Banksia Bulletin November 2022

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From the Editor

We had a bit of a breather through October, and to be honest November is looking pretty chill for us on the extra curricular activities front, and also I’m sure I’ve just jinxed us. We’ve been stoked to the response from advertising our one-on-one tech support a little bit more recently. We’ve seen community members come forward with all sorts of weird and wonderful questions and things they’re stuck on with their smart phone, laptop etc. We honestly thrive on alleviating some stress from your life by helping you with these things. We understand it can be embarrassing and frustrating to have to ask for help, especially in person, but we work hard on a no judgement service and we can pretty well guarantee you are far from alone in experiencing whatever pesky technology issue you’re experiencing. While we again, LOVE, helping you, we simply ask that you respect our time and other tasks we’ve got going on by calling ahead to book an appointment, and value our incredibly convenient local service by paying the relevant fees ($10 base rate for short tasks / $40 an hour).

We have a new phone book ready! The length of the updating process is something we somehow always both underestimate and overestimate, so it can feel like quite the marathon. We’ve done our best to verify all listings and limit typos (fingers crossed our best is enough?). Hard copies are available to purchase at the Quairading CRC for $7 per copy yes, there’s been a price rise for the first time in probably 20 years, but rest assured the quality of this year’s print job has increased by even more. We’re also very proud to be making a password protected online version available this year for the first time too! For $7 also, and the provision of your name and email address, we can send you a link to create your own login details to our website, where you will be able to access the ‘Phone Book’ tab. We hope you’ll enjoy this format, and we very much want your feedback as we can always alter the way in which we deliver online access so long as it keeps our document secure and is simple for you to locate.

We wrapped up our twelve month Good Grub Social Club project (supported by an Australia Post Community Wellbeing Grant) this past month with a stunning Spring Picnic at Toapin Weir. We really enjoyed these simple lunch events and we’ll be on the lookout for other funding opportunities for something similar in the future I’m sure.

Another longish term project that’s going swimmingly well is our monthly Story Time sessions! With funding from the State Library’s Better Beginnings program, we’re bringing expert story-teller and crafter, Meg Boyle, over from York once a month (on a Monday morning) for an hour of rhymes, engagement, development tips and very good fun. We have an open door to all little people and their caregivers to come along and be exposed to some learning and socialising and we can’t wait for the next session on Monday 14 November at 10am.

Happy November! Mind the bob tails.

PASSION SHEET

COMMUNITY

RESTRICTED FIRE PERMITS

Please note that the Shire of Quairading is now within the restricted burning period. Permits are required from 16 October 2022 31 October 2022. During the restricted period you are not permitted to burn without a burning permit.

VOLUNTEER WITH US

Quairading Rainmakers would love a couple of extra hands to help supervise the Community Christmas Party from 4pm 6pm on Friday 9 December. Send us a message on social media, email us, quairadingrainmakers@outlook.com or reach out to Kate Walker, Magdalen Johnston, Maddy Lee, Jen Green or Jill Hayes if you can help.

2022 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR

Do you know a person or group who has gone above and beyond for the community? Nominations are now open for Citizen of the Year. Nomination forms are available at the Shire front desk, the Quairading CRC and on our website: www.quairading.wa.gov.au. Nominations must be received by 4:30pm, Thursday 22 December, 2022. Awards will be presented at the Australia Day Breakfast on January 26, 2023.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A HALLOWEEN FRIENDLY HOUSE?

Halloween is on Monday 31 October. All you need to do is have treats to hand out to ‘Trick or Treaters’ that will come knocking at your door, usually between 3pm 7pm. You can allocate your own hours if these hours are not suitable. We will pop your name, address and hours available, onto the Halloween friendly house map, which will be available the day before Halloween. The kids in town love Halloween and are always very polite. So please

consider signing up for this fun event. You can head over to www.facebook.com/halloweenqtown and add your details in the comments in the pinned post. Or let Peta from the Post Office know.

PIANO LESSONS

30 minute or 1 hour sessions; learn to read music, understand music theory and play music you love. Connor Atkins Quairading resident, holds current police clearance and working with children. 0459 268 540.

DIGITAL SUPPORT SESSIONS

Need a hand with your technology? The team at the Quairading CRC are keen and happy to help! One on one and small group sessions available. Bookings preferred. $10 for help with short tasks, $40 for one hour sessions.

PERSONAL RECOMMENDATION

If you are after some carpet dry cleaning I can personally recommend Tim from Carefree Cleaning Services. His number is 0405 019 046. Group bookings preferred Lyn Cowcill.

EVENTS

MELBOURNE CUP AT THE CLUB

Tuesday 1 November at the Club. $40 Roast Lunch with dessert and glass of bubbles or middy. RSVP by Monday 24 October **minimum numbers required. Sweeps: $2, $5, or $10. Come and try your luck. The Race will be on all TV’s and the big screen. Prizes for the best dressed and best hat / fascinator. If your planning you Christmas Break up book soon as dates are filling up quickly.

QDHS

If your child is turning 4 years old by 30 June 2023, please join us for our Kindy orientation mornings: Friday 4, 11 & 18 November 9am 10:30am.

Please contact the office for assistance with enrolment. We look forward to meeting our newest students! Please bring a hat and piece of fruit.

TINY TOTS FIRST AID

Saturday 5 November, 9am 12:30pm at the CRC. Course price is $75 per person and you can book and pay at the Quairading CRC, or over the phone 9645 0096. Any proceeds will go to our local Quairading St Johns Sub Branch. Bookings close this Friday 28th!

STAY ACTIVE

Closing day for 2022 will be Thursday 10 November. Morning tea at the Cafe after the session (buy your own).

QARRAS

Monday 14 November Country Papercraft. Sue 0428 455 228.

OPTOM ON CALL

Optometrist On Call will be visiting Quairading next on Thursday 17 November. Phone Iselle on 0450 033 517 to book an appointment.

COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PARTY

Friday 9 December, 4pm 6pm at the Town Oval. Festive fun for all ages, stay tuned for more details.

HOT STITCHES

Tuesdays, 9:30am 3:30pm at the Quairading CRC. Everyone is welcome to come sit and sew, or knit, or crochet, or craft and of course chat, eat, and drink tea & coffee.

