The Local Issue 184, June 15, 2020

June 15, 2020 Issue 184 Basil in great spirits

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Front page: Basil Eliades, pictured with Miko, has opened Hepburn Springs Distillery in Lyonville.

Read his story by Tony Sawrey on page 7.

June 15, 2020 Issue 184 Basil in great spirits

The Local is a weekly community publication covering the Central Highlands. The next edition is out on Monday, June 22, 2020.

Or online on Sunday, June 21 at www.tlnews.com.au Space bookings: Wednesday, June 17 Copy deadline: Thursday, June 18 Editorial deadline: Thursday, June 18

Image: Jane Knight & Basil Eliades

Managing editor | Donna Kelly General manager | Kyle Barnes Sub-editors | Nick Bunning and Lindsay Smith

The Local - The Heart of the Highlands

Writers | Kevin Childs, Kate Taylor, Tony Sawrey, Peter Young and Donna Kelly Photographers | Kyle Barnes and David White Graphic designer & HLH coordinator | Dianne Caithness

The Local is a registered trademark of The Local Publishing Group Pty Ltd. The Local is a member of the Victorian Country Press Association, with editor Donna Kelly, a director.

Contributors: Glen Heyne (gardening), Indre Kisonas (design), Tanya Loos (nature), Glenn Robinson (cartoons), Darren Lowe (music) and Matthew Richardson (money) Accounts | Julie Hanson Delivery | Tony Sawrey

The content expressed within this publication does not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of The Local Publishing Group Pty Ltd. The Local Publishing Group's editorial guidelines and complaints-handling process can be found at www.tlnews.com.au We welcome all feedback.

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Queen's Birthday honour for Judith Fawcett

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HE has just received a Queen’s Birthday honour for her services to the community of Clunes but really, Judith Fawcett isn’t one for all the fuss.

“Oh I was embarrassed, I think like most people,” she said about receiving the big phone call. “I’d rather be an Indian than the chief, if you know what I mean. I don’t like to lead, but I do like to help out where I can.”

It’s in that helping out that Judith has well and truly earned herself a bit of recognition.

When she moved to Clunes from Queensland, about 60 years ago, Judith set about making a busy life for herself with a husband, working on the farm and raising a son.

Judith has seen a lot of changes in the town over those past 60 years – and she’s been involved in a few of those changes, too – and when residents point out, with great respect, the amount of change and growth she must have seen in the beautiful country town over the years, Judith takes it all in her stride.

“You do see a lot of changes but you just take them as they’re happening, and I suppose if you’re doing something, if you’re volunteering or whatever you want to call it, then you’re part of that change and you don’t notice it.”

One of those important changes was the establishment of the Clunes CFA and, right from the beginning, Judith was out there doing her bit, taking part in roadside burns.

“That was back when it first started, in the 1960s. And now I still go to meetings, they probably think ‘what’s this old girl doing here’ and I don’t mind. You become friendly with them, it’s serious but it’s also a lot of fun.”

Judith is as warm as she is straight-talking and it’s possibly what has made her years of community service so successful.

She has also been on the Clunes Museum committee for more than 30 years, though, as she likes to point out, some have been on it longer.

It’s one of the places she has seen the most change, with the recent redevelopment of the site incorporating the library, information centre and meeting rooms.

Every week, as she has been for the past few years “it might be a couple more, it might be a couple less, I’m not counting”, Judith is in there cataloguing and archiving with the rest of the team.

“And making sure we change it, to keep it interesting, we have exhibitions as well.”

Judith has also been on the Homecraft Committee for the Clunes Agricultural Show since its inception – that was more than 50 years ago.

“Time just comes and goes, and you just do it, don’t you? And it’s something that I’ve always enjoyed. I’m working with people who have got the same interest, and they’re more than interesting - it’s not as if I’m leading, I’m working with them.”

A Queen’s Birthday honour certainly is quite a fuss. But after decades, and decades, and decades of service to the gorgeous community at Clunes, Judith deserves it as much for her philosophy on it all as her work.

“It’s something that you do just because it’s part of belonging to the town, it’s something you just want to help with.”

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(This article is supported by the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas.)

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Local Lines Bulldog Ants Strike Back That time of grief caused so much damage and death. Remember the scramble for air and light when the blue toxic fog rolled in and all earth’s furies were heaped upon us. Smothered in lies and the reek of waste-paper islands, as tongue flicks wiped out our health, homes demolished, food supplies deemed as expendable as pay-rises.

Scabs formed over calluses.

We felt the sprinkle from foetid pink bats.

Our strength was taxed beyond endurance.

