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Front cover: Chef Michael De Jong, Du Fermier’s Annie Smithers, Tuki Trout Farm’s Rob Jones and Mt Franklin Organic’s Florian Hofinger. Daylesford Macedon Produce’s Harvest Festival will be held from April 25 to May 4. Read more about it on pages 18 and 19.

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NOMINATIONS for Hepburn Shire Council’s Public Art Panel close on April

20.The panel will help council make decisions about

the development and direction of public art in the shire. Mayor Don Henderson said the council was committed to quality public art.

One of the first tasks for the panel will be deciding the recipient of the Daylesford Laneway commission with the successful artist receiving $8000 for the pop-up artwork to be on display next January and February.

Panel nominations are sought from those with relevant professional experience in community art, public art, curatorship, architecture and/or design.

The voluntary role will require a commitment of up to five meetings per year. Details: hepburn.vic.gov.au

Easter Bilby visits Newlyn

NEWLYN Primary School students had a surprise visit from the Easter Bilby on their last day of term. Front, from left, Natasha, Lorelai, Meaghan and Kaylea, back, from left, Maynard, Jessica, Jack, Tallulah and Cassie. Overwhelmed, in the middle, the Easter Bilby.

LYNN Barry will introduce her 5000 Poppies Project and will lead a poppy crafting

session at Daylesford Library’s Third Thursday Talk for April on April 17 from 5.30pm to 7pm.

As part of the 2015 Anzac Commemoration, the 5000 Poppies project will “plant” a field of more than 5000 poppies in Federation Square Melbourne as a visual tribute to Australian servicemen and women for more than a century of service in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.

Materials will be available on the night to help make the poppies.

PHOTOGRAPHER and Hepburn Shire councillor Neil Newitt has opened a unique

wine bar, Drinks at the Gallery.The bar will be open every Friday from 5pm until

10pm – in his gallery.Mr Newitt said the gallery was an informal venue

for people to catch up at the end of a busy week or come and meet new faces.

“The Friday night drinks tradition was first established in Clunes around 10 years ago with a Friday night wine bar amid the then many vacant shops in Fraser Street,” he said.

“We hope locals and visitors alike find Drinks at the Gallery as enjoyable as we found those wine bar nights as newcomers to Clunes.”

Neil Newitt Photography is at 54 Fraser Street.

Art Panel nominations 5000 Poppies project Clunes gallery drinks

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EIGHTEEN-year-old Kara Cooper has headed off for six months at the YMCA Camp Elphinstone in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada as a volunteer for her gap year.

The teenager was school captain at Daylesford Secondary College last year and has deferred her university placement offer of Legal Studies at Latrobe University in Melbourne until next year. Kara took time out to chat, via email, with The Local’s Donna Kelly.

Donna: Why a YMCA camp?Kara: Whilst on this work experience I hope to gain independence and

confidence within myself. I always thought I would like to work with kids and by working in a camp environment I will get the chance to explore if working with children would suit me and if I would enjoy it.

Donna: Do you get any time off for exploring?Kara: Our placement gives us time off and I am currently organising where

I would like to go next - I would love to see Niagara Falls and the Rockies. However I’m not sure if I will be able to see these things whilst on placement. I may get a chance to travel after my placement is finished in September.

Donna: I know you just arrived but anything seeming odd yet?Kara: This entire experience is a surprise, because I haven’t been over here for

very long it just feels like a little holiday. The most surprising thing is the beauty of Canada, the view is unbelievably beautiful even when the weather isn’t. It is so picturesque.

Donna: Would you recommend other young people to head off overseas?Kara: I would recommend other people my age taking a plunge into the

unknown. That’s what I am doing and no doubt I have many challenges ahead of me, as I don’t know what’s ahead. By experiencing things is the way we learn, and the people I look up to most are the people in my life that have got through experiences even if those experiences have been unbelievably tough!

Donna: What does your family think about your adventure?Kara: My family have always supported me even when I have doubted my

choices. Hopefully they will miss me a fair bit, because I will struggle being away from them! At this stage they might be coming over to visit when my placement finishes.

Donna: And what happens on your return?Kara: Returning back home seems so far away for now, but when I get back I

want to study, as having some life experience under me I am hoping I will know what kind of career I want.

Donna: Many thanks. Have fun!

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Developer’s idea in line with govt policy

TRENTHAM resident Ian Goudie believes his plan to subdivide land in Mulcahys Road, Trentham, into 22 lots, is in line with Hepburn Shire Council and Victorian Government guidelines.

Mr Goudie, who lives in Mulcahys Road and plans to eventually move to the subdivision, said there was a clear need in the shire for infill development within urban growth boundaries.

“It is strongly stated by council and state government that development should take place in the urban growth boundary rather than on valuable farm land,” he said.

“And the true situation is that inside the urban growth boundary there is a very limited amount of land available.”

Mr Goudie said it was also stressed that there was a strong preference for developments with reticulated sewerage, to protect groundwater, rather than septic tanks.

The subdivision, with lots down to a half acre parcels, has received criticism from a group calling themselves the Mulcahys Road Concerned Residents Committee.

The committee’s concerns include the development negatively impacting on traffic safety and water pressure. They also want a wildlife corridor, are concerned there will be greater strain on emergency evacuations in the event of a bushfire - with just one way in and one way out - and that larger lots should be developed so that individual septic tanks could be used instead of sewerage being connected.

However Mr Goudie, who met with the group, said while he agreed there could be more noise and would be more traffic, he rejected most of the committee’s concerns.

Mr Goudie said research had shown that slowing traffic to 40 kilometres an hour would remove any increased traffic safety and noise issues.

He said VicRoads would change speed restrictions to 40kmh if that was requested by residents.

Mr Goudie said there were kangaroos on the road after dark but did not believe there was any increased need for a wildlife corridor.

He also rejected the idea that the development could cause added problems in a bushfire saying the CFA encouraged people to leave their homes early.

There were many roads in country Victoria which had just one way in and out, he said, adding there were also two other unmade tracks as escape routes, although one was currently blocked by fallen trees.

Mr Goudie said a request by protestors that he confer with them over the pace of the development being sold was ridiculous.

“I told them once I have developed the land I will be trying to sell the blocks as fast as I can,” he said.

“And regarding pace, recent evidence in Trentham shows that one development took eight years to sell, and the second development sold in two weeks. I can’t control that.”

Mr Goudie said the planning application was now with Hepburn Shire Council and he had no reason to believe it would not proceed.

He is also prepared to take his case to VCAT.“It is my intention to achieve an overall superior style of lifestyle property

development. Why would I do anything else when I am looking at living there myself?”

Ian Goudie at the proposed development site in Mulcahys Road, Trentham

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My Sayby Donna Kelly

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I DIDN’T buy a Jeep, but I did buy a tennis court.Well, it came with the school but it seems an odd thing to claim as mine.

OK, ours.Firstly, neither Kyle nor I can play tennis, and we’ve tried. Secondly, we don’t

really like tennis - not even watching it all through summer. Unlike my mother, my sister, our nephews and our friends. It’s boring. And loud. Well, the women anyway.

But we own a tennis court nonetheless. It’s pretty average though. Bitumen with cracks that grass has grown through. (Maybe that’s lawn tennis?)

There are overgrown trees inside the fence - who plants trees in a tennis court, and the net is a tad droopy. But still, it’s a tennis court.

As we found out when we came home one recent weekend and discovered a couple happily playing on it. Luckily we had taken the dogs with us because the gate to the tennis court is inside our property - as in, inside our main gate. Odd.

We played it cool and wandered over to the fence. The couple, who owned a pretty nice new car, were surprised. Maybe. “OMG is this, like, your home,” asked the 20-something woman.

“Yes, OMG, it is our home,” we replied.“Oh, like how embarrassment, we weren’t sure but we looked inside and

thought it was a school,” she said.

Really? Looked in, saw two three-seater couches, a dining table for eight, a kitchen, artwork on the walls and thought, yep, that’s a school alright. I want to relive my education at their school.

