March 2, 2015 Issue 40 ChillOut edition “Modern family”
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NDREW “Drew” Muscat will have his “drag on” at the Peppermill Café at The Amazing Mill Markets in Daylesford during the ChillOut Festival. And just maybe taking part in the Community Golf Tournament at the Hepburn Springs Golf Club this Friday…The Local’s Kyle Barnes caught up for a chat.
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KB: What is your background? AM: I am part Greek and part English and with a mother who worked in the theatre how could I not follow her example? In the late 1990s I sang with the Brisbane Lesbian and Gay Pride choir and came runner-up at The King and Queen of Karaoke competition in Brissie. I also sang at The Sporties Sunday Cabaret which was heaps of fun. In 2012 my partner and I took part in the mass same sex wedding on “Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight” with 40 other couples. KB: Where are you working and living? AM: I am currently working as a barista at The Peppermill Café at The Amazing Mill Markets here in Daylesford. And my partner of eight years and I are building a home in Wheatsheaf since moving here from Seaford two and a half years ago. I used to wield a mean hot glue gun but we now own four chainsaws and I am pretty good at chopping wood with an axe. KB: What is your drag background? AM: It started out in 1998 when friends and I went to The Beat Nightclub - looking quite tragic in a polyester dress, acrylic cardy and plastic beads. I met an old hand at the art and he helped me to improve my look and I discovered corsets, sewing my own outfits and more importantly, diamantes. A friend who I worked with at the time suggested Cara Couture as my name and I’m glad she did as I would have been Polly Cotton. Thanks Catherine. I then started to perform at The Sporties and The Beat doing several production shows before moving to Melbourne in 2001 and doing spot numbers at The Greyhound. KB: What do you like - and not like - about drag? AM: I love the transformation into a different persona and making people laugh. Besides you can get away with a lot when you’re in drag but I won’t shock you with those details. I usually take between half an hour and an hour to get ready for the transformation from putting my face on to getting dressed. The only down-sides that I can think of are all the hair removal - Greek don’t forget, and my corset is a little tight at the moment. The price of beauty I suppose. KB: Is it just drag you do and where can we see you next? AM: I have been out as other characters including drag king Poita Bread and Jerry Lewis. I’m always looking for more characters, any suggestions? And one or more of those identities will be making coffee and giving lip at The Peppermill Café over the ChillOut weekend. Hope you can come along and join in the fun and perhaps Cara might be able to be in the parade if Dot and Ray concede to my request.
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Hobby turns into dream job
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EBECCA de Podolinsky studied management at Ballarat University and worked in marketing, human resources and communications roles in Melbourne for more than 15 years. The Kyneton resident is currently studying for her Master of History. But Bec is also an artisan, a silversmith, a trade which is at least 2000 years old – and well qualifies for the Lost Trades Fair at Kyneton Racecourse over the Labour Day weekend. “In my spare time I’ve always been creating things and working with tools. I started buying and restoring Australian antique furniture when I was 17 and along the way I’ve done lots of courses, such as French polishing and a perch chairmaking course with Lost Trades founder and chairmaker Glen Rundell. “All of these things helped me to become more familiar with tools and how things are put together. It meant that when I started silversmithing it came quite naturally because I understood how to saw, file, sand and polish. The main difference was working with metal rather than wood.” Bec took the opportunity to turn her hobby into her work when her corporate government job became redundant. “The redundancy package changed everything and gave me the money to buy the equipment for my studio. I now walk 10 metres to get to my workbench and I’m being constantly challenged. My studio is high up on an escarpment overlooking Mount Macedon and Hanging Rock. The view is always changing and I never tire of looking out the window to see what’s happening. It provides me with constant inspiration.” Bec also attended jewellery making short courses with renowned Montsalvat-based goldsmith Jeanette Dyke who trained in England and Germany and continues to have lessons with her gaining “invaluable advice and guidance along the way”. She now spends her time creating minimalist pieces of wearable jewellery using silver, copper and brass combined with other materials such as Merino wool felt. “I always had trouble finding affordable pieces of jewellery that were simple and classic. I design high quality handmade pieces that can be worn year after year and don’t cost the earth. Much of the range retails for under $100. Depending on the piece, it can take as little as half an hour while other more complicated pieces can take days or even weeks to complete.” Bec has also just completed her first collection featuring lots of colour with the pieces understated
and aimed to complement not dominate an outfit. The range also includes upcycled pieces such as cufflinks made from brass shell casings, stud earrings made from .22 shell casings and earrings and cufflinks made using pre-decimal Australian coins. “The pieces are simple, affordable and most of all, high quality. I love the collection and have been overwhelmed by the number of stores wanting to stock my range Pod Jewellery. It shows there is still a strong market for handmade artisan produced items.” Bec said she chose Kyneton for her home after growing up in South Muckleford, just west of Castlemaine. “After university in Ballarat, I moved to Melbourne for 10 years and spent some time living in Paris. My heart was always in the country and eight years ago my mum found a property for sale just outside Kyneton. I love Kyneton, we have the most interesting mix of people and we produce some of the best food in Australia. We have top quality restaurants
right here in town and just up the road in Trentham and Malmsbury. So if I crave a beautiful meal, I don’t need to go into the city, I just need to head into town.” And locals only need to head to Rundell & Rundell in Kyneton or Moss & Burrows in Daylesford to see Bec’s jewellery. Or the Lost Trades Fair to see her in action.
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Happy and blessed after IVF journey
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ENNI Thompson and Emma Wells describe their lives as “extremely happy and blessed”.
And it’s no wonder. The pair, who met at a gay venue in St Kilda, now have two beautiful children, Mackenzie, five, and Graycie, three, and are living their dream life in Hepburn. They both work part-time as teachers at Daylesford Primary School with Jenni, 41, working three days a week and Emma, 46, working the other two days. When they met both were just out of long-term relationships so not looking for a new partner – but as it sometimes just happens, they connected and it went from “not taking it too seriously to realising it was serious”. Along with sharing a love of teaching, both women also like to keep fit. Jenni is a keen runner and just completed her first marathon last year while Emma does “a bit of boot camp” and both are into meditation. Emma experienced her first silent retreat recently – leaving Jenni with both children. And managing to have those children also took them on a shared journey. Jenni said she always wanted to have children while Emma was “not as keen as me”. “But because Emma was older I said she should go first if she wanted to give birth. I was really ready but Emma had to think about it for a while – just whether she wanted to give birth or not.” It turned out that Emma was keen and after choosing an anonymous donor with a teaching background through Melbourne IVF, was pregnant with the first try. “Prior to that we had looked at a few different options, like donor sperm from interstate. I couldn’t access IVF in Victoria until my age, 39, could deem me infertile. “But then the rules changed and I was able to go and see a doctor at Melbourne IVF. I believe it is a lot easier now.” With Emma bearing their first child, Jenni was keen for her turn, to keep their children’s ages close together. “It was harder for me and took quite a while. I didn’t get pregnant until I took time off work and we found out Christmas Eve which was great. It was a nice journey and I have tried to give back. I donated my eggs twice to a woman who couldn’t have children but they (the eggs) weren’t good enough. So I think Graycie is probably a miracle child.” Both Jenni and Emma said they would “highly recommend” IVF, and in particular, Melbourne IVF. “We feel privileged to have been able to have the opportunity and Melbourne IVF were wonderful – they are very much part of our journey and our family. And we nearly named one of our children after the IVF nurses, they were so caring, and our doctor, John McBain was one of the founders of Melbourne IVF. He was amazing.” Jenni said while the initial outlay was expensive, quite a lot was refunded by Medicare.
“For Emma, because she got pregnant straight away, it cost about $6000. For me, because it took six tries, it was more expensive. I guess when it takes longer that gets people stressed as well. For us it was the only way. And now you look back and feel like it just went but while you are in it, you put your life on hold for the process – the injections, the doctors, the trips to Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital.” Jenni said both women had been amazed by the support from the community, especially from same sex couples who had already been on the journey and were willing to share their experiences. “And when Emma was pregnant I had people coming to the school and leaving notes asking if we wanted cots or other things. This whole community is just amazing. And sometimes you forget how special and accepting it is here – you might go to Melbourne and be asked if you are sisters and get a funny look when you say you are partners. It’s easy to forget about that when you live here.” Both Jenni and Emma were regular visitors to the region before they met, with Jenni looking at Daylesford Primary School one day thinking “when I finish studying to be a teacher I am going to work
and live here” and then promptly forgetting for a couple of years. “I was teaching in Melbourne and not enjoying it, and then Emma got into Ballarat University and I applied for a job at Daylesford and we moved here from Taylors Lakes, of all places. “No-one would visit us in Taylors Lakes but as soon as we moved here the visitors kept coming – they said when they drove into town they felt the weight of the world lift. We had to schedule in weekends for ourselves. Saying that, we don’t get as many visitors now we have the children…. “But we are extremely happy and blessed. And at this stage in our life this is where we want to be. It is right for our kids and our family.”
