Darlington Review February 2017

Vol. 57 No. 11 February 2017

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Editorial

There is a lot happening in February and heaps of messages in this first issue of 2017. Important items to check: if you use Darlington Hall, you need to know the disability access upgrade could be delayed until this time next year; the turning of the first sod for the Darlington Pavilion is happening in February with $86,000 still to be raised; there’s some excellent entertainment on the horizon; Mundaring Shire is seeking your feedback on a couple of draft strategies — and, of course, there are some fire alerts you need to know about. But before launching ourselves into the new year, a look back at that lovely Carols by Candlelight organised by Pauline Clarke and her valued helpers (see Letters).

A year of living adventurously!

Has the world ever been riven by such social and national divisions as it is in 2017; have the fault lines between member countries of the so-called United Nations ever been wider?

Association are hoping for new faces at their February meetings; the Guides and Scouts are looking for new leaders; and the Let’s Talk Rubbish folk are wondering how they’ll survive the loss of some valued members who are moving away.

If we’ve learnt anything from history the answer must be a resounding yes! We’ve been here before – different players, different issues perhaps — but there’s a lot of truth in “there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

Finally, make time to meet up with friends for coffee at our two wonderful local cafés, 2 Café and The Pines. At the latter, David and Jacqui Lee-Steere have gathered staff from across the globe. They know our coffee preferences, clearly enjoy working together, and could teach some city cafes a lesson in how to keep customers happy.

So in this first Review of 2017 we urge you to jettison those feelings of pervasive powerlessness that accompany viewing the world in 2017 through the mainstream media prism.

The antidotes?

Try something brand new that takes you out of your comfort zone — a painting or writing workshop (there’s news of both in this editorial). Learn to sing (Penny Reynolds is back in town), join a choir (Swan Harmony are looking for new recruits, particularly tenors) or an exercise group (see next item). Learn to dance (see ads for adult ballet and Creole dance classes) — all happening on your doorstep.

Allow yourself the time to truly appreciate where you live. A walk down to the oval will do it — it’s impossible to maintain a pessimistic outlook in the face of all that family sport, the gamboling dogs and those cartwheeling girls! Follow that up with a walk through your village at twilight when even the raucous galahs become muted as they settle in a chosen eucalypt. Make for the top of View Terrace and watch the colours fade and the city light up — and, in perfect tranquillity, remind yourself just why we choose to live at arms’ length from, but within easy reach of, the city.

The United Nations of the Pines? OK, a slight exaggeration, but hats off to Jessica (Mauritius), Clem (Ukraine), Cam (Australia), Naaiko(Japan), Kim (Vietnam), David (Poland) and Anchelee (Thailand). And having just returned from visiting family in Mauritius, Jess could probably tell you more about that colourful Creole dance, the Sega (you can watch it on Youtube) — what a way to start the year!

Focus on how you can make a difference in Darlington by volunteering for any number of groups: the Darlington Arts Festival and the Darlington Ratepayers and Residents 3

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Dig deep for the pavilion

“It sets me up for the day – after a session like this I get much more done in a day and I feel better,” says a working mum about to tackle a busy Saturday morning ferrying kids to sports.

There’s an important diary date for coming up — on February 12 (11.30 at the sports pavilion) there will be a Turning of the First Sod event for the Darlington Pavilion Project. You’ll find info in this issue, along with notes from the Darlington Sports and Recreation Association detailing the challenge of raising a further $86,000. The effort to date has been great, but there’s still a mountain to climb, so we all need to dig deep for what is the biggest community project Darlington has taken on. If you have kids who play or are likely to play sport, you’ll want to contribute to upgrading our inadequate pavilion by buying a brick. DaSRA notes suggest many ways you can help but if every Darlington household bought a single brick we’d be there. If you can help with fund-raising events planned for this year – raffles, quiz night, the wine tent at the Festival — contact Geoff Barker (geoff@pmdwa.com).

While she’s always been sporty, Natalie recalls a time when family health problems meant that her exercise regime became a casualty. It took a GP to remind her that if she wanted to look after her family, she needed to look after herself.

“I joined an exercise group with a friend, and loved it,” she recalls. “I want to encourage people to remember about their own fitness because that is where I’d come from — so I started my own group.

“We’re not training to run a marathon, we’re just getting together to do a bit of cardio, base fitness and weights, and the working mums like the fact that they don’t have to think about what to do, they just rock up and follow my instructions!”

And, because they clearly enjoy exercising in good company, you’re likely to see these early morning exercisers setting themselves up for the day through 2017.

Keeping on track in 2017

Darlington Netball Club a new Review member

Natalie (centre) with participants in New Start Fitness on Darlington Oval

“People can achieve remarkable changes in their lives by taking just one small step at a time,” says a Harvard Medical School professor — and it’s a sentiment echoed by Review advertiser Natalie Foskett who, for the past five years, has run New Start Fitness.

As a new year dawns, there’s a seasonal surge in early morning joggers on the heritage trail and oval: New Year Resolutions in action! And the fact that these two locations are within easy reach of our homes means there’s no excuse for not including improving your fitness level among those resolutions. However, research indicates that a fair few good intentions don’t even make it to the end of February, so this is a crucial month for keeping on track!

Darlington Netball’s Demons (Year 4 Team, 9 – 10-year-olds)

It’s worrying that, by the age of 14, girls are dropping out of sports at twice the rate of boys and the Women’s Sports Federation cites access as a major reason. So it’s good — with netball enjoying a surge of interest — to have the Darlington Netball Club as a new member of the Review. The club has been going for more than 50 years but according to club scribe Amanda Moore members don’t know much about its origins – so she’d love to hear from anyone with information (dandamoore@hotmail.com). If your daughters (7 – 18) are keen to join, read their notes and register from March 1.

Natalie says the key to giving your resolution staying power is being realistic at the outset about how your new exercise regime will fit into your busy life — and, equally important, making sure it’s enjoyable.

“Too many people go too hard, too early,” says Natalie, “so when their bodies hurt and they can’t maintain it time-wise, they’ll find an excuse to give up!”

Delay in Darlington Hall upgrade?

If you are a user of Darlington Hall, you’ll be aware that the upgrade work scheduled for January has not happened – and, if Mundaring Councilors take the advice of Shire officers at their first meeting in late January, the work will be delayed until this time next year. A disappointing number of responses to the shire’s invitation to tender for this project and high tender prices have prompted this decision and it is anticipated that a new tender process will happen in August/September this year.

Natalie currently runs four morning sessions weekly and has a couple of one-on-ones with clients. Those who gather on the oval bright and early are mostly working mums, although one couple recently took it in turns to participate. They do sprints, weights and push-ups — and they’re evangelical about the benefits.

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‘Tis the season for AGMs!

Speaking at the opening of the festival, Ben Joel hinted there were lots of changes in the pipeline. “We have a number of innovators and visionaries among us — including luminaries like Ian Fraser who has brought some wonderful ideas to the table — so expect to see changes in the next few years that will lift the level of prestige and the reputation of the art component of the festival, so that, for artists, being hung will become a real feather in your cap.”

Several important AGMs are coming up, including the Darlington Review’s — all member groups are warmly invited to attend the world’s speediest annual meet held at 6A Brook Road, Darlington, at 7 on Monday March 27, with a celebratory glass of champagne to tempt you. You’ll be hearing about this from Business Manager Josephine Jones, and if you can’t attend please submit your proxy vote.

Ben brings to the festival a network of influential contacts in the art world. He and his wife, artist Katrina Virgona, have lived in their Dalry Road home/studios since 2007.

Coming up on February 6 is the AGM for the Darlington Community Recreation Advisory Group that liaises with Mundaring Shire on the Hall and sports facilities — so if you have any concerns about these facilities, check the details in Colin James’ notes for the group.

Ben was Head of Painting at Curtin University for 19 years, and Katrina is always in demand for her inventive felt creations.

When approached to become Festival patron by Mezzanine Art’s Mark Alderson, Ben was pleased to take on this ceremonial/advisory role. A couple of years back, he served on the board of the Mundaring Arts Centre.

Given there was no shortage of Facebook chatter around aspects of the 2016 Darlington Arts Festival, let’s hope those with lots to say will be at the DAF AGM to contribute those ideas — and put their hands up for the 2017 festival.

It’s clear that this artist works in a variety of styles so it’s impossible to pin a label on him. He’s an accomplished portrait painter, his works have both figurative and mechanical components and he’s now exploring digital art. “For me it’s always a journey of discovery,” he says.

The Festival committee is hoping for a good turn-out on Monday 13th February at 7.30pm at the Lesser Hall. As DAF Secretary Chris Pemberton observes: “The sad reality is that unless more people step up, the future of the Festival cannot be assured. This year’s AGM is your chance to join a group that works hard, has fun along the way and finds immense job satisfaction. No matter what you can contribute, your handson participation would be most welcome and you will be given lots of support.”

Now retired, he fully appreciates the move to Darlington where there is space for the couple to have their own studios.

“Previously wherever I was, my studio was somewhere else,” he says. Now there’s time for his work, but also for cycling, running a small drawing class for friends and “providing a switchboard through all my contacts in the arts” for the Festival. With his work represented in public and private collections, Ben says he benefitted from a high level of art tuition from some of the greats of Darlington (who were founders of the Festival) including Guy Grey Smith and George Haynes. He particularly remembers the positive influence of Haynes and Ian Wroth.

We’ll keep you posted on the results.

DAF’s new patron

The Mundaring Arts Centre is about to open its first exhibition for the year (see their notes) and it features local artist Ben Joel who is the new patron of the Darlington Arts Festival.

“I appreciate now that the 60s and 70s were the golden age of local art training —before budget cuts and increasing student/ staff ratios made one-to-one exchanges virtually impossible.

Sadly, I left teaching believing the capacity to teach practical skills in such an environment has eroded — and of course arts faculties are the most vulnerable in terms of funding, so one works with the sword of Damocles constantly poised.” Today both he and Katrina still teach through the Open University.

THE MAC retrospective of Ben’s work runs from February 10 to March 19 and the artist is delighted the gallery will also exhibit the work of some of his former students: “That is the part I am most excited about. People will see some quite remarkable artwork in that space.”

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Darlington Review - February 2017 “Bob has become a good friend and is helping with the musical side of my show for Fringe World – I am managing, producing and performing a show called The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast,” explains Annika.

The music/poetry performance is inspired by a 19th century collection of children’s verse that, in 1973, prompted visual artist Alan Aldridge and poet William Plomer to collaborate on a book of psychedelic images and new verse that won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year.

Plans for a full length animated film didn’t materialize, however Roger Glover wrote a full sound track that was released as a rock opera. It is this that attracted Annika — and you can Google some of the catchy songs including Love is All with its nod to The Beatles’ All You Need is Love. The ensemble production has the blessing of John Miller, producer of the 1975 studio album, who is delighted that it will have its first ever live performance at Fringe World.

