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The co-payment was effective from September 1, however the only consultation with the community was a public forum held on Wednesday, August 26, after the decision had been made. About 100 people turned up to the forum and the majority were there to express their anger at lack of community consultation by the Ballan and District Health Care CEO, Wayne Weaire, and board of management. Mr Weaire failed to provide any statistical evidence about why the co-payment was introduced at the meeting, however he later spoke to Bacchus Marsh Scoop to clarify the situation. “Three years ago there was the whole question about how you attract and retain experienced doctors. The board has been wrestling with what to do. I sent our practice manager off to find out what was happening at other clinics in the state. “We looked at co-payments of up to $75 for some and down to $7 for everyone, which is what the government wanted to charge. I made the assumption that pensioners and those doing it tough couldn’t afford $7. We weighed up the costs of our doctors having five or six consultations an hour, and the wages required for the clinic’s four receptionists and two practice nurses. The $23 co-payment was the outcome. “I spoke to doctors from other clinics, including

ones who work at Bacchus Marsh, and they all agreed that a co-payment was the only answer. There will be no charge for scripts. “We need to make this clinic viable. I won’t know the numbers for the first month, but I will be very interested to know that data. The co-payment is helping us to be attractive enough to keep doctors. Our hospital beds were only being used 45 per cent of the time and we’ve now set a target to have them used 85 per cent of the time. To do that we needed the doctors and nurses. “The government built and funded an urgent care centre. If someone comes here for urgent care then we need to provide it. I have acted with integrity with every single step. I’ve had to learn to make the difficult decisions.” Former Ballan and Bacchus Marsh doctor Mina Gurgius, who now runs the Golden Plains (bulk-billing) Medical Centre, disagreed with the decision. “I was always passionate about bulk billing, as I still believe that Medicare is quite a good healthcare system. Medicare is funded by taxpayers who deserve access to free medical services (ie.bulk billing),” Dr Gurgius said. “Regarding Ballan practice in particular, it was the first Superclinic in Australia and it is a community practice. It received a lot of its funding from the local community. As such it will be a shame, in my opinion, if Ballan Practice starts charging the same community that helped it over the years.” Ballan District Health & Care CEO Wayne Weaire

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The Darley resident is the foremost expert on birds living in Long Forest, an expert on moth species in Victoria and the 2013 winner of the prestigious Australian Natural History Medallion for her work with birds and moths. Marilyn (pictured left) said her book, Birds of the Long Forest 1889 – 2005, was only intended to be a small book, but 278 pages later it became her ‘Magnum opus’. Marilyn bird watched in Long Forest for 25 years, keeping a list and putting them in a database with information including dates, places, habitats and activities such as feeding and breeding. “It involved hundreds and hundreds of visits to Long Forest. I would sometimes go in at 3.30am and come home after 6pm. Then I pulled in historical records from libraries going back to 1889. I spent months in libraries combing through old bird and natural history journals. I was a professional scientist, a medical researcher, which means you have the ability to keep a lot in your head. I did that for each bird and then wrote summary chapters on different topics.” Marilyn said early visits to Long Forest by renowned bird watchers including George Keartland in the 1880s, Vern Davey in the 1930s and Len Harvey provided constant records from the 1880s up until the 1960s. Then she started visiting in the 1980s. She said one of her most exciting finds was the nest of a speckled warbler. “They’re sneaky nesters and nest in a little hollow in the ground under tussocks and among roots. The nest was a rare, astonishing find. “I identify them by call as well. I know all the local bird calls so I don’t need to see them. I will be having a conversation with someone but my brain can listen to bird sounds at the same time.” In many ways the thorough research Marilyn undertook to produce Birds of Long Forest was the perfect preparation for her next, much harder, project. Moths. “One day I sat under a tree and a whole lot of what I thought were butterflies were flying around and they were very beautiful and I found out they were moths. From that moment I thought moths were more interesting than I ever imagined. I visited the museum and there’s a man there called Peter Marriott who’s been studying moths for 20 years and I started helping him and I’ve never looked back. I think I’m now addicted.” Marilyn said the study of moths was only in its infancy, which was what made it so exciting. “We’re at a pioneer stage which is really exciting. New species records are happening all the time. I have got three or four and I have only been doing this for five or six years.” She said Peter Marriott decided to create a series of moth field guides, of which there are soon to be six volumes, and she came on board as part of the editorial team on the second field guide.

