The Local Issue 102 July 17, 2017

July 17, 2017 Issue 102 Us Two - Kieran & Sue

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Front cover: Sue and Kieran Prendergast, pictured with from left, Ringo, Ralph Lauren and Max, met as students at Mount Prospect Primary School. They now live at Newlyn North at Quirindi Stables which is Sue’s family home – making her the fifth generation on the farm – running Hepburn Lagoon Trail Rides from the property. Read their Us Two story on page 6.

July 17, 2017 Issue 102 Us Two - Kieran & Sue

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News 3

Chips Rafferty's signature's future in doubt

Left, Chips Rafferty, centre, with former usherette at The Rex, Winsome Moffat, holding the handle of a pram (read the story) and an employee from one of the drapers, Roger Bennett Above, the signature still in The Rex

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MAJOR refit of the Rex Theatre in Daylesford is getting closer by the day and there are many people who are hoping that its latest development does justice to the history bound to its walls.

At the moment however, The Rex is hollow and cold and most of the shops have packed up and moved out. Near to the front entrance opposite the stairs, there is a former hairdresser’s.

Looking through the grubby glass door, you can see that it has been gutted with all the fittings removed. It is dark and gloomy, just another empty space ready to be renovated, but on closer inspection you can see something remaining, a relic from another time when the Rex Theatre was the centre of the town’s social life, a connection to the wider world and the glamour of movies.

It is a signature, scuffed and dirty, applied in red enamel paint to one of the walls.

With each repainting over the years, loaded brushes have been scumbled closer and closer until the letters have nearly been obscured.

One would hope that the workers coming through on the next renovation don’t complete its destruction.

Not too many people know about the Australian actor Chips Rafferty these days but it is safe to say he was the Russell Crowe of his day. He appeared in over 25 features from the 1940s through to his death in 1971, not long after appearing in his final film Wake in Fright.

In the 1950s he had also formed a production company called Southern International with the intention of securing financial assistance for a series of movie projects he had in mind. It was in the course of promoting these projects that Chips Rafferty came to visit Daylesford in October, 1954. Winsome Moffat remembers the day well.

“Chips was going around to all the theatres in Australia to try and drum up money for a film he was planning (Walk into Paradise). He came and made a little speech at The Rex and then just went into the street to talk to people. I used to work at the theatre as an usherette and happened to be there when the owner Max Christie took a picture of Chips and me, along with Roger Bennet who worked in one of the local drapers’ shops.

“If you notice you will see that my left hand is extended to the side of the photo holding a handle. There is a pram at the end with a baby in it but I didn’t really want to be photographed with a baby! I was about 25 at the time.”

The afternoon's meet and greet was part of a very busy schedule for the actor as noted in a newspaper article from the time. This included a conducted tour of the business centre of town, talks at the state and technical schools, visits to the springs, gardens and other beauty spots, film screenings and an evening visit to one of the local hotels.

“Dear Max,” writes Chips in a thank-you letter. “I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I only hope that it will not be too long before I am able to once more visit the town of Daylesford. Please convey my best wishes to Harry Watts, Wally Fenner and those lovely hospitable and convivial bibbers at that little pub we went to late at night.”

The pub they attended that night remains unknown. So too, at this stage, is the final fate of Chips Rafferty’s name on the wall of the former Kristoufa Unisex Hair Studio.

It is 63 years since it was put there and there is a real concern by some of Daylesford’s older residents and history buffs that perhaps no one considers the signature to be significant.

Very soon the space will be a building site and there is a very real chance that dust, vibration and careless activity may see the red letters damaged or painted over and thus lost forever. It would be a shame if that did happen because the person who left their name on this wall is part of Australian film history and of course, Daylesford.

Hepburn Shire Council Major Projects manager Richard Howell told The Local on Thursday that "the sign will be retained in situ and protected during construction".

"There is no work proposed in that part of the building. As to the details of protection, that has not been determined."

Words: Anthony Sawrey | Images: Daylesford & District Historical Society and contributed

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The artist in everyone

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SABELLE Dupre is studying a Masters in art therapy at Melbourne Institute for Expressive Creative Arts Therapies. She has worked in various Melbourne-based community organisations developing and facilitating art therapy projects. Isabelle has been teaching life drawing since 2013, from Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent to now running life drawing at the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre. Isabelle's drawing teaching method facilitates grass root drawing communities that celebrate diversity of visual language. She chatted with Donna Kelly.

Donna: What is it about teaching life drawing that you enjoy?

Isabelle: It is such a privilege to witness the unfolding of an artist's visual language. During the classes, as creative journeys move, I get to be there as these sophisticated art practices breathe. My teaching philosophy is to support the creative integrity of the artist, coaching them as they navigate their mark-making territory.

For me, hearing the scratchings of drawing pencils amongst concentration is just bliss. I facilitate these classes so that peer-learning is prioritised wherever possible, accelerating the innovation of creative practice. Each class includes a living gallery, an art forum and the chance for one-to=one art coaching – it really is a rich environment to draw in.

Donna: Is there ever frustration?

Isabelle: Yes, all the time. There are also failures, mistakes, embarrassments and dead-ends...the list goes on. This is all part of the drawing experience and why it takes courage to turn up to the drawing tables. Regularly I see artists get bogged down, their mark-making having being harnessed by established symbol structures that serve to seek approval from doing a good drawing. So then, what is the point of drawing if it is not to accomplish a representationally acceptable end product? Well, I think that it's about navigating a sustainable creative identity. It's about learning to include your authenticity on the page in all it's uniqueness, grittiness and emotional substance.

This kind of visual information is often excluded, deemed as being too risky and it remains censored. I coach artists to venture into unknown visual territory while at the same time respecting their drawing rhythms. The beauty about drawing is that whatever it is you have to say, the paper will hold.

Donna: Reading your blog, you seem to think anyone can draw?

Isabelle: Daylesford drawing classes encourage the artist that exists in everybody.

I think drawing is a working through of an idea. In this way there is no wrong or right, just the process of how you worked with what emerged. When the pressure of expectation is released you can move mountains within your drawing practice.

Each time you come to draw there is a re-evaluation of what drawing means to you, deepening your visual vocabulary. Often, we impose ourselves on the drawing and I know that sometimes pretty tight schedules are kept. In the end, what is trying to emerge on the page gets fitted into a box, having being squashed in as passable.

It is when you try to conform to impossible universal drawing standards that the individual is robbed of their visual language.

Donna: Who comes to your classes?

Isabelle: Mostly we draw with locals who enjoy the Sunday afternoon classes as creative “me” time, tourists passing through as day-trippers to the region and we also get Melbourne-based artists from the Convent life drawing days. The classes are open to the general public and run on a casual drop-in basis, basically everyone is welcome at the drawing tables.

Donna: What do you hope they get from your classes?

Isabelle: I hope that people leave with the experience of meeting themselves on the page, to seek, find and dance their drawing jive. We don’t often get to play in everyday life, experiment with something that is on the cusp of our articulation, make/break our own rules or be the innovator, the adventurer. Your visual identity has no limits, only the level of permission you are prepared to give and take.

Donna: Where do you see drawing taking you in the future?

Isabelle: I am working on developing the philosophy and teaching methods of Daylesford Drawing. I wish to expand these classes into the public/private community health sectors and into the further/higher education sectors. I look forward to continuing to collaborate alongside other creatives – developing projects in regional Victoria based around life drawing, art coaching and art therapy.

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News 5

Free wood? If only we could...or can we?

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S WE trudge through another long Victorian winter, keeping warm is top of mind for pretty much everyone. But whether we get our heat from electric or gas-powered heaters or wood-burning stoves and fireplaces, there is one thing we all have in common: the price of fuel just keeps going up.

Many people heat their homes and workplaces with a combination of sources that may include a wood-burning device as an attractive supplement; wood fires are high on the list of attractions for many of the tourists who visit our region in winter.

And then there is the vast number of residents who rely on wood as their primary source of heating fuel. Outside the big towns, mains gas is not available, bottled gas is prohibitively expensive, electricity can also come with staggeringly high bills, so for many people firewood is the best, if not only, reliable heating option.

If you need to buy firewood, prices range wildly for mixed varieties of common gum, but it’s generally around $100 a cubic metre, and running to $130 or more per metre of redgum.

Households can burn anywhere from 10 to 20 metres a year, so clearly the cost adds up.

An alternative to buying firewood is to cut it yourself. Taking into account that a chainsaw is one of the most dangerous tools to operate, especially in the hands of inexperienced users, this can be a cost-effective way to heat your home. And yes, wood does grow on trees, but where do you find the trees?

Firewood collection on public land in Victoria is controlled by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, which declares twice-yearly designated domestic firewood collection areas and seasons, the first of which for 2017 ran from March 1 to June 30 (inclusive); the next season is from September 1 to November 30.

Permits are not required to collect firewood for personal use from public land in state forests and parks within the designated areas, a change that went into effect in 2011.

The department has a long list of regulations governing these collection seasons, from the quantities that can be taken, to the condition of the wood. Penalties for going against these rules range from on-the-spot fines of $622, up to, for offences that go to court, fines of $7730, one-year imprisonment, or both.

If you’ve driven around our region, you’ll have noticed many roadsides are littered with what appears to be a potential abundance of firewood. However, on main arterial roads managed by VicRoads, the gathering of firewood is prohibited. The agency cites “considerable safety risks associated with people stopping on roadsides to collect wood”.

What about roads not under VicRoads jurisdiction? According to DELWP, firewood collection along these roads is governed by individual local councils. But a 2016 Weekly Times report said, “there is no uniform system for collecting fuel across the state’s 48 rural councils, with a hotchpotch of bans, cheap permits and at least one free-for-all”.

Hepburn Shire does not issue permits and does not have dedicated firewood collection areas. However, discussing roadside firewood collection specifically, the shire’s community safety co-ordinator, David George, said: “No law says you can’t, but safety is a big issue.”

Mr George emphasised the council’s concerns about public safety with regard to roadside firewood collection, citing narrow roads with often poor visibility. “We don’t say you can’t, but it is strongly discouraged for residents to try to collect firewood in road reserves as it is a risk to themselves and other road users,” he said. “DELWP’s designated firewood collection areas should always be the first port of call for those wanting to collect firewood as they are managed in a sustainable way and readily accessible.”

