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Flower power THE colours of the Bendigo Native Flower Show will be in full bloom on the first weekend of September. About 200 varieties of native plants and much more will be on display. - Story Page 3
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BENDIGO Health will employ an additional 220 people in the first 12 months after the $630 million hospital opens, and up to 1000 extra staff in its first decade of operation. State government top-up funding of $32.17m to Bendigo Health’s 2016-17 operating budget allows the hospital to immediately recruit the staff it needs to run a significantly larger hospital. Mayor Rod Fyffe welcomed the employment boost, adding that it ensured a rise in services at the hospital.
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“It is always good to hear when local jobs figures are going to receive a boost,” he said. “The announcement by the state government is fantastic news and I hope many local people and those from the surrounding regions are successful, should they apply for a job. “It also means an increase to the services provided by the hospital, which is wonderful for ensuring the health and wellbeing of
our community.” Member for Bendigo East Jacinta Allan this week confirmed the new jobs would provide a significant boost to the local economy. “These extra jobs came about because there was additional funding in this year’s (state) budget to provide for services in the bigger Bendigo Hospital,” she said. “This hospital is being built for the needs of our region now but it is
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going to have the capacity to grow in the future.” Ms Allan said the hospital would lead to the creation of 1000 new jobs in the next 10 years. She was also critical of the federal government for withdrawing funding from Bendigo Health’s operating budget. Bendigo Health’s acting chief executive Robyn Lindsay said that of the new jobs, 80 per cent would be nurs-
ing, 10 per cent medical and 10 per cent allied health professionals. “We have actually been preparing for this for years, we have been working with our local academic partners La Trobe and Monash (universities) to ensure a steady stream of new graduates,” Ms Lindsay said. “So we have had greater student activity over the past few years, we expect some local uptake of the opportunities but we also expect across Victoria and across Australia that people will relocate to work in this world class health facility.”
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for Bendigo to be Australia’s most liveable regional city. “Some highlights of this plan are the designation of areas for local business expansion, the allocation of more land for new industry, progressive redevelopment of the Eaglehawk Station and a plan for greening Eaglehawk’s streets,” Mr Douglas said. “Implementation of the amendment builds on a number of existing plans and strategies, and will both protect the character of Eaglehawk and open up opportunities for future development.” The planning scheme amendment to implement the plan includes rezoning 17 properties in Napier, Panton, Victoria and Market streets from commercial to residential, to
Expressions of interest are open until Wednesday, September 7. Visit www.bendigo. vic.gov.au/cbd to submit your ideas or contact council’s Karen Cresswell at k.cresswell@ bendigo.vic.gov.au for more information.
ON THE MOVE: Development opportunities will open up in Eaglehawk. reflect current use and heritage values; setting new guidelines for the look of new development in the town centre; rezoning land south east of the Eaglehawk Landfill to Industrial to support development; rezoning various Crown Land parcels to protect land for forests, parks and recreation, and protecting both residential and forested areas by applying development guidelines. IDEAS for business, events or simply socialising are being sought by council as it seeks submissions on how to better utilise public spaces in the city centre. Locations such as Hargreaves Mall, Sidney Myer Place, the Civic Gardens and various laneways in the CBD are the
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ONE of Victoria’s most respected strategic planners wants Greater Bendigo to embrace potable recycled water as a means of ensuring the city’s future water security. Greater Bendigo strategy manager Trevor Budge was made a member of the General Division of the Order of Australia for his services to town planning, and particularly to the development of regional and rural communities in Victoria, and to education in 2011. During a presentation to this month’s Bendigo Writers Festival and in a subsequent interview with the Bendigo Weekly earlier this week, Mr Budge said the introduction of recycled water was inevitable. “I often look at these problems and I think to myself 50 years from now, when every city’s got potable
recyclable water, people will look back and say what was all the fuss about and then they’ll hopefully say oh yeah, that was something Bendigo pioneered you know,” he said. “I would have thought that state and federal government, even though they won’t talk about it, they would actually love somebody to do it, and I reckon they’d actually come behind you and they’d back you with resources because they know in their own heart this has got to happen, and so they’re not going to force anyone or any city to do it.” He said the experience of Toowoomba, where a plan to implement recycled potable water was defeated in a public vote a decade ago, had probably made governments more cautious, but that he believed society today was part of a more mature environment. Mr Budge said the impact of
climate change on water supplies could not be overlooked and that people have gone from a situation where they once never worried about water and just turned the tap on to one where the community as a whole has bought the idea that we need to conserve water. “I think we are mature enough and enough people have been overseas to realise that you didn’t die when you drank water in Europe that had been recycled and we are massively into recycling compared to where we were once and it’s about the only thing we are not recycling,” he said. Mr Budge said recycling water was something any forward-thinking, innovative city must consider. “A city that is trying to be selfreliant, trying to be sustainable and also trying to say we are an innovative and a smart city, what place
could call itself a smart city and not be looking at this as an option?” Asked if this was something looming on the council’s agenda, Mr Budge said discussions had been held about the need to look at water security, and that council knows it has to address its future growth. “We have got an agenda out there where one of the logical outcomes of the agenda is to say we have to recycle water as well,” he said. Mr Budge said the transition to recycled potable water was not a huge leap, rather a natural progression from where we are at. “We are dealing with finite resources and we are all into recycling.” He said the community was dealing with a finite resource and needed to think more creatively about how we use it.
Celebrating 100 years of memories IT is considered a blessing to have a centenarian in the family, and the Toma family in Eaglehawk is fortunate to count two. Harold Toma turned 100 yesterday, his late sister three years earlier. Such longevity says a lot about a family’s resilience, and also that they have a great store of stories. Mr Toma was a celebrated football player in his time, winning three premierships with Eaglehawk, the last as captain and coach when the league resumed after World War II in 1945. He worked with his father in the family’s eucalyptus distillery at Myers Flat, and then at the Bendigo Timber Factory for 25 years until 1981 when he retired. He raised five children with his late wife Thora, and can count 10 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren, the youngest Callum Anderson, who has just turned one. Mr Toma attended Callum’s birthday party last month, having caught the train from Eaglehawk to Southern Cross station where he was picked up by Callum’s parents. How else does he keep busy? Family members at a birthday lunch at Eaglehawk’s Victoria Hotel yesterday said by painting the fence, gardening, and walking down the street. “Pottering around, what I can’t do one day I can do the next,” Mr Toma said. “I have been fortunate along the way, good people around me all the time, family around me, family and friends.”
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“If we go to recycled potable water and why shouldn’t we… we’ve got enough water for the future.” Recycled water has been used by Coliban Water as an additional source of water in approximately 30 parks, public gardens, sporting grounds and school ovals throughout Bendigo, but is not treated to a standard where it would be suitable for human consumption. In a statement to the Bendigo Weekly, Coliban Water’s water quality performance and regulation general manager David Sheehan said potable reuse was not part of Victorian government water policy. “We have no plans to implement any potable reuse schemes, but are exploring potable reuse as one possible future option, amongst many future options, to support long-term water security,” Mr Sheehan said.
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HAPPY HAROLD: Harold Toma at his 100th birthday lunch. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
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THERE’S an old joke about how to propagate an emu bush: First, catch your emu. It comes from the common theory that the seeds of emu bushes – Eremophilas – must pass through an emu’s digestive tract before they will germinate. Whether true or not, the theory has bestowed one of Australia’s most outstanding plant genera with a common name that makes the emu bush intriguing for enthusiasts and amateurs alike. This year’s Bendigo Native Flower Show aims to show district gardeners that a common name is a misnomer for an uncommonly beautiful and versatile genus. There are more than 200 Eremophila species ranging from groundcovers to large shrubs and the Bendigo Native Plant Group plans to have a good selection on display at Rotary Gateway Park, Kangaroo Flat on Saturday, September 2 and Sunday 3. “While it’s a little early in the year for a lot of species to be in flower, we’ll certainly have a good range of flower colours and foliage types on display,” president Ian Evans said. “That will include different colours of the popular
Eremophila Maculata, or spotted Emu Bush, which is very easy to grow in and around Bendigo.” Mr Evans said the show would also feature around 200 floral specimens of Australian native plants grown in the district. “Many gardeners will be surprised at the variety of natives that will happily grow in our warm, dry climate and attract local birds to their garden,” he said. The show will also feature plant sales by local specialist nurseries as well as books and the group’s own popular selection of wattles. Enthusiasts and nursery personnel will be on hand to provide gardening ideas and advice. Pottery will also be on sale. “We’ve been running the show for more than 30 years now and it continues to grow,” Mr Evans said. “Thirty years ago the selection of natives for home cultivation was pretty limited, but these days there are many new cultivars that make it so much easier for people to embrace our native flora. People might be surprised.” Admission to the show is $3, children free, with opening hours 9.30am to 4.30pm on both days.
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BENDIGONIANS are at greater risk of heart disease than residents in most other municipalities in Victoria, and are in the top third of the most socially disadvantaged. The two realities are linked, according to community health professionals working to reverse the trend. It is reasonable to ask why it costs less to buy convenience food than it does to make a salad, said Andrea Sloane, director of healthy communities working for Bendigo Health. Ms Sloane said it took all of the community to educate a generation about healthy eating. Teachers, coaches and canteen managers were in the perfect positions to be influential generational leaders.
Bendigo Foodshare board member Jennifer Alden said with less than 10 per cent of residents eating the daily amount of vegetables, it is even harder when people struggle to put any food on the table. But connecting people, regardless of socio-economic status, through healthy food was becoming vitally important. “One thing we know is that when people (especially kids) grow their own food, they are more likely to eat vegies,” Dr Alden said. She and Ms Sloane both recognise the urgency of health issues in Bendigo, the latter saying without wanting to cause alarm, that the rising prevalence of diabetes in Victoria made it an epidemic. Australian heart maps, released by Heart Foundation Victoria,
showed Bendigo had the second highest proportion of people admitted to hospital for heart-related conditions including heart attack, heart failure and angina in Victoria between in a two-year period between 2012 and 2014.
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for a serious heart event every year,” foundation chief executive KellieAnn Jolly said. “Those regions that rate in the top hotspots are areas where a large proportion of residents are of significant disadvantage.
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The Shepparton region, including the Campaspe shire, has the state’s highest heart admissions rate at 59 per 10,000 people. “If people living in Victoria’s top four hotspots had the same hospital admission rate as the state average, there were would be at least 680 fewer people admitted to hospital
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“This disadvantage includes a person’s access to education, employment, housing and social support.” Breaking down the reasons behind Bendigo’s higher than average hospital admission rate, the maps revealed the region also rated poorly in risk factors for heart health
problems. A staggering 91 per cent of Greater Bendigo residents do not eat the minimum healthy five portions of vegetables a day and 60 per cent eat less than two serves of fruit a day. Smoking at the time of the study were more than 20 per cent of residents, more than 28 per cent did insufficient exercise and 60 per cent were overweight or obese. Ms Sloane said the health message was effective when it was consistent at school, in the community and at home, where some time-poor parents relied on pre-packaged meals. “People think they have to be a Master Chef to provide food for their family,” she said, adding that eating a healthy balance of the food groups was more important.
