Banksia Bulletin July 2023

Regular happenings and contacts

THE PASSION SHEET

To the wonderful people of Quairading a huge thank you for your cards, flowers, food, and love on the passing of Swanee.

Big thank you to the people who came and helped with the seating at the hall, we certainly do live in a great town.

The Swan family.

MEDICAL PRACTICE

GENERAL PRACTITIONER

Dr Sing Jack Yap

MBBS FRACGP, DIP DERM DCH

Practice Manager

Hailey Pulford

Assistant Practice Manager

Chanel Mills

Practice Nurse

Kye McGuire

ADMINISTRATION

Michaela S

PRACTICE HOURS

MONDAY - THURS

8:30am 12:30pm

1:30pm 5:00pm

FRIDAY

8:30am 12:00pm

Please note these are the opening hours of the Medical practice and do not reflect appointment availability.

VISITING

PROFESSIONALS

Female GP Dr Ellie

Brusasco

Podiatrist Laura

Buckingham

Dietitian Laura Nairn

Diabetes Educator

Laura Nairn

OTHER SERVICES

OFFERED

• Health Assessments

• Skin Checks

• Flu Clinics

• Immunisations/Vaccinations

• Diabetes Management

• Pathology

• Preventative Medicine

• Chronic Illness Care Plans

• Antenatal Care

• Health Checks/Medical Reports

• PATS Patient Assisted

Travel Scheme Applications

ENJOY

OUR PRACTICE NEWSLETTER BUT PLEASE REMEMBER THAT DECISIONS ABOUT MEDICAL CARE SHOULD BE MADE IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE ACTING ON ANY OF THE INFORMATION.

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Quairading Junior Golf 2023

Registration day: Tues 18th July 2023 at the Quairading Golf Club

Time: 3pm

PGA Coaching with Mr Rob Farley

• Open to all children aged 5 -15 years

• Junior Golf runs every Tuesday afternoon of Term 3

• Cost: $20 for the season

• Includes x3 PGA coaching sessions and 6 social golf rounds.

• All golf equipment can be supplied

• Please bring a hat, a water bottle, a snack and your smile!

• All junior golfers need a parent/carer/responsible adult to walk with them when they play golf out on the course.

• For more info contact Rosie Duncan 0429 457045

Quairading Ag Society URGENT - HELP NEEDED!

110 Years of Tradition at the Cross-Roads.

In 1913 a letter was sent from the newly formed committee of the Quairading and Districts Agricultural Society to the Royal Agricultural Society seeking affiliation with the RAS.

The first show was held in 1920. A very successful centenary show was held in 2021.

In 2022, due to volunteer workload and funding constraints, the decision to hold the show on alternate years was taken by the committee. The next show is scheduled for October 2024.

An invitation went out to all Quairading residents to attend a “brain-storming” session prior to the AGM in April 2023 to discuss show-day attractions and events.

Other than Ag Society committee members, no-one turned up.

At the Annual General Meeting on 16 April 2023, no-one accepted a nomination for any executive position on the committee of the Quairading Agricultural Society.

The current committee will meet again in early August to strategise ways to move forward. One option is for the committee to invite the residents of Quairading to an open event where the committee will seek the support of the community.

Will our community value and support the Ag Society and the Ag show? I do not know.

Will the community support an event in which ALL members of the community can become involved and participate? I hope so. Does it have to be the Ag show? No, not necessarily.

But I sincerely hope, if the Ag show has run its course, that a group or committee will be formed to continue the great tradition of an event open to all members of the community, where everyone can participate and enjoy good fellowship, perhaps some friendly competition, and help continue to build a strong, healthy and thriving town.

Please watch this space for future notifications and an invitation to help out with an annual event for Quairading.

Peter Smith President Quairading Agricultural Society

Quairading’s Biggest Morning Tea was held on Thursday May 25 at the Quairading Club. The event was well supported with 55 people attending on the day and many others contributed to raffles and made monetary contributions.

Thank you to Liz Anderson, Robyn Richards, Tamara Stacey & Diane Wallwork for helping prepare for the day. We celebrated the late Debra Stacey’s birthday in style.

