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Vale Jean Mahoney

■ A leading citizen of the Yea and Molesworth communities, Jean Mahoney, passed away in the early hours of last Friday (Sept. 20).

She leaves daughter Jan Joyce, children, grand children, great- and great-great grandchildren. A tribute is published on Page 16.

Arrangements are in the hands of William Matthews Funerals, Lilydale.

A service will be held at 11am this Friday (Sept. 27).

DEATHS MAHONEY (Phillips) - Jean Marjorie.

Passed away on September 20, 2019 at Rosebank Hotel, Yea. Loved wife of Pat (dec.).

Dearly loved mother of Jan and David Joyce, Barrie (dec.) and Faye Mahoney.

Grandmother of Joanne and Keith, Geoffrey and Therese, Tracy and Robert, Kate and Sarah and Brodie.

Great grandmother of Erin, Liam and Roisin, Patrick and Jeremy and Jess and Jack (dec.), Patrick and Marnie.

Great great grandmother of Connor and scarlet, William, Riley, Matilda and Darcy and Thomas.

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Big crowd numbers at Yea Garden Expo Photos: Ash Long

● Mick Adaway from Dinkum Sheds at the Yea Garden Expo.

● David Anderson and Jim Osbourne of the Rotary Club of Yea.

● Danielle Saunders, Aaron Young and Ellie Gay of Yea Automotive Centre.

● Rotary volunteers John Sinclair and Terry Hubbard.

● Joshua Kelly and Emily McCulloch of Yarra Glen Mower and Tractor Centre and their Yea Machinery subsidiary.

● Yea Rotarians Catherine Rattray and Sue Carpenter (President).

● Yea Rotarians Janet Troup and Richard Forde.

● Laurie Frogley and Charlie Rattray on duty at the Expo barbecue.

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Local News Life Program

■ Alexandra District Health is starting its next ‘Life’ group course from 2pm-3.30pm on Friday, October 18, at 2pm-3.30pm and is encouraging people to get involved.

The Life Program is a lifestyle modification program that helps peoplereduce your risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

An Alexandra participant of the local course said: "We've all learned so much from the sessions. We recognised what we needed to change and armed with the ‘right’ information we actually could see a way forward and made the changes."

Run by expert local health professionals, the Life group course involves a one-on-one introduction session and six group sessions run across a 12-month period.

Participants learn more about healthy eating, reading food labels, nutrition, exercise, stress management and goal setting. The program is free for eligible participants.

To be eligible to attend you need to not have diabetes; be 18 years or over and have an AUSDRISK score= 12 and a BMI score = 25; or have been diagnosed with one or more of the following heart attack or stroke, high glucose levels, diabetes during pregnancy, polycystic ovary syndrome, kidney disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure.

For more information and to find out if you are eligible call 13 RISK (13 7475), visit www.lifeprogram.org.au or call Alexandra District Health on 5772 0830.

- Fiona Stephens

Horse register ■ The Royal Society for Prevention of Crulety to Aniomals last week attended a public hearing in Canberra as part of a Senate inquiry into the feasibility of a National Horse Traceability Register.

The RSPCA supports the implementation of a national horse register as it will substantially improve the traceability and welfare of horses across Australia.

The RSPCA has long advocated for greater accountability and transparency regarding lifetime tracking of horses to ensure better welfare for horses involved in professional and amateur sports, farming and agricultural work, joy riding and breeding.

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Honour for Ray Bartlam ■ The services of Ray Bartlam, volunteer at the Kinglake Football-Netball Club over three decades, will be recognised at the Murrindindi Shire Council meeting tonight (Wed.).

Mr Bartlam, formerly of Royal Cres., Kinglake, and now of Flowerdale, has been a strong supporter of young Lakers players over three decades.

Councillors intend to suspend standing orders to thank and acknowlege the community achievement of Mr Bartlam.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 6pm at the Yea council chambers.

Mr Bartlam, known affectionately as ‘Wrinkles’, was featured last month on the ABC radio program, Coodabeen Champions.

Council recruits

● Ray Bartlam

■ Murrindindi Council looks set to to join Municipal Association of Victoria panel arrangements to replace their current Human Resources Panel.

The Council is looking for recruitment neutral vendor managed services (temporary staffing).

It ios also making new arrangements for permanent recruitment services.

Stroke session at ADH

16 lots at Alexandra ■ Discedo Pty Ltd is asking for Council permission to undertake a 16-lot residential subdivision at 15 Halls Flat Rd, Alexandra.

“The subdivision and the lot sizes are in character with the broader area and other residential lots,” says an officers report to Councillors.

H’bridge’s night ■ The Digital Agora projection art program is set to finish on one big night in Hurstbridge tomorrow (Thurs., Sept. 26).

Nillumbik Council’s major arts event features light-based contemporary artworks that celebrate the unique characteristics of the shire’s townships at night across four weekends.

Digital Agora has already visited Eltham, Diamond Creek and StAndrews. www.nillumbik.vic.gov.au/digitalagora

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Spur closure

Donnybrook focus

■ The rape conviction in 2007 of the late Fr Terry Pidoto, a former priest at Sacred Heart Church in Yea, was highlighted last week (Wed., Sept. 18) by The Age newspaper.

“One Melbourne man will claim in a court filing this week being taken to Corpus Christi’s Glen Waverley campus around 1972 by Father Terrence Pidoto to be shown “where priests are made”,” said a report by Age journalists Farrah Tomazin, Chris Vedelago and Debbie Cuthbertson.

Objection lodged ■ One objection has been lodged to a farm shed being erected at 20 Bald Spur Rd, Kinglake Central. S.L. Molenkamp has made the application to Murrindindi Shire Council, who will consider the matter tonight (Wed.) at their Yea meeting.

■ Murrindindi Shire’s spend in relation to permanent position recruitment would not be expected to exceed $40,000 annually, and may be less, says a report to Council.

“This estimate is based on the average spend over the last two years, which included recruitment associated with the appointment of the Chief Executive Officer, a Director and three Managers,” a report states.

Yea trivia night

Pidoto in press

■ Murrindindi Council is due to hear a planning permit application tonight (Wed.) for a property at 33 Sedgwick St, Marysville.

H.E. Mitchell wants to subdivide and develop a second dwelling.

■ The Editor of this newspaper, Ash Long, had a brief stint at Epworth Hospital, Richmond, on distributon night last week, after a fall whilst handling last week’s 92-page issue and 56-page anniversary supplement. He expects to have a speedy and full recovery.

■ Sacred Heart Primary School is holding a trivia night at Beaufort Manor, Yea, from 7pm on Saturday, October 12. Tickets are $35 per person. Music will follow the trivia.

Bookings can be made at the School, Tartan Motel and Marmalades.

■ The Donnybrook district is one of the areas being examined by Police in their lookout for 36-year-old Tehira Simon. Police are asking for public assistance to find him.

Three warrants have been issued for Simon’s arrest in relation to burglary, possess drugs and careless driving.

Simon is described as Maori in appearance, black short hair, brown eyes,187cm tall with a tattoo of a rose on his neck and a tattoo of a skull and bones on his left hand.

It is believed Simon may be frequenting Reservoir, Heidelberg, Hillside, Donnybrook and Craigieburn areas.

Anyone who sights Simon or has information about his whereabouts is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or make a confidential report at www.crime stoppersvic.com.au

Local Briefs Marysville proposal

● From left: Phil Irving, Tamara Fox, Fiona Kleinitz, Chris Haines, Di Haines, Natasha Bowater, Kerrie Myer. Photo: Supplied ■ Alexandra District Health last week pre- tients are thoroughly assessed by paramedics sented an informative interactive education ses- before being transferred to a metropolitan spesion for the local community about Stroke. cialist stroke centre.

This was done in partnership with the Stroke The community wis encouraged to call 000 Foundation and Ambulance Victoria. if they think they or someone they know is sufFiona Kleinitz, a volunteer and ambassador fering symptoms of a stroke, rather than a wait for the Stroke Foundation, and herself a stroke and see approach. Outcomes are often better if survivor, provided a presentation about stroke. it is treated quickly.

Some 80 per cent of strokes are preventable.

The Training and Development Coordinator One in four people will have a stroke in their at ADH, Natasha Bowater, talked about stroke lifetime, that’s one stroke every nine minutes. both from a professional perspective as a RegStroke kills more women than breast cancer istered Nurse, but also from experience. and more men than prostate cancer.

Natasha’s mum Di Haines, who was also Fiona taught the audience about signs and present at the community education session, was symptoms to look out for, and risk factors that riding her horse in Yarck 6sixyears ago when might increase your risk of stroke. she suffered a sudden stroke.

Thanks to the quick actions of her friend Fiona also informed the audience about telemedicine resources in regional parts of Tamara Fox and an ambulance paramedics Victoria to help more remote health services called Gary from the Yea Ambulance Victoria identify, diagnose and begin treatment for stroke branch.

Di was transported to by road ambulance to before they are transferred to metropolitan stroke Yea, then flown by helicopter to the Royal centres for ongoing treatment.

Phil Irving, Senior Team Manager at the Melbourne Hospital. There she received furAlexandra branch of Ambulance Victoria, pro- ther emergency assessment, a CT scan of her vided the community with a perspective on para- brain, and emergency surgery within 4four hours medics role in helping those that may call 000 of her symptoms starting.

Di and some other members of the audience, for assistance in the event of a stroke.

As stroke must be treated as a medical emer- who had also had experiences from Stroke, gency, early intervention and time is critical. were able to escribe how their lives had changed Some other medical conditions or illnesses since stroke. Call 000 urgently as time is criti- Fiona Stephens can mimic symptoms of stroke therefore pa- cal.

■ Traffic was disrupted on the Maroondah Hwy, Black Spur, last Friday (Sep. 20) after a tree fell between Fernshaw and Healesville.

In a separate incident, there was a truck fire near the corner of the highway and Healesville-Koo-Wee Rup Rd. Traffic was diverted via Yarra Glen.

Tallks ‘in camera’

■ Murrindindi Shire Council is planning to close the doors to the public to discuss two confidential matters tonight (Wed.).

The subjects at the end of the meeting, starting at 6pm at Yea, are: ■ Tender, Yea Saleyards, Scanning and Weighing Services ■ Sealed Roads, Resealing Program, 201920 - Tender.

Open Day at Yea ■ Sacred Heart School, Yea, is having an Open Day and Learning Journeys from 2pm6pm tomorrow (Thurs., Sept. 26). Families are encouraged to see what is happening in the classrooms.

Netball awards ■ Nominations for the 2019 Netball Victoria Community Awards are now open with members of the netball community encouraged to nominate someone within their club, association or league who have made a significant contribution to the sport.

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Ticks & Crosses

Local Briefs Shire meets at Yea

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The 2019-20 cricket season is due to commence on Saturday week (Oct. 5), but - at the time of going to press - fixtures were yet to be published by the Seymour District Cricket Association, Diamond Valley Cricket Association and the ‘F Grade’ of the Northern Metro competition. Central Bowls Division fixtures were also unavailable.

■ Murrindindi Shire Council will meet at 6pm tonight (Wed.) at the Yea chambers at The Semi-Circle.

Buxton dwelling ■ Mrs G. Morris of 115 Dyes Lane, Buxton, is applying to the Murrindindi Shire Council meeting tonight (Wed.) to build a dwelling on the property.

A dwelling commenced on the land under a building and planning permit more than 20 years ago, but was never completed. An objection has been received by the Council to the proposal.

Characters at Alex.

● Yea trainer Duncan Newcomen.

File Photo: Ash Long Tigers supporters are applaud ing the nomination of Duncan Newcomen as the AFL Outer East ‘Trainer of the Year’. Duncan is due to celebrate a special ‘round figure’ birthday in December.

● Murrindindi Shire Council members participated in the ELF Reading Day at Alexandra on Friday (Sept. 20). From left: Graham Haylock, Murrindindi Shire Council Manager Business Services; Nerissa Carter, Moving Murrindindi Project Officer; Sue McNair, Environmental Officer, Sue McNair; Cr Sandice McAulay, Mayor; and Craig Lloyd, Chief Executive Officer.

Signs at the Bollygum Park toilets in Kinglake have been stolen. Anyone with information is asked to contact the police. New signs have been ordered by Murrindindi Shire Council and will be installed as soon as possible.

Council officers are recommending that Murrindindi Councillors refuse a planning permit application to resubdivide land at 95 Deviation Rd, Kinglake Central. The owners want to put a dwelling on each lot.

Ex-Cr’s ‘improper use of information’

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The idea of a $1000 scholarship for local athlete Lachlan Nicholls will be put to tonight’s Council meeting. With an application auspiced by the Narbethong CFA, the idea is to support Lachlan’s attendance at the Asian Oceania Modern Pentathlon Championships in Kunming China.

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A number of residences and busi nesses were affected by a planned power outage yesterday (Tues.) throughout the region. Affected areas included Acheron, Alexandra, Cathkin, Eildon, Fawcett, Koriella, Maintongoon, Molesworth, Taggerty, Taylor Bay, Thornton and Whanregarwen.

Congratulations to the Marysville and District Historical Society which celebrated its 50th anniversary last Sunday (Sept. 22) with an Open Day. A blogger - who publishes reports mainly lifted from other websites last week had their Twitter account suspended for policy violations. The blogger, living at Reservoir but advertising themselves as based at Kinglake, last week printed hitand-run criticisms of popular local identities Cameron Caine and Charles Exton. Another factually-incorrect post was critical of The Local Paper. All posts were cowardly removed by their author, but ‘screen shots’ were taken by a number of Kinglake people.

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● Kinglake locals are now openly mocking a Reservoir man who promotes himself as a journalist.

Readers’ contributions to the ‘Ticks & Crosses’ column are welcomed.

Send your contribution to: editor@LocalPaper.com.au Contributions will be published at the sole discretion of the Editor.

Local News

■ Chris Healy, the former Eildon Ward Councillor on Murrindindi Council, last Friday (Sept.

20) received what he would likely consider a disappointing result in his County Court appeal against charges of misue of position.

The County Court upheld the conviction of Mr Healy on four charges, and dismissed a fifth.

Judge Paul Higham handed down the decision after hearing the appeal on Sept. 9-10.

The matters have been adjourned for sentencing on Monday, October 21.

The original decision was handed down on October 10 last year at Shepparton Magistrates’ Court, where Mr Healy was convicted on all five charges.

In that court, Mr Healy was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $20,000 in prosecution costs.

It was alleged that a on five separate occasions, Mr Healy attempted to gain an advantage by making improper use of information, acquired while a councillor, regarding Murrindindi Shire’s proposed rating strategy.

The court heard that Mr Healy was privy to information on the potential tenderers for a rating strategy review, which he used on five occasions in 2012 to make written and oral submissions to council and a local trader and tourism representative group.

As a ratepayer of three commercial properties in Eildon, Mr Healy’s actions were undertaken to gain an advantage to improve his personal situation.

■ Funds, to assist Alexandra Secondary College and Yea High School students with their driving education, will be considered by Murrindindi Shire Councillors tonight (Wed.).

An idea is being presented that the Council provide $270 in funds to assist Year 11 students at both Alexandra and Yea senior schools.

The program provides information on safe driving and safe behaviours, says a report to Councillors.

Speedway 50th ■ Alexandra and District Speedway will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a special event from 1pm-3pm on Sunday, November 17, at the Gordon St track. The event is advertised as having free admission.

Pheasant Ck plan ■ Murrindindi Council officers are recommending that Councillors refuse a planning permit application by Central Vic Planning Consultants to subdivide a property at 852 Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd, near the Watsons Rd corner.

"There has been minimal attempt to avoid or minimise the removal of native vegetation," says a report to Councillors.

$4.18mil. surplus

■ Murrindindi Shire Council had an actual income of $40.3 million in the 2018-19 year, instead of the planned $34.6 million figure, Councillors will be told in a report tonight (Wed.).

“The operating surplus posted for the financial year of $4.18 million was largely the result of increased revenue of $5.67 million and increased expenses of $1.49 million.”

Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay, Deputy Mayor Leigh Dunscombe, and CEO Craig Lloyd, are likely to be given permission to sign off on the audited accounts, subject to some minor revisions.

Eltham Hospital

● Chris Healy, former Eildon Ward Councillor on Murrindindi Shire Council.

Options for Saleyards St, Yea Fit To Drive

■ Marysville and Buxton primary school students were at Alexandra Primary School on Thursday (Sept. 19) to compete in a speech competition overseen by the Lions Club of Alexandra. Students were asked to put themselves in the shoes of their favourite book characters.

■ Murrindindi Shire Councillors will consider giving two options to residents around Saleyards St, Yea, who lodged a petition seeking for the street to be sealed.

Council senior executive Stuart McConnell is putting a recommendation to this week’s Shire meeting that he: consult with landowners likely to be affected to seek their interest and willingness for Council to investigate the: ■ closure of the road between Saleyards St and Smith St or ■ contributions to a Special Charge Scheme to upgrade (sealing) the road so as to pro-

Scheme. The petition, presented to the August 28 meeting of the Council by was Philip Armstrong and was signed by 19 people.

The petition noted Council permitted the initial subdivision of blocks on Saleyards St to proceed without imposing a sealed road condition on the developer.

The petitioners made the point that he recent approval of Planning Permit for a subdivision at 6 Smith St, Yea, will increase traffic volumes on the unsealed section of Saleyards St. Dust in the area is affecting people health, it was stated.

■ The Victorian Government is asking Nillumbik residents to have their say on the proposed new Eltham area Community Hospital.

Community members can provide feedback via an online Victorian Government survey at Participate Nillumbik. Go to https:/ /participate.nillumbik.vic.gov.au/hospital The survey closes 4pm, Friday, October 11.

Public holiday

■ The AFL Grand Final holiday is the newest public holiday in the state of Victoria. The date of the holiday is on the Friday preceding the Australian Football League Grand Final, which is on Friday this week (Sept. 27).

Time for Seniors

■ The Nillumbik Seniors Festival will be celebrated throughout October.

A busy program offers a range of activities including the Discover on the Green Expo, travel safe training, information forums, health and fitness classes, and fun social events.

Daylight saving

■ Summer daylight saving will commence at 2am on Sunday, October 6.

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Vale Jean Mahoney, 101 ■ The Murrindindi community has lost one of its leading citizens.

Jean Marjorie Mahoney died on Friday morning (Sept.

20) at Rosebank/Yea Hospital. She was aged 101.

She was born at Seymour as Jean Phillips on July 20, 1918.

Jean was one of a family of six children; only brother Noel survives. In the early days, the family lived at Wandong.

Her father was a guard in the Victorian Railways, and he was transferred to Yea. The family lived in North St.

Married Pat

oney passed away this morning at 4.30am at a ripe of age at 101 years.

“What a wonderful friend and helper to the Morris family over so many years.

“We will miss her sense of humour, her love and concern for all.

“A long time servant of the Molesworth bazaar making jam, pickles and anything else that could locked in a jar.

“RIP Mrs M.”

Service details ● Jean Mahoney. Photo: Ash Long

Long Shots

■ On June 29, 1940, Jean married Pat Mahoney, who had been working on the Railways.

The couple moved to Molesworth, and they had children Jan and Barrie.

Jan (Mrs David Joyce) farms at Glenburn.

Barrie, an auto grader operator for the road authority, was killed in a tragic work accident on March 16, 1999. A memorial to him is at Pretty Sally. with Ash Long, Editor The family had Previous winner, Victoria’s best local reporter been active in local Now in his 50th year of local newspapers. sports. Jean was a keen member of the “For the cause that lacks assistance, Molesworth Tennis ‘Gainst the wrongs that need resistance Club, and she was a For the future in the distance, competitor in the local And the good that we can do” association that included other teams Phone: 1800 231 311 from Yarck, Gobur, Personal W eb: www.Long. com.au Cathkin and Merton.