QUAIRADING VINTAGE CLUB

The Quairading Vintage Club meets on the second Saturday of each month, 10am at the Vintage Shed (Parker Street). Morning tea is provided, all members, concession licence holders and visitors are welcome.

GARDEN LOVERS OF QUAIRADING GROUP

Our monthly meeting is held on the last Friday, of the month, 10am at the CWA Rooms (Parker Street). Hope to see you all there. Enquiries to Lyn 0447 450 170 or Carmela 0403 153 661.

ST JOHN WA QUAIRADING

Volunteers needed. Training for Officers is held on the first and last Thursday of each month. If interested in volunteering please come and see what we do. Contact Michaela: 0429 797 106 or Peter 0427 454 204 Alternatively, you may register online Stjohnwa.com.au/changelives

BUSINESS

BE YOU NAILS & BEAUTY

Visiting Quairading on the following Fridays: 18 November and 16 December for tinting and waxing. Book online or message 0408 172 611.

THE QUAIRADING CLUB

Please note the Club Kitchen will be closed Saturday, 19 November.

TQH SPECIALS

Monday Jo's Slow Cooker Meal & Mash Special Tuesday Pizza ‘n’ Pint Wednesday Parmi ‘n’ Pint Thursday Weekly special One for the Parents Kids eat 1/2 price Wednesday & Thursday nights. Introducing local beers on tap! Eclipse Brewing (Northam) & Wilson's Brewing (Albany). Keep an eye on socials for updates!

SHARPENING AND CHAINSAW/ MOWER REPAIRS

Wide selection of chains, and mower blades. Servicing all makes and models. Extensive parts in stock. Local Quairading Resident with 31 years Arborist experience. Daniel Marzocchi, Marzocchi Contracting 9645 0719.

VACATE CLEANING

is our speciality Windows and flyscreens, deep cleaning carpets, drapes, steam cleaning tiles, oven cleaning, washing walls, light fittings and vents, pressure cleaning and so much more!

Anita Marzocchi 0459 405 333 marzocchifamily@hotmail.com

SPORT

QUAIRADING BOWLING CLUB

Women & Men’s (mixed or not mixed options) Bowls on Thursday afternoons. We invite new players, not just pennant players, to play and have some fun. Scroungers Bowls is on again, Club House open at 4:30pm pm for a 5:30pm start, 12 ends. Players who cant make it for a 5:30pm start can play later reducing from 12 ends to 8. Text Russell Stacey to enter 0429 451 093 or put your name in when you arrive at the bowling club by 5:15pm

DIGGING DOCKER 3’S Sunday 6 November. Get a team together and put it op on the board at the Club House. Or contact Jeff or David (numbers below).

JIM & CHRIS GIMBEL OPEN MIXED PAIRS

Sunday 27 November. Names for this and above event to Jeff Dalton: 0427 450 072 David Chandler: 0447 451 2056 Pam Caporn: 0455 050 479 Janice Sinclair: 0429 080 660 Lunch and afternoon tea included for the latter event.

JOBS BOARD

HANDYMAN

Do you need a handyman? Struggling financially? I may be able to help. Please phone me in confidence, Peter 0428 735 937.

WORK WANTED

My name is Levi Ebsary, I currently work at the Tammin Abattoir and have been employed there for the last 12 months. I am looking for a change though and would like to find work as a farm hand in Quairading or the surrounding area. I am a hard worker, and a quick learner. I graduated from Cunderdin Ag College 1 year ago and left with many ag based certificates. I come from a farming background and have had lots of experience on farms in Corrigin. I’ve worked with both sheep and cattle, can drive different types of vehicles/ machinery, old and new, and I have experience fencing. My mobile is 0491 824 872, if you are aware of anyone in need of a farm hand, please forward them my number.

HOUSE CLEANING

Would you like your house cleaned?

Phone Margaret 0429 035 508.

HOUSING

QUAIRADING RENTAL

Short term accommodation in Quairading. 3 bedroom air conditioned house in town centre; just a 2 minute walk to shops and café. Book through Airbnb: https://abnb.me/1zDh2d00Wlb

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

June Tilley Getz Stuff Done, Licensed Real Estate. P 0419 764 454 gsdpropertymanagement.com.au

COTTESLOE BEACHFRONT FLAT

Looking for a little get away?

1 bedroom fully serviced apartment on Cottesloe beach. Available for rent just for the day, a weekend or a week. Text 0458 444 078.

BUY & SELL

LAND FOR LEASE OFFERS OF INTEREST

Location: Bulyee, approximately 400ha cropping/grazing land. Available 1 February 2023. 3kms to Bulyee CBH. Offers close Monday 2 December 2022. Highest or any offer not necessarily accepted. Inquiries to Glen Cowcill: 0459 952 877.

URGENTLY WANTED TO BUY

An automatic car in good condition. Please phone Peter 0428 735 937.

COUCH WANTED

The Quairading Club are looking for a couch suitable for the Kids Room at the Club. Two or three seater, preferably leather like (easy to clean) in good condition. Please text photo and price to Committee Member Jill Hayes 0459 220 053.

PEA STRAW FOR SALE

New season straw available Contains no peas. $10 per bale. Phone Trevor on 0427 466 225 or Jacqui on 0408 905 466.

FOXY’S FIRE WOOD

Trailer load of wood for $200 please phone Foxy on 0408 536 212 for more details.

Thank You

The family of Alan Gelmi sincerely thank everyone for their sympathy cards and messages of support on the passing of Alan on 10th September 2022.

We also want to say a very grateful thank you to all those wonderful Quairading people who helped with food, flowers, and support at his recent funeral.

A Remembrance Day Service will be held at the Shire Memorial at 11am on Friday 11 November.

Following the Service, a ‘bring and share’ luncheon social will be held at the Quairading Club.

All welcome.

New Phone Book now available from the Quairading CRC!

$7 per copy

Online access is also now available via our website, also for $7. After purchasing over the phone or in person at the Quairading CRC and providing your name and email address, you will receive an email with a link to set up your own password to log in and view the ‘Phone Book’ tab on our website. We very excited to finally be offering online access (in addition to hard copy access), in response to demonstrated community demand.

