November 21, 2016 Issue 85 Hotels, wrestling & Ziggy
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Front cover: A former Olympian wrestler, Ziggy Kelevitz is doing his bit for hospitality running the historic Albert Hotel in Camp Street, Daylesford. Read his story by Kevin Childs on page 7.
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November 21, 2016 Issue 85 Hotels, wrestling & Ziggy
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Vale Sue and Don
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N A tragic accident the lives of Sue EwartO'Connor and Don O'Connor were lost on November 9 - leaving a huge hole in not only the community of Daylesford but throughout Australia and the world.
Sue and Don were known as the faces behind the Timber Benders but, as we all know, they were so much more. They were also Gentle Earth Walking, involved in Landcare and Sue was one of the driving forces behind the Daylesford & District Community Bank. I knew them both a little, stopping to say hello at the Farmers' Market in Daylesford but Kyle knew them well after working at Creswick Woollen Mill where they had their business for a while. Like so many fortunate enough to have spent time together, he is reeling. A service is being held today, November 21, at the Convent Gallery from 1.30pm. Meanwhile, The Local featured this creative, passionate couple in February with the photo opposite gracing the front page. We decided to rerun their story, to remember just a small part of their life, here. Everyone from The Local sends their condolences to Sue and Don's family and friends. Vale Sue and Don. You are missed. - Editor Donna Kelly
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ROM train carriage frames to royal tennis racquets, the Timber Benders are always open to challenges in the quest to keep their trade from becoming a dying art.
Taking wood and bending it into strong timber components is also how Don O’Connor and Sue Ewart came to be running their own business at their Daylesford factory – after quite a journey. It was hoops that began it all; Don wanted them to make yurts – Sue and Don already made tee-pees - and Sue wanted them to make Native American-style hand drums, and both found what they were looking for in a timber bending factory in Echuca. But they returned to Daylesford with more than just hoops. “We purchased the factory…it was running out of steam and when we took it on we had no experience in timber bending at all, we had eight days’ tuition and then we had the factory,” Don explained. “After a year, we moved it all to Daylesford.” The machinery itself has an impressive history; first imported from Sweden to Launceston in the 1880s, it was then moved to Melbourne in the 1900s before being relocated to Echuca and, with a brief stopover at the Creswick Woollen Mill, ultimately to Daylesford. “Back in its heyday, the Port of Melbourne would have had its own timber bending machines, and the railways, and the tramways, and the carriage makers there was a carriage maker in Daylesford way, way back, and they would have had machines to bend the wheel rims and shafts,” Sue explained. In fact now, Don and Sue are believed to be the only timber benders left in Australia – other bending plants have been scrapped over the years. The process is an old technique which sees Don carefully select lengths of air-dried timber to be bent. “I place the dressed timber into hollow tubes, 300mm wide by four-and-a-half metres long. Connected to those we have a wood-fired boiler, which generates the steam. The steam goes into the tubes and soaks and softens the wood,” Don explains. “The steam brings the wood temperature up to 96 degrees centigrade, and that’s enough to soften the timber.
“When the timber’s soft, and hot, I take it straight out of the chamber and put it on one of the old machines, which in about 20 seconds bends the timber around the mould. You have to be a bit fast to make sure it gets bent while it’s very hot.” How long the timber remains on the machine is dictated by the shape that is desired; how long it is left to set also determines how much the timber will spring back when taken off the machine. “Normally Don over-bends, knowing he can just open it out, because you can’t put it back in the machine to bend again,” Sue explains. The wood has an impressive range of applications – there’s always a steady stream of restoration work for vintage cars and carriages, usually hood bows and mud guards, jinker shafts, play equipment and public seats for councils, chair backs for an elite Melbourne restaurant, a frame for the top of a train carriage restoration, and bespoke landscape architecture. “And we did a job for the new Virgin Lounge at Perth airport – 50 lineal metres of curved benchtops.”
Originally run on February 15, 2016 Words: Kate Taylor Images: Kyle Barnes
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IANE Garrett studied at Melbourne Teachers College majoring in Textile Craft and RMIT in Fabric Design and during her teaching career of 35 years she has continued to have exhibitions and completed many private commissions. The Kyneton artist, whose work includes 'Sex Kittens', 'Hot Dogs' and fold-up tables, talked to Donna Kelly. Donna: When did you know you were an artist? Diane: I have always been interested in creating images and keeping scrapbooks of all sorts of art that I have used as inspiration in the creation of my work. I have been an avid collector of ephemera and other graphic work from a very early age. My icy pole wrapper collection is a testament to a very early interest in design. Donna: What sort of art do you do? Diane: I paint with acrylics, create collages, decorate and make clothing. My ideas are based on pattern, historic/retro images and a strong use of colour. I also create commissioned portraits. My work does not have a “message”, it comes from experience that often resonates with childhood and domestic life. Donna: What is the story behind the 'Sex Kittens' and 'Hot Dogs'? Diane: It comes from a love of animals and the cheeky way that we relate to our furry friends. Donna: And why tables? Dianne: The tables are acrylic and collage artwork that can be displayed on the wall but the flip top modernist design allows you to pull up a table when needed. I like the simplicity of the line they display both on the floor and on the wall. Donna: Do you think anyone can be an artist or is it inherent? Diane: Young children are all artists - just ask their parents. As an art teacher I loved nurturing Donna: Finally, what’s your Kyneton story? young people. As time goes by some lose the ability Diane: We came to Kyneton three years ago from a to connect with their artistic side, others just develop. small farm near Birregurra. My partner George Biron Seeing this flourish is the joy of teaching art. and I lived there for over 30 years and had Sunnybrae Restaurant and Cooking School. We were looking for Donna: Where can we see your work? a small Modernist house close to Melbourne and we Diane: Most of my work is in private collections serendipitously found this little house that was just but I have a yearly exhibition at my new home studio perfect for our needs. in Kyneton. This year it’s on December 3 and 4. The We did not know who designed it but after being studio is open from 11am to 4pm on those days and here for a couple of years we found out that it was the you can ring 5422 2541 to get the address. We need work of the early Kyneton-based Australian Modernist to know if you are coming to help cater for drinks and architect Vanne Trompf. nibbles.
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Just sayin’...
Pick me, pick me...
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S SOME of you nicely emailed, I have found out, the hard way, that ankle injuries do take a little longer than my hoped for three to four weeks.