Jean was active in The Molesworth Alongside the anthe Easter tennis tournual auction, the Ba- connection was nament at Yea. zaar has become a strong, especially with major fundraiser for the Morris family that the Molesworth com- conducted the hotel munity over the past for decades.

Rob Morris paid four decades.

■ With her close Jean became ac- this tribute: “We lost a friend Muriel Perry, tive with bowls, and real icon from Jean started the Eas- maintained this in- Molesworththis mornter Bazaar at Moles- volvement until her ing (Fri.). worth Hall.

“Mrs Jean Mahmove to Rosebank.

Easter Bazaar

■ Arrangements are in the hands of William Matthews Funerals.

A service is expected to take place at 11am this Friday (September 27) at 45 Cave Hill Rd, Lilydale.

Notices appear in this week’s edition.

The sympathy of the community is extended to the family of Jean Mahoney on their profound loss.

Short Shots

■ Only three months to Christmas ... and only 12 more issues of this newspaper for this year.

■ The Rotary Club of Kinglake Ranges is holding a Movie Trivia night at the Kinglake Community Centre from 6.30pm on Saturday, October 5.

■ Local hotels are planning for a busy AFL Grand Final day this Saturday (Sept.

28) for the RichmondGWS battle. The Friday public holiday is also expected to be busy.

■ Best wishes to Mother Eden-Elizabeth Nicholls of St Luke’s Anglican Church, Yea, who suffered mild concussion whilst attending to her horses last week.

Foxeys Hangout at Yea

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From Our Files - 30 Years Ago September 1989

Not enough parking

■ “There is definitely not enough parking in the town,” said Yea Deputy Shire President Peter Hauser. “I can see it killing Yea.” Cr Bruce Kindred told Yea Council, 30 years go, that it was about time that the area between Snodgrass St and High St was looked at for parking.

Shopkeeper parking had to elsewhere than High St, Yea, said Cr Kim Chadband.

Breast at best

■ Breast feeding amongst Kinglake mothers at three months was 72 per cent, said Sister Helen Parker, local Maternal and Child Health Nurse, in 1989.

Phones boosted

■ ‘Telecom’customers in Yea were to notice considerable improvements in their telephone service, the telecommunications company promised 30 yars ago.

“New ‘state of the art’ computerised telephone systems are nearing completition at the SeymourTelephone Exchange,” we reported in 1989.

165-khm chase

■ A Yea truck driver creached speeds of up to 165-kmh whilst being chased by Police on the Melba Hwy, Yea Court was told in 1989.

The sedan car being driven by the motorist developed “severe body roll and became unstable”, said prosecutor Sgt Brendan Scully.

The driver blew .160. He was banned from driving for 22 months, and fined $900.

Action on litter

■ Yea Council was taking steps to control weekend litter, 30 years ago. Crs Dougal Drysdale and Betty Wood successfully moved that the by-laws officer, Don Roderick, work Saturday mornings for the purposed of issuing litter infingements notices to offenders in the main street.

Pair in the press

■ Local actress Celia de Burgh (Bamford) was featured in the Sunday Herald magazine, with sheand husband Philip Holder ionterviewed by Paul Kalina for the ‘Two of Us’ section. The couple were appearing with the Melbourne Theatre Company.

TV ‘on the air’

■ Yea’s television transmitter was “on the air” in 1989. Telecom installed the translator on ‘Connie’ in September 1989

Silence called ■ Yea auctioneer Peter Barwick called for a minute’s silence in memory of Malcolm McLeish at the Yea cattle sale in September 1989. “Two pens of ‘River View’ steers brough $619,” we noted. Top pen of cows and calves from ‘Larnoo’ brought $726.

Yea bowls teams

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Editor’s Diary

● For decades there was a eye-catching tourist attraction called ‘Foxey’s Hangout’ on the Mornington Peninsula. Now a similar attraction has appeared on YeaWhittlesea Rd, about five kilometres south of the Yea township, near Clarks Rd. The latest catches have been hung on a post-and-rail fence, but there seems to be an interloper amongst the not-so-quick foxes. Until now, we haven’t seen too many flamingoes in postcode 3717.

■ The Division 1 Yea bowls team selected to play Seymour in October, 1989 was: C. Cook, M. Muller, B. Quinlan K. Hoare, T. Meade, J. Christie B. Nicholson, A. Hoare, G. Bett A. McCarthy, P. West, R. Scott The Division 2 team was: M. McCarthy, P. Quinlan, C. McLeish L. Waters, D. Drysdale, R. Crockett D. McCarthy, R. Kronborg, I. Simms R. Wylie, J. Munn, A. Smith

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Local News

Council names services providers ■ Murrindindi Shire Council has this week announced the outside organisations that will deliver aged and disability services to local residents from January 1.

Not-for-profit providers Nexus Primary Health and Menzies Support Services will Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay said that this decision has come at the end of a long process of consultation and discussion with the community, service providers, volunteers and Council staff.

"We are really pleased with this decision from the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments. Nexus Primary Health and Menzies Support Services will be working together to deliver aged and disability services,” said Cr McAulay.

“It was always going to be really important to have local providers delivering these incredibly important services to our community.

“We recommended a collaborative and locally-led model of service delivery to the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments and this outcome shows they listened.

"We will work with Nexus Primary Health and Menzies Support Services over coming months to make the change easy for clients and carers and to make sure there is a smooth handover of services.

"These providers will be delivering domestic assistance, meals on wheels, and personal

● Cr Sandice McAulay, Mayor, Murrindindi Shire care, respite care, planned activity groups and home maintenance.

“We are writing to clients and volunteers about the appointment of the new provider to let them know how these changes will be implemented.

"In addition to supporting the transition to the new service providers, Council will still maintain a role in supporting older people and people with a disability in the future.

“In the next few months, Council will be appointing a PositiveAgeing Community Information and Support Officer.

“This position will work in a support and advocacy capacity to help individuals better understand these services and to help them access to these services.

Suzanne Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Nexus Pri-

mary Health, and Melinda Burgess, Chief Executive Officer, Menzies Support Services said they were looking forward to delivering these services to the community.

"We believe that this partnership between Nexus Primary Health and Menzies Support Services is a great outcome and we believe we are very well placed to deliver these services to our community.

“We are looking forward to working closely with Murrindindi Shire Council and local services during this transition".

Cr McAulaysaid thatCouncil and the new providers are holding a series of community information sessions in early October to help those with questions about the change.

"If you receive these services or are close to someone who does, I urge you to come along and meet the new providers.

“The details of these information sessions are on our website or give Council a call to find the session closest to you.

“If you need assistance with transport to get to the sessions, please give Council a call.

"Council will continue to deliver these services until the changeover date of December 31.

“Clients and carers should call us at 5772 0333 with any queries until then", said Cr McAulay.

ELF Reading Day in Alex.

■ Murrindindi Shire was alive for the 16th year running with the sound of stories on Friday (Sept.

20), as volunteer readers and children celebrated ELF (Early Learning is Fun) Day in Alexandra and Buxton.

ELF Day is a community initiative aimed at promoting children's language and literacy skills through reading, singing, talking and playing.

Murrindindi Shire Council Mayor, Cr Sandice McAulay, said it is known from research that a child's ability to read and communicate effectively sets them up for success in school and later in life.

"Literacy has a direct impact on self-esteem and a motivation to learn, so inspiring it during the early years of a child's life is a really valuable investment in their future," Cr McAulay said.

"And, truth be told, it's always a lot of fun dressing up and being a part of the merriment.

ELF Day is a really wonderful way for the community to come together to celebrate and encourage our kids.

"Don't worry if you missed out on the ELF Day events in Alexandra and Buxton on September 20 - Yea and Eildon are holding their ELF Days to coincide with Children's Week in October.

"Students from Flowerdale Primary School, Sacred Heart Primary and Yea Primary School, along with the kinder kids, will be trotting about High St in Yea on October 16 to hear stories from dressed-up shopkeepers.

“I know our librarians are looking forward to hosting the 'ELFers' at the Yea Library too. It's just fantastic how this event is growing every year - the Yea ELF Group was particularly pleased to welcome the Yea Community House to their committee recently.

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Going to plan

■ The Community Planning Project in Marysville is well underway.

Murrindindi Shire Council's Youth, Recreation and Community Planning Portfolio Councillor, Charlie Bisset,said the Matysville Community Planning working group is made up of some 40 residents, business people, farmers and community members from all corners of the township.

"The group has made great strides in just four meetings,” Cr Bissett said.

“They've designed their governance framework - that is, how their group will function and stay focused as they move forward with the Community Plan.

“And they've developed a 'Project Idea Template' which they're hoping will inspire community members to submit their ideas for inclusion in the Marysville Community Plan.

"The projects can be anything. Anything that might make Marysville a better place to live, work and play.

“I encourage you to get creative and think outside the square. Some of the ideas on the table for discussion at the moment are an offlead dog park, giving Gould Memorial Drive a bit of a face-lift, beautifying the town by planting a truckload of bulbs and establishing a night market.

"So, if you, or someone you know, have an idea for Marysville up your sleeve, be sure to share it with the Community Planning working group.

“The first step is to download a copy of the 'Project Idea Template' from Council's website and submit it to community planning@murrindindi.vic.gov.au.

“Or, if you would like to discuss your idea first, you can make an appointment for a chat with Council's Community Planning officer, Anna, who operates out of MiRA most Wednesdays.

"As always, a big thanks to IAG, and their local brand WFI Insurance, for their generous support of this Community Planning pilot program," Cr Bisset said.

For more information about Community Planning, see www.murrindindi.com.au/ communityplanning or phone 5772 0333.

Budget ideas wanted

● Murrindindi Shire Council's Moving Murrindindi Project Officer, Nerissa Carter (dressed as Belle from Beauty and the Beast) reading to an engrossed audience at ELF Day in Alexandra last Friday (Sept. 20).

"Eildon Primary School, together with Eildon Kindergarten, also has some ELF Day activities planned for October 23.

“Students, teachers and volunteer readers are set to gather in the shopping centre on Main St for some jolly reading activities.

"I'd like to thank everyone who has and will invest their time and cheer into this initiative.

How special it is to grow up in Murrindindi Shire," Cr McAulay said.

■ Murrindindi Council is calling for community ideas for its 2020-21 Budget.

The Council says that “after the success of last year’s budget survey”, which saw more than 50 community members submit ideas for consideration in the Murrindindi Shire Council 2019-20 Draft Budget, Council is “excited” to launch this year’s survey.

Financial Services and Grants Portfolio Councillor, Deputy Mayor Leigh Dunscombe, said this approach to developing the annual budget ensures the community’s priorities and expectations are considered at the outset.

“Council budgets might seem a bit dull, but they shape the future of our communities and our place,” Cr Dunscombe said.

“Gathering input and ideas before we start drafting the budget is an important part of Council living its commitment to working in partnership with the community.

“We had a great result last year – the survey feedback we received helped us prioritise our work and efforts in a way that reflects the values, priorities and aspirations of the people of Murrindindi Shire.

“So I really encourage you to have a think about what services and infrastructure maintenance, upgrades or developments are important to you, and take a few minutes to tell us what you think through the budget survey,” Cr Dunscombe added.

To fill in the 2020-21 Draft Budget survey, visit www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/public-comment before 5pm, October 9.

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What The Papers Say Numbers game

■ A Nillumbik school has the second most crowded classrooms in northern Melbourne, the latest national data has revealed.

Figures from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authorityshows Diamond Creek East Primary School had 18.4 students to every teacher on average in 2018.

That is just behind St Francis of Assisi School in Mill Park — at 19.8 — as the highest ratio of students per teacher for the region.

- Diamond Valley Leader

Student design

■ A youth consultation delivered ideas for a future upgrade of Seymour’s Chittick Park.

The consultation was undertaken by year 10 to 12 students representing Seymour College, St Mary’s College Seymour, Seymour Flexible Learning Centre, Broadford Secondary College,Assumption College Kilmore and GOTAFE. Students Madalyn, Ebony, Shayla, Connor, Jack, Ryleigh, Ava and Rhiannon all have a range of different project and life skills and visited successful play and community spaces across the north-east - Seymour Telegraph

NAPLAN results

■ Victorian primary schools have again outperformed other states, according to the recently released NAPLAN results.

“We are pleased to announce that our year 9 NAPLAN results for 2019 show good learning growth in many of the areas tested,” acting Mansfield Secondary College principal Janessa Burkhardt said.

The year 9 writing results were the best the school had seen in five years.

“Writing has been a target area for the school over the past 18 months, and it is great to see the impact of our work on student outcomes,” Ms Burkhardt said.

As far as growth is concerned, 47 per cent of Mansfield Secondary College year 9s made medium growth, backed up by 33 per cent who made high growth.

- Mansfield Courier

Research vital

■ Despite being diagnosed with hearing loss at birth and fitted with cochlear implants in both ears by the time she was three, Mahika Yadav and her Epping family still face many challenges.

The seven-year-old’s mother Deeksha Yadav said her daughter was a “little diva” with a flair for fashion, but her development was still slightly behind that of her peers.

Mahika is one of more than 800 children in Victoria to be part of a databank which is enabling researchers around the world to investigate why some children who experience hearing loss adapt and thrive, while others struggle.

- Whittlesea Leader

Black Market

■ There will be a pruning, grafting and espalier demonstration s part of September’s Black Market at 94 Old Highlands Rd, Highlands, from 12 Noon-3pm on Saturday (Sept.

28).

- Granite News

Plan unveiled

■ Planning to develop a 1250-hectare piece of land north-west of Beveridge, set to include up to 16,200 homes, is now at the community consultation stage. The Victorian Planning Authority last week released details of the Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan, located four kilometres south of Wallan.

- North Central Review

Marysville vgisit

■ Marysville Preschool held a special excursion on Friday September 13 when they visited Badger Creek Preschool for the day.

The aim behind joining the classes was to help expose the children and their parents to new people and families in the area.

- Mountain Views Mail

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Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Mckenna, Martin.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - O'neill, J (40075) v Hill, Kayne. UniKilmore Victoria Police - O'neill, J (40075) v Noble, Warwick.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Curic, Matthew Brian. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Houguet, B (40313) v Ryan, John Victoria Police - Houguet, B (40313) v Bult, Sofie Victoria Police - Fabbo, D (42701) v Romano, Steven.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Probst, S (35694) v Curic, Matthew. UniGoornong Victoria Police - Wright, B (36938) v Stevens, Thomas.

Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Mackey, A (42625) v Wardale, Bradly.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Walton, A (40916) v Farish, Emily. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Walton, A (40916) v Monti, Allyson. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Carden, S (34092) v Farmer, Amanda.

Uni-Yea Victoria Police - Bennett, J (42868) v Coleman, David John. Uni-Sunshine Victoria Police - Rogers, M (40077) v Dolheguy, Troy John.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Bortolotto, C (40740) v Djermanovic, Goran Victoria Police - Kamali, V (42448) v O'brien, Stephen.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Bennett, J (42868) v Coleman, David John. Uni-Sunshine Victoria Police - Wood, R (24754) v Lewis, Adam Leslie.

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Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Cook, D (30208) v Benmasaud, Nathan.

Dtu-Seymour Victoria Police - Calixto, J (41189) v Singh, Rakesh. UniWallan Victoria Police - Barclay, J (36190) v Murphy, Bernard.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Barclay, J (36190) v Pegram, Sean. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Taylor, Justin Paul.

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Pcet-Seymour Victoria Police - Varnam, H (41854) v Biddlestone, Jake.

Ciu-Banyule Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Muir, Trent. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Konings, D (26750) v Vlamis, Phillip Peter. Uni-Yea Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Phillipson, Paul. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Walton, A (40916) v Johnstone, Robert John. Uni-Kilmore Community Corrections Centre - Enright, Cv Byrne, Danial. Seymour Community Correction Centre Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008)v Orr, Meaghan. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Taylor, Y (36839) v Stone, Luke. SocitSeymour Victoria Police - Brown, T (29986) v Curic, Matthew. UniKilmore

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From Our 1919 Files

Home at Highlands

■ A welcome home and social was tendered to Driver Yorston and Gun ner Lade by the residents of Highlands and Dropmore in the Highlands hall on Monday, September 15.

The hall, which was tastefully decorated with the returned heroes' colors and greenery, was filled with representatives from all the surrounding districts.

Apologies were reseived from the Shire President (Lieut. R. S. McAlpin), and the Rev. G, Martin, who expressed their regret at being unable to attend, Mr D. McAlpin was voted to the chair, and fully 60 people sat down to a banquet provided by the ladies of the district.

Yea honour board

■ An Honor Board was unveiled, and two flags were dedicated, in St. Luke's Church of England on Sunday afternoon last, in the presence of a very large congregation,.many of whom were unable to obtain secting accommodation, The rector of the church, the Rev. Mr Brammall, dedicated the flags, one of which was in memory of those who had fallen. and the other in memory of those who had, and are, returning.

Homewood medals

■ On Tuesday next, 17th October, at the Homewood hall, at 7.30 o'clock, the Homewood and disict returned soldiers (12) and nurses (2) will be presented with gold medals.

It was originally tended to present the medals on Monday night, but owing to other arrangements having been previously arranged for the same night it has been deemed advisable to alter the date to Tuesday.

Yea Court

■ Before Messrs J. Quinlan and J.A. Wild, J's.P, Constable Commons charged Thomas Jordon with using insulting words in High street, Yea, on the previous Saturday A fine of £3, in default sevan days' imprisonment was imposed, George Dean was charged with not sending his child to school for the requisite number of days. A fine of 5s was imposed.

At Limestone Hall

■ The Limestone hall, on Wednesday of last week, was again crowded to overflowing to do honor to another Cheviot returned soldierTrooper Les Williamson - and long before the time announced for the beginning, the road was lined with vehicles and horsemen from every pare.

As usual, a very large number travelled from Yea, as outside of the fact that the guest of the evening is a warm favorite the hospitality of the Cheviot people has now become almost an household word.

As on former occasions, the hall was lavishly decorated, and the supper provided by the committee, and presided over by the ladies, left nothing to be desired.

Kinglake farewell

■ On Wednesday, September 10th the school children of Kinglake School 2188 presented their teacher (Miss AdeIskold), who is leaving on a six-months leave to New Zealand, with a silver serviette ring, pair silver-mounted salt cellars, and a silver vase.

Miss Adelskold thanked the children for their kind gifts, and said she would always keep them in memory of them.

Mr. Smaler, a returned soldier, has taken Miss Adelskold's place.

Bag limits

■ The bag limit for Wild Ducks and Teal is 15 birds for each shooter per day, and for Quaiil 30 birdsper day.

The selling or exposing for sale of Wild Duck, Teal and Quail is prohibited.

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Local Theatre After Hours Cabaret - Lock In

● Adam Malone in After Hours Cabaret – Lock In. ■ The After Hours Cabaret Club’s new show Lock In is being presented for one night only on Friday, October 4 at the Wonderland Spiegeltent in Federation Square.

Arriving from a completely sold out season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, comes the hottest burlesque, cabaret, sideshow and circus stars in Australia.

The bulk of the cast call Melbourne home, so it is fitting the Australian premiere of this five star show debuts at The Wonderland Spiegeltent in Federation Square.

After Hours Cabaret Club is glamorous and unpredictable show brimming with worldclass entertainment and an award-winning, hand-picked cast from all around the country.

After Hours Cabaret host, Tash York, said: “It's scandalously sophisticated, deliciously debauched and wildly unpredictable. The show has had a huge makeover and although not officially a part of the Festival, is tipped to be a highlight on the cabaret circuit.

With local performers such as Bettie Bombshell (Miss Burlesque Australia 2019), Adam Malone (Circus Oz), Raven (Mr. Boylesque Australia), and Tash York (Adulting, Badass, Petty Bitches).

Other Australian performers include, Kelly Ann Doll and The Tasteless Gentleman (NSW, swing dancing duo), Porcelain Alice (Miss Burlesque NSW 2019), and Dakota Fann’ee (Drag Queen).