37 Heal Street Quairading. Janine Anderson 0400 085 235 janineterri@outlook.com.au

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Tagged Around Town

Quairading Co-Op wins Wheatbelt Business of the Year Award!

Many months ago, several community members nominated the Quairading Co Op for the Wheatbelt Business Awards. We submitted an application to the Wheatbelt Business Network to be judged, along with over 100 businesses from all across the wheatbelt. Our application focused on our recent renovation, our response during COVID and our wonderful employee culture. We found out soon after that we were a finalist, so off to Merredin we went on Saturday to the awards night, with our fingers and toes crossed.

We fell into the award category of businesses with between 5 10 full time equivalent employees. CRISP Wireless, Buckland Estate, Pingelly Transport, AIM Dental Group, Gather York and Gravity Discovery Centre were also finalists in this category. We were honoured and (nearly) lost for words to find out we won this category. We were excited to just be nominated, so to win the category was just incredible.

(Clockwise: Andrew Erkins + Scott Boladeras, Digit Solutions; Sharon Cutts, Co Op Manager; Christine, Wicked + Kymbo, Co Op Senior Staff; Cam Fraser, Tarns’ Handbag; Tarnya Fraser, Co-Op Director), Photo Credit: Rebecca Parkhouse Photography.

The last award to be announced for the evening, is the Wheatbelt Business of the Year award. This award gives the winner $15,000 to spend with GWN7. It was an emotional, humbling and truly exciting moment when we were announced as the winner. In our acceptance speech we acknowledged that we were accepting the award on behalf of our employees, our nearly 400 shareholders and the Quairading community. Our win was not due to one person, or even a handful of people it’s the result of when a community works together.

Submitting an application to the award’s judging panel is an incredibly reflective process. To think less than four years ago the supermarket was falling around our ears, and now we are the Wheatbelt Business of the Year. Previous winners of this award are Bruce Rock Engineering and Whitney Consulting.

On behalf of the Co op Board of Directors and senior staff, we must take this opportunity to thank our customers, shareholders, and employees what we have achieved together is phenomenal. To acknowledge and thank you for our community’s contribution to the Co-Op’s success, we are offering free coffee all day Friday (28th October). We hope you might pop down to the supermarket, enjoy a coffee and share in our excitement of this incredible milestone. Thank you again for your support, custom and trust.

(Tarnya + Sharon accepting the Wheatbelt Business of the Year Award from sponsor and previous winners, Bruce Rock Engineering, and prize donor, GWN7), Photo Credit: Rebecca Parkhouse Photography.

Tarnya Fraser Sharon Cutts Quairading Co-Op Director Quairading Co-Op Manager

2022 Quairading Ag Show

From all the positive feedback we’ve heard we think it went ok! Thank you if you attended, exhibited, booked a stall or trade site or paid your Ag Society membership.

Our thanks also to

• Shire of Quairading for work carried out by the Works team before and after show day, providing a community grant and a quality caravan park for some of our entertainment providers to utilise.

• Quairading CRC for their many and varied quality services and support.

• Our many funders, sponsors and donors for their enthusiastic financial support.

• Adam May Bent Nail for assistance with prepping shelter floor.

• Stephen Bartlett Digging Docker for assistant with show day prep.

• Quairading Bowling Club for catering for morning tea and lunch on Judging Day Friday and provision of afternoon tea on show day.

• Curtin Volunteers for their help on show day and pack up Sunday amazing!

• REST a While Coffee for their contribution to the best morning tea ever on busy bee day Thursday.

• Quairading Farmers Co-op for donation of fruit for Kids Tent.

• Valued community members who acted as stewards, judges, gate attendants, bar staff and more. Your willingness to help and professionalism in your duties was remarkable!

• Marion O’Hare for her incredible and plentiful wildflower arrangements, along with collecting the stunning wildflower dresses from Kings Park. Also, Mariane Kevill, Dallas Yarran, Raelene Taylor, Sandra Bracher, Ric Hughes and Ros McAullay who either advised or allowed Marion to forage in their gardens for flowers.

• Committee members Helen Fraser, Carolynne Thornton, Renee Anderson, Kate Walker, Tamara Stacey, Roger Davies, Geoff Hall, Scott Richards and Graeme Ellis for efforts above and beyond to ensure our 2022 Quairading Ag Show was the best it could be.

Plus, the outstanding contribution to show day by our tireless, extraordinary treasurer Jo Hayes. Jo worked diligently over the previous twelve months to secure funding, accommodation, volunteers and show day entertainment which ensured everything ran smoothly on the day.

Our 2022 show

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run. We worked hard to secure

sponsorship and show day takings from gate,

and all-day riders totalled approx. $21,000.

were given wristbands at the gate.

Peter Smith President

Society

Alan Gelmi and the story of the Quairading Farmers Improvement Group

written by Russell Stacey

As a past secretary of the Quairading Farmers Improvement Group I have been able to research this information from the minutes of the meetings from a case stored in my office.

Years ago there was a private Farmers Improvement Group in Quairading but it wasn’t active anymore, when Alan Gelmi suggested we start up a Quairading Farmers Pasture Improvement Group.

It was 1984 on Thursday 8th August at the Quairading Lesser Hall that the QFIG was formed by Alan Gelmi with help from Brett Johnston. The elected office bearers were Alan Gelmi President Greg Richards Vice President, the Quairading Co op Manager Bob Phillips Secretary & Quairading Co -op staff member Jean Johnston the Treasurer. The founding members wanted to include crops as well as pastures into an Improvement Group and the Quairading Farmers Improvement Group was born.

