The Local Issue 179, May 11,2020

May 11, 2020 Issue 179 A light bulb moment for Spring

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Front cover: Jeff and Donna Thornycroft, from Wombat Hill Nursery, have come up with an idea to see Daylesford swathed in jonquils in Spring. Read their story on page 5.

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May 11, 2020 Issue 179 A light bulb moment for Spring

The Local is a weekly community publication covering the Central Highlands. The next edition is out on Monday, May 18, 2020.

Or online on Sunday, May 17 at www.tlnews.com.au Space bookings: Wednesday, May 13 Copy deadline: Thursday, May 14 Editorial deadline: Thursday, May 14 Managing editor | Donna Kelly General manager | Kyle Barnes Sub-editors | Nick Bunning and Lindsay Smith

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Testing under way

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ORONAVIRUS testing is ramping up across the Macedon Ranges and Hepburn shires, with testing now available at Kyneton District Health, and a testing location to be established at Daylesford Community Health Centre by the end of May.

This follows an announcement from the Victorian Government of a major testing blitz across the state to better understand how the virus is spreading in the community and set the state up for the potential easing of restrictions.

Kyneton District Health’s new Respiratory Assessment Clinic is now open and will allow the hospital to safely assess patients who present with risk factors or concerns about the coronavirus.

The clinic will initially operate Monday to Friday between 1pm and 3.30pm, evolving with the needs of the community. Patients concerned about symptoms are encouraged to call ahead on 5422 9900.

Central Highlands Rural Health is also on track to open a testing centre at Daylesford’s Community Health Centre by the end of May – with works currently taking place to re-purpose part of the centre to make it fit for COVID-19 testing.

Common symptoms of coronavirus are fever, breathing difficulties, breathlessness, cough, sore throat, fatigue or tiredness. Anyone who has any symptoms, no matter how mild, such as a runny nose or scratchy throat, is encouraged to get a test.

Certain industries that are still operating at full capacity will be targeted for testing, including healthcare and aged care workers, construction workers, supermarket workers and agricultural workers.

Major employers and unions will be supported to actively promote testing to all staff and nurses will provide outreach support and advice around symptoms and help staff to access testing.

In addition, workers without symptoms in hospitals and other facilities with vulnerable residents will also be asked to voluntarily participate in sample testing as part of new research in line with the prerequisites set out by the National Cabinet.

Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas said the local testing centres made it as easy as possible for people across the Macedon Ranges and Hepburn shires region to be tested.

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Online art exhibition with Trentham Iso Art

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he global pandemic might have stopped one of Victoria’s biggest regional art events in the 17th Trentham Easter Art & Craft Show but innovative thinking is instead seeing a stripped-down, online exhibition go ahead.

Show committee member Penny James has, with the support of the full committee, created Trentham Iso Art, an online exhibition which brings artists and art lovers together via Instagram.

Artists and craftspeople are invited to exhibit, and hopefully, sell online though May. Iso Art judges will then decide prize winners in early June.

Iso Art will buy redeemable vouchers from local Trentham traders to offer instead of the normal cash prizes.

“The thinking was to create a concept that supports artists, supports local traders, helps continue to promote community spirit and is a bit of fun,” Penny said.

Artists are invited to address “Trentham in Iso” as a theme.

As an example, an early entry is an oil portrait of a wistful five-year-old who has not been able to have a hug from her Trentham grandparents since “iso” started.

Ms James wasn’t sure what support the event might receive but had a dozen entries and an initial sale within 24 hours of announcing Trentham Iso Art online via Instagram.

Artists of any age from anywhere - not just Trentham - are invited to submit works of any size in any medium by sending a good quality photograph to info@trenthamartshow.org The works are displayed at www.instagram.com/trenthamartshow/ Ms James, who said the Trentham Art Show committee were delighted with the quality of the early entries, said Iso Art wasn’t meant to be an exact but an online equivalent of the annual event.

“That event normally attracts a crowd of more than 3000 to enjoy more than 300 works,” she said.

“Iso Art is more like a stripped-down version that says the coronavirus isn’t strong enough to stop our arts scene or sense of community and will hopefully be an artistic sampling that will see us through to the return of the full scale show in 2021.”

Meanwhile, the Hepburn Council last week approved a $1000 Coronavirus Community Support Grant to Trentham Iso Art, which will be used to supplement the virtual exhibition’s prize money to artists.

Entries, pictured above, Peter Young has captured with oil on canvas, his grand-daughter, wistful Emily, 5, who has not been able to hug her Trentham grandparents since social isolation started Below, Trentham digital artist Isabel Burgess, whose piece Serenity is a depiction of a peaceful interior in which to spend this Iso period, sold the instant it appeared on the Trentham exhibition’s Instagram site Words: Peter Young | Images: Contributed

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Local Lines The Loddon's up

Festa artwork winner

The big four banks have shut their squiffy eyes to the fates of people they robbed with such aplomb.

Though whitewash covers their criminal enterprise, we see their faults and know where they're coming from.

Here in Glenlyon, the only banks are the Loddon's.

What a relief, to sit here watching the water, at peace with the flow of time and feeling unmodern in the nakedly open ancientness of nature.

Capitalism dies broke, but what's being born?

Maybe a global dictatorship this time, a communism emerging out of the storm of shut-downs and fears and making freedom a crime.

A source of satirical humour for decades to come, our time is a time of not-so-funny limits, but here by the Loddon, the tune the river hums uplifts me by the spirit of nature in it.

Mushrooms are popping up like little moons.

