The Local Issue 103 July 31, 2017

July 31, 2017 Issue 103 Rockin’ with Jim

The Local - The Heart of the Highlands

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Front cover: Jim Hammerley is an avid record collector, which he sells at Daylesford's Mill Markets, along with many other eclectic items.

He is also a sculptor, painter and drives a green ’61 EK Holden with a Monaro engine. Read his story by Kevin Childs on page 11.

July 31, 2017 Issue 103 Rockin’ with Jim

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News 3

Sharing and developing powerful stories

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NNE E Stewart is a woman who tells a lot of stories.

But to be fair, it is an art that she has well and truly mastered over the past 40 years.

She has mastered it so well, in fact, that she has an international reputation as an acclaimed storyteller – Anne, pictured above right with Melbourne storyteller Niki Na Meadhra was the first Australian storyteller to be invited to Mexico and South America by Dream On Productions, has also represented Australia at the Scottish Storytelling Centre’s annual festival, and was a guest of the 16th International Storytelling Festival in Iran.

She isn’t an actor, and, although she used to be a children’s librarian, she does not sit down and read books aloud.

“I tell stories, I don’t read them, I tell them. We’re storytellers, we’re not actors or anything, we’re just reliving stories.”

Her storytelling is instead a performance art, a unique cultural experience, telling the shared stories of Australia and promoting cultural understanding, raising issues of social justice, and helping others give voice to their own unique stories.

With sister Jane coming up from Melbourne to help out, Anne has recently launched her own storytelling house – it’s her own house, in Daylesford, with beautiful gardens, and within is a room used as a performance space where about a dozen people can gather for intimate audience and performance experiences.

Story House and Garden is, overall, a place where people come together to listen, share and develop stories.

“My visitors can take an enchanted tour through a house and garden filled with stories, attend an entertaining storytelling session or participate in a range of interactive story workshops. Stories are the foundation of a connected and happy life.

“People who know their own stories have an inner strength and confidence. But in today’s fast-moving world people often don’t take the time to listen to stories and appreciate the power of their message.

“I run workshops, training, children’s school holiday programs, hens’ weekends, a diverse range of things – it’s all about storytelling.”

Anne is now looking at spreading the art of storytelling throughout the area – she’s already been a judge on the spectacularly successful Mollongghip Poetry Slam panel, and a local storytelling slam is now on her agenda.

“It’ll be where people get the opportunity to get up and tell a story.”

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Painter, printmaker, country girl with heart

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IM Barter is a painter/printmaker and lives on a small farm in Musk. She also raises money for Daylesford Hospital’s Palliative Care Unit. She told her story to Donna Kelly.

"My work is expressive and quite visceral in its responses to landscape. I work en plein air, always with a sketchbook, where I record and draw my immediate surroundings. My scribblings and small paintings on paper are like gold to me, as I refer to these books constantly back in the studio.

Memories, emotions and the unconscious emerge from within and spill out into paintings and prints. A colleague at arts school always said: 'Art becomes your Life and Life is Art', which is true. I have just returned from a camping trip in the Kimberleys in WA and am now trying to respond to a powerful, sacred and ancient land. I am making a lot of mud at present but hoping something will emerge on my work surface. The way I work is not for everybody, as I usually set myself in the realm of the unknown. This means I don't try and represent landscapes, I try and push through the obvious, I search for an emotional evocative response, the inner truth which usually comes from the gestural act of 'letting go.

As adults we have gathered and stored a lot of life experience and knowledge, opinions and ideas. As an artist I am constantly reevaluating these. I have a questioning mind. Art has no answers, there are so many ways of looking/seeing in the world, a universal language that is all inclusive of everyone and everything. To finish paintings or artworks you have been struggling with is very satisfying, because you know you have been taken on a roller-coaster ride. The highs and lows. You are playing with line, quality of line, mass, texture, scale, composition...and every time you change one thing, like add a different colour, the whole is in disarray. A juggling act.

I have been a practising artist since finishing arts school in my mid-20s. I landed in Wagga at a time where I was unsure of my next working path, I had been working and studying hospitality in Sydney for a time and then travelled and lived in Europe for a year. I returned home to visit family in Wagga Wagga and an artist friend said it was about time I went to arts school. So I did. I have to say, this was the best decision I ever made. I finally found a place where I seemed to fit.

I love living in the Central Highlands area. People are supportive, tolerant and genuinely care and look out for each other. I love hearing people's stories and ideas about things; to share our lives with others is important. I love the accessibility to Melbourne, and towns nearby, it supports my way of being creatively active in the world. I am very aware of the fog of negativity in the world and choose to create my own world of positivity...I do this by playing music, making art, watching films, listening to positive words. The human condition is very fragile.

John and I came to Daylesford in 2000, we had been passing through the area for a number of years on holiday and fell in love with Victoria and the region. I am also a gardener and love the diversity of cool alpine plants, volcanic soil and seasons. Not long after we arrived, we visited Garden of St Erth in Blackwood owned by Clive and Penny Blazey from Diggers and next minute we were running the cafe on weekends.

We love to cook, grow, make, bake...call me old fashioned! I am a country girl.

Five or so years ago a friend was terminally ill and spent her last weeks in Daylesford Hospital. The staff and carers were highly regarded in their compassion and 24-hour care and I wanted to help in some way, provide support for palliative care.

With support by Lisa Stingal, a palliative care nurse at the time, I produced a small edition of cards, and now postcards, that were for sale in Daylesford. A small project that I hoped would raise funds for special needs at end of life.

I have raised over $6000 so far and with the help of few volunteers, created a small garden/sitting area at front of Daylesford Hospital next to the ambulance bay.

Funds are now put in hospital hands (under Kim's Bucket) and funds are drawn for specific items. Recently, Emma Taylor from Moss and Burrows supported this initiative with TOMS shoes project and she raised $1660 for Daylesford Palliative Care. Fantastic. Cards can be purchased at Boathouse Cafe, Wombat Hill Nursery and Flightplan in Daylesford."

Link: www.kim barterart.com or Instagram kim_barter_

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Inspiring 5

Ladies celebrating 154 years of community care

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T IS a story that has pretty much flown under the radar for many years. One of Daylesford’s longest running organisations – the Daylesford Ladies’ Benevolent Society.

The society was formed by members from each of the Daylesford churches in 1863 with the initial intention of helping struggling families, particularly women and children, with the simplest of necessities such as flour, sugar, milk, blankets and books. This was made possible through private donations as well as contributions from shires.

In the very early days the ladies also expressed a desire to invest in housing for the elderly and poor, but with every donation going to groceries and clothing, there was no chance to save for any material goal.

Until an anonymous letter was sent to the editor of the Daylesford Advocate looking for a way for the town and its people to celebrate the 50th year of the reign of Queen Victoria.

The letter writer mentioned the ladies’ hope for investing in housing and asked if any of the town's wealthier residents could help - which then inspired the mayor of the day, Mayor T J Deakin, to get involved. The Mayor’s Fund raised a total of 200 pounds to pay for four houses and the mayor himself donated an acre of land.

