The Local Issue 126 June 18, 2018

June 18, 2018 Issue 126 Battle of the Vines

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2 About us Front cover: Frank Moylan, formerly of The Farmers Arms Daylesford and The Royal George Kyneton, now has a role as one of three hosts of new SBS program Battle of the Vines. Read his story

by Donna Kelly on page 12.

June 18, 2018 Issue 126 Battle of the Vines

Image: Kyle Barnes

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Dog attack leaves sheep, alpacas, dead and dying Warning. This story by be distressing to some readers.

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HEEP and alpacas, including crias, have been left dead and dying after a sickening attack by a dog, or dogs, at two properties in Mulcahys Road, Trentham.

Trentham Police Senior Constable Sharon Radau said 21 animals had been attacked on Friday night.

Sandra and Andy Proksa, who have a five-acre property in the road, said their neighbour had alerted them to the attack on Saturday morning.

“Our sheep just wander around our paddocks and our neighbour came down on Saturday to say his sheep and alpacas had been attacked and he thought it may have happened on our side as well,” Sandra said.

“Andy went down there, I still haven’t been able to, and it was like a battlefield.

The dogs killed five of our neighbour’s alpacas including three which were babies, and his six sheep.

“We had 10 sheep and six were killed or had to put down, and the other four, which the vet said had a chance, are just lying on the ground now. They have had their ears ripped off, not just the flaps but the whole ear ripped out, so they will probably have to be put down as well.”

The couple’s pet alpaca, 14-year-old Beau, was also killed trying to protect his flock.

“Beau was so protective of the sheep and he would have been right in there protecting them. That’s exactly what he would have done,” Sandra said.

“There were skid marks all over the paddocks, they must have chased them everywhere, and one of our sheep even ended up in the neighbour’s dam. It must have been chased and got through the fence and then was forced into the dam where it drowned.

“We just can’t imagine the fear they must have all gone through. We have had this property for 30 years and lived here permanently for 20 years and just never imagined anything like this could ever happen.”

Sandra said, with such significant and multiple wounds, the attacks must have been by a pack of dogs. “We talked to the police but without proof they can’t do anything. They did recommend we install cameras but I don’t think we could have animals again. I am even questioning living here – but that’s just the way I am thinking today. I just can’t get over it.

“We are just asking anyone with dogs to be responsible and make sure they are kept on their own properties and asking people with animals to keep an eye on them.

We never expected anything like this.”

Senior Constable Radau said there were no persons of interest in the case but asked for people to keep their animals secure at all times.

Trentham couple Sandra and Andy Proksa are grieving after losing their sheep and pet alpaca in a sickening attack on Friday night Words: Donna Kelly | Image: Kyle Barnes

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Consortium Botanicus coming up roses

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HEN you mention “consortium” most people tend to think of big businesses partnering to pool resources for huge projects; often mining, infrastructure and other capital-heavy projects.

But such collaborations can be far different from this common conception.

By definition a consortium can also be an association with as little as two or more individuals participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

This is where Consortium Botanicus fits in; it is a loose association of producers in the region who practise systems of sustainable floristry. That is, small-scale farms supplying seasonal, pesticide and chemical-free flowers such as roses, dahlias, sweet peas, zinnias and anything else with petals. But far from being an entity welded together with a single set of books and finances, it is far more informal and more like a consortium of mind, as rose grower Danielle White of Crofters Fold, pictured right, explains.

“The association came about several years ago in a combined moment chatting with Sandy McKinley of Acres of Roses in Trentham. Sandy was talking about some of the movements in the USA and England where there is a collaborative approach among small businesses.

“We decided that since we were both growing roses we would develop a similar association here. At that time we didn’t quite know what its personality or identity was going to be like, but we knew that we wanted to work with one another to raise the profile of our farms.”

Today Consortium Botanicus continues to take shape. Across the greater Central Highlands and beyond there are now about 20 significant flower farms, all small, all sustainable, all interconnected. But there are still more out there, and as time passes and the profile of this initiative develops, they are joining the conversation.

The key thing to remember is Consortium Botanicus is not much more than a database, there is not a large amount of structured communication since everyone is individually busy farming and doing their own tasks. However when the need arises, the collaboration has its advantages.

“What we are aiming for, like in other ethically-based initiatives like the Slow Food or Mindfully Wed (sustainable ethically-sourced wedding events), is to disseminate the idea of ethical thinking regarding the sourcing of produce and materials,” Danielle says.

“In our case, we ask all the freelance florists and floral designers from Melbourne and surrounds to come and buy local instead of just going to the big markets or supermarket chains for international/factory farmed flowers. As customers begin to incorporate this ethical approach in their craft, our consortium network can allow us to make up sales shortfalls when they occur without compromising our sustainable agriculture footprints.”

In time, the collaborators hope to be able to build on what has been established so far and social media has provided much of that momentum. Many visit their farms, from designers to casual day-trippers, and have been introduced to many of the important hashtags that articulate the ethics of Consortium Botanicus such as #beefriendly, #grownnotflown, #safetosniff, #lowtoxflowers and so on.

As things grow, they will be looking to develop marketing ideas such as a sustainable flower map for the region listing what farmgates are open on what weekends, what seasonal flowers are available or if there is a workshop on.

“In time you will find that people will seek our members out and the region will become known for such produce and the philosophies that go with it,” Danielle says.

“It is all about continually raising awareness, since we can do all the wonderful beefriendly, ethical farming we like but if no one knows about us particularly, what’s the point?”

Link: www.consortiumbotanicus.com.au Words: Anthony Sawrey | Image: Kyle Barnes

Challenging limiting gender roles

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The photo captures a very small slice of the huge sub-cultural diversity present in our midst, as our community is far more diverse than what could be captured in this one shoot.

The homemade, wholemeal bread I used for her sandwiches was no My daughter is now in her second year and is feeling more self-assured. My longer suitable, her lunchbox was not portable enough (eating was now done on the partner and I worked closely together that first year to listen to her, to check in with run) and her new high school dress was suddenly too long. her regularly and to express our deepest love and admiration for her.

By the end of the week I was in tears as I reflected on how quickly, practically We also made it extremely clear that popular culture often underrated the overnight, she had become self-conscious and a little unsure of herself and her importance of kindness, gentleness and compassion and yet, more than anything else, family's lifestyle.

That first week I found myself thinking over and over again that if the high school that is what we all needed most and most needed to be. environment was able to catalyse these insecurities so quickly in one young person Words: Mara Ripani | Image: Toby Hudson over wholemeal bread and dress lengths, what must it be like for other young people over matters of a far more challenging nature?

