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By Mikayla van Loon Wednesday 18 August marked the 55th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War – the deadliest day for Australian soldiers during the decade-long battle.

It is also the day which commemorates the service of all those who served in Vietnam, known as Vietnam Veterans Day. For Lilydale veterans Tony Walters, Frank Archer, Bob Richardson and Lilydale RSL president Bill Dobson, not being able to gather and honour those who served, as well as remember their own service and sacrifice was really difficult.

“It’s important to remember the guys from D Company 6 RAR. We lost 18 blokes that day.

And also, it’s Vietnam Veterans Day so we think of all the guys that served and all the guys who died and suffered and got injured and all that sort of stuff,” Mr Dobson said.

Vietnam’s returning servicemen did not receive the respect nor honour they deserved until 14 years after they had hit home soil, leaving many hesitant to reveal they had served in the army.

“I spent several years trying to pretend that I was never in the army, I suppose. We weren’t very well received as is often mentioned nowadays but it’s true,” Mr Walters said.

“For some years, I would certainly never talk about it, I was ashamed of it actually. But I’m over that well and truly now and now I like to get involved with most things that are related.”

In 1987 Sydney held the first Vietnam veterans march and national celebration in recognition of Australia’s soldiers.

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IN BRIEF Mooroolbark arrests Four teens were arrested in Mooroolbark after a string of thefts and robberies occurred throughout the southern and eastern suburbs last week.

Greater Dandenong Crime Investigation Unit detectives charged the four teens after fleeing from a collision on Monday 16 August.

Another was arrested in Dandenong later that evening after being caught driving a stolen vehicle.

The incidents occurred in Pakenham, Cranbourne North, Beaconsfield, Carrum Downs, Springvale, Sandown, Balwyn, Box Hill North and Warrandyte South between 14 and 16 August.

Those charged included four male teens and one woman, the youngest a 13 year old boy from Frankston.

A 15 year old Noble Park boy was charged with seven offences including theft of motor vehicle, robbery and theft.

Both will appear before a children’s court at a later date.

Two 18 year olds and a 19 year old have been remanded to appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court in coming months.

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Lilydale locations on exposure list

By Mikayla van Loon The Yarra Ranges has been exposed to Covid-19 with a positive case visiting two popular locations in Lilydale.

Lilydale McDonald’s and Lilydale Shell Coles Express Service Station were both listed as Tier 2 exposure sites on Thursday 19 August on the Department of Health’s website.

An infected person is believed to have attended the Macca’s between 2.14pm and 2.34pm on 14 August, as well as the service station between 9.10pm and 9.30pm on the same day.

It is still not known whether the cases are linked but close contacts are required to get tested immediately and isolate at home until a negative result is received.

Lilydale police were also on alert after a positive Covid-19 case was identified within Victoria Police late on Thursday 19 August.

“The positive case in Pakenham is a serving VicPol member who has worked in Knox and Lilydale,” Covid-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar said.

“This case popped up fairly late yesterday, so we are obviously working with our colleagues at VicPol and the individual concerned

Swings are still, with children not allowed to play on the equipment at Lillydale Lake. 247985 to identify the contacts they have worked with.

I know VicPol has very strong workforce arrangements, so we are confident we can identify that pretty quickly.”

Prior to these exposures, Lilydale and surrounding suburbs of Chirnside Park, Mooroolbark and Mount Evelyn had been free from Covid-19 cases for at least 330 days.

Currently there have not been any known cases connected to these sites but test results are still being returned to close contacts.

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With the announcement on 16 August, Premier Daniel Andrews said on the advice of the Chief Health Officer, parks, recreation spaces and exercise equipment would close to the public, along with a curfew being introduced and a permit system for essential workers.

“These settings are tough, this is a tough time. No one is enjoying this lockdown. I know people are weary. I know people are sick and tired of this but each of us have to find it in ourselves to make good choices for these next couple of weeks, to drive down these case numbers and to be in a position so that we can reopen,” Premier Andrews said.

“I don’t want us to finish up like Sydney where it has fundamentally got away from them, they’re not reopening anytime soon, they’re locked in until they pretty much get the whole place vaccinated, that’s going to take months.

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Minister Martin Foley announced on Sunday 22 August, public sector employees can now access up to half a day’s paid time off to get each dose of the vaccine.

The new arrangements apply to fulltime and part-time staff and long-term and regular casuals at departments and administrative offices, statutory authorities, government schools, TAFE institutes, police and emergency services, water and land management authorities and other public entities.

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Roger humbled by RSL recognition

By Mikayla van Loon It was a special Vietnam Veterans Day for one former RSL president and veteran, Roger Boness.

The Mount Evelyn RSL community announced they would be honouring Mr Boness with a plaque for his dedication and service to the RSL and the local community, especially as president from 2011 to 2021.

Mr Boness was instrumental in obtaining the Vietnam era M2A2 Howitzer cannon which is now placed in the memorial gardens and will soon be called the ‘Boness Gun’.

“When they announced it, I was completely taken off guard and it is the sort of recognition that you don’t get everyday, it only comes around once in a lifetime,” Mr Boness said.

“And so I said to them, ‘I don’t know what to say’ and I suppose because of that, it says it all, I can’t find the appropriate words but when I started thinking about it, I’m really honoured and humbled at the same time to receive that sort of recognition.”

As a forward observer in the Vietnam War, Mr Boness was well acquainted with the different types of artillery and guns used to fight the battles, this Howitzer cannon being one of them.

“So my job was to ring the guns up and tell them where to shoot them. So I have an affinity with the gun. I served with 106 Field Battery and we had six guns in the battery and I always had those when I was out in the infantry in the jungle,” he said.

“It was my job to bring in supporting artillery when they got into a contact. So it was a real surprise yesterday [Wednesday 18 August] when they’d named the gun after myself.”

It took six years for the gun to be acquired from the American government, decommissioned, welded and put into place in Mount Evelyn.

Current Mount Evelyn RSL president Matthew Crymble said Mr Boness played such a significant part in making the war memorial and gardens what they are today.

“We are very proud of our memorial garden. With the support of our RSL, Roger and the committee were instrumental in making the memorial garden what it is today. It is very much a centerpiece of our Mount Evelyn community,” he said.

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The ‘Boness Gun’ plaque will be placed on a stand next to the howitzer, with plans to officially unveil it on Remembrance Day. ships to establishing relationships with other community groups.

But on a personal level, Mr Crymble said it was a symbol of Mr Boness’ continuing support, commitment and advice not only to the RSL members but to himself as well during his transition to president.

“He is very loyal to his friends and a hard working community minded leader. I am lucky to say Roger is a mate of mine.”

Mr Boness was disappointed that commemorations could not go ahead as normal for the second year in a row.

“It is very important to us, it did change our lives. All conflicts change your lives. It is a very important day to us, Vietnam Veterans Day,” he said.

“When we came back from Vietnam, Vietnam was a public war. It was on the TV every night, there were moratoriums in the streets of Melbourne, people complaining about our presence in the war and when we came back from Vietnam, we weren’t welcomed by the public apart from our own private families and even the RSL turned their back on us.

“So what we did was, we started the Viet-

Wreaths were laid at the Mount Evelyn Cenotaph to honour those who served in the Vietnam War. nam Veterans Association and in that regard, we had to find a day to commemorate those veterans that had served and some of them didn’t come home.”

From page 1 Mr Walters, Mr Dobson, Mr Archer and Mr Richardson each said they were still wary of being known as soldiers even after the 1987 march but have since come to feel more respected.

“I think now it is completely different we’re sort of respected now, and we just hope now too with the recent developments with the Afghanistan situation, those blokes will feel pretty terrible at the moment like we felt at the time when the nation pulled out,” Mr Dobson said.

“So, let’s hope that everyone treats them a bit better than the way they treated us.”

Mr Archer said, with all wars, there was and always will be controversy.

“I think with any war, it’s not the best place to be and those that don’t fight in the war will never understand,” he said.

On days like Vietnam Veterans Day commemorations are followed by meet ups with unit members and friends.