Other fundraising came from the ladies themselves, just over 65 pounds with many of the donors listed as being of the Chinese community, and another 179 pounds raised by W Graham of Creswick, the Daylesford Borough Council, the Glenlyon Shire Council, the Mount Franklin Shire Council and proceeds from the entertainment of the Jubilee Celebrations. These two fundraising efforts went towards buying two additional flats known as the Jubilee Cottages. They were sold in 2009 to a private buyer.

Fundraising for upkeep and potentially more accommodation continued over the years with “Annual Efforts” in the form of balls and tea parties. The schools also raised money while the ladies kept up their door knocking and stalls. In fact, with the ladies bringing in the bulk of the annual funds, and perhaps war looming, the Annual Efforts were dropped in 1914.

Meanwhile, the society was going along well with donations from public bodies including a number of banks – until the Great Depression and WWII hit in the 1930s. With even more requests for help they had less money than ever and donations could not keep up with the need to supply food, blankets, boots and clothing. Only mostly small donations were recorded until 1953 although, from 1939 to 1951, a burst of donations came through from someone named only as Christensen culminating in a whopping 750 pounds.

More than a decade later, with their savings, donations and grants the society started to plan its first housing project in more than 70 years - 10 units for the aged to be named the Centenary Homes to celebrate the society’s 100-year anniversary in 1963. There was not quite enough for the 10 units but the first stage of the Centenary Homes, three units, was opened in November, 1966. Another grant was eventually sourced and the second stage, a further three units, was opened in December 1979.

Eight years later, the society sold several vacant blokes of land at the back of the Jubilee Cottages – fortuitously when a block next to the Centenary Homes went up for sale. It was quickly snapped up.

The same year, Daylesford resident Stan Hoath said he was willing to donate $50,000 on the condition that the new block of units be named the Madge Hoath Memorial Cottages after his late wife. And so, the final stage of the Centenary Homes was completed.

But the society’s work was not done. Another two double units were built in 1990-1991 along with another two units in West Street in 2010.

Currently the society owns 12 units which are housing 14 residents. They no longer supply food or clothing and are one of the oldest continuous running societies in Daylesford, and perhaps Australia.

Earlier this year Elsie Miller was inducted posthumously to the International Women’s Day Heather Mutimer Honour Roll as “a leader of the community who championed the advancement of gender equity”.

“Elsie dedicated many years of her life to the Daylesford Ladies Benevolent Society and was also a part of the Mother’s Union, Girl Guides Support Group and the Red Cross.”

The Daylesford Ladies Benevolent Society celebrates its 154th anniversary in September.

Above, from left, president Wendy Chamberlain, secretary Lyn Kinghorn and treasurer Marge Green. Other members are Lyn Brown, Janet Blain, Iris Balharrie, Linda Crabb, Ellie Green, Margot McKinnon and Ursula Kroeger.

Words: Donna Kelly | Image: David White Information taken, with permission, from The Daylesford Ladies’ Benevolent Society Celebrating 150 years of service by Amelia Seibring.

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150 years of footy T

HE Hepburn Football Netball Club will celebrate its 150th anniversary on the weekend starting August 11.

Celebrations start with a dinner at the Old Hepburn Hotel on Friday, August 11 and then continue on for the weekend including the last home and away game before finals start.

Football club president Jason Dooley, pictured far right, said the event was a “club celebration for both the football and netball clubs”. “The netball has been around about 30 years but, of course, without the football club it would not exist, so it’s really one and the same. It is just a get-together and it will be great to see as many old faces from way back as possible. We also have a lot of family members of past presidents, office bearers and past players who are no long with us coming along too, because it’s their family history as well. It will be good food and good craic.”

Netball president Kath Carman, pictured right, agreed there would be plenty of good cheer with a celebration of the achievements over the years.

“We have been a reasonably successful club, especially over the past 10 years, and we are going to be recognising all that effort that goes on behind the scenes as well. The people who run the committees, the canteen…the whole community has to be involved to make these clubs successful and we want to acknowledge everyone, not just the players.”

Jason said the Friday night event would be “dinner and memories” for people who had come for the weekend and wanted to start with a catch-up.

Football starts at 9am on the Saturday, with netball getting underway even earlier at 8.45am – and then at 1.30pm there would be a catch-up in the clubrooms with food and drinks.

“The senior game starts at 2.30pm and following that we have a guest speaker, AFL legend Doug Hawkins. His wife Raelene is a local from here and as a kid hung around the club, with her father the local policeman for a long time, so they were really just keen to be a part of the celebrations.

“Dougy will give a bit of a talk and they are going to hang around to catch up with everyone, but we are not going to fill it up with speeches, we just want everyone to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the club and its inception.”

Link: www.facebook.com/HepburnBurrasFnc/

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News 7

Walking the walk to give plastic bags the boot

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HEN it comes to community conservation, Woodend resident Sally Scanlan has it in the bag.

She’s the local bag lady – but not of the crazy kind. Sally is of the kind that motivates people to work towards a common goal, and that common goal is a plastic-free Woodend.

Since April, Sally has led a team of locals making environmentallyfriendly re-useable bags in an effort to have them replace the use of plastic bags within the town.

“We want to become a plastic bag-free community, and to achieve this we need people to be aware of the consequences of plastic, that it does not break down and therefore what it is doing to our health in the long term - when it’s in landfill it causes methane gas, and when it’s in the ocean, it’s killing the marine life,” Sally explains.

The campaign has been boosted by plastic-free July, which has seen Woodend Community Bags work with local shopkeepers who are happily coming on board with the plastic bag-free campaign.

“The Woodend Newsagency has stopped using plastic bags, and they have a stand for us to have our community bags in and people can pick them up from there, and also Bourkies, the bakery, have stopped using plastic bags.”

Not only are local businesses coming on board, but locals are also helping out with the campaign to make and use the bags, with local shop Color Me Cooper donating fabric to make the bags.

“Everything’s done locally – at Coles, there’s a chalkboard sign done by a local signwriter mounted on a box made by the Men’s Shed, placed at the entrance and we’re putting bags in there regularly.”

So far, nearly 1000 bags have been made and given away.

“That is very exciting, to get to that stage. We’ve got the town talking and that’s what we wanted to achieve.”

The Woodend community bags were inspired by “boomerang bags” – with the idea that you pick them up at a shop and they then come back to the shop with you each time.

And it’s just the beginning of Woodend’s plastic revolution – Sally and her team handed out 100 community bags at the last market, and she’s now working with the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group to make the market plastic bag-free.

“That’s my biggest goal at the minute, to get that happening.”

Take-home bag making kits can be picked up at the library, including 10 already cut-out bags to be ironed and sewn, or locals can drop in to the Woodend Neighbourhood House any Thursday morning from 9am-12pm to join the bag making group at work.

Above, from left, Kellie Flanagan, Haylee Mangan, Sheila Meanwhile, Sally’s other goals are to find a volunteer screen printer to print the logos on pockets Brennan and Sally Scanlan which are then sewn onto the bags, and to grow the Woodend Community Bags working group.

“My dream is that people will come in and have a laugh with us, you don’t have to sew, just make us a Words: Kate Taylor | Image: David White cup of tea…and someone usually drops in with a cake, it’s about everyone working together.”

