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Knowing the Locals
wonga pigeon photographed by Des Richens among lacebark flowers at Tabbil Forest Wildlife Refuge, Bingleburra. The lacebark tree, Brachychiton Discolor, is the subject of Noel Jupp's 'Getting To Know The Locals' column in this issue and it is one of the endemic tree species that will be planted in the new arboretum in the grounds of the Therese Doyle Hall (see 'Community Matters' on page 6). The arboretum will include walking paths and quiet places to sit and reflect on the local rainforest trees and shrubs that are
disappearing from the landscape. It is hoped that these species will become more widely used in local gardens to provide habitat for our native birds and animals. The name Brachychiton is made up of two parts. Brachy means 'short' and chiton is a coat of mail or tunic, and together they refer to the coating of short massed hairs over the seeds. Discolor refers to the leaves which are a different colour above and below.
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The Gresford News Community Diary Thurs
4 Aug Gresford District Agricultural Society AGM, Gresford Bowls Sport & Recreation Club, 7.00pm
Tues Fri
9 Aug CWA International Day - country of study Mongolia, St Anne's Hall, Gresford 12 Aug Community Table for dinner, Hotel Beatty
Sat
13 Aug CWA book club, Gresford CWA, 3.00pm
Tues
16 Aug Paterson Allyn Garden Group meet, 10.00am
Wed
17 Aug Boomerang Bag launch – PAW Science Hub event, James Theatre, Dungog, 5.00pm
Fri
19 Aug Scinema International Science Film Festival – PAW Science Hub event, James Theatre, Dungog, 7.00pm
Sun
21 Aug Gresford markets, Gresford District Historical Society event, grounds of the Hotel Beatty, 9.00am
Sun
21 Aug Live music – Brindle Pigs, Hotel Beatty, 11.00am
Fri
26 Aug Live music – Johnny Cash tribute band, Hotel Beatty, 8.00pm
Fri
26 Aug Live music – Chris Drew band, Gresford Bowls Sport & Recreation Club
Fri, Sat 26, 27 Aug Gresford Rodeo & Campdraft, Gresford Showground Thurs
1 Sep Speaker from Devil Ark in the Barrington Tops, Gresford CWA
Sat
3 Sep Back to Allyn River Valley Reunion Day, Eccleston Fire Brigade shed
Sun
18 Sep GAPS matinee play ‘Cirque Solamé’, Gresford School of Arts, 1.30pm
Sun
18 Sep Vacy Village Country Carnival
Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat 23, 24, 30 Sep & 1 Oct GAPS theatre restaurant play ‘Cirque Solamé’, Gresford School of Arts, all at 6.30pm Sat, Sun 24,25 Sep Gresford Photographic Exhibition, St Anne's Hall, Gresford Tuesdays 12 May, 11 Aug & 10 Nov Gresford School of Arts Meeting, Gresford School of Arts Hall, 7.30pm Tuesdays
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Social ladies tennis starts, Mon or Tues mornings, Gresford Tennis Courts, 9.30–11.00am
Friday afternoons Junior tennis coaching, Gresford Tennis Courts 1st Mon each month
Gresford Community Group Meeting, 5.30pm, Hotel Beatty, all welcome! (not Jan)
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Gresford Rural Fire Brigade meeting, station, 7.30pm
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CWA Gresford Branch Meeting, CWA rooms, East Gresford, 9.30am (not Jan)
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Gresford Historical Society Meeting, Therese Doyle Hall, 10.30am (not Dec, Jan or June)
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Gresford District Landcare Group Meeting, Hotel Beatty, 7.30pm (not Jan)
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Book Club, CWA rooms, East Gresford, 3.00pm (not Dec or Jan)
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Paterson Allyn Garden Group meet, 10.00am (not Jan)
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Gresford Public School P&C Meeting, school library, 10.00am
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Gresford District Agricultural Society Meeting, Showground Luncheon Pavilion, 7.30pm
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Gresford Bowls Sport & Recreation Club Raffles, from 6.30pm
Every Mon & Fri (school terms) Gresford Pre-School, Gresford Community Hall, 9.00am, 4934 6725 Every Thur Happy hour and free pool and jukebox at the Hotel Beatty Every Fri Cricket Club Raffles at the Hotel Beatty Every Wed & Fri (school terms) Yoga with Donna Cavanough, Wed–gentle, Fri–general, Vacy School of Arts Hall, 9.15am Every Wed Gresford PlayTime, children 0-5 & carers, Gresford Community Hall, 10.00am Every Sunday The Gresford Congregational Church welcomes you, 10.30am
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Gresford District Agricultural Society AGM The Gresford District Agricultural Society will be holding their Annual General Meeting on Thursday 4th August at the Gresford Bowls, Sport & Recreational Club commencing at 7pm. There will be light refreshments after the meeting (sausage sizzle, tea/coffee etc). Hope you can come along. ***Please note the change of time and venue.