Pictured: back from left: Adrian Thia, Craig Mutton, Sali Alexander, Jez Therefore last year, collaboratively with my community, I secured a small grant Alexander, Fiona Briers, front from left: Jen Bray, Mark Dickenson, Emma from the wonderful Hepburn Wind to run workshops for young people in the Hepburn Shire.

Wells, Jenni Thompson, and daughters, far right: Alice Dennis (with soccer The workshops set about challenging limiting gender stereotypes, judgements and ball). beliefs and provided ideas and tools for young people to develop their self worth and self belief.

With the help of local photographer Toby Hudson, I then invited members of my wonderful community to take part in a photo shoot that celebrates their diversity, self worth and uniqueness.

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The first two rounds of the competition saw students asked to prepare a stack of three pancakes with a mixed berry sauce. Two teams were then selected from each of the day's competitions to move through to the final cook-off.

Food identities, Tim Foster from Source Dining and Damian Sandercock from Piper Street Food Co, were joined by Sacred Heart College captains Cassie Hocking and Pat Nicholls in the judging, and while all put forward great entries, there can only be one winner.

Congratulations to Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, New Gisborne and team members Noah, Olivia, Lucas and Azahria.

The program is a funding initiative that offers community groups and organisations the opportunity to share in $60,000 for the planning and delivery of community infrastructure projects that enhance a sense of place. Eligible local community groups with ideas for place-making projects are encouraged to develop their projects over the coming weeks, read through the guidelines and discuss their ideas with council.

Applications close on Monday, July 23. To attend the launch, call 5422 0333 or email placesforpeople@mrsc. vic.gov.au For more information, including forms, program guidelines, previous recipients and more, visit mrsc.vic.gov.au/places-for-people

poetry and her first published anthology, The Sun Collection for the Planet in 1989, became a poetry best seller. At the same time, she applied her environmental activist skills and commitment to the campaign to save native forests near her home on the far south coast of NSW, where she was arrested twice for obstructing log trucks.

After 16 years of solo self-reliant living she moved to the local town of Pambula where she penned her travel memoir, several more books of poetry and travelled widely as a performance poet. In 2010 Venie moved to Hepburn where she wrote her last poetry collection, The Tea House Poems. In January 2016, Venie "caught the bus" at the age of 93 .

FTER making fresh fettuccine pasta with napoletana sauce under the guidance of the Sacred Heart College hospitality students, the four teams of grade 4 students from St Ambrose Woodend, Our Lady of the Rosary Kyneton, Holy Cross New Gisborne and St Mary’s Lancefield were keen to hear who had won the inaugural Junior Chef Competition.

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Daylesford students planting at Cornish Hill

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AYLESFORD Secondary College students took part in planting at Cornish Hill late last month.

As the planting season drew to a close, Friends of Cornish Hill hosted the students from the Hands On Learning program to help with planting trees and shrubs along the Smiths Creek corridor.

Friends president Margie Thomas said "none of this could take place without extraordinary help from our volunteers Anthony, Jan, Andrew, Ivon as well as Rotary member Colin and also great support from Tania Dunn from DSC".

"Students also learned how to propagate both seeds and cuttings with our aim being to welcome the same students back towards the end of the year when we hope to be planting out those propagated today.

"Thanks to all those who took part and to whoever ordered the weather. After a rainy start, the skies cleared and we got the job done."

Left, Peter and Taniesha, below centre, Max and Anthony, below right, Owen and Brittany

Finally, some satisfaction

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EPBURN Shire Council has experienced solid improvements across all areas of performance, apart from overall direction, in the Local Government Community Satisfaction Survey.

The annual survey is conducted by the Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure and designed to measure community satisfaction with local government performance. It provides some insights into how communities view the performance of their council at a point in time.

Hepburn Shire Council’s 2018 results reveal that the community’s satisfaction with performance in the area of customer service has improved by nine points.

Satisfaction with sealed local roads has also increased by nine points. Community consultation, advocacy and making decisions also inproved from 2017.

Interim CEO Bruce Lucas said that over the past 12 months council had put a focus on improving customer service.

"Over the past year, council has been working hard across all our teams to improve the way we engage with the community, particularly through customer service. This focus has resulted in greatly improved results across the board in the survey and we are pleased to see this effort making a difference."

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Just sayin’...

By Donna Kelly

Pick me, pick me...

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WAS talking to mum last year and she mentioned Iceland was one of her bucket list items. Who knew? It came down to her meeting a woman from Iceland many years ago, forming a bond over creating pottery, and deciding she would go there one day. Even if that meant leaving it until she was 85.

Anyway, mum said she would love to go, but being such a long-haul trip, didn't want to do it alone. Fair enough. So last month Kyle and I found ourselves heading to the northern climes, and finally not just the Gold Coast.

It was, as you can imagine, awesome. We flew to England and then boarded a cruise ship to Norway, Iceland and Scotland - and a few little places in between like the Shetland and Orkney islands. I turned 53 in the Shetland Islands, which was very cool. I always think you should spend your birthday somewhere else, even if that meant Seaford when I lived in Frankston.

I think mum secretly ended up preferring Norway, which was very pretty and also very hot - 28 degrees the day we were there. Not to worry, I am making the most of all our winter woollies now we are back home in Glenlyon. Did you know Iceland is warmer than the Central Highlands right now?

Anyway, we spent a total of three days in Iceland, a couple on tours and one on our own with a rental car, which was interesting, not just being on the other side of the road, but also being a manual. Try changing gears with your right hand...

And mum loved it. We visited old places, and cold places, and interesting places, and talked to one bloke whose mum was a Kiwi but who had been travelling overseas in the 80s and ended up in Iceland. Funny where life takes you.

The light was strange. People kept asking if we were going to see the northern lights but we actually just saw lots of light. It got dark, if you could call it that, about 11pm, and then daylight kicked in about 2am. So there was no signal to go to bed, or get up, or stay sleeping. We heard some of the crew were taking part in Ramadan - so no eating or drinking between daylight and dusk.

That's a hard one if you are in that neck of the woods.

There are no animals to speak of up there either, too cold. Apparently about twice a year they find a polar bear which has made its way from Greenland, and promptly kill it, which seems a bit of a rough welcome. But then they are probably offended when they hear about us killing off our national emblem now and again.

We finally headed home early last week, after a blistering stop in Dubai. Our travel agent thought it would be a pleasant end to the trip, but with temperatures around 42 degrees and humidity of 100 per cent, the only thing I saw was the room.

