The Bugle 18 October 2014
A fortnightly celebration of people and places on the Upper South Coast of NSW
Serving the communities of Kiama, Gerringong, Jamberoo, Kiama Downs, Gainsborough and Gerroa
Community voices concerns over hospital redevelopment plans While the redevelopment of the Kiama Hospital site into the Blue Haven Centre of Excellence in Aged Care has almost unanimous support, as always some believe the devil is in the detail. In particular, the Hospital Auxiliary is very concerned about the closure of Kiama’s inpatient care, especially rehabilitation beds. “It is a long trip to Port Kembla to visit loved ones, and it will be five to ten years before Shellharbour Hospital is expanded to cater for us,” says Julie Stokes. “Council says that there isn’t enough room on the site to retain the beds, but that is after they have sold off a portion of the land to help with the funding.” She believes that if the Council retained the land, then the plot ratio could allow for the beds’ retention. The Auxiliary has been in discussions with council, the state government and the local health district to no avail. “They are all blaming
each other for the decision that has been made, and there doesn’t seem to be any room to reconsider,” says Ms Stokes. Mayor Brian Petschler says that the decision to move the beds was made by the area health service long before the Council became involved with the site. “There is simply no funding for rehab hospital beds here,” he says. “Blue Haven will continue to offer respite beds under the nursing home funding model.” Council explains that the land being sold off is not suitable for development for aged care use due to fire regulations. However it is suitable for residential development with the right design elements. The expected $1-$2 million profit from the sale of the blocks would help to fund the $58 million project. “Blue Haven has always been a self-contained component of council’s operations,” explains the Mayor,
Kiama Council’s proposal involves: ♦ buying the old hospital site ♦ transferring the existing 20 bed inpatient service to Port Kembla (and eventually Shellharbour) ♦ demolishing all buildings (bar Barroul House) ♦ building a residential aged care facility with over 60% more capacity than the current nursing home ♦ construction of 36 independent living and 22 assisted living units in five buildings around the site ♦ new facilities for existing area health services ♦ selling off eight residential blocks to help fund the development.
Inside this issue Meet the Monday Girls p3
Surf’s up! p2
Two opportunities to help fight MND p5
“And this development will follow the same model and not cost ratepayers at all. Keeping the land is a luxury Blue Haven cannot afford.” A public meeting has been organised by another group of local residents (KRASH Kiama Residents Against Sale of Hospital land), also concerned about the sell off of the land. They believe it is shortsighted, and is to the detriment of the project. “Selling off the land closes off options,” says Craig Summerhayes. “Retaining the land gives the community health and aged care services flexibility to address future needs. Whilst the area cannot be used for
Health, will be launching a community petition about retention of the rehab beds and any lost services. He says they have the support of local GPs who believe aged care (because of fire all such services should be regulations) it could be used retained. for purposes and facilities A Q&A publication prethat would enhance and pared by Council will be complement an aged care/ distributed to residents next health services complex of week. It outlines the prothis scale.” posal and says that more Local residents are at the public feedback will be forefront of the campaign sought once the draft DA is having been aware of the exhibited in February/March plan to sell off part of the next year. site for some time now and However opponents of the have had discussions with sell-off and the moving of council over the proposal, the rehab beds feel this will but their concerns remain. be too late to have their conIn addition, Glenn Kolocerns addressed. meitz, the Labor candidate Details: KRASH is holding for Kiama is planning to its public meeting on hold a ‘Kiama Hospital Day Tues 28 Oct, 7.15pm of Action’ at which he and at the Kiama Leagues Club Walt Secord, NSW OpposiAuditorium. tion Spokesperson for
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Saturday 1 Nov
Kiama Farmers’ Market Black Beach 3-6pm
Beach Party with The Mighty Surftones Kiama Downs Surf Life Saving Club, Jones Beach 7pm till late (see right) Opera in the Valley Jamberoo School of Arts (see right)
Live music at The Sebel, Kiama Leagues Club, The Mecure, Jamberoo Pub and other venues.
