The Local Issue 93 March 13, 2017

March 13, 2017 Issue 93 Tonia Todman

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Front cover: Everyone knows Tonia Todman - from her television appearances, to her magazine articles to her books. And of course her cooking school just out of Kyneton. But do you know about her forging bank notes? No? Then read her story on page 5. Oh, and stop the press. Tonia has also offered to supply some yummy recipes for The Local. The first one is on page 42!

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Henri Langlois Screening Room up and running

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“We are getting a lot of locals and people from Melbourne who have heard about it and are excited to just come up and experience what we have to offer.”

Ken’s own background is in cinemas, think the Carlton Movie House, the Valhalla, the Regent Theatre and Nova, with a lot of opening nights for the The Henri Langlois Screening Room, named after a French pioneer in the Melbourne Film Festival. conservation and restoration of films, is, Ken says, “another addition to delight “I turned my back on all that for many years to help create the new style and look patrons and friends and people who come to the Radio Springs Hotel”.

“It fits in with the modus of what we do - we don’t have televisions, we don’t have of the Radio Springs Hotel but over the years I have had a lot of phone calls from people in Melbourne and interstate wanting me to work in cinemas again. poker machines – what we do is more of an arts bent.

“But it was only fairly recently that we decided we had all this equipment in “The Henri Langlois Screening Room allows the hotel to not only be able to show sheds, people were donating things to me, and we were able to find a small space to motion pictures but also to provide a performance space and conference facility as do something intimate and enticing. well.

“I guess my experience has stood me in good stead to be able to produce quite a “It’s been a long time in the making and there is a lot of history in this space. The classy venue. carpet is from the old Grand Theatre in Footscray, the red chairs are from the old "I think people are expecting a roll-up screen and a few stackable chairs but it is Valhalla Cinema in Richmond, the blue chairs are from Hoyts Columbia Theatrette the complete opposite. A real cinema experience with the wow factor, which is what which was atop the Cinema Centre, the red side drapes are from the Erin Rado the Radio Springs has.

Theatre which was the screening room for the Melbourne Film Festival for many “And I am hoping that it is not only a cinema space but also a performance space years, the gold curtains are from the Forum Theatre in Melbourne and the screen is with comedy shows, magic shows, Q& A sessions, book club events, meet the authors from Cinema 6 at Cinema Nova. and also high profile acts for dinners and shows. It leads us into a whole new realm of “It’s fully tricked up for a full cinema experience. We do Super 8, 16 millimetres what the hotel can achieve. I am quite excited by that.” and 35 millimetres.”

Ken said a film festival was planned for Lyonville later this year using the screen Above, Don Breen, left, and Ken Parfrey, ask for a little bit of shush as the room and the Lyonville Hall.

Americans ponder how to win World War II “I am very excited about that. We hope to run anything up to 25 films over a weekend and bring in directors and actors. A real film festival experience.”

Ken said the screening room was now open on Tuesday nights along with patrons Words: Donna Kelly | Image: Kyle Barnes enjoying a drink and wood-fired pizza at the hotel’s new Back Beach Bar.

HILE debate rages over the community cinema in Daylesford, Radio Springs Hotel co-owner Ken Parfrey (with engineer Don Breen) has been busy creating his own screening room.

4 Our artists

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Resonating with nature

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ALLY Roadknight trained first as an infant teacher but always, as long as she can remember, used to draw. Her mother would take her into the bush on holidays and they’d draw orchids. Then later as a mother of four herself and a mature-aged student, she finally did what she’d always wanted to do and went to art school. First to TAFE and then to the Victorian College of the Arts. And she loved it! "It was a degree in fine art and painting. There was such opportunity for experimentation.” She chatted to Donna Kelly.

Donna: When did you know you were an artist?

Sally: As a child and ever since, I always knew that’s what I wanted to do. I loved finding things that I resonated with - things in the bush, the beach, anywhere really because I liked their shape or texture. I loved using these things as a reference to create.

I was responding to them and interpreting my sense of the landscape.

Donna: What is mixed media?

Sally: For me, it is using a wide variety of techniques and collections of objects of all kinds. Techniques include drawing, painting, basketry, sculpture, printing, sewing.

I like to express a feeling of the landscape so I will use whatever I need and whatever I find, both man-made and natural.

Donna: What do you hope your work means to others?

Sally: I want to reveal and present the beauty in objects that people might not consider beautiful or even notice. My hope is that people may respond to these things with heightened sensitivity and feeling.

Donna: What does it mean to you?

Sally: My art is essential to my life - it’s what I do. My art reflects who I am.

Donna: Can anyone be an artist or is it inherent?

Sally: For me it is. But to pursue it requires an enormous amount of perseverance.

You have to be capable of giving it away if it’s not working. Walking away and starting again. For every piece you complete, there are many more you don’t. I work very quickly but I do a lot of thinking beforehand.

Donna: Where can we see your work?

Sally: Coming up is the Maldon Art Walk from March 12 to 26. My work will be at the Wheel and Loom building in the Main Street. I’m also exhibiting at the Newstead Arts Salon Biennial Community Exhibition, daily from March 17 to 26 at Newstead’s Community Centre. Finally, I’m a part of Newstead Open Studios where a number of local artists are opening their studios to the public from March 17 to 26.

I’ll be showing my work at Chris Johnston’s ceramic studio in Green Gully - open over both weekends. Newstead Open Studios is part of the Castlemaine State Festival.

Link: www.newsteadopenstudios.wordpress.com Donna: Finally, what’s your Central Highlands story.

Sally: Mine is a Central Victorian story. My partner Peter and I moved to the outskirts of Maldon 16 years ago, onto 70 acres. Our plan was to revegetate and create a habitat for birds. Through local people, I found myself involved in the wider community - Newstead Community Garden as well as ukulele playing in Guildford as well as Castlemaine and Maldon.

"My art is essential to my life - it’s what I do. My art reflects who I am."

- Sally Roadknight

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Our people 5

Cooking, accommodation, flowers - the 'pretties'

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19th-century Kyneton estate is as good a place as any to sit down and write one hell of an autobiography, about one hell of a woman.

Not that Tonia Todman is at all likely to take too much time away from her business empire to self-pontificate. Plus, there is always that other problem…her sharp wit.

“I’d like to write my memoirs…but I’d get sued. You can’t spend 20 years in television without noticing a few things,” Tonia points out.

It was from humble beginnings that she built her empire, during a life in which things were hardly handed to her on a silver platter. It was her strong work ethic that saw her career in the media and affiliated industries take off and make her a household name.

And it was those beginnings that also helped shape the industry Tonia would later target – with her father working with the Australian defence forces as an intelligence officer, and stationed in Papua New Guinea, it was a childhood firmly rooted in proud self-sufficiency.

“We lived on a tiny island, we didn’t have shops - they were something I knew nothing about. If you wanted it you built it, or painted it, or made it, or grew it, I thought that was the way that everybody lived.”

It didn’t take long for Tonia to turn culture shock into the start of an empire.

Moving on to husband number one, Tonia found herself working to help pay his university fees after their initial dream of living and farming the land was broken by drought. Enter Vogue magazine, where Tonia made samples of patterns for the publication’s photography – and worked her way up the ladder to eventually be offered, and subsequently refuse, the top job.

“I had a career, and managed to keep a toe in the house at the same time…but I couldn’t leave my children full-time at the ages they were at.”

From there…well, it is hard to keep up. Tonia has so far written 28 books on cooking, craft, home decorating and DIY – the list of magazines she has written for is beyond extensive, she’s taught and lectured in textile and design, she owned Australia’s largest decorative cushion manufacturer, and helped establish China’s first water bottling plant. She also did a typing and shorthand course at college, and is a qualified but as-yet un-practiced speech and drama teacher.

Her career in television was extensive – from the early days of Roy and HG on Club Buggery. Tonia’s wicked sense of humour is not particularly well-known, perhaps what made her perfect for the skit in which she mimed Dusty Springfield's Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself…while happily using a printing press and clothesline to forge and dry $100 bills.

Her television career includes arguably her most recognisable appearances on Australian screens – Healthy, Wealthy and Wise, Good Morning Australia and Creative Living with Tonia Todman.

Now, the empire is diverse as ever. Tonia has settled in Kyneton with husband Michael Dowding, a restoration carpenter, at the historic Bluestone Highbank homestead and Tonia has not only a popular cooking school onsite, but also turned the stables into B&B accommodation, and grows organic roses for her work as a florist and for the cut flower market.

“Michael does the building and I do the pretties.”

But Tonia is, as ever, savvy with the business side of things – hosting classes that see mothers bringing daughters, and hen’s parties…anything that involves women and cake. “It’s amazing what a group of women can laugh about. Well it’s not amazing, it shouldn’t surprise you at all.”

And even in between classes at Highbank, Tonia is finding ways to keep herself occupied. “There was a feature film being filmed in Kyneton, and I took a small role in it - I had to dress up and be a bit batty and then I got murdered, there was a lot of blood. It was a highlight of my 2016.”

As for writing, potentially her memoir in particular – it’s a love of the craft perhaps passed down from Tonia’s “wonderful but formidable” grandmother, a woman before her time editing Queensland’s Maryborough Chronicle at a time when it probably would have been less scandalous for her to have been at home forging $100 bills.

“Writing is in my blood.” *Tonia has started as a regular contributor to The Local. As well as forging bank notes in our office, she will provide recipes for readers – and with apples in season and in abundance, her first recipe is for Italian Apple Cake. It's on page 42. Enjoy!