I was so astounded I did a really dumb thing. I said “no worries - just keep playing as long as you want”. And they did. Another hour. And I spent that hour furious - mostly with myself. I kept glaring, they kept playing. Talk about balls! Tennis, of course.

The other person we’ve had turn up thinking we were still a school was a young mum. She parked in the drive so I went out to ask if I could help with anything.

“I’m thinking about sending my child here when she finishes pre-school,” she said.

“That’s nice,” I said. “It’s just my husband, me and two dogs so it can be a bit boring.”

I remember her driving off, really quick, in a Jeep.And now I see on the news they are going to ask students to critique their

teachers. Yep, ask kids to mark adults on their teaching ability.I hope that doesn’t happen here. It’s hard enough with Rosie thinking she has

her own column now - see right.And just for the record, I know a lot of people love Rosie’s column because

they tell me. But a few people have started with the words “Rosie’s column is so funny - she’s hilarious”.

I just hope they know Rosie can’t type...nor can Curly. Sorry to burst bubbles.But after 14 years together I reckon I know what they are thinking. So if they

had a chance to critique the carers it would be easy to guess their feelings:*Don’t feed us enough;*Don’t walk us enough;*Don’t pat us enough;*Love us heaps.

I bought a Jeep - sorry - make that a tennis courtThe Local

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Winter on the horizon has Rosie worriedRosie’s Say by Rosie

Dear Diary,Apparently my last column was quite a hit. And the carer thought she was the

only writer in the house. But I think she may also be taking some credit. Really? Rosie’s Say is much more fun and witty, with a little bit of anger, than boring Donna’s Say. Who wants to read her council rants anyway? I’m sure the council don’t. No wonder they hardly bother advertising. I wouldn’t either.

Rosie – the smug kelpie-cross

Dear Diary,What’s a Hub? They keep talking about it but it doesn’t make sense. A place

to come together…why would you want to do that? I spend all day trying to get some down time from the fat one. (AKA Curly - the lovely but big-boned cocker spaniel cross.) Why did they bring it home 12 years ago? But maybe if they create a hub they can take it there for a change. And I can go back to being an only dog. I miss those days.

Rosie – the loner kelpie-cross

Dear Dairy,Damn that auto correct. Now it looks like I can’t spell. And I can. Kelpies

are known for being very smart. And at least we’re real dogs. Not like stupid labradoodles or sharpoodles or a shih-poo. What a load of…rubbish. Why would anyone want to mix up a breed? Hang on a minute. I just noticed my sign off. What’s a cross?

Rosie – the confused kelpie-cross

Dear Diary,It’s getting colder and I am worried that the “winter” thing may come along

again. When we lived in Western Australia and Queensland we never had a winter thing. Even in Frankston (that’s South thanks – even kelpies have standards) we had that “central heating” thing which we just turned on in April and turned off in September. If only that carer who thinks he knows so much about weather and directions was a little smarter. Yes, Glenlyon is on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range but not warm as in going north. Idiot.

Rosie – the cold-fearing kelpie-cross

Dear Fairy,Really auto correct? Really? Anyway, it’s been a good day. The carers have

given up stopping me sleeping in the bed. I am nothing if not persistent. And they have crumbled and finally bought tasty dog biscuits instead of that bland light and mature. I also overheard we are going to back to that holiday house by the beach. Yay. And the fat one hasn’t farted too much. At my age, I’ll take what I can get. This is definitely not my last entry.

Rosie – the contented kelpie-gross (Again? Really?)

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“Lest We Forget”

Daylesford

The Anzac Dawn Stand-to will be held at the Cenotaph, opposite the RSL, from 6.30am to 7.30am. Breakfast is offered at the RSL after the service.

The Anzac Day parade will be held from Vincent Street’s upper roundabout to the Cenotaph opposite the RSL and followed by a commemoration service. The parade starts at 10.15am with the Anzac Service starting at 10.30am.

Hepburn Springs

A Memorial Service will be held at the Hepburn Springs Reserve entrance at 8.30am.

Eganstown

A Memorial Service will be held at Eganstown at 9am.

Clunes

The march along Fraser Street to the War Memorial, at the corner of Fraser and Service streets, will start at 10.45am and be followed at 11am with a commemoration service. A service at the Clunes Town Hall will follow with guest speaker John Ives.

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Dawn Service followed by breakfast at the Farmers Arms Hotel. A Memorial Service will be held at 11am.

ANZAC Day services

To all Birch Ward residents

Wishing all Residents of Daylesford, Hepburn and Hepburn Springs and surrounding areas a safe and peaceful Easter.

If you’re staying at home over this holiday break, make sure you get out and enjoy the beauty of your own towns and

surrounds, especially the many wonderful locations within this beautiful Shire.

If you’re leaving the Shire for this holiday break, drive carefully and see you back home soon.

From your local Councillors

Cr. Kate RedwoodKRedwood@hepburn.vic.gov.au

Mob Ph: 0428 285 673.

Cr. Pierre NiclasPNiclas@hepburn.vic.gov.au

Mob Ph: 0428 322 454

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Rockin’ The Look with Jackson!“IT DOESN’T matter how slick you look on the

outside, when winter hits here in Daylesford you never know who’s wearing thermals underneath.”

Never truer words were spoken than by Jackson Rowe - who certainly does look slick on the outside.

Jackson, a musician who also works at Red Pepper Gallery in Daylesford, is just one of many people The Local has found “Rockin’ The Look!”.

He says a good quality, three-piece suit (he chooses blue to match his blue eyes) sees him through many occasions.

“I do music and I am on stage so I suppose the suit pulls off a bit of a David Byrne look.

“It is also good for formal occasions. Whether that’s to a dinner or church on Sundays.”

Jackson, pictured above at Red Pepper Gallery in front of a Michael Parker artwork, said working in the retail sector, meeting and greeting locals and tourists, he also felt it was important to present well and be a good ambassador for the region.

“Often when people visit the gallery I will recommend parts of the town such as Lake Daylesford, different

restaurants, just point them in the right direction.”Jackson, who loves to “flair it up” by mixing vintage

pieces with quality new purchases, said gentlemen also had the opportunity to have fun with the right accessories.

“I like accessories that have a bit of functionality – these cufflinks were brought back by Michael Parker, the painter (and Red Pepper Gallery owner), who picked them up in New York.

“I told Michael I would be getting a new suit to strut about the gallery so they are a nice vintage piece but with functionality. I had also always had my heart set on a nice quality watch and found myself in a position where I was able to exchange some artwork for this watch. It’s the same model James Bond wears in one of his films but I think his watch has a few extra features.

“And, on this occasion, the bow tie is from Daylesford Clothing.

“I’ve had great fun with Rodney (Peacock) over the years receiving great guidance with purchasing garments from his wonderful men’s section. I think probably at least half of my wardrobe I have purchased from there.”

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Sal’s Salon now open at Moss & Burrows

SALLY Alexander has opened Sal’s Salon at the rear of Moss & Burrows in Daylesford.

Sally, pictured right, with Moss & Burrows owner Emma Taylor, has been hairdressing for more than 30 years and says one of the reasons she chose the “great space” was for its privacy.

“Sal’s Salon is not glitzy or over the top, it’s a quiet boutique offering personal service – clients feel like they are in a lounge room.

“And it’s off the main street so no-one’s watching you get your foils done.

“It’s just such a great space – and there’s always parking available.”

Sally said she was also keeping her prices affordable so people could have haircuts when they needed them, not when their budgets allowed.

“People are also bringing in their children – it’s a very child-friendly space with lots of toys.”

As part of her philosophy of looking after her clients, Sally uses low ammonia colours which are natural and gentle on hair and skin.

She is also open six days a week (closed Tuesday) with three late nights, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, for people working during the day.

Emma said having Sally and Sal’s Salon at the rear of her eclectic homewares, clothing and jewellery store was “fantastic”.

“It’s quite a big building so it’s lovely to have Sal here so I can concentrate on the shop – rather than what to do with the space.

“And I have met so many fantastic people. Often before or after treatments, or while they are getting colours done, they will come and browse and maybe find a new outfit or piece of jewellery to go with their new look.

