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The Bugle 10 January 2015

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The Bugle 10 January 2015

A fortnightly celebration of people and places on the Upper South Coast of NSW

Serving the communities of Kiama, Gerringong, Jamberoo, Kiama Downs, Minnamurra and Gerroa

Make this the year you enter the Show The good news is you’ve still got time to consider what you are going to enter in this year’s Kiama Show.

The on-going success of the Show, now in its 167th year, is dependent on the enthusiasm our community continues to put into it.

Its Schedule has over 1000 classes of exhibit, spread over the Arena and Pavilion sections. So no matter what your interests there is no excuse not to be involved.

The displays in the Pavilion are described as the best on the Coast, in recent years boasting over 2000 exhibits including: vegetables, fruit, jams, cooking, knitting, tapestry, crochet, sewing, patchwork, craft, art, floral displays, roses, homebrew, photography, porcelain and pottery, spinning and weaving, woodwork and the NSW Dahlia Championships.

There are classes for all ages and all levels of exhibi-

tors. Everyone is encouraged to enter.

The traditional Arena events include woodchop, cattle showing, and dressage and showjumping.

The Arena also hosts a rodeo and camel races amongst other things, with no experience needed.

Apart from the traditional farmyard nursery there will be the opportunity to pet native creatures including possums, crocodiles (!), bearded dragons, snakes and an owl .

Other entertainment has been organised, as well as sideshow alley and the fireworks finale.

You can leave it until the last minute to decide whether you want to compete in the Camel Races.

Kiama Show President must be lodged at the David Young says that the Pavilion by Tues 20 Jan, Society always welcomes with exhibits to be brought new members to help keep in by particular times on tradition alive.

Details: The Kiama Show is on 23 and 24 January.

Entry forms for all Pavilion sections (bar some flowers)

Congratulations to the Class of 2014 p3

They call Kiama Home p 3

Locals do well in Sydney to Hobart

Thursday morning.

For full entry details, see the Schedule. www.kiamashow.com.au t 4233 1597

Two long time Kiama residents, Mark Bakewell and Mick Linhart, had a memorable inaugural race in the Sydney to Hobart, with the boat they were on coming 4th on the overall handicap rankings, 1st in their division and 33rd across the line out of 118.

They were crew on the forty foot yacht After Midnight, owned by brothers Mark and Glen Tobin.

The excellent performance was unexpected, as most of the crew of ten had limited Sydney to Hobart experience.

They completed the course in three days, one hour and five minutes. Luckily the really bad weather came after the race, delaying the trip home.

Win a Family Pass to the Show To win, answer these questions to show you have been paying attention: ♦ How many years has the Kiama Show been going? ♦ How many classes are there? ♦ Where is the Kiama Show held? ♦ Who is the President of the Kiama Show Society? ♦ When is the Show on?

Name:

Inside this issue

Help build a rotunda at Jamberoo p3

Bright start to the K.I.S.S. Arts Festival p4

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To enter, either cut out this voucher and post it to The Bugle, 4 Tingira Cres, Kiama OR email the answers to emailthebgle@gmail.com, with Family Pass in the header. A winner will be drawn from the correct entries on Monday 19 January.

Mick and Mark (right) with the trophy-laden crew

Back by popular demand!

Summer Tapas Nights A delicious way to eat on a summer’s evening.

Changing multicultural menu of plates to share.

Fridays and Saturdays in January, from 6pm*

Bookings advisable

4 Tingira Cres, Kiama t 4232 4990 * Excludes Sat 10 Jan 3

What’s on?

Every Wednesday

Sun 11 Jan

Kiama Farmers’ Market Kiama Harbour 3-6pm

Biber’s Basilica Shaun Warden plays the historical violin Kiama Presbyterian Church, 3-4pm, $25

On weekends Live music at The Sebel, Kiama Leagues Club, The Mecure, Jamberoo Pub and other venues.