Macedon Ranges Shire has a similar policy of discouraging roadside firewood collecting, although it does issue permits for such activities in some circumstances.

The shire council’s acting director, assets and operations, Anne-Louise Lindner, said roadside firewood collection was prohibited, under council’s Local Law No. 10. “In some circumstances, such as after a significant storm, there are provisions under the local law to issue a roadside collection permit, but this is not encouraged, due to environmental and road safety concerns,” she said.

“Managing rural roadsides is complex. Many contain some of the shire’s most significant native vegetation and many are important habitat corridors for wildlife.

We must take into account protection of biodiversity while also ensuring council meets its fire management and road safety obligations.

"We encourage our residents to collect their firewood from the designated collection areas in the state forests or from commercial firewood suppliers."

Words: Jeff Glorfeld | Image: David White

6 Us Two

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Us Two

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with Sue and Kieran

UE and Kieran Prendergast, pictured with horse Ralph Lauren and dog Max, met as students at Mount Prospect Primary School – with just 13 students at the school, and three in their grade. They now live at Newlyn North at Quirindi Stables which is Sue’s family home – making her the fifth generation on the farm – running Hepburn Lagoon Trail Rides from the property. As told to Donna Kelly.

Sue ABOUT 15 years ago my dad had a stroke, which left him very handicapped.

The first thing that mum said was that she didn’t want to run the farm.

Interestingly, Kieran and I had recently missed out on two properties in the area and were renting nearby, so at our family meeting my brother said he knew two people who are looking to buy a farm...and so we did. It was like it was meant to be.

We bought my family home and moved my mum and dad into Ballarat. It has been a wonderful thing as the farm is still part of my whole family’s life and we have been able to make it our own.

Kieran was the boy up the road – literally! Our families were good friends and I am best friends with his cousin, so our lives have always intertwined. Though I do like to think we aren’t totally parochial, we both went out with other people and moved away to live, though whenever we were both home on the same weekend we would always catch up. We were actually living six hours apart when we got together.

I sent him a letter saying the ball was in his court and Kieran sent a letter back with us playing tennis.

We have always been good friends and know each other so well. Over the years I had had a crush on Kieran. I was ever so pleased when he was chosen as Prince Charming when I was Cinderella in our Grade 5 Christmas play.

We also were pageboy and flower girl when we were in prep and made our junior deb together because we were the same height – that sure changed. So then when we eventually married, it was the third time that we had held hands together with Kieran wearing a black suit and me in a long white dress.

Kieran will say that he brought me some culture but I think I have helped him be calmer and more reflective. He likes everything to be super-tidy, which doesn’t always work with me, as I tend to amass clutter wherever I go.

And he has this obsession with lawns, he is forever mowing them when I can’t even see that they have grown. I no longer mow the lawns because one time I didn’t do it right (went in circles instead of straight lines) so now I refuse to mow. It’s lucky we have four kids who are very accomplished mowers.

Kieran has always been around horses and been very passionate about them. We used to go out riding when we were going out and I enjoyed it but I am really happy he has other people he can go out riding with now so I don’t have to ride. I never really picked it up – though it is much easier now that our horses are well trained.

I am really proud of the way Kieran has built up our trail riding business. He has the ability to take a nervous first-time rider and enable them come back beaming because they learnt how to ride and loved it.

He is a no-nonsense type of guy who doesn’t put up with sooky behaviour but loves to have a joke and laugh with others, so if the riders have a bit of cheek they get along like a house on fire. I love seeing all of our horses when they are rounded up – there are a variety of colours and it looks gorgeous to see them all come in together.

We have always been partial to some Banjo Paterson – Kieran taught himself The Man from Snowy River - well, there was many a car trip where I had to correct him as he practised - and he has learnt a few others as well.

He loves to get up on the bar and regale people with the poem – he does a great job though it is such a long one.

I recite The Man from Ironbark and over the years our kids have learnt Mulga Bill’s Bicycle and A Bush Christening. The Geebung Polo Club is the next on our list.

It is great to be part of the community we grew up in and it is such a nice part of the world. Life is good. We love where we live, our four children and each other. We are very blessed.

Kieran I WENT to secondary school in Ballarat. When I finished school I went jackarooing for three years and then went to uni and studied business accounting.

Once I finished my Bachelor I went to work in Hawthorn for a year before returning to work in the Spa in Hepburn Springs. After working at the Spa for 15 years I did a year in real estate in Ballarat, then decided to come home and be a home dad and from there the trail riding business began.

Ever since I met Sue in primary school I always thought she would be the girl I would marry. Then one night we had our beer goggles on at the Fleece Rotters Rum Ball in Ballarat and that was the beginning of a great relationship.

But I had to teach her how to hold the knife and fork as she nearly stabbed me while she was eating! Another bad habit is Sue’s hoarding and mess, but she is my rock.

I had been riding an old stock horse at home since I was about five. I rode for the first five years without a saddle in the sheep yards because the horse wouldn’t stop, then progressed to pony club with saddle, did some eventing, a fair bit of stock work, then hunting and camp drafting. I used to ride to school on the odd occasion, the first time I put Sue on I put her on back-to-front.

I love everything about horse riding. I love the outdoors, the fresh air, the freedom, the peace and quiet of going through the bush on a horse, the smell of a horse, the sound of a horse…and I love teaching people to ride. I’ve got the best job in the world.

We have also just started advertising our property as a wedding venue and presently have about eight weddings booked in which we are very excited about. We hope to be able to run the businesses simultaneously under the name of Quirindi Stables.

Born and bred here, I never really thought we’d stay but we stumbled on the farm by default. And we love it.

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News 7

Ballarat builder wins for Glenlyon renovation

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Owner Theresa said she and her husband were very happy with the renovation ORMER Glenlyon resident Asher Yovich has taken out the Master Builders Award of the Year for a Regional Renovation Under $200,000. after a number of people were reluctant to become involved.

“We wanted to use as much recycled product as we could and Asher was keen to as well – he used his imagination too.

“I wanted some shelves above the kitchen sink and he found a branch and incorporated it into the design. He even made wooden handles for the bathroom cabinets.”

And even in the depths of winter, Theresa said the house stayed warm with its insulation and double glazing – “it’s so warm we have to open the doors!”.

Theresa said Asher had proved to be a pleasure to work with, being accommodating and giving attention to detail, while also having “a real sense of humour”.

“You could sit down and talk to him and he never lost the plot.”

Theresa said while the couple first thought about renovating their farmhouse the wool shed was more exciting and “felt right”.

“We had been using it as a storage shed for the past 25 years, so you had to climb over things in there, which is perhaps why some people weren’t keen to get involved.

“But Asher, and Daylesford designer Annabel Mazzotti, who has a really good eye and helped with the design, were both keen and were a winning combination.”

The former Daylesford Secondary School student, who now lives in Ballarat with a young family, renovated a massive 80-year-old two-storey shearing shed into a home on Theresa and Geoff Brook’s farm in Glenlyon.

Asher said the Brooks, his aunt and uncle, (pictured above on the balcony) had been considering renovating an existing farmhouse but decided on something “radical”.

With his niche being renovations and extensions using recycled timber, Asher said the job had been extremely difficult but also rewarding.

“With most house renovations, the building has already been built to Australian standards but you can imagine an old shearing shed – nearly every piece of timber had to be replaced.

“A lot comes down to the client/builder relationship. It’s a builder's role to bring the clients' vision to life.”

Asher said his company, Fusion Build Victoria, had never been busier. “I work about 50/50 in Ballarat and Daylesford now and have enough work for at least the next 18 months. Everyone out there is so busy which is great.”

The 34-year-old said he had been blown away by the win.

“I put it in for the awards and went along with my wife for a nice night out – I never saw it coming.”

Words: Donna Kelly | Image: Kyle Barnes

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8 Opinion

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Just sayin’...

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Pick me, pick me...

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EOPLE sometimes ask how we find our stories. I am not surprised because sometimes even I wonder how we discover all the amazing people and places we feature in The Local.

I have probably said this many times that when we first started up, Kyle, who was working as a photographer for a newspaper but was pretty new to the game, asked me, quite concerned, "What will happen if we run out of stories?".

I quickly assured him that would never happen - there are just too many fascinating stories to be told. But how to find them?

I think the main thing is to be local. And have a local crew. Which we do. I am not having a go at anyone, well maybe a tad, but it is hard to have your ear on the ground if you are based in Ballarat or Bendigo.

Often, say when I am doing a Coles run, people will stop me with "I have a story for you".

Which is fine unless I am clutching a 10-pack of toilet paper and you can also see their face as they wonder what you ate the night before. Seriously, it's just because they are on special.

We also find that if you take the time to go out on a job, as opposed to a phone call, you come back with two or three more stories. Just by doing that simple thing, chatting and listening. I still think good journalism is not even so much in the writing but the listening. And it's often that hand on doorknob moment - as in finishing up a chat with a couple celebrating 60 years of marriage when they mentioned they were the only foreigners married in communist China. Wow! Then there's social media. I am not a huge Facebooker but I do keep an eye on Facebook pages for Daylesford, Kyneton and Woodend. And they are great places to find small tidbits that can turn into great yarns.

Yesterday, I noticed that Lindsay Olver was reforming the Hepburn Cricket Club. Any sporting club is a great thing for a community and there's been no cricket for about eight years since the district association folded. So I mentioned we were interested in doing a story and you will find it on page 38 - with a follow-up to come when the committee is formed.

We also have a great story this edition on Chips Rafferty's signature in The Rex Theatre in Daylesford. Kyle is laying claim to that one. He said, with the imminent renovation of The Rex into the Hepburn Hub, he wondered what would happen to the historic signature and what a shame it would be if it was lost through demolition or just over-zealous painting. Banksy anyone?

And there's loads more to read - in this, our 102nd edition. And it will be the same in the 103rd edition. The stories keep coming and we keep listening, writing and publishing.

And if you have a story, feel free to call, email, text or Facebook. You can even stop me in Coles if you want - as long as I am not carrying toilet paper! Just sayin'...

Hi there, I am Hector the cat. I am two years old in November and would like to celebrate in my forever home with a fish cake! I am very smoochy and social so come to Castlemaine and pick me!

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Castlemaine RSPCA is at 24 Langslow Street, Castlemaine. Phone 5472 5277. Open: Monday to Thursday 10am to 5pm. Friday to Sunday 10am to 2pm.