Food choices in the spotlight BENDIGO residents are contributing to a groundbreaking study that could change the way food is presented in supermarkets by leading shoppers to healthier food choices. Researchers from the Global Obesity Centre at Deakin University are testing how shoppers respond when healthy products are promoted and the influence of in-store promotions at check-out displays, in aisle placements and island bins. If the study shows the strategies promote more sales of healthier food, at no cost or at greater profit to retailers, the researchers say it could have profound impact on the eating behaviours of people living in countries where supermarkets are the main source of food. The research is taking place in selected Bendigo supermarkets, (which the Bendigo Weekly has chosen not to name), with the support of the retailer, who provides sales data. The financial consequences for the retailer of promoting and selling healthier food is the data that has been missing from other similar studies. The Bendigo study is a collaborative project funded by local and state governments. “Opportunities to rigorously test and establish the effectiveness and economic feasibility of environmental interventions in the real world
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Hospital completion edges closer 3From Page 1 The new Bendigo hospital is due for completion in December and to open in late January. “Ten years in the making, we are starting to get close, you can start to feel the excitement,” chairman Bob Cameron said. “One thing we know, when we open this hospital, there will be an
enormous amount of interest across the region and some people who previously would have gone to Melbourne will come here and we have to make sure that we have the capacity to meet these challenges now and in the years ahead.” Mr Cameron estimated the 220 additional staff to be employed in the first 12 months of the new hospital’s operations would equate to about
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Event has faith in Bendigo The Bendigo Interfaith Council has been invited to host the Annual Conference of the Faith Communities Council of Victoria in November, 2017. Co-chairman of the Bendigo Interfaith Council Monsignor Frank Marriot said the conference usually attracts about 400 attendees and this will be the first time it has been held outside the metropolitan area. “We’re looking for support from the City of Greater Bendigo,” he said. “The conference will have a principle guest
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speaker who will be speaking to a theme and this will be followed by four workshops in the afternoon.” The Bendigo Interfaith Council consists of many faith groups including Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim people. According to Monsignor Marriot the sharing of food will be an important aspect of the conference. “We learn so much about each other by sharing different kinds of food,” he said. Monsignor Marriot
said interfaith councils are popular throughout Victoria and the development of Bendigo’s reflects the increasing diversity within our community. “We even have a small group of Quakers in Bendigo,” he said. Referring to the open dissent last year to the building of a mosque, Monsignor Marriot believes this was almost a blessed event. “The issue has woken up a number of people. We have to be a bit more different growing up in this world of ours,” he said.
WITH less than month to go before nominations close, City of Greater Bendigo council candidates are preparing a profile summary they will include in postal voting packs to be distributed in early October. Voters must have voted and returned their ballots by Friday, October 21 for their votes to count. In the Lockwood ward, creative industry professional Matt Emond said he could attribute to his Bendigo upbringing all the lessons and values he later brought to roles in education, health and the arts in Canberra and Melbourne. Mr Emond said when working interstate, he always felt proud of Bendigo. He decided to run for the council four years ago, he said, but rethought the decision after sustaining an achilles tendon injury while dancing to AC/DC. Mr Emond uses the anecdote to answer if his relationship with federal member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters left him open to charges of a conflict of interest. “I think people are smart enough in Bendigo to know that Lisa is an independent woman,” Mr Emond said. He was concerned about the lack of care council had shown some of the city’s organisations and cherished relics, citing as an example the
Chinese precinct archway that had to be dismantled for public safety. He grew up in Spring Gully but as a child visited his grandparents in Maiden Gully after whom Krausgrill Road was named. Mr Emond said he saw job and growth opportunities in the creative industries that he advised. “My vision is for a council that prioritises our grass roots
We need a new cohesive council sporting, cultural and community organisations and attract job opportunities for the region,” he said. Stuart Symes, who will nominate in the Whipstick ward, is concerned about the lack of respect councillors have for each other. “If they don’t have respect for each other, how do they have respect for the community,” said the businessman, born and raised in Bendigo. He wants to see a halt on major projects and an emphasis placed on maintaining roads and infrastructure.
“I have identified about $100 million over the next term of council that would benefit all ratepayers and wards,” Mr Symes said. “A four-year freeze on rates and charges/fees to go along with a staff freeze and a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. “We need a new cohesive council that will respect and represent the views of the community and be committed to a fair outcome for all.” Thomas Prince, also running for Whipstick talks about a 20–month apprenticeship when he contemplates his preparation for council nomination. The gridiron enthusiast, volunteer and community advocate has attended most formal and ward meetings since early last year when he started thinking about becoming a candidate. He works to earn a living but contributes his time to organised movements when he thinks he can add direction including, at the moment, the Neighbourhood Project which aims to build a DIY skatepark. “A lot of people can say they are on a lot of boards but I get involved in projects,” Mr Prince said. Aged 26, Mr Prince said he could “bring youth and rejuvenation back into the council”. He said he decided to start early and meet as many people as he could.
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THE 25 members of the citizens’ jury mulling over the City of Greater Bendigo’s next four years are starting to consider what recommendations should be contained in a report that will be presented to a newly elected council early next year. The fourth meeting of jurors, conducted last night in Huntly, did not include presentations from community groups, business and community interests or councillors. “We can work hard to find out what are the jury’s priorities and how to present our reports to the council in a formal format,” juror Michael, who spoke to the Bendigo Weekly identified only by his first name, said. The jury is an exercise in public consultation. The council appointed not-for-profit
agency newDemocracy to coordinate to get the views of residents representative of its local government area, and little heard from. The exercise is expressly designed to be at arms length from the council, and to be transparent although the Bendigo Weekly was
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capping, sustainability and local business statistics,” Michael said. Another juror, Veronica, confirmed that at the half way point and with the two meetings to go in September, the jury was making headway with the report. “There are a lot of different skills and ex-
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asked to only use the first names of jury members and not to attend the first meeting. Michael said the jury heard from councillors Rod Fyffe and Helen Leach who told them it was important to maintain the current level of services including roads, parks and waste disposal. “We as jurors have expressed our concerns over innovations, rate
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pertise in the group that assists in discussions and prioritising,” she said. “I enjoy breaking into small groups to discuss and plan how we are going to put the report together and what our recommendations are going to be. “I felt a bit frustrated after the second meeting wondering what we were doing and why, but after the third meet-
ing I felt that we had made progress and were starting to get an idea of what will go into the report and what a privilege it is to represent the community to make representations on what council should spend our money on to shape the community’s future.” Rod said participating on the jury had been a “thoroughly rewarding process”. “The people who have come together right across the municipality have provided a rich diversity of ages and experiences, careers and concerns,” he said. “The aspect of the process that has resonated with me the most has been the passionate interest all the jurors bring to the process which is beautifully balanced with a strong level of respect which everyone accords to all others in the group.”
Top panel at refugee conference THE Rural Australians for Refugees group will host a national refugee advocacy conference in Bendigo next weekend. The two day event, to be held on Saturday, September 3 and Sunday, September 4, will bring together members of Rural Australians for Refugees groups from across Australia. It features a panel of speakers including refugee advocate Julian Burnside, AO, QC, Walkley Award winning journalists Ben Doherty, Nick Olle and former Bendigo Weekly editor Anthony Radford, as well as John and Margaret Millington, the couple who initiated the economic rejuvenation of Nhill when they encouraged Karen refugees to resettle in the community.
Mr Doherty, who started his journalism career in Bendigo, has worked and travelled extensively across the world reporting from more than 20 countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, and throughout the Asia-Pacific. In 2015, he was awarded an Oxford University Reuters Institute Fellowship and produced a research paper examining the impact of changing media and political discourses on public opinion of refugees and asylum seekers. Mr Doherty’s presentation will include a discussion on the importance of finding a unified voice in advocacy and the media’s portrayal of people seeking asylum. “People displaced from their
homelands lose rights and lose agency. Often, they are voiceless in public discourse, defined by the language used by others to describe them,” he said. “Their image – the public’s fundamental understanding of who they are – is created not by themselves, but by others.” He said the language used to describe asylum seekers today, such as “illegals” and “queue jumpers” was no accident. “Language is the fundamental basis for these policies. Words make worlds,” he said. “If someone is an ‘illegal’, then it gives a government not only the right, but, the prerogative to lock them up, to send them away, or to punish them.”
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Festival hard to beat BENDIGO hosted a range of musical events this week as Orchestra Victoria’s Bendigo festival returned to the city for the second year. A range of performances showcasing the orchestral talents were on show from locations as diverse and varied as Elmore Memorial Hall to the Golden Dragon Museum. Schools were involved throughout the week at a series of events that were staged throughout the city for the On The mOVe! program. Twelve of 13 events held from Monday were free, with only tonight’s final show at Ulumbarra
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A marathon effort MEN’S health and awareness will be at the forefront of a series of events over the next 10 days, all in the name of getting blokes to be more vigilant with their physical and mental wellbeing. The inaugural Men’s Health Marathon is being held over the next 10 days, coinciding with Bendigo Prostate Awareness Week. Prostate awareness week was marked by the unfurling of a banner on the Bendigo Bank building
on Wednesday. The marathon, coordinated by Bendigo Community Health Services men’s health nurse practitioner Peter Strange, began yesterday and continues through until the annual Father’s Day Run for Dad on Sunday, September 4. Events include a multicultural soccer match tomorrow, landmarks being lit blue to raise awareness, a professional development session with GPs and events involving Head-
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FORMER AFL coach and player Terry Wallace will be the main attraction of the inaugural OTIS Blokes before the Bounce event, at Strathdale’s Hashtag bar on the eve of the AFL grand final long weekend. OTIS Foundation’s Rachel Mason encouraged local men to get behind the event, which aims to raise funds to support the organisation and its work to support women and their families who have been impacted by breast cancer. “The OTIS Foundation now operates across five states, making close to 4,000 nights available at no cost at its 36 retreats to women living with breast cancer and their loved ones,” Mrs Mason said. “While breast cancer is clearly regarded as a disease mostly affecting women, it is the support we are able to provide to the whole family that really makes a difference. Often
work and lifestyle. Overall, men in rural areas are more likely than their urban counterparts to experience chronic health conditions and risk factors. Male deaths increase with remoteness. “Our message is simple. Get out, get active and get yourself checked regularly – that’s the best way to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Sadly, too many men don’t take this seriously enough and we have to change that.”
it’s the partners and the kids that get the most out of staying at an OTIS retreat and taking some time away from the highly emotional challenges of living with breast cancer.” The Hindsight Club is a major sponsor, while other organisations including the Bendigo Bank and the Bendigo Weekly have also shown their support by backing the night as well. ‘’There will be some great auction items and prizes on offer and what’s more, people can stick around after the event and watch the AFL grand final Footy Show on Hashtag’s big screens,” event MC Brendan Baker said. The OTIS Blokes Before the Bounce event starts at 5pm on Thursday, September 29. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased from the OTIS Foundation office in Fountain Court, by calling 5444 1185 or online at www.otisblokes.gofundraise. com.au
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YOUTH IN FOCUS AT COUNCIL EVENT COUNCIL is calling for young leaders to attend its 2016 Youth Summit on Wednesday, September 7. Mayor Cr Rod Fyffe said the summit provided an opportunity for young people to come together and discuss the issues that are important to them. The summit is in its third year and will feature former Carlton footballer and founder of mentoring program Outside the Locker Room Jake Edwards and radio presenter Erin Ryan. Registrations can be made through www. yobendigo.com.au
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UPON REFLECTION: Paul Guest looks at some of his artwork on display. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN FORMER Family Court judge and Olympic rower, Paul Guest QC, grew up with artists and has an abiding respect for their work, a respect and appreciation which is reflected in the paintings from his private art collection currently hanging in the Bendigo Art Gallery. “I appreciate that the journey for artists is, at times, a demanding and tortuous one and I trust that in some small way I have and will continue to assist them to achieve their full potential,” Mr Guest said. Mr Guest has collected more than 400 pieces of art and while he has two houses there still isn’t
room to hang them all.”It’s a matter of rotating them,” he said. Looking around at the way his collection has been hung at the Bendigo gallery he was obviously thrilled to see his paintings breathe easy. “Look at that Paul Patois painting over there (Calendar Painting),” he said. “I think he was one of the best abstract painters in Australia. I often wonder how he made the first stroke, what was motivating him? This painting is filled with so much light, I just love it.” Other artists’ works on display from Mr Guest’s private collection include those of Robert
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New curator for RSL By Dianne Dempsey
Kirsten McKay has been appointed as the new museum curator of the Soldiers Memorial Institute Military Museum in Pall Mall. The former curator of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Ms McKay’s experience and professionalism has been sought by the Bendigo District RSL (BDRSL) to lead the museum’s team. BDRSL president Cliff Richards and general manager Martin Beekes welcomed the new appointment in the weeks prior to the state governments announcement of $1.5 million in funding which will ensure the $4.5m renovation and extension of the museum now become a reality. Ms McKay said it was a wonderful time to take on the new curatorial role. “I have an open slate and this is such a fantastic collection,” she said. “My first job will be to pack up and collate the collection, prior to the re-development. This will probably take about six months and it will be the perfect opportunity to research the collection and enhance the story.” Ms McKay is particularly pleased to be working with the previous
fresh outlook: Kirsten McKay, with previous curator Peter Ball. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN curator of the Soldiers Memorial Museum, Peter Ball. “Peter’s enduring passion to the museum is shown through the collections comprehensive labelling and his continual commitment to host school groups,” she said. “I’ll also be working with a wide range of volunteers. These are mostly veterans from the post-’75 group and we have five
Second World War veterans helping us as well. “We will also be working with Bendigo Heritage, the Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Tourism and the Golden Dragon Museum. “The Chinese soldiers who came from Bendigo are often overlooked.” Ms McKay said the museum will be setting up IT orientated, interactive displays in the future.