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Back to Allyn River Valley Reunion Day Saturday 3rd September Eccleston Fire Brigade shed Besides being a reunion day it will be an information collecting day. So bring along your memories, any old memorabilia and photographs. We will have a scanning / printer machine there on the day. Pass the word on and help preserve valuable history within our local Allyn River area. Morning tea and lunch will be available.
Vacy Village Country Carnival Sunday 18 September
Start your pooch training now! The best small dog races will be back again this year at Vacy – plus stalls Galore and loads of entertainment for all. To book a stall, lend a hand or sponsor the event please email vacycc@gmail.com
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Community Matters – Gresford Community Group
The Gresford Community Group is pleased to announce two exciting projects happening over the next few months – the Gresford Beautification Project and the Arboretum at the Therese Doyle Community Centre. Both projects will enhance the villages of Gresford and East Gresford.
Gresford Beautification Project In July 2010, Jane Chandler, Penny Kater and Carolyn Addison began the first planting of Lagerstroemia “Sioux” (Crepe Myrtle) along the nature strips of East Gresford. July 2016 begins Stage 2 with the purchase of a further 60 Crepe Myrtle trees to be planted in both villages for residents who have registered their interested at the Crossroads Café and the Foodland Grocery stores. The Gresford Community Group was delighted that more than 30 residences requested these for their nature strips. The tree planting is restricted to the villages, with planting also offered for front gardens. During August, planting will commence and residences are only required to water (especially for the first few weeks and in the dry and hot days of Spring and
Summer) with an occasional weed around the habitat of once common native birds the base of the trees. and animals. Being a modern hybrid, the Lagerstroemia “Sioux” require no pruning as they are designed to grow into a graceful flowering and pretty tree. Penny says that ‘pruning will ruin the form and require unnecessary work’. The Community Group also sees this project as a wonderful opportunity to beautify the villages and will take the opportunity to do general maintenance on the original Crepe Myrtle plantings. If you are interested in assisting with the planting or missed the sign on please contact Carolyn Addison on 4938 9424.
Arboretum
The range and beauty of this vegetation type is not widely known in our area. The Arboretum will support many areas within the Gresford community – especially as a tourist attraction to complement the Gresford Historical Society Museum, and as an educational tool for local schools by identifying local rainforest trees. It is hoped that when established, these rainforest species will become more widely used in local gardens. They are far better adapted to local conditions than most exotic plants, and once established require less care and maintenance.
The Gresford Community Group is Local well known Nurseryman and planning to establish an arboretum in the specialist in local flora, Noel Jupp has grounds of the Therese Doyle Hall. kindly agreed to supply plant material at a reduced rate. Landscape and planning The object is to preserve and showcase local rainforest trees and shrubs that are specialist Leon Groves has approved the rapidly disappearing from the landscape. proposed plan for the mini forest. Rainforest pockets were once common in the area but have been extensively cleared over the years. Not only has this resulted in a great reduction in diversity in the landscape, but also it has reduced
The plan incorporates access paths and quiet places to sit and reflect. Species include the beautiful Lacebark Tree that flowers on bare wood with
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decorations for the competition in December? We would like to see the villages light up to celebrate Christmas and brighten out surroundings.
