey was named 2020’s NSW Young Australian of the Year and in 2022 he received the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to Indigenous STEM education.

His latest book, This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!, is also set to inspire young minds, starring 80 First

Nations heroes, including Uncle Jack Charles, co-founder of Australia’s first Indigenous theatre group. “He was such a bright spark in the lives of thousands”, says Corey, who grew close to Uncle Jack during the interview process and was saddened to learn, while he was away on honeymoon last year, of the actor’s passing.

The book makes good reading this Naidoc Week, 2-9 July, with the theme ‘For Our Elders’.

Also featured are Prof Marcia Langton, Miranda Tapsell, Adam Goodes and Blak Douglas. “These are the people that I draw inspiration from,” Corey says.

Corey, who now lives on the NSW north coast, knows the power of a role model. They were scarce when he was growing up in Wollongong.

“I was always really big on catching reptiles in the Illawarra,” he says. “They were my bread and butter, they were my classroom. I really desperately wanted to be a zookeeper and I was told that I couldn’t do it… Because kids like me go to jail or end up dead if they don’t get trades.

That was a rough bit of feedback, I guess.”

Corey loved STEM and knew he was capable of more. “I was always very driven to break the cycle. I never touched drugs as a kid,” he says.

He connected with an Indigenous man working with spiders at Taronga, worked at Shoalhaven Zoo and later founded his charity while a research assistant at Sydney University.

“I love going and visiting my old schools. I’m actually in the Hall of Fame at Dapto High, the school I was asked to leave in year 10.

“Across the Illawarra region and Yuin Country, there’s been a lot of kids that have really connected with my books, and connected with me.

“My job is not to tell them to go and do science. My job is to tell them that they can – and that’s the most important thing.”

Lunch with the Friends

the Croatian Centre at Figtree. Historical fiction author Kelly Rimmer will talk about her upcoming book, The Paris Agent. This will be our first event at the Croatian Centre; we’re hoping old and new Friends will join us.

We are also happy to report, because of our members’ continued support over these past events, we were able to donate $2000 to Wollongong City Libraries to help with their Comic Gong activities this year.

By Ann Middleton

The Friends of Wollongong Library held a very successful author event at Wollongong Council Building on June 1. A popular young author, JP Pomare, entertained a large, welcoming crowd in his quiet, personable style. Wollongong put on a good show: the weather was lovely and both JP (pictured) and his publicist were impressed by the spectacular views of Wollongong from Level 9.

Look out for our event on July 20. A beautiful lunch will be supplied by Villa O’Doro, catering at 26 arts & culture

Talks at Ryan’s By the team at Collins Booksellers Thirroul

Writers Festival program revealed

By Tilly Kidd

collins BOOKSELLERS thirroul

books, games and gifts for all ages

The South Coast Writers Festival Launch on June 30 at Wollongong Art Gallery was an exciting night for book lovers and storytellers.

More than 120 people gathered to hear about the amazing line-up of authors coming to the 2023 festival.

From August 18-20, the festival will cover everything from crime writing to horror, politics to poetry, podcasting to literary fiction.

We are thrilled to welcome author John Birmingham, whose novels span a range of genres from military history to space opera, all peppered with a rollicking humour and an interest in the politics of resistance and survival.

Broadcaster Indira Naidoo will talk about ritual, nature and grace. Stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell will appear with journalist Caroline Baum to discuss her candid memoir, Everything and Nothing.

Alan Baxter, award-winning author of horror thrillers and dark fantasy, and Mykaela Saunders, editor of This All Come Back Now, the Aurealis award-winning, world-first collection of First Nations speculative fiction, will speak about haunted familiar worlds and unrecognisable futures.

Climate change writer, scientist, explorer and conservationist Professor Tim Flannery and scientist Emma Flannery will appear in conversation with Claire O’Rourke to discuss their new book, Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived.

With 27 sessions plus satellite events across August, there’s much more on the program.

Collins Booksellers Thirroul will bring two events to Ryan’s Hotel this month. On 12th July Vogel Award winner, Emily O’Grady will be discussing her new book Feast with Lucy Nelson. A compelling read, Feast was described in The Guardian as “meaty and provocative in its exploration of power, desire and the hunger for something more”. On 26th July join author Hayley Scrivenor in conversation with Vidya Madabushi about her novel, The Days Toppled Over, a story of resilience, unconventional love and unlikely friendship. Bookings essential for these highly anticipated events. Email or call the bookstore and we’ll see you there.