“What most of us tend to do in my experience is, when we do get together we share the positive experiences,” Mr Walters said. “You become pretty close to the people you’re with in a place like that [Vietnam].”

For Mr Walters the excitement of joining the army soon wore off but he will always remember it as the first time he flew in a plane.

“You tend to think more of the funny things that might have happened rather than the other stuff,” Mr Dobson said.

“We’re on patrol once and my job was to crawl out and set up the claymore mine for an ambush and the other guy was supposed to set up the tripwire.

“Anyway, we went together and we set up his tripwire, and I went a bit further and set the claymore mine up and he said ‘whatever you do, follow me back’.

“He tripped over his tripwire and flares went up and all hell broke loose.

And you look back and it’s funny, but at the time it wasn’t.”

Mr Richardson was stationed in Saigon in the signals bunker, where he completed 12 hour shifts, two days and two nights before getting three full days off.

“Life in Saigon was fairly good, it was what you made out of it. I used to just jump in the American helicopters and disappear for two or three days.”

All of these men were conscripted to the army but were convinced to volunteer in the war.

“I don’t know that there were a lot of conscripts that served that didn’t volunteer in some form or other. Volunteering was probably more like coercion. I suppose you could say, ‘I didn’t not volunteer’,” Mr Walters said.

“The other thing was in those days they convinced you that it was the right thing to do. They would say how the Viet Cong were killing people, and villages so you think well, you’re right to get involved, so you say I’ll volunteer for that,” Mr Dobson said. “And you go along with it, but of course, when you look back at history now it was a civil war.”

Upon returning home, Mr Archer, Mr Dobson, Mr Walters and Mr Richardson fell back into their normal lives working at printing presses, in engineering, at ABC radio and with Australia Post.

Mr Dobson and Mr Archer went on to start businesses before retiring.

“One thing the army did for us was taught us how to look after ourselves, there was a lot of discipline,” Mr Archer said.

Tony Walters served in the Headquarters Company ATF from 1970 to 1971.

Frank Archer served in the 3rd Battalion RAR in 1968. Bob Richardson served in 1106 Signal Squadron from 1968 to 1969.

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NEWS Star Mail’s photographer STEWART CHAMBERS captured images during the week of parks and streets that would normally be filled with cars and people now left empty on the orders of the Premier and Chief Health Officer.

A shot of life in lockdown While extremely challenging after so many lockdowns and restrictions placed on normal life, it is evident Lilydale residents are doing their part to keep people safe by staying home.

Popular parks have been left without children playing on the equipment and so too without laughter and smiles.

But small notes remind people to keep smiling and to remember the beauty of where they live in the Yarra Ranges.

Peter takes a moment to snap a few photos of the swallows at Lillydale Lake. 247985 Yarra Ranges Regional Museum has had to cancel or postpone a number of displays including the Art Quilt Australia 2021 exhibition. 247985

Castella Street, Lilydale is left quiet during lockdown number six. 247985

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Riding state’s top roads

By Mikayla van Loon Imagine travelling to some of Victoria’s most scenic, picturesque and breathtakingly beautiful views.

Now imagine getting to experience this serenity while cycling on some of Victoria’s best known roads.

This year will be Steve Carolan’s eighth Great Vic Bike Ride and this time it will be taking him to Rainbow, The Grampians, Halls Gap, Dunkeld and Great Western.

Mr Carolan has been riding for about 30 years but after getting tired of the same old Lilydale route he decided to give the Great Vic Bike Ride a go.

“I got a bit jaded riding the same old thing and the Great Vic Bike Ride was a chance to mix it up every year and you would be riding in different conditions and places,” he said.

“It just appealed to me because I thought it would be a way to vary my riding experience and not just do the same old circuit every weekend.”

Each year a group of Mr Carolan’s riding friends join in on the traveling bike ride, seeing some of Victoria’s greatest sites.

“I really like going to places that I normally wouldn’t go to in Victoria and there are some really nice historic towns. It’s just great. And riding on a bike too, you get a much better appreciation of travelling.”

Past rides have travelled through the Great Ocean Road, the Otway National Park, The Grampians and through the Goldfields.

Mr Carolan said “it is just magic” experiencing the outdoors, the open air, natures’ sounds and environment on a bike.

It is a chance to get some peace and quiet while still travelling and sharing the adventure with friends.

“I wouldn’t have ridden that far on my own, so it was great to have that company of fel-

Lilydale’s Steve Carolan will be taking part in his eighth Great Vic Bike Ride in November. low bike riders and a group of mates as well,” he said.

“If you don’t mind going a bit slower and if you don’t have a set place where you want to be and got to be, it’s just an adventure.”

At the end of a long and potentially hot day, Mr Carolan said you tend to feel a sense of pride and achievement when you’ve just completed 80km or so.

“Some [rides] have been interesting in other ways, when you get a hot section and you’ve got to do 80 or 90 kilometres and that’s a challenge too but you’ve got to take the good with the bad or the not so interesting stuff with the rest because that’s what it is all about. It’s a challenge to do the whole thing and you just enjoy what you get.”

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“Riding through The Grampians is a really interesting ride, it’s spectacular scenery.”

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Sole traders pain: ‘We are forgotten’

By Taylah Eastwell Sole traders across the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges feel they are at breaking point, with the state government’s most recent round of grants still not providing any practical financial assistance to businesses not earning enough to be GST registered.

The new wave of business grants were announced in response to the current lockdown which came into effect on August 5, leaving many sole traders hopeful for reprieve.

The $400 million package, funded jointly by the state and federal government, provided businesses who had already received a grant under the Business Costs Assistance Program with further payments of $2,800.

In a media release provided to Star News, Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenburg and Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas announced the payments as ‘automatic payments to almost 100,000 eligible businesses, including sole traders’.

Sole traders were said to be covered under the Small Business Covid Hardship Fund which offered grants of up to $10,000 to businesses that weren’t eligible for other grant programs and had experienced a 70 per cent reduction in turnover.

Millgrove resident and sole trader, Jen Holmes said that upon closer look, sole traders were again only eligible if registered for GST. Ms Holmes expressed her frustration in a TikTok video that she posted to Facebook, and was overwhelmed by the comments and messages she received from struggling sole traders.

“It was marketed as if it was going to help everyone who missed the previous grants, a lot of people were relieved they would finally be getting some help,” Ms Holmes said.

“Then when they went to apply the clause is that you must be GST registered. A lot of the businesses had deregistered themselves because they simply haven’t earnt enough with

the last year of Covid. Once I put the feelers out it was bad. It’s devastating. They didn’t qualify again because they weren’t registered or had de-registered due to it not being financially worthwhile,” she said.

“I’m not political, but to me, that is just making people become GST registered while giving them no guarantee of any earnings,” she added.

As a house keeper, Ms Holmes said the last 18-months without support have been extremely tough.

“When money is tight everything turns to sh** at the house. I’m a sole provider like a lot of people doing the best they can. There are a lot of businesses and people that have been around for a really long time hanging on by a thread and it’s just really really sad,” she said.

“So many people just don’t know what’s going on. Lots of people still have their incomes so they don’t have a clue. This announcement

was put out there to say that they are helping everyone, but it was a lie. It was very sneakily done,” she said.

Ms Holmes has had people contact her fully believing she was getting help from the government without realising the hurdles small businesses need to jump through.

“I had a woman at the bank ask me why I can’t work from home. I’m a house keeper, unfortunately I can’t keep my own house and invoice someone else for it. They’ve just got no idea,” she said.

Instead, sole traders have been left limited options, including contacting a concierge service or Partners in Wellbeing Helpline for financial and business counselling.

They can also apply for $750 Covid-19 hardship payments through Centrelink, a move Ms Holmes described as “like dangling five cents to a kid to go and buy a lolly”.

“The money doesn’t even touch the sides with the debts people have got. They are grateful, the sole traders are the ones who have been forgotten and they haven’t said a word this whole time,” she said.