Raffles were donated by a variety of people, Robyn Richards donated a beautiful hand made quilt, Liz Anderson & Cath Richards donated bottles of vino, Janine Anderson gave a gift from The Maker’s Keep, Kings Park Fashions donated a vied for hand bag & my apologies to anyone else I may have missed.

Congratulations to the raffles winners, Sue Shenton, Dorothy Hayes, Lisa Caporn, Janice Sinclair & Sue Peacock.

Thanks to Latisha White for preparing a beautiful morning tea. Thank you to Colin Stacey for saying a few words and vast appreciation goes out to everyone who donated. There aren’t many people who aren’t impacted or affected by cancer in some way. The very generous Quairading community donated $4381 to the Cancer Council.

Thank you to everyone for their generosity. Mary

Stacey

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Quairading Football & Netball Club

Our winter sports season has been a blur of mostly big wins both on and off the field! With Round 12 at home this Saturday and then a bye for Country Week Football Championships, four more games will see us through to the end of the fixtured season. All three teams are looking a chance at finals with the Belles currently hanging onto fourth spot, the Reserves a couple of wins off a top two position and the League boys absolutely dominating and sitting a top the ladder undefeated.

It’s really exciting time to get around the club so we encourage you all to rug up and brave the cold to cheer on the Bulls & Belles. We’ve got a huge day this Saturday 1st July with the round celebrating NAIDOC Week and the evening playing host to our biggest fundraising event of the year the Hoedown. Don your boots, hat or some plaid and get on down to ride the bucking bull and enjoy a few drinks!

Upcoming fixtures:

Round 12: Saturday 1 July, home game vs Beverley

Round 13: Saturday 15 July, away game vs Railways

Round 14: Saturday 22 July, away game in Tammin

Round 15: Sunday 30 July, home game vs Cunderdin

Round 16: Sunday 6 August, away game vs York

Round 17: BYE Medal Count & Wind Up Lunch Event, 1pm at the Community Building

Round 7

League Player’s Player Award sponsored by Elders Quairading: Max Spyvee

Coaches Award sponsored by Quairading Earthmoving: Rhys Holdman

Lyall Brown Selfless Award sponsored by Quairading Seed Cleaners: Max

Spyvee

Dan Foley Mateship Award sponsored by Agrisource Agencies: Lachie Gelmi

Mark Wells Consistency Award sponsored by HoseCo: Jeremy Allsop

Reserves

1st Award sponsored by Sullivan

Logistics: Kye Benson

2nd Award sponsored by Mertens

Motors: Anthony Hayden

3rd Award sponsored by Viterra:

Shayden Riley

Coaches Award sponsored by Baxters

Rural Centre: Lyall Brown

Netball

MVP sponsored by Elders Quairading:

Hollee Richards

Player’s Choice sponsored by

Quairading Tyre & Battery Supplies:

Tamsyn Anderson

Coaches Award sponsored by Farmarama Quairading: Tamsyn Anderson

Round 8

League Player’s Player Award sponsored by Elders Quairading: William Hadlow

Coaches Award sponsored by

Quairading Earthmoving: Anthony

Hayden

Lyall Brown Selfless Award sponsored by Quairading Seed Cleaners: Lachlan

Gelmi

Dan Foley Mateship Award sponsored by Agrisource Agencies: William Hadlow

Mark Wells Consistency Award sponsored by HoseCo: Rhys Holdman

Reserves

1st Award sponsored by Sullivan

Logistics: Kaiden Johnston

2nd Award sponsored by Mertens

Motors: Kye Benson

3rd Award sponsored by Viterra: Shea

Dall

Coaches Award sponsored by Baxters

Rural Centre: Reuben Hayden

Netball

MVP sponsored by Elders Quairading: Kaeshia Colbung

Player’s Choice sponsored by Quairading Tyre & Battery Supplies: Kaeshia Colbung

Coaches Award sponsored by Farmarama Quairading: Tamsyn Anderson

Round 9

League Player’s Player Award sponsored by Elders Quairading: Ryan Powell

Coaches Award sponsored by Quairading Earthmoving: Kane Mitchell

Lyall Brown Selfless Award sponsored by Quairading Seed Cleaners: Declan Mills

Dan Foley Mateship Award sponsored by Agrisource Agencies: Ciaran Allsop

Mark Wells Consistency Award sponsored by HoseCo: Ben Rushforth

Reserves

1st Award sponsored by Sullivan

Logistics: Jason Walker

2nd Award sponsored by Mertens

Motors: Braeden Lawrence

3rd Award sponsored by Westcoast

Livestock: Ricky Henry

Coaches Award sponsored by Baxters

Rural Centre: Buddy George

Netball

MVP sponsored by Afgri Equipment

Quairading: Zelda George

Player’s Choice sponsored by Quairading Tyre & Battery: Hollee

Richards

Coaches Award sponsored by Farmarama Quairading: Maddy Lee

Round 11

League

Player’s Player Award sponsored by Elders Quairading: Josh Marshall

Coaches Award sponsored by Quairading Earthmoving: Jeremy

Allsop

Lyall Brown Selfless Award sponsored by Quairading Seed Cleaners: Brayden Andrews

Dan Foley Mateship Award sponsored by Agrisource Agencies: Ethan Brown

Mark Wells Consistency Award sponsored by HoseCo: Freddie Clutterbuck

Reserves

1st Award sponsored by Sullivan

Logistics: Seth White

2nd Award sponsored by Mertens

Motors: Steven Hayden

3rd Award sponsored by Westcoast

Livestock: Hamish Simmonds

Coaches Award sponsored by Baxters

Rural Centre: Alfie Taylor

Netball

MVP sponsored by Afgri Equipment

Quairading: Kaeshia Colbung

Player’s Choice sponsored by Quairading Tyre & Battery: Chloe Nella

Coaches Award sponsored by Farmarama Quairading: Maddy Lee

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Written by Jill Hayes, Quairading CRC

Thanks to grant funding from the Shire of Quairading Business Support Grants and BeConnected’s Building Digital Skills Grant, we were able to upgrade our two main computers and buy a new compact photo printer!

We had the new additions installed last year by Colin from Avon Computech (highly recommend!) and are glad to report, it was money very well invested. Our new double screen computers at reception and in our Coordinator Jill’s office are an absolute dream. Not only do they make our daily tasks and community jobs easier (like putting together the Passion Sheet and Banksia Bulletin, planning events or writing grant applications) they also make it even easier to assist community members with support jobs. Having two screens means we can duplicate our display so both us, and whoever we’re helping can clearly see the screen – so good when we’re Googling for extra help with smart phone queries, helping someone fill out an online form or even booking plane tickets.

Our purchase of a compact Canon SELPHY photo printer has been a hit too! We can now print 10cm x 15cm (standard size) photos straight from a smart phone. This is a much quicker process than opening a document, cropping to fit and feeding small photo card through our big photocopier machines – with a few taps, it’s all now automated. If you’ve got some photos you’d like printed, email them through to us and we’ll get them done! The cost is just $1 per photo.

If your business or local club is in need of some upgrades or financial assistance to put on a community event or complete a project, we highly recommend applying for a grant from the Shire of Quairading and better yet, leveraging it to apply for even more funding from another source!

Quairading Photo Club

JUNE 2023 PHOTO COMPETITION SUBJECT: “LIT BY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT”

GOLD: JESSICA (Emily reading a book with a torch )

SILVER: RUSSELL (Lights of Perth CBD & reflection on Swan River)

SILVER: ANN MARIE (Vehicle trail lights Mitchell Freeway)

BRONZE: ARUN (Pic of a baby lit by lights)

