Front page: It's time to party like it's 2024 - because we are just about to jump headfirst into 2025. This edition we take a look back at the year that was.
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Looking back...
Christmas is done and dusted and now it's time to kick back and chillwhether you want to add Netflix or not is completely up to you.
It's also time for the crew at The Local to have a little bit of downtime but not without completing a great look back at the year that was.
(Some people might think this is a lazy edition, an easy way to fill a paper without much work involved but I can sincerely say it is probably the most work I have done in a while - especially because I kept slipping down memory lane and reading way too much from each edition. Like when you look in a real photo album. But I digress.)
This edition is mostly, well completely, about the good news that happened over 2024 - because we get enough bad news on the morning television.
So, while I understand many things happened which were challenging and led to plenty of tears (the Daylesford tragedy anniversary) and others led to lots of conversations (Hepburn Shire's town plans), we decided to focus on the festivals, the people and then fun - all the things we all love about living in the Central Highlands.
If you have a read through you will see most of the people we wrote about during the year and if you didn't make it onto these pages don't worry, it just might be we had too many great stories in one month to choose all of them.
This edition is also featuring our Artists of the Central Highlands which run every second edition, along with our Walks of the Central Highlands. Both are written by our talented journalist Eve Lamb, whom many of you would have met by now.
She is always out and about with not only writing her stories but also taking great photos. And we all know she will never run out of artists to interview or interesting walks to trek along.
I would also like to thank all of our wonderful crew and contributors - they really put in the hard yards and keep The Local punching well about its weight.
I hope you enjoy this edition and feel free to delve into more stories from the year at www.tlnews.com.au under archives.
Oh, if you have any ideas for next year please let us know. Someone recently said sudoku would be a good idea - but they still want us to keep the crossword going. Personally I can't do it but I did see many people on our recent cruise heading to the library every morning to pick up the latest puzzle. I guess I am more about the words.
Catch you in 2025, January 13 to be precise or online on January 12, with all the news that's fit to read. And more.
Happy New Year, Donna
Just briefly...
Top tappin' for NYE
The Gordon Gypsies are a quartet of talented young musos from Gordon who play a lively, eclectic mix including Gypsy-jazz, Irish, folk and Middle Eastern melodies.
Armed with violin, guitar, tin whistle, harmonica, bodran and vocals they’re aiming to get New Year's Eve revellers singing and dancing with their toe-tapping tunes as part of Daylesford’s NYE Parade and Gala. Those who get along to see out 2024 in Daylesford on New Year’s Eve will be able to get up and dancing to the tunes of these young musos at the Kids Corner from 6pm.
Win for sports clubs
Sports clubs, including the Wombat Fight Club, are among those to benefit with 875 state government grants going to more than 740 clubs.
Clubs to benefit include: Wombat Fight Club Daylesford, $1826 for first aid training; Wombat Fight Club Daylesford, $178 for first aid equipment; Daylesford and Hepburn United Soccer Club, $1000 for uniforms; Daylesford Lawn Tennis Club, $1000 for tennis balls; Daylesford Table Tennis Association, $1000 for an upgrade of playing equipment; Malmsbury Cricket Club, $992 for uniform and equipment for the girls’ team; and Glenlyon & District Pony Club, $962 for new long sleeve sun protection competition shirts.
Rates capped
Council rate increases will again be capped at the forecast Consumer Price Index for next year, continuing the state government’s drive to reduce pressures on household budgets.
The 3 per cent rate cap for the next financial year is part of the government’s Fair Go Rates System. The rate cap limits the amount Victorian councils can increase their total revenue from general rates and municipal charges. Councils may apply to the Essential Services Commission for a higher rate cap if they can demonstrate a critical need for spending on services or projects that would require a rate rise above the capped amount.
A particular set of skills
Actor Liam Neeson will return to regional Victoria to film his next actionthriller.