“I know someone who tried to get help for four and a half weeks and then had a breakdown. This curfew has knocked everyone, so many people in the Valley are about to lose everything, and there’s not even a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

“They stand there and say they understand the struggles of small business but they don’t.

They don’t understand what they are doing to kids and to people. They say there are plenty of other jobs but there aren’t,” she said.

“They’ve got to look after the little people keeping the community going. If everyone gets on the unemployment, there goes the building trade, there goes every trade and everything you can imagine, and there’s not even a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel,” Ms Holmes said.

Street Angels keep people fed in crisis

By Mikayla van Loon People don’t stop needing food or a home cooked meal just because metro Melbourne has been thrown into another lockdown.

For those sleeping rough, without suitable housing or work or those just struggling to get by, services like Holy Fools’ Street Angels become an essential.

“We still have a lot of people who rely on us for food, and some staple grocery items and things like that,” Holy Fools CEO Neal Taylor said.

“And just as a point of contact for a lot of people who might be right at home by themselves for a week and this is at least an outing for essential service for them.”

Mr Taylor said at least 10 familiar faces were missing from the regular Street Angels lunch service on Wednesday 18 August.

“Today we were down in numbers and I think that’s just because people are a little bit scared to come out now, mostly because the restrictions have gone a bit tighter,” he said.

The 5km travel rule has possibly also prevented people from seeking a cooked meal from Street Angels but Mr Taylor said under the restrictions, people are still allowed to go out to get food.

“I think people just get scared. People maybe are not informed or a little bit scared and not understanding the rules a little bit,” Mr Taylor said.

During last year’s lockdowns, Mr Taylor received a welfare list from Lilydale’s Anchor so that Holy Fools could deliver meals to people in need.

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The Holy Fools van is a stand out when looking for the Street Angels in Melba Park. 218423 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS feel like we were connecting with people and we were often sometimes seeing people and would be the only ones they would see in a week. So this was really hard on both us and the people that we usually work with.”

Ensuring food didn’t go to waste from Wednesday, Mr Taylor went to deliver some of the meals to people who he knew would benefit from a chat and a lunch.

Like other lockdowns, many people who

had been sleeping rough have now been moved into motel and hotel accommodation.

Although not operating to full capacity, Street Angels are still doing take away meals during lockdown which are catered by a local business.

Running every Wednesday from midday, the Street Angels set up in Melba Park in Lilydale not too far from the playground.

Yarra Ranges residents now have access to a job board that helps connect local jobseekers with local businesses.

Yarra Ranges job board now online Residents of the Yarra Ranges now have access to a job board advertising positions vacant close to home.

The all new website has been launched thanks to Yarra Ranges Council as a way to connect jobseekers and employers in the Yarra Ranges and promote employment in local businesses.

The site also provides employers the opportunity to advertise directly to local jobseekers.

Yarra Ranges mayor, Fiona McAllister said that building a team of reliable staff, with local knowledge and insights is invaluable.

“Working closely with our business community, we know that local business can struggle to find enough staff. The disruptions and uncertainty brought on by the pandemic have only exacerbated these challenges,” she said.

“Our Economic Development and Investment teams are taking a more proactive move in the employment space – it’s a new role, but one we hope will support our local businesses.

“We hope the jobs portal plays a role in connecting our local business with the staff they need.”

Benefits of working locally extend far beyond ease and convenience, with the Yarra Ranges region home to numerous leading businesses across varied industries, such as advanced manufacturing, construction, agriculture and healthcare.

Our local hospitality and tourism industry also offers employment at some of Victoria’s most exciting and vibrant visitor destinations.

“The Yarra Ranges are known as Melbourne’s playground for a reason,” Cr McAllister said.

“From award winning wineries and gourmet dining experiences to iconic family businesses that have served the area for generations, there are so many opportunities to start, and grow, your hospitality career here.”

The Yarra Ranges is seeing a growth in dynamic new career opportunities across sectors and there are more training and pathways into skills-shortage industries than ever before, including: Council is working in partnership with CIRE and Box Hill Institute to provide free mini-qualifications through the Hospitality Jump Start for Jobs program in response to industry skill shortages.

Box Hill Institute is providing education opportunities leading into robotics, as well as industry-current apprenticeship training in wood, electrical, plumbing and automotive trades, at their state-of-the-art training facility in Lilydale.

The associated Yarra Ranges Tech school also offers opportunities for our future workforce with leading-education programs using the latest technology in a real-world local context to students from the 20 partner schools operating across Yarra Ranges.

The jobs portal allows the user to explore our trending industries, get an insight into the economic profile of the region and look into pathways into these careers.

Yarra Ranges Joblink is ready to connect local employers with the staff they need and get jobseekers into the careers they’re looking for.

For more information, visit joblink.yarraranges.vic.gov.au or call us on 1300 368 333.

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The Planets of the Apes movies really disturb me.

What was your most memorable moment?

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Pay it forward Why not surprise a stranger with a free coffee by giving an extra $5 to your local cafe next time you frequent it. Just let the barista know you want the next person who comes in to have their coffee shouted.

Favourite holiday spot in Australia?

Western Australia.

What do you love most about the Yarra Ranges?

I love the country feel, greenery, hills and wineries.

What event, past, present, or future, would you like to witness?

The end of the pandemic.

Favourite book?

The Physician Which four guests, dead or alive, would you invite to a dinner party?

Michael Hutchence, George Michael, Freddy Mercury and Pink.

Favourite musician?

INXS What are some of your hobbies?

Horse riding, movies, theatre, music and cooking.

What does an ideal weekend look like for you?

Relaxing with family and friends, good food, great wine and company.

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The tramway at Cave Hill David Mitchell’s Cave Hill lime works in Lilydale commenced operation in 1878. The lime kilns required huge quantities of firewood, and 100 acres of timber were cleared from the estate each year to fire them. The wood was hauled by a steam engine on narrow-gauge tram tracks, which in time reached to all parts of the estate.

Mitchell’s land included the north-west corner of Mount Evelyn, and it is likely that the early narrow-gauge tracks extended into this area. The late Ralph Alger (whose article ‘Reminiscences of the Cave Hill Tramway’ is the main source of information on the tramway) thought this branch ran close to the David Road/ Fuller Road alignment, and was largely obliterated when the roads were made.

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Mount Evelyn History Group editor Alternatively it could have gone via a cutting that ran up the length of the creek gully. Isolated sections of formation remain on private land, but not enough to reconstruct the route with certainty.

Mitchell bought two locomotives from the Bendigo Tramways in 1903. By 1907 the timber on his estate had been exhausted, and he applied for a permit to build a tramway beside Olinda Creek to collect wood cleared by settlers. The new tracks, which were standardgauge (4’8½”), extended along the west side of Olinda Creek.

About halfway along there was a huge stack of firewood, and a siding where empty trucks were left and full ones collected. Parallel to the level part of York Road, the line ran through enclosed paddocks, with the tram tracks fenced off and gates at each end. An additional person was required on the engine, to open and shut the gates.

The line then branched in three directions,

which can still be identified. One branch continued straight ahead into what is now the Mount Evelyn Recreation Reserve; this route is now Tramway Road. The middle line extended up the west side of Olinda Creek to approximately level with Hunter Road.

The right branch ran up a creek gully for a short distance, following a snig track that once led to a sawmill. This branch appears on Google Maps as ‘Tramway Track’. A loading platform, much overgrown, can be seen beside it.

The tramway ceased operation 1934. Most of the formation, including a trestle bridge, was destroyed by the construction of the Board of Works pipelines from Silvan in the 1960s and 1970s.

LENSCAPE

Kemp’s curtain call Yarra Valley Opera Festival Australian Contemporary Opera is disappointed to announce that the Yarra Valley Opera Festival is not going to be possible this year.

As hard as ACO tried, there are just too many obstacles to overcome, including funding uncertainty, regional travel restrictions and interstate border closures, all affecting the planning and capacity to rehearse and deliver in October.

1812 Theatre Ferntree Gully’s 1812 Theatre regrets to inform its audiences that the forthcoming play A Flea in Her Ear has been postponed until 2022.

