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Life’s greatest gift

By KYLIE WILSON

TIGHT KNIT:

The Boote family of Jen, Graham and their adopted daughter Ebony.

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IN the halls of a Chinese orphanage on Christmas day, 2006, Tawonga South couple Graham and Jen Boote received the most precious Christmas present of their lives – in the form of little daughter Ebony.

For Jen, it was the end of a journey towards motherhood that she had been heading towards her entire life – filled with distressing miscarriages and failed IVF attempts – but the beginning of an entirely new chapter of her life.

“In 2003 I closed the door and thought it would never happen,” she said of her dreams of creating a family with Graham.

But after a chance conversation with friends, and attending a seminar on intercountry adoption, the pair knew that adopting from China could help them realise their dream.

After several education sessions, hours of paperwork, many visits from a social worker and much waiting, the couple received a call in November 2006 that they had been allocated a 16 month old girl from Guangdong, China.

Ebony – who has been named Ebony Grace HuaXing by the Bootes to preserve links to her Chinese heritage - was found at the gates of Guangdong’s sugar refinery as an infant and spent her life up until the time of her adoption at the Suixi Orphanage.

“We have no idea of her family and never will,” Jen said.

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AFTER a hot and dry summer, many lawns are looking worn and tired.

Heavy traffic areas can suffer from ‘wear and tear’ and compaction resulting in thin or bare patches in the lawn.

Early autumn is the perfect time to carry out some maintenance to help the lawns recover in preparation for winter.

Start by mowing the grass, raising the height of the blades to give a slightly longer cut.

After cutting, walk around the lawn raking and loosening any bare patches.

These can be top dressed with a thin layer of top soil.

Don’t bury any existing grass, rake over the top soil so the blades of grass are just showing through.

Fill any low spots with top soil and rake to level the surface.

Then apply lawn starter and sprinkle with lawn seed.

Water thoroughly and keep the soil damp until germination.

Aerate the lawn by either digging holes into it with a garden fork and wiggling it back and forth, walking on the lawn with aerator spike shoes or using a mechanical core aerator which

IN BLOOM: Bob Haar in his colorful garden.

What’s in your garden: Roses, gardenias, buddleias, and lots of fruit trees, including triple grafted pear, double grafted cherry and apple trees, Washington navel oranges, a lemonade tree, imperial mandarin, a lime tree and a guava tree.

What do you enjoy about gardening: Everything. It’s like painting a picture, you never finish it.

Favorite plant/spot in your garden: My gardenias, daphne,

staghorns and elkhorns, and the roses.

Water saving/conservation tip: I mulch and use horse manure, and I also bought in loamy soil, which holds moisture better.

Your tips to keep gardens in top shape: Organic Extra, Seasol, and Power Feed all help to keep the garden healthy and thriving.

Good watering and keeping things mulched also helps.

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makes holes by removing small plugs of soil.

Aeration increases the amount of air, light,water and nutrients that penetrates into the soil and root zone, which promotes strong roots and healthy green growth.

Finally, perk up tired lawns by giving them a feed with a lawn fertiliser, which is high in phosphates and potash.

Avoid using fertiliser with high levels of nitrogen, as this encourages soft, leaf growth that’s vulnerable to disease and frost damage.

Early autumn is also the best time to seed a new lawn or lay turf as the soil is still warm enough for the roots to grow and become well established by winter.

Autumn is an important time on the lawn care calendar so spend some valuable time preparing your lawn for winter and spring.

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PRECIOUS GIFT: Graham and Jen at the moment when their adoption of Ebony became official.

“Her mother could easily have walked hundreds of kilometres to leave her.

“All we know is that Ebony was left where she would be found, and that tells me that her mother cared.”

Jen said that their first night alone with Ebony saw the new family experience a storm of mixed emotions.

“I can’t imagine what it would be like to be handed to an unfamiliar person, then taken to a quiet hotel room when she’s used to a noisy orphanage,” she said.

“She lay in Graham’s arms and these horrible, silent tears rolled down her cheeks.

“My mother’s heart broke that night and I learned very quickly what it was like to feel like you would protect this precious little life

from everything the world might try and throw at her.

“We feel we owe China a lot.

“It gave us our life’s greatest gift.”

