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is a fortnightly publication serving Bacchus Marsh and surrounding districts. For all your editorial needs, contact: Publisher/editor: Renee Robinson, 03 5368 2870 / 0459 022 364 For all your advertising needs, contact: Sales: Sheree Mayfosh, 0411 016 669 Email: bacchusmarshscoop@gmail.com Web editions: issuu.com/bacchusmarshscoop Facebook: facebook.com/bacchusmarshscoop Raylene Cox, Salih Saffet and Melissa Smith
ABN: 39 790 396 099 Front cover: The Moorabool Light Orchestra performing a Concert in Cabaret on August 8. More photos page 10. Photo: Renee Robinson
The college had a bake-off with an orange theme, busked for the bake-off and designed fundraising tines with quirky
slogans. The school’s 40 hour famine ambassador, Salih Saffet, was the guest judge at the bake-off on August 12. Some students still went hungry for 40 hours to raise awareness for the cause.
Say NO to re-zoning Clifton Park land from residential to commercial for Bunnings If approved, a Bunnings store, plus 5 bulky goods stores, on the corner of Clifton Drive and Gisborne Road will change the look and feel of our town forever.
the proposal without changes. The Bunnings proposed amendment is contrary to Moorabool Shire Council planning, policy and strategic objectives including: ➢ to use available residential land and prevent pressures on valuable agricultural land ➢ to direct commercial activity to the shopping precinct i.e. Activity Centre ➢ to reserve residential land for population growth.
Submissions close on Friday, September 18
The Save Our Streets website www.sosbacchusmarsh.info was established by concerned residents as a way of bringing the community voice into Council decision making processes. Writing a submission is an effective and appropriate way for you to have your say. On the lines about what are considered valid reasons for objection, and a link to all the documents supporting the Bunnings application, and if you need further support or information please send a request by email to admin@sosbacchusmarsh.info
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The Bacchus Marsh not-for-profit drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre began operating on July 6 and currently has two women enrolled in its 12-step program. Melissa* said Bluebird House has saved her daughter Lisa’s* life. She said the day Bluebird House founding member Amber Farrugia went to see Lisa in a Melbourne Hospital intensive care unit, her daughter had decided to discharge herself and live in her car. “Lisa was going to die. I’d been told that by health professionals. Amber helped her to see that there was an opportunity for a different life. It was about creating a new Lisa. “For us it was a life and death situation. She’d been on a waiting list for a rehabilitation program for weeks and weeks. That was 13 weeks ago and I still haven’t heard from them. The thing with ICE (crystal methampthetamine) addiction is when she decides she needs help you only have 24 hours to jump on that opportunity. Time was not on my side. “Amber going to see her is a miracle. Bluebird House is a miracle.” Melissa said 19-year-old Lisa had been using drugs since she was 14-yearsold and also battled anorexia and depression leading to attempted suicide. “As a mum you never ever give up but there were days when I didn’t feel any hope. Amber gave that back. It’s for our whole family, including Lisa’s siblings. I was trying to be a parent to them and trying to keep Lisa alive. “I have a life at the moment I never dreamed I could have. The constant worry that I was going to get a knock on the door telling me my daughter was gone has disappeared. I love that I can love her and see her again. “Bluebird House took a chance on us. It was a risk for them and it was a risk for me to entrust my baby girl to them too. The relationship Bluebird
House has allowed me to have with my daughter is beyond my wildest dreams. Everyone should have that opportunity. “The things she’s learning at Bluebird House are life lessons, not just for battling addiction but for all aspects of life.” Bluebird house is the vision of nine Bacchus Marsh community members leading the fight against drug and alcohol addiction. Amber Farrugia said Bluebird House was only operating thanks to a group of six volunteers who were currently working a 24 hour a day shift roster. She said the volunteers were all recovering addicts who’d undergone a 12-step program and who had Certificate 4 qualifications in alcohol and other drugs and mental health. “It’s so important to be able to support these girls through their life-changing decision to recover from addiction. It’s also so important that they’re getting the right information and that our staff give them that information. “Total abstinence and being a nice person requires a lot of work. It’s really important for our staff to model those qualities.” Amber said Bluebird House currently had a six month lease on a property in Bacchus Marsh and thanked the owners for providing that opportunity. “We’re hoping this will become the transition house after the girls have completed the 12-step-program and we can move out to a larger property and care for larger groups. “We’re moving in the right direction. We just need funding of at least $10,000 a month to make it viable long term. Someone might know someone who’s amazing and can invest in humanity for our community and young people. If they really believe that this is what Bacchus Marsh and our people need then please go out there and pledge for us.” People can donate to the Bluebird House account at Bacchus Marsh Community Bank, BSB 633 000, account 1547 12863. Contact Bluebird House on 0403 308 071.
