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ANTHONY RADFORD Group Editor How many hours would you spend each week using social media?

editor Andrea Coates

I spend too many hours on social media, especially if you ask my family! Twitter is my obvious, and most dangerous, obsession, and facebook keeps me in touch with friends and family. Twitter is a great way for our readers to tell us their thoughts, and engage with us in discussions. @weeklyeditor

production editor Steve Kendall style editor Katarina McNeill creative director Dustin Schilling

Have you ever been for a ride on the Bendigo talking tram?

Having four kids I am a regular on the talking tram. It is a great asset to Bendigo, but I would like to see it developed into a more modern tourist attraction. It has been the same for too long. If anyone wants my thoughts, contact me through the Bendigo Magazine.

What is your favourite thing to do in Bendigo during spring?

graphic designer Samantha Allen Bendigo is at its best in spring. Soccer, footy and brilliant weather. It also means cricket is just around the corner. The city is beautiful over the next three or so months, so I will head out to the garden and into Rosalind Park and Canterbury Park with the kids.

JAYDEN EDWARDS Tech Head How many hours would you spend each week using social media?

Way too many. I’ll always have the iPad with me while watching the telly and the phone is always within reach if i’m out and about.

The Voice or Big Brother is always more fun when you’ve got a constant stream of wisecracking tweets at your fingertips.

Have you ever been for a ride on the Bendigo talking tram?

No I don’t think so, but i do remember having a birthday party on the McDonalds Party Tram when i was a kid. All I remember was a giant drink container full of cordial and an ice cream cake. What else do you need! Best. Birthday. Ever.

style coordinator Rhylee Elliott marketing and advertising Lyn Chapman on 0414 393 538 Katarina McNeill on 0429 885 022 writers Ben Cameron, Erin Delahunty, Curt Dupriez, Vicki Harrington, Sarah Harris, Geoff Hocking, John Holton, Colin King, Ash McAuliffe, Mary Pomfret, Raelee Tuckerman, Steve Kendall, Megan Spencer, Tania Ryan and Katarina McNeill contributors Tim Baxter, Bryan Coghlan, Kylie Freer, Ashley Raeburn, Justin McPhail, Jayden Edwards and Chris DeAraugo photography Terri Basten, David Field, Andrew Perryman, Anthony Webster, Vicki Harrington, Sally Stoel and Rebecca Gray Work Experience Rosie Hartney & Chontelle Morrison print manager Nigel Quirk distribution co-ordinator Bendigo Distribution Services

What is your favourite thing to do in Bendigo during spring?

GROUP EDITOR Anthony Radford

Grab a bunch of mates and head to Crook Street park for a barbecue if the weather’s good. We’re all supposed to bring a different snack to share, but everyone always brings a pack of chips.

publisher Bendigo Publishing

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Phone (03) 5444 5868 Fax (03) 5444 4313 PO Box 324 Bendigo VIC 3552 172 McIvor Rd Bendigo VIC 3550

Writer How many hours would you spend each week using social media?

This magazine is printed using vegetable based inks on an elemental chlorine free paper.

Sourced using sustainable forestry practices and manufactured using the ISO 14001 environmental management systems.

Oh dear. How many hours are there in a week? As a self-confessed social media junkie and iPhone addict, I am pretty much constantly connected to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Google +.

I’d conservatively estimate that I ‘actively’ use it for at least a couple of hours a day, so up to 15 hours a week. But I’m being conservative...

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Have you ever been for a ride on the Bendigo talking tram?

With a four-year-old obsessed with all-things motorised, I am more familiar with the talking tram than I care to admit. I’ve been many times and it’s always the top of the list when we have visitors from out of town too.

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What is your favourite thing to do in Bendigo during spring?

Taking my two sons to the many amazing playgrounds in Bendigo after months of being cooped up inside.

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While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this publication, the publishers accept no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions or resultant consequences including any loss or damage arising from reliance on information in this publication. The views expressed are not necessarily endorsed by the editor or the publisher.

Spring is in the air! Can you feel it? For what has felt like a particularly cold and dismal winter in Bendigo it is so lovely to see the sun shining, feel a little warmth and enjoy the longer days with family and friends. For me, the new season also comes with a kickstart of motivation.

It’s time to get back into outdoors exercising which I really miss over the cooler months and I’m always one for a traditional spring clean – leaving me feeling refreshed and organised leading into the last part of the year. Spring also coincides with two of my favourite sporting events. I’m fortunate enough to hold a MCC membership which sees me head along to the AFL Grand Final at the MCG (‘carn the Pies) and it’s the spring racing carnival. Being a girly girl, nothing excites me more than sourcing a fascinator, dress and heels from some of the amazing clothing retailers we have right here in Bendigo – check out our fashion pages from pg 114 for all of your spring carnival fashion needs.

What is the opposite of a ‘green thumb’ in the gardening sense? Whatever you might call it, that would be me. I don’t have a gardening bone in my body (other than an appreciation for receiving a bunch of flowers) and could learn plenty from those who tend our community gardens here in Bendigo. This issue we meet those who work together to experience a greater sense of community, add beauty to the local area, provide a place for people from all ages and walks of life to come together and of course provide some stunning flowers and produce – read from page 53 for more information.

Have you jumped aboard the social media bandwagon? I know that I certainly have. Between tweeting, instagraming and facebooking the latest happenings in magazine-land I also try to keep my own personal accounts up to date. It can be quite time consuming… not to mention addictive. We get to know some of the movers and shakers of the social media world here in Bendigo who share their news, views, inspiration and social engagement with their followers from page 30. Feel free to encourage my addiction and follow me on twitter (@AndieCoates) and instagram (AndieCoates) .

With Remembrance Day being marked on November 11, we thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to gain an insight into the lives of some of our very own local war veterans.

Reading this is an opportunity to reflect on those who passed away or served our country in all wars and armed conflicts. I grew up across the road from Victor Cahill who served with the Royal Australian Air Force. I had always known Vic had been to war but never knew his personal story and feel very privileged that he was willing to share it with Bendigo Magazine readers from page 83.

This spring issue also coincides with the United States presidential election. What is the relevance to Bendigo you may ask? After a little research we discovered that there are a number of Bendigonians incorporating aspects of American culture in their every day lives with passion and vigour. We tumble, dance, jump and cheer with Bendigo’s own All Star Cheerleading group, we hand jive, twist and jitterbug with the Bendigo Rockin 50s RocknRoll club, share a local couple’s special day in Las Vegas, lift the bonnet on a couple of American Mustangs and meet a local fascinated by American politics – check it out from page 63.

In the spring edition of Bendigo Magazine, these great features stories are coupled with personality profiles, home inspiration, spring food and entertaining ideas as well as this season’s social events.

All you have to do is turn the pages…..

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Our glowing model Krystal is pictured on the cover of Bendigo Magazine looking bright and bubbly. She oozes spring warmth and glamour coupled with an infectious smile. Photographed

by David Field, Krystal wears Manning Cartell seashells lace dress from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane) and hat from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).

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63 Yankee doodle, just dandy

The American way.

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Collect unique plates as a souvenir of your memorable dining experience.

82 Time to remember

The anniversary of Armistice Day is November 11

74 “All the other fellas were joining up, so I did too. I think my Dad was proud I did.”

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Arts & Entertainment 58 For art’s sake 91 At the movies 93 New releases 94 B.Entertained 171 Tech head

House & Garden 165 On site 167 Home solutions

Business 172 New business

People 39 43 47 49 51

The graduate Why Bendigo?

My favourite things Success story A worthy cause

Food & Wine 97 101 103 105 107

Home grown A nice drop Brewed From the foodie Chef’s choice

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Life 53 Be a part of this 71 Bendigo memories 79 Bendigo landmark 108 Petit pixel 145 Cute kids 153 Mum says 155 Chris says 157 A man’s word 158 Feature brides 161 Bendigo brides 169 Cute pets 175 Travelogue 178 Cogho’s couch 179 Sporting extreme 182 Test drive

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We love to hear your thoughts and feelings about Bendigo Magazine – as it is YOUR magazine. Please drop us a line, via post, email, our website, Facebook or Twitter and tell us what you love or what you think should be included.

Hi Andrea and Kat, Andrea, what a marvellous June issue of the Bendigo Magazine. Once again huge congratulations to you and your team. It was a joy to read.

Thank you both for an amazing spread of what MonaLisa has to offer Bendigo girls this winter. Your models in the magazine are gorgeous!

Thank you again!

Marnie MonaLisa Bendigo

Hi Andrea, The word that comes to mind after reading through the winter edition on the weekend... is wow!

Can I congratulate you on the great improvement to the magazine since you have been editor... keep up the passion, enthusiasm and consequent great work. The article on page 40 applies to you...an outstanding young leader.

Keep at it... it is ok to make a difference and make your mark on something (in this case the Bendigo Magazine).

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Chris DeAraugo My kids are the Cutest! page 145! — with Stacey Castle and Bendigo Mag. Bianca Dellavedova This is my beautiful daughter Jorja Ruby in the fabulous Bendigo Mag issue 27. Thank you Kat McNeill for the opportunity Shay Tresize

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tweets! #Bendigo Followers make sure you grab the winter issue of my sister @AndieCoates and her team’s issue of @BendigoMagazine a great read! @Miss_H_Coates Hayley Coates @BendigoMagazine Absolutely, best way to see what all the locals are up to. Love flicking thru pages with a hot cuppa on a cold night@ GossipGirl_Bgo Gossip Girl Bendigo @iheartbendigo Couldn’t agree more! @BendigoMagazine is a fantastic positive vehicle to promote the city & WILL bring more people on board @BIG4BENDIGO BIG4 Bendigo @justinrhys What did you do to the folks at @BendigoMagazine? Only two photos in this issue? That’s at least a 50% decrease from last issue! @melcashen Melinda

Good morning Andrea, Hope you had a beautiful long weekend.

I just wanted to say how wonderful I think this issue of the Bendigo Magazine is, well done to you all, fantastic articles, great pictures and fashion.

It was such a great result for us to have the write up of the B-Class, and thanks once again for the photo opportunity on Page 81 for our launch, we really appreciate it.

Look forward to catching up soon,

Loving the edition of @BendigoMagazine very nice to have our special day included! @SEABL @Bendigo_Braves @KevinProbertSMA Kevin Probert SMA

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SPRING SENSATIONS As the weather warms up there is plenty on offer in the Bendigo region including the spring racing carnival, wine and food festivals as well as markets. So why not head outdoors and immerse yourself in all that our city has to show.

Heathcote Wine and Food Festival

Gemarama September 8 – 9 Bendigo Gem Club’s annual exhibition, Gemarama 2012, will be held on Saturday, September 8 from 10am to 5pm and Sunday, September 9 from 10am to 4pm at the YMCA Leisure Centre, Browning Street, Kangaroo Flat. If fossils, minerals, gems or jewels fascinate you, feast your eyes on specimens from around the world, gem cutting demonstrations and work from local artisans – all under the one roof! Bring the family, stay for a cuppa or lunch, spend the day… there’s something for everyone. Entry Adults $5, Children under 16 (accompanied by an adult) free.

For further information, contact the Bendigo Gem Club on (03) 5442 3691.

Venue: YMCA Leisure Centre, Browning Street, Kangaroo Flat

October 6 – 7 The festival provides opportunity to taste wine from more than 50 producers as well as food and produce from the region. This once-a-year event gathers local wine makers to exhibit some of the most distinctive and iconic wines of the country. The Heathcote Shiraz being recognized internationally as well as nationally. Activities include wine tasting seminars, free wine tasting, delicious regional foods, live music and activities for the kids. Parking is available on the grounds, and festival buses will be running from Bendigo and Melbourne if you fancy yourself a drink. Open 10.30am to 5.30pm both days.

Tickets: Standard entry including tasting glass $30. Premium entry including premium Shiraz glass $45.

Venue: Heathcote Agricultural Showgrounds, Cnr Chauncey and Caldwell Streets, Heathcote Visit: www.heathcotewines.org

2012 Bendigo Fashion Festival September 9 – 26 The 6th Bendigo Fashion Festival kicks off this year with a Taste of Spring Raceday and fashion preview at the Bendigo Jockey Club.

This year’s festival is jam packed full of fashion fun that includes: In store activities at Bendigo Marketplace and Bendigo Down Town, a designer showcase at The Conservatory, The Bendigo Art Gallery plays host to guest speaker – internationally acclaimed artist and fashion designer Jenny Kee and after party to be held at the 18 Eighty Seven Restaurant at Bendigo Tafe to celebrate the end of what will be another show-stopping festival.

For more information visit www.bendigofashionfestival.com or www.facebook.com/BendigoFashionFestival

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Until October 28 Bendigo Agricultural Show October 26 – 27

Celebrating 150 years: Rail in Bendigo and the Bendigo Brass Band Post Office Gallery, 51-67 Pall Mall. www.bendigoartgallery.com.au

The Bendigo Agricultural Show Society was founded in 1859 and hosts the Agricultural Show every year for the Bendigo community.

The event attracts nearly 20,000 people every year. The show displayed Bendigo’s best local livestock and produce, as well as many other attractions for all ages. The rides and show bags prove irresistible to kids, as does the petting areas, where children are able to get up close and personal to livestock. It makes a great event for the whole family. Tickets available at the gate.

Contact the Agricultural Society or visit the website at a later date for ticketing prices.

September 8

Venue: Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Holmes Road

10am to 4pm, Bendigo Town Hall, 189193 Hargreaves St. www.thesquarebendigo.typepad.com

Visit: www.bendigoshow.org.au

2012 Jayco Bendigo Cup October 31 The Cup is one of the biggest events on Bendigo’s social calendar, and is set to be an exciting day in the heat of the Spring Racing Carnival. Bestowed a public holiday in Bendigo, the Cup receives an enormous turnout, with everyone taking advantage of the day off, the weather and the atmosphere of the event. There is a Fashion on the Fields for those style lovers, which usually encourages a huge turnout. The Cup also accommodates for young racegoers, providing an Enclosure, as well as all ages with live music and fine dining. Packages are available for the day.

Tickets: Adults $25, Concession $20, Children 15 and under (accompanied by an adult) free.

Venue: Bendigo Jockey Club, Heinz Street, White Hills Visit: www.bendigo.countryracing.com.au

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

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October 26 – 27 Bendigo Agricultural Show

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September 15

The Square – Bendigo’s Handmade Market

September 22

Chinese Harvest Moon Festival 6pm to 7.30pm, Dai Gum San Precinct, 5-11 Bridge Street. www.goldendragonmuseum.org

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November 2 – 5 Mildura Jazz, Food and Wine Festival. www.artsmildura.com.au/jazz

November 3 Eaglehawk Cultural and Community Festival Eaglehawk Secondary College, Bright Street, Eaglehawk - eaglehawkcommunityhouse@ impulse.net.au

November 4 Bendigo Bank Fun Run 2012

Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica

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September 26

Going Solo 1st retrospective works of local, Amber Sansom

Shannon Noll – A Million Suns Tour Capital Theatre, View Street (03) 5434 6100 www.thecapital.com.au

October 6 – 7

Heathcote Wine and Food Festival Heathcote Agriculture Showgrounds www.heathcotewines.org

October 13 – 14

Bendigo Wealth Heritage Uncorked Various venues around Bendigo.

For more information visit: www.bendigowine.org.au

17 October

Cancer Support Group Forum 9am – 3:30pm at The Bendigo Club Call (03) 5441 6850 for more information.

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November 15 Simon Tedeschi and Ian Coooer Capital Theatre, View Street (03) 5434 6100 www.thecapital.com.au

November 17 - 18 2012 Bendigo National Swap Meet Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Homes Road. www.bendigoswap.com.au

November 25 Mark Vincent and Alana Conway Live 3.30pm, Sacred Heart Cathedral, 66 Short Street.

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From the latest in hair and beauty to building your dream home – here we find out the latest happenings around town.

The team at Provincial Home Living have crafted an inspiring collection of homewards, with furniture, to transform your home into an escape from your everyday hustle and bustle. A place where you can relax in the warmth of your surroundings. The Provincial team believe your home can be a place that evokes pride and passion, as well as a place that invites relaxation and harmony.

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WE PUT YOU FIRST Tweed Sutherland First National has been serving in the Bendigo area since 1976 and is still independently owned and operated by its original owner and director Craig Tweed, along with fellow directors, Darryn O’Keefe, Matt Leonard, Andrew Pearce and Cameron Tweed.

In 1986 the company appointed its first property manager. Today, to cope with the rapidly expanding property management portfolio our team consists of Nathan Ludeman (team manager), Yolena Hutton, Jodi Carlyon, Tamara Coote and Nicole Ashman (senior property managers) and Emma Morison, Erin Bourke, Kristy Arnold, Nikki Masson and Shelley Euvrard (assistant managers). We also have a furnished department consisting of Nathan Ludeman and Shelley Jackson.

The property management team at Tweed Sutherland First National pride themselves on solutions and satisfaction to your needs. The team will provide you with: • an assessment of current market rental of your property • you will deal directly with your own portfolio managers • free advertising

• unlimited inspections to find the best tenants • thorough checking of applications and references with database checks • completion of lease agreements with tenants to make them aware of all rights and responsibilities.

• a detailed condition report of the exterior and interior of your property • collection of bonds for all leased properties • continuing rental collection of tenant payments • supplying easy to read monthly or twice monthly statements by email or post

Specialising in new homes, units and renovations, local award winning builder, John Buckell established his business in the Bendigo area way back in 1990 and is celebrating over 20 years of building in the local area. John is proud to utilise locally based sub-contractors and suppliers within his business and chooses only those who provide quality workmanship and quality products. John oversees all building projects personally and believes that building a house should be a stress free and enjoyable time for his clients - “if the client is happy, then so are we” explains John.

John Buckell Homes are located at 29 McDowalls Road East Bendigo and can be contacted on (03) 5444 3717, 0419 354 270 or www.johnbuckellhomes.com.au

• the team offer a 24 hour seven days a week after hours urgent repair line for tenants with urgent maintenance items • details and easy to read routine inspection reports, first after three months then every six months onwards • serving notice to vacate to problem tenants and carrying out procedures of eviction when necessary with the VCAT For all of your property management needs, visit the committed team at Tweed Sutherland First National at 52 Mitchell Street Bendigo, call them on (03) 5440 9500 or visit their website at www.tsfn.com.au

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PURA VEEDA There have been some exciting changes happening at Pura Veeda. The girls are now available for all your hair and beauty needs every Monday. That’s six days a week for you to come and enjoy the Pura Veeda experience, including our late night appointments on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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With the recent launch of the ground breaking new De Lorenzo product, Colour Accelerator, clients have been scrambling to get their appointments. This innovative new product allows your colour to process in as little as 10 minutes, all while enhancing tonality, luminosity and coverage. It provides optimum shine and vitality and it leaves the hair less damaged after coloring. Plus you get longer out of your colour with reduced fadeout from shampooing and sun exposure.

Imagine having your colour done in your lunch break or before work? The possibilities are endless.

Nominations have just been announced for the ASPYA Salon of the Year awards and Pura Veeda has again been nominated. An awards night to announce the winner will be held on the Gold Coast in September. Keep your fingers crossed for us. WATCH THIS SPACE!

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Pura Veeda Hair & Body is located at 47 Bull Street Bendigo and can be contacted on (03) 5443 6651.

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The results you can expect to see from SIPL skin rejuvenation are simply amazing, whether your concerns be pigmentation, capillary damage, pre-mature aging, or all three – the team at Brazilian Beauty will have you covered. Using the newest generation of technology, this procedure emits controlled intense pulses of light to the upper layers of the skin while at the same time delivering beneficial thermal energy to the deeper layers. This pulsed light treatment is a results-driven treatment, in which we target your areas of concern to help bring you the best results possible.

Offering complimentary consultations to discuss a treatment plan suitable for you, the team at Brazilian Beauty will go that extra mile to ensure you look and feel fabulous.

Brazilian Beauty Bendigo are located at Shop 23, Fountain Court. You can call the team on (03) 5443 8855, email them bendigo@brazilianbeauty.com.au or visit the website www.brazilianbeauty. com.au

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Bendigo’s leading turf supply company Coolabah Turf is turning 10. And to celebrate – business owners Brad and Suzie Shearer are giving away enough green grass to give your whole neighbourhood a facelift.

The Malmsbury township has a long history of looking after weary travellers en route to the Castlemaine and Bendigo goldfields since the 1850s. In 1987 Jan Grant created the Malmsbury Bakery and Gallery to continue the town’s proud tradition.

Coolabah Turf’s ‘Turf the Street’ promotion will enable a group of up to 10 adjoining property owners (not less than five consecutive front yards) to team up and pitch for the opportunity to win a truck load of Australia’s number one selling residential turf grass variety, Sir Walter Soft Leaf Buffalo.

Entrants will need to demonstrate why they deserve to have not just the best looking lawn in the street, but why they want to be crowned the best looking street in the town.

The winning entrant will be subject to strict site preparation conditions and must agree to invest in an automated irrigation system to ensure they protect the long term landscape investment of all parties. The winning entrant may be eliminated and be deemed ineligible if Coolabah Turf management perceive inadequate site preparation.

The prize will be limited to a maximum of 50m2 per house and must be installed in the front yard of the consecutive winning properties.

If you would like to be in the running to win this great grass prize, check out terms and conditions and details for how to enter on the Coolabah Turf website: www. coolturf.com.au or phone the Echuca Lawn Shop – 1800 0 55515 to get the low down on how to green your space!

Bosisto’s celebrates 100 percent Aussie-owned Bosisto’s ‘Parrot’ Brand Eucalyptus Oil is celebrating its milestone 160th birthday this year.

A true natural wonder, eucalyptus oil has hundreds of versatile uses – from adding to your laundry wash for soft, fluffy woollens or in a mop bucket for sparkling floors and a fresh, clean bushland scent

This year is the Bakery’s 25th Anniversary and as part of the celebrations we will introduce a selection of deliciously wholesome goods, available online from our e-store malmsburybakeryandgallery.com.au.

“Our Dundee cake has been chosen to launch this classic range of products. It is prepared from an Old English recipe that recreates the golden crumbly texture and fruit-laden taste – one of my all-time favourite cakes,” Jan Said.

As Malmsbury Bakery and Gallery’s founder and owner, Jan Grant is well versed in the art of fine food. She made her mark in the hospitality industry producing organic squab for Melbourne restaurateurs, Jacques Reymond, Mietta, and Stefano, until she fell under Malmsbury’s spell over 25 years ago.