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Vale Danny Spooner

Over the following 10 years he held various jobs and led an almost nomadic life, receiving a real-life education in the ways of working people. It was here where his NTERNATIONALLY renowned folksinger Danny Spooner passed away interest in folk traditions germinated. on March 3. The Local's journalist Anthony Sawrey was lucky enough to “While my love of music grew naturally meet the great man and we ran this story in our April 25, 2016 edition. from a love of history, what got me between the eyes was when I was on the sailing The Local, Donna and Kyle, and the crew, sends their condolences to Gael, boats as a kid. I worked with an old bloke family and friends. Vale Danny. named Bob Roberts who sang songs all the time. He used to make me read books, tell IN OUR age, music circulates in volumes unheard of even 20 years ago. While him something from them and he would we can access songs instantly, it is troubling to think that some of the fundamental make up a song about it. It occurred to me pillars of music creation are being smothered. Tunes that connect listeners to a that this was a form of history that didn’t get heard, didn’t get written in the history collective history are being drowned out by the all-enveloping spectre of music as books.” merely entertainment.

It was something that Danny continued to note when he came to Australia.

Meaningful stories are not part of the top 10 but they still speak to us with surety.

A surety expressed most profoundly in the songs of folk music traditions such as those “That’s what the folk scene’s about. It’s always been picking up tunes from here and putting them over there because I suppose really, wherever you go in the world, performed by Daylesford musician Danny Spooner. Danny has been performing his people are trying to stay alive, work, and if you live in the hills, the bush, you will vast repertoire of songs for more than 50 years and is still going strong. He arrived have songs about the hills, if you’re down on the coast, you will have fisherman songs in Australia in 1962, spent three decades in Melbourne and moved to the Central and so on. Somebody hears it down there and says, ‘that’s a nice tune, I’ll adapt that Highlands with his wife Gael in the early 90s. Since then he has performed in folk clubs and festivals in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Europe and back home in the song to where I live’.”

It is a vastly different attitude to song compared to what is often found in the United Kingdom. pubs where crowds just want to be entertained. Where bands rarely move beyond Thanks to a prodigious memory and a willingness to develop his craft Danny is what’s on their set list and, in most instances, are little more than background to now renowned as one of the best singers of folksongs around and a “national living people chatting among themselves. Danny’s audiences want to hear the stories he treasure” bestowed on him by Professor of Philosophy Max Charlesworth of Deakin comes to sing. His music’s power lies in his wish to recount life experiences, ones University. His pieces are diverse, covering romance, working life, poverty, happy that remain important no matter what year or century you hear them in. That’s what times, politics, history, and everything else in between. They span almost every part draws people to them; they resonate across time. of the British and Australian folk tradition with American and Canadian material as “These works are not just songs but an important documentation of stories,” he well. He is also an historian, researcher and has released more than 21 albums. But this passion was not something he first took up on a whim; it has been there since the says. “Folk songs in my opinion, are the history of the common people, the cannon fodder, the factory fodder and are as relevant to a casual worker in 2016 as they were beginning. to an itinerant labourer in the 1920s.”

“I started to get into this music when I was a kid, growing up in the east end of While we like to think that things are different in our time, that we live in a more London. My grandparents and all the family sang and these were the sort of songs enlightened society, for the people of the working classes, the story remains the same. they sang. They didn’t just sing folk songs they sang everything that was going, my The songs which Danny Spooner keeps vibrant and alive create that vital link between dad loved jazz, my grandmother sang, my uncles, and that’s where it came from.” the struggles of today and yesterday as time glides ever onward.

By the time he was 13, Danny had left school and began work on a sailing barge plying the Thames and the south coast of England.

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Why these school students are wall-eyed

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“I saw these poorly made walls which had been built in a rush back in the 1850s and wanted to restore them. I suggested it to Natasha and she made it happen.”

Natasha, pictured above with Josh, runs workshops, including one by Josh on dry stone walls, at Spargo Creek. Wesley physical education teacher Zoe Schneider went to one.

Cut to just beyond Breakneck Gorge near Shepherds Flat and a scene of action Zoe breaks off from organising to tell The Local: “This is part of a program called where school students dismantle a decrepit wall for rebuilding. Adopt-a-Wall, as it Collective Potential. Students choose to do a program to benefit others. They take on may be called, is similar to Adopt-a-Road, except stretches of road are kept clear of a task too big for someone on their own, a task that looks so big they may not know litter by volunteers for two years at a go while walls are forever.

Ten Year 9 students, from Wesley College’s Clunes Campus, who had never heard whether they can achieve it.

“The only way to do it is to pull together.” of a dry stone wall, were variously straining, chiacking, lifting, resting, tugging, joking But first they must pull apart a wall of rock from nearby paddocks that would and trying to scare each other. have been about 1.5 metres high and is now less than a third of that. The students “I hate wasps!’ yelled one. were dismantling it rock by rock, levering boulders out with a new crowbar and “There’s a redback on the rock.” stacking them ready for use.

“There are snakes in there.”

Out came a skinny rusted horseshoe. It will go into the new wall.

“Slacker.”

Josh will build two ends to a section of the wall and the students the rest.

“If we find gold can we keep it?”

“It’s a flexible program,” says teacher Zoe. “They will stay until the job is done.

Another battled on with a fractured foot.

Where else would they ever learn these skills?”

And it may have been International Women’s Day, but a student couldn’t resist a As for Josh Bowes, he says, “Little do they know they’re creating history with dig at a classmate, Jordan, as she struggled with a broken arm: “You’re a girl”. what was made by someone else’s hands”.

Helping to supervise, Josh, from Daylesford, explains that he saw programs on restoring walls in the UK and US, where they are more prized and recognised than Words: Kevin Childs: Image: Kyle Barnes here. And they are also well maintained in Victoria’s Western District.

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8 Opinion

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Just sayin’...

Pick me, pick me...

By Donna Kelly

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HAT a fantastic ChillOut parade!

In fact, a whole weekend of fun – from all things ChillOut to the Bullarto Vintage Tractor Pull to Kyneton’s Lost Trades Fair. If you didn’t find something to keep you occupied, you just weren’t looking.

But back to the parade. Like many, I listened as the rain poured during the early hours and thought “bugger off!” Well, something like that. And the rain got heavier. But when I woke up, at almost 8am, the sun was starting to poke through the clouds and all was well with the world.

So off we went, in a fantastic bright blue Jeep borrowed from Peter Stevens in Ballarat, with giant front pages from the last edition tied on the sides, Dorothy (aka the wonderful Maureen Andrew) on the roof and my mum, Betty, in the back seat making her ChillOut parade debut.

In fact, I would say, that at 85 this June, it was mum’s first LGBTIQ outing – and she loved it. She has even made me write down the acronym and its meaning – she kept calling it the “gay” parade but I explained it was a little more diverse than that. She is now determined to educate her friends at the retirement village.

But, once again, back to the parade.

“Oh,” she exclaimed, as we waited in the staging area, “I just saw a naked man pulling on tights”. “Oh,” she said again, “there’s the tinman on a huge horse.” “Oh,” and now it was getting pretty repetitive, “that’s a very tall woman in the gold.” Max did look rather fabulous.

And then we were off and mum, rather than waving to the onlookers, just pretty much sat, quietly stunned by the number of people and the cheering and clapping from the crowds.

“They like Dorothy,” she said at one stage, as Dorothy looked at every likely dog and called out, “Toto, I found you.”

At the start, I find it a bit strange, waving away like the Queen – I don’t know how she does it – but then you get into the swing and when you see a familiar face, and there were lots of them, it’s a great feeling. Oh, to the couple I didn’t know, who probably wondered why I was waving so madly, I was actually trying to get a wasp out of the car. Sorry if I scared you.

And then, after two rounds of Vincent Street, it’s over too quickly. We pulled up on Duke Street, Dorothy headed back to the adoring crowds and we headed back to Glenlyon. Time to put together the final pages of The Local – with photos of all three fantastic events thanks to photographer Bec Walker. (The only downside to being in the parade is that you can’t watch and photograph it as well.)

Mum has vowed to return next year even though Kyle said she had already outdone herself – without even dressing up - as the Wicked Witch of the West. There are many reasons I love this region – and being even a small part of ChillOut is one of them. Just sayin’…

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An inspiring story emerges from the sewers

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T JUST seven, Dee White decided she wanted to be a writer. Recently the Woodend author of 16 books for children and young adults returned from meeting her new agent in New York fired up and ready to take off soon for Paris to complete research on her latest, and highly astonishing, story.

And in a world awash with bigotry and dehumanising of people such as refugees, her plot could scarcely be more apt. In what has been called a shining story of human solidarity hundreds of people, mainly Jewish, were saved from the gas chamber during World War II by being hidden in the Grand Mosque in Paris by Algerians.

Up to 1700 hunted people, including escaping Muslims and Christians, were hidden in underground caverns. To get there they had to negotiate the sewers and were sometimes secreted in wine barrels before being given new identities. In her research Dee will take the hour-long Paris Sewer Tour, with its lavatories connected to enclosed sanitary pipes, so visitors may flush without fear of splashing others.

She came across this story two years ago when researching a book set in Paris. “I wanted kids to know what happened – and what racism can mean.”

So was born Beyond Belief, a book for children and young adults that she hopes will also be read by grown-ups.

Writing about the escapes from Nazis has a special relevance for Dee. Her father, now 93, fled Austria after Kristallnacht, the attack in that country and Germany in 1938 when many Jews were killed and their property destroyed.

She was astonished when she outlined the Paris story at a conference in Sydney.

All four publishers present wanted to read her manuscript. Then an illustrator friend mentioned it to a US agent who read three chapters, and offered to represent her. Dee recently spent time in New York discussing the book with her agent.

