Gisborne Gazette November 2016

E FRE Issue No 113

November 2016

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Circulation 9000

Colour Fun The parkland along Jackson Creek was full of laughter on October 23 as nearly 1000 people participated in the third annual Macedon Ranges Health Colour Run and Walk. In perfect spring weather, 800 participants ran or walked either 2.5km or 5km, passing through five stations in which community group members sprayed them with brightly coloured powder.

It was wonderful to see kids, adults and family units participating in the friendly outdoor fun together.

Macedon Ranges Health organises the event to promote healthy activity, community linkages and social inclusion as well as to raise funds for the not-for-profit community health provider. For more pictures and a report by event coordinator Kelly Milne, see page 5.

Picture: Macedon Ranges Health

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Kids Corner FROM the Editor’s Desk with Corinne Shaddock

I had the pleasure of participating in the Macedon Ranges Health Colour Run and Walk on October 23. It was great fun and wonderful to see how the community is enjoying and supporting this event.

GREAT Gisborne Gazette

New Councillors

The Gazette Team Editor: Corinne Shaddock

The provisional results of the Council election were released just before we went to print. Congratulations to new South Ward Councillors Mandi Mees, Helen Radnedge and Andrew Twaits. We look forward to hearing from them in turn in our Councillor’s Column which will return next month.

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Winners

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This month we share success stories of a local film maker, author, indoor soccer (Futsal) team, photographer and environmental sustainability expert. What talent we have in our area!

Production Pip Butler 5428 2201 pbutlerhistory@gmail.com Graeme Millar, Elaine Millar

The Gazette has also had a win recently. In October, our paper was awarded ‘Best Community Content’ at the 2016 Community Newspapers Association of Victoria conference. This is the second year we have won this award, and we couldn’t do it without our dedicated reporters, so congratulations to all of you for this recognition.

Photographer Ron Weste 5426 3322

Happy reading.

Corinne

CFA Open Day The Gisborne Fire Brigade will be opening their doors as part of the statewide CFA Open Day at 10am on Sunday November 13.

The day is a chance for the community to learn more about what the CFA does in a relaxed and fun environment.

The brigade will have a range of information available and will conduct activities, including fire training demonstrations, fire safety advice for the upcoming fire danger period, kids’ activities and a sausage sizzle.

We hope to see you there!

PAWS IN THE PARK Gisborne Veterinary Clinic is holding Paws in the Park in Gisborne on Sunday November 13. Register at the clinic at 9am on Sunday morning (or you can preregister.) $10 per person or $25 for a family.

There will be food and drinks, hydro bathing/grooming, animal photography and dental checks. Funds raised support animal welfare groups and local riding clubs.

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The GREAT Gisborne Gazette is supported by Macedon Ranges Shire Council.

Secretary/Treasurer Ian Boyd 0417 059 525 secretary@gisbornegazette.org.au

Reporter changes After 10 years, Melanie Fattore finishes her Gazette reporting this month with her final Macedon Musing article on page 33. Melanie has been an outstanding columnist for the Gazette and we thank her for her contribution. Happily, another Macedon resident, Belinda Carlton-Doney, has already stepped up to be our new Macedon reporter starting next month.

Thanks also to Barry Wills who has handed over his reporting role for the Rotary Club of Gisborne after five years.

Lastly, thanks to Chris Williams who retired from his role as a gardening columnist last month. Chris’s monthly columns about the changing seasons at Bolobek and gardening advice have been much appreciated and we thank him for his contributions to the Gazette over the past three years.

The local council election results had only just been declared when the Gazette went to press this month hence there is no Councillor's Column. We expect to resume this regular feature next month.

Here are some matters Macedon Ranges Shire Council would like to inform residents about.

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Council enforcing parking restrictions Macedon Ranges Shire Council would like to remind motorists to be mindful of parking restrictions and always check for sign-posted time limits, clearways and no standing areas.

Enforcement officers, who regularly patrol high traffic areas, have seen a rise in cars parking illegally. This includes motorists using disability parking bays without a valid permit and double-parking to load vehicles.

The restrictions contribute to road safety for motorists and pedestrians, they allow close and safe acccess for people with disabilities and they enable a regular turnover of car spaces, which supports local traders.

Drivers run the risk of a fine of up to $155.

Nominations for Australia Day Awards now open Nominate someone in the local community now for an Australia Day Award. These awards recognise and celebrate inspirational people who make ongoing contributions to the shire. Categories are Citizen of the Year, Young Citizen of the Year, Community Achievement, Community Event and Arts Ambassador.

For more information and/or nomination forms, visit mrsc.vic.gov.au/australiaday, pick up a nomination form from a Council customer service centre or contact the governance administration officer on 5422 0320.

Nominations close on Monday November 7.

Australia Day grant for local events Got a great idea for a community event to help celebrate Australia Day? Why not apply for a grant of up to $500 to help you realise your vision. Be it a barbecue, fun run, film night or musical performance, an Australia Day grant helps support community groups who wish to celebrate Australia Day and bring the community together.

Apply by visiting mrsc.vic.gov.au/australiaday or pick up a grant application from a customer service centre.

Closing date for applications is Monday November 7.

Where to pick up the Gazette If you do not receive the Gazette in your letter box, you can collect a copy at: Mt Macedon: The Trading Post.

Macedon: Post Office, IGA store and the service station on Black Forest Drive.

Gisborne: Village Shopping Centre, Gisborne Library, Foodworks supermarket, Caltex Service Station,

Coles supermarket and the GREAT Centre in Hamilton Street.

New Gisborne: Baringo Food and Wine Co in Station Road, and the cafe in the Industrial Estate.

Riddells Creek: Neighbourhood House.

Woodend: Information Centre and Library.

Sunbury: Information Centre and Library.

Winners are grinners Futsal team takes out Victorian championships

Nicki Hamilton (left) and her friend Chantal Harris outside Gardiner's after the car was towed.

Random act of kindness stuns visitor Nicki Hamilton of Scoresby is still pinching herself after a heartwarming incident in Gisborne on October 16.

Having driven up to have lunch with her motherin-law Joy at the Victorian Tavern, Nicki found on leaving that her car would not start. A man walking past noticed her distress and very generously gave her more than enough money to join the RACV, who duly arrived to tow the car to Gardiner's Garage.

As well, the good samaritan gave Nicki enough money to buy herself, her son and a friend coffees while waiting for her husband to drive up to collect them. Nicki wants to publicly thank this kind gentleman.

She and her husband have been so impressed by this example of Gisborne compassion that they are considering moving to live in the town.

Remembrance Day in Gisborne This year's Remembrance Day service in Gisborne will be a special one because it will include the unveiling of WW1 veterans’ names on the memorial.

The service will be held at the war memorial in Hamilton Street from 10.30am on Friday November 11. All are welcome.

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The winning team shows the silverware, with coach Simon Bishop.

Wild Victory turned out to be the perfect name for this 10 and Under team from Macedon Ranges Futsal. A group of eight kids who simply enjoy the sport of Futsal came together under a great coach to become the wild card victors of the State Futsal Titles in Ballarat on October 23.

Despite having no training together, the team answered all that was thrown at them, taking the teams from Melbourne, Ballarat and Bendigo by surprise.

Their proud coach, Simon Bishop, said, “there is a saying ‘a champion team will always beat a team of champions’ and on Sunday that’s what happened.” He said he felt honored to coach such an amazing group of players.

Amanda Henson,Secretary

Filmmaker wins Canberra award Evan Hughes is an aspiring filmmaker who is particularly interested in stop motion. He has had a passion for film since childhood and has worked within the entertainment industry since completing secondary college.

Evan has worked as an editor, freelance camera operator, and currently works for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a rigger. In his spare time, he helps operate the Macedon Railway Hotel.

On September 18, Evan won the award for Best Animation at the Canberra Short Film Festival for his film Balloon Ride. Evan has won several awards globally with this film. Balloon Ride is a dark narrative about a boy who is a victim of domestic violence.

The father is a cruel man, the mother is dominated, frail and powerless, and the boy feels the threat of danger lurking around every corner of the house. He dreams of escaping

Evan Hughes in his studio. with his mother, only to wake up to a tragic reality.

Creating Balloon Ride was challenging but also rewarding and took three years to complete. Evan was determined to create drama without dialogue, using facial expressions and movement.

Balloon Ride is still on the festival circuit and is therefore not yet available for general viewing.

Author scores with Hector Crawford biography Congratulations to South Gisborne author Rozzi Bazzani who won the History Publication Award at the Victorian Community History Awards

in October for her book Hector: The Story of Hector Crawford and Crawford Productions about the life and times of the late TV master Hector Crawford.

Rozzi Bazzani accepts her award.

And that's not all! See p19 for Ron Weste's photography award and p33 for Phil Wilkinson's sustainability award.

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Kids Corner Proudly sponsored by Sacred Heart College Kyneton

Spot the difference

Can you find eight differences?

Jokes and riddles What do you call 12 white horses on a red hill?

12 teeth and a tongue.

What has a foot but no legs?

A snail.

What has a tongue and a soul but is not alive?

A shoe.

How can a pant pocket be empty but still have something in it?

It can have a hole in it.

What did the man say when he walked into the bar?

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2. Where was Ned Kelly's last stand?

3. What year was Melbourne founded?

4. On which pole can you find polar bears?

5. Which planet is closest to the sun?

6. What takes more room – a liquid litre of water or a frozen one?

7. What is the capital of India?

New life emerges at Manna Gum centre Children at Manna Gum Family and Children’s Centre have been learning about the life cycle of chickens recently with the hatching of a number of new chicks.

The eggs were bought from a commercial breeder and placed in an incubator at the centre, where children observed the first signs of the outer shell chipping, and later looked on in wonder as eggs cracked open and baby chicks emerged.

The process has captivated the children, with educators taking great care to Seeing the chicks emerge was instil an ethic in the marvellous for the children. children regarding the welfare and protection of the chicks.

Each child is encouraged to handle a chick, with children demonstrating impeccable behaviour around the incubator during the hatching process and with the new chicks.

Small and fragile were words children used to describe these endearing creatures, with the experience inspiring learning about life cycles and animal care as well as interest in a variety of other animals that are oviparous (hatch from eggs).

The centre’s existing pet chickens Chick-chick, Blackblack and Pumpkin will have some company in the chook pen with the new additions – although from the children’s caring ways with the chooks, there’ll be plenty of love and affection to go around!

This month's cut and paste crew

What musical instrument do you find in the bathroom?

A tuba toothpaste.

Why did the boy bring a ladder to school?

He wanted to go to high school.

What does a vampire say after it has a fun time?

Fangs for the memory.

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Colour Run fun The Macedon Ranges Health Colour Fun Run and Walk on October 23 was an outstanding success with 800 participants and over 100 volunteers taking part in the event.

Steps Performing Dance School warmed up the crowd and the weather gods were on our side with sunshine instead of rain.

Macedon Ranges Health CEO

Don Tidbury said, “This year’s event was our largest ever. The Colour Run is Macedon Ranges Health’s signature health promotion event. It provides a great day out for the family whilst encouraging healthy, active lifestyles.”

This event could not happen without the financial support of sponsors and the team of volunteers. Major sponsors were Bendigo Bank and Neal Street Medical Clinic. Volunteer groups supporting the event included the Mens Shed, Live4Life Crew, Gisborne Thunder Swimming Club, Gisborne Scouts, Rotary and the SES. Many individuals and MRH staff also contributed to the success of the event.

Kelly Milne

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The Gisborne Community Carols will be celebrating 40 years of local carols this year on Sunday December 11 at the Gisborne Church of Christ, 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

Congratulations to Gisborne resident Margaret Lowman who recently won a Toyota Hatch from Kyneton Toyota in a competition run by a travel company.

Tickets for the Gisborne Christmas Festival raffle can be obtained at La Cibo cafe in Aitken Street where you can see the prizes in the barrow as displayed (left) by Matthew Stewart, Lions Club Vice-President.

Gisborne & District Community Bank Branch of Bendigo Bank will be offering another university scholarship in 2017. The bursary will provide a local student $5,000 a year for three years of tertiary study, contingent on academic success. Further details will be announced in the December Gazette.

This patch of sparaxis at right provided a pretty sight on the edge of Daly Reserve in Aitken Street.

However, there are also some unwelcome sights on the local flora scene. The whole district has been overrun with capeweed this spring. We heard of one keen gardener who dug out every capeweed by hand with a weeding fork, but most of us are resorting to poison.

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in the creek was safe for fish and other aquatic life, and oxygen levels were well above environmental requirements.

This is likely due to the high flows in the creek as a result of heavy rain.

Further testing has since been carried out at several locations in the creek and results indicated that bacterial levels were slightly above normal for creeks and rivers after heavy rain. This is expected to drop over time.

Western Water is planning to replace the sewer main.

Sparaxis

And serrated tussock has also reared its ugly head again.

Heavily seeded serrated tussock plants have already been observed around Gisborne. Best practice to combat this noxious weed is to control and treat mature plants before flowering and seeding each season with a herbicide or by manual removal. You can get more information from the very helpful Serrated Tussock Working Party at info@ serratedtussock.com or visit www.serratedtussock.com.

This huge tree came down across the power lines on the Middendorp corner of Hamilton and Prince Streets on October 15.

▲A large tree falling during October’s high winds damaged a sewer main in Rotary Park, Kilmore Road, Gisborne, resulting in a small amount of sewage spilling into Jackson Creek.

Western Water used a suction truck to remove sewage from the main, which crosses over the creek at Rotary Park.

The spill was stopped and a secure temporary pipe installed. Melbourne Water and the EPA were notified.

Tests conducted the following day indicated water quality

This sign in Couangalt Road is well out of date but is still brightly flashing its message. It must be on country time.

Congratulations to the Rev D’Arcy Wood who has reached the 50th anniversary of his ordination which occurred at the Wesley Methodist Church in Melbourne on 20 October 1966. A celebratory service and luncheon involving a gathering of the congregations of the Uniting Churches in the Macedon Ranges was held at the Uniting Church in Gisborne on October 30.

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Murray River outing for carers’ group Members of Woodend Lifestyle Carers' Group enjoyed a beautiful day out recently taking a coach trip to Echuca to have lunch on the Emmylou paddle steamer. Despite a chilly start to the day, the 24 happy revellers were able to discard winter coats and scarves and enjoy a sunny, warm afternoon on the immensely swollen Murray River.

It was a great opportunity for members to share a rare but relaxing meal with friends. As carers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia it was a chance to enjoy a social activity that included their loved ones, knowing that their companions on the trip were all friends who were on hand to help out if needed.

WLCG is an active group of mostly senior citizens who meet twice a month to both socialise and learn more about dementia and how to cope with the stress of

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Members of the carers' group enjoy a day on the Murray. their 24/7 caring role.

If you know of anyone who cares for a family member or friend suffering this insidious disease, please tell them about WLCG. Our members come from all over the Macedon Ranges.

Contact details are on our website www.wlcg.org.au or call the Secretary on 5420 7132. We’d love to help make life less isolated and more social and informed for both the carer and their loved one.

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60th wedding anniversary for Gisborne couple Diane and Brian Austen, both residents of The Oaks, celebrated their 60th anniversary on October 6 with their two daughters Karen and Sally.

Diane and Brian were married in the chapel at Launceston Grammar School in 1956. Diane had been a teacher at the school, after having spent her student days at its sister school in Launceston. She then moved to teach at Carey Grammar in Kew and she and Brian met through family connections.

At the time Brian was studying dentistry at Melbourne University and he went on to have a very successful dental career with practices in Collins Street and, later, in Hawthorn.

When he retired in 1996 Brian and Diane moved to ‘Parklands’ on Kilmore Road which they jointly own

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A talk by Tim Flannery is one of the highlights of this year’s Megafauna Festival in Lancefield.

Dr Flannery will speak about extinction and changes in the central Victorian landscape at Lancefield Mechanics Institute on Saturday November 26 at 4pm.

Adults $15, children $10.