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Owners of Loot Cafe Dianne and Bryan are ready to pay it forward. Photo: Renee Robinson
“It’s not just for soup and bread to fill their belly. It’s also so they can have a little treat that they otherwise couldn’t afford.” Judy said she hoped to expand the Pay it Forward initiative so that other The ‘Pay it Forward’ initiative is the brainchild of Judy D’Attoma, who was businesses could also offer prepaid goods and services, such as fuel from inspired by a story about ‘pending’ coffees in Italy where people paid in petrol stations. anticipation of coffees and meals for those who couldn’t afford it. “I would love to see Bacchus Marsh pioneer this and become the first “I put the idea on the Bacchus Marsh Residents facebook page and the town ever to have the majority of businesses offer Pay it Forward to help community seemed to think it was a great idea,” she said. people. We can all come together and help one another.” “I then approached local cafes and most of them have come on board.” She said she was still putting the “feelers out” and thanked the community Judy said the idea was for people to pay a little bit extra whenever they and businesses for their support so far. had a coffee or meal at a Pay it Forward café and then that money would Food and drinks can now be prepaid at the Loot Café, Corna Café, Micky be used to prepay for food and beverages for someone in need. B’z, One69 Main Street, Café Chino, Darley General Store and Darley “The credit is available to anyone in need. All they need to do is ask if Bakehouse. there is any credit on Pay it Forward.” For more information contact Judy on 0434 389 721. She said each shop could set their own limit so that there would be enough credit for other people who needed it.
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Local authors Tor Roxburgh (above) and Holly Harper (below)
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Over a span of 20 years she has published books about domestic violence, teenage romance, pregnancy, science fiction and fantasy and action adventure. Her first book Taking Control was published in 1987 and was one of the first books on family violence. “I worked in a women’s refuge and my ex-husband had a heroin problem. It gave me a good understanding of the situation women can find themselves in. It was a bit of a ‘how to escape’ type of book. It’s both out of print and out of date now.” Tor said her publisher Greenhouse Publications decided to publish Australian romance stories and asked all of its authors if they wanted to have a go. “I wrote 12 teenage romances with a slightly feminist approach under various pseudonyms.” While pregnant Tor wrote The Book of Weeks, now called The Book of Pregnancy Weeks and available online. “Then I stopped writing from 1995 to 2004. I thought I should stop and refresh and come back to it when I was feeling joyful about it.”
Tor found new joy in a new genre. “I felt like writing again in a genre I loved to read: fantasy and science fiction.” She wrote and self-published The Light Heart of Stone in 2008 and is currently writing a science fiction novel set in Ballarat. Tor has taught non-fiction writing at Melbourne and Victoria universities and sometimes teaches creative writing at Ballan Community House. “I find a lot of reward in the routine of writing, the sense writing gives you of creating order in the world and the occasional wonderful sensation when the creative process flows through you. “Writing can be as simple as talking. If you can tell your story when speaking to someone, you can certainly write it. It’s just about getting rid of the psychological and technical barriers. “It’s taken me more than 20 years to let go of the idea that the first draft is going to be genius. It just needs to exist and then you can improve it.” The Light Heart of Stone by Tor Roxburgh is available at Collins Bookstore in Bacchus Marsh. For more information visit Tor’s Facebook page.