What’s more, “A lot of people said it would make a great film”.

This is a long way to travel for a former insurance claims officer who grew up around Macedon and Sunbury, longing to write. She was lucky to have outstanding English teachers, two of whom became her mentors. She will meet one of them again in Paris.

Dee’s early short stories won favour in competitions such as those run by the Victorian Cancer Council. She also received a fellowship to the US where she was helped by a best-selling author.

Of course, it’s not all been easy. One book required about 30 drafts, running into a million words. Along the way, she found time for skydiving and hot air ballooning. Words: Kevin Childs | Image: Kathy Mexted As well, she and her husband Michael roamed Australia, staying in tents for nearly two years with their two children under three and the family dog. Articles for magazines emerged as they travelled.

She slid out of the insurance world after five years by way of marketing, followed by journalism and advertising copy writing.

This year two more of her books will hit the stores. K9 Heroes is a collection of true stories of dogs that have saved people: one pulled a drowning boy from a dam in Australia, an American dog saved a woman from a fire and in Canada one fought off a cougar. This book is out in August, to be followed the next month by a picture book, Reena’s Rainbow, illustrated by Tracie Grimwood. This will be released during International Deafness Week and tells of a girl who assimilates the “hearing world” into her world. “It’s a story of diversity, belonging and friendship,” says Dee. As part of giving back, as it were, Dee runs affordable online writing classes for children across the world. Eight to 12-year-olds benefit from her advice and encouragement in countries such as Britain, the US, Canada, India and Singapore.

“Some of their writing is amazing,” she says. She believes that anyone who has a passion to write, and great ideas, should be encouraged to develop them.

Her blogs, Writing Classes for Kids and DeeScribe Writing, offer career and writing tips for all ages.

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Community Cinema a professional outfit

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AS A volunteer-run cinema, you can be assured that the way Daylesford Community Cinema does business is more professional than many of the other 32 commercial cinemas we deal with.”

Those are the words of Bob Parr OAM and senior advisor to Wallis Cinemas in South Australia which provides programming assistance to Daylesford Community Cinema.

Mr Parr has 50 years’ experience in film exhibition and has been working with Daylesford Community Cinema for more than three years.

“I had a phone call in December 2013 looking for urgent advice re programming for the Daylesford Cinema. There was a lot to do in a very short time with opening accounts and paying bonds. This was a week before Christmas when film companies were already in holiday mode.

“I was incredibly impressed with the speed in which all these issues were solved.

Since that time my initial thoughts have not faded in any way. There are never any headaches from the many volunteers we have dealt with since 2013.”

Theatre committee president Gina Lyons, who along with many others, is trying to convince the Hepburn Shire Council to leave the cinema in The Rex Arcade, said in its three-year history, the cinema had proven a great success.

“Three years ago, the local community and businesses helped raise the initial capital needed to open the cinema. Its location in the Rex Arcade revitalised the once proud and iconic 1930s Rex Cinema.

“Screen Australia recently reported that average cinema seat occupancy across Australian cinemas is 16 per cent. At Daylesford Community Cinema, which offers a minimum of 10 screenings a week, its seat occupancy rate averages 25 per cent.

“Like all cinemas, we would love to have full houses for every screening, but the reality is that attendances fluctuate. In the last couple of weeks, we have had full houses for Lion, other films have smaller attendances. We are very pleased that we have outperformed the average of cinemas across Australia.”

Ms Lyons said the cinema was completely community and grants funded and is the only community cinema completely managed and staffed by volunteers.

“The cinema pays a commercial rent to Hepburn Shire Council – which bought the Rex last year.

“Council’s contribution so far has been a $2000 community grant. Community members talk about what a warm and friendly place the cinema is. It shows the latest films two to three weeks after general release in the capital cities of Australia. The cinema provides many services to the community - school holiday programs, a warm, friendly filmic retreat for tourists visiting our region and a place where people learn business and customer service skills and the technical side of cinema.

“The Daylesford Community Cinema needs a permanent home so that it can continue to provide a quality movie experience and offer new entertainment experiences to our community. That is the purpose of our discussions with the council.”

Letters to the editor

Ticket sellers Janine, Lesley, Colin, Ian, Bronwen, Andrew and myself, cinema volunteers, Lauren, Ashley and projectionist, Glen Heyne, Joe and Paul, Maggie Letters to the editor are welcome. Please keep them and myself, Stephanie Woollard and the Daylesford short and to the point. Any letters addressed Dear Community Radio.

I’d also like to thank councillors Kate Redwood and Sir will be deleted. Just sayin'...

Fiona Robson for their support and coming and seeing first-hand what the cinema is all about.

Hands off our cinema IT TOOK 50 years to get our cinema back in Daylesford. It has taken the Hepburn Shire Council less than six months to try to destroy it.

Will it take another fifty years to get it back?

- Gordon Nightingale, Daylesford Rotary LIKE so many others we are devastated about the situation with The Rex, having been supporters since it opened.

The other day we went to see Lion and it was a full house. The audience was of all ages and there was an amazing feeling of community, as well as love for the THE fund-raising event for Seven Women to heart-warming story of family and acceptance that was help fund the ongoing education and training programs for marginalised women in Nepal was an the centre of this Australian-made movie.

To council we say: ‘Don’t let us lose something that unqualified success. (Pictured right.) gives the children and teenagers of our community The Daylesford Community Cinema was filled somewhere safe to go, as well as our seniors and all to capacity, so much so that several Rotarians gave up movie lovers.

Going to Ballarat is not an option for their seats to allow others in to enjoy the movie. As most.

Where is the vision from our council? Make The people arrived they were handed a choc-top ice-cream Rex a true community centre and put the library there, to enjoy in the show. A big thank you to Peter Douglas the cinema (can double as a performance space and of Hocking Stuart for both arranging this and handing for meetings), a training café (is that still part of the them out.

Stephanie Woollard, Rotary Peace Scholar, founder plan?) and the offices for council workers involved in of Seven Women, and recipient of one of just six Rotary community programs.’

International Responsible Business Awards, gave a short talk on Seven Women and its programs and introduced - Keira and Graham Lockyer, Hepburn Springs the film, “Bringing the Light”.

THIS is a history lesson for Hepburn Shire At the end of the film it was opened up for a councillors - some of whom may have lived here for Q&A session with Stephanie answering a barrage of enthusiastic questions, then Daylesford Rotary president generations - some not.

Personally, I could be considered by many long David Stagg handed over a cheque for $2220.

There were people from all over Hepburn Shire and generation families a “newcomer”. Our family has lived here for just 40 years. beyond. A lot of the talk during the supper was about But my late husband’s family lived around Lake what a pity it would be if we lost this incredible facility Daylesford before the lake was built and my late motherdue to council making a wrong decision. in-law Felice (then Mather) played the piano for the There are many people to thank for making this such a success, they include the Daylesford Community silent movies at The Rex. Talkies took over a couple of years later. She talked of Cinema, Daylesford Cottage Directory, Cellarbrations, it fondly often and we still have her sheet music.

Dylan Hill and Hocking Stuart’s Peter Douglas and caterers Maggie Nightingale, Bronwen Scarffe and Lesley Hewitt.

- Loraine Little, Abbotsford

All of the above aside, it appears our councillors have no concept of the depth of feeling our community has for The Rex. It was our community who resurrected it, through donations and plain hard work.

The idea that you can’t live in the past and ignore progress is irrelevant in this case. It is called The Rex Theatre as that is what it is. It is what it was built for and where it should remain.

In support of Pam Verwey’s letter (The Local Issue 92), apart from the CEO who is indeed a public servant, we, the community, elect people to council who are supposed to work for their community, not against them.

Marilyn Chatfield, Daylesford

Stop the press THE Daylesford Cinema Committee reported last Thursday that "constructive discussions" have been ongoing between it and Hepburn Shire Council "which we believe may resolve the matter to the satisfaction of all parties."

"Councillors must now be given the opportunity to consider the proposals. The protest march proposed for March 18 has been postponed until after the council meeting on March 21 at Victoria Park.

"The proposed recommendations will be available on the council website on Friday, March 18. " All interested members of the public are welcome to attend the council meeting when the matter will be again discussed, and hopefully resolved, by council."

Geelong Businessman, Mark Ward has ownership of the Mill Markets group and brings years of expertise to this amazing concept. The Mill Markets operate three massive venues located in Ballarat, Daylesford and Geelong. With a total of over 12,000 square metres of undercover floor space, (3 acres), treasure hunters have the opportunity to spend many hours browsing and meandering through the eclectic mix of products. There is a fantastic variety of home decor, furniture, records, vintage and new clothing, books, fine china, glassware, industrial items, jewellery, antiques as well as Australian pottery, homewares, memorabilia, retro fashions and collectables. We also have many stalls selling new products and have gift vouchers for those people who have everything!

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!

ESTATE PLANNING InFocus

In this column, Robertson Hyetts’ Trent McGregor will talk all things estate planning. Today is the final part of this 3 part series on jointly owned property.

Last week, we spoke about the different estate planning consequences of owning property as joint tenants and as tenants in common. This week, we explain why owning property as tenants in common, coupled with a life interest in your Will, could avoid problems down the track.

Firstly, a reminder Joint tenants means you both own all of the property, and your share automatically goes to your co-owner when you die. Tenants in common means that you each own a percentage share and you can each gift your share in your Wills.

In our last example last week, Jim and Jane owned their property as tenants in common, and Jim had a simple Will leaving everything to his own children and nothing to Jane. When Jim dies, Jane continues to own her part of the property, and Jim’s children own the share previously owned by Jim. What’s a life interest? A life interest is a way of giving someone the right to use a property without giving them actual ownership.

