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The Region's Best at Gresford
he best of the region’s rodeo riders were out in force on Saturday 27 August for the 2016 Gresford Rodeo at Gresford Showground. Wet weather earlier in the week forced the associated campdraft to be postponed but the sun was shining as more than 500 competitors gathered for a full rodeo program. The annual community event is billed as the premier rodeo of the Hunter Highlands and the action in the centre of the showground didn’t disappoint.
The rodeo started with the juniors on Friday evening, with young cowboys and cowgirls competing in the steer ride, barrel racing and breakaway events. The crowds came in for the main event on Saturday as competitors battled it out in saddle bronc, bareback riding, bull riding, steer wrestling, team roping, steer undecorating, rope and tie, breakaway roping and barrel racing. More story and pics inside...
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The Gresford News Community Diary 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
Sat
3 Sep Weeds ID & control day, Tocal, 9.30am
Fri
9 Sep Community Table for dinner, Hotel Beatty
Sat
10 Sep CWA book club, Gresford CWA, 3.00pm
Thurs
15 Sep Meeting re closure of Anglican churches, St Anne's Hall, Gresford, 2.30pm
Tues
20 Sep Paterson Allyn Garden Group meet, 10.00am
Sat-Sun 17-18 Sep Hunter Polo Challenge, Tabbil Creek Polo Grounds, Dungog Sun
18 Sep Gresford markets, Gresford District Historical Society event, grounds of the Hotel Beatty, 9.00am
Sun
18 Sep Annual Combined Car & Bike Club – Show & Shine & Live music, Hotel Beatty
Sun
18 Sep GAPS matinee play ‘Cirque Solamé’, Gresford School of Arts, 1.30pm
Sun
18 Sep Vacy Village Country Carnival
Fri
23 Sep Call for Dungog Tourism board closes
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 Sun 25 Sep 2 Open gardens – Julia Wokes at Paterson & Janie Chandler at Gresford, Gresford Photographic Exhibition Fri
30 Sep Fish habitat grant – Habitat Action Grants Program – closes
Thurs-Sun 27-30 Oct Dungog Festival Thurs Sat
6 Oct 22 Oct
CWA AGM, Gresford CWA, 9.30am Garage Sale Trail
Tuesdays 12 May, 11 Aug & 10 Nov Gresford School of Arts Meeting, Gresford School of Arts Hall, 7.30pm Tuesdays
Spring/summer mixed Tuesday nights tennis, 7.30–9.30pm
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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)
1st Wed each month
Gresford Rural Fire Brigade meeting, station, 7.30pm
1st Thurs each month
CWA Gresford Branch Meeting, CWA rooms, East Gresford, 9.30am (not Jan)
2nd Mon each month
Gresford Historical Society Meeting, Therese Doyle Hall, 10.30am (not Dec, Jan or June)
2nd Tues each month
Gresford District Landcare Group Meeting, Hotel Beatty, 7.30pm (not Jan)
2nd Sat each month
Book Club, CWA rooms, East Gresford, 3.00pm (not Dec or Jan)
3rd Tues each month
Paterson Allyn Garden Group meet, 10.00am (not Jan)
3rd Fri each month
Gresford Public School P&C Meeting, school library, 10.00am
Last Thurs each month
Gresford District Agricultural Society Meeting, Showground Luncheon Pavilion, 7.30pm
Every Wed, Fri & Sun
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 News Notices Gresford Community Dinner Hotel Beatty
The busy month of September Sat 3 Sep
Gresford News CLASSIFIEDS BEEF CATTLE ASSESSMENT COURSE
Once again we had over thirty people join in the dinner and new families become involved and bring their children. It is great to meet these families and hope they enjoy life in this beautiful part of the world. Our schools and preschools are growing too with new blood.
Back to Allyn River Valley Reunion Day, Eccleston Fire Brigade shed
Thanks to Di and the kitchen staff who ran an efficient kitchen so we all sat down to eat together and to Bernie, for a warm fire.
