The Local Issue 83 October 24, 2016

October 24, 2016 Issue 83 Swiss & Italian Festa

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Front cover: The Grand Parade was one of the highlights of this year's Swiss & Italian Festa. And in true parade style it managed to avoid the rain. More images on page 9 and Facebook.

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October 24, 2016 Issue 83 Swiss & Italian Festa

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Bullarto Primary to stay open Water bugs

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ULLARTO Primary School will open its doors next year.

With student numbers dwindling there were doubts that the school would survive another year but principal Arthur Lane, pictured above, said the tide had turned.

Mr Lane said an open day, a community meeting and some publicity about the situation had “gone really well”.

“At our open day we had about 50 or 60 people come through and many of those either had children with them or had children of the right sort of age. They were looking for enrolment now or in the future.

“So I have got four or five contacts in my book for people who have kids and are talking about enrolling in 2018 or 2019 so that is really positive.

“And we had a community meeting with about 24 people.

“We were looking at it two ways. One, that if people don’t know that we are here and open how on earth would they think about bringing their kids here?

"And secondly, we have all these facilities, we are a government school, it’s awful to think they are sitting here and not being used. People could run dance classes or cooking shows – they can come and use the facilities – that’s part of the deal, isn’t it?

“And the community meeting was really, really positive in that we got excellent feedback, and had a really good discussion. The people who came had some things they wanted to say and share with lots of possible strategies and really good ideas. It really did have the effect we hoped – that it would generate interest and promote some actions.”

Mr Lane said after the meeting he had one woman call to make an appointment to bring her child for a look around the school and another couple talking about the possibility of using the school to run yoga classes. Others are keen to use the kitchen.

“It’s been really positive. Six months ago we felt very negative about things but I have been amazed at the amount of support that there is out there in the community for a little school like this – you do feel sometimes a bit forgotten. So the feeling around the school for the past couple of weeks has been really positive. Really nice.”

Anyone wanting to talk to Mr Lane about enrolments or using the facilities can call 5348 5559.

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WATER Bug presentation with John Gooderham, a great event for children, will be held at the Trentham Neighbourhood Centre on Saturday, November 5 from 2.30pm to 4.30 pm.

John is best known for co-authoring "The Waterbug Book" with Edward Tsyrlin. He is a freshwater ecologist with a thing for bugs. Recently his enthusiasm has been directed at work in the tropics, spending much of his time in Papua New Guinea, but his first love is still the waterbugs of temperate Australia.

John runs a small company called The Waterbug Company, which specialises in providing education resources to people who are interested in waterbugs.

With colleagues Tom Sloane and Edward Tsyrlin, he has recently been working more on moving pictures. Macro-cinematography gives people a scary insight into the cut-throat (and chitin chewing) world of waterbugs.

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Book helping children engage with birdlife

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RINTMAKER Bridget Farmer, pictured above, has launched a children's book; Kookaburra Kookaburra.

The book features 12 birds commonly found in backyards around Australia. It was written to help Bridget, who lives in Hepburn Springs, teach her two young sons all about Australian birds.

“The Children’s Bird Book project is something I’ve been working on for the past two years. It is a book aimed at helping children engage with the birdlife around them through original lino printed illustrations and short rhymes.”

The book is being funded through Pozible, a crowd funding website, and will be available for delivery early 2017. Her crowd funding campaign was so popular it reached its full amount in the first 2 days.

Bridget believes this book will help introduce children to birds from a young age.

“I think it is important to know a bit about the natural world around you and to be able to identify the common birds in your backyard,” Bridget said.

Originally a native of Northern Ireland, Bridget came to Australia in 2005 and discovered many new birds she had never seen before.

“I was used to recognising most garden birds at home, but I had to actively learn all these new and amazing Australian species. I feel I am still learning about them and this book is an extension and an overflow of that.”

Bridget hopes this book can be a learning tool for parents and children wishing to know more about Australian birds.

“I want it to be a favourite bedtime book as well as being informative. It starts with the early rising kookaburra and ends with a goodnight from the boobook owl.”

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BOUT 40 years separates Jenni (pronounced Yenni) Brennan and John Meir. When they perform jazz together, time seems to melt as they delight with their spontaneity and almost sublime rapport.

Jenni:

Music is what activates me. I was born in the Finnish town of Hameenlinna, my grandfather used to play the accordion and my sister is a violinist.

I always sang and was encouraged by mother to sing, but because of the recession I missed out on music class, although I took piano lessons. I never bothered about theory because I always wanted to play.

I was always involved in school music projects and sang at events such as relatives’ weddings. Also, I was brought up listening to my mum’s LPs of great '80s music. So with school support and her pushing I was gently treading towards a career in music.

To have it as part of my life felt necessary, but I haven’t always had the necessary courage.

I believe, however, that if you have a form of art, whether it is writing, painting or music, you can’t properly live if you don’t express it.

I feel a responsibility to share one’s talent, but with a four-year-old and a sixyear-old life is very busy, being based around them. I wonder if I have the energy and capacity to do this, but I can’t push it away.

I had been a nanny in Luxembourg and moved to Sydney to do that, but became a waitress where I met Michael, who was a two-hat chef. He was just fun. Michael’s parents had run a bed-and-breakfast place in Daylesford for 10 years, so we moved here knowing we were going to bring up a family.

John and I met two years ago when my husband Michael did a kitchen renovation for him. I had just got a piano and took some lessons from John. This turned into a “sing-a-ling”. We began with two songs. John had to move his grand piano, which found a home in the Belvedere.

I had taken singing lessons with Geoffrey Williams, and Tania Petrini from La Vida Jazz, while my stepdad has been inspirational with guitar playing. I sang with a Finnish jazz group in Daylesford after singing for the promoter and his wife and being asked for three songs.

I can hear music well, but John: put any notes in front of him and he can play them. I am ambitious, no doubt about it. It is such a delicate, important thing to me that I’m almost afraid. You try to fit music gently into your life, but I can see myself being involved in it forever.