The Basin Theatre The Basin Theatre’s production of Anna Zeigler’s Photograph 51 was expected to return on Thursday 2 September until Sunday 12 September but due to Covid-19 restrictions, this has been pushed to the end of September.

The season will now run from Thursday 23 September to Sunday 10 October all being well.

Photograph 51 takes us back to 1950s London, where the discovery of the DNA double helix structure would unlock the ‘secrets of life’ and Rosalind Franklin’s contribution would be overlooked for decades. This delicate play puts her back in the picture and shines a light on the challenges she faced as a woman in a male dominated field and the price she paid.

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Take the next train to Busan Peninsula Starring Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun and Koo Kyo-hwan Rated MA15+ An action-focused spin-off of the 2016 South Korean zombie thriller Train to Busan, Peninsula is an exciting, well-structured film, but not quite as good as its predecessor.

Former Marine Jung-seok (Gang Dongwon) joins a small team to retrieve a truck full of money from infested Seoul, four years after a devastating zombie outbreak.

Peninsula’s premise is notably similar to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, but Peninsula has much better characters and more robust suspense.

Haunted by loss and inaction during the initial outbreak, Jung-seok has an engaging journey of redemption, and Lee Jung-hyun is a compelling action lead as Min-jung, a mother determined to get her children out of fallen Seoul. Every major character has an active role in the plot, unlike the several redundant characters in Army of the Dead.

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the money truck, and Unit 631 is a cruel, intelligent threat beyond the mindless zombie hordes. However, the film has a camp streak that may put off some viewers.

The action sequences are tense and generally well-executed, but the climax features an out-of-place Mad Max-style car chase. Despite many cool moments, the chase feels silly due to its over-the-top stunts and floaty CGI. Peninsula is a fun, suspenseful characterdriven zombie action film that loses its way slightly by the end, and is available on DVD and iTunes.

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What are you reading?

Nose deep in a book seems like the perfect place to be right now, getting whisked off to a fictional place, or learning something new from the non-fictional realm.

To celebrate Book Week this week, the Star Mail is discussing local lockdown reading habits.

Yarra Ranges residents have revealed what paperbacks they can’t put down, with the results sure to deliver an inspiring reading list for all.

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Lucy McAleer (8) from Lilydale.

Pictures: STEWART CHAMBERS Lucy McAleer, Lilydale Currently reading: Team Hero books by Adam Blade.

Favourite book: The Dog Man series by Dav Pilkey and the Go Girl series by Chrissie Perry, they are interesting, with different characters and are really funny, especially the book Camp Chaos.

Monbulk’s Archer and Camryn Selby.

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Archer Selby, Monbulk Currently reading: At the moment I am reading Dog Man unleashed by Dav Pilkey.

Favourite book: My favourite book is There’s a hippopotamus on my roof eating cake, by Hazel Edwards because if would be funny if a hippo really lived on our roof! We have read this book so many times, it’s really funny.

Camryn Selby, Monbulk Currently reading: At the moment I’m reading my reader from school called In the Fog by Berys Dixon & Elenio Pico.

Favourite book: My favourite book is Shoes from Grandpa by Mem Fox because it has lots of cool pictures and the story is fun. We read it a lot.

Charlotte O’Callaghan, Verso Books Healesville Currently reading: The Other Side of Beautiful by Kim Lock, and so far, I’m loving it. The story begins as protagonist, Mercy (an agoraphobic who hasn’t left her house in 2 years) is standing looking at the house go down in flames. Although I haven’t finished it yet, it is one of the better books I have read this year.

Favourite book: Normal People by Sally Rooney. It is a story of an on-again off-again relationship between Connell and Marianne. The story follows them from high school students in regional Ireland, to University students in Dublin as they navigate the world and their relationship. This book is one of my favourites, as Rooney honestly encapsulates being young and in love

Renee Wood, Star News Group Editor Currently reading: I’m half way through The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. It’s a very inspiring read with the book delving in to how happiness can truly make the world a better place. It discusses the flow on affects of having compassion and provides a contrast between western health practices for mental health and wellbeing and the principles of Tibetan Buddhism, I’m finding it’s providing a way to look at the current climate differently and how small acts of kindness can go a long way.

Favourite book: The Wardrobe Crisis by Clare Press was a great read, discussing how the fashion industry is a bad contributor to climate change. I like to read a lot of non-fiction to learn more about pressing issues but 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a true classic and would also be one of my favourite fictional story lines about romance and revenge.

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School students across Victoria made their return to school following summer holidays, while 2021’s preps got their first taste of primary school life. Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy Murphy conducted a Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony for Badger Creek Primary School students and staff.

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Centre in the lead up to Christmas. Many locals far and wide were able to keep up their Christmas tradition in getting a family photo with ‘The Real Santa’ who they had grown to love.

The unlikely tandem tallied upwards of $30,000 from their family Christmas photos and then selected four charities to each receive

$8400 to help make the lives of children better.

The four recipients of the funds included: Backpacks 4 Vic Kids, A Better Life For Foster Kids, HeartKids and Chum Creek’s Good Life Farm. The organisations shared how the funds had already been put to good use.

Backpacks 4 Vic Kids CEO and founder Sally Beard told Star Mail the donation came as a “delightful surprise”.

“We’re very, very grateful on behalf of the children, whose lives that it will impact,” she said. “We have absolutely put that money to good use.”

Ms Beard shared that the $8400 donation from Branded is aiding 112 children in need with care packs filled with toiletries, spare changes of clothes, a toy and more.

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It’s purely coincidental that this reviewer was reading Peace Crimes: Pine Gap, National Security and Dissent by Alice Springsbased journalist Kieran Finnane (2020) when a documentary about the book’s subjects – known as Peace Pilgrims – was shown via the ABC program Compass.

The Pilgrims are six non-violent activists who stepped through a fence at Pine Gap, the closely guarded military facility in Australia’s Northern Territory, on September 29, 2016.

They were there to lament the dead of war – especially those dying by drone strikes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.

Finnane describes the Pilgrims reaching the base’s outer boundary and starting their lament.

“Lamenting is not a solution in the physical world... but to people who are alive it says ’what happens here is wrong’, and to the people who have died as a result, ’you are released’.”

In the documentary, the musical lament is a soft, sombre melody commenced by a guitar and then joined by the deep, almost pensive sound of a viola.

As the Pilgrims stood there – witnessing Pine Gap’s massive radomes and knowing its hidden antennas were busy intercepting and sending intelligence data to those on the other side of the world whose job is to kill by pushing buttons – one of them held up a poster. In Finnane’s words: “It shows a turbaned Iraqi man holding a little girl, possibly his daughter or granddaughter.

Her face is blood-spattered, eyes closed.

She is wearing a long fluffy mauve cardigan, bedraggled now, over green track pants.

What is left of her legs and feet hangs in a mangled mess.

The turbaned man seems to have picked her up from a pile of dead bodies. The photograph was taken in 2003 following a US strike in Basra at the start of the war.”

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As the Pilgrims and we all know: WAR IS REAL. Images of a three-year-old refugee found dead on a beach in Turkey and footages of innocent people desperately clinging onto evacuating military helicopters and transport planes then in Saigon and now in Kabul are “gut-wrenching”, as described by world leaders.

Yet buttons keep being pushed.

In Peace Crimes, Kinnane details how the creation of Pine Gap in 1966 was supposedly for “space research” when it’s in fact a secretive US satellite surveillance base.

Since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and the rise of the War on Terror in 2001, the facility’s functions have changed, from intercepting and recording weapons and communication signals, to collecting geolocation data for intelligence purposes and high-tech military operations, including drone and missile strikes.

Kinnane’s voice is firm and clear, urging us to reflect on Australia’s responsibilities as a global citizen.

