the local issue 27 september 1, 2014

The Local- Hepburn Shire’s own community publication

September 1, 2014 Issue 27

THE ANNIVERSARY EDITION!

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The Local is a fortnightly community publication covering the Hepburn Shire. The next edition is due out on Monday, September 15.

Advertising deadlines for the next edition of The Local:

Space bookings: Wednesday, September 10Copy provided by: Thursday, September 11

Editorial deadline: Thursday, September 11

Editor: Donna KellyManager/photographer: Kyle BarnesGraphic designer: Glen HeyneSub-editors: Nick Bunning and Lindsay SmithGardening writer: Jackie Airey

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Front cover: The Local is celebrating its first anniversary! Our crew includes, clockwise from bottom left, Rosie the kelpie cross, Nick Bunning, Lindsay Smith, Kyle Barnes, Donna Kelly, Glen Heyne, Jackie Airey and Curly the cocker spaniel cross.

Image: Kyle Barnes/Glen Heyne

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Happy first birthday to The LocalTIME has flown - and The Local is now celebrating its

first anniversary.Also know as TL and even The True Local, the first edition

came out on September 2 last year, with a photo promoting Verna Baker’s Open Garden by fabulous photographer Maurice Montgomery. (It’s odd but Kyle’s middle name is also Maurice...)

Other stories included the Little Hampton Post Office being open for inspection at the Daylesford Museum, a chat with artist Keele Breen, a facelift for the Bridport Street bus stop in Daylesford and Cricket Willow’s Ian Tinetti baring it all for a nude Vietnam Veterans calender.

As well, the new manager of the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre, Denise Hanaphy-Shearer, talked about her goals, author Penny Reilly celebrated her third book launch, the community food network gave itself a plug and Daylesford’s Farmers Arms Hotel chef Gavin Anders shared his spring baked chicken recipe.

And who could forget Rodney Peacock bringing home gold for his bowls action?

It was a bumper first edition, all of 20 pages, with advertisers who are mostly still with The Local today, and readers, recognising the need for a new, colourful publication for the region.

And you loved it from the start.The meagre 500 copies disappeared within hours, the phone rang and

the emails pinged in. Suddenly, in one edition, the monthly publication became fortnightly,

and slowly the page numbers rose to about 40 and the print run has just hit 4000.

The Local also went online, from its second edition, at issuu.com, where every one of the following 26 editions can be viewed in a fully readable magazine format. No wonder The Local has 67,000 impressions each edition!

Social media also came into play, with Facebook likes now well over the 500 mark, and plenty of interaction with readers who enjoy receiving their online edition of The Local on Sunday evening before distribution the following Tuesday morning.

Anyway, The Local is now one year old and a permanent part of life in Hepburn Shire.

The Local will continue to provide great stories, amazing photos, fun features and loads of relevant advertising.

To view past copies just go to www.tlnews.com.au and to see a snapshot of the first edition head to our Facebook page at facebook.com/DHSLocal

Also in this edition are the front covers of the first year of life with The Local and just some of our favourite photos.

There’s also a more personal piece about The Local, and how it came about, at Our Say by Donna and Kyle. Just for a change.

The first edition’s My Say was a whinge about the lack of rubbish pickup in Glenlyon...and it’s as relevant today as it was a year ago.

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ARTIST Brian Nash’s subjects are wide ranging. From nudes to gracious old Australian hotels and buildings, historical towns to high

country cattlemen, and romantic gardens to dusky nightscenes, he captures them all in bold strokes on canvases sized from petite to gigantic. Donna Kelly caught up for a chat.

DK: When did you realise you were an artist?BN: From my earliest memories I can’t recall

not drawing on anything that was available to me, even newspapers. I guess I always wanted to be an artist. I grew up in Yarraville which was a lot different than it is today. I really loved that place it was like living in a Damon Runyon novel with lots of characters. Boxers, drunks, wild and funny people, two up schools, people being thrown through pub windows, police on push bikes, sly grog people and SP bookies. Maybe that’s where my creative urge comes from. As a child I thought it was a really exciting place to grow up, even then I tried to capture the time I lived in. I drew my own comics and newsletters and took great pleasure in taking them to school to show my friends and school mates. As I was obsessed with movies one of my comics was drawn in Cinemascope (first one ever) and I called it “Kimble Kane & the Space Patrol”. I wish I still had it, it would be a great laugh to see it now.

DK: When did your art career take off?BN: I left school when I was 14 and worked for a

large printing company in Melbourne for 17 years, all those years painting in my spare time. A gallery offered me an exhibition so I quit my job and have been painting professionally ever since. I was thrilled as I had never had an art lesson in my life and still haven’t.

DK: And what inspires you?BN: I find inspiration in what is around me, be it

people, the Daylesford Lake, Mt Franklin, Glenlyon area and the many beautiful walks we have around the Daylesford and Hepburn region. I believe an artist should try to capture the area they live in. People should be aware of the natural beauty of this area and explore it more. We are lucky to be here.

DK: Have you won any awards?BN: Fifty-two so far. I try to paint or draw every

day and treat it as any other profession. I strive to keep working hoping my next piece will be the best yet.

DK: What’s your style?BN: I have never thought about my style…I just

paint in my natural way, at a guess I would say it is contemporary realism.

DK: Where can we see your work?BN: My work can be viewed in the Rex Arcade at

Copyworx, at Impressions of Daylesford, 6 Albert Street, Daylesford or the Daylesford Regional Visitor Information Centre.

DK: What’s your Daylesford story?BN: My partner Roberta was looking at trying

to run a B&B. We travelled around looking for a suitable place and found it in Daylesford. In 2000 she started Impressions of Daylesford and has been enjoying it ever since.

DK: Finally, what’s your own philosophy on art?BN: Art should be enjoyed by all people - not just

the elite. Artists need freedom to explore and expand, not allow others to pigeon hole or categorise their work otherwise they become limited and repetitious. Artists neglect drawing to their own disadvantage - I believe good paintings are based on good drawing skills.