Sat 18 Oct Rotary’s Emergency Services Expo Black Beach, 9-3pm Gerringong Village Markets, Town Hall Vince Jones Live 8pm Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, 32 Burelli St
Sun 19 Oct Kiama Seaside Markets Black Beach Thirsty Merc Oaks Hotel, Albion Park Rail
Fri 24 Oct Rock 4 Regal Kiama Leagues Club, from 6pm (see p5)
Sat 25 Oct Kiama Produce Market Black Beach Bach in the Dark Sat 25 Oct, 7.30pm. $25 Tickets at Visitors Centre Illawara Rose Show 25th and 26th, Jamberoo School of Arts
Sun 26 Oct Festival of the Choirs 2pm, The Pavilion Kiama Six choirs performing a wide variety of music.
30 Oct - 11 Nov Centre & Coast Art exhibition in Bowral (see right)
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Tues Nov 4 Melbourne Cup, various locations, including Kiama Bowling Club and Gerroa Boat Fisherman’s Club (see p3)
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On weekends
Valley tradition continues
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Fri 7 to Sun 9 Nov Annual Quilt Show Gerringong Town Hall (see p3)
Sat 8 Nov Kiama High Reunion 4th Form 1973 Kiama Bowlo from 6pm. Call Diane 0413012380 or check Facebook.
The Kiama Jazz & Blues Club invites you to an old fashioned Beach Party, featuring the guitar vibes of The Mighty Surftones. There will be a spit roast dinner and drinks at bar prices (with proceeds from the bar going to the Surf Club). The night is another fundraiser for the Kiama Jazz & Blues Festival.
Celebrate your Welsh-ness
The Friends of Kiama Library have Emeritus Professor Bruce Ryan giving a talk: What’s Welsh and Wild about Wales? Details: Sat 1 Nov, from 7pm til late. $40 per person Sat 18 Oct, 2.30 including dinner. For tickets call 4233 1514 Family History Centre
Guided bird walk at Spring Creek Wetlands
Centre & Coast on display in Bowral
As part of 2014 National Bird Week, 20-26 October , Illawarra Birder’s Martin Potter is running a free guided bird walk at Spring Creek Wetlands, just off the Highway, south of Kiama Cemetery. As part of the walk Martin will be collating a list of birds observed and feeding them into the first annual Aussie Backyard Bird Count, a bird count app recently released specifically for this year’s Bird Week. For more information on the Aussie Backyard Bird Count you can visit www.aussiebirdcount.org.au.
Kiama resident Tony Hull is joining with two other award-winning artists, Ken Orchard and Kate Broadfoot, to stage a collaborative exhibition in Bowral focusing on the Australian landscape, entitled Centre & Coast. The artists will present a body of over sixty works that showcases their diverse and abiding interest in the Australian landscape and
Details: No need to register, just meet at the end of Glenbrook Drive, Kiama (off Dido Street) at 12.15pm for a 12.30pm start on Thursday 23 Oct.
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their engagement with the plein air painting tradition (painting outside). Hull was a semi-finalist in the 2013 Moran National Portrait Prize and over his career has received twentysix awards and prizes for his painting including being a two-time winner of the 'Works on Paper' section of the Waverley Art Prize. Both Broadfoot and Hull were finalists in the prestigious 2014 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize Exhibition, held in Sydney. The Hulls moved to Kiama from Bowral a year ago, having spotted their ideal home when visiting to judge of the Kiama Art Society Show in 2013. “It’s a great excuse for a trip up to Bowral,” he says. “You’ll get to see some really interesting perspectives of our diverse landscape, while others get to see how beautiful Kiama really is.” Details: Thurs 30 Oct through to Tues 11 Nov at the Bowral & District Art Society Gallery, 1 Short Street, Bowral. The artists will each give exclusive insight into their work at the launch on Sat 1 Nov at 2pm. Free entry.
