Banksia Bulletin August 2023

THE BANKSIA BULLETIN

THE FIRST QARRAS LIFE MEMBERS!

Our QARRAS (Quairading Aged Retired Residents and Seniors) Club would not be in town were it not for its founding members. QARRAS was initially the wonderfully collaborative brainstorm of (among others) the late Rowlie Mellor, Shirley Stacey and John Hards. Unfortunately Rowlie is no longer with us, but on Monday our President Mrs Judy O’Hare on behalf of our members honoured and thanked Mrs. Shirley Stacey and Mr. John Hards for starting the QARRAS Club. Both took on the inaugural office bearer positions and established QARRAS. John went on to do eleven years as president and Shirley did two years as secretary and then nine years as secretary/treasurer. QARRAS was formed from an initial community meeting in October 2008.

Congratulations to Mrs. Shirley Stacey and Mr. John Hards; our first QARRAS Life Members!

Photo by Ivy Osborne.

Regular happenings and contacts

THE PASSION SHEET

50th Anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

On the 3rd of August at 11am the Quairading RSL Sub Branch will be holding a Flag Raising Ceremony to recognise the 50th Anniversary of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

There is also a National vigil that will take place across Australia on all the grave sites of Vietnam Veterans killed in Vietnam.

We will remember Brian David Waters at the service as his grave site is situated in the Tambellup Cemetery where I’m sure a vigil will take place. Brian went to school in Quairading before moving to Albany. Sadly he was killed in action on the 17th February 1967 and was buried in the Tambellup Cemetery.

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Quairading sub centre: Benefit fund update

One in five West Australian ambulance users requires transport outside the metropolitan area every year.

In country Western Australia, St John Country Ambulance Cover is administered by the local St John Ambulance Sub Centres.

For those who reside in regional or remote Western Australia, the cost of your ambulance service is covered if you have Country Ambulance Cover. This includes as many emergency or necessary non-emergency transports you, or one of your family members, require.

Within WA, St John Country Ambulance Cover will protect you for ambulance cover 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

We offer two types of Country Ambulance Cover: Single and Family.

Single Membership – One person per membership; and Family Membership – Includes up to two adults and any children, under 18 years old, that are under the care of the card holders

Single Membership $64.00 per year

Family Membership $107.00 per year

If you would like to take out Country Ambulance Cover please email: Quairading.subcentre@stjohnwa.com.au or visit us at the subcentre on Wednesday from 9.00 am - 4.30 pm.

From the archives

Standing: Val Stone, Bill Boekeman, Neil Robinson, Laurie Brown, Kevin Bloom, Peter Murphy, Bill Haythornthwaite, Jim Haythornthwaite, Margaret Andrews.

Sitting: Dallas Clemens, Shirley Tregenza, Josie Burrell, Judith Riley and little sister Diane, Roma Husking, Maureen Greay, Gloria Tregenza, Maxine Lohoar.

Front: Bob Haythornthwaite, Edison Hayes.

The latest New York Times online game: Connections!

Find groups of four items that share something in common. EG Types of Fish: Bass, Flounder, Salmon Trout. FIRE ___: Ant, Drill, Island, Opal. Categories will always be more specific than “5 letter words” , “Names” or “Verbs”. Here’s an example, or you can play a new puzlle every day online. Just Google “NYT Connections”.

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Richard: 0427 851 870

Robyn: 0400 552 141

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Email: rdkovac@bigpond.net.au

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Regular trips to Perth,repairs& purchase of parts

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Shareholder Draw

Congratulations Teresa West on winning the $100 May Draw. Shareholders! July’s draw is $100 so don’t forget to scan your shareholders card (which automatically puts your name on the docket) and put your docket in the barrel at the front of store.

Want to become a Shareholder? Come visit us in the office for all the details!

Holidays

During the month of May and June, myself & Dave enjoyed some down time and headed to Queensland on a 6-week caravan holiday! We spent a lot of our time free camping and visiting little towns just like ours eg, a Pub, Club, Supermarket, Cafe, and Caravan Park! On reflection I would love to do it all again but thought I would share how much I appreciate our little town on my return. We have one of the best country supermarkets of the towns we visited in Australia by way of stock, café, fridges, look and best of all our vibe (the “meeting place” as many call it). Our Caravan Park is beautiful and in the heart of town, and we have a couple of free camps available a short distance from town. We are lucky to have a Pub and a Club where we can go and enjoy a meal and our favourite beverage. So, whilst reading this please take a couple of minutes to appreciate our lovely little town of Quairading.