Website: www.afterhourscabaretclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

Drag Show, The Game Show

■ Remember these names – Benign Girl, Zelda Moon , Lazy Susan. Three very entertaining stars on the ‘drag’ scene collectively known as The Beastie Girls.

Their latest show, Drag Show the Game Show, is an energetic lypsyncing, story-telling, insult exchanging, game show – very clever, unique, funny.

The audience is crucial to this show. You can be as involved as you want or sit back and enjoy, but as a game show you are not just asked to cheer for your favourite ‘contestant’, but to help them win.

What other show requires the audience to write insults? In either team Benign Girl or Zelda Moon, the audience is encouraged to get involved, the louder the better, leading to some funny moments and displaying the quality talent of these three polished performers to ad lib.

All three ‘ladies’ were able to respond to the audience, remain in character and keep the show moving. Particularly under the leadership of the energetic, quick witted host Lazy Susan.

Whilst not for everyone - think twice if you are offended by swearing, insulting , nonpolitically correct men with large bottoms, colourful hair and big breasts Drag Show the Game Show – ‘a drag show that is also a game show’, is theatre not just a couple of gags. Look out for the next Beastie Girls production.

Drag Show The Game Show was presented at School House Studio, Collingwood.

- Review by Elizabeth Semmel

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Double bill for Yea Arts

● Joel Carnegie, Bob Glenister (Yea Arts Chairman) and Tom Molyneux.

■ Every life holds a story and theatre is the the feeling that everyone has a story to tell, a life epitome of story telling - both of which the audi- to record for posterity, and a sense of urgency to ence was treated to in a double bill from Joel record it before those who hold the memories Carnegie (Stardust) and Tom Molyneux (The are a memory themselves.

Mission) in the most recent of Yea Arts Inc's The second in the double bill was The Misoffering for 2019. sion, by Tom Molyneux, directed by James JackStardust, a life-story from Joel Carnegie's son. grandfather, Col Brain, laid out on the stage a This was another single-handed, crack prerich musical offering of a man whose past had a cision performance from a life passed by. Tom mournful, humble beginning.

Molyneux, on a near-bare stage with just his From a gentleman's wardrobe full of memo- physicality and voice, led a transfixed audience ries, Carnegie drew out the highlights and low through the life of Alan McDonald, a "fighting lights of a passionate, talented musician.

Gundjitimara" man from South West Victoria Following the death of his mother, Col Brain's - one of the first indigenous soldiers to enlist to father, a now-widowed policeman, surrendered fight in World War I. Col and his siblings to orphanages.

Every step of Alan's journey from enlisting, Upon remarrying, his father brought Col home acceptance, transportation to Egypt, Gallipoli to meet, and potentially, live with his new wife. and the last cavalry charge at Beersheba, to reAt 14, Col rejected these changed circum- turning home and being denied a soldier's settlestances, and was ultimately faced with choices, ment and, ultimately, being buried in an unacconsequences and life-changing opportunities knowledged grave, underscored the 'double stanwhich he turned down in preference for support dards' of a country that considered him a secof his own family. ond- class citizen.

Carnegie took the audience on a journey as a It was a painful reflection for all of just how storyteller; as a grandson listening to the stories distorted settlement history has been portrayed. of his mother; and, at times, as Col himself, This was not just storytelling, it was the truth racked by illness from years working as a sig- from the other side, from a descendant who took nalman on the railways yet having a sense of the time to immerse himself in a life less-aclove and duty. knowledged.

Carnegie displayed impressive musicianship It was, ultimately, an engaging, emotional and both on piano and trumpet. thought-provoking evening. Thanks to the Yea The rousing big-band sound track under- Hospital Auxilliary for the delicious supper proscored the AV presentation of pertinent, pre- vided, Regional Arts Victoria, Creative Vic, the served photographs from his grandfather's life Yea and District Community Bank, and the projected on the impressive upstage screen.

Royal Mail Hotel,Yea. In fact, the ambience of the Yea Shire Hall The final 2019 offering from Yea Arts Inc is offered much to the feel of the two productions to co-host with the Strath Creek community on adding a sense of architecture and era to each. November 29 -Alyce Platt: Funny Little World An integral part of the performance was the Enjoy an intimate evening of storytelling ensemble of eight impressive brass players from (with optional dinner prior), sophisticated and Healesville High School. enchanting dream pop, retro sounds and jazzy Live on stage, punching well above their vibes supported by a diverse collection of weight, the students reinforced the passion and Melbourne's elite musicians. dedication of Col Brain and his music.

For details see the Yea Arts Inc Anyone in the audience who has ever dabbled website:https://yeaartsinc.wordpress.com/ in family history or stories would have left with - Alison Huth

What’s On Heroine: A Cabaret with Courtney Glass

● Courtney Glass.

■ Brooklyn Runaways announces dates for Heroine: A Cabaret with Courtney Glass.

Glass, who recently starred in Sweeney Todd with Anthony Warlow and the sold out run of Sunday in the Park with George, will present two performances of her debut cabaret October 2-3 at the Alex Theatre in St Kilda.

Courtney Glass will share funny, tragic, and empowering stories about being an actress in 2019.

Joined by David Butler on piano, expect a tuneful celebration of her journey into womanhood through an assortment of Broadway standards from Grey Gardens, The Music Man and lots of Sondheim.

Glass will reveal how - while being the damsel in distress can be fun on stage - sometimes in life you have to save your damn self.

Courtney Glass made her Broadway debut in The Woman In White, understudying and performing the title role.

Since moving to Australia in 2014, Courtney has appeared in Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me, Kate, Of Thee I Sing (Squabbalogic), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Alex Theatre), Brigadoon and Oklahoma! (The Production Company).

Most recently, Courtney appeared in Sweeney Todd starring Anthony Warlow and Gina Riley, and played the role of Yvonne in the Victorian tour of Sunday in the Park with George.

Next up, Courtney will appear in Ragtime with The Production Company.

Brooklyn Runaways produces cabarets and live events for a modern audience. Previous cabarets include From: New York, For: Him at The Butterfly Club and Adelaide Fringe, and two shows by the cabaret duo Mel & Peppy.

The group was founded in 2018 by Melissa David and Brandon Pape, two NewYork City transplants who recently moved to Melbourne and hope to continue pursuing their love of nurturing fresh voices in the performance community.

The Lounge atAlex Theatre, 1/135 Fitzroy St, St Kilda Dates: October 2-3 Times: Wednesday, October 2 at 7.30pm; Thursday, October 3 at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.

Tickets: $25-50 Bookings: alextheatrestk.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Monash Uni.

● Joel Carnegie is pictured as his grandfather Col Brain and members of the ensemble Healesville High School Band jive at the Trocadero.

■ Mariana Castillo Deball: Replaying Life's Tape. The first Australian exhibition of influential Mexican born, Berlin and Mexico Citybased artist Mariana Castillo Deball is the result of MUMA's invitation to the artist to undertake a long-term project here.

The resulting exhibition marries both artistic and scientific methods in an intricate telling of a multifaceted chapter in evolutionary history.

Exhibition opens October 5 and closes December 7.

Monash University of Art Ground Floor building F 900 Dandenong Rd. Caulfield East - Peter Kemp

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Local Theatre NICA Hard Sell

■ The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) Class of 2019 is an incredibly gifted cohort judging by the extreme talent on display in their latest graduate showcase Hard Sell.

Themed around an auction house where the audience members bid on their performer of choice, Hard Sell is exactly what the title suggests - a hard sell.

Each student performed their own individual act to showcase their particular area of expertise.

It reflects in a way the challenges these graduating students will experience out in the real world competing for work.

In that regard, it’s easy to understand the thinking behind the creative team’s choices.

A small gripe is that we didn’t get to see them perform as a team, celebrating the years together, the shared experiences - the collective sweat and tears they shed to get where they are today.

It felt more like an audition than an end of an era celebration.

That said there will be no complaints about the many gripping and breathtaking routines.

And why not start with the best. The bar was set very high with the opening straps routine from the very glittering Tro Griffiths. A superbly graceful, jaw-dropping performance demonstrating astounding strength and agility with magical ease.

Happily everyone following Griffiths can stand proud for demonstrating incredible skill and their own unique stamp on their craft.

Special mentions go to Hannah Richards and Cassia Jamieson for their comedic and precise acrobatic act; Thomas Correia for acing the ‘level of difficulty’ on slack wire; Chanel Phelan, for a ball manipulation routine that seemed impossible; Georgia Webb for her gorgeous theatrics and skilful Cyr wheel; and Easa Min-Swe for his magnificent leg extensions and a graceful, and stunning rope routine.

Special mention also for lighting and sound that generated the spectacle and drama befitting the performances.

A stellar group of gifted talents - the class of 2019 is truly ready for the world stage.

- Review by Beth Klein

The Living Room ■ These accountants of death work tirelessly to record the death toll.

Confined to The Living Room, the occupational hazards wear on these two clowns as they learn the meaning of life and death.

An absurd and physical jaunt brimming with existential phone calls, impaired dancing and love of a goldfish.

Thus the website for The Living Room, a Melbourne Fringe Festival offering at the Butterfly Club until September 22.

If the Fringe needed to justify its continuance then The Living Room from this really exceptionally talented double act from Amrita Dhaliwal and Gemma Soldati is it.

Amrita, overly costumed, as a feisty Victorian widow, and Gemma, in black suit and tie, no shoes, took their audience on a wild ride.

Their material is intelligent, funny and their improvisation in response to our reactions as the events unfolded, spot on.

Their ability to include all of us without descending to the cheap shot and the bleeding obvious; refreshing.

When I read the **** reviews from the Edinburg Fringe: ■ " Arrestingly unpredictable and entirely sure of itself ", ■ " A prime example of fringe shows”, ■ "This Beckettian sequence of bits is the kind of thing people should be making room for at the Fringe" - I can only add - right on!

Season: Until September 22 at 8.30pm Venue: The Butterfly Club Bookings: https://melbournefringe.com. au/event/the-living-room/ - Review by Peter Green

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Things Are Going Well ■ The opening of Geraldine’s show was almost uneventful – How’s it going?

But this was the impetus for an examination of the banalities of life that progressively became more ludicrous. The hand to mouth existence of a student living off bananas wrapped in pita bread became problematic after a storm destroyed the banana crop. Pita bread wrapped in pita bread was the solution.

Geraldine traversed aspects of her childhood; her ability to work the tension of a pause evident when her childhood dreams and expectations hung in the balance.

And as her hour long set continued the stories became more absurd and extreme – the development of this progression seemingly made believable by Geraldine’s understated delivery and the seamlessness of the interconnection between the stories.

The chainsaw massacre at the end was, perhaps, an obvious indication that we had reached the height of absurdity but the show then rewound and the events were all retold, in summary, when the answer to the original question was more prosaic.

The ordinary events that had generated so much humour were, in fact, ordinary. Much depended on the way we looked at them and the perspective we chose when recounting events.

If that weren’t enough, the final credits on screen after Geraldine had left the stage were those self same events as happy snaps that one takes as a record of events.

Here was another perspective yet again showing that the substance of Geraldine’s comedy was real, was ordinary and was the essence of her comedy. It made her routine all the more identifiable and her unstated philosophy clear – it’s how you look at life that really matters.

- Review by David McLean

● Geraldine Hickey in Things Are Going Well.

Lobby Hero: who can you trust?

■ Around the Moon Productions presents Lobby Hero from October 22-27 at fortyfivedownstairs.

Written by Kenneth Lonergon, Lobby Hero asks when you can’t trust the law, who can you trust?

Four New Yorkers become tangled in a murder investigation when a lobby security guard clashes with his controlling manager, an idealistic rookie cop, and her volatile senior partner during a night of suspense, humour and compromised morality.

Around the Moon Productions announce their inaugural production of Lobby Hero by Oscar winner Kenneth Lonergan, best known for his work on the films Gangs of New York (2002), You Can Count On Me (2000), Margaret (2011) and Manchester by the Sea (2016 "Lonergan writes characters that are layered and nuanced whilst also being hilarious and relatable”, says Around the Moon Director Monique Fisher.

“As a long-time fan of his works, I was drawn to this particular piece because of the way he cleverly uses suspense and wit to lure you into a very powerful political commentary on the moral compass of average working class people in relation to issues of sexism, racism and the justice system.

“The work is perhaps more pressing now than when it was originally written”.

Director James Vinson – whose recent credits include working in the script departments of acclaimed series’ Wentworth and Glitch, and several internationally recognised, award winning short films – leads a quartet of talented actors and a remarkable creative team.

Charles Grounds plays Jeff, following his recent appearance in the blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians, the feature films Babyteeth and Downriver, and the series Camp.

This will be Charles’s first appearance onstage since his performance as Jack in Heli-

copter for the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Charles is joined by Victory Ndukwe as William, whose recent theatre credits include Mr Burns, The Flick and Festen, and Monique Fisher as Dawn, whose credits include the film The Turning;TV series’ Dead Gorgeous, Neighbours, Mr and Mrs Murder and Thank God You’re Here; and last year’s critically acclaimed production of Chemistry at the Alex Theatre.

Rounding out the cast is Ryan Murphy as Bill. Ryan’s extensive credits include feature films The Unlit and Maybe Tomorrow (winner of Best Film Gold Coast Film Festival), and behind the scenes credits on In The Wake (Director, Producer, Script Supervisor), Rabbit (Producer) and Airgirl (Producer), all of which screened at Cannes, and Pillars (Director, Producer, Actor, Script Supervisor), selected as the opening night film at the 2017 St Kilda Film Festival.

Most recently, Ryan played Lady Bracknell in Artefact Theatre Company's The Importance of Being Earnest to rave reviews.

His other theatre credits include Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams.

Performance Season: October 22 – 27 Venue: fortyfivedownstairs.

Further Details: www.aroundthemoon productions.com - Cheryl Threadgold

Savoy Opera Co.

■ Savoy Opera Company is presenting Oh Bliss, Oh Rapture, an afternoon of Gilbert & Sullivan favourites at 2pm on Saturday October 19 at Buninyong Town Hall Buninyong; at 2pm on Sunday October 20, at Mechanics Institute Ballan; at 2pm Saturday October 26 at Bunyip Hall, Bunyip, at 2pm, Sunday October 27, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn.

Observations Passionate Machine

■ Obsession is a very human condition. Who hasn’t been obsessed by a rock star, a poet or the quantum physics of time travel (maybe that’s a stretch).

Rosy Carrick has and what’s more, she wrote a play, Passionate Machine, presented at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, that intricately weaves these obsessions in a web that merges fact and fiction.

The result is compelling and deliciously intriguing storytelling.

Fact - Carrick is obsessed with Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She learned Russian so she could compare translations of his work and re-write her own. She has a PhD on his poetry and has published two books of his work in translation.

A highly dubious fact - on a trip to Russia while studying for her PhD, she receives a letter from her future self, who travelled back in time for the purpose of saving Mayakovsky from committing suicide, and who remains stuck in 1930 unless current-day Carrick starts building a time machine that future Carrick (now stuck in 1930) made.

Time travel has been a fixation with Carrick from a young age and she tells some charming stories to illustrate.

However the scientific knowledge required to build one is beyond her. She embarks on a quest to find someone via geek online chat rooms and social media, who can advise her.

She finds help, and so much more - but unfortunately not the answers on how to build a time machine.

Carrick’s narrative is complex, made up of stories, anecdotes and theories, organically fluid and passionately delivered. Props and multimedia keep it visually interesting.

There is a quiet yet determined intensity in her storytelling with a touch of honesty and vulnerability that has the audience believing everything.

Passionate Machine is an intriguing hour of entertainment, but is more than likely to leave you scratching your head - and that’s actually not a bad thing!

Performance Dates: September 21 , 22 Venue: The Butterfly Club, Melbourne Bookings: thebutterflyclub.com - Review by Beth Klein

Wonderland Spiegeltent

■ Melbourne’s iconic Federation Square and Wonderland Entertainment and Leisure announce the inaugural Wonderland Spiegeltent Festival set to entertain audiences of all ages this Spring at Federation Square’s The Paddock until October 20.

The Wonderland Spiegeltent, a vintage 19th century Belgian travelling circus tent, has rolled into Melbourne complete with a world-class line-up of adult and family shows along with rides, amusements and carnival style treats for all ages.

The Wonderland Spiegeltent Festival coincides with the Melbourne Fringe Festival (until September 29) with the Spiegeltent serving as a central live entertainment hub for guests along with the Coopers Garden Bar. Additionally, a dedicated Spring School Holidays program will be on offer featuring family friendly circus, acrobatic, magic and adventure shows with sizzling adult performers taking stage after dark.

Wonderland Entertainment and Leisure’s director, Melissa Head, said “We are delighted to be located in the centre of Melbourne at Fed Square this year. Audiences across Australia marvel at our astonishing acts of acrobatic circus, live concerts, kids’ shows and late-night adult cabaret. We are also very much looking forward to being a part of a key festival event in the City of Melbourne and one that is renowned for celebrating art, culture and diversity.”

Jonathan Tribe, CEO of Fed Square, said “Fed Square is a natural home for the most inventive, quirky and unique of events, and to host the Wonderland Spiegeltent is genuinely a pleasure. We always take pride in events of this kind and are very excited to able to offer this experience to the people of Melbourne.”

For full details of events and shows at the Wonderland Spiegeltent Festival visit www.wonderlandspiegeltent.com.au

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Local Theatre One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

■ A stark reminder of dark days gone when the clinically insane were institutionalised “Because you could not adjust to the outside world. You broke the rules of society” explains Nurse Ratched played by Kellie Tweeddale to the inmates of the Oregon Psychiatric Hospital in 1962.

Director Samuel Chappel’s stellar cast of sixteen propels the audience into the inner sanctum of inmates experiencing neglect and manipulation in a pressure cooker environment.

A well designed set by Phil Holmes and Tess Maurici and executed by ELT’s set realisation team over a broad stage was stark, yet functional with a communal table, a closeted medical booth, a grilled window to the outside world and a door to the off stage latrine.

The daily monotonous routine strictly supervised by Nurse Ratched is put to the test when Randle P McMurphy, played by Warrick Smith, a criminal misfit accused of statutory rape arrives and sets about taking the inmates out of their comfort zones while flaunting all the rules of the hospital.

Smith’s playing of the role was consistent and engrossing, at times annoying and endlessly at odds with the hospital staff.

The inmates displayed a range of idiosyncrasies, Martini played by Richard Mealy, talking and pointing to an invisible being, Harding played by Drew Mason, stoic and with bursts of emotions while Ruckly played

by Wes Sandford, acted as if he was Christ nailed to the cross.

Impressive was Luke Styles playing the half-native American narrator, Chief Bromden, pretending to be deaf yet being privy to the many of the hospitals darkest secrets.

The youngest inmate Billy, a stuttering depressive played by Jack Kenny, gave a convincing and yet heartbreaking performance.

The scope given by the Director gave ample opportunity for each cast member whether hospital staff, inmate or a visitor to demonstrate their characters to the full through a string of tragic events in rapid succession.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is not an easy play to perform. Eltham had a standing ovation at the end. Well deserved.

Dates: Wed.- Sat. to October 5 at 8pm; September 29 at 2pm Venue: Eltham Little Theatre Inc., Main Road, Eltham Details: tickets@elthamlittletheatre.org.au - Review by Graeme McCoubrie

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Entertainment

A Day In The Life Of You

● Bridget a’Beckett, Sharni Page, and Julia Davis in A Day in the Life of You. ■ Children’s performance group Musical that the show is written for intelligent children Sprouts has a magical show, on this long week- (yelling poo poo bum bum doesn’t strike me as end, that will delight and ignite the imaginations treating kids as intelligent), I’m sure as the Musical Sprouts create and produce more wonderof children aged 2-6.

