Emu + Leonay Gazette June 2013

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A Top Performance for Nepean High NSW Premier and Minister for Western Sydney Barry O’Farrell officially opened the new $4.9 million performing arts facility at Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School in May – delivering on an election commitment for the Penrith community.

“This is a great day for Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School, which now has the specialist facilities the school needs and deserves,” Mr O’Farrell said at the opening.

“The Nepean Arts Centre gives teachers and students the best possible environment to learn and showcase their skills instead of operating out of a makeshift classroom.

“The NSW Liberals & Nationals promised the performing arts facility before the election - we have fully-funded and delivered it in Government.

“We are getting on with the job of delivering important infrastructure projects for families in Penrith and the rest of the Western Sydney region.”

The project includes a state-of-the-art movement studio with retractable seating and a dance performance workshop.

Other features include a control room, student change rooms and toilets, access toilets, store rooms, a staff room, office and servery, games court and car parking.

Penrith MP Stuart Ayres said the facility finally gives Western

Sydney a venue that helps meet its long-term creative and performing arts education needs.

“The previous Labor Government announced many years ago that Nepean High School would become a centre of arts excellence but never provided the facilities to make it happen,” Mr Ayres said.

“This gives students in Western Sydney the very best opportunity to reach their potential.”

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From the Editor Have you noticed that the nights are getting a bit nippy? Walking out the door in the morning into the c-c-c-cold wind?

Yes, winter is here. Time to put your feet up in front of the fire, with a nice warm cup of tea and enjoy your local community gazette.

For your eating pleasure, there’s a hearty winter meal for you to try on page 9. And speaking of eating, Glenmore Park Anglican Church is hosting “THE Masterchef”, a culinary spectacular – see page 4 for details.

We have a new local sporting hero. BMX whizz Nicole Docherty of Leonay has just returned from a very successful National titles. Read all about it on page 10.

This issue is packed with lots of advice.

Have a read of our new regular column, Money Matter$ on page 7. For some sage parenting tips, see Narelle Smith’s regular article in Parent’s Corner (page 8).

Rug up and stay warm and healthy this winter, bearing in mind that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but garlic clove a day keeps everyone at bay!

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Richard Bock – Back in Shape Chiropractic Do you suffer from neck and back pain or sciatica? Well, here’s the good news – renowned mountains chiropractor Richard Bock has just relocated to Emu Plains.

Back in Shape Chiropractic is an established practice, maintaining the back health of the mountains community for over 10 years. Whilst still practicing in Katoomba once a week, Richard has moved his business from Mt Riverview to a convenient new and spacious location in Billington Place, just off the highway, in Emu Plains.

Since moving down the hill, Richard has been busy with an influx of new clients, as well as his mountain regulars. He treats people of all ages, and works predominantly with neck and back issues as well as sciatic problems.

Consultations are of half hour duration; typically beginning with remedial massage flowed by traditional chiropractic adjustments.

Richard has a Masters in Chiropractic from Macquarie University. When not busy putting our backs into shape, Richard enjoys the active mountains lifestyle, with a passion for outdoor pursuits such as canyoning, abseiling and extreme tyrolean traversing. Richard’s longest tryloean traverse of 1.8km at Wyangala fell just short of the Guinness Book of Records Longest traverse.

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Celebrating 25 Years With $25,000 Donation The Emu Plains Lions Club recently celebrated its’ 25th Anniversary with a Dinner Dance at the Emu Sports Club, Leonay.

Over 130 guests were in attendance including Penrith Mayor Mark Davies, David Bradbury MP, and Lions District Governor Greg Dunn. All spoke , congratulating the club on reaching this important milestone.

The highlight of the evening was the distribution of $25,000 to two local families, as well as Sailability, Penrith Lakes ,and NordoffRobbins Music Therapy Australia, Kingswood.

President John Choma thanked the many sponsors who contributed to the evening, and also the members of the club (past and present), for their service to the community over the last 25 years.

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Organisers Val Newman & Gail Ladner are expecting record crowds this year. The feature of the show is the famous doll & bear competition, staged by Val and her team each year. The judges give their time and knowledge to award the talented doll and bear makers each year.

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CT13-10-01_ZontaClub.indd 1 Bring along your childhood doll or bear and find out the history and the value of your treasured possession for a gold coin donation.

The show provides a great day out for everyone, with refreshments available including Devonshire teas and our famous BBQ cooked by the members of the Zonta Club.

The show features collectable, porcelain and reborn dolls, teddy bears, and exquisite handmade craft, doll houses, doll furniture, miniatures, books, scrapbooking, doll repairs, beads, patterns, buttons, laces and material, doll wigs, millinery, and supplies to make your own dolls and bears.