That’s entertainment!

Entertainment-wise there is a lot waiting in the wings. At 2 Montrose, the Summer Night series features the musical duo that started the ball rolling last year: Jonathan Brain and Annika Moses will be in the spotlight with their individual brands of music. That will be followed on March 10 by an event that will appeal to all those who like to dress up and dance.

There were no musical scores, so for the past few months Annika has spent hours transcribing the music for the ensemble of WAAPA musicians she’s assembled, including keyboard, guitar, bass guitar, drums, violin, flute and clarinet.

Karl Bailey dubs this entertainment: Gangsters, Gamblers and Gin Soaked Revellers and issues this invitation: “Join us for a decadent night in our underground club, a place of gangsters, gamblers and other shady underworld figures and mix with the worst kinds of people. Let us take you back to the decadent 1930s at 7pm Friday 10th March. Come dressed in your most fabulous feathers and finery and dance the night away to the authentic early blues sounds of the sultry Mama Red & the Dark Blues.”

If all this sounds appealing, you’ll want to book for one of three performances at the venue Paper Mountain in Northbridge.

“Our performances are at 8pm, Friday 17, Saturday 18, and Sunday 19 February, tickets can again be purchased exclusively at www.fringeworld.com.au, by searching ‘The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast’. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids (+online booking fee),” says Annika. The Facebook page link is below, and the event pages can be found there: https://www.facebook.com/thebutterflyballclasschrysalid/

Moving along to what’s on at the REAL theatres: Darlington Theatre Players at Marloo are presenting an adults-only comedy Gentlemen Incorporated in February/March, while Garrick Theatre in Guildford is offering a darker take on Cinderella (not suitable for children under 10) based on the morality tale spun by those well named brothers Grimm.

As mentioned, this is not the only artistic landmark on Annika’s horizon. At the end-of-year gathering of the Mundaring Bicentennial Scholarship Trust at the Mundaring Arts Centre, she was awarded the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts.

College graduate has Fringe Festival production

“You’re so young and I am so old — and the creative part of one’s life is so beautiful!” observed Trust patron Richard Woldendorp, when presenting Annika with the award she will use to create an installation in collaboration with artist Sharron Lyons. The visual/sonic exhibition will happen at Mundaring Arts Centre in July.

Helena College clearly has impressive musical mentors — we’ve featured several graduates and students who’ve heaped praise on them and graduate Annika Moses is one. The WA Academy of Performing Arts student has become a regular Darlington Arts Festival performer as well as doing Summer Nights shows at 2 Montrose, and she recently became the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts winner for 2017 (more about that win later).

For more on the evergreen Richard Woldendorp on his 90th birthday see My Place on page 10.

Annika is currently collaborating with Helena College’s Bob Simpson, Deputy Principal of Curriculum, on a Fringe World production to be performed in February.

Above: Scholarship winner Annika Moses and Sharron Lyons

Richard Woldendorp at 90 (Photo Ron Dullard)

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G r e y - S m i t h Shire seeks feedback on two works at WA Art strategies While we want to ease you into 2017 without tossing anything Gallery too onerous into your laps, those with an interest in the urban

expansion on our doorstep in Helena Valley will want to check out Mundaring Shire’s Helena Valley Urban Expansion Draft Strategy document with its call for public submissions by February 9. The expansion area includes Scott Street and parts of Victor Road, with a range of densities and some commercial development recommended.

At the WA Art Gallery (until March 19) there’s an exhibition of works by the late Helen GreySmith who, with her celebrated husband Guy, put Darlington on the map in 1950s and 60s when something akin to an ‘artists’ colony’ flourished here.

The strategy recommends that the Helena River be protected and managed in a coordinated way as development occurs “by planning for nature parks and other open space”. The lack of the latter has, of course, been a negative element since the first ad hoc development happened along Helena Valley Road.

Local collectors, fellow artists, arts administrators and admirers of Guy’s paintings and Helen’s screen-printed textiles converged on their home studios in Stone Crescent — to the extent that, in the 1970s, the couple retreated to a timber home in the karri forests of Pemberton.

The draft will need to be endorsed by the State Government and South Ward Councillor James Martin tells the Review that endorsement will mean that landowners have a blueprint for development to guide them in terms of development applications.

You can view the draft strategy on the shire’s website and make submissions under Public Notices at www.mundaring.wa.gov.au

While Guy was the larger-

Indian lagoon 1986, gouache and than-life artist and activist, collage, State Art Collection, Art Gallery his wife was content to of WA

Helena Valley is one of the parts of the Shire identified as a growth area because of its proximity to Midland and because of sewer availability “because most other places in the shire are not connected to deep sewer and water systems needed to support growth.”

pursue an artistic career that complemented rather than competed with her husband’s.

When the couple established their first studio in Darlington it accommodated a four-metre table that enabled Helen to tackle large commissions for fabrics for the Perth City Council, the University of WA and for the Reserve Bank in Canberra.

With the tentacles of development multiplying on the edges of Darlington, how safe are we from a further push for denser development happening on the flatter flanks of Darlington?

As author Gwen Phillips records in her recent biography, Helen Grey-Smith (published by UWA Publishing) the local artist produced a stunning array of hand-printed fabrics, mainly on washable cotton or linen for she wanted her output to be useable, as both furnishing or dress fabrics.

At present properties with septic tank systems cannot be less than half-an-acre — and that is viewed as our protection if you came to Darlington to avoid suburbia. James believes that the thing that will protect us most is the existence of national parks and reserves that surround Darlington. “The day a politician or government suggests encroaching on a national park will see them out of office at the next election,” he says. “However, what is certain is that the paddocks and horses we have seen disappear in Helena Valley will continue to disappear — but at least now there will be some structure, and not letting landowners develop right down to the Helena River will mean public open space on the foreshore as a link between all the developments.”

“Her method of working was time consuming and physically taxing …,” writes Phillips. “Her commitment was to the marriage of design and craft and the importance of living, hand-made crafts.”

In 1967 when repetitive strain injury from lifting heavy screen forced her to find a new medium, she transitioned from craft work to fine art, producing brilliantly colourful collages inspired by trips to Asia.

This talented artist passed away in 2009, at the age of 93. She left an impressive body of work in numerous major collections.

Gwen Phillips began researching the life of Helen for a Master’s degree at Edith Cowan University. An exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA —WA Focus — Helen Grey-Smith— will be on display until March 19.

James suspects that in future Helena Valley Road could become a four-lane road. James says that the Scott Street/ Great Eastern Highway junction is acknowledged as a black spot that needed to be addressed, and that in future you will both exit and enter Scott Street by turning left.

Mobile Vendors Draft Strategy

The second draft strategy that the Shire wants feedback on relates to the possibility that mobile vendors will be allowed to set up and sell on Shire land — such as Darlington Oval.

The Draft Mobile Food Vendor Policy is open for comment until February 8.

LEFT: Textile sample (segment) 1955 – 65, silkscreen print on cotton and linen, State Art Collection, Art Gallery of WA

Shire President (and our local councilor) David Lavell said the Shire has received a number of requests from mobile vendors 7

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Comings and goings…

“The aim of this draft policy is to guide the type and location of vendors that could be considered and it will outline possible operating requirements, conditions and locations for mobile vendors operating on Shire owned or managed land. The aim of this draft policy is to better utilise our public open spaces and make them more vibrant and welcoming,” says Councillor Lavell.

“We acknowledge that some traditional shop front businesses may view mobile vendors as a potential risk. As part of the conditions a mobile vendor is not to be located within 100m from an existing food premises offering similar services. If this draft policy is adopted opportunities to provide mobile vending services at public spaces will be publicly advertised and open to all complying applicants.”

A spate of departures of residents relocating closer to grandchildren has unsettled the rest of us — and one couple on the move, Edwina and Peter Carter, will be missed because they contributed in so many different ways to Darlington life.

Locations identified as suitable for mobile vendors include — but are not limited to — ovals in Chidlow and Sawyers Valley, the Mundaring Sculpture Park, Morgan John Morgan Reserve in Glen Forrest and Brown Park, Swan View. So this could affect Darlington Oval.

The fact that they lived and worked overseas and were extremely entrepreneurial made the Carters hard to keep up with.They met on a slow boat to Cape Town (her home town), farmed in the Wheatbelt, had a stint in Saudi Arabia before returning to run a couple of very popular book cafes in Perth.

(This would have suited former teacher Edwina, a keen book club member who is also a voluntary guide at His Majesty’s Theatre.)

Cr Lavell encourages residents and ratepayers to have their say. The public comment period is open until Wednesday 8 February. For more information visit www.mundaring.wa.gov.au

Concerned about these issues?

Moving to the Hills, the couple established the Mt Charlotte Vineyard and Restaurant before settling in Darlington. They then surprised all by coming out of retirement to start 2 Café!

If you would like to give feedback on these issues, you’ll want to attend the first Darlington Ratepayers and Residents Association meeting on Tuesday 7th February, 7.30pm in the lesser hall. Both issues and the possibly delay of work on the Hall are on the agenda. For details of other items to be discussed, see their notes. If you have issues you would like to raise in the meantime please contact the DRRA Secretary, Chris Pemberton via email on chris.pemberton@bigpond.com or write to DRRA at PO Box 177, Darlington.

Peter, a former Mundaring Shire Councillor, used this experience as a President of our ratepayers association, and both volunteered at FODS and other groups, and were members of The Darlington Club.

And it needs to be said, the Carters added a sense of style to social events: Edwina always elegant, Peter decidedly dapper with interesting headgear to match the occasion — a solar topee when showing off his vintage car at the last Darlington Arts Festival.

Gates workshops in Darlington

Local artist Drewfus Gates well knows the transformative impact art can have when a pupil picks up a paint brush and discovers a talent that had remain dormant. He has held countless workshops at his Darlington studio and is planning another in February (see advert in this issue for details).

Drewfus Gates self portrait

While it’s a tad unsettling to see such good people go and to walk past those SOLD signs, it’s also nice to see young families move into the large empty houses — and to hear the absolute delight of kids being let loose in a Darlington garden. Chatting to some new arrivals exploring their domain during an evening stroll, we were informed that it was the best place to play hideand-seek — and a solemn little girl added: “Darlington is a very safe place”.

“I still get a real buzz when someone makes a breakthrough – and the rest of the class know when someone has produced something wonderful and they gather round to admire…” he says.

And so it is — and more than that, it is warm and welcoming.

“Do you know this is the first place I’ve really felt at home,” observed a recent arrival from the UK. We know just what he means. You wake in the morning and feel: “This is where I want to be.”

We’re blessed – and may all those new arrivals in homes that have changed hands feel similarly blessed through their first year in Darlington.