We'll hear the frogs' quaint choirs in the night.

The trees will sweep the clouds with leafy brooms.

In nature, every autumn turns out right.

Now's the time to visit the Falls, where the rain has forced the flow to dash and splash at the rocks.

Negative ions fill the air again and the thrill of it all is enough to warm your socks.

As ever, the world is rorted by stupid men who favour, not love, but power to have their way.

They come and go and come and go, but then they disappear by the Loddon. Hip hooray!

James Baillie James Baillie lives in Glenlyon and runs a business called 'The Arthritis Man'. He has been writing rhythm and rhyme as a hobby since age 11.

Poems for Local Lines come predominantly from a group of poets. However, other locals who would like a poem considered for publication can contact Bill Wootton - cottlesbreedge@gmail.com

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ELBOURNE creative Lliam Amor is the winner of the Hepburn Swiss Italian Festa Artwork Prize for 2020.

The announcement was made by the Festa committee last week.

"Lliam Amor is a Melbourne-based illustrator and creative artist who also acts and improvises.

"Lliam has distant Swiss heritage, and family connections in the Castlemaine area, and said he had jumped at the chance to create an artwork for the Festa," vice president John Stanwell said.

Mr Stanwell said each year the Swiss Italian Festa featured an original artwork or design that appeared on posters, programs and marketing materials.

"This year, local artists, photographers and designers were invited to submit an original artwork for the 2020 Festa Artwork Prize.

"Through generous sponsorship support from the Farmers Arms Hotel Daylesford, the Festa committee was able to offer a Festa Artwork Prize of $1000.

"With the cancellation of the 2020 Festa due to COVID-19, the Festa committee will focus this year on upgrading the Festa’s website and social media platforms.

"Lliam’s artwork will be the face of this enhanced online presence for the Swiss Italian Festa. The winning artwork will also be used to promote a range of online activities that the Festa will host in the coming months."

Mr Stanwell said the Hepburn Swiss Italian Festa would be back in 2021.

"The Festa celebrates the heritage of the Italian-speakers from Switzerland and northern Italy who settled in the region during the 1850s goldrushes. Their legacy is the mineral waters, vineyards, architecture and food traditions still evident and treasured in the region today. Viva la Festa!"

Lliam has appeared in film with Escape From Pretoria and on television in Hawke, Underbelly, Tangled, Thank God You're Here, The Micallef Program, Neighbours, Micro Nation, The Nurses, You’re Skitting Me and various TV commercials.

His artwork will be unveiled when the new website is launched.

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Nursery brings early cheer to Daylesford

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HILE the country may be in the grip of a pandemic, come Spring Daylesford will be flush with beautiful swathes of jonquils, thanks to nurseryman Jeff Thornycroft.

Jeff, who owns Wombat Hill Nursery with wife Donna, said he had the idea to bring Daylesford into a spectacular springtime celebration after the business closed for a week and then re-opened for two to three days.

“It was a crazy idea at the start. Being closed and then just open a few days gave me the time to think about things a bit more than usual.

“I was scratching my head and wanting to come up with something that was a symbol of the current times that we live in and what’s happening, so we could look back when we are on the other side of things.”

Jeff quickly pressed his son and son’s partner, Liam Thornycroft and Daniel Condon, into action and then Cliffy’s Café co-owner and Liam’s business partner Samantha Mackley joined the team and Daylesford Erlicheer was under way.

The idea was that as many Daylesford residents as possible get involved in a mass planting of erlicheer bulbs on Sunday, May 3 at 3pm - and get involved they did.

People also loved the idea of "collecting one bag for yourself, one for a neighbour and one for a public space".

They ordered online and arrived at 15-minute intervals to collect their bags of 25 bulbs. An initial optimistic purchase of 10,000 bulbs sold out within 24 hours, with a further 5000 bulbs landing the next day and going out the door in the next 24 hours.

Liam Thornycroft said the project had served to remind him what a special community Daylesford was. “And this will give the community a chance to reflect back to the current times.”

Daylesford’s “sowing soiree” was hugely successful on May 3, with more than 10,000 bulbs planted by around 200 residents in front yards, on road reserves and in public places where people can “enjoy them from the street in the Spring and for many Springs to come”, says Jeff.

The Hepburn Shire Council will employ staff to plant the remaining community bulbs. Bulbs will be planted in areas including the vacant grass areas outside the Daylesford Primary School, at the main roundabout Howe and Vincent streets and around the ash trees in Vincent Street near the school and on the the other side of the roundabout past the former IGA up to Raglan Street.

Among those who took up the idea were Adrian Thia and husband Craig Mutton.

Adrian had already started a “Things you are grateful for” Facebook page for his company Le Yoga “to help keep everybody in a good headspace” and said he saw the project on the same platform.

“I think a lot of people who move to this region, are quite drawn to the whole community spirit sort of thing, so when the guys at the nursery started this it was almost a no-brainer to support what they wanted to do. And I guess plants always give such a positive light to a new event.”

Adrian said he was also impressed with the idea of a bag for yourself, a bag for your community and a bag for your neighbour.

“Sometimes we get too lazy to even pop next door and say hi so I thought that was quite a good idea. And it is also a positive way of using social media. Sometimes you can get overloaded with the same news, you live in your bubble, but then it is quite nice to have someone doing something different for a change.

“And it was a great day for planting as well.”

Jen Latta, owner of DOS Deli, got busy planting with staff member Jen O’Keefe.