On the flight home, mum leaned over and touched my arm and I saw she was shedding a little tear. I asked what was wrong. She gave me a wobbly smile and just said "thank you". No thanks needed.

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The Local - Connecting the Community

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HE Local is all about Connecting the Community. We run good news stories about amazing people and places, and festivals and events. And our fantastic advertisers run great deals for locals and visitors alike.

To give back to the community The Local has been running its free Connecting the Community adverts for almost five years. The adverts are for not-for-profit groups and organisations to lend a hand when finances can be a bit tight - or just don't exist. We all know how hard it can be to make volunteer-run organisations work on the smell of an oily rag!

To apply just email donna@tlnews.com.au with your event or organisation. We also put call-outs on our Facebook page and those of the various communities in our wonderful region. We work on a first-in basis, with a nod to time-lines too.

There are a few conditions, well mostly that not-forprofit bit and also that you aren't grabbing a free advert and then we see a whacking big paid advert in other media. That wouldn't be fair.

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Robert returns to again share his love of food

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HIRTY years ago Robert Wooller emigrated to Australia and was running a small restaurant in the main street of Daylesford called the Argus Terrace consisting of two Victorian terrace shops.

One side was a deli showcasing the latest aspiring Australian cheesemakers alongside well-known European brands. There was also a selection of pates and terrines, quiches and cakes, all made freshly on the premises.

Next door, through a wide opening, was a 40-seat restaurant with a terrace garden. The food was a blend of traditional and modern using some local products, and very affordable.

Robert, who recently returned to Daylesford to live, said most Saturday nights and Sunday lunches would be booked out.

“There weren’t many other places to dine in Daylesford in those days. The Lake House had just opened, it was a very different culinary landscape compared to today. The Belvedere was still a good old country pub as was The Royal and the three milk bars in the main street were about it for food offerings.”

It was a real change of pace for Robert, who had been cooking for the rich and famous on the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 and also at a country house hotel in Midhurst, West Sussex, The Spread Eagle, feeding the wealthy racing and polo fraternity.

After three years running the Argus Terrace it was time for Robert to move to Melbourne and then on to a variety of jobs in the food industry including cooking for all sorts of people such as George Bush Senior and 600 others at Parliament House in Canberra for a state dinner. That was followed by cooking competitions in Europe and later judging cooking competitions around the world.

“My food ventures continued with restaurant judging, opening restaurants for other people, creating innovative food products now found on supermarket shelves, a consultant to food producers, manufactures, kitchen products and equipment. I even did demonstrations including in the front window at Myer.”

Robert said the move back to Daylesford came after his wife told him she had bought a house – and he is now running a series of cooking classes for small groups “as well catering for functions large and small, private dinner parties and really anything that involves food”.

“Daylesford had always been a second home. My mum and dad moved here from England and we got married here, so when we no longer had so many work ties in Melbourne it felt like it was time to move to Daylesford full-time.

“It’s a lot different to what it was when l first lived here and it’s great that there are so many local food producers and some great eating places.

“It’s great too that you can go to Melbourne and shop at all the wonderful markets and buy such a selection of fresh food and ingredients to create dishes from the four corners of the world.”

Robert said his own love of food came with his mother being a great cook using plain fresh food and his father growing his own vegetables.

“It was from hanging off my mother’s apron strings that I got to love cooking and have never looked back.”

As for his favourite position so far, the QE2 of course, although he didn’t like being sea sick!

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New site for Cobaw Gender equality

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OBAW Community Health has been working for many months to secure a site for the new Healthy Community Access Hub.

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SPECIAL event will be held in Kyneton on Thursday, June 28 to celebrate the completion of the 2018 Rural Challenge Gender Equality Leadership Program in the Macedon Ranges and Bendigo regions.

The organisation has reached an agreement to purchase a site located at 51 Bourke Street, Kyneton. The land is located on the corner of Caroline Chisholm Drive and Bourke Street, and will locate the new site adjacent to Kyneton District Health.

Margaret McDonald, Cobaw chief executive officer, is thrilled about the opportunities this prominent site will offer to the community.

“We are looking forward to designing a unique facility to meet the health and Leaders from CFA brigades and wellbeing needs of the community for many years to come. Being co-located with our football/netball clubs across the long-term partners at Kyneton District Health creates a great opportunity to offer a Macedon Ranges and City of Greater broad range of services from a single location in Kyneton," she said.

Bendigo joined the program to learn about gender equality and develop gender equality action plans to build and maintain cultures of inclusion in their organisations.

This year’s participating brigades and clubs are Kyneton Football-Netball Club, Malmsbury Brigade, Mt Macedon Brigade, Junortoun Brigade and Strathfieldsaye Brigade.

OING the Dying Paperwork will be held at The Woodshed, 21A The program is supported by the Victorian Government and is a collaboration Raglan Street, Daylesford on Thursday, June 21 from 2pm to 4pm. between Macedon Ranges Shire Council, City of Greater Bendigo, Women’s Health Plan ahead for the essential end of life paperwork tasks - get the forms Loddon Mallee, AFL Goldfields, AFL Central Victoria, CFA District 2, Sports Focus and help to appoint a medical treatment decision maker, Power of Attorney and write and the Centre for Non-Violence. an advance care directive.

Guest speakers on the night will be Tricia Currie, chief executive officer of As well, look after other details like after death arrangements - to make sure Women’s Health Loddon Mallee, Margaret Augerinos, chief executive officer of things unfold as you hope they will toward the end of your life or the life of a loved Centre for Non-Violence, Karen O’Sullivan, president of the Kyneton Footballone.

Netball Club and, pictured above, Tony Stephens, brigade captain of Malmsbury Join Mary-Faeth Chenery for a cuppa, some snacks and a chat to get done what Brigade and recent winner of the Spirit of CFA Excellence in Inclusion and Fairness people often put off.

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A social life for Dawn at Hepburn House

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LORENCE, or Dawn Hewitt as she is known, was born at home in Birregurra on February 9, 1931.

Her aunt Florence was the midwife and that's where her name came from, however she never liked the name and has always been known as Dawn.

Dawn remembers growing up in a small country town and attending a tiny school – she loved both school and learning. She remembers riding her bike to school each day with a group of five boys, who would sometimes give her a hard time, but that's when her little brother Brian would stand up for her. Mind you, the trouble she would get from the boys was nothing compared to the evil magpies that would swoop, scratch and claw her head on the quick cycle to the school.

Dawn married her husband David and together they had four children - Lesley, Andrew, Phillip and Neville - sadly Phillip and Neville passed away as infants. Dawn lost her husband when she was only 44 when he drowned in a horse riding accident whilst rounding up cattle.