The local artist is offering workshops that range from learning about colour and light (classes of around 20) to smaller groups for advanced portraiture. He teaches portraiture, figure painting and oil painting at the Fremantle Arts Centre, and has won major art prizes. His commissioned portraits include many of Perth’s high profile judges, university chancellors and mayors.

Trea Wiltshire Editor

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My Place: Richard Woldendorp We generally see him focusing his camera at events such as the Darlington Arts Festival and later generously sharing his images. Pilots of Cessna aircraft know him as the photographer who shoots the iconic landscape images that have given him a national profile. Richard Woldendorp, who arrived in Darlington in the 1950’s is still capturing those brilliant images — and recently he turned 90.

At a time when a photo snapped by an amateur can make it to the pages of a prestigious magazine, you have to feel for professional photographers. However, in an online world where everyone is a photographer, there are still images with the power to stop you in your tracks — and photographers who have the incomparable skill of producing a beautifully crafted image that has you wondering: is that real, is it a painting, a photograph?

One such photographer is Richard Woldendorp who, as the New Year was ushered in, celebrated his 90th birthday in the company of his wife Lyn, his three daughters and grandchildren.

And it’s easy to see that the 2004 State Living Treasure and former Patron of the Darlington Arts Festival is still passionate about the business of crafting those iconic images. Right now his focus is on trees – a single slender sapling growing out of an ancient rock face, a grove of zamia palms bathed in deep green light — and the images he shows you underscore the fact that nobody sees these images in quite the way he does.

“The important thing is the intensity of looking at things,” he explains. “I always have a camera in hand when walking in the bush, but what’s crucial is the creative thinking that comes into play when you really study your subject. That’s the truly satisfying aspect, that’s what make a picture…”

Richard marked this landmark birthday more than six decades after arriving in WA as a postwar immigrant from Holland. He was relishing the freedom of having left behind years in a board school during the Depression, followed by time with the Dutch army training conscripts in Indonesia.

He had always wanted to paint, having briefly studied commercial art, and he arrived in the Hills at a time when the Grey-Smiths had established their Darlington studios and another recent migrant from Holland, Wim Boissevain, was painting and teaching in his Greenmount studio.

Richard did painting and drawing classes with Wim, and, to earn a living, worked as a house painter in partnership with Karl Heiner (who went on to become a legendary musician/teacher in Darlington). There was plenty of work in Perth during this increasingly prosperous postwar period, and the money was so good that Richard had soon purchased his first parcel of land in Beenong Road for one hundred pounds!

The Woldendorps: Gemma, Eva, Richard, Lyn and Yolanta.

“It took 12 hours to fly to Derby and because the planes weren’t pressurised, you flew low and slow – so you really got to see the sweep of this vast landscape,” he recalls. “Later I flew in Cessnas, a most remarkable plane that, even today, I consider the most ideal for aerial photography because the wings are set high and you can open the window …”

The landscape he captured in his first black-and-white photos was on the cusp of major changes as mineral resources were discovered and international travelers came in search of wilderness areas.

When he took the plunge and went professional, mining companies, the Australian Tourism Commission, and the State Government departments of trade, industry and development became regular sources of income at a time when he and Lyn were starting a family.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Exhibitions, nationally and internationally, followed, along with books, prizes, and many honours.

His signature landscapes are held in many public and private collections, and for this genial and generous 90-year-old, it’s clear his passion for seeing the world through a camera lens remains undimmed — and thank goodness for that!

He also had acquired a camera, joined a camera club and was collecting prizes and praise, but it was the opening up of the State’s north-west that set the course of his career. A pioneering commercial airline contracted him to paint their new headquarters in Derby, and, flying north in a DC 3, he took his first aerial landscape.

LEFT: River systems north of Townsville

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Letters, Community Notices and Events Vale: Melvyn Wall

Darlington to live as soon as that could be accomplished.

Unfortunately that was not to be and he died of pneumonia and other health problems on December 18th.

Members of The Dog Club , past and present, gathered at the oval on December 30th to have a drink and say farewell to one of the members, Melvyn Wall, who died on December 18th. A number of his Darlington friends had attended his funeral at Karrakatta cemetery earlier in the day. Mel came along regularly to the club for many years with his beloved Jack Russell, Angus.

His skills as a worker with wood were put to good use in helping Gus Skene create the Community Notice Board near The Pines, which will be a memorial to this good man for years to come.

He will be missed.

Letter of thanks from Pauline Clark: Thank you Everyone who helped our Darlington community carols evening progress and to all who sang along.

Once again the lawn was packed with local folk, their families and friends voices rang out into the Christmas evening.

Christmas Eve Carols by Candlelight is the highlight of our Christmas, we come every year, we love it” said local resident, (my neighbour in Brook Rd) and Dad of two.

Mel was born in England, the son of well-known comedian Max Wall, educated there mainly in the classics he developed a love of classical music. He played the guitar and apparently did an excellent imitation of Bob Dylan and was also a more than competent cabinet maker and wood turner. In all, a wellrounded man.

“This was the best yet, more people are singing along” said another local resident.

The BIG thanks go to Lindsay and Kendall Earnshaw, The Darlington Review and Colin James for their ongoing sponsorship, to Fenton Oldmeadow for his expertise with the sound and our talented local singers Bill Bennet, Luke Hall and David Welchman who lead us in song. Our thanks and appreciation to all who came and shared their blankets, fun, face painting talents, coffee, food, voices and cheers.

He came to Australia and studied medicine at UWA, eventually specialising in paediatrics. It was while doing a house call in Armadale that his life changed dramatically. He was attacked by a pit-bull terrier and suffered dreadful trauma to his leg which was followed by post operative infection and left him with severe chronic pain and which required him to use a stick for walking. He loved practising medicine, but as a result of his injuries and the pain he suffered, he had to cease working, something which upset him very much.

Father Christmas and his helper Elf arrived in a reindeer clad “Jeep” and were there listening to the little ones wishes and hopes and stories until late when the nights work elsewhere saw them wave the children “Goodnight”

Despite all this he was always cheerful, even when the pain was really getting him down. When his dog, Angus, died, Mel was quite depressed and about this time he moved, for personal reasons, back to the family home in Kalamunda, which he proceeded to renovate for sale, the aim being to return to

Please do not hesitate to contact me with your ideas or suggestions, help or sponsorship for next Christmas Eve Tender thoughts and Happy New Year !

Bushfire Warning Levels During a bushfire, DFES and the Department of Parks and Wildlife issue community alerts and warnings for bushfires that threaten lives and property. They are issued once firefighters have arrived at the scene and determine that there is a threat or potential threat to the community.

Understanding the Bushfire Warning System is extremely important in helping you and your family to stay alert and informed when a bushfire starts.

The Bushfire Warning System operates using four levels of warnings.

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Councillor’s Column As the agendas, emails and phone calls begin to roll in for 2017, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the year just gone.

With an intense focus and effort to address the multiple and diverse issues that come before council’s each year, we are often left with little time on which to reflect on the outcomes of those issues. I would like then to remind of some of the successes and disappointments of 2016

I know many Darlington folk take great interest in our neighbours and have been actively following the changes in Helena Valley for many years.

I urge you to grab a coffee and read through the report. There is an online comment facility on the webpage or call Ruth Broz on 92906651 if you wish to discuss anything further with the Shire’s planning team.

2. Draft Policy - Mobile Vendors – Open until 7th February 2017 Under existing laws, mobile vendors are able to obtain permits to operate their business from parks, ovals and recreational facilities across the Shire. This draft policy aims to help guide decisions in respect to operating requirements and locations for mobile vendors operating on Shire owned/managed land. The key principles include; activating public space, community interaction, diversity of product, temporary vendors, and partnerships with existing sporting clubs and groups. Some locations that have been identified but are not limited to; Morgan John Morgan, Glen Forrest, Brown Park, Swan View, Sculpture Park Mundaring, Chidlow Oval, Sawyers Valley oval.

1. One small achievement in 2016 at our ward level, was the retention of three South Ward councillors. Three representatives allow for the continuation of the representation of diverse opinions. It ensures the ability for councillors to remain effective and efficacious through the sharing of the workload is maintained and most importantly it encourages others to consider a role in council while retaining a good work/life balance. Whilst some of our ward boundaries have been redrawn to encompass a small area of Glen Forrest and relinquish some of Bellevue to the West Ward, we have, overall, kept the status quo.

One contentious condition is that the mobile vendor “not be located within 100m from an existing food premises offering similar services”.

2. Council managed to keep rates increase to 3% while still providing the same level of service and this still remains a main objective. Given that 40% of the Shire are on fixed income keeping rates to a minimal increase is a priority.

Do you agree/disagree/have a comment to add. Is this policy fair to our local fixed businesses? What sort of mobile vendors would you want to see and where? Please feed back your comments to shire@mundaring. wa.gov.au or call shire officer Martin Shurlock on 92906661

3. The new Boya Community Hub with the Katharine Susannah Prichard Library will be opening February 6th, and work will begin on the Mundaring Indoor Sports Centre shortly this year.

3. Review of Dogs Local Law – Open until 7th March 2017 This local law works under the powers conferred by the Dog Act 1976 and Dog Regulations 2014. Recent amendments to the Dog Regs, means that Part 4 of the current dog local law is inoperable and that Council is required to declare DOG EXERCISE AREAs and declare PROHIBITED areas.

This Part 4 is NOT being reviewed at this time but community views will be sought in the near future. What is being asked is for your views on;

4. Sadly, the recent battle to “save the wetlands” in Helena Valley, a water body on private land has all but ended as the State Administration Tribunal ruled against the Shire Councils’ modification to the development which would have seen the lake retained.

After a lovely summer break, Council will resume for a formal meeting on the 24th January 2017. The Darlington Hall accessibility improvement is on the agenda and we are working with local DRRA representatives to get a sensible outcome. Over the next six months Councillors will be working with executive Shire staff, over a series of workshops to determine the Annual Budget, Fees and Charges, Long Term (10 yr) Financial Budget, and the Corporate Business Plan. Along with some other documents this represents the Council Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework.

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Part 2 Impounding of Dogs,

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Part 3 Requirements and Keeping of Dogs in particular fencing requirements and number of dogs,

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Part 5 Offence to excrete (currently $500 fine)

The majority of dog owners act responsibly, and there is certainly a welcoming family of dog lovers at the Darlington oval each night. In my experience as a nurse, however, dog bites are quite common (about one a week/per suburb). Please secure your fencing so as to not let the dogs out.

When your dog roams they excrete – possibly in the sand at the children’s playground, and can be a nuisance to others so please be responsible and pick up any mess. Local laws are in place to financially punish a dog owner for irresponsible ownership, but prevention is so much more sensible.

There are also several issues that are now open for public comment prior to coming to Council. Available via www.mundaring.wa.gov.au/ Council / News & Publications /Public Notices.

