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The Community Newsletter for Burwood & Districts Issue no. 125 Winter 2012 Back in time to Holy Island YACC do the Green City Dash Catch the Croquet bug! Batwoman to the Rescue Comedy battles racism FREE Canterbury, Ashburton Surrey Hills & Balwyn Community Bank® branches Over $1.8 Million Reasons to bank with CASH We’re Here for You Recent Sponsorships Successful communities just don’t appear out of nowhere. At Canterbury, Ashburton, Surrey Hills & Balwyn Community Bank® branches we know that Ashburton Bowls Club to help a community become a success, we must first help the members of Ashburton Community Centre Ashburton Traders Association the local community. Ashburton Willows Cricket Club When you bring your banking to one of our four branches, you enable us Ashburton Women’s Soccer Club to give back to the community that supports us. Atoms Basketball Club Auburn Bowls Club To find out more, call into your local branch listed below Balwyn Cricket Club Balwyn Primary School Balwyn Traders Association Canterbury, Ashburton, Surrey Hills & Balwyn Bass Care Community Bank® Branches Boroondara Hawks Junior Football Club Senior Manager: Nick Coker Boroondara Netball Association Box Hill/Whitehorse Hockey Club Phone: 0438 541 337 Burwood Traders Association Email: [email protected] Camberwell Dragons Basketball Camberwell Hockey Club ® Camberwell Lacrosse Club Ashburton Community Bank Branch Camberwell South Netball Club 241 High Street, Ashburton, 3147 Canterbury Junior Chess Club Phone: (03) 9885 2666 Eastern Disability Access Resource (EDAR) Opening times: Mon-Fri. 9.00am - 5.00pm Eastern Lions Soccer Club Sat. 9.00am - 12 noon First Balwyn Scout Group Manager: Fiona Kerr Florence Road Pre School Hawthorn Amateur Football Club ® Hawthorn Basketball Association Balwyn Community Bank Branch Maling Road Traders Association 411 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn, 3103 North Balwyn Tennis Club Phone: (03) 9836 8029 Playstation Inc. Opening times: Mon-Fri. 9.00am - 5.00pm Power Neighbourhood House Inc Sat. 9.00am - 12 noon Riversdale Soccer Club Manager: Lorelle Richter Rotary Club of Box Hill Rotary Club of Camberwell ® Rotary Club of Glenferrie Canterbury Community Bank Branch Rowan Street Kindergarten Shop 2, 143 Maling Road, Canterbury, 3126 Surrey Park Swimming Club Phone: (03) 9836 9466 Waverley Hockey Club Opening times: Mon-Fri. 9.00am - 5.00pm Sat. 9.00am - 12 noon AN AUTUMN GIFT FOR YOU Manager: Craig Pitt Sponsored groups – Remind your members to take their $5 voucher to Canterbury, Ashburton, Surrey Hills Surrey Hills Community Bank® Branch or Balwyn Community Bank® Branch and our staff will 107 Union Road, Surrey Hills, 312 open a free bank account with $5 or go in and open a Phone: (03) 9890 7188 new account, mention your organisation and $5 will be donated to your club/organisation. For more information Opening times: Mon-Fri. 9.00am - 5.00pm email: [email protected]. Sat. 9.00am - 12 noon Senior Manager, Nick Coker Manager: Aaron Knott Canterbury, Ashburton, Surrey Hills & Balwyn Community Bank® branches www.supportingourcommunity.com.au Cover photo: Children take a break at Burwood Village Autumn festival This Issue Photo: Zeynep Tahmazoglu WINTER 2012 Regulars Features 20 BULLETIN NOTICEBOARD 4–5 Going Batty in Ashburton 22 BURWOOD VILLAGE TRADERS’ REPORT 24-5 BUSINESS & SMALL BUSINESS DIRECTORY 7, 23 Burwood Village Autumn Festival 25 INFORMATION FOR ADVERTISERS 29 SCRIBE’S SCRIBBLES 9 wattle Park’s Friends 31 COMMUNITY NOTICES INDEX 10–11 Visit Holy Island, 1952 12 Fear of a Brown Planet 15 Birds in Burwood: the Corellas 12 18 18 CWA Craft Show Returns 19 Local Youth make the Action 28 Box Hill Art Group Celebrates 60 19 27 From the Editor BULLETIN PEOPLE Issue 125 Well! The second issue of the Bulletin seems to have survived The Burwood Bulletin is produced by my interference! I certainly fell on my feet, being able to cut volunteers who provide a range of talents my teeth as editor with such a unique magazine. I have freely for the beneit of the community quickly come to know a lot of people all working together: to President Bob Stensholt celebrate Burwood and its environs, both past and present. Vice President Kathy Clarkson I trust that our coverage of the recent Burwood Village Treasurer Sue Tay Autumn Festival will interest you; also the first of a new semi- Secretary [email protected] regular series “Birds in Burwood” ph 9822 5634 Editor Chris Gray ph 9873 4797 Did you know that your community magazine receives [email protected] no regular funding? We rely solely on our volunteers and Advertising Robert Kay ph 9836 5520 advertisers. So please continue to “shop local”, support the businesses you see in our pages and let them know you Layout/Design Cheryl Grant read about them here! For to quote Benjamin Franklin, as Graphic Designers Laura