Created for Melbourne Fringe, A Day in the ful shows, their emotional sensitivity and wit will Life of You is performed in the awe-inspiring develop and eventually reach the extremely high (my four-year-old gasped) Wonderland quality of their musicality. I really look forward to more from them (as do my children).

Spiegeltent.

Their individual performances and the muThis enchanting show sees three friends help each other navigate the challenges little ones sic are brilliantly entertaining on their own and face daily including going to the toilet without as a musical parent, I’m thrilled and grateful to falling in, brushing teeth correctly, and figuring see fantastic talent putting on wonderful, high quality concerts for young children to devour. out what to wear depending on the weather.

For this show, you might also like to pack a Musical Sprouts is the genius of talented musical theatre performers Bridget a’Beckett, picnic.With the Wonderland Spiegeltentlocated right next to the Artplay playground and picnic Sharni Page and Julia Davis.

As Yella, Blueno, and Reddy they are de- area, it all adds up to an absolutely fabulous day lightfully eager characters who look out for each out with the kids.

Performance Season: September 27-29 other and have some cheeky fun together.

Times: 11am (60 min duration) Their songs are musically complex, beautiVenue: Wonderland Spiegeltent, Federation ful, and totally catchy. My 2½-yea- old was mesmerised, saying his favourite parts were Square – The Paddock Bookings: www.wonderlandspiegeltent. seeing instruments played live before them and com.au being able to go up on stage.

- Review by Deborah Marinaro Though I disagree with their own description

CLOC’s Mamma Mia

Matthew Fagan

■ Danza Productions, the producers of Sold Out Star Show Present Earth Show – a Rock and Classical Journey across our Living Planet on Saturday November 9 at 8pm at Deakin Edge, Federation Square.

This music and visual spectacular celebrates the one planet that we inhabit – audiences can be involved in climate change action and awareness and celebration of our environment.

Featuring 10 string and electric guitarist Matthew Fagan, AKA Lord of the Strings. and friends including internationally acclaimed, award winning concert pianist, Nicholas Young and composer Alan Griffiths Performing music of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Tubular Bells, Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, Vivaldi Four Season and Australian composers Matthew Fagan and Alan Griffiths.

Event Details: Concert: Saturday, November 9, 8.00pm – 9.30pm (doors open 7.30pm) Environment Symposium ‘Our Shared Home’ from 5pm – 6.30pm (doors open 4.30pm) Venue: Deakin Edge Federation Square, Cnr Swanston and Flinders Sts., Melbourne Tickets: Adult $55, Concession $50, Student $40, Child U 16 $30, Group 8+ $45 Environment Symposium included in ticket price Bookings: http://eventopia.co/earthshow plus booking fee or 0438 881 985 www.matthew-fagan.com - Cheryl Threadgold

What’s On Shows ■ The Hartwell Players: Coriolanus (by William Shakespeare) September 26 - October 6 at the Ashwood College Performing Arts Centre, Vannam Drive, Ashwood. Tickets: $20/$15.

Bookings: https:// w w w. t r y b o o k i n g . c o m / b o o k / event?eid=441393 ■ Eltham Little Theatre: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Until October 5 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Rd., Research. Director: Tess Maurici. Bookings: tickets@elthamlittletheatre.org.au ■ Ark Theatre: Plan B - The Season September 26 - October 5 at Lilydale Heights College PAC, 17 Nelson St., Lilydale. Various authors and directors. Bookings: www.trybooking.com ■ Geelong Lyric Theatre Society: The Last Five Years (by Jason Robert Brown) September 27 - October 5 at the Peter Cannon Performing Arts Centre, Geelong. Bookings: www.glts.asn.au ■ Portland CEMA Theatre Group: Every Brilliant Thing October 4, 5, 10, 11 at 7.30pm at The Portland Business Hub, 33 Percy St., Portland; October 9 at 7.30pm at the Community Function Room, Casterton Memorial Hospital. Tickets: $20 Full, $15 Concession/ CEMA Member, $5 Student (under 18). Bookings: www.trybooking.com/BEVGI or 5526 5264.

■ LOTS Theatre Inc: LOTS 7 October 11, 12, 18, 19 at 8.00pm, October 13, 20 (2.00pm matinees), at 'Terminal 7', Parktone Primary School, cnr. Robert and McSwain Sts., Parkdale. Tickets: $20 incl. light refreshments. Bookings: Trybooking. Enquiries: 9580 2387.

■ CLOC Musical Theatre: Mamma Mia! October 11 - 26 at the National Theatre, 20 Carlisle St., St Kilda. CLOC Musical Theatre: Mamma Mia! October 11 - 26 at the National Theatre, 20 Carlisle St., St Kilda.

Director/Choreographer: Craig Wiltshire; Musical Director: Tony Toppi. Bookings: www.cloc.org.au or 1300 362 547 Bookings: www.cloc.org.au or 1300 362 547 ■ Babirra Music Theatre: The Producers October 11 - 19 at the Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Rd., Nunawading. Bookings: www.babirra.org.au ■ MLOC Productions: Rock of Ages October 11 - 19 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Jane Court.

Bookings: www.mloc.org.au ■ Encore Theatre: Almost, Maine October 11 - 26 at the Clayton Community Theatre, Cooke St., Clayton. Director: Laura Bradley.

Bookings: 1300 739 099.

■ OSMaD: Miss Saigon October 17 - 26 at the Geoffrey McComas Theatre, Scotch College, Hawthorn.

Bookings: www.osmad.com.au/tickets ■ NOVA Music Theatre: The Wizard of Oz October 26 - November 10 at the Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Rd., Nunawading.

Bookings: www.novamusictheatre.com.au or 1300 304 433.

Auditions

● Donna (Rosa McCarty) and daughter Sophie (India Morris) in Mamma Mia! Photo: Ben Fon ■ CLOC Musical Theatre opens with Mamma ing Mary Poppins, Wicked, Les Misérables, A Mia! at the National Theatre, St Kilda on Octo- Chorus Line and Strictly Ballroom), this is their first time appearing together. ber 11 and plays until October 26.

A heart-warming story of family and love set Audiences are invited to relive the musical in a sun-drenched paradise and fused with nearly hits packed within an irresistible story, surrounded 30 glorious, instantly recognisable ABBA songs, by flares, frills, fluoro, wedge heeled boots and Mamma Mia! has been seen in over 440 major finished off with a megamix that will have audicities in six continents, translated into 26 lan- ences disco dancing in the aisles, a temptation guages, and seen by more than 60 million people hard to avoid by the end of the show. world-wide (and counting).

Mamma Mia! can be seen for 12 perforPlaying the main roles of mother Donna and mances from October 11-26 at the National daughter Sophie are Rosa McCarty and India Theatre, St Kilda.

Morris.

For further information and tickets, visit Although both Rosa and India have each www.cloc.org.au or www.facebook.com/ starred in previous CLOC productions (includ- CLOCMusical - Cheryl Threadgold

■ Peridot Theatre: Waiting for God (by Michael Aitkens) October 13, 14 at 7.00pm at Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley.

Director: Bob Bramble. Audition enquiries: 0418 586 273.

■ Warrandyte Theatre Company: Calendar Girls (by Tim Firth) October 20 at 7pm, October 23 at 8pm at Mechanics Institute Hall, Cnr Yarra St. and Mitchell Ave., Warrandyte.

Director: Susan Rundle. Enquiries: theatre@psrundle.com ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Knickers - a Brief Comedy October 27 at 2.30pm and October 29 at 7.00pm at Guide Hall, Glebe Ave., Cheltenham. Director: Barbara Crawford.

Enquiries: barbaracrawford@gmail.com - Cheryl Threadgold

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Coming to grips with a new white Italian

Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Marngrook Fri. ■ The Marngrook Rock'n'Roll Footy Grand Final Eve Show is coming to Memo Music Hall this Friday (Sept. 27) with a three- hour jam-packed extravaganza, featuring the Marngrook Footy Show favourites plus comedy from Kevin Kropinyeri, and music from Grant 's All Star Band Big City Combo.

Tickets at Memo.

Good Friday Ap

Chad in town

■ The Sheik from Scrubby Creek and Australian country music veteran Chad Morgan will bring his vaudeville style of comic country and western songs to Victoria in October. Concerts include Friday Oct. 4 (Morwell Club), Sunday 6 (Caravan Club Bentleigh East), Friday 11(Sphinx Hotel, North Geelong), Saturday 12 (Camperdown FC) and Sunday 13 (Commercial Hotel Koroit). The 86-year-old’s career kicked off in 1952 when he sang his original song The Sheik of Scrubby Creek at an Australia's Amateur Hour radio contest. The rest is history as they say. Also joining Chad on tour will be husband and wife duo, The Muirs, whom he discovered in 2010 and have been part of his shows ever since.

James at Caravan ■ Australia’s internationally acclaimed jazz trumpet player James Morrison will make his Caravan Club Bentleigh East debut on Thursday December 12, accompanied by his deluxe quartet. An absolute must see in the sumptuous Caravan Jazz Lounge, says his media. Tickets at the club.

■ I wrote recently about the South Australian district of McLaren Vale doing very nicely of late with a couple of southern European red varieties.

This week I'm staying in McLaren Vale but focusing on fiano, a new Italian white variety for the district and Australia.

"Our fiano journey is around 18 years old, but the variety itself has been around for several thousand years," said Coriole's founder, Mark Lloyd. " Thick-skinned, highly fragrant and refreshing natural acidity make this an extremely welcome addition to Australia's winemaking scene.

"We kicked off fiano's journey in Australia and I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 2018 is our finest vintage yet."

Well said, Mark, and I agree with you heartily.

The variety is more than welcome here and will produce some great Australian dry whites … and be blended, judiciously of course, into some great Australian dry reds.

WINE REVIEWS Coriole 2018 Fiano ($28): A marvellously fresh, some would say simple, dry white wine, but all the better for its simplicity. If you like young semillon or sauvignon blanc, do yourself a favour and try this.

It's a great match for fettuccine carbonara, so try a bottle over the kitchen table or take some to your favourite Italian bistro.

● Coriole Vineyard: doing great things with fiano.

You won't regret it - just tell the task that fiano seems to do admira- or with abandon.

In the words of the accompanywait staff that I sent you. bly.

Coriole 2018 Shiraz Fiano($32): The result of the blend is a ing press release, this wine celAustralians are getting used to dry fresher red than normal, tending ebrates fiano's textural qualities.

The grapes were picked a little reds made from shiraz with a touch towards the medium- rather than riper and received more time on of viognier, a perfumed white vari- full-bodied - good one. skins to encourage extraction, and ety.

WINE OF THE WEEK It's something that this critic still Coriole 2018 Rubato Fiano the wine was then fully fermented struggles with, the viognier being ($32): music lovers may know the in seasoned oak barrels. I can feel perhaps a little too perfumed for a term 'rubiato' means to play freely a new favourite white coming on.

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THE T OP 5 THINGS THA T ARE TOP THAT FA STER THAN A ‘SPEEDING BULLET’ 5. A politician's pay-rise.

4. Dave Warner's time at the wicket.

3. Reality ‘stars’ posting pics of themselves on Facebook.

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1. Petrol prices - UP!

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

100 years on Hollywood Blvd

■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Musso and Frank hit 100

■ The Musso & Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard which featured heavily in the Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, turns 100 years old this month.

It has not only endured but also prevailed, with a menu that still features such antique dishes as Welsh rarebit, chicken pot pie, grilled lamb kidneys, and calf's liver with onions, not to mention its spine-tingling, stirred-not-shaken martinis, 55,572 of them served last year alone.

Waiters serve classic American fare and martinis to diners in red booths at Hollywood's oldest eatery.

Los Angeles's food scene has never been hotter. The Michelin Guide recently announced plans to resume reviewing restaurants after a nine-year hiatus occasioned by the feeling that the city's restaurants weren't quite up to snuff.

The Los Angeles Times has just relaunched a stand-alone food section to explore the city's burgeoning restaurant culture.

None of that much matters at Musso's, whose mahogany booths and original hat stands would feel instantly familiar to Charlie Chaplin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Orson Welles, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, Dorothy Parker, Alfred Hitchcock, or any of the dozens of others who made it one of the places to eat in Hollywood's golden age.

Musso & Frank Grill 6667 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028

Texting while driving

● Pictured at the 100-year celebration of Hollywood's oldest restaurant Musso & Franks are Countdown Motion Pictures CEO Gavin Wood and Ramada Managing Director, Alan Johnson.

Celebrating 50 years

70 is the new rockin’ 50

■ Congratulations to media Ppersonality and newspaper editor, Ash Long for 50 glorious years of breaking news and giving Victorians a window into the world of getting the factual story, information and truth in journalism.

We celebrate you and all your accomplishments. This underscores your passion and we recognise your many years of outstanding achievement in the media.

You are truly deserving of the honour and we are so proud of what you have achieved. More so, to be able to call you a very dear friend.

Wishing you and your team even more success, good health and good fortune in the years ahead.

■ Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73);Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

A few of these legends might manage to live into their 90s, despite all the wear and tear to which they've subjected their bodies over the decades.

But most of them will not.

Parents to blame

■ Mobile phone usage in class is getting so out of control that some schools are locking up students' phones during the day.

Students, teachers and administrators say parents light up their kids' phones throughout the day with text messages. Students say they feel obligated to reply to their parents quickly, even if the text isn't urgent. "Out of all people, you'd think your parents don't want you on your phone," said Darya Iranmanesh, a 16-yearold in Lexington, Massachusetts. "My mother texts me all the time." She admits it is probably a distraction. "I try my best not to do it," Dr. Iranmanesh said. Narges Iranmanesh, a dentist, usually sends her daughter scheduling reminders but sometimes just wants to check in. "If she has a headache, I'll ask if she's OK and getting enough fluid or I'll ask, 'How was your test?'" "It's like she's at work, I'm at school, why are we texting each other?

Like, I'll see you later," Darya said.

When teachers glanced at the phones periodically, they noticed a lot of the texts were from parents. Now, students are required to simply keep their phones out of sight in backpacks or at home and if they are caught with them, the devices get confiscated. Dr. Gold provided parents at his school with a Q&A about the policy along with research on how distracting phones can be in class. He said the response from parents and kids has been positive. Teachers are reporting that students are more focused in class.

GavinWood

From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

Speak with Jennifer

■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you.

We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.

I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper.

Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'.

Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com

■ The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety released a new study finding that in 2017, the number of deaths caused by drivers running red lights reached 939, its highest point in a decade, going up 31 per cent since 2009.

AAA researcher Brian Tefft says he thinks distracted driving is one of the causes.

That's hardly surprising.According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, between 2012 to 2017 distracted driving was connected to almost 20,000 fatalities.

The N.H.T.S.A. notes that texting can take your eyes off the road for five seconds at 55 mph, that's enough for you to drive the length of a football field effectively blindfolded.

A survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics in May found that over half of U.S. parents acknowledge it's unsafe to text while driving, but about the same percentage have done it anyway.

And hands-free phones have been found to be just as dangerous as hand-held phones.

It has been recommended that drivers be banned from using all phones.

We've let technology into every part of our lives, and now we're starting to see some of the downsides which get pretty serious at 60 mph.

The problem is that our addiction to our phones doesn't magically turn off when we turn on the ignition.

● Elizabeth Taylor

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Plant-based fake meat ■ The media may have fallen in love with plant-based fake meat like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods (who produce the Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger, respectively), but one high-profile super vegan doesn't think the "meat" is good for anyone's health.

John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, recently told CNBC that while the plant-based meat is better for the environment, and is more ethical than eating animals, it is made from processed ingredients that aren't healthier than actual meat.

"The brands who are capturing the imagination of people and I'm not going to name these brands because I'm afraid I will be associated with the critique of it," Mackey, who has been a vegan for more than 20 years, told the outlet, "but some of these that are extremely popular now that are taking the world by storm, if you look at the ingredients, they are super, highly processed foods."

"I don't think eating highly processed foods is healthy. I think people thrive on eating whole foods," he added.

"As for health, I will not endorse that, and that is about as big of criticism that I will do in public."

CNBC listed the ingredients for Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods burgers: According to Beyond Meat's website, ingredients for its plant-based patties include water, pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, rice protein and other natural flavors, including apple extract and beet juice extract (for color).

Ingredients for Impossible Foods burger include water, soy protein concentrate, coconut oil, sunflower oil, potato protein, soy leghemoglobin (a group of protein found in animals and plants) and other natural flavours.

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■ I think my first memory of hearing a Fats Domino song was Ain't That A Shame back in 1956.

I loved the deep resonance of his voice and the strong beat behind the song.

Rock and Roll was new to us pimply faced teenagers and we couldn't get enough of the American rock songs which became part of the soundtrack of our lives.

Antoine Dominique ‘Fats’ Domino Jnr was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1928.

Antoine studied piano at the age of nine. He left school to work in a factory so that he could play piano in the bars at night.

Antoine mastered the Boogie Woogie techniques and the classic Rhythm and Blues piano style.

In 1938 he married his childhood sweetheart, Rosemary. He became a father and almost lost his hand in a factory accident.

Antoine was given the nick-name of ‘Fats’ and it stuck. He joined trumpeter Dave Bartholomew's band.

Dave recognised the special talent of Fats and arranged a contract for him with Imperial Records.

In 1949 Fats Domino had his first million selling hit song The Fat Man and Dave became his manager.

Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino cowrote many of the hit songs which included, Ain't That a Shame, I'm In Love Again, Blue-

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Fats Domino

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

berry Hill, I'm Walkin', Blue Monday, I'm Walkin' To New Orleans and The Big Beat.

He appeared in two films Shake Rattle And Rock and The Girl Can't Help It. In 1963 Fats left Imperial Records and recorded with several other record labels.

In 1975 Fats Domino performed one show at Festival Hall in Melbourne as part of a national tour. He was accompanied by his 10-piece band.

The show ran for about two hours.

Fats brought a lot of expensive jewellery with him and it had to be guarded - his star shaped watch alone had 352 diamonds on it. The tour also included New Zealand.

My friend Vince Spiteri is a huge fan of Fats Domino and has visited his home in New Or-

● Fats Domino with Melbourne Observer reader Vince Spiteri leans several times. I thank Vince for sharing his returned for an encore. He made one more stage appearance in 2009 to raise funds to help vicgreat photo with us.

Domino was awarded the Grammy Lifetime tims of Hurricane Katrina.

Apparently Fats is a very shy person and has Achievement Award in 1987. In 1998, President Clinton awarded him the National Medal no desire to tour anymore.

He loves the people and the food in his homeof Arts.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in town. He lives a quiet life with his wife Rose2005 Fats and his family were rescued from mary and everybody in the working class area their home by boat, but they lost many posses- loves Fats.

- Kevin Trask sions in the storm.

In 2007 Fats Domino returned to the stage at Kevin can be heard on 3AW the New Orleans Venue Tipitina's to sing 11 The Time Tunnel - Remember When songs in thirty minutes. It was a sold out house Sundays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady of 500 enthusiastic fans. and Simon Owens. And on 96.5 FM As Fats was leaving the stage the compere That's Entertainment - Sundays suggested How About Blue Monday? and Fats at 12 Noon. www.innerfm.org.au

Latest attractions at National Gallery

■ Black Bamboo: Contemporary/ furniture Design from Mer, Torres Strait combines traditional craft and collaborative design in a display of bamboo furniture designed by artists from the Island of Mer, at the Ian Potter Centre.

Also known as Murray Island, Mer is one of the most eastern islands in the Torres Strait and is home to a native species of bamboo known in Meriam language as marep and colloquially in English as black bamboo.

The display tells a unique story about life in the Torres Strait by reimagining cultural stories in contemporary furniture designs through the use of native bamboos.

Exhibition opened September 11 and closes April 5. ★ Kaws: Companionship in the age of Loneliness Contemporary American artist KAWS, a.k.a. Brian Donnelly, is one of the most resonant artists of his generation.

