Heartbeat Bangalow’s
free l february 2016 No.199 l Celebrating the Life and Times of the local Community
Tribute to a man of note Dave Ades was a towering figure in the jazz world but practised in our Showgrounds. A recent concert at the Bowlo celebrated his final album and the man who made Bangalow saxy.
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Holidays are over, a new year is upon us and our local clubs and societies – run by hard-working volunteers - are gearing up for another busy year. If you are new to the community you might like to consider volunteering for one of these organisations; it’s a great way to meet people, learn new skills and utilise your own skills. Check out our reports in this issue, including the Community Noticeboard and the Useful Contacts entry, for
the range of exciting opportunities awaiting you. Reports in this issue include community events in late November and December and updates on the Have Your Say survey and the Parklands Waterfront project. Music, fine arts and craft reports. Two new local publications, for kids and adults. Lots of fabulous photos by the Heartbeat photographers. And even more. Di Martin, Editor
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Tony Hart – Journalist Tony and Christina Hart moved to Bangalow almost ten years ago, having lived in Sydney since 1976. Tony migrated to Canberra in 1963 with his then wife Dorin and daughter Catherine and moved to Sydney in 1975 working in the State Treasury, then the Department of Lands. Later he worked in private information technology focussing on geographic information systems (GIS - like Google Maps, which didn’t exist then), spending a lot of time on aircraft on the way to and from Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok, Manila, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Troy (New York State) and Little Rock. Since retiring to Bangalow he has run his own GIS consultancy and been very much involved in community activities at the Bowlo, the Progress Association, the Tweed Byron District Bowling Association and a regular writer for Heartbeat focussing on community activism and current events affecting our town.
Christina de Water - Photographer Christina loves taking photos and is our random photographer who enjoys getting about town and surrounds with her trusty camera. She is a resident photographer for ADFAS, the Bangalow Theatre Company and the Garden Club and in 2015 covered all the wonderful community events sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. She is also employed by local cottage industries to photograph their websites and social media images. With a solid stylist’s background she creates her photographs as the brief permits with colourful results . Christina enjoys jumping in the car for last minute photos and wondering where they will be squeezed in, or scouting out the many events and characters this busy town has to offer. Loves all art, photography, textiles, nature, gardens, most music, eating and laughs with strangers and
bangalow’s heartbeat www.heartbeat.net.au PO Box 132 Bangalow NSW 2479 Editors: Dianne Martin 6687 2592 Ruth Kirby Email: editors@heartbeat. net.au Cover: Christina de Water photography; portrait
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DISCLAIMER. This newsletter is published by Bangalow’s Heartbeat Incorporated PO Box 132 NSW 2479. Hon. Editors Dianne Martin, Ruth Kirby, Hon Sec/ Public Officer Neville Maloney. Membership is open to all adult residents of the 2479 postal district. The opinions expressed by individual contributors are not necessarily shared by the Editors and other members of the Association committee. While every reasonable effort is made to publish accurate information, Bangalow’s Heartbeat Inc. accepts no responsibility for statements made or opinions expressed.
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Bangalow’s Waterfront Opening
After an absence of many years Bangalow’s Waterfront has returned, thanks to a great effort by many sections of our community. Terry Bleakley reports on the progress and invites all of Bangalow to help celebrate. Readers might remember that in the Pool’s heyday the area of the weir, the slippery dip and dance floor was commonly known as the Waterfront. In readiness for the beautification and restoration work on and around the creek itself, a grant was obtained through the department of Family and Community Services (Community Building Partnership) to provide a structure that would reignite the community spirit that existed when the pool was constructed and maintained by locals. With the assistance of the Historical Society, the Bangalow Parklands team was awarded a grant to construct a building and to do ancillary works such as landscaping and provision of lighting and power. The mural now taking shape on the amenities block (and which will soon cover the entire building) was also funded through this grant. Byron Shire Council has been very supportive on many levels throughout the project and contributed to providing power, brush-cutting and ground maintenance and will soon commence work on a new roof for the amenities block. It is hoped further upgrading of the facilities will follow. Council has also allowed the Parklands team to use a disused room in the building for an office and storage and the team
recently renovated this space. The kit-form, octagonal gazebo-style, building was constructed by Tropical Lifestyle Living from Bundall, Queensland, who also arranged installation and painting. Bangalow’s Land and Rivercare have also been very supportive. They will be doing further work on the adjacent creek bank to complement their original planting which now provides a wonderful backdrop to the building. Many in our community purchased ‘Bring Back Bangalow’s Waterfront’ stickers over the last few months, and these additional funds have enabled us to make up any shortfall in the funding to ensure the building has attractive signage and is landscaped appropriately.
Everything was co-ordinated by the Parklands team with wonderful oversight of the whole project by Lynn and Jon Smith. Lynn’s father, Bruce Beckinsale, a champion diver and swimming teacher, was closely associated with the pool for many years and would be proud of the community’s growing interest in returning the park to the place of beauty and tranquillity it always was. The Waterfront will be officially opened on Sunday, 21 February at 11.30am by local State Member, Tamara Smith. Also in attendance will be Byron Shire’s Mayor, Simon Richardson. The community is invited to bring a picnic and celebrate the return of the Waterfront, to enjoy some light entertainment that will showcase the potential of the building, and to hear the latest on the weir project. Local fundraising will continue and money raised will be used towards additional barbecue facilities, seating and children’s play equipment, particularly on the western side of the parklands. The Parklands team will continue to push for the early repair of the weir and conversion of the old dip site into a parking area. For further information concerning the project or the opening, please contact Lynn Smith 0429 644 659, Christobel Munson 0427 872 244 or Terry Bleakley 0428 712 525.