Tynan a community “We must all hang together, or assuredly we Jan Harrison Linda Hii (Kwik Kopy) shall all hang separately”. Proofreaders Natalie Filmer Barrie Harding Susan Whitehead Burwood Bulletin Inc. Printing BPA Print Group ABN 90 904 070 125 Tom Markovski ph: 9808 6622 PO Box 87 Burwood 3125 Writing Team email [email protected] Susan Webster Jean Hadler www.burwoodbulletin.org Jeff Sargeant Rosemary Feneziani The Burwood Bulletin wishes to advise that the Margaret Warland Keith Smith views or remarks expressed in this publication are not necessarily the views of the Burwood MarJo Angelico Kathy Clarkson Bulletin editorial or production staff and no endorsement or service is implied by the Zeynep Tahmazoglu Anna Douglas listing of advertisers, sponsors or contributors. Associates Margaret Rockow Although every effort is made in reproducing and printing advertisements correctly, we can Charles Hui Lavanya Kenneth take no responsibility for errors. Penny Alberts Geoff Davies Carrie Simmons Kathy Soumprou Deadline for next issue Aug 1 June–August 2012 BURWOOD BULLETIN 3 Fostering Flying Foxes by Kathy Clarkson Bev Brown has come to the rescue in her own way and saves many of these lying foxes, many of which arrive at her bat shelter injured from having been ou have probably heard little or nothing caught in fruit netting. She also deals with babies about it, but in fact we are in the middle of Y that have been orphaned after dropping from their celebrating the “Year of the Bat”! A two- mother while feeding in light. Yes, baby bats feed year world campaign to promote greater public from one teat to the other teat (located in the armpit awareness of the need for bat underneath each wing of the conservation in 2011 and 2012 mother) and risk falling in the was jointly instigated by the process of changing over. United Nations Convention Bev has many stories to tell on Migratory Species and the of rearing small lying foxes to Agreement on the Conservation adulthood and releasing them of Populations of European Bats into the wild. One such story (Eurobats). found Bev with a tiny bat she One person who has been named “Peaches”. Someone promoting this campaign for had found Peaches in a gutter the welfare and awareness of after she had fallen from bats (the Grey-headed Flying her mother in light. She was Fox in particular) lives right here crying in a small, shrill voice. in Australia and in our own back Unfortunately, mum could not yard! A passionate and dedicated rescue her from the ground volunteer, Bev Brown, is running and she would fret like any one of only two Melbourne-wide mother losing her baby. After bat shelters from her own home contact through Wildlife Victoria, in Ashburton. Familiarly known as Peaches found her way to Bev. “The Bat Woman”, Bev devotes Feeding was a problem her life and love to the care of with one so young, but Bev injured and orphaned lying foxes. successfully raised Peaches on She is a particularly passionate a mix of full-cream cow’s milk, advocate of the unfortunately glucodin powder and calcium much-maligned “fruit bat”, properly identiied as the syrup – fed through a small teat specially made for Grey-headed Flying Fox, the largest bat native to bats! When Peaches wasn’t feeding she liked to suckle on a specially-made “bat dummy” fabricated Australia and a member of the Megabat group. by hand in NSW. Bev became very attached to Although unfamiliar to many in our society, the Peaches, as she does with all her bat charges, but Grey-headed Flying Fox can regularly be seen was proud and happy to release her as an adult on its nocturnal feeding lights in the suburbs of back to where she belonged, into the wild. Melbourne. To some it has come to be known for its Bev says that all her lying foxes somehow know supposedly nuisance reputation of making night raids that she is trying to help them and will therefore in backyards around Melbourne and forming colonies accept her as their carer for the recuperation period. in the Royal Botanic Gardens. (This lying fox colony, She even found that two babies she had been of between 6000 and 20,000 residents seasonally, was rearing still recognised her after a week’s separation relocated on a sustainable basis in March 2003 from and immediately lew back to snuggle into her the Royal Botanic Gardens to Bellbird Park at Yarra shoulder, just like a baby with its mother. Bend, Kew.) Bev started as a trained foster carer of wildlife in The Grey-headed Flying Fox, in fact, does not 2003 and took in wombats, kangaroos, lizards, fruit naturally feed on backyard fruit trees, but on nectar bats, a cormorant and even a raptor. But she has and seeds from eucalyptus trees and native fruits. Its since become especially concerned and interested habitat has been continually threatened over the in the Grey-headed Flying Fox.
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