John:

I started playing the piano at five. My father was a classical tenor and my grandmother a church organist. I was shipped to the country from Halifax in England during WWII and returned home when four.

At 14 I was quite a talented pianist but my mother couldn’t afford to keep up the lessons. So I then joined Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Band where I did my schooling and musical training. By 18 I could play the violin, saxophone, flute and piano.

I left the marines at 24, going to Manchester, then the London Royal Academy of Music. While head of music in Huddersfield, Yorkshire I met Mike Cox, the saxophone player with the John Barry Seven, who started the “pop” side of my career playing alongside him for Roy Orbison and Neil Sedaka on their British tours.

I saw an ad for a job in Hong Kong and moved there in 1981, joining the International School as head of music. I played in top hotels and composed original musical productions which were performed there.

After 12 years I moved to Portugal to be head of Expressive Arts in Lisbon.

I returned to the UK in 1996 to be head of Expressive Arts in Somerset before returning to Hong Kong for a four-year spell in 1998, during which I met my wife Karen. We moved permanently here in 2002.

My worst moment telling a musical joke was at a Yorkshire Workingmen’s Club shortly after the death of Elvis. I told the audience I had good news for Presley fans: he has lost weight! I have also won many awards at the Melbourne Camera Club.

In Daylesford I volunteer at Lumeah Lodge Hostel once a week and am a member of Daylesford Men’s Shed. I also like cooking and travelling.

It’s really ignited me working with Jenni, awakening the grey cells that had faded away. We hit it off very well, performing together on songs such as Fever, All of Me, Summertime, Unforgettable, and The Girl from Ipanema.

It’s been absolute bliss being up here after a lifetime surrounded by buildings and noise. The only difficult thing is that we can’t find a good bass player. If there’s one out there who likes jazz we want him or her!

John and Jenni will perform at the Belvedere Social, Daylesford, on Saturday October 29 from 8pm to 10pm.

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We love the Archies!

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O, NOT the 1960s “Sugar, Sugar” pop group…I’m talking about the Archibald Prize, Australia’s most prestigious portraiture prize.

In recent years Lindsay and I have always made a point of checking out the exhibition on its annual Victorian visit – Melbourne, Bendigo, Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, wherever – they put it on and we went. We were thrilled when it landed on our doorstep in the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2015. And what a bonus when we were invited to represent The Local at the exhibition’s 2016 gala opening recently.

The evening kicked off with canapes and drinks while we were welcomed by gallery director Gordon Morrison. Several speakers followed, including local artist (and Archibald finalist) Daniel Butterworth and his portrait subject, Trentham chef Annie Smithers, pictured above right. The sense of anticipation grew until the doors were flung open and we were invited in to soak up the splendour of the 51 paintings (25 by female artists, 26 by male artists) chosen as finalists.

And what a diverse bunch they proved to be, in terms of artists’ backgrounds, subjects and stylistic treatments. Ranging from super photo-realism all the way through to surrealism, you would be hard-pressed not to find something which made your heart sing or your jaw drop. The “wow” factor is here in spades…or should I say in palettes?

We had our own “brush with success” when we got to meet this year’s Archibald Prize winner, Melbourne artist (and first-time Archibald finalist) Louise Hearman, pictured right, and chat about her hyper-realistic portrait of iconic entertainer Barry Humphries. Another drawcard was the Packing Room Prize winner - Betina Fauvel-Ogden’s intense portrait of MasterChef ’s George Calombaris, pictured third from the top.

Somehow, this year we felt there was no single painting that captivated us beyond all others.

The standard is incredibly high, and it’s such a subjective thing. But when you’re there, in addition to those already mentioned, check out the entries by artists Natasha Bieniek, Abdul Abdullah, Lucy Culliton, Sinead Davies, Michael McWilliams and Marcus Wills. Each of these works had us re-tracing our steps for a second (or even third) inspection.

The “Archies” will be open daily until Sunday, November 27. And here’s a tip if you’re booking ahead - daytime trains are arriving regularly from Melbourne and disgorging streams of Archibald enthusiasts into Lydiard Street…and the gallery is just a block away. So check out the MelbourneBallarat train timetable and select a time-slot which doesn’t coincide with a Ballarat Station arrival time. Enjoy!

Words: Nick Bunning | Images: Lindsay Smith

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Mural project at Daylesford Secondary College

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HE community of Daylesford is well infused with an appreciation and support of arts and music. There are galleries, performance venues and a broad range of festivals and events reaching across the calendar. It stands to reason that the vibrancy in its cultural makeup should extend into upcoming generations and the schools that serve them.

Daylesford Secondary College has always given great support to its art faculty and today it has a broad program in place for studying art and art history. With many students who have been brought up by parents into creativity, it could be said that you can’t have a high school in Daylesford and not properly look after the arts. It’s so very much part of the fabric of the town. For this reason it has established numerous avenues to engage with the greater community: such as through events like Artober and the recently unveiled murals which now adorn walls of the school. Educator Lisa Gunders has been a driving force behind these new additions.

“I have been teaching here since January this year after being at Bendigo Senior Secondary College. There was a big focus on art and community at Bendigo and like here, there were lots of open spaces for students to create works and engage with the community. That was something I really wanted to make sure we started here at Daylesford because the town has a strong art base already. We think it can marry really well with the school and help students to be able to get their work out.”

The mural project was developed by year 11 and 12 students and has been affixed to a wall of the gym, facing west onto Smith Street. There are three separate panels with each painting exploring fundamental elements of design, colour and composition essential to an understanding of visual art. Shelbi Picone painted The Rising Sun, Phases of the Moon is by Ngahuia Thompson and Morrighan Wratten with teachers Amarinda Long, Erin Low and Lisa Gunders painting the last image of the triptych, Going Dotty.

“It took quite a while for Shelbi to work on hers as she was doing it herself in her lunchtimes and spare moments. For the other two we came in during the last holidays to get them completed. Shelbi came in as well and finished hers off. That was when Melbourne artist David Booth (Ghostpatrol) came in and offered suggestions with the works.”