Thurs 8 Jan Twilight Jazz & Blues Concert, Hindmarsh Park, 6-9pm Kiama Bush Dance Community Centre, Hindmarsh Park, 7.30-10pm $5; $3 conc

9-11 Jan K.I.S.S. Arts Festival see p 8 Steve Smyth Local singer songwriter, Jamberoo Pub, 8pm Tickets $15

Sat 10 Jan Shimano Children’s Fishing Comp Kiama Harbour from 8am Kiama Show Ball Kiama Leisure Centre Tickets $35 (BYO food and drinks) from www.kiamashow.com.au

Sat 17 Jan The Wicked Dragons Kiama Bowls Club from 6.30pm. Dinner and show, $40 Backsliders Blues’ legends at the Milton Theatre

15-18 Jan Illawarra Folk Festival See right

17-18 Jan Rotary’s Antiques, Art & Retro Charity Fair See p 4

Sat 17 Jan Gerringong Market In and around Gerringong Town Hall

Sun 18 Jan Kiama Seaside Markets Kiama Harbour

Sat 24 Jan Gerroa New Year Market see right

If you would like to list an event in What’s On, send the details to emailthebugle@gmail or phone 0412 415 101

Illawarra Folk Festival set to be a pearler The Illawarra Folk Festival is celebrating its 30th (Pearl) anniversary this year, so they’ve decided to run with this theme throughout the four days.

While there will be pearl-themed events all weekend, Artistic Director David De Santi expects the Pearl Ball on the Friday night (16 Jan) to be one of the festival highlights.

"We'd love people to dress up for the night in anything connected with pearls - from pirate gear to burlesque to royalty," he says. "We'll have a costume shop hiring all kinds of things to help people get into the spirit of the event."

Entry to the Ball is included in the festival ticket.

Fittingly, the milestone sees the bigDetails: Go to gest line-up of international, national www.illawarrafolkfestival.com.au and local acts in the Festival’s history. to buy tickets (many options available) 10,000 people are expected to attend and view the program. the Festival, to create a family friendly village with superb music, a colourful array of food stalls, craft stalls and a festival bar.

Camping sites are available.

Advance Season Passes are available until midGerroa's New Year Market night on 14 Jan for $145 (full price $180). is more along the lines of

Kiama Produce Market Kiama Harbour

Sunday 25 Jan Jamberoo Art & Craft Market Reid Park First Summer Outdoor Movie: The Castle Black Beach, 8 for 8.30pm start.

Gold coin donation

Monday 26 Jan Australia Day activities throughout the region more detail next edition Three bands in the Pub Beergarden Jamberoo Pub 4-8pm $30

Opportunity for artists

Raising funds the old way

A call has been put out for artists, performing arts, poets and stallholders to register their interest in being involved in Mercato Arte, an art market being held under the stars at Scarborough in late February.

For more details contact info@fostered.com.au t 9331 7532 or download an application pack from matthewgillettgallery.com

During January, the Arthur Boyd Estate at Bundanon will be open on Saturdays as well as the usual Sundays.

If you haven’t been down to this special place yet, then take the time to drive down to the Shoalhaven River one weekend soon.

You can bring a picnic lunch, see Arthur Boyd’s Studio and various exhibitions, or go bushwalking.

On Sunday 18 January you can contribute to the Bundanon Big Draw - the spirit of the day is to encourage as many people as possible to think about drawing and to take a risk and have a go. Materials provided.

Get in touch Let us know if there’s an event you’re organising. Just email the details to emailthebugle @gmail.com

Details: Open 10.30-4pm on weekends in January. $12 entry fee. www.bundanon.com.au

Blowhole Point: My Kind of Icon

by Graham Mackie

good old country fete, set up and run by volunteers of the Neighbourhood Centre to raise money to help maintain the community hall and provide outings for older residents, as well as make other projects.

Like all good fetes, there will be craft, a great cake stall (with lamingtons, of course), a huge book stall, raffles, trash 'n' treasure, sausage sizzle, what are tantalisingly billed as ‘legendary’ curry puffs, Devonshire teas, face painting and much more.

Details: Saturday 24 Jan, 8.30am–12.30pm, Gerroa Neighbourhood Centre 37 Stafford St

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Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this publication, but we are only human.

4 Tingira Cres, Kiama 2533

Memorial rotunda for Jamberoo Activities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of ANZAC continue to grow locally, with the Jamberoo Valley Ratepayers and Residents Association receiving the go-ahead from Council to erect a Rotunda in Reid Park.

Council has allocated some funds for the project and will assist in site preparation, leaving the Association to raise the remaining $36,000.