The next Community Dinner will be held at the Beatty Hotel on Friday 12 August – remember this is for all residents old and especially new. Please contact the Beatty Hotel on 4938 9451 to reserve your seat or Carolyn Addison on 4938 9424 for further information. New Logo The Gresford Community Group has a new logo designed by Brian Doherty. The design represents many individuals coming together to form a community which has the strength of the diversity Penny Kater (L) and Jane Chandler (R) start to mark out the arboretum at the Therese Doyle Hall grounds. it incorporates. large pink jacaranda like bell flowers , the heavily perfumed Native Frangipani and others too numerous to mention. If you would like to become involved in the establishment of the exciting Arboretum project, please contact Penny Kater on 49389365 or email pennykater@ gmail.com
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CULTURE VULTURE
by Robyn Werkhoven
This month Culture Vulture features artists Jane Richens and Brian Doherty, who currently live and work at Tabbil Forest in Dungog Shire, managing endemic biodiversity on a 680 acre wildlife refuge. Both artists have impressive careers in graphic design and the visual arts. Recently Richens and Doherty have had artworks exhibited in a major historical exhibition at the University of Queensland Art Museum. The exhibition titled 'Ephemeral Traces: brisbane's artist-run scene in the 1980s' reviewed the art and artists working in Brisbane’s art scene in the 1980s. “The title refers to the ephemeral quality of a lot of the art produced in Brisbane during the last decade of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government" Doherty explained. "The repressive political situation and the alliance between politics and a corrupt police force led to an art scene that had something of a French Underground resistance feel to it.” Doherty grew up in Brisbane and completed a Bachelor of Design Studies degree at the University of Queensland in 1977. While pursuing his own art practice he worked at the Queensland University to create a community access screen printing facility, ceramics studio and photographic darkrooms. In the early 1980s he worked as a designer for La Boite Theatre and with fashion label, Kim Hodges Designs. He was also involved with setting up and publishing a local art magazine, Art Walk (1982-83), and the Australian contemporary art journal 'Eyeline' from 1987-89.
Brian Doherty with the Dungog Chronicle included in the exhibition at the University of Qld Art Museum
Jane Richens' billboard opposite the XXXX brewery in Brisbane in 1988
Doherty explains: “The art scene was institutions, artists created their own more than just making works to hang on cultural supports and had a strategic approach to their work generally. My walls. Because of the hostile broader art practice included creating art environment and lack of supportive
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CULTURE VULTURE magazines and organisations like the Queensland Artworkers Union and running a community cinema in the city. And my gallery artwork often dealt with the visual strategies and politics of items we take for granted in our everyday lives like newspapers, junk mail or soap boxes. For the current exhibition Dohery used a number of his prints in a large wall installation and he incorporated the front cover of the 2 March 2016 edition of the Dungog Chronicle into an artwork series that started in 1982. The cover was folded and hung alongside nine other folded newspapers as the most recent addition to the artwork that began when a folded page from a 1982 Brisbane Sunday Mail was exhibited and then toured around Australia. I chose that particular Dungog Chronicle cover because it was a wonderful readymade portrait of Dungog, the town, the Shire, and it’s current concerns. It was also one of the last editions of the Chronicle in the old format. It had a story to tell about the current commercial challenges for newspaper publishing and how that impacts on the print product. It seems
Jane Richens with Cassie Doyle, former state art librarian, in front of a section of her billboard recently installed at the University of Queensland Art Museum
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as though both Dungog and printed newspapers are struggling to find a new way to exist in the future. Given both my age and the uncertain future of printed newspapers, this may be the last newspaper that will be added to that work. I found that quite poignant.”
photocopies, billboards and masks. Her direct involvement in Queensland artist-run initiatives from the 1980s was in many forms – visual arts practice, design, publishing, education, archivist and administration.
Richens says – “This involvement was formative and important to my ongoing working life. During that time I was directly involved with both running and exhibiting in artist run galleries, and non-ARI galleries such as the Institute of Richens says “In this work I had the Modern Art and Milburn+Arte gallery. unusual opportunity to play with space I was a founding member and a on a cinematic scale. I was looking to chairperson of the Queensland create that other-worldly but connected Artworker’s Alliance an organisation that to this world quality of cinematic imagery. I was also interested in the way advocated for artist rights and a member of the ‘Eyeline’ magazine founding team. voyeurism is deeply embeded within Artist-runs at this time provided many cinema traditions. The use of mirrors in artists like me an opportunity to the cinema works on all these levels. establish networks, exhibit works, have They are a cliche of voyeurism in work critiqued by our peers, and to 'dressing room' scenes and at the same time expand the cinematic space to show participate in a wide range of related not only what is in front but also what is professional activities. behind the camera. Mirrors also serve as I have been one of the few people to a transition to alternative worlds.” retain and manage an archive of artefacts and published ephemera from this era Jane Richens began as a practicing and I understand the importance of this visual artist in 1984 working with new media, photography, large format because of my involvement with Richens was also in the exhibition with a billboard sized artwork that was displayed around Brisbane as part of the Bicentennial celebrations in 1988.