You may remember I took a tumble on Cup Day, very sober, and fractured my ankle. I know that because I had x-rays the following day and the doctor said "you have two fractures in your ankle". I was then strapped into a moonboot and sent home with a referral to a surgeon in Ballarat "just to be safe". Oddly, I thought at the time through the considerable pain, I was also told if I did not hear from the surgeon by the following Monday that I should start to make enquiries myself. I thought it odd only because that would be a week after the break - and surely bones start healing. But, as I mentioned, there was the pain and then the trying to get around with a moonboot and crutches, and then the weekend when the health industry seems to shut down. Anyway, Monday came and no call. So I called and was told I was in the system and needed to wait. I asked the woman on the end of the line if the wait seemed reasonable and she retorted, yes, it was a retort, "if you knew the amount of people we are seeing, then yes, it's right". Put back in my place I meekly waited again (this would tell you things were not right, if I am anything, it is not meek) and the call came on Tuesday. I had an appointment - the following Tuesday - two weeks since the fall. I was to come to the Ballarat Base Hospital...and then it twigged. I was caught up in the public system. Not in a, wow, look at me, I have private health insurance, way. But in a, wow, I have been paying private health insurance for 20 plus years so, if possible, I don't have to wait, way. So I made a call, found another surgeon and they got me in on the Thursday. And he looked at my new x-ray and said "it's healing, but not well, and the window of opportunity is almost closed". Those are scary words. But he got me in for surgery that Saturday morning and, with a few pins in place, the real healing has begun. I have a cast that must weigh 10 kilos and am "non-weight bearing" until at least next Wednesday when the cast comes off and the moonboot goes back on. (After the cast, the moonboot will be my friend.) I have also been advised to keep my ankle raised above my heart to help with the swelling - but only 23 out of 24 hours a day. No worries, but the things I miss the most are the simple joys of life. Walking in the yard, driving, having a chardy with mates at the pub, a cafe lunch...but I am also keenly aware it's all relative. For me, this will pass and for many others, some of whom we are thinking keenly of at this time, are not so lucky. Let's hope, somewhere, their journey continues.
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Ziggy - wrestler, Olympian, hotelier... Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly, And the spiders from Mars. He played it left hand, but made it too far, Became the special man, Then we were Ziggy's band. Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
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ROUND the Central Highlands there are some ultra-efficient folk in hospitality, some friendly, others efficient and some not so much. Then there’s Ziggy.
Running the historic Albert Hotel in Camp St, Daylesford, Ziggy Kelevitz, in another life one of the nation’s greatest wrestlers, chiacks with guests, taking the mickey and at times sounding like Basil from Fawlty Towers. “I’ve been called Basil,” he says, rushing to make a bed and clean a spa. “I may hang shit on people, but they come and they keep coming back.” SCENE: Afternoon, foyer of the Albert. Ziggy sits in one of the comfortable chairs, resting from his recent hip replacement surgery. Enter three tourists from Argentina and Chile, brimming with praise for the eccentric charm of the little hotel. But they have a problem. Chilean woman: “There are three of us and only two towels…” Ziggy:” Share one.” Then bursts into the chorus of “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”. Exit the tourists, wreathed in smiles, leaving us to talk wrestling. Ziggy retired from the sport at the1990 Tokyo World Championships, aged 36. His first big bout was when aged 11, in Adelaide in 1965. Hungarian born, he and his brother were smuggled out as refugees with their parents, their escape owing not a little to the fact that the border guards were drunk. The family was aiming for the USA, but the first battered old boat was heading for Australia, so they boarded it. A few days a later a plane took other refugees to America. From the age of nine wrestling was the sport he conquered: he won 17 national titles and competed all over the world, including the Olympics in Montreal in 1976, Moscow in 1980 and Los Angeles in 1984. He took out silver medals at the Brisbane and Edinburgh Commonwealth Games and gold at the Edmonton Games in 1978, for long being the only Australian wrestler to have done so. Now he is reluctant to talk about these triumphs, dismissing them as being the past. Resting against a wall is a startling black and white photo of Ziggy in action, his opponent being whirled through the air. Nearby in this foyer is a tall glass cabinet with medals and memorabilia, such as his torch for the relay for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games (“You can buy them”). His daughter put this collection together. He says he can’t find the key to show us the medals.
He’s more interested in showing a little photo album of the massive rebuilding of the Albert after he bought it in 1988. Dating from the 1850s, it is the oldest hotel in Daylesford, he says, and has a sign naming it Wittings Hotel and Store. Our chat is punctuated by the arrival of guests as he goes into host mode, explaining to a woman how to find her way around town, the location of the lake and Hepburn Bathhouse. He runs the six apartments and 11-bed hotel with his partner Elaine, a Scot from Glasgow. Some guests return three or four times, he says. “They even ask for 'our apartment’.” Reflecting on his role he says, “The place runs you, you don’t run the place. But you meet nice people, and they come back. It’s a buzz.” Enter three more guests. Towels again. This time they’ve used them after a shower. “More towels?” he demands. “Did you wet them?” They grin and giggle. Looks like they’ll get more as the Ziggy show rolls on.
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The annual art project is supported by Springs Medical Centre, the Rotary Club of Daylesford and the Daylesford and District Community Bank. It was opened by artist and educator Belinda Pringle. Ms Pringle is the program manager for education at Federation Square and is also a member of the Board of Governance for the Daylesford Dharma School. The Springs Kids Art Project, now in its fourth year, combines the provision of much-needed resources to support visual art in primary schools in the Hepburn region, with an opportunity for the students’ artworks to be exhibited in the community at Springs Medical centres in Daylesford and Trentham. Dr Beth Quin, project curator at Springs Medical Centre, said the $3000 annual art bursary supports the school's ongoing commitment to providing an engaging visual arts curriculum for all students. Daylesford Dharma School student artists, their teachers and parents attended the opening. The collection of 24 original artworks, designed and produced by students ranging in age from 5 -11 years old, will be on display at Springs Medical Centre, Daylesford throughout 2017. Daylesford Dharma School artist-in-residence Gav Barbey said the overriding ideal of the project was to look, discuss and meander through the concept and heart of ‘Social Justice’. “These works tell not a linear story, yet if we sit with them we may follow a journey that is social and at its heart… these works for me reach out from a deep liberation of diversity with the communal gathering.” Dr Quinn said Springs Medical Centre’s vision was to achieve wholistic health and wellbeing for all through engaging and collaborating with the community. “The students’ artworks transform our medical centres – creating a more welcoming atmosphere, particularly for younger children who can be frightened when attending the doctor. The students and their teachers should be really proud of what they have achieved."
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“He wanted to see the dogs transported in a way that meant they were safe and that did not require him to travel from the city to Parkdale and then back out to Trentham.” It did, however, mean, the driver needed to go back to Melbourne to ferry Herbert home. No logs of the trips could be found. And just to show that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, Herbert had already been pinged for spending $16,700 on two private jet flights and costly office expenses. Clearly Herbert was by now dog-tired, for Dalidakis said the disclosures had taken a toll on Herbert and his family. Herbert, a former schoolteacher, senior adviser to State and Federal Governments since 1990 and an MP since 2002, told the House he repaid $192.80 and gave $1000 to the Pets Haven animal shelter in Woodend. The provenance of one of his pair, the shelter, he says, does a wonderful job with rescue dogs. The repayment would barely cover petrol, let alone tolls and the drivers’ time, the House was told. Herbert will not stand in the 2018 State election. His interests as keen reader, golfer, surfer, freshwater angler, supporter of both Hawthorn and Melbourne Victory and a theatre-goer would seem to cater for his retirement. That, and the dogs. Emailed questions by The Local to his office about his intentions to devote himself to the electorate in his post-ministerial days went unanswered.