When non-violent activism is deemed a menace to national security and threatened with seven years of gaol time, just to protect a top-secret military facility whose surveillance contributes to the merciless killing of innocent people in those nations we’re NOT at war with, what are we going to do about it? mailcommunity.com.au

BOOK WEEK

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Bringing her pages to life

By Renee Wood There sure is a talent to making the written word hum, dissolving away the real world to find your imagination drifting into another life or place.

But alongside the escape, reading can also offer the chance to embrace how other people live, or understand your own path by seeing yourself in a character - and that’s just what Eliza Henry-Jones’ books offer.

Eliza started writing when she was 14 and wrote throughout her teen years as a way to explore her own life and find empowerment.

“It was a really safe way to explore issues I was dealing with, I could put a character in a situation that has similarities to mine, but was also different enough to feel safe,” Eliza said.

“I think I missed about a third of school because I had a lot of anxiety and felt happier at home writing.”

Eliza wrote a novel a year during her teen years and signed her first book deal at 24, with Harpers Collins Australia for three novels.

Personal experiences, employment and studies all helped shape the tone of her writing.

“I was studying psychology, and I was working in the drug and alcohol sector with families with parental substance abuse,” she said.

“So I was doing a lot of therapy work with children and work with parents around attachment and harm minimisation.

“I think it really opened my perspective on things and it gave me a lot of insight into how people tick, and why people are the way they are. And I think it gave me a lot of compassion.”

Compassion, overcoming family issues and finding inner strength are all common themes in Eliza’s latest young adult novels, P is for Pearl and How to grow a family tree.

“I wrote P is for Pearl because I was grappling with what it means and trying to understand having a parent with mental illness,” she said.

Eliza’s latest release How to grow a family tree is a fictional story following a 17 year old’s journey dealing with her father’s gambling addiction, while trying to navigate her birth mother reaching out through a letter.

“How to grow a family tree is actually inspired by my own family and my grandmother actually having my father as a teenager and being forced to put him up for adoption.”

Eliza hopes her books will allow readers to find themselves or provide the opportunity to look at the world through a new lens.

“I’d love people to read it and feel like some part of what I’ve written, speaks to their own experiences or articulate something that they’ve had trouble articulating, thus far for themselves,” she said.

“Or I hope that people that haven’t had those experiences read it and maybe they think about something a little bit differently.”

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“After publishing my two latest YA novels, I’m currently working on my next novel for adults – it’s a bit witchy and eerie and set in Scotland and I’m pretty excited about it.“ Eliza’s best tips for aspiring writers is to not feel pressured to write every day and to find a way that works best for you.

“Working out whether you are a plotter, and that you’re going to enjoy it the most satisfaction out of having to cast the plans and the plot outlines and the character profiles.

“Or whether you’re the sort of person who, like me, you know, writes a lot more chaotically. And you don’t really where the stories going or what the characters are going to do next.”

And for those stuck in a reading block, looking for a little reading inspiration, Eliza said life’s too short to read a bad book.

“If a book’s just not capturing me and doesn’t seem like it’s not challenging my thoughts, or it doesn’t feel living to me, then I’ll put it aside.”

With this Book Week offering the perfect opportunity to dive in to a fresh paperback to escape the lockdown lows.

“I think that reading is probably one of the most valuable things we can do as human beings.”

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Jess Coldrey with her award winning artwork at the Retro Futurism Exhibition opening night at Yarra Ranges Tech School.

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A retro look at the future

By Mikayla van Loon For someone who is only in her early 20s, Jess Coldrey has achieved a lot in her artistic career.

Her most recent achievement was winning the Agendo Art Prize for her self portrait Pet Drone #1.

The 2021 John Monash Scholar was also selected to be Yarra Ranges Tech School’s first artist in residence, which is where she completed her award winning artwork.

Inspired by the 1960s futurism movement in fashion, this project was something Ms Coldrey had been picturing for a number of years.

“It’s this big wave of design and creativity from when people travelled to the moon for the first time and all these ateliers in Paris and around the world and designers experimenting with what would a woman who is in space look like or what would a man wear a few hundred years in the future,” Ms Coldrey said.

“It was this real experimental time in fashion focused on futurism and imagining the future, so I drew a lot of inspiration from that sense of imagination and reference to style.”

Being able to explore her new found interest in technology and mechanics, Yarra Ranges Tech School (YRTS) really was the ideal place for Ms Coldrey to express her creativity.

“I’m really fascinated by technology and engineering, having worked in that space a bit and I really wanted to bring a new language to the debates about technology, one that was a bit more emotional or empathetic and that was my inspiration for styling the artwork.”

YRTS has a number of 3D printers, laser cutters, autonomous bots and drones on campus but it was the universal mechanical arm that caught Ms Coldrey’s attention.

“I just find them so beautiful and graceful. It’s kind of strange to say but the way they move around is very graceful, like a ballerina

so I was just super excited to jump in and learn how to use that and get it to interact with me and play out some skits.”

Learning to program the mechanical arm, Ms Coldrey used it in a number of her retro futurism artworks.

As a woman in the STEM space, Ms Coldrey wanted to bring some creativity and neutrality to the discussion around technology and posed in the artwork herself for that reason.

“I think there is a lot of polarisation in society, not just in terms of politics or issues but even with technology, people are either for or against technology in quite extreme ways,” she said.

“I wanted to have a safe, in the middle, neutral person in this proposition about relating to technology, where people could meet in the middle and talk about what they saw in it or what their own emotions and perceptions about what the situation is, kind of like a mu-

tual place for people to have conversations about technology.”

By winning the Agendo Art Prize, Ms Coldrey was the recipient of $10,000 which she plans to put towards buying a drone, a 3D scanner and a small mechanical arm, as well as fund part of her next artist in residence experience in France.

“It’s really great to have some recognition and support about the project and I’m just really excited that I’m able to, through winning the award, I get to share the project with more people and hopefully spark more conversations about technology that have that different tone to them.”

Ms Coldrey’s next artist residency program will send her to France to live in the Botanic Gardens for two weeks, where she plans to create endo pain visualisations with flowers after she was diagnosed with endometriosis just a few weeks ago.

Powerhouses join forces to produce a top drop of gin

By Jed Lanyon When two Yarra Valley producers collaborate it always produces something great, but when Australia’s winery of the year crosses paths with the world’s best gin, we’re bound to be given something extra special.

The result is a Single Vineyard Bloody Shiraz Gin. Large in flavour and complexity, it is the combination of two of the best known shiraz products in the Yarra Valley - one, the region’s finest shiraz vineyard, Yarra Yering’s Underhill and the other, Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin. Four Pillars had been quietly ageing some Rare Dry Gin in two Yarra Yering barrels since the start of 2020. So when acclaimed winemaker Sarah Crowe agreed to sell the gin makers two parcels of Underhill Shiraz fruit, the decision to collaborate was a no-brainer.

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Prigorje after his home region in Croatia, which literally means ‘foothills’. The vineyard was acquired by Dr Carrodus and became known as Underhill, a tribute to its location at the base of the Warramate Hills.

Four Pillars co-owner Cameron Mackenzie said, “We could never have done this without Sarah Crowe and the incredible team at Yarra Yering and our own crew have put enormous love, care and attention into this gin. We hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.”

The Healesville gin brand is no stranger to success having claimed the title of International Gin Producer of the Year going backto-back at the International Wine and Spirits Competition in London.

While Yarra Yering are celebrating the feat of recently winning both Wine of the Year and Winery of the Year in the highly esteemed Halliday Wine Companion 2022.

The ultra-luxury gin is on sale from 24 August directly from Four Pillars and very limited Dan Murphy’s stores.

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Ms Hale holds beekeeping workshops at her home in Mount Evelyn, to teach people the ins and outs of keeping bees.

Putting on the beekeeping suit is always fascinating to young children.

All abuzz about our bees

By Mikayla van Loon You can hear them buzzing in the springtime, jumping from flower to flower, taking in all the goodness.

They give us the sweet and sticky gooeyness that is honey.

But have you ever wondered what our yellow and black bee friends do for the environment?

Holly Hale from Holly’s Backyard Bees was meant to host a beekeeping workshop at Kilsyth’s Japara House for National Science Week but because of lockdown she was unable to.