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20 million trees You may have heard that the current government’s answer to climate change is to plant more trees, so they created the 20 million trees grant program to get them into the ground. I happen to believe this is a good idea as young actively growing trees are the biggest sequesters of carbon. Anyone can do the maths and see that it’s not enough to counter the emissions we all produce and way more needs to be done but it’s something. Bangalow Landcare and Rivercare decided to apply for one of these grants and as a Christmas present we learned that our application was successful. The space to be planted is the Anglican church land along Byron Creek, effectively connecting the planting of two years ago behind the church to the Bangalow Parklands. The vision has always been to connect all our plantings along the creek creating one long wildlife corridor while also making one long walking path through the forest. So there are busy times ahead as the planting must start this financial year. We have 3000 trees to plant over the next two years in that area, probably in two stages and hopefully with community help. We are planning a community planting day around the second weekend in April so please keep it in mind. I’ll have a firm date and more details in the next issue of Heartbeat.
Planting behind the Anglican church Photo by Judy Baker
Meanwhile there are the other sites to maintain and we will be back to work on 6 February. We can be found every Saturday morning at 8.30am somewhere around Bangalow doing just that. We really do need some new active members so if you have any interest in promoting the forest restoration work we do, please think about coming along this year and give Landcare a go. Currently of the seven regularly active members we have only two actually living
in Bangalow and our average age is 60+! Our fundraising program of gardening for a donation to the group is also back again this year. We have not only been able to help people with their gardens, which is highly satisfying, but have been able to hire a bush regenerator with the funds to help us keep up with the never ending weeds in the plantings. For more information on coming along to working bees or gardening work please call Liz 6687 1309. Liz Gander
Museum and Tearoom report It’s a brand new year with many ‘interesting’ times ahead, but there is one certainty about 2016: your local Museum and Tearoom is back open for business – and better than ever. Opening hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 3pm, and all our much- loved volunteers plus new staff and fully trained baristas are waiting to welcome you. And, excitingly for you coffee lovers, we are now associated with Zentvelds, local growers and producers, for our beans plus their great new chai latte experience. We offer easy parking for large or small vehicles as well as caravans, buses, etc. Group bookings, large or small, are always welcome. Come in and explore the delights of the museum with its local history and photographic display, then let us tempt you with town’s best homemade scones for Devonshire teas, a dessert fridge to
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dazzle even the strongest of wills plus luscious lunches and afternoon teas. Check out the wonder of the Museum shop stocked with local produce, homemade crafts, tea towels and aprons, and madly covetable tea cosies, all sourced by our great volunteer Mary. There is a read-
and-swap bookcase, filled with books and magazines suitable for all literary tastes. New members wanting to join the Museum Historical Society are always welcome and there are many plans in the works to make this coming year bigger than ever. We are always on the lookout for new volunteers and have many avenues of activities big and small to suit any skill. If you would like to join this great team, and have a fun time while contributing to the local community, contact us on 6687 2183 or bangalowhistorical@bigpond.com Wishing you all a wonderful new year, and hope to see you soon. Trisha Bleakley
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sadly missed
A memorial service for Don Brown was held at the Anglican Hall on Friday, 4 December, with the family tributes focussing on Don as a devoted family man, teacher, principal and writer. He was greatly loved and revered by all who came under his influence. Friends and family members from Sydney and many from the 2479 community attended the service, where the following poem by Don was read: Telling the love As long as someone tells the love That it may stand when all the rest is ash. When all the sneering and the tears are done, When hate has been forgotten and when fear No longer cramps us in; When all the actions, petty, stupid, kind, Considered and impetuous are done, Let them all be distilled and then forgotten As long as someone tells the love.
Don and Pat arrived in Bangalow in October 2011, leaving their home on the Northern Beaches of Sydney to be close to their son Warwick in McLeod’s Shoot. The loss of their old network of 50 years meant
urgent action to build a new network. Don, who self-published a collection of short
stories in 2011, first joined the Bangalow Writers Group and soon after jumped at the chance to write for Heartbeat. His monthly articles, more than 20 from 20122013 in the series The Person behind the Job, gave him the opportunity to talk to a range of people and extend the group of new friends. Don said at the time, “Shopping in the town now takes longer because of gossip stops.” Their daughter Lyndall and her partner Felix moved to Federal not long after Don and Pat’s arrival so the whole family was then pleased to call the Northern Rivers home. Don is a great loss to Heartbeat and the community. Di Martin
Have your say update We were overwhelmed by the tremendous response to the Bangalow Have Your Say questionaire. Forms were published in December Heartbeat and were kindly distributed to all homes in postcode 2479, courtesy of Nicole at the Bangalow Post Office. When we stopped accepting responses on 11 January some 325 forms had been received. There are about 2000 houses in 2479 so our response
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rate is around 16 percent, a good result for this type of survey and certainly one that should give us a reliable indication of local people’s views about our village. Congratulations and thanks to all who put in the effort to send a response. An interesting aspect of the survey was that over a third of our respondents used Survey Monkey to fill out their forms on line. Over the next few weeks we will