1. Helena Valley Urban Expansion Plan (HVUEP) – Open until 9th February 2017 Over the last couple of decades many landholders in Helena Valley have successfully rezoned and redeveloped their parcels of land. Unfortunately this has lead to a piecemeal approach resulting in disjointed Public Open Spaces (PSO). The Shire now wishes to accommodate the expected increased growth and landowner development in Helena Valley in a coordinated and sustainable way rather than ad hoc development. This is a strategic plan for Helena Valley and provides a plan for growth subject to Council and State Government endorsement. It may result in landowners applying for rezoning or subdivisions, which is somewhat inevitable.

Barking dogs are also a nuisance although not specifically under this local law. As someone who works from home I hear them a lot of the time.

Please ensure your dog is exercised regularly and occupied. Complaints regarding barking dogs can be made to the shire also, but please talk to your neighbour first.

In conclusion, if there is anything annoying you about the way the Shire manages impounding of dogs, fencing requirements and offences please comment by email. Send your submission to shire@mundaring.wa.gov.au

Large developments are generally required to submit 10% of their land for Public Open Space and surveys and workshops with large landholders to understand their aspirations have already occurred.

Council meeting audio recordings are available a few days post meeting should you like to listen and stay abreast of the issues your local councillors are championing. www.mundaring.wa.gov.au / About Council / Council / Meetings &Agendas / Audio Recordings. The next Council meeting is Tuesday 24th January.

The HVUEP is a high level strategy that seeks to best use the combined public open spaces to protect the Helena river, biodiversity and amenity of the area in a coordinated way. It also gives landowners who may wish to develop in the future some direction. This is an important and necessary plan as Helena Valley’s population is expected to increase due to it’s popularity as an area in which people seeking to downsize.

Regards, Trish Cook, South Ward Councillor Note: The Shire President is the official spokesperson for the Council.

These comments are my own and do not speak for the Council or Shire.

In response to these expected change factors such as heritage places, Bush Forever and Local Natural Areas and bushfire risk needs to be assessed as does the consideration of aircraft vicinity, road and footpath networks, drainage, and traffic flow.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington Netball Club information about the history of our club.

A few years ago, we celebrated our 50th anniversary, but do not have much documented about the origins and early years. If anyone can help fill in some of the years we would be most grateful.

Introducing Darlington Netball Club to the Darlington Review readers

Registrations So are you, or your child thinking of playing or coaching Netball this year?

We are not entirely sure why we haven’t thought of submitting regular articles in here before???

Darlington Netball Club is always happy to enrol new players (aged 7-18 years) and provide amazing support to our coaches.

Well we are here now and we are eagerly hoping this regular slot will help promote and grow our netball club in Darlington as well as build a strong positive club spirit and sense of belonging for 2017.

All our club games are played on Saturdays at Mundaring Netball courts, and training is organised by the team coach usually after school during the week

Over the coming months, we hope to acquaint you with our teams and club members. We are, surprisingly, quite a large club, last year we had just over 100 members comprising of 9 older teams and 2 Net Set Go teams, coaches, parents and committee members. We encourage great sportsmanship and an enjoyment of the game, we have fun while we play at the same time as playing competitively so much so 5 of our teams made it to finals!

This year we have online registration!!

Existing member registrations for the 2017 season will open shortly, and players from the 2016 season should soon receive an email with details of how and where to register.

Interested new players will be able to register from 1st March and will be waitlisted and notified as to whether there is space in the requested age group

Calling all Sponsors!!!

We are looking at updating the uniforms for our older teams this year with dresses. “Yay!!” I hear the older girls cry “At last!”

Please search on the internet for MyNetball and then enter Darlington Netball Club

As it happens the time has come to replace some of the older tired looking shirts and so we thought lets try updating our image at the same time.

Which of course means we are looking for a fabulous new sponsor (s).

Any enquires or problems with registration please do not hesitate to contact Amanda on dandamoore@hotmail.com We also have a Facebook page which is a perfect place to clarify and share relevant information about fixtures, events and meetings.

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can’t be, there must be more. The fact is even if we try to get right, there will be those around us who exercise their free will to do us harm. Yes even for Christians, although we do feel a sense of joy over our salvation, and love as we are accepted into God’s family, will never experience perfect peace and complete satisfaction while we are still in this fallen world. But we hold onto the promise that one day all will be made right and that perfection we long for will be restored. Heaven is our real home where we can spend eternity. The book on Revelation in the bible puts it like this. "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, there will be no death or morning or crying or pain for the old order of things has passed away."

Are you truly satisfied? Many of us search for meaning and fulfilment and come up empty handed. We may experience fulfilment for a time, however, it tends not to last. Our unmet needs and desires are evidence that something is wrong both with ourselves and the world we live in. It’s a sign that things are broken and need fixing.

I have had a few old cars which had been in a prang or two so I made attempts to fix them. Well I might have got them on back on the road but they were never the same again. They would screech around corners, blow black smoke or try to drift off the road. The point is that they were never the same and the perfection they once had was lost and could never be found again. In the song by U2 Bono sings "I have climbed every mountain and scaled every wall but I still haven't found what I'm looking for”. The bible describes this dilemma of feeling incomplete and never truly satisfied the result of sin. As we as individuals and the world become more estranged from our creator we become more out of sync with how we have been designed to be. There are repercussions when we, as God's children, choose to live a life separated from our heavenly Dad. The good news, that Christians put their trust in, is that God send his son Jesus to the world to restore this relationship and reconcile us back to our Father.

If you answered in the affirmative that you are not truly satisfied, I want to encourage you to know that there is hope, both in this world and the next. I have found through my relationship with Jesus that although the utopia is yet to be realised I can still find contentment and purpose while we wait for that day.

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Darlington Ratepayers & Residents Association The first 2017 community meeting will be held on Tuesday 7th February, 7.30pm in the lesser hall. Items for discussion include: • Darlington Hall upgrade

• DRRA response to the Helena Valley Urban Expansion Strategy

• Pine Tce drainage and road improvements

• DRRA response to Shire vendor policy

• update on the Sports Pavilion

• DRRA capitol works requests.

• Let’s Talk Rubbish We look forward to seeing you then. If you have issues you would like to raise in the meantime please contact the Secretary, Chris Pemberton via email on chris.pemberton@bigpond.com or write to DRRA at PO Box 177, Darlington.

Mundaring Weir Gallery you on reminiscing or to purchase a really special item.

2017, already January is more than half gone. I hope you all saw in the New Year safely and happily.

There is too much to itemise individually--- you need to come and see. We look forward to seeing you on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, 11.30am to 5pm. Other openings can be arranged by contacting the Gallery on mwgallery@ yahoo.com.au .

Was your New Years’ Resolution to visit our Gallery regularly and support your local artisans? I hope so because the Gallery is in a unique building, in a unique setting and stocks unique items. What more could you want?

If you are an artisan and wishing to sell your work, make enquiries and there could be spot for you. Anyone wishing to join MUST be prepared to roster when required.

The Gallery is air-conditioned for your comfort on summer days and it now has a ramp for easy access into the building. Friendly volunteer staff will advise on your purchases, if required.

Locally produced honey and oils are popular. And so are hand painted soaps. These make small, pretty gifts, as do the lavender/ potpourri bags and shoe fresheners. Candles are useful and decorative and we stock a nice range.

Wooden, knitted and sewn toys always abound. Scarves, handbags, felted hats, knitted beanies and children’s jumpers.

Quilts, cushions, dog coats and cute hangers for the dogs leads. Notepaper, cards, paintings for your home or office. Lots of wooden items, bowls, platters, etc.

We have a lovely corner of antiques and collectables to start

Darlington Chamber Music sad at other times. Finding the words to describe this work are tricky but I feel that it beautifully encapsulates the overriding social sentiment of Russia during the first half of the 20th century.

Greetings and happy new year to all our chamber music fans for 2017. This year (our 14th season) Semra, Graeme ,Sally, Zak and I have created another exciting and diverse series of concerts. Being the 120th anniversary of Brahms’s death we decided it would be appropriate to present two of his greatest works, the piano trio and the piano quartet, both in C minor. In concert 1 (which incidentally will be performed in St Cuthberts Church not the hall ), we are performing the famous string quartet No 8 by Shostakovich, an extremely powerful work, quite violent in places and even desperately

Our guest group for 2017 is the Rob Zielinski Trio. This ensemble is dedicated to performing traditional music from Ireland, Scotland and the Shetland Islands including Jigs and Reels among others. I have personally seen this trio play and what a treat we’re all in for. It’s going to be another fantastic year of music so get in early and get your tickets for our 2017 season. Concerts are on May 14, June 11, July 16, Aug 27 and Oct 15. We look forward to seeing you all again soon.

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John Day, Member for Kalamunda Minister for Health; Culture and the Arts RPH Helipad

In recent weeks, the State government has made two significant funding decisions in my portfolio of Health.

The second is to go ahead with the construction of a new $6.8 million helipad at Royal Perth Hospital. This decision recognises RPH’s role as a major tertiary health centre and the home of Western Australia’s Adult Major Trauma Unit.

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The first is to provide $43 million for Western Australia’s Spinal Cord Injury Service to modernise facilities and support individual choice and independent housing options for those who unfortunately need to

Rescue helicopters have become increasingly important in emergency responses, including road crashes in recent years within a radius of about 300km of Perth. (The government has also recently funded a second rescue helicopter for the SouthWest, based in Bunbury). Larger capacity helicopters are being introduced and the new helipad will have a 10,000kg capacity compared with the existing one which has a 5,400kg capacity and was commissioned in 1999, which I recall opening then in my previous role as Health Minister.

The funding will enable the replacement of the existing State Quadriplegic Centre in Shenton Park with a state-of-the-art, supported community housing redevelopment, together with other housing options across the metropolitan area.

The existing “Quad Centre” began operations in 1969, with a 100 bed capacity. Only 46 beds are currently in use, with some facilities and equipment no longer suitable to meet contemporary care standards.

These projects build on the $7 billion rebuilding of WA’s health system over the last eight years.

For further information on these or any other State government related issues, please call me on 9293 4747 or email john.day@mp.wa.gov.au

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They will experience the Trojan Wars and Greek Mythology, adventure with medieval heroes such as Beowulf, Robin Hood and King Arthur; as well as journey with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The great stories of the past will be brought to life in a holistic way, though music, art and literature.

“In many respects we study literature and history to learn and be inspired by the great stories of the past - many of the issues in today’s world are best understood in the context of history,” said Mr Stephen Hurworth, Classics Tutor at Mundaring Christian College.

“Classics Academy students will be strengthened in their academic abilities as well as in their character. Skills such as leadership, group work, storytelling, reading, creativity and imagination are a natural part of how we explore the ancient civilisations.”

“We encourage students to think wisely instead of simply being “smart”,” Mr Hurworth said.