She had spent many years working as a dairy farmer in Leitchville but after the passing of her husband she took a different career path and became a florist. Dawn has been very active within the community, particularly in relation to Anglican church activities and was an accredited lay preacher able to give communion. She ran flower shows, community concerts and many more events.

When she was 79 she moved to Daylesford where she was a keen gardener and did lots of floral art, china painting, knitting and creative writing. Dawn also gained a bit of a following as the maker of the famous pavlovas on offer at the 5000 Club Friday lunch in Daylesford.

She enjoys writing stories for her grandchildren and now also spends her time reading and doing crosswords.

Dawn is very social, likes to be around others and is now enjoying living at Hepburn House where she also loves feeling safe.

Hepburn House is a government-funded aged care facility which offers all levels of care, from respite to permanent. Residents are looked after by a team of personal care workers, with access to a team of allied health professionals who regularly visit Hepburn House, and there is also an in-house kitchen providing home-style meals.

Hepburn House is located at 1 Hepburn Road, Daylesford.

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Frank leads the charge in Battle of the Vines

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ORMER owner of the Farmers Arms Hotel in Daylesford and the Royal George Hotel in Kyneton, Frank Moylan, is one of three hosts in the new SBS television and Food Network Australia show Battle of the Vines.

Frank, along with wine media personality Arthur Robert and sommelier Liinaa Berry, are testing their wine skills during the six-episode series as they choose three wines from around the country to be blind tested by 12 people from each state.

Program founder is Ross Close, who operates Creative Content Media, based between Malmsbury and Taradale.

Frank said shooting had finished about two weeks ago with the first of the series already aired on SBS. “We three hosts are allocated states and price points – under $20, under $40 and open – and we take them to the people’s table. Some of the judges work in wine shops, some are sommeliers and some are just off the street. And they really are just people, not people who go ‘this and that, this one is on the nose’ they are just pretty straightforward people so it’s interesting.

“And I know that during the course of the show there are some amazing decisions that people are not going to be happy with. I am not happy because I have already lost one category.”

Frank said he had been chosen for the show by Ross who “sort of knew me from The Farmers Arms and Royal George and has been trying to get my wife (Melissa Macfarlane) on television for years”. “I have been in movies and he always thought I would be great on television.”

Frank said shooting involved anything from intensive 48-hour shoots to nothing for two-week periods but there had been a “crazy 48 hours in Tasmania”.

“We had an 11kg leg of pork we took to hunters on Bruny Island, who didn’t turn up, and then we were just knocking on farmhouse doors and then spent four hours with the Tasmanian version of the CFA with three of them as judges in their fire gear and the whole community turned up. They showed me an 1898 Christmas pudding recipe, we had an 11-year-old girl carrying the wine, she was fantastic, and they kept saying ‘have you eaten?’ and cooking us barbeques.”

Frank, who lives in Spring Hill, said the series had been picked up to run again, this time with 12 episodes and to run internationally.

He said the buildup to his latest acting part included 18 months in a bar in Adelaide before the Farmers Arms for six years and the Royal George for three years. After a break Frank and Melissa took on The Crimean in North Melbourne, specialising in Eastern European food.

Now Frank is busy running Outlines, an antiqued mirror glass finishes company started by his mother-in-law while Melissa is owner of Kyneton vintage store Kabinett.

And while Frank says every time he sells a pub he swears “never again” there is also a committee of people “sworn to beat us over the head if we ever say we are going to get back into it”.

“But you never know. Maybe.”

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Cultural `highway robbery’: locals tackle VicRoads

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OR almost eight years a determined group of Central Highlands residents have confronted the might and power of VicRoads and the State Government in trying to change the route of widening the Western Highway.

They say another route would be far cheaper, do much less damage, avoid the felling of trees of Aboriginal heritage and save the habitat of a rare moth and five farms.

MairiAnne Mackenzie, pictured inset, began a related battle in 2015 when her late mother Isabel, then 91, chained herself with another woman to a big old tree beside the highway at Buangor three years ago. It came down anyway so a drain could be built.

Long before the highway duplication neared her farm, Ms Mackenzie became uneasy. “I was troubled by the plan to destroy the bush and make it unliveable with a road arching over the whole valley,” she says. She began talking to scientists and engineers as the $660 million Western Highway scheme gathered pace, and she looked again at an option she presented to the route selectors in 2012.

In May 2014, she says, VicRoads was warned of a major underestimate of treelosses in the official documents. The public only discovered this four months later, when drastic roadside tree felling began. VicRoads paused the project to find out how the counting “error” arose.

The project restarted in late 2016 but stopped in February 2017 for a year when the Ararat Rural City Council found that a document permitting the widening had expired in 2015. Much of the road works had been done illegally.

During her campaign, and with the support of several hundred others, Ms Mackenzie provided reports saying that native vegetation was completely missed or wrongly classified and three matters of national environmental significance overlooked in official reports. She says such omissions weakened her 2012 alternative route submission.

A second-generation grazier and trained zoologist, Ms Mackenzie talked to experts who said that it was feasible to narrow the design of the highway and not deviate into the fresh land. This route, she says, would save over $65 million, as well as 70 venerable trees and much rare habitat, time and disruption.

Ms Mackenzie says court action against VicRoads and the Government has run into frustrations, thousands of dollars in taxpayers’ money spent and there have been questionable actions, such as an email arriving effectively Christmas Eve, saying that Planning Minister Richard Wynne had used his “discretion” that allows him to approve an amendment without any public comment.

The campaigners amassed 100 gigabytes of documents and photos were compiled, covering three years of meetings and correspondence, five to six years of research, court evidence, consultations with hundreds of people, 900 Facebook followers and 2000 signatures on a petition.

Standing in the path of destruction is an ancient red gum, its blackened interior hollowed out.

A landscape archaeologist and expert on culturally modified trees, Dr Heather Builth, says the tree had many uses: shelter, a ground oven to bake during winter, perhaps a birthing and-or post-natal shelter.

In Ballarat, senior leader Ted Lovett says his son and daughter-in-law, archaeologists both, believe it to be a birthing tree, and so does he. That tree is women’s business, he says, but he wants to save the scar trees.

To 76-year-old Mr Lovett, a holder of the Order of Australia, scar trees deserve protection. “It’s about negotiation,” he says. “You don’t sell out your culture. They are part of my country” He says that as both a Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung man, the trees are on his country.