tabulate all the responses, anonymously of course, to get a detailed understanding of our results. By early February we hope to be in a position to give some indication of what has been learnt and how it might guide the future of Bangalow. Our thanks again to all respondents and to the council staff who have guided this process to date. Tony Hart (Progress Association) and Carolyn Adams (Chamber of Commerce)
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community noticeboard Pool Trust The Bangalow Pool Trust needs you! The AGM is to be held on Wednesday, 3 February at the A&I Hall at 6pm. We need volunteers to help to work towards getting this pool completed. It has taken a long time but Byron Council have finally approved a 25m eight lane pool with a toddlers’ shaded pool, community facilities and a recreation area to be constructed on land adjacent to the Bangalow Bowls Club. We have over $256,000 in the bank but we will need more fund raising and more people to be involved to complete this project. Anyone who wishes to help, come along to the meeting. Contacts: Tony Heeson wallaby@nor.com.au 0419 715 098 or Ruth Ryan bareb44@ bigpond.net.au or 6687 1393 Tony Heeson
the Bangalow Historical Society’s Museum and Tea Rooms on Thursday, 11 February, from 7.30 to 9am. Our February speaker is Dr Louise A. Shilton of Life & Soul Insights (www. lifeandsoulinsights.com). To purchase tickets ($25)go to our facebook page. Sally Pattison
Byron and Beyond Networking Thursday, 25 February at Town. Beautiful Food, Jody Valassalo’s latest cookbook won the Gourmand World cookbook Awards in 2014 for Best Nutrition and Health cookbook in Australia. www. byronandbeyondnetworking. com.au Rosemarie Toynbee
Farewell to Ursula Caesar
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After many wonderful years teaching at Newrybar Public School a farewell for Ursula Caesar will be held at the Bangalow Bowling Club on Saturday, 20 February commencing at 7pm. Cost is $45 including a three course meal and gift. Drinks can be purchased at the bar. All past parents, students and community members are invited to share the evening with Ursula. Payments in full must be made to Newrybar Public School, 10 Broken Head Road Newrybar, by 8 February. Judi Albans
Bangalow Business Women’s Networking Group is excited to launch their first event of 2016 at
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Garden Club The first meeting of the Bangalow and District Garden Club for 2016 is on Wednesday, 3 February at 1.30 pm in the Moller Pavilion. The committee led by copresidents Margaret Bruce and Robyn Armstrong has another lively and action packed year planned for this the 39th year of the Club. Helen Johnston
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Valley Rescue Squad, Byron Hospital, St Vincent Hospital Lismore Oncology Unit and Far West NSW Farmers Drought Appeal. We would like to thank our donors and customers for their valued support. Without you we would not be able to donate to our various charities. Jan Shultz
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We meet at the Bangalow Scout Hall on the first Thursday of each month at 9.15 for 9.30 am, finishing at 12noon. Inside everyone there is a story so come join us and write about yours. Everyone welcome. A small charge for morning tea. Enquiries to June at 6687 1004 June Zentveld
Thank you to all those who participated in the 2015 Junior Championships. We are proud to once again announce the winners: Girls Singles Champion: Kasey Basso; Boys Singles Champion: Luke Nelson; Girls Doubles Champions: Kasey Basso/Kate Cowan, Boys Doubles Champions: Luke Nelson/Dylan Kennedy, Mixed Doubles Champions: Kasey Basso/Max Schoeman. For all adult and junior coaching, and racquet re-stringing contact the Club coach, Denis Hopking: 0406 277 459 Casual court hire through Bangalow Bowlo and Bangalow Bottle Shop. Aileen Cole
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The Anglican Church Op Shop has reopened for 2016 trading. We start this year with our enthusiastic 40 volunteers. Our charity donations for 2015 were: Parish Council, The Buttery, WA Bush Fire Appeal, Q’ld Flood Appeal, Vanuatu Cyclone Appeal, Westpac Helicopter, Brunswick
Margaret Urquhart would like to thank the kind gentlemen in a Holden Commodore who came to her rescue at the cemetery in December. Please be aware of this hazard, which has only occurred since one of the rocks was removed from the side of the driveway. Eds
Bangalow Red Cross Our first meeting for 2016 will be on Friday, 26 February at the RSL at 10am. We look forward to seeing you there and welcome any new members to come along. Liz Parks
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AJ2016 Scout Jamboree Brigid Czislowski, a14 year old Woodlawn student and a patrol leader with Bangalow Scouts, contributed this report on the recent Jamboree. Seems a great time was had by all. ‘Leap into adventure’ was the official 2016 Scout Jamboree (AJ2016) theme; though the running joke at our camp was ‘Jump into a puddle.’ And while we did jump into puddles, adventure was what everyone really did strive to achieve on our jamboree. 100 ml of rain over the first three days added extra challenge to everything (yes everything!), but we discovered there was nothing that couldn’t be fixed with duct tape or spare tarps. The troop pushed on, and so began the most amazing two weeks of our scouting life. Seven Bangalow scouts joined with others to make a troop called ‘C403’. We joined with over 8,500 scouts from around Australia
and even the world. In total 11,000 people made up our pop up Ethan’s shoe Jamboree city in Cataract Park south of Sydney. I think what I will remember most is how we dealt with extremes in weather from thunder and lightning to heat waves - and still did our best to make the most of each day. We made new friends, learnt new things, climbed, leapt, paddled, ran, jumped, fell, crawled, swam and swung
through many adventurous activities, and found many ways to practise teamwork. I found being a patrol leader added extra challenges and rewards. It was great to see my team work through problems together to make our Jamboree the best it could be for everyone. Having such great leaders to look after us made every day a little better. From great meals to even better jokes; even the wakeup calls were done with style and care. Thanks to everyone in Bangalow who helped with our fundraising to get there. We really appreciated the community support, and we look forward to being better Bangalow community members as a result.