The Classics Academy: Adventure Through Time program is open to students from Year 5 to Year 8 from any school and runs every Wednesday from 4.30 – 5.30 at the Parkerville Secondary Campus. Cost is $150 per 10-week term.

Calling all interested students! New to the Hills and to Mundaring Christian College, the Classics Academy is an after school enrichment program for all Year 5 to Year 8 students.

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Mundaring Arts Centre In celebration of the rich vein of artistic talent within the Mundaring community the 2017 annual Shire of Mundaring Art Acquisition Exhibition, titled Note to Self, takes a retrospective look at the work of renowned Western Australian artist Ben Joel. Over the course of his career Ben has participated in over 60 group exhibitions, and his works are represented in private and public art collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Department for Culture and the Arts Collection. A range of never before seen preparatory work and digital pieces will be on display for this major survey to be shown at the Mundaring Arts Centre from 10 February to 19 March 2017. As Head of Painting in the School of Design and Art at Curtin University for nearly 20 years, Ben taught many of Western Australia’s finest artists, including Geoffrey DrakeBrockman, Stuart Green, Bevan Honey, Angela McHarrie and Gina Moore. Artists in Focus in Gallery 2 shows examples of how these artists have developed across their own careers.

act of drawing facilitates thinking, through the creation and solution of visual problems, and how this thinking then allows the development of recurring themes in the larger works.

The Shire of Mundaring Art Acquisition Exhibition, held annually at the Mundaring Arts Centre, exhibits works of contemporary significance connected to the eastern region and the Shire of Mundaring. It is through this important annual exhibition that the Shire of Mundaring is facilitated in acquiring new artworks of relevance and distinction into their already richly varied and esteemed collection.

Most pertinently, his drawings show how he practised for himself the ethos behind his teaching at Curtin University from 1989 to 2008, which this exhibition also strives to acknowledge. In the adjunct gallery, viewers will see work by five former students who are now mid-career artists – Geoffrey Drake-Brockman, Stuart Green, Bevan Honey, Angela McHarrie and Gina Moore. Ben challenged his students’ awareness of draughtsmanship, colour, technical inventiveness, form, composition and structure. It’s this level of rigour, these acts of thinking through a thoroughly practiced set of skills – in his own work, and then made available through teaching in one of the nation’s most cutting edge visual arts degrees – that is the legacy of his influence and self-evident in the work of former students.

Some of the major recurring themes in Ben’s works include: visual sensations analogous to instrumental music; forms which vaguely echo musical structures, such as the screw or sinusoidal form; and, theatrical orchestrations involving complexity, drama and crescendo. These preoccupations emerge in the artist’s sketches, visual diaries, and experimental works which inform a significant part of this exhibition.

Experimental works include, for example, a set of gigantic Polaroid’s circa 1986, made with the then world’s largest 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera. Only four such cameras were in existence worldwide. When one toured Australia, an artist from each state was selected to experiment with it; Ben was the successful WA applicant and recalls Fiona Hall being one of the others.

The Mundaring Arts Centre manages the Shire of Mundaring Art Collection, being responsible for maintaining high standards of management, conservation and acquisitions, and hosts the annual acquisitive exhibition in a triennial rotating format; presenting open, invitational and retrospective shows, respectively.

Curated by Anna Sabadini, Note to Self takes a retrospective look at a local Darlington artist of national significance, Ben Joel (b. Perth, 1948), and exhibits key works which represent the arc of his art practice spanning four decades. Primarily a painter, a range of Ben’s works will be on display including drawings, paintings and digital pieces, many of which had until recently been stored in a series of drawers, roughly filed by decade, and have not yet been seen by the wider public.

Ben’s works on paper present drawing as a ‘running process’, arising from visual questioning. Viewers are shown how the

A series of workshops hosted by exhibiting artists will run throughout the exhibition, and a forum will take place on the final day, Sunday 19 March, led by curator Anna Sabadini. This will be an afternoon of informal conversation and a unique opportunity to meet these professional artists and discuss their arts practice and influences.

For more information visit www.mundaringartscentre.com.au or call Mundaring Arts Centre on 9295 3991.

Images (above, left to right): detail of Stack, 2007, mixed mediums on paper; detail of Stack, 2007, mixed mediumson paper; Boiling Office, 2016, digital hybrid; Oblivion, 1987, oil on canvas.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington Volunteer Bushfire Brigade •

Remember, 000 is the ONLY number to ring for all fire & smoke sightings. The ComCen will page our members who are on duty.

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For general Brigade enquiries please ring 9299 7217. Station hours: Saturday 9am-10:30am.

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Next Brigade meeting: Tuesday, February 14th 2017, at the Darlington Fire Station.

Firstly, a slightly belated welcome to 2017, and “Happy New Year”. From the members of the Darlington Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade, we’d like to wish all of our community members a safe, happy and prosperous year ahead.

resources. Our simple little on-line video also offers some tips for maintaining your property. It can be found on the YouTube website by searching “Darlington Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade”.

The Darlington area has had only a few fires so far this summer, but there is no reason to ignore the risks of fire, and the fire hazards present in our community. With some late rains prior to the fire season vegetation growth has been plentiful.

This means fuel loads will be high once this material dries in the heat of coming weeks. We urge you all to maintain your firebreaks, keep a 20 metre clearance zone around buildings, report any sighting of smoke or fire immediately to 000, and take note of any suspicious activity and/or vehicles in and around bushland and report it to Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000. Over recent weeks the Darlington Brigade has assisted with incidents in Middle Swan, Upper Swan, Bullsbrook, Hovea, Swan View and Dandaragan. Thank you to the residents and community members in the Darlington area for your vigilance and for being pro-active so far this summer.

Since the start of the fire season our volunteer fire fighters have also continued their training to serve the community.

Whether at Saturday morning scheds, monthly meetings, skills refresher training sessions, appliance familiarisations and driver training, or hazard reduction burns, our members have volunteered many hours behind the scenes in recent months to be ready to help the community this summer.

For tips and hints on preparing yourselves and your properties during the fire season, check out the DFES website (http://www.dfes.wa.gov.au), it’s a great information resource for such things as alerts & warnings, Total Fire Ban information, Prepare.Act.Survive guides and other bush fire preparation

We would like to acknowledge all of the community and corporate support we have received this summer in our fundraising quest to purchase a thermal imaging camera (TIC).

A TIC uses infrared technology to detect surface temperature changes in the landscape. Using one after a fire or hazard reduction burn enables us to see hot spots in the ground, or on trees and logs, that can’t be detected by the naked eye whilst walking or driving around a fire ground. With this information we can do a more thorough “mop-up”, therefore making the area safer before we leave. Through our bratwurst tent at the Darlington Arts Festival, as well as cash donations, we have raised sufficient funds and are currently investigating a brand, model and price best suited to our needs. In particular we wish to thank The Darlington Review, Mundaring Community Bank and local musician Rupert John for their contributions to the Brigade and its members.

“You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you.” ~ Author unknown Cheers Ricky Harvey

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Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre Discover Cupid at KSP

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We have been struck by Cupid’s arrow here at KSP Writers’ Centre this February, offering a special selection of ‘love’ly events.

Tuesday 21 February, 6.00-9.30pm Enjoy live pre-dinner acoustic entertainment from 6.007.00pm from local musician Karina McRoberts while relaxing on the heritage verandah. From 7.00pm, enjoy three candlelit courses of gourmet French food and contemporary Gothic Australian readings from QLD Writers-in-Residence Miranda Debeljakovic and Alexandra Philp. BYO drinks. Optional Dress: Pink/Red. Dietary requirements catered for with notice. Tickets from $35.

Scribe Tribe for ages 10-16 Weekly during school term on Wednesday afternoons, 4.00-5.30pm KSP’s Scribe Tribe offers games, exercises, encouragement and term goals, as well as insights into publishing and instruction on writing across all forms. It includes end-of-term certificates and performance parties, plus publication in the professionally printed 2017 youth anthology! Scribes will be invited to a big book launch bash in December where all participants will receive a copy and a KSP writer’s medallion.

Costs from $10 per class; FREE first trial.

KSP Sunday Session featuring a talk on Katharine Susannah Prichard Sunday 26 February, 4.00-5.30pm Hear an extract from Nathan Hobby’s biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard’s early life. Twenty-years-old and living away from home for the first time, Katharine set tongues wagging in Yarram, a small town in Gippsland, Victoria. She beguiled several men, including a drug-addicted German doctor on the run from his wife. Starring in a play called Sweet Lavender, she earned a new nickname. She gathered notes and impressions that she would turn into her award-winning first novel, The Pioneers, a decade later. What better place to hear the story of this important year in Katharine’s life than at the house she lived in for fifty years? Tickets from $5.

Teaching the Monster to Speak: Creating Believable Characters with Tracy Farr Saturday 18 February, 1.00-4.00pm Writing fiction is a licence to invent and transform. When we write, we might choose to inhabit our own or someone else’s skin, or create a character from scratch. Tracy Farr’s novel, The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, has been described as ‘a novel which reads like an elegant memoir’. In this workshop, Tracy explores ways of inventing believable characters, and developing your instincts as a writer. Tickets from $35.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

1st Darlington Scout Group It seems like only a few weeks since our Scout families gathered at the Darlington Oval for an end of year celebration and water fight. Since then three of our Scouts plus a leader have travelled to Thailand for an International Scouting Jamboree. In the last few weeks our leaders have been busy making plans for some great programs in 2017. The success of Scouting and our group is in keeping in tune with our mission.

Joey Scouts: Aged 6 to 8. Monday nights 5:00pm to 6:00pm

“The Mission of Scouting is to contribute to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law, to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society.” (https://www.scout.org/mission).

Cub Scouts: Ages 8 to 10.5/11. 2 Packs. Monday nights 6:15pm to 7:45pm; Wednesday nights 6:00pm to 7:30pm.

Scouts: Ages 11 – 14.5. Thursday nights 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

Venturers: Ages 14.5 to 18. In conjunction with Mundaring Venturers, meeting times to be advised.

This year we will be focused on providing more opportunities for our youth to be involved in the organising and running of their own programs in accordance with being a youth organisation that is youth led and adult supported. We are also planning to grow our adult support team with a requirement for additional adults to be trained as leaders as well as support committee positions. To get involved please e-mail our Group Leader – Glen Stenton scoutingindarlington@gmail.com; or call 0403 809 226. Photographs are from group activities 2nd half of 2016.

In short this is “Scouts – Creating a better world”. Scouting is currently active in 216 countries and territories, with a global membership of over 31 million, male and female. Two thirds of the international membership are in developing countries.

This year Darlington Scout Group will be running the following Scouting sections – all open to boys and girls.

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Julie Matheson For Western Australia PARTY Have you noticed over the past 20 years the politicians running this State have formed cosy arrangements to protect their mates?

