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Front cover: Barbara Manly will give an historical presentation at the 150th celebrations for St Andrews Church on October 25. Story page 6. Photo: Renee Robinson

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Dennis bought his first nursery in Bayswater in 1945, but is best known for establishing Norgates Plant Farm in Blackwood in 1958. “We bought eight acres for 470 pounds and ended up with eight employees. We used to grow thousands of delphiniums, but l liked all the plants the same.” No stranger to hard work, the 89-year-old began his working life when he was 14-years-old as a bricklayer. “I laid 250 bricks on the first day. I have enjoyed work. I hate holidays.” In part, Dennis’ strong work ethic has contributed to his successful career in growing plants. He is one of those rare nursery owners who grows plants directly in the ground because he believes this method produces the best, hardiest plants, although it is harder work for him. “I never potted a plant in my life. We used to dig them up from the ground for each order and we used to do 4000 mail orders a year. We were busy all the time. For six months we sold stuff and the other six months we planted stuff.” In 2001 he sold his nursery and downsized to three acres just up the road, where he immediately began growing and selling all kinds of perennials to Tesselaar and Smith and Gordon Wholesale Nursery. Six months ago he stopped selling to nurseries and began specialising in peonies, both tree and herbaceous varieties. He said the secret to successful growing was good feeding, drainage and water. “Peonies like a lot of manure, about four gallons every year and a gallon of lime while dormant. If they’re growing you can also give them two or three handfuls of blood and bone. They’re like pigs; you can’t overfeed them. “I have seen 100 flowers on a clump and just a few leaves on others. It all comes down to feeding.” He expects this summer to be dry and said the plants would also benefit from “three to four inches of cane mulch”. Dennis has an amazing head for facts and figures and can reel off how much a pie cost when he was a kid (thruppence) and the names of people he went to school with. “Seven of us still phone each other up on our birthdays each year. Some have already turned 90.” His constant and faithful companion these days is his six-year-old kelpie/heeler cross, Sally. Between Sally and the peonies, Dennis is outside every day and continues to stay active in the lead up to his 90th birthday next June.

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Moorabool Shire mayor Paul Tatchell (left) and Member for Melton Don Nardella test the new equipment. Photo supplied.

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From left: Sue Arnold, Colette Carless, Roberta Morton and Merryn Morris play for a cause. Photo: Renee Robinson

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Garage Sale & Car Boot Sale Sunday, November 15, 8am - 2pm Entrance fee for car boot sellers $20 Assortment of goods for sale Phone 0409 863 911 to book your car boot space

Lady president of the Bacchus Marsh Golf Club, Judy Cox, said 54 ladies attended the charity day to help fundraise to fight breast cancer as part of Jane McGrath Month. “We chose this charity because with one in eight women having breast cancer, we have all been affected either directly or indirectly,” Judy said. “The ladies played a team golf game called Texas Ambrose and a separate Pink Ball competition. The winners of the Texas Ambrose were a team of four ladies from Trentham and the Ballarat team won the Pink Ball competition.” She said teams who supported the day were from Bacchus Marsh, Bacchus Marsh West, Melton, Trentham, Ballarat, Kooringal, Kyneton and Goonawarra. “The day raised $630 for the McGrath Foundation and the Bacchus Marsh men will be playing a ‘pink ball’ event on October 31 to raise additional funds for this great cause.” She said the lady golfers held a charity day each year and last year’s main charity was Ovarian Cancer. “We also played a Pink Ball competition in October and raised money for the McGrath Foundation.” Romano Realty sponsored the event on October 9.

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Balliang East Primary School students Elise, Tahnie-Jai and Daniel prepare their entries for the show. Photo: Renee Robinson

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shops and demonstrations. The show was founded by Joce Williams in 2014. Joce was a long time supporter of the Agriculural Show until it ended in 2000, and her vision was to re-institute what was always a successful part of the agricultural show. Show organiser Jock Taylor said people could drop their entries off to the hall between 7am and 9.30am on Saturday and the show would be open to the public from 12pm until 5pm on Saturday, and 9am to 4pm on the Sunday. All proceeds from the day will go towards an aquatic centre for Bacchus Marsh. For more information go to www.bacchusmarshhorticultureshow.org

Ballan Bowling Club president Scot Nicholson (left) and secretary Alan Gathercole at the Thursday night Barefoot Bowls, Ballan.

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Marsh, were preceded by a self-guided tour of several of the original Vallence properties in the district. The oldest surviving Bacchus Marsh Vallence, George (Podge), an avid family historian, was acknowledged and applauded by the 120 strong crowd, who also had fun finding their name on the large family tree posted around the wall. A possible derivation of the Vallence (Valence) name and its French connections, was raised by Bernard Vallence, a descendant of Henry, and son of “Soapy’ Vallence, and a brief oral presentation of the three family lines were given by Michael Vallence (Packington), Suzanne Murray (James) and Rhonda Robinson (Henry). A couple of traditional Irish songs, unaccompanied, were presented by Peter Vallence, another son of “Soapy” Vallence, and an update on the Irish ancestry was eloquently presented by Marina Hennessy (Packington) who also oversaw the afternoon. A wonderful happy day, to be repeated soon!

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es to the land, oceans and atmosphere. Generally we are an intelligent species. We developed from a cave-dwelling nomadic species to a farming species about 12,000 years ago when agriculture was first practised. We then cleverly worked out how to use coal to drive the Industrial Revolution and forged ahead at great speed to develop the fossil fuel based economy of the last century. In the scheme of things the oil age is only a blip in evolutionary time, about 200 years. We have now learned that fossil fuel burning has a down side – climate change. We now know it is time to move to the next stage in human civilization – the renewable energy stage when solar, wind and hydrogen will produce our electricity and run our vehicles and industries. We, the intelligent species, can and need to move to the next age and many countries, businesses, communities and individuals are doing this. We are all becoming more educated about ways to lower our fossil fuel use, change to renewable energy systems, be water efficient and generally reduce our ecological footprint. Maybe you are participating in the three day conference in Castlemaine this weekend involving international and local speakers www.locallivesglobalmatters.org . Maybe you will join the thousands of people in rallies all over Australia on Friday, November 27 (5.30pm Melbourne CBD) to encourage our government to take more positive action on climate change and represent our views in Paris at the global convention on climate change later in the year. Maybe you will join the Moorabool Environment Group (MEG) and work with us towards a lower carbon, cleaner future. There are plenty of opportunities so join in the ground swell of people who are thinking globally and acting locally to move into the next stage of human development – a greener, cooler future. E\ok DffiXYffc <em`ifed\ek >iflg d\\k`e^1 K_lij[Xp FZkfY\i )0 Xk 9XZZ_lj DXij_ C`YiXip AXd\j Pfle^ Iffd# .%*'gdÆ 0gd% 8cc n\cZfd\% nnn%dffiXYffcd\^%fi^%Xl

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The moment the fire jumped the Grampians on January 17, 2014 and the aftermath below.

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