in a series called Bureau of Mysteries. “My style is fast-paced and action-packed with plenty of humour, written especially for kids who haven’t previously liked reading. It’s important for me to show kids how fun reading can be,” she said. “I was working as a children’s bookseller. “The readers are the ones who inspire Parents would ask me every day for me the most. Whenever I start a new book recommendations for their kids book, I always think long and hard who hated reading and were glued to about what sort of kid will eventually be their video game consoles. I’m a keen reading it and I try to write the kind of gamer myself so I knew how fun video book they’ll love.” games could be, but as a lifelong book Holly said while getting to wear her pylover I felt sorry for any kids who hadn’t jamas to work was pretty great, the best been able to find their reading niche. part of being an author was when kids There was a serious lack of exciting approached her and told her how her books for kids aged seven to 10 so I books got them into reading. decided to try to write some that were Holly has just completed some first year as action-packed as a video game, but readers which will be out next year. sucked you into the story like only a “One is about a princess who lives in a book can. And that’s how I first started garbage dump, and the others are about writing Star League!” a boy with a pet dinosaur.” The Moorabool author published her When Holly isn’t writing, she’s still first book – number one in the Star surrounded by books and working at League series called Lights, Camera, Readings bookstore in Melbourne. Action Hero! – with Random House in Her books can be purchased online at 2011 under the name HJ Harper. She www.readings.com.au under HJ Harper followed that up with another seven Star and, if people make a request, she’ll even League books and then wrote two books personally sign copies for them.
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The Bacchus Marsh author has received rave reviews for her novel, which was first published by Random House in June 2013. In the 2014 awards season Fairytales for Wilde Girls won two Aurealis awards for best horror novel and best young adult fiction and an honour award from the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Her book was reprinted by Random House and will soon be released in hardcover by Russia’s largest publishing company ACT. Allyse said Fairytales was a normal world with a magical sublevel which could get scary sometimes. “It does have things like a serial killer mermaid, but at its core are more mundane horrors such as being a teenage weirdo, which I think a lot of people can connect with.” Allyse said she writes deconstructed pulp-fairytales that almost always revolve around women, the wilderness and witchcraft. “I’m a strong visual writer. My stories are made up of strong images. Even though it’s fantastical I wanted it still to be grounded. Every couple of pages I wanted striking images to burn in people’s heads, even if it doesn’t last, like a coal which brightens and then goes away again.” She said there was nothing nicer than getting fan mail, and she’d even had people dress up as characters from her book at conventions. Allyse currently has several other writing projects on the go and has just hit the 100,000 word mark for her second novel. Although it won’t be a sequel to Fairytales for Wilde Girls, she said they felt similar. “I like to have contained stories in a sense of a bigger universe. The next book won’t be a sequel but it will still be related. I still want to write like me and not have to reinvent the wheel. “You have to write what is in you. You can’t draw out something that isn’t there.” She said she always knew she wanted to be a writer and she studied creative and professional writing at Deakin University to hone her craft. She said the first person who read Fairytales for Wilde Girls was her agent. “I don’t like showing people my work until it’s finished. It’s like people seeing a sketch when you want them to see the whole artwork.” Allyse will appear at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival this week as part of an Alice In Wonderland young adult writers panel along with fellow authors Mark Haddon and Alice Pung. After the event she will be signing copies of her book. Fairytales for Wilde Girls can be purchased online or ordered through bookshops.
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Bacchus Marsh author Allyse Near. Photo: Renee Robinson
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The Bacchus Marsh RSL Ladies Auxiliary (above) with longest serving member Nancy Holloway in front wearing purple. President of the Bacchus Marsh RSL Ladies Auxiliary Bev Kummerlowe (right).
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Bev said the ladies auxiliary still runs major fundraisers for the Bacchus Marsh RSL, however the group now includes social activities and informative trips in its agenda. “We plan activities including visiting other RSLs, hospitals and trips to Scienceworks and the Werribee Zoo,” she said. “We want to encourage younger women to join the group. They’re welcome to bring their children too.” Bev said the group currently had about 32 members ranging in age from 31 to 95. “We have members living in Bendigo and Frankston. You don’t have to be a member of the RSL to join us or have any military connections. All you need to do is be over 18-years-old and pay the annual fee of $5.” She said the main objective of the auxiliary was to help raise much-needed funds for the Bacchus Marsh RSL club. “All the money we collect goes to the Bacchus Marsh RSL. Last year we gave them a $4000 cheque and also bought new kitchen equipment.” Bev has a long association with the RSL. Her husband ‘Irish’ Kummerlowe was the immediate past president of the Bacchus Marsh RSL. The Bacchus Marsh RSL Ladies Auxiliary’s next meeting is September 4 at the RSL Hall on Main Street. Future meetings will be held the first Tuesday of each month, commencing at 12pm.