“That’s not to say there aren’t already many great programs in place. “Over 3000 students have been through the museum in the last 18 months.” The museum is looking for volunteers to assist the curator with the relocation of the collection. For more information and to register your interest contact the museum on 5442 4513.
Fortuna to host Fistula pioneer DOCTOR Catherine Hamlin, renowned for her work with fistula patients in Ethiopia will be a guest of Fortuna Villa’s owners, Paul and Lisa Banks next month. Dr Hamlin, the founder and director of Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia, has devoted more than 50 years of her life to improving the lives of Ethiopian women. Her particular focus has been to ensure the health and dignity of mothers who have endured the trauma of fistulas caused by childbirth injuries. “Fistula is totally preventable,” Lisa said,“that’s why we are hosting a High Tea, to help raise funds to ensure that Dr Hamlin’s work is carried on so no woman has to endure such an injury.” Through their charitable trust, The Children of Ethiopia, Paul
dedicated: Dr Catherine Hamlin. and Lisa have long supported the Ethiopian people and organi-
sations such as Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. Paul has visited Dr Hamlin’s facility in Ethiopia himself. “Spending time with the young women, babies and Dr Hamlin’s team is something I will never forget,” he said. “Knowing Dr Hamlin’s work to repair birth injury ensures women can go back to their villages not suffering social exclusion makes raising money for her work an honour.” Fortuna Villa’s “High Tea for Hamlin” will take place on Sunday, September 11 at 2pm. The event will include a fashion parade and door prizes. Bookings are essential and can be made by contacting Lisa at lisa@regionalreach.com or on 0429 397 551.
AT GIRTON, STUDENT WELLBEING COMES FIRST After 5 years of teaching a world-renowned Emotional Intelligence program, Girton Grammar School is reaping the benefits, with a recent survey of Senior students conducted by the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence revealing that Girton students feel accepted, grateful and happy when at school. This is in stark contrast to the same survey findings for 49,000 American high school students who described being tired, bored and stressed at school.
Girton Grammar is the first Australian school to adopt Yale University’s internationally renowned “RULER” approach, which teaches young people to Recognise, Understand, Label, Express and Regulate their emotions. This approach to Emotional Intelligence, combined with an outstanding Student Wellbeing Program and our much loved House system, helps to create a sense of belonging for every student in our school community.
Come and see for yourself how a great school looks, sounds and feels during a school day. To find out more call the school Registrar, Mrs Louise McWaters on 5441 3114, email: louisemcwaters@ girton.vic.edu.au or see our website: girton.vic.edu.au
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Smooth sailing for yacht club WITH water levels rising at Lake Eppalock, the Bendigo Yacht Club is gearing up for what it hopes will be a bumper summer season. The club, situated on the shores of Eppalock, has seen a decline in membership as water levels have dwindled in recent years. However recent rain has spirits high, and the club is calling on anyone who has ever thought about sailing to come and give it a try. “Bendigo Yacht Club has a fully accredited sailing school for beginners up to experienced sailors in very modern Pacer or Opti yachts to learn on,” Bendigo Yacht Club’s Warren Matheson said. “You might be very surprised at how little you need to get started on a sailing adventure or jump on board with a member and
give it a go.” While the club does hold races during the summer most Saturdays, social sailing is a big part of its fabric. The club also hosts trips both within Victoria and interstate, taking their boats to explore lakes, rivers and coastal waters. Race day positions on the rescue boats are also up for grabs for those who prefer horsepower over that of the elements. “Lake Eppalock is fast filling up and this coming sailing season is promising to be one of the best,” Mr Matheson said. The season opens on October 8, and the club is holding a Discover Sailing Day on November 13. For more details visit the club’s website at www.bendigo. yachting.org.au
HIGH SPIRITS: Lake Eppalock is filling up.
ON THE JOB: (From left) WDEA’s Ivan Crisp, Simon Flavelle, Boris Murgers owner Paul Morris and Jennifer Gamble.
Work without barriers SIMON Flavelle just got his licence – on Independence Day, he says with a smirk – and life is about to get sweeter for the Bendigo hospitality worker. Jennifer Gamble has career ambitions and, like Mr Flavelle, she is set to achieve them after receiving the support she needed to gain long term employment. Paul Morris, owner of Boris Murgers Cafe Bar in View Street, has employed Mr Flavelle and Ms Gamble after periods supported by government employment subsidies for workers with barriers, a
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process facilitated by notfor-profit placement agency Western Districts Employment Access. WDEA works with job seekers linked to Centrelink and who have barriers, ranging from physical to mental health issues, to finding long term employment. Business development officer Ivan Crisp said placements do not always end as well as they have for the two newly long-term employed cafe workers at Boris Murgers. He said placing a worker with barriers required knowledge of the employer and the
employee in order to make a good match, and supporting both if the going got tough. It could mean trying another placement if it was not working for an employee, or refusing to send trainees to an employer who was exploiting the subsidy benefits. Mr Morris said as soon as you paid an employee a full wage you expected a full contribution, but assistance with wages meant he could afford to spend more time with a worker, and coach them into the role. “It means we can set realistic goals as well,” Mr
Morris said. He added that if the placement didn’t lead to employment, he aimed always to give the trainee skills which they could take into other job opportunities. For Mr Flavelle, it has meant learning, as a disciplined process, the important job of cleaning a cafe and it will lead to other tasks because Mr Morris has employed him as a hospitality trainee. It will be part of Mr Flavelle’s job to train his replacement, another worker placed through WDEA, who started two weeks ago.
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Code of conduct fiasco As a former councillor, I’m flabbergasted at the recent sacking and reprieve of councils and individual councillors concerning allegiance to a code of practice. I believe that the state government approach has been ham fisted and unsubstantiated. It has applied a wrecking ball to crush a walnut. It appears to me that the government has given only general guidance to councils together with fixed times to have the matter resolved. The resulting codes of conduct seem to vary greatly from council to council, as well as directing slack detailed administrative requirements. Delaying the matter until February 2017 is sensible, but other determinations are required in the interim to make the system viable and workable. I’ve studied the City of Greater Bendigo code of practice (via website) and honestly, I would have great difficulty in adherence to this code of conduct which is imprecise, incomplete and unsupported by referred documents, and definitions. You could drive a Sherman Tank through the expected councillor conduct. Sure, adopted council policies will vary between councils, and should be appended as current and appropriate, but the expected conduct of councillors should not vary anywhere in the state and should be clearly enunciated by government – without any local emphasis or interpretation. Only then, can ratepayers, councillors, councils, and prospective councillors be positively clear as to expected attitudes and behavior of elected members of council Bruce Phillips, Maiden Gully
Volunteers wanted This year’s Maldon Folk Festival is from October 28-31, the weekend prior to the Melbourne Cup. There will be another great lineup of performers including Martyn Wyndam-Read from the UK, Joe Quinn from Scotland, Greg Champion, Fred Smith performing and launching his new book Dust from Uruzgan, Jodi Martin from SA, Sal Kimber & the Rollin’ Wheel, Jo-Jo Smith, the Haywood Billygoats, Claymore and many more. You can see the program and purchase early-bird tickets on the Maldon Folk Festival website at www.maldonfolkfestival.com
We are now calling for volunteers to work in the festival and for local Maldon residents to billet performers to ensure the festival runs as smoothly as possible. We particularly need more volunteer bar staff with current RSA certificates. If you would like to apply to be a volunteer, you can complete an online application form on the Maldon Folk Festival website. Applications close on September 30. For more information about volunteering, RSA training or to apply to billet performers, please call Evelyn Jackson on 0418 615 968. Evelyn Jackson, Maldon Folk Festival Committee
A write success Congratulations to everyone involved in delivering the fifth Bendigo Writers Festival. This year’s theme was “Much ado about… everything” and this fairly sums up the thought-provoking and entertaining three-day event. There have been many rave reviews from attendees about their experience at the festival and also their visit to Bendigo. I commend the festival organisers, especially artistic director Rosemary Sorensen, for their ability to attract such highly regarded authors, social commentators, journalists, artists and experts to Bendigo. At any point in the program, attendees were truly spoilt for choice. Our arts precinct was also humming with excitement and our excellent venues including Ulumbarra Theatre, Capital Theatre, La Trobe Visual Arts Centre, Trades Hall and the Engine Room were perfect for hosting the wide variety of guest speakers. How fortunate we are to have such an event in our city, where residents have access to a great creative and cultural experience and visitors can come and enjoy Bendigo and all it has to offer. Now to plan chapter six of the Bendigo Writers Festival. Cr Rod Fyffe, Greater Bendigo City Council Mayor BWF Chair
Citizens deserve thanks The Final Report of the Independent Review into the City of Greater Bendigo was released on August 15, 2016. Some interesting facts emerged: Total costs of the review: $2,371,334. Total savings: $6,602,168
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Key to waste I refer to the article “Bins roll out amid protests” published in the Bendigo Weekly, August 12. In this article resident Tony Hewatt threatened to deliver bins from supporters of his facebook page to the council’s front door. The article stated that Mr Hewatt had not applied for an exemption to the new service. Any resident considering joining Mr Hewatt is advised that if they
do return their new organic bin to council they will still be charged for the service on their rates notice if they have not applied for and received an exemption from the organics service. The new organics service is a compulsory service just like your waste and recycling services. Residents do not have the option to simply opt out. However, residents who can demonstrate that their household is effectively and intentionally managing all food and garden organic waste material on their property may be eligible for an exemption from the organics service. To apply for an exemption, residents must fill in an online application form at www.bendigo.vic.gov. au or collect one from the City of Greater Bendigo, 195 Lyttleton Terrace, Bendigo or phone 5434 6000 to have one mailed to them. The decision to introduce the new organics service was one that was not taken lightly by council. Council voted to introduce the service because it is a key action of the city’s 2014-2019 Waste and Resource Management Strategy which was subject to significant community consultation, and it is in-line with the state government’s statewide Waste and Resource Recovery Infrastructure Plan. In time all local government areas in Victoria are expected to implement systems to divert organic waste from landfill. The new service will also reduce
the current and future financial and environmental liabilities (currently over $3.4 million per annum and growing) that must be paid by the ratepayer to the state government each year for every tonne of waste that is sent to landfill. It is a fact that organic waste placed in landfill is the biggest cause of dangerous methane and other greenhouse gases and the city’s new organics service will result in 12,000 tonnes of organic material being recycled into re-usable compost each year which is a great outcome for the community and the environment. Ian Couper Interim Director Presentation & Assets, City of Greater Bendigo
Organic blunder The organic bin chaos continues to roll on with residents within the City of Greater Bendigo. Apparently residents can opt for a smaller bin instead of the full size bin that has been distributed to all residents within the Bendigo/ Marong areas. Once again why didn’t the council explain more openly and consult with the residents the option of a smaller bin for a start? This may have been more suitable for a larger number of residents, especially the elderly, or those in blocks of flats and units. Ivan Kitt, Bendigo
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Gold rush rolls on THE $630 million Bendigo Hospital project continues to roll on towards an expected, and highly anticipated completion date of just under five months’ time. Meanwhile, details continue to emerge around the scale of the economic impact the building, its workforce and the many associated industries that will support the hospital’s operations will have on our region’s economy. It’s not every day we hear of 220 job opportunities emerging for our city, or that the opportunity will extend to as many as 1000 new positions in the Bendigo Health workforce over the next decade. The economic benefit to Bendigo from this will arguably be bigger than almost any other major announcement since the gold rush that gave birth to our city more than 160 years ago. Perhaps only the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank can challenge Bendigo Health for this claim to fame,
Editorial Comment but either way, Bendigo is very fortunate to have two such icons at its service. Between them, these two organisations can lay claim to underpinning a generation of economic boom time that makes our city the envy of many others, not just in Victoria, but around the world. Like the bank, Bendigo Health ultimately serves a far greater catchment than just Greater Bendigo. The fact that more and more of us will no longer need to travel to hospitals in Melbourne for essential treatment because of new facilities that will be available at our own hospital after January, should come as good news for anyone who needs medical treatment. The hospital project is this city’s
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single biggest to date, and just as the Bendigo Bank building sits proudly in its place in the heart of the city, Bendigo Health’s emerging new hospital also dominates the horizon just out of the CBD. In recent weeks, the Bendigo Weekly has reported on how the built environment is being studied to see how it affects patient care. Design elements incorporated into the new hospital amenities will be monitored for their impact on services, as well as patient and staff welfare in a research project which also has global implications. Training opportunities for a broad range of medical specialities and fields have already been greatly enhanced in our region, and the opportunity for further improvements and relationships with providers can only increase once the new hospital comes on line. That’s not just a win for Bendigo, it’s a win for communities throughout regional Australia.
