Banksia Bulletin March 2023

Regular happenings and contacts

THE PASSION SHEET

DANGIN DAY LODGE 110 WA (QUAIRADING):

Seeking past brethren and partners to attend the Centennial Jubilee Installation and Investiture of Officers for the 2023-2024 year and 100year re-enactment of the Consecration by Grand Lodge 1922-2022 on Saturday, April 15. Please register interest with your details (include email if available) for further information as it comes to hand.

Contact: W Bro Graeme Bowen on 0400 382 847 or email

newobgg@gmail.com

Come make it rain!

Hydraulics Sales & Services

21 Westral Street(PO Box 30)

Bruce RockWA 6418

Richard: 0427 851 870

Robyn: 0400 552 141

Fax: 9061 1194

Email: rdkovac@bigpond.net.au

Hydraulic Component’s Sales ex supplier

Hydraulic system designand testing

Hydraulic Components Repairsin house

Fully equippedservice vehicle, will travel

Regular trips to Perth,repairs& purchase of parts

Hydraulic hose assemblymade to order, in-house

Mobilehose and fitting trailer for onsiterepair

Richard Kovac & Robyn Kovac

MEDICAL PRACTICE

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

Dr Adenola Adeleye

MBCHB, MPH, FRACGP

Practice Coordinators

Hailey P and Monique M

Practice Nurse

Ria RN

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

Sandy Havlin

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

• Nursing Home Visits to

• Quairading Hospital

• PATS Patient Assisted

Travel Scheme Applications

Sunday Meat Raffles

$2 tickets for a $50 Meat Tray, drawn 2:30pm on Sunday arvo.

$3 tickets for a $100 Meat Tray, drawn 7:30pm Sunday night.

Tight A** Tuesday

Every Tuesday from 5pm—6pm.

$5 middys and $9 pints.

Members Draw & Raffles

Every Friday evening from 6pm til 7pm.

Congratulations to our winners of our community Christmas Raffle

1st - Shae & Linden Johnston 90lt fridge/freezer, 2nd - Cynthia Yarran Pool, 3rd - Kelsie Squiers – Country Pak Fruit & Veg Box, 4th - Buttley Hadlow $100 Co-op Voucher

Shareholder Draw

Congratulations Gary Eyre on winning the $100 January Draw.

Shareholders! March’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.

Stock STOCK STOCK

Covid, floods, fire, train derailments and some food shortages have become part of our everyday lives! This influences our supermarket stock availability, we’ve been lucky in lessons learnt from Covid, and continue ordering and carrying excess stock to ensure we as a community survive.

Stock Arrival Days

Dry Goods – Tuesday

Fruit & Veg – Tuesday and Thursday

Dairy/Freezer – Thursdays

Meat – Thursdays

Café

Have you checked out our new Grab N Go fridge? We love it!! Our little Café continues to thrive! Well done, Ellie, Tracey and Sandie for the wonderful food preparation and we cannot forget the shop floor team ensuring our customers are served and coffee made to order!

Bread

Buttercup bread will become an order only product, we are having problems with bread going mouldy this is because bread is baked Tuesday night, packed and delivered to our transport Wednesday and arrives in store on Thursday morning. If your favourite bread is buttercup, please see Tanya to order, this needs to be 2 weeks before you require it.

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 day’s notice and this happens quite regularly.

Social Media

We are providing almost daily updates about what’s happening in store. We would love for you to follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

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

Sharon Cutts General Manager

Gardening in the Wheatbelt

As predicted we’ve had a mild summer, however, it has been a very dry one and any residual moisture, from the wonderful rains of last winter has certainly gone by now. Our tanks are lasting so far but we could do with an early break in the season, which according to the forecaster I listen to, is not going to happen any time soon! The predicted first significant rain is not till May and even then this winter is apparently going to be on the dry side. So what we can hope for is milder temperatures during March when we can start thinking about putting in more drought hardy perennials and planting our winter veggies. The next meeting of the QGLG is Friday 24th February in the meeting room of the CRC at 10am. Please feel free to join us, we are a very welcoming group of fun loving people who know a little about gardening and love to share what we know.

Plant of the Month – With last month’s article I hope you were inspired to perhaps think about growing stone fruit in your garden. This month we will look at how to care for your stone fruit trees throughout the year to have a healthy tree and to get the best harvest. So we’ll start in summer: modern day thinking says that summer is the right time to prune established stone fruit trees. However, in the Wheatbelt, because of the heat which can linger into March, I would suggest that you wait to prune until mid to late March when hopefully the high 30s are behind us. The canopy protects the branches from the sun so if you were to prune too early sunburn could indeed kill your tree. The first prune is done after the first summer and shaping is the prime object of this prune. You should aim for a vase shape which allows good air circulation and a balanced canopy will develop from this first prune. During summer young trees should be watered at least once a week, established trees will survive quite well without water but of course the following harvest will not be as good. In autumn and into winter the trees will lose their leaves and at this time, on a dry day, you should remove any dead or diseased wood. The pruning equipment must be kept sterilized between each cut and each tree so as not to spread diseases such as stone fruit canker and gummosis which is particularly an apricot problem. In early winter it’s good to put a mulch of manure around the drip line of the tree and then in late winter fertilise with a fruit tree specific fertiliser. If you know that your tree has a problem with ‘leaf curl’ then the spraying regime should start right back in autumn as the tree is losing its leaves. The second liquid copper spray is done at bud burst. Early fruiting peaches are particularly affected by leaf curl and sometimes all your efforts to fight this fungal disease can be to no avail. In spring the flowers and then leaves will cover your tree and as the fruit sets check your tree for over-reaching

intentions. Some stone fruit trees think they are responsible for feeding the whole world so fruit thinning is very important. Fruit should be taken off when it is at about the size of a large marble. In late spring when the rain stops the trees should receive regular water at least once per week until harvest has finished. If you live in a built up area where fruit fly may be a problem there some things you can do to keep this pest at bay. Firstly collect any fallen fruit during the harvest period. Then, allowing your chooks to forage around your trees will mean they will pick up the grubs which develop on the ground in these stung fallen fruits and lastly either use the various sprays and lures available or use exclusion netting for the tree or for the individual fruits.

This Month in the Garden –

It’s time to – keep the water up to citrus trees which are carrying their fruit during this time and because of their shallow root system they can dry out very quickly. This drying out can lead to spilt fruit when later in winter they get a heavy down pour. In mid March apply a complete fertiliser to roses, other flowering shrubs and climbers. Lawns should be fertilised now to keep them green over the winter months. Hedges and almost any shrub can be pruned in March and many of these prunings can be propagated at this time of the year. Check citrus trees for scale and on a day of below 30 degrees spray with white oil and repeat in two weeks and two weeks later spray trees with water to remove the dead scale and any black sooty mould on the leaves and branches.

Sow –all winter veggies can be sown in March

Plant – March is too early to plant winter veggies; that is, unless we’ve had an early break in the season and temperatures in the twenties are being forecast.

Harvest – In the orchard the bounty is amazing at the moment. There are Mariposa and Narrabeen plums, Fantasia Nectarines, Globe grapes, rock melon, water melon, Black English mulberries, figs and Cape gooseberries. In the veggie garden there are zucchini, cucumbers, snake beans, capsicums, eggplants, tomatoes and carrots. The next crop of lettuce and chillies are almost ready.

The last word –“Why try and explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them help you plant a garden.” Robert Brault (with my modifications)

Warrior Wellbeing Article

Anglican Church (St Faith’s)

Catholic Church (St Francis Xavier)

Uniting Church

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