conservation and archiving. I was involved with the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material and was an assistant conservator at Expo88 I also worked in the publishing department at the Powerhouse Museum; worked on digital media exhibits at the Museum of Sydney; and worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.” Doherty sums up “This exhibition has provided the opportunity to open up boxes that have been closed for the past 30 years. It has been fascinating and rewarding to work with the material and to reconnect with people. It was a rich and important time for the cultural development of Brisbane.” Doherty at present is working on three publications documenting the 1980s Brisbane art scene and a discussion paper for the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand conferance later this year. Jane Richens’ natural felted necklaces and sculptural pieces are available at Dungog by Design Gallery 240 Dowling Street Dungog NSW. Contact Robyn Werkhoven with Art News: werkhovenr@bigpond.com
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International Science Film Festival Showing In Dungog NASA, ESA, ESO or Google Earth. The Amazing Life Cycle of the European Eel (UK) The Romans kept European eels as pets and adorned them with jewelry. Today, they continue to travel over 12,000 km back and forth from the Sargasso Sea to complete their life cycles. Metamorphosis of plants (Poland) This unique film is the result of two years spent watching and analysing the movements and metamorphoses of plants. Corpus (France) A complex chain reaction brings human organs to life.
To celebrate National Science Week the Paterson Allyn Wiliams Science Hub will be presenting the most amazing films from the 2016 International Science Film Festival, SCINEMA, at the James Theatre, Dungog. SCINEMA was established in 2000 and attracts entries from across the world to showcase animations, epic natural history, drama and documentaries, that tell stories about the world, how it works, and our place in it.
Update (Germany) In the near future, apps and gadgets are seamlessly incorporated into day-to-day activities. Laura is comfortable with this life but her attitude to data has consequences. environmental challenges that we face on our planet, or how technology will shape our future, these films will make you laugh or cry, rage or recoil, but most of all they will make you think. The 2 hour program selected to show at the James includes finalists and winners in different sections of the festival – best short film, best experimental/animated film, best film, best documentary, best technical merit.
The program includes: Whether it’s the long slog and occasional Robot Koch - Eclipse (Germany). A thrill of discovery, the awesome scale of musical journey through the cosmos our universe, the beauty of nature, created entirely by images from Hubble,
Maratus (Australia) A garbage collector takes a photo of a tiny colourful spider that will change his life. HILLEMAN: A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children (USA) An American scientist succeeds in developing more than half of the vaccines children receive today, saving 8 million lives every year since the mid1960s, and yet few know his name. Don't miss out – James Theatre, 7pm, Friday 19 August. Entry by gold coin donation to help pay for cinema hire. More information: facebook.com/ PatersonAllynWilliamsScienceHub
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Two new environmental schemes launching in August... What are all those people doing in the old Hardware in Dowling St Dungog? Cutting, pinning, sewing, stamping, ironing – it’s been such a hive of activity on working bee days. A team of volunteers have been getting together to make cloth bags for a new initiative that is going to be launched at the James Theatre this month. Actually there are two new initiatives being launched that work well together – Boomerang Bags and Plastic Police.
Boomerang Bags is a community driven initiative to reduce plastic pollution at the grassroots level. Around Australia people are getting together to make re-useable fabric ‘Boomerang Bags’ using recycled materials to replace plastic shopping bags. The IGA in Dungog will have a stand where you can borrow and Some of our local team making Boomerang Bags – contact us if you would like to help out or donate fabric. bring back Boomerang Bags for your waste stream and, aside from food one community, needle and thread at a shopping. It's that simple. Other shops organics, the single largest component of time! One of the co-founders will be in the town will also have the the total domestic waste stream. This is travelling to Dungog for the launch. Boomerang Bags available. where Plastic Police comes in to capture, Plastic Police is a program to capture collect and then recycle our soft plastics Boomerang Bags started in Qld and is and recycle soft plastics which are not into such things as outdoor furniture. becoming a nationwide sustainable currently recycled by the Shire's kerbside The program has been trialled in a program. Through Boomerang Bags we bin recycling systems. Newcastle school and now Dungog has start conversations, make friends, up-cycle materials and work towards changing Flexible plastics are now the single largest been chosen to trial it as a community society’s throw away mentality to re-use – component of packaging in the landfill wide project.