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Zelman Memorial Symphony
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REPARE to be literally blown away by Roman Ponomariov on horn, and mezzo soprano Selena Pettifer - accompanied by the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra at Daylesford Town Hall on Sunday, March 22.
Strauss’ first horn concerto, often said to be the greatest written in modern times, will be a feature of the concert. Soloist Roman Ponomariov will play the concerto which was written for Strauss’ father, a leading horn player of his time who never played it, claiming it was too difficult for him. The concert will also feature the premiere of a new work by George Dreyfus “A Song for Gallipoli” sung by Selena Pettifer. The concert concludes with Brahms’ acclaimed first Symphony with which, after 21 years work, Brahms believed he had composed a worthy successor to Beethoven’s symphonies. The 60-strong orchestra has an affinity with Daylesford – it is named after Alfredo Zelman Junior who once lived in Hepburn. This is the orchestra’s 10th visit here - the past four sponsored by U3A Hepburn Shire. Alberto Zelman was born in Melbourne in 1874 and founded the original Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1906 with a mix of amateurs and professionals. He then conducted it for many years. After his death in 1927, the MSO was taken over by Professor (later Sir) Bernard Heinze who converted it into an all-professional MSO. The amateur players formed their own orchestra in 1933 naming it the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra in honour of Alberto. Tickets are $20 and available at Paradise Books, Vincent St, Daylesford and the Bookbarn, Leggatt St, Daylesford. Also online at trybooking.com/GWUB or phone 0411 866 643. Tickets will also be on sale at the box office on March 22 from 1pm subject to availability.
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T MIGHT seem like it’s all things ChillOut this weekend but don’t miss the chance to see a Full Pull at Bullarto this Sunday, March 8.
Started 21 years ago by Len and Marlene Orr, the Bullarto Vintage Tractor Pull has become the thing of legends as myriad classes of tractors pull their way along the track with ever increasing water weights to battle. It’s best to let Len describe it. “You have a sledge, you hook a tractor on it – the small tractors only have a little bit of water and the bigger tractors get more as they go up, and as they go up it winches its way up the track and you put more and more pressure on the tractor. It’s all about grip. “The full pull is when they reach 100 yards. Once they reach that they sing out ‘full pull’ and they go back and put more water in it – and hopefully makes it heavier so they don’t make it next time. “We start off in the under 20 horsepower and go up from there. You are allowed two goes and the winner might get a full pull, or might just pull 80 yards. Winners get trophies.” Right. Clear as mud. And on that first tractor pull, held in April 1994, it was all about mud with “different ones saying ‘you have to cancel’ and us saying ‘the trucks are lined up to the main road, how can we cancel now?,” Marlene said. “There was terrible traction, even to get the trucks in to unload the tractors was hard, and we thought it would wreck the whole idea but it seemed to stick in people’s minds. “And now when you ask about any tractor pulling that’s the one they remember.” Len said the idea was first mooted with the Bullarto Hall needing repairs here and there and it turned into a successful fundraiser. “We’ve had the hall reblocked and repainted, got a new roof…it all takes a few bob… and now that has people interested in using the hall for parties, even funerals.” And even if you are not up for the full pull there are plenty of other activities. The grand parade is at noon, then there is the woodchopping, stone crushing, vintage car display, the Daylesford Brass Band, sheep shearing and a jumping castle for the kids. Ladies can also try their hand at phone tossing – and win a new phone. Len and Marlene reckon the best time to arrive is noon. If you come later “you are going to miss a lot”. Fair enough.
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Just sayin’ with Donna Kelly
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ADE it. The “ChillOut” edition - enough to bring fear to any publisher/editor/ journalist/graphic designer - and sometimes toilet cleaner. That’s me.
It’s a bumper, 56 pages last time I checked, but it’s also such a fun edition to put together. We sometimes feel like we are the only straights in the village - but we have such a great time being ChillOut’s media partners. The committee is a joy to work with - everything ahead of time - and they understand a good idea when they see one - like our front page. Yes, a take on Modern Family, but also an important issue to get some air time for. So many people these days don’t fall into the “average family” whether they are single, gay or lesbian parents, couples, and any of the above, without children. Then there are mixed marriages, mixed children, mixed everything. I reckon if you can just make your “normal” work, then you are on a winner. I never wanted children...and although I was once called a “dried up old spinster” for merely mentioning that it might be nice to not be bothered by others’ children while at high-end restaurants...I just never tried. And so many people said “you would make a great parent” to which I generally replied “yes, but wouldn’t you want to have them first?”. For the record I do love my nieces and nephews. Anyway our front cover story is about a couple who really wanted children - and were lucky enough to make it happen through IVF. Read their story on page 5. But, contrary to popular belief, the Labour Day weekend is not just about ChillOut. There’s the Bullarto Vintage Tractor Pull where tractors of various makes and models vie for a “full pull” - quite an honour if you can achieve it. And there’s also all the fun of good old fashioned family entertainment from sheep shearing to stone crushing. There’s even a mobile phone throw - just for the ladies. The winner walks away with - a phone. OK, I could talk about why anyone wants to throw away a phone to get a phone - but I have felt at times with our new iPhone that throwing it out the window could be good therapy. Len Orr explains it all on page 7. Oh, don’t forget over at Kyneton there’s the Lost Trades Fair across the weekend. All those trades you thought were long gone - saddle making, chair making, blacksmithing -are back on the agenda. And the tradespeople will be there showing off their “thing”. Head to the Kyneton Racecourse for a look - and read silversmith Bec’s story on page 4. Finally, the World’s Greatest Shave is coming up this month and we were privileged to talk to a family whose 12-year-old son shaved his head at the end of school last year. It was in honour of his brother Trent who passed away from cancer, Ewings Sarcoma, in 2012. And Hayden is not your average young bloke - he has a mullet becase when Trent lost his hair during chemotherapy it grew back “wispy” and he asked his younger brother to grow some extra hair for him. Read about an inspiring family on page 17 - with a tissue or two. And maybe you’ll be brave enough to shave too. Just sayin’.
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Communication lines open at Yandoit
By Donna Kelly
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T is a strange feeling.
Standing in the middle of a farm field in Yandoit, in a circle defined by large stones, and feeling a metal divining rod pulling to different directions in my hand. As a journalist and a huge skeptic, it is hard to believe. I have watched other people “supposedly” water divine and always wondered if there was a little movement they were doing themselves to move the rod – consciously or subconsciously. And then I read skeptic James Randi’s observations after a huge Australian divining test: “One thing must be made clear - dowsers on the whole are very honest folk. They believe in what they do. Unfortunately their belief is poorly placed. They cannot perform as they think they can. Having a string of successful wells to which one can point, proves nothing. “Though diviners will continue to be hired by believers in such powers, and wells will be dug with great precision on spots located by forked-stick folks, these water supplies will not prove that dowsing works. They will only prove that there is a great deal of water down under the earth, and we do not need silly folks wiggling sticks to tell us that.” Mmm. With me, back on that field, is Eric Sartori, a dairy farmer of 50 years, a sensible sounding bloke, but one who has also been a member of the British Society of Dowsers and a water diviner for 60 years.
Mr Sartori believes there is an “energy line” running through his property and for miles either side. He has placed the rocks around what he also believes is an “energy circle” – one that he is happy to use to improve his health – and he looks pretty good. “It’s not the only one, there are plenty around here, they are energy circles – but I am not going to try and tell you what it’s all about. In the past everybody has had their theories and they all tended to be wrong. “It’s an invisible line that is capable of transmitting energy thoughts along those lines. I have been doing my own research on it for the past 20 years and I and my neighbour David are getting maximum benefit out of it. And as a journalist you would know that forms of communication are changing all the time. Asked whether it could also be described as a “ley line” – supposed alignments of numerous places including ancient monuments, natural ridge-tops and waterfords, Mr Sartori seems doubtful. “Ley line doesn’t really mean that much – no-one knows too much about them… “But I have been in England looking around the stone circles there and felt the pull on the rod. Whether they knew that when they put the circles there I am not too sure.” And I am not sure either although I agree with the communication comment. My grandmother was amazed by television, my mother is still wrapping her head around Facebook and I am continually amazed we can receive 15MB emails… Who are we to judge?
