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COVID-19 Latest Virus testing list expands
● Dr Lachlan Fraser ■ Those people who should be tested for coronavirus has expanded. Testing for suspected coronavirus is now for any age who have respiratory illness or fever (>38 degrees), ■ OR who have had contact with a person with coronavirus and have general aches or gastrointestinal symptoms, ■ OR have no symptoms and are within a localised outbreak. Most of our cases have come from overseas travellers, including cruise ships, with only a small number found in the community with no risk factors. Expanded swabbing is to identify and control spread from within the community. It is particularly important to have a diagnosis if there are people in the household who are still attending work, or if there are multiple people in the house. Self-isolation by staying at home, away from fellow householders, is required for 1014 days, depending on symptom duration. Health workers need two negative swabs to return to work. We are aiming for zero or negligible community spread before the restrictions can start to be relaxed. Victorians are doing very well, with the State of Emergency to be reassessed on May 11. That's only a few weeks away and if you keep busy each week passes quick enough. Everyone needs to do their bit, for we are like The Whos trying to save our world. Consult that great doctor, Dr. Seuss, who penned Horton Hears a Who. Dr. Lachlan Fraser, Marysville
Vale June Clements
■ The Yea community is sending its condolences to Graeme Clements and family on the passing of June after a long illness. The district has also recently lost Don McLeish, and Beryl Pincombe. Coronavirus restrictions mean that funeral services are limited to a maximm attendance of 10 people.
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0% rate move in Dindi ■ Murrindindi Council is proposing to not introduce a rate rise for the 2020-21 year. Shire Chief Executive Officer Craig Lloyd made the announcement at a special Council meeting held by videoconferencing last Wednesday afternoon (Apr. 15). Mr Lloyd said that he hoped that the zero rate rise would hopefully provide some quick relief for the community. The Council says it is also looking at what it can do to support the community in the coming financial year. Officers will propose that Council adopts a range of new measures to help the community while still maintaining, and in some cases enhancing, critical services, he said. “Most significantly, officers will propose that Council adopt a draft budget with a 0 per centproperty rate rise for the coming financial year - even though the Victorian Government has set the cap on rate increases at 2 per cent,” Mr Lloyd said.
Some increases
“If adopted by Council, the only variations residents will see on their rate bills will be due to: ■ changes in property valuations (as set by the Victorian State Government) as at January 1, ■ waste and recycling charges (based on cost recovery) including the landfill levy, and the Fire Services Property Levy. Both of these levies are set by the State Government. “In an effort to support business recovery, officers will also propose that Council agrees to remove the 25 per cent premium differential rate paid by commercial and industrial property owners for 2020-2`1,” said a Council statement. “Officers are also proposing that the draft budget include a substantial relief and recovery package, by drawing down on $500,000 remaining from the 2009 bushfire government assistance funds, provided by the State Government to Council to support its ongoing operations and which is currently held in reserve. “These funds will be made available for initiatives to support community and business recovery in our Shire during the 2020-21 financial year,” the statement said.
ANZAC Day services banned ■ Local ANZAC Day (Sat., Apr. 25) services have been prohibited. In Murrindindi, annual services would have normally been held in locations including Alexandra, Eildon, Flowerdale, Kinglake, Marysville, Strath Creek, Yarck and Yea. A large number of services would have also been held in neighbouring municipalities including Mansfield, Mitchell, Nillumbik, Strathbogie, Whittlesea and Yarra Ranges. Some people are planning to stand at their driveways at 6am, with musicians encouraged to play The Last Post. Radio stationABC Classic FM will broadcast The Last Post at this time. At 9pm on ANZAC Day, a toast will be offered in many homes to all the fallen.
● Craig Lloyd, Murrindindi Shire CEO
Shire CEO assumes emergency powers
■ Murrindindi Shire Chief Executive Officer Craig Lloyd became a one-person Council last Wednesday (Apr. 15). Mr Lloyd exercised the delegation powers given to him by Councillors during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. Council resolved at its March 25 meeting to amend the powers of the CEO. In the event that a quorum cannot be achieved, the CEO will exercise the delegation in accordance with the delegated powers. Last Wednesday’s special meeting of Council - conducted by videoconferencing saw Mr Lloyd single-handedly endorse the Council’s draft budget, its Strategic Resource Plan, and award a $179,687 contract to Wrights Earthmoving Pty Ltd for improvements works on King Parrot Creek Rd.
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Local Briefs Resilience thinking
■ The Goulburn Broken Catchm,ent Management Authority, in partnership with the Australian Resilience Centre, is hosting five free 45-minute webinars on resilience thinking during May and June for interested community members. Resilience is said to have become one of the most important capacities to build in communities, businesses, individuals and ecosystems alike. The sessions will be recorded. The groups still plan to hold face-to-face workshops in Alexandra, Broadford and Winton Wetlands when social distancing restrictions are lifted.
Festival online
■ Local artists in the City of Whittlesea have banded together to bring the cancelled Community Festival virtually to households across the municipality. The Community Festival was cancelled in March. Local artists have delivered performances and recordings filmed from their homes, rough and ready but full of creative energy to the community via Council’s YouTube channel. The line-up of local artists includes: ■ Welcome to the Festival by MC Diana Nguyen ■ Lockdown by Bonkel Theatre ■ Waternests by Brett Lee ■ Complimentary Caravan by Rose Turtle Ertler ■ Trouble by Heather Fiona ■ French songs by Amie Brûlée ■ The Dreaming Space (Magic, storytelling and music for kids) ■ Supper by the Snails by Carolyn Connors.
Family violence
■ Victoria Police is putting family violence perpetrators on notice as Police ramp up efforts to ensure the safety of victims during the Coronavirus pandemic. Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton yesterday (Tues.) announced the new police operation dedicated to reducing the anticipated increase of family violence incidents during this time and beyond. Operation Ribbon involves specialist detectives from the Family Violence Investigation Units across the state actively checking in on those who have been assessed as a high risk of being the victim of further family violence offending. It will also see Police from these units conducting compliance checks to ensure perpetrators understand their obligations. “We recognise this is a particularly highrisk time for family violence with stay at home directions adding another layer of challenges for some members of our community to reach out for support,” Deputy Commissioner Patton said. “This means people in our community may be particularly vulnerable during these times and need our help. “We are sending a strong and clear warning to perpetrators; closed doors will not protect you from being held to account. “Police will be knocking on doors of those known to us to ensure they are not committing harm. “Our police are trained to respond to these complex crimes and will not tolerate them in any form.” The operation, which commenced from mid-last week, has already seen police conduct 347 checks, including 106 compliance checks on high-risk perpetrators and speak to 241 affected family members across the state. During these visits, 44 family violence offences were detected including breaches of intervention order and assault. This has resulted in 13 people being charged and remanded for family violence related and other criminal offences. A further 11 people were also arrested and will appear in court at a later date. “There is never an excuse to abuse a family member.” Support is available 24 hours a day by calling 1800 015 188.
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Print workshops at H’ville ■ A printing workshop for community members is being organised for later this year by a group of First Nations artists, funded by Yarra Ranges Council’s Grants for Community. The United Mobs in Art, a collective of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in Healesville, received a grant this year from the Council to participate in fine art printing workshops. UMIA was formed with the goal of providing opportunities for inter-generational skill sharing and cultural capacity building. UMIA member and Bidjara woman, Nikki Browne, participated in the workshops with other UMIA artists, with the first held at the Australian Print Workshop in Fitzroy. UMIA artists, Aunty Kim Wandin, Nikki Browne, Jillian Duff, Merilyn Duff, Jamielee Edwards, Megan Prout and Jo Voce attended the Fitzroy workshop and created a considerable amount of artworks. For the second workshop, the APW team and their travelling etching press came to Candlebark Farm near Healesville, where a temporary print studio was set up and two more UMIA members – Kelvin Thomas and Jacqui Wandin – joined in. “The result for us as a collective was amazing,” Ms Browne said. “The workshops allow people of all levels of experience to create incredible works of art. “I’m looking forward to sharing the skills we learned with the community in the future, through workshops aimed at bringing people together in a safe, supported and nurturing environment for everyone.” Hearth Galleries curator and manager, Chris Joy, said the prints from these first workshops had generated huge interest from community members wishing to purchase locallymade artworks. She said that UMIA was now planning a textile printing course for the community. Ms Joy said an exhibition of fine art prints and textile printing would also be organised for later in the year, with both events timing to be determined by State and Federal Government COVID-19 restrictions.
News Paragraphs Online classes
■ Mitchell Shire residents can stay connected through online classes. The Leisure and Libraries teams are hosting free online sessions to keep community members fit, focused and having fun during the COVID-19 closures. Leisure classes include yoga, pilates, high-intensity interval training. Libraries will be livestreaming Storytime twice each week, at 10.30am on Mondays and Wednesdays. Details are available at www.mitchellshire.vic.gov.au
Air quality monitors ■ Yarra Ranges Council is welcoming the installation of air quality monitors in the Yarra Valley, following an advocacy campaign from local general practitioners. Councillors unanimously moved to write to Lily D’Ambrosio, Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, requesting air quality monitors for the Yarra Valley. Mayor, Cr Richard Higgins, said the letter followed a request from local GPs, asking for air quality monitors to better understand the health impacts of planned burns near Warburton and Healesville.
Vale Robbie Robb
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Settlement with Simon Overland ■ The City of Whittlesea has reached a confidential settlement with former Chief Executive Officer Simon Overland, it was announced on Monday (Apr. 18) Mr Overland had instituted legal proceedings challenging his dismissal by the former Council. Mr Overland’s contract was terminated on December 10 by the former Council. His five-year contract was due to expire in August 2022. Administrator Lydia Wilson said the settlement finalises all matters relating to the former CEO and provides the organisation with an opportunity to move forward. “In reaching this settlement with Mr Overland, we avoid a lengthy court process and further legal costs in relation to this matter,” Ms Wilson said. “I have reviewed a number of documents, including the Independent Monitor’s Report that examined governance and operations at the City of Whittlesea. “I believe this decision is in the best interest of the organisation and our community.” “The Monitor’s report very clearly outlined that Councillor behaviours had not been consistent with the Councillor Code of Conduct and caused significant harm to the Council’s administration and reputation, a City of Whittlesea statement said. “The Monitor found Council-
● Simon Overland lors have stopped acting in the best interests of the City of Whittlesea and recommended its immediate dismissal and replacement with Administrators,” Minister Adam Somyurek said. The Council was dismissed by State Parliament on Thursday, March 19. “The City of Whittlesea is now firmly focused on the community, delivering services and providing support that they expect and deserve,” Ms Wilson said “We wish Mr Overland well in his future endeavours, and I look forward to working closely with the community and staff to ensure that Whittlesea is a place for all.” The amountg of the payout to Mr Overland was not disclosed.
● H.R. ‘Robbie’ Robb ■ RobbIe Robb, aged 92, was a well known landholder at Rubicon near Thornton. His wife, Val, died during 2018. They had four children, Dale (dec), Diane, Kerry and Maree. Robbie had lived all his life on the Robb family property, which was acquired in the 1860s. He was a respected farmer, horseman, dairy farmer, cattle and sheep producer. Robbie Robb competed in sheep dog trials for many years and played polo cross locally near Alexandra and at other locations. During recent months Robbie had resided at Kellock Lodge in Alexandra but kept abreast with happenings on the Rubicon Lane property. His passing is mourned by many especially in the Thornton-Rubicon area.] - Peter Rice
Ancestry access ■ Yarra Plenty Regional Library isoffering a family and local history help facility www.yprl.vic.gov.au/local-history-form/ and can now provide temporary remote access to Ancestry Library Edition until April 30. Click on the link and sign in remotely to access this service and start exploring your family history.
Dental work ■ The Australian Dental Association says that more patients can get dental treatments done following the restrictions on dental practice being eased from Level 3 back to Level 2 restrictions. The amended restrictions are expected to take effect from next week. “It’s great news because it means dentists can open their doors again and attend to a broader range of patient needs and not just emergencies,” said ADA President Dr Carmelo Bonanno.
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We can cope with the social isolation brought on by the Coronavirus ... but more than anything we miss the local footy and netball. The Australian Greens are already eyeing the October Council elec tions. It wrote to supporters last week: “Our most powerful campaign tools are off-limits. Face-to-face conversations are a no-no. Door-knocking is off the table. Community forums are banned. Now, we need to approach our campaign in a completely new way.” The political party intends to do its campaigining “100 per cent online”. A good word for ... Gordon Simpson of Simpsons Fuels (pictured), who has sponsored the Thornton-Eildon District FootballNetball Club women’s footy jumpers for this year’s season, whenever it starts. “Sporting clubs are are a huge part of local communities and now more than ever need supporting in anyway you can,” Gordon says.
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A big tick to Sacred Heart Primary School, Yea, which distributed this message: ‘Dear Parents. Don’t stress about schoolwrok in September, I will get your children back on track. I am a teacher and that’s my superpower. What I can’t fix is social-emotional trauma that prevents the brain from learning. So right now, I just need you to share your calm, share your strength, and share your laughter with your children. No kids are ahead. No kids are behind. Your children are exactly where they need to be. With love - All the teachers on planet Earth
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Ticks to Yea’s anonymous card writer. who is spreading goodwill during COVID-19 with encouraging messages being secretly left under doors, far and wide. To date, 15 people have died from coronavirus in Victoria. The total number of coronavirus (COVID19) cases in Victoria as at Tuesday (Apr. 21) is 1336. The total number of cases is made up of 641 men and 695 women, with people aged from babies to their early nineties. In the North-East, the number of cases by local government area are: Banyule (82), Whittlesea (22), Nillumbik (21), Yarra Ranges (21), Mitchell (9), Mansfield (3), Strathbogie (2) and Murrindindi (1).
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ANZAC Day is not cancelled, says Senator Bridget McKenzie. “At its heart, ANZAC Day this year reminds us any hardships we endure as COVID-19 challenges our daily lives pale in insignificance compared to what those brave young Australian men faced more than a century ago on the beaches of Gallipoli, deserts of the Middle East and the muddied, bloodied fields of Europe. On ANZAC Day we honour the more than 100,000 Australians who lost their lives through war. The difficult decision to cancel this year’s traditional ANZAC Day services was made in the interests of public health and wellbeing of the community and while it may look different this year, ANZAC Day is not cancelled.
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Access to Alexandra District Health will be available via the main en trance. Perspex screening has been installed around the main reception desk and this will assist reception staff in maintaining distancing procedures when engaging with visitors and clients Temperature screening of all people entering the Health Service will continue. Once screened, they will be given a sticker that indicates the date and is initialed by the screening ADH staff member. This label is to be worn for the duration of visits to the Health Service.
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ANZAC Day compromise ■ ANZAC Day traditions are set to continue this year in a somewhat untraditional format. Community commemorative services are cancelled due to Coronavirus restrictions. The Returned Services League is still encouraging community members to remember the fallen and pay respects for their sacrifice from home this Saturday (Apr. 25). The observance can involve residents standing on their driveway, in theior front yard or on their balcony and observing a minute's silence as the Last Post is played during the Dawn Service. Murrindindi Shire Council's Mayor Cr Leigh Dunscombe said the location to remember fallen heroes is less important than the act of remembering them. “It's disappointing that we can't come together at our usual local dawn service, but it's important to take the time to remember the men and women who served our country,” Cr Dunscombe said. “I encourage everyone to get involved in the 'driveway dawn service'. “The ANZAC Day Dawn Service will still be livestreamed from the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne at 6am, where the small number of people who are necessary to conduct the service will gather to lay wreaths, play The Last Post and observe a minute's silence. “The public won't be able to attend but will be able to view the service online at RSL Victoria's Facebook page and listen to the service on ABC Radio and UGFM. “RSL Victoria is also encouraging everyone to take a snap of themselves participating in the 'driveway dawn ser-
Local Briefs Blood donations
■ Australian Red Cross Lifeblood is visiting Eltham this week. Blood can be donated at the Eltham Community and Reception Centre, 801 Main Rd, intil Friday (Apr. 24). Bookings can be made at www.donateblood. com.au or by calling 13 14 95.