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The crew at Bosisto’s are giving away a special hamper to one of our lucky Bendigo Magazine readers. The gift includes Eucalyptus Spray, Oil, Steam Inhalant, Antiseptic Spray, Drops, Nasal Inhaler and Parrot. To win this prize simply email comps@bendigomagazine.com before November 20 2012.

The team at Malmsbury Bakery & Gallery are giving away a scrumptious hamper to one of our lucky readers. Simply email comps@bendigomagazine.com by October 20 for your chance to win. ■

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There’s a quiet revolution happening in Bendigo. It’s powered by community pride, humourous hashtags, enlightened opinions, witty words and retro-filtered images. And it’s all lit by the glow of an iPhone. Social media has arrived; and Bendigo is leading the charge.

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Bendigonians are joining social media networks in their thousands – turning to free programs and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for their news, views, inspiration and social engagement. Everyone from grandmas to CEOs are embracing the new world order. And as with all revolutions, there are leaders; those who bravely go forward.

Introducing Bendigo’s Twitterarti, Facebook faves and Instagram stars, including one who’s never revealed her identity … until now.

A little birdie told me Twitter: A website, usually accessed via a phone, which enables users to send “tweets”; messages of up to 140 characters to their Followers.

The woman behind of one Bendigo’s most popular and well-known Twitter accounts, @BendigoTalks, is Alisa Pratt, a relative newcomer to town and mother-of-two. Alisa, who has a background in social work, moved to Bendigo from Melbourne a little over 18 months ago, when her husband, Ray Pratt took up a senior position with Telstra. Twitter started as a way for Alisa, 34, to get to know the town. “I wanted to learn about Bendigo, where to go, what to do. I followed anything to do with Bendigo, then businesses starting following me back and I would retweet (repeat) interesting things and events. And from there, it’s taken on a life of its own.” Based on a philosophy of positivity, @ BendigoTalks, which has nearly 1800 followers, is now a definitive guide to all-things Bendigo. “The thing I love is that there’s no status on Twitter. Everyone’s opinion matters.”

By his usual trailblazing standards, City of Greater Bendigo councillor James Reade, 22, was slow to get aboard the Twitter train. “It’s a bit embarrassing really, but I’ve only been on Twitter for about 12 months, so I’m a real newbie,” says James, who was elected to Council aged just 19. “I had a misconception that Twitter was the old person’s Facebook, but that very quickly changed once I started using it; I now realise it’s the smart person’s Facebook!” says James, who tweets as @jimmy_reade. James, who happily admits to being a Twitter addict, says the platform has transformed the way he communicates. “I love the idea that I can quickly express an idea or opinion. Conversely, it’s absolutely brilliant for informationsharing.” James thinks Twitter will play a big role in local government engagement into the future. “Gone are the days that you can expect people to turn up to a meeting at night to express an opinion about something. It’s an absolutely brilliant way to gauge people’s opinions,” he says.

Bendigo tweeps to watch @belinda_moonmum; Bendigo blogger, Etsy seller, wife, motherof-two and founder of The Square Market Handmade Market, Belinda Moon tweets about her creative passions and life in general. @SteveGibbonsMP; The Federal Member for Bendigo, Steve Gibbons, never shies away from sharing his opinion, and it’s no different on Twitter.

For passionate beer advocate, Justin McPhail, 24, Twitter has been a source of inspiration and life-changing friendships. Justin, who was born and raised in Bendigo, has had a passion for all things hops and malt since a friend gave him a Belgian brew as an 18 year old. He joined the Twitterverse as @justinrhys more than three years ago and starting sharing images, reviews and banter about beer. The keen home brewer, who works as a product manager in the Bendigo Bank headquarters in the CBD, began tweeting with fellow beer fanatic, Trevor Birks, who, extraordinarily, worked just a few metres away, on the same floor. Shortly after, Bendigo Beer (@BendigoBeer) – a grassroots movement to foster a craft beer culture in Bendigo – was born. It’s now a big part of Justin’s life, as he and Trevor run home brew contests, beer tastings and other events to educate people about craft beer.

@AussieJesijames; Jennifer Hurrell describes herself as passionate about social justice, breastfeeding, birthing, gardening, friends and family, regional Victoria, music, books and craft.

While View Street restaurateur Simon Lock uses Twitter as a form of marketing, he sees a greater purpose for the platform. Simon, who tweets as @chefsimonsays in a personal capacity and for his restaurant @BorchelliViewSt, joined Twitter in 2010 as part of a burgeoning career as a food writer. He hoped to reach out to publishers, media outlets and other writers, but what he found was a brilliant way to engage with the local community, wider foodie world and importantly, his customers. In what can be a tough industry, Twitter has delivered realtime feedback. “People will tweet their experiences and that’s valuable information. It’s great to pass that onto my staff,” Simon, who’s been behind the stoves for 30 years, says. The father-of-three has also swapped tweets with Melbourne chefs Matt Wilkinson and Ben Shewry and even celebrity agent Max Markson. “These are people I simply wouldn’t have access to without Twitter.”

@keithkaren1; Bendigo identity Keith Sutherland is passionate about Twitter, seeing it as a vehicle for change. He tweets about the stock market, politics and local issues.

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@Davidsonbrother; Bendigo’s own Golden Guitar-winning Davidson Brothers, Lachlan and Hamish, are a big deal in country music. The bluegrass stars use Twitter to keep their fans informed. @MarikaMcMahon; Self-confessed social media junkie, OFRM partner Marika McMahon tweets about the law, women’s issues & her unhealthy obsession with Chris Judd. @Shannwakefield; A talented musician and songwriter who found relative fame with band Ruteger, Shannon Wakefield is a prolific tweeter on a variety of topics.

@bendigoweekly; The Bendigo Weekly tweets the latest news, pictures and videos and retweets other local information. @Bendigo_Mayor; Mayor Alec Sadner recently joined Twitter and while the bulk of the tweets come from City of Greater Bendigo staff, advising of his engagements, he recently started personally tweeting also. @GossipGirl Bendigo; Keeping her anonymity, Gossip Girl wants to help you promote and share your business or your message.

Tell her, and she will get the word out.

“I love the idea that I can quickly express an idea or opinion. Conversely, it’s absolutely brilliant for information sharing.”

- James Reade

From left: James Reade, Justin McPhail, Alisa Pratt and Simon Lock.

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The world in an Instagram Instagram; A photo-sharing program, allowing people to take a photo on their phone, apply a filter, then share it on all social networks, including Instagram’s own.

For stroke and brain tumour survivor, Jenneth Barry, Instagram is a window on the world. Through the picture-sharing social network, the Bendigo resident and former community health nurse remains connected to like-minded people across the globe. “After my serious stroke, travel and meeting people, my great passions, became enormous challenges. But with Instagram, I can travel again. I can sit in front of my iPad, post a picture and start a conversation. To me, it’s like sitting in a backpackers in Cape Town, talking to strangers about what they like, the food, the books. It’s about connections,” Jenneth, who has posted more than 1200 images under the username jennethb, says. A lover of cavalier dogs, Jenneth often posts images of her pooches and has made “virtual” friends with people who share her interest. “I am truly addicted to Instagram and the way it allows me to interact with people from all over the world.”

Mark Gretgrix – or Mr G as he’s known on Instagram – is a fan of all-things social media, but Instagram has captured his imagination of late. Mark, a married teacher who lives on 20 acres outside Marong, captures images of his many “fur kids”, from horses to guinea fowls and other scenes from his everyday life, including many sunsets and sunrises. “For me, Instagram takes the best part of Facebook – all the awesome photos that people take – but without the passive aggressive status updates and gaming requests,” he says. “The ability to edit your photos, add some cool effects and turn what can be an ordinary photo into something special is pretty cool,” he says. Mark, who concedes he spends “far too much time” looking at his beloved iPhone, likes to follow everyday people.

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Bendigo’s Emma Dunstone uses Instagram to share her unique perspective of the world – and to travel the globe. Emma, who is in her mid-30s, goes by the name cup_cakr and has posted close to 500 pictures. “I like that I can take a picture and upload it, so others can see things through my eyes. I also like how I can see pictures from around the world.” Emma’s currently taking part in a “pretty cool” worldwide photo-a-day challenge set up by an Aussie blogger, where users from all corners of the planet upload images and tag them with the same words, so they can be searched. “I also follow a person in London, who takes amazing shots; so much so, his pictures make me want to visit,” she says. Emma’s a fan of the in-built filters. “A photo that you think looks ‘blah’ may look great with a different filter,” she says. Some of her favourite subjects are the beach, the stunning skies above Bendigo, her beloved cat and coffee.

So hooked on Instagram is Goldmines Hotel barman Matt “Fatty” Anderson, 28, that he views everything with “Instagram eyes”.

“Everything I look at now, I think, oh, how would that look on Instagram?” he says. Fatty, as he’s affectionately known after being a “huge” kid, posted his first Instagram image from a Foo Fighters concert in December last year and he hasn’t looked back. Fatty, who goes by the username elfatness on Instagram, first heard about the platform on Facebook. “All these pictures starting popping up on Facebook and once I got into I, thought ‘this is brilliant’ and now I use Instagram as much, if not more, than Facebook,” he says. “I’m a big believer in the power of creativity and I get such a kick out of being able to make something look ridiculously good within 30 seconds and share it with people,” he says. Fatty’s four children often feature in his images, along with shots of life living and working in a pub.

Bendigo Instagrammers mochatwistdesigns; Bendigo hairdresser and photographer Lauren McIIrath shares her life GoldmineshotelBendigo; Food, music & frivolity from the popular Goldmines Hotel I_do_I_do_mag; Photo shoots and wedding ideas from local suppliers Bennyjones35; 3BO announcer Benny Jones Bendigoclub; Dinosaur parmas, renovations and other insights into the Bendigo Club Bendigomagazine; See exclusive behind-the-scenes pictures from the best mag in town onthe_bandwagon; Bendigo Beer’s Trevor Birks snaps beer, mostly Libnuttall; A peek into the life of WIN TV bureau chief Libby Nuttall

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From left: Bryley Drummond and Audrey Savage, Megan Spencer, Alex DeAraugo, Roz Effenberg, Jan Doyle and Al Shield.

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Bendigo sure Likes Facebook Facebook: A social networking site where users can add friends and post updates. Businesses can host a Page and invite people to Like them.

The owners of funky Chancery Lane café El Gordo, Oliver Budack and Megan Spencer, see social media as vital in building a vibrant community around their business. It’s a “no brainer” for Megan, who has a background in broadcasting and online communities. “My philosophy is that social media helps create a community around the business we’re building. It’s not just about money, but about a culture, which will in turn keep us afloat as a business,” Megan says.

Facebook in particular has helped the café reach a diverse audience within Bendigo and further afield. It currently has more than 500 Likers. “It’s definitely true that people will see a special posted on Facebook, then actually come in and ask for it or see that we’re hosting something and want to come in and be part of it. That’s what it’s about, engaging with our customers and having them be part of our business,” she says. www.facebook.com/elgordobendigo A small, not-for-profit group, run by older women, which produces homemade jams, jellies and chutneys may not seem a natural fit with Facebook, but the ladies of … and the red geranium are used to defying the norm. The group, which last year donated $32,000 to various community groups and projects after selling preserves, baked goods and plants at two fundraising events, has 415 Likers on Facebook. Founding member Roz Effenberg, known as “technogran” by her grandchildren after embracing social media, says the group finds Facebook a useful tool. “We felt it would be a good avenue for telling people what we’re doing. We often get people offering help via the page, so it’s very handy,” she says. Roz is joined as an administrator on the Page by Jasmine Vendargon and Jan Doyle, who also hail from a “different generation”; proof-positive that social media isn’t just a young person’s game. www.facebook.com/andthe.red.geranium Award-winning Star FM duo Al Shield and Alex DeAraugo can’t imagine doing their weekday morning show without their Facebook page, which is one of Bendigo’s most popular, with more than 7500 Likers. “Facebook has become an absolutely essential part of the way we communicate with our audience; not just for us, but for all the on-air shifts on Star FM and 3BO. It’s part of the day-to-day,” he says.

The pair uses the page to talk to their audience when they’re not on air, run competitions and to seek feedback and requests. But it’s not all crazy competitions and birthday shout-outs. “In an emergency situation, we’ve found it be a vital tool for delivering information and conversely, for people to be our eyes and ears on the ground,” Al says. “It’s a brilliant platform for us … and the race is on for 10,000 Likers!” www.facebook.com/919starfm One of the most prominent names on the Bendigo social media scene is the I Heart Bendigo blog, http://iheartbendigo.com.au, which also has a Twitter account (@Iheartbendigo) and a popular Facebook page. Mystery has surrounded the identity of the person behind the whole concept, billed as “the unofficial guide to Bendigo”. Bendigo magazine can reveal that local communications consultant Bryley Drummond, who moved to Bendigo from Melbourne in November 2010, is that person. After initially being “somewhat reluctant” about a prospective move to Bendigo with her husband, mother-of-one Bryley says she was amazed with the reality of living here. “This is a beautiful, wonderful city, with loads to offer, where it’s 15 minutes to everywhere. I started the blog and other social media pages to create a positive forum for the city. I wanted to know where to get a great coffee, what cafes are open for breakfast on a Sunday… and it grew from there,” she says. Bryley has been astounded by the response to date, with more 5000 hits on the blog in the last six months. On Facebook, close to 400 Likers follow exactly what’s happening both on the blog and in Bendigo. www.facebook.com/iheartbendigo

“We felt it would be a good avenue for telling people what we’re doing. We often get people offering to help via the page, so it’s very handy.”

- Roz Effenberg, The Red Geranium.

Facebook Pages to Like www.facebook.com/huhabendigo; More than 8000 people Like nightclub Huha’s page, which is famous for its photo galleries of revellers. www.facebook.com/BendigoMarket; Bendigo Community Farmers’ Market fans can keep in the loop about upcoming markets, read producer profiles, get gardening tips and more. www.facebook.com/bendigo.Cinemas; Information about session times, upcoming movies and special deals at Bendigo Cinemas make this Page essential for movie buffs. www.facebook.com/hotelshamrock; The grand old lady of Bendigo is moving with the times, posting about what’s happening at the hotel. www.facebook.com/BendigoArtGallery; The official page of the Bendigo Art Gallery provides behind-the-scenes insights as well as information about current and upcoming exhibitions. www.facebook.com/pages/Bendigo-Social-Littlebutterflies/158646930867730; Social Little Butterflies shares information about events, playgroups, concerts and other activities for kids in Bendigo. www.facebook.com/discovery.bendigo; Fascinating science facts, what’s happening in the skies and lots of other geeky goodness can be found on the Discovery Centre’s page. www.facebook.com/ExploreBendigo; While this page, which provides up-to-date information about everything Bendigo has to offer, is primarily aimed at tourists, it is useful for locals too. www.facebook.com/hudsonshub; The page for Hudsons Hub, a Bendigo art gallery which stocks contemporary pop art, pop surrealism and underground art, is as quirky as the shop itself. www.facebook.com/pages/BendigoWholefoods/107479002628782; A virtual smorgasbord of information about the Lyttleton Terrace green grocer, recipes, tips and more.

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David joss The CEO of Community Telco Australia and director of the Bendigo Football Club balances his faced paced professional life by enjoying time with his proudest achievements – wife Jodie and children, Maddi, Emma and Riley.

Photographer: Richard Gibbs

David, what degree did you complete at La Trobe Bendigo? Why did you enroll to study that particular course and did you have a set career goal in mind at the time of applying?

I completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing) degree in 1991. I always felt that a business related field would suit me best, however I also knew that technology was certainly going to play a big part in our lives moving forward (remembering this was in the days before PCs were in every home).

So, I pursued an IT degree with business related minors, such as Economics and Corporate Law. I didn’t really have a career goal in mind at the time, more an idea of the direction that I wanted to head in.

You are now CEO of Community Telco Australia, what does this role entail?

As CEO, I am fortunate to have a very diverse and challenging role that brings together my interests in the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) sector and my passion for assisting communities around Australia by aggregating telecommunications and sharing profits with the communities from which they originated.

As the business grows, I find that my focus is concentrated more on strategy, planning and people. However I love to get out to our local business and spend time with our customers, understanding how we can help them with the challenges that their businesses and communities may face.

In what ways has your degree and study at university assisted you in your current job role?

My degree set me on a pathway that I am still on. Although I am no longer ‘on the tools’ from a technical perspective, I am certainly working in the business of technology.

We are constantly looking at innovative technical solutions that we can take to market, so having a technical background allows me to participate in the innovation process at all levels.

I also love local sport and am a Director of the Bendigo Football Club in the VFL. Structured sport is very important in engaging youth.

What is your best memory from your years of study at La Trobe?

I learnt a lot from some great lecturers, but I also made lifelong friends; many of whom have relocated back to Bendigo over the years and who I remain close to today. We certainly had, and still have, great times.

What are your interests outside of work?

If you could do your time over what piece of advice would you give your student self?

I have a beautiful wife and three wonderful children whose support enables me to travel and work in such a demanding role. As such, I try to give them as much time back as I can outside of work.

Moving from Deniliquin to live on campus in Bendigo as an 18 year old meant that I certainly had a great time, but I would advise myself to focus a bit more on the books earlier in my degree (just a little bit). ■

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Breast Intentions This latest womeni.s.e event was held at St John of God with the aim to provide insights and education into ‘women’s business.’

With a focus on breast health there were representatives from Breastscreen, Radiology and the Glenn McGrath Foundation on hand to give advice and information to women on how to look after themselves.■

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From the classroom to the Senate may seem a big leap, but Bendigo-based Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie is taking it in her stride.

Writer: Steve Kendall - Photographer: Andrew Perryman Bridget McKenzie is a dyed in the wool Nationals member. She joined the party at 18 and now represents Victoria in the Senate, a position she has held since the end of last year.

This north-east Victorian has her electoral office in Bendigo, placing her at the centre of the state, and also at the heart of all things Bendigo. “There are so many other places I could have chosen,” Senator McKenzie said.

“The Great Ocean Road, Wilson’s Prom, but I chose Bendigo.”

Bridget said in terms of a regional city, Bendigo has it all. “We have the diversity of its local economy, manufacturing and agriculture, we’ve got education and health, and we’ve got retail.

“Everything that’s happening in every regional town throughout the nation is happening here in this space. Bendigo is actually, geographically the centre of my universe as Senator for Victoria.”

“We actually sat down and thought it out, Senator for Victoria, a National – my whole

focus is regional Victoria. So we though where do we put ourselves, where do we concentrate. Someone else can do the urban stuff.”

Bridget said the team said the choice of location had to be a place where they could gauge and learn from the people, as well as advocate for. The answer was Bendigo.

Bridget is a high country cattleman’s granddaughter, so has her roots firmly in regional Victoria, I asked if this was a prerequisite for a Nationals Senator. “It’s not in the constitution,” Bridget said in a very direct answer.

No nonsense is perhaps a good way to describe her. Her background and qualifications in maths and science, as well as teaching, have resulted in a straight-talking direct person. No danger of not knowing her view on a subject. “If you are going to represent something, you have to be a part of it,” Bridget said in reference to locating her office in Bendigo. “Whether you’re running for local council, or for the Senate.”

Bridget said she wants to reflect the challenges of a regional city in the Sentate.

“There is nobody doing that at the moment.”

The leap from teacher to a seat in the Senate may seem a huge step, but Bridget sees some links. “Like in teaching, I have a passion to make a difference, and a positive contribution. It’s just an extension of that.

“I do miss the engagement with young people. I don’t get to tell them what to do in the Senate... though I try. “As an ex-phs ed teacher, I’d like to get a few of them from the Senate running round the block though.” ■ Issue 28 - Bendigo Magazine | 43

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This helps to benefit the children in our community who need medical care and is also a great reason to rally the community together.

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Photographer: David Field After beginning a jewellery apprenticeship in 1977 which saw him move to Bendigo three years later, Rick has been living and breathing the jewellery industry for more than 30 years and is a proud member of the Showcase family. You may recognise the name: Stearns Showcase Jewellers.

I have two passports. One is Australian and the other the United States of America. My family immigrated to Australia in 1969 from the US. Passports represent travel. I’m fortunate enough to travel the world sourcing diamonds.

I travel to Antwerp yearly, it has such a romantic feel about it. I am able to handpick my diamonds. Each diamond has its own characteristics – some of which are good, and some bad. I find the best of the best and bring them back to Bendigo. I used these passports last on a recent trip to Las Vegas on a factfinding mission to discover what the American diamond market is doing. I’m about to bring CAD technology to Bendigo so that we can work with our customers to design their dream ring that will be unique and they can walk away with a computer design and a price.

During my first trip to Antwerp I was in the office of an Indian diamond merchant buying diamonds. I accidentally walked out of his office with his diamond tweezers in my pocket. I discovered them when I arrived back in Bendigo and they have turned out to be my favourite pair of diamond tweezers and bring back wonderful memories of my first trip. The following year I told the Indian diamond merchant and he told me that I

could borrow them for an extended amount of time as long as I continued to buy diamonds from him.

My wife Chris and I have worked really hard to create this dream home for our family.

My favourite space in the home in the theatre room, along with my son Blake. My daughter Brodie and Chris love to cook and the home is constantly used for entertaining family and friends.

Rebecca is our other daughter who just lives around the corner. We love the area in Golden Square it’s very central to schools, churches, family and of course the Golden Square football ground.

I’ve been involved with the Golden Square football club since 1976 as a player, sponsor and spectator. My son Blake plays there now and I enjoy watching him run around in the same position as I played. In the 1980s the club started making these bomber jackets, I was one of the first to acquire one. This jacket used to be quite large on me – I’m slowly growing into it. I was awarded a life membership to the Golden Square football club in 1998. My most memorable moment involved at the club would have to be winning the 1985 reserves premiership.

My iPad and Blackberry allow me to be

connected. Both to my loved ones and my business. I have a passion for technology and the opportunities it provides. I can be in China and can check on what is selling in the shop back in Bendigo. I track the progress of jobs with some of my suppliers, organise accommodation and make travel bookings while overseas and stay in touch with my family. Technology inspires and fascinates me. ■ Issue 28 - Bendigo Magazine | 47

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Scott bares all He’s the “Jamie Oliver of the finance world”. A best-selling author. Primetime TV and radio star. Nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. Money expert.

Household name. He’s Scott Pape; Bendigo boy.

Writer:Erin Delahunty Scott – better known as the “Barefoot Investor” – is a one-man media phenomenon, reaching literally millions of people every week with his no-nonsense commentary on all-things fiscal.

Grammar, Scott was never a standout student. Although he was naturally gifted at economics and writing – which would later go on to shape his life – Scott struggled with “all the other stuff”.