Contact us on 4267 1408 or thirroul@ collinsbooks. com.au

Shop 5/264 Lawrence Hargrave Drive

www.collinsbooksthirroul.com.au @collinsbooksellersthirroul

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July 27

Duane coaching the Butchers’ Under-7s at Thirroul beach park. Photos: Anthony Warry

e n a u D BYRNES Marcus Craft meets the Thirroul local and Alone Australia star

Duane Byrnes is known to the nation as one of the stars of the SBS reality series Alone Australia.

Locally, he’s renowned as a father of two, a junior rugby league coach with Thirroul Butchers and a respected member of the Indigenous community.

A proud First Nations man, with heritage from Wonnarua Gamilaroi and residing on Dharawal country, Duane is now back at his day job as a Catchment Field Supervisor (Biosecurity) with WaterNSW after – spoiler alert – 10 days alone in the wilderness in Tasmania last year. Our thanks to Duane for sharing his story.

Tell our readers a bit about yourself.

I like to think I’m a common kind of guy in this community. I’m a proud father of two who enjoys a wide variety of sports and is passionate about the environment, particularly native bushland restoration and invasive species management.

I would say this passion is also driven from my Indigenous descent where I feel we as humans are not separate from the environment, instead we are a part of it and it’s our responsibility to look after her.

I’ve played for several soccer clubs across the region, but it’s only been over the last four years where I have more involvement with communities.

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I’m one of the Under-7s coaches for Thirroul Butchers, I play a role in the organisation for the Appin Massacre Memorial service each year and in my leadership role with WaterNSW I engage with Local Aboriginal Land Councils and other agencies across a variety of spaces, including cultural heritage, bushfire management and biosecurity.

How’s the rugby league coaching going?

To be honest, I underestimated the enjoyment this would bring me. Being a bit of a role model and a helping hand to a young group of kids and watching them create a special bond is so awesome ... even at this young level, I can see it having positive effects in areas like self-esteem, physical literacy, and mental and social wellbeing, and I believe that’s something that is so important for kids to grow up with.

How was your time on Alone Australia?

It’s a hard one to explain but it truly was a special time that I think I will draw upon certain aspects from it for the rest of my life. In short, I felt physically fine in my capabilities to keep going, even if that meant eating fish raw (it was so tasty!).

I knew the kind of driven people I was up

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against and there’s only one winner, right?

Mentally, I felt like I didn’t have it in me to try and go the distance of what it would take to win, regardless of money. So instead, I created good memories and left when I wanted to.

through local communities, government agencies, local councils, schools and workplaces. I also enjoy watching the National NAIDOC Week Awards that celebrate the outstanding contributions from First Nation artists, scholars, and achievements in sport.

What does NAIDOC Week mean to you?

‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in the referendum for a First Nations Voice to Parliament?

To me NAIDOC Week is a week to celebrate and even educate. It’s to acknowledge that we are still here and are only getting stronger and prouder.

On all platforms … we can come together and celebrate our culture, history and achievements. It would be amazing to see non-Indigenous peoples of Australia celebrate with us as they are now custodians of the lands now too, yeah, be proud of the strong black history this country has.

I’m still on my path of learning more about it and it’s such a beautiful and powerful connection, one that I think more people can learn and understand. You will love where you live and appreciate many things in life if you do. I love how there’s a different theme every year too, this comes from us telling the rest of the peoples what being First Nations is like or about.

To me, it is a week for all Australians to recognise, respect and celebrate our rich culture

Oh geez, I try to stay away from politics and bureaucracy, but I understand its importance, especially because we have been fighting for some form of power since the ships came in.

Look, if the purpose of the Voice is to advise the Australian parliament and government on matters relating to the social, spiritual and economic wellbeing of First Nations people, then surely that’s a forward step and forwards is where I want to be heading in our future so I’m a ‘Yes’! Especially if that means more environmental protection and Cultural heritage protection across the country. So many cultural sites are protected across most of the world, yet ours keep getting destroyed and are an afterthought in developments.

NAIDOC Week is on from July 2 to 9.

This year’s theme is ‘For Our Elders’.

July 29

Windfarm views

By Iris Huizinga

On Thursday, June 15, BlueFloat Energy asked for input from the community on the South Pacific Offshore Wind Project.

BlueFloat aims to build about 100 floating wind turbines between Shellharbour and Clifton.

Previously an area off the coast between Kiama and Jervis Bay was being considered as well, but the focus has shifted northwards. The energy company wants to start construction in 2028.

At the community engagement event at Thirroul Surf Club, the Flame asked locals for their opinion on building a windfarm off the coast.