This year’s Opera in the Valley will feature four rising new artists, who have already sung with the likes of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Opera Australia, in the intimate setting of Jamberoo School of Arts. The yearly concert came into being in 1997 after discussions on ways to continue the proud tradition set by many generations of Jamberoo families of providing entertainment for the community at that venue. Its success ensured it quickly became the major fundraiser for the Jamberoo branch of the CWA and a must-do on the village’s social calendar. The evening will again be under the musical direction of Glenn Amer, who earlier this year took up a position as pianist and conductor with Opera Australia. The Yamaha grand piano which is used for the Opera, was purchased in 2000 after exhaustive fundraising efforts by Friends of the Hall. Wine and cheese will be served during the interval, with supper afterwards. Details: Saturday, 1 Nov, starting at 8pm. Tickets are available for $45 each at Elders Jamberoo (4236 0891) and Kiama Visitors Centre (4232 3322)
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Helping childrens’ medical research is a Gerringong tradition Each week, for almost 25 years, the Monday Girls of the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) Gerringong Committee meet for a sewing session which involves a lot of hard work and more than a few laughs. They volunteer their time and skill to build up the stock of homewares, toys, childrens’ wear, Christmas decorations and other handcrafted gifts for their stall at the Annual Quilt Show, which regularly raises around $7000 for the cause. The quality of their work is such that those in the know head straight to their stall, which also sells homemade Christmas pudding and cake, to buy presents for themselves or others. They also contribute a quilt to be raffled each year. Three of the Monday Girls, Marj O’Keeffe, Joyce Sharpe and Mena Sharpe, are original members of the CMRI fundraising committee that was formed in 1959. Since that time, the group has raised an astounding $1.7 million to support scien-
tific research to understand the genes that are important for health and development, and the underlying causes of disease. November is CMRI Gerringong’s busiest month, with a Melbourne Cup Lunch as well as the Quilt Show. At the Melbourne Cup Lunch, at Gerroa Boat Fisherman’s Club, a buffet will follow champagne and canapés, and there will be sweeps raffles and lucky door prizes, all to raise money for CMRI. The Quilt Show is on the following weekend, with a large display of quilts and wall hangings (some of which are available for purchase with a commission to CMRI).
Residents of this house in Tingira Crescent, on the south side of Marsden Point, were evacuated on Tuesday evening when the awning blew off the back of the house, severely damaging the roof and making the verandah unsound. The SES crew there on Wednesday morning (when this photo was taken) were still battling galeforce winds and
Details: Quilt Show - Fri 7 to Sun 9 Nov. Admission $5. 9-5pm Fri-Sat, 9-3pm Sun, Gerringong Town Hall Melbourne Cup Lunch - Tues 4 Nov from 11.30am. Tickets, $45, available from Cronin’s Liquor, Blackwood St, Gerringong. Arrange courtesy bus transport with the Club.
driving rain when trying to secure the property. In nearby Marsden St, the SES was present when the side awning of a house blew off and hit a 10,000 volt powerline. Power crews worked through the night trying to restore electricity to the suburb. People are urged to take great caution in the wild weather.
Shoalhaven gets reprieve from CSG threat Members of CSG Free Shoalhaven are ecstatic at the news that Leichhardt Resources has had its Petroleum Explorations Licences cancelled. “The licence they had in the Shoalhaven stretched from Berry and Kangaroo Valley down to Sussex Inlet,” says the group’s spokesperson Trish Kahler. “It was a major threat to our environment, especially our waterways and farming land.” The NSW Government has a moratorium on new licences, so it will be at least a year until another mining company can try to make claim.
The work of the wonderful Monday Girls is highly sought after each year.