He is backed by Sandra Onus, a 67-year-old veteran of campaigns, including one against the aluminium giant Alcoa, and an action in the High Court to prove her standing as a person with bloodlines to her country.

Signs banning firewood collection went up near the highway after three hollowed trees were illegally cut down. A string of fading little yellow flags, similar to those in a used car yard, marks the new route, which is aimed at a superbly scrolled fiddleback yellow box, whose wood is prized by violin makers.

Ms Mackenzie says a different route would fell 21 large old trees and possibly one ancient tree compared with 87 large old trees and seven massive venerable trees under VicRoads’ plan.

The first three parts of the new highway cost an average of $6.5 million a kilometre, including at least one bridge in each stretch, significant earthworks in two sections and building four lanes from scratch on the last stretch.

The cost announced in 2016 for the disputed section comes to $10.65 million a kilometre and would save about two minutes between Ararat and Beaufort.

“Most of the extra money would be spent on unnecessary damage by bulldozing hills, rocks and large old trees, and building an extra bridge,” says Ms Mackenzie.

“So far the government has protected an expensive plan, feeding a resource-hungry sector that should give way to smarter jobs.

“The resistance is puzzling. We are calling for a design that should be a top priority - we must reduce emissions, and save what is left of the bush, not carve it up.”

VicRoads did extensively look at the bird and plant life before starting the project, says project director Nigel Powers. He did not say what standards were applied.

Mr Powers told The Local the planned alignment would have the least overall impact. According to Ms Mackenzie, however, this ignored the larger number of big old trees on the route, fragmentation impact and greater effect on habitats of critically endangered species.

Mr Powers also said two studies by Aboriginal Victoria found that two possible birthing trees were not culturally significant.

But again Ms Mackenzie says the Aborigines were asked whether it was a birthing tree and had to say no, because they could not provide oral history about it. “They should have been asked, ‘Is this a culturally significant tree?’”.

Mr Powers said while VicRoads aims to minimise environmental and cultural impacts of its projects, road safety and the safety of the community remained the priority. But Ms Mackenzie said safety could be achieved in a less damaging way.

VicRoads is understood to be confident that even a Supreme Court action could not stop the work. The case is indefinitely adjourned.

For her part, Sandra Onus remains determined. “We need to concentrate on getting things protected. They wiped out most of our people and now they’re wiping out our treasured places. They have to allow us to protect what’s left of Aboriginal heritage."

Words: Kevin Childs | Images: Contributed

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Kyle’s Rant

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ECENTLY we found ourselves on a cruise ship, you know the ones where they promote the ultimate drinks package which includes all you could possibly eat or drink.

My first couple of hours on board I was looked at like another American which, by the way, the boat was heaving with. After a long flight we wrestled our way to a diner seat beside the bar and with not exactly a huge mid-afternoon menu I asked for the chicken wings and a beer.

Why not, I am on holidays right?

Our waiter was across multiple languages unlike myself, however English not being his strongest, interpreted my order of one wing of each flavour to a tray of each flavour which resulted in six trays of six chicken wings turning up, yes, 36 wings. I gave it a go but after the second tray decided I had had enough and even though I felt sicker at the waste than the thought of eating said wings, the waiter took the leftovers away with a tiny shake of his head.

On the cruise I noticed a lot of uniforms; guys and girls with white uniforms and indistinguishable stripes on their shoulders and I tried to figure out the rankings. You see, in my day in the merchant navy, only the officers wore stripes. However it seemed like half the crew on this boat were adorned with epaulets. It was sort of like what goes on at schools these days where you just have to turn up to an event to collect a prize.

It took me back to a saying my dad had, he used to refer to people with stripes and clipboards as “symbols of authority”. He had been on a major dam building project in the 60s called the Benmore Dam in the middle of the South Island of New Zealand, where he met an Aussie guy on his first couple of days of induction. About three months later, dad, who was a little worse for wear after a long night at the pub and happened to be asleep at the top of a ladder, got a shout from below “Barnes, you lazy bastard, wake up”.

This was the Aussie guy who, after induction, had found a white coat, hard hat and a clipboard which he had no right to, and decided to spend his time wandering around the construction site shirking the labour gang, looking official and what’s more, getting away with it.

Now I know it is harder these days to get away with things with biometric scanners, fingerprint recognition and a plethora anti-crime devices, however the amount of times I find myself wandering into events flashing a press pass or at schools taking photos without anyone asking if I have a working with children check (which by the way I do) is incredible. It seems to be all about confidence most of the time.

If you have the stripes on your shoulder, have the clipboard in your hand or can put someone at ease by talking about mutually familiar people…you are in.

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Art-full Living

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HIS edition we are featuring a challenge set by an individual, Georgina Scott in the UK. Georgina hasn't missed a Weekly Challenge yet. So, here's one she's set for you to do this week...

Create an "Autobiographical Alphabet".

This could be an A-Z of things, people, events or moments from throughout your life, from the last year, or even things you encounter throughout the week. Start with A and see how far you get. Don't worry if you can't make it all the way to Z but give it a try! You could document it in photos, collage, words or any other way you'd like.

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Try to do the challenge again but quicker. How fast can you make it from A to Z? You could try complete the challenge in one room or whilst on the go.

Think Which angle did you take? Did you feature your life or just your week? How autobiographical did you make it? How did it feel to share this?

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KINGSTON 413 KINGSTON ROAD COUNTRY MAGIC WITH PANORAMIC VIEWS Situated in the rural township of Kingston, just 10 minutes to Daylesford and 20 minutes to Ballarat.

Adjoining and overlooking farmland with panoramic views to the distant hills, this beautifully renovated cottage reflects the owners’ passion to retain the historic features while introducing a stylish décor and modern fittings. Full of character, the cottage has beautifully liveable spaces bathed in natural light to provide spacious relaxed living in a peaceful rural setting.

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SOLD PRICE $400,000 CONTACT Tom Shaw 0438 118 903 OFFICE 43 Vincent Street, Daylesford 5348 2328

COUNTRY TREAT This beautifully presented brick home has a makeover from its origins in the 1950’s. Only 8 mins to Daylesford and 2 mins to Newlyn this residence is sitting on a large allotment of approx 1.45 acres and boasting 2 road frontages. This property is perfectly suited to a tradesperson looking for storage, someone wanting a hobby farm or a cosy family home. The 3 bedroom, one bathroom home has a recently renovated and modern kitchen.

BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED FARMHOUSE WITH STUDIO ON 10 ACRES This property is full of surprises! Located just 10 minutes from Daylesford, with easy access to the Western Freeway and V-line rail services at Ballan, the property offers superb country living in a beautifully renovated farmhouse on approx 10 acres.The residence features 2 spacious living areas, an outstanding designer kitchen, 4 large bedrooms, 2 stylish bathrooms and wide verandahs.