Brad from Thirroul

“I’m a lobster fisherman. They’re going to put the wind farms on our lobster fishing grounds … it seems like it’s a long way off yet … I don’t want it, because I don’t want to stop fishing and I want to have a job.”

Greg from Thirroul

“I’m not particularly a fan, visually, and then what it might be doing to the coastline for the wildlife. So I think time will tell to see whether the local community thinks it’s a go or a no.”

Noel from Thirroul

“It’s quite good. I don’t have anything against it at all. It probably won’t worry me anyway in years to come.”

Invite to Yes launch

By Yes23 campaign supporter Jeremy Lasek

With the countdown underway for a potential nation-changing vote for Indigenous constitutional recognition, there’s growing momentum in support of a Yes vote in the Illawarra.

Coinciding with the start of 2023 NAIDOC Week, the University of Wollongong will host the community launch of the campaign for a Yes vote at 11am on Sunday, 2 July 2023.

Speakers will include Wollongong Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery and 2023 Wollongong Citizen of the Year, Sally Stevenson.

The people of Wollongong and the Illawarra will 30 news

Paul from Austinmer (pictured with Tor)

“A lot of the information, it’s just speculative. They’re at such an early phase in the process. I think a lot of it is unfair to upset people, because it hasn’t got any permissions to do anything at all … it may never happen and I’ll be very surprised if it was passed.”

Stu from Thirroul

“I was surprised with how aggressive some of the questioning was. And I was quite impressed at how some of the people who were speaking were … just giving straight-down-the-middle answers and being unemotional about it, that was good.”

Roz and Rob from Austinmer

Roz: “My husband is 83. He has lived here all his life.”

Rob: “Third generation.”

Roz: “Third generation. So we older ones know what goes on.

I don’t believe anything that this man thinks he can do to reduce carbon is going to make one iota’s difference to the climate. Climate changes three or four times a day. If we could change the climate, make it rain on the farmers when they need rain, when they’re in drought.

“As far as wind farms are concerned, this a shipping lane. You can see out there, there’s four ships. It’s a channel for whales … The cables are going to interrupt their passage North to breed.

I don’t like wind farms altogether. I don’t believe in the business of zero carbon emissions. You will always need back-up and they’re only going to produce about 20 to 30 percent of electricity. We need nuclear, which is where everyone’s going.” get the chance to learn more about the importance of Australians delivering a resounding majority Yes vote at this first a community forum.

It’s so appropriate the Illawarra launch of the Yes campaign is taking place at UOW. Earlier this year, UOW demonstrated courage and leadership by throwing its support behind our First Nations people receiving recognition in our constitution and receiving a Voice to Parliament.

We are now calling on others; individuals, businesses, church groups, charities, sporting and community organisations to back the Yes campaign and to encourage others to vote. Every one of us has a responsibility to be informed before we vote.

The referendum question is quite simple, with a simple answer. Yes!

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Daily commute dodging sharks

By Local Studies librarian Jenny McConchie

Constructing Trimmers Bridge over the mouth of Tom Thumb Lagoon.

P02574 from the Collections of Wollongong City Libraries

“Men have to pass across the mouth of Tom Thumb Lagoon, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day and run the risk of drowning or being taken by sharks!”

This was the statement made by a deputation of Wollongong residents meeting with the NSW Minister for Public Works. They were describing the trip to work for the men working on the coal ships at Port Kembla. They were pleading for money to build a bridge across the lagoon.

By the 1890s, the number of coal ships visiting Port Kembla had skyrocketed. In each crew, up to 20 men were employed as coal trimmers. Their task was ensuring coal on board was distributed evenly.

Few lived close to Port Kembla and, with no easy route to work, they had no option but to get wet.

Eventually construction of the bridge was approved, and by 1903 Trimmers Bridge was ready for use. Built by volunteers, it was made of rough bush timber and about a metre wide. However, you might still get your feet wet as during high spring tides the bridge was sometimes submerged.

A few decades later, workers could catch the bus to get to work. The oral history of Les Dion from the Dion’s Bus Company has recently been added to IllawarraStories.com.au. Visit our website for more tales of local work life.

96 Candles sees light as podcast

By Karen Cobban

In 1995, our family moved to Thirroul. It was a great decision to move here, not only for the beautiful environment to bring up our children but for the wonderful sense of community.

I am an actor, playwright and have recently begun upskilling in the areas of direction and production.

In 2022, I was working as part of a small Illawarra-based ensemble, called Smelter.