“That is very exciting, to get to that stage.

We’ve got the town talking and that’s what we wanted to achieve.”

- Sally Scanlan

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8 Opinion

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Just sayin’...

Pick me, pick me...

By Donna Kelly

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MG. Just got a letter from the NBN - and Glenlyon is getting another tower.

This one is planned for Loddon Drive, that's a pretty small road near the Glenlyon Reserve. According to the letter it will be a 60-metre high lattice tower with three panel antennas and two parabolic dish antennas. That's an attractive addition to the town. Not. But, once again, as with the Telstra tower, I don't mind that we are getting technology - our mobile phones are going off their tree at Glenlyon now. We have five bars, up from one, all over the property. Which is great because not only do we want signal for bushfire safety, we also run a business. So thanks Telstra. But sorry to people in Wheatsheaf and Porky Ridge and Coomoora who have no better signal.

My beef is where the towers end up being located. I checked a topographical map and the Loddon Drive site is about 550 metres above sea level. The site of the Telstra tower is 556 metres above sea level. Gooches Hill, where many people thought the Telstra tower would be better situated, is 655 metres above sea level.

But Telstra said although there were many better spots, cost was a factor. They only get so much from the Federal Government to place towers around the country so they go for the cheapest spots they can find. Like the low-lying area of the main street, where they already leased an exchange and for a few more bucks, could pop their tower.

And now the NBN is also going for an even lower-lying area, on Loddon Drive, for a tower designed to "serve a set number of homes and businesses". Not sure what that means but I do know you need line of sight to receive signal. Sorry again to most of the region.

Anyway, what riles me is that you have two organisations, all apparently about communication, who have not communicated with each other. Surely the conversation could have gone something like this.

"Hi, we are putting up a Telstra tower at Glenlyon." "No, way, we have a tower going up too!

What a coincidence!" "Hey, we have an idea. We can't afford to put our Telstra tower where it would offer the most signal to the most people, so why don't we co-locate?" "Wow, you guys really think outside the box, what a great idea. We were also looking at a site that wasn't going to be the best - but what's a man gunna do?" "OK, we just looked at a topographical map of Glenlyon, we actually just Googled it, and there's a place called Gooches Hill which is the highest point in the town. We even talked to the owners and they're cool. And it's farm land so we're not going to upset the residents or visually descecrate their beautiful township and that amazing avenue. Why don't we co-locate there?" "Fantastic, love your work. We can reach even more people. We've heard there is need for more signal in Wheatsheaf, Porcupine Ridge and Coomoora. And the more the merrier." "Let's do it!"

And that would be it. Common sense, communication, cost-savings. But no, we will have two towers, serving the least people, on low-lying sites. Just dumb. Just sayin'...

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News 9

The Cathouse Players reprise Love Letters

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N THE wake of its critically-acclaimed production of Steel Magnolias, enjoyed by near-capacity audiences recently, Kyneton's Cathouse Players will present Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Bette Sartore, as the main attraction of their August season, and again, featuring specially composed music by Galliano Sommavilla.

First presented by Cathouse Players during their early days in Craigieburn, Love Letters begins as a tentative, words-on-paper friendship between Melissa Gardiner and Andrew Makepiece Ladd III - two New England third graders, and is a celebration of language, through hand-written notes, letters and cards, during their personal journey of some 50 years, from boarding school, to college, careers, affairs, marriages, families and beyond.

Words fly off the pages then are read aloud. Personal confidences are shared, encompassing love, longing, tenderness, with shared nostalgia, revealing so much from what is written, and what is left unsaid.

Since it was first performed in 1988, in New Hampshire, with the author as Andrew, this delightful, poignant play for two performers has been continually presented in the US.

The impressive list of luminaries of stage and screen taking part includes Elizabeth Taylor, Christopher Reeve, Sigourney Weaver, Martin Sheen, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Diana Rigg, Robert Vaughan, Mia Farrow, Brian Dennehy, and most recently, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, in November 2016.

Love Letters – not a radio play, is fully staged, and long-standing Cathouse members Lynn Kimber and Alan Barrett, pictured above with Bette Sartore, centre, will reprise their roles, paying tribute to 84-year-old A.R. Gurney, whose death was announced on June 14 this year.

The pre-interval supporting acts to Love Letters will feature a special preview of their two entries in this year's Kyneton Daffodil Festival of One Act Plays in September - Catherine Parr; The Boy Comes Home, and a lovely piece from the Cathouse archives, featuring Pat Agyeman and Alan Stone.

Love Letters will be performed at the Kyneton Masonic Centre with wine and cheese nights on Saturday, August 19 and Saturday, August 26 at 8pm, and high tea with bubbles matinees on Sunday, August 20 and Sunday, August 27 at 2pm.

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10 Just briefly

Refugee vigil

Art revolution

Museum win

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The event mirrored larger gatherings happening on that night across the major cities of Australia, to acknowledge refugees detained on Manus Island and Nauru and to remember those who have died in detention.

Organiser Rosie Baker reminded the crowd that 2000 men, women and children have now been in detention for more than four years, being treated as pawns in a political game started by a former prime minister and continued by the current federal government.

Vigil attendees lit candles and sang, while brief autobiographies of some of the detainees were read aloud, giving a moving reminder that these are ordinary, good-hearted people who have suffered enormous trauma and want only to find a safe place to live.

"The detention centres have been repeatedly criticised by the Red Cross, the United Nations, Amnesty International, doctors and psychiatrists, legal experts and human rights activists. These prisons are costing the Australian taxpayer billions of dollars and have achieved nothing but harm and shame,” Ms Baker said.

Macedon Ranges Rural Australians for Refugees will continue to fight for these "forgotten" people. Member Pauline Brown spoke of her concern for the refugees after October, when the Manus detention centre will be bulldozed and the company that operates the Nauru camp will leave.

The Industrial Revolution & the Decorative Arts.

The lecture will focus on how the Industrial Revolution, by way of mass production, made it possible for the middle classes to access such objects previously enjoyed by the nobility. Ornamental objects such as furniture, textiles, jewellery and ceramics dominated, resulting in completely new attitudes toward taste and interior design.

Wedgwood ceramics are an ideal example of this development as their exclusive items were able to be mass-produced.

Guest lecturer Andrew Spira has been a curator at Victoria and Albert Museum specialising in 18th Century British Art. He was a senior lecturer at Christies Education and leads many cultural tours across Europe.

The lecture will be at the Kyneton Town Hall from 7pm. Enquiries: Nicky Peters on 0400 958 449.

July 26 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

“With so many strong applications demonstrating the brilliant work of individuals and organisations, the judges had to make some very tough decisions,” the award’s website said.

“The outstanding quality of the nominations received this year is testament to the extraordinary vitality of the Victorian museum and gallery sector.”

OW did the Industrial Revolution change AYLESFORD and District Historical OODENDERS are normally too the Decorative Arts forever?

Society’s Gary Lawrence has been awarded sensible to leave their homes after dark Find out on Thursday, August 10 when Museums Australia (Victoria) Individual in mid-July, but 35 local people braved the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Central Award for Excellence (Volunteer). the bitter cold on the night of July 20 to attend a Victoria presents its lecture, Making the Modern World: The 2017 Victorian Museum Awards were held on candlelight vigil outside St Ambrose church.