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SOLD PRICE $725,000 CONTACT Rae Corris 0408 358 772 OFFICE 43 Vincent Street, Daylesford 5348 2328

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SOLD Contact Agent CONTACT Michael DeVincentis 0417 142 152 OFFICE 43 Vincent Street, Daylesford 5348 2328

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DAYLESFORD LOT 3/9 WEST STREET 1 ACRE VACANT ALLOTMENT AT THE EDGE OF DAYLESFORD TOWNSHIP Located in a quiet and sought after area on the western edge of the Daylesford residential area, this exceptional 1 acre allotment has panoramic views to the east over nearby Doctors Gully towards the township and has all services available for connection – sewerage, town water, electricity and natural gas.

A picture-perfect lifestyle block for a dream country home (subject to Council approval).

SOLD PRICE $375,00 CONTACT Rae Corris 0408 358 772 OFFICE 43 Vincent Street, Daylesford 5348 2328

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HEPBURN SPRINGS 15 FOREST AVENUE CONTEMPORARY DESIGNED TREETOP RESIDENCE This well designed home delivers the sensation of floating among the treetops. Soaring ceilings with clerestory windows seamlessly introduce natural light and immediately draw you into the long bucolic views across the forest landscape. The elegant design features four generous bedrooms with robes, 3 modern bathrooms, conservatory style kitchen and dual living spaces over two levels.

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SOLD PRICE $1,125,000 CONTACT Tom Shaw 0438 118 903 OFFICE 43 Vincent Street, Daylesford 5348 2328

DAYLESFORD 6/32 KING STREET LAKESIDE LIVING - STYLISH 2 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE This architecturally designed, multi-level 2 bedroom townhouse has direct access to Lake Daylesford.

Each of the 2 bedroom suites has a private glamorous bathroom, and the front bedroom features a balcony with views to the shimmering waters of Lake Daylesford. Downstairs the split level kitchen-dining-living area opens to a private terrace directly adjoining the parklands of Lake Daylesford Reserve and the Peace Mile Walk.

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SOLD PRICE $640,000 CONTACT Michael DeVincentis 0417 142 152 OFFICE 43 Vincent Street, Daylesford 5348 2328

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Some cutting comments. I covered the "natural vegetative" means by which many

plants reproduce, other than by producing seed-bearing flowers, in Issue 124. These include bulbs, tuberous roots, divisions (small plantlets formed adjacent to the main stem) or by layering (when low-growing stems produce root clusters when in longterm contact with the soil). The other more commercially used method, particularly when you have a supply of suitable plant material to work with, is to propagate by cuttings or, as we once used to call them, "slips". Cuttings fall into several categories...

Soft-wood or green cuttings. (For evergreen trees or shrubs.) Taken from the top 5-6 centimetres of a healthy stem of fleshy, soft-stemmed plants and best at a time when main growth has ceased, which makes autumn an excellent time. This is a most suitable technique for woody perennials and smaller shrubs such as salvia, lavender, perennial phlox etc.

Half-ripened shoots. This is a useful method for larger evergreen shrubs and trees. Again taken when growth has ceased, the base of the growth is slightly woody and the top or terminal bud is fully formed. These cuttings can be about 6-8 cm long.

Leaf cuttings. This is a fascinating and simple way to obtain new plants of African violets gloxinias, rex begonias and other large soft-leafed tropical species. The method is simple - lay and peg down the leaf over the top of a pot of sand/peat mix.

Strategically placed paper clips, opened out to form a hoop, will be fine. Then, with a razor or extremely sharp knife, make small nicks through the leaf at strategically placed junctions of the leaf veins. Place a small clean pebble on the leaf at each of those points to ensure good contact with the sand. This is where the plantlets will form.

These three groups will all need to be grown "under glass' in a greenhouse or similar conditions in a pot of clean propagating sand.

For the more exotic plants, including the leaf cuttings, it would be advisable to make up a mix of equal parts sand and crumbled peat moss. (Both obtainable from most garden centres and major hardware chains).

Hardwood cuttings.

This technique is particularly suited for deciduous, or semi deciduous trees and shrubs such as hydrangea, roses, ornamental flowering quince etc. These are taken when the plant is dormant and the growths fully mature, but no older than two seasons.

The cuttings can be anything up to 20cm in length and taken immediately below a leaf bud because this is an active growth centre of the stem. Although it would be advisable to plant frost-susceptible plants into a pot which can be moved to a sheltered spot during the depths of winter, the harder stemmed plants such as hydrangea can be successfully grown out in a garden bed.

Simply use a spade or trowel to create a shallow trench filled with sufficient sand/ peat mix to support the developing roots and plant them out into that.

Remember the cuttings need to be kept moist rather than be flooded. The cuttings will need to be watered to keep the sand moist at all times but not wet, to avoid mould or other fungal disease. Once new growth appears and you are sure they have taken root, the new plants can then be planted out into individual containers of special purpose potting mix or a mixture of loam, sand and peat moss.

I have already started a small batch of softwood hydrangea cuttings in a makeshift cloche created from a large plastic lolly jar, pictured, and placed in my "laser light"-roofed garden room.

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REIV regional round-up

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ITH the end of the financial year fast approaching, it’s time to take stock and prepare a plan for the next 12 months.

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S THE old tourism advertising campaign entreated, ‘you’ll love every piece of Victoria’.

For property owners, it is an opportunity to review existing holdings, and for those looking to buy for the first time or re-enter the market, time to formulate a plan for the next twelve months.

The purchase of property is still, for most people, the most significant expenditure of their lives and there are many challenges and considerations in making a decision that will have long term consequences.

Buyers must balance their own circumstances with the realities of the market and this is not an easy task given the many variables involved, especially income, property availability, property prices and interest rates.

Those in the market should ensure that they have the most favourable interest rate and need to consider loan conditions too. Those with investment properties might consider making extra payments to lenders, to owners corporations and to local government before the end of June if there are tax advantages in doing so.

People seeking to buy should consider whether they need to readjust their sights.

Has the market, and the tighter lending rules priced them out of areas where they would like to live?

If one is set on living in a particular location, is it better to rent there, but take a foothold in the market by purchasing elsewhere? Online research and discussions with experienced REIV agents can not only help home-seekers determine local trends, the stock of properties on the market and level of returns on investment properties, but also provide the basis for a plan that might take some time to hatch.