In an Australian first. Kaws: Companionship In the Age of Loneliness is a comprehensive survey of 225 years of KAWS oevre, full of humour, hope and humanity, celebrating his ability to connect with broad audiences.

The full range of KAWS 's artistic output will be on display featuring more than 100 works including iconic paintings, reappropriating pop-culture figures to his more recent large-scale abstract works, and an impressive collection of his celebrated sculptural figures.

The exhibition includes a newly commissioned 7-mete bronze Companion sculpture Gone, 2019 standing solemnly in a Pieta pose, evoking a sense of sorrow and empathy.

On display in the NGV's Federation Court, this monumental work will be the largest bronze KAWS has created to date.

Exhibition opened this month and closes April 2020.

National Gallery of Victoria 150 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

At Queenscliff

■ 2019 Peebles Print Prize.

Exhibition closes November 24.

Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop 81 Hesse St. Queenscliff.

The Arts

those with cultural beliefs and others who identify as migrants or refugees.

The exhibition believes that such peripheral perspectives only enrich conversations and draw us closer to finding solutions in Australian society as a whole.

Exhibition closes October 20.

Abbotsford Convent Gallery 1 St Heliers St. Abbotsford.

OK. With John O’Keefe New version of Howzat

Fellows named

with Peter Kemp

Convent Gallery New Show at Abbotsford Convent's C3.

Gallery 1: Momentary obliterations, ,meditations and creations of a body. These practices play an important part in Ohni's life and function as a survival strategy as well as a chronically ill and disabled non-binary person. These works explore ritual practices that create a collapsing of stable categories into a production of new truths.

Gallery 2: Machines don't have eyes but birds do is an exhibition of multi-disciplinary works by artists Alexandra Nemaric, Zoe Whitson, Jemi Gale, Alice McIntosh and Lei Lei Kung. The exhibition uses birds, buses and breadsticks to explore senses of disorientation, isolation and disappointment to depict individual truths and autonomy through magic and imagination.

Gallery 3 and 5. Potluck is an exhibition that incorporates merging and established Australian and international artists. Potluck facilitates discussion on the need to listen, understand, empathise and most importantly, collaborate with voices that respond to the ever-growing demand to build a cohesive society. It adopts the perspective on mixed-cultural identities,. Contemporary religious voices,

■ The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust this week awarded the prestigious Churchill Fellowship to 115 Australians from all walks of life These Australians will travel collectively for more than 5000 days to over 30 countries at a cost of $3.35m Their projects will explore some of the most pressing and emerging challenges Australia is facing right now Churchill Fellows are funded to travel internationally to gather insights and knowledge that will benefit Australia.

Awardees include Dr Susan Carland and Michelle Tapper both high profile Australians.

Bram returns

■ For the third time in its history, the Jewish Museum of Australia has a new Director and CEO. Congratulations have been extended to Jessica Bram on her appointment. She is welcomed back to the Museum after an absence of six years.

Currently Curator at the Australian Centre for Moving Image, Jessica will commence her new role in November.

She brings with her 15 years' experience across curatorial and collection management in museums – most recently leading ACMI’s award-winning Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition Wonderland.

“We are thrilled to welcome back one of our own,” said Museum President Barry Fradkin. “Jessica is a creative visionary full of passion and energy for Jewish culture and connecting audiences to it.”

● Daryl Braithwaite ■ Channel 7 has commissioned a new version of the 1976 chart topper Howzat? by Sherbet. The new version features revised vocals by Daryl Braithwaite, co-written by Garth Porte,r and will receive maximum exposure with Seven’s broadcast of the forthcoming cricket.

Lyrics have been revised to include “you messed around and I caught you out”, referring to the ball tampering incident.

RIP Ninja Warrior

■ Sad to report the sudden death of Paul Lyons. He made his mark as a duel Olympian in taekwondo, 1992 and2000 . He then went onto star in the TB series Ninja Warrior, 2018 . Prior to his death Paul was Head Instructor at a Melbourne martial arts studio.

Keep on rockin’

■ Rewind to the sixties and Ronnie Burns was everywhere a teenager went. He was in the clubs, on TV and in recording studios, belting out song after song, with and without his backing group The Flies.

Still rockin’ he has compiled his most popular songs on This is Ronnie Burns - songs include Coalman, Smiley, Doing’ the Mod, plus a swag of others. Compilation is due out November 1, released by Warner Music.

Wild man out of hospital

■ Shannon Noll has been released from hospital following an operation on a re-occurring back problem. He needs to be in top knick as he has a national tour coming up, starting weekend of October 11 and 12 at York on Lilydale, and then onto Matthew Flinders.

Bight night for cover bands

■ Shakerfaker is Australia’s premier Oasis cover band and their big evening of fame is October 12 , being the 25th anniversary of the UK originals launching Definitely Maybe.

Supporting Oasis on stage will be Nowhere Man, a Beatles tribute band.

The night of nostalgia and classics will be at the St Kilda Prince Bandroom, October 12 .

- John O’Keefe

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: WILD ROSE: Genre: Music/Drama.

Cast: Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson, Julie Walters.

Year: 2018.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 100 Minutes.

Stars: **** Review: The story of Rose-Lynn Harlan, fresh out of prison and reunited with her son and daughter, and all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville, however, Rose's mother is forced to take strict responsibility, but when Rose gets a job, she finds and unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house.

Outstanding show-business fairytale of family and ambition overflows with pure heart and soul, a Celtic cracker of a movie totally void of cliché, cynicism, pandering and repetition set in the backstreets of Glasgow that draws you with an overwhelming honesty, emotional force and firm grip that doesn't let go until the final flow of hard earned tears have been wiped away.

Irish born (Killarney) Jessie Buckley, recently seen in the acclaimed "Chernobyl" (2019), gives a dazzling and awe-inspiring "A Star is Born" star-making turn as the star-struck Rose-Lynn Harlan, a raw, ballsy, stirring and utterly compelling warts-and-all awards worthy tour-de-force performance, and aided by a stellar supporting cast all in top form including Sophie Okonedo as the sympathetic Susannah, and veteran Julie Walters as the mother, as well as cameo appearances by singer-songwriters Kacey Musgraves and Ashley McBryde, as well as English music presenter Bob Harris (The Old Grey Whistle Test).

Director Tom Harper, screenwriter Nicole Taylor and star Jessie Buckley (with a towering voice) have composed a stirring, tough, funny, gutsy, melancholy, poignant, heart-warming and intoxicating journey on family and chasing your dream that pushes all the emotional buttons at the right time, a crackling surprise sleeper of which the biggest crime would be to miss it, at your own peril!

FILM: RED JOAN: Genre: Biography/Drama.

Cast: Dame Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore.

Year: 2018.

Rating: M. Length: 101 Minutes.

Stars: **½ Review: Inspired by the true story Joan Stanley (real name Melita Norwood), a specialist in physics employed as a British government civil servant who many years supplied nuclear bomb secrets to the Soviet Union's KGB beginning in the mid 1930s, which enabled them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy, and remained undetected as a spy for over a half a century.

A fascinating, simple and old fashioned spy yarn, the antitheses of James Bond and numerous other super-spies, and remindful of WWII wartime espionage romantic-thrillers over the decades, evoking the feel and tone of such spy dramas as "Bridge of Spies" (2015), "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011), "Charlotte Gray" (2001), and only barely succeeds for the most part on a time, a place, beliefs and characters and their human weaknesses during an extraordinary period in 20th Century history.

Dame Judi Dench gives a passable performance as the elder Joan Stanley, who was arrested in her 80s, and makes the journey of reliving her past as a lovelorn idealist, and is aided by Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service) as the younger Joan as independent woman of youthful conflict and determination, as well as a mostly British supporting cast that includes Stephen Campbell Moore (The Bank Job), Tereza Srbova and Tom Hughes, among others.

An antidote to the big CGI action-adventures, and unlikely to set the box-office on fire by lacking punch but interest, nonetheless, this little known story of a woman and her exploits that have been until recently buried deep in the archives history, an interesting drama on the execution and shattering of ideals and past imperfections, a story of the last spy of the atomic age, and a film that could have been and should have been far better, but clearly isn't.

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Top 10 Lists SEPTEMBER 22-28

THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. DOWNTON ABBEY. 2. IT: CHAPTER 2.

3. THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2.

4. ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. 5. ANGEL HAS FALLEN. 6. THE LION KING (2019).

7. THE FAREWELL. 8. AMAZING GRACE. 9. FAST & FURIOUS: HOBBS AND SHAW. 10. A DOG'S JOURNEY.

● Dora and the Lost City of Gold. clunky, self-knowing winks towards the material.

A hit-and-miss affair that does have some fine moments.

RATING - ***

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

■ (M). 108 minutes. Opens in cinemas September 26.

Based on the 80s books by Alvin Schwartz, this big screen adaptation, co-produced by Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape Of Water, Pan's Labyrinth) and directed by Andre Ovredal (who helmed the wonderful 2010 mockumentary Troll Hunter), may not offer much in the way of scares, but it sure serves up a lot of fun.

Set during the 1968 Presidential election, we see a small group of high school teens deal with a deadly curse when they visit the town's notoriously haunted mansion.

Each character has to deal with their own horror scenario, and while they may feel familiar, they are executed with genuine style and affection.

The young cast acquit themselves well, and fans of films such as George A. Romero's classic Creepshow (1982) should find this most enjoyable.

RATING - ***½

The Dead Don’t Die ■ (MA). 104 minutes. Opens in cinemas September 26.

This dryly humorous take on the zombie genre from cult favourite Jim Jarmusch (Night On Earth, Dead Man, Ghost Dog) proves a frustrating viewing experience, working when it stays within the film-maker's typically deadpan universe, but stumbles considerably when it attempts pop culture selfparody.

A small town is mysteriously overrun by zombies, but as the situation worsens, particular characters seem to become aware that they are in a zombie movie.

A great cast, including Bill Murray,Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloe Sevigny and Tilda Swinton (possibly delivering her weirdest performance to date) do their best, but can't completely overcome the

Dora And the Lost City of Gold ■ (PG). 102 minutes. Now showing in cinemas.

A surprisingly entertaining liveaction version of the beloved animated series, this modern updating will please the sea of fans who grew up with the young adventurer, and should embrace the fact that Dora herself has grown, now a resourceful teenager.

Gently emulating Indiana Jones-style escapades, director James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller, who were behind the recent, successful Muppet movies, carry over the same kind of goofy, good-natured atmosphere here, making sure the film maintains a winning mix of innocent charm and self-deprecating comedy (only one scene resorts to modern toilet humour).

Isabela Moner is perfect as Dora, and is backed up by a likeable young cast. Recommended family fun.

RATING - ***

Good Boys ■ (MA). 89 minutes. Now showing in cinemas.

If all you want in a comedy are three 12-year-old boys swearing their heads off and frequently indulging in sex jokes, then this is the film for you.

For everyone else, this plotless, pointless, and painfully unfunny outing is yet another nadir for Hollywood, and is especially dispiriting after the excellent Booksmart and Eighth Grade gave audiences hope that the American teen comedy was alive and well.

Feels like a five-minute sketch stretched out to ninety. Makes the scattershot, overlong Superbad look like a comic masterpiece.

RATING - *

NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: SEPTEMBER 19: ABOMINABLE, AD ASTRA, DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD, GOOD BOYS, MARGARET ATWOOD: LIVE IN CINEMAS, RAMBO: LAST BLOOD. SEPTEMBER 26: BUOYANCY, RIDE LIKE A GIRL, SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, THE DEAD DON'T DIE, THE GOLDFINCH, UGLYDOLLS. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. JOHN WICK: Chapter 3 - Parabellum [Action/Thriller/Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane].

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3. GODZILLA: King of the Monsters [Action/Fantasy/Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga].

4. ROCKETMAN [Music/Drama/Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden].

5. CHILD'S PLAY [Horror/Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry].

6. WILD ROSE [Drama/Biography/Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters].

7. RED JOAN [Drama/Biography/Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore].

8. PETERLOO [Drama/History/Rory Kinnear, Rachel Finnegan, Maxine Peake].

9. THE HUSTLE [Crime/Comedy/Rebel Wilson, Anne Hathaway].

Also: HIGH LIFE, ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, THE CHAPARONE, TOP END WEDDING, LONG SHOT, BRIGHTBURN, WOMAN AT WAR, THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF THE FAKIR, THE CURSE OF THE WEEPING WOMAN, ALL IS TRUE. NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT [Action/War/ Marlon Brando/Martin Sheen].

X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX [Sci-Fi/Action/Adventure/James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence].

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DVD AND/OR BLU-RAY NEW & RE-RELEASE CLASSIC MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS: APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX [Action/War/ Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen].

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens Mr. Bagnet, otherwise as immovable as a pump or a lamp-post, puts his large right hand on the top of his bald head as if to defend it from a shower-bath and looks with great uneasiness at Mrs. Bagnet.

“George,” says that old girl, “I wonder at you!

George, I am ashamed of you! George, I couldn’t have believed you would have done it!

I always knew you to be a rolling sone that gathered no moss, but I never thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet and the children to lie upon. You know what a hard-working, steady-going chap he is.

You know what Quebec and Malta and Woolwich are, and I never did think you would, or could, have had the heart to serve us so. Oh, George!” Mrs. Bagnet gathers up her cloak to wipe her eyes on in a very genuine manner, “How could you do it?”

Mrs. Bagnet ceasing, Mr. Bagnet removes his hand from his head as if the shower-bath were over and looks disconsolately at Mr. George, who has turned quite white and looks distressfully at the grey cloak and straw bonnet.

“Mat,” says the trooper in a subdued voice, addressing him but still looking at his wife, “I am sorry you take it so much to heart, because I do hope it’s not so bad as that comes to. I certainly have, this morning, received this letter” — which he reads aloud — “but I hope it may be set right yet. As to a rolling stone, why, what you say is true. I AM a rolling stone, and I never rolled in anybody’s way, I fully believe, that I rolled the least good to. But it’s impossible for an old vagabond comrade to like your wife and family better than I like ’em, Mat, and I trust you’ll look upon me as forgivingly as you can. Don’t think I’ve kept anything from you. I haven’t had the letter more than a quarter of an hour.”

“Old girl,” murmurs Mr. Bagnet after a short silence, “will you tell him my opinion?”

“Oh! Why didn’t he marry,” Mrs. Bagnet answers, half laughing and half crying, “Joe Pouch’s widder in North America? Then he wouldn’t have got himself into these troubles.”

“The old girl,” says Mr. Baguet, “puts it correct — why didn’t you?”

“Well, she has a better husband by this time, I hope,” returns the trooper. “Anyhow, here I stand, this present day, NOT married to Joe Pouch’s widder. What shall I do? You see all I have got about me. It’s not mine; it’s yours. Give the word, and I’ll sell off every morsel. If I could have hoped it would have brought in nearly the sum wanted, I’d have sold all long ago. Don’t believe that I’ll leave you or yours in the lurch, Mat. I’d sell myself first. I only wish,” says the trooper, giving himself a disparaging blow in the chest, “that I knew of any one who’d buy such a second-hand piece of old stores.”

“Old girl,” murmurs Mr. Bagnet, “give him another bit of my mind.”

“George,” says the old girl, “you are not so much to be blamed, on full consideration, except for ever taking this business without the means.”

“And that was like me!” observes the penitent trooper, shaking his head. “Like me, I know.”

“Silence! The old girl,” says Mr. Bagnet, “is correct — in her way of giving my opinions — hear me out!”

“That was when you never ought to have asked for the security, George, and when you never ought to have got it, all things considered. But what’s done can’t be undone. You are always an honourable and straightforward fellow, as far as lays in your power, though a little flighty. On the other hand, you can’t admit but what it’s natural in us to be anxious with such a thing hanging over our heads. So forget and forgive all round, George. Come! Forget and forgive all round!”

Mrs. Bagnet, giving him one of her honest hands and giving her husband the other, Mr. George gives each of them one of his and holds them while he speaks.

“I do assure you both, there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to discharge this obligation. But whatever I have been able to scrape together has gone every two months in keeping it up. We have lived plainly enough here, Phil and I. But the gallery don’t quite do what was expected of it, and it’s

Charles Dickens not — in short, it’s not the mint. It was wrong in me to take it? Well, so it was. But I was in a manner drawn into that step, and I thought it might steady me, and set me up, and you’ll try to overlook my having such expectations, and upon my soul, I am very much obliged to you, and very much ashamed of myself.” With these concluding words, Mr. George gives a shake to each of the hands he holds, and relinquishing them, backs a pace or two in a broad-chested, upright attitude, as if he had made a final confession and were immediately going to be shot with all military honours.

“George, hear me out!” says Mr. Bagnet, glancing at his wife. “Old girl, go on!”

Mr. Bagnet, being in this singular manner heard out, has merely to observe that the letter must be attended to without any delay, that it is advisable that George and he should immediately wait on Mr. Smallweed in person, and that the primary object is to save and hold harmless Mr. Bagnet, who had none of the money. Mr. George, entirely assenting, puts on his hat and prepares to march with Mr. Bagnet to the enemy’s camp.

“Don’t you mind a woman’s hasty word, George,” says Mrs. Bagnet, patting him on the shoulder. “I trust my old Lignum to you, and I am sure you’ll bring him through it.”

The trooper returns that this is kindly said and that he WILL bring Lignum through it somehow. Upon which Mrs. Bagnet, with her cloak, basket, and umbrella, goes home, bright-eyed again, to the rest of her family, and the comrades sally forth on the hopeful errand of mollifying Mr. Smallweed.

Whether there are two people in England less likely to come satisfactorily out of any negotia-

tion with Mr. Smallweed than Mr. George and Mr. Matthew Bagnet may be very reasonably questioned. Also, notwithstanding their martial appearance, broad square shoulders, and heavy tread, whether there are within the same limits two more simple and unaccustomed children in all the Smallweedy affairs of life. As they proceed with great gravity through the streets towards the region of Mount Pleasant, Mr. Bagnet, observing his companion to be thoughtful, considers it a friendly part to refer to Mrs. Bagnet’s late sally.

“George, you know the old girl — she’s as sweet and as mild as milk. But touch her on the children — or myself — and she’s off like gunpowder.”

“It does her credit, Mat!” “George,” says Mr. Bagnet, looking straight before him, “the old girl — can’t do anything — that don’t do her credit. More or less. I never say so. Discipline must he maintained.”

“She’s worth her weight in gold,” says the trooper.

“In gold?” says Mr. Bagnet. “I’ll tell you what.

The old girl’s weight — is twelve stone six.

Would I take that weight — in any metal — for the old girl? No. Why not? Because the old girl’s metal is far more precious — -than the preciousest metal. And she’s ALL metal!”

“You are right, Mat!” “When she took me — and accepted of the ring — she ‘listed under me and the children — heart and head, for life. She’s that earnest,” says Mr. Bagnet, “and true to her colours — that, touch us with a finger — and she turns out — and stands to her arms. If the old girl fires wide — once in a way — at the call of duty — look over it, George. For she’s loyal!”

“Why, bless her, Mat,” returns the trooper, “I think the higher of her for it!”

“You are right!” says Mr. Bagnet with the warmest enthusiasm, though without relaxing the rigidity of a single muscle. “Think as high of the old girl — as the rock of Gibraltar — and still you’ll be thinking low — of such merits. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”

These encomiums bring them to Mount Pleasant and to Grandfather Smallweed’s house. The door is opened by the perennial Judy, who, having surveyed them from top to toe with no particular favour, but indeed with a malignant sneer, leaves them standing there while she consults the oracle as to their admission. The oracle may be inferred to give consent from the circumstance of her returning with the words on her honey lips that they can come in if they want to it. Thus privileged, they come in and find Mr. Smallweed with his feet in the drawer of his chair as if it were a paper foot-bath and Mrs. Smallweed obscured with the cushion like a bird that is not to sing.