“It was such a lovely initiative by Jeff and Donna. I think it pulled the community together because we all literally wanted something to ‘cheer’ for after a very tough few weeks," Jen said.

“Whether your work or livelihood has been affected, or just your mental health from the world changing overnight, it was really nice to focus on something that will bring joy in the future rather than just kicking into survival mode.”

The erlicheer is from the jonquil family of flowers and has highly fragrant clusters of cream blooms. Also known as multi-headed daffodils, as their name suggests, they are generally one of the first of the Spring bulbs to flower, often beginning in late Winter. They are best planted in late April or early May and keep flowering for many years.

Words: Kyle Barnes | Images: Contributed

Pictured, above left, Adrian Thia, above right, Craig Mutton, below, Jen Latta, left, and Jen O'Keefe

HEPBURN SHIRE BIODIVERSITY GRANTS OPEN The Hepburn Shire Community Biodiversity Grants Program is now open for applications.

Community groups, including environmental groups, schools and other incorporated or auspiced groups, are encouraged to apply. Projects for amounts up to $5,000 will be considered.

Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate how their project link to the objectives in the Hepburn Shire’s Biodiversity Strategy. Projects need to demonstrate sound ecological basis and value for money.

Eligible projects might include: •

on-ground works such as planting weed control, pest animal control on public land or private land in Hepburn

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publications, electronic media or events aimed at raising awareness of biodiversity issues and promoting action

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activities such as training and networking activities that increase capacity and sustainability of volunteer groups

Applications close Monday, 1 June 2020. Recommendations to Council will be made at the Ordinary Council Meeting in June.

In addition to email and phone, the Biodiversity Officer is available for (socially distanced) site or Zoom meetings to discuss your project applications Monday to Thursday.

Prospective applicants must contact the Biodiversity Officer prior to submitting an application – refer to Application for contact details.

The application form, including Guidelines, is available at https://hepburn. smartygrants.com.au/biodiversitygrant2020.

THANK YOU For the way we’ve faced these past few weeks.

With courage. With humility. And with hope.

We’ve kept our distance, we’ve looked out for each other and we’ve kept our cool.

Thank you especially to those who have been tested.

Because of your efforts, we’ve achieved the biggest testing blitz in our state’s history.

Or to use Victoria’s standard unit of measurement – more than one MCG’s worth of Victorians who’ve played their part in protecting our state.

Thanks to you, we are finding out more about the spread of coronavirus in our community.

If you haven’t been tested, and you are feeling unwell, you can still visit one of the regional clinics or speak to your GP. To find out how and where you can be tested go to vic.gov.au/CORONAVIRUS Because getting tested keeps us together.

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Life changed with simple diet and exercise

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AYLESFORD’S "Big" Dale Callahan is big no more. The 56-year-old has lost a massive 102kg in just 40 weeks.

Dale had a starting weight of 218kg and is now down to 116kg, off his Optifast diet and back on normal food and a maintenance program.

The catalyst for Dale, who had always carried a bit of extra weight, was the need for a hip replacement with his doctor telling him he first needed to lose weight and suggesting gastric sleeve surgery to reduce the size of his stomach.

Dale headed to Ballarat but was told by the specialist that while he was a good candidate, he needed to lose 20kg before he could even have that done.

“When I heard that, it was probably the trigger in my brain, the crossroads, that I was too heavy to be operated on.

I went back and spoke to my doctor, Gerard Ingham, who had told me many times I could lose a bit of weight.

“I said I was not overly keen on them cutting me open and all that, and also I didn’t want to not be able to eat a meal with my family or go to a restaurant and have to order an entrée and take half of it home.

“That’s not me. I just loved my food, as most people do, and I thought if I can’t sit down with my family and have a meal, what’s the point of anything? So I said, let’s try a diet.”

Dale said Dr Ingham suggested Optifast shakes and soup meal replacements, providing all the nutrients, calcium, proteins and carbs, for breakfast and lunch, along with a dinner meal focused on vegetables and a small amount of protein.

It was a Friday and Dr Ingham asked Dale when he was going to start. Dale said the following Monday, May 25, which resulted in a wry look from his doctor.

“I told him I had to buy the shakes but I also had friends coming around on Sunday for what I called my last supper – roast pork and crackling. Then on Monday I went cold turkey. I made sure I stuck to the regime and never cheated once.”

He also started to walk, and the more he walked, the more weight he lost.

A school crossing supervisor, Dale said he spent the two hours at work, pacing.

“People probably thought I was crazy but I walked the entire hour in the morning and at night and that really got the ball rolling. As I lost 20kg I pushed myself further and then suddenly it was 40kg and so on.”

Dale said the weight loss program was initially for just 12 weeks but he kept going for 36 weeks, with health and blood checks along the way. He also saw a dietitian at the Community Health Centre, Olivia Gourley.

“Olivia was absolutely amazing. I have been to dietitians over the years but she just said we should do a program that suited me and then just gave me suggestions on changing the menu. I never felt judged.”

Dale said he also started growing his own vegies so he would always have variety in the kitchen. Amazingly, as the cook in the family, along with his own vegetableladen meals, he also made sure his twin sons, daughters and partner had their meals ready each night.

And after just 12 weeks he stopped telling people he was on a diet, changing, as he got his own head around what he was doing, to saying he was on a lifestyle change.

Dale said while he hoped to lose the three-figure mark, he never had a goal because he thought that would be setting himself up for a fail.