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Gresford CWA AGM Gresford CWA will be holding their Annual General Meeting on Thursday, October 6th at their Rooms, 12 Durham Road, commencing at 9:30am. New members most welcome.
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September 26, 27, 28, 2016 TOCAL, Paterson The course embraces both newcomers and experienced cattle producers alike. Call Leanne 0408 621 784 or www.beefcattlecourse.com.au
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GAPS theatre restaurant play ‘Cirque Solamé’, Sat, Sun 24,25 Sep
Gresford Photographic Exhibition, St Anne's Hall, Gresford Sun 25 Sep (for 4 hours)
Two open gardens, Julia Wokes at Paterson and Janie Chandlers at Gresford will be opened to support the Photographic Exhibition.
Gresford Market presented by Gresford District Historical Society Inc.
Sunday 18 Sept 9am to 1.30pm Annual Combined Car & Bike Club – Show & Shine at the Beatty Hotel
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Scarecrow competition Vacy Community Arts Centre is holding a Scarecrow Competition to coincide with the Vacy country carnival. Scarecrows will be judged on the day and prizes awarded in two categories: kids up to 12 years and Open. Entry forms can be collected at the Arts Centre on weekends from 11am to 3pm and at Vacy General Store.
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Letter To The Editor
What’s on the Shelves?
Audio Edition of Gresford News is Still Available
by Glenda Smith
I recently visited with my daughter Mary Horn of Lostock. She showed me your June issue and the kind things you said about me. Thank you. However, I was less pleased with the ad for the on-line version immediately below which said the audio version was no longer available. I have never intended for that to be true and think it might discourage someone who needs it from investigating further with you. If someone wants it they only have to provide their name and address and you only have to pass it to me along with a copy of the newsletter and of course it is available. Do you think you might point this out in a future issue, please? And you might consider it desirable to re-insert the ad you used to carry on page 2 in every issue advising that the audio version IS still available to anyone whom it might help. I acknowledge that it is your publication and you can do as you like with it, but it would be nice if people knew that I'm no longer producing it because there is currently no demand. Should the demand again arise I would be very happy to again produce the audio version.
Three Wishes
Liane Moriarty
Australian writer Liane Moriarty seems to be the literary flavour of the month at the moment, with sales in the USA outstripping those in Australia. Three Wishes, her first novel for adults, is punchy and fast-moving, and highly engaging. The novel centres on three young women who, although they are triplets, are very different from each other. Gemma is drifty and vague, and very unmaterialistic; Cat is tough and cynical, and Lyn is a kind of superwoman – but of course there is more to each of them than appears on the surface. The book starts with an outrageously farcical quarrel among them during a birthday outing to a restaurant, and then weaves backwards and forwards from there to reveal both the origins and the outcomes of the quarrel.
Regards,Ted Baker.
Many of the chapters are prefaced by outsiders’ views of the girls to give some extra dimensions to the development of their characters, while adding amusing or poignant cameos which generally sit separately from the narrative. The Kettle Triplets are larger-than-life, and they make for entertaining reading.
