July 20, 2020 Issue 189 Glaswegian connections
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Front page: Trentham artist Catherine Abel has been commissioned to do a piece for a former hotel, now housing private apartments, in Glasgow. Read her story by Kevin Childs on page 7.
July 20, 2020 Issue 189 Glaswegian connections
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Community legends
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N TIMES of adversity people step up to the plate, and Todd Dales and Adele Stevens have done just that.
The owners of Dele Foodstore & Catering, in East Street, Daylesford, are not only keeping their business alive, serving wholesome, healthy food, they are returning as much as possible to the community along the way with a community assistance program which has three main focuses. The first is making sure everyone gets nourished and are well fed with healthy, wholesome local food. The second is to make sure there is a little bit in a fund in case the vulnerable need medication. The third is to make sure there are toiletries available – like toilet paper and other essentials. It is thanks to their altruism that the dynamic duo have been nominated as The Local's Legends of Lockdown - by many people. As Adele says: "It is such a freaking stressful time for everyone...but I feel at times like this it is all about the community, that is what is going to get us through this. Because if it’s not, what else is the freaking point?"
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Recognising our Legends of Lockdown
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O YOU know a Legend of Lockdown? They don't need a cape but they do need to have gone above and beyond.
The Local would like to recognise those people. Maybe they have served hundreds of meals to people in need, perhaps they have knitted warm clothing to keep others warm or perhaps it's just a neighbour who has helped deliver groceries to your front door? Maybe it's a healthcare worker on the front line, someone who has set up a community helpline or a person who has kept the community informed. And everyone has enough going on, so we want to keep it simple. Just email your legend along with 50-100 words about what they have done to enter legend status. We also need their contact number - some people don't like surprises. We will keep the entries happening until the end of August, so there is plenty of time to have a think about who has helped get you, or others, through this extraordinary time. If lockdown lifts by then, and let's all hope it does, we are hoping to have a ceremony to say thanks! If we are still socially distancing then we will publish names and details in editions of The Local.
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Details: What: Legends of Lockdown Why: Because we should recognise goodness What: Your legend's name, contact and 50-100 words about them When: By August 31 Email: donna@tlnews.com.au
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Connecting seniors
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HE Digital Connection Project for Seniors has already received more than 25 enquiries from people ranging from 65 to 98 years of age wanting to increase their digital literacy.
I don’t know why I am so blessed and joyed That I am loved and cared for in this life And on the shoulders of the world am buoyed By my sweet children and my loving wife But in this mystery think they are mistaken That all my failings surely shine in lights And think that for my sins I am forsaken And that the world must see all of my blights Yet know that goodness longs to see itself Repeated and renewed in those it loves So they will soar like eagles to a shelf Attaining heights beyond the reach of doves “This is my beloved so favour him” And we’re loved for a reason not a whim - Tom Perfect Tom Perfect lives with his wife Judy in Glenlyon. They can be often seen on high spots throughout the district, parked on the roadside, with Judy painting the landscape and Tom reading. Poems for Local Lines come predominantly from a group of poets. However, other locals who would like a poem considered for publication can contact Bill Wootton - cottlesbreedge@gmail.com
In response to COVID-19 restrictions, the project aims to support people over 65 in the Macedon Ranges to socially connect with family and friends using internet enabled digital technologies. Those enquiring have had a broad range of needs, from having no prior experience using a device to others needing support to move their business online, search for employment, contacting family and friends over platforms such as Zoom or to complete a carers course to care for partners at home. Volunteer project worker Andrea Darcy said prior to the pandemic, most of the people she had assisted had some opportunities for social connection that weren't now possible. "Many expressed a degree of loneliness and social disconnection because of COVID - usual community activities not running, children at a distance etc. Overwhelmingly all were up for a chat and wanted to share their challenges and frustrations during this time." Gisborne Oaks resident Betty Smith, pictured, is a perfect example of someone who has managed to remain connected over the last few months. With phone calls, texting, emails and social media apps, she is in regular contact with family and friends. Betty is also an avid watcher of YouTube, listens to ABC radio, plays solitaire and loves to Google things, keeping in touch thanks to her tablet and smart phone. Digital mentoring is supplied via local libraries and community houses who are Be Connected partners. This Digital Connection Project for Seniors is a joint initiative of Central Victorian Primary Care Partnership, Cobaw Community Health, Macedon Ranges Shire Council, Goldfields Libraries, Kyneton Community House, Lancefield Neighbourhood House, Gisborne Men’s Shed, Macedon Ranges Health and the Zonta Club of Kyneton.