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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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N THE pre-flasher days Richmond did have a lot to offer kids of our age. On weekdays during the school holidays we would walk through the park to the empty MCG. There was never any problem getting in and we would spend hours clambering over the seats, running up and down the stairs and making echoes in the concourse. It was the biggest playground a kid could wish for.
On other days we would catch the tram in Bridge Road and go into town for the day. My sister Joan knew the city well. She would lead us up Bourke Street into the lovely pale green and highly perfumed entry of Mantons. We only went there for the smell, we never had much money to spend - especially on perfume. We were strictly a Coles eau-de-cologne family. Catching the tram the other way down Bridge Road would bring us to the swimming pool. A huge covered in thing, it was known as The Baths but nowhere near as good as the open air one in Batman Avenue where we would trek to on hot days. Still the old baths served its purpose on the cooler days I suppose and it did have those fascinating penny in the slot peanut dispensers. Quite often after our visit to the baths we would walk home chewing our peanuts via Bridge Road. Coles in those days was a fascinating store with thousands of upright pigeon holed dispensers containing everything imaginable to keep the world rotating at that time. Our Christmases were simple affairs in those days. Mum would give us the whopping sum of ten shillings each to buy presents. We’d be up and down to Coles and up and down to Dimmeys for days on end. With average purchases of sixpence we had a lot of wrapping to do. There were no household Christmas trees in those days either. Father Christmas visited the end of our beds. With thanks to our immigrants Christmas trees came ashore with them a few years later together with a smorgasbord of tasty new food. Walking from our shop then in the opposite direction to Bridge Road, brought us to Swan Street. We would walk way up past Dimmeys to the corner of Church Street and enter the wonderful world of Ball’s Corner Store. We would stand for ages watching the shop assistants put money and dockets into tin capsules with sliding doors that were then attached to wires that ran every which way across the ceiling of the shop all the way to the upstairs office. All I wanted to do when I grew up was to pull one of those cords and send it hurtling along that wire. This was not however Ball’s sole fascination for us. For the sum of threepence we could purchase a lucky dip bag containing men’s blue detachable collars, odd buttons, buckles, garters, suspenders and all sorts of things that mum would thank us for and toss up into the top of her wardrobe.
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Love Your Sister campaign award
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HE Love Your Sister campaign has been awarded an inaugural Community Champion Award by the Garvan Research Foundation.
The awards celebrate community and corporate partnerships that support Garvan’s ground-breaking medical research. The Love Your Sister campaign was formed by Connie and Samuel Johnson two years ago, following Connie’s terminal breast cancer diagnosis. Connie set her brother a challenge, to break the world record for the longest distance travelled on a unicycle, raise $1 million for breast cancer research and spread Connie’s message of breast cancer awareness. Two years later – Love Your Sister is a nationally recognised campaign, there is a new world record for the longest distanced travelled on a unicycle and over $2 million has been raised for Garvan’s cancer research. Connie said she was incredibly proud of what the team had achieved “since Sam set out on his unicycle two years ago, and we are hugely grateful to the supporters who have helped us raise money for Garvan’s cancer research”. “For us, the work is not done and we are excited about the future of Love Your Sister and our next campaign, The Bucket List Initiative, which launches in May. Our journey continues and our work will never be done until we find a cure.”
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12 ANZAC 100
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Countdown for ANZAC 100 By Cheryl Johnson
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HE countdown is on for a once-in-a-lifetime community event organisers hope will enthrall Shire residents. April 11 is ANZAC 100, Daylesford region’s tribute to the men, women and families touched by events a century ago at Gallipoli.
Tickets go on sale this week online at www.trybooking.com/GORT or in person at eCasa in Vincent Street or find out more at www.anzac100.org.au Structured to be affordable to most family budgets, the event is open to all come rain or shine. You can be either an onlooker at the free street program, buy tickets for the town hall concert, or attend both. Activities begin as the sun goes down. Part one features a free outdoor spectacle, including a memorial plaque presentation honouring nine volunteer Daylesford CFA firefighters who served in WWI. Part two is a fund-raising ticketed concert, featuring favourite local musicians and singers. RSL member and Vietnam veteran Frank Page, who is leading ANZAC 100 planning, says community spirit has long been a defining characteristic of Hepburn Shire’s residents and this year’s Anzac centenary has already generated a king tide of local interest and activity. “This year, all Australia will be remembering when the Anzac legend began and locals and visitors alike can be part of it in Daylesford. Our event aims to have something for everyone when we commemorate the price our forebears paid in a terrible conflict. “ANZAC 100 is a one-off complementing the traditional Anzac Day march and services and a commemoration through the celebration of the music and song of the WWI and WWII eras. We’re encouraging people to get in the mood by dressing up in wartime fashions for the concert and maybe win a prize. “We’re expecting 300-400 people in the town hall, so to avoid the rush when they collect their commemorative tickets, we hope they’ll come along early and watch the street activity too.” A core team of 10 volunteers met in October last year to form the ANZAC 100 planning committee and work began immediately. Through word of mouth, volunteers from the wider community offered their support in various ways from in-kind specialist services, helpers coming forward to help stage the event and people offering their skills and experience, contributing to a highly professional event staging. Associated activities have already inspired individuals and groups to become involved including Maggie Nightingale’s Poppy Project, Daylesford Primary School, the Men’s Shed, senior citizens’ groups, Daylesford Bowling Club, Daylesford Country Women’s Association, Lumeah Lodge knitters, artist Sandy Breen and participants in Daylesford Community Centre’s planned activity group and the Glenlyon Quilters. Vincent Street retailers have also enthusiastically supported the event, committing to decorate their windows with Anzac tributes and red poppies and on March 12 the RSL has invited Gallipoli historian Dr V. John Basarin to present a free lunchtime talk about Gallipoli viewed from the Turkish trenches. All proceeds will go towards the redesign and landscaping of Daylesford War Memorial. RSL Commemorative Committee chairman Keith Pyers and ANZAC 100 planning group member Patrick Baird are conducting an energetic sponsorship drive and are delighted with the response, although they are encouraging more to come on board to help raise funds. Platinum $500 donation and in-kind sponsors to date are Daylesford District Community Bank, Biggin & Scott, Copyworx, Daylesford Bowling Club, Designscope, Keith Pyers’ Family, Menadue Family and Piper Design.
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NZAC 100 has chosen The Local as its media partner to bring the community all the news leading up to the commemoration of the first Anzac Day. Every edition of The Local will include stories and photos about the people and organisations who are working towards making the 100th anniversary one of the most memorable and moving events seen in Daylesford. Make sure you pick up your hard copy or read the online edition at www.tlnews.com.au
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2/12 Albert St, Daylesford. Community Open Group Acupuncture (drop ins welcome) Tuesday 2pm -5.30pm, Thursday 9.30am - noon. Express needling on chairs at the SAME time as others $30 (cash) or bookings of four $5 off each. Private consultations still by appointment Tues – Sat. 0417 036 153 www.tcmconsultancy.com
What do you do after a hard day’s night at the Chillout Festival, dancing, enjoying local wines, eating out and taking it easy (or hard) at the local Daylesford spas? Well, Chill at the Mill of course! The Amazing Mill Markets is the perfect shopping partner to your weekend – we have an incredible array of things to see and buy at our market, just 30 seconds easy drive from the centre of Daylesford. Inside you’ll find a cornucopia of vintage, retro and contemporary fashion for all – you could find your perfect outfit to wear to the bush dance, or even perhaps the street parade! We also have tonnes of interesting collectibles, antiques, art, home décor, industrial chic – ideal for adorning your home space or perhaps a friend’s! Come out for a visit, grab yourself a coffee made with love (and a bit of cheek!) by our resident superstar barista, Miss Cara Couture and while away the day exploring our Amazing space.
The Amazing Mill Markets wishes all of our visitors to beautiful Daylesford for the Chillout Festival a wonderful and refreshing weekend and we look forward to welcoming you to Chill at the Mill!
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Take time to chill out! Group Outdoor Exercise in Kyneton All fitness levels Monday 7.30pm Friday 9.15am (babies and children welcome) Phone Kate 0404 205 144
THE COTTAGE HERBALIST Caroline Parker BHSc Western Herbal Medicine
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Brave shave for students
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HILE the World’s Greatest Shave may be taking place from March 12 to 15, nine brave students went under the razor on the last day of school last year.