Gresford News welcomes letters and community stories. Please send contributions to: Gresford News, PO Box 73, East Gresford, NSW 2311 or email: gresfordnews@iinet.net.au
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National Park Extension Sought The two thousand and sixteen soccer season has been a fantastic, fun and hard fought one for the Scorpions. All in all four teams made it to the semi-finals; the Over 35s, F Grade All Age, B Grade All Age and the mighty Under 12s. The first round of semi-finals were played last week and unfortunately, though hearts and minds were up to the task, hamstrings and hips weren’t for the Over 35s, who bowed out in a respectable fourth place. As such, it now rests with the remaining two senior teams and the Under 12s (arguably the greatest team in history) to bring home untold glory for the red and yellow. The Scorpions will be hosting finals on the 27th August, with the Under 12s the main event. Come and see them bicycle kick their way into the Grand Final and grab a Vacy Mongrel while you’re at it. The club will be holding its 2016 Presentation Day for junior teams on the 17th September at Sunscorp Stadium (Gresford Oval), with the Presentation Night to follow at the Hotel Beatty, Gresford, for the senior teams. John Krick
Proposed Upper Paterson & Allyn Valley extensions to Barrington Tops National Park. Hunter
Improving public access to the southern end of Barrington Tops National Park for appropriate recreational use forms a community representatives have made a key part of the proposal to extend the protected area. submission to the NSW Government seeking extensions to Barrington Tops The submission provides a framework for National Park in the Upper Paterson and improving management of recreation in Allyn River Valleys. the Upper Allyn area in particular. It seeks additional NSW Government President of the National Parks investment in tourism infrastructure to Association of NSW (Hunter Branch) maximise and sustain economic and Ian Donovan says “around 9,500 ha of social benefits for the region, Chichester State Forest is proposed to be incorporated in the adjacent world highlighting its world heritage values. heritage listed Barrington Tops The National Parks Association of NSW National Park”. (Hunter Branch) submission was prepared “The proposal will be launched on top of in consultation with community groups Mt Cabrebald on Sunday 31 July 2016, in the Dungog and Gresford area and has with spectacular views overlooking the received broad support. proposed extensions in the Paterson “With 2016 marking 60 years since the River area” said Ian Donovan. establishment of the National Parks “The park extension will protect high Association in the Hunter Region, the natural and scenic values of the area, organisation continues its support for water catchments, and rationalise land nature conservation in the area after management arrangements” said Mr having a key role in the establishment Donovan. “Importantly, the submission of Barrington Tops National Park nearly to the NSW Government includes an 50 years ago” says Ian Donovan. economic analysis highlighting the high Contact: Ian Donovan 9818 6830, or, tourism and recreational benefits that the proposal can bring to the area”. Martin Fallding 0488 711 208
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Community Matters – Gresford Community Group Herrmann, Austin Herrmann, Jesse Johnson and Nate Johnson. Our thanks go to the Gresford Junior Team parents as well who assisted in planting 50 trees. For everyone who has had a new tree planted could you please remember to water for the first few weeks and during hot days with the upcoming summer.
Street Signs Audit While waiting for the announcement as to which local government area the Gresford district will be attached, the Gresford Community Group took advantage as part of the Beautification Program to do an audit of signs and appraise the general appearance of the Gresford and East Gresford villages. Thursday 10 August saw members of the Gresford Community Group joined by Ivan Skaines, Economic Development, Tourism and Events Manager from the Dungog Shire Council walking around the villages. Child labour or kids having fun! Part of our hard working team planting Crepe Myrtles – thanks kids The Community Group will now prepare a suggested guideline ready for planting. As you can see we were ably Beautification Project the new council. assisted by some special little people August has been a busy month for the from the Gresford Under 7-1 and 6-2 Monthly Community Dinner Gresford Community Group with the soccer teams including Elsie Evans, The Gresford Community Dinners Beautification Project really taking off Dougal Evans, Campbell Evans, Fletcher are becoming a ‘must attend’ event with round 2 of the Crepe Myrtle tree The time has flown by and we can't believe that August is our 2nd Birthday... We have had the most amazing 2 yrs looking after all of our beautiful guests in the salon and are so grateful to you all for supporting us. As a little celebration and a thank you to our guests we have 2 Offers for you all for the month of August. Offer 1 - Purchase any 2 Goldwell products and receive the 3rd product FREE. Offer 2 - Book for an eyebrow wax & tint and receive a complimentary Eyelash Tint. Be sure to mention this ad when you call or come into the salon to receive these great offers. We look forward to seeing you all in salon soon. Andrea, Josie, Annette, Sue 803A Gresford Rd Vacy. 49388386
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with many new residents coming along to the Beatty on the second Friday of each month. August saw a number of younger families attending and meeting some young longer term residents.