“We really do complement each other.”

Sal’s Salon and Moss & Burrows are at 22 Raglan Street, Daylesford.

Sal’s Salon – 5348 4661. Moss & Burrows – 5348 4433.

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KAREENA Hodgson has big plans for Daylesford’s ARC.The newly appointed activities coordinator said the ARC was

underutilised by the community and was “a really great space”.“It’s not just a sporting venue either. I want to bring back the A and the C of

the ARC – the arts and culture.“I would like to eventually do some shows and theatre – just make sure this

awesome space is being used and rejuvenated.”Ms Hodgson’s background is performance including with Circus Oz, but she

also spent the past few years promoting the Lyonville Hall and hopes to hear ideas from other people.

“I have my own ideas but I also want people to tell me what they want.“We have two big stadiums, a squash court, a kiosk, an amazing rock climbing

area, a meeting room…perhaps people will want to hire it as for a kids’ party.“Throw out the balls and let the seven year olds just run.”Ms Hodgson also said rental rates were being kept to a minimum.“I have some big plans so watch this space.”Details: 5348 1777 or kareenah@ourneighbourhood.com.au

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EMMA Dean, the 2013 winner of Masterchef Australia, will take a tour of the Daylesford Farmers’ Market on May 3 at 11am.

Ms Dean is a cook, forager and author and her passion for food began in the paddocks and kitchen of her country family home near Bendigo.

Her parents instilled a love of growing and cooking farm-fresh produce in Emma and her two sisters.

From her youngest years, Ms Dean was taught to knead bread, grow vegies, tend to livestock and collect freshly laid eggs.

Ms Dean’s first cookbook A Homegrown Table, published in December 2013, is a collection of more than 100 recipes that captures her origins of growing up on a hobby-farm and her love of local, seasonal produce.

The Local has a signed copy of A Homegrown Table to give to a reader. For a chance to win put your name, address and contact number on the back of an envelope and post to The Local, 17 Barkly St, Glenlyon 3461.

Entries close on April 28 and the winner will be notified by phone.

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Father Jeff O’Hare: connecting the Anglican parish to the community

DAYLESFORD’S Anglican Parish has a new vicar.Father Jeff O’Hare took up the part-time role last month after

Father Andrew Eaton moved to Maryborough.Father O’Hare, who has also had a long career in interior design,

has lived in Daylesford for the past 15 years.His other Anglican appointments have included being senior chaplain at

Geelong Grammar School for four years before taking up the position of general manager with the Brotherhood of St Laurence from 2006 to last year.

“The focus there was really on innovation and evidence-based research, it was pretty high powered and very challenging work but at the end of last year I decided to reinvent my interior design career and it was just serendipitous that Andrew resigned at that same time.”

Father O’Hare said he was “thrilled in lots of ways” about his new role.“In some ways I have missed having a parish community and I have a great

love of this area – and have been an attender at the parish for 15 years.“I also have a burning desire to build the congregation up and connect the

parish in a much more holistic way to the rest of the community.“The whole thing about replacing the faith community in the broader sector

is really important to me. I like the European model where the church is not separate it is just a part of the community and has to reckon with the community like anyone else does.”

Father O’Hare said he was also passionate about the disadvantaged and was aware of the high level of poverty in the region.

He said it was also a time to rethink programs like the 5000 Club which provided a weekly three-course meal at the church hall.

“The great mistake of the dependency model is that it just makes people more dependent,” he said.

“We need to begin to look at some of the systemic problems of people in the area.”

Father O’Hare, who has held other country appointments including at Benalla, Lancefield, Romsey and Dandenong, said he came “from a long line of places that were particularly musical” and would be organising small concerts in the church buildings especially after “just spending $40,000 on restoration of our organ”.

He is also keen to have art exhibitions in the church and start using the hall for a diverse group of activities.

“They (the activities) will present themselves as they do, but I am also concerned about the fact that on a property of two acres we have probably got four or five million dollars’ worth of building that are only used a couple of hours a week.”

But the church doors are now open daily, from 9am to 5pm, something Father O’Hare has done everywhere he has been despite the “question of trust”.

“So I am testing a whole lot of things, even just learning to live with the challenge and tensions of balancing life between the parish and interior design.”

Father O’Hare said he had also been having the conversation with his parishioners about the inevitability of same sex marriage taking place at the church within a year to 18 months.

He said, like Desmond Tutu, he considered the issue as a form of apartheid.“After I spoke (in church) they were very happy to talk about it and I said to

them while this is an issue that some of us will feel uncomfortable about we really need to struggle to understand because within a year to 18 months I will be performing a same sex marriage in this church.

“And I need to know that we understand what that means and that we will offer them all the dignity and hospitality we would offer anyone else.”

Father O’Hare said while he did not know how long his ministry would last he hoped his legacy would be a place that was more viable, more connected with the community, having an open house policy and “people speak well of it”.

“That’s what I would like to see.”

“So I am testing a whole lot of things, even just

learning to live with the challenge and tensions of

balancing life between the parish

and interior design.”- Father Jeff O’Hare

16 Gardens of Glenlyon The Local

THE Gardens of Glenlyon were a big hit on the weekend. The Local caught up with, clockwise from left, chocolate labradors Nelle and Red

from Ellender’s Estate, John Cable and his amazing beans, Tony and Dee Briscombe in their landscaped garden and Jenny Corr making sure her cyclamens are happy and watered.

News 17The Local

Bill celebrates 90 years

BILL Malone, touted as one of Daylesford’s greatest footballers, has celebrated his 90th birthday and 62nd wedding anniversary.

Mr Malone, who was born and bred in Daylesford, said the first time he had played football was with South Sydney during World War II.

The 19-year-old, who joined the army when he turned 18, was with the bomb disposal unit and, with the Japanese still capable of bombing Sydney, was stationed in the city.

“We were in Sydney and a bloke said to me ‘how would you like a game of football’ and I said ‘I would love one’.

“So I played league football for a season. I played in the seconds but if the seniors were short I’d front up again that day.

“I didn’t even have any footy boots, we just put stops in our army boots.“I played with Bill Morris in Sydney and he was a Richmond player - he

won a Brownlow Medal and many best and fairest.“And Billy Woods, he played full forward with Footscray after the war,

I’ll tell you a story about him.“We were playing against Sydney Naval in 1943 and he kicked 12 goals

up to half-time so the coach decided that nobody else was allowed to kick a goal. I took a mark in the goal square and had to kick it out to him.

“He kicked 28 goals and that’s a record. Even then what the coach said was what you did.”

Mr Malone, who also found himself serving throughout the Pacific, said after the war he had invitations to train with both Carlton and Richmond but knocked them back.

“I couldn’t be bothered. I couldn’t get home quick enough.”Back home he put his cabinet-making apprenticeship skills, undertaken

from the age of 16 in Melbourne, to good use, building homes “in most of the streets of Daylesford”.

“You don’t build a house by yourself but I can say that nearly every house in the town I’ve had something to do with.

“If we got a new house to build once a year it was terrific but it was mostly renovations.

“And we always had work. I never had a day that I didn’t have a job to go to.”

Mr Malone also kept up his sport, playing football with Daylesford and coaching football with Hepburn for the impressive sum of three pounds – when his weekly wage was just eight pounds.

He also played cricket with Daylesford – and a few other sides.“Through a few ales we decided the RSL should have a cricket side and

got one going there,” he said.“And after another few ales we decided the football club should have a

cricket club. So I have been around as far as cricket goes.”Mr Malone, who celebrated his wedding anniversary to Irene, his

daughter’s birthday and his own birthday, in one weekend a fortnight ago said the key to life was “marrying a younger woman”.

It was also important not take sides – especially when it comes to the Bill Malone Cup – an annual competition between the football teams of Hepburn and Daylesford.

“The winner of the day takes the cup and keeps it for a year. And a medal’s struck for the best and fairest,” Mr Malone said.

“So I try to be a bit…you know.”

The Bill Malone Cup will be played at Daylesford on June 21.