The Kyneton Primary School students, along with three teachers and local motorbike celebrity Alex Bolton, put up their hands to raise more than $2500 for research into blood cancer. Among them was 12-year-old Hayden Clapham - well known for his amazing mullet, and an even more inspiring reason for the interesting hair choice. Hayden’s older brother Trent passed away in 2012 from the second bout of a rare cancer, Ewings Sarcoma. Trent first underwent surgery for a tumour in his chin in 2008 followed by 14 cycles of chemotherapy. The cancer returned in 2011 with limited medical options. Mum Fiona said when Trent lost his hair, it grew back but only in wisps, and he hated it. He asked Hayden to grow his hair for him – and the mullet was created. Fiona said she had no idea about the Greatest Shave event until Hayden, now in his first year at Kyneton Secondary College, came home from school and said physical education teacher, and a good friend of Trent, Dave Romer, was organising the event. “I said to Hayden ‘you’re not going to shave your mullet are you?’ and he said ‘no, just the top, I am keeping the mullet’. “And we all thought he was just getting a little buzz cut on top, a number three or four, but on the day the teacher just turned up with the shaver and, zoom, did the middle strip. “It was a great day, and I thought they were all very brave, but afterwards I asked Hayden (pictured left with Dave) how he felt about being bald on top and he just said ‘it’s only hair mum, it will grow back’. “And it has – although it looked very strange for a while. “But it’s not just about Hayden, it’s about all those students, and teachers and Alex, they were all so brave to sit up there in front of everyone and be shaved. I hope more people are inspired.”
Photo courtesy of Erin Cooper
SATURDAY The Daylesford Spa Country Railway will again host the very special High Tea on the Line as part of the
ChillOut Festival over the March long weekend. Bookings Via:
www.chilloutfestival.com.au
SUNDAY
Sunday trains rides and
HUGE Sunday Market held at the
historic Daylesford Railway Station.
MONDAY
A great way to unwind after a
weekend of fun at ChillOut! For a
unique view of the local countryside come aboard our historic gangers trolleys!
Daylesford Railway Station between
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11am and 3pm
Tickets available on the day
A message to our valued patients and our community PATIENT FEE INFORMATION effective 02 March 2015 For many years, Springs Medical Centre has maintained fees lower than most comparable rural primary health care General Practice services. We have been able to offer bulk billing to most concession card holders and many patients with chronic disease. Over the past two years we have kept patient fee increases to a minimum, whilst government support for General Practice has significantly reduced. Unfortunately it is no longer sustainable for Springs Medical Centre to maintain fees at the current levels. To do so would seriously impact on our service quality and economic viability. Our commitment remains to continue to provide the best access to high quality primary care services. However to enable us to do this we have had to implement a new fee structure: From 2 March 2015: Concession card holders: A gap or co-payment will generally be charged for every second visit For a standard consultation $20 GAP pay on the day $30 GAP take an account The first and each alternate visit will generally be bulk billed. Commonwealth Seniors Health Card holders will be covered by this new billing policy The following patients will generally be exempt from the co-payment:Eligible Veterans Affairs card-holders Children under 16 years old with a concession card Children under 16 years old for routine childhood vaccination-only visits Requests for prescriptions or similar without consultation are discouraged and will generally incur a fee of $20 GAP payments (out of pocket fees) may be reduced or waived by your Doctor in exceptional circumstances From 2 March 2015: Non concession card holders: General Practitioner Consultations delivered during ordinary hours Our fees will rise by $5 increasing the gap payable on the day for a standard Level B Consultation to $33 GP Consultations delivered during Evening (after 6pm) and Saturday/Sunday Clinics Our fees will rise by $10 increasing the gap payable on the day for a standard Level B Consultation to $38 Requests for prescriptions or similar without consultation are discouraged and will generally incur a fee of $25 GAP payments (out of pocket fees) may be reduced or waived by your Doctor in exceptional circumstances Rapid Clinics: For a very short, on the day, appointment for simple requests such as repeat prescriptions, referrals, and medical certificates, you may request a RAPID CLINIC appointment. In addition, all patients may be charged for some services and consumables like dressings and PAP tests, for example. New additional out of pocket fees will be charged for other services and consumables including: Nurse PAP tests will incur a $20 fee which may be eligible for a rebate from Medicare depending upon individual patient health card and chronic disease status. Patients requiring regular wound dressings and similar may need to be provided with an approved dressing pack and a schedule of fees will be advised for these. If you wish to let the Government know that the Medicare rebate is insufficient to assist you in meeting the costs of your medical care, please contact the Minister for Health, your local Federal Member of Parliament or Senator. Yours sincerely Lynda Poke General Manager
At Springs Medical Centre our vision is to achieve the optimum health of our community Our values reflect our purpose in delivering excellence in primary health care Patient focused care | Privacy, integrity, honesty and respect | Community engagement | Sustainability | Accountability 10 Hospital Street Daylesford 3461 Phone: 5348 2227
www.springsmedical.com.au
22 Victoria Street Trentham, 3458 Phone: 5424 1602
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Don Huntley Memorial Recital
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ERSHWIN’S Rhapsody in Blue, Beethoven’s monumental final sonata Op111 and a selection of the elegant Pieces de Clavecin of Couperin is the program to be played at the 2014 Don Huntley Memorial Piano Recital.
Mark Shiell − Artistic Director & Principal Conductor
The event will be held at the Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts, Ballarat, on Saturday March 15 from 7.30pm. Ballarat Grammar piano performance coordinator Bronislaw Sozanski said the school’s guest for the concert was Dr Timothy Young, head of piano at the Australian National Academy of Music. “Profits from the event provide an entry scholarship for piano study at Ballarat Grammar,” he said. Champagne supper with artist tickets or concert only tickets are available on 5338 0980 or www.wcpa.com.au Special school student concert only price is $5.
TRENTHAM
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Roman Ponomariov − french horn Selena Pettifer − mezzo soprano
Mary Johnston − concertmaster
Weber − Overture: Oberon Dreyfus − A Song for Gallipoli 2.00pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 Strauss − Horn Concerto No.1 Daylesford Town Hall Brahms − Symphony No.1 Vincent Street, Daylesford Tickets − General Admission $20 Buy at Paradise Bookshop, 46 Vincent Street or Bookbarn, 1 Leggatt Street Book online via trybooking.com/GWUB or call 0411 866 643
MAKERS MARKET
Two Markets – One location Spring has sprung – The grass is ris – I wonder where the birdies is???
The Town Square in Trendy Trentham The Trentham Farmers Market has joined with
U3A Hepburn Shire Inc. Reg. A0041248X & Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra Inc. Reg. A0031942K
Trentham Makers Market
Photo: Nik Babic
Third Saturday, 9am – 1pm
CARPORT/ WORKSHOP CLEARANCE
SALE 16 Hepburn Rd Daylesford
TRENTHAM PETROL & STUFF
1 Market St PH 5424 1611 Mon - Sat 8am - 6pm Sun 9am - 6pm
from 9am Sat. 7, Sun. 8 March
old wares, furniture collectables, clothing, kitchen ware books, magazines, CDs, DVDs electronic bric -a-brac
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
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!
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Local hairdresser Pauline Hartz has opened her doors on East Street, Daylesford. The Lounge Hair and Beauty is open five days a week, offering two late nights, and is closed Tuesdays and Sundays. Pauline, who has previously worked in Daylesford for the past eight years, welcomes new and existing clients. Address: Unit 19, 37-39 East Street Daylesford Phone: 0429 792 078
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Pick me, pick me! Hi, my name is Beatrix and I am a domestic short hair girl kitten - just 10 weeks old. I am one of many kittens waiting for adoption at Castlemaine RSPCA. We have all been desexed, microchipped, vaccinated and of course, flea and worm treated. Best of all this is all covered by the adoption fee. Please come and meet us all and play with us to see if one of us will be your new best buddy. (I had to say that - pick me, pick me!) MC#956000004283955 Castlemaine RSPCA is at 24 Langslow St, Castlemaine. Phone: 5472 5277. Open: Monday to Thursday from 10am to 5pm. Friday and Saturday from 10am to 3pm.
Daylesford Community Opportunity Shop lending a helping hand to organsations in need
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HE Daylesford Community Opportunity Shop would like to thank its fabulous supporters and the community for all of their donations - and for choosing the op shop as their retail therapy outlet!
Manager Michelle Clifford, on behalf of the Committee of Management, said the opportunity shop was all about providing an affordable place for people to shop, find some special bargains - and raise money for many community organisations in need. “Over the past years the Daylesford Community Opportunity Shop has raised more than $30,000 which has been donated to myriad organisations, schools and programs. It has also worked in partnership with many other local groups including the successful Daylesford Community Park Fair and Christmas Cheer.” The Daylesford Community Opportunity Shop had become an incorporated charitable organisation last year. “And we couldn’t have done any of this without our wonderful volunteers who willingly give us their valuable time - with plenty of laughs along the way. “It has been a real privilege to work at the opportunity shop and we look forward to many more years of making a difference to the community.”