With Ebony now a bubbly, outdoorsy and active primary school student thriving in her rural Victorian home, Jen said she strives to keep her informed of her heritage, while offering a carefree Australian childhood.

“To Ebony, Australia is home. She knows no different,” she said.

“She was just too young to remember.

“Like most children, she has embraced everything about life here.

“It’s only when someone says something to her, or she looks in

the mirror, that she remembers she’s different….but she also proudly says ‘I’m from China’.

“People are extremely kind to her and the community has embraced her in ways I don’t think would be possible in the city.”

Jen is full of pride when she describes the joy of having a daughter.

“I can’t even really put into words what this little girl had meant to me - to us,” she said.

“My husband has two grown children and is now a grandad three times over - yet still she brings light, life and love into our home - and laughter.

“She is, as they say, my heart walking around outside my body.

“I look at her and can’t believe the gift we’ve been given.”

AURAL haematomas are a common condition seen in veterinary practice.

Aural haematomas are a painful accumulation of blood between the skin and the cartilage of the external ear.

It is thought that chronic head shaking or scratching at the ear causes blood vessels to rupture and bleeding to begin.

More often than not there is an underlying cause that needs to be identified such as ear infections, wounds, foreign bodies (such as grass seeds in the ear canal) or allergy, however, in some cases no obvious cause is found.

Aural haematomas may present as a small pocket of fluid on the ear or can affect the entire flap of the ear.

Treatment involves surgical drainage of the fluid and then prevention of refill by placing sutures through the ear.

There are numerous methods to secure the skin and cartilage, with every veterinarian having their own method.

As well as treating the haematoma, any underlying issues need to be addressed with appropriate treatment.

Post-surgery aural haematomas

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usually heal well with few complications.

Sometimes a dog may have multiple haematomas throughout their life (not usually on an ear that has previously had surgical treatment).

Post-surgery you may feel small nodules of scar tissue on the ear where the sutures have been placed.

With time these generally subside, although the ear will usually feel and look a little different permanently.

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CATCH OF THE WEEK

FISHING FOCUS NICE TO EAT: Redfin are on the chew in Lake William Hovell, and both shore based and boat based anglers are having success.

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BY ROB ALEXANDER, WANGARATTA FOR most of this year so far I have reported on the fantastic Murray cod fishing that we have experienced in the Ovens and King rivers, with the hope that my fishing reports have not been too repetitive.

Well, that’s starting to change now.

A change in season has seen the cod fishing in both rivers slow quite considerably in the last couple of weeks.

I have not had any reports from the Kiewa or the Broken rivers, but at the time of writing this article one of my best mates is fishing the Broken so hopefully next

week I may have something to report.

This slowing down of the cod fishing is typical of this time of the year where the cod fishing can be very hit and miss.

For the next couple of months the cod fishing will be very hot and cold, with anglers willing to persevere having the best luck.

For cod consistency during autumn, it is very hard to go past Lake Mulwala which always fishes well at this time of the year.

Over the past week I have had a couple of reports of redfin being caught at Lake William Hovell.

The lake got a good work out over the Labor Day weekend, with a large number of redfin - up to 30cms - caught on soft plastics and bait.

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The lake is low and dropping, and when it drops during the autumn months the redfin usually start to fire.

This is the time of year to target the bigger redfin in the lake, with very deep water of 30 feet or more being a great place to start.

With the cooler evenings and nights we are now experiencing, it may just be worth tying on a Tassie devil or Lofty’s cobra lure and trolling across the surface of Lake William Hovell in search of a trout too, with the low light periods of sunrise and sunset being the best times to try.

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The Monuments Men [M] BASED on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners.

I RECENTLY read an article entitled ‘New Zealand school bans playground rules and sees less bullying and vandals’.

It told of a New Zealand school principal who stopped enforcing rules on a primary school playground, allowing children to “climb trees, ride skateboards and play games such as bullrush during playtime�.

The children are also allowed to play in a “loose parts pit� containing junk pieces such as wood, old tyres and an old fire hose.

The rules were done away with as part of a university study looking at ways to encourage active play among children. It found the pupils were so occupied with the activities that the school did not need its ‘time out’ area anymore, or as many teachers patrolling the playground.

Teachers at the school also reported higher concentration levels from their students in the classroom and the principal reported an immediate decrease in bullying, vandalism and injuries.