Art commission

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YNETON/Melbourne artist Michael Needham has been awarded a Hepburn Shire Council $30,000 commission for the Trentham permanent public art project in Stoney Creek Reserve.

Four artists were short-listed to develop their concepts for a permanent public artwork after an expression of interest process.

Mr Needham was recommended as the successful artist by the council’s Public Art Panel after all shortlisted artists presented their concepts to the panel.

“Michael Needham proposes a cluster of three freestanding, trapezoidal, cast concrete pillars in a partly shaded area of the reserve. The structure relates to the natural environment of the reserve through form and surface detail. The artwork is set just off the walking path with the intention of visitors to walk through the sculpture," a council media release said.

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Inspiring 11

Found at last: the world’s worst record

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OME “music” can make you feel physically ill. It must be true because here’s an LP that comes with a sick bag.

Perhaps you like popcorn with your pop? What about an LP with a bag stuck on the jacket, ready for the crunchy stuff?

Jim Hammerley whips out these astonishing tributes to the imagination of record makers as he displays some of his collection of weird, wacky and wonderful LPs at his stall in Daylesford’s Mill Markets.

Here’s an album with a bizarre cover that the 63-year-old describes as Fred Flintstone meets James Bond, perhaps fittingly called New Sound in Town. The artwork consists of what used to be called a blonde bombshell disporting in front of a strange stone building.

Jim, who’s also a sculptor and painter, pulls out one that is Texas punk meets hard garage punk, while saying, “I’m looking for absurdities that have got some guts.”

Absurdities abound at his House of 1000 Gifts stall where you can pick up the odd golf club, a gearbox from an English motorbike ($50), a sports muffler for a Holden, anchors, huge locks, a BSA motorbike plaque, stereo players (“Listen to the beautiful warm sound”), an old-fashioned portable player (“I cart it around”). He sticks on an LP and out comes the theme from The Godfather.

But, wait, there are books, too. A Social History of the Lawn. I can’t believe I don’t have a copy. He has two.

We are diverted back to a rare 70s record player (“An absolute cracker: it’s so complex it costs me money every time I turn it on.”)

Perhaps needless to say Jim is at pains to stress that he’s not into one popular sort of music. “I really go for the covers,” he says, showing IMPACT, a sleeve in yellow. (“That’s gold, mate!”)

Elvis tribute albums score highly with him, he says, before turning to 18th century keyboard music.

Eight dollars will get you 80s Melbourne rock ‘n’ roll. Or your taste may run to an Australian hi-fi stereo check-out record to see how your system’s travelling.

A double LP of the once-shocking comedian Lenny Bruce is followed by a show of what he calls “ob tech”, obsolete technology. In other words, VCRs. Jim’s a product of the once mundane Melbourne suburb of Mentone. “It’s the reason for the way I am today. My attitude towards it has changed: a bit like coming out of the closet.” The son of parents then seen as bohemians, with immaculate radical credentials - his mother was treasurer for the anti-Vietnam war conscription group, Save Our Sons, he grew up with them going to folk clubs. Having left school early he became a furniture maker, then builder of traditional boats before opening a shop in Gippsland.

Out comes a strange German LP featuring someone called Heino, photographed with a mob of air hostesses. (“If you want to clear the room, put on Heino”), followed by the self-styled World’s Worst Record, with its vomit bag and OFFICIAL stamped inside. If you want the popcorn bag, the LP is called Hot Butter.

If possible, his display becomes even stranger when he produces Poultry of the Nation, Hasil Adkins’s Chicken Collection 1955-1999. Hasil is pictured with a roast chook but seems to have no teeth.

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All the songs are about chooks. The story goes, says Jim, that Elvis stole Hasil’s signature hiccup sound and made it famous, leaving Hasil to lament the theft for the rest of his life.

Hasil did leave his mark. One of the most notable paintings of the 20th century is Andy Warhol’s work of Campbell’s soup cans. It seems Hasil stayed in a New York apartment whose owners had a copy of the original can, signed by Warhol. Hasil drank the soup and threw out the can.

That story cannot be topped, but for what it’s worth Jim predicts a big comeback in LPs, with the giant Sony company just announcing it’s producing them.

Parked out the back is Jim’s ride, a green ’61 EK Holden with a Monaro engine.

Nothing less could be expected.

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The Rant

by Kyle Barnes

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FEW editions ago I swore off talking about the roads in the Central Highlands. We are all well aware of their deterioration in the winter with the heavy trucks, throngs of Toorak tractors and the issue that comes with living in a climate that has a 48 degree or more temperature range.

So please, bear with me as I drear along one more time about the roads - let’s call it my annual road report.

Actually, the roads have held up pretty well this year. I guess it has been a lot drier than last year, however we still have spring to get through. I recall last year on a little Sunday outing to one of my favourite pubs, I hit a pothole that was masked by the shadowed road. I hit it so hard I bit the side of my cheek. Yes, I know my cheeks are probably bigger than most, but to draw blood shows the size of the hole in question.

Speaking of holes, there is a lot of chatter about the new roundabout outside the Farmers Arms in Daylesford. They have installed lights there while it’s being built which have added an extra 15 minutes to the journey.

I remember when this was announced. I photo-shopped the pollies on a broken bit of concrete in the middle of the intersection. Local MP Mary-Anne Thomas told me it was a poor reflection especially after she had just given $10 million to the project. I reminded her that it wasn’t actually her money, and in fact she was blessed to be in The Local which prides itself on being a mostly pollie-free zone.

Anyway, back to now, the road has been ripped up and giant poorly-marked holes bigger than swimming pools adorn the road. In fact, I have heard that our local tyre fitter is doing a roaring trade with the blow-outs. I have also read on Facebook of one woman driving into one of the holes and having to be towed out.

Just last week I was at the intersection patiently waiting my turn. I was fourth in the line and when the lights went green, a nice driver let in a tradie from the adjacent building site and the lights went red.

Then I was third in line and 10 minutes later the light goes green when some muppet beating the lights on the other side stops us from moving. As he came down our lane, just one car slipped through and the lights went red again. I swear I could have left the car running, gone into the pub. downed a schooner and still not missed my turn.

Anyway 10 minutes later I was second in line and the traffic is 10 miles behind me.

The light goes green and a giant steam roller, well not steam but you get the picture, pulls out letting only one car groan through as the lights once more turn red.

Finally, on the fourth green light I made it through, only to be showered with stones from the turnip in front of me who was impatiently heading off in the direction of Trentham (you know who you are)!

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Hi Matt, I am a carpenter and I run my own business. I really dislike doing bookwork! Is there anything you can suggest to minimise the amount of bookwork I need to do? - Scott, Daylesford Hi Scott, Firstly, let me say that you are not the first person to tell me this. Bookwork is generally not high on the list of priorities for any business owner.

I have good and bad news for you. The bad news is, unfortunately it would be remiss of me to tell you not to place much importance on your bookwork and to concentrate on day to day contracting.

