Hitting a pothole

Until recently avoiding stray kangaroos was the major risk on our roads.

Now it’s hitting a pothole. We have become agile in the art of swerving gently that allows us to avoid the known ones. Then comes the clunk: a new one has ambushed the car.

Many people in our community are hitting the potholes which result from rising everything — prices of renting, the mortgage, food, power. And like the hole in the road, the economic pothole can be hard to see in advance.

St Brigid’s Parish Gisborne – incorporating St Ambrose Riddells Creek and St Patrick’s Macedon

Normal weekend services

Saturday, 6pm St Brigid’s Gisborne

Sunday, 8am St Ambrose Riddells Creek

Sunday, 9:30am St Patrick’s Macedon

Sunday, 11am St Brigid’s Gisborne

Everyone is welcome!

St Vincent de Paul

A new chapter of SVDP has recently been established in Gisborne. If you are in need of assistance, whether it be by way of food vouchers or perhaps furniture, please reach out 1800 305 330.

Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 9am to 5pm

Enquiries to gisborne@cam.org.au or 5428 2591.

Website: www.pol.org.au/gisborne

The Men’s Group meets on the first Tuesday monthly at 10am, excluding November (Melbourne Cup Day) and January. Our December meeting is usually a Christmas lunch at a local venue.

Any men interested in joining us, whether associated with a church or not, would be most welcome. Please contact John Cross (5420 7528) or myself.

Neil Tweddle 5426 2045

The labyrinthine ways of words

A word that continues to astound me is astonishing as it is appropriate – and if you sense alliteration being attempted, your attentive skills are very much attuned.

Amazing!

A maze is a puzzle designed to be mesmerising, confusing, and challenging.

The garden maze is meant to be a journey to the puzzle’s centre.

Obstacles, traditionally tall hedge growth, are placed in various parts of the passage. There is a way in and, equally, a way out.

Each path is explored until we are ready to move on to the next stage of the journey.

A traditional maze is like a labyrinth in design. There is a difference between a labyrinth and a maze.

A labyrinth has a distinct path to the centre with no obstacles. A labyrinth walk is meant to create a sense of rhythm and meditation. Labyrinths come in many varied designs.

The labyrinth at the Church of the Resurrection is a traditional ‘Seven’ circle; the Uniting Church, Riddells Creek labyrinth, is smaller.

Whatever size they are, they are meant to be a reminder of life itself.

The path of life is seldom straight but can be puzzling or an adventure.

Whatever life is, it is truly amazing.

Rev’d Dennis Webster

Many organisations and individuals in Gisborne and surrounds are doing what they can to offer support to those who have been shaken by recent problems. Each of the churches does more than offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ — they run projects and programs, offering food, other needed items and providing a listening ear.

During the COVID years, we recited the mantra ‘We’re all in this together.’ That must be the case now. Individual circumstances differ of course, but our community thrives when we work together to mend the holes in our social, economic and spiritual fabric.

Getting together is part of the mending process. Sunday mornings from 9.30am sees the gathering of the Uniting congregation and a warm welcome for anyone who wishes to join us. And on Tuesday 8 August, from 10-12, our Morning Matinee features the sadly warm film Brassed Off. Looking further ahead, on the afternoon of Monday 16 October, ladies of all ages, shapes and sizes will again be able to check out Australian made and reasonably priced clothes at our fashion parade. Each of these gatherings includes tea, very good coffee and delicious food.

Janet Wood

100 Years Ago

August 1923

Upper Macedon news – At a cost of over £160, considerable alterations and improvements have recently been made to the School Hall and Vestry of the Presbyterian Church, Upper Macedon. The hall has been re-floored, painted and put in first-class repair, and an enlarged vestry has been erected. The work has been carried out by Mr. Frank Bellhouse to the entire satisfaction of the committee, and next Saturday at 3.00pm, the formal re-opening of the hall is to take place.

Our well-known townsmen, Messrs. Jackson and H. Scott, intend erecting a sawmill on the Mount. We wish them good luck in their enterprise as it will fill a long felt want.

Tread lightly – Gisborne’s flimsy court –Patching the floor of the local Courthouse verandah with kerosene cases is surely the limit in Government economy, and that is what is being done here. Decayed and dilapidated, the floor is a danger to all compelled to pass over it. The building generally is sadly in need of repairs. Although the Shire Council has promised £60 towards renovations, the Public Works Department still slumbers.

– Gisborne Gazette, August 17, 1923

Oaklands Hounds at Gisborne. The Oakland Hounds met at New Gisborne on Saturday, and had a most enjoyable run of about six and a half miles to Riddell. The weather and the ground were perfect, and about 33 fences were negotiated. A large assemblage of people witnessed the run, and the roadway was lined with vehicles. – The Argus, August 20, 1923

“Glorious” Experience – The fine sunny weekend saw delegates to the Pan-Pacific Congress scattered to the four points of the compass, in search of knowledge in direct touch with nature. The trip taken by the geologists and the geographical section was described as glorious. On Saturday morning 50 scientists left the Haymarket in 10 motor-cars for Macedon. They inspected interesting geological formations near the Clyde Girls’ Grammar School [today’s Braemar College] and thence proceeded to ... Hanging Rock, which – to a geologist – is a volcanic plug. The travelers ... were impressed with the variety both of geology and of scenery.