Christmas Lights Competitions Have you thought about how you will
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Food for thought. Doug Daly is obviously enjoying himself at the Gresford Community Dinner he attended along with another 30 residents – including 6 children.
decorate your house and/or garden for Christmas and be in the running to win the $100? Be warned. Having just looked at Christmas lights and Christmas decorations available online I noticed many are starting to run low in stocks. Better move now to ensure Gresford district lights up this Christmas.
Join us The Gresford Community Group meets 5.30pm, the first Monday of each month at the Beatty Hotel – everyone is welcome to attend. Elizabeth Jones, Gresford Community Group Secretary
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Poster Winners: 1st. Soanette Ventor, 2nd Hayden Gardiner, 3rd Liza Kelehear.
INTERNATIONAL DAY
Handcrafts and culture displays
Gresford CWA hosted 90 people for lunch to celebrate 2016 International Day with the country being Mongolia. We had craft displays, agriculture and environment talks and a delicious Mongolian inspired lunch making it a four in one day for Gresford. Local groups were very supportive and CWA members came from all over the Hunter region.
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Colckwise from top left: Gresford School pupils enjoy morning tea. Alyssa Cowley receives her certificate from Hunter River Group vice president Doris Bates. Gresford School pupils entertained singing and dancing to the tune Genghis Khan.
COMING UP... Tasmanian Devil Talk On Thursday, September 1st Ruth Hardy, Chairperson for Devil Ark will give a talk on the Tasmanian devil program in the Barrington Tops. We would love interested members of the Gresford area to come at 11am for the talk followed by refreshments and question time.
Book Club. Meets on the second Saturday of the month in the CWA rooms at 3pm.
This recipe can be found in the CWA cook book available at Gresford Foodworks and The Gresford Store cost $13. The book for discussion in September is Jane Austen's EMMA. Please join us for discussion and afternoon tea.
French in the library. Glenda Smith will open the library for borrowing books on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month 11am – 12.30. She will conduct elementary French conversation please come along if you are interested. It has proved to be a good experience for all participants. All enquiries to gresfordcwa@gmail.com Robyn Thornton, President.
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Gresford Rodeo Organisers were ecstatic with the event which saw the strong crowd enjoying the exploits of the highly-skilled and emerging competitors.
Jason O’Hearn won the main event, the open bull ride, and Gresford’s own Colin Joliffe was victorious in the over-40s bull ride. Other Gresford riders to showcase their rodeo skills included Eric and Tim Richardson, Rowena Dillon who is just home from a high school rodeo competition in the US, and youngsters Lucia and Pippa Merchant. The event also included the ABCRA presentation for the eastern zone champions. Proceeds from the rodeo are donated to the Westpac Helicopter Service.
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CULTURE VULTURE
by Robyn Werkhoven and design. Don’t you just love the feel of pure silk? Dyeing silk is a delicious activity and Shibori techniques are always so enjoyable for their surprise element. My love affair with dyes and silk continues. I just love the way colour is transported serendipitiously to the folds in silk fabric. Also allowing the dye colours to travel to form abstract shapes. Anything that moves away from realism attracts my hand and eye”. (Shibori is a Japanese manual resist dyeing technique, which produces patterns on fabric. There are an infinite number of
This month’s interview is with – Textile
Formerly Pamela lived in Adelaide in South Australia, her career in personal injury rehabilitation created creates unique hand-dyed and printed the adventure of relocation to Sydney, fabric. Employing various techniques including the use of fibres, natural fibres, New South Wales. A move in 2012 to paints, and textile-art media to make art Dungog in the Hunter Valley, provided space, quietness and beauty near the to wear and adorn the home. Dyeing Barrington Ranges. cotton for garments and silk for scarves is a favourite obsession of hers. Another Pamela says, “Retired now, I have time interest is the creation of beautiful, to express my lifelong artistic passion and enjoy time with people who love art elaborate art quilts.