“My dear friend,” says Grandfather Smallweed with those two lean affectionate arms of his stretched forth. “How de do? How de do? Who is our friend, my dear friend?”

“Why this,” returns George, not able to be very conciliatory at first, “is Matthew Bagnet, who has obliged me in that matter of ours, you know.”

“Oh! Mr. Bagnet? Surely!” The old man looks at him under his hand.

“Hope you’re well, Mr. Bagnet? Fine man, Mr. George! Military air, sir!”

No chairs being offered, Mr. George brings one forward for Bagnet and one for himself. They sit down, Mr. Bagnet as if he had no power of bending himself, except at the hips, for that purpose.

“Judy,” says Mr. Smallweed, “bring the pipe.”

“Why, I don’t know,” Mr. George interposes, “that the young woman need give herself that trouble, for to tell you the truth, I am not inclined to smoke it to-day.”

“Ain’t you?” returns the old man. “Judy, bring the pipe.”

“The fact is, Mr. Smallweed,” proceeds George, “that I find myself in rather an unpleasant state of mind. It appears to me, sir, that your friend in the city has been playing tricks.”

“Oh, dear no!” says Grandfather Smallweed.

“He never does that!”

“Don’t he? Well, I am glad to hear it, because I thought it might be HIS doing. This, you know, I am speaking of. This letter.”

Grandfather Smallweed smiles in a very ugly way in recognition of the letter.

“What does it mean?” asks Mr. George.

“Judy,” says the old man. “Have you got the pipe? Give it to me. Did you say what does it mean, my good friend?”

“Aye! Now, come, come, you know, Mr. Smallweed,” urges the trooper, constraining himself to speak as smoothly and confidentially as he can, holding the open letter in one hand and resting the broad knuckles of the other on his thigh, “a good lot of money has passed between us, and we are face to face at the present moment, and are both well aware of the understanding there has always been. I am prepared to do the usual thing which I have done regularly and to keep this matter going. I never got a letter like this from you before, and I have been a little put about by it this morning, because here’s my friend Matthew Bagnet, who, you know, had none of the money — ” “I DON’T know it, you know,” says the old man quietly.

“Why, con-found you — it, I mean — I tell you so, don’t I?” “Oh, yes, you tell me so,” returns Grandfather Smallweed. “But I don’t know it.”

“Well!” says the trooper, swallowing his fire. “I know it.”

Mr. Smallweed replies with excellent temper, “Ah! That’s quite another thing!” And adds, “But it don’t matter. Mr. Bagnet’s situation is all one, whether or no.”

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“That’s just what I mean. As you say, Mr. Smallweed, here’s Matthew Bagnet liable to be fixed whether or no. Now, you see, that makes his good lady very uneasy in her mind, and me too, for whereas I’m a harurn-scarum sort of a good-for-nought that more kicks than halfpence come natural to, why he’s a steady family man, don’t you see? Now, Mr. Smallweed,” says the trooper, gaining confidence as he proceeds in his soldierly mode of doing business, “although you and I are good friends enough in a certain sort of a way, I am well aware that I can’t ask you to let my friend Bagnet off entirely.”

“Oh, dear, you are too modest. You can ASK me anything, Mr. George.” (There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in Grandfather Smallweed today.)

“And you can refuse, you mean, eh? Or not you so much, perhaps, as your friend in the city? Ha ha ha!”

“Ha ha ha!” echoes Grandfather Smallweed.

In such a very hard manner and with eyes so particularly green that Mr. Bagnet’s natural gravity is much deepened by the contemplation of that venerable man.

“Come!” says the sanguine George. “I am glad to find we can be pleasant, because I want to arrange this pleasantly. Here’s my friend Bagnet, and here am I. We’ll settle the matter on the spot, if you please, Mr. Smallweed, in the usual way. And you’ll ease my friend Bagnet’s mind, and his family’s mind, a good deal if you’ll just mention to him what our understanding is.”

Here some shrill spectre cries out in a mocking manner, “Oh, good gracious! Oh!” Unless, indeed, it be the sportive Judy, who is found to be silent when the startled visitors look round, but whose chin has received a recent toss, expressive of derision and contempt. Mr. Bagnet’s gravity becomes yet more profound.

“But I think you asked me, Mr. George” — old Smallweed, who all this time has had the pipe in his hand, is the speaker now — “I think you asked me, what did the letter mean?”

“Why, yes, I did,” returns the trooper in his offhand way, “but I don’t care to know particularly, if it’s all correct and pleasant.”

Mr. Smallweed, purposely balking himself in an aim at the trooper’s head, throws the pipe on the ground and breaks it to pieces.

“That’s what it means, my dear friend. I’ll smash you. I’ll crumble you. I’ll powder you. Go to the devil!”

The two friends rise and look at one another.

Mr. Bagnet’s gravity has now attained its profoundest point.

“Go to the devil!” repeats the old man. “I’ll have no more of your pipe-smokings and swaggerings.

What? You’re an independent dragoon, too! Go to my lawyer (you remember where; you have been there before) and show your independeuce now, will you? Come, my dear friend, there’s a chance for you. Open the street door, Judy; put these blusterers out! Call in help if they don’t go.

Put ’em out!”

He vociferates this so loudly that Mr. Bagnet, laying his hands on the shoulders of his comrade before the latter can recover from his amazement, gets him on the outside of the street door, which is instantly slammed by the triumphant Judy. Utterly confounded, Mr. George awhile stands looking at the knocker. Mr. Bagnet, in a perfect abyss of gravity, walks up and down before the little parlour window like a sentry and looks in every time he passes, apparently revolving something in his mind.

“Come, Mat,” says Mr. George when he has recovered himself, “we must try the lawyer.

Now, what do you think of this rascal?”

Mr. Bagnet, stopping to take a farewell look into the parlour, replies with one shake of his head directed at the interior, “If my old girl had been here — I’d have told him!” Having so discharged himself of the subject of his cogitations, he falls into step and marches off with the trooper, shoulder to shoulder.

When they present themselves in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mr. Tulkinghorn is engaged and not to be seen. He is not at all willing to see them, for when they have waited a full hour, and the clerk, on his bell being rung, takes the opportunity of mentioning as much, he brings forth no more encouraging message than that Mr. Tulkinghorn has nothing to say to them and they had better not wait. They do wait, however, with the perse-

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verance of military tactics, and at last the bell rings again and the client in possession comes out of Mr. Tulkinghorn’s room.

The client is a handsome old lady, no other than Mrs. Rouncewell, housekeeper at Chesney Wold. She comes out of the sanctuary with a fair old-fashioned curtsy and softly shuts the door. She is treated with some distinction there, for the clerk steps out of his pew to show her through the outer office and to let her out. The old lady is thanking him for his attention when she observes the comrades in waiting.

“I beg your pardon, sir, but I think those gentlemen are military?”

The clerk referring the question to them with his eye, and Mr. George not turning round from the almanac over the fire-place. Mr. Bagnet takes upon himself to reply, “Yes, ma’am. Formerly.”

“I thought so. I was sure of it. My heart warms, gentlemen, at the sight of you. It always does at the sight of such. God bless you, gentlemen!

You’ll excuse an old woman, but I had a son once who went for a soldier. A fine handsome youth he was, and good in his bold way, though some people did disparage him to his poor mother. I ask your pardon for troubling you, sir.

God bless you, gentlemen!”

“Same to you, ma’am!” returns Mr. Bagnet with right good will.

There is something very touching in the earnestness of the old lady’s voice and in the tremble that goes through her quaint old figure. But Mr. George is so occupied with the almanac over the fireplace (calculating the coming months by it perhaps) that he does not look round until she has gone away and the door is closed upon her.

“George,” Mr. Bagnet gruffly whispers when he does turn from the almanac at last. “Don’t be cast down! ‘Why, soldiers, why — should we be melancholy, boys?’ Cheer up, my hearty!”

The clerk having now again gone in to say that they are still there and Mr. Tulkinghorn being heard to return with some irascibility, “Let ’em come in then!” they pass into the great room with the painted ceiling and find him standing before the fire.

“Now, you men, what do you want? Sergeant, I told you the last time I saw you that I don’t desire your company here.”

Sergeant replies — dashed within the last few minutes as to his usual manner of speech, and even as to his usual carriage — that he has received this letter, has been to Mr. Smallweed about it, and has been referred there.

“I have nothing to say to you,” rejoins Mr. Tulkinghorn. “If you get into debt, you must pay your debts or take the consequences. You have no occasion to come here to learn that, I suppose?”

Sergeant is sorry to say that he is not prepared with the money.

“Very well! Then the other man — this man, if this is he — must pay it for you.”

Sergeant is sorry to add that the other man is not prepared with the money either.

“Very well! Then you must pay it between you or you must both be sued for it and both suffer.

You have had the money and must refund it.

You are not to pocket other people’s pounds, shillings, and pence and escape scot-free.”

The lawyer sits down in his easy-chair and stirs the fire. Mr. George hopes he will have the goodness to — “I tell you, sergeant, I have nothing to say to you. I don’t like your associates and don’t want you here. This matter is not at all in my course of practice and is not in my office. Mr. Smallweed is good enough to offer these affairs to me, but they are not in my way. You must go to Melchisedech’s in Clifford’s Inn.” “I must make an apology to you, sir,” says Mr. George, “for pressing myself upon you with so little encouragement — which is almost as unpleasant to me as it can be to you — but would you let me say a private word to you?”

Mr. Tulkinghorn rises with his hands in his pockets and walks into one of the window recesses.

“Now! I have no time to waste.” In the midst of his perfect assumption of indifference, he directs a sharp look at the trooper, taking care to stand with his own back to the light and to have the other with his face towards it.

“Well, sir,” says Mr. George, “this man with me is the other party implicated in this unfortunate affair — nominally, only nominally — and my sole object is to prevent his getting into trouble on my account. He is a most respectable man with a wife and family, formerly in the Royal Artillery — ”

“My friend, I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal Artillery establishment — officers, men, tumbrils, waggons, horses, guns, and ammunition.” “’Tis likely, sir. But I care a good deal for Bagnet and his wife and family being injured on my account. And if I could bring them through this matter, I should have no help for it but to give up without any other consideration what you wanted of me the other day.”

“Have you got it here?”

“I have got it here, sir.”

“Sergeant,” the lawyer proceeds in his dry passionless manner, far more hopeless in the dealing with than any amount of vehemence, “make up your mind while I speak to you, for this is final. After I have finished speaking I have closed the subject, and I won’t re-open it. Understand that. You can leave here, for a few days, what you say you have brought here if you choose; you can take it away at once if you choose. In case you choose to leave it here, I can do this for you — I can replace this matter on its old footing, and I can go so far besides as to give you a written undertaking that this man Bagnet shall never be troubled in any way until you have been proceeded against to the utmost, that your means shall be exhausted before the creditor looks to his. This is in fact all but freeing him.

Have you decided?”

The trooper puts his hand into his breast and answers with a long breath, “I must do it, sir.”

So Mr. Tulkinghorn, putting on his spectacles, sits down and writes the undertaking, which he slowly reads and explains to Bagnet, who has all this time been staring at the ceiling and who puts his hand on his bald head again, under this new verbal shower-bath, and seems exceedingly in need of the old girl through whom to express his sentiments. The trooper then takes from his breast-pocket a folded paper, which he lays with an unwilling hand at the lawyer’s elbow. “’Tis ouly a letter of instructions, sir. The last I ever had from him.”

Look at a millstone, Mr. George, for some change in its expression, and you will find it quite as soon as in the face of Mr. Tulkinghorn when he opens and reads the letter! He refolds it and lays it in his desk with a countenance as unperturbable as death.

Nor has he anything more to say or do but to nod once in the same frigid and discourteous manner and to say briefly, “You can go. Show these men out, there!” Being shown out, they repair to Mr. Bagnet’s residence to dine.

Boiled beef and greens constitute the day’s variety on the former repast of boiled pork and greens, and Mrs. Bagnet serves out the meal in the same way and seasons it with the best of temper, being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her. The spot on this occasion is the darkened brow of Mr. George; he is unusually thoughtful and depressed. At first Mrs. Bagnet trusts to the combined endearments of Quebec and Malta to restore him, but finding those young ladies sensible that their existing Bluffy is not the Bluffy of their usual frolicsome acquaintance, she winks off the light infantry and leaves him to deploy at leisure on the open ground of the domestic hearth.

But he does not. He remains in close order, clouded and depressed. During the lengthy cleaning up and pattening process, when he and Mr. Bagnet are supplied with their pipes, he is no better than he was at dinner. He forgets to smoke, looks at the fire and ponders, lets his pipe out, fills the breast of Mr. Bagnet with perturbation and dismay by showing that he has no enjoyment of tobacco.

Therefore when Mrs. Bagnet at last appears, rosy from the invigorating pail, and sits down to her work, Mr. Bagnet growls, “Old girl!” and winks monitions to her to find out what’s the matter.

“Why, George!” says Mrs. Bagnet, quietly threading her needle. “How low you are!”

“Am I? Not good company? Well, I am afraid I am not.”

“He ain’t at all like Blulfy, mother!” cries little Malta.

“Because he ain’t well, I think, mother,” adds Quebec.

“Sure that’s a bad sign not to be like Bluffy, too!” returns the trooper, kissing the young damsels. “But it’s true,” with a sigh, “true, I am afraid.

These little ones are always right!”

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“George,” says Mrs. Bagnet, working busily, “if I thought you cross enough to think of anything that a shrill old soldier’s wife — who could have bitten her tongue off afterwards and ought to have done it almost — said this morning, I don’t know what I shouldn’t say to you now.”

“My kind soul of a darling,” returns the trooper.

“Not a morsel of it.”

“Because really and truly, George, what I said and meant to say was that I trusted Lignum to you and was sure you’d bring him through it.

And you HAVE brought him through it, noble!”

“Thankee, my dear!” says George. “I am glad of your good opinion.”

In giving Mrs. Bagnet’s hand, with her work in it, a friendly shake — for she took her seat beside him — the trooper’s attention is attracted to her face. After looking at it for a little while as she plies her needle, he looks to young Woolwich, sitting on his stool in the corner, and beckons that fifer to him.

“See there, my boy,” says George, very gently smoothing the mother’s hair with his hand, “there’s a good loving forehead for you! All bright with love of you, my boy. A little touched by the sun and the weather through following your father about and taking care of you, but as fresh and wholesome as a ripe apple on a tree.”

Mr. Bagnet’s face expresses, so far as in its wooden material lies, the highest approbation and acquiescence.

“The time will come, my boy,” pursues the trooper, “when this hair of your mother’s will be grey, and this forehead all crossed and recrossed with wrinkles, and a fine old lady she’ll be then. Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, ‘I never whitened a hair of her dear head — I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!’ For of all the many things that you can think of when you are a man, you had better have THAT by you, Woolwich!”

Mr. George concludes by rising from his chair, seating the boy beside his mother in it, and saying, with something of a hurry about him, that he’ll smoke his pipe in the street a bit.

Chapter XXXV— Esther’s Narrative I lay ill through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room.

Before I had been confined to it many days, everything else seemed to have retired into a remote distance where there was little or no separation between the various stages of my life which had been really divided by years. In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore.

My housekeeping duties, though at first it caused me great anxiety to think that they were unperformed, were soon as far off as the oldest of the old duties at Greenleaf or the summer afternoons when I went home from school with my portfolio under my arm, and my childish shadow at my side, to my godmother’s house. I had never known before how short life really was and into how small a space the mind could put it.

While I was very ill, the way in which these divisions of time became confused with one another distressed my mind exceedingly. At once a child, an elder girl, and the little woman I had been so happy as, I was not only oppressed by cares and difficulties adapted to each station, but by the great perplexity of endlessly trying to reconcile them. I suppose that few who have not been in such a condition can quite understand what I mean or what painful unrest arose from this source.

For the same reason I am almost afraid to hint at that time in my disorder — it seemed one long night, but I believe there were both nights and days in it — when I laboured up colossal staircases, ever striving to reach the top, and ever turned, as I have seen a worm in a garden path, by some obstruction, and labouring again.

I knew perfectly at intervals, and I think vaguely at most times, that I was in my bed; and I talked with Charley, and felt her touch, and knew her very well; yet I would find myself complaining, “Oh, more of these never-ending stairs, Charley — more and more — piled up to the sky’, I think!” and labouring on again.

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Local People Lorraine’s award

■ Chum Creek family day care educator Lorraine Thomas has been recognised as one of Australia’s finest early childhood educators.

Lorraine has been announced as the Yarra Valley and High Country regional winner in the 2019 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards.

Lorraine, who is registered with Murrindindi Family Day Care, is one of more than 13,000 family day care educators who play a wonderful and vital role in the lives of more than 126,000 children around the country.

Now in its eighth year, Family Day Care Australia’s Excellence in Family Day Care Awards highlights the work completed by family day care educators each and every day, as well as showcasing the strong bonds shared between family day care educators and the children with whom they work.

Family Day Care Australia Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Paterson, said a record number of more than 5000 nominations were placed in the awards this year; testament to the growing recognition of the sector’s many and unique benefits in supporting children, families and communities across Australia.

“To be chosen as a regional winner is not only a reward for Lorraine’s dedication to providing quality early childhood education and care, it also underscores the relationship that Lorraine has with the children in her care,” said Mr Paterson.

The awards celebrate the uniqueness and diversity of family day care and highlight how strong relationships between educators and children and a nurturing home learning environment make family day care the natural choice for quality early childhood education and care.

“The Excellence in Family Day Care Awards highlight the special contribution that educators like Lorraine make to the lives of the children in their care,” Mr Paterson says.

Lorraine is now in the running to be named as a national finalist for the national Family Day Care Educator of the YearAward.

National finalists will be announced on October 14, with the National Educator of the Year to be announced at the Family Day Care Australia 2019 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards Gala Dinner on November 23 in Hobart.

Local News

Radio van on the road

● Radio UGFM’s Peter Weeks with the station’s new outside broadcast unit, purchased with funds from the Marysville Triangle Community Foundation and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal.

■ Indigenous elder Aunty Dot Peters has died. She was born in Healesville in 1930, later returning to that community.

She been an active community worker, and a key person working towards reconciliation.

Yarra Ranges Council hjas flown its flags at half-mast, to show its respect.

Her Aboriginal father, Vincent, fought in World War II, was captured and died as a prisoner of war on the Thai Burma railway.

“The prejudices of the time meant that Vincent’s sacrifice for Australia was unacknowledged and the family received no support afforded to non-indigenous soldiers,” noted the Herald Sun. Aunty Dot Peters worked in the Yarra Valley to promote cultural awareness, teaching Aboriginal studies, working in primary schools and setting up programs to teach children about indigenous history and culture.

Fruit Fly session

■ Murrindindi Shire Council, the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network and Murrindindi East U3A are partnering to educate and encourage the fight against the growing Queensland Fruit Fly threat in the region.

A free information session will be held at the old Taggerty School at 11am on Wednesday, October 2.

At the session attendees can learn more about the pest and how to control it in their garden or farm. There will be details of the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network's Queensland Fruit Fly monitoring program.

For more information you can contact Council on 5772 0333. ● Rod Clue, Pam Young and Teresa Clue on air at the Yea Garden Expo.

Warm welcome at Molesworth

Biosecurity issues

■ Agriculture Victoria and Victoria Police were among those presenting at a public hearing on Monday (Sept, 23) for the Parliamentary Inquiry into the impact of animal rights activism on Victorian agriculture.

The Legislative Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee is investigating the effectiveness of legislation and other measures to prevent and deter activities by unauthorised persons on agricultural and associated industries.

This includes an examination of the type and prevalence of unauthorised activity on Victorian farms and related industries, and ways of improving animal welfare outcomes.