The festival includes tours of Mt William stone axe quarry, a Nation- Tim Flannery al Heritage place of special significance for the Wurundjeri people. The two-hour tours are offered on Friday November 25 and Saturday 26.

The cost is $15 and booking is necessary as space is limited. Sturdy shoes are recommended.

The program also includes family entertainment in the centre plantation with a giant fossil puzzle, a feature show by Professor Doug A. Bone, and live music. Organisers are also planning to host a group of palaeontologists who will carry out research to better understand an unusually rich accumulation of fossils of gigantic marsupial animals — or megafauna — in Lancefield Park. The bones of thousands of animals are preserved in the clay of a swamp in the park.

For program, ticketing and further information go to: www.lancefield.org.au/megafauna-festival or Facebook: www.facebook.com/lancefield.megafauna

RIDDELL TWILIGHT FESTIVAL Diane and Brian with a picture of their wedding day. with their younger daughter Sally.

Two years ago Brian suffered a severe accident which left him wheelchair-bound and unable to continue his devoted home care for Diane who has suffered from dementia for several years. Now they are assisted by the caring staff at The Oaks.

November 12 and 13 is the Macedon Ranges Wine and Food Festival, affectionately known as Budburst.

Twenty venues throughout the region will be open, with many offering not just wine and food, but live music and plenty of room for kids to run around.

Take the opportunity to discover the fabulous wineries and food we have in our region.

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A $20 Weekend Winery Pass includes a Plumm tasting glass to use to taste all of the wines on offer over the weekend.

Buses will drive between wineries on Saturday and Sunday.

Bus bookings are essential and early booking is recommended.

For the full program, visit www.macedon rangeswineandfoodfest.com.au

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Station Street will be blocked off to vehicle traffic and there will be more than 70 stalls to visit. There will be loads of activities for children plus live music and a variety of food options.

MALMSBURY VILLAGE FAYRE This year’s Fayre will be held on Sunday November 20 from 10am to 4pm in the Malmsbury Botanic Gardens and Town Hall. Entry is by gold coin donation, which supports a number of Malmsbury organisations including the CFA and primary school.

Live music will be a feature of the day. Local wineries and food vendors will be there. This year the makers’ craft market will be expanded around the perimeter of the lake to better use these glorious surrounds.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE Chaplain will be Macedon CWA's next guest Macedon CWA held its Annual General Meeting on October 18. Central Highland Group president Peg Higginbottom took the chair for the election of office bearers.

Group secretary Helen Ryvitch also attended. Faye Armstrong is the new president. Faye has previously been our secretary for five years. We congratulate Faye and wish her well for the coming year. Members thanked Anne Fyfield for her diligence and wise guidance as president for many years.

Jan Ham was again elected treasurer. Jan’s many years of service in this role is greatly appreciated.

Lorraine Tweddle was elected secretary for a second year.

Another successful year was reported with interesting guests and special events. More than $1500 was donated to local groups and CWA state and international projects.

We look forward to hearing from Barbara Davis, Gisborne Secondary College chaplain, at our next meeting on November 15 at the CWA Hall, Mount Macedon, deferred from September.

Our breakup lunch for the year with our husbands is at the Top of the Range restaurant on Mount Macedon on December 13, but our support of our community will go on, as CWA never stops.

Lorraine Tweddle 5426 2045

Ian Hay, Mountain Group officer, and Andy Waterman, Operations Officer, presented certificates to members including Deb Fleming, Jeremy Clare, Matt Heath and Peter Wuthrich.

Mt Macedon brigade holds awards night Mount Macedon Fire Brigade members recently attended a dinner to celebrate another year of service to the community and to present long-service awards to several members.

Peter Wuthrich, past Captain and Deputy Group officer, received a badge for 40 years' service, current Secretary and Communications officer Deb Fleming for 35 years and firefighter Matt Heath for 25 years’ service. Five-year certificates were presented to Jeremy Clare, Geoff Rigby, Jamie

Thomas and Louis Parsons.

The brigade will be organising a Community Fire Ready meeting for late November and hope that many members of the public will attend to ensure they have the facts about keeping safe this summer.

New members are always welcome. Please drop in to the station any Sunday at 10am for a chat about the various roles available in your local CFA. Several of our newer members are undertaking their recruit training in readiness for the upcoming season.

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Group President Peg Higginbottom presided over our October AGM. We welcome Helen Ryvitch as our new President. Secretarial duties are being shared by Chris Caddaye and Judy Booth and the Treasurer is Kathy Page.

Thank you to Helen Hallett for past presidential duties, Cheryl Liddy for a comprehensive report on all the past year's activities and Val Jarred for being a very competent Treasurer for seven years.

Peg informed us that CWA is the largest female lobby group in the country and also urged us to help out at the Christmas Fair at Umina, CWA Headquarters in Toorak, on Saturday December 3.

Special congratulations to Dulcie Sharp for receiving

a five-year certificate from the Gisborne Gazette for writing this monthly column. I hope that I can do as good a job!

Edie and Eddy Gundy and Fay and John De Lai were also recognised for their 10 years of Gazette deliveries, Edie and Fay also being valuable members of our club.

Look out for our Christmas hamper raffle in November-December in the IGA shopping centre, which is always well supported by locals. This year’s fundraiser will support Gisborne Oaks.

Join us at our next meeting on Monday November 14 at 10am in our new cosy room at Gisborne Secondary College.

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Volunteers and community supporters get together to celebrate the long needed new truck.

New Macedon fire truck enters service Macedon Fire Brigade held its annual CFA Open Day on October 16. These open days are aimed at encouraging the general community, (and potential new members) to visit the station, meet the current members and find out what we do and what equipment we have available.

An added bonus, on this particular day, was for the community to be present for the official handover of our new brigade-owned tanker.

The day kicked off at 10am with a jumping castle for the kids and a barbecue. Around 60 people attended and all were keen to have a closer look at the trucks and talk to the members about their experiences.

The handover of the new truck took place at noon and was preceded by a ceremonial drive through a “water arch” from our older trucks to welcome the new

one into the station. The new brigade-owned truck has been bought entirely with money raised by the brigade and with the very generous support of the community over the past 17 years.

Thank you, once again, to everyone who helped us to achieve this, in particular the very generous local business that got us over the line with a huge donation of about $80,000.

The old Tanker 2 will now be withdrawn from service and offered for sale. So, keep an eye out for the advertising if you have a need for a fully kitted fire tender for your business, farm or horse stud.

We welcome potential new members to attend the station any Sunday morning between 10am and 12 o’clock.

Greg Snart, Captain

The Gisborne Ambulance Auxiliary was presented with a shield in recognition of its 40 years of dedicated service to the community at the Ambulance Victoria Loddon Mallee Award ceremonies recently.

The Gisborne Auxiliary was instrumental in the funding of the first ambulance in Gisborne over 40 years ago. The funding was raised through many projects including an annual art show, the founding of the Gisborne Market and the Gisborne Steam Park day, both of which continue to this day.

With the money raised by their efforts the Auxiliary has been able to fund important equipment over the years to provide the Gisborne paramedics with the latest equipment for both operational duties and training. This equipment has included ventilators, vacuum splints and spinal mattresses, cardiac monitor upgrades, a state of the art training simulation mannequin, audiovisual training packages and text books. The list goes on.

This support has allowed Gisborne Ambulance to deliver the best care and outcome for patients.

Congratulations to the Auxiliary and thank you from the Gisborne Ambulance team.

Tim Fraser, Gisborne Ambulance team manager

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Shared Table joins brain injury group for party Community invited to attend Christmas event at Mount Macedon

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Shared Table has partnered with Heads Together for ABI for the 2016 Christmas party at Viewfield on Mount Macedon.

Shared Table has hosted a Christmas party on the mount for eight years and this year welcomes the Heads Together community for the first time.

Heads Together was founded by Kate Heine and her late mother Barb Heine, a long-time resident of Mount Macedon and the founding benefactor of Heads Together.

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Earlier this year, Shared Table donated $5000 when Kate Heine undertook the 100km Walk for Heads Together, a walk that took her and her supporters from Yarraville to Point Lonsdale over two days.

This money will help fund the Heads Together camp this November, a free camp for children and their families to spend time

together and have fun in a supportive environment.

Shared Table welcomes everyone in the community to join us at the Christmas Party on Mount Macedon on Sunday December 11 from 3 to 6pm.

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Rotary inducts new members The Rotary Club of Gisborne held a great night at their dinner meeting at the Golf Club on Tuesday October 11 when the visiting District Governor, Neville John, inducted a record five new members including the club’s first corporate member, Aussie Gisborne Pty Ltd. In his address Neville mentioned the important achievements of Rotary International, especially the almost total eradication of polio throughout the world.

Neville then congratulated the club on the successful membership drive and noted that almost a third of its members were women while trending overall towards a younger demographic in the club.

In other news Gisborne Secondary College and the Rotary Club of Gisborne recently combined to hold an excursion for 51 students as part of an INTERACT project. INTERACT is a Rotary initiative to help involve 1218-year-olds in community work. Students assisted in packing containers for ‘Donations In Kind’ in Footscray.

DIK is run by Rotary and collects household goods, hospital equipment, wheelchairs etc. for distribution to the disadvantaged both locally and overseas.

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Exchange student from Germany The Rotary Club of Gisborne has been busy sharing meetings with clubs in our cluster – Woodend, Castlemaine and Kyneton – and getting out and about in the community. Our club visited the Alice Miller Independent School and were treated to a marvellous evening by the staff of this extraordinary school.

Our club is collaborating with the Rotary Club of Woodend to sponsor an exchange student from Germany. Lena Kirsten is in Year 11 at Braemar College and has already made herself known in the German exchange community by joining the Ridstudent Lena Kirsten. dells Creek volleyball team and playing netball for Braemar College.

Rotary Clubs around the world are involved in the youth exchange program and sponsor outward and inward exchange students. The difficult bit, though, is finding families to host exchange students. Hosting students from another country is a rewarding experience that is good for families and for the students. If you would like to know more about hosting a student, or nominating one of yours for an exchange, you can contact Vanda Mullen at vmullen@netspace.net.au If you want to know more about Rotary, call us on 5428 4483 and leave a message and we will get back to you.

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Recently, the Victorian Parliament’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee announced its support for a bill that would amend the state’s road laws to require drivers to maintain a minimum of 1 metre or 1.5 metres when overtaking cyclists. This follows legislation that is already in place in a number of other states. We were fortunate to be invited to provide a country perspective at the inquiry and we welcome the support for the introduction of a clear rule for road users.

It can be difficult for road users to know how much space to give a cyclist so the bill will be in everyone’s interests.

It includes practical approaches such as allowing an overtaking car to straddle a solid white line if it is safe to do so while maintaining the minimum passing distance. That’s an important inclusion for many of our smaller roads.

Hopefully, if the bill gets passed, it will encourage more people to safely get out on their bikes with their families. The more bikes out there, the more other road users will get used to, and expect to see, cyclists on our roads.

It’s an important step to helping everyone get home safely.

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You won’t beelieve what Probus has been up to Have you ever wondered about the sex life of bees? I don’t think we had until Lynn Bowler spoke to us at our October meeting and we found what interesting and busy lives these little creatures have. So when you next spread honey on your cereal or toast do give them a thank you and perhaps plant another native bush in your garden to encourage them.

We have some interesting events coming up with a trip to a Ballarat Art Exhibition in October and Puffing Billy in November.

Our meetings are held monthly in the Masonic Hall. In May 2017 a trip to Bright Chalet is planned. Please contact Keith Hallett for further information on 5428 3898.

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Have you ever dreamed about being an Adventurer? Jeremy Scott, author and adventurer, is coming to Gisborne Library on Thursday November 10 at 6pm to talk about his incredible journey cycling 52,000km around the world. His story is inspirational as well as entertainJeremy Scott ing, and features stunning images. This event is free but bookings are required at www.ncgrl.vic. gov.au or call the library on 5428 3962. Great for all ages and dreamers.

Book in for Saturday December 3 between 9.30am and 12.30pm to be part of our special Family Fun Christmas Celebration – with Christmas performers and local singers to provide a festive atmosphere plus crafting for gifts and treats galore. If you or a local community group would like to be a part of this morning please contact Subha on 5428 3962.

Gisborne Library is again collecting book donations to be given to less fortunate children at Christmas. This year books will go to Ardoch Youth Foundation which works with some of the most disadvantaged schools and families in Australia to boost literacy skills.

The foundation will use the donations to put together 'transitioning to school' kits so children in households with limited books will have at least one book to call their own for Christmas. Please donate suitable new books for children under four, such as Hungry Caterpillar, Where is the green sheep and We are going on a bear hunt, at the Gisborne library.

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This year’s Gisborne Christmas Festival will be held on Friday December 9. The festival is being coordinated for the first time by the Gisborne and District Lions Club. The festival consists of the popular street parade, a visit by Santa, live music, carnival rides, a variety of stalls and concludes with a fireworks display.

It will cost around $17,000 to put the festival on.

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These costs do not include a range of “in-kind” services provided by a number of local businesses for which the Lions Club is extremely grateful.

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Volunteers from Gisborne, Castlemaine and Heathcote travelled to South Australia to join a rapid response taskforce

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They worked tirelessly for days to ensure the people of South Australia were protected from any further impacts and able to reach a level of safety and wellbeing.

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ARTS in the RANGES

Proudly sponsored by Macedon Ranges Art Group, Phoenix Macedon Ranges Art & Craft, The Gallery Mt Macedon, The Gisborne Singers, Duneira, The Licorice Allsorts, Macedon Music, The Mount Players and the Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society, Central Victoria

The cast of Whose Wives Are They Anyway?

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Image by John Spring taken on ‘Doug’s Walkabout’ to Hanging Rock.

Macedon Ranges Photographic Society Local resident and exceptional photographer Rob Featonby provided a great night at the October tech night showing club members the skills and techniques for shooting in low light situations. His images of the Aurora Australis taken along the Great Ocean Road were amazing. The next tech night on November 14 will be on floral photography – the topic for the first competition in 2017.

Congratulations to the winning image makers as judged by Emma Gilette in our October competition.

Ronda Woolgar won best print in the ‘rustic’ section while Deborah Mullins won best ‘open’ print and the best for the two digital categories as well.

Club member Doug Hunwick continues to provide loads of information at his regular outings, ‘Doug’s Walkabouts’. Check out the club calendar on the website for the next event and the full calendar of events for 2017.

December is fast approaching and the club will host its annual barbecue preceding the end of year competition and club night on December 3. The club year starts up again in February. Visit www.macedonranges-photography.org.au

New gallery at Bacchus Marsh A community art gallery recently opened in Bacchus Marsh that will feature the work of local and regional artists. B-MAC Gallery, a project of Bacchus Marsh Arts Council, is at the rear of the Bacchus Marsh Village shopping centre off Bennett Street. The public is invited to the official opening at 6pm on November 11.

For more information, contact gallery president Ri Van Veen on 0439 353 359.

The Mount Players' final production for this year, Whose Wives Are They Anyway? is in its final two weeks of rehearsals with the gala opening night on Friday November 18.

This is one show you do not want to miss!

Director Frank Harvey has had an absolute ball directing his wonderfully talented cast, backed by a very funny script and he can assure you this hilarious play will not disappoint. From go to whoa it is a downward spiral of chaos, confusion, double entendre,

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Early November brings author Cath Ferla in an engaging discussion about writing for book and screen; a great session for budding writers of any age.

Meet Rachael Kohn, presenter of The Spirit of Things on ABC Radio National for the past 19 years, who will be On the Couch with Jacky Ogeil in an interesting discussion of Rachael’s life and work.

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It is seven years since The Mount Players staged the farce Caught In The Act, also directed by Frank Harvey, who says that this show is even whackier!

Tickets are already selling fast so do yourself a favour and book your ticket early.

Gala Night is November 18 and the season will run to December 10 at the Mount View Theatre, 56 Smith Street, Macedon.

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Chamber choir returns to Macedon Ranges Following the sell-out performance of Bach in the Castle of Heaven in August, the Australian Chamber Choir returns to Macedon Ranges to present the Bach Magnificat. (JS Bach Magnificat BWV 243 for choir, soloists and orchestra).