They can live in the property, or lease the property and live off the proceeds, or sell the property and buy a new one and live in it, or invest the proceeds of sale and live off the income. They can’t be forced to move out or to sell against their wishes. They can’t give the life interest away in their Will, and they have to look after the property. That person’s interest lasts for the rest of their life – hence the name – and ends when they die.

A life interest, or a right to reside? A right to reside is more limited than a life interest – it just gives someone the right to live in the property. They can’t rent it, nor sell it. If they are unable to stay in the property (for example, due to ill health), then the interest ends.

Can you show me how this would avoid problems? Sure Jim and Jane, the couple who both have children from previous relationships, decide to buy and own their property together as tenants in common – each owns 50%. This time, they get good estate planning advice, and draft their Wills giving each other a life interest in their home, and when the life interest ends, their respective shares of the property go to their own children. As a result, when Jim dies first, Jane is free to stay in the property for the rest of her life. She owns her 50% share of the house,and she has a life interest in Jim’s 50% share. When Jane dies, her life interest in Jim’s share ends. The house is sold, and Jim’s children get half of the sale proceeds, and Jane’s children get the other half.

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Blooming beautiful begonias

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EGONIAS are blooming at the Alf Headland Conservatory in the Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens – continuing a tradition that started in 1885.

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More than 80 varieties of tuberous and cascading begonias are on display – with their numbers reaching almost 200.

And there is plenty of care on offer with apprentice Tess Thorpe, pictured, John Roach and Sean Ludeke all part of the Hepburn Shire’s gardens team.

Tess started in hospitality after leaving Ballarat High but then found her way into some Green Army projects with the council and decided conservation and horticulture was more her thing.

The 20-year-old, who was born in Trentham and grew up in Clunes, started her apprenticeship in September and will continue on to a diploma. “I want to keep studying.”

John, who is in charge of the begonia display, has a background in botanic gardens starting in the Dandenongs then moving to New Zealand and then Far North Queensland before deciding he wanted to “come back to seasons”.

“We have a very good climate for begonias.

“I have been here a bit over a year and we’re making progress. This is the very first year we have had a winter display of anything flowering.

“The begonias start in March and a lot of locals have been watching them and are now bringing their grandchildren to see them. There’s real history here.”

Team leader Sean came to Hepburn Shire from Manly in New South Wales and started 18 months ago – just in time for the damaging winds and floods that ravaged the area.

“My position is to look after all the gardens and trees. Unfortunately, in my first year we had those storms come through and they destroyed everything. So, we are chasing our tails a bit. But we have just had our masterplan approved for the gardens – that’s been a real consultative effort.”

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Tackling When the Black Dog Bites with art

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WHAT word do you use to describe your depression?”

Last year Kyneton artist and 2016 Archibald Prize finalist, Daniel Butterworth, put this question to people in his community. Their responses – mostly anonymous - led to a thought-provoking collection of 20 self-portraits, When the Black Dog Bites.

A joint initiative of Kyneton District Health and Campaspe Family Practice will bring these paintings into the community that inspired them, at an exhibition to prompt important health conversations.

Daniel, pictured right, has been touted and recognised as a finalist in national art prizes, but he didn’t expect that these works on depression would touch so many people.

“After their first display at La Trobe, the feedback I’ve had, and people coming up to thank me, makes it feel like this is the most significant thing I’ve done as an artist,” he said.

The seed was a newsreel remark from the mother of a returned soldier whose son told her he took his head out of a noose that day. Thinking about people he knew who experienced depression, and an idea of the impact of mental health in the community prompted Daniel to ask questions.

The experience of transforming people’s words into art transformed Daniel himself.

His expressions on canvas come from embodying feelings. So it’s not surprising that these works had an emotional impact at the time of making. But the process and reactions to the works have also altered his approach as an artist.

“I’ve always expressed something authentic in my self-portraits but doing this series has steered me more towards social issues. It’s given me the courage for my art to be a bit more political.”

Daniel is immensely proud of When the Black Dog Bites and feels privileged to paint a picture of what depression can feel like. He also reckons that his community hospital is the perfect place for it to be seen. Statistics show that the majority of people experiencing mental health illnesses don’t access health services.

The exhibition at Kyneton Hospital opened on March 11 and will run until March 24 from 10am to 4pm.

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Great life at Hepburn House for Elizabeth

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IFE at Hepburn House is pretty good for resident Elizabeth Thornycroft.

Not only is she close to her family, who are regular visitors, but the on-site staff and facilities are first-class.

One recent event took Elizabeth’s fancy – and no wonder, as she worked at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne in the 1940s.

“It was the best job of my life,” Elizabeth said.

“I really enjoyed seeing Athol Guy perform at Hepburn House on March 12.”

The performance is just one of many aspects of life at Hepburn House that Elizabeth enjoys.

Elizabeth’s past work life is also reflected in one of her current loves at Hepburn House – its library, and collection of “brilliant” books.

“I spent 10 years volunteering at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and delivering library books to patients.”

Along with the church services, Elizabeth also enjoys the wonderful gardens – and, in particular, the staff.

“The staff are brilliant because they are so friendly. They are very attentive if I need anything.”

Hepburn House is a government-funded aged care facility which provides all levels of care for residents from permanent to respite – other activities offered at Hepburn House include regular bus outings, knitting groups, morning melodies, and, of course, a cup of tea and a chat with the friendly members of staff.

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World's Longest Lunch

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OTH Natasha Morgan and Kylie Himmerman have children at Daylesford Primary School and both are passionate about food – Kylie from a chef and caterers background and landscape designer Natasha from her Oak and Monkey Puzzle property and its productive landscape ethos.

So, when the opportunity came up to help organise the Regional World’s Longest Lunch - Daylesford, as part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, and as a fundraiser for the school’s Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden, they grabbed it with both hands.

“We realised that after a few years there was no government support for the garden program – so it needs to be supported by the community. And this is a great way to do that and bring the community together. Collaboration is a huge part of this event and we are also celebrating our local producers," Natasha said.

Kylie said the amount of support from local wineries, breweries, cideries, chefs, restaurants and people just donating items for the silent auction had been incredible.

“We really do pretty much have the best of the best in the region with us for the day. And it’s very much about everyone taking ownership of this event. It is something for the whole community to come together and celebrate the amazing culture of food and produce and agriculture and arts here.”

Just a few of those taking part include the Belvedere Social, Jonai Farm, The Perfect Drop, Frank & Connie's, The Cottage Herbalist, Passing Clouds, Daylesford Hotel and RedBeard Bakery.

School principal Trevor Edwards said the kitchen garden had been “extensive in lots of different ways in supporting children in understanding where their food comes from”. “We are growing it, cooking it, and there’s the ethos of garden to plate which is really a golden opportunity for children to explore and expand their knowledge base around that.

“We really appreciate the organisation by Natasha and Kylie, and the support of the chefs who are coming in for this event. It is really difficult for the school to fund the program so this is a great opportunity for us. I have been to many schools and this is one of the best kitchen gardens I have seen and the community drive and spirit to make sure it is successful is amazing.”

The Regional World’s Longest Lunch will be held at Spargo Creek on March 31.

Organisers of 8th Lake Daylesford Swim Classic would like to congratulate winners Justin Rodda and Erin Richardson.

Thanks to sponsors Book Barn, The Boathouse and, for the first time, Lake House Restaurant. Close to $3000 was raised for La Faek Diak Clinic in East Timor.

Results and photos: Lake Daylesford Classic Facebook Winners of raffle were Sue Ross, Mary Stevens and Tahn Rodda.

Thanks to all volunteers and safety crew.

Pictured above - the entrants!

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The Rant

by Kyle Barnes

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O, IT seems there is much ado about nothing going on about the place, once again. This time it’s in the form of having to change the walk sign at the traffic lights into a woman’s body from that of a man’s shape.

For God’s sake, I had no idea it was a man’s body.

There are no real clues on the asexual lamp. I can’t see any testicular action going on, the figure looks more like that of just a plump over-50s stick figure. And it’s even walking towards you so no woman’s boobs can be seen – it’s actually the closest to unisex that I have seen.

But now thanks to International Women’s Day, there is a thought of putting a triangle across its body to represent a skirt. I know plenty of women who don’t wear skirts, so how do they identify with this new image? If this goes ahead there will probably be a lot of dudes and women who won’t identify with the crossing light and will just have to loiter the street corners confused as it will be only chicks in dresses who can cross. I came across the above sign in Japan. Not quite sure what it means but maybe if you look like an alien with a small child accompanying you, go ahead and cross. The rest of us will be just bumming around on the street corner scratching our heads wondering when the asexual green stick figure is going to appear.

Speaking of streets, I came across some amazing news the other day pertaining to the roll-out of the driverless cars. So, watch out you tailgaters, lane wanderers, for-noreason breakers, speedsters and texters, this one’s for you. It’s believed by 2020 driverless cars will be commonplace. Yes, that’s correct - it is 2017 now so that’s just three years. Volvo is one of the first to mass-produce these scientific man-made wonders and as a result they are so confident in their anti-kangaroo striking masterpieces, that they will be covering the car with full liability for injuries or damages while in driverless mode.

At The Local we use subscription-based software programs for our editing and accounting programs - that is, we don’t own software, we lease it. This is handy because you don’t have huge upfront costs and your software is continually updated. My point is, what if, in the near future you will not own a car, you will subscribe to a car-sharing service, a driverless car sharing service, so no cars sit in the carport or, worse still, in a hugely expensive Melbourne carpark. I guess it’s watch this space.