The Rotunda project has the support of the Kiama and Jamberoo RSL as well as the CWA, the P&C, Red Cross, Combined Churches,

This design has been selected to the project, although it will be raised off the ground for better viewing. The colours will match in with the planned Council improvements to the Jamberoo streetscape.

Scouts and other groups.

Apart from its historical significance, it will be an asset for the community by providing a facility for use with events such as Carols by Candlelight, weddings, family gatherings and artistic performances.

Grants have been applied for, but as the plan is to unveil the Rotunda on or about ANZAC Day 2015, the fundraising is off to a flying start.

Financial contributions are welcome at Elders Real Estate, as are offers of assistance with building the kit.

In addition, the first fundraising event has been organized: a Grand Golf and Croquet Rotunda Benefit Day. The golf will be a four person Ambrose event catering for golfers of all standards, including beginners. The Croquet Club will have members present to introduce the game to beginners.

Details: Sun 1 Feb Golf $30 from 8.30am Croquet $25 from 9.30am Refreshments available

New year’s resolution to keep your mind active?

Kiama U3A has announced an interesting program of talks and courses for the coming term.

In addition to the always popular courses on Tai Chi, Mah Jong and Tap Dancing, there will be an encore of What's in the News, a lively debate on current events (referee included), and Armchair Theatre. This term introduces a number of new course topics including The Scandinavians, an Introduction to Philosophy, The Marlboroughs, and a three week course on Trails of Evidence (Forensic Science).

This Term’s members only excursion will be to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra (9 March) with lunch at the Flight Deck Cafe followed by a visit to Meroogal, a Sydney Living Museum historic home. Transport will be by coach and there will be guided tours at both venues.

Eighteen students from Kiama High’s Class of 2014 achieved 40 of the prized Band 6 grades in their HSC results. Conor McCammon was Dux with three of the top bands, just pipping Caitlin Hall who also had three Band 6. Congratulations and best wishes to all of Kiama’s high school graduates who are embarking on an exciting new stage of their lives.

From left: Patrick Wilcox (Band 6 Geography), Caitlin, Jessica Cook (Band 6 Hospitality) and Daniel Vicary, who was given early entry to the Australian Institute of Music, help Conor relax a little.

Celebration of Kiama available soon With photography being such a competitive business, it’s heartening to see that mutual respect and a love of our region can bring about a collaboration to produce a beautiful love child.

Well known photographers Peter Izzard and Phil Winterton both call Kiama ‘home’, and their new book showcases what touches them about our region.

It brings together their two different perspectives and the best photographs they have taken of the Kiama region over a number of years.

As they say in the book, “Home is not just an address, it’s a feeling.”

The book will be available for sale for $50 at the end of the month at the Kiama Visitors Centre, Council Cham-

Term 1: Monday Talks Non-members are welcome to U3A’s Monday Talks (2-4 pm) three times for a gold coin donation, after which membership is required. Members may attend for free.

Feb 2 The Front Comes Home: Broken Soldiers of World War I Our speaker examines the cases of veterans who returned psychologically damaged with a lack of appropriate ongoing treatment.

Feb 9 Bundanon Trust: Arthur and Yvonne Boyd's Extraordinary Gift of their Art Collection Feb 16 Talking About Elder Abuse (TEA) What is it, what are the signs?

Details: Enrolment Mon 26 Jan 2-4pm and Tues 27 Jan 2-3 pm at North Kiama Neighbourhood Centre, Meehan Drive, Kiama Downs.

Yearly membership is $25 and courses only $10 for 8 weeks.

For more information contact Sharon Parker 4237 8422.

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Photographers Phil Winterton and Peter Izzard

bers and shops around town, and will make a great souvenir or gift.

Council plans to give copies of the book to new citizens on Australia Day. You can also get the book directly from the photographer’s websites.

Free healthy habits coaching service just a phone call away

Help build a Daisy Chain

The K.I.S.S. Arts Festival is including a novel way to help with the fundYou can give your New Year’s resolutions a kick-start raising necessary to give with the assistance of a free proven phone-based coaching Kiama’s iconic Daisy, service. the Decorated Dairy The NSW Government’s ‘Get Healthy Service’ is a six Cow, a much needed month program where healthy lifestyle information and full fibreglass makeover. ongoing, personalised support is delivered to help people While Kiama Council make lasting lifestyle changes. is putting in $5000 to It encourages people to form healthy habits through achieve this, more is better food choices, increased vegetable and fruit conneeded to meet the full sumption and higher exercise levels, and has already cost. helped over 250,000 people in NSW make lasting imOver the period of the provements to their diet and fitness.