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a musical journey Seymour Bernstein still teaches piano in New York City where he has lived virtually his whole life. He is 88. In 1977 he abandoned an illustrious career as a concert virtuoso to devote himself to teaching, composing, writing, and exploring, privately and without limits, the mysterious beauty of the classical repertoire – old and new. Well-known American actor Ethan Hawke (Dead Poets Society, the Before trilogy, Boyhood) met Seymour at a dinner party during a season of doubt for the younger man (Hawke is now 45). Material success wasn’t doing it for him. “I had been dealing with a lot of my own issues about anxiety and performance that were starting to seem like a real crisis in my life,” Hawke told The Guardian. “When I met Seymour, I saw someone who had devoted his life to the arts and was brimming with joy and bristling with creativity, and energy, and hopefulness.” A veteran of more than 50 forays in front of the camera, as well as a solid stage career, Hawke determined to direct for the first time: a documentary about his new friend. Seymour: An Introduction is the result, and it is an absorbing, beautifully balanced and exquisitely detailed film, reinforcing the conviction that art is essential to our lives, rather than an optional extra, or a luxury, or a passing distraction. As Seymour says,
“Music speaks concordantly to a troubled world, dispelling loneliness and discontent, its voice discovering in it those deep recesses of thought and feeling where truth implants itself. Music offers no quarter for compromise—no excuses, no subterfuge, no shoddy workmanship. And we sense in music an extension of ourselves, a reminder of our own potential for perfection.” In numerous sequences, we witness Seymour working patiently and compassionately with students. It’s fascinating to watch. Time after time, he finds the key to a block or hindrance that is holding someone back. It’s like clouds parting, or the relaxing effect of a gentle outbreath. For Seymour, it’s really all about the
music. The task of a musician is to serve the music or, one can say, serve the composer. And Seymour is a superb musician. As one of his students says, “Composers must be very happy in heaven . . . because he delivers every single message hiding in the music.” One is encouraged to consider that working quietly, one on one, with his students or occasionally giving master classes, Seymour has achieved more than he might have done as a celebrity soloist. Certainly the film affirms the profound value of good teaching. Every student, every teacher, will find confirmation of the process here. And pain is a necessary part of it. It’s how we grow, says Seymour. He might have quoted Kahlil Gibran: “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”. Here in Bangalow and the surrounding bergs, music teachers and their diverse students thrive. And we can experience the pinnacle of musical expression in August each year at the Bangalow Music Festival. Seymour emphasizes that through music we explore and deepen our awareness of ourselves and others. I’m negotiating with the Australian distributor of Seymour: An Introduction to put on a public screening of the film very soon. Watch this space. Peter Thompson
A Life in a Day Our cover shot was taken at the posthumous launch of Bangalow local, and internationally renowned jazz musician, David Ades’ last album, A Life in a Day. The launch, well attended by friends and fans from the Northern Rivers and beyond, took place at the Bangalow Bowlo on Friday, 15 January and was intended as an occasion to celebrate Dave’s commitment to life and love. The album was recorded in New York in just one day, during Dave’s final illness. His friends and fellow musicians Zac Hurren and Julien Wilson (pictured right onstage at the Bowlo) are touring the album, which has been released on Lionshare records. Di Martin
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THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 20TH CENTURY The first ADFAS Byron Bay and Districts lecture for 2016 welcomes Mr Paul Harris, international professional writer and lecturer on a wide range of subjects reflecting his interest in art history, counter insurgency and terrorism, politics and world affairs, journalism and photography. Paul graduated from Aberdeen University in 1970 with an MA in Politics and International Relations. For ten years, he worked as a conflict analyst and his work took him to 18 war zones throughout the world. In the early 1970s he worked in pirate radio as project coordinator for Capital Radio. He has travelled widely and has experience as a writer, publisher, political analyst, art dealer and journalist, living in the UK, Sri Lanka, China, former Yugoslavia and Malta. Paul is author of some 45 books and in 1965 compiled a modest volume entitled A Concise Dictionary of Scottish Painters. This
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led to a commission to produce, together with co-author Julian Halsby, The Dictionary of Scottish Painters in 1989 which has recently reappeared in its sixth edition. Paul has lectured on board cruise ships on a fully professional basis for the past eight years. He operates the Coldingham Gallery in the
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Sashiko is a unique Japanese craft which originated as a reinforcement for traditional garments. So intricate and beautiful were the patterns created that the craft took on a following of its own. Favoured because of its contemplative approach and strict use of materials of the highest quality, Sashiko has translated to the adornment of material for home decoration, fashion and smaller craft items. Traditional indigo fabric serves as a background for a white thread using a running stitch threaded on an elongated needle. A special finger guard is also used as the needle is much thicker than a simple mending implement.