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...Wednesday 17 August at The James Theatre, 5-7pm You can help by saving any clean, dry flexible plastics that you can scrunch with your hand into a ball. Put plastic in a tied off plastic bag and place it in the special Plastic Police bag stands in Dungog. Your plastic will be collected and processed into recycled furniture and equipment for our schools, instead of going to landfill. (See list of suitable plastics)
What's happening at the big launch There are some really interesting people coming to Dungog for the launch of these two programs and local school children will be unveiling projects they have been working on that promote recycling awareness. This will be followed by a Q&A then nibbles & drinks while you peruse displays. Samantha Cross from the Plastic Police program is coming to tell us about how our soft plastics will be recycled into things like outdoor furniture. There will also be three women from an “A-Team” of inspiring twenty-something young women who are out there working at the front line for the protection of the land, waterways and oceans and all of the animals that inhabit them. They are scientists,
Soft plastics recycling Yes – soft plastic only, not hard plastic 4 Electrical & electronic goods packaging 4 Supermarket bags 4 Fresh produce flexible packaging (fruit & vegetables)
4 Bread/roll bags (shake out crumbs) 4 Rice/pasta/spaghetti packaging 4 Lolly packets 4 Toilet paper outer packaging 4 Newspaper/magazine outer bags 4 Toy packaging 4 Postage bags 4 Clothing packaging 4 Dry cleaning bags 4 Any protective plastic packaging 4 Cereal inserts (shake out crumbs) 4 Biscuit outer packaging 4 Snap lock bags 4 Bubble wrap/appliance wrap 4 Frozen vegetable bags 4 Department store carry bags No 7 Food scraps 7 Dirty or smelly plastic or cling wrap 7 Dairy plastic packaging 7 Cold/raw meat plastic packaging 7 Wet packaging 7 Cardboard
educators, filmmakers, conservationists, artists, free divers, activists and “Champions For Change ! ” Jordyn de Boer When Jordyn isn’t at the Boomerang Bags warehouse, you’ll find her out in the surf. The ocean is her second home and a place where she finds her inspiration and a sense of peace. Jordyn has always been actively working towards keeping our oceans and natural environment clean. With a degree in Environmental Science, she has worked in the field of conservation for a number of years. In 2013, she co-founded the Boomerang Bags initiative in Burleigh Heads. This bold new idea is being adopted by communities (including our own) across the country. Her vision is to bring education on plastics, health, and the environment to local communities and inspire positive behavioural change towards sustainable lifestyles. Nicole McLachlan is a youth ambassador, educator, underwater photographer and marine conservationist who is based on the Gold Coast and is aiming to help youth become aware of issues affecting marine wildlife worldwide. Alice Forrest is a conservationist, activist, scientist, mermaid, planeteer, eco-tramp and adventurer. She works with a range of different conservation groups to protect what she loves – the ocean. As a marine biologist, she’s currently researching microplastic pollution in the South Pacific and the associated pollutants going from the ocean into the food chain and subsequently us.
Get Involved Boomerang Bags relies solely on the time and generosity of volunteers. We need donations of second-hand materials, and volunteers to help with cutting, pinning, ironing, sewing and stamping to make re-useable Boomerang Bags.
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Fabric donations If you have any material that you no longer have a need for we would be happy to take it off your hands. We accept banners, fabric end-ofrolls, linens, and curtains. Rummage through the linen closets of family, friends and friends of friends, or clean out your local op-shop for second-hand materials suitable for making bags! Your trash is our treasure! Please reach out if you want to donate material. Are you interested in donating fabric or volunteering? Contact our local coordinator Michelle Dado-Millynn at boomerangbagsdungog@gmail.com
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Getting to know the locals... by Noel Jupp OAM, Dip Hort, QP Dept Ag & Fisheries BRACHYCHITON DISCOLOR Lacebark or Pink Kurrajong Also known as the Lace Kurrajong, Scrub Bottle Tree, White Kurrajong, Hat Tree and Sycamore. This is a beautiful tree that can grow to 30m high in forested areas but in the open grows to about 12m. It is a glorious wide spreading shade tree that will grow in most soils providing they are well drained. It is regarded as being evergreen but it does drop all its leaves just before it flowers. The dusky pink flowers are very large and conspicuous and are borne on the ends of the branch which produces a magnificent display. The seeds of the Lacebark were roasted and eaten by the Aboriginal people. It occurs naturally in the areas North of Paterson through to Mackay in Queensland. The lacebark is closely aligned with the better known Ilawarra Flame Tree,
BRACHYCHITON ACERIFOLIUS and the Kurrajong, BRACHYCHITON POPULNEUS. Photo of flower and seed pod: Des Richens
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Paterson Allyn Garden Group – PAGG Dear Garden Lovers, As Eileen Chaloner so aptly wrote in her July minutes, after four years of gathering each month we have become old friends’. I totally agree with her, but I will go a step further. Old friends who are always laughing or smiling. I believe gardening nurtures the soul. We have over 100 members now and still growing. Our garden this month was right in the heart of Dungog. A wonderful cottage garden filled with everything imaginable and to top it off a magnificent display of patchwork quilts hung on the line! We were fortunate to have Barbara Horn’s current advice on pruning roses. Remember to spray pruned roses with lime sulphur within 24 hours of pruning to help prevent fungal diseases and do your best to remove fallen leaves from around the base of the rose. You may notice some white scale on the stems. This of course can be sprayed with Pest Oil or a concoction of vegetable oil and cheap washing up detergent or soap. Mix 2 cups of vegetable oil to I cup of liquid soap, stir until white in colour. Then add one tablespoon of this emulsion to one litre of water.
