The Local Issue 37 january 19, 2015

January 19, 2015 Issue 37

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Front cover: Proud Aboriginal woman Sissy Austin wants to share the word about the first people of Australia. The 20-year-old is also determined to see the Aboriginal flag flying in Daylesford. Read her story opposite on page 3.

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Sissy Austin “100%” keen to see the Aboriginal flag flying

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ISSY Austin is a young woman on a mission.

The proud Gunditjmara woman is working on gaining recognition “for the first people of Hepburn Shire” and she’s winning.

First step was leading the New Year’s Eve parade in Daylesford with rousing cheers for the 20-year-old, family members and friends.

Sissy, pictured with her 13-year-old cousin Tinjani Austin, then uploaded a video of the event to her Facebook page which has had, at the time of writing, 3571 views.

She is hoping to lead other events and is also often called on to deliver the Acknowledgment to Country at a range of festivals and gatherings.

But the next big step is seeing the Aboriginal flag flying in Daylesford. And Sissy believes the current state of play within the Hepburn Shire Council is mostly a token approach.

“The Dja Dja Wurrung Corporation says it has a member sitting on a committee at the (Hepburn Shire) council but does the community know there is someone working in the town hall?

“Whatever is going on in there isn’t getting out to the community base level.

It’s out of sight, out of mind. So what I am doing is getting it out into the community at the forefront of people’s minds. And I am getting heaps of support from the community.

“I, 100 per cent, want a flag flying. Of the 79 councils in Victoria only eight don’t fly the flag and Hepburn Shire is one of those.

“It’s insane. We have been told many reasons but the main one is because of the heritage overlay in the main street. That just doesn’t make sense to me – if it can’t go on the town hall there are other flag poles.”

Sissy said she had approached Mayor Kate Redwood after doing the Acknowledgment to Country at the Daylesford Community Fair last year and found she was “definitely supportive”.

“She said ‘I can’t help you with everything but we can fly the flag’.”

Sissy, who is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education officer at

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Loreto College and a casual presenter for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, both in Ballarat, said she had made a conscious decision to focus on her own community this year.

“I usually travel to Ballarat for anything to do with my culture but this year I changed and decided I can do it in Daylesford as well. I was a bit nervous but the community support has been overwhelming.

“And if no one else is going to step up to the challenge of fighting to acknowledge the first people of this land I feel the need to as I have lived on Dja Dja Wurrung land my whole life.

“The land, the water, has taken care of myself and my family for 20 years so this is my way of paying my respects also.”

Cr Redwood said she personally totally supported council flying the Aboriginal flag “all the time like the Australian flag”.

“As you know, at present it is only flown on particular occasions eg NAIDOC week. The Ballarat Council flies both flags above the town hall all the time and we should too. I have asked to have our flag flying policy reviewed and I understand that is happening.

“This year as mayor I will be looking for ways in which we can recognise the Dja Dja Wurrung more widely. We need to go beyond just an acknowledgment at the beginning of meetings and events. I believe we need to arrange to meet again formally with their elders to discuss what they would see as appropriate. I think that they did this last year with Mt Alexander Shire with good results.”

“The land, the water, has taken care of myself and my family for 20 years so this is my way of paying my respects also.”

But while Cr Redwood may be keen, Hepburn Shire Council Corporate Services general manager Grant Schuster said “in accordance with the Australian Flags guidelines and protocols issued by the Federal Government, only the Australian National Flag may be flown from the flagpole on Council’s buildings when we only have one flagpole”.

“However, council is able to fly other flags, including the Australian Aboriginal Flag and Torres Strait Islander Flag, if we have more than one flag pole.

Council has utilised its flagpole in Vincent Street, separate to the flagpole on the Daylesford Town Hall to fly the Australian Aboriginal Flag during NAIDOC Week and the National Reconciliation Week.”

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John Hay now creating images for himself

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HOTOGRAPHER John Hay’s work has appeared in glossy magazines and major cook books - but he now prefers to create images for himself. His first solo exhibition is on now at Bokeh Gallery in Daylesford. John took time out to chat with Donna Kelly.

DK: Can you tell me a little bit about your background?

JH: My photographic career began studying at RMIT in what was then a Diploma of Illustrative Photography - completing third year in 1974. I then began professional practice in the area of audio-visuals and moved to magazines in 1976 as staff photographer on Home Beautiful Magazine. In 1977 I took the opportunity to work as assistant to John Street - a high profile advertising photographer in Melbourne for one year. After a year overseas I established my own business and chose to pursue an editorial client base working for Vogue Australia, Vogue Living, Vogue Entertaining and Gourmet Traveller and Business Review Weekly.

These clients were the mainstay of my career for two decades along with an advertising clientele and numerous cookbooks for the major publishers of that period. In 1999 I changed direction and moved into teaching at RMIT University.

In 2009 I left teaching and decided that after a career based around the image requirements of others it was time to create images for myself. After five years of numerous trips into the Australian outback and high country this journey of discovery led me to my first solo exhibition “Kosciuszko to the Kimberley”.

DK: How did you get involved in photography and why?

JH: My first experience with the photographic image came about when studying graphic design at Caulfield Institute of Technology in the mid 1960s. A fellow student printed black and white images as part of her portfolio and I was instantly intrigued with the process. The interest was further inspired whilst working as a finished artist in the printing industry where I for the first time had access to a darkroom. Within a month of watching that first black and white image come to life I sought out and found a course at RMIT in photography.

DK: What does your work mean to you?

JH: All of my work means a lot to me, particularly the years spent in the commercial field, which taught me the pursuit of perfection, something rarely achieved. There is always something more that could have been done in hindsight when creating an image. My favourite subject currently is landscape and particularly the arid beauty of the Australian landscape.

DK: In this day and age everyone has a phone/camera. Can anyone take a photo?

JH: Anyone can take a photo, but is it merely a recording of an instant or has the photographer spent hours, or sometimes days researching their location, studying the light, time of year and time of day and then set out to capture the moment best suited to their personal interpretation of that particular image?

DK: What do you shoot with?

JH: I have shot with Nikon cameras since 1972. That has continued into the digital era with Nikon D700 being my prime camera currently. However, during my commercial career, I shot film on Hasselblad 6x6, Pentax 6x7,Toyo 4x5 and Toyo 10x8 cameras with multiple lenses for each system.

DK: Where can people see your work?

JH: My solo exhibition is at Bokeh Gallery, Daylesford until the end of January.

The new year sees me move to my own space at 113 Main Road, Hepburn Springs in mid-February. This new venture brings together a gallery of my work and a picture framing business catering to local requirements. I will also be drawing on my graphics background designing and selling posters and gift cards relative to the Daylesford Hepburn region along with alternate original posters reflecting an international content based on my own photography.