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Robyn contributing to her community
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OBYN Falloon wasn’t going to let a global pandemic ruin her year as a governor.
And, as it happens, neither was the world’s largest service organisation, the Lions Club. When COVID-19 first hit earlier this year, Robyn was already in a pretty good spot – she had just returned from a training session in Chicago, along with the rest of the world’s 750 incoming Lions Club governors, making it back with not a lot of time to spare before travel restrictions really bit in. “We were a little bit daunted as things started to unfold, but we’ve all connected very closely and shared a lot of ideas and information - we all decided that this year wasn’t going to be ruined and we would adapt and do everything we could in the circumstances, and that’s what we did. “It’s fascinating to see how we’ve adapted to that, we’ve moved into the online space and found different ways to meet the community’s needs.” The bit about ‘this year’ is important, too – the governors serve just a 12-month term in the role, having already served one year as First Vice Governor and one year as Second Vice Governor before progressing up to the big one. She was elected into her position as the Lions Club International District Governor by her local district V1-4 and it’s a big one – it covers from Parliament House in Melbourne’s CBD right up to Robinvale and from Swan Hill to Warracknabeal, capturing 80 clubs with a total of 1300 members, including her home club of Trentham. Robyn is one of 19 govenors in Australia, part of the global Lions Club network that has 1.5 million members in more than 100 countries – it’s even bigger than Rotary, making it a global leader in humanitarian service. “One of the things that I’m most proud of being in this organisation is that any money we raise, 100 per cent goes back into the local community.” For example, the Lions Club does incredible work in funding medical research – it was a Lions Club that got the bionic ear project off the ground in Victoria with initial funding - and a new cancer screening van for regional and rural Victoria will be one of the projects partially falling under Robyn’s guidance as a governor. “It is a big job. My role is to be a support to all of the clubs, it’s a real privilege to take on the role.” Robyn has another big job, too – she’s a grandmother, and happily fitted in a media interview between governor duties and running the kids to school – the one thing that she doesn’t have as much time for lately though is her quilting. Robyn has quite a reputation as an excellent quilter and is even part of the Lions Club of Quilters which makes and donates quilts, including to the Royal Children’s Hospital. For Robyn, it’s all a part of the vital teamwork that provides services to people and their communities. “As you get older, you’ve still got something important to contribute to your community - you’re doing something worthwhile.”
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How Catherine found the great world of art
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ATHERINE Abel found COVID-19 offered her an advantage. The Trentham artist says she was left alone and it was “great" to close her business for three or four months.
And instead of travelling to Scotland for a sizeable commission, she is doing the work here. It’s fair to say that if her story were a book or a film she would probably be a household name. She grew up in Townsville, followed a path through marriage, motherhood and part-time study to finally find the world of art in Paris and, later, notable success. Instagram was the way she achieved her latest, stunning commission, a 5.5-metre mural for a cocktail bar in a renowned, 82-year-old Art Deco building in Glasgow. The developers, twin Hungarian brothers, found her work online and she was signed up. “People contact me from all around the world,” she says, after some prompting. While painting a portrait of the wife of a fabulously wealthy and seemingly mysterious Swiss businessman, she was contacted by the scion of seven generations of beer brewers in Germany. He has three of her works, so she paid him a visit. For one exhibition she was summed up as being “renowned internationally for her striking figurative oil paintings. Combining the sleek, stylised geometry of the Art Deco period with the clarity, richness of colour, and depth of light of the Italian Renaissance Masters, her works are powerfully seductive compositions of beauty, elegance, strength and grace”. Not bad for someone who had to take her baby daughter with her to night school as she spent five years part-time studying graphic design. This, as she says, was old school, using protractors and learning hand-lettering. “I was young, naïve, and driven.” Then she found it wasn’t what she wanted to do. Only when she was 30 did she succeed in a lifelong passion to move, where she began to thrive as an artist. “I set myself up in a little apartment and set myself to do 10 paintings, by which I would judge myself.” But before they were completed she was approached by a gallery in California, thanks to well-placed friends. Her 18 months in Paris were followed by the same amount of time in the US. Then it was back to Sydney and her daughter, before moving to Trentham “eight winters ago”. A delightful aspect of the Glasgow mural is that she will first paint two large works, one pictured below right, showing a woman overlooking a cityscape and featuring a train and the lion of England and the unicorn of Scotland to be joined, photographed and printed. The original pair of paintings will be given to the brothers. Their building, The Beresford Hotel, is a stunning example of classic Streamline architecture which opened in 1938 to provide accommodation for visitors to the city’s Empire Exhibition and was described as Glasgow’s first skyscraper. It now houses 112 private apartments. Catherine’s early life included being stolen away from her father by her mother who hid Catherine’s past. In 1997 Catherine tried to find her father, an Italian cane farmer who returned home, but did find a half-sister (her father remarried), who was living in, guess where? Paris. If this were a movie, roll the credits and swell the music.