Artist, Pamela Priday. Pamela Priday
We are constantly being asked by locals where they can purchase Camyr Allyn Wines now that the cellar door has closed. You can buy bottle stocks in East Gresford at: Foodworks The Beatty Hotel Bowling Club Cases (six packs) can be ordered on line at www.camyrallynwines.com.au and will be delivered to the Post Office And of course you can just phone John on 0417389576 and he will deliver to your door.
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I found refuge in my imagination and began to obsessively draw each day – producing over 500 drawings of many different themes, but the hospital experience kept recurring as a prominent subject in my visual diary, a hundred or Pamela Priday’s work is available at Dungog more drawings. The drawings portray by Design, 224 Dowling St. Dungog hospital life including bizarre procedures www.craftyquilting.wordpress.com and a myth of a child ghost that haunts the wards at night. ART NEWS: Membership of Dungog by Design an artisan collective, refreshes my creative spirit and passion to continue making art to wear and for the home, art and craft to love”.
THE HOSPITAL – drawings Robyn Werkhoven 10 Sep – 20 Nov Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High St, Maitland, Tues – Sun 10am – 5pm
I have experienced many emotions from the hysterically funny to the presence of death, a form of madness crept into the drawings – ideas I will later develop into a series of emotionally charged and confronting paintings.” – Robyn Werkhoven © 2016
ways one can bind, stitch, fold, twist, or compress cloth for shibori, and each way results in very different patterns.)
Robyn Werkhoven says about her series of drawings. “The Hospital exhibition includes a selection of drawings from my Art news email: werkhovenr@bigpond.com visual diary, during a seven month convalescence in hospital, while my broken leg slowly healed. Six months I was confined to bed. Allowed only sitting or lying on my back, my entire life took place in that bed.
Pamela also explores many dyeing and printing techniques, including natural plant dye methods in addition to contemporary stitching and felting with fibre.
Recovery was long and hard work physically, but mentally the most challenging to retain one’s sanity. Only due to my passion for art, reading and writing did my sanity survive.
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Capararo gathering at St. Helen’s Catholic Church East Gresford Descendants of an Upper Hunter and Gresford pioneer, Antonio Capararo, gathered in the grounds of St. Helen’s on Saturday 20th August to unveil a storyboard erected in his honour and to celebrate the 85th anniversary of his passing (17-08-1931). A native of Northern Italy, Antonio arrived in Australia on 21 March 1879 aboard the ship “Durham”. After settling in the Hunter Valley he married Eliza Joliffe on 16th January 1883 and took up a land grant of 40 acres at Carrabolla, about 30 kms from Gresford, next door to Eliza’s parents Oliver and Harriet Joliffe. “Yellow Rock” was the first of many properties they would own in the local area. At the time of his death he owned properties at Carrabolla, Lostock, West Gresford, East Gresford, Lewinsbrook, Allynbrook and Lake Macquarie. The gathering, organised by Antonio’s great g/daughters Tracey Corthals and Diane Galligan was the result of 2 years of research after Tracey approached the parish about relocating a fence so Capararo relatives could freely access their ancestor’s grave. Antonio’s grave, the only one in the grounds of St. Helen’s, had for many years been
enclosed in the backyard of the presbytery surrounded by a 6’ high fence, padlocked gate and garage. St. Helen’s parish very generously made changes to the fencing and for that we are extremely grateful.
facing Park Street! So after changing 85 years of family history as we knew it, we now had to ascertain why our ancestor had been buried in the wrong place and why his wishes of being buried on his own land had not been adhered to.
The question of why Antonio’s grave is in the church grounds can be answered partly by what was written in the Codicil to his Will. Just 4 days before his death, Antonio, a very staunch Roman Catholic who regularly attended mass at St. Helen’s after his move from Carrabolla, bequeathed 1sq. rood of land (¼ acre) to the trustees of St. Helen’s parish for a cemetery for himself and any family member who wished to be buried there. According to Capararo family lore, when the new presbytery was built in 1964 just meters from his grave it was said to have been built on Antonio’s bequeathed land, but after thorough research we learnt the land on which our ancestor is buried was actually donated to St. Helen’s by James McCormick in the 1860s for a church to be built in memory of his late wife Ellen.