But as he lost weight, he hit little targets, firstly the weights of his children, Xanthe, 12, twins Eamonn and Liam, 14, and Micayla, 20, then his partner, Charlene, and then just kept on going, all the way to his 100kg mark. He is now eating 2000 calories a day, “a smorgasboard”, up from a daily 800 to 900 calories.

“The other thing is for the past 36 years I have been my brother’s bigger brother in weight, but now I am lighter than him. Little things have spurred me on.”

He has also encountered people in the local supermarket who can’t believe the weight loss, and have even worried he was ill, or the mother at the school crossing who asked after the six-week break over Christmas “where is the other man?”.

There’s also the new set of shirts, now tucked into the pants, finished with a belt.

The old Dale wore baggy jumpers to hide his stomach from the world.

Then there’s last year’s Steptember, a cerebral palsy fundraiser. Hepburn Shire Council had asked employees to get involved with teams to reach the 10,000 steps a day goal.

Dale created his own team of school crossing supervisors and despite his hip holding him back a little, they won. Dale worked towards it with 3000 steps in August, 10,000 in September and now and again hitting 30,000 steps in a day.

“I feel it with the hip at night-time but sometimes you have to push through that pain to achieve what you want to get to. I said, imagine how many steps I would be able to do if I had two hips.”

Dale is on the list for surgery at Bacchus Marsh as soon as the hospital there is doing elective surgery again.

“I am now considered low risk. This year has changed my life – and if I can do it…”

Words: Kyle Barnes | Image: Contributed

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Creswick Trails on track despite COVID-19

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COMMUNITY Engagement Report for Creswick Trails, 100km of purpose-built mountain bike trail, is due to be released this month, however an opening date remains some years away.

Hepburn Shire Council’s project manager Alison Breach, pictured, said since the completion of the community engagement on the Concept Trail Alignments in January, the team had been busy behind the scenes reviewing feedback.

The next move was a review and revision of the Concept Trail Alignments in collaboration with land managers and traditional owners to create a draft called the Detailed Design Alignments followed by a collaborative review of all background reports with land managers, she said.

This would be followed by negotiation of a Land Use Activity Agreement with the Dja Dja Wurrung which will include ways that the traditional owners will participate in the Creswick Trails now and into the future.

An application for a planning permit could be as close as August or September but there would then be a construction tender with construction taking up to two years.

“Public feedback has been that people are very excited about the proposed trails and also the prospect of having a regionallysignificant outdoor recreational activity in their backyard.

“Also, for our businesses to see an increase in tourism and the opportunities that brings.

“Of course, the most common question we get is ‘why is it taking so long?’ and I completely understand that. The answer is that we are really trying to do this to best practice, with lots of conversations and lots of assessment and checking. There is no precedent for something of this complexity and history of the area. There is no process, we are forging that process as we go.”

Alison said to that end, the project was being keenly watched by other local governments keen to do something similar.

“We have absolutely had quite a bit of interest from others wanting to do the same thing, mountain biking is really growing in popularity – and yes, they are asking us for tips.”

Alison, an avid bushwalker whose father maintains part of the Appalachian Trail in America, said the project was really exciting and more important than ever.

“This project has the potential to help revitalise and refresh after something like COVID-19 through job creation with construction, maintenance and also jobs associated with an increase in visitation.

“We are able to provide people with that physical outdoor exercise that they may have been craving while inside Netflixing.”

The trail will start at the Hammon Park trailhead, pump track and car park and will be one of the Hepburn Shire Council’s flagship recreation assets, attracting more visitors to the region, boosting tourism and the local economy.

The finished network will feature a variety of trail types and ride zones, including a series of accessible trails designed and constructed specifically for riders who have limitations, riding a standard, up-right, leg-powered mountain bike. These adaptive trails will be the first of their kind in Victoria.

The project is funded through a partnership between Regional Development Victoria - $2.56 million and council - $1.5M. The resulting network will be maintained by council in partnership with land managers Parks Victoria, the Department of Land Water & Planning, Central Highlands Water and Hancock Victoria Plantations.

Words: Donna Kelly | Image: Kyle Barnes

“This project has the potential to help revitalise and refresh after something like COVID-19 through job creation with construction, maintenance and also jobs associated with an increase in visitation.”

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From sport to army to hospitality: a great story

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ROM international squash tournaments to the Israeli Army, to The Boathouse Restaurant, Claire Levine has a hell of a story.

To be fair, any story that involves “the valley of the crying” is set to be a good one.

Claire was born in South Africa and in the late 70s she moved to Israel, with her parents, before she had hit her teens.

“I was playing tennis, and then I was introduced to squash and I started playing that and I quickly became Israeli champion…but I will say, at that point in time, there weren’t a lot of squash players,” she said.

“When I was a junior they took us to quite a few European countries playing squash tournaments and from there I started playing professionally - but then I had to go into the army.”

In Israel, two years' national military service in the defence forces is compulsory and so, when Claire was 18, she began her service.

“It was lucky for me, because I was classified as an ‘excellent sportsman’ during my army service I was able to occasionally travel overseas and play in squash tournaments.”

Claire was extremely fit by then and became a combat fitness instructor on an air force base with 6000 soldiers. “It was a mini-city and I’d make them all run around and they’d all have to listen to me.”

The course to become an army instructor is just as hard as it looks in the movies – being woken in the middle of the night, forced to run into the ocean, back up the sand, weapons and all. It’s literally enough to make a grown man cry. But not Claire.

“There was the ‘valley of the crying’, for our natural disaster training, it was a massive sandpit which we had to run through, and there’s just so much sand, and you’re wearing your full army uniform, and your boots, and because of the thick sand, they just sort of break down, crying.