(Pick me, pick me is run in memory of Rosie and Curly. We picked them.)

The Local - Connecting the Community Mat mission The Uniting Church in Daylesford has undertaken a mission to provide sleeping mats for local homeless people.

The mats are made from re-purposed plastic supermarket bags which are knitted into lightweight mats to provide insulation from the cold ground and some water protection.

The Local believes in giving back to the community. Each edition The Local has two free advert spaces for not-for-profit organisations. Because it's right. So if your group needs a helping hand just email donna@tlnews.com.au The Local, your True Advocate, for the Central Highlands.

We need community support to enable us to provide these mats.

We require help in three ways: Plastic bags - don't bin, them save them up and give them to us: People to convert bags to plastic yarn; and Knitters who can transform plarn (plastic yarn) into adult-sized mats or squares (30 Ă— 30 cm).

Contact Lorelle on 0448 037 314 to find out how you can be involved.

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News 9

Helping fathers and sons navigate relationships

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ODD Dales is going to change lives – he just needs a bit of help with a video first.

The Trentham resident is already well known for his antics locally, because not only is he involved in committees and events all over the area, but he also is the man behind the successful Wombat Boogie.

Now, Todd is turning his creative mind toward helping fathers and sons navigate the vast minefield that is guiding a child from boy to man.

“The idea has been in my head for a couple of years now…I just looked at the mistakes that I’d made with my son, and the challenges being presented by how young men are asked to negotiate adolescence these days,” Todd explains.

“I want to take all the mistakes I have made and the kindness I've been given and do something profound with all of that, by paying forward the gifts I have been given and the lessons that I have learned.”

It’s such a tricky topic that books and even movies on the concepts are abundant – but Todd has lined up a team of skilled volunteers to put together a real-life father-son glamping project that will help both fathers and sons with one of the most important relationships of their lives.

It’s quite a bright group of people, including a counsellor as well as a Dandenong-based company that builds tents and decks from reclaimed timber and employs and skills refugees in the process.

“They’re an educated, dedicated and motivated group of people. The team is in place, we just need to raise some funding to accomplish it.”

And that’s where the local community comes in.

Todd is asking for locals to appear in a crowd-funding video that his team is putting together, to be filmed on August 11.

“We want fathers and sons and community groups that want to participate and show their commitment to participate in the crowd funding video itself.

“Then we’ll show the video around, including to big organisations to get them to sponsor camps, and we’ll launch the sponsorship campaign early next year.

“We need $500,000 to make it all happen. And with the call for people to get involved, I think we have the opportunity to raise at least that much money.”

And when the project becomes a reality, it will in itself be paying it forward in the same way that Todd is paying forward his own experiences.

“The camp will be made up of a glamping-style community, that will be open to the public throughout the year when we’re not running father and son camps; the idea being that when you come and spend your money at our camp, every dollar you spend has a social conscience - it goes into sponsoring the less fortunate parents to make sure they get the opportunity to come to this camp too.”

To be involved in the crowd-funding video, email todddales@icloud.com

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10 Just briefly

Let's talk dying

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“It is estimated only 25 per cent of people make any end of life plans…but most of us spend a lot of time thinking about death. If you ever watch midday TV, the number of pushy funeral insurance ads makes us all anxious and fearful “The Last Laugh and the Last Word is an informative light-hearted community conversation to learn and ask about all aspects of ‘dying well’.

“Participants are welcome to ask their trickiest questions to a Q&A panel, as well as gather information on end of life planning, organ donation and the vast array of options available.

“Our first workshop was run on July 4 with about 16 participants - many of whom said they felt a bit nervous at the beginning, but by the end of the workshop felt much more comfortable with the subject.”

The next workshop will be held at the Verey Chapel, as part of Words in Winter, on Sunday, August 13 from 1pm to 3.30pm with the chance to look around and even check out a coffin or two including the cardboard option.

Workshop cost is $20/$15 concession.

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47,000 same-sex couples in Australia who are roughly equal across men and women.

The Equality Campaign executive director, Tiernan Brady said: “The census figures show that there are tens of thousands of Australians in loving and committed same-sex relationships.

“These numbers are a powerful reminder that the issue of marriage equality is about real people who simply want the same status and dignity as every other Australian.

“It often proves too easy for this issue to be hijacked by politics, we need to remember that LGBTI people are our family members, friends and work colleagues.

“Poll after poll consistently shows the majority of Australians support marriage equality because they believe every Australian deserves to be treated equally with the same dignity and respect.

“It is time our politicians worked together to deliver marriage equality in line with the wishes of the Australian people.”

Jill Rivers, well known in the area having founded Daylesford Macedon Ranges Open Studios and Conversations in Pubs, will be discussing her new book The Arts Apothecary and her philosophy on art and its aspects of nurturing health and wellbeing.

Daylesford resident Greg Pyers will give a talk about his novel The Unfortunate Victim which is set in Daylesford; a murder mystery inspired by real events.

The Streets of Trentham – a historical walk and talk throughout Trentham led by John Cook.

Peter Fernon, renowned local story teller will be performing The Wheel, a delightful and intriguing saga which explores Peter’s family, his brother’s untimely death at 45, the underlying generational wounds; the turning of the wheel.

A Banquet of Consequence – a film by Gilda Blacher and dinner fundraiser at Chaplin’s at the Muse. The documentary film explores restorative justice and the effects of war. The film is followed by a four-course Vietnamese dinner.

Words of Spirit – former Trentham resident, poet, teacher and Anglican minister Laurie McIntyre reads from his new book of idiosyncratic poetry at St George’s Anglican Church.

The Bush Poetry written and performance competitions, the Contemporary Poetry Competition and the Ellen Kemp Prize for Short Story – adults and children.

UNERAL director Alicia Kay, and celebrants HE number of same-sex couples reported in ORDS in Winter in Trentham Beverly Risstrom and Genvieve Messenger Australia has risen by 39 per cent according showcases local writers and those from have developed a workshop, The Last Laugh to 2016 census data from the Australian further afield, with the aim to foster and the Last Word, to help people think about, talk Bureau of Statistics. and support creative writing and its authors.

The census data reported that there are now nearly Highlights this year include: about, and plan well for end-of-life.

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Inspiring 11

Hard work and family support pays off

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ECOMING a successful thoroughbred trainer in the close-knit racing community of Victoria is not an overnight endeavour.

But trainer Mick Sell has found his place in it through hard work and support from his wife Melanie and three children Sarah, Joe and Louise. Over 20 years he has built his reputation on consistent results; first as a rider then as a breaker and trainer.

From his stables at Kyneton he has guided many a youngster to the task of being a racehorse, cared for them when it has gone awry and helped to attain the right level of fitness, education and happiness required to become stars of the track and beyond.

“There is never an off season and rest days are rare,” says Mick. “Time off only happens when you decide to make time. The last holiday we had away was when we went to Queensland two years ago.

"But now we have some good supporters as well as four employees which relieves a lot of pressure, especially during meetings, and it has allowed me to have some more days at home with the family.”

Mick has been involved with racehorses since he was 14. He began as an apprentice jockey with B V Walsh at Geelong and then moved to breaking in and pre-training young horses for breeders such as David Moodie and Lloyd Williams.

Eventually Robert Wiltshire, a horse owner who has known Mick for many years, kept encouraging him to get his training license, which he did in 2010. Since then he has had constant work with several notable successes including Enchanting Waters and Stately Dash.

Melanie met Mick through their mutual involvement in thoroughbred racing and share the same grounding in horsemanship skills. Her dad had shares in numerous racehorses his whole life and she used to follow him around at race meetings. That led to getting a job as a stable hand in the industry as a teenager.

“I got my first gallopings with Quinton Scott, a renowned well-respected trainer and Quinny basically taught me everything I know. He took me under his wing and when he thought I was ready to start riding he sent me over to New Zealand to build my track work experience. Then in the late 90s, not long after I came back, I met Mick and we got married in 2008.”

In a typical season they can be managing up to 20 to 30 horses and recently Mick has been permitted to do additional training at their home; a 40-hectare property they lease at Lauriston, four kilometres from the track. If a horse isn’t going as well as it could be, they can go out there for a change of scenery. They can get their heads down, eat some grass, or go over some show jumps to change their thinking.

It is a proven strategy and has seen horses that have lost interest due to the drudgery of track work return as winners. Also, the property is a means to re-orient those horses that have been retired from racing. Mick is able to assess what type of rider they are suitable for and which event they could start new careers in from show jumping to dressage, eventing, endurance riding, polo and pony club.

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“The ones we deem to have the best temperaments to suit certain disciplines we will find homes for,” explains Mel. “We don’t just sell them, we like to pass them on to people we think might give them a career after racing and a good home for the rest of their lives. Our daughter even has an off-the-track thoroughbred herself.”

From track work to off-site training, there are many elements to the industry and Mick and Melanie will be the first to let anyone know it is a year-round occupation with little predictability. Thus, a commitment to long hours is needed to earn a living and Mick is away at meetings an average of three days a week. A typical day for him often starts at 3.30am and may not finish until 9pm or 10pm. But persistence does bring its rewards.

“Last eight weeks we’ve trained a winner every week so it's probably the best we have ever gone since we’ve been training. While we don’t have the resources of the bigger operations you don’t need huge overheads to properly educate a horse to do well; just patience, astuteness and faith.”

Above, from left, Louise 5, Melanie, Kevin, Sarah 14, Joe 11 and Mick Words and image: Anthony Sawrey

12 Opinion

The Rant

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by Kyle Barnes

HAVE never been much of an iPoder. You know, the person who walks around with an iPod or an iPhone with plugs stuck in their ears.

You often see this breed at the traffic lights as you gingerly navigate around them with your car so they don’t walk out and get run over. My sense is that, well actually, it is all about the sense of hearing.

I recently took a walk on the beach on our Gold Coast winter escape. I walked the four kilometres from Surfers Paradise to Broadbeach, and let’s face it once you have seen two or three deliciously-tanned scantily-clad women, it all gets a bit boring.

Besides, I’m married.

So, I broke out my iPhone and headphones to see what all the fuss was about. I first tried Albatross by Fleetwood Mac, as I thought it was most appropriate and then settled in to Momentary Lapse of Reason - aptly titled for my age - by Pink Floyd.

For the first half an hour I was pumping along, but still I couldn’t figure out why you would want to listen to music over the dumping, crashing sounds of the ocean, and of course, the many sightseeing helicopters which roared from north to south.