Link: pennylanestudios.com (from mid 2015)

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Greater sense of purpose for sacred space with return of stolen items

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HE Anglican Parish of Daylesford’s Christ Church “makes sense again” after historic and sentimental items, stolen last May, were returned just before Christmas, Father Jeff O’Hare says.

Thieves stole more than $100,000 dollars’ worth of items including an eagle lectern, the cross from the high altar and an historic painted screen.

Many of the items were donated by parishioners including the eagle lectern which was a thanksgiving for a daughter’s wedding in 1890.

Father O’Hare said the last of the items, which were found dumped in Ajax Road, Daylesford in July, were returned to the church just before Christmas Day. He said the sanctuary light, which was not recovered, had also been replaced by the Dioscese of Bendigo and came from the Taradale Church.

“The idea of the sanctuary light is that it expresses that God is present in the building, a symbolic thing, and when it was gone it really represented a bit of an absence in the building. It had an enormous effect on the parish when it went back up.

It was just nice to switch the light on again.

“The other things were the eagle lectern and the screen – everyone expressed how delighted they were to have them back and just how much they missed them. But during the whole eight months when they were not in the building there was not a word of dissent.

“Now everything makes sense again, it’s such a beautiful space. As vicar there is a whole different sense and feeling in the building. It feels more settled, more connected, and there is a greater sense of purpose in the parish than there was eight months ago.”

Father O’Hare said he would continue with his open door policy “that’s stronger than ever”, and forgave those who had defiled the church with the theft.

“You have to forgive them. But here is also a sacred community space that has been defiled by someone’s thoughtlessness. It’s a pity they did the damage they did but you can’t not forgive them.

“But the fact of the matter is that the purpose of this building is to serve the community so it actually damaged the whole community. It comes down to ‘is nothing sacred’ well, this is sacred, despite what you might believe or not believe.

“We have families who have been here for generations and suddenly things that have been here all those years, like the sanctuary light, are gone – so that affects time and history as well.

“But it was lovely to have it all back for Christmas.”

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CFA captain, SES deputy controller, ninja elf

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UE Waters is a busy woman. And that’s the way she likes it.

The captain of the Leonards Hill CFA and deputy controller of the Hepburn Shire SES can also be found, during school terms, with Little’s Coaches driving students to and from school.

And just to add to the workload, the 2012 Hepburn Shire Council’s Women’s Honour Roll inductee, decided to “Christmas up” Daylesford.

Sue was the instigator, later becoming known as the head “ninja elf”, behind the decorations which turned the town’s main street into a Christmas wonderland with baubles and tinsel hanging from every tree, piece of street furniture and sign.

The decision to take on the town’s Christmas decorations just sort of happened.

“I kept driving into town and seeing the signs (the council’s Christmas banners) and thinking you can barely see them. They looked pathetic and just didn’t feel Christmassy.

“I saw (mayor) Kate Redwood on the way to a meeting and asked her to bring up the lack of decorations and she said they were already up. I told her they were ugly and then I thought ‘bugger it’ I will see if anyone has any donations and we’ll do it ourselves.”

Sue said the donations were “amazing” with thousands of baubles and hundreds of metres of tinsel soon delivered to Coles’ front desk. Then a team of ninja elves, helped by Daylesford Primary School students after their Christmas concert at the Daylesford Town Hall, got together to put up the decorations.

“It was awesome, I was really surprised at the amount of support and all the amazing positive comments on Facebook, like on Grapevine. I was a bit embarrassed at first because it got so big but everybody loved it. There were not a lot of decorations but there were enough to let people know it was Christmas time.”

Sue said next Christmas would be bigger and better and include Santa arriving on a horse and cart and a community barbecue.

And with Christmas over, Sue is now concentrating on her other roles although last week’s rain meant not much was happening on the fire front.

“It’s pretty quiet. I had a couple go to the Horsham fires on a quick strike team but they came back safe and sound – so that was all good.”

And she is not sure if she will still be captain after July. Sue was captain for six years, took a two-year break, and will have been captain for another two

years when elections take place this year.

“I do enjoy it and would absolutely recommend the CFA for other women. We are just one big group here and as captain you just need to earn respect and once you have built that, it’s easy. People just need to know where you are coming from.”

Sue’s CFA work has also seen her build up a relationship with the New Zealand town of Te Aroha in the Matamata-Piako district.

The sister city to Hepburn Shire invited a firefighter and their family to visit after the 2009 bushfires.

Because the fire started at Leonards Hill – Sue was the first on the scene and spent the next three days battling the fires – the invitation went to that fire brigade. She then took the invite to her regional bosses – and they chose her.

She has kept in close touch, visiting in September last year, and firefighters from Te Aroha arriving here in March last year – in time to see a fire at Porcupine Ridge.

“It wasn’t a really big fire but I took them out and showed them how it worked and they were amazed.

They don’t have bushfires there – it’s all too green.”

Meanwhile, with “nothing to do in winter” Sue

joined the SES five years ago despite never wanting to be “a jaffa”.

“And I love it. We train every Wednesday night and it is totally different to the CFA. We do a lot of trees down, flood damage, trees on houses and even help ambos if they need assistance with lifting people, anything really…We also get called to do searches, like in Blackwood recently, and unfortunately we have never had a good result. We wish we did but we are out there looking and trying to find the person and after a few days you know things probably aren’t going to end well but you have to give the family closure. That’s what I keep thinking.”

Sue said her multiple hats have also seen her gain plenty of training from places like Fiskville and SES courses away from home. Hepburn SES now has a boat so Sue is just a step away from becoming a coxswain.

“It’s all interesting training and good to have. You think sometimes maybe I will never use it, but you do, and then you think I won’t remember it, but when you get to a job, it’s all there.”

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NTIL Friday, I had thought I would leave this space empty.

I thought the cartoon adjacent, done by a local cartoonist, was enough.

But something felt wrong. And I realised that the whole point of Je suis Charlie is to speak up and make the most of the freedom of opinion and speech we have in Australia. And to wish the rest of the world could enjoy that too.

So, here goes with just a couple of things...

I met young Sissy Austin for the first time last week after hearing a lot about her and what an amazing woman she is. And she is. Sissy is clearly very proud of her Aboriginal heritage and keen to spread the word of her race. And that’s a good thing. A bit of pride never went astray.