The QFIG continued for 18 years to 2002. The group started off keen as mustard with Alan pushing us to do things not done before. We held monthly meetings, with guest speakers and organised events during the year. We held an annual spring field walk driving around the district looking at things that farmers had done and it was one of the most interesting days of the year for myself and many other farmers. It was very interesting exploring other farmer’s farmyards and paddocks that we had never been in before. We checked out what machinery farmers had, and what they had done to improve their farms and improve their machinery. The machinery modifications were really interesting, mostly done out in the open on many farms as large workshops were not really around in those days and they were not as equipped as they are today. No modern welders and cordless tools, it took ages to do what today is done quickly. There was modified machinery in every farmyard on every machine you could think of, sheepyards were being built with bulge shaped drafting races and out in the paddocks it was constructing WISALT banks. The WISALT banks caused many arguments as farmers believed they were either great or absolute madness. We were all improving our boomsprays and keen to look at other farmers boomsprays on the annual QFIG spring field walk somewhere in the Quairading shire that Alan had help organised. It was interesting looking at what other farmers had made, either from new materials or some old piece of junk, to make the boomspray more efficient. Later we then combined our annual spring field walk with

the South Caroling spring field day as it was not necessary to attend both. Alan also got us organised to go to farmer based field days in other towns, like the bus trips to Merredin Dept of Ag. These bus trips were a real blast with a esky full of beer on the trip home plus the comradery that can only happen out here in the country. The Quairading farmers went through a change in seeding technology and the QFIG converted a Chamberlain seeder into a knife point seeder. This seeder went around the district and farmers had their first go at seeding a crop with knife points by using this machine. The QFIG then realised that the Ralph Burnett based Quairading Crop Consulting Group, the Geoff Fosberry field days hosted by Aaron Stone’s Landmark shop and consultants giving information hosted by The Farm Shop & Vic Hayes Elders agency, were the new way of farmers going on mini spring field days throughout the whole year and the annual Spring Field walk was decided to be discontinued. These other field days lead to the demise of the QFIG, but it had done its job. In 2012 the QFIG had a washup and closed down, the remaining money in the bank account was split 50/50 with money given to the Quairading Ag Society to purchase lights in the newly built Ag Shed at the showgrounds, and the Quairading Vintage Club got a donation and the money bought a new fridge.

Alan Gelmi and the story of the Quairading Crop Consulting Group

Quairading has a Crop Consulting Group and as the name suggests, a group of Quairading Farmers employed a consultant to update farmers on spraying chemicals. The reason this group of Quairading farmers have a consultant was because it was a idea suggested by Alan Gelmi. What happened is Alan organised a consultant who was a specialist in applying sprays to crops and pastures to be our guest speaker at the first Annual General Meeting of the QFIG in 1984. It was at this meeting at the CWA building that Alan and some other farmers including myself, showed a interest in having the guest speaker, Ralph Burnett as a consultant after listening to his talk. Spraying paddocks with chemicals was only just starting to become the way of future farming and we were all at a loss of how to do the spraying correctly. We discussed to individually pay the consultant to advise us what to do and split his travel costs to travel to Quairading with the other farmers. Whilst discussing this plan, we thought about having a bigger group of farmers, we would all go to each other paddocks as a group and learn, this became

the founding moment of a Quairading Crop Consulting Group. It would make it affordable for the farmers to have a group meeting, rather than we all pay as a single individual to employ a private consultant. The idea was he would come to Quairading 4 times a year and us farmers would go back to the classroom and be taught about the way we should apply chemical sprays to kill weeds. With a group of about 15 farmers we started off the first Ralph Burnett based Crop Consultant Group in the state. Ralph then took this idea of teaching a group of farmers to the next level and many towns/ shires across the whole state from Geraldton to Esperance then formed their own Crop Consultant Group based on the model that Alan had started right here in the CWA building in Quairading.

This consultant was a retired spray plane pilot and was a wizz kid on the application of sprays and using what we referred to as off the label low rates. He taught us that the water rate per hectare in a spray plane was a 3rd of the rate used by us farmers using a boomspray. The farmers in the group started experimenting with using half the water rate per hectare when spraying, doing this doubled the amount of hectares we could get from the tank on your boomspray, which lead onto doing double the amount of hectares, you could get sprayed in one day. The members of this group then excelled at improving crops and pastures, as we could get the job of spraying done a lot quicker and we soon began spraying a much big area of our farms.

The group had 4 meetings a year, the first meeting each year was held at the St John Ambulance hall and the other 3 meeting at someone’s farm and we looked at their crops and also close neighbours.

We started off travelling to each farmers farms in a convoy of utes and then later progressed to a community bus. We checked out crops, looking at what the farmers had done or of more importance what had not been done and why crops were going to fail. We were all starting to save big bucks by using lower chemical rates than what we had been previously using. We became the gurus of mixing up all types of magic potions and spraying paddocks once instead of 3 times for grasses, broadleaves and insects all in the one tank load. When we went to the Pub on a Friday night we had a welcome break from talking about football or sport and gas bagged on all night long about what sprays we had been using this week. There was lots of heated discussions at the Pub, about to spray or not to spray and everybody was doing everything wrong except for Alan’s group of switched on nozzle heads. The group continued right up to the time that Ralph Burnett retired. The Quairading group was the largest switched on group that Ralph had in the whole state. Other groups in other towns that employed Ralph Burnett across the state lost

members and ceased to exist, but the Quairading Group maintained a constant number with new members joining over the years. Alan was the coordinator and spoke directly to Ralph to work out what day he would come to Quairading, landing his plane out in the paddock or at the Quairading airport. Ralph the consultant also published a monthly newsletter full of ideas about getting the biggest bang for your buck from your chemical drum. I recall lots of his ideas in this newsletter were things he had seen and learnt about from what us Quairading farmers had been doing, especially spray topping. The Quairading Crop Consultant Group is still going today some 38 years later with a replacement consultant organised by Alan & myself. They are now called Dave Pheiffer days after the original consultant retired and Dave took over.