Much as Johnny Depp’s illegally imported Boo and Pistol caused a fuss, the motoring adventures of Ted and Patch attracted global media attention, parliament was told, sending reporters to Trentham for any overlooked bones still to be dug up on this yarn. An affable fellow, jovial and with a quick wit is how an Opposition member portrayed him as she snapped at his heels. Inga Peulich, shadow Minister for Scrutiny of Government, also said the 62-year-old member for Northern Victoria and now former Minister for Training, Skills, International Education and Corrections, should be investigated, but her move lapsed. Ted and Patch may have made their chauffeured trip up to 30 times, Peulich said, with drivers allegedly being told to walk them. The key question about whether Herbert’s prime residence is Trentham or Parkdale is expected to be answered when members’ revised entitlements are listed next month. A minister whose home is 80km beyond Melbourne gets an annual $35,486 allowance. MPs exhausted canine metaphors in the debate: to Herbert’s friend, Philip Dalidakis, Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade, Herbert had been “hounded” by the media. He did not mention a barrage of a dozen questions in Parliament which preceded Herbert’s resignation. Peulich’s contribution to the dog fight was to describe Herbert’s answers as Words: Kevin Childs | Image: Kyle Barnes evasive, while revealing his other properties in East Melbourne and Yinnar South. She did not stop there. Premier Daniel Andrews was in the dog-house, she said. Dalidakis told how Herbert would talk of his love for his dogs. “He takes amazing care of them,” he told the House.
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The most significant addition is the affiliation of the local club with Speedway Sedans Australia, meaning Daylesford can now host SSA street stocks, V8 Thunder Sedans and six-cylinder sprint cars. Put simply, this means more events, drivers and more exciting racing; which is a great thing. “We had a good safety rating with what we had here already and it was enough to Normally they kick off their racing season in the second week of October, but this get us that affiliation,” says Casey. “But with what we are doing today we are actually year’s opening meeting has been delayed for almost two months due to the extreme improving on it somewhat. We don’t have to, but the better our rating the more amount of water that has come down from the heavens recently. Daylesford Speedway, situated in a broad basin next to Stony Creek, is vulnerable classes we can run. "As far as the state governing body goes we can run any class they have apart from to a bit of flooding but the damage generated over September and October has not been seen in many a winter. Nearly a million and a half litres poured over the track to the V8 Sprint Cars. We can’t quite get there yet but if we complete the catch fence all the way around the track that will get us up to the star rating we need to be able to create a substantial lake that made competition all but impossible. run even those.” Now, after a series of working bees and a massive effort by members from all As well as the new classes and improved facilities, the DSDA will be hosting new over central Victoria, the historical site and location of one of the oldest continuallycars and a lot of new participants to spice up the competition. Daylesford driver operating dirt tracks in the state, is primed to have its first meeting in early Nathan Dunn who has been competing in the SSA National Series will be coming to December. his home track. Big Mark Wilde who "can pedal pretty good" has put a new motor in Casey Bandy of Ballarat is the current president of the Daylesford Speedway his race-car and should be competitive. Drivers Association and was very happy about the number of people who turned up Another one to watch for as the season progresses will be Priscilla Grech of for another working bee last weekend. Ballarat in the Victorian Speedway Council Standard Saloons. “Besides getting the track surface ready, we had to do a lot of cleanup due to some “The changes this season have been several years in the making,” says Casey. “But high winds and the removal of a few trees that were starting to lean over in the soft we are hoping that this will be the one that really opens everyone’s eyes and makes ground. One of our biggest things is making sure the spectators and participants are people realise that the DSDA are not here just to play anymore.” all safe, so we had to make sure they were down and removed.” Practice sessions at the Daylesford Speedway started on November 20 with the The Daylesford track has always been renowned for its scrappy and close racing first official race meeting on Sunday, December 4. Gates open at 9am. and has attracted drivers from all over Victoria including Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Maryborough, Bendigo, St Arnaud and Nagambie. Words: Anthony Sawrey | Image: Contributed But for fans of dirt track competition, the 2016-17 season will see a host of new classes included in the program due to the DSDA achieving new state and national affiliations, which should see membership and entries increase.
F YOU think you have had some inconvenience over the past few months because of the large amount of rain that came through over winter, spare a thought for the members of the Daylesford Speedway Drivers Association.
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All goods are from the 1850’s right through to present day. Mill Markets lease space to hundreds of dealers, which allows small business operators and collectors who otherwise could not afford the overheads of their own shops, to showcase their goods. This equates to a wide and diverse range of products, available and open to the public, seven days a week. Enjoy a wonderful trip down memory lane through hundreds and thousands of items available for purchase at all three locations. With over 500 stall holders over three venues, there is always something for everyone. Travel The Amazing Mill Markets ‘Golden Triangle’ and enjoy quality food and coffee at each. All venues open 7 days 10.00am-6.00pm (excluding Christmas Day).
Recently, the Mark Ward Group acquired Decor Impact – a dynamic business featuring great visual items for sale and hire. Life size animals, figures, dinosaurs and outdoor props. A great range of exciting new stock will be hitting the country on a monthly basis. Showrooms open at all Mill Markets venues!
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Quit the smoking habit for good with hypnosis By John Bohn*
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’m suggesting its time to let it go for good. Are you ready now or will you ever?
Why is hypnosis the way to go? It is my belief that for any change to happen it is necessary to access the inner or subconscious mind so that it can learn to make an agreement with any part of you that has, in the past, sabotaged your good efforts. People are aware of parts of themselves and inner conflict, but often find it difficult to confront these parts and have the resolve to change. This is very different from the New Year resolution that tends to fall apart! Lots of my people quit on the first visit, but I do prefer you to come back to reinforce the positive and work more deeply if there are issues getting in the way. It is my belief that smoking is a symptom of something else going on inside, otherwise why would anyone persist with this habit when there is so much known damaging evidence to your health and longevity? Usually the pattern of slip-up is something occurring that you find difficulty coping with — an upset, even to the point of another person unwisely offering a smoke at a vulnerable time. Sometimes it is just alcohol doing the talking at a weak moment at a social outing. Using hypnosis, we work together to beat this happening, for you to gain the power and beat the desire and craving. Are you ready for lifetime freedom from this destructive habit? If needed, I deal with all forms of substance usage and emotional issues, so that you never again think of it as a crutch. Remember, it is not the loss of the old friend, but a new beginning towards healthy habits. To quit is your commitment and your responsibility to yourself only — no-one else. Be prepared for a return visit.
WHO: John Bohn, hypnotherapist. WHERE: Daylesford and also 37 Harold St, Wendouree * John Bohn is a Fellow of Academy of Hypnotic Science, also certified by the American Council of Hypnotic Examiners, Member of Australian Society of Clinical CONTACT: Freecall 1800 063 450, 5348 1214; email hypno@ Hypnotherapists, Post Graduate of International Academy of Nutrition; associate of daylesford.net.au; web www.daylesford.net.au/hypno Advertorial the Australian Counselling Association and a retired pharmacist
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Organic win for Daylesford & Hepburn Mineral Springs
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AYLESFORD & Hepburn Mineral Springs Co. has won best Organic Product Of The Year at the 2016 Australian Organic Awards for Excellence for its entire Organics range of drinks.