What I discovered is not so good, and to be honest I probably hadn’t thought about it much, and that was that Hepburn Shire Council is one of very few councils in Victoria who do not have an Aboriginal flag flying. Mmm. Mayor Kate Redwood is “personally” very keen and told Sissy she would have her flag but a council manager says there is apparently some federal ruling that you can’t fly an Australian flag and an Aboriginal flag from the town hall if there is only one flag pole. Fair enough. Hang on, can’t we just erect another one? Solved...

Next, it was great to see people gather for Hepburn Shire’s #illridewithyou campaign late last year. I am not sure who they would exactly ride with, if you look around it’s pretty white around these parts, but what a great way to come together to celebrate diversity. Well done Amy Kinnear. And while we might be mostly white, we are certainly diverse. And we all seem to muddle along OK. Maybe more than OK. Look at the upcoming ChillOut Festival. Just sayin’.

Finally, it’s a few days early but Happy Australia Day - whatever that means to you.

Je suis Charlie...

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Daylesford Cinema is a volunteer run, notfor-profit, community cinema – and guess what? It needs the community to help run it! If you’ve been to the cinema and like what we’re doing, why not volunteer some time? We are always on the lookout for extra assistance, particularly during school holidays! You need to be able to commit to a few hours each shift and if you can commit to a regular shift that would be awesome! We’ll even provide training! If you think you’d like to know more or think you can help out for a short time, contact Linda on 5348 2691.

Don’t forget, this is a community cinema and it needs the community behind it...

The 5000 Club will open its doors for 2015 on Friday, January 30.

The club provides a three-course lunch for all community members at the Anglican Church Hall, next to Christ Church, on Central Springs Road, Daylesford.

The lunch is held from noon to 1.30pm.

Donations are welcomed but never expected.

See you there!

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On the land...with Norman - a whole lot of bull

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RAHMAN cattle are gentle giants, says George Mercieca from GTM Brahmans.

country. We sold an embryo eight years ago for $10,000 to Charters Towers.”

George said while Norman was “family” he was also a working bull which produced polled calves – calves without horns – which was the ultimate in a bull and “throwing what you need”.

He is also worth, but will never be for sale, about $20,000. Which is not actually that much when you hear single bulls have been sold in Australia for price tags of up to $350,000.

“A lot of people don’t realise that Brahmans make up 55 per cent of all the cattle in Australia. They are a beef cattle and very popular worldwide for export. They have also won national carcass awards so the quality of beef is very high grade.”

Along with the business side of things, George says his cattle are also his way of taking time out from a very busy life.

“I come out here and just call out anything and as soon as they hear my voice they come bolting up and then just stand around. I give them a rub and it’s just so relaxing.

“One day I just laid down on the ground and I looked over and Norman had also laid down. So I thought ‘I will just lean on you’ and we lay there together. It was perfect.” *See more Brahmans in action at GTM Brahmans on Facebook.

And proving a point, George, who is also the owner of Mustang Country in Kyneton, happily pops his four-year-old granddaughter Anastasia on the back of Norman, who is also four but a tad bigger - weighing in at 950kg.

Norman, who will add another 300kg to his weight, and live to about 20 years, was conceived in a petri dish and, after his mother abandoned him when he was born, was taken home and hand-raised on goat’s milk.

But George says his gentle nature is just part of the Brahman breed.

“You can trust them, not like, say, a horse, which is unpredictable. I can run my hands all over Norman and he won’t do anything. He loves a good scratch.

“Anastasia has been riding him for about a year now. We’ve got a horse at home, a mare and she’s broken in and Anastasia wanted to ride her. But she just sort of walked off and I said ‘how about riding Norman?’ and he just stood there so quietly. And he has the perfect hump to hold onto so it worked out really well.”

George said his move into the Brahman world started when his son jumped on the internet when he was just five years old and started looking at cattle around the world.

“He always wanted a Brahman so when he was 10 we bought a property and our first registered cattle. Then some people put us on to southern African cattle, and On the land...is a new ongoing feature in The Local. Know a producer we they came as embryos, and then we got involved in embryo programs and IVF. “In recent times I became the chair of the Southern Brahman Breeders should feature? Email donna@tlnews.com.au Association and my son Chris is the secretary. Now we send cattle all over the

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A Sparkling Life (AN ONGOING column by Marian Sidwell and her recollection of living in Daylesford - and early childhood memories. The first excerpt ran in The Local, Issue 28, September 15, 2014. Back issues at tlnews.com.au) Drawing by Daylesford artist Brian Nash - art@briannash.com.au

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ICHMOND days were happy days – for me anyway. I didn’t realise then that dad was so miserable. He told me years later how he hated the city. Looking back I should have twigged, I guess because throughout those Richmond days, whenever possible, dad had us out in the bush.

The bush in those days was as close as Watsonia for mushrooms, Keilor for fishing and Ferntree Gully for the pure smell of the bush. We’d travel by train usually but I always remember the bus trip to Keilor with the very steep hill just before we got there, looking down over the side at the neat rows of market gardens and the lagoon opposite the general store where we’d get off ready for our day’s adventure. If it rained - we got wet. The buses were few and far between in those days, and cars, I never thought about, except of course, for Uncle Jack’s truck – now that was a different matter.

Uncle Jack was dad’s brother-in-law who lived in Moonee Ponds with Auntie Laura and loads of our cousins. Not only did they all have the same love of the bush as dad, but most of them were hillbilly singers as well. The truck was an old T-Model Ford with a four or five foot tray covered in by a high canvas canopy. To me it was a Rolls Royce with rattles. In the back amid the fishing and rabbit hunting gear were guitars.

Those Sunday outings with Uncle Jack and the cousins were the highlight of my life. I remember sitting for ages on the edge of the gutter outside the shop waiting for his truck to come lurching around the corner and then the utter frustration when at last it did arrive only to find uncle, auntie and the cousins all go off inside for a cup of tea and I’d have to wait all over again.

The Lerderderg Gorge in the Bacchus Marsh area was usually the destination for our truck outings. I didn’t much care really where it was. It was the bumping along in the back of the truck with my sisters and cousins that I loved the most. Sliding down the cliffs when we got there was pretty good too I suppose, but I couldn’t wait for the return trip because it was even better than the early morning one. It was made in the dark and the headlights from the cars behind would shine in on us. My cousins would play their guitars and we would all sing at the top of our voices. My sisters and I were not true hillbillies it seemed – we couldn’t yodel.

Coming in a close second to the truck outings were the Sunday School picnics. These were taken with great, but confused excitement in big furniture removal vans with seats bolted in rows running longways down the van. It was a case of once you were in with your bat, ball and straw hat there was no getting out until usually at either Studley or Maddingly parks.