The reason we are talking about Alan forming these 2 groups is, put simply, us farmers saved tens of thousands of dollars every year, by attending mainly the Quairading Crop Consulting days, they were called Ralph Days, and what a hoot they where. They were SAVA DA MONEY DAYS, you couldn’t afford to miss these days. From mere beginnings of learning how to use sprays on the farm in the early 80s and only a small amount of money allocated to purchasing sprays, this new idea of spraying then became a huge part of running a successful farm. Thanks to Alan we were now spending all our spare time in the boom spray. In reality we were actually saving time for future chores. Once upon a time many years ago farmers were killing weeds with a 100% kill rate as opposed to sitting on a dusty tractor cultivating weeds, that took 10 times as long and you watched your powered up paddocks soil blow through the fence into the neighbours paddock. It was the beginning of spraying being one of the most important things on your farm, that had to be done on time or it would cost you dearly. We started off doing our spraying with a boomspray that was 40 foot wide, had a 1000 litre tank or if a big one it was 2000 litres, they left the factory with no guidance what so ever, we just guessed our distance until foam blob dobbers were invented, the foam would blow away if the wind was too strong or disappear when it was too sunny. Then along came GPS technology costing $20,000 when it was first available. Our fill up stations were a joke, we had no stored water, we had water transfer pumps that wouldn’t work and took an hour to fill a 2000 litres tank, you put the chemical in by pouring in 20 litre drums into the top of a tank covered in spray drift, we all sat on a horrible bouncy seat, with every bump you drove over going straight into your backbone. The tow tractor or ute was underpowered and gutless, going up a steep hill or through a boggy patch in the paddock was all part of having fun, but you learnt to drive that machine in anger and hung on. However we soon learnt it was quick

to spray a paddock and it was the way of the future. It was only a few years later in the mid 1980s that our lush green spring pastures that we were fattening our lambs on turned into the dreaded toxic ryegrass plants. Everything was doom and gloom and we prepared for disaster and a mass exodus of sheep farmers to the coast, we here all gonna go broke, as we thought our pastures would become paddocks of dead livestock. However with Alan Gelmi’s Ralph group of nozzle heads, we were taught of this new thing called spray topping. The idea was to spray the ryegrass to stop it setting seed and stop it becoming a weed in the following years crop. It was so quick to spray a paddock with 100% result as compared to trying to mechanically top the ryegrass and other weeds with a tractor drawn machine, that slashed the weeds. I recall Quairading being regarded by Ralph and other chemical reps persons as the most switched on area of the state. The group Alan had started in Quairading, was regarded as being light years in front of the rest of the state, the arsenal was available to purchase product to kill ryegrass, but many farmers didn’t know how to use it, put simply there were 1000s of sheep deaths around the state, when ryegrass toxicity was rife in the mid 80s.That could have been prevented. We then started spraying our paddocks with a chemical called Paraquat or Roundup, it killed ryegrass in late spring. The ryegrass would die and not develop into a toxic plant that if eaten by the livestock would kill them. With a change of sugars in the plant when it died , it became a higher quality feed, called standing hay. Instead of the livestock dying they blossomed into money making machines. Also the ryegrass plant would not set seed and be a weed in the next years crop. Yes Alan Gelmi and his consultant advice, was the man who saved us thousands of dollars. By being a trendsetter and seeing the way of the future and forming the Quairading Farmers Improvement Group and the Quairading Crop Consulting Group. We now had the knowledge from attending field days that Alan had started of how to stop toxic ryegrass and as mentioned stop seed from forming at the same time. It then became all out war on ryegrass and all the other weeds. Spraying had just become the most important thing in our war chest to survive. I recall the year 1985 it was a drought year, having to explain to my Dad that the money spent on sprays for the year had broken through the $10,000 dollar barrier. By using sprays we adopted seeding methods that replaced cultivating weeds with sprays, we got the crop in earlier and in drier starts to cropping season as our rainfall kinda just didn’t happen like in the 60s, our crops were germinated earlier and we had something to harvest, where as without using sprays to establish a crop you put the crop in later and it was a disaster and the crop yields were 50% less. As a result of prior paddock preparation plus spraying the crops during the

growing season, if you got it right we hardly had any weeds in the crops. We started at a base of 5 bags to the acre crops, then we grew better crops every year to 7 ½ bags then to 10 bags, and then once we combined spraying with the addition of nitrogen fertiliser we broke through the magical 15 bags to the acre crops. You gotta give some of this yield increase to yet again, Alan Gelmi and his founding of a Crop Improvement Group. Along the way we became spraying nozzle head cowboys, driving our boomsprays in anger across the paddocks faster and faster every day, just like a Gelmi did. We covered more acres every day, and set out early in the day, to see if we could break through the 500 acres a day mark. We were using spray rates that were well below the rate stated on the chemical drum label. Alan’s little group of nozzle heads were saving a fortune by learning to spray little weeds in the crops earlier, at a cheaper cost, than we were doing in the past. Our bank accounts flourished, by growing much better crops and pastures for sheep feed, only to be spent on buying more chemicals the next year, which then lead on to even more grain in the bin year after year. Alan had saved the whole Quairading town from a mass exodus to the coast for a very long holiday break, and the last person to leave town, please turn the lights off. In later years this group became farmers at the cutting edge of technology by starting to experiment with No Till seeding methods and crazy stuff like seeding up and back instead of the traditional method of going round and round. Alan also was well into spreading this stuff called Lime onto our paddocks, well ahead of other farmers which is now habitual practise. He was really keen to show us his trial strips, years before it became common practise and is now no longer, what we questioned as some type of insane behaviour. That you must not have a good farm if you had to spread beach sand on it. I could go on and tell more stories, but the bottom line is that as farmers our bottom line at the bank is a lot better than what it could have been, all thanks to this trendsetter Alan Gelmi and his dedication that helped other farmers in the Quairading district over the last 38 years officially starting at the Quairading Lesser Hall back in 1984.

Finally we will all remember Alan at his field days speaking about his spray rate per hectare as he told us what chemicals he had used and the rate used per hectare. Alan with his Italian dialect could never pronounce the word, hectare, he used to say I used a rate of X amount of litres per HECTY ACRE.

Quairading Golf Club

With the closing of another fantastic golf season, it is time to acknowledge the hard working committee and grounds men. The course was in absolutely pristine condition thanks to the men who have worked tirelessly on mowing, raking, sweeping and just generally looking after the course and the ladies who look after the Club house and gardens. Thank you

On the Ladies Closing Day, the Club honoured Fay Minchin with Life Membership (her citation is below). Congratulations Fay

Looking forward to 2023 golf season as it will be a busy one as we are hosting AVLGA Championships over 2nd, 3rd and 4th of August.