Proceeds from this show go to supporting Zonta Service Projects which are focussed on initiating and supporting programs for women in the areas of health, welfare, educational opportunities, economic and professional status.

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EMU PLAINS ANGLICAN CHURCH (St Pauls) With Rev Roger Cunningham www.emuplains.anglican.asn.au Ph: 4735 1001 E: office@emuplains.anglican.asn.au Service Times: Sundays @ 8.00am, 9.30am and 6.30pm Plus activities for adults and young people throughout the week

Trust for Life Trust. Its something we need for life. We trust our homes will weather the wind and the rain.

We trust that the banks will give us our money when we go to the ATM. We trust the people we live with and around will be kind to us.

Now you could go through life without trusting anyone, but it wouldn’t be much of a life, would it? But it’s usually with people that we find trust the hardest. Have they shown themselves worthy of trust? What’s their track record with others?

What’s their track record with you? All of us have learned through disappointment that not everyone is worthy of trust.

We decide who we trust on the basis of evidence. When we find people who are worthy of our trust, we stick with them. When people find us to be worthy of trust, they generally stick with us.

Jesus invited people to trust him on the basis of the evidence.

He demonstrated he was in control of the world, and sickness, and even death. And the words he spoke resonated with what God had been saying for many years before. That life with God, forgiveness, and life to the full was available through him. It’s all available for us to read and test for ourselves in the Bible, to decide for ourselves on the basis of the evidence (you could start with the Gospel of Mark).

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Fancy Yourself a Masterchef?

Do you love everything ‘Masterchef’? Would you like to meet a ‘Masterchef’ in person?

Glenmore Park Anglican Church are presenting a unique event: ‘THE Masterchef’ with special guest Kate Bracks (winner of Masterchef 2011 and contestant in Masterchef Allstars 2012) “We are excited to be able to present this event for the local community.” said John Lavender, Senior Minister of Glenmore Park Anglican Church. “Kate Bracks is a woman who is passionate about her love of food and her faith, and has a great story to tell”.

‘THE Masterchef’ is being held on Saturday 22nd June 2013 (at 7:30pm) at Glenmore Park Anglican Church and costs $20 per person. It is aimed at people aged 16 years and over, and will include Masterchef Challenges, a cooking demonstration by Kate Bracks, gourmet supper and a ‘foodie’ show bag.

As part of the event’s ‘foodie’ theme, guests are invited to bring a non-perishable food item, which will be distributed to local organisations who feed the disadvantaged in our local community.

Michelle Grice, one of the Coordinators of Glenmore Park Anglican Church’s salt&light ministry, said “We aim to relieve suffering, pain and disadvantage in our local area. While ‘THE Masterchef’ is an opportunity for us to enjoy a great ‘foodie’ experience, we are expanding the experience to include those less fortunate in our local community.”

For more information or to purchase tickets, go to: www.masterchefgpac.com or call our Church Office on 4733 1635

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Blue Dragon Links Vietnam Street Kids With McCarthy Kids Australian teacher Michael Brosowski took up a lecturing job with a Vietnamese university in 2003. He soon found himself teaching English to street kids and this became concern for their nourishment, health and accommodation. Ten years later Michael has saved a huge number of children from being trafficked as slave factory workers, being abused in brothels or sold as wives.

The Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation he founded and the Order of Australia are testimony to his and fellow foundation workers wonderful achievements.

Michael and Vietnamese colleague Vi visited McCarthy Catholic College and told students of their challenges and sometimes dangerous missions to rescue trafficked children and young women. However, Michael made it clear that the joy and satisfaction of helping young Vietnamese was the only reward he sought. When the Australian Governor-General the Honourable Quentin Bryce visited Vietnam, Michael declined an invitation to lunch, instead choosing to lunch with a Vietnamese boy; it was the boy’s birthday and no-one had ever celebrated it with him.

McCarthy Captain Antonio Auddino commented, “Michael was inspiring. It’s fantastic to understand Michael’s commitment to benefiting the lives of young Vietnamese. He certainly made us consider others rather than ourselves. Some of us Australian kids will think about volunteering in the future!”

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MONEY MATTER$ With Alex McKenzie – Future Financial Services Ph: 0414 330 651 E: info@futurefinancialservices.com.au

Turning the Aussie Dream into reality –Buying your First Home Purchasing your first home can seem so far away, but a financial planner can help you achieve your goal by establishing processes to keep you disciplined and consistent and work towards your goal. In a lot of cases the role of a financial planner is similar to a personal trainer, although the technical expertise is helpful, the main benefit is often simply keeping you honest with yourself and having someone to remind you to do what you know has to be done!

The first step is to identify the cost of your home, it is important not to over extend. It is best to identify what you would like to pay in repayments each month and work backwards to determine how much that repayment translates to in total borrowings; this should be your upper limit. A financial planner can do this calculation on your behalf.