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Poppy in her dream role at ARC

DAYLESFORD’S ARC is putting other people’s money where its mouth is to help one young person discover her full potential.

ARC manager Kareena Hodgson said the centre had been given a “good” grant to create a new and vibrant website – and had now received another one-off grant from the Daylesford Community

Bank for a young photographer to take it to the next level.“I applied for the first grant on my first day of work as coordinator of the ARC and we got it – so that’s

really exciting. I was then talking to Kim Percy at Designscope about the website and about the photos – I wanted something young and fresh – and she suggested Poppy Cagalj.

“We talked about getting a sponsor to cover Poppy’s work and I approached the bank and they really loved it. I think we both saw it was a great youth initiative and there’s also that kind of idea of seeing potential in our community and pushing it forward. It will look really good on Poppy’s CV – it’s a professional gig.”

Kareena said the website was already live but the new website would be up in time for the September school holidays and the ARC’s “mini-festival”.

Poppy said she was very excited to be part of such an important project for the ARC and hoped it translated into more photography work. Along with painting and drawing, Poppy said she had been interested in taking photos since she was a child.

“I love that one single photo can capture so much beauty. This is my dream job and I would definitely like to hear from anyone else who needs photography work.”

Daylesford Community Bank manager Steven McKinley said the branch was only too happy to help with such a great initiative offering young people work experience in an important community organisation.

Poppy, 22, is also working on an exhibition, Strong Daylesford Women, for the Convent Gallery in Daylesford, to be held in November.

Poppy Cagalj lines up Daylesford Community Bank manager Steven McKinley - with a strategically placed ARC logo in the background

Photo: Kyle Barnes with photoshopping by Poppy Cagalj

Our Sayby Donna & Kyle

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WOW. We have made it through to our first year anniversary. Who knew...well, we had an inkling.

It was pretty clear from the start that the community wanted a publication which was really local, offering mostly good news on the wonderful people living here and the amazing events we knock together.

We chose the name The Local for many reasons. It’s your local read, “the local” is the pub where you get your gossip, it’s for the locals, by the locals. And we don’t go off-shore - except for printing we don’t even go off-shire. That’s local.

So, with my background in journalism and editing, and Kyle’s in photography and sales, we decided to give it a go.

The Local started off small. It was really just me working full time and a great crew of people willing to help.

Thank you Glen Heyne for being our “god-father” on all things graphic design. I still remember your answer when I asked why something on InDesign was saying one thing and doing another. “That’s because it’s stupid,” you told me. You made me laugh and we just keep rattling along.

Thank you Nick Bunning and Lindsay Smith. I don’t even remember how it happened but you just put your hands up to be our incredible sub editors. Every time you proof read The Local I breathe a sigh of relief. And I sleep better. Every journo will say you can reread your own words as much as you like but you still see what you want to see. There is nothing as important to a publication as a second set of eyes. And we even have a third!

And then some more magic just happened, as it does, and gardening guru Jackie Airey started her column, The Garden. It’s often as much a trip down memory lane as advice on what to plant and Jackie has a great following.

(Sorry, Rosie the angry kelpie cross and Curly the more subdued cocker spaniel, have just chimed in with “what about us”. Yes, many thanks to our long suffering pups who have missed out on walks and spent many hours on the office floor listening to the tapping of the keyboard. And thanks to Rosie, and Curly once, for their very informative diaries...you do realise dogs can’t really write...)

Anyway, others, humans, have offered us stories, photos, random columns...and then more have just been on-hand to give us the heads-up on people and places we should be covering. Whether that’s through our Facebook site, online or just a simple phone call. We really appreciate all of those news tips.

And then there have been the amazing advertising clients who believed in The Local from the start. It was sold off a pretty average (read crappy) A4 Word document and we couldn’t believe you were ready to offer us money to go in something you had never seen before. But you did. And we kept the prices as affordable as possible so even when a business was small they could advertise big. To all of you who were in our first edition, and most of you are still with us today, a huge thank you!

One year on and we are loving working on The Local - and we know you love it too. It has grown from a monthly A4 publication, which lasted one edition before everyone said “more please” to a fortnightly B4 publication, with 4000 copies in print, delivered right around the shire, and another average of 67,000 impressions each edition at www.tlnews.com.au That is just awesome.

We’ve also jumped from 20 little pages to, this edition, a whopping 48-page publication. That’s a great read - for free.

Last September, we thought we were on the right track and the numbers now prove it. And we have always been in it for the long haul so please keep reading, keep calling, keep emailing and keep telling us what you want to read.

The Local - for the locals, by the locals. (And we’re happy to have the tourists come along for the ride too. Just

sayin’...)

Thanks for your support!

Donna & Kyle

Daylesford Rotary Club is presenting an information & awareness night, on Friday 5th September, in the Senior

Citizens Hall from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Colin Muir, a past district governor of Rotary, will be the guest speaker and give information on Rotary’s

international and community contributions.

A question and answer segment will follow, with a light supper concluding

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DAYLESFORD’S 5000 Club has celebrated its third anniversary.

The club provides a three-course community lunch every Friday to anyone looking for either a meal, a chat, or both.

The lunches are held at the Anglican Parish of Daylesford’s hall from noon to 1.30pm.

Volunteers cook up a storm with offerings including soups, salads, pastas, meat pies, casseroles and a host of desserts including an amazing pavlova.

Recently, dessert was taken over by a huge birthday cake for one of the diners celebrating their 80th birthday.

Keeping Daylesford Warm, another community group, also leaves an array of clothing for anyone to take home.

There is no charge but gold coin donations are appreciated though never expected.

CHINESE Cultural Society Ballarat vice president Charles Zhang will speak at the Daylesford & District Historical Society’s annual meeting this Friday, September 5.