Robyn Richards V/Pres Quairading Golf Club

Children’s Week Hip Hop Class

Written by Tamara Stacey, Quairading CRC

We had approximately 30 rambunctious children arrive at the Quairading Town Hall after school on Monday 24 October. They were buzzing and clearly very hyped in anticipation of the Hip Hop class. The class was led by Kimberley McKay from the Rural Dance Schools WA. Kimberley must have magic powers because she kept all 30+ children engaged and inline for an entire hour of dance! After the dancing, the children tucked into fresh and healthy fruit platters, vegie sticks and dip, courtesy of the Quairading Co-op. Hopefully parents got to take home some slightly less rambunctious and satiated children! I was exhausted just watching.

Congratulations to the Shire of Quairading who were successful in obtaining grant funding as part of the ‘Go for 2 & 5 Children’s Week Community Grants Program’ to enable this activity and thank you for the opportunity given to the Quairading CRC to collaborate on the process. Well done to Cynthia Yarran, the Youth

Quairading Aquatic Club

22/23 Season Open

Quairading Aquatic Club are getting ready to fire up for another fantastic season. For those thinking about getting their kids involved come on down and have a try on our registration day, its loads of fun!! Our club is all about giving kids the opportunity to develop their swimming, endurance and racing skills in a safe and supportive environment.

Our committee for the 2022/2023 season is:

President: Renee Anderson

Vice President: Scott Fairhead

Treasurer/Registrar: Meagan Hall

Secretary: Bek Van Der Wacht

Registration Day is coming up on Thursday 7th November. There have been a few changes to our participation requirements. For duty of care reasons and to focus on training for competitive swimming rather than swimming lessons, all junior members will now need to have passed stage 3 to join. To have passed stage 3, swimmers are able to confidently swim 10m of freestyle, demonstrate breaststroke leg action & glide backward & kick for 5m. If you are unsure of whether your child is at this level, please come along to the juniors session at 3.15pm on our registration day and we will assess their ability to participate safely and confidently.

Registration links will be sent to our previous members that have met the stage three requirements. These need to be completed prior to the first session. For those who are new or need to be assessed, registration needs to be completed prior to the next session after registration day or Meagan will be poolside to assist to complete them on the registration day.

Monday’s training times and coaches are:

Training Group

Time Coaches

Juniors 3.15pm 3.45pm Renee & Anthony Intermediates 3.45pm 4.30pm Anthony & Shondelle Seniors 4.30pm 5.30pm Shondelle & Renee

• Time trials are held on Thursday’s. A race skills training for intermediate & senior swimmers is from 3.20pm 3.40pm followed by the time trial races.

• 2022/2023 season fees $80. These need to paid prior to or on registration day (except new members). KIDSPORT available.

• For duty of care, for both the pool and the club, children 10 & under must have a parent or guardian present to enter the Quairading pool, and they must remain present at the pool to supervise their child for the duration of swimming club training and time trials.

• It is recommended to organise a season ticket for pool entry at the shire, as pool entry is not included in our membership.

• Quairading Aquatic Club requires each parent/guardian to volunteer several times throughout the season due to the high volume of people it takes to run the clubs activities. This is a non negotiable requirement when joining the club.

• What your child needs-any racing swimwear (our club colours are black/red/white), goggles, sunscreen, water bottle and a cap is preferred.

Club Clothing

We have the following club clothing/equipment in stock:

’ red swimming caps $11

’ bucket hats reduced to $5 (small sizes)

any previous members have swimming club shirts they no longer use we would love to pass them along to our new members to wear to swim meets.

Gardening in the Wheatbelt

Written by Carmela Kriszyk of Eaglewood Farm

Well if September was a great month in the garden October was even better. The nights were a little warmer and the days were filled with glorious sunshine. We had only one warm day and that was quickly followed by more cool days and even a few showers. And whilst our farming community may not have welcomed the showers, our gardens certainly did and of course it has delayed having to turn on irrigation and prolonged the flowering of the early spring bulbs and plants such as sweet pea. I don’t think I can remember my sweet peas flowering this late in October ever before. Roses are still at their blooming best and the perfume is so pervasive one can’t help but be struck by it. The November meeting of the QGLG will be held at the Quairading Club at 11:30 when we will have a short meeting followed by our Christmas lunch. If you are coming please pay your $25 at this month’s meeting or give to Lyn at least one week before the date as final numbers must be in and paid for by Friday 18th November.

Plant of the Month this month’s plant is a real stand out in the garden, Maireana sedifolia also known as Smoke bush, Bluebrush or Pearl Bluebrush. From its common name you will have gathered that it has grey foliage, grey foliaged plants are known to be drought tolerant and frost hardy and the Maireana sedifolia is no exception. It grows to about 1 or 1.5 metres tall and almost as wide. It is deep rooted so once established needs very little water and grows well in alkaline loam or clay soil. The Maireana sedifolia is a native West Australian plant which is common in the range lands and can also be found on the Nullabor where its numbers have been depleted by repeated severe fires and grazing by rabbits. It is a long lived plant (even up to 300 years) which can withstand cool fires and some animal foraging. Its tiny leaves have no stem and are attached directly to the branch. The leaves are succulent like and are covered in short white hairs. The flowers are so insignificant that I told a group recently that is doesn’t flower. The tiny yellowish flowers come in late spring and are situated under the leaves. Flowers don’t mean that seed will be set because there must be both male and female plants in the vicinity. Information about propagation is hard to find but cuttings are the usual method used, although success can be difficult to achieve. I am going to attempt some this coming week so I will keep the reader posted.

It’s time to Sow At this time of the year there is not a lot of plants that can go in as seeds. Perhaps all year carrots can be sown for continuity of supply. Carrot seeds are tiny and a good way to get them to germinate is to cover them with hessian and keep that moist until the small plants start to come up. Beans both dwarf and climbing beans can be put in. Large seeds should not be watered too often before germination because they can rot in the soil. Late in November it will be time to put in Snake beans, these are tall growers and should have a trellis set up before they come up. And finally if your corn crop is up and about 10cms tall you could sow a second crop if you and your family like corn. This year I’m going to put in some peanuts and potatoes in the Brassicas bed just so it won’t be left fallow.

Plant Because we have had such cool weather soil temperatures have stayed below 16 degrees, however, warmer days and nights recently have raised soil temperatures and it is now time to plant out all the summer crops. (Some of us have snuck a few seedlings in already.) Seedlings to go in now are tomatoes, capsicum, eggplant, lettuce, cucumbers, basil, tarragon, water melon, rock melon, honey dew melons, pumpkins and zucchinis.