One of the professors working on the study team said children develop their brains’ frontal lobe when they are taking risks, which allows them to calculate consequences.

He also commented that they don’t seem to get this experience when watching TV (or, I assume, playing digital games).

I’m quite fascinated, and somewhat heartened, to hear this news.

Finally some common sense is prevailing.

Most of us have always known that kids often need to experience things first hand in order to learn and that, through testing themselves, trying new things, coming up with new ideas and being with other kids, they are gaining – and paving the way for – new knowledge, emotional intelligence and a greater capacity for learning.

But in our more recent history, many kids get very few opportunities to go ‘free range’ for fear (or their parents’ fear) of danger.

Instead of letting kids get out and ‘be kids’ – using their bodies and their brains - they are ushered indoors to their air conditioned theatre rooms full of electronic gadgetry and fluffy

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Terms and Conditions by Robert Glancy FRANK survives a car accident, and believes he is missing memories - of those around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash.

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BY CATHERINE WARNOCK cushions (not to mention eating the high sugar, high fat, high salt content foods, which can add further to the problem by making them fat.)

I think back to my own childhood, and those of my kids (who are now mid-20s to early 30s) and I’m grateful for the freedom we all had.

My parents let me roam all around town on my bike – to school, up the street, to the pool, to sporting events, to friends’ houses, to the river.

My own kids spent literally months building cubbies and fishing at the river down the back of their friend’s house.

They were thinking, planning, deciding, resourcing, imagining, problem-solving, calculating, learning, talking, arguing, negotiating, supporting and collaborating.

They were using their bodies and their minds in the ways that children have probably used them since the dawn of humankind – in the pursuit of entertainment, friendship, knowledge and a sense of accomplishment.

I’m equally sure, of course, that there were plenty of things said and done down the river that we mothers should probably never know about.

One such thing I found out was that both my older boys had jumped off the railway bridge into the river.

I was not pleased, given that I’d warned them relentlessly to never try it.

Luckily I didn’t find out until over 10 years after the event.

And I was still cross.

Well, anyway I, for one, am pleased that science is supporting attempts to allow kids to be kids again.

Unfortunately, the way litigation is these days, I’m not sure how far it can go before someone loses a huge lawsuit and it all comes to a grinding halt.

The sad thing is that it’s not just the kids who lose out if that happens.

I reckon it will be our communities who lose their future resilient, resourceful and innovative thinkers and doers. Sad, sad, sad.

In the meantime, go nuts you NZ kids.

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WINE TALK

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2012 Secret Village Chardonnay Around $45.00

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WITH ANITA McPHERSON Secret Village Chardonnay because you can’t have too much butter, and this wine has an inviting golden color, with the vibrant flavors of stone fruit and a touch of vanilla creaminess.

It’s also beautifully balanced, with flavors of fresh peach, citrus and hint of cashew nut developing nicely as the chilled wine warms in the glass, and a pleasingly acidic finish.

The wine is also a good choice if you decide to order a selection of crudités as an appetiser, which surprisingly aren’t rude words at all, but little sticks of raw vegetables.

It must be true that small minds are easily amused.

Find out more at www. indigovineyard.com.au or visit the vineyard in Everton Upper.

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Mine closes, 1929

IT was a black day for the gold mining town of Eldorado when the town’s biggest employer, Cock’s Pioneer Mine, closed down and over 80 men were put out of work on March 13, 1929.

Low gold prices and poor returns from the mine were to blame, it was said.

It was not the end of Eldorado, as a few years later, gold prices doubled, and Eldorado once again became a thriving mining community.

THIS is the season for salads, no cooking in the heat for me (well at home that is).

We have this salad on at the Butter Factory Café from time to time in the summer months, it is quick, easy and delicious.

The recipe I have given for the sauce is great to have in your repertoire.

You can use it as a dipping sauce for seafood, as a salad dressing, on steamed veggies, all sorts of things.

Method (Trout & Salad) To assemble the salad, cut the potatoes in half, or if they are large into four pieces.

Flake the trout into lovely pieces.

Place all the ingredients (except the sauce and the lettuce) in a large bowl, gently toss, you can add a drizzle of olive oil at this stage if you are going to dress your plate with the sauce.

Arrange on top of your lettuce.

You can then dress the salad with the salsa verde or dress your plate like I have done.

Method (Salsa Verde) Combine all sauce ingredients except the olive oil in a food processor.