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The Daylesford & Hepburn Mineral Springs Co. Organics range was created to offer a meaningful alternative to the commercial offerings of popular soft drink varieties. With a limited offering of such product in the organic space, Daylesford & Hepburn set about creating a suite of products with predominantly locally sourced, organic ingredients. Six flavours were crafted - cola, lemonade, lemon lime and bitters, orange soda, brewed ginger beer and tonic. The packaging design took organic material cues with a retro feel, reminiscent of the soft drinks of decades past which were made in a purer way. A new, brown-tinted and embossed glass bottle was developed that is exclusive to the Organics range. As with all of Daylesford & Hepburn’s products, the drinks are bottled in recycled and recyclable glass. In an ever-growing sector, the Daylesford & Hepburn Mineral Springs Co. Organics range comprises about 20 per cent of its total domestic business. The Organics range is now stocked across cafe, restaurant and retail outlets throughout Australia, with most notable clients including George Calombaris’ Jimmy Grants outlets and David Jones Food Halls. “The demand has been high and consistent, swiftly gathering a loyal following amongst both customers and consumers,” said co-owner Brylie Rankine “It has been a process that continues to validate our belief that Australians are eager for alternatives and crave knowledge and insight into what they are putting into their bodies - just like organic primary produce, drinks as a category is no different.”
Paul loves Morning Melodies at Hepburn House
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EPBURN House resident Paul McNeilly is, even in his own words, spoilt rotten.
Having lived at Hepburn House since May last year, Mr McNeilly has used his winning personality to fit right in – and, as with all residents, each member of staff has been only too happy to help. “Since I’ve been here, everyone here has treated me with courtesy and respect. There has not been one time when I have asked for something and it hasn’t been done – I’m spoilt rotten,” Mr McNeilly says. He’s a big advocate of life at Hepburn House, a government-funded aged care facility which provides all levels of care for residents from permanent to respite - and he has good reason. When he made the decision to move to Hepburn House, Mr McNeilly was concerned about his two beloved dachshunds. But the new owners of the loyal, loving dogs bring them in to visit Mr McNeilly at Hepburn House. Mr McNeilly’s family also visit regularly, including granddaughter Ada. And the Morning Melodies are adding to the Hepburn House experience that Mr McNeilly loves and recommends. “They are once a month, the Morning Melodies, and we are going to organise a Christmas concert soon. “Morning Melodies is the best therapy I could ever have, the reason is when I sing I am liberated and feel free, and it gives me another reason to live and I encourage anyone to join.”
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Christmas on its way
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I knew them quite well when they had Timber Benders set up at the Creswick Woollen Mills where I was working at the time. And then there is the interview that Kate Taylor and I did in February – it is amazing the insights you get into people’s lives through journalism. Both Sue and Don were incredible members of our community. Vale guys, I will miss your smiles. So, while still digesting that news we find out Donna needs surgery for her fracttured ankle. This is where the sickness part of the wedding vow comes into play. Yep, the all-consuming ankle operation that challenges any super-glued relationship. After the surgery I planned a stay in a Ballarat motel, just down the road from Donna’s hospital bed. The fellow at the counter explained to me that an out of town motorcycle gang was also staying there and how they had been there the night before and were very well behaved. My retort was “the brothers have got to camp somewhere” and that “I wasn’t too bothered” after all our local motorcycle fellas are a cool community-minded bunch of blokes. So, I walked out of the reception to get my car registration number and next minute I was swallowed up in a mosh of 20 or so blokes chasing down a smaller bloke. Now, when I say 20 or so blokes, these fellas were huge, at least two axe handles across the shoulders, no shirts and heavily tattooed. It was bloody frightening especially when the pack, with me in the middle, caught up with the smaller dude and proceeded to deal out some justice. I guess it was a violent end to whatever party this guy had been involved in and I was helpless to help him. So, you might have guessed by now, I didn’t end up staying the night and took flight back to the safety of my country home. To give you some understanding of the final bit of the emotionally charged week, back in 2010, during the Christchurch earthquakes, my sister was caught up in ground zero. You see my sister had an office opposite the TV station that had been crushed during the quake and for a few worrying hours we had no contact with her, and I had at least for a bit feared the worse. Fast forward to the present where my sister and extended family, in fact the bulk of my immediate family, have all relocated to the beautiful shores of Kaikoura, a fabulous lifestyle destination where they run a crayfish tour company - idyllic really. Yes, Kaikoura, which last Monday experienced two over-seven magnitude earthquakes and has been cut off from the world. I have since heard from my sister and the family are all safe, although the crayfish business needs a new boat ramp as the sea-bed has risen over two metres. But even if you could get the boat in, the tourists aren’t exactly pouring down the road and for the immediate future, well at least this summer, they won’t. Her and the other family’s houses are liveable but without running water or sewage, but as my sister did point out, they still had supplies of whiskey. Anyway, another life lesson learnt on not complaining too loudly about my lot. Ooops, I have to go, the laid-up wife is calling for me. Rant over.
This year the council has provided a small amount of funding to each community to assist in purchasing extra decorations, in addition to the town banners that have been rolled out across the Shire. Chief executive officer Aaron van Egmond said that he was pleased to see the council, businesses and the community working together to make this year's festive season a great one in Hepburn Shire. "Last year council made a commitment to work with the community and businesses to make the shire's main towns look more festive and appealing, for both residents and visitors," he said. The local ladies fondly known as the "Ninja Elves" are working with the council and the Daylesford and Hepburn Springs Business and Tourism Association for the upcoming festive season. They are hoping to have a Christmas-themed activity in the centre of town every Friday night in December in the lead-up to Christmas. This will include a market at Burke Square, a visit from Santa, carollers and much more. Daylesford and Hepburn Springs BATA is encouraging traders in Daylesford's central business district to get involved, decorate their shopfronts and participate in Twilight Trading each Friday evening. Clunes Neighbourhood Centre has formed a working party which has already made a start on decorating some of the shopfronts in Fraser Street. They plan to hold a market and movie night in Collins Place in December. The Trentham community is promoting a Twilight Trading evening on Friday, November 25, where numerous retail and food venues will open late, with special offers. The Neighbourhood Centre is also having a mini-makers' market and a visit from Santa. Business and Tourism Creswick is purchasing Christmas-themed decals that each of the traders along Albert St, Creswick can use to assist them with decorating their windows. It is also planning on purchasing some Christmas fairy lights as well. Details: Rebecca Pedretti on 5321 6105 or rpedretti@hepburn.vic. gov.au
’VE HAD a busy couple of emotionally-charged weeks which started with the shocking news of Don and Sue, from The Timber Benders, which really shook me.