Last month’s subject was LIT BY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. For this subject our pics had a major emphasis of something that was somehow being lit up, that excluded the natural light that comes from the radiation of sunlight & moonlight .This interesting subject had us thinking about the versatility of ideas that we could photograph & how we would set up our cameras to take a pic that didn’t have lots of natural light in our composure. Once we had got a few ideas on board that we wanted to photograph, we then had to study how to set up our cameras to take these shots. These days the quickest & easiest way to figure out what camera settings you should use is to bypass the instruction manual & to search this information on your mobile phone. Then after that, the quickest & easiest way to set up a camera is to not use it and just use your mobile phone camera instead. However part of the fun being in the photo club is learning to adjust the many camera settings and continue to educate ourselves so many things a camera can do. When showing our pics at photo club meetings we discuss just how we adjusted our camera and lens to achieve the pic we are looking at. If you see us photo club member taking pics, a lot of the time we are having fun discussing our camera settings and are busy adjusting the camera & using different lens. We then see how the pics come out different after playing around with the camera settings especially all the settings you can use when taking sport action or blurred sport action pics. These days at our photo club meeting about 50% of the pics we are critiquing are taken with a camera & we have spent time adjusting the camera and the other 50% of the pics are taken quickly and easily with a mobile phone. It is always of interest at photo club to be told that a really great pic has been shot using a mobile phone camera & many times a mobile phone pic will get awarded first place in the competition. Our next months subject is “CONTRAST”.

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 or just want to check out what we do, 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

I know that at this time of the year and especially this year with the early rain in March and the cool weather that followed, we are all concerned with the weeds in the garden but I hope that we all can take William Blake’s advice and spend some time enjoying the green and colours of winter. In our corner of the world winter is indeed a wonderful season. It is the season of hope and of planning for the future. We watch the crops rising out of the soil, growing taller and stronger every day, we plant native trees and shrubs which we hope will bloom in spring and we prune our roses, vines and deciduous fruit trees so that spring will be bountiful. The June meeting of the Garden Lovers Group is on Friday 30th at the CRC building. Please come along and enjoy a cuppa with other garden enthusiasts who love to share and gain knowledge about gardening.

Plant of the Month – Having covered the majority of the other trees in our orchard, this month is going to cover the other trees which are ungrouped. Most of these trees also fit into the larger group of Mediterranean trees, and therefore are very successful in our area. The trees for this month are Olives, Loquats, Mulberries, Figs and Pomegranates. Olives produce very good and large harvests even with minimal irrigation over summer. We only have two trees which produce more olives than we can preserve. One of our trees is a Kalamata and the other is a Manzanillo or giant Kalamata, both are also grafted with other varieties but these grafts are only recent and we haven’t had olives from them. Loquat trees are great to have in a mixed orchard because they flower in winter and are the first to fruit in early spring. Because loquats grow readily from seed many orchard trees are seedlings which don’t always produce very tasty fruits so it’s a good idea to buy grafted trees so you will be sure to have large, juicy and tasty fruit. You may have seen a loquat tree growing in a park or even by the side of the road, which indicates just how hardy and drought tolerant these trees are and because they fruit after the winter rains they always fruit well, perhaps too well. We have three Mulberry trees in our orchard, the first to fruit is the Hicks Fancy, the fruit is red, sweet but not super sweet and

ready in October, then comes the white, super sweet mulberries in December and finally the Black English Mulberry fruits in January. The fruit of this tree is different it has a complex taste which is particularly wonderful. While the Black English grows very slowly, the Hicks Fancy and White mulberries are deciduous and grow rapidly during spring and summer so must be pruned quite hard every winter. Also, the latter have very vigorous roots and should not be planted near vegetable beds or anywhere where the roots can cause problems. Lastly the Fig. For many years we had one Fig tree a Brown Turkey which produced really well and then for seemly now reason it died. We’ve planted four now, two Brown Turkey figs, one White Adriatic and one White Genoa fig. Figs have a bad reputation of having destructive roots which is mostly not true. They have mainly surface roots and therefore mulching them in summer and giving them more water than some would think, in our dry hot climate is very important. Our trees are only young but the White Adriatic really endeared itself to me because it produced figs for our Christmas table last year. The last of these Mediterranean fruits is the Pomegranate. Like the Fig, the Pomegranate is an ancient fruit mentioned in the bible and could indeed have been the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. Our big tree is a variety called Wonderful, it has deep red seeds which are quite tart and which our chooks love. The smaller tree which hasn’t bourn fruit yet is a rarer variety called Parfianka it has pink very juicy seeds. I’m hoping that this coming summer this tree will fruit.