Dry Goods – Tuesday

Fruit & Veg – Tuesday and Thursday

Dairy/Freezer – Thursdays

Meat – Thursdays

Catering/Special Orders

If you require catering or a special order for any event, can you please give the Team a week’s notice. Our team are awesome and I’m proud of the magic they create getting these orders out with 1 days’ notice and this happens quite regularly. Please email orders to merch@quairadingfarmerscoop.com.au

The Directors and Staff would like to thank you for your support of your local Co-op.

Sharon Cutts General Manager

Quairading Photo Club

JULY 2023 PHOTO COMPETITION

SUBJECT: CONTRAST

GOLD: ARUN (BULL ARAB DOG)

SILVER: ANN MARIE (COLOURED PENCILS)

BRONZE: ANN MARIE (PURPLE & YELLOW WILDFLOWER)

Last month’s subject was CONTRAST. Our photo competition subjects for this year have been focused more about the technical area of photography and the subject CONTRAST that is so frequently used in artwork and photography was another really interesting subject that became a combined learning area and we are now much more educated in this subject. Before taking my pics I searched on my mobile phone images of contrast pics & got some great ideas by looking at the vast array of contrast pics that other photographers had taken. After looking at other peoples pics, it is the easiest and quickest way to start the thought process of some ideas to photograph yourself for the competition. Contrast in a pic is about light tones and darker tones that is not just limited to black and white pics but is also important in colour photographs. A black and white pic that has high contrast will have very bright highlights and very dark shadows & this will make the pic POP. When wanting to get contrast in a colour pic to POP, you can instead of using light areas and dark areas, you can choose contrasting colours. There is a thing in the artworld called the colour wheel and this shows what colours are in contrast or simply, opposite to each other. The contrasting colours can in a colour pic enhance the mood and emotion of your pics, for example hotter colours like red can create a sense of energy and excitement, while cooler colours like blue can create a more calming and peaceful effect and you can kinda make your photo talk to the viewer. Contrast in a pic can be in many different forms, If your photo is black and white & you use tonal contrast positions from light to dark or if it is a colour pic that is full of vivid colours the contrast that is opposite will attract the eye and adds more visual interest to your photo composition. This is what we learnt during this months subject. A simple example of contrast is akin to something like a white dress that contrasts sharply with a black background, the person in the white dress will stand out in the crowd, the same white dress against a coloured background may still stand out, but it wont appear to have the same sharp contrast . Photographers have been using this technique for a long time and you see it in movies a lot. Think about a zoomed in shot of James Bond at the Monaco

casino, his white jacket and black bow tie are a classic contrast, to draw attention to him above the others seated at the roulette wheel. When learning about what is contrast in a pic & then taking photos of something, we where using contrast to enhance a object in our pic. If the contrast wasn’t making the pic POP we had to alter & then reshoot our subject to get a pic with all the aspects of our composition bursting with contrast. Learning about contrast in a pic was really interesting, you can keep it simple or you can get to a point where it is all too complex The more we studied the more we learnt about the many areas that the word Contrast means in the world of art , and photography. For this subject after taking a heap of pics based on contrast pics we then had to choose our best 2 pics for the competition. Members had taken lots of different contrast pics of different things and to choose just 2 pics to enter in the competition was another interesting part of this subject. Just which pic would represent contrast & get lots of votes in the competition. With the subject contrast being so diverse ,at the last meeting it was interesting listening to other members discussing about what contrast we had achieved in our pics. At this meeting we where more like the Perth based photo clubs that really get into the technical side of a photograph. It made the judging and then voting of our photos really interesting as we had learnt heaps more about what is contrast in a pic.

When members take pics in the future we will be more educated about artwork and will be thinking about our photograph may look heaps better if we can make the contrast in our pic better . Our members are slowly doing patches on patches learning a little bit more about photography as the year progresses & with these photo competition subjects like Contrast we can learn & then still improve our pics after having a interesting subject like the one we had in July. Our next months subject will be BLURRED

MOTION .

Anybody can join the Quairading Photo Club. We meet at the Quairading CRC at 7pm on the 2nd Tuesday. Currently we need to get some more members, so if you have thought about checking out a Photo Club meeting, just roll up. You don’t need a flash camera, a lot of us use our mobile phones to take our winning pics.

Gardening in the Wheatbelt

July is over! And as it is the middle month of winter it is always the month that some of the more cold-blooded gardeners amongst us start dreaming of the warmer months and start wishing the sun will hurry up and move south. Not this little duck. I love winter! The warm fires, the green paddocks, the flowering native shrubs brightening up the bush, the early bulbs flowering almost as if they want to surprise the passerby, the rain that fills tanks and dams and forces everyone to stop and enjoy some time indoors and finally the ease with which outdoor chores can be done so that you forget being cold because you’ve warmed up from the inside. What’s not to like about winter? August is now upon us and with the long-range weather forecast for spring indicating it will be very short with some early hot days, let’s try to enjoy this last month of winter. The QGLG is visiting the Bruce Rock Garden Club Tuesday 29th August if anyone is interested in coming along, please call Lyn Whyte 0447 450170. The August meeting of the QGLG is on Wednesday 30th at 9:30, at the CRC. Please join us, we’re a very friendly group who love sharing are garden experiences.