Jan guest with Sashiko fabric
Jan Guest first came under the spell of Sashiko seven years ago after taking
Scottish borders, specialising in Chinese art: paintings, porcelain and objects. Paul Harris will present 50 of his favourite photographs of the 20th century, explain why they are significant images and tell the stories that lie behind them. He will show pictures by photographers like Henri Cartier Bresson, Karsh, Robert Capa and Don McCullin. Many will be familiar to his audience, but others may come as a surprise. The lecture will be held on Monday, 7 March in the A&I Hall Bangalow. Members and guests are invited to drinks at 6pm prior to the lecture at 6.30 pm, followed by a light supper. Please direct any membership enquiries to: Anni Abbink 6684 3249, anne.abbink@ yahoo.com.au, or Denise Willis 6687 1724 denisewillis50@ gmail.com Anni Abbink
classes in Lismore. Her first piece was a wall hanging featuring stylised bamboo and an appliqued bird. She has taken her passion onto patchwork quilts, table runners and beautifully crafted small purses and carry bags. A particular favourite is her boro purse made of samples of indigo and white textiles attached to a backing with an amazing array of the ‘little stabs’, as Sashiko is translated, surrounding each piece. Jan has made more than 15 Sashiko pieces and is always excited to embark on the next new project. She is more than willing to chat about her love for this serenely beautiful craft. Chris Dayman C&C Bangalow Heartbeat Ad 60x60_C&C Bangalow H
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a career flourishing Roslyn Macdonald would be a familiar face to many people in Bangalow where she lives. Her three daughters Jemma, Georgia and Elle and their families including three grandsons, Lucas, Chase and Jaxson, live close by in the local area. In the late 1980s, finding Sydney too expensive for a young couple with two babies, she and Paul Moses headed north and fell in love with a little house in Newrybar. Ros says they became hippies overnight, growing their own fruit and vegetables and keeping chooks, ducks and a cow. They became increasingly interested in antiques with an innate ability to make something out of nothing. She chose at this stage to be a stay at home mum and a third daughter was born. In 1996 they bought the lease of a shop in Bangalow, now the Corner Store, and a year later another further down the street which is now Island Luxe. The business was called Country House Antiques. Ros says they started small and drove all around country NSW finding treasures, the most popular being Australian pine or cedar tables that sold
Roslyn with her daughter, Elle Photo by Christina de Water
with minimum restoration. On reflection Ros thinks she inherited her design style from her mother and that together with lots of hard work made the business a great success. It began to appear in smart homeware magazines and they were able to expand
and employ local people. The business was later relocated to Newrybar which Paul and their daughter Georgia ran until recently. In 2006 Ros bought a small home-based florist business which she initially moved to the Byron Bay industrial estate and shortly afterwards opened a shop in the West Byron shopping centre near Ewingsdale. Although she had no formal qualifications she is blessed with a good eye and a passion to learn and she quickly acquired the necessary skills. She and her daughter Elle built up a very good business there over seven years and toted up that they had done the flowers at 1500 weddings among many other events. A new horizon for Ros this year is that she is the chosen in-house florist at The Farm where she employs eight staff. She is a vibrant and friendly spirit with a strong work ethic who thrives on changing direction and keeping up with new trends in this creative environment. What a winning combination this has been for a girl who grew up on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Helen Johnston
Lani - not the dying swan I first met Lani at the 2015 Bangalow Show when I watched her perform an unrehearsed and beautiful rendition of the dying swan from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. This was not Lani’s first costumed performance in Bangalow. She has graced our community with a Mrs Claus and a stardust sprinkling angel at the Bangalow Christmas Eve Carnival, a mermaid at the annual Cabaret da Desh, an emerald-dressed tambourim player with the Samba Blistas, Mary Poppins, and various characters for the childrens’ area at Splendour in the Grass. “I love creating fantasy clothes,” says Lani. But there’s more to Lani than her costumes and her characters. “I’m not just the person who floats around in fancy dress. There is another side to me,” says Lani. Lani moved here in 1998 with her then partner, a homoeopath. In Sydney they ran a small college that focused on spiritual healing. Lani studied counselling in Sydney and has for the last 10 years worked as a counsellor, healer and meditation teacher at a local retreat. As Lani explains, “I committed my life to healing. It’s my purpose in life. I create a safe place for people to fall apart, to be supported, to
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share things that they thought they could never divulge to anyone.” Lani is also a traveller. When she turned 54 she put on a backpack and spent a year travelling around the world barefoot. After the recent cyclone disaster in Vanuatu she was “prompted to go and help.” Her email address has a decidedly Hawaiian flavour. It’s ‘lanipuamoani’ which means ‘heavenly blossom fragrant breeze’. “I probably haven’t finished travelling. I desire to live a simple, almost native life. I like to sleep under the stars,” she says.
Now Lani is consolidating her healing practice from her home in Bangalow. Her four daughters and five grandchildren all live in Bangalow. “I want to help people in my own home town, people who have suffered trauma, grief, or are confused about life,” Lani explains. “My clear and pure intention is to help and heal.” Lani understands that tragedy strikes us all - for some just once, for others many times, “almost every tragedy someone brings to me I have experienced myself.” She believes that our education system does not prepare us for tragedy. “It is part of life,” says Lani. “We need to learn that tragedy will come to us and we need to learn how not to be annihilated by it, how to come out from underneath it.” “I feel privileged to sit with someone and share with them the gifts I’ve been given that enable them to heal. I’m not religious but I do have a belief in a benevolent God, in the purity and the power of good intention towards the person I’m with,” explains Lani. “I feel like a crucible – holding someone so that healing can happen. Miracles do happen but they often come slowly and gradually.” Lani can be contacted via her email lanipuamoani@yahoo.com Jenny Bird