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THE motto may say faster higher stronger, but the reality is we have been conditioned to accept victory as the key ingredient to any Olympics campaign, and the only true measure of success. If it was truly only about being faster, higher or stronger – send anyone to Tokyo in 2020 and watch them do their best. They might set a personal record in the process, and have a fabulous time in doing so, but this will do nothing to satisfy the nation’s appetite for sporting glory. The Olympics are nothing like the occasion envisaged by Pierre de Coubertin, the French educator who is widely acclaimed as the founder of the International Olympic Committee, and the father of the modern Olympic Games, who famously wrote: The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete. The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not
to have vanquished but to have fought well. Pierre was right in everything he said about 120 years ago, but his message has been lost in translation due to the commercial interests that now dominate sport and have turned it into a big marketing commodity and an even bigger business.
ing the athletes and broaden the focus. There are enormous resources dedicated to the pursuit of Olympic medals, and coaches, psychologists and medical staff all have a major role to play in preparing the team for its mission to succeed. Their job was to get it right for Rio, and in some highly
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The reality is, not many things remain unchanged after 120 years The reality is, not many things remain unchanged after 120 years, unless they’re made of concrete or steel. Australians had the right to question why so much money was spent sending athletes to Rio who failed to produce their best form. It’s one thing to lose to a better athlete, but when you’re not on your game for the Olympics, someone needs to be held accountable and the athlete is seldom wholly to blame. It’s reasonable to think our best competitors were the ones in Rio, so we need to stop blam-
publicised cases, they didn’t. It staggers a lot of Australians that as a nation looking to be branded one of innovation, we have cut a lot of funding from institutions such as the CSIRO, we have chipped away at the meagre amounts we pay our most needy and under privileged citizens – an action that can only lead to even more entrenched hardship – but not enough questions are asked or accountability applied to the quest for sporting glory. twitter@peterkennedy23 pk@bendigopublishing.com
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Covered in feelings O you have strong feelings about car seat covers? I ask because I do, and I don’t have feelings about anything, usually, although I have in the past been hyper-sensitive to outdoor blinds and garden ornaments. About ideas – definitely – about behaviour and words and values – of course. But an emotional reaction to something as benign as a cover for a seat? Actually, I feel fiercely antagonistic towards car seat covers. I don’t like the loose ties that hang down at the base of the seat, I have never, ever seen a car seat cover that fits well. They inhibit seat belts, and the material moves when you slide in so you have to manoeuvre into an awkward wall sit to readjust it underneath you. The cheaper versions are made of material that produces enough static electricity to create sparks when you slide in wearing a similar synthetic. I wonder if Rod Fyffe has car seat covers? But here is where I confess I have them in my car, and it is because I am fairminded but maybe not forward-thinking. It’s because I don’t clean my car and I feel
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strongly enough about cleaning that whoever does it, gets what they want. Hey, I clean bathrooms and I want, and continually ask, my family to keep them clean. My neater, cleaner, more conscientious husband cleans the car and he insisted on seat covers, even though he now cleans them. I put conditions on the type of covers though – I insisted that they fit properly, and be made of natural fibre. He called his brother, who sold us the car, a Nissan, and he ordered the ones specially made for our car – the ones made of lamb’s wool. The price – well, let’s just say within 10 years, I am confident the covers will be worth more than the car. If it arises in the future, I will suppress any future strong feeling about things I don’t need but concede to because I won’t clean it. If I had rationally thought about it, the better investment would have been to have paid someone to clean the car, and saved myself the antagonism every time I slide into the front seat. Because I silently swear every time I get into my car – I really don’t like car seat covers. - Sharon Kemp
ARRY Manx brings his Australian tour to Bendigo’s Capital Theatre on Wednesday, September, 14. Described as an “essential link” between western and eastern music, Harry Manx’s unique sound blends the blues and classical Indian ragas. Manx’s signature instrument is the 20-stringed Mohan Veena which he mastered under the guidance of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, the instrument’s inventor. Manx spent 12 years in India immersed in the music and culture. “Indian music moves a person inward,” Manx said. “It’s traditionally used in religious ceremonies and during meditations because it puts you into this whole other place. “Like many people I’m interested in my own development as a person and that’s represented in my songs, I’m searching for truth through art and spirituality.”
Born on the Isle of Man, Manx moved to Canada as a teenager where he ventured into Toronto’s blues scene – initially as roadie. His colourful career includes busking in Europe in his early 20s. Manx’s prolific output includes 12 albums released in 12 years. He has notched up several blues and folk music awards in Canada. A fascinating evening is in store. Support comes from Luke Watt.
Stone’s Jim Martens said. Born of the Stone recently released debut EP Persona Non Grata – which is free to download at Bandcamp. They’ll be joined by Fires Were Started, Elusive and “funky punky” Melbourne outfit Eat The Damn Orange. A big night for a great cause.
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Kee and Jackson on show AN exhibition that revisits the sensational fashions created by Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson at their Flamingo Park Frock Salon in Sydney is currently on display at the Bendigo Visitor Centre’s Living Arts Space. City of Greater Bendigo tourism manager Kathryn Mackenzie said the exhibition celebrates Kee and Jackson’s exuberant and sensational fashion and textile designs from the 1970s and 1980s as well as some of their more recent work. The exhibition is open until November 6. To complement the exhibition Linda Jackson will hold a textile printing workshop/ talk and both artists will take part in an “In Conversation” event on Sunday, October 23 at the La Trobe Visual Arts Centre, View Street. Go to www. bendigotourism.com to book.
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FTER almost a year away from Bendigo, local duo Alanna and Alicia Egan are returning home to play a long-awaited gig at the Old Church on the Hill this Saturday. Since they were last in town the duo has played gigs and festivals across the country and jetted off to the US to endure weather well below zero at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City and soak up the famous musical atmosphere of Nashville and New Orleans. Alanna and Alicia are currently recording a new album as a tribute to singer/ songwriter John Beavis called Songs I’m Singing With Me. Beavis lived in Bendigo for a number of years but due to his mental health was unable to record some of his later works, so the girls have put their own spin on things in the record. “He wrote beautiful songs that we grew up hearing and
The All Aussie Vacation tour runs until October, pausing in Bendigo on Saturday, September, 3 at the Tap House in Bull Street. The tour comes off the back of Paces’ recent Vacation album which hit second spot on the iTunes electronic charts. He recently applied his trademark remix treatment to Kanye West’s Wolves. Paces’ performance on triple j’s Like A Version with Guy Sebastian has been viewed close to a million times. – Simon Wooldridge
OLD MATES: The John Flanagan Trio will play with the Egan sisters.
it’s a privilege to make this recording of John’s work,” Alicia said. “We also presented a show about John’s songs and life at the National Folk Festival in Canberra last year. It was very well received and that’s why we decided to record the songs as well.” The duo hits the stage at the Old Church – just up the road from the house they grew up in – with an old uni pal in John Flanagan and The John Flanagan Trio on Saturday night. Saturday’s show gets under way at 7.30pm, with tickets available at the door.
Gallery 369 GALLERY 369 Bendigo is once again proud to be working with Alcaston Gallery to present Provenance Does Matter: Living with Contemporary Art II from August 27 – 8 October 2016. Jaye Early will be present to discuss his performance
and painting practice. This is the second version of this thematic exhibition to be presented in Bendigo. It represents artworks with impeccable provenance in the true meaning of the word: a direct, chronologically unbroken link from the current owner to the new owner of the artwork. This exhibition offers the opportunity to acquire works by one of Australia’s most important Australian Indigenous artists, Sally Gabori. 369 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo.
Funky Arnold St Gallery VISIT Bendigo’s latest private gallery which has recently opened at 189 Arnold Street. The exhibition features the work of Julie Andrews who continues to explore spaces and travel. In her current exhibition, Neither Here nor There, she explores the psychological terrain of the liminal experience: the in-between space of travel, trance and moving through the banal of the everyday. Exhibition opening Saturday, August 27, 2-4pm. Gallery: Tues 10am-12pm, Wed 12pm-4pm, Thurs 12pm-4pm, Sat 1pm-3pm. www.arnoldstreetgallery. com
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More than an errand
Wild ride through the worst of zones
ATE in the 19th century the most humble office work was that of the errand boy. You will immediately notice the term “boy”, as no office manager would have, at that time, even considered to employ a girl. The sole female that was associated with the office would be the after hours cleaner who was extremely poorly paid, but many a widow would have been glad to obtain just a few shillings for doing practically any task. Back to the errand boy, he would be expected to arrive at the office in the colder time of the year very early in the morning, at least an hour before the regular clerical staff. He would have to bring in the firewood, set and light the fire. When the fire was well alight then there was the necessity to stoke it so that the chill was taken off the air. The errand boy who is my next subject, started at his office employment in 1894 at the well known mining company legal firm of McColl and Rankin. McColl and Rankin’s office at that time was in the City Family Hotel Building. The building faced High Street,
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and its tower projected into Charing Cross. At just over 16 years of age John Jepson Stanistreet was the new errand boy, he felt himself fortunate in obtaining a position. There was a depression in Victoria, following the collapse of the land boom. Mining for gold in Bendigo however remained strong and many companies were profitable partially brought on by improved mechanisation. Companies were increasingly using rock drills and their accompanying air compressors for mining and development. Born at Wangaratta on July 18, 1878 JJ Stanistreet attended the Wangaratta State School in Chisholm Street, opposite where the King meets the Ovens River. JJ’s father was working for the Victorian Railways and as such the family moved about the colony and later the state quite a lot. By 1893 the family had settled in Bendigo and JJ completed his schooling at the Gravel Hill State School. According to one of the students from the school, JJ was particularly bright and good at sports. An intelligent,
diligent errand boy was what the firm required and this they had. Young John Jepson Stanistreet was not to disappoint his employers. He had learnt to do filing for the many different mining companies under the business’s control. Regularly he went to the post office to dispatch call notices to shareholders, post cheques from the dividend paying mines, send telegrams to the Melbourne Stock Exchange with the latest developments in various companies. JJ went to the Bendigo Stock Exchange in the Beehive Building to inform brokers of developments. Occasionally he had to go and have company directors sign certain documents finding them frequently at the Sandhurst Club, then a rather exclusive gentleman’s establishment. The dark brown leather upholstered chairs and the limited light in the rooms along with the cigarette smoke that pervaded the air, gave the club an added sense of mystery. Through this errand boy’s work JJ came to know the
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then movers and shakers of Bendigo, of course these men would not acknowledge him in the same way as he would have to address them. He always had to wait for the right moment, before he could then with a very polite, “excuse me please sir, Mr McColl or Mr Rankin, kindly requests that you see this document and if it is suitable could it please be signed?” Once the document had been approved, and signed, young Stanistreet would bow politely, thank the person and take his leave to immediately walk briskly back to the office. John Jepson Stanistreet was sworn to secrecy, never to reveal anything that he had seen written or heard talked about, as this could change the fortunes of a company and its share price.