“It was great, I really enjoyed it and I’m proud to say that I actually finished first in the natural disaster course. And doing the army service, it was a good thing.”

It wasn’t such a good thing for Claire’s squash career though – her fitness was at its peak, but there wasn’t a lot of time to play enough to keep up her skills.

“I got to 28th in the world, but I could have been a bit better if I’d applied myself a bit more, but I had fun.”

She came out of the army at just 20 years old, with the added bonus of already having travelled to every continent except South America to compete in squash tournaments, also having met friends who she still keeps in touch with to this day.

Nearly 25 years ago Claire moved to Australia, then 12 years ago, with partner Susanne Devine moved to Daylesford, loved it and it's now home. She and Susanne ran The Farmers Arms Hotel for a few years and now they have The Boathouse Restaurant and she’s hoping it will be able to re-open as soon as the pandemic is over.

“At the moment we’re walking the dogs every morning, they’re so happy to have us home. I’m doing a lot of cooking and a lot of cleaning, and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone on the other side of this.”

Words: Kate Taylor | Images: Kyle Barnes (inset) & contributed (This article is supported by the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas.)

“There was the ‘valley of the crying’, for our natural disaster training, it was a massive sandpit which we had to run through, and there’s just so much sand, and you’re wearing your full army uniform, and your boots, and because of the thick sand, they just sort of break down, crying.”

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New premises for Cobaw Community Health

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YEAR since works first started, Cobaw Community Health’s building is now completed. The purpose-built new facility, made possible by a $9.7M grant from the Victorian Government’s Regional Health Infrastructure Fund, will replace Cobaw’s main office in the centre of Kyneton.

Cobaw CEO Margaret McDonald said the design created a welcoming and flexible space which would ensure that everyone visiting Cobaw had access to the highest levels of comfort and professionalism.

"This vital part of local infrastructure gives us the capacity to provide a greater range of allied health and community services with significant increases in clinical spaces to meet the increases in service demand."

The mix of exterior cladding and intricate brick work was designed to reference the local history, architecture, flora and the landscape of the Macedon Ranges.

"The grey cladding references the bluestone rock and brickwork found extensively in the area as well as the many farm sheds seen in towns across the region. The curves of the brick arches are a nod to the shop fronts of the old buildings as well as to hills of the local environment and the gold glass references Kyneton’s history as a service town for the goldfields. The internal colours reflect the colours of the natural landscape of the hills, rivers, trees and earth."

The building is clearly visible as people come off the freeway at Kyneton and the entrance to Cobaw faces the Kyneton Health site, accessed via additional parking that has been added to the existing car park.

All of Cobaw’s services will be available in the new building including counselling, family and parenting support, homelessness support, LGBTIQA+ groups, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology.

In addition, there will be a number of co-located and visiting services including the Centre for Non-Violence and Centrelink that will grow over the coming months with the increased space. In addition, multi-purpose rooms and a kitchen will allow community groups access to spaces for meetings that have state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment.

"We are pleased to be joining existing services on the precinct and particularly value the ongoing collaboration with Kyneton Health," Ms McDonald said.

A small number of staff are on site setting up the new building in preparation for when Cobaw can open its doors again to the community.

Despite the doors currently being closed to all of its sites including at Romsey and Woodend, Cobaw continues to deliver all of its programs and services via telehealth and in person where necessary.

The contact details for enquiries and referrals remain the same – call 5421 1666 or email admin@cobaw.org.au

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It's only natural to care (cont'd) Last week, I espoused the benefits of, and more importantly, the absolute need for us to find ways to protect our gardens from pests and diseases, without harming ourselves or our environment. These days there are many harmless - to us and our pets, at least - botanical and biological sprays and compounds to cover almost every garden pest or pestilence.

One of my favourites and an early starter is Dipel, a bacterial compound exclusively attacking larvae, grubs and caterpillars. My first encounter with this product was when I was filming a segment in the Melbourne Zoo’s Butterfly House, mainly to demonstrate the original environments of the plants we struggle with as indoor specimens but also to promote the newly-opened facility.

I was told Dipel was being used to great effect in keeping the zoo gardens grubfree, but for a time had apparently created havoc in the butterfly breeding area, until they found that Dipel residue on the keepers’ work clothes had been sufficient enough to exterminate the young caterpillars.

If you would prefer to make your own remedies, here are a few tried and true recipes...

Insecticides Eucalyptus spray: Cut up 1.5kg of freshly-picked eucalyptus leaves and boil them in 3.5 litres of water for 30 minutes. Allow them to cool. Mix 125g of soft (or liquid) soap in hot water. Strain and blend the two, and bottle when cool. Use the mixture at the rate of 250ml to 2 litres of water.

Garlic spray (excellent for smaller insect pests): Chop up and mix 90g of garlic cloves with two teaspoons of liquid paraffin. Soak for 48 hours, then add 600ml of warm water and 15g of a good oil-based soap. Store in a sealed bottle and use at the rate of 25ml per litre of water.

Chive tea (for scab and mildew): Use dried chives. Do not boil but pour 500ml of boiling water over 50g of dried chives and allow it to infuse for at least an hour. Strain the mixture through a nylon stocking (preferably vacant) and bottle. Use diluted at the rate of one part mixture to two parts water.