Lisa envisages many exciting plans for the future and there is a chance that they may move the mural practice out onto other sites such as the Hepburn Wind Farm. The most important thing however is to be out in the community creating works.

“It is a new endeavour for the school and something we will continue; possibly biannually. It worked well that it coincided with Artober and our art exhibition at the Daylesford Town Hall. We have support through the school and externally through grants programs like Creative Victoria who have funding available for artists in schools. Hopefully we will get support for a longer project working with year 7 and 10 students.

“I think arts in the education system and its influence on the community is completely important. A lot of its value lies in communication and it teaches students how to creatively problem solve. Arts training also has a broad application to other subject areas and in life. It teaches students how to work collaboratively among themselves and to engage with both school and community. Daylesford is a perfect example of what you can achieve by having a strong art scene supported by its schools.”

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Above from left, students Shelbi Picone, Ngahuia Thompson, Morrighan Wratten and teacher Lisa Gunders Words & image: Anthony Sawrey

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Pick me, pick me...

Just sayin’...

By Donna Kelly

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OW, the election is over. Well, bar the shouting, or a result. Normally that would have been tallied up and announced on Saturday but because this is a postal election, and because Australia Post is, well, hmmm, so careful addresses are right, (read painfully slow) results are another week away.

This Friday is when the election office decides that any postal votes that have not made their way to the election office are just not coming - so they may as well tally up. I think it's about lunchtime that they make the announcement. I said to Kyle we should go but he replied "but what if you don't get in?". I said we will just be adult about it and wish whoever did all the best and get on with life. Simple.

It's like when the ballot paper was drawn - and I got top billing. Yay for donkey votes. It's not like we high-fived or fist-pumped or anything like that. We quietly watched the draws for the other wards and then made our way back out of The Rex. Just like adults. And then we high-fived and fist-pumped. There's a time and place for everything.

It's been an interesting exercise, even so far, standing for council. It started with a lot of questionnaires from all sorts of groups - and many outside the Hepburn Shire. People caring about flora and fauna, people caring about art, people caring about live music. That last one was interesting because they wanted to know what sort of parking problems bands were encountering at their gigs. I think it was more based on the city - because I wrote that most bands just pulled up outside the venue - and never heard back from them again.

Local groups were also keen to know what I was thinking. I heard from the folk at Sailors Falls, Daylesford and Hepburn Springs Business and Tourism Association, and Franklinford.

Even just some random emails abour cleaning up the Midland Highway - great idea!

It was really good to see that accountability was a big issue with voters and that most people do care about who ends up their ward councillor. And I had some really positive feedback on the street. A former councillor told me that anyone who says they voted for you probably voted for someone else. But I took all the "I voted for you" at face value and said "thanks very much".

Then I slipped them a $10 note. One vote at a time was my motto - whatever the cost. (Jokes!)

If I get in I also need to remember my individual promises - whatever the cost, remember.

So lower rates for all, more parking in Vincent Street, more trees in Vincent Street, an aquatic centre, no potholes, asphalt that doesn't melt, funding for start-up businesses, a free bus to take tourists to Hepburn Springs, free entry to the Hepburn Bathhouse for locals and a wage hike for all council employees. It's hard to say no when you're on the hustings.

Anyway, Friday is not far away. And all will be revealed. But whatever the outcome, congratulations to everyone who stood for council. It's not an easy decision and actually winning is a daunting task. But it's great to see so many people put their hand up and give it a go. I'll let you know how I get on.

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Bullarto Primary has created a website that explains “How To Grow The Wombat Forest”.

It covers the 4.6 billion-year history of the reclaimed road reserve being reborn as the Wombat Forest. It is beside the school and has become a project of much love and dedication.

It has been researched thoroughly and includes animations, models and 2D illustrations.

The celebration includes beautiful marionettes of the animals of the Wombat Forest, a talk by a palaeontologist, internationally renowned performance artists Moira Finucane and Clare St Clare, a Torchlight Forest Walk, roasted potatoes from the vegie patch, rhubarb and apple crumble, and live music by Cat and Clint.

All welcome at Bullarto Primary School on Saturday, November 5, 5pm until late.

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History in the making at the Bullarto Hall

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EN Orr joined the Bullarto Hall Committee when he was just 15 years old.

And he has just received a certificate thanking him for 45 years of continual service with the 110 year-old hall – and that’s something he’s proud of.

There have been a range of highlights – the first to come to mind is turning on the power on April 15, 1957, pictured above right.

“That was a big night. We had a dance and everyone came and we turned the switch on and the lights came on and that was Bullarto lit up.”

Len said the hall had been the centre of Bullarto for every kind of celebration from people leaving to go to wars to their arrival back home – if they were lucky.

“Then there were the dances – we had lots of dances. My father and his sister played for dances for years to help pay for the hall.

“And we’ve had some big celebrations overs the years – parties, 21st birthdays, 50ths, 70ths and even a couple of funerals.”

But it wasn’t all smooth sailing with the hall falling into “a terrible, poor condition” for many years with blackberries growing through the outside toilets – making it dangerous to sit down. “That’s how it went for years, we never had any money, and it was a real job even paying for that power. The Maxwell and Olsen Sawmill was always very good to us though.”

Len said the committee decided to run a few trips to the pokies – when they were only in New South Wales and the clubs helped pay for the bus ride over the border and back.

“That was pretty successful in making money for many years – and you made a day out of it – they (the pokie venues) paid you if you were bringing along a bus load.”

The next step was the most successful – the Bullarto Vintage Tractor Pull.

“That just went from better to better all the time and we started doing the hall up, put in new blocks, a new floor, new toilets and it has just been repainted. It’s in really good nick now.”

And it is now attracting a new clientele. Brides and grooms are choosing the venue for their country weddings although the town’s celebrations are also still at the hall.

But like all small halls and communities it still comes down to volunteers and everyone banding together to make things work. And Len’s wish, as he enters his 46th year on the committee, is pretty simple. “I would like to see it keep going as it is for years to come. Some committee members have been on it for years. You go on it and you die off it.”