“I said I wouldn’t mind sorting out the Amelora group (book 5) and he said the book is yours. The shapes are all very similar, and the colours, and you have to look at the subtle points such as wing shape, the patterns and lines. “Some moths only last a couple of days and some of the bigger ones will last a couple of months. The Bogong moth migrates to the mountains in summer and has to last long enough to migrate.” Marilyn said she now goes on ‘nocturnal holidays’ all over Victoria with her husband Dean and a dedicated group of moth researchers to collect distribution data and species data. The team uses a large white sheet in a frame lit by the bluish tint of a mercury vapour light to attract the moths. “Luckily they come to you if you put a light out. You can get 150 species in one night and you photograph them all. If you have got a large group of any species then it’s a good sign of a healthy habitat. “I love the fact you can find something new and that nobody has done a field guide for it. It’s challenging, exhausting but stimulating and satisfying in the end. You have to be able to accept you don’t always find out all the details and that further study is needed. I admit it bothered me at first, but I’m used to it now. Birds were too easy. The Long Forest study was really good practice on how to organise information. “There are at least 3000 species of moths in Victoria. Peter Marriott starting the collection is an act of bravado and ambition I can’t believe.” The moth field guides all come with a CD in the back with another 400 pages of information including amounts of individual species collected and photographed, adult flight times and distribution maps. “If you consider the moth’s place in the food chain then a bat is 90 per cent moth and a bird with chicks, the chicks are 50 per cent moth, so it’s a really important part of the food chain. A lot of the caterpillars live down in the leaf litter and they eat it and so if you have a healthy caterpillar population down in the leaf litter it keeps down the leaf litter and is good for fuel reduction. “People call moths brown and boring and moths get a really bad press, but some of them can be astonishingly beautiful.” Birds of Long Forest is available in the Lerderderg Library and can be purchased from the Friends of Werribee Gorge and Long Forest Mallee. About 40 copies are still available. The moth field guides are available from the Museum of Victoria and through the Entomological Society of Victoria website www.entsocvic.org.au To watch Marilyn in action, google ‘moth hunting in the Grampians’ and watch the Youtube clip.

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Left: Bacchus Marsh Grammar principal Andrew Neal has his finger on the plans.

protecting the natural environment and increasing the productivity of the farm.” The planning permit before the Geelong council includes construction of a modular classroom, a manager’s dwelling and office building, toilet The school has lodged an application for a planning permit with the City blocks, a canteen, and an observation building at the top of the property of Greater Geelong for an adjunct campus to be built at 155 Staughton abutting the Brisbane Ranges. It also includes the establishment of a model Vale Road. The purpose of the campus will be to develop a school farm farm area centred around agriculture and horticulture production, and environmental centre used by the 1900 students at Bacchus Marsh construction of small greenhouses for student use, and upgrades to Grammar. fencing. The initial capital investment will be around $6 million. Bacchus Marsh Grammar principal Andrew Neal said it was a 200 acre Mr Neal said for a number of years the school had been searching for an site currently being used to graze sheep, with an existing orchard, dams and shearing shed. additional site which could extend the range of curriculum offerings for “We’re planning to develop the other end of the property to put in facilities to students at the school. be used by up to 60 students per day, or 200 students - a year level - if it’s a “It’s located in an area that may in the next 20 years become a growth carnival day. area. In 15 years time there may be a need for a school in that area, but it “One of the things that we think modern students need is the ability to would be subject to a different planning process. Our interest in the area get their hands dirty and get a real sense and feel for the land. This site is not for a separate school. At the moment it’s for an additional resource because of its nature offers us an ability to enable students to plant trees, to harvest fruit and to look after areas of land that need rehabilitation. for current students. “We signed the initial contract in January this year. It’s potentially a great “It’s a very exciting opportunity for us. One of the things that attracts development. It’s only 20 to 25 minutes by car or bus from this school and people to this school is the sense of a rural feel to it. We really want to be enables us to run it in conjunction with this campus. It’s something that able to extend that and this site will enable us to do that.” students from this campus will use on a regular basis. The planning permit application advertising period closes on September “We also believe by investing capital this farm will become more produc8, after which the City of Greater Geelong will make its decision. tive than it already is. It will have three purposes: to educate children,

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The group turned out in force on Sunday, August 23 to plant three deciduous trees in Caledonian Park. Founding member of the arboretum group, Stephanie Day, said the group purchased a Prunus, Nyssa and Lipstick Maple to provide deciduous