By the way, because these and most of the new breed of commercial, organic sprays are thankfully non-systemic they don’t remain in the sapstream (like our bloodstream). Especially in rainy weather it would be a good idea to follow up with another spraying, perhaps in a fortnight, to catch any latecomers.

Silent Spring Last week I mentioned the book Silent Spring by the late, widely-acclaimed, marine biologist Rachel Carson, which exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides, despite the condemnation of the US press and attempts of the chemical industry to have the book banned. First published in 1962, it was last released as one of Penguin’s Modern Classics in 2000, so not easily found in the bookshops. I obtained my current copy online.

Rhubarb spray: Cut up 2.5kg of rhubarb leaves and boil them in 3 litres of water for 30 minutes.

Allow to cool. Mix 125g of soft soap in 3 litres of hot water. When cool, strain and blend the mixtures for use at the rate of 250ml per 2 litres of water.

Fungicides Bordeaux mixture (ingredients readily obtained from any hardware outlet): Stir 90g of copper sulphate into 5 litres of hot water and leave overnight to cool.

Next day, mix 125g of garden lime with 4 litres of cold water. Mix both liquids together and use immediately. This mixture is excellent for most fungal diseases but does not store for more than a couple of days.

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In Design with Indre

Merch'n dise The mood is shifting. You can feel it. We, as a society, are more confident that the COVID-19 pandemic is under control.

You see this with more traffic on the roads this week, more tourists in small towns and encouragement from the government that 1 million people will be back in work by June.

People will be making decisions about whether they want to continue working from home, go back to the office or a combination of both. Shops, cafes and pubs are talking of reopening which means they need to entice customers back. We have been experiencing a new normal where food is take-away or delivered to your door and retail purchases are a click of a button away in the comfort of your home.

Businesses now have the golden opportunity to refresh themselves. To incorporate some visual merchandising theories to entice the customer, not just provide a service. To maximise the aesthetics of a product with the intent to increase sales. To bring people back to your door.

Customers eat first with their eyes. You have three seconds to be recognised, to state what your business does and to appeal.

Good examples of visual merchandising in retail are those that leave the customer with a positive experience.

Some important points to remember are: Be visible, once the customer is attracted, lead them in with an appropriate focal point. Lead the eye to what you want them to see and lead them through, so they don’t have to guess where to step next. Same goes in retail, food and services.

Place seasonal or special items upfront. Be relevant.

Use signage, inside and out and be clear with what it is and how much it is.

Leave blank space to keep it simple as less is more, so you don’t overwhelm the customer. Display a wide variety of product but present it in an organised way. Add interest by using something different to display on, like a chair or sideboard instead of shelving or hang an artwork from the ceiling or outside. Anything goes when being creative.

Tell a story by featuring a cluster of goods that will be great together, such as trousers, a shirt, a bag, shoes, an umbrella, perhaps a picnic rug and an unusual item that will grab attention e.g. a teapot and cup in a menswear window, used for contrast.

IKEA shows scenes and stories very well by presenting a whole bedroom or kitchen scene to save you imagining. It’s all laid out for you to indulge in.

Lighting will set the mood in the premises, as will music. Bright lights are modern and casual while soft lighting is intimate, giving more ambience. Highlight merchandising with spotlights. Use dimmers and underlighting on shelves and steps.

Choose the tempo and volume of your music to match visual elements and product in store. It sets the mood.

Let us not forget the power of smell. Seventy-five per cent of people’s emotions come from what they smell. A 40 per cent improvement in mood is experienced when people encounter a pleasant smell. Real estate agents are well aware of the enhanced appeal during a house inspection when there is fresh brewed coffee or baked bread smells.

Above all else, use imagination and creativity. Regardless of the type or size of business, create an atmosphere that puts the customer at ease. Adding inexpensive and personal touches can give a unique personality. Shopfronts are all about individuality and finding a niche to sit in. Be enticing and satisfying and remember to engage all senses. A computer can’t give you experiences but your creativity can.

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URING the current lockdown situation, when dining out is not possible, take-away becomes the only option. But, what options there are.

This includes the Daylesford Hotel which now offers a take-away dinner menu Wednesday to Saturday, 5m to 8pm and a Saturday lunch noon to 3pm. Just phone ahead with your order and pick-up at their bottle shop drive-through when ready.

Your selection is brought to the car window straight from the kitchen.

A nice touch is the fully recyclable packaging (hot and cold in separate bags even) which kept everything fresh for us during the 10-minute trip home back to the hills.

My selection was a cheeseburger ($12), an all-time favourite with house-made pickles, onion, sauce and real American cheese. Purists may disdain it but no burger is complete without a slip of Robert L Kraft’s pasteurised cheese product melted over a freshly ground beef patty.

Amanda choose the falafel burger ($12). It was crisp and tangy with garlic yoghurt, cos lettuce, a generous helping of feta and mild, green pickled chillies (guindillas). Both dishes come served on fresh milk buns made on the premises. The ultimate TV dinner would not be complete without a side serving of crisp french fries (small $4, regular $6), creamy coleslaw ($6), and just maybe, onion rings ($6).

For dessert there was a choice between sticky date pudding with butterscotch ($7) and New York-style baked cheesecake ($7).

I like cheesecake, especially when it's fresh with a slice of poached pear. As does our dog Logik, pictured. On a chilly evening watching free-to-air telly Amanda has a preference for warm sticky date pudding with cream. So no arguments were generated picking and choosing this time. A great take-away feast and we managed to finish it all before the movie started (something in French on SBS).

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We accept credit cards over the phone or we have an onboard EFT machine.