Len Orr, above left, with memories of the Bullarto Hall

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Civil celebrants providing secular meaning Their celebration can have traditional elements, "so grandma feels it's a proper wedding", Jen says; it can include features specific to their culture, or it can be a bare-bones ceremony that simply meets legal requirements. There is "opportunity for greater choice", Jen, pictured above right at a ceremony, says.

"People have an expectation of what a ceremony is," she says, adding that the civil celebrant is able to "provide a sense of secular meaning in our multicultural society, without imposing their views on the event".

HERE’S a lot to celebrate year round in our region but the arrival of The marriage ceremony in particular, Jen says, is an opportunity for couples to spring after another long, dark winter is particularly welcome. celebrate their love, make a public affirmation, and take their relationship to a more Spring flowers signal a busy time in Daylesford, with its long-standing meaningful level. popularity as a wedding destination: nationally, October, November and March are Beverly, along with officiating at 120 weddings, has also provided services at 30 the most popular months in which to marry. To emphasise the point, the recently funerals and three baby namings. She meets clients beforehand to get a feel for the departed June and July are the least popular months in which to wed. kind of event they want, and to fulfil their needs requires a lot of research, she says.

Also included in recent research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics into A big part of her job involves soothing the jangled nerves of anxious participants. marriage trends are these numbers which may come as a surprise: 73 per cent "There's always the uncle who goes up to the worried groom and tells him, 'It's not of Australian weddings are officiated by a civil celebrant, with religious figures too late to run'.

It's about holding the space, watching those around you to make sure performing the remainder. nothing interrupts - controlling the emotions on the day."

To be a celebrant - a person who celebrates something - sounds as if it could be a Another event at which celebrants' services are in demand are commitment good gig. Indeed it is, says Coomoora civil celebrant Beverly Risstrom, pictured above ceremonies for same-sex couples. Jen points out that in Victoria, domestic left. But there's a lot more to the job than just being charming and saying the right partnerships, regardless of gender, can be registered with Births, Deaths and words. "It's an awesome responsibility on the day," she says.

Marriages.

There is also plenty of competition for jobs. Civil celebrancy was formally This provides conclusive proof of evidence of the relationship for the purposes recognised by the federal attorney general Lionel Murphy in 1973. The first civil of Victorian law. "I'm very happy to hold commitment ceremonies, as well as other celebrant was Lois D'Arcy, who was then a 26-year-old Brisbane mother of two. Jump ceremonies to celebrate love, such as renewals of vows," she says. forward to today and there are more than 8000 Commonwealth-registered marriage Beverly has officiated at commitment ceremonies but says, "It's like we're saying celebrants.

'Sorry but this is all you can have'."

Kyneton-based Jennifer Lawrie-Smith, an authorised marriage celebrant since Jen says that apart from the discomfort caused by the mandatory inclusion of a 2003, believes the overwhelming rise in popularity of services such as hers stems from monitum (a warning on the contents of the official Marriage Act), she feels strongly the recognition that people can celebrate events in ways that are more personal to that "everyone can celebrate their love". them.

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Geelong Businessman, Mark Ward has ownership of the Mill Markets group and brings years of expertise to this amazing concept. The Mill Markets operate three massive venues located in Ballarat, Daylesford and Geelong. With a total of over 12,000 square metres of undercover floor space, (3 acres), treasure hunters have the opportunity to spend many hours browsing and meandering through the eclectic mix of products. There is a fantastic variety of home decor, furniture, records, vintage and new clothing, books, fine china, glassware, industrial items, jewellery, antiques as well as Australian pottery, homewares, memorabilia, retro fashions and collectables. We also have many stalls selling new products and have gift vouchers for those people who have everything!

All goods are from the 1850’s right through to present day. Mill Markets lease space to hundreds of dealers, which allows small business operators and collectors who otherwise could not afford the overheads of their own shops, to showcase their goods. This equates to a wide and diverse range of products, available and open to the public, seven days a week. Enjoy a wonderful trip down memory lane through hundreds and thousands of items available for purchase at all three locations.

With over 500 stall holders over three venues, there is always something for everyone. Travel The Amazing Mill Markets ‘Golden Triangle’ and enjoy quality food and coffee at each. All venues open 7 days 10.00am-6.00pm (excluding Christmas Day).

Recently, the Mark Ward Group acquired Decor Impact – a dynamic business featuring great visual items for sale and hire.

Life size animals, figures, dinosaurs and outdoor props. A great range of exciting new stock will be hitting the country on a monthly basis. Showrooms open at all Mill Markets venues!

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Joy for chef Rob to work at Hepburn House

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EPBURN House prides itself on its home-style meals – and Rob Thacker is the man that delivers them.

A qualified chef, Rob ran his own business in the marine industry for 18 years as a boat builder, prior to that working for 10 years part-time in one of Melbourne’s premier seafood restaurants, before taking on the role as chef and kitchen manager at Hepburn House.

He’s fitted right in – Rob has a passion for food, and loves trying new ways to improve the dining experience for residents at Hepburn House.

It’s an experience that residents have come to know as exemplary – not only does Hepburn House tailor its menus to the specific dietary needs of residents, but also their cultural and religious requirements - as well as likes and dislikes.

With 55 permanent residents, as well as an additional five available beds currently occupied by respite residents, there’s a wide variety of needs for Rob to cater for.

And for Rob, the best part of his job is the people.

“There is not just one part that comes to mind, but rather the residents and staff are fantastic and make it an absolute joy to work at Hepburn House,” Rob said.

“I try to get around to see as many residents as I can on any given day.

Those that I don’t catch up with, I catch up with on another day.

“Everyone living and working at Hepburn House is like extended family.”

Hepburn House is a government-funded aged care facility, which provides all levels of care for residents from permanent to respite.

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Improving I gender equity and preventing sexism and violence against women

MPROVING gender equity and preventing sexism and violence against women in local male-dominated volunteer organisations is the aim of Macedon Ranges Shire Council though a new project called Rural Challenge.