EATH, disasters, destruction, disease: Peter Stefanovic has endured the worst imaginable circumstances in some of the world’s most dangerous places in the course of his employment as a television news journalist. In a sensitive yet selfdeprecatingly humorous professional memoir, Stefanovic recounts the highlights and lowlights of his eight years as a foreign correspondent for the Nine Network, based firstly in Los Angeles and later in London as he covered events across North America, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Having followed his brother Karl into the media, the younger Stefanovic was posted overseas at the age of 26. Among his earliest assignments were bunkering down in Texas as Hurricane Ike swept ashore and interviewing distraught fans on the day Michael Jackson died. In 2010 he was despatched to Haiti while the earthquake that killed at least 100,000 people was still
reverberating. From London he travelled to South Africa for the original trial of Oscar Pistorius, to Norway in the wake of a fundamentalist gunman’s murder spree, to France as the hunt for the Charlie Hebdo assassins was in progress and to Iraq for a meeting with an all-female militia unit behind ISIS lines. Stefanovic takes readers for an edge-of-the-seat ride through the Arab Spring uprisings, the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship in Libya and the relentless warring of Gaza. He records the anguish generated by the carving up of Ukraine and describes the suffering wrought by the 2015 Nepalese earthquake. On the surface the “flak jacket” of the book’s title is literal: the body armour Stefanovic wears. More deeply, however, it is a perfect metaphor for the subconscious defences he erects in response to traumatic stress experienced week after week at work. – Rosalea Ryan
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changes to their houses they have to make changes to the garden as well and I can happily step in and do the garden work,” he said. Andrew encourages people to ask him about a wide variety of jobs. “No job is too big or small for me,” he says. “In Melbourne I used to work on mansions but I’m also happy to come in and work on smaller jobs. “If clients aren’t too sure about how to go about getting a job done I can give them advice and make recommendations regarding design and materials. “My quotes are also realistic and I’m punctual. “I work on my own, so I can assure customers I won’t be fobbing work off onto someone else. For versatility, reliability and reasonable quotes phone Andrew on 0411 388 333.
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(GVM) upgrades, and much more. Thinking; load levelling, mining specification components, ball joints, tie rod ends, bushes, drag links, rack ends? Think Pedders. For idler arms, pitman arms, 4WD swivel bearings, wheel hubs, think Pedders. They also stock a range of engine mounts, power steering lines, boxes and pumps, CV shafts and boots, new replacement and changeover control arms, sway bar ball links. There’s more to Pedders than you think. No matter what you drive, tow or carry, Pedders can improve your vehicle’s ride while maximising tyre wear and keeping you safe. Pedders Suspension, phone 5447 0009 or call into 13 Phillips Drive, Kangaroo Flat. Proudly local, proudly Bendigo. Nip into Natrad
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and garages, it is local and provides for easy collection of goods when needed. As the spring change of season and warmer weather approaches it is good to know that seasonally required items such as sporting equipment, tents and camping items can be stored safely and securely at Kangaroo Flat Storage. Built with up to date, high-quality security and protection of goods in mind, there are over 100 individual units and a wide variety of sizes ranging from 1 x 2 metres to 6 x 3 metres. These units can be hired on a short or a long term basis. You can find out more from this website www.kangarooflatstorage.com.au or call Cate on 5447 7788 or visit Kangaroo Flat Storage 33 Collins Street, Kangaroo Flat.
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budget adhesives and a large range of grout, silicone and accessories, enabling you to get all your tiling supplies at the one stop. Tiles Direct parent company, Tile and Carpet Court are now supplying blinds as well, so come in and see their fabulous range and book in for a very competitive free measure and quote. The friendly and helpful staff are there to help make your selection an easy process, with lots of good ideas and free advice. Tiles Direct opens Monday to Saturday from 8.30am. Tiles Direct Clearance Outlet is adjacent to Bendigo Tile and Carpet Court at 32 Humme Place, just across the road from Hume and Iser. Phone 5443 1011.
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what’s on... in association with KLFM radio 96.5FM Sunday 28th August The Bendigo Parkinson’s Support Group will hold a Walk in the Park at Lake Weeroona to raise funds for research into Parkinson’s Disease. Registration at 10am with step off at 11am. Donation is gold coin, with a sausage sizzle. Entertainment by the Bendigo Highland Pipe Band. Details: Glenis 5436 9293. Peter Sheahan’s walk up: afternoon of fun and entertainment. All door takings to vision Australia. Planned activities, all kinds of music, poetry, yarns, raffle. 1.30pm-6.00 pm. $10pp. All Seasons
Hotel Bendigo. Drinks at bar prices, for meal bookings ph 5443 8166. Afternoon tea supplied, lucky door prize. Walk up artists welcome. Bendigo Folk Club: Be early for the best couch featuring Jodi Martin at the Old Church On The Hill, Cnr Russell and Harkness streets, Quarry Hill. Doors open 2.30pm, showtime: 3.00pm. Details: www.bendigofolkclub.com Bendigo & District Concert Band: Spend the afternoon travelling the continents of the world through music – from Asia to Europe, Africa to America, then home to Australia. 2pm, St Mary’s Anglican Church, 193-195 High St, Kangaroo Flat. $5 pp. Monday 29th August Bendigo School Chaplaincy Annual Dinner : At The Wellington Hotel (formerly The Botanical) at White Hills, 6pm. Guest
speaker will be Bruce Claridge – Bendigo Sports Chaplain plus a panel. Booking and registration of $10 by Monday, August 21 to Ray or Rosalie on 5442 1732
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Southern Gateway Christian Church
Wednesday 31st August Dragon Boat Paddling – Come and try. We are a group of Breast Cancer Survivors who love to paddle and have fun. We would love to see all our past members and new breast cancer survivors come and join us, we don’t care if you are fit, young or old. Lake Weeroona, 5pm. Champagne and nibbles at 6.30pm. Details: Donna Harrison 0409 926 386 or Gwenda Pratt 0427 587 885.
Bendigo Newcomers hosts regular social activities as a way to meet new people & discover what the Bendigo Region has on offer.
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Call Maxine 0418 369 685 33rd Annual Arms & Collectables Show
MARINE
VHF RADIO COURSE (LROCP) 2 part course Part A: 3rd Sept, Part B: 10th Sept, Time 9:30 -3pm Held Raglan Pl Axedale Mark 0455 836 366
Classifieds 1300 558 385
FREE Pickup/Return Service from: Bendigo Railway Station, Eaglehawk, Golden Square, Kangaroo Flat & White Hills
EXTENDED TOURS
PUBLIC NOTICES
4d A Taste of Spring: Sep 19 .......................Ad $980 P/P $965
Door entry entitles patrons to 1 free entry into Handmade Patchwork Quilt Raffle
9d Flinders Ranges: Sep 27 .................... Ad $2995 P/P $2975
200 Trade and 40 Display Tables
7d Vic Harbor/Kang Island: Oct 4 ............... Ad $1995 P/P $1980
Variety of Collecting themes featured Militaria, Firearms, Custom knives, 3D Battle Art & Miniature Soldiers among sale items ATM available • On site catering all weekend
6d Sydney Train Special: Oct 8 ................. Ad $1580 P/P $1560 3d Griffith Festival: Oct 14 ..........................Ad $690 P/P $680 5d Barossa Valley: Oct 17 ...................... Ad $1295 P/P $1275 14d Tasmania (10d option): Oct 24 ........... Ad $4390 P/P $4375 4d King Island: Oct 25 ........................... Ad $2195 P/P $2180 3d Sydney featuring My Fair Lady: Nov 4 .................... Ad $900
VENUE: Bendigo Major League Multisports Complex, 1-3 Waterson Court, Bendigo
7d Albury to Echuca River Cruise: Nov 13 ... Ad $2790 P/P $2775
DATE: 27th & 28th August, 2016
6d Hunter Valley: Dec 22 ....................... Ad $1750 P/P $1725
ENQUIRIES: Greg or Richard 5443 5375 B/H President 5444 0093 A/H Mobile 0427 400 930
Community Kitchens:
ENTRY COST: Family $10, Single $5, Concession $4
ght for thou
Meals
and
Soup
Bendigo Community Health Soup Kitchen: 171 Hargreaves St, Bendigo. 5448 1600. Every Thursday 4pm-4.45pm. (In the arcade near Café De Mille)
5d See in 2017 in Batemans Bay: Dec 29 ..... Ad $1480 P/P $1460 8d Tamworth Country Music Festival: Jan 23 ..................$1975 6d Gippsland Lakes & Rivers Cruise: Mar 1 ....................$2395 5d Seaside Escape: Mar 20 ........................................$1350
Bendigo Baptist Community Care:
Food distribution:
PUBLIC NOTICES
Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre: 2 Humboldt Drive. 5442 1165. Wednesday morning (bread only). Saltworks Pantry: 63 High St, Eaglehawk (Eaglehawk Anglican Church). 0458 018 083. Pantry Tuesday 1pm-4pm, Wednesday 10am–4pm (not through January). St Vincent de Paul: 16 Hopetoun St Bendigo. 5443 5688. Kangaroo Flat – 117 High Street. 5447 9800
Do you want to give back to your community and help others? Lifeline Central Victoria and Mallee on behalf of Lifeline Australia - RTO 88036 is seeking
VOLUNTEERS to join its telephone crisis support team. We seek caring, committed people who are willing to undertake nationally recognised training in crisis support and community issues to make a contribution to our community.
UnitingCare Emergency Relief Centres: Bendigo – 25 Forrest St. 5443 4972. Mon/Tue/ Thur/Fri 10am-12.15pm and 1.30pm-3.45pm. Kangaroo Flat – Uniting Church Cnr. Church and Camp sts. 5443 5458. Tuesday and Friday 9amnoon.
Eaglehawk Community House: 19 Bright Street, Eaglehawk. 5446 8322. All welcome to join us for a meal on Tuesdays 12 noon and again at 6pm (during school terms). Kangaroo Flat Uniting Church: Cnr Church and Camp sts. K Flat. 5447 9998. Community lunch fourth Wednesday of month, February to October, except July, noon. Cost $5. Our Shed: 14 Sailors Gully Rd, Eaglehawk - 5446 8813. Every Friday 7.30am. November – April 14 Sailors Gully Rd, Eaglehawk. May – October 63 High St Eaglehawk (Anglican church hall) Kangaroo Flat Soup Kitchen: Rotary Gateway Park. Every Wednesday in March, 6pm-7pm
Victory Op Shop: 10am-4pm weekdays. 110 Garsed St. Bendigo. 5443 5998. Anglican Giving and Living Op Shop: Shed 3, 75 Beischer Street, Bendigo. Monday to Friday 10am - 4pm, Saturday 10am - 1pm. Ph: 0418 303 489
St Liborius Parish Centre: 50 Panton St, Eaglehawk. 5446 8235. Tuesday 11.30am (during school terms).