Mr Zhang’s talk will start at 8pm after the meeting which starts at 7pm.He will talk about the experience he shared with his 16-year-old son Oscar in December last year

walking 480km for 16 days from Robe in South Australia to Ballarat, retracing the same route that thousands of Chinese made in the 1850s heading for the Victorian gold fields.

Unable to land in Victoria as a result of a government poll tax, introduced to discourage Chinese immigration, the ships carrying the Chinese instead sailed to Robe.

Here the Chinese passengers were disembarked and forced to make the long and hazardous journey to the Victorian goldfields by foot.

Between1856 to 1857 it is estimated more than 17,000 Chinese landed in Robe. Hundreds died making the journey to the goldfields and the epic journey became known as The Long Walk.

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Milkbar Murray on a morsel mission

EVERYONE knows Milkbar Murray.The jack russell, ready to celebrate his 11th birthday next month, has

been a regular at the Secret Garden Nursery in Daylesford’s Howe Street for the past eight years.

Owner Lou McLachlan said Murray had always been “a garden dog” with her taking him to work at the Convent Gallery when he was just a pup.

Now at the Secret Garden, like all good workers, Murray has honed his time management skills to his best advantage.

“Milkbar Murray sleeps all night, we come to work and then he goes straight to the boys’ café (Gary and Shane at The Good Food Store) and he begs there.

“But after a while he will turn-around and saunter down to the milkbar (Happy Dayz) – he’s even left scratch marks on the door there – I need to paint that.

“So he works hard in the morning for his morning morsel, has a sleep, then smells lunchtime and begs for a couple of hours before his afternoon nap. Murray’s not my best worker but I love him.”

Lou said the vet believed Murray may have a bit of beagle in him –

contributing to his rotund shape, but he had also been on a diet after being diagnosed with pancreatitis.

Since recovery, he has kept to better lifestyle choices and at home is fed a low fat meal of mashed sweet potato, prime mince and shredded vegetables.

Lou said she believed Murray may be the most famous dog in Daylesford.“Everyone knows Murray. From the nursery I hear the tradies pull up and greet

him with a gruff ‘g’day Murray’, it’s so cute, and when they leave I hear ‘see ya Murray’.

“When I walk up the street everyone says hello and he’s even allowed in the bank where he sings to the tellers.

“Murray also loves babies. Most parents get a little puppy for their kids, I think I should get a baby for Murray. He licks their hands and kisses them. We were almost going to have a nursery at the nursery, so Murray could look after the toddlers while their parents shopped.”

And what’s planned for Murray’s birthday celebrations?“Maybe a big chocolate mud cake – diet, of course.”


HERE’S the solution to the last edition’s crossword. See page 42 for the crossword for Issue 27. All the answers are contained within the pages of The Local! Good luck.


There’s no place like (this) home...

There’s no place like (this) home...is a new feature in The Local. Each edition we will scour the countryside for people living in different abodes. For our first column,

seeing it’s our anniversary edition, we decided to talk about living in a school. So Donna Kelly sat down for a chat with Kyle Barnes – just before he popped inside to start the fire.

Donna: How did you come across the former Glenlyon primary school?

Kyle: After a watersports accident while visiting my sister in Queensland you picked me up off the plane, I was hobbling, and the romantic Daylesford weekend got underway. As with many visitors to Daylesford the Convent Gallery was on the list but unfortunately the walking stick wasn’t going to work. In your determination to see some Central Highlands art you managed to find a small flyer for the Glenlyon Art Show – and off we went. While there, we noticed a For Sale sign for the school, which had been passed in at auction and thought “we could live here”. So we rang the agent and basically signed up for it the next day.

Donna: What was the reality like when you arrived to live here?

Kyle: Because it was summer it was bloody hot and we needed to build fences to keep the dogs in – that was hard work (see right). Then there was the long grass, we were paranoid about snakes and it was our first attempt at Australian country life – apart from Alice Springs. It was so dark at night we used to drive to the Glenlyon Hall, which is just over the road, because we walked once and nearly got lost - you couldn’t see a thing. We were also kept busy listening to fire reports on the ABC. On the upside, we were invited into the community, joined lots of committees, loved the general store, embraced the Daylesford community and found the fabulous pubs and cafes. It was a real feeling of being a part of something bigger.

Donna: What do you love about the school?Kyle: Coming home and shutting the gate. You

can shut the world out. We have loads of room, no neighbours, it’s like living in an isolated place in the middle of a village – if that makes sense. We also loved that the dogs had so much room to roam – it’s like a giant dog run. And inside it’s amazing. We get lots of “oohs and ahhhs” and still have the old blackboards – which always get used during dinner parties.

Donna: What don’t you like about the school?Kyle: It’s such a large block and being busy with The

Local it’s hard to find the time for maintenance. It’s also a collection of old buildings so something always needs to be done…But it’s such a comfortable space – the Ned Kelly warms it up in winter and it stays pretty cool, with the thick walls, in summer. I guess we just mainly love being here.

Donna: What would your dream home be?Kyle: A cantilevered home on a north facing

hill where the park-like settings in front of me weren’t mine to maintain. Just a lovely view. And something really modern with no maintenance. And great energy ratings. Oh, and central heating…our friends from Melbourne come up and say “how romantic it must be to have a wood fire”. Really…why don’t they go out and stack it and carry it in when it’s raining and try and light a fire with no firelighters or kindling. When it’s freezing. Sorry, rant over.

Donna: Anything else?Kyle: At the right price anything’s for sale. Just

sayin’…ext edition we talk to Glenn and Coralie Rowbotham who live in a church at Lyonville.)

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SEPTEMBER is a special month in Daylesford - it marks the end of long, cold winters and the reappearance of the sun. But more importantly, it’s the month that we celebrate our favourite man - Dad! We love him heaps, but like every year the “what do I get Dad this year” question tortures us for weeks and usually ends in a rush to Kmart for a pair of socks. This year, buy something unique and different and avoid the last minute frantic search.