On average participants who have completed the proFestival, the organisers gram lost 3.8kg in weight and 5.1cm off their waist and have persuaded Daisy some people even lost more than 30 kilograms. to pose for ‘selfies’ for the cost of a gold coin Details: Call 1300 806 258 or donation. go to www.gethealthynsw.com.au Photos sent to louisec@kiama.nsw. gov.au will be printed and joined together to If you love Daisy but selfies aren’t your thing, you can also leave donations at the Old Fire Station Council’s communityJust a reminder that you form a ‘Daisy chain’.

Community Art Centre or donate online: www.gofundme.com/kiamacow driven website, Kiama can have your antique and Connect, is up and running collectable goods valued to provide a platform for for $5 per item, or have collaboration and sharing the Rotary Club sell your of video content amongst items on commission, the local community, and at their annual Antiques, promote the Kiama region Art & Retro Charity Fair. to the rest of the world.

The Fair is the primary The idea is that everyone fund raising event of the has a story to tell. Film year for Rotary Kiama. making is now a creative Those interested in sellmedium that many can ing their goods should easily utilise for this purcontact John Worstencroft pose, through their phones on 0419 002 655. and other digital cameras.

Details: Kiama Leisure To celebrate the launch, Centre. Sat 17 Jan, 10-5pm you have the chance to Sun 18 Jan, 10-4 pm. enter Kiama’s version of Entry fee $10 or Tropfest (Australia's most $7 concessions.

Kids free. prestigious short film competition).

The theme for the competition is ‘what you love Tamara Campbell with the winners of Council’s Busking Competition about Kiama’. Winners will be screened at the If you’ve got someone first of Council’s outdoor learning to ride a pushbike summer movies, with an in your family, then you’ll The first day of the Festival ipad the major prize. saw a free workshop by be interested to hear a new

Share your films locally

Our Antiques Roadshow

First taste of the K.I.S.S. Arts Festival

Get them on their bikes

Details: kiamaconnect.com.au Competition entries close Fri 16 Jan with winners notified by the following Friday.

State Government funded Learn to Ride Bike Track has opened in Shoalhaven Heads, just near the pool.

It provides a great place gain confidence and skills.

internationally renowned chalk artist Ulla Taylor.

The result was a wonderful serpent, slithering along the foreshore. Much better than the red bellied black snakes that are so common at the moment.

Right: The Festival’s directors Dave Evans and Tamara Campbell start the Kiama Farmers’ Market by ringing the bell in their own special style.

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Mitre 10 sold The Bugle has heard from impeccable sources that the Simmons brothers’ prime Terralong St Kiama Supply Co (Mitre 10) property has been sold to Kiama Council.

The property adjoins the land Council already owns, which has long been earmarked for development as a shopping centre. This purchase adds access to the main street.

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Out & about At the Made in Kiama Night Market

At the Christmas Parade By all accounts, 2014 was the biggest turnout ever for Gerringong Sunrise Rotary’s Christmas Parade.

There were a record number of floats and big crowds, which stayed on for a great market day.

They thank the businesses and organisations that helped to make it such a success.

December’s market was a big hit as shoppers vied to buy great locally crafted items for Christmas (and themselves). The number of stallholders shows how many talented people are basing their businesses in our area.

Right: Congratulations and thanks to the initiators and organisers of the Made in Kiama Market concept, Kelly Bennett and Fiona Griffin-Rudder

The Gerringong Rural Fire Service always leads the Parade

At the special Christmas Kiama Farmers’ Market The Kiama Pipe Band was one of four pipe bands playing

The crowds enjoyed a perfect market day. Gerringong Rotary runs the market all year to raise funds for their projects.

Santa arrived by boat, delighting the large number of children lining Black Beach while their parents enjoyed buying local food for Christmas.

Santa even saved the day for a group of children, who had missed him at another venue in town, by going to visit them in Hindmarsh Park.

He had such a good time he turned up the following week, that time escorted around the Market by an elf in a golf cart. Only in Kiama!