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Burpo enjoying life in true bovine heaven
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Keith even broke him into saddle when he was two "He’s very soft and so the meat on him would be ECENTLY there was an ABC news story about Australia’s biggest cow. Big Moo lives and would still ride him today if he could get the saddle beautiful and marbled. One buyer fella told me the Japanese would pay a hundred dollars a kilo for it.” in South Australia and measures 190cm at to fit him. “He is very friendly with the horses, especially the However Burpo is not going to get ‘processed’ for the top of the shoulder. That’s a big beast. So what about in our own region? Is there anything that comes close? Perhaps the leading contender around here could very well be a 12-year-old steer owned by thoroughbred horse trainer Keith Burke at Lauriston. He has kept the steer, which answers to the name of Burpo, in the lap of luxury from the day he was born in September 2004. “His mother was the most beautiful cow but she died having him,” remembers Keith, pictured above with Kate Provan, Mini the Jack Russell and Burpo, wistfully. “I milked her when she was dead because you still have to get the colostrum into the calf at the first feed. "I carried the little fella up here to the stables, put his milk in a bottle and he drank it. As he got older I let him into the paddock but at about five o’clock he would be back at that gate there going ‘buurpo, buurpo’ and that’s why I call him Burpo.” Burpo spends his time outside with Keith’s horses, is very well known in the district and often has visitors drop in to give him a pat and get photographs. Burpo takes it all in his stride - and is far from your usual cattle. In fact, it is more likely he thinks of himself as a horse. While he may look over the fence at other cattle and make the same sounds that they do, he seems to have a greater affinity for the equine paddock companions he grew up with.
mare that I’ve got at stud now. It’s lovely, you will see him lying down and she is standing near him. When we moved her after she had her foal, Burpo walked up and down the paddock fence all night calling because he missed her so much. "The others are very tolerant of him too even if they like to give him a bite now and then. I also had a horse here once that was good at undoing the gate clips and he and Burpo would take off together.” When I visited, Burpo was just finishing off a frontend loader full of hay brought to him a few days before so it’s safe to say he eats well and is very healthy and content. While he stopped growing in height quite a while ago, he still stands at around 160cm. However, what he lacks in height over other record breakers, he makes up in sheer weight. Over the years Burpo has continued increasing outwards and gaining mass. While he has never been officially weighed, Keith estimates him to be close to 1200 kilos or about the weight of an average sized car. “He’s had no stress,” says Keith, “and that’s why he keeps gaining weight. I brush him once a week and give him a bit of Reiki massage occasionally. He’s lived a lovely life and has never been frightened.
any money and he’s staying right where he is. He has his rug for winter, a fly net for summer and at Christmas they put tinsel on him and he walks around glittering in the sun. He is as much a part of the family as any human and should easily live to about 25 years of age ensconced in a genuine bovine heaven.
Words & image: Anthony Sawrey
"...at about five o’clock he would be back at that gate there going ‘buurpo, buurpo’ and that’s why I call him Burpo.” - Keith Burke
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Celebrating 10 years
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HE Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society will celebrate 10 years at St Agnes on the Lawns, Kyneton on Thursday, December 8 from 5pm to 6.30pm.
RSVP by November 24 to adfascenvic@gmail.com or 5427 4918. Events for next year start on January 18 with a members only bus tour to Heide to view the new Making Modernism exhibition.This significant exhibition brings together the art of Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith. On February 16, Chris Bradley, a Middle East photographer and TV filmmaker will present Arabia Felix - Secret treasure chest of Yemen and Omanon, at Cope-Williams Winery in Romsey. Chris’ talks are beautifully illustrated with his own stunning images. A light luncheon will be provided in the new gallery space. The 2017 lecture program starts on March 2 when Sarah Deere-Jones from UK presents, The History of the Harp: from Mediterranean Antiquity to 20th Century Europe. Sarah will show the harp’s evolving sound and repertoire by performing on her own antique instruments. On April 6, the very first ADFAS CV lecturer, Sylvia Sagona, will return to Kyneton to present her lecture, Madame de Pompadour and the politics of porcelain. Details: Greg Heath on 0418 561 051.
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VERY Friday night in December, Clunes RAB some snags, pack a picnic and spend locals, traders and community groups will your summer evenings at Hanging Rock. Throughout December, January and come together to provide free entertainment and Christmas fun to celebrate the holiday season February, Hanging Rock Reserve is staying open until 8pm on Thursdays and Fridays, giving visitors a chance in true, country-town style. The main street will be ablaze with fairy lights and projected lights on all the historic buildings. Verandah posts will be adorned with Christmas decorations up and down the street. In addition, you can tour the town in the community bus to see the houses that light up with clever, creative or quirky decorations to help brighten the celebrations. There is an outdoor cinema every Friday night showing Christmas movies from 7.30pm. Bring a blanket and a picnic and kick back under the stars for some festive entertainment. Or take advantage of the CWA ladies’ sausage sizzle. If you are looking for top quality individual handmade gifts there are artisan stalls up and down the footpath from 5pm to 7pm. For the kids, Santa will be in attendance and available for a photo from 3.30pm until 7pm. The restaurants, cafes, wine bar and Enoteca will be open, and of course the hotel. Saunter along the street and enjoy the shops' Christmas window displays. Collins Place in Fraser St is the centre of the action but more is happening up and down the street. Some of Santa’s reindeer will be there to make things glow. There will be a wandering minstrel band and, of course, carols galore.
to do more of what they love – spending time in one of our region’s most spectacular spots. Macedon Ranges Shire Council’s chief executive officer Peter Johnston said he hoped the extended summer hours would encourage more visitors to the natural landmark. “Whether you’re a local to the region or visiting the Macedon Ranges from elsewhere, make time to stop by and spend some time at Hanging Rock,” he said. “There’s plenty of walks, wildlife and history to discover, with the reserve really buzzing during the summer months. “We’ve got the annual Hanging Rock races on January 1 and 26, along with the annual Classic Car Display in February, and musician Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band making their welcome return on February 11.”
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UMBER 5 Howe Street, Daylesford is home to renowned, fine dining restaurant and wine bar, Perfect Drop. Owners Christine Molloy and Richard McKeown renovated the beautiful heritage building a few years ago and created a warm welcoming environment for intimate dining and functions.
Jeremy Henaut, the newly appointed French restaurant manager, ushered us to our table, which was a pristinely-set round table for two, complete with flowers. Jeremy’s charming demeanour along with the French-inspired decor transports you to thinking that you could, in fact, be dining in France. I think we’re in for a special treat. The two fireplaces in the main dining room were lit to make guests comfortable, which is something that manager Jeremy seeks to achieve; he wants your experience at Perfect Drop to be as perfect as possible. “We’re here for our customers, we want them to be happy.” Jeremy also has assistance from Perfect Drop’s waiter Troy. The restaurant seats around 60 guests and opens out to the soon-to-be-renovated outdoor area, with French doors opening out from the main dining room. There are two other rooms that can be used for small functions. Function packages for set menus start from $65 per head and stand-up canape packages from $35 per head. It was time for Julie and I to try some of the food Perfect Drop has to offer. For entree, we were served Holy Goat Piccolo with heirloom beetroots, basil and grapefruit pearls. This dish is absolutely stunning, a rainbow of colours, like a little garden on your plate. The smooth texture of the cheese complemented the texture of the spring vegetables. For main, we had the Lamb Loin & Belly with spring vegetables, black garlic, lemon gel, pomegranate and watercress. This dish was succulent and created a pallet of tangy flavour that all melded together harmoniously. Something quite special. Some of the other mains on the menu that caught our eye were Duck Breast, Confit Trout and the Chargrilled Beef Eye Fillet – maybe next time… To finish, we were served Holy Goat Pandora, honey-truffled walnuts, blue cheese shortbread, rosemary, sweet onion puree. A dish to please both sweet and savoury pallets. For sweet tooths other desserts on the menu include Chocolate, violet ice-cream, popping candy crunch, or Rose tea watermelon, blueberries, musk yoghurt sorbet. Pricing at Perfect Drop is kept simple. Choice of two courses including side - $65, choice of three courses including side - $80 (Saturday evenings are a three-course minimum), five-course course chef ’s selection - $90 and seven-course chef ’s selection - $105. Meanwhile, wine matching with five and seven courses is $50 and $65 respectively. Jeremy is a qualified sommelier. Then there are Happy Hours at the bar or courtyard daily from 4pm to 6pm with $12 cocktails and $2 oysters. And for music lovers, live jazz and folk music is on in the bar or courtyard most Fridays, and every Saturday, Award-winning executive chef Hugh Maxwell takes pride in his menu. He uses fresh vegetables and herbs from the Perfect Drop kitchen garden, and produce from local suppliers. Perfect Drop even has its own butcher to produce small goods. That’s dedication. Hugh has two cooks, Ruby and Liam, helping him produce some of Victoria’s finest culinary dishes. And although Jeremy has only joined the crew six weeks ago, they are already collaborating on new and exciting ideas for the restaurant.“We work together as a team to create a unique and special time for our diners,” he says. “It’s all about enjoying the whole experience, the fine food, service and ambience that Perfect Drop offers.”