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Bushfire/farm fears over transmission network
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LANS to unlock up to 5000kw of renewable energy by linking wind and solar projects northwest of Ballarat to the State’s power network has ignited a storm in Hepburn Shire. Residents are split over the Western Victoria Transmission Network Project which many fear will result in a massive energy network snaking across some of the state’s most fertile and bushfire-prone landscape.
Landholders potentially affected are angry that they have received little information about the project and were not brought into the consultation process until after major decisions had been made and contracts awarded. Attempts to run crowd consultations via Zoom have left many feeling their questions have not been, and are unlikely to be, answered. The question asked most often is why the Australian Energy Market Operator the publicly-listed body which makes all the where and how-to decisions to do with Australia’s energy and gas systems – so quickly dismissed the idea of underground lines. “They don’t seem to understand the region here, and that the overhead lines will interfere with (travelling) irrigators and aerial cropping and pose a real bushfire danger,” landholder Emily Lee said. “They need to be more innovative and consider using underground options and existing transport corridors rather than current plans which run through farmland.” Hepburn Shire Councillor Don Henderson agrees. “This will turn some of Australia’s most rich and fertile country into land fit only for cattle grazing,” he said, noting that the well-documented dangers of running high voltage power lines through bushfire-prone areas appeared to have been ignored. A Royal Commission into the 2009 Black Saturday fires found that five of the 11 major fires that began that day were caused by failed electricity assets, leading to the deaths of at least 119 people. “This is an ill-thought out project and there’s been quite a bit of what I would call skulduggery going on,” Cr Henderson said. “There was no consultation with the Shire or residents’ groups. We had no hint of the project until after decisions had been made and the tender process completed.” The Western Victorian Transmission Network Project was awarded to Mondo (AusNet Services’ commercial division) last December. Under the terms Mondo will plan, design, construct, own, operate and maintain the overhead upgrade. Hepburn Shire Mayor Licia Kokocinski says it is now time for Victorian Planning Minister Richard Wynne to step in and ask AusNet to provide an Environmental Impact Statement addressing public concerns and providing the information residents and local governments have been asking for. “AEMO tells us the economics of underground lines don’t stack up, well, show us,” she said. “I would call on the Minister for Planning to make a determination and call for an EIS before issuing a permit. It’s not enough to rubber stamp this through. This is 2020 hurtling towards 2021, the days of just saying it’s too expensive to go underground don’t wash anymore.” “We appreciate AusNet’s position,” she said. “But it is their role now to talk to councils and the community. To date they have been very precious with their information. They say they are doing community consultation and we acknowledge the difficulty of this during COVID but there is information we need to know – such as just where the planned line will go.” Cr Henderson said the Federal Government should also take some responsibility. “People have been blaming AusNet, but they put in a tender for the powerline according to the scope and references issued by AEMO.
“Perhaps we should be asking why the governments let such a contract in the first place,” he said. The Federal and State governments make up 60 per cent of AEMO membership with the other 40 per cent held by private energy suppliers, producers and retailers. According to AEMO’s website the decision to go ahead with overhead lines was made after consultation with government and industry stakeholders and is in keeping with Australian and global standards. Underground lines were considered but dismissed on environmental, economic and social grounds. The Local’s attempts to contact AEMO directly were unsuccessful. Overhead lines will require an investment of $370 million. The cost of the work is expected to be recovered through transmission charges on electricity bills once the infrastructure is constructed and will be spread over a period of 30 to 40 years. “Putting the lines underground may cost three-four times more (than overhead lines) but that’s just an initial cost. What about the cost into the future?” Cr Henderson said, noting the hundreds of millions of dollars that has been paid out in bushfire compensation and relief as a result of fires started by powerlines. “I’d like to see AEMO start the whole process again. Go through proper consultation before setting the scope for the tender, putting everything on the table including underground lines.”