So instead, Star Mail chatted to her about the importance of bees for our ecosystem and how they are an important part of living sustainably.

Honey bees are the most efficient pollinators in terms of agriculture, allowing much of our food to grow and flowers to bloom whether in a small backyard garden or for mass production.

“Insects in general are so important to healthy ecosystems and helping to pollinate our flowers and things that then encourage other beneficial insects into our environment too,” Ms Hale said.

The hidden lives of bees intrigue people as they learn about their idiosyncratic characteristics and something Ms Hale said people are very interested to learn about is the waggle dance.

“If a worker bee is out foraging for food and finds a magnificent gum tree in full flower, they obviously want to tell the rest of their sisters so that they can all go and bring in the nectar as well. So they come back and do a series of movements,” she said.

The duration of the waggle dance indicates how far away the nectar source is and the direction of the waggle across the comb correlates to the direction they need to fly in relation to the sun.

“They don’t have a big brain but instinctively they are waggling in the direction so when they do come out they know how far to fly and where they’ll find it.”

Ms Hale finds joy in teaching others about bees and relieving some of the fears around bees and their function.

“I think for a lot of people, they have had a negative experience with bees, either being stung or being caught in a swarm,” she said.

“I think as adults, if I’m fearful of something, that rubs off on my kids and then they grow up with a perception of something because that was my perception.

“That’s why I love teaching kids because sometimes it’s easier to help them foster a love for something when they experience it in a positive way.”

Teaching both adults and children, Ms Hale loves when people learn how bees fit into what we eat.

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Holly Hale hosts school incursions about bees and beekeeping regularly when not in lockdown.

“I teach them about and help them make a connection between the things they love to eat and the things they love to grow and how bees play a part in that because I think a lot of people just think bees equal stings, without appreciating what it is they do for us and how they help our environment.”

“One thing I love talking to adults about is once they do make that connection that bees are so beneficial and without them then we wouldn’t have cherries or apricots or zucchinis, then I go along the track of how we can change our behaviour to be better stewards of the environment, better stewards of the earth so that we can help honey bees.”

Ms Hale is a self taught beekeeper but it wasn’t until her fruit trees weren’t producing fruit that she realised how important bees were to her garden.

“I’m a gardener first before I was ever a beekeeper and I grew a lot of vegies at home and

had a lot of fruit trees.”

The self confessed garden addict only started growing her own fruit and vegetables when her first daughter was born 12 years ago.

“I also wanted my kids to know where food comes from, that it doesn’t come Glad wrapped on supermarket shelves and I wanted to grow organically.”

Quickly outgrowing their backyard in Ferntree Gully, the family moved to a larger property in Mount Evelyn seven years ago.

Seeing how many bookings she’s had for educational talks in primary schools and kindergartens has been really inspiring for her as someone quite environmentally conscious.

This year in particular, there have been grants from Landcare and other environmental bodies to encourage schools to incorporate education about bees and their importance into the curriculum.

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Ms Hale said children and adults alike love learning about how the colony functions as a single organism and how each bee plays a part in the system.

“The fact that there is one queen and the worker bees and all the different jobs they do as they move through their lifecycle. So understanding the role of the different bees in the hive and how it functions in such a perfect way,” she said.

For Ms Hale living sustainably and including bees in that process has become a way of life.

“Even during the Covid times, it was lovely just to say ‘I’m going to go do my grocery shopping’ and go and just step outside into the garden, take my basket and pick what I needed for dinner.” mailcommunity.com.au

Telstra gives jab rewards

By Taylah Eastwell Telstra last week announced a “reward” for all employees who get the Covid-19 jab.

CEO Andy Penn sent an email to staff on 16 August announcing that all employees who get fully vaccinated would be rewarded with 200 points towards the companies rewards program, the equivalent of $200.

“This is voluntary and will be applied retrospectively so anyone who has already been vaccinated will also receive these points. And as we play our part in battling this global crisis together, we will also provide these incentives to our international teams in countries where we are able to do so and where we have not already provided incentives,” Penn said.

“This is a global emergency that has seen some of us lose loved ones – and even more of us separated from family interstate and abroad. And one that has seen our teams outside Australia, particularly in India and the Philippines, impacted on a scale many of us in Australia cannot fully comprehend,” he said.

Mr Penn said Telstra serves “many millions of customers” and therefore has an important nation-building role to play.

“It is part of the fabric of our company. The quicker we are vaccinated, the quicker we are safer and stronger economically.

The email states the company “haven’t yet” made getting vaccinated a requirement for certain roles.

“However, we will continue to consider rel-

Telecommunications giant Telstra has announced a new $200 incentive for all employees who get the Covid-19 jab. evant Government and Health advice, particularly for our people working in high-risk locations and with vulnerable people, such as aged care, hospitals and Indigenous communities.

If that changes we will talk with you first,” the email read.

“If you are unsure about the vaccines, the best thing to do is to speak with your doctor.

We will continue to provide paid time off to get vaccinated and if you have any side-effects.

The incentive is expected to be open until 31 December.

“I know this is an emotive topic – so please be respectful in your comments. I don’t expect everyone to have the same view on this, but personally and as a company, we believe that being committed to getting people vaccinated is the right thing to do,” Penn said.

Government gives horses in need a second chance The Victorian Government is supporting horse welfare organisations across the state to boost care, rehabilitation and rehoming services for the much-loved animals.

Minister for Agriculture Mary-Anne Thomas announced a $55,000 Equine Rehabilitation Grant for important education and training programs, and to rehabilitate more horses.

The funding will be used to increase community awareness of horse welfare through specialised sessions and workshops. It will also help to recruit and train representatives from Project Hope that will support horse owners across Victoria to provide the best care possible, and rehabilitate 12 horses.

“We are proud to support equine rehabilitation and rehoming services, and recognise the important role these organisations play in providing care to horses in need,” Ms Thomas said.

The Equine Rehabilitation Grants are funded through the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) Grants Program and will provide $1 million over three years to not-for-profit

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“These grants will provide better animal welfare outcomes and more education and training, while rehabilitating more horses to give animals a second chance at life,” Ms Thomas said.

Round One of the grants offered a total of $340,000 for the purchase of equipment or professional services, facility upgrades or the expansion of services offered by a horse care organisation.

Since the AWF Grants Program was launched in 2012, 169 grants have been awarded to organisations totalling almost $4.2 million to improve the welfare of companion animals in Victoria.

The Program provides grants to not-forprofit and community organisations aiming to improve responsible animal ownership and provide better animal welfare services to companion animals and the community.

For more information visit animalwelfare.vic.gov.au.

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By Mikayla van Loon The Lilydale Football Club’s seniors season may be over for this year but looking ahead to 2022, new head coach Luke McCormick is excited to get back to training and playing.

Not planning on returning to coaching so soon after finishing up with premier division side South Croydon last year, McCormick was surprised when the opportunity arose to coach at the Falcons.

“I had the year off and wasn’t planning on going straight back into coaching at all but I look at things as opportunities,” he said.

“I came and just helped out [at the club] for a little bit and got to know a lot of these young guys that I hadn’t met before and the feeling around the place was really good and I just saw it as a really good opportunity to be able to take on this group.”

McCormick started at South Croydon just after they won a premiership and the team made the grand final the following year under his leadership.

Coming from a premier division side which had quite a number of senior players who helped carry the team and inspired the younger guys, McCormick said it will be a shift in coaching a team that is the complete opposite.

“Now I’ve come to a group that is young and down the bottom of the ladder, so I’ve pretty much gone to the opposite end of the scale and I look at it not only as a challenge but as a really exciting opportunity because I reckon it will be a lot of fun,” McCormick said.

“At the same time, I’ve got a connection to the club and I don’t want to see them fall down any further.”

While football clubs go through changes and phases of losing their older team mates, McCormick said the Falcons seniors players have taken it in their stride and some players have stepped up into that senior role.