This is one of Bach’s most joyous pieces. The season is Advent and this work, more than any other, captures the magic of the moment when the Angel Gabriel appears to Mary, announcing that she is to bear a son. Other works by Bach will support the program.

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by Douglas Lawrence together with orchestra, and is being brought to you locally as part of the 2016 concert series of the Friends of Music at Resurrection.

The concert is on Saturday, November 12 at 3pm at the Church of the Resurrection, Cnr Honour Ave and Mt Macedon Road, Macedon. Online bookings essential at www.AusChoir. org/book-now or Google 'Australian Chamber Choir' and follow the links.

Gazette readers are encouraged to book immediately as few seats remain. Please note there will be no door sales.

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Delibes Messe Bréve resounding success Young Voices of Macedon excelled themselves at their annual concert on September 16, performing to a capacity and highly appreciative audience. For the major work, the Messe Brève by Leo Delibes, the choir was joined by the Bendigo Youth Choir, organist Alan Grinton and members of the Resonance String Orchestra. Delibes is well-known for his ballets Coppélia and Sylvia and the opera Lakmé, but the Messe Brève (a work composed expressly for children’s choir) has rarely, if ever, been performed in Australia. It is a stunning setting of

the Latin mass, full of the grace and dramatic highlights that one associates with Delibes’ ballets.

In addition to the mass, the Vivo group of very young singers performed a delightful medley of songs and the Cantabiles showed their talent with a group of demanding 2-part songs,.

The choir is accepting new members.

Rehearsals are held on Thursdays from 4.15pm to 5.45pm in the Norma Richardson Hall, Woodend. For further information contact 5426 4801 or sdggome@patash.com.au

Annual art exhibition at Macedon Buttlejorrk Inc is a group of local artists who create and exhibit their work in the Macedon Ranges area.

We are a mixed media group producing beautiful art work including pottery, paintings, woodwork, textiles, mosaics and jewellery.

We are holding our annual exhibition at the Macedon Primary School (entry

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Opening night is Friday November 18 at 7.30pm.

Refreshments are available, there will be a raffle and entry is free.

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A note for your diaries: early December exhibition The annual December exhibition for the Phoenix Macedon Ranges Art and Craft group will be at the Old Gisborne Courthouse from December 4 to 6, with the opening on the Friday night at 7.30pm.

The exhibition will be open from 10am to 4pm on the weekend.

To keep up with the latest news, have a look at the new website, www.phoenixmrac.com, and the Facebook page.

The group has welcomed a new member, Irene Perkin, who paints on china and canvas. Irene worked for a number of years in the ceramic industry before learning the art of painting on china. She considers having her own kiln an asset as this type of painting often requires several firings to complete one design.

As a change of pace, Irene has in recent years added acrylic painting on canvas to her interests. Scarf by Ruth McLaine “I believe any art or craft activity is a great way to relax,” she says.

Vision Australia Gisborne Auxiliary had a stall in the Gisborne Village Shopping Centre the last week of October and raised nearly $1,500. The raffle winners were: 1st prize – Hamper won by Klaus Sandkuhl and donated to a newly arrived refugee family from Syria; 2nd: Two bottles of wine and a Baker’s Delight voucher won by Sarah Morton; 3rd: Crocheted rug won by Warren Hardy.

The group gives their appreciation to IGA and Baker’s Delight for Wendy Yelland and Elaine Millar supporting our staff the stall. effort.

Anyone who would like to buy a large print 2017 calendar, which makes an ideal gift, can contact Elaine Millar on 5428 2522.

Top photographic artists to exhibit at The Gallery

The three artists, from left: Deborah Mullins, Nick Alexopoulos and Michael Howes.

Music festival to return with expanded format It’s an exciting time for musicians and music lovers alike with the announcement that the fifth Macedon Ranges Music Festival will take place on March 4. The festival, formerly known as ‘Day on the Red’, is expanding for 2017 with side shows appearing in music venues across the Ranges throughout February and the main event being held at the Gisborne Steam Park.

The event also sees the introduction of a YOUTH ZONE featuring a 'Music in The Sticks’ youth stage showcasing some of the region’s finest young talent, in addition to mini-train rides, jumping castle and other kids’ activities.

The Macedon Ranges Art Group (MRAG) recently provided a demonstration of various painting and drawing techniques to people at the Lancefield and District Parkinson’s support group.

The group normally has between 10 and 15 members who have a range of physical issues. The coordinator, Kate McCormick, approached MRAG as she believed that most of these people could draw or paint given some instruction.

Sue Coad, Ainsley McPherson, Dorothea Lindqvist and John York provided the demonstrations. Members of the Parkinson’s group were able to try drawing or painting to see which suited them best. Drawing with coloured pencils and painting with acrylics proved popular and certainly not beyond the capability of

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many Parkinson’s patients. A number were able to use colouring-in books as a start with the possibility of moving to more free-form drawing as they gained confidence.

Members of MRAG present commented that they much better understood the ways Parkinson’s affected the patient, their family and friends. We look forward to continuing our artistic partnership with the Lancefield support group in the near future.

For more information on the support group please contact Kate McCormick on 0448 455 694 or email ktmccormick@bigpond.com For information on MRAG activities please go to our website www.macedonrangesartgroup.com or email macedonrangesartgroup@gmail.com

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The festival appeals to all ages with a diverse range of musical genres from folk and jazz to blues and rock evolving throughout the afternoon and into the evening. Tickets will be on sale from December 1.

To keep up to date check out Macedon Ranges Music Festival on Facebook or at www.macedonrangesmusicfestival.org Proudly supported by The GREAT Association.

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Three talented photographic artists, Nick Alexopoulos, Michael Howes and Deborah Mullins, all members of The Gallery Mt Macedon, have come together to display their exhibition: ‘Souvenirs of Time’ – caught in the blink of an eye and the press of a camera button, that moment is forever preserved.

Come along to meet these creative photographers at The Gallery Mt Macedon on Saturday November 12 at 2pm. The exhibition will be on display from November 7 to December 5 in The Gallery Focus Room. Open Fridays to Tuesdays, 10am – 4pm. And while visiting, the artworks of the other Gallery members are also well worth a look. www.thegallerymtmacedon.com.au

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Tickets now available for Messiah The Gisborne Singers have been busy rehearsing for their concerts of Handel’s Messiah on November 20 and 27.

The majestic work is coming together nicely and the 60-voice choir is looking forward to presenting it in New Gisborne and Kyneton with professional soloists and full orchestra with members of the local Resonance String Orchestra.

Nearly 30 choir members visited Braemar College in October to sing some

Messiah numbers for year 8 students who studied the Hallelujah chorus in music this term.

The session was very lively and three students got the chance to conduct the singers and a small orchestra of Braemar

students, teachers, and parents for some of the famous chorus. Great fun was had on both sides of the conducting stick!

Messiah tickets are available online at www.gisbornesingers.com.au or by calling 0413 003 254. Booking ahead is strongly recommended. The concerts will be at 3pm on Sunday November 20 at the Gisborne Church of Christ and at 3pm on Sunday 27 November at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, Kyneton.

Water Week winners

Japanese story plays out in Woodend Macedon Ranges Film Society’s October screening featured the 2003 award-winning Australian film Japanese Story.

A cross-cultural drama-romance, Japanese Story stars Toni Collette as a geologist and Gotaro Tsunashima as a Japanese man whose father has interests in an iron ore mine in the Pilbara. Collette’s character Sandy is assigned to show the Japanese man Hiromitsu around the region. However, she has no Japanese language skills and Hiromitsu has no understanding of Australian culture or the outback and its dangers.

Various adventures and misadventures and some romance lead to a tragic climactic event and an emotional and moving conclusion. Excellent Australian film making by a predominantly female team headed by director Sue Brooks, producer Sue Maslin, writer Alison Tilson and editor Jill Bilcock.

Music composed by Elizabeth Drake.

The next film on November 9 is Quartet, directed

by Dustin Hoffman and starring Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Billy Connolly.

The Macedon Ranges Film Society meets on the second Wednesday each month at Woodend Community Centre. Film notes and an informal supper are part of the evening.

MRFS is a membership-based club; initial enquiries by email to mrfilmsociety@gmail.com or call Lorraine 5427 0921 or Christine 5429 5452.

Holy Cross Primary School students Millicent and Cruz were prize winners in the 2016 National Water Week poster competition.

Millicent was awarded third prize in the grade 3-4 category, and Cruz third prize in the prep category for the Western Water region.

National Water Week, which is in its 23nd year, encourages communities to take action to protect our vital water sources to meet the needs of future generations.

As part of Water Week celebrations in October, Western Water also gave out $10,000 in grants to schools and community groups across the Macedon Ranges.

Winners included Mt Macedon Primary School which received $2000 for a herb garden using a growall structure.

Millicent and Cruz from Holy Cross Primary School with their prize-winning posters.

Year's last meeting takes Scottish focus The last meeting for this year will be held on Thursday November 24 in the new Family History Room adjoining the Gisborne Library.

(Where has this year gone?)

Our guest speaker will be Joy Roy, her topic: 'Scotland – Your Kith and Kin'. It has been some years since Joy last spoke at one of our meetings and we look forward to her return.

Joy has a wonderful knowledge of all things Scottish. Supper and

GISBORNE GENEALOGICAL Group time to chat will follow Joy's talk.

Our final function for the year will be our Christmas Breakup on Friday December 2 at the Riddells Creek Hotel starting at 7pm. Contact our secretary, Julie on 5428 6476 for bookings and details.

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Kids Corner

THE GREAT ASSOCIATION Gisborne reGion events Activities

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View from the stalls

OLDE TIME MARKET

Along the path in the Reserve in Hamilton Street, shoppers with an interest in gardening can find a huge range of plants of all sizes and varieties, from seedlings to many mature trees and shrubs, reasonably priced, from Plant One On Me. See the advertisement on page 21 for more details of specials available at the June and July Olde Time Markets.

Kathleen O’Connor, Suko Designs

where you will find the softest in baby minkies, embroidered baby blankets, cocoon wraps, super soft Kathleen O’Connor, with her hand towels and bath towels. You mum’s help, operates Suko can even order a custom-made Designs as a family, home-based design with a child’s name on it. business. When she had her first Kathleen has also developed child she could not find similar a lovely range of baby-product products anywhere so that’s giftware kits which include her where the idea started. The focus items. These make the perfect is snuggly, embroidered garments gift to give to a new mum. For for babies.

Kathleen (an accountant during Kathleen and her mum make all the week) thisMe is has hera large creative the items they sell from scratch.

Plant One On area of plants and trees on display. outlet. She describes Suko The of fabric is all prewashed First Sunday every month Designs as a hobby gone viral. to remove any added chemicals Kathleen shows some of her Find her on Facebook and soon and preservatives before it isGoldfields Honey has been providing special baby products. on her website. embroidered.

This is the stallAustralian am pm honey varieties and honeyBy Rose Davies

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is one of the many stalls that is a regular at based products for the people of Central the market.

Victoria for over 20 years.

They have been attending the Gisborne Olde Time Market for many years and have educated their loyal customers Local artists are warmly invited to apply for a about the many different types was of honey, The Gazette named winner in the ‘Best Community month of free exhibition time at the GREAT their flavours and their health category benefits. at the Community Newspaper Content’ Centre during 2017.

You will find good value and friendly annual conference in Bendigo on Association of Victoria’s Since the opening of the centre in August service at the Goldfields Honey Stall October 8. This is the second successive year that the 2013, many local artists have taken the at Site 62 on the corner opposite the Gazette has won this award. opportunity of displaying their two- and threeMechanics Institute. Mention seeing this judge’s citation article in the GazetteThe and provide yourreads: dimensional art work and their exhibitions have Goldfields will wonderful fill your own container The GREAT GazetteHoney is a own container and they will fill it forGisborne $6 drawn many residents and visitors to admire if you mention this article. newspaper that not only captures the character of the per kilogram. their creativity

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Congratulations to Phyllis Boyd, who celebrates at Government House after the presentation of her Order of Australia Medal on October 19.

Top Victorian award for Gazette

SATURDAY 19TH NOVEMBER 2016 TOWN MAPS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 8.00 am FROM THE GREAT CENTRE 4/23, HAMILTON STREET, GISBORNE. Kids Corner

community it represents but also reflects the value of the publication to the community. It seems to include a contribution from every community organisation, school, sporting club and interest group in Gisborne, providing an equitable and accessible way to share local news, events and information. A delightful experience to read.

The Gazette congratulates all of our reporters and columnists whose regular contributions have enabled us to receive this wonderful recognition.

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A ballot will be held in December for the allocation of months throughout 2017 and applications need to be lodged at the GREAT Centre by 4pm on December 8. Application forms can be picked up at the centre, Hamilton Street, Gisborne.

This month’s artist is Peter Newbery.

View of the market from the Hamilton Street office.

reGion events Activities & tourism

The GREAT Committee is pleasedPlant to welcome One On Me Along the path in the Reserve in Hamilton Rosemary Davies and John Frearson who have Street, shoppers with an interest in gardening can find a huge range of plants recently the team. all sizes and varieties, from seedlings Visitors browsejoined among theGREAT stalls on Aitken ofStreet.

Chris Fleming’s photos of local matches are now showing on a continuous loop on the TV in the window of the GREAT Centre in Hamilton Street.

The loop is changed each week and in the first The inaugural presentation of the week of November is showing action shots from Gazette was made cricket and Gisborne bowls matches andAward Little Athletics.

OLDE TIME M A RWho KET runs the Olde Time Market to many mature trees and shrubs, reasonably priced, from Plant One On Me. See the advertisement on page 21 for more details of specials available at the June and July Olde Time Markets.

Market Manager 0431 563 566

An enthusiastic team of volunteers from the GREAT Association manages the Olde Time Market held on the first Sunday of each month, from 9am to 2pm.

Funds raised from the collection of stall fees are returned to the community in many and variedPlantways, such as grants to community groups or sponsoring of One On Me has a large area of plants and trees on display.

First Sunday of every month community events.

Goldfields Honey Goldfields Honey has beenand providing other volunteers also produce the monthly Gisborne GREAT Association Wild Trout’s Men’s and Women’s Headwear 9amThe2pm Australian honey varieties and honeyof the many stalls that is a regular at based productsit for throughout the people of Central Gazette and distribute the south ward of theistheone Macedon Ranges Shire.

Hamilton Street-Aitken Street market.

Victoria for over 20 years. *Please note dogs not permitted in They have been attending the Gisborne market If precinct* you would like to become involved in any facet of this community service, please Olde Time Market for many years and their loyal customers contact one of have theeducated following people: GREAT president Phyllis Boyd, 0431 063 119, about the many different types of honey, their flavours and their health benefits.

9am 2pm secretary Ian Boyd, 0417 059 to 525, or treasurer Graeme Millar, 5428 2522.

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Hamilton Street - Aitken Street

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View of the market from the Hamilton Street office.

Gazette award to Singers choir member

18 Gisborne Gazette November 2016 Visitors browse among the stalls on Aitken Street.

Who runs the Olde Time Market

An enthusiastic team of volunteers from the GREAT Association manages the

Gazette award to Singers choir member

Local sports photos at GREAT Centre

The inaugural presentation of the Gisborne Gazette Award was made last month to Gisborne Singers member Margaret Brockman.

last month to Gisborne Singers member Margaret Brockman.

Margaret was awarded the prize as the choir member who had sold the most tickets to one of the choir’s major concerts. The award was made

by Richard Whiteley on behalf of the Gazette and was one of a number of recent Gazette awards initiated as a way of returning funds earned by the Gazette to the community.

International achievement for Ron Weste Congratulations to Gazette photographer Ron Weste (right) who has received a Bronze award in the Epson International Pano Awards, the largest competition for panoramic photography in the world.

Ron’s photograph, ‘Australian Firescape’, was taken by chance when he and his wife Colleen were travelling home from north-western Victoria in October last year.