Preparation is very often the key needed to unlock the ‘right’ choice in the real estate market.

Accountants and financial advisers can provide advice tailored to personal circumstance, which should assist in making decisions where the heart can often interfere with the head.

Well, that might depend on the time of year when one visits a particular place. The volume of visitors to every region increases and decreases according to the seasons. One might expect real estate sales would reflect that. But do they?

Over the past five calendar years, Greater Geelong, Ballarat and Greater Bendigo are the only municipalities in regional Victoria that have averaged more than a thousand house sales per year.

Dividing those sales into 20 quarter-years, we see that in Geelong, just two quarters of the twenty saw sales hit 30 per cent of the annual. Bendigo had just one quarter that reached the same mark, while Ballarat had none.

We can see a wider variation in the next sales level down, where the annual average house sales have averaged at least 400. Surf Coast had three quarters where sales were 30 per cent or more of annual. Bass Coast and East Gippsland had two; Latrobe, Macedon Ranges and Wellington had one each, while Mildura, and Baw Baw had none. Only four of these municipalities had a quarter where the share of annual sales fell below 20 per cent of the annual.

In areas regarded as more seasonal, properties have been tightly held. In Alpine, two June quarters and one September quarter over the five years were above the 30 per cent of annual, while none dipped below 20 per cent. In the Mansfield region, where sales have averaged just over 60 per year, there have been seven thirty-plus (spread across the year) and three twenty-minus quarters (twice in a September and once in a March quarter).

The most stable sales, where the difference across five years was the smallest between the busiest and slowest quarters, occurred in Ballarat and Baw Baw, followed

by Mildura, Greater Bendigo and Hepburn. In these and some other areas, it seems that supply drives sales more than the seasons do. By contrast, ebbs and flows were more apparent in those places where sales were minimal.

Gil King CEO, Real Estate Institute of Victoria

Gil King CEO, Real Estate Institute of Victoria

Fencing your boundaries

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OUR fence can say a lot about you and your neighbourhood.

Do you want a high private fence, security to feel safe in, something to keep the kids and the dogs off the road, or only a hedge to delineate your boundary line and encourage the neighbours?

Regardless of your criteria and your budget, the fence along with landscaping is usually the last decision you make when renovating or building. Much time and many decisions have been made on the house and its decorating, so we don't want the momentum to stop.

After all, the style of the fence is a reflection of the home.

Heavy solid brick homes get balance with an equally solid fence.

Timber cottages benefit from many styles and heights, so think picket fence, country wire or timber post with corrugated sheet.

All fences can be varying in height. New low-maintenance sheeted homes look great with recycled sleepers or rusting steel for a difference, not forgetting properties with the mandatory post and rail fence. Old gates with character or specially-made gates can make an individual statement for your piece of paradise without costing the earth.

Stand back and look at your property from a distance as a stranger would and try to match the style of your fence to the style of your house. If there is no style as such, are there regular vertical lines or more horizontal lines?

Take note of your neighbours and which homes seem to fit together as a nice package. The materials used, colours and style will all add to the harmony as well as the practicality of your property.

Happy fencing from Indre Kisonas Owner and principal designer of iok design www.iokdesign.com.au

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Down the mineshaft by Anthony Sawrey

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ROUND Daylesford, evidence of a wealthy mining past can readily be seen in its grand public buildings but not so its industrial structures, which are long gone. The relics that do remain however are enough to guide you around the sites where all this toil took place.

Most everywhere, down every gully, in paddocks and through the scrub you find the mullock heaps, water races or the indents of shafts that denoted a mining operation looking for gold-bearing leads. No place is more representative of such activity as the 48-hectare park known today as Cornish Hill.

From the time Europeans arrived in the area, this area of town has been known by several names: Wombat Hill South, Argus Hill and finally Cornish Hill. This was due in no small part to the predominantly skilled miners from Cornwall who developed and pulled out nearly eight tonnes of gold from the area over a period of 70-odd years. The first rough claims, worked by hand, appeared in the 1850s and the wealth won was a key driver of the fledgling town’s prosperity and growth.

But human muscle alone was not enough to properly exploit Cornish Hill and gave way to machinery, injections of capital and a patchwork of registered companies dropping deeper and deeper shafts. By the 1860s many of these claims were amalgamated into the Cornish Quartz Company, operating until 1889 when it too was incorporated into the North Cornish Company. This company had its battery and dam (later the town swimming pool) on the site of today’s skate park and went belly up somewhere around 1895.

By the turn of the century most of the gold was gone and the whole area was idle. To the rescue came local businessman Donald McLeod who commenced a consolidation of the mining complex under the name of the Victorian Cornish Gold Mining Company.

Buoyed by English investors, they installed state of the art equipment and infrastructure and merged the three separate mines of North Cornish, Cornish and Argus into a single operation. All of them were sunk to depths of over 300 metres with the shafts of Bonnards and Mitchell joined by a 200-400 metre long tunnel.

And so it was that the working area grew in size and took on the characteristics of some sort of steampunk fantasy land. Wooden tramway structures snaked along Smiths Creek, steam engines worked 24 hours a day, brick chimneys belched smoke, mullock heaps grew, and filthy, grave looking men streamed in and out of the elevators on continuous shifts.

Not that anyone was complaining mind, it kept the workers of Daylesford in good money for the next 20 years and possibly saved the place from becoming a ghost town.

However, like all the previous operations, company dividends shrunk over time and by the mid 1920s the gold rush was again over. Any useful equipment was auctioned off, the crushers were dismantled and eventually the Department of Mines made an effort to fill in the huge shafts.

Daylesford was now the proud owner of a denuded landscape soon to be consumed by relentless infestations of gorse and blackberry, nothing but a hiding place for foxes and rabbits. It remained crown land though, and in the 1990s, premier Jeff Kennett tried to flog Cornish Hill off for development but the locals put a stop to it.

The struggle must have sparked something long dormant in the community and not long after the Committee of Management of Cornish Hill and the Friends of Cornish Hill were established to look after and rehabilitate the site. The results can clearly be seen today. Much of the scrub has been cut back with native trees, shrubs and grasses reintroduced along with walking trials and signage. Smiths Creek, little more than a sewer during the mining years, is again a lovely place to walk.

For mining history buffs there are still remnants of the biggest shafts to be found in the region. And if you enjoy testing your nerves, go stand on the sturdy grate built over the Argus shaft and drop a stone down it. The efforts to fill such a void consisted of chucking timber, rubble and trash down it and covering that with dirt.