Minister for Creative Industries Colin Brooks said cameras would roll on The Mongoose from late January. The production will create 453 jobs for Victorian screen workers, inject more than $19 million into the state economy and engage an estimated 150 local businesses, including specialist screen industry businesses to accommodation providers, retailers and hospitality.
Highland Gathering at Maryborough
The Maryborough Highland Gathering is readying to return for its 162nd instalment this New Year's Day.
The gathering was originally formed by Scottish squatters and businessmen in an attempt to recreate the New Year celebrations of their native home. Today, the gathering attracts people from all across the country – athletes, dancers, musicians, and those who just want to soak up the incredible atmosphere of pipe bands and traditional Scottish culture. The day concludes with a free evening concert and a fireworks display. Entry to Princes Park is $18 for adults, $10 for seniors, with children under 16 free.
Just one of my favourite photos from 2024, taken by Eve Lamb, from one of his many bushwalks. Locks at Lake Daylesford. Great little history behind the locks if you ever care to ask...Hint, the first one was Rosie Loves Curly.
Melissa McGeary
Chop chop: Get along to the Lyonville chop
An annual favourite on many calendars, the Lyonville Woodchop will take place Saturday, February 1 from 10.30am at the Lyonville Hall.
The event will provide a showcase for the prowess of local and visiting axe-wielders and the hammer-hefting ladies at the nail drive competition.
Organisers say all the usual attractions will be available at the woodchop: “a bar, BBQ, barista coffee, cakes and light lunch stall, plus a raffle and spinning wheel with lots of great prizes to be won”.
Proceeds go towards the hall's maintenance.
Entry is $5 per adult, children free. Details: Vicki on 0438 178 150.
Words: Eve Lamb
Bronwyn
Dr Ashvin
Loshna
If you haven’t yet done the Lalgambook (Mount Franklin) crater rim walk, now’s a great time to get cracking. www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 296
We’re tackling a short, sharp, little gem of a walk known as the Cork Oaks Track. Read the full story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 294
“The classic Daylesford walk,” enthuses Paddy H as we head off to sample the Two Lakes 8km loop. Read the story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 310
Jacksons Lookout walk, Yyuna, Argyle and Golden springs, is a great option for that little extra. Read the story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 301
Many thanks to journalist Eve Lamb, and her walking partner Paddy, for their wonderful tales and photos of the walks in our beautiful region. For more inspo head to www.tlnews.com.au
The artists who made The Local in 2024!
- Edition 295
Malmsbury artist Tia Alysse discovered her natural and considerable talent for art while a school child. Read her story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 309
artistic oeuvre of Newstead-based Carol
is impressively
Read the story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 297
Lyonville artist Suzi Cheek is still experimenting with landscapes, clouds and still life. Read her story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 302
Trenthamites have gathered to raise a glass to a new mural map.
The map is the work of local artist Natalie Davis from Chalkysigns and can be found at the Vic Market Community Cafe in Trentham. The map features Trentham’s iconic spaces and fauna.
Vic Market is a new space opposite the historic Trentham Railway Station offering locally made consumables and crafted goods.
Left, artist Natalie Davis with Vic Market’s Kate Mooney Image: Anna from Wild Little Swallows
Photography
Read the story at www.tlnews.com.auEdition 302 Well, some of them!
Radical Fieldz is the brainchild of Glenlyon artist Ryan Kennedy, left, with artist Tony Sawrey. Read their story at www.tlnews.com.au
The
de Graauw
diverse.
Well, some of them!