We were employed to create a performance read for the launch of a beautiful book of poems, called KEMBLA The Book of Voices by Conal Fitzpatrick, for the centenary commemorations of the Mt Kembla Mine Disaster of 1902.

Being a history buff, I couldn’t understand why I was so unaware of such an important historical event: the largest mine disaster to date in Australia’s 96 Candles the play in 2019

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history, the effects of which were felt through this community and across the world.

So began my fascination with the events and stories surrounding the disaster, and the birth of a verbatim-based play, called 96 Candles. A play born from the words of survivors, their families and others caught up in the events of that fateful day.

The project began in 2011, as part of the Merrigong Theatre Development programme.

In 2019, with the help of a Small Cultural Grant from Wollongong City Council, I was able to produce a performance read of 96 Candles, as part of the commemorations for the disaster in Mt Kembla. I was able to achieve this with the help of a wonderfully talented cast of Illawarra-based creatives and technical team, under the umbrella of my production name, Kaz Productions. We received wonderful audience feedback.

Last year was the 120th commemoration of the disaster. To mark the event, I decided to record 96 Candles as a radio-play, to publish as a podcast. We encountered a few difficulties due to Covid, among other issues, but we succeeded and 96 Candles, the podcast play is now available on Audible, Apple and Spotify. I am forever grateful for the generosity of all who have supported 96 Candles.

Beetling About With Dr Chris Reid

The Sydney Basin (which includes the Illawarra) is a ‘biodiversity hotspot’ in Australia. This means that it has relatively high diversity of animals and plants, relatively high uniqueness of animals and plants and relatively high level of threat to these animals and plants (the ‘hot’ bit). The threats are land clearing, other human-mitigated landscape changes (reservoirs, commercial forestry, all the other things we do to directly manipulate our environment) and, of course, climate change, which involves natural processes (rain, drought, fire etc) but with changed frequencies and intensities.

OK, phew, that’s enough of the long words for a while.

I was just thinking about all this after returning from a holiday in Scotland. The UK has the strongest evidence for rapid biodiversity loss occurring in our lifetimes, because of its 250-year history of naturalists observing, listing and collecting. Recent studies suggest 70-80% declines in numbers and species of insects (particularly moths) and birds since the 1960s.

What is going on and are we experiencing the same issues? Finally, does it matter?

The UK biodiversity loss is due to a combination of factors. One is obvious, the impact of increasingly intensive agriculture. The fields in south-west Scotland are bright, perhaps lurid, green, not unlike plastic lawns. They have been heavily fertilised, often with farm slurry (so the countryside has a notable pong), herbicided and grass-seeded. They are almost sterile, not unlike plastic lawns, and wildflowers don’t have a chance.

Hence, no insects, no birds. Another factor is climate change – dry spells are longer – Scotch mist is becoming something only experienced in a bar. On my recent trip there were fire bans in the hills, previously unheard of in spring. Drought has profound impacts on flowering times, insect

emergence and the ability of birds to feed their nestlings, for example.

But south-west Scotland has relatively low biodiversity and no unique species.

Here we have the opposite. There are numerous species of plants and animals (mostly insects) that are unique to the Sydney Basin and its diversity is phenomenal – we are certainly blessed to be living here.

Due to lack of historical observations in the Sydney Basin it’s hard to be definite about changes.

There are certainly plenty of new weeds and a few native species that are extending their ranges southwards. We need more observations, lists, records. In my 23 years in Helensburgh, I’ve seen a decline in small bird species (wrens, honeyeaters) and some insects (Christmas beetles). But 23 years is not that long and may only show natural fluctuations – we need longer term data than that.

Why does it matter? Extinction of species is a natural process. But rapid, large-scale extinctions are like an avalanche, collapsing whole ecosystems through loss of species.

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By Annette Jones, Thirroul Village Committee

The TVC was contacted by local residents concerned about the traffic changes that Transport for NSW (TfNSW) had planned for Lawrence Hargrave Drive (LHD). Residents were informed a week before commencement that “road surface improvement” works were due to start the week of 5th June. These works involved: • Resurfacing road work • Installing right turn bays into High Street and Wrexham Road • Relocating southbound parking spaces to the northbound side of LHD • Relocating the southbound bus stop near High Street about 50m north to facilitate the changes.

In 2021 TfNSW outlined two transport options to the local community. One proposal was to have two continuous lanes of traffic (remove all parking on LHD) and the second to have clearways in operation during peak times. The current changes proposed by TfNSW, as outlined above, were included in the two options presented to the community in 2021. Both options were clearly rejected by the local community.