Plant of the Month – When you have had success with all the fruit trees that are more suited to our climate you start to hanker for the trees that are a little outside our climate zone and then you wonder just how far can you stray. It’s in the nature of gardeners to push the boundaries of possibilities and to want that which is just beyond reach. I will confess that in this area my greed or perhaps my wondering eye has led to many failures. Firstly, the successes. After one or two failures we now have three thriving Avocado trees one of which is fruiting. I like to call the Avocado as the Goldilocks tree. Everything has to be just right for it to grow well. It can’t be too hot, so must have shade in our summers; can’t be too windy; so, put up wind breaks, can’t be too cold when they are young; so, put up frost protection in our winters, soils need to be free draining so, in clay soils the trees need to be planted on a mound and finally their roots are not very good at replacing the moisture they lose on hot days so they need lots of water in our summers. Again, after one or two failures we have one rather scrawny Mango tree which has produced up to 15 Mangoes in one year but it is a poor example of a

Mango tree which one might see in Queensland. Last winter we covered it and it certainly approved so we have covered it again this winter hopefully we will have fruit next summer. I’ve had Chocolate Sapote fruit from another scrawny tree and the white Sapote is doing quite well but is only a young tree. The Strawberry Guava does very well without protection and produces an enormous amount of fruit, however, they are not very tasty so one of these days it may have to be replaced with another tastier tropical fruit. The Yellow Guava is only a small tree so I’m waiting to see what it will do in the future. Now for the disasters: frosts killed more than one Pawpaw and the Babaco which fruited one year but was totally destroyed the following year led me to decide not to try again with them. I don’t grow bananas because I don’t have enough water for them although I have thought of trying one in a bath tub with very rich soil and where the water supply could be controlled. I do grow pineapples in a glass house, they are very successful and just take a little longer to bear fruit than they would if we had warmer winters. Pineapples are certainly worth growing mainly because the home-grown ones have an altogether superior taste. Finger limes grow and fruit very well in our garden as does the Japanese Raisin tree although it is very hesitant to flower. The Jujube from China grows extremely well in the Wheatbelt where more than one plantation can be found. Finally, is it all worth it? Is all the extra work and attention that is necessary worth the small amount of fruit? Only you can answer that. I think it is but that’s just me!

This Month in the Garden

It’s time to – prepare the soil for all the summer crops, fill trenches with compost and manure and cover over until ready to plant young seedlings, this trench system is good for sweet potatoes, tomatoes, capsicums, eggplants, pumpkins, melons and cucumbers; pinch out the tops of broad beans to encourage more flowers; fertilize all bulbs as they finish flowering and do not cut back foliage until it has died back completely; prune grape vines and take the opportunity to increase your vine collection by planting some of the cuttings into free draining potting mix; if have

Chrysanthemums now is the time to divide clumps and take cuttings; towards the end of August feed roses with a slow release fertilizer, organic is best, evergreen non flowering hedges can be clipped and fertilized, start to feed your lawn with a pelletized manure and water it in with a seaweed solution, trim back any native shrubs which may have finished flowering; cut back grasses like Lomandra, Dianella and Purple Fountain Grass; check on pot plants and hanging baskets which may be missing out on the rain because they are undercover and finally check on dormant perennials and citrus which may be being attacked by mealy bugs or soft shelled scale it’s a good time to spray with eco oil while the weather is cool.

Sow – by mid August sow seeds of summer vegetables and summer flowering annuals

Plant – potatoes, asparagus and rhubarb crowns

Harvest – snow peas, peas, silver beet, English spinach, celery, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, bok choi, kale, cabbage, Brussel sprouts, beetroot, turnips, swedes, parsnips, carrots, Florence fennel, coriander, radicchio, roquette, potatoes Mandarins, Oranges, Lemons and Grapefruit.

The last word –“In gardening, as in life, I think there is no such thing as a ‘reasonable number’. If you love it, go for it, with delight and in complete fullness of heart.” Jackie French

Warrior Wellbeing Article

A statement I often find myself saying to family members, friends, and individuals I interact with through the work we do at Regional Men’s Health is look after yourself mate! This message does come from a genuine place of concern for these people and encompasses a key component of our vision statement which is to empower men and communities to take responsibility for their wellbeing and health. However, what does it really mean and look like for blokes living and working in regional, rural and remote WA?