The Epson competition attracted 3600 entries from nine countries. Ron’s photograph will be on display this month in the GREAT Centre, Gisborne.

We are lucky to have a photographer of his talents on our team. Ron provides us with marvellous photos of local birdlife for our Birds of the Macedon Ranges series.

Ron found the little fellow pictured below right, a spotted pardalote, recently in Stanley Park, Mount Macedon.

He did well to get such a good shot of this beautiful small bird as pardalotes usually spend their time high in eucalypts and are hard to see.

Strangely, they build their nests in tunnels they make in the side of a bank.

Take precautions against skin cancer It’s almost summer – finally – and we’re enjoying getting outside more. Some will be spending many hours in the sun playing sports and taking part in other outdoor activities.

Dr Peter Dawkins from Ranges Medical in New Gisborne has a timely warning on the dangers of skin cancer.

“Sun exposure causes almost all skin cancers,” says Dr Dawkins, who holds a Diploma in Skin Cancer Medicine and is accredited by the Skin Cancer College of Australasia. “Skin cancer kills more Australians than the road toll, and two-thirds of its victims are men.”

Sunburn can occur in just 15 minutes causing

permanent, irreversible skin damage and increasing the risk of skin cancer.

“Use sun protection and get regular skin checks. Early detection and treatment of skin cancer increases your chance of survival and reduces pain and scarring.

“Worryingly, a recent Cancer Council study showed that 35% of women and 40% of men had not had their skin examined in the past year.

“Our practice has identified numerous skin cancers of which patients were unaware, including early melanomas,” Dr Dawkins said.

U3A program for rest of year (Isn’t that scary – another year nearly over!) There isn’t enough room to give details of all the interesting speakers we will be learning from, but there are a couple of special items to highlight.

On November 14 we are taking a bus trip to the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne – an all-day trip including lunch. There may be a few seats on the bus if anyone would like to join us, but a week’s notice is needed.

On December 5 we will hold our AGM. All

present and former members are cordially invited to attend. The meeting will be held at the former Senior Citizens’ Rooms, Hamilton Street, Gisborne, at 10.45am. A committee will be elected to take over in the New Year.

As always, new or returning members are very welcome to come to any of our events and join in our activities and discussions.

For further details and information, contact our President, Malcolm Colquhoun, on 5426 2331 or on 0481 827 402.

Jo Clancy, Publicity Officer

Business Headway Quick Business Tips with Jessica Bonanno

SELF SABOTAGE! Self-sabotage is when we find ways to stop ourselves from progressing and achieving. It is a sensitive topic that many experience in business and throughout life.

This article is based on conversation, experience and general reading. Before I get into the depth of it though, I’d like to thank the readers who approached me with comments and feedback on my articles. I’m constantly wondering about your thoughts on them.

‘Wondering’ is a wonderful way to learn by investigation, however when it develops into questioning and doubt it can lead to self-sabotage.

I have engaged in many discussions of the ‘Angel vs.

Devil’ variety whereby one experiences confidence and pride and then switches to feeling like an imposter.

We question our ability, standards, performance and perception by others. We become fearful or nervous or simply don’t believe in ourselves. Then we discover that it may not have been worth the worry. We reassure ourselves and regain the confidence and the cycle continues.

Self-sabotage is not uncommon and can have many causes including past experience and habits. While tips and tricks to combat it may be difficult to adhere to, here are some for consideration: 1. Accept yourself. Spend some time recognising who you are and your accomplishments. Highlight your positives, what is working for you and what you’re thankful for. Who is meaningful in your life and to whom are you meaningful?

2. Face the challenge. It’s easier to avoid something, but the longer you leave it, the greater the fear and the longer the procrastination will be. Rather than focus on what you don’t know and be fearful of the outcome, focus on the learning and the steps you need to take.

3. Cut yourself some slack. Realise your lifestyle and your expectations. If something doesn’t go to plan then let yourself be ok with it. Learn from it and move on. When you hear ‘it’s not that bad’ or ‘see the bigger picture’, start believing it. Avoid comparing yourself with others or striving for perfection and realise your own strengths and individuality.

4. First in line. It’s not harmful to put yourself first.

Whether it is slowing down, staying home, treating yourself, or celebrating little achievements, make sure to take special care of yourself.

Jessica Bonanno jessica@littlebigresource.com.au

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Gisborne & Mount Macedon Districts Historical Society Gisborne Court House, 4 Hamilton Street Open Wednesdays 10am to 4 pm.

Local History

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The Barbours of Bullengarook This is an edited extract from the writings of Catherine Jackson Fraser, nee Barbour, (1859-1954) compiled by Phyllis Boyd.

Continued from last month, this is Catherine’s story…

M

y father, Robert Barbour, was born in the country from which Robbie Burns, the ploughman poet of Scotland, came. After the sudden death of his father William, Robert, who was studying for the Law, was faced with providing for his mother and two sisters, so he left the university and joined the staff of his uncle who had a large drapery business in Glasgow. Then when the gold rush was at its height, he brought the family to try their fortunes in a new and far away land.

The Barbour family arrived in Australia after a sixmonth journey in a sailing ship, no doubt under very trying conditions. The ladies passed the time knitting many comfortable and well-made woollen articles of clothing. I imagine my father spent some time talking to gentlemen about the various businesses they planned to set up in Melbourne. One friend, a Mr Currie, started a grocery business while my father, in partnership with Robert Reid, set up a drapery in a small building at the corner of Bourke and Russell Streets, which he named Victoria House. Most businesses in those days sold both wholesale and retail.

Robert’s cousin William Barbour, saying goodbye to the family as the ship left for Australia, said ‘Goodbye Robert, I suppose we shall soon hear that you are a Member of Parliament.’ This cousin, who was the founder of the Paisley Sewing Cotton Firm, having branches in Ireland and making much money in America, later became an MP in Britain as Robert did years later in New South Wales.

Having phenomenal success in Melbourne, my father opened branches in Ballarat, Emerald Hill, Castlemaine, Bendigo, Maldon and Woolshed Creek on the Ovens gold field. Transport in those days was limited and the traveller was faced with long rough drives in coaches carrying all sorts of people and drawn by four or more horses over unmade roads and through unbridged creeks and rivers.

Such travelling to these far separated places probably led to my father’s decision to sell out of the Melbourne business.

So after about six years trading, he sold his headquarters to his partner Robert Reid and began as a contractor for roads and bridges.

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oth Robert Reid and Robert Barbour fell in love with the same lady, Catherine Pitty. Being wooed and won by my father, Catherine and Robert Barbour were married at Maldon in 1858 and I was the first of their 11 children, born in 1859. My mother went away in a gorgeous dress over a crinoline, made of a blue shot silk with black pencil stripes every few inches, with graduated flounces from low waist to hem which was ankle length, of cream silk sprinkled with embroidered sprays of pink silk roses and green leaves, with a poke bonnet of cream straw trimmed with two small bunches of white and purple grapes. No one has told me what father wore for the wedding, but I guess it was the latest cut in grey trousers and broadcloth coat with a tall black bell topper hat. He always wore one of those or a grey one to town in those days, but when driving us children in the bush, I remember him giving insistent youngsters a drink of water in the brim of his brown felt head covering.

My mother’s father George Pitty was a little man compared with Robert Barbour, who was tall and weighed over 15 stone. Grandma Pitty nee Catherine Jackson, whose name was given to me together with some initialled silver spoons, voyaged to Australia in 1850 with their family

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▲The house built for Robert Barbour’s family at Bullengarook. (The picture was taken in 1903 of the Mollison family who then owned the property.)

◄Robert Barbour about 1890 when he was a member of parliament in NSW. of three daughters and one son, afterwards increased by four sons born in their adopted country.

After Grandpa Pitty had tried his luck in the gold fields, they started a dairy farm at Stoney Creek near Melbourne and afterwards moved to Maldon, where they created a good garden of flowers, fruit trees and vineyard. I have delightful memories of my holidays spent at Grandma’s, both of the place and people. I remember Grandma Pitty in her black lace and purple ribbon cap covering all the hair except two silver curls each side and Grandpa Pitty’s smiling, genial face.

My mother, red-haired, was the third of the children, tall and handsome but with no conceit or affectation to spoil a beautiful character.

W

hen I was seven we moved to a country home, a sheep and cattle station called “Bullengarook” halfway between Gisborne and Bacchus Marsh. The old homestead that we lived in at first was a weatherboard cottage with a garden round it of old-fashioned English flowers, mostly roses, yellow broom, violets and mignonette. There was an orchard and vegetable garden a little farther away in the paddock, with an immense mulberry tree in the midst. We children loved to climb into its branches and feast on its luscious fruit, till we were nearly as purple as the fruit.

The part of the station with the old homestead and its surrounding paddocks, my father let as a dairy farm to a Cornishman named Warren with a nice cultured wife and a large family of boys and girls who helped in the milking yard and dairy. How we children loved at rare intervals to see the cows bailed up and milked, we being regaled afterwards with slices of home-baked bread buried in cream and honey.

Father chose a spot about three quarters of a mile away from the old homestead on which to build a substantial house of bluestone walls and large blocks of yellow sandstone around the windows and doors. It had a large high porch reached by five wide sandstone steps and these led to a wide gravelled drive from which long paths radiated to all parts of a very large garden and orchard. One long path led past a green lawn to an archway through a very tall hedge of Cape broom, which divided the flower beds from a large vegetable garden where, with big fruit trees down the centre, gooseberries and currants also grew.

These beds were bordered with herbs of sage, thyme and marjoram. These masses of flowering herbs gave a lovely fragrance on sunny spring days, when I was stationed in the summer house with my fancy work to watch the bees under the shed nearby and give warning if they swarmed. The site for our new home was chosen because of the extensive and beautiful view from windows and porch. A long hill to the left was called Cattle Point. This ended abruptly in a deep precipice, down which after rain a roaring cataract fell into a stony ravine. To the right, beyond that, we could see over forests and mountains and towns, right down to the coast 30 miles away and, with a telescope, the white sails of ships in Port Phillip.

Down the other side of the house the long drive went on through beds of flowers and shrubs and past the vineyard to the entrance gates on the main road. Down this drive, standard roses were planted at intervals and one fine day I wandered down the drive to see the sheep being dipped in a large shed at the end of the house paddock. From this shed a race ran in which the sheep were dipped. As I went down the drive, I picked a very fine dark red rose, and as I neared the three-railed fence planted along its length with ornamental trees and shrubs and dividing the paddock from the main road, a gentleman swaggie went along and I thought, “If he asks me for this rose I’ll give it to him” and he came over to the fence and asked me for it and with a blush, I handed it to him. He was different from the many swagmen who came to the house and asked for food, as many humping their blueys were at that time educated gentlemen seeking their fortunes in a new land.

At Bullengarook we had our first governess, Miss Emmeline Ada Cass who had formerly been teaching a judge’s small family in Geelong. She, at my father’s request,

The Barbours of Bullengarook

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pleasure of sewing up some of the bags of wheat. I made our first lesson in morning school a chapter from was proud enough to offer to do it but have wondered the Gospels, which we three eldest girls read verse since how much wheat was lost owing to my poor about in turn. Miss Cass taught me music, but a still sewing. harder task for her was trying to teach me to sing while Gold was discovered not many miles from Uncle George taught me to dance in the evenings and Bullengarook Station and one day I went there with Miss Cass played for us. Our governess was freely Father and Mother. The entrance to the mine was given the use of my mother’s big bay horse and Father on the side of a very steep hill, so we had to leave bought a cream pony with black mane and tail for me the buggy and climb up; I managed it on hands and he had a side saddle made from which the horn and knees. When we arrived at the big gaping hole could be removed if it were required for a boy, as it was looking into blackness, the elders were given lighted intended to be for my brother Bob when he grew older. candles and we went into trucks to see what we However, before that time came, we left the country and could of the work that was being done. I remember he waited for his horse riding till we went to Riverina five a gentlemanly Chinese, well dressed, coming to years afterwards. see Father about this time and he brought several I had many rides to very pretty spots with Miss Cass specimens of gold nuggets embedded in pure white and the overseer Mr Hutchens, who was a very nice quartz. He promised to give me the best one if I Englishman out here for colonial experience. Once we would give him a kiss but I refused. rode to the source of the You Yang water supply for A pleasing impression of the colours of the black Melbourne before any water works were started and the Some Barbour descendants at the ‘experimental farm’ cottage. loam of the earth in the mine, in contrast to the many wattles in full bloom, with purple sarsaparilla vines pure white quartz gemmed with real shiny gold, intertwined, was an unforgettable sight. Sometimes Mr came to see us. remains with me.

Hutchens would take me along when he went into the bush One day at Bullengarook, Cook asked the nurse Lizzie Our nurse girl was Lizzie Everitt and her twin brother after stock and he would teach my pony to jump logs. My to go down to a hollow below the garden where the men Harry was our shepherd. They belonged to a large family mother rode and drove very well and she said to me once had left two great heaps of potatoes and get her some; I in which there were several twins, the others having biblical that I wouldn’t be a good horse woman till I had a fall, but went with her and when she lifted one of the sheets of bark names such as Isaac and Jacob and when Joseph and that event only happened to me once in those few years. covering the potatoes, we were startled at the sight of two Samuel were born, I was allowed to go with Miss Cass to eing so far away from any Church, we seldom went to great tiger snakes with stripes of dusty black and bright see them and take them a parcel of baby clothes. I was any religious service but father led all members of the yellow lying on the potatoes. She gathered enough of the interested in seeing the two dear little babies in bed, one family and servants in reading chapters from the Bible on needed vegetable from the other heap and left the snakes each side of their mother, and wondered how such a big Sunday evenings. He had so much business elsewhere unharmed. On another occasion, Mother was brushing her family could be comfortably housed in a two-roomed hut that we only had his company at weekends and when he hair in front of the mirror in her bedroom, the baby sitting on with a room at the back for the boys, but having a nice arrived at home we children did our utmost to make the the floor, when she saw a snake sliding through the door. mother they grew up very well behaved and years after, my welkin [air] ring with our loud shouts of welcome.

She threw the hairbrush at him but the reptile escaped. That father helped them to settle on the land in Riverina.

Uncle George Pitty, who some years afterwards still lived probably was the one seen later, drinking milk from a pan in Before Father sold Bullengarook and we left the with us, was a good horseman and owned a lovely chestnut the dairy and then it was soon despatched. country for the town, in December 1867 we rode the 16 mare named Creeping Jennie. She was a good jumper, so miles to Gisborne Station to see Prince Alfred, the Duke ne of my pleasant memories of Bullengarook was he did not trouble to take down sliprails when going from of Edinburgh who visited Gisborne on an Australian tour going to Warrens’ place at harvest time when the one paddock to another but jumped her over them. where a pleasant reception had been arranged.” harvester was to be at work, a promise of going to see it There was a small settlement of Irish farmers not far turn out the golden wheat in the afternoon made school away, so Uncle George thought we should go to a party The Duke’s visit work go with a swing in the morning and sometimes we they were holding on St Patrick’s Eve. He drove Miss Cass Stepping from the carriage on to the platform was like helped take out the hot Cornish cakes and tea to the men and me the few miles, but when we arrived and found that entering a conservatory of flowers. Thomas Ferrier Hamilton gathering in the sheaves in the paddock or staking them up. the young girls were dressed in white muslin frocks with and members of the Gisborne and Lancefield Road Boards Some short time after we left Bullengarook and were living green sashes and sleeve ties, I felt embarrassed at my dark were in waiting to present Prince Alfred with an address. at Williamstown, when I went to spend school holidays with frock with knitted stockings and high leather boots. They The Prince accepted the address and the seven hundred the Warrens who had moved to a farm at Goodman’s Creek were dancing reels and jigs to the music of a fiddle and the children present, accompanied by a brass band, sang the nearer to Bacchus Marsh, it was Harvest time and I had the unexpected entrance of people from the station gave them National Anthem. rather a shock, however the genial and well known George The daughter of Mr G W Knight of Riddells Creek stepped led me out in the round dance and the fun went on, with Historical Society AGM forward and offered a basket of fruit to his Royal Highness.