Stop the press: Perfect Drop has been highly commended in the Harwood Andrews Golden Plate awards for Best Contemporary Dining 2016. And Christine and Richard's other venue, The Farmers Arms Hotel in Creswick, has also been highly commended for Best Hotel Dining 2016. Words & images: Dianne Caithness
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Meal deals for locals...and visitors too! EVERYONE loves a good meal deal. So here are the dining establishments offering great food and great prices! Monday:
Passing Clouds, Musk - (lunch from noon) main and side from the grill with a glass of wine - $30 Mercato, Daylesford – main dish & a glass of local wine - $30 The Grande Hotel, Hepburn Springs - two courses for $35 and three courses for $45 Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Monday Meatball Madness - $20 (Vegetarian option available)
Tuesday:
Perfect Drop - five courses with a glass of bubbles or beer - $55 Blackwood Hotel, Blackwood - Parma Night - $15 + glass of house wine or pot Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Burger Night with chips - $20 (Vegetarian option available)
Wednesday:
Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Pot (or glass of house wine) and Parma - $20 Belvedere Social, Daylesford - Special of the day, pot of beer or glass of wine, $35 Horvats Supper Club, Daylesford - $10 pizza, $15 pasta
Friday:
Grange Bellinzona, Hepburn - two courses and glass of wine - $45 Blackwood Hotel, Blackwood - Fab 5 meals specials from $18 Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn - Burger Night with vegan options - $16 Blackwood Merchant, Blackwood - house-made pizza - $16-21 Small Holdings, Malmsbury - (lunch), soup of the day - $8, or house-made gnocchi with a glass of house wine - $25 5000 Club, Anglican Church, Daylesford - Free community lunch, 12pm - 1pm
Sunday:
Grange Bellinzona, Hepburn - two courses and glass of wine - $45 Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn - Curry Night with vegan options available - $18 Belvedere Social, Daylesford - Sunday Farmers Roast (lunch and dinner) featuring local ethical meat and sides, $30
Happy Hours:
Daylesford Bowling Club has Happy Hour ‘n’ a half, from Monday to Thursday, from 4.30pm to 6pm. And Happy Hour on Friday, 6pm to 7pm. Perfect Drop, Daylesford, also has a Happy Hour, Thursday to Monday, from 4pm to 6pm with $12 cocktails and $2 oysters. Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn has Happy Hours from Friday to Monday from 4pm to 6pm with $5 beer, wine or bubbles
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Thursday:
Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Steak Night - $20 Belvedere Social, Daylesford - Special of the day, pot of beer or glass of wine, $35 Small Holdings, Malmsbury - (lunch), Soup of the Day - $8, or house-made gnocchi with a glass of house wine - $25 Horvats Supper Club, Daylesford - $10 pizza, $15 pasta
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.
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Golden Plate awards
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NE year after opening its doors, Daylesford restaurant and bar Belvedere Social has been awarded four Harwood Andrews Golden Plate Awards for its excellence in customer service, value, casual dining experience and best chef.
The awards were announced at the Golden Plate dinner for the Ballarat, Daylesford and Pyrenees region on Monday November 7. Belvedere Social will represent the region in each of the four categories it won at the State Awards on November 21. On announcing Belvedere Social as the winner of Best Casual Dining, the judges said: “An excellent all-round dining experience. The food showcases producers and gives them space on the plate to shine. The staff are incredibly knowledgeable with both food and wine and always ready to offer a suggestion. The 'feed me' menu option is well portioned and allows the customer to try lots of dishes without the stress of ever making a decision.” Belvedere Social’s head chef Matthew Carnell was praised by the judges for both his restaurant menu and his skills in the cook-off. “The food served at the venue was impressive throughout the entire meal. Great depth of flavour from a chef who does not compromise on quality ingredients. An inspiring performance at the cook-off where the chef was able to produce creative and well balanced dishes from a tricky mystery box, in what was an extremely talented field of competitors.” Other Central Highland winners and highly commended were:
Best Contemporary Dining 2016 - winner - Mercato at Daylesford, highly commended – The Perfect Drop, Daylesford Best Casual Dining 2016 – highly commended –-Tuki Restaurant, Smeaton Best Hotel Dining 2016 – highly commended - Farmers Arms, Creswick Best Licensed Cafe 2016 – winner – Larder, Daylesford Best Menu of Local Food 2016 – winner - Tuki Restaurant, Smeaton, highly commended - Farmers Arms Daylesford Best Cellar of Local Wines, Beers and Ciders 2016 – highly commended Mercato at Daylesford Harwood Andrews People’s Choice – highly commended - Farmers Arms Daylesford
Belvedere Social would like to thank our customers, community and staff as we celebrate our first year of business with 4 Golden Plate Awards for:
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Daylesford Field and Game
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GOOD number of shooters turned out for the November event on Saturday, November 5 in cold and windy conditions.
Jake had set a good ground but the wind made it a bit tougher, but still some good scores were carded. Of the locals Shayne Wallace put his best foot forward and shot a nice 65 /75 and Glen Phillipson a very good 66 to take out AA grade.
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RESULTS AA Grade - 1st Glen Phillipson 66/75. A Grade - 1st Shayne Wallace 65/75, 2nd Brendon Graham 61/75, 3rd Greg Passalaqua 59/75. B Grade - 1st Clive Lorensini 54/75, 2nd Gary Crimmin 53/75, 3rd Sam Alison & Paul DaMore 50/75. C Grade - 1st Ron Steen 50/75, 2nd Bill Petzke 39/75, 3rd Con Tonatora 39/75. Ladies - 1st Nancy Disher 45/75. Juniors - 1st Cam Kivinen 63/75. Sub Juniors - 1st Brendon O’Brien 48/75. Super Vets - 1st Brian Rafferty 60/75. Vets - 1st Chris “Suss”Charlson 70/75, 2nd Col Johns 67/75, 3rd Wayne Nankervis 61/75. Next shoot is the Christmas Shoot. Jody might have a novelty in mind and the first Ken Tatti Memorial shoot will also be held on this day. This month’s “congrats” go to Col Johns who won VETS at the nationals held in Brisbane in October.