Monty Osewald has a vivacious talent whose creative work gets noticed wherever he goes. Read his story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 303
Creativity has always been central in the life of Musk Vale ceramicist Minna Graham. Read her story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 317
Dawson went from making a living as a builder to creating Blampied’s unique Overwrought. Read his story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 305
The large-scale sculptures that Jannie Alday make are sophisticated works of beauty. Read her story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 319
Brilliantly coloured images of rock and pop stars fill a book by Yandoit’s Dave Lewis. They arose out of extreme trauma. He says if his wife had not heard a bump as their daughter Kate fell out of bed, she would be dead. It seemed that Kate, then 16, was having a fit. She was unable to speak. An ambulance took her to Ballarat, then to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She was there for six months recovering from an aneurysm During Kate’s time there Dave lined her white walls with drawings of music legends from Bob Dylan to Patti Smith. Read the story at www.tlnews.com.auEdition 307
Daylesford’s
David
Creswick’s parkrun Jubilee Lake
Mt Franklin Reserve
Thomas’ Lookout/Cornish Hill
Glenlyon Reserve
Daylesford Mill Market
Lake Daylesford
Wombat Hill Botanic Garden
Trentham Rail Trail
Trentham Falls
Myriad mineral springs
Bush walks
Lerderderg Gorge
Glenlyon Falls
Sailors Falls waterfall/lookout
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Out & About in the Central Highlands
The people who made The Local in 2024!
Five women were inducted onto the Hepburn Shire Council's International Women's Day Heather Mutimer Honour Roll.
From left, former councillor Jen Bray, Michelle Clifford, Helen Hogg (representing her wife, Yvonne Sillett), Anne Bremner, Nikki Marshall, Marj Green
Heather Mutimer and Cr Brian Hood.
Ruth and Malcolm Bray headed to a ceremony celebrating the return of the Fourth Bark Petition to Yirrkala.
Glengower's Jake Seers gets in some practise at Falkirk Estate, the Ullina property of Jock and Michelle Leishman, ready for the Clunes Quick Shear.
(January 15, 2024, Issue 297)
(January 29, 2024, Issue 298)
After 18 years Rob Hands and Annie Reeve stepped away from their Mind Your Pet business in Daylesford.
(February 12, 2024, Issue 299)
(front),
(March 11, 2024, Issue 301)
Retired Anglican priest and keen amateur historian Peta Sherlock, pictured at the oldest gravesite in Trentham, led historical tours of Trentham Cemetery.
(March 11, 2024, Issue 301)
The people who made The Local in 2024!
Artistic teams from Victoria - the Freeloaders from Woodend and Spacemex from Wheatsheaf - headed to the Wastelands Cup.
The cup is held annually "somewhere" in New South Wales.
Spacemex, pictured, consisted of a crew of eight people decked out in silver - just like actual astronauts, headed by Jeep stalwart Tony Whitehead.
(Apologies to the bloke on the roofcouldn't fit you in...)
The 'Beare Boys', Declan and Noel, (at front) with Hamish Millar and Jason Liversidge kept winning in their 1000CC Formula 1 Road Race Sidecar.
(March 25, 2024, Issue 302)
Professional genealogist and Wheatsheaf resident Lynda Collier was kept busy dedicating her time researching family histories and her own ancestry.
(April 8, 2024, Issue 303)
Ros Pyers, and her husband Keith, gave back to the community through substantial donations to children’s education, music and local history.
(April 22, 2024, Issue 304)
Hepburn Springs couple Nat Delaney-John, left, and Cam Jasson found success with That Sound Game, developed during Covid lockdowns.
(May 6, 2024, Issue 305)
(May 20, 2024, Issue 306) Well, some of them!
The people who made The Local in 2024!
Well, some of them!
Creswick’s Philip Greenbank, official town crier for Hepburn Shire since 2015, took part in an event to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
an Order of Australia
Fern Hill's Lauretta Hanson headed to the Paris 2024 Olympics. The road cyclist competed alongside Grace Brown and Ruby Roseman-Gannon.
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever sees participants around the world recreate the music video for musician Kate Bush's 1978 song Wuthering Heights.
The event's inspiration is Shambush's The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience, which took place in 2013 in Brighton, United Kingdom, as part of Brighton Fringe.
And thanks to Spade to Blade's Gary Thomas, centre, and the Hepburn Dancers, this event was also held at the Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens in Daylesford - led by dancer Tuesday Telford Perkins.