TfNSW stated that its next step was to “carry out further investigation … Transport is committed to keeping Thirroul residents and visitors up to date and will inform the community of the outcomes of these investigations … ” Unfortunately, TfNSW did not keep us up to date, rather informed residents on the affected section of LHD of their decision a week before the permanent changes were scheduled to happen.

Residents contacted the TVC who got in touch with the new member for Heathcote, Maryanne Stuart. Maryanne contacted the Minister for Roads, John Graham, put a halt to the work until some form of consultation occurred. At present the community is awaiting the outcome of this consultation. The TVC and community would like to thank Maryanne for her intervention.

Thirroul Seaside and Arts Festival

The TVC had a stall where members were able to meet and chat with local residents. Topics included flooding, increased use of Private Certifiers (complying developments), McCauley Lodge development, ideas for the Thirroul Plaza site and planned road works on LHD. The next TVC meeting will be on Sunday, 16 July at 4pm at TRIPS Hall, Railway Parade Thirroul. All welcome.

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By NIRAG secretary Ross Dearden

Bulli Showground Draft Master Plan

This was on public exhibition until 12 June.

NIRAG appreciates that there are opportunities to revitalise the whole precinct when greyhound racing ends on the site. The plan should allow the annual Illawarra Folk Festival and the Men’s Shed to continue, and provide areas for sporting and cultural activities so that it is used actively every day by the community, rather than for occasional large events. It may be a good location for a northern skate park. It would be advantageous to develop a plan for the entire area of open space between the Princes Highway and the land reserved for the extension of the Northern Distributor, rather than just the area currently leased for greyhounds.

Trinity Row cycleway

Following successful representations by NIRAG to widen the cycleway to 4m along Trinity Row, community members have expressed concerns about the proposal to build a high safety fence at the top of the embankment between Alroy and Jardine Streets. A site meeting was held with Council to consider alternatives that would reduce the length of fencing and also to get a safer design at the entrance to the Bulli Beach cafe and carpark. Signage and line marking to ensure vehicles Give Way to pedestrians and cycles on the shared way is recommended.

Another meeting was held to look at keeping the existing disabled parking and the old-style picnic shelter, and building the new shelter with a shorter access path close to the existing car park.

Integrated Transport Strategy (ITS):

NIRAG /NF3 has contributed to a second workshop in June for the Wollongong ITS to plan movement of people, freight and services. These workshops aim to identify ways to deliver the future vision of Wollongong’s transport network.

The Strategy will inform an integrated, multi modal and sustainable transport plan to support people, land use and services, recognising the shared responsibility and roles of Wollongong City Council, Transport for NSW, the Federal and State government and the private sector.

Next meeting is the AGM, 7pm, 2 August, Bulli Community Centre hall. All welcome.

NF1 Report

By Neighbourhood Forum 1 convenor Warwick Erwin

Our new Member for Heathcote, Maryanne Stuart, attended the June meeting and commented on a list of questions asked by forum members.

Otford Causeway – Maryanne supported a better causeway than the old one and will ask Council for a higher capacity crossing.

24-hour Helensburgh Police Station – election promise that Maryanne is working on.

Helensburgh Courthouse – there is a land claim on the Courthouse that has to be sorted out.

Bald Hill T intersection – to be taken to TfNSW. Lawrence Hargrave Drive – will request work on slippage locations at Stanwell Tops.

Mining under Water Catchment – Maryanne does not support mining under the catchments.

She supports coal transport by rail (with covered coal wagons) and not by road.

She will discuss with the appropriate State Minister the fact that the council rates discount for pensioners has not increased in 34 years.

Confirmed Helensburgh Fire & Rescue Station will not be taken “Off Line”.

She is investigating ambulance crews remaining local and not being tasked out of their local area.

Will ask for the status and potential buy-back of Wildlife Corridors from Royal National Park to Illawarra Escarpment.

Maryanne to ask TfNSW why Helensburgh

Station is not being extended for new 10-car trains.

She will investigate buses not waiting for trains, especially school buses and what can be done.

A number of issues Maryanne asked for further details about and these will be provided.

Your Letters

station in Helensburgh. I have today written to the Police Minister The Hon. Yasmin Catley MP, the Police Commissioner Karen Webb APM and our local member Ms Stuart MP regarding the need for an operating police station in Helensburgh.

Secondly … the eyesore that the redundant petrol station in Stanwell Park has become over the last 20 years of constant vandalisation. At present my documentation file on this matter is about 60mm thick. My campaign has been seeking to get the NSW Government to retrospectively legislate to make the fossil fuel companies foot the bill.