Timber industry ■ “In light of the destruction caused by the effective shutdown of the economy responding to the current pandemic, it’s illogical and irresponsible to continue with killing off the native timber industry,” said Jeff Bourman, MLC for the Eastern Region (Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party). “We need all the jobs we can get and given timber is a renewable resource, it makes complete sense to not only give the industry a future, but to expand it and remove some of the unworkable restrictions,” Mr Bourman said.
At Spring Street ■ Local Legislative Asseembly politicians will make their way to State Parliament tomorrow (Thu., Apr. 23) for a special sitting starting at 9.30am. Legislative Council members will commence their sitting at 10am. The State Government plans to pass a massive “omnibus” bill covering housing support, judge-only criminal trials, virtual meetings for state and council politicians, WorkCover extensions and new regulatory powers over justice processes. ● A traditional ANZAC Day in Yea. Photo: Ash Long
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■ Indi MHR Dr Helen Haines says elected representatives must act in the public interest and respect the public’s trust in them. She has launched the Beechworth Principles guidelines which she believe sare necessary for an effective Federal Integrity Commission. A petition is being assembled.
■ Murrindindi radio station UGFM will be broadcasting at 6am this Saturday (Apr. 25) to pay its ANZAC trubutes. Tune in on the FM radio band: ■ 106.9FM Alexandra ■ 98.9FM Flowerdale ■ 98.5FM Marysville ■ 88.9FMYea ■ 94.5FM Kinglake Ranges. vice' and then share it on their the ANZACs alive. Facebook page with the “If you see your neighbor hashtag #STANDTO. up at dawn, make sure you give “It will be great to see them a friendly wave and check people in front of their homes in to see if they are OK - from paying their respects. a safe distance. “ANZAC Day is an impor“Now, more than ever, it's tant day for all Australians and important to stand together and we need to keep the spirit of look after one another.”
Shire’s immediate help ■ Murrindindi Council has introduced a package of new measures to help financially-challenged residents. Mayor Cr Leigh Dunscombe said it was critical that Council supported people at this time. The Council has: ■ delayed the due date for any outstanding rate payments for this year to June 30, ■ stopped interest from accumulating on unpaid rates since March 16, when the State of Emergency was announced, ■ removed the annual health premises registration fees for 2019-20 for businesses including accommodation, food/hospitality, hair and beauty salons and caravan parks - all fees paid for this period will be reimbursed, ■ extended the due date for payment of pet registrations from April 10 to June 30 ■ eased or removed rental payments by businesses and community/sporting groups leasing council properties, which have been the subject of mandatory closures due to the State Government's lock down provisions ■ changed the Business and Tourism Events Grants and Contributions Program, with all remaining funds in the program dedicated to supporting businesses to manage the impacts of the pandemic ■ expanded the Financial Hardship Policy to include businesses and community organisations as well as individuals experiencing difficulty making required payments to Council to enter into flexible payment arrangements ■ stopped passing on to customers the 0.75 per
Black Spur closes ■ Maroondah Highway closes daily throughout April from Monday to Thursday between 9.30am and 3pm along the ‘Black Spur’ between Healesville and Narbethong for the removal of 98 trees and the pruning of 28 other trees. Motorists coming from the Melbourne side should detour via the Melba Highway to Yea, the Goulburn Valley Highway to Alexandra and the Maroondah Hwy to Narbethong.
Alex. RSL sales
■ Alexandra RSLwill be unable to sell their badges and pens for ANZAC Day outside the Alexandra Newsagents this year. Supporters can purchase these badges and pens, as well as make donations inside the newsagency, allowing all proceeds to go to the RSL.
ANZAC Day radio ■ An ANZAC Day commemoration will take place at 10.55am on Yarra Valley FM 99.1. The broadcast will be streamed on www.yarravalleyfm.org.au
Yarra Glen wreaths ■ People are being encouraged to lay floral wreaths at the Yarra Glen monument at different times during ANZAC Day (saturday) to avoid congreagting. Phone Ed Bartosh, RSL Secretary, on 0438 508 235.
Parliament par ● Cr Leigh Dunscombe, Mayor cent fee charged by merchants for credit card payments made to Council “'We want everyone to know that we are all in this together. We know the bills keep coming in, regardless of whether you have a job or if your business income has now slowed or stopped altogether. “We hope we can lift the burden just a bit by giving you more time to pay some Council fees in coming months,” Cr Dunscombe said.
■ Wendy Lovell, MLC for Northern Victoria, has welcomed the announcement Parliament of Victoria will reconvene tomorrow, ensuring an opportunity for scrutiny of government as well as the chance to highlight important issues in her electorate. Local projects within Whittlesea area in need of State Government investment include the full diamond interchange at Watson St/Hume Freeway in Wallan, and the Whittlesea Police Station refurbishment, The business case for the Mernda Health & Wellbeing Hub.
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Time to register pools ■ The Victorian Government introduced new laws on December 1 requiring pools and spas to be registered with Councils. A new safety barrier compliance program was also introduced to ensure safety standards are being met. Murrindindi Shire Council Infrastructure Portfolio Councillor Eric Lording said although pool and spa safety is not foremost in people's minds during the COVID-19 pandemic, it's an important issue. “On average, four young children die in Victoria in home swimming pools or spas each year, and many more are taken to hospital for neardrownings,” Cr Lording said “With families spending more time at home, our aim is to avoid tragic accidents that can happen when safety barriers are non-compliant. “There are three types of barrier compliance certification. “The year your pool was built determines which barrier compliance certification applies to your property. “If you don't know when your pool was built, Council can help,” Cr Lording said.
Long memory ■ This is in no way expressed as a threat, but simply as a statement of fact. There were many in all tiers of authority who could have helped local media operators and em-
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ployees better survive their way through the devastating economic crisis brought by the Coronavirus pandemic. Many media outlets will never reopen. We will! A few could help and did. Many could help and did not. We are only human. We expect we will long remember both types of behaviour. We are here for the very long haul. More than 50 years so far. We haven't come this far, only to come this far. We will return stronger than ever after this inconvenient hiatus. We will always act fairly in our public interest journalism. But some officials should not be surprised if they are increasingly exposed in the next chapters to an unrelenting media blowtorch. Those officials are right now writing the very prescription on how their own behaviours will be reported, without fear or favour, for the remainder of their careers. One of the Observer proprietors (1971-77), Maxwell Newton, said: "There are only two types of journalism - dull journalism and exciting journalism. The true journalism is exciting and decidely unobjective. True journalism, in my view, is devoted entirely to the revelation of facts which someone does not want revealed. “That is the high point of journalism; it is the real meaning of being a journalist; it is also exciting and is interesting to read."
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Editor Ash Long first started newspaper work in 1969. He began writing for local newspapers in 1973. Over those 47 years he has kept extensive diaries and local photo files.
From Our Files - 30 Years Ago Wednesday, May 2, 1990
‘TV star in Yea’
■ Neighbours TV star Jessica Muschamp was at Flowerdale to launch a major river conservation scheme. Jessica played Sharon Davies in the popular ‘soapie’. Her visit was to the Spring Valley site.
Jim Elvey wins ■ Former Yea Shire Secretary Jim Elvey enjoyed a win at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal against a decision taken by Yea Council about his planned subdivision at his Hill St property. The Council had wanted a $500 contribution per lot on the subdivision plan. Mr Elvey was required to provide kerb and channelling along his property before he subdivided.
ANZAC service ■ Yea RSL President Col Egan officiated at the Soldiers’ Monument for the 1990 ANZAC Day service. This followed a short service at the Yea and District Memorial; Hospital. Amongst those to attend the service were local World War I veterans Arthur Bett and Harry Creed. “We owe our nationhood to the ANZACs, to their sons, and to their grandsons who are serving today,” Mr Egan said.
First Lieutenant ■ “The first woman to hold a Lieutenant’s position in the Yea Rural Fire Brigade - and possibly the Country Fire Authority - was elected. Anna Davis was voted lieutenant for the Ghin Ghin area at the biennial meeting.
Ivy Alma Clements ■ The passing of Ivy Alma Clements (nee Garlick)saw widespread sympathy amongst Yea district poeople following her death. Both Yea Anglican and Catholic clerics, Rev. Dr Ross Gilham and Fr Terry Pidoto, said they had the privilege of taking Holy Communion to Mrs Clements before she died. She raised four children: Lloyd, Graeme, Raelene and Lorraine.
Mary ‘Rene’ Oliver
■ Homewood and Yea farming fsmilies were pominent amongst the mourners at Sacred Haert Catholic Church, Yea, for the funeral service of Irene Mary ‘Rene’ Oliver (nee Slavin). She had been married to Walter Charles Oliver, who died in 1982. Pall bearers were sons Kerry and Goeff, son-in-law Paul Stockdale and Dennis Slavin.
Yea PS vandals
Online
■ Spray paint vandalism at Yea Primary School was being investigated by Police. Words plus picture of a syringe were daubed on toilet and other walls. Principal Geoff Noblett cleaned away the vandalism after Police inspected the graffiti.
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■ Glenburn resort developer John Main said his $3 million investment was at risk because of a Yea Council decision. He said the Shire’s approval of a second pistol range would threaten important sal;e to Japan of local fish.
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■ There were rumours of a writ being served on two local papers (not us). “We are told, on one case, the writ nmay have been avoided if the Editor had returned a couple of telephone calls,” we reported.
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Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens ARIES: (March 21-April 20) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 3-1-9-6 Lotto Numbers: 6-15-17-25-33-42 A lover might not quite measure up to your expectations; best to look for a more suitable partner. At work there may be a bit of a hiccup. Stay calm and do not lose your temper. TAURUS: (April 21- May 20) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 2-1-9-6 Lotto Numbers: 1-10-16-17-27-44 Some could sneak away with their partner or lover for a quiet weekend. Do not be surprised if this is going to change a few things around you. Domestic situations are looking quite good. Take care of your health. GEMINI: (May 21- June 21) Lucky Colour: Brown Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 6-8-3-4 Lotto Numbers: 3-12-13-27-33-42 Do not quarrel with loved ones; you'll only get upset and won't achieve anything. Although making up could be quite enjoyable. Travel plans may not pan out the way you had imagined. CANCER: (June 22- July 22) Lucky Colour: Orange Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 3-6-9-1 Lotto Numbers: 10-11-17-26-34-45 Stay away from people who like to argue. You are in need of a nice peaceful and romantic session. It might be an idea to go away for either a dirty weekend or a romantic one. Energy wise you are quite up to it. Even finance wise it will be affordable. LEO: (July 23-August 22) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 4-7-9-2 Lotto Numbers: 7-15-19-36-42-44 Loved ones may be in need of your help and advice. Something rather important has come up and you are elected the problem solver. Your health needs looking after and so does the financial purse strings. VIRGO: (August 23- September 23) Lucky Colour: Red Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 6-9-6-8 Lotto Numbers: 7-8-19-27-35-43 Don't make promises to anybody, especially not to the little piece on the side you just met! A tendency to spend more than is coming in is indicated, so watch your step. LIBRA: (September 24- October 23) Lucky Colour: Yellow Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 7-5-4-2 Lotto Numbers: 23-28-45-33-10-6 Very good period for entertainment at home and for meeting people with the same ideas as yourself. It will soon be a very busy time in your career, so enjoy life while you can. SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22) Lucky Colour: Red Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 7-5-3-1 Lotto Numbers: 1-9-26-29-45-22 Some changes coming up, owing to information coming from overseas. You might have to talk things over with a loved one before doing anything more. Rest could be something you have not had enough of for some time. SAGITTARIUS: (November 23- December20) Lucky Colour: Gold Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 6-7-3-4 Lotto Numbers: 19-17-3-4-25-33 Love life improvements and support from people you can trust. You could be in two minds about something; decisions are about to be sought. Guard against useless spending, or bargains that are not what they seem. . CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19) Lucky Colour: Orange Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 7-5-4-2 Lotto Numbers: 19-23-26-33-31-10 Great improvement in your personal image; people are taking notice of you. Someone you least expect could help you. Let important matters rest a while and you will know what to do with them. AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19) Lucky Colour: Mauve Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 8-6-4-3 Lotto Numbers: 1-21-15-6-23-32 A small trip or plans for something more extensive coming up soon. Do not let people's criticisms put you down. As long as you do what is right you are on the winning side. PISCES: (February 20- March 20) Lucky Colour: Tan Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 6-7-4-5 Lotto Numbers: 6-15-24-34-37-40 Your personal magnetism could be at its highest at the moment. People are willing to agree with you all the way. Social life should be busy and happy and someone new could come into your life very soon. KERRY K ULKENS PSYCHIC LINE 1800 727 727 CALL COST: $5.50 INC G.S.T. PER MIN. MOB/P AY EXTR A. VISIT KERR Y KULKENS MAGIC SHOP AT 1693 BURWOOD HWY BELG RAV E PH/FAX 9754 458 7 W W W.KERRY KULKENS. COM.A U
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No job lay-offs at Dindi ■ Murrindindi Shire Council has not stood down any staff members as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was revealed after a question to the Council from The Local Paper. “Council is adapting to challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic presents and to how we deliver services to our community,” said a statement from the Shire offices. “Our staff are essential to the delivery of those services. “Our decision to retain current staffing levels at this time is being backed strongly by the Victorian Government, which has written to councils urging them to continue to provide critical services to their communities and to do their bit to “We believe this is particupreserve jobs during this diffi- larly important for a rural shire cult time. council where the vast major-
ity of staff also live within the Shire. “As one of the largest employers in the Shire, a decision now to shed jobs would have long-term implications for our community. “We also hope to collaborate with the Victorian Government to help deliver on its 'Working forVictoria' initiative to help find new roles for those who are unemployed, including those who have lost jobs in the current pandemic. “We have made application to the State Government under this scheme and are awaiting a response. “In the meantime, we'd encourage those who are interested to register as soon as possible on the website, vic.gov.au/ workingforvictoria, the statement said.
‘Committed to 2020’ ■ AFL Outer East, thesenior League, has advised that it is committed to a return in 2020. This is a position strongly shared by the League's clubs as per data received in a recent League survey, the long-term sustainability of all clubs remains a priority and any return will only occur if feasible for the majority of clubs. The AFL Outer East Commission is meeting on Tuesday (Apor. 28) where a detailed return plan will be finalised and presented to clubs for feedback by May 1. Final announcements on season 2020 are expected following the State Government's decision on May 11 on current Level 3 social isolation restrictions. There is a strong desire from clubs andAFL Outer East to return to playing football and netball this year with the well-being and social benefits to players, supporters and club members the key reason provided by clubs in returning, a sentiment shared by the league. The clubs and Commission share the view that a return can only return if it is both financially and safe to do so as 75 per cent of senior clubs indicated in the survey that they wish to return in 2020, 21 per centunsure, depending on costs. Some 96 per cent of clubs indicated they wish to return if costs are reduced. Clubs were unanimous in providing a preseason period and utilising a round robin format for practice games should there be a return. Should current AFLVictoria restrictions be removed on May 31, as is currently is planned, a return of late June, early July is likely. Model A - playing everyone once in the current Division structure is one option for consideration with Model B - four conferences of between six-eight teams, Division 2 to remain at eight, with Premier and Division 1 split into 3 divisions. There will also be considerations for player points and salary cap. The majority of clubs indicated that Reserves and underage competitions remained important and they would be entering sides in these competitions. Women's and Veterans competitions would be facilitated under either model listed above. The League's preferred return structure will be provided for clubs' consideration and feedback. The League put out a proposal to facilitate a summer netball competition which received a positive response from clubs and a model for this will be presented to clubs for consideration and feedback. The AFL Outer East Junior Clubs have voted unanimously for a move to odd age groups in 2021 to allow players to have an additional season in their top age group, particularly if no season/shortened season occurs in 2020 and the move to 17's/19's under these circumstances is supported by AFL Outer East. At this time, there is information from AFL Outer East in regards to the senior and junior
● Ray Steyger, President of the Alexandra Football-Netball Club competitions but the Alexandra FootballNetball Club hasnot received any correspondence from AFL Goulburn Murray or the Seymour District Junior Football Netball League re the junior competition. Pending these ongoing discussions re League restart and how that will look, the Club remains in lockdown but in order to assist the community, the club is offering to supply firewood for the coming winter. As per previous years, for the cost of $100 per load, the club will supply a generous metre quantity of split firewood being messmate or mountain ash. Delivery can be organised within the Alexandra district. If you are interested, please ring Ray Steygeron 5772 2627 to place an order. Payments can be made by cash upon delivery or by EFT to the Club's bank account. The Club's aluminium can recycling program is continuing so if you have any aluminium cans, please drop them in to the red lid bins located at the umpires' rooms at the football clubrooms. If you have a larger quantity of aluminium cans at home or work to be collected, please ring Ray Steyger on 5772 2627 and collection can be organised.