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Cathy and her husband Ron moved from America to Melton in 1976 when the state began supplementing its teacher numbers. They only intended to stay two years, but instead they fell in love with Australia’s flora, in particular the species found in the Brisbane Ranges. “We used to come to the Brisbane Ranges hiking, and when we moved out here in 1994 our interests became flora related,” Cathy said. Ron and Cathy purchased 30 acres in Balliang and began to study the indigenous species at their doorstep. Cathy said her interest in native orchids developed after a friend suggested searching for Pyrochis nigricans (The Undertaker Orchid). “It rarely flowers unless a summer fire has been through. It’s a terrestrial orchid; after it has pollinated its red flower starts to turn black to blend into the burned background.” After finding the orchid Cathy began to photograph and record other orchids in the Brisbane Ranges, of which there are more than 100, and then she started to look at other native species. “The Australian Plant Society (Melton and Bacchus Marsh Group) was making itself known and this coincided with out interest in plants and orchids. I got involved at the Melton level, then became the Melton representative for the Victorian group.” She became the vice-president of the Victorian Australian Plant Society (APS) for 12 months, president for the next three years, immediate past president for one year, and over the last 12 months she has become the vice-president again. “During my time as president there were some modernisations that happened and we developed a collaborative relationship with the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, which is all Australian natives, and there was a natural synergy between the APS and them.” Cathy said the APS also collaborated with researchers at Monash University who used ‘citizen science’, which encouraged general members of the community to collect and record data about flora and fauna. She

said members of the APS uploaded their photos and findings to databases such as the Atlas of Living Australia, Bowerbird and NatureShare for the benefit of scientists and non-scientists. “Brisbane Ranges has about 680 species of native flora. It’s a flora rich environment. The thing I’m most attracted to is the opportunity to photograph the brilliance of the plant. Flowers, leaves, plant structure, visitors to that plant.” At the same time Cathy began developing her own native garden. “When we moved here we realised that our 30 acres had been allowed to be in its natural state. Golden wattle had a huge seedbank in the ground and overtook the rest of the garden. We started planting eucalypts. It was an experimental garden with species specific to Victoria and the Brisbane Ranges. Because of the slope we have wonderful drainage.” They fenced off about four acres to battle native predators, mostly wallabies, and other predators such as rabbits. “I always think gardening is trial and error. It’s not your usual garden. It contains plants that I particularly enjoy. I try to grow as many species of hakea as I can. Many of the hakea species are from Western Australia. They are very adaptable to particular kinds of soil, but some of them don’t like our climate and become mulch.” Cathy said without a good healthy habitat you don’t have a very healthy ecosystem, and the biodiversity of the plant species in her own garden and the surrounding Brisbane Ranges attracted all sorts of birds and insects. This led to a new passion: collecting data on and photographing moth species endemic to the Brisbane Ranges. “I have identified 430 species and photographed two species that have never been seen here before and two from northern Queensland. “I’m a firm believer that a healthy ecosystem and biosystem affords the opportunity to see all of these healthy species.”

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Two standout op shops in Moorabool are the Silver Linings Op Shop on Holts Lane in Darley and the Ballan Lioness-run Steptoes Op Shop in Inglis Street, Ballan. Silver Linings volunteer Jeanette Haseloff said an op shop was really about the people. “We put people first. It’s the caring. Often when people donate things to us it’s because they have to downsize, they’ve separated, or someone close to them has passed away. They don’t need more stress. They need to know that their things are valued and are going to a good cause.” Jeanette said Silver Linings was an oldAbove: Silver Linings Op Shop volunteers Jeanette Haseloff and Sandy McNees. Below: Steptoes Op Shop in Ballan is run by fashioned op shop in terms of prices. Ballan Lioness volunteers. From left: Dorothy, Maureen, Glenda, ‘Fred’ and Heather. Photos by Renee Robinson “Nothing is over $5, except for some large furniture pieces. Almost everything is priced between 50 cents and $5.” She said Silver Linings had 15 volunteers and the proceeds went to the Baptist Church outreach program and local causes including the Bacchus Marsh Food Bus. Ballan Lioness president Fred Moore said Steptoes Op Shop donated between $52,000 and $62,000 back to not-for-profit community groups each year. “Our main aim is to make money to help people in the community,” she said. She said the friendships and “sisterhood” of the Lionesses created a welcoming, friendly and fun environment that people kept coming back to. “We enjoy what we do and it shows.”