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Ship life for Haans

WHEN Haans Siver came across a YouTube clip five years ago of the dolphin slaughter at Taiji Cove in Japan, it was a moment that would change her life.

The former nightclub owner was “absolutely mortified” and started researching what she could do to help stop the annual event in any way.

First port of call was Ric O’Barry, Flipper’s trainer turned activist, who said his organisation needed money.

Haans started fundraising at her nightclub and also protesting outside the Japanese Embassy in Melbourne.

But it was a lonely year and she felt like the only one taking part in the fight.An anti-whaling day changed all that.“I went along and found all these people and Sea Shepherd and pretty much

joined up straight away and have been with them ever since.”Last year, Haans, who has since become a private investigator, joined the

crew of the Steve Irwin as quartermaster – doing tasks including steering the ship, logkeeping and taking care of helicopter operations.

When she’s on land she works as the ship’s donation officer trying to source, for free, the much needed donations to keep the ship and volunteers running. That’s anything from mattresses to heaters and grinders to toilet paper.

Haans also visits schools to educate students on the many activities Sea Shepherd is involved in from stopping whaling and dolphin slaughters, to saving seals and working on stopping the Western Australian government from culling sharks through longlines.

Out on the water, Haans is in the thick of things when the “actions” start.“A lot of people think it’s scary, because the actions we do are really

dangerous and life threatening, but they are not because the adrenalin kicks in and you just do what you have to to stay safe. You just focus – you don’t think ‘I might die today’.”

Haans also said that living on a ship was only strange when “you are sleeping and it starts to rock and you are on a water bed from the ‘80s”.

“But I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to help this planet survive. I would recommend anyone doing anything they can to help things change.”

Haans said anyone contemplating volunteering on the ship needed to realise there was no pay and they had to be ready to be at sea for up to four months at any one time.

The meals are also all vegan because they don’t believe in stopping whaling but eating meat themselves. “Not to mention the damage animals like cows are doing to the world.”

Haans said as much as she loved ship life she also enjoyed her time off – often choosing to spend it at the home of her uncle Robert Speldewinde, owner of Moongate in Hepburn Springs – where The Local caught up with her for a chat.

“I love it here. It’s so peaceful, it’s green and there’s no water. I am here with some others girls off the ship because I wanted them to see it too. We are just going to have a look around and do some shopping.”

And while Haans applaudes this year’s International Court of Justice ruling to stop Japan’s whaling program in the Antarctic because it was not designed or carried out for scientific purposes, she doesn’t think a need for activists like herself will end during her lifetime.

“Even if whaling stops there is so much more we need to do.”

Link and donations: seashepherd.org.au


Photo courtesy of Sea Shepherd

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Kyle’s favourite photos for the year

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Front pages from a year at The Local

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Congratulations!IN A day and age where print journalism is contracting it is great to see a local newspaper achieving such success. I congratulate The Local in its first year in business and hope there are many more years to come.

- Hon Bruce Billson MP Federal Minister for Small Business

IT TAKES courage to start up a new business, and a certain determination to start a newspaper. Congratulations to both Donna Kelly and Kyle Barnes on The Local’s first anniversary. Looking forward to many more editions.

- Senator John MadiganFederal Senator for Victoria

CONGRATULATIONS to Donna, Kyle and the team at The Local on your first anniversary. The Local indeed lives up to its name by each week bringing to us the local stories of our own community and the people that make the Hepburn region such a great place to live. Best wishes for the future.

- Catherine King MPFederal Member for Ballarat

THE Daylesford Community Bank congratulates The Local on its first year anniversary.It is fabulous to see a publication, and a new small business in the region, achieve such great success in such a short time. The Daylesford Community Bank is also pleased to have The Local as its client – and to have supported The Local and its crew on their amazing journey. Keep up the good work.

- Steven McKinleyManagerDaylesford Community Bank

Above, last edition’s front cover and below, just a few of the editor’s favourite pics. Thanks for playing everyone!


Liza Lee following her tarot card destinyTHEY have been 10 years in the making but

psychic Liza Lee has finally created her own tarot cards.

The final push came with a potential diagnosis of cancer for her sister.

“My sister’s chromatin level was about 500 and it should be 17 so she had some tests for cancer – it has to be something, right? It was like a rocket in my head, when something like that happens in the family, and I just sat down with these scraps of yellowed paper, my tarot cards at the time, and asked ‘please God, what’s going to happen to my sister?’

“And then out comes a horse shoe. And I said to God “why is it whatever I do it’s rubbish’. Because this is impossible.

“But a week goes by and she gets the results and rings me and says ‘guess what’, and I say ‘what’ and she says ‘there’s no cancer’ and I just thought ‘wow’.”

Liza said despite being a psychic she had never really been able to read tarot.

“But when I do the psychic readings I do see the tarot in my head, like discs flying in, and that’s how I see things and messages and auras, it’s really hard yakka.

“And sometimes people just aren’t aware of all that in their body and I wanted to leave behind something that people can pick up and talk to the angels with.

“I also want to help make them aware of the higher divine, that there is a god, and the angels are here to help, especially in this mad world. It is hard for some people and angels create hope – they help in so many ways.

“So I thought I would do these cards and, lo and behold, it just overtook me. And in that time I am also learning the ukulele, taking off to Loch Sport for the ocean, buying a computer and learning how to use it – I hate it - and I am loving it. It is fabulous and makes me feel ‘yes I am in control and I can do it’.”

Liza said with her cards now designed and printed, she is also keen to do some courses for people to help explain tarot reading and so much more.

“When I first started it was all scattered and I think if only someone had explained things to me.

“I am not a guru but I am making people aware of the knowledge and wisdom out there and giving them information.”

Liza, a former occupational health nurse, who arrived in Daylesford in 1988, said she loved the region as a place “where it really happens”.