Toll Free: 1800 033 068
35 McDonald Street, Numurkah 3636
TRAVEL DAY TRIPS
Tuesday 30 August 2016 at 6.00pm at the Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre 121 View Street, Bendigo
19 Wheeler St, Shepparton BENDIGO PICK UPS PROVIDED
CANBERRA FLORIADE
Thurs 8th Sept..................................................$85
5 Days 6th Oct .......................$1050 t/s
Wed 19th Oct .................................................$85 XMAS PARTY - BAROOGA Sun 4th Dec ....................................................$77
2016 TOURS KANGAROO ISLAND Victor Harbor 7 Days 8th Sept .....................$1985 t/s
To confirm your attendance: email: enquiries@lifelinecvm.org.au
Call or SMS 03 5443 1330
FULL LIST OF TRIPS OUT NOW
2016 TOURS
SPANNER MAN - BOORT
EYNESBURY HOMESTEAD
and
0427 417 935
13d Discover Thailand: Jan 27, 2017....................................$4600 9d Norfolk Island: Mar 2, 2017 .......................................$3950 19d New Zealand: Mar 7, 2017 ....................................... $5685 17d China: May 3, 2017 ...................................................$7725 15d Kenya & Tanzania: July 14, 2017 ............................$11250 25d Europe: Aug 16, 2017 .............................................$11990 16d Vietnam: Oct 27, 2017 ..............................................$6600 P/P = Past/Pensioner *Prices based on Twin Share (other Options available)
Information Night
Bendigo Campus
INTERNATIONAL TOURS Includes flights & most meals
Saltworks Community Meal: 63 High St, Eaglehawk (Eaglehawk Anglican Church). 0458 018 083. Every Friday 5.45pm (not through January or public holidays).
If you feel this may be you, please come to our
Information Night is sponsored by
** MORE GREAT TOURS AVAILABLE FOR 2017**
Life Essentials: 214 Hargreaves St, Bendigo 3550. 5441 4747. Every Tuesday 7.45am.
FLINDERS RANGES Peterborough - Broken Hill 7 Days 14th Sept ...................$1495 t/s
MURRAY RIVER RUN Goolwa to Renmark 7 Days 20th Oct .....................$2295 t/s MY FAIR LADY IN SYDNEY 3 Days 15th Oct ......................$990 t/s MY FAIR LADY IN SYDNEY 4 Days 25th Oct ....................$1250 t/s HUNTER VALLEY Christmas Lights 7 Days 16th Nov ....................$1750 t/s
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EMPLOYMENT
Distribution Co-Ordinator PART-TIME POSITION Key Skills • Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people • Excellent communication and strong problem solving skills • Ability to self motivate and work largely unsupervised • Strong computer skills • Attention to detail with the ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines Key Tasks • Co-ordinate Bendigo Weekly insert bookings • Recruitment and management of all walkers • Co-ordinate weekly delivery of the Bendigo Weekly Newspaper • Must have a driver’s license and forklift license preferable Based in Bendigo, the successful candidate will be rewarded with a competitive salary. Days worked will be negotiated with the successful candidate. Applications in writing to: Finance Manager Bendigo Weekly PO Box 324 Bendigo 3552 or email julie.batey@bendigopublishing.com Applications close Monday, August 29, 2016.
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Tax Time
2016 ADVERTISING FEATURE
Taxation changes can prove costly WITH more than 18 years of experience in accounting Karen Wellington of Wellington Tax, offers a fast and efficient solution to all of your accounting needs for both business and personal needs. So if you are seeking a professional and simple approach to your tax and accounting needs, look no further than Wellington Tax. Karen says the winners this year are small business entities with the recently announced instant asset write-offs, for assets costing less than $20,000 exclusive of GST. “This can also be claimed if your depreciation pool is less than $20,000 at the end of the year,” Karen said. “The date for this purchase must be after 7.30pm on the May 12 2015 until the end of June 2017.” Karen also warns all employers they also have to be ready for Super Stream. “It does take time to set up but once set up it only takes a few minutes each time.” There are also changes regarding motor vehicle expenses with a reduced kilometre rate of 66 cents for motor cars up to a maximum for 5000 kilometres Karen said.
“Clients can use this rate or the log book method where you need to keep all receipts associated with your vehicle and claim the percentage that is work related. ”The medicare levy has also risen to two per cent.” Further changes include the administration of MyGov, where from now on your tax agent will not be receiving your assessment notice in the mail. The Australian Taxation Office will instead be sending it directly to you electronically. “If you decide to lodge your tax return through MyGov you may be missing out on deductions that you are entitled to,” Karen said while explaining that as a tax agent, she keeps up-to-date with the latest developments. “And If you claim family assistance you must lodge your returns for the previous financial year by the end of June, otherwise Centrelink will not pay the full family assistance entitlement.” Wellington Tax 28 Waterford Drive Strathfieldsaye Phone 0409 859 449 www.wellingtontax.com.au
Register your interest now – for an application form
Phone 5440 2529 Accounting and Office Manager FULL-TIME POSITION The accounting and office manager position is vital to the successful operation of our thriving Bendigo Weekly business and includes responsibility for finance and administration, as well as the day to day office management. The successful applicant will have a proven track record and experience in accounting, including payroll and MYOB. Media industry experience, including a working knowledge of the Pongrass software system, although not essential, will also be highly regarded. This full time role represents a key position in the company’s management structure, and requires a high level of confidentiality and professionalism, as well as providing support to the Managing Editor and the Board of Directors. Demonstrated leadership in the workplace and management of a diverse range of staff, attention to detail and strong computer skills including a thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office are other key attributes of the role. The Bendigo Weekly is northern Victoria’s largest circulating newspaper, with an audited circulation of 38,091 and our offices are ideally located in the heart of the city on historic View Street.
KNOWLEDGEABLE: Karen Wellington.
BAS & GST Individual and Business Returns Taxation strategies Self managed superannuation funds Setting up and managing accounting systems and solutions 0409 859 449 | 28 Waterford Drive, Strathfieldsaye karen@wellingtontax.com.au | www.wellingtontax.com.au
GOERS & MAUNDER Public Accountants Registered Tax Agents
• TAX RETURNS FROM $99 • Personal & Business New clients welcome
Bendigo: 63 Midland Hwy, Epsom
Phone: 5448 3980
Castlemaine: Geo Clarke Place
Phone: 5470 6565
All applications will be treated in strict confidence and should be sent to: Peter Kennedy Managing Editor Bendigo Weekly PO Box 324 Bendigo 3552 or email peter.kennedy@bendigopublishing.com Applications close Monday, September 12, 2016. Please note that only applicants successful in obtaining an interview will be contacted.
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Services Offered BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Complete bathroom makeovers & alterations. 34 yrs exp by qual tradesman. Servicing Bendigo - Castlemaine & surrounding districts. FREE Quote phone Rod Cox 0419 267 672 or 4406 6019.
BLOCKED DRAINS Same day service Ph 5448 4324
BRICKLAYERS all types of brick and block work, chimneys and fireplaces. Ph 5446 7057 or 0418 370 917 or 0458 438 930
BRICKLAYING No job too big No job too small Ph 0417 127 131
BUILDING & HANDYMAN Tiling, carpentry, painting, bathroom & kitchen reno's. Free Quotes 0432 160 987
CLEANING & CARPET
Cleaning, Steam clean or Dry clean $50 first room, $10 per room after that Ph 0439 374 389 Receipt & ABN supplied .
CLOTHING ALTERATIONS pick up & deliver. Ph 5447 1131 or 0439 472 977
COMPUTER SUPPORT In Home
CONCRETING
Genuine Special $50 Sq/M Only a few spots left!! Phone: 0422 424 348.
CONCRETER
Driveways, Sheds Paths, Crossovers etc. 40 years experience Free Quotes
Ph. 0428 381 925
CONCRETING
Cameron Concrete Domestic & Commercial. For all your concrete requirements.. Call Rod 0400 611 016 Free Quotes & advice. 30 years experience
DD Handyman & Maintenance Service All types of household jobs inc garden maint. Phone 0409 949 111
GARDEN Weeding $25 Per Hour Contact James Ph 0402 793 034
HOUSE CLEANING & Ironing, small garden jobs 12 years exp, refs & police check avail. Phone 0419 533 402
Classifieds 1300 558 385
LAWN Mowing - Edges trimmed, grass removed Handyman Repairs, Rubbish Removal, Ride on Mowing also avail. From $35 p/hour Ph Tony 0412 824 690
BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING
TV Tuning from $40 • Servicing Bendigo & Surrounds • Aerials & additional aerial points • Satellite & Computer Setups ps • Digital/Smart TV’s • Home Theatre, Wall Mount • DVD, Recorders & Foxtel • Installed & explained
LITTLE RIPPER Digger Service
Phone Ron on
Trenching, Rotary Hoeing, Post Holes, Levelling 4 in one bucket,Tipper Hire.
5447 7823 or 0431 609 423
Ph: Glenn or Donna
LAWN MOWING
5446 7163 or 0418 510 074
Domestic & large blocks. Ride on mowing Competitive rates. Call Mark 0438 544 789 Bendigo Onsite Servicing
LAWNS Mowed, Edges Trimmed, Cheap Rates, Ph Brendan 0423 893 312 PLASTER & PAINTING BUILDING RESTORATION GLENN has been in the industry for over 15 years & is highly experienced in all aspects of plastering, painting and building restoration. All jobs,all sizes. Pensioner discounts & free quotes.Call Glenn Snell on 0402 463 138.