Laments have gone and we steel our thinkers for the climb to freedom.

We redeem the song-lines of confidence. The wind shuffles the stars as we realign the nest.

- Gael Elliot Gael was born in Swan Hill 1943 and finally settled in Trentham in 1998.

‘You may start a poem but the resulting words may be entirely different from what you started out to write.’

Meal service continues

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ACEDON Ranges Shire Council’s Meals-Individual program will continue until the end of the year, following increased demand due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The program was originally scheduled to finish at the end of June, however the Australian Government has supplied additional funding to ensure the program can continue for an additional six months.

Council resolved to extend the end date of the delivered meals service and the program will now continue until December 31, 2020.

Council provides clients and the community with services such as individual meals, social support phone calls, domestic assistance, unaccompanied shopping, respite, personal care and home maintenance.

Details: Council on 5422 0333 or My Aged Care on 1800 200 422.

Aged care move from shire

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EPBURN Shire Council has been delivering entry level Regional Assessment Services as part of the National Aged Care Reforms from July 1, 2015. This service will now transition to Ballarat Health Services, who are the provider of the Aged Care Assessment Service and complete comprehensive aged care assessments, from July 1, 2020.

Hepburn Shire Council CEO Evan King said that as the aged care reforms had progressed, the preferred model for delivery of assessment services was to move to a streamlined model.

With a skilled clinician workforce at Ballarat Health Services that includes nurses and allied health professionals, the community will receive a quality service.

“We see this as a positive step for both the community and council. Nothing will change for the community, they will continue to contact My Aged Care in the first instance who will deal with their referral,” Mr King said.

Ballarat Health Services CEO Dale Fraser said the organisation was looking forward to supporting the Hepburn Shire community through the Aged Care Assessment Service.

My Aged Care is the first point of contact for all clients. They can be reached on 1800 200 422.

Business impact survey

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ANY businesses in the shire have been, and will continue to be, greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions put in place to combat the spread of the virus.

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To help define what the business community needs, now and into the future, Macedon Ranges Shire Council is seeking input for a Business Impact Survey.

Questions include: How did the restrictions affect you, your business and staff?, Were you able to access financial or other support?, Did you have to close your business?, Were you in a position to adapt?, Will continuing restrictions impact the running of your business?

The council would like to hear from business people from all sectors and locations throughout the shire and welcomes participation.

Feedback will help the council decide what initiatives to support and will help them to advocate on people's behalf.

The 15-minute survey is now open for feedback until July 31.

Link: mrsc.vic.gov.au/yoursay

Free meals from service

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ENTRAL Highlands Rural Health has been given extra funding from the Commonwealth Home Support Programme and is now able to offer additional support to vulnerable clients.

The additional funding means clients currently receiving meals through Central Highlands Rural Health will not be charged for meals received in May, June or July.

Wendy van der Pol, Hotel Services manager said she was delighted to be able to offer CHSP-eligible clients free meals and encourages anyone interested to register through the My Aged Care website to take advantage of the offer in June and July.

"This is wonderful for our clients especially during this COVID-19 period when they may be experiencing higher utilities bills due to staying at home and using heating and technology to stay in touch with their loved ones." The service will also be extended to participants of Creswick Men’s Shed in the coming weeks.

The choir that really keeps up with the Joneses

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For the Welsh, singing has a history dating back six centuries. Their “land of song” has traditional musical styles which became associated with drunkenness and immorality until the Methodist Church moved in to revive hymns in the late 18th century.

The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir went viral to lift people's spirits, getting over This nation that produced everyone from Tom Jones to Bryn Terfel, Shirley 40,000 online hits.

Bassey, Charlotte Church and Aled Jones, has singing in its DNA. Wearing almost everything from white tie and tails to hoodies, Hawaiian shirts, These days, Keith’s choir is modernising its repertoire, including Freddy Mercury’s bright bow ties and the choir shirts, the 51 members, aged 45 to 89, boomed out the Lullaby in its program.

60s Hollies hit, He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.

Formed in 1984, the choir sings in Welsh as well as English, South African, And just to show these choristers aren’t dull, they held an online contest to name Italian, Latin, Maori, Aboriginal and German, performing in venues ranging from which one of their members had been accidentally lost in filming this performance.

Keith, who’s lived in Kyneton for 18 months after 16 years in Drummond, began the Sydney Opera House to Hamer Hall, the National Gallery at the Arts Centre and Government House, as well as across the state. with the choir four years ago after belonging to another of Melbourne’s three Welsh While the quality of the singing is important, the choir also pays close attention choirs.