– The Hon. Ted Pickering AM, Stanwell Park

Correction

On p6 (‘Old Thirroul inspires new song’, June 2023) it should be Thirroul Hotel not Rex Hotel. Rex then Thirroul then Beaches. Rex was part of a chain of hotels with a major one in Canberra. I still have the Thirroul Hotel signs at home from when the Gilberts took down.

– Greg Wilson, via text Re: Redundant petrol station Stanwell Park and need for a police station Helensburgh

I am an 83-year-old retiree living in the UPA retirement village in Stanwell Park. I have been a resident of Stanwell Park for very many years where I raised my family. You may be old enough to recall I was a member of Parliament in the Legislative Council from 1976 to 1995.

If I might first deal with the defunct police

Charles Harper Park Memorial Trees

Council means to replace the memorial pines in Charles Harper Park and is asking which trees should replace them. The meeting favoured native trees with high fire resistance – Illawarra Flame Trees were high on the list.

Re Curb, Gutters, footpaths

In a letter, Linda Davis, Director Planning and Environment, Wollongong City Council, said there is no rule requiring kerb and gutter be installed at new developments, rather “it is assessed on a case by case basis”. Who makes these decisions? We need a policy fair for all.

Helensburgh Community Centre and Library

A forum suggestion: build a new centre on the existing site, turn the two blocks across the road in Walker St into parking. This would not be in a flame zone and we’d get the green space promised.

Next meeting 7pm, Wed 12 July, Otford hall.

Views on Ocean Windfarm

The proposal is absolute insanity if it can be seen from the shore line. From on top of Bald Hill in Stanwell Tops one can see 50km on a clear day which would mean the entire wind farm would be visible stretching down the coast. It’s currently one the most iconic views on the entire east coast.

– Ian Webber, via email Read letters in full on the Flame’s website

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Kayaker takes on world

By Genevieve Swart

Sprint kayaker Jasmine Locke is a 21-year-old pre-medicine student who grew up in Towradgi and discovered paddling thanks to Bulli Surf Club.

She’s the reason Illawarra Canoe Club coach Terry Prosser, 82, has come out of retirement.

“I retired about four years ago,” Terry says.“Then Locky – Jas’s father – he said, teach me daughter … you promised me! So I said right-o.

“She’s got that much go in her, it’s a privilege to try and help her. She’s one of the top ones I’ve had.”

Jasmine will soon be off to Italy to represent Australia at the U23 Canoe Sprint World Championships at Auronzo from July 5-9.

“I love being in the water,” she says. “I love the fact that you get to race yourself [in kayaking]. No one can impact you except for yourself.”

In April Jasmine represented Australia in the U21 team at the Asia Pacific Cup, at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand. “The conditions were cold and there was a pretty strong headwind most of the time – and crosswind,” she says.

It didn’t stop her from winning a swag of awards, including a personal triumph. “I won the under-21s K1 500m; I was the Asia Pacific Champion and Oceania Champion.”

Yet this win was like a warm-up. “My goal and the key event this year is Worlds,” Jasmine says.

In Italy, she’ll be racing in the prestigious K1 500m, K1 5000m and K4 500m. “I hope she does well,” Terry says. “I’d be quite happy if she makes finals, because she’s still only a kid – people forget that.”

Terry has been paddling for seven decades and coaching for 52 years. He is an Illawarra Canoe Club Life Member and in 2019 was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for a lifetime of coaching.

He’s trained world-class sprint kayakers from the Illawarra, including Olympic gold medallist David Smith and Adam Dean, bronze medal winner at 1997’s ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and currently the U23 NSW Sprint Kayak coach.

“She’s up with them,” Terry says of Jasmine.

“She’s got the heart.”

Jasmine – named Athlete of the Year at Surf Life Saving Illawarra’s Awards of Excellence in June – trains six days a week: “A paddle in the morning, a gym mid-morning, and then either a paddle or run in the afternoon.”

The average paddle covers 10-14km. “I’m on the water for about 1.5 hours,” she says.

“This is a very hard sport to train in,” Terry says.

“Footballers have got no idea what training’s about – they’d kill the footballers, they wouldn’t last.”

The Illawarra has great natural training grounds – paddlers can take their pick of Minnamurra River, Lake Illawarra and the ocean. For her ocean paddles, launching from Wollongong Harbour, Jasmine sets out at dawn. “You definitely see dolphins … and we have some really good sunrises,” she says. “I can appreciate those when I’m in a lot of pain – a nice sunrise!