“People are attracted here likes moths to the light because of the energy. For people who are creative it’s a great place even though it’s like an onion with many layers.

“I think it was just destiny.”

Contact: 5348 2171 | 0408 337 620

WW1 MEMORABILIAThe Daylesford & District Historical Society

is producing a book of letters written home by local WW1 soldiers, many published in

‘The Advocate’ at the time.Anyone having items, ie: photos, letters,

postcards, diaries, medals, souvenirs and other memorabilia relating to WW1 they are prepared to donate, lend or allow to be photographed or

scanned is asked to contact us. Please phone or email the Daylesford Museum,

and you will be contacted.Phone: 5348 1453

(please leave a message if unattended) Email: [email protected]

Museum open weekends 1.30-4.30100 Vincent St, next to Primary School

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Loving to BE MAD and seeing local go globalCHRISTINE Lewis is officially MAD.

The Hepburn Springs owner of guesthouse 65 Main launched her BE MAD Facebook page in July and has not looked back.

For Christine it’s a personal journey but she also wants to connect with other people who are Making A Difference.

“The concept of MAD is that it’s a platform to bring people together who are interested in doing the things they love while still making a difference. I sat down one day and thought my life is about making the world a better place for women and community – and I have been doing that with my place since I started.

“Then I got a random email from a group I am in, Business Chicks, and was invited to consider being a volunteer for The Hunger Project – which has been going for 20 years in more than 25 countries. Its mandate is to eliminate hunger and poverty in developing nations by using women empowerment and sustainable programs. The days of food parcels are over.

“They go into these patriarchal societies, ask permission to speak to the woman, because women are the problem solvers, and give women a voice and ascertain what they need. Usually it’s the same things. Sanitation, fresh water and for their children, especially the girls, to be safe and have a good life.

“They are then given the opportunity to have a business enterprise, perhaps growing food or animals, and they take out microloans and the offshoot is fresh water, education and HIV prevention.”

Christine said she viewed the chance to help as a way of taking her passions for women and village life to a global level.

She is now raising money for a community in Uganda and will head to the country herself next month to work on providing fresh water, healthcare, and education and to establish a business infrastructure.

“When I was chosen the tears just ran down my face. I don’t have children, I don’t have a traditional family, this is almost like a calling. You see from people like the Dalai Lama, Richard Branson…a very clear message that money is not the key, to do something with your resources is what makes your heart sing.”

Christine said she also realised that to make a difference it needed to be local, global and sustainable.

“I decided to create the Facebook community website but I also decided from a business perspective that for a business to keep giving it needs more than a letter of thanks or a certificate.

“BE MAD will be an advertising platform where people who are MAD can connect to businesses that are also MAD. I will do a social media shout out for those businesses and my ambition is that you should get some business out of this in time.”

Christine’s next event is at The Grande Hotel on Monday, September 8. On offer is a two-course meal, glass of wine and a performance by Queensland musician Trysette, whose sister lives in Uganda.

It’s all part of her also working to help “local”.“A little business on a Monday can do with some influx, I am paying

for the food, and I have this amazing musician who sounds like a sassy Norah Jones. Then there is the chef Andrew Dennis and the producers. So that’s ticking local, local. And a little component, about 35 per cent of the ticket price, is going to the Hunger Project.”

“So you get a happy heart when you hang out with your friends, eat delicious food and hear music from an original Australian artist and give her

love and support on her journey. And we can let the local go

global – just a little.”

TRENTHAM STATION SUNDAY MARKET

Victoria Street, Trentham

On the fourth Sunday of each month 8.30am - 2.30pm

Enquiries/Bookings - Gwenda on 5424 1611 or Ross on 5424 1509

A great variety of stalls in and around the beautiful Trentham Station

**Permanent carriage stalls open every weekend**

Including - Craft in the Carriage, Kaye’s Soaps and Candles, Leigh’s Homemade

Preserves, Snax on the Trax & Trentham Olde Worlde Lolly Shoppe

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Out & AboutHAWKS tragic Phillip Taylor will talk about his book, High on Hawthorn: The Road to the 2013 Premiership, at the Clunes Football and Netball Club on Sunday, September 7 from 2pm.

Taylor will talk about Hawthorn’s triumphant 2013 season from the fans’ perspective. His book traces Hawthorn’s dramatic and eventful season and gives voice to the excitement, exasperation and – ultimately – exhilaration that all Hawks supporters felt.

Taylor has supported Hawthorn for 45 years, picking the brown-and-gold jumper out of a line-up at a sports store in 1969.

The talk is part of the Sunday Selection of author talks organised by Clunes Booktown. Drinks and copies of the book will be available.

BOKEH Gallery will host a photography competition in association with the Daylesford Art Show from October 1 to November 4.

First prize is a solo exhibition at Bokeh Gallery, in Howe Street, including media promotion.

Guest judge is image maker, writer and researcher Dr Marcus Bunyan. Photographs will be judged on aesthetics and technical quality.

Entries close on Monday, September 8.Details: bokehdaylesford.com

You Me & Biodiversity, a Wombat Forestcare initiative, will see speaker Julie Whitfield talk about Butterflies of the Wombat at the Trentham Neighbourhood Centre on Saturday, September 6 from 1.30pm to 3.30pm.

Gold coin donation. Details: [email protected] or wombatforestcare.org.au

THE Australian Tapestry Workshop’s director Antonia Syme will be the conversationalist for the September 10 Conversations in Pubs at The Royal George in Kyneton.

She has worked for many years in the arts and cultural sector as a director, consultant, conservator and curator and has been director of the Workshop since 2009. Established in 1976, the Workshop is located at South Melbourne where there is an Aladdin’s Cave of massive colourful commissions from local artists for hotels, Australian Embassies, other major buildings and private collections round the world.