His choir’s YouTube and Facebook performance was helped by legend Mike Brady to its benefits to the health of the singers.

The choir has toured overseas seven times, including performing at the Royal and top musician Roy Best.

Albert Hall, London.

“We didn’t have a cut-off,” says Keith. “We were just told 'This is going to Its Singer of the Year contest for young performers will be held in October, under happen’.” musical director, David Ashton-Smith, a classically-trained singer who rose to become Members of the choir include a retired doctor, a paramedic, business types and principal baritone during nine years with the English National Opera. a solar farm consultant. Naturally, there are a couple called Jones and at least one Thomas, and a dozen who were Welsh-born. www.facebook.com/MelbourneWelshChoir or “The average age is a bit too high,” says Keith. “Thirteen of us are over 80.”

YouTube youtube/IjGKQ0otAKU What’s more, “You have to have in your head your part of 100 songs. The vast majority of Welsh choirs sing without the book”.

Being a chorister requires dedication, which before the pandemic meant Keith Words: Kevin Childs | Image: David White undertook a weekly four-hour round trip to Ringwood for a two and a half-hour rehearsal, arriving home about 11.30pm.

If things had gone as planned, Keith’s choir would have sung in London this year, but events intervened.

HE music that for centuries has coursed through the blood of the Welsh found voice during COVID-19 through a choir that includes Kyneton’s 83-year-old Keith McCoy.

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Distillery: Local, sustainable, unique

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In this case, gold is an aged potato vodka. Stored in oak, it radiates a golden hue with a rich, full flavour with smoky, caramel and vanilla overtones. They also offer a full-bodied premium white vodka and two types of gin - the Lyonville Classic Dry and a Bittersweet Lemon, ideal for cold winter evenings in front of the fire (or even YouTube).

The distillery is the brainchild of artist and writer Basil Eliades who, in a All of these are currently available online, at Cellarbrations Daylesford or through significant change of life direction is now applying his talents to bringing to life local restaurants, with more suppliers to be announced soon. But that’s not all, a fascination with distilling that began several decades ago in places as diverse as Hepburn Springs Distillery has also laid down a couple of casks of whisky. But you Sweden and Mongolia.

“As an artist I find distilling is not so different to painting and writing,” says Basil. will have to be patient, their Well Water Whisky, as it’s called, won’t be available until “What I’m doing, like in any creative process, is simply following an almost energetic- Christmas 2021.

“Living close to the earth and the cycles of nature means that every batch of like logic to what things need in that moment.” spirit we make is unique. Being small and seasonal gives us the opportunity to forage, Inspired by the cool environment of the surrounding forest, he was inspired to make a product that was free of chemicals and low in food miles. He sources many of experiment with flavour and make use of gluts in produce. In Autumn we pick the raw materials locally, organically and seasonally and grows some of the botanicals blackberries for our gin, in Winter we harvest excess lemons. Each season provides new opportunities for experimentation with new flavour combinations.” on the property.

“The words are local, sustainable, unique,” he says. “They are really important to us and everything we are doing here is about terroir or the idea of place encompassing the complete natural environment including factors such as the soil, topography, and Words: Tony Sawrey | Image: Jane Knight & Basil Eliades climate.

“For me it is real alchemy, you take a potato that has been growing in the ground, generating energy and simply by warming it, adding enzymes, other natural things, then running it through the still to split it, you concentrate the energy and create a fuel source which is extraordinary. And then, if you put that fuel into contact with wood you are literally turning spuds into gold.”

EPBURN Springs Distillery had its official opening on the Queen's Birthday weekend. Based in Lyonville on the old site of Gleeson’s Hotel, they produce an exclusive selection of gins and vodkas using sweet waters of the Wombat hills drawn from the property’s original well.

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Mural to depict six seasons of Dja Dja Wurrung

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AYLESFORD, Drummond and Yandoit Primary Schools have commissioned a mural to depict the six seasons of the Dja Dja Wurrung. Natasha Carter, well known for her work on the Bendigo Dja Dja Wurrung tram which has been teaching students and the wider community about First Nations culture since 2017, is the artist. She chatted with Donna Kelly.

Donna: Tell us a little about your background.

Natasha: I spent most of my childhood around Melbourne and then in high school years I grew up in Swan Hill. I then did the migration back down to Melbourne for a while and now I am on country in Bendigo. It’s nice to be back on my people’s country too. I hadn’t lived there before, so it’s very nice to be here.

Donna: How did you get into art?