His bequeathed land, once part of lots 9/10 (roughly 132 acres) was bought at the Clevedon Estate subdivision sale on 15 December 1922 - also purchased that day were 6 town blocks on the other side of the church grounds. After his death, the remainder of the land in lots 9/10 were sold by his executors to Leslie Cardow, a dairy farmer from Vacy who’d been leasing the property since 1928, but it was back in the Capararo family when it was sold to Antonio’s g/son Allan Burley in 1963 and to Allan’s niece and her husband, Jillian and Hilton Collison in 1984.
From the many land titles purchased for Antonio’s bequeathed land we discovered his ¼ acre actually adjoins McCormick’s donated land on the southern boundary
Antonio’s death certificate states he was buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Gresford by Fr. Michael Kiernan, but a search of St. Helen’s burial register by Danny Egan (from the Parish Assistance Unit) revealed the only burials ever recorded were those that took place in the Catholic cemetery, so an entry for Antonio’s burial was not to be found. His
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wife Eliza is buried in the Joliffe family cemetery at “Rudwood”, Carrabolla. Antonio’s g/daughter Nell Hogan, (96 years youngest daughter of Antonio’s son George Capararo) was living with her aunt and uncle Margaret and Jules Barling in the old Cross Keys Hotel at Allynbrook when Antonio died, and as he and Eliza were also living there at the time, (Antonio had bought the property in 1920) I decided to contact her and ask if she knew why Antonio had not been buried on his own bequeathed land. She said not only was Fr. Kiernan the parish priest, but he and Antonio enjoyed a long and loyal friendship over many years and it was he who obtained permission from Pope Pius XI for his friend to be buried in the church grounds. He’d received the Pope’s blessing along with instructions to bury Antonio on the left hand side of the church. She also said Antonio was not buried on his own land as it had not been surveyed, subdivided, or transferred at the time of his death, so therefore it had not been consecrated. This and other information uncovered during our research generated much discussion and debate amongst relatives, ultimately resulting in more questions being asked than answered, but it’s possibly the closest we’re ever going to get to the truth regarding Antonio’s bequeathed land and burial site as there
Capararo descendants in the foreground of Capararo's Mountain
First was a visit to the home Eliza bought on Singleton Road (the home where Peter and Emily lived for many years), then it Diane, the author of “Capararo was time for lunch at The Beatty Hotel Connections” and “Lookin’ Back”, (the before heading off to visit Peter and autobiography of Antonio’s g/son Gerald Gerald Capararo’s graves at Jupp’s Capararo) has written and published a Cemetery and then on to St. Mary’s On book titled “A Grave Injustice” which the Allyn Cemetery where two daughters gives a detailed account of the fence of Antonio and Eliza are buried – relocation, the storyboard and the mystery Margaret Barling and Victoria Jefferies. surrounding Antonio’s gravesite. It also The descendants finished up with a tour contains many documents, newspaper around the old Cross Keys Hotel building articles and photos. If anyone reading this and grounds at Allynbrook. As the old story has heard a different version of place has seen better days and is in a bad events regarding Antonio’s burial in the state of disrepair, entry was not permitted grounds of St. Helen’s, she would be very for safety sake, but everyone enjoyed interested to hear from you. Diane’s their visit none the less. contact details can be obtained from the editor of the Gresford News (0412372687). After returning to Gresford a few weary travellers made their way home, but the The day of the unveiling was a great rest headed to East Maitland Bowling success. The sun was shining when the Club to finish the celebration off with a unveiling took place and it remained fine seafood smorgasboard. So thanks to for their tour around the countryside. Tracey, a great day was enjoyed by all. are no records of his burial, and unfortunately no-one else left to ask.