Obviously I am a little biased but your bookwork is one of the most important activities in any business. The good news is, there have been fantastic developments in recent times in relation to the bookkeeping programs and products on offer.

There are basic programs that are located on your home computer which are fine to use, however, you need to be at home to use them. A lot of programs are now offering a cloud-based service whereby all you need to access them is an internet connection.

For example, you may take a laptop with you whilst you are out and about working. If you can find an internet connection or use the hot spot on your mobile phone, you can do your books in real time at the end of each job. If you were to do this, you wouldn’t have to sit down each night or on the weekend to catch up on bookkeeping, the process would become much more streamlined.

In addition, you have the option of applying for an automatic bank feed. This function downloads transactions from your business bank account and all you need to do is code them to an appropriate account.

For example, if you have a deposit, and this is business income, you simply allocate that transaction to income. You don’t need to physically enter your bank statements as this is now automated. This can be a massive time-saver.

If your current system includes the old fashioned hand-written ledger book, you are welcome to continue using it, but I would strongly recommend that you engage some sort of electronic program to vastly minimise the time taken to complete your banking and invoicing.

Being a bit of an accounting nerd, I can sometimes become very excited about new technology, but at the end of the day, it can really assist business owners like yourself.

Cheers, Matt

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Looking for a spiritual home?

If you are looking for Christ-centred, Word-focused worship, the Lutheran Church might be the place for you. St John’s Lutheran Church Ballarat is looking at holding monthly worship services in the Verey Chapel, 43a Millar Street Daylesford. These services would include Holy Communion and would be followed by a time of fellowship where light refreshment would be served. If you are interested in joining us please contact Andrew Nuske on 0438 021 611.

Further information on the Lutheran Church Australia can be found at lca.org.au

Lutheran Church of Australia The Lutheran Church of Australia is the major Lutheran denomination in Australia and New Zealand. It counts 450 congregations and 70,000 members according to official statistics as of 2013.

The first Lutherans to come to Australia in any significant number were the immigrants from Prussia, who arrived in 1838 with Pastor August Kavel.

This period in Prussia was marked by a persecution of "Old Lutherans" who refused to join the Prussian Union, under King Friedrich Wilhelm.

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Jack moved to Daylesford at just 21 to marry his sweetheart Joan, who has lived in the town for 68 years, and now Joan has moved to be with Jack at Hepburn House.

Both have fitted right in – Hepburn House boasts a team of dedicated staff, from personal carers to allied health professionals, and by all reports Jack is keeping all of them on their toes.

“He is a colourful resident with a rich history and a great sense of humour,” staff said.

Part of that colourful history is having operated his welding business in Daylesford, as well as having worked as a baker for many years – giving him the expertise to assess the meals at Hepburn House.

“I’m in a good paddock,” Jack says of the Hepburn House food.

Meanwhile, wife Joan has been keeping busy with bingo and good company, having decided to move to Hepburn House after feeling nervous at night with Jack gone, although her daughters were visiting during the day.

“Everything is wonderful, the meals are great, and I have company from both residents and staff. I feel great.”

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Ferment foment has producers in a pickle But if the level was raised to 1.15 per cent, as in most states and territories, producers could continue to make traditional wild fermented drinks.

“To me, the antagonist here is the industrialised, corporatised food system and the AWS on alcohol content are blamed for retarding a promising line of taxing of small amounts of alcohol due to a miss-perceived 'danger',” said Dr Chan. healthy food, leading to one Central Highlands business closing.

“The question is: what is the reason for the 0.5 per cent alcohol limit in Victoria?

Dr Miin Chan shut her Yandoit firm after four years, a firm with works in Musk had to pay $90,000 to recall stock, while local Sharon Flynn battles on with What is the scientific evidence behind it in regards to safety? This has to be addressed by the Liquor and Gaming Commission.” her award-winning fermenting business.

A further problem is fear of bacteria, because of a long-standing anti-bacterial An investigation by The Local shows layers of regulations hampering this industry, not least because traditionally made wild ferments struggle to stay under the movement, a worry challenged by microbiologists and medical researchers.

"Regulators have a good grasp of the dangers of bacteria and bacterial toxins, legal Victorian alcohol limit, which is considerably below national and international which is their focus in regards to food safety,” says Dr Chan. “But they have a basic standards. misunderstanding of how bacteria and yeast exist in the environment and how they And just as passengers once had to change trains at Albury because the rail gauges interact with each other. Wild fermentation is practised and cherished in Europe and were different in Victoria and NSW, fermenting rules vary between States.

Asia, having proven to be safe and beneficial for humans."

The daunting layers of rules include: Food Standards Australia New Zealand In her business, Feeling Good Ferments, Dr Chan, a medical doctor, made (FSANZ) policing the Food Act, which aims to ensure food produced in Australia is safe for public consumption; The Department of Health in each state also looking at Tibicos, a fermented beverage with a long but sometimes disputed history. In Mexico food safety, writing food safety program guides and following FSANZ laws, the Food Dr Chan and her husband found Tibicos, a culture of bacteria and yeasts not unlike a ginger beer plant, which form as hard granules on the pads of the Opuntia cactus.

Act - add to this regulations from the Victorian Liquor and Gaming Commission: These granules can be reconstituted in a sugar-water solution. Add fruits, berries, and local councils enforcing the Food Act and other food safety guides to stay in herbs and spices for a healthy drink. line with the Department of Health - they may also have some general input on Sharon Flynn’s book on fermenting was released in May and endorsed by the US guidelines. fermentation guru Sandor Katz, with whom she spent a residency. She also had a For firms that can afford it, an annual independent audit of food safety created week with Koji masters in Japan. especially for their business, can be undertaken to ensure regulations are met.

She works with five staff, including three full-time, out of the former Daylesford But what really hammers fermenting businesses are fresh guidelines from May this abattoir, at Musk, finding much charm in the somewhat ghostly buildings. “We year that involve special expensive machinery to test every batch for alcohol, as well as extensive and repeated product testing, even for small businesses. Throw in council have a lot of hope for the whole building: Real Eggs is next door and also a kombucha brewer - The Good Brew, we all use water from a spring down the road in fees, outfitting and leases and it’s easy to see why Dr Chan shut up shop.

Franklinford. Kombucha suffers the same laws and guidelines, and a year or two ago What tripped start-ups was a limit of 0.5 per cent alcohol in fermented drinks, Good Brew had 'total recall' on their products because their alcohol became too high meaning they must stay under this limit or only be sold in licensed premises. This which nearly caused him to shut down.” is not in national laws or information from councils, however, so was often missed The boss at Good Brew, Dean O’Callaghan, began a campaign to have the law by new businesses. But it is in the rules of the Victorian Liquor and Gaming changed two years ago. He blames what he calls “big sugar” and the large soft drink Commission. companies and their influence on governments for the laws hampering fermenters.

Queensland and Tasmania are the only other states that set this limit, with the After his recall he had to take out massive loans and become incorporated. It was rest of the States and Territories at 1.15 per cent.