Once you have identified what your mortgage payment will be each month, we compare this to your current housing costs, this should be less the your repayments for your home. Future Financial Services call this difference the mortgage savings gap. This Mortgage savings gap is used to save for your deposit and legal costs.

The theory behind this is clear, if you want a home, you will have to be making these payments shortly, so if you can’t afford to put this money aside now, you won’t be able to when you purchase your home.

The plan is simple, set up a low risk investment, ideally a cash management trust or another fixed interest investment and each month contribute the mortgage savings gap into this investment. This will create the habit of making the mortgage payment once you buy your home, and will show excellent savings history to the lenders when you are trying to get finance and most importantly build funds for your deposit and legal costs.

In addition to the mortgage savings gap, many couples are able and prepared to make some short term changes to their lifestyle to save for a house, changes they are happy to make for the short term to achieve their goal, but not for the length of the loan. Some people are willing to sacrifice the occasional dinner at a restaurant or their annual holiday. We call these fast track savings, the amount people will be able to fast track is harder to pinpoint. Some people have lots of “fat” in the budget they are prepared to temporarily cut out, others do not. To make it easier as our clients forego these “luxuries” as they do so we encourage them to immediately save the funds into the “home account”, that will prevent the temptation to spend it down the track, and if clients can see why they are making the sacrifices and can see their “Aussie dream” getting closer, the sacrifices are easy to make.

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Scouts Honour Cody Luczak and Fletcher Phillips are the first 2 children EVER invested as JOEY’S (6-8 y.o) into the 1st Emu Plains Scout Group based at Lapstone in its 75 year history that will be celebrated later this year.

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by Group Leader Mark Belcher (Rais) and Joey Leader Anne Oblein ( Mouse).

Cody also recently took part in the Emu Plains Anzac Day Service with his older brother Alex, who is also a scout.

Interested in being a Joey? Joey scouts have great fun whilst learning life skills. Joeys kids learn to socialise with other children, basic bushcraft, how to react in emergencies, taking responsibilty, and basic adventure-based activities. For more information, visit www.emuplainsscouts.org.au

McCarthy goes to Q and A If you were watching Q and A a few weeks ago, you would have seen McCarthy students putting questions to the Prime Minister as part of the High School Showdown. McCarthy entered a competition to be part of the studio audience for this once in a lifetime opportunity, and after submitting a brief video explaining why they should be invited, we were successful.

Schools form around Australia travelled to the ABC studios in Ultimo to be part of the live recording of the television show.

College Captain, Antonio Auddino was fortunate enough to be able to ask the Prime Minister a question about nuclear weapons and Australia’s global role. Antonio said, “It was a great experience. I just wanted to ask what she thought, and I was pleased with the answer she gave.”

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PARENTS’ CORNER Article by: Narelle Smith (Family Worker) Nepean Community & Neighbourhood Services.

Ph: 0409 986 121 Email: Narelle@nepeancommunity. org.au Blog: http://oranaplaygroup.wordpress.com A few months ago, a parent emailed me and asked about a problem she was having with her children…

Both of my boys are at school now and they are obviously tired. The thing I am struggling most with at the moment is the flat-out refusals. I give them an option of say bath or homework and they say “No, I’m not doing it”. I start with a count to 3 and they still refuse. I take away a privilege and they still refuse. I’m not sure where to go with it. I’ve tried time out, removing more privileges but the battle can end up so much bigger than the initial request. Sometimes when I offer to help it works but other times it ends with me delaying the required task. This just adds more pressure later in the evening. If it’s not completely necessary I make a deal to do it the next night and they usually are pretty good with it. I was just wondering what you have in your toolbox for when your kids simply dig their heels in.

My reply… Bath or homework? None of those sound particularly appealing to boys who like to be grubby and not have to think about spelling and maths beyond the school gate. I’d choose Lego over those two any time too. My 7 year old regularly says No to doing the tasks of life because his head is in la-la-land.

From what you wrote – I make a deal to do it the next night and they usually are pretty good with it – this is communicating expectations and making a plan to get it done.

For me, I always fall back on communication – communicating expectations.

I do it oh so much. I communicate on Sunday what the week is going to look like. I communicate at dinner what the next day is going to look like. I communicate at breakfast what the evening is going to look like. When we get home of an afternoon I communicate the plan for the next 6 hours or so. At dinner I remind the boys that they need to have a wash tonight and the boys negotiate amongst themselves who is going first. Lots of communication, and when I forget to do it things don’t go as well.

When my boys were little I used to communicate what was going to happen before we went anywhere. They had limited experience of the world. They didn’t know what a vaccination at the doctor’s office meant, or a dental examination, or how to control themselves in aisle 3 at the supermarket (you know the one).