Anyway, my conclusion is that I would rather keep my music for downtime at home than having it belting in my ears, taking out the great sense of hearing.

But isn’t it great we have all this technology and choices at our fingertips? I reckon we are at a technological sweet-spot in history, we are even about to climb into driverless cars, although I am not sure what it will do for my nerves being such a backseat driver. We can track all our possessions using an app on our phones, I even hear there is now luggage that can follow you through the airport on its own.

I call it a sweet-spot for a reason. At the moment, a lot of these technological wonders are still coming but we still live in an age where a bloke my age has not forgotten how to tune and change the oil in a car, sweep the floor or rewire an electrical plug - which by the way is highly illegal and shouldn’t be tried at home. The thing is, we mostly have a basic understanding of how things work, although Donna still thinks little people are in the TV doing quick changing of costumes and scenery!

Very soon all this knowledge will be given over to artificial intelligence and the world will be run by someone else providing source coding from the other side of the world. Being a control freak, this is a very vulnerable position to be in. I love where we are now but am a little worried by our technological tomorrow. Rant over…

Geelong Businessman, Mark Ward has ownership of the Mill Markets group and brings years of expertise to this amazing concept. The Mill Markets operate three massive venues located in Ballarat, Daylesford and Geelong. With a total of over 12,000 square metres of undercover floor space, (3 acres), treasure hunters have the opportunity to spend many hours browsing and meandering through the eclectic mix of products. There is a fantastic variety of home decor, furniture, records, vintage and new clothing, books, fine china, glassware, industrial items, jewellery, antiques as well as Australian pottery, homewares, memorabilia, retro fashions and collectables. We also have many stalls selling new products and have gift vouchers for those people who have everything!

All goods are from the 1850’s right through to present day. Mill Markets lease space to hundreds of dealers, which allows small business operators and collectors who otherwise could not afford the overheads of their own shops, to showcase their goods. This equates to a wide and diverse range of products, available and open to the public, seven days a week. Enjoy a wonderful trip down memory lane through hundreds and thousands of items available for purchase at all three locations. With over 500 stall holders over three venues, there is always something for everyone. Travel The Amazing Mill Markets ‘Golden Triangle’ and enjoy quality food and coffee at each. All venues open 7 days 10.00am-6.00pm (excluding Christmas Day).

Term 3 starts Monday July 17 Would you like to learn a new skill?, brush off an old one? Or get together with new people?

DNC offers a range of educational, hobby and recreation courses to suit all skill levels, abilities and budgets.

The Term 3 program is available from a number of outlets around Daylesford, if you cannot find one just give us a ring or pop in and say ‘Hello’.

Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre is a welcoming community place which offers the opportunity to build skills through connecting with the community.

New courses this term include: Beginners Wu Style Tai Chi, Drawing and Painting A La Carte and a shared reading group. We also have a talk by the Energy and Water Ombudsman and a community forum about Homelessness. For course we still have all the regulars like Somatic Exercise and 8 Silken Movements.

We are partnering with Hepburn Health to bring a Mental Health First Aid Course in August.

For further information please call 5348 3569 or daylesford@ourneighbourhood.org.au

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Cleaners/Carers WANTED. We need more cleaners/carers or a tag team of 2 people who can help us maintain some of our bigger properties around town. Some experience in cleaning is beneficial although we will train. A driver’s licence and a car are essential. Need a great attitude, ability to work flexible hours and an ABN number (easy to get). Interested? Please apply!

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Let’s Meet and Talk Travel

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ITH more than 30 combined years of experience in the travel industry, personal travel managers Leanne and Paul Pearman have been sending travellers to amazing places which create memories that will last a lifetime.

Paul believes the difference is in their personal touch that goes above and beyond that of online bookings.

“With our experience and knowledge, we know the best offers available and make booking travel very easy for our clients, also saving them time and money in the process.

In addition, we provide assistance if things don’t go to plan on their holidays.

"Our customers know they can call us any time of the day or night and we’ll help them get their holiday back on track. That’s something that online bookings can’t offer.”

Leanne and Paul have been busy with the growing demand for cruises, as well as the increasing popularity of active travel.

“Cruising is growing at a rate of knots there’s more ships, new destinations opening up and more companies to choose from year-round, including departures from Melbourne in summer. European river cruises are ever-popular as they can be all-inclusive with meals and sightseeing, but they are also now cruising to new and exciting destinations,” said Paul.

Leanne added "we both have a love of travel and the experiences gained from holidays".

"As parents of two young children we know time is precious, however we also have the insider tricks to make travel with family relaxing and enjoyable for everyone."

Leanne and Paul can discuss your travel requirements at their Trentham Collective office by appointment, or if it’s more convenient, they can meet you at your home or favourite café.

To get in touch and talk travel, contact Paul on 0433 751 671, or Leanne on 0467 594 444, or email paul.pearman@travelmanagers.com.au or leanne.pearman@travelmanagers.com.au Advertorial

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Wellbeing

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T'S Tuesday night. You’ve been running from task to task all day and when you get home there’s dinner to organise, kids to feed and homework to be done. At the end of the evening you put your feet up, pour yourself a glass of red (good for blood pressure you hear) and sit with your partner to debrief on the day.

Kids keep interrupting your conversation and you snap at them, snap at your partner and take yourself off to bed. Sleep is hard-won, restless. You get up Wednesday morning, pour yourself a big hot coffee and do it all over again…

Stress is insidious, it creeps in slowly and left unchecked can morph into mental health issues and physical illness, reducing your quality of life.

What is stress?

Stress is the body’s way of reacting to a threat or demand through fight (yelling at the kids) or flight (need a few glasses of wine to relax) response. There is an upside to stress. It can help you to meet challenges, keep you alert, sharp and focussed on a task. However there’s a tipping point and it’s important to be able to identify when stress has become a problem.

When stress has become problematic you may encounter the following symptoms: Cognitive - Memory problems, lack of concentration, only seeing the negative, constant worrying thoughts and inability to turn off the internal chatter; Emotional - Depression, anxiety, agitation and irritation, mood swings, anger, feeling alone, overwhelmed and isolating yourself from others, general unhappiness; Physical - Unexplained aches and pains, tightness in the muscles, clenched jaw, nausea, chest pains, heart rate acceleration, loss of libido, decreased immunity, more flu or colds, tummy issues; and/or Behavioural - Over- or under-eating, withdrawal from usual activities or people, increased drinking, smoking or drug use to relax, too much or too little sleep, inability to sit still, procrastination, nervousness.

Ways to reduce stress include; • Increase your physical activity. Go for a run, bike ride, take a walk, join the gym.

• Take some time out to meet with friends and chat about what’s going on where there are no distractions or demands of interrupting children etc.

• Teach yourself meditation/mindfulness or find a teacher to help. We are an area ripe with wonderful retreats, yoga and mindfulness/meditation programs, so there is plenty on offer locally.

• Eat clean foods that support your wellbeing. Processed and convenience foods, sugar and saturated fats will leave you feeling worse for wear after the highs have dropped away. Try fresh foods, healthy fats and good quality proteins.

• Good sleep hygiene, regular bed times, winding down before going to bed, no caffeinated drinks after lunch all help to ensure a restful night's sleep.

Proactively managing your stress will see you happier, healthier and stronger throughout the day. If you find that you are unable to get a handle on your stress through self-taught methods, it may be wise to consult a health professional.

Sam (Samantha Redlich is the owner of Xistance Gym in Daylesford)

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On the road 17

with Kevin Childs

X marks the spot for a comfy ride

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H THE wonders of technology. In the cold pre-dawn something is missing. A car key.

The hunt is futile. But wait, the car starts. But can it be driven to Melbourne and back, as needed?

Setting out without a key requires the sort of nerve no longer (if ever) possessed by your correspondent.

Still, it must be done, for the vehicle certainly goes and negotiates the dark in style. Destination reached, the search continues and, here indeed is the key on the floor, just inside the driver’s door.

Keys that lock and unlock but don’t have to be inserted to get things going are clearly the best invention since someone put wheels on suitcases (after man landed on the Moon). Your correspondent is possibly the last person to know about such keys.

So, we come to praise the Nissan X-Trail for a lot of reasons.

For those (possibly one or two out there) unused to car lingo, this is a SUV, a Sport Utility Vehicle, defined as a large vehicle designed for rough surfaces but often used on city roads or highways. Needless to say, the Highlands has more than enough highway craters to go around, and then some, and we burbled through them without too much neck jolting.

Snaking along the Daylesford-Trentham Road with the statutory tail-gater up one’s exhaust did prove easier than usual, with a reassuring grip on corners.

Unsurprisingly this Nissan has a reasonable share of the family car market, helped by its whopper boot, with below-floor storage and plenty of room in the back. The view of the road is fine for the driver – and for those in the back seat who have a lot of room for legs and heads and adjustable air vents in the rear of the centre console.

Some cars look so fine yet are hard to get in and out of. This one’s an exception.

It’s also surprisingly easy to get used to its foot-operated parking brake, doing away with the need for arm strength.

Easily reached controls on the D-shaped steering wheel are pleasing. There’s no searching under the dashboard for cruise control as in some European cars, while there are X-Trail models with rear cross traffic alert and adaptive front lights, but all have autonomous emergency braking (AEB) and forward collision warning.

Petrol consumption is low: about nine litres for 100 kms: the Melbourne-andback trip swallowed about a quarter of the tank.

It’s a quiet machine, so much so that a shopper in a car park didn’t notice it approaching her.

There’s also a neat trick when you switch to four-wheel drive. If one wheel gets stuck or is spinning it locks and the power goes to the other three. All in all, this $32,000 machine has, you could say, the key to success.

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YONVILLE residents can rest a little safer in the forthcoming bushfire season now that their own light fire tanker is stationed in the township.

Seven years of effort by the local community has culminated in the purchase of a light tanker from the Daylesford brigade to be housed in their new fire shed.

Tireless fundraising, drawn mainly from the Lyonville and Trentham district, has seen the vision of a comparatively small group of local people finally realised.

“At the outset, the project looked almost impossible,” Lyonville resident and CFA member Tony Corneille said.

“The CFA powers that be thought we’d never make it. We had to work for years to raise enough money to show them that we could virtually do it by ourselves, without their help, before they decided to pitch in and get the shed built.”