Recently the Victorian Health Department, and therefore local councils, added a then a lawyer advised him that, once incorporated, any further recall would be paid for by the taxpayer, which must be a relief for big companies facing recalls on faulty supplementary food guide, emphasising the 0.5 per cent level.

The 0.5 ruling was confirmed by the Minister for Gaming and Liquor Regulation, products.

With 10 years in the business, 40-year-old Dean continues to agitate for change, Marlene Kairouz. Her spokesperson told The Local that, unless exempt, firms supplying liquor needed a licence. But she failed to answer why Victoria is among the arguing that brewing is healthy and environmentally sound.

Kombucha is a variety of fermented sweetened black or green tea. To meet laws few States to impose such a limit and whether she knew of Dr Chan’s firm shutting. kombucha sold in stores has been force-carbonated, says Sharon, and watered down.

Nor did she respond to a question about whether it was possible to rethink the Two kombucha companies in Melbourne have closed. regulations.

“Keeping traditional methods of wild fermentation of all kinds is our goal,” says “Fermenting businesses that wish to supply a product with an alcohol content Sharon.

“We make more than just water kefir at The Fermentary for that reason. greater than 0.5 per cent are welcome to apply for a liquor licence,” she said.

There are problems in every naturally fermented product - not just kefir, just ask Her office supplied what it called a background statement, saying fermenting natural cheese makers. Producing food traditionally in a modern context is very businesses could apply for a renewable liquor licence, at a cost of $461.30, if they wanted to produce and supply a product with an alcohol content greater than 0.5 per difficult.”

On the bright side, local and Melbourne chefs and stockists back hand-crafted cent and that has such a licence. natural drinks, with many becoming licensed so they can continue stocking small The Fermentary has such a licence, but Sharon Flynn says it needs a second brewers like The Fermentary. licence to make and sell to retailers. “That’s going to cost our sales big time.”

“We are very proud our water kefir is consistent enough to be on menus at many “The perception of a health drink changes when it’s sold only at licensed venues top restaurants, such as Cumulus, Lake House, Wilson & Market in the Prahran and bottle shops don’t like stocking drinks that have to be refrigerated and have a Market, Cutler and Co. and Hotel QT, Sydney. use-by date.”

“As far as I know we are the only brewers going down the path of licensing. I am Her firm has a renewable limited licence granted by the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation, which enables the business to supply Probiotic doing that because we want to keep the integrity of the product - the health benefits and the beautiful natural carbonation, rather than go the other way by blast chilling Water Kefir online, by mail or phone order.

Such a licence is not regulated by Hepburn Shire Council, says Planning manager and force carbonating “To stay afloat we are working very hard to make sure we can educate people that Justin Fiddes. He told The Local councils are responsible for accurate labelling. our licensed product is the exact same as the one they have been buying and enjoying The council has “been working closely with each business in the shire to gain a for the last five years.” thorough understanding of their unique process and to assist them in meeting the For her part, Dr Chan says: “Our food systems have become so sanitised and legislative requirements…”. processed so that food can be shelf stable. Wild ferments are under threat. This loss Dr Chan said, “The council has been doing the best it can in its support of local of ancient food cultures and subsequent generational reduction of biodiversity in fermenting businesses, but most environmental health officers are not versed in food our guts has led to endemic levels of gut problems, allergies and other diseases in our science or fermentation.” communities. We must protect our ability to produce wild ferments and real food.”

She said that to keep alcohol percentage low in wild ferments requires artificial processes, such as cold shocking, micro-filtrating yeast, pasteurisation, carbonation Words: Kevin Childs | Images: David White and the use of commercial laboratory-produced starter cultures.

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Locale at The Grande offering slow-cooked authentic Italian cuisine

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ACK in the early days of The Local I wrote a dining review for the then newly refurbished Grande Hotel in Hepburn.

We returned again last week to sample the delights of the recently opened Locale in the Grande dining room and its Italian Chef Domenico Di Marco.

Dom has brought with him the flair and air of Italy and, as we were soon to discover, the flavours of slow cooked, authentic Italian cuisine.

It was a typically cold and wet Daylesford winter’s night but we were soon warmed by the friendly, effusive Dom, who immediately showed us to our favourite table - the one nearest the crackling fire. He presented us with the menu and more importantly, a many-paged drinks list.

We were soon sipping our choice of wine. For Peta an old favourite, the Sailors Falls Pinot Gris ($9). l decided to try a Catalina Sounds' Sounds of White Sauvignon Blanc ($11). Apart from the intriguing name, l have a soft spot for the produce of Marlborough, New Zealand.

Dom returned to explain the Locale's Degustation Menu which offered the option of a seven, four or three-course meal which ranged from $60 - $90.

He wisely recommended we opt for the $70, four-course menu which interestingly started and ended with soup. He soon returned with a platter of sourdough and ciabatta bread which he explained was made daily in-house. It was served, of course, with the obligatory olive oil for dipping.

The breads were soon followed by our first course delivered by our waitress Lynley, while Dom explained the two dishes. Mine was lightly marinated kingfish with Jerusalem artichoke, sheep yoghurt and mandarin. If at all possible, it tasted better than it looked. The beautiful kingfish, complemented by the yoghurt, the sharpness of the mandarin and the artichoke crisp was a great start.

Peta’s dish was a visual work of art - cauliflower, saffron and liquorice soup. The cauliflower had been wrapped in foil and slowly cooked overnight over hot coals which imbued the resulting dish with a light smokiness. The cauliflower was then worked in a blender to an ultra-silky smoothness. Saffron and a special liquorice sauce were the only additions.

The demolition was rapid with the only sound that of a fast-moving spoon. Peta's only comment was that she couldn't lick the bowl in public!

Our second course was Ravioli fatti in casa, a plate of perfectly cooked in-house ravioli with slow-cooked minced oxtail.

Braised pork neck, sautéed broccoli and red onion gelato came next.

The slow-cooked pork was absolutely delicoius and just melted away in our mouths, beautifully complemented by the broccoli and gelato. We loved the broccoli.

My dessert was the perfect ending to a great meal - rhubarb soup with chocolate sorbet, spicy sponge and sheep yoghurt. Peta, cheeky as ever ordered a classic tiramisu 'Locale style' from the adjacent Peacock Lounge's Bistro Locale menu. Just delicious.

Our meal was a wonderful introduction to The Grande's innovative new menu and a great credit to Domenico and his team's warm hospitality and culinary skills.

We'll be back!

Words & images: Glen Heyne

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Illegal firewood Award finalist

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FFICERS from the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning have executed a search warrant on a property near Daylesford, alleged to have been involved in the illegal removal of a commercial quantity of firewood from the Wombat State Forest.

The warrant resulted in the seizure of a four-wheel drive ute, a hydraulic splitter, a chainsaw and small hand tools allegedly used in committing various offences against the Forests Act 1958.

The search warrant was conducted as part of Operation Block Splitter, a state-wide compliance program targeting the illegal removal of commercial quantities of firewood from Victoria's public land.

Report the illegal sale of firewood to DELWP on 136 186 and mention ‘Operation Block Splitter’ or call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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LAMPIED’S Overwrought Sculpture Garden and Gallery is one of three finalists in the 2017 Federation Business School Commerce Ballarat Business Excellence Awards in the Commerce Ballarat Creative Industries Business Award category.