Wow. Those picnics in the parks. The packed furniture van, the community singing, boiled egg and lettuce sandwiches, fifty-fifty cordial and a bag of lollies. Gee I loved them. The same running races, skinned knees and grubby faces of the children today I suppose but minus the esky and barbeque of course. I don’t remember much about the home trip. The drone of the grownups singing and the sway of the van had me asleep throughout until mum, usually down on hands and knees, would wake me up in her frantic search for my hat, bag and ball.

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Australia Day events

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AYLESFORD will celebrate Australia Day with a gathering at the Daylesford Town Hall on Sunday, January 25 from 7pm. Ballarat MP Catherine King will be the guest speaker and there will also be a citizenship ceremony.

At Trentham there will be live music at the Trentham Town Square from 10am on Australia Day, Monday, January 26 featuring The Walsh Family, Cool Country Ukes, Charles Sherlock, Cate Evans and Paul Healy & Friends. A free sausage sizzle will follow provided by Hepburn Shire Council. Market umbrellas will be set up and residents are invited to bring a picnic rug or chair.

And at Clunes there will be a sunrise walk at Mt Beckworth on Monday, January 26 at 5.45am followed by a pancake breakfast. There will also be a barbecue at Collins Place at 5.30pm where the Citizens of the Year will lower the Australian flag.

Meanwhile, Woolworths’ Australia Day Ambassador for the Macedon Ranges Shire, Steve Moneghetti, best known as a successful Australian long-distance runner, will attend the Australia Day Awards and Citizenship Ceremony at Kyneton Town Hall on Monday, January 26 from 10.30am. He will speak about what Australia Day means to him and present an Australia Day Award.

And at Malmsbury, a musical flea market will be held at the Malmsbury Town Hall from 9am to 4pm on Monday, January 26.

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Artwork in iconic laneway

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OP-UP artwork by Paul James Kalemba and Jhana Pfeiffer-Hunt, and commissioned by Hepburn Shire Council, is on display until March 10 in the Daylesford Town Hall laneway.

Jhana said the imposing, mostly wooden piece, referenced mainly the historic content of Daylesford and historical influences including past industries of mining and logging, along with social and cultural influences like the Swiss Italian migrants.

Moving up the piece there were also nods to the huge permaculture community with lots of renewable energy referenced, she said.

“We tried to embody some of the community attitudes here.”

Paul said most of the materials were reclaimed and sourced locally with local edible plants and native grasses also chosen.

The grandfather clock reference was to history and the passing of time with the piece titled “The Resistance of Memory, Tales of Daylesford” with Salvador Dali’s work of melting clocks also an influence, he said.

The piece was commissioned for $8000.

Jhana and Paul, who are expecting their first child, said Hepburn Shire mayor Kate Redwood had suggested that after its laneway appearance was over the sculpture could be moved to different regions in the shire as a travelling exhibition.

“We will have to wait and see. This will stay up until March 10 so we will see how the work evolves and grows and what the response is and take it from there.”

Cr Redwood said the piece was “an exciting work that will no doubt provoke interest amongst locals and visitors alike”.

“Council is thrilled to be supporting public art across the shire and pleased that the recommendation from the Daylesford Streetscape Revitalisation report to commission a temporary artwork for Daylesford’s iconic laneway is coming to fruition.”

Reduced cost Community Open Group Acupuncture

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ONG time practitioner of Chinese medicine, Dr Shelley L Beer, recognises that access to this ancient system of medicine has traditionally been accessed by costly private consultations.

Despite nationally registered acupuncturists having over 2500 hours training, consultations are not sponsored by the government, so the cost can be out of the reach for many people.

Community acupuncture allows a number of people to be treated serially in the same space, seated on chairs, so the cost is reduced for each participant. The community sessions are express with minimum talking and maximum sitting. Sessions start rolling with the first person from Tuesday 2pm to 5.30pm, and Thursday 9.30am to noon. Treatments take 30 minutes.

Because Shelley Beer has more than 25 years’ experience she can quickly devise traditional Chinese treatments based on the presenting complaint. She may ask a few clarifying questions, inspect your tongue, then decide the most appropriate points to use. Sitting on chairs means choosing points mainly on the legs and upper body. The back can be reached if you sit facing the back of the chair. This means your privacy is shared by those present and everyone present may be coached with lifestyle advice at the same time. Group healing for a fraction of the cost.

Anyone can turn up to try the express community acupuncture session. If you like, bring your friends so you know everyone being treated at the same time, or just randomly meet others in your community. Cost is $30 each person. Arrange a group of four people to receive $5 off per person. Every Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning in Daylesford. Private consultations still by appointment. Details below.

Dr Shelley L Beer Chinese Medicine New option. Reduced cost sessions Community Open Group Acupuncture

Tuesday 2pm -5.30pm Thursday 9.30am - noon.

Drop in any time while session is open Express needling on chairs at the SAME time as others $30 (cash).

OR confirmed bookings of 4 arriving together, $5 off each Private consultations still by appointment ph 0417 036 153. www.tcmconsultancy.com

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Lavender Festival at Lavandula

U3A Hepburn Shire Enrolment Morning (insert logo here) Thursday, 22 January 10am for 10.30am Senior Citizens’ Room Rear of Daylesford Town Hall Members re-enrolment New members welcomed Morning tea provided Please come and hear about our 2015 wide ranging program of activities for those no longer working full-time Enquiries: Phone David Hall on 5348 2872 Email havdall1@gmail.com

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Congratulations!

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UDA Plotnikova and Jesse Thomas were married at Lake House in Daylesford on Friday, December 19.

The bride wore a champagne slim line dress with white lace over the top and a fingertip veil while the groom wore a grey three-piece suit with black trim and an ivory tie.

The bridesmaids wore full length lilac dresses and the groomsmen wore grey three-piece suits with black trim and lilac ties.

The ceremony was conducted by civil celebrant Tania Bannister who included a beautiful sand ceremony.

Wedding photo courtesy of Timeless Wedding Images.

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A Hepburn Shire Council media statement, in reply to a query from The Local, said the original concept designs developed by the architects proposed moving the toddler pool and replacing it with a wet play area.

“In light of community concern and recent feedback during our consultation sessions, this proposal will be updated and concept plans will be revised. We will be holding additional consultation sessions, so we look forward to hearing from more of the community.”

The move comes after consultation sessions held by the council, and community indignation that the toddlers’ pool would be closed. A Save Our Pool petition at change.org had 161 signatures on January 15.

Organisers hope to inspire individual acts of climate leadership and motivate visitors about climate change.

Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group President, Ralf Thesing said action to reduce waste, permaculture gardening and “growing your own food all contribute to a smaller carbon footprint”.