Carlyon prize
■ The Australian War Memorial will continue the legacy of eminent historian, author and journalist Les Carlyon by establishing a new literary prize in his honour. The Les Carlyon Literary Prize will encourage and support emerging writers.
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Plans pays off
■ Murrindindi Shire Council says that for many years it has taken a conservative approach to its long term financial planning and this is now paying off. Before the pandemic, we had planned to deliver a balanced budget for 2020-21. “The measures we are now proposing will change this, and will result in a slight budget deficit next financial year,” said Shire Chief Executive Officer Craig Lloyd. “We believe this is justifiable under the circumstances. Importantly, we will still be able to implement next year the full range of new initiatives we had planned to deliver before the pandemic began, to continue to support local suppliers, contractors and the local community to ensure the continued economic prosperity of our Shire. “You can read about these at m u r r i n d i n d i . v i c . g o v. a u / b u d g e t recommendations “We hope that the measures we have put in place now, and those we are proposing Council adopt in its 2020-21 draft budget, help our community weather the current crisis,” said Mr Lloyd. “If the draft 2020-21 Budget is adopted Council will then seek community comment before the draft budget comes back to Council for formal adoption in June. “Pending successful passage of legislation through the Victorian Parliament to allow council meetings to be held online (to enable us to observe COVID-19 restrictions when we meet) a Special Meeting of Council will be held on May 6. “At that Meeting, Council will consider giving formal public notice of the draft Budget 2020-21 and to commence a public submission process in accordance with Sections 129 and 223 of the Local Government Act, said Mr Lloyd. “I'd like to add one cautionary note here if you are still employed or earning income, I'd urge you to continue paying your bills including your rates. “The measures we are now taking don't eliminate the need to pay, but are designed to help those who are doing it tough right now. Please don't let debt accumulate if you have the ability to pay. “If you are experiencing real financial difficulty in paying Council fees and charges, now or in coming months, please don't stay silent. Give us a call and we will work with you to put arrangements in place to help you,” Mr Lloyd said.
Dindi Link opens
■ Not everyone is lucky enough to have the support of family, friends and neighbours to help out at the moment. That's why Murrindindi Council launched 'DindiLink'. Murrindindi Shire Council Mayor Cr Leigh Dunscombe said 'DindiLink' is a fantastic new support service aimed at helping people over the age of 65, and others who are in higher-risk categories for COVID-19. “Higher-risk categories include people who have serious health issues, people with lowered immune systems or other issues that make them vulnerable. “The advice from the Chief Health Officer is that these people should be staying home as much as possible, as they are at greater risk of more serious illness if they are infected with Coronavirus. “The 'DindiLink' service aims to support people in our community who need help and might not have friends, family or neighbours who can help them. “We encourage anyone who is at higher risk for COVID-19 to stay home as much as possible and Council is more than happy to help out where we can or link people to other services to make sure that can happen. “If you think you are eligible, please give us a call on 5772 0333. We can help to provide you with the support you need, including getting the essentials to you.” - Contributed
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Local News Fruit fly in Yea
■ The Upper Goulburn Landcare Network has a confirmed case of Queensland Fruit Fly in Yea, according to Cat Thomas, Facilitator. The sample was sent away for verification and confirmation was received late last week. “The key to containing the impacts of Queensland Fruit Fly in our region is good garden hygiene,” Cat says. ■ Make sure you pick or clean up all fallen or unwanted fruit from your trees. At this time of year, fruit flies will be headed for the deliciously aromatic quinces or any pears and apples still fruiting. Please hang your active traps close to these trees to increase the chance of finding any further specimens. ■ Look for damage in your fruit, fruit flies often leave pin prick markings on the skin of the fruit when they lay their eggs. The maggots that hatch out then make their way to the centre of the fruit. Infested fruit will fall to the ground prematurely. If you suspect your fruit may have been infested, strip the tree and please double bag all the fruit, leave in the sun for at least seven days then place the bag into the rubbish. Please do not compost suspected infected fruit. ■ Pruning. If you can’t reach the fruit to pick it, then it is a place for fruit fly to hide and thrive. Keep trees to a manageable size and net trees if possible. ■ Net trees with insect netting after flowering to allow pollination. ■ Remove any unwanted fruit trees. ■ Check your traps, replace your bait as per label instructions (commonly every three months), talk to your neighbours and fellow gardeners about Queensland Fruit Fly ■ Agriculture Victoria has a website with information for gardeners and a brochure you can download. http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/ Cat Thomas asks that people make contact if theyu have any questions or if there is a suspected fruit fly in their trap. “We still have traps and baits available and we will send out a reminder in Spring for you to come in a pick up a fresh bait (restrictions willing).”
Phone problems
■ Murrindindi Shire Council has been experiencing phone problems this week. “If you are unable to contact us on 5772 0333, you can send us a customer request via our website at www.murrindindi. vic.gov.au/request, email us at customer@murrindindi.vic.gov.au or send us a message on Facebook,” said Council.
1.9% rate rise
■ Strathbogie Shire Council is examining the possibility of a rate rise of 1.9 per cent for the 2020-21 financial year.
War artists
■ With the Victorian Artists Society closed due the COVID-19 health requirements, a special series of online newsletters have been created to celebrate the outstanding contribution of members, past and present, artists and events. Anew Newsletter focuses on ANZAC Day and the role that Victorian Artists Society artists played during both World Wars including Will Dyson, Australia's first war artist, and William Dargie, the winner of the 1942 Archibald Prize, who are both featured in the YouTube video interview with art historian Andrew Mackenzie. William Dargie was at the war front digging a trench and asked a passing group of soldiers who had won the Archibald Prize: 'some bloke called Dargie was the reply'. Sir Wiliam Dargie's history is available at https://www.artistsfootsteps.com/
Missing teenager
■ Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing teenager Mike Hailu. The 15-year-old was last seen about 4pm in Main Rd, Eltham on March 17. Mike is described as African in appearance, 170cm tall, thin, with brown curly hair, brown eyes.
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$1000 grants for 8 houses ■ Murrindindi Shire Council says that it recognises the important work that our Community and Neighbourhood Houses and Hubs are doing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Deputy Mayor Cr Margaret Rae says Council knows these organisations will experience additional demand for the services they provide to the community, including emergency relief and material aid. “We also recognise that this will place an additional drain on their limited resources at a time when they are also experiencing less income,” Cr Rae said. “So, to support them during this difficult time, Council is providing an allocation of $1000 each to eight different organisations. “This funding comes from Council's 'Quick Response Grants' with the aim of assisting these groups in alleviating some of the demand pressures being experienced. “We want our Community Houses and Neighbourhood Houses to be able to continue to provide direct support to our community. “We hope this additional funding helps and we look forward to working with these groups and discussing how they can best make use of it. “Organisations which will receive the grant funding are the Yea Community House,
● Cr Margaret Rae Alexandra Community Hub, Embassy of Ideas, Flowerdale Community House, Kinglake Ranges Neighbourhood House, Community Hub at Taggerty, Toolangi Castella Community House and Kinglake West Food Share,” Cr Rae said.
● Cr Jackie Ashe and we encourage you to submit your feedback. “Despite challenges we are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Council is keen to progress the Eildon Reserve Precinct redevelopment project. “It is expected that the
revitalisation of this space will, when the time is right, attract visitors to spend more time in the township, which contributes to economic benefits for the entire region. “We had planned to host a number of face-to-face community consultation sessions to advance this project. “But given the current COVID-19 restrictions, we are providing updates and seeking feedback via other channels. These include ■ thewebsite see murrindindi.vic.gov.au/ eildonreserve ■ via phone (call Council on 5772 0333 or Michael Smith andAssociates on 9830 0414 or 0418 172 826 ■ via email updates (just drop a line to customer@ murrindindi.vic.gov.au if you'd like to subscribe) ■ via Council's Facebook page “Next steps from here involve finalising the Master plan, based on input from the community, and then Council will begin the process of seeking funding to begin the project construction,” CrAshe said.
Virus: pets are safe ■ You cannot catch COVID-19 from your pets, according to advice from the Royal Society for Prevention to Cruelty to Animals. “Despite some headlines, there is currently no evidence showing that COVID-19 can be transmitted from domestic animals to you,” says an RSPCA spokesman. “Additionally, there is no evidence that horses or farm animals are involved in the spread of this virus.” Caring for your pet is an essential service in Victoria. Clause 6 of the Stay At Home Direction outlines pet stores and veterinary clinics as necessary services. People have a moral and legal obligation to care for their animals during this time, and can find solace that they will not be penalised for leaving their homes for this purpose.
Lieut. McLeish
■ Lieut.Colonel McLeish, who died at Brighton on Saturday last at the age of 69 years,was a member of an old pioneer family of the Yea district. He saw active service in the South African war and enlisted in the late World's War, taking service in the Remount Unit, for which he was decorated C.B.E. Many old friends, particularly old neighbors in the district named, will mourn the death of Duncan McLeish who was one of Nature's true gentlemen, and was one whom the writer held in the highest esteem.
Yea Athletic Sports
Plans for Eildon precinct ■ Murrindindi Shire Council, together with the Eildon community, is progressing plans for the redevelopment of the Eildon Reserve Precinct. Eildon Ward Councillor Jackie Ashe said Council is excited to present detailed concept plans to the Eildon community. “After the initial community consultation sessions that were held in late 2019, we collated all of your valuable feedback and we used this to help guide the project. “Since that time, we appointed Michael Smith and Associates, a company which specialises in landscape architecture and urban design, to develop a detailed master plan for the popular recreation space. “It was important to us to make sure the plan includes many of the great ideas that were suggested by community members, such as improving the playground and retaining grassed spaces for events and functions. “The detailed plans are currently available for the public to view on Council's website
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ADVICE FROM RSPCA “If you live alone, your pet isn’t protected from the effects of coronavirus. “What would you do with your pet if you got coronavirus and had to go to hospital? “It’s worthwhile to include your pet in an emergency plan if you fell sick.” RSPCA Vic Chief Veterinarian Dr Emma bronts says "Keep at least a two-week supply of pet food and medication with you to provide to the trusted caregiver. “They will also need clear instructions about dosages and how to administer your pet's medications. “Ensure your pet's microchip details are up to date and if your pet's booster vaccination is required at this time, talk to your vet to work out a plan," Dr Bronts said.
■ After a lapse of nearly six years sports under the auspices of the Yea Athletic Club were revived in the Recreation reserve on Wednesday of last week, and the club has every reason to be satisfied with the result that a sports meetinog under the same auspices was held on 27th May, 1914 when the programme consisted of 15 events and the prize money £46 10s.
Influenza bout
■ With the advent of the second wave of the influenza epidemic, the Victorian Government has renewed the efforts which proved so successful in mitigating the effects of the first visitation. Guided by experience gained earlier in the year, the authorities have provided a special organization to take charge of the various activities connected with checking the outbreak. At the head is Mr. John McWhae, M.L.C., who, in the absence of Mr. Bowser through ill health, is acting as Minister for Public Health. He has called to his assistance a number of experts who have each been given a certain section of the organization to control. By this scheme the Government hopes to secure a general staff which will effectively cope with all the difficulties that arise during the. present or future outbreaks. The personnel of the Emergency Organization is as follows:- Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Robertson; Hon. Advisers, General Williams and Mr. E. G. Dyason; Secretary, Mr. D. Barry; Medical Controller, Dr. W.S. Newton; Controller of Equipment and Supplies, Mr. J. Love; Controller of Publicity, Mr. A. S. Whyte; Controller of Transport, Dr. R. E. Weigall; Controller of Nursing, Miss L. Jones; Supervisor of Voluntary and Municipal Aid, Cr. M. Balfe; Controller of Finance, Cr. E. Ward.
Wallan East
■ The returned soldiers of the district tendered a complimentary social and dance to the residents.of the district in Johnston's hall, on. Friday evening.. Despite the very wet weather the attend ance was good and, a very enjoyable nightwas spent. The music, was supplied by the. Melbourne Returned Soldiers' Band. The recent showers have been. much appreciated by farmers.and graziers and the earty sown crops are well above the surface, and the grass is. giving a tinge of green to the landscape. The ground is in an. ideal condition for cultivations purposes; and farmers are. pushing one with tilling operations.
Kilmore Court
■ Before Mr Chas. Hamilton, J.P., William Cullen, a visitor, arrested on the 10th by Constable Byrne was charged that on 9th.April he did wilfully break and enter a shop and commit a felony therein, the property of Ernest Jones Tew. Remanded to April 15.