See The Local’s back page for Mr Malone and his footy boots - retrieved from their resting place in the loo!

“Through a few ales we decided the RSL should have a cricket side and got one going there. And after

another few ales we decided the football club should have

a cricket club.”

18 Harvest Festival The Local

THE Daylesford Macedon Produce Harvest Festival is held throughout Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges from April 25 to May 4.

The festival is 10 days of celebrating the harvest - dating back to the time when the success of the crops dictated the lives of the people.

It highlights the region’s abundant food and wine, celebrating the best producers, farmers, provedores, restaurateurs and vignerons.

There are myriad activities and events for everyone to enjoy from hands-on permaculture to sausage making.

Perhaps visit farm gates throughout the region and take advantage of the many special harvest week offers available.

Meanwhile, the inaugural Lake House Food Writing Award is up for grabs. Entries will be judged by two food media veterans, Janine Apelgren and John Lethlean.

Entries consist of writing on any subject relating to food, of no more than 700 words.

Winners will receive $500 and be published on the Lake House and Macedon Produce websites and in the Weekend Australian. Details: dmproduce.com.au or lakehouse.com.au

As well, photos taken during Harvest Festival can be uploaded to Instagram for a chance to win from a total prize pool of $1000. Photos will be judged from May 5 by the DMP Harvest committee.

Use the #dmpharvest hashtag.A final competition gives people the chance to dine at 10 of the region’s best

restaurants. Go to dmpproduce.com.au for details.

Harvest festival highlights abundant food and wine

Frangos & FrangosHarvest Week eventA UNIQUE collaboration between Frangos & Frangos, Jonai

Farms, Henry of Harcourt and the Daylesford Cidery Company will offer a special event for Daylesford Macedon Produce’s

Harvest Week Festival.The festival celebrates the best growers, provedores, chefs, restaurateurs and

vignerons of the Daylesford Macedon Ranges region.Frangos & Frangos general manager Bernard Glaude said a “taste workshop”

would combine Jonai Farm’s unique Black Pig pork along with apple cider and pear perry.

“Jonai Farms are among a small group of Australian farmers now producing a really high quality pork from Black Pigs, which are a rare breed which have not been seen around since the 19th century.

“We wanted to use their pork in a unique way and so thought about what people know about our region and the autumn season. Apples and pears are a key production facet of the region so we thought about what drinks we can pair the pork with and came up with cider and perry.

“So, in collaboration with Jonai Farms, Henry of Harcourt and the Daylesford Cidery Company we are going to use their products to create a taste workshop.”

Mr Glaude said the idea of the workshop came from the slow food movement - which started in Italy in 1986 by Italian food and wine journalist Carlo Petrini who believed people needed to learn more about their food and where it came from.

“In Italy they put on this sort of educational but gastronomical event – and here our conference room will be transformed into seating for 30 people, in a classroom style, where the producers will talk about their products. As well, chef Euan Apedaile, (pictured right) will produce five dishes and pair them with perry or cider – so it’s going to be a very interesting, interactive event.”Pork and Perry Taste workshops will be held at Frangos and Frangos on April 2 and May 3 from 3pm to 5.30pm. Bookings: 5348 2363 or trybooking.com/EPOM. Cost $65 or $55 for Slow Food members.

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Above, Gary Thomas shows off his bullboars while below winemaker Owen Latta samples a drop

Daylesford Macedon Produce

Harvest Festival April 25 – May 4

THE Daylesford Macedon Produce Harvest Festival is a celebration and showcase of the region’s growers, producers, provedores, chefs, restaurateurs and vignerons.

Each year visitors flock from far and wide to enjoy more than 60 unique events, workshops, tours and special festival offers that are right here on our own doorstep.

See the full program atwww.dmproduce.com.au

“This is a region rich

with interesting stories, character

and foodie folklore.”

There are too many to list … but events this year include:

* Masterclasses with renowned chefs Philippe Mouchel, Karla Firla and Grant King at the Cooking School at Lake House* Hands-on basics of butchery and home curing at the extraordinary Jonai Farms* Backyard farming garden tour and lunch with extraordinary country chef and author Annie Smithers * Cooking with kids with Masterchef alumni Alice “In Frames” Zaslavsky * Farmers market tour and lunch with Emma Dean, Masterchef winner 2013 * Lunch with the legendary George Biron at Ellender Estate Winery * Grape to Glass experience with Will Fraser * The Whole Pig Masterclass at Piper Street Food Co. * The Great Trentham Spudfest - and that’s just a tiny taste……

108 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs Tel: 5348 4353Wed-Sat 10-5 Sun & Pub Hols 10-4 www.portal108.com.au

For Everyone.A Lifestyle Store.

WELCOME to the world! Peta and Glen Heyne, of Hepburn Springs, are delighted to announce the arrival of their third grandchild - Lily Renee, born on April 5 to proud parents Claire and Jason.

Holy Week and Easter ServicesDaylesford Anglican Parish

Maundy Thursday: April 17 - 7.30pm commemoration of the Last SupperGood Friday: April 17 - 10am Eucharist and Veneration of the CrossEaster Morning: April 20 - 10am Eucharist of the Resurrection and Easter egg hunt

St Peter’s Parish Daylesford

Passion Sunday: Palm Sunday - 10.30amHoly Thursday: Mass of the Last Supper - 7.30pmGood Friday: Prayer Service - 3pmEaster Saturday: Vigil of Light & Word - 7.30pm.Easter Sunday: Mass - 10.30 am

St Augustine’s Parish Creswick

Passion Sunday/Palm Sunday - 8.45amGood Friday: Prayer Service - 3pmClunes: Good Friday - 3pmEaster Sunday: Mass - 8.45 am

Daylesford Uniting ChurchPalm Sunday: April 13 - Jim and Janet Blain - 9.15amHoly Week Reflection - Monday, April 14-Wednesday, April 16 - 3pmMaundy Thursday: April 17 - Tenebrae service: Trentham 6pm.Good Friday Service - 9am Holy Saturday reflection: 3 pm.Worship Services Sunday, April 20:Trentham: Maundy Thursday Meal and Tenebrae Service - 6pm/ Easter Sunday Easter Light

7amMinister Jenny Hayes Holy Communion

Artists 21The Local

Integrity of natural objects inspires StormKAYA Storm is a local artist specialising in sculpture, stone

walling and custom design furniture. His works have been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and are

housed in private collections in the UK, US, Singapore and Australia. He chatted to The Local about his creative influences, wabi-sabi and latest projects.

Why did you choose to live in Daylesford?

I moved here with my partner about three and a half years ago from the Bend of Islands (near Kangaroo Ground). Initially we were struck by the beautiful landscape, the creative community and the heritage of the Swiss Italian stonework.

How has your relationship with sculpture shifted over the years?

Going back 20 years ago I was working on a smaller scale, predominately with wood carvings. Over the years my aesthetic has developed, I have been influenced by working on heritage restorations and with local stonemasons. My

commissioned stone wall work is informed by my sculptural practices. I now incorporate the use of salvaged materials, metal and stone. Today, my sculptural work is larger in scale, still inspired by nature and continuously evolving.

What is your personal philosophy and how is this expressed in your sculptural works?

I’ve always taken my inspiration from nature, its forms and movement. Nature creates an emotional response. That is what I hope to achieve with my work. Everyone interprets and feels something different. I would hope my work also encourages people to notice the little things. The best way to describe it would be in a term introduced to me by a visitor to one of my exhibitions last year, who described my work as “very wabi-sabi” - beauty in imperfection. Having later travelled to Japan for a brief visit and being exposed to the Japanese appreciation for the integrity of natural objects, I realised how closely this concept explains my work.

Kaya Storm will be at Portal 108, Main Road, Hepburn Springs over the Easter weekend with some of his works.