Natasha: My family has helped a lot. My aunty Wendy Berwick has done a lot of artwork and murals for places like Scienceworks in Melbourne and things like that, so she’s always been a really good sounding board on building up my techniques.

I remember as a kid spending time in her studio during school holidays and just watching what she was doing and she sometimes let me have a little bit of a go. That was really good. And my older cousins paint and do metalwork. Ever since I knew how to hold a pencil or a paintbrush I wanted to use one. Every spare moment I was always drawing something. My earliest artist memory was arranging all my soft toys on the dining table and then sitting down and drawing them. I spent two days trying to perfect dalmation spots. I was a bit meticulous.

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Donna: Was it always going to be your career?

Natasha: I always thought it was what I wanted to do but you get two messages from people who have your best interests at heart. There are those who help support you and build on that and those who worry about whether it is a viable industry to be involved in and say ‘maybe you should learn something else’. I know where those people are coming from but if art is something you really want to do, stick to it. You are not always going to get there on the first go, the third go, or even the 15th go, but persistence helps, you need to be persistent in this industry.

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

Natasha: I do think anyone can be an artist. But I think there is a bit of fear early on for people doing art. I have always had friends and family who say ‘I wish I could draw or paint like that’ or ‘what I am doing doesn’t look real enough or what I am trying to do’. But I think we need to let go of that fear of creating something absolutely perfect. There is real character that comes from imperfection in art and I think it’s building on recognising what your style is and realising you are onto something here and enjoying it and going to stick with it. It is all about individuality.

People need to realise their own capabilities and style. Anyone can do it but that is not to say you have to create a business out of it, just have the enjoyment of creating the artwork itself.

Donna: How do you feel about having painted a tram?

Natasha: It’s funny, now and again I will forget I have done it and then I will be walking down the street and it goes past and I get a bit excited. Sometimes friends will come up for the day and send me a text with a photo and say ‘Look what I saw’.

That’s really nice and what is even nicer is to see the people on the tram, because it’s a talking tram and talks about the Dja Dja Wurrung history in the area, so it’s really good to see people on the tram learning about that.

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Donna: Tell us about the schools' mural?

Natasha: The focus is on the six Dja Dja Wurrung seasons. There are six panels and each will focus on a season which will be a really good educational tool for the kids and the parents as well. A lot of my stuff is generally really colourful so I think that works well for a school environment and gaining kids’ interest as well. I was going to be painting the boards at the school but now I will be painting them at home but I will be taking a lot of photos for the school newsletter and my Instagram.

Later I will be able to come in and take part in other activities.

The project is supported by Hepburn Shire, Daylesford Rotary and the Daylesford, Drummond and Yandoit school councils.

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Remembering Bill The Longley family wish to express their gratitude for all the support and kind condolences received on the passing of Bill.

We are also very grateful for the outstanding care Bill received at Springs Medical, Daylesford Hospital and St John of God.

- Sue Longley, Daylesford

Speed limits I have lived on Daylesford-Malmsbury Road for 24 years, first at 1310 and now at the entrance to Glenlyon near the bridge over the Loddon.

For years I experienced the consequences of traffic travelling at dangerous speeds when I lived at 1310. For most of 2019 and until recently, I watched heavy cattle trucks and gravel trucks roaring down the road from Kidds Hill, over the Loddon and only slowing up on the uphill section of road near the Glenlyon Store.

Whenever I entered or left either of those properties I risked collision with someone travelling too close behind, or oncoming vehicles travelling too fast to stop. Fed up, I took action by joining a number of local residents to write to VicRoads and the local MP. I applaud the decision to reduce the speed limit.

This will cause the inconvenience of an additional three minutes for the journey between Daylesford and Malmsbury, but will bring considerable benefits in terms of reducing damage to lives and property.

Speed kills. Reducing speed is likely to reduce the road toll.

As a member of the local fire brigade I have attended many motor vehicle accidents between Cooper’s corner at Coomoora and Sandy Farm Road in Denver. These have included fatalities as well as serious injuries.

The tragic consequences of vehicle collisions cannot be overestimated, both for the victims and their families.

In addition, often the accident results in hours of duty by volunteers, either performing road rescue, or simply waiting for tow trucks to attend before brigades can wash away spilt fuel and debris. Volunteers are themselves at risk of speeding vehicles which may be unaware of the obstruction to traffic caused by the accidents.

The toll caused by speeding vehicles extends to damage to property and wildlife. If you drive along the Daylesford-Malmsbury Road this morning you will see quite a few dead kangaroos. Each has been the result of a collision with a vehicle. I wish panel beaters well. Their livelihood is important, but a drop in business because of the speed limit, must be a good thing.