The council has secured a $76,900 grant for the challenge, which will work to create more gender-equitable CFA brigades and football/netball clubs in the Macedon Ranges and City of Greater Bendigo. Council will partner with City of Greater Bendigo, Women’s Health Loddon Mallee, AFL Central Victoria and CFA North-West Region to deliver the project.

Rural Challenge is funded by the Municipal Association of Victoria’s Local Government Preventing Violence Against Women Grants Program.

The program aims to increase the leadership capacity and capability of Victorian councils to engage and lead community action for the prevention of violence against women. It was one of 10 projects funded across Victoria.

Council chief executive officer Peter Johnston said the project was based on the Challenge Project which was successfully implemented in sporting clubs in several metropolitan areas.

“It’s an exciting opportunity to build on the work we’ve done over the last few years to address violence against women with the emergency management sector and the football/netball clubs in the shire,” he said.

Mr Johnston said the council would use an approach which had improved gender equity in sporting clubs in the city and adapt it to work with the two key organisations that are traditional bastions of male leadership in rural communities – the CFA and football/netball clubs.

The Rural Challenge project will kick off with a series of forums later this year, where expressions of interest will be sought from football/netball clubs and CFA brigades. Details: Stephen Hiley on 5422 0333.

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ORMALLY I am a die-hard local shopper. I try to source everything from our surrounding towns but now and then something comes along that is just not available- like a specialty light bulb.

I went to all the local hardware and electrical shops to find an LED vintage-looking bayonet oversized light globe – but alas there were none. And please don’t write into The Local pointing out where I can find such an item next time because as far as I am concerned, with all the trouble I went to, when the damn things blow, I will just live in the dark.

So on a jaunt out of the shire, AKA “plethora of potholes”, I found myself in one of the bigger hardware stores in the nation, the type where you could safely park a few jumbo jets and still have room to shop. I am talking the big smoke – yes, Ballarat.

I wandered down to the lighting section of the store which had two or three aisles just for globes and associated other stuff. Once I got my bearings I first collected a string of outside bulbs as well as a DIY outside security lamp - I actually never had any intention of getting either of these items, they were just those random purchases. I just wanted two light globes.

Finally, I waved down a shop assistant who helped me for a minute or so but failed to come up with the identical bulb to the used one I was holding. She then called over the loudspeaker for what I supposed was an expert to attend to my drama. Another bloke happened along and he was nice enough but started to talk about “twirly” and “bannet” (not a typo) light globe fittings.

He then talked about Edison and bannet. Now I figured the bannet was actually bayonet and wondered if the twirly or Edison meant screw-in. And yes, I have since Googled it and Edison does equate to screw-in. Still not sure about the twirly bit but I guess you do twirl it around.

Anyway, enter the third expert to help me. She strides up the aisle and immediately pulls out the correct globe which the others “didn’t see”. So I took all four remaining globes leaving them with my great dad joke “how many shop assistants would it take to help me screw in a light globe?”

– but it was met with blank faces. Oh well – you can only try. Off to the cashier.

She was a very smiley woman however when I asked her to kindly dispose of my used bulb she said it would have to be recycled. So I asked her “have you got an appropriate recycling receptacle?”. And she replied no, they used to but I would have to go to a lighting shop for that. I replied, quite rightly I thought, “but you are a shop and you have two aisles at least of lights!”. She then said I could just pop it in the general rubbish bin around the corner.

So after my big day out in the big smoke I ended up with far more lighting than I need and a questionable attitude to the appropriate environmental practice of dealing with used light globes.

Rant over.

The Local Publishing Group needs to find an all-rounder with a particular bent on sales to join our growing team. We need this person for a couple of days a fortnight.

The position is a mix of retainer and commission so effort and time will produce rewards.

Please email a cover letter and CV (last five years only) to donna@tlnews.com.au (Closes Oct 31)

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HE Daylesford Art Show will be held over the Cup Weekend at the Daylesford Town Hall with the opening night on Thursday, October 27 from 6pm to 8.30pm. Cost is $20 per person.

The show will then be open, with free admission, on Friday, October 28 to Sunday, October 30 from 10am to 5pm and then Monday, October 31 from 10am to 2pm.

Meanwhile, displayed in Daylesford’s Convent Gallery are a range of beautiful landscapes of the region as part of the Swiss & Italian Festa Biggin & Scott Landscape Art Prize.

Swiss Italian Festa president Ian Head said there had been a record number of entries and judge and director of the Castlemaine Art Gallery Jennifer Kalionis, was very impressed with the quality of the work.

"We set off proceedings with entertainment provided by school students from Daylesford Secondary College, Daylesford Primary and Hepburn Primary School, they set the tone for an evening of excellent art.

“Winner of the first prize was Catherine Abel with her beautiful painting of Trentham, Winterscape XI. Second prize winner was Bern Emmerichs with her painting of Aunt Lizzie’s prayers for Bergamot and third prize winner was Doug Banner showing a Daylesford that we all recognise."

Right, Swiss Italian Festa president Ian Head with judge Jennifer Kalionis in front of Castlemaine artist's Catherine Abel's winning entry, Winterscape XI

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Police celebrate 150yrs

News 21 From left, Senior Constable Brett Eden, Sergeant Nathan Gardiner and Leading Senior Constable Sharon Radau

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RENTHAM Police Station celebrated 150 years of policing in the town on Friday, October 14.

The station was established on April 14, 1866 in Camp Street after the Government Gazette proclaimed on September 19 1865 that a new township would be laid out between Tylden and Blue Mount Diggings.

In 1866 Trentham Police Station was in the Kyneton Police District, in 1871 it became part of the Castlemaine District and eight years later became part of the Bourke District. Today Trentham is within the Moorabool Police Service area.

It is now also at 12 Cosmo Road with the former police station looked after by the Trentham and District Historical Society.

Among those at the official celebrations which also included the unveiling of an honour board, were Division Commander Superintendent Andrew Allan, The Police Association of Victoria’s Sergeant Wayne Gatt, Ballarat MP Catherine King and Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas.