22 Letters The Local

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Tuesday 15 April12pm Mr Peabody & Sherman (PG)1:45pm The Lego Movie (PG)3:45pm Muppets: Most Wanted (G)6pm The Lego Movie (PG)8pm Tracks (M)

Wednesday 16 April12pm Mr Peabody & Sherman (PG)1:45pm The Lego Movie (PG)3:45pm Muppets: Most Wanted (G)

Friday 18 April11:15am The Lego Movie (PG)1:15pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)3:45pm Muppets: Most Wanted (G)6pm The Lego Movie (PG)8pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)

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Tuesday 22 April4pm The Lego Movie (PG)6pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)

Friday 25 April1pm Muppets: Most Wanted (G)3:15pm The Lego Movie (PG)8pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)

Saturday 26 April1pm Muppets: Most Wanted (G)3:15pm The Lego Movie (PG)8pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)

Sunday 27 April1pm Muppets: Most Wanted (G)3:30pm The Lego Movie (PG)6pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)

Saturday 19 April11:15am The Lego Movie (PG)1:15pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)3:45pm Muppets: Most Wanted (G)6pm The Lego Movie (PG)8pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)

Monday 21 April12pm The Lego Movie (PG)2pm Muppets: Most Wanted (G)4:15pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (M)

So many movies we can’t �t the pictures, come and see your

favourite movie today!

I NOTE the increasing disappointment that is being expressed regarding council’s procurement of contractors (architectural etc). I wish to point out that council is bound by two policies regarding the sourcing of contractors from the local area.

Council’s current ‘Procurement Policy’ has, under the heading of ‘objective’, the following statement: Hepburn Shire Council: Requires that council’s contracting and purchasing activities generate and support business in the local community.

Council has also adopted (along with 78 other local governments) the guidelines, as set down by the Municipal Association of Victoria. These guidelines also make this local procurement requirement quite clear. Reasons for this are also offered within the MAV document.

Thus council has two very clear policies that are obviously not being adhered to. To suggest otherwise would be a huge insult to the local community and local businesses.

I have great respect for most of our elected councillors but I point out that the adherence to council’s policies is their responsibility. If the CEO and managers are overlooking this requirement then the elected council has the primary responsibility to ensure that policy is upheld.

Allan McLeodvia email

Your say...Letters are gratefully received - even more so when they are brief, to the point and emailed to dhslocal@gmail.com

Procurement policyIT IS a real shame that the Daylesford Community Theatre is leaving its home at The Rex.

I have enjoyed watching many movies and really appreciated this addition to Daylesford. I hope that a resolve can be reached and the theatre can continue in some form.

The Rex was a very central venue, easy to get to, and perfect for both locals and tourists.

I think movies matched with dining experiences at nearby restaurants, cafes and hotels might have brought more people and could be something to think about in the future.

Lynnette Duncanvia email

Shame to lose theatre

Many thanksI WOULD like to thank the young man who helped me with my shopping in recent rainy weather in the Coles carpark.

I was struggling to carry everything when he asked if he could be of assistance and helped me to my car.

People are too quick to blame young people for the problems of today but I find that they are looking for ways to help when they can.

Well done and thank you for caring for one of the older people of this town.

Name and address withheld

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making of this message!)

24 Entrepreneurs The Local

She-Tea founders add Green Tea in 3 secondsTHE founders of She-Tea and the Slow Tea Company have upped the ante with

a three-second green tea. Aptly named Green Tea in 3, the instant organic green tea with fruit extracts dissolves in hot or cold water in just three

seconds.Sourced from China the tea has no artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners – it’s just 90 per

cent green tea and 10 per cent fruit.Daylesford women Jodie Fergusson-Batte, pictured right, and Vanessa Carslake said the idea

came after they saw a gap in the “hydration market” as people struggled to get through two litres of water every day.

Jodie said the pair watched as people added artificial flavours to their water, often undoing the good of keeping hydrated.

“We wanted to add to the health of people through their hydration by adding a sachet of tea, with its antioxidants, and encourage that hydration which is all part of fitness and weight loss. We just wanted to encourage healthier hydration.”

Jodie said Green Tea in 3, and the fruit for its apple, blueberry or peach fruit extract, was grown in a couple of provences in China.

A low temperature vacuum extraction process, which breaks down ingredients to different sized molecules, means all of the nutrition is retained while any negative molecules such as pesticides and residual minerals are extracted.

“All that is left is the tea essence and the fruit extract, along with the antioxidants.“The gentleman who designed the tea is like the Willy Wonka of China. He is a physicist

and absolutely passionate about health. He wanted to bring tea to the masses, especially the younger generation, and was as frustrated as us about all these drinks that claim to be healthy but have hidden ingredients just to make them taste good.”

Jodie said Green Tea in 3 would be available online from Monday, April 14 and the company was also doing a launch with 12WBT Facebook members. That’s 750,000 Michelle Bridges’ followers.

“We met with the team in Sydney and they don’t usually do product launches but they are so into hydration they decided they would do a special offer.”

Jodie said she and Vanessa started She-Tea after careers as nurses – with degrees in health sciences, and medical sales representatives.

“We were up to our fifth company and talking to surgeons all day, and just not where we wanted to be. We wanted to start a business and everyone says you need to be passionate about what you do if you want to survive the down times, so we made a list of things that we loved and that made us happy.

“We both had long lists - family, female friendship, tea – probably from our grandmothers and tea breaks from nursing, humour and art. They were all important things so we decided that we wanted to build a business around these points. We were quite naïve - which was good in a tough market.

“We grew into the Slow Tea Company about a year ago which was about ethical product, clean, good tasting tea, people being treated fairly where it came from. And it was also about just sitting down and having a cup of tea.”

The next side step perhaps, is working on changing Daylesford to a plastic water bottle free town.

“We have two tea commitments – don’t buy bottled water in plastic bottles and drink tea or drinks that support your health, rather than detracts from your health.

“We want people to take their own water bottles, flavour it with tea or lemon juice, but do that rather than grabbing something from the fridge, drinking it and chucking it out two minutes later.

“Daylesford is a mineral water place, we are all about sustainability and being environmentally friendly, so that ties in with my ethics and principals.

“San Francisco has banned bottled water from the entire city so if they can do it why don’t we?

“I have been talking to the council about putting artistic water bubblers or old pumps each end of Vincent Street in Daylesford.

“And perhaps places that have been selling water in plastic bottles can sell Daylesford branded reusable water bottles.

“It’s all coming to a head.”

“We both had long lists -

family, female friendship, tea

– probably from our grandmothers

and tea breaks from nursing,

humour and art.”

The Local exclusive!

Trentham 27The Local

Something Kuki in the air at TrenthamTHERE’S something in the air at

Trentham. And another dream come true has arrived – in the guise of

Kuki.Opened in February by sisters Debbie Bridger

and Sharon O’Loughlin and mum Jenni Bridger, the store has quickly become the “go to” place for an eclectic range of clothing, skincare, candles, diffusers, homewares, recycled furniture accessories and even vinyl.

Sharon said Kuki, with the name chosen as a take on kookie, was something the family, who all live at Blackwood, had dreamed about opening.

“We started Kuki because there was nowhere when we were looking for gifts or somewhere to shop,” she said.

“We also did it for the tourists because we noticed they had lots of places to eat but not so many to shop. And we are open seven days a week – that gives everyone a chance to come in and have a look around.”

Debbie said Kuki also offered opportunities for other people including a space called Faded Culture with Belgian national Naten, and his New Zealand wife Bec, importing Belgian furniture sourced by Naten’s mother from throughout Europe.

There are also two masseuses working on weekends and the work of other craftspeople including ceramicists, woodworkers, furniture makers, printmakers and plenty of pieces on consignment on display. There’s even a herbalist who takes bookings by appointment.

“Hence the Kuki name. We wanted anything

to fit in as long as it’s eclectic and interesting. Everyone’s part in it brings it all together,” Sharon said.

Kuki is also about keeping prices reasonable.“That has been very well received in that we are

not an exclusive boutique that you can’t step inside,” Debbie said.

And it’s all a work in progress. Dad Robert Bridger, who 10 years ago sold recycled furniture from what is now Chaplin’s, is creating again and ready to fill the back courtyard with his unique works.

For the girls it’s a dream come true.