When I lived at 1310, where kangaroos regularly crossed the road, on three occasions in two years, cars swerved off the road and down the embankment, mowing down my letter box which was well away from the edge of the road. Presumably they swerved in an attempt to avoid kangaroos. On one of those occasions, apart from broken headlight protectors and part of a push bar, I found a child’s toy on my driveway. This debris was only 50 centimetres from a very large tree trunk.

I am not writing on behalf of the local fire brigade nor any other organisation. I happen to be a member of the Glenlyon Progress Association and take minutes of their meetings.

I can state categorically that the residents who wrote to VicRoads and the local Member of Parliament seeking to have the speed limit reduced to 80 were not doing so as part of a GPA initiative. (The Local editor) Donna Kelly was misinformed when she said the GPA took action. The local residents were seeking to save lives and property, and to be able to enter and exit their driveways with a lowered risk of a vehicle mowing them down as they do so.

Can't get no satisfaction It's official. The annual, independent community satisfaction survey conducted by JWS Research on behalf of all Victorian councils confirms what Hepburn Shire ratepayers already know - our council is going from bad to worse.

The 2020 survey reveals: Community satisfaction sharply decreased from 56 per cent to 45 per cent, the lowest score since 47 per cent in 2012; It was concerned wayside residents, not the HSC's satisfaction result of 45 per cent is Glenlyon Progress Association, who successfully significantly below the state average of 58 per cent and campaigned for the apparently controversial the rural average of 56 per cent; reduction in the speed limit on the DaylesfordSatisfaction with consultation by council fell sharply Malmsbury Road. from 52 per cent to a woeful 38 per cent; Their presumed membership of GPA (Just Sayin’, The report says almost all demographic and 8/6) is not relevant. GPA has not taken any position, nor geographic areas recorded a decrease in satisfaction; and made any representations, on the issue in the past seven Ominously the two areas where Hepburn Shire years.

Council performs very badly and significantly below the - Claude Forell, state average is in decision making and consultation. secretary, Glenlyon Progress Association The Local Government Act compels councillors to make responsible decisions after taking into account the In your TL Issue 183 ‘Just sayin’...contribution diverse needs of the community and after facilitating to discussion on the new speed limit between effective communication between council and the Daylesford and Denver you say ‘A group, many community. from the Glenlyon Progress Association, has Mayor Licia Kokocinksi promised "contemporary lobbied for the speed change and say they have governance" when donning the mayoral robes. HSC has a very long way to go before it serves this community talked with about 100 residents who agree’.

This is wrong. In addition to taking our own action well.

In further bad news for Trentham and Coliban ward in raising problems with Daylesford-Malmsbury Road, where we live, our group doorknocked and letterboxed ratepayers council's draft 2020/21 budget again allocates about 100 locals. None of us who did this are from the them only 4 per cent or $515,000 of its $12.2m capital works program despite them contributing 16 per cent of Glenlyon Progress Association. council's rate revenue.

- Marilyn Beaumont, Denver Quite clearly, and despite earlier promises, absolutely nothing has been done to address the entrenched Ed's note: In last edition's Just Sayin'... it stated: "A inequity towards Coliban ward. group, many from Glenlyon Progress Association, has - Brian Hood, Trentham lobbied for the speed change and say they have talked to about 100 residents along the road who agree." At no stage Letters, and musings, to the editor are always did the column state or mean to imply the lobbying was a GPA initiative. welcome. Email donna@tlnews.com.au

- Margret Lockwood, Glenlyon

Community News A WORD FROM THE MAYOR We have noticed that our tourists are returning and our day-trippers have begun to flood into many of our towns. Their return is to be welcomed.

The hospitality/tourism sector is the backbone of our economy. It is estimated that every day-visitor spends around $60 each per trip. That means that shops, cafes and B&B’s are able to employ our friends, neighbours, relatives and loved ones.

Our Council continues to function, albeit with most indoor/office staff still working from home. Councillors continue to support our CEO and staff in their endeavours to keep the business of Council operating for residents, ratepayers and businesses in our towns and farm areas.

A few weeks ago, the Economic Development Unit of Council held its first business roundtable, comprising several business owners from across the Shire. They spoke about the impact of the virus on their businesses, the temporary lay-off of staff, the staggering decline in revenue, and the uncertainty of the future, yet still optimistic for the future because of the opportunities to seek new customers. They told us that one of the things that would assist recovery, would be to ensure a welcoming environment for our visitors and day-trippers which would involve Council ensuring that the streetscapes are cleaned regularly, bins are cleared for locals and visitors to feel safe. So, with the additional monies coming from the Working for Victoria initiative (worth $1.6 million), Council will be employing 33 local people to work across most of the units of the Council to provide additional services and supports.