You will need to be at home for the delivery with proof of age if asked by the driver.

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ELCOME to Quarantini O'Clock, the print edition.

Another week goes by in this strange new world we find ourselves in, and I’m just longing to go to the pub for a pint of Guinness. It looks like it’s going to be a while until we can, but they’ll eventually open up again and we’ll all sit around and tell stories and tall tales from our lockdown days.

Tonight’s cocktail is a nod to the ‘good old days’ when we could go to the pub and stay till closing and hearing the call for LAST Drinks and frantically ordering just one more for the road.

The Last Call Ingredients: 45ml whiskey 30ml Campari 25ml port 20ml of Earl Grey tea syrup Method: Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and add ice.

Shake until the shaker is cold in your hands. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with a slice of dehydrated or fresh orange.

Wine notes

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OHN Burford is the owner/ operator of Limestone Track Vineyard near Guildford.

The vineyard was established by the Burford Family with the first plantings being cabernet sauvignon in 1989. Soon followed plantings of shiraz and later chardonnay, merlot, and a small block of tempranillo.

"Located near Guildford, the warmer climate is more suitable to the red varieties we grow, providing fruit at optimum levels to enable us to provide quality wines," John said.

"My favourite wine in the winter months is our cabernet sauvignon. A full-body wine with a fruity bouquet, rich berry characters and soft tannins on the pallet. To be enjoyed over dinner with friends near a nice glowing fire to keep warm.

"Our rosé is also extremely popular, and every year we sell out well before summer ends. This wine is made from cabernet sauvignon and a small amount of merlot fruit.

"During these stay at home, isolated conditions that we are currently experiencing, we are open by appointment for purchases only so please check our web site www.limestonetrack.com for contact details or our Facebook page. We offer free delivery in the local region for a minimum of six bottles.

"If you are in the Daylesford region call in to Cellarbrations where you can also purchase our wines. They have been great supporters of ours for many years and their friendly staff will be happy to advise you on our wines."

The Local is running Wine notes in each edition - featuring wineries from around the region. To take part email donna@tlnews.com.au And please, when you can, support local. Oh, and drink responsibly.

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Finalist in photo prize

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RENTHAM photographer Mike Rutherford's Lost Boy - Kerala, pictured right, is a finalist in the Percival Photographic Portrait Prize.

Another, World's Biggest Laundry - Mumbai, is a winner in the Chania International Photo Festival and will be part of an exhibition in Crete in August.

They were both done on a visit to India in November-December last year with a theme to photograph ordinary working Indians.

Mike is a former international advertising photographer who bought the old Lying-In Hospital (for new mums) in Trentham, built in the late 1800s which he is renovating when not photographing.

In 2019 he did two trips to India for photography and he hopes to be exhibiting in Mumbai in 2021.

Mike has lived in Trentham for over 15 years and is passionate about showing a side to the region that is beyond the usual tourism shots.

The Percival Photographic Portrait Prize debuted in 2014. It was started to coincide with the highly popular Percival Portrait Painting Prize and to ensure a citywide celebration of portraiture.

The Townsville-based exhibition, which has been growing with every edition, offers a major $10,000 acquisitive prize.

The winner will be announced on May 22.

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Recipes for lockdown Nasu dengaku or eggplant with miso

Take the eggplant out of the oven, pop it on a plate, and pour the glaze over. If you want, instead you can leave it on the tray, put the glaze on and put it back in the oven under a grill setting for a few minutes to get 1 eggplant - halved lengthways it bubbling. Sounds good but our oven grill has been 1 tbsp olive oil broken for about five years so I skip that step.

Sesame seeds, to serve Either way, when it’s ready to eat you can then top Chopped chives, to serve with the sesame seeds and chives. Being in lockdown I had neither so resorted to chopped spring onions Miso glaze and chopped peanuts for some crunch. I also added 100g white or red miso (about half a cup) some microwave rice to make it a meal for one. Really 2 tbsp sake delicious and tasted better than it looks!.

2 tbsp mirin It’s a great and simple way to cook eggplant which 2 tbsp sugar (I used brown sugar) many people probably look at in their supermarket or greengrocer, wonder what to do with it, and keep Use a knife to score a criss-cross pattern across the halved eggplant (not the skin side). Try to make it quite moving to something easier like beans.

When I lived in Japan the local bar also used it deep because this is where the miso glaze is going to end sliced, pan-fried and served with spaghetti. The miso up but don’t go through the skin. Pop it on a tray and drizzle or spray some oil across and then bake in a 180C glaze would probably make a nice sauce for that as well. oven for about 45 minutes.

When it’s nearly ready, put the miso glaze ingredients - Donna Kelly, Glenlyon in a small pan, mix and simmer for a few minutes until the mixture is thick but can still be poured. You can add Disclaimer: All recipes subject to failure...(A reader a couple of tablespoons of water if you want, but I don’t. emailed on Saturday to say the Belgian Lemon I like the sauce to be quite thick.

Teacake was tasty but it stuck in her tin. Oops.)

Serves 2 as entrée or 1 as a meal.

Do you have a recipe to share?

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Pick me, pick me

Just sayin’...

By Donna Kelly

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E WERE driving back from a walk down the reserve a few days back and saw a couple of blokes, older blokes, chatting on the side of the

All good. But as we got closer one of them started flapping his arms around and walking towards the middle of the road, to sort of stop our progress. Now, in normal circumstances I would probably have pulled up and said g'day. But we are in the middle of a pandemic and are a little bit nervy about getting too close and personal to people we don't know, and even those that we do.