Bullarto’s Nadine Jade produced a video about Daylesford artist and musician Monty Osewald. Her goal is to direct a short at the St Kilda Film Festival.
Coomoora’s Patrice O’Shea received
Medal in the General Division in the King’s Birthday Honours list.
(June 3, 2024, Issue 307)
(June 17, 2024, Issue 308)
(July 1, 2024, Issue 309)
(July 15, 2024, Issue 310)
(July 29, 2024, Issue 311)
The people who made The Local in 2024!
Well, some of them!
The late Bob Conroy was inducted into the Victorian Harness Racing Hall of Fame for both his on-track deeds and his “gentleman” status off the track.
Gloria, from Musk's Oberon Suffolk Stud, took home a host of titles from the 2024 Royal Melbourne Show. Owners are Bruce Rolfe and Douglas Scott. The Daylesford Community Brass Band took part in a Fire-Water-Wood concert at Daylesford Christ Church featuring a special commissioned piece by renowned band composer Dr Jodie Blackshaw. For There is Nothing Lost was inspired by the landscape of regional Victoria, especially that of the Hepburn Shire.
A huge thanks to all the photographers and journalists involved in these great people, and sheep, pieces! Plenty more memories at www.tlnews.com.au
Creswick’s Oscar Broad and Lachlan McKenzie received a Victoria Police Citizen’s Commendation for coming to the aid of police officer in 2019.
Clunes' Leiarnna Ferguson won silver at the 2024 International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation Pan Kids’ ... and then gold in the Australian Nationals.
(August 12, 2024, Issue 312)
(August 26, 2024, Issue 313)
(September 9, 2024, Issue 314)
(October 7, 2024, Issue 316)
(November 18, 2024, Issue 319)
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Rack of Lamb & Middle Eastern Vegetables
BY RICHARD CORNISH
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 40-50 minutes
Our own grass-fed Greenhills Natural Lamb is tender, rich, and succulent, cooked on a bed of vegetables seasoned with Middle Eastern spices to soak up all the delicious juices. It’s a super colourful dish and perfect for large celebrations and feasts.
8-point rack Greenhills Natural Lamb
2 medium eggplant, 2cm cubes
2 large red capsicum/peppers, diced
2 springs rosemary, finely chopped
6-8 sprigs fresh thyme leaves
1 tsp cumin seeds, crushed
1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed
1 large or 2 small lemons
4 cloves garlic, smashed
1 tbsp date molasses*
Olive oil, salt flakes and pepper
* you can also use balsamic vinegar
Preheat the oven to 220°C (fan 200°C).
Pat lamb dry with paper towel to ensure a good sear. Rub lamb all over with olive oil and rosemary, season generously with salt and pepper.
In a large mixing bowl, toss the eggplant and capsicum with olive oil, half the thyme, spices, salt and pepper to taste.
Spread the vegetables evenly in a large roasting pan. Meanwhile, heat a heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Once hot, add the lamb and sear on all sides for 2–3 minutes per side until the lamb is nicely browned and caramelised.
Place lamb on the seasoned vegetables in
the roasting pan, bones facing upward. Scatter the smashed garlic cloves around the vegetables.
Cut lemon into chunks, with skins on and scatter on top.
Place in oven and roast for 25-30 minutes. Remove the rack of lamb from the oven and let it rest for 10 minutes, covered loosely with foil. Return vegetables to oven if required.
Slice the rack between the ribs to create individual chops. Serve the lamb on a bed of roasted vegetables.
Drizzle with date molasses and remaining fresh thyme sprigs.
THIS WEEKS SPECIALS - ALL ABOUT GETTING THE BBQ ON!
The highest quality meat doesn’t have to cost the earth.