State and Federal Governments are now releasing substantial monies to local governments across Victoria to get people employed (tradespersons, support persons, etc.), therefore spreading income to the various towns. Hepburn Shire will receive $968,830 from the Federal government for local roads and community infrastructure and $100,000 from the State government to improve the Shire’s Information and Communication Technology capabilities. Of course, we would always like more funds because we have a list of ‘shovel ready’ projects that we have submitted and continue to lobby for.

With winter here, I am reminded of the dangerousness of many of our roads, especially during the early morning when frosts and black ice can occur on our roads. So, please take care – there has already been one serious rollover of a vehicle in my part of the Shire due to black ice. Drive according to the conditions. What is the point of saving a couple of minutes when you end up seriously injured or even worse?

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Proposed Budget 2020/21 - Have Your Say The Proposed Budget 2020/21 balances the needs of the community with Council’s responsibility to provide important services, particularly during this difficult time of COVID-19.

Council has prepared a $38.2 million budget for 2020/2021 to maintain and improve infrastructure and deliver projects and services which are valued by our community. We will do this within an average rate increase of 2.00% under the Victorian Government’s Fair Go Rates System.

HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED We encourage the community to get involved in the budget process by providing input and feedback on priorities outlined in the proposed budget. Full details of the proposed budget can be read online at www.hepburn.vic.gov.au.

Submissions and support for projects contained in the budget can be made through our website or in writing with the subject 2020/2021 Budget Submission to Chief Executive Officer, Hepburn Shire Council, PO Box 21, Daylesford, VIC, 3460.

If you would like to speak to your submission at the Special Meeting of Council on Tuesday 7 July 2020, please indicate this in your submission. Submissions close 5.00 pm, Thursday 25 June 2020.

Community Grants Program 2020-2021

Community Grants Program 2020-2021 Round 1 is opening Friday 19 June 2020.

Do you have a great idea for your Community Group? Contact Council to see if you are eligible to apply for a Community Grant.

Need help with your application? Join us for an online workshop for all things Community Grants 6pm Tuesday 7 July. Call Council on 5348 2306 or visit our website to register your interest.

Virtual Council Meeting The Council Meeting to be held on Tuesday, 16 June 2020 at 6pm will be live streamed on our Facebook page (@hepburncouncil).

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Rent reduction query

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HE REIV has written to the State Treasurer, requesting an urgent change to the process that is currently in place for a commercial landlord to receive the coronavirus land tax relief.

REIV CEO Gil King said the current method was overly bureaucratic and greatly disadvantaged commercial property owners who have negotiated a rent reduction in good faith.

Currently, a commercial tenant who is seeking rent relief from their landlord due to coronavirus has to lodge a form online. The form cannot be completed by any other party, including a landlord.

"Our primary concern is that there is no incentive for the tenant to do this, and there are no consequences for the tenant if they fail or refuse to do this.

"The completion of the form will be a low priority for tenants, and we have had examples reported to us where the tenant is effectively holding the landlord to ransom by requesting additional rent relief before they will complete the form.

"An illustration of the bureaucracy around the process is evidenced by this extract from the State Revenue Office’s website: 'Once you have completed the form online, you need to send it to your landlord. You can download a copy, or email a copy to yourself, which you can then email to your landlord, or send it to them directly by entering their email address on the final page, titled ‘Form Complete’."

The Real Estate Institute of Victoria requests that an alternative process be enabled to ensure landlords are not unduly disadvantaged.

One suggestion is that the rent reduction does not commence until the tenant submits the online form. Alternatively, the balance of the rent relief is to be considered as rent deferral until such time as the form is submitted by the tenant.

There are also issues in the residential rent relief space where tenants are falsely lodging "agreements" with Consumer Affairs Victoria in circumstances where no agreement has been negotiated.

CAV acknowledge the false rent reduction agreement, and when landlords or property managers contact them advising that no agreement has been reached, they are told that CAV cannot change the ‘agreement’ terms and that a new agreement with the correct details needs to be submitted.

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It’s funny how the sight of something familiar can bring memories of a longdistant past, flooding back - and we, of a certain age, have plenty of them.

And so it was last week, when my son-in-law Evan Jones, emailed me several photos he had taken of a nifty, fold-away potting bench he had constructed for a crammed walkway. As well as being beautifully constructed, the bench solves the problems of space with a proper work surface and, most importantly, somewhere to have plants, soil and pots close at hand.