“I think with the experience a lot of them got playing this year and the fact that majority of them have been training with the seniors now for over a season, they probably are a

more mature group than most people think.

They are very coachable, they are willing to listen and they want to learn.”

McCormick said coaching local footy is not like coaching AFL, nor is it like coaching in the premier division.

Hoping to keep his coaching simple, McCormick wants to create a fun environment while still defining each of the players’ roles, so they have purpose and can play as a team.

“Coaching is very, very different every year and these days more so and then you throw in what we’ve had for two years. It’s just about knowing the players as best you can and being realistic.”

“It’s about creating as much of a fun environment as you can and still being able to get the best out of them by teaching them but letting them play their natural style of game at the same time.”

Although still quite a few weeks away from preseason and starting the 2022 season, McCormick is looking forward to getting started and seeing what the team can do with the experience they have had this year.

“I’m most looking forward to the energy and excitement of the playing group and everyone else at the footy club.”

Because of the year we’ve had, McCormick said people will just want to be in and around the football club as much as they can and he is excited to get the community involved, reengage them and give them something to look forward to.

On a broader scale and as a PE teacher, McCormick said community sport is so important for all age groups and hopes children return to playing sport and don’t just get lost in their screens.

“I just see local sport and by extension, local footy but all of local sport is just so important for kids going forward. It’s kind of scary in one sense but hopefully it is really exciting for what it might do because it might reinvigorate local sport in the area as well.”

Luke McCormick came on to assist Alan Love in coaching the Falcons before accepting the senior head coach role.

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Outer East clubs exploring their options elsewhere

By David Nagel and Nick Creely Several clubs from the AFL Outer East competition are exploring the option of moving to neighbouring leagues as they assess the best competition fit for their clubs.

Narre Warren Football Netball Club has put forward a formal expression of interest to the governing body of the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League (MPNFL) - AFL South East (AFLSE) - to join the MPNFL from next year, while Beaconsfield, Cranbourne and Doveton are also considering their options moving forward.

The Gazette understands that Frankston Dolphins - who currently play in division four of the Southern Football Netball League (SFNL) - have also lodged a formal expression of interest to join the MPNFL. While Beaconsfield, Cranbourne, Doveton and Narre Warren have had group discussions, they are keen for each situation to be dealt with independently.

They are four of the eight clubs that played in the former South East Football Netball League (SEFNL) in 2018, before seven of those clubs - including Berwick, Officer and Pakenham - transferred to the AFL Outer East competition in 2019.

The eighth SEFNL club - TooradinDalmore - found its new home in the West Gippsland Football Netball Competition (WGFNC), also in 2019.

Berwick was a member club of AFL Outer East for just two years before switching to the Premier Division of the Eastern Football Netball League this year.

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But a growing desire to implement promotion and relegation across three divisions - up from the MPNFL’s current two-division structure - could see clubs considered in a more positive fashion this time around.

Narre Warren president Stuart Stephenson confirmed that the Magpies were exploring the option of making the move to the MPNFL next year.

“Yes we have put forward an expression of interest to join the MPNFL,” Stephenson said.

“When we joined the AFL Outer East competition it was done on the understanding that we would review our situation after two or three years, and that’s the position we find ourselves in now.”

Beaconsfield President Troy Robinson said the club was mandated to explore its competition options for the future.

“It’s in our constitution that we conduct a competition review with each affiliation agreement that we sign and that’s the position we’re in at the moment,” Robinson said.

“We are considering our options, which include the MPNFL and Eastern, but our preference is to maintain our relationship with AFL Outer East and to see that competition grow.”

Cranbourne president Shane Baker said his club was moving cautiously, after earlier attempts to switch to the MPNFL had been rejected by member clubs of the league.

“We have expressed our interest but that is all,” Baker explained.

“We would welcome further discussion around the prospects of shifting and whether there’s a shift in the MPNFL clubs collective mindset.

“Geographically it makes sense but we are being cautious in our approach.

“After all, our ground is situated between AFLSE Head Office and the MPNFL clubs.

“Our junior affiliate club remains under AFLSE so from our perspective, as it was in 2018, it is logical geographically.”

AFLSE - under the leadership of its new Regional Manager Will Dakis - will now work through a process of consultation with the MPNFL clubs to garner the level of interest in taking additional clubs on board.

AFL Outer East Regional General Manager Aaron Bailey told the Gazette that the league is confident that the clubs will remain aligned with them long-term.

“As was agreed at end of three years, clubs would review their position,“ he said.

“We’re confident all clubs will remain with the AFL Outer East in the long term, and this is simply a part of the three-year process as agreed.“ The Gazette has contacted Doveton for comment. mailcommunity.com.au

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Wandin up there with best

By David Nagel What do these all-time legends of Australian Rules football have in common…Gary Ablett Snr, Ron Barassi, Kevin Bartlett, Wayne Carey, Alex Jesaulenko, Leigh Matthews and ‘Mr Football’ Ted Whitten?

Despite their brilliance and ever-lasting impact on the game these superstars of football were never fortunate enough to have the ultimate symbol of individual excellence draped around their neck – the Charles Brownlow Medal.

Those immortal names – but their inability to claim the games’ greatest individual honour – would indicate that winning a Brownlow, or a community football equivalent, is an extremely difficult thing to do.

On average, depending on the number of teams in a league, between 300 and 450 players might pull on the boots and saddle up in a particular competition each year.

Winning just one of those awards, voted by umpires, and that only spring to life once the all-important ladder positions have been decided, is an amazing achievement.

The Mail has done its homework, and a total of 334 league best and fairest awards have gone up for grabs across the major competitions that settle around our readership.

The Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League (YVMDFL), now AFL Outer East, has records of league best and fairest winners that date back to 1930. The Ellinbank and District Football League (EDFL) has been acknowledging its best and fairest player since 1938.

The West Gippsland Football League (WGFL), now West Gippsland Football Netball Competition (WGFNC), has records of its winners dating back to 1944, although there was a gap between 2005 and 2016.

The WGFL finished in its original form in 2001, although the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League (WGLFL) kept the Breheny Medal as its highest individual prize from 2002 to 2004.

The WGFNC has revived some great memories of the glory days of West Gippsland football since it was reintroduced as a competition in 2017.

And a few clubs from the former South West Gippsland Football League (SWGFL) – which began in 1954 - have been part of the local landscape since way before that competition began.

Beaconsfield, Berwick, Cranbourne, Doveton, Hampton Park, Keysborough, Narre Warren, Rythdale-Cardinia (ROC/Officer) and Tooradin-Dalmore – formed strong bonds and created great rivalries through those generations that still burn strong today.

The SWGFL ended in 1994, but a few of those original clubs have since transitioned through the MPNFL, Casey Cardinia (CCFL) and South East Football Netball League (SEFNL) – from 1995 to 2018 – before finding a current home in AFL Outer East.

With that history lesson out of the way, it’s time to scour the lists of league best and fairest winners from across the region and see who the mightiest players have been.

And three players stand out from a pack of 62 glorious superstars who have won multiple honours along the way.

Healesville’s James Wandin was the first Aboriginal to play for the St Kilda Football Club in the then VFL, in 1952 and 1953, before returning to Healesville as a playing coach and winning four league best and fairest awards in 1954, ’57, ’58 and ’59.

Wandin was also a hugely influential figure away from the football field, being the ngurungaeta (tribal leader) of the Wurundjeri clan until his death, aged 72, in February 2006.

Wandin was a tall player for his generation, standing six feet tall, and dominated for Healesville at centre half forward.

Andy Soumilas, the champion midfielder of his generation, tops the list of great players with five league best and fairest awards – and they came a staggering 13 years apart!

The classy left-footer started his medal haul playing for Garfield in 2004, winning the Breheny Medal in West Gippsland Latrobe, before repeating the dose in 2005, in the same league, but with a different prize - the Trood mailcommunity.com.au

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And also up on a pedestal are the 47 remaining legends that have won two awards throughout their careers.