Maybe the leaves of your Swamp Lilies, Clivias and Amaryllis are looking a little bedraggled. This is due to the dreaded Lily caterpillar (Spodoptera picta) which is related to the cut worm. Plants can die from a heavy infestation so it’s wise to be vigilant and remove pests in early morning or cut out the damaged leaves and spray the plant with Dipel (biological spray). You must spray
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Gresford CWA News CWA WHAT IS IT? CWA stands for Country Women’s Association and the largest women’s organization in Australia.Founded in 1922, it continues to flourish.
WHY WAS IT STARTED? It was started to help women and children in the outback, to relieve loneliness, to provide rest rooms and a base. Today help is given to women in cities and towns as well as rural areas. Its members are interested in State, National and International affairs.
SCHOLARSHIPS are granted, seminars held and leadership courses attended.
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Meets on the second Saturday of the month in the CWA rooms at 3.00p.m. The book for discussion on August 13th “All the Light We Cannot See” Anthony Doerr. If you have read the book and would like to join the discussion please come along.
FRENCH IN THE LIBRARY
different country every yearm, learning the social, economic and political aspects of that country.
Glenda Smith will open the Library for borrowing books on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdayof the month 11.00am to 12.30. A gold coin donation for printing costs would be appreciated. Come along and enjoy the morning.
CULTURAL: Art, music, essays, poetry,
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public speaking, photography. Competitions are held throughout the year in all these activities. Listen to guest speakers.
HANDICRAFTS: Learn to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, make toys etc., women helping women to enjoy relaxing hobbies. The more advanced can enter competitions and enjoy friendly rivalry.
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CWA INTERNATIONAL DAY will be held on Tuesday 9th August at St.Anne’s church hall. The country of study this year is Mongolia. The Gresford CWA meets on the first Thursday of the month at 9.30am. New members welcomed. Enquiries to secretary Valarie Smith gresfordcwa@gmail.com Robyn Thornton, President.
4 cups cooked pasta 3 rashers bacon 2 tablespoons butter 2 ½ cups milk 1 packet cheese and leek soup mix x 440g tin corn kernels, drained ½ carton cream Grated cheese
Method: Cut bacon rashers into small pieces and cook 3 minutes. Melt butter in saucepan, add milk and soup mix stirring until well blended and mixture is boiling. Remove from heat, add pasta, bacon, corn kernels and cream. Mix well. Place cheesy pasta and bacon into a greased casserole dish, sprinkle grated cheese on top. Bake at 190degrees C. for 15 minutes. This recipe can be found in the CWA cook book available at Gresford Foodworks and The Gresford Store cost $13.
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Diesel Refueling – ON SITE West Tankers are a family owned and operated business servicing Newcastle, Hunter Valley and surrounding areas. We are able to meet the requirements of specialised and remote customers. Your fuel will be delivered on-site when you need it. We arrange our schedule to suit you. It doesn’t matter how remote you are, we pride ourselves in supporting remote customers and providing diesel when you need it – with delivery 7 days a week • Competitive Rates – reliable & efficient service • Servicing Earthmoving, Construction, Marine and Farming Industries • 11 Trucks – 7 Days • Emergency Service Available
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Gresford News August Crossword
Anglican Parish of Gresford Paterson ph 4938 9313
church times are: Paterson 8.30am every Sunday Gresford 10.30am every Sunday Allynbrook 12 noon on the 4th Sunday of the month
St Helen’s Catholic Parish of Gresford and Sacred Heart Summer Hill WEEKEND MASS TIMES St Helen’s Gresford Saturday Vigil 6.30pm 5th Sunday of the Month, no Mass at Gresford but Sacred Heart Church Summer Hill, time to be advised. Enquiries Parish Priest Fr. Paul Hopper 4992 1477 July 2016 crossword answers
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