And what about the knock-on effects for taxi, Uber and bus drivers, as well as the road congestion, where public transport plays second fiddle to dialling up your own personal ride? But what about the folk among us who live in the Central Highlands and work in Melbourne? They will be able to get up a little later in the morning, climb into the car they called for five minutes ago and arrive at work in Melbourne refreshed, up to date with the morning news and with all the emails tidied away. Interesting times. Rant over.

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Women's Honour Roll

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OUR inductees to the International Women’s Day Heather Mutimer Honour Roll were announced at the Hepburn Shire International Women’s Day event last Thursday at the Daylesford Town Hall.

The inductees are Elsie Miller (posthumous), Kit Manning, Jenny Beacham and Candy Broad.

Victorian Governor Linda Dessau was the keynote speaker at the event, which included presentations from two Year 10 students from Daylesford Secondary College. Antigone Jonas and Chloe Leonard spoke on the International Women’s Day theme of “Be bold for change”.

Elsie Miller (posthumous) – A leader of the community who championed the advancement of gender equality. Elsie dedicated many years of her life to the Daylesford Ladies Benevolent Society which supplies the needs of disadvantaged women in the community. Elsie was also a part of the Mother’s Union, Girl Guides Support Group and the Red Cross.

Kit Manning – A leader in her community for over 40 years, working in many areas including the local football and netball club as well as the Trentham Mechanics Institute. Consciously and deliberately achieving the cooperation of her fellow women and nurturing their skills and talents, Kit provided long term change in the status of women in her community while broadening and strengthening roles of other women through her efforts.

Jenny Beacham – Throughout her working career she has espoused the cause of gender equality, especially regarding the role of educating girls in rural areas.

She has worked at the political level to achieve change. Her influence continues to be important at the local level, in that she has continued the direct mentoring of women in the community.

Candy Broad – A strong force in politics, who held many powerful roles, she proposed the Abortion Law Reform Bill into the Parliament in 2008, which was passed overwhelmingly on a conscience vote by members of all parties. Candy also had considerable influence over the creation of federal ALP policy, and campaigned for the rights of women in the party. She played a significant role in the 1994 introduction of the ALP's affirmative action scheme.

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FORMER Penguin Books publishing director GLENLYON Sports Club raised $16,000 for local THE Choral Institute Melbourne will have its Robert Sessions says as long as people have stories charities, hospitals and youth groups from its New debut performance in Daylesford next month.

Two concerts will showcase outstanding choral to tell there will be people who want to read them. Year’s Day Family Sports Day at the Glenlyon singing from one of Australia’s leading choirs – The He foresees a long future for the printed book, but Reserve. concedes that he doesn’t really mind how the reader chooses to “read” the stories - as long as they do.

During his many years with Penguin he worked with iconic Australian authors Patsy Adam-Smith, Graeme Base, Ruth Park, Christopher Koch, Phillip Adams, Michael Cannon and Bryce Courtenay.

Robert will share his tips and stories at Conversations in Pubs at Casa Allegra in Trentham on Sunday, March 26 from 3.30pm to 5pm.

Bookings: www.ticketebo.com.au/ conversationsinpubs Enquiries: jill@fcconversations.com or 5417 5228.

Over the past 13 years they have raised more than $180,000. Spokesman Evan Davis said the Glenlyon Mixed Sports Day was another great success.

“While gate takings were down just a little from last year, fantastic support from all our sponsors enabled the club to distribute $16,000 back into our local community. It’s also a wonderful day of entertainment and good old fashioned community get together for locals and visitors.

“The club would also like to acknowledge the effort the Hepburn Shire Council put into repairing the reserve after last year’s floods and the way the facility was presented on the day."

This year money went to: Daylesford Hospital $4000, Trentham Hospital - $900, Daylesford Christmas Cheer - $800, High School Breakfast Club with $700 to TWO outstanding speakers head the line-up for be divided among schools in program (new for 2017), this year’s Words in Winter writers’ festival.

Award-winning author Don Watson and prominent Glenlyon Pony Club - $500, Glenlyon Recreation human rights advocate Julian Burnside QC will address Reserve upgrades - $500, Daylesford Healthy Leg Club (new for 2017) - $500, St John Ambulance - $400, the topic of Origins at the August festival.

Daylesford Junior Football and Netball Club - $400, After a career as an academic historian, Watson Daylesford Municipal Band - $400, Royal Children’s combined writing political satire for actor Max Gillies with speeches for Premier John Cain. His time as speech Hospital - $400, Daylesford Junior Tennis - $400, Hepburn Junior Football and Netball Club - $400, writer for Prime Minister Paul Keating included the famous Redfern speech on Aboriginal rights and led to a Daylesford Girl Guides - $400, Daylesford Junior Soccer best-selling, multi-award-winning memoir, Recollections Club - $400, Daylesford Preschool - $400, Hepburn Preschool - $400, Daylesford Senior/Junior Pipe Band of a Bleeding Heart.

- $400, Daylesford Riding For The Disabled - $400, Death Sentence, his book on the decay of public Trentham Junior Football And Netball Club - $400, language, was also an unlikely best-seller. More prizes Glenlyon Adult Riding - $400, Daylesford Junior came for American Journeys, a narrative of modern Basketball - $400 and the Ballarat Cancer Research Unit USA and The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia.

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He followed this with A Single Tree: Voices from the Bush bringing alive the bush through the eyes of explorers, ecologists, poets, novelists, anthropologists and historians. He is also an outstanding essayist and commentator.

HANDEL’S Saul, the story that brings together Burnside is a barrister, human rights and refugee Islam, Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, will be advocate, and author. Among his books are From performed at Mica Grange on Mount Alexander Nothing to Zero: letters from refugees in Australia's on Sunday, March 19 at 2.30pm – the Equinox detention centres and Watching Brief: Reflections on weekend.

Human Rights, Law and Justice. He was made an The opera tells the story of the first King of Israel, Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009 for service as Saul, and his jealousy of a brave and gifted young man, a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and David, who is much loved by the people. asylum seekers, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, It features some of Handel's greatest choruses, and to the law. one of his most innovative orchestrations, bringing

CHIME Choir with international soloist Albert Ip – a doctor with Springs Medical Centre who said after moving to the region "I felt I could bring a different genre of quality classical and choral music to Daylesford".

The concerts are titled Reflections – The CHIME Choir. The performances will take place at Daylesford Town Hall on April 8 at 8pm and at the Daylesford Anglican Church on April 9 at 2pm.

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the characters and mood to life, and the famous Dead March.

It features the Melbourne Bach Choir, Victorian THE sixth annual Growers, Cookers and Eaters Chamber Ensemble, bass Jerzy Kozlowski, soprano Dinner will be held at the Trentham Mechanics Brenda McDougall, counter tenor Christopher Roache, Hall on Saturday, April 8 from 6pm. tenor Michael Petruccelli, organist Calvin Bowman and The event sells out every year and is an evening filled conductor Rick Prakhoff. to the brim with sumptuous seasonal food, exquisite Mount Alexander is a sacred site of the Aboriginal entertainment and tantalising tipples.

Jaara people, who will participate in the performance.

The event raises money for local food initiatives On the March Equinox, earth is in balance with throughout the year and is a collaboration between local the sun, day and night are of equal length in all parts restaurants, producers and the community. of the world. "It's a moment of energetic unity," said Spade to Blade Catering’s Gary Thomas, who is producer/director Michael Smith. also the leader of Slow Food Central Highlands, will be Link: www.micagrange.com manning the kitchen on the night, curating a diverse Tickets available from Melbourne Visitors banquet of dishes prepared by chefs at local restaurants, Centre, Federation Square, www.bestof.com.au/vic or alongside a crack team of local front-of-house hospitality 9928 0000. legends with a century of combined experience.

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LUXURY RESIDENCE WITH PRIVATE VILLA Perched privately on 1460m2, this unique home combines the best of modern and country life. The property backs up onto over 16 acres of conservation bushland. Custom designed to fi t a contemporary lifestyle but set in a country haven only minutes from Hepburn Springs, this entertainer’s modern residence with views from every room welcomes you with a private driveway. It features an open plan living room, a formal dining room. The chef’s kitchen boasts granite countertops and island bench plus large butler’s pantry, modern central bathroom and double car garage with separate laundry and store room. Upstairs, the master suite opens out to its own private terrace and its luxurious bathroom with spa-tub and large shower, WIR and study/office space. 2 bedrooms flank the first floor.

Downstairs is the perfect indoor/outdoor entertaining level connected to the alfresco entertaining area and windows galore.

The home features reverse-cycle heating & cooling, a wood-heater in the open living space and upstairs in the master bedroom, a five-star energy rating with solar boosted hot water. The property with two residences lends itself as an ideal home or weekender on the lucrative holiday market.

Magically separated with a fish pond and fernery is a private, one-bedroom villa, Midnight At Hepburn.

It boasts an enormous aquarium that buffers the bedroom and luxurious spa bath. Its modern lines are welcoming and the views are fantastic. It has constant occupancy on the holiday market.

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COOMOORA 29 Sullivans Road SUBDIVIDE AND DEVELOP Located just five minutes from Daylesford in the family neighbourhood of Coomoora this sturdy brick home is set on 4 Acres approx. of flat productive land. Offering 2 good sized bedrooms with BIR an open plan kitchen/living, slate flooring, wood stove and open wood fire, full laundry and separate toilet/ bathroom. The property is fully fenced and has numerous shedding, double car garage and carport attached to the home. On a corner allotment and zoned low-density residential, the opportunity to subdivide (STCA) will be appealing to the savvy investor. Suitable for the permanent rental market or family home.

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1.579ha Land Size - Zoned Low-Density Residential (LDRZ).