The festival will be held at the Community Garden behind the Woodend Community Hub, 47 Forest St, Woodend on Saturday, February 28 from 10am.

Entry for adults is $5. MRSG members and children under 18 are free. Details: www.mrsgonline.org.au or Alastair Fleming on 0412 178 408.

capping pavers to finish the raised garden beds in the pedestrian crossing has unfortunately not achieved the intended quality finish”.

“An alternative fixing method is proposed and works to complete this are expected to commence in the next week. There has also been some comment about drainage at the crossing. Whilst drainage was considered and included as part of the project, this area is relatively flat and the drainage is not discharging the water as quickly as it accumulates in heavier rain.

“Some additional minor works are being investigated to improve the efficiency of the drainage in this area.”

HE toddlers’ pool at the Daylesford Pool complex seems likely to have been saved by people power.

HE 6th annual Macedon Ranges Sustainable HE Vincent Street crossing in Daylesford Living Festival will showcase all that’s will have further works done next week.

Hepburn Shire Council Infrastructure general happening in central Victoria on renewables, manager Bruce Lucas said the method “of fixing the renovations and renegade gardening.

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Richard Tuohy’s passion for film and filmmaking

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HEN experimental filmmaker Richard Tuohy moved to Daylesford in 1997 he had no idea the town had a thriving Super 8 Group.

Richard, who also just happens to have the only Super 8 (a type of small gauge film) processing laboratory in the southern hemisphere, Nanolab, had quit Melbourne and tree-changed with his partner Dianna Barrie, also a filmmaker.

He had been heavily professionally involved with the Melbourne Super 8 Group in the 1980s and 1990s before quitting to study philosophy with an undergraduate degree at La Trobe university and then a PhD at Australian National University – which he quit after three years. (For the record he also dropped out of high school and says he is ready to “drop out of anything at a moment’s notice”.)

But he believed he had left that life behind until a chance meeting while he was working at the Book Barn when someone mentioned the group which included names such as Toby Syme, Gary Thomas and Brendan Murray – and a screening that was happening soon.

“I thought I would make one last film to polish things off but then went crazy and made 40 to 50 experimental films over a few years – and the group put up with them.

The group is not really still going although it has not been dead terribly long and some would not admit to it being dead.

“My interest now in Super 8 is in having a lab that supports what else I do in film. I don’t particularly work in Super 8 myself but we process and transfer it. The Nanolab as a business is very much about people shooting in Super 8 now.”

So what, exactly, is Super 8 film?

“Super 8 came out in 1965 and was extremely popular. It was a home movie format, long before video, and unlike Standard 8, it had no complex threading, you didn’t need to know about photography to get your exposure right…

“Super 8 was the biggest motion picture gauge and it sold more cameras than anything else on the market. But they stopped making Super 8 cameras and projectors in the early 80s. In 1984 they just switched off the machine and walked away because people had switched to video.

“And they switched not because it was better, because it was far inferior, but there was this thing about being on the television in the corner that previously had only been the domain of Bert Newton or Don Lane. That was magical for people. And it was also kind of easier because you didn’t have to dim the lights or set up the projector.

“So in about 1983 it just began to decline and kept declining relatively slowly, and then digital became available for the domestic market – and then it bounced back.”

Richard said most of Nanolab’s clients were using Super 8, and its unique style, to film weddings, surfing, skating and BMX. “Why? That’s a good question. The answer’s going to have something to do with a different look. These kids, and they are all kids, they watch a lot of stuff online, their skating or surfing heroes and some of that is period stuff, and they want to transport themselves back there. There’s a retro association with Super 8 and also within those activities there are also often people with a photographic or video interest. They like videoing themselves so it is natural to explore film as well. It is a cachet that is still sexy – ‘I shoot on film’ – that’s a cool thing to say.”

And, as Richard, said, it provides an income for him and Dianne to follow their passion of experimental filmmaking.

“I make films that I screen all over the place. I just did a two-month tour of the US and screened at institutions including universities and did roughly 10 workshops. I do that a couple of times a year which is nice. I also like to screen at film festivals like Rotterdam and New York.”

Richard said his experimental films were abstract and “invariably involve different techniques” and were best described as avante garde.

“They are everything you can’t put in a pigeon hole. They are not documentaries, not narratives, not music videos, not animals…pretty much anything else. My particular take is abstract film so a lot of my films are made in the bush with the purpose behind the film to engage in the same way a painter would engage with objects in the world that satisfy the eye.”

Richard said while he started making narrative Super 8 films in the 1980s, many people in the group were making abstract experimental films which trained his eye “into liking that stuff”.

“However I didn’t know when I started that I had all this desire built up inside my brain but once I made that first one I just made lots.”

The move to Daylesford came at a time when it was still possible to buy cheap land, and trips to visit his mother, who lives in Hepburn, also prompted the move.

“We bought the land, built the place – I hate renting - and we’re probably also the only Super 8 lab anywhere in the world where the people who run it, built it.”

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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

T TRENTHAM STATION SUNDAY MARKET Victoria Street, Trentham On the fourth Sunday of each month 8.30am - 2.30pm Enquiries/Bookings – Kaye / Leigh 5424 1466 or Ross 5424 1509 A great variety of stalls in and around the beautiful Trentham Station **Permanent carriage stalls open every weekend** Including - Craft in the Carriage, Kaye’s Soaps and Candles, Leigh’s Homemade Preserves, Snax on the Trax & Trentham Olde Worlde Lolly Shoppe Trentham - Always relaxed and refreshing!

HE Produce Exchange at Trentham Farmers Market celebrated its first anniversary on Saturday.

Spokeswoman Glenda Holmes, pictured above left with Di Clausen, said the venture had been well supported and had seen “a vast array of goodies swapped from backyard garden fruit, vegies and herbs to interesting bottled preserves, eggs, cut flowers, potted plants, seeds, worm juice and manure”. “Not only have we shared delicious local produce, we’ve formed new friendships, helped nurture a stronger community and contributed to reducing our carbon footprint,” she said. “Our swap table has also become a ‘talking post’ where interesting conversations happen, and gardening tips and recipe ideas are shared.” The Produce Exchange is held at the Trentham Farmers’ Market on the third Saturday of each month.

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#illridewithyou

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ITH the business of Christmas and New Year’s celebrations behind us, the tragic events of Martin Place and the resulting #‎illridewithyou campaign already seem a distant memory.

On December 21, 2014, Hepburn Shire decided to show support for those whose lives were affected and for honest difference and diversity within our own community.

We understand that due to the timing, many were unable to make it. We were however, well represented by business, local emergency services, the council and of course, members of our big-hearted community.