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■ Amongst the names of the successful candidates at the recent University examinations I am pleased to see that of Master John Laffan, eldest son of Mr John Laffan, "Inverlochy," Wallan Wallan, having passed Intermediate in English, French, history, civics, geography, arithmetic and algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
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What’s On The Song Club
Published statewide weekly in the Melbourne Observer and all editions of The Local Paper. Phone: 1800 231 311. Email: editor@MelbourneObserver.com.au ● Kathryn Selby and Friends ■ Selby and Friends, now in its 14th season of presenting chamber music concerts around Australia, announces a dual online initiative through their new portal https:// www.youtube.com/user/SelbyandFriends1/ videos Presented through the Selby and Friends YouTube Channel, this recorded and filmed chamber music initiative offers an alternative to concerts cancelled due to venue closings and social distancing directives during the COVID-19 crisis. Originally scheduled for early May, the Let’s Get Personal tour was filmed and recorded for ticketed patrons to access via the YouTube Channel, from May 2 -10. Colleagues, concertmaster Andrew Haveron and principal cellist Umberto Clerici, joined Artistic Director/pianist Kathryn Selby for a ‘live’ studio concert which was professionally filmed in Sydney. Featuring piano trios by Mozart and Beethoven plus Dvorák’s Dumky Trio, this presentation will also include discussions between Selby and her guests, echoing Selby and Friends’ hallmark of the artists speaking from the concert stage. Speaking of her motivation to create this initiative, Artistic Director Kathryn Selby says: "The current global crisis has forced all of us into our homes and the need for connection with friends and family is even more important. “Reaching out through music has always been one of the important facets of our ability to connect, give comfort and solace and uplift the soul. “The ability to bring Selby and Friends concerts to people in the safety of their homes is a goal worth striving for and I am grateful to our subscribers for supporting this initiative so wholeheartedly and to my colleagues and friends in the industry for wanting to be a part of this new initiative". Selby and Friends at Home has also launched a free secondary arm to this initiative with a special selection of live audio recordings drawn from Selby and Friends’ vast concert archive spanning the past 14 seasons With American composer Paul Schoenfield’s jazzy Café Music and Schubert’s Sonatensatz already available, the Franck Violin Sonata is set to go online in the next few days with new recordings from their archive available for all music-lovers free of charge each week. For more details visit the Selby and Friends' YouTube channel or see further details of activities at the website www.selbyandfriends.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
Casey Art Gallery HowAre You Staying Creative While Social Distancing? City of Casey Arts isa curating a collection of stories, artworks and images for the Arts in Casey digital publication, on the theme of Creative Confined. Doi9g or seeing something creative gives us an instant boost of positivity. Casey Arts encourages you to create an artwork of any kind, and stick it facing outwards on your front window or place it on your windowsill, to share creativity and spread positivity throughout this period pf Creative Confinement. Send Casey Arts a photo of something you've spotted, your window art or any other creative projects of artworks you have been working on during isolation. Send submissions to arts@casey.vic.gov. au by Sunday May 3 to be included in the digital publication. City of CaseyArt Gallery, Bunjil Place 2 Patrick North East Dve, Narre Warren - Peter Kemp
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2020
WELSH MALE CHOIR
● The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir. ■ Like many performing groups, the “Microphones have to be muted except for Melbourne Welsh Male Choir has embraced the piano accompaniment so we can’t hear other new technology to take its song to the world dur- choir members. But we still enjoy it – we love ing the pandemic. coming together. It’s such a bonus in these diffiTheir song for the times, He Ain’t Heavy, He’s cult times,” Field said. My Brother, has just been launched on Facebook The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir was and YouTube and has already attracted thou- founded in 1984 and has performed all over the sands of hits. world, from Wales and London to Salzburg, Choir members linked in from home to David Vienna, Atlanta Georgia and Johannesburg. Ashton-Smith directing and Simon Walters on It was accorded standing ovations at the 2017 piano on Zoom and each recorded themselves Cornwall International Male Voice Choir Feson an iPhone or iPad. tival. The 35 different performances included Here in Australia, it has starred at events as those by long-time collaborators Mike Brady disparate as the Melbourne Commonwealth and Roy Best. Games, the AFL and the 150th Anniversary of “It’s a first for the Melbourne Welsh Male the Eureka rebellion. Choir,” said President David Field. “But whether it’s at the Royal Albert Hall, “The choir exists to sing and we wanted to Hamer Hall, Sydney Opera House or the take a song of hope and heart to the world in Melbourne Recital Centre, what defines the these terrible times. Melbourne Welsh Male Choir is the richness “It is also a way of asking people to support and harmonies of the combined voices. The the Melbourne Recital Centre's Performer Sup- choir embodies the great strength of the Welsh port Fund. choral tradition,” Field said. “Most performers are out of work and most To see Melbourne Welsh Male Choir perdon’t qualify for the new government job seeker form He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, visit: benefits,” he said. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ “It’s also true to say that the choir wanted to MelbourneWelshChoir or YouTube https:// show the world that we continue to be active youtu.be/IjGKQ0otAKU and are ready to start public performances as To support the Melbourne Recital Centre's soon as it’s possible.” Performer Support Fund, visit: https:// The choir rehearses every week via Zoom www.melbournerecital.com.au/support/perand that’s not without its challenges, Field said. former-support-fund
Lights Up on the Arts ■ James Cutler and Joshua Robson Productions have created a special concert titled Lights Up On The Arts: Home Delivery! which will shine a light on the theatre industry and support performers whose livelihoods have been impacted by the COVID-19 arts shutdown. A live audience will visit the living rooms of performers from shows such as Shrek The Musical Australia, School of Rock the Musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Australia, Merrily We Roll Along (Luckiest Productions), Come From Away Australia, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, 9 to 5 the Musical Australia and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, to name a few. Permission has been granted from Stephen Schwartz to access his catalogue of music which, with its rich collection of songs, taps into important themes that will create the throughline of the concert: connection, togetherness, unity, a second chance, finding oneself, the joys
The organisers hope that the optimistic and uplifting nature of Schwartz's music, together with their program, will remind Australia and beyond that the arts matter, they are a source of joy in the world, and, failing all else, the arts will sustain our world even through the toughest of situations. Audiences are invited to tune in on May 4 on Facebook live. For details, stay connected with this page: facebook.com/joshuarobson productions - Cheryl Threadgold
Media Flashes
■ Our weekly columnist Gavin Wood is on leave. His column will return soon. ■ Steve Jacobs is taking over the breakfast program shift at radio station Magic 1278. ■ Gold 104.3 host Christian O’Connell will also head an evebing one-hour broadcast. ■ The Chaser has found a new home at Nova.
● Vicky Jacobs ■ While we are all in social isolation, it's a great chance to use the time to try something you never got around to. Such as becoming a good solo singer, rather than just a rough bathroom baritone or shower soprano? Melbourne musical identity Vicky Jacobs is renowned for her Glee Clubs at cabaret venue The Butterfly Club, when she isn't playing in or conducting an orchestra for a big musical. As neither of those activities are permitted at the moment, Vicky has come up with The Song Club, to let people develop their abilities as solo singers with home-based guidelines and weekly Zoom sessions with other singers. Vicky said that this idea is one she has had in her mind for quite a while, and now is a good time to try it out. "It's for those who would like to try their hands at some solo singing without any pressure, without having to leave home and without the cost of private singing lessons." "Each month I put 20 songs in a drop box with everything you need to learn them: reference tracks of a great performance of the song, a practice track with the melody clearly played, a practice track with the accompaniment, sheet music and some notes on how to attack it," Vicky explained. The songs cover a wide range of styles and difficulty to cater for all levels, and the idea is for aspiring soloists to pick a couple that appeal and learn them. And the Zoom idea? "Every Tuesday at 6.30 pm we'll have a Zoom get together where everyone can try out their songs in front of the group. You can particulate in as many or as few of those sessions across the month as you like. As we always say, you're the boss of you." At $45 per month, this is a great low cost idea if you feel like releasing your inner Shirley Bassey or Tom Jones, and it's well documented that singing is an excellent way of releasing endorphins that will keep you mood positive in these difficult times of isolation. For more information, visit www.gleeclubsinging.com/songclub - Julie Houghton
Holmesby’s book
■ Russell Holmesby is launching a new book through Hardie Grant: The Death of Fitzroy Football Club It covers a key moment in AFL history. The oral history discovers the reasons why Fitzroy Football Club, one of the founding clubs of the VFL in 1896, lost its way and eventually was merged with the Brisbane Bears. The book covers the spread of years from the seventies, through a period when the club was strong on the field in the early eighties, to the club’s death, at the end of the 1996 season. Author Russell Holmesby has curated contemporaneous interviews from Inside Football magazine and other publications. He was editor until its demise in 2018.
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ALL THE GREEN ROOM AWARDS WINNERS Melbourne Arts Ferntree Gully Arts Society
■ The Ferntree Gully Arts Society had its beginnings in a letter sent by local potter, Allan Lowe, to the Secretary of the Ferntree Gully Shire. The letter, dated March 17, 1944, in part reads:" The very excellent results of a recent art exhibition held at Mornington and the very great local publicity derived from it prompts me to write to you in reference to a suggestion to go before our Council re: an Art Exhibition in our Shire… In the Shire we have a number of artists and craftsmen who I feel sue would give us support if approached. An exhibition of this type would help develop the cultural and appreciative level of our residents… and (the money raised) donated to our local branch of the Red Cross to ais fighting men." A month later the Secretary replied…the Council is quite willing to accord its patronage to the proposal and is prepared to make the Shire Hall available for the Exhibition. The Council was also willing to donate £10 to help cover costs. On Tuesday night, July 4th, a group calling itself the 'Citizens' Art Committee' held its first meeting in the Supper Room of the Shire Hall. Its aim was to investigate'… into the possibility of conducting an Art Exhibition in the Shire. The planned exhibition was to be a "Citizens' Loan Exhibition", with all works "on loan" from residents living inn the Shire. The Citizens; Loan Exhibition, held in the Ferntree Gully Shire Hall, was officially opened on September 30, 1944, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Frederick Mann. But it was not to be just an exhibition. As Allan as Allan Lowe stated in his letter, there was a higher goal, … to develop the cultural and appreciative level of our residents. So in keeping with this ideal, there were free morning lectures for children, on such topics as; 'Art expression and its Reaction' given by Mr. Anderson from the National Gallery, through to 'Every picture tells a story' by Mr. D. Webb. And for the adults there were evening and afternoon lectures, culminating on Saturday night with a 'Talk and Musical evening'. Not surprisingly the Citizens' Loan Exhibition was an outstanding success. It was estimated that more than 2.300 adults and 1,000 school children came o see it and attend lectures. But what was more important, was what it led to. The minutes of the Citizens' Art Committee (21-11-1944) puts it rather nicely: 'during the currency of the Exhibition it was stated there was a possibility if an application was made in right quarter of a grant of £500 being made for the establishment of a permanent Art Centre in the Shire. According to a partially dated (?June 1946) local newspaper report, to original idea was to locate the Arts society in the National Park, but this arrangement proved to be unsatisfactory and early in 1947 it was decided to purchase an army hut from Darley Camp (near Bacchus Marsh). This proposal was strongly supported by the Repertory Players (now 1812 Theatre); who were already in existence as a separate organization. The hut was transported in two sections which took several days and devious routes before reaching its present site, 157 Underwood Road Ferntree Gully. MY thanks go to Robert Diss and Judith O'Donnell for the above history of the history of the Ferntree Gully Arts Society - Peter Kemp
■ The 37th annual Green Room Awards were successfully live-streamed on You Tube. Results are as follows: DANCE Performer (2 Winners). Dalisa Pigram - Le Dernier Appel/The Last Cry (Marrugeku in association with Arts House as part of Dance Massive) Vicki Van Hout – plenty serious TALK TALK (Vicki Van Hout in association with Arts House and YIRRAMBOI Festival) Duet and Ensemble Performance. Alice Dixon, Caroline Meaden, William McBride and Mark Wilson – Doors Shut (Alice Will Caroline feat. Mark in association with Temperance Hall) Visual Design Creature Technology Company, Antony Hamilton, Blair Hart, Paula Levis, Andrew Treloar and Bosco Shaw (Objects/Costume/ Light) – Token Armies (Chunky Move in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival and Arts House) Music Composition and Sound Design. Aviva Endean with Madeleine Flynn Token Armies (Chunky Move in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival andArts House) Shirley McKechnie Award for Choreography. Russell Dumas Cultural Residues 2020 (Dancehouse as part of Dance Massive) Production Plenty serious Talk Talk (Vicki Van Hout in association with Arts House and Yirramboi Festival) THEATRE COMPANIES Performance (2 Winners). Ursula Yovich Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Belvoir) William McKenna Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions) The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes (Back to Back Theatre) Performance in a Featured Role. Helen Morse 33 Variations (Cameron Lukey & Neil Gooding Productions with Ellis Productions) Lighting Design. Niklas Pajanti A View from the Bridge (Melbourne Theatre Company) Set and Costume Design. The Sisters Hayes (Set, Costume, AV) Golden Shield (Melbourne Theatre Company) Music Composition and Sound Design.Adm Ventoura, Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine (Songs), Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Belvoir) Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage Alana Valentine and Ursula Yovich Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Belvoir Direction. Iain Sinclair A View from the Bridge (Melbourne Theatre Company Production. Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Belvoir)es(Back to Back Theatre) MUSICALTHEATRE Lead Role (2 winners). Georgina Hopson Ragtime (The Production Company Anthony Warlow - Sweeney Todd (TEG, Life Like Company) Supporting Role (2 winners). Cameron MacDonald - Jersey Boys (Dodger Theatricals, Rodney Rigby, TEG Dainty, Joseph J. Grano, Pelican Group, Michael Watt, Tommy Mottola in association with Latitude Link & Anita Waxman Verity Hunt-Ballard - A Little Night Music (Victorian Opera) Ensemble. The Company – Come From Away (Junkyard Dog Productions, Rodney Rigby Original Australian Writing PJ Hogan (Book), Kate Miller-Heidke & Keir Nuttall (Music & Lyrics) - Muriel's Wedding (Global Creatures with Sydney Theatre Company) Sound Design. Gareth Owen - Come From Away (Junkyard Dog Productions, Rodney Rigby) Set Design. Gabriela Tylesova - Muriel’s Wedding (Global Creatures with Sydney Theatre Company) Costume Design. Gabriela Tylesova – Muriel’s Wedding (Global Creatures with Sydney Theatre Company)
Lighting and Multimedia Design. Natasha Pincus with Nick Roux (Multimedia/Projection) – Lazarus (By arrangement with Robert Fox & Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment. The Production Company in association with Mens Mens Theatre)a) Betty PounderAward for Excellence in Choreography. Andrew Hallsworth – Muriel's Wedding (Global Creatures with Sydney Theatre Company) Music Direction. Luke Hunter - Body of Work Direction. Christopher Ashley - Come From Away (Junkyard Dog Productions, Rodney Rigby) Production. Come From Away (Junkyard Dog Productions, Rodney Rigby) Performer (2 winners). Carly Sheppard – Love (fortyfivedownstairs) Ensemble. Balit Liwurruk: Strong Girl (St Martins) Lighting Design. Emma Valente - Unwoman (The Rabble in association with The Substation and Due West) Set, Costume and Video Design. Kate Davis (Set/Costume) – Unwoman (The Rabble in association with The Substation and Due West) Music Composition and Sound Design. Justin Gardam - The Market is a Wind-Up Toy (The Bloomshed in association with Theatre Works) Writing (2 Winners). Emma Mary Hall World Problems (Emma Mary Hall) Samah Sabawi – Them (Samah Sabawi and Lara Week in association with La Mama) Direction. Nadja Kostich - Balit Liwurruk: Strong Girl (St Martins) Production. Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Lightning Jar Theatre in association with fortyfivedownstairs) OPERA Female Lead. Kara Son - Turandot (Opera Australia) Male Lead. Derek Welton - Parsifal (Victorian Opera) Artist in a Supporting Role. Luke Gabbedy - Faust (Opera Australia) Lighting, Set and Costume Design. Paolo Fantin, Carla Teti, Alessandro Carletti (Sets, Costumes, Lighting) Il Viaggio a Reims (Opera Australia) Conductor. Christian Badea – Turandot (Opera Australia) MusicalAchievement. Simon Bruckard and Emma Muir Smith - New Australian Opera The Selfish Giant (Victorian Opera) Direction. Damiano Michieletto -Il Viaggio a Reims (Opera Australia) Production. Il Viaggio a Reims (Opera Australia) CABARET Artiste. Selina Jenkins - Boobs (as part of Melbourne Fringe) Ensemble. Poopie Tum Tums (The Very Good Looking Initiative in association with The Butterfly Club as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival) Writing. Selina Jenkins - Boobs (as part of Melbourne Fringe) Original songs Selina Jenkins - Boobs (as part of Melbourne Fringe) Musical Direction. Scott Griffiths – The Ghetto Cabaret (fortyfivedownstairs in association with Kadimah Yiddish Theatre) Production. Boobs (Selina Jenkins as part of Melbourne Fringe Design. The Ghetto Cabaret (fortyfivedownstairs in association with Kadimah Yiddish Theatre CONTEMPORARYAND EXPERIMENTALPERFORMANCE Production (3 Winners) Daddy - Joel Bray (presented by Arts House and Yirramboi Festival) Diaspora - A Chamber Made work by Robin Fox and Collaborators (in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival and The Substation Those Who Rock - Joseph O'Farrell (JOF) (presented by Arts Centre Melbourne)
Circus. Party Ghost - Poached Eggs & Asparagus (as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival) Visual Design. Diaspora - Robin Fox (Lasers), Nick Roux (Video Art and System Design), Amelia Lever-Davidson (Lighting Design) and Shio Otani (Costume Design) - Chamber Made (in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival and The Substation) Sound Performance and Design. The Violin Generator - Jon Rose (presented by The Substation in conjunction with Tura New Music) Program. Melba Spiegeltent - Circus O Performer (2 Winners). Jess KapuscinskiEvans - A Normal Child by Disability Slapstick Plan and Ridiculusmus (presented by Darebin Arts Speakeasy Marcus McKenzie - Subliminal Massage (presented by Club Greg as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival) Ensemble. Public Actions - Luke George & Collaborators (presented byArts House as part of Dance Massive) SPECIALAWARDS Outstanding Contribution to Cabaret. Daniel Clarke The Contribution to Cabaret Award is offered to an individual (or team, or institution) who has made a significant ongoing or long-term contribution either to the artform or the community. Past recipients include: Musical Directors who have contributed to the work and careers of several artists; producing outfits who have developed significant ongoing platforms for cabaret artists, as well as patrons of the artform. Daniel Clarke is a Director, Curator and Creative Producer, who has supported the careers of an astonishing number of Australian and International Cabaret artists and then sustaining long term relationship with them, nurturing their work and careers in countless ways. He actively generates ideas with and for the performers he cares about and is tireless in finding or creating opportunities for them. Geoffrey MilneAward for Outstanding Contribution to Independent Theatre. Caitlin Dullard The Geoffrey Milne Award for Contribution to the Development of Contemporary & Experiment Performance OR Independent Theatre was established in 2015. It is dedicated to the late Geoffrey Milne who served in many capacities as a member of the Green Room Awards especially as a champion for the introduction of a new panel to acknowledge the work of fringe and independent artists. That panel has evolved over the years and now exists as both the Contemporary and Experimental Performance Panel and the Independent Theatre Panel. The award is shared between both panels in alternating years. This prestigious award recognises its recipient as someone who has played a significant role in the theatre industry, particularly in these sectors. The Green RoomAwards Association is proud to announce the 2020 recipient of the Geoffrey Milne Award is Caitlin Dullard, Secretary and co-CEO of La Mama. Apart from her support for independent artists through La Mama, the heart of our independent theatre, and the annual Explorations season advocating for bold and innovative works, she has also been instrumental in supporting works beyond with countless producing credits including La Mama Mobile. We also wish to acknowledge her crucial role in supporting the La Mama staff throughout the fundraising and rebuilding of La Mama after its devastation by fire in May 2018. This award recognises her work in roles and capacities that are rarely credited but essential to the sector. ASSOCIATIONAWARDS Technical Achievement. Emily O’Brien Lifetime Achievement. Jenny Kemp SPECIALASSOCIATIONAWARD In Recognition of his Enduring Music Theatre Legacy. Garry Ginivan
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From the James Sherlock Collection
Photo Flashback of Melbourne theatres
● Gulliver’s Travels at Hoyts Esquire Theatre, Bourke St.