Today, nearly a century later, the timber has rotted away and the fill is subsiding. So you still have a yawning abyss 150 metres deep to gaze down. As for the other shafts, all are fenced off but easy to find. And that is Cornish Hill today, the ghosts of its industrial past still lie close to the surface but the entire area is slowly being turned into a beautiful native park that is a pleasure to visit.

Image credits: Hand tinted postcard. Osboldstone & Attkins (1907). The Cornish Mine, Daylesford. Courtesy of the Daylesford and District Historical Society Mason, J (1906). Battery, Victorian Cornish Mine, Daylesford. https://trove.nla. gov.au/work/166981348 Thanks to Ed Butler of the Committee of Management of Cornish Hill for his assistance on this feature.

"By the turn of the century most of the gold was gone and the whole area was idle. To the rescue came local businessman Donald McLeod."

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Meal deals for locals...and visitors too!

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

Monday:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Monday Meatball Madness - $20 (Vegetarian too) Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn - Parma Night - eight varieties - $20 Mercato, Daylesford - main course and glass of wine - $30

Monday - Friday (Not available public holidays or school holidays)

Farmers Arms Hotel, Creswick - lunch - chicken parmagiana - $15 Galley Diner, Daylesford - lunch deal - burger, soft drink, fries - $17 Casa El Rey, Daylesford - lunch deal - burrito, soft drink - $15

Community Lunch:

The 5000 Club, Daylesford is open for lunch from noon every Friday at Stanbridge Hall, Central Springs Road, Daylesford. All welcome.

Raffles:

Tuesday:

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

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Burger Night with chips - $20

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Steak Night - $20 Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn - Curry Night - $20 The Plough, Trentham - Locals' All Day Dining - 2 courses $27/3 courses $32

Friday:

The Surly Goat, Hepburn - lunch special - two courses and a glass of wine - $40 Criterion Hotel, Castlemaine - Express Jalapeno Poppers $12, Fried Chicken Wings $12, Refried Bean Rolls $12, Fried Baby Calamari Tostada $16, 12-2.30pm

Saturday:

The Surly Goat, Hepburn - lunch special - two courses and a glass of wine - $40

Sunday:

The Surly Goat, Hepburn - lunch special - two courses and a glass of wine - $40

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Gig Guide

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Criterion Hotel, Castlemaine Balls ‘n’All - Saturday, June 23 Bittersweet - Saturday, June 30 The Regular Joes - Saturday, July 7 Jackknife - Saturday, July 14 AC 2 ZZ - Saturday, July 21 E11EVEN - Saturday, July 28

Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn Springs

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Spa Bar, Daylesford Moodswing – Thursday, June 21, 7pm-10pm.

DJ Beats with DJ EZC – Friday, June 22, 9pm-11pm The Darbys – Saturday, June 23, 8pm-11pm Live Piano Improv – Wednesday, June 27, 7pm-10pm Open Mic Night – Thursday, June 28, 7pm-10pm.

DJ Beats with Clay Ravin – Friday, June 29, 9pm-11pm A Whale called Phoenix – Saturday, June 30, 8pm-11pm

Got a gig coming up? Email news@tlnews.com.au It's free All gigs are subject to change, check with the venue.

We are delighted to present to you our 6 young soloists;

Anna Davidson

Vivaldi Violin Concerto in A minor, Allegro

Abigail Hayward

Haydn Piano Concerto in D major, 3rd Mvt

Katie Hayward

Kabalevsky Violin Concerto in C Major, 1st Mvt

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Matthew Lim

Beriot Scene de Ballet, Violin

Olivia McColl

Arthur Frackenpohl Concertino for Bass Trombone

Jack Stacey

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, “Emperor”, Mvts 2 & 3.

The Orchestra will also perform

Lex Overture and Superman March (1978) Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts Tickets: Adult $35, Conc $30, Student $5, U12 Free.

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To market, to market, to buy some cool chooks

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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 Sunday Market – every Sunday 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 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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1 Market St PH 5424 1611 Mon - Sat 8am - 6pm Sun 9am - 6pm

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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We stock The Local!

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Daylesford Field & Game

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AYLESFORD ran a 75 target compact event for the June shoot in cold conditions.

Jake set the grounds and tried three grounds instead of two, the score would be two out of three, with two good grounds but the number two ground was just not right, a bit too tough and hard to see in the afternoon shadows."Still Learning."

Results AA Grade: 1st Blake Nankervis 69/75, scoring 25/25 on one ground, 2nd Rob Hall 68/75.

A Grade: 1st Mark Stauchbree 67/75, 2nd Shane O'Brien 67/75, 3rd Greg Passalaqua 65/75.

B Grade: 1st Darby Conroy 64/75 including a 25/25, 2nd Paul DaMore 58/75, 3rd Clive Lorensini 57/75.

C Grade: 1st Nick Rauber 51/75, 2nd The roving reporter Frank Doblee 44/75.

Ladies: 1st Nancy Disher 43/75.

Seniors: 1st Peter Hall 67/75, also a 25 straight, 2nd Peter Reading 67/75, 3rd Col Johns 66/75.

Super Vets: 1st John Monahan 60/75, 2nd Brian Rafferty 58/75.

Next month is compact again. Thanks go to Ryley in the nom hut, the "Blue Girl" for the menu sheets and all who helped pack up on a cold afternoon.

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Hepburn Springs Golf Club

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HE men played the final round of the 54-hole championship on May 19.

Best scores on the day were: A grade Wayne Mobbs 75-12-63, B grade Tim Murphy 81-19-62. The 54-hole stroke championship winners were: A grade John Arnold with 22, B grade Wayne Mobbs with 234 and C grade Wayne Gull with 257.

The men played Stableford on May 26. Winner of A grade was Jake Prewett with 37 points. Winner of B grade was Gary Powell with 40 points. Nearest the pin on the 2nd was Bernie Frith. One match was also played in the first round of the Doubles Knock out. Wayne Mobbs and Leon Hedwards came from behind to beat Shane Nevill and Mick Walsh 1up on the 18th hole. All other pairs got a bye.

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N JUNE 2, the men played for the June monthly medal. Winner A grade and the medal was Leon Hedwards 73-10-63.

Winner of B grade was Wayne Gull 87-19-68 on a countback from Pat Baird. The men played stableford on June 9. Best score of the day was Bernie Frith with 36 points. Peter Fell got the the birdie hole on the 12th.

Nearest the pin on the 9th was Pat Baird. One match was played in the 2nd round of the doubles KO. Wayne Mobbs and Leon Hedwards defeated Pat Baird and Jon Barrell three up with two holes to play (3/2).

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