Speaking at the formal handover of the tanker from the Daylesford Brigade, Trentham CFA Captain Brian Smith said the new ultralight tanker would enable a crew from Lyonville to get to the scene of a fire outbreak within a few minutes of receiving the call.

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“And hopefully knock the blaze down enough to give the larger tankers from Trentham or Musk time to get here and bring it under control."

Brian expressed thanks to Daylesford on behalf of the Trentham Brigade and local community generally for selling the tanker to the new annex at a very reasonable price.

“We thought we would be up for well more than the $30,000 that Daylesford asked for it. Their offer to let us buy the tanker at much the same price as it cost them originally was an act of generosity and real solidarity with a fellow brigade in the Glenlyon Group.”

Local brigade member Danny Lendrec welcomed the new appliance.

“It’s great to have the tanker just around the corner. Now all we need are a few more local members to join the team.”

Insert, CFA members assist at a Lyonville planned burn-off, above, CFA members from Trentham, Daylesford and Springhill at the handover.

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Ideal as a permanent residence or holiday let market Kuca Ebony is set on a large 839m2 block in walking distance to nearby springs, galleries and the Sunday market. The property consists of three generous sized bedrooms with BIR, three bathrooms, full laundry, open plan kitchen/living/dining that flows onto an outdoor entertaining decking. Outside offers a low maintenance garden, double carport, 22,500 lt water tank with fire sprinklers and high pressure fire hose.

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FOR SALE PRICE $465,000 CONTACT Tom Shaw 0438 118 903 OFFICE 43 Vincent Street Daylesford 5348 2328

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Michael DeVincentis

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Michael lives and breathes all things property-related.

Having spent 30 years as an Architect, owning and running his own Practice, Michael’s extensive property knowledge carries seamlessly across into his role as a Biggin & Scott agent. As part of his ongoing professional development, Michael has become a Fully Licensed Real Estate Agent and is the Group's Officer in Effective Control.

With a friendly, approachable nature and dedicated work ethic, Rae has a well-regarded reputation amongst colleagues and clients for her professional and personalised service with a focus on open, honest communication. Rae’s commitment to providing a premium customer service, backed by strong market knowledge and attention to detail, achieves outstanding results for her clients.

Spend any time with Tom Shaw and you’ll find yourself being immediately drawn in by his infectious energy, knowledge and passion for the region.

Having lived his whole life in Daylesford, Tom grew up watching his parents and grandparents work hard to grow their family business.

It’s this work ethos, instilled at a young age, that drives his commitment, integrity and honest hard work.

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Creswick & District

Absolutely Stunning Family Home on Approx. 1 Acre

7 White Hills Road, Creswick

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Designed with sustainability and self-sufficiency in mind, this new construction (approx. 3.5yrs old) offers the ultimate in luxurious living.

With barely the finishing touches added, this generous home is presented with bamboo floors, stylish window furnishings along with ducted cooling, heating and the efficiency of 5kW of solar energy fed back at 6.5 cents.

Further features include double glazing, a triple bay shed with 3ph power, a garden shed and a massive 4619m2 allotment to play with.

Price: $635,000 - $645,000 Superb Setting In Peaceful Valley The Ideal Tree Change

30 The Valley Road, Dunach

A2 B1 C4 J Whether you wish to experience a ‘tree change’ or are just looking for serenity, this 10 acre property will certainly provide you with a home full of originality. This rammed earth home, draped in vines, incorporates two bedrooms, a family bathroom and an open plan kitchen with two living zones. Naturally achieving energy efficiency, this property also provides solar energy, ample tank water with bore as well as a unique upside down creek to assist with livestock or vegetable production. WOW!

Price: $272,000 - $285,000 SOLD

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HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION SPECIALISTS Sleep 1-18 guests with hand picked properties from within our area. The only truly independent provider of holiday accommodation in Daylesford/Hepburn area. Providing holiday accommodation to guests for 21 years, with a fine selection of homes ranging from studios to five bedroom homes.

We work with local partners to provide you with the right “break away� or retreat. On our site you will find a selection of our properties, prices and availability, along with our partners in regards to dining, lunch, coffee and relaxation.

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The Other Mother: Kelly Chandler 1:00-1:50 PM Free event Hotel Frangos Function Room Kelly reads with humour from her book about her experiences as a stepmother.

A Spell of Poetry - Allis Hamilton

‘OR IGINS’ Friday August 4

Saturday August 5

Acknowledgment of Country & stories with Anne E. Stewart

Children’s Program: Simon Says and Michelle Pleasance

4:00-4:45 PM By donation Hotel Frangos Function Room

10-10:50 AM $5pp $10 for families Hotel Frangos Function Room Simon regales us, things go wrong when you tell lies and things could explode when you rub your eyes.

Michelle reads Alexandra De Beetle, followed by announcement of short story prize.

Welcome to Words in Winter 5:00-5:30 PM By donation Hotel Frangos Function Room Festival Director, Maia Irell and Codirector Kevin Childs talk about ‘Origins’ and what’s on for the weekend.

Wide Open with Amy Bodossian 5:30-6:00 PM By donation Hotel Frangos Function Room Critically acclaimed cult spoken word legend and cabaret songstress invites you for a raw and intimate performance of poems from her new book ‘Wide Open’.

Granuaile Screenplay Reading 6:00-8:00 PM By donation Hotel Frangos Function Room The true story of Grace O’Malley – Pirate, Queen and Mother

Clever Towns Crossword Challenge 10:00 AM-12:00 PM Daylesford, Trentham, Clunes, Creswick and Maryborough Libraries

The Fermentary Book Launch Q&A 11:00-11:50 AM $10pp $5conc Hotel Frangos Function Room Sharon Flynn from The Fermentary talks about her new book Ferment For Good: Ancient Food For The Modern Gut with Richard Cornish

Children’s Program: Millipeed Land 12:00-1:30 PM Free event Daylesford Senior Citizens Millie & friends launch 2 great kids books. There’ll be snacks for kids and their parents.

The Other Side of Lost

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12:00-1:00 PM Free event Daylesford Library A look behind the story of Daylesford’s missing children to find a multitude of interwoven lives, emotions and personalities and reasons why the impact then is still relevant today.

1:30-2:30 PM & $20pp 6:30-7:30 PM $20pp The Story House and Garden, 52 Millar Street, Daylesford Fresh from reading her poetry in London, Allis will perform her poems, some maybe even accompanied by music. Allis is a host of Castlemaine’s poetry readings: PoetiCas.

Children’s Program: Early Voyage

Artist as Family 3:00-4:30 PM By donation 6 Tierneys Lane, Daylesford Fermentation in story and in the kitchen.

An insight into how the west’s most significant creation myth feeds and nourishes Artist as Family.

Don Watson & Paul Daley In Conversation 2:00-3:00 PM $15pp $12conc Daylesford Town Hall Looking deep into the stories we like to tell and those we’ve avoided telling, Don Watson will talk on his book, The Bush, which has changed the way readers look at this country and Paul tells of frontier conflict.

Kissing the Blarney

2:00-2:30 PM By donation Hotel Frangos Function Room Mara Ripani (author) and Michelle Pleasance (illustrator) will read and sing their children’s story about the beauty that surrounds us. For kids 5+.

3:00-4:30 PM & $25pp 7:00-8:30 PM $25pp The Story House and Garden, 52 Millar Street, Daylesford Melbourne storyteller Niki Na Meadhra tells tales of her Irish Immigrant ancestors who settled in Daylesford and Yandoit.

Hippy Days, Arabian Nights

Rainbow Families Panel

2:00-2:50 PM Free event Daylesford Library Katherine Boland reads from her book on life in the bush to love on the Nile.

With Q&A.

Basil Eliades launches his book: Speaking in Tongues, with Pete O’Mara 3:00-3:50 PM Free event Hotel Frangos Function Room Weird and wonderful stories from around the planet. Phillip Adams says ‘this man writes beautifully’! John Marsden ‘This man is offering us everything’. Basil Eliades writes with passion and delivers these surreal stories with love.

Dorothy Johnston Reading 3:00-3:50 PM Free event Daylesford Library Murder and corruption rock the seaside town of Queenscliff in Dorothy Johnston’s new novel, and even those who have lived in the town for generations are suspects.

3:30-4:45 PM By donation Daylesford Hotel Sharing stories of rainbow families, we’d love to hear your story. Chaired by Lauren Matthews-Nicholls.

Petrus Spronk - A Hitchhiker’s Guide To Ceramics 4:00-4:50 PM Free event Hotel Frangos Function Room A poetic story about the ceramic artist’s work, his studio and his life in the forest.

What Do You Mean It’s Not The End of the World? Youth Drama 4:30-5:30 PM $5pp $2conc Daylesford Town Hall Comedy, Mayhem and melodrama from Daylesford’s own Inside Out Youth Theatre. 14 teenagers loose on stage, lots of family fun to be had.

Readings by Writers 5:00-5:50 PM $10pp $8conc Hotel Frangos Function Room Local author Kevin Childs, reads from his forthcoming book on Aboriginal warriors.

Niel Vaughan of Yandoit Hills, presents one of his short stories, Mother’s Cross.

Susi Fox, local GP and writer, reads from her forthcoming novel, Mine, a thriller on a mother who is convinced her new baby is not hers. Ted Cavey reads from his book of swagman stories, Down on His Luck.

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ChillOut Poetry Meet 3:30-4:45 PM By donation Daylesford Hotel

Announcement of Venie Holmgren Poetry prize and reading of the winning poem

But The Children Won’t Eat It 6:00-7:00 PM $20pp Hotel Frangos Function Room

Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

12:00-12:30 PM Free event Hotel Frangos Function Room

Girls On Key join us with some of Melbourne’s finest LGTBIQA poets.

The stunning Mara Ripani shares tales of her childhood eating habits and the culture that shapes songs. Including performances from her favourite Italian artists, accompanied by guitarist Alfy Pleasance and Richard Pleasance.

Sunday August 6

12:00-12:50 PM $15pp The Story House and Garden, 52 Millar Street, Daylesford Author Victoria Lane talks with authors including New York Times bestseller Adam Wallace about where ideas come from & how we write for our toughest critics - the under 10s. With writer/ illustrator Renee Treml and author Alison Lloyd.