Taste for seasoning.

Dribble in the olive oil while the motor is running.

The sauce should be sharp, highly seasoned and thickish.

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ENJOYING lunch at a French-style bistro recently, we laughed when a friend passed on the duck and the fish of the day, and instead ordered the croque monsieur.

Only the French could make a grilled cheese sandwich sound so posh, and while they’re hard to beat as comfort food, it’s not something I’d normally order when there’s silver cutlery and linen napkins.

But each to their own, and if that sandwich happens to be filled with chunky-cut ham off the bone and Gruyeré instead of cheddar, you know it’s going to taste good.

The secret to a good croque monsieur is also to smother it in lashings of butter, which means you’ll be trading a week’s worth of weight-watchers points for five stars of flavor.

So perhaps it really is an indulgence that should be paired with an equally indulgent wine.

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Cash injection for many new hires, but salary expectations off-kilter SEEK’s annual Salary Review recently revealed that 63 per cent of industries across Australia offered job seekers higher salaries in 2013, but increasing salary expectations and high living standards are causing concern for employers.

The review compares the salary information of all jobs posted on SEEK from 2012 and 2013.

New South Wales offered the best chance in 2013 for jobseekers to secure a pay increase with 63 per cent of industries offering higher salaries, followed by Victoria (60 per cent), Western Australia (58 per cent), Queensland (53 per cent) and South Australia (52 per cent). “The national decrease in the average salary reflects a drop in salaries for candidates in high paying sectors such as mining and construction due to a softening of the sector,� says SEEK HR Manager, Rebecca Supierz. “Construction and engineering jobseekers would have been disappointed to find salary decreases of up to 21 per cent for some roles. “However, these roles are coming off a high salary base and when we look nationally, the best paying jobs were still found in the mining resources and engineering sectors,� says Ms Supierz.

The insurance and superannuation sector, as well as roles in sports and recreation topped the charts for salary growth, both increasing by six per cent nationally.

Sectors with candidate shortages, such as healthcare and medical sectors, experienced salary increases of five per cent.

Spikes of four per cent were seen across retail and consumer products, and community services and development sectors. “With ANZ’s business research showing record business confidence at

the close of 2013, it will be interesting to see if this optimism translates to further salary increases in 2014,� says Ms Supierz.

On the subject of wages, additional research conducted by SEEK has shown that employers and young workers aged 18-24 are at odds regarding wages.

According to the research which surveyed more than 1000 working Australians, 46 per cent of employers believe younger workers have unrealistically high expectations regarding their standard of living, putting pressure on employers to meet their demands.

Furthermore, 73 per cent of employers believe high salary expectations are having a negative impact on the economy.

Not surprisingly, 43 per cent of younger employees believe that Australia’s higher standard of living demands ‘fair’ wages to be paid by employers. “With employers and younger employees divided on the salary debate it is clear the financial and generational chasm in the workplace is widening,� says Ms Supierz.

The review has shown that 40.7 per cent of all industries listed were offering salary increases above the wage price index of 2.6 per cent.

Only nine per cent of industries across Australia experienced no change in salaries, this included IT, financial services and property industries.

Going forward, Ms Supierz believes jobseekers seeking to reach those higher salary bands should look to bolster their skill set to secure the attention of employers. “In the current economy, employers are seeking skilled, efficient and experienced workers who can quickly and effectively contribute to the organisation’s bottom line.�

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Help your heart

Middle class welfare’s future

THE heart is honored as a most valuable organ, positioned inside a rib cage for protection.

Physically our heart will beat from 3-4 weeks from the time we are created in the womb until we die.

The average adult heart beats on average 72 times a minute or around 100,000 times a day and will pump 7500 litres of blood through 96,500 kilometres of blood vessels each day.

Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 32 kilometres.

Diets high in fried and fatty foods, processed flour based pastries, cakes and white bread, white sugar, excessive animal meats and alcohol with a lack of fresh food, water and regular daily exercise are well documented to put strain on our heart.

The heart has an amazing physical side, but you won’t believe the emotional side.

The heart beat is directly affected by our mood.

The HeartMath Institute in California has noted that when we are feeling positive emotion such as “appreciation” the heart responds by slowing its beat and creating smooth, harmonious waves that match the mood of the brain and its waves.