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Chairperson of the Maddingley Park committee of management Russ Hendry said he approached the Federal Government after they put out an edict which said people would have to work for their unemployment benefits. “I found out how it all worked and then brought them to Maddingley Park,” Mr Hendry said. He said the committee of management did a survey of the park and listed what jobs needed to be done, and then government representatives came to have a look and approved the program. “We have two teams of up to 12 people who work 15 hours a week, and two supervisors paid for by the government. It’s a six month project with an option to renew.” He said it was worth an estimated minimum of $3600 a week. “You can’t take someone else’s job. These people are doing jobs that wouldn’t have got done such as cleaning up rubbish, hedge removal, building upgrades and painting. They’ve hand-sanded and repainted the playground, removed the hedge on Grant Street and done work around the grandstand, clubrooms and change-rooms.” Russ said Maddingley Park had three major user groups with several offshoot groups and was an important facility for Bacchus Marsh. “The government is looking to use the community work program to help long-term unemployed people find work.” Supervisor Anne Tarrant (pictured above) said two of her team had already found employment. “I have a fantastic team and they do a fantastic job. They travel up from Newport, Sunshine and Footscray to do this work for our community. It benefits everyone in Bacchus Marsh.”
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THEY DID WHAT?
What: When: Where: Who:
Moorabool Light Orchestra Concert in Cabaret Saturday, August 8 Melton Community Hall Soprano Carolyn Bennett, tenor Robert Barbaro, baritone Lakesh Parag Photos: Renee Robinson
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What: Bacchus Marsh Rotary Club 60th anniversary When: Friday, August 14 Photos: Bob Levy
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Community diary 10am - 2pm, Darley Primary School, 21 Nelson St, Bacchus Marsh. To book stalls phone 0432 738 203
10am - 1pm, Inglis St, Ballan. Primary and preschool children participate in activities designed to promote their love of reading, writing and counting.
7.30pm James Young Room, Lerderderg Library. Guest speaker Ken Anglican Church, Gisborne Rd McDonald. Public warmly welcomed. Bacchus Marsh. 10am to 2pm. Call Brad on 0419 508 569 Wine and food festival, 11am - 5pm, St Anne’s Winery, Myrniong. Tickets $15. Ph: 0400 141 811 or visit vivaladulce.org
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Maddingley Park, Bacchus Marsh. Phone Gillian on 0417 583 753 for more information
7pm - 9pm, Belgravia Leisure Centre, Labilliere St, Bacchus Marsh. For All funds raised go towards an primary school aged kids. $5 per aquatic centre for Bacchus Marsh. person. www.bacchusmarshhorticultureshow.org
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Hire A Hubby Bacchus Marsh owner Terry Wilson (pictured) said he has been providing maintenance services since 2008. “Prior to that I individually built a beach house, renovated kitchens, laundries, bathrooms and built bespoke tables, wrought iron gates, patios, timber decking and many other customised items.” Terry said his services included carpentry, painting, installing fencing and gates, welding and any general handyman jobs that needed doing. “My business is a one-stop-shop as I can provide all guaranteed workmanship. I am police checked and project manage all jobs.” He travels to homes in Bacchus Marsh, Darley, Bullengarook, Gisborne, Gisborne South, Coimadai, Toolernvale, Merrimu, Long Forest and Macedon in his full equipped van. He said his clients included general residential, commercial and real estate property managers. Terry operates from Mondays to Fridays and by arrangement on weekends. Phone 0448 099 621.