– The Argus, August 20, 1923

Railway engineer dies in Bendigo – The death occurred shortly before midnight of Mr. G.W. Knight, 92 years of age. Mr Knight studied architecture and engineering under his father in England, and came to Victoria when he was a young man. He was the engineer of the Saltwater-Williamstown railway. He also engineered the Sunbury section of the Bendigo-Melbourne railway, the Jackson Creek viaduct being a portion of the work carried out under his direction. – The Herald, 4 August 1923

WHAT'S ON WHAT ELSE IS ON

Meetings

ADULT RIDING CLUB (Gis) 2nd Saturday I R Robertson Res

ADULT RIDING CLUB (Bullengarook) 2nd Saturday Rec Reserve

AMATEUR RADIO CLUB 3rd Saturday 10am Woodend RSL. www.mrarc.org.au

ANGLING CLUB 2nd Wed 8pm Railway Hotel Macedon

BOTANIC GARDENS working bee every Thurs 9.30am-10.30am

BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP 1st & 3rd Tues 10.30am Gisborne Golf Club

BRIDGE CLUB Mon 12.30, Tues 7.15, Thurs 12.30 St Mary’s Church Hall, Woodend 5420 7595

BUSHWALKING CLUB Various locations secretary@gisbornebwc.org.au

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP last Wed of month Macedon Ranges Health, Neal Street

CAR CLUB 1st Wednesday 8pm Steam Park, New Gisb

CARERS GROUP (Mac Ranges) 2nd & 4th Thurs, 1pm Woodend RSL 5420 7132 (Note: 4th Thurs carers only)

COMMUNITY GARDEN Wed 9am Church of Christ

CROQUET CLUB Wed & Sat 10am Dixon Field

CWA GISBORNE 2nd Monday 10am Gis Secondary College

CWA MACEDON 3rd Tues 1pm & 7pm 662 Mt Macedon Rd

DALY RESERVE WORKING BEE 2nd Tues 9.30am Scout Hall, Daly Res

FILM SOCIETY 2nd Wed Woodend Neigh’hood House 5427 2323

FLY FISHING CLUB 4th Wed 7.30pm MRFEC Gisborne

FOCUS CLUB 2nd Fri 12 noon Gisborne Golf Club

FRIENDS of JACKSONS CREEK working bees 3rd Sun 10-noon David Tunbridge 0415 534 477

GARDEN CLUB 2nd Wed various venues 0424 038 474

GENEALOGY GROUP 4th Thurs 7.30 Family Hist Rm, Library

GIRL GUIDES Thursdays 5pm Gis Scout Hall

GISBORNE SINGERS Wed 7.30pm Gisborne Uniting Church

HISTORICAL SOCIETY open Wed 10am-4pm Court House

LIBRARY: TODDLERS’ STORY TIME Mon 10.30am, Wed 10.30am

LIONS CLUB (Gisborne) First Thurs of month, 7.30pm 247 Station Rd

MARTIAL ARTS Thurs from 6pm St Brigid’s Hall; gisborne@junseikan.com.au

MASONIC LODGE 2nd Thurs 7pm Masonic Hall Aitken St

MASTERS AFL Wed 6.30pm Sankey Reserve MUFFINS ’N’ MORE 2nd Tues 10am-noon Uniting Church

MUMS GROUP 2nd Mon 9.30-11.30am 49 Fisher St

OBEDIENCE DOG CLUB Sun 9am Riddells Rec Res

PETANQUE 2nd & 4th Sat 10am behind Caltex service station, Station Rd, Gisborne 0439 887 178

PHOENIX ART & CRAFTS 1st Thursday phoenixmrac.com

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOC 1st Tues & 2nd Mon 7pm Dromkeen, Riddells Ck

PONY CLUB Bullengarook 1st Sunday Rec Reserve

PONY CLUB Gisborne 1st Sunday Robertson Reserve

PROBUS 1st Thurs 10am Mechanics Inst.

QUILTERS (Gisb) Wed 7pm Room attached to Gisb Library

RAMBLERS Fridays 9.15am Tennis Club Dixon Field

ROTARY (Gisborne) 1st & 3rd Tues 7pm Telegraph Hotel (email gisbornerotary@gmail.com for confirmation of venue

ROTARY (Macedon Ranges) 1st Tuesday, 6.30 dinner, 7.45 meeting Baringo Food & Wine rotarymacedonranges@gmail.com

RUNNING GROUP Tues & Thurs 6pm, Sun 8am Gis Aquatic Centre

RSL 1st Mon 1.30pm Gis Golf Club 5428 2233

SENIOR CITS (Macedon) Tues 11am Tony Clarke Res

SPINNERS & FIBRE GROUP Wed 12 noon Rec Reserve Bullengarook

SUPPORT AFTER SUICIDE 2nd Mon each month, even if public holiday, 7-8.30pm Newham Mechanics Inst (1292 Rochford Rd)

TABLE TENNIS Wed 7.30pm Tony Clarke Res, Macedon

THUNDER SWIMMING CLUB 2nd Sat 5pm Gisborne Aquatic Centre

TOY LIBRARY Every Tues 9.30-10.30am; Sat 9.30-11am 71 Robertson St

ULYSSES GROUP 3rd Tues 6pm Sunbury FC

VINTAGE MACHINERY Working bees 1st Sun of month, 8.30am at Steam Park; meetings last Friday of month, 7pm at Steam Park

WRITERS GROUP Last Sat of month 2-5pm Woodend N’hood House WRITERS (Scribes & Scribblers) 2nd Tues 10am-12 Riddell N’hood House

YOUNG VOICES Thursdays 4.15-5.45pm Norma Richardson Hall, Buckland St, Woodend, 5426 4801 or sdggome@patash.com.au

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Crossword Answers

3. Scullin

4. Stawell

5. Sandhurst

6. Stonehenge

7. Sagittarius

8. Switzerland

9. Spiders

11. Southern

12. Sunbury

13. Spain

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Baringo Film Club

Screening