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The Bacchus Marsh artist, author, pilot and Reiki practitioner is now teaching and practising colour therapy called Aura-soma. “When experiencing Reiki quite often people see colours and I wanted to know what the colours mean,” Shirleyrose said. “Everything has an aura around them, even animals. You have got three: one close to your body, one a little bit further out and another one a bit further out again. Aura means light and soma means body.” She said each little Aura-soma bottle held living energy from plants, herbs and crystals in a medium of oil and water. “You use them as a massage around the chakra they relate to. Chakras are our energy stations. Aura-soma balances on all levels: emotional, mental and physical. The world would be much better off if we were all in balance.” Shirleyrose (pictured) has lived in Bacchus Marsh for more than 30 years. As Shirley Smith she was secretary of the chamber of commerce and both apple festivals and, along with her daughter Coralee, she was the owner of the first café latte place in the Marsh – Rose Cottage. No longer there, Rose Cottage made such an impact on Shirleyrose that she wrote and published a book about the cottage called ‘History of an Era with recipes, 1888 to 2002’ under the name Shirley Smith. “Henry Burbridge was head gardener at Greystones and he fell in love with the parlour maid and built Rose Cottage in her honour,” she said. An important record of what it was like to live in Bacchus Marsh during this era, the spiral bound book is full of history, photographs and recipes and is available for purchase through the Bacchus Marsh Wool Shop and Jeff Jones Plants and Produce. Shirleyrose is now one third of the way through writing her second book, which is all about her 16 years as a private pilot of single and twin engine light aircraft. Becoming a pilot wasn’t a decision she made herself. “My husband made a bet in a bar and had to keep faith, then I became a better pilot than him. He got jealous and divorced me,” she said. “The thing I enjoyed the most was the landing. I was a slow learner because I wasn’t really interested. I was only allowed to have one lesson a week.” She said she belonged to the local writer’s group called Writer’s Craft, who were “very supportive and interesting and very talented.” When she’s not writing or healing or being a general dynamo, Shirleyrose also paints watercolours and recently displayed her work at an exhibition with the MAGnet group (the Moorabool Artists’ Group Network) in Ballarat.

“Projects may be large or small and carried out in collaboration with other groups or organisations at any level,” he said. A presentation to successful groups will be made at the Bank’s AGM/Grants Night/First Birthday Branch Manager Ian Prince said on Thursday, October 29. under the Community Bank® Applications close on September model, the branch supported the 30, 2015. community by allocating funding For more information on the to groups and organisations from grants program or to collect an its profits. application form, drop into the “Thanks to our loyal customers, Bacchus Marsh Community Bank® our local Community Bank® branch has, since opening in Branch at 2/137a Main Street, October 2014, contributed almost Bacchus Marsh or phone 5367 $9000 to community projects and 4660. organisations,” Mr Prince said.

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“I like to take off those layers of paint and the many years of use and bring it back to life,” Denise said. “I have always had a passion for restoring antique furniture and finally started a business six years ago in my shed at home. I soon outgrew the shed and four years ago Lovedeco emerged.” Lovedeco has a range of preloved, restored and unrestored, industrial, retro antique, art deco furniture and old wares. “Lovedeco is the only business in Bacchus Marsh that offers preloved furniture and old wares at reasonable prices,” Denise said. “I sell pieces all over Australia through Facebook and ebay.” She said customers always commented about how Lovedeco took them back to their childhood and a bygone era when they saw peieces throughout the shop. Denise said it took a lot of skill and love to restore a piece to its former glory. One of her biggest successes was restoring a drop front desk from the 1700s which was in a terrible state. “It took me months to restore but underneath all those layers of paint was beautiful flame mahogany.” Lovedeco specialises in antique, art deco bedside drawers (shown in the photo above) but Denise said she liked to have a variety of different pieces. She said she could also restore sentimental and heirloom pieces for people who had furniture that has seen better days. Lovedeco is situated at 23 Osborne St, Bacchus Marsh and is open Thursday to Tuesday, 10am - 4pm. Laybys are welcome and “no reasonable offer is refused”. Look for lovedeco1 on Facebook. Phone 0408 122 532.