Miss Cass as “onlooker”. This was in about 1870 and in that A bouquet was presented to the Prince by Blanche, same year, Uncle George Pitty married Miss Emmeline Ada Sunday November 13 at 2pm daughter of Mr Hamilton. These gifts were conveyed to the Cass at Maldon. at Gisborne Court House royal carriage after which the Prince and his Excellency and We had a good many visitors, sometimes a “house party” Guest: Associate Professor Don Garden, suite proceeded to an apartment in the station and partook of adults when, to make room for them, Mary and I were University of Melbourne of some wine, the produce of Mr Knight’s vineyard. relegated to the maid’s room and slept on an improvised As the train moved off, preparations in an adjoining bed on the floor. In preparation, the great big baker’s oven Topic "Punching Above Our Weight" paddock could be observed, for the enjoyment of an al disgorged all sorts of pies and cakes for days. In school All Welcome. fresco entertainment. holidays, several of our aunts, uncles and their children

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The Gazette celebrated its 10th anniversary at Highfield Estate, New Gisborne, on October 6 with a large attendance of supporters.

Musical entertainment was provided by the Gisborne Singers and the excellent catering was provided by Siggy Thiner’s Colour of Earth.

The Mayor, Cr Graham Hackett, presented certificates acknowledging five and ten years of wonderful volunteer service to the following members of the Gazette team.

Five Year Certificates were presented to Betty Doolan (Columnist), Duneira and Rotary Club of Gisborne (Sponsors) and Dulcie Sharp (Reporter).

Ten Year Certificates were presented to Ron Weste (distributor and photographer); John Letchford and Melanie Fattore (columnists); Lyn Hall, David McCall, Elaine Millar, Richard Perkin and Colleen Weste (reporters); Anglican Parish of Gisborne and St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (sponsors); Ian Boyd (secretary, distributor and columnist); Phyllis Boyd (president, advertising coordinator, distributor and columnist); Graeme Millar (committee member and distributor); Pip Butler (committee member, layout and production); Bryan Power (committee member, distributor and editor); Trish and Trevor Armstong, Denise Brogan, Norma Challis, Faye Gregory, Marie and Don Clifford, Faye and John De Lai, Jean Dixon, Isobelle Gossip, Eddie and Edie Gundy,Tricia Kaye, Kerry Langmaid, Stefanie Mott, Anne Paterson, George and Anne Peart, Christine Rhodes, John Roberts, Lorraine Theel, David Tunbridge, Robert and Jean Wilkie, Christine and Geoff Young, Jill Bennett, John Bennett, Robyn Thomas and Brian Smith (distributors).

The Gazette thanks Siggy for the catering and also the Calder Fly Fishing Club for their generous donation of $200 presented to the Gazette at the reception.

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Fire safety begins early at Gisborne Primary School Welcome back to Term Four! We hope you had a great school holiday.

Gisborne’s firefighters recently shared their expertise with our youngest students. Alana D reports: “Today the CFA came to visit the Preps.

They taught us how to be a CFA person. It was fun. The boss was funny. We learnt about ‘ Stop, Drop and Roll’ and ‘Get Down Low and Go, Go, Go’.”

The boys’ and girls’ softball teams competed in the district tournament at Dixon Field. It was a fun day with nice warm weather. Both sides reached the final. Sadly, the girls lost but the boys progressed to division and won that game too. Nine students competed in the regional athletics finals last month, with Grade Sixer Alannah through to the state championships in discus.

It has been interesting to watch the transformation of our school oval, as lots of machinery has been doing different jobs. New grass has been sown, so now begins the slow process of watching it grow! A little extra sunshine is the main ingredient that we are wishing for. Other improvements have been made through the Accessible Building Program; these include concrete levelling and automatic doors.

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Did you know that physical activity is not only good for your body but also for your mind?

New Gisborne Primary School celebrated Physical Education and Health Week last month with a range of fun sessions for students and staff. The special week allows students to see that PE and health are as important as literacy, numeracy and science which also all have their own special weeks during the school year. The week also promotes being active through staff participation which, in turn, strengthens relationships with students. Kids and adults spent the week getting excited about movement in general while also being educated on the importance of healthy lifestyle habits.

Throughout the week lunch times were filled with Jump Rope For Heart, Active Relays, Badminton and the annual staff versus Year 6 volleyball tournament. We also participated in orienteering with other local schools at Tony Clarke Reserve and welcomed professional coaches from the ‘Coach Approach’ program who ran half day clinics with our Year 3-6 students.

Throughout the week we experienced sporting success with the girls’ basketball team advancing to Divison Grand final and the girls’ softball team to Regional Finals.

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Science and swimming at Mt Macedon

St Brigid’s students love odd socks St Brigid’s community were excited to return to school after a relaxing and safe break.

On the very first week back at school, the year 5/6 students went on camp. The students travelled to Melbourne for two nights to visit some tourist attractions in Melbourne and to continue their learning about Melbourne’s history. During the days the students were busy doing lots of activities which included a city walk,

the Immigration Museum, MSAC Swimming, State Library of Victoria, Old Melbourne Gaol, Ants bistro for dinner one night and the MCG. Everyone was so tired when they arrived back but they all enjoyed their time on camp.

Everyone is so proud of our work for ‘Soctober’. On Friday October 21 we had our official Soctober dress-up. Students dressed up in uncoordinated clothing with weird,

odd socks. For that day everyone brought in a gold coin donation for the Catholic Missions Foundation.

We raised more than $400.

Also we have had our Social Justice Sleepover. It is for the Year 6 students to learn and feel what it is like to be poor and homeless.

The students raise money and get sponsors for Catholic Missions to help those in need.

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Holy Cross 3/4s enjoy Briar Camp On October 3-5, the 3/4s of Holy Cross went to The Briars outdoor adventure camp in Mount Martha. We went to build confidence and teamwork skills and also to have fun!

There were four main activities: The Leap of Faith, The Giant Swing, Low Ropes and Hut Building. We all got to the camp on a Sunbury Coaches bus driven by Barry; who also drives the school’s Riddell bus service.

The Leap of Faith was perhaps the most heart-stopping activity! It had two levels which were six and 12 meters high.

The Giant Swing was also 16 meters high.

The 3/4s had a delicious chicken schnitzel for dinner and jelly and ice-cream for dessert. After dinner, an entertainer named Steve Warner came and gave us music quizzes and sang songs. The following day for lunch, the 3/4s had a roll that they could make themselves. All in all, a great experience. Thanks to our teachers and parent helpers.

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Callum Large is harnessed up ready to jump off the 12-metre platform on the Leap of Faith.

The 5/6 class has had a student teacher called Miss Tatnell who, every second day, has been doing science experiments including the zip-lock bag experiment, the celery experiment and the Ooblek experiment. I think we were all pretty excited when we found out what we were doing.

We also had lots of fun learning about all the science that goes with the experiments. We enjoyed how the Ooblek turned to solid when you applied pressure, but then when it sat in your hand, it started to turn to liquid. Overall I think we all had a good time!

Every day from October 10 to October 21 our school went down to the Gisborne pool for swimming lessons.

We went in three groups so the individual lessons were smaller. On October 21 we had our fun day which is the day when the life guards had the big inflatable out. The hardest part of the swimming was getting changed after we swam.

We all were in the appropriate levels of swimming so the foundations weren’t with the grade 6s. We all had a great time and everyone is now a better swimmer than before the swimming program.

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The children at Swinburne Avenue Kinder have been making a variety of healthy foods this year in a program aimed at instilling positive eating habits for life. Thanks to a grant from the Gisborne Bendigo Bank, the kinder has run a Healthy Cooking and Eating Program in which the children help wash, prepare, and cook fresh foods to make tasty dishes that they then enjoy together.

Many of the dishes use vegetables from the kinder garden that the children help maintain.

As part of the program, the Children prepare vegetables for Wombats and Pos- the healthy eating program. sums made bok choy and ricotta parcels as well as soup. The Wallaby group have made sandwiches and sausage rolls, and the Bilby group have made cheesy vegemite scrolls.

Both teachers and children have been having a lot of healthy food fun.

Bendigo Bank manager Ian Perry said the branch was delighted to support the program which taught healthy eating habits to the young in our community.

“As a Community Bank branch, every product we provide puts money back into our community,” he said. “It’s a wonderful model – you could almost call it healthy banking.”

We six Year 9 students (pictured at right) have been given the privilege of going to a leadership school called GnuradGundidj at a campus near Warrnambool. The curriculum focuses on personal development and team learning.

As an extra benefit we were also given the opportunity to go to China for six weeks after the three weeks at Gnurad.

We left home on October 9 to go to Gnurad and we were to fly to Guangzhou in China on October 29. In China we will stay at the Utaloy International School. This international school is located on a lake, 20 minutes from the centre of Guangzhou.

UISG is a co-educational, international, English language school for 900 students from K-12, who represent over 50 nationalities.

During our stay we will spend a week in a home in a small village and we also go to Hong Kong for a week, where we will camp on the beach and do Outdoor Education.

Hugh Doherty, Laura Crozier, Mackenzie Hales, Israel Lancaster, Zach McLellan and Kirra Beckwood (insert) are now in China.

Year 12s celebrate winding up of year What’s on It’s a whirlwind of nerves and excitement at the moment, @ GSC especially for our graduating with Eshe Lane and Sean Doherty Year 12s. We celebrated our last day on October 17, which involved mucking up our uniforms Crane on your captaincy, and to and lots of glitter. The students Finn Langley and Bridie Ashdown nominated each other and on your vice-captaincy. Good luck teachers for various funny awards for next year, and thank you to that were presented at our Year everyone for your applications.

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The quantity and calibre of After some fun at school, the applications made the selection Year 12 cohort bussed to the job very difficult.

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For the green thumbs . . .

Garden Club dodges the rain In spite of threatening rain and cold, 51 keen gardeners visited two Gisborne gardens last month.

Welcoming visitors to the first garden was a front lawn area surrounded by grevilleas, callistemons, banksias and rhododendrons. The rear terraced area featured well-stocked vegetable beds, and a higher level of shrubs included a dogwood, a rubina and a camellia hedge. Fruit trees and two topiary laurels were at either side of a path to the top garden level.

Included in the significant garden redevelopment by the current owners was the planting of tree ferns, grevilleas and spring bulbs around a pond and fountain adjacent to the patio.

Teeming rain did not deter the warm welcome to the second garden. Visitors viewed the surrounding garden from spacious verandahs to appreciKerry Langmaid ate 2½ years of planning and planting. This garden, on a sloping site, has been developed from original rock beds and scant planting to an impressive display of roses, irises, salvias and various shrubs.

Privacy for the garden and pool is provided by capital pears, a pittosporum hedge and a newly planted mixed hedge at the rear of the site.

The Gisborne Garden Club meets on the second Wednesday of the month, generally between 1pm and 3pm. For further information please phone Kerry on 0408 115 759.

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Garden Designfest comes to Macedon Ranges Garden Designfest – two weekends of open gardens around the state – will include a garden in Gisborne and two others in the Macedon Ranges on the weekend of November 19 and 20.

This Rotary event offers the opportunity to visit private gardens which have been designed by some of Australia’s leading garden designers.

The Macedon Ranges gardens are 72 Dalton Street, Gisborne (designer Sue Meli), entry $12; 33 Clowes Street, Malmsbury, (Deborah Hambleton), $12; and 8 Brewster Street, Woodend (Roy Roberts), $8. Please note that the Gisborne and Woodend gardens are not suitable for pushers, prams and wheelchairs.

This is the second weekend of Garden Designfest. For details of gardens open around Melbourne on the first weekend, November 12-13, see www.gardendesignfest.com.au All proceeds go to charity.

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We held two working bees in October to catch up on lost time due to heavy rains early in the month. It was important to identify the internal pine trees that will be felled to provide better growing conditions for native trees. This work will be carried out in the near future, taking care to avoid any nesting magpies which have moved into the Nature Reserve this year.

We have been photographing the beautiful wildflowers which are flourishing but which bloomed quite late due to our cool spring.

Macedon Ranges Shire Council has maintained a careful mowing regime and new growth of native trees is thriving next to Melton Road.

We have continued to weed seedlings of gorse, broom, pine and even found specimens of the innocent looking hemlock near the Daly Street bus stop which were eradicated as this is a poisonous plant.

We advise everyone walk- Native wildflowers in ing in the Nature Reserve to Daly Nature Reserve. wear a hat during the magpie nesting season, tread carefully around native flora, while enjoying the peace and tranquillity in this precious place in the heart of Gisborne. Enquiries to dalyreserve@hotmail.com Irene Perkin

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Garden Notes for November The fruit and vegetable garden Wow, what a season of mists, rain and cloudy days. The growth is much slower this spring than in previous seasons but it is wonderful to see all the soft succulent growth. Protect the young growth on frosty nights and hot weather over the next few weeks until the growth hardens up.

Tomatoes and other frost-sensitive plants will be much slower to set fruit this season. If you have plenty of pollinating insects, it should be a great season for heavy crops of fruit and vegies.

The birds seem ravenous so netting may be essential for early crops. Vegetable seedlings can be planted out now in pots and the vegetable garden.

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Strawberries should be flowering well, promising plenty of fruit for summer.

The flower and ornamental garden Roses, like most flowering shrubs – native or exotic – are having a bumper season. Friends tell me plants they thought they had lost through heat and drought have reappeared this year, so it is all very exciting. Any of these presumed ‘lost plants’ that may be weak and spindly will enjoy a good feed of

fertiliser. This will be the season, too, to shift them to a better site.

Slugs and snails are very voracious with all the soft growth, so watch out for these and hungry caterpillars which will appear with warm sunny weather. It’s a great time and season for planting all sorts of trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals, replacing or building up your windbreaks and screening plants.

There is still time to plant new lawn this month, though this time last year the soil was already far too dry to make it an easy job. The weeds are having a great season with all the rain and some will be already setting seeds, so tackle them quickly. They are much easier to hand weed from the moist soil. Regular mowing is the key to a quality lawn and ensure your mower blades are sharp.

The native garden A light prune for lanky, soft growth on natives is also a good idea to encourage compact growth. Why not pick a bunch of native flowers to bring indoors; that makes your pruning twice as useful. Alternatively, use some of your not quite so soft tips of growth to make stem cuttings to grow new native plants.

The family garden It is a perfect time to pot up some colourful seedlings so they are ready for Christmas gifts. Terracotta pots can be decorated with painted designs, or create decoupage with vibrant cut-outs from magazines. Potatoes and apple chunks can be cut into designs to make stamps to decorate cardboard for Christmas cards, or print onto thick calico material to make themed placemats.

Mystery explosion From The Argus, Thursday 28 June 1956 'Mystery explosion in house; Man Hurt' "A young man had his right leg shattered in a mystery gelignite blast at a deserted farmhouse [at Bullengarook] yesterday afternoon.

The man, James Edward, and a friend, Lawrence Richardson, had called at the house to try to get petrol for their car.

Edwards was caught by the explosion as he pushed open the back door of the house.

The blast from a four-gallon drum packed with debris almost blew off the lower part of his right leg. Richardson hailed a passing utility which rushed Edwards to Bacchus Marsh Private Hospital. An ambulance raced him to Footscray District Hospital where doctors oper-

The ’Rook Revisited with Shirley McKeown ated last night. Senior Constable D. Darcy of Bacchus Marsh raced to the house at Bullengarook and found the remains of the drum behind the back door Police said the house had been disused for a long time. The owner called only occasionally.

Edwards and Richardson were on their way from Bacchus Marsh to Gisborne on a shooting trip when their car ran low on fuel."

The owner of the property was subsequently charged with causing grievous bodily harm, however when the case came to court in October 1956, the charge against the owner, Mr F. Lloyd of Bullengarook East, was dismissed.

The interesting item was that Mr Edwards was on a bond for breaking and entering and Mr Lloyd had reported to the police that the house had been broken into at an earlier date. He also stated to police that intruders would get a terrific shock should they return.