Two street frontages – Sullivans Rd & Ellis Rd Opportunity to subdivide (STCA).

Electricity and phone line connected, bore & rain water and septic waste.

Security shutters on all windows.

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DAYLESFORD 1/130 Raglan Street COUNTRY TOWNHOUSE An immaculately presented light-filled and low maintenance 2-bedroom townhouse plus garage. Sited on a corner allotment with views to the north and easy access to town centre shops, cafes and services, the residence has a spacious open plan living-dining area that opens to a wide north facing verandah, perfect for relaxing and enjoying the view.

Offering vacant possession but had been achieving $320 per week rental, the property offers excellent value for astute rental investors or an ideal low maintenance home in popular Daylesford.

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Entry to spacious living-dining-kitchen that opens to north facing verandah.

2 bedrooms, both with large built-in robes.

Well appointed large kitchen with island bench, pantry, gas hotplate & electric oven, plenty of storage and bench space.

Fresh and bright bathroom with bath and shower, separate toilet.

Large laundry with direct access to secure lockup garage.

Gas heating and hot water service, all services connected.

277 sqm with own title, no body corporate.

Low maintenance corner allotment with views over the countryside.

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HEPBURN SPRINGS 11 Tenth St

RETREAT LIVING ON DOCTORS GULLY Perched high on the edge of a picturesque gully with a creek below and spacious deck to while away the hours, this immaculately appointed retreat has all that you need for a relaxing holiday or enjoy day to day living. The fully landscaped tiered gardens offer impressive outdoor entertaining with automated irrigation, garden lighting and uninhibited views. With luxury and comfort at the forefront of the design it boasts a spa and sauna, central heating and cooling, wood fire for ambience, ample storage, double glazed windows, light and bright spaces and a well-appointed kitchen with gas cooking.

On the upper floor, you’ll find two bedrooms with BIR and ensuite in the master, central bathroom, full laundry, open plan kitchen/dining/living, balcony with alfresco decking and a separate sitting area. Downstairs another bedroom, cellar room for the wine lovers, access to the gardens, garden shed/storage and single car garage.

Located in a tightly held pocket, just a short walk to day spas, cafes, restaurants, bush tracks and the Mineral Springs Hotel where you can indulge yourself with pampering and treats from the awarded Mineral Spa. Currently, a permanent residence but has been on the holiday let market in the past.

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COOMOORA 170 Daylesford-Malmsbury Rd ENTERTAINERS DREAM RETREAT

This country inspired house exudes the best of style and function on a magnificent 1.5 acre property. Tucked away just 4.5 minutes from Daylesford and nestled in a backdrop of serenity, it boasts 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.

The private drive leads to gardens and carport that complement the house’s seamless, modern style. The architecture is part history, with added design features that are smart and sustainable. The spa jacuzzi and sumptuous lawns resemble resort living. Inside, the house goes on: formal dining room, breakfast room, living room, family room with double sided fireplace. Additionally, there is a large chef’s kitchen fully decked out with stainless steel appliances, and ample outdoor lounging/entertainment areas, verandas, water tanks and a bore, providing water in abundance. Large windows, high ceilings, wood floors and breathtaking scenery co-mingle to make this an exceptional home or holiday rental.

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Tom Shaw 0438 118 903 Rae Corris 0408 358 772 43 Vincent Street, Daylesford

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DAYLESFORD 2/3 Elsbeth Court LET THE SUNSHINE IN

This beautifully bright townhouse in central Daylesford, just 2 blocks to main street cafes and shops, has been designed to provide low maintenance living that will meet the needs of those seeking a rental investment, weekender or permanent home. High set windows allow sunlight to flood into the living area, while the wide undercover deck across the front of the house provides additional year-round living space, perfect for outdoor dining and enjoying the views. Freshly painted and beautifully presented, this lovely home will impress.

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Open plan living-dining-kitchen with high ceiling, large windows and glossy timber floors.

2 bedrooms, both with generous built-in robes.

Large bathroom with corner spa, shower, laundry facilities.

Gas log fire plus reverse cycle heating/cooling and ceiling fans in living area and both bedrooms.

Kitchen has gas hotplate, electric oven, dishwasher, pantry.

There are just 2 townhouses that share this allotment with a large open common property area adjoining a quiet creek gully.

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DAYLESFORD 56 East Street KUCA EBONY

Ideal as a permanent residence or a holiday let rental “Kuca Ebony” is set on 839m2 block all within walking distance to nearby mineral springs, gallerys and the Sunday market. The property consists of three generous sized bedrooms with BIR, three bathrooms, full laundry, open plan kitchen/ living/dining that flows onto an outdoor entertaining decking. Outside offers a low maintenance garden, double carport, 25,000L water tank with fire sprinklers and high pressure fire hose. Currently on the accommodation market the property has full wheelchair access and is being offered with furnishings available.

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3 Bedrooms with BIR, 2 with ensuites.

839m2 block with low maintenance gardens.

Fully wheelchair accessible.

Water tank with fire sprinklers and fire hoses.

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DAYLESFORD 89 Central Springs Road CENTRALLY LOCATED GEM

Leave the car at home and walk to town, a short stroll to cafes, restaurants and stores. This fabulous property is a great permanent residence, weekender or fantastic rental property for the astute investor. Boasting light and bright spaces with high cathedral ceilings throughout the open plan lounge/kitchen/ dining, three bedrooms (master with ensuite and private deck), central light bathroom, full laundry, ample storage, DLUG with 2 x car ports and 10m garden shed. A private and fully fenced back yard offers outdoor entertaining with fully landscaped gardens and 1 x 2,000L Tank & 1 x 4500L Tank to collect rain water.

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All Services connected – Natural gas, Water, Electricity, Sewerage & Phone Line.

Wood heater, gas heating & electric window roller shutters DLUG with wood heater plus double carport.

Light & bright spaces with cathedral ceilings.

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SHEPHERDS FLAT 950 Basalt Road

KAROO CREST RETREAT

An enviable oasis, just near the Lavender Farm and Cricket Willow, this 2 bedroom, 2 bath house blends attributes and amenities to create an exclusive country property on a 1.5 Acres (Approx.) bordering onto Hepburn Regional Park.

Designed to contain thermal mass and store water for the property (there’s lots of water- up to 160,000 litres) a state-of-the-art, concrete, water tank runs seamlessly through the walls of the 2 bedrooms and master bath, integrating form and function (you have to see it to believe it!).

Concrete flooring, stone columns and high ceilings combine in an attentive and deliberate floor plan, harmoniously joining the living room with floor to ceiling windows to frame the outdoor scenery, gourmet chefs zen kitchen with stainless steel appliances and rangehood and alfresco retreat area. Glass doors connect the airy, living room with the alfresco retreat area and a superior wood fireplace heats the main area.

This regal design elevates everyday life to something extraordinary and peaceful. Perfect for a residence or holiday rental.

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Money With Matt Hi Matt, I am 21 and have always wanted to buy my own home. I have been saving for a deposit. What advice/tips can you give me? – Jai, Hepburn Hi Jai, When it comes to acquiring property, I have assisted countless clients throughout the purchasing process. Firstly, I must say that I’m impressed that you are aiming to get into the market whilst you are still young. You will thank yourself for this in years to come!

Investing in property can be daunting, but whether you are planning on buying your firsthome,ory our tenth, the same basic rules still apply.

Doing your due diligence prior to purchasing will often save years of anxiety and stress throughout your journey as a property owner.

My general guidelines are as follows: What is your budget? It is important to remember that this is a factual decision, not an emotional one! It is imperative to consult an experienced mortgage broker to assist in answering this question.

What level of debt are you prepared to carry? A mortgage broker can assist in calculating what your repayments will be at certain levels of debt.

Are you intending to live in the property or rent it to a tenant? Thetax implications of living in a property compared to renting it out differ vastly. In addition, the layout and size of the property will often be determined by answering this question.

Review historical property prices in the areas that you are considering purchasing in.

Recent changes to Victorian Government legislation now mean that there are further issues to consider with regard to the type of property you may wish to acquire. TheF irst Home Owner Grant for regional Victoria is set to increase from $10,000 to $20,000 for new homes built from July 1 this year. ThiswillapplyuntilJ une 30, 2020.

Further consideration must be given to the Victorian Government initiative to cut stamp duty for first home buyers. From July 1 this year, a first home buyer purchasing a property worth $600,000 will save about $15,000 in stamp duty. A home worth $300,000 will save the buyer almost $6,000.

As a result of these factors, investing in property is becoming an achievable goal like never before. As I said though, it pays to do your homework before signing your life away. Buying a house is not like buying a pair of shoes, you can’t simply return them if you decide they don’t fit properly!

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N THE senior championships the results were: Men’s Open Singles – Pete Ekstedt d. Lewis Ingham 7-6, 7-5, Women’s Open Singles – Maddy Ingham d. Tania Evans 6-0, 6–4, Men’s Open Doubles – Lewis Ingham & Barry Dimond d. Pete Ekstedt & Stefan Webb 6-4, 6-2, Women’s Open Doubles – Maddy Ingham & Vicky Horrigan d. Gab Kirby & Tania Evans 8–4, and Mixed Open Doubles – Lewis & Maddy Ingham d. Gab Kirby & Gerard Ingham 8-6.

Thursday twilight tennis had delightful conditions and the courts, in best-ever nick, attracted an influx of Section 1 players on March 2. In two tight matches Barry’s Diamonds 26 edged out The Other Ones 22, while it was even closer when Pete’s Pistols lost 23-25 to the nominally-challenged Other Other Ones. In Section 2 the Franklin Flappers 35 accounted for the Secondary Teachers 13, while Maniacs 31 beat Tania’s Team 17.