Officer-in-Charge Sergeant Nathan Gardiner said there had always been "a real connection with the police and community in Trentham".

"In bigger areas police are often just people in blue uniforms but here it Another mounted constable, Angus Carmichael was stationed at Trentham is much more personable. We are on a first name basis and the community is from 1940 to 1942. He attained the rank of Deputy Commissioner in 1971. really our eyes and ears."

Meanwhile Senior Constable Alan Angus, who served at Trentham from 1950 to 1952 went on to become one of the early members of the Victoria Facts and figures – courtesy of Sergeant Gardiner.

Police Search and Rescue Squad.

The two longest serving members were Sergeant and Officer-in-Charge The first Victoria Police member stationed at Trentham was Senior John Bourke – 1961 to 1988, and Greg Falkiner – who was a senior constable Constable George South. from 1973 and 1978 and then Sergeant and Officer-in-Charge from 1991 to The most senior member by registration number was Senior Constable 2011.

John Fergus – from 1883 to 1888.

And it’s not all policing – on June 24, 1999 Senior Constable Peter There were also some high flyers. Henty Kroger was a Mounted Constable Hawkins helped with the birth of a baby boy in the cell of the station. at Trentham from 1908 to 1925. He was also president of The Police Trentham Police Station is also the highest permanently occupied station in Association of Victoria from 1923 to 1925 – a period which also took in the Victoria at 700 metres above sea level. police strike of 1923.

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Gig Guide Perfect Drop, Daylesford Chris Harold & Luvland – Saturday, October 29 Tania Petrini & Vida Jazz – Saturday, November 12

Farmers Arms Hotel, Creswick Phisha – Friday, October 28 Swampfox – Saturday, October 29 Smokeytown – Friday, November 4

Horvats Supper Club, Daylesford Adrian Deakin Piano – Fridays, 7pm Phil & Trudy Edgeley – Saturday, October 29, 7pm-10pm The Capo Brothers – Sunday, October 30, 1pm-4pm

Blue Bean Cafe, Hepburn Springs Memphis Joe - Friday, October 28 Jazz Deuce - Sunday, October 30 Scott Fraser - Saturday, November 5

The Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn Springs Croaky Christmas Karaoke – Friday, November 4 Matty Chaps - Saturday, November 5, Croaky Christmas Karaoke – Friday, November 11

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Meal deals for locals...and visitors too!

EVERYONE loves a good meal deal. So here are the dining establishments offering great food and great prices!

Monday:

Passing Clouds, Musk - (lunch from noon) main and side from the grill with a glass of wine - $30 Mercato, Daylesford – main dish & a glass of local wine - $30 The Grande Hotel, Hepburn Springs - two courses for $35 and three courses for $45 Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Monday Meatball Madness - $20 (Vegetarian option available)

Tuesday:

Perfect Drop - five courses with a glass of bubbles or beer - $55 Blackwood Hotel, Blackwood - Parma Night - $15 + glass of house wine or pot Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford - Burger Night with chips - $20 (Vegetarian option available)

Wednesday:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Pot (or glass of house wine) and Parma - $20 Belvedere Social, Daylesford - Special of the day, pot of beer or glass of wine, $35 Horvats Supper Club, Daylesford - $10 pizza, $15 pasta

Friday:

Grange Bellinzona, Hepburn - two courses and glass of wine - $45 Blackwood Hotel, Blackwood - Fab 5 meals specials from $18 Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn - Burger Night with vegan options - $16 Blackwood Merchant, Blackwood - house-made pizza - $16-21 Small Holdings, Malmsbury - (lunch), soup of the day - $8, or house-made gnocchi with a glass of house wine - $25 5000 Club, Anglican Church, Daylesford - Free community lunch, 12pm - 1pm

Sunday:

Grange Bellinzona, Hepburn - two courses and glass of wine - $45 Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn - Curry Night with vegan options available - $18 Belvedere Social, Daylesford - Sunday Farmers Roast featuring local ethical meat and sides, $30

Happy Hours:

Daylesford Bowling Club has Happy Hour ‘n’ a half, from Monday to Thursday, from 4.30pm to 6pm. And Happy Hour on Friday, 6pm to 7pm.

Perfect Drop, Daylesford, also has a Happy Hour, Thursday to Monday, from 4pm to 6pm with $12 cocktails and $2 oysters.

Blue Bean Love Cafe, Hepburn has Happy Hours from Friday to Monday from 4pm to 6pm with $5 beer, wine or bubbles

Raffles:

Thursday:

Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford – Steak Night - $20 Belvedere Social, Daylesford - Special of the day, pot of beer or glass of wine, $35 Small Holdings, Malmsbury - (lunch), Soup of the Day - $8, or house-made gnocchi with a glass of house wine - $25 Horvats Supper Club, Daylesford - $10 pizza, $15 pasta

Fundraising raffles for local organisations are held on Friday evenings at The Farmers Arms Hotel, Daylesford, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Trentham and the Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn.

Open 7 days lunch & dinner Join us to experience the real country charm and all the fun at Daylesford's oldest pub.

Enjoy our tasty menu and drinks from our extensive beer and wine list.

We don't take bookings, so just pop on down.

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Feast of music from past, present and future at Kyneton

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The exhibition runs until January 2017, and will be HERE is a feast of music from the past, open Friday to Sunday from 11am to 4pm. present and future during November as Meanwhile, on Friday, November 25, Barry Morgan Kyneton Museum and Bluestone Theatre and his World of Organs will return to Kyneton, celebrate the universal language of music with new bringing season’s greetings to the Bluestone Theatre in shows.

On Friday, November 4, Kyneton Museum will turn up the speakers with the interactive exhibition Changing Tracks. From recorded music’s evolution from wax cylinders to vinyl, cassette tapes, iPods and now digital downloads, Changing Tracks will reveal how the way we listen to music has changed.

Keep up to date with Changing Tracks happenings via the Arts & Culture Facebook page, facebook.com/ MacedonRangesArtsCulture.