● Hoyts Burwood Drive-In Playground.
● Hoyts Burwood Drive-In postcard.
● Mary Poppins ‘Front of House’. Metro, Bourke St. 1965.
● The Plaza Theatre Melbourne. Men’s bathroom.
● ‘Giant’. At Regent Theatre, Melbourne. June 1957.
● ‘The High and the Mighty’. The Regent Theatre, Melbourne. May 1955.
● ‘Island in the Sun’ front-of house. The Regent. October 1957.
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■ It is hard to believe, but it is more than 100 years ago since Lucille Ball was born. Today, she lives on through her films and re-runs of her television shows such as I Love Lucy, Here's Lucy and The Lucy Show. I thought she was just fabulous. I can remember the first time I saw Lucille Ball in a film - it was at a Saturday afternoon matinee in 1951 and I laughed at her antics in the Fuller Brush Girl playing opposite Eddie Albert. Lucille Désirée Ball was born on August 6th 1911 in Jamestown, New York. The family moved around a lot due to her father's occupation. After he died in 1915, Lucille's mother remarried. It was her grandfather who took Lucille and her brother Frederick to see vaudeville shows. Lucille was enthralled and decided to be an actress. She managed to get work in the chorus of Broadway shows before going to Hollywood where her first small on-screen appearance was in a film titled The Bowery which starred George Raft and Wallace Beery. Lucille persevered but it took her two years and almost 30 film appearances before she was even listed in the credits. Lucille met and eloped with Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. It was a stormy relationship and although Lucille filed for divorce in 1944 they reconciled and continued their marriage.
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Lucille dyed her hair red and appeared in films such as Lover Come Back, Easy To Wed and Sorrowful Jones. In 1949 Lucille was cast in the successful radio series, My Favourite Husband, playing opposite Richard Denning. When the show was being considered for a television series Lucille insisted that Desi Arnaz be cast as her husband. The next door neighbors were to be played by Vivien Vance and William Frawley (who loathed each other off-screen). The first episode of I love Lucy was broadcast in October of 1951. The show went to air ‘live’ in front of a studio audience in Los Angeles and was kinescoped for airing on the East Coast. Desi stepped in when there was a problem
● Lucille Ball with the quality of the film and the show was going to be dropped - Desi paid for quality filming and introduced the three-camera technique on the condition that their company, Desilu, retained the rights to the film stock after the episodes had been aired for the first time. It was a ‘master stroke’ as the show has now been in syndication throughout the world for 60 years. In later years the Desilu Studios produced
shows such as The Untouchables, Star Trek Mission Impossible and My Three Sons. Lucy and Desi had two children Lucie and Desi Jnr. I Love Lucy was in production till 1960 and when it finished Lucy and Desi divorced. Lucy continued her television career in Here's Lucy and The Lucy Show. She married her second husband Garry Morton in 1961. Lucy was very busy with her Broadway show Wildcat, managing Desilu Studios, television shows and appearing in films such as the title role in Mame. Desi Arnaz passed away in 1986 and Lucy died in 1989. Her final public appearance was at the Academy Awards just four weeks before her death. Although they had gone their separate ways Lucy and Desi still loved and respected each other. Lucille Ball was one of the greates comedienne's of the twentieth century and as we watch those old shows on television - there is no doubt - we still love Lucy. Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - Remember When Sundays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens. And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon. www.innerfm.org.au
Trip to the Australian outback
■ John Rozentals talks with Andrew Mevissen aboutAndrew’s trip to the Australian Outback: Flying to tropical resorts for dropand-flop holidays is great but nothing beats the excitement, adventure and raw joy of a roadtrip holiday to the Aussie Outback. When I'm cocooned in my office, I feel the pull of the open road, big skies, far horizons, red earth, friendly characters, new destinations, enticing road signs and a compelling sense of wonder. And then there's the camaraderie with your partner or friend as you sing along to your favourite tunes, share jokes or solve all the problems in the world. It's time, it's space, it's a journey - and there's nothing like it. So when an opportunity arose suddenly, recently, to drive from Sydney to Broken Hill, I fled the office, grabbed my wife and hit the road, heading west, quickly swallowed by the vastness of our seemingly endless continent. On the morning of our departure, our excitement was palpable. As almost empty nesters, our three kids grown up, we were like teenagers with no responsibilities other than a car and the road ahead. An early start meant a coffee stop in the Blue Mountains to fuel our journey, well aware the scenery of rolling green ranges would soon be replaced by equally beautiful desert plains. It's amazing how roadtrips also bring you closer to your companion. You talk, laugh, reminisce, dream and offer running commentary on the scenery that unfolds around you. When most people think of the Outback, they think of Uluru and Alice Springs - the Red Centre - but the NSW Outback is also an enticing canvass of raw, desert beauty - without the crowds. An ideal outback loop from Sydney can take you to Cobar, White Cliffs and Broken Hill and back via Mildura and Wagga Wagga, covering a great swathe of western NSW and opening up places most city dwellers on the coastal fringes have never been to. The food and wine centre of Mudgee called for a morning-tea stop and just past Dubbo we dug out our picnic and thermos of coffee and feasted at a roadside stop, toasting the point at which neat civilisation stops and the rusty Outback begins.
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long at the Great Western Hotel) catch the sun's dying rays before we enjoy a hearty feast and a cold one - as well as a comfy bed and hot shower at Cobar's Copper City Motel. After a restful sleep, we head further west to the near ghost town of Wilcannia on the famed Darling River. This almost deserted town was once the third largest inland port in Australia during the great river boat era of the mid-19th century. Today, Wilcannia, with its wide, empty streets and historic but abandoned buildings would make a great film set for movies. Don't miss the nondescript turnoff here for White Cliffs. The one-hour detour off the highway on a lonely but sealed road through a whole bunch of nothingness leads to one of the wackiest and weirdest towns you'll ever visit with John Rozentals - White Cliffs. This tough, rough, sunburnt opal mining hamlet in the middle We knew we were 'out the back' of nowhere gets so bloody hot in sumbecause the Mitchell Hwy from mer that almost everyone lives underDubbo to Nyngan was dead straight ground in perennially cool, dugout and the scenery dead flat. Open, free- houses built into the sides of hills. range scenery like this clears the One of these buildings is the famind, I think, and opens scope for new mous White Cliffs Underground Moperspectives. tel which offers the largest underNyngan is the first frontier-style ground accommodation in Australia, town we encounter - the pace is slow, with 30 rooms. Here we enjoy delithe air relaxed and the locals aren't in cious soup, tour the maze of subterraa hurry going anywhere. Nyngan is nean bedrooms and explore the ecnow famous for The Big Bogan, a gi- centric shanty town with its abandoned ant statue of an Aussie bloke in a sin- cars, labyrinth of mines and quirky art glet - a play on the name of the sur- displays. rounding Bogan Shire. And what we want is to reach our I get the customary Insta photo cosy cabin at Warrawong on the Darwith 'me mate' and then we push on, ling, a lovely, riverside camp, carawest, along the Barrier Hwy this time, van and cabin park just outside bound for Cobar. Wilcannia. Here, around the commuAnd this is where the Outback re- nal campfire, the manager serves us ally hits - big empty spaces and red hearty stew and damper as we enjoy earth and not many cars either - so wine and friendly banter with fellow few that I have some fun practising roadies. handstands in the middle of the highBefore sunrise next morning, we way, no cars for miles. And that's an- walk out along the sand dunes at other tip on roadtrips - you need to Warrawong on the Darling and grab stop now and then - in the middle of a vantage point to watch the sun rise nowhere - and roam a little, just feel over the arid landscape - it's a mothe place. ment of pristine beauty and I mark it Cobar appears on the horizon late with some contemplative yoga pracafternoon. When I was in grade six, tice to salute the dawn. The shady my favourite teacher of my childhood riverbanks here, rife with roos, offer in Melbourne often regaled us with quintessential outback scenery and it's stories about his upbringing in Cobar tempting to linger but we head west and 43 years later, I've finally visited again for another hour to reach our this little copper mining town that held final destination, Broken Hill. my fascination all this time. This sizable mining city - an Mine shafts and Australia's long- outback oasis - is so far west in NSW est cast-iron pub veranda (100-metres that it runs on SouthAustralian time.
OK. With John O’Keefe Royal endorsement ■ During the Queen’s speech early April, Her Majesty mentioned the phrase ‘We’ll meet again’. As readers may remember, those famous words were the title of a famous wartime classic sung by Dame Vera Lynne – now a spritely 103 . Sales of the Dame’s record went ballistic –up 580 percent week-onweek , and we understand there’s a new duet to be recorded with a redubbed version of the Dame’s original song coupled with the voice of a leading UK artist.
Homer ’s time to celebrate
■ Like a number of success stories on TV, the animated Simpsons series started as shorts for inclusion in the Tracey Ullman Show in 1989. The initial shorts turned into a huge earner for the network The team at Tracey Ullman claimed they were entitled to bundles of money as Ullman was the prime promoter. Case went to court awarding animator Matt Groening to his slice of network sales. We have it on good authority Homer Simpson celebrated with a skinful at Mo’s Bar.
Come and get it
■ There I was half-watching another re-run on TV during isolation when the station went to a commercial break. Guess who appeared in a spot for pots and pans? The legendary Peter Russell-Clarke. Now aged 85, Peter has had a variety of creative occupations. He was the cartoonist behind Ben Bowyang in The Herald (Melbourne), then onto being a chef that led to a gig on the ABC called Come and Get It! that lasted for nine years . In between , was his run- in with the visiting Prince Charles .The next King-to- be arrived for a meal at Peter’s restaurant , only to be told by Peter that the Prince didn’t have a booking .
Times flies, yeah, yeah
■ This year is the 50th anniversary of the official split of the Beatles – it only seems like yesterday when they caused a traffic jam outside of Southern Cross Hotel . Still as popular as ever a Beatles fan in London paid more than one million pounds for an original hand written scribble by Paul of Hey Jude.
Sadie, the cleaning lady
■ The song that shot Johnny Farnham to instant stardom was the inspiration of American song writer John Mendez. At the time, 1968, Farnham’s manager Darryl Sambell wanted another local teeny bopper Mike Ferber to record Sadie. Ferber wasn’t impressed with the words and music , and Johnny Farnham was next in line - the rest is history. To demonstrate how tight production budgets were Darryl Sambell pleaded with Godfrey’s Vacuums to supply Farnham with a cleaner as a prop when he did personal appearances. Godfreys paid for the privilege and the fee went to recording costs . - John O’Keefe
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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: THE GENTLEMEN : Genre: Action/Crime/Comedy/Drama. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding, Hugh Grant. Year: 2019. Rating: MA15+ Length: 113 Minutes. Stars: ***½ Verdict: The film follows an American expat who has created a highly profitable marijuana empire in London, but when word gets out that he is looking to cash out his business, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him. "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch" and "RocknRolla" writer-director Guy Ritchie is back in familiar British gangster territory, and this latest effort in his cockney "Guv'nors, Guns and Geezers" action-crime-comedy-drama's is a cool, tough, stylish, dazzling and wildly irresistible thrill ride! The stand-out and wildly irresistible cast all at the top of their game includes Matthew McConaughey as the smooth but tough and nononsense American expat, Mickey Pearson, Charlie Hunnam as his faithful sidekick, Raymond, "Downton Abbey" star Michelle Dockery as his equally tough wife, and aided by a number of colourful underworld characters that includes Colin Farrell, Henry Golding and a devilish delightful, laugh-out-loud scene-stealing performance by Hugh Grant as Fletcher, a sleazy tabloid newspaper blackmailer. But the real star here is writer -director Guy Ritchie, back in the saddle and with a vengeance, streaming along with all his wonderfully unique and distinctively quirky ingredients, a fully loaded, full blown, lock, stock and two smokin' double-barrelled blast, so buckle up for a compelling, darkly wicked, violent, rip roaring, and ferociously funny RocknRollin' treat!" FILM: FOUL PLAY: Genre: Comedy/Crime/Mystery/Thriller. Year: 1978. Rating: M. Length: 116 Minutes. Stars: **** Verdict: Delightful Hitchcockian mystery-comedy-thriller with Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts and Brian Dennehy of a shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop who fall in love as they try to avoid being murdered while trying to solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, kidnapping, assassination and the Catholic Church. Intelligent, respectful, sparkling and brisk screenplay and refreshingly taut direction by Colin Higgins, whose screenwriting credits include the cult classic Harold & Maude and Silver Streak, and went on to write and direct the comedy classic Nine to Five and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Oscar winner Goldie Hawn Hawn and Chevy Chase in his first big screen starring role are right at the top of their game, however, the real scene stealer is comic great Dudley Moore in a slide-splitting laugh-out-loud performance as the sex crazed Stanley Tibbets, which introduced him to U.S. audiences and led him to his starring roles in the classics "10" and "Arthur." Watch out for the two old ladies playing scrabble, two Japanese tourists trapped in the back of a limousine during a hair-raising car chase, in an affectionate nod and a wink to the car chase in the Steve McQueen 1968 classic Bullitt, and the punch-up between veterans Burgess Meredith and Rachel Roberts, these are more of many other jewels of hilarity in the crown overflowing with gem Standout music score by Charles Fox features the now classic hit songs "Ready To Take a Chance Again" and "Copacabana" sung Barry Manilow, and the Bee Gees landmark chart-topper "Stayin' Alive." Brilliantly parodies a number of classic Alfred Hitchcock films including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window, Psycho, and more, and the legendary Hitchcock himself was reportedly intending to sue the studio, until he saw the final cut of the film, during which he was believed to be uncontrollable with laughter, and subsequently dropped any thoughts of suing. Add to the mix the supremely orchestrated editing by Pembroke J. Herring, and you have a wonderfully interwoven and exquisite tapestry of thrills, laughter, romance and excitement that is not only a fitting tribute and homage to one of the greats in the history of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, but a comedy classic in its own right that stands firmly on its own two feet.