Butterfly Wings From The South

U3A Origins Short Stories 10:00-10:50 AM By donation

Hotel Frangos Function Room Be entertained by 10 members of U3A Hepburn’s writing circle who will share their short, fascinating, historic and humourous stories about origins.

Bush Walk through Former Gold Mining Sites on Cornish Hill 9:45 AM-12:00 PM By donation Meet at the Cornish Hill lookout

Poetry From Around The World 11:00-11:50 AM By donation Hotel Frangos Function Room Ross Gillett, an Australian multi-award winning poet, and Richard Perry, a Canadian emeritus professor of Asian Arts — both local blokes — will read and briefly discuss some of their favourite English, American, Australian and Chinese poems.

Kissing the Blarney 11:00-12:00 PM $25pp The Story House and Garden, 52 Millar Street, Daylesford Melbourne storyteller Niki Na Meadhra tells tales of her Irish Immigrant ancestors who settled in Daylesford and Yandoit.

Cate Kennedy Stories 11:30-12:00 PM & $10pp $8conc 4:00-4:30 PM $10pp $8conc Daylesford Town Hall Join Cate Kennedy for an afternoon of stories as she presents two personal tales designed to invite you to remember, recognise, reflect, laugh and yes, maybe even shed a tear or two.

1:00-1:50 PM $10pp $8conc Hotel Frangos Function Room Cyana Lopez-Matta will talk about ancient methodology from the Mapuche culture in Chile and Australian Aboriginal culture.

Fluctuating Spaces 1:00-1:30 PM By donation Daylesford Town Hall Spoken word and stop motion animations showcasing work from the innovative art project by Jodie Goldring and DHS students.

Julian Burnside & Arnold Zable In Conversation 2:00-3:00 PM $15pp $12conc Daylesford Town Hall Julian Burnside, QC, a prominent barrister-human rights advocate with leading author and human rights campaigner, Arnold Zable, combine to discuss the challenges stemming from Australia’s refugee crisis and its origins.

Modern Day Plant Hunter 3:00-3:50 PM $10pp Hotel Frangos Function Room Alistair Watt shares the story of Robert Fortune, an intrepid Victorian-era plant collector who transformed the gardens of the West. With Joy Durston.

Arts Panel 4:00-4:50 PM $10pp Hotel Frangos Function Room With Stuart Purves of Australian Galleries - Petrus Spronk, Lauren Matthews-Nicholls, Ali, Hilary Finch and Josh Bowes. Arists talk about the origins of their artistic practice.

Salparise: A Fistful of Earth in The Suitcase 5:00-6:00 PM $10pp Daylesford Town Hall Daylesford’s own Joanne Tsakoumagos performs an epic journey through dance. A one woman performance, using narration, dance and song to tell a story of migration, place and identity through three generations.

Film - deFiant Lives 6:00-7:30 PM Daylesford Cinema Documenting the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in Australia, the UK and the US. With Q&A.

Ongoing Events Origins Cocktail Bar 12:00 PM-1:00 AM Belvedere Social, 82b Vincent St

Pop into Belvedere Social during the festival to try one of our literary-inspired cocktails, wines, beer on tap and snacks.

Fluctuating Spaces On display Aug 5-6 Daylesford Town Hall

Spoken word & stop motion animations showcasing work from the innovative art project by Jodie Goldring and DHS students.

Maze House Ongoing fun Aug 4-6 Maze House, 3155 Midland HWY

Maze House is hiding all sorts of Book and Word Games in the old hedge maze and around the country carnival garden.

Win prizes and treats if you collect all the clues.

Untethered On display Aug 5-6 Daylesford Town Hall

Set in the future, this is an installation of stories taken from the body of an unknown woman who washed up on the shore of the Ovens river in 2098.

Presented by Lola Howard.

Stony Creek Gallery On display Aug 5-6 Stony Creek Gallery, 10 Stony Creek Rd Michael Parker art exhibition and stories throughout the weekend.

Typewriter Stories On display Aug 4-6 Awkward Jeffery, Blue Bean Cafe, Glenlyon Store, Cliffy’s and the Maze House Come and write your ‘Origins’ story in 500 words or less on vintage typewriters at nominated local cafes.

The best story will be published in The Local.

Workshops From Page To Stage: Bringing Hollow to Life $22pp $18conc 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Saturday Aug 5 Paddock Room, Neighbourhood Center Megan Riedl will share her process of creating a new play about a true historical event. Actors will showcase scenes from ‘Hollow’, dissecting the process of interpreting a playscript in rehearsal.

Children’s Program: Wordy Pets

$15pp includes materials 4:00-4:50 PM Saturday Aug 5 Daylesford Library A craft workshop for young and old using old books and maps with Selena Smith. For adults and kids.

“The Last word and the Last Laugh” Laugh!... I could have died! $20pp $15conc 2:00-5:00 PM Sunday Aug 13 Verey Funeral Directors, 24 Bridport St Most people aren’t comfortable with their mortality –75% DON”T do any end-oflife planning, Leaving those left behind, unprepared and devastated, not IF but WHEN there’s a death in the family. This workshop will give you the tools and the inspiration to take practical steps for outlining your funeral plans.

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Presenting Muffins & More

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OMING from a strong artist lineage including her aunt’s and parents’ links to Montsalvat, an artist colony in Eltham, Annette “Zola” Ratcliffe’s life seemed to be destined for the world of arts and sculpture.

She moved to Basalt 20 years ago from Richmond, where her CV included studying sculpture in the early 80s, turning her hand to teaching, working three-dimensionally, painting and working in foundries casting bronze life-sized figures – “a bit of everything really”. She spent the first part of her years in the Central Highlands working on her house and the stonework around it.

Nowadays Annette, pictured in the inset photo seated and wearing red, is starting to “get some more artwork done and more thoughts and ideas that are very exciting”.

She recently discovered a polyglaze resin material, a plasticine-like substance which is fired in the oven, and she is currently working on an exhibition of miniature sculptures.

Annette has held exhibitions, such as at the Convent Gallery in Daylesford, but nothing too recent.

She says she is “fortunate enough to do my own thing and I am very pleased with what I am doing at the moment, the miniature projects”.

Her works include miniature garden arrangements, towers, bridges, streetscapes and more recently a diorama, pictured right, of the Daylesford café Muffins & More’s morning coffee set, where Annette enjoys chatting every day for half an hour or so.

The idea for the diorama, which took about two months to create and is modelled on the locals who gather at the café, started when she wanted to try small portraits of the locals “and it kinda snowballed from there”.

“It’s portraits within a portrait. There were a few people who couldn’t make it but fair crack of the whip, I can’t put everyone in it. Les Pitt, a Muffins & More stalwart, was away in Vietnam but I thought 'well, he has to be in it'.”

Annette says the morning group who gather at Muffins & More were like one big family.

“They are a great bunch down there and the great thing is you don’t have to take them home. The diverse cultural backgrounds of the locals are amazing.”

Next step is building up her collection of works to exhibit a bit later in the year – once she finds the right venue.

Words: Kyle Barnes | Image: David White

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Gig Guide

The Spa Bar, Daylesford Piano Improv - Wednesday, July 19, 7pm-10pm Andy Vogel & Friends - Thursday, July 20, 7pm-10pm.

DMT DJ Grooves - Friday, July 21, 9pm-11pm Kingstone SKA - Saturday, July 22, 7.30pm-10.30pm Piano Improv - Wednesday, July 26, 7pm-10pm Rex & The Hapless Brakemen - Thursday, July 27, 7pm-10pm.

DMT DJ Grooves - Friday, July 28, 9pm-11pm

Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn Springs The Larks - Friday, July 21 Next Episode - Saturday, July 22 Mana Moto - Sunday, July 23 Steph Bitter - Friday, July 28 Nearly Early - Saturday, July 29 Stand Up Comedy - Sunday, July 30 The Cartwheels - Friday, August 4 North East - Saturday, August 5 Someday June - Sunday, August 6

Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn Gabe Atkinson – Saturday, July 22, 8.30pm-11.30pm Old Money Mountain – Sunday, July 23, 5pm-7pm

Daylesford Cidery, Daylesford

Got a gig coming up? Email news@tlnews.com.au

Duck Downpickers - Sunday, July 30, 12pm-3pm Cat & Clint - Sunday, August 6, 12.30pm-3.30pm

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Breakfast Sat & Sun 8:30am - 12pm Lunch 11:30am 7 Days / Dinner 5pm 105 Vincent Street Daylesford www.galleydiner.com.au

THE OLD HEPBURN BAR | DINING | LIVE MUSIC OPEN FOR DINNER

Weds - Sun 5pm....Breakfast & Lunch From 9am Weekends...

Frugal foodies $20 Menu Mon/Weds/Thurs $15 Schnitzels between 5-7 Thurs $15 Roast from 12pm every Sunday

LIVE MUSIC EVERY WEEKEND 5348 2207 | 236 Main Road, Hepburn | www.oldhepburnhotel.com.au

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Meal deals for locals...and visitors too!

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VERYONE loves a good meal deal. So here are the dining establishments offering great food and great prices!

Monday:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Monday Meatball Madness - $20 (Vegetarian option available.)

Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn - Frugal Foodies - $20 Grande Hotel, Hepburn Springs - Locals' Night - 2-courses $35, 3-courses - $45

Tuesday:

Saturday:

The Surly Goat - lunch special - two courses and a glass of wine - $40 Tastings at Bellinzona, Hepburn - free wine tasting of up to six choices of regional wines when you order a pizza, platter or purchase a bottle of wine.

Sunday:

The Surly Goat - lunch special - two courses and a glass of wine - $40 Grange Bellinzona, Hepburn - two courses and a glass of wine - $45 Old Hepburn Hotel - Sunday roast - two choices of meat with all the trimmings $15 from noon until sold out.

Perfect Drop, Daylesford - five courses - $55 Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Burger Night with chips - $20 Casa El Rey, Daylesford - Taco Tuesday - $5 tacos and $5 beers.

A Second Element, Daylesford - 2 large traditional pizzas, garlic bread + 1.25l drink - $30

Monday-Friday

Wednesday:

Perfect Drop, Daylesford, has a Happy Hour, Thursday to Monday, from 4pm to 6pm with $12 cocktails and $2 oysters.