1kg BBQ sausages
1kg beef mince
1kg sausage mince
1kg marinated lamb ribs
1kg marinated chicken nibbles
1.5kg roasting beef
Whole roasting chicken
PETER WATSON HAND-MADE PRODUCTS AVAILABLE IN-STORE NOW.
Chutneys, mustards, brines, relishes, meat and poultry rubs. All hand-made in Melbourne using local ingredients.
As per last year and the year before and the year before that, it's been a busy 12 months, so I am out, down for the count, in a corner blowing bubbles. Feel free to write your own column here. See you in 2025! Happy New Year!
Local Lines
Summer
Paddocks are crafted into bales as neat as Christmas gifts. Joeys are out of their pouches, bound for the roolympics.
A car pauses for its driver to shoo a mother duck and her brood from the asphalt.
An echidna trails home to await its winter courtship That will produce a puggle.
This is the song you never get wrong.
- Kevin Childs
Kevin Childs is journalist and author. He writes for The Local and other publications.
Local Lines features poetry by locals about local and any other matters. Please submit poems to Bill Wootton at cottlesbreedge@gmail.com
Ageing DisGracefully members, including Max Primmer, get together at the Daylesford Mill Markets cafe on Thursdays at 11am. All welcome. For information email ageingdis3461@gmail.com, call 0427 131 249 or head to the Ageing DisGracefully Facebook page.
Ageing DisGracefully is an initiative of Hepburn House.
Pick me, pick me!
Looking for a forever companion?
Head to the Mount Alexander Animal Welfare Shelter in Castlemaine. Or give them a call on 5472 5277. Or head to www.maaw. org.au for all their animal profiles or perhaps how you can help with a donation or op shopping...
(Pick me, pick me is run in memory of Rosie & Curly - we picked them. And proudly supported by Daylesford's petstock - where pets are family.)
Just sayin’...
By Donna Kelly
Does anyone else remember getting ready for 2000? We were going to party like it was 1999 - because it was. But it was also a bit worrying that all of the world's computers would grind to a halt.
A few friends stocked up on toilet paper (pandemic triggering) and champagne while my Nan stocked up on flour and sugar and things to bake with. She was a great baker - did a very nice scone. They were always scooped out of the oven into a tea towel in a colander. Not sure why. Keep them light perhaps?
Kyle and I did nothing to prepare but I still remember wandering around Myer Frankston, which no longer exists, Myer not Frankston, wondering what it was one wore to the potential end of the world. I think I chose a pant suit kind of thing. Not much one for dresses.
Of course nothing happened although the son of one of Mum's friends got a very cheap midnight flight to America - the only one aboard apart from the crew. That's how scared we all were.
I have had a few memorable New Year's Eves. One was in Japan where we did nothing that night but the next morning climbed a mountain to watch the first sunrise of the year. And drank some really disgusting thick, sweet sake from a square wooden cup. And then visited lots of families and pretty much ate for the day.
Only a few years back we had a small affair at Glenlyon and burnt a giant blow up Corona beer bottle Kyle had managed to acquire online. Along with a big photo of Trump. They were clearly both gone for good. Hmmm.
Another time, Kyle, who seems to play a role in these events most of the time, decided he would light a handful of sparklers, inside the school. They quickly caught alight, to his apparent surprise, so he ran outside and promptly dropped them on the deck. This was also at Glenlyon where the dry summer meant there were plenty of leaves under the deck, just waiting to catch fire.
Luckily a friend, who was just a bit more onto it, poured his beer through the cracks and put the fire out before it took hold. Yes, it can happen as easily as that. And Kyle, who had managed to stand on some of the burning magnesium, ran inside as it burnt a hole into his heel, and flushed his foot down the toilet. I don't mean his foot came off, just ended up pushed into the S-bend. I guess that's toilet humour.
One of the strongest memories, and I shouldn't really remember this at all, was when we lived at Frankston and we took a limo to a boat tour out of Hastings. It was all very posh and we had a great night. We returned home, feeling quite grand, only to find our dogs had obviously had something frightened out of them by fireworks. All over a lovely, shaggy wool rug. The smell was unbelievable, so we dragged the huge rug out, draped it over a balcony rail and sprayed it down.