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Treasures of the Rainforest “Let me take you on a journey into the rainforest of Northern New South Wales and show you some of the treasures that the Australian Bush has to offer…” So opens the foreword to a new colouring book of ‘botanical cartoons’ published by local artist, Tim Roberts. Having lived in the Northern Rivers for over 25 years and working as a bush regenerator for much of this time Tim has discovered many hidden treasures, species unseen in the wild by those who haven’t ventured into the green cathedrals of the Big Scrub remnants in our area. Colouring books are a new phenomenon in the publishing world. According to a recent newspaper report, over three million adult colouring books have been sold in Australia in the past year. This one doesn’t fit the usual style. It’s not just patterns; it’s not a stiff botanical drawing of an herbarium specimen. Tim draws from nature, never photographs, and whilst the drawings are botanically accurate, they represent the plant in many stages of its flowering and fruiting cycle and portray a beautiful image – a linking between science and art. Tim has been drawing all his life, with
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industries in animation and colouring for cartoons etc. Perhaps that’s where the germ of an idea started. He created his first colouring book 20 years ago for his five-year-old daughter. The first edition of his Treasures of the Rainforest virtually sold out in about a month so it’s given Tim courage to look forward to more publications. He’s already put out greeting card packages and sets of botanical cards (which can be used as colour guides for purchasers of his colouring books) but he has also completed 104 A3size drawings, ready for further volumes in the Treasures of the Rainforest series. The publication itself is on high quality art paper and was printed locally by Lismore City Printery. A great achievement to produce such a quality publication using local talent and skills and remain competitive in the marketplace. The book is available locally, in bookshops, galleries and the local Tourist Information centres, so take a look. Perhaps it will stimulate your interest in the nature of things, spark the inner artist, or make you think about the beauty in the bush and the plants around us. Judy Baker
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’twas the night before christmas The Bangalow Chamber of Commerce would like to thank all those volunteers, performers and vendors who contributed to another successful Christmas Eve Carnival in 2015. A very special thank you to our major sponsors The Cellar Bangalow, The Bangalow Hotel and Ant Packaging and other generous cash sponsors: Brookfarm, Heart of the Home, Bangalow Bowlo, Town Cafe, The Office Accountants, Elders Bangalow, Pantry 29, The Italian Diner, Bangalow Hairdressing, Bangalow Dining Rooms, the Hotel Social Club and Richmond Solo Waste. The generous support of sponsors and volunteers enables Bangalow to celebrate Christmas and the beginning of the holiday season with a truly unique and joyous community event. Make a note to attend next year because it’s a fabulous night. The Cellar generously provided first prize for the inaugural window display competition, and the winner was (by a reindeer’s whisker) the CWA Ladies - yeah! It was very difficult to choose between the CWA Ladies and Pantry 29 so the Newsagency (aka Bookworms & Papermites) threw in a gift voucher for the runner up. Well done CWA ladies and Pantry 29 and a big thank you to all the others who made an effort and created a bit of Christmas Spirit for the street. Best wishes to all for a healthy and safe 2016. Carolyn Adams, Bangalow Chamber of Commerce President
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Four sold out performances for The Drowsy Chaperone in late November and early December! What an achievement! And what a fabulous introductory season for the Bangalow Theatre Company! What was wonderful about the show was that the cast seemed to be having as much fun as the audience. Creative production by Jo Franklin, Adrienne Lester and Anouska Gammon, direction by Jo Franklin and Philippa Williams and musical direction by Margaret Curtis brought out the best from the large cast and small ‘orchestra’. Two well-known locals in lead roles deserve a mention; Melia Naughton as ‘Drowsy’ (perhaps too many champagnes before the show Chaperone?) and Owen Trevor-Jones as Man in Chair, though everyone really deserves a mention. Congratulations to Adrienne and Anouska for their courageous decision to start a theatre company in Bangalow. I’m sure we’re all looking forward to the next show. Di Martin Photos by Christina de Water
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Gardens of time past:VI European Medieval Plant Dye Production In medieval Europe plant dyes were of great economic and social importance. Before the arrival of chemical dyes in the 19th century plants were extensively used to colour textiles. In the middle ages the dyer was specialised in only one range of colour, black, blue, and purple on the one hand, yellow and red on the other. The dyer was under licence and could only dye in one of the categories and the fabric, not the yarn, with the exception of silk. In the medieval period, the symbolism was very important. Where fabric was concerned the rarities of some dyes delineated the social order. Blue and red were for the nobility, yellow and brown for the poor. This said, medieval clothing was colourful except for the very poorest, as some dyes were cheap enough to produce to be affordable to the majority of the population. Cloth manufacture used a lot of plant materials in its dyeing; those had to be found nearby which meant cultivating them in gardens or specially planted hedgerows. Some plant such as madder, Rubia tinctorium, could not be grown everywhere; the production was predominantly centred in Holland and Saxony, creating an important source of revenue for the Low Countries. Nowadays, when reading of medieval plant dyes, the most common reference is the dyers’ woad, Isatis tinctoria. This plant of the cabbage family, originally from the Mediterranean, was grown as far north as Sweden. It was the source of blue dye but had the advantage of growing very well and on land not suited for food production.
The formation of a guild of woad growers shows its economic importance. This was a powerful guild which forced the passing of laws in parts of Europe in the 1400s and 1500s to prohibit the use of indigo (Indigofera tinctoria) imported from India. Indigo, although terribly expensive, not only had the advantage of holding well to the cloth but was also used in cosmetics and paints. The same plant could give varying shades of colour. Depending on how long the cloth was steeped, how high the temperature of the brew was raised to or the concentration used, the cloth could come out differently. In the case of madder the colours that could be obtained were peach, tan, brick red or brown. Mixing madder with woad gave a black or purple colour. The richer the colour the wealthier you were. The dyeing process required more than the dye itself. The addition of a mordant, a substance combined with the dye to make it insoluble and colourfast, was necessary.