Special thanks to Sissy Austin who opened the event acknowledging the traditional owners of the land and also delivered a powerfully poignant message.

Thanks also to our Mayor Kate Redwood for her great support and another beautiful message. Australia Day is just around the corner and what better time to stop and reflect on where we are headed and who we are as a community.

We are each branches of the same tree and I am grateful for the freedoms we have to celebrate difference in this country. I am also aware that through our words and actions, as individuals, we all have the option to choose to empower, dis-empower or simply disengage and not take part in these freedoms.

I, personally, am so happy and proud to be a part of a community that unites in love and stands shoulder to shoulder with those marginalised through race, gender, poverty, ill health or circumstance. It’s been said that you can’t fight hatred with hate or in fact win wars with sentiments of love alone, but when together the branches of one tree decide to unite and flourish what a powerful and enduring legacy it leaves.

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Accessible Eating Guide

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EPBURN Shire’s Accessible Eating Guide is being updated.

The guide was created by Rural Access to help people with differing abilities to eat out and to encourage local businesses to benefit from being accessible.

Rural Access worker Fiona Robson said the guide provided information about access, including physical access, menus, toilet facilities, background noise and the level of lighting.

The current edition of the Accessible Eating Guide is available from the Hepburn Shire Council website and printed copies of the guide can be viewed at visitor information centres.

“One in five people in Australia live with a disability. Many of these people enjoy eating out. We are encouraging businesses to be inclusive and to let people know what they offer.”

To be part of the guide contact Fiona at Hepburn Health Service on 5321 6567 or ruralaccess@hhs.vic.gov.au before the end of January.

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Tuesday 20 January 2pm Big Hero 6 (PG) 4pm Penguins of Madagascar (G) 6pm Exodus: Gods & Kings (M)

Sunday 25 January 1:30pm Into the Woods (PG) - Open caption 4pm Penguins of Madagascar (G) 6pm Into the Woods (PG)

Wednesday 21 January 2pm Penguins of Madagascar (G) 4pm Big Hero 6 (PG) 6pm Exodus: Gods & Kings (M)

Tuesday 27 January 6pm Into the Woods (PG)

Friday 23 January 3:30pm Into the Woods (PG) 6pm Penguins of Madagascar (G) 8pm Into the Woods (PG)

Saturday 31 January 3:30pm Penguins of Madagascar (G) 5:30pm Into the Woods (PG) - Open caption 8pm St Vincent (M)

Saturday 24 January 3:30pm Into the Woods (PG) 6pm Penguins of Madagascar (G) 8pm Into the Woods (PG)

Sunday 1 February 1:30pm Penguins of Madagascar (G) 3:30pm Into the Woods (PG) 6pm St Vincent (M)

Friday 30 January 8pm St Vincent (M)

Tuesday 3 February 6pm St Vincent (M)

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Successful Christmas Cheer Appeal for 2014

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aylesford Christmas Cheer, made up of groups including Hepburn Health Service, St Vincent de Paul Society, CAFS, Daylesford Rotary and Daylesford Community Op Shop helped hundreds of people have a better Christmas with food and gift vouchers and toys for younger children.

Spokesman Danny Moynihan said Christmas Cheer had received donations from individuals and businesses, service clubs and raffles, along with fundraising barbeques and collection tins.

“A significant number of food vouchers were supplied by St Vincent de Paul and the Daylesford Coles supermarket. Toys were mainly donated by the Variety Club and hotels and businesses displayed collection tins.”

Danny said the committee thanked all those who collected items for last year’s appeal and looked forward to this year’s appeal which starts in July so enough money is available for an anticipated busy year ahead.

Details: Danny on 5348 3458.

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Cosmo serving up local, quality produce

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KNOW friends who moved to this region because of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Trentham.

True story, no other reason, just a great pub.

And who would query them?

That was 10 years ago and the Cosmo, as it’s known, is still serving up great quality, delicious, local and regional produce.

Kyle and I headed there last Thursday and were quickly greeted and shown to our table. There are a number of seating areas, including a great alfresco section, but we opted for a quiet table near the bar.

Entrees After a quick chat to head chef Bryn we decided to start with the chef’s regional tasting plate ($35) which arrived on a huge breadboard groaning with gastronomic delights.

To be truthful it would have to be one of the largest, most comprehensive and prettiest tasting plates I have come across.

There were too many tasty morsels to list them all but among my favourites were the Mt Zero olives, Tuki smoked trout, Istra prosciutto and a delicious tapenade – all served up with slices of toasted baguette slices. Yum. If you were after a light lunch this would probably do for two.

The other entrée, which lost to the tasting plate, was the angelhair pasta with smoked trout, dill and a white wine cream ($18). We’ll have to head back for that.

After a glass of Lanes End 2014 Cottage chardonnay ($9) for me and a Corona ($7) for Kyle, it was time to decide on mains.

Mains The confit duck leg with zucchini ribbons, mint, goat cheese and crisp prosciutto salad ($32) was tempting as was the slow cooked Moroccan lamb with cous cous and pomegranate salad with harissa yoghurt ($29) but we decided to go with Bryn’s recommendations.

That meant the salt and pepper calamari with a watercress, fennel, apple and radish salad – and so much more ($28) for me and the Wagyu rump steak with truffle butter, potato roesti and French bean salad ($38) for Kyle.

My calamari was perfect. Coated in an incredibly light batter it was tender and deliciously seasoned with the salad offering a host of taste explosions. I don’t usually like fennel but I love this dish.

Kyle was a very happy camper with his steak – and who isn’t with Wagyu cooked perfectly medium, a little red, and able to be sliced like butter. The potato roesti was a fun, crunchy addition and the beans were crisp – all coming together with the subtle flavour of the amazing truffle butter.

A bit more Oh, did I mention, because the steak would take a little while, Bryn brought out a serve of pork belly, apple and ginger puree, rocket and fennel salad ($18) in between our tasting plate and mains…again, tender serves of pork

topped with crisp crackling. Yum. And the ginger in the puree just gave it the right zing.

Desserts Asked if were keen for a cheese plate or dessert – think panna cotta, summer berry pudding, Grand Marnier chocolate mousse, a trio of Jock’s ice cream or affogato with Frangelico or your choice of liqueur – and we just shook our heads.

But we will return. For everything above, that angelhair pasta or perhaps one of the three pub classics of barramundi and chips, chicken parma or pulled pork baguette – all just $19.

Three more things Oh, if you have kids in tow, they are kept happy with $14 meals which include dessert and a choice of fish and chips with salad, pasta bolognese or a soft taco with chicken, cheese and salad.