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington Theatre Players Inc. The DTP held their annual awards on Jan 14 2017 to celeb rate the excellence of the 2016 productions.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Community Connect : Hub of the Hills Look what’s on at the Hub of the Hills

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Helena College International Baccalaureate School Happy New School Year

One of the most challenging aspects of this expedition was a tour of the museum that details the brutal history of Cambodia’s Pol Pot regime. For the students, the experience was harrowing but also important as shown by their reflections: “I cried and felt incredible sadness at how this could have happened and how the world could have sat by and watched this happen. As we left I thought of how the Khmer people have recovered – they are optimistic and friendly and especially the younger people we have met seem to be looking toward the future. I sat in the courtyard – with the mango, jack fruit and frangipani trees, surrounded by the prison buildings, and reflected on the hard day – and I hope that it made me a little more understanding of the culture we are experiencing.“ (Sarah)

At Helena College, there’s plenty of excitement on the first day of the new school year as students and staff share stories of their holidays. Tales are swapped of time spent with friends and family, adventures enjoyed and memories made.

This year, students from the Glen Forrest Campus (Years 6-12) will have plenty of stories to tell after their World Challenge trips to Tanzania or Vietnam/Cambodia in December 2016.

World Challenge Expedition - Tanzania

Eighteen students and two College staff undertook a month long expedition to Tanzania, which had many highlights as well as some challenges.

One high point was the community project at Waruma Primary School in Machame, Tanzania. Leading up to the trip, Helena students fundraised to pay for construction of a new classroom and for resources to equip it. Once in the village, they helped with the building work and spent time with the young people who will benefit from their efforts.

From there, it was on to Mt Kilimanjaro for the trek to the ‘roof of Africa’. Unfortunately, bad weather forced them back at 5300 metres, just short of the 5895m summit, but all participants showed tenacity and resilience to make it that far in such challenging conditions.

The Tanzania expedition finished with a safari, complete with sightings of lions, elephants, giraffes, cheetahs, buffaloes, zebras and wildebeests.

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The World Challenge expeditions offer our students opportunities to become educated global citizens and are a perfect complement to the College’s inquiry based learning, implemented through the International Baccalaureate which develops each student’s creative, critical and reflective thinking skills.

The World Challenge partnership also fits well with our highly regarded camps programme, which begins with a sleepover in Pre-primary and continues each year until the Year 12 Rottnest Retreat. In the first week of Term One, our Year 11 students begin their school year with their Margaret River Camp. All our camps encourage and support our students to appropriately stretch themselves physically, socially and emotionally.

It is just one of the many ways that Helena College brings out the best in all students.

World Challenge Expedition - Vietnam/Cambodia

Eighteen students and two teachers headed for Vietnam and Cambodia for an expedition that included trekking through the Ratanakiri National Park and sleeping in hammocks above the jungle floor. They also volunteered at an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City for their community service project. While there they painted murals on the walls and enjoyed spending time with the children. They didn’t need to speak Vietnamese - just to have a big smile and a willingness to have fun.

It is not too late to make sure your child benefits from a well rounded education at Helena College – there are still places available for this year in many classes. Please contact our registrar on 9298 9100 or email registrar@helena.wa.edu.au Sherene Strahan, Community Relations

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Soroptimist International of Helena please contact Robyn Cain 08 92988593 or 0417 179 761. Or check on our website: www.siswp.org/Helena-Inc/ or follow us on Facebook at Soroptimist International of Helena.

One of our first duties will be to present cheques to Swan View Senior High School students toward the transition from Clayton View Primary to SVSHS plus a further bursary for year 12 girl to continue in the drama arts class. A new bursary will be presented for year an 11 girl to attend drama arts classes.

We will be delivering CareBears to S.J.Midland Public Hospiital children’s ward, funded from our fashion parade raffle.

As we approach the beginning of another year, preparations are underway for our activities in 2017 The Annual General Meeting was held on 24th January when we inducted one new member and welcomed an interested lady from Darlington. Berenice Ritchie continues as President, and I continue as Treasurer.

During February, Lauren Gordon will be guest speaker at the dinner meeting on 21st February, at the Dome convention room. She will tell of her adventures while volunteering at the Thailand Bamboo School when a group of La Salle students volunteered to help build a home for stateless students. If you would like to join us that night, please ring 9293 4108 to advise us.

We have lost a few members with Val Ludemann retiring after 31 years with the club, and one member has transferred to Karratha and Districts and another has resigned due to pressure of work. We are very grateful to these ladies for their dedication and work towards achieving our goals and wish them good health, and best wishes for their future ventures.

I am also happy to take any enquiries 92996230.

Our club is in need of members and hope that any ladies who wish to make a difference to the lives of women and girls

Rosalie Gordon

Mundaring and Hills Historical Society Inc A Forgotten Legacy at John Forrest National Park

Historical Society is keen hear from members of the community who may have photos or other information about the Park and the camps.

Dr Fiona Bush was our last speaker for 2016 and her excellent talk on the development of John Forrest National Park during the Depression stimulated much conversation and presented us with a call to action. The Park was declared a conservation area

by Premier Forrest in 1898 but for years it was little more than a pleasant stop on the Eastern Railway. As unemployment increased at the onset of the Great Depression in 1928-9, so did discontent and the State Government looked for productive ways to remove single unemployed men from the city. The idea of using the disused Blackboy Hill Army Camp, and an overflow camp in Hovea, to house these men was hatched and work teams set out to provide wood for the city and do public works in the National Park.

Our new exhibition A Place to Stay: Accommodation in the Hills opened just before Christmas and runs to 20 April 2017. The concept of the Hills as a place for health and leisure is examined in this exhibition.

Dr Bush, an archaeologist and heritage consultant, had her interest piqued by the sustenance camps, but her research led her to investigate the works at the National Park. The sustenance workers (known as ‘sussos’) had constructed roads, dams, lengthy meandering pathways, rustic brushwood huts and the swimming pool at the heart of the Park. What she found was that much of their work remained virtually unchanged. Given that most of the construction was done by unskilled workers with minimal tools and equipment, their achievement was commendable and has stood the test of time.

Look out for our new program of events. Our offices will be open for the Rotary Twilight Markets in Mundaring on Saturday 11 February and our next public meeting will be on Saturday 18 March. We can be contacted by email at mhhs@iinet.net.au or via Facebook or a message can be left on 08 9295 0540.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington History Group MMXVII as the Romans might have said! Another year of fact-finding, fun and frolics is upon us.

And what does 2017 have in store for us? Our Committee’s planning meeting will be held on 8th February and there is much to discuss and plan for. A program for the whole year has not yet been devised, but we can tell you that, at our first General Meeting on Wednesday 8th March, the Guest Speaker will be Russell Thom, sessional lecturer and PHD candidate from ECU’s School of Design. His topic is entitled “Insight Into Some Ancient Villages of China”, a reprisal of his recent visit to these 700 year old habitations in the Chinese countryside. Russell is well-known to the Group for his work with Committee members towards the establishment of our website. We look forward to his talk and hope that you can join us for what promises to be an enlightening evening.

However, briefly back to 2016 to say just how enjoyable was our Christmas function held at the Carter residence with its magnificent views over the scarp to the airport and the city beyond. Despite the heat, we ate, drank and made merry, pausing during the proceedings to recognise the efforts of our special guests who had assisted us so ably and generously throughout the year (see the photo below of two of these VIPs , Gail Gregson and Richard Woldendorp).

We will also be planning ‘add-on’ activities to our talks to enhance and enlarge upon the information derived from our Guest Speaker presentations and also as an opportunity to enjoy each other’s company (and hopefully yours!) on these daytime excursions.

Please refer to the Darlington Arts Festival report for some very interesting information of this long-established event held annually since 1954. Some dedicated sleuthing was carried out by DHG members to locate and record this material.

Great work! Meanwhile work by DHG and members of the Darlington community continues towards the completion and publication of a definitive history book of DAF over the years.

REMINDER: Wednesday 17th March – talk by Russell Thom on ancient villages in China.

Please note: The venue for this event has not yet been decided, but should be known by the time that the March Review is published.

Please refer to our Report in that issue to clarify the location or go to our website www.darlingtonhistorygroup.com.

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Sadly we will be farewelling Edwina and Peter Carter as they up stakes and head westward to a new abode in Swanbourne nearer to their family. It has been a pleasure to have their company and expertise during the years that they have been involved with the DHG. We wish them well and hope to see them visiting from time to time.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Ken Wyatt Assistant Minister for Health - Federal Member for Hasluck support they need, where and when they need it. The reforms taking place this year will streamline and integrate the system to preserve its strength, ensuring it is sustainable, responsive and puts the needs of individuals at the centre of care.

I hope that all the readers and their families have had a happy, healthy, safe and prosperous start to 2017. I hope you enjoyed the festive season with your loved ones and are looking forward to another year of adventures, new successes and milestones.

We have more older people, and life expectancy is increasing.

Life is from 0-105, or even more, and getting older is just another step along the way – but still busy, still active, still in charge of what you want from your life. More people will stay at home for longer and the system – once based on a notion of ‘putting people into an aged care home’ – has to be radically overhauled to offer more choice and be more flexible.

It is an absolute honour for me to find myself in the position to be able to guide and provide stewardship to a process of aged care reforms announced last year. In 2017, we will see a consolidation of these changes which are both necessary and will bring a great deal of benefit to our communities, across the whole country in all its diversity.

The key to change is moving from ‘doing for’ to ‘doing with’.

Aged care is a partnership – the consumer, their carers, the providers, the policy makers, and the government. I look forward to continuing this partnership with the constituents of Hasluck and all stakeholders this year, to ensure that you and I, our parents, grandparents and the people we love are looked after and given the independence, dignity and care we all deserve.

Our reforms are built on the core principle that people are the centre of the system – and individual consumers, now and in the future, must be able to choose the kind of care and

The Garrick Theatre Garrick Theatre is kicking off the 2017 season with an original take on one of the oldest and best-loved fairytales of all times, Cinderella.

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“The Grimm’s version is earthier, far less sentimental and the magic comes from the birds who are Cinderella’s protectors.”

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“However, there is still music and song and audience participation,” he said.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington Arts Festival “Annual Exhibition. What has come to be regarded as an annual event on our community calendar, and shop window so to speak, of all creative work in Darlington, will again take place in the Hall on Sunday afternoon, November30. This will be the fifth such arts and crafts show that has been held”.

Contributing artists included Guy Grey-Smith and Bob Juniper.

The Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 13th February starting 7.30pm at the Lesser Hall. The festival is a major event both for Darlington and the wider hills and Perth community and as such is a huge undertaking for the volunteers who run it.

So this year’s AGM is your chance to join a group who work hard, have fun along the way and find immense job satisfaction. No matter what you can contribute, your hands-on participation would be most welcome and you will be given lots of support. The sad reality is that unless more people step up, the future of the festival cannot be assured.