FARMER’S ARMS HOTEL CRESWICK Pub, dining, music.

Nose to tail/in-house butchery.

Live music weekends.

Open 7 days.

Albert St. Creswick – 5345 2221 www.farmersarmscreswick.com

the show Have Yourself a Barry Little Christmas!

With his everlasting smile, Hammond organ and special brand of kitsch, don’t miss this organ extravaganza. The show will start at 7.30pm and tickets are $35 and $30 concession.

Link: www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/events

PERFECT DROP Daylesford’s boutique Restaurant and Wine Bar. Fine dining, local, organic & seasonal produce.

Howe St. Daylesford 03 5348 1100 www.theperfectdrop.com

Lunch - Friday to Sunday - 12 noon until 3 pm Dinner - Thursday to Tuesday - 6 pm until late Locals’Night - Monday Night

MERCATO @ daylesford

32 Raglan Street Daylesford 03 5348 4488 www.mercatorestaurant.com.au

Mon/Tue 4pm till late Fri to Sun noon till late

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To market, to market, to buy some spuds...

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OU can find everything you need at weekend markets, from fresh fruit and veg to handmade jewellery and wares, throughout the Central Highlands and surrounds. Here are just a few.

Daylesford Railway Market – every Sunday Wesley Hill Market - every Saturday Daylesford Farmers’ Market – first Saturday Trentham Neighbourhood Centre Makers’ Market - first Saturday Golden Plains Farmers' Market - first Saturday Castlemaine Artists’ Market – first Sunday Kyneton Farmers’ Market - second Saturday Ballan Farmers' Market - second Saturday Kyneton Rotary Community Market – second Saturday Maldon Market – second Sunday Clunes Farmers’ Market - second Sunday Trentham Farmers’ Market and Makers’ Market - third Saturday (pictured right) Glenlyon Farmers’ Market – third Saturday Leonards Hill Market - third Saturday Creswick Market - third Saturday Talbot Farmers’ Market – third Sunday Woodend Lions Market - third Sunday Trentham Station Sunday Market - fourth Sunday Buninyong Village Market - fourth Sunday

Want to advertise your market? It's free. Just email news@tlnews.com.au

The Trentham Farmers Market has joined with Trentham Makers Market

Third Saturday, 9am - 1pm

TRENTHAM PETROL & STUFF

1 Market St PH 5424 1611 Mon - Sat 8am - 6pm Sun 9am - 6pm

Petrol, oils, swap & go gas, firewood permits, farm produce / produce store, ice, milk, soft drinks, take-away pies, coffee, confectionery, local honey etc. rusty junk, secondhand books, old wares

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Newstead gardens open weekend

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EWSTEAD will be part of the Castlemaine and Districts Festival of Gardens with four inspiring and very different gardens to visit this weekend.

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Duncan the miniature pony resides at Serenity, the aptly named garden of Christine and Richard Dixon. A beautiful and soothing place, it was begun very simply by Chris as she healed a grief, paving with brick at the base of a lovely quince. From here the garden has expanded and evolved bit by bit, to reveal a secret garden, a gentle shaded garden, and voluminous vegetable garden. The lovely paths go on and on and there are plenty of nooks to rest in.

East meets west in the Lacey’s garden which is full of laughter and fun. Here you may ramble through a quirky and whimsical array of bonsais, roses, iris and succulents, along with mosaics, objet d’art and water features. Barry will be conducting Tai Chi and Bonsai demonstrations. Jen and Barry are donating $1 of the entry fee to Parkinsons Victoria and a $1 to the Newstead Men’s Shed.

Both Newstead’s Community Garden, tucked in between the Anglican Church and the levee bank, and Roger McKindley Antares Iron Art Garden at the Loddon, have grown from wasteland, now made productive and beautiful, producing food in the case of the Community Garden (which is run on organic and biodynamic lines) and fascinating and whimsical artwork at Antares.

The community garden is a dynamic place where local gardeners work, play and learn together. This festival, plants will be for sale from Frances Cincotta’s nursery, Newstead Natives.

Roger McKindley Antares Iron Art Garden is considered a local treasure. Although he is a professional landscaper, you will find few plants in Roger’s Iron Art Garden, which is created from iron, stone, bone, wood and glass, and re-imagined into a bewitching landscape to delight and entice the visitor.

Opening hours vary between Saturday, 29 October and Sunday, October 30.

Programs are at Newstead's Rural Transaction Centre, Dig Cafe and IGA.

Link: wwwfestivalofgardens.org or www.newstead.vic.au

We cordially invite you to join us as we worship God in a special service marking the re-establishment of the Presbyterian Church in Kyneton. The guest preacher for this service is the Rev Peter Hastie, Principal of the Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne.

Kyneton Presbyterian Church Sunday 6th November 2016 2:30 pm Red Brick Hall 23 Yaldwyn Street West, Kyneton Rev Matt Tegart matt@gisbornepresbyterian.com.au 0466 648 400 Noel and Joy Johnston 5422 7303 The Presbyterian Church of Victoria https://pcv.org.au/

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PRING really is here.

It must be - the ancient flowering cherry outside my office window is blossoming - deciduous trees everywhere are festooned with bright young leaves… and our desperately love-lorn resident spotted pardalote has ceased his incessant plaintive calling and settled back into his love cave in our garden rock wall with a new-found mate.

If you have been considering planting one of the many varieties of flowering trees, now is a good time to plant, especially as you have so many in flower to help you make your choice.

Even small gardens with restricted space for growing trees can be suitable, either by selecting smaller growing varieties, such as the delightful compact pink flowering crab apple, malus gorgeous, pictured below right, which can be kept to the size of a large shrub.

Like most other deciduous flowering trees it can be espaliered - pruned flat against a wall or fence. Apart from being space-saving it is doubly spectacular, in that all of the flowers and subsequent fruit are displayed en masse.

Make your plants earn the right to be in your garden Try to grow plants that offer more than a rush of spring blooms, or a spectacular blaze of autumn foliage.