In this state of harmony, the brain feels clearer, has faster learning, clearer thoughts,

WITH MICHELLE COSE, ND

NATUROPATH

IS the Federal Government of the day going to bite the bullet and take away some of the benefits that middle class Australian’s have been saying is their right?

I struggle to define middle class, but suppose I am talking of those whose yearly incomes are more than $100,000.

Whilst the previous government looked to be assisting the working class during the global financial crisis, many of the benefits flowed through to those who were well off, but managed to rort the system so they didn’t miss out.

We are all living longer, and I believe with an excellent health system and benefits through pensions and superannuation that our forebears would not have dreamt about.

At the end of WW2 there was no unemployment benefit, single mothers got no assistance and were dependant on family to assist with bringing up their children if they had no partner to support them.

So where have we gone wrong over the last 60 or so years?

We continually hear (and with the demise of the car manufacturing industry and now Qantas) that our wages are too high, and that business needs to go where they can support their costs and return some profit.

Not so in Australia - we accept the highest possible wage, we expect our employers to over the next few years increase superannuation contributions to 12 per cent whilst the employee makes no contribution.

We are now seeing the government (or some of them) saying that small business is being forced to close on Sunday, when the majority of the population is having their weekend break, as they are unable to pay the penalty rates that are demanded and have been placed in many awards.

It is my belief people choose to seek employment in industries that require them to work odd hours, such as the milkman, the cheese maker, bakers and pastry cooks and those where we are catering for people who wish to party most of the night.

Surely those who work of a weekend, and I know of many, have a choice of which days they can take off during the week days when others are working - but that is just the tip of the iceberg.

In my research this week, the International Monetary

HAPPY: When you are feeling positive emotion, your heart slows its beat and your body works more in harmony.

better memory and better decision making.

When the heart feels ‘frustration” or ‘anger’ the heart beat quickens and creates a jagged wave that goes out of sync with our brain – learning and decision making is poor, feelings of stress and being overwhelmed occur.

Our physical pump is quite literally put under the pump.

In our practice we see heart rhythms like this affecting short term memory recall, sleep ability, anxiety, panic and stress, school learning ability, mood swings , dizziness, headaches and poor circulation.

This can happen in people of all ages including children.

By focusing your

attention to your heart, calming your breathing to a slow, steady pace and feeling positive emotion, your heart can realign itself with the brain again.

We use this to de-stress our patients, however, many counsellors are using this technique to help patients take control over emotion.

Simple technology at our clinic shows the heart rhythms on a computer screen.

A patient can see the effect of their stresses and thoughts on the heart and can learn techniques to correct and calm this.

Your heart is so important to your whole body.

Both physical and emotional stress impacts on it, so you need to look after it to achieve health and wellness for life.

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By KEN CLARKE, WANGARATTA CERTIFIED PRACTICING ACCOUNTANT

kclarke@alphalink.com.au Fund is saying spending growth is set to increase faster in the next four years than that of any other advanced nation, driven by increasing health spending and, to a lesser extent social security outlays, as well as new programs such as the national disability insurance scheme, the so-called Gonski reforms to education and mooted infrastructure investments.

So let’s be fair - the government has to cut spending or raise taxes or a mixture of both.

Professor John Freebaim, writing an article in ‘The Age’, believes there is much room for reform and savings.

One of the biggest changes required, he says, is delaying access to retirement incomes.

“You can access your superannuation at 60. You can access your pension at age 65. The age pension age was brought in in 1908 when life expectancy was 65”.

The previous government legislated to increase the pension age to 67 by 2023, but Professor Freebaim says that is insufficient.

He believes “we should slowly bring the access age for both superannuation and age pension to 70. Yes, you have to bring it in slowly. And then I would index it to life expectancy.”

An interesting statistic is that only 20 per cent of our population does not receive some sort of age pension.

Whilst pensions are income tested against income and assets, the fact that the family home does not form part of your assets allows you to have a mansion worth millions and still source a pension, but probably more importantly, access to a Commonwealth Health Care card.

Bite the bullet Mr Hockey, include the family home where the rate notice indicates it to have a sworn valuation in excess of $1 million, send out a random personal expenditure statement to those collecting the pension, and asset test the carer’s payment in the same way as Newstart benefits.

This will have a few hundred thousand scurrying for cover and the bottom line may improve.

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