Rourke’s Reviews Black Christmas ■ (M). 92 minutes. Now Available on Blu-ray and DVD. Quietly dumped in cinemas in December last year, this loose remake of Bob Clark's 1974 cult classic met with some of the most vicious reviews seen in quite some time, but the truth is, this total, yet purposeful, reworking of the original source is much better than what it seems. Set at a traditional, very old-fashioned college, the story centres on Riley (Imogen Poots), a student who is still recovering from a sexual assault that occurred on campus a couple of years ago, and is understandably finding it hard to trust her environment and male peers again. Riley is supported by her dorm friends, including Kris (Aleyse Shannon), who is openly rebelling against what is a male-dominated system, while also trying to bring her pal out of her shell. When a mysterious stalker starts murdering female students, Riley feels that the offender is close and targeting her (including threats on social media), and unfortunately she will be proven right. With these kind of incidents making the news on a regular basis (the chilling footage of St Kevin's students yelling a horrifically sexist chant on a Melbourne tram last year is a perfect example), cowriter/director Sophia Takal (who helmed the underrated 2016 thriller Always Shine, which looked at the treatment of women in Hollywood), collaborating with co-writer April Wolfe, barely contain their rage in depicting the toxic masculinity and patriarchal mentality that is still prevalent in today's society, notably in our education system. While it can be seen as heavyhanded at times, Takal and Wolfe potently make their point (a confrontation between Riley and a disinterested security guard beautifully illustrates their message), and thankfully have a strong cast to convincingly deliver the dipped-inacid material, with Poots (28 Weeks Later, Centurion, Green Room) and Shannon the two stand-outs. T hough I can understand what the black ooze is supposed to represent, the supernatural turn that Black Christmas takes toward the end slightly undermines what has come before, particular when the real-life horrors the main characters have to endure is scary enough. Those looking for a typical horror movie filled with jolts and gore will be sorely disappointed, but those looking for something a little different, one that offers some food for thought, might be pleasantly surprised, and hopefully this unfairly maligned film finds a cult following of its own.
I also hope the original 111 minute cut sees the light of day some time in the near future. RATING - ***
Little Glee Monster ■ Live In Budokan (2017) (G). 146 minutes. Available on Blu-ray and DVD. As it looks like it'll be a while before we'll be able to experience concerts and similar events again, I'm sure everyone is digging into their personal collections and watching some of their favourite singers and bands perform live on stage. I've been no different, and decided to revisit the first filmed concert of vocal group Little Glee Monster (also known as LGM), performing before 13,000 fans in Budokan in 2017. Formed in 2013, LGM started with seven members, but by 2014 had become six; Serina Hasegawa, Asahi Kobayashi, Mayu Yoshida, Karen Koga, Manaka Fukumoto, and Maju Arai. A debut, self-titled mini-album was released that same year, as was their first single, Houkago High Five. Live In Budokan allows these young artists to demonstrate how terrific their voices are, with a gallery of songs that cover a number of different styles (an a cappella medley is one of the highlights). The entire group display bright personalities and boundless energy, are supported by a talented band, and are surrounded by superb stage design and lighting. This was the last time we got to see Maju Arai perform live with the group (the next filmed concert was at Yokohama Arena in 2018), who unfortunately left soon after. With K-Pop so hugely popular around the world, it is great to also focus on J-Pop, particularly when the singing is as good as this. Local viewers will know LGM from the animated TV series My Hero Academia (thank you Cathy and Jonathan), where they provide the end title tune. The Blu-ray I have also has 11 music videos produced at the time, including Houkago High Five, Seishun Photograph, Girls Be Free and My Best Friend. If you've never heard of Little Glee Monster, they are most definitely worth checking out, and Live In Budokan 2017 offers wonderful entertainment from a group who are genuinely talented (their new album, Calling Over, was released in February, and features two excellent hit singles, Echo and Starting Over). RATING - **** - Aaron Rourke
State Library’s free resources for VCE, IB pupils
■ The State Library has a wealth of free resources for secondary students, particularly those studying VCE, IB and VCAL. The online tutorials delve into the VCE subject guides, highlighting primary resources from the collection, like the newspapers database. The education team will run online tutorials for VCE Australian history and VCE English and Literature students.
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More streaming ■ The Black Sorrows will stream a live concert from the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, on Sunday (Apr. 26) commencing 7.30pm. The live stream will feature a selection of classic Sorrows hits and favourites with perhaps a taste of a few new things to come. Given the size ofMemo Music Hall, which is 750 metres square, musicians are be able to perform the required two metres apart, which meets current Government indoor workplace social distancing guidelines says their media release.Good Friday Appeal.
Newport Folk ■ The Newport Folk and Fiddle Club has joined the online movement with many of their regular events going live using Zoom video-conferencing. More info at info@nffc.org.au - Rob Foenander
Almost Aussie ■ New Australian citizen and celebrated film and TV star Miriam Margolyes embarks on a 10,000-kilometre, two-month journey to discover what it means to be an Australian today in a three-part series, airing from Tuesday, May 19, at 8.30pm on ABC and iview.
3-day MSO event ■ The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has curated a series of online musical events, taking place this weekend. mso.com.au/youtube
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Brokenback Range overwhelms ■ John Rozentals gets up close to a chunk of fabled Hunter Valley dirt. I guess that the over-reaching image that visitors to Tyrrells Wine in the Hunter Valley's Broke Road leave with is that of the brooding, almost sullen Brokenback Range which dominates the landscape. It overwhelms the vines and old winery. It overwhelms even the characters who've inhabited that winery, even though they have often been long-living giants - men such as the winery's founder Edward Tyrrell, the legendary Dan Tyrrell who officiated over an astounding 69 vintages, the effervescent Mouth of the Hunter Murray Tyrrell, and most recently Bruce Tyrrell who I'm sure hasn't played all his cards yet. No grapes are more obviously overlooked by the range than those of the Hunter Valley Distillery Block, also known as the Sign Post Block, source of the world's oldest chardonnay grapes and some of the valley's landmark white variety, semillon. The vines date from 1908 and their grapes have a relaxed aura of elegance to them. The wines age beautifully, and I have no doubts about why they are so reverred, both by the Tyrrells family and by wine lovers everywhere. WINE REVIEWS Tyrrells 2019 Hunter Valley
Semillon ($25): I'm not going to claim for a minute, not even a second, that this wine has the potential to develop into an HVD. It's just not that sort of beast, but it will develop its own style of charming complexity as it ages. Right now, its drinking ridiculously well, with grassy, stalky flavours to burn, and a lovely burst of lemony acidity. Why are we bothering with sauvignon blanc from NZ when we have treasures like this in our midst? Tyrrells 2017 Single Vineyard Stevens Hunter Shiraz ($50): This dry red would normally make the Wine of the Week rating but for an excellent performance from an aged semillon. It's a lovely drop in its own right, showing the medium-bodied, foodfriendly style that the Hunter does so well. Look for dark berry flavours and spice, and match it with a good, rare steak or a bowl of classy red-sauced pasta. WINE OF THE WEEK Tyrrells 2014 HVD Vineyard Hunter Valley Semillon ($35): You only have to glance at the gold medals that adorn the label of this dry white to realise how Tyrrells has ruled the aged-semillon classes at Australian wine shows. And not without reason. The family company has an excellent back catalog of these golden wonders. This wine exemplifies the breed
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and is simply gorgeous in its depth of flavour and complexity. It shows a touch of honeyed-toast for which aged semillons are famous and, thanks to screwcap closure, has
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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens For that the poor child thanked me with her whole heart. "And in the morning, when you hear Miss Ada in the garden, if I should not be quite able to go to the window-curtain as usual, do you go, Charley, and say I am asleep--that I have rather tired myself, and am asleep. At all times keep the room as I have kept it, Charley, and let no one come." Charley promised, and I lay down, for I was very heavy. I saw the doctor that night and asked the favour of him that I wished to ask relative to his saying nothing of my illness in the house as yet. I have a very indistinct remembrance of that night melting into day, and of day melting into night again; but I was just able on the first morning to get to the window and speak to my darling. On the second morning I heard her dear voice-Oh, how dear now!--outside; and I asked Charley, with some difficulty (speech being painful to me), to go and say I was asleep. I heard her answer softly, "Don't disturb her, Charley, for the world!" "How does my own Pride look, Charley?" I inquired. "Disappointed, miss," said Charley, peeping through the curtain. "But I know she is very beautiful this morning." "She is indeed, miss," answered Charley, peeping. "Still looking up at the window." With her blue clear eyes, God bless them, always loveliest when raised like that! I called Charley to me and gave her her last charge. "Now, Charley, when she knows I am ill, she will try to make her way into the room. Keep her out, Charley, if you love me truly, to the last! Charley, if you let her in but once, only to look upon me for one moment as I lie here, I shall die." "I never will! I never will!" she promised me. "I believe it, my dear Charley. And now come and sit beside me for a little while, and touch me with your hand. For I cannot see you, Charley; I am blind." CHAPTER XXXII The Appointed Time It is night in Lincoln's Inn—perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the law, where suitors generally find but little day—and fat candles are snuffed out in offices, and clerks have rattled down the crazy wooden stairs and dispersed. The bell that rings at nine o'clock has ceased its doleful clangour about nothing; the gates are shut; and the night-porter, a solemn warder with a mighty power of sleep, keeps guard in his lodge. From tiers of staircase windows clogged lamps like the eyes of Equity, bleared Argus with a fathomless pocket for every eye and an eye upon it, dimly blink at the stars. In dirty upper casements, here and there, hazy little patches of candlelight reveal where some wise draughtsman and conveyancer yet toils for the entanglement of real estate in meshes of sheep-skin, in the average ratio of about a dozen of sheep to an acre of land. Over which bee-like industry these benefactors of their species linger yet, though office-hours be past, that they may give, for every day, some good account at last. In the neighbouring court, where the Lord Chancellor of the rag and bottle shop dwells, there is a general tendency towards beer and supper. Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Perkins, whose respective sons, engaged with a circle of acquaintance in the game of hide and seek, have been lying in ambush about the by-ways of Chancery Lane for some hours and scouring the plain of the same thoroughfare to the confusion of passengers—Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Perkins have but now exchanged congratulations on the children being abed, and they still linger on a door-step over a few parting words. Mr. Krook and his lodger, and the fact of Mr. Krook's being "continually in liquor," and the testamentary prospects of the young man are, as usual, the staple of their conversation. But they have something to say, likewise, of the Harmonic Meeting at the Sol's Arms, where the sound of the piano through the partly opened windows jingles out into the court,
Charles Dickens and where Little Swills, after keeping the lovers of harmony in a roar like a very Yorick, may now be heard taking the gruff line in a concerted piece and sentimentally adjuring his friends and patrons to "Listen, listen, listen, tew the wa-ter fall!" Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Piper compare opinions on the subject of the young lady of professional celebrity who assists at the Harmonic Meetings and who has a space to herself in the manuscript announcement in the window, Mrs. Perkins possessing information that she has been married a year and a half, though announced as Miss M. Melvilleson, the noted siren, and that her baby is clandestinely conveyed to the Sol's Arms every night to receive its natural nourishment during the entertainments. "Sooner than which, myself," says Mrs. Perkins, "I would get my living by selling lucifers." Mrs. Piper, as in duty bound, is of the same opinion, holding that a private station is better than public applause, and thanking heaven for her own (and, by implication, Mrs. Perkins') respectability. By this time the pot-boy of the Sol's Arms appearing with her supper-pint well frothed, Mrs. Piper accepts that tankard and retires indoors, first giving a fair good night to Mrs. Perkins, who has had her own pint in her hand ever since it was fetched from the same hostelry by young Perkins before he was sent to bed. Now there is a sound of putting up shopshutters in the court and a smell as of the smoking of pipes; and shooting stars are seen in upper windows, further indicating retirement to rest. Now, too, the policeman begins to push at doors; to try fastenings; to be suspicious of bundles; and to administer his beat, on the hypothesis that every one is either robbing or being robbed.
It is a close night, though the damp cold is searching too, and there is a laggard mist a little way up in the air. It is a fine steaming night to turn the slaughter-houses, the unwholesome trades, the sewerage, bad water, and burial-grounds to account, and give the registrar of deaths some extra business. It may be something in the air— there is plenty in it—or it may be something in himself that is in fault; but Mr. Weevle, otherwise Jobling, is very ill at ease. He comes and goes between his own room and the open street door twenty times an hour. He has been doing so ever since it fell dark. Since the Chancellor shut up his shop, which he did very early to-night, Mr. Weevle has been down and up, and down and up (with a cheap tight velvet skull-cap on his head, making his whiskers look out of all proportion), oftener than before. It is no phenomenon that Mr. Snagsby should be ill at ease too, for he always is so, more or less, under the oppressive influence of the secret that is upon him. Impelled by the mystery of which he is a partaker and yet in which he is not a sharer, Mr. Snagsby haunts what seems to be its fountain-head—the rag and bottle shop in the court. It has an irresistible attraction for him. Even now, coming round by the Sol's Arms with the intention of passing down the court, and out at the Chancery Lane end, and so terminating his unpremeditated after-supper stroll of ten minutes' long from his own door and back again, Mr. Snagsby approaches. "What, Mr. Weevle?" says the stationer, stopping to speak. "Are YOU there?" "Aye!" says Weevle, "Here I am, Mr. Snagsby." "Airing yourself, as I am doing, before you go to bed?" the stationer inquires. "Why, there's not much air to be got here; and
what there is, is not very freshening," Weevle answers, glancing up and down the court. "Very true, sir. Don't you observe," says Mr. Snagsby, pausing to sniff and taste the air a little, "don't you observe, Mr. Weevle, that you're— not to put too fine a point upon it—that you're rather greasy here, sir?" "Why, I have noticed myself that there is a queer kind of flavour in the place to-night," Mr. Weevle rejoins. "I suppose it's chops at the Sol's Arms." "Chops, do you think? Oh! Chops, eh?" Mr. Snagsby sniffs and tastes again. "Well, sir, I suppose it is. But I should say their cook at the Sol wanted a little looking after. She has been burning 'em, sir! And I don't think"—Mr. Snagsby sniffs and tastes again and then spits and wipes his mouth—"I don't think—not to put too fine a point upon it—that they were quite fresh when they were shown the gridiron." "That's very likely. It's a tainting sort of weather." "It IS a tainting sort of weather," says Mr. Snagsby, "and I find it sinking to the spirits." "By George! I find it gives me the horrors," returns Mr. Weevle. "Then, you see, you live in a lonesome way, and in a lonesome room, with a black circumstance hanging over it," says Mr. Snagsby, looking in past the other's shoulder along the dark passage and then falling back a step to look up at the house. "I couldn't live in that room alone, as you do, sir. I should get so fidgety and worried of an evening, sometimes, that I should be driven to come to the door and stand here sooner than sit there. But then it's very true that you didn't see, in your room, what I saw there. That makes a difference." "I know quite enough about it," returns Tony. "It's not agreeable, is it?" pursues Mr. Snagsby, coughing his cough of mild persuasion behind his hand. "Mr. Krook ought to consider it in the rent. I hope he does, I am sure." "I hope he does," says Tony. "But I doubt it." "You find the rent too high, do you, sir?" returns the stationer. "Rents ARE high about here. I don't know how it is exactly, but the law seems to put things up in price. Not," adds Mr. Snagsby with his apologetic cough, "that I mean to say a word against the profession I get my living by." Mr. Weevle again glances up and down the court and then looks at the stationer. Mr. Snagsby, blankly catching his eye, looks upward for a star or so and coughs a cough expressive of not exactly seeing his way out of this conversation. "It's a curious fact, sir," he observes, slowly rubbing his hands, "that he should have been—" "Who's he?" interrupts Mr. Weevle. "The deceased, you know," says Mr. Snagsby, twitching his head and right eyebrow towards the staircase and tapping his acquaintance on the button. "Ah, to be sure!" returns the other as if he were not over-fond of the subject. "I thought we had done with him." "I was only going to say it's a curious fact, sir, that he should have come and lived here, and been one of my writers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appellation," says Mr. Snagsby, breaking off with a mistrust that he may have unpolitely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, "because I have known writers that have gone into brewers' houses and done really very respectable indeed. Eminently respectable, sir," adds Mr. Snagsby with a misgiving that he has not improved the matter. "It's a curious coincidence, as you say," answers Weevle, once more glancing up and down the court. "Seems a fate in it, don't there?" suggests the stationer. "There does." "Just so," observes the stationer with his confirmatory cough. "Quite a fate in it. Quite a fate. Well, Mr. Weevle, I am afraid I must bid you good night"—Mr. Snagsby speaks as if it made him desolate to go, though he has been casting about for any means of escape ever since he stopped to speak—"my little woman will be looking for me else. Good night, sir!"