Sensory friendly

■ Children with autism and sensory processing issues can explore Edendale Community Environment Farm at a sensory-friendly tour tomorrow (Thurs., Sept. 26) Led by a farmer, the 45-minute tour will allow children and young people to learn about the farm and take part in activities like feeding the chickens.

The tour is sponsored by Eltham Paediatrics, a local medical practice with roots in the community.

Nillumbik Mayor Cr Karen Egan said the tour would be welcoming and informative but aimed especially towards those with autism and sensory issues.

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■ A two-course dinner and discussion on ‘Climate-Smart Farming’ will be held by the Yea Ri9ver Catchment Landcare Group at 5.45pm for 6pm on Friday, October 25, aty Beaufort Manor, Yea. Speakers will include Graeme Anderson, Nick Linden and Mark Wootton.

Cost is $25 per person, pay on the night.

Bookings are esssential. Contact Judy Brookes on 0448 972 563 by Saturday, October 19.

Aunty Dot Peters

Vale Graham Wood

■ We have been advised of the passing of Dixons Creek identity Graham Wood, who was an integral part of the Yarra Glen racing and football fraternities.

Local Briefs Climate smart

● Judi O’Neill is receiving excellent reviews from local customers at the Molesworth Food and Wine Company (formerly the Molesworth Hotel). Judi has taken the business in a new direction, offering local wines and produce. Theme evenings such as Pizza Night on Thursdays have been extremely well patronised.

The open fire has been popular, especially amongst travellers. Judi is keen to help promote tourism to the region, and believes there is even further scope to increase Victorian Rail Trail traffic. She is keen to make the four units of accommodation available for Rail Trail participants, and tradespeople visiting the region.

Letter to the Editor Shire Hall works Sir, Ratepayers of Murrindindi Shire should be aware that they are now funding the superfluous works to the exterior of the old Yea Shire Hall, and to the tune of $220,000.

Grant funding to that amount was refused for reasons unknown, and now Council has committed to some minor repairs around the tower and for repainting the exterior in a dull gray, claimin g to represent ‘concrete’, and with splashes of red, white and black painted trims, and completely ignoring the original two-tone effect.

This reflected the true architectural leaning of that free-standing quasi-classic ‘pile’ and with the clock that never keeps real time.

Clearly no thought was gviven for any public consultation or of true heritage value and it is unknown if the Yea Historical Society was consulted during the planning process, and why the urgency to paint it now?

Certainly, the under use and issue of no prospect ofr value return of money will be yet another impost on existing ratepayers’ burden.

With that sort of money, Council could purchase outright the adjoining Carter’s site and put that asset to a better use longt-term, and top assure its future as a public asset and which may well attract grant funding.

Who wants to see a building in Yea that represents a concrete structure and painted to the colours of the Italian national flag?

I understand that the old Shire Hall with faced with gauged masonry - fake blocks and then later plastered and with stucco finish, and then painted two-tone gray in the style common to the late 19th century, and it be retained a s representing that period style.

- Jack Russell, Francis St, Yea

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Sport

Golden Rose set to bloom

■ The Classic Golden Rose event to be run at Rosehill over 1400 metres this Saturday, has attracted one of the best fields of top three-year olds to race for the big prizemoney.

Widely regarded as the lead-up race to the Caulfield Guineas on October 12, the Golden Rose always attracts the very best.

The market is headed up by the brilliant colt, Bivouac, from the Godolphin camp, headed up

by James Cummings.

The son of Exceed and Excel rocketed to favouritism for the Golden Rose in winning the Group Two Run to the Rose over 1200 metres at Rosehill.

He defeated another good colt, the former Victorian galloper, Yes Yes Yes, formerly with Darren Weir, now with the Chris Waller camp, who finished a good second, with the unlucky Exceedance third.

The first four home in the Run to the Roses ran exceptional times, with four of the top colts breaking 33 seconds for their last 600 metres.

Bivouac, ridden well by Josh Parr, sprinted home his last 600 metres in 32.78 seconds.

Yes Yes Yes ran 32.84 seconds, in running second.

While Exceedance ran the fastest split of 32.59 seconds, with Kubrik coming home his last 600 metres in 32.79.

Among the top contenders the barrier draw on the tricky Rosehill track is going to be so important.

On the next line is another very smart three year-old, in Castelvecchio, who contested the Dulcify Stakes over 1500 metres and came from last at the 600 metres, to run a great fourth to Just Thinkin'.

He is one of the most consistent youngsters going around, and always puts in, as his record shows.

The Magic Millions winner, Exhilarates, a dual winner at her last two starts at Moonee Valley is at the big odds of 50/1.

Another who will appreciate a rise in the distance is the Anthony Cummings-trained, Prince Fawaz, a Group One winner, and the 1400 metres of the Golden Rose will suit him down to the ground.

The Golden Rose is seen as a good stepping stone up to the rich Caulfield Guineas to be run at Caulfield to be run a week before the Caulfield Cup on October 12.

At this stage three-year olds such as Castelvecchio, Kubrik, Bivouac, Prince Fawaz, and Yes Yes Yes, are down to hopefully compete in the rich 1600 metres, the week before the Cup.

and we can't wait to show him off to his adoring fans at the Jayco Bendigo Cup next month".

Tickets are now on sale with all bookings with the Bendigo Jockey Club on 54484209.

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● Golden Rose favourite Bivouac wins well. Racing Photos pable hands of Rob Gaylard and his daughter, former jockey, Casey Bruce, as they train him to become a show horse.

Chautauqua moved into Gaylard's Lara property only a few weeks ago, and has already shown his new stable that the attributes shown that made him an international sprinting superstar are able to be transferred to the show ring.

“We were very fortunate that owner Rupert Leigh entrusted both Casey and I with his beloved champion as we commence the next chapter of Chautaqua's incredible story post horse racing", said Gaylard.

"Casey is the only one permitted to ride him, and even in just a few weeks since we've had him, his transformation to his new vocation has been unbelievable, much more than we expected at such an early stage.

"He seems very relaxed in his new surrounds

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Chautaqua leads

■ Former international sprint champion and sixtime Group One winning champion, will lead out the field for this year's Jayco Bendigo Cup to be run on Wednesday, October 30.

The 2019 Jayco Bendigo Cup will be the first time the now-nine year-old grey sprinter, has been back on a racecourse on a raceday since his steadfast refusal to jump from the barriers at Moonee Valley on Grand Final Eve last year.

■ It was with great sadness I learnt of the death of a good friend over many years that of legendary jockey and racing steward, Geoff Lane.

I go back a long time ago when I was working with Channel 9, and worked with Geoff on our Sports Show along with the late Tony Charlton , Geoff and the late Teddy Whitten.

Geoff not only was one of the greatest ever jockeys, but one of the best people you could ever meet.

He leaves his lovely wife, Joan, and his children, after passing away in Queensland where he had lived with his family after leaving Hong Kong, where he worked as Head Steward for many years.

Without going through his great record as a rider, he was celebrated around the world as one of the best Australian riders against all comers in world ranks.

It was only back in March this year that I interviewed Geoff on the National Jockey's Day at the Woodlands Golf Club for leading racing man, John Sweeney, who organises the regular big golf days, for the Trust and Woodlands Golf Club.

Geoff asked me if I was coming up his way in the near future to drop in and say hello.

It's tragic, only recently we lost another good friend of mine top trainer, Russell Cameron, and then another well-known identity, actor Paul Cronin.

On top of all this I found out through John Sweeney that leading trackman, Les O'Brien, had also passed away. His daughter, Hayley, looks after the scales at major race meetings.

May they all rest in peace.

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Darby, Boris take honours at Swan Hill

■ Gordon-based concessional reinsman Darby McQuigan and Mildura's Boris Devcic took the honours at an exciting Swan Hill trots program last Tuesday, each notching up a driving double throughout the evening.

McGuigan's first winner was Majestic Whiz for visiting Ebenezer (Queensland) trainer Kay Crone in the Cardigan Boko @ Goodtime Lodge Trotters Handicap over 2240 metres before finishing off the night with Byalla Boy for father Tim in the 1750 metre Aldebaran Eagle @ Aldebaran Park Pace.

■ Majestic Son-Roydon Whiz mare Majestic Whiz which commenced her career in Adelaide back in 2013 before going to NSW prior to Queensland, led out from the pole as 20 metre Scottish Sardius began brilliantly from 20 metres to cross her. Equal 20 metre marker Majestic Devil was off and running shortly after the start to assume control pushing Majestic Whiz back to three pegs.

Looking all over a winner on turning, Majestic Devil was nabbed in the last bound by Majestic Whiz wide out in a nose finish which tricked many.

Princess Katerina a stablemate of the winner was third 2.1 metres away after being four back the markers. The mile rate 2-04.

■ Byalla Boy, a speedy 6Y0 gelded son of Shadow Play and Whata Western, had little difficulty in leading from the pole and after dictating terms to a nicety, kicked clear on turning to record a 1.2 metre margin in a slick 1-55.9 from Madazalways (three back the markers) which gained a late splint over the concluding stages.

Heaven Attracts (one/two) was third 1.2 metres away.

■ Mildura trainer/driver Boris Devcic was also a multiple winner on the night with a pair of five year olds - Rock N Roll Heaven-Serene Angel mare Baby Luv the Ultimate Machette @ Alabar Pace over 1750 metres and Somebeach-somewhere-Formalize gelding Velox Equus the Modern Art @ Lochend Stud Pace over 2250 metres.

Baby Luv from the pole was given every opportunity on the back of the leader Smynanna Mickey which flew away from gate six, before using the sprint lane to prevail by a head from a death-seating Cadillac Rock, with Smynanna Mickey a half head away third in a thrilling finale. The mile rate 1-57.6.

■ Velox Equus (gate three) scored in a strangely run affair as he dropped off from a one/one spot at the bell when trailing Major Mucha which raced parked outside Melinka after starting from a solo second line draw.

Making the final bend very wide, Velox Equus sprouted wings in the straight to defeat Major Mucha which looked a spent force on the home turn before rallying in the straight, with Fremarksgonzo (four back the markers) closing late for third after being extricated from the pegs over the concluding stages. The margins 3.3 X 1.9 metres in a mile rate of 1-57.9.

■ The Steven Duffy (Arcadia) trained 4Y0 Bettors Delight-Spring To Life gelding Spring Delight was victorious in the Up And Quick @ Trump Bloodstock Pace over 2240 metres.

A late replacement drive for Zac Phillips, Spring Delight settled three back in the moving line from gate four as polemarker Hancocks Hero led easily.

Easing three wide in the last lap, Spring Delight was too strong at the finish for the pacemaker, scoring by a half neck in 1-57.7, with Rhyflective a neck away in third place after trailing the leader from inside the second line and using the sprint lane. Spring Delight was to be driven by Darby McGuigan who was delayed getting to the track courtesy of the police.

■ Junortoun trainer Dylan Marshall combined with Ararat freelance Michael Bellman to land the Downbytheseaside @ Woodlands Pace over 1750 metres with Glitznglam, a 6Y0 daughter of Village Jasper and Suffolk Star who was making her third race appearance.

First up since February, Glitznglam was all over the place from gate five early, facing the open, four back the markers and three back in the moving line at the bell.

Easing wide on turning off a three wide trail on the back of Cresco Goldigger, Glitznglam ran home best to gain the day by a neck from Nil Desperandum which led, with Passionate Pursuit a half head back in third place after trail-

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dorsement (four wide last lap from the tail) and Six Elements which raced exposed in a mile rate of 1-55.6. The margins 1 X 2.2 metres.

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■ Youthful Birdswoodton (Mildura) trainer Lachlan Prothero was successful in the Yankee Rockstar @ Northern Rivers Vet Clinic Pace for 1750 metres with consistent 6Y0 Mach ThreeMagic Maddy Lombo mare Causenfriction in 1-56.3.

With Bendigo's Neil McCallum in the sulky, Causenfriction possied three back the markers from gate three as American Tour inside her was driven with plenty of vigour to cross polemarker Some Stone.

Coming away from the inside to be poised one/one approaching the home turn, Causenfriction when eased wide on the final bend ran home strongly to register a head margin over Travelnpastyou which followed her all the way before gaining a late split over the concluding stages. The early burn told on American Tour who weakened to be third 3 metres back.

Swan Hill's next meeting will be Cup Night Friday October 25.

Extreme pressure

■ Old King Cole was a merry old soul (as the nursery rhyme says), however his rhyming name sake - visiting Tasmanian trainer Ben Yole was even merrier at Yarra Valley on Monday after providing a first four finish to the Yarra Valley Party Hire Claiming Pace over 2150 metres, with My Ultimate Fella ($8.70) defeating Perfect Match ($5.90), Monarkmac ($7.60) and Hez The One ($5.00).

Driven by David Miles, My Ultimate Fella from the pole trailed the long odds-on favourite Tippitinya as Monarkmac raced exposed, Hez The One (one/one) and Perfect Match at the tail.

With the leader under extreme pressure on the final bend, My Ultimate Fella was eased away from the inside to trail Monarkmac and dashed clear shortly after, scoring by 4.1 metres over the other three stablemates in a mile rate of 2-00.8. The first four paying a dividend of $557.00.

Had every chance

■ At Bendigo on Wednesday, Junortoun trainer Carla Innes-Goodridge scored a well deserved victory with 4Y0 Wishing StoneBroadacrossthebeam gelding Zarem who broke his maiden status at start number 19 by taking the Garrards Horse & Hound Trotters Mobile over 2150 metres in a mile rate of 2-03.7.

Driven by local Ellen Tormey, Zarem began brilliantly from gate five to lead and after bowling along at his leisure, registered an easy untouched 6.9 metre margin in advance of Ima Calvert Rose (gate 2) which had every chance after trailing. Ero Carpe Diem was third 5.7 metres away after trailing the pair from the pole.

Burning away

■ Elmore's Matthew Higgins combined with Chris Alford to land the 1650 metre Alabar Bloodstock Pace at Bendigo with honest 5Y0 mare Lilnova, a daughter of Mister Big and Nova Arama.

Burning away from gate six, Lilnova led throughout to account for 12Y0 old timer En-

■ Ballarat raced on Wednesday and Portland owner/trainer Heath Bourke's 9Y0 Village Jasper-Public Affair gelding Basha Bourke (18.50) making only his third appearance at the races, was an upset winner of the Springfest Ballarat Pace over 1710 metres in a mile rate of 1-59.2.

Driven by Greg Sugars, Basha Bourke starting from the pole settled on the back of the leader The Defiant drawn next door, with the hot favourite Chief Safari going forward from gate six to race in the open.

Gaining a late split in-between runners three parts of the way up the running, Basha Bourke finished fast to prevail by a neck from Extortion (one/one) and Chief Safari who was a head away in third place.

No way of stopping

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ The time honoured Kilmore Pacing Cup, once the pinnacle of the provincial trot season, will be the highlight of this week's racing in a new time slot - Thursday night.

Meetings for the week : Wednesday Geelong, Thursday - Kilmore, Friday Shepparton, Saturday - Melton, Sunday Charlton, Monday - Cranbourne, Tuesday Terang.

Horses to follow

■ Daylight At Dawn, Cadillac Rock, Emerging Talent, Tiber, Madazalways, Be Good Juddy.

■ There appears to be no way of stopping Snake Valley trainer Damien Burns' 5Y0 Metropolitan-Princess Dilinger gelding Idle Times at present who chalked up his fifth victory in succession when greeting the judge in the 1710 metre Italktravel & Cruise Ballarat Pace.

Taking a claim for Burrumbeet's James Herbertson, Idle Times was forced to race exposed from gate four after Peter Perfect inside him led with ease. Despite the tough passage, Idle Times was too strong over the concluding stages, scoring by 1.9 metres in a rate of 1-57.6 from Kotare Mahdi (gate five) which followed the winner everywhere. Peter Perfect weakened over the concluding stages to finish third.

on Friday after 4Y0 Alta Christiano-Miss Feelgood gelding Aveiro landed the Sadleworld Shepparton Pace Final over 1690 metres.

A winner of his heat at Cobram the previous Sunday, Aveiro driven once again by James Herbertson was given the run of the race from gate four trailing Goes Boom (gate five) and always looked to travelling well within himself.

Using the sprint lane, Aveiro scored by 2.3 metres from a game Shark Port which went forward from gate six to race in the open, with Goes Boom a nose away third. The mile rate a sizzling 1-54.5.

Unusual affair

In-form runner

■ The Allan Bros. Jewellers Trotters Mobile over 2200 metres taken out by Clover Lou was an unusual affair as a power outage saw the track drained in darkness with a lap to travel.

Driven by Zac Phillips for Bannockburn trainer Geoff Webster, Clover Lou from gate two enjoyed a soft trip trailing the polemarker Honey Please which led. Easing off the back of the leader approaching the home turn to race clear on turning, Clover Lou just lasted to score narrowly over Honey Please which came again as the post loomed, with Angels Breath third after trailing the pair.

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■ Local Wahring owner/trainer Sonia Mahar was successful at her home track Shepparton

■ Yan Yean trainer Brian Ruschmeyer combined with a very much in-form Greg Sugars to snare a stable double at Shepparton - 5Y0 Art Major-Smooth Shillelagh mare Shecandoit in the 1690 metre Central Tyre Service Pace and 5Y0 Art Official-Loves Ok mare Shawami Lass the Alabar Pace over 2190 metres.

Shecandoit led throughout, accounting for Emerging Talent from last by 3.8 metres in a rate of 1-57.1, with Im Jollygood third 2.3 metres back after following the winner, while Shawami Lass ran home from mid-field off a three wide trail to defeat Jimmy Locke (four wide home turn) after trailing the winner by a half neck, with Mongiana third 6.7 metres back off the back of the weakening pacemaker Ramblenroller.

The mile rate 1-58.6.

News Extra Schools may submit one application for up Funds for schools to $20,000 funding for each of their campuses.

■ Schools in Indi have only days left to apply for up to $20,000 for projects to benefit their students’ learning experience.

Senator Bridget McKenzie encourages schools in Indi, and across regional Victoria, to apply for grants between $1000 and $20,000 to contribute to school projects through the Liberal and Nationals Government’s $30.2 million Local Schools Community Fund.

“Projects can be anything that benefits the school community, whether it be computer facilities, mental health and counselling services, playground equipment, library resources or sports facilities,” Senator McKenzie said.

“Indi has been allocated $200,000 in grant funding for projects and I urge all schools across Victoria to think about the best way this funding can help their students and the local school community and to submit an application.

“Applications for the fund close on September 30 and I encourage every school to apply.”

The Local Schools Community Fund is open to eligible state, Catholic and independent schools, and proposed projects will be independently.

Applications close at 5 pm on September 30 and projects must be completed by the end of 2020.

Schools can apply through SchoolsHUB – https://schools.education.gov.au/

Rubicon blockade ■ Kinglake Friends of the Forest last weekissued a statement about a new protest against timber logging in the Rubicon Forest.

“A blockade has been set up by Forest Conservation Victoria – supported by the Rubicon Forest Protection Group – to highlight extreme logging in one of Victoria’s most ecologically diverse mountain forest areas: the Rubicon State Forest,” says the statement, which has contacts named as Ann Jelinek and Dr David Legge.

“The area sits atop the Cerberean Caldera – the site of one the largest volcanic eruptions in the history of the earth.

“The Blue Range to the west was ravaged by the 2009 Black Saturday fire and the Rubicon and Royston Valleys are devastated by logging so extensive that multiple provisions of the Code of Practice for Timber Harvesting have been breached,” it is alleged.

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Sport

Squalls disrupt Chas. Hayes Pennant shoot

● From left: David Black coaching Len Hayes, Paul Watkins getting ready to shoot, Geoff James shooting from the bench with coach Graeme Kerr and Phil Betts.

■ Rain and squalls with winds over 35kmh some very difficult conditions. The only comThe Avenel Shield was also finalised at this FSB 44, 42 = 86, John Maccioni FO 44. 1, 41= winds greeted the East Central District Rifle fort, and we use that term carefully, was that the shoot and the preliminary results gives the Avenel 85.1, Paul Watkins FO 35, 48.1 = 83.1.