The cottage is still standing on the side of the Gisborne-Bacchus Marsh Road and according to one longtime resident (who has now passed away) was always referred to as “Bombers Place”.

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Kids Corner

HEALTH AND WELLBEING Proudly sponsored by Macedon Ranges Health

I waited in vain at school, but the moment of glory finally came...

I attended school at a convent in North Melbourne and at the end of the year they had a speech night. The girls were all dressed in long-sleeved, neck-to-knee white frocks, brown stockings and brown shoes (not much of a fashion statement).

The night's entertainment was the girls choir, reciting poetry, gymnastics, then the most important event of the evening – giving the year's awards for our school work during the year. Each year the same girls got the same awards. The girls would hardly get back to their seats when their names would be called out again for another award. I would sit there and hope that just once my name would be called out but it never happened.

One day in class Sister called me to the front and

‘Betty’s Boop’ with Betty Doolan said in all the history of the convent there had never been a mark like this and she held my examination paper for all to see and there was a big red “O” – it was Latin. Mum was real good about the mark and said “How many people are going to talk in Latin”. Not to be put down I entered a bookkeeping examination and

won a certificate, Sister put the certificate in a large envelope and gave it to me to take home.

Now after waiting 70 years I got my moment of glory at the Gisborne Gazette end of year reception when my name was called out and I was handed my certificate for contributions to the Gazette. A very big thankyou to all the wonderful people that made it possible (and the clapping was not too bad either).

We celebrated Halloween and brought out all the frightening figures from last year. The one that sends shivers down my spine is the big tall skeleton all dressed in black. All of a sudden its eyes light up and it laughs; it always seems to be looking at me.

Stay safe, Betty

Reality check at woodworking show no bar to the fun of the expedition Every day at The Shed is a good day for all sorts of reasons but some days are just that bit special. Recently, one such day involved a trip to a Timber and Woodworking Show at Caulfield Racecourse.

A busload of happy Shedmen, armed with the petty cash tin, headed off with grandiose thoughts of buying an array of fancy, hi-tech machinery. It was a raucous bus trip and on arrival we were like kids in a lolly shop. So much to choose from! Then reality set in. Crikey the stuff

was expensive! So, instead of a milling machine we bought some new chisels, a set of drill bits replaced the thoughts of a TIG welder and a pocket hole jig substituted for a 3D printer. Ah well, we haven’t got the space for the other stuff anyway.

Are we happy with what we’ve already got? Too right!

Visit us any Monday, Wednesday or Thursday morning to see what you could do with the great range of equipment we’ve already got. You will only be limited by your imagination.

Shedmen aboard the bus and ready for a great day.

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Congratulations to Norma for long service The Opportunity on Hamilton op shop has been open for nearly five years and Norma Cowell has been there since the doors opened. Norma is an incredibly vital 88-year-old lady who does not appear to know the words “I can’t”.

She has a strong connection with Macedon Ranges Health through the Gisborne Oaks. Her mother was one of the first six residents to make the then Gisborne Hostel her new home. Her Norma Cowell brother called Gisborne Oaks home and lived there for 15 years.

Norma enjoys the company at the shop, knowing proceeds go towards MRH Gisborne Oaks. She loves making sure that there are wonderful small bags of toys for the children and plenty of cards to buy.

Although the shop is successful in a retail sense it is also a wonderful place to meet people and make new friends.

The shop is also a meeting place for likeminded people who want to be part of the community and to have fun at the same time. Many of our original volunteers are Gisborne CWA members who helped set up the shop. The majority of those volunteers are still working at the shop.

Age is no barrier to our volunteers. If a volunteer is no longer able to function in one capacity we can always find something else to do.

Residents urged to turn to tap water Western Water is continuing its campaign urging people to choose tap water this summer to stay healthy, save money and help the environment.

One of the biggest benefits to tap water over bottled is cost – 1,000 litres of tap water costs just $1.70.

PET plastic bottles are also a huge source of waste, taking up to 1,000 years to break down in landfill.

This year Western Water joined Macedon Ranges Shire Council to install a drinking water fountain in Gisborne’s adventure playground.

The utility is also giving free 'Choose Tap' water bottles to local cafes and discounted sports water bottles to sporting clubs.

Focus on eyes for World Diabetes Day, November 14 Screening for type 2 diabetes is important to modify its course and reduce the risk of complications. Here is some general information about diabetes.

Many people live with type 2 diabetes for a long time without being aware of their condition. By the time of diagnosis, complications may already be present.

Up to 70% of type 2 diabetes cases can be prevented or delayed by adopting healthier lifestyles.

More of us will develop and live with type 1 diabetes.

Screening for complications is an important part of effective management of the disease.

Of the 415 million adults with diabetes globally in 2015, over one third will develop some form of diabetic retinopathy – a complication of diabetes that can lead to vision impairment and blindness.

The management of diabetes and its complications begins in primary health care and this should include screening for diabetic retinopathy.

Careful management of diabetes and screening for diabetic eye disease can help prevent visual impairment and blindness.

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New project supports female rural volunteers Macedon Ranges Shire Council hopes to improve gender equity and prevent sexism and violence against women in male-dominated volunteer organisations through a new project called Rural Challenge. A $76,900 grant has been secured for Rural Challenge, which will work to create more gender-equitable CFA brigades and football/

netball clubs. This joint project with the City of Bendigo, Women’s Health Loddon Mallee, AFL Central Victoria and CFA North-West Region is expected to kick off with a series of forums early next year. Clubs or CFA brigades interested in participating can contact Stephen Hiley on 5422 0333 for more information.

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Float your old bike from here to Africa

Gisborne walkers in the "outer circle railway" parkland at Kew.

Bushwalkers also enjoy urban walks The Gisborne Bushwalking Club program now includes occasional urban walks as an opportunity for those interested in exploring “hidden gems” in the suburbs of Melbourne.

Member Alan initiated this idea and he has led walks through parkland along the route of the old “outer circle railway” in the inner eastern suburbs as well as along the Gardiners Creek valley from Burwood to Box Hill. These walks are accessed using public transport from Gisborne and are limited to about 6km (half-day walk). They usually end with lunch at a suburban pub or cafe before walkers catch the train home.

If this sounds interesting to you and you would like to know more about walking with us, contact our President, George Peart, on 5428 2450, Vice-President Nigel Tarr on 5428 6143 or visit www.gisbornebwc.org.au

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Your old bike gathering cobwebs at home could help change the life of a family in a Third World country. A bike donated or financial donation made to the small volunteer-run charity Bicycles For Humanity makes a difference and has already helped thousands of families in Africa and other parts of the world.

Bicycles for Humanity now has a large container in the Macedon Ranges thanks to the late Breanna Kennedy from Bullengarook. Breanna’s parents recall her mentioning after one of her solo humanitarian visits to Africa at the young age of 18 that “a simple pushbike can help empower a family in Africa and make a difference”. Sadly Breanna died in a car accident in 2013.

B4H sent its first shipping container of 409 bikes to Namibia in 2009. The charity has now sent over 15 containers and 6000 bikes to over five countries.

In the developing world a bicycle allows someone to travel twice as far, twice as fast and carry four times the load. A single bicycle can benefit a community by allowing greater access to healthcare, food, fresh water, school and work.

The shipping container itself becomes a bike workshop, where the local owner sells and repairs the bikes while some bikes are given to local health workers.

The late Breanna Kennedy with local children on a humanitarian trip.

Bikes can be dropped off at any time at the front gate of 1306 Bacchus Marsh Road, Bullengarook. Donations can be made on the website.

For more details check out www.bicyclesforhumanity. com or call Dean on 0418 566 635.

Christmas memorial service at Wooling The annual Wooling Hill Garden Estate Christmas Memorial Service will be held at 372 Barringo Road, New Gisborne, on Tuesday December 6 at 7pm. This is a short informal service to pause and reflect on loved ones no longer with us and to share in the sentiments and activities of the coming festive season.

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It’s NOvember at TOWN Make November the time when you say No to that extra bit of chocolate, cake or sweet fatty treat.

With the festive season not far away it makes good sense for us to make an early effort to try to lose a few extra kilos before the Christmas Holiday season.

At Gisborne TOWN Club we are working hard to lose those unwanted kilos through sensible eating practices, regular exercise and better decisionmaking when it comes to taking control over what we put into our mouths.

This is achieved by supporting our members in our group therapy sessions where we discuss ways to achieve our goals for healthy weight loss without fad diets but, instead, by developing healthy, balanced eating habits.

We are a nonprofit organisation run by volunteers at our club level. So why not come and join our supportive group and start on your No – Di Egan November campaign.

We meet at the Gisborne Bowling Club rooms on Monday nights from 6pm. New members are always welcome.

For more information call Dianne on 5428 3088 or Kathy on 5428 1334.

A trivia afternoon to raise money for the Lancefield Macedon Ranges Relay will be held at Macedon Railway Hotel, Smith Street, from 2pm to 5pm on Sunday November 20. Tickets are $30 and include afternoon tea, with drinks at bar prices.

So far 13 teams have signed up for the Relay on March 4 and 5 which will be officially launched on Sunday, in conjunction with the trivia afternoon.

Tables of up to 10 will be challenged by MC Annie Phelan, and ticket proceeds will either go towards a team’s fundraising total or be added to the event’s banking.

The fun afternoon will be a chance to learn more about Relay For Life, and registrations will be taken.

Tickets can be booked via Kathy on 0419 644 688 or Nadine on 0439 399 838. They are also available online for $32 at www.trybooking.com/NHVN

Live4Life celebrated More than 600 Year 8 students from secondary schools across Macedon Ranges Shire gathered at Braemar College on October 5 to celebrate the success of the Live4Life youth mental health initiative this year.

The special guest speaker was former AFL player and beyondblue Ambassador Jason Ball.

SHOWS AT KYNETON MUSEUM Music from the past, present and future will be presented during November as Kyneton Museum and Bluestone Theatre celebrate the universal language of music with new shows.

November 4 marks the opening of the interactive exhibition Changing Tracks. Changing Tracks will reveal how the way we listen to music has changed, from wax cylinders to vinyl, cassette tapes, iPods and now digital downloads. Come along and revisit some of the past technology and share your memories of significant songs in your life. Open Friday to Sunday from

On Friday 25 November, Barry Morgan and his World of Organs will return in the show Have Yourself a Barry Little Christmas! With his everlasting smile, Hammond organ and special brand of kitsch, don’t miss this organ extravaganza.

The show will start at 7.30pm and tickets are $35 and $30 concession. To book, visit mrsc.vic.gov.au/events

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Grey Light dance enjoyed by many The Macedon Ranges Grey Light Olde Time Dance was held at the Kyneton Town Hall on October 12. With support from the Macedon Ranges Shire, a group of Victoria Police members have organised the event for the past five years to give the shire’s many carers an afternoon of dancing and socialising.

Carers and their cared for, and several tables of people who had not met previously, were entertained by the band Growing up is Optional and the wonderful talents of MC Alan Stone.

Of the 107 guests, at least 30 were permanently on the dance floor, shaking their groove and singing along to a range of classics from the 1950s through to the 1980s. A delicious afternoon tea was supplied. This year’s free dance was

The Grey Light Olde Time Dance provided a lovely afternoon of dancing supported with a grant from the Gisborne & District Community Bank Branch of Sam Cubley Bendigo Bank.

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SCOUTING PAGE Proudly sponsored by Bruce Ellis, Chiropractor

Mitchell Troop’s hike weekend Saturday October 8 was a beautiful sunny day which was great after what seems like months of rain. To make this even better, 19 intrepid scouts from 1st Gisborne Mitchell Troop set off to hike in three groups through the Lerderderg State Park.

Two groups, separated by an hour, set off from the north of the Park and walked south along Bluegum Track for 9km whilst the third group set off from the south of the Park and walked north for 6km along West No. 5 Track. All three groups met at a clearing to camp for the night.

The warm weather and the great condition of the tracks made the walking easy which allowed all three groups to arrive at the camp site ahead of time.

The group walking West No. 5 Track had fantastic views across Bacchus Marsh and toward metropolitan Melbourne which helped take their minds off having the majority of the uphill walking.

Once all arrived at the camp the scouts

Mitchell Troop Scouts head off on their hike through Lerderderg State Park.... and reach a top spot for a rest.

devoured their lunch and set up tents whilst the adults sat back and enjoyed the sunshine. This was quickly followed by the scouts (and adults) disappearing into the bush to get fire wood, learning scout knots and practising GPS use to find a hidden location.

After a great day hiking and evening around the campfire the scouts were woken by strong winds during the night.

Unfortunately the forecast high winds arrived early, but the campsite survived.

To ensure safety the scouts walked out

of the Park as one group to the nearest exit. Whilst the high winds changed the hike plans they added an extra element of excitement to this fantastic scouting adventurous activity.

The scouts were supported by leaders and parents who all thoroughly enjoyed the weekend.

At Government House on Saturday October 8, Thomas, Jackson, and Elizabeth were presented with Queen Scout Awards whilst Jacinta was

Two Macedon Cubs achieve Grey Wolf

The troop takes a welcome break on their journey.

Two of the 1st Macedon Cub Scouts have worked hard during the past few months to complete the extra work required to qualify for the highest award within Cub Scouts, the Grey Wolf.

Lillian Crellin and William Shaddock were presented with their Grey Wolf awards at our Annual Reporting and Presentation night in October.

Well done to Lillian and William for the extra effort that they made in order to reach this achievement.

They will both begin to link up to the Scout section this term.

Lara Le Reveur ASL 1st Macedon

Macedon Scouts become explorers Five 1st Macedon Scouts recently undertook their Explorer Journey. After planning their route between the hall and Treetops Scout Camp at Riddells Creek, they navigated themselves there carrying all of their gear including tents and food.

They made excellent time in adverse windy conditions, accompanied by the Pioneer Scouts and the rest of the troop, who were keen to rack up the mileage.

Congratulations to a dedicated group of young adults on your grit and determination!

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presented with the Baden Powell Scout Award. We warmly congratulate them on their achievements.

Interested in joining 1st Gisborne Scout Group?

Please email admin@1stgisborne.com.au or phone 0487 706 804.

We cater for Joey Scouts (6 years) to Rovers (26 years) and are always interested in anyone who would like to volunteer their time as a leader or as a member of our group committee.

Guides are ready to handle emergencies Gisborne Girl Guides have been working on their Emergency badge this month. This has involved learning about what to do in the event of a variety of incidents, who to contact and how to prevent acci-dents. The girls have learnt about basic first aid and what to do for burns, breaks, scratches, snake bite and more.

If you would like to visit the Girl Guide unit, come along on a Thursday at 5pm to the Community Hall in Howey Street. Suit girls 8-13.

Phone Deb on 5426 1931 for further details.

Guides are up to the mark on first aid.

Hanging Rock Market

Lillian and William are presented with their Grey Wolf awards by Lois Buchanan, the Cub Scout Commissioner, Lerderderg (L) and Akela Soma.

The Hanging Rock Market planned for October 30 has been rescheduled to November 19. Entry fee to the Reserve will be half price ($5) on market day instead of the usual $10. For more information, visit www.craftmarkets.com.au

Young sporting champions recognised The electoral office of Rob Mitchell MP brimmed with talent on October 5 at an afternoon tea held to honour the efforts of McEwen’s elite young sportspeople. Rob presented certificates and cheques under the Local Sporting Champions program to 15 sportspeople including Sebastien Bell-Bartels of Gisborne, who was selected for his talent and commitment to Aussie Rules.

“The $500 grant acknowledges that young people often find it difficult to meet the costs associated with participation at sporting competitions, particularly young people from regional areas,” Mr Mitchell said.

The grants provides financial assistance for those aged 12-18 towards the cost of travel, accommodation, uniforms or equipment when competing, coaching or officiating at an endorsed state, national or international championship or a School Sport Australia championship.

Application forms for future rounds of the grants can

OBITUARY Irene Agnes Young 25 June 1941 – 2 September 2016 Irene was born in Woodend to Phyllis and Barney Morrison of Gisborne.