Council meeting lit by phones
When Kiama Councillors were left in the dark near the end of their meeting on night of the extraordinary weather on the 14th, they resourcefully continued on by adding the light of their phones to the emergency lighting. Thankfully, their batteries must have been fully charged, as the meeting continued on for the last fifteen minutes. “We all decided it was worth continuing on rather than having to come back to finish the meeting,” says Mayor Brian Petschler. 3
“It is such a great win,” says Kahler, “But it is no time to be complacent. We need to spend this time wisely so that more people are aware of the issues and will fight against any new licence being granted.” The NSW Chief Scientist’s recent report warned of ‘unintended consequences’ of coal seam gas and the Environmental Protection Authority has acknowledged the industry presents a significant risk. The group fears contamination of ground water and degradation of land through waste.
Local company in running for national design award
Gerringong-based company Plank & Trestle has been selected as one of 13 finalists in the 'New Talent' category of the Australian Design Awards of Etsy, the largest global online store for handmade designers goods. They were also recently a finalist for Home Beautiful magazine's 'Design Unearthed' Awards, where they won the People’s Choice Award.. The husband and wife team of Mike and Lana Hall combine their design and building skills to create handcrafted trestle tables for customers across Australia. “All our tables are made to order individually for each customer after they are selected from our design collection,” explains Lana.
My Kiama I happened to be at the door of the Hunky Doreys on the Harbour when the owner fed the pelican on verandah of the fish shop. It’s a female and has lived in the harbour for many years. She is fed raw fish from fish shop each day. Meryll Faulkner, Kiama
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Community rallies to support the Regals Imagine for a moment if half the people in your extended family group were likely to be diagnosed with a debilitating disease that would only give them a short time to live. This is the situation facing the members of an large South Coast kin group, including the Regals of Kiama. Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has presented itself in people as young as 19 and as old as 70. This mean that each person is a potential timebomb, that may or may not go off. MND is a debilitating, terminal neurological disease that causes death between 1-5 years after diagnoses. For every person diagnosed research states that at least 14 people are negatively effected. An estimated 19,000 people currently have MND in Australia. The incidence of this disease is increasing every year. In the Regals’ case, things have not gone well. Adam Regal, 30, now has the disease that has taken both his father and his uncle. He and his wife Kylie have two young children. Adam and his family’s response to this challenge has been to look at the bigger picture and raise funds for research into MND’s causes and possible prevention. His sister Amy formed a
Friend and muso Den Murray is organising the event, and is coming back from Melbourne to play in one of the bands. “It is a chance for Adam to get together with all of his mates to raise money to stop this disease affecting more people,” he says. All of the money raised on the night will go towards medical research. For those of you who punk passed by, Kiama Lions’ Club is organising a more sedate, if equally entertaining, fundraiser the following week in the guise of a lunch featuring guest speaker Peter FitzSimons.
Adam’s brother-in-law, Paul Graham, plays in Crash Tragic, one of the bands on the Rock 4 Regals bill. They have released a new single on itunes, with all proceeds going to MND research.
fundraising group called the Regal Regiment, which has been involved in numerous events from the Sydney Bridge Run to ice bucket challenges. They have raised close to $30,000, all of which has gone to the medical research unit at Macquarie University. Their latest effort is a Rock 4 Regals night, which will bring the heavy rock and pop punk bands that Adam loves so much to the Leagues Club for a night of
solidarity. The bands performing are all local artists who will be giving up their own time and talents for this great cause. Many of the band members know Adam and his family on a personal level. The headline band, The Conspiracy Plan, is reforming especially for the night. The band members were in the same year as Adam at Kiama High, with one flying back from NZ to show his support.
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Details: Rock 4 Regals Fri 24 Oct, from 6pm, Kiama Leagues Club. $10 Lunch with Peter FitzSimons - Fri 31 Oct, 12.30 - 4, The Sebel Harbourside, $120 for three course meal and a drink.
Kiama cyclists do us proud Kiama was well represented at last weekend’s Sunsuper Ride to Conquer Cancer for Chris O'Brien Lifehouse in Sydney. The two day ride 200km ride is now Australia's largest fundraising event for cancer. McGrath Estate Agents Kiama & Berry put in a team of three riders and together they raised over $7,500 towards the $3.6 million donated in total for cancer research. Another eight Kiama residents undertook the ride, including Dr John McAlphine and his wife Heather.