The crab apple is a perfect example. Apart from the beautiful spring flowers it offers a meaningful crop of cherry-sized yellow-blushed red apples - excellent for crab apple jelly, and delightful golden autumn foliage. Some malus have deepbronze-purple foliage throughout the year.

The delightful single pink flowered prunus also have cherry-sized fruit, wonderful for plum jam, as a bonus to their almost year-round, purple leaves.

If you inherit an ancient seedling, as in my case, it might produce beautifully sweet plums to be enjoyed straight from the tree - as my resident choughs and rosellas will testify.

Other ornamental plants that produce fruit for the table include feijoa sellowiana, the pineapple guava which has delightful silver-grey leaves and red/silver fuchsia-like flowers.

Some members of the myrtus or myrtle family, long grown as compact ornamental hedge plants for their attractive bronze, new growth and fragrant little white flowers also produce small berry-like ''guava'' fruit.

From the orchard side of the fence there are many fruit trees that deserve their place in the ornamental garden.

For a start, citrus varieties certainly deserve a place with their lush green foliage, deliciously scented white flowers and colourful fruit. As an added incentive there are variegated leafed varieties of lemon and cumquat.

Cumquats have long been grown in large decorative pots providing masses of small, marmalade-quality fruit.

In recent years, clever plant breeders have provided us with dwarf forms of other citrus, all bearing crops of full-sized fruit. I have a two-year-old cumquat, mandarin and a Tahitian lime in the company of five olives…all on our deck. The lime and mandarin each gave us about 12 delicious full-sized fruit this season.

Orchids The cymbidium orchid, pictured above right, was inherited from Peta's late mother's garden a few years back and has finally flowered. But that's a story to be told in the next issue.

Here’s the solution for last edition’s crossword for Issue 82. Solve it?

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Home is Where the Hall Is

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The community hall open day is part of the unique initiative Home is Where the Hall Is. This statewide Whether they’re a wedding venue for a celebration of community halls, coordinated by Regional night, an art gallery, a theatre or the home of a sporting Arts Victoria, shines a spotlight on community halls, group, community halls are diverse hubs of activity. You showcasing their diversity and celebrating the creativity can step inside and take a look on the Community Hall that blooms there.

Local community hall volunteers will be on hand Open Day on Sunday, November 20 from 12pm–1pm. during the open day to explain what goes on at their A range of activities will be on offer on the open day, space, and what’s involved in volunteering. from sausage sizzles to live music, so pop inside your local community hall and discover something new.

Link: homeiswherethehallis.com Halls open in Macedon Ranges include: Tylden Hall, Lauriston Hall, Bolinda Hall, Romsey Mechanics Institute and Malmsbury Town Hall.

HAT goes on inside your local community hall?

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Proudly sponsoring our Glenlyon Group CFA Brigades!

SEE YOUR LOCAL CFA BRIGADES IN ACTION AT THE GLENLYON GROUP CFA OPEN DAY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26 AT VICTORIA PARK DAYLESFORD The communities in the Hepburn Shire are protected by the eight CFA Brigades that make up the Glenlyon Group. The Group comprises of Daylesford, Hepburn, Franklinford, Glenlyon, Porcupine Ridge, Musk, Leonards Hill and Trentham.

Spread among the personnel of these brigades is an amazing amount of experience and expertise and all the brigades are 100 per cent crewed by dedicated volunteers who know the local terrain and roads and who turn out whenever they are needed to help the community cope with emergencies such as wildfires, structural fires, road accidents, structural collapses and when required, to assist the police and the SES. All the CFA volunteers are professionally trained and must be qualified to operate the appliances and equipment that the Glenlyon Group has spread across its catchment area.

The appliances, some pictured below, include tankers, pumpers, ultralights, a field command vehicle, a road accident rescue truck, big fills and a pumper tanker. You might see them on Sunday mornings when we are making sure they are all in top working order.

Many of the appliances will be used and be on display at the Glenlyon Group Open Day on Saturday, November 26. We would love you to come along and see us action.

You can talk to CFA members and learn about what it takes to become an active operational or non-operational member of a brigade and maybe decide to get involved and feel the reward from giving something back to your local community.

Franklinford Porcupine Ridge

Musk Leonards Hill

Don’t forget that in an emergency always ring 000 and not your local fire station and before burning off always ring the CFA Burn Off line to register your burn off on 1800 668 511.

GLENLYON GROUP CFA OPEN DAY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26 - ALL WELCOME!

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A unique heater manufactured in Daylesford from Australian products

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Digital Printing Digital printed full colour graphics

Vehicles & Transport

Hand Painted & Gold Leaf

Promotional & Event

General Signage

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We stock The Local!

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Book giveaways...from The Local EVERYONE loves a free book! And The Local has two books to give away. For your chance to win just email news@tlnews.com.au with your details - like name, phone number and town, and which book you would like to win. Entries close on Sunday, October 30. Winners will be notified on Monday, October 21. Good luck!

Giving your child the best possible start in life includes offering nutritious, varied food every day.

Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over.

They love to live in urban environments where it’s a short flight path from one plant to the next.

But with the housing boom and conventional gardens favouring lawns, paving and pesticides over flowers and edible plants, we are scaring the bees and good bugs away.

Doug Purdie’s latest book The Bee Friendly Garden is a guide for all gardeners to encourage bees and other good bugs into your green space.

One Handed Cooks provides a wide range of simple, enticing recipes that deliver the nutrients growing children need, as well as plenty of practical advice to help you successfully navigate their journey with solid foods.

Setting your child up with a positive relationship with food and healthy eating habits is a gift that will last them a lifetime.

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"POSTIE, Postie, don't be slow, be like Fonzie, Go Man Go!" And the Rotary Club of Daylesford is ready to go in the Goldfields Rush Postie Bike Tours of Central Victoria.

There are two tours - a two-day tour starting on November 18 and an eight-day tour starting on March 18. Both will take riders on and off road to enjoy great scenery and regional produce. The tours, limited to 20 riders, start and finish in Daylesford.

Link: www.goldfieldsrush.com