Residents of Mayflower enjoyed stepping out with the good sorts from Gerringong Lions Rugby League Club

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Learn what suits and how to apply.

Update and try a new look.

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The Bugle welcomes your contributions to our social pages - just send us some pictures or let us know an event is coming up.

We’d love more wedding and baby photos!

Grant and Deborah Clark from Clark Oysters

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The Bugle Crossword Across 1. Employer (4) 3. Purple summer flowering tree (9) 8. Sail boat (5) 9. A plant with fiddleheads and fronds (4) 10. Serpent poison (5, 5) 13. Scratching (7) 14. Russian king (4) 15. Town on the Southern Coast of NSW; Adam and Eve’s garden (4) 16. To bulge downwards under pressure (3) 18. Begin (2) 20. People from the Netherlands (5) 22. To overview, measure or describe something (6) 25. Humpbacked ox (5) 26. Roman Emperor who started a fire which destroyed most of Rome (4) 29. Electricity derived from water (5, 5) 31. To bring about, produce, or cause (6) 33. Call to attract attention (2) 35. Loom worker (6) 36. People of a seven island Mediterranean Country (7) 37. South American flightless bird (4) 38. Focus of an earthquake (9) 39. Reduce to finite particles (7)

11. Classic Queen song – “Bohemian ______” (8) 12. An extended performance after audience applause (6) 17. To pledge money as part of an agreement (9) 19. Away from or not in (3) 21. A framework containing basic assumptions (8) 23. A disrespectful laugh (7) 24. Unfixable (9) 27. A disease with no cure Down that affects the legs; 1. Bewildered and confused a vaccine was produced in (7) the 1950s (5) 2. Making everything in time 28. Pig meat (4) (7) 29. Robbery or hold up (5) 3. Hex (4) 30. Birds with bills (5) 4. Forming into a crust or 32. Twenty eight (6) compact mass (6) 34. Purple and yellow 5. Wild party (4) flower (4) 6. There are sixty billion in 35. Smell on the wind (4) a minute (10) 7. Take affection to (6)

Last issue’s solution

Cut out the middlemen and buy direct from farmers and makers Every Wednesday 3 - 6pm, Kiama Harbour www.facebook.com/kiamafarmersmarket

Margot Law is our regular crossword compiler.

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Postcard home

If you’ve been somewhere interesting and want to share it with Bugle readers, get in touch with us at emailthebugle@gmail.com Remember, the best postcards often arrive when you are home.

Queenstown, Tahuna in Māori, sometimes gets labelled as "too touristy" and there are certainly a lot of world travellers enjoying the souvenir shops as well as the skiing and a mind boggling array of adventure sports.

And then there is the food. We sidestepped the huge crowds queuing to buy a 'best in the world' burger at Fergburger and popped into the bakers next door for a jaw dropping selection of savouries and cakes, yum! We had a great evening meal at Fishbone (guess what it specialises in?) and possibly the biggest slice of chocolate cake we've ever seen at the Bathouse Cafe looking out over the lake.

While walking off the cake round the harbour area, we stopped to read David Eggleton's Wall Poem (Waipounamu) sandblasted into 100 metres of the jetty wall by sculptor Stuart Griffiths.

Queenstown's Lake Wakatipu is framed by the stunning Remarkables

Range and Mt Earnslaw, which reaches over 2,800 metres. The lake rises and falls about 10cm every half hour due, in Māori legend, to the heartbeat of the giant Matau.

The TSS Earnslaw, shown in the picture, was built in Dunedin for NZ Railways transported to the lake, assembled and launched in 1912.

It was almost scrapped in 1968 before being rescued and lovingly refurbished. We took the steamer up the lake and had a great day. You can watch the stokers shovelling a tonne of coal per hour at full steam ahead, instruments clanging, steam rising, engines whiring - excellent.

Oh, and the views across the lake to numerous valleys and snow-capped mountains are simply, Wow! The rugged remote beauty of NZ is all its said to be, but don't skip Queenstown, we'd love to come back.

Ros & Trevor Brooks

Here’s our handy guide to the events of the K.I.S.S. (Kiama International Seaside) Arts Festival.

Artists who perform around the world will be doing street theatre in various locations, for the price of a donation to their hats. Get out and get involved.

Wherever you live, the K.I.S.S. Arts Festival is coming to you

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