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Down the aisle
Gerry and Sue Granger-Holcombe
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Harriet Heffernan, Perrie Croshaw, Jacqueline Weiley and Ruth Armitage
Fittingly, the first wedding service ever to be held in the Point Ministry Centre was for youth minister Steve Inman and local girl Lauren Illingworth. Steve moved to here from Young, and many local students will know him as their school scripture teacher. Lauren moved to Kiama with her parents and sister, Wendy, Scott and Bronte,
in 2005 and is currently studying a Bachelor of Commerce and Events Management at UOW. Many will know her from working at Stonewall Café and her involvement in children’s ministry at Kiama Anglican Church. The bride wore a beautiful Alfred Angelo dress of ivory satin with a beaded bodice. The bridesmaids wore
dresses of steel blue silk chiffon. Flowers - all white tulips, ranunculus, roses and blushing bride, with gumnuts - were arranged by Carrie Bond. The reception was also held in the Centre, with canapé food from the Little Blowhole Café. The couple will live in Kiama after honeymooning on the Gold Coast.
Kevin Sullivan, aka Sullo, added to the atmosphere of the day
At the Blue Haven Fete
Making refugees feel welcome Kiama has joined more than 100 other councils as a signatory to the Refugee Council of Australia’s (RCOA) Refugee Welcome Zone initiative. “A Refugee Welcome Zone is a local government area that makes a commitment in spirit to welcoming refugees into the community and acknowledges the positive contribution they make to society," said RCOA Chief Executive Officer Paul Power at a ceremony to mark the occasion. He said it was up to the local community to get involved and share ideas on what Kiama could do to continue the momentum of the signing. With that in mind, Councillor Kathy Rice, who proposed the idea to Council, is keen to gather
together people who are interested what they can do to help. “There are lots of way we practical ways can show our support to refugees,” she says. “A number of groups are already doing some great things, both here and in Wollongong, where a substantial number of refugees are living, and we want to see how we can contribute.” Even simple things, like inviting a refugee into the home of a ‘typical’ Australian will help them fit into our society. A meeting will be held in November to canvass options. Please email kathyr@kiama.nsw.gov.au to register your interest. 6
The massed ukulele band at the Blue Haven Fete was a joyous thing.
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Across 1. A journey of uncertain result (9) 4. Stay in bed longer than planned (4, 5) 9. Ziggy stardust (5, 5) 10. To casually comment (6) 13. Kiama’s first Academy Award winner; Orry _____ (5) 14. Germany (11) 18. The Black Death (6) 20. Guardian to the pyramids (6) 23. Fairy tale (4) 24. Naboo the _____; something puzzling (6) 25. Australian poet; Henry ______ (6) 27. Open spaces of a net (4) 28. Chief Greek god (4) 29. A gang (4) 30. Mythical horned horse (7) 33. Flowed in a circular current (6) 34. A chat (12) 36. African republic on the Red Sea (5) 37. Hock a loogie (4) 38. Burial ground (8) Down 1. Mountain system in South America (5) 2. Capital of Scotland (9) 3. Cylinder (4) 5. Porch (8) 6. Male sheep (4) 7. Old fashioned bicycle (5, 8) 8. River mouth (5) 10. To want or desire (4) 12. Colourful snake lolly (6, 6) 15. American desert (6, 6) 16. A stringed instrument classically played in country music; duelling ____ (5)
17. Structures propelled out of earth’s atmosphere (5, 7) 19. To issue printed copies (7) 20. Light rainfall (6) 21. Stubborn (3, 6) 22. First woman in Parliament in Australia; on the $50 note (5) 26. Citrus soft drink (8) 31. Tied up ropes (4) 32. Roy Orbison song: “____ the lonely” (4) 34. Unit of volume in cooking (3) 35. Cereal grass (3)
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Next year’s 166th Kiama Show will be held on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 January. Show Society organisers are already working hard behind the scenes to ensure its success. A sign of their professionalism is that last year’s Show won the gold for an event or festival at the South Coast Tourism Awards. Secretary Sue GrangerHolcombe is preparing the Schedule for publication, and as always new sponsors are being sought. Sponsorship is available at various levels, from donating a prize for a particular class in a section (eg. your favourite cake or hobby) to advertising in the Schedule or on the grounds. In addition, nominations are now open for the Kiama Showgirl. The aim is to find a young woman to be Kiama’s ambassador at the our Show and representative at the Agricultural Societies Council Zone Final.