It’s not very often that names like Cleary, Drake, Gabriel, Hillard, Holland, Lenders, Miller, Scalzo and Young have to take a back seat – but on this very rare occasion even they would dip their lids and acknowledge the remarkable achievements of 16 absolute legends of the game.

5 LEAGUE MEDALS Soumilas 2004 - Garfield (WGFL), · Andy 2005 - Garfield (WGLFL), 2011 - Drouin

Award and Rodda Medal. Soumilas won the same prize in 2011, playing for Drouin in the Gippsland League, before returning to Garfield and claiming the Alf Walton Medal in 2013 – presented to the best player in the Ellinbank League.

A remarkable career was capped off in 2017, when Soumilas made it a unique Breheny Medal double, winning the last Breheny presented in 2004, and the first Breheny awarded after the rejuvenation of West Gippsland football 13 years later!

Soumilas would go on to play in a premiership for Inverloch-Kongwak that year under the coaching of his brother Ben. Another exquisitely talented left-footer, the mercurial Dan O’Loughlin, won back-to-back Breheny Medals for Pakenham in 2000-01, before claiming a Norm Walker Medal in the MPNFL, once again with the Lions, in 2003.

O’Loughlin would cap off a tremendous era of individual success by claiming another Norm Walker Medal with Tooradin-Dalmore in 2006 in the Casey Cardinia Football League.

Wandin, Soumilas and O’Loughlin may be the undisputed superstars of local football but a total of 13 other champions thoroughly deserve legend status around these parts, winning a remarkable three league best and fairest awards.

Current-day Korumburra-Bena coach Paul Alger won three on the trot with Nyora – in 1991, ’92 and ’93 – while Rythdale-Cardinia’s Gil Savoury also won three consecutive medals from 1955 to 1957.

The running power of Berwick champion Madi Andrews, the sheer athleticism of Beaconsfield ruckman Scott Meyer, and the sheer will to compete and desperation of currentday Phillip Island star Brendan Kimber, prove that it can take many different skills to make a three-time league best and fairest winner.

(Gippsland), 2013 - Garfield (EDFL), 2017 Inverloch-Kongwak (WGFNC) 4 LEAGUE MEDALS Dan O’Loughlin 2000, 01 - Pakenham (WGFL), 2003 - Pakenham (MPNFL), 2006 Tooradin-Dalmore (CCFL) James Wandin 1954, 57, 58, 59 - Healesville (YVMDFL) 3 LEAGUE MEDALS Paul Alger 1991, 92, 93 - Nyora (EDFL) Madi Andrews 2015, 17, 18 - Berwick (SEFNL) Rob Andrews 1966, 67 - Longwarry (WGFL) Brendan Kimber 2012, 13 - Cora Lynn (EDFL), 2018 - Phillip Island (WGFNC) David McMaster 1985, 86, 91 - Lang Lang (WGFL) Scott Meyer 2013, 14, 16 - Beaconsfield (CCFL/SEFNL) Wayne Morris 1975, 76, 78 - Warburton Millgrove (YVMDFL) Billy Morrison 1971, 72, 74 - Tooradin-Dalmore (SWGFL) William Murnane 1945, 47, 51 - Longwarry (WGFL) Ray Rouget 1935, 38, 39 - Wandin (YVMDFL) Gil Savory 1955, 56, 57 - Rythdale-Cardinia (SWGFL) Patrick Sharp 2007, 09, 10 - Woori Yallock (YVMDFL) David Wade 1983, 84, 88 - Narre Hallam (SWGFL) 2 LEAGUE MEDALS A Bateman 1990, 93 - Yarra Glen (YVMDFL) Brian Cash 1957, 59 - Garfield (WGFL) Mark Cecere 2011, 18 - Seville (YVMDFL) J Chapman 1968, 73 - Woori Yallock (YVMDFL) Tom Cleary 1983, 84 - Garfield (WGFL) Russell Cowan 2008 - Powelltown, 2010 Yarra Glen (YVMDFL) Billy Drake 1958, 62 - Pakenham (WGFL) Wayne Esler 1968, 69 - Kooweerup (WGFL)

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PUZZLES SUDOKU

No. 043

To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every number from 1 to 9 must appear in: each of the nine vertical columns, each of the nine horizontal rows and each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes. Remember, no number can occur more than once in any row, column or box.

easy

8

3 4 4 9 5 2 1 2 9 9 1 4 8 7 3 7 2 2

6 2 4

5 8 3 9 7

1 5 6 9

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5 4 3

ACROSS

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Entry (6) Grow rapidly (8) Collision of vehicles (5) Able (9) Leaves (5) Oslo resident (9) Flank (4) Tractable (6) Commercials (3) Video recorder (abb) (3) Expenditure (6) Small bit of land surrounded by sea (4) Alaska’s largest city (9) Weak (5) By law (9) Humble (5) Outfits for actors (8) Counsel (6)

1 4 9 10 11 12 13 15 17 19 20 21

1 2 3 5 6 7 8 10 14 16 18 19 22 23 25 27

5 medium

1

QUICK CROSSWORD

Tolerates (7) Seat (5) Division (6) Labeller (5) Any place (8) Citizens of the US (9) Women with South American heritage (7) Associate (7) One of the two major US political parties (9) Visuals (7) Hawaiian capital (8) Definitive (7) Very (7) Craven (6) Sundried brick (5) Baghdad citizen (5)

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9-LETTER WORD

easy

medium

Using the nine letters in the grid, how many words of four letters or more can you list? The centre letter must be included and each letter may only be used once.

No colloquial or foreign words. No capitalised nouns, apostrophes or plural words ending in “s”.

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Today’s Aim: 11 words: Good 17 words: Very good

8 1 3 2 9 6 5 7 4

1 7 2 9 6 8 5 3 4

8 5 4 3 7 1 2 9 6

23 words: Excellent

6 3 9 5 2 4 1 8 7

3 6 5 8 9 7 4 1 2

9 2 1 4 5 3 7 6 8

7 4 8 6 1 2 9 5 3

2 9 7 1 3 6 8 4 5

4 1 6 2 8 5 3 7 9

5 8 3 7 4 9 6 2 1

9 7 5 3 1 4 8 2 6

2 4 6 8 7 5 9 3 1

3 9 2 1 5 8 6 4 7

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6 8 7 4 2 3 1 5 9

5 3 9 7 4 1 2 6 8

1 6 4 5 8 2 7 9 3

7 2 8 6 3 9 4 1 5

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1 8 2 7 3 6 4 9 5

9 7 4 1 2 5 6 8 3

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4 9 8 3 5 7 1 6 2

5 6 9 2 7 1 3 4 8

8 4 7 5 9 3 2 1 6

3 2 1 6 8 4 5 7 9

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3 LETTERS ACE ARM AWE BRA EAR EGO GAL HOE ICE ILL IRE LAD LAX MAR MES MOP ONE PEA PEG RAG RED RUM SEW TAP TEA UGH 4 LETTERS ACED CLOD EARL GONG HOST KEEN KNEW MINE ODDS PAST PEST RAPT SLOT STEW TEEN

THEE TREE WANT 5 LETTERS ACRES ADEPT AGREE ALPHA ALTER APPAL APPLE ASHED ASKEW CAROL CLUED DATED DIETS DRAIN DREAM EATEN

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ENDOW ENEMA EXULT GENRE GNOME HYMNS LANCE LEACH LEAST LOCAL MEMOS NIECE OASES OASIS OBESE OPERA PLIES ROGUE SEDAN SEEMS SELLS

SIEGE SIGMA SPILL SPIRE STEAL THUGS WHEEL 6 LETTERS SLEWED TRENDS 7 LETTERS ADMIRAL AWESOME

PRUDENT REWRITE SCRAWLS SELLERS 8 LETTERS AWAKENED GUERILLA HOLINESS STRONGLY 10 LETTERS TRANSIENTS WATERSHEDS

code, coin, coined, conduce, CONDUCIVE, cone, coned, conic, cove, coven, dice, dunce, iced, icon, induce, nice, novice, once, ounce, unvoiced, vice, voice, voiced

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WORDFIT

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