This places the first event in 1954 and makes 2017 the 64th Darlington Arts Festival.

The DAF committee wishes to place on record its appreciation to the team from DHG for their support and exhaustive research to provide an accurate timeline.

On a lighter note, the Darlington History Group has researched the festival’s history. And the surprising result is that DAF is older than we thought. Over the years the festival has had different names but in the November 1958 edition of the Darlington Reporter (which preceded the Darlington Review) the following article appeared: RIGHT: Some of the army of 2016 volunteers relaxing late Sunday afternoon

Darlington Family Playgroup

With the New Year upon us, our thoughts are often centred round the things we’d like to try and achieve this year, it’s as if we mentally give ourselves a fresh start! Well, maybe a little playgroup venture may be one such idea, if you have little ones at home and feel like you and your youngster would benefit from a bit of socialising!

With both indoor and outdoor play and crafts galore, you can either get stuck in or relax as you wish! Either way, a fab way to spend a morning!

If you’re local with a little one who isn’t yet at school, why not come along and have a quick tour of the playgroup and check us out. Guests can enjoy two complimentary sessions.

It’s great to get out and I’m sure I speak for us all when I say the adults benefit as much as the children from our weekly playgroup sessions! They run every weekday morning 9:3011.30am and some afternoons.

Here at Darlington Family Playgroup, you can come along on a day that suits you to find a warm, friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

A place where, together you can both play, create and explore in the company of other like-minded folk. It’s the connecting with others and sharing your thoughts and experiences that’s invaluable. We enjoy a coffee and some morning tea together at the outside seating area, mid-morning and soak up the bush setting as we watch the children get back to their games.

For current session availability please call 9299 6396 or email info@darlingtonfamilyplaygroup.org.au. We’re on facebook too: darlingtonfamilyplaygroup.

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Silver Tree Steiner School Early childhood at Silver Tree.

At Silver Tree Steiner School, the education that is provided not only supports the developmental phases of childhood but also enhances and enriches them. During the first developmental phase, which encompasses 0 – 7 years, the child’s sense of wonder and imagination is cultivated through active learning experiences and imitation.

The children’s sense of wonder and joy in the world that surrounds them is fostered through creative and nature based play, stories, songs and involvement in everyday activities.

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Our Kindergarten buildings provide a nurturing setting abundant with delightful, natural play materials and scenic outdoor gardens to provide endless rich learning opportunities.

The Kindergarten is very often the first step away from home, so a warm and homely atmosphere is provided where young children can flourish. Here the children are allowed to develop at their own pace as they begin to be aware of themselves as individuals and form a growing awareness of others around them. Playthings are kept simple and made of natural materials such as wool to nourish the child’s senses and stimulate imagination.

The Kindergarten morning has a healthy rhythm allowing the child time to rest and play. It begins with creative play, where a mixed age group play together, making shops, boats or houses out of tables, chairs, logs and playcloths.

Shells or counters often provide “food” or “money” in play. This part of the morning allows the children to be at their most creative – doing, making and building – and is responsive to the child’s needs. Underlying the play is intentional teaching which is deliberate, purposeful and thoughtful.

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After tidying away and circle time, the snack, which is prepared and cooked during the morning, is shared.

Seasonal vegetables or fruit and grains feature, such as vegetable soup or freshly baked bread.

Educating the head, heart and hands of your child.

Garden time allows the children to play out in all weathers, appropriately dressed, or perhaps go for a bush walk on our 25 acres of semi-rural land, or around our vegetable patches and organic orchard to see and collect things for the Kindergarten. Finally, before home time, the children come in for a quiet story.

The seasons are reflected strongly in all that we do: the food we share, the crafts we make and the stories we tell, and of course each season has its wonderful festivals to share and celebrate.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington Sports and Recreation Association (WA) Inc. WONDERING WHAT’S HAPPENING ABOUT THE PAVILION? Firstly happy new year to all our current donors and contributors and future supporters. MAY 2017 BE A YEAR OF GOOD HEALTH, PEACE AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF GOALS…

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Meetings continue with the Shire regarding approvals and their construction requirements 7.

Negotiations around a lease over the building is nearing completion.

YES well we haven’t seen any action on site yet - BUT: THERE HAS BEEN A LOT HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES TO ENSURE THE PROJECT IS BUILT IN 2017.

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DaSRA is still negotiating to collaborate on the sewerage and earthwork project being managed by the Shire so that it might be the first step in our involvement by one of our In-Kind trades.

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FUND RAISING: As reported last year our total target for funding is $526,000 . This excludes the Septic tank and some earthworks and drainage work being arranged by the Shire

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Applications being prepared for grants from Philanthropic organisations – if you can help with this please contact Geoff Barker

FUNDING SECURED

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As many will know it is coming up to AGM time for our organisation. Everyone in the community is invited along to contribute ideas and suggestions the details of which are as follows:

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Lotterywest Grant:

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Cash:

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Project Expenditure: Brick” campaign]

25,000 [Paid to Consultants - “Buy a

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Current Pledges

5,000

TOTAL so far

275,000

100,000 [includes Quiz night and Wine Tent profits]

$405,000

Mundaring Shire [$150,000 not included]

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Solar Power System

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Expected In-Kind Donations 35,000

We therefore still need to raise

[$14,000 not included] Yet to be confirmed

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The Committee is keen to run three major fund raising events this year: Major Prize Raffle

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BIG Quiz Night

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Darlington Arts Festival Wine Tent

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Darlington Number Plates. If you are interested in having a distinctive DAR number plate then once again go to the DaSRA Website to see how you can secure yours.

Location:

Darlington Hall

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Time:

7 pm

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Refreshments and nibbles provided

So join us through the BUY-A-BRICK campaign or make a donation.

There are other ways to support the Pavilion and its fund raising: 2.

Cash and Monetary donations can be made through any of the sporting organisations or directly to DaSRA

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Plus the committee is keen to continue with the work that has been progressing this year on two fund raising campaigns: Buy-a-Brick – currently more than 250 sold but we are aiming at a minimum of 500. So if you haven’t purchased yours yet please proceed to the DaSRA Website: www.darlingtonpavilion.com.au

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There is a Foundation Supporters Brick Wall inside the Pavilion (the exact form of recognition is still being negotiated but it will be prominent). There will also be a Thank-You function and a ticket in a Special Foundation Supporter Prize. More details on the website www.darlingtonpavilion.com.au.

If you can assist in any way; prizes, cash, volunteering with any of these events please contact the Committee through Geoff Barker – geoff@pmdwa.com

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March 9th

As mentioned above the Buy a Brick campaign has been motoring on with just on 250 bricks reserved and paid for BUT we need at least 500 to be able to pay for the project. Remember:

$86,000 Please Help!!!!

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Date:

The Wine Tent at last year’s Darlington Arts Festival [5th and 6th November 2016] was a great event with Blue Mana once again a treat, and we thank everyone who volunteered and who came along to make the night so memorable. There have been many lessons learned and thank you to all who provided feedback.

Anticipated Funding •

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Also we are still seeking In-Kind donations of materials, trades, equipment, products and hardware but they need to be formally offered by email so that they can be registered as “Pledges” to support our submission to Council.

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Volunteers are always needed to bring ideas and help plan for future activities CONTRIBUTIONS CAN BE MADE THROUGH THE WEBSITE:

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BUILDERS: Expressions of interest for building contractors started again in November 2016 and the next stage in the selection process closes on 24th January 2017. A formal announcement of a Builder is anticipated to be made late February 2017.

http://www.darlingtonpavilion.com.au/ The Committee’s next meeting is on

2017 at the Lesser Hall.

GOT IDEAS??? Or want to contribute then your participation is welcomed please contact Geoff Barker 0418 953 176 or geoff@pmdwa.com

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SITE CELEBRATION: All members of the Darlington Community are invited to attend a free event on 12th February 2017 called a “Turning of a First Sod” Demonstrating the commitment of your committee to actually getting the project underway. There will be a sausage sizzle, some announcements including an update of progress and opportunities to “Buy-a-Brick”…

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington Primary School Swimming Carnival will take place on Thursday 23rd March.

Welcome to 2017! We hope you enjoyed your Christmas and had the opportunity to spend some relaxing time with family and friends.

Information Evenings throughout Weeks 2 and 3 provide an excellent forum for parents to meet their child/ren’s teachers and become familiar with the procedures of the school.

Students in Year 4-6 will be honing their public speaking skills in readiness for the Hills Education Community (HEC) Public Speaking competition at Gidgegannup Primary on Wednesday March 8th. Other HEC events planned include T-20 Cricket and the Interschool Swimming Carnival.

The 2016 school year ended with a very relaxing Family Sundowner for the school community on a beautiful summer’s evening, with musical entertainment provided by Stewart Melrose, our Music Teacher and Tracey Buckley, our School Chaplain, followed by further well known songs from some of our local musicians.

Harmony Week in Week 8 provides an opportunity for our school community to celebrate and reflect on our wealth of cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic diversity. An assembly will be held to celebrate this event.

On the social side, the P & C Sundowner on Friday 24th February is a great opportunity for families to come together, join in a picnic dinner on the school oval, get to know each other and learn more about our wonderful community. For the students, a disco, coordinated by our School Chaplain, is planned for Friday 17th March. The students always look forward to this event.

The art works from the 2016 Year 6 students, as their legacy to the school, are a stunning inclusion in the Nature Trail area.

This area has kindly been maintained throughout the summer months by some of our very keen parents.

We are looking forward to another exciting year with enrolments for 2017 close to 400. Along with our new students and families, who have joined the Darlington Primary School community, we also welcome new staff members.

The term will close with an ANZAC ceremony on Friday 7th April.

The school community will come together and acknowledge the contributions, past and present of all our armed services.

Many events are planned for Term 1. Swimming lessons commence in Week 2 at Bilgoman Pool for all students from Pre-primary – Year 6. The students look forward to these lessons as part of the Physical Education Program. The Faction

We look forward to sharing other updates of our school community throughout the term.

Darlington Community Recreation Advisory Group Delegates are reminded of our next meeting on Monday, 6th February at 7.30pm in the Fire Station. This will be the Groups AGM and positions of Chairperson and Secretary elected.

and we invite anyone whom may be interested to participate, in such a role on our group to attend the above meeting. If wishing to know more information re our functions, then please contact myself and I will send you a copy of the Terms of Reference.

Also at the meeting delegates will provide updates on their Associations actions and a report from the Community Pavilion project.

As per our Terms of Reference our membership comprises delegates from various community groups but also has Representatives from the local community otherwise not representative of a particular user group.

Colin James Secretary DCRAG Ph 62980836

There are currently 5 local residents on our Advisory group

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Treetops A Montessori and International Baccalaureate School As we continue to prepare for what promises to be a very successful school year for Treetops it’s pertinent to look back on some of the highlights of 2016. The 2016 school year proved highly successful - with large enrolment increases and high levels of parent and staff satisfaction.