PLASTER
All types of plastering. • Home Maintenance • Tiling • Painting • Carpentry. Free quotes. Ph. Brian 0407 679 618
THE MAINTENANCE MAN Prompt & reliable service, done with honesty & pride. Small jobs a specialty, free quotes Phone Ian 0417 337 424 LAWN MOWER & SMALL ENGINE REPAIRS Push & ride on mower servicing, pick up option. Power equip. repairs. Chainsaw service & sharpen. Bendigo Marine World, Epsom 5448 3988
Lawn Mowing, Whipper Snipping
Spraying (Roundup) $35 per hr / $30 pen (inc. take away clippings). Delivery of Garden Products Rubbish Removal $80 per load/$70 pen (incl tip fee $35) for 7x4 square box trailer. NO tyres or rock/clean fill. Cash only Ph Mick 0407 448 249
PLASTERER EXPERIENCED LOCAL PLASTERER
Rates from $35p/h Pensioner 10% Disc. • Holes Patched • Renovations • Painting
PJ TAYLOR
5446 1422 0448 713 499
AIR CONDITIONING Gas heaters should be serviced yearly to keep them running SAFELY & EFFICIENTLY So, for peace of mind this winter call
BENDIGO
FLAT PACK FURNITURE ASSEMBLY
We will come to your designated area to build your flat pack furniture
BEDROOM DINING LOUNGE OUTDOOR OFFICE
For your FREE QUOTE contact CHRIS 0400 569 251 or bendigofp@gmail.com
BATHROOMS & KITCHENS
McCabes KITCHEN, BATHROOMS & HOME IMPROVEMENTS
• Quality + trust in the outcome • Passion to create • Pride in our craftmanship • 25 years building experience
0417 511 159
Shed 3/37 Collins St Kangaroo Flat mccabeskitchenandbathrooms@gmail.com
BLINDS & CURTAINS
Southern Cross Blinds & Awnings
• Canvas Awnings • Roman Blinds • Vertical Drapes • Holland Blinds • Ziptrak Patio Blinds • Venetian Blinds • Roller Shutters • Security Doors
PIC LICENCED
Supplied and installed
0418 508 993
Licenced drainer 31741
THE
MOB: 0411 780 550
DBM-1122 DB-U-28169
SOUTHERN CROSS RESTUMPING
Building Permits Arranged + 20 Years Experience
Ph: 0400 319 094 A: PO Box 304, Eaglehawk 3556 E: townsmith@bigpond.com
BUILDING DESIGNERS
0403 264 629
ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING SERVICES www.dkgdraft.com.au
• Laser Levelled Site cuts • Landscaping • Driveways • Backyard clean-ups • Site Cleans • Trenching 1.7, 5.5 & 14 ton excav, Skidsteer and Truck available
Call Clint 0427 349 549
A/H PH 5448 8814 E: cjchandler65@bigpond.com
Matt” A “ Excavations and Landscaping z Hole Boring z Trenching z Drive Ways z Rock Breaker z Retaining Walls z Concreting z Site Cleans z No Job too small
Very Reasonably Priced - Great Soil Rates Free Quotes and Honest Advice Matt: 0409 141 093 • Nicole: 0428 119 386 E: nicmat2001@hotmail.com
CARPENTERS
CARPENTRY & C MAINTENANCE M TRADE QUALIFIED CARPENTER
Jack Hando 0467 642 504 Carports Concreting Renovations Decks & Verandahs
Tiling Retaining Walls General Handyman Fix Ups
PAUL EYLES CARPENTRY 20 YEARS LOCAL EXPERIENCE Specialising in Bathroom renovations Modern Designs Renovations old and new Outdoor entertaining areas
PH 0418 129 487
Email for Quote: pauleyles50@gmail.com
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TEMPLETON’S CARPENTRY and MAINTENANCE Local renovation specialist For a free quote call Tyson on 0403 247 671
• Renovations • Pergolas • Carports • Kitchens • General Maintenance • Repairs • Decks • Bathrooms • Painting • Plastering • Retaining Walls
BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING
Nathan: 0407 972 717 Servicing all of Central Victoria • Pensioner discounts avail. Registered Licence No. 47315
Call Ron 0438 569 385
141 High Street, Kangaroo Flat www.southerncrossblinds.com
GARDAM E X C AVA T I O N
JOHN BUILDER
200 - 600mm diameter
PHONE/FAX 5447 9011
AIR CONDITIONING
bendigotemptech@hotmail.com
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Excavator, Tipper & Bobcat
MEMBER
SMALL JOBS WELCOME ALL HOME MAINTENANCE PROMPT SERVICE
1300 558 385
Backhoe Trenching Post Hole Borer Site Clearing Driveways Excavation Laser Levelling Rubbish Removal
SEPTIC TANK SEWER TREATMENT PLANTS
TempTech
To advertise in this section contact our classifieds department
Bobcat & Tipper Hire ASSEMBLY / INSTALLATION
BUILDERS
Services Offered
BOBCAT / EARTHMOVING
ABN: 62 094 744 216
CONCRETING HARD YARDZ 35 years experience. exposed aggregate, wheelchair ramps, sheds & paths, resealing, driveways, crossovers, sleeper walls. Free quotes John 0409 439 414 hardyardzconcreting@ gmail.com
JORDAN RAMAGE LANDSCAPING For all Outdoor Improvements Ph 0434 933 277
ANTENNAS
FURNITURE
Reasonable Rates 7 days Extended hours Ph Shaun 0400 811 880
IRONING service $25 per hour 5 shirts for $12.50, smoke free home, pick up & delivery Ph 0427 141 254
CLEANING SERVICES • 1.7 Tonne Mini Digger on Trailer • 900, 450, 300mm Buckets Plus Ripper • Post Hole Auger 300 & 450mm available • 5 Tonne Excavator Available for Hire with Rock Breaker • Dry & Wet Hire Available • 7 Days - Mon-Sun
Ph 0429 171 697 718 Strathfieldsaye Road, Strathfieldsaye
• Carpet Cleaning • Floor Polishing • Rug, Mattress, Upholstery Cleaning • Tile & Grout Cleaning • Pressure Cleaning • Roof Cleaning • End of Lease
• Home Maintenance • After Build Cleaning • Office Cleaning • Window Cleaning • Lawn Maintenance • Crime Scene Cleaning • Emergency Cleaning
No obligation quote: 0477 22 77 00 www.bendigoprofessionalcleaningservice.com.au
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Services Offered CLEANING SERVICES
ENGINEERING
GLASS / WINDOWS
LANDSCAPING
Quality Cleaning Services
0418 506 188 cleanjet@iinet.net.au
COMPUTERS
• Qualified tradesmen • Landscaping • Commercial and residential property maintenance
0450 399 805 Keep Your EWP Compliant & Safe > Shower Screens > Security Doors
Safety Inspections 5 & 10yr Inspections Scheduled Servicing Breakdown Service Repairs & parts Available Servicing Central Victoria www.ssteaccess.com.au
FURNITURE REMOVALISTS
> Fly-Screens > Glass Balustrading > Glass Splashbacks > Mirrors
Ph: 0420 427 283 Email: instyledoorsandscreens@gmail.com
Stuart Erwin 0407 667 900 Cameron Rogister 0411 956 937
HANDYMAN SERVICES
LAWN MOWING
D T R HANDYMAN SERVICE NEED A HANDYMAN? LOOK NO FURTHER! DARRYL WILL TAKE CARE OF ALL YOUR HOUSEHOLD REPAIRS & HANDYMAN NEEDS. NO JOB IS TOO SMALL. A TRUE LOCAL FOR 50 YEARS WITH VERY COMPETITIVE RATES. GIVE HIM A CALL!
on call computer maintenance • Systems built • Repairs and upgrades • Network and internet connections • Virus and Spyware removal
FREE QUOTES | TRADE QUALIFIED & INSURED
Jeoff Milne 5447 2476 Mob 0425 728 336
REMOVALS
H | (03) 5443 7464 M | 0448 327 508
Best onsite support of Apple products in Bendigo.
Local • Interstate • House Cleaning • Pre-pack Storage • EFTPOS • No job too big or too small
Helping your iPhone, iPad, MacBook and iMac work seamlessly.
Phone: 5435 3148 or 0407 349 372 Bendigo
Set up • Training • Support Integration • Problem solving
Services Offered
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Just $3.25 per line (5 LINE MINIMUM)
ELECTRICIANS
1300 558 385
GREG SMITH
Central Victoria 13 11 98
Suite B 175 Lyttleton Tce, Bendigo greyarmybendigo@bigpond.com
NO JOB TOO SMALL • Removal of hard rubbish and garden waste • Rental clean ups/clean outs • Weeding and weed spraying • Trimming and pruning • Fallen timber and chainsaw work • Delivery and spreading of mulch, stone etc. • Little Tipper/Drive - Hire
0400 400 299 299 9 529 2
All electrical work, property and home maintenance Leigh Davies - lpdavies138@gmail.com - REC 22120 15 1 15% 5 % off ff ffor seniors i
ELECTRIC MOTORS
Bendigo
Pumps& Motors Electric
SALES • SERVICE • REPAIRS
PHONE BRUCE
bendigopumps@gmail.com
0427 319 923
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for a free quote call Malcolm at: Phone: (03) 54393799 Mobile: 0401 337 083
Mowing
Edges
Garden tidy-ups
Paths blown
Hedging
Green waste removal
Pruning Odd jobs
Phone ANTHONY on 0447 899 391 RELIABLE
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FULLY INSURED
LIGHTING
Customised Fibre Optic & LED Strip Lighting. Homes & Businesses
0418 507 709RECA/H 5448 3333 7821
LBD Electrical Property Maintenance
Rubbish RubbishRemoval Removal Pruning Pruning
HOME MAINTENANCE
GARDEN SERVICES
Tired of Waiting for a Tradesman
LawnMowing Mowing Lawn WeedControl Control Weed Fertilising Fertilising
MOWING & GARDEN SERVICES
• Handymen • Cleaning • Builder • Floors • • Carpenters • Glazier • Fencing • Plastering • • Painters • Bathroom & Kitchen Reno’s • • Granite Benchtops • Paving • Concreting • • Plumbers • Decking • Electricians • • Ramps • Tiling • Pruning • Tree Lopping • • Sheds & Pergolas • Lawns & Gardens •
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ELECTRICIAN
Edge Gardening and Mowing
VILLAGE GREEN
Moving Central Victoria
iThings Bendigo
Specialising in Landscape construction
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• CARPET CLEANING • OFFICE CLEANING • BUILDERS CLEANS • DOMESTIC CLEANING
ABN: 13 156 557 736
Serving Bendigo for 20 Years
• Carpentry • Tiling • Painting • Plastering • Pergolas • Decks
CALL PETER 0409 422 271 Email: bhmpeter@hotmail.com
LANDSCAPING
• Under Bench Lighting • Stairs • Pergolas & BBQ Areas • Pools • Display Lighting
Ph 0438 723 905 E: sales@ledclub.com.au W: ledclub.com.au
MOBILE BATHROOMS
ARE YOU RENOVATING? •For all your Landscaping needs and bobcat work. • Trade Qualified
MOBILE BATHROOM FOR HIRE
PHONE STUART 0429 181 691
PAVING & LANDSCAPING by Phil Carman
Paving & concreting Pool landscaping Retaining walls & fencing Decking and Outdoor living areas Lawn installation & watering systems Kanga light digging
PH: 0418 822 911
(Shower, hand basin, toilet etc)
Suitable for • Renovations • Parties/Weddings • Sporting events and many more Call David/Bronwyn
0438 083 139 www.bettabathroomhire.com.au
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Services Offered PAINTERS / DECORATORS
PLUMBERS
ROOFING
Peter Carr Plumbing & Gasfitting
Painter & Decorator
Pty. Ltd.
YOUR FRIENDLY, PROFESSIONAL AND QUALITY PAINTER FOR ALL TYPES OF PAINTING OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE FOR A FREE, NO OBLIGATION QUOTE, CALL TROY ON 0418 844 590 OR EMAIL T_EYOUNG@BIGPOND.NET.AU
BENBOW AND SCOTT
License No. 32710
A friendly, reliable, local plumbing team fully qualified in all aspects of plumbing
544 33 999 4 Nolan Street, Bendigo
PAIN TERS + DEC ORATORS
Combined 62 years experience All types of work • Competitive Pricing
0419 891 508
ROOFING
& MAINTENANCE SERVICES
• Concrete tiles • Terracotta acotta tiles fing • Slate tiles • Iron roofi
New Roofing Re-Roofing Extensions Rebedding & Flexible Pointing Valley & Gutter Replacement
Joel Blundell Painting & Decorating Competitive Prices & Free Quotes New Homes | Renovations | Period Homes External & Internal Repaints Servicing Bendigo & Surrounding Areas Fully insured and reliable ABN: 86134228939
5444 2028
Lic. 33153
0432 626 446 painter_joel@hotmail.com
PEST CONTROL
Greg Hicks st same day Plumbing Fajosebrvtoicoesmall
No job too small or too big
Green Waste Green Waste Special
t Yard clean ups t Whitegoods t DomesƟc t Builders t Renovators t Commercial
0423 402 474
LocalClassifieds Just $3.25 per line (5 LINE MINIMUM)
1300 558 385
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2011 8mtr (to hitch) Paramount van, beautiful white interior, huge wardrobe & storage space, large 3W fridge /wash mach/annex. Cost $73,000 but sell for $56,000 - don't show your wife as she will fall in love with this caravan! 2015 Jeep also for sale (cherry red) cost $75,000 but sell for $60,000 OBO for both.Call Garry in Bendigo 0435 429 922. AVAN 2002 A-liner, on cruise liner chassis, 3-W frig, gas burners, M/wave, A/C D/C Elec, dbl bed + 1 single bed, Reg til 11/16, $12,500 Ono Ph 0429 188 281 CARAVAN 12ft6in Chesney Pacemaker, 2 sgl beds, 3 way fridge, stove, annexe, reg'd L154682 GC $1,800 Ph 5443 3227 SPACELINE 16'6" caravan double bed & bunks, with annexe reg vgc $6,500 Phone 0428 533 852
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SPORT CV IN THE HUNT
ACTION HEATS UP
CV Blazers will be out to build some momentum heading into the Hockey Victoria Vic League Two finals on Saturday when the Blazers take on bottom side Greater Dandenong in the last home and away round. The Blazers sit in fourth spot heading into the weekend and could move up to third with a win, but a loss would see them at the mercy of the closely following Knox and Melbourne Uni outfits. After winning five of six games in the middle of the season, the Blazers have recorded a win, a loss and a draw in their most recent clashes. They went down to top side Gippsland 6-3 last weekend, the Bulls pulling away after leading by just one goal at half time.