Above, from left, Hepburn Shire Mayor Licia Kokocinski, Creswick Ward Councillor Don Henderson and landholder Emily Lee Words: Jane Williams
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Trip to Castlemaine rings a bell for Kyle
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We were looking for the ill-fated Niagara, a 13,500-tonne ocean liner which OUSED in the Castlemaine Visitor Information Centre is a purposebuilt diving bell - an underwater observation chamber, which has an sank off the coast of New Zealand after striking a German mine in June 1940. Its strong room contained about $5 million (at the time) worth of gold bars equalling extraordinarily familiar ring to it for me.
It was during a day trip around the region, not long after moving here, that I first discovered the bell and it brought back memories from October 1991. I was hopping ships and boats around the South Pacific when I swung onto a relatively small 90-metre trader bound for Samoa named the Celtic Kiwi. As we were loading the last of the hull cargo, I noticed the ship had a 15-degree list and asked the captain, a thick-set red-haired Irishman, how we were going to make the list back to zero degrees. Captain Tom Culhane was very matter of fact and simply said "deck cargo". Now this ship was old, ill-repaired, rusty and something out of the 1960s, and I had been around enough to know that any bit of bad weather would break free any large deck cargo from its binds. So I made the tough and potentially career-ending decision to leave. My friend Steve, who had joined the crew at the same time, decided to sail. Now, in prior years I had been sailing with him and his father Peter, an oil-rig oxygen mix master, aboard their 33-metre schooner, the SV Lonebird and I ended up staying onboard the Lonebird, while Steve left. It was then that Peter and I hatched a plan to look for the remainder of a rumoured cargo at the bottom of the ocean using Peter’s deep-sea diving capabilities. The wreck was well down below where common scuba gear could get you to without an ensuing case of the bends. As it turns out the Celtic Kiwi ended up sinking in 1000 metres of water just to the north of New Zealand although the full complement of crew survived after a four-day ordeal and several lifeboats blew to bits - another reason for my departure. The 13 crew spent those days cramped in their rescuer's yacht and Steve finally decided to join his father and me on our dive exhibition.
2.5 million pounds of gold bullion originally destined for the US to help pay for Australia's war efforts. First considered futile by the Royal Australian Navy, the salvage mission got going when an Australian private salvage company contracted Melbourne engineer David Isaacs to design the afore-mentioned diving bell and Thompson's Foundry in Castlemaine to build it. The rescue was rumoured to be not completely successful and there was speculation, thanks to bad record keeping, that there were still a few bars lying on the old wreck, 90 metres below the surface. So we started to collect the gear for the mission, however at this point Peter’s marriage was starting to fail, I had been offered other prospects aboard a sail training vessel, and as with a lot of grand plans, they dissolved. It is interesting that all these years later I end up in a place with no brine and stumble across this connection with the old diving bell. I highly recommend a visit to the Castlemaine Visitor Information Centre, currently open weekends, for the whole story on the mysterious bell.
Images: Opposite page, top left, the bell at the Castlemaine Visitor Information Centre (courtesy: Mt Alexander Shire), Opposite page, top right, Captain Tom Culhane, below, the listing Celtic Kiwi Contributed: New Zealand Herald Words: Kyle Barnes
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COVID-19 - COMMUNITY UPDATE We’re all in this together People living in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire are now subject to Stage 3 “Stay at Home” directions, limiting the movement and activity of everyone living in the lockdown area. The number of detected COVID-19 cases in Victoria is at an all time high and we are starting to see an increase in the number of cases in regional Victoria, creating anxiety in our communities. Council is continuing its important support and education role during this pandemic. Ultimately, we are all in this together and we each have a role to play.
What is Council doing to support the community and businesses? Council has an important support and education role during emergencies, and this pandemic is no different. What are we are doing? • Installing street signage to communicate with the community and our visitors the need to observe social distancing and practice strict hygiene • Informing businesses about their COVID-19 obligations • Supporting business operators to protect the community and visitors • Installing footpath stickers reminding the community and visitors to social distance • Working with other agencies (including Victoria Police and DHHS) to disseminate messaging about the importance of social distancing and good hygiene practices • Meeting with other agencies to collaboratively work though issues and plan ongoing response and recovery needs • Issuing statements to media outlets (including metropolitan media) and continuing our social media campaign to communicate the need to practice appropriate social distancing.