The Illawarra Canoe Club recently presented her with a cash gift to help cover her athlete fees and a new Vaikobi paddle bag. Her kayak is a Nelo ‘Quattro’ about 10 years old, her paddle a Braca, supplied by Sydney’s Bennett Surf. “For clothes, I just wear anything comfortable,” she says.

Jasmine comes from a family of “very determined” paddlers, says Terry, who also coached her father, Michael.

Today renowned as an expert in technique, Terry is self-taught. He grew up in Port Kembla, started paddling on flatwater, then on to whitewater. He did many marathons too. And all the while experimenting, finding better ways of kayaking – ways that hurt less, he says. Five decades of coaching have taught him that only one in a thousand young paddlers has the potential – like Jasmine – to reach the top.

“But you treat them all the same. You bring them in, they’re off the streets. You’re doing good.”

Facebook @IllawarraCanoeClub Jasmine Locke and Terry Prosser. Photos: Anthony Warry

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Heroes of the surf

By Caitlin Sloan

On Friday, June 16, the Surf Life Saving Illawarra Awards of Excellence recognised the dedication of the region’s surf lifesavers after a huge season in which volunteers put in 47,632 patrol hours, performed 7664 preventative actions, 314 first aid treatments and 404 surf rescues.

More than 170 lifesavers from 17 Illawarra clubs attended the ceremony to watch as many of their own were honoured for patrolling our beaches.

Surf Life Saving Illawarra media advisor Anthony Turner said all 17 clubs, award nominees and winners are to be congratulated. “These nights just showcase how much clubs and individuals provide a valuable service to their community,” he said.

Taking home one of the night’s highest honours was Bulli Surf Life Saving Club, which won the Club of the Year award for the second year.

“To be named again, two years in a row, as the top Surf Life Saving Club in the Illawarra is a real honour,” Bulli SLSC president Jamie Caldwell said.

Bulli also claimed Youth Athlete of the Year with Chelsea Jones, Athlete of the Year with Jasmine Locke, Junior Activities Volunteer of the Year with Kate Morris, Surf Sports Team of the Year and Surf Sports Club of the Year.

“For the Open Men’s Surf Boat Crew to be recognised once as again as the Surf Life Saving Illawarra Team of the Year, it caps off a massive year in which they took out the Australian Surf

Bulli won Club of the Year. Inset: Ant Ritter and Rachelle Balez of Scarborough Wombarra. Photos: SLS Illawarra

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Rowers League Open on their home beach and also the gold medal at the Surf Life Saving Australian Titles,” Jamie said.

Next up are the surf lifesaving state awards in Sydney in late August. “Hopefully we can take a number of NSW awards,” Jamie said.

Small clubs, big wins

With just 36 patrolling members, Bellambi SLSC was punching well above its weight, receiving the Patrolling Club of the Year and Services Team of the Year awards. Club members Brody Robertson, Halle Bone and Jackie Percy also walked away with Youth Lifesaver of the Year, Youth Volunteer of the Year and Trainer of the Year respectively, leaving Club Captain Rob Gorkin amazed by the enormous successes of the small club.

“We’re stoked,” Rob said. “[Brody, Halle and Jackie] exude the qualities of surf lifesaving and where the organisation should go. These are the next generation leaders in the space.”

Another small club doing big things was Scarborough Wombarra Surf Life Saving Club, winning Most Improved Club of the Year and Innovation of the Year for January’s Patrol Iron Person Relay, which involved all eight patrol groups competing over swim, board and run events.

President Ant Ritter won the Administrator of the Year award while Rachelle Balez took home the Patrol Captain of the Year award for leading the club’s first all-women patrol. Ant said: “Every club has members like this, we’re just lucky we’ve got Rachelle, and we are really pleased she was formally recognised with the award.”

Captaining the patrol was a privilege, Rachelle said: “The girls I get to share my patrol with are all legends who work hard to make their community a better place – this award is for them.”

Julie’s Garden Seat

Pointscore results

By Paul Blanksby of Helensburgh Men’s Shed

By Ian Pepper and Emily Laurence

A lot can change in 57 years – and it has, especially in this little town we call the Burgh.

Imagine the changes, the memories: the little white house behind the pub, the walls chuckling at the sound of another baby born; coal fires in the Metter stove, warming a Struggle Town miners’ cottage; Lilyvale’s railway station (gone!); the Co-op; Crawchy Day; Mrs. Braggs wool emporium; holidays in a shack at Bulgo; a dip in the big dam after school; horses tied up outside the shops; ladies in white at the Bowling Club; the Band Hall burning down; and 57 years ago, a young Julie Fowler moved to Helensburgh.