Trying to talk them through it when they are in situ and overwhelmed is not going to cut it. Less anxiety creates happier times. If it’s going to hurt, or be boring or busy or challenging or scary, acknowledge it and talk about ways you can get through it. Kids appreciate honesty, it builds trust.

I talked them through what was going to happen during the day ahead or at the particular event we were going to. If we were going to the supermarket, for example, before we went out the door I communicated the rules, what behaviour I expected from them, how long we were going to be, what they could do to help, and the reward for successfully completing the mission. I anticipated hunger, thirst, tiredness, and boredom, and packed a bag of food, water, comfort items, and small but interesting activities. Being able to meet kid’s needs when they arise builds trust. Because I did that with them when they were little, I don’t need to do it so much now they are older, they have become competent enough to manage themselves.

I am somewhat flexible and I am open to negotiation. Your family should transition from dictatorship when the kids are little, to democracy as they grow older. If the boys can come up with a plan that suits them better but it still gets the job done, and it doesn’t impact on others, then that is great. A child will be so much more motivated with a plan that she has created, than one imposed

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on her. And it means that the child is taking responsibility for him/herself. My 7 year-old LOVES movies and wants to watch a movie every afternoon, but we negotiate a plan where homework and reader is done before he can watch a movie. Or we commit to do readers at soccer training during the down-times.

But when things need to happen, as they do, and there’s no room for flexibility or negotiation, it gets done! Withdrawing privileges is my last resort and because I use it so rarely, my boys know that when I am deducting computer time I mean business.

Parenting is a balance of TAKING CHARGE and BEING KIND. Most difficulties can be addressed through being kind and considering that children are people too. Our job as parents is to guide and educate our children to know better and do better, and I’m not sure that children learn that through time-outs or withdrawal of privileges. It leaves them angry, resentful, and none the wiser.

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Ingredients • Serves 4 1 tablespoon olive oil 8 (about 1kg) chicken thigh fillets, cut into 3cm pieces 200g bacon rashers 12 pickling onions, peeled, trimmed 1 carrot, peeled, thickly sliced diagonally 2 celery sticks, trimmed, thickly sliced diagonally 200g button mushrooms 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1/4 cup (60ml) brandy 40g butter 1/4 cup (40g) plain flour 1 cup (250ml) dry white wine 1 1/2 cups (375ml) chicken stock 3 sprigs thyme sprigs 2 dried bay leaves 4 (about 800g) pontiac potatoes, very thinly sliced 50g butter, melted, extra Method 1. Preheat oven to 160C. Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole dish over medium-high heat. Add one-quarter of the chicken and cook, turning occasionally, for 5 minutes or until brown all over.

Transfer to a bowl. Repeat in 3 more batches with remaining chicken.

2. Add the bacon to the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, or 2 minutes or until crisp. Transfer to the bowl. Add the onions, carrot, celery and mushrooms to the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until lightly brown. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the brandy and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until brandy reduces by half. Return the chicken and speck to the pan with the butter and flour and cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes or until well combined. Add the wine, chicken stock, thyme and bay leaves and bring to the boil. Remove from heat. Bake in preheated oven, covered, for 1 hour or until chicken is tender and sauce thickens slightly.

3.Increase oven to 200C. Combine the potato and extra butter in a large bowl. Season well with salt and fresh ground black pepper.

Arrange potato slices evenly over the chicken mixture. Bake, uncovered, for 30 minutes or until potato is tender and golden brown.

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THIS SPORTING LIFE

HAWKESBURY WOLVES TAEKWONDO

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Local Leonay lass Nicole Docherty, has been riding BMX’s since she was three. Now, at 18, her dedication to the sport has paid off with success at the recent BMX Australian titles held in Brisbane last month.

Nicole finished 3rd in the 17+ ladies and 2nd in the 1729 ladies cruiser (the cruiser being a larger bike with 24 inch wheels). She is now looking forward to competing in the upcoming BMX world Titles in Auckland, New Zealand this July.

In addition to riding Nicole also coaches kids. In recognition of her contribution to the sport she was received BMX Australia’s Female Coach of the Year award.

Nicole’s passion for the sport began 15 years ago when, as a toddler, she would watch her big brother ride BMX’s. What she loves most about the sport, aside from the huge adrenaline rush every time she races, is the social side. She has made many friends from travelling to events all over the country.

When not racing, Nicole is pursuing a Bachelor of Policing degree at Western Sydney uni. r Nicole Docherty in action at the recent BMX Australian Titles in Brisbane

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Lower Blue Mountains Rotary Club Monthly Markets Glenbrook Infants Scho ol, Ross Street, Glenbrook.

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Monday June 17

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Special care with older dogs 4735 2558 0427 352 558 Unit3/14 Smith St, EmuPlains

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