Encouraging regional tourism & Buy Local campaign We welcome visitors from regional Victoria to our Shire. We want Hepburn Shire to remain COVID safe and for visitors to remember to social distance and use good hygiene practices. Safe and sustainable tourism is how we will balance our need to support local businesses with our Council and community’s desire to remain COVID free. We have launched an advertisement campaign in regional Victoria to encourage regional visitors to our Shire and to buy local. We will continue to work to ensure our region prospers and at the same time ensure the risks associated with COVID-19 are minimised. As restrictions are eased again in the future, it is inevitable that we will experience an influx of visitors. We are working with other agencies to review learnings and plan for how we might deal with the next visitor influx.
Recovery taskforces In addition to dealing with the current situation of COVID-19, Council’s Emergency Management Team is planning for what the future might hold with this pandemic and ‘recovery’. Recovery is defined as ‘the assisting of persons and communities affected by emergencies to achieve an effective level of functioning’. In supporting our community in the recovery process, we are developing a Community Recovery Taskforce and a Business Response and Recovery Taskforce. Whilst we are in the midst of an emergency, we want to work with our businesses and community to help them rebound and recover from this pandemic. Expressions of interest and further details about these two important taskforces will be released soon.
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Hepburn Shire real estate prices booming
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HE secret that Hepburn Shire is one of the most beautiful places to live and holiday seems to be getting out.
With Melbourne locked down Hepburn Shire real estate continues to be keenly sought after. Growth in local property values have outperformed Melbourne in the latest REIV median quarterly figures for the June quarter. The latest quarterly median prices released by the Real Estate Institute of Victoria show that the market is still strong. While there has been a small adjustment from the previous quarter the market is in much better shape than it was in 2019. House values in metropolitan Melbourne are sitting at $864,000 having fallen by 3.5 per cent. House values in regional Victoria have held steady with the median house price at $420,000, up by 0.1 per cent over the past quarter and a healthy 3.7 per cent annual growth. In Hepburn Shire, however, house prices are up 1.7 per cent from the last quarter, with Daylesford's 3.1 per cent growth and Creswick's 3.6 per cent growth leading the way. Houses in Hepburn Shire are now 10.9 per cent more valuable than they were in June 2019. Regional units have shown tremendous growth of 13.6 per cent over the past quarter, the median unit price for regional Victoria of $339,000 setting a new quarterly record. The underlying strength of the Victorian market is evident as prices have stayed firm despite the volume of sales transactions significantly reduced due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. Many pundits and so-called housing experts predicted doom and gloom and crashes for Victorian property prices, and that just hasn’t happened, despite COVID-19 the market is stronger than in 2019. Prices haven’t tumbled, any home up for sale in Victoria is swarmed with interest from buyers, prices have held despite transaction volumes being down. There has never been a better time to sell your home, with fewer properties up for sale demand is outweighing supply and is delivering great prices. As always, if a buyer or a seller is looking for objective information on the market or an agency – they should visit reiv.com.au
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Winter cheer A couple of Aussie favourites to add a little colour and native birdsong to our dreary Winter days - free-flowering, easy-to-grow, banksia and hakea. Pictured right are two of the finest. Above, banksia integrifolia and, below, the laurel-leafed hakea laurina, both compact, fast-growing and free-flowering. Eminently suited to small gardens in our environment and attractive to honey-eaters, seed-eating birds and, naturally, honey bees. Both are distant relatives of the enormously varied, world-wide, proteaceae tribe. Banksia integrifolia grows as a tall, dense shrub, much favoured as a nesting place as well as a ready source of food. It is one of the soft, dark-green leafed forms of banksia and can be trimmed into a tree shape or grown as a tall hedge. Hakea laurina, as its name implies, bears lush, dark-green, laurel-like foliage and in Winter is covered with red and gold pincushion flowers. A delightful and colourful little shady tree for any well-drained spot in the garden. Both, along with others of their families, are readily available at most general garden outlets.