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Owner Janet Heaney said she purchased Floralevent in October last year because she always wanted to be a florist when she was growing up. Janet - along with her daughter Ellie, florists Melinda and Sylvia (pictured), and Michelle and Kathryn - has created a relaxed, comfortable and inspiring shop full of flowers, locally sourced gifts and homewares, fresh coffee and cakes. “We are committed to providing our clients with quality service at an affordable price. We believe in the importance of fresh, quality flowers and source them locally when possible. We don’t believe that just because it is your wedding day prices should increase. We have established great working relationships with many wholesale suppliers so are in a position to provide you with the best products at an affordable price.” She said Floralevent supplied wedding and event flower arrangements and styling, a range of hire items for people wanting to style their own events, and flowers for all occasions with free delivery to the local area. “I love the colours, smells and textures and the ever-changing products,” Janet said.“Wedding bouquets are becoming larger and less formal with a range of textures and colours not for the faint hearted.” Floralevent is open Monday to Saturday, 9am – 5pm, and Sunday by appointment at 23 Grant St, Bacchus Marsh. Phone 5367 5705.
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ENVIRONMENT
planting a tree.
Trees are important to the environment and to people. There is an everincreasing body of information and research into the benefits of trees, especially in towns and cities. We humans are now an urban species. For the first time in human history more people live in urban areas than rural areas. About 52% of the world’s population of seven billion live in cities or towns. Concrete, rooftops, vehicles, bitumen, metal and hard surfaces of all kinds means more heat, pollution and faster run off of rainwater. Trees are wonderful for cooling, absorbing pollution and holding moisture. Research has been done in Australia and other countries during recent heatwaves which shows that large, well established trees can lower temperatures by 10 degrees centigrade. This is becoming increasingly useful as heatwaves become more frequent due to climate change. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen during photosynthesis and so their value as air cleaners is significant. Large, healthy trees also give great economic benefits as any real estate agent will tell you – leafy streets sell houses. Progressive urban planners and local governments are realising the benefits of the “green infrastructure” as it is called. London’s mayor has had 20,000 street trees planted in the last seven years, the new Toronto council has planted 40,000 trees since being elected last December and it is worth googling Melbourne City Council’s Urban Forest Project to see what and why more trees will be planted in our own capital. However it is not only trees in streets and parks that are included in green infrastructure. The clever software (called i-Tree) developed in the USA that maps city trees’ canopy cover and calculates the financial value of the ecosystem services provided by trees, includes trees in private gardens, railway embankments, cemeteries and golf courses. Your garden trees play an important role in
the green infrastructure of your town. What you plant in your garden and on your nature strip can make a difference to air quality, value of your property and the aesthetics of the area. Trees also offer health benefits which are more difficult to measure but equally important. It was discovered and documented in 1984 (by Roger Ulrich) that hospital patients recover more quickly from surgery in rooms with green views. We all know we feel better resting in the shade of a beautiful tree, after a walk in the forest or an afternoon in the Botanical Gardens. Trees can make us healthier and happier – they are good for physical and mental health. There is still time in the next two weeks to plant one or two more bare-rooted trees. Most nurseries have them on sale now so you can even get a bargain and get them in the ground before they burst into leaf. A $20 - $30 bare rooted tree (fruit, nut or ornamental) is a good investment. It will help absorb the pollution your car produces, though you need at least seven well-established trees to absorb the pollution of the average family car over a year (according to Green Fleet – a not for profit organisation that plants trees to offset carbon emissions). Trees also provide shade, hold rainwater in the ground and give you and other creatures fruit, nuts and flowers. Trees will also give you and future generations many hours of pleasure. So why not plant one more trees before spring!
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This country rides on the back of volunteers, and Moorabool Shire is no exception. In fact I’d be interested to know what the ratio is per capita of volunteers in Moorabool. All of our festivals are volunteer run, and they are world-class festivals! They get a little bit of funding each year from the council, between $2000 and $6000, but that is nothing compared to the countless hours of preparation and execution that goes into the festivals. Did you know we are having an inaugural Viva La Dulce (Sweet Living) festival next weekend? It will be held on Sunday, August 30 at St Anne’s Winery in Myrniong and feature 40 stallholders with all things food, wine, beverages and more. Entry is $15 and there will be something for the whole family to enjoy. Then after that we can look forward to the second annual Horticulture Festival on October 24 and 25, and then in November it will be all things to do with the Strawberries and Cherries festival... The least we can do is support the amazing volunteers who have worked incredibly hard to put on these events for our enjoyment. They also bring in much needed $ for our local businesses. Make a note of the dates, and don’t be late...
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