Irene had a sister, Glenys (Quaife) and a brother Mervyn. She attended St Brigid’s Primary School and later was a boarder at Sacred Heart, Kyneton.

On leaving school, Irene worked at Tranter’s Milk Bar in Gisborne followed Irene Young by employment at the Gisborne and Brunswick Post Offices. She then nursed at the Caloola Centre, Sunbury, for many years where she met her lifetime friends the Sluga family.

Irene married Tom Keeling at St Brigid’s in 1965 and they had two children, Jennifer

Macedon Musings with Melanie Fattore

Grants help towards competition costs. be found at www.ausport.gov.au “I’d encourage young people competing at the elite level of their sports to check out the information and put in an application,” Mr Mitchell said.

(Monaghan) and Pauline (Trice).

In 1990, Irene married Ray Young and they lived in Bullengarook for many years. Irene had six grandchildren: Emma, Chris, Shaun, Ammie, Holly and Matthew.

Irene enjoyed playing tennis for the Gisborne Tennis Club and particularly loved dancing around the district in her teenage years. Her hobbies included knitting, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords and playing cards. She enjoyed country music and football and watching all sports on television. She particularly enjoyed going on fishing trips.

Irene owned a mixed business in Toowoomba, Queensland and later a service station in Sea Lake.

Irene passed away at The Oaks nursing home in Gisborne. A funeral service was held at St Brigid’s Catholic Church, Gisborne, on September 7 followed by a burial at the Gisborne Cemetery.

Macedon resident Phil Wilkinson was recently honoured with a distinguished environmental sustainability accolade – the 2016 Bob Brown Foundation Deni Greene Award. Phil is the executive manager of the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating, an organisation where he has worked for many years.

Congratulations Phil!

Phil’s passion for sustainability is also evident in our local community as well. He is responsible for coordinating the bevy of second-hand Phil Wilkinson bikes that are serviced and repaired then sold at the Macedon CFA’s flea market each year. People can already start donating bikes to the CFA ahead of the next flea market in February.

I would like to announce that after 10 wonderful years as the Macedon Musings reporter it’s time to call it a day. I feel a decade is enough dedication to the community that I adore, and I would love to give the opportunity to someone else who is as passionate about Macedon as I am.

I’ll never forget founding editor Bryan Power initially approaching myself and Kate Lawrence – with whom I job-shared in the early days – about submitting a regular column around the Macedon community. Ten years later it has been very cathartic to look back upon the wonderful occasions and achievements celebrated in my column, and I can’t wait for Macedon Musings to begin a new chapter.

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Fly fishing: a personal story Some 12 years ago l said to my wife (then expecting our first child) that l would like to try fishing. Although it may seem strange, especially since no one fished in my family, for a birthday present my wife enrolled me straight into a fly fishing course. The course opened my mind and I found great interest in the new venture. It wasn’t long before l was keen to get even more knowledge of the sport and to join like-minded people. Casting around (!), it didn’t take me long to find and join a club.

Now I have my own fishing partner in my young son, as well as two younger daughters, to share my joy of the outdoors and the pursuit of fishing. After moving to this area and joining the Calder Fly Fishing Association, I mix with friendly, helpful fly fishers in a good social environment. I have found new places to fly fish, and have the benefit of free casting lessons to maintain my skills. The learning never stops for me or my son in this ever-evolving sport. I invite readers to get involved – you won’t regret it.

Visit www.calderflyfishing.com.au for more information on club activities.

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Owen Thompson, Brian’s son, fly fishing.

Mt Macedon Golf Club goes up country Mount Macedon Golf Club held its annual golf trip in mid-October. Not quite as exotic as last year’s trip to Cairns, nevertheless lots of fun and eagerly anticipated, we marked the end of winter. Twenty members headed up to Albury on a MMGC declared long weekend to play Thurgoona, Howlong and Albury golf courses.

Despite protracted heavy rains across Victoria in the weeks preceding, we were able to play three well turned out courses at a time when numerous courses back home had been closed. We were treated to unexpected fine, warm weather with most of us rejoicing in the opportunity to don the short pants; several even caught a little colour over the weekend! Social evenings, banter, camaraderie along with healthy competition ensued, making for a thoroughly enjoyable weekend.

Alex Fraser was again the standout player, managing a remarkable three-round total close to square with the card. Peter Clark is to be thanked on a great job

in planning the golf trip and organising competitions and generous prizes.

In another notable result, Patrick Doyle is to be congratulated as the September monthly medal winner with a runaway score Alex Fraser with his trophy. of nett 64, on a day when most found scoring tough.

Having entered a new financial year, modest membership fees offer great value on and off the course.

Mount Macedon Golf Club welcomes new members and green fee players. Phone 5426 1650 or drop into the clubhouse on the weekend.

Visit mtmacedongolfclub.com.au.

Tony Littman

Well, Macedon Ranges Croquet Club has had it all.

Excitement, enjoyment, evolving weather patterns, endless waits for water to clear, but eventually we were able to play. Many pennant games had to be rescheduled as courts were wet right across the district.

Our usual club games were also severely restricted but we have enjoyed social times together.

The scores are now even in the Biannual Inter Club Challenge between Kyneton and Macedon Ranges.

Macedon Ranges managed to turn the tables last month and came out victorious. A very happy social get together and hopefully the beginning of a long tradition.

Congratulations to both teams.

Seniors Week has also been celebrated and we were delighted to have visitors come to try our game, some indicating that they may even join us. We have a club social day to enjoy also on November 1. Thirty two players from all around the district – and further afield: Drysdale, Ballarat, Bendigo, Kyneton, Castlemaine and Maldon to name a few, will compete for the prize.

Now if you think that croquet is staid, look at these options. Four of our members played a tournament in Norfolk Island earlier this year and some new conducted tours have been advertised such as the Chiang Mai Elephant’s Cup in Thailand and Kiwi Croquet Capers in NZ. Margaret Wardell

COACH WANTED Gisborne Football Netball Club is seeking applications for the position of Senior Netball coach for 2017. Applications or queries to Netball Managers, Noelene Rymer noelene.rymer@hotmail.com or Sandra Stewart stewartsinoz@hotmail.com

Premiership for Gisborne netballers

Congratulations to the Gisborne Football Netball Club Under 17 netball team which recently won the Bendigo League Under 17 competition.

The coaches were Maddy Stewart and Tarryn Rymer and Holly Doricic (centre) was named best on court.

Footy fever never ends, even on the golfing green Golfers across the state have all been affected by the weather which has rendered courses unplayable and most Bowls and competitions have been cancelled.

There was a slight improvement to allow the ladies to play their “Footy Fever” Day and 20 ladies enjoyed their hotdogs and pies after golf.

Recently 23 ladies migrated to warmer and drier climes for the Murray Downs Ladies Classic. Unfortunately we all had to travel through some flooded roads and now have tales to tell.

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were some excellent results. Marg Ivory and Linda Lanham (one of our new ladies) were winners in their individual events and Kaye Atlas and Marion (Finley) and Linda Lanham and Rhonda Gilmore were placegetters in the 4BBB. We were unable to retain the Murray Downs Team Trophy.

Twilight Golf has now started on Friday nights. A nine-hole golf competition (optional) followed by dinner at the recently launched new concept ‘Fridays at the 19th’. Bistro-style meals at reasonable prices and open to the general public.

Enquiries to be made to Bill at manager@gisbornegolf.com.au or on 5428 2493.

Margaret Barker

Juniors play for top spot

School visit tests bowlers’ backs Macedon Ranges Bowling Club recently visited Sunbury Primary School for the Healthy Living and Sports Expo. Members Helen Kennedy, Dave Clements and Jill Guymer set-up a practice green in one of the old buildings and went about educating 340 students in the techniques of lawn bowls. Six hundred bowls and three over-worked backs later, the day concluded with the students voting with their feet, as it was the most visited site on the day.

The Bowling Club, in Waterfalls Road, Macedon, plays in the Central Highlands Bowls Division and, while a small club, offers great friendship and comfort for its 36 members. Highly competitive on Tuesdays and Saturdays during Pennant Season, the club welcomes new members to join at any time.

Should you not have played previously, the club offers coaching to new members. So why not wander down on November 4 at 5.30pm and join in the fun of Barefoot Bowls? The cost is $10 per person and includes a sausage and salad meal deal.

Contact Jill on 9744 2093 for all enquiries.

Ian Guymer, Secretary

Some of the C grade juniors who took part.

A grade juniors who played in the championships.

Gisborne Giants The Gisborne Giants Football Netball Club would like to invite all of our players and parents to return next year. And we extend the invitation to new players who wish to join us by registering for the 2017 season. Registrations open on December 1. To register, go to the Gisborne Giants website and follow the registration tab.

We are fielding football teams in U10 (2 teams), U12, U14 and U16. For more information, go to our Facebook page or the Giants website, www. gisbornegiants.sportingpulse.net

Macedon Tennis Club held its junior championships on October 16. Eager junior members arrived at 9.30am to be allocated into a round robin schedule according to their ability. The weather was kind and play began.

The overall winners were Josh Doolan and Olivia Cruikshank. A Grade Doubles winners were Alex Cruikshank and Bryn Rowland, C Grade singles Cai Rowland, C Grade Doubles Ethan and Noah Cruickshank.

Runners up were Alex Cruikshank and Lulu Tomkinson overall, Luca and Tully Fattore in A Grade Doubles, Angus Lynch C Grade Singles and Eadie Milne and Paris Hoctor C Grade Doubles. A special shout out to Anthony Grobler, Sienna Hoctor and Thomas Shaddock for their participation and sportsmanship.

While the matches were being played, a steady flow of sausages in bread were consumed by resting players and spectators. Thanks to the tireless work of club members and parents who make these events possible. On Junior Lisa Fowler Champ morning, a group of players and parents did some hard yakka to make the en-tous-cas courts playable after strong winds the day before had blown them bare. Behind the scenes efforts are not acknowledged often enough. So…Thank you from a grateful community.

Happy hitting, Lisa

Summer brings evening petanque sessions The club had to postpone its annual triples competition due to the playing area being swamped by the constant rain. Eighty players had registered from around Victoria but the competition will be rescheduled.

Members have been training hard and competing in various competitions around Melbourne. June and Terry Hunter along with Peter Curtis had success in the St Kilda Winter Tournament. Our team of Lindsay Kinghorn, Shirley Marshall and Danny Green were beaten on a count back score by a team from Doveton to represent

Victoria in the interstate competition.

An alternative competition to our postponed one was held at St Kilda where club members Bernie Bommarito and Vince Ruiz finished second in the ‘complementaire’ (the second tier of the competition) Wednesday evening play has started at the piste behind the Caltex Service Station in Gisborne, from 5pm. The club also meets on the second and fourth Saturdays from 10am. If clubs or groups wish to have a good social day or evening, please contact the Secretary, Doreen, on 0417 552 063.

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Great feat for Gisborne Thunder at Eaglehawk winter series Congratulations to all of our swimmers who competed at the Eaglehawk Winter Series over the past three months. Our club came third overall, an outstanding achievement.

Trea Harkin won first in 8 and under, Keira Cooper was second in 10/under and Charlotte Matthews was third in the 10/under category.

Thank you to our coaches Laura O’Meara and Stephanie Bertalmio for supporting our swimmers over the series.

At the October club night, it was exciting to watch club swimmers and guests “Swim for a win” in the butterfly event. Our fastest swimmers competed in continuous 50m butterfly swims until it was down to just two. Congratulations to

Dragons off to a great start The Dragons have started the new cricket season brightly, with some great performances and strong numbers around the Club.

Our McIntyre Cup team has won its first two games, beating Bacchus Marsh in a thriller thanks to a great batting display from Jason Wilson and then destroying last year’s Grand Final opponent Diggers Rest. The win over Diggers Rest featured

A junior batsman in action for Gisborne.

match-winning per-formances from two 15-year-olds (Matt McDonald took three wickets and Riley Vernon made 71 not out) which is a great endorsement of the club’s junior development program.

Our women’s team has also fired up, with promising performances in the first two games.

There are still spots for new players so any women interested should contact secretary@ gisbornecc.com for more information.

For the younger cricketers, our Milo In2 cricket and T20 Blast programs start in November and are heaps of fun for kids as well as teaching them the skills of cricket. If you have a son or daughter who might like to get involved, visit our website for more information.

The first major function for the year, an 80s’ trivia quiz, is on November 26 and will be a massive night out. All the details are on our Facebook page or our website www.gisbornecc.vic.cricket.

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Izabella Crawford and Hunter Mackay in winning this event.

Well done to our swimmer of the month, Hunter Mackay, and all of our inspirational encouragement award recipients. Keep up the excellent work!

A special mention to Hollie Buerckner for being awarded a Macedon Ranges Youth Award for her upcoming swim

Adult riders in MAD day GDARC hosted the first event in the dressage series Macedon Ranges And District Dressage (MAD) on October 16.

On the Saturday we thought we would be blown away and wondered how we would ever hold the arenas down.

However, with the help of some tent pegs and tape we succeeded. The weather gods were kinder on the Sunday and it was a nicer day until the rain came later in the afternoon.

We had about 80 entries, with a few scratchings, but most rode and had an enjoyable day. Tests were ridden from Grade 5 up to Advanced Level.

The ‘$5 a ticket, every ticket wins a prize’ was again a total success.

The money raised will go towards the rebuilding of our clubrooms.

Thank you to all who volunteered, the judges, and most of all the riders who took the chance on the weather.

Local youngsters called up for cricket squad The Central Highlands U14 Boys squad of 28 began their preparation for the Victorian Bushrangers State Championships season with the first training session in Ballarat in late September. Congratulations to Lewis Bouckley, Macklan Lord, Joshua

McDonald and Harry Thomas, all players with Gisborne Cricket Club, who have been selected in the squad.

The initial squad of 28 players will move into a final squad of 13 to play in the State Championships in Melbourne from January 16 to 20.

Barry Purcell OBITUARY Barry Frederick Purcell 21 February 1939 – 8 September 2016 Barry was the second of five children born to Frederick and Dorcas Purcell of Geelong.

He attended St John’s Primary School in North Geelong, St Joseph’s Secondary College in Newtown and later Gordon Institute of Technology in Geelong.

Barry began work with Alcoa and later with Ford as a vehicle designer. He transferred to the head office in Broadmeadows continuing with vehicle designing. He also worked in the Philippines and Japan with Ford.

Barry met Margaret at the Royal Yacht Club in Geelong and they were married at the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Geelong, in April 1961. They

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down the Murray to raise funds for children with cancer. Congratulations Hollie, we are very proud of you.

If you are interested in competing in some fun swimming competition, make your way to Gisborne Aquatic Centre on the second Saturday of the month at 6pm. For more information, visit www. gisbornethunder.org.

Happy Curry Nighters at South Gisborne.

Some of the Level champions and reserve Champions.

Was it cold..?? Yes it was! And windy and wet, but it didn’t deter 80-plus people from tucking into the warmest, tastiest curries at the annual South Gisborne Tennis Club Curry Night.

Members, friends and locals got together to raise funds for new court surfaces. A huge thankyou to all who made this night such a success.

A Service to Celebrate the life of

Frederick Barry Purcell

Barry and Margaret were members of the Church had five children, Damian, Andrew, of Christ, New Gisborne. They loved to travel and John, Jennifer and Amanda, and 12 visited the US, Canada, England, Europe and grandchildren. travelled extensively throughout Australia.

In the early 1970s, Barry and Barry’s other interests included football, music, Margaret bought a home in Carrolls dancing, watching car racing, farming and raising Lane, Bullengarook.

After the cattle.

Ash Wednesday fires they built in He supported his children through Braemar Couangalt Road and later moved to College and was on the original Braemar steering The Boulevard, Gisborne.

February 21 1939 – September 8th 2016 Barry Purcell Church of Christ, New Gisborne.