Daylesford Community Opportunity Shop is at 6 Mink Street, Daylesford Monday to Saturday 10am - 4pm
Past recipients include:
Current
Hepburn Wildlife Local Asylum Seekers Daylesford and Hepburn United Football Daylesford and District Food Aid Christmas Cheer (past two years) Riding for the Disabled Crisis Aid Bush fire recovery Hepburn Wholefood Collective Daylesford Community After School and Vacation Program Sweet Justice Choir The Breakfast Club Daylesford Community Park Daylesford Home Educators Daylesford Community Gardeners 5000 club Daylesford Primary School Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre VCAL Program Hepburn Health - Welfare and CAFS Words in Winter Family Day The Healing Ground Project Hepburn & Macedon Vision Impaired Daylesford Secondary College I Play Music Systems
Hepburn Primary School
Hepburn Community Radio Daylesford Girl Guides
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Grist latest venture for master baker Tim
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YOU don’t wait three days for a loaf of bread unless you love it.”
Those are the sage words of Tim Clayton, the owner and master baker of Grist, a boutique sourdough bakery in Kyneton’s Piper Street. Not surprisingly Tim chose a former flour mill for his latest venture, built in the 1830s and still boasting remains of stone grinding wheels, augers and flour baggers. And that history is something Tim also loves. With a 21-year career in baking, starting with work experience while still at school and just 14, Tim has spent his time wisely – learning from the best and learning from others’ mistakes. He started full-time in baking after finishing school and being offered an apprenticeship with Goldsteins Bakery on the Gold Coast – one of the biggest wholesale bakeries of its time. From there he moved to a head baker’s position with Brumby’s, also in Queensland and then found himself travelling over west for a while before heading back east to the Sheraton Mirage at Port Douglas. The next step was where he started his French training with sourdough baking – at the Milawa Cheese Factory in Victoria. “That was my first taste of sourdough and I wasn’t there long before I became head baker. I have learnt from a lot of bakers but especially from the guys at Milawa – they have been to France and they bring back those techniques to Australia and share them. “And I use that French experience here too. Sourdough is a two-day process. The leaven is made the first day and the second day we mix and then ten hours later we bake. And you have to love what you do. You don’t stand around for three days for a loaf of bread if you don’t love it. “I am also about the old school techniques, everything is done with our hands, we still have some tins here but mainly use couche - linen canvases like they used to in France…We have timber benches – not stainless steel. Apart from a few appliances and the fridges it’s like stepping back into the 1700s.” But back to Tim’s amazing career. After opening his own business, similar to Grist, in New South Wales, after a while he decided to expand his grain knowledge and headed to South Australia and worked in grain exporting terminals where he learned how to grade grain before being headhunted by the Royal Melbourne Zoo’s bakery and then moving to the famous Rustica Sourdough in Melbourne learning from master baker Brenton Lang. Two years on Tim found himself at Red Beard Bakery in Trentham, using their 170-year-old wood fired oven and then “the biggest opportunity of my life came up with Grist”. “My partner came up with the name and I researched it and found it was an old word for grain, as in grist for the mill, and it also means that nothing is wasted. And that’s what we do here – use everything possible.” That means a bread range that includes from full 100 per cent sourdough to semi sourdough with fig and hazelnut, or olives, down to a very rich and sweet Brioche. There are also plenty of cakes and pastries with Tim learning his sweet trade from pastry chef maestro Alessandro Urilli. Oh, and for those who want to learn from the best, Tim is planning “Breakfast with the Baker” classes on Sundays for a few hours. Participants will learn
techniques, get their hands dirty and also find out about the differences in gluten between “real” sourdough and commercial products. “We only use flour, salt, water and natural yeast in our sourdough. And the longer the fermentation the more breakdown you get of natural gluten – so our full sourdough is 90 per cent gluten free. “Many people with a normally high intolerance of gluten can eat sourdough instead.” Watch this space for class times. And did we mention the cafe...
Grist - 2/18 Piper Street, Kyneton. Phone 8376 6970 Hours: Wednesday to Friday 9am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 8am to 5pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
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Boyhood train dream comes true for Bill Words | Images Kyle Barnes
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N ENGLAND, during the war years, toy trains were scarce on the ground. But like many boys Bill Longley always yearned for one of his own.
Oddly, it was in Cyprus while in the airforce that he started his first collection. “I went into a barber’s and he had toy trains and I said ‘why have you got trains’ and he said ‘they were here when I bought the shop’. “So I bought a few plastic kits for making coaches from him and I had a little model railway in Cyprus which I sold. “And then when I came back home I just started building a few, which I scrapped as we moved houses, and this is my biggest yet.” Bill, a Daylesford resident these days, is referring to the model railway at his home which is structurally sound enough “to stand on – which helps when you want to reach something”. The railway has upwards of 20 locomotives and even more carriages, and is an intricate system of diodes, toggles, washers and switches. Bill has chosen an English scene from the 1930s “before nationalisation when things were still in colours”. “I run two different companies, The London Midland and Scottish – LMS – which is dark red and the Great Western which are predominantly cream and brown with green engines. The two did interact, especially in the west country.” Bill has set up a series of programs which see the trains disappear into hollow hills where storage loops see them miraculously turned around and head back out “as if they have been somewhere”. There’s the High Dudgeon Station and a “fiddle yard” where the trains need to be disconnected, turned around and sent out again on their way. “You can constantly change that program all the time. And this particular layout is about five years old. I did have a smaller one but I decided to make it a bit more permanent. This is very heavily constructed.” The scale of the model is “00” which is four millimetres to the foot – that’s mixing your imperial and metrics – and the hills are Plaster of Paris and chicken wire. Meanwhile, the buildings are made from cardboard, some commercial and bought as kits, while others have been made from scratch. Even the shop bought ones have been added to for a three-dimensional look. And Bill, whose health has been a little challenged lately, says it’s all “good fun”. “There’s another bloke at Hepburn, he has a railway in the shed which is about a quarter of the size of this but very nice. He does British Rail – all his engines are black – that’s from after nationalisation. “He comes up here sometimes and when I can’t pick things up properly he gives me a hand. We’re good mates. And it’s just good fun.” So much so that Bill is keen to share his hobby with anyone interested in model railways. Phone: 5348 1638.
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Time to chill out at ChillOut
Michelle Dunn Photography
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T’S just a few days before ChillOut. The sun shines a rainbow coloured light over our busy little village. Locals gay, straight and queer busy themselves with last minute preparations. It’s going to be a big year, Daylesford is buzzing.
ChillOut entertainment director Tanya Baricevich said the original idea of ChillOut was for people to come and “ChillOut” in the country after the big summer LGBTIQ party season. “ChillOut offers an authentic country experience, set in a village atmosphere. The gays literally take over the village…It’s a warm safe and friendly environment, charged with excitement and pride. Wrapping up the summer with one final big weekend. ChillOut has remained true to its roots.” Tanya added that the Daylesford–Hepburn region was Australia’s spa capital, also famous for its world class food, wine, arts and culture – with “heaps to explore”. “It is home to a diverse representation of people including artists and artisans, original free thinking, creative and interesting people. There is such a strong and inclusive sense of community that a lot of LGBTIQ people choose to settle in the area, as did we. Same sex parents choose the region to raise their families. For myself, having the festival so well established and supported by the community sits as a kind of beacon over the region and highlights it as a safe place in which you can be yourself. Whatever that is, this is a time many rural LGBTIQ people choose to come out.” ChillOut is just over an hour’s drive from Melbourne so for those who didn’t want to stay overnight, the Street Parade followed by Carnival Day on Sunday was a perfect day trip and a simply must enjoy experience, Tanya said. “Carnival Day is our big family fun day. Live and loud music all day on the main stage featuring some of the LGBTIQ community’s favourite entertainers. Meanwhile, ChillOut’s 18th birthday has us coming of age and with even more of an excuse to celebrate. This year’s theme is Queer Country Pride - think cowboy boots, big hats and even bigger hair. “Finally ChillOut would not be possible without the ongoing support from our sponsors, partners, supporters, volunteers, families and friends that all give so generously to help us put on this great spectacular festival for all to enjoy – a huge hug and thanks to you each and every one of you. We are really looking forward to sharing ChillOut with you all and can’t wait to see you there.”