Antonia has a wealth of experience in leading the arts and has many stories to tell. She is currently on the board of the Abbotsford Convent Foundation Board, has served on the boards of Craft Australia and the Sydney College of the Arts and numerous cultural committees.

The event starts at 11am and finishes at 12.30pm. Cost is $30 including a glass of wine. Details: [email protected], 5417 5228 or 0418 389 189.

THE next service at the Glenlyon Anglican Church will be held on Sunday, September 7 at 11.45am.

THE Central Springs Calisthenic Club junior team travelled to the annual Horsham Eisteddfod recently. The team won with its performance of The Greatest Show On Earth, and came second

overall.

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Morning Melodies4th Monday of Every Month

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Saturday 13th SeptemberFinancial Members $25

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Wednesday is Locals Night! Sault offers their seasonal a la carte menu with a complimentary glass of house red,

white or sparkling with any main meal.

Experience the taste of Spain with Sault Restaurant’s Spanish head chef Santiago Nine-Fernandez. Now serving tapas on our menu!

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Drop in to The Good Food Store and grab a great brekkie,

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Welcome to The Farmers ArmsOpen 7 days a week for lunch and dinner

The Farmers Arms Daylesford offers the perfect blend of country charmcombined with a sophisticated menu, wine list and professional service.

For more information about the pub and also our current menu,please visit our website: www.thefarmersarms .com.au

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FRIDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 6:30PMVIDA JAZZFrom Bossa to Blues, Ballards and Grooves. Free Entry.

SATURDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 8:30PMLATE NIGHT RADIOCollaboration of sophisticated musicians. $10 Cover.

FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 6:30PMBELLA FRISKYFrom Bizet to Britney, tango to Tarrantella, Russian to ridiculous. Free Entry.

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Dinner: Thursday - Tuesday from 6pmLunch: Friday - Tuesday from 11amBreakfast: on weekends from 9amCoffee & Cake: always available Locals Night: all welcomeCurry & Hot-Pot Night Tuesdays $18Fish Night Fridays: $26.50 with glass ofFish Night Fridays: $26.50 with glass ofhouse wine (a la carte dining also available)

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Old Hepburn menu hits the right noteBy Nick Bunning

The Old Hepburn Hotel (known colloquially as Dooley’s or The Old Hep) has been a popular watering hole for locals and

visitors for longer than anyone can remember. In fact, the current building celebrated its centenary in 2012.

Licensee Amber Dooley has been at the helm since 2003, and, in conjunction with chefs Josh and Dani, has just launched a new menu with an emphasis on “funkified” pub classics. Intrigued by the description, we decided to head down there and check out exactly what’s on offer.

In keeping with The Old Hepburn’s reputation as a music venue par excellence, the new menu is grouped under musically-themed headings. Entrees are listed under Opening Act, sides are Support, seasonal specials are denoted as On Tour, while those permanent pub classics (each with The Old Hep’s individual touch) are known as Headliners. There’s plenty of choice in each category, and vegetarians are well catered for. However, the options don’t end there. A daily specials blackboard extends your range of choices even further, and each weeknight also has its own themed offering. On Mondays, you can choose from at least a dozen different parmas.

We turned up on a Tuesday, which is Pot Pie and a Pot night – for $20 you can choose from three different pot pies, accompanied by a pot of beer. Our mouths were watering by this stage, so it was well and truly time to make some decisions. The popular prawn cocktail and salt & pepper squid ($12) looked great but we had heard rave reports about The Old Hepburn’s beetroot falafels with tzatziki and salad ($12) so opted to share a plate.

They certainly lived up to their reputation – crispy on the outside, moist and bursting with flavour on the inside. After making short work of the lot, we couldn’t wait to move on to our mains.

I plumped for the Tuesday special, selecting a Moroccan lamb and chick pea pot pie. Although tempted by the ever-popular Poseidon Adventure seafood platter ($30.50) and the lavish Burra Burger with chips and relish ($19.50) from the Headliners menu, Lindsay decided to go for the fresh fish of the day from the specials’ board – gummy shark with salad, chips and house-made tartare ($25).

With drinks ordered (Fat Yak beer for me, a $6.50 glass of house sauvignon blanc from Rothbury Estate

for Lindsay), we settled back and enjoyed the friendly, relaxed vibe of the lounge.

Before long the mains arrived at our table, and both dishes were a feast for the eyes as well as the tastebuds. My pot pie was full to the brim with tender lamb chunks, chick peas, pumpkin, eggplant and spinach. Blended with chef Dani’s house-made African spice and topped with a light and flaky pastry lid, this pie certainly hit the right note for me.

Lindsay meanwhile was raving about his crisply battered gummy shark, appealingly presented in a twist of paper. “So fresh and full of flavour” was his verdict. Both our meals were accompanied by a lightly dressed garden salad, and a generous serve of chips. Crunchy on the outside and fluffy inside – just the way they should be!

By now we were both well and truly satisfied, but thought we would just take a peek at the dessert offerings (Encore section on the menu). Well, it can’t hurt, can it? Before we knew it we had weakened and ordered a serve of doughnut balls with warm chocolate sauce ($12). To share – just a taste each, we promised ourselves.

Once they arrived, our resolve was quickly forgotten. The light, sugar-coated puffs of decadence proved irresistible when combined with the divine chocolate sauce, and the plate was soon empty. Talk about ending the night on a high note!

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BIANCA Berto used to sing herself to sleep as a toddler - so it was a fait accompli she would follow her heart and a career in music. The Local’s Kyle Barnes caught up for a chat.

KB: What’s your background?

BB:I spent the first eight years of my life in Sunbury where we lived in a house behind the music school my dad used to run. We then moved to Daylesford and I attended Hepburn Primary School and Daylesford Secondary College. It was in my senior years at Daylesford SC that I began to explore the world of music. I was able to share this exploration with John Howell, Lewis Ingham and Charley Phypers in a group called The Razz. We had masses of support from our amazing music and instrumental teachers Suzan Verbyla and Greg Thomas.