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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 Wesley Hill Market - every Saturday Daylesford Farmers’ Market – first Saturday Trentham Neighbourhood Centre Makers’ Market - first Saturday Golden Plains Farmers' Market - first Saturday Castlemaine Artists’ Market – first Sunday Kyneton Farmers’ Market - second Saturday Ballan Farmers' Market - second Saturday Kyneton Rotary Community Market – second Saturday Maldon Market – second Sunday Clunes Farmers’ Market - second Sunday Trentham Farmers’ Market and Makers’ Market - third Saturday (pictured right) Glenlyon Farmers’ Market – third Saturday Leonards Hill Market - third Saturday Creswick Market - third Saturday Talbot Farmers’ Market – third Sunday Woodend Lions Market - third Sunday Trentham Station Sunday Market - fourth Sunday Buninyong Village Market - fourth Sunday
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Alter ego Cherry Flambe at The Grande
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ICHELLE Pleasance learnt three chords on the guitar when she was about 20 and decided that was enough to write songs with. She then studied jazz and popular music at Collingwood TAFE, which gave her a bit more confidence in musical language. Michelle has been writing and performing songs with her husband Richard for many years. She chatted with Donna Kelly. Donna: When did you know you were musical? Michelle: I remember running around in my front yard in dress-ups as a kid and all of a sudden I started singing in a high voice. I though it sounded amazing, I’m sure it didn’t, but I loved the feeling anyway. Donna: What do you do? Michelle: I do a cabaret act where I sing as my alter ego “Cherry Flambe”. She’s a bit like she doesn’t know it’s no longer the 50s. I have a great band called “The Suits” with my husband Richard (Dick) on guitar, Jeremy Meaden on trumpet, Dave Patterson on double bass and Charlie Phypers on drums. Donna: Why Cherry Flambe? Michelle: I’m a redhead, flambé means flame in French. Cherries are red. Donna: Fair enough. What do you hope your performance brings to your audience? Michelle: I hope to transport them to another time. I want them to feel they’ve experienced a show, not just a gig. I want them to feel they’ve been part of something special. Donna: What does it give to you? Michelle: It allows me to explore a side of myself that I don’t get to in everyday life. I can be cheeky and say things that I’d normally just think. I’m normally quite reserved, being Cherry gives me permission to come out of myself a bit. Donna: What sort of music do you listen to? Michelle: I love old music like Ella Fitzgerald because it was written in a time that seems more romantic to me. I love Dean Martin when I’m cooking. Peggy Lee, anytime because her vocal tone is wonderful. Nancy Sinatra, because I love her attitude and Lee Hazelwood’s song writing. Donna: What’s your Central Highlands story? Michelle: I live in a mudbrick house on 20 acres with my husband and two boys, 12 and 15. We’re a very creative household. My husband has a recording studio and composes music. I also paint and illustrate. I sell my cards and paintings at Manteau Noir. I’m also writing a children’s chapter book. Donna: Finally, where can we catch you next? Michelle: We’ll be at The Grande in Hepburn on Friday, December 2. The show starts about 7.30pm. It’d be a good idea to ring and book because it’s a small venue and tends to get booked out Donna: Cool. Anything else you would like to add? Michelle: Thanks for the interview! Image: Peter Lamont
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You can bank on these... There are always troublesome spots in the garden where the usual plant remedies just never seem to apply. That sunny sloping area where it's always dry, where the ground is too steep or inaccessible to mow. Or under large spreading trees where the lawn is always patchy and limp. Or the area under a large window where upright perennials or shrubs will mar the view. In every case, the answer is ground-cover plants. These can be prostrate forms of perennials, low clumping plants or even varieties of popular shrubs to provide permanent cover and, usually a weed-suppressing mat‌and that alone makes them worthwhile. Lower clumping plants such as prostrate thyme, prostrate rosemary, native violets and ajuga reptans are also excellent as a lawn substitute in small awkward areas and under trees. The ajuga is particularly attractive with its deep bronze foliage and upright stems of intense blue florets. Thyme has the advantage of resistance to low foot traffic and needing only an occasional haircut with the mower to replace the lawn in shady spots. The normal violet, in its wide range of colour, from white through mauves and pink to deep purple are excellent for covering larger areas. The prostrate form of myoporum - parvifolium, which comes with white or pink flowers is an almost bullet-proof native that thrives in the driest of conditions and covers several square metres of territory in no time. It's great for steep sloping banks and over cuttings. But for stunningly colourful display, in any condition, you can't go past the multicoloured forms of osteospermum (bony seed covering) fruticosum. Beautiful daisy-like flowers with deep blue centres, once only available in white but now, thanks to ardent plant breeders, coming in a range from light mauve to purple. Other hardy beauties, particularly for steep difficult to mow banks, are the group of trailing succulents, commonly known as ice-plants or pigface, which apparently came from the shape of their seed cases. Belonging to the mesembryanthemum tribe, the smaller-leafed usually vibrant coloured forms, known as ice plant, are more compact and best for smaller areas. The larger, thick-leafed variety with its mostly white, cream or pink flowers covers proportionately larger areas Their ability to thrive in the harshest of conditions, even in beach sand, is legendary. Their other advantage is they readily grow from the smallest runner, as long as some roots are present. But my firm favourites for filling problem spots are the ubiquitous gazania regens and their near cousins arctotis. Both have fabulously coloured daisy-like flowers in almost every colour. The main visible difference is the arctotis have slightly furry, oak shaped leaves. A group of gazania and iceplant are pictured here, above right, showing off on a street corner.
Feeling blue Although there are many annual and perennial flowering plants that produce sky-blue flowers, there are few tall shrubs that do. An outstanding exception is the ceanothus thyrsiflorus, below right. A fast-growing evergreen shrub, with small deep green foliage, ceanothus will survive under almost any conditions and flowers from spring almost into autumn. The flowers are berry-like and light blue. This particular example shows the larger deeper blue flowers of the newer "Pacific blue" hybrid.
Editor's note: The Local has received, on numerous occasions, garden questions for Glen to answer. In response to these he has offered to share answers in this column. If you wish to have your gardening problems answered by Glen email news@tlnews. com.au and I will pass your questions on. Any plants killed in the passing on of information are not the responsibility of The Local. But we can give you Glen's address. Just sayin'...
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Burras an intregal part of the community
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HE Hepburn Football Netball Club will celebrate its 150th year in 2017. It’s an impressive achievement. To survive, and indeed thrive, as the Kookaburras - universally known as the Burras - have for a century and a half, a club needs to do more than just win matches; it needs to be a good community citizen, contributing more than Saturday entertainment and sausage sizzles.