His book, The Barefoot Investor, was a bestseller, a TV show of the same name runs on internationally syndicated business channel, CNBC, and he appears regularly on popular Channel 10 show The Project. Scott also writes a weekly column for News Limited newspapers, including the Herald Sun and appears on radio on Triple M and the ABC. He’s officially Australia’s favourite money guy.

“I had a pre-determined understanding of what I wanted to do, so everything else seemed unimportant. As a year seven kid, I was reading the Financial Review and pretending to the school counsellor that I had emotional problems, so I could use the phone in his office to sell shares!” he says.

Born in the dusty Mallee town of Ouyen, Scott moved to Bendigo with his parents Don and Joan Pape and siblings when he was still in primary school and he retains a close connection to the city, visiting several times a year.

Scott’s father, who is known by many in Bendigo for his Queen Street Camera House business and its ubiquitous TV commercials, was a hugely influential figure in Scott’s life.

A keen watcher of the stockmarket and proud small businessman, Don bought Scott his first shares when he was “really young” and even once paid Scott for his chores in BHP shares, instead of cash.

“My dad used to have me read the financial pages to him when I was seven or so.

He certainly fostered in me a passion for finance,” Scott says.

At school at Flora Hill Primary School, Flora Hill High School and later Girton

After high school, Scott studied at Bendigo’s La Trobe University campus for two years, before his final year in Melbourne, getting his Bachelor of Business in 2001. After a short stint at the ASX in Sydney, where he felt like a “fish out of water”, Scott returned to Victoria and landed a job as an investment advisor with, EL & C Baillieu.

“I quickly realised that I looked more like a boy band member than a stockbroker … and that most of my clients were a hell of a lot older than me. Most of the financial advice was written for people with much less hair than me!” Scott says.

“House prices were exploding all over the country at the time and increasingly, owning your own home seemed like a distant dream for young people. I wondered if maybe there was a niche in providing financial advice to that younger demographic,” Scott says. And the Barefoot Investor was born, via a weekly finance show for young people on SYN Radio in Melbourne.

“It was pretty rude, undergraduate stuff.

I did things like an investment analysis of my sex life, or we’d prank call the real ABC finance show or make fun of traditional finance writers. It was a common sense, realworld guide to finance.” And it was huge.

So huge, in fact, that a publisher approached Scott to write a book. And the rest is multimedia, multi-platform history.

The News Limited column came next, where Scott was given the freedom to simply tell the truth. “I was given free rein to tell it how it is, to slam traditional finance gurus, the banks … and it got me a big following,” Scott says.

The Barefoot Investor is now big business, with a website with thousands of subscribers and standalone financial products, in addition to Scott’s many media and corporate speaking gigs. The business employs four people and contractors in a number of foreign countries.

But despite all the success, Scott is most proud though of his “barefooters” – ordinary people who have transformed their lives thanks to his advice.

In recent months, Scott has purchased a property in Romsey – the perfect location for splitting his time between his Collins Street office and apartment and childhood home of Bendigo – and proposed to his partner Liz Re, an associate producer on The Project. The pitter patter of little barefoot feet may not be too far away either, if Scott gets his way. “I absolutely want the marriage, the kids. I was so fortunate to have that great strong family life growing up in Bendigo.” ■

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Hydrotherapy – good for young and old Let’s set the record straight – you don’t need to be able to swim to do hydrotherapy. It can be used for a variety of reasons, and it’s a wonderful way to improve pain and get fit!

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Hydrotherapy for injury and pain The weightlessness and the warmth that our fully equipped, indoor, heated hydrotherapy pool offers is excellent for people suffering from back and neck pain, and painful arthritic joints. It is also excellent for rehabilitation after surgery and injury because often you are able to do more exercises in the pool compared with on land.

Qualified physiotherapists firstly assess clients in a land-based assessment, and then provide specific hydro exercises in a group hydrotherapy session.

People are often nervous about getting into a pool when they haven’t been swimming, or been in their swimming costume for years, but once they feel the benefits of our pool they keep coming back! We even have clients in

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Teaching children water safety is important for any parent, and so we offer swimming lessons for children three months to three years old. The sessions are run by fully qualified swimming instructors. The classes are kept to eight, to provide close supervision and support to each child and carer, who is in the water as well. And best of all, they’re

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Sessions run during school terms between 11am and 1pm. Bookings are essential.

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BAGS OF CARE Like another well-known mover and shaker, Val Pratt has a dream – not impossible, but a substantial dream.

Writer: Vicki Harrington - Photographer: David Field She envisions a building where her Valkyrie Care Group would create their bags of care for cancer sufferers.

making carry bags for the Kosovo refugees, so they felt they could make bags to help in this situation.

Not necessarily a fancy building, a modified warehouse would suffice, with workrooms for sewing, and packing, purpose-built storage areas, a kitchen and meeting room and maybe extra space similar charity groups might share. Heating and cooling would be a bonus. It would be known as Valkyrie House.

From this the Valkyrie Care group was formed by Val with her sister Marj Gorrie and friends Rhonda Ralph and Elma Mayhew and their Bags of Care started appearing at hospitals and cancer treatment rooms around Bendigo.

It may be just a dream now, but Val’s extreme passion for her cause makes me think one day it will be a reality.

A trailer port at Val’s home was used for storing the bag making supplies before expanding to the current “shed”, as it is affectionately called. The shed is an iron-clad building with iron partition walls and concrete floors where the cramped conditions are fairly cool in winter and resemble a sweat shop in summer. It’s an average shed where on alternate Tuesdays Val’s group of ladies do extraordinary things.

On those days, the hum of sewing machines and friendly chatter floats from three units in the self-storage facility. Inside, up to 15 ladies beaver away cutting, stitching, turning, stuffing and packing bags.

The idea for the subject of all this industry began 12 years ago from an idea gleaned when Val and some of her friends were invited to a Biggest Morning Tea event by a friend suffering cancer.

The guest speaker, another cancer survivor, related her experience at her first oncology consultation where she was loaded up with paperwork. As if receiving the dreaded diagnosis was not enough, she dropped it all before reaching the car.

Val and her friends already had experience

Marj came up with the unusual name.

According to Norse mythology, the Valkyries were a group of warrior women who carried fallen battle heroes off to Valhalla, an enormous hall where they enjoyed the afterlife with the God Odin.

Val and her group believe cancer patients and their families are the heroes, the battle is life and they are the rescuers bringing patients love, comfort and support in the form of a bag of practical and spiritual gifts.

Twelve years ago they made about five bags per week; in 2011 they made 1600 bags and this year they are producing about 230 per month. They now distribute them to both Bendigo hospitals, the Otis retreat in Mandurang, Breastscreen Bendigo and beyond, on request.

The majority of the items in each gender specific bag are handmade by the group, including a small pillow, a sheepskin car seatbelt cover, a heatpack, an x-ray bag, a scarf and a lavender bag for the ladies, plus a brochure about The Valkyrie Group.

understands my plight and knows what I am going through was so encouraging. “I have worn the scarf such a lot, it was really useful.”

Along with the 40 registered members of Valkyrie, there are many Friends of Valkyrie.

These ladies sew, knit and handcraft hundreds of items in their own homes for sale at regular trading tables to raise vital funds for the group.

These women also benefit from having a useful purpose for their free time. They develop additional skills, earn self-respect, make new friends and enjoy the fellowship of belonging to a group.

Valkyrie needs a minimum $1000 per month to pay rent for the shed and source materials used in making and filling the bags. While they are regularly blessed with generous donations of fabric, haberdashery, wheat, lavender, and occasionally cash, the trading tables are their lifeline with each event raising between $200 and $2000.

But it is always a juggling game and Val has an adept co-ordinator for almost every aspect of the business; there’s a finance coordinator, a fabric co-ordinator, a distribution co-ordinator, a machine co-ordinator for the 40 odd sewing machines the group owns, and that’s just some of them.

Cancer patient, Evelyn Hawke recently received her bag from staff at Bendigo Oncology. “I was so touched by the generosity of this group,” Evelyn said.

Seems like volunteering for these ladies is as addictive as playing golf or bowls so if ball sports are not your bag and you have time to spare, need a project to sponsor or have an idle building, the Valkyrie Care Group has the solution.

To receive that bag of goodness at a time when I was feeling low was such a delight.

Just knowing someone I’ve never met

The Valkyrie Care Group can be contacted on (03) 5443 4713, 0439 389 453 or on email: val_max@bigpond.com ■ Issue 28 - Bendigo Magazine | 51

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Community gardens are welcoming, creative, fertile places where people come together to grow fresh food, learn new skills, meet new friends and relax in the fresh air.

Writer: Mary Pomfret - Photographer: Anthony Webster Community gardeners are active positive producers who share their time and skills to help create a sense of belonging in their local environment which, in turn, builds community. Bendigo has some fine community garden projects offering social engagement and connection, not to mention the opportunity to source fresh nutritious food such as vegetables, herbs and fruit including varieties that you may not have tried before.

Gravel Hill Community Garden Established by the Salvation Army in 2000, Gravel Hill Gardens is a community garden smack bang in the central business area of Bendigo. Once a school playing field, the site has a view across the region. Would it be drawing too long a bow to compare the garden site to that of the Clos Montmartre – a little vineyard hidden away on a hill in the shadow of the Sacré-Coeur in the heart of Paris – an oasis of peace and tranquillity in the heart of a busy city?

Gardener, Susie Scott, says the garden “is a special spot because there is not much land close to town which isn’t developed.”

Susie takes me around the garden pointing out this and that, and we are followed by a band of inquisitive chickens. A silky seems very interested in what is going on.

“The chickens are like the neighbourhood

pets and they have their own names,” Susie says.

“Neighbours in the area use the space like a park.” An extensive worm compost system is boosted by lawn clippings dropped off by members of the public.

Barbara Hickingbotham, manager of Salvation Army Community Services Bendigo, says: “You only have to be out here for a few minutes and it recharges you. The garden is a community gathering space and is open to all, as a safe place to find social interaction and connections.”

“The garden is a diverse place which includes the most vulnerable members of society, as well as minority groups but also attracts sustainability groups.”

The garden is operated largely by volunteers including disability groups, English as a Second Language students, BTEC and secondary students, neighbours and people doing voluntary hours.

Gravel Hill is beginning a project with indigenous plants using local food plants natural to the area such as ruby saltbush, water food plants, acacias and many others.

Susie Scott is keen to hear from individuals or organisations who would be interested in partnering for projects and activities in the garden.

Contact: Susie Scott (03) 5440 8450 (Gravel Hill Gardens).

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PepperGreen Farm “PepperGreen is a little different to some community gardens,” says horticulturist Rosamund Woodburn who explains that the farm is a training operation for people with disabilities and is operated by Bendigo Access Employment.

Originally a Chinese market garden until the 1850s and located not far from the Joss House, PepperGreen farm, in keeping with its heritage, still functions as a food production area.

Rosamund points out that the area of North Bendigo has a rich Chinese history, and recently an operational kiln that made bricks on the site was uncovered during archaeology week.

I am treated to a tour around the lush beds of seasonal vegetables including some more unusual varieties such as tatsoi which looks a little like spinach with rich dark spreading leaves and can be used in salads or stir fries. Other varieties include oak leaf lettuce and mustard green, which according to Rosamund a local restaurant uses in soup.

She hands me a snow pea from a vine and says “You can’t walk around the garden without nibbling.”

PepperGreen has a few commercial outlets for its Asian vegetables, says Rosamund.

The garden also produces a popular garnish mix, a selection of textures, colours and taste, which includes land cress which tastes remarkably like parsnip.

However, she explains that the weekly sale of seasonal “ vegi bags” are the focus for the produce.

“Vegi bags which are sold on a ‘word of mouth’ basis and usually the farm sells between 20 to 30 bags of fresh seasonal produce each week,” Rosamund says.

PepperGreen Farm thrives on rich compost consisting of saw dust, grass clippings and compostable lunch material. A former employee and now volunteer runs the composted material through his hands.

“Just like a chocolate pudding, isn’t it,” he says.

“We don’t have waste,” Rosamund says.

“We try to recycle everything.”

The help and assistance of volunteers is paramount to the operation the garden.

“Everyone just works cooperatively. No one owns a bed… people find they like certain jobs. Some like weeding, some like putting the seeds in. We have a lot of volunteers, sometimes up to 15,” Rosamund says.

Rosamund says the volunteers (some who have a commercial background and others are home gardeners) have different reasons for becoming involved with the community garden.

“Some come because they like mixing with other people. Volunteers mentor or support the other workers and share their skills. The main knowledge base is probably coming from the volunteers,” Rosamund says.

Contact: Rosamund Woodburn (03) 5441 6565 (PepperGreen Farm).

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“You can’t walk around the garden without nibbling.”

- Rosamund Woodburn

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Quarry Hill Community Garden Just outside the old Uniting Church building on Russell Street, Quarry Hill is the beginning of a very fine community garden. Raised wooden beds containing thyme, oregano, mint, nasturtiums and marigolds to name but a few, sit alongside the historic red-brick church.

Local resident Rose Vincent explains how a few years ago she and several other families moved to Bendigo for the purpose of forming an “ intentional community “ which expresses the values of caring for each other and caring for the earth and building strong neighbourhoods. This garden has come about as a result of community connections in the local area, “Bendigo has been a beautiful place for us… just by choosing to think local and choosing to be part of the community we have met so many people.”

“There shouldn’t be any lonely people or hungry people when there are community gardens,” Rose says.

‘Many people who get involved in community gardens already have a garden in their own back yard, but they just love the community aspect.

“There shouldn’t be any lonely people or hungry people when there are community gardens.”

- Rose Vincent

“We often have dinner after a working bee… something as simple as a soup, then out come the musical instruments and it’s often midnight before everyone is going home. It’s just lovely to have those kinds of connections with people and to offer that sort of support.”

Since living in Bendigo, Rose has discovered that there is a really good network among the individual community gardens.

“This network is a space for sharing skills, ideas and resources,” Rose says.

Rose explains that at the heart of the Quarry Hill garden is “a faith community”. She acknowledges that the Uniting Church has supported the garden project and hopes that this might be an ongoing thing.

Rose hopes that existing local playgroups, youth groups and university students will continue to integrate with the community garden project.

“Wouldn’t it be fabulous if every high school student when they left school, knew how to grow 10 basic vegies,” Rose says.

Contact: Rose Vincent 0458 290 402

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Long Gully Community Garden The Long Gully Community Garden in Energetic Street is a source of pride for the local residents and provides a sense of achievement for all involved. According to neighbourhood centre coordinator Carol Rasmussen, this is a garden managed by the community for the community and is the result of a lot of hard work by volunteers.

“In 2007, the community listed the top 10 items that they wanted to see in the garden and we have been working on these items and more ever since,” Carol says.

“Parts of our garden were damaged by the fires in 2009. Conservation volunteers came in and built 30 new garden beds, and moved all our fruit trees.”

The garden, occupying about half an acre, produces most vegetables, fruit trees and herb with the occasionally flower bed, Carol says.

“The person who takes on the garden bed is responsible for it for the year.

“Two beds are the maximum for each family.

A small band of volunteers give their time to be in a supervisory position at the garden on a daily basis.

“We sell some of the produce at the garden or at the Centre and we also use it for community lunches on a Friday.

“Any monies made go back into the garden for new plants or equipment.”

Carol says the community hopes sometime in the future to build a barbecue and undercover eating area.

When asked about one of the best – ever crops, Carol replies: “Zucchinis would have to have been one of the best crops ever produced. We had so many we were giving them away at the neighbourhood centre.”

As well as the amazing crop of zucchinis, Carol reflects that there have been many highlights in the garden over the years.

“When our meeting room was built by volunteers and the wood oven was put in, that first cuppa was just great.

“The first vegetables that we picked, our carrots never even got to be cooked they were eaten raw.

“And our Community Garden Festival held in March is a major highlight and probably there are too many more to mention.”

Contact: Carol Rasmussen (03) 5442 1165 (Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre). ■

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“We sell some of the produce at the garden or at the centre and also use it for community lunches on a Friday.”

- Carol Rasmussen

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Starting From Scratch When I meet Bendigo artist and potter Alex Simmons, we make a bee-line for his backyard. I’ve barely set foot in the place when he starts pointing out things he has made…

Writer: Megan Spencer - Photographer: David Field

“..Those garden beds,” he starts, words excitedly tripping over themselves in a rush to get out of his mouth.

“We got the stone cut at a quarry in Yapeen”. Perhaps the most impressive garden beds I’ve seen in a while, rabbit ears of silverbeet dangle over the sides of roughcut slabs of sandstone, all neatly designed and built. Winking in the sun, it’s a sea of deep-green and mottled yellow.

There’s a “worm farm,” “reconstructed lawn”, “succulent collection”, “garden beds made from sleepers”, all from Alex’s hand. I get the feeling that while he likes gardening, he loves making stuff out of the everyday – and designing the space into which it will go.

This isn’t a garden, it’s carefully-constructed idyll-in-progress. By a self-styled alchemist.

Our 90-minute conversation proves me right.

As did a previous tour of Alex’s expansive, sprawling studio-come-factory, which flanks Bendigo Pottery, started in 2005.

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But it’s not all about Alex; there’s a beautiful wrought iron sculpture he and wife Susan bought from Bendigo sculptor Yvonne George – “to balance out the garden,” he says, pondering its form.

Inside he shows me a hand-made table also commissioned from a local cabinet maker.

The wood is deep and robust; he looks on it with great affection as I take my place to take notes.

Now in his early 40s, Alex was born in Hawthorn but brought up in Castlemaine.

Eventually he “escaped” to Melbourne.

Two solid years were spent “in a share house, life drawing”, the rest working with his hands. One of them was at Northcote Pottery. Another as a brewery maltster in Collingwood, turning barley into malt. Also as a volunteer at the Painter and Decorators Union.

Alex is a curious a melange of paradox: a fierce financial pragmatist yet aesthete; a salt-of-the-earth inventor yet dreamy artist.

He’s also an obsessive researcher and a kind of lay engineer who worked physically laborious jobs before surrendering to his artistic calling.

Later, when he ventured back up the Calder, Alex landed a traditional job at the famous Cannie Ridge Pottery in Harcourt.

Thinking back on childhood he says, “I just loved to investigate what life was through art. Art seemed to have more value than most things – but I never kidded myself I’d make money from it.”

At 26 he started a BA in Visual Arts (Ceramics) at Victorian College of the Arts.

“They were more airy-fairy and I was more pragmatic,” he says of his brief time there.

By then his appetite for Greek Antiquities

“I worked my way up from shovelling rubbish to being a production thrower. I used to get on wheels at lunchtime and throw jugs; eventually they just put me on.”

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That work. Well.

But how? Again he had to start from scratch.

An acute endeavour in form and function, the Watermatic is kind of a metaphor for Alex’s arts practice, a way for him to combine his compulsion to make with honouring the patronage he has received by “being able to support [himself] into the future”.

Made from clay and porcelain, they’re beautiful-looking, ceramic domestic water coolers that bring people pristine drinking water.

After spending years researching every minute detail – including the best way to manufacture them, often inventing the production machinery – with some luck along the way, so far he’s made 500, which have “mostly gone to Victoria”. Alex hopes to continue that average per year. “I’ll do it until retirement”, he says, ultimately seeing “Watermatic as an honourable way to provide an income and do something productive in society.”

He adds “Watermatic keeps me alive with creativity and pushed me as a person… Just enjoying the creative process in whatever I do is tantamount. That’s satisfying – whether it’s gardening, cooking, no matter what it is.” Amen to that. ■ and classical beauty was whetted, as was a fascination for Yunagi Soetsu, the founder of the Korean Folk Art Museum.

“I loved the idea of anonymous craftsmen banging out pieces of exceptional beauty,” he grins.

University eventually beckoned again. “In 2000 I started from scratch at La Trobe Bendigo and finished,” he says.

“I wanted to spend time in a studio and explore a form instead of pumping out production.”

With the financial help of his maternal grandmother, the woman Alex gratefully calls his patron – “she just believed in me” – he began his studio in Epsom and perhaps the biggest artistic and alchemic journey of all.

Realising he “wasn’t going to make a living producing studioware”, a bolt of lightning hit. This unknown craftsman was going to make water coolers. And not just any old

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They might not have been born in the USA, but a whole bunch of Bendigonians explain why they won’t ever say bye to American pie Writer: Sarah Harris - Photographer: David Field

Rock around the clock Les Hartland remembers the exact moment it happened. “I saw a Ford Customline pull up at my primary school and heard the sound of the V8 motor and that was the start of a love affair. I was eight years old and stuck forever in the ‘50s,” he recalls.

And there he stayed, into his teens and throughout his apprenticeship. When all his friends were buying 45s of The Who, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Les was still rocking around the clock with Bill Haley. “I used to get teased by my mates about why I wasn’t buying the modern stuff. But I still loved Chuck Berry, Elvis, Buddy Holly and just couldn’t seem to move on.”

Every Saturday night the electrical inspector from Epsom, who revels in the nickname Rocker, shares his love of early American rock through his popular request show on Fresh FM. Tuesday nights he teaches rock’n’roll dancing with his wife Julie Lowden.

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He is a mainstay of the Rockin’ 50s Rock ‘n’ Roll Club, a Strathdalebased group now in its 25th year and believed to be the longest continually running club of its ilk in Australia.

“I was actually instructing classes and Julie came along to learn. We became dance partners after that and one thing led to another,” he says with a smile.

When they married five years ago, Les was resplendent in a pair of handmade red snakeskin winkle pickers and Julie wore a specially designed red-hot rockabilly number. Naturally, the bridal car was a gleaming red Cadillac.

“It is definitely a lifestyle,” Les agrees as we perch on Coca-Cola stools in front of a Wurlitzer – one of 20 jukeboxes in the couple’s collection.

“We spend a lot of time going to dances and club events,” Julie adds.

“It’s not very often we don’t have something to do with the club on weekends. We have a lot of social outings and will go to the movies or go tenpin bowling dressed up in ‘50s gear. I have a wardrobe full of vintage clothes I love to wear.

“Every year we go to Coolangatta for the Wintersun rock and roll festival (now known as Cooly Rocks On).’’

Les explains: “The first time we went there about 10 years back I couldn’t believe it. With all the old cars, people dressed in vintage and the old music blaring you’d swear you were in the ‘50s.

“It’s magic, specially for those of us who never left there.”

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Bring It On Cheerleading is one of Australia’s fastest-growing sports, but until this year Bendigo has not had its own representative competitive team.