There’s also a locals’ night on Friday with a choice of two courses for $25 and a meat raffle to help local organisations.

For the rest of January it’s the turn of the Trentham CFA. Great cause.

And finally, literally while we ate, a pizza oven was being built out back. If all goes well, and it was, it should be up and running by this weekend. See you there.

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Gig Guide Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn Gabe Atkinson covers - Saturday, January 31, 9pm Performance Afternoon Sessions - Sunday, February 1, 3pm Gabe Atkinson covers - Saturday, February 7, 9pm Michelle Parsons covers - Saturday, February 14, 9pm

Glenlyon General Store, Glenlyon Railroad Rex & the Hapless Brakeman – Friday, January 23, 6.30pm–8.30pm Bella Frisky – Friday, January 30, 6.30am-8.30pm

Cosmopolitan Hotel, Trentham Groove Elation – Sunday, January 25, 1.30pm-5pm Phil and Trudy Edgeley – Sunday, February 1, 1pm-5pm

Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville Jude Parsons – Friday, January 23, evening Marty P – Saturday, January 24, lunch Liz Frencham and The People We Know – Sunday, January 25, lunch Gillian Eastoe and Terry Murray – Sunday, January 25, evening Pennyweight – Friday, January 30, evening

The Grande Hotel, Hepburn Fox Force (burlesque) – Saturday, January 24, 8pm Gillian Eastoe “Women of Rock” – Friday, January 30, 8pm

Dinner: Thursday - Tuesday from 6pm Lunch: Friday - Tuesday from 11am Breakfast: on weekends from 9am Coffee & Cake: always available Locals Night: all welcome Curry & Hot-Pot Night Tuesdays $18 Fish Night Fridays: $26.50 with glass of house wine (a la carte dining also available)

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Meal deals for locals

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Monday

Mercato, Daylesford – main dish & a glass of local wine - $30 The Grande Hotel, Hepburn Springs – two courses and a glass of house wine, beer or bubbles - $38 Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn – Parma Night - $17.50

Tuesday

Cosy Corner, Hepburn Springs – Curry & Hot Pot Night - $18

Wednesday

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Pot and Parma - $20 Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn – Roast - $17.50 Sault, Sailors Falls – a la carte menu with glass of wine

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Thursday

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Steak Night - $20 The Plough, Trentham – two courses - $25, three courses - $30 Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville – Thai night

Friday

Cosmopolitan Hotel, Trentham – two courses - $25 Cosy Corner, Hepburn Springs – Fish Night - $26.50 with a glass of wine *Fundraising raffles for local organisations are held at The Farmers Arms Hotel, Daylesford, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Trentham and the Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn.

Happy Hours

Daylesford Bowling Club has Happy Hour ‘n’ a half, from Monday to Thursday, from 4.30pm to 6pm.

Perfect Drop, Daylesford, also has a Happy Hour, every day, from 4pm to 6pm with $10 cocktails and $1 oysters.

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Welcome to The Farmers Arms Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner The Farmers Arms Daylesford offers the perfect blend of country charm combined with a sophisticated menu, wine list and professional service.

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ahoo! I have finally found a bushy fuchsia that will grow into a substantial shrub. If you remember from an earlier missive, my latent love of these oldies was re-sparked by a trip to Tassie, where they grow beautifully.

Even just a month ago, I wouldn’t have considered taking a risk with these tender plants, but everything changes so quickly at this time of the year, that I’ve decided to have a go. My girl (fuchsias are definitely girls) has milky white balloon skirts, over mauvy pink leggings, with her pinky pink tights showing beneath. The way her heavy ballerina blooms drip from the branches perfectly sets the tone for lazy summer afternoons full of fluttering and buzzing birds and bees, so I have to find a place for her. It will need to be a spot that doesn’t get too dry, too hot or windy or too frosty. Wish me luck.

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The summer garden is a constantly moving chameleon, with everything growing so rapidly that each day is so different from the last. What was a bud yesterday is in bloom the next and twenty four hours later looks like a boozy floozy tottering home after an all-nighter – think roses especially.

The foxgloves, lupins, dogwoods and wisteria have all just about given their all after a wonderfully generous show this year, and so now we are enjoying the liliums. There have been lovely huge gold, white and pink ones dotted through the garden, I’ve been lucky this year to have had a sweet little plot of Madonna lilies reappear, and the planter boxes in front of the veranda have been spilling over with some very robust, bold and striking brick red blokes (yes, these were definitely blokes).

The fairy fishing rods are offering a generous nodding flush and some of the dahlias are impatiently bursting their buds. The heavy trusses on the Oakleaf Hydrangea are turning from green to white and the garlic flowers are beginning to throw off their little elfin caps to free the myriad tiny blooms that make up their pompoms.

It’s not hot enough yet for the grass to stop growing, so the sound of mowers returns with a vengeance. The baby magpies are now tetchy teenagers, exploring the garden to stretch their independence, but still squawkily relying on their parents if they haven’t been able to find enough grubs to sate their hungries. We’ll have to grudgingly put up with the relentless ’chup, chup, chup’ of the blackbirds as they busily toss about all of that mulch with which we conscientiously covered the garden beds after the spring rains. It’s a symphony when we pair all of that with the fat, dry ’ark, ark’ of the gang-gangs, the silly, sweet jangle of the galahs, the friendly chatter and whistle of the rosellas, the urgent screeching of the white cockies and the regal cry of the first of the wondrous black ones.

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don’t have actual statistics only anecdotal evidence, but it seems the dog situation in this region is getting worse – by that I mean the total lack of owner responsibility for their dog and their dog’s behaviour.

What is it lately with so many dogs able to freely leave their property and wander off, dogs off lead in areas where they should be on lead, and dogs rushing/attacking other dogs. Taking our dogs out and about is never just about you and your dog/s – it is about sharing the environment responsibly with every other user and being aware of their needs as well as your own.

That may include: other people - with or without dogs; other dogs - friendly, too friendly and not so friendly; and other animals in the environment.

While you may like to let your dog run freely, there are some rules of engagement that you need to consider, so that everyone remains happy and safe.

I know us dog lovers find it hard to comprehend – but not everybody loves or even likes dogs. They have a right not be accosted by an off-lead dog. They have no way of knowing whether your dog is friendly or not, and if you don’t like dogs then you don’t particularly care even if it is friendly. While I know you find it hard to believe – not everyone wants to pat your dog, or be jumped on by your dog or say hello to your dog.