Apart from ticking another box in Evan’s “to do” list, it has provided an answer to a recent request for a design for building one.

The photos set me thinking back to the mid-1940s and my grandfather’s nursery when my father spent whatever spare time he had, helping him to return the now rundown property from a wartime vegetable garden back to a commercial business.

I loved pottering around with my Pa who was, by this time, quite elderly, with time and patience to open the eyes of an eager six-year-old to the wonderful world of plants and nature.

Apart from anything else I delighted most in “helping” him in his “potting shed” - at that time a rickety old table in the corner of a bush shade house, covered in piles of sand and soil, surrounded by stacks of terracotta pots of all sizes.

(In later years I came to hate the sight of those *&%?# pots when I spent many pre-plastic hours after school with a tub of cold water and a piece of hessian sacking, recycling them.)

But it was there that he would tell me the names and explain habits and requirements of each plant as we planted seeds and made cuttings. He never trusted me with his sharp knife, so I had the job of placing each cutting into pots of sand, making the holes with pointed “dibber” stick and then carefully watering them in with a watering can.

There was only one small glasshouse at the time, so the pots were placed into large wooden crates and covered with recycled window frames.

Grandpa was a genial little man who, when dressed up in his best suit, with his derby hat and cane, later reminded me of Charlie Chaplin. I only ever heard him raise his voice once - incidentally to my father. After I, with all the best intentions in the world - to save space in crowded glass frame - carefully removed about 20 small fuchsia cuttings from individual pots into one large one - totally innocent of the fact that he had spent considerable time and money to start a collection of rather rare and newly imported varieties.

By the time I was lifted midway through high school to work full time in the nursery, the potting shed had evolved into a separate building with steel-clad benches replete with cutting boards, hoppers of compost, soil, sand and pots. The window glass frames were replaced by a large glasshouse with under-bench steam heating.

As for me, I have “Hobbiton”, a spacious (but tall folk-unfriendly under balcony area with plenty of space for storage of pots, sand, soil plus gardening equipment... but, as yet, only a wheelbarrow for a bench.

I think, once solitary confinement is at an end, I think I’ll invite the family up for a weekend and tell Evan to bring his plans and tools. There’s plenty of suitable timber down there.

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EW places seem emptier than disused railway stations. The whistles, smoke or steam, the flurry of travel, all are gone.

Trentham’s heritage-listed station stopped operating just two years short of its century, in 1978.

There are, however, signs of life on Friday nights when two food vans lure locals for burgers and a yarn.

A check of Hepburn Shire Council reports turns up a study released in September 2013 which talks of $450,000 to be spent developing “a museum/ interpretive centre”, with support from the Friends of the Railway Station and the Trentham Historical Society Now, the Friends of the Railway Station has become Trentham Rail and Tramway Association (TRATA), and it struggles after a three-month COVID-19enforced shutdown.

But TRATA now says they are coming back strongly with ambitious plans to smarten the place up and expand.

Painting the historic station is on the schedule, says TRATA treasurer John Gray, pictured with some locals, from left, Ivy, Lilly and Georgia with his grandson Eli. “We want to reorganise the structure and make it more interesting. A couple of carriages have been upgraded and made more attractive.”

One carriage has been a tearoom and is now fitted out for a sausage sizzle spot at the monthly fundraising market, which may restart in September. “We hope for more space under cover and to expand the 15 to 20 stalls up to 30.”

Standing on the former Carlsruhe-to-Daylesford line, the station building, platform, goods shed, and a short section of track are still in place. The town’s Information Centre is there, in spite of long-dreamed-of plans to move it to a new “Hub”.

Mr Gray said the goods shed could become a community base for workshops and meetings, with an undertaking from the station owners, VicTrack, to do work on it.

Another aim is to set up a museum in the area, showing memorabilia collected over the years.

Car shows and tractor pulls have been held at the station and Mr Gray says work on the track will enable more tractor pulls.

The station is also the starting point for the Domino Trail, an easy walk following the old railway line into the Wombat Forest six kilometres to Lyonville.

Another intriguing aspect of rail transport in the district was revealed in the Spring, 1971, journal of the Light Railway Association by an A. N. Hall.

He writes of visiting his old home district of Korweinguboora, and by chance finding a brake shoe used on the horse tramway run by Trewhella Bros, of Trentham.

“I originally found this brake shoe on the route of the line in 1920, and carried it home. It has since been used by my brother as a small anvil.”