Shane “Robbo” Robertson, pictured right, agrees. One of the club’s most prominent figures in recent years, as a successful football coach, he has returned to the Burras but this time in the newly created job of general manager. In a small town like Hepburn Springs, what role does the footy club play in the community? “I think it’s extremely important,” Robertson says. “I think it’s vitally important for kids in our community to be involved in a football club, especially these days where cultures are changing enormously and very quickly, but also the aspect of drugs and alcohol - to keep our kids actively involved in sport. I think it’s vitally important to create that activity, and Hepburn Football Club has been great in that area over a number of years.” Robertson says Hepburn has “always been a family-oriented club” and is determined to grow as a positive influence in the community. “I’m quite excited to be in charge of that. What my role is will develop but my current role is to oversee all this development and hopefully improve the family-oriented side of the club.” Football fans throughout the region will know Robertson through his on-field coaching exploits. He led the Burras to premierships in 2004, 05, 08 and 2010; he’s also coached at Seymour and recently at Castlemaine. But back in Hepburn he is involved with more than just on-field development. The idea of winning at the club also includes “bringing our kids up the right way”, he says. Away from football, Robertson worked in the prison system for about 15 months, in the Parkville Youth Justice Centre, scene of rioting by teenage inmates earlier this month. “As culture changes - bad culture, good culture - it is shown in the prison system, where kids are coming through and where they could end up, and it’s just a matter of controlling that and putting them on the right track, and that’s what we intend to do. "We have an information night in early December where we’ll sit down and talk with our juniors about the pros and cons of the current culture, and make sure our kids are steered in the right direction.” One of the key initiatives being managed by Robertson is the establishment of a youth girls football program at Hepburn. Now that work has been completed across town at Victoria Park, Robertson would like to see the Hepburn club rooms get some much-needed development funding. With women’s football gaining energy around the country, clubs such as the Burras will need significantly expanded facilities to accommodate them. Robertson says of his new role that it’s a change he’s been looking forward to for a number of years. “There’s a time when you see that change has to be made - not that I got sick of coaching, but now it’s time to assist other people in those areas that made the Hepburn Football Club strong. Hopefully my experience will show through with the club in its future.”
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Gone are the days when a country football club shuts down in September and reopens in March, he says. “Our hardest time is right now, working hard off the field to get our fundraising successful, getting our youth girls program going, and getting our youth up and going with training schedules over summer. There’s a lot of planning going into 2017 - that’s what makes Hepburn different, the club is very much proactive.” Vice-president Garry Rodoni expands that theme. The secret to Hepburn’s continuing strength as a club, he says, is down to two factors. First, along with planning for 2017, the club always looks five years down the track, nurturing young athletes, putting contingencies in place. “It’s always about the next five years,” he says. The main factor, though, is stability. Rodoni himself is a fifth-generation clubman, a committee member for 16 years, and the committee itself has only shifted by three people out of 11 members in 17 years. “I think the best way to describe the footy club is as a community,” he says. “We’ve got an awesome footy club but it’s an integral part of the community.”
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December 9. Gallery partner and full-time artist Helen Cottle, a multiple award-winning artist, including this year’s bestin-show award at the Trentham Easter Show, said last year’s small works opening was literally a traffic stopper, with a huge crowd spilling into the street. “That was followed by big crowds of Melbourne daytrippers and weekenders rubbing shoulders with locals in our little art space, and a record for us of more than 1000 visitors to the one show,” she said. “The formula of big-name artists showing small, and therefore affordable works, has proven to be a winner. Feedback from gallery visitors at previous shows has been that many use the opportunity to buy small, prestige pieces as Christmas gifts for friends and relatives who are otherwise difficult to buy for. But some also buy as a rare chance to buy a collectible work.” The show will be opened by local artist Daniel Butterworth, who gained national attention this year with his commanding Archibald Prize finals portrait of Trentham restaurateur Annie Smithers. Artists in this year’s show include former Archibald and Sulman finalist Catherine Abel, former Archibald and this year’s Black Swan finalist Rose Wilson, former Blake finalist David Bryant and artist brothers Daniel and Matthew Butterworth. Works are limited to a maximum size of 60x60 centimetres and sculptures and three-dimensional pieces are shelf-sized. The public opening of the Little Gallery show, at 32 High Street, Trentham, is at 5.30pm on Friday, December 9. The show runs until 8 January.
Using bushfire computer modelling, Forest Fire Management Victoria simulated more than 8000 bushfires across the West Central Landscape to determine areas of highest risk. Risk Landscape manager David Watson said the towns were all at high risk. “It’s important that people who live and work in these areas have the opportunity to share their experience and knowledge with us as we work to improve the effectiveness of our fire management strategies,” Mr Watson said. “We want to hear from individuals and community groups about what they think the proposed zone changes might mean for their local areas, as well as any local knowledge about landscape values we may need to consider. “Importantly, the revised zones must ensure that our annual fuel management program is guided by a riskbased approach and that it contributes to an overall risk target of 70 per cent for Victoria. “If the bushfire risk is at 70 per cent, bushfire fuels have been reduced by about one third of the maximum risk. The proposed zone changes are designed to provide the highest level of bushfire protection that Forest Fire Management Victoria can offer while reducing the impacts on natural ecosystems and other important assets and values.” Individuals and community groups can have their say at http://haveyoursay.delwp.vic.gov.au/west-centralbushfire-risk-landscape until November 25.
the Macedon Ranges Business of the Year. The hospital is two years into a period of reform driven by financial imperatives, quality and safety standards, and community relations. “We’re now well on the road to implementing our quality framework. We’ve delivered a break-even budget, and engaged our community that is becoming increasingly confident in the best care we deliver in hospital and at home,” said chief executive officer Maree Cuddihy. Over the past year Ms Cuddihy was a panel member for a state-wide review into the quality and safety of hospitals across Victoria, which enhanced KDH’s focus on its own care and services. The KDH Consumer and Community Advisory Committee has also played a strong role to support the health service to deliver quality, patient-centred care. The volunteer members will be featured in this year’s 2017 calendar. The awards will be announced next month.
RENTHAM’S annual small, affordable works art show has attracted a record 38 artists and exhibition organisers hope this will translate into last year’s record 1000-plus visitor numbers being broken.
AYLESFORD, Hepburn Springs, YNETON District Health is a finalist in the Blackwood, Trentham, Castlemaine and 2016 Victorian Public Healthcare Awards. KDH has been shortlisted for both the Gisborne-Woodend corridor are the Premier's Small Health Service of the Year, and all at high risk of fire danger and residents are encouraged to have their say on important changes Excellence in Community Engagement for its innovative The town’s Little Gallery is staging its annual show to Fire Management Zones designed to reduce risk Tea for Ten feedback project. The external recognition builds on its recent award as of small works by big names from the evening of Friday, to life and property.
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Hepburn Springs Women’s Golf
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HE Golden Putter event was won by Bev and Jan Smith with a score of Plus 7.
The September Monthly Medal, sponsored by Rubens @ Hepburn was won by Julie Azzopardi. Shirley Rodda won the October medal sponsored by Koukla while Rose Mobbs won the November medal sponsored by Mary Davis and Shirlene Nevill. Rose also won the Norma Pilmore trophy and the 36-hole event for the first two weeks of the championship.
From left, Bev Smith, Jan Smith, Shirley Rodda, Julie Azzopardi and Rose Mobbs
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BURRAS general manager Shane “Robbo� Robertson is looking forward to the Hepburn Football Netball Club celebrating 150 years in 2017 - as the club continues to be an integral part of the community. Read Jeff Glorfeld's story on page 33.