MY NAME IS BARBRA
Barbra Streisand Tribute Show Starring Maureen Andrew Friday 6th March 2015 Drinks from 7.00pm Show time 8.00pm $15.00 per head
The Grande Hotel Cabaret Room Bookings essential manager@thegrandehotel.com.au 03 5348 1978
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Daylesford Hotel
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Out Open Yoga
67 Vincent St North
5pm - 7pm
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We are Family - Queer Families 2015
Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre
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Ballarat Roller Derby
Daylesford Arc
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Jubliee Lake Holiday Park
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Old Hepburn Hotel
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Rainbow Mineral Water Bathing
Hepburn 5.30pm Bathhouse & Spa 8pm
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Daylesford Spa County Railway
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Hepburn Springs 11.30am Golf Club
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Daylesford Library
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Victoria Park Daylesford
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Perfect Drop
12pm - 1am
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Perfect Drop
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Liquid Dreams
Perfect Drop
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Daylesford Town Hall
8pm - 3am
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Daylesford Library
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Last Post honour for Eganstown resident
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ILLIAM Menadue, who died nearly 100 years ago at Gallipoli, was recognised at a Last Post Ceremony in Canberra on Wednesday, February 25.
Eganstown resident Carolyn Menadue said William Menadue was the uncle of her husband, John Menadue. “William was born in Eganstown in 1889 and was one of the first eight volunteers to enlist from Daylesford,” she said. “He was 24 years of age when he sailed in October, 2014 from Melbourne to Cairo and then on to Gallipoli. He was injured in May, 1915, hospitalised in Egypt and then returned to Gallipoli in June. “On August 11 he was injured again and sadly died of his injuries on the hospital ship Devanha and was buried 200 miles out to sea.” Carolyn said she and John attended the Last Post Ceremony in Canberra and laid a wreath in William’s honour made from rosemary, gum leaves, gum nuts and red rose hips – all from Eganstown. “It was a very moving experience,” Carolyn said.
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OU can find everything you need at weekend markets, from fresh fruit and veg, to handmade jewellery and wares, throughout the Central Highlands and surrounds. Here are just a few.
Daylesford Railway Market – every Sunday (pictured right) Daylesford Farmers’ Market – first Saturday of the month
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Saturday & Sunday 11am - 5:30pm Monday brunch from 10am, close 5pm Gluten-free & vegan available
Trentham Farmers’ Market and Makers’ Market – third Saturday of the month Trentham Station Sunday Market – fourth Sunday of the month Glenlyon Farmers Market – third Saturday of the month Castlemaine Artists Market – first Sunday of the month Buninyong Village Market – March 29 Maldon Market – second Sunday of the month Creswick Market – third Saturday of the month Golden Plains Farmers’ Market – March 7 Talbot Farmers’ Market – March 15 Want to publicise your market? Email news@tlnews.com.au
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We are looking for a Part Time Casual Cleaner. Must take pride in their work and be experienced, to help us continue our reputation as a very clean Motel with above average presentation. Must be able to work weekends, public holidays in addition to weekdays. If you would like to join our friendly team please provide us with your details by email to
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Town criers to compete in Hepburn Springs
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EPBURN Springs will host the 26th annual Town Crier Championships under the auspices of The Australasian Guild of Town Criers this month.
Town criers from around Australia will be vying for the prestigious title of Champion Crier. Creswick town crier Philip Greenbank, left, and Daylesford town crier David Goldman, below wearing another of his many hats, said they were looking forward to showcasing the region and hosting the event. Each town crier is required to prepare two presentations with one for this event based on the theme “Happy and Healthy in Hepburn”. The town criers’ performances will be judged by a team including world respected judges. The event is at the Hepburn Springs Soundshell on Sunday, March 15 from 11.30am. Meanwhile last month, Hepburn Shire Council voted to contact the Australasian Guild of Town Criers asking them to appoint a town crier for the shire. The council meeting agenda said town criers were a part of early communication to the public. “The guild appoints the person based upon character and skill and can also appoint a deputy where another crier exists within a shire.”
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Cate McGregor guest speaker at IWD function
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ATE McGregor is the guest speaker for Hepburn Shire Council’s International Women’s Day civic function.
The International Women’s Day Heather Mutimer Women’s Honour Roll ceremony will be held at the Daylesford Town Hall on Thursday, March 5 from 5pm. The reception will include the announcement of the inductees with light refreshments after the event. Cate McGregor (formerly Malcolm Gerard McGregor) is a serving member of the Australian Defence Force and also a well-known cricket commentator and author. Cate was previously strategic advisor and speech writer to the Chief of Army. She is well known for writing the speech on unacceptable behaviour in the Australian Army which the Chief of Army, Lieutenant General David Morrison AO gave in June 2013, following the announcement of civilian police and defence investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct by army members. Cate was recently on the ABC’s Australian Story and has been travelling Australia giving talks on her experiences.
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ONATHON Welch started his full-time singing career when he joined the Victorian State Opera chorus in 1980 – but he is probably most famous for creating the Choir of Hard Knocks for the ABC. On March 15, he is bringing his Melbourne group THECHO!R to Daylesford to perform with Geoffrey Williams and the Daylesford Soul Choir as a fundraiser for the 5000 Club. The Local’s editor Donna Kelly caught up for a chat. DK: Tell us a bit about yourself. JW: After joining the Victorian State Opera chorus I then went on to study at Queensland Conservatorium before I joined Opera Australia at the end of 1987 and made my debut with Dame Joan Sutherland in the Merry Widow. After 15 years of full-time singing in opera, musicals, G&S and in concert here in Australia and overseas I decided to take a break and returned to teaching singing and choral directing. It was in 2001 I began the first choir experiencing homelessness and disadvantage in Sydney with Sydney Street Choir before I returned home to Melbourne and created the Choir of Hard Knocks for the ABC. My vision for arts and cultural programs for the disadvantaged was launched in 2012 with the School of Hard Knocks where we have a whole range of arts programs including a very extensive Absolutely Everybody choral program with 14 choir programs across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. DK: When did you know you were into music? JW: My earliest childhood memories are all centred around music and creating little shows with neighbourhood friends and singing. I think when I was born I came out singing, not crying. DK: What is the story of the choir/s? JW: I owe much of my love of singing and choirs to the influence of my mother who was a great singer, accompanist and church organist. Most of my early experiences of singing in choirs were at the little church in Balaclava in Melbourne, before I went onto Melbourne Boys High School and really found my love of choral music and singing. I suppose in many ways it has been the “lifebuoy” that has carried me through many difficult twists and turns in my personal life. I just love sharing the knowledge, skills and passion I have for singing with people now and “playing it forward” which is our program philosophy at the School of Hard Knocks.
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DK: Looking back, are there things you would have changed? JW: It’s easy to look back and think maybe I could have done things differently, but I realise that the journey I have had, including the good and bad, has led me to do what I love doing now. The only regret I have is that my mother died when I was 23 years old and I never really got to share all the wonderful musical adventures I have had with her. But I know she’s with me in spirit and my heart every day.
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DK: What’s your favourite venue/venues? JW: I’ve been very fortunate to perform in many wonderful theatres around the world including Sydney Opera House (many times), Royal Albert Hall in London, Basilica Notre Dame in Montreal and of course many of our beautiful theatres in Melbourne. But I must admit I love coming back to Daylesford and performing in the town hall for all the local residents. It has such a fabulous acoustic and atmosphere.
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DK: What do you think music means to people? JW: I think music is often the language that we can all speak and relate to when words or actions alone just don’t get through. It also touches our heart and mind in a way that nothing else does, and I think time stops when we are truly absorbed in creating or listening to music. There are not many times in life that happens for us. DK: Apart from THECHO!R on March 15 are you doing anything else local? JW: I’m also planning to do some Morning Melodies style concerts in Daylesford later in the year. DK: Finally, what music do you listen to in your spare time? JW: I love all styles of music really. Good music making is good music as far as I’m concerned, no matter what the genre!
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Generosity guiding philosophy at Farmers
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USANNE Devine and Claire Levine took over the Farmers Arms Hotel almost six years ago with the philosophy of “generosity, warmth and making people feel welcome from the minute they walk in the door”.