About two weeks before commencing my final year of high school, I made the decision to attend Salesian College in Sunbury - the school my dad has been teaching at for over 20 years. This was one of the best decisions of my life and is why I live by a little saying I made up –“it’s never too late to make a decision if it’s the right decision”. At Salesian, I developed a great deal as a performing artist because I decided to take up drama. I was also doing VCE music which meant I had to start learning music theory. In addition I got involved in the school production at Salesian which further challenged and developed me as a performer and as a musician.

KB: When did you know you were musical? BB: I have always liked music and have always enjoyed having a good sing.

When I was a toddler mum put a tape recorder in my room when she put me to bed because she thought she’d been hearing a fair bit of noise coming from my room after she’d put me to sleep. We listened to this tape a few years back and as it turns out, I’d been singing myself to sleep.

However, it wasn’t until year 9 (2009) that I began to discover my musical talents. I had always been creative and had always liked writing. I’d also been learning bits of guitar from my dad here and there. So I suppose it was bound to happen - I started writing songs… and again that cheeky old mother of mine was listening to the sounds coming from my bedroom. This time mum knew she probably couldn’t get away with sneaking a tape recorder into my room, so instead she just walked in and said “alright, I can hear you singing and playing, play me a song”. I began playing her an original called No Matter What. From there it all started. My sister introduced me to the music teachers at school, a friend hooked me up with Nel Staite and the open mic nights and in no time I knew stacks of great musos, was involved with a number of gigs and had written another pile of songs.

KB: What do you do music wise?

BB: I’m a singer, songwriter, guitarist. Currently I mainly do solo work and am in a duet with my dad called “Mother & Son”. I’m hoping to get more involved with my cousin’s band The Black Harrys who are always inviting new musicians to play a few numbers with them.

KB: What style of music are you involved with? What sort of music do you listen to yourself?

BB: I began largely influenced by blues (Hendrix, Ray Charles, The Beatles).

That then lead onto a number of other genres like reggae, bluegrass, folk and roots (Bob Marley, John Butler, Bob Dylan, Blue King Brown). Recently I’ve been really enjoying a little more funk, soul and R&B (Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Bamboos, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings). Whatever music influences me tends to be the sort of music I like to play and get involved with.

KB: Where can people hear you perform next?

BB: Dad and I will be performing as “Mother & Son” at the Glenlyon General Store on September 19.

KB: Anything else you would like to add? BB: If I had to pick a highlight of my music career, it would be winning the

BB HI-FI Kool Skools competition with my band The Razz. We won a three-day session at Empire Music’s recording studios where we recorded an eight track EP, had professional photo shoots and got 400 copies of our album “24 Pieces” printed. People can get their hands on a copy of this album for $15. We also got invited to the Kool Skools Awards night where we won the award for best Blues and Roots Track and got to play in front of over 1000 people. Empire Records asked us to come back to the studios to record a single and video clip. We chose a song I wrote called 24 Pieces and the video clip can be found on You Tube.


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Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn SpringsPerformance Night - Friday, September 5, 8pm til late, $2 entry feeGabe Atkinson - Saturday, September 6, 9pm, $5Rory Ellis - Sunday, September 7, 5pm, $10Dog Gone South - Friday, September 12, 9pm, $10Untapped - Saturday, September 13, 9pm, $5

Daylesford Hotel, DaylesfordVida Jazz - Friday, September 5, 6.30pm-9.30pmLate Night Radio - Saturday, September 6, 8.30pm-11.30pm, $10Bella Frisky - Friday, September 12, 6.30pm-9.30pm Live Music, Saturday, September 13, 8.30pm-11.30pm, $10

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Anam Cara - Friday, September 5, eveningMr Jim Davidson - Saturday, September 6, lunchThe Duck Down Pickers - Saturday, September 6, eveningThe Burke Bros Duo - Sunday, September 7, lunchVida Jazz - Sunday, September 7, evening

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By Nel Staite

THE Old Hepburn Hotel’s Performance Night is on the move.The 15-year-old event will move from the first Friday of the month to the first

Sunday of the month from October onwards. So the Performance Night on Friday, September 5 will be the last Friday night gig and we are planning to make a big bash of it with loads of extra acts.

From October the Performance Night will be billed as Performance Night Afternoon Sessions. It will start at 2pm with a specially designated youth section, encouraging musicians from the local primary and secondary schools to participate, and any other young folk. Then from 3pm until 7pm it will be the mix of the usual five-minute open stages and 20-30min pre-booked spots from musos of all ages.

Now in its 15th year, the Performance Night is a well-established musical institution, creating a dynamic and live space for amateur, emerging and professional musicians and performers to showcase their talent in front of a local audience.

Essentially an Open Mic night, the Performance Night has been wowing crowds with a wealth of diverse talent since 2000 and has been a stage for more than 900 ensembles of all genres, styles and abilities.

Our history includes performances by emerging and now well established musicians when they first started out, full of nerves and speckled in angst.

Think a very young Mia Dyson and even younger Declan Sykes to name a few. As well as continuing to present an excellent show of variety and diverse talents,

Performance Night provides artists with a chance to make themselves known to venue holders and audiences right throughout Victoria, forging a strong alliance between musicians, artists & audiences in our local community.

Audiences vote with applause and the best act of the night wins the door money, as well as a chance to win a “paid” spot at the Old Hepburn Hotel at a future date.

Details: Nelephant Productions at [email protected] or 0437 628 911.

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NEXT time you chomp into a potato – keep in mind the humble spud has changed the course of history.

The vegetable, which hails from an area near Lake Titicaca – between Peru and Bolivia, was cultivated by the Inca Indians around 8000 BC to 5000 BC. And they were doing well until the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in 1536, conquered Peru and took the potato to Europe. Not long after, Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the high yielding crop to Ireland in 1589.