Association’s team and the teams from the four other teams had similar score boards with Josh Shield to Nagambie with 19 points followed by ECDRA members shooting next week will other clubs as they gathered at Karramomus Weaire from Nagambie top scoring over all for Shepparton / Nathalia 16, Karramomus 15, be a Club shoot over 300 and 500 yards at the rifle range for the final stage of the Chas Hayes the stage with a 57.4.

Katandra 12 and ECDRA 10.

Violet Town range, shooters are reminded to memorial shoot over 1000 yards last Saturday.

Considering that National Team members Congratulations Nagambie as the Avenel check the calendar at the web site The weather was so bad that there was seri- were included in the shoot, it confirms just how Shield is an off-rifle completion with results www.ecdra.com.au for shoot details and the posous consideration of deferring the shoot. difficult the conditions were. corrected to allow for the variation in there dif- sibilities of a mid week shoot.

The shooting program for most clubs is very There was no time for a stop between stages ferent classes.

New shooters are most welcome and they full over the spring season and deferment was a and the shoot continued to ensure that it was Nagambie has been consistently good all year can be assured that the sport will be challenging difficult option so instead the start was postponed. complete before the light failed. and are deserving winners of the Avenel Shield. but not quite as tough as the 1000 yard shoot last Almost an hour and a half after the regular With “improving” conditions the coaches jobs This shield was donated to the Goulburn Valstarting time it was decided that the weather was were not easier, however the scores improved ley precision long range target shooters by the week at Karramomus.

It is not easy to organise these 2400mm by improving and the shoot got underway. ever so slightly.

Tehan family in the 1950s for team shooting The coaches were far from happy as they For the ECDRA David Wallace took the sec- and has be recently revived by Graeme Kerr 1800mm (large and unwieldily) targets so spetried to keep tabs on a wind that a variation of ond stage with a 53.2 and Josh Wearie from from the ECDRA into a trophy befitting the cur- cial thanks is extended to the Karramomus club 1kph would result in a movement of up to 200 Nagambie was top score again for the stage with rent styles and classes of team target shooting who not only put on a great shoot but also a fantastic afternoon tea in their warm club house mm on the target.

55.1. over ranges from 300 to 1000 yds.

The shooters had to do their best to keep the Like most sports the raw numbers do not tell The detailed team results for the ECDRA well away form the violent conditions that had rifle dead still as the, now very cold, wind buff- the whole story as David Black shooting Target shooters off-rifle on Saturday are: David Wallace assailed the shooters all day. ered them first one way then another. Precision rifle had an off-rifle score of 96.6 and when FSA 53. 3, 53.2 = 106.5; Graeme Kerr FSA 52.2, Thank you Karramomus and the rest of the shooting under these conditions? adjusted to allow for the different classes David 51.4 = 103.6, Terry Gee FO 52.1, 51.2 = 103.3; teams: Nagambie, Katandra and Shepparton/ Captain Neal Hambridge reminded the top scored for the day, a great effort as the target Neal Hambridge FO 49.1, 51.1 = 100.2, Des Nathalia for a great pennant season.

ECDRA team that this was their chance to grab rifle class has no optical assistance.

- Robert Chaffe Coulter FO 50.1, 50.1 = 100.2; Geoff James a podium finish on the day and improve their Based on the information from the scorer the standing the Chas Hayes long range pennant. tentative results from Saturday are KarraBy Peter Kemp With the return of Graeme Kerr and having a momus maximum 6 pennant points with a handifull team, hopes were high until the first shots cap score of 550.17 to ECDRA with 533.18 folwere fired. lowed by Nagambie’s 532.17, Shepparton Then the reality of the challenge of the shoot Nathalia with 442.17 and Katandra on 323.13. hit home as the first shots for each of the shootThe points awarded after each round is 6 for ers was more likely to be a miss than a hit. a win then, 5, 4, 3, 2 respectively.

The coaches were working very hard and The final tally for all the three rounds were, were able to get their charges back onto the tar- Nagambie the victors on 15, closely followed ■ Arts Centre Melbourne is inviting visitors to suit of progress and the resilience of this fragile get for the second sighter.

by Karramomus on 14, Shepparton Nathalia literally walk a mile in someone else's shoes as plane" extract from the catalogue by Caroline part of a free participatory arts project exploring Field. Exhibition closes October 13. .

Whew, that was close as two misses, as 13, ECDRA 11 and Katandra on 8. sighters, on electronic targets and you are disNicholas Thompson Gallery Based on these results it was a great tussle the practise od empathy. qualified.

A Mile in My Shoes, created by Empathy 155 Langridge St, Collingwood for second and third on the final stage with the Now to find the middle and stay there. David ECDRA coming out on top but it was Nagambie Museum's award-winning artist and curator Wallace posted the highest score for the ECDRA who took the Chas Hayes Long Range Memo- Clare Patey, asks for participants to step inside a for the first stage with a 53.3 At least five points rial Pennant by one point from Karramomus. giant shoe shop on Arts Centre Melbourne down on his usual performance.

A very close tussle over the most difficult forecourt from November 1-17 where they will ■ The Melbourne Athenaeum Theatre was Paul Watkins was the most unlucky as he hit ranges that are regularly contested. temporarily trade their footware, slip on some the venue for Melbourne Opera's production of headphones and take a short walk, as the shoe's Vincenzo Bellini's Norma.

Set in Gaul during the Roman occupation owner tells a story about their life.

From Page 00 The Melbourne Project, presented as part of Norma was a high Druid Priestess but she fell in love with the Roman proconsul Pollione to Victoria Police - Towner, P (21184) v Trellu- the Betty Amsden Participation Program, will whom Victoria Police - Mcgill, M (33080)v she had two children. But, of course, as feature 35 stories in the theme of water, includCoker, James Henri.

Ciu-Benalla Hayles, Samantha. State Highway Patrol South high priestess this was a traitoble offence. ing 23 stories donated by Melburnians and 12 East Victoria Police - Yon, A (43926) v Mclean, The theatre was set simply as the director stories collected during Empathy Museum's Victoria Police - Dowell, C (24892) v Jack- David. Pcet-Boronia says,"a stylized Amphitheatre as an arena where travel around the world.

Victoria Police - Stephens, S (40205) v Deason, Heath. Traffic Camera Office this great tale unfolds".

Produced by Melbourne-based sound proVictoria Police - Wilson, J (30444) v Jack- con, Luke. Uni-Alexandra Playing Norma was Helena Dix, an Austraducer Camilla Hannan, contributions range from Victoria Police - Gipp, I (31043) v Ball, Dion. son, Heath. Traffic Camera Office a marine biologist to an Aquaphobic English lian soprano who has secured her name on opVictoria Police - Wilson, J (30444) v Jack- Uni-Mansfield era around the world. And one could see why in son, Heath. Traffic Camera Office Victoria Police - Owen, D (42851) v Gra- migrant, a Vietnam War veteran to a 10-year- her performance of Norma. Her arias were suoldcontemplating the Yarra River, an 81-year- perb and her duet with Jacqueline Dark Victoria Police - Wilson, J (30444) v Jack- ham, Freeman. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Hunter, S (33941) v Clark, old rower to a First People of Australia actor. son, Heath. Traffic Camera Office (Adalgisa) were a sheer delight. As well as beArts Centre Melbourne Victoria Police - Scannell, M (35182) v Lav- Brendan. ing a wonderful singer Dax gave a great acting 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne ender, Dean. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Cusack, S (28652) v performance.

Victoria Police - Clements, A (39613) v Wilkinson, Jamie Malcolm. Ciu-Alexandra Her roman lover the proconsul Pollione was Victoria Police - Walker, A (27716) v MaYoung, Dale. State Highway Patrol South East performed by Samuel Sakker. Norma's father, Victoria Police - Heintze, A (39542) v Reeves, son, Lachlan. Uni-Alexandra Oroveso, was performed by Eddie Through the Window of an Inner Room: Community Corrections Centre - English, C Kenneth William. Uni-Moonee Ponds Mullaumaseali'l a marvelous bass with good Wendy Stavrianos Victoria Police - Heintze, A (39542) v Coker, v Hamstead, Scott Robert. Community Correcstage projection and excellent acting ability.

"Presenting a view od a dystopian yet someJames. Uni-Moonee Ponds tions Centre Adalgisa Pollione's lover and Druid PriestVictoria Police - Frost, J v Hamstead, Scott how redeemable world distilled by the eyes of a ess was performed by Jacqueline Dark. The Victoria Police - Owen, D (42851) v skilled and articulate observer.

Ciu-Benalla Alexander, Kane Grant. Uni-Mansfield balance of the main cast lived up to the high Through the Window of an Inner Room con- standard set by the lead performers adding to Victoria Police - Apps, J (34899) v Leeves, Victoria Police - Dowell, C (24892) v tains a tragic and beautiful narrative on the pur- the enjoyment of the evening.

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LOCAL FOOTBALL SCORES AT A GLANCE NFNL DIVISION 1

■ Seniors. Results. Grand Final. Saturday, September 21. West Preston-Lakeside 9.5 (53) defeated Greensborough 6.5 (41), at Preston City Oval.

■ Reserves: Bundoora 6.8 (44) d Greensborough 2.11 (23).

■ Under 19: Eltham 1 13.10 (88) d St Mary’s 11.14 (80).

AFL OUTER EAST DIVISION 1

■ Seniors. Results. Grand Final. Sunday, September 22. Doveton 9.7 (61) d Pakenham 8.7 (55). At Woori Yallock.

■ Reserves. Results. Grand Final. Sunday, September 22. Pakenham 10.7 (67) d Mt Evelyn 9.4 (58).

■ Under 18. Results. Grand Final. Sunday, September 22. Officer 7.4 (46) d Pakenham 6.7 (43).

PREMIER LEAGUE

■ Seniors. Results. Preliminary Final. Saturday, September 21. Narre Warren 16.5 (101) d Beaconsfield 11.11 (77).

■ Reserves. Results. Preliminary Final. Saturday, September 21. Berwick 9.9 (63) d Beaconsfield 4.6 (30).

■ Under 18. Results. Preliminary Final. Saturday, September 21. Beaconsfield 7.8 (50) d Narre Warren 5.8 (38).

■ Fixture. Grand Final. Friday, September 27. At Toomuc Reserve, Pakenham.

GOULBURN VALLEY

■ Seniors. Results. Grand Final. Sunday, September 22. Kyabram 10.14 (74) d Echuca 7.10 (52).

■ Reserves. Results. Grand Final. Sunday, September 22. Seymour 7.7 (49) f Echuca 5.14 (44).

■ Under 18. Results. Grand Final. Sunday, September 22. Echuca 7.10 (52) d Seymour 6.8 (44).

KYABRAM DISTRICT

■ Seniors. Results. Grand Final. Saturday, September 21. Nagambie 18.9 (117) d Tallygaroopna 9.5 (59). At Mooroopna Recreation Reserve.

■ Reserves. Results. Grand Final. Saturday, September 21. Tallygaroopna 9.7 (61) d Avenel 8.7 (55) ■ Under 18. Results. Grand Final. Saturday, September 21. Lancaster 12.10 (82) d Shepparton East 5.10 (40).

Sport

Locals in top teams ■ Murrindindi players were prominent in the AFL Outer East Division 2 teams of the year, announced at the annual presentation on Wednesday night (Sep. 18).

Kinglake playersAndrew Fairchild, Jayden Butterworth and Chris Horman joined with Brayden Norris (Alexandra) and Adrian McCarthy (Yea), in being named in the Division’s Team of the Year for 2019.

The side was announced as: B: Jayden Butterworth (Kinglake), Jack Nolan (Seville), Joshua Hammen (Yarra Junction) HB: Michael Firrito (Gembrook-Cockatoo), Jack Garthwaite (Powelltown), Bradley Clark (Yarra Junction) C: Justin Myers (Seville), Leigh Hoffman (Yarra Junction), Austin Smith (Yarra Glen) HF: Chris Horman (Kinglake), Nathan O’Keefe (Seville), Dylan Broadway (Seville) F:Dean Roy (Powelltown),Andrew Fairchild (Kinglake), David Johnson (Yarra Junction).

R: Ben Wratten (Powelltown), Ewan Wadsworth (Yarra junction), Tarkyn Lockyer (Gembrook-Cockatoo) Interchange: Brayden Norris (Alexandra), Adrian McCarthy (Yea), Sam Morton (Yarra Junction).

Kinglake’s Andrew Fairchild was named as coach for the side. ★ In netball, Kinglake’s Bille Cvijetic, Alice Waack and Bridghet Waack, joined with Yea’s Melissa Martinov, Samantha Coppinger and Tayissa Coppinger in being named for the Division 2 Team of the Year.

GS: Melissa Martinov (Yea). GA: Billie Cvijetic (Kinglake). WA: Ella Bayliss (Seville).

C: Samantha Coppinger (Yea). GD: Alice Waack (Kinglake). WD: Bridget Waack (Kinglake). Stephanie McNay (Seville). Interchange: Jackie Cullimore (Seville), Tayissa Coppinger (Yea), Demi Barber (Powelltown), Chloe Gray (Yarra Glen), Stephanie McLachlan (Seville).

Coach: Carly McDonnell (Seville). Assistant Coaches: Yea Co-Coaching Group.

● Andrew Fairchild: selected as coach for Outer East Div 2 team.

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Dustin Fletcher at Rebels’ day

Local Sport Yea presentations

■ Beaufort Manor was the venue for the Yea Football-Netball Club presentations on Saturday night (Sept. 21): D-GRADE NETBALL Best and Fairest: Abby Christie Runner-up: Kim Slavin Coaches award: Caitlyn Broderick C-GRADE NETBALL Best and Fairest: Chelsea Helder Runner-up: Molly Jarvie Coaches award: Kathleen Alldrick B-GRADE NETBALL Best and Fairest: Cindy Hayes Runner-up: Lauren Cronk Coaches award: Brydee Bond A-GRADE NETBALL Best and Fairest: Melissa Martinov Runner-up: Tayissa Coppinger Coaches award: Chelsea Spagnolo OVERALLNETBALL Most Consistent: Lauren Cronk Most Determined; Chelsea Spagnolo Most Improved: Jacquiline Dalton RESERVES FOOTBALL Best and Fairest: Ryan Sargeant Runners-up: Darcy Pell and Eddie Nielson Most Improved: Ben Charles Most Consistent: Sof Vlamis Coaches Award: Lachlan White SENIORS FOOTBALL Best and fairest: Riley Aldous Runner-up: Adrian McCarthy Most Improved: Ben Wilsmore Most Consistent: Cameron Evans Coaches Award: Aidan McSpeerin CLUBAWARD Best Club Person: Chelsea Spagnolo - Cindy Hayes

● Patrons Day at the Alexandra Football-Netball Club ■ The AFL Outer East 2019 Division 2 Grand Year and Eliza Gesler came third in the D-Grade Finals have been finalised with som interesting netball Best and Fairest.

On Saturday (Sept. 21) the Club's Patrons results as follows.

In the Senior football it was first versus sec- Day saw everyone entertained by Dustin ond with the top side coming out on top, Seville Fletcher and Tom Siegert.

It was a great day and a big thank you to our 23.14 (152) defeated Yarra Junction 13.12 (90) to gain promotion to Division 1 in 2020 with bar staff, ladies in the kitchen, young men who Warburton-Millgrove to come back into Divi- waitered, all of our sponsors that assisted with sion 2. raffle and auction prizes as well as our patrons In the Reserves, fourth placed Seville 7.7 (49) for supporting the Club, once again, thank you. could not overcome the top placed Yarra JuncThe Alexandra Football-Netball Club Senior tion 8.6 (54) in a tight finish.

Presentation function will be on Saturday, OcIn the Premier Division Under 18s football, tober 5 at Marysville Vibe Hotel, tickets are $60 Berwick and Beaconsfield will play in the Grand which includes a meal, dress code is semiFinal this coming Friday. formal (no denim) and a bus is also available for In the A-Grade netball, top of the ladder Yea $10 per person departing at 5.30 pm from the 46 defeated second-placed Seville 34. of the Mt Pleasant Hotel.

In B-Grade, top of the ladder Seville 47 de- rearPlease contact Ray Steyger on 5772 2627 to feated fourth-placed Powelltown 31.

In C-Grade, top of the ladder Seville 31 de- book your seat on the bus and / or the function.

In coming weeks, the Club will also be adfeated second-placed Alexandra 23.

In D-Grade, second placed Yea 28 defeated vertising for expressions of interest for all coaching positions - Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, top of the ladder Seville 25.

On Wednesday, September 18 the AFL Outer Under 16, Under 18 and Reserves football toEast League held its Presentation function at gether with Under 11, Under 13, Under 15, Under 17, D, C, B and A-Grade netball for the 2020 the Yarra Glen Racecourse.

Alexandra's Emma Kidd was successful in season.

If you have any queries please contact Ray winning the League's B-Grade netball goal shooter award, Brayden Norris was again se- Steyger and Michelle Jack.

- Ray Steyger lected in the Division 2 football Team of the

Local Sport Yea Golf Club

■ Wednesday saw 19 men play Royal Yea Golf Course in a stableford event. Although a little dewy to start off it soon turned into a brilliant day of sunshine.

Winner with 37 points was David Ngo (25) from second Alan Pell (13) with 33. Third with 32 points was Ken Whitfort from Peter Johnston (15) fourth with 31 on CB from three others.

Ken Whitfort was NTP on the 14th and Neil Ross took out the ClubAward.

■ Thursday saw five players from Yea at the Alexandra course for Dalhousie Vets.

Best of the Yealiens was Alan Pell with 33.

Names are coming in for the Grand Final Holiday Stableford and 4BBB. Entry is $10 per person so mark it down in your diary. The limited full membership for $150 is still available until the end of October.

■ Some 15 men had a delayed start on Saturday due to the heavy rain. Conditions improved and a 1pm start saw the rest of play.continue without any further rain.

Winner of the Par Event was President Ivor Brayley (29) with an excellent score of +1. Second with -1 was Peter Johnston (15) and third on CB was Gary Pollard (11) from Michael Spagnolo (6) with -2. NTP on the 14th was Peter Keast and the Club Award was won by Carl Maffei.

The final Of the Club Knockout was also contested on Saturday with Gary Pollard defeating Ray Partridge. Gary also won the chook in Chooklotto and the hand warmers.

Greg Clements won the stubbie holder.

- Alan Pell WOMEN’S GOLF Since the last posting, pleased to say the Yea girls have been doing well. First, two teams went off to play in the cold cold wet, windy freezing conditions of Kilmore to battle for a place to go to the State final of the RWH 4BBB to be played at the Southern Golf Club.

Although Kilmore had home advantage and obviously used to the climate took out the first two places fortunately for Team Di Holdsworth andMargie Wright,one Kilmore team was unable to go so, whoo hoo, the girls get to go. Good Luck girls.

Next our Club Championships have begun, so until completion of the rounds no winners to report other than the daily winners.

Wednesday, Sept. 11. Winner: Adrianne Anglin (15) 76 pts’ Runner-up: Vicki Clements (25) ,79 pts no; NTP. Wednesday, Sept. 18. Vicki Clements decided runner up wasn’t the go, came in with a win and new member Meryl Connell was runner-up. Sorry, scores a secret. NTP: Margie Wright. Well done girls Now for more exciting news: two teams trundled off to Euroa to play their Bowl. Even though we did not secure the bowl on such a beautiful day, Di Elliott had a wonderful day to win B-Grade with 5pts. That someone surprised her and put her in a small team to have another win. I think Di is partial to Euroa she has had quite a few wins there.

Go Di, we are proud of you. Happy golfing everyone.

- Karen Sangster

● Gary Pollard and Ray Partridge.

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