And it works. Last week, on a supposedly quiet Tuesday in February, before a long weekend, they were busy serving both locals and tourists – whether that is meals, snacks or just something from their extensive drinks menu. Susanne, pictured far right with Claire, said that offering of generosity extended to “comfortable surroundings, good food with quality ingredients and good wine”. “We would rather serve a good wine at $10 a glass than an average wine at $6. And it’s also about never being tight with food or drinks, or someone’s birthday. “Generosity underlies everything in hospitality and you shouldn’t be in it if you are not a naturally generous person.” Claire said it was also about warmth – a friendly welcome when people arrived and an honest “goodbye and thank-you” when they left. “It’s also about taking the time to listen to people as well. A lot of people, especially visitors, tell us how much they loved their meal and it’s nice to take the time to ask what they had, to have that interaction. We want people to feel like they have had a really complete night out – not just good food, wine and service.” The women admit it has been hard work but that there are also many benefits – and are very happy they opted after two years to close the fine dining restaurant and make the “Farmers” a good old fashioned pub. “We just wanted to be a pub doing really good food and wine,” Susanne said. “And it means we can have a much more extensive menu now. Our chef Gavin, who has worked on projects on and off with me for 25 years, has been here four years now and this is his sort of food – he really gets it. And he is such a master of so many cuisines – if you look at the menu board he can take you to Asia, to Italy, to India… “And it’s worked, the business has doubled since we made that move.” Claire said one of the biggest changes was no longer taking reservations but since placing staff on the door on Friday and Saturday nights, waiting for a table was a pretty quick affair. “When people call we just say walk in and if there is nothing available immediately, have a drink at the bar and we will take your name and find you a table. That works really, really well. And some people end up staying at the bar because they find that’s such a nice environment.” And that’s where we found ourselves recently, enjoying a bottle of Paringa Estate chardonnay ($56) and the Tasting Plate of fetta, prosciutto, olives, taramasalata, salmon
gravlax, mini caprese salad and chicken liver parfait ($25). OMG. This is fabulous, all of it, although my favourite is the parfait, not pate, but light, fluffy, creamy house-made parfait. Kyle loved the gravlax, an amazing texture and just the right flavour, and also finished off the prosciutto. He seems to have turned paleo today because he also orders the Vitello Tonnato – poached veal with tuna mayo and herbs ($22). It’s delicious. Thin slices of veal, so tender they just melt in your mouth with this delicate mayonnaise. Mmmm. Now this would almost do, seriously, in a flavour barrage and “I’m full” way - in a non-dining review world. But we must push on. I opt for the Dukkah Crusted Snapper on rocket, fetta and pistachios ($32) and it is fabulous. The fish is firm but perfect to the bite with the dukkah adding crunch and the salad underneath is generous and delicious. I love the pepperiness of rocket, the creaminess of the fetta and there are loads of pistachios adding even more texture. It’s a first for me but is now a favourite. Kyle has the Slow Braised Italian Lamb Shanks with mash ($28) and declares no knife is needed as
the meat is falling off the bone. The tomato based sauce is perfect and quickly cleaned up with the creamy mash. Now this is clearly enough. Not one more wafer…but perhaps just a taste of the Passionfruit Bombe with passionfruit sauce ($16) – and a twocheese – St Agur and D’Affionois – cheese plate with sliced pear, apple, toasties and quince paste ($18). Yum. The bombe is the bomb. Meringue surrounding smooth passionfruit ice-cream which looks so good it’s almost a shame to eat it. But we do. And the French cheeses – the Saint Agur is a blue cheese from the village of Beauzac in the Monts du Velay in central France while the D’Affionois Fromager is a French double-cream soft cheese produced by the Fromagerie Guilloteau company – are an incredible finish to the meal – with the sweetness and tartness of the fruit and paste. For locals and visitors The Farmers Arms Hotel in Daylesford offers fabulous food and wine coupled with friendly service and a great atmosphere. A feast for the body and the soul.
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. For more information about the pub and also our current menu, please visit our website: www.thefarmersarms .com.au 1 East Street Daylesford ph. 03 5348 2091
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Gig Guide Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn
Enjoy the largest selection of
craft beer in Castlemaine Poured from the only unique hand pump in town
DJ Daggers – Friday, March 6, 9pm Twisted Rodeo Trivia – Saturday, March 7, 11.30am Cream – Saturday, March 7, 4pm Honky Tonk Women – Sunday, March 8, 7pm Gabe Atkinson – Saturday, March 14, 9pm
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Trentham Cat & Clint – Sunday, March 8, 1pm Zeebs vs Miss Vitula – Sunday, March 15, 1pm Family Farm – Sunday, March 22, 1pm The Flames – Sunday, March 29, 1pm
The Grande Hotel, Hepburn Barbra Streisand Show – Friday, March 6, 8pm Around The Grande Piano with Peter Hurley – Saturday, March 7, 8pm Fox Force Burlesque – Sunday, March 8, 8pm Great Cabaret Shows – Friday, March 13, 8pm
Proud sponsors of the Bendigo Craft Beer Festival in conjunction with Golden Square Hotel Bendigo railway hotel castlemaine 65 gingell street, castlemaine vic 3450 phone 03 5472 1250
Blackwood Hotel, Blackwood Live music every Sunday, noon to 4pm
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Perfect Drop, Daylesford DJ Guy - Saturday, March 7 DJ Guy - Sunday, March 8 SIN Dance Night with DJ Swami salami and DJ Shimmy Shake - Monday, March 9
Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville Cat & Clint – Thursday, March 5, dinner Jude Parsons – Friday March 6, dinner Marty P – Saturday, March 7, lunch Family Farm Band - Monday, March 9, lunch
Got a gig happening? Email donna@tlnews.com.au
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The Grande Hotel Cabaret Club presents...
Chillout Performances
Fox Force Burlesque Sun 8 March at 7pm Show $20
My Name Is Barbra with Maureen Andrew Fri 6 March at 8pm Musical theatre $15
Around The Grande Piano with Peter Hurley Sat 7 March at 7pm Dinner show $85
1 Church Avenue, Hepburn Bookings ph:5348-1978 or e:manager@thegrandehotel.com.au
Antares Iron Art Garden Open for Castlemaine State Festival 13- 22 March Daily 10am-6pm
Iron, stone, bone, wood and glass are gathered together, creating an art garden to entice and intrigue. Cnr Brandt St & Punt Rd, Newstead - off Daylesford Newstead Rd Roger McKindley 0447 229 149 For map see www.newstead.vic.au
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Small bites to share Old Heppy
The Old Hepburn Hotel has its Twilight Makers Market this Friday from 6pm. There will also be buskers performing so make sure you take some gold coins! And then on Sunday it’s Honky Tonk Women featuring Michelle Parsons and Cyndi Boste from 7pm. Oh, and the hotel has changed its opening hours with dinner seven nights and lunches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There’s also a new bar menu with “cheap eats” like good old fashioned bangers and mash. Yum.
Pimms anyone? The Convent Gallery, up on the hill, is offering a Pimms Pop-Up Garden Party this Saturday and Sunday. So you can be spotted with a cocktail in one hand and a badminton racquet in the other as summer sounds play all day long with live DJ sets from late afternoon until late. As the sun goes down, dance your night away under the festoon lights. Best of all, it’s free entry. Don’t like Pimms? Don’t worry. The Altar Bar is well stocked with plenty of other beverages.
Juicy news Keeping everyone hydrated, The Galley Diner will be running a “cold press”’ juice station for the long weekend. Host and chef Dorian says there will be a variety of fresh juices available for the weekend for people “to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate”. Nice one!
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ELBOURNE ceramics scholar Patricia Begg will be guest speaker of the Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society at Kyneton Town Hall on Thursday, March 19.
Ms Begg has been a collector of ceramics for more than 50 years and has studied in many large collections in England, Europe and America as well as Australia. She is a freelance lecturer in ceramics, lace and social history and has lectured at the National Gallery of Victoria presenting, among others, lectures celebrating the 200th anniversary of the death of Josiah Wedgwood, the “A” Mark sugar bowl in the Melbourne Cricket Ground Museum, chinoiserie and lace. Ms Begg is the president of the Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia and has been curator of many exhibitions in regional galleries of Victoria. At the society’s lecture, Ms Begg will look at the development of porcelain table decoration in the 1730s at Meissen in Germany and then move onto the French Rococo influence, which brought the Monkey Band to Meissen in the 1740s The Monkey Band is a collection of Meissen Monkey Orchestra figurines dressed in the style of the late seventeenth century, glazed in pastels of green, pink, blue and lilac and includes a fiddler, a guitarist, a harpist, male and female singers, and a hurdy-gurdy player and many others. A small grouping can be seen at the Percy Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne as a display of Rose’s (Percy Grainger’s mother) personal collection. Link: adfas.org.au Phone: 0408 517 485 or 5348 7629.
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Meal deals for locals - tourists also welcome
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VERYONE loves a locals’ deal. Especially a meal deal! So here are the dining establishments to head to for great value and meals.
Raffles
Fundraising raffles for local organisations are held on Friday evenings at The Farmers Arms Hotel, Daylesford, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Trentham and the Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn.