They were very nutritious so the poor embraced them while rich people preferred grains – farmed by the poor. But when potato blight broke out in 1845 and 1846, the Irish poor were left starving literally to death. One million died during the famine and another million left for Canada, the United States and Australia.

The potato story is just one you will read in gardening expert Simon Rickard’s Heirloom Vegetables – a guide to their history and varieties.

Simon, who lives in Trentham, has also enjoyed gardening but his background is in classical music, and more importantly, the fairly obscure baroque bassoon. While he lived in Europe, there was plenty of work available, but the return to Australia saw him needing a day job.

He became the head gardener at the Diggers Club at Dromana’s Heronswood, a stint that lasted four years, before he took on the same position, for the same amount of time, at the Garden of St Erth in Blackwood.

Simon then went to work for restaurateur Annie Smithers setting up her kitchen garden from scratch at Malmsbury for another four years.

The move from hands-on gardening is for a reason.“My back’s not getting any younger so I am working more on garden design,

garden consultancy and garden coaching. We get a lot of tree changers moving here with a vision of self-sufficiency but then they realise they don’t know how to put a seed in the ground or prune an apple tree. So I help them get started. I also do a fair bit of writing and lecturing with horticultural societies around Australia and Melbourne University.”

Simon said heirloom vegetables were basically old fashioned varieties which predated industrial agriculture, a product of World War II technologies.

“They are varieties which have been handed down through families for many generations and varieties which have been selected for their flavour or texture. Like tomatoes – some are good for eating fresh, some are for picking, some for drying – they all have different kinds of uses depending on where they are from. Unfortunately a lot nearly became extinct in the ‘70s and ‘80s with hybrid varieties designed especially with agriculture in mind. So they became very popular and nearly pushed out all the old heritage varieties.

“It was only through the efforts of a few Americans who started collecting and had a seed bank that they were saved. And now they have become really popular around the world, through things like the slow food movement, and people are realising that vegetables are for eating and enjoying, not farming as many as possible.

“And that’s what I wanted the book to be about. It’s not about how to grow them, there are already heaps of books on them, I wanted mine to be a social history of vegetables, of where humans and vegetables have been together over 10,000 years.

“And to give people an idea of how dependent we are on food.”

*The Local has a copy of Heirloom Vegetables - a guide to their history and varieties to give away to a lucky reader. For your chance to win, email your name, phone number, and what’s your favourite vegetable and why, to [email protected] by September 12. Good luck!

Link: simonrickard.com

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13 JULPRESENTING

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The Royal George24 Piper StreetKyneton

Doors Open 11amConversations 11.15am - 12.30pm

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Founder, Australian Institute of Classical Dance

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Tim JonesLeading Sculptor,Printmaker & Teacher

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Dining deals for locals throughout shire

FOR the locals - by the locals.Locals are always looking for a great deal – and the region’s

restaurants and hotels are keen to make sure there is plenty on offer.Monday head to Mercato in Daylesford, the Bean and Barrow in

Creswick or The Grande Hotel in Hepburn Springs. Mercato offers a main dish and a glass of local wine for $30 per head and there are always four options on the locals’ menu, generally fish, chicken (poultry), red meat and vegetarian.

At Bean and Barrow it’s pre-book your $10 plate or “rock up and risk it”. And it’s popular.

Meanwhile, The Grande Hotel offers two courses and a drink of house wine, beer or bubbles for $38 and three courses for $47.

On Tuesday try Cosy Corner’s Curry and Hot Pot Night for just $18 at Hepburn Springs.

On Wednesdays it’s time for Sault where tapas and starters are from just $4.50 and a main and a glass of house wine is $31. Thursdays and The Daylesford Hotel has a $20 steak on offer – or maybe you have already been for the Wednesday $20 Pot and Parma…

Also on Thursday The Plough in Trentham offers two courses for $25 and three courses for $30. But bookings are essential. And on Friday there’s a free glass of wine with every main meal.

Oh, it’s not just for locals, but it is a bit of a local secret. Radio Springs Hotel in Lyonville does an amazing Thai night on Thursdays. Chef Bancha does the original thing using his mum’s recipes. Yum.

And while it’s not confined to locals The Farmers Arms Hotel in Daylesford has its famous Friday night meat raffle raising funds for a range of community groups.

Over the next fortnight they are collecting for Daylesford Men’s Shed – ticket sales from 6.30pm with the raffle drawn at 7.30pm.

Also offering a Locals’ Night on Friday is Trentham’s Cosmopolitan Hotel.

There is a meat tray raffle for a local community organisation, complimentary bar snacks and a two-course menu for $25.

Oh, don’t forget The Old Hepburn Hotel. On Monday night its parma night, Tuesday is pot pie and Wednesday is roast night – all just $17.50. And the popular Choke the Chook raffle on Fridays – also for a worthy cause.

Finally, Daylesford Bowling Club has Happy Hour ‘n’ a Half from Monday to Thursday from 4.30pm to 6pm. On Fridays there are raffles and a members’ cash draw from 6pm. And you get some of the best views in Daylesford.

And really finally, Perfect Drop in Daylesford also has a happy hour, every day, from 4pm to 6pm with $10 cocktails and $1 oysters.

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(Reprinted on demand - by hungry locals...)

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JACINTA Beveridge, foreground, and Ann-Maree Mackley, with support from Daylesford Boxing Club’s Dennis Bedoe, are among those from around the region attempting to break a boxing world record later

this month. Boxers and just those keen to help out with the record, which is also a fundraiser, will join boxer Anthony Mundine at Bendigo Stadium on September 21 to break the record which involves the largest number of people to take part in a boxing lesson. There is no contact involved, only leading boxing coaches teaching correct training techniques. Entrants are asked to donate to take part and all proceeds go to the Peter Mac Ride to Conquer Cancer. The record stands at 498 - achieved earlier this year by Guy Leech Fitness in Sydney.Link: www.facebook.com/teammundine

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