Looking after oneself is best described as self-care. This involves a deliberate and self-initiated act to help maintain our physical, mental, or social/spiritual wellbeing. As humans, we all live different lives and the circumstances around our work, family commitments, individual capacity and environmental factors can change, so self-care will vary from person to person. However, for most of us we should endeavor for it to be:

• Regular & ongoing (it’s not just a one-off thing we do and forget about for the rest of the year).

• More than just the time left over. Don’t leave yourself the dregs, time for self-care must be a necessity not a luxury! Factor it into our daily, weekly, or monthly routine/planning.

• An important part of our work-life balance. It can help us cope with challenging times and makes us more effective managing the demands of daily life.

For a lot of men, the pursuit of business goals and success (warrior attitude - winning) often pushes personal wellbeing and health issues down our list of priorities. When we think about it, acts of selfcare give us the opportunity to reset and gives a circuit breaker effect on the daily grind and rat race that life can often feel like. Especially in these times of fast-moving technological advances, bombardment of social media influences, information accessibility and blurring of work-life balance (i.e. working from home, 24/7 access through smart phones). Self-care makes us more effective and offers us a buffer from the bumps in the road of life and ignoring this fact can result in us not being up to par in any aspect of our lives. Relationships can become strained, we can suffer burn out, harbor resentment, and miss out on the things that we don’t realise are important until they’re gone.

There is a varying range of definitions for self-care, but they all point towards us as individuals making the time to do things on a regular basis to help us live well and supports good physical, mental and social/spiritual wellbeing, including but not limited to:

• Starting with small changes that we can manage. Ask yourself ‘what's in my control, do I need to learn to say no to unhelpful habits, behaviors, or extra commitments?’.

• Changing our mindset and putting ourselves first. We shouldn’t see this as selfish but a form of good self-management. We must actively plan and commit for self-care to happen.

• Being connected to our passions, interests and a sense of belonging (family/community).

• Eating well, regular exercise and a good sleep routine.

• Getting a checkup with our GP and other health care professionals.

Remember, self-care starts with you so try doing something that makes you feel good, gets you excited and puts a smile on your face. If you’re finding it hard to do this don’t forget …before it all

Anglican Church (St Faith’s)

Services in the Parish of St Faith’s, Quairading

OPEN HOUSE is an invitation to all members of our local community to enjoy each other’s company over refreshments: All welcome on Friday, 28th July at St Faith’s Church, Quairading – 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

Have a Chat! – Looking for a chat? Come and join Philip Raymont, our local Anglican Priest, on Thursday, 3rd August and Wednesday, 30th August between 10.30 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. at the Café where he will be delighted to buy you a coffee or tea and engage in conversation.

Book Club – St Faith’s Church Book Club will meet every Second Saturday at 10 a.m. (12th August, 9th September, 14th October, 11th November) to discuss Rowan Williams’ “Being Christian”; a book for anyone wishing to develop and nurture a healthy spiritual lifestyle or is seeking a fresh look at the meaning of Christian discipleship. Please contact Philip Raymont (0419 177 178) to order the book - $14.50 a copy.

St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School: This School’s Patronal Festival will be celebrated at 6.30 p.m. at St Faith’s Church, Quairading on Tuesday, 15th August. All are welcome.

The Festival of the Transfiguration celebrates the revelation of the eternal glory of Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity. According to tradition, the event took place on Mount Tabor.

St Faith’s Church, Quairading

Sunday, 6th August 9.00 a.m. Feast of the Transfiguration - Eucharist

Sunday, 13th August 9.00 a.m. Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost – Morning Prayer

Tuesday, 15th August 6.30 p.m. Mary, Mother of our Lord - Eucharist

Saturday, 19th August 5.30 p.m. Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost – Eucharist

Sunday, 27th August 9.00 a.m. Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Morning Prayer

Icon of The Transfiguration

Catholic Church (St Francis Xavier)

Saturday 5th Sunday 13th

Sunday 20th

6pm 10am

Sunday 27th

J O’Hare No mass D. Wood No Mass

Uniting Church

This month in our Gospel readings we have had more of Jesus teaching the disciples. He talked about hospitality and how we as followers of Him, welcome others . When we welcome Jesus into our lives we also welcome God. Then Jesus tells a number of parables about the Kingdom of heaven. “What is it”? It starts in this world, it grows it swells up ,through our witness but it also is contaminated by Satan who we don’t talk about much these days. At the end of the time God Himself will judge and the consequences for the evil ones are very frightening. We need to ensure we are not one of them.

Sunday 30th July Service 10.30am Cafe Church.

Sunday 6th August Service 10.30am A. West.

Sunday 13th August Service 10.30am Streaming

Sunday 20th August Service 10.30am, P. West.

Sunday 27th August Service 10. 30am To Be Advised.

Contact A. West Tel 96450081. Welcome to everyone.

Meals at Home Roster

- August