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
Perfect Drop - five courses with a glass of bubbles or beer - $50 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
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.
Want to share a locals’ deal? Email news@tlnews.com.au
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
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Moor Please, Hepburn - any pizza + a glass of MP wine or 961 Lebanese beer $20
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The Bed Shop all about customer service
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SIDE from your workplace, they are where you spend most of your time – your bed and your sofa. So it makes sense that two years ago The Sofa Store joined forces with The Bed Shop, and together opened the large modern showroom at 65 Mair Street East, Ballarat. The Bed Shop has recently celebrated its 17th year of successful trading in Mair Street East. Owners Jenny and Philip Browning have certainly made their mark on their showroom with stunning bedroom suites complete with bedroom furniture, gorgeous throws and coveted lamps – and then there are the sofas – complete with rugs, quirky decorations and comfy cushions. Even if you are not in the market for a new bed or sofa, it’s well worth a wander for all the other treats on offer. Today, however, Jenny is keen to chat about your mattress and recommends a new mattress every seven years. “We stock Comfort Sleep mattresses . It’s an Australian company which trades under several names and is based in Melbourne. Which means if any of our customers have a problem it is quickly sorted out – they are only an hour away. But they are a wonderful, award winning company, which makes a great product and we have been with them many years.” The Bed Shop is also an award winning boutique company, think CGU and Powercor business awards to name just a few, for its customer service. “Everything we do is based on our customers,” Jenny said. “It’s all about what the customer wants and their perceptions. We do surveys and ask ‘are we doing what you want, what is your expectation?’ because we want to meet and exceed that. And you can’t imagine how upset we get if an order doesn’t come in on time – we don’t like to let our customers down.” Part of that customer service includes having their own delivery truck and not charging for delivery – to Daylesford and Hepburn. They have even sent beds as far afield as Queensland, deliver weekly to their Melbourne customers and often head up to Horsham, Ararat and Stawell. So it’s no wonder that much of their trade is return customers. “We have many, many return customers. Our business has really been built on that for the past 17 years. We even have customers who have come in as children with their parents, then come back to buy their own bed, and are now buying beds for their children. And then they send their neighbours along…” And that family connection obviously means a lot to Ballarat born and bred Jenny and Philip – who can date their bloodline “probably back to the First Fleet”. They have three children and five grandchildren – with another due in April. In the corner, by the desk, is a cot which is clearly where “nanny” does her extra duties along with sales, looking after full-time staff, the casual staff, and bookwork. “And I love it all,” Jenny says. “And bedding tends to be a fairly even business. It’s a good solid industry to be in and we have found that while different products sell at different times, the traffic is mostly the same.” So if you are in the market for a new mattress, new base, beautiful bedroom suites, trundle or sofa beds, a new set of drawers, lovely linen or just a lamp to light up your life, head to The Bed Shop. Jenny and Philip will certainly make you feel welcome.
The Bed Shop and The Sofa Shop are open from Monday to Thursday from 9am to 5.30pm. Friday from 9am to 6pm and Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Oh, they are sometimes open on Sundays from 12.30pm to 4pm – but it is always worth a call first on 5333 2226. Even people who love their customers as much as Jenny and Philip need a day off now and again.
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T’S hard to believe that summer has rapidly drawn to a close especially as we have managed to scrape through with a few minor heatwaves and virtually no periods of extremely hazardous fire conditions.
We could be forgiven then, for thinking our gardens have once again made it through unscathed. But don’t be fooled. March can and will turn on more than a few sweltering days before it’s through. This is a critical time for the garden, because almost all plants (with the exception of Australian natives) whether evergreen or deciduous, start to wind down over the next week or so in readiness for their winter hibernation. It is important, then, that you now take time to help prepare them for winter. Obviously their water needs won’t lessen for some time yet so don’t let any spasmodic spells of rain fool you into putting away your hose or turning off the drip system just yet. Flowering shrubs, especially roses, appreciate regular dead-heading - the removal of spent flowers - at any time of the year. This could be accompanied by a light tidying trim and a dressing of an organic plant food to support any autumn growth encouraged by the lingering warm weather. It would also be a good idea to supplement any diminished mulch to ensure continuing retention of soil moisture around the roots. Any growth inducing nitrogen fertiliser should be applied asap to allow any new foliage to harden before the arrival of winter chills and frost. This is particularly important for citrus and other frost tender plants.
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You can prepare your garden for a colourful spring by planting flowering bulbs now and, indeed, for the next four or five weeks. Bulbs are wonderful selfcontained, almost self-sufficient modules that require little more than sunlight, moisture and friable soil to spring forth and produce masses of colourful flowers. Soil type isn’t particularly important as long as it is well drained. In heavier soils dig in a five to six centimetre layer of sand and well rooted compost to raise the level of the bed slightly to assist the drainage. Planting bulbs at the correct depth will ensure best results. As a rule of thumb that should be approximately three times the bulb’s own diameter. Too deep and they have trouble reaching the surface. Too shallow and the bulb can suffer from sunburn. Give them a good start by working a two to three centimetre layer of wellrotted compost or complete organic fertiliser which should be covered several centimetres above the actual bulb. A good soaking drink at the time of planting should be sufficient for the meantime…unless the weather turns feral before the rains come.
It’s time to plant: Flowering annuals: alyssum, antirrhinum, calendula, cineraria, dianthus, gaillardia, Iceland poppy, lobelia, lupin, pansy, primula, sweet pea and verbena. Vegetables: beet, broccoli, Brussels sprout, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, cress, endive, French bean, kohl rabi, lettuce, onion, parsnip, peas, radish, spinach and turnip.
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In just three years, Malcolm bought land and built a factory and showroom – now expanded to create one of the best showroom facilities outside of the metropolitan area - at 729 Creswick Road, Wendouree. Awarded a kitchen design certificate back in 1986, Malcolm also expanded his business from Ballarat to Daylesford and surrounding areas from 1990 – helping families and individuals renovate and build their homes to include stylish, practical and up-to-date kitchens, and then, from 2003 – fantastic bathrooms. And Malcolm takes his work seriously. He was a member of the National Kitchen and Bathroom executive committee for 14 years, is a past winner and twice runner up in the Victorian Kitchen of the Year awards and continues to undertake design courses. Malcolm said his team’s commitment to clients was the philosophy that had enabled them to achieve the growth of the past. “We promise dedication to current design for each of our customers based on their individual needs and we provide consistently high class workmanship using only the best hardware available with a lifetime guarantee on their products. “We ensure the time a home is occupied by my staff and sub-tradespeople will be as pleasurable as possible with a minimum of mess and a proper workflow put in place to achieve our mutual completion date. “Our mission statement has always been ‘you will find us a pleasure to deal with’ and that is as true today as when I first received that kitchen design certificate 29 years ago.”
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Keith Bourke: A champion in the big race
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EITH Bourke started his career competing in rodeo taking part in the Australian circuit from the early 1950s.
“At the time I was living in Sunshine (and) along with several of my mates, we would take off for six months of the year to compete across Queensland and northern New South Wales.” Keith competed on bucking horses and bullocks against some of the best riders in Australia and in an age when blacks and whites were highly segregated, rodeo was one of those competitions where everyone was equal - ability was all that mattered. For a young man, success was well worth it. If you could score well and not get injured you could make a living. “The average wage in 1954 was 18 pounds a week but in my best seasons I was winning 20 pounds a week,” Keith said. However, competition rodeo is a young man’s game and by the late 1970s Keith had moved to breaking horses in for the track. By the time he moved to his current thoroughbred racehorse training property in Lauriston in 1999 he was training full-time. He made the move there from Bacchus Marsh and keeps several horses in training at his property Bally Doyle. Kyneton and its surrounding districts boast some of the largest stables in the Victorian racing industry. Some of the big players have up to 200 horses being broken in or in training with up to 60 employees. However Keith Bourke’s operation is much more modest, he is the face of horse racing away from the glamour of the city tracks of Flemington and Caulfield. His domain is the country race meeting from Kyneton to Bendigo, Ballarat to Maryborough, and Echuca to Benalla. Keith also encapsulates the type of horseman who trains racehorses first and foremost for the love it. While he has had successes over the years, and is “still waiting for the good horse”, he is proud to know that his small stables can give his charges all he has to offer as a trainer. To Keith, success is not measured by how many trophies you have in your cabinet, but “gauged by the many beautiful people you meet along the way”. “God likes the little people, that’s why he made so many of them. Not everyone can have wealth and success but if you can live your life honestly, humbly and do right by those who do right by you then you are a champion in the most important race of all.”
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