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This summer, with its constant showers of rain, has been perfect for a great display of flowers from Zephyrantes. These hardy bulbs are also often known as Storm Lilies because of their tendency to have a flush of flowers after summer storms and rainfall. The two most common colours growing in this area are Zephyranthes candida which are white, and Zephyranthes grandiflora which are pink. As the name suggests the pink storm lily is quite a bit larger than the white. Yellow Zephyranthes citrinus also grow here, but don’t flower so prolifically as the others. These bulbs originate from Argentina and grow to a height of 1525cm. They have strappy dark evergreen
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foliage and are called Crocus by many folk, even though the true Crocus doesn’t grow in our climate. The flowering period is throughout summer and into autumn, although bulbs can burst into flower at
Mordant could also intensify or tone down the colours. Iron, copper and alum were commonly used but vegetable mordants such as fir clubmoss (Lycopodium selago), used in place of alum, or oak-galls were also used. Plant parts with high tannin content were commonly used and their particular effect on the colours well understood. The symbolism of colour was commonly known. Blue represented Mary and was considered a rather feminine colour. Pink, derived from red, was more masculine. As for red, it was power, and as such mostly worn by the aristocrats although it was also supposed to protect from evil spirits and diseases. Yellow had rather negative connotations and used to mark people’s low status, low occupation or religious differences as a patch worn on their chest with different shape depending on whether they were Jews, Muslim or minority denomination Christians. Black went from peasant status to very fashionable to the high born by the late middle-ages. For further reading go on www.facebook. com/Interactive.landscapes where I have posted my reference sources and a list of plants used for dyes. Patrick Regnault Registered Horticulturist RH0062 MAIH
other times during the year after heavy rains. Bulbs can be planted in many different spots in the garden, and they seem to do particularly well on borders or among rock edges where they often form thick clumps. These hardy little bulbs are very easy to grow, and can be planted at any time of the year to give a lovely show. Lyn Plummer
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Have a Break Before You Have a Breakdown Wise advice from Jane Williams, a Binnaburra farmer (yes, chickens!) When you start to feel utterly overwhelmed with pretty much everything you know it’s time for ‘a break before you have a breakdown’. Telling little signs creep up on you; shaving your legs with the safety cap on (tick), mowing the paddock without engaging the blades (tick), doing a load of washing without actually putting the washing in (tick), having to write lists for everything, a list to remind yourself to write a list! I’d reached this point and decided to bolt before I caused harm to self and spouse. I have a favourite run-to place; beautiful Yamba here I come. No one’s snoring except my own (I sleep right through it), no cat to feed nor dog to pat. Don’t mention the chickens!! I pack lightly- togs, dressing gown, sandals and drive south with sunshine in the sky and soul on the stereo. Yamba is within easy reach from Bangalow and requires zero navigational skills to find. I stop twice en route to my apartment, first the Fish Co-op and second the Pacific Hotel, an iconic pub perched high on the cliffs offering dazzling ocean vistas. I arrive at my accommodation armed with a dozen fat, salty oysters, a scoop of famously sweet Yamba prawns with the faint whiff of blanc on my breath. The proprietors look alarmed to see me
alone but I reassure them I am still very much happily married and merely seeking solitude and serenity at The Cove. They hand over the key and bid me adieu. I love The Cove and it’s seaside location. To sleep with the doors flung wide open with the ocean surging in the background is my kind of meditation. Afternoon naps are de rigueur on one’s break so I toss up whether to slip in between the sheets or pretend to sleep whilst sunbathing deck side. It seems more appropriate to have afternoon wine on the sun lounger so rhetorical question answered. I prebooked at Angourie’s Rainforest Retreat for the following afternoon and arrive full of anticipation. I change into a soft, sea green robe and follow my masseuse to the spa room. Ninety glorious minutes and a micro sleep later I float back to the lounge still wrapped in my robe. The softening has begun. I can’t visit Yamba without taking the road to Angourie. This place was the first surfing reserve in NSW. It hasn’t ‘souled’ out and always uplifts me, with nationally acclaimed bush and coastal walking tracks in the Yuraygir National Park and the blue and green pools. I don’t swim in the green pool, it’s too moody for me but the blue
pool is inviting and I’ll swim right out to the middle before returning to a huge slab of rock to bask like a lizard. On the northern side of the Clarence River lies the tranquil village of Iluka. A ferry service from Yamba will get you there and back in time for lunch at Sedgers Reef Hotel. It offers a no-frills, full-of-character, tie-your-tinny out the front kind of service. Enjoy it while you can because one day an establishment with walls that can’t talk will replace this hotel. Yamba has excellent restaurants and I’m a repeat offender at many: Oesteria Martini for my authentic Italian fix or Sweet n Spicy for the freshest, aromatically spiced bowl of Thai goodness. Barbaresco in Angourie offers superb Northern Italian and breakfast at the Mediterranean/Middle Eastern inspired Beachwood Cafe is essential to fortify yourself for a spot of retail therapy, that hands-down rivals other holiday havens. The Story House museum with photos telling the story of the once pervasive local maritime culture is worth its gold coin entry fee. Give yourself a break in Yamba, just close enough yet still far enough away from everything, and relax, rejuvenate and rejoice. I return home to open arms, cat love and dog slobber. What’s not to love?
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New Local Eco card Game A new children’s educational card game, Taking out the Trash, has recently been launched in our area. This is the first in a series planned by the Lennox Head company, Green Games. The idea came to game designer, James Gatland, while visiting SE Asia and observing the effects poor waste management has on the environment. He told Heartbeat, “A village we visited in Cambodia had no council recycling. With processed foods increasingly on the menu, residents had no idea what to do with packaging. Containers were burned, buried or discarded on roadsides. While kayaking through a mangrove forest we saw children in the water laughing as they tore apart a floating polystyrene box. They had no idea where it would end up.” James believes education is the best solution and he set about developing the game company. Taking out the Trash is a fun way of teaching how to best dispose of waste. It focuses on common packaging materials, how they are made and where
they end up. Our new Byron Shire threebin system - landfill, recycling and organic matter – is also featured.
A core target group is children aged five and up. For the youngest it can be a simple colour-matching or item-sorting exercise. ‘Action cards’ can be used to add an element of strategy, making it also suitable for older children and adults. The game is designed to fit in with classroom applications. Facts featured on cards comply with the Australian Curriculum, which stipulates sustainability be taught as one of its three new cross-curriculum priorities. The cards are made in Australia using soy-based inks and chlorine-free, 100% postconsumer recycled paper. James also works for an organic fruit and vegetable company based in Byron Bay and assists his partner, Helene Sprenger, with her day-care centre. As you would imagine, it has very organic food for the children. Schools in our 2479 postcode will be shown the game this month. I think I’ll have to get one for my grandchildren! Brian Sundstrom Further information: www.greengames. com.au.