Harvest There are still oranges, grapefruits, lemons, kumquats, mandarins, blood oranges and citrons on our trees although this will probably be the last pick because the trees are also covered in blossom and tiny fruits, so taking the ripe fruit off helps the tree to hold on to more the young fruit that is forming. The artichoke harvest is almost over, there are now only a few small flowers left and we like to keep some because they are so spectacular when they are allowed to bloom fully. The record pea harvest is also almost over with only a few left to dry for next year’s seed. The only new fruit is the Loquat and I am so looking forward to them being ripe enough to pick. The Loquat tree is only young so there are only about 6 fruits on the tree so lucky for me my husband doesn’t really like them. In the veggie garden there are lettuces, silver beet, leeks, celery, English spinach, kale, capsicums, chillies, asparagus, rhubarb, Florence fennel, carrots and snow peas.

Tackle this if you haven’t already got your lawn ready for summer you’re not too late! It’s a good time to lay a new lawn but do make sure you have prepared the soil before. If you have an established lawn then now is a great time to take out any weeds still there from winter, fork any yellowy looking patches, water thoroughly then water with a wetting solution and water that in well. Mowing doesn’t need to be too low in summer but does need to be frequent. Check irrigation systems because ants can sometimes block pipes and sprinkler heads and as always water deeply not frequently, twice weekly is adequate for most garden situations. Native plants, succulents, roses and other well established trees and shrubs only need to be watered once per week. Vegetables of course being live fast die young plants need to be watered more frequently. Keep deadheading roses. While the weather is still mild use oil spray on any plants being attacked by scale. Ants climbing up trunks are a good indicator that there are scale insects attacking your tree or shrub. All stone fruit trees especially peaches set far more fruit than the tree can carry and many need to be removed to improve fruit size and quality and as not to over stress the tree. Indoor plants have just been through the hardest time of the year, these tropical plants don’t fare well during our winters so repotting and cleaning their leaves will help to rejuvenate them for the summer. If you haven’t already done so put in some Petunias or some Calibrachoas, these are like small Petunias and they grow beautifully either as a ground cover or in hanging baskets.

The last word In gardens it’s not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is they don’t realize it’s happening. It just happens! Costa Georgiadis

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This month our educators did a cultural training in Northam where we learnt ways to make our centre more diverse. It was very informative and we learnt a lot.

The children have been busy making Halloween decorations for our room. It is a time of year we always enjoy and we have a Halloween themed sensory tray planned which involves slime and plastic creepy crawlies which we’re sure they will love!

We have been focussing on having respect for living things by planting seeds and caring for them and our next theme, based on the children's interests, is going to be farm animals. We will have mat sessions where we have discussions, and do some craft to make some animals that the children can proudly display.

This month we did a drop off of the donations we received for SAFE and A1 dog rescue. Thank you to everyone in the community who donated. We are still taking donations of dog/cat food, blankets, etc. We have a basket out on the front verandah at 3 Murphy Street for dropping off donations. All donations are greatly appreciated.

Quairading Photo Club

Written by Russell Stacey

October Competition Subject: “Industrial” GOLD (17) Russell Stacey

SILVER (11) Gene Stone

BRONZE (9) Russell Stacey & (9) Gene Stone

Last month’s subject was INDUSTRIAL. The first thing that I thought of that would make a award winning pic would be on a grey overcast day, you take a pic of a massive heap of black toxic polluting smoke coming out of a chimney at a chemical plant, leading onto a conversation about climate change, holes in the ozone layer and just how long is it before our planet climates and weather patterns exponentially spiral out of control. However like most of the competition subjects you can always find a simplistic pic right here in Quairading, that will work just fine. We have 100’s of Industrial type photo opportunities with all our farming machinery, that have sprockets, cogs, gears, chains etc to make those thingys do what they do. We also have building structures that are Industrial, like the farmer owned massive Quairading CBH complex. We only had 4 pics entered in the October competition and the subject of INDUSTRIAL was one of those subjects that was a flop. When there is minimal pics entered in our competition, this can be a decisive moment in our competition where members advance ahead and cannot be surpassed on the points board. However we did have members enter pics in the Quairading Show with our gurus Geoff & Janet coordinating the exhibition.

I have attained the prestigious bragging rights of winning the best overall photograph at this year’s show, that was a black and white pic of a old wooden wagon wheel. I have been told by experts and have myself adopted what is the Rissole Rule of Photography. The experts pleaded with photographers on a photo shoot “to make your photography more creative and more importantly, if you are going to take a pic and then not discuss the story of why you took a pic with others or even to yourself then you are wasting your time taking a pic in the first place”. So the story about my prize winning pic to add to the critique of this wagon wheel is that in May this year I was visiting South Australia and I located the place of residence where my 4th great grandparents lived in the town called Melrose. These 4th great grandparents were the first Staceys to immigrate from England to Australia & my 4th great grandad’s job was to transport goods using a wagon pulled by Bullocks or Horses. At this residence there was a old wooden wagon in the back yard & I took pics of the wagon and then concentrated on taking pics of the rear wooden wheel. I later would enhance the patina of the wagon wheel and changed the pic to be Black & White. I enquired but it is a unknown mystery if this wooden wagon wheel may have been from the same wagon owned by my 4th great grandad. If it was the same, I ponder over, what he would have said if he was told that circa 125 years later this wagon wheel would win best overall photograph at the Quairading Show in the year 2022 and the pic was taken by his 4th Great Grandson with a 12 S Apple mobile phone. This pic can evoke a general conversation of, imagine if someone told my 4th great grandparents over 125 years ago that in the year 2022 a road train rig can cart 50 tonne have 50 wheels with a 500 horsepower engine, and OH my lord they can be driven by females in a airconditioned cab with travel speeds being 100 km/h ,travelling a distance up to 500 kilometres a day.