Barry enjoyed sailing and building committee back in the mid- 1970s. Barry in later Friday September 16 2016 at 11.30am Rev. Paul Crothers boats. He built a 45-foot yacht and years was a resident in The Oaks nursing home sailed it from the Royal Yacht Club in Williamstown where he passed away. across Bass Strait to Tasmania and he also went on a A large funeral service to celebrate Barry’s life was number of trips around the coasts of NSW, Tasmania held at the Church of Christ on September 16 and and Victoria. He was a member of the Royal Yacht conducted by the Reverend Paul Crothers, followed by Clubs in Geelong, Queenscliff and Williamstown. a burial at the Macedon Cemetery. st

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Abbi Kropman, 8, flies in the long jump at Gisborne Little Athletics, which is held each Friday afternoon at Dixon Field from 5pm to 6.30pm.

Cameron Chuck, 11 (below) tackles the high jump.

L-R: Sprinters Sienna Sipthorp, Layla Sipthorp, Abigail Neethling, Violet Price, Molly Cameron and Abigail Cameron.

Thomas Byrne, 10, learns javelin technique.

Imogen Barlow bats for Gisborne in a match against Frankston in at Gardiner Reserve on October 9.

SPORT IN PICTURES

Macedon (batting) v Romsey

Chris Fleming captured these shots of some of the many sporting activities taking place around Gisborne in October.

If you would like to see more of Chris’s sport pictures, they are running in a loop on the large screen in the window of the Gazette office in Hamilton Street. The pictures are updated regularly.

No rest for netballers: as one season ends, another begins.

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The CHURCHES PAGE Sponsored by Anglican Parish of Gisborne ■ Uniting Church in Australia ■ St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Gisborne ■ House of the Rock Church, Gisborne ■ Gisborne Church of Christ ■ Faithworks-Manaaki ■ St Brigid’s Parish.

Uniting Church shares many ways of giving The past month at Gisborne Uniting Church saw a successful fashion show, the building of a new shed and practical advice from Karen Dunstan, co-ordinator of emergency management for Macedon Ranges Shire on managing the emergencies that might accompany the heat of summer.

October also was the month when we farewelled John Lane, a much-loved member of the congregation and, for many years, a leader in the Scripture Union organisation.

For some years he was a resident

of The Oaks and much gratitude was expressed at his funeral for the care he received there.

November is a time of planning for Advent and its climax in Christmas.

This always involves giving. There is the collection of groceries for hampers for those who can’t afford Christmas goodies. Then there’s the annual collection of funds to support the Christmas Bowl. It began in 1948 as a challenge for those who sat down to a hearty and happy Christmas dinner. An empty bowl was placed on the table

for diners to remember the cost of their dinner and the plight of millions of refugees from World War 2.

This year we also are supporting a SHARE project within Victoria and Tasmania called Acts of Kindness. Each week over five weeks we will raise funds for projects for the homeless and for children within Victoria and Tasmania, a sign of the gap between those who have and those who have not.

For more information contact D’Arcy Wood on 5428 6700 or Wendy Elson on 0400 042 076.

St Paul’s Op Shop Jottings With Christmas fast approaching our Op Shop has a large range of Christmas decorations for sale at bargain prices. We are also starting to display our summer clothing range for adults, children and babies. We also have a lovely display of bric-a-brac for your perusal.

We would like to thank our many customers who collected and filled Samaritan’s Purse shoe-boxes with gifts for the needy for Christmas. This was a very successful effort and together with the other boxes collected, 156 were delivered from this area.

Our volunteers from the Anglican Op Shops at Gisborne and Riddells Creek recently enjoyed a service and afternoon tea at Bundaleer Receptions, as a token of appreciation for their valued work.

As part of their fundraising efforts, the Gisborne Secondary College Chaplaincy Committee have packets of shortbreads for sale at our shop.

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Catechetics enrolments 2017 St Brigid’s Parish will be hosting a Catechetics information evening on Tuesday December 6 at 7pm at the school portable classroom.

Parents from government and independent schools who would like to enrol their children in the sacraments of Reconciliation (Grade 3), Eucharist (Grade 4) and Confirmation (Grade 6) are invited to attend. Enrolments need to be completed prior to the commencement of the Desiree program of each Sacrament. Chambers For further information, contact the parish office on 5428 2591 or Robyn Angarano (Parish Facilitator) on 0418 993 991. You can also find more information on our website www. st-brigids-gisborne. org.au Please note enrolments must be finalised by Tuesday February 7.

Desiree Chambers

Invitation to Duneira

Our volunteer for the month is Judy McArthur, highlighting the Op Shop’s range of Christmas products for sale.

Busy time in church life We recently welcomed three baby boys to families associated with House of the Rock church. Congratulations to the families of Joshua, Ted and Nathan, and welcome to the church family.

The life of our church was also enriched in October by the Second Chance Fashion Parade, run in conjunction with the Prison Network Ministry. This was a day full of fun, laughter and warmth, and raised a grand total of $2,300 for the PNM. Well done to all the organisers and helpers for their tireless time, energy and enthusiasm.

November sees our group of 15 men and women head off to India to visit our two children’s homes. With the changes occurring in Indian society, our ministries have had to

St Brigid’s Parish

House of the Rock adapt. Many of our children will now be cared for in a village setting. It will be a privilege for us to be able to work with local people in setting up homework clubs and before and after school care centres. Our focus will be on the children’s welfare and close supervision of the programs.

For any enquiries about anything above, or the life within our church and wider community, please contact our pastors John and Jenny Barnes on 5426 2039.

Blessings, Liz Stevenson

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St Brigid’s Columban Partnership invites you all to join us for a family picnic in the beautiful gardens at Duneira, Mt Macedon, on Sunday November 13 from 11am to 4pm.

This is a fundraiser for St Elizabeth Hospital in Hyderabad, Pakistan, which our partnership supports. Tickets bought before the day will be $15 an adult, schoolaged children are free. This will include a free coffee or tea. You can buy a glass of wine for $5 to go with your picnic.

Tickets bought on the day will be $20.

For further information contact Paul on 0412 692 893 or Bill on 5426 1544.

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I know I have! Next time you feel yourself getting worked up or overwhelmed in some way, take a breath. A simple breath won’t make the issue go away, but it may just help bring some clarity and insight to the situation. Breathe… Give it a go!

FaithWorks Christian Church invites you to our church services at 10am on Sundays. We also hold our Encounter Café on the first Sunday of each month at the Gisborne Market. Grab a sausage or kranksy from the barbecue out the front or come into the café from 10am till 1pm for a complimentary hot bev and baked goodie! All profits from the barbecue and donations from the cafe go to our orphanage we sponsor in India.

All of this happens at Manaaki – 35 Aitken Street, Gisborne. All welcome!

More info can be found at our website www.faithworkscc.com.au Shelley Farrugia

100 Years Ago From the pages of the old Gisborne Gazette NOVEMBER 1916

Gisborne Citizen’s Committee – A meeting was held on the 19th October, Mr W. Brady JP occupying the chair. It was decided to devote the profits of the last entertainment (£14) to the purchase of comforts for our soldiers at the front, the goods to be procured from Gisborne storekeepers. The committee had to wait for a reply from the War Council to a request that the goods should be purchased locally.

The Referendum on Conscription – The taking of the account of the Referendum of the whole Commonwealth is necessarily a question of time. The absent votes, which includes soldiers’ votes, will have some effect on the total, though there is considerable difference of opinion as to what this effect will be. The following figures to hand on Wednesday showed the Noes leading by 83,372, the figures being: No: 966,416, Yes: 883,044. The states that have given a majority for conscription are Victoria, West Australia and Tasmania. It is considered that the Referendum will cost the Commonwealth £80,000, as that was the cost of the last Constitutional Act Referendum. It would be a mistake to say the polling passed off amicably at Gisborne, for there was a great deal of suppressed excitement and it was quite evident that as far as conscription was concerned, the people of the district were divided into two hostile camps.

American President – The eyes of the world and particularly of America will be turned on the voting which takes place on Tuesday for the office of President of the United States. There are two candidates: Mr Woodrow Wilson, who has held the position for the past four years, and Mr Charles Evan Hughes, who resigned his position as Supreme Court judge to contest the election on behalf of the Republicans.

The Cup Meeting – For the second time in the history of the VRC, the race for the Cup has had to be postponed. The state of the Flemington course was such on Monday evening that it was decided to postpone the Cup meeting till the following Saturday, the 11th. The other occasion on which the Melbourne Cup meeting was postponed for a similar reason was in 1870.

Timber on Mt Macedon – At the meeting of the Shire Council on Wednesday, Cr Turner drew attention to the fact that the residents of Upper Macedon, many of whom had fences marking the boundary of the Plantation, were not allowed to remove any green timber, even to get a post to repair the fences referred to.

All they asked for were posts of matured native timber, of which there is an abundance, and the trees to be removed, on which a royalty is of course paid, might be marked by officers of the Department. It was decided to make representations to the Conservator of Forests on the subject.

What’s On

Regular meetings New members welcome

ADULT RIDING CLUB (Gis.) 2nd Saturday Robertson Res ADULT RIDING CLUB (Bullengarook) 2nd Saturday Rec Reserve ANGLING CLUB 2nd Wed 8pm Railway Hotel Macedon ARTHRITIS SUPPORT GROUP 1st Mon 1-3pm Woodend N’hood House BRIDGE CLUB Mon 12.30, Tues 7.15, Thurs 12.30 St Mary’s

Church Hall, Woodend 5420 7595 BUSHWALKING CLUB Tel 5428 2450 CANASTA CLUB 1.30pm every Mon except first Mon of

month, Parish centre (behind St Pauls Church, Gisborne) CANCER SUPPORT GROUP last Wed of month MRH CAR CLUB 1st Wednesday 8pm Steam Park, New Gisb CARERS GROUP (MacRanges) 2nd & 4th Thurs, 1pm Woodend RSL

5420 7132 (Note: 4th Thurs carers only)

COFFEE FOR CARERS 3rd Tuesday 10am La Cibo Cafe COMMUNITY GARDEN Wed 9am Church of Christ CROQUET CLUB Wed & Sat 10am Dixon Field Gis Secondary College CWA GISBORNE 2nd Monday 10am 662 Mt Macedon Rd CWA MACEDON 3rd Tues 1pm & 7pm DALY RESERVE WORKING BEE 2nd Tues 9.30am EUCHRE Tues 7.30 Doug White Meeting Room 5428 2695 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 3rd Sun 10-noon, FRIENDS of JACKSONS CREEK Working bees 5428 1178 or 0417 558 221 FROCKS & JOCKS CHOIR Tuesdays 7.30pm 5428 3002 Various; 5428 2434 GARDEN CLUB 2nd Wed Family Hist Rm, Library GENEALOGY GROUP 4th Thurs 7.30 Gis Comm Hall GIRL GUIDES Thursdays 5pm GISBORNE SINGERS Tues 7.30pm Holy Cross PS HISTORICAL SOCIETY open Wed 10am-4pm Court House LIBRARY: TODDLERS’ STORY TIME Mon 10.30am, Wed 10.30am LIONS CLUB DINNER NIGHT Last Friday of month La Cibo Cafe 6pm St Brigid’s Hall MARTIAL ARTS Thurs from 5.15pm Masonic Hall Aitken St MASONIC LODGE 2nd Thurs 7pm MASTERS AFL Sankey Reserve Wed 6.30pm Lyell Street MEN’S SHED BARBECUE Last Mon 12.30pm Horticultural Hall MT MAC & DIST HORT SOC 1st Tues MUFFINS ’N’ MORE 2nd Tues 10am-noon Uniting Church 49 Fisher St MUMS’ GROUP 2nd Mon, 9.30-11.30am

Riddells Rec Res OBEDIENCE DOG CLUB Sun 9am 9am-2pm OLDE TIME MARKET 1st Sun each month PETANQUE 2nd & 4th Sat, 10am behind Caltex service

station, Station Rd, Gisborne PHOENIX ART & CRAFTS 1st Thursday monthly 5428 2835 PHOTOGRAPHIC SOC 1st Tues & 2nd Mon 7pm Riddell’s Creek

Neighbourhood House PONY CLUB Bullengarook 1st Sunday Rec Reserve PONY CLUB Gisborne 1st Sunday Robertson Reserve PROBUS 1st Thurs 10am Masonic Hall QUILTERS (Gisb) Wed 7pm Room attached to Gisb Library RAMBLERS Fridays 9.15am Tennis Club Dixon Field RED CROSS 1st Fri 1.30pm Sen Cits Rooms ROTARY Tues 6.45 for 7pm Gisborne Golf Club,

book 5428 4483 by 1pm Mon RUNNING GROUP Tues & Thurs 6pm, Sun 8am Gisborne Aquatic Centre RSL 1st Mon 2pm Hall at 247 Station Rd 5428 2233 SAFARI CLUB

2nd Sat 5428 1878 SCOTTISH DANCING Thurs 1pm Buffalo Stadium Woodend SEED SAVERS 2nd Monday 7.30pm Riddell Neighbourhood Hse SENIOR CITS (Macedon) Tues 11am Tony Clarke Res SPINNERS & FIBRE GROUP Tues 12 noon Riddells Ck N’hood House TABLE TENNIS Wed 7.30pm Tony Clarke Res, Macedon THUNDER SWIMMING CLUB 2nd Sat 5pm

Aquatic Centre TOASTMASTERS 1st & 3rd Tues 7.20pm Senior Citizens Centre, 8 O’Shanassy St, Sunbury T.O.W.N. Mondays 6pm Gisborne Bowls Club TOY LIBRARY 2nd Sat 9.30-11am; 2nd Wed 9-10.30am & 2nd Mon 3.30-4.30pm Robertson St TRAVEL CLUB 3rd Tues 7.30pm Riddell N’hood House U3A Mondays 10.30am MRFEC ULYSSES GROUP 3rd Tues 6pm Sunbury FC VINTAGE MACHINERY Working bees 1st Sun of month, 8.30am at

Steam Park, Meetings last Friday 7pm Steam Park WRITERS GROUP Last Sat of month 2-5pm Woodend N’hood House WRITERS GROUP(SCRIBES & SCRIBBLERS) 2nd Tues of month 10am-12 Riddell N’hood House YOUNG VOICES Thursdays 4.15-5.45pm St Andrew’s Uniting Ch. Forest St, Woodend 5426 4801 or sdggome@patash.com.au

What Else is happening happening Date Page NOVEMBER 1 Macedon Ranges Croquet Club Social Day 34 4 Barefoot Bowls at MR Bowling Club 35 10 Gisborne Library Jeremy Scott event 11 12 Photographic artists at The Gallery 16 12 Australian Chamber Choir 13 12-13 Macedon Ranges Food & Wine Festival 7 13 Gisborne CFA Open Day 2 13 Paws in the Park 2 13 St Brigid’s picnic at Duneira 38 13 Historical Society AGM 21 14 World Diabetes Day 29 15 Barb Davis speaks at Macedon CWA 8 14 U3A bus trip to Shrine of Remembrance 19 19-20 Buttlejorrk Annual art exhibition 13 18 The Mount Players – Whose Wives Are They Anyway 12 19-20 Macedon Ranges Garden Designfest 26 20 Trivia afternoon for Relay for Life 31 20 Malmsbury Village Fayre 7 26 Dragons Trivia Quiz 36 26 Riddells Creek Twilight Festival 7 25-26 Lancefield Megafauna Festival tours to Mt William 7 26 Lancefield Megafauna Festival Tim Flannery talk 7 DECEMBER 3 Gisborne Library Family Fun Christmas celebration 11 6 St Brigid’s Parish Catechetic Information Evening 38 9 Gisborne Christmas Festival 11 9 11 Shared Table Christmas Party

Baringo FilmClub Club Program Baringo Film Programme

Week Commencing

Matinee

Evening

November October 4 1

Monsieur Lazhar Quiet Chaos

The The King’s Lady in Speech the Van

October 11 8 November

My Year without Sex Like Ex Machina Sucker Father Like Son

October 18 15 Novemver

Tais toi Ark Russian

Woman inCountry Gold Charlie’s

October 25 22 November

Philomena Little Voice

Looking for Grace Ida

November 129 November

Monsieur Lazhar Elmer Gantry

The King’s Speech The Intouchables

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