On March 9, the regrouped Diamond Pistols 25 defeated the Other Ones 23, while in a huge turnaround Tania’s Team 36 rose from the ashes to rout the Franklin Flappers 12.

Saturday afternoon tennis on March 4 saw Brian Hurse 24/9 easily win the only section, well ahead of Greg Malcher 21/12. In third position was John Turnbull 18/13 a whisker ahead of Brain Nolan 18/15.

Members are reminded that the end of year dinner takes place on Saturday April 8.

There are places available for players of all abilities in Thursday night teams, just contact Gerard Ingham on drgingham@gmail.com If you are contemplating a comeback after years or decades off the courts you have about six weeks before the courts are closed for the autumn/winter break, so here’s your chance.

Also, Saturday afternoon competition tennis and the Sunday morning and Tuesday evening social sessions are always welcoming to new players.

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Grand Tour from Germany to Trentham

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RTISTS and “cultural ambassadors” from the heart of Germany, on tour at 32 venues around the world, have selected Trentham for their one exhibition in Australia.

From March 17 to 19 at Trentham Mechanics Institute, Moritz Gotze and Rudiger Giebler will exhibit their original images and fantasies drawn from their own rich origins in Saxony-Anhalt, Central Germany in the former East, a region that gave us the Brothers Grimm, JS Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Nietzsche and a history of ideas that have influenced thousands of migrants to Australia over two centuries.

Gotze and Giebler have embarked on their Grand Tour - Made in Kaisersaschern in pursuit of new influences to further enrich their highly different narratives and 30-year friendship.

Today, they are in their 50s and still neighbours, colleagues and friends.

Both follow the advice to expand within a life of “an educational trail of historical imagination”.

The story that brings together Islam, Christianity and the Hebrew Bible... a reminder we are all linked

Handel’s Saul Melbourne Bach Choir / Victorian Chamber Ensemble / Jerzy Kozlowski, Brenda McDougall, Michael Petruccelli, Christopher Roache / organist Calvin Bowman / conductor Rick Prakhoff / producer/director Michael Smith.

Mica Grange, Mount Alexander, Central Victoria - Sunday March 19, 2.30pm.

Equinox weekend... a moment of energetic unity.

Bookings: Best of Victoria - Melbourne Visitors Centre, Federation Square - www.bestof.com.au/vic or 03-9928 0000

A Dance Festival like no other 25th and 26th of March 2017 from 9:30an to7:30pm Trentham, Victoria.

This weekend is about dance and culture. We will have lessons, workshops and performances held all over town hosted by passionate dance professionals from all over the world.

This is a once in a life time opportunity to not only participate in what you love but to experience something completely new.

Come alone or bring some mates, we cater for all ages and abilities Check out our website and Facebook page for featured artists, ` session times and much more

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Trentham Art Show prize

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HE East Trentham Fellowship, supported by an anonymous local benefactor, has doubled the prize money it donates for the Trentham Art & Craft Show best-in-show award to $1000.

East Trentham Fellowship representative and prolific local artist David Bryant presented art show committee member Jill McCallum with the cheque at a Pig & Whistle Pub function in late February.

Local artists Catherine Abel and Helen Cottle will judge the award.

More than 2000 visitors are expected to visit the show, to be staged at the Mechanics Institute Hall from April 14 to April 17.

Trefor Prest Sculptor

As featured in Paul Cox’s last film “ Force of Destiny .”

Studio open during Castlemaine State Festival,17-26 March or by appointment: 0403328125 136 Newstead/Daylesford Rd. Strangways strangwayssculpture.wordpress. com or Instagram

Newstead Open Studios 18th-19th & 25th-26th March, 2017 10am - 4pm, weekends

*studios also open during the week

Explore an intriguing and diverse group of ar3sts' studios in Newstead and nearby gold mining se:lements, just 10 minutes from Castlemaine.

See the work of painters, sculptors, furniture-maker, print-maker, photographer, po:ers and more.

ArFsts: Chris Johnston *Sarah Koschak Prue McAdam *Roger McKindley Lachlan Park Julie Patey *Trefor Prest and family Sally Roadknight KrisFn Scherlies Bronwyn Silver Richard Sullivan Studio guide/maps available from Dig Cafe, Red Door Gallery or Sarah Koschak Ceramics

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AYLESFORD Secondary College has congratulated the 2016 Year 12 students who received offers for their selected higher education courses and are now beginning the next stage of their education.

Acting principal Steve MacPhail said: “We are very proud of the accomplishments of our 2016 VCE students and we are extremely happy to see so many of them gaining entry into their preferred courses”.

“Daylesford Secondary College does an excellent job at providing a diverse curriculum that caters for all students no matter what their passion and interests.”

The diversity of students’ interests is exciting. There has been a concerted focus on nursing, with seven students pursuing careers in other health related courses including psychology, health science, biomedical science and occupational therapy.

Two students are following careers in health and physical education. Creative endeavours include fine art, visual arts, photography and audio production. Engineering, business and information technology also feature as future pathways, with studies in arts, international studies, agricultural science, science and justice rounding off the list.

Reflecting this extensive range of areas being pursued is the range of tertiary institutions being attended.

Students have successfully satisfied the requirements for Federation and Australian Catholic universities, while those moving further afield will be attending La Trobe, RMIT, University of Melbourne, Monash, Deakin and Victoria University.

Pictured are four of the 37 students who have gone on to university, from left, Tady Callahan, Georgia Sayn, Antoinette Portelli and Mia Swan.

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COUNCIL PLAN - 2017- 21 - WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR IDEAS We have had some great feedback from the community so far on what kinds of projects and initiatives should be included in the new Council Plan.

The Council Plan 2017-21 will set our strategic direction and priorities for the next four years.

Council Plan drop-in sessions were held around the shire in February. There will now be a community conference on Wednesday 22 March 2017, Daylesford Town Hall (76 Vincent Street) at 7pm. The conference is an opportunity for the community to come together and discuss the top priorities.

Over the previous Council Plan process we heard what the community wanted and we have been working hard to deliver on our commitments. It’s now time to start prioritising the ideas for the Council Plan 2017-21.

What other ways can you have your say?

• Email to shire@hepburn.vic.gov.au • Hard copy submission in the post (PO Box 21 Daylesford 3460) • Council Customer Service Centres/Hubs (Creswick, Clunes and Daylesford).

Keep an eye on our website and Facebook page for the next steps in the Council Plan process.

Your ideas will help shape the Council Plan into a blueprint for the future.

Did you know?

The OurSay online forum on the Council Plan attracted 156 IDEAS, 1584 VOTES and 152 COMMENTS. 40 IDEAS came from strategies and plans that the community and Council have worked on together recently. www.hepburn.vic.gov.au

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Fantastic fare at The American in Creswick

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HH, Creswick. We visited now and again to take advantage of a certain French patisserie but now we have another reason. The American.

Run by Brendan Smith, the former owner of Craig’s in Ballarat, The American is offering some fantastic fare and at very reasonable prices. It’s also all going under a bit of a refurbishment, from the huge meeting rooms upstairs, to the front bar, the dining rooms and the al fresco dining. Oh, did you know you can also stay there?

Anyway, back to the food. We popped in on a Friday for lunch and were warmly greeted by Brendan and then handed over to Sara, our very pleasant waiter. Now, nothing against millennials but I do like a waiter to be able to not only be knowledgeable about the menu but also be able to converse. Sara ticked both boxes and also agreed to be our hand model - see right!

Drinks After being seated I opted for a glass of chardonnay while Kyle, for some odd reason, asked for a cup of tea. Being a hotel there is a great wine list and plenty of cold beers on tap at the bar.

Entrees Then it was time for some decisions. The menu is extensive with typical pub food along with a lot of new inventions. We decided on three tasters to start – Peking Duck Crepe ($6), Saganaki ($6) and Lamb Kofta ($7). They were all fantastic – beautifully presented, three completely different textures and flavours - and delicious. And to be truthful, if you added just one more taster, perhaps the Potato Spun Prawn ($7) or the Arancini Balls ($6), you would probably be done and dusted. The serves are generous.

Other entrees include the Bruschetta of the Day ($12) and the Antipasto Plate ($26).

Mains For us it was onto mains – and again, that wide selection. Sara recommended the New York Burger ($22) – a housemade beef burger with hickory smoked bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, red onion and guacamole on a freshly baked bun – with bad boy fries and onion rings. It sounded amazing but Kyle, after a good look through a few menu pages, decided on the chargrilled 350gm Scotch Fillet ($32).

It was served with smashed rosemary chats and he also ordered a side of Buttered Greens ($7). Oh, and mushroom and green pepper sauces ($2 each).

Now this is a steak. It was huge, perfectly cooked to medium and you barely needed a knife to slice through it. The sauces were delicious – I may have dipped a finger in the mushroom when he wasn’t looking – and the greens had a perfect butter sheen and were al dente. One very happy camper.

Meanwhile I took Sara’s advice and had the Lemon Pepper Calamari on a salad of mixed greens, beets, orange, pickled cucumber and daikon with a ginger citrus dressing ($24). OMG. The calamari was just perfect, not a hint of a crumb for a change, and I need the recipe for that dressing. It was tangy and sweet and a bit of sour lifting the salad to great heights. Yum. As I said there are plenty more options and quite a few for those after something vegetarian. The Baby Beet salad with orange, feta, toasted almonds and mixed greens – drizzled with that fantastic dressing above ($16) caught my eye along with the Mediterranean Vege Stack with grilled saganaki, eggplant, caramelised onion, capsicum, pumpkin, zucchini, mushroom and yoghurt on a potato rosti ($26) which also looked amazing. That’s a lot of vegie bang for your buck!

Dessert Now we aren’t really big on dessert but we needed a photo, as you do, so I chose, after toying with the Chocolate & Macadamia Brownie with vanilla bean ice-cream ($13) and the Fruits of Summer Meringue with cream ($12), the Mille Feuille – layers of crisp filo pastry layered with apples, mascarpone and cream covered with an almond praline and drizzled with a toffee sauce ($15). And I found out we are both big on dessert – this one anyway. We broke into it with a spoon – just for the photo – and just kept eating. It was exquisite. An apple turnover on steroids was Kyle’s take. Whatever it was the perfect finish to a fantastic meal.

Other things Kids are very welcome and those 10 and under can choose from Cheese Burger, Chicken & Salad, Fish & Salad - all with chips, or Spaghetti Bolognaise – all for just $10. And for those a tad older ask about the upcoming seniors’ meal deals. And for everyone check out the “dine for nine and receive your tenth meal free” deal. Oh, there are also takeaway options. Download the American Creswick App for all special offers and rewards!

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Gig Guide The Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn Jessey Jackson – Saturday, March 18 Shaun Kirk - Sunday, March 26, 4pm

Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn Springs Josh Dance – Friday, March 17 The Old Married Couple – Saturday, March 18 Buck Jr. – Sunday, March 19 Scott Fraser – Friday, March 24 Rohan Souter – Saturday, March 25 North East – Sunday, March 26 The Coopers – Friday, March 31

The Grande Hotel, Hepburn Springs Bliss Bombs Burlesque - History – Friday, March 17, 24 and 31

Horvats Supper Club, Daylesford Arkie T Williams – Thursday, March 16, 7pm Adrian Deakin – Friday, March 17, 7pm Phil & Trudy Edgeley – Saturday, March 18, 7.30pm Salvatore Rossano & Yonder Rodriguez – Thursday, March 23, 7pm Adrian Deakin – Friday, March 24, 7pm Pugsley Buzzard – Saturday, March 25, 7.30pm

The Guildford Hotel, Guidlford Angie & The Doc - Saturday, March 25

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Italian Apple Cake

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HIS is an adaptable cake that is simple to make and always popular.

You can use almonds instead of walnuts, though I believe the pine nuts are an intrinsic part of the recipe. If you wish to exclude nuts from the recipe, substitute their volume with dessicated coconut.

I always leave the cooked cake in the tin for at least 20 minutes, or until it’s completely cool, and it’s far easier to use a spring-form tin for this cake – though a normal round tin will be alright if you support the cake well during the turning out. It keeps well, and is delightful served warm with cream, custard or plain yoghurt.

I usually drizzle lemon icing over the cooked, cooled cake in criss-crossed lines – to make this mix the juice of one lemon with enough pure icing sugar to make a runny mixture then decorate your cake.

Ingredients: 3 - 4 eggs; 1 cup olive oil; 1 ¾ cup brown or raw sugar; 2 generous cups plain flour; pinch salt; 1 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp cinnamon; 1 cup walnuts or almonds, chopped; ½ cup pine nuts; 4 apples, cored, peeled and sliced; hand-full of currants; juice of one lemon.

Oven at 175-180 degrees.

Peel and slice apples and combine lemon juice and ¾ cup of the sugar with them in a bowl. Set aside. (You may choose to leave apples unpeeled.)

Combine and mix everything in a large bowl, except apples and nuts, and when well combined, add nuts and apples and mix gently but well.

Tip into a parchment lined 24cm spring-form tin and bake for about 1 hour.

Cool in tin, serve with cream or yoghurt.

Read Tonia's story on page 5. And send us your photos of your Italian Apple Cakes and we'll put them on our Facebook page! Or share them on instagram at heart_of_ the_highlands

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Meal deals for locals...and visitors too!

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

Monday:

Mercato, Daylesford – main dish & a glass of local wine - $30 Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Monday Meatball Madness - $20 (Vegetarian option available) The Grande Hotel, Hepburn - two courses $35, three courses $45, drink specials from $6, cocktails from $10 Galley Diner, Daylesford - lunch - burger, fries or onion rings and a drink $17

Tuesday:

Perfect Drop - five courses with a glass of bubbles or beer - $55 Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Burger Night with chips - $20 Galley Diner, Daylesford - lunch - burger, fries or onion rings and a drink $17

Wednesday:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Pot (or glass of house wine) and Parma - $20 Frank & Connie's Kitchen, Hepburn - whatever comes out of the pot - $20 Galley Diner, Daylesford - lunch - burger, fries or onion rings and a drink $17

Thursday:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Steak Night - $20 Frank & Connie's Kitchen, Hepburn - whatever comes out of the pot - $20 Galley Diner, Daylesford - lunch - burger, fries or onion rings and a drink $17

Friday:

The Surly Goat - lunch special - two courses and a glass of wine - $40 Grange Bellinzona, Hepburn - two courses and glass of wine - $45 Galley Diner, Daylesford - lunch - burger, fries or onion rings and a drink $17

Saturday:

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

Sunday:

The Surly Goat - lunch special - two courses and a glass of wine - $40 Grange Bellinzona, Hepburn - two courses and glass of wine - $45 Frank & Connie's Kitchen, Hepburn - whatever comes out of the pot - $20

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

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.

Public Announcement Resolution of Court proceedings We are happy to announce that the Court Proceeding between us has been resolved to our mutual satisfaction at mediation.

We are all delighted with the outcome and wish each other well in our respective endeavours and encourage the local community to support our respective businesses.

The Farmers Arms Mitch Duncan Steven Chau

The Boathouse Suzanne Devine Claire Levine

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To market, to market, to buy some super spuds

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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) 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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The Trentham Farmers Market has joined with Trentham Makers Market

Third Saturday, 9am - 1pm

TRENTHAM PETROL & STUFF

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Trentham Hardware

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

is coming to an end, Money, business, joy and laughter was spend, All sorts of critters and humans visited making us feel very privileged.

A very big THANK YOU to those who made this big adventure possible.

A very big THANK YOU to those who went along on the journey.

THANK YOU!

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Garden Invaders - The Day of the Triffids?

Hi Glen, Wherever we walk around the 'leafy suburbs' of town we are appalled by the sprawling gorse, or broom, along the roadside, smothering everything else and obviously creating a fire hazard. Why would anyone plant them knowing how rampant they would grow? Kay, Hepburn One hot summer Sunday, in the mid-1950s, I was in the family nursery handwatering a bed of potted lantana (pictured above right) when a very inebriated passerby berated me for "watering those bloody weeds" and for selling noxious plants.

Dad told me they had probably come from northern NSW or Queensland, where these colourful, and, for us, relatively tame shrubs had become forest-devouring monsters. It didn't take much research to find they weren't on their own!

(I hasten to explain that, in those heady days before the Mannum-Adelaide pipeline brought a much needed permanent water supply to town, virtually all of our nursery plants had to be laboriously watered by a hand-held hose - on hot days often three times daily - which successfully put paid to me even contemplating a misspent youth!)

The world is literally full of flora and fauna which, though well-mannered in their own environment, can take on plague proportions when unleashed in a disease and predator-free paradise.

Consider the rabbit and fox invasion created by the landed gentry's nostalgia for Ye Olde Hunt and the introduction of blackbird, starling and other birds “to fill the silent bushland".

Even my own noted botanist great grandfather, E.B.Heyne, may have been involved in the fledgling Melbourne Botanic Gardens' program of naturalising delicate, but much-loved botanical imports. These included echium plantagineum and oxalis pes-caprae, loathed by graziers and gardeners alike as Patterson's curse and Soursob. Even the beautiful Italian lavender, prized in South Australia is a noxious weed in lush Victoria and New South Wales.

It isn't a one-way street - the Californian takeover by our iconic eucalypts is legendary and let us not forget our cute little wallabies and possums we so graciously sent to take over the land of the long white cloud.

But it isn't just 'foreign' imports, even our own natives, notably acacias and grevilleas, can rapidly turn into overpowering monsters that soon overpower the locals. Even worse, grevillea are notoriously fertile predators, rapidly producing hybrid offspring which can virtually swamp and wipe out the less virile original species.

There is an upside to this, though, as witnessed by the growing numbers of beautiful and colourful new varieties on show at our local nurseries. Admittedly, these aren't randomly created in the bush but carefully bred in the nursery to ensure maximum success for the grower.

Crowea exalata - Victorian waxflower, (pictured below right) If you are looking for an easily-grown compact and free flowering shrub that thrives in a lightly-shaded or sunny spot, and a local indigenous plant, the crowea is your go-to choice.

Originating around the Bendigo area, this little gem grows to around one metre in height and width and carries its pink or white star-like flowers from spring until autumn. Grow it in well-drained lime-free soil in a garden bed, as a low hedge or in a large pot on the terrace or porch.

VOLUNTEER GARDENER/LEADER WANTED Annie Pyers has a love of gardens, plants and gardening.

For some years now she has been leading the group of volunteers who look after the garden at the Daylesford Community Health Centre. Annie is looking for someone with gardening experience to take on this role.

If you are interested and think you can help please call Annie on 5348 1723.

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Cleaning and servicing of pools, hot tubs and jacuzzis.

Water chemistry and water balance Commercial properties Domestic applications Reasonable rates All enquiries welcome Noel 0419 554 319 Declan 0438 212 107

Consulting in Administration & Management Book-keeping Administration Payroll Temp service Supplier monthly reconciliation Qualified to manage a small team of office workers Christ Jules Services Julie Hanson 0459 619 701 julphil.hanson@gmail.com www.christjulesservices.com.au

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