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In a match that resembled the close finishes of Australia and New Zealand netballers, the Cobras and East Point were neck and neck for much of the preliminary final. The Cobras won the first quarter 10 to 8, but East Point fought their way back to tie at half-time on 17. They continued the momentum into the third quarter, taking the lead over Bacchus Marsh 26 to 22. When the going gets tough, the tough play netball and the Cobra girls gave it their all to level the scores at the final siren with 32 apiece. Five minutes of overtime turned into ten minutes when the teams continued to be inseparable. Finally a miss from the East Point goalie, and excellent defence, gave Bacchus Marsh the break they needed and they stretched the lead to two goals and victory. Final scores were 41 to 39. Best on court went to wing attack Sarah Govan, goal keeper Susan Watson and centre Lauren Barker. The team will now face Lake Wendouree at 1.15pm, September 6 at Eastern Oval. Left: Sarah Govan dominated the game. Above: Goal Attack Tayler Drevensek reaches for the ball while Goal Shooter Bernadette Walsh looks on. Photos: Renee Robinson

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A first quarter drubbing of Sunbury on August 29 proved that Darley was the team to beat. The Devils kept the young Lions scoreless and advanced into the second quarter 34 to 0. Sunbury proved they weren’t just happy to be in the finals in the second quarter, keeping the ball down their attacking end most of the term and forcing Darley’s defenders to earn their keep. Great defence allowed the Lions only one goal, while Rhys Ellis and Dane Grenfell scored for the Devils down the other end, extending Darley’s lead out to 48 to 9 at half-time. A three goal third term from Lyons, Inglis and Page for the Devils stopped any momentum by the Lions and Darley went into the final change 70 to 17. In the fourth quarter Grenfell kicked his fourth for the day, Ellis kicked his third major and sealed the game for the Devils. Final score was 84 to 22. Darley will now meet Redan today at Eastern Oval for the semi-final and the chance to book an early grand-final spot. Above: Steven Kennedy and Harley Inglis show Sunbury who’s boss. Right: Jake Edwards lands a mark. Photos: Renee Robinson

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A warning to readers. What you’re about to read may sound familiar... Don’t underestimate the power of words. Again, two local organisations have created mayhem and angst in the community by their poor choices of words, and poor communication. Bacchus Marsh Grammar has applied for a planning permit through the City of Greater Geelong to expand its educational facilities at a property at 155 Staughton Vale Rd, Anakie. The purpose is for an agricultural and environmental centre for agri science, natural history, geology, viticulture, outdoor education. The students will be bussed out from the Bacchus Marsh Grammar campus. However, on all of the documents lodged by Sphere Planning on behalf of Bacchus Marsh Grammar, it’s stated that the purpose of the application is for the development of a primary and secondary school. And the Geelong media have had a field day (no pun intended). After speaking with principal Andrew Neal (page 6) the real story came out, however Andrew admitted that perhaps the school had been too open about considering the potential options for the new, adjunct campus in 20 to 30 years time. One of those options was for a second school campus for up to 1300 students IF, and only if, there was a demand in the future for another school in the growth triangle of Moorabool, Geelong and Golden Plains shires. He was clear that in his tenure as principal and even the tenure of the next principal, that wouldn’t happen.

Ballan District Health and Care has introduced a co-payment fee of $23 (story page 3) to supplement the incomes of its senior doctors and attract other senior doctors. The CEO and board of management held a community meeting after the decision had been made, and the anger from the community was palpable. I spoke to the CEO Wayne Weaire for an hour and-a-half (thank you Wayne for your time!) the week following the meeting to try and figure out what exactly the payment was for and why it was needed. In the end he convinced me and I trusted he was doing the right thing for the hospital. However, if the CEO and board had done their due diligence before the decision was made (and I’m not convinced they did) and involved the community in the process - or even presented the community with two or three alternatives - then they would not be facing the backlash they currently are. If they’d been open and honest with their communication and more transparent about the situation, instead of giving the community one month’s notice about a decision that is a ‘fait accompli’ (Wayne’s words), the community may have supported them. Instead, poor communication has caused the hospital a lot of damage which will only be seen in the months to come when the attendance levels, co-payment figures, and health implications are evident. The introduction of a co-payment in Daylesford caused a mass exodus of community members who are now presenting themselves at other hospitals, including Ballan. Will this co-payment cause a mass influx of patients at the Bacchus Marsh bulk-billing clinics? I suspect it will and will report on it when it happens.

Scoop

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