To round off a harmonious year at the school, we celebrated the end of exams and graduation of our three International Baccalaureate Year 12 students. As all parents of children sitting exams will know, the process is a community event, and these students were supported by teachers, parents, and the extended Treetops family – including the Year 7 & 8 class who temporarily moved classrooms to allow their Year 12 compatriots to create a peaceful exam space. Kyle and Denton have completed the IB Diploma and Jaymon is our first Treetops Courses student, completing some IB subjects together with a Cert II certificate in Conservation and Land Management.

We also celebrated one of our Year 11 students who has been selected for a place in the VET in Schools Animal Studies programme for this year. Places in this Certificate II course were strictly limited and much sought after. Anjelique will balance her Treeetops time along with attending Peel TAFE once a week to follow her dream of becoming an equine veterinary nurse. We know she will be great, as we have already seen her kind and compassionate approach to class animals.

To fall in line with the IB timetable, Year 10 students began some Year 11 subjects late last year. These include History, Biology, Visual Arts and Language & Literature. Visual Arts students have been experimenting with new tools and designs, as they develop their style and build their course.

High school students finished the year with three excursions. The Year 7 & 8 students visited the WA Museum’s Tomb of King Tutankhamun exhibition at the Perth Convention Centre. Year 7 students had been focusing on ancient Egypt as part of their Humanities programme, and made good use of such close access to replica artefacts. The next week, they were back at the Convention Centre with the Year 9, 10 & 11 students to visit the Spirit of Anzac exhibition, followed by a trip to the WA Art Gallery to look at the landscapes pieces they had been studying all term. This excursion included the Year 6 students from Karri as part of their transition into the high school.

As tradition dictates, high school students, parents, staff and guests went to Adventure World to celebrate the end of the school year. Students challenged staff to ride the Kraken and go on the Abyss. It was great to see so many Treetops alumni and to find out what people had been doing.

The school year officially ended with a very enjoyable Shuukai that demonstrated some wonderful singing and dancing skills from the various classes, (and in Karri’s case their parents and other family members!) and gave an insight into some of the most recent work completed.

The transition ceremony, held this year as part of this final gathering, gave the opportunity for staff to farewell transitioning students and welcome those moving up from the previous class. All transitioning primary aged students were given a specially made and annotated bookmark and a certificate as a farewell gift from their class teachers.

2016 has seen the strengthening and improvement of Treetops in many areas – enrolments, teaching staff, curriculum, enrichment provision, resources and grounds projects and maintenance.

2017 promises more success to the Treetops Community, and we wait with eager hearts to begin the new school year with rested and eager children and their families.

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington Tennis Club Darlington Tennis Club Court Weekly Bookings Time

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From Ct1 Ct2 Ct3 Ct4 Ct1 Ct2 Ct3 Ct4 Ct1 Ct2 Ct3 Ct4 Ct1 Ct2 Ct3 Ct4 Ct1 Ct2 Ct3 Ct4 Ct1 Ct2 Ct3 Ct4 Ct1 Ct2 Ct3 Ct4 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 school 20:00 school 21:00 school

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Helena Valley Club Session

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Contact

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Email

Mon morning social tennis from 8.30am.

Faye Jackson

0487 277 288

bedcat45@gmail.com

Thurs morning social tennis from 8.30am.

Trevor Folley

9252 1697

t.folley@bigpond.com

Mon, Tues, Wed nights 7‐9.30pm mixed social comp

Paula Wood (Mon)

0430 022 047

mapwood@iinet.net.au

(These comps do not usually run in school hols)

Tim Nicholas (Tues)

0434 322 139

timothynicholas8@bigpond.com

Players assigned to a team for duration of comp.

Brendon (Wed)

0427 250 566

brendonthompson07@gmail.com

Cardio Tennis Mon 6‐7pm Fri 9.15am

Zane Moran

0417 177 679

zano_eagles4eva@hotmail.com

Pennants training session Thursday 5‐7.30pm

Zane Moran

0417 177 679

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Pennants training session Friday 6‐7.15pm

Lee Oliver

9252 0209

lolivers@bigpond.com

Social Tennis ‐ Friday 7.15‐9pm

Lee Oliver/Zane Moran 0417 177 679 (Zane)

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Coaching (adults): Thurs 7‐9pm

Lee Oliver

9252 0209

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Coaching (kids):Sat 7.00‐11am; Tues 4‐6pm; Fri 4‐6pm Lee Oliver

9253 0209

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Pennants

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Sunday night social 8‐9pm

Richard Powell

0417 809 026

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Wheelchair tennis Monday 6‐7pm

Lee Oliver

9254 0209

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At other times courts may be hired through Pines shop across the road ($20 key deposit; $5 an hour for non‐members, $7 for lights)

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Darlington Review - February 2017

St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church cnr Darlington Rd and Hillsden Rd, Darlington

cnr Darlington Rd and Hillsden Rd, Darlington

Christmas is always a calendar highlight at St Cuthbert’s Early in Advent, the Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols provided a feast of traditional Christmas music followed by a celebratory feast of champagne and fruit mince pies (above left). Carol singing in the streets of Helena Valley was another opportunity to share the celebrations with the wider parish community ... and eat more mince pies (above right). By the time Christmas Eve came around we were clean out of mince pies but the children enjoyed eating the lollies from their Christingles, lighting candles and hearing the Christmas story at 5pm. At 11.30 that night, the church was full for Midnight Mass and again on Christmas morning for the 9am Eucharist.

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TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY @ 9.30AM Join us in a day discussing issues affecting Aboriginal ministry including: • Nyoongar cosmology and spirituality • Church in the Park • Ideas for funeral ministry • Panel discussion on Aboriginal ministry in schools and agencies • Yarning time Event Details Price: $40 (incl morning tea & lunch) Date: 18 February, 2017 Time: 9:30 am Venue: Wollaston Conference Centre 5 Wollaston Road, Mt Claremont RSVP: 17 February, 2017

Worship in the Style of Taizé Now starting at 7pm On the first Sunday of every month at St Cuthbert’s, the darkened building is lit by dozens of candles.

We sing simple chants, enjoy silence and hear a short reading from the scriptures. During summer we commence at 7.00pm. The next Taizé-style service of worship happens on Sunday 5 February.

Seats Available: 125 For further information, please contact Radhika Roy, rroy@perth.anglican.org or call 9286 0276

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Darlington Review - February 2017

Darlington Social Cricket Club Inc “Slips, Stumpings Appeals & Silly Points” Hopefully, everyone had a peaceful festive season and were able to spend quality time with family and friends. The DSCC family came together for the annual Christmas match against the Cavallaro XI on the 17th of December. The story of how of this pizzling unfolded, will be explained in full in a later issue of Hair and Hound. The cricketers and their families were treated to a gastronomic sen-sation of exotic tastes, such as curry puffs, curried egg sandwiches, curry infused rum balls and other tasty curry flavoured delicacies. The feast was supplied

by Knackered Knees Harding and his delightful daughter, Bella. Everyone gathered at the Earnshaw residence for the after match barbecue and Christmas merriment. It was great to catch up with Ella and Josh Harvey who had flown in from South Africa a week earlier. Later Santa came down the drive with a sack full off joy and presents for all the children. It was a wonderful night and it was great to see old friends and meet new people.

Nichols and made a brilliant 59. While that Wayne Harms look alike, Billy Picket scored a magnificent 41. The main destroyers for DSCC were Farrant with 3/20 and Zardins 3/19. I’m sure the bowling figures for Zardins must be incorrect. The figures were probably transposed incorrectly by my PA and should read 3/59. Anyway, DSCC in reply scored 1/193 with Harvey and Aldred scoring 35 each and Mark Lucas who built a nice picket fence while scoring a very patient 34.

A week later, DSCC took to the field against the Darlington Tennis Club. The contest between these two combatants have always been close and this match would prove to be no different. DTC batted first and scored a very respectable 10/226, with Middis scoring 75 and Hoshcke 58. The best pie throwers for DSCC were Breman-Jones 4/27 and Beazley 3/14.

DSCC were able to chase down the total in scored 6/227, with Ben Harvey and Mary Ellis scoring 52 a piece. It was quite a thrilling game as the winning run was scored in the last over.

Stepping back in time, DSCC took on the Blackadder XI on the 12th of November. DSCC batted first and posted a formidable total of 6/302. Main contributors for DSCC were Ward, Farrant and Ellis with 55, 53 & 41 respectively, while that ever reliable batsman Sundries, contributed 36. In reply, Blackadder could only must a meagre 10/180 and they were helped greatly, by a dashing young batsman, Kaleb Giles who scored a very credible 33. The best bowlers for DSCC Beazley with 4/25 and Alan Mallaby (yes, that’s not a miss print) with 3/19. Unfortunately one of the Blackadder team members came to grief and dislocated his knee cap while bending over to retrieve a can of cool drink from an esky at the after match barbecue. The author is pleased to inform his readers that KP is recovering well after surgery in the new year.

On the 4th of December, the annual fathers vs sons match was held. It is a chance for the sons to show their fathers that they are better cricketers and this year would prove to be no different. The sons batted first and scored 10/317. Matt Mallaby scored 74 while Nigel Jones and Daniel (I’m not sure Daniel who?) scored 43 a piece. In reply, the fathers could only manage 10/284, with Ellis and Miller being the main contributors with 69 and 40 respectively. Cody Miller 3/44 and Jackson Crow 3/55 being the main destroyers for the sons who have bragging rights for another twelve months.

In closing, Darlington Social Cricket Club is greatly saddened by the passing of Dean Giles, after a long battle with cancer.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Dean’s parents Terry and Patti, his brothers Cambell and Glen and all of Dean’s extended family. “A long battle bravely fought and now at peace.”

On the 20th of November, DSCC hosted a new team, The Beazley Carlton Kooks. The Kooks batted first and made 10/192. Captain Beazley led from the front like big John

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February 2017 Mon

6 Comm Rec AGM 7.30 @ Fire Station

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7 DRRA @ 7.30 Lesser Hall

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5 Taize style service @ St Cuthbert’s 7.00

8 Darlington History Group Meeting

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11 Twilight Markets @ Mundaring

12 Turning the Sod of the New Pavilion 11.30 Darlington Oval

10 Music @ 2 Montrose from 7.30 Ben Joel’s expo at MAC commences

13 DAF AGM 7.30 Lesser Hall

14 DVBB Meeting @ Fire Station

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18 KSPWC Workshop 14

19 Annika Moses at the Fridge see editorial for details

21 22 Soroptimist’s Dinner Talk

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24 Sundowner @ Darlington Primary School

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Mainly Music @ St Cuthbert’s 9.30 am 20

KSPWC Literary Dinner 69.30 27

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