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“We opened on February 12, so just two months ago, and already we feel so at home,” Sharon said.

“It just feels like we are meant to be here. Our girls are at Trentham kinder and primary school, so we were already here every morning and afternoon.

“And Trentham feels like it’s just poised to go. There’s a real buzz in the air. It feels like a mini festival every weekend in the town. It’s an exciting time.”

Kuki is at 38 High Street, Trentham. Phone: 5424 1164.

Art at Trentham for Easter weekendTRENTHAM’s Easter Art and Craft Show will be held

at the Trentham Mechanics Institute Hall from Friday, April 18 to Monday, April 21.

Trentham painter David Bryant has provided this year’s raffle’s major prize.

Funds from last year’s show went to the purchase and installation of a gallery hanging system in the hall and the sponsorship of arts-related activities at the Trentham Aged Care Facility.

Sponsorship from the Trentham & Districts Community Bank has also led to new display stands.

Opening night is Thursday, April 17 and will include the announcement of awards. Works will be available for sale from 7.30pm along with wine and supper for $15 per person.

Entry details: Dorothy Hancock on 5424 1813 or tawnyfrogmouth@hotmail.com

General details: Jill McCallum on 5424 1483 or jillmccallum@live.com

Cosmo conniptions at SpudfestYOU’RE back in 1919

and it’s time to drop your rabbit traps, leave

your wash tubs, pick up your soap boxes and head to the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

But things could get a little out of hand as a public meeting discusses whether Trentham should be attached to Ballan or Kyneton. Sound familiar?

Anyway, it’s all part of the Great Trentham Spudfest on Saturday, May 3.

Once again Trentham will become all things potato with market stalls, spuds for sale, free music, roaming entertainers, aqua orbs and a “Spudtacular Dinner”.

There’s also spud sack races, a balloonologist, digging for potatoes and loads of spud merchandise to take home.

The day starts at 10am at the Quarry Street Reserve.

Link: trenthamspudfest.org.au

Bess Bryant enjoys last year’s art show

28 Real Estate The Local’s Property Pages

Career OpportunityPermanent part-time receptionist /

personal assistant

Stockdale and Leggo Daylesford is looking for a mature, dynamic, passionate and ambitious person to join our fast moving boutique office with the latest tools and technology. The successful applicant will become part of our small but efficient and close knit office and will receive in house support.

This is not another office bound admin job. You will be liaising with tenants, landlords,vendors ,buyers and other stake holders. You will be inspecting properties, attending inspections, assisting the Director and Office Manager and much more.

At Stockdale & Leggo we offer a true career path with plenty of opportunity as you grow. The successful applicant must be a team player who is dedicated, proactive, ethical and honest.

You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, live locally, a reliable car, drivers licence, corporate attire, able to work some public holidays on an approximate 20hr working week together with an agents representative certificate (preferred or currently studying for).

Rewarding package offered to the right person. Genuine candidates need only apply. Only short listed applicants will be contacted.

For a confidential discussion about your career email your resume to: luma@stockdaleleggo.com.au

51 Vincent St. Daylesford. 3460 Phone: 5348 2766Stockdale & Leggo Daylesford

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REGIONAL Victoria has seen a boom in the price of smaller homes, with units and apartments recording significant price growth in the past three months.

The unit and apartment median price grew by 8.2 per cent in the three months to 31 March this year, to $262,500.

House prices also grew to a new median price high of $322,000, however the growth over the quarter was lower than for units, at 1.3 per cent.

REIV chief executive officer Enzo Raimondo said that the growth in smaller homes across the state was the highest quarterly increase in almost a decade.

“Clearly units and apartments are becoming increasingly popular as home buyers in regional towns and cities look to one and two bedroom homes that meet their needs.

“Sales of these homes were high for the quarter, with more than 500 unit and apartment sales across regional Victoria.”

Mr Raimondo said that the median house price of $322,000 was up from $318,000 in the final quarter of last year.

Across the state, the state’s north-east was a “hot spot” with Benalla growing 11.4 per cent in the quarter to a $235,000 median, and West Wodonga recording a 7 per cent growth to a median price of $283,500. In central Victoria, Creswick grew strongly, up by 8.9 per cent for the quarter to a median price of $288,500.

Bendigo was the standout of Victoria’s major regional cities, with house price growth of 1.6 per cent for the quarter to a median price of $325,000, with Ballarat close behind – with a rise of 1.4 per cent to a median price of $299,000.

In Melbourne, median house prices grew by 3.7 per cent to $652,500, while the median price of units and apartments in Melbourne increased by 1.1 per cent to $499,000.

Mr Raimondo said that while the residential property market has rebounded strongly in the past six months, it may moderate over the course of this year.

“Record low interest rates have been driving property price growth to date, but any movement in the interest rate or in employment levels is likely to see a moderation in this growth,” he said.

Boom in price for smaller homes in regional Vic

Choosing smaller spaces is paying off in regional Victoria

Delightful Period Getaway with its Own Orchard41 Calder Street, Smeaton

This delightful period cottage has been transformed into a stunning example of today’s living. The rustic wooden floors throughout demonstrate the wear & tear of eras gone by. Tasteful kitchen & unique lounge with combustion heating & A/C creates a cosy feel & genuine warmth. With town water, wireless NBN, septic tank & bottled gas, there is no need to feel too far removed. Situated in the lovely township of Smeaton, approx 15 mins to Daylesford and 30 mins to Ballarat.

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Julie Powell5345 2326

Tash Martin5345 2326

• 30min to Ballarat• Approx 2200m2 allotment

• Variety of trees in Orchard• Rich Volcanic Soil

Price $335,000-$345,000View By appointment

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Circa 1905 Former Kingston Hotel, Now a Stylish Residence410 Kingston Road, Kingston

The former Commercial Hotel was the watering home for thirsty locals & miners, 109 years forward the Hotel has been restored & refurbished to offer a most gracious residence, yet retains the charm & history of a bygone era. The front bar is still in place with a cellar & cool room, and currently utilised as a study & sewing room. The dining/living room is a large open space on a commanding scale with ducted heating/cooling & the charm of an open fireplace. The sleeping quarters consist of 4 B/R’s, master with modern ensuite & large separate WIR. The French provincial style kitchen offers an island bench, side dresser, walk-in pantry & quality gas cooktop. The grounds consist of a beautiful rear terraced garden over 2 levels with a brick garden path, fertile soil & a 16 x 16m shed & skillion at the rear. The property could continue as a private residence or as a business (STCA) - the tourism potential is enormous.

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Chris Leonard 5331 1111

• Restored & maintained over the last 5 years• Original parquetry floor, Baltic timber floor & high ceilings

• Approx. 2 acres or 8000m zoned township• 20 mins to Ballarat & 10 mins to Daylesford

Price on ApplicationView By Appointment

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30 News The Local

From Hair to hereMAUREEN Andrew describes herself as an “alto mezzo

contralto soprano”.What does that mean? She can sing – literally anything.

And in an interview with The Local last week, just to prove a point, Maureen belted out songs from rock, opera, musical theatre and finished up with a rousing rendition of The Age of Aquarius from the 70s musical Hair.

Which is fitting because Hair was Maureen’s first audition after leaving Brisbane at the age of just 20.

She was successful and spent the next 18 months touring with the show.

Maureen, pictured right at The Grande in Hepburn Springs, said she would have moved on to Jesus Christ Superstar but was pregnant with her first child, and a single mother.

“There were quite a lot of babies born out of Hair,” she said.But while she may have had a short break, Maureen has been pretty

much in the entertainment industry all her life.That includes a two-year tour in Elton John and Lee Hall’s Billy

Elliot: The Musical, Calendar Girls, Hugh Jackman’s Boy From Oz, Fraulein Schneider in Sam Mendes’ version of Cabaret, Mrs Danvers in the Australian premiere of Rebecca the Musical, Madame Thenardier in Les Miserables and Flo Manero in Saturday Night Fever.

Television roles include four different characters on Neighbours and My Brother Jack.