Successful finalists in each category will now undergo an intensive judging process culminating in the winners being announced in Ballarat on August 25.

Artisan David Dawson is the face of Overwrought Sculpture Garden and Gallery. Establishing the business 11 years ago on his bush property at Mt Franklin, David and his team create his uniquely Australian sculptural metalwork designs in his extensive workshop. This work is then displayed in the adjoining rustic hay-shed gallery and in the beautifully landscaped garden setting. It is also available online and at select retailers Australia wide.

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Spud fundraiser

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IG spuds and cooked spuds are on the menu at the Dean Hall & Mechanics Institute's Big Spud & Best Cooked Spud Dish Dinner.

The event is a fundraiser for the Dean Hall and offers plenty of great prizes up for grabs - along with a three-course meal and music. There are also activities for the kids and lucky door prizes and raffles to be drawn.

The event gets underway on Friday, August 4 at 6pm. Tickets are $25 for singles and $50 for families. BYO drinks.

Dean Hall secretary Claire Montano, pictured right, said money raised would help support increased security at the hall along with new floorboards in the main dancing hall and painting.

"The Dean Hall has been part of the Dean community for many years and will continue to remain a community hub for many local families, young and old.

"The Dean Hall is utilised for local fundraisers, weddings, birthdays, and other community activities. Without it the community atmosphere would be lost."

Details: Danny on 0407 056 888 or Claire on 0407 000 143.

Check out the next edition of The Local - the history of Dean Hall!

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DMT DJ Grooves with Clay Raven, Friday, August 4, 9pm-11pm Liz Frencham & Robbie Melville – Saturday, August 5, 7.30pm-10.30pm Piano Improv – Wednesday, August 9, 7pm-10pm Phil & Trudy Edgeley – Thursday, August 10, 7pm-10pm.

DMT DJ Grooves with DJ Zolly Gold – Friday, August 11, 9pm-11pm Black & Blue – Saturday, August 12, 7.30pm-10.30pm

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

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Thursday:

Raffles:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Pot (or glass of house wine) and Parma - $20 Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn - Frugal Foodies - $20 Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Steak Night - $20 Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn - Schnitzel Night - 5pm-7pm- $15 Frank and Connies - $30 for a dinner and a glass of wine

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

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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Family Food Fight comes to Kyneton

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HE latest reality cooking show, Family Food Fight, took on a country flavour at St Paul's Park in Kyneton earlier this month where 100 supporters of the weekly Kyneton Community Lunch came together for a taping due to be aired later this year.

Guests were treated to a two-course meal cooked by the contestants under a beautifully set marquee.

Matt Moran, Anna Polyviou and Hayden Quinn were joined by local chef Tim Foster of Source Dining as a guest judge, stepping in for Community Lunch coordinator Catherine Christmass.

Kyneton was chosen as a destination for filming due to the presence of the weekly lunch orchestrated by Kyneton Community & Learning Centre.

Contestants were asked to source seasonal and local produce to use and to prepare their meals in a short amount of time just as The Community Lunch team does each week.

Everyone is welcome to head to the Kyneton Mechanics Institute at 12.30pm each Wednesday and share a two-course meal in support of the community.

Right, Nicholas Scott of Oak Farm and regular Community Lunch chef, with Catherine Jago of Jack's Springs Farm

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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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VILLAGES OF HEPBURN SHIRE STONY CREEK

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“Stony Creek – The sound of trotters (Autumn) 2017” by Brian Nash

THE SOUND OF TROTTERS Gone are the Stony Creek Hotel and the Schoolhouse. What was once a distinct village now blends into the small farms on the southern entrance to Daylesford. Gone also is the Daylesford Trotting Club.

But the generations of Conroys and their much loved horses remain. Most days, you can watch the trotters and pacers be exercised on the old Daylesford Track or along the well-worn areas near the creek, or even swimming behind Bob’s boat. You can pause in your walk or drive and see how the stables and fencing have aged with character. You can chat with the locals about the chances of success; but best of all you can listen to the sounds of the trotter, the sulky and the driver working as one.

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Stony Creek is 3kms south of Daylesford on the Ballan-Daylesford Road

Villages of Hepburn Shire, with images by Brian Nash and words by Warren Maloney, will be offered as a coffee table book next year. For forward bookings contact Brian at art@briannash.com.au or on 5348 4218 The Local will run excerpts throughout the year.

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It wasn't always easy to be green.

In all of my more than 50 years of garden writing and broadcasting I've endeavoured to take my followers down the "green" or as it was then "alternative" pathways to gardening success.

It wasn't until the late 50s and early 60s that chemical products began to hold sway over horticultural and agricultural industries. The chemical giants of Europe and USA of WWII needed new markets, so they turned to fertilisers and pesticides.

In my early teens we would often wear only a singlet, shorts and sandals when spraying weedkiller, even insecticide and fungicide, not knowing the harm we might cause ourselves or indeed everything else.

It wasn't until I read Silent Spring, an environmental science book by Rachel Carson, published in 1962, which documented the detrimental effects on the environment of the indiscriminate use of pesticides, that I suspected the possible cause of my all too frequent skin rashes and the permanent ulcerous patch on my left ankle - still reactive whenever I visit a nursery that has recently been sprayed.

It was about then the US authorities actually banned weedkillers including 24D and 245T (soon known widely as Agent Orange) and such pesticides as malathion, dieldrin, ekatin and lindane. Most of which are systemic, that is, remaining in the plant's system to permanently kill predators. An attractive feature that, however, also applies to us. This didn't stop them being exported to us and other unsuspecting markets.

Although I regularly encouraged my listeners and readers to choose natural remedies for their garden problems, it was only when I opened a rural garden club's show, that I decided to become a proactive "natural garden" activist. A chemical company sales representative accused me and my compatriot, Kevin Heinz, of letting the gardeners down by falsely claiming that chemical products were dangerous.

Instead, we should advise everybody to wear masks, goggles and other safety equipment to use his products to "save their plants from attack".

Since that time they are also banned here and enlightened chemical companies have come on board with a great range of environmentally friendly garden products to keep our gardens pest free - safely.

If you wish to make your own, here are some of tried and true recipes for environmentally friendly garden sprays.

Mix 125 gram of soft soap in 3 litres of hot water and, when cool, strain and blend the mixtures for use at the rate of 250ml to 2 litres of water.

Fungicides Bordeaux Mixture. Particularly useful at this time of year for peach & nectarine curl leaf and erinose on grapevines. Most effective if sprayed before bud burst.

Stir 90g of copper sulphate into 5 litres of hot water and leave to cool overnight.

Next day, mix 125g of garden lime with 4 litres of cold water. Mix both lots together and use immediately. Store for only two or three days.

Chive Tea for scab and mildew Use dried chives. Do not boil them but pour 500ml of boiling water over several handfuls of chopped, dried chives and leave to infuse for an hour. Strain and bottle the mixture. Use the mixture at the rate of one part to two parts of water.

Happy hunting!