Writing home from Gallipoli Bangalow RSL and Lions School Anzac Writing Competition years 5 and 6 The winners of the competition were announced at the Bangalow Public School assembly on Friday, 11 December, the ANZAC Centenary. Prizes of $100 to best entries by one boy and one girl were presented by RSL Senior Vice President Col Mann from Queensland. Col Draper, the secretary/treasurer of the Bangalow RSL conducted the judging – a hard task given the quality of entries. Col mentioned the futility of war during his presentation to the children at the assembly. Printed below are short (unedited) extracts from the letters of the two prize winners, Year 6 student Summer Bannerman and Year 5 student Spencer Alcock. They wrote on the theme: Pretend you are a soldier, nurse or medic in
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Gallipoli. Write a letter home to your family describing what life is like in the trenches and how it has affected you. Dearest mother, 4/5/1915 Adventure, really? How could I be so damn naive? I remember the feeling of picking up my belongings and walking away for good. I didn’t think it would be that hard to say goodbye and walk away from the ones I keep close to my heart and love. With every last breath I take in future you will be at the heart of my thoughts in my traumatised head. I can hear your voice linger in my head. “Goodbye” you sweet song rings as the echoes behind your voice cave one by one. I thought wrong, Mum. This is not a place of adventure this is a place of cold blooded murder, I’m not a murderer am I? ... Your beloved son, Peter (Summer)
Dear mum and dad, what a joke thinking the war was going to be a great adventure, it’s so scary and I miss you guys so much the trenches are the worst. life in the trenches is scary and disgusting, it’s muddy, wet, lonely, dark, loud, there are rats everywhere and they are huge, there’s blood everywhere, my best friend got trench foot and had to cut off his leg up to his knee, it’s cold, it’s hard seeing people die around, it’s crowded, I’m worried that I won’t get through this alive, there are bugs everywhere, I’m having sleepless nights, it’s smelly, it’s stressful and miserable ... I think I’m getting a little bit deaf from all the gun shots and the bombs everywhere. I don’t know what to do, people are dying this very second, and it’s crazy. Anyway I hope I return back to Australia. I love you guys so much and miss you heaps. Bye from James (Spencer)
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what I’ve been reading Two rather spooky summer reads to keep you enthralled and just a little on edge.
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Attwood
I’ve really been powering through the books this summer. I thoroughly enjoyed Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last – a creepy little title once you know what this dystopian novel is referring too. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple who, along with many other similar families, have lost their jobs and eventually their home. When we meet them they are just surviving by living in their car where they are vulnerable to roving gangs. They scrape by on Charmaine’s earnings at a seedy bar and it is there that Charmaine sees the advertisement for the Positron Project, a “social experiment” which offers people a home, job, security in suburban paradise. All that is required of them is to give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. While they are contained at the prison, where they are comfortable and well provided for, their home is inhabited by another couple who are on the alternate monthly cycle. Typically on change-over day the couples do not collide but let’s face it; when life is very predictable, comfortable and routine it becomes quite boring and there is nothing quite like a bit of intrigue and sexual fantasy to spice it up!
Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
This book was a very engaging thriller. Tessa is the only survivor in a grave of four teenage women who are victims of a serial killer. Barely alive and covered by many black eyed susan flowers she becomes known as the Black Eyed Susan (the one who didn’t die). Supported through the trauma and temporary blindness by her best friend Lydia the narrative segues between the past and present day. In the present day Tessa is now middle aged and raising her own teenage daughter. Life is a constant process of keeping her demons at bay and suppressing the niggling notion that the man who was imprisoned for the killings was not the murderer. Shortly after the trial, Lydia disappears without explanation and without a goodbye. A very enjoyable read forcing you to the end to find the answers. Carolyn Adams – Bookworms & Papermites
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summer corn Sweet corn grows well in our region and makes an easy meal in summer. Our Bangalow Farmers’ market has three suppliers of corn – John Atkin (Jumping Red Ant), Mike Burless and Spring Hill Organics. This recipe, supplied by John Atkin, makes an easy meal or is also good cold for picnics or lunchboxes. Cornbread recipe 2 large onions, chopped 1-2 cloves of garlic, chopped
3 cobs corn 5-6 large eggs 2 tblspns oil 2 cups tasty cheese, grated 2 tblspns cornflour 5 tblspns polenta 3 tblspns SR flour 1 tspn baking powder Herbs eg chopped basil and garlic chives (Can add such things as bacon or ham or tomatoes)
Fry onion and garlic in a little oil until soft. Strip the corn then add to the pan to part cook for a few minutes. Set aside in a large mixing bowl to cool a little. Mix the dry ingredients, add the oil, eggs and 1 ½ cups of the cheese, then stir into the corn mixture. Return to pan (if oven-proof) or a greased baking dish and bake 25 mins at 200°C. Then sprinkle with the remaining ½ cup of cheese and bake an extra 5 to 10 minutes. Serve with a garden salad. Serves 4-6. Judy Baker
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town talk A big thank you from pedestrians Residents on the north side of Bangalow were thrilled recently to see the Council taking the initiative by installing concrete steps to provide safe pedestrian access to town. No more broken legs on the perilous crossing from Leslie Street to Station Street – a much travelled route. Hopefully residents in the western ‘suburbs’ will likewise soon benefit from safe walkways (ie footpaths!) and cycleways to school, town and the sports fields. Di Martin Photo: Judy Baker
Opportunities to join the Heartbeat team Come and say hello to the ‘Heartbeaters’ at the next Sunday Bangalow market, 28 February. The Heartbeat team will have a stand and we are keen to meet people with suggestions for stories and offers to help in areas such as writing or editorial. It’s a great way to contribute and meet a broad section of the community. The monthly publication is funded from advertisements and is volunteer driven, with small stipends for the editor, advertising manager, designer, and ad production. Our stand will be right next to the Market manager’s caravan, but if you are not at that market we can always be contacted via editors@heartbeat.net.au Brian Sundstrom Photo: Christina de Water
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