So I slowed down, fighting the urge to drive over him, nicely pulled to the left and drove around him. He tapped the side of the car as we drove on and I could see him gesticulating in the rear view mirror, throwing his arms up in the air, quite agitated.

Kyle and I looked at each other and said "headlight".

Yes, we have one out which we are quite aware of. But being in these strange times, and not driving at night, we have put it on the backburner until we can find an isounderstanding car sparky.

But what is it about blokes, and mostly older blokes, who have a great need to tell you that you have a headlight out? We have all been there. The bloke stumbles over, pointing repeatedly to the front of the car and it starts.

"Well, hello there young man/woman, it appears you have one of your headlights not working. Harrumph, I thought in the interests of public safety I had better let you know."

Then "Oh, I see, you are already aware of the problem. Well, you better do something quick sticks about that and get it fixed. You could be quite a danger on the country roads." And off they go, feeling quite smug about having done their civic duty.

It's a bloke thing for sure. Car stuff. We stayed at a campground once in Alice Springs.

Yes, we camped, one night only. Never again. Anyway, hmmm, what is the collective noun for a group of blokes, a herd, a gaggle... Anyway, all these blokes were doing the rounds looking over all the parked caravans, checking out the black water tanks, true story, and just generally being blokey.

They stopped by us, possibly the youngest people in the park, murmured a bit and then one stepped up to Kyle, nodded over at our shiny Hyundai and asked "What's under the bonnet?" Kyle, quite young but eager to be part of the pack replied quickly, but a little unsteadily, with "the engine?". The group tutted their disgust as one and moved on. Blokes.

But thanks to all those who have tried their damnedest to let us know the headlight is out. We know. Oh, if any police are reading this, it's fixed now. Just sayin'...

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The Local - Connecting the Community

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he Local is all about Connecting the Community. We run good news stories about amazing people and places, and festivals and events. And our fantastic advertisers run great deals for locals and visitors alike.

To give back to the community, The Local has been running its Connecting the Community adverts for five years. The adverts are for mostly for not-for-profit groups and organisations - which is most of us these days - to lend a hand when finances can be a bit tight - or just don't exist. We all know how hard it can be to make volunteer-run organisations work on the smell of an oily rag!

To apply just email donna@tlnews.com.au with your event or organisation. We also put call-outs on our Facebook page and those of the various communities in our wonderful region. We work on a first-in basis, with a nod to time-lines too.

There are a few conditions, well mostly that you aren't grabbing a free advert and then we see a whacking big paid advert in other media. That wouldn't be fair.

Cheers, Donna (Ed)

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Kyle’s Rant

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E HAVE have a field mouse on the loose here at TL HQ. This little critter has survived two mousetraps which were installed at our annual pest termination in November.

I then upgraded to a $9 Mortein trap, a round next-level bit of hardware which entices our new staff member in with the smell of peanut butter or cheese. Or it should. I loaded it up with peanut butter - a fail.

So every morning I clean up mouse poo on the router and all over my desk and wipe down the keyboard, (computer) mouse and phone. Last week I tried cheese in this trap that promised the world. Thanks Mortein. Another fail. All I found in the morning was a piece of cheese on top of the router which he had swiped out of his high-tech incarceration facility. WTF? Next week I am investing in a plethora or lowtech mousetraps, I’m determined that I won’t be made a fool of in my own office by young Mickey so we are going down the scattergun path.

Speaking of mice and computers (nice segue), have you ever noticed how one minute you were talking with someone about a product you looked at or a fantasy trip to some exotic place, and a little while later a similar advert appears on a website, Instagram or Facebook feed?

This is incredible technology. It is like Google is always listening to you. That is scary tech in terms of your privacy and it is on anyone's device which has a microphone. Now that is bloody terrifying, that sort of intel in the wrong hands is potentially catastrophic, you know what “they” say about knowledge and power.

By contrast this COVID-19 app that the government has released and is hoping that Australians will download, offers no secrets and no live geocentric technology.

It is simply built as a weapon to beat this bug by storing information which is only uploaded to the state health department if you are found to have COVID-19. It identifies the potential people that you have put at risk by being an arsehole and standing closer than 1.5 metres from someone out of your bubble for more than 15 minutes. The health department or hospital calls the person you have put at risk in for a check, identifies potential people that could have been infected and so on.

I have heard a lot of talk about civil rights violations but they went out the window back in March when we went into lockdown. In fact, we have all lost our world citizen privileges and I am over that. So, if you are over your rights being violated like me and sick of the lockdown and want to move on to the new world order complete with social isolation and lots more personal space, download the bloody app.

App rant over…

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5348 7883 or kyle@tlnews.com.au In Memoriam

Cheshire Family Thank you

Olive Annie Botheras 1/8/1922-6/5/2019

Michael John Moyes Cheshire 2.4.1945 – 28.3.2020 To love and to be loved is the most beautiful gift of all.

We, as Michael Cheshire’s family, would like to thank everyone for their love, kind thoughts, prayers, flowers, cards and phone calls.

These have all been greatly appreciated.

During this time of isolation many people have found a very different way of “saying goodbye” or mourning. We are very mindful of everyone’s needs in these trying circumstances.

Michael touched so many people in so many ways over decades of friendship and community service. You can measure the impact a man had on the world by the sheer size of the footprint he leaves in the sand.

A year has passed since you left us to be with your beloved Arthur. A loving and caring mum to Robert. Much loved grandmother of Emma and Naomi.

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