Insecticides Eucalyptus Spray Cut up 1.5 kilo of eucalyptus leaves (any species will do as long as fresh) and boil them for 30 minutes, in 3.5 litres. Allow the mix to cool.

Mix 125 gram of soft soap or liquid soap in 2.5 litres of hot water. When cool, strain and blend the mixtures for use at the rate of 250ml to 2 litres of water.

Garlic Spray (Great for small insects such as aphids) Chop up and mix 90 grams of garlic bulbs with 2 teaspoons of liquid paraffin.

Soak for 48 hours, then add 600 ml of warm water and 15 grams of good oilbased soap, store in a sealed bottle and use at a rate of 2.5% solution to water.

Rhubarb Spray Cut up 2.5kg of rhubarb leaves and boil them in 3 litres of water for 30mins.

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Fennel and parmesan biscuits

by Tonia Todman This delicious biscuit mixture may be left uncooked in the fridge for two weeks – very useful for unexpected guests.

125g plain flour 90g butter 3 tsp fennel seeds 50g grated parmesan (or cheddar) 50g grated cheddar 1 egg yolk plus one extra Process all ingredients until just combined.

Gently work dough together by hand, rolling it into a log and wrapping in cling film – refrigerate for 1 hour.

Slice into biscuits about 1cm thick and arrange on a parchment lined tray.

Mix extra egg yolk with a little water and brush the top of each biscuit with this mixture. Sprinkle with more fennel seeds if liked, bake at 180C until pale gold.

Store in an airtight container in the fridge.

Solutions for energy crisis at Kyneton college

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OLUTIONS for Australia’s growing energy crisis were top of mind at the Local Schools Constitutional Convention held at Sacred Heart College Kyneton last Thursday, July 27.

The topic for discussion at the convention was: “Should the Federal Government intervene in Australia’s energy production due to the national and international issues presented by climate change?”.

About 120 years 10 and 11 students from schools including Girton Grammar School, Marist College Bendigo, Salesian College Sunbury and Sunbury College joined students from Sacred Heart College, Kyneton for the day which had been organised and run by Maryann Kennedy and her Australian and Global Politics class.

The day concluded with presentations of the group’s findings and a vote, allowing all present to physically cross the floor to express their yes/no vote on the topic and also take part in a further poll to prioritise the actions they felt should be taken.

The vote was a unanimous yes to the question of Federal Government intervention in Australia’s energy production.

The priority actions were: State Energy Targets - Federal Government working with the states/territories to establish/implement appropriate state energy targets; Economic Focus - incentives for investment in the development of renewable energy solutions; Business Energy Targets - setting targets for businesses to regulate their use of renewable energy resources; and Power Storage - effective solutions for the storage and sharing of excess power in the national grid.

Sacred Heart College acting principal Julie Mortimer said climate change and the need for developing sustainable and renewable energy sources was “possibly our most pressing and complex long-term issue”.

“This event is a wonderful opportunity for our students to listen to the views and policies of the different levels of government, presented by the people who have the authority to influence decisions.”

Copyright Tonia Todman

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To market, to market, to buy some fresh fruit

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OU can find everything you need at weekend markets, from fresh fruit and veg to handmade jewellery and wares, throughout the Central Highlands and surrounds. Here are just a few.

Daylesford Railway Market – every Sunday (pictured left) Wesley Hill Market - every Saturday Daylesford Farmers’ Market – first Saturday Trentham Neighbourhood Centre Makers’ Market - first Saturday Golden Plains Farmers' Market - first Saturday Castlemaine Artists’ Market – first Sunday Kyneton Farmers’ Market - second Saturday Ballan Farmers' Market - second Saturday Kyneton Rotary Community Market – second Saturday Maldon Market – second Sunday Clunes Farmers’ Market - second Sunday Trentham Farmers’ Market and Makers’ Market - third Saturday Glenlyon Farmers’ Market – third Saturday Leonards Hill Market - third Saturday Creswick Market - third Saturday Talbot Farmers’ Market – third Sunday Woodend Lions Market - third Sunday (Back in September) Trentham Station Sunday Market - fourth Sunday Buninyong Village Market - fourth Sunday

Want to advertise your market? It's free. Just email news@tlnews.com.au

The Trentham Farmers Market has joined with Trentham Makers Market

Third Saturday, 9am - 1pm

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Petrol, oils, swap & go gas, firewood permits, farm produce / produce store, ice, milk, soft drinks, take-away pies, coffee, confectionery, local honey etc. rusty junk, secondhand books, old wares

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Book giveaway

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EBUNKING myths surrounding the complexity and accessibility of Japanese food, Reiko Hashimoto's new book is packed with delicious dishes for a slimming and sustainable healthy lifestyle.

In Cook Japan, Stay Slim, Live Longer, Reiko Hashimoto explores the benefits of the Japanese diet - including slim physique, stable blood sugar, increased joint flexibility and a longer lifespan - in detail, followed by an introduction to key Japanese fresh and store cupboard essentials.

With easy to follow instructions, the 100–120 recipes found in this book vary from basics to the more technically complex, perfect for all those wishing to perfect the art of Japanese home cooking. New photography accompanies the majority of recipes, and menu plans allow the reader to plan for dinner parties and special occasions. Nutritional details give context to the recipes and allow those following a fast or calorie-based diet to enjoy the recipes.

With Japanese food so enjoyed in restaurants, from high-end gourmet to mid-priced sushi and takeaways, this is the perfect book for home cooks.

The Local has one copy of Cook Japan, Stay Slim, Live Longer, to give away. For your chance to win email your name, contact number and town to donna@tlnews.com.au by August 13. Good luck!

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News 39

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Celebrating France

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H, WHAT a night. Once again, the French National Day was celebrated in style at the Daylesford Town Hall.

For the fourth year in succession, the U3A’s Le Cercle Français combined with the Daylesford Community Brass Band to provide a tremendous evening of music, food, costume and entertainment to celebrate July 14.

The band, led by Jenny Jordan, played selections of French music and reprised their performance pieces which won them second place in the recent competition in Bendigo. We were also entertained by Milly Gouldthorpe, Albert Ip, Adrian Holmes and Le Conservatoire led by Danielle La-Croix.

Our thanks go to all of the performers, to Betty Johns for providing hot beverages and to Glen Heyne, who contributed the photo above, for help with publicity and for taking photographs and video of the whole evening.

The standard of costume, table decorations and food was better than ever and at least 30 ladies - plus one man, joined in a spirited performance of the Can Can. All profits from the evening will go the band.

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BROTHERS Bodhi, wicket keeping, and Nash, batting, are among those who have put their hands up to join the Hepburn Cricket Club. The pair, who already play in Central Highland cricket squads in their respective age groups, will play with 13 others in the Under 16s.

Meanwhile, 18 cricketers are ready to take on the competition in the seniors. President Lindsay Olver said there had been a lot of interest in the revamped club and two more teams could be formed for the nest season - an A Reserve and B Grade. Sponsors have also jumped on board including Oz Trans, Daylesford Bakery and Brian O'Halloran Electricals. Other committee members are treasurer Tim Murphy and secretary Mel Yanner.

Lindsay said practice for the juniors, under coach Wayne Robinson, would start in a couple of weeks.