Just this year, and it’s only April, Maureen has appeared in a Chemist Warehouse advert and on television as a “twerking” grey-haired woman for Ribena fruit juice.

Then there’s also the schools tour where she is playing Emma in Summer of the 17th Doll.

“I have auditioned for a few more – there’s always something. And I do chase things. I’m a very proactive person.”

Maureen said the recent move to the Daylesford region, also just this year, was with her daughter and grand-daughter with the plan to “live off the grid” with “chooks, bees, growing our own vegies and getting away from the madness of Melbourne”.

“And since moving here I keep meeting so many people I know.”A volunteer at the Daylesford Regional Visitor Information Centre,

Maureen is also keen to start up play readings and singing groups for mature-aged people.

“When I went back to work at 40 as a PA at KPMG Hungerford I was working in the office during the day and at night I was in a rock show with jeans and a leather fringed jacket.

“Sometimes people would come to the show and say ‘is that you?’ but no-one ever recognised me during the day because musos sleep during the day.

“But while working for the chartered accounting firm, so many people, younger than me, would say they had always wanted to play in a rock band, or perform, people just think if you leave it until after 40 it’s too late.

“So I was 40 then and I made a 60-year plan.“We used to do play readings in Melbourne and I would really love

to set up with initially mature-aged groups, play readings, singing groups, so that people who think they have missed the opportunity to do their thing can get together at someone’s place with no criticism, just fun.

“They can do any voice, any role they want. It’s all about an instant sense of achievement and camaraderie.”

Maureen said she had always wanted to perform as a child and starting learning ballet at the age of four.

She was driven but never realised her mother was also trained as a harpist and pianist.

“My dad wasn’t a musician but in those days every family had a piano in their house – now we have a television.

“So every weekend you went to an aunt or uncle’s house with your family and spent the weekend singing.”

Maureen said while she could sing anything, and acted in musical theatre, shows and television, diversity was still frowned on in Australia.

“I tell people what I can do and they ‘but you can’t’.

“I don’t know what it is in Australia but it is really frustrating for a lot of performers.

“And on Australian and American television everyone looks like a star which I think is detrimental to our industry.

“Even Dr Who has fabulous actors who look like real people. Our country doesn’t support that idea which is a shame because we have some fabulous actors who end up leaving the country or forgo work. Our writers need to grow up a little.”

Maureen said despite the years in the game, she still finds great joy giving people an escape from their day-to-day life.

“I am not the sort of person who is ‘oh my god I am nervous’ but I get a great buzz whether that’s performing to 10,000 in an arena with Hugh (Jackman) or a small theatre with kids. I don’t mind which it is. I don’t get nervous but I get pleasure.”

Maureen said her next project was to help Roni Wildeboer, founder of Artists for Orphans, in awareness of Vietnamese adults and children who were still being born with horrific birth defects linked to Agent Orange.

She will be the “Daylesford delegate” to raise awareness of the Kyneton-based group.

“There will be a fundraising night in June in Kyneton and I will help with that.

“I like to keep busy.”*Check out Maureen’s YouTube clip on The Local’s Facebook page

at www.facebook.com/DHLocal

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On Easter SATURDAY we will be running the ever-popular Ganger

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On Easter SUNDAY we will be running a variety of services,

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The Easy Street Quartet comes together for the first time to improvise contemporary soundtracks to three classic Chaplin short films (Easy Street, One AM and The Adventurer).The screening of these comedy classics with live music promises to be an experience like no other!

May 17th 2014, Trentham Mechanics Institute Matinee performance: 2:00pm, Evening performance: 8:00pm

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News 33The Local

THE Bendigo Queer Film Festival will be held at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, 121 View Street, Bendigo from April 25 to 27.

The festival is the longest running regional queer film and arts festival in Australia and now in its 11th year.

It showcases and celebrates rural queer culture by providing a diverse, accessible and quality event for everyone to enjoy.

Films include Any Day Now, an emotionally powerful tale of love and acceptance, staring Alan Cumming and Reaching for the moon, a passionate story of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and renowned architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Pit Stop is a romance between two men coming out of loveless relationships and Valentine Road is a documentary exposing intolerance, homophobia and transphobia.

Meanwhile, Zoe.Misplaced stars Hannah Raven Smith, who was born in Bendigo.

The Queer Country Art Exhibition will exhibit selected art works and displays the talent from rural artists during the festival at Dudley House, 60 View Street, Bendigo.

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36 Dining Review The Local

Delicious choices on Cliffy’s menusENTERING Cliffy’s Emporium is like

wandering into your own home.Well, if you had amazing produce on the

walls, funky cushions on seats at welcoming tables and a great selection of breakfast and lunch choices.

OK, nothing like my home. Or my pantry.Which is why we found ourselves at Cliffy’s last

Monday after a fairly early morning photo shoot looking for breakfast.

It was a great idea. We quickly snaffled the inside front seat/couch – overlooking the front verandah’s gorgeous ornamental grape leaves, Raglan Street and passers-by. I love people watching.

Host Gayle Walker arrived to take our order for drinks first. Kyle went for a long black while I opted just for a water. The coffee was perfect and the water arrived in a huge enamel pitcher – no need to search for more.

The breakfast menu is interesting, with the standards along with some different twists.

Kyle chose the brekky special – two poached eggs on crusty bread, big slices of Istra cotechino sausage, a selection of baby tomatoes, pine mushrooms (collected lovingly from a secret location) and a side serve of creamy Holy Goat fromage frais.

A big meal for just $17 and the most expensive on the menu. Kyle was impressed by the flavours and the freshness – and the fact that he only just managed to finish it.

I ummed and ahhed over a few ideas. Poggie (porridge) with molasses and prunes in green tea ($9) and just the plain old eggs and bacon ($12) but opted for the prosciutto baguette ($9.50).

It was delicious. Istra prosciutto but so finely sliced it just melted away. The baguette was crisp and crunchy and a side dish of the above fromage frais and molasses was a delicious way to finish up the meal. (If we are being honest, I also stole one poached egg from Kyle. I love them when they are done right, and it was, and for Kyle eggs are more just an idea…)

Gayle said the baguette offering was one she can never take off the menu and I now understand why. Yum.

Cliffy’s is also perfect as a lunch choice. Menu items start from just $9.50 for a soup and bread or a

baguette or bagel with greens and chutney. A seasonal bruschetta is just $15 or you might want to try the ploughman’s at $20 or the charcuterie for $25.

There are plenty of seating options and there’s no rush to move on. In fact, make sure you leave time for perusing Cliffy’s shelves. They really do support the locals and make it their mission to keep food miles to a minimum.

You’ll find, among others everyone’s favourite Meredith Goats Cheese, Hepburn Mineral Water, JC Bee Honey, Jock’s Ice-cream, Wildings pantry essentials, Mount Franklin Organics, Beatties Biscuits, Angelica Organic produce, Jam Lady jam, Country Cuisine, Farmhouse Original Muesli and Captain’s Creek Organics.

Slow food, low miles.

Cliffy’s Emporium is at 30 Raglan St, Daylesford. Phone 5348 3279. Link: cliffys.com.au

“Two poached eggs on crusty bread, big

slices of Istra cotechino sausage, a selection

of baby tomatoes, pine mushrooms and a side serve of creamy Holy Goat fromage frais.”

News 37The Local

In Celebration of Music & Vinyl

Culture , bring your Records to

Spin,Sell & Swap at The Chalet

this Thursday, 17/4 at 6pm!

International

Record Store Week

ROBIN and Penny Page looked dapper as they took part in a vintage car rally through Daylesford and Trentham recently.

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THE GARDEN by Jackie Airey

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…” Yes, quoting John Keats is a favourite of people writing at this time of year, so I thought I’d get it out of the way. But I’m not going to talk about fruits, instead, my interest at the moment is the innards: the seeds.

OK, I admit I pigged out on seed packets (as well as the bulbs and the perennials) on my recent hunting expedition, but the aspect of seeds that really fascinates me, is the independence and tenacity of so many of them – the ‘self-seeders’. Funny that we call them that, as though we would normally expect them to need our assistance.