The tramway ran from Trewhella Bros sawmill at "old" Newbury, about eight kilometres towards the settlement of North Blackwood. “The `old’ Newbury town does not exist now,” he writes, “although when the sawmill was there and mining was in full swing it boasted a theatre and three hotels.

“Some 30 years ago the Newbury post office was shifted from ‘old’ Newbury to Garlick's Lead, and the latter town then took the name Newbury.”

The Trewhella Bros sawmill at "old" Newbury closed before the start of the 20th century.

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Pick me, pick me

Just sayin’...

By Donna Kelly

S

O LAST weekend was a bit busy. As in the Queen's Birthday long weekend. We took a couple of trips into Daylesford and it was bustling.

I know it's a hard one for some people but our region is very much reliant on tourists - without them we can't survive. So on that level it was great to see the region pumping.

Of course, I get that people are worried about a second wave of coronavirus.

Australia has done so well compared to many other countries and some people think we should have stayed in lockdown, at least for that weekend.

But if people do the right thing, keep socially distanced, use hand sanitiser and wash their hands when possible, it has to be pretty safe. As someone said to me, the virus is not a long jumper. And then, how long do you stay locked down? A vaccine is still many months away and life has to continue.

Mind you, we took our first big trip last week, all the way to Bunnings. It was a bit scary and we considered wearing masks but decided to take the plunge. And it was OK. There were signs up saying only four people in any aisle at any one time, and markers on the floor at the registers. Most people were good, apart from one woman who nearly crashed into me as she made a sudden U-turn. But I did have a trolley, the ultimate selfdistancing tool. And the ones at Bunnings are extra long.

I have come to love Click and Collect from Coles though. It is a nice, easy way to enjoy some online retail therapy and you tend to really only buy the things you need because you don't get tempted by anything you would otherwise wander past in an aisle.

I also like BP servos where you can just connect via an app and not even go in the store. It's a great service although Kyle tells me that service stations don't make much on petrol or diesel. They rely on the in-store sales of convenience food like pies and sandwiches or on the chocolates resting so temptingly on the counter as you pay your bill. (Mind you I remember, in my younger days, buying a Kit Kat and a packet of Panadol at some service station and being asked loudly, with plenty of people behind me, if it was "that time of the month". WTF?) Anyway, the long weekends are over now until the grand final, and I guess we will have a grand final with the football back on from last week. So the tourists will keep coming, but perhaps not in such great numbers, and slowly we will open up our world to both them and locals keen to socialise again.

As a small business owner who has struggled to survive like most, I really wish all business owners all the best for the coming months as they reignite their lives and livelihoods. And if you can, when you can, support local. Just sayin'...

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There are a few conditions, well mostly that not-forprofit bit, and also that you aren't grabbing a free advert and then we see a whacking big paid advert in other media. That wouldn't be fair.

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Kyle’s Rant

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HEARD a funny yarn the other day about one of our restaurateurs.

I mean, we do live in odd times, trying to obey social distancing laws and trying to space-out patrons in an eatery, let alone trying to serve a punter at 50 paces. I can’t imagine the frustration of what all that looks like in the planning stages.

Anyway, this particular restaurateur was met at the door by a potential patron who asked for a menu, which the hostess quickly furnished them with.

Now, at this point, the eatery was not open. It was just the management getting ready to open for service the next day - planning, spacing and cleaning after what has been a long hiatus.

As it turns out the punter wanted to order that evening and when they were told that the joint wouldn't be open until the following day got a bit huffy, throwing the menu back.

The hostess with the mostess then explained that, obviously, the potential customer has no idea about what’s involved in restaurants as they part company.

It is only after the punter has wandered off that the hostess builds up a head of steam. After all, she has had a long stretch in isolation, probably wondering if her businesses will hit the wall combined with trying to wrap her head around the new laws and changing procedures. This can have effects, as you will read.

The usually mild-mannered, butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, girl next door hostess flings open the door and yells to the punter "f*** you, you can f... right off!" which she later described as one of her “Bogan, lose it moments”.

I guess there are two points to this story which I reckon is being reflected in eateries all over. The first is that this is all new to everyone and patrons need to exercise patience or stay at home.

The second very valid point is if you conduct yourself throughout most of the year with grace, poise and a flair for your work, you can certainly get away with one or two f*** you moments a year and then claim plausible deniability.

I know Donna did that a number of times when she worked at The Advocate...

F*** you rant over.

Ed's note: In my defence, I was on deadline and the guy was a serial pest who just kept coming into the office with the belief that he could use up an hour of my time for a chat about nothing. So yes, when I saw him heading towards the door, I did exactly what this restaurateur did. Bonus was he never returned.

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