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From Previous Page If Mr. Snagsby hastens home to save his little woman the trouble of looking for him, he might set his mind at rest on that score. His little woman has had her eye upon him round the Sol's Arms all this time and now glides after him with a pocket handkerchief wrapped over her head, honouring Mr. Weevle and his doorway with a searching glance as she goes past. "You'll know me again, ma'am, at all events," says Mr. Weevle to himself; "and I can't compliment you on your appearance, whoever you are, with your head tied up in a bundle. Is this fellow NEVER coming!" This fellow approaches as he speaks. Mr. Weevle softly holds up his finger, and draws him into the passage, and closes the street door. Then they go upstairs, Mr. Weevle heavily, and Mr. Guppy (for it is he) very lightly indeed. When they are shut into the back room, they speak low. "I thought you had gone to Jericho at least instead of coming here," says Tony. "Why, I said about ten." "You said about ten," Tony repeats. "Yes, so you did say about ten. But according to my count, it's ten times ten—it's a hundred o'clock. I never had such a night in my life!" "What has been the matter?" "That's it!" says Tony. "Nothing has been the matter. But here have I been stewing and fuming in this jolly old crib till I have had the horrors falling on me as thick as hail. THERE'S a blessed-looking candle!" says Tony, pointing to the heavily burning taper on his table with a great cabbage head and a long winding-sheet. "That's easily improved," Mr. Guppy observes as he takes the snuffers in hand. "IS it?" returns his friend. "Not so easily as you think. It has been smouldering like that ever since it was lighted." "Why, what's the matter with you, Tony?" inquires Mr. Guppy, looking at him, snuffers in hand, as he sits down with his elbow on the table. "William Guppy," replies the other, "I am in the downs. It's this unbearably dull, suicidal room— and old Boguey downstairs, I suppose." Mr. Weevle moodily pushes the snuffers-tray from him with his elbow, leans his head on his hand, puts his feet on the fender, and looks at the fire. Mr. Guppy, observing him, slightly tosses his head and sits down on the other side of the table in an easy attitude. "Wasn't that Snagsby talking to you, Tony?" "Yes, and he—yes, it was Snagsby," said Mr. Weevle, altering the construction of his sentence. "On business?" "No. No business. He was only sauntering by and stopped to prose." "I thought it was Snagsby," says Mr. Guppy, "and thought it as well that he shouldn't see me, so I waited till he was gone." "There we go again, William G.!" cried Tony, looking up for an instant. "So mysterious and secret! By George, if we were going to commit a murder, we couldn't have more mystery about it!" Mr. Guppy affects to smile, and with the view of changing the conversation, looks with an admiration, real or pretended, round the room at the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, terminating his survey with the portrait of Lady Dedlock over the mantelshelf, in which she is represented on a terrace, with a pedestal upon the terrace, and a vase upon the pedestal, and her shawl upon the vase, and a prodigious piece of fur upon the shawl, and her arm on the prodigious piece of fur, and a bracelet on her arm. "That's very like Lady Dedlock," says Mr. Guppy. "It's a speaking likeness." "I wish it was," growls Tony, without changing his position. "I should have some fashionable conversation, here, then." Finding by this time that his friend is not to be wheedled into a more sociable humour, Mr. Guppy puts about upon the ill-used tack and remonstrates with him. "Tony," says he, "I can make allowances for lowness of spirits, for no man knows what it is when it does come upon a man better than I do, and no man perhaps has a better right to know it than a man who has an unrequited image imprinted on his 'eart. But there are bounds to these things when an unoffending party is in question, and I will acknowledge to you, Tony, that I don't think your manner on the present occasion is hospitable or quite gentlemanly." "This is strong language, William Guppy," re-
Magazine turns Mr. Weevle. "Sir, it may be," retorts Mr. William Guppy, "but I feel strongly when I use it." Mr. Weevle admits that he has been wrong and begs Mr. William Guppy to think no more about it. Mr. William Guppy, however, having got the advantage, cannot quite release it without a little more injured remonstrance. "No! Dash it, Tony," says that gentleman, "you really ought to be careful how you wound the feelings of a man who has an unrequited image imprinted on his 'eart and who is NOT altogether happy in those chords which vibrate to the tenderest emotions. You, Tony, possess in yourself all that is calculated to charm the eye and allure the taste. It is not—happily for you, perhaps, and I may wish that I could say the same— it is not your character to hover around one flower. The ole garden is open to you, and your airy pinions carry you through it. Still, Tony, far be it from me, I am sure, to wound even your feelings without a cause!" Tony again entreats that the subject may be no longer pursued, saying emphatically, "William Guppy, drop it!" Mr. Guppy acquiesces, with the reply, "I never should have taken it up, Tony, of my own accord." "And now," says Tony, stirring the fire, "touching this same bundle of letters. Isn't it an extraordinary thing of Krook to have appointed twelve o'clock to-night to hand 'em over to me?" "Very. What did he do it for?" "What does he do anything for? HE don't know. Said to-day was his birthday and he'd hand 'em over to-night at twelve o'clock. He'll have drunk himself blind by that time. He has been at it all day." "He hasn't forgotten the appointment, I hope?" "Forgotten? Trust him for that. He never forgets anything. I saw him to-night, about eight— helped him to shut up his shop—and he had got the letters then in his hairy cap. He pulled it off and showed 'em me. When the shop was closed, he took them out of his cap, hung his cap on the chair-back, and stood turning them over before the fire. I heard him a little while afterwards, through the floor here, humming like the wind, the only song he knows—about Bibo, and old Charon, and Bibo being drunk when he died, or something or other. He has been as quiet since as an old rat asleep in his hole." "And you are to go down at twelve?" "At twelve. And as I tell you, when you came it seemed to me a hundred." "Tony," says Mr. Guppy after considering a little with his legs crossed, "he can't read yet, can he?" "Read! He'll never read. He can make all the letters separately, and he knows most of them separately when he sees them; he has got on that much, under me; but he can't put them together. He's too old to acquire the knack of it now—and too drunk." "Tony," says Mr. Guppy, uncrossing and recrossing his legs, "how do you suppose he spelt out that name of Hawdon?" "He never spelt it out. You know what a curious power of eye he has and how he has been used to employ himself in copying things by eye alone. He imitated it, evidently from the direction of a letter, and asked me what it meant." "Tony," says Mr. Guppy, uncrossing and recrossing his legs again, "should you say that the original was a man's writing or a woman's?" "A woman's. Fifty to one a lady's—slopes a good deal, and the end of the letter 'n,' long and hasty." Mr. Guppy has been biting his thumb-nail during this dialogue, generally changing the thumb when he has changed the cross leg. As he is going to do so again, he happens to look at his coatsleeve. It takes his attention. He stares at it, aghast. "Why, Tony, what on earth is going on in this house to-night? Is there a chimney on fire?" "Chimney on fire!" "Ah!" returns Mr. Guppy. "See how the soot's falling. See here, on my arm! See again, on the table here! Confound the stuff, it won't blow off— smears like black fat!" They look at one another, and Tony goes listening to the door, and a little way upstairs, and a little way downstairs. Comes back and says it's all right and all quiet, and quotes the remark he lately made to Mr. Snagsby about their cooking chops at the Sol's Arms. "And it was then," resumes Mr. Guppy, still glancing with remarkable aversion at the coat-sleeve, as they pursue their conversation before the fire,
leaning on opposite sides of the table, with their heads very near together, "that he told you of his having taken the bundle of letters from his lodger's portmanteau?" "That was the time, sir," answers Tony, faintly adjusting his whiskers. "Whereupon I wrote a line to my dear boy, the Honourable William Guppy, informing him of the appointment for tonight and advising him not to call before, Boguey being a slyboots." The light vivacious tone of fashionable life which is usually assumed by Mr. Weevle sits so ill upon him to-night that he abandons that and his whiskers together, and after looking over his shoulder, appears to yield himself up a prey to the horrors again. "You are to bring the letters to your room to read and compare, and to get yourself into a position to tell him all about them. That's the arrangement, isn't it, Tony?" asks Mr. Guppy, anxiously biting his thumb-nail. "You can't speak too low. Yes. That's what he and I agreed." "I tell you what, Tony—" "You can't speak too low," says Tony once more. Mr. Guppy nods his sagacious head, advances it yet closer, and drops into a whisper. "I tell you what. The first thing to be done is to make another packet like the real one so that if he should ask to see the real one while it's in my possession, you can show him the dummy." "And suppose he detects the dummy as soon as he sees it, which with his biting screw of an eye is about five hundred times more likely than not," suggests Tony. "Then we'll face it out. They don't belong to him, and they never did. You found that, and you placed them in my hands—a legal friend of yours—for security. If he forces us to it, they'll be producible, won't they?" "Ye-es," is Mr. Weevle's reluctant admission. "Why, Tony," remonstrates his friend, "how you look! You don't doubt William Guppy? You don't suspect any harm?" "I don't suspect anything more than I know, William," returns the other gravely. "And what do you know?" urges Mr. Guppy, raising his voice a little; but on his friend's once more warning him, "I tell you, you can't speak too low," he repeats his question without any sound at all, forming with his lips only the words, "What do you know?" "I know three things. First, I know that here we are whispering in secrecy, a pair of conspirators." "Well!" says Mr. Guppy. "And we had better be that than a pair of noodles, which we should be if we were doing anything else, for it's the only way of doing what we want to do. Secondly?" "Secondly, it's not made out to me how it's likely to be profitable, after all." Mr. Guppy casts up his eyes at the portrait of Lady Dedlock over the mantelshelf and replies, "Tony, you are asked to leave that to the honour of your friend. Besides its being calculated to serve that friend in those chords of the human mind which—which need not be called into agonizing vibration on the present occasion—your friend is no fool. What's that?" "It's eleven o'clock striking by the bell of Saint Paul's. Listen and you'll hear all the bells in the city jangling." Both sit silent, listening to the metal voices, near and distant, resounding from towers of various heights, in tones more various than their situations. When these at length cease, all seems more mysterious and quiet than before. One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound—strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow. So sensitive the two friends happen to be that the air is full of these phantoms, and the two look over their shoulders by one consent to see that the door is shut. "Yes, Tony?" says Mr. Guppy, drawing nearer to the fire and biting his unsteady thumb-nail. "You were going to say, thirdly?" "It's far from a pleasant thing to be plotting about a dead man in the room where he died, especially when you happen to live in it." "But we are plotting nothing against him, Tony." "May be not, still I don't like it. Live here by yourself and see how YOU like it." "As to dead men, Tony," proceeds Mr. Guppy, evading this proposal, "there have been dead men in most rooms."
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"I know there have, but in most rooms you let them alone, and—and they let you alone," Tony answers. The two look at each other again. Mr. Guppy makes a hurried remark to the effect that they may be doing the deceased a service, that he hopes so. There is an oppressive blank until Mr. Weevle, by stirring the fire suddenly, makes Mr. Guppy start as if his heart had been stirred instead. "Fah! Here's more of this hateful soot hanging about," says he. "Let us open the window a bit and get a mouthful of air. It's too close." He raises the sash, and they both rest on the window-sill, half in and half out of the room. The neighbouring houses are too near to admit of their seeing any sky without craning their necks and looking up, but lights in frowsy windows here and there, and the rolling of distant carriages, and the new expression that there is of the stir of men, they find to be comfortable. Mr. Guppy, noiselessly tapping on the windowsill, resumes his whispering in quite a light-comedy tone. "By the by, Tony, don't forget old Smallweed," meaning the younger of that name. "I have not let him into this, you know. That grandfather of his is too keen by half. It runs in the family." "I remember," says Tony. "I am up to all that." "And as to Krook," resumes Mr. Guppy. "Now, do you suppose he really has got hold of any other papers of importance, as he has boasted to you, since you have been such allies?" Tony shakes his head. "I don't know. Can't Imagine. If we get through this business without rousing his suspicions, I shall be better informed, no doubt. How can I know without seeing them, when he don't know himself? He is always spelling out words from them, and chalking them over the table and the shop-wall, and asking what this is and what that is; but his whole stock from beginning to end may easily be the waste-paper he bought it as, for anything I can say. It's a monomania with him to think he is possessed of documents. He has been going to learn to read them this last quarter of a century, I should judge, from what he tells me." "How did he first come by that idea, though? That's the question," Mr. Guppy suggests with one eye shut, after a little forensic meditation. "He may have found papers in something he bought, where papers were not supposed to be, and may have got it into his shrewd head from the manner and place of their concealment that they are worth something." "Or he may have been taken in, in some pretended bargain. Or he may have been muddled altogether by long staring at whatever he HAS got, and by drink, and by hanging about the Lord Chancellor's Court and hearing of documents for ever," returns Mr. Weevle. Mr. Guppy sitting on the window-sill, nodding his head and balancing all these possibilities in his mind, continues thoughtfully to tap it, and clasp it, and measure it with his hand, until he hastily draws his hand away. "What, in the devil's name," he says, "is this! Look at my fingers!" A thick, yellow liquor defiles them, which is offensive to the touch and sight and more offensive to the smell. A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. "What have you been doing here? What have you been pouring out of window?" "I pouring out of window! Nothing, I swear! Never, since I have been here!" cries the lodger. And yet look here—and look here! When he brings the candle here, from the corner of the window-sill, it slowly drips and creeps away down the bricks, here lies in a little thick nauseous pool. "This is a horrible house," says Mr. Guppy, shutting down the window. "Give me some water or I shall cut my hand off." He so washes, and rubs, and scrubs, and smells, and washes, that he has not long restored himself with a glass of brandy and stood silently before the fire when Saint Paul's bell strikes twelve and all those other bells strike twelve from their towers of various heights in the dark air, and in their many tones. When all is quiet again, the lodger says, "It's the appointed time at last. Shall I go?" Mr. Guppy nods and gives him a "lucky touch" on the back, but not with the washed hand, though it is his right hand.
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CARAVANS AND TRAILERS
CARPENTRY
CertificateIIIIII General General Constriction. Certificate Construction. Extensions/Renovations. Verandahs Extensions/Renovations. Verandahs&& Pergolas.Assisting Assisting Owner Owner Builders. Pegolas. Builders.