Often, I’ll be warned by well meaning friends that, “you don’t want that, it seeds all over the shop”.

Great! is my response, just my kinda plant. At the moment, we have the sweet little faces of the ’johnny-jump-ups’ or heartsease still popping up all over – they’ve even thrown their own spawn, a more solidly purple fellow, with no golden birthmark.

They look great mingled with the soft lime-green of the self-sown euphorbia polychroma and the deeper green of another unidentified delinquent euphorbia, (yummy, unidentified and delinquent- and so the adventure continues) erect to three feet if you let it, on rhubarb coloured stems, with stiff leaves sporting a pale central stripe.

It looks like something from The Little Shop of Horrors, all goggle-eyed on top with pea-like seed pods on antennae just waiting to burst.

I keep expecting it to scream “Feed Me” every time I pass.I’ve been enjoying the opportunist nature of the bronze fennel, with feathery,

burgundy fronds popping up wherever. A batch of half a dozen claret allium sphaeracephalon bulbs I’ve had in for

a couple of years has also bred itself into a few little colonies courtesy of its prolific seediness.

Verbena bonariensis will also bless us with some baby versions of its tall stems topped with little purple blooms and the lychnis, all grey ears with either white or carmine perewinkle type flowers is always extra generous. I’ve even spied little wild rose plants in private, undisturbed corners.

There have been so many more surprises over the years, some annually and some completely at random: foxgloves, hellebores, fritillarias, verbascums, lupins and even this year the giant lemon cephalaria.

They all add wonder to every garden stroll and remind us that we are never owners here, merely caretakers coming along for the ride.

38 The Garden

Gigs 39

Gigs!The Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn

The Cartwheels - Friday, April 18 - 7 pmCam Kettle - Saturday, April 19 - 9 pmLloyd Spiegel - Sunday, April 20 - 4 pmPugsley Buzzard - Sunday, April 27 - 4 pm

Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville

Anam Chara - April 18 - eveningChris Paul Jazztet - April 19 - lunchThe Dear Family All Stars - Sunday, April 20 - eveningTravelling Concessions - April 21 - lunch

Perfect Drop, Daylesford

Hooked on Bossa – Friday, April 18Family Farm band – Saturday, April 19DJ Casio – Sunday, April 20Dirtbird – Saturday, April 26

Glenlyon General Store, Glenlyon

Liz Frencham - Friday, April 18 - 6.30 pmVictoriana Gaye - Friday, April 25 - 6.30 pm

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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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PUGSLEY Buzzard is a consummate artist performing hundreds of

shows every year. From the jazz cellars of Berlin to downtown Hepburn Springs, Pugsley has dazzled audiences far and wide with his unique brand of piano driven boogie and his huge mesmerizing voice that makes the ladies sigh and grown men cry. So get yer funky selves along to one of his shows now and get yerself booglarized.

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THE Zelman Symphony Orchestra’s visit to the Daylesford Town Hall on March 30th was part of its continuing tradition of bringing

quality classical music to Daylesford. Conductor Mark Shiell shaped an excellent program and performance,

beginning with the overture to Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. Playing with energy and confidence the orchestra portrayed the sinister mood of one of Mozart’s darkest works.

Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto may have had problems in being accepted by performers and audiences in its early days but it is now one of the most popular violin concertos in the repertoire. There is no doubt it is a technically demanding work but the masterful performance by Ji Won Kim exhibited total security, subordinate to the composer’s glorious music. From the grand theme in the first movement to the fireworks in the final movement Ji Won Kim demonstrated refined lyricism and virtuosity in a faultless display of musicianship.

Beethoven’s second symphony completed the program in a stylish performance. The quick tempi contributed to a desirable lightness of mood, achieving a result similar to Beethoven’s possible intentions. The string section performed admirably, with the cellos and double basses positioned for a fuller sound projection. The balance of sound between the winds and strings was well sorted, allowing for clear and accurate wind solos, as the dramatic narrative unfolded purposefully to a satisfying conclusion.- Bronislaw Sozanski

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Musos 41

Our MusosThe Local

Words/Image - Jack Larm

DAVE Patterson is one vital spoke of his family band, The Cartwheels.

It seems a constant in Dave’s life has always been the strength and influence of family, friends and neighbours. Hailing from Brisbane, as a youngster Dave was exposed to a steady diet of commercial radio. It was a kind of background sound just waiting to give way to something more substantial, more profound. That breakthrough came like a cyclone from the neighbour’s house in the form of the Ramones.

“Music was suddenly really important,” he says. “I bought an acoustic guitar and started exploring and learning a bunch of punk and new wave songs.”

At age 20, Dave started a band, but felt the perceived limitations of being based in Brisbane. It was only reasonable then to make the move to Sydney where all the opportunities lay. Unfortunately, the lead singer soon became homesick and the band broke up.

Undeterred, Dave looked for other opportunities and eventually found himself playing his beloved bass guitar for a working band called the Happening Thang. They signed to Warner Music, toured Australia and appeared on the Adelaide Morning Show. During this time, he developed a strong friendship with the band’s guitarist, Jeff Mercer.

One night Dave and Jeff were at the bar while their support band were on stage. Little did Dave know that once The Sparnetts’ lead singer, Wendy Phypers, took to the stage that it would be the beginnings of something quite extraordinary.

“When she started singing Jeff and I turned to each other and we couldn’t believe the power and passion of her voice,” he recalls.

Eventually a long distance relationship developed between Dave in Sydney and Wendy in Daylesford, and the rest, as they say, is history. But, to cut to the chase, the Happening Thang dissolved and Dave made the final move to Daylesford to tinker with the idea of making music together - The Cartwheels were born. When son Charley arrived he had a natural inclination for music, and from the age of five he joined the family band to play the drums.

“Having been born to two musical parents, Charley thought it was perfectly normal. It seemed so natural to him that he’d even ask his friends what instruments they played. He was genuinely surprised when his friends said they didn’t play an instrument.”

This year for The Cartwheels, who live in Glenlyon, has meant spending time in the studio recording an album of mainly original songs. One of Dave’s self-motivated responsibilities was sending out copies to various people to try and get their music out into the public. One satisfying payoff was when ABC Radio National put their songs on their playlist. Dave recalls with a smile how he went out into the backyard with his little transistor radio and listened to one of their songs.

Links: myspace.com/cartwheelsbandfindlocalmusic.com.au/bands/cartwheels/

42 The Scene The Local

Quartet plays Chaplin

THE Easy Street Quartet, Mary Doumany, Robbie Melville, Liz Frencham and Gideon Brazil, will come together to improvise contemporary soundtracks to three classic Chaplin short films at

the Trentham Mechanics Institute on May 17.When silent films first made an appearance, they were almost always

accompanied by live music, starting with a pianist at the first movie projections by the Lumière Brothers in Paris in 1895.

The music for silent films was often improvised, and by around 1915, large city theatres began featuring organists or ensembles of musicians.

Though the musicians in the Easy Street Quartet come from diverse musical backgrounds, they each have a strong association with the art of improvisation and musical storytelling.

ARIA nominated harpist/vocalist/composer Mary Doumany has worked with James Morrison, Slava Grigoryan, Ross Wilson, and can be heard performing on many Australian films such as “Shine”.

Robbie Melville has performed with the Australian Pops Orchestra, Guy Sebastian, John Murry and Krystle Warren while Liz Frencham has played at the Newport Jazz Festival and worked with Carl Pannuzzo, Doug DeVries and Fred Smith.

Meanwhile, Gotye’s saxophonist Gideon Brazil has worked alongside Julien Wilson, Tamara Murphy, and Paul Mac.

There will be a matinee performance at 2pm and an evening performance at 8pm.Adults are $25 and children are $6 for front floor seating only. Ticket price

includes light refreshments during interval.Tickets can be purchased from Chaplin’s Barista Bar & Nosh or reserved online

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DAYLESFORD’S Bill Malone has celebrated his 90th birthday. He

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houses and his lovely “young” wife Irene. Read his story on page 17.

Happy Birthday Bill!