Back to our photo club pics, we have a new kid in town who has joined the photo club, Aron is a surgeon when it comes to how to operate a camera and also do post photo production processing using a computer to enhance pics. His level of photography is well above the standard of our Quairading photo club members. Aron has been a professional photographer in Perth, he has shown us some of the pics he has taken of cars, models etc & his stories to go with each photo are really interesting. We also looked at on the big TV screen pics of birds he had photographed in the bush adjacent the south end of McLennan street . We were all gobsmacked at the quality of his pics and also found it so interesting that the birds he photographed were actually photographed in the bush adjacent Quairading townsite, as we didn’t recognise some of the birds. Whilst on the subject of taking pics in the Quairading Bush we have had recently a wildflower photography workshop organised by the Quairading CRC with a professional photographer coming from the city. What was really interesting on this outing was exploring to find minuscule orchid flowers scattered through the bush at the Cemetery and also at the Nature Reserve adjacent the Golf course and to then research what they are named. I am now much more wiser about lots of different wildflowers that grow in Quairading. Of a point of interest about naming things, I have discovered that nobody seems to know what the word NOOKAMINNIE means. It’s little things like this that make a photoshoot with people from the city just that little bit more interesting. After the day photo shoot there was at night time an Astro Photo shoot held at Lake Mears. These days are very interesting and it was great to have this local opportunity. At the following Photo Club meeting our learning area was discussing what I had learnt at this photoshoot and the finer points of how to take pics of wildflowers and ways to improve what you already knew. The main point was getting your focus point sorted, shoot on high shutter speed to prevent blurry wildflower pics when there is a slight breeze moving the wildflower & don’t step on a rare flower, it’s a $ 2000 fine.

Our next Photo Club venture will be taking pics for the November subject which is Leading Lines, the concept of this is, that it is a style of photography, your pic has to have lines in it. Your pic then has to tell a story, of things like, where are those leading lines are going, what are they pointing towards, where will they stop, how far to they go before they vanish, etc, etc, but your pic then still has to be a good photo to get votes in the competition or you might as well burn it. Leading Lines is also in other towns show day photography competitions a class that you can enter in. I am looking forward to seeing some great pics at our next meeting of pics of the disused railway lines tracks from Quairading leading in a pointed direction towards the Kwinana Port, which will evoke a discussio , of what once was, Once Upon A Time A Long Time Ago ???? Next month’s learning area is taking motion pics and blurred motion pics by Geoff. Here is our reminder if you would like to come to our meetings please come along, just rock up. We meet at 7pm once a month on the 2nd Tuesday at the Quairading CRC. You can join our facebook group by searching Quairading Photo Club. Next month’s subject is “LEADING LINES”.

Anglican Church (St Faith’s)

Harris Street

November in the Parish of St Faith’s, Quairading

As this coming Sunday, 30 October, is the 5th Sunday of the month, parishioners of St Faith’s Church Quairading will be joining parishioners of Beverley, Brookton, York and Northam for a Service at 10am at St John’s Church, Northam. The Revd. Canon Dr Philip Raymont will lead the combined service. A “bring and share” meal will follow. All welcome.

Service of Thanksgiving & Remembrance: At the service on Sunday, 6th November thanks will be given for the lives of the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day) and those killed in war (Remembrance Day) as we look forward with anticipation and thankfulness for the fruits of the forthcoming harvest (Lammastide).

Feast of St Hilda: An opportunity for members of the Church and those associated with St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls in the Avon Valley to gather for worship in memory of St Hilda of Whitby will take place on Wednesday, 9th November at St Mark’s Church, Brookton and Tuesday, 22nd November at Holy Trinity Church, York

Christ the King and Advent Sunday: These two days represent the last Sunday and the first Sunday in the Christian Calendar.

St Andrew’s Day: A service to celebrate the dedication of the church at Greenhills to St Andrew will take place at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday, 27th November.

SERVICES FOR NOVEMBER:

St Faith’s Church, Quairading Sunday, 6th November 9.00 a.m. Service of Remembrance & Thanksgiving Sunday, 13th November 9.00 a.m. Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost Morning Prayer Saturday, 19th November 5.30 p.m. Feast of Christ the King Eucharist Sunday, 27th November 9.00 a.m. Advent Sunday Morning Prayer

St Andrew’s Church, Greenhills Sunday, 27th November 5.30 p.m. Feast of St Andrew & Advent Sunday - Eucharist

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1st All Saints

2nd All Souls

9th The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

St Elisabeth of Hungary

Presentation of the Blesses Virgin Mary 30th St Andrew, Apostle

Uniting Church

BK Tel 9061 1094 (Tues to Sat); SX Tel 9049 1049 (Sun to Mon); Email: brucerockparish@gmail.com; Facebook: Francis Mary Concepta Sacrament

As we come to the end of the Church year, Jesus continues tell stories that highlight the ways He would like Christians to behave. In Luke chapter 17 He tells us we need faith, which the disciples feel the lack of, Jesus says even with a small amount big things can happen, The disciples were wondering when the kingdom of God would come but Jesus says first He must suffer, and be rejected. When it did come it would be Quick and people be doing the same things as they always have done. The stories continue in Ch 18 the Widow who would not give up and the man who ran out of bread. Jesus must have known that sometimes we can get weary but we should be persistent and not give up. Then He told about the tax collector and Pharisee and the way they prayed. Really its not what they prayed but how they felt . one was high and mighty the other down in the dumps and pleading for mercy. It maybe saying to us we are all equal, and need Gods forgiveness. After that He goes on to talk about His need to suffer for all.

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November Birthdays

2nd Alexandra Edwards, Kinleigh Lubach

3rd Robyn (D) Kevill

4th Kaye Wishart, Lynette Greenwood

5th Aliesha Squiers

6th Lindsay Johnston, Lyndsay Greenwood, Terryle Bartlett

7th Craig Johnson

10th Brett Johnston

12th Richard Walker

14th Greg Barr

16th Darren Marnham, Anthony Pritchard

18th Michelle Hayes, Bonnie Stacey, Connor Richards

19th Vanessa Stone, Cameron Pritchard

20th Jessica Whyte

21st Mick Grage

22nd Colin Stacey, Lester Bennell, Alysha Marsh, Caleb Passmore

24th Damian Priest

25th Jessica Hayes, Geoff Pritchard

26th Kelly Wells, Nicole Squiers

27th Kristy Colbung, Emma Berry

28th Lauren Hayes

29th Lester Strickland

30th Joshua Cosgrove

Meals at Home Roster—November 2022

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