“It’s OK he’s friendly, he just wants to say hi”. These are probably not the words the owner of a shy, fearful or anxious dog wants to hear, as an out of control dog comes barrelling toward them and their dog. Allowing your dog to freely run up to another dog could end in a traumatic experience for both dogs and owners. Be aware of other dogs’ needs. Your dog may well be friendly, but it is not appropriate that he is allowed the freedom to charge up to others, particularly if they are on lead. It is bad manners.

If your dog is shy/anxious and does not like to be approached by other dogs, you need to be very aware of the environment in which you take them. It is your job to protect them. There are responsibilities on both sides.

The problem with all of these issues is not with the dogs – it is with owners. Fair and square, no getting away from it – owners have to take full responsibility. There are only two alternatives, manage your dog or teach your dog – preferably both. Your dog should be on lead unless in a designated, off lead area. Even if you are in an off lead area, if you have no voice control over your dog, then your dog should be on lead until you have trained a reliable recall cue. Your dog should be on lead if he is not trustworthy or fearful around other dogs or people. Educate yourself and your dog, failing to manage and teach your dog is failing your dog and the community.

Be careful around the lake this morning. More dogs not on leads.

Where do all these dogs come from?

Maybe council need to get someone down there fining them on the spot Take a stick or something with you so if they “attack” your dog hit them. Simple I bought a walking stick with a big knob on the end for that very reason Council are aware as they as Council members are on this page.

But what are they doing about it? Being aware and dealing with the issue are 2 different things.

I’m over going to the lake for this reason, I’m tired of picking up my dog over my head and having dogs jumping on me to get to my dog! I now go to Wombat Hill Gardens later in the day and check out the car park to see if there is other dog walkers. There is a sign in the carpark that “dogs must be on leads $100 Fine” so I now tell other dog walkers with no lead YOUR DOG NEEDS TO BE ON A LEAD IN THIS PARK! There is a sign in the carpark.

It would just be nice to be able to walk around town without the fear of being attacked by roaming dogs Actually if a dog was attacking my dog I might use a stick or a rock or a bullet !!

Don’t tell me you walk your dog with gun...

I think people get a little arrogant about how well trained their dogs are, and good on them, BUT still doesn’t change the fact.

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Daylesford CFA researching WWI volunteer firefighters for ANZAC 100

Daylesford CFA firefighters Russ Jenkin, left, and Rob Taylor, are keen to hear from any descendants of those on the WWI honour board

By Cheryl Johnson

Meanwhile, David Robertson was a plumber apprenticed to his brother James, Ivor Harris was a commercial traveller and Albert Tremayne was a blacksmith who served as a driver with the 13th Field Company Engineers. His mother lived AYLESFORD CFA wants to commemorate nine of its volunteer in Vincent Street, Daylesford. firefighters who served in World War One and hopes their Daylesford CFA received a grant from the Federal Government’s Anzac descendants will come forward to help complete its project.

Centenary Local Grants Program to restore its honour board, produce two All the men had connections to the Hepburn Shire and project leaders Rob centenary anniversary plaques and create a memory board to tell the nine men’s Taylor and Russ Jenkin are keeping their fingers crossed that when longstories in pictures and words. time residents see the men’s names, that they will contact them to share some Restoration work on the honour board is complete and can be seen at memories.

Daylesford Fire Station. It features the names of the volunteers who enlisted to What the brigade knows so far is that five of the men were wounded and four serve in WWI together with those who served in WWII and Vietnam. were killed, one of them on the first day of the Gallipoli landings.

This overhaul enabled a misspelling of Albert Tremayne’s surname to be Rob explained: “Current members know little about these men. Their histories were never recorded. In recognition of the ANZAC centenary, we wanted to create corrected and research also revealed that four men were killed in action in WWI a pictorial story board about them for permanent display at the Bridport Street fire rather than the three previously believed.

When the sun goes down on April 11 this year, the new centenary anniversary station. We want their memory to be more than simply nine names on an honour plaques will be presented to the CFA and Daylesford RSL Sub Branch as part board”. of the community activities planned for the ANZAC 100 commemoration at They are searching for information and photographs on: Robert (Bob) Daylesford Town Hall.

Anderson, Archibald Campbell, Horace Hubert Sibbison and Vincent Wallis - all Rob said tracking down background information on the nine men presented killed in action, and Ivor Harris, Albert Roy Kutcher, James Henry Robertson, some challenges and the CFA is pinning its hopes on descendants living in the David Norman Robertson and Albert Victor Tremayne.

Shire to fill in the gaps and provide photographs.

Rob said they had managed to piece together a small amount of information “One hundred years ago, these nine young volunteer firefighters had their lives about some of the men with the help of Daylesford Historical Society, Daylesford interrupted by an horrendous war. They deserve to have their stories told and be RSL, National Archives, Daylesford Secondary School - which is also researching remembered.” a WW1 honour roll, local newspapers, dedicated websites and internet searches.

Contact Rob Taylor on 0407 335 861 or secretary@daylesfordcfa.org.au He said their detective work to date discovered that Bob Anderson was 24 when he enlisted on August 21, 1914, shortly after the war started, and served in the 7th ANZAC 100 has chosen The Local as its media partner to bring the community Battalion. He previously worked as a salesman at Walton’s, the draper in Vincent all the news leading up to the commemoration of the first Anzac Day. Every Street, Daylesford. Mr Anderson died on the first day of the Gallipoli campaign on edition of The Local will include stories and photos about the people and April 25, 1915. organisations who are working towards making the 100th anniversary one of the Bob Anderson had two brothers serving in the war. Archibald was enlisted at most memorable and moving events seen in Daylesford. Make sure you pick up the time of Bob’s death and tragically he also was killed in action - in France your hard copy or read online at www.tlnews.com.au in September 1916. An older brother James was on his way to the war and was wounded around the time of Archibald’s death.

Bob is noted as having been: “A member of the local football team, a clever player and for his high marking and a smart fireman. He had served previously in the Australian Light Horse at Creswick and (was) greatly liked and respected there, then he took up residence in Daylesford and made many friends. He was a member of the Franklin Masonic Lodge”.

Research also uncovered that Horace Sibbison rose to the rank of lieutenant in the 21st Australian Infantry Battalion. His mother lived in Stanbridge Street, Daylesford, and he used to write football notes for the local paper under the pen name Huon Mee. Archibald Campbell worked as a railway porter in Geelong and his mother lived in Raglan Street, Daylesford. Albert Kutcher was a grocer and his DAYLESFORD RSL HEPBURN SHIRE mother lived in Millar Street, Daylesford. Vincent Wallis worked as a gardener.

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BELIEVE me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” - Wind in the Willows

And that’s what this group of happy sailors found down at the Hepburn Pool recently.

A small group of boating enthusiasts get together at the pool now and again, to put their vessels through their paces.