We were exhausted and for some reason I decided it was time to make some cookies. Special cookies using some lovely herbs some friends had given us in a fair sized Tupperware container. I mixed the concoction up, waited for it to cook and then chomped in. The more I ate the hungrier I got. Strange that. And then the world took a turn for the worse. I realised Kyle had died. He was lying on the floor, Pink Floyd in the background, and he was clearly dead. I was so sad. I called 000 but luckily, in my altered state, I called the old trunk line 013 and no-one answered. This was probably quite good for my future but I railed against the unfairness of life. Kyle dying while just listening to music.
I then popped out to the balcony and screamed "my husband's dead" but no-one came. Again, quite lucky in retrospect. I decided to drag Kyle to a more comfortable spot, down the hall, and hoisted him onto the bed. Obviously I had developed superhuman strength. On the bed, I felt a hand grab my wrist. "Paranoia," Kyle said. Oh, I thought, not dead, just me being paranoid. And I slept well. Until I woke up and wondered if I had put the rest of the cookies away or left them in reach of the dogs...Dogs fine, Kyle fine, no more herbs ever. Happy New Year!
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot...
Our hardworking cruciverbalist, Kyle Barnes, is taking a well earned rest from his word duties. So instead we bring to you the words of Old Lang Syne, so you can sing it roundly at your New Year Eve celebrations. Wishing you all the best for 2025 and may this year bring you good health, happiness and some fun. For those who did not make it to the celebrations, we will take "a right good-will draught" to their memories. Happy New Year!
Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song with words attributed to the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns. The composer is not definitely known. In English-speaking countries, the first verse and chorus are now closely associated with the New Year festival.
The lyrics of Auld Lang Syne are in the Scots language. The title, translated literally into standard English, is Old Long Since. The words can be interpreted as since long ago or for old times’ sake. The lyrics are about old friends having a drink and recalling adventures they had long ago. There is no specific reference to the New Year.
Burns first wrote down Auld Lang Syne in 1788, but the poem did not appear in print until shortly after his death in 1796.
The melody also existed before Burns wrote down the words. The English composer William Shield used a similar tune in his comic opera Rosina, first performed in 1782. Another version of the same tune was published in 1792 in volume four of the Johnson compilation, but with words entirely different from Auld Lang Syne. - Britannica.com
Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne!
For auld lang syne, my jo, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
And surely ye'll be your pint stowp! And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
We twa hae run about the braes, And pou'd the gowan fine; But we've wander'd mony a weary fitt, Sin' auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl'd in the burn, Frae morning sun till dine; But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin' auld lang syne.
And there's a hand, my trusty fiere! And gie's a hand o' thine! And we'll tak a right gude-willie-waught, For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my jo, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
Here is the crossword solution for Edition 321. How did you go?
All words in the crossword appear somewhere in the same edition of The Local (Our cruciverbalist, Kyle Barnes, is taking a well earned rest from his word duties. Back for the first edition of January! Would anyone like sudoku instead/as well? We would love to know. Email news@tlnews.com.au)
Markets
Every Sunday - Daylesford Sunday Market
First Saturday - Trentham Neighbourhood Centre Makers Market, Woodend Farmers Market
Second Saturday - Trentham Community Group Market, Kyneton Farmers Market, Kyneton Rotary Community Market
Second Sunday - Maldon Market, Clunes Farmers Market
Third Saturday - Trentham Farmers Market and Makers Market, Glenlyon Farmers Market, Leonards Hill Market, Creswick Market
Third Sunday - Talbot Farmers Market, Woodend Lions Market
Fourth Sunday - Daylesford Farmers Market, Trentham Station Sunday Market
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Wishing all our clients and readers a healthy, safe and fun 2025! From all the crew at The Local!