This Month in the Garden

It’s time to – start pruning roses, vines, deciduous fruit trees and native shrubs which have finished flowering. Take suckers that might be appearing under plum, peach, cherry, apple and almond trees. Spray with copper or lime sulfur any peach trees which are susceptible to leaf curl. Bring outdoor furniture undercover and rejuvenate it by giving it a deep clean or paint or varnish it, ready for spring. Weed garden beds before the weeds set flower, keep onions and garlic free from weeds, they really don’t like weeds around their roots. If you

attempting to grow frost sensitive trees cover with shade cloth until late September. Prepare the bed where the Solanaceae will be planted, dig a trench, put in lots of manure, compost and blood and bone, then cover with soil. Cut back the yellow ferny leaves of the asparagus plants, then mulch with aged manure.

Sow – Towards the end of July if you have a warm window sill sow tomato, capsicum and eggplant seeds, these will be ready to go into larger pots by the end of August and can be planted out by mid-October. At planting time plant tomatoes deep so that they will produce extra roots up the stem. Sow carrots, they germinate readily in moist cool soil.

Plant – Continue planting native tube stock, bare rooted roses and deciduous trees. Plant more lettuce, silver beet and English spinach and other leafy greens

Harvest – the last of the black olives, mandarins are beginning to sweeten up, lemons are ready, and early oranges will be ready by the end of the July. In the veggie garden we are still harvesting capsicums, eggplants, chillis, lettuce, Pak Choi, Coriander, Parsley, Silver Beet, Beetroot, Basil, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Turnips and Snow Peas are starting this week.

The last word –“in seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy” William Blake

Warrior Wellbeing Article

Anglican Church (St Faith’s)

Services in the Parish of St Faith’s, Quairading

Ss Priscilla & Aquila

Centenary of St Peter’s Church, Bruce Rock – Members of St Faith’s Church, Quairading will join the people of Bruce Rock at a service at 10.00 a.m. on Sunday, 2nd July to celebrate this centenary.

The Coming of Light festival marks the day Christianity was introduced on 1st July, 1871 to the people of the Torres Strait and will be commemorated on Sunday, 2nd July at 5.00 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church, York.

Ss Priscilla and Aquila: Ss Priscilla and Aquila are the patron saints of marriage. All couples married in our local churches are invited to attend a service at 5.30 p.m. on 15th July, giving thanks for their married life.

OPEN HOUSE is an invitation to all members of our local communities 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, local Anglican Priest, on Wednesday, 5th July 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 good 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: The School’s Patronal Festival will be celebrated at 6.30 p.m. at St Faith’s Church, Quairading on Tuesday, 15th August and & 6.30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church, York on Wednesday, 16th August.

Sunday, 2nd July 10.00 a.m.

Sunday, 9th July 9.00 a.m.

Saturday, 15th July 5.30 p.m.

Sunday, 23rd July 9.00 a.m.

Sunday, 30th July 10.00 a.m.

Centenary Service, St Peter’s Church, Bruce Rock

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost – Morning Prayer

Feast of Ss Priscilla & Aquila – Eucharist

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost – Morning Prayer

Combined Churches’ Service, Beverley

Catholic Church (St Francis Xavier)

Uniting Church

This month we have moved on from the coming of the Holy Spirit to Jesuses ministry. He has been teaching the disciples about the future, we have heard about the most unlikely people who had faith. There was the Centurion who asked Jesus to heal his daughter. The woman who had a disease that considered her to be unclean and Mathew a tax collector a cheat and hated by the people. Jesus calls him to follow Him. So Jesus is involved with all classes and His message is to all types of people. Jesus calls us to follow Him no matter what and not to fear for He cares and it will come good in the end. “Have we got sufficient faith to believe whatever comes our way “.

Sunday 2nd July Service 10.30am A. West.

Sunday 9th July Service 10.30am, Streaming video.

Sunday 16th July Service 10.30am P. West Congregational meeting to follow

Sunday 23rd July, Service 10. 30am T B A

Sunday 30th July . Service 10.30am Cafe Church

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Everybody welcome Contact A. West Tel 96450081