Issue No. 105
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Issue 107 October 2011
Highlights
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▪ Emirates Melb. Cup 5 ▪ First Students
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▪ Artist Louise Price 9 ▪ Wood Fired Ovens 11 ▪ Las Lomas Peru
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▪ Marty Maher
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▪ Short Story
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▪ Garden Plants
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▪ Bellbrae School
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▪ New Vicar
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▪ Kid’s Page
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▪ Anglesea School
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▪ Aireys School
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▪ Rabbits Galore
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There are some locals who are so well known they are referred to only by their first name. Restauranteur Furio Rovere, is just such a local. To see Furio welcoming customers into his self named café, Furio‘s Café 95, you might imagine he has been in hospitality all his life. Whether hosting his famous cycling breakfasts, presenting sell out fund raising dinners or just serving the perfect cup of coffee, Furio seems to be doing the job he was born to do. But the clues to his success lie in surprisingly diverse life experiences. Born in Gorizzia, Northern Italy, Furio moved to Geelong with his parents during the height of the sixties‘ mass migration, and settled happily in East Geelong. Both his parents worked at Ford. He remembers living the Great Australian Dream - long days with his two brothers and good mates cycling, playing footy and enjoying summers at Eastern Beach. Furio seized every opportunity to have it all. After graduating from Geelong High he joined what was then the CBC bank, and at nights undertook a university degree in accounting and economics, paid for by his employers. Eventually Furio worked his way up to the international division and embarked on what was the most satisfying part of his banking career, chasing international investors.
and the preparations. But the most exciting part was when I got to work overseas in partnership with international banks, putting together syndicates of up to A$300 million. It was the biggest thrill.‖ For ten years Furio worked in Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong, raising wholesale monies for financial institutions. It was a long way from St Mary‘s Tech and Geelong High, but Furio found himself untroubled by cultural or language gaps. ―I‘ve never characterised people, so I just tended to do what I do here, to be myself. Before a trip I would do a bit of cultural preparation but I then just did things in my own style.‖ Furio learned that, all over the world, people responded to kindness, honesty and fairness the same way. ―The world‘s a big place and we are a small part of it over here, but wherever I went, I found the people to be fantastic.‖
During his 25 year-long banking career, Furio met and married Alison, and together they made a home in Geelong for themselves and their four children. When Furio established his own event management company he found his people and organisational skills translated well. He and his TERM 4, 2011 team managed two Airshow Downunder events, and the COURSE National Wool Week Festival in GUIDE INSIDE Geelong for six years. ―All that experience was good preparation for this‖ Furio explains, gesturing around his Anglesea restaurant, surprisingly
―I enjoyed it all, the complex transactions
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