Plan now for Spring
With the current predicament affording plenty of time and little to do with it, we’ve little excuse not to get out into the garden and make ready for the warm weather and rush of Spring growth. At least the intermittent rain, apart from encouraging the ever-present weeds, provides opportunity to at least get a headstart before the real growing season begins. As loath as I am to inflict pain or punishment on my fellow travellers, here’s my personal checklist of “things that should (probably) be done before Spring arrives”. Just in case you need a guiding hand. # Prepare your flower and vegetable beds for sowing. With all the recent rain your beds may only need to provide a top-up sprinkle to make the soil workable. Dig in plenty of compost and a light sprinkle of bone and organic fertiliser. # If your lawns (in my case, grass swathes) have started to be invaded by wild clover, dandelions, etc. they should be weeded out before they can flower and produce seeds. The clover can be eradicated by close mowing and a dressing of highly-concentrated nitrogenous fertiliser. I don’t waste water or effort on having a traditional lawn - merely an ever-encroaching garden surrounding a patch of selfsufficient, rain-reliant, manicured grass, which is on its own once Summer sets in! # If your garden hoses have suffered the same fate as mine, it would be a good plan to drag them out of hiding and check them in readiness for the dry days ahead. In my case, it’s mainly a case of checking my irrigation driplines for leaks or blockages. With the hoses, it’s always a good idea to check the tap fittings and connectors, you are always likely to find at least one that will decide to leak, or worse, disconnect itself from the tap as soon as you are out of sight. If, again like me, your hoses have become stiff as a board from lack of use you would be wise to have a laundry trough or tub of hot water ready to soak and soften them in before use. It may be a bit of a job, but far better than the wrestling match in store if you don’t.
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History of Daylesford's Trout Hatchery
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ANY people, visitors and locals alike, have probably gone down to Grant Street just off East Street to fill up their containers from a fresh water spring that flows there.
It is a cute, rustic little place shaded by twisted willow trees, made a little more whimsical by the little sculptures and knick-knacks that visitors leave there from time to time. It is also a place of mystery. What was the crumbling, round concrete tank used for? What is that old weatherboard shed doing there? But these structures are a mystery no more, with the installation of a new sign that tells visitors all about the trout hatchery that used to operate at the spring right up to the 1970s. Not too many people these days know about the Daylesford Trout Hatchery but the operation existed due to the efforts of the Daylesford Angling Club and it even became a bit of a tourist attraction. Things started around 1922 when its members began growing young trout to put into local streams. By the turn of the 1930s they had a small hatching box at Jubilee Lake with the main fish being European brown trout: a species first introduced, along with Atlantic salmon, into Australian waterways around 1864. Initial efforts went well with more than 40,000 ova successfully hatched and in 1931 the club was provided a property belonging to club president John Grant, fed by springs beside East Street. By the early 1950s the club boasted a weatherboard hatchery building with five boxes, good for producing up to 60,000 ova. However the whole operation was a very involved process, as affirmed by Monty Kirby, a club volunteer at the nursery during the 1950s. In an interview in 2015 Mr Kirby described how eggs were harvested from female brown trout netted in local streams before being fertilised by milt (sperm) from male fish. The eggs were then painstakingly laid in single files on glass tubes in hatching boxes sealed with tar, over which oxygenated water from the East Street spring flowed. After about a month or so depending on the water temperature, the eggs would hatch and the small fish (known as fingerlings) would be transferred from the boxes into a holding tank. After that they were moved to a series of terraced ponds where the growing fish remained for 12-24 months. Finally when they were about 10cm long they would get released into waterways such as Lake Daylesford, Jubilee Lake, Jim Crow Creek, Hepburn Reservoir and other private dams. While 60,000 ova might seem like a lot of potential fish, the life of a newlyemerged fingerling was filled with peril and many would get eaten by birds and other creatures, even cats. But in the case of the ones raised by the Daylesford Angling Club, the biggest danger was not from hungry predators but the McCain chip factory located above the site. Opening in 1968, the plant used a caustic chemical to clean its potatoes and, as noted in From the Ground Up: The First Fifty Years of McCain Foods, "none of the effluent created in the manufacturing process was treated. Wastewater went straight into the sewer system". That "sewer system" was the headwaters of Smiths Creek and the resulting pollution played havoc with the trout, killing ova and fingerlings alike. While the text goes on to note that the hatchery and "popular trout stream were restored", in reality the club’s activities never really recovered. Breeding at the site discontinued in 1975, the same year McCain Foods shut the Daylesford plant and moved to Ballarat. Words: Tony Sawrey ADVERTISEMENT
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Opposite page: The Daylesford Trout Hatchery with visitors Image: Courtesy of Janet McDonald This page, above, volunteer George May at Daylesford Trout Hatchery in the 1950s Image: Courtesy of Daylesford & District Historical Society This page, below, the shed with its Daylesford Angling Club Trout Hatchery sign Image: Courtesy of Daylesford & District Historical Society
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Just sayin’... By Donna Kelly
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AY for masks. Finally, it is agreed wearing them does help. Especially if you are in a place where you cannot social distance.