Kiama Show Society held its first Kiama Showgirl Competition in 1963 and has continued to support this tradition ever since. It is not a pageant, but an opportunity for young women to build confidence, gain skills essential for their future, meet people from all ages and backgrounds, make new friends, as well as be involved in and learn more about their community. Entrants do not have to come from an agricultural background or have any prior experience with the show. All Kiama Showgirl entrants are formally introduced at the renowned Kiama Show Ball, to be held Saturday 10 January, 2015. New Show Society members are always welcome. Details: Go to www.kiamashow.com.au to find sponsorship, nomination and membership forms.
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After 2 months travelling in the outback with our family of four we hit the Queensland coast in July. This was our first glimpse of the Pacific Ocean for two months. After a night at Mission Beach we decided to hire a small motor boat to tour Dunk Island and other islands "just a few kilometres" offshore.
firmed that, yes, there was a PLB on board. Not a Personal Locator Beacon. Instead a couple of Partially Leaking Buckets, which had evidently survived Cyclone Yasi, though with significant damage. At the first island, we found a great spot in the lee of an island. It was a bit hard to get the anchor to stay in the broken up coral on the beach. Dean and the kids explored the island while I kindly volunteered to sit and hold the anchor with my feet. We headed over to In Dean's defence, By the time we bought another island for some he did ask to rent a cata- some supplies and head- fishing. It was a bit diffimaran but both of them ed out towards the cult because some imporwere out of service since islands from Mission tant pieces were missing their sails were destroy- Beach a strong onshore from the reel thing. ed by Cyclone Yasi in wind had blown up. We They must have shaken 2011. had to bash through a off somewhere in the "Not to worry, my lot of waves to get out desert while the rod was friend Phil in Gerringong to the first island. There on the roof racks. We has instructed me in the was a lot of water slosh- didn’t catch anything, safe use of outboard mo- ing around in the back of so became reliant on our tors", he thought quietly the boat. A quick check rations (four cans of coke to himself. of the stowed gear conand a large packet of salt
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and vinegar chips). By the time we headed back for the mainland the sun was well and truly setting. The wind had picked up considerably so we had to ride the wind swell. Luckily, Dean had been listening carefully to the accounts of amazing small vessel seamanship in the Endurance audiobook so he knew exactly what to do. Mostly this consisted of getting women and children up the front and to windward in order to "correctly trim the vessel" while, coincidentally, providing the skipper with a great barrier to both wind and spray. The boat rental guy was carefully watching our return using high powered binoculars. We made it back by dark. Wet. With a can of Coke to spare. Sandee Jackson, Gerringong
Watching the weather: become an expert online Whether you are stuck in your lounge room due to the wild weather or are keen to know the conditions likely for your next event or trip away, there are some great resources online for you to track the changing conditions. Here is our favourite: www.wunderground.com Just put in your location, and it will bring you up a report from the closest weather station (eg. Bombo Headland). The report features an amazing amount of information, including a ten day forecast, live radar imaging (watch that East Coast Low go out to sea), hour by hour predictions, webcams that have been loaded to the site, and details of wind speed, atmospheric pressure, and (of course) temperature and rain information. If you have any useful websites you’d like to share with Bugle readers, just let us know.