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Call for applications for Dungog Tourism Board Dungog Regional Tourism Inc seeks to appoint a skills based board of 7 directors to grow tourism in the Dungog region. A selection committee has been appointed to select the directors to then be formally appointed by a meeting of the members. The board must comprise if possible of members who are knowledgeable and passionate about tourism issues and challenges and who have one or more of the following skills: business, marketing, governance, finance and/or strategy. A demonstrated commitment to and interest in the Dungog Region is also essential. The aim is to have strong governance and stability with a 3-year strategic plan. The organisation will be responsible for the oversight of the strategic plan and the funds Council currently allocate to tourism, as approved by Dungog Council earlier this year. The positions are voluntary and there will be at least 6 meetings per year as well as other commitments. Further details about the organisation and the application process are available from Matthew Coxhill matthew@fishtail.com.au. Applications close on Friday 23 Sept.
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Meanwhile the Gresford Photographic Exhibition People and Places will bring the world, through photography, to Gresford. There will be the opportunity to talk to the only two Grand Master photographers in NSW, David Oliver and Peter Eastway, and let them tell you about their work. The exhibition starts on Friday night the 23rd September with a Red Carpet Gala opening at 6.30pm and continues through Sunday 25th September. Other activities available over the weekend include the Natural Wood Furniture shop which will open all weekend, the Gresford History Museum will show their new display of local history, or make a visit to Bunna Bunoo Olive farm for tastings and purchases.
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Garage Sale Trail is on 22nd October Households, schools and community groups in Dungog Shire are set to contribute to breaking the $13.8 million record of items listed for sale as part of Australia’s largest reuse and community event, Garage Sale Trail on Sat, 22 Oct. The Council’s Manager of Environmental Services, Paul Minett, has welcomed the involvement of Council to put Dungog Shire on the Garage Sale Trail map where shoppers can search from over 2.8 million items listed for sale at garage sales all over the country. “The Garage Sale Trail gives our residents the opportunity to see good things reused at bargain prices. It’s a great way for community groups, local schools and charities to fundraise, with past experience nationally showing groups can make an average $735 - $2,000 on the day,” Mr Minett said. The project assists in achieving objectives of Council’s Waste Management strategy in encouraging recycling, reuse and less waste to landfill. Council also sees the program as a way to bring the community together to fundraise and encourage visitors to travel to the region. Mr Minett said, “To make the event a success in Dungog Shire, we are asking community groups, local businesses and
residents to get involved and join over 350,000 participants selling and shopping right across Australia on one big day.” Anyone can register with over 13,000+ garage sales and stalls expected to participate nationally to declutter excess stuff in their homes, connect with the local community and make some pocket money for themselves or their favourite cause. Sellers and shoppers can register for free to join in the national one-day event. Start thinking about how you can get involved now! If you are interested in either holding your own garage sale, being part of a community garage sale or supporting the local event at www.garagesale.com.au * Join the conversation #garagesaletrail
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Weeds ID and Control COMMUNITY EVENT & BBQ Regional Weed Identification & Control Workshop organised by Hunter Councils Inc in association with Dungog, Maitland and Port Stephens Councils. This is an informal drop in type event on a Saturday morning at Tocal college where landholders are encourage to come along and talk to weed officers from the 3 Councils and Biodiversity officers from Hunter Councils Inc to learn more about identification and control of common weeds in our area. TOCAL COLLEGE Tocal Road, Tocal Saturday 3rd Sept 9.30am – 12.30pm FREE ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS: 9.30am – 12.30pm Weed identification and infomation stall (bring your weed samples) 10.30 – 11am Splatter gun demonstrations for woody weed control 11 – 11.30am Aquatic and vine weed control demonstrations 11.30am – 12 noon African Olive control program and how to get involved 12 – 12:30pm BBQ Lunch CONTACT:Eva Twarkowski (02) 4978 4029, evat@huntercouncils.com.au RSVP: Friday 2 September 2016
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