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Pot (or glass of house wine) and Parma - $20 Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn - Frugal Foodies - $20

Thursday:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Steak Night - $20 Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn - Schnitzel Night - 5pm-7pm- $15

Friday:

The Surly Goat - lunch special - two courses and a glass of wine - $40 Grange Bellinzona, Hepburn - two courses and a glass of wine - $45 Tastings at Bellinzona, Hepburn - free wine tasting of up to six choices of regional wines when you order a pizza, platter or purchase a bottle of wine.

5000 Club - three-course lunch at Christ Church Anglican Hall, Daylesford

Casa El Rey, Daylesford - The $15 Box - loaded spud and drink or burrito with fries and drink Galley Diner, Daylesford - lunch - burger, fries or onion rings and a drink - $17

Happy Hours:

Raffles:

Fundraising raffles or local organisations are held on Friday evenings at The Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn and The Farmers Arms Hotel, Daylesford.

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Dream job for front office manager at Peppers

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HE’S the friendly, smiling face that you see when you walk into Peppers Mineral Springs Hotel and Laurinda Veit really does have quite the dream job.

As front office manager, Laurinda, pictured right with her team, oversees everything from reservations to check-ins and check-outs and accounts, with one part of her work that she loves the most.

“My favourite part of the job would be interacting with the guests, I’m a people person,” Laurinda explains. She has been at Peppers for four years now, and it’s under owner Bobby Shen that Laurinda has seen one of the most positive changes since she has been at the iconic hotel.

“The one thing that really stands out to me would be that there’s a care about employees, and it’s the small things - he got us all Christmas presents, he’s caring about the staff.”

It’s a staff who is more local now than ever before – with Laurinda herself a local, having been born in Ballarat and living in Creswick all of her life.

“It’s really nice to work locally. And we have a majority of new staff members in our section – all are locals, and all are absolutely wonderful.”

With wonderful staff to work with, there is just the occasional tricky guest request that Laurinda is more than capable of dealing with.

“Probably the strangest request I’ve had is if I could get rid of the flies from their balcony, which is outside. But that was probably one of the most difficult requests that I’ve had.”

And there are definite perks to working in one of the region’s most beautiful hotels - especially with the award-winning Argus Dining Room – that make this job a bit like a dream.

“We do have a menu tasting when they bring out new menus, that’s really good.

And the chocolate dessert at the moment, it’s an amazing chocolate brownie with all different layers… I think it’s the best so far.”

Peppers Mineral Springs Hotel is at 124 Main Road, Hepburn Springs. Phone: 5348 2202. Website: springsretreat@peppers.com.au

From left, Amy Sanders, Laurinda Veit, Darc'y Johnson and Jessica Neave

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This is a very flexible recipe that does not depend on accurate measurements, but I have measured the ingredients to serve four people, allowing two large leg chops per person. Be sure there is plenty of liquid in the dish, and that you add sufficient prunes and apricots to bring out their flavour. Increase the amount of the spices if you are making a large casserole. It is best served with potato mash and a green vegetable such as beans or broccoli, but if time is short serve it with noodles or couscous.

8 lamb chops for stewing Oil for cooking 20 prunes, seeded 20 dried apricots, chopped 4 large brown onions, cut into wedges 1 cup plain flour 2 teaspoons ground allspice 1 heaped teaspoon cinnamon 1 heaped teaspoon nutmeg 1 litre of prepared vegetable stock, or use stock cubes as instructed by manufacturer Pepper and salt Juice of two oranges Parsley for serving Place sufficient flour in a plastic bag to coat the chops. Add half of the allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg to the flour and shake to mix. Add the chops to the bag, toss them around to coat with the mixture. Heat oil in a heavy casserole dish and seal the chops in it by turning them over frequently until all surfaces are sealed. Place the chops on a plate then add the onions to the pan and sauté them, then return the chops and add enough stock to cover the chops. Add prunes and apricots, orange juice, remaining spices and pepper and salt as required. Add enough stock to cover the ingredients. Cook in a slow to medium oven for about 1 ¼ hours – adding more stock if needed.

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Flappers Spring Ball

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N THE 1970s and 1980s, the Spring Women’s Balls in Daylesford were legendary. These were women only events that allowed for women to let their hair down and celebrate the change in the season.

Thanks to Daylesford’s ChillOut Festival, this tradition has been re-invented, with the Flappers Spring Women’s Ball. The term flapper comes from the 1920s and was used to describe fashionable young women intent on enjoying themselves and flouting conventional standards of behaviour.

A pilot event was held in September last year at the Daylesford Town Hall which was met with “a bit of scepticism to be honest”, according to ChillOut Festival director Merryn Tinkler.

“But the 120 women who attended last year were all over the moon and really were encouraging of us to continue with a new tradition of a Spring Women’s event.

"Women are looking for a space to just be and celebrate together. It’s not at all about being separatist – it’s much more about recognising that it is OK to hang together at times.”

DJ Fiona Scott-Norman will be spinning discs with music ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s and plenty to sing along and dance to. Fiona is a regular DJ at the Spiegeltent in Melbourne, has had radio shows on 3RRR, was a regular co-host on ABC 774 with Derek Guille and is a cabaret artist in her own right. She is also the director of the Ballarat Cabaret Festival.

As well, BlueHouse will be playing on the night. The creative partnership of Bern Carroll and Jacqui Walter that is BlueHouse had sell-out seasons and five-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, toured for the last 20 years regularly in Australia, the USA and Canada, supported Tommy Emmanuel on his Australian, European and North American tours and most recently played the Sydney Opera House.

The Flappers Spring Women’s Ball will be held at the Daylesford Town Hall on Saturday, September 2.

Link: www.chilloutfestival.com.au

GENUINE LOCALLY GROWN BEEF AND LAMB Our prime lamb & aged beef is produced on the family farm ‘Green Hills Natural’ near Malmsbury & the beef aged on our Daylesford premises. Our pork and free range poultry is sourced from local suppliers in Central Victoria and where possible everything else is sourced locally.

We have renamed and refurbished our premises Daylesford ethos, our heritage and to continue our commitment to the community.

Our business is a well known Daylesford icon, and has supplied the locals and visitors with genuine locally grown produce for over 50 years and will continue to supply the highest quality produce for the best value.

The on staff expert butchers make a select range of specialist sausages including our famous ‘Bull Boar’ which is another Daylesford icon.

OUR GOURMET RANGE OF HOUSE-MADE SMOKED SMALLGOODS Bacons, Chorizo, Terrines, Ham Hocks, Strasburg, Pastrami and more.

Shopping at The Daylesford Meat Co. is an experience not to be missed so come in and talk face to face with the friendly people who make and prepare your food.

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Phone 5348 2094.

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Multi-national firm tucked away in Musk

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IJK Zwaan is a multi-national company based in Holland. They grow and develop vegetable varieties and sell the seeds produced from them. In the worldwide market of vegetable seeds, they are among the top five companies in the world.

Starting from a single shop in Rotterdam in 1924, they have grown into a major world player and today the family-owned company has expanded their operations to over 30 countries including Australia. The regional head office was established in Musk in 1987. Business manager Arie Baelde, pictured above with Annie Walch explains why.

“We chose Musk because it’s close to Melbourne and the airport. There is good soil, good water and the climate is good for what we call biennial crops, a cycle with a warm growing period and cold growing period needed to flower. The location is also quite representative of temperate climates in the northern hemisphere and seed can be efficiently produced locally during European winters, cutting development time in half.”

For those ignorant of all things green and leafy, especially within the complex and vast industry of commercial market gardening, it is best to explain that Rijk Zwaan grows its produce solely for seed stock including carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, leeks, beetroot, onions and all their varieties. The Musk farm also has facilities to research various aspects of seed development including genetics and disease prevention.

Growing high-quality and reliable seed is a complex process and highly specialised. Its roots lie in research pertaining to the laws of genetic inheritance pioneered by Czech friar, Gregor Mendel in the 1860s. Before then, people thought that merely growing a plant in a different environment would create difference.

While it was, and still is, an important factor, the genetic component wasn’t well understood.

Today, this pioneering research lies at the core of Rijk Zwaan operations and they have the resources in place to capitalise on such knowledge. The operations at Musk are dominated by a gleaming white, enigmatic building hiding an array of offices, laboratories, warehouses and storage rooms. You first enter into a quiet reception area, sealed from the outside world and hydronically heated. Blue doors with round windows give you glimpses into empty corridors leading further into the complex.

Arie motions to follow him and as you walk the silent halls and peer into labs gleaming with high tech equipment, you encounter young bright-eyed staff sifting seeds and making notes, as they glide about silently in Croc sandals.

“Boots remain outside to prevent contamination,” he explains. “The sandals are for use in these areas.”

Developing a new seed variety is a lengthy process and conventional technology is used rather than genetic modification. Rijk Zwaan technicians start looking for suitable parent lines using existing varieties or consult their enormous archives. The parents of a new variety must be crossed at their purest and that requires great care while they are growing.

Ultimately it can take as long as 15 years before an idea has evolved into a vegetable for the consumer with a period of repeated crossing, testing and selecting.

In order to have good-quality seed it’s also important that the seed is collected at the right time and with great care. Depending on the crop, it is harvested manually, in stages, or mechanically at one go. Once the seed has been processed, each batch, wherever in the world it came from, goes to the Seed Technological Centre in De Lier, The Netherlands for final quality inspection.

“While it is a little bit seasonal, at our peak in summer we have about 45 people on site. At other times we keep a dedicated team involved in everything from maintenance and administration to research. Most of these are locals but we do find that more people live further away these days as housing in the area is getting expensive.”

As the tour takes us out into the yards, you cannot help noticing all the little touches making life more comfortable as an employee; especially the bikes parked in racks to make getting around the site easier. The relaxed and informal atmosphere is also in evidence as you listen to the banter of workers at the green houses as they attend to rows of seedlings in growing trays and their intricate irrigation systems.

“I’m sorry that we don’t have more interesting crops to show you,” says Arie apologetically. “We only have in several types of beetroot and, being the middle of winter, not much to see a far as flowering is concerned.”

While it is nice to have a sunny day and bright healthy plants swaying about, somehow you don’t feel cheated seeing things during the quiet winter months. Just walking around, admiring the detail and complexity of this place surely makes up for the lack of flowers.

At the end of our tour you couldn’t help feeling that the usual rustic tourist attractions of the region pale into nothingness after experiencing the work going on at Rijk Zwaan Seeds. Being here is to have the giddying experience of coming faceto-face with contemporary technology, hidden behind vast hedges in Musk, and its integration into important global food networks.