This is her, sitting on her garden seat, enjoying the autumn sun. It was a great pleasure for your Men’s Shed to restore this precious thing for Julie, a gift from her son.

Memories are wonderful things. We love to hear people’s stories. And we love to help preserve memories. Bring them in to the Shed.

Another epic pointscore for the club on 28 May at Stanwell Park’s northern end. There was just enough off-shore wave action for all divisions, and spectators enjoyed the show from the hill.

What a spot to spend a Sunday!

Division winners for Pointscore 5: • Open Women – Kasey Hargreaves • Open A Grade – Mannix Squiers • Open B Grade – Jack Kelly • Over 55 – Nic McLaren • Over 45 – Andrew Christensen • 18u Boys – Rhett Mattock • 14u Boys – Fin O’Connor • 12u Boys – Noah Kornek • Junior Girls – Marlie Moston • 10u Mixed – Zayd Kulmar.

As always, the event was made possible by our sponsors and volunteers – Thank you!

199A Parkes St, 9am-3pm Mon-Wed, 0478 897 485, helensburghmensshed.org.au

Outing to Ebenezer

By Helen Slade

Our May outing was a visit to the Ebenezer Historic Church.

Ebenezer is a beautiful area along the banks of the Hawkesbury River. We were served the most wonderful Devonshire morning tea in the pavilion hall by the church ladies and men.

Afterwards we were treated to a history talk by the church secretary, Ted Brill, about the families who founded the church and their ongoing families. We happened to be there while a crypt was being readied by descendants of one of the pioneer families to intern the ashes of a family member. A very interesting procedure and history.

After our church visit, we had an excellent lunch at the Windsor Services Club. Our next meeting is July 3rd at the Helensburgh Hotel.

Enquiries to Helen on 0427 043 774

UOW student Jasmine Porter, a new member from Canada, came 4th. Photo supplied

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Tradies Social Golf Barry Thompson reports

There was a slight chill in the air, but Boomerang presented a well-prepared layout for our field of 21 to contest. We played the Stableford format and Kynan Ainsley, Sparrow King, and Roger Hendry mounted the podium with respective scores of 40, 36 and 34. These were good results given that the markers were well back on most holes.

The second round of Match Play saw Mick Carroll, Kynan Ainsley, Gary Overton, Dave Astill, Sparrow King and Geoff Hammonds emerge as winners. This is developing into an interesting competition, and it will be entering the sharp end in the next couple of months.

Match highlight: Sparrow King and the whole four of Paul Morahan’s group were seen scrambling around the rocks on the seventh after they all rinsed their pills in the pond. Some said they were seeking lost balls, but others insisted they were after yabbies. Bit cold to be up to those shenanigans.

Our sponsors, Tradies, Helensburgh Butchery, Gallardo’s Pizzeria, and Helensburgh Driving Range have been very supportive of us, so please remember to support them in return.

Our next outing will be at Boomerang on Saturday, July 8th. We will tee-off at 7am. This is another Stableford event. Please arrive early to assist our starters.

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Frank and Frank, and Rob Carter made the most of nearing the pins and drive and pitch holes with only Ross managing to stay on the cut surface and record a longest drive. Low handicappers need to up their game.

The Hurstville Golf Course is hosting the HSSGC championships on July, 3rd (8.30am tee-off), August 6th (8am) and August 20th (8am).

Updates to members via text and email, contact Tony on 0418 863 100 for membership information. Please continue to support our sponsors Christian’s Premium Meats and Helensburgh Golf Range and join us to enjoy a game of golf, the outdoors and good company.

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A “gimme” can be best described as an agreement between golfers, neither of whom can putt very well.

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Helensburgh Sunday Social Golf Club Robert ‘Indy’ Jones reports

HSSGC graced the fairways of Hurstville GC on June 11th. We welcomed the return of Tim Lowe after a long break on the long weekend along with Adam Gersback and Luke Hatcher, and a new face to our group, Gary Ellis. We look forward to seeing a swelling number of players vying for HSSGC championship honours in July and August, following our Mother’s Day and long weekend events.

The details: Luke Hatcher has not lost his competitive edge scoring 34 points, conquering the full 18 holes and he was delighted to become a “Joe Doherty Mug” and Christian’s Premium Meats voucher winner.

Rob Carter carded 32 stableford points in second place and collected a Drummond Golf prize, closely followed by Ross Fagerstrom on 31 point to bag the Helensburgh Golf Range voucher to round off the podium on the day.

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