FINALS continue in the Loddon Valley and Heathcote District football leagues this weekend. The right to meet Leitchville Gunbower in the HDFL decider is on the line when North Bendigo and Huntly meet for the third time in a month at Elmore on Saturday. In A-grade netball Colbinabbin meets North Bendigo, with the winner to play White Hills in the grand final. On Saturday in the LVFNL Bridgewater plays Mitiamo, with the winner to book a spot in the grand final. In A-grade netball top side Newbridge plays Mitiamo. On Sunday, senior football sees Calivil United play Pyramid Hill in the elimination semi final, while YCW plays Calivil in A-grade netball.
Rapid improvements
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CANOEING national champions Imogen Douglass and Baydn Murphy will lead a nine-strong Bendigo team into this weekend’s Victorian Schools Championships at Warrandyte. Students from all over Victoria will flock to the up-
Signing off on a high note BENDIGO City FC heads into its final home game of a trying season in the National Premier Leagues Victoria competition on the winners list after a hard-fought win over Ballarat last weekend. City hosts St Albans on Saturday in its penultimate game of the season, but it is the club’s final game at Epsom Huntly Reserve. It has been a difficult campaign for the young squad, which has worked through injuries, low player numbers and has worked under three coaches as the year has progressed. The win over Ballarat was some much needed reward for effort after a seven-match losing streak that included a 7-0 thumping against Dandenong. The signs of an impending win were there – a much improved performance in a 5-4 loss to Springvale gave Bendigo confidence – and it delivered on that promise. City went up a goal through a Goswil Basha strike
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per reaches of the Yarra River to contest a host of events over the three-kilometre downriver course. The course includes small rapids to provide a stern test for competitors. Murphy and Douglass head up the Bendigo team after winning their respective
national titles in January. The rest of the team has only been paddling since November, but according to coach Tony Misson, they are showing strong signs of improvement. Madeline Floyd, Kyle Jacobson, Ashlee Illott, Meg Ritchie, Brayden Murphy
and James and Cara Humphry round out the nine-person team, all of whom are member’s of the Bendigo Academy of Sport canoeing program. The team’s focus after this weekend’s titles will be the Bendigo Cup regatta on October 24.
Top five spots out of reach
TOUGH STUFF: Bendigo City has battled on despite a difficult season. in the 20th minute, and Matt Sporle doubled the advantage five minutes out from the break to give Bendigo a 2-0 buffer going into the half. Ballarat pegged one back six minutes after the resumption, but a resolute Bendigo defence held onto the advantage to take just its fourth win of the season.
To avoid finishing bottom of the NPL2 West table, City would need to win its last two matches of the season and hope ninth placed Sunshine George Cross loses both of its remaining games. City hosts St Albans on Saturday afternoon, with under-20s at 3pm and the senior clash from 5.15pm.
THE ten finals spots up for grabs in the Bendigo Football Netball League’s senior football and A-grade netball competitions are all but locked up heading into this weekend’s final round of home and away matches. A faint mathematical possibility is all that Kangaroo Flat and Strathfieldsaye – the respective senior football and A-grade netball sixth-placed sides – can cling to heading into their last games of the year. Kyneton would need to be heavily beaten by Sandhurst and Kangaroo Flat would have to break a three-game slide and thump Castlemaine by around 100 points to claw their way to an improbable finals berth. In A-grade netball, Strathfieldsaye is sixth and just a win behind its opponents this week in Gisborne, but would need to make up a massive amount of ground to repeat as finallists. Gisborne has almost a 40 per cent gap on the Storm, while Maryborough is also a game clear in fifth and is 28 percentage points clear of Strathfieldsaye. Other round 18 games see South Bendigo host Maryborough and Golden Square
FIGHTING ON: Eaglehawk and Sandhurst will both play finals. face Eaglehawk in the Headspace round showcase game. Round 18 in the BFNL is designated as Headspace round, to raise awareness of the support available for young people doing it tough. The top-four clash will see a representation from the Bendigo headspace team and the players in the senior football match will wear green armbands. “We are so pleased and really excited to be working with the team at the BFNL, as we are both working towards the same goal of supporting and helping our young peo-
ple,” Headspace Bendigo program manager Jenny Singe said. The BFNL also announced its structure for the opening two weeks of the finals series this week, with night senior football games to start at 6pm instead of the 5.30pm timeslot of previous years. As has been the case in recent years, the elimination finals and first semi finals will be held on the first two Sundays in September where possible, with the qualification finals and second semi finals to be Saturday games.
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Top side rolls into finals From Page 32 Bendigo’s opponents in Melbourne Uni own the second best defence among top four sides, but has scored a total of 100 points less than any of the three other finals combatants. They gave Bendigo a right scare two weeks ago, running the Thunder to within three points in a low scoring affair at Melbourne’s Main Oval. Melbourne has scored in excess of 50 points only five times this season. Sunday’s match at the QEO begins at 2pm with a curtain raiser youth girls elimination final between Strathfieldsaye and Kyneton from 12.15pm. In good news for the Thunder’s ranks, AFL Central Victoria announced the formation of a social women’s competition last week and the Bendigo Junior Football League is also expected to introduce an under-15 girls competition next season. With participation levels on the rise the current under-12 and under-18 competitions will have a bridge in the middle, with the youth girls expected to become an under-19 competition.
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Titles call Bendigo home BENDIGO has secured another major sporting event with the Bendigo Stadium to host the 2017 Basketball Australia Under-20 and Ivor Burge National Championships in February. The announcement was made at half time of the Bendigo Braves’ semi final win over Brisbane on Saturday night. The Ivor Burge Cha
The stadium hosts a raft of junior events every year mpionships gives athletes with an intellectual disability an opportunity to prove themselves on the national stage and has been run concurrently with the under-20s since 2003. The stadium hosts a raft of
EVENTS BOOST: Basketball Australia’s Renee Narcis and councillor James Williams. junior events every year and its ability to hold games across seven courts was a driving factor behind Basketball Australia’s decision to
stage the event at the facility. “Bendigo has previously hosted preseason tournaments for the WNBL which gives us confidence
Haig earns grand tour debut BENDIGO cyclist Jack Haig has made a promising start to his grand tour debut with Orica Bike Exchange at the Tour of Spain this week. Otherwise known as the Vuelta a Espana, the Spanish stage race forms the third of the three “grand tour” classification races along with the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France. Haig is riding as a climbing domestique for Orica along with Damian Howson, forming a key ally to the team’s general classification contender Esteban Chaves. Haig sat 128th in the standings after stage five of the race, but will no doubt play a bigger role in the race’s second week. The race will gain the 22-year-old valuable stage race experience, and is easily the biggest event he has entered in his first year with Orica. Before the start of the race, Orica Bike Exchange sport director Neil Stephens said the team’s clear objective was to
that the community will get right behind the under-20 and Ivor Burge Champs,” Basketball Australia’s Paul Maley said. “Every current Boomer and Opal that competed at the Rio Olympics played in the junior championships and the under-20s are very important in terms of the basketball pathway as it is the last chance for them to participate in a national tournament. “The combined tender from the (Bendigo Basketball Association), Bendigo Stadium and the City of Greater Bendigo shows the strong relationship in Bendigo surrounding basketball and is sure to result in a great junior championship event.” Bendigo Stadium manager of sport Brock Rogers said support from council had been invaluable in securing the titles. The under-20 and Ivor Burge Championships will be held from February 12 to 18 next year. Meanwhile, the Bendigo Braves will host the SEABL conference final at the stadium on Saturday, September 3.
Spirit gears up for campaign
PROMISING START: Jack Haig has had a trouble free start to his debut grand tour. Photo: ORICA BIKE EXCHANGE support Chaves to a high general classification finish. The team guided the Colombian to a podium finish
at this year’s Giro d’Italia and followed that by having Adam Yates with the best young rider’s jersey and finish fourth at
the Tour de France. The three-week Tour of Spain finishes on Sunday, September 11.
THE Bendigo Spirit will go regional with its preseason games in the lead up to the club’s 2016/17 Women’s National Basketball League campaign. Bendigo will play a warm up game in Ballarat against Melbourne on September 17 and will also face Dandenong in Werribee on Saturday, September 24. Melbourne’s roster will feature Bendigo Lady Braves Elyse Penaluna and Chante Black, former Spirit player Maddie Garrick, Alice Kunek and Kiwi international Jess Bygate. The Spirit heads to Werribee to play a strong Dandenong outfit the following weekend. The Rangers are again expected to be one of the competition’s top sides in their second year under Larissa Anderson. Steph Cumming, Sara Blicavs, Lauren Scherf and a host of talent is returning to the Dandenong roster, while Natalie Novosel joins from Townsville and Ally Mallott joins from WNBA club Washington Mystics. Bendigo begins its preseason in earnest at the start of September, with Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe, Blake Dietrick, Nadeen Payne and Ashleigh Karaitiana joining the returning Spirit players. Ballarat’s Lydia Brooks will also join the squad. “Lydia has impressed us this SEABL season and we want to have a look at her,” coach Simon Pritchard said. “We will test her out preseason and see how she performs. We gave Ebony the same opportunity at the start of last season and she is on our roster now.”
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SPORT Friday, August 26, 2016
CITY’S HOME FINALE
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Thunder finals ready
By JOEL PETERSON
THEIR opponents have been creeping ever closer as the season has gone on, but some recent close calls have the Bendigo Thunder primed for the 2016 finals campaign. The Thunder completed an unbeaten home and away campaign last weekend but again had to withstand a stern test from one of its Victorian Women’s Football League premier division challengers, this time Port Melbourne. In a coup for the club its first final, and the first premier division final to be held outside Melbourne, will be played at Bendigo’s Queen Elizabeth Oval on Sunday. The Thunder hosted Deer Park under lights at the QEO earlier this season and this weekend tackles second placed Melbourne Uni for a spot in the 2016 decider. Bendigo kicked away against the Colts last weekend to record a 27-point win and carry its winning form into finals. The Thunder’s two previous games had been their only two wins by under 10 points this season, but O’Neill said the recent testing stretch will prove valuable come Sunday. Bendigo’s depth has been a key factor in its strong season, with the club able to field a full side every week – a luxury few VWFL teams are afforded. The team’s imposing forward line of Bella Ayre, Erin Ross and crafty smalls Hayley Trevean and Elise Strachan are bookended by an equally impressive defence. Jac Louttit has been one of the team’s big improvers in a key defensive role and through the ruck and has had plenty of helping hands down back including Sarah Last and Abbey Hay. The team’s midfield brigade of Emma Grant, Jess Kennedy and Leah French have all been consistent performers and will play key roles yet again this weekend. Bendigo is no stranger to undefeated seasons, having gone unbeaten in 2013 when the club won the second of its two North West Division flags. Kennedy, Grant and Trevean are three members of the side that saluted at Coburg City Oval.
ON SONG: Imogen Douglass trains at Lake Weeroona this week. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
Canoeing program makes a splash NINE Bendigo Academy of Sport canoeing program members will battle it out at this weekend’s Victorian Schools Championships at Warrandyte. Two 2016 national title holders will lead the local contingent. – Story Page 29
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