ANTENNAS
BIN HIRE
BUILDERS
CARPENTRY
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AUTO ELECTRICS
BIN HIRE
CARPETS
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Trades & Services Directory CARPET CLEANING CARPET CLEANING EMERGENCY WATER DAMAGE RESTORATION SERVICE 24 HOURS PREFERRED RESTORER TO ALL MAJOR INSURANCE COMPANIES • Move out clean a specialty • Residential air duct cleaning service www. • Tile and grout/high pressure cleaning steamatic. • Upholstery and rug cleaning com.au
5797 2555 DIRECT 0438 354 886
CLEANING
CONCRETING Alexandra & Yea
EARTHMOVING
ELECTRICIANS
EARTHMOVING
ELECTRICAL
PREMIX Ready mix concrete
Serving the Shire of Murrindindi for 25 years
sand • screenings • reinforcing steel • plastic
5772 1815 or 0408 576 129 hollis@virtual.net.au
Lot 8 Peterkin Pl, Alexandra. 6 Grevillea St, Yea.
CONSTRUCTION CONCRETE & TIMBER RETAINING WALLS
Domestic, Commercial & Industrial
Civil - Commercial - Domestic Contact: 0438 123 273 aceconstructionfencing.com
CONVEYANCING
ELECTRICAL
Debra Loveday 5772 2500. 71 Grant St, Alexandra debra@sargeantsm.com.au Conveyancing throughout Victoria
CHIMNEY SWEEP
CONVEYANCING
ELECTRICAL
ELECTRICS
Buying or selling property? SERVICES PROVIDED • Buying or selling property - residential or commercial • Off the Plan house, unit, apartment - buying or selling • Off the Plan Land - buying or selling • Transfer of Land - between related parties, spouses and more • Subdivisions. • Refinances • Updating a title (i.e. registering a death) Maria Tomlinson Licensed Conveyancer 0429 290 061 conveysolutions@bigpond.com
REC: 13433. AU27974 Brad: 0411 875 207 apolloelectrics@hotmail.com Specialises in: • All electrical service and installation • Melbourne’s BEST Split System Installation. • Free home site inpsection and quote • 24/7 Emergency break down service EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE AND WORKMANSHIP FROM LOCAL FAMILY BUSINESS
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CLEANING
COUNSELLOR
ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING
Counselling, Clinical Hypnotherapist. Medium Bette Phillips-Campbell, AACHP
Ph. 0409 788 883 CONCRETE PIPES
Ken Dickson
CRANE TRUCK HIRE
10 Peterkin Pl, Alexandra I christie.kirley@hotmail.com
ELECTRICAL
T&J MITCHELL EXCAVATION TRUCK TRAILER 5 Tonne and 25 Tonne BOBCAT track machines concrete driveways and sheds site excavation - site cleaning low loader hay and silage cartage and silage grab. dams and driveway constructions experienced tradie Tony ph 0408 584 854
Concrete Pipes
rejects 225mm-1200mm in stock other sizes available
0407 298 636 Maroondah Hwy, Merton
CONCRETING
EXCAVATION
CURTAINS AND BLINDS
ELECTRICAL
EXCAVATION & EARTHMOVING
Dingo Mini Digger
Call the team today
Easy Access To Tight Spaces • Trencher • Posthole Digger 100-600mm • Rotary Hoe • 4-in-1 Bucket • Leveller • 3 Tyne Ripper For all your gardening, fencing & building needs
Call Will Mob: 0432 991 992 EXCAVATIONS Ph: 03 5797 2235
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Trades & Services Directory EXCAVATIONS
FENCING
HIRE
LEGAL AND PLANNING
KITCHENS
LEGAL SERVICES
All general farm fencing, cattle yards, sheep yards, vineyards, on site welding and oxy work. Tree plantation ripping. 5 hydraulic post drivers and pneumatic drivers. HAY CONTRACTING: Mowing, raking, round and square bales, cartage, loading, unloading. GRASS SLASHING: 4 extra heavy duty slashers. GENERAL FREIGHT: Hay, timber, wool, steel, grapes, machinery
GLEN (HORACE) McMASTER 5797 2921. Mobile 0417 529 809
GARAGE DOOR SPECIALISTS
BARRISTER & SOLICITOR ‘Riverview’ 1560 Goulburn Valley Hwy, Alexandra Phone 5773 2298 Fax 5773 2294
EXCAVATIONS All general earthworks and excavations. Free quotes dams, houseand shed sites, farm tracks driveways, trees, fence lines and scrub clearing. Wide range of machines available. Give us a go we won't disappoint. AH 5796 9129
Garage Door Specialists P/L
LAND SERVICES
MAINTENANCE
Sales and service off all types of garage doors, remote controls
Phone Jason 0419 899 057 www.gdsdoors.com.au
EXCAVATIONS
GARAGE DOORS
LANDSCAPES
MOTOR HOMES
EXCAVATION, EARTHMOVING
GUTTERING
LANDSCAPES
NATUROPATH Women’s Health & Hormone Imbalances Thyroid & Auto Immune Conditions Persistent Fatigue & Illness Digestive & Gut Concerns Stress & Anxiety Relief Ongoing Skin Issues
Gutter cleaning - single and double storey houes,sheds, barns and industrial, Solar panel cleaning.
HAIRDRESSING
LEGAL SERVICES
PAINTING
Interior and Exterior Painting • Experienced Painter • Free Quotes • Fully Insured • Competitively Priced
John 0400 917 218 5725 4513
jdhome1@optusnet.com.au
EXCAVATIONS
STRAYCAT EXCAVATIONS Bobcat, 4.5 Tonne Mini Excavator with Rock Breaker, Truck & Trailer, and Kato 15 Tonne Rock Breaker
Paul 0408 367 071
HANDYMAN
PARTY HIRE
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Trades & Services Directory PEST CONTROL
PLUMBER
RECYCLING
SCRAP REMOVAL
PLUMBER Simon Young 0429 052 166 I am a local guy who has lived in the area for more than 34 years and have 20 years’ plumbing experience. I pride myself in quality workmanship and reliability. • All areas of plumbing • Drainage • New Homes • Hot water installation • Renovations • Gas fitting • Roofing and Gutter • Maintenance and repairs • Septic tanks • Water tanks and pumps • Free quotes
Give me a try, I won’t let you down!
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PLUMBING
PLASTERING
POWDER COATING
SECURITY DOORS
REMEDIAL MASSAGE
SEPTIC TANK CLEANING
R&J
SEPTIC TANK CLEANING SEPTIC TANK CLEANING TREATMENT PLANTS PORTABLE TOILETS GREASE TRAPS, TRIPLE INTERCEPTOR AND EPA LICENSED SERVICING THE MANSFIELD & MURRINDINDI SHIRES. CALL RYAN
0409 511 268
PLUMBERS
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE
RENEWABLE ENERGY
SEPTIC TANK CLEANING SEPTIC TANK CLEANING BOB WALLACE & SONS Serving the Kinglake Ranges and surrounding areas for 25 years. Family owned and operated business.
Property Maintenance Group PH: 0458 205 637
• Septic Tanks • Treatment Plants • Grease Traps • Portable Toilets • EPA Licensed • Yarra Valley Water Approved Disposal Site
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PUMPS
ROLLER SHUTTERS
SERVICES
PLUMBING
QUARRY
ROOF PLUMBING
STIHL SHOP
REIKI
ROOFING
TANKS AND GARDEN BEDS
(A CFA recommendation)
PLUMBERS
Reiki Healing Karli Chase: 0425 794 838 7 The Semi-Circle, Yea www.reikiinsight.com
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Trades & Services Directory TERMITE CONTROL
TREE SERVICES
TRIMMING
WATER CARTAGE
THERAPIES
TREE SERVICES
UPHOLSTERY
WINDOW CLEANING
Crystal Pine Tree Services
Maxwell’s
Pruning Tree Removal Bob Cat Truck Hire Insured and Experienced
PHILIP 0417 055 711 or 5772 1665
TREE CARE
TIMBER
Upholstery
Lounge, Dining, Repaired and Recovered, Chairs and Sofas Made tto o Or d e rr.. Lar ge Range of Ord Large Fabrics, Car and Boat Upholstery
Max Ewert
T: 5774 2201 M: 0417 321 781 E : max@maxwellsupholstery.com.au W : www.maxwellsupholstery.com.au Skyline Rd, Eildon
WATER
WINDSCREENS
WATER BORING
YOUR BUSINESS
MARK’S TREES BROADFORD
ABN: 40 971 066 598 Reliable, safe, quality work at an affordable price. FULLY INSURED - WILL BEAT ANY REASONABLE WRITTEN QUOTES
0416 245 784 or 5784 1175
TOWING AND TRANSPORT 0407 849 252
3877 Melba Hwy, Glenburn eddystowing1@gmail.com 24 HOURS-7 DAYS A WEEK 20 FT SECONDHAND SHIPPING CONTAINERS A-Grade,Premium, B-Grade, C-Grade FREE CAR REMOVAL, CASH PAID SOME CARS Truck,Motorbike,Ferrous,Non Ferrous ,Farm Clean Up Conditions apply Tractor,Earth Moving Equipment,Caravan,Boats (Up To 4 1/2 Tons) Full Tilt Tray Sevice
TOWING, PANELS, CUSTOMS
5 MELALEUCA ST, YEA PETER & LORETTA TRIM B: 5797 2800
M: 0428 390 544 petertrim@westnet.com.au F: 5797 2295
TREE SOLUTIONS
Global Tree Solutions Pty Ltd
Professional, Reliable & Competitive Qualified Tree Specialist Fully Insured & Over 30 Years Experience No-Obligation Free Quotations Mulch and Firewood for Sale Tree Felling Hedging Uplift Pruning Crown Weight Reductions Dead Wooding Stump Grinding Mulching Insurance Work
0439 721 943
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Tree Removal Tree Surgery & Pruning Consultations & Reports Elm Leaf Beetle Control Mulch & Firewood Sales
5783 3170
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Metropolitan and Regional Victoria
GARNET BAILEY 5799 2007 ALL HOURS Offering a caring and professional service throughout the Mitchell and surrounding Shires A LOCAL, WHO KNOWS LOCAL NEEDS
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Eildon
Marysville
SOLD
Walking distance to everything:• Neat & Tidy 3 bedroom 1 bathroom brick home • Situated on 656sqm land with views of Alexandra hills • Secure rear yard with Large shed & Double garage. • Short stroll to shops & schools. $450,000
Alexandra
Just a stroll to the Lake! • 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom brick home situated on just under 1000sqm • Central Kitchen with 2 huge living areas • Coonara wood heater & Air-conditioning • Double lockup garage with concrete floor & power $345,000
NEW
UNDER CONTRACT
Opportunity awaits • Large level block measuring 1017m2 approx • Views over Marysville surrounding hills • Power, Water & telecommunications ready to connect to • Walking distance to Marysville town centre $220,000
Opportunity Awaits:• Large flat residential block measuring 843sqm approx. • Excellent colour bond fencing • Water, sewer, power & telecommunications ready to connect to • Walking distance to Schools and shops $142,500
Maintongoon
Thornton
NEW
UNDER CONTRACT
Unique Investment Opportunity:• 3 refurbished 2 bedroom units all on one title • Situated on just over 1100sqm of land • Each with own private courtyard, front balcony & split systems • All currently tenanted with a return of over $30,000 pa $450,000
“Fairweather Farmgate” • Beautiful 3 period home circa1860’s situated on nearly 5Acres • Delightful mature gardens with established orchard • Home with central bathroom, separate dining room & wood heater • Solar hot water and Solar panels to reduce energy expenses • Plenty of rain water tanks & bore water $490,000 - $520,000
Views for Miles:• Delightful weekender nestled on appx 10AC 4Ha • 2 bedroom cottage with spectacular views of Lake Eildon • Central wood heater, open plan living & timber floors • Large outdoor deck to enjoy the views $420,000
Lifestyle Land:• Flat parcel of land measuring just under 2.5Ac • Situated in the heart of Yarck in a quiet cul de sac • Power & telecommunications available to connect to • Fully fenced with beautiful large gum tree. $230,000
Landmark Harcourts Alexandra 56 Grant Street, Alexandra I 5772 3444
UNDER OFFER IN 4 DAYS!
Bright & Sunny home on just over half an Acre A bright and sunny 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home on just over half an acre in the heart of Flowerdale. An inviting wraparound veranda to the front of the house, open plan living with split system and cosy Conara and a lovely private master suite with huge ensuit bathroom to the rear of the house. The garden has lovely established shade trees, a large garage, 2 green houses, raised veggie garden and espalier fruit trees set on 2270 m2 in a quiet street. Flowerdale has many drawcards for all sorts of tree-changers. Hikers, bird watchers and mountain bike riders will love the national park that surrounds Flowerdale. Families and retirees will be interested to note there is a Community house, local fishing club, line dancing classes, fund raising and volunteer groups and good food at the local Flowerdale Hotel. $440,000
49 Moores Road, Castella
Yarck
UNDER CONTRACT
Director/ Sales Specialist- Belinda Hocking 0418 115 574 Sales Specialist- Jody Murphy 0422 184 231 40 Riverside Crescent, Flowerdale
Alexandra
$1,100,000
Live happily ever after in this storybook home This enchanting house was built with love. For the first time on offer is this gorgeous 2 story home with open floor plan, beautiful timber & stone finishes and thoughtful touches throughout. Enter through custom made double doors into the formal living room with vaulted ceiling, random limestone flooring, open fireplace with stunning mantle; this area leads directly into a generous kitchen with modern appliances, farmhouse sink, wood fire ager, walk in pantry and stunning timber benchtops. The master suite is on the ground floor plus a formal dining area. Upstairs you will find a 2nd sitting room, 2 queen size bedrooms that open onto a sundeck. The 6.3 acre property also offers a single bedroom cottage with open plan living room/kitchen & a 2nd cottage that is currently used as a commercial kitchen / workshop that could easily be converted to a guest house. Both cottages have the potential to generate a rental or air B & B income. $1,100,000
20 Lyons Street, Yea
$480,000
Inviting home with breathtaking views Inviting home with breathtaking views of the surrounding countryside. Set back on this large block to take in some fantastic views is this charming, well-presented home. The ground floor consists of: open plan living, dining, kitchen all with views through large light filled windows. There is a family bathroom, laundry and one bedroom with robes: Upstairs are two large bedrooms with robes and there is access to a large balcony for relaxing and taking in the magnificent views of the old township & ranges surrounding Yea. Outdoors is a double carport that is partially enclosed, Covered Alfresco area to the back garden, garden shed and a well- loved, established garden which explodes into colour most of the year. $480,000
33 Carey Road, Yea
$498,000
Lifestyle Rural Land ready to build (STCA) on 8 acres Located only 4 minutes to the heart of Yea Township is this absolutely stunning parcel of fertile land with softly undulating hills and tranquil views over Killingworth & the Highland ranges beyond. 8 acres approx. with good fencing, a grand double gated entrance way, power available plus an ideal flat building site to take advantage of uninterrupted views of 280 degrees to enjoy sun up & sun down. Only a short walk to High Street Yea with amenities such as schools, childcare, medical service and world class eateries. $498,000
Real Estate Estate Sales Sales Professional Professional –– Kerryn Kerryn Rishworth Rishworth 0412 0412 346 169. kerryn.r@landmarkharcourts.com.au Real Property Management Management –– Sharon Butcher 0402 0409 113 439 927 805. sharon.butcher@landmark.com.au Property Sharon Contact Landmark Landmark Yea Yea for for all all of of your your Stock, Stock, Merchandise, Merchandise, Insurance Insurance && Financial Financial Services Services 5979 5797 2799 2799 Contact
Landmark Harcourts Yea 52 High Street, Yea I 5797 2799