Here’s cheers to the Bendigo Blitz All Stars founded by Kim Manallack, the owner and director of Cheer ‘N’ Dance.

Kim has been hooked on cheer since she was a teenager, and became part of the Bendigo Braves Cheerleaders in 2005.

“I started with hip hop and my coach at the time decided to start a cheer squad and asked me to audition and that was it,” she recalls of her introduction to the sport.

As the coach/director of both junior and senior cheer squads for the Braves and the Bendigo Spirit, Kim is a passionate advocate for the sport.

“People who don’t know a lot about it, have a very stereotyped idea about cheerleading – that it’s just waving pompoms on sidelines,” Kim says. “But we are athletes in our own right. It is a sport that requires extreme fitness and a lot of teamwork.”

Kim has twice travelled to America where she has trained with the LA Clippers, the Sacramento Kings and Stanford University cheer squads as well as choreographer Tony G of Bring It On fame.

“Movies like Bring It On are really inspiring Australian girls,” Kim says. “They get into cheer and find it so rewarding. It increases fitness, but at the same time it’s fun and helps build relationships.

“Bendigo Blitz All Stars will be representing Bendigo in competitions around Australia and hopefully overseas.

“I would really like to see the city get behind us.”

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Going to the Chapel When Adam Nicolson tied a ring to the family dog’s collar and installed a sign in the kitchen asking Lisa Baxter to be his wife he was pretty confident she’d say ‘’Yes’’.

But he was less certain when he proposed they marry in Las Vegas.

“I don’t think he expected I’d say what a great idea,” Lisa laughs.

“But a big wedding was never on my agenda. It was about us being married, not the event itself.’’

With some advice from friends who had recently renewed their vows in the US, Lisa and Adam contacted The Chapel of The Flowers.

“It was surprisingly easy to arrange. I think it took about five emails in total,” Lisa reveals.

“I took my dress with me. I made Adam carry it around LA and Hollywood and he wasn’t allowed to peek.

“Our wedding was on a Wednesday evening. Adam and I separated for the day. His sister and brother had come over and she and I lounged by the pool, had McDonald’s for lunch.

“I did my own hair and make-up before we were picked up by the limo the chapel organised.

“I walked down the aisle to the traditional Here Comes The Bride. The celebrant we had was a lovely older gentlemen who spoke a lot about how we would support one another through life.

“The wedding was streamed live over the web. It was Thursday morning here and people watched it at work and from their computers at home.

“After the service we had some photos taken in the chapel gardens and then we were all driven down to The Strip where we had photographs in front of many Las Vegas icons before our party of six had dinner at the MGM Grand Casino.

“We actually had our ‘bridal waltz’ in a room filled with people we didn’t know and no music.

“After that we found a little outdoor karaoke bar where danced all night. I was still there in my wedding dress when the sun came up. It was insane.”

The couple returned to Australia to enjoy a reception with their four children and other family members and friends.

“We screened the ceremony on the big projector screen and had a slideshow of the photos so no one really missed out on a thing,” Lisa says.

“Honestly, it was just an amazing experience. We did the whole thing for a lot less than people pay their photographers and we got our honeymoon out of it as well. Plus it was that little bit different.”

But brides and grooms to be warned: you might be smitten by the USA. “It was never a place on my agenda or somewhere I planned to travel. Now we just shut up about it. We returned home and immediately started planning our next trip.”

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wonderful and formed lasting friendships,” Jan reveals.

Jan and Dale Alexander might tell you the reason they go to the US each year is to ensure they keep their visas, but really they need little incentive to hop on a plane and head Stateside.

“I think if you have to go to live anywhere you have to embrace it, you have to get with it, otherwise you will have that homesicknesses and you become a hater of it.

The Alexanders’ love affair with the US began in 2001 when Dale, who works for a technology company that provides SAP software to run big business, went across to work on a short-term project.

“We saw it as an adventure and saw as much of the States as we could.”

In 2004 the family decided it was time to live the American dream and they moved to Tacoma, on Washington’s Puget Sound.

The first glimpse Jan had of her new home was when Dale bought home a copy of the early Heath Ledger film Ten Things I Hate About You. Tacoma’s very grand landmark Stadium High School with its underground swimming pool and 32,000 seat stadium was the location for much of the film.

As schools go, it made a pretty good impression on Jan – a teacher at Spring Gully Primary.

It was also a bit of indication of what was to come. “Everything was bigger – the meal portions, the four-wheel drives, the shopping centres,” she laughs.

Dale adds: “It is an absolutely stunning country. People who spend time there travelling and manage to get past Vegas and the Disneylands start to see what it has got to offer.”

And, for a professional it’s definitely a better place to be.

“We lived pretty well in the US by comparison,” he agrees. “If you are a professional and you have got some reasonable skills you will earn good money and pay little tax. You can spend, save and travel and generally live pretty well.”

Well enough at least to buy three of his own not-so-young Americans – a ‘66 coupe, a ‘67 convertible and a ‘70 fastback all of the Mustang variety.

But the Alexanders had no trouble fitting in.

Having moved back to Bendigo for aged parents and the education of their children Mills, 16, Darcey, 14 and 11-year-old Kelsey, the Alexanders don’t rule out one day returning to work and live in the States.

“A lot of people knock Americans, the American culture, but Americans embrace Australia and love Australians. We found them

“Bendigo will always be our home, but if there was an opportunity, sure we’d like to go back,” Dale confides.

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Only in America Anthony Radford won a prestigious Walkley award for his stories about the politics of water, but there are other undercurrents in his life; namely an enduring interest in American politics “Growing up in the ‘80s US politics weighed heavily on the world.

From Ronald Reagan to the Cold War it coloured everything,” the Bendigo Weekly and Bendigo Magazine group editor recalls.

“At uni I had a politics lecturer who had worked as an adviser to George Bush Senior and that was when I started to become really fascinated with American politics, especially US foreign policy.

“Iraq rather soured my interest. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for getting rid of tyrants. But let’s make that the real reason rather than inventing weapons of mass destruction and links to politics.

“But then, American politics is a sideshow. I love the game that is politics, the Machiavellian machinations. There are elections for everything from the head of the local school district, through to the district attorney, the sheriff and all the thousands of state and federal precincts. The endless campaigning for everything is astonishing and it must be exhausting for the locals. No wonder only about half the country votes in a presidential campaign.

“My faith in US politics was restored by the 2008 elections. I know

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it’s cliched but explaining to my then seven-yearold that the most powerful – and most bigoted – country in the world had just elected an African American as president did bring a tear to my eye.”

Perhaps surprisingly Radders, as he is affectionately known, has never been to America. In fact he doesn’t even have a passport. “You know I’ve never felt a burning desire to travel anywhere else, but I admit I would really love to sit in on a White House press conference,” he says.“I reckon the finest political journalism in the world comes from the US. Give me Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show and the Stephen Colbert Report. They cut through the spin with comedy, sarcasm and wit and at the same time break some great stories.

“I can’t wait for the US presidential elections. There’s been a long build-up – I followed the mid-term Tea Party elections in 2010 and salivated over Sky News when the Republican primaries were on. In between I’ve had to content myself with watching reruns of West Wing. It’s one of my great weaknesses: that and – I’m ashamed to admit – Beverly Hills 90210.

“Come November I’ll be glued to the news wearing one of my very modest collection of US presidential campaign T-shirts, barracking for Obama and still hoping in vain I could grow sideburns like Luke Perry and Jason Priestly.”

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Bopping the Beat As is my wont, every time I go to a weekend market I seem to end up flipping through those old cardboard boxes stacked with vinyl records.

Writer & Illustrator: Geoff Hocking I declare a singular interest here. My first job as a young graduate of the Bendigo Technical College art department in 1966 was with the World Record Club, a Melbourne-based record publisher and distributor of, mostly, classical music – and later – after a few years teaching art in Tech Schools I repaid my debt to the Education Department and boarded one of the first of the charter flights headed for the land of our monarch, to further my education in the University of life. (This may be of interest to all who complain of the cost of air travel today, the fare in 1970 was slighter more than the fare today, and that’s comparing $ to $, not allowing for the 40 years in between).

After a period of glorious unemployment I landed a job as an assistant cleaner in a ‘Ye Olde England’ eating establishment in Mayfair. I was reading Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London at the time. He must have once worked at the same restaurant – Tiddy Doll’s Eating House – I found it again a year ago but it was boarded up, awaiting refurbishment. Orwell’s description of the life of the scullery hand, three storey’s underground, cleaning out the kitchens was, well, Orwellian. He was spot on.

I didn’t last long at Tiddy Doll’s. After a short stint as a finished artist in an advertising agency I landed a job back designing record covers. This time with an EMI subsidiary, Paul Hamlyn’s Music For Pleasure. It is cover designs from this company that I sometimes find in those cardboard boxes at the markets.

I can’t believe that so many of what we called Middle-of-the-road, or more unkindly Pot-boilers were sold to an unwitting listening public: Val Doonican, Jim Nabors, Cilla Black, Mrs Mills and her Honky-Tonk Piano, Geoff Love and the Love Orchestra, (now doesn’t that conjure up a vision of a larger than life African-American groaning into the microphone, but Geoff Love weren’t no Barry White) – and I can’t believe how ready people are to discard their treasured albums for $1 or so at the weekend markets.

In the UK we published a series of records of the popular songs of the month. Titled Hot Hits we used photographs of easily recognisable page three girls on the covers, (un)dressed in bikinis, posing, holding some kind of leisure equipment: footballs, cricket bats, golf sticks, you get the idea.

If you say the title of the album series very quickly, you can see that the concept was fully realised. I was responsible for creating themed covers, where I included a male in the picture story, usually some bloke from the accounts department, in the shots.

Together we created the first topless cover: a photograph of a nice young lass in motorbike leathers, astride a dirt bike on Hounslow Heath while a gentleman, who now I recall looked rather like a young Daniel Craig jumped over her head on another bike. The cover was banned in Calvinist Scotland, which instantly made it very popular indeed. If we had done this today I guess it would have gone viral, but this was the 1970s when to go viral meant you were crook, and needed a week in bed.

I admit responsibility. I am guilty of crimes against good taste and I have found quite a few of these old designs in these market boxes. However, I have also found some old favourites:

Oscar Brand’s Sing-Along, Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads (which is the funniest collection of double-entendres set to music you will ever hear) and an old favourite Henry Mancini’s recording The Music from Peter Gunn. Young folk won’t remember this television series, but most would have heard the theme at some time or other: the driving bass beat ‘Ta-toom-toom-toomtoom-toom-toom-toom-toom’ and the screeching saxophone ‘Da-da-da-da-da-da daaaaah-dah, dah dah!’ Peter Gunn was such a classic theme: modern jazz, big band, energetic rock-styled rhythms coupled with the tightest brass section ever heard and Mancini’s brilliant recording technique where every instrument can be heard cleanly, even when the whole orchestra is belting it out at full strength: vibraharp the sound of dripping honey, the soaring flute, the mellow horns and sparring trumpets, all driven forward by the cleverest drumming and a driving beat that burrows deep inside the listener’s chest—when I saw the unforgettable cover, the deep blue abstract with the red flashes, it brought back so many memories—mainly of being young, and being a student at the old Tech.

So this is where this story actually starts— Bopping The Beat in Bendigo.

In the mid-60s a young jazz singer Des Duguid opened a coffee-lounge opposite the Tech in Macrae Street. Des was also a boxer (light-welterweight) representing Australia in the 1954 Empire Games and again in the Rome Olympics, but it was in entertaining the young Bendigo hipsters where Des came into his own. We flocked down to Dessies. After the dances on Saturday night where Des would strut his stuff with the Reg Bridgeland Dance Band, we would join him and all the college kids for cappuccino and toasted raisin bread. Sometimes a folk-singer would strum a battered old guitar while we all sang together old Negro spirituals or the hits of Peter, Paul and Mary. Girls grew their hair long, and blonde, like Mary Travers, we sported turtlenecks and blue jeans and tried to grow goatees.

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memory may become selective, even fanciful.

I recall the floor was carpeted, or was it sea-grass? There were fishnets draped from the ceiling, looping and drooping around the single globe in the middle of the room.

Was the bulb within a bamboo-paper shade?

It must have been. Was it blue? It always seemed very dark down there. Raffia covered Chianti bottles held the remnants of longexpired candles, a record player in an alcove, and on it always, Peter Gunn — ‘Ta-toomtoom-toom-toom-toom-toom-toom-toom’.

Very seductive indeed.

Since finding the almost unplayable vinyl at Daylesford market one Sunday morning I have bought a new CD of the same. It now resides permanently in the changer in my car, alongside Brubeck’s Time Out, Time Further Out, and Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan.

I was about 17 or 18 at the time and the goatee was not something that I could easily attain, so it was just duffle-coat, brothel creepers and long white scarf, and hair as long as I could get it before I was forced to confront the barber.

installed myself in a playhouse my father had built for my sisters up the back yard, and recreated my version of this picture across one wall. It is still there but will probably be removed soon. The wall was made of asbestos sheeting.

Upstairs in Dessies someone had painted a large picture of a bearded, turtle-necked beatnik covering one wall. This portrait of an imaginary hipster painted with bold strokes, a-la Frank Kline expressionism (see Dave Brubeck Countdown Time in Outer Space) with paint dribbling down inspired me. I

Just a couple of doors down from Dessie’s ‘Keyboard Coffee Lounge’ a group of local ‘arties’ had secured a tenancy at the rear of McGorrie’s Barber Shop. Through a locked gate and down the narrow lane behind the green door one entered the seductive lair of the El Retiro Arts Club. This is where my

Ah Mancini! Same groovy graphic, same insistent sound, same feeling, same memories. I asked my wife, of more than 40 years, about the El Retiro. She replied she couldn’t remember ever going there. Hmm? Note: The painting reproduced here was painted for an old mate from the Tech days, as a gift from his wife on his attaining a significant birthday. He played jazz piano. He played for us at Tech dances. He played in Dessies. He still plays. The painting alludes to Reg Bridgeland’s Music Store in Bendigo. Billy is looking longingly through the window at a new piano. The building is a fiction. The memory is for real. ■

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LIFE’S A DISH Think local, think regionally-inspired dishes at some of Bendigo’s finest restaurants, along with the opportunity to collect a series of quality ceramic plates produced by Bendigo Pottery and individually hand-painted by a Bendigo artist, and you have Life’s a Dish.

Writer: Mary Pomfret - Photographer: David Field Life’s a Dish, a marketing and industry concept which involves the collaborative efforts of seven of Bendigo’s leading dining establishments, gives a new slant to the commonplace instruction of ‘bring a plate’. In fact, you don’t bring a plate; instead, you buy a plate – a beautiful hand-painted souvenir plate, at that – as a tangible reminder of having enjoyed an example of Bendigo’s fine cuisine at one of the participating restaurants.

This exciting concept highlights Bendigo’s fast growing food and wine culture and the regionally-inspired dishes created by local chefs who source and utilise the diverse range of local produce that the region offers.

Modelled on the Italian Buon Ricordo idea originating in Northern Italy and chanced upon by former CEO of The City of Greater Bendigo, John McLean while on holiday with his wife Claudia, Life’s a Dish puts Bendigo’s regional food and wine industry at centre stage.

Buon Ricordo translates as good memories, which is what the Life’s a Dish concept is all about. The Life’s a Dish program provides diners with the opportunity to take home a fine souvenir of their Central Victorian dining experience.

Bobby Yam from the Malayan Orchid

Henni Greiving from Domaine Asmara

“After all, restaurants are where we all come together, where our stories, our life are told over food,” says Claudia, wife of the late John McClean.

“I can tell you that the plates are a great starting point of conversation when people come to your house and they encourage others to go to that restaurant, try the food and then, of course buy a plate. It is like a domino reaction.

“Just like in Italy, many people start their collection of the distinctive souvenir plates, as tangible reminders of their gastronomic experiences. Possessing the Life’s Dish hand- painted plates makes people collectors not just of crockery but of memories and stories.’

Rod Thomson, Manager of Bendigo Pottery, Australia’s oldest working pottery, explains that the Life’s a Dish plates are made at Bendigo Pottery in the traditional manner and then hand-painted by local ceramic artist Sue James.

Sue has had solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions all over Australia. Her work sells gift and trade fairs, craft shows and pottery expos.

Both Sue and Rod have consulted with the participating restaurants to fine-tune designs which best represent the essence of the restaurants involved in the project.

“Bendigo Pottery is proud to collaborate with Bendigo Tourism in showcasing Bendigo’s great restaurants,” Rod says.

“These individually designed, hand- painted plates are collector’s items but also can be used in a practical way as well, and don’t just have to stay hanging the wall.”

Local architectural features, icons and landmarks are inspirational for the hand-painted designs that decorate the plates. Plates may be bought for $25 at the seven participating restaurants including: Domaine Asmara, Malayan Orchid, Gallery Café, La Piazza, Quills, The Hotel Shamrock and Twenty2. A free master plate is available at the Bendigo Visitor Information Centre for any Life’s a Dish connoisseur who collects all seven stamps when buying the plates.

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Local ceramic artist Sue James from The Bendigo Pottery

Life’s a Dish restaurants share an enthusiasm for local produce upon which Central Victoria’s reputation for fine regional cuisine is being built. As part of the program, each restaurant will offer a plat de la saison (plate of the season), a meal of locally-produced and sourced ingredients. Local chefs will take this opportunity to profile the fine local produce in season.

Carlo Barri from La Piazza

says that these plates will appeal to locals and tourists alike.

“These plates look amazing. I love the fact these that colourful plates are locally designed and made to promote our local industry. We have a lot to be proud of in Bendigo, and this is an opportunity to showcase what we have,’’ Carlo says.

Gallery Café’s Renzo Panozzo says, “I believe what we are trying do here is promote and highlight all the good things about Bendigo and the region.”

“Not only does this collaborative project put the spotlight on the top quality restaurants that we have here, but it opens doors to allow for good relationships to develop for the common good of our thriving food and wine culture in the Bendigo region.”

“Life’s a Dish is something a little different and puts a focus on all things local: our wonderful food, wine, fine dining, produce and manufacturing,” he says.

Kathryn Mackenzie, Executive Manager, Tourism, City of Greater Bendigo describes the Life’s a Dish concept as “an innovative program that showcases the creative and innovative restaurateurs in the region.”

“I like to personally sign and the date the plates for my diners. I find that it is a way of getting to know your customers, especially those who are visiting the region.

“Bendigo with its vibrant food and wine scene is the fusion of great places to eat, an extraordinary range of regional food and wine, passionately served as signature dishes,” she says.

“I like to know that I have provided the very best for people who come to my restaurant.

Ms MacKenzie waxes lyrical on the subject of the Life’s a Dish concept which has at its core the idea of fond memories, fine food and good company.

“These beautiful, very collectable, hand-crafted plates will give patrons a personal reminder to take home as a memory of their enjoyable dining experience, and the time that they have shared with us in Central Victoria.”

Carlo Barri, owner of La Piazza Wine Bar and Restaurant, agrees and

“The Life’s a Dish hand -painted plates become the magical memories of regional food and wine shared with good friends and family… the hand painted plates then become a tapestry of good memories shared,” she says. ■

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We discover the history behind this iconic ‘landmark’.

Writer: Colin King - Photographer: David Field and Richard Gibbs When Bendigo trams stopped running 40 years ago, you would expect nothing less than a futuristic mono-rail replacement to ignite the minds of young blokes in their early 20s, let alone inspire them to make it happen. And yet, it was just such a group that rescued Bendigo’s crumbling trams from the scrapheap. Their bold preservation efforts saw the creation of a hop-on-hop-off tourist ride with audio commentary, more than a decade before such models began in London and proliferated throughout European cities.

The ride remains among Lonely Planet’s top three things to do in Bendigo.

Apart from Melbourne, Bendigo was the last of Australia’s 17 street tramway networks when it succumbed to widespread car ownership of the post-war age. In fact, it was the year after installation of the town’s first traffic lights at the Mitchell-Hargreaves Street intersection in 1964 that the State Electricity Commission announced its plan to abandon Bendigo’s trams.

To many, trams were daggy 19th century relics going nowhere slow. It was an era when even some of Melbourne’s tramlines were threatened with closure. Sir Henry Bolte, the roughhewn conservative premier of the day declared Bendigo’s tourist tram proposal a “corny” idea. A progress association thought it was “childish and impractical”, as it would prevent the building of a four-lane highway through Bendigo.

As you would expect, mature minds of the town’s historical society went into bat for their retention. But it was a group of 20-somethings that took up the cudgel and ran hard with the idea. A then, 21-year-old Michael McGowan recalls that the group, “Were not tram enthusiasts. They were more focussed on retaining Bendigo’s heritage.”

Daryl McClure was just 22. He reflected, “When you’re young, and you don’t have all that worldly experience that causes you to be cautious, you plough ahead and you solve the problems as you run into them”. Others of the younger brigade were John Kelly, Daryl Tonkin, Dennis O’Hoy, Robin Green, James Lerk, Murray Mansfield and Bruce McGrath.

Daryl recalls that while ‘the vast majority of the population thought it was great’, the tourist tram idea struck resistance in areas of authority. They had to overcome Bendigo Council’s opposition and then convince State Cabinet in the face of determined dissent from powerful bodies like the CRB, the SEC, and perversely, the Tramway Museum Society of Victoria.

Nevertheless, the Bendigo Trust, of which Daryl was a founding member and Michael is a current member, promptly produced a compelling submission in an era before the term “business-model” became a buzzword. “We were very confident that all the predictions that we put forward in our submission would be achieved — and they

were,” Daryl said.

The group’s youth and heedless enthusiasm also saw them hi-jack a Bendigo tram about to be shipped from the SEC depot to Adelaide. A more responsible senior member of the sub-committee “stood on the bridge.

He wouldn’t even come into the yard,” an older and now similarly inclined Michael mused. The ensuing furore gained national media coverage. “That among other things is what helped us with the Government. This was achieving notoriety,” Daryl said.

Despite adverse conclusions by a Government appointed committee, approval came within a month of Sir Henry Bolte being succeeded as premier by the much more social-liberalism minded Dick Hamer.

The whole kit and caboodle eventually passed to Bendigo Trust for $1.

The concept of having recorded commentary about landmarks of interest was part of the original proposal. Ken Hesse, Bendigo Trust sub-committee chairman, dubbed it the Talking Tram. Daryl conceived and voiced the then innovative techno solution from his employment with Bendigo’s fledgling television station. It was three decades before the idea was replicated on Melbourne’s city circle heritage trams.