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A bronze-leafed hybrid form A. baileyena purpurea is a smaller, more compact tree. Other varieties worth planting are the compact A.cultriformis or knife leafed wattle, and the Flinders Ranges’ wattle A. iteaphylla, a small upright tree. Acacia cognata is a small weeping form that now comes in a range of dwarf weeping hybrids most suitable for rockeries and pots.

Hi Glen, I have an avocado struck from a seed. It's about eight years old, 6m high and has never fruited. Someone suggested that I cut it down, to say 1m high, and try a graft.

Is this possible? Or should I remove it altogether and replace it with a young grafted tree?

Thanks, Helen

Callistemon The ever-popular bottlebrush is now available in many hybrid forms with flowers ranging from white, through pink to red, and flowering between autumn and spring.

There’s also the plethora of grevillea and melaleuca. Small winter flowering native shrubs include crowea with their delicate coloured star-shaped blooms and correa, a native bell shrub with a broad colour range of tiny bell-shaped flowers.

Hi Helen, I think the compromise solution would be to plant a grafted one in a large tub and replace the original tree, once it has grown to a decent size. Glen

Budding and grafting

Got a gardening question for Glen? Email glenzgarden@gmail.com

Budding or grafting of a large avocado isn't always successful and the new one would take less time to fruit. Besides you won't have to put up with a bare spot in your garden.

There are several main reasons why commercially grown fruiting trees are always sold either as "budded" or "grafted" plants. Mostly because growing them from seed is somewhat akin to buying a lottery ticket - you can never be too sure if the tree will ever bear fruit, and then, if it eventually does, what the fruit will be like. Seedling grown fruit trees are notoriously slow in getting around to it.

Birds and the bees are the trouble-makers because in their meanderings around the orchard, they can't be relied on to bring pollen from an identical tree, so the chances of the resultant seedlings producing identical fruit are slim.

Mind you, there are often outstanding exceptions, not the least my all-time favourite apple - the famed Australian seedling - Granny Smith.

There are other important reasons for budded or grafted plants and a good example is with apricots - prone to suffer root rot in heavy or poorly drained soils – which can be obtained and budded onto plum rootstock which is more tolerant to poorly drained soil.

A recently released range of "miniature" citrus trees has been made possible by grafting normal-sized varieties onto the rootstock of an extremely dwarf-growing citrus species.

I have successfully grown several of these in large tubs for a couple of years and last season was rewarded with about 20 reasonably sized Tahitian limes and mandarins.

Winter following Australian trees and shrubs Last time I mentioned how drab winter gardens can be brought to life by introducing Australian native plants, many of which avoid the hot summer months of our climate to flower. Here are a few more.

Banksia Members of the proteaceae family, these thrive in our region and come in many colours and forms. Two of these are the B. ericafolia and the yellow B.integrifolia (pictured). These are large shrubs but there are smaller compact hybrid forms of Banksia spinulosa or "birthday candles".

Acacia Our famed golden wattle. Almost one third of our 950 or so forms of this iconic tree and shrub flower sometime between late autumn and mid spring. Probably the most popular garden variety is the cootamundra wattle, acacia baileyana, with its delicate grey-green, lace-like foliage and masses of creamy, yellow flowers.

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Increasing age, decreasing religion - Census snapshot Daylesford

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HE population of Daylesford was 8956 people in 2016 - an increase from 2006, when the population was 8154.

The median age was 51 in 2016, in 2006 it was 44.

For Australia the median age was 38.

With a total of 4657 females, the female proportion of the population in 2016 was 52 per cent. With a total of 4299 males, the male proportion of the population in 2016 was 48 per cent.

The average household size decreased from 2.3 people per dwelling in 2006 to 2.2 in 2011. For Australia, the average household size was 2.6.

For homes, the average number of people per bedroom was 0.8 in 2016. Nationally, it was 0.9.

The most common country of birth in 2016 was Australia at 74.6 per cent.

The most common language spoken at home other than English in 2016 was German at 0.5 per cent.

Nationally, it was Mandarin.

The most common ancestry in 2016 was English at 40.3 per cent followed by Australia at 34.3 per cent.

The most common religion in 2016 was secular and no religious affiliation at 45.1 per cent followed by Catholic at 17.9 per cent.

The median weekly household income in 2016 was $1022 - an increase from 2006, where it was $662.

Nationally, the median was $1432.

The percentage of people who owned their own dwelling outright was 41.8 per cent in 2016. The national percentage was 29.6 per cent.

HE population of Kyneton was 9648 people in 2016 - an increase from 2006, when the population was 8236.

The median age was 45 in 2016, in 2006 it was 41.

For Australia the median age was 38.

With a total of 4968 females, the female proportion of the population in 2016 was 51.5 per cent. With a total of 4682 males, the male proportion of the population in 2016 was 48.5 per cent.

The average household size decreased from 2.5 people per dwelling in 2006 to 2.4 in 2011. Nationally, the average household size was 2.6.

For homes, the average number of people per bedroom was 0.8 in 2016. Nationally, it was 0.9.

The most common country of birth in 2016 was Australia at 78.1 per cent.

The most common language spoken at home other than English in 2016 was Mandarin at 0.9 per cent.

The most common ancestry in 2016 was English at 41.3 per cent followed by Australian at 40.3 per cent.

The most common religion for people in 2016 was secular and no religious affiliation at 38 per cent followed by Catholic at 23.4 per cent.

The median weekly household income in 2016 was $1269 - an increase from 2006, where it was $861.

Nationally, the median was $1432.

The percentage of people who owned their own dwelling outright was 35.6 per cent in 2016. The national percentage was 29.6 per cent.

HE population of Woodend was 6899 people in 2016 - an increase from 2006, when the population was 6252.

The median age was 43 in 2016, whereas in 2006 it was 39. For Australia the median age was 38.

With a total of 3590 females, the female proportion of the population in 2016 was 52 per cent. With a total of 3313 males, the male proportion of the population in 2016 was 48 per cent.

The average household size decreased from 2.7 people per dwelling in 2006 to 2.6 in 2011. Nationally, the average household size was 2.6.

For homes, the average number of people per bedroom was 0.8 in 2016. Nationally, it was 0.9.

The most common country of birth in 2016 was Australia at 76.5 per cent.

The most common language spoken at home other than English in 2016 was German at 0.7 per cent.

The most common ancestry in 2016 was English at 40.7 per cent followed by Australian at 39.6 per cent.

The most common religion for people was secular and no religious affiliation at 43 per cent followed by Catholic at 21.9 per cent.

The median weekly household income in 2016 was $1681 - an increase from 2006, where it was $1095.

Nationally, the median was $1432.

The percentage of people who owned their own dwelling outright was 36 per cent in 2016. The national percentage was 29.6 per cent.

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HE Hepburn Cricket Club is being re-formed with a junior under 16 and seniors' team entering the Castlemaine Cricket Association.

A meeting will be held at the Hepburn Football Club on August 1 at 7.30pm for anyone interested in volunteering or playing for the club.

Spokesperson Lindsay Olver said he had been in talks with Cricket Victoria and Sports Central at Ballarat and already had enough players for each team - although more were always welcome.

"The club folded about eight years ago when the Daylesford and District Cricket Association folded - there were only four or five clubs left in the competition so there was pretty much no one to play.

"But it had been a really good competition in the 70s, 80s and 90s with some really great cricket being played.

"Quite a few of them went on to play district cricket. And we already have some great players onboard so who knows where they will go."

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AA Grade - 1st Blake Nankervis 69/75, A Grade - 1st Scott O'Brien 64/75 B Grade - 1st Col Baterbury 62/75, 2nd Matt Hannah 60/75, 3rd Paul DaMore 58/75 C Grade - 1st Matt Watson 44/75, 2nd Andrew Pontelli 43/75 Ladies - 1st Hannah Klein 41/75, Vets - 1st Dominic Azzopardi 61/75 Super Vets - 1st Brian Hoyland 62/75, 2nd John Argilla 56/75 Juniors - 1st Luke Johns 52/75, Sub Juniors - 1st Brendon O'Brien 43/75 The next shoot is on August 5 with 75 targets "old style". 48-shooter maximum and postal nominations only.

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Boon for regional first-home buyers

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T’S a great time to be a first-home buyer in regional Victoria.

From July 1, the State Government is offering an exemption from land transfer duty (commonly known as stamp duty) for first-home buyers who buy a new home or land priced at $600,000 or less.

First-home buyers buying a home with a value from $600,001 to $750,000 will be entitled to a concessional rate of duty, calculated on a sliding scale.

Meanwhile, the First Home Owner Grant has increased from $10,000 to $20,000 for new homes built in regional Victoria and valued up to $750,000. That also applies for contracts signed from July 1.

A new home includes: a newly built home; an existing property which is being sold for the first time as a new residential premises; a land and building package, or vacant land on which a new home will be built.

Daylesford Biggin & Scott principal Michael DeVincentis said with not a lot of stock on the market it was a great time to sell with house prices high.

Mr DeVincentis said interest from first-home buyers had gone quiet until July 1 and his company had sold two properties to new home buyers in the past two weeks.

"They were specifically waiting until July 1 because of that stamp duty being exempted. They both had looked at the properties and told us "we'll be back".

"It's going to raise a lot of interest in places like Ballarat where you have more building happening but it will also spike an interest in the market here too."

Mr DeVincentis said he believed it was a myth that the exemptions and grants would push up prices. "We are not Melbourne where you might have 80 people at an open home - we just don't have that sort of competition here."

Meanwhile, Daylesford Hocking Stuart principal Will Walton said if a new home owner accessing the regional grant came through his doors he would have little to offer for new homes up to $600,000.

“It is an extremely good time to sell but people seem to be in a bit of a holding pattern. I can’t really speculate why. But property prices are at an all-time high – because of that supply and demand."

Mr Walton said there were also few new homes being built as opposed to holiday accommodation. “Which is fine because our economy is directly linked to tourism.”

Meanwhile, Hepburn Shire Council is processing all planning applications faster by two days – but there are also fewer applications being received.

Planning manager Justin Fiddes said the average processing time for all planning applications for the 2016/2017 financial year was 41 days. “This is a decrease in processing times compared with 2015/2016 which was 43 days. In 2016/2017 council received just over 100 fewer planning applications than the previous year.”

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