Sadly it has only taken four months or so since this pandemic started. And if you were a sceptic, and I am, you would wonder if the only reason we have not been wearing masks all this time is because the country just didn't have enough. We had a trip booked for China, Japan and Hong Kong for May this year. So when I read a little article last December about a new "flu" in China, tiny little alarm bells sounded. By February we were asking for a refund and also looking around for masks to buy. We found some N95s, the ultimate, and put in the order. They were expensive but we thought worth it "just in case" the coronavirus (which we were all still joking about with its beer name) reached our shores. Delivery was delayed and when I asked what was happening I was told there was a thing called "COVID-19" which was causing transport problems. Hmmm. That's why we ordered them. Anyway, they arrived and almost my first outing with a mask was to St John of God Hospital in Ballarat. I was due for one of those check-ups that become regular go ageing - and thought a mask was prudent. That was late March. I was the only one in the waiting room wearing one and felt like a bit of a dick. But I persevered, sure that the person doing the check would also be wearing a mask, and my fears would be vindicated. Wrong. I asked why not and they said although they really wanted to, they had been told they were not allowed. It would panic people. "Let's panic them," I said. The person did thank me for wearing mine. Fast forward four months and it's a different story at the hospital as the second wave hits, although apparently not regional Victoria, yet. Another health check at the same hospital and this time everyone, and I mean everyone, was wearing a mask. At the front door, temperature checks were being taken, on the neck, not the forehead, and masks were handed to every person stepping through the doors. Inside, every staff member had a mask on, from nurses and doctors, to admin, and there were bottles of sanitiser at every check point. There were signs to enter one way, exit another and how many people could be in the lift at one time. Patients were encouraged to come alone, or, at the most, with one person accompanying them. But, while we may be in a worse state of affairs than the first wave, it felt safer. Like everyone was on the same page. Finally, I feel like we really are all in this together. In Victoria anyway. And I felt happier than in a long time. So if you see me around town, I am smiling, just behind my mask. Just sayin'...
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Kyle’s Rant
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T FIRST thought, I am furious with those security guards who have yet again undone our freedom. Well, I know it doesn’t affect our local postcodes, but I am living here at TL HQ by the Melburnians' rules.
I have to admit though, I can’t really plant the full blame at the feet of the uneducated young people who were employed to keep us safe, by acting as gate guards between the people coming home from overseas and the general population. The blame must fall to the fat-cats, who won the contracts from the government to keep us safe. These wankers should be stoned to death in the town square and then hung, drawn and quartered - medieval style. The thing is, although I have a couple of wrinkles on my face, I do remember with clarity being young and misled by my superiors. If my resume were to be penned correctly, instead of filling in large swathes with 'freelance photographer', it would take a potential boss more than two cups of tea, some frowning and a few gasps to get through. Once, in my 20s, I found myself in a role as a safety officer looking after five guys via video link high above an oil refinery shutdown as they deep-dove into the hydrocracker. I had originally applied for a job as a labourer during the shutdown but, as it turns out, I was a bit of a gun at the card game euchre, which the guys enjoyed, and with five-minutes' training I was looking after their lives. Another time I found myself swinging from a 17-storey building in downtown Christchurch, cleaning windows. None of your five-point safety harness and three day-course for me - it was simply "here is the squeedgee, this belt should save you, now over you go". True story. In another life I became a security alarm installer, hooking up security systems to the back of powerboards. No bloody idea of the risks and not much training. So I don’t entirely blame these security guards for sleeping with the guests or taking them out to shopping centres to get supplies, although I do use the word "entirely" as when I was a young man I might have been untrained but I wasn’t an idiot. Anyway, although I don’t entirely rest the blame for this second wave of the pandemic, which is coursing economic catastrophe through to businesses, on the security guards, while they sit on their double jobseeker payments collecting a bonus $750 to buy another flatscreen, I do think they need to be publicly castrated. F@##ing angry rant over…
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ASTLEMAINE State Festival is offering $15,000 in grants for local creatives as part of their WE ARE HERE artist commission project.
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ACEDON Ranges Shire Council is launching a new podcast to help raise the profile of the animals and plants within the naturally biodiverse region.
The COVID-19 artist relief project will offer respite for vulnerable artists as well as provide a platform to showcase new artforms, ideas and attitudes. WE ARE HERE will provide grants for a suite of bold new works by artists living in Hepburn, Mount Alexander, Macedon Ranges and Central Goldfields shires and the City of Greater Bendigo, or projects created within these regions. Four new performing/live works artists will receive a grant of $3000 to bring their projects to life. Three projection/lens artists will receive $1000 each for their new works. All works will be considered for inclusion in the 2021 Castlemaine State Festival. Festival director Glyn Roberts said that now, more than ever, people were looking to the arts to find comfort, connection and perspective. "In the face of the global pandemic, our region needs the experience of art to help aid recovery and reconnection. We are committing our 2021 festival wholeheartedly to supporting our collective reemergence from this life-changing crisis. It is going to be a fascinating journey for both artists and audiences as we emerge from this unforeseen and devastating disruption in our lives." The Castlemaine State Festival celebrates daring imagination, courageous ideas and communal spirit. Held every two years, the festival which is centred on Dja Dja Wurrung country, brings together people and their passions through a program of events that are locally anchored, yet resonate with global voices and issues. Expressions of interest are open until July 22.
The Macedon Ranges Nature Pod can be streamed directly to any computer or smart device. Initially three podcasts will focus on sounds in nature that might be experienced in everyone's own backyard. Learn how to identify frog calls and common day and night backyard birds with audio clues and fact sheets which can be downloaded. Planning and Environment director Angela Hughes said the development of the series had been fast-tracked when most events were cancelled. “Our environmental program activities are often sold out so we know there is interest from the local community. With tight pandemic restrictions in place we wanted to develop content that residents can enjoy from Link: castlemainefestival.com.au/commissions their own homes."
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COMPETITION to find a name for a mascot for Macedon Ranges Shire Council's new face of recycling is under way.
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NOTICE OF THE PREPARATION OF AN AMENDMENT Amendment C80Hepburn Hepburn Shire Council has prepared amendment C80hepb to the Hepburn Planning Scheme. All land within the Shire of Hepburn is affected by the amendment. The amendment proposes to: • introduce a new Municipal Planning Strategy (MPS) to replace the Municipal Planning Statement (MSS) • introduce nineteen new or revised local policies • introduce a specific General Residential Zone schedule to Creswick • change the Township Zone to Neighbourhood Residential Zone to Clunes, Trentham, Daylesford and Hepburn Springs that includes new permit requirements • change the Lost Children’s Memorial Park, Daylesford from a General Residential zone to a Public Park and Recreation Zone • introduce clearer application requirements to all properties affected by the heritage overlay • update permit requirements and exemptions to the existing Environmental Significance Overlays 1 and 2 across the Shire • remove the Development Plan Overlay from three sites: WD Seeds, Creswick Golf Course Resort and former Daylesford Abattoir • introduce a new Significant Landscape Overlay (SLO) – SLO2 around Mt Beckworth and extend the existing SLO1 around landscape features, vistas and views • introduce local heritage protection for ‘Potato Huts’ in Little Hampton and Trentham (identified as HO988) • split the two existing Neighbourhood Character Overlay Schedules in Daylesford into six separate schedules providing one schedule per precinct • remove the Design and Development Overlay areas from land in Daylesford that currently doubles up with the NCO controls • includes the Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve in a Public Park and Recreation Zone • introduce a Design and Development Overlay 6 within a 500 metre radius of the Daylesford Material Recovery Facility • introduce the Hepburn Heritage Strategy 2020-2030 as a background document • extend the protection to all dry stone walls across the Shire regardless of when they were constructed • update clauses throughout the planning scheme to clarify wording and content to meet the requirements of the Ministerial Direction, ‘The Form and Content of Planning Schemes’. You may inspect the amendment, any documents that support the amendment, the explanatory report about the amendment free of charge at the following locations: • Hepburn Shire Council website. www.hepburn.vic.gov.au/planning-building/hepburn-planning-scheme-exhibition/ • the Department of Land Water and Planning website, www.delwp.vic.gov.au/public-inspection. Any person who may be affected by the amendment may make a submission to the planning authority about the amendment. Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the amendment is supported or opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter may wish to make. Name and contact details of submitters are required for Council to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend Council meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions. The closing date for submissions is Friday 28 August 2020. A submission must be made to the Planning Scheme Review Officer, Hepburn Shire Council PO Box 21 Daylesford 3460 Victoria or planningscheme@hepburn.vic.gov.au. The planning authority must make a copy of every submission available online for two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses. Evan King CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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