At the time, it was said that Bendigo residents would be unlikely to patronise the service – perhaps by those guilty of exploring

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the world before discovering their home town. Or maybe they knew that daily life prevents us noticing the splendour of familiar surroundings. In any case, a recent trip on the Talking Tram reveals what the great novelist Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

The Talking Tram provided an ideal fresh perspective for Bendigonians to become a tourist in their own town. Passengers ride high above car traffic and enjoy a privileged vantage point in the middle of the road.

The passing spectacle is framed by the tram’s gleaming varnished timber and brass interiors, and travel is at a pace where the journey is not lost by eager anticipation of arrival.

The route is of course laden with landmarks that tell a sweeping tale of Bendigo’s golden beginnings. However it is not only the iconic attractions that provide intrigue – like the seldom noticed statue of a black swan atop the Black Swan Hotel. Or Irish Town, which never graduated to become a postcodeworthy suburb.

Beyond the imposing classical edifices, towers, domes and parks of central Bendigo, sometimes likened to Vienna and Paris, brings the simpler joy of a tram trundling along residential streets to the Josh House.

What envied real estate those houses must have been in the pre-motorcar years. On the return journey, commentary reveals the Beehive Building’s heyday as Sandhurst Mining Exchange, where trainloads of investors from Melbourne sought fortune.

It is not without irony that it now bears the Cash Converters sign.

Trams rides will be free for the 40th anniversary open day on Sunday, December 9. Entry to the Josh House, Tram Depot and surface mine tours will also be at no cost.

It is worth reflecting that Sydney opted for a mono-rail after its trams disappeared from streets in the 1960s. The mono-rail has now reached its use-by date and will soon be replaced with trams. Based on that trend, the next 40 years may see the realisation of Michael McGowan’s vision to have trams reinstated “along Mitchell Street and View Street”, and extended as originally planned “along Barnard Street”. ■

Michael McGowan and Daryl McClure in front of the Talking Tram.

Time to

remember

WITH the anniversary of Armistice Day looming on November 11, we spoke to four veterans with very different stories.

Whether in the air at sea or on the ground or in Australia, all four served their country with pride.

Writer:Steve Kendall - Photographer: David Field

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From left: Victor Cahill, Lisa Gellatly, Warwick Johanson and Murray Mayo

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Murray Mayo Australian Army 1941 to 1945 ONE young soldier made a name for himself in September 1941, and was wounded in the act.

Murray Mayo was travelling through Kangaroo Flat railway station when he and fellow troops saw the circus was in town.

Murray wandered over, and a lion attacked him, resulting in four stitches to his neck.

“It took a fancy to me,” Murray said.

Murray looks back on his 90 years with every belief he has been lucky.

He joined the army in July 1941 and became a member of 2/3 Machine Gun battalion who were just back from overseas service in the middle east.

“I had every expectation of going to Europe to fight,” Murray said.

“The returning troops were full of tales. It sounded exotic.”

Following training in Bendigo, and the infamous lion attack, Murray trained in the Atherton Tablelands near Cairns.

It was from Cairns he sailed in January 1945, destination New Guinea.

“We went on the US cruise ship Evangeline,” Murray said.

“Very posh.”

In New Guinea the Japanese were very much on the run, and as a member of headquarters staff never saw combat.

“We were bombed enough though,” he said.

“They found machine guns were not much use in jungle warfare, it was all too close action.

“I met Nita from Toolleen. She had been on the ship too, but I had not run into her on board,” Murray said.

Murray and Nita were married in London.

“There were five of us at the wedding,” Murray said.

“My father-in-law was very happy with the cost.

“After the wedding, we went to the local pub. After that our two witnesses went back to work, and Nita and I went off to Paris for our honeymoon.”

So Murray was having the European adventure he felt he missed in New Guinea.

Murray was working at Australia House in London, advising migrants about the joys of Australia, and very soon he and Nita returned themselves.

“We had to do the rounds of the families,” he said.

“The Bren gun was alright, but the fixed guns were too cumbersome.”

“My parents had not met Nita of course. So once we had been to Melbourne, we headed to Tolleen.”

Murray was in New Guinea until the end of June 1945 and was discharged from the army in October.

It was here that Murray’s luck came into play again.

“My dad was from England, and he served in the World War I, and I think I would have not been doing my bit if I hadn’t joined up,” Murray said.

“I had arranged a job in Western Australia while I was in England, goodness knows why,” he said.

“All the other fellas were joining up, so I did too.

“While in Tooleen a Mr Cahill who worked in banking happened to be visiting. He took me into Bendigo to meet a few people and before I knew it I was offered a job running a dairy.”

“I think my Dad was proud I did.”

“I hardly knew where milk came from.”

After missing out on the glamour of European travel in the army, Murray hopped on board a ship London bound in 1950.

Murray took the job, and ended up as assistant general manager at Sandhurst Dairies.

“There were 400 of us on board, it was a five-week trip in those days.”

From his home at White Hills, Murray still gets into Bendigo to meet up with Victor and Warwick, and he’s very happy with the lion’s share of good luck in his life.

It was while at an engagement party for two of the people who had met on the ship that Murray’s luck came into play.

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Victor Cahill RAAF Warrant Officer Wireless Operator / Air Gunner 1943 to 1946 A CASE of mumps during training probably saved Victor Cahill’s life.

He was at Parkes in NSW learning radio when he and eight others were cofined with the illness.

They were quarantined for a few weeks and the air force powers that be decided they were too far delayed, so they were put on the next course.

The original course of trainees went to Canada and then on to Bomber Command in Europe, as far as Victor knows none of them returned, so high were the casualties.

“I had a fortunate war,” Victor said of his time as a wireless operator air gunner in the Royal Australian Air Force.

The Bendigo High School student like so many of the day was in the Air Training Corps, a precursor to future service in the RAAF. “At least I had some say in where I went,” he said.

“I would have been put in the army at 18 anyway, at least this way I had a bit of choice.”

Air crew seemed to have a bit more glamour for Victor and he duly volunteered in 1943.

After radio training he trained as an air gunner at Fulham, near sale.

Then followed a stint as an instructor, flying with trainee pilots and navigators.

At this latter stage of the war radar became part of his trade, and training was with the US Army Air Corps in Queensland.

“Enough aircraft were still being brought down.”

“But I never fired my guns in action.”

The ball turret was under the aircraft, and was armed with twin .50 calibre machine guns.

“The pilots didn’t like the turret extended, it affected performance too much.

“Best view in the house though.

The layout of the turret meant the breech blocks for the guns were either side of Victor’s head.

“You’d fire them on Wednesday and still be hearing it on Friday,” he said.

“After a flight your ears would keep ringing for hours too.”

Though not involved in bombing missions, Victor often flew over enemy-held territory.

“I was not scared or excited, even on my first mission,” he said.

Finally he was posted to an operational squadron where he crewed up and flew in the US-made Liberator.

“They kept us pretty busy on a flight.

“The Liberator was designed, tested and first flew in 1941,” Victor said.

Operating from Dalby with 102 Squadron, the Liberators flew to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to repatriate wounded and discharged Australian soldiers.

“It was a very large aircraft, but very stable.”

Victor was involved in maritime patrols and supply flights.

“The operations could last 12 or 13 hours,” he said.

As the war neared an end Victor’s role entered a humanitarian period.

He was discharged from the RAAF in early 1946.

“They could make the aircraft fly for 18 hours with extra fuels tanks.”

“I didn’t fly much after the war,” he said.

When based at RAAF Amberley Victor was in a pool of operational aircrew.

“I remember my late wife and I flew to Tasmania.

“I never really flew with the same crew,” he said.

“I was pretty fed up I had to pay for the flight, I never had to up until then.”

“I was pretty busy on the flights, had lots to do with the radio and radar.

“I was the ball turret gunner as well if needed.”

This turret was retractable, and was only used if under threat.

The Japanese air force was severely depleted and Victor never came under attack from the air.

“The Japs had plenty of ground defences and ground troops though,” he said.

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Lisa Gellatly Women’s Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps – 1983 to 1986 THE Vietnam War had finished 10 years before, and Australia was free from major commitment or conflict when Lisa Gellatly joined the army.

This Wimmera nurse had her training in Warracknabeal under her belt and wanted to see a bit more of the world, to diverse out and do something different.

The Women’s Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps seemed the place to be.

“It stems from an awareness that younger veterans in the Bendigo community had no support network,” she said.

With several members of her family already in the army at the time, Lisa hopped on board.

“After Vietnam there have been a lot of conflicts, Afghanistan and Timor for example, and the group decided these people needed support.

Though in a nursing role, training included weapons combat training including use of the self-loading rifle and army duties, skills that hopefully would never be needed, but you never know.

“Nursing in the army isn’t just nursing, there are many other elements, during training we had battle efficiency tests and medivacs where we were evacuating casualties in helicopters,” Lisa said.

“It’s growing each year.”

The group is open to any current service persons who served in the Australian Defence Force from 1975.

“A lot different to nursing in a hospital. It appealed to me.”

This includes regulars or reserves of the army, navy or air force and defence civilians, with operational or non-operational service in or outside of Australia.

Lisa was serving during peace time, including Sydney and Healesville.

“They are all included and welcome,” Lisa said.

“As a general rule, when you join any military service conflict is part and parcel of it, so I was quite prepared to go wherever I was placed if conflict did arise.

“We have around 70 members at the moment, and it continues to increase, but we are happy to have more.”

“Of course part of the army nursing training was dealing with combat wounds.”

Lisa is now and aged care nurse at St John of God in Bendigo, a very different role, but the army background helps.

“Dedication to your patient goes with the job, and the army really taught me that.”

“In the army there is a special bond, like all services really. You’re part of the same group, there’s a special mateship that carries along.

“You’ve always got something in common to talk about, and you can relate to people who have served.”

Lisa is active in the Post 1975 Veterans, sub section of the RSL, a relatively new group.

“One of the types of uniforms I wore is in the RSL Memorial Hall in Pall Mall, my uniform’s in a museum,” she laughed.

“That was our parade dress, it’s a strange shade. But we had our army greens and our white nurses’ uniforms too.”

In the civilian world Lisa maintains her links to her service days via the RSL. Lisa was at the second Post 1975 Veterans Central Victoria meeting and has been involved ever since.

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With veterans of World War II and Vietnam reducing in numbers, Post 1975 Veterans will be carrying on the work.

“Ultimately we will be carrying the flag for veterans,” she said.

“The RSL is encouraging us to continue with the group.”

“Ongoing education for schoolchildren is a big part of what we do.

We have a number of members who have completed the school awareness program.

“That’s similar to the tours of the Shrine in Melbourne, and we reflect on positive stories of our service.”

Lisa said she thought Australia’s role in warfare was not taught as much as it should be, but that’s a role the Post 1975 Veterans can fill.

“Sometimes I am surprised how more young people don’t become involved with the defence force,” she said.

“Ultimately you’re serving your country.”

Warwick Johanson Royal Australian Navy 1942 to 1946 AS a visual signaller with the Royal Australian Navy, Warwick Johanson found himself in the thick of action during World War II. After joining at 17, and five months of training, Warwick joined the heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, the flagship of the navy.

At first the ship was involved in shepherding back convoys carrying returning troops, but later the ship, as part of the US Seventh Fleet, supported the US landings of Japanese-held islands.

“I don’t know how I’m not stone deaf,” Warwick said.

“Our job was to clear the way for the landings, so we had to clear enemy ships and aircraft.

“Then we would fire on the landing areas.”

HMAS Australia had eight 20cm main guns, and the noise was considerable, and all the other ships were firing too.

“We didn’t have much ear protection.”

The landings in New Britain were bad enough, but as part of the invasion of the Phillipines, Warwick saw up close the newest assault

by Japan.

“We were hit five times.

Twenty five were killed and 30 wounded on January 5, 14 died and 26 were wounded on January 6.

We were hit twice on January 8, and on January 9 a kamakazi hit the front funnel.”

One of those killed in the attacks, was a friend of Warwick’s.

“Lindsay Herdman was from Epsom.” Warwick said.

“He was in a gun turret which took a direct hit.”

“One aircraft deliberately rammed us,” Warwick said.

“It made me very sad. He was posted missing, believed killed. They never found his body.”

“It hit the foremast, and there was a huge fire. Thirty men, including the captain, were killed and 64 were wounded.

“Those killed were buried at sea. Despite the times, it was done with great dignity.”

“It missed me by feet.”

After the war, Warwick visited Lindsay’s family in Bendigo.

“We retired from the battle for repairs, only to return about three weeks later.”

“It was a very sad occasion.”

At this point in the war, it wasn’t realised the Japanese were actively using kamakazi aircraft. These were pilots whose mission was to ram enemy shipping, killing themselves in the process.

Thirty-four ships had been sunk, and 300 reported damage.

As the battles went on it became clear this was a military tactic.

“The aircraft weren’t bombing us,” Warwick said.

“They’d fight through the outer ring of our aircraft, struggle through the anti-aircraft and if they were still surviving, crash into a ship.

“There were 10 Australian ships as part of the 650 strong invasion fleet at Leyte Gulf.”

This was January 1945, and though bloodied the Japanese were fighting back.

HMAS Australia was part of the fleet ahead of the invading forces and took serious damage from Kamikazis.

The kamakazis had taken a terrible toll on the pre-invasion fleet.

The Japanese had sent their aircraft in to halt the invasion, and failed.

What’s more the landing troops came later and were unmolested by kamakazis. They has all been used on their one-way missions.

Warwick said he was often frightened, but suffered no long-term effects from the stress of battle.

At one point he was sent ashore to signal back to the ship on where firepower was needed in a Japanese attack.

“There were two of us signallers, we had a revolver each and six rounds of ammunition.”

“The Japanese were infiltrating all about the place, and when I was back on board HMAS Australia it made me pleased I was in the navy.

“I didn’t fancy that close contact fighting with a bayonet at all.”

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B.Entertained it though,” she said.

“When you do that it can be quite a let down if things don’t go as planned.

“I try to make sure that everything I do is enjoyable.”

Lanie said with the music going well, everything else is a bonus, and good things happen.

With one album under her belt, Lanie could record another one already, and has taken to learning a new instrument.

“I’ve been writing on the Fender Rhodes keyboard, which will be a different sound for the next album,” Lanie said.

“I’ve been teaching myself how to play the keys, and obviously you get a really different song when you play the keys rather than guitar.

“I’ve been playing songs on guitar for 15 years, so it’s great for me to swap instruments for something so fresh and new.”

Lanie said she’s found the way she likes to do recording, and for the moment will stick with it.

“It feels good to me, and the band love it too.”

As for writing, Lanie has a comfort zone, and tends to write at home or in her bedroom, or even at her parents’ home in Sydney.

When we spoke, Lanie hadn’t written for a month, but wasn’t too worried as some weeks she will write a couple of songs.

“I don’t really stress, it seems to work out,” she said.

“I feel it’s so important to capture the song at that moment. I owe it to the song. And if that’s when it has chosen to come out, then come out it must.

“You can never know when inspiration will hit, and it’s an interesting and distinctive feeling when it does.

LANE TO CASTLEMAINE Lanie Lane has eased herself into the music scene in the most subtle of ways. Rather than having a big break, she says it happened graduallly.

Now with her debut album in the mix, and near-enough constant touring Lanie is part of the musical furniture.

sound. That’s my description, but it has a beautiful rawness that can only be achieved by recording live.

She has been writing and playing guitar since she was 12, and this London-born Gosford girl now calls Melbourne home.

“The band recorded together in one room, two guitars, double bass and drums, and we didn’t really use much multi-tracking,” Lanie said.

“I did most of the vocals separately, and we did some guitar work later, but mostly it was just the band playing.”

“I’ve being touring quite a bit recently, but I try to keep it interesting when I’m not performing,” Lanie said.

“I am lucky the band is good enough to manage it, they are exceptional musicians, not everybody could.”

“We don’t get slammed after a gig, we save our energies to do something the next day.”

It was about four years ago that Lanie decided to make a go of music, though it had always been part of her life.

Lanie’s debut album, To The Horses, released earlier this year, is a rocking, soulful, rockabilly

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Recording on album two is set for later this year.

Lanie keeps herself busy with tours, and has even branched out as a mentor talking to selfmanaged artists.

“It keeps the momentum going,” Lanie said.

“I’m really enjoying my lifestyle.”

Writer:Steve Kendall

Lanie takes time out to spend time in Blackwood, which puts her right on the road for Castlemaine, where she is due to appear on September 22 at The Theatre Royal.

“You just know. And all that you can do at that moment is to get out the guitar, pen and paper and start singing.”

“I have never been worried or stressed about

Lanie Lane plays the Theatre Royal, Castlemaine on September 22.

B.Entertained

Be entertained this spring Here is your snap shot guide to all things entertainment happening during the spring months - from the celestial sounds of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to the soulful Bendigo Blues & Roots Festival, all tastes are catered for.

Writer: Colin Thompson Excitement is building around the second Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival, taking place from November 8 to 11.

we’re serious about this endeavour, they’ve also helped us to build a following for a festival that really is in it’s absolute infancy.

Another incredibly talent-filled line-up is assured, featuring about 80 acts, spread across around 20 great venues in and around town, over the four day program.

“It’s allowed us to build the kind of momentum and awareness of what we’re doing that wouldn’t have been possible if we’d stuck to staging nothing but the Festival itself.”

The main event of the festival will again be an all-day, family-friendly, free-entry concert on Saturday, November 10 featuring 16 great acts (and other attractions) and will be held at Civic Gardens surrounding our magnificent Town Hall.

Of course there will be another strong contingent of some of Australia’s finest Blues & Roots practitioners visiting the region to perform at this year’s BB & RMF (Dallas Frasca, Jimi Hocking, Josh Owen, Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel, Archer, Abbie Cardwell, Ash Davies, Stringybark McDowell, Genevieve Chadwick – to name just a handful).

This is a facet which is of particular importance to the founder and director of the Festival, Colin Thompson: “One of the most heart-warming things we’ve achieved as part of putting this Festival and it’s supporting events together, has been to shine a light on just some of the incredible talent pool that exists right under our noses here in Central Victoria.”

The supporting events Colin speaks of have been an integral part of getting the Festival off the ground – in more ways than one.

“The Fundraiser/Showcase events we’ve staged at various venues over the course of the two years have served to not only raise capital and show potential supporters that

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Colin speaks with obvious excitement about how the Festival’s presence has acted to enrich Bendigo’s music and arts scene.

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“It’s been brilliant to see so many performers come out of the woodwork over the past couple years – young, old and in between – who otherwise might have kept their talent hidden.

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“And more people have been reminded of the fun to be had just by witnessing live music first hand again.

“There are a lot of individuals and groups out there in Bendigo right now doing their part to help get the live music scene happening again and to ensure its something for future generations to enjoy as well.

“I’m very proud of the group that’s behind the Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival and what we’ve been able to contribute so far – and we’re just getting started.

“Its truly a great time to be involved in music in Bendigo.

Keep an eye out for the various Showcases and partnered events which are staged all-year round at one venue or another

by BB & RMF’s committee and support crew. Check their website at: www. bendigobluesandroots.com.au and find them on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/ bendigobluesroots ■

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Daring to be different For winemaking couple Krystina and Dominic Morris, anything goes when it comes to red wine. But as JOHN HOLTON discovered, daring to be different has done nothing to harm the reputation of Pondalowie – one of Australia’s most celebrated young labels.

Writer: John Holton Photographer: Anthony Webster It’s a pretty typical Thursday at Pondalowie Vineyards’ newly-opened cellar door in View Street. Krystina Morris has just dropped daughter Sophie at pre-school, husband Dominic has finally found time to have a sandwich at 2.30 in the afternoon, while two-year-old William plays quietly on a nearby couch.

Time to take a breath as we sit at the long tasting table, adorned with just some of this wine making couple’s award-winning reds, and talk all things viticultural.

The Morrises have never known anything but busy, since entering the wine industry in their late teens and eventually meeting at St Hallet winery in the Barossa Valley. In many ways it was a winemaking match made in heaven (well, it is the Barossa we’re talking about), and it wasn’t long before the couple set their sights on Europe and the chance to produce vintages overseas.

“Working overseas gave us so many opportunities to learn and develop our approach to winemaking,” Krystina says.

“Not just the textbook style of winemaking, but the influence a culture and tradition can have on winemaking as well.”

One culture in particular has had a lasting influence on the Morrises, and vice versa.

Dominic’s very first vintage for Quinta do Crasto in the Douro Valley, Portugal won the label the International Red Wine of the Year trophy in London for their 1995 Douro Red. It kicked off a relationship that lasted 16 years, with Dominic travelling to Portugal three times a year to fulfil his role as head winemaker.

And while his love of the Douro still burns deep, his love of family burns deeper, along with his commitment to the next stage of the Pondalowie journey. This year Dominic is set to spend his first spring in Bendigo for a long, long time. You can guarantee he’ll enjoy the AFL Grand Final this year – with a fine glass of red in hand of course.

The Pondalowie name, with its iconic stylised dog label, was inspired by Pondalowie Bay on South Australia’s York Peninsula, the place

where Dominic and Krystina holidayed each year to relax after their hectic schedule of producing vintages in Australia and Europe.

It was also the place they decided to pursue their dream of creating a vineyard and winery of their own – a place to combine their complimentary winemaking skills and dare to be different.

“Krystina has a degree in Oenology, so her background is very much in the science of winemaking,” Dominic explains. “While I studied wine marketing and learnt winemaking in a very hands-on way. It’s turned out to be a perfect combination. It does away with the need for a cellar hand and we can keep everything in-house. It means we can make decisions as we go and be more varied and experimental in our winemaking. And when unique conditions arise, we can isolate a few good rows in the vineyard and make special label wines in small quantities. We have an attitude of anything goes when it comes to red wine. It’s an exciting way to work.”

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Another secret to their winemaking success is a near identical palate when it comes to red wine.

“It makes it very easy to work together,” Dominic says. “If one of us says ‘that really works’ then we just go with it. After making wine together for such a long time we trust each other’s judgement implicitly.”

When it came to choosing the site for their vineyard, Dominic and Krystina opted not to go with the predictability and safety of the Barossa Valley where Krystina’s family already owned a vineyard, but instead settled on Bridgewater – a world away from the Barossa and even further removed from the mountain slopes of the Douro. They recognised its potential for growing premium red wine grapes and it’s proven to be the perfect location to match their adventurous winemaking style.

“With the help of Dominic’s brother Luke, we put every post in the ground, ran all the wire and planted most of the vines ourselves,” Krystina says. “We planted the traditional shiraz and cabernet – proven varieties in the region – but we also planted tempranillo, which was considered somewhat brave at the time. It’s done really well in the Bridgewater soil and many other winemakers in the region have emulated the style.”

This writer can definitely vouch for the “pinga” tempranillo et al. 2010. With a touch of shiraz, nebbiolo and cabernet thrown in, it has incredible depth in both flavour and colour. With the slightest hint of spice, it hits just the right note of savoury and fruit and was the perfect partner to a mushroom risotto. It’s simply a stunner.

But I’m not alone in falling for the stuff.

James Halliday has singled out Pondalowie’s shiraz and tempranillo as among the very best in the country and ranks them in the top five per cent of Australian wineries.

But neither Dominic or Krystina get too carried away by reviews. They know you’re only ever as good as your last vintage. “You concentrate on what you do well,” Dominic says. “We push ourselves to make red wine that is unlike anything else. The best moments for us happen in the vineyard and the winery.”

Pondalowie continue to succeed at being different, being the only winemakers in the region to have a cellar door in the Bendigo CBD. “Because our winery is in the East Bendigo industrial estate, the search for a cellar door site has been high on our agenda,” Krystina says. “We’ve driven along View Street for years hoping a suitable property would come onto the market. When the old gun shop became available we knew we had to give it a go.”

“It’s a growing trend in Europe – particularly in places like Burgundy where a major town is in the middle of a winegrowing district,” Dominic adds. “It means wine lovers don’t have to travel out of town to visit the cellar door and they still have the experience of meeting the winemakers and talking about the winemaking process.

“It’s more than just a shopfront, and we’re definitely not competing with wine bars or other hospitality venues. It’s a genuine wine tasting experience, and so far the visitors love it.”

More importantly, it allows the Morrises to share the workload and spend more time together as a family. It’s clearly what Pondalowie is all about. ■

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Put a spring in your step Spring mornings can be brisk and the nights a tad chilly, but those middle hours of the day are absolutely gorgeous in Bendigo.

ASH RAEBURN – WINE GUY

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Williams Crossing, Pinot Noir 2010

Sutton Grange, Fairbank Rose 2011

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The term bang for your buck gets bandied about in the wine world quite a lot but as we cannot all afford Phillip Moraghan’s esteemed Curly Flat Label every night of the week, this certainly provides much more than the price indicates. This vintage of William’s Crossing, including the Chardonnay certainly continues the particularly high standard we have come to know and enjoy.

Rose is a fantastic wine to drink in the months of Spring and this offering provides a quite a differing option for those that may still be lost in the days of Mateues and sickly sweet raspberry cordial offerings. Sutton Grange wines are produced by one of the region’s best winemakers in Gilles Lapalus, whose own winemaking style is evident throughout their range of wines.

Produced from barrels that are deemed just below the level for the Curly Flat label, it delivers a striking crimson colour with aromas of red cherry, cranberry and violet wafting from the glass.

Cherry and blackberry flavours initially strike the palate, leading into hints of white pepper and spice and the finely grained tannins help deliver a dry, savoury finish. Match with a sumac spiced duck breast.

The wine has beautiful, striking pink blossom colours, reminiscent of the fruit trees seen in many Bendigo backyards and shows aromas of candied orange peel and fresh citrus on the nose.

Produced entirely from Shiraz, it is fresh and vibrant on the palate with flavours of strawberries and cream yet the finish remains dry and crisp. Again it would match a spicy Thai soup but for me, a perfect wine for a sunny Spring afternoon.

Ellis Vineyard, Signature Label Shiraz 2010 Heathcote. Retail: $28 Members: $25.20 With the first block of vines planted in 1999 on the famed Cambrian soil, the Ellis family have certainly done a fantastic job over the past 13 years. The vineyard has grown to more than 48 hectares of vines with plantings of not only Shiraz, but Cabernet, Merlot and the Viognier which produces a lovely example of one of the white varietals now being produced in Heathcote. This second vintage of the Signature Label Shiraz from Ellis continues on the excellent work form the first release. The nose shows dominate red fruit of ripened plums, raspberries and a slight hint of tobacco leaf. The palate is quite rounded with gentle, soft tannin with flavours of black cherry compote and milk chocolate. Finish lingers nicely with the wine showing excellent potential to age.

Best’s, Great Western Riesling.

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2011 Retail: $25 Members: $22.50 Riesling still remains quite an enigma in Australia – is it sweet, dry or is it off-dry, and what constitutes off-dry? It can be any of the three aforementioned and quite often, we are left to guess as labels do not often tell the full story. The best way to learn is to experiment, ask the staff at your local wine shop and find your own preferred style of Riesling as the different regions of Australia produce varying examples.

This Riesling shows a light green straw colour within the glass with aromas of apricot sherbet and ripe nectarine. These aromas lead into slight sweetness on the initial palate. These initial natural fruit flavours are superbly balanced by crisp lime and crunchy green apple flavours and a clean finish.

This wine would be perfectly at home with spicy dumplings or a Malaysian curry. ■

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The beers reviewed here are full of this new life. I’ve picked these crafty beers to showcase Victorian breweries that are making beautiful, refreshing and new styles.

After a long cold winter of heavy foods, big desserts and hearty roasts, lets dip into some brighter styles of brew with some beers that are new…

Temple Brewing – Midnight IPA

Two Birds – Sunset Ale

Hargreaves Hill – ESB

Jet black, but not thick and rich like a stout, this beer is a perception bender. It’s an IPA, a big, bold American style IPA with a brilliant piney, resinous hop kick, yet relaxes into a smooth and creamy finish. Surprisingly smooth, and hides it’s 7% ABV very well. Almost too well.

Temple is located in Brunswick East and looks like something from next century. Meticulously clean, with owners/brewers Ron and Renata dedicating years to set the brewery/brasserie up just the way they want it, their setup is a brewers dream. The beer itself matches well with oily and spicy foods. Try it with grilled flatbread and chilli sweet potato dip. This beer is currently finding its way into venues across Bendigo

The second child of this new brewing partnership of Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen, it’s a red ale with a big fantastic hop filled aroma, and surprisingly balanced malt backbone. The hops on the nose are citrus, pine and floral; the malt smoothness has a beautiful toffee/caramel sweetness. Together, it’s light and shade, a brilliant spring beer.

Sunset in a glass. This beer goes well with spices, try a sweet chilli dish, or even match it to crème brulee and see how the caramel flavours work together. This beer is currently finding its way into venues across Bendigo.

If there was ever a beer that defined spring, this would be it. Light and refreshing (5.2%), bursting with new life (full of fresh hop aroma and citrusy passionfruit flavours), and fades away into a beautiful finish (sweet caramel). Most importantly, it’s the beer you keep looking for every year. This brewery is located in the Yarra Valley, with brewer Simon and his wife Beth losing their original brewery in the Black Saturday Bushfires in 2009. Great to see them back up and pushing out some world class beers. Matches well with light meals, perfect with bruschetta, amazing with friends. Available at Dispensary Enoteca, and frequently in my fridge.

Bridge Road Brewers – Chevalier Saison Probably…no, definitely, one of Australia’s best beers. Loved by beer nerds (me), brewers (me) and craft beer aficionado’s (me).

Don’t let that fool you though, we have some wine lovers who are astounded by the balance and subtlety of the flavours in this farmhouse ale style. A little bit funky on the nose, a bit sour due to the specialised yeast strain, and crisp plus refreshing at the end. A faultless beer.

Another beer that suits spicy dishes, but the perfect match is with sourdough from the Good Loaf. As sourdough and beer are made from the same ingredients, the flavours are complementary.

Available at Dispensary Enoteca and Goldmines Hotel. ■

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Sous Vide and the smoking gun There are many modern techniques used in professional kitchens nowadays, but none are more exciting and revolutionary than Sous-Vide.

Writer: Tim Baxter - Photographer: David Field Literally meaning “under vacuum”, it’s a fairly recent introduction into commercial kitchens, but as prices for the equipment come down it will start to become more widespread and filter into domestic kitchens as well. In fact it occasionally makes an appearance on Master Chef, so it’s only a matter of time until the masses embrace it.

While the method itself was invented more than 200 years ago, it re-entered the elite mainstream in the 1970s when it become obvious as an industrial food preservation system. The process hit cutting edge high-end restaurants in the mid –1970s in France, and then spread to top European and American restaurants in the 80s and 90s. It quickly became a standard technique for the likes of Heston Blumenthal, Joel Robuchon, Ferran Adria, Thomas Keller, Paul Bocuse and many more of the world’s leading and most inventive chefs.

This process is essentially cooking food in sealed airtight bags with all air removed, in a water bath at low temperatures for long periods of time. This can be done for up to three days and provided the temperature is

kept at a precise setting, the results are quite extraordinary. Most items cooked this way are usually done at a temperature of around about 60 to 70 degrees celcius.

You need two separate gadgets to do this.

A vacuum sealer, which are now becoming commonplace in white good stores and even infomercials, which suck all the air out of a high grade plastic bags and seal the food in it airtight. You then need a water bath with an element that circulates water and maintains a perfect controlled temperature.

There are expensive all-in-one units but you can also use a simple large stockpot and a bought commercial element and regulator for less than $1000.

Once the food is in an airtight bag it has several benefits. It can be stored conveniently and handled with ease, and during the cooking process it can be heated through evenly with no risk of juices leaking out or overcooking. At The Dispensary Enoteca we sous vide our Erindale lamb for 18 hours at 69 degrees, we then char-grill it to give it a slightly caramelised “roast lamb” flavour on the outside and serve it

on smoked eggplant puree with giant cous cous, mint, coriander, toasted almonds and harissa. For 18 months it’s been our best selling dish. The succulence of the meat has been brought about by the slow breakdown of the meat’s connective tissue into gelatin.

Cooking at high temperatures can rupture the meats cell walls and toughen its proteins.

Slightly more futuristic is the new smoking gun I bought for the kitchen on a whim during a visit to Melbourne in January.

While the gun looks fairly experimental and the image you see here of our chef Hugh smoking his oysters combines the best combination of great produce, with a little experimentation and dash of theatrics (and perhaps just a pinch of mad professor).

The concept of smoking foods has been around for centuries, but this is a remarkably simple tool and its applications in our kitchen are growing all the time. You simply pack the gun with one of the many different types of wood shavings available, light the wood and pull the trigger (each wood type imparts its own different gentle flavour). The gun does the rest with its inbuilt fan and nozzle, allowing you to very quickly and easily direct a burst of smoke onto your chosen foodstuff. You can put the smoke into an airtight container with food and leave it sitting in smoke for as long as you want to allow further depths of flavour to be added.

We use the gun to smoke almonds, river salt, apples, eye fillet (carpaccio), tomatoes and various other meats, fruits and vegetables.

On the occasional day, when the chefs are pre-occupied I can even wrestle the smoking gun out of their hands and into the bar where we can make to order a smoked manhattan or martini. ■

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Photographer: David Field An epicurean is a person who enjoys and has a discriminating taste for food and drink coupled with a fondness of luxury and sensuous pleasure, especially that of eating and drinking and the name represents what The Epicurean delicatessen is all about.

Cathy Ciancio is the heart of the Epicurean kitchen, with the food cooked each day in the delicatessen an extension of the food cooked in the family home. Cathy and husband Tony are proud of the fresh, locally sourced products, the high quality exclusive goods that imported as well as the extensive array of local and imported cheese in the delicatessen. “The most popular dish on the Epicurean menu would have to be the home made Sicilian spaghetti which is a spicy spaghetti with broccoli and olives,” explains Cathy.

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Gnocchi with tree formaggi (three cheeses) sauce - serves four Ingredients: • 50g Gorgonzola (crumbled) • 50g Gruyere/Fontina (grated) • 300ml thickened cream • 2 cloves garlic • tablespoon olive oil Method: Chop or crush garlic in garlic crusher.

Heat olive oil in a large wide heavy based saucepan. Add garlic and saute for 1 minute.

Add cream and allow it to heat for approximately two minutes. Add the gorgonzola and gruyere cheese.

Cook on the stove until the cheese has melted.

Add enough cooked gnocchi to serve four people. Warm through and then remove from the stove and serve immediately.

Cathy holds classes at The Epicurean so you can learn to make your own home made gnocchi. For more information or to book in for one of the classes with Cathy phone (03) 5443 2699. ■ Issue 28 - Bendigo Magazine | 107

ice cream sundays Follow Petit Pixel as she wanders the streets of her hometown Bendigo, photographing and writing about the places, people & food she finds along the way. She loves nothing more than a good road-trip to discover some of regional Victoria’s best kept secrets and old favourites. At the end of the day you’ll find her heading home to kick back with the three loves of her life: a sports mad husband, RSPCA adopted dog, and dessert. You can read more on her blog www.petitpixeldesign.com or join the conversation on twitter via @petitpixl We started a tradition a few summers ago in our house called “Ice Cream Sundays”, where at some point on a lazy Sunday afternoon one of us would announce to the other it was time to drift in to Bendigo for some gelato from Favourite Flavours. We’d stop in & say hi to Ruby the dog next door, wander a few shops, Luke would offer me the last bite of his choc-honeycomb waffle cone & we’d head home. It wasn’t long before the tradition expanded to include Saturdays and/or public holidays, and our ice cream types & sources grew. Here are some of my favourites...

Mini Melts

Frozen yoghurt

Cold Rock - Mix ins

Gelato

Cold Rock - Mix ins

You’ll find Mini Melts at Bendigo Ice Creamery Cafe...tiny ice cream balls (about the size of a peppercorn) that melt instantly on your tongue, these ones are Banana Split. Indulge Fine Belgian Chocolates have created a gorgeous take on the traditional ice cream sundae.

Hayley’s recipe includes crushed meringue drizzled with blackberry coulis, vanilla ice cream, melted Belgian chocolate topped with more chocolate shavings. Steve from Favourite Flavours is always inventing something new for his range of gelatos, and he’ll happily let you taste test until you make up your mind. This time we had Butterscotch and Turkish Delight. Cold Rock presents another level of choice with their many mix-in options. I’ve only just learned about this combination from a friend at work and haven’t been able to go past it since: cake batter ice cream with chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate brownies smashed in. Lastly, for the health nuts (ie my sister who will travel from Ballarat for this), Pall Mall Cafe is continuing the long standing tradition of frozen soft serve yoghurt. Ask for a layer of chopped up strawberries in the middle & eat it under the shade of the trees in Rosalind Park.

Of course, you could make a day of it and head further afield to Daylesford for a picnic by the lake. We like to stop in at the Little Red Apple just before Castlemaine to grab some local produce on the way...but Wombat Hill House and Ego’s Culinaria also have picnic options if you want to plan ahead. You won’t even notice the afternoon drifting lazily by when you’re lying at lakes edge under the sweeping willows. Take a dip if it gets too warm, and then spend some time browsing in The Book Barn for a good summer “lake read”. If you’re looking to escape the crowds, its a bit quieter down the far end of the lake with plenty of grass to stretch out on. You might even spot the gently rounded (and I daresay very spoiled!) flock of Lake House geese out for an afternoon walk.

Perhaps you could end the day with a lazy nap in the hammock at home. I got given one for Christmas a few years ago and now can’t imagine a summer without it (although if someone could tell me the secret of reading comfortably in a hammock that would be appreciated!) String up some haphazard fairy lights and dress up your citronella candles in some colourful lanterns (I found mine at Barbeques Galore) to get that soft flickering glow. Speaking of, is there anything better than the smell (and taste!) of a BBQ on a still summer evening? Now relax, put your feet up and watch the sun set.

Before you know it, it will be time for ice cream again!

The gorgeous little blue bowl I photographed the Cold Rock ice cream in was supplied by Keren of My Vintage Tea Hire. Design elements with thanks to Peppermint of One Little Bird Designs. You’ll find more information about these, and other finds I used to put this story together on my blog at www.petitpixeldesign.com

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(all 400 layers of it) and while the skin and nails are still soft, the nails are filed, shaped and cuticles are pushed back and trimmed if necessary. Sounds ominous, but is really a quite pleasant experience if done correctly.

Given my current heavily pregnant state, it would appear that like most, I have not sighted my tootsies in a while, so instead of enlisting my ever-helpful husband to paint my toenails a pretty spring colour, I opted to pay a visit to the girls at JACS Salon to see if they could assist with my pedicure predicament.

Heels are then buffed with a pumice stone – to which both the beauty therapist and photographer’s amusement, I have trouble refraining from the giggles. At this point I will mention that I am not a foot person, and anyone who tickles my feet is duly warned that they may receive an accidental blow due to said ticklishness, although relaxation soon follows with a glorious moisturising foot massage.

On arrival, I am met by the girls who swiftly whisk me away to the beauty room and to my surprise, I’m instructed hop to up onto the massage table rather than the more traditional pedi-chair I’d become accustomed to.

Commencing the foot soak in a spa basin, my feel are massaged with a delicious raspberry exfoliant, helping to lift away any dry skin and build up that out feet can accumulate from being tucked away over the cooler months.

After this, my residual nail lacquer is removed

Now to that spring colour. I am given an array of OPI nail colours to choose from, but much to my surprise, these are not just ordinary lacquer colours, they are the new range of GelColour by OPI. This colour gel goes on like nail lacquer but sets like gel to give you weeks of incomparable shine and wear. Perfect for someone like me who can’t reach their toes to touch up colour each week.

I opted for a flirty little number ‘Cajun Shrimp’ a nice bright red that will pep my

feet up and match pretty much anything in my wardrobe. Easy.

My Beauty Therapist first applies a base coat to the nail – as many base coats contain protein, aloe vera, vitamin E and calcium, these ingredients aid to maintain healthy nails by helping to replenish any damage and promote healthy nail growth. Base coats are also used when dark or strong colour lacquers are used to prevent staining of the nail.

After the base coat, the colour gel is applied and cured with a UV heat lamp. This is repeated a second time and a final clear topcoat is popped on the top.

The beauty of this type of product is that it is so quick to apply and there’s also no downtime for the nails to dry. The UV instantly cures and dries the nail so you can do away with having to bring the old double pluggers into the salon to wear home while your tootsies dry. No smudges. Long-lasting colour. Peep-toe ready feet.

To get your flirty-feet spring savvy, visit the girls at JACS Salon at 49 Williamson St or (03) 5441 2304. ■

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Guest speaker Libby Nuttall from WIN news explained the new membership package to the vibrant crowd which is aimed at engaging those in the younger community to head along to the races.

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Hayley wears Lucette tulle dress $429, Adorne rectangle cuff $29, Adorne dome ring $29 all from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane) and Novo patent pumps $59.95 from Novo (Bendigo Marketplace) Pollyanna by Belinda Smith millinery POA available from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane)

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Jeremy wears Slim jacket $299.99 and pant $149.99, shirt $99.99, bowtie $49.99, reversible belt $49.99 and Suede chelsea boot $169.99 all from Roger David (Bendigo Marketplace) and Gents sinatra hat $85 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street)

Photographer: David Field Stylist: Katarina McNeill Stylist Assistant: Rhylee Elliott Work Experience: Rosie Hartney Makeup: Brazilian Beauty Hair: Honeyeater Models: Hayley and Jeremy Location: Bendigo Jockey Club

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Melbourne Hats Top Hat $110 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street)

Blake Hat $99 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street)

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Akubra Bogart Hat $144.95 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street) Avenel Hat $65 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street)

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Krystal wears Spicysugar dress with brown belt $59 and brown clutch $44.95 both from Minc Fashion (Strath Villiage). Tony Bianco shoes $139.95 from Evans Shoes (Williamson Street). Jewelled Headband $49.95 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).

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this season

Braidy wears Zanerobe jeans $119.95, Fontaine tee $79.95 and Zanerobe shirt $89.95 all from Urban Corridor (Mitchell Street). Converse shoes $89.95 from Evans Shoes (Williamson Street).

Krystal wears Living Doll cami $19.95, Sadie ruffle top $79.95 and Sadie skirt $89.95 all from Urban Corridor, (Mitchell Street). Verali heel $109.95 from Evans Shoes (Williamson Street). Black & White Headpiece POA from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).

Krystal wears Paradise floral jeans $45 and Luvalot top $35 both from Melrose Avenue (Bendigo Marketplace). Django & Juliette shoes $159.95 from Evans Shoes (Williamson Street). Coral headpiece POA from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).

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Krystal wears peach skinny jeans $79.95, white seamless scoop tank $24.95, watercolour tailed top $59.95, mist soft pop blazer $89.95, pastel pop triple belt pack $19.95, button bangle set $19.95, flower ring $14.95, round earrings $12.95 and citrus shoulder bag $49.95 all from Portmans (Bendigo Marketplace).

Diavolina shoes $149.95 from Evans Shoes (Williamson Street).

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this season

Krystal wears colourblock swing tank $79.95, soft pleat skirt $89.95, sueded bow belt $29.95 all from Jacqui E (Bendigo Marketplace). Django & Juliette shoes $139.95 from Evans Shoes (Williamson Street). Black headpiece POA from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).

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this season

Krystal wears Love Affair maxi dress $170 and Kรถ Fashion Heels $59.95 both from Miss Jayz (Hargraves Mall).

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this season

Braidy wears Dickies college jacket $99.95, Dickies Raglan tee $49.95, Dickies black skinny straight pants $79.99 and Dickies cap $39.95 all from Urban Corridor (Mitchell Street). Converse shoes $89.95 from Evans Shoes (Williamson Street).

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this season

Krystal wears Montique ruffle dress $270, Gaudi scarf $270 and Kosheen shoes $199 all from Euro Collections (Mitchell Street).

Pink Headpiece POA from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).

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Krystal wears Manning Cartell seashells lace dress $599, Skin by Nude heel $189, Adorne two tone clutch $49, Adorne ring $29, and one of a kind ivory straw pillbox headpiece Pollyanna by Belinda, POA, all from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane).

Braidy wears Lucas Como shirt $99, Lucas Como Jacket $399, Lucas Como suit pants $99, Eagle Belt $59.95, Marcus Hill tie $20 and Stone shoes $59 all from Man To Man (Bendigo Marketplace).

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Ame wears Alice McCall Sound of Silence dress $329 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane) Silver mask $18 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).

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Lace bunting courtesy of Vintage Tea Hire @ Eaglehawk Party Hire (Eaglehawk Road).

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Ame wears Rachel Gilbert Charlotte dress $660 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane).

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Ame wears Truese Bella maxi dress $319 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane).

Cupcakes courtesy of Paper Cake Soiree. www.facebook.com/ papercakesoiree Tea cup and cake stand courtesy of My Vintage Tea Hire. myvintageteahire@iinet.net.au

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Ame wears Seduce Love affair dress $399.95 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane).

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Ame wears Miss Unkon Half Moon dress $190 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane) and Maroon Mask $29 from Bendigo Hat Shop (High Street).

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Ame wears Trelise Cooper Hidden Agenda top $330 from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane) and Pollyanna by Belinda Smith millinery POA also available from Mona Lisa (Bath Lane).

Photographer: Terri Basten Stylist/MUA: Katarina McNeill Hair: Honeyeater Model: Ame Location: Old Fire Station

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James wears bodean top $22.95 and bodean jeans $39.95 from Bendigo Nappies & Kidz Biz (Strath Village Shopping Centre)

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Milly wears Fred Bare top $54.95 and denim skirt $54.95 from Twinkletoes Kidswear (Queen Street)

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Fraser wears Kaboosh tee $24.95 and Kaboosh jeans $29.95 from Bendigo Nappies & Kidz Biz (Strath Village Shopping Centre)

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MUM SAYS

CYBER CHILDREN Once upon a lifetime ago, my parents repeatedly asked, “What on earth do you have to talk about for that long?” each time I used the telephone.

Writer: Kylie Freer - Photographer: Andrew Perryman

Surely they knew the literal answer. A bit of schoolwork, gossip, parents, sport, fashion, boys... It took a long time to dissect that Luke Perry-like glance thrown your way in the corridor before lunch. The issue wasn’t what we talked about; it was how long we’d tied up the telephone lines for, twirling the cord around our fingers like Mallory from Family Ties.

Despite the fact we hijacked the phone lines each night, this was a personal conversation between two people and although your parents grumbled about it, they knew who you were talking to. If anything was spread at school, you knew where it came from.

Nowadays, anyone can be included or excluded from a conversation. A thoughtless comment (or carefully calculated one) can be sent to an entire contacts folder in the heat of the moment without a compassionate thought or consideration of the consequences.

We are connected like never before and while the depth and strength of some of our relationships is possibly arguable, connected we are nonetheless... and so are our children. In a recent survey across a number of Bendigo schools, almost 50 per cent of children aged 10 – 12 have a mobile phone and nearly 60 per cent of these phones connect to the Internet, this figure excludes personal devices like the iTouch.

It’s not that surprising, but the question is, how are children connected and using social media and how much do we as parents know about their cyber-selves and the virtual worlds they play in?

To adults, using social media is a little like

swearing; most adults do it, but as a general rule, we select our audience and context and we frown on our children for doing it.

In Bendigo, nearly one third of children aged 10 to 12 use Facebook, despite it being for people older than 13. This in itself begged the question of who has lied about their age online. The result was a staggering 40 per cent of children and one child in five has uploaded a clip to YouTube to share with the world.

Sites like Club Penguin and Moshi Monsters are built for children and yet they can still feel uncomfortable or demeaned online by a stranger or someone they know. One in 20 children in the survey reported to have felt they were harassed or bullied electronically.

Our horizons and ability to connect have exponentially expanded and with it our insatiable appetite for sensationalism and detached sentiment. Why is it that our sense of responsibility evaporates when the words are formed by the keyboard and not our lips?

Despite strong education in place for students and parents about staying safe online and anti – bullying and values – education programs, kids will be kids.

They still interact on MSN, live gaming sites, Skype, Messenger, Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, sharing photos via Instagram, and use online generated email such as hotmail and gmail in their own time because they can. Many only socialise with those they know, but they fail to realise who can see what they publish online and just how accessible everything is.

It’s one thing to be able to bend rules like those needed to create Facebook accounts,

but it’s another to be smart about what they to choose to post.

We want our kids to have access to online knowledge and content and to interact in this environment. Regular checks of netbooks for unsafe sites and downloads and actively promoted safe use occurs in schools.

At home, encouraging computer use in open family spaces, ensuring safety filters are high to limit uninvited sites and regularly asking children if they have experienced anything that made them uncomfortable online play an important role in keeping your children feeling safe and secure.

It’s like trusting them to ride around the neighbourhood with their mates.

We still want to know what they’re doing, where they’re going and every now and again, we ring to check.

The same should be done for the Internet.

Wherever we as adults try to control a situation to keep our kids safe, they will always set about bending and breaking these rules in their quest for a good time.

Ever wondered why you can’t decipher your children’s text messages to their friends?

They get to swear without swearing.

We’ve seen the industrial revolution, the rise of rock and roll, the technological revolution and now the communication revolution.

There is no right or wrong approach. I guess we just take a leaf out of Dirty Dancing pop-culture and challenge it enough to keep it honest, but dance in the dark ourselves so we’re not left behind and learn to quote Star Wars in text - MTFBWU! ■

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chris says

Never too late for a good change I recently met a guy who at the age of 42 made a career change from shearer to bank teller.

Writer: Chris DeAraugo - Photographer: Anthony Webster I was impressed that here was this fellow who’d spent the majority of his life working in the noble trade of shearer, where his head was below his bottom for most of the day, and now he was looking after customers and seeing the world from a new vantage point.

It got me thinking that how fantastic was that. He’d decided to challenge himself and see what else he could offer the world and what the world could offer him. And he was enjoying his new career and there was a lovely inner pride of what he was achieving.

It reminded me that for all of us it is never too late to make changes to our careers, lifestyle or attitudes. I love meeting retired people who have embarked on new interests or ventures and can’t wait to tell you about this “new thing” they’re doing and you can’t help but take joy in how impressed they are with themselves for doing it. Doing something new and making a change to their life.

Change for many people is a scary proposition. That fear of failure and the unknown. One way to counter that fear is to put it in the perspective of if no one dies then it wasn’t a failure or a problem. I guess if sky diving was on the agenda that

fear may have more relevance than some other things you might be considering like becoming a bank teller.

However, sometimes taking a big punt or having a huge dream takes amazing courage but unless someone takes that risk or dreams that big dream the world would never change and things would just stay the same.

I was recently at the All Saints Winery near Rutherglen. If you haven’t been there, it is a massive castle built back in the mid 1800’s by two young Scotsmen who had arrived in Australia to build a new life and decided to not only build a new life but build a huge castle as well. I would have loved to have been in the room that night over a glass or two of whisky when one of them said “Why don’t we build a bloody big castle?” And the other said “yep, seems like a great idea, let’s do it!”

What a dream, what a vision and what a risk.

But the dreams and opportunities must have defeated all the risks and that dream still stands today as testament. And the boys didn’t stop with just building a castle. They went on to be the first Australian winery to win gold medals across the world for their wines. There’d be another good night to be part of when they

said “Why don’t we take our wines all over the world and see what happens?”

It’s probably a bit like the magnificent buildings that abound within our beautiful Bendigo city. The vision and courage of the young architects of the day to create those wonderful designs and see them implemented. How many people of the day were lining up to say “you want to build what? – it’s too big or too grand”.

But the courage to bring change won the day and I’m not the only Bendigo person who is very happy that it did.

So if you’re reading this and thinking I’d like to make a change in something, start working on it. I know sometimes life gets in the way of our plans and dreams – John Lennon said it best, “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” and at various stages we have competing priorities like families, young children and other challenges. But if it is to be, it is up to thee!

Write down a list of things you’d like to do or change and make that start. It may be like eating an elephant, one bite at a time or it might be like those wonderful young Scots who just decided to do it big. ■

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An open day was held at the newly rebranded Passionate Petcare as an opportunity for the public to see the lovely renovations and get an inside view on how a veterinary practice works.

Free samples, competitions, an animal petting zoo, showbags really set the scene for the day with staff conduction tours of the practice and answering many questions on the day. The beautiful grey Melbourne Cup winning horse ‘Subzero’ was in attendance and posed for photos with some of his adoring fans.

Passionate Petcare is located at 167 Eaglehawk Road and can be contacted on (03) 5442 7865 ■

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A MAN’S WORD

Domestic Embezzlement I have decided that I want a motorbike. The idea came to me when my wife’s cousin advertised to sell his 1960s 49cc Honda, affectionately named el diablo, which is a bargain at $4000.

Writer: Ash McAuliffe - Photographer: Anthony Webster

My wife has accused me of having a very early mid-life crisis and has subsequently vetoed my decision to get a motorbike. Unfortunately her basis for this veto is sound. Putting aside for the moment how ridiculous a man of my proportions would look on a 49cc café racer, she is concerned for my safety, which is actually a very valid point because of the frequency and consistency with which I fall off my pushbike. It stands to reason then that surely I’ll get hurt if I spend any reasonable amount of time on a motorbike.

There is also the issue of cost, where again my wife made several very valid points. By ‘valid points’, what I am really trying to say is that she produced a list of things that require expenditure more urgently than the indulgence of my early mid life crisis, such as a new kitchen, the completion of the entertaining area in the back yard that I started about four years ago, replacing the tiles in the lounge room and so on and on and on… All boring stuff as far as I’m concerned!

So I was faced with the dilemma of not having what I want, which is not a pleasant place to be. The solution? Go out and buy the motorbike. Sounds simple, but what I have done is turned one dilemma in to two dilemmas. The first and most obvious dilemma being that there would be a motorbike that looks a lot like Greg’s old motorbike in our garage. The second problem would be the missing money from our account. The weaving of the tangled web begins…

I’ll start with the second problem first, which is how to go about the financing of Operation el Diablo. This will require what is known in the trade as domestic embezzlement. Men, women and children have been doing this for eons. As a child my preferred method of financing a scheme (usually involving the acquisition of a computer game of some sort)

was the old lunch money-skimming scheme.

It had to be done in small amounts, starting by not using all of my lunch money at school, sometimes getting some from Mum and some from Dad. As an extra, if I was ever sent to the shops for something, you could guarantee that some or all of the change would go missing. Soon enough I would have what I wanted, and then the only remaining problem would be where to put the ill-gotten goods. As we get older, it’s not our parents that we have to run these schemes on, it’s our relationship partners. I’ve got to say that in my experience, women think that they do this much better than men…

A dress that retails for $200 but is on sale for $120, means that the $80 are essentially free right girls? And then they both go into the wardrobe where they have been for ages.

Nice and simple, the funding is covered and their presence is explained. It’s a bit harder to do that with a motorbike, so I’ll look to some examples from a panel of experts… male experts.

A mate of mine recently made a decision to downgrade his car because he had a new car and hardly used it, mainly because he rides to work.

He set a budget of $3000 to spend on a bomb once his car had been sold.

What he actually did was spend $1000 on a bomb and then bought himself a new bike as well. I’m not sure how he got caught, but he did. I think he may have fessed up for some reason. This one won’t work for me though, he has a shed full of bikes and bike

parts so the new bike could easily have been absorbed in to the background. I don’t have a shed full of motorbikes, so el diablo is likely to get noticed, and further still, as I made clear in an earlier issue of this magazine, I’m not selling my car.

Another guy I know, wanted to buy his mate’s boat. The cost of the boat was a bit much for his other half and on this basis the application was very likely to be declined, so the boys hatched a domestic embezzlement scheme, which I call the American Corporate Accounting Method... i.e. you just make up the numbers to suit your purpose. The boys staged a conversation where the price of the boat was negotiated down to a level that was acceptable to his wife, which was about half of the actual purchase price. This allowed the transaction to proceed, but with the obvious problem that the other half of the funds need to come from somewhere. I’m not sure how he’s going to swing that, but best of luck to him.

So what am I going to do about el diablo?

Well, in respect for my wife’s concerns about my safety, I have decided not to buy it. By pure co-incidence, Greg decided not to sell the bike but asked me if I could store it in my garage and look after it for him. He said I could ride it any time I like, and transferred the rego to my name… you know, for insurance purposes only. In an entirely unrelated matter, I lost my wallet the other day and someone has withdrawn $4000 from my credit card so unfortunately the new kitchen will have to wait. ■

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BEC & ANDREW

BARRY

Photographs: Eye Con Photography Bali

Andrew and I actually met through my work.

I was helping him out with an application form and we just got talking and then accidentally bumped into each other the next weekend. He was actually flying out to go overseas travelling and working for a year in the following weeks. After being together for only a few weeks he flew out to England, it was a very emotional day at the airport, not knowing when I would see him again.

We kept in contact over the phone and email, then to my surprise I received an email saying that he was coming home only after being away for a month.

surprise was the most amazing sparkling ring I have ever seen. He didn’t even get a chance to ask me, I just said oh my gosh, Yes!

hair done.

My dress was strapless and I wanted something nice, simple and light as we were getting married in Bali. It was ivory and made of light silk and chiffon with a delicate beaded bodice which flowed into the dress.

It had a sweetheart neckline with a twisted knot in the middle. My shoes were white crystal Havaiana thongs.

The boys also had a relaxed morning with massages and riding on jet skis. On my bouquet I had items that belonged to my grandparents that are no longer with us, to me that was really special and made it feel like there were with me on my special day.

Andrew proposed to me on my birthday.

We had been to my parents for dinner, we got home and put our son to bed. When we were heading to bed I noticed there was a big box under my pillow, he said to me “this is your last present”.

We were so happy that our 75 guests made the effort to travel all the way over to Bali.

The staff at the Hotel made sure that our day was perfect, from setting up our ceremony on the beach with fresh flowers to writing everyone’s name on a banana leaf for the reception. It was a very relaxed day, I went out and had a manicure and a massage in the morning while the girls were having their

I opened it and inside was all this polystyrene, and then at the bottom was a little purple box, I opened it and to my

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The best thing about our wedding day was having everyone we loved with us.

We all had a casual lunch and then got ready.

We also had handmade wooden fans as favours with our names and wedding date on them, which came in very handy because it was quite warm.

As we were already in a honeymoon destination, we took off for two nights and went and stayed at the Ranadi Villas in Seminyak.

The accommodation was amazing and we will be returning there when we next head back to Bali.

- Bec

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LOCAL BRIDES

HANNAH AND DOUGLAS THOMPSON Married March 10, 2012 Ceremony at Idavue Estate Winery, Heathcote Reception at Hannah’s family home Photographer – Katherine Davis Photography

Made for each other Our local newlyweds share with us an image of their special day.

PAIGE AND SAM CARTWRIGHT Married March 10, 2012 Ceremony at Kyneton Uniting Church Reception at Bleak House Gardens, Malmsbury Photographer - Elise Gow

MIKAYLA AND JARRED BULLER Married April 15, 2012 Ceremony at Rosalind Park Reception at The Foundry Hotel Complex Photographer – Katherine Davis Photography

LAUREN AND DAVID BOTHE Married April 14, 2012 Ceremony and reception at Silks Photographer – Photography by Sarah J

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merridee & leon

griffin

Photographs: Red Telegram Photography

Leon had just returned from America after competing in a number of triathlons at a professional level, and decided to return to part time work at ANZ. He was entering the building for an interview when I was leaving and I opened the door from him.

I turned to my friend and ask “who was that?” to which he replied “Don’t worry about him Cookie, he’s not your type”.

However, it just so happened that Leon obtained work in my department and his first day of work was our Christmas Party.

Leon came along and we were like kids in the playground with our mutual friends running messages between us.

Eventually we ended up having a drink and it went from there.

We had made the decision to move from Melbourne to Bendigo and were in process of building a home and like all new homeowners we would go to the building site regularly to take photos and see how it was all going.

On the night of Leon’s 30th birthday party, Leon asked me if I wanted to go up to the house quickly.

I said no as we were short on time, but Leon

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insisted that we go, so we jumped in the car and went over.

When we got there, Leon told me to go down the back and take a photo back towards the house. Again I didn’t want to, as it was wet and muddy. Leon said I’d regret it if I didn’t take many photos, so I went to the back of the block and took a photo. When I came back up through the house, Leon was outside and knocking on the front door. I went and opened it and there he stood with the ring.

It was so lovely that it happened at the door of our new home and it’s a moment that both of us really treasure.

My wedding dress was made from Ivory Silk Satin in an A-Line, strapless style. It was something that I liked and wanted something a little more traditional. Mum always told me that she would make me an A-Line wedding dress as it showed off my waistline and I guess because she wasn’t able to make it, I still wanted to have that style.

I think she would have loved it just as much as I did.

The best thing about our wedding day, aside from getting married in front of our family and friends, was the weather.

Getting married in Macedon at the end of October was always a risk and when it rained all night Friday night, I was very surprised to wake up Saturday morning to beautiful sunshine at such a gorgeous location.

My mum had passed away from breast cancer two years earlier, so there were a few little touches that reminded us of her, including the centre pieces that had glitter butterflies and breast cancer ribbon favour boxes.

We were absolutely blown away when we got to the forest location for our photos, complete with tea-light lanterns, a moss covered mantelpiece and cut up butterflies had been setup. It just made our day.

It was such a special day and it really felt like my mum was shining down on us, making sure that everything went perfectly.

Leon had a Ironman race only a few weeks after the wedding, so we delayed our honeymoon until December and went to Bali and Gili Trawangan. We had a relatively short honeymoon as we were about to head off to America for four months for Leon to train and compete.

- merridee

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uplifted by his work Mr Richard Dickinson is a specialist Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon who consults and operates at Bendigo Day Surgery. While much of his time spent reconstructing aspects of the human body – in his spare time you can find Richard reconstructing cars and motorbikes to their former glory.

Photographer: David Field What inspired you to become a Plastic Surgeon?

I was touched by my young sister’s treatment for a disfiguring serious facial cancer.

The plastic surgery reconstruction and treatment she had was transforming and life changing. I wanted to become part of this exciting field of medicine.

What do you love about your job?

I get to work with and look after so many extraordinary and capable women!

Perhaps more seriously it is the positive impact I have on so many patients lives.

How often do you find your job challenging?

Most weeks I am presented with surgical challenges. I am so glad I have received such a high standard of surgical training right here in Sydney, Australia. This has prepared me with the tools to manage these challenges as a complete professional.

What are your work hours like?

As expected, my work hours are long, but much better in Bendigo than Sydney. I am lucky, I enjoy my work hours, but I do enjoy my breaks.

What is your favourite tool of your trade?

The humble surgical scalpel, it is my creative ‘pen.’

What is the most common surgery you perform?

My specialty involves ‘all’ body areas including internal reconstruction.

Cancer surgery and reconstruction occupies most of my work. I have a special interest in body contour reconstruction, in particular breast surgery for reconstruction, breast reduction and augmentation.

What are the qualities of a good Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon?

Integrity, empathy and the ability to listen patiently. Reconstruction is about satisfying and matching a patients desires. Once we are on exactly the same page, the rest is a rewarding, technical and personal journey for all.

Tell me about the future and recent new trends in Plastic Surgery.

We have an exciting future with many new ideas emerging from our own backyard.

Australia has always been at the forefront of this field, we started it. Tissue engineering using a patients own stem cells is the current new trend and will continue as a trend into the future. We are growing breasts, fingers and organ structures in labs in Melbourne using a patient’s fat for stem cells. This is already being used for patient treatments.

Yes, that ‘dreaded fat’ will be our saviour,

we will remove it from waists and thighs to reconstruct the sites in need. So hold onto some of your fat for your future.

When your not working, what do you with your time?

Family is first, so I try to spend quality time with my best friend and wife, Karin and our four boys.

My shed and workshop is my sanctuary, reconstructing cars and motorbikes from a pile of rust to a thing of beauty, function and speed.

Do you have any pets?

We currently have two terrier dogs. My sons bull terrier came for a brief holiday and seems to have extended her stay for four years. I am really keen to get another German short hair pointer, they are great active dogs. ■

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home solutions

Kitchen courtesy of John Buckell Homes.

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home solutions Oven mitt $14.95 and pot holder $9.95 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)

Pure Homewares owl ornaments from $10 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)

Heart of the home The kitchen is more than just a place where we cook food – it is the heart of a family’s home. You can easily team functionality with style this spring. An island bar is a great space to spread food for preparation, perfect for casual entertaining and a place for the kids to sit and interact. Strategically placed decorator pieces can really enhance the space and give it a warm and inviting feel.

Pure Homewares clock $65 from from Nest Egg (Strath Village)

Photographers: Anthony Webster and David Field Olive oil pourer $50 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)

Pure Homewares canisters set of three $90 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)

Blackboard $40 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)

Tea pot $65 from Nest Egg (Strath Village)

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your pets are our

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Our practice is a place where genuine care, comfort and quality veterinary medicine for our patients is our highest priority. We celebrate a love of pets and people and welcome any feedback to make your visit to our clinic even more pleasant.

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cute pets

man’s best friend

We have cute dogs-a-plenty this issue from loyal Blue Heelers to spirited Jack Russells.

If you have a cute pet, we would love to hear from you. Please email your high-resolution images to: comps@bendigomagazine.com for publication in our next issue.

Kesha, age 18 months

Jet, age 3 Elise Gow Photography

Jemima, age 6

Minty, age 3

Penny, age 3

Indiana, age 2

Cara, age 5 months Kelly’s Photography Bendigo

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New audio visual & electrical display house now open Why not stop by and visit Sam and the Gibson AVE team at the all new audio visual & electrical display house to see the latest and greatest in electrical equipment for your home or business.

The display includes CBUS Home Automation for control of the lighting, irrigation, air conditioning, tile and towel rail heating, remote front door entry and more. Also in the display is a theatre room, multi room TV set up with smart TV networking of the wall mount TV’s and a multi room audio system distributing music thoughout the house at the touch of a button. A camera security system is also installed with remote access so cameras can be viewed off your phone or tablet.

The brand new audio visual & electrical display is the only of its kind in the Bendigo area and is set to introduce more exciting displays over the coming months including electronic spa control, fibre optic lighting and much more.

Gibson AVE would like to thank the following businesses for their assistance: Holloway Air-conditioning and plumbing, Central Kitchens, Nick Barker Carpentry, Phil Burchmore Painting, Chris Belz Plastering, Rob Fuller Tiling, Danny Clapp The Good Guys and Janet Rockes Interior Design.

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TECH HEAD

communication hub

From a seriously impressive smartphone to the new incarnation of the Telstra T-Hub – spring is an exciting season when it comes to new technology gadgets.

Writer: Jayden Edwards – Tech Head Photographer: Andrew Perryman

HTC One XL Big, bright and fast – the HTC One XL smartphone is a thing of beauty. Boasting a huge 4.7 inch HD LCD display with amazing viewing angles, it’s right up there with one of the best displays on the market. It’s big, maybe too big for some, but it’s lightweight and ultra skinny design more than makes up for lost pocket space.

Running the latest Android software, Ice Cream Sandwich (yes non-androiders, thats what the software is called, sounds tastier than iOS5 ‘ey? ) plus HTC’s own add-on “Sense”, everything you need is but a touch or a swipe away. Some cool features include its face recognition lock screen and a very handy and improved in-car mode.

Telstra T-Hub 2 The device that changed the home phone has undergone a massive overhaul with the release of Telstra’s T-Hub 2. Now less of a touch screen home phone and more of a home phone tablet, the T-Hub V2 has it all over V1 for the simple fact that it runs Android. It’s pre-loaded will all the essential apps (yellow pages, white pages, calendar, weather) and with access to the google play store, there’s heaps of tools, games, books and music just waiting to be downloaded.

It’ll store all your contacts, log your calls, take your memos and quickly become the central point of your home.

The outside of the tablet has had a makeover too, with a sleeker design, better sound, the addition of a front and back facing camera, a clever flip out back stand and comes bundled with a speaker dock and handset.

Sit it on the kitchen bench and it’s great for Internet radio, recipes or just as a clock or note pad. On the couch it’s a great for web surfing, games, books and more. It will even talk with your T-Box using its T-share feature.

A massive improvement on the original and a great value add for any Telstra home phone customer.

The best thing about this phone is its camera. It’s got a 1.3mp 720p front facing camera and a 8mp 1080p HD camera on the back with autofocus and a LED flash. Its impressive continuous shot mode let’s you take up to 99 shots in a row (I timed it at 99 shot in about 35 seconds), then pick the best one and ditch the rest. Great for those weekend footy snaps!

The One XL is the next step up from the HTC One X, and both are pretty much identical to look at, it’s under the hood that things are different. The XL has dropped from a Quad-Core processor to a Dual-Core in order to accommodate 4G capabilities. What you lose in processing power, you gain in internet speed, so it all balances it out really – and heck, it seems pretty damn quick to me.

It’s got Telstra’s blue tick of approval too, meaning it’s been tested and proven to gain better signal in rural areas like Bendigo.

HTC’s flagship smartphone is right up there with the Galaxy and iPhone as one of the best available, and on Telstra’s 4G network – will quench your need for speed. It’s available exclusively from Telstra. ■

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new business

MY LIMO. MY WAY. MY TIME MyJet Limo is the newest limousine service in Bendigo and introduces a whole new level of prestige transportation. The state of the art Mercedes Sprinter limousine offers a 6 star service with luxurious leather seating for up to 14 people, a fully integrated sound and light show with flat screen TVs and plenty of room to socialise.

The limousine has fully serviced bar facilities with complimentary Moet & Chandon champagne and a selection of beer. The MyJet Limo chauffeurs pride themselves in providing superior customer service and will ensure that the journey runs smoothly. With MyJet Limo, the party starts when you step on board and ends at the final drop off.

The limousine is now available for booking and specialises in weddings, gourmet food tours which showcase our regional fine dining experiences and football tours to Melbourne.

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TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS A selection of impressive new businesses have opened their doors in our area, from a stunning new limousine to creative sign solutions – it’s all open for business.

RE–BRANDING AN AUSTRALIAN TOURIST ICON Coffs Coast is a beautiful region on the New South Wales north coast with Coffs Harbour as its heart. In 2011, SASI Marketing & Communications, with Coffs Coast Tourism and Tourism NSW, set to work rebranding the Coffs Coast destination. “This was a very exciting project for us to be involved with” said SASI Marketing & Communications Director, Peter McGregor. “The challenge

in re-branding Coffs Coast was to develop a brand which embraced the entire Coffs Coast region and its assets and not be too Coff Harbour centered.”

The nostalgic, surf coast personality of Coffs Coast, together with the diverse natural beauty of the region was the inspiration behind the brand. A new logo, with it’s 70s retro style, cleverly incorporates symbols representing the wonderful assets of the Coffs Coast region – the surf coast,

mountains, rainforests, waterfalls, marine park and brilliant blue ocean. “The success of the project was the result of a great collaboration by the creative team at SASI” Mr McGregor said. The Coffs Coast brand has been a successful, long term project for SASI and recently nominated for the NSW Tourism Marketing awards.

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SIGNMOB In need of creative sign solutions? Then pay a visit to the team at Signmob. Trent Caldis, Bill May and Regan McGrath cater to all sign solutions with expertise and a friendly smile. Having only opened this year, the talented Signmob crew have already manufactured the new ‘Macquarie Homes’ signs, as well as the ‘SsangYong’ sign at Bendigo Suzuki coupled with the new paintjob on Central Kitchen’s car. The team work with precision and expertise to make your signing experience one to be proud of. No sign job is too difficult, as they cater to everything from threedimensional lettering to Braille. Other services include; billboards, digital printing, CNC routing, engraving, flags, honour boards, graphic design, plaques, one-way vision, sign servicing and vehicle wrappings just to name a few. Enjoy the friendly, professional atmosphere and support the local lads doing what they love.

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TRAVELOGUE

Learning to walk like Egyptians Egypt is everything you have ever read or imagined and more – but don’t travel in mid-summer unless you are really heat tolerant.

Writer and Photographer: Vicki Harrington We arrrived at Cairo airport after midnight, relieved to find our taxi had waited to give us our first experience in Cairo commuting.

Cairo traffic is possibly the worst in the world, it’s a crazy, lane-swapping demolition derby, even after midnight.

Four lanes of road means eight lanes of traffic with right-of-way given to the car with the loudest horn or the brightest headlights.

Drivers squeeze battered vehicles into the narrowest spaces while travelling at 100 km/h. Add a few donkeys pulling carts, a herd of goats and a cow meandering along the roadside, cheap petrol and licences simply bought, and it’s easy to understand why road rules are non-existent.

Cairo, with it’s population of 25 million (equal to all of Australia) is full of chaos, commotion and movement 24 hours a day, every day.

The Khan el-Khalli bazaar is a moving mass of humanity amid the shops, coffeehouses, touts and street food vendors. The bazaar is filled with cheap Egyptian papyrus paintings, perfumes, miniature pyramids and mummies,

clothing, jewellery, shisha pipes and more.

One can eat like an Egyptian at one of the old cafes where a meal of koshari costs a meagre four Egyptian pounds or 65 cents AUD. We visited the weekly camel market accompanied by Marco and Ramie, two local photographers and our guides for the excursion.

This market is not for the fainthearted.

The sight, sound and smell of 3000 camels confined in a small compound is overwhelming.

They are squashed onto trucks and brought to Bashir from as far away as Sudan along the Forty Days Road, with many arriving emaciated and weak.

Buyers mill around the beasts checking teeth, pinching skin and pressing flanks – a sort of camel tyre-kicking - before bidding begins.

Camels sell for about $1000 to $1500, with most ending up at the abattoirs and ultimately, in camel burgers.

Next day we started early to beat the heat

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gold funerary mask and sarcophagus.

The second most popular section of the museum is the royal mummy room containing the remains of nine mummies, including the recently discovered mummy of Queen Hatsepshut.

My to-do list included sailing on a felucca down the Nile so we headed off to Aswan on the overnight train and soon learnt rumours about the weather being 10 degrees hotter in Upper Egypt were true. The daily average went from 38ºC in Cairo to 48ºC in Aswan.

Early next morning we took a short flight to the amazing Abu Simbel site where the heat is so intense tourists are advised to be in and out by 9am.

The two huge monuments, built in the time of Ramses II were saved from the rising waters of Lake Nassar after the construction of the Aswan High Dam. The move was a 1960s engineering feat costing millions of dollars.

The four 22 metre-high colossi of Ramses II and a second temple to his wife Nefertari, were relocated 61 metres above their original position.

We boarded our felucca next morning, taking our places on a mattress on the deck under a cloth shade.

With eight passengers, our guide, captain and a cook our little patch of mattress was just room enough to sit or lie down with a backpack alongside.

On-board conveniences were sparse with no toilets or fresh water. Those needs had to be timed with shore breaks.

The cook worked in an area about one metre square with a single gas ring and an esky producing amazing results including delicious pancakes for breakfast.

Feluccas rely on the wind (no supplementary outboard motors) so after being pushed by a motorboat to the pilot station we were finally under sail slowly zig-zagging down the river.

We passed the time languidly reclining on and crowds at the infamous great pyramids of Giza. In the mounting area, our camels were haughtily waiting.

The camel boys led us off into dunes behind the pyramids to see the iconic view of all three big triangles in line.

Twenty minutes down a dusty track we stopped for about two minutes to grab a couple of frames in the camera before the camel boys decided to race each other back to the mounting point.

Fleeing camels are not particularly comfortable. Add in cameras, backpacks and body parts bouncing in every direction, it was difficult to savour one of life’s big moments.

Next was the Egyptian Museum with the world’s largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities.

The most popular museum treasures are in the Tutankhamen gallery where the artifacts from the boy-king’s tomb, are housed in a specially lit, temperature-controlled gallery.

There are 3000 pieces including the famous

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The summit houses a little stone church supposedly built on the site where Moses received the 10 Commandments.

We watched the sun set over the rocky landscape before walking back down the camel track in the dark with only torches and the moonlight for guidance.

We continued following Moses’ footsteps all the way to the Red Sea where he raised his walking pole and parted the waters for the Israelites to walk through.

We had to take a ferry to our rustic beach camp complete with individual thatch huts and personal hammocks. It was perfect for a bit of relaxation and recuperation and the last item on that list – snorkeling in the Red Sea. I carried a waterproof casing for my little video camera so I could video the wonders of

the Red Sea marine life for all to see.

Two other brave souls met me on the beach at 6am next morning. We paddled out to the reef, me with my camera in its special pouch securely tied around my neck.

We swam over big spiny sea urchins before arriving at the reef where there were numerous coloured fish, huge coral trees and a small stingray.

The tiny video screen was hard to see through the diving mask so I set the camera rolling and hoped for the best.

To say I was disappointed when I got back to the beach and discovered the camera battery had died about 11 seconds into the big shoot, is an understatement.

Another of life’s big moments not quite going to plan, but it’s off the list, for now. ■

ABOVE: Felucca on the Nile at Aswan RIGHT: Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza

our little patch trying to avoid the blazing sun, reading, sleeping or playing cards and jumping overboard for a swim before tying up for the night.

After dinner and a brilliant sunset we slept on the deck under the stars with a cool breeze blowing and the water rocking gently beneath the boat before waking next morning to a huge red sun rising over the Nile and the promise of another day of heat and sweat before disembarkation at Luxor. From Luxor we visited both the Valley of Kings and Queen Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple set in another desert hot spot before moving onto the Temple of Karnak.

The overnight train returned us to Cairo for a last glimpse of the city of minarets before driving to the Sinai Peninsula for another item on my diminishing must-do list – scaling Mount Sinai.

The minibus trip from Cairo took several hours through a landscape of sand and rocks with the only diversion driving through the tunnel under the Suez Canal.

The Sinai is one of Egypt’s most valuable commodities, the area is rich in oil deposits and the 55 ships passing through the canal every day each pay about $250,000 for the privilege.

We arrived at St Catherine’s Monastery late in the day and set off on the 6km trek to the summit in the evening cool, taking the lesser of the trek options, a camel ride to the camel terminus, 750 steep steps below the 2285-metre summit.

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HOT TO TROT

- Bryan ‘Cogho’ Coghlan Program Director 3BO/Star FM

Cogho is on the couch with yet another local sporting personality – harness racing star Glenn Douglas.

COG: Glenn, tell us about your harness racing career?

GLENN: I’ve been in harness racing all my life, starting out with my parents in Ballarat learning all I could along the way before leaving school and attending the Bendigo Harness Racing Training Centre. After graduation from there I held a few jobs at different stables before meeting my soonto-be wife, moving to Euston and working for leading owner Eric Anderson. At Eric’s Euston Stables I worked under his trainer at the time Vince Vallelonga, training about 12 horses. We made the move to Bendigo in 2000 and Eric built a training property at Strathfieldsaye, at which we train 48 horses.

For the past five years I have been the leading trainer of Victoria and grown into one of the state’s largest trainers.

COG: Who is your biggest supporter in your career?

GLENN: That would have to be my wife

Julie – putting up with the highs and lows a trainer can go through and being there to keep me heading in the right direction, along with the financial support Eric and Heather have provided, without these key people in my life and constantly urging me forward I would not be where I am today.

COG: What was biggest win in your career?

COG: Tell me the first thing that pops into your head with the following: James Hird – legend of the AFL. Julia Gillard – more taxes.

Adelaide – big country town.

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GLENN: I consider my biggest win hard to split between the win of Make Mine Cullen in the Group One Ladyship Mile in Sydney or when I trained and drove Bold Cruiser to victory in the Group One Tasmanian Cup. Both I hold in high regard.

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COG: Are people still keen on harness racing?

Michael Clarke – Lara Bingle.

3BO – Cogho Kylie Minogue – super hot.

Sam Newman – legend footballer and TV personality.

GLENN: Yes, I think people are still keen on harness racing. It’s not quite as expensive as our thoroughbred cousins, which makes new owners interested in starting out in horse racing an easier option, while still providing that thrill.

COG: And wrapping up – if you were a drag queen you would need a name, what was the name of your first pet and street name?

GLENN: (I already dress up in drag and they call me “pop tart”). Sarge Perry.

COG: Thanks Glenn. ■

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SPORTING EXTREME

SPORTING STRANGLEHOLD Don’t be thrown by appearances – underestimating this army of tiny white-clad warriors could land you flat on your face.

Writer:Raelee Tuckerman - Photographer: David Field

While they seem small, size doesn’t matter at Judo Bendigo: this is a place where a welldisciplined David can quickly bring down an ungainly Goliath.

But as the club’s youngest participants step onto the mat for training at their Breen Street headquarters on a Tuesday evening, it becomes obvious the Japanese martial art is not just about fighting, and that culture and custom play as big a role as strength and speed.

Before they begin, the juniors line up on the mat and bow to their instructors and to Jigoro Kano, the late founder of judo whose solemn portrait stares down at them from his place on the wall between Australian and Japanese flags.

“The etiquette is that they bow to him with their backs to the door of the building,” explains local sensei and Australian representative Ben Donegan, a third-dan black belt who is ranked in the world’s top 100 judo players.

Formalities aside, it’s time for the fun to begin and the kids are soon expelling their after-school energy running and rolling, grasping and grappling, thrusting and throwing.

“We try to make them sweat a bit so they get tired before they head home,” laughs Ben. The 29-year-old believes judo is the perfect

sport for all ages, providing fitness, selfconfidence and knowledge, including smatterings of the Japanese language.

“It is a very non-violent art – there is no punching or kicking. It’s all about controlling another person and learning how to do that, mainly through throws and hold-down positions. When you are an adult, it can also include strangleholds, locks and chokes.

“It’s something you can continue to do for your whole life. We have five-year-olds training and we have guys who are 60 years old still training.

“It’s great for the kids because it teaches them body control and movement and it teaches them patience.”

Ben is many things to his students – coach, mentor, role model… and chief re-knotter of the coloured ranking belts that inexplicably keep coming undone throughout the session.

He also promotes them to their next belt once they can demonstrate the required holds and throws and understand the terms associated with them – mostly in Japanese.

There’s the hip throw (known as the uki goshi), the shoulder throw (seoi nage), the outer reap (o soto gari) and the chest hold (mune gatame).

But you won’t see these manoeuvres being used in school playgrounds. Strict protocol dictates that judo techniques are confined to

the “dojo”, or training centre.

“We make sure the kids know they are not allowed to, that judo doesn’t come into effect unless you are in immediate danger,” says Ben. The message is well respected.

“Ooh no,” says 11-year-old Louis Mott earnestly when asked if he’s tempted to perform a few judo tricks on his mates. “If they don’t know judo, I might hurt them and I would get in trouble with my principal and with Ben. I might even lose a belt if I did the wrong thing.”

Louis has worked hard to earn his green-blue belt since taking up judo six years ago and was selected to represent Victoria at this year’s national titles.

Though he was unable to compete due to an elbow injury, he went to the Wollongong event to watch his sister Anais, 9, who finished fifth in her division.

There’s always next year, he says of his chance to make another state team.

Blond dynamo Baxter Gurd is another “veteran” who has attended Judo Bendigo for half his life and sports an orange belt with black tips around his waist.

“I’ve learnt how to protect myself and how to do throws. I’ve even been in competitions and won three trophies,” the lively eightyear-old says proudly.

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“I like judo because you do lots of games and it is fun. You can use up all your energy instead of sitting at home watching TV.” Kids like Louis, Anais and Baxter don’t have to look far to see where judo might take them.

Instructor Ben has qualified to compete in the World Cup competition in Samoa in November, while teen superstar Bryan Jolly is aiming to make the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Both train in Melbourne as well as with the local club.

At 15 and weighing a tad under 43kg, Bryan is one of the best prospects in the country. In 2012, he has added Australian and Oceania under–17 50kg titles to a trophy cabinet already buckling under the spoils of his many successes.

RIGHT: Bryan Jollie and Thomas Hobson BELOW: Anais Mott

Bryan, who lives in Campbells Forest, has always been small for his age and he says learning judo was a good way to avoid falling victim to bigger-bodied bullies.

He began at the age of seven, after taking part in a program at East Loddon P-12 School to identify what sport students might excel at.

“I came up as gymnastics and judo, my second oldest brother was judo and cricket and my oldest brother was judo and football,” the junior brown belt recalls.

“Dad said that instead of going to gymnastics, cricket and football, we could all go to judo.”

They did, and Bryan has since gone from strength to strength both on and off the mat.

“Judo gives you a confidence boost and I’ve found it can help with your school marks as well,” he says. “Before I started, I lacked a bit of concentration at school but judo has helped with that and my grades have gone up – that’s been another positive out of it for me.”

Judo Bendigo Inc. has been operating in its current form since 1999 and has about 50 members following Jigoro’s key principles of achieving “maximum efficiency through minimum effort” and of “mutual benefit” for all players.

“It is a sport, it’s a martial art, it’s self defence,” says Ben Donegan. “There are a lot of different reasons why people do judo and we tailor classes so that, regardless of why they are here, everyone can get something out of it.” ■

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TEST DRIVE

Toyota 86 Legend. Game-changer. Instant classic. Saviour of sports car purity. These are some of the glowing words motoring’s opinion makers have used to describe Toyota’s new 86.

Writer:Curt Dupriez - Photographer: David Field and Andrew Perryman

The little two-door coupe and its nearly identical Subaru BRZ twin are the most exciting, talked about and, frankly, hyped performance cars to come along in a decade.

Why all the fuss? Well, the 86 flies in the face of general motoring convention that as time marches on customers want everlarger cars with increasing levels of space, convenience and excess. Instead, it harks back to an old-school formula of simple, lowfrills purity, promising a champagne driving enthusiast experience on a beer budget.

The end result is nothing like anything else in the Toyota range, and for very specific reasons. Firstly, it shares just nine percent of its make-up with any other Toyota, so it feels complete unlike a Camry, Corolla or Prius, say. And, secondly, despite being the world’s biggest carmaker, Toyota couldn’t build a car to meet its targets of fun factor and pricing on its own. So it teamed up with Subaru, who not only supplied much of the technical groundwork under the skin but is also the sole manufacturer of all 86 and BRZ vehicles.

So lift the bonnet and there’s that familiar Subaru ‘boxer’, or ‘flat four’, engine arrangement. And its suspension is quite similar to that under a WRX. The word ‘Subaru’ is even stamped into the Toyota’s sheetmetal. But this is no Impreza in drag: Toyota contributed the bulk of the design

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and styling, the engine’s tricky direct fuel injection system and its six-speed gearbox (which is essentially a Lexus component).

With 147kW of power and a modest 205Nm of torque on tap - it takes 7.2 seconds to hit 100km/h from a standstill - by no means slow, yet no real benchmarker.

This car is all about ‘feel’. Its essence about driver enjoyment and fun factor, regardless of whether or not you’re the first guy or girl to get from A to B. And by such highbrow ‘purist’ measures the 86 is absolutely brilliant.

Its excellence begins the moment you climb inside. Those performance focussed bucket seats, trimmed in lush leather and Alacantara (aka suede) and with electric heating in the top-spec GTS variant, are fantastic.

As is its driving position, where all of the controls are perfectly placed. The steering wheel, instruments and even air vents are clearly inspired by Porsche, and the German company’s far-pricier Cayman, says Toyota, was used as a benchmark throughout the 86’s development. Particularly when it came to tuning and refining the suspension system.

The real measure of sports car prowess is how clear and genuine the steering feels, and how controllable and balanced its chassis behaves. And here, once again,

you choose to keep the rear end tidy or wish to powerslide its tail with aplomb, it’ll bring a huge grin to your face. I’ve been fortunate enough to have spent a lot of seat time in 86s since their launch in June: a couple of thousand kilometres throwing them at everything from rally tracks and motorkhanas to country roads and race circuits. And the more you drive it, the bigger that grin seems to get. In one cover story for a specialist car magazine I was involved with, six of the seven judges – including two V8 Supercar drivers – ranked it as their favourite performance car of 18 cars under $100k!

(The last judge gave it second place).

It is, indeed, something quite special.

the Porsche comparisons come thick and fast. The 86 simply offers a level of clarity and connection between the driver and road surface that very few cars of any price or badge come anywhere near close to matching. Yes, it’s ‘that’ good.

Its brakes, too, conform strictly to the agenda set by its maker: the hardware is modest, their power not exactly eyewatering. Yet they’re tuned for race car-like modulation, offering far better pinpoint accuracy around a circuit than much larger systems used in all manner of pricier, premium rivals.

Then there’s pricing. In June, the $29,990 ask for the base GT manual version was nothing short of a bombshell, and the $34,490 for the top-shelf GTS equally amazing (automatic versions add $2500). Particularly given that no model on offer is cheap, nasty or lacking for decent specification. Even the GT gets an alloy bonnet, frameless electric windows, a six-speaker stereo, cruise control, keyless-go and seven airbags, while the GTS adds HID headlights, sat-nav, dual-zone climate control and host of other niceties.

No surprises, then, that the 86 was almost an instant sell-out. And the waiting list for some popular colour variants stretches (at the time of writing) for well over a year. Better get in quick, then… ■

And what the 2.0-litre engine lacks in potency it makes up for in driveability and soul. It ‘feels’ - there’s that word again – and sounds quite unlike Subaru’s proprietary engine of the same capacity, as fitted to Impreza. It sings more, revs cleaner and harder to a lofty 6600rpm redline, its Toyota DI trickery adding a real sharpness to its mid-range response. The gearshift quality is satisfyingly direct and smooth, and each of the four variants bar the base GT automatic version gets a proper mechanical limited-slip differential, a near essential piece of handling hardware for any true performance car.

When you really